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illat if one died for all, then were (not refer ring hortation :oo plain to be misunderstood. Bu t

I,o second deat h) all dead?"

Again Paul says the idea s+:ems to ge t into some minds t.hat the

in Heb.

9: 27, b L

and as it is ap pointed (not as Bible is a book of mysteries, and cannot b e

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i.t is going bo be appointed, b u t

i s

unt o mall derstood

by

"common people;" tha t it has a

once to die, and after thi s the judgment."

W e

cispiritual meaninan and tha t which appears on

read there is a death after th e judgment, and it the face of it is not its true meaning. That is a

is called a death tor, or on account of, sin,

and

mista ker~ dea: for, instead, the Bibl e purports t,o

i s also called the second death. Question-What be God's -.


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to arousa to action. trao rdin ary potency to excite combustion, to

tracts, and

fe e d f ire, and to c arry i t over long distances.

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W ha t can ou r meteorologisLs, physicists, chemT

work? Look

1 &a, and other scientists tel l us about thi s?

of help.

L e t 1 Giyen these coincident circumstances, are th ere

eb and Josh ua for any relations between them, and does the at -

by donat ions for its I mosphere at t imes get into a condition to make

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are at man- I ~t extremely susceptible to fire, or to give it an

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unusual power to excite and feed combustion ?

they are not

) If the re be any such influences-evenif the re be

go and only a suspicion of them-and if th is season,

arid th at you will with its long list of hurricane s, severe storms,

and stren,pthen l and disastrous forest and city fires be one oi

to p r epare t em o r

corn ng

w rat , o w c t ese

preachers

aiuc

cyclones, earth quak es, and fiery trials ar c jus t

til the means j the forerunner.

other class. Wee ds /

T he P hi lade @ hia Ledger, in a recent i ssue re-

tending, bu t i f you marks upon t he la,te destructive storms and

God ill bless their

an d the weeds kept

in this matter

in your hand s are

disastrous ~o~nflagrationshat have visi ted the

world, an d ad ds by way of i oq uiry

:

Was there anything in the atmospheric con-

r some t ime pw t re-

preachers, papers dit ions at the t imes

of

these fires to give uilusual

otency to the no nsu mi~ ig lenlent ?

Th is is not

it

esked as a question t,hat can be answered, but as a

s not awakened to i t , quastion to suggest inqu iry, in i ts relations to

e in th e off ice have the extrao rdina ry atmospheric disturbauces

,

which hav e ma rked this season, anrl which, to

a distance

us some extent, characterized the period at which

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Chicago f ire occurred. I n this last-

W e

an- mentioned year, and n ear a bout the ime of

on bare gro ond, UP i the Chicago calamity, there were most disastrous

God we have a

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forest and prairie fires in Minnesota and Wiscon-

of

; and intelligent persons who we re eye-

on. T ha t team is i:tnesse~ t them , in Wisconsin, testified that

hot blasts swept the country for miles in advance

the

I of th e fire ; th at ,peat luminous balls traversed

support and help on the air i ll th e afaicted distr icts; and th at nkw

ey have pulied t he flames sta rted up at considerable distances from

of the past

;

:hcz:zi? body

c.?

the conflagr:ttion. Assuming

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these statements to be true, and they have not

been questioned within onr knowledge, there

read this

paper

and

would seem to have been some thing in the air

be uzed in the Lord's of th at region, at that t ime, wh ich g a v e i t ex-

the seasons when such agencies may be poten t

in the air , then i t is a season to be on gua rd

against the beginnings of fires, whether by 'ac-

cident' or by spontaneo us combustion, or b y

the fire-cracker and roc ket-stick. Those

people are wise who do not tempt fate or under-

tak e to defy th e powers of nature.

s u c h inquiFic6 ;; \\

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LL i - 7 ~ 4u u t j

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; . e rtf t h e

Almighty is better .

Most people regard these

fearful scenes as but visitations to this ear th.

elemental dis- W e remark , however, th at instead of b elng

world, as the ac- '(visitors, the y have come to stay, and by the

i best of

evidence,

both scientific and Biblical,

to them. B ut their they will not cease their work unti l the f inal

led people to re - shak ing of the heavens and the ear th, which

des m ere dis- shall result in the removing of those things

ragin g and a furious 1 t ha t a r e shaken ,

as

of thing s th at are made,

me future disaster of th at those things which cannot be shaken may

I remain1 ' (Heb. 12 : 27).

th at are manl-

Ha ving the mind of the Spi r i t that f irst moved

s to create suspi- ( upon the chaos of matte r , and brought l ight and

wise heads, who order to natu re, we may re st assured tha t this

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e course of na tu re is

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Spirit, und er whose dispensation we now live,

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The au thor of this 'epitaph had read J -

miah 's t i~scr iy t ion

of

t,lle death of Rachel's

children in

lrjs

th i rty- f ir s t chapter wl~ ere ie de-

clares t ,hat while in death's sta te they xer e

not.

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Jacob's children, rrhen spszk i c r rnsrr

breth ren, saia, Oue is not,, reierrin g t o Jose?';,

whcm they supposed dead (Gen. 42 : 32). They

ha d learned this idea of dea th from their father,

Jacob, who mournfully exclaimed, Joseph is

not, referr ing to h is supposed d eath (Gen.

43

:

36).

Wa s, and is not, in

Rev.

17th, describes

the beast before and while wounded to death.

I t was evidently customary in the days of patr i-

archs an d prophets to spaalr of death as a s t a t e

of temporary non-being. This old epita ph is in

str iking harmony with the above quotations.

I n

Anvell church-ya,rd, Ha rtfords hire, E ng.,

on the tombstone of Thom as M an ger is the fol-

lowing

:

That which. a b e i u g was w hat is it.,

show ?

That heing which was,

wh at i

it n~ w

To be

;utie t

'tis.is

not

to be, you

set:,;

'That

which

n o w

is

not,

shall

a

be ing

be.

In our conflicts for the hope of Iarael it is

truly cheering to read these long-ago testimonies.

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THL: owa Stat .e_Carnpmeeting s

td

commence

on the 10 th of Augus t.

See the change in the

date in the notice.

BRO.

J.

RIDLEY rit es in a:private no te of a

reccnt two month's tri p in southwe stern' Iowa,

as pleasant and result ing in good. H e sowed

the seed of tr ut h in

some new fields, and some

started for the kingdom.

ELD.GEO. W. GREEN, of Memphis, In d., re-

ports baptizing three persons a t Mu ddy F or k

church, on the 8t h inst. ,Land the re a re others

expecting to go forward in tha t ordinance eoon.

The interest therc is on the increase, and God's

name is bcing g'::rine


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VENT QHBI TIAN TIMBB

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hei r hearers. They ar e not endorsed by hand arlri lamps trimmed and well burning. The A t present, the

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Adventists , '(Age-to-come" folks, or anyb ody eyes of the world are upon us, and if we let our of California is at thi

else, yet having some money a n d a few sympa- light go

thefwili be lost.

the 17th of May, and

thizers

they

run

awhile.

~h~~

It

is over ten years

since I first experienced in the name of the L

have been to Ohio and Indiana and are working

the love of Chrrst, and I have attended many serve t he Lord, a n

lneetings, bu t do not re~ nem ber earing one ser- works.

Sr. M. J. Cla

westward. We are

informed

lha t

O n e

mon on the second coming of C l d s t until last preaching, relieved o

them

in

Union

Ind" few

days

winter, and that was by Eld. Mabey, at Sout h Carpenter, of Vallejo

t ha t they break

evbry Advent IXume, White side county, Ill. Thailks be

to .ha s been among us w

hurch in the lard. W e guess not. Their

H ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > ~

ing,

w e

have a little

baed of

chris-

whole w ork is proselyting. Th e Lord never

sent th em on their mission. Give them no

place, and go not near them or countenance

them.

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tians t'here who are at work in earnest, and are

letting thei r light shine; and we have prayer-

meeting every Thur sdayeve ning , which is well

att,ended, and the intere st is steadily increasing.

Fro111 Hettie

M. P

BRO.B U ~ ~ : - I

cere thank s for the re

welcome visitor, the

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% 2-good ylz:~p;;ct. f i lr

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grind work to he

6kmwq mxden

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done here; and may God give us all faith to be-

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