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. mi Jit .4.' , -r6' . I 7 ': r J.J.JAMES, Editor. Bwot5; Ucligion; iitorairts,. itcraiure Agriculture anb aural SiticUigcn ire. j : a r . f . -. - .- G. BIEREDITII & Ctf Proprlttcn 70LU3IE XL .NO. 34. RALEIGH, JV. : C.;,TnURSDHV ATJGTJST 23, 1855 5 J1 WHOLE Nfc-1074 - -J 5 S mum wmtv- . v)- 4 U v: ; LOT. Wm- : . .; " v r i ,- . ' ' - - , . - , T -t - . .., THE BIBLICAL RECORDER, A Religious and Xjiteyary Paper; Published weekly at Raleigh, N. C, at $2 00 per annum, payable in all cases is advance. Jtf, All letters on business should be directed to G. Meredith & Co., Raleigh, N. C. All letters containing communications, or in any way relating to the editorial department, should be addressed to Rev, J. J. Jamss, or Editor of the Biblical, Recorder," , -,...( h isr All communications, to insure attention, must be directed to Raleigh, N. C.post-paid. - tj&f For further particulars see last page. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1 Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are'eonstdered wishing to continue their subscription. ' ; ? . 2. If the subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publishers may continue to send them till all cash charges are paid. ! 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their pa pers from the office to which they are directed, they are held responsible until they have settled their bill, and order their paper discontinued. ' 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publisher, and the paper is sent to. the lormer direction, they are held responsible. 5. The courts have decided that refusing to take a paper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is " prima facie" evidence of intentional fraud. ' An Address on (he Scriptnre Mode of Cbristian Baptism. BY J. M. MORROW. He has a short paragraph about the Phillip ian jailor and his household, but it U so mea ger that it is harmless. The . only reraalk worthy of notice is this : he says, " And if we were to read the narrative over a thousand times, the idea of immersion would never enter our minds from anything that is there said.1' From what I have learned of Mr. M.,by read ing his pamphlet, I can readily admit the truth of this assertion ideas are strangers to some winds ; especially when they , ignore the words conveying them. He seems to -eEtertaia the idea that it was impossible fo pour, or sprinkle water upon Paul, while sitting, or lying down. He speaks as though a recumbent, or sitting posture was. indispensable to immersion ; but to sprinkle, or pour water upon him in either of these positions was impossible ; he must stand vp in order to receive the holy sprinkling is this an ideay Mr. Morrow, or not ? He has a paragraph concerning the baptism of Cornelius and bis household, but it is so pro foundly destitute of .ideas that it would be about as easy to reach the water in Jacob's well with a tin-cup, as to descend to the plo.ee t profound where his ideas are deposited tbey :' are too harmless to require exposure. ' He next calls up the case of the three thous and, and as the paragraph is long, I can only quote so much of it as will present him.fairjy. " Here we are informed that Peter com menced preaching at nine o'clock, and his sermon must have occupied at, least one "hour, for a considerable discourse is rncofdedpatd then the Evangelist tells us, that.1 with many other words did he testify and exhort And the designation of the persons to1 be baptized, and making arrangements for immersion, must at least have taken two hours more. For the only place where immersion could have been performed, which was accessible, was the Pool of Siloara, three-quarters of a mile from the Temple. It must at least have been twelve o'clock when they arrived at the place, and were prepared for immersion. And it will bo remembered that' the Jewish day closed at six o'clock, so that they had but six hours for the performance of the three thousand bap tisms, by twelve Apostles ; and that there were but twelve, the Evangelist is particular to men tion. Acts 2; 14.J Now, if each of these twelve Apostles baptized one every two min utes and a half, they would bave baptized only little over the half the number." With one single exception, I will allow Mr. Morrow all he asks for, and show clearly that the three thousand -could bave been baptized in two thousand and five minutes. The Key. Henry Toler baptized 101 persons in something over 35 minutes. 1 baptized 22 in the Tom -bigbee last fall, was timed by a Presbyterian lady, and though 1 was unusually deliberate, she informed me that 1 was just ten minutes in performing the rite. 1 can easily immerse at the rate of two and a half per minute this 1 say from an experience of more than forty years. There is not an experienced baptizer in the land who will not testify, that two perr sons per minute can be easily and deliberately immersed. r Let this be admitted, then divide 3,000 by 12, and eacb administrator will have 250 to immerse, which be can do in 125 min utes 2 hours and 5 minutes and Lave ' three . hours and fifty-five minutes before six to spend in a grand convocation - of : thanksgiving to God for so great grace.: v : -x - Here I might.' safely leave : the - matter, but M. baa so grossly misstated , many iacts m we case, that 1 shall not feel .that J iave discnarg ed my duty, to pass them without exposing bis errors. It is positively stated by Luke in Acts i : to, tnatine numoer oi ue uiscipiea prcaeun ia-Jerusalem was a hundred and twenty a that time, which could not have . ben long before Pentecost : but whether they were present at , Pentecost or not, M. has asserted that which is not deducible from Acts 2 : 14, the passage to which he , prefers, r He says t " and -. that there, were but twelve (present) the1; evangelist b particular to mention." Now the Evange list mentions no- such thing, g He ays : A Pe ter standing up with the eleven lifted up bis Toice." It b simply stated here-, that these twelve, having ' been chosen as the public wit nesses for Cbmt, itobd up together as such , while Peter spoke ; but it is not inferable from this fact, that the one hundred and eight other, disciples were absent, especially on such an oc casion. - M. has certainly borne false witness,' in this instance, and. what makes it worse, has attempted to make Luke a party in the crime. He states also, that! Bethesda lay within the precincts of the Templei," Now this is contrary to the statements of all the writers upon the subject, which 1 hare read, and falsi fies every map of Jerusalem, which ! have seen. See com. Com.,tap of the plan of the city, figure ii., and oiher.maps. The only impor tance which I attach to the matter is, its want - of truth ; and to show the desperate shifts to which the advocates of pedoism will resortf to - aaintain their unscriptural position. .- He further tells us, that the only place where immersion could have been nerformd was the Pool of Siloam. t' Now, to say. nothing of the Pool of Bethesdarj there was on the west . staeoj the city,1 the Draggon fountain, the up per and lower fountains of Gibori; and the Pool of Bethsheba, where quite an abundanoe of Wa ter for the occasion might have-been obtained The Pool of Siloam, however was sufficient; being, as Maundrell says, 44 an hundred and twenty paces long, forty broad, and at least eight deep. . But Mr. M, and bis endorsers may be effectually put to the blush for such a Bhameful deviation from recorded facts, I beg leave to refer the reader to a Bible Geography, published by 5 the American Sunday School Union. On the 62i page of that work he will find an article headed : " The wellsr reservoirs, and fountains of the City," in - which the fol lowing bodies and fountains of water are des-! scribed, with their several locations Almost every house in the city has its cistern lasting all the year,' " There are also large uncovered, reservoirs in, and near the city4 Two of these are situated in' the umoer nart of thft valW Ben Hinnon. The r first , measures pver three hundred feet in lengthy and two hundred in breadth, average depth fifteen feet. The lower pool is over five hundred feet long; three hundred and fifty feet broad, and fortv feet deep.' The Pool of Hezekiah, inside of the city walls, of great antiauitv. is sun died from the upper dooLV The Pool nf RuthsK,.. ba, and 1 the Pool of Bethesda these, besidee Siloam and the living ' fountains, surelv would supply quantity sufficient of water for the occa sion. What apology can our author offer to palliate his erroneous statements, in the face of these facts ? A single other remark, and I will dismiss this part of my subject. M. presumes that the Jews were so hostile to the chiistians, that they would not suffer them to immerse in the pubhe pools : but AL must- reeollect that De- doism was not known then, ami m tlm Lms were accustomed to the bath it never entered into their heads to persecute the saints merely because they immersed, as the advocates of ne- doisiu have done from its orisrin. . Can any Pedobaptist be so blind as hot to perceive, that air tbey say against immersing the three thousand in a day, reflects with three fold force acainst their own system ? I.t a Baptist take his formula' and a Presbyterian, Methodist his, and the Baptist can easily immerse from five to ten, while either of the others can sprinklo one; and he will immerse from ten to twenty, while an Enisconalbn with his formula, can cross, or sorinkle a sinale babe. Such attempts to evade the plain teaching of the Bible, favors infidelity, aud wholly adverse to the spirit of Christianity. Uur author next proceeds "to enquire what can be learned of the mode of baptism from what is to be signified by it?" Now, '1 ask if this setting at naught the verbiage and plaiu teaching otthe inspired oracles, 13 anything less than rejecting the council of God V God has given us his will and law in plain words and we reject his wiu and construe his law, ac cording to our preconceived opinions." Is i this " believing the testimony which God has given ?' 44 All admit that, baptism with water de rives its entire efficacy from its emblematical character, while none deny that it, also; signi fies purity of heart. But while immersionists regard baptism as a recognition of the death, burial, and resurrection of our Saviour as the procuring cause ot inward purity ; we regard the ordinance as a recognition ot the divine agency of God's spirit upon our hearts, work mg salvation. '." - j The 4 efficacy of baptism,' what does our au thor mean by this I This is shaped up just as a Pedo baptist would have expressed himself in the fifteenth century, when baptismal salva tion was in power and general credit. There is no efficacy in baptism; only as an act of obedience to Chriit. Baptists do not contend for the ordinance because it tymbolizes any thing , but simply because the fLord has com manded it we esteem it as the response of a good conscience to a divine command. The fact that it symbolizes the burial and resurrec tion, of Christ, would iinpartr.no efficacy to it, in the absence of a divine commandment for its .observance. . M. has misiepresented the Baptists by intimating that they teach an in herent efficacy in "baptbun, Pedo-baptists da this, but Baptists never. Baptists do not teach that baptbm symboli zes purity of heart.' If a person is dead to sin, and alive to Christy the fact may 'be sig- nified by baptbm ; but the principle thing sym bolized by baptism is the death' of , the person to sin, and resurrection , to a new life.- No where in the a Newylestament does baptbm symbolize the' work of the spirit.': i; (;, 44 VVe object to the theory "that baptbm is to represent the death, burial, and resurrection of our Sayiour, as the procuring cause of inward purity. Because we regard it as having no solt id foundation in the Scriptures.- AVe are aware however, : that 1 by a singular construction of 'the passages in Romans and Coliossians," which we have already examined as teaching the mode of baptism, this, view of the 'design also,' is ; sujk rosed to be taught." - '.- f o . There are two fallacies in the above - para graph. ' He quotes from a reply of Professor -Ripley, as inserted by .. the Baptbt Editor of Comprehensive Commentary, vol. 5, page 429, thus: ' inns it is a toKcn ot our recognizing Christ s death, and burial, nd, resurrection on account of sin." note, that 4 some He acknowledges.ln a foot lmmersinnist. now: contend fas if Prof." Ripley was not a living minbter) that baptbm is only to represent the burial "and y that Twill offer, at this time, lo show that the resurrection of Christ ; still as he finds this in f BapUst's interpretation, of the: passages under the Bapr Ed. of the Commentary and thinks consideratipn is sustained by the best writers be can use it, he employs it through the whole;! commentators among the Pedobaptist of hb dbcourseai a .foil cxpression-oBaptbiS6?'' that, 'consequently, M. is in doctrineas to the i design of baptbm.ts Tbe fal- gross errOrt' " Clark says :': 1 lacv does not ston here. Prof. Ripley savs : .1 ttCol.'2:J12,'Buried with him by baptbm. Thus it is a token of our recognizing Christ's: I death,' &c. The language of Dr. Ripley re-( tars exclusive 10 Uie tail A at tne Derson Darw 'tized.'in the efficacy of the life, death, and rea - urrection ot vnriau as me grouna 01 nis nope.. M.; however, aoes not scruple to change verbiage of the ouototion as suits him. usinsr the phrase token of Christ's death' 4 to' V: Mr. Alorrow onceimore says : - -represent the death of Christ,' &c. ; Now ht T' ' - 2. We object to the view of the design of the Jiaptist doctrme be what it may, this uh-" lair, not to say.dishonest,use of a quotation,'- exposes our author to the severest animadver- aious upon bb moral integrity," and, by conse quence, annihilates all his arguments and. conV elusions based upon suoh false premises. 4iNo Baptist will deny , that the jfaith . which would entitle a person to baptbm, must rccogoizo the death, burial, and resurrection of Chibt, as well as his life - but no Baptist would majntaia that baptbm was a symbol of all these, The Scriptures represent baptism aa! figurative of the burial and resurrection of Christ,', and sV Baptists teach. ? We teacb also that the Eu ch&rbt represents the bloody scene of the cross,' and in the two ordinances, the whole work of redemption is figured, forth. v -,v ! . In the same article of .Dr. Ripley, this sen timent b expressed : 44 The idea of purity is by no means, and never to be overlooked j iu connection with that, however, 4 baptbm b to be regarded as reminding us of the manner in ; which purity b to be obtained namely, through the death and resurrection of Christ.' " M. only quotes thb passage from where the double quotation marks are ; leaving out the preceding, so essential to the meaning ; and as sumes that the . Uaptiats regard baptism as a symbol at Christ's: death, burial, and reeurreo- tion; as a 44 procuring cause, only, of inward' purity.". Such miserable garbling is unworthy of a christian minister. ; Having answered all that has any pretensions to argumentation, on the texts in Rom. and. Col., from the pen of M., in my response to what ho formerly said upon those passages, 1 might dismiss them here, and simply quote up -on him a few Pedo-baptist" authors. I will, however, briefly notice what' he says on Col. 2: 11. After quoting the verse, he adds: 44 There is evidently an allusion here, and also in. the passage from Romans, to tho death of sin, and the cleansing of the heart by the. pow er of the Holy Ghost, which b signified by the circumcision, of Christ, (or baptism)." Here, again, he interpolates the Scripture, by inserting baptbm in the place of the circumcision of Christ. Had he said that he supposed the circumcbion of Chrbt meant bap tism, it would have beenr regarded as an ex pression of his opinion only ; but then hb rea ders would have seen that it was. not scripture, and his aim would.be lost ; hence, he makes no distinction between what be - quotes and what he says, except a parenthesis. At. maybe able to sustain his own couscier.ee for taking such liberties with th e Scriptures, but he can not, when detected, escape tho censures of hb honest readers. ' In the passage referred'to, the Apostle says : 44 ye are circumcised "with "the circumcbion. made without hands." Al. says the circum- cision is baptism, which is perfumed by human" hands. 1 he Apostle continues : 4m putting off the, body of the sins of the flesh by the cir cumcbion of Christ.' 1 Al. says all this is done by baptism rantism in his creed. Verily, this is baptismal regeneration unmasked. All this our author has said, with Rom. 2 : 28. 29 before his" eyes, where tbe A poetle declares that outward circumcision b not the characteristic of a gospel Jew ; but he is a Jew, that is one inwardly ; and- circumcision is that of the heart? Baptism follows the circumcision of Christ, in the passage in Colossians, and so it does in Baptist practice,1 the circumcised, or renewed heart, always precedes in Baptist econ omy, the rite-of baptism. 1 will here quote an extract or two from Alacknigbt, a distin guished Presbyterian divine and commentator, ou the passage in Rom. 6 : 3, 4, in part : 44 Have been baptized into bis death, -in our baptbm, have been represented, emblem atically, as put to death . with him. Hence, it is said in verse 4, we have been buried togeth er with him by baptbm into hb death : and verse 5, planted together in the likeness of bis death, also of his resurection; and verse 8, though wo have died with Christ- See Rom.' 7 : 4, note 2. ' From all which, it appears, that baptbm the rite of initiation into the Christian Church is 5 an emblematical repre sentation of our union with Christ, as members j of bb body, and of the malignity of sin in bring ing death upon Christ, (.ver. 10,) and upon all mankind, and of the efficacy of Christ's death in procuring for all the resurrection from the dead." ' ' 44 Verse 4,- Buried together with him by baptbm. Christ's baptbm was not the ba ptbm of repentance,- for he never committed any sin; but he submitted to be baptized; that b,to be buried under the 'water by John, and to bo . raised out of it . again, as an emblem of bb fu ture death and resurrection. In like maonir, the baptbm of believers is emblematical of. their own death, burial, and rcsuirection. (See Col : 2 : 12, note I.) Perhaps, also, it b a commemoration of Christ's baptism." i On the 5th verse 'he says: i4 Have been planted together in the likeness of bb death. r srhe burying of Christ, and ' of believers, first in the waters ot baptism; and afterwards in tbe earth; b fitly enough cdmpared to the planting "of seeds in the earth; because the effect in both "cases b a revivbeeuce to a state of greater per- 'fection. . ;;"''; -v. ; ' ' 1 have given, a part only of the exposition of ! each of the . yerses . referred to, and must deny myself, for tbo sake of concbeness, the pleas-; trre of quoting from hb exposition of Col 2 : to wuicn oe reiers.f j uut vxu ntgn rresDy terian authority for the interpretation of these passages of Scripture,- to which might be added many more, should be sufficient to convince et- ' ery unprejudiced mind of tbe high sectarian prejudices of Al and bis endorsers; and of i their , consequent disqualification to teach the ' tbeolosrv of the liible. A short ouotation from ' Adam Clark's Comment on CoL 2 s 12 is. all V AUadicg-to the immersions practiced m the ' 1 case of adults, wherein the person appeared to x wurieu uuuci iue nrir, a vmiai. nu uuricu 1. in the heart of the earth. Hb rising again the 1 wm.iu Vuj tug was u emoiem ui uv rwurrewwu vi vue uuujr, and in them of ; a total change of . life."!: But f Mptisra, oecause water is uever usea m tue 2 Scripture to signiiy tne aeo, ounai ana rcsur , rcction of any one ; nor b it used to signify i. f any of these things. Itb ofted used 16 signify the. cleansing operations of the spirit, purifica tion &o., but the !ase of water in any way ai a symbol, is never mentioned in connection even with tfie death' burial and resurrection of any one.j , h'. ;? .. (To be continued.) i SI. FrcIInghuysen on Prohibition. At the late New-jersey Stata! , Temperance Convention aewjBrunswickHon. Theodore FreRnghuysen delivered the following address : Mrj President: WI - always -rejoice in the privilege of meeting a Tern peranco Association.' It brings mo "neart toTanenterprbe of mercy, that seeKs the del iveranoe of our fellow -men from an evil, among; the. most afflicting, to all our interests for this, world and the world to come.f .. . v ... The Proh'bitort Ilaw against all traffic in, intoxitating liquors as beverage, has been assail ed as unconstitutional, and it behooves temper- anoe nen to review tne case, ana examine. foundations upon wbion it rests. 1 propose, therefore very briefly tourge the arguments which sustain the law ; and to fhow ' that toe Legislature not only cold tbe authori ty, btt are bound, in public duty to prohibit tbe commerce; They pronounce it to be a I nuisance. If this be. true, all must agree that it may be lawfully forbidden, . and abated. Whatever ' impairs the public , health or cor rupts! the public morals, is a nubance. The oldest law writers on thb subject define it in such terms. A few simple illustrations will make it clear. A business,- rightful in itself. well become a nuisance should it be misplaced. The location of a butcher's slaughter-house on the street of a town or city thickly settled b a nuisance ; it impairs the health and disturbs the comftrt of the people. Now, here is a law ful pursuit. We must have butchers , aud butchers' slaughter-house and yet even thb may be restrained by the act of tbe Legisla ture under heavy . penalties, if put in a wrong place ; and the like law as to the soap-boiler on the great principle, that the place of such business must yield to the health of the community. So with card-playing; why, there is no harm in the cards nor the house ot them, ecxept the wastej of time and thought. But if a man sets up a1 gaining-table, and draws in the young, and entices men from their homes and families to play for money or its worth, it b-a flagrant nuisance, to be put down as a corrupter of the morals. " It leads to idlecess and vice aud pro fligate manners. It assaults tho virtue of any people ; and the Legislature as the guardian of the public weal should suppress it And the race-course belongs to the same class. A mab may try the speed of th 8 horse on his farmer on the highway. It is lawful y he may. indulge in the amusement without crimination. But should he step a little farther and chal lenges to a public race, when bets are to be made, or when without that, large numbers are to bejgatbercd, it b a nubance a wholesale demoralizer. It tempts industry away from safe , and honorable business it invites the youn and unwary to doubtful and corrupting companionship, opens tbe door and paves the way tio all manner of evil. The Legislature from the first forbid it in our own State. At one sjiort period they were prevailed on to re peal the no-license law ; but this opened such a floodgate to the influx of dissipation, gam bling intoxication and depravity, that they soon restored the law to our statute book with increased penalties. And if thcy.mSiy subject to heavy penalties persons engaged in this un lawful business, what is there in intoxicating liquor bought to be sold contrary to law; to move the law-makers to any partial legisla tion exempting this scourge of our race. And if stofcn goods may be searched for anywhere on a magistrate's warrant, after oath made by a credible witness of bb belief that they are so concealed, whence can-ansa any apology for ruin thus concealed for unlawful sale. The .case of lotteries gives a striking analogy.. Our statutes forbid the setting up of lotteries. A lottery is a nuisance, because it entices, men to put tneir earnings to tne decisions ot chance, and this in itself b corrupting and because it tempts them 'to laleness and neglcet pf all domestic duty, and therefore it is prohibited. And inasmuch as any attempt to reguLite such an enterprise would be vain, the Legislature would eradicate the evil and forbid under .penalty the sale of lottery tickets. It is perceived, theretore, that matters and pursuits rightful iu themselves, become nub aiices as they injuriously affect health or mor al?, i And thb feature . of : legislative power may be seen in our oldest codes of law, applied also to other kindred cases indeed. the doc- ; trine may be traced far into past ages of the ; common lawV " It b rooted in the first prin ciples' of puble duty ' and' enlightened con science. -.-'---'.-;-- - - . ; Now 'the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage, tried by these great rules, stands at " the head of all mischievous trades; We nave , the experience of more than. sixty years, that it has been always, regarded as an insidious en emy to public health, purity, and peace.. The; Legislature . for , all that time and longer, has been engaged in the fruitless attempt to regu late the business by license to a selected few, by prohibitions' against sales by small measures, and by frowns against any sales without license. Ana the evil has grown stronger, year alter year and has5 become a monster, almost defy- tng law; andivpublie sentiments; Aloro than ; one ouuoreu groggarieB 10 xew-ortiaswicit, more than seven hundred in Newark, and mul tiplied all over our own States, corrupting tbe morans and destroying the health of our peo ple as no other practice, trade, or habit could do, and aa all together have'nyer,done.;Talk of regulation it laughs atrregulation-it fat-' tens iUpon ? it. Thirteen of our States have yielded with sadyet deep convictions to the truths that no remedy can reach the mischief, but an absolute ' prohibition of the i traffic! Theyj prohibit all sales of lottery tickets, be cause' such sales Would perpetuate lotteries-' so theyS-prohibitedii all sales l?of intoxicating liquors as a . beverage, r because, they see and know that any mere regulation will sustain the trade nd perpetuate tho wasting mischief. t .. ! The clause, of , forfeiture of the liquor seems to hits alarmed some 'minds, besides couns'ol- j ors who have spoken through the press. ? A moment's thought Will relieve thefearl .There I b no magic terror in the word. " For what b a I fine but a forfeiture of so much of a man's pro- I periy to me oiaie. ouppose mat u me law i against horse racingthe law-makers bad asses- ( scd tbe .fine according to the worth of the horse say, for. instance,, $1J00 -would it not be taking the property of the transgressor quite as really and substantially . as by iorfeiting - the horses. It b "taking my property, nays. the objector : and b not everf fine taking ; away your property ? Yes, and if it docs not arrest, I ; the forbidden race or prohibited sale, the law. I i may-take your person next, and that; together , J witn your property, put tne one on tne, fuoiio, I . Tho true . nature aud just aim of all sound j government b to guard the riffhts.' interests.' I land morals of the community, watchfully and I ; faithfully. Y .--;., : -I j saiu tue interest. 01 tne people, wnen no ; direct question of morals can be rabed, but on-, ly considerations of comfort and well-bcin. ' Hence it b that to kill game.'of to fish for shad 1 after a' certain day, exposes, to a oehaltv i and 1 in all matters touching the nublio welfare, the iiCgieiaiure nave iue auiaonty ana nave imme- I morially exercised it. And all considerate men should give the law their aid and counted nance for the sake of a greater good. Granted that the use of wine in itself b a lawful indul gence, yet if its tendency b injurious, if it leads to other exercises, if it opens the way for the poisonous adulteration of wines (as it does most graciously,) and of all exciting liquors as Paul did in hb day so should we. Who would not deny himself to save a friend ? to save hb country ; and who can gravjy maintain that the sale of intoxicating liquors is not harmful, and most destructive of health, charcter,' and domestic comfort I would fetch melancholy arguments from the tears of neglected families broken-hearted wives and starving cbildren- frpne the poor-house, the prison, and the graveyard 1 would ask, for the sake of hu man nature, if it be not time to abolbh forev er this ruinous traffic r And to. accomplbh it we must stand together we must raise a pure and lofty standard, and then lead, and not wait to follow public opinion. . And thb without dread of a little exlarvagance. A cause that is worthy of a hearty support, will always kin-; : j xl: t. r"i t uie eniuuBiasra, anu ims sometimes oeioiiowea by occasianal extravagrnce. ;, If areformation did not kindle warmth in the bosom, it would be a very strong proof that it had no great merit. I would wish it to glow with an ardent enthu siasm, and prompt to vigorous, unflinching, self-forgetting action. L.et the same spirit wbicb animated our forefathers in the struggles of the Revolution, shape our Temeparnce en terprise, lhey threw overboard the tea into the ocean, not from any spite against the tea, but for the great doctrine which opened that eventful arama. i hey thereby declared to the world, and the world perceived with what de termination, that tbey would neither pay the , tax nor drink the tea. So may we finally re solve in thb purpose of mercy, and seek God's blessing, witnout which no enterprise can pros per, and with which none can fail. . ., From the Christian San. SlaTcry and Abolitionism. ' The abolitionists say that the relation be tween Aiastcr and Servant b sinful. This they affirm without qualification. If so now. it was always so. Then, of course the Apos tles winked at the sin in their Epistles and preaching.' Admit this and it leads us into infidelity. If the relation was sinful why did not Paul tell Timothy so when writing to him on the subject of tbe duty of both Master and Slaves ? 1st Tim. VI. 15, "Let as many servants (Greek Doulox slaves) as ate. under the yoke, count their own. Masters worthy of all honor, that the name ; of God and his doc trine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despbe them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service because they are faithful and beloved pertakers of the benefits (beloved of, God and all hb faithful followers partakers of all the benefits of the gospel dbpensation but hated by all the aboUtionbts" and denied all the benefits of the grace of tbe dispensation of mer cy.) - " ;" - These things teach and exhort. If any man teaches otherwise and consents not to whole some words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which b according to godliness, he b , proud , knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes, of . words, i wherever cometh envy, strife, railings, evil sur mbing, prevents disputinga of men of corrupt minds and. destitute of the truth, .supposing that gain b godliness; from such withdraw thy-. ;self. " r' ' If the abolitionists do not fill by the measure of the description here 'given by - Paul," 1 Want to know who do ? For (he very things effec ted by.the contrary teaching described here by J Paul, are the very things ettected by the abo litionists, and of coorsc must -.be the men re ferred ,to. For by. their fruits we are to know them; They have sowed, discord among breth ren religiously and politically,, which thing .the. lord hates!" Thus we, see that, a man can own. slaves and be 44 beloyed" while an abolitionbt that sows in discord in both church and State is hated. ' 1 will now add "Adam Clarke's note, on the abbte passage of Scripture to show that ;I am not alone, in regard to the above meaning of the Apostles. jThe.wordouW We means : slaves converted to the christian faith; and the zugon- or yoke is the atte of slavery: ahd by Despotai master depots we are to understand -the Heathen masters . of those christianized slaves, such .Denominations are commanded to treat their masters with aU bonor.and. respect 1 that the name of God, by wbicb they were cal-. led, and the doctrine of God, Christianity, which they bad K professed ;migbt vnot be bias- phemed; might not be evil spoken of in conse ; quence of their improper conduct. Civil rights are never1 abolbhed by ' any. communications from God's Spirit, the civil state which a man 2 was before hb conversion; k not altered by that', conversion nor does the grace of God absolve bim from: any claim , which, either the state or hb kingdom may haw -on bim". . All these out- J- ward things continue unaltered. Verse 2.- And they that have believing masters, who have been lately converted as wefl as themselves, let them ireasury auu tne otuerm tne ruoug rrison ;w ueuevuig uiaabers auu waca. jrcioo o v ; and this until the authority of the' law is main- ;ahy -'man teact otherwise. "''It .appears that ! tained and vindicated. there, were teachers of a different kind in the 'i ' j . i. i .11 . ii - l ..,. their equals, because they I are , not brethren in Chrbt: and grounded their, opinion on. thb, that iu mm mere is -neuner maxe jior r lemaie; ppaa nor free, but all are'equal as to their spiritual privileges and state; yet there " still oontmuea icthe order of God's providence, a great dbpa- riwy iu. ineir siaiion, wrtne master musi eveu; be, in thb sense superior to the servants, v But) rather, do them ssrvice, obey them the more cheerfully,' because they t are 'faithful and be loved J faithful to God's graoe, beloved by biui and bis true followers. Partakers of, the bene-, fits joint partakers of jmq benefit here refers to vne grace oi me gospei, w common, salvation church, a sort of religious levellers, who preach- ed that the converted servant had aslmuch right to bb master's service as the master sA to bis.'"' Teachers of this kind bate been in Vogue long T bidcb tue uays ot ram suu iimuiuy. . aiu not as yetcon vinccd "that "there Is smfulness in the relation.' that toaster and slavelstand in to each other until that rules laid f down by Christ and bis: apostles, be transgressed ettherbv the-i master ilitreating hb , slave, "-.'or S the, slave diso-rj uey iug iu uiastcr ti u uvi iu kuo uiiug ui Bi vci j but the abuse of the slave. The scriptures are a sufficient rule for both master and slave, and , let both remember that they must stand before -the judgment seat brtte, Son bt God." j lf aboli- tionbni were carriedalo affect what would we ' sets? thousandsof human beings destitute of a borne starvation while an innumerable train of evils must follow; nearly ' two thirds would ba thrown on the hand of the other for maintain- c anceon tbe free States, for if the masters . were to employ them it would be the best plan, then old age and children would be left in a suffering j state, the, only safe plan b to colonize them when a colony b prepared, or ship, them to Li- .; beria and that will have to be very gradual, for ( it will be a long time before they are capable of selt government. Richard Lander' says,T from the time that he was in Nigrattf with Cap1 Clapponton to the time of hb return was three '; years, every governor and ruler was assasinated ''' within three years, not one was left alive, and that too, by their own subjects, mostly; three ! hundred, says Landen, was . in reserve in Bada-a gang to be sacrified upon the alter of the God of-! war to favor the intended expedition against tbe : s Brother of the Prince of Badagang. . -.jt J :m ENOCH HARVY, Sr., . , AIcDonald, Hardin Co., Ohio. -. ... - -. : , ,; Tbe Poison kosb. . - lf At a recent Sabbath school anniversary in B., tlje R. Dr. H. related the following inter ' esting fact: During a visit be made ..to the Ba- . hama Islands, a shower of rain .unexpectedly. fell. Such an becurrenise is' very rare at the Islands except during the "rainy season, and b regarded with great dread by the natives, who ' - . ? it ; . ;. -i t. ; .1 - ; as rapuHy as possioio seejt toe 'nearest suex ter. .''f'v0i;?s On this occasion, a lUtle colored - boy vras- caught in the shower at - a dbtance from borne, ;' and having no place to go to for protection; ex ; -5 cept under a bush that .was . near. Its foliage ,. however, was dense enough to keep ibim from j,. the rain, and, he was wet by the water trickling, through the leaves. s Unfortunately for him the, K ; bush was a, poison 5Aand the water falling f 4 on the leaves caused the poison to strike into hb little limbs, s6 5 that in a short time he was" 'h dead.".'!4;4' f5--'';1;- After the shower, be was found and earned to bb hornet Dr.' H was requested to attend hia funeral ' The circumstances of 'bb singu-r ' lar death excited the Doctor's curiosity, and be &r wished to learn something more about the fatal p oison bush. An aged negro told . him that it la grew abundantly upon the bland; , but that by,4 its side there alawys grew another bush tohicAu .. was an andidote; and that if, the little boy bad , ., known it and had rubbed himself with tbe leaves of the healing bush; the pobon would have done " , uiut uu. uoriu, . - , . .j t ; '- What an illustration is this of the sad fate!, J of those who ihave been; poisoned by sin and 4 know not bow "to escape from its drcadfurcon-;0 sequences.. " But for tnis fatal poison there b a r c " sure remedy, provided by the same God who." '" placed the antidote beside the poison bush. ,n The cross of Chrbt b the Tree of. Life. , Let In the suffering and the dying come to. that, andi:;. they shall be saved, for "its leaves are for the ripalmop of thct Tlaton.'.,, r , . .. . ' . "... !2V. Y. Evangelic. not despise them: STrpposing themselves to be ln ;;. 5 Domestic Happiness. , ii;" s '.t, Ab ! what so refreshing, so soothing, so sat-; isfying, as the placid joys of borne ? a See thy ? traveler does i dpty -caUi; him S; for saieason to leave bb beloved; drdei; eartUy happineWcontbiues vivid in bis remem-?' &Mt brance; quickens . bim to' dilligenee; it makes J bim bail the hour which sees bb purpose accom- . ' plbbedand ' bb face ' turned towards borne; it : J communes with -bim asj. be journeys, and be ." 'hears the promise trhicfat causes i bim to hope, -1 .''thou shalt know ' abo jtbat thy tabernacle, shall be in peace, and thou shalt visit thy taber nacle, and not sin." ' O bthe joyful reunion of jJL .a divided family the pleasures of a renewed ,, interview and I conversation after days : of ab ' sence !. ? "'I-'',i's t S .'i'in . Behold the man of science; be drops the la-t ; bonous and pamful research, closes bis ypiume, " smooths bis wrmkled brow, leaveavujiatud and uubending himself, stoops ;q'tbeiapaci. ties yields to the wbhes ana mingles with the diversions of hb children. J , 53 y-Take the man of trade what reconciles bim to the. toil of business? ' :Wbat enables him to 'endure the fastidiousness and - impertinenca of " :ri eustomers?F f What' rewards - bim for so many V - hours of Uedioos confinement M By and by, in the season of i intercourse; be wfll f behold theos if. desire of hb eyes, and the children of bb love for whom he resigns hb ease; and in. their wel-1 ! Jareand smiles he will find recompense. ?. .f-,i r . .Yonder comes the laborer; be . has bornfl the 5,4 'burden and heat of the day, the 'descendics A sun bas released him of toil; and he is hasten ing; borne to enjoy Vepl)sn' 4Half-way down the? lane by the side of whicb itands bis .cottage, 1 th,Atfn rnn in. tnAAt fciml One be Cirries. 1 .' i ana one ne teaas. i oe c&xupaiuuu vi uu uulu- ble life is ready tor furnbb " bim - with Lb plain repast See bb toil-worn countenance assume an air of; cheerfulness. Hb hardships are for- I i
The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Aug. 23, 1855, edition 1
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