2
PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1878.
1*
their hands on them anil they
xii. 7. “ Then (at the death of the ' suffering, gentleness, meekness, good ' do know that he is eternally," imniu- they
boJv) shall the «lust return to the ' ness, faith, temperance.” Gal. v. 82, tably, and infinitely wise, good, pow- receive«l the Holy Ghost. .” This lik'u
earth as it was, and the spirit ta Go«l « 23, You a«lmit a natural l«ody ap erful, just, true, holy, loving, kiml ami all the othei cases mentioned is very
Debate.
who gave it.1’ The a|«irit then, at-the 1 plicable to ft natural body, and you i forgiviug, and to kiiow all tai», is poinred. —_------
KVMBKB III.
,
' JL .
•5. Our fifth case is still different
death of the body, returns to iti>| admit a spirit law applicable to a«g— | enough for me.'
,
In
the
Bible
we
have
a
law
request
I
well
to
something
which
exists
only
from
any yet examined, having" refer
Go with me now through the wide Giver, who is from “ Everlasting to
ing
the
«lispensation
of
Divine
provi-
!
in
our
nostrils.
'
“
Vanity
of
vanity,
ence
only
to the spirit of adoption, or
domain of nature and know that from everlasting.” “ In - win m there is
deuee,
which
law
we
pan
all
uiulexx
saith
the
premier,
all
is
vanity.
”
of sealing, or the ordinary'gift of the
the particles of which this earth is neither .varialdeness flor shadow of
■ctn'njxised'fi; tTie“" c«iunttci^R>“orbs that’* turning,'' and -is tn . he saved in- the Eeel. xii. 8: • Admit that -the budu stand. T jlu I says,. “And. wo- know spirit, whieh-is given—to- sH wlw -l*“
grace the heavens, from the tiniest i Lord. Jesus. And I know it from the returns to the dust as it was, ami ad that all things work together fur good lieve on and obey Christ Acts ii. 38.
Cor. i iv. 18, mit that the spirit which never ha«l t<5 theip that love God, to them who “ Repent and be baptized eveiy one of
blade of grass, to the gigantic tiee, fact thirdly, that 1 I rea«l 2 Cur.
“
While
we
look
not
at
the 1 things’ an existence returns to its (liver, a are th? called according to his pur-' ynit in the name of-JesiH Christ im
from the minutest insect to man, there
which
.
are
seen,
but
at
the things diver who gave a something, ami yet pose.”' Now if the only true and liv- the remission of sir««, and you «hall
^is written indeliblj’ upon jill a dis
which
ar«.-
not
seen,
for
the things it was not anything, because that ing God did-not by his kind provi- receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.’
similarity (hat discriminates the ope
which
are
seen
are
temporal,
but the something, man’s spirit, never ha«l a dence, sustain and comfort the good Here again there is no mistaking the
from the other«. This dissimilarity
Paul would never thus thought. But Holy Ghost part of this matter, and
o 1
tells us that each is to live an exis things which are nut seen arc eternal. i being
we
are instructed what we should no change to mix up the-eommand to
tence'of its own, never to become Could language be plainer i All that
Our Troubles.
pray
for and how we should ask also repent and be baptized, with the
absorbed, and this dissimilarity is not • our natural, eves behpld, all they de
"
BVMBKB XX.
that
wlujix^jye
ask, we shoulil have promise of the spirit. (Jal. iv. 6,.“ Ami
only stamped outwardly, but it per light to- dwell upon, all that our
confidence
in
God.
“And this is tlie betaiwo yon are s«*r:s G«*«l Jjas .sen
Having
disposed
of
the
union
meet
meates throughout. But let us con earthly ears hear, however jarring or
confidence
we
have
in
hiin.’that, if we forth the spirit of his son. into your
ing
and
feeling
somewhat
dissatisfied,
iine our ..thoughts.. Io that which sweet the sound, all that i* telt l>^'
ask
any
thing
acc
ording
to his will, he hearts crying Abba, Father." _Here.
- emanates d irect- from God to m a tter the sensations of,body,,whether -pam. at not receiving any heavenly infor
hearetli
us
;
and
if
we
know that lie again is*a bestowal of the spirit, but
ami mind, and ofthe.se tell me as they or comfort, all the delicacies"or in mation there. I resolved to have a
.hear
us,
whatsoever
we
ask,
we know there’is no mistaking it for any thing
are eternal, if this diversity -does not delicacies of smell, all our earthly social meeting with
that
we
have
the
petitions
that we else. Eph. i. 13, “ In whom ye also
CHRISTIANS,
assure an individuality.-and that un tastes, however delicious or bitter, all
desired
of
him.
”
Rom
v.
14,
1-5.
-The tiiisteil a’tiT that ye heard the word
ending, for if one of these should be is-temporar, is passing, is changeable. ami consult with them, and. ascertain
savior
taught
us
how
to
pray
as
well , of truth the Gospel of your salvation
annihilated, God's works would I k ' But the things wl.ieli are not seen are if possible, how we&»uLl approach the
as
what
we
should
pray
for,
we
can* in whom also'after that' ye b, Iieve<l
shorn, of its completeness, If owe pêr- eternal.- Thank Go«l for that word altar of prayer acceptably, when a
. on his promise come to the mercy ye were'scaled with the Holy Spirit of”
sonality, mm form, who has been etei iial It tells us of the «Juration ot very serious trouble arose. A brother
seat in confidence. After the jnany promise.” This also like all other case*
time,
of
the
continuance.A»f
life,
it
in whom all in the church and in the
brought into being* by the Father is
demonstrations Go«l has given us of i mentione«! is plain, And I will close
lis
us
b
’
redemption,
of
ah
inherit-
to be no more after having gone down tel
world, ,bad the utmost confidence,
his faithfulness, in complying with his ! this number by affirming more fnllv
Ufice,
ami
of
an
eternal
house
;
li-.it
into death, lmw. pra\/ teii me. .h««w
contended that nothing was providen
promises, to alljnercy whether Jew or tliat every gift of the Holy Ghost
can “ Death be swallowed up in vic- i ; these thing« we aie not permitted to tial, and that blessings flow to the
gentile,
and tlwvarious manifestations I which is spoken of in t.he New Testa
while in the tjesh, for our eye*, human family only through the laws
ioiy
O .' death, where is thy sfing; ft-sce
‘
and
assurances
given under all ilispen- ’ ment is so plain that it cannot be mis
4K4-graverwhere i« tli y v i ctory- Tril.r they too, are temporal, but faith is , • u£ nature. Hence _1 liave to linger
nations,
that
lie
was a prayer-hearing ' taken for any TliinjTelse.
me not that one-half, yea, more than unseen, and we “ walk by faith and i long enough to inquire into this ; to
and
a
prayer-answering
God,
B.
half of the human family will never not by sight.” But this wor«l eternal, ! my mind, very unholy doctrine. The
We
may
know
that
when
we ask
more see life,Wh- n the witness, na it tells us not of~destnrction, it tells special providence of God is a more
and receive not, it ismir fault. If we
Divine Origin of Christianity
ture, tells me differently. I will ran us not .of'death, aim 1 will, venture^' wonder«ms-subject than I intended to
Demonstrated.
value
our
happiness,
we
should
searchi!
worn them from the power of the there is no word of a Ilk«? unliunte«! intro«luce. For in dealing with things
diligently
tor
the
hindering
cauw,
lir j .-I f . AMIS.
gravy, I will redeem them from death, meaning, conveying the i lea "of an- ; deep and mysterious, we aie liable to
and
so
soon
as
fourni,
we
shouhl
lalsir
;
KVMfiEH HI.
O’ death, I will be thy plagues, (I nihilation, that is ever applied to any became perplexed about the certainty
to
remove
it.
Every
hindering
cause
thing
which.has
emanated
direct
from
grave, I will be thy destruction. «
I of our ow unreason lug. 1 know the
“ Could any man ¡«vent, at this
What says nature, that life, is de- I the Almighty. But to return. “Faith ! doctrine of the providential lias been being removed, 1 have implicit faith day, a setf-of acts” of congress, an«I
that every prayer uttered bv the lip
. ..
jiendent on death for its development. I is the evidence-.t«.-«timony ot things greatly exaggerate•• I an«J abused, by r .«i ■
••«»•« .«
i
1- ,nak" ;t l’asH "l’6n t,le nation “ as tin-
or
of
a
<
Christian,
hnstwin,
will
like
the
smoke
«moke
Wt
Wf
The life of the vegetable is «dependent , n it s« en, the . substance of things confounding it with superstition. This
only book of statutes we have ever
for." Hebrxi. L. Then the has caused a reaction in the'minds of Ati«7t‘S''"0ffvT-tfTg,'.. ttscetid heavenward 1 known ?”
on the «k-ath of the mineral, the life j 'iwped
h
■
'
And as the dew of Hermon, Would I .< ,
•
,
of the animal is dependent on -the things Impel for are not seen; and many g«-od Christians, "and driven ii -
i
i
.
. .. '
As impossible was it b.r these
blessingsclescen«I
auu
Christians
yvou
1<1
1
>.
...
«k-ath «»f-the vegetable, ami the life of “ The armor of Go I tlir.t is girded them,, t > the conclusion that there is J
. ...
books, H written in any age after
1' .• 1 .1 .A lie « k i pleasantly dwell together in unity. I M
,
j
’ , 7
the_ spiritual- is dependent on the with truth, the breastplate of right no providential, that Go I lilts finished.
.
/
“
- , Moses, to have been received for wiiat
.
,
,
.
-
As
Davidv'sang,
“
Behold
how
good
,,
>
,
,
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to k', the
death of -the animal for its develop- eousness, th“ Gospel of peac«x the his work
and
from all
his labors,
. I, W..» V, ... .
» 1 . they declare themselves
u
ment. 1 admit thXpaitia! unfolding 'sliiehl of faith, the lielmet of salvation, and that the law of nature must now - and how pleasant it is for brethren tojg
j muni cipal la w—of; the Jews ; rm« 1
together in unity ; it is like the
of th«- spirit in this life,,, but spiritual am] the,«-.vor«l of tlm. spin'B* nstituG accomplish all that can be accomplish*, «l well
.
, ,
, .
! • for any man to have persuaded
life I n Rs Tidiness t -rrrrt-T-nvwwd in an’ tug the wh+de-armor.- mm-.- «-f wlrict: ■ I à,ii;..sm.ji.ut:.i:. of th«.- con.ii- •
peoph: that they tia< I owne< 1 th ■ m as
|(( ;
earthly building. ■ Th«,u fool that can be seen, tlvjrefor.,' are eternal, and tk>n of man, either In this world or in ran down upon the bear.1, even Aaron's I >...
ir code of statutes frorn~the time
beard
that
went
down
to
the
skirts
of
•
which thou sowest is not «¡iiicki-iu-'i ■ want i« it fka is to put this armor tl.at to which we are all «-o rapidly
ol Moses, that is, beiore they had ever
except it die."
die.”
1 Cor. xix. 3(i on to what is it suited to the body. hastening. But if ever 1 should deity 1 his garments; as the dew. of Hermon- lieaiil of them.’ Nay mor«-: thev
and as the «lew that descended upon
“ Veril verily, I say unto you, except Can this earthly li««u«e w.-ar i can the op’-cial providei ce of God, ini
must have instantly forgotten their
the mountains of Zion, for there the
which
is
a corn of wht-i.t full into the grou’ml that which is u-mp'-ral,
attempting to avoid the superstitious 1
former laws if they could receive
IV be notions of mon or for any other cause, I Lord commanded the blessing, even these books as such : and as such onlv
ami itnTT it abideth ’ab ne; but if it subject to death, which
inckie « n an then may mj’ lips never utter another I life for evermore.” Psalm 133. The could they receive them, because such
di«1, it bringetli forth much fruit.’ handled, felt and v«n, bur-L-l.«
church would then be five from the
wh ich prayer.
John xii 24. It is the mission of this armor complete in all its p :i
they vouche.l themselves to be. ' '
froiib'e-t
arising froth tlu want of con
1 or
My prayer would be vain ; I could,
çarth to develop the l-ody, end that cannot be seen,-hcatd,'sill r.elkd felt
Was a book of sham law« tvir
faith, when my judgment ' fidence in God, ami shine forth as a palmed upon any nation since the
through the' «ïeath of the fruits of tasted. an armor that can never grow I •not
bright light to th“ w<«r! 1. Then
earth. It is the mi-si« n of the body old, an eternal armor. Can this boily tuld me that blessings were only
world began Ì If not, with wlwitfair-
Uhrisi.i
iiis .vdi I».-gl.. 1 upon the tir-t
Voilly, verily»
verily, I say unto i receiveil through the law of nature ; I
to «levelop tli<- spirit, ami that tlu-ongli wear it .’ ' ’■ Yu-ily,
m-ss
can anyone say t: is of the Jeu s '
-lay «> the week, wl.e i we say J» ’ un’o I
the death of the. body. It ii a well thee, cxcej •t a man btrti$rn again ami whin-in deep distress, I got to!
Why aitimi that of them which is
them jet us go up to too h< u<e of the
estuiJishul fact that with our earthly (the marginal reading is l«orn from my Fa:lie.’ ia heaven, he can give no
admitted never to have liapp« ne 1 in
Lord.
existence life and death are continu-, above) lie cann it see the kingdom of a«sistanc -, but orders me to wait for the i
any other instance ?
ally at war f. r th«' supremacy, or in God.” Exc«'pt'a man be born from ■ movements of nature to ruT the favor
But the books of Moses have an
Oakland, Col, March 10, 187 s.
I
m-, I turn away in despair, and '
other
m-.-.i'.-Ln-, i.t and va-'- i above lie cannot walk I x faith, he 1
ainj ler demonstration of their truth
return no more to the mercy seat, for I
The True View.
are daily at work.- Vfe are told by cAnnot wear the “ armor «f God. ’
than other law books have ; they not
It does seem to me needless to with this conviction I would not pray
men, who know better than we, that
only contain the laws themselves, but,
M MHKI« II.
in seven years an entire change of aigue a question that is so plain as to to God, believing that he would an- I
give an historical account of then
Whenever the baptism of the Holy institution ami regular fulfilment ; of
bo«ly is br.ught about.’ We receive carry its own evidence with it. How «wi-r iny prayer. But Christians are
taught
t«i
pray,
both
by
the
jirecept«
can
we
deny
TfiaFThan
possesscA'
a
Ghost
is spoken of it is so plain that t «e pas-sover for instance, in memory
this as true, from the fact Tliat IT there
senses;
”
which
an«l
examples
of
the
Savior,
by
the
part
unlike
hi«
“
five
it
is
the
spirit, an 1 not water t :o which , of their supernatural protection, upon
•was no waste, m> food wouhl be re
wor
1
spoken
to
them
by
the
Holv
ij
of
wearing
reference is made that there is no I the slaving of the first-born of Egypt ;
quired afti-r the Loily is develojieil, shall perish apart, capab'
i
aiuL from tiie fact that tiie bodily “ the armors*f Go«l,” ns enduring as Spirit a*'I our Father, Gcal, in this chance for u« t«> m'snnd Mini it
I the «le'licstùiii of the fii-st-lairn of
life,
ami
’
.vlien
w»^
will
have
been
1. Take Acts x 44, 45, 4« ; here it IsriU‘l, both of man and beast ; the pre
strength wastes away, How with the armor itself. But, say you, a ;
the spirit ? There is no waste onlv strea cannot rise above its fountain, made immortal, our minds will be i« said that ‘ tlm Holy Ghost feil on I servation of Aaron's rod, of the pot of
as polluted by sin, no "failing by age, True the body conimt rise above I incapacit tted to fathom the great all them which hear«] the word, ami nmnnt, and of the brazen serpent,'and
they spake with tongues r.n.l mv-ni- their annual expiations, their new
but to tire last vital breath, of Jiody.l earth, but the spirit whirl i is not of mystery of godliness.
Y«-t we know He has a moral law, fie«I the Lon?” In this, we hâve such I moons, Sabbaths »nd ordinary sacra-
"the spirit fails not. It fails not be- 1 earth, if going in through t; he" straight
'••• '“narrow* He is th«' author of bgt'i.and the com- a «1 -«cripti >n of the cis«.- thaLcvery one fic s. 'I he same Looks further infoltii
cause it is eternal. You . would ask gate” ami pursuing tire
how do I kn-.w that the « r’.t is etei - wav” will approach metr«r and. nearer pii.inca witii the o.ie, cannot interfere 1 who r-ils it or hears it read, cm un us that the tribe of Levi were ap
i-.al I know
Fr«m ■ its fountain. G id. It bis ni prosch-’i with th“ working«».’the other, Weak derstand it without the possibility (j pointed and consecrated hv («o I « r
how it is «e-.-rfiàl.
«-t-.-rnai, 1st.
I
« given i it to man. near tl-.at we have given by th«- must l-i the.faith of the Christian, a mistake.
the fact f eat G«><1 iias^çiven
Li« ministers, by whom alone these
It i.« n Vi-r S'-c<«mlary, but. is direct “spirit ofGoJ ’ «pi it woi-'l«, a pplieable who has ««pine 1 that Go 1 cannot an
S. Vo will ......................
n-«w l«H>k al Act..« i 4. i ;«*ituti<m wen' to- be c«-l hinted;
from th«.- -Almighty. 2d. I know it to and to I«- worn t«y th«--spirit • 't swer ¡»rayer without coa.lieting with '* And tlv-v wer; ail fiUe«l with tl.c that it was death for any od ers to
from tie fact that ilat-ir? cannot giv. man. You admit a n.dnnil L-irll i. an i the law of nature. Freni my stami- [ iloly Ghost ami •egan to speak with nppioftch the altar, that at his word
1 -w“'-
through th«' reci'j'tii'lis of her tn-.its the c«->n-<e«piehct.' a n.itiir.d L«n!y. i o:i point, 1 giie-to t.ie inorai law of God I other tongii«-« as th«- «birit "gnv«i them all the ptsiple were to go out and conic
l>y «»rgaiiism I.sp. ciaily to that extent, admit a spirit birtli. nnd yoit >yv the the prei’ert-lice over the law of nature. 1 utteranc -.” Tliis, like tiie first, is t<«> in, etc, etc. Therefore, in whatever
that the weakest of ail animale in in comieipmnr* is a non 'ntitv. a «nhie- I he law of nature we learn from plain to Ire inisunderstcod.
age after Moses they might havd been-
fancy progressively arises to the ■ thing which «Irx-« not exist, hn 1 yet, acieaeo, which may or may not be un-
3. Our third will be taken from a forged, it was impossible they should
i« n<>'t is to def-stool, and is therefoie uncertain J different
Act..« xix. (Î. “ And wbi.-n
«
supn imicv. in short*, I know it because that sometliirg which
...... - —. class
.. .........................
have gained any credit, unless Indeed
j “ put on the whole minor of God. ” While the moral law we learn from Paul hail laid hri hands on them," the the fabricators could have mad^) the
nature tells rue *o.
Again 1 know it from the fact 1st, You admit a natural body, and a food : the Bible, the truth of which is estab Holy Ghost came ujion them,and tlv.-v whole nation believe, in spite of tlicir
that I rémi I Cor. v. 5, “‘To delivct ' adapted to that body; von admit the lished beyond the possibilty of a suc- spake with tongues and prophesieil.”
invariable experience to the contrary
such an one unto Satan for the d--s- I non-existence of » spirit i«ody and a , cesslid controversy and therefore must
4. Our fourth case is taken "from a that they had received the«« books
tructlon of the tfesh that the spirit foisl adapted to that body which is be true. With the certainty of tiie similar case. Acts viii. 1-5, 16. 17: We long before from their ancestors. But
may be saved in tlr- day of*the laml not; you admit a natural life and its law of God, m taught in the Bible, will «piote the 1! ahd 17 7 verses. “ For this would surely have been impossible
J«-sn.s ” How long will the «lay of the | cor'.capoxrling fruits; you admit the every ( thrwlian should love him trust as yet he was fallen upon none of if none of these things had been prac-
Je>r«l Jesus continue > I know it. nonentity of»j»i:it Ilf - and the reality him, and obey him; though we may
inay i j them only they were baptized in the tjsed ; and it would have been im-
name of the Lord
Ixird Jesus. Then laid ' no»«?
possible to circulate as into a scF of
from the fact 2d, that I read in Eccl. > of it* fruit», “ Love, joy, [»cace, long- [ not lie able to com]»relieud him. We naw:
Communications.
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