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Geo. A. BROWN, Pastor of Mint Lane Baptist Church, Lincoln.
THE BIBLE STANDARD is devoted to the exposition of Biblical Truth, especially the doctrine of Conditional Immortality, the literal Resurrection of
the Dead, the Final Destruction of the Wicked, the Signs of the Times, the Second Coming of Christ, and His Personal Reign on earth.
" The Wages of Sin is Death; but the gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
No. 21. JUNE,
KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE.
" But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to
the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased. "
IN the above passage the assurance is given that at the
" time of the end" there would be a search for a knowledge
of the things which the angel had revealed to Daniel, and
some would obtain it, for it is written, "the wise shall
understand.' '
Dr. A. CLARK'S note on this passage reads-
"Many shall nm to and fro: many shall endeavour to
search out the sense, and knowledge shall be increased by
these means. This seems to be the meaning of this verse,
though another has been put upon it, viz.: 'Many shall
run to and fro, preaching the Gospel of Christ, and, there-
fore, religious knowledge and true wisdom shall be in-
crease-d.' This is true in itself; but it is not the meaning
of the prophet's words."
MATTHEWHENRY comments freely on the passage, and
among other things says: "They shall read it over and
over, shall meditate upon it: they shall discourse of it, talk
it over, sift out the meaning of it, and thus knowledge shall
be increased."
The French Translation. published by the American Bible
Hociety, renders the passage following "the time of the
end" thus: "When many shall run all over it (or through
it), and to them knowledge shall be increased."
The Old English Bible, printed by Barker in 1580, has
this marginal note: "Many shall run to and fro to search
the knowledge of these mysteries."
Dr. GILL says: "Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge
shall be increased; "that is, towards the end of the time
appointed, many shall be stirred up to inquire into these
things delivered in this book, and will spare no pains or
cost to get a knowledge of them; will" ;read and study the
Scriptures, and meditate on them: compare one passage with
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another, spiritual things with spiritual, in order to obtain
the mind of Christ; will carefully peruse the writings of
such, who have gone before them, who have attempted any-
thing of this kind; and will go far and near to converse
with persons that have any understanding of such things,
and by such means, with the blessing of God upon them,
the knowledge of this book of prophecy will be increased,
and things will appear plainer and clearer the nearer the
accomplishment of them is, and especially when prophecy
and facts can be compared; and not only this kind of know-
edge, but knowledge of all spiritual things, of all evangelical
truths and doctrines, will be abundantly enlarged at this
time."
" The word translated run to and fro is metaphorically
.used to denote investigation, close, diligent, accurate ob-
servation,-just as the eyes of the Lord are said to run to
and fro. The reference is not to missionary exertions in
particular, but to the study of these Scriptures to find out
their m~aning." _
Luther's rendering of it is as follows
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"And now, Daniel, shut up these words and seal this
book, until the last times, when many shall come over it
and find great understanding."
We think that none who are at all acquainted with the
literature which has been produced in this century on
prophetic subjects, can fail to recognize a wonderful fulfil-
ment of this remarkable passage. Men in all parts of the
world have devoted themselves to the special study of the
mysteries recorded in the Book of Daniel, and have been
enabled to bring out the truth revealed therein, in a remark-
able manner. In the words of Dr. Seiss, "Many of them
differ with each other; but they differ mostly as the clocks
of the same city,-only in minutes, not in hours. Their
leading conclusions are the same. In every denomination,
and in every Christian country, the subject of prophecy is
being studied and agitated. Everywhere there are men of
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God proclaiming the great doctrine of Christ's speedy
coming to reign with His saints upon the earth (to which
event the Book of Daniel is specially set apart).
England, in Scotland, in France, in America, in Germany,
in Norway, in Russia, in India, in the isles of the sea, the
cry has been raised, " Behold, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye
out to meet Him." Never, never since the days of the early
Christians, has there been so mu~h earnest longing, expect-
ing, preaching, believing, and praying upon the subject of
the nearness of "Christ's coming."
It cannot be truthfully disputed that, during the last half
century, the attention of the Church has been called to the
study of the prophetic Scriptures, in a manner never before
witnessed, and with an intensity and earnestness of investi-
gation that is irreconcilable with any theory that denies that
God is thus moving upon the people, and preparing His
chosen ones for Rome manifestation of His dealings with
them, the nature of which can only be known by a careful
and prayerful study of His Word.
Dear Reader, may we urge upon you the necessity of It
preparation to meet your Master, the Lord Jesus Christ, for
surely we are come to " the time of the end," when know- . ministrations.
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should increase,
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and the spirit of investigation should
take possession of men's minds and hearts upon the great
events so minutely given in the" sure word of prophecy
whereunto," says an inspired apostle, "ye do well that ye
take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until
the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts."
VENERABLE ERRORS.
By C. COLEGROVE.
- Yes! the question we repeat, What has God said? Let
ONEof the most commonly suggested objections, and one,
in fact, scarcely ever wanting in the mouth of those who do
not yet understand or receive the truth, is this: "Your
doctrine will encourage the wicked. If they think they shall
become extinct, if that is all the penalty of sin, all the
punishment of transgression, they will not repent; they
will continue in sin."
Now let us consider this allegation, for it is by many both
employed and received as an off-hand and insuperable
barrier against imagined error. It has a kind of solemnity
and seriousness in its seeming, as if it were impossible or
sacrilegious to refute or deny it. It is really, however, a
solemn falsehood, since error makes sacredness a kind of
garb for itself, and Satan is the captain of this particular
platoon. Untruth is no less untruth for being robed in sober
livery. Error is no less error for being held conscientiously.
For the very reason that conscience is a vital faculty, we see
the necessity of its illumination, Truth is superior even to ation is distasteful P Because we dread the possibility of
conscience, for truth cannot lie, but conscience may be sadly
darkened.
STANDARD.
The first question is, and always should be, What is true?
What has God said? What is the dividing line between
In inspiration and tradition? One thing I have found, and
that is, not everything I have been taught is true. Not
everything which is affirmed or defended by great men is
true. Learning and erudition and reputation, and even
amiable and excellent qualities, do not guarantee security
from error or doctrinal impurity. Personal dignity, influ-
ence, or estimableness, do not answer for this guarantee.
We should be Berean-like and search. A mere honest
opinion that the doctrine of wicked men's destruction will
do harm in encouraging wickedness, may after all be mis-
taken. It needs a long sight-an eye keen enough to look
through to the end-to qualify for decision on this question.
At least, such a faculty is necessary to prove that the menace
of endless misery will do more good in a wicked world
than the menace of death. We may assume hastily. We
may decide from a long-entertained opinion, from education,
and especially we may think we must be right; because we
have such a peculiar and conscientious sensitiveness in
defence of what is venerable from long and able pulpit
Before we can decide effectively in favour of old opinions
and beliefs, we must consider whether they have not done
infinitely more mischief than we suppose the opposite
teaching and faith may do. Here are purgatory, spiritualism,
universalism, and infidelity to be surveyed, rising up in
Alpine ranges of evil; and how much has the teaching of
endless torment done to rear these fearful and rugged masses
on earth! Let the subject be surveyed impartially and
thoroughly.
us decide and divide between God's truth and Satan's
falsehoods. Is it not satanic policy to mingle lies with
truth,-one great lie with twenty great truths for example P
Is is not diabolic cunning indeed, and is it not a duty and
an advantage to detect and discriminate in such a ca.se?
Because God has borne with men who have believed an
untruth, does God therefore love the untruth? Because
God has made the great truth mighty in taking out a. people
for His name, in spite of two or three prodigious errors,
does He therefore love or bless the errors? No! A thousand
times no ! And when the time has come for those errors to
be exposed and rooted out of theology, shall we take the
responsibility of championing the errors, because they are
venerable? Because they have such a strong hold upon
our minds? Because so many excellent men, living and
dead, have taught them? Because they are so blended in
our thoughts with great and noble truths' Because examin-
such a sad necessity as a revision of faith? Because we
fear an element of distraction? Because we cannot bear
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the thought of the odium of professing what may be thought strength, its vast and solid depth, I have no fear to stand on
by some a new gospel ora" damnable heresy? " it, nor need have.
Which is better, error with ease, or truth at all hazard, Such is revelation-the revelation of man's mortality, and
or at any cost? Peace in the Church, with two or three of sin's true penalty, death. Satan can no more charm me
rotten planks in our ship of doctrine, or agitation enough with the guise of sophistry, or awe me with the heavenly
to hunt out and haul out the dead timber, and put in the solemnity with which he raps up his destroying poisons.
solid oak, where the dire defect is seen? Is not God's This is my comfort; God will take care of the truth. It is
honour something, and is it not at stake? And in such an my business to trumpet it, to utter it, to promote it, to
epoch of scorching, and agitation, and perils, shall we incur defend it, to stand sentry and sentinel to guard it.
the dreadful risk of being inundated with false dogmas, If it is asseverated in apology for the popular theology,
inventions of Satan and wicked men, evils which have that it has nourished and saved men, that it has comforted
actually grown out of or been encouraged greatly by the saints, I answer, it is not the error in it that has produced
very errors we still hold, and still affirm and protest. to be this result. By 110 means. Suppose it had been customary
truth? It is time to beware. Immense and alarming evils to mingle sugar of lead in all our bread by the bakers,
are rising up whose roots in part, at least, have started under a vain and vague idea that it was nutritious and
from false doctrines in the Church. Mighty streams of essential to health. Or suppose a small atom of arsenic
peril are rising and roaring around us, which owe not a was hid in every mouthful of our meal because it beautifies
little of their turbid vileness and alarming strength to the complexion, while life was not immediately destroyed
certain confluent tides that have run out of false theology, by it. Shall such tampering be continued for usage sake,
even in our Protestantism. Satan's evil and bitter roots when the element is detected and declared to be poison?
shoot up their sure and baneful stalks, and their branches It is very true this adulterated bread has sustained life; it
sway and swing with the poisonous fruit. Natural immor- has saved many a man from starvation; but is it perfectly
tality and interminable pangs, are fountains whose cor- good bread? Will we give it to our children? Shall we
rupting water we see rushing forth in great and grimy continue to prepare and eat it simply because it is better
than no bread? Shall we put in the arsenic or the lead
streams of Satanic delusion in these latter days. The
because we have become accustomed to it, and its absence
Church, recovering step by step from sundry dark inven-
would be painfully felt in some unwonted and unpleasant
tions and false ideas of the middle ages, is still hampered gastric sensation? By no means. We will have the poison
with a few, more subtile, long-rooted, and tenacious than out. We will no longer have it entering in to undermine
the rest. The old falsehood, "Thou shalt not surely die," our constitutions, albeit we are kept alive for years by the
is not yet cleared out of our sacred places. Diabolic gluten and starch, in spite of the pernicious minerals. No.
heathenism still has life in thriving errors, thriving in our ,"Vewillliave pure bread. God has given it to us.
very gardens, thriving amid celestial plants, lurking like We will wrest every advantage from our sleepless and
serpents in our couches. cunning enemy. Satan must be foiled. Let us join with
God in the good work. The universe shall be purified.
The question, we say, is, What is truth? Are we afraid
Let us hold to no doctrines whose true origin can be traced
to proclaim it? Will not God take care of it? What should
to the father of lies. We will have no fellowship with the
be the thought of that husbandman who dare not sow his work or character of a being branded by the Son of God as
seed for fear it would bring forth darnel? God will never the one in whom the great first lie and all the lesser lies
permit the precious grains of truth to be transformed into have their paternity.
tares. Nor will wheat destroy the eater. It is made to Kind-hearted and honest reader, you perhaps think that
nourish the body. We need not fear to utter boldly every- you are jealous for the truth when you vigorously defend
where what we believe, what we know, what we have learned the common idea of man's immortality, and of an eternal
hell. But what if you are defending false doctrine? You
from the Bible. "Bible versus Tradition" is worthy to be
are honest, and scrupulous, and tenacious. You dread
floated on our banners. That which has been searched and
innovations. You deprecate new views. You are strongly
sought and sifted and seen is fit to be known. If we preach in favour of holding on to "settled points." You believe
the truth, God will see to it that it shall accomplish His your denominational creed and articles of faith are Bible-
purposes; and are not His purposes wise?' A mere sug- based and indisputable; but still, suppose you are wrong?
gestion of harm, as incident to the faithful proclamation of Here are two grand pillars in revelation: "God only hath.
the pure Gospel of Truth preached in correction of error, immortalitq ; and" The soul that sinneth it shall die." Look
will never frighten a true man, a bold standard-bearer. well, my brother, to your foundation. We are in a sifting
and perilous epoch. See that you do not reject the light
Faith is bold, and faith is bold whose basis is truth; truth ,
shining on a creed, in which are visible certain assumptions
tried, and felt, and seen. If I step on a rock, and stamp on
or declarations which never came from God.
it, and walk over it, and examine its structure and its (To be oontinued-]
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WHEN?
THE JUDGE and the criminal stand face to face. Nature,
alone, smiles; how could it do otherwise in Eden's Garden?
Still, without, even it frowns. The penalty is pronounced.
God spake to Adam, saying, " In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of
it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return." Then was the criminal dismissed from the
Divine presence, thrust out of Eden with his guilty partner,
and left to taste the bitter fruit of sin. In anger the Judge
hides His face, withholds from His erring creature His favour
and communion.' This anger is just; for his benefactions
have been ill-rewarded. And so time flies, and thus it is
recorded: "And all the days that Adam lived were 930
years: and he DIED." Now, surely, God's anger will be
lifted and the human race forgiven? seeing that the original
transgressors have paid the forfeit of their life and being, for
their folly of disobedience. Nay, not so, for Eden still is
sealed, and man's sorrow and suffering continues.
RARK,how the thunder rolls! the lightnings flash! See!
how the heavens pour down their cataracts, as though the
atmosphere had changed to tears, for sin! See! how the
earth reels, and staggers as a drunken man; whilst its
springs burst through its surface, as though fed by the un-
failing ocean! Listen! what shrieks of fear and despair
burst from the terrified multitudes, as they madly seek for
refuge in a refugeless flight! Say! what means this?
Read what is written: "For yet seven days, and I will
cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;
and every living substance that I have made will I destroy
from off the face of the earth." Why? Because" God
looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all
flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." And, thus,
humanity-save Noah and his family-s-perished. Now,
then, God's anger will be taken away! Surely! a new era
will now dawn upon the world? Surely! now we may sing
of joy, peace, purity, and gladness? Nay, not so; no
Eden, yet. Paradise lost, still.
WHAT means this mighty host, of seemingly endless
length, marching, but not as to war? True, there are
seemingly countless numbers of stalwart men among them;
but there are also tender women and little children. Will
the long column never end? What means this sight? The
WORD supplies the answer: "And the children of Israel
journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 on foot
that were men, beside children." These are God's covenant-
people, passing from Egypt's bondage to Canaan's freedom.
On their way they are witnesses to God's mighty power, and
Egypt's just punishment; as the Red Sea waters sing their
lullaby over the grave of their once rigorous bondmasters ;
whilst Israel's daughters sing-" Sing ye to the Lord, for
He hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath
STANDARD.
He thrown into the sea." For their own sins, however,
their laughter is soon turned into crying, and their joy into
sorrow; for, except Caleb and J oshua, not one man or
woman who crossed the Red Sea passes into the promised
land. "Doubtless, ye shall not come into the land, con-
oerninq which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb
and Joshua. But your little ones, which ye said should be
a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land
which ye have despised." These latter, headed by Joshua,
are, according to the unfailing promise, brought into the
"land of promise." "There failed not aught of any good
thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel;
all came to pass." Israel in Canaan; now will the curse
be lifted? The PEOPLEin the LAND; now will God's anger
be removed, and Canaan be Eden restoredl Nay, not so;
the end of Adam's sin is not yet.
WHATstrange music is that which comes sweetly stealing
o'er the plain? Surely, not human, but angelic! List!
" Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will
toward men." Glorious words, these, and sweeter music
than ever even. Israel's sweet singer sounded abroad.
What means this? The angel-herald answers, "Fear not;
for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which
shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the
city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Joy!
joy! joy! well may angels sing" Glory to God:" at length
the promise made in Eden is fulfilled; the seed of the
woman is born to crush the serpent's head. Rejoice, all ye
lands, for God's anger is turned away; Eden is restored;
the curse is removed; the way is opened unto the tree of
life. But, stay: what means this agony of Gethsemane?
this cross-extended Man on Calvary? Why cries He thus:
" My God! My God! why hast Thou forsaken Me ?" Why
drops He a heavy lifeless head upon a breast, the broken
heart of which has ceased to beat? "We trusted that it
had been He which should have redeemed Israel; " is this
the end? "And when Joseph had taken the body, he
wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new
tomb." Woe is me, let man say, for my hope is departed;
God's anger is not turned away, and Christ is dead.
JERUSALEMis in a strange commotion; men are flocking
to a central point as though animated by some common
impulse, of more than ordinary power. What means it?
List to this strong voice piercing through the crowd
"Repent, and be baptized everyone of you, in the name of
Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive
the gift of the Holy Ghost." This man, Peter, tells of a
resurrected and ascended Saviour, and of a Comforter, the
Holy Spirit. How wonderful the result! "Then they that
gladly received his word were baptised; and the same day
were added about three thousand souls." Now read we of
miracles, gifts of healing, of tongues, of the ingathering of
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the hitherto outcast Gentiles, "Then "hath God also to the
Gentiles granted repentance unto life." "And a great
number believed and turned unto the Lord." Christ resur-
reeted ; Holy Ghost bestowed; converts multiplied;
Gentiles grafted on the Jewish stock; the Roman Empire
girdled with the truth; surely, hope may revive? may leap
afresh from an opened tomb? at length God's anger is to be
turned away? man's sorrow and suffering to cease? Alas,
no! A.D. 70, Jerusalem is destroyed by the Romans, under
Titus; whilst the captive Jews are slain, sold into slavery,
or scattered throughout the Empire .. The Christian Church
is torn asunder by the hands of violent men, and her
hopes broken.
Two Capitals of the mighty Roman Empire,-Rome, on
the banks of the Tiber, in the West, and Constantinople, on
the shores of the Bosphorous, in the East,-both Christian!
Wondrous triumph of the Cross! Constantine, Rome's'
chief Emperor, a Christian! The religion of Jesus
acknowledged by the State! At length man's golden age
has come! Nay, not so fast. All is not gold that glitters;
this State Christianity is but civilised heathenism. The
end is not yet.
CATHOLICROME, in the Middle Ages, is everywhere
triumphant; kings and nations lie at the Church's feet;
none dispute her sway; all drink of the wine of her cup.
Has the world's Sabbath then come? Nay, not yet! It is
the wine of her FORNICATION.
REFORM! reform! reform! It is the voice of Luther, in
Germany; of Huss, in Bohemia; of Wickliffe, in England;
of Knox, in Scotland. It is the trumpet note of liberty?
Alas, not yet!
THENINETEENTH CENTURY.A new Era. Liberty of thought.
Spread of education. Power of the long down-trodden
peoples. "Vox populi, vox Dei." • A free and cheap press
Multiplied Church Organizations and Missions. Science,
Art, Invention, with seven-leagued boots, striding on. Now
the goal is reached! Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! The
angel-song realised" Glory to God, peace on earth." What?
With famine, disease, death, sorrow, shipwreck, inundation,
war, pestilence, vice, brutality, strife between capital and
labour, drunkenness, as world-wide pests, common as showers
in April; Nihilism, Socialism, Communism, cherishing the
assassin's stroke as sacred deed, and Iconoclasm as highest
purpose? With the Churches stricken of formalism; rotten
of error; leprous of worldliness? In a word, with selfishness
as the highest good! Nay! nay! not yet has the Lord's
anger ceased, and the golden age dawned.
SIN IN THE FLESHceased not with Adam. It reigns still.
As long as it reigns will sorrow and suffering last. Would
you eat the fruit- of Eden, you must make the tree good.
For 6,000 years man has striven to accomplish this-and
miserably failed. Is its accomplishment an idle dream?
Shall we in bitterness of sorrow cease to hope? Shall we
seal our Bibles, close our Churches, destroy our schools and
printing presses? Say with the Sadducean sceptic, " Let
us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die?" Take the advice
of a foolish woman, and" Curse God, and die?" God forbid!
Rather let us bow as empty, broken, worthless vessels at
God's feet. Acknowledge before Him our sore need; cry to
Him with earnest pleading; look with longing expectancy
and yearning cry," Even so, come quickly;" for His dear
Son from heaven; plead the promise made to His disciples,
" This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into
heaven."
BRETHREN,rejoice, "The night is far spent, the day is at
hand,"-the day of peace and purity, of immortality and
eternal life. God's anger shall be turned away. All tears
shall be wiped away. Only believe-the Lord is at hand;
and, with the new birth of resurrection or translation, shall
there be a new birth of this groaning creation. Bide a wee,
and dinna worry.-C.E.B., Cheltenham.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
Can ye not discern the signs of the times.-lIfatt. xvi. 3.
IN the first verse, we learn that the Pharisees and Sadducees
came to Jesus, and desired Him to give them a sign from
heaven. What kind of a sign they wanted, does not appear,
nor for what purpose,-anything, probably, which would
settle the question of His Messiahship. The Saviour,
knowing that they were not actuated by a sincere desire to
'know the truth, did not comply with their request, but
rather upbraided them for their want of spiritual discern-
ment. From their knowledge of natural signs, they could
tell whether it would be fair or foul weather on the morrow,
but they could not discern the spiritual meaning of those
important events which were passing before them. It was
their duty to do so. Hence we infer, that it is still a
Christian duty, carefully to observe the signs of the times.
It is not every future event that is foreshadowed by signs-
only those of the most vital importance to men. The first
and second advents of our Saviour are events of this kind.
The latter, no less than the former, is clearly pointed out by
unmistakable signs.
1. The era of the second advent will be immediately pre-
ceded by a great running to and fro, and by a great increase
of knowledge. (See Dam, xii, 4,) The prophet connects
these things with the time of the end, and the full unfolding
of his prophetic visions; see the same verse. But the end
here spoken of agrees in point of time with the coming of
Christ, for in the foregoing context it is connected with the
standing up of Christ, the Great Prince, for the deliverance
of all who have their names written in the book of life. It
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is also connected with that fearful time of trouble which will
be v-isited upon an ungodly world at the coming of Christ,
with the resurrection and the rewarding of the righteous
with unfading glory. But we are now living in the time
indicated by these signs. Within the past forty years the
world has undergone an entire revolution in these respects.
There is now a constant running to and fro-, a ceaseless
mixing and mingling of the nations. Aided by the applica-
tion of steam to the propulsion of the railway carriage and
the ocean steamer, and stimulated by an insatiable thirst
for pleasure, for fame, for gain, and for knowledge, the
present age stands out boldly marked, and clearly defined,
above and beyond all that have gone before it, as the' age of . marriage.
travel. But the present is no less clearly marked as an age
of knowledge. Not that we understand better than our
fathers the doctrines of Christianity; but in many, if not
all the departments of human knowledge, we have far out-
stripped all the generations of the past. There is not only
great advance, but wide diffusion. The printing press, the
telegraph, the railway and the steamer, are rapidly de-
veloping new thoughts, new habits and aspirations, in all
places of the earth. It is doubtless, then, the age indicated
by the prophet,-an age of running to and fro, and of the
increase of knowledge.
2. The coming of Christ will be immediately preceded by . the advent. But here the question arises, Are not these
the world-wide preaching of the Gospel. See Matt. xxiv-
14: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all
the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the
end come." The end here spoken of, is the end of the
world, that with which the coming of Christ is associated.
Before this end comes, the gospel is to be preached
in all parts of the world, not for the salvation of all
the world, but for a witness unto all nations. For the
past forty years this work has been in a special manner
accomplishing. During this period have come into effective
operation, all our missionary, Bible and tract societies.
These, aided by great improvements in the art of printing,
and still greater facilities in travel, and stimulated by the
Macedonian cry, from large portions of our world hitherto
effectually barred against the gospel, have even now, for
aught anyone can decide pqsitively to the contrary, fulfilled
to the letter, this witness-preaching of the gospel to all
nations.
But we have additional testimony on this point in Rev. xvi.
6, 7: "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting gospel to preach-to every nation, engrossed with the cares of this life? so living, as that
and kindred, and tongue, and people." The substance of should the day of the Lord now come, it would come upon
this preaching is, Fear God, and give to Him glory and
worship; and the reason assigned is, " For the hour of His
judgment is come." Hence we are told in the next verse,
"And there followed another angel saying, Babylon is
fallen, is fallen." The flying of this angel preacher marks
the rapidity with which the Gospel is to be spread, a.nd
identifies it, beyond dispute, with our own day; while the
immediate subsequent fall of Babylon proves that it im-
mediately precedes the coming of Christ, for the Roman
anti-christ is to be "consumed by the Spirit of Christ's
mouth, and destroyed by the brightness of His coming."
2 Thess. ii. 8.
3. The age immediately preceding the coming of Christ,
will be an age of great pleasure-seeking, and of business
enterprise. See Luke xvii. 26, 27: "As it was in the days
of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man."
They ate, they drank, they married wives and were given in
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot, they •
did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted,
they builded; even thus shall it be in the day when the Son
of man is revealed." Men have eat and drunk, have planted
and builded in every age. The Saviour knew this perfectly
well. But he also knew that the times of Noah and Lot
were distinguished for these things, that then men and
women had become so engrossed in worldly things, in the
pleasures and business of life, as that they had in a great
measure lost all regard for the authority of God. These
were almost, or altogether, the only things for which they
lived; even so shall it be, in the age immediately preceding
the characteristics of our own day? Is not this a pleasure
and a gain-seeking age? Was there ever an age like it in
the history of our race, unless we except those marked as its
parallel, by the Saviour? And they were only like in kind,
not its equals in degree. Their facilities for acquiring gain,
and gratifying pleasure, were comparatively limited. The
wonderful inventions of modern times have aroused and
stimulated, to a degree hitherto unknown, both the power to
acquire wealth, and the disposition to spend it in all the
ways which a voluptuous age can invent. Nor are these
alone the characteristics of the world. The Church, too,
notwithstanding all her activity in the great and good work
of spreading the gospel, is largely under the influence of this
worldly spirit. The Saviour, foreseeing that His Church
would be in danger, from this source, issues a timely
warning. See Luke xxi. 34: "Take heed to yourselves,
lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting,
and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come
upon you unawares." This warning has almost the force
of prediction. Is it not true that the Church is largely
her unawares? And this word, unawares, reminds us of
another point of resemblance between the times of Noah and
Lot, and the time of the coming of the Son of man. For
as the flood of water came on the antediluvian world, and
as the rain of fire came on the cities of the plain unawares,
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even so will the coming of the Son of man be. The great
mass will, as then, be taken by surprise.
4. And this naturally brings into view another sign of our
times,-viz., the unbelief of the Church and the world as to
this great doctrine of the advent. The world will scoff at
the doctrine of the adven:t altogether, while the language of
the Church will be, " Our Lord delayeth His coming." The
sentiments of the former we find recorded in 2 Peter iii. 3, 4 :
" Knowing this, first, that there shall come in the last days,
scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where
is the. promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell
asleep, all things continue as they were' from the beginning
of the creation." What period of time is included by the
last days here named, need not be positively decided. It is
sufficient to say, that the last days of the gospel dis-
pensation, those immediately preceding the coming of
Christ, are doubtless included. Yet in these days, down to
the period of the advent, the men of the world will scoff at'
the idea. But is not this true of our own day? ," No,"
says the superficial observer; "does not the Church preach
this doctrine of the future advent? and where is the scoffing
of the world?" But hold; just give this subject a little
prominence, half that which the Scriptures give it, preach as
the Scriptures preach it, as an event near at hand, intensify
this truth, by the lapse of eighteen hundred years, and the
concurrence of all the signs of our times, strike boldly and
plainly, until you arrest public attention, and, having done
all, mark the result. The man who will do so, who has the
fortitude and ability to do so, effectually, will call down upon
himself such a tirade of abuse and ridicule, as no other
course of action would secure, however simple, mean or
criminal.
But the Church's unbelief is of a different type. She
does not, like the world, deny the doctrine in toto, she
simply postpones the event. " Our Lord delayeth His
coming." And should the question be asked her, How long?
the reply would be, at least a thousand years. But why put
this language into the mouth of the Church? We answer
because the Saviour puts it into the mouth of the evil
servant, who would not watch for his returning Lord; and
that servant must be understood as the representative of a
class,-a class, who should be found in the Church just
prior to the advent. And if that class does not constitute
the Church of to-day, it is not because her position on the
subject of the advent is not the same. If that unfaithful,
unwatchful servant, does not represent the Church of to-day.
on this subject, then we will look in vain for the represented.
But again, the unbelief or indifference of the Church, just
prior to the advent, as it respects this event, as illustrated
in the parable, is a prophetic description of the state of the
Church immediately preceding the advent. We do not
understand, however, that the definite numbers used, re-
199
present the exact proportion of the true and false professors
of that day. There will be many of both classes. But
what we wish to notice particularly is, that just before the
midnight cry is made, "Behold the Bridgegroom cometh,"
these virgins" all slumbered and slept." This language
points out the great want of watchfulness which will
characterize the Church at that day. Now where shall we
look for a realization of this prophetic picture, if not to our
own day? On this subject the Church of to-day is most
assuredly asleep. We are told the form of salutation among
Christians in primitive times, in very common use, was,
"The Lord cometh." We know from the Scriptures, that
the early Christians longed for this event. But it is not so
now. The subject is not talked of, nor thought of. The
pulpit and the press proscribe it. Truths pertaining to the
Church's faith are discussed a. thousand times over, but
those pertaining to her hopes are neglected. Many excuse
themselves by saying, "The great matter is to know tha.t
we I are united to Christ." Yet the wise, as well as the
foolish virgins are censured, not because they had no oil,
but because they went to sleep when they ought to have
watched. We conclude, then, that the unbelief and in-
difference of the Church and world on the subject of the
advent, constitutes a marked and well-defined sign of the
near approach of that event.
5. The period immediately preceding the advent will be
distinguished as a time of great trouble, anxiety, and con-
sternation among all classes of society; see Luke xxi. 25,
26: "And upon the earth, distress of nations, with per-
plexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing
'them for fear, and for looking after those things which are
coming on the earth." The Saviour speaks of these as
immediate precursors of His second coming. They certainly
refer to a time which is to be remarkable for the things
named. But are we not now beginning to realize something
of this distress of ;nations-much, very much of this per-
plexity, and fear, and evil foreboding? Nations, like in-
dividuals, sometimes have presentiments. This was true at
the time of the first advent. Men, as it were, held their breath,
sure that something remarkable was about to transpire.
And BO it is now. The civilized world is fairly oppressed
with the conviction that we are upon the threshold of some
grand crisis; some great turning point in the history of our
world. If we are not living in the time indicated by the
Saviour, it is possible we will fail to know it when it
comes .....
6. Finally, the last days, and therefore the days im-
mediately preceding the advent will be noted for great laxity
of morals in the Church of God. See 2 Tim, iii. 1, 5 :
" This know, also, that in the last days perilous times shall
come: for men shall be lovers of their ownselves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, un-
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thankful, unholy. Having a form of godliness, but denying
the power thereof." This is a sad picture, yet since the
apostl~ tells us that the persons spoken of have a form of
godliness, we must look for its original in the Church of
God; nor need we look long to find it in our own day. Is
it not very largely true, that there is now scarcely any such
thing as discipline known in the Church? What enormity
can the imagination paint which some one or more of the
Churches does not tenderly cover over with the mantle of
religion? Besides, it is an age distinguished for selfishness,
pride, insubordination, and formality. No part of the
Church can plead not guilty to these charges. Is it harsh,
then, is it uncharitable, to say that the apostle describes in
the above language the Church of our own times, and that
consequently we are living in th~ time closely trenching
upon the coming of Jesus Christ?
Such are some of the signs of our times-signs which all
point with unerring certainty to one grand coming event-
an event so glorious, that its prospect should fill every
Christian heart with an ecstacy of joy.
From the foregoing we may notice the following practical
deductions:
1. We should study this subject. "Blessed is he that
readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy."
"We have, also, a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto
ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in
a dark place, until the day dawn." The mariner examines
his charts, and takes his observations. He is not satisfied
unless he knows his latitude and his compass points. So
the Christian should know his position upon the great stream
of time. He, too, should take his daily observations.
Prophecy is his only chart. Without its light, he can know
nothing of the future; all would be impenetrable darkness.
Without this light to guide and cheer us amidst the dark-
ness and the storm, we are like the sea-tossed mariner, who,
without compass or helm, abandons himself to the winds,
and drifts-he knows not whither. We may know every-
thing that is to be known: but diligent, prayerful study,
here, as in every other department of Bible literature, will
be amply compensated.
2. We should watch for the coming of Christ. It is not
enough that we have the oil of grace in our lamps-that we
are children of God by regeneration; we have a duty
beyond this; we must watch; for we know not at what
hour the Son of man corneth. Nor is this a watching for
the event of death. Death is no pleasant prospect. But
the coming of Christ is to be regarded as a joyful prospect-
" Looking for," says the apostle, "and hasting unto the
coming day of God." We are even taught to pray for it:
" Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
Preparation and watchfulness for death are not what our
Lord enjoins in connection with His glorious advent. But
STANDARD.
how, says an objector, can I watch intently, in any true
sense, for an event which I believe, and Christians generally
believe, to be over a thousand years distant? We answer,
you cannot. But should you believe as you do ? Are you
not occupying the position of the evil servant who said,
" My Lord delayeth His coming?" Do not the Scriptures
teach us to watch for it as an event which may transpire at
any day? Let us watch, then, lest the day of the Lord
should overtake us as a thief.
3. If the foregoing reasoning be correct, then we cannot
have the millennium before the advent. If the advent is
near, as indicated by the signs, there is no room for the
millennium this side of it. The signs cannot occur, and all
pass away a thousand years in advance of the thing
signified. Then they would be no signs. They cannot
occur during the millennium-these, or any like them. It
would suppose a state of things wholly unlike the millen-
nium. They cannot transpire at the close of the millennium;
for between that and the final judgment, there is but a
" little season," and that little season is so completely
taken up with events peculiarly its own, that there is no
time nor place for these signs. Yet if we put the advent at
the close of the millennium, we must put the signs there
too. And what a strange confounding and misplacing of
events that would be! The kingdom does not come in its
power before the King; the millennium does not come
before the advent.
4. But, finally, if the advent is near, then what new zeal
and life should be infused into all who hear this good news.
Now is the time when the servants are to make their last
and best efforts to gather guests. . . . We must go out into
the highways and hedges, and gather up the lame, the halt,
and the blind, and compel them to come in, thay the
wedding may be furnished with guests. The door of our
New Testament ark is not yet closed. Let us tell the
prisoner to hasten and escape to Christ, the only ark of
safety. Tell him that the time is short, that now is the
accepted time, and now is the day of salvation. Tell him
that the Master cometh. And let our prayer be, " Even so,
come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." - United Prlsbyterian, U.S.A.
ASSOCIATION NOTES.
GLASGOw.-Our readers will remember the fearless utter-
ance of Rev. Mr. Macrae, of Greenock, as recorded in our
March number. For that trumpet blast of truth, .he has
been called to account, and put upon his trial. The cas§
came before the Synod on May 9th. The committee
appointed to confer with him presented the following
re~ort :-
" After three protracted meetings with Mr. Macrae, and
full and frank conference with him, the committee are
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grieved to find that he still adheres to the views expressed
in his speech before the Synod in reference to which this
committee was appointed. The committee find these views
are irreconcilable with the teaching of Scripture, as exhibited
in the Standards of our Church, and with any reasonable
amount of liberty that can be allowed to Ministers of this
Church in relation to its Standards. The committee
therefore feel themselves shut up to recommend the Synod
to suspend Mr. Macrae from the exercise of his ministry,
and to appoint a commission to deal with him, with powers
to issue the case as they shall see cause, and to report to
next meeting of Synod."
Mr. Macrae-being called in-expressed his desire that
the evidence taken before the committee-in form of ques-
tion and answer-should be presented to the Synod, to
enable them to form a fair judgment of the case. This· was
supported by several present, and carried out to some
extent. We cull a few of the questions and answers:-
Questibn-" Do the lost in hell exist for ever? " Answer-
"No; if in the state described in the Westminster Con-
fession." Question-c-v Will they exist for ever in any
state?" Answer-" We do not know. The Bible speaks
explicitly of everlasting life for the good; nowhere of ever-
lasting existence for the bad."
Mr Macrae submitted the following statement of his views
on the matters in question :-
"First. In regard to the penalty of sin, I believe in
the scriptural doctrine that the wages of sin is death, but.
I do not believe that death means what the Westminster
Confession says it means-existence in unspeakable torment,
both of soul and body in hell, for ever.
"Second. I do not reject, and never have rejected, any
of the ideas of the Confessional dogma taken separately.
They are almost all scriptural. I do not reject the idea of
fire by itself. Fire, as set forth in Scripture as a purifying
and also as a destroying agency. God Himself is spoken of
as the" consuming fire," by which I understand that by His
very nature, if we may so speak, He is and ever must be
opposed to sin; that sin can never in His universe have
rest; that His everlasting law will meet it as consuming
fire wherever it appears. But I reject the idea of a fiery
torment of soul, and also of body, unspeakable and ever-
lasting, which is the dogma of the Confession. I do not
reject the separate idea of suffering as a consequence of sin
-suffering proportionate in severity to the transgression. I "Mr. Macrae being asked-Does
do not reject even the idea of fearful suffering; such as from
one point of view might be described as torment. We see
it even in the world around us. We see it in righteous
punishment of disobedience or crime. A righteous ruler
may inflict the torment of the lash: a just and loving father
may, in the exercise of his discipline, have to inflict severe
punishment on his child. God may, and I believe will, do
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the same wherever it is deserved and necessary, but that He
will cast His children into hell-fire, as the Standards speak,
that He will keep them alive there in unspeakable torment
of soul and body for ever, I do not believe, but resent as an
outrage on God's eternal justice, as well as on His pity and
love. I do not reject the idea of endless duration, even in
connection with punishment when taken by itself. A man
who loses his eyesight or a hand or foot suffers this loss all
his life, and similar and more serious losses might belong to
an everlasting life. Even Christians who were careless and
unkind and inconsistent will suffer everlasting loss of the
higher reward they would have won by more kindness and
vigilance and activity in the Christian life. I do not there-
fore reject the idea of endless duration, even as regards the
punishment of the wicked; but that punishment of one
erring fellow-creature-even the worst of them will be ever-
lasting-consists of everlasting torment, both of soul and
body, without intermission and in intensity unspeakable, as
the Standards teach, I do not believe, and cannot believe,
without disbelieving in the kindness and mercy of God.
" Mr. Maorae's attention having been called to the follow-
ing quotation from the Confession in his speech on Tuesday
night, namely :-' Every sin, both original and actual, being
a transgression of the righteous law of God, doth in its own
nature bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound
over to the wrath of God and curse of the law, and so made
subject to death, with all its miseries, spiritual, temporal,
and eternal,' was asked, do you believe this doctrine?
Answer-If this means, as it seems to mean, that everyone
sin, and even original sin without actual transgression,
binds over to everlasting and unspeakable torment, both of
soul and body in hell-fire, I do not believe it.
"Mr. Macrae being asked-Does Mr. Macrae hold that
the doctrine of unspeakable and everlasting punishment is
not the living faith of this Church or the doctrine now
preached in its pulpits? Replied-If this means the Con-
fessional dogma, I do not believe it is the living faith of the
Church, or the doctrine now preached from its pulpits.
"Mr. Macrae was next asked-Does Mr. Macrae still
adhere to what he affirmed in his speech of the torments
everlasting and for ever, applied in Scripture to the future
punishment of the wicked, are not used to express duration
absolutely? Reply-I adhere to what I stated in my
speech.
Mr. Macrae hold the
doctrine of the endless existence of sin in the universe of
God to be contradictory to the scriptural representation of
the character of God? replied-I do not consider it abso-
lutely irreconcilable with the character of God that an
endless succession of sinful ages should exist in His
universe, but I consider it more reconcilable with the
character of God and with what seems to be the teaching of
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Borne portions of Scripture, that an absolute end should be
made of sin, or that the universe ultimately be purified from
sin; but I deny the reconcilability with the character of
God of the Westminster dogma that a lost creature has an
everlasting life in unspeakable torments, both of soul and
body, in hell-fire.
"Mr. Macrae being asked-Do the committee rightly
understand Mr. Macrae in his having affirmed in his speech
that a period will come when sin and suffering will be ex-
tinguished in the universe of God? replied-I refer the
committee to my answer to the previous question.
"Mr. Macrae being asked-Does Mr. Macrae deny the
reconcilability with the character of God of the perpetuation
throughout eternity of the same being in a lost condition,
though not in unspeakable torments? replied-This depends
entirely on the condition.
"Mr. Macrae being asked-Does Mr. Macrae hold that
God's punishing of sin for five or fifty years with ten
thousand million years of torment without bringing it any
nearer to an end would seem to attach to God monstrous
injustice? Replied-Yes.
" The following quotation from Mr. Macrae's speech was
read over to him :-' And in connection with the West-
minster dogma of everlasting torment, men (if there is any
meaning in Christianity at all) are more likely to be drawn
to God by the fuller revelation of His goodness and love than
driven to Him by fear. The fact is, that danger threatens
from quite the opposite quarter. The Westminster dogma
is becoming so incredible that it is losing the power of even
inspiring terror, and the danger is that men may forget the
penalty of sin from living under threat of a penalty which
they see reason to treat as a mere superstitious dread. If
the dogma were a mere speculation, or if it involved a mere
intellectual difficulty, it might be left alone, but it is a
question of enormous practical importance, But how are
men's hearts to be won to the true God-how are they to
be saved from their injustice and cruelty, and not rather
confirmed in them, if they were to proclaim that God was
unjust-beyond even the injustice of men-so cruel beyond
the utmost cruelty of His rebellious creatures as to punish
His children with everlasting torment, keeping them alive
for ever in unspeakable agony both of soul and body?"
This quotation from his speech having been read to him, he
was asked-Do you still adhere to what you here affirm?
-A. Yes.
The case was continued on the following day, when Mr.
Macrae replied at length. It was eventually decided, " That
the Synod appoint a Commission to deal with Mr. Macrae,
with Presbyterial powers to proceed in the case as they see
cause, reserving to Mr. Macrae and the members of the
Commission a right of appeal to the Synod, to whom the
report is to be made." Our orthodox brethren evidently
think the Jewish resource " stone him," the most effectual,
if not the most satisfactory weapon, to combat thought with
-when it moves in the pathway of free enquiry.
CHELTENHA1>I.-Our brethren have recently held their
Annual Church Meeting. A decrease of 11. was reported,
owing to no less than 25 losses by death, removal, and
withdrawal. The balance sheet (August 1st to April 30th,
1878-79) showed a total income of £108, leaving a deficit
of £16. Owing to "perils from false brethren," the little
Church has been severely tested, and its minister subjected to
much anxiety and severe pecuniary loss. Mr. Brooks re-
ported his engagement in London, as Secretary and Publish-
ing Manager of the" Life in Christ" Association; but pro-
mised to continue to return to Cheltenham weekly, for the
S~nday servicefJ--II-t l~lI-stfor the present.
STANDARD.
BIRMINGHlll.-Arrangements have been made for holding
three public meetings, when Lectures will be given by
Messrs. S. Wright, on "The Second Coming of Christ;"
A Crosbie, on " The Distinction between the Two
Jerusalems ;" H. Brittain, on "Eter.nal Life through
Christ,-what does it mean? "
LONDoN.-A United Meeting of our friends has been held
at Holborn, attended by the President and Editor. It was
intended to make it chiefly a gathering for prayer, but the
presence of our esteemed brethren was largely turned to
account, and a Conference held.
OURNEW OFFICE-Is now open in St. Paul's Buildings,
Paternoster Row, from whence this number of the Standard
is issued. Our warmest thanks are due to the President
and Editor for their earnest and active interest in, and
effort for, this much-needed central office and publishing-
room. We enter upon our duties with a deep sense of their
importance, seeing that much work remains to be done, and
the time is short in which to do it. We are, however,
cheered by the knowledge of a loving Father's favour, and by
the. kind co-operation of many brethren. Thanks to the
kindness of our revered friends and. helpers, Capt. H. J.
Ward and Gen. H. Goodwyn, we open our offices with a
large and valuable stock of books and pamphlets, bearing on
the Life and the Kingdom. With regard to these we have a
practical purpose-to circulate them throughout the country
-we want, to this end, the practical aid of all believers in
Conditional Immortality. We, therefore, ask our friends to
introduce our literature to their friends, and especially the
Bible Standard as the organ of the Association, and our
principal advertising medium. Especially would we ask our
friends to get a few copies exposed for sale by booksellers,
and at the railway bookstalls; a guarantee should be given
to purchase personally the unsold copies at the end of each
month. By combination, believers, in their separate towns
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truth; or, banded together to declare it. We wish to prevent this in
future, and have therefore designed this Guide. By its help, brethren
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common faith, to ?nable us to direct ~uch to suitable fellowship, we
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