away sin by the sacrifice of Himself” (Heb. 9: 25-28). "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), then hath He said, Lo, I am come to do Thy will. He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second. By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: but He when He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;from henceforth expecting till His enemies be made the footstool of His feet. For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified" (Heb. 10: 8). The Passover continued to be a memorial of the deliverance from Egypt in the Church until Christ was offered as a sacrifice. It was a memorial, a type of the Lord's Supper, and was done away with when Christ was crucified. It was at the last celebration of the Passover, that Jesus said, "With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not eat it, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God" (Luke 22: 15). "Our Passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ" (1 Cor. 5: 7). As the Passover was a memorial, so is the Lord's Supper. Christ said, "This do in remembrance of Me" (Luke 22: 19).

In the account given 1 Cor. 11: 23 of the Sacrament, it is described as a memorial. "For as

often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till He come." They who profess to turn the bread or wafer into the body of Christ and worship it, are guilty of perversion of the Scriptures, of blasphemy and idolatry. The sacrifices which Christians are to offer are themselves and their gifts. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service" (Rev. Ver. Margin, Spiritual Worship). (Rom. 12: 1). Paul writes: "I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God" (Phil. 4: 18).

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The Church which claims to be Church," and that it has "the Historical Episcopacy," is bearing its proper fruit. Its historical episcopacy being insisted upon; its ritual, with the doctrines of baptismal regeneration, its altar and priesthood, continually kept in the foreground, has been leading that Church rapidly backward toward Rome. The number of the churches is increasing at a fearful rate in Great Britain, where prayers for the dead are offered, incense is used, the confessional established, the consecrated water elevated and reserved, transubstantiation is taught, and there seems nothing to separate its clergy from that

of Rome, but the refusal to acknowledge the primacy of the Pope, and accept the celibacy of the clergy. These are the inevitable results of the teachings of all the Churches that put their traditions in the place of the Word of God.

The Reformed Church of Holland was started with the soundest of creeds and with elders according to the Scriptures. The neglect of the elders allowed the State to appoint heretical teachers in her theological schools to train ministers for her churches. These corrupted nearly the whole Church. The churches in New England not being formed with elders according to the Scriptures, allowed the introduction of heresies, universalism and unitarianism, etc.; which carried a great part of them into infidelity. The neglect of the elders in the Presbyterian Church in controlling some of its theological seminaries, has allowed the entrance of errors which have caused much evil and trouble in that branch of the Church.

If the elders of the Churches were faithful in seeing that their ministers, evangelists and teachers preached the Law of God, the wrath to come, and the Gospel, as Christ and the Apostles preached them, there would be fewer murders, less suicides, less crime and more souls saved. It is written of the Bereans: "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so" (Acts 17: 11).

Believers must try the teachings of their Church by the Scriptures. The elders of the Churches are bound to take heed to the flocks over the which the Holy Ghost hath made them bishops, to keep them from being scattered or destroyed.

THE WAY OF SALVATION.

THE Bible tells us, that there is only one way of salvation. That way has been provided by God. Man never would have discovered it; and man everywhere rejects it. That way was the same before Christ came, that it is now. It is the only way in which man can go to God. In that way God's law is honored, and His justice satisfied; the sins of the believer are atoned for; and the sinner is not only justified, but is also sanctified. His natural heart is changed, he is created anew. Man is condemned to death, and "without shedding of blood there is no remission" (Heb. 9: 22). Christ was "made sin for us (2 Cor. 5: 21), and "bore our sins in his own body on the tree" (1 Pet. 2: 24). The sacrifices offered by the patriarchs, and according to the laws of Moses, were all ordered by God, and were types of the sacrifice of Christ. "The Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev. 13: 8). The coming of Christ was announced immediately after the Fall. "The Lord God said unto the serpent, * * * And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel" (Gen.