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VOL. IX, AY, OCTOBER 2, 1885. NUMBER 37 BASIS OF ORGANIC UNION. We copy the following from the Re corder. A copy should have been sent to the Star. THIRD DAY, AFTERNOON SESSION. UNI6N bethel a m e ‘church, 7 Friday,"July 17, 1885. j The commission re-assembled at 4 o’clock and was ealled to order by Chairman Price, who said: “Brethren of the joint commission, I have to an nounce the committee appointed to codily the basis of union is now rea dy to report.” The oohimittee reported the follow ing, whifh was adopted. Articles of agreement of the joint commission of the A M E and A M E Zion connections for organic un ion, adopted at Washington. D C./ July 15-17, A D., 1885. Points dn which we already agree! First, We find ourselves already agreeing in doctrine, in our mode of worship in the system of an itinerant ministry in being Methodists. Ohr . class-meetings, prayer-meetings and ’iove%asts are similar in method and purpose* Our general rules are the same; both have official boards* quar terly, district, annual and general con - ference; hence in these we sre Episco pal Methodists. LAY REPRESENTATION. , Sfecond, We agree that the rights of the people to lay representation jin the General conference shall be main tained; but the united General Cctn ference hereinafter provided, shall from time to time fix the ratio of such representation. TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL CONTROL. > Third, We agree to give the spirit ual control of the churches to the Ap pointing power and conferences, leav ing to the people the control of tem poral interests subject to quarterly ex amination. THE TWO DISCIPLINES. Fourth, We agree that the books of Discipline in use in each body at the sitting of the ratifying United General Conference of the two con nections shall be submitted to 12 raem befs of said General conference, equally chosen from each connection; that is six of each, and the committee shall report their revision to the General Conference, which shall ratify the same before it becomes a law. CONNECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Fifth, We agree that the most im portant institutions of learning, the Book Concerns and the periodicals now being published shall be contin ued. BENEFITS AND LIABILITIES Sixth, We agree to share alike the benefits and liabilities of the respect ive connections. Points on which we agree in the ev ent of union: the name. Seventh, We agree to change the connections! names by which the two bodies are nowdesignated and adopt the following denominational title via, First United Methodist Episcopal Church. TRUSTEES Eighth, We agree that as the trus teesoftheAME Zion Church are iwa -_r ft ’■ j.fthuij i > v and the ion. [Submitted by the commission ers of the AMU Church and agreed to by joint commission.] RECEPTION ,OR REJECTION OF MINIS TERS. Tenth, We agree Out no trustee pr; official board shall Jpafe power to re ject a minister seat tlb the society by the appointing power—£A & E Com murionenj. To the above the Zion Commission ers submit the following amendment; after the words appointing power in sert, when there is nothing against his Christian conduct to disqualify him, and even then such ministers must Re main until removed by the appointing power or by a complaint committee. [The above propoeitionawere referred by the jojnt commission tp the Fiijst United General Conference.] THE EPISCOPACY. Eleventh, We agree to retain the episcopacy. The Bishops now in office shall continue in the same during their natural lives, or so long as their con duct conforms to the gospel rule; and as such shall share alike the benefits and prerogatives of the Episcopacjy; ‘ provided that all persons who may hereafter be elected to the Episcopal office shall be ordained to the said of fice in conformity with the regularly established usages of Episcopal Meth odism. GENERAL FINANCE. , Twelfth, We agree that the question of General Fiaftnoe belreforred to the First United General Conference for adjustment. SUBMISSION OP PLATFORM, Thirteenth, We agree that the plat form of article of consolidation shall be submitted, first, to a joint meeting of the Bishops of the two connections who shall issue a pastoral address to the ministers and members of the satee, describing the mode by which the mat ter shall be laid'before the respective connections. It shall be submitted to the annual conferences, to the quar terly conferences and to the member ship. Should two-thirds of the annu al and quarterly conferences* and two thirds of the members endorse the platform for organic union a* certified copy of such endorsement and ratifi cation shall be sent from each annual conference by Ihe secretary of the same to the ensuing General confer ence respectively. PINAL RATIFICATION. Fourteenth, We agree that the bar sis of union and consolidation which we have adopted shall not beoonsider ed binding until submitted to all the annual and quarterly conferences and to the membership, and ratifiied by at least two-thirds of the members; of the United General Conference; and until then the connections Bball ire main distinct bodies, living on friend ly terms as religious bodies ought to live. THE UNITED GENERAL CONFERENCE. Fifteenth, The General Conference of the AM £ Church and the Gen _i__a ive places of convening, on tin day of their business session, sei an hour between 9am and when the result of the decision to declare t$ PUBLIC. on by thejoint commissioneig shall published in the official organs ofea connection and remain in the o nmna of the same nntil the assemblii of the Qeneral Conference. Signed in befcajf of: 4U,It. *. COMMISSION- AMS Z COMHMM . »BS. ... A W Wayipan, BH W Leake, T B Caldwell, Geo W Bryant, DP Roberts, . tAT’ WJ Gaines, S T Jones, IC Clinton, R R Morris, J S Cowles, JW Smith* N J Green, RS Rives, A M Green, I a Welch, Sec’ty, J. T Jenifer^ 4i**t*3 ! .IwhairinaJLiJ Q Price; Chair'n. Mas*. • __ . -I ON THE ANCIENT raiTOEY OF 4. BY BISHOP J. J. MOOBE. ill As we glance at the past, in thehifr* tory of out world, the astoun4&& buman developments that a vast suc cession of ages place before us, the. reader’s mind with wonder aad admiration. As he lifts the vail of the lark night of antiquity and peeps into the visionary past, his imagination fields to'bewilderment when contem plating the graphic descriptions of the career of succeeding nations as they figured upon the great theatre of hu man society. While each in their iestiny, like the resplendent meteor in its brilliant pathway, the zenith of its glory, signalized its approaching dissolution. These nations, in the magic details of the annals of their existence, have furnished for all com ing time as imperishable monuments of man’s wisdom, folly, power, weak ness glory and ignorance, which they left as the great foot-prints of human society m the progress in the. world s development, in the formation of got araments, the collecting of commuiii ties, the moulding of institutions and Ihe founding of populous cities, with their growth, glory and destruction. Thes are the great subjects that have furnished the chief tributaries to his tory’s perpetual stream. Of these his toric tributaries none is frought fwith such wonder, delight and instructions as topography. The pleasure, wonder and delight of which is the musing over the details of the rise, growth, glory and fall of splendid cities. From this branch of history has been ihe subject of our lecture selected—The history of Ancient Jerusalem. This ancient city in the days of its glory* was classed among the wonders of the world. To us its history is frought with peculiarities numerous, grand, sublime,, astonishing and instructive, stand as so many evidences of God's wisdom, power, goodness, justice, mer cy and truth, standing as irrefragable attestations of prophetic inspiration, t In reviewing the history of ancient Jerusalem, the city of the great King, we £eei» to present some of its. mark ed peculiarities* The first peculiarity characteristic of Jerusalem, was- its re ligious typical bearings. It was ti» it to pies of his ch existence. i The first of those names was Jehus, |aken from the name of its first inhab itants, the Jebusites, a tribe of Cana anites, a descent from Ham, Noah’s son. They were its founders (see Joshua xviii, 28). It was their nation al capital When Joshua took it in war, a king reigned in it named Ado ni-Zedek; from him it took its second name—-Zedek. Succeeding this a Can aanitish prince occupied it, named Malchisedek, who was named mystical or religiously “King of Peace and Righteousness.” From him it took its first religious typical name: King of Righteousness and Peace. For 500 years it was occupied joint* ly by the Jem and Jebusites, under the government of this righteous prince or king, pre-figuring Christ’s reign over Jew and Gentile under the gospel. When King David conquor ed the Jebusites and took possession of it, he named it Jerusalem, a compound of the words-“jeru” consecrated, and “salem” peace. Thus the word Jeru salem means, consecrated to peace. He also named it the Holy City, be cause when the Jews took it a right eous holy king and priest occupied it. Melchisedek and God’s holy people Inherited it. Jerusalem was mystical ly named, Ariel; the Lion of God or the place of Kingly Power or Strength It w?s named Zion, God’s selected habitation. lot the second place, Jerusalem was peculiar for its topograghical' types. As in the names of its mountains, as Mt Moriah: the Mount of religious vision. Here God appeared to Abra ham, to David, to Solomon to Jacob, the latter in the vision of the ladder. Ihis mountain pointed toward reveal ed religion. We have Mount Zion, the seat of Divine Government and glory. The law shall go forth out of Zion. Beau tiful for situation is Mount Zion. This mountain pointed out mystically, the gospel pulpits. The third was the Mt of Olives. This mountain was pe culiar as the mount of signals, giving warning at the approach of danger, by signals of lights, trumpet blasts or vocal proclamation. On this moun tain Christ stood when he uttered that warning valediction, “Oh Jerusalem Ac.” This mountain points out the waning voice of grace in the gospel with threatnings of its neglect. Mt Calvary, the mount of suffering, mys tically of Christ and signifying the af factions to be endured tp secure the merits of (Wrist’s blood, shed on it. The second topographical source of types furnished by Jerusalem, was its pools. First the Pool of Bethesda, the House of Mercy &c. This pool prefigured the power of the atoning merits of Christ in the gospel, to heal the terrible malady of sin. The Pool of Siloam, meaning “sent,” because it was sent forth from a rock, which had its counter representation in the water sent forth from the rock smit by Moses in the winderness. It typifies the Holy Ghost sent from or through the Bock l&t &sus. T he water of this pool as used for three purposes at Jerusa mu cleansing, fertilising and immor* In the third place, the valleys ef tish us with several jm-1 ous types. First the or horror, called To lanitish language, the im. Here the Canjuin* word Is used in English to signify ‘hell’. Into this yalley, which was south of Mount Zion, the Jews threw all the dead bodies of malefactors and other animals, with all filthy substance. To keep the air from becoming pestilen tial, they kept fires burning constant ly in this valley; hence they called it Hinom or Gehene or Hell, making it a type of hell, illustrating three es sential principles characteristic of hell as, corruption, suffering and fire. Sec ond, we have the valley of Jehosophat or the valley of death, and judgment. This valley lay east of Jerusalem, through it jiowed the brook Cedron, from which 3)avid took the five stones for his filing with one of which he brought down the Philistine giant, Goliah. This brook Christ crossed to yield himself up as a sacrifice for sin. Through this valley he went a lamb to the slaughter; hence it is called the valley of slaughter, mystically. In the fourth place, Jerusalem’s Temple furnished a series of religious types of importance. First in the structure of the building/ The outer court prefiguring the Gentile world; the sanctuary, the church of God on earth ; the holiest place, the church of God above; the first vail of the temple, the separation between the Jew and Gentile; the second vail, the separation between the carnal'and the sanctified state of professed Christains, to be fitted for the holiest of holy. (To be continued.) FROM WOLF CREEK, TENN. Mr. Editor: I am of the opinion that the many readers of the “Star” would like to hear from: the mountain boonlers once in a while. We celebrated Children’s Day on the 12th inst. and enjoyed a grand time. Hey. Johnson marched round through a little scirt of woods and then back to the little log cabin and we had a short lecture from Miss Maggie Garrett of Newport, our pres ent school teacher. Then a speech was heard from every child in the house, and then we enjoyed a handsome din ner. Refreshments of every kind were spread and every one was filled. Swinging and other amusements were indulged untill 2 o’clock, when Rev. J. W. Johnson delivered a splendid address. He should have some praise from Zion. There is not a local preach pr in the connection who does more for Zion than John W. Johnson. He is the only minister we have now. He has collected all the' general funds here this year, and turned it over to Elder L D. Banks. Yours for Zion, Sept. 12th. Wm. McCbea. PROM NORFOLK, YA. Mr Editor: Please allow me space in your valu able paper to inform your readers of the tidings of great joy at Gabriel Chapel. On the 2d Sunday in Aug. at our protracted meeting we had 65 converts *»>d 35 added to the church and quite a number yet to join. At; Cedar Hift, 3rd Snndiy in August, we had 13 converts and and 11 to join the church. At Mt Pleasant on the 4th Sunday I was taken with chills and gained only three converts. We hate yet to hold meeting at Moyock. It trill be on the 1st Sunday in Octo ber. Please pray that God may crown FROM BISHOP JONES. Dear Brother Farley : By request of the members of the Virginia conference, I, have been in duced to defer the sitting of that body to November 25th—4th Wednesday. I shall therefore be compelled to put off the C N C conference one week later, ,or the 2nd Wednesday—9th. Fraternally, S.T. Jones. Brooklyn N Y, Sept 25th. FROM EDENTON, N. C. Mr. Editor: Please allow me space through your columns to make some concise expres sions of our church and Sabbath school to inform its many readers that we are in Edenton. On Sunday last we recited the 13th chapter of the 1st Corrinthians. The pastor in charge gave it out a month ago and it was rehearsed in first Bible class taught by Mr J W Draper, by Misses Sallie Cheshire Fannie Britt, Annie Mixon and Martha Wills. In second Bible class taught by Mr H C Gregory; by Miss Penelope Lewton, Miss Fannie Gibbs, Mrs. Anna Jones and Miss Maria Paxton. In ihe 1st Testament class taught by Mrs femily Tatem by Mr Edward Eason and Mr Jack son Benbury. In the second Testa ment class taught by Mr A J King by Misses Hattie Gregory and Alea tliea Smith, in third Testament class taught by Miss C E Harper, by Miss es Rachel Swan and Joanna Nichols The Judges weje J J Gregory, R. M Blount, J W Draper, A A Jordan, and Jno L Skinner Jr who decided in favor of Miss Martha Wills, mem ber of the first Testament class. A mong this number of Sabbath School children wereh great many parents and friends out to hear them. All that I can say relative to oiir Sabbath school, we aye going ahead, we have a very good superintendent. One be loved by all the school both great and small. Since the revival has closed here with us, a great many of the con verts have enrolled their names upon our register and say that they intend, God being their helper to help sustain Ziop. Our school is crowded every Sabbath with parents and friends. We are sorry to say that some of our eachers are absent from our school. Some are teaching Public school, some are at home sick, but we hope that they will soon meet with us again Yours for the advancement, of Zion. R M Blount. FROM PLANTERSVILLE, TEX. Mr. Editor: Please allow me space in your valu able paper to inform your many readers of our progress here. Simon Chapel and Mt Moriah Chapel are growing. We are raising the general fund and hope all the churches are doing so, for I believe this is what we should do to make our church prosper. Revs, A. Vincent, Sim Simon, Isaac Simon and brother Wise Hubbard are doing all they can for the conference, lam glad to say we are building in Montgomery, Texas; we are getting on nicely with the building. The work in Texas would do much, better if we had more laborers here. The harvest field is ripening, but the la borers are few. We want to say to Bishop Lomax tirat we want .the an. nual conference* either in Austin or Galveston,' When we hold our next district conference we will inform himf We intend to do all we can forth®
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