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Mr. Williamson probably the same way. And the latter publiclytells us that the Presbyterian Church as a whole disbelieves it.What can be the object of this beating about the bush, much ofwhich is misrepresentation, if not downright fraud? It is toperpetuate the sect, not its doctrines, of which they arebecoming ashamed.Why not abandon all such human systems and confessions, nowused for tying men's tongues and consciences, and let each otherstand free to study God's Word untrammeled, and to build, eachfor himself, such a creed as he shall find authorized in God'sWord; adding to his creed or subtracting therefrom continually,as he continues to grow in grace and in knowledge and in loveof God. This is the attitude which God designed: this is theliberty wherewith Christ made us all free. Why surrender ourliberties and enslave our consciences and tongues to a sect, orthe decisions of majorities in sects? If all of God's children werereally free, thus, it would not be long before they would be atperfect oneness of heart and nearly at one in faith and work --theonly true union.----------Arise and shine in youth immortal;Thy Light is come, thy King appears.Beyond the centuries' swinging portalBreaks a new dawn--The Thousand Years.--Fannie Reid.====================R1170 : page 5PROPERTY IN LAND.The National Economist makes the following extracts fromJohn Stuart Mills' "Principles of Political Economy," asillustrative of its own views:--"The essential principle of property being to assure to allpersons what they have produced by their labor and accumulatedby their abstinence, this principle can not apply to what is notthe produce of labor--the raw material of the earth. If the landderived its productive power wholly from nature and not at allfrom industry, or if there were any means of discriminating whatis derived from each source, it not only would not be necessary,but it would be the height of injustice, to let the gift of nature beengrossed by individuals. The use of land in agriculture must,indeed, for the time being be, of necessity, exclusive; the sameperson who has plowed and sown must be permitted to reap; butthe land might be occupied for one season only, as among theancient Germans; or might be periodically re-divided aspopulation increased; or the states might be the universal