Vol 16 Issue 08

The apostle Paul writes to the church at Rome (Rom. 16:17, 18): “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” The context of this passage is peculiar. We would not expect such an exhortation here. It occurs in the midst of greetings and salutations and blessings. Admonitions to watch and beware of false teachers are, of course,...

Just what is a sect in distinction from the Church, or even from a church? This question would appear to be of practical interest, both for the Church in general, and for our churches in particular. For, we surely believe one holy catholic Christian Church. Yet, always in the history of the Church of Christ in the world there were schisms, divisions, separations, secessions, and the one Church was divided into so many separate groups, distinct from one another in their confession of the truth, that it is difficult to maintain the oneness of the Church on earth, that, at...

So reads the caption of an article appearing in a recent issue of a certain radical magazine—an article in which its author voices the bitterest anguish of soul and the false hope of the children of the world in a language seldom heard. The article reads in part: Today the promise of the Angels to the Shepherds on the fields of Bethlehem sounds like a cruel hoax. Not all the eloquence and elocution of the followers of the crucified Prince of Peace can make it sound otherwise. The world is torn by hate and fear and war. From the icy...

The Levitical priests were so peculiarly connected with the tabernacle and its service, that a study of the typology of Scripture would not be complete that did not set forth the place which these persons occupied in the scheme of things that formed the Old Testament Dispensation. In this article we therefore consider the Levitical priesthood. Attention must first be directed to the fact that the book of Genesis and the first twenty seven chapters of the book of Exodus make no mention of a priesthood in the holy line of Seth (the third from Adam) and of Abraham, that...

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith He that is holy, He that hath the key of David, He that openeth and no man shutteth; and shutteth and no man openeth; I know thy works; behold, I have set before thee an open door; and no man can shut it: for thou hast little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Rev. 3:7, 8 To each of the seven churches in Asia, John, in the name of Christ, sends a message addressed directly to the pastor. The message to...

The predictions contained in the Old Testament respecting both the family out of which the Messiah was to rise, and the place of His birth, are equally applicable to Christ, as those which refer to the time of His appearance. But the facts of His life, and the features of His Character, are also drawn with a precision that cannot be misunderstood. The obscurity, the meanness, and the poverty of His external conditions are represented as follows:—He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor...