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TV. U'.-- 1 - ' - 1 . . ." . v : ' . . , . -' ,j rf 1 ' v " ' "- - . ,.v . ... - v,. n j.-j ,: ..-.Sr -V;, . AKi.1-'Vwv'--"-t t --: 1 " 11111 ' - " Tf ," 'r"T-- r 1 VOL., XXXI. ' The Biblical. Re'cordeil ; il) VEETISING a ATES;' ' two . ' fear two ax -. tlx a , t . terms: , . . ' ."' " job pbiii Yxirtr'- f rry ?f-rftlo sWnttt faitet manner )i raoD fr frtnttBC. v SOME OF THE RSAgONS AND FACTS i -iVlUCH MADE ME A BAPTIST. ? BT RV. T. E. KINOsBU . XQ. 10. DLicussioa of Bapti ;-Pr, Caas jbelTi testimony B. TFitsaa fdat Sociaiaaa-lh mull of ?tqL turtij'aexiBiiatuoa Cr. KU aid Pmi r 4eatSiaaaoa oa ta use of v rd ompl yed t xprs da Applisati a f Wter, &e. I purpose now to'enttr ujon a'dis- t cussioa of baiiizo an 4 its j.ietivfttivt'8. As only thi ward and its derivatives are used j in the New - Testament with rerenca. to the rite of baptism, 'it'ni.yr be imiiortant to offer some considerations with reference- to it. wnicn, .greatly-impresstl , ray own ..miDdiiiu.iiad no little t influence Jn aeterrmoingjmj nnal acfioa. I have i u prqv ious numbers fu rnisheil n the j-eader with a striking; list f- nu t h b ;'i t i es y h a ad m.i t ;i that the - word , : its - native; Tfrima'rv sense int.:; Let i' ' i y . m 1 1 jc toheseeoncesr lore I J. rcr.Js'the 'Hi'' an ... i. j c .l.'.r..tL.l Dr.i i'resident . oi" Marischal Aberdeen, ? ScotUnd, to whomX have had occasion to' refer more than pnee, s-iys, with i reference iol this iailurjj;of i the . tauslatori A to correctly: render IxiptUo . " We have. ueserted the Greek names where -the Zalin-s have deserted them, and have . adopted them whire the Latins have adopted themvft? Hence tSvc say cr- cumeislon &ud noperiiom (Greek peritQmei) ahd re do not say imnrer , sion (Latin iramersio) but biptism." "In this instance refaining the Greek, -or only an glicizing i tl Dr. Cam pbel I ? .continues: . " A et when theaaauaflre Jurnhhes s with materials for a ver- Hon soexactjancL anaUxical, ; such a version Conveys the sense more con sicuduslythati a foreign name,;; ; For ,this reason, I should think the word mmeisionhB, better English .name than baptism, were we now at liberty to wiae such a chotee This, is the Judgment of a Very profound schol ar and thinker., But arc we .not " at : liberty ;to TOakcTsuch choice?" It. is to be hoped so 1 ;If thiHrans latibn had beenrcorrectlmade, then ; we would have read inMafk xVr wnere toe great, commission js recora ed rl-He: thatl peilevetn anctfis'fm msrsejf, .snail sayeu dc."such -was;the command, asgiven by pur oaviour, nimseji.,5 ir. Jiicnara i? ui- Ier very.pointotllyreraarks that to j chargehim kwitlvfi wrapping tttp5 his meaning in an obscure phrascoljgit is impious, it is to- aceune hiiri' of the ehor motis guil t of the Roman tyrant, who hung his laws so high that peo plq i could not reaas tueraivana; tnon inmcieu eevere jmuisuiucuk jur.ucit-. infrectfcTjf'Hff lators haVe'shown hat ' the ' pretext thtiftliere Was difSciilty inherd 5o x isuhfbunde, I case.of .N.iaman (II Kings,) the .Sop- tuagint (the Greek translation joff the did Testament.) uses laptizo, andtlie (Engl ish) t ran si at io ri re nders it d p. Then went ho down, an.u uippea (Ebaf tisato)fchirnself seren Ume in Jbrdan!V' The liWptists are eyidntfj,igh I t'.'jn, v.-hen th?y contend that there " - in t!i3 icord ued by our Saviour, ' lie :ut!iorizes his disciples to ' c.t.v:: r.tng suCiciently plain, ' n l exclusive' to imply nec- r i cnptism . is sr:-: .hytiri- DEV. 'TED j OfeLIGloisr. - morIli that bsyihim tho Nowr Testmt' whea applied to tho rite of. balptism does -ia BllpmbibUitj involve llie idea otC5aer4i6ni 1 Hence' Uhe very karneil Dr. Camibell aed'arM:" tiaa . oa)o both ia Sacred authors dnstrious partisansMrire been aht 'in throw trounI Clafc nd Jlellcniatic (wered) - Grevk. has . real! jwU4jJVW fty-ux lap- ienr-trnrttlasr honest in vosti- 1 t ion has scattered it as ; leaves are scattered bvthe autumnal storm. They 'seem to? Bave;forg6tten s or ig nored the fact that " when GmT has spoken to ment ho has spoken in the language of mtny for ho has spoken 6y ms and for wea . I submit the following . passage.' which occurs :in waison a institutes a work of great merit, , and aa especial favorite among my Methodist 'brethren. .That f pro found thinker is; opposing . the ioc trines of. Socinus, who contended that the tl apostles employed , terms in reference to the death of Jphrist which did not convey -the iJea 'of ex piation 'He thus argues : 14 The use to ba made'of this in the arsrn- ' . . ; v .... .... n n'ient is, that as the apostles found tie very term,? they with reference t the , nature , and efficacy of-' Jhe death of Ohri&t. , fixed jn. otir expia tory tgnifitsitioa amvmg the Greeks, they could cot, a?af?y:utise' .them" in a distant,' figurative.; senie, much' less icr contrary one, 'without yhing :fuejolic&r-QM .their haying-' invested tRerar.Avith"nn'ew-;'irt!rf tV" -. . vsrain ' r ? m.H 1 ril1 v-;rn Kke r manno,ttlfe e w. - Ajbnd.heir'exi the terras and -nlirascs" used " in tKeiti ''" ri'a uer, employed by, the '.: r rtnzeMhe Mcatliiof and wkhoiUr Wuriiingwhieh u tionably, they never 'gaze? Now, I ask .the reader H-WatsohV arsrument isnot just anil finceflil I I ak him farther to apply it to t he4 con trovert cvl subject of t he mode'. . I con tend that Christ found the very term "lie used with reference" to the ordinance of baptism ? fixed". in its "significa tion among the, Greeks' andthat he could not without, being " guilty, of misleading his disciples, (and who is brazen and wicked enou h to af- Lfirm or suggest, so blasphemous a thing?) have employed this word in a distant, figurative sense," or in new sense much lrss in a contrary one" ;" without giving due with? the ' apostles. Tho ' Kvange list Ijuketelts us that lie intended to write Ciincerning 4t all rthat Jesus be gtn t do, and to, teach,', ami that haying had perfect n ndertandi n'g ;ofaUj;hing he meant l so to write thatithe dreader linight kno the certaiiity,jftof things." .; He ; consequently .informs us concern i ng many, thin gst thai ;the apojBtleSaid and did. ilNdw.if Luke the writer; or those about: whom ihe wri tes employed laptizo in a fnew set se- or gave tdf it "a? " figurative distant sense." or a "contrary sense,!' anctyet 'without any " due notico- or warhincsWlakMth wasrnot extremely reehrisble--- naV was i t not accOrdi n'g to diich ard y arson, aisnonesi r , a iney usvu papt irato designate t, to. pour or p to rwhich meaning Jt never had.) and still . without due notice ! (and they do not remotely. Aint at such a thi ng,) then they are vdeceivtrs andsoj far from giving certain knowledgcf w hat Christ did and what he requm s pr cbmnmn t 3 are altogether in the?dalk ami liave. norperfect iin rtprRtandinfT ' oi . eiiner cunsi... m (ospelof hu di'd?hVsnc just ai th e G reeks understood . - -: j --s.. ..- . -i T a r a. a ? i t then ana unuersiana u uu givjiig it the usual commonnative, primary.signification. ' ' .They could not -nossibly as honest men do other uriWmlt (ritfinf information, of the fact. ; ?1":--' - , The true i question then dividing the Baptists from theirvbppOneuts .is c-o ct inicTprctztipny.e.t whether notice of his having in vestd it with mean8 5'?rUri"r PP J! a new Import1 ? This he " unqnes-(h)n out bf view tho references tioriably ; never1 gaveTlt Vas so dp the ordinance,) is tapio 'oi - laptizo command to Jmerse isreally, giren itho , command Jo laplike: AtVer Iho. iinanawerabls' Arguments' ot Car son and "others, , (and all attempts ' at an answer thus far haVe signally fail- ea; this question ought to be put , to t he concessions .too, so list not have here- aflerall cavilling tipon the subject; .iter all cavilling topon the subject ..Professor Curtis in his admirable, tist Pnncip'esqr the last Hundred Yearsafter examirig Stuart, Campt bell, Robinson, Bloom field and others. in their criticalrwirche$ to determine the meaning of V biptizo, records - J his opinion, and .tha caudid . reader, who hai accorajianied him ia his interest ing labors must admit its fairness. Says he : " i hns every use of the word, Classic and Hellenistic, literal and fagurativc, -contributes vt$ .show that ; the command to Itaptize is a com mand to immerse and that the "word is never used literally (or even figura tively) without, reference to this, the radical idea of the word, so tliat onr word to dip is its perfect equivalent." The meaning of the command being; thus satisfactorily arrived at, it. would really appear too plain for argument what we are to do upon ! making a profession of aith.' .. Arise. aftdW immersedU most clearly the divine injunction. ; f The t Wlowingj passage i .from the excellent wufk of. I?rofr Hell po germiiri to thai subject -m it terrthat iTlcattndt.withhoIfkUiromthtfader,: I invite the reader to nav-xsnecial Tat- vieption to the remarkable jfoets))e 1?nvcs. He says. . The Grcefc lao giwgejTsVery 'coptons, nbThas. a '.'jiaK licular word . to ex press every mbtioni ap'plicatfc'jh; and lis of vratcrJ-Ir to pprinl:!, U; Iri3 riii r rn j ; Lathe Liuvfc dor towah.clothes p-uno; tor . to pun ty;t agnize or : katir airti and all thee words are nsedj in I the J-ori gi nal qf tho Septu agint' ahdltlie New Testament. The tranv lators of our present English vtrsion were Pbdobaplist S'f and they . use ..in the:r translations the word tour arid its derivatives more than one hundred ami fifty times, the word sprikklb m ore than sixty times, the word , i'ip and j its derivatives more than twenty times, the word plungb, once, 'and the word titrijt a score 1 of timcsl The word bajkizo fiXiA its derivatives, when connected with theordinance, they were forbidden to translate. Now the -point of our present argument is this: f Iu no case where theor&rtna? used; and in no case when it means to dip or immerse, is raino or rantizo, cieti o thsheq, aanizoof jeathairo used. Nowhere do our. translators render bapto or baptize, by sprinkle pour , or purify ', and ratno or rant izoficheo) or etccheo, and agnho or katliairo,- by dip, plunge, or immerse." He referjtb JLvjicuSj.lV4! translated )?A minqs translated sprmKie. anu,eC'ea.is ransiaieu pour; " T f . ! , . til I 1 h e fac ts con tai ned j n th is Jex tract must appear very significant to every though tt4iSdrfflr hijClIjjlo ry pi iBUu tkmJwiMi" much to asktbatl'seoin bapttzojla never. found in tho New Testament; appUiOft8prinklingibr pdiiringl i . ..... out always to immersion,-: in imure, those' who pour 1 or ; sprinkle, will ceasV to falsify thV wo rtl 5 ah d speakrbfi!rAXnflfi word that . approximates - j n , some slight degree to the process, rather than be so absurd ,as -to use- a- word the-mbst f remote that5 possibticbu Id bb found in the Greek datiguage President Shannbn;f the i Cdlege of Louisiana, - in the third yolSmi of hi work The Christian Preach er,-gives us the benefiof i his own res ea rches ' i n regard to' tthis word under discussion He says t " While 1 filled the professorship of Ancient iJinguages in the Univerinty f (leor! gial I had occasion to com pile a table of passages vvh ere. the words dlp.pour. sprinkle and toash: in; thei yarious' modification3,ccurin;the English Bible, with the corresponding term used in the Greek of thttiNewtTeshii ment and' the ;6eptuagint?i)p,i I found ia twenty-one passages". - In tyI. gyrr R all of these except or to:is found in the C exception is i n CI r r when Joseph's bretlm and dipp'ed-emoftma danbed-it in the bloo Marie the great accurr. heret)ie idea is'that daubing, andiho" Sept 3 . jat 1 or Vid.' . reek- ...ig.or ) ci- Presses Sirwkle in iome , tmind in tweritysvetr'.- ;; JQjkMli to:r.-:J iA " $ Xxza used in Vlie Orrk; ftouaI fouriJ ia no F '1 mio , but U meet rrcjk.'r. hundred and nineteen 'h in not even one of their with; bap ro or baptizo in I found wash in thir whero reference was ha whole jerson, but Id a. eyes, tho face,; the, hut In node of theso v,ti V zo found, but tipto i ,lteader? is not thisery is it not wonderful4f I indifrerei)tly,plunga4 ) an 1 so'ne Pedibaptis Wiiy should tb4ptt.- and invariably lussd t ) cisetM 1 fo-the us the .e fect . mprt' m?ans. ; -l iUe, nj't? ivvjly the ,;rd riteof ;baptis:n, unle r was a : speci fi a act w h i ; precisely expressed, c other word in the'. Gr would ? " . f m Fir the Blbltcal H.m TIIE YOUNG CO , A word with you, v.w ren andsistcrs.-wMy i ' has enbotdened me to 1 jue r :'n n mbe r s , js mi e r '. vOjnerstjvconcerniog ; '.withstood' them .because they, we re t ' sunif vyhat ; ? a ii : Htrtnd-qJiCre .fjw 'r.iont'i. -iii or bitter . i ... cvw.icu aju" ii iu ot "our. sinsA There was no peace for, you. You Jfeit that you Reserved! to he cast into hell with? all ilwhcf forget God. J Now you are so happy, 4 You have ucw hearts, uew-hopeM, new de sires, and new 1 aspiration? Vhy this raarvelous and nibs't''racious''. cha nge..?jrf ,v Who' wrought i t jn.'you r soul ? : It must ail be ascribed to Christ. He.n-cde.emed -you with his own preciousi blood, and renewed you by the Holy fepirit. 5 ' , Do you not owe Him" much for such love as this ?, Ho has a claim upon you. Will you honor that claim by a life of obedience? Have you been baptized ? " ..Are you mem -bers of the church ? If not, why halt you between two opinions? Why cjeer till. to-morrow what should be done to d y ? "i ou - are requijed to confess Christ before men and to , love his church: and you have either negiecieay-omutea,or reiuseq to com- id y .44 You arcy w ro n g in 1 th u sr d io -obeying ycrlSavipari' f'Whathave yoti done for OhrtslVDo -ybulsajy .No one haf invited us to ;labpr io him?f? -The. field is the world, i There is room enough "Herej for bjButfhal oneinvited, yotftbattendj "theSab . bath school.and the prayer meeting; tp Visit "thV' poor -and aid iii relieving seemetl to care to. have usdo aayr Lfrne has in vited -ftnd eomma&dedA you to tb follow him. Why havb ydri fail- tation, from tho.' King . of t King8,v. to you to eonie; tiot isolated labbr 1 ersbut co-laborers with flitu in hw lineyardiAnd jrou wejirefusin his drivitation The mpralcroodition bf the world should induce you to labor ;foriits elevatibnlan(l 'Vezeneration' It carries the chill:of death tipon? its heart, the mark of guilt on- its for- eadthelcursebf the lawlsH mion its "head. How.mou.rnful..i;tU';;cbndi ftion. , - . - - ' ; Suppose yoii .knew ;thftt va friend ,was asleep , ia , a. burning house, would you wait for some one, to Jiass along and invito you to aid in arous- n g him ?jNoyouvduld r ush T ir amt cry, " Fire !; Fire 1 " . and h shake him, and if necessary ' drag him but by force to save' him. Novv you are required to 'do tliiSfcfVr sinners. You can apply this simple iilustratioi.. ii I You tell me that 'ou are" a: mem ber pf the j phurch . ;; I 11qs3 G od ' and tt.thiHs tiot valid'exo?? F?me I"" : has ? inviteafypUi-wea'p vuris. l.or;y.H;j'tA iwtoii,nic Y.30,--4,8 6 7.. x tao j coiiragV Jneh'JaypeakinJ to you, It greet you W k'j brQther ;br siat6r beloved.Thbngli Iliave not seen you, you are ; m.Heavenly .Fa tlierV children;; You are young, I too enter ed the chu rch when Xwas a'mefe child and it is Jo4inio A most , painful ,;refiec-f tioh that Tor sevcn yearflj wasu inact ivo.; I did scarce anything for Christ, And what sad . years they were. O t' ' T 1 r A V -n tl. - t I "l 1 i ,..iittc:d i'i f. .iLiun duty lor coven years, that I had not murdered so much.pf precious time. They,' were not years of religions prosperity or of e bj flymen t. to me, fort they,' were yfcars of disobedience and- unfaithfulness, to my, precwHs.Rdeeraer No -one f in vited me to-labor or' encouraged me to take. np the': cross. Pardon 7ihis' bit of experience, ' but I taiaf' a welltell you thit when I. com mended' trying to work for:Jesns; "I 'began' to weed " my Tieaft of "the' sins Jhafr uiauesei me. .as x iongnc sm in oiners 'I, fought )t ia ravc-wn heart, l? lam a smfiil man, andyet, 1 would .f not Troin the, reflect! on that I have been enabled. to spend; the year now:-clos ing in preaching the gospel to sinners; for all the dioaoifsi "and pleasures of t! tficr6 not ybi!ng"mcn;in -nearly .11 our churches who' have felt tl.-t : l 1 :s tlu lr duty to prc.icsj the c-.- Yl.-ro is that i:it'.li! - . tlv tilenttd" lawyer, V. : -..'tr..)' ,r .. . . ' , Do not chihlrbn make themselves useful to the family If you are nn able, to cut wxd, ybu can pick up the chips to make the wood . biir tu.j You cm take the " chips ." and. " splin ters " of truth and cirry them to the destitute, and make a little fire that will give light to those who are in darkness. You may kindle the liro of truth about their souls and be ; in strument il in warming them into life again. Yon may not be able to break the bread of life,butyou can gather tip the erumls' of pious thought andgive them to those that are perishing in their fins. May Go I enable you to becune . verry . useful and efficient, members of the church. I Once knew a man who was well advanced in life when he bacatne a christian. . He vas poor and., illiterate.. . He was punctual in attending divine service and was rarely absent from the Sab bath school. " Why do you attend the i Sabbath,-; school ? enquired a friend. The old man replied, " I am too ignorant to be a teacher, toehold to become a scholar,-but I go there to look on and smile upon the children . " T Who will say that he was not righ in smiling when nriatleol db -any thing elseOi that wo could ' indiiee -UlJ iSjr- -k-t wu ui uicbiucii tu Bit nnu eyeu sm nTPcQmew babbath for worship, and instruction, Prjbr jwmeimlp God t givo them, grace to .,wofk;: for Christ. ' - " ' ;t Goldsboro, ' - 'NEW VERSION ' -lK : !r ;trOB t J Jmve prosecu ted; myreadinga)f tho New : Version lnto about four chapters of the Acts. I, find cbntjnual new occasions of complaint for the changeVC'p.nr'prosbn past, making the style worse a in a iei uegree luoinaue jXiiwana this ftr nrbfison thaf l, can3lerceive hut . because the original uses jthe aor int. Andyets Idiaverepeatedlyj marked, they abandon , the , aoristic English .form whenever tliey choose, and where' no one can; see -any agood reason for tho difference. ! Al JW f Please turn tO:Acts r2 : 33. 5 This ie world."-- Lara contented to 'nrose- csite thiVwoVk-! cannot put it dbwrn; f it "filH: my 1 soul!'1 with comfort. teach yoti,hWill :youaitend o asI anVa Phild whatlcan I interest to knov what tho New; Ver d for Christ ? 'hatiyWaro ? fbnt wnfd Imakki kfii tWbfttliflr Jesus God raised up' (&, ) : . and I navjngv(receiyea oi tne jcatner tne promise of the Holy Spirit, Jne poured TiKowthe proper reason fortranslaU . ing the Greek aorist by .Wripresent perfect is: whr! tV c t'sa ration continue vi p.ro "-in on rt the time the speaker is relating them V Jn the teat .under examination, and4.- m any pi ne p in si ance s, i a prje nee i s a r,e j operating before te eyes and. in tlje ; hearing of the audience atheivery.i moment! bf harration.v I call theat. tentibrt of -everTjadiciou? reiderito- this Wrticularvfand rant mu'ch vmi the translatcrs' in this respect is most;' unaccoumaoic.- . . . , r Acts 2 :r 37,38, r rnH(?rty brethren";, what shall we do ? AndPeter. aul to them ;?Repent and be; eachope of; yon immersed upon the name of Jcsus Christ for remissions of,? sinsYtil!.i leave this to its fatbj Againen, brethren i'Mn addresses- like tllese the word alpts is a mereexpletive and had better not be translated! 'Acts 4 :,27 They haye here chbs n to render.to' Syw yroijo ew 'Jhe, holy en servant. Jesus, instead efr?, th T; o i t-. .v., - I T they wonld help us outnof tlib total larknes the mean great lisappointmCPt ihey have niade 1 matters worse ; iThi s is, their -., rpn.3 elf-, i ng : ' For, ; th er cin is . revealed a, rjghteoujjiess of God from faith to, faith ; as it is written, the just shall , live by. faith." - Now if any, man eau unriddle this, he must have more than the sagacity of an Oedipus. : They have made it worse " than be-' fore ; for the : old translators were 'at ; least right in calling it the' righteous-1 ness bf God thou gli there was no ar ticle . in the Greek it being 'unheces. sary where "suchfiaqn.alityingywbr. as rov stop lmmediatelylpwed j; ihe j genitive in that .case haying exactly the sarae defiuite effects as . pur f, gent tivp prefifpdK ThusGpdHi righteousness " is exactly equivalent ; to the rightewsTtessiiGodiljw . a righteousness of God;1? But their copying the unintelligible old version? in the following ofdtf,f is thtj worst part of HheijP-bffensei "I : otTer ; tP Biblical Students the following inter-; ' ...... . i . . . . . . i - pretation; of these most - important words of the great apostle, the. sense of which seem to. me to have been 'en- tirpl innniaififi - from nil 4 p.nmm nrt translation :; f 4 For therein is revealed to faith i, e. the faithful) . God's jus-, tification(5 e. God's mode of, justifi,. cation) ; by fai th 1 as U t i is l w r i t ten The justjaall lived ebe saved'by mith orcrps8tin?b i The just (or those justified): by faith shall lire mem8.mmm " ; 1 crave the reader s particular at- tention to the fact, that by this ver- 510 n , not on jy a c iear se nse is e yo 1 vpa consistentiwitli ih?;W the apostleVarg e but Ufae proprieiYiandrele yancy.cf the quotations from the! Old Testamn ttareifbrcibly Cxhibi teil: whereas, by means of the other' transi t latibn sj they are total lbriceIetU i . . ; JUL whi auort.iiievpareDwhich'l nas oeenuevoted toHhminytry bf the-wortt.As'nordne; but yourself is to know whoT ara,4I shall nbtbe and Jieay , Therefore r' rlG(d Aoi made. ?a. 1) " h(riirt W both Juord . auu viii tab. luren ii no wiu noi perceive ana c aowjedge that the inconsistency of l iri which' we are leftas 'to fble tlic Moriln inV'bf the paslaifd ' by thei ter and nhadrtbfterlrilioot 1 1 , v - m -m-y jug the IottJiperj about iownt in - the , f&ty$f:& or the 6 n!y hotel, when X' compelled t6empiby ;7J Is TJAIBJLli editorial f we.-'f to avoid "tL of egotism! .T am7;b u t c n o , too well know asTncuZone. . . 1 believe me 'it I ..teir'ybti that but;llttle"lj6tifidence' ra-xny al . - 'T T " je ir a ... iftteresfyour-readers, .buvycur insiotherwise encourages' me tabor' and' care tiavingincfeaki It -.gave yont'hepfomis& to-v J perform the ..Jing pronounced upon one vvIjo .. etb to his. own .hurt, and c.'...:. nbt.V-''' The "sketches, liiar sotneti. be headei with a Jine or two ' of ' try asitJiecjnaPs of, a novel ; my :dear(jI, ihey will nofcdealjn tio n'f. $he)i ra7ti .m4 1 text if,Jrcf ipturej etmyttwordl itj j theyiShali, pot J)a in thej m' sr5de;of?written. sermons. p.jthc hf what rnamtJ "you please.5;vbutjl not; hesitate to declare tlmtlam rac particulaYjaboui what'cm '&w& '$y t readers ttiinlc. or them; X TU teat! : knbwntitrrerreritteSv tneielafS-Eali-jf Biff t is altogether a matter c . Here then' is No. 1. ' . ;1 ';P cnapnoQD. . ; -M Take this chihTa way runJ for me,0 antl ,SI - will give ' i 1 wages.'-Exo'dus 2 : C. ,-,Us!iVlwssiMef ' t. 1 . f -'-;.. t Jihtjf?i.f.-!fU .- ' . ".' The light of thogo3pei hid penetrai'! . ted the7 mbiin tarn i fastnessedrivt to the house ruod:-- At the respective ages of six and four our infant voices with those of the Lgreat pqngregation, in . liosanna .to thn KTkfi iii t ) v V ' .TTva vi noror nnmOraldarkneijjasItlie 11116 t!J be fsceps uireeiei read, .out pt' th e mouth of f babes and it sucklings" thou hast perfected; praise? SliCnow- sihtrs5 ..'r,f -i-'-vt'i "'Around U16 throne of God la lieaveniifv1 ' But to mej the few years sjntfwitlu: littlp "listei-" are asldengleamscf sunshi pe on memory V wasfeChild hood has its trials, f real heirt-tri als. . Shall T tell -you ; one" among the I first 1 that I cab remember ? Iwanteditb ; be ' donstho"n'glit ? 1 wak,f 'Wr! ?'T$f- -pu ne tu alf; at clas meet in gs, Hove leasts,' prcafehingy ij JNcVerfcioiot tqif tojsay my prayers at nightrz u;is. v CatleiaUihe preachers fbrother' was christened, with the full namerpf)r pnepf-the most distinuishedamongcjj ,hew?i-K MiiummM :mi . 4 When thePresiding Elder Brotherv Smith carae to the quarterly meeting : I paid promptly? mf fuartetage. -When the communion was adminis- " tered?i8i'tf.wondeV3U tied to all the Vights sand priviles ow? the initiated ?Foblishchfld;I knew:I no tiling a boo teo,fiptmm itnwiBnd$i , I knew not what. It.was denied Jiie, as tfp1 J'Jf K?f ?n uMl aPIa w rv? as t he" most restricted communion bers--hut thisiaafebowhoteiii them. vWas not.Ia member in full if c ver hear J 'of; Tliere are -people ca) l- -bd .lJaHs'ts'tei'e.?et,"whoyr-i-triofc cbmniunioff to 'their tbwnmemCZ fellowibip Ifnot Iwhendid.Iceasv,. i bcne?e eii as aaincupus npps f my simple i childish Minarfc. Itf ir':' infri Ii " hntvin 1 ;--15i iliv.,i ki. ji.i &l&!fM toJtffci&iisfSwW : Iv fe l temef wa sexcif ed-Iwas indigbant;; atUhc tftgiiititude? of Brbthe-chiiitb?'!: who hatl inyi money in his pocketia Jst waouvgedjoddetermined4tof9 continue Iffallenfnbm'ltracs. ?,VL-.t. make shipwrtfckpjf injr prpfessdofpr a jmercy that God's ways r.r? nc waysjtiandwhisrAthpnghtl r:t thoughts if i.r,:,., f , Jan 8th',:lSS7. ai": -U:'-
The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 30, 1867, edition 1
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