NATIONAL APOSTACY.
Apostacy is the natural tendency of every human heart. We find in the Word of God, the most distinct statements to the effect, that it is only by the intervention of a power from without and superior to his own that each individual is "kept thro' faith unto salvation." So again with regard to collective bodies of men, —as an evidence only too convincing, that to apostatize is the inherent tendency, we have but to point first toj the nations before the flood, then to those who soj speedily lost the pure faith of Noah, and the Patriarchs, then to the chosen people itself, and finally to those natures who have embraced the Christian faith. It is by a series of revivals alone that the knowledge of God, and the Kingdom of His Messiah have been perpetuated in this fallen world.—Churchman's Monthly Penny Magazine.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 February 1855, Page 32
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146NATIONAL APOSTACY. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 February 1855, Page 32
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