American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-22
Communications.
Review of the Reviewer.

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Mr.. EDiToR = COMPELLED from circum-
stances to trouble you, and from desire to
please, | feel it my duty to give every one an
answer of the hope that is in me in meek>
ness, especially when asked for information
"Whare, y says the reviewer, " is it af-
frmed. that God has preferred a manual Of
praise for his followers, and command them
to use this manual, and this alone p add
ing, ''all that the writer says about the duty
of praising God, we have no doubt, is strictly
correct" Here l take the liberty Of pro-
foundly thanking him for his compliment and
his just appreciation of truth.
But, 10 the question, "Where is it affirm,
ed in Scripture etc. ! first direct your
attention to Isaiah viii. 20: "To the law
and to the testimony; if they speak not &C.
cording to this word, it is because there is
lights, or condemns them as affording no
light. Next, my place is to show you tina
it was a sealed law, and delivered to his de:
sciples This is shown in lisa iah viii. l6:
g Bind up the testimony, seal the law among
my Disciples" This is the edict. Now for
It's fulfillment. When the Seer of Patmos
was about closing 1.-THE Revelation" of Jesus
Christ he was instructed to add this most
solemn of all warnings to every one who
should hear the communication he had made
that: IF any man should add unto these
things that had been revealed unto him.
''God shall add unto him the plaques that
are written in this book. And il any man
shall take away from the words Of the book
of this prophesy, God shall take away his
part out of the book of life, and out Of the
holy city, aud from the things that are writ
ten in this book" Revxxii. lS, 10. This
warning, in our conception. applies with
equal force to all the books Of the Bible, for
all possess the same authority-all are in
dicted by the same Spirit: all are entitled to
the same yeneratiun- and, taken all togeth>
er, they constitute perfect canon of Gods
revealed will; aud to add to it, ,r to take
from it any part, is aa act of the most dar-
ing presumption; and the intruder is therein
warned and threatened with a worse than
an Arlington knife. And seeing, then, that
the Administrator has passed into the heay-
ems, hear him describe bis swOld, in He
brewsiv. II: For the word of God is quick
and powerful, and sharper than any two
edged sword, piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints
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and intents of the heart" This isthe sword
that expelled our first parents from fair
Eden's bowers. 1t is the same sword which
keeps the way of the tree Of life, its folding
flames q symbal of the Divine presence. Out
of this flaming fire the prophet Ezekiel re-
ceives bis commission rs a prophet This
is that light which brought Paul to his
D knees when on his way to Demascus and
, John, when in the island Of Patmos 1 his
r is the Jehovah of the Patriarchal and lie.
vitical church. This is the Messiah of tbt
Christian church This is the friendless
> insulted and cruel fed man who said to his
; disciples, "All thin gs must be fulfilled which
i were written in the law of Noses, and in the
. propht is, and in the H'atms concerning me-
f Some one asks, Does the psalm, singer
ever sing the names Savior, jesus Christ
or Redeemer, in lifetimeF" would re-
: fer him to boy of the 10th century, who,
at the age of fourteen yearsshad a Latin
l copy of tho Psalms put into his hand whicl
|, he sung with delights translated at fifteen
and gave the world an imitation copy il
= English. Which, see Johns and Gibbon
$ Life of DIR. Waits. WIN ALLEN.