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TEE ORGAN OF TEE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS-DEVOTE! TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL niTELLUIINZ Volume B 8. RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1893. Number The Biblical Recorder. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. OFFICE: (IS (op stairs) Fayetteviile Street, Raloigh, N. C. . ' Terms ot BuBSCBiwioit: . " Oae copy, one year. 2.00 Ooe oopv, lx months 1.00 Clubs of ten (copy extra to sender) .......... 20.00 . Anonymous communications will always find their way to the waste basket, No exceptions. . In sending letters of business, it Is absolutely nec essary that you give your postofflco address la fulL when your subscription expires, and also serves as a receipt for your money, s ; v - - Obituaries, sixty words long, are inserted free of charge. When they exceed this length, one cent for each word must be paid in advance. - . When writing to have your paper changed, please state the poetolhce at which you receive the paper, as well as the one to which you wish it changed. 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R II Marsh, President; R E Royall, Secretary; C T Bailey, Noah Biggs, G W Blount, John B Brewer, H A Brown, SB Cobb, O M Cooke, W E Daniels, II C Dockery, P A Dunn, O Durham, W R Gwaltney, J M Heck, F P Hobcood, J D Iluf ham, R McBrayer, John Mitchell, W II Mitchell. E S Moore, R R Overby, W H Pace, L L Folk, T II Pritchard, J B Richardson, J W F Rogers, G W Kanderlin, J C Scarborough, T E Skinner, J H Tucker, A R Vann, W J Ferrell, A R Foushee, W W Vass, W G Upchurch, W T Faircloth. A Discourse on the Apostolic Ministry, BY REV. DR. FRANCIS WAYLAND. Delivered in Rochester, N. Y before the New York Baptist Union for Ministerial Ed- ucatlon on July 12th, 1853. Text, Mark 16 : 15" Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature CONCLUDED. Bat, secondly, God sometimes bestows upon individuals particular talents, which may ba made the means of f pacial useful ness. -One has a remarkable capacity for managing affairs, another for mechanical invention, another for philological research, and another for the pursuit of abstract sci ence. In such a case, it would seem that such talent is to be cultivated with special care. It is a means of usefulness which has not been created in vain, and is not to be recklessly thrown away. On the same prin ciple, if a man has been endowed with a talent for publio speaking, though employed in a secular calling, he must embrace every opportunity in his power to render this tal ent serviceable Christ. Bosides availing himself of every means of general culture, he should devote particular attention to the improvement of this special ift He should rive Linsclf to the study of the Word of (Jod, end should labor as much as may be in Lis power to render his instructions profita- Ua to ki3 felldwraen.- Cat, now, su7os3 it manifest that God has called a man to devote his whole time to the mini8trv of the Word; it is obvious that the obligation to improve his talent to the utmost, is specially imperative. It is by means of his intellectual faculties that he at tempts to influence the minds of his fellow men. This is the service to which they are exclusively devoted. He is laboring in the cause which employed all the faculties Of the Son of man while on earth. For the use and the improvement of his intellectual powers, he must render a specially solemn account. The means of improvement which God has placed in the power of those whom he calls to the ministry, may be very dis similar inasmuch as they may vary with age,1 domefctio relations, pecuniary ability, and degree of talent for acquisition. God assigns these conditions as he pleases ; all that he requires is, that all he has given should be faithfully improved and conse crated to his service. From the views which we entertain respecting the ministry, it is evident that a large portion of our candi dates for the sacred office mast have attained to some maturity of age. It must certainly be difficult to ascertain whether or not a person in mere youth possesses the qualifi cations which the Apostle-Paul teaches .us must be required in a candidate. If it be then our purpose to provide the means of improvement for those among us who are called to the ministry, it has seemed to me that we should bear in mind these ele mentary ideas of our denomination on this subject. If we are willing to follow, and not to lead, the Spirit of God that is, if we educate no man . for the ministry until we are satisfied, not that he may be, but that he lias been, Called of God to the work of preach ing the gospel- we shall always have among our candidates a large number of those who have passed the period of youth, and for whom the studies of youth would be unsuit able, if not uselesj. Vet these are the very men to whom appropriate culture would be specially , valuable. Others, in various de grees have been more favored with prepara tory education, and the means for more ex tended discipline. The means and advan tages of our candidates must, therefore, be exceedingly dissimilar. If, then, we would labor to give to the ministry the means of improvement, we must provide those means for them alL A system of ministerial edu cation, adapted to the condition of but one in twenty of our candidates, commences with the avowed intention of doing but one twentieth part of its work, and of helping those only who have the least need of its Assistance. We should, therefore, provide for all our brethren whom God. has called to this service, the best instruction . in our power ; adapted, as far as possible, not to any theoretical view, but to the actual con dition of the mess of our candidates, leaving each individual, in the exercise of a sound and pious discretion, to determine the extent to which be is able to avail himself of our services. While means should be fully pro vided for pursuing an extended course of education, we must never lose sight of the large number of oar brethren to whom an extended course would be impossible. But in what way soever a candidate pur sues his studies, whether by himself, or un der the instruction of an elder brother in the ministry, or in a seminary devoted to this purpose, the question remains to be considered, to what points shall his efforts be directed. In attempting to answer this question, it is important to determine, in the first place, what object he has in view. Uis object is to prepare himself to be, not a teacher, or a professor, or an agent, or a ghilological scholar, or a popular! writer, ut an evangelist or a pastor. It is not by any means asserted that these various gifts are not useful, or are not to be cultivated. What I say is, that they are not particularly connected with the ministry, and therefore should be cultivated elsewhere. Least of all should a course of education for the Chris tian ministry be modified for the sake of preparing men for other and different pur suits. His calling is to persuade men to be reconciled to God, and to build up those who are reconciled in their most holy faith. His studies, then, must all bear ; directly upon thi3 object, for which " it has pleased God to put him into the ministry," The means which he is to use In accomplishing this object ate simple. He is to make known the will of God as it has been revealed in the New Testament, and to urge men to obey it. - It is obvious then, first of. all, that the minister of the gospel must be, as thoroughly as possible, acquainted with the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles. These con tain the precise truth inspired by the Holy Ghost, which he is to communicate to oth ers. He is authorized to make known to men as the commandment of God the whole of this revelation, and nothing whatever be yond it. It is precisely this truth, and noth ing else, that the Spirit of God has promised to accompany with his almighty power. Now, I think that a man may be materially assisted to understand the New Testament by improved mental discipline. He needs to acquire the habit of continuous and ab stract thought, the power of concentrating his mind upon a subject, and keeping it steady to its work. He must think through the thoughts of the Bible, that he may be able to present them clearly to others. But let me say that this is far from being a merely in tellectual process. Simply intellectual power can never attain to it. There is needed, bo sides this, a devout and holy tempor of mind, without which mere mental strength can do but little. These things aro "hidden from the wise and prudent, end revealed unto babes." Of all this you ate fully aware from your own experience. When you have been desirous of ascertaining the meaning of any particular passage of tbe Scriptures, in order to impress it more deeply on your fellowmen, in what manner have you been most successful, by turning over the works of men, or by the earnest thinking of a soul lying in lowly prostration before the Spirit of infinite wisdom I do not stand here to disparage either human learning, or logical acutenes, but I say that these, without the aid of a holy temper of mind, will enable us but imperfectly to understand the mind of the Spirit 'What we need is, to know, not the thoughts of man, but the thoughts of God, and these will be best understood by the soul illumined by the indwelling of tbe Holy Spirit. . , . . . Here I may however remark, in passing, that the revelation given to us consists of ideas, and not of words. These ideas may be expressed in our own language, or in the languages in which they were written. If a man have the opportunity, of reading the Bible in its original languages, let him by all means learn to do it, and do it thoroughly. Let him embrace this and every other op portunity oL generous Intellectual., culture. No man may innocently reject any means by which he may add to the accuracy of his knowledge of the Word of God, But if such opportunity as he may desire have not been given him, let him not despair, or think himself set aside as a vessel in whom the Master has no pleasure. Let him study the Scriptures more earnestly, and pray more devoutly, using every means which God has placed in his power; and the Spirit will as suredly lead him into all necessary truth. " But suppose this truth to have been ar rived at; it is then to be presented to the human heart, so as to produce the effect of persuasion. Ilre is required a knowledge of the human mind, its moral condition, its opposition to God, its subjection to earthly affections, and of all tbe phases which it as sumes when its chambers of imagery are illu minated by the light cf divine truth. In order to acquire this knowledge, the man must be come acquainted, first of all, with his own moral nature, and the modes of its operation. When he tells what he has himself experi enced, he may be assured -that in general he sreika the language of humanity. Here also he needs to be in the hibit of personal conver sation with his fellowmen on the subject of religion. Hence, it is that no man is ever an effective preacher, who does not visit bis people for-the sake of urging upon them per sonally the claims of religion. Have you never observed how pungent the preaching of a minister becomes who has spent a few weeks in the midst of a revival of religion, whert his whole time is occupied in inter course with a wakened, souls, and how such a minister cirries everywhere with him the spirit of a revival t It is thus that we learn to apply the truths of the gospel to the minds of men. , But a minister is to teach publicly, and from house to house. Under the first of these divisions of his duty must be placed the composition of a sermon. He whose weekly business it is to address men publicly should, if possible, un derstand the nature and objects of a dis course, and snouid learn to construct a ais- course correctly, iie snouia acquire tue ability to think out a train of thought, which embodies one idea revealed by the Spirit of truth, and to lead the minds of men in the direction which he intends. Thorough, faithful and honest dealing with a candidate, may here be of eminent advan tage to his future ministry. But. suppose this train of thought to be thus prepared, shall it be written or unwrit ten? Each has its advantages,- but I am constrained to believe that the value of written discourses has been in this country greatly overrated. Speaking an unwritten train of thought is by far the noblest and most effective exercise of mind, provided the labor of preparation in both cases be the same. I cannot but think that we have been the losers by cultivating too exclusively the habit of written discourses. . But the discourse having been prepared, It has yet to.be delivered. The cultivation of a clear and impressive delivery, free from awkwardness, vulgarity and oddity, and deeply imbued with the tones expressive of natural feeling, is of the greatest importance to a publio speaker. It has surprised me that in seminaries, of which the object is to educate preachers, so little time should be devoted to the art of delivery. From want of attention to this subject, good and able men frequently attain to, very moderate sua cess, and are shoved aside by men, in other respects, very greatly their inferiors. ' But the gospel is to be preached not only publicly, but from house to house. In pre paring for this part of his duty, a young minister may receive much valuable instruc tion from an elder brother who has himself been a diligent pastor. The sick are to be visited, the mourners consoled, the thought less aroused, the secure alarmed, the con victed urged to decision, the penitent pointed to Christ, the , wandering reclaimed, the feeble encouraged; and all this by personal appeal to individuals, and he who has done it successfully, may give much valuable counsel to him who is just entering upon the work. Until a mini iter has learned not only to perform but to love this part of his labor, he cannot hope to be a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. I do not know of a more common or a more just ground cf complaint anainst the ministry, than that cf the nf lect of parochial visitation. It r:c:r.3 strange that a., raan who:.;a eolo calling it ii to urge men to repentance, shou!d refuse to perform this duty, in this particular form, especially when his people themselves in vite him to perform it. They desire that be should converse with them individually on the subject of their souls' salvation, and shall he consider such conversation a drudg ery and leave his people unwarned? If any one desires to see this subject treated of with great force and eloquence, I ask leave to commend him to the peruaal of "Baxter's Reformed Pastor." Such seem to me, after some reflection, to be the pomts to whicK the attention of a candidate for the ministry should be di rected. To these I know many others are commonly added, and the number of addi tions is continually increasing. We, how ever, seem frequently to forget that the time Ts rapidly approaching every young man, when, if he would be anything but a retailer of other men's opinions, he must be a teacher unto himself; and, that the sooner he can be induced to put himself under his own in struction, the sooner will he attain to the stature of a full grown man. . It is possible, my brethren, that in the views I have thus frankly suggested, there may seem to you somewhat of strangeness ; but let me respectfully request that you" will examine them, not in the light of the opin ions and practice of men, but in the light of the teachings of Christ and his Apostles. Believe them and pat them in practice in just so far as they conform to the revealed will of God, and no farther, Thi3 I may reasonably claina of every disciple of Christ, and I have no desire to claim anything more. At the' present moment, a right under standing of the duties of the private disci ples of Christ, and of the ministers, and of the relations which they sustain to the Mas ter and to each other, seems to me cf incal culable importance. Since the era of the. Reformation, Protestantism has made no aggressions upon Popery, and the same ge ographical lines have for centuries separated the parties from each other. But now it is evident that a contest for the mastery of the world between the powers of light and the powers of darkness is imminent and inevita ble. The : nations in which the BiUe is freely circulated, and the gospel publicly preached, are ranging themselvts on the one side; and the nations from which the Bible is prohibited, and where the preaching of Christ is forbiddf n, are ranging themselves on the other. Within the life-time of men Who now hear me, the question will proba bly, be decided, . whether the kingdom of Christ is now to proceed to universal vic tory, or ages of intellectual and moral dark ness are again to overspread the earth. It is for such a crisis as this that the disciples of Christ are now called opon to prepare. . But- more than this. It is obvious that this question is really to be decided in our own country. So long as the light of true Christianity shines brightly here, the rest of the world cannot be enveloped in darkness. Hence it is that the intention is publicly avowed of overturning our systems of uni versal education, and thus bringing us under the power of a foreign hierarchy. In aid of this design, immigrants by hundreds of thousands are annually arriving on our shores, who are at once admitted to all the privileges of citizenship, while they are con scientiously bound to obedience to a foreign ecclesiastical potentate. At the same time tbe press is scattering broadcast over our laud the seeds of frivolity and licentious ness. Unbounded prosperity is providing for every class of our people the means of sensual gratification. The rise of prices, consequent upon the increase of the precious metals, is stimulating to yet greater excess the.desire of acquisition already sufficiently life 'amongst us. But critical as is our posi tion, there would be nothing to alarm us, if the disciples of Christ, holy and self-denying, were, with one accord, ranging them selves under the banner of their Master, and using every means in their power to prepare for the coming onset; and the ministry, in the van of the Lord's hosts, filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, were by precept and example training their brethren for the approaching conflict. But what is the condition of our churches of all denominations at this critical moment? The disciples of Christ seem to be fast losing the distinctive marks of their profession. Self-denial for the cause of the Redeemer will soon become the exception rather than, the rule. In large districts of our country, the admissions to the churches are not as numerous as the removals by death. In the, mean time, the number of candidates for the ministry is diminishing, in all denomi nations, not only relatively,, but absolutely. Nay, it is diminishing more rapidly than the figures indicate, for of the reputed num ber of candidates a considerable portion never enter the ministry; and of those who enter it a greater and greater number are annually leaving it for other pursuits. And what is the remedy proposed in this unusual crisis ? It has been recommended, in order to meet this emergency, to reduce the cost of ministerial education, to extend the term of ministerial study, and to increase the pe cuniary emoluments of the ministry. Iu other words, we are told to address stronger motives to the self interests of men, that so we may induce them to enter upon a calling essentially self-denying. .When the whole power of the adversary is thundering at the gates, and the crisis requires every man to stand to his crrss, W9 content curs ives vitl; oUcrir terge bor.nty to ciT.crrs, and cVavx every citizen to r' tire frori th8 ccnf.ict. Was ever a victory rained ty ttratr-y racU ' In our own denomination, it i3 said th.it v t have 4,000 churches destitute of prer 1 1 o ! the gospel. What is to be done to r..' 1 1 '. deficiency ? Docs all that we are t'eir f . r nish us with the shadow cf a hope that tL: ; demand can be supplied ? Nay, ir.u!l:; ;y our present efforts to any i radical!.; txt; ;t, and compared with the woik to Lo d.;r a, the discrepancy between the means ar, 1 the end is such as to awaken the fctiirg t f the ludicroui. Is it not time, t!.: v., to ex amine tbe - whole subject from it3 four; J i tlons ? May not soma V to derived fro; i considering attentively the doc trice eni ex amples of Christ and his Apostles? Is it not evidentthat if we are aUfmj tir,; to do the woik of God, we mustdo it ia clo dience to his commandraents, and ia con formity with the principles which l.a t::3 es tablished? Ministerial gifts have t.cnl stowed upon the church ty Christ ever tir.-ce he ascended on high, and led captivity erp live. ne has commanded us to pray thaLcrl of the harvest to bestow tLese gifts upon men, end thus send forth laborers into the t :vrvc: t. These gifts, in whatsoever mr.r.r.ert .i;?,-t ,1, we are to receive tnd cherub and L.: ; rove. By no rules cf our own ere we to rc trict their number, or diminish their u efuh r We are" to" accept IhaLLfuHy til tha u.,:s which Christ has bestowed upon us fr tl 3 advancement cf hi. causa. And we era to cultivate a ministry afler the examj lo cf V..3 Apostles, men relying upon prayer t r i t!,j Holy Ghost, and ia self-denial, crucifixica to the world, its maxims, its ant: cmcnta and its frivolities, setting1 an exar2j?3 to th 3 Cock, while they d?vctethcr:lv3 thii'y to the work cf savirg 0i:hg. To every whom Christ has thus called, k-t us pi ve ev ery : intellectual advantage, vhich tha cir cumstances cf his individr.rd 0-3 it: J;r suitable. Having done thij, v a l.'vedr:? all in our power for the irsp rev -t cf th i ministry, and we may it::: - ' ! y exp ct c ; our labors the b'ossirg cf Go L . But when all this'tas been dcr.e, Vat Y.iV.3 will have been accomplished. If you, lic'.h ren, would improve the ministry, you cr t begin by improving yours t Ives. 21;:.:. t: ir.l gifts are not besiowi d upon a th;r..l :i: lukewarm and vcrlily church. A:: 1 o p pose they were bestowed, cf wh .t . 1. , would they be either to yea cr to c..L r .-, ii youare turrenirrei cp to tve 1- t-ff t' ilesb, the lustcf thet-je, fit!.' ' life? The mir.itry f .a : 'y 3 1 r t fully as you Ubr u Ith tl . : 1. if 3 c , t' , really desire to witr "!h- t. - ; ! V 1 caysetf -the Kcl. uvr, re a l.: 1 ! .a to live a holy, self denyir Lis. Yea 1:1 cf wealth must cc. 1 3 fro.a r.ccur.:u' t - r- 1 devote not only your lucorao lt jcrh . 3 to the work of the Lord. You men in active business must ba content to Eccumr.hi'3 1 i rapidly, that you iay Lave racra cf year time to consecrate to the salvation cf tac-n. Ye who, professing obedience to Chii t, r r j yet living in subjection to the ruaxinrs c f t! world, efigerly chasing its frivollti,:::, tz.1 teaching the lesson to your chihlrcu, tzz. t commence a life of godly simplicity f : vj Christian self denial. livery disci; 13, l yh:. mode of life, must show that La is r t cf the world, even as Christ was cot of thj world. When ministers and people thus l gin to labor in earnest for Christ, we sh U witness results such as the eges have rxiyet seen, . ....... The nineteenth century since the a J vent of Christ is now half completed, r.r 1 tho world still lieth in wickedness. Ii it ivt high time that the heathen wera riua to Christ for his inheritance, and the ceteris: t parts of the earth for his poser ssi a ? ITovcr, since the beginning, have the disci: 1:3 cf Christ enjoyed such advax.tr 3 for the uni versal dissemination cf the gospel esat pres ent. Let us, then, go up end posrec j the land, for we are weil abla to overcc: 19 it. Nothing is now wanting to subdue tha v crhl unto Christ,-but an universal, earnr t, f elf sacrificing effort of. his disci; les, in n.i re liance upon the Spirit from oa high. TLu3 far we have failed in just so far as we l ave trusted to our own wisdom' instead cf tha wisdom of th8 Master. We mourn over tha vices of the land. We invoke the maj ty of the law, and laws are not execute J. ". e unite In associations, and our associations are rent asunder. Y.'a join hr-id?, r N -with one, and then with another ttrr- - h. r party, and we are sold in thepohtlc.l t 1 bles like brute beasts. Let us, thTi, r J all such vain alliances, and ce: -r:: ! work of reforming the world lye' v '. -,V precept3 of Jesus. If we can convert 1 - 1 to Christ, the work cf reformation v ill ! done. By no other means will the f 1 ' iniquity bo stayed. ; . Do you not believe that if rdl th C of Christ in any cf our citie s or vh' labored for Christ, they would f..- t 1 . the prepress cf iniquity, rt.1 j - i i. den cf tha Lord? Suppc: 0 V:i same spirit undertook, in sr.' . ness, the conversion cf the vr. : ' ; not soon ba fivca unto Chrl .1 i. session t Brethren, on whcwi sponsibility for tho pre-"t ks, of our country, 1 (f t Awake, then, 1 r 1 t 3 your lethargy I i.t ; 1 . reap, for tha hervc t cf t' That vhich i ; too soon, rnd ii : car!, it will f:: net Id 3 ; t ; i . 1 i,
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