We have now pointed out to the penitent believer the path that leads to eternal life, the straight and narrow way, and carefull noted the inscriptions along the line, down into the water through the door into the kingdom of God. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance of all sins, baptism by immersion for the remission of sins, gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands; this is the course marked out by the Father to prepare His children to receive the benefits of the aton- ing blood of Jesus Christ.

By the water we keep the commandment, by the spirit are we justified and by the blood are we sanctified; and thus we become Saints. He who has fully repented of his sins and been baptized for the remiss- ion thereof, and received the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, may then partake of the emblems of the Savior's flesh and blood; and in that sacred ordinance eat and drink to His soul the benefits of that atoning blood. And such have the promise of the Savior that they shall never hunger or thirst. There is no other way provided on earth by which mankind can secure the benefits of the aton)ing blood of Christ.

the question of authority to act in any of the affairs of human life is so clearly understood by all persons of ordinary intell- igence that time would seem to be wasted in discussing it; but not so in questions involving the future of the human soul. In these sacred and vastly more important matters upon which hang all our hopes of eternal life, the average man seems willing to trust to the opinions of a minister of some of the orthodox sects or to the wild vagaries of any upstart who cries "Lo here is Christ," or "Lo he is there" without for a single moment raising the question—Where is his authority to offic-

Jesus said "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saeved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall re- cover." These signs though forming one of the most prominent features of the Gospel in the days of the Apostles are not to be found in any of the contending sects of modern Christendom. Such as hunger and thirst after righteousness become members of the various churches and humbly bow at their sanctuaries, believing the doctrines there taught. Hunger-i ly they seek food for their souls; thirstily they come, like sheep, to the fountain, only to fingd that the storehouse is empty, the fountain is dry. The promised blessigsngs fail, the signs do not follow, they re- ceive not the goods. The grand secret of it all is, God has not sent the agents through whom they seek these blessings; they hold no author- ity to officiate in the ordinances of His house. As agents they are not in touch with their Principal. These ministers are self-appointed teachers of man-made systems of religion, they are teaching for doctrine the commandments of men.

in all ages when God has had a people on the earth, His servants have been duly called of Him and ordained, and the stamp of His approval has been placed on their labors in signs and wonders and miraculous manifestations.

That there is but one faith, one hope, one baptism, one way to obtain eternal life, either for the living or for the dead, is clearly shown by the Scriptures.

all men are to be judged by the same law, whether they hear the Gospel in life or after death. And herein is the justice of Almighty God made manifest, for if it were not so, and if the modern Christianity theory should prevail, viz.—that all mankind who do not confess Christ are lost—what shall be said of four-fifths of the people on the earth to-day, and those that have lived in like circum- stances in the heathen world, who never heard of Christ? If, when all mankind are brought before the judgment-seat to be judged, and the heathen hears his sentence read by the

As His Apostles and all His faithful followers served Him in life, who shall saty that after death they will not follow His example, and continue to serve Him by going to the spirit world and there preaching to the spirits in prison who have died without a knowledge of the Gospel? And when these poor benighted beings after their long captivity under the reign of Lucifer, listen to the precious truths of the Gospel of Christ and become converted, straightway the question arises, How can I obey the ordinances of baptism? I am in a disembodied state of existence, yet my Savior has said: "Except ye are born of the water and of the spirit ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of God." Oh wonderful plan provided by the Almighty! The living may be baptized for the dead.