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This was a needful, work then jnuch of the needless dispute about
' Infidel Superstition.
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of love for its parent is love, even and alsp now. The church not church jjolity today, which has too
the love of God. But when men only had elders, but there were often darkened rather than enlight- • In treating these great problems
are at one with the Father, they among them evangelists who' were ened us in the work of the Lord. of life, Mr. Ingersoll has a fascinat
are unspotted frow the world. This eloquent and “ mighty in the Serip- The work of those churches at Eph- ing and a plausable way of stating
only. a
=etatetr_.and iJoha.i.u mid the chiefs' thingy, btdr thfty- cei ta'inh—are—rre
individual one. “ Keep
the opposer, that Jesus was the and evangelists of their day, fur uwphifesophic as they are untenable.
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unspotted.” Pure and unspotted Christ.” These evangelists gave nish . no example for much of the “ Water always runs down hill,”
robes can only be spotted by the themselves wholly to the work tradition now taught ami practiced says Mr. Ingersoll. But it does not.
world. But what does “ the world” then and they should do . so with so much zeal and little knowl Sometimes it runs up hill, and we
mean here ? Evidently “ All that now. They aided the churches edge, even among those who claim call it capillary attraction. W.a
is in the world, the lust of the flesh where they Jabored.. They not “ a thus saith the Lord for their have a mode of explaining it by
rrrr TOnrrn^Tic“ eye
priae or ubhty preaclre<Tnium
practice,1’ Lilt therein-is an example Tlie~attraction between the particles
life.” These alt must 4>e kept in -.tute but also in the church at Ephe- that we 'must seek to follow and of mobile matter and the inert mat-
subjection to the will of God, for sus. Even after^aul'himself had develop “the fruits of lore and of the tulx.‘ in which the fluid rises.
Christ has Ixiuglit us with his own. spent three-years among them. .
peace within and to the dispelling Mr. Ingersoll would explain it say
, precious blood. _We should wash
TT is therefore n great mistake of the darkness without and thus ingthat the fluid rises liecause it
our robes and make them white in now for the^church to suppose that uphold and advance Jhe conquest rises ’ That is certainly childlike
and simple, but it is hardly in keep-,
the blood of the Lamb, and by they do not need the evangelist, of the truth in this world.
dee<ls 4>f rigTitneousness keep them or to dispense with the alders and
Tlie little trials that so readily ing witji the role of a philosopher
white till our eyes are dilQmed in install an evangelist as pastor. Let overthrow the faith of some now, who proposes to dethrone God—thu
death as gently fades the softest all work together and encourage would nevçr have disturbed» the God who is the designer and crea
sunset into the calm and holy quiet and sustain the church. *
* * Let the clfurch then, all because they sought tor of the universe. We not only
of night.- But thank God we will evangelists give themselves whoMy ^.practice what the apostle taught. find that Mr. Ingersoll is mistaken
open them to the brilliant light of to the work, for now, as then, "there • In our next we shall begin to no in asserting “ water always runs
eternal dayand realize that we are many vain talker.
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—men teach- tice the doctrinal part of the epis down hill,” but there is a wonder
have only passed through a-shadow ing traditions rather ihan the word tie to this» church at Ephesus, and ful process of nature that exceeds
. into tlie light.__________ r______ _ _ of God, and thereby tlu-y lratlIlion - hope the reactor will linger, thought^
‘rTis sweet to know that on our eyes
ize rather than Christianize' the fully upon its gracious words, won bearing sap ascends the tree and
A Jovelier scene shall yet arise ;
world. The church needs not onlv derful consolation and inspiring carries with it nourishment that
That we »hall wake from Borrow’s dream,
sustains and enlarges the plant:
to know the truth jtnd have men examples.
Beside a pure and living stream. ’’
The tree has a system of water
competent to teach it,. but also to
The
Safe
Hiding-place.
,
Yours in hope,
works that actually extends its
withstand the tide of vain philoso
J. A. C ampbell .
There.is only one hiding-place, own water mains. This phenomen
phy of men. The elders are indis
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pensable to the local work and care even God himself. The only safe on, we are told by Mr. Ingersoll,
The Church at Ephesus.
of the church, and the evangelists place'for. helpless and sinful men is happens because, it happens! If
BY 8. H. HEDRIX.
are equally needful to aid them close to.God—in the arms of the that is not supc^Mtition that eclipses
NUMBER HI.
and teach the word, to exhort the Father, at the feet' of Jesus, the anything of the kind so vehement
,i After the Apostle took his affec unruly, vain talkers. Let him Friend of sinners, ofice crucified and ly denounced by him, ^e do not
tionate farewell and parted with “ preach the word, reprdve and re now exalted, to give repentance and know what superstition is. Its
the Elders of the church of Ephe buke with long suffering and doc the remission of sins. Come to Je genesis is Clearly traceable to the
sus, he went to Judea ami they re trine a>l let no man despise him.” . sus, and thou art in the secret place pagan belief that the world is
When elders and evangelists are of the Most High, where no evil can a great plane resting upon the
turned to the Sacred work of
watching and caring for the church each doing their duty, they are befall thee nor any plague come backs of four mighty oxen, and the
harmoniously working together, nigh thy dwelling. There is no oxen rests upon a great elephant.
as directed by the apostles.
x They are now to go forward un and I know of no church but needs condemnation to them which are in What the elephant is resting upon,
der “ God and the word of his the work of both, for with her Christ Jesus. The Lord has for the pagan belief failed to state.
grace,'which is able to build them evangelist giving himself wholly to given all our. transgressions, and Mr. Ingersoll goes’one step further
up," and can we think they were the work.^and with her elders will remember our sins • no more. and affirms that the elephant rests
not abundantly blessed, therein? watching, caring for and feeding There is no life, or light, or love in upon himself.— Burlington JIw:k-
In the four or five years following the flock, she is prepared to control distance from God. Even if man ege.
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they are aided in their work of the opposition within and beat had not fallen, his only happiness
Th® poetry of Longfellow—to
feeding the church by such of the back those without and also to ! and strength would have been in read it with care might almost be
Evangejists as Timothy, Aristar sound out the word of the Lord constant "dependence on God and called a liberal education, from so
communion with him». In Paradise,
the districts and regions
chus and others. And early in the through
o
o
sinless
Adam lived by faith in God. many sources of history, of litera
Apostles imprisonment at Rome in beyond.
It was in Gôd’jS light that he saw ture, of life, and of nature is its in
If some
one
of
the
elders
shall
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spiration drawn. We fear there is
continuance in the faith—and trials not, or can not devote himself light, and in receiving constantly no one man who can fairly be called
with the opposition from without to the work constantly, they should i the bright influence of Divine love, a typical American, but Longfellow
all means have an evangelist, ! his‘ spirit rejoiced and was strong was a. type, certainly, of Jmany
and within, wrote them an epistle by
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I in God. No creature has within
and sent it by tlie hand of Zydicus. For 1 fail to see any work of an itself a foundation of life and of Americans—a type of a large part
This opposition_ at Ephesus was cider that an evangelist may not blessedness : no creature has even of the national mind.
radical ami in addition to the (and then did) and.should not now committed to its cart; a treasure of
strength and goodness: but with God
watchful, prayerful work of the do.’ And no reason could be assign-
The highest and perhaps the only
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is
the
fountain
of
life.
-Constantly
Elders. Timothy was left at Ephe ed why one of the elders shdTtld« not
claim to dignity that man possesses
beholding
the
countenance
of
tlie
sus for the especial purpose of give all his time to the work ami Father in heaven,angels and saints is the fact that in the Bible he hears
ineeting this opposition, and to practically do any part of the work are " upheld Ky Divine love, and re a voice above and beyond nature
charge some that they teach “no of the evangelist. This- properly plenished out of the Divine fulness, telling hjin of his connection with
considered and practiced would end —4- Saphir.
'other doctrine." 1 Tim. i. 3.
Almighty God.— Jewish Messenger.
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