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Death of the Twelve.
thought, while ohd who declaims is apqstoljc times, Such questions cause 1 believe that the difficulties
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lh danger of keeping one pitch for will l>e perpetually arising, and involved can be removed more
Matthew
suffered
martyrdom
all kinds of thought. To lie sure", must l>e answered- times without effectively 'by a clear statement witlia swofllat qyityof Ethiopia.
TIiainry elabo r ate argument.
Mark expired at Alexandria,
f
affaire
which
gives
them
birth
shall
tion w'ho will think the preacher
Reduction of Railroad Fare. after having been dragged through
tame w'lio only talks. “ How' do cease to exist. They spring up
the streets.
you like your new preacher ?” said afresh in almost every community,
Luke was hanged on an olive
P ortland , O r ., Oct. 3, 1882.
one neighbor to another. “ Oh, he and though forever old they are
_
Bro. Stanley:
,
„ 1 tree in Greece.
is improving wonderfully; he forever new. Sister E. A. Haw­
John was put in a chaldron of
Please be kind enough to an-
Sreaches louder and louder 1” But kins, of Russelville, Ky., sends lne
hrruirce-rin".^^issuesrof; ooiimg oil, rjui! cscapt" "•*' a
löse who have tills test—in any IfftftV, Slid fl^kS hie to'ahswef'them
die C hristian H erald that the lous manner, and afterwards ban­
congregation—are comparatively in the Apostolic 'Times. They are
0. 0. R. R. "cast-and west side, and ished to the isle of Patmos, and
as follow’s :
few.
1. “ If one believes with all the the (.). R/& N. Co, make a reduc­ died, it is thought, at home natur­
Further, a preacher who talks,
tion of 40 per cent, to delegates ally. ?_____
will, not lie-so much in .danger of heart, repents F.pf .his sins and is
Peter’was crucified at Rome with
traveling to ‘ami from the State
affectation and cant. “ De new baptized by Baptist, Methodist, or
Meeting at Eugene, good from Oct. his head.downwards.
preacher is mo’ larnt dan Mistah Presbyterian, is he a member of the
James the Greater w as beheaded
18th to 24th inclusive. Full fare
Boles; but, Lor’ bless you, sah ! he church or lx>dy of Christ ?”
I answer, yes. It is the act of to be paid going, and upon certi­ at Jerusalem.
ain’t got de doleful sound like
James the Lesser w as cast from
ficate of the Secretary of the meet
Mistah Boles had. No, indeed!” being baptized which brings a
ing, reduction of 80 per cent, will a lofty pinaclo of the temple and
If a man assumes a preaching and proper subject into Christ, and not
be made on return passage.
‘ then beaten to death with a fuller’s
doleful tone the moment he enters the character of the administrator.
club.
W. H. A dams .
2. “ Does being baptized into
the pulpit, he cannot but be guilty
Philip was hanged up against a
of affectation ; his tones cannot be Jesus Christ (Rom. 6:3,) corres­ Thirteen Ways of Being Happy. pillar at Hicropolis, Phirgia.
a true index of his feelings. There pond with Eph. 1 : 22, 23, as to
1
’U-isL-----Happyis- the—ma^
—
are nume
lnuccct, upon one’s being haptisial_jiitm._C
Andrew
was
bound
to
the
cross,
whom the doleful tone seems to act the hotly, the church ? If so are corrected), for he-maketh sore and from which he preached to his per­
as a kind of charm. They w’ill all baptized believers members of bindeth up.
Happy is that people whose God secutors until he died.
close-their eyes, and Heat to heaven the church ?” »
Thomas was run through the
There are tw o questions in one.
under the influence of the preacher’s TO the^fiT-sn answer, yes.’ To the is the Lord.______ ______________ body with a lance, in East Indies. ~
Happy is he that hath the God ot
tone, w ithout any regard to what
Jude was shot to death with ar­
latter, I answer, no. Some bap­ Jacob for his help.....
he is saying. But, it is safe to say,
tized believers have ceased to be
Happy is the man that findeth rows—probably in Persia.
that while one in a congregation,
Mathias was first stoned and then
members of the Church of Christ wisdom, and the man that getteth
under a preaching tone, w'ill close
beheaded.
by exclusion from it, and some bv u nderstanding.
his eyes, and soar to heaven, ten
Barnabas, of the Gentiles, was
having joined a sect. When a
Happy is the man that feareth
will close their eyes, and sink to
stoned to death by thè Jews at
proper subject is baptized he is a al w ay.
sleep.
. .
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If one speaks in the tone of con­ member of the Church of Christ;
Happy is the man that condemn­ Solonica.
Paul
was
beheaded
at
Rome
by
versation,” he w'ill use the short, but when he joins a sect he clianges ed) not himself in that thing which
Mero.— Ex.
simple w'ords of conversation. his membership.
he allowed).
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4. “ If a person has joined the
Nothing is more manifest than that
lie that hath mercy on the poor,
Why People Do Go.
the pulpit should use, not the arti­ Baptist church, has been baptized happy is he.
“Why don’t people go to church?”
ficial language of books, but the in order to become a member of
Whoso trusteth in the Lord, hap
said
church,
and
not
in
order
to
re
­
There
is another question to be an­
simple common words of life.
py is he.
Great, swelling tones necessarily mission of sins, not believing that ' He that kcepeth the law', happy swered—why people do go to
church ; answer that first, and then
draw' after them great, swelling baptism is a condition of pardyji, is he.
words. All great revivalists are and has afterward joined the
If ye suffer for righteousness’ an answer can be given why some
Church
of
Christ,
ought
that
per-
people don’t go. The truth is,
colloquialand conversational in their
sake, happy are ye.
sun
to
h
avebeenre
-
bapt
i
zr<
—
preaching. '‘Nothing is more cal­
If ye be reproached for the name nothing attracts like the pulpit. A
I
answer,
that
the
promise
of
re
­
Rationalist will go to New York
culated,” says Mr. Finney,“ to make
of < ’hrist, happy are ye.
mission
of
sins
is
given
to-
every
a sinner feel that religion is some
Behold, we count them happy and lecture to a full house, and go
one
who
repents
and
is
baptized
in
away carrying his honors; and
mysterious thing that he cannot
which endure.
the
name
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
understand, than this mouthing,
If ye know these things, happy some people say, “ See what a
If
a
person
.should-
J
>e-4»apttzrd™not
formal lofty style of speaking str
are ye if ye do them.-^Well Spring. success ’ if only the" ministry
in the name of the Lord Jesus
as well !” But notice that „this
generally employed in the pulpit.
We
urge
the
duties
of
Christiani
­
Christ, but merely to get into the
lecturer, sharp and shrewd as he
ty
upon
the
consciences
of
men
;
Baptist
church,
this
would
be
no
Hard Questions on Baptisms.
keeps away from New York for a
baptism at all. It would not bring but duties are constraints till they whole year. Yet the thousands till
Bro. J. W. McGarvey has been the person to remission, nor into are changed into charms by love. the Christian churcht-s fifty-(two
answering some bf these hard the body of Christ. But if a per-- The very worudlity is a harsh one, days in the’ year, and hear Ihe
questions in the Apostolic Tinies, son w’ho has been baptized as an until the heart grasps it, snd then Gospel themselves, and then give
and as the same questions vex act of obedience to Jesus Christ, the lowliest service and the boldest their substance to send it to the
many from time to time, we give and afterward joins the Baptist endeavor are cheerfully accepted heathen who have never heard its
sound. Cold as religion is to-day,
Bro. McG’s answers below' :
church, all he has to do to get right and welcomed. To win men to the it is yet the one thing that lives
A great many of the puzzlin; « is to leave the Baptist church and performance of Christian duties, it and burns in the Efeai ts 4t>f men ;
questions of the present d ay owe join the Church of Christ. There is necessary to win them to the before its shrines the world de­
their existence to the corrupted and
lights to assemble and worship.
divided condition of the so-called is no authority for re-immersing love of him who requires them, and “ Why don't people go to church ? I”
to the love <f those for whose
church of Christ, and are hard to him.
Tell Us why they do, j ¿ease, and
1 have answered these questions benefit they are required.-— Dean then we will Uli you why some
answer because they were unknown
and consequently unanswered in briefly, and without argument, be- Stanley.
don’t.— Ex.
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