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5^ h ilb IhH ttiilBiiTlW' e» ]!W — 0?THa— 'free will baptist Niorth Carolina. . ( s*J» B D WEEKLY — BY THE — fatFWIllSiPTIST PUil. CO. The Free Will Baptist, 'I.ET BKOTHEHE EOVE COSITIIVIIE" Vol. 16. Ayden, N. C., Wednesday, May., 26 1897, No. O. UAVls, i-res. £. E. Dail, Vice-Pres. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Walter Barfield, E. a. Craft, N B. Gaskins. vV. R. Sawyer, G. McL/AWHOn, G, W. Dail, Eld. P. T. Lucas. Elu. 1. M.Barfield,Treas. A‘’irr;G'.n;3 J/'i'r**- ■ru, SS;K“.'”ooA b»rn Miry, wiiom UoJ Ireely the world; and Lliiiat AS ir« V 6 pverv a ransom far all, tualins? death for every SXTSo”* be l.« day a. .lojlll i id. hi.iworks. So the full discovery potheses is the jossiulity of application is evolutionarv,? RlTEiUir Sobm;^..'.!! s l.> AUV. One year t Six months ADVERTISING RATES One square one insertion “ “ Two “ “ “ One month Three months.... Six Twelve $1,( 0 l.iO 4,' 0 .. 10.10 For larger advertisements, liberal con tracts will be made. Ten cents per line (or first insertion for advertisements not e« pecially contracted. Death and marriage notices published free ofcharee of Christ’s Kiugdo n and their greater revelations of light and proper application has b en I a deeper Insight into the m_y ste- Fifty Years Ago. President Polk In the White House chair, While in Lowell was I>octor Ayer; Both were busy tor human weal One to govern and one to heal. And, as a president's power 0/ will Sometimes depends on a liver-pUl, Mr. Polk took Ayer's Pills I trow >r bis liver 0 years ago. J'We believe that Ghost, the precious gdt throuffh Hi= aear Son, unto the worla, wuc quiciieneth and draweth sinners home to do,i.-Jobii xvl, 7 and 8; Act. ii, 4; Epb. u ‘^®‘’woldieJettat la the by«“»S ““J made man upright, and qj state of glory without the j,,, mUcry, *lTcm wblcb b. ’ol™ “dy,^„‘» K/,rSlkS'cmteS*'- .fd moml Twl"jSievctr«S;d”is".ot'wlliiagtb.. any should perish; but that all to repentance and the of he truth, that they might be saved L,-r,gi to end Christ hath commanded the G >BPel be preached among all nations a Y creature.—Mark xvi. 15: Luke x-iv. . John iii,15-17; I Tim. n, 4. . 6. We believe that no man shall sufter in hell for want of a Christ who died 'or ^ but as the Scripture h^s said, tor denying the Lord tliat bought them; uln believe not in tlie name ot the only nego“®n Son ofGod. Unbelief,therefpre, being the cause why the just and Heaven will condemn the children o' ^ • it follows against all oontradiction that an men, at one time or other, are found msuch , -...Aacitv AS that through the grace of they may be eternally savi-u.-Acts xv i. .wp, Mark vi. 6; Heb. iii, 10; I John v, 10. . 7 We believe the whole =icriptures are in fallibly true, and that tlie^ are only rules of faith and practice. 11 Hm.ui.io, *. 8. We believe in the doctrine of Provision made of God in Chnst, lor toe nenetit of all mankind, who repent and be lieve the Gospol.-Luke xiv, lb,_ IJ* t*; au; Matt, xxvlii, 10,2o; Luke xni, 3-5, huae "f'lvc'b'ss d»«. to God the Father, by 'I*® f'hrist His Son. and that the Holy 'J‘^os offers his divine aid P “wo“d iv flti Av th.'v all might be happy, woiim nev mve Place to ills divine teaching; VhcrefsI suEi who do not receive toe D.vim impressions of ills Holy bpint, , , future day, own their and charge themselves with their “IS (or wlltbW reJecunB the ofe our Lord J««t t;?™* “ tL.n.elvc; and therefo^^^ but we observe that they, and wrath ot u 1' ^ ^yi^g therein; infancy, having against the law ^ jirat death, sons, are v ,^,nthein by toe fall oi fi«r Adam ^^nd not that any one ol the first Adam, suffer pun- them dying to j. gj^ ishment m !f by God.-I Cor. '^'^,1.4, 5; Mark ix. 36. 37. wl'bdl.ye that good rrotbs ate tbe fruilk ol a “™S J‘f;‘5‘aSl!o ”„( ,'be 51e S SrSb". « -Rev. xxii, 14.15, isa. -G-m. ii. 17,. iii. 19- Ayer’s Cathartic Pills were desigmed to supply a model purgatiye to people who had 80 long injured themselves with griping medicines. Being carefully prepared and their in gredients adjusted to the exact necessities of the bowels and liver, their popularity was in stantaneous. That this popu- larity has been maintained la well marked in the medal awarded these pills at the World's Pair 1893. 50 Years of Ci!r.« CHRISTIAX EVOLUTION, ,ii.8i Jer. Vi, Iftliuta X i:A VVe believe that no □ LT,.i,r (ir-rinture to all believers for ..- docreoJ a y p , yfrespoctor mere choice, S ofSfi H.°b.S tppoiopl Ibv sodlv unto deuto.-Hebjv. 13; Pr.v vui. eu. iv, viii, 22, 23, iM5:?8,;7.?!!.!3'S'S;4Mi;-4j«:2: Up, 20, Matt. 3L 85. Ve believe bunb “u .^.aii has an^ 'y.nr' T-.m in the Holy Scriptures forjustitieation rant m the y ^ woras, power, betore Godtoroi.gnms of himself, or a'.ihtv w f b be ?as^‘"ie able to come to r"!! ^tlirougli® Jesne Jbri8t; believing the rivhieoasno^ofJeaiis Christ to be imputed „ (jtfjer man of his day liad a »"^.o^Svers for their eternal acceplance J J , , BY REV J. TV. BRIER, SR. The present conception of the Kingdom of God, or true Chris Lianity in its vast comprehensive ness of I'pplieftio.n to the wants oj the soul and of human socie ty. is an evolution from the >imple teachings of Jesus. These teachings the men of his day did riot and could not understand, liStbecause they were not equal ly endowed with the men of this age, but on account of their en vironment, hereditary lenden ciL'S, andthe murky condition of the intellectual and moral at mosphere that enshrouded them. Paul was a great and an in spired man, —greater than any of hU c )-workt-rs, greater than j»in the Baptist, and greater than any of the old prophets; yet in all hU writings we find noth ing beyond a clear and ^at■.sfac- tory discussion of a few of the fundamental doctrine? of re demption. Weh veoitea wi-h- ed that he had gone further, but perhaps the times demanded nothing more, or it may be that nothing more was possible just thill. One thing is quite certain, and that is, that he was vastly more advanct-l ui the knowl edge of the Kingdoiii of God than any of hi brethren. It sefmosule;vrthit the knowledge of inspired men was limited as toils e.Ktcnt Neither Paul uur full and clear conceptio.i of all ilte p.issihilities of'lie Kingdom (fGoloii eailh. There were manypossibe things that lay fa" along the lii.e of future evo lution tlnit 4-ven the great Apos- 9^’3^35’86'37; 38,39,40.41,4^,43,44, du to the Geiitlles did iiotaiitic;- 32,33,34, , . . .. pitc. Stlliurihir.tliereijmuuh 15 We believe, ae touching Gospel ordi 1 nanres in helieveis’b.'iptism, laying on Ol r mt li llldieu from OUr ViStoIl, pp.lwe still' S.e through agUss "I Ood and the public ministry of the word, ^..jae d les IX'lt imply the crea- * ... .. ..* *1./. T .r,rr1 qIi&II qui'e as tlow, if not slower; and yet the loog-suftering Christ has waited, and watched our slow •ind timid steps, and willconiin ue to watch ai d vTit, until the truth shall shine forth as “a lamp ihatl urnelh. ’ ^ VTe U'o not in qustidu the ivine authorityof Pauls mis- !-i >11 when we as-'Umc that there were to be, i i tie great luture, unfoldmeuts and applications of Christ’s teadi gs that he did not anticipate. This view not derogatory ta t^e high claims and authority of the Gos pel. The same is true in the realm of science. With devious and trembling steps men in all ages have ielt their way upward from the tangled labyrinths of ignoranee and misconception to a better and wider knowledge 01 the facts andlawsofthe material universe. The astounding facts of science now being brought to light do not destroy our con6 dence in ilie truth and utility of what was discovered in the past Science is not the less true aod reliable because nil its principles and laws wefc not grasped in a day. Here we discover a won derful analogy between the evo lution of man's knowledge cf science and his knowledge o! evolution. Neither Paul or any other man of his diiy fully com prehended all that portainnd to the Kingdom of Gedinits future unfoldings and applications. Newton was not less an apostle of science because others, since his day, taking advantage of his discoverits, have gone farther on,nor are thetruthshe brought to light less reliable because he did not gra^p the entire philoso phyoflhenaiuralworld. Christ clearly enunciated the princij -les of his Kingdom, but he left their comprehension and application tobeslowly and gradually evolv ed in the ages to come. Paul was not less the great Apostl** ot the Gentiles because there was a limit to his vision. Under the light and guidance of the Holy Ghost, he fully met all the wan's of his time. It is not go ing too far to say that the Holy Spirit could and did raise up and inspire other men, all a’ong 1 he line of religious progress, who wrote and and taught up to t'le tuil measure of the wants of the day in which they lived. And this, work still goes on It is the mustard-seed growth of the Kingdom of Godon earth. Every seed has a germ of life within it which is susceptible of vast development under the q- ickening power ;f the laws of growth. A slud-^nt of nature, born an 11 eared in one of the coal districts of England, where men often live and die without ever seeing the sun, has lor ob servation, we w ill suppose, all sorts of seeds, and with the use of the microscope he carefully examines into all the possibilities of their development. But how under such conditions, is it pos sible for him to lorni any just conception of a towering oak or blooming bush or rustling corn' If we could convince all mei 16 We believe the Gospel mode of bap- qisyovery. They were all there e-c manopeneJh's eye, ^ _ iii 8 1C; Mark I, 5, 10; Ao.tB viii, 38 . 89- 1. . beliold ilic Wonders of Ibn that scleuc ^ had reached its til- Rom. vi,4^HeKx^32.^^^^^j ^ r-'ition v cr)d. The patieut Crea'Or tlmate, th:;n we would subject of\be(ie1i(iVn'la'i'iUiivigineiic- ' 1'^' w iit';d long fo" tardy aii-l stiipi l | ihe whole race to the tyranny in-);-t;il.i to 0 imi* up to a i ade-' of prese .t assumptions. Our q ,u.. eoiH-qi.ioii i.ttlie gl.ryoi' d;'omo egeinst unproved hy. nes of nature. Again, when we deny the fact that the Holy Ghost raises up and inspires men all along the line of religious evolution, whose intellectu d culu'e and greater oppoi tiv,^^^4 have the better fitted thgi^T^^ ..iie me dia ihrouffh which ».o reveil the greater app eheiision and ap- plcation of the piinoiples of Christ’s Kingdom, then we sub ject all believers lo ihe hondage of the ideas and institutions of the past. Paul h.id bis success ors, not in office, but in work. Thsse men preached and wrote, but the writings of mestofthem are puerile and tamr,.,even su-: perstitious. Augustine was chief among them, and yet his edeas were a mixture of hea then superstition, Aristotoliar metaphysics, and Pauline theolo gy. There was.» a nackward oiovement for cesduriei. The waters of the river of life be came more and more discolored by'the muddy heathen channels they coursed t^eir way to tuture ages When the Holy Spirit raised up Luther, the light had well ni'^h gone out forever; but the, Wj^rd of God remained, though chained to an altar. Luther and bis fellow workers were gre; t meu and. in a sense, inspi!el7«o in and BeV.a, so -^s Afif^Tdo; yet none of them ever recover ed entirely what was lost by theApostacy. We of the pres ent day have but little use for their writings. But the tendency of the age to free thought is rapidly em ancipating the souls otjingeni ous thinking men who are looking for greater light and power in fields beyond the Tries of ecclesiastical restraint. Will real Christianity suffer loss from this absolute ten dency? Some may go too fast and too tar, and make ship- vvreck of faith, but the great triass of reliable men will come back to the rational de mands of truth and a pro founder experience in the things of God. There is more involved in the redemptive plan than theChristian worid has ever dreamed of or expe rienced.—more of light, more of power, more of righteous ness, more of progress, and less of human greed. Utmost Interest centers about the ast possibiliti^’s ofihefuture. These are all hid away in the teachings and promises of Je sus, and will only be preceiv- el when the scales of selfish ness haveTallen from the eyes of the professed apostles of reform. We hope in vainlhat these rich treasures that are in store for the Church will ever be. discovered and bruught forth by unsa ictified intellect or learning. God will select and raise up his own instruments,—unselfish, consecrated men, who have laid all their pride of learning and self-sufficiency on the di vine altar, and are willing to He passive in the hands of the Holy Ghost to be used and led as he w’llls. Are we startled with the thought that the knowledge If this is not true, what hope have we that the promises of Jesus will ever be funlled in this world? I haveactustom- cd myself to think that God is still inspiring men to think and preach and write. Paul and Peter did their work well, but their w^ork was not the end. only the beginning -of the unfoldrnent and application of Christ’s teaching. Wba ever progress has been made in the past in the better un derstanding of Christ’s teach ings, it is certain that vast re sources of light and power are still in reserve to be sought out and brought into use before the Gospel can tri umph in the accomplishment of its great mission. The men to lead in this - must be divine/y selected and inspired for this special work. [Shal low and selfish men, m all the past, have done little else tnan sow the trace of fanati cism. When the Holy Ghost, dwelling in a man and domi rating all his intellectual and spiritual powersuggestssome new and striking thought that lies along the line of all former revelations, and so im presses it on the man’s spiritu al conciousiiess as to make it a part of his very being, tliat is inspiration. And when the inspired man imparts that booth, each made Iks own special applicaiion of the Sav-' ior s words. Ihe grassy slope was covered viith peo ple, not only from the region ol Galilee, Judjea. and Jerusa- lem, but even from the distant coasts of Tyre tind Sidou. Many Years before, the law was given, and there were thunders and lightnings, and the people, with awakened consciences, sa w thatdesoHie storm-rent mountain quaking and the smokethereofascend ed. as the smoke of a furnace, and the voice of the trumpet sounded 1-mg, and waxed louder. Then the people moved afar off, afraid of the invisible presence, whose power they witnessed. Mos es alone drew near unto the thick darkness and talked with God.. There is a strong contrast between the two, but Jesus came to (ulfill the law of Sinai which was founded upon the eternal principles of right. He brought the new law of love and mercy, and com[)ar* ed it with the old code of ‘Thou shalt not.” He show ed to them that wherever the old demanded outward obedi ence, the new was to renew and control the heart. ‘‘In the law we see tke trunk of a tree, but in the Gospel the Tree of Life, from its base up- POWDER ckonohe to^others with wards, is unfolded. The Ser- unction, it will iiave all tiie ^ mon on the Mount digged uj effect of a revelation from God, for it is a revelation from God. Christ came on the day of Pentecost in his divine person ality, and he is coming more and more to restore his ideal visible Kingdom on earth. It was, in the beginning, in its visible incipiency, it will be, in its broader and more iu minous glory, and that right soon. The inoniing dawns, the day star is rising. God is everywhere iirspiriug men to be the heralds of his speedy approach. When he comes there will be but one fold, and oac Shepherd. THEUIVINE OCTAVE. BY L D ROSENBERGER A German baron who lived in a grand old castle, stretch ed wires from towertotower, to form an .^Tilolian harp. In a gentle breesc the harp sang suit ond low; but by and by the wind blew, a storm came, and amid the crash of the elements* the wires gave forth music so grand and majestic, that it was heard near and far. Christ’s strmoii on the Mount is like that harp,—it rings soft, heavenly echoes in to any life; but, amiJ the heaviest storms of this world’s temptacion that ever assail a man. it gives forth a strainso pure, heavenly and sweet, that men will pause in sur prise to listen, and theprelndc j to ths people scaled on of this music is an ‘Blesseds.” Imagine the surprise with which they must,havelistenel to the beginning, “Blessed are the poor, In spirit; for theirs is the kingdom ot heav- of the principles of the King- en.” The fisherman of Gali- dom of God and their proper lee, and the publican from his Its very roots and expose the hidden life to view.” “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” said the pid Law’. That is simple justice, but instead we have, Whosoever shall smite tliee on thy r/ght cheek turn to him the other also.” ‘‘Love your neighbor,’, said the law, Love your enemy,” said Je sus. H a man whose repulation has been tainted and his busi ness injured by an enemy, in stead of taking the customa ry means of redress, will bear all indignicies manfully, nobly and do good unto his enemy at the first opportunity, witli love sanctifying every effort, God will bless the resa’t. If, instead of Shylock clamoring for his pound of flesh, love and mercy vere to rule, God’s coming kingdom would be hastened. Trulv, blessed are the meek, for tiiey dwell in an impregnable castle; they have a hold on God that the world, , the flesh and the devil cannot break. They can rest where others are heav^’ laden and weary; they can be content where other liearts are being consumed with unsatis-»ed longings. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” A man who avariciou?, jeaious, or haling, -annot see through the clouds that rise into the heaven above him, and before he can behold the heavenly vision, theseclouds must vanisii. All this was new and strange the they went away in theie hearts, as something precious. They said one to another, “Hetaught as one having authority and not as the scribes” They w^’re familiar with tlie leaching ;f the scribes. That was nar row and ■cold,—cone irned Absolutely Pure. Celelirated for its great leaven- U'g strength and hcathfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Royal Baking Powder Co,. N. Y. chiefly with the priest in school and temple. It wasvoluminous as to the keeping of the Sab bath, th-i exact seconds begin ning or ending the Sabbath Day. the length of fringe, the washing of bauds and others outward observance. JesuS .said, “Enter into thy closet and pray to thy Father in se cret.” The Pharisee chose a street; corner and prayed there, wliile the crowd surged about him. He was blind to the truth that self humiliation and self-abasement are necessary, that the soul may live. We rarely accept and live these saying of Jesus, as he in- tended we should. It is if a great musician had composed an Oratorio, and a chorus of .'( hun'Jrr I v ,nrov;cc;dvd to sing it. Some of them are car\iless, indifferent, and others ignorant, and only a few faiih- fully render the music as it is written. Any one hearing the choru? sung 4n this manner would say, That is riot the mus- ic that originated in the mind of the composer; only a few oflhat\HSt Lumber are inter preting their parts coriectly.” So there are a lew in the busy world, in the thickest of the fight, who acc?pt and live out Christ's teachings in this ser mon. Many grand old saints, whose s a s are vacant in the country church, who are child-like, peaceful, patient, loving inter preters of his word, stand as a city set on a hill. Almost an^’body can find fault. The world’s benefac tors are they who find reme dies. The world needs sym pathy muchmorethan it does criticism, though the latter is more fi'eely dispensed.—Ala bama Christian Advocate. Never feat to liring the great est comfort to the least troub le and the largest inspiration to the smallest dut}’.—Phillips Brooks. Hood's Sarsap!U'ill:i, .ind yet tlie-y nveBiinplcand natural. IIoixl's SarsjP parilla makes PURE BLOOP- igo-u octave cf hillside. Luc I treasurin * Vo^Ttvo .ILISE IN THitSE •'Km ^ 4 Ary 3 Beta (cr any 6 Ir - *3. J ' '“Iii" "hij oil P
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