need of the gospel. We do not keep the law, as our brother supposes in order to be saved; but we keep it because we are saved. The difference between the saved and the unsaved is this: The saved love God, and keep His commandments; and the unsaved do not. We do not keep God's law in order to be justified, but we keep it because we are justified.

But, my friends, we can have no peace with God while breaking His holy law. The first requisite in order to be justified by faith is to sin no more. John 8: 11. "Let him that stole steal no more." is the Lord's plan. Eph 4: 28. Faith brings to us a love for the divine precepts, or it is a sham, a delusion, and a snare.

A gentleman who had once declared his eternal loyalty to the commandments of God, but had since repudiated them, arose to speak. He gesticulated wildly. With loud voice, and gleaming, staring eyes, he fell on his knees, and walked on them across the room to where I was sitting, and grasped my hand, and seemed to be in an awful state of mind. Poor man! he had turned away from the holy commandment delivered unto him, and that left him a prey to the power of Satan. I believe surely that he was hypnotized by the devil.

The only thing that will shield us from the strong delusions of the latter times is the love of the truth. 2Thess. 2: 9-12. Therefore,

In February and March we had some interesting experiences in Decatur, an old Nebraska town in Burt County, situated on the Missouri River. Brother Blue had relatives and friends there, and was anxious that they might see the light of the third angel's message; so he secured the use of the Dunkard church, and we began meetings. He and his faithful wife helped us a good deal in the meetings, and we had quite an interest, in the midst of which a couple of Latter-day-Saint elders began a series of meetings in their church, in which they took strong ground against the law of God and the Sabbath. We, of