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liM A Zion’s Landmarks: Wilson, N. C. 31 blame before God. It can nevei' sm again, for, if it can again become a sinner, it most of necessity have a second regeneration, and receive a second pardon. Hidden in the cleft of that Kock, covered with*the hand of the Lord, overshadowed hy the cloud of His glory, 'dlled with His presence, en circled in the arms of His love, made rich by His grace, clothed with the righteousness of Christ, sanctified by His blood, and kept by the power of He led me in that living way, Where none can ever stray ; Then from my eyes the veil he took, And to that great High Pri&st I looked. The cross I now will gladly bear, That 1 at last the crown may wear: W^ien in the regions of the blest My spirii finds eternal rest: God, that soul is safe in its hiding place, because it is hid with Christ in God. Nothing can harm it : The world may persecute with sordid hate. And great tribulations, with sore afflictions here await, The storms of life in raging billows foam. And cold terriffic winds, in howling accents moan; Satan his mighty host of fiends may call. And bring them up in solid masses bold— -His ficnUish rage, in furious darts flash round the fold, Seeking to destroy this chosen soul. But this I say to one and all, A sir.ner, sawd in Christ, shall never fail. May grace, peace, love and har mony, dwell with all the children of God, is the prayer of a poor unwor thy servant. F. Delha Watson. 3Ir. Editor—Dear Sir:— What pen can portray ? what lan guage exjtress the peace and joy of a soul born of the water and of the Spirit? I believe more in good works now than I ever have, but not that I ex pect to receive a reward for having done good, hut as the fruit of a good spirit; the answer of a good con science beforc#God. I think this doc trine is the only one which advocates true good works; for it says when the tree is made good, it wd!l bring forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree cannot yield good fruit, because every ■'thing: brings forth after its kind.— O 4 Having therefore, brethren, bokl- .ufSH_h> enfc's' into the holiest by the l^od with ui full assurance of faith, and h6ld fast the profession of our ,4aith without w-avering. Let us con sider one another to provoke unto love and go^^l works. How beautiful is the peafi of a family all traveling to the sarh’e place. Each one should trv to nromote the welfare of the oth er, and if one should be weak and get ou( of tlie way in the mud and the mire, all should go to his assist-: ance and help him bear his burden along; not run on and leave that |K)or afllicted one behind. We can not know how great are his tempta tions. I have seen aged pilgrims left behind—their heads bowed low with untold grief; tears coursing down the farrowed cheek ; lips quiv ering with inwai’d emotion; their wounds so deep that none but God can cure. We should look with pit ying eyes at the fiuilts of others, re- inemhering how great are our own transgressions. If we had to make ajuend.s unto God for all onr faults, who would he able to stand before Him ; bat He knoweth our frame ; Ho remernbereth that we are but dust, and with a father’s watchful care, a mother’s tender love, He pities the infirmity of our flesh, and forgives our many sins. Let us all try to w’alk worthy of the vocation wliere- with we are called, and run with pa tience the race set before us, ever looking unto Je-sus the author and finisher of our faith : N looking over the last nuraher of the Landmarks I see the Editor of tlie Biblical Record er had pricked up his ears and snoiTed, or Jeshurun-like waxed fat and kicked as though he, Baalam- like had his foot mashed against the wall in looking at—not reading, Mrs. Phillips’ Experience so-called. We have been thinking, Mr. edi tor, on what meat hath this Cesar fed —certainly not on Christ—and to what shall we liken him. The case of those having eyes and see not, and ears and hear not, and a heart and do not understand seems to fit him best, though I mean no insult to him.— Certainly I could not liken him to those that are hid in the Cleft of the Rock and in the secret places of the Stairs. Nor yet could I conscien tiously accuse him of much reading —especially the Bible and sound church history. And another troub le seems to attend him—hi.3 digestion is had. In the place of being refresh ed as Eliliu was from his reading he seems to have become excited and mad with the little Davids, He slip ped off and got Saul’s armor on, lest be should be wounded hy tliem. Of this there may be some danger, for qr nroaflTiV Aria ■” may possibly visit the land of Moab, in which case Balak miglit need Baa- lam to curse Israel, for we think there are some very fine soldiers in the array of Israel, and some, too, wlio are as honest as Baalam, that would not go beyond the word of the Lord to do, less or more, for a large siira of money. And should a tent he pitch ed in Raleigh Balak, (the Recorder,) might be in danger, for some of its soldiers are very conversant with the literature of the Moabites, having been citizens of that country for some time—being well acquainted with its system of means and measuras.— Though I know, Mr. Editor, that you and Mrs. Phillips need no as sistance to enable you to capture the Recorder, for his memory is very poor in regard to dates, as many of them of his household will hear him record. great while before I came to some more, and thought it would he right for me to put in a tub that was near me; then thought it my duty to pour water over them. After this my mind was busily engaged about going to preaching. It did not seem very far; and on my way I met sev eral other people on their way there too. IV’hen I got there I found it to be a different looking house from any I had ever before seen. In the cen tre of it was built a stand with a man on it whom I took to be the preicher. As I approached hitn he spoke to some one on his right, saying. Go, cut a piece of my bread and give it to him (to me) to eat. I thanked him and told him tliat I was not hungry. By this time he had a slice cut olf and handed it ^o me, and said; Eat it, it is better than yon think it is ! I partook of it, at first it tasted like loaf bread and afterwards like jelly. Now, he says, you have eat ray bread, I will show you the gl«)be and the flesh of the earth. The globe looked to be nearly round with a rod or axle tree in it pointing to the North and South. He told me that the globe turned around; and I imagined it was turning. He told me that flesh was the matter, blood and strength of the earth. I now, said he, wdll show you the element—it looked round like the earth hut much larger. He said the earth turned according to his cwn will and purpose : it look ed like the earth was in the middle of the element; he also showed me the wind of the element and the water of the earth, and said: They thatdriu^Biewatei^f^ earth shall Tver.. Now, he said, I command you to go teach the people these things that I have revealed to you. I replied and told him tliat I thought I could not do it January 28th, 1875. Dear Brethren and Sistei's of the Old School Baptist faith:— 'fliia is the way I long have sought, Hut none could point it out; Till Jesus came with wounded hanAs and bleeding side And cried It is for sinners I have died- some time I have been thinkino' I would write some- o for publication, and have as often ^t it off; buf now it seems to bear on my mind so heavy that it seems that I can’t put it off any longer and rest in peace. I will now call your attention to a vision I had on the night of the 21st; I first thought I was at an unknown place, and that I saw a serpent about half out of the ground, and thought it was my duty to dig him out. I began but bad not been digging a like it should he done. He then .said. Go and do as I have commanded you to do. Then there appeared be fore us a stand. He said: Go get on that stand and open your mouth and I will give you utterance of words. He then vanished from my sight. There were a great many peo ple gathered around me, I then opened my mouth and was trying to tell them wh«t had been revealed to me —I then awoke, but it didn’t seem that I was sleeping a natural sleep. I believe God and his people are able to judge all things. My fellowship is with Beulah Church, Johnson County, N. C. Burket Brown, WnirrMEUL, Pittsylvania Co., Va. June 27th, 1875. Elder Gold—Edeemed Brother:— Y de.sire is to drop you a few nes in exhortation to the dear brethren and sisters b attered over tlie world, and ail those who love our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The words I sliall use for a foundation of what I shall say, can lie found in Mark, 10 : 14, and read thus: “And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to he called. And they called the blind man, saying unto him, be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.”— Brethren, there seems to be a kind of dispute about calling sinners to re pentance, between Primitive Baptists, and other denominations, whether or not God sends men to call them, or does it himself alone. I have lieard some preachers of the Old Baptist or der treat on the subject in such a maimer as to make an impre.ssion on the minds of some that God has nothina’ for them to do ; but that they can go oil ill their sins, and he as wicked as they please, and it will make no difference; for if they are born for heaven they will go there ; and if they are horn for hell they will go there. Hence the cry that God is unjust in destroying one and saving another. I have heard, men say that if they believed in the Old B.aptist doctrine they Would take their fill of sin; for, say tliey, we cannot help it, and we are not to blame. And they say tirat if they commit murder, that they do just what God intended they should do, and therefore it is no transgres sion; for God made them to do all these things, and hence God is unjust, say they. Brethren, I am far from believing that man, of his own power, is able, to quicken and call dead sinner^ to repentance; but, I do believe that when he (God) quickens them, he calls them through pi-eachers: he commands them to call.and tell them of a Savior that has died for them, and who arose again for their jiustifi- catioii. Brethren, I wish to he un derstood ! Do not think that I am trying to lay too much stress on the works of man. I believe all of God’s children will understand me: I can ...i. the materials and what they look like. We have the case of blind Bartimeus, the son of Timeus: he seems to be hogging. I think he i.s a fair representation of a sinner that has been quickened, that is, blind in understanding—but he seems to be in distress, Mtoll, then, let us see how came the sinner in distress : well, the time appointed by God has come, that he should be called; (God, not man,) quickens, gives the hearing; he hears the word but cannot understand; he becomes uneasy and feels that ail is not well with him. Now trouble begins !— Now God shows him his lost condi tion, so he begins to call upon the lA)rd to have mercy on him ! So, I believe those are the ones that God commands his preachers to call and expound to them the scriptures which are able to make them wise unto sal vation. Brethren, I do not confine their preaching to them only, but to feed the Church and exhort them to walk humbly and meekly before the Lord. The preachers are called shepherds and watchmen—they arc to watch over the flock. They are placed upon the walls of Zi on to watch the enemy and sound the alarm when they see danger—not to stand and undertake to fight them off themselves, but warn the inmates so they may make- their escape-. Brethren, I .see too much fighting, I fear, from onr own stands. The Servant of the Lord should he gen tle k> all men, so say the Scripture*. Beloved brethren, let us try to walk ill tlie, foot-prints of Jesus ; ‘Tor see.
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