an eye,
during the sounding of the last trumpet; and according to his type the
Lord Jesus, the saint then becomes a son of God in power by a spirit of
holiness, through a resurrection from among the dead, and cannot sin
because he is born of God, and lives and moves and has his being in the
essential goodness and peace and blessedness of the Divine existence."
Hence "the physical and moral impossibility of _an immoral agency of
evil_ exercising the attributes of an uncreated spirit--omniscience,
omnipotence, and omnipresence--emanating from the Supreme Good, to
antagonize His purposes and defeat the counsels of His will concerning
the redemption of the Adamic race for the glory of His name."

So far I quote what the followers of this new sect call their Marturion.
As people generally can neither understand nor find time to read such
verbose and minute confessions of faith, let me add that they believe
that punishment on the finally impenitent is "the infliction on him as a
living soul or mortal body of life of the many or few stripes in
execution of his sentence until the appointed hour of his final doom
arrives--to utterly perish in his own corruption." Furthermore, I glean
that with them the Devil simply means sin in the flesh. As the reader
will have gathered from the title of their confession, they baptize with
immersion; they deny, amongst other things, the common doctrine of the
Trinity, or that Christ is God and had an existence independent of the
Father; that the Holy Ghost operates of His own power as God; that God
fashioned man after His own image; that the serpent was an incarnation of
an immoral intelligence; they deny the common ideas of heaven and hell;
that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses the sin of the whole world, so
that infants, idiots, and believers obtain eternal salvation under the
covenanted and uncovenanted mercies of God; or that the knowledge of the
glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the seas,
through the instrumentality of the orthodox ministry as ambassadors of
Christ, beseeching men in His stead to be reconciled to God by believing
in the Gospel, and in the Jesus they present as the Way, the Truth, and
the Life, and that Christ is with them always, even to the end of the
world. Their appeal is, however, to the Bible, and its inspiration is
one of the cardinal articles of their creed.

Let me now speak of their order. They meet every Sunday for worship, and
fo