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:pfrKT;AL RMs'ri/i' to the saints
IN Mi>SH'i:l AXI) INDLVXA—
AXI) TO ALE THAT LOVE
THE THLTiL*
KionxEU-viLLi:, Eoiisyth (V)., X. 1
.) ulv loth, 1 S7o' j
hrdhiwn, 8htcr^, friend,-, and Eldem
of Min.-iourl and Indiana r—
‘•(JrtL'C i.(! uuio you, and ])oaco bo
knultipliol.”—M.r.iy liavo boon my
; iiouirbts of von 'all since I to(k my
Ictive of vou for ho'.ne. 1 veas rejoic-
c‘d to find so many of my Father’s
‘4iildi’cw in distant lands, in^ my rc-
'o:!t visit \Eost, and more rejoiced to
8oiritu;d health go^>d—flo^
ouid eat without murmur-
s table. Neither did
'cou, as 1 Iciidw, even murmur at the
jviny for sending you a niossagc at
tile hand or mouth of such an encr-
liud their
i,i;at tlicv
-A‘s at ti'.e iviiu
«
r.i'v earthen vessel; for you well
iuio'.v h()w the fashionabic and relig
ions wealthy are, and ever have been
inclined to turn their noses np and
srick out tlu'ir lip against tin
Z;('u---his table—his provisions;
'■E ■ 4 r-i*d
i; )S
hoi
The
manner
01 serving
{iT> this tabic is m Spirit and vrutii,
and EAUTHKN vessels only areusetl to
iiold the finest dainties. For this
oid-time-way of living, ail tiie copper,
silver, and gold-smiths and patent
rclia’ionists of modern Divinity, lift
up the heel and say, aha! aha! But,
you well remember tliat vre are to
have this ^dreasure in earthen vessels
that the excellency may be of God
and not of us.” Hence, your recciy-
ing of this heavenly treasure joyfully
•at (lie hand of a poor oartlien vessel,
is evidence to my niind that yon are
also as willing to attribute t!ie excel
lency of the power thereoc to God,
and not to the vessel, which is—gos-
uelly right, it also slioweth that you
■are living upon what is brought to
argue to the experien>ed cook “ck*an-
Uness to the supper.” But to tJi TAU-
i.OR GKXTUY w'ho have no knowl
edge ofopreparing a supper experi
mentally it ■would ai’gue nncleanll*-
ness, and their refined (miscalled)
stomachs would reject the ricliest diet
even if it was com[)osed of God’s
forcknov’ledge, his electing and
e v erlasti n g ]) red est i nat i n,
authority, his licWcdling, his g
cions justification, and his eteriitil
glorification. ’NV-hile the same indi
viduals would greedily cat a stewed
skunk of'Arminianism seasoned with,
wiid gOLiKls if it was brought to
them in a gold or galvanized cuji, or
spread in a whited sepulchre. This
sliows tluit they have men’s persons, in
admiraation, and look more . at the
outside qualifications than they do
to inward cleanliness and gospel diet.
Remember, therefore, that the more
you use cooking vessels the blacker
they look on the outside ; but the
cleaner they are kept within. . Theip
King of i )f yoti gee, and .feel black and ui:
l)->k icomelv ip yoar.se're=s, wlpch
v‘ ' .U ■ ( ' \ I ' i'
A Ah V sxm IK tiio vessel, it assures me*oi
vour being in the service of the King’s
House, and of your being clean witii-
lame to'walk, the dead raised, and
•Cf
the poor have the go.spcl preached un
to tl.cm. • For, tills to you would be
a heaven below—the Redeemer to
kfio-w—and, me thinks the ’ heavenly
under the odium of all orthodox
and orderly ibiptists, not to say, of a,
holy God. Now to ‘diietsElder
J. T. Seely came from INIississippi to
this country in 18fio, and having
joy would strike the elect.’ic coi’d om been in controversy with non-resur
rection two-seeders in th.at State he
my heart in this Eastern shore as soon
as the luiavenW message reaches this
jpoorharthen vessel.
Ijiow bid 5’bu adieu. I write to
a'*' one time through the
Iv.VA'p.MARKS because I cannot find
timevTo write personally. I projiose
writfng; again through the Laxd-
MAJiK.s as soon as I can find time.—
i*5cudybu.a specimen copy of the
Laxdmarks and hope it may bo a
^wplcome visitor to you. If so, if you
.will give it an 1 invitation by sending
the Editor, D D. Gold, $2 00 at
"Wilson, N. C., it will visit you
* * *
twiciia month, and you can talk to*
mc*and I to you. If you should sub
scriix) make a clu’o, (see club rr
was well acquainted with the doctrjne,
and lie thought he could see some of
it licre, but ©n questioning them on
ill
vou in the vessel and not upon the
ve.ssel.
1. Youialso know that you can
not cook without FIRE, and vessels
thlit are used for cookiftg may and
will look on the outside, black and
unclean ; but the outside of such ves
sels is the worst side. “I am black
but comely”—(Solomon)—for the
FIRE must be applied to the out
side of the vessel before you can clean
the inside. Hence, it is—the more
fire applied the more the vessel is
cleansed within, but the more liag-
gard it looks without. Therefore,
tlic experienced cook will not object
to the supper because she sees the
iiiack pots in the dining-room. For,
she 'oeholds inscribed upon such pots
■‘THoline.s3 unto the Lord” which sign
•of fire upon the cooking vessels''vould
th^e resurrection (for he tliouglk
two-seeilers denied the resurrection)
and finding that they believed in the
resurrection of the body, and that
they seemed to be, very fond, of his
preaching, he joined Union (Church.
All things moved on in tolerable'good
order for two or tlii'ce years, an argu
ment occasionally arising esjiecially
when Eider Sc'olv would publicly de
nounce two-seedisni, and this he did
frequently. The leading ones began
to show dissatisfaction. In IMarch
1869 I Vv-as licensed t« preach. They
tried very liard to prosylitc me to
their tw(>-seed system, but I would
money as directed in tlie
ijj* ^Editor. Brethren, Sisters
are invited to wrier, t opyIv Ac-ruL'r (Tc' ttiat Vw
I. Bodenhame
i’tjOl tlie Assoeia.tioii was held on oifi’'
in, and glad would I be to meet again
O
house
in Missouri and Indiana an
full of these onerary black earthen
vessels, especially if I were hungry,
for I should expect quite a “feast of
fat thino's on the lees well-refined.”—
O
For I know you would tell me how
vile you felt, how sinful, how poor,
iiow, iiell-deserving, liow justly con
demned, how helpless, and how long
you have been lying at the pool de
siring to be made v/iiole, and had to
wait till Jesus, the great phwsician
said: “Wilt thou be made whole”
Many of you have realized that there
is virtue in him wliom my soulloveih
to heal a vrounded soul, to stay
t'le issue of blood, to.open i’ne eyes of
one born blind, to dispossess men and
women of a legion’ of devils, to raise
the dead and give eternal life to as
many as the Father giveth 'aim.—
Bat, some of you may be yet wither
ing bv the pool. It so, as you read
these lines may tlie holy tire of hexv-
enly light fall upon your fetters of
unbelief, and burn off your green
witlis, shake the foundation of your
prison, open the iron gates of death,
roll back the stone of your sepulchre,
.ind as this stone is rolled away may
you see the King in his beauty and
be caught up with him In liis risen
■We will publish the following let-
^ ter and liope it will be tiie last one
on the diflicultv between our Brethren
state, and as you leave your
grave-clothing may you be clothed
with his salvation, and when I hear
from you may I hear that the lost is
found, the blind made to see, the
in Texas, hoping that they may live
in gospel truth and gospel jfeace.
Mexia, Texa.s, July 6th, 1873.
Beloved Editor:—
No. xvi, of Mol. vi is now before
me, and I see on 1st ]rige a letter
from Benjamin Parker, in which he
professe.s to write from “a feeling
sense of duty,” and adopts the motto
“Now let facts speak for tlicmsoives
and then you can judge tor yourseli.’’
Again, “We keep nothing covered
up, but wish everything to come to
the light.” But before I go farther,
I will say to you, dear Brother Gold,
that if you think I am dealing in harsh
ness instead of “facts” you can lay this
aside. I approve of your remarks on
said letter. But do you think tha
“justice” to yourself and Bi’other
Bodenhainer, and to the anise you
profess to honor,. would have admit
ted of your iiassing unnoticed the
public slanders of the Recorder f I
have rejoiced to see that you were
able to defend yourselves, I fully
agree with you thatitistobe ex
pected that so??lc6ody will oppose us
if we write much for the public, and
that it is time wasted to notidb the
clamors of all—that “ we must learn
to bear and forbear.” But Elder
Parker’s motto is “let tacts spekk.”—
Now, if “facts” brought “to the liglit’’’
will not lift the veil of reproach
throxvn upon our little Church by
Elder Parker, then
let us go
down
(the YCesr) side of Trinity river, arid
Eider Ben. Parker preached the in
troductory sermon from the text—
“What is man?” Ac.,—and did his
best in defence of Ids favorite theory,
being quite fearless and defiant,he said:
“I defy the world on it,” again, “I
fear not the face of clay,” again, “I
know not -what better I can do tha-.n
to wear out my old lungs in defense
of it.” Elders Dowiiian and Thom
as, of Concord Association were pres
ent, and 'Elder T. M. Duke, now gone
to California. These Brethren no
doubt remember some of these things.
Elder Seely was put up on Sunday,
and he was so pointed and positive,
that it was prophesied that he and.
Eider Parker would “run together.”
Time proved this prophecy to be cor
rect, for in July next following, they
met at a ‘Union Meeting in thi.s
(Freestone) County, when Elder Par
ker took the 7th chajker of Romans
for a text, and said that there was
“no text so badly misunderstood a
that of tiie law,” [No, for the Old
Baptfsts had, previous to Elder Dan’l
Parker’s day,imderstood that all iiEX
were under it.] and said that Christ
redeemed “all of them” i. e. all tliat
were under the law! He also useil
an illustration toshoiv that God wouM
b6 unjust in sending men to hell far
the violation of law. The illustra
tion was about this: “Suppose the
Legislature of Texas was to pass a laiv
that, if a man stole a horse he should
go to the Penitentiary, and the Court
or Judsfe should sentence him to be
hanged, wmukl not tlie Court be guil-
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