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vi: 28, 29, and of their subsequent condition, Deut. xxviii: 59. Compare Deut. xviii: 15 with John. i: : 45, vi: 14 and Acts iii: 32, vii: 37, and John vi: 25. From this last, the coming of Christ is here foretold, and also the end of the Mosaic dispensation. Deut. xxi: 22, 23. Gal. iii: 13. Moses by prophecy here referred to Christ who was hanged on a tree made a curse for us These prophecies prove that Moses was inspired, and as a prophet was a type of Christ.

The miracles of Moses must have been very evident, otherwise the Israelites never would have submitted to his laws that appeared quite oppressive. It has been estimated that at least the one haif of all their yearly income was offered up as a sacrifice, and I presume that men loved property as much then as they do now. If Moses was not inspired why would he, when in the wilderness, where not an olive tree or a grape vine ever was seen, make laws regulating the tax on olive oil and wine.

On the borders of Canaan, when the children of Israel murmured; Moses told them, Num. xiv: 29 that he would march them forty years in the wilderness, and in Num. xxxiii, forty-two such excursions are given,

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CHAPTER XI.

"GOD IS LOVE; AND WHERE LOVE IS THERE is
GOD ALSO."

HE above, is the title of a book sent me by mail.

I would not detract one particle from love; it

is the cement of society, and without it Christianity is a farce. "We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren." And when I say all this, and yet to put such a book in the hands of sinners to teach them what God requires of them, that love is the magnum bonum, to take people to heaven, then I reply the devil never uttered a bigger lie; such a book in the hands of Christians can only do good. "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil, whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." This and much more has John written about love, but it was written to Christians. When such a book is given to a sinner as a guide to heaven it is only fraught with evil. All the love exhibited by Pythias never saved a soul, it is like that soul

destroying doctrine, "pray on and God will pardon.'

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Acts of the Apostles is the only book given to show how sinners are made Christians. Twelve cases are there given, and love is not once mentioned, but each case begins with faith and ends with baptism, and he who turns up his nose at this is turning up his nose at Christ, Mark xvi: 16. The apostles only followed out Christ's instruction. In all accounts given, an apostle never spoke of love to a sinner. It is always obey the gospel, you are then a child of God, and as such, love is a crowning virtue. The apostle tells the Christian [not the sinner] without love you cannot see God.

It is not to make you sons but it is "because you are sons God has sent forth his spirit into your hearts" Gal. iv: 6. Do not let us make a misapplication of love, first teach the sinner to obey, and teach love to the Christian. The quack doctor who gave the choked Irishman a potato, unchoked him, but when he gave it to a choked Dutchman it killed him. The doctor wrote, potato good for choked Irishman, but death to Dutchman. Men these days have less sense than the doctor, they see something in the Bible, they never stop to see who it is addressed to, but it is issued

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