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confined to Paul’s day, I fear, but nothing but “Sabbath breaking!” tutors and governors ; the same as or meat on Friday was the fruit
“ in a figure of the time then pres- for this, he believed was “ the sin a bondservant; just as we Jews Adam ate, and the “ unpardonable
f eiit,” their work is perpetual.
•• • of the world ’! ” But I am sure were under the pedagogue (law) sin,” or “ the elements of the world
In the Christian Baptist, Bro that the worst case ^f the oyster before t-lie faith came. In using whereto they desired to lie in 1/on-
Campbell has given a few exam- expositor, I have ever seen, was in Paul
to express the dage again » ’ >♦ ” If these “ exposi-
e ’s language
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pies of foolish preacTnhg^ One "an article”! once rea<J7whefeTt‘ was •xnnie idea; arid ~cnrry~T)utrtTie illus­ tirni^^ltirrHte^lx^ made-
was a man who “ could not spell I claimed that the weak and beggarly tration of the minor heir; “even so air of seriousness, I should think
well, and in reading Luke 19: 20 elements whereunto the Judaized we, when we were children, were in that they were each intended as a
as a text, he madfe it say “ thou art Galatians desired again to be in bondage under the rudiments of ghastly joke. Argument in all
an oyster man,” and upon this bondage, was nothing more nor the w'orld.” The same bondage such cases being a bootless and a
meaning I presume he “destroyed less than “ circus and theater go­ spoken of in chap. 2: 4 when hopeless task, I can only pray that
---- tlm main promise” of al I op­ ing ” and marrying a divorced wo^ ‘ false brethren ” had turned them mercy may lie. extended to “ the
posers and triumphantly “sap­ man, in whose legal divorce a cer­ back again, under law ; and that oyster expositor,” his hearers and
ped : the foundation of their tain allegation had not been the law from which Christ had re­ his followers.
entire argument.” But who does grounds of her divorce ?! While, deemed them (4 : 5). By the faith Salem, Aug. 30, 1882. S. C. A dams .
not see that he “ thus Kiade his ar- no controversy is intended with their condition as “ servants ” had
such expositors,a brief reference lieen changedto-thnt of “-sons’-
T he N ame A to ze K vert N ame .
begging the very thing he ought to to the argument of Paul in Gat.' 4 nnd “ the bondage of law’ 1’ to “ the ■—Jesus ’ How does the very word
will show that no clearer argument liberty of Christ,” so that Paul overflow’ with sw eetness, and light
have established !•
Bro. Campliell gives several ex­ was ever made by mortal man, could say'“ wherefore thou art no and love and life; filling the air
more a servant but a son; ’ for “ ye with odors, like precious ointment
amples of “ these oyster expositors” than that in the Galatian letter.
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“ False brethren ” had crept into are not under law but under grace. poured forth ; irradiating the mind
one of which being “ vehemently
moved ” by a profound conviction the church and Judaized * many of To those foolish galatians and false with a glory of truths in which no
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that the cause of Christ ? would the “foolish Galatians,” that they brethren he again says in pungent fear can live, soothing the wounds
sutler greatly unless a direct on­ might bring them again into the- rebuke, “ But now’ after that ye of the-heart with a balm that turns
slaught was made upon “ the knots bondage of law, the commanded have known God, or rather are the sharpest anguish into delicious
know n of God, how turn you again peace, shedding, through the soul a
, of ribbon on the ladies bonnets,” . law of Moses. *
finally ~selecte<I Matt. 24: 17 "as a ... After “ showing that AbrahaM to ~tirr wmrk^TTnrb brggiirtyelements’ cordiaT of immortal sireiigth.'
text “ for giving scope to the fervor even, had been justified by his whereunto ye desire again to be in Jesus ! the answer to all our doubts,
his soul,” and using only these faith in God,” and not by works of bondage ?” For in keeping these the spring of all our1 courage, the
four words. " top not come down.” law,” and that whoever was under carnal commandments, or elemental earnest of all our hopes, the charm
such law wax. uudm*. a causes Im
-prir*ci|4oa-of-the-
__ ... NeitheiL-OJt.liQgl'aiiby^ .grammar
“ omnijiotent againsTallour foes, the
nor any principle of biblical her­ that righteousness could not come wiirld, “you observe days and remedy for all our weakness, the
meneutics _ were in his w ay, but bv such law. " Then realizing the months ami times ; 1 am afraid of supply of all our wants, the-fulness
feeling that the gravity of the case' foolishness of such foolish preach­ you lest 1 have bestowed upon you of all our desires. Jesus .' at the
demanded a direct and explicit at­ ing as' that law' preaching with lul/or in vain.” Those statutory of mention of whose name every knee
commanded laws, pertained to the shall bow’ ami every tongue confess. .
tack upon the hated “ top knot,” which thev
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and realizing that his little papal' corners them by asking, “This “ flesh, and ended with it, ami as Jesus ! our pow er—Jesus ! our
ball, ami bill of indictment, against only would I learn of you ; Locke says, “ did not lead them be­ righteousness, our sanctification,
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the harmless and unoffending mem- did you receive the Spirit by the yond this world, to any spiritual our redemption—Jesus ! our elder
her, had only recoiled upon him­ works of law ; or by hearing of the union with God. ’
Brother, our blessed Lord and Re­
1 frankly confess that I cannot deemer. Thy name is the most
self like one that lieatcth the air; faith ? Are you so foolish that
he now comes to the attack, forti­ having begun in the Spirit, you arc see how any intelligent Adventist transporting theme of the Church,
fied by the positive and statutory now being made perfect by the can so evade Paul’s argument, as as they sing going up from the val­
c immanded law that said, “ top flesh ?” or by principles that per­ to endeavor to bring the '* free ’ ley of tears to their home on the
knot, come down ! ’ I need hardly tain to the flesh ?—the laxly ? His sons of God who are in “ the liber­ mount of God; thy name shall
say that any argument to show’ whole argument is to show that ty of Christ ” back under the lion ever lie the richest chord irrHhe
such “ oyster expositors ” their their union with God, was not by dage of commandments and statute harmony of Heaven, where thf fifH-
great mistakes, would be wholly the works* of law, but bv the hear law’ ’ But 1 am filled with mortiti- gels and the redeemed unite their
__ useless ami vain. With Bro ing of the faith of Christ-.—Fee-be-.- eatHun w hen a reputed-preacher of- exulting, 'adoring songs 'around the-
Campliell 1 also have heard the fore the faith came we Jews were the Gospel / with a reputation for throne of God. Jesus ' Thou only
oyster expositor many times, but in bondage; shut up under the some intelligence, can give un canst interpret Thy own name, and
one or two cases must suffice. 1 law. Wherefore the law' (of Moses) blushingly and publicly the exposi Thou hast done it by Thy works on
heard one of these teachers ? say was our pedagogue to lead us down sition of Gal 4: 9, and say that' earth, and T hy glory at the right
publicly, that he could proved that till Christ. But after the faith is “the weak and beggarly elements ¿hand of the Father.—/)/’. Bethune.
the “ fruit ” that our first parents come, we are no longer under the whereunto they deserved again to
be in bondage ” was just dancing,
ate; and that had brought all the ¡Midagogue, or law.
How beautiful our lives would
circus
going
”
and
marrying
a
di
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Their nonage under the peda­
ills upon mankind that flesh is
soon grow if ne carried always
vorced
w
oman
w
ho
Lad
obtained
a
gogue
suggests
another
illustration
with us, and put into practice, the
heir to, was nothing more nor less
divorce
from
a
drunken
Liftital
in
point,
and
in
chap.
4,
he
takes
lessons we learn by experience !
than pork,-or hog meat. I did not
dispute this biblical and oyster ex­ the case of an “ heir ” or minor husband—albeit the crime of adul We look back at the end of the
positor, for argument would have “ child ” and says “ that the heir tery had not been the grounds of year and see many things that
been Useless ami vain. 1 remember [of an estate] as long as he is a the divorce ' ’
cause bitter regret, but instead, of
I would just as soon think of leaving them behinu we go on re­
reading an article once by one of child -differs in nothing from a
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entering
into an agreement with peating the same follits and eirors
these statutory and commanded bond servant, (slave) though he be
law teachers, who said that he (the future) Lord of all “the es all such “guides,” teachers? and in the new y»ar. A little heroic
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“ ‘oyster exj < sitors ” as Bro.' C, ami < decision would enable us to rise
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could show' that thy- fruit that tate.” '
Why ? Because he is under the 1 have referred to, as though they < every day on the mistakes of jts-
Adam ate, ami “ the unpardonable
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sin ” were both the same, and were | positive law ami commands of his j hail said that eating goose grease terday.
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