188 AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND GENESEE EVANGELIST. Beligioasand Family Newspaper, IS THE INTEREST OP THE Constitutional Presbyterian Church. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE, 1334 Chestnut Street, (2d story,) Philadelphia. Bey. John W. Mean, Editor and Publisher. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1866. THE GRACE OF CONTINUANCE. In the well known, and, as we may term it, classical passage in 2 Peter i. 5-7, the process of Christian self-culture is described as requiring the addition of seven virtutes to faith, in which all originates. Midway in the shining catalogue is patience. With virtue, or holy courage, knowledge, and temperance, on the one side; and godliness, brotherly-kindness, and charity on the other, this grace of patience maybe viewed as a keystone in the strong, and simple, and beautiful arch of Christain character, described by the inspired apostle. The word in the original is scarcely rendered adequately by our translators, though they perhaps came as near to its meaning as any single English word would allow them. Ellicott, in his commentary on Ephesians, calls it “the noble word virofion;,” and says, “ it does not merely mark the endurance, nor even the patience, but the perseverance, the frrawe patience, with which the Christian con tends against the various hindrances, per secutions and temptations that befal him in his conflict with the inward and the out ward world.” Says Neander: “ Persever ance, vwof/,otv, corresponds to manliness, i«, which last term includes both courage in action, and patience under suf fering.” An intelligent and manly Christian steadfastness; a sustained identity of the renewed character; unshaken Christian principle, through storm and through sun shine, is perhaps a fair account of the rich significance of the word here rendered “ patience.” Zeal, or virtue, first enlight ened by knowledge, then chastened into temperance, now ripens into this mature fruit of Christian sobriety. Here appears the keystone, which gives solidity to the whole structure; which braces up the renewed man to meet the weight of re sponsibilities, to resist opposition, and to perform the steady service of a true and tried friend of the righteons cause. The virtue of perseverance, as thus de fined, is that which makes a man in all things a Christian. The various branches of his aotivity and moods of his mind move in parallel lines. He iB not merely godly or devout on the Sabbath, in his closet, or when engaged in specifically religious duties; but iu all the parts and plans of his life. His religion is not a mere glow of feeling, but a ruling principle of action. There is a solidity and concentration in his character, which men do not fail to recognize. Other Christians —most Chris tians show a conflict of principles within them. Many of their actions can in no way be reconciled with Christian principle. Many who otherwise seem Christians, in their families give way to petulance and anger; many show an overwheening anx iety for the gratification of carnal desires; many have numerous ungracious ways; many are half sunk in worldliness. Let any thing arise to test principle, and they show immediate signs of weakness. Let severe trials come; let times arise when true men are needed to stand by imperilled interests, and they are not to be found. Their charaoter had not developed into hypomone. The arch was without its key stone, and the first great weight or serious jar crushed it to a shapeless mass. How rare and "how necessary is this virtue, Peter himself knew by sad expe rience. For want of it, he had denied his Master. And later, it had brought him under the rebuke of the large-minded Paul, when he had suffered himself to.be seduced from Christian liberty, and con sented again to wear the yoke of Jewish -bondage. Men of impetuous temper, like Peter, are very apt to show a weakness in this respect. Much like the apostle in charaoter was Elijah, whose boldness before Ahab and the priests of Baal was followed by a timid flight to the desert, and a fit of de spondency breaking out into “ It is enough; now, O Lord, take' away my life.” But both the prophet and the apostle returned to their duty; their aberrations were tran sient; their lives, as a whole, were consis tent and powerful. Elijah faced wicked Ahab with all the boldness of his first sud den appearance; Peter sealed his faithful-. ness with a martyr-death. So now, while we may not expect perfec tion, we demand of Christians the faithful culture of this leading element of character, until their lives and actions form a con tinuous, consistent, efficient whole, They should remember that the virtue has an in tensiveas well as an extensive, meaning; that it lequires them to be consistent with them selves and with the requirements of religion, in all the spheres of thought, action, and ISTew Series, Vol. 111, No. 10. feeling belonging to tbeir life at any given period; and that each succeeding period shall be consistent with the other. The principle that governs the whole oirole of the man’s being for a given moment, must and will govern it through succeeding days, years, and ages of his life. This unvarying consistency the r Christian mnst aim to at tain. His life mnst be purged of fluctua tion, uncertainty, aberration, and radical weakness. He mußt not be weary in well doing, but endure to the end. The world recognizes, honors, and yields to the force of Christian steadfastness. It calls it character emphatically; and its possessors are men ofvharater. And great is ever the need of such men. In critical times, the salvation of all hinges, under God, upon them. The men that do not fail or flinch when the popular current is running far from- the track; the men that can recognize the broad outlines of truth and right, through all the mists raised by passion and prejudice, and that never miss or abandon them in times of doubt; the men who maintain the “ patience of hope” when general confusion, despondency, and panic have seized the unstable crowd—they are the true salt of the earth and. light of the world. But he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all bis ways. THE HISTORICAL CONTINUITY OF AMERICAN PRESBYTERIANISM. Very many religious bodies, on coming to this country, brought with them preju dices, relations, and peculiarities, essenti ally foreign, which they needlessly persisted in retaining. They have never been tho roughly naturalized. There is the Roman Catholic Church, which is, and must be, an exotic wherever ’it goes. Its roots, its life, are in Rome. Its leading dogma is a recognition of the sovereignty and infalli bility of a. foreign ecclesiastical-and tem poral ruler. There is no other Church in the land at all approaching the alien character of this; but there are those in name and association, if not in fact, foreign, and which, therefore, attract foreigners into their fold, and become a rallying point for more or less of clannish and' un-American—we say not anti-American—feeling. Not wish ing to cast odium upon any, we shall for bear mentioning names, though the fact is perfectly well known to our readers. Now, Presbyterianism when first planted in this country, and especially when first consolidated by the Adopting Act, dis carded this infelicitous policy, and adapted itself, with large and liberal conceptions, to its work in the new world. It rejected the rigidity with which subscription to the standards of the Church had formerly been construed, and in place of the ipsis sima verba of the Confessions, it made the substance of doctrine the doctrinal basis of the new church. Unity of faith within these safe but large limits was put 1 above prejudices of clan and nation. Materials of the best kind from all parts of the United Kingdom—England, Ireland, Scot land, Wales—flowed into the American Church, whose piety, gaming, and effici ency vindicated and rewarded the Chris tian liberality of the policy. Congrega tiorialists from New England were Wel comed, and felt themselves perfectly at home in the American Presbyterian Chnrch. Perfectly distinct and independent in or ganization, having no relations abroad but those of Christian sympathy, based upon such a qpmprehensive foundation that all of that large, intelligent, and earnest class of Christians, who accept the great out lines of the Calvinistic system, could be embraced in its organization, it was from the beginning indigenous to the soil, and congenial to the spirit and destiny of the American people. In 1741, only twelve years after the pas sage of the Adopting Act, the frigid con structionists obtained control of the body, arid declared adherence to the standards “ without the least variation or alteration” a test of membership. This course led to the first schism in the Church. The ad herents of the Adopting Act organized into the Synod of New York; the illiberal majority constituted the Synod of Phila delphia. / Seventeen years of separation ensued. The emigration from Ireland fell off. The numbers of the Synod of Philadelphia diminished from twenty-six to twenty-two. The Synod of New York -grew at a rapid rate. It commanded the sympathies of the earnest and liberal-minded every where. Noble names adorned its annals; such as Samuel Davies, John Brainerd, Samuel Blair, Sr., John Rodgers, George Doffi e |j Davenport, and the Tennents. It s minis! terial roll rail up from sixteen to seventy names. Even the greater number of em . PHILADELPHIA,, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1866. igrant Scotch and Irish ministers, alter a time, fell into its ranks. The “Old Side,” by opposition to revivals, had well nigh paralyzed the spiritual vigor both of pastors and churches. Their own candi dates for the ministry were few in 'number, and the tide from Ireland had begun to’ ebb. No wonder that, undef these circum stances, we read, “ they became continually less indisposed to a reunion."* In 1758 the reunion was consummated. The first article of the Plan declared the acceptance by the Synods off the doctrinal standards of the Church, as an orthodox and excellent SYSTEM of Christian doc trine. “The liberal and tolerant spirit of compromise,” says Gillett, “ was especially manifest” in this basis of union. Por eighty years it held the Church together; and for eighty years liberal-minded men from all quarters admired and sought its fold. It proved itself the American Pres byterian Church, not more by the wise comprehensiveness of its creed, than by tbe sympathy for human rights which it manifested. : From the beginning adverse to slavery, in 1818 it announced the De liverance, which stands at the head of all ecclesiastical protests against American Slavery. But during the twenty years succeeding that deliverance, changes began to follow each other; pnd once more the American character of the Church was likely to be lost. Not only was there a large influx of elements from abroad, having no sympathy with the liberal doctrinal tone of our organic docu ments ; not only did these rigid Scotch and Irish elements unite in questioning, suspect ing, and hindering our fraternal intercourse and intimate relationship with New England, and so obstruct the American tendencies of the Church; but an equally un-American and even more baneful influence began to be exerted by the rising Slave Power of the South. That recognition of human rights, and of the equality of all men in the scheme of redemption, which seems so plain « corol lary frbm the lofty and severe principles of Calvinism, and which is so fundamental an axiom in Republicanism, seemed likely to utterly die out of the consciousness of tbe American Church. Old world rigidity in doctrine, arid anti-republican subserviency to slavery were threatening to Obliterate the fairest traits of her character, and the surest guarantees, under God, of her suo- But this melancholy result was not to be. A large minority, almost full half of the Church, remained faithful to her distinc tive character as an American organization. An attempt was made to cast them out of the demoralized body, which resulted in the division of 1837 and 1838, and the identity and riontinuity of the American Presbyterian Church has been preserved by our’own branch sirice that time. Ipven tin our own body a small minority was found— less than one-tenth —who, while adhering faithfully to the Catholic basis of doctrine on which we stood, succumbed to the cor rupting influences of the institutions around them, and drew off into the anomaloris posi tion of a New School Presbyterian Church advocating slavery. No wonder that we now see them merged in the Southern frag ment of the other branch. The* so-called New School Presbyterian Churchr has had a hard struggle for exist ence. Men outside of it, who could not, or would not, see the importance of its fun damental principles; men inside, who had no consciousness of their existence, denied its claims to a separate organization, and confidently and eagerly waited its dissolu tion. On the one hand, it had to prove its Presbyterianism, and Congregationalists were alienated; on tbe other hand, it had to maintain its Americanism; whereupon, High Calvinists and Pro-slavery men de nounced it, and Conservatives forsook it in fear and disdain. Only by the blessing of God on fidelity to principle it survives. But it more than survives. All doubt as to its future is dissipated. Men rather begin to wonder at the greatness, strength and efficiency tfhieh, in the near future, it promises to attain. Consolidated and har monious, with fewer distracting questions before it than, perhaps, any American Church, it seems to be utterly free from the impure aspirations of ambitious ecclesiastics, or from any attempt at spiritual tyranny over its members. Modes of operation for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom in full harmony with its spirit are in work ing order, and are developing most success fully the liberality of its members. Its Colleges and Seminaries are such as any Church might feel itself fortunate in pos sessing.- The Holy Spirit is granted to their inmates and to the whole field occu pied by the Church. Special instances of large and wisely applied liberality, in * Qillett’a History, I. 91 > "• Chur cm., Extension and other branches of effort, [occur to cheer us, and to establish the denomination in important centres of influence. Everywhere, in new fields of effojt, the loyal, the liberal-minded and the good welcome our men, our literature and! our principles. The loyal millions of the (South, white and black, furnish a field peculiarly congenial to our spirit. If, then, we have reopened and widened the \ channel,' in which the energies, the liberality and the prayers of the Presbyte riaij'Church of America may most success fully flow; .if we have found our true sphere and method of laboring most success fully for the redemption of our fellow-men, we sh raid not be ignorant of it, nor esteem itligltly, nor prove unfaithful to the solemn respo isibiiity attending' such knowledge. Two j reat principles distinguish American Presbyterianism, the perpetuation of whioh we have received as a legacy of duty from our fathers: 1. A genuine but comprehensive Calvin ism; pincere without bigotry; inflexibTe-on the'great essential points : as decrees, elec tion, perseverance, total depravity; but elastic! and tolerant on every minor dogma. 2. VA thorough sympathy with Providence in those great national and universal move ments , by which He is abolishing oppression andjvjmdicating every man’s equality with every other man in the broad sphere of moral and civil rights; and so securing to every Wan equal access to the sources of Divine truth, equal opportunity to develope undetxits influence, and to do his part as an individual Christian -in giving the Gosj el ito all the world. The essential and radical hostility of the Gospel to injustice, its friendliness to every true interest of man, arid its active and un changeable sympathy for the suffering and the oppressed everywhere, as testified by tbe Presbyterian Church in 1818, and as maintained and out by our own branch diwn to this day, must never be.ob strathdpr ’ More than.ever an ■ American ’Jsrincipfe, it must be more than ever necessary to every truly American Church! ATIONAL ORPHANS' HOME STEAD. itifcution, designed for supporting is of Union soldiers and sailors, [iring the war, and which, in a has been raising funds and sup ■ty or more orphans for some [t, reorganized last week by )rmal constitution, and electing ison President, in place of Hon. |k, who has been acting in that was compelled, by multipli jements, to resign. Bishop ||gnified his acceptance of the This ii the orphi who fell quiet way, porting thl months pa adopting a Bishop Sim James Polio capacity, but city of eng! Simpson has Among the Vice-Presidents are Bishops McllvaiheandLee,of the Episcopal Church, Dr. Daffield, (f Detroit; G-en. Garfield, of Ohio 5 R. J. ireokinridge, D.D., of Ken tucky;; James Lenox, Esq., of New York, and Mi W. Baldwin, of this city, nearly every one of Whom has already accepted the position. On the Executive Committee are Rev. Dr. Newton, Rev. John W. Mears, Alexander Bi-own, Peter B. Simons. Abram Martin, Dr) J. Francis Bourns, and others. All funds should be sent to Peter B. Simons, Treasurer. As the Executive Com mittee is charged with the duty of procur ing a suitable building for accommodating fifty to one hundred orphans, a large in crease of funds will be immediately re quired. i BANEFUL EFFECTS OF NEGLECT. Neglect of religion will transform your spiritual and religious privileges into a source of lasting regret and remorse. ' You will wish in vain that you had never en joyed them. In Retsch’s illustrations of Goethe’s Faust, there is one plate where angels are seen dropping roses upon the demons who are contending for the soul of Faust. But frvery rose falls like .molted metal, burning and blistering where it touches. And is it not so with the heart on which the mercy drops of God’s rich grace fall? Do, they not change at last, as the heart hardens, and takes upon it, as it were, demon . features, into a burning fiery shower, so that while conscience is seared, every memory of the past tortures the soul? ylt cannot be long before such an one would say, Amen, to his own sentence uttered by the most loving lips that ever spoke on earth: “It were better for that man that he had not been born.” Surely you .cannot dismiss withput a struggle the claims of religion. You must do violence to your own conscience, you must stifle the voice of duty, you must bury your Bible deeper under the dust of a Guilty-neglect, beforfe you can calmly and deliberately say-— -‘I will not give my heart to God or his Bervice." Genesee Evangelist, No. 1033. THE HARRISBURG REMONSTRANCE The friends of-the Sabbath in this city are under obligations to the excellent men of Harrisburg for their assistance in the conflict now pending. On Friday they presented a petition, whioh we give below, which was read entire in both Houses, was put upon the Legislative Record, contrary to usage, and afterwards published in a local paper. An esteemed layman, one of the movers in the matter, writes us as fol lows: Rev. J. W. Meaes Dear Sir .-—We have thought that your noble efforts in'behalf of the Sabbath ought to be seconded here. The members ad journ always over Sunday for several days, and are off, and so don’t hear much preach ing ; and we thought this small sermon might do them good. Some of the points, you see, were made from one ot your edi torials. It is signed by what we may call the representative men of the different churches, without running after a crowd : To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: The subscribers, citizens of Harrisburg, would remonstrate against the passage of any law throwing open the passenger railroads of Philadelphia for Sunday travel: 1. Because great cities are already sufficiently “great sores," without adding this moral ulcer to them; the infection of which cannot fail to damage every part of the Commonwealth. 2. Because we do not, in this land, want any imitations, on either a large or small scale, of the French metropolis, where the experiment has been fully tried of dispensing with the Sab bath—where immorality, too shameful to recite, runs riot—and from which our land has been preserved mainly by this needful, wise and holy institution. 3.» Because we would appeal to you person ally, not to damage the good name of the law making power of this grand old Commonwealth by linking your names to votes which will cast a reproach on your own reputation as God fearing men, reasonably implied to be such by your oaths, that recognize His law as the su prime code. 4. Because God has come, after every great war in this land, to visit the , nation, as if to make compensation for the innumerable woes of war, by revivals of religion, adorning society by the fruits of holiness; and he has already in his sovereign mercy, blessed many communi ties throughout our land, during this year of peaceand we appeal to you not to endanger that blessing (greatly needed everywhere) by any unrighteous legislation. 6. Because there is a prohibition in the Di vine Word against ‘ l framing iniquity byalaw. ’ ’ 6. Because of the commandment, “ Remem ber the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” While the ingenuity of man might have invented the other nine commandments, this law of the Sabbath, so peculiar in itself, and found by ex perience to have been so especially “made for man,” has, stamped on its face, a divine origin—above human invention—conserving, uniting and giving effect to all the other com mandments of God. .Harrisburg, February 27, 1866. A remonstrance against the passage of a law allowing street cars to run on Sunday, and signed by one hundred, and twenty-seven clergymen of Philadelphia, was presented to the Legislature last week. Out of one hundred and thirty clergymen who were called on, but three refused to sign the re-‘ monstrance. This shows that the Sunday ear question is not popular among the Christian portion of the citizens of Phila delphia. The following explanatory letter accompanied the petition: To the Honorable the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the Commonweattk of Penn sylvania : Gentlemeh —Will yon allow me a word of explanation in regard to the petition: We learn, with pain, that the impression is made on your minds that many of the pastors and ministers of this city are in favor of the Sunday cars. While, therefore, a large number of us have already, as individuals, signed other pe titions of this kind, we now unite as pastors and ministers of religion to assure you that almost all of .our profession in this city are op posed to “Sunday cars,” as also to all other violations of the Sabbath law. Please accept this expression of 127 of the clergy of this city, representing six different denominations and 50,000 people. As many more names might easily be obtained. Yours, most respectfully, E. E. Adams, Pastor of North Broad Street Church. Philadelphia, Feb. 27, 1866. All the way from India, a photograph of this building has safely travelled to our office. It is a well-executed picture of a very tasteful structure. The swarthy na tives, in their white dresses and in various picturesque attitudes, are grouped around, and a tropical sunlight bathes the strange trees and surrounding objects. Great credit is due to the indefatigable man who, almost alone, on the other side of the globe, has planted this single witness for Christ and for our Church, amid a quarter of a million of idolators. We have a letter in hand from Mr. Wilder, giving a history of the chapel, as he modestly calls it, which we shall shortly publish. Wednesday. —Rev. Mr. Harbaugh’s, Spruce below Sixth. Thursday.-—Rev. J. Hyatt Smith’s 11th above Race. Friday.—Rev. Dr. Brainerd's, Fourth and Pine. , Saturday.—Rev. Mr. Sutphen’s, 11th above Spring Garden. AGAINST SUNDAY TRAVEL. THE MINISTERS’ PETITION. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, • KOLAPOOR. NINTH WEEK OF PRAYER, tbbms. By Mail no Fer lull >™. in advance: , *v/v. a iJ . By Carrier, M. otefTl d,t ' onal - after threo months, niwisio ah-wi 2 r “°re papers, sent to one addres Ro vroiT J^ 11 *“▼•nee and in one remittance By Carriers, $3 per annum: advan^T**” 1 * ***!»*«*■> Widows, $2 50 in Home OO in advance mSS.SS 18 additi , ollal after three months? ‘ Remittances by mail are at our risk hv,?? ta *L e, ~ I il? oe^ a quarterly,in advance.paid. subscribers at the office of delivery. v r, 12>* cents per line for the tot, end 10 cents for the second insertion. tine square (one month) $3 gf „ two months—...™.....™ . 5 st „ three “ 7sa „ six •• — ;.;:i2 n ■ OHO jg 0 Unee - 20p “ HOURS AT HOME FOR MARCR. This number contains articles from a range of authors as varied as they are able. Dr. Gillett commences the list with Samuel Adams; Ray Palmer, D.D. r furnishes a poem; Dr. Van Santvoord, late chaplain U. S. A., a sketch of Gen. Mae Pherson; Prof. Stover, one of Dr. H. M. Muhlen berg; Dr. Nelson writes upon The Influ ence of the War upon our National Litera ture ; Dr. J. A. Spencer, on The Conver sion of the Roman Empire; Prof. Tayler Lewis, on the late Dr. Nott; Rev. Abel Stevens, D.D., on the Centenary of Ameri can Methodism; Miss E. Stuart Phelps gives us two chapters of “Jane Gurley's Story.” There are also articles by Rev. C. S. Robinson, Prof. Stephen Alexander, Princeton, Mrs. M. G. Robinson, the late ■Miss Mary Harvey Gill and others, forming a miscellany, in'whioh almost any class of intelligent readers will be able to suit their tastes, or find somewhat adapted to their wants. .C. Scribner & Co., New York; T. B. Pugh, agent, Philadelphia. THE MOVEMENT FOR MAINTAINING SABBATH LAWS. A very large and effective meeting in behalf of the Sabbath was held in the First Presbyterian Church, Kensington, last Sabbath evening. The large edifloe was crowded. The pastor, Rev. W. T.' Eva, Thomas Potter, Esq., Rev. J. Miller, and others took part in the proceedings, and a deep impression in behalf of/ the day was made. J One thousand copies of an address pre pared by Rev. Mr. Barnes, at %he appoint ment of the Sabbath Union helve been dis tributed among the Legislature and others at Harrisburg. , The New York OBSEB iVER boastfully announces that there was 4 grea t popular uprising in support of the I 'resident’s veto. We, believe there was, a^; ong over whelmingly disloyal massed w hi c h oocnpy the Island of Manhattan. , We have heard, too, of an uprising of returned rebel soldiers, Mfog e by’s guerillas, etc., in Washington, led by the eminent counsel of Surratt and Vpi rz _ e have also read of an uprising at jthe residence of a well-known citizen of Dj ayt on, who put out the flag, if it was the flaL 0 f thc Union, for the first time since the\ war broke out . General Howard also report^- quite a num _ her of uprisings in support q-rf t b e veto in his department, leading to allX sorts 0 f cru _ elty, oppression, and maligm, nt conduct towards the late' slaves. In thAge sections, to which doubtless the Observer prefers the uprising may have been “great*..” j a Philadelphia we have been so or .unfortunate, as not to see it. Not asi ng j e legislature, in all the loyal States, has takw, n part in the “uprising.” It is really a phe nomenon which New York editors, wi ther customary vicious induction, have imagined and declared to be national, be cause it happened to characterize their city. We have often been thankful, and never more so than now, that the persistently dis loyal and essentially foreign majority in that city, whioh nearly all the New York editors fear and defer to, have no practical influence upon the legislation of the country, and do not affect its destiny, except by sharpening the vigilance of its true friends. 86&~ We would continue the publication of the listAf Churches advertising in the Press, but for our fear of bringing odium upon Churches for the acts of irresponsible and malicious individuals. The most active and prominent Church in the city in the Sabbath movement, the North Broad St,, whose trustees months ago voted expressly that no advertisement of meetings of the Chnrch should go into any paper issuing a Sunday edition, is one of the list in Satur day’s Press. Undoubtedly the purpose of the unknown and irresponsible advertiser is to diminish the influence of the Church on the question at issue, and to make a show of respectability for the Sabbath breaking paper. As the same course may have been pursued by unscrupulous persons in other cases, we do not know that any good can arise from publishing the list. We may say that, before this device of the enemy was hit upon, ,only one respectable Church was using the columns of the jour nal referred to. v THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL ©F THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. / The first sermon of the course of pop ular discourses in behalf of the Ameri can Bible Society will be delivered on Sabbath evening by Rev Thos. E. Ter milye, D.D., in First Reformed Dutch Church, corner Seventh and Sorinir Garden. Services commence at quarter before eight o’clock Subject, “ The Purity of the Bible.”
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