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Devoted to the Exposition of Scripture respecting Conditional Immortality, Resurrection,
the Return and Reign of Christ, and the Final Destruction of all Evil.

EDITED BY WILLIAM LEASK, D.D.

" The Wages of Sin is Death; but the gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

No. 10. VOt. Ill. JU LV, 1880. Price One Penny.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Have we valued the Light?
The Origin of Man ...
The Centre ...
Dispensations ...
Beckoning to Partners ...
" Exustus non Convictus" ...
Theological Reform
News from the Unseen ...
Canon Ryle on Scepticism ...
Reviews
News of the Work ...
[Fo!' Prelimituun] Announcement of Forthcoming Conference, see page 117.]
HAVE WE VAL UED THE LIGHT?
WE put in deep seriousness a serious question to all whom
it concerns. At this moment there is a burden upon the
heart of the writer, some of the weight of which he wishes
to fall upon the heart of every reader, not of course to
relieve him from responsibility in the mutter presently to be
named, for he has never shrunk from that, and never will,
but to elicit honest self-questionings, and to secure, in con-
sequence, practical sympathy in our work.
Are we really doing anything worthy of our profession?
anything to convince our brethren of the so-called orthodox
creeds that we are constrained by Christian love to deliver
them from two or three delusions which we, as well as they,
were taught to believe as divine truths? anything at all
commensurate with our privileges to tell the world that the
Church has lied in the name of God? anything worth
naming to shew that the redemption of our Father's
eharact=r from the dreadful charge of being the scourge and
terror of His own Universe, has been and is the absorbing
care of our lives; to effect which the rich among us have
freely, gladly, eagerly given their thousands, whilst those
who have no gold have with equal zeal given their heads and
hearts? Is the fact that we have valued the divine light so
graciously given to us, so patent to the world by our noble
PAGE sacrifice, that spectators say, "These Christians are terribly
10D in earnest!" Nay, can we without a blush of shame speak
110 of what we have done?
111
111 Reader, kindly listen! We shall not detain you long, but
112 we implore you to ponder the few words that follow, and
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l1fl take counsel with your heart and understanding concerning
117 them.
118 There are grand things doing among the Churches;
118
118 zealous and comprehensive schemes propounded and adopted
-architectural, benevolent, educational, missionary; and
splendid sums put down for them all. Are we jealous?
No! we rejoice and pray Him whose are the silver and the
gold, to bless His servants, the princely donors. But,
mark! not one of those schemes for building churches and
manses, and for sustaining schoolmasters and missionaries,
and not all those schemes put together, can equal in import-
ance the work of rescuing the character of our God from the
infamy which the father of lies has thrown upon it for many
ages! The alienation of countless thousands throughout
Europe from everything connected with Christianity, the
avowed atheism of many and the scepticism of more, and
the heaviness of heart under which thousands of real
Christians groan every day of their lives, are all the direct
results of flagrant errors respecting the nature of man and
the government of God. Had the truth, unmixed by the
falsehoods of paganism, been proclaimed through the ages
that Christianity has been the nominal religion of Europe,
it is impossible to doubt that infidelity and atheism would
have been unknown. A true representation of the God of
the Bible must have won men. A true representation of
the nature of man must have convinced all that a divinely
offered gift of immortality to mortals was a boon too splendid
to be refused by anyone who wished to lay claim to the pos-
session of reason. A second life to any man, and that not
of probation but of perfection, is a purely supernatural idea i
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it is brought to light by the gospel; it is itself the gospel;
and it is in Christ Jesus.
Now, what are we doing-we whose eyes have been
opened, by grace, to the truth-what are we doing to purge
the theology of Christendom from the falsehoods which
have made Italy and France nations of infidels, and which
have had such a disastrous effect, in the same direction, upon
hundreds of thousands in these British islands ? People
upon whom our doctrine comes with the surprise of novelty
and the shock of heterodoxy will not buy our literature
which proves that doctrine true. It should, therefore, be
given, sent by post in all directions, from 10,000 copies
monthly upwards to men of influence. Ten thousand copies
of the Bible Standard, sent out every month to different ad-
dresses, would tell powerfully in the direction of that
Doctrinal Reformation which is the want of the age. .Of
course, subscribers and purchasers of books on the great
question would multiply rapidly, when it thus became
widely known that our object is nothing less than the re-
covery of Apostolic doctrine to the Churches. The practical
question now is, How is the great cost of such gratuitous
circulation of literature to be met? The answer is, Easily.
The creation of a fund for this purpose by wealthy 01' well-
to-do men who are in earnest should be esteemed a high
privilege. Several prosperous tradesmen would give £100
each, and there are rich men who could give £1,000 each.
A capital of £10,000 thus secured, and lodged in the hands
of a responsible committee, would enable them to enlighten
the community on the grand truth we have recovered from
the gloom of the dark ages. Ours is simply a Missionary
Society of the very highest kind, and £10,000 for its glorious
object would prove that we VALUETHELIGHT!
• or vigorous.
THE ORIGIN OF MAN.
IN the first place let it be observed that the origin, and not
the constitution, of man is the present theme; and that in
the Mosaic account of the origin and formation of the first
man, the terms are used with their primary significance.
" So God created man in His own image, in the image of
God created He him; male and female created He them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth."
In this passage, the Hebrew term, tzehiem, translated
"image," signifies a shadow, a corporeal image, a repre
sentation of an unseen object. And by means of the entire
passage, it is shewn that man was created in the guve1'1l1nental
image of God, to be lord over all the other orders of ter-
STANDARD.
restrial creatures. This governmental idea has been per-
petuated in the assumption of Asian monarchs, each of
whom calls himself" The shadow of God."
" And the Lord God formed man of the dust ofthe ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul."
This passage records the physical formation and invigora-
tion of the first man. The original word translated" dust,"
signifies minute atoms, and as here used it means the
elemental atoms of which all organic bodies are formed.
The word "breathed," represents the Hebrew nali-phaqh.,
which means to blow, to breathe, to put air in motion; that
is, by the operation of natural laws, by artifical means, 01'-
as in the present passage-by the immediate will of the
Creator.
The "breath of life" -nish-math-ghah-yeem-is the
atmospheric air, as inhaled in the way of respiration. This
is clearly shown in the record of the Noachian deluge:
" And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life." And again: "All
in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was on
the dry land, died."
It should be observed that the word translated" life," in
the present passage, and also in the record of the deluge, is
plural; and these instances of an idiomatic usage, are in-
tended to denote the lives of all respiring creatures on
earth, in common with men.
The word" soul" represents the Hebrew term, neli-phesh,
which literally means a breather-a creature furnished with
organs of respiration; and the word "living" represents
ghah'y, or ghah-yah, the ideal meaning of which is to be strong
The phrase neh-phesh-ghah-yah,." living soul,"
is used by Moses to describe all creatures that li-ve by means
of respiration. In the present passage it is translated
"living soul;" in every other instance it is rendered
" living creature."
The information now derived is to the effect that the
Lord God formed the man of elemental atoms, within the
ground (" for out of it was he taken") as in a matrix,
wherein the man was organized through the operation of
the laws of a created principle of vitality; and when he (the
man, not cm 'inanimate body) was taken out of the ground,
God caused the breath of life to enter into his nostrils and
inflate his lungs, and thns establish respiration; so that the
man became unto a living 01' vigorous being. And in the
process described, an intelligent person may discern the
prototype of procreation and gestation, and of infant birth
and invigoration.-From "What is Truth?" by TVilliam
Morris, M.D. [An admirable hand-book. London: Elliot
Stock.]
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THE CENTRE.
" EVERYman for himself, and God for us all." That is the
religion of the world-the accepted and popular formula in
which it expresses its faith. Doubtless it is a very honest
creed, that is to say, the men who use this brief summary
really mean it; although there are some benevolent persons
who think the first part of the phrase somewhat selfish.
It feels rather chilly to their notions of brotherhood.
does not sound like a family sentiment; its effect is not
union; but separation and cold individualism. The glow of
charity is not in it, but the frost of selfishness. It makes
every man a centre for himself, to which all events must
contribute. He must not think of others except so far as
they minister to his greatness.
And even the second half of the formula, which seems at
first sight to have a flavour of piety about it, turns out after
a little criticism to be a bit of impudent hypocrisy.
means simply that the selfish man expects God to minister
to his selfishness. 'That is the logic of it, say what you
will.
The light of revelation is a consuming fire to this
miserable creed of the world. It says, "Every man for
others, and all men for God." This is an inexpressibly
grander sentiment, and lifts us up to a region of glorious
thought, where our Father is the centre of homage and
worship and love. "In lowliness of mind let each esteem
other better than themselves. Look not every man on his
own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus"-
the mind of self-denying service for the good of men and the
glory of God the Father. When we realize this idea, we
feel the dignity of being, and catch something of the divine
beneficence, something of the sunlight of-love that we may
shed it upon others. For God wants us all to come around
Him, not because He is selfish, but because He is love, and
wishes to warm us with His own nature, that, being happy
ourselves, we may do something to cheer the lot of others.
Our cup filled to overflowing from the river of life, let others
share the vitalising draught.
Believers are made alone unto God in Jesus Christ. They
learn that they are not their own, but bought with a price ,
and, therefore, they are to glorify God in their body and
their spirit, loving one another with a pure heart fervently.
Diametrically opposed to the maxim of worldly selfishness
is the doctrine of Christian love. Thus:" Give to him
that needeth," out of the results of your honest labour.
"Be hind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
And thus: "Herein perceive we His love, in that He laid
down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives
for the brethren. But whoso hath this world's gcods, and
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seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his heart from
him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?"
Let us make God, and not ourselves, the centre, and all
will be well. He will accept our homage and give us back
un measurably more than the most grasping worldly selfish-
ness ever secured, and crown His rich gifts with eternal
blessing!
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DISPENSATIONS.
THE following shows how each dispensation begins in
mercy but ends in judgment :-By the term" dispensation;'
we simply show God's method of dealing with the world,
for the promulgation of His truth, and the establishment of
His worship. Foul' dispensations have already passed
away; the fifth is drawing to a close, while two remain to
be accomplished.
It First, "Adamic." The dawn of creation, was one of un-
clouded beauty and blessing. God dwelt and talked with
man, whom He made after His own image, and Adam's
fellowship and communion was with God. By the Fall,
death and disorder reigned. The child was at once trans-
formed into the rebel. The only records were the Law of
Sacrifice, the Law of the Sabbath, and the Law of
Marriage. The "seal" was the tree of life, and the
" termination" the flood.
Second, "Noachic." God is again personally present,
and converses with His servant. He enlarges the record of
His communication. The seal of His covenant is the
rainbow, and the termination the overthrow and destruction
of the Cities of the Plain.
Third, or "Abrahamic." God again appears and con-
verses with Abraham. He enlarges His revelation pro-
mulgating His covenant, and seals it with the rite of
circumcision. It terminates in the desolation of Egypt, and
the overthrow of Pharaoh and his hosts.
Fourth, "Mosaic." Here again God personally appears,
and converses with Moses, unfolding a far fuller revelation
of His will, establishing a new covenant, and sealing it with
the, blood of sprinkling. The terminating judgments were
the destruction of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jews.
Fifth, or " Christian Dispensation." God, who at sundry
times, and in divers manners, spake in times past to the
fathers, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son,
unveiling the higher mysteries of grace, making known the
presence and operations of the Holy Spirit, establishing a
new covenant and sealing it with Baptism and the Holy
Supper. It terminates in the great day of God's wrath, the
wrath of the Lamb.
Sixth, or "Millennial," now follows. The features are
the binding of Satan, the Kingship of Jesus, the heavenly
glory of His risen people, and the earthly glory of the Jews.
But even here it terminates in judgment, for fire from heaven
112 THE BIBLE STANDARD.
comes down upon God's enemies, and the devil, who deceived
them, is cast into the lake of fire.
Then comes the awful interval of the Great White Throne,
and the judgment of the dead, followed by the seventh, or
final dispensation, " The New Jerusalem State." It is ushered
in by the vision of a new heaven and a new earth, and
the first heaven and the first earth are passed away'
and we have the blessed assurance that the tabernacle
of God is, as at the first, with man. That He will dwell
with them, and they shall be His people; and God shall be
with them, and be their God, and He that sat upon the
throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." Then
cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the
kingdom to God, even the Father, "For He must reign
until He hath put all enemies under His feet." -1 Cor. xv. 25.
• objected that they had spent the whole night in fruitless
BECKONING '1'0 PARTNERS.
THE religion of Christ is the grandest system of partnership
this world has ever seen. The terms "fellowship," and
"communion," are the words used to express the common
participation, common responsibility, common labour, and
common reward connected with the gospel of the Son of
God.
This partnership commences on high. First, "our
fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus
Christ;" then if we walk in the light" we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son
cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John i. 3, 7.)
Involved in a common ruin, partners of a common re-
demption, heirs of a common salvation, sharer's in each
other's sorrows, helper's of each other's joys, eo-workers
with God in common labours, and joint heirs to a common
heritage; the household of faith becomes in its development,
both inward and outward, both present and future, a
partnership, the closest, the broadest, the dearest, and the
purest that humanity has ever known.
No man liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
A constant interdependence, and an intertwining of the
tenderest and most vital interests and necessities, unites
God's children by the strongest bonds. Against this unity
Satan works incessantly, while above the jars and tumults
of a discordant world, above the strifes, schisms, and dis-
sensions of a distracted church, the Saviour spreads His
pierced hands, and prays for His people, " that they all may
be one, as thou Father art in me, and I in Thee, that they
also may be one in us." (John xvii.)
Nowhere is the necessity and utility of the Christian's
partnership more manifest than in the work of saving men.
The unity of Christ's followers is the token by which" the
world may know" that God has sent them i and on this
knowledge depends the acceptance of their testimony and
the success of their mission. Every division impairs this
testimony; but when the people of God are in close and
intimate fellowship, their testimony comes with convincing
power.
The partnership of the people of God is not only a fact,
but it is a necessity. In union there is strength, and that
strength is needed in crder to cope with the hosts of dark-
ness that assail on every side. Labouring alone they are
weak and inefficient, while by uniting they mass their forces
and achieve success.
When our Lord had preached the gospel from the little
fishing boat of Simon as it lay idly upon the sunny waters
of Gennesaret, he said to Peter, "Launch forth into the
deep, and let down your nets for a draught." Simon
toil, but said, "Nevertheless at Thy word I will let down
the net." They did so, and instantly the swaying of the
struggling mass informed them that they had" inclosed a
great multitude of fishes," and under the strain, the meshes
of the net began to tear away, and the fishes were pouring
out and escaping. Something must be done at once, or the
" hanl " was gone, " And they beckoned unto their partners,
which were in the other ship, that they should come and
help them. And they came, and filled both ships, so that
they began to sink."
" They beckoned." They did not need to wait, and talk,
and call, and frighten the fish and delay the work; one
wave of the uplifted hand: one beck of the outstretched
finger was enough, and the hardy fishermen bent to their
oars, rounded to, and were ready to haul in the net and
save the fish.
" They were partners." The bargain was already made,
and they had no need to stop and adj ust terms of co-opera-
tion. Many a good catch has been lost while men were
disputing as to how the fish should be divided.
They were honest men, for without honesty partnership
is the poorest ship a man ever sailed in. If they had
quarrelled over the division of the last catch; if one boat's
crew had covetously insisted on having the whole draught ;
if one boat's crew claimed all the big fish, and the best fish,
and the gold fish and the silver fish, and left the other boat's
crew only dace, and shiners, and sculpins, and hornpout,
and horse-mackerel, no beckoning would have brought their
partners round with such quick and steady oar. But there
was no such trouble as this i-they were ready for work,
" they were partners," and they saved the fish.
" They filled both ships, so that they began to sink."
There were fish enough to load both boats to the water's
edgp,-no trouble about that, and both crews had all they
 THE BIBLE
could do to take ~are of them; and there were as good fish
left in the sea as those they had taken out.
And what about Simon Peter? Did he start off to find
the local editor of the Capernaum Chronicle or the Galilee
Gazette and give them each a string of fish, get them to
insert in their columns a little notice which he had pre-
pared, intimating that "Simon Peter, the eminent fisher-
man, had by a masterly exhibition of piscatorial skill,
succeeded in securing two boat loads of fish at a single
haul-a thing never before known on the sea of Galilee ; "
and advising all who wanted fish caught, to send for the
firm of Simon Peter, Zebedee and Sons, to bring their boats
and nets and have the business done at once? " "Simon
Peter, Zebedee and Sons!" Why, they had toiled all night
and had not caught a fish, and no wonder, their net was so
foul that when daylight came they -had to take it ashore to
wash it; and the first haul they caught, the old thing began
to break, and they came near losing all the fish. No, they
had no such nonsense as this in the Golilee Gazette. But
"when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees,
saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, 0 Lord.
For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the
draught of the fishes which they had taken. And so was
also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were
partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear
not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men."
"I will make you fishers of men," is the promise, but
how poorly we succeed in the work. And what is the
reason? Dirty nets that need washing; nets with holes in
them that need mending; rotten nets that would rip and
break if they ever got a haul of fish in them,-which they
never have had, nor are likely to have-and worse than all,
no partners to help haul in the nets, but rather a set of
fishermen who try to scare the fish away from each other's
nets, and who, if they ever fish in partnership, are liable to
wind up with a grand quarrel when they come to divide the
catch.
Then there are so many different boats on the lake, that
there are not fishermen enough to man them, and so they
have got aboard a lot of land-lubbers who do not know how
to fish, but who will fight and quarrel, and scare the fish,
and dispute when they come to divide them; and so each
boat has to go by itself, and catch what they can, and get
ashore with them the best way they know how. Some of
the big boats are manned by crews who have splendid nets
and nice tackle, but they are afraid of getting them wet, and
as for fish, they do not know a mackerel from a muskalonge,
and as for fishing, they mostly raise their own fish in their
private ponds, and never let them out for fear they will
never be able to catch them and get them back.
Then there are others who dare not" launch forth into
STANDARD. 113
the deep _and let down their nets "-they are afraid of
water, and would not get wet for anything,-but they have
built a splendid fish-house up on top of a high hill in a
central location, and have issued proclamations for all the
fish, especially the big fish, and gold fish, and silver fish, to
come ashore, and crawl up through the sand half a mile to
their fish-house and be caught, and promising that they
shall be well taken care of.
Away with all this nonsense; go into partnership with each
other, ye fishers of men. Send your land-lubbers and
bullies ashore, and get some of those old fishermen in their
dorys whom you have driven off the grounds, to come and
show you how to catch fish. Do not quarrel over your
catch. Stop scaring away the fish. There are fish enough
to fill all your boats if you will only behave yourselves.
You" --ist " boat, make a little less noise and do a little
more pulling, and you will catch more. You" --ian"
boat, better not be quite so much afraid of water, you will
have to spoil some fine clothes before you catch many fish.
You" --ist" boat there, those carpets look very nice on
the bottom of the boat, but if you do ever get a load of fish,
your Brussels will be in a sorry plight before you get them
ashore. You" --ist" boat there, your craft is alittle narrow,
and you are a pretty strait-laced crew, but never mind,
come into the partnership, you will learn, and there will be
some fish caught if you toil faithfully. You "--ian"
crew, do you not think it would be as well for you to try
and lay aside your starch and propriety, and catch a few
fish yourselves, as to hang around the other boats and pick
out the best fish, and especially the gold fish, after they
have caught them? You," --ist" crew, your net needs
mending, and washing too; it is in a horrible condition;
better pull ashore and get in fishing order, and then you will
be able to catch fish.
Fishing is rough work and hard work, and unpleasant
work. The fish will not come to you, you must go to them;
they will not climb into your boat, they must be hauled in:
and fishing for men is very different business from the
picknicking and pleasuring which dainty-handed kid-gloved
gentry so greatly enjoy.
Hark! the Great Teacher, He whose head has pressed the
fisherman's hard pillow, and whose wisdom has guided their
weary toils, says, "Launch out into the deep, and let down
your nets for a draught." Listen to His word. Pull away!
there,-not too close together,-give plenty of sea-room,
don't get foul of that little boat! Now pull away! there,
let down your nets, mind! "on the right side of the ship,"
-there you have them! now beckon to your partners! see
them bend to the oar; now all hands to the work, haul in
the nets and fill the boats, and rejoice that the Lord has
made you" fishers of men."-American Paper.
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"EXUSTUS NON CONVICTUS."
OUTSIDEthe city gate of Constance, in the grand duchy of
Baden, Germany, stands a simple monument with an in-
scription, " Joannes Hus, exustus non convictus; "-" John
Huss, burned but not convicted." On that spot, on the 6th
of July, 1415, stood a man in the prime of'life, for it was on
his forty-second birthday, surrounded by fagots, and
fastened to a stake by a blackened chain; and there with
the torches ready to kindle the fire, he uttered in the ears
of the gazing multitude which surrounded him this good
confession: "The chief aim of all my declarations, teach-
ings and writings, has been to bring men to repentance and
the forgiveness of sins, according to the truth of the Gospel
of Christ, and the teachings of the fathers. I gladly this day
seal that truth which I have written and proclaimed, with
the pledge of my death."
Born in the village of Husinits, Bohemia, in 1373,
educated in a monastery, graduated at a high school, and at
the age of sixteen a student in the University of Prague,
where he was graduated in 1393, elected dean of the
theological department the following year, and afterwards
selected as confessor to the queen of Bohemia, and made
pastor of Bethlehem chapel, Prague, in 1402,-he there
uttered with trumpet voice his rebukes of the drunkenness,
ignorance, and errors of an apostate priesthood; and finally,
catching the flame that glowed in the writings of Wyckliffe,
the first translator of the English Bible, he speedily drew
upon himself the condemnation of the ecclesiastical
authorities, against whose sins his faithful testimony was
borne.
Prohibited preaching in Bethlehem chapel, and refusing
to be silent, he was summoned to Rome to defend himself
before the pope, and declining, by the counsel of friends, to
undertake such a journey, he was excommunicated in
March, 1411. As he disregarded the excommunication, the
city of Prague was placed under interdict, and every public
religious service within its limits was prohibited. This act
secured the interposition of the king; and. the archbishop of
Prague, who had instigated all the trouble, was compelled to
beg and secure of the pope the revocation of the interdict.
Again the sentence of excommunication was ordered to be
executed, and it was commanded thatHuss should be burned
and Bethlehem chapel demolished; but the king would not
execute the unrighteous mandate, and Huss continued to
preach the Word to thronging multitudes. Subsequently
he was compelled to leave Prague, and seek safety in
temporary exile, and thus went everywhere bearing the
glad tidings, and writing to his brethren, "Pray.for me that
I may more richly write and preach against Anti-christ, and
that God may lead me in the battle, and when I am driven
to the greatest straits in defence of His truth. 11'01' I know
STANDARD. 115
that I shrink not from grvmg up this poor body for God's
truth to those who need it."
At length, at the instigation of pope John, a council was
called at Constance, in November, 1414. The pope himself,
who had fled for protection to Sigismund. the emperor,
attended this council with thirty cardinals, one hundred and
fifty bishops, and eighteen hundred priests, along with the
emperor and numerous princes and knights. Summoned
by the emperor to appear at this council, and granted a
"safe conduct," securinq his safe return to Bohemia, Huss,
disregarding the cautions of his friends, left Prague and
went to Constance. Shortly after arriving there he was
imprisoned by order of a conclave of cardinals, deprived of
sufficient food, and his arms chained to the walls, that thus
harassed and discouraged, he might recant and deny his
faith. At length he was allowed to speak before the council,
but was received with such outcries of "Recant, recant,"
that he found it impossible to defend himself; his con-
demnation was determined, and justice had no place in the
council. After the council had adjourned Huss was re-
peatedly brought forth and urged to yield to its decision,
whatever it might be. His answer was, "I call God to
witness, most indulgent emperor, that I never conceived the
purpose of defending anything with extreme stubbornness,
but that I came here of my own accord, with this intent,
that if anyone would give me better instruction I would un-
hesitatingly change my views."
Instruction. they could not give him, they had only
authority to urge. jiIe must recant or die; and so on his
forty-second birthday he went to the stake, singing the
Easter hymn of Venantius Fortunatus, that has come down
to us from the sixth century:
"Welcome, happy morning! age to age shall say:
Hell to-day is vanquished, heaven is won to-day 1
Lo, the dead is living, God for evermore!
Him the true Creator, all His works adore.
Earth with joy confesses, clothing her for spring,
. All good gifts returned with her returning King:
Bloom in every meadow, leaves on every bough,
Speak his sorrows ended, hail his triumph now."
So died a faithful witness and confessor of the Lord, and
where his dust mingled with the ashes of the fagot fire,
stands the monument erected to his memory, bearing the
record, " JOANNESHus, EXUSTUSNONCONVICTus,"-a simple
sentence, but one that might be written over the ashes of
.many a martyr, many a sufferer, many a saint of God.
"They were stoned, they were sawn asunder;" and
thousands on thousands of God's elect have given their
bodies to be burned ;-bu1'lwd but not convicted. Malice
has assailed them, cunning has sought to entrap them,
perjury has heaped shame upon them, and authority has
crushed them with its blow, but still above their charred
and blackened forms is written, burned but not convicted.
 116 THE BIBLE
Bigotry spews her blackening venom upon the names of
such patient sufferers, but God's angel of record writes them
in his Book of Life, and a grateful and sympathizing
posterity, redeemed from thraldom through their sorrows,
goes round the world to find a marble fair enough to bear
tbe record of their names, and writes on it, "BURNEDBUT
NOT CONVICTED."
It is easy to convict men. Councils and conclaves,
truck ling courts of venal slaves and fawning place-seekers
can do the work. Bigots who atone for the blackness of
their iniquities by the bitterness of their sectarianism, are
ready to scoff and scorn, to judge unexamined and condemn
unheard; to cry, "Recant or die," and to light the fagots
which surround the worn and wearied form of the suffering
saint of God; but when their names rot in eternal infamy,
those who are" BURREDBUT NOTCONVICTED" shine with an
increasing lustre; and when persecutors and scorners of
every age shall go down to shame and everlasting contempt,
they who have been "BURNED BUT NOTCONVICTED,"per-
secuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed,
" shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the
stars forever and ever."
• tion by Christ to save man's life, to prevent us from perish-
• ing,' from dying utterly-to
THEOLOGICAL REFORM.
MR. EDWARDWHITE has published" A Lecture to Artizans,"
from which we extract the following ;-
We, who thus differ from our brethren, come forward-
with no excessive opinion of our own wisdom or abilities,
but at least with an earnestness which makes us forget onr
own insignificance,-to declare that, having devoted in
many cases a lifetime to the special duty of this question,
we find in the Bible a God whose dealings with man are in
perfect accord with your and our best notions of both justice
and mercy.
We therefore cry aloud to all who will listen, that the
great requirement of this age is a REFORMEDDOCTRINEON
THE MORALCHARACTER OF GOD; a return to Bible-teaching
on man's nature, and on the Nature of God. And we affirm
that a promulgation of this reformed doctrine on the Natures
of God and of Man will go far to reconcile the Churches and
the Workshops-the thinkers and the workers-as it will
impart a new life to the preaching of the Gospel as " glad
tidings" both at home and in heathen lands.
" This then is the message which we have heard of Him.
and declare unto you, first, that GOD IS LIGHT, and in Him
is no darkness at all." His justice is an intelligible justice,
appealiug to every conscience, and silencing every objection.
And next, that GOD IS LoVE. The Eternal Being loves
mankind, pities us in our sins and miseries, in our perishing
condition, and desires to endow us with Immortality; and
to this end has given His Son to die, the just for the unjust,
STANDARD.
that" whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but
should have everlasting life."
We have studied the Bible through and through, some of
us for forty years, and can find no single verse in any of its
books, from Genesis to Revelation, in which it utters forth
even once that almost universal notion of the Immortaliuj
of the Soul,-of a "never-dying soul," which "must for
ever live in raptures or in woe." Observe! The Bible
never once addresses men-as our common preachers
generally do - as "immortal creatures." The Bible agrees
with true Science and Philosophy. Both alike condemn the
figment of man's natural and absolute immortality of body
or soul. On the contrary, the Bible teaches, from beginning
to end, that although God made man at first" in His own
image," a rational being, and king of the world, and made
him with a view to "taking of the Uee of life," that he
" might eat and live for ever "-this result was conditional
on his obedience; and that sin brought in death, death
absolute, the curse of destruction, of perisliinq, in soul and
body, from under the heavens. Man, then, is now born
I
under the law and sentence of destruction, but it is the result
of sin-or law-breaking. It is the very object of Redemp-
give us everlasting life.
Salvation, then, means the saving of man's life.
But how does the Bible teach us that the Everlasting God
bestows this blessing? It is by nothing less than by joining
our nature to the Divine Nature, in the Person of Christ,
the WORD MADEFLESH. Christ as Son of Man endured the
curse of the law, death or destruction, in order to save us
by His sacrifice; the rulers" sought to destroy Jesus;"
they put an end to His life as a man. We are taught that
this precious life-blood was a "ransom." God Himself
provided the sacrifice necessary. But as Son of God He
was" raised again." The" destroyed temple" was raised
up on the third day, and henceforth Christ becomes the
Divine fountain of endless life to perishing human beings.
All who repent and believe the Gospel shall be forgiven all
trespasses, shall be saved from perishing along with Nature,
shall live for ever in that wondrous universe dimly repre-
sented to us by the starry firmament, and shall live for ever
and ever with God in the future eternity. All who wilfully
continue in wickedness, in uncleanness, in drunkenness, in
lying, in frivolous neglect of truth, in injustice and angry
tempers, and refuse to obey God, shall not live for ever, but
shall give an account of themselves in a resurrection of
damnation, or judgment-when Christ solemnly declares
that they shall suffer the just penalty of being depriued of the
life which they misused,-they shall be destroyed out of the
universe both body and soul in hell. (Matt. x. 28.) We
maintain that this, in a few words, is the drift of the whole
Bible; that man is not by nature immortal, in either body
or soul; that" God desires to give" an endless life to each
of us in Christ; that all who become" new men" in Him
shall be forgiven all sin, shall live for ever in a new and
eternal world; but that all the obstinately wicked" He will
destroy."
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NEWS FROM THE UNSEEN.
WE have seen floating about among our Exchanges a scrap
of news pertaining to the reception of Pope Pius Ninth in
the celestial world. Thus it is said:
" We are gravely assured on the authority of Le Pelerin, a
Catholic paper, not only of the safe arrival of the late in-
cumbent of the pontifical throne in Paradise, but of several
particulars in regard to the honours of which he was the
recipient upon his entrance into that blessed state.
" The paper referred to says: 'Upon entering Paradise
he received a crown from the hands of the Immaculate
Virgin Mary, as a reward for the crown he had conferred
on her while on earth.
" , St. Joseph, whom he had made the patron and pro-
tector of the church, did not fail to shake him cordially by
the hand, and thank him.
" 'On seeing him enter, St. Peter instantly gave the
pitch, and the heavenly choir struck up.
" , Florins, Francis de Sales, and Alphonse de Ligouri,
.. whom he had proclaimed doctors of the church, extolled
each in turn the exploits and achievements of his pontificate.
." 'Fifty-two Saints and twenty-six Blessed, who owe to
Pins Ninth their existing position, regaled him with
melodious concerts.' "
We have noted the somewhat incredulous tone in which
papers have commented on this remarkable information,
and we have been led to inquire what there is about all this
so incredible. Have we not repeatedly heard ministers,
eminent, able and orthodox, who have reported things as
wonderful as these? Have they not sung of. their friends
who are watching and waiting for them at the beautiful
gate? Have they not preached that those who had de-
parted this life have been welcomed by their friends to
celestial joys? Have they not told how mothers looking
definite information concerning the dead than all the
writings of the prophets and apostles convey.
We suggest whether, on such themes as these, it might
not be well to leave these vague fancyings, and cultivate
that modesty and reticence which was characteristic of our
Lord. We know that Lazarus died and was buried and
rose, but on his return to life he made no mention of such
scenes as these to which we have referred. We know that
our Lord Jesus died and was buried, but we also know that
when He burst the grave and returned to life, it was not to
gratify our curiosity with any wondrous tales concerning
death and its mysteries. The safest preaching is preaching
THE WORD, and if He had many things to teach us which He
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OANON RYLE ON SCEPTICISM. and Catholic exposition of this, no man of our acquaintance is better
qualified. The work is small, but pregnant, It is divided into ten brief
chapters. But each of these contains Multuni in Parco,
Extract from the Liverpool Daily Courier, May 27th, 1880.
Whilst going somewhat beyond the author in our view of death,
SIR,-Being much interested in our "Bishop designate," whom I have believing it to be an utterly unconscious state, still, we are cordially in
seen and heard, and some of whose writings I have read with much agreement with the' bulk of the conclusions of this work, and shall be
pleasure, I naturally perused with care his Oxford sermon on Scepticism, glad if by our good word, thus given, we can aid in circulating this new
published in your issue of to-day. Though not a sceptic in the common and valuable contribution to the tract literature of the life.
acceptation of the term, I yet must confess myself rather sceptical on
some statements in the Rev. Canon's discourse, and with your permission
I would most respectfully allude to them as being open to amendment. NEWS OF THE WORK.
The Rev. Canon is reported to have said, "Alas, what a waking up
BRIDGNORTH.
remained for many the moment the last breath was drawn! There was
After a pastorate of six years, this church is severing its connection
no unbelief in the grave. Voltaire nolO knew whether there was a sin-
with its minister, Mr. Tbos. Vasey, who purposes devoting the evening
hating God, and David Hume nolO knew whether there was an endless
of his life to the work of an Evangelist; to declare the gracious truths
hell. The infant of a day by merely dying acquired a knowledge which
of 'Life only in Christ,' and His Advent and Kingdom. Upon the
the subtlest philosophers while on earth professed their inability to attain.
wisdom of a chauge the church is much divided, some preferring to
The dead Hottentot knew more thau the living Socrates." Now, Mr.
retain a witness to tbese truths, and others desiring the flesh-pots of
Editor, I do not believe all this any more than that J onah swallowed the
Egypt-in tbe shape of the traditional tbeology. As a house divided
whale, and to screen myself from the charge of scepticism I take refuge
against itself cannot stand, we can but think Mr. Vasey has acted
in the Sixth Article before referred to. It would be interesting to know
well and wisely in tendering his resignation. Should any church or
whence the preacher drew these conclusions that he so boldly put forth
mission desire his services for the Sunday supply of their Pulpit, we
on such an important occasion. It would appear to me that such
shall be happy to forward their communications.
statements have a tendency to make sceptics rather than unrnake them.
If from the Holy Scriptures it would be well to have the proofs, and if LIVERPOOL.
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The Scripture testimony respecting the dead is-" The dead know not than even the General Association-bas made a three-montbs engage-
anything." " His breath goeth forth-he returneth to his earth; in that ment with Mr. Thos. Vasey, of Bridgnorth, as Evangelist and Lecturer. It
very day his thoughts perish." "The dead in Christ shall rise first." is intended to rent a hall in the centre of Liverpool, and hold stated
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the dead know not anything. Other teaching seems contrary to Scripture invitation to hold its next Annual Conference in Liverpool, to commence
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