The people's sacrilege. MALACHI. LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes. and offerings. Blessings promised. 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. God's judgment on the wicked, 2 and his blessing CHAPTER IV. on the righteous. 4 The law of Moses to be remembered. 5 The coming of Elijah the prophet. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for FOR, behold, the day ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. 12 And all nations shall call you blessed for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. 4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. FAMILY RECORD. MARRIAGES. William Smyth I Sept. 10th Harriet Porter Coffin) 1827. Egbert 6. Smyth 2 Aug 12 - Elizabeth B. Dwight ) 18°57. Edward 63 Smith & Dec. 22d "Harriet L. Lyman } 1858. Maggie Bole William K. Smythe ( April 2914 1869. Newman Smythe $1871. Frederick K. Smyth Zec 25 Genze Adams Smyth (June 21 FAMILY RECORD. BIRTHS. William Smyth, Febry 2d 1797 Hurriel P. C. Smyth, April 25 1807) Infant Child Sept 19th 108203 Eybert Cokin Smythe, Aug 24 = 10/29 Edward Beecher Smyth, Jun 2.183 William Henry Smey the Get. 30th 1834 Helen Olot Imingth, Aug 6th 1837 1343 Samant Puiilify Ssumuar, my 85 /243 Frederick King Smyth, Jan 71st with George Adams Smyth Sept 23 1847 M new FAMILY RECORD. BIRTHS. Carrie Loving, born in Manhattan Hamas, Dec. 27. 1861 Kansas, March. born in Manhablan 1865. Mary Winolow Smyth boom in Banger, Me William Sparhawk Smyth born in Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 5, 1879, Child of JK. & C.I. Imyth. Winifred Smyth, boon in Zuricy. Smyth 1881, child Hilda Smyth, born in Santa Baria- Ethel Walker Smyth, born in New Ham Elizabeth Blodget Smyth, born in Burlington W. Manch 1884 Edward Jenner Smyth, born in Bayonne, N.J. 1886 Harold Porter Smyth, born in Oak Park, Ill., FAMILY RECORD. DEATHS. 150rint Child best 20th 1828 Helen bloot Smith Ella Sefitt Karrict 6.6. Smyth & expril 5th 16th 5.. Mary Caroline Smythe March 19 " 1867 4. Liam Smythe itfire 4+ 1508. Edward Beecher Smyth the 207851. Itchen Alcott Smyth, William Henry Smyth, Feb. 17. 1902. Elizabelli B. D. Smyth, Feb. 4 (ardawn), $1904 |