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Radiates. --Among the many scriptural characters that have been the denominators of sects one would hardly have expected ever to find that of the harlot who protected the spies; but the best way is to be surprised nothing now-a-days. The Baptist denomination of England is, at this moment, reeling in the storm of controversy raised by one of their ablest men — the very ablest, perhaps, next to Spurgeon--a Mr. Wells, who, in a discourse delivered by him before the magnificent audience that assembles in his fine chapel, wherein he based broadly a justification of lying when the purposes of God could thereby be best subserved, basing himself on the example of Rahab, the harlot. The matter was much talked of, and finally was brought up before the general council of ministers, by a majority of whom Mr. Wells and his sentiments were very strongly condemned. Mr. Wells thereupon preached, a week ago, a powerful discourse (which is, I hear, to be published,) in which he proved by the c