Beloved Brethren and Kind Readers:--Since there are those who would overthrow the faith of some, I feel the more constrained to beg you to be reconciled to God and to His revealed truth.

We learn from the Bible that man was crea­ted very good, and by his own sins that he has made himself very bad. So man's condemnation is just. Yet in the face of this divine truth, there are many false prophets or teachers who deceive many by wrong doctrine, and cause much trouble. Universalism holds that men are too good to be punished by the good Lord.

Arminianism insists that men can do good and get enough to bring God under obligation to save them. And Spiritual Two-seedism, in claim­ing that the elect were in union with, or that their spirits existed in Christ before the world was, and so are eternal, a part of God and akin to Christ, is equally untrue. And like the errors just named, Two-seedism rejects the doctrine that vile sinners are saved by God's unmerited grace. For men, whether elect or non-elect, are not eternal in any of their parts. God is the only eternal being, and we are created by Him.

 Dear lover of Jesus, since we are nothing and less than nothing, and our God is so great, do let us avoid such extreme and sinful teaching as this claim that the elect are as old as Christ. For this unscriptural claim of Spiritual Two-Seedism has done the church great harm. Professing to be Old School Baptists, such claimants have led many to suppose that the church, or real Old School Baptists, also hold the Two-seed philosophy.

Let all who are so misled know that true Old School or Primitive Baptists do not hold the theory of eternal children or eternal union of Christ and the church, taught by those holding Spiritual two-seedism. Neither do we hold their unscriptural foundation claim that the devil is self-existent or eternal; but we reject Two-seedism is all its forms. And in obedience to our Lord we withdraw from those who hold it. II Thess. iii. v.

We rejoice that our God has all power and that He is Supreme Governor over all existences. We desire to give all glory to God as the only Eternal Being and the Creator of all things. So man is a created being. Soul, body and spirit, man is the Workmanship of God's creation. We read from Hassell's History, "And it was in this his soul or spiritual nature that man was made-like God. Yet we do not regard this (man's spirit} as an emanation from God himself; it is and His love. Oh, I feel so unworthy of Jesus and His love. Praise the Lord for He is good, for His mercy endureth forever.

In tender love to all the saints, I am your unworthy brother, amid joys and sorrows.

M. D. DENMAN.