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 the forsaking of His soul, was not yet in accomplishment. It is no wonder to us that this new doctrine completely horrified some of his followers. In utter consternation and alarm they now remonstrated with him, but he held to and reiterated his new views. They then called upon “the Brethren” “to judge” this evil. They said, “We judged Mr. Newton, and here is our chief leader propounding similar heresies to those we were taught to believe that he held. In very consistency we ought to judge Mr. Darby.” They did not know what they asked. “To judge Mr. Darby” was to destroy the very existence of that section of Brethrenism, and hence the leaders turned a deaf ear to all their appeals. The result was that many left, and tractate after tractate appeared in justification of the step. Mr. Dorman, until then a prominent man, published one entitled, The Close of Twenty-eight Years of Association with J. N. D., etc. Mr. Harmar Smith wrote another called, The Link Broken; another appeared with the title, Divers and Strange Doctrines Stated and Examined by Tertius; another, Grief upon Grief, by P. F. H., etc. We have read most of these, but we cannot recommend our readers to follow our example, for, unless in pursuit of the truth of the question involved, a minute analysis and discussion of the sufferings of our Lord do not tend to edification. We are bound to add, however, that the tractates just mentioned were a necessity of tho case, and are a most valuable protest against what they deemed, and what we also deem, to be heresy.

We have now followed “the Brethren” in their divisions until the present time, and we see that “Brethren” pure and simple are the Darbyites, i.e., those who hold to the teaching and are in fellowship with Mr. Darby. For they reject as evil the Bethesda section—as they do all Christians who meet in any