ng despised as a "Pogram," and cut by all
the dignities of the village, even if you have the learning of a German
professor and the piety of a saint. In the Babel of London, however, it
is different; here, there is a rage for new names, and there are
preachers and people ever ready to resort to a new name, as if novelty
were a possibility in our day, after eighteen hundred years of
theological hair-splitting and threshing of straw. The Christadelphians
are the latest production in this way. They meet in Crowndale Hall,
Crowndale Road, St. Pancras Road, every Sunday; in the morning, at
eleven, for the breaking of bread, and worship; in the afternoon at
three, when there is a Bible-class especially for inquirers, when
opportunity to ask questions respecting the one faith is afforded; and at
seven in the evening, when we are told the Word of God is expounded in
harmony with the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of
Jesus anointed. One of the most active teachers is Mr. Watts, late of
Vernon Chapel, King's Cross Road. The Athenaeum Hall, Temple Road,
Birmingham, seems to be the headquarters of Christadelphian publications.
There are published there the _Christadelphian Shield_, the _Biblical
Newspaper_, and the _Ambassador_, monthly periodicals, and other
publications more expensive, and aiming to be standard works.
This, I take it, is the epitome of their faith:--
"One God, the Eternal Father, dwelling in heaven in light of glory
inconceivable; one universal irradiant Spirit, by which the Father
fills all and knows all, and when He wills, performs all; one Lord
Jesus Christ, Son of God, begotten by the Spirit of the Virgin Mary,
put to death for sin, raised from the dead for righteousness, and
exalted to the heavens as a Mediator between God and man; man a
creature of the ground, under sentence of death because of sin, which
is his great enemy--the devil; deliverance from death by
resurrection, and bodily glorification at the coming of Christ and
inheritance of the kingdom of God, offered to all men on
condition--1, of believing the glad tidings of Christ's
accomplishment at His first appearing, and of His coming
manifestations in the earth as King of Israel and Ruler of the whole
earth at the setting up of the kingdom of God; 2, of being immersed
in water for His name; and 3, of continuing in well-doing to the end
of this probationary c
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