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I I Zion*8 Landmarks. rinchangcahle a-s he is in showing r.iercy to tho.se repenting, he i^j cqiml- ]y f^hf'nl and unchangeable in de- strsnVig thobC that do not repent. je,d &o«ld be botli trusted and fear- God’s power. Wdiat a good thing to have a will wliieh de.sire.s to do God’-- will ? if we have this then we arc er the sea and it is divided, &e. All tneinber his great deliverance through the Israelites escape from Pharoh,; the uplifted hand ot justice, and the hilo he and his host ars lost. They ]>'-)werful rod or word of God in and it; opening his w.iy, in which all the | free indeed aiid servants of righteou-- and i attributes of God are displayed in the j nes.s, having our fruit unto holiness, triuinnhant harmonv, and all tiie ; “VVe are going forward.” jlxoDUs 14 : 5. sing of this great deliverance is ever remembered by them is as the beginning of months to them, Ac. It is calierl a redemption and is : helplessne.s.s of tl le {>)or sinner lO. and I^ not this fatali.sm ? Ho, we ar*-' Jfot dead and moved uixm as a stoek stone, or some dead mass, bus or Elder D. B. Sheffield, of Elorida, ;iomJtime ago requested my viev.'S of tiie.s^, words : ■‘■‘(■lend the Lord said unto Stoses, whqfefore thou iinto me ? speak fiiwti the cliildren of Lsvacl, tluit they gNj loi'ward. -But lift thou up thy' rod, and, •sumch out thine hand over _the sea amBdividc it, and the ehil’dren of is^jil shall go on dry ground through tf#midst of the sea.” Thisseerasto.be a* very conipre- iicnsive text of the word, hut we shall not write on many points. One point is the great distre.s.s Israel was thrown into. Shut in by inountajns on each side, a sea in -front, and a dreadful enemy just in dicir rear, who were more to be dreaded than .seas or mountain.®, Isra el was greatly perplexed. They had felt Pharoli’s bitter oppression and now, if he could retake them he would he .still severer. What could they do hut cry to the Lord ? If they had been less straitened they might run away, if they had not been tio weak they might fight but they could do neither. Was it not better that they could do nothing hiit cry to the Lord, The more certain fs^^lir'st?*an T() on the Lo’'d, (indeed he does not so truly call until he gets in the deptJis) urn! when he g-ails .so tiie deliverance will he corrcsj^ndingly great. It is in the greatesU extremities of m in iliat tlie divine ]^nver and glory is more displayed. ^Jkit could they not do something to eWricatetliemselve-b? What could the_mdo ? Seale the mountains, bridge Sc sea, or attack i'’haraoli ? But doA not ‘the lan guage of the fmrd imj|iy that it was wrong; to cry to him, aijd does it not teach that they should do something of liicis own ? Well, if it doc-s, why the fast and g;reatost of the great judg- all his sins and death .ire at his heels, ments of God poured out on Egv])t ! when in the agony of his extremity^ and is more glorious than any of them.': the Lord .so sweetly opens his wa/; ! the love of holiness ami hatred of sin We regard this as a type of the bond- , and so gloriously throws the horse | is a principle written within, hen«> a a,gi> and deliverance of the children atnd his rider, sins and death, ini|jfle- | Christian is not moved upon or f .rcc.,j of promi.®e who are all in the dark- |struction. Here he sings the song ef j to act as he doc.s, bnt'ls moved within ness and oppression, sin and death of I l^Hses the servant of the Lord, and | o-r drawn b\ the, piincinle of l0\. , the .service of satan. They belong ; the .song of the lamb. A. ebristi m | snd willingly goe.s fbrsvard. o-slumld to the Lord however tvhile they are piever forgets the day wh^f first a | do so, and there P a spiritual an-.f dead in trespasses and sins. Believe | glorious hope dawns qfi Jiini. He j heautiful emisi-sfeiK'} in thi.s ol)cdienef>. ers are cluiseu in Chri.st (not out of | will go all the was^ac^ through his j =^-he very fact that one hu.b a mind t*i him, nor for any merit in them) be-j wilderness ))ilgriniVge4;vihis begin-; go forward and obey the Lord is fore tlie world be,gan. Vvlien they ! niug of his luontlcs draw conso-i good proof that he sh.ould do .so, and bec'in to sill'll by reason of the bond- • lation here and recl-ion from this ■ let him Ir.i-vC hcctl th.it he doc.-> go age of sill and death the Lord begins Jtime. ■ ! But says the Arniinian : Primitive Baptists preach a to manifest a deliverer. Their con dition waxes wor,®e and worse—the I forward. “See that ye refu.®e mit “You j him tliat speaketh from heaven. .Butis stand- ' it probable or possible that a starving task-master, iastead of ligtening their j still .salvation, while the Lord- told burden actually increasing it, until i Moses to go forward, hence you are they are in a futnace of affliction. | wrong. It was Mose.s that told the God’s deliverance at first is shown ' people to stand .still, but the Lord Israelite will refuse to cat bread when he wants that very tfiing woree than any thing else,-and will lie refuse it. es})ecially when his father gives it to by caasing the sinner to .see the ex ceeding sinfulness of sin, and in this way the deliverance begins to come. Never would a sinner call on the Lord, if he did not hate sin. It i.s told him and them to go forward.” It wa.s to go forward, in whose wav, man’s or the Lord’s ? Evidently not in man’s way but in the new and MTaii.E we would not say tliat a son of Adam the first is immortal, iii living Gue. Mo.ses the servan t could I sense that lie has eternal lif(“, sti! .1 ’ I 1 i- ] r • ii J- ^ afll? l.«(- (iw.|wewouldsaythatheisnotmortal/m ihrongh Imtred of''■m that wo come to j only say, stand stiu, nut, v/licn the! , , . i- ,• i- God in repentance. Where the i Lord speaks it is to go forward, power of G(kI-is brought to l^eiW-^it bimisSaton, the.strong man, ajr^^u.s- es him to let Israel go, tlni^fi if ho could he woulcLj:P(ilBiC,uiliiBJIfc When, I the .sense that he is to die out of a!i The law does not save ns, but He is. a mortal or dying when we come to the end of the law this world to it can only say, stand still and see | once to die,yet, llip -s-x\xa.tiou of God. It is God and not ill lid the I>ord so help them ? D®e.s doiiw Whe: he encourage wrong he say.s ^Bvhereforc criast thou n me,” if he means to condemn -fHem why does he answer them with such a deliverance ? W’^iiat greaterdeliver ance did man ever have than for the sea to divide and give them a dry road, and then to shut up and dcsstroy their enemy forever ? Wliat hu man porformaiKXi i.s noted then ? Is it of man to M'alk through a sea ? .Surely man could not [le^orm such a deed as this. But^does not the language, “Wherc|4/o oricst thou tiiuto mo,” &c., conlPenm the ixwple lor crying to thejalfjord ? No, if it did, where is thfe|rj^nisiiment? The Lord at once op®j|Sia^ way of escape and so suddenly gloriously an- swei*8 their prayer tlilt he feid.s them tlry their tears in a and go forward. Mo3C.s stretches the ro,d%fcGod ov- oili^ aiuT ' trie HP."U Oin'e shut up and utterly unable to go at all, or got any way of eseirpe, he truly, from the depth®, of his soul and with his who^'Ttiea.rt, crie.s unto God, whereupon ^ the sea i.s divided. Christ crucified is revealed as the way of salvation. Here is a sea of srlorions deliverance. He become.s walls of saj^ation while these v/alls shelter t^believer they save no one else. ’pCis «ea l^ecomes a .sea of des- tructiiLn to the enemy. Here the en- destroyed and we .see him no The blood of Jesus makes an of sin. Here we see their dead is and know that they are dead— or wc see them dead. M'lien the glor ious redemption of Jesus i.s opened to our views we not only .see that the first horn of all the Egyptians is dead —that is that the first born of sill i.s destroyed, but we see that onr sins are .subdued and destroyed, and that there is no more eoiindemna- tioii, but that we are even justified from all things. What a glcrious song of deliverance and victory the Christian sings to God, •commemorat ing the holy law of God, and praising God for deliverance. Here is re demption. Was not every living Israe'itc brought out of Egypt ? Hid one linger behind ? »So did not Christ redeem all his people, laying down his life for the sheep, and tak ing it up again and living forever- 'udiutisc .save. Even the ri us that none but God can save after this .sort. Even the law so af- fectually shows ns our guilt that it tcels us none but a God of holiness and grace can save ns, and therefore it inu.st tell us to wait for the Lord or stand still—see the salvation of the Lord. But by faith they went through the sense that lie is to b:, aiiniJdiated. If so, how can ho be raised 11-0111 tlie diad.-? 'J’hcre i.s t" be a roj?urrection both of the just ami the unjust, i- human being will never cease to have .some sort of ex istence. FloriIn'ce, Al.^., May 25, 1871, Elder P. D. Gold :~ Hear brother,—Since parting witli you ill VJilson, I and my wife liav,. the sea., bo it is by faith or by the , open weathev and a very agreea- word of the Lord, (for faith cometh j ]^[g with the brethren and friends by hearing and hearing by the word of the Lord) that the convicted sinner goes forward. \Vhon the word de liverance 00rues he at once ari.ses and goes forward receiving the first fruits of redemption receiving the end (object) of faith even the salvation of the soul. Hoes not the whole, life of the believer sho-w that we go for ward at the word of the Lord ? He speakvS and leads and we follow. Wo go by faith and go in the way of h:s in our own State, Georgia atid Ala bama. The Lord enabled me to fill the appointiHcnts publlshetl in thoLANi>- MARKS with some additional ones in Georgia. We visited Elder Mitcheli and had meeting at Mount Olive wliere Ids membership is, near Ope lika, -Alabama, on Wednsday tb; 20th, and at night I tried to preach to a large and attentive eongregrtiou in Opelika. On Thnrsdar morning ®ext command and this obtains the blessing, j 21st, we left Opelika, and the In all our jouriieviiigs In the wilder- j morning we reached this place, .situa- lies, in all mir j,k and dnlins, wn go »" 'n-"n(Bsco .-.vcr, wluTO »s at his command. It is to exi>eeted to find a .steamer bound to Savannah, Tennes-sec., onr next point him, growing up in him,living to him { of destination. I« this however Wi w'c never get through this during our | were di.sap])ointed. No steamer yet. life. I One is expected to-day and wc hop: IIei:ibmber too w'o sliould not deii- pond nor turn buck, but go forward. The way i.s open and the enemy slain. We should prc.ss 011. Is not this free agency ? No, not following accorulng to our carnal will,but doing the will of God. If we have a will I more, and because he lives shall notXtQ do the will of God that is good evi- | they live also ? ^^eiice that we are changed and When does a chrLstiau cease t V to roach our I’clatl-ons to-night —dis tant about eighty inile.sfrom here. Yestertlav being Sunday, by spec ial request I spake to the })Cople botli morning and night, in the MetJiodis' Meeting House here. v We lose three and half days bv this delay. But all is right, the Lord knows what is best for us. Yours in hope of a re- I blessed immortality, uewel, and are willing iu the day off G. B. IlAsaELi..
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