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CHRISTIAN MESSENGER.
THE MESSENGER.
f. R. BtTRNETT,
associate editors:
Chas C \rltor, C. Kendrick,
J M. Biard, R. C. Horn,
G. W. Williams.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30,1879.
Editor. I es men to rely upon their own
imaginations, feelings or emo-
tions, or tlje experiences of
poor, weak, short-sighted and
erring mortals, may have a
form of godliness; but by these
very means they are led to de-
ny the power ot the gospel,and
it is high time that these sub-
stitutes for the divine will were
taken out of the way ; and the
gospel,which has both the form
, and the power of God unto sal-
A form of anything is a rep- ] vation? enthroned in the hearts
lessons Hard to Remember.
A Form of Godliness Without the
Power.
(See 2 Tnc. in. 5.)
pare themselves for the glori-
ous home above. I have seen
the little child cry to go home
after an absence of a^ew hours
of childish play. I’ve seen the
poor mother gather np her lit-
tle group after a day’s toil for
Cor. xii., that by one Spirit tve
are all baptized into one
body, and this body is the
church of Christ, and this bap-
tism is in obedience to the com-
mand of the Spirit as deliver-
ed to ns through the apostles
of the Lamb. After we were
through a man went out to
hunt a little book; he long be-
fore, like many others, stood
np (as soldiers do when they
are sworn into the service of
1. That we walk by faith,
not by sight. God has wisely
hid the future from us, that we
should follow by faith. Then
let us not be anxious about, or ^ w
seek to know the future, but and start for the
trustingly work on in faith. . ^ humble dwelling at the end of
2. Riches can not give happi- the lane, which was theirs only
ness, but often bring care, sor-jf>or a Seagon. I’ve seen the
row, death. I goods of the poor thrown
3. The popularity of theiint0 the street, and wept to see ™
world is enmity to God. ““Mind J them cast out from the place the United States,) and prom
not high things, but condescend i tkey called home. But I’ve -----
to men of low estate.” stood beside the bed of the dy-
4. If we would prosper we ing Christian, and heard him
must have the Lord’s way, not say, “I’m going home.” Let
onr own. “Not my will but us remember, then, that how-
thine, O Lord, be done,” ever much of this world we
5. That numbers in acongre- have—houses, farms and lands
gation do not always indicate —that we really have no home
the true strength. There may here. No, not any more than
be more real, spiritual strength the poor widow here, and may
in a congregation of twelve not have so much as she might
than one of five hundred. “Be have hereafter. Heaven is our
strong in the Lord, and in the home. A. Ellraore.
Thrilling Incidents.
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•reeentation of that which is a and lives of the children of men.
form. A picture of a reality; The priests of Baal had a form
something that looks like that! of godliness, but it lacked the
of which it is a form, as the! Power-and 'fh^
tograpb, or the resemblance of M and fe P°"“’
, i * , thev were dismaved, and con-
a person in a looking-glass, “"y , . - , ’ .
This is true also of the form ofjfuswn t0°k the Pla
godliness. To have godliness aefiance.fornotwnhstnndinga
is to be like God. To have the thelr ‘he tooh
.» n „ • , -i come: but when the old propn- _
torm o go mess ~ et called, according to the will/power of his might.”
orme to ewi 0 ° ! Lf there was a demonstra- j 6. To esteem others better
that is 1 €i or , per e , an L q glowed conclusively! than ourselves. While preaching the gcspel
perfects all iwho are exercised j ^eTe both tbe forra and the 7. That it is no particular ac- in the mountains near the Bed-
thereby. But there is such a I. wer0 located. So it is commodation to the Lord for ford and Somerset county line,
thing as having a form o go - d They who, in a good men to come into the church, in giving the answer of the
liness, an at t e same ime e Ronest heart, hear, believe We need him, his grace, and Lord to Sanl of Tarsus to the
nying t e power o o , w ic t ^ obey the gospel are set his church much more than he question, “Lord, what wilt thou
is the gospe q s . au , L ee fTom their sins, added to needs such dross as man. have me to do? ’ as made
m C^aP-er I the church the same day, and 8. If we do an act of true known to him by Ananias,
sa^J* a a. . filled with the sweets of redeem- Christian hospitality to one of whom Jesus sent to tell this
of the gospe o ans , or it is L ^ove so with those the least of his*disciples we do mourner what he must do, viz:
e power o o un o sa va fiave a form unlike the re- it unto him. Alas! how many “Arise and be baptized, and
tion to every one a e leve , ... mhftV faii +0 he added opportunities of having the wash away thy sins, calling on
ieed to believe and support the
rules and regulations thereof,
not knowing what was in the
human production. Poor fel-
low !
One more incident will suf-
fice for this sitting. Recently,
while preaching in Ohio, there
was a man in attendance who
heard onr sermon on baptism.
This man was a good honest
fellow, but unfortunately, he
could not read. He became
interested, and asked one of
the leading men of his church
about certain passages of
Scripture he had heard us
quote. His instructor took the
Testament and read from Mark
xvi. 15,16: “He that believ-
eth and is-shall be saved.”
“And is what?” asked the
earnest inquirer after the truth.
“And is baptized with the Ho-
ly Ghost and love.” The man
not satisfied with the answer,
came to us and asked how the
sk.es adequate to the task of g^ipera of old and are just as wi]fuMv refused “stopped short,” and coolly
saving the sinful and the lost sincere. Then hundreds of 9 T]lat in order t0 b0 bappy asked the wise man if he could
Since salvation is in and them find after gethn^ n the^ ^ ^ mngt have sometbi read, The reply was that he
through the gospel it is highly dicta ^only m imag na I q ^ ^ dQNq sluggard could) but that was not in the
important that we know what L’e8g.blyb|ppy that words nor idler can enjoy life. What Book. Again we asked, “Did
the gospel is ; consequently,the conjdn't convey an idea of the L orand mistake is made by you ever read the Bible
inspired aposde in the letter to new cllan£,e brought about by I yo persons who wisb t0 be through?” He had, but that
the Corinthians, first epistle the imaginary power that - ° in was not in his Bible. Then we
it IS. Moreover^ brethren, Monism),^ passes others by. 10. That we have no time to come to the stand and read the
declare nnto yon the gofP®1’ iThat’s not God’s power, nor is ioose in this world. No, not a verse. No; he knew it wasn’t
wherein yon stand^ and by that tbe Lord’s way. He says. few weeks- pieasure trip, nor a I there without reading it. At
which you are saved if you a Blessed are they tfiat monrn: ^ the fa.^ nQr a few, tbis state 0f affairs a fellow-
keep in memory what Ipreach- tethey MB.^ gocial) ^ ^ man urged him to go up and
ed unto you, or ,e lv®red|are not comforted,because it is; haste, haste, on to the City of read it, after which< he very
unto you first of all, how that 1 , r wav_ It has Rpfrur* meekly remarked that lie
unto you first 91 all, now mac Lt p,or<p8 way. -It has I Refuge. . ’ | meekly remarked that he
Christ died for our sins, accord- neRfier the form nor the power ^1. That every one In the didn’t know it was there. Poor
flirt ” TllPSP nnaa Na?oq enn_ I ‘ — "*
he passage, and, in the pres-
ence of a trusted friend, read
what Jesus said. Poor fellow!
We pitied him; but what of
the dishonest religious bigot
who endeavored to impose up-
on this unfortunate man. “He
that takes away irom the words-
of the prophecy of this
his name shall bei
the Lamb’s book of
he that adds to
the prophecy
him shall be
that are writ
that preaches
than that I have
you, let him
Let us contend
the faith once de’
saints.
uicu neuner uie iorm nor xne power 11> Tiiat eveTy one the didn't Know it
ing to the Scriptures.” .These of godliness. Noise and con- sllould do something, fellow! There are thousands
are the gospel truths which be- fusion m- uttle that something more just like him iu this
aS-101 mtelhgence
to obey from .the heart tbat foen 0f disobedience, will suf-1make oceans. Fidelity in a! While preaching at a point
form of doctrine delivered unto fice for the goSpel of the grace few tM here will make us hn Clarion county on the snb-
him, at which time he is set of God which is the power of . f Christian nnion, after
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such who do not obey, from the leave nor forsake us while we can not get into fail member-
dience is connected with 8al^ar heart, that form of doctrine de- abide with him. He is with ns ship and communion in any of
tion; further, that this obedi- livered by the holy apostles of in darkness a3 wen as light, in the so-called orthodox church-
tb,r, tb»t <b.t tom of aoetfb. | SS- 1^ tb. HUT
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delivered by the apostle must
be obeyed; and no other form,
for all others lack the power of
God. The doctrine is the death,
the burial and the resurrection
of Christ from the dead; the
form is a beautiful representa-
tion of the doctrine. As Christ
died for gin, the sinner dies to
gin; and as Christ was buried
go the sinner is buried by bap-
tism into death ; and as Christ
was raised by the glory of the
Father, sa the sinner is raised
to walk in newness of life.
(Rom. vi. 3, 4.) Thus we learn
that th^ power of God nnto sal-
vation is in the gospel of the.
grace of God, which brings sal-
vation to all men; that the
form of godliness, which con-
forms to the will of God, does
not deny the power of God, but
nations for the obedience of even to tbe end of the world.”
faith.—“Phillip” in the Review. 13. \ye are forbiddep to lay
^ ^ Tr* up treasures on earth. He
The Sunday School Times t , . ____
, ,. . , J - does not say lay up treasures
has this to say on the power of . J n
, J * in heaven as well as on the
a Preac er * I earth, but lay up treasures in
J.K. Z Kf h»~. ft- ~ re member this,
setts churches of connecting 14. Now. An opportunity
the pulpit by telephone with passed by is gone forever,
the outside world, so that Remember now thy Creator;
people at a distance can hear kekoid now jg the accepted
what the minister says. It has . . ^ __*
succeeded so well that the 111116 > now 13 ^ie f
preacher’s words have been] tion. Say not there are yet
heard more than fifty miles four months and then cometh
•- .1 i v _ «
away, as well as in the homes
of his immediate congregation.
But there is nothing very new
or strange in this. A good
preacher will always make
himself heard outside of his
church walls. If his words do
not ring in ihe ears of the stay-
at-homes of his people, he is a
failure—telephone or no tele-
phone.
the harvest; look upon tbe
fields, now already white to
harvest. Not one blessing is
promised to any soul to-mor-
row.
15. Our home is in the next
world, not in this. How many
decorate and ornament these
earthly houses, but never pre-
all taught it was the initiatory
ceremony, in the midst of our
remarks a buzz reached our
ear “that it was not so, as the
Methodist church didn’t teach
that baptism was the act of in-
duction into the church or into
Christ.” We asked the excit-
ed man to please take hia seat
until we were through, after
which he might occupy the
stand, at the same time re-
Lexingtojt,
Bro. Burnettt
I send yon a brief report of
our meeting in Milam county,
eight miles south of Rockdale ^
Met Bro. Lincoln there on Sat-
urday before the fifth Lord’n
day in March, and, beginning
a series of meetings, we contin-
ued until Tuesday after tbe
first Lord’s day in April,result-
ing in twenty-three additions
by confession of faith and bap-
tism, six by confession of sin,
one from the Baptists and two
from the Methodists. BroJLiin-
coln did the preaching^resent-
ing the plan of salvation in a
very forcible manner; conse-
quently, much prejudice re-
moved,sectarianism badly crip-
pled, and the cause of truth
firmly planted. To Lord
be all the glory.
A, C. Mathis.
marking that if there was a
church in that locality claim-
ing to be the Methodist church,
that taught that anything else
than baptism was the act cf
induction into the church it
was a counterfeit, as the Meth-
odist discipline clearly states,
“that baptism is the door into
the visible church.” Further,
Paul positively declares, in 1
Ennis, Tex., April 19.
Brck Burnett : %
Bro. McPherson preached at
a school-house about six miles
from here,last Lord’s day after-
noon and night and Monday
night. The immediate results
were two additions—"-one from
the Baptists and one by obedi-
ence. Your brother*
Rurus Orville Charles.’
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 30, 1879, newspaper, April 30, 1879; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth913475/m1/4/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.