quite of another sort. It is logically whatever proves the two following theses:-1st. The death of Christ is the sacrificial system perfected in one sacrifice. 2d. That sacrifice is, was, and always will be, indispensa ble to any fallen man's approach to God. The allusions to Abel, Enoch, Noah, &c. were not relied on as proofs of these theses.

If any one admit that it is or was necessary in one case, it is indispensable in every case. If God can honorably forgive one sin, and accept one sinner without sacrifice, he can do so in every case. I contend that the whole Bible teaches sacrifice, faith, and repentance as essential to forgiveness. God cannot forgive sin, any sin of any transgressor, without these. If it is proved that it is necessary in any one case, it is necessary in every case; for whatever justifies God in forgiving one sinner, will justify him in forgiving every other sinner. If it be true philosophy that because heat and moisture are essential to the germination of one grain of wheat, they are essential to the germination of every other grain of wheat in the universe; so if the blood of Christ be essential to the remission of one sin, it is necessary to the remission of every other sin. I am not now attempting, nor will 1 hereafter attempt the proof of any of these propositions, until an issue be formed on some of them. I am specially desirous to be understood on the vital question-the necessity of the blood of Christ to the remission of sins.

Whether in the way of reprisals, or jocosely, my venerable brother, in referring to my third proposition, has said, "I am glad my brother has at length conceded the point of difference between us; for you say, when a Jew had forfeited these, one of which is temporal life, the sacrificial law had no blessing in store for them." From what motive this is alleged I judge not; I only say, I have conceded nothing in this for which I ever contended—not even the shade of a thought. When a man has forfeited his life under any law, moral, ceremonial, or judicial, that law cannot give him life. But I do not say that a sacrificial system, in prophecy or in history, may not do that for him which that violated law could not do!

But the circumstances which introduced such concessions (!) give quite a different version to the matter. I am contending against a theory that required blood for the remission of minor offences, and dispensed with it in great offences. That is the naked point divested of all foliage. Brother Stone admits blood and sacrifice for simple errors, but will have the great offences-such as murder and adulteryforgiven without blood or sacrifice! If I mistake you, my dear sir, it is a venal sin-a simple error of the head-and I shall be thankful to have a definite proposition or issue from your pen on this subject,Then you will comprehend my "candor in giving up an opinion"?!

As I note only the main points, or notice the chief misapprehensions, I hasten to the 6th proposition. I have asserted in one sentence that "no repentance nor amendment of life, without shedding of blood, could obtain remission." This I re-affirm as my full conviction. My brother Stone supposes he has found a few exceptions; but so long as there was, beside the special sacrifices for special occasions, and the various trespass offerings under the law, one annual sacrifice, one great annual sin-offering, for "an EVERLASTING STATUTE to MAKE ATONEMENT for the children of Israel"-FOR ALL THEIR SINS, once-a-year, it is illogical and inconclusive to cite a hundred or a thousand sins forgiven when this atonement is not mentioned.

If I prove baptism in one or two instances to have been by authority preceded by faith and repentance, should a Paidobaptist bring up a hundred instances in which neither are noted, I say it is idle and inconclusive. That such has been established once, twice, or three times, is enough in all logic and good sense forever. So I say to my venerated father Stone: When I adduce two such broad and clear authorities as, "Without shedding of blood there is no remission," and "This shall be for an everlasting statute to you [Jews] to make an atonement for all your sins once-a-year"-could you adduce a thousand instances of remission without any allusion to these, you have done nothing at all-nothing more than the ingenious and sophistical Paido. baptist, that tells of Lydia, Cornelius, and Stephanas, with their households, in opposition to a profession of faith and repentance as prior to immersion.

The most unguarded saying you have ever heard from brother Campbell is, that "NO SIN of ceremonial defilement, however trifling, could, without sacrifice, be forgiven;" but you have made it unguard ed, not I, by a new version: you read it, No ceremonial defilement, &c. You make no difference between a sin of ceremonial defilement, and an accidental touch of a dead body! But this is not exactly trifling, though very near to it.

The radical difference (I begin to suspect) between our views on this point is sketched by yourself in an effort to neutralize my 7th proposition. You say, "Without the blood of the new institution the remission of the least sin could not be obtained, because none without that blood could be led to believe in Christ, to repent, or to be reconciled to God; and therefore none could be pardoned. Then you affirm, if I understand you, that the blood of the new institution is ʼnscessary to pardon-only so far as it is necessary to faith and repentance!! This being true, "atonement for sins," "expiation of sins," "reconciliation for iniquity," "purification of sins," "redemption of transgressions,"

"bearing our iniquities," "becoming a sin-offering for us," "a propi tiatory to declare his justice that he might be just in justifying the ungodly," &c. &c. are all phrases without meaning.

To say that Christ died for our faith, is more consistent and intelligible than to say he died for our sins. He died for our repentance, is more rational than he suffered the just for the unjust. He bare our faith in his own body on the tree, is, therefore, the true version of he bore our sins in his own body, &c. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the infidelity of the world. The glorified saints then, indeed, should change their language, and sing, Thou has redeemed us to God by thy blood, giving faith, and hast washed us from our sins in the laver of faith obtained by thy blood,' &c. I will not, until I hear from you, farther expose the massacre which such an interpretation would necessarily make of a thousand passages of scripture. I trust you will prove that I have misunderstood you, and that this is not your meaning. The minor points of the present epistle will fall in my path in the sequel.

Sincerely and affectionately yours through the blood, not through the faith only, of the everlasting institution,

A. CAMPBELL.

UNION MEETING AT LEXINGTON.

I HAD the pleasure of being present at the union meeting at Lexington, Ky., which commenced the 2d day of April, and ended on Monday the 5th. It was well attended considering the season and the time for the circulation of the notice, at least by our brethren who labor in the word and teaching. There were present, Wm. Morton, John Morton, John T. Johnson, John Smith, John A. Gano, J. J. Moss, J Pool, James Shannon, William Brown, L. Pinkerton, P. S. Fall, A Raines, G. W. Elley, brother Moore, Martin Slaughter, R. Rice, Wm. Begg, brother Clark, A. Lamb, John Taffe, C. Kendrick, H. Foster, and T. Rowzee.

But few of the other denominations attended. Dr. James Fishback, of the Baptist society, was the only Baptist minister who took an active part in the discussions of the meeting. The two questions, "Is a union of Christians desirable?" and "Is the union of Christians practicable?" being satisfactorily discussed for some time, the following resolution, after a very full discussion, was unanimously carried by a large assembly, almost all in the house rising in favor of the resolution:

"RESOLVED, That the union of Christians can be scripturally effected by practically acknowledging such articles of belief, and such rules of piety and morality as are admitted by all Christian denominations." We expected to have had an official report of the meeting before

this date; but as the mails are exceedingly irregular, we know not what to expect. Several letters that I wrote for Bethany two and three weeks before my arrival at home, have been gradually coming to hand within the last few days. A more full account in our next. A. C.

From the Signs of the Times.

THE "CHRISTIAN PUBLISHER."

HEAR! HEAR!!

THE "Christian Publisher," with other gospel prints, have fallen into an error in relation to the motives by which Mr. Miller is actua ted. The last number of the Publisher has the following paragraph:"Mr. Miller, the Millennarian, who has made such a noise of late years, by the zeal and positiveness with which he has written upon the second coming of Christ, and by whose prophetic calculations the world terminates in '43, has taken the precaution to secure a copyright of his work for a period of ten years longer than he teaches that the world is to stand!

"If Mr. Miller is so distrustful of his own calculations, how much confidence can his disciples repose in them? Unfortunately for the most of these theories, they amuse and astonish, while they furnish but a weak ground of action in practical life. However uncertain and doubtful these conjectures may be, one thing is certain, CHRIST WILL COME AGAIN. Be ye also ready. Work while it is day, the night cometh when no man can work.'"

Now we wish to state for the information of the Publisher, and other papers that have fallen into a similar error, several facts. Mr. Miller never did publish his own lectures, or secure a copy-right to himself, or receive a compensation for his works that others have published. There have been two editions of his lectures published, of 6000 each The publishers have had the profits; not Mr. Miller. We got the copy-right, (to which the "Publisher" refers,) ourself, for the pubisher, and got it in Mr. Miller's name at the request of the publisher; as he did not wish to invest money in the work, unless he could be made sure of the sale. Mr. Miller consented to have it taken out in his name; but has never seen the copy-right, had no benefit from it, and never expects to have. The publisher gave him a few copies of this work for himself and friends, which is all he ever received for all his labor bestowed upon it; while the publishers have made their thousands.

Will the friends of the "Publisher" and "Harbinger" state these facts in justice to Mr. Miller, whom they have greatly injured by their mis-statements relative to him?

In 1833 he published his views in a pamphlet, and circulated it gratuitously. This is the only work he ever published.

↑ Neither the Harbinger nor the Publisher has made any misstatement in the case.~ They have only stated the fact just as it appears in print in Mr. Miller's book. If there he any misstatement, it was made by Mr. Miller himself in allowing his name to be improperly used. We are glad that the impropriety appears to have been an inadvertaney rather than any thing else, and that we have had the honor of eliciting an explanation of a very doubtful and mysterious incident.

A. C.

It would be very easy to show that Mr. Miller has sacrificed much, very much, for the cause which he pleads, and that with him, the "reproach of Christ" is far better than all the treasures of this world.

As to what our friend says about Mr. M's theory we can assure him that he would talk differently about it, if he understood it better.

News from the Churches.

MOLLINGTON, CHESTER, England, February 9, 1841. Most dear Sir-I have long had a wish to trouble you with a letter, although I would not willingly interfere with your more important labors of love at home. I have been in pretty constant communication with Mr. Munroe of New York, who has been so obliging as to obtain for me such things as I wished to have from your side the Atlantic. He also suggested the propriety of my addressing you; and I now beg to say, if it would not be asking too much, a letter a-year or so, from you, would be deemed a gratification by myself and friends.

When I first addressed you I think I stated that our number was about 30, scattered within about 12 miles. I have the pleasure to say we now form two churches, of about 40 each, and are increasing slowly, but, 1 trust, surely. The two last Lord's days we had four immersions, and expect some more In addition to our two 40's, there is at Wrexham, about 14 miles from me, a church of about 70, which has principally been won by the exertions of our brother Evan Jenkins. We have opened a place of meeting in the city of Chester, where we now have a warm-hearted brother, John Jones, with several others; so that there is a prospect of inore good being done: and here allow me to say, I should be doing you injustice were I not to add that we are much indebted to your accurate and admirable writings for encouragement and instruction in our forward course. We therefore sincerely pray the Lord to spare, strengthen, and be with you, I fear there is little chance of the pleasure of seeing you here. I think the time is arriving when a visit from you would probably have great effect. There is at present nuch excitement in this neighborhood, which has thus arisen:-A Mr. Brown, Independent Minister, of Wrexham, printed, a sermon on baptism, in which he noticed our brethren in Brook street there. They (with a little help from myself) issued an address to the same parties You will not need to be informed that but few of this first publication were read by the sects, in consequence of a prejudice against us. Soon, however, a young Irish clergyman, Mr. Stone of the hot anti-popery or M'Neile school (lately came to a small church of the establishment near us wrote a small pamphlet as a "Letter to a Friend," signed G. L. S., in which he violently attacked our friends, Mr. Brown and dissenters in general. Our brethren, with my help, replied in an address to the same person, taking up-1st. the scurrilities;-2d. the assumptions;-and 3d. the cavils of GL.S.; and this pamphlet, as you will imagine, was read by every body, and even induced inany to read the former. After a pretty long pause Mr. Stone printed the address, &c which I enclose to you to show the warfare we are waging, and the manner of persons by whom we are attacked. May we beg from you a short review of it, to be printed, now that all are alive to the subjects under discussion? We never had, in my recollection, so favorable an opportunity of spreading the truths of the gospel, and we are therefore anxious not only to do the best we can in availing ourselves of it, but to obtain help from you, if we could ask it with any propriety: at the same time I will beg not to be understood as wishing to press this favor unless it should be both convenient and agreeable to you.

You will be glad to learn that the 4th edition of your Testament is now out, so that the greatest help I know to the clear understanding of the Lord's will, is in many hands in this kingdom. Mr. Wallace has also published 'Schism-its Bane and Antidote," from your Christianity Restored, which has had pretty good circulation,

If you receive the Messenger you will see that exertions are making, and that the cause is spreading in the places within reach of Nottingham. Also, that in Scotland a good deal has been done. I apprehend, however, that there are very many in England like-minded, and in Wales too; for one of my sisters met with persons at and near the town of Caernarven who walk in the steps of the early Christians. They had your Christian Baptist and some other works

Weare threatened with a printed attack soon, showing that baptism in the Holy Spirit renders unnecessary baptism in water. From the quarter it is to come from, however,

My Letters to Bishop Otey on Episcopalian Assumptions meet almost every point in said tract. These letters have as yet never been replied to by Bishops Otey or Onderdonk.-If opportunity at all permit, I may add to these a few remarks in the Harbinger; but you, my dear sir, are more than able to refute a folio of such puerile assnmptions and assertions.

A. C.