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 as some suppose, but is rather a revival or reestablishment of the Church instituted eighteen hundred years ago, the same cannot be said of the first Christian Church in its relation to the Jewish Church. That was not a re-establishment of Judaism, but a new and altogether different religion, with a new view of the Divine Being and the Sacred Scripture, a new ritual, and a new priesthood or ministry which was not representative like that of the Jewish Church. We desire now to strengthen our argument with additional evidence.

The Lord at his first advent revealed the paternal character of God. He brought the Father forth to the view of mortals. He manifested in his own Person, and on the natural human plane, the Divine character and attributes—the love and wisdom and power of God. He was Himself "God manifest in the flesh." And He not only declared that "his words are spirit and life," but He opened and revealed some of the interior and heavenly meaning of the Jewish Scriptures—as much of it, indeed, as was suited to the states of people at that day; and all of those Scriptures, He said, were written concerning Himself (Luke xxiv, 27). To quote briefly from the Writings:—

"The successive states of the Church after the end of the Jewish, or from the time of the Lord to the present day, have been as those of a man who