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THE PKESBYTER1
THE ELECT INFANT CLAUSE.
The matter of the revision of the
above named portion of the Confession
is being agitated again in the Church
papers, and is in order.
it is an important matter, calling for
the best wisdom of the whole Church,
and involving grave issues for the future
of our Zion. It is confidently affirmed
that no change has ever taken
place in the minds of the people of the
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uuuibu ao iu uit] Ltsacuillg OL UI6 ?CTipture,
but the continual criticism and
cavilling of those who reject the Presbyterian
view of election has seemingly
forced the concession that a change be
made, and now the question seems to
be, how can a change be made that will
satisfy those who oppose the doctrine
of election, and apply the same to the
case of infants dying in infancy?
Here seems to be the whole trouble;
the Southern Presbyterian Church retains
the Confession as her interpretation
of the teaching of the Scriptures,
and she cannot adopt a wording which
is contrary to the Confession ao it now
stands without the necessary implication
of having receded from her former
teaching, which is the very thing she
wishes to avoid.
This fact is worthy of consideration
by the Assembly, and only shows that
those who are most zealous for the
change are those who object to the
Scriptural teaching of the Confession,
and it is easier and safer to fight, the
Confession and the Presbyterian Church
than to fight the Scripture of which it
is the expression, or else those others
who feel that the Church owes it to
some who have not been taught as some
of us have been, that the meaning is
nut uuscurea Dy me writers 01 tlie confession,
but by the writers of the Scripture
and that the Confession goes just
as far as the Scripture goes and there
stops, assuming neither to be wise
above what is written, nor daring to
leave off anything that the Scripture
has said on the subjects of which it
treats.
iue Scripture nowhere says that all
children who die in infancy are saved,
but it does teach unmistakably that all
the elect are saved, no matter when
tney die, whether as Infants or adults.
It says that all the elect who reach
mature years and exercise faith in
Christ are saved, but in the case of infants
and other incapableB, it is well
to notice that the same Confession says
tin strict harmony with the Scriptures),
uiul l>iudc nuu am luuiiyauie oi exercising
faith and who die in this condition
are saved by Christ through the
Spirit who worketh when, where and
how he will. The power of the Holy
Spirit must not be limited in our
thoughts.
It has been said, and all of us believe
that all infants who die in infancy are
saved, and this has been made the
basis of some of the agitation and objection,
that if such is the belief of our
Church, why Bhould not the Church say
so and put the whole matter to rest.
The answer is that no matter what the
people of the Church may believe, we
have no right to put into the Confession
any statement that is not in the Scripture,
observing the Assembly of Westminister's
rule, that nothing must be
allowed in the Confession except what
is directly stated in the Scripture or is
deduced from it by good and necessary
inference. To have right to a place in
the Confession it must be either directly
stated so that there can be no mistake
about it, or if not, then it must
come as both a good and necessary Inference.
It is not enough to be a good
inference, it must be a necessary one
?one that will be apparent to every
thinking mind.
Then another objection to permitting
the clause to stand as it now is, is that
there have been some good people who
A. N OF THS SOUTH
wished to join our Church who have
been unable to avoid the conviction that
the clause as it is now, involves the
condemnation of some infants dying in
infancy, and sometimes it has been the
case that some members of the Church
who were desired as ottice-bearers in
the Church, have been found unable to
accept tne Confession on this point and
so were barred from the office of ruling
elder, this has come under the observation
of the writer several times.
Ihe answer to this lies in the fact
that the Presbyterian Church is not responsible
for the teaching of the Scripture.
God has given it by inspiration
of the Holy Spirit, the Presbyterian
Church and every other branch of the
Church of God is responsible to Him
for the true, correct and faithful teaching
of what He han mvoRloH ?nH
neither the diiticulty of getting members,
nor of securing the right sort of
olhcers nor tue tear of persecution and
criticism by the world, nor any other
consideration should make us even
willing to countenance anything that
will in any degree obscure or tone down
or in anywise change a single word of
that which God has given as a part of
the "only rule which God has given to
direct us how we may glorify and enjoy
Him."
Again, we are told to "hold fast the
form of sound words." There are no
words (in my humble opinion) which
will at once satisfy the people who are
zealous for the change of the clause
under discussion, and retain the pure
and sound Calvinistic teaching of the
Scriptures concerning the salvation of
infants who die in infancy so well as
those which were used by the Westminister
Assembly.
Geo. R. Ratchford.
"FRAGMENTS."
Edwin A. Wilson.
The crown of glory which encircles
III- TI J Jl-i *? - *
xub xicuu luuiuieH iu mreuaiis 01 unmerited
favor and unexampled love toward
every Bin-sick aoul.
Was there anything ever uttered more
sweetly assuring than those pathetic
words of our Divine Lord, "Let not your
hearts be troubled"?
His demeanor toward the woman of
Samaria in sweetly disclosing to her
His own Personality, "I that speak unto
thee am He," has no counterpart anywhere
outside of the sacred pageB.
O benignity, how hast thou in thy
highest conception centered thyself in
the meek and lowly One, who stooped
to the sinner's place, that He might lift
the saved into glory?
Our "Lord is pitiful and of tender
mercy." He is of easy access. The
High, the Holy One craves our coming
into His very presence. He bldB us
"come boldly unto the throne of grace,"
to find our deepest need fully met in
Him.
Ours is not only a Divine Lord, but
a "merciful and faithful High Priest,"
not of angelic mould, but of "the seed
of Abiaham," "touched with the feeling
of our infirmities." "For in that He
Himself hath suffered, being tempted,
He is able to succour them that are
tempted."
The tender compassionate concern of
our Lord when "He went about doing
good" in His dealings with His own
upon the earth, give blessed assurance
of a relation that beginning in grace
aholl AAnHnttA U
OUCkll WUUUUC 1U 5IU1 jr.
Search the universe for the wonderful,
but give no rest to your feet nor
slumber to your eyelids until you have
reached the right hand of the throne
of God and found Him "who was delivered
for our offences and raised again
for our justification," and own Him
your Saviour, the Christ of God.
The gracious tribute paid John Baptist
when in prison, and in doubt, calls
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to mind the wonder-working, manyBided
Jesus. If all the words of His
Lord and ours, pronounced concerning
John, were carried to him by his
discipleB, what a solace it must have
been midst the gloom into which his
faithful testimony had introduced him.
The course of events relating unmistakably
to the coming of the Lord and
the resurrection of the saints, as found
in 1 Thessalonians, fourth chapter and
last live verses, Is given there definitely
for the instruction and the encouragement
of believers, and were Intend
ed for the consolation of the bereaved
Thessalonians, and for us. The Holy
Spirit closes with the sweetly assuring
message, "Wherefore comfort one
another with these words."
OVERCOMING.
A successful life is a perpetual overcoming.
So soon as the child begins
to make progress he meets with resistance.
He encounters many defeats and
falls in learning to walk, to talk, to
read, to write, and to think. But he
rises from his fall?, nurses his bruises
and mortifications for a season, and
tries again and again until he overcomes.
No man ever became a successful
farmer, or business man, or mechanic,
or soldier, without overcoming
a multitude of obstacles. If he could
sit down at the outset and consider the
whole story he would hardly have courage
to begin the fight.
Civilization is the result of a long
process of overcoming. The wilderness
is a serious obstacle. Our ancestors
faced a tremendous task when they undertook
to conquer this Western wilderness.
Impenetrable forests, impassable
marshes exhaling malaria and
death, savage beasts and treacherous
barbarians, disputed their progress.
Many lives were sacrificed, but they
overcame. Man must conquer the wilderness
in himself and the savage beast
and slimy serpent in his own bosom' before
he can reach the goal of a high
civilization. We are proud of our progress,
but only by overcoming have we
received this heritage.
The spiritual life rises through conquest.
The man who will live a good
life meets with resistance. The Christian
is a conqueror. All the land that
has been redeemed from the wilderness
of this world and brought into captivity
to the obedience of Christ is a conquest.?Ex.
Good deeds are very fruitful. Out of
one good action of ours Cod produces a
thousand, the harvest whereof is perpetual.
If good deeds were utterly barren
and incommodious, I would seek
after them from a consciousness of their
own goodness; how much more Bhall I
now be encouraged to perform them,
*'->nt they are so profitable both to myrelf
and others!?Bishop Hall.
ACKNOWLEDGE THT INIQUITY.
The disposition to justify one's self,
to minify our sin, to palliate our guilt,
to excuse our wrong, is sure evidence
of a wrong heart. It is a manifestation
of human pride. It is proof that the one
who does so has not in any wise as yet
repented. David had not a word to say
in his favor when he pleaded for forgiveness
before Jehovah (Psa. 51); the
prodigal son bad not a shadow of an
excuse for his conduct; and Paul,
though he recognized the mitigating clr
cumstances of his ignorance and unbelief,
never spoke of his guilt but in the
darkest and most awful terms, and his
sense of unworthiness seemed to grow
in proportion with his appreciation of
God's grace. It is only to such a frame
of mind that God's forgiving mercy can
really come.?Ex.
The worst thing about loving any sin
is that you have to live with It.