Christian Messenger. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 22, 1888 Page: 3 of 8
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CHRISTIAN MESSENGER.
THE CLERGYMAN AND THE
PEDDLER.
FLETCHER BaTES.
A clergyman who longed to trace
Amid his flock a work of grace,
And mourned because he knew not
why
Yon fleece kept wet while his kept dry,
While thinking what he could do
more
Heard soipe one knocking at the door,
And opening it there met his view
A dear old brother whom he knew,
Who had got down by worldly blows
From wealth'to p* ddling castoff clothes
Come in, my brother, said the pastor, •
Perhaps my troubles you can master ;
For since the summer you withdrew
My converts have been very^ew.
I can, the peddler said, unroll
to the saving truth, than the modern
way of receiving members into a Bap-
tist society, and some proof was pre-
sented.
In the present essay we shall make a
few jemarks upon another important
preliminary to the restoration of the
ancient order of things. There must be,
and there shall be, an. abandonment of
the new and corrupt nomenclature, and
a restoration of the inspired one. In
other words, there must be an aban-
donment of the Babylonish or corrupt
phraseology of the dark ages and of solicits a continuance of the same
modern discoveries, in the fixed style of
the Christian vocabulary. This is a
matter of greafc^ importence than may
at first sight appear to all. Words and
names long consecrated, and sanctified
by long prescription, have a very im-
: posing influence upon the human un-
And to cut short all fulsome speeches
Bring me a pair of your old breeches.
The clothes were brought. The peddler
gazed
And said, no longer be amazed.
The gloss upon this cloth is such
I think perhaps you sit too much,
Building air castles,.bright and gay,
Which Satan loves to blow away.
And here, behold as I am born
The nap from neither knee is worp I
He who would great revivals see
Must wear his pants out on the knee,
For suoh is the lever, prayer supplies
When pastors kneel their churches
rise.
—Exchange.
Something perchance to.ease your soul, j^erstan(^n£* We think as well as speak
by means of words. It is just as im-
possible for an adult to think as to
speak without words. Let him that
doubts make the experiment. Now as
all correct ideas of God and things in-
visible are supernatural ideas, no other
terms can so suitably express them as
the terms adopted by tne Holy Spirit,
in adapting the supernatural truths to
our apprehension. He that taught man
to speak, would, doubtless, adopt the
most suitable terms in his language to
reveal himself to his understanding. To
disparage those terms, by adopting
others in preference, is presumptuous
and insolent on the part of man. Be-
sides when then adopt terms to express
supernatural truths, it is not the
truths themselves, but their ideas
pf them they communicate. They
select such terms as suit their ap-
prehensions of revealed truth^ and heno*»
the terms they Use are expressive only
of their conceptions of divine things,
and mast just be as imperfect as their
conceptions are. It is impossible for any
man, unless by accident, to express ac-
curately that which he apprehends im-
perfectly. From this sonree spring
most of our doctrinal controversies.
Men's opinions, expressed in their own
terms, are often called Bible truths. In
order then, to a fall restoration of the
ancient order of things, there must be
“a pure speech” restored. And I think
the Lord once said, in order to a resto
ration, and he would restore to the peo-
ple “a pure speech.” We know that
the ancient order of things, amongst the
Jews, could not be restored, after their
captivity in Babylon, until the law of
the Lord, containing the primitive in-
stitutions of che Jews* religion, was
read and understood by the people, and
the dialect of Babylon abandoned, as
far as it corrupted the primitive sim-
plicity of that religion. Hence the
scribes read them the law from morn-
ing to evening, gave them the sense and
made them understand the reading.
This became necessary because of the
corrupt dialect they had learned in
Babylon, on account of Which their rev-
elation was unintelligible to them, un-
til the language of Canaan was porged
from the phraseology of Ashdod. It
will, we apprehend, be fonnd precisely
similar in the antitype, or in the return
of the people of God from the captivity
of Babylon the great, the mother of
abominations.
A. Campbell.
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LAKE C. WILSON
Would respectfully announce to his friends and
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PLENTY OF FEED AND ATTENTIVE
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Thankful for past favors, he respect
NAZARETH UNIVERSITY,
DALLAS, TEXAS. '
The Spring term of this institution
opens Feb. 6th, 1888, and continues
five months. Three colleges: Classi-
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C. M. Wilmetb, President, Dallas, Tex.
RESTORATION OF THE AN-
QIENT ORDER,
that the woTd of tbe apostles shall
be the oh\y creed, formula, and directo-
ry of faith, wor^jp^ and Christian prac
tisfii whe^ the ancient order of things is
restored, we have offeredtoome evidence
to show. The constitution 'And law of
the primitive church shall be the con-
stitution and law of the restored church.
As the constitution and law then admit
ted all the faithful disciples of the Lord
to an equal participation of all privi-
leges ; so whea the same again is adopt-
ed, the same privileges will be extended
to every orderly citizen of the kingdom.
Withoot any of our modern creeds in
substance or in form the church was
once united, complete, and happy, and
will be so again. For the same cause
will always produce the same effect.
When the disciples shall return to the
Lotd he will return to them.
In receiving members or citizens into
the kingdom, or in naturalizing foreign
ers, it appeared in oar la^t essay, that
nothing was required of <them but an
acknowledgement of the word or testi-
mony of the witnesses concerning the
King, Jesus of Nazareth. A hearty dec
laradoD, or confession with their lips,
that they believed in their hearts, that
Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, the
8on of the living God, the King and
Lord of all, qualified them as applicants
for naturalization. In the act of immer-
sion into the name, they renounced
every other Messiah, Lord, King, or Sa-
vior ; they put off their former religion,
and renounced every religions obliga-
tion to any other system or authority,
and pat on Jesus as their Lord and
King. From a consideration of the an-
cient order it appeared, that the apos-
tles did not command men to be baptiz-
ed into their own experience, but into
the faith then delivered to the saints.
It was affirmed that the ancient order
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Burnett, Thomas R. & Wilmeth, C. M. Christian Messenger. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 22, 1888, newspaper, February 22, 1888; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth922051/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.