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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
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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.
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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
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* 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
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aye-lasting mittiatry of the apostles.
and our eternal happiness beyond the | judgment.
Spirit is-perpetual.
universe is a thought; tncrecan be no
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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.
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