Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 March 1878 — Page 4

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GAZETTE. Terre Haute. Ind.

DEMOCRATIC 8TATETICKETF0R 1878. For Serretary of Slate, JOHN G. BHAkKLIX, of Vanderburgh Co.

For A udi tor of State,

MAULON D. NAflfcON. of Montgomery Co. For Treasurer of State, WILLIAM FLEM1KG, of Allen County.

For Attorney-General.

TI108.W. WOOLLEN, of Johnson County. For Supirii.Undent of Trblic Instruction JAMES If SMAliT, of Allen County.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1878.

VETOING docs not veto.-

CONGRKSS sttpped on Mr. Ilayes' Vtoe.

PLEASE observe it. down.

Gold is coming

NEW YORK City, during February had sixty-seven failures, the amounts of which aggregated $2,658,598.

THE new silver dollar of 412)^' grains ought to have the head of Murat Halstead, of the Commercial, on it. He is the dad of the dollar.

IN this issue appears the notice of candidacy for avses^or of Mr. Shepherd Watson. Mr. Watson has served one term as deputy assessor, and understands the business.

IT does nrt occur to us that Hayes can say he did not know of the passage of the bill remonetizing silver. It will be remembered that Grant has said he did not know he feigned a bill demonetizing silver.

1 BEN BUTLER as a presidential candidate would arouse unbounded enthusiasm, and the respectable elements of society, all over the country .would rally to a man about the polls, and vote to make him—stay at home. j.

A. B. SHOAFF, editor and proprietor of the Paris Gazette, the live Democratic paper of Edgar count, 111., was in the city this morning. Mr. Shoaff reports the Democracy of Edgar county as being in excellent fighting condition, eager for the fray, and confident of victory. .•

Pi KRSON township has elected delegates to the Democratic county convention, which is to meet in May. In the opinion of the GAZETTE, much of this action is premature. The convention should not meet until July. There are a number of candidates in the field, and the party will be winner by having their labors as long as possible. But even if the convention certainly meets in May the election of delegates at this time is premature.

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MB. ANDREW FOUTS announces himself a candidate for sheriff. Mr, Fouts has been a Democrat who has done valiant service for the party during many a heated campaign. There are few men who occupy as good a position in the party in this county. Mr. F. has a number of gentlemen who are his competitors for the same office, but he will "hustle" them all. Although the convention will not meet for several months the fight already waxes warm.'-..

FROM an exchange we glean the following facts, which deserve attention. At his death Commodore Vanderbilt left Dr. Deems, pastor of the Church of Strangers, New York city, a legacy of $30 ,000. This excited some comment at the time, and many unkind remarks were made as to Dr. Deems' disposition of the money. Without any publicity, however, he gave the entire amount to the church, refusing to use even the interest. and this, too, when he has to write much to earn enongh to ppy his,, household expenses.

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along without capital pun ishment the Legislature of Iowa has restored it to the statute books as a penalty for murder. One by one, states that abolished this form of punishment, under a mistak en idea o: clemency, have found it necessary to return to it. After all it is the surest and the safest way of checking murder, and the first duty ot the state is towards its law abiding citizens, who are for the most part the victims of 6uch crimes at the hands of people without whom the country is really better oft".

THE brand new National party is a secret organization. There is no attempt at evasion. It is openly boasted of a6 being one of its merits. Something orj other about it is of such a nature as to make it desirable to hide it from the light ot day.

This sort of thing has been tiied before in American history. There was a party several years ago which a'ttmpted to manage politics by means of signs and grij and passwords. It was called the Know Nothing party, something about it was of a nature which shunned daylight. The Democratic party met it, face to face, in an eleccion and before the overwhelming votes of the people it was laid away in its grave. That was not so long ago but that people now living can remember it well. Secrecy in politics is in opposition to the very genius of our free institutions. It has never thrived. It never will thrive. The Democratic party will demonstrate that fact again.

OUR old lriends the Gresnbackers, now called the Nationals, must fcincerely rejoice over their defeat, nearly two years ago. Then they were in a fever heat over the interconvertible bond. Everybody was a money shark and a scoundrel who did not agree with them. The country would go all to piece if the interconvertible bond was not adopted. They asked the suffrages of the people bccause they proposed to introduce the interconveitible bond. That was a year andahalfago. They were not successful. Now, they did not indorse the interconvertible bord sche.ne at their Toledo convention. They avoided it altogether. From their organ here it appears that the convention regarded the interconvertable bond as "a point of danger" which was very happily avoided. Thi6 great unchangeable party of fixed principles, has completely changed front What it advocated a year ago it now considers a dangerous heresy. How rerv glad they must feel in their hearts that the people understood the situation better than they did, and defeated them.

PREPARATIONS tor the coinage of the new silver dollar are in an advanced stage. In a very few weeks they may be expected to appear in our midst. On the obverse side of the new coin will be a profile head of liberty, crowned with a cap and coronet, and 6uriounded with stalks of wheat. Above the head is "E Pluribus Unum," and below the date 187S. 0.« the reverse 6ide is an eagle, two 6tars and the words "United States of America," semi-circularly arranged. Below this inscription is the phrase, "In God We Trust." Below the eagle the coin is stamped "One Dollar." It will be, it is thought, a very handsome coin, indeed.

Western people will be disappointed' that the the fine head of Murat HaUtead of the Cincinnati Commercial does not appear on it. Having been chiefly instrumental in bringing about its remoYietization, it would be a touching recogniti»n of the fact to have his head on the coin. The rule which declare that the head of no living person shall adorn a coin, a bill, or a stamp might be set aside in this ensr. Otherwise believers in te desirability of having his head on the coin would be forced into the disagreeable dilemma cf wishing that Mr. Halstead was no more. rS

ONE of the aims and objects of the so called National party, according to its Terre Haute organ, is to delegalize debt. That is to say, it favors the abolition ef debt. It would place every creditor at the mercy of hi6 debtor, without any legal recourse. Now the greatest creditors in this community are poor people who work for wages. Their employers pay them every month, or every two or three months, as the case may be Their employers! are therefore their debtors lor unpaid wages£ 7 Are the laboring people of Vigo county willing to leave the payment of their wages entirely in the hands of their employers? Is the money they have earned and wherewith they expect to pay for their daily bread to be left wholly at the option of employers as to time, manner and amount of payment? 16 the relation between employer and employe of such a cordial nature as to admit of this trustful dependence by the employe on the employer? Are working men willing to abide by this rule? Would mechanics and masons and builders generally like to see the law which enables them to take alien on their handiwork abolished? Or would they preier the doctrine expressed in the Democratic platform, which proposes to make the wages of laborers a first lien on the property of him for whom they work? Tin is a matter which i^is is presented to them by the issues of the coming campaign. It is for them to decide.

TEXAS.

THE CARNIVAL.

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Galveston, March 6.—The eighth annual carniv a a a and surpassed in every respect all thatTh" \VT ctIirAf^'C

A RUMOR.

A San A ntonio special to the News says that it is rumored that Governor Hubbard had an interest in the salt lake location, about which the El Paso troubles originated. This report, however, is oontradicted by Gen. Ludlow, one of the claimants.

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

B^HEREAFTiB«

A Discussion of the Sinner's Fa tare Prospcctf,

By the Rev. Abbey at the Second Prefc byterian Church.,

He Argues in Favor of Everlasting Puiiivhinent. v.

Rev. E. W. Abbey on Sunday preached trom the text •'And these shall go away into everlasting puuishment but the righteous into life eternal."

He said :.. I noticed recently in a leading newspaper of New York, an article, presentirg the view, that the daily press shou'd cuss religious topics.

Now, as to the discussion rriigtous questions by the secular pr 1 am certain we all believe in it iiK'ot heirtily. For religion, fortunately, is not limited to anv one set of people. It is as abundant as oxygen,—as free as air,—as boundless as space.

Onlv let the popular press discuss these questions in as earnest and candid a manner, as the nature of the subject warrants, and it will add another to the li«t of advantages, which it furnishes to striving humanity.

And, in just this direction, the daily press ha6 lately, I believe, been doing a good service—I mean in the wide-spread reference to the question of future punishment.

This one cf the commonly supposed primal doctrines of Christianity has been brought out into naked gaze before the English speaking world. For quite space of time, this doctrine has not been kept oeforu the people with any special degree of prominence. Because of this, the opinion has become widespread that the church has departed from its old orthodox belief or, that, at any rate, the ministry dare no longer preach the doctrine, as of old.

In regard to thU last thought, I am confident, that I need not apologize for the honesty of the Cristian ministry. It will preach what it believes to be the truth.

I conceive, that the reason why the doctrine of eternal punishment has not received so much prominence of late, (if, indeed, it has not,) is found in the fact, that some new phazes of skepticism have been crowding their attention upon the mind of the generation which skeptical views, it has seemed of paramount im portance to meet.

But now those leading questions being settled, the great schools of learning of the Christian world being thoroughly convinced, as against all recent infidel attacks of the genuine6s and credibility of the Bible, as being the inspired revelation of Almighty God, it may be that the time his come for crowding upon the attention of men, among other doctrines, this leading one of eternal punishment.

And to I wcicome the sew publicity which ha been given to this question, through the agency of the public press. Whatever may be said of the doctrine— only be it said with real candor, and with enlightened inve6tiga!ion, good will result to the cause of truth, I herald the awakening of the public mind to those truths, which affect man's welfare here, and his destiny beyond the grave, as a matter of rejoicing—the result always has been, and always will bj the exaltation of the gospel of our blessed Redeemer—the salvation of souls—the rapid progress of the kingdom of Christ.

But I am told by rationali.-ts, that it is very impolitic to represent the everlasting" punishment of the wicked, as a doctrine of the Bible. 'J his is undoubtedly true. And so Paul felt, that it was very impolitic for him to preach the doctrine of the cross. He knew that doctrine to be a stumblingblock to the Jew. and foolishness to the Greek. He knew, that if he preached the so-called common sense doctrine of salvation by works,— the offense of the cross would have ceased. But he knew also, that it was not his business to make a gospel, but only to declare the gospel, which had been taught him by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Those of us, who teach the unpopular doctrine, that the banishment of the wicked from heaven will be endless, are compelled to do this by the clear revelations of God's word. We have not invented the doctrine. We do not believe it, because we are glad of it. We do not preach it because it is popular. We know, well enough, that it is not a doctrine palatable to the majority of mankind. And, regarding the justice or the mercy involved, we have nothing to do. God is abundantly able to vindicate his own dealings with his creatures. He asks no apohgies from ui. All that we. as teachera of the inspired word, have to ask, is, "whatsaith the Lord"? Having learned that, we we are to preach it. There our responsibility ends. (Now, another thought, which ought always to be remembered in thinking upon the subject before us, is that the Bible nowhere teaches, that Go4 has created a hell,—and then, bv eternal, irrevokable decree, ordained that it shall be peopled with cursed men. I desire to emphasize this fact clearly. I can conceive of no more terrible blasphemy, than the declaration of such an idea.

And I desire to say, moreover, that such & doctrine has never been taught by the Christian church. I would correct a vtry commonly mistaken view regarding this. I reiterate it,— against the disgraceful travestise of many who ought to know better, that such a doctrine has neyer been the teaching of the Christian church.

Nor hps the doctrine of a material place cf punishment ever been the teaching of the church. When a prominent preacher uses language like this: "Adam having eaten of some forbidden fruit, countless millions were born heirs of perdition, and that perdition was a screaming among molten iron and sulphur, and that screaming was to be continued for a thousand million years for the first act." Over this place of screams the words were written, "God is Love."

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entirely false to history. The church has never believed that punishment was savage and brutal. It has always taught, that the "Lamb, that was slain," was to o^ the final judge and that infinite love and justice and merco would decide the eternity of each soul *and so just wduld be the sentence of the condemned,that even those,who,on the left hand,heard ihe verdict.'' Depart

into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels," would acknowledge the justice of it, "Even so, it is not the will cf your Heavenly Father, that one cf these should perish." The decrees of God are, some p*ust be saved all may lie. Repentance for sin, and faith in Christ— these are the two simple conditions set before all human beings and if all should act upon them, even as all may, never would a human being hear the final condemnation—depart,and enter that place, over whose portal is inscribed, "ail hop--abandon, ye who enter here."

Proceeding, now, from this Biblical foundation ot the love of God, I desire to suggest some simple answers to the question.

What is involved in denving the doctrine of eternal punishment? I. I answer, first that it involves the declaration, that the almost entire body of the Christian church, from the days of the apostles to the present time, has been mistaken in its belief.

Remember, that I claim this to be .only a negative argument. But what d^es it involve? That, with here and there a solitary exception, the great men, the holy men, the learned men, of all these eighteen centuries of Christianity, have been mistaken regarding a leading docirine of the gospel.

Begin, if you please, with the day ol Pen'ecost. The apostles, instructed by Chri6t Himself, called upon those to w'lom they preached to rep n\

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from the wrath to come. Give careful attention to the method of their preaching. "Ye have taken the Lord of Glory, and have crucified Him He is a divine Savior. Through faith in His name ye may be saved. Now, repent. Flee to Him for salvations ,•

I ask, candidly, what was the sense of such preaching. Be converted, "For there is none other name under heaven, given amo men, whereby we must be saved." Can we conclude, by any reasonable influence, otherwise, thany that the apostles considered, that unless to those m.'n to whom they preached, did repent, and acce,«t Christ for their Savior, thev remained in their sins, and had no interest in the heaven, wherein all the re deemed sing, "Worthy the Lamb that was Slain!"

I cannot s.e haw to arrive at any other conclusion. But, an objector may still say, that while such a conclusion is plain from the scripture account of their mode of preaching, it et proves nothing, since the aposiles were only men and, like other men, may have been mistaken

Very well! but this objection involves the main proposition, which I have expressed, that those apostles, holv men, ilavini»heen instructed by the Savior himself, and whom He did not send out to preach the gospil, until He, with God ly wisdom, kiiew them to be thoroughly prepared and, who, besides all that, having received a miraculous baptism of wisd mi and grace through the Holy Spirit, were, nevertheless, mistaken in what they pieaihed!

Can we accept su :h a monstrous con elusion involving, as it does, the declaration, that Christ was altogether wrong in sending out men so illy prepared lor th great work of instructing men regarding the gospil of His grao.? involving the,'declaration, that the Holy Ghost did not instruct them aright, bu'. Wfc them, when praying with pure hcaris for guidance, to leach err01 s?

And not only the apostles, but the vast majority of the good and vise and learned in all the centuries since, have held the doctrine in the same sense.

Thus, it beco n^salm^st an invincible presumption, that the Bible does teach the unending punishment of thsoe, who reject Christ, and die unrepewtent.

And I ask, further, how can we ac count for this almost entire unanimity in the belief of the Christian church on any other ground, than that the Bible9 does plainly teach his doctrine?

Some will answer, that it is to be accounted tor by some philosophic speculations, which early found their way into the teaching of the church and have become a superstition legacy, transmitted from generation to generation.

But, I ask, did such erroneous philosophical speculations get possession of the mind and teaching of the apostles?

Hardly! Yet we have found the apostles plainly teaching the doctrine. And more than this: Consider that thn docrine is not congenial to the human mind, that it is a doctrine, which the heart of man naturally revolts from and struggles against (as we plainly observe in the numerous fulsome condemnations of the doctrine), and to which it submits only under the stress of authorit\.

But the church, almost universally in all ages, has believed this doctrine. And why? evidently, because it must believe it, or renounce all faith in its holy scriptures.

Bur, another objection may be raised, viz: that men have believed this doctrine because in ages past, priestly authority was over-strong, and always pressed tt:i belief upon the minds of its votaries.

Very well! The unreasonableness of thi* o'jer.:iju, you will *ee by considering. gain, the preaching and teaching oi the upoaties and, further, by bearing in mind, that the doctrine was universally received before the organized church ar rogated to itself the right to dictate to the people of God what they should believe and, further, again, that the doctrine continued to be received, when, at the reformation, the old authority of the church was repudiated, and the Bible was declared to be the only infallible rule of faith.

These objections, then, it clearly seems wiil not satisfy the question, How came this almost universal belief into the church? „r

Are you ready to join issue with the principle of this argument, viz. that wh?t the almost universal body of competent honest readers ufa plain book take to be its meaning, must be its meaning

Any man, therefore, assumes a fearful] responsibility, who, with no better means! of investigation, and no additional records, sets himself up in opposition to thej candid, learned and almost universal belief of students of the Bible all ages.

II. Another answer. Denying the doctrine of eternal punishment,' involves the declaration, that Jesus Christ was either less intelligent in regard to this question, than those persons, who oppose the doctrine or that He was not a true reformer of errors.

I shall use no time in debating the question, concerning the belief of the Jews on this subject at th" time of Christ —fjr

I tiiink the simple statement will be suflicitnt. I say, then, that the doctrine of the perpetuity of the future punishrre.it of the w'eked, was held by the Jews a: the tims of Christ.

I ask yoJ, carefully, to' weigh this

thought. The doctrine of future punuh— ment was held by the Jews at the time of Christ.

Well then, with such a belief the common one of the people, Christ appear as the great reformer.

It is unnecessary I suppose to discuss before any English speaking audience the question, whether Jesus Christ was a reformer of errors, which like pestilential miasmas, had prostrated the human family. Such a discussion would insult the intelligence of any audience. For the sweetest and most inspiring thoughts, which the Christian world posesses, cluster around the life and teachings of Jesus Christ the richest and most iragrant ideas of the ninetcsnrh century are disti'.led from the record of the exalted benevolence of Tesui Christ. How He spate out against every abuse which injured the peace and happiness of men! How He reproved with burning indignation, and scorching irony, the false teachers of his day for" doctrinal errors on «any points! And how

He has thus become recognised as the very prince among earth's truest reformers.

And, now, please examine one characteristic cf a tru»: reformer. I ask you, as a pitent example, to take one, who, to-day. with a thoroughly hor.« esty intentior, denounces with extreme language, this doctrine of future punish ment, as a grass error in human belief,— as a hideous nightmaie disturbing Ihe rest of weary men,—a». a foul travesty on truth,—in short, a dete*tible doctrine, binding men's souls in chains ot dread and fear,—and blasting from men's hearts the sweetest and purest ideas of God.

So unspeakable is the awfulness of eternal suffering, that this present re former of errors finds no language sufficiently strong with which to condemn the doctrine. Read the words of one of its opponen's: "Do you have ihf doubt'•& to what he thinks of it? Isn't his language of condemnation so plain, that anybody except a philosopher, can understand his mean ing? His language, he would have strong enough to burn the doctrine out of t'le earth and, foreveruiore, free ms .'s minds from the dark cloud, which, he says, it causes propetually to obscure the warm, beautiful sunlight of God's love for struggling men."

In thin, you observe somewhat of the characteristics of a great reforming spirit.

And Jesus Christ was the prince among tnem. But. now, what did Christ do? Weigh the argument carefuly. He found the people believing in this doctrine. And I presume, that its influence upon tnen's minds was the same then, as now. I presume, that it was just as

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man then to contemplate a state of eternal suffering after death, as it is now. As an error—grievous, detestible, abominable, -I see not why it was just as worthy of denunciation then, as now

But, while we find Christ pouring out floods of burning indignation against one and another erroneous belief,—wherever He found them lurking,—and also spake in such a manner, that we have no shadow ow of doubt concerning his view of the nghf or wrong of those beliefs, we find, that He never poured forth any such language against this doctrine. No no! and very different from this,—He spake in such a way. that with lynx-eyed searching, the most of the New Testament upon which opponents of this doctrine can pretend to rely for argument, is at best, a detached passage,—or questionable inference,—or, as Mr. Beecher says, "the background of mystery

Now, I ask, does a great, earnest reformer treat a prominent, detestible error ir that manner? Was it difficult to comprehend what our collonial fore fathers meant, when they had to face the question of the tea tax Was it a hard matter to understand the feelings and the language of old John Brown, when he saw the fetters of the slave, knd spoke about slavery Is it a difficult thing to comprehend the feelings and the language of Christ, when he hurled his "woe," "woe," against one and another doctrine of the Pharisees?

Then I say to myself, friends, that if his doctrine of eternal punishment be so abominably erroneous, as some of our modern reformers tell us,—if teaching it, —if permitting it to go unsmitten, be so blasting to human happiness,—then I say the way in which Christ lift it is remarkable,—is in incomprehensible.

The reverend gentlemen continued in this line of argument, desiring to prove that, it the doctrine of future punishment is disputed, Christ'* knowledge must be impeached. He thought it also involved a denunciation of Christ for weakness of character. If Christ knew that all^ the millio a of mankind, who. generation after generation, have been* tramping down to the orave -in degradation,

sin, in ignor

ance, in desp.jir—were to be brought to a blissful home of eternal joy, and to happine*s ever!a-tii:g, and unspeakable, could He be a "MAN OK SOKKOWS The gentleman maintained, as one ot the leading points in his argument, that '•a denial of this doctrine declares tfie simplest teaching, and the plainest language of the Bible has no sense makes this book written so plainly that a fooi can understand if, an incomprehensible j.tr^o.i."- No reader of the Bible will deny that through atonement sinners are made heirs of heaven. The only question between orthodox believers and restorationists is—is that atonementlimited—MAY all be saved or MUST all be saved?

He spoke of the idea of probation. He referred to the frequent exhortation in the Bible to instant repentance and the danger of delay. He desired to know what the words "EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT" meant. ,If Dives "was in torments" haw could he bs either anhipilated or in heaven? He concluded by saying:

A denial of the doctrine of eternal punishment involves the declaration, that those, who are saved, even though it be through future probation, will not owe their salvation to Christ and the Holy Spirit, but to themselves and to the Devil.

The Bible, we all »gree, declares Christ to be the onlv Savior. Only through Him is heaven made ascessible to any sinner.

And I grant, for the munent, that the Bible teaches, that "hell is not eternal bat

i* °.n:* a place of probation," as sorr.e teU us it does mean. And now, of course, no one can hold other views, than that the Bible teaches that Satan is the prince of hell or as we shall now say. "the place of probation."

Now, then, I ask you to imagine a sinner, who, through his earthly life, has neglected salvation on the tcra s, which orthKloxy declares God makes known to hiiv., i. e., repentance and faith imagine, this one going to the place Of future retribution lor his season of probation.

Again, imagine him restored from hell after he has been punished for a greater or less space oftime, but having suffered fnough to compensate exactlv for his sins.

Now watch him. He is ushered into heaven. They are chanting the song of Redemption. He hears them sing

Worthy the Lamb, that was Slain" for sinners I He has no word of praise of Christ. What has Christ done for him? Nothing at all. Why? Because he has served out his time down there in the place of probation and Satan has been purifying him for all that time, until he has got him in a fit state for heaven.

What havoc does such a view play with the clear teaching of the Bible regarding the atonement of Christ! Such a soul has simply reaped full punishment for its sins served out its time over-thrown the whole of the grand central doctrine of the Bible, viz: The necessity of a divine atonement for sin. And, if that soul owes a debt to anybody, he owes it to the divil, who Has been putting him through his purifying process in hell, and making him fit lor the better country, even the heavenly.

I do confess, that this speculation concerning future probation, and final restoration not only makes such a jumble of plain Bible teaching?, that there can be no sense to anything we find in it,—but here ends by destroying the ijreat central truth of revelation. Cur.st, th.- only Savior, being removed, the pul-ating, warming, lite-giving heart is taken from the Scriptures, leavir.g naught but a dead body. The glory of redemption is shorn from Him, and from the sanctifying Holy Spirit, and placed as a crown of honor upon the brow of Satan.

Strange doctrine, indeed! And brethren and riends it is well to bear in mind, that nearly all of the most eminent advocates of the doctrine of future restoration, defend it on grounds ot speculation philosophy. You will bear in mind, that they rarely ever cite passages of scripture to defend it. Rarely ever will they pretend, that the doctrine is clearly revealed in the Bible.

It is, then, I say in conclusion right at this point, that we part company. As believers in the doctrine of eternal punishment, we believe if, because the Bible, our only infallible guide teaches it as objectors to it, we must be so, not from what we can learn fro the Bible, but because of any speculations, which we may imagine pleases our fancy.

Charles G. Finney in one of those tremendous philippics of his against error, used sometimes to describe a jail delivery from the world of woe, when a multitude of souls came up to the gatn of heaven and clamored for admusion.

The archangel, looking over the gate, inquires,

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roar?" And they reply, "We are from hell. We have served out our time. Let us in!"

That is Ihe doctrine of restoration, Ihe very best phazj of it. And, who of us, my friends, will hang our hopes of eternity on that? Who of us will take the cross of Christ, that is to-day put right before you, trample on it in neglect or in pride and madi.ess,and then risk salvation on eternity.

Who, that has watched the progress of evil in his own heart, or in society, and marked how lasting, and ever propagating is its character, and to day refuses to make honest repentence for sin, will expect to be purified, when in the future removed from these Christian privileges he is given up to the entire association of evil?

None can be so mad as to expect this. "To-day. then, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts," but flee to the Lamb of God for salvation. wH

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St. Louis, March 6.

FLOUR—Qniot, nothing doing. WuE VT— Unsctt.ed: No. 8 red, S1.14X cash: $1.14 bid for Marcb April No.4do. held $1.14.

CORN—Barely steady, 41c oasb 40# "a )ATS—Qaiet, MX bfl ca»h 25& bid Mob. RYE—Inactive, bn)i bid caab and Mareb. WH1SKEY-8: early, $1.03. PORK—Dull, $10.25 cash $10.26 bid Aprli. D. 8. HEATd—Demoralized.

BACOX-On 1. CLE IK K1B3—5& long clear shoulders 4.

LAKD-Xomlnalljr, $7.10.

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By Telegraph.|

tfew York, March 6.

FLOUR—Dull strongly downward re

bbls. sales, 9,000 bbl«.

WHfc iT—Doll, lower receipts, _«7,0« bu.: sal's, 98,000 bn. $l.S6j£ -No. 1 Mil. KYE-Quiet.

CORN—K#l lower receipts 79,000 bo. sales, 60,0!JU bn. 49$5c. BARLEY—QUIET.

OAT8— Dull, receipts JO,000bn. sales 18,0CS In. unchangedPORK—Heavy, 106C®7J.

LABD— Heavy, lower 7»X. WHISKEY—$1.07. ,,

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