Second advent library

~````133 ucruax in~"fornicator" is' mentioned! How many "condom"would hide their faces! How many Mliohztcrs" would,how their heads, or "railers" would begin to murmur at.the plainness of the speaker! How many "drunkards"would not have into this house! And howstaggeredmany " ufortioncrs' would have staid at home! O God,thou knowest. Or who can read the 2d chapter of the2d epistle of Peter, and John's first epistle, Jude, andothers, and not be convinced that the apostles could nothear with them that were evil? Again: "Thou hasttried them which say theyareapostles, and are not, andhast found them liars." This sentence was fulfilled inthe apostles' days. Simon Mavus, aiter he was prol`ess»edly a disciple of Christ, lound was out by Peter to ba.in the "gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity." Hy-,meneus and Alexander, whom Paul delivered to Sata.n,_that they may leam not to blaspheme. 1 Tim. i. 20.Also Philetus, Demos, and Alexander the coppersmith,were all found tn be liars, and many others who went outfrom them, as the apostle says, because theywere not ofthem. And how many are there now, m brethren, amous, who, when trihulation cometh, willbe offended, aliapo out from us! Lord, is it I? " And hast borne, andmast patience, and for my na.me's sake hast labored, andhast not fainted." Yes, my brethren, it was for the nameof Jesus, that the primitive Christians bore the persecutionsof their day. Acts xv. 25, 26, "It seemed goodunto us to send chosen men unto you, with our belovedBarnabas and Paul, men that have hazarded their lives.for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."~"Actix..16,For I will show him what great thi he must suferfor my name's sake." Verse 41, Andxiizy " departed fromthe presence of the council, rejoicin that they warmcounted toworthysuffer shame for name."Ama,may I not inquire, how many of us arewilling andvoul,rejoice to suffer shame for the name of Christ? Perhspinone. We had rather be called ,Rabbi, Rev., Ilr,,,,We are contending for our names at the ~'praent,,Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, MFree-wills, Camp ellites, &c. If we do not coestly for oursect,,the,y will decrease, and we shall some