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and then only'will the people give
up their heathen and sinful prac
M issed the P oint .—From the tices.
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Christian Index, Georgia, we get
I ngersolism . — The Christian
this item:
Selections and Comments.
thinks that the baptism of a lady
by a " Camphellite” minister, some
years ago, * practically amounted to
nothing,” lxjcau.se she did not’ join
the “ Campbellites.” What! Did
it not avail “ For the remission of
sins ” «I* to her ? Must ...... we
join » the
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“Cam
No, sir, it is not necessary to join
the “ Campbellite church ” to secure
remission; but we are inclined to
think from the reading of the
Scriptures that it is necessary to
.get into Jesus Christ to secure it,
* and Paul tells us that we are
"baptized into Christ. But baptism
alone, like faith alone, does not se­
cure remission. It requires some-
_ thingjnore than mere immersion.
The subject must be properly pre­
pared by possessing the other
Scripture
qualifications.
The
- trouble with, the lady referred to
was, that she did not possess these
prerequisites. Instead of being
satisfied with simply the Church of
Christ, she avowed her purpose to
virtually forsake her Christ and
• his Church by refusing to wear his
name and accepting a human one,
and by associating herself with a
people Who had not been baptized
into Jesus Christ, and hence whose
society constituted no part of the
“one body.” We would like to
ask the editor of the Index if he
would have baptized her and re­
ceived her into the Baptist church
under these circumstances ? We
pause for an answer.
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I nfant M arriage in I ndia .—
An exchange gives us in reference
to infant marriages among the
heathen nations:
A Hindoo w’idow of the Brah­
min caste, about twenty five years
of age, has entered on a public agi­
tation against the eustom of infant
marriages, and in behalf of the edu­
cation and enlightenment of her sex
indndia. She is said to speak with
great modesty, self possession and
eloquence, and attracts large audi­
ences. The custom of giving young
girls in marriage is virtually selling
them into slavery. This new move­
rs another indication of the extent
to which Christian ideas have pre
vaded that country since the advent
of the first missionaries.
Let the good work of the mis­
sionaries go on, for this is the only
permanent way of correcting such
evils.
The influences of pure
Christianity should be felt in the
Remotest parts of heathen lands.
Ingersollism has w’ithin itself the
elements of its own destruction as
an ism which has for some time
been drawing men from the truth
and blessedness of divine revelation.
No one has ever died regretful of
having held the doctrines of the
man in Arkansas, about to be exe­
cuted on the gallows, said : “ I have
been a fast diseiple of Bob Inger-
sol. His doctrines have failed as a
rule of life, and they will not at all
serve as a basis of hope in death.
Ingersol’s doctrines have brought
me here.”
It is quite evident that Ingersoll
and those of his school are not
calculated to w’ork in great reforma­
tion in the religious world. The
truth of the Bible has too deep
hold on the minds and hearts ,of
the people for such empty infidelity
to have much sway over them. The
Bible will live t6 see the death of
all infidelity and the glorification of
God’s people.
Church, which forbids divorced per­
sons to re marry. The civil marria­
ges of Protestant countries, and the
easy conditions on which divorces
are often obtained, have done much
lo multiply the breaking of the
is does not
marriage laws, bu
necessarily prove a laxity of morals.
In France, where there are no di-
vorces, for instance; the ratio of the
illegitimate to the legitimate births
is much larger than the ratio of di­
in_the.-Uuited
voree -to »
States.— Ex.
Divine only irf His mission, and had
in His person no essential deity,
He is not an adequate Redeemer
for a lost race. When Theodore
Parker lost faith in his miraculous
birth, he said very naturally: “ I
will force us to the conclusion that
He was sometimes' mistaken.
When He was a boy, I suppose He
stumbled in learning to walk, mis­
called the letters in learning to read,
got wrong conclusions in His
thoughts. X^ien
age of 30, He must have made mis­
takes in His intellectual proceases,
and in His moral and religious pro-
eesses.” - Mr. .Parker was consis-
tant in his logic. If Jesus were not
Divine, He was liable, like other
men, to mistakes of judgment; and
if the Bible be not Divine, it par­
takes of human infirmities. If God
did not guard its authors from
communicating untruths in secular _
matters, the inference is quick and
almost inevitable that He did not
guard them from misapprehension
In rctigiousmatters. -Pro/. XUan-
coin.
I t W ill N ever D o .—What?
Why this endeavor to arrange a
new religion which shatt offer" to
Christ the eloquent praise of hero-
worshippers, but disdains to accept
the Christianity which He gave to
the world. Neither will it do to
start a Christianity which admires
the teachings of the Bible, but has
not ChrisFm it. Here is the man
ger birth-place, and at the foot of
Calvary’s cross we find our grand
attractiqn, and here is the parting
point between truth and unbelfiffT
Let no man deceive himself and
others by the phantoms of new
spiritual ideas, which flit across the
Correspondence.
D ivorce in E urope .—Professor
minds of to-day; which God has
Woolsey presents some extremely
revealed is not to lie twisted hither
FROM T. F. CAMPBELL.
interesting statistics in regard to
and thither, for the accommodation
marriages and divorce in Europe.
of human taste and feeling, and it
S pringfield , M o .,
The relative frequency of divorce
is at our eternal risk that we choose
July 24,1883. .
is noted among persons of. different
the
word
of
man
to
the
Word
Di
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Dear
Bro.
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denominations of Christians and the
I am interested in every educa­
results adduced show that the Amer­ vine.— Christian Commonwealth.
tional enterprise; because in it I
ican people, for a race of Protestant,
D on ’ t B egin to D oubt .—The see the prospective development of
have made a very bad record. The
Scandinavians rank the highest in- history of our age is full of admoni­ the intellectual and moral resources
this respect, the Scotch and English tions. Theodore Parker entered on of the country. No patriot nor
coming next, and the Germans last his public ministry with a strong philanthropist can be indifferent to
among the Protestant races of Eu­ faith in the inspiration of the Bible their factors in civilization without
rope. In Norway, from i-875 to and in the miraculous birth and which no people can livo in peace,
1880, the marriages were 81,487, character of Jesus Christ. He be­ no nation remain free end happy.
and the divorces forty-four, mak ing gan to doubt, first, the inspiration Just now therA is a nucleus of
one divorce to 1,852 marriages* on the sacred writers at all times : activity looking^ to scholastic cul­
Americans have
* reason to be asham- then their inspiration beyond the ture, forming at Ash Grove, twenty
,ed that even, Puritan, New’ England, best men of other ages; then the miles west of here. The prime
in the ratio for the past twenty-one infallible inspiration even of Jesus; movers in this effort to. inaugurate
years has been one divorce to every and finally miraculous work and this institution of learning are men
eleven marriages.
In Scotland, character of Christ. The doubts of of the world, energetic, public-spir-
from 1871 to 1881, there were 581 universal inspiration led the way to ited, business men, who see both
divorces and 275,723 marriages, the general unbelief. Frederick Rob­ wealth and culture in the same
ratio being about one to 470. In ertson was traveling rapidly on the channel. They have laid off addi­
England, for nine years, ther were same road, held back only by his tions to their town and projected
2,291 divorces and separations, and fervid and reverent love for Christ, improvements which will greatly
1,707,760 marriages or one divorce when an early death saved him from increase its beauty and convenience
to 745 marriages. In Pennsylvania, an utter wreck of faith. The two A delightful sight of ten acres ha?
in tho sa|ne period, the ratio has great questions of our day are: been selected near the town, and
been about one to 23. In Switzer­ Have we a Divine Bible? and, Have ten thousand dollars in cash ha?
land the Protestant cantons have we a Divine Saviour ? If the Bible been raised, and both site and
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divorces to every 100 be Divine only in its origin, and money have been donated to a
marriages ; and the Catholic cantons subject to all human limitation in board of trustees, a majority of
only one to 100. The favorable the utterance of revealed truths, it whom are forever to be of tbo
average of the Catholics is undoubt- I is no adequate authority or guide Christian church, The reason as-
edly due to the influence of the I for men. And if the Savior were , signed by these men for .this course
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