When it was my turn to speak I asked the reverend
gentleman to occupy my seat. I did not want more
than thirty minutes to reply. I said to the assembly
that a sense of duty to the truth, and the cause I had
espoused, alone prompted me to make any reply to the
long tirade of abuse and sarcasm they had been listening
to. The gentleman and his prompters had gathered
quite an angry-looking cloud of pamphlets and news-
paper slang and abuse, without quoting a single passage
of Scripture to disprove my position, or in support of
their own. But on the contrary, he had become an ac-
cuser of the brethren, speaking evil of things he knew
not. The spirit of persecution, hatred, and malice is
not the spirit of the meek and lowly Saviour. The
gentleman tells you that the day of perfection has
arrived, that Satan is bound in the gospel chain, that we
have no need of spiritual manifestations, that this is the
reign of Christ. Now, I will say that if this is the mil-
lennial reign of Christ, and the devil is bound in the
gospel chain, I pity the inhabitants of the earth when
he gets loose again. After reading the description of
the millennial reign, as it shall be, as described by the
Prophet Isaiah, can anyone be so stupid as to believe
that we are now living in that holy day.? Shame
on him who would deceive and tamper with the souls
of men ! The gentleman who told you this, doesn't
believe it.
