ROM the prominence given in the preceding pages to the restoration of baptism to the place it occupied in the primitive age, the impression may have been made that this was the only matter of importance that Mr. Scott rescued from the false views entertained concerning it, and the disuse as a practical element of the gospel scheme, into which it had fallen.

      To return to these old and forgotten paths was the great object of Scott's labors, and not many years had passed after he had thrown all else away, until his preaching, and that of his fellow-laborers was distinguished by the expressions, "The true gospel," "The original gospel," "The primitive gospel," "The Pentecostian gospel," and "The Jerusalem gospel;" none of these terms were current prior to that time, and their very use proves at least that he and they claimed to preach that gospel to which all these expressions pointed.

      He made the Word of God his companion by day, and meditated upon it in the night-watches, and, in consequence, made much of its language his own, so that he could draw freely on his memory for the choicest things in the Book of God; and from this rich treasury he brought forth freely things new and old. Like David, his heart inclined to the law of the Lord, and thus, at times, his thoughts concerning it would flow: Oh, Book of God! thou sacred temple! thou holy place! thou gold incense altar! thou heavenly shew-bread! thou cherubim-embroidered vail! thou mercy-seat of beaten gold! thou Shekinah in which the divinity is enshrined! thou ark of the [129] covenant! thou new creation! thou tree of life, whose sacred leaves heal the nations! thou river of life, whose waters cleanse and refresh the world! thou New Jerusalem, resplendent with gems and gold! thou Paradise of God, wherein walks the second Adam! thou throne of God and the Lamb! thou peace-promising rainbow, encircling that throne, unsullied and unfallen! Image of God and his Son who sit thereon, what a futurity of dignity, kingly majesty, and eternal glory is hidden in thee! thou art my comfort in the house of my pilgrimage. Let the kings and counselors of the earth, and princes, who have got gold and silver, build for themselves sepulchers in solitary places, but mine, oh, be it mine, to die in the Lord! Then "earth to earth, and dust to dust," but the great mausoleum, the Word of the Lord, be the shrine of my soul. [130]

[LWSA 129-130]