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W omen S uffraue .—In the 2Vew ~
Englander for March Prof. Good
win, of Olivet College, handles this
subject with very great -ability and
force. lie shows that the so-called
“ reform ” implies a revolutionary
change in our whole social system,
subsituting the individual instead
of the family as the social unit, and
that it is based upon a radically
false theory of political rights, since
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We have before us the acknowledg versation took place in his family
had been said and felt and done by
ed word of God, and by it, ail thfese grave yard at Bethany, W. Va
myself. For instance, another can
matters must finally stand or fall. Mr. Owen was. tfaeii tlsiting him in
not believe for me, repent for me,
. . * , In reference to the Lord’s Supper order to prepare the preliminaries
confess for me, receive for me par
and the Lord’s day, we also quote : for tljeir great debate which was
don and peace and joy through tha
‘ On the Lord’s day ye shall gath held in Cincinnati, 0.
blood of Christ. Another cannot,
er yourselves together and break
ihe bread and say thanks, after ye
in my stead, so that the benefit
T rusting the P romises .—Aman
lave confessed your irilsdeeds; in ferotfsed t|ie Mississippi on the ice,
shall redound to me, love and obey
order that' your offering may be and, fearing it was wo thin, began
God. Among the great truths of
cleanr Let no one who is at odds to crawl over on his hands and
Revelation frequently insisted on, is.
with his friend, assemble with you, knees in great terror; but before he
^TeTore^TEey^Kave"^
gained the oppo^te ’sfiore/~all worn'
with each other, in order that your ■out, another man drove past him universal, but each has its condi personal. The essential and best
differing may not be profaned/’
gaily, sitting Upon a sled loaded tions and limitations. It is also a things of the Christian religion are
This_ show’s that the apostolic With pig iron. And that is just the
rebellion against the divinely or only possible to the soul’s exper
custom of breaking the loaf on the way most Christians go Up to the dained position and duties of the ience through personal exertion and
Lord’s day had not been neglectec heavenly Canaan,trembling atevery sex, as shown both by nature and appropriation. Every soul must
step lest the promises shall break
„ when the epistle ayas .written, „..AgaiiX- TTHi l Uf uu r,Jf eg t,“ when"r eall y th e y
seek God for itself; have its own
it says i
are secure enough for Us to hold up of woman’s truest and deepest in direct experience; its own act of
“As for the eucharisL ye shall our heads and sing With Confidence stincts, as shown by almost univer submission; its own adoption as a
give thanka: First in reference to as we march to the better land.—
sal observation.
The Professor child of God.— Christian IntAUigev^
the cdp: ‘We thank tfiee otir Father- Advocate and Guardian.
cer.
. tm-f cites and enforces Mr. Humerton’s
which thou hast revealed to us the same side from which he starr remark, “ A woman can rarely de
J esus - W ept .-,- Yes, "Jesus wept.’*
through thy cliild Jesus. Honor
tach her mind from questions of
ed
in,
he
would
more
fitly
represent
be to Thee to eternity.’ In refer
.persons to apply it to questions of Without these precious words and
ence io the broken bread, however: some professed Christians. Should
the fact of pity and love, which, in
* Wo tiiank Thee, oili* Father, for this class succeed in getting to the fact,” and then goes on to speak of
the life and the knowledge Which better land even by going on their the disastrous results to the -home beautiful simplicity they express,
thou hast declared unto us through hands and knees, it will be a sur and to the woman herself were the the Bible would have been sadly
thy child Jesus. Honor be to Thee
proposed change carried tmt. > The incomplete, and deprived of half its
prise
to
many.
to eternity. As this broken bread
paper concludes with a courteous solace. When we look on the great
was strewn upon the hills (that is
cities of wickedness without, as
Is it P olicy or P rinciple - and conclusive reply to the argu-
as grain) and brought together and
Jesus looked on Jerusalem, and
the
Prelude
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brought together from the ends of we had not long since with an etn - one of Mr. Joseph Cook^ recent wept;’
the earth into Thy kingdom; for inent Nonconformist minister, he Boston lectures.
The lecturer’s the fountain of sinfulness within
Thine is the’ honor and power
fallacies are effectually exposed/*— us, the chief concern of our Savior’s
through Jesus Christ to eternity.’ frankly admitted to us that our Christian Intcitigeneer.
compassion; when we suffer; when
Let no one, however, eat or drink advocacy as to proper methods of
we stand by the open grave, ready
of your eucharist except those bap evangelistic work cannot be refu
tized in the name of the Lord ; for ted by an appeal ito the New Testa
A theism A voided —/The Hoyie to receive the darling of our hope
in reference io this the Lord said ; ment. He said that if he Were to Journal says: “ Colonel Ingersoll and love and joy, as Jesus stood at
ye shall not give that whioh is holy
has moved into fiis new house in the grave of the brother of Bethany,
~ to"the dogs?*u""-— ------ .. go . to .a..heathen.. land.. where the
Washington, next door to Senator the sweet word» recorded of him
The epistle also mentions the Gospel had never been preached he
Sherman’s. His family, is a very then, “ Jesus wept/’ fall upon our
would,
without
hesitation,
adopt
evangelists, bishops and deacons
charming one. Mrs. Ingersoll ^has broken hearts like precious oint
and their work. But like all other the methods which we have been
a wonderful tact as a hostess, and ment poured forth.— Ex.
documents of its kind, its doctrines contending were apostolic. But he
her two daughters are gifted the
and traditions must be tested by said he was not .going to trouble
T hose “ E lect ” I nfants .—That
himself about these methods in this same Way. During the winter
the word of God.
country. While they were most they give weekly receptions. Every the Presbyterian church fortunately
probably Scriptural they would one with a decent coat and gentle esc a ped A he stigma of a direct as
Selections and Comments.
never be accepted by a people manly manner is welcome. But, sertion! of the doctrine [of the per
»
dition of infants] is true enough,
somehow,
the
gatherings
are
not
whose
religious
habits
and
methods
No F ear , no H ope —Mr. Robert
Owen once visited a gentleman who were already formed. And this satisfactory. The best people do but it was a bare escape, as the lan
was a . believer. In walking out statement set us to think ing. Since not go to Ingersolls’. The spectre guage of our Standards show. The
they came to the^entleman’s family then we have been asking whether of atheism is over that house. His Westminster* Assembly contained
grave. Owen, addressing him, said, policy or principIeTs to govern in family feel it, and the Colonel finds able men,-among them its moder
“There is one advantage I have
over Christians, I am not afraid to matters of this kind, Must the that he has not obtained friends or ator, who believed that some infants
die; but if some „of my business reaching of the New Testament be reputation by his anti-Christian were lost, and their influence was
were settled, I should be perfectly utterly ignored because it might assaults Consequently he is giving such as to limit the doctrine of tie
willing to die at any moment.” disturb the present satisfaction if up lecturing.”
salvation of infants to the " elect.”
“ Well,” said his companion, “ you we advocate what was unmistaka
A statement of the doctrine, as wo
say you have no fear in death—
R elicion P ersonal .-^Though,in now hold it, would not have receiv
have you any hope in death ?” Af bly the practice of the inspired
ter a solemn pause he replied,’“No!” Apostles ? Really we felt ashamed many ways, others may do much ed the approval of that body. If t
“ Then,” replied the gentleman, that any man who claims to be a for my religious comfort and wel the Assembly had believed that all
pointing to an ox standing near, minister of the Gospel would thus fare, yet nothing that they may do infants are elect, they would have
“ you are on a level with that brute, assert the supremacy of policy over can even modify, much less, annul said so in the marvellously clear
he has fed till he is satisfied, and
stands in the shade whisking off the that of principle, and yet we fear my personal duty and accountabili and forcible language which distin
flies, and has neither hope nor fear.” that just at this point is where ty. Others may be anxiously con- guishes their work. We do not be
much of the present weakness of cerned about me, they cannot be for lieve in white-washing our ecclesi-- ■
—Sword and Trowel.
This Christian gentleman was Protestantism is to be found.— me, that is, in my stead. so that astical forefather’s—it is not the Bi
what they say and feel and do may ble way of writing hbtory. We>
hristian Commonwealth.
Alexander Campbell, and the con-
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