The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-02-23
LIGHT AT MIDNIGHT.


To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
In reply to the many readers of your journal who
have read the article in last Sundays issue headed
els Christianity FailureY' and which same article
seemed to leave the question unsettled, think, in
my humble way. q follower Of the meek and lowly
Jesus. that through Eve, by the power Of the Holy
Spirit. it may be answered to all who believe the
Scriptures to DO tho Word of God. God first
preached the Gospel to Adam in tho Garden
OF Eden World. when he claimed obedience to his
command:-"Of every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat but cxcep of tho tree of knowledge of
good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Adam
did cat of the forbidden tree. and it entaed death
upon him, which is portion. for in Adam all dic
but lest he should parake also Of the of life
live forever land thus put Gods Word to naughty
God placed cherubims with a flaming sword. which
turned every way to protect that tree and drove
Adam from the garden. Hence eternal lite lost to
us except deliverer should come.
The voice of the blood of righteous Abel called
out To God from the earth for he was loved of God
and Cain. his murderer. cursed from the earth
TO be fugitive and yagabond all the days OF his
life.
3. God preached the same gospel of obedience to
the people in the time of Noah before the flood. and
Noah and his family only found grace in the eyes
unto Noah. 1.-THE end of all flesh is come before
me, for the earth is filled with violence through
men. and behold 1 will destroy them with
the earth" And 1t came to pass. The foun-
tains OF the great deep were broken up. and
the windows of heaven opened and the waters
prevailed exceedingly upon the earth. and all the
high hills that were under the whole heaven were
covered and all flesh died that moved upon the carth
and every man. an in whose n9strs was the breath
wives eight SOULS and the animals. &C., in tho ark
only remained alive. After the waters had subsidized
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tablish my covenant with thce-viz., all flesh shall
not BIO cut of any more by tho waters of
a food neither shall there be any
o flood to destroy the earth. But the fam
lilies OF Noah, after multiplying npon the earth
became corrupt and disbceyed God. and divided the
nations between them aud the whole earth OF
one language; and they said. LET us build tower
whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make
lest be scattered abroad upon the face of the
whole earth" And the Lord came in the midst of
their work. while they slept, and COMPOUNDED their
language aud scattered them abroad upon the face of
the whole earth. and the Lord dispicascd with
men after that time. for they given over to
the worship OF idols and strange gods, until He
called Abram out of Ur. of the Chaldocs. saying,
"Abram. get thee out OF thy country. and from
thy kindred and from thy fathers house. into land
that will show thee and will make of thee great
nation, and will make thy name great and bless
thee. And Abrain did the Lord called, and took
Sara his wife. and Lot, and all the souls they had
gotten in Haran and came into tho land of Canaan,
and the Lord appeared unto Abram. and said, Unto
thy seed w h give ss nram hnI scb sel %
land the Lord appeared again unto him and
said, "Now lift up thine eyes and look from the
place where thou art northward and southwark, and
eastward and westward, for all the land which thou
seest to thee will give IL and to thy seed forever.
and will make thy seed the last OF the earth for
numbers. no that IL a man can number the dust OF
the earth shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise.
walk through land In the length of it and in the
breadth OF il; for will give unto thee" And God
talked with him. saying AS for me my covenant Is
with thee Neither shall thy name any more
for father of many nations have made thce and
will establish my covenant between me and thee. and
will give unto thee and thy seed after thee which
In Christ PAUL. and those who have faith in His
power only to save, the land wherein thou art u
strangcr-all the land of Canaan for everlasting
possession. and will be their God. This is the COW
cnan the promise OF eternal life to those who be-
with Isaac and Jacob. and Jacob wrcstled with the
angel (God's). and would not let him 20
until he blessed him. and God said. Thy
but Israel: for us prince hast thou power with
God. and with men, aud hast prevailed" Tho next
great epoch in Gods history OF Christianity Ills
delivery OF Abraham's sccd according to the flesh.
by sending Moses. who delivered them out OF the
hands of the Egyptians and into the land which God
gave them and lie raised up prophets to guide them,
that they might keep the covenant Of obedience and
retain the land and inherit eternal life in the world to
come; but the corruption of men such that
they. even Gods chosen people, broke the cove
nant and were driven from the land. but to repent.
aud God brought them back as often. and 400 years
before Christ. He gave them Anal space OF 40
years In which to repent and make end of sin,
which time reached until about the year seventy OF
tho Christian era and the final destruction of Jerusa-
lem. and then the covenant should be taken away
from those people and given to every nation under
the whole heaven. that through Christ, they believ-
ing. might repent and bring forth fruit.
Christ came (the delivercr who promiscd)
to establish the Word and make a
new testament of the covenant, and sealed
1t with His blood that all the world might know the
truth and be saved IL they would. Jesus the Christ,
Yaveh (cliverer), crucihcd by the Jews, who
would not accept HIM for their Saviour, although 1t
was written when Christ should come; but they, in
their hypocritical blindness and traditional pride,
believed not the prophecies and knew not the timo
of their visitaton hence their time went by
nation and the Gentle dispcnsation began which is
TO reach unto the end.
The vision of Daniel. dating from Cyrus. King of
Persia. the banks OF the Ulai ut Thusham the pal