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gether, and Pharoah and his host,
and all his chosen captains, were
drowned in the sea. Not one of
that great army was left alive ’
What a destruction of human life,
and of property ' for the horses and
chariots were also destroyed. Four
hundred years previous to this the
Lord had said that the nation that
nTffi< ted his people he wauld judge?
signs and wonders upon Egypt. This is the way he kept his word !
Space forbids specifying; it may be When the Lord threatens he meant
read in the forepart of Exodus. it—nor does he forget—nor does
Pharaoh stoutly resisted, until time weaken it. Let all the.earth
fear before him. It is truly a fear-
Egypt
laid waste
growing
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-were destroyed; also much of their the living God, for he is a consum
Hock and herds, and even the fishes ing fire, able to destroy both soul
in their streams; and finally the and body, and none can stay his
first bom in every house from hand.
the two parties, and God and the
king of Egypt were to measure
arms. God said he would bring his
people out, and Pharaoh said he
would not let them go.
But ah, how unequal the con
test ' How weak is man when con
tending with his Maker! God
then began to magnify himself and
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Correspondence. '
University. He will -conduct a
Bible school at Fort Scott in July
continuing several days.
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FROM T. F. CAMPBELL.
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COUNT one .
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C arrollton , M o .,
We are for Christ or against him.
May 22, 1883.
We are gathering or scattering. Dear Bro.:
There is no neutral ground. Though
Since 1 last wrote I have visited
you stand stock still and dumb you Kansas City, lnd|£^d^ja^JAl^-
rens'bifrg, Sedalia, Lexington, Rich
Some wield a small influence, some mond and this point, all in Miasouri.
a greater.' He recognizes all the I have preached two or three dis
mites. If you cannot preach, if courses every ““Sunday and made
you cannot pray, if you cannot many lectures on other days to
sing you can sit in the audience. audiences small and large. At
You can count one. Every one Kansas- -City- I—tarrted thirty-str •
thus counted makestlie preacher’s hours with my son, Dr. A. P.
sermon better. You can be an at Campbell, and his household, con
tentive listener. Every attentive sisting now of his. daughter, her
listener makes the preacher’s ser- mother, grandmother and great
grandmother.
er. T found and left
more fervent. There is as much in them in fine health and spirits. A
and there was a great cry in JOTTINGS FROM KANSAS. the audience as is in study that few minutes conversation with Bro.
develops the worth of a sermon. T. P. Haley, the pastor, showed me
Egypt; for there was not a house
BY C. J. UCKINXEY.
Encouragement and sympathy, that I could get no hearing in
where there was not one dead.
After this Israel was permitted to
Cyclones are again spreading silent, but engraved in your fideli Kansas City. The church is bend
go. But as soon as the shock, oc terror and destruction through ty will strengthen and inspire him ing all its energies in the direction
casioned by a death in every house, various parts of the country. Soine whose heart helps the Savior bear of their church building which is
subsided a little, the love of gain prepare against them. • Some pre the burden of souls. Count one not yet complete. Preparation for
an approaching concert engaged the
asserted itself, and Pharaoh re pare for them. The one digs into brethren. Always count one.
S
ound
D
octrine
and
P
ure
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-young people eve r y evenlagTandT
pented that he had let Israel go— the ground, he saves the body.
S peech is a long felt want. There the excitement and rush of bu»i-
ere IsraelI got out of his border^ j The other makes
Pharaoh and his servants asked by obedign^e, and leaves not the is no peace without it. Sectarian ness in that city almost unprece
themselves, “ Why have we done other undone. He saves both soul ism is a restless sea for want of" dented for rapid growth rendered it
this, that we Lave let Israel go and body. Others, like Noah’s these. Creeds and formulated doc impracticable to attempt an ap
contemporaries, take no heed. Some trines claimed but two credit (?) pointment. I enjoyed my visits
from serving us ?”
marks; one, that they were taken and spent the time most pleasantly
Pharoah made rCBdy his chariot, are swept away.
The South East Kansas Preach from the Bible, the other that they at the other points named, meeting
and he ’took GOO chosen chariots,
and all the chariots of Egypt, and ers’ In^itute at Neodesha was a worked well. Once they were many old friends, giving and receiv
captains over every one of them. “mixtery.” There were good guides. Now they are lain aside ing cordial greetings, and calling up
And all the horses and chariots of things. There were likewise things as books of reference. They are the forgotten incidents of the “ long
Pharaoh, and all his horsemen, and not good. The dubious organ undergoing the disgrace of revision, ago.’' I am remaining here one day
liis army, persued the Israelites and question was hurled upon the un and every thoughtful man foresees longer than I intended, to marry a
overtook them. It seems strange willing assembly. Certain parties the doom of the race of creeds. couple of young people to-morrow
to us that Pharaoh could have the seemed determined to disturb the The soul begotten into the liberty evening. I shall then go to St.
courage to make another effort. placid waters, and they did. I fear of the gospel spurns to be brought Louis where I shall remain several
Israel had encamped by the sea. moreover that no lame soul got again under bondage. But ex days. From there I shall continue
When they saw Pharaoh and his healed. The following resolution treme begets extreme. To the my travels through Illinois and
lios^s they were much distressed explains itself and the judgment of soul freed from the tyrany of | Indiana into Kentucky. I expect
and cried out to the Lord. The ’the sober, thoughtful brethren pres creed and man made superiors, there to end my driftingsand wanderings
angel of God which went l>efore ent. It Was unanimously adopted. arc two popular resorts ; one is the at Cincinnati about the 25th of
W hereas , In view of the fact free grant of opinion and a partial June. I shall then seek some per-
the camp of Israel, removed and
went behind them; so also the that the discussion of the organ incorporation of opinion into doc marnent location and settled busi-
pillar of cloud; Moses stretched question generates such a bad trine as represented by modern n 388, whether in the east or the
out his hand over the sea, and the spirit, and inasmuch as it is not a Congregationalism; the other is a west I am not yet decided.
These letters, written, as they
Lord caused the sea to go back by question of faith but of opinion, clear sail at sea called Indepen
dents.
In
their
mad
fight
and
discussion
can
do
no
<;ood.
are, at odd intervals, an l generally
©
*
a strong east wind all night, and
Hight
they
unconsciously
pass
the
Resolved,
Therefore,
we
deem
it
in great haste, are, I presume, grow
the waters divided and the child
port.
But
sailing
without
a
guide-
advisable
to
recommend
its
exclu
ing monotonous to the publicand
ren of Israel passed through upon
book
is
dangerous
business.
Soon
this
sion
from-future
-meetings
of
uninteresting to the brethren. 1
dry groun<lj j,he waters were a
they
will
return
to
anchor
in
the
Institute.
shall,
therefore, after two or three
wall unto them on the right hand
of
sure
old
harbor
to
the
Rock
on
After hearing champions
more, close them out, and thus
and on the left. The Egyptians
Ages.
The
Bible,
the
book
of
con-
sever the last link that binds me to
paw this and should have been either side I am now fully
sound
doctrine
;
the
church,
a
that paper with which I have been
awestruck, and feared to contend vinced that the only proper thing
people
of
pure
speech
1
,
to
do
is
to
be
as
silent
as
the
Bible
identified from its inception. My
with a power the sea obeyed, but
Parsons, Kas,
on
the
subject.
That
ground
is
best wishes will ever be with it!
they seemed rather emboldened and
»
safe.
All
else
is
unsafe
rushed madly forward into the
Some one has said that if profes Christian greetings to all readers of
The
preachers
of
Kansas
are
soon
sed Christians do not have grace the H erald .
midst of the sea, and the same Al
Yours ever and truly,
mighty power that had divided its to have a feast of good things from enough to control them, they can
I
T. F. C ampbell .
hardly
have
enough
to
save
them.
5vaton caused them to flow to Bro. J. W. McGarvey of Kentucky
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