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"i- ^ • 26 Zion’s Landmarks: Wilson, N. C. you that you were saved by grace, and not for works of righteousness which you had done, or should do.— lii taught you to love God, and love his word, to love his people, &c. Brethren, when the old coramand- inent became new to you, and a truth in you, did you hate anything that God had ci’eated ? did you then have any feeling of revenge or hatred in your heart toward your fellow-man ? Xay, all the works of the flesh, which are these, “adultery, fornication, un cleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emula tions, wrath, strife, seditions, here sies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like,” Gal. 5 : 19, 21—were oast out of the mind; and the gracious fruit of the Spirit— love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentle- or two more passages of scripture.— Isaiah 53: 10, 11—“ \Yhen thou shalt make his soul an offering for he shall see his seed, he shall sin ness, goodness, faith, nieeivuess, tem peranceagainst which there IS no law, possessed the soul. Then let it abide in you, and practice what you have been so wonderfully taught.— There are false teachers, and many of them in the world, who also resort to the Bible for proof of their doctrines. They sometimes claim that,other por tions of the scriptures teach the doc trine of final apostacy: for one, they take the first part of the sixth chapter of Hebrews, which is one of the most prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.” Is it reasonable that Christ could be satis fied, if one should be lost for whom his soul was made an offering—for whom he endured the bitter death of the cross ? Xo, emphatically no ! Again, John 5 : 24, “AXrily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and belicveth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation ; but is passed from death unto life,” Passed from the death penalty of the law, to the resurrection life of Christ, born above the demands of the law, and a new creature in Christ Jesus, Xo more to fall under the curse of the law from which Christ has redeemed him, for “ Christ dieth life, (that is spiritually,) consequently we were unable to do anything to ex tricate ourselves from that awful di lemma that sin had placed us in,— Therefore, before we can work we have life communicated, and that life is in Christ; and wdien he manifests himself or gives life he gives a will with the life to work. iD or in other words, he works in us (by his Spirit) both to will and to do of his good pleasure. May it be our happy lot to serve him acceptably while journeyin g here below, and at last be received into eternal felicity. ., no more, death hath no more dominion over him.” And nov/, little child iren. forcible arguments against their doc trine in the written word. It shows that if God’s children shall fall away after being regenerated, that Christ is put to an open shame, because he | hag died for them once, and the apos- | tie says, he hath by one offering I ttscra ttttvt tvvQ sa.n(>- I. t/fied, and if the atonement of Christ ^ fails in a single instance to save those tor whom he died, he has reason to be ashamed of the imperfection of his work. I wan feels an interest this chapter carff died for his people accordiif*^) the will of the Father, and tt>a(‘ \^11 is executed so far as bringing uheW to a knowledge of what he has done, and manifesting them as the identical |>eoplo for whom he did die, and they, or any of them, should slip and fall aw'ay forever, does it not make void that part of ttie will of God wrought by Christ in the atonement, and made manifest by' the Spirit in regenera tion? Oh I when will men cease to iciich a doctrine, which, if it could be abide in him ; (verse 28) that, when he shall appear, we may have confi dence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.” May the Lord sanctify the truth, and seal it to the understaudinfr and comfort of his children is onr prayer, for Christ’s sake—Amqn ! Mountain Ckeek, Tenn., Dec. 1,1875. Elder P. D, Gold, Dear Brother in Christ I must be short, P. G. Potter. McMinnville P. O., Warren County, Tenn. Wayne County, Oct, 6th, 1875. Brother Gold:—■ S i OU Avill please 0L5O to renew my' su-bscrip tion to the LA'NOAXARks, and 75 cts. for one of sister E. find feiiclosed Anna Phillips’ pampbb -making to y'our E^velve months, loctrine advocated in its col umns I find to be in harmony and agreement with the Bible and Primi- true, woulfl make the Son of God blu.sh at his failure to make a full conquest of sin and death: it would 1x1 to argue that there is a power in sin which he has not yet conquered, and, for the apo.state one, he must be crucified again, and make a second atonement, or lo.se forever a part of the purchase of his blood. But, if the children of the most high God will “let that abide in them which they heard from the beginning, and turn away from those that seduce them, they will never be troubled with this.shameful doctrine. [ wi.sh I had time, and physical strength sufiScient to dwell at length on those parts of me written word which are used' by arminians to establish their unwar rantable theory, but circumstances t'orbid, and I must ha.sten to a eonclu- .-ion. As a cximplete refutation of the iilea of final ajK>stacy', I will cite one tive Baptists in Tennessee—for we are all one people; and all thy chil dren shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of tlyv chil dren. But as it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all thing.s, yea the deep things of God,” 1 Cor. 2: 9, 10. For the children not yet be ing born, neither having done any thing good or evil that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand ; not of ^yorks but of him that calleth. It was said unto her—the elder shall serve the y'ounger. But WG (or the Church) are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ being the chief corner-stone—in whom all the build ing fitly framed together groweth un to a holy temple in the Lord. But alas, this is not the way that a great many tell it in this country : thev say it is all of grace, but then when they preach they preach part grace and part w'orks. But we have not so learned Christ (if we have learned him aright) for the Bible teaches that while we were in sin that mence, with the help of the Lord, to relate what he h rs done for me a poor sinner: AVhen about fourteen y*ears of age I dreamed that I saw' my Savior dressed in white and he w'as smiling on me. After this I had a haidspell of sickness and when I w'ould close my eyes at night could see something over me but could not tell what it W'as. It troubled me veiy much:after I recovered I tried to pass it off the: best I could. I knew' I 'was sin ner. In J861 I dreamed so much ''WhI could* see peace .1 dreamed I saw' nf white house with the prettiest flowAT^ around it that I ever saw in my life. After this twm of my cousins got drowned, and I thought this was the sign of my dream. In 1862 my father w'as taken sick and died : this added greatly to my already troubled mind—and then, it seemed that there was no pleasure on earth for me. He was not a mem ber of any Church. Mother was a member of the Primitive Bapti.st Church and I w'anted to be there too. I tried to pray to the Lord for him to forgive me my sins. I never aftend- so I us we ed a pic-nic or dance in my life: could not see wdiy my trouble was so great. Often I have told mother that I could not see what I w'anted to live for. Whenever I tried to do good I would do wor.se and worse. I thouo-ht no one else was provoked as I was, for I w'ould sin and it seemed that I could not help it. I remained in this condition until the Summer of’74, when I thought I had done all that I could do: I had tried to pray to the land for him to forgive me my sins, until it seemed all hope was lost. So, I gave myself up for lost. I tried to jiass it off the best I could :is I did not Avish anv one to know' my condition. Often I would make up my mind to go- to meeting, but W’hen the time came I felt my.self to be so sinful that I W'ould stay at home and read my Bi ble—it seemed that I could pass off’ the time the be.st in that w'ay. When the meeting time for the were dexid to a knowledge ofholiness. | folloAving September came, on Sun- Then, if we Avere dead we had no j day I attended, and when Elder Woodard baptized brethren Pate and Jesse AVoodard, I thought I AA'ould never be good enough to go through the same ceremony. It had alw'ay.s been my desire if ever I connected my self with any Church, that it might be the Primitive Baptist: but then, it seemed that all hope AA'as gone.— My feelings at that time I can never express. That night AVILL try to AA'rite my expe rience, if I have any ; but teel too uiiAvorthy to attempt the task. And, as I have been requested to do so, Avill noAV com- I slept but little, any, and AA'hen morning came I told mother that I was sick; but, the first thing I wanted was the Bible—I read it till dinner but felt no better.— Tuesday morning I w'as no better—1 could neither eat nor sleep. I tried to beg the Lord to be merciful to me a poor sinner. I remained in this condition until Friday morning, whers I took a Avalk in the-yard and jilain- ly heard these Avords— “ Fight on, the crown shall soon be given.’* It wa.s the sweetest hymn I ever- heard in my life. Xext evening I wa.^ sitting in the door Avhen these words Avere sounded in my ears, “In my Father’s house are many mansions ; 1 go to prepare a place for you.” June 20th, 1875 I Avent before the Church and Avas received and baptized by Elder AA'oodard. Elizabeth Game. Elk Horn, Polk County, Oregon, November 12th, 1875. Dear Brother Gold:— Oil II some time I liave been tn in king of writing to you and the dear brethren and sis ter^ Avho subscribe to your pa per and giving some statements con cerning my present conditiryn. I enlisted in the arm-'' or the ^th day of August, 1864, and served a while—daring Avhich time 1 passed through a series of afflictions, w'hiob W'ere so severe no tongue can de.seribe the suffering I endured—both in body and mind, on account of mv mind being impaired: Cause—con viction for sin. But. through the mercy of God aa'os relieved from this suffering and enabled to rejoice in Clii’ist as my Savior—having no con fidence in the flesh—Avith that joy that is unspeakable and full of glory. While in the AA'ar I contracted a dis ease in my right leg Avhich has ren dered me H cripple for life. In the Summer of 1865 AA’hen I returned to my home in Caldwell County, Mis souri, it seemed that the disease was got Avell; so, September 6th, 1866 I married and moved to Law’rence County, and Avent to Avork in order to try to make a living. In 1869 my leg became paralyzed from m'y knee down and began to ri.se, and at length Avas lanced, Avbich caused me to lose part of my lieel-.string—leav- iug my foot out of shape. After this I moved my family to Oregon and purchased me a home ; paid $250 in cash for it, still due $950. 1 have a wife and four chil dren to support, and Inu'e to hire all of my Avork done. Brother Gold, please present tlic case just as it i.s, in the columns of your paper as soon as couA'ciiieut; and, if any of tlie bretliren who fed able will do .something to enable me to finish paying for my home I am sure I W’ould feel thankful. 1 have been an C^ld School Baptist preacher i
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