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Xho Biblical Recoidei The Biblical Recorder. ADVERTISING RATES. Space. .. i - i i r ii ,-. . T-j-k PUBLISHED EVERY WFDNF.SmV. 4 .... W W tf ' " MA M A t AM Re' C. T. 1I1'C " - r.." ". II. w iMrcett nd Salisbury s., Raleir, N.C fKKMS OK Jn copy. on; yar... nix mouth 3.00 10.00 .f live.- -fini r, 1W coP' i 'a U sender) 50.00 iiiuoces must be sent by Revered Letter, Order, Postal Note, Kzpress or Draft, 2dt to tb order of the Publisher.. jlejttit to Rev. V, A. Woodson, : " pear Recorder: Y oar lss.e of Sept, 19th contains a review of iny sermon on the Law of . Cbristian Forgiveness, by q Woodsoa i hope you will grant piVppaee to reply to his eritiftisms. ; ' Before replying to the points made ggaiost the teaching of the Bennon, I would notice soma remarks made in his Introduction.-"And one U in reference to my failure to reply to C. T.V article.' By reason was that C. T. did' not say that he was reviewing my sermon.' Had be done o, X would have answered him. Bat I do not feel called upon to answer every article that I cannot endorse, jjfe is short. : " ' C. A. W, also finds fault with the slang' expression, be there.1 It was in quotation marks, an ! was used with the fall knowledge of its slangy char aeter. ....,."-.'--,,- --..-!...,. Again, he says that I speak ex eathe -dm. I wrote, and tried to write, much u I speak. ': Perhaps that, accounts for tho ex catTiedra. l;try stoy know-the troth- before I speak, and then 1 try to speak as if I was standing on the troth. And I am still as f ally persuaded that I was writing7 the troth when I penned that sermon as I waa there, y In the outset, I most again define the term forgiveness; tor OVA,. W. has mis taken its meaning all through his article, and makes it mean simply abstaining from vengeance. Now 1 protest, that ia not forgiveness. ? Grimm, in his lexicon of New Testament Greek,! defines; the word translated forgiveness; in respect to forgivenessof isms, s :rta letting them go as if thy had not been com milted. And it is clear, an 1 showed in the sermon,- that God's forgiveness means a blotting oat of the sins, as that He treats the pardoned Just as if they had never sinned, v He doer not allow their past conduct to influence His treat ment of them after they are forgiven. .: Very well. Let us see how this idea of forgiveness will work among men if the sinner does not repents Here is A, who has became debtor to bis brother B to the amount of one thonsand dol lars, and he pays B off with a bankrupt notice, with plenty of property around him to pay the debt.- And he is not sorry for his deed, but rather glories iu it, and he 'abases B to others..,. I have in mind just such a ease. Now ought B to give him a chance to get another.' thousand ! According to the idea that yon most forgive whether or 'not, B should not allow AV dishonest conduct to Influence his treatment of him at alt. But the thing Is absurd. - Take another ease. C is & friend of D. He takes advantage cf his friendly relations to blight the fair name and character of a beloved child of D's, and then boasts of it Now does Christianity demand of D that be should allow O to continue bis relations to bis family, and perhaps do more evil! " But if forgive I sess meins that the past mast be blotted pot as though it were' not, which it does), and if we are bound ' to forgive, sihether. the . offender repents or net. then C canrjot banish : the villain from bis family circle at all. v As to my interpretation being faulty, I shall leave the critics to jodge, simply referring C. A. W. to Grimm, Ellieott and Meyer. - kp:m(7 Ail that V. A; W. says about God's efforts to lead the sinner to repentance is oat of the line of lh diseassion. I emphasized the readiness of God to for give men, and exhorted : my ; hearers to- be imitators of God id this respect. ; - y. A. w. draws a distinction between the manner and the method of forgive ness, bat it is va distinction without a difference-Webster1 defines - manner by method, and method by manner, and puts each as synonym of the other. U. A. W. says that I fail to give Matt.- IS: 15-17, its proper application ; that itsppiies to difficulties between .tnem berg of the same local cboreb, bat that Christians may sometimes have diffioul ties with worldlings, and in that case it cannot be carried totbeehurch for final settlement. ? I - reply that Christ does, not expect His people to treat worldlings better tnap their brethren; nor so well." In' ease we have vaf difficulty with s a worldling we can try to settle it by the metnod of going to him and trying to show him bis error; if that fails, we are not bound to be running after him try ing to make him be friendly against hi on wilL i 3' " j -opi -. Again, -C. A. W. inqoires if the lan guage of i Christ, " let. him be as an heathen, , cM justifies one in never for ghring. I answer: That depends If the transgressor", should ever., see his error, and ask forgiveness, we ought to Xorgive him. If be does not, we are not bound to forgive him. - C. A. W. arraigns me for saying that we have a perfect right to lodge of the sincerity of the man's repentance, and says let Paul be heard: ?! Who art thoo that Jodgest another's servant, &e.' . k repiy, k is one tning to form an opinion of a man's acts or words for our own guidance, in matters that Intimately: concern us ; is is quite another thing to sit in judgment on a ; man's ' religions cnaracter wnen it is none- of oar busi ness, as though we were indeed lodges. and as if he owed his obedience to us. Doe not C. A. W. do the very thing be condemns here! Does he not form an opinion of a man's repentance towards God when the man applies for admission into his church! If he does not, he is a queer . Baptist indeed. . We ought to jadge, in the sense of forming opinions in matters where we are interested, and where we have responsibility, and Jesus nac given us the divine rule of judging. y tnerr xrmts ve shall know them. The brother finds fault with me for saying that Christ and Stephen, by im plication, prayed for the; repentance of their enemies, when they prayad for tneur forgiveness, and he asks, Whence did the brother obtain this bit of infor nation r I cheerfully- answer that I got it from Christ Himself, who says, "Eicept ye repent ye shall all likewise Perish." If Jesns has not taught that 'epentanee and iaitn in Himself are nec essary to forgiveness. He has taught notbing; you can't depend on a 'word eays. Bot the brother fills me with dismay henhe says in his next sentence: "It s nardiy possible that all of those men "pented; then according to brother Kerry's reasoning, that prayer of Christ as never granted." What can this neanl l"Does he mean to sav that these aen were fori?ivn And VAnt tr hanvsn without repentance in order that Christ's yer might be answered! But that wnnM . m. , v,uu contraaicc a nost ; of passages -vu vunst s own words wown He ex Je8sly declares that salvation without OOes be mean to sav that anmn AA nr,f ePent and were lost, although Christ's was answered and they were for that is the case,' tea God's i0-o-Tc--3 rc-I3 be cf cd c:s tDtta I Volume 64. S-3e sinner. He forgives, bat sends to hell all the same. ' What a sad commentary opon the practice of belittling the idea of xorglveness, that it makes uoa lor- irive the verv ones He sends to new I f Thd hrnthor winds' no with a series of fauestions which have little to do witn the subject. " I vi h ' How' does - his ' theory comport i with that eharitv which believeth all things, hopeth all things, endnreth ail thinas." ' : " - r - Answer. 'My theory agrees with" that Scharity perfectly.' Does thev' brother take Paurs language in an absolutely unrestricted sense! Of course not. 'The general expressions, believeth all IthinoiL" &.'. most be taken in the light of all the limitations pot Tnpon tnem m other narts or God"sTrotn. wenerai ex pressions in Scripture, and elsewheraT must be limited b? the natore of the subiect to which they are applied,; and by the rest of t he teaching on the same suDiecc - uoes tne oroTner -aae ram xo. 'mean "that Christian"- "charity believe 'every heresy every lie that may be ln- ; vented t D -ea be think that Paul In :,.hotine all thinars. hoped for every conceivable tning! ; Tnen, i soppose nr looked to the restoration of all the lost; like OrigexV he hoped for the reforma tion and final salvation of the devil him- self. ' J : -' C. A. W. would limit Bcriptnre readily enooeh if : necessary.' Let as Soppose Ithat a thirsty brother should ask him If i Jet-us meant just what He said in the lanno.M ; 1 ,b unit aa 'shall diltu.1 &ts L frr every one that asketh recelv- eth," &C. Now,' suppose the -' thirsty brother should ask C. A. W. 11 it eame iwiihiri the scope of the promise to ask ir a oarrei or woisat-y. ' adooi uia. - V a a. a- a. time C. A. W. would bt-Kin to limit the teaching, rile would limit it by the character of the man wno prayea, me thing asked for, the motive, &o. Soin the wordsf quoted above, they re to be Uken with all the limitations that all the rest of the Bible pats upon them. 2. Again, ask the brother: Ho could Paul, for instance, make practical use of his (my) theory in bis varied ex perieDees, attempting at the same ticue to follow Ubnet's direction to Matt S 44 The passage reads f Ijove your eeemies, and pray for them that perse cute yoa." ; That is all. Did I not say plainly that' 'we should' do this' very thing that we most help our enemies, if they need ; that we most not injure them: tbat we must -pray for "them f But Christ has no where said that an enemy is & friend.- He is an enemy, Christ drew adtstioetion between friends and enemies as' we do.' ;. - 8. The brother - suggests that 1 r have : misinterpreted the claose, It is impos-' sibie bat that offenses will come. I attempted no formal interpretation. The term " offences" In this passage means? ooeaeions of stumbling which may lead to sin. : I was speaking about personal diffleulties, which,, in ft ' ma jority of eases,' not only may lead to sin, bat do lead to ein: hence,, 1 don't think the application of the phrase to inch cases a i very - grievoos - perversion of Scriptore. And Jesus immediately pro ceeds to speak about personal dimcul ties,-in the words,- Moreover; If thy brother trespass, rebuke him ; and if be repent, forgive him." -r..- i1naily, C i W. brings op the nn pardonable sin, as if it had anything ia -the world to do with the question an hanil; Where did I say that-we must never," under any circumstances, pardon the offender! I said that after we had exhausted the Scriptural means of bring ing him to Tepentancer and he is still obdurate, we should nxt 'forgive- nlm. But 1 nowhere said tbat if he afterwards repented we should not forgive hirn The tenor of all I said was to the effect that ; we. :- shoold ; and if , opportunity allowed, we shoold treat the man in, each a way as to show him we did hot cherish any revengeful feelings towards hint. P&TtFPvfy&fQM -!d ii. ...annzg'riziii In conclusion, I want to add that If I am a sinner in this re pect, I have some little consolation in thinking that I have good company Dr. J. A. Broadns, ia bis Commentary on- Aiatthew, p.ld7: says: . If forgive means merely to bear malice, xo . abstain - Irom revengeJ leaving that to God; then la that sense we oouht to forgive every wrong doer. even though impenitent, and still oar enemy ; but : this is not ihs Scripture use of the toord forgive, (italics mine), and in the foil sense of the term it is not oar daty, and not even proper," to forgive one who has wronged as nntil he confesses the wrong, and this with. sach unquest ioned sincerity and genuine change of feeling and purpose as Co show him worthy of being restored to our eon tidence and - regard." - This ' is -snb stautially what I said in the sermon. - Sometime last sprint there appeared in the Examiner an editorial - on the subject, which presented the same view. and the writer even we'nt farther, and said that there are some trangressions which show such great depravity, and sach deliberate intention to; wrong that they are practically anparotinbie. .q.' UMi j'i..'f-rfJ rh y3-PltRT. c? dge Spring, . U., t s P. .8. 1 would like f -jr C. A. W answer the following: Iff-'.w-u 4 1. Why did Christ use the clause "if t he repent," in Loke 17: 3, if He meant that we must forgive whether or not! 2. Why did Christ say that the nnre pentant . man, muss oe treated as . a heathen and a publican, if we are bound to xorgive whether or not! . - 3. Has Qod. imposed a higher law of forgiveness on men than that which. He observes Himself! '.; . " 4. What is the Scriptural meaning of forgiveness! - , Sl , The Amen Brother, , BT PROP. J. W. BUST; l. D - There is in every church an earnest. sincere, : :- kind hearted, good-wishing brother who looks on the best side of everything and . tries so see something good in everything is always ready Jto say amen to every prayer and every move. 'I Such a brother it a real blessing to any ehurch and community, and no pastor can very , well get along without him. He can al ways find enough good in every sermon to make him thankful for it, and enough in every I prayer to secure , his hearty sanction. , What a contrast in the spirit of such a man with some we often find ia onr churches. " Sermon either too short or too long nothing in it anyhow," Nothing goes exactly right with the querulous brother. In every move which he does not make himself, the objection will come. ; The objecting brother may, like . the amea brother, be found in nearly every church. Western Recorder. ' ; If yoa want to lift cj yea above me. Lmerson. tzzzi t3 The Oman of the North Caroling Br other Baldwin's Morocco Ali$- tlsiis to a Wreck Persecatlosr aad lasprisenmeat Coaverts Staadlng mnnf ha Tnavn rTariHpd slnne ruv iast . circular , letter, which, tol4 of ' my. journey to and from Fez, and its 'perils iof robbrsN "perils of rivers, and rains jand. stoniug.V- Since then I have eome mitlx. my family from Tangier to MogaC jdor, a coast town' in Sootheru Morocco,' fwhicu promised better opportunities for teaching tha , j?eopleT ,hThe ;.door '.here kenied wide Open. ' I preached dvly ia Ikrablo in the streets, and by day and kii ght bad Mohammedans coming to nary louse for instruction. ' Within a few iweeks the Lord nave us our first convert here, a yoang man .from ; the interior, iwho was converted on the spot as. be beard the gospel for the first time at the iport,, where often groups ; gathered to liear the 'word. I baptized him in the jhull of a wreck which lies Imbedded in the sand at the month of a river about a pile from the town " It formed a uioet leonvenient baptistry; the Bides of the vessel shelteriug as frHn. the etroug jwindi which prevail here; ..This became the signal for opposition ana persecuuoa xrom we lvaia or native governor.- He arrested oar young brother with the threat of eattint? off his handsi land, if he persisted iof eomlng to us, of killing htm. INo more natives were per knitted to visit us the few that did so came by sttMiltb Those who listened to OS iu sbrtwui - were arresteu aou threatened. The Kaid gave notice to iall the shops in town that they were not to listen tu ine, ' or permit .me to speak to them or teach ia their places of busi nees. ;;Tbe Moorish . womau, in whose house my wife gave a weekly dinner to poor widows, and divorced women, and where my daughters had a class of little girls, was - threatened with, floggiag ' if she received.1 themiagainj So icreatiy were the people intimidated that I could scarcely engage any one mconrersaiioo. lAll this eoufirms my former experience Sin Morocco, v'z : that a "t: present aggres ive local ' mioniou work by men cannot be carried on without provoking the bbS: Ullty of the authorities-; , Therefore I mast continue to; work as heretofore, by travelling, ' I aim now about leaving for the interior" on a preaching toor," In which I will travel on foot, in " native dress, without tents; animals or luggage. accompanied by Mr. Martin, a gen tie- man 1 baptized : iu langier, . who has. come to Mogador to reside, to help me In the e wort. ".v-- --vy -r.L "'Vr Wff bad the1 joy of again visiting oar novel baptistry the past week. This time it was : to baptize ai most intelligent foukie, who tamed from the delusions of Mohammed to the faith bf Christ. He had been converted some months ago by reading a gospel of John in Arable given him by Miss Caley, a lady worker In Laracho. ; He had been? telling of Christ and reading from the only two gospels he had to the people wherever be went. Qe told tne f several in different places who had.been, as hesaid, "laadehappy" thereby, and who had come to believe as he did. Thus God is "workings' A government soldier : appeared on. the scene ,at this last baptism, just before the : ordinaoce.ii The result has been a fresh outburst of persecution. '- ftH -ts 0, yesterday: (Sunday) Immediately after. oar afternoon Arabic serviee, a. -young native r who-waa there - was thrown' in prieon: t he comes daily to oar Arabic prayers, and seems near the kingdom, if indeed not already within, as he claims. The news was brought me by Hoslne, our- first- convert, who was greatly alarmed. . This was late iny the after noon. - We betook onrselvea to prayer. A little later .Hoslne was himself seized by a soldier of - the Kaid, Who : said he had been looking for him all day,'. What could we do bat ery to Obd, and temem ber hpw Peter was brought oat of prison in s answer," to -, prayer I k; We . definitely claimed their , release at once that night. We then went to; our friend, Mr. Mar tin's house,, where, we holds our meetr ihgs. .What we oar joy on arriving, to find both the prisoners there,' released and praising God I We were soon on onr knees and all" prayed one after the other. The devil is exceedingly mad against osl He does .not lie his s kingdom invaded. My wife and daughters believe .that one of the yoang womesi, they visit (for they re oegan visiting alter. a, sftovt interval) is ? converted. - Others, are 'interested. Moley Hasham.oor Fez convert,has been with me until recently when be returned to Fez jto visit his family. :. We expect El Hasan, our first convert in Tangier. Who was so; long and cruelly persecuted, starved and imprisoned, to join as soon. 1 return hearty thanks to ail friends who who have sent funds "for our work through : Bro. Eugene Levering (No. 2 Commerce 8t., - Baltimore). . It is un connected with any society and depend ent entirely on God for supplies. " ' .Heartily yours in ChriBt for Morocco, ' .'' E. F. Baldwut. rMogador, Morocco,-Sep.24, 1888.'' ' ' -t,i' jhm ana owuratnatton Bro: Iiaitey.J ?wish "'to sky 'ftf.fCtna note that thirty-one years since the Eas-1 tern Association was held at Warsaw. - Then, Rev. Geo. W. Wallace was Mod erator ; now,' Rev. J. L. Stewart" ' t Then, there was a heavy fall of rain.-! lasting aoout two hours; this time," rain and wind, lasting lor several hoars on Thursday. , , , . Then, Mr Biaekman CramDler. livintr six mile west, of Clinton, came to the Association" on his -boggy.-driving his gray each day ; now; the people come to Clinton, get on the train and thence to Warsaw to see the large number of peo-i pie presentfor some one has said there were over A5,000. persons on the ground by actual coant! v.rk-1 lttpp At that time I was sent on as a lioen- . tiate from Johnson church for examina tion and ordination provided I give the presbytery satisfaction In regard to my conversion, call to the ministry, and views of doctrine.. I think Drs. Wingate, Skinner and George W. Hofbam, Alfred uoy ana w.M. Jv.ennedy, were appointed by the Association to attend to this and report to the Association, s .6f, i For some , reason, they (the -com mittee or presbytery) failed to examine, and therefore reported, work not attend-, ed to. .Then, the Association appointed another presbytery Elders George W. 11 uf ham, George . V. Wallace, Alfred GuvandT7. fJ. Kennedy tos)fr John son's church oo Saturday befoAAtl?u.Eeuer say noirung man Erst Bunday la November, 1857, exam ine and.r-J"'u me, if my examination was eatL. to the presbytery. ; I stood very much in fear of Hev, George V. VfRHscecf tae lat prescj? .also of Drs. irate and iinner cTl j first. JLZ9 t:rs c"?, u tt ur:'..-re twe trst T-ryla :;cv:-t-rr, l.;7,acl LI2?rs rt"ft3 til Il-n:iy wsre cct rrreat, Bapdsts. : Devoted to Bible Religion.4 Education; 'Literatureand General Intelligence, ;RALBIGtH,; N.'. 0., EDNESjDAYCTOBER .31, SElder. Kennedy having- been , called off to preach the funeral of Sistee Newklrk M Coecord church,. Elder Wallace re maining at bis store ia Warsaw. Yoa fcuay be sore that I was a proud boy, be pause Bro, Wallace remained away just khen; for I dreaded himever so much for "come reasda I hardly know1 what,1 IBlders Hufham, Guy and L; F. Wil liams went alocg with me to Bro. xuvia I. j Middleton's, and then in aa upper 00m they proceeded to examine me an il nearly night, when they satd lcoaia etire. which I did glu!ly;:nQt ko-JW- n whaSathe resolt would be4 m 3, M On Saoday ( momlog is returned? to barob, and sure enough there was Bros, VallaejL. Kenned v and B. F. Marable on he eherchyard, and Bro, Hofham tells Jeo. W. Wallace and Kennedy, of the fexamlnation given and that they . were going to ordain' me, asking these breth ren if they would take a part in the or dinafiod.t Bro: Kennedy said, be would pavlng' confldenee fn. brethren Hufham, Guy and Williams Bro.' Wallace said bat he would not, for the-reasod that be Book said, Lay bands suddenly on o mao and that lie had to examine a for himself; before be put bis hands on "my head. Then Elder George ,W. Hufham. had me called, stating to me that, re had said ti Bro Wallace that be knew JL wo,uld be wllljng for the ex j fcmination to occur again, being eon-; ducted by George W. Wallace. In this Bro' Hnihaox. was mistaken. 1 J con-; Rented; however, to be ; examined the Second time, and Bro. Wallace took me aside on the eh arch yard; and proceeded to give men, as I Jthought, a severe ex amination on my conversion, call to the ministry, views of r doctrine, biblical knowledge, &e., Bro. Kennedy being r resent, bat asking few questions. -: Notwithstanding thirty-one years have passed . siaeebis .oocarred,. let me say BroL Wallace had me frightened, and no luiistake.: After this, he aided in the or dination with a seal not easily excelled. Bra Gay preached the sermon from the word,.Take heed unto thyself and the idoctrine, Baying been examined twice, if was set apart by Elders Hafi ham, Guy, Wallace, , Williams Kennedy 1 Well the changes since then, uider Sufham, who :.was tender and might be called a weeping prophet, i now in the glory land. ' . He waa so gentle and help ful to me when T first began 1;o read'and bray in pablic." Peace be to his ashes; the Savior keep His own right hand on his head i --a,i l-y a ; Then Elder Wallace, whom I dreaded so much, is also gone to the better world I trust so gifted in prayer and In whose prayers there was so much gospel, . . . j : Then Bro. L..F. W.illiams, whoever seemed to wear a smile, was so pleasant and knew so much, about the Bible that in preaching one sermon, lie was right apt to give a Drier, xrom many 01 toe books; of the Bible.. , Precious man I Then, there was JUider A. Gay ox pre eioos memory the orator, and soccees ful minister of lt'dA7;.;..fim, viith nis flat , loot, erooked nose, and broaen 'English at times; yet he was seldom exx celled by the man. who might not every 1 and cross every, t, for the reason that he gave you the marrow of the gospel. ,z These have all passed away and 'now rest from their labors of love, in the presence of God. f 1 would that an abler pen wpuld speak truthful and pleasant things about theab -f i J Now there te'jaderWV IC Kenned ji who still lives to work for the Master, and who has been one among the most soceessfal pastors of this Association. !' w-a. w a s . - . B , WWW --a 'W T "! i jiaers Aurea uuy sua n. . pen ned; have done as great a work nnder God foe His glory and this AssociaUon, any like . number of ' ministers . in, it, althoogh Bro. Gay now sleeps weetly in bis grave, and Bro. Kennedy may bej, invthe estimation; of jsome, ready to go on the sbelL If the whole truth was itold about these, or the good they have (done, 'X- question whether any minister iiu, this; Assodation could . show more good done. U .The Lord- bless the widow and daughter of the one, and the other i orotner ana nia muj.; . . .... j I Then there is Dr. Marable, who has; since , my oramation, gone to ine, jrres- ; bvtertans. I nave ; ever used cim-as a man and a preacher. ' He Is a fine speaker. : Perhaps he has- fewc' superiors hr1 the ;cburcb of bis presbytery as a speaker: t . ;t j u ii.. - i .i. i j ix wuuiu ue kibu u iub uaar urgtuer nvuiu iretarn' to: the church of his first lovey which holds mdreof the truth.1 1 think." ; than the church of bis last choice' seems : to hold. May the Lord bless this brother during life, and after, death give htm ; home among the redeemed of GodV t u - 'Truly your brother in Christ, t: 7 : .M Geo. 8. Bkst, ' OcLvlS, X888L--AT-- 1 L rvT- r Pointed. Sermons,, 1'. , : -iWe mean sermons that have ideas. . thoaghts, and words, that stick in the minds and hearts of the hearer, because the speaker Ihimself has his Own heart stack fOJTof them.? j M rM : ;.iVtt) It is sad-for the average church-goer to . find,, on, Sunday , morning, man standing up before him' in the housed of God delivering the -most Insipid plati tudes and the stalest kind of humdrum-. ism to lmmortal: souls on the. road to hell I ... .t x - - ' - . f ve leei ine utmost pity ior such a preacher, and inoyes the pity that it is deservea." t. , .,, t, 4 t Points In, thft . discourse . is what. Is needed; someting bristling: somethina; that stUfks the listener, and makes him (whether he- will or no) hearken and attend to the voice that should be the voice of God, to him. on the grandest of all "themes, that of "Jesus and his : lovev"-:''-'-55-:1' sit?--. . Dullness In the pulpit, on the rostrom. on the floor, or anywhere is inexcusable always and :-a sleepy eyed, dreamy, mumcnance sort - of - -a preacher or ; speaker on any subject should be pulled by the coat-tail from behind,, and be made to sit down. ' Bat these; are the ; ones who, as a rule, are the most irre- ' pressible and boring, and on great occa sions are generally the men selected by the appointing committee to ajjlict the audience for a solid hour-and-a half, or two poors, with the most pointless and meaningless wordiness that ever flowed : from a dry brain or a dryer tongae. - If a man cannot find how to tell the grand truths of "the old, old story," in ; a fresh, glowing and breezy manner, so that the thoughts uttered .haU be those that breathe, and the words, those that burn, then let him say notbing. to preach and say a great deal tbat me'-a nothing. Ptteor-'ons, by live men, are the neeJ cf tu-tj3es. W. B. HaRHEiiit. 1 There 1 a better tliirj to atk than exer; jtica or es; graca to t:"r ti laren.' ie froa sorrows, evea ,.' ...... J . . . .1 ..p.... : : 4. . ' .... ; 1 . . - ''- Iter. Speaks a. Wortl ' hi Country Brethren, ' "" - - ' -,jv I.-.- so. osx. '-r'-' i to I As winter is drawlncr nijfh. I have a word or two to sav to the members of pur country churches." - f-w- 15 n j'V. -Yoa know, dear brethren and sisters, hat an effect bad winter weather has pon our church-workA The preacher. oes. r Very often. In the colder sections barticularly, churches are ' eompelled to sasnend durlnor the severest weather. W.h&t an be done to remedy the mat ter! We can't control the weather, of Course. ; Snow rand rain and muddy' roads are beyond our eontroL Butwe- ean do mueh to make things endurable, Jnd life possible, after, we get to church. ,hd first, let me suggest to you, see that your church house Is in as good condi- 4oim possible., y a cauron not piaster' ed, or with the window glass bro ten Oot, or with large cracks . under . and . around the door ia an abomination in the sight of the Lord and a disgrace to every man and woman belonging to the ehurch.; WliacrwooldOBf-lhink of a man who Would attempt to live with his family during winter in such a house! &nd yet I have seen rich men and fash nabla women worship in eoch houses tear after year, , The people will not go to such a church In cold weather, and. they oueht not. ' And if they do go, in yah will the pastor exert himsel f to in' terest them and do them good. ; i w utterly useless to preach to peopl whiti nt fix tip yoor booses of worehip, i . wvvvm eyv vusw e vyti ,na-s v v w saa vxrfJk. ordet. An ; old, thin, stove; with the door off the hinges, and a large crack in. the bottom or around, the side, and the pipe! running out of the . window ia tuother, abomination and disgrace, source of worry and. vexation. 2m'v by all means, let the pipe go out ' the pindow. , You can't have a good fire' irf such a stove. The wind will sometimes blow from that direction and the smoke win eome out at the door instead of ag the other way, and the pastor will iave a weeping audience.- A arood stove will add mpch to the comfort of wor ship. : Two small stoves are better than. one largd one. Just think, of it ; one stove, (and that . probably not a good one) for a church full of people on a . 4.3 .. , . .. ' ----- ' - ... . ' ppaaoayi - - , - F . And third, see to It- that you have a jsafficlent quantity of good wood, cut the proper lengthy and r.ia ? a eonTenieht ptace. v win not-caae lonK, nor eost much in this country to get wood enough to last all the winter. - ; Green1 wet wood for a stove," and some of that too long, is another abomination "and disgrace. Goodwood end good fires are produc tive of domestic happiness, likewise of charch enjoyment, and vice versa And fourth, let the fires be kindled earltt in the mornina. t in most of the jlargelclty churches the fires are started on Saturday night In most of the coun try churches about fifteen minutes be fore preaching time.- I have -taken it lor granted ail along that yoa have a jgood sexton. He should be a man of sense a' Christian, --'and industrious. with' a eonseienee, and a salary.- Let him have the church' warm and, nice by preaching time, and just 1 at the last Terse of the last hymn is being sung let jtbe stoves be refilled, with wood and the 'doors of the stoves shot easily. Then he sexton ean sleep in peace, and the people hear, and the pastor preach with some satieiaetion. c of - reninng; - the stoves just before the ' sermon - begins mere win oe no interruption xrom slam mlng Btove doors, ate.' . r And last, see to it, dear saints, that our bouse is ventilated, i A church fill ed with people, and one or more stoves in foil blast, will consume all the avail able Oxygen in a short time. - Then the congregation 'will become drowsy and1 stupid, and so will the preacher, -and .the oays worst will oe almost lost. Taese may seem to you little things. but I tell yoa they are Important things nevertheless.- winter- Is not here yet. Dut is eommg last. I 'I have some other things- along this jline, not must reserve them for another time.- - - ----' ,i?3K.H? J A.' L.- ism and Protestantism, to the matter of education, is not in. that the former is ' indifferent to education. . The Universi- 'ties of Padua and Paris and Salamanca. the many Universities of Germany, and the many schools under Catholic control in this country, are witnesses against the. assumption that Borne does not foster education. .Tbe trouble is that while Rome .educates some of Its adherents thoroughly, it neglects the masses. It is one thing to found and endow a great university . or, professional school, and encourage a certain class of young peo ple to get an education,- and quite an other . thing to establish . and sustain schools for the people, and see to it that every boy and girl gets so much educa tion as to .enable him or her to read. write and. understand the rudimentary branches. It is the neglect of this latter with which Home is to be charged. By her system the unlearned are made the tools and the dupes of the learned. ; It is against such a system that we are to struggle, persisting until , rudimentary education snail oe : seoared , to . every child. The educational pre eminence of Prussia over the. other countries of Eu rope is not in that it has so many more oniversitiek1 and higher schools; but In that it requires every child to be edu cated in . some degree. ' It was not so much because of the. university men in her armies; in 71, as because of the men in the ranks who could read and write. .that Germany triumphed over France. aa me ea ocauonai status or our own country is to be reckoned not so much by the number of persons in our colleges and universities, as by the number who receive the rudiments of learning in the common schooL The college men in our late armies were a very small pro portion; and, however aseful they may nave Deen, tne victory was not theirs. but was due to men who had received only the rudiments of learning. When young men and women nave received the education furnished by the common schools they - may be safely left to' find out how much else they want; and those having a thirst for more will usually get it, in some way. In any case, it is not the bosiuess of the State to do for some what it dot4 not prop t to do for alL Jlessengnr.' :. 5 i ' f , ; Too will fiud that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the , honest desire to help other people, will, in the quick est and delieatest ways, iiaprove your sen. uuiKin. - , I love that sort of rel'Hon that makes a fellow tell the truth one hundred times In a Laodred, iam Jones. 11889 2 TV . j . The English , Baptists, ,, , "What about the Eotrlish BaDtistsP pThey are nnder a cloud of suspicion just " how ; and many who have asked as the above aaestiou. since onr return' from England, have done so with the evident impression tbat the denomination is far' inquiry, we can only give oar own im pressions, conceding that these, may, be quite inadequate lor constituting a com pete answer.-' tsiMSj'v .u;.w! The tribute of Dr. Chalmers to the em- bent intellectual and spiritual power of the tfsptut ministry oi Ureat Uritaio in its generation is well known.- We be lieve tbat his tribute might be repeated application to the' same body to-day, itbout ona whit of abatement." Then. there were .Robert Hall and Andrew. Fuller and William Carey and John Fos ter, as representatives respectively of the ministerial, the tbeoIogieaL the mission ary aud the literary spirit of the denom , inaton. jjet us see who are. the. repre sentatives or the same to-day. ' r'Jast'bef ore the death of Henry Ward Beecber we heard one of hi most Drom- inent brethren In the ministry lamenting the blight and desolation which his bril liant pulpit had spread over, his whole uenomtnauon, on both sides of the sea. But," be added,: "there is occasion for unspeakable gratitode . to God that the only preacher tofbe com Dared with him In: world w ide popularity M r: Spa rgeon f LoodoBns sending oat such a stream f healthful evangelical teachings". This lentiment. we, are : surei is universally ichoed by the lovers of a pore jrospelall pver ennstendom. And we are inclined to think that Mr. Spa rg eon's own preach-' log and personality are the best reply to his gloomy representation of the present cond itlon of the evangelical faith.". We estimate the tendency of 'a generation by Its strongest spiritual forces, not by its weakest ; we Insist on , Judging of the isoarse of vtbe wind by the upper cur- -ents; not by the gioood' gusts..' If the Weatner-vano on tne metropolitan Tab- ernacte should be foucd some Sunday tnoruing poiutlng towards a.eold north east Iafjtadinarianism,. thousands of heart "would experience a chili, and ex m wub sorrow as tne prospects of evangelicalism? : But such an event has not happened, nor is likely to bapuen. And we have, .moreover, to report that,. looaiog at several of .the tallest Baptist, Steepler in' Kugiand and Scotland, we found the index pointing in the same d irection. aa thatj of & the :. Tabernaele. Hence, to change the flgore, w came away strongly impressed with the force and steadiness with whioh the up grade trains of Baptist influence are.moving; and, in. spite oi our doctrinal sympathy With Mr Sporgeon'a protest, we cannot put believe that If be and his associate engineers keep op the 'present bead of pteatn, and do not. refuse to be coupled With weaker brethren, any trains wjpich rnay have -been temporarily 1 shunted upon ' the down grade -'-track will " be Speedily switched back again upon the tnain 4iu& :.' This is . our first renlv then to the question with whicfi we, started. and since Mr.. Bpurgeon, in a recent let ter, has distinctly avowed his continued adhesion to the Baptist denomination.' though withdrawing from the Union- Tp leave one society of a denomlna- Stion is not to quit the body. . L am. by the grace of God. a baptized believer. ana a oapozer ox oeiievers." tne strong est evangelical force now in operation is still xrom an Jsnglisu Baptist pulpit. And some say the second strongest aiso. i mr.. cpurgeon nas Deen tne providential antidote to Mr.' Beecher. who has exercised that function in rela tion to Robertson, whose sermons twen ty five years ago were in the library of almost every young minister, and stud ied, absorbed and copied -as few dis courses Jn modern times have been! The rare genius and the winning amia bility of . these ' sermons ' blinded their readers to certain germs of error, con cerning- the atonement and the new birth;- which they earned, and which have since borne evil fruit ' in hundreds jof pulpits. .Has any one taken the place oi uooertson as a teacher of preachers. as- a monider oi the nslntr ministry T There is a Baptist preacher in Manches ter to whom The Expositor recently paid the following tribute f . ' t i 'Our belief is that Dr. Maelaren; more than, any other; except Robertson, has altered the whole manner of Dreachlnar in England and America and that im measurably for the better. There have been more subtile, Teamed and poetical preachers in our time thoughmotmanyj There have been a few far: more pro- xound, ; oat we . believe JUr. Madaren's sermons may be read when the rest are forgotten, because he, above all his co temporaries, 'has faithfully interpreted We believe the statement to be. strictly true. In our travels and observations we have found Maelaren V everywhere holding the same place at the study' table of young' ministers which Robert son held a quarter of a century ago : and his moulding influence has been as saiu xary as it. has been, wide spread, as purely ' evangelical .: as It has .been bril iUaDtlyattracttre, Therefore. those wno iove our oistinetive xaitn . ana fel lowship ought , to rejoice that none, of our denominational kinsmen had to do (with starting that devastating stream of broad churchism which has of late years been lowing through many pulpita in Christendom, but that one of them is honored to be a most powerful instra ment ia checking that current, and fill ing the channel -with a porer tide.- If now our principle be correct that we must lodge of the character of a denom ination by its most potent forces, and not by its weakest; by its influences so notable that they reach over Christen doin, and hot by those so obscure that their source and habitat are difficult for a stranger to discover, we have certainly given an encouraging answer to the question we are considering. 5ut we need not stop, here. If : Carey honored the Baptists ia bis day by bis missionary consecration and leadership,! we have to aak who stood forth more congpicously in the recent world's conference as the advocates and promoters of foreign mis-: sions than our brethren, H. u rattan Guinness and J. Hudson Taylor master workmen - in this cause than whom there are hone greater! ? . : And then in theflogy there are still such Bound and scholarly , teachers as Dr. Angus and Dr. Col rocs. An evan gelical churchman pointed out to us the Baptist Tabernacles of Archibald Brown and Mr. Cuff, In East London, saying, 'These men are doing a work for the masses which I envy. For they are not only preaching to thousands, but gath ering them in; while our mission work is largely thwarted by the ritualism which chilis and repels our converts, when we try to bring them into the church." We did not meet these ear nest brethren, who are from Eparreon's US pollege and bear his stamp; but we did have delightful fellowship with pastor Frank White, ofi the West End Taber nacle, conspicuous as an evangelical breacher and winner of souls; and with F, B. Meyer, of Regents Park, the spirit-, hality of whose preaching and the savor of whose conversation : wen our hearts kt once, f We found, hi m, having f re- cently eome to a depleted conareeation. Cipidly filling his house by his fervent vangelical preaching.' -He believes that whatever defections from the Prim itive Baptist faith, may. exist, they can. be best eared by a deepening of i the spiritoal . life," and he Is laboriDg'iBar-r hesfly in this direction by holding prayer ana consecration conferences with his brother ministers " r1'.-: ' V:'v'; 1 These' and many like them are the kind of -Baptists we encountered'- in Eogland, and i they are such . that 'we" woold. - gladly see them . 81 transported icross'.the rsea and .transplanted. into some bf our vacant pastorates. I "Being present at the meeting' of the London Baptist Association, the spirit pf prayer seemed to be very earnest dur ing the devotional hour, and. we -were ; sorry to hear premonitions of a sharp, debate to follow, on the question of im posing! a creed opon the Association. Those who advocated the, creed, we rere told, were of Mr. SDanreon's oartv.-. holding strongly, no doubt, that such a measure would afford protection against i-ror and errorists.- Advice from an American Baptist was not proffered on this point, but had it been it would have - been , . decidedly 7 - against - the iueasare.. Let it be remembered that this was the 'antidoteprescribed by our Congregational i brethren in New Eng land iVrben. the new departure began to appear, ... two or. three creeds have been proposed since, and. Instead of checking the drift,' : we distinctly remember that t he last one divided - the evangelicals, Z and arrayed some of the most orthodox bf them agaiust each other This means Is certainly not according to the ancient Baptist way, which has ever been to de- pend upou life, rathr than ligatures, for keeping rh body of Christ- oolted. The statement cf an eminent Presbyter rian has lately been widely circulated, In which be eays:-4" I' speak In no ful some praise; bat literally I think there is not a denomination of evaneelical Christians t hat is .throughout as sound as the Baptist .denomination of America.! If It be soviet ns rejoice; but with all humility,- believing thatlthe truth has, had more, to do . with keeping .as; than we with Keeping , the truth; and Jet us. confess that, if we have maintained the , faith once delivered to the saints, we have been too little' like the 'saints that were once delivered to the faith.: ,V It will be : remembered, that the elder Dr. Hodge, of Princeton, once expressed bis etrrpriro that, while the' American Baptists ara held together by the slight-" est creed tenure ,of . any denomination, they suouid nevertheless nave maintain ed such uniform orthodoxy. . We should reply that the lack of such tentire. trob- ably, has very much to do with thia re sult. "By the law is the knowledge of sin,", and by a creed is the knowledge of heresy. jUoubtiess, in time of spintnal Coldness, ' questionings and epecnlations rise in the minds of (Christians, which can be easily provoked into open errors. provided there is a creed to challenge and forbid them but which, being let alone, run their course and die oat with out ever :- coming to the light,:: ' "I had not known last except the law had said. Thou shalt not covet," writes Paul; and we fancy many a Christian in whom the old nature Is strong might say, "I had not known .denial except the creed had eaid, : Thon . shalt t not doubt." At all events our denominational, history is very suggestive on this point.': The old First ' Baptist Church ; Of - Providence, planted by Roger WUIiams, is an object lesson for the world. Without a scran tof creed, 'except the ;Ne w ; Testament. there it has stood for two hundred and fifty years,: as firm to ' its evangelical moorings as in the beginning, notwith standing the storms of apostacy which have swept over New England during its historr. s.And- so ' with ' many - other jehurcbes and associations that might be named. This is not according to human .wisdom. "In order to secure srowth and expansion there must be thorough denominational organization with strong- centralization," it Is said; but statistics show tbat the Baptist body of America, without any such; centralized govern ment,, our. witn. its system or. independ ent churches, each responsible alone and directly, to Christ the HeadV has. during the last three years, outstripped every other denomination in growth, promising to roll op the list to three mil lion' communicants in - its next annual. report. But this increase has been the result of free, unconstrained life, not of ecclesiastical machinery or organization. And If evangelical soundness keeps even With this multiplication and growth, it will be equally, attributable to the freer aggressive, spiritual life of the body, and not to the fencing and garrisoning of theological creeds.' With these obser vations, we are reminded .to copy , what we conceive to be an admirable state ment of the ease, in the following reso lutions,' which' the Freeman reports as Just; introduced Into the -London Asso ciation, by Rev. F. B. Meyer, to whom we have referred above: ;t . ui:.- :: :- "We, the pastors, delegates, and per sonal members' of the London Baptist Association, summoned to consider the desirability of having a credal basis for our- association, resolve: -1st, That we have deep sympathy in the earnest de sire expressed in many quarters to guard against the introduction or permission amongst as of erroneous teaching such as would - be inconsistent; with those views . of truth known as evangelical, and which have been committed to us by our forefathers in the faith.- 2d, That we reaffirm onr allegiance to those views; in recognition of which the Association was founded and embodied (vide rule 1 oi the constitution); and we express our opinion that no pastor who is disloyal to them should continue associated with us. 3d, That if there enould be a case or cases of : defection from "'evangelical troth;' then according to the inspired ap pointment James St 19: Matt. 18:16) the offender should be waited on pri vately, and lovingly admonished by any brother or brethren who feel concerned with bis defection; and that in the last resource only should the matter be brought before the Association for con rideration and adjudication ' as to the coarse to be pursued. 4th," That we do not consider it would be desirable to la-: trod ace a credal basis (a) because the bond of union among Christians is rather a common life In Christ than a common creed, which may become a matter of mere intellectual assent; (6) because creeds have notoriously failed in exclu ding error from the church; (c) because the adoption of a creed is alien to the spirit of Free Churches, which depend 1 time 1 mo. 3 no. $100 $3 25 $8 50 - 2 00 . 6 50 15 00 . 3 00 8 50 at 00 4 00 11 00 27 50 6 00 16 00 37 00 7 50 22 00 50 00 10 0 SO 00 60 00 17 SO 45 00 100 00 1 inch....... S inches. 8 inches, a inches. ,... Quarter col.. Third col.,.. (Holt col ... Pae column. $1500 $27 00 27 50 S5 00 50 00 55 00 42 00 52 00 65 00 80 00 85 00 135 00 275 00 75 00 D5 00 185 00 . Special Notices charged 20 cents s line. . . No contracts made for every nxher-week adver! I i tisements. Obituaries, sixty words long, are inserted f re.' cent for each word mast be paid la advance.. on the presence and operation of the' Divine Spirit for the maintenance of ' their purity; Hd because we have no precedent for a creed in the Scripture records of the early church, and it would Beem to. underrate . the suociencv of Scripture, which is our only guide in all matters ot ialth and practice." - , su duo wuvic, we are cuusuiuueu to acknowledge a great debt of gratitude -to the English Baptists of the present generation, as to those of the past.: The savor of their evangelical unction has " come across the sea in the. writings of sach as Spargeon and- Maelaren and . Stanford and Culross;- and if there are :. kny dead flies In their pot of ointment ' of' which the rumor, though not the smell, has come to usy we tru9t they may be ejected without tipping over ihe pot it8ell Rev. Ai Gordon in Boston Watchman, Oct, 18, 1888., . . Beport 'of th4Wotnang Central ai I Committee of iMissions For Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1888. - ''4? is 'M :' tAssi s n ;:'-.:- . ,Wt -i-' -ii- t Atlantic tunston Sunbeams, S12.84: - Bay boro, 3 25 ; Antioch, 3.55; Beaufort, -4 45; NewBerne, 6 25; Morehead, 8.42. ' t etMOA Greensboro. v 14 40: Shiioh. $ J5uneom6s Berea,$3 00: BeaverDam. y i Central Yoangsville, I $4.00; Roles- ville, 3.05; New Hope, 3 00; Wake For- ' est; 10 00; First Baptist church, Raleigh, -58 92; Apex, 3 60. - r -- - t Caldwell Caldwell Conntv. SI 33 ! Chowan Chowan Baptist Female Id- stitute, $10 00; Middle Swamp, 7.00; Elizabeth. City, i.7SMi?s- hJVest Chowan Aboskh, $6 70;Rey- ?' noldson Saabeams, 4 00; Bland San- . Eastern Bei&h ' Sunbeams, $5.40 ;- First Baptist choreb, Wilmington, 24 97; Wells Chapel, L45; Mt Zion, 2 58; Ox- - ford Sunbeams, 17.83; Henderson, 3.80-- t Iredell County -Bethel; 53 85. King's Mountain new Bethel, $2.15; 4 Shelby, 8 25. - .f ' JMUe iiieer Juniper Springs, $1,00. Liberty Kernersville, f 2 00. 1. MtrZion -Durham Bunbeamal $4.41 : Lystra, 5.47; Olive's Chapel, L61 ; New-'X sUMUrl!a.ZiV. Mecklenburg and Cabarrus Char- - lotte, $24.00, S::V:Pi'i&- VSX Pilate JfotintotnLeaksville; '$5.00." ' Robeson Lumberton, $12. 40. - ' . s I aeA Holly .Springs Sunbeams, i $2.10; Inwood. 5.00; Shady .Grove, 2.05;'. Tabernacle,; 28.51; . Selma Sunbeams, . 22.95;'Holly Springs, JT.OOX-- ?l V . " W 1 ns S Wl jSb4i MM i aouw tjTorK oanav i-iains. aiu.ua : Le wis ville Sunbeams, L 44 ; 'Hickory, 5.70--jj::y;;;;i:K:u:f;; - .' Sandv Creek Manlv. $3.25 : Marion .- church,'!. 30. ct": -: CWt- i Tar BiverPonlax SnrihM.' 82- 55 : i Sharon, ; 8.S5 ; Misaianary Talk, 1.25 ; J Providence church, 2.50. 1 . v South Yadkin Eaton's. $7.60. - . r 8tate Missions. $60.31: Home Missions: " 100.14 f aForeign Missions, 254.40; Or- " phanage, 9.90; : Ministerial ; Education, 12,00; for Home Benevolence by Selma Sunbeams, 15.40. .. Total, 446.96. . . " Talks, 3, 600 Leaflets, 600; blank re- ports, 200; new societies, 4. - - . Kespectiuliy submitted, -' " -3'-;,Misa Fajtsub K Hkck, ... . re-r. Mas. Jambs A. Bbiogs, ' ' J -is Cor. Bee. W; C. C. s Raleigh, Oct 1, 188a.-i-i . " .; j.T iTominal Christians, " There was no man of the last genera- ; tion who had a more enviable reputa- ; tion as a sound theologian than Arc hi bald Alexander. D. D of Princeton , Beminary. " His opinions are therefore ' entitled to more than ordinary respect. In reading an article from his pen in a very , precious volume, styled " l?earing Home, I" have beeh deeply and pain- , fully impressed with the following' ; words : ' I must say tbat the true reason ' Why many professors have no comfort- able evidence of their religion is because h they have none. .They have never ex- perienced the new birth; and being still ' dead in trespasses and sins, it is no won-' der that they cannot And in themselves ; what does not exist. . I abhor a censo-. rious spirit, which, upon slight grounds, -judges this and that professor to , be graceless ; but all ; my experience and ' observation lead me to believe that In y bur day, as well as in former times, they foolish virgins constitute a full moiety of the visible church. ' ;. - Startling words I Specially so Is the term "moiety, meaning-a half. Can it be so tbat one-half o! those who pro fess to love Christ do not love him! I ' fear it Is the case. If we fix our thoughts " 'on all the professors of religion within -the -bounds of our acquaintance, do ; more than half of them give evidence of " piety! -1 think not. Of many of them - we are obliged to say, - - -rx "Like Jodas the Savior they kiss- - . i , And while they salute him, betray." ... : y,. Haying said this, we have to add, -! ; y? ;f Ah, what will profession, like this,1 f y , Avail in his terrible day?" f Xi w mm j ... ... m --a i. in one nan or. xnose wno proiess to - know God do not know him, what duty . rests on every professed Christian! Evi dently the ' doty of ' self-examination. Every one should ask whether he has grasped the ehadow instead of the sub- Stance! The question should be eonsid- ered intensely personal. . When Jesus . said to his apostles, "one of you will' betray me," the eleven did not unite in saying, ."Judas is no doubt the one," ; but -every man said,," JLiord. is It 1 !" So it should be now. ' If a "moiety" of professors are not Christians in fact aa well as in name, let every brother -and sister say, "Am I in that wretched moiety !" . Self examination is the thing to do, so that if a mistake has been made it may be found out and rectified ' while there is time and opportunity.' Ho rectification ean be made in eternity. .It Is an appalling thought that the r mere professor of religion may go from ; the communiontable and from the pul- ; pit down to hell, to spend' eternal ages ' with' " hypocrites and ; unbelievers. " J. M. PmantDt B,t in W i2- - corder, A Happy Answer, i .'A street pavier in Lanark being at work was accosted by the minister of the parish as he was passing with the usual j salutation of You're busy, ; Thomas. :.;.V-y;,A:v;,-y .'"--' y;Tes,H ' replied Thomas, J' I'm " just . striving, as far as I can, to mak' the folk gang straught, sir." : y The minister observed that he Lad ' been engaged in a work of a similar na ture for these five-and-thlrty years vith. very little saccess. "Ah, but sir," says Thomas, "ye're no near sae muckle oa your kne : 3 as I en." & I I -;- J
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