"Hark! But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. "So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate. “Repent, or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.’—Rev. ii. 14, 15, 16. 'Likewise, hear what the Spirit saith to the church of Thyatira. "I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. 66 6 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not. "Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. "And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts and I will give unto every one of you according your works.'-Rev. ii. 20, 21, 22, 23. to "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still.' Address....Author of "THE SWORD THAT CUTS," 303 West Twentieth St., New York. The Mother and the Little Ones. ASKING a blessing, giving thanks for the bounties of heaven spread before them? Beautiful! What, sit down, eat and drink to the full, and not a single out-bursting thought of humble gratulations! Shameful! Even the animals express tokens of gratitude for favors conferred. We know a little boy, not bigger than our sweet Mary, who never puts a bit of food to his mouth, without opening his lips wide in thanksgivings to God, the giver of all good. Christ is our example in this and in everything good and beautiful. When he fed multitudes on a few loaves and fisheswhat the first thing? Give thanks? always. See Matthew xiv. 19. "WIDE-AWAKE AND POPULAR!" INDEED, Mr. Editor of the "Examiner and Chronicle," what makes your weekly so very popular? On account of the novels you insert, advertise and puff? Among what class of readers is your sheet popular? The Godly, those whose souls are alive in God? or with the giddy multitude, the gay, pleasure-seeking, and frolicsome, that pour over the religious novels you send forth weekly-fictitious talesinlets to reading, the most corrupting, soul-revolting! By filling your sheet thus, do you not pander to the already corrupt tates of the ungodly? Is this the way you honor the Master? Is this the food you place before ministers and people-newly born souls? Sunday School children? Mean you? Yes, we mean you, friend editor, you are the guilty one whose skirts are dripping with the blood of souls? How many dear, young disciples of the Lord Jesus, have already lost their first love, returned to begg arly elements, "the flesh-pots of Egypt," pride, folly, fashion, carnal pleasures, the ball room, theater; then down, down! to the steps of hell! through you? What a fearful harvest you are reaping! Sow to the wind? What now ? reap the whirlwind? Kill piety? eat out the life and essence of Gospel salvation? Nothing surer than what you are doing? Do you tell us, friend, that you do not insert black lies, but religious? Worse still. Stop your wicked religious white lying, and we have no black lying.* *We tell the "Christian Intelligencer," "The American Tract Society," "Sun day School Union," "The Religious Herald," "The Congregationalist" of Boston the very same. Satan is here, Satan is there! Where is he not? Stop tippling, and we have no drunken sots, no deaths by delirium tremens, no drunkards' graves, no drunkards' hells! We may keep our children from the theater, and so train them that they shall never desire to frequent it; but there is now an educator presented within their reach which soon may undermine all the home lessons of purity, and, by easy steps, lead them to perdition. The teachings of our schools and our churches must be to a great extent in vain, while these wretched panderers to depravity are undoing the work of the school and the church. One such periodical may do more evil than many pulpits can correct. If this raid of license remains unchecked, preaching, teaching, and warning will be alike in vain. "Help, Lord." " Mean you? Who else? "THOU ART THE MAN. We mean you, and every one thus helping the devil out-stretchedly! Satan was the first author of novels, and his followers have been quite successful in carrying out the principles of his school. It was he who first addressed the imagination and passions of Eve in the garden of Paradise, and was it not a deceptive and unfounded tale, that "brought death into the world, and all our woe?" "How shall I speak thee, or thy power addresss, Thou god of our idolatry, the Press." "Life's hours are short and few, As transitory as the morning dew. 'Tis meet that they should be Well spent; for, oh! if wasted, they but bring |