Christian Cynosure . in fullview, we are blind leaders of theblind and shall both fall into theditch. Now is the time, when theheart of the nation is furrowed bythe plowshare of a great calamity,and harrowed with grief and sorrowover a great bereavement, to sowthe precious seed. God is forcingreflecting men to inquire, why isGod dealing thus with this land?and it is ours to proclaim the an-swer. Brethren and oountrymen, ifwe do not heed this warning andturn at this rebuke, we will besmitten with sevenfold more vio-lence, and God only knows when,and on whose head the next strokewill fall. Turn
Christian Cynosure . in fullview, we are blind leaders of theblind and shall both fall into theditch. Now is the time, when theheart of the nation is furrowed bythe plowshare of a great calamity,and harrowed with grief and sorrowover a great bereavement, to sowthe precious seed. God is forcingreflecting men to inquire, why isGod dealing thus with this land?and it is ours to proclaim the an-swer. Brethren and oountrymen, ifwe do not heed this warning andturn at this rebuke, we will besmitten with sevenfold more vio-lence, and God only knows when,and on whose head the next strokewill fall. Turn ye! Turn ye! Whywill ye die, 0 house of Israel!«n —State crop reports based uponcarefully prepared statistics showthat the corn crop of the entirecountry is short about one-third ascompared with last year. The onlyWestern States showing increaseare Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ne-braska, where the aggregate in-crease is about 28,000,000 Ohio, Illinois and Iowa the de-crease aggregates 188,000,0(10 ------ THB CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. i w—mii: November 3,1881. —S Baptists and Plymouth BRETH-REN. Volga City, Cynosure:—I have re-cently been reading A Memoir ofRev. John Bates, by Rev. J. , D. D , with much pleasnreon the whole. The doctrine is veryScriptural, and what is much neededin the present day. It contains oneinstance, however, of the odiumtheologicum that I am sorry to his strictures on the PlymouthBrethren Mr. B. quotes the follow-ing acknowledgment of Mr. Mc-intosh (C. H. M): I ought tohave confessed the mistake, andshould have dene so in the prefaceto the second edition of my notes onLeviticus had I been sufficientlyself emptied and careless of my rep-utation as an author. On this ac-knowledgement Mr. B. says: Onlythink of a man who has again andagain circulated such a deadly here-sy, and yet is more concerned forhis own reputation than for thehonor of Christ. (p. 314) The facts of the esse are these:In the first edition of
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