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for the place. That is where you belong. There is a sad side to this matter, however. You are supposed to be a Congregational minister and we take it you took some kind of vows. The Congregational Church building in which you have been preaching was built by .professing Christians who believed in the word sin, and in the words, blood atonement for sin, Are you tired of the good old family Bible; of the old saints of God; of fellowship with the old-fashioned be lievers ? What’s the matter with your mortal mind, anyway? You owe the clothes you wear, the country in which you live, and all of the blessings of life, to that old Book. Are you getting restless now? Your brilliant brain soaring into un known heights? Your soul longing for affiliation with the spirit of the departed Mrs. Eddy ? Don’t soar u p ! Drop down! She has gone the other way. (2 Pet. 2:1, ?.) “Bat there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even deny ing the hord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the Way of truth shall be evil spoken of.” T. O. H. AlA; Atfe. Peeved at Premillennialism. Almost every day some of our friends send us little clippings from different sections of the country which evidence a real sulky spirit about this doctrine of our Lord’s return upon the part of some editors of religious papers and some pastors. Of course, life is too short and space too valuable'for us to give atten tion to many of them, but we want to emphasize one point that is outstand ing in them all and that is the absence of any Scriptural contradiction to the premillennial doctrine. In our little booklet, “ Who Are These Pre- millennialists ?” which has just been revised and enlarged, we give the facts which every believer should possess and then, with the Bible in hand, prove for himself whether the doctrine is true, and whether it is a new doctrine or a fundamental doctrine of the Word of God and a doctrine held by the early church. We open the doors wide; we give every one an opportunity to verify three facts: (1) The premillennial return of our Lord is definitely taught in the New Testament from Matthew to Revelation. (2) The premillennial return of the Lord was fundamentally believed and taught by the early church. ’(3) The premillennial return of our Lord has been preached and taught by many of the leading expositors, teachers and preachers in,this country and Great Britain during the last seventy-five years and. is so taught all bver Christendom today. • Now we state this to meet the insidious effort being made on the part of some teachers, preachers and religious papers to foist upon the Church the idea that it is a new doctrine and to associate the doctrine “with the Seventh Day Adventists and Russellites. It is not new, but it is true; it is
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