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6 Cont HIS By Eliza God has led me, H Though the pal On the way from e Many a song. Through the valleys Still the glories He has opened ma Many a stream How His grace has W1U1 its wondi Many a sunset He Many a flower. Often has restored Made the shad* Rescued nie from n Many a tear. Then, for all this k May I sing His Tell the debt to H Through my d: Praise the Lord for All the bountie: Since His mercies For His Heave Orange, New Jersey. THE DISCIPLINE By Rev. T. E. (Printed at reqti I God Requires his We have considered ca; administered discipline, the Bible in which God hi officers of the Church air crcise it. When God organized th ham, and instituted the s directed Abraham to see And upon the man who ecclesiastical penalty. "T liis people; he hath broke not mean that he was to that he was to be exclude as Christ expressed it, "I .heathen man." When God instituted tl (Exodus 12), "Whoso eat shall be cut off from Isr; plied in other cases; to li thing and then while unci Leviticus 7:21 ; to him wf .refuse to make the offerit to him who should eat should treat his peace 01 feasting on it after the se *ny of his seed unto Mol< THE PRESBYTERI. ... .. y ributed GIFTS. Strang Baird. e has given, th be long, ^artli to Heaven, down the mountain, 3 gleam; ny a fountain, overflowed me ous dower, has showed me, me double, >ws clear, aany a trouble, :ind bestowing, praise, ini I'm owing iys. ail He's spared me, s given, have prepared me ni J OF THE CHURCH. , Converse, D. D lest of Presbytery.) II. Church to Discipline. ?es is which God personall Now turn we to passages c is deputed this duty to th d has ordered them to e* e visible Church under Abrs acrament of circumcision, h that it should be observe< should neglect it, he put a hat soul shall be cut off fror in my covenant." This doe be sent into exile, but simpl d from covenant privilege, c .et him be unto thee as le sacrament of the Passove eth leavened bread, that soi ael." The like discipline af lim that touches an unclea ean partakes of the Passove 10 should offer a sacrifice an ig at the tabernacle, (17:4) blood (17:10); to him tha fifering in a gluttonous wa] cond day; to him that givet ech (20:3) ; in all these case AN OF THE SOUTH. God required the ruler of cate. In the New Testament Christ to the rulers of his C thy brother trespass against lect to hear thee and to 1 imurcn ; ana it he neglect t be unto thee as a heathen excommunication. In Acts 8:20, we find ] To Simon Magus he says, " lot in this matter, . . for the gall of bitterness and Verse 24 shows that Simon der discipline. In I. Corinthians, 5:4, \ session of the church at C who was guilty of incest He orders them to "deliver the destruction of the flesh I in the day of the Lord Jesu refers to this as "punishmen the spirit was saved; for w< brought the erring one to re In I. Timothy Paul by ex young preacher, to exercise meneus and Alexander, wl Satan, that they may learn 5:17 he commends the "elc in 6:5, he orders Timothy communication.^ "If any m from such withdraw thyself Titus. 1 :<z. T. Peter c "? ? ? %> ?* If Public Sentiment Fai In conferring with my bi reply has been made, that Church in this country, d y That its efficacy depends ve ,f rence of the members of tl e the present so large a propo _ low spiritual life that they its proper light and they ? one rather than with Christ e we do ? j. In the realm of civil law n At Reelfoot Lake lately pul n opposed to the punishment lS volved in lynch law. Must v to hold court, or try the ac ,r But the responsibility of c a than of civil officers, and i must render our account to P Itf tirVlO^ <????? :r i-?ut w iiai sajr s tlic Otl lpil il people there have been tir >_ people was intensely antagc n cipline, and the elders did n< r. One such case was at K; d ness. The twelve spies tre ; that God caused them to di< it of Israel ought to have exer timent was against them^ar h God disciplined the elders :s suspended the whole natior May 26, igog. his Church to excommuniwe find like orders from hurch. Matthew 18: 17. "If t thee . . and if he negicar them, tell it unto the 0 hear the Church, let him man," and this amounts to Peter exercising this duty. H Thou hast neither part nor I I perceive that thou art in 1 in the bonds of inquity." Magus felt that he was unve find Paul requiring the orinth to suspend the man from church membership, such a one unto Satan, for that the spirit may be saved s." In II. Corinthians Paul it." It was effective in that : read that the discipline pentance. ample teaches Timothy, the discipline. He says: "Hylom I have delivered unto not to blaspheme." And in lers that rule well." And to proceed if need be to ex an teach otherwise, . . . ' 99 Is to Sustain Discipline. ethren about this duty, the in the present state of the iscipline is impracticable, ry largely upon the concurle particular church, and at rtion of the members are of do not sec the discipline in sympathize with the erring or his officers. What can there are analogous cases. >lic sentiment was intensely of those who had been inthe judge therefore forbear cused? :hurch officers is more grave For the one reason that we God direct. j ire? In the history of God's nes when the -spirit of the nistic to the exercise of disot attempt it. idesh Barnea, in the widerspassed gravely, so gravely ; by the plague. The elders cised discipline. Public senid they took no action: Then and the whole Church. He i from the sacrament of cir