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 Lord Jesus Christ. His supreme allegiance, therefore, is due to this gospel as the Spirit enables him to understand it, and not to any man-made creed. And if he is teaching his people a better gospel than that they had bargained for, and they are well satisfied, why should he disturb their peace or shock their prejudices by the needless announcement of an unwelcome fact? Would such a step be an act of "genuine charity"?—the exercise of that prudence and circumspection which the Lord enjoins?

"We do not believe," continues our critic, "that there is a religious society in the old church which would tolerate for one moment that their minister should claim the right to follow this advice," that is, the advice which the Messenger condemns as "essentially dishonest." On the contrary, we believe—yes, are quite sure—that the wisest, best, and most progressive element in every religious society would heartily approve of his following this advice. They would say to him, "Go on as you have been going, and quietly teach the new truths until the entire society shall have learned them and become imbued with their heavenly spirit." Only the bigots would refuse to tolerate him. And whose judgment does the Messenger most respect, that of the bigots or that of the liberals?—that which aims at peace and