While you are fettered by such difficulties, is there no danger that the Law will lose its sacredness in the eyes of the people? Surely there is. There is danger, also, that your system of theology will be corrupted in other particulars. Error goes not alone. Could an opinion exist in the mind, circumscribed and isolated, without affecting any of our other principles, it would be comparatively harmless. But it is not more a truth, that a man who utters one falsehood is obliged to tell twenty more to hide it, than that he who supports one error is obliged to forge numberless others to give consistency to his creed. It is also a truth, which reflection and daily observation will confirm, that nearly if not quite all the heresies which ever infested the church of God, are traceable to some loose notions concerning the Moral Law. Nothing, therefore, can be more necessary, than that our creed give the greatest possible prominence to the Law as a standard of holiness; and that our customs be in perfect conformity with our creed. Brethren, can we hope that the subject on which we have addressed you will receive your prayerful attention? Almost your entire denomination has slumbered over it; but may we not hope, that you will now awake? May we not hope, that it will be discussed in your private circles, and in your public assemblies; in your Bible classes, and in your Sunday schools; that it will be studied by your ministers, and by the people in general; and that every one will, in the deep desire of his soul, pray, "Lord, open thou mine eyes, that I may discern wondrous things out of thy Law." But if, on the other hand, we see a disposition to pass it by with cold neglect--an unwillingness to look the question in the face--an attempt, on the part of your teachers and leaders, to hush it up as a matter of no importance--a studied effort to lead the people away from it, when they are disposed to examine--or teaching them that it is the spirit, rather than the letter of the law that God requires--we shall be constrained to apply the language of Him who spake as never man spake--"EVERY ONE THAT DOETH EVIL HATETH THE LIGHT, NEITHER COMETH TO THE LIGHT, LEST HIS DEEDS SHOULD BE REPROVED." John 3:20. THE ROYAL LAW CONTENDED FOR: OR, Some brief Grounds serving to prove that the Ten Commandments are yet in full force, and shall so remain till Heaven and Earth pass away: ALSO, The Seventh Day Sabbath, proved from the beginning, from the Law, from the Prophets, from Christ, and his Apostles, to be a duty yet incumbent upon Saints and Sinners. BY A LOVER OF PEACE WITH TRUTH, EDWARD STENNET. They that forsake the Law praise the wicked, but such as keep the Law contend with them. Prov. 28:4. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Ecc. 12:13.