75. “Ε. Τ. L.,” Lake Huron, Ontario. Your first two questions we cannot discuss in these pages; we must leave them entirely with your own conscience in the presence of God. We would merely say, Be consistent—be thorough— be out and out. If a thing is right, be in it and support it, with your whole heart and soul. If it is wrong, be out of it, once and forever. With respect to your third question, we hold the eternal Sonship of Christ to be a great cardinal and fundamental truth of Christianity. Our Lord Jesus Christ only became Son of man at His incarnation; He was Son of God from all eternity. “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.” He must have had Him, else He could not have given Him, and this proves, at least, His Sonship previous to incarnation. Study Pro. 8. Thanks for your kind suggestions as to the answers to correspondents. If we were to insert all the questions, we should, not infrequently, require a double number for that department alone. Sometimes we are obliged to reply, in a line or two, to questions filling three or four pages.
76. “Τ. B.,” Ventnor. The Holy Ghost has given us the three grand distinguishing titles, namely, “The Jew, the Gentile, and the Church of God.” Alas! that which calls itself the Church of God has become a corrupt thing— a vast mass of baptized profession. But clearly that which is called Christendom is no longer viewed as being on Jewish, or Gentile ground, nor will it be judged as such, but according to the profession which it takes up. Hence the appalling solemnity of Christendom’s position. We believe it, beloved friend, to be the most terrible moral blot in the wide universe of God—the master-piece of Satan and the destroyer of souls. Oh! the awfulness of Christendom’s condition—the awfulness of its doom! No human language can set it forth. May all who truly belong to the Church of God be enabled to yield a calm, clear, decided, and consistent testimony against the spirit, and principles and ways of that terrible thing called Christendom.
77. “E. F. G., Cheltenham. Thanks for your note and the accompanying lines. Your second communication is also to hand. It is not in our power to insert the twentieth part of the poetry sent to us. Our friends must not be offended, therefore, when their verses are omitted.