proof that the existing organizations of churches do not constitute that Church? The war that is now devastating this beautiful continent, is a war of church against church, as well as of Mammon against Mammon. "From whence come wars and fightings among you," (exclaims the apostle,) "Come they not even of your lusts?"—James, 4: 1.

It is all of a piece, and it is all of a consequence, that this state of things exists. The element of war is in the churches, just as the spark is dormant under the ashes. Let a breath of opposition blow upon it, and it is all in a blaze. With such an element, fostered and cherished in the heart, the day will never dawn upon us, "When the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, or the sword be beaten into the ploughshare."

CHAPTER III.

1. What must be done? 2. The Tares and the Wheat. The Vine and the Branches. 3. The difference between the Christian Church on the Planet, and on the Earth. 4. Human Infallibility preposterous. 5. Religion distinct from Rites and Ceremonies. 6. The world will wax Worse and Worse till the coming of Christ. The Millennium.

1. ALL is now baptized with the baptism of Christ, however incongruous it may be; and, woe to that man that dare to accuse the Herod of the

either the bodies or the souls of men; or, i lawful for thee, or proper for thee, to do things which thou dost, with impunity, in quence of the power thou exercisest OV minds of the people!

O! for the Divine assistance to lead in veloping of this great evil, which is consid great good. What must be done? exclaims trembling with Christian solicitude for the w of Zion. Would you have us demolish the Ch and leave off preaching? To these Christian fr whose love of the Savior thus prompts the plead for his cause, I would say, Do not dem the Churches as they are, till you establish such as it ought to be. "Preach the word; b stant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke hort with all long-suffering and doctrine."-2 4: 2. You may remember what Christ said to disciples, on a certain occasion, when they plained to him of their seeing "A man casting devils in his name, who did not follow them, they forbade him, because he did not follow th But Jesus said, Forbid him not-For he that is against us is on our part."-Mark, 9: 38-40. also, will the love of God now cry out, "For them not!" but teach them the better way. Sh the people the better way; and look to God to po down the Spirit of truth and of light on the unive sal darkness that prevails.

The apostle, whose prophetic eye scanned th

will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."-2 Tim. 4: 3, 4. And many are the fables now, with which the people are fed.

God's Spirit will move again over the vast chaos that is spread before us, in its own good time, and that time, the prophetic records gives us to believe, is not far distant. We shall then have light.

God works by fixed laws, by cause and effect; not only in the universe of his material power, but in all that pertains to mind, morals, science, and religion-to progress, to improvement, and to happiness.

The elements are now at work for this great reformation, and there will be as mighty a moral deluge, in the impending change, as there was of the deluge of waters in the days of Noah.

Then shall we see the consummation of that beautiful future of a Church not merely nominally Christian, but Christian in its true sense. The various religious denominations now in the world called Christian Churches, are so called, because they teach what they profess to be the Christian doctrines. But the Church spoken of by the prophets, will be a Church constituted Christian, not merely because of its teaching the Christian

is a lively stone; and none of them stu blocks.

2. It is evident that this glorious Churc never be established on this earth, until a re tion commence, and be carried on till the which now exist in the nominal Christian Cl shall be eradicated. There should be no ta the Church. Let them grow in the world, for they will grow. Christians are not allowed jure or pluck out the tares, nor to invoke th of heaven to destroy them. It is for them cultivate the soil, and to improve the Lord's yard which is committed to their care, with diligence, and, in such a manner, as to preve much as possible, the growth of the tares.

We hear it repeated every day, speaking of Christian Church, that the wheat and tares to grow together in it, till the harvest; that is the end of the world; and, that, consequently, branches spoken of in the above parable, are to be cut off till the end of the world.

In the first place, our blessed Lord never s Let the wheat and the tares grow together in Church, but "Until the harvest."-Matt. 13: It is said "The seed was sown," not in the Chur but in "The field;" and, that "The field is world."-Matt. 13: 38. Christ never called Church the world. By that epithet he alwa meant the wicked. "I pray not," (says he,) the world, but for them whom thou hast given m for they are thine "John 17: 9 It is said

the same chapter, that "The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man who sowed good seed in his field;" that is, "In the world," and that "The good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;' and that LL The enemy who sowed these tares is the devil." Now, the kingdom of heaven is "Likened unto the man who sowed the good seed," because our beneficent Creator, "Not willing that any should perish,"-2 Pet. 3: 9, sows over the whole world, "The good seed of the kingdom."

Our blessed Lord, speaking again of his Church, says, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away: and every branch in me that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit."-John, 15: 1, 2.

This passage is also distorted from its plain and obvious meaning, in order to retain unworthy memIbers in the Church.

Nothing can be plainer in the world, than that the dead and unfruitful branches spoken of in the passage above quoted, are to be separated or taken away from the vine, not at the end of the world, but as soon as it is discovered that they "Do not bear fruit." Where can you find a husbandman who does not trim his vineyard every year, of its decayed and rotten branches, that is, "Purge it," in order that the vines may bring forth more fruit?

And in it to ha aunnaand that our heavenly Father