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J ■ * T PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, 2 SATURDAY. JAN. 5.^1878. edge of the Son of God, unto a per- thankful • for the ability to display? plan of salvation thro.ugh Christ Jesus nesshere, and the highest happines* hereafter. ' feet man. unto the measure ot the their courageous jealousy by closing our Lord. While engaged in this work tho The ministry of John led to that'of stature of the fulness of Christ., then doors against us. Several excuses Ôur .Treu aies. Lord gave them many inspired assist- 1 all those supernatural gift» were to were ottered for the .M. ■ E. church, Jesus. The ministry of Jesus openqjl *VMBKB TI. an s who were called eYangeltoto' ami did veine, in accordance with the chiefly that he was from Ireland and up tho way for the ministry both of tdrs, teachers, kripere, tit., all of whom Wo again call the attention of the I deer e of God. Thun, from und after not accustomed to American sociabili- the apostles and of the Holy Spirit. labored under the'superintendence of the Apostle John upon Patqios, re tv, but we remember that Christianity The ministry of the aposflesrand that reads;-» of the P. C. M essenger to the apostles themselves. ceived tli’e last law of Christianity is tfie same the world over, anil the of the Holy Spirit, were essential each OfR PREACHERS. In the accomplishment of the work trouble is that said preacher is a to the other. They therefore began.at Christianity, with all its fact./ and revealed it to man. J here being given them, the apostles through the the same time, and will continue, as Methodist first and last, and therefore one God and father all, one Lori ot truths, commandments, ordinances, inspiration of the Holy Spirit, com complements of each oilier, to the end I disposed , to do just what would be all. one spirit, one laxly, one faith, one and promises, is founded upon a pleted tho revelation of the will and of the Gospel.Age. done « hundred times oftener than it baptism rind one hope, no man was .divine constitution ; this constitution ; purposes of God concerning thb human As ministers, ' John is the Harbin is -only for policy sake. ,We don ’ t ever called of God as was Paul and contains the decrees amlxndinances of family. In doing this,' they left ho ger ; Jesus, the Messiah; the Apos the __ luan the ,;. system. «How others ; .but this work was assigned to I blame ...____ ____ but ..... v, ____ _ God.'lx’ing the result of his wisdbm ' place for any successors in their Apo«- tles, the "Witnessesami the Holy the church, and during the last can a man who is wholly given to _ and foreknowledge. Before he un tblic Ministry. Their ministry has Spirit, the Advocate. He eighteen hundred years it’ ha> been sectarian theology dp otherwise dertook to devise .the. scheirn,’ -of been continued “ through the'ir word ” All these facts we propose to de the duty of the church to send the', ' knows he dare not undertake to ,de- human redemption, all time arid eter- from age to age,and will c<«itinue till , velop a.i fully in the Hequel as We glad tidings of salvation to a lost- and fAid it in discussion. What els? could . .riitv were mapped out before -him. the Lord comes". may be able. - ruined woçld, bv the preacher, who he do ? Our only mystery is why There was no necessity for God to I. THE MINISTRY OF JOHN. " . IV.' THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. must in all his teaching, coniine him others don’t-do like him, which we experiment, nor did he ever err in self closely to what is taught by the can account for only on the fact that This ministry had a four-fold rela Ito Objccto.: !. To revive in the any .of his degress, o£ have an occasion re vealing sp ir it in the-Fdfiitr———-— iuwilk as iu this case, cause much of tion: 1. Ta the l^rd. Jesus <'hrud. to change, alter fir modify*his ordi- But I must take another recess, or the temporal supjiort to pass away, tation of the long-promised Messiah, 2. To the choien apostles : 3. To the nances .in order to tho accomplish but this man is both jealous and zeal- and to quicken their desire for his church, collectively and individually my production will not be read? ment of his purposes, nor would he do ! ,ous enough to suffer for his cause. immediate advent, H iiniiy . T homas . and, 4th. To the world. . » so to suit the capricious desires tit all ( We did think of asking him take San Jose, Cal., Dec. 1, 1877. Ih (Jbjccto in relation to Chrl«t : 1. 2. To prepare, or make ’ ready, a C’ in earth or heaven ; but all Ids de- up courage to defend his theology, but people fim.v the coming Messiah and his To testify of him,. and thus set him • crees and ordinances, composing the . •- Sectarian Jealousy. on reflecting we tlrought it rather un rapidly approaching kingdom by forth in liis true character as the Son constitution upon which his scheme of reasonable to ask a man to do an im- preaching “ the baptism of. repenipnee^ of God and Savior of sinners. 2. To The history <>f the post two hundred redemption was founded, are ax im- 1 possibility. Methodism is too corrupt for the remission of sins.” glorify him on earth by Vindicating vears prejieni’s-u formidablearrayof u - niutable as him* l£ a theory, to be susec^»table of a fail 3. To identify the Messiah when he his supreme Lordship, inasmuch he ligious sectarians, shitting and chang ~ We know nothing of any decreenr defense, and when a man, otherwise should appear, by signs given from I wa» already glorified at the right hand ing amidst revolutions of di fie rent ordinance of God, exeept wo find it good, w fully absorbed in it, he is written in the Bible, and- whenever characters, struggling to hold their zealous jealous and treacherous, to that heaven ; and then to introduce him of the Father. w-e find one written in that book. We position in the world- with ail the degree that ho is incapable of dealing publicly as such to the children of. i» ÎtoObjoctoin relation to thé.cÀjHni- tien: 1. To bring to their remem “Israel. i • tenacity .¿fid «zeal necessary and "believe it with our whole heart * fairly with anything^.which opposes Now G ot I has decreed and it eaiiliot worthy*-ot-.a better etui,sometime» ' his precious theory, and is as thorough FJohn’s ministry was whely prepar- brance all things’ Jesns had said to atory. It was the voice ot a. harbin them during his earthly ministry. 2. ;be changed, (hat the preacher should- expanding and^ at other’ time? con ly blinded to the true iirrpbri of the ger, crying in the wilderness, “ Pre To guide them “ into all the truth,’' tracting in a ratio ns the ’ good of the be the great human instrumentality, Gospel as any • sectarian of the past - in his hands, in the conversion of the partv seems to require, if there is eighteen centuries, such an one glories pare ye the way of the Lord, make that is, all the troth not yet revealed. 3. To show them things to come, -that world from darliiies’s to light, from one thing above all others that sec in sectarianism, and never calls it-in his paths straight?’ John had fully accomplished his min is to bestow on them the ¿îft of proph tarianism is now jealous of, it is'the Satan to God. Paul says to- the Cor- question, ami can not bear to hear istry when he pointed out Jesus of ecy. 4. To empower them to speak . inthians .“ After that, in the wisdom efforts of many ’Ttrr’rs -of -(he truth others do so. We have witnessed Nazareth both to his own disciples, in other tongues, to work miracle» in of God, the world by wisdom knew who ace laboring to restore the ancieiit’ enough-in the past ten years to irres- and to the people, as “the Lamb of confirmation of their own testimony not G<>d, it plea,sedl,'God’by the fool order of thing». For nearly a century | God that tàketh away the, sin of the and to impart the Holy Spirit <4 oth ishness. 'simplicity) of 'preaching, to thia-, eflbrt has bceg tho object of! with ¿if jrTio have enough sectarian- world.” ers tf <y?gh the laying bn of their nave,tlic^gtliatfbelieve.” -f -Cor. i. ’ll. • sectarian zealogisy and 'fear. They {■ j’-zealto teach the.' theories, yet we are II. THE MINISTRY OF J BSCS. apostolic hands. Another ordinance making it necessary first locked us "out? then seeing the I till hopeful for that class who were Z/s Objector 1. To assert and es All these supernatural gifts were to- that there should be a, preacher, in people would have the truth'as taught I Christ.ana first, and unfortunately; tablish his claim to the Messiah ship. some extent bestowed on their inspir in the Bible, they then thought X ” ’ “’ order to the conversion of the sinner- carried i.nto this Babel of sectarianism' 2. To continue the work which John ed co-laborer, except the powers to iin-' meet the disciples in discussion, and | is found in Rom. x. 13, 14, 15-, and, afterward, and are so confused as to reads’-:. “ For -whosoever sliall call also to send forth a host of warriors, find it- difficult to see^heir way out, Jb ad begun, by preaching the Gospel of part the Holy.Spirit to others. 77iw upon the name of the Lord, shall be who-should from the lecture rostrum and our prayer is that a continuous the approaching kingdom,.ami prepar yitt belonged e.cclimhvly to thruimxtlen. Ito Objecte in relation to the Church : saved. How thertshall tlrey call on expose the efforts of restoration ; this study of God’s word will enable them ing the way for its full establishment on the earth. 3. To die the death of 1. To be the ever-present,-indwelling,- is occasionally kept up yet. But to him, in whom they have not believed * co learn more perfectly. .But of the the cross, and thus make a perfect and life-principle of the Church, as the body day there is a kind of peculiar forma- ' and hsw shall they believe in him, of former we can only say as we would final offering for sin. 4. To rise from of Christ. 2. To dwell with ami in whom they have not heard I and how tion of compromise, such as would, if i to a man who desired to fill a keg the dead in vindication of His divine the members of the body, to lead them . shall they hear without a preacher ? fully adhered to, stop at* once all re with wine when it ¿s full of water, character both personal and official, in the way »of life, help their infirmi and how slirjl they-preach except search and investigation, ami although ' “Ifyou preserve your wine in that and in demonstration of his vietoiy ties,-and conflicts oflife. they be sent ?” The above is the sectarian jealousy would still exist, a keg you should first pour out the Its Objects in relation to the World : .strongest manner of expressing a silent warfare in a somewhat indirect water." So must the mind filled with over death and the unseen world. The public ministry of Jesus termi- 1. To convict the world of »in, its own way would still go on. negative. the ciiatf of sectarian theology; 1 nated at his death ; for after his res sin, the sin of unbelief. 2. To con ... Sometimes matters come to a focus | To accomplish the must be empty before it can receive ! urrection be appeared only to “ the vince the world of righteousness, the God intended should be brought and the contrast is fully shown, ami j and retain the truth as.it is in Jesus. witnesses chosen before oYGod." His righteousness of Jesus as the Savior of about by his preachers, it was ne -(he real angry spirit of jealousy stalks It was so in the days of Jesus, Peter •”tire earthly ministry, both public ‘sinners. . 3. To warn the world of cessary, in the beginning, to make ! forth ferocious as a lion, and invjn- and Paul, and will continue to be so and private, terminated some forty judgment, the condemnation of un them supernatural, for a natural <>i ■ eible as the laws of the .Medes and till truth attains to an universal days a.tyr Lis lvsiirrectioii, when he godly men. uninspired man could not receive the Persians, which are said to “ cluing; victory. ascended up on high t<> be glorified at In relation to the Lord Jesus, the things of the spirit until they- were not." - At such times it is impossible » Fraternally yours, the right htind-nf The-Father. Holy Spirit is a Witness and Vindi to get either favor», sympathy «¿r in- revealed to him in a natural way. S. H. H EURI A. ! vestigation. His personal ministry was to the cator.- Paul says : “ But the natural man re- Fairfield, Iowa, Nov. 30, 1877- Jews only, to “ the lost fdwep of the* In relation to the apostil, the Holy We saw this fully demonstrated at ©eiyeth not the things of the spirit of house of Israel." The. laliors of the ! Spirit is an Endower with four-fold God, for they are foolishness- 'to-friffi ; i Cincinnati, Iowa, recently. Tho Four Ministries. _______ \ Twelve, and of the Seventy, were also 1 miraculous power. We were called there to hold a " neither ran he know th^ni, because I • •* . limited the Jews during the same AN INTIlOKrCTOKY OVîXÏNE. In relation to the Church, the Holy they are spiritually discerned. But i series of meetirigsThaving l»een there period of time. ' Spirit is a Guest; a Leader, a Helper, he that is* spiritual (supernatural) last-spring—reported in M essenger 11V B F. M4X1RX. In the last discourse which he de .-.nd a Comforter. judgeth all things, yet he himself ij of April last'—when we baptized 13 livered to his disciples before his death, In relation to the World, the Holy judged of no man. For who hath 'persons, some of whom -were- converts In the New Testament we have an knowing that the hour for which he Spirit is a R .‘plover and Convincer. known the «find-of the Lord, that he and members of these sectarian inspired history of lour supernatural Such is a brief outline of these four may • : uct him' But we (super ' churches, which "nTtlnn jn our part" and divinely-attested ministries : jl~" , came into tlie. world was at hand, he uttered those gracious promises that wonderful ministries which are fraught nal: -n) have the mind of (’lirist.” ; seems to have fuily aroused the i I. The Ministry of John ; open tn us in all its- fullness the Trrrq- with blessings incalculable to thé sor Rom 14,15,16. It was-thercSurd clergy of tlio < '■ ngregqtionalist ami II. The Ministry of Jesus; M. E. churches so much sp that we; necessary that the first preacher» III. The Ministry of the Apostles; istry of the Holy Spirit; and these rowing sons an<l daughters of earth, it the I were not allowed to preach to ahould be sd qualified that they could IV The Ministry of the Holv promises he repeated after his resur is our pnr-’ose to treat in detail of ... . . O *■ * rection, and just before his ascension. p<o|de in tii" I ’ . i.'i.- • owned by said each and all ; but of the last, the Min receive thoughts direct from God, spirit Forty days after his resurrection, parties, nor could we get thö M. E. i-try of the Holy Spirit, first.— Gospel though they w*ere not clothed in By tiles'? four ministries the Gospel having finished the work given him to Advocate. - words. These sjuritual gilts, however, man to say what his reasons were, but plan of salvation was fully developed, do on earth, and the time having come were to cca-urwhen Hie revetatfonwas wc did cont.mup to preach in a hall, in ami permanently established. Tho Divine Personality. ■ perfected, as there wotlld be no longer said village, to a respeetable and ex- The ministry of John, and the per- for him to return to the Father, he solemnly and authoritatively announ any nec . 'sity for a direct communica-, (.ecdingly attentive audience, four of sonal fninistry of Jesus, were lioth of Mr. (.look is doing a good service in' tion from God, aft. r he had taught us whom obeyed the Gospel, and seldom ¡short duration; but the ministry of ced that great rtm-uerfy Proclamation, presorting to the rising generation- the all that was necessary for our happi have we ftran«! a lew diaciples more ' the apostles through their testimony usually called the Great Commission, \ old arguments for the existence <»f iv ness here, our tranquility in death I thorouadilv of the same mind and has n . ver ceased, and that of the Holy which opens to us the world-wide and God, phrased in a new fortrf. “ The I . ° ' aye-lasting mittiatry of the apostles. and our eternal happiness beyond the | judgment. Spirit is-perpetual. universe is a thought; tncrecan be no J__ i g r a v e.------ ——— ------------- Eaeh of the dergy were absent By these two continuons and cir.- HI THE MINISTRY OF THE APOSTEH8. thought without » tlfiniter ; therefore Paul says: “ Charity’never faileth ; most of the time, and many of their tetnporaneous ministries, the kingdom I lie Object»: 1. Topreach the Gos the First < ause is a Thinker,” is sim but whether tluMp be prophecies, they member» «at on a rough pine board to of God has been brought down to us pel of Christ to men of every nation ply a new way of saving, a design shall fail: whether there be tongues, hear us, while the church built by i through the ages, and will be carried in order to the conversion of sinners, therefore a designer. It is Paley, they shall cease; whether there be their means was securely lacked up, on from conquest to conquest until the and the permanent establishment of modernised. But there are thousands knowledge, it »hail vanish away.” and tlie mice and crickets were enjoy Lord himself shall come in ¡rower and the Messiah’s kingdom among the na- of laymen and f possibly scores of 1 Cor. xiii. 8. -These spiritual gifts ing a feast on the cai-pets so recently glory to raise the dead, and judge the .tions of the earth. 2. To plant minister» who have not jread Paley.- were given for the, perfecting of.the put there by money donated by the world. churches, set them fully in order, and It is well to reproduce him: »aifits, for the work of the ministry, people in general. Yet the people »•Xljpse ministries ¡vre inseparably, furnish them with everything neces NtH'ertheless.thisargunient is power /or th” edification of tbo body of seem to enjoy listening to the things cemnected. They are but different sary to the full development of Chris ful only within narrow limit«. It iTrrirf. until the church came,into the that pertam to the kiugdoui of Christ, agencies in the development and ad tian character; and thus prepare the leaves wholly unproved the sacred yuiity of the faith and of the knowl- while the preachers, doubtleu, felt vancement of one and the aame gr a* Lord’s people lor the greatest useful- truth of the Divine personality. Communications. fc- - z e