Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-07-24
ADVERTISEMENT.
From the Religious Herald |
The lsrea,Irou Wheel.

DIG LICK, ROANOKE, June 2s 1856
Dear brother Sands:
Permit to say, through the Herald that this !
a book written in rare style discusses rare ton
les, beges rare excitement. ami il destined To nro
.dnce results. Some abuse, some approve SOM,
saw il is true some it is partly false Others "a,
it IS wholly false. When these lust are CHALLENGED ~
the proof, they virtually say that more truthful
book never written by man. for they will not at
tempt to prove their assertions or point one false
hood in il. No book has ever undergone moro
critical and malignant examination than the t,rea,
Iron Wheel; and yet after years OF eanmny il Is
unbnshingly the same, in defiance to all opposition
Then let it roll God speed the day when II shall
crush beneath its onward march, the last vestge of
priesteraft the face OF the whole earth-and tho
king lom Of heaven no longer be shut up against men
by those who neither enter in themselves nor sufr
them that are entering to go in. Mat %: 49,
IT, then. the Wheel Is truthful book it Is awfttIv
so and should be read by every one. that each may
Judge for himself.
No true Christian, whom Christ has made free ran
read il without emotions OF gratitude that he has
capped the hcwitciing pretcnsons of priestcrat and
coHns serate the conditions of those who are bound
by the SltfiSh chains of ant-chrst in servitude f,
their spiritual masters, without the privilege of read
ing or thinking for themselves in matters of religion
There s"cn 10 he many eonjeetureS about the final
result of his book though truth is to be sac
riircl NJ the shrine OF error and abuse.
The greatest objection to be to the spirit in
which i IS written. Do you nor know, gentle read
er, that the IDEAS it contains written by fe,r
ful spirit and DIRE n MP in the usual placid STYLE
would ti almost yeress to the ground? Wbaj
WIS it thai excited the Jews the Scrbes. and Pl,,i
sacs? Vas it the truth expressed in select w,rjs
o. s0fncss and ltlstercl over with untemperei NOR
tar, to lul mems eonseicnees to sleep Rea N = gzI
ch. believe the Iron Wheel written W. de-
voted christian spirit and under n deep sense + aWf3
responsibility to God
1t is truth isHnoi? Why. then, throw blocks IN
it WAY You had better clelr the track fir II is
destined 10 roll ri3bt on until it crashes every I'M
haowed thing before IT,
Did not Daniel ,: IS or the Ilo!y Spirit know Whit
he wrote? and shall il n1t lie accomplished? The
fat IS preserif hls beea for more tlae.l ta,ns4.
years (under cob pre- ing the clements of its own
destruction. Ana the time WHICH Daniel saw in the
vision 26o years for tic church in the wilderness
and the continuance Of pap1 power has expired and
God by his screams il taking from the archives Of
her own Va an the very articles aAi canons which
dank tie blood of c til IA million of n saints
And sh'l not God w ige Their hi ,1a upon TIE very
head and ytas OF ant-chrst, nNtil it is grouna t,
powder, and drive a~'Thy the wind, like the chat
OF the summers hreshng-loor? The papaey agSi
fH-God h1sASnd Il. Already our free institutions
mi overwhelming sound men culture have hid the
n sol its overthrow. In our Colleges are now to he
M young men OF telent, Of piclv and nerve who
he grace OF God, shall grappe with the tyrant
uo1 M throne and every vestige of priestcraft un-
I'll he shall be dashed in pieces rs the po,er vessel
The elements Of her destruction are now being
drawn from her own rituals. The Great Iron Wheel
contains quite number of thcm though taken from
her infant grand chJla, yet when these modified an
u-chriStan features were Wrestea from her hand and
rolled oack upon her for thus saith the Lord no
answer is given. but hdeous yeli of calumny rends
the air from shore to shore and from the lakes to the
gulf.
Many children of the kingdom much terrified;
others, with the hodness and liberty of Christs free
men, buy the Wheel and read for themselves Some
ministers OF Jesus trembling and shvcring upon the
walls give an uncertain sound others cry aloud and
spare not while the old mother and her children are
seeking proximity and preparing for the great battle
oil the last day Yours in Christ.
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