* ■ : ■ * 4 CHRISTIAN HEHALD. s —#UI We will have to suppose then that ihatroubladathey.didnoLUad them Jbsus lit the hrfi place', jdl then it spoils the theory when we remember that Mr. Spurgeon is not much of a Baptist after all. ing extract from “ Uhlhorn’s Con #ict qf-ClhirtiahibvWiUiJbkailten- ism . J . ; Queries and Answers. ..........- -......... - - ..... C astle Rotk, W. T„ Feb. 16, 1883. Bro. Floyd : Will you please answer through the H erald the following ques tions : 1. Suppose a brother and I have a misunderstanding, is it my duty to go to.him if he is in the fault? _ 2. {Suppose I commit a crime by dancing, swearing, getting drunk and stealing, is it the duty of any brother to come tq talk .to me be fore the chinch takes it ih hand ? As I understand there are two crimes, one public and the other private, please let us hear from you in full. I remain yours in hope; E lisha J ackson . A nswer . ' the Elders of the church to visit edge ahd forsake their sih, it is also right and eminently proper for any one to visit them and talk with them w fio feels and khoWii. that good can be accomplished by so - doing. We do not believe in bring ing troubles into the church as long as they can be Scripturally settled outside of it. Let the church be the last rMort. Ftibfie sills h(rWj ever should usually be confessed iri the public assembly, that all may be mutually benefitted. Aot merely at church, but at home also, in their vocations and on the street. Christians desired io ap- fw/r $ CKrtetlaiiA Tbi# guarded with the greatest care against any A H ard Q uestion .—Bro. R. B. connection with heathenism; they Neal is our authority .for the follow avoided with the utmost conscien tiousness everything which could in ing : any waV lie construed as a denial of "..An old brother caifié home gribii- ifieit JaiiH. Difficult; indeed; liihsl bHrig after lieatilig one of oür young nave beeh their task, for their en LteXington preachers, that he “didn't tire life was compassed by a net feel like goihg to churcH to .hear wqrk.of heathen customs wljich a Bro.. P. preacli Bro. McGarvey's Christian ititisi every inobiont rend His son said: “ Pa, if he would remain true to his God. hadn’t you better pay him his little Many special relations of life 1 Editor Herald: salary to preach Bro. McG’s ser brought the Christians into still A dispute having arisen about mons than to pay Bro. Me. a bi^ more difficult situations. A master salary to come and preach them ?” would order a Christian slave to do the manner in which Absalom met The old gentleman has not replied something wholly Unobjectionable his death, “ by the hair,” “ by the to the question yet, ahd this hitó ffbffi ,a iieftthbn pbihi bf VifJWj hut head,” “ by the chin,” please state sinful according io a (Christian Beeh some tinie ago. 4 in. the H erald . Better preach Bro. McGarvey’s standard, and yet the slave was, A F ríen a completely in, the powfer of Ilia mas- wriaóns than -prqmb ho tbf, whd could have hilii, if dlsobe- ---- frr flhowld the misqnderatandmg- ohe is determined to preach ; but if dient, tortured, * and even killed. be of the nature of a trespass The first verse of the passage he depends on this kind of prepara How should the Christian wife, who against you, then you should evi tion we have serious doubts about had a heathen husband, fulfill her dently go to your brother for the reads as follows: “ Ahd Absalorrt the Scripturalness of his call ,to Christian obligations, attend divine purpose of, showihg him his wrong met the servants of David. And preach. If a preacher eAn not hh worship, Visit the sick, efitortalil and setting him aright in a private Absalom rode upon a mule, and the himself ih this respect, he had bet strangers, distribute alms, without way. This whole matter is made mule went under the thick boughs offending her husband ? How could ter be nothing. There is entirely the officer or the soldier perform his plain in Matt 18: 15-17; Should of a great oak, and his head caught too much plagiorizing going on duties without denying his faith 1 this misunderstanding be of a more hold of the oak, and he was takfen For long the two callings were up between the heaven and the . nowadays. —..... -................... deemed incompatible,, ahd th? officer trivial nature, we think it the duty earthy and the mule that was prehirild to resign his position, the df each to seek afi interview with undiriHiW went «Way.” 2 Samuel D ecay of O rthodoxy .—The soldier to leave the ranks, rather the other at the first possible op than give up his profession. Those portunity for the purpose of adjust 18: 9-17. Presbyterian Banner says-: who could not do this were often Adam Clark say’s: " It has been It has became the custom not on obliged to purchase fidelity to their ing the matter in a Christian spirit. ly for infidels, but especially those Lord with their blood. Many a This we think is both sensible and supposed that Absalom was caught who, professedly adhering to Chris person alsh; in order to beeoftie and Scriptural. From the very fact it by the hair, but no such tiling is tianity, have abandoned its founda remain a Christian, must have re is regarded as a “ misunderstand intimated in the text. Probably tions and adopted in its stead “ an linquished the trade or employment ing” shows that it can be easily his neck was caught in the fork other gospel which is not another,” which brought him a livelihood a strong bough, and he was nearly to write and declaim about the dy All who had obtained a support by settled by talking it over in the ing out of the old faith, and especi the heathen cultus, servants, and spirit of brotherly love. No true dead when Joab found him ; for it ally of decay of theology. Some of laborers in the temples, idol-makers, Christian can desire to live under a is said, verse 14, lie was yet alive, those most forward in putting forth sellers of incense, as well as actors, misunderstanding with his brother, an expression which intimates he these declarations wonld find it dif fencing-masters in the gladitorial and as long as he regards it as such, was nearly dead." ficult to tell what is meant by the schools, etc., were admitted by the Our own opinion is that, owing faith or the theology which, accord church to liaptism only on condition duty will prompt him to seek a full ing to them, has become so weaken that they should abandon their oc and free explanation of the difficul to his extraordinary head of hair ed as to be ready to die. A little cupations, and whoever as a Chris ty in private rather than allow such and the length of time he was examination will prove that with tian engaged in such employments a thing to find its way into the hanging there alive, being thrust them the wish is father to the was excluded from fellowship. church. We are satisfied that if through the heart with darts before thought; they desire the decline There is a significant lesson in this this course should be pursued by he died, his hair becoming en and utter extinction of evangelical and orthodox doctrine and try to for Christians of the present day. brethren under such circumstances, tangled in the thick boughs was the pursuade themselves and others There should be a broad line of dis about nine tenths of our troubles principal cause leading to his that such a result is actually taking tinction drawn between the world could be amicably settled without death. The word “ head ” in the place.— Presbyterian Banner. and the church ; and just so long as even the knowledge of the church. passage would come nearer stand This is another proof of what we the children of God mix up with There is often entirely too much ing for the hair of his head, than had to say about creeds last week. those of the wicked one and engage malice and mulish stubborness shut for his “ neck ” according to Clark, Not all those who are abandoning in party politics and other things of up in the hearts of some Christian .. - • • •—-------- the creeds of the day are coming questionable propriety to such an people. We need more freedom on Bro. J. Z. Tyler, of Richmond, over to apostolic Christianity. They extent that you can not tell the one the part of such in talking over Va., has prepared a book of ser-' first break loose from creeds and from the other, just in the same 1 their misunderstandings among* mons for publication. This book then give up the Bible. Abandon proportion will the church be the themselves instead of avoiding all will contain his best sermons 1 ing creedB with them means liber sufferer. - 1 allusion to them and even shun- preached in the Seventh street alism,, liberalism means to think _________ ning the company of one another. Christian church. The book is now , and act as one pleases. The power of a man’s virtue 2r Any one. guilty of the sins in press, and Bro. John Burns, of should not be measured by his named, has committed an offence St. Louis, is the Publisher. We O beying G od rather than M en . special efforts, but by his ordinary against the church and against God ; will give further notice when re- and while it is the special duty of ceived at this office. —An exchange gives us the follow- doing.— Pascal. I ■ & I ! •i 'J 1 <r I