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May 30, 1901.
be content to stand aside from the
great moral conflicts of the times and
to be laid on the shelf with other in-
teresting fossil memorials of extinct
life.
And finally, the Church of to-day
needs a loftier type of Christian min-
isters, a better illustration of the
power of the gospel, manifested in the
lives of those who preach the word.
The silent eloquence of a holy life
is one of the most effective means of
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
HARD TO BEAB
him over to that growling basso and They lived religion and talked religion select the royal priesthooda whoamith
kitten tenor. Let them decorate him and walked religion. Now the young Christ, are to be the world slate that
with a few pea-fowl feathers, and he people, more especially the young pro- ers. And now comes and an With
would soon strut himself to death, fessors, watched the old professors. I so many in this age wouldGod.
J. B. TURRENTINE. did for one, and I saw there was a joy who are unwilling to serve ur
Center Texas, reality in what they professed. Their Hear him: And should a^y one
center, light so shone before me that I was ing that age of trial, under its full
BROTHER! Y CRITICISMS constrained to glorify God. The par- blaze of light, spuin ne offere 1 favor
SOME BROTHERLY CRITICISMS ents in those days and times had their and make no progress towaid perfec-
We frequently meet with criticisms children given them alive from the tion for a hundred years, he will be
of one kind and another in the Advo- dead. Now some people do not like reckoned unworthy of life. . . .
cate that tend more or less to the well- to hear you say that religion is at a Thus all must have at least one hun-
, being of the Church or of society. I low ebb. “Why,” they say, “there dred years of trial.” And those who
preaching Christ. We want more of have thought that a little criticism of never was a time when the Church refuse all offers will be remanded back
incorruptibility, integrity in the trans- another kind, which will tend to make outnumbered the present.” No doubt in death, extinct, as he has no life sep-
action of business, more unfaltering public speakers more uniform in their we have a greater number now than arate from the body.
faith in the promises of God and utterances along certain lines, would ever before. But are we living the In my next article I will show some
greater practical sympathy withthe not be amiss even in a religious paper, old-time religion? 20 ----------mho
needs of the bodies and the souls ot Our preachers are public teachers, and changed: hut I have never seen where sacrilegiousness. If you will .
men. We want the dead members in they help educate the masses as well the word of God has changed. Ye are my criticism, you will see that it is
our Churches quickened into life, So as teachers in our public schools and the light of the world and the salt
that those who now count for nothing colleges, and if they give a wrong bias the earth. But if the
in religious work may become living in any department of knowledge, that savor it is good for nothing. The sin- so corrupting,
witnesses and earnest workers for bias is damaging to society in general, ners saw the light and were saved.
Christ in the spheres in W hich they For instance, I lately heard a minister, MRS. A S. A THOMPSON,
move. Those who disparage the with in alluding to Joseph’s imprisonment, Port Sullivan, Texas,
istry and refuse to co-operate with say he was imprisoned for seven years.
them dishonor the wisdom of the great This may have been a mere slip of the
Head of the Church who has sent tongue hut still it was hardly excus-
them out “to proclaim glad tidings of “ ’
joy to men.” Though I believe the But it is along another line I wish
ministry has need of a larger measure to call attention. A very objectionable
of power from on high, I have no sym-
pathy with those who think they
evince their superiority by disparaging
the ministry because they do not adopt
the fads and theories which they pro-
claim as the panacea for the world’s
Story of a Druggist Who Was
Always Compounding Rem-
edies for Others Yet
Suffered Agonies
Kimself.
From the Republican, Eldorado, III.
Perhaps in no case where stomach.
. --------------------. .trouble was the ailment has the effi-
public speakers more uniform in their we have a greater number now than arate from the body some * of a popular remedy been so
utterances along certain lines, would ever before. But are we living the In my next article I will show some money 01 a pop as in the case
not be amiss even in a religious paper, old-time religion? You say times have of his vile infidelity and more of his thoroughly demo 1 rated as it are eHist
Our preachers are public teachers, and changed; but i have never seen where sacrilegiousness. If you will digest of W. E. Mathis, a prom nel 6 38166
they help educate the masses as well the word of God has changed. Ye are my criticism, you will see that it is of Eldorado, III. The story as tol y
as teachers in our public schools and th light of the world and the salt of one of the rottenest books now extant, Mr. Mathis is as follows:
colleges, and if they give a wrong bias the earth. But if the salt has lost its as it makes such great pretense and is
in any department of knowledge, that savor it is good for nothing. The sin- so corrupting,
bias is damaging to society in general. —a cow the light and were saved. I have never seen any one who ac-
For instance, I lately heard a minister,
in alluding to Joseph’s imprisonment,
“In the spring of 1894 I had a very
serious case of indigestion. My stomach
-commenced to give me great trouble,
cepted his theories that was open to and, while I knew the nature of the
reason or conviction of truth.pain, I did not at first use the proper
S. W. MILLER. precaution. For some time I did not
------* pay any attention, but it gradually grew
A COINCIDENT OR DREAM. worse, when I consulted a physician,
On August 7, 1897, our son Willie who prescribed for me. I used his medi-
died in Quitman, Wood County, Texas, cine according to instructions. I began
remains to Panola to experience nervous spells, became
subject to congestion of the stomach, and
RUSSELISM.
No. 1.
With your consent, I will make some______
innovation is prevailing to a very large criticisms of what is known as The We shipped his
immove all over the country in reference Millennial Dawn,” a work of one Mr. County for interment. His sister Min- subject to congestion of the stomach, and
to the pronunciation of a large class Russel. nie at the time was very sick and not considered myself in a precarious condi-
of English words, and for which I can While, in my judgment, it is a work able to go, but was left at home with tion. The physician’s medicine and
find no authority whatever. I have that ought to disgust any reasonable her husband and infant babe. While other remedies I tried failed to benefit
special reference to the long sound of mind, yet he comes to you with the we were gone she dreamed Willie came
woes.the vowel u We meet men right from pretense of unfolding Daniel’s proph- back, but not to stay. She said all the
Glorious victories have been won for the shades of Webster and Worcester— ecy in such a way, by the use of his family got ready and started back with
Christ by our ministers. Heathen standard authorities for English pro- chart, as to sidetrack the reader, and him. All went together to a certain
ignorance and idolatry have been over- nunciation in America—perverting the before he is aware of his intentions place, ghe said she had been there
come by them. They have faithfully established usage of the best lexicog- he has his reader hypnotized in such before, and he said, “You all stop but
rebuked the most popular forms of raphers of our language, and their in- a way that he is made to lose confi- sister," and he took her to a stream of
selfishness and sin, and lifted up the finance is biasing our people to an dence in the ministry and in the com- water with an old bridge across it, and
standards of heaven amidst the un-
godliness and degeneracy of earth.
They have organized Christian sym-
pathy into agencies for the relief of
every form of want and suffering. The
power and excellence of the religion
of Christ has been vindicated by the
heroic fortitude of her confessors and
martyrs, and the unselfish devotion of
her missionaries and evangelists.
The victories achieved evince the
presence of God in our history and at-
test the divinity of our mission.
Let Zion’s watchman all awake,
And take the alarm they give;
Now let them from the mouth of God
Their awful charge receive.
’Tis not a cause of small import,
The pastor’s care demands;
But what might fill an angel’s heart,
And filled a Savior’s hands.
j The watch for souls for which the Lord
L'Veavenly bliss forego;
For V which must forever live
In raptures, or in woe.
May they that Jesus whom they teach,
Their awful redeemer see;
And watch thou daily o’er their souls,
That they may watch for thee.
JOHN L. WILLIAMS.
Oakland, Ind, Ter.
me.
“One day a friend urged me to try Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I
considered it a useless experiment, but
as I had tried everything else, I agreed
raphers or our language, and their in- a way that he is made to lose conf- sister,” and he took her to a stream of hateseathamo. WemI had used three
Amende is biasing our people to an dence in the ministry and in the com- water with an old bridge across it, and8 5 11 the
alarming extent even here in our own mon applications of Scripture and ea- he told her to stop and he crossed over boxes I could note very. Dlirnly the
loved southern country. Fifty, sixty gerly look for his (Russel’s) construc- and said, "Now, sister, go back and change forthe better When1 had used
and even more years ago we were tion. stay till I come, the seventh box 1 was cured.
andht to give the letter u its long His first chart is ingeniously ar- when we returned she told it with "The pills have not only cured the
ornd after nearly all the consonants ranged. Beginning with creation and a great deal of earnestness, and said, indigestion, but they have also cured my
of the alphabet but now an affected, ending with the flood is the first dis- "I will be the next one of the family nervousness, my blood is in perfect con-
pedantic taste would have us ignore pensation; then comes the patriarchal, to go.” We tried to talk her out of dition, and they have brought my weight
the old landmarks and almost obliter- then Jewish, then gospel, then millen- such an idea, but she always said, “I from 140 pounds at the commencement
ate the long u and sound it like 00. nial, then age to come. With this and will be the next.” So on November 17. of the stomach trouble to 180 at present.
And hence these innovators would other positions taken, you would ac- 1900, she dreamed her brother came "If any one who reads this desires to
have us say tooition, introdooce, con- cept him as a believer in the truth of again, took her to the same stream of know more of my experience I will gladly
doocive dooplicate, dooty, Dooteron- God’s Word, when in fact he is an in- water and crossed the 0 d ri ge an answer letters which enclose stamp for
omy etc. Lately one said opportoonity fidel of the most dangerous character, said, “Now, sister, go back again, but reply. Signed,
and toon-book and toons. Another said Icould cite you to some sad results from the next time I come for you I will w E MATHIS
roosday for the third day of the week the circulating and reading of his lit- take you with me." She told her hus Sworn and subscribed to) beforea me
Even our college-bred young men call erature. And my obesrvation is that band, Rev. S. L. Burke, about it. Her Tin 1000
Even our stoodents and poopils of his missionaries propagate his perni- mother and myself went to see her the this 27thdayof June, 9 .
themselyessucn institootions or learn- cious literature quietly, like Mormon-next day. I never will forget her look TRoS. D. MORRIS, Justice of the Peace,
suc And then comes the expression, ism. They first induce you to read when she looked me in the face and Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
ins. puimit and the poo. Why, I would pamphlets which poison the mind, said, “Papa, I had the same dream ple are sold at all druggists or will be
soon say that I once ate milk and then when prepared for it you then and Willie said, ‘The next timel will sent direct from Dr. Williams Medicine
as with a pooter spoon. And then are induced to get the books. Christ take you with me.’" I said ‘Oh, no. Company, Schenectady, N. Y. 1 rice 50
” mind reverts to such expressions says “take heed how you near,” and sister; nothing but a dream." True, cents per box; SIX boxes, $2.60.
as a noo thing the daily noospaper, again, “take heed what you hear.” she said, "but I don’t like it."
as a York the Noo Testament, nooter With this introductory, I begin an The next night she had a light fever,
verbs noosances and other sayings, analysis of his books, but while all were asleep she said her
verbs ON sav too noomerous to men- Volume 1, page 9, and on for several brother really came, just as natural as
som I a me’ why can’t a real student pages, he seeks to turn the reader from he ever came, jumped on the gallery ,
tion. I once heard a D D. say he did the teaching of all Churches and set down his pill-bags and said, “Get
do. as a four months’ furlough from “sects,” as he calls them, to what he ready, sister; I have come for you.
during duty—peruse an unabridged calls the truth-seeker. Hear him, on she woke her husband and told him
regular d -Ring to end? And pape 12; “Truth-seekers should empty her brother was in the hall. Lacy said,
dictionary We propriety claim to their vessels of the muddy waters of "Minnie, he is dead.” “Yes,” she said
I have just finished reading the Ad- then he mis thing of correct usage, tradition and fill them at the fountain "but he is there, though and talked to
vocate of May 9. It is fully up to its know sometiniand Harvard and Van- of truth—God’s Word. And no reli- me.” Next morning she told us all
usual high work. The editor deserves Surely Cor u state universities do gious teaching should have weight ex- about it, and said, I was not asleep
and doubtless has the indorsement C ■ ilt and our such a departure from cept as it guides the truth-seeker to and, papa, as sure as i am here, illie
and thanks of the Methodists of the not countenan as we frequently hear the fountain.” . came. He was here. He,came for
patronizing conferences for the ex- our standard pulpit and platform in On page 57 he presents Christ as a me, and I am going to die. So that
tended notice given in this copy of the from the bai p i I do not say that maii in contrast with the beast as a evening she took fever and lived nine-
paper of the part taken by our Chris- these latte more a strained effort to sacrifice, and on page 59 he concludes, teen days, and two days before her
tian women in the recent great con- we should _ after j 1 (one claim from an argument in which he quotes death Willie was her constant com-
lus in thelons 1 z but as to the many Scriptures seemingly fair, by panion. He was with her all the time,
it after r), S, V and u follows saying: - and about her last words were, “Come
other consonan ’ 1 and euphony. “They saw'also that, before the a little closer, brother. Oh, me! there Tho Sale nfQE nnoConiec
them with both ease 2nd in the inter- blessing of either Israel or the world, are two come, and they are so pretty! I IIC oaIC UIOZD,UUU LUPIOS
T his much then tongue, without any a selection would be made of a little You can publish this if you will. All SACRED SONCS No. I
est of our moi the feelings of the aes- flock from both Jews and Gentiles, who I have said can be substantiated bychildren in our Sunday
desire it will not irate the sensibili- being tried, would be found worthy to many witnesses. I never was supersti- Sttests, the Young people in the Epworth
thetic. thdant Such know be made joint heirs of the glory and tious in my life, but do not know what Leagues, and the attendants at the Church
ties of any astute W T WILSON. honor of the Great Deliverer and to make of this. G. R. HUGHES. Pra e nMeriisngneeatdrzmaspirne
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editor in that threatened attack of
spinal meningitis. Your mild criti-
cisms anent the favoritisms, essay
readings, etc., will be indorsed by al-
most the entire membership, especially
the essays. It was disappointing, to
say the least of it, to many of us, who
had gone so far to hear those great
men speak, to have to sit and hear
man after man read his piece, many
of whom we all knew could lay his
THE OLD-TIME RELIGION.
On this and other similar teachings,
a lady on my work a few years back
Proud
Women
1 whodon’t want
I it known that
they do their own wishing,
are delighted with PEARL-
INE—can’t catch them at it—
they’re not at the tub long
enough. Soak, boil and rinse
not much labor about that.
Do a few things each day, and
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little essay down and stir the great as-
semblage with his message. And to
think these were Methodist preachers'
Shades of the mighty past, “where are
we at?” Had they been Episcopalians
or Presbyterians, we would have been
prepared, but Methodists! “From all
such evermore, good Lord, deliver us!”
w hear the old-time religion talked said her name was Joe Jesus, that she
and read about and sung about, was as good as Christ, and never ex-
ano we often think about it, but how pected to die.
aari we see of it this day and time. in volume 1, pages 68 to 70, he makes
r we meet each other, how hard it the present age the reign of Satan, and
• target up a religious conversation, the third heaven that Paul speaks of
13 tor nw easy it is to see the faults in he makes to mean the millennial dawn,
and them and stop going to preach- if this is true, Paul leaped forward in
eac i omus we have found a defect in his vision nearly 1900 years instead of
ins Reacher and some of our folks being caught up. On pages 81 and 82
I was also much impressed with an- the 1 old and feel they can’t go to he makes those who are baptized of
other article in the paper, under the get tone In winter it is too cold and the Spirit equal with Christ, and he
elegant caption, “Praising God in a preac E it is too hot, but it is not and they constitute the Church and on
Pen,” in which the writer indulges in in surd or too hot to go to town or page 84 the deliverer. The Church is
a good deal of ungenerous criticism, too co to some temporal affairs. Their composed of many members. On page
He has not only done injustice to some attain notice this. A few days since 105 he teaches a chance to repent or
of the best men and women the Lord Chilli to see a ]ady who had been reform after death, and on 107 those
has in his indiscriminate attack on the I cal No one was at home but her little now buried will be brought back to get
choir, but he has, in my judgment, as- sick 1 asked after his mother. He the benefit of the gospel,
serted that which can not be proven, son. me she had gone visiting. She Pages 115 and 116: He gives the
The Methodist preachers are not A ed she had been sick the day be- honor to the devil of having greater
afraid of their choirs. In my brief claim asked him “Were any of them success than Christ, if his theories are BENDY | INENMEYD £ RON
ministry I have never had a choir of tore: aching last night?” He an- incorrect, instead of putting sin on its HERAT LINDEAETA w BUNDy
this kind. There may be one, possibly atNo ma’am; papa was sorter true basis. x .
two, similar to the one he describes, swe - night but he went to work Pages 117 and 118: He claims that D DLL Worohanoo
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