Christian herald., March 21, 1884, Page 5, Image 5

HERALD
CHRISTIAJST
want to usurp authority, but I have
felt sometimes that if I had
authority I would like to stop so
much quarreling in our churcher
and papers, and I wotíld hate more
love manifested by those who are
proclaiming the love of God. I am
ashamed sometimes foj our young
Christians to read our papers and
uttinff tinners that brethren
THE
SLIGHTED COMMIS-. Here; in the first gospel whatever RETRIBUTION AS SEEN IN
ITS BIBLICAL ATMOS-
may be said of the second, the
SION.
PHEBE.
Lord’s final words stand upon a
The Christian haith can renew
itself only at its fountain-head. The
docdrtientóry fountain head of the
faith is the New_Testament. Hence
every well-directed effort to bring
back Christianity to its pristine
purity and force must maintain an
earnest and constant study of its
solid critical foundation. In the
It is instructive, therefore, as" a
next place, the occasiôn of the ut- help to our conception of the Bibli-
terance of the Commission as set cal idea of Retribution to observe
forth by Matthew, invests the words how it looks through its Biblical
of the Master with an especial in- atmosphere. And, in the first place
terest. This meeting, held in Gali- what is the look of it as it appears
lee, was held by previous arrange - in the historic records of the Old
ment between Christ and his disci- Testament ?
you have the right to dislike Sun­ ing, but paying especial heed to ples, am ence was a s
day-school addresses, missionary controlling facts, and to red-letter reunion ; a formal, public manifes­ reader is that the principle of retri­
gatherings and the organ, but let us passages. Possessed by this, convic­ tation, witnessed probably by the butive justice is made to pervade,
all love peace and one another more tion we have several times lately “ 500 brethren at once,” mentioned the whole history by means of
1 than we hate these. But to return, expressed our astonishment and re- by the Apostle Paul. In the third signal and appalling examples. Sa
place, the words of the Commission far as the character of the divine
•hy didPauT’wafit AUtlluiily to "greF 1 th a t i k o -
uis nub alittlo p g.
bind- the women if they were doing should have been so much disregard­ ""aS
nothing publicly to spread Christ’s ed, and that modern evangelization markable for their method and their impression is made with ineffaceable
kingdom here. on earth ? he com­ should have been so reluctant to majesty, their tenderness and sub­ distinctness that sin and suffering
mitted them to prison, but when he place its methods alongside of those limity. Just think for a moment are inseparable. Law in the natural
was converted to Christianity he adopted by inspired Apostles when what they embrace. They contain, wnrltl i« more uniform, but not a
allowed them to labor with him. they commenced their magnificent an assumption by our Master of all whit more severe in the infliction
i Romans 16. I commend unto you work of aggression upon the world. authority in heaven and on earth; of pain on the transgressor than
: Phebe, etc., What for Paul ? What
We would now push our way a calm,: imperial issue of mandate the law of the moral world is, as
has she done ? Ah ! she is a servant still higher up the stream, by ask­ after mandate to guide evangelizing represented in certain phenomenal
K of the church which is at Cenchrea. ing how it comes to pass that the work among all nations of the events which mark epochs in Bib­
I How could she be a servant of the Great Commission of the Master earth ; a rapid sweep through all lical history. These occur with
church and not do any thing? Greet addressed to his disciples Matt. 28: the days of the age of evil until the sufficient frequency to act as me-----
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Jfll Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in 16-20 should have come to be ..so Speaker’s return, in the form of an mortals of God as a righteous gov- ■*-
generallyjgnored. For we believe encouraging promise that just so ernor who will not clear the guilty.
way injiei- . .TUa.mqral impression to this effect
s
Ow part of the 70; their names are often we are right in conciuding’'ni'at' IF .
d
I spoken of in the Epistolary writ­ is little appealed to, and very sel­ son he. would, nevertheless, be pres­ is even more vivid for their occa-
d
ings ---
and they are always laboring dom expounded. “ The baptismal ent in spirit with Lis faithful ad­ sional occurrence. They seem to
—
in
I together. . Paul said help these wo­ formula” contained therein is, no herents. If you want faultless logic emanate from the secret reserves of
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men who labored with me in the doubt, pretty generally used on —authority first, command next, a force whose limitations no man
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gospel. He mentions a number of baptismal occasions; though even promise last—it is here. If you can define, and whose disclosures of
I • names—speaks of Tryphena, Try- then merely in a fragmentary way wish for an epitome of Divinity— itself no man can foresee. God
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pliosa... the “ beloved Persis
and rather as an oral talisman than fpr one of the two most express comes .out for the moment from
ds
which labored much in the Lord. ”f as a beam of light on the intention and compact disclosures of Triunity the seclusion in which commonly
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Paul does not say these women per- of the ordinance in course of being in the Godhead contained in Che“ his wer liides ílS'é’tf,W'd“Striker«-"
New
Testament
—
it
is
here.
If
you
ish
blow, the echo of which reverber-
4 formed different work in the gospel administered ; and even this form­
desire
a
programme
for
converting
íat
ates through ages. Nations quake
from what men did. Are we living ula has generally been used hither
the
masses,
it
is
here.
If
you
would
at the sound.
under another gospel dispensation ? to in the incorrect wording in which
ge,
have
a
fruitful
hint
as
to
the
place
im-
When we come to note the ani­
Should not women labor in the gos-, it appears in King James’ Version,
and
intent
of
the
initiatory
rite
of
oes '
mus of the writer who puts the
pel and be helped now J Or did« and which gives scarcely a glimpse
Christianity,
it
is
here.
The
pass
­
nd.
facts on record, we observe farther
Paul mean help them to pray in of the profound meaning conveyed
age
is.
indeed,
a
red-letter
passage,
ion-
that' he tells the story with the
secret, sing in the churches and ad­ by the original. We are thinking,
fit
to
be
emblazoned
everywhere,
[f I
minister to the temporal wants ? I however, of the passage as a whole,
most absolute equanimity. Al­
to
be
quoted
on
all
occasions,
to
lie
our
though his mission is to declare
love to cook a good dinner for a and, thus considering it, we do not
appealed
to
in
everything
:
to
be
say
that “it shall come to pass that the
preacher and I like to see him sit suppose we exaggerate in the least
consulted
as
a
guide,
unfurled
as
a
any
ears of every one that heareth shall
down and enjoy it, but I don’t want the amount of neglect generally
fla«,
adduced
as
a
warrant.
And
jme.
tingle,” yet he is not shocked or
him to think that is all I am fit to manifested with regard to it. Such
yet
we
seldom
hear
it
so
much
as
ould
offended by the severity of the in­
do. It is my exalted privilege to neglect t is not a little surprising,
seriously
quoted
by
the
Christian
aul’s
flictions. He does not stand aghast
meet every Lord’s day afternoon for reasons which we will now pro­
preachers
and
teachers
of
the
pres
­
jtion
at penal suffering as an unnatural
with young sisters and to hear them ceed to specify.
ent
day.
How
is
this
?
Is
it
not
ig in
phenomenon. . He does not treat it
read God’s word, sing songs of
In the first place, the authenti­
surprising
?
Must
there
not
be
some
then
as an interpolation which disturbs"'
praise to his Holy name, speak city of this account of our Lord’s
widespread
and
insidious
cause
for
ther?
the equipoise of events, or as a
words of ‘encouragement and Great Commission lies under no
such
a
remarkable
slight
cast
on
the
f the
strange thing which needs to be ex­
breathe his preciocs name in prayer, sort of doubt. It is contained in
Lord
’
s
Last
Words
?
We
are
firmly
Does
plained. Not a syllable is recorded
and I have truly felt that if I ever the oldest Greek copies, appears in
persuaded-the
cause
must
be
serious,
usurp
met with saints it has been at such the most venerable versions, and is
in apology for it, or in defense of
and
purpose
hereafter
instituting
God’s government. Nothing in the
r the
times. May we all grow in grace presented by all modern editors of
an-Inquiry
as
to
what
that
cause
must
bearing of the historian suggests
and do good to all.*.. W. V.
the Greek text __ without a noto of
may
be.
—
C/t,
istian
Commonwealth.
that facts need explanation or apol- -
am a
suspicion and with no more than
l have
ogy. Penalty under given condi­
I have learned more of experi­ one or two minute and unimportant
Ho who receives a good turn tions is treated as the mast natural
chool,
mental religion since my little boy variations. In this respect, of course,
•ejoice
died than in all my life before.— it differs from the last 12 verses of should never forget it; he who does thing to happen. The probabilities
onfess
of history seem to demand it. Noth-
the gospel, according 'to Mark. one should never remember it.
Bushnell.
don’t
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