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this greatest question and concern 1 with young, ardent short sighted
of duty and life. It constitutes a
lesson of practical knowledge and
wisdom that should be taught every.
Christian as a familiar instruction.
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would free individuals and commu
nities of men.
We propose now to make an ap
plication in two directions of what
— we.Lavii_said. First, the men who
devoutly and reverently honor God
in his word, his doctrine and ordi
nances carry with them the supreme
wisdom and authority of God, and
are for the present and eternal sal
vation of the world; whose faith
accepts the divine law as given in
the revealed word as perfect; who
never dare to substitute the human,
the imperfect, in religion, .for the
perfect divine; who finally, are
evermore striving to attain to this
perfect in knowledge and obedience
of life; these men must make it the
supreme law in all matters pertain-
God, revealed in th ©..New Testa-
'merit, as the perfect and immutable
standard of doctrine, ordinances and
life, and then, as an inevitable con
sequence to strive to realize in their
own intelligence as much as possi
ble, by constantly “seeking that
•_ they may find,” the perfect form of
this divine will objectively revealed
in the Holy Scripture. This is the
true law of the Christian reformer
who justly merits this honorable
title. And, we would add in pas
sing, from all we have said, no one
ought to be humbler and less pre
tentious and intolerant than the
true Christian reformer; for no one.
should understand better than be
the extent and the causes of human
errors, and so, while earnestly and
ceaselessly calling men back to the
perfict purity of the religion of
Christ, he should ke most dis|>osed
to. exercise a charitable judgment
towards men, and to labor and wait
patiently for their emancipation
___ from these sad errors, remembering
“ the rock from which he was hewn,
and the pit from which he was dug,”
and what labor it cost to do ail this.
The wisest, the most experienced,
are always the most tolerant and
patient; the most inexperienced
and unwise, tho least so. When
the inhabitants of a certain town in
Samaria through their violent big
otry treated the Divine Master with
the extremest inhospitality, the
young Sons of Thunder proposed
to reform them by burning their
town up—a not uncommon feeling
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deep enough to conceal it. ponder it
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well. Sin, like the measles, tends
Bro. Stanley:
• In order to give our meeting to the surface.
sufficient publicity I take this plan
Bishop Whipple says, all
of notifying the several church or-
in» in Christ we shall find in
ganizations extant in Linn county,
Christ. If we want little we -shall
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Linn county board, to convene on
"shall .find-.much; and if in utter
Wednesday before the second
helplessness we cast our all on
Lord’s day in January, at Central
Christ, he will be to us the whole
church. I learn from Bro. Doty
treasury
of God,” and a whole cloud
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with us to assist Bro. Doty and
Christendom rise up to substantiate
other m i iiTsters tor Thrfe lluyM1
the truth of this statement. The
meeting. Now, brethren, let us
Master himself said, “ Blessed are
have a fair representation from
every cluircKr iii order that your they that hunger and thirst after
committee mav understand your righteousness, for they shall 4>e
wishes and your plan also of this filled.” Come to a full fountain and
great work, that from the presenta get a full supply.—Air.
reformers.
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But the Lord, who understood
the human heart and its motives
better—while sin and bigotry were
e e- hau tl V -Iftrf“* 1’ to him than to the
; sons of Zebedee—rebuked' these
high-spirited,rash viftdldttUN I'M.
their Master, by telling them,“ You
know what manner of spirit you
are of.” He went his way with his
disciples outside of the bigoted
"lown/ and Wited for a better day
-tor its inhabitants. __
And now a few words, in the
second place, as to the progress
called Religious Liberalism.
The word and idea of liberty
have always had a charmed inti li
enee over men. In its legitimate
meaning and form., liberty deserves
the love of men wherever it is found, tion of several plans your commit
in religion as w’cll as elsewhere. tee may adopt the least objection
Religion, theology, the Church, have able one.
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a divinely given right to be eman
cipated from all forms of human
What is my influence ' Are the
bondage, human errors and human
people who have most to do with
■authority.... Bui ..nowhere .must we
me U*ttet people or wwpeople on
be mot'e on our guard that just.here
account of my relation with them ?
in the face of the demands and aims
I saw the pestilential Campagna of
of liberalism. Our safeguard and
Rome planted with the eucalyptus
our law of judgment are found in
tree. In some way its waxy leaves
this f that we must accept the re
counteract the malaria. No man,
vealed will of God as our supreme
Christian by profession or man of
rule and limit of leligious thought
the world, will dispute the state-
and freedom, beyond which this
ment that there are moral influences
freedom must never gu^ .Within
in our society that poison the at
the bounds of that, aud under its
mosphere like the exhalations of a
control, all free action is given to
swamp. Well, what am 1 t,o this
religious ideas and efforts. Within
tainted world—a eucalyptus tree
this the subjective development of
or a poisoned ivy I In one word,
Christianity has the freest scope—
wliat is the moral effect of my in
not beyond it.
fluence ?— Bishop Cheney.
We, therefore, reject the common
“ Be sure your sin will find you
liberalism in theology and its kin
dred fields of thought and activity, out. The transgressor'does not be
which denies theoretically and > i lieve this; or, if he admits the
practically divine perfectness^ and truth as a general rule, he thinks
case will furnish an
supreme authority to the objective ' that his own
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Testament; the liberalism that in dulging from day to day in what
its licentious freedom roams at will are called trivial offenses would
beyond all the limits that the continue the practice if they fully
Scriptures have established, and realized the truth of the above
that is a will and a law to itself, j text ? how many would engage in
God alone is tire author of religion; more palpable evils if they did not
it is of God ahd not of man ; from expect in some way to cover them ?
above and not of the earth. Its aim It may be done for a season, ami
is to lift us*up to him; to save us this fact makes sin the more dan
from sin and its power. No human gerous ; but it can not be done ef
power can do.this; there need of fectually, completely and forever.
“ a power of God ” unto this salva God has otherwise ordained, and he
tion. And nowhere has Gori re has uttered the truth in unmistak
vealed this power but in his Word. able language in the above text.
Here we must rest.—C. L. L, in Let the young man heed it when
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he makes his first departure in thy
A man’s character is like a fence way of evil; let him who in a sly
—it cannot ‘be strengthened by way has long engaged in iniquitous
practices remember it j let him who
whitewash,
Every time 'God takes a friend,
he opens* through death the highest,
though in one sense it may be the
loneliest, way of life. But a glori
ous thing he does for the spirit,
though a harrowing thing for our
human affections,when-, taking from
us that
us just one happiness—the immor
tal happiness of gooduess.~-Char-
Lotte F. Bates.
A pure, holy character exerts its
influence like warmth. It spreads
itself through the community all
the more powerfully because so
quietly. You preach, men employ
their intellects in answering your
arguments. You strive to reform ;
the vicious band themselves against
you to defeat your plans and oper
ations. But you are simply true
and holy, and there is no argument
againt that; there is no resisting
that; it tells on every intellect.—
The Deem» Birthday Book.
If you want to succeed in tho
world, you must make your own
opportunities as you go on. The
man who waits for some seventh
wave to toss him on dry land will
find that the seventh wave is a
long time coming. You can com
mit no greater folly than to sit by
the. roadside until some one comes
along and invites you to ride with
him to wealth or influence.— John
B. Gough.
If you wish to be real happy,
take a good deal of out-door exer
cise and never run in debt.
Guard well thy thoughts; our
thoughts are heard in heaven.—
Young.
Jxrve, faith, patience—the three
essentials to a happy life.-
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