Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 16, 1883 Page: 1 of 8
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TAKING THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT.
BONHAM, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1883.
[In Advance.
No. 17.
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Is published weekly by
THOS. E. BURNETT,
BONHAM, - - - TEXAS
Terms—per annum, ----- $2.00
six months, - $1.25
Obituaries exceeding ten lines in length
will be charged ior at the rate of two dol-
lars and fifty cents each.
N. B.—Entered at the Post-office at
Bonham, Texas; al second class matter.
Office «f publication North Timber St.
It is estimated that there are
80,000 sermons preached every
Sunday in England and Wales.
“I see a cross on my paper, and
herein send you $2. Please do
not 8top it. I would not be with-
out it for ten times the price.
When time is out, cross it again,
and the money shall be forthcom-
ing/’ This is a sample of scores
of letters received at the Messen-
gir office. Occheienally one is re-
ceived like the following: ‘‘I see a
cross on my paper. You will
please stop it. 1 do not like to be
dunied.” -
PROTRACTED MEETINGS.
Bro. W. C. Dimmitt held a
meeting at Dallas, Texas, last
week, end Bro. J. T. Hawkins at
Sherman—a sort of swap, as it
were.
.BY 8. W. CRUTCHER.
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Bro. Jones is looking for a
church, every member of which
does something for- the Lord's
cause. Where can such a church
be found?
Bto, Pyches, who was once a
successful preacher, but ran into
spiritualism and infidelity, has
been restored to the church, and
is preaching again.
Rev. Dr. Monck, of Brooklyn,
touches a handkerchief and prays
over it, impacting healing power,
4Nld then sells it for 810. The
fiool$ are not all dead yet.
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This is an important week at
Wjwo, Texas. Some two thousand
Baptists are in attendance at the
general convention. They came
all the way from Georgia and Car-
olina—some of them.
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Some one divides church polity
into three classes, viz.; papacy,
laypacy, and apacy. Papacy is
one extreme, laypacy is the other,
While apacy is just anything that
happens along between the two.
No saystem of religion but the
Christian ever taught the resur-
rection of the dead. This is not
an item in any pagan system. Yet
without it there could be no Chris-
tian religion. It is the central
idea of the system.
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Bro. Jones wants to know what
to do with a brother who is able to
take the Messenger, but will not
do it. Better give it td him one
ydbr. It will be apt to convert
him, and then he will subscribe
for it himself.
Our pnblishecl list of books does
not contain all the books we have
for sale. If you wish any book
published by the Christian broth-
erhood, send to the Messenger
office for it. We will get it for
yon, if we do not have it on band.
The' prohibitionists are not the
persons who will suffer most by
the defeat of prohibition in Texas.
What they did they did for hu-
manity and for country. The
friends of whisky ar,e the ones
who will suffer by whisky. It
has no power over a man who
does not drink it. , We never ex-
pect to be injured by it, but still
we are the mortal enemy of whis-
ky—for the sake of our fellow-
man.
We must have a greater care of
our protracted meeting efforts.
We shonld have protracted
meetings more frequently, and
generally they close when they are
only well begun. This necessity
has been laid upon ns, because
there is not a support in holding
meetings, and we have men com-
pelled to preach for churches and
hold meetings at such times as we
can; not to interfere, too seriously
with our church engagetneets.
Instead of one protracted meeting
a year, we ought to have at least
two, and it might be best for the
regular preacher to hold one, and
for some other one to come and
hold another. Those of our church-
es that have not learned to work
steadily and faithfully with home
talent, through a protracted meet-
ing, and who really pull back tiH
the new and strange preacher ar-
rives, are needing to be better in-
structed in church affairs.
I held during the six years that
I labored at Eminence five pro-
tracted meetings, no one of which
failed. Some one would come
toward and confess, and Bro. Gjlt-
ner or one of the other elders
woul say: “Preach on through
the n^eek/’ and at one time there
were twenty-live; at another 27,
and at the third meeting the idea
of protracting was suggested by
nine having come forward to con-
fess at a regular Lord’s day meet
ing. These meetings, instead of
interfering with, only made the
surer the meetings held by such
visiting brethren as John I. Rog-
gers and L. H. Reynolds, at each
of which we had about fifty added
During the years’ (75 to '79) I
rarely preached at Eminence that
I dicNiot look for some one to
come forward. Our churches must
study to have protracted meeting
labor better rewarded than is gen-
erally done.
Two to three hundred people
will come and listen to preaching
tor ten days or two weeks, and if
each would pay as much for the
meeting as many of them would
gladly pay to a circus tor one
night, the preacher would be much
better paid than he often is. ,
Think of a lawyer spending ten
days away from home in a case,
and getting only for his services
what the average preacher gets for
hard labor during that period.
The doctor for that amount of
time would receive twice as much
as the preacher usually receives.
Quite a number of times I have
preached twice a day, and have
come home exhausted, and need-
ing a week of rest in order to
be myself again, and I could have
made more in the harvest field or
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cutting corn. Yet I have never
stood on a bargin in regard to the
going. I have preached two weeks,
received only seven dollars, anc
yet went back again when invited.
Very Seldom have I complained.
Once when I had received but a
trifle I. had to rebuke the church
at the close in about these words:
“The meeting must close to-night.
Ten days I have worked, and we
have had quite an ingathering, and
some old troubles have been set-
tled, and I am glad I came. Yet
there is one thing about this meet-
ing that is not right. For my ser-
vices I receive only 815, and, by
the time 1 take my expenses, I
have received only 60 cents a day
for my work.
Now if any of you can tell me
how I can support a large family
on 60 cents a day I will be obliged.
Some of you have given me $1, who
have 200 acres of land apd are mon-
ey loaners. Others have given 82,
and have four or five hundred
acres of land, and you are watch-
ing to buy the first piece on the
market. Now, brethren, I am go-
ing to do what I never did before
in my life’—take up a collection
for myself. Bros. A. and B., wil
yon take your hats and go through
the audience, and if you don’t ge;
any money, it may be if you are
careful, that you will get your hats
back?”
They brought in a nice little
sum, and the beauty of it was no-
body got offended, and all seem to
think the lashing was a deserved
one.- I have been urged to return
and preach again, and may go
sometime.
Daring these protracted meet-
ings we must have more preach
ing such as will relate to the du-
ties of the officers, and the neces-
sity for faithful lives on the part
of all. Old Brother Skinflint will
soon tire if you preach against
covetousness, and Bro. Lovetod-
dy will declare you are not sound
in the faith if you neglect the sects
long enough to pay your respects
to those places he loves, the bar-
rooms. If you tell the brethren
that when they vote for bad men
because nominated by some drunk-
en convention, that they become
responsible for the crime and law-
lessness in the land, then some
smaU politician who has not been
in office yet, bat who thinks if he
is faithful to the party a while lon-
ger that the rotating machine will
make him a squire or a judge,
will declare we are a politician.
Still we must obey God and not
men in all these things.—Apos.
Times.
ly, there are few who pretend to
accept both the Bible and this the-
ory. But there are many believ-
ers in the Bible who, while they
do not admit that primitive man
was a savage, have been so far in-
fluenced by that theory as to form
a conception of man’s original con-
dition far below that indicated in
THE ANTEDILUVIAN
WORLD.
■WAS ADAM A BABY?
The theory so confidently pro-
pounded by some recent natural-
ists, that man came into existence
in the lowest state of barbarism,
and by inherent energy was grad-
ually developed into a higher
state is in palpable conflict with
the word of God, and consequent-
reasoning as are now possessed by
but few of his descendents. Bnt
what of his moral nature? Was
he not at least in this respect as
feeble as a phild? •
It is not uncommon to hear
men say that Adam was as weak
in the presence of temptation as
.. , , _ any of his children. He sinned,
tha Bible. For this reason I pro-1 it is ,aia,under the first temptation,
pose to call fresh attention to the and what worse have any of hig
actual teaching of Scripture on descendants done? Even the
this subject. temptation itself is regarded as a
Our knowledge of the first pair Tery Blight one by who h#ve
is exceeding limited, but it is carefully ooD(,id,red it.
sufficient to show that Adam was Bnt w do we kB0„ that'thi8 wa8
not created a baby, either physi- th„ first temptation encountered
cally, intellectually, or morally; by either! Adam or Eve? For
and much less was he created a 0<ght we ^ they were tempt_
savagh. He was created with the Ld a tho<8and tim08 to #at
power of speech. He did not learn that forhidden fruit> and had
to speak; for he spoke fluently onL thunsttnd time8 dome
the very dayof creation. Wheth- through the tria] 6Qccas8£ally. In_
er he was made in a single day, de.d, if _w. indge by the common
and directly from the dust of the experi.nc. of the present day, the
earth, or during a long period and very 8aJae forB of tem],tati'0n by
by gradual evolution from the low- „hich Eve was at last overcome
er creatures; we know that in the ly haTg beeQ preseDted and re_
same day that he became a man, 8;st6d many bmes before. How
and when as yet he was only an- freqasnt]y it is ^th us> that we re_
man being on the face of earth, he gist a certaln temptation many
had the power of speech. This is tim98) and finall ykld it. .
seen by Jus naming the animals But whether Eve had ever been
He did not call the names as God Umpted before Qr not> u a9erion8
pronounced them, thus learning to migtoke to that the
speak by imitation; for God tation nnder which flhe feu wa8
brought the beasts and birds to lQch a8 ij>dicate c#mparatWe
him “to see what he would call w#aknes8 on ber part. Xhe ^
them,” and “whatsoever name I by which 8be wa9 OT6r(!om8
Adam gave to every living -'*®H stained all the elements of the
ure, that was the name there-1 etrong66tt6mpiation8 now praMnU
0 _ , I ed to condparatively pure men and
He not only had the power of I, Many of us commit ein
speech, but he possessed a consid- wbea onJ , 8ense of restr(rfDt ua.
erable vocabulary, sufficient to der |awis excited within us. This
give separate names to all the va- was not h in Et^ caS8>
r.eti.8 of living creatures. M ttoogh wm'mowm* ;■
only so, he possessed that quick- tbe firgt ^ * the ^ ^ to_
ness of preception and power of Hwaken 86nse of restraint by
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classification nsetssary to discover
at a glance some distinguishing
characteristic of every 'variety of
beasts and birds, and to give
names accordingly. This was Dot
a result qf inspiration; for it was
Adam, and not God through
Adam, who did it.
' He not only named the beasts
and birds the same day in which
he was created, but he also named
woman; and this last name may.
serve as an illustration of the apr
propriateness of all the others
Notwithstanding the deep sleep
which was upon him when the rib
was taken from his side and the
woman was formed, he was cogni-
zant of what was done, and he said,
This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh; she shall be call-
ed woman, because she was taken
out of man.” This brief sentence
uttered by the lips of Adam, con-
tains all the essential elements -of
a well advanced language. Besides
;he uoud, it contains the verb, the
the tantalizing question, “Yea,,
hath God. said, ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?” Many
ef us sin when we can persuade
ourselves that we will not be pun-
ished for it; and how easily w.eare
thus persuaded the experience of
every soul can testify. Eve wa»
not persuaded more easily than we
are, she had a better excuse tor
yielding, frqm the fact that she
had not yet seen any pdnishment
of sip, end that death was a conse-
quence of se harmless an act was
scarcely credible. She was deceiv-
ed by the: confident assurance of
one who claimed to know and Who
said: “Ye shall not surely die; for
God doth know that in the day ye
* at thereof, then your eye# shall
be opened, and ye shall he as gods,
knowing good and evil.” Thje
very name of the tree (the tree of
knowledge) confirmed the truth of
the assurance that it would make
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her wise; as if it made he wise,
pronoun, the preposition, the con- how,coul<l W* ,«*
junction, the future tense, the pest T y Pfr$uaie<1 that J*6*® is
ense, and the passive voice. It i8 dan8« wtkat which is sure to
;he first sentence ever uttered by
a human being that has been pre-
served to us.
Thus the meagre record of man's
first day on earth shows that he
was created in possession of a lan-
guage complete in its parts and
copious enough for,immediate use;
and that he possessed such powers \
of observation, classification, and!
bring some benefit. Bnt even, all
this was not enough to overcome-
Eve. She yielded not until in ad-
dition to all these influences, the
power of the flesh was added.
She saw that the tr$e was f‘good
tor food” and “pleasant to the
eyes,” as well as to be desired to
make one wise, and she took of the
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 16, 1883, newspaper, May 16, 1883; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth904694/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.