Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Tlie Exigency of Truth. 31
Free-thinking of this country during a previous
generation. But the Free-thinking now has
not been generated among us, and has in truth
got but a slender foothold anywhere between
the four seas. We cannot conceive it possible
that any Congress in this country should disgrace
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itself by a
proposal
to pass a resolution pledging
its members to disbelief in the Existence of a
GOD. Yet this was actually done at the
j Congress
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of Students at Liege last October. I say not
this as
boasting. GOD forbid ! Only we all
who profess
to love our LOED JESUS CHRIST
have common enemies to encounter and vanquish,
much more dangerous than those of our own
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household; and those who have to carry on
the war in common had better unite for the
purpose.
Somehow it seems to have been forgotten
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that neither backsliding Israel nor treacherous
Judah were forsaken of GOD, notwithstanding
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their divisions. Both were punished, and as a
nation the Israelites never returned to the Holy */
Land nor to the unity of worship. Political
unity, so necessary for the realisation of all GOD S
designs in their favour, was nevertheless dis-
pensedwith. Nowthe excommunications levelled
against Constantinople and England were really
provoked, not by doctrinal error but by questions
of power and prerogative. Therefore, they have
not carried with them the effects which excom-