The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-15

: DIS, dumb dogs" daub the princess
with untenipercd mortar" What q
dreadful state of things is here 'aThere
IS conspiracy of her prophets in the
midst thereof, like a roaring lion raven
ing the prey, they have deyoured the
souls, (persons;) they have taken the
treasure and precious thugs. They have
made her many widows in the midst
thereof Her priests have violated my
law. For, from the least Of them even
unto the greatest Of them every one il
given 20 eovetousness and from the
prophet even unto the priest every one
dealeth falsely. They have healed also
the hart of the daughter Of my people
slightly, saying, pcaqe, peace; when there
lis no peace. \ wonderful and horrible
thing is committed in the land the proph-
cts prophecy falsely, and the priests bear
rule by their means, and my people love
to have it 50; and what will We do in the
end thereof?' Sure enough: What Will
We DO? Well wouid it have been for Ju-
dea well would it be for the world, were
all preachers as faithful az Jeremiah and
Ezekiel, to declare the truth of God, and
diminish not a word, whether men will
hear or whether they viii forbear
Ministers need to adopt the motto Of
! Paul, "not walkiag in craftiness, nor
handling the word Of Cod deceitfully, but
by manifestation OF the truth co amending
Yourselves to every mans conscience in the
sight of God. Knowing this, that the
law was not made for righteous man.
but for the ls@less and disobcdient for
Imen-stealers, (Gr, andrapodistees, enslav-
ers.) for liars, for periured persons, and if
there be any other thing that is contrary
to sound doctrine, according to the glori-
ous gospel Of the blessed God which Was
committed to my trust." May the Lord
thus enable your pastor to speak with all
boldness, and make manifest this truth,
commencing it to your conscience before
God, that men-stealing or cnslaying is
just what Paul says. contrary to sound
doctrine according to the gospel" As a
faithful watchman, it is my proper bust
ness, on the Sabbath and in the pulpit
10 give the alarm. The Lord saith, ~
have set watchmen npon thy walls, Q Je-
rusalem, which shall never hold their
peace day nor night. Cry aloud, spare
not, lift up thy voice like trumpet, and
show my people their transgressions, and
the house of Jacob (the whole nation )
their gins
/ FoukTB.-Noae were willing to inter-
pose to save the land fronl destruction-
God says, "Run ye TO and fro through
the streets Of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek 10 the broad places there
of, if ye can fnd 4 man, if there be any
that exeeuteth judgment, that seek the
truth and ! will pardon it, 0 Israel, thy
prophets are ike the foxes in the deserts
Ye have net gone up into the gaps,
(breeches,) neither made up the hedge
for the house OF Israel to stand in the bat
tie in the day of the Lord. have not
sent these prophets, yet they ran; have
not spoken to them, get they prophesied.
But if they Lad stood in my counsel, and
had caused my people to hear nay words,
then they should have turned them fron
their evil way, and from the evil Of their
doings. sought for 4 man among them,
that should make up the hedge, and
stand in the gap before NE for the land,
that I should nvt destroy it; but l found
none"
Brethren, God is now looking for men
10 stand in the gap TO save our couatry.
The world has always need Of such, and
history furnishes many bright examples.
Their was Enooh to preach OF Judgment,
Noah to condemn the world, Phineas to
stand between the living and the dead to
stay the plague; Moses to deliver the op-
pressed people Of God Samuel to resist
the dcspotism Of Saul Elijah and Elisha
. to confront The idolatry aud tyranny of
Ahab, and to testify against the statutes
If the house Of Omri; and host of 9TH
crs in ancient times, Of whom the world
was not worthy. There was John the
Baptist, and Peter, and Stephen, and
Paul, and their companions in arms for
the truth, who followed their Captain Je-
sus, 10 the gap and loved not their lives
to the death Who're can we End for. !