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because there is such a relatfSnsffip WdMilfcd between’ the
two ordinances that I have no right to separate them ; in
other words I have uo right to scad the sacred elements.out
of the church.'’
2. To receive at the Lord’s tabte, or into the church, un-;
immersed persons, is tacitly to admit ihat sprinkling and pour-1
ing are right, or that the initiatory institution may be omitedj
altogether. To allqw such an admission would be grossly
inconskint. PcJoLaptist Churches contain, .a large'riuni-!
ber o/percbhs who were sprinkled not as believers, but when
they were unconscious infants. They have therefore sever
professed Christ by a voluntary obedience to any act which;
they might oall baptism. Is it not perceived that s all;
agree iu the sentiment that baptism is the prerequisite oydi-j
nance, we should he lending countenance to infant sprikliu",
it we qdmittod such tqthe. Lord’s table ? We woufd.be
thereby declaring OUf confidence in the validity of their bap
tism. i This would be such a glaring, departure from estab :
jislied principle, that Peifolfriptist themselves would have
reason to reproach us; InfttnWsJjrfn an institution ns
pernicious as it is unscriptoral. It is the foundation of all
rational religious establishments in tbe Christian world.—
We feel it our solemn duty to protest against it, and to urge
“the exclusive propriety of believers’ baptism.. This is done
in declining to commune with those whom wo deem seriously
delinquent in substituting a human device for the sjgjuifie&pt
institution authorized by Jesus Christ. We cannot eon stri
fe utiously lend countenance to the neglect of the prerequisite
ordinance*
3. Ihe tendency of departing from the primitive practice
of restricting communion to baptized believers, would be to
obliterate the established line of sepe ration between th\
Church and the world. This line is immersion. Unqulas
tionably this was the design of the institution. As we have]
proved in a former part of this essay, it was the formal meth
od of confessing Christ, and therefore it proved visible sepa-ll
ration from tfie world, ft was the oath of fidelity to Christ's!
kingdom. With what importance then, is this act invested,||
and how essential it is, that this form, prescribed by Christ I
should he preserved. But the tendency of open communion I
is to destroy this form. Let us look at this result, lf.it be I
right to receive uninformed persons at the Lord’s table, will it I
not also be proper to receive them as members of the church. I
It is the Lord’s Church, as well as his table, and if becadseH
un baptized persons who may be considered his people, shall |l
therefore be entitled to the one privilege, who can deny them ■
the Upon this principfouiuny of the open communion!®
Baptist Churches pf mixed membership, re- ■
ceivjng Pedobaptists as well as Baptists. If then persons be 11
properly received into the church by sprinkliug, instead of*
immersion, cannot all see, that soon immersion may, and will I
be dispensed with, and that the ordinance of Christ's own an. 1 ■
poiutment, intended as the line of domsrkaiion between the 1 ®
Cliurcli and the world must become obsolete. Such husul- I
readv bcon r* mci . 4 [^l
noiv under th wu 8n | °{ ,en ’ MJmm&ion flaptist Church, il
the late ■ dl” tl™ Cttre t ® f a '* minister. And 1
monion Church ”1’ *! H loton ’ l’ ls!or <*f an open coin.’
once to t ‘isnwnL.r;!!,’ , P 1,111, - thus observed in refer, j
u v without pivintr T ii^ annot free in my minis-1
a nature that J find A**- 6 ” t,io .j J ® nre g a| i° Q is of so mingled!
from D,-.mists J r ° u, r ‘; 4i3a P 0 censure, either!l
the Establish euwapuste, iroin Disseatets or friends o/J
Thr nßhntfi nr ‘i Hi
es at Oxford JhlttAf A ° r ' f ' n cornm ' ,nion in these Church J
necessary and ,L T. ’ “' ere na * uro, and indeed almost*
f a ;u J.’u .to. ,, g ?fP° ct -erever the practice proj
1 1 1 iii ainlafni nsr Ti * U '° * r ° <™t,d £1
,j SHI of [ ,nmi! l v !' J .' lUSerVU,g U ‘ ,ourru l' ud the “one bap.l
niersed persons alone ’*° Vuwmut,ioa imJ
4. VVe sltould he inflicting an inturv on nm- tool to . I
njnorantly neglect the ordinance c/lmmersion to “ ‘“I
them at the Lord’s table W n -' ceivitl El
dug to obey Christ in the first i.^tUul/on"Lnd£ Z to?™ 1 ;!
l ° the su t J i )er - we should be uafidilSl
inem, ami urge them to do their H,„ v i.. n
oaptized believer wltnewg tba supper, and ■
fiiidß himself of die last command of I
die asee^di^Oavjcur, and of his guilt in failing to comply I
W •ilbritt’ H
4 V'-. -’i
Ninerek and its Remains.— Mr. Austero Henry Layard,
an English traveler, has been for some time engaged in
mating excavations among the ruins of Nineveh; and has
sent various specimens of sculpture and other marks of art
which he has obtained, to the British Museum. He has pub
lished a book on the subject, which must possess high inter
est, and which is about to be reprinted by Mr. Putnam, in
New Yotk. j
The discoveries made by Mr: Layard, are said to con-’
firm the statements of Scripture, and hence will be a source’
of greater satisfaction. We copy the following paragraph
on thissubject from an article in the London Times:
“VVe will only add in conclusion, that in these days when
the fulfillment of prophecy is engaging so much attention, we
cannot but consider that the work of Mr. Layard will be
found to afford many extraordinary proofs of the truth of
Biblical history, and of the extreme accuracy of the denun
ciations of the prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel against the Kings
of Assvria, and of the destruction of Nineveh in particular.
Even the colors and decorations, as found in the palace of!
Nimrod, agree exactly with those described bv the prophet:
Ezekiel. The circumference of Nineveh, mentioned by the 1
prophet Isaiah, was found by Mr. Layard to be extremely!
accurate, and the connection, of the Assyrians with the Jews!
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clearly ascertained. The h* of tho lung of Assy
na, ns shown on the various sfiulHi highly interesting,
and throws great light on the ancient people.'’
-'fj • ->*■ ■’
CC5”“Sir, ’ said a lady to Mr. dike the doetiine
I you preach, and l think I can hut one.”
j “What isthat, madam ?’* “Cardspf>®p “Yojf think you
j <uW not be happy without them Vf*Wb>, sir, I could not.”
“ I hen, madam, they are your to them you must
look for salvation.” This pointed yflft’thful reply is suit!
to have been instrumental in ber uoailjpoii.
A .New Thing in Mechanics^— Msfflfceph Harris, jr., of
this city, says the Boston [pvented and pa
tented a box and axle which oil, and vet almost
completely escapes that destroying afjHof machinery, fric
tron. At least, so we cannot but seeing a w ork
ing model, wlfich we understand froJßr. Harris lias been
put in a lathe and turned 1,000 rewJßns in n minute, a
motion whieh, with a common- sizcdflß-oad truck wheel,
would carry it about two miles in a mttMo. or 120 miles an
hour, without producing- any and without the
aid of a particle of oil. The mcch,mßv which a result so
desirable arid’ astonishing is effected, ilßybeol, in the mid
dle of a wheel, or rather six wheels i*l3nlddlo of one.—
rite box is about five inches in die axle three
inches, and in tbe space betwoen tlieiraM-disposed, at equal
distances, six anti-fractioa rollers, whip are kept in their
places by teeth at both their ends, playinllnlp corresponding 1
circles of teeth in both tbe box and aflttfhere is no bear” I
iog upon these teeth, which are c,ut to-pSntM- friction curve.
The bearing is entirely upon the smodßMfinn of the rollers’
between the teeth. Tiie only serviceHfie teetli is to preij
vent the possibility of tHo rolle'rgjrcltfrjiHlf.of place. ; l
I DRS. RANDLE & O'KiEm,
iILTAVING associated themselves in the practice of Medic,ine
Eisacsa crKv^asravT
debtors at this Institution,
poet to attend the action of the Georgia Baptist*(foaventkl *at
‘Vtiions, and Lope that many w ill avail “hems I vac of the opportu
”• * 7#Pbf#r jfiPS 7.
. , T ' J> , RoWen wil! Ffach, with divine permission, at Hope
|j; l, l> “ urko comity, on Wednesday, tho 25th inst., (April)-
Brushy Oeek,Thursday, 28th; Rocky Creek, Friday, 27th, :
Bark Camp, Saturday, 28th ; Louisville, Sunday’, 29th ;
lay s, Monday, 3oth; Duliart’s, Tuesday, Ist of May
I rovidencc, Wednesday, 2nd ; Jordan’s M. H-, Thursday,
die ; Sandersville, Friday night, Ith ; Sisters M. 11., Sat
imlav, sth. (Other appointments will be published as soon
as convenient.)
! It is my object as nil agent of the Southern Board of For.
. eign . Itssions to collect funds for the cßtnmericement of a
Mission among the already improved people of Central At'.
i nca I a which no missionary has yet seen. The whole
expenses of the outfit for four or five missionaries will proba
jbly be about two thousand dollars, which I trust the breth
; ren of Georgia and Florida will contribute before our depart
ure next fall. 1
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] , APPOINTMENTS.
1 ,7; - I '’ P owen > she .lato appointed missionary to Cen
iral Africa, will preach, if the Lord will, at Beufah a few
miles from Milledgeville, Wednesday the 9th of Mav; Spar
ta, Thursday night 10th; Alt Zion, Friday, the 11th ; Pow
elton, I'rtday night; Horeb, Saturday the 12th; Lon<r
-reek, Sunday the 13th; Warrenton, Sunday night; Uniom
Monday 14th; New Providence, Tuesday 15th ; William’s
Creek, Wednesday the Kith ; Mars Hill, Clark Cos., Tues
tlay 22nd ; Freemen’s Creek, Wednesday 23rd-; Rehohoth
yjlle night; Sandy Creek', Thursday 24th ;
Madison, i liursday night.
1 lie object is to collect Rinds for the mission.
! WEBSTEU’S QUA RTO DICTIONARY
FOR THE
uacßa® et v&csoivb:.
tA T ‘: nhp Boud #f I>u Wic Instruction of St. Louis,
IXI. March 13, 1849,
L “ ll( * s,, <ved, That a copy es Webster’s Unabridged Quarto Dic
| lotmry be placed upon the desk of end. teacher in the Grammar
I )o P ,lrtlne ' l t <’f the tet. l-laiis Public Schools, as a hook of relerence
lor teachers and puinls.”
cn '’n S ft. lAntertcap, 1 Antertcap, lam proud of the work. It is gratifying to
§‘ V T- SU ?“ lum ; nrsal atisfiictinn. 1 shall rccomiiiend it
as the* btanuiird in the public schools in this Stato. 1 ’
JJ.’hom.as 11. Br.nton. Jr.,
Supcrintendant ot Public instruction .in lowa.
The town ot North Brodklield, noted for thrift and public spirit,
I 77 v<J,eil P 1 ; 10 ® ;i copy in the school-house of each of their nine
| districts. —SprInfgrhl ltepvbll-.ua.
“? TIUS Fesi ”~AII young persons should have a standard
lllic-uonary at their elbow-:. And, while you are”about it, get the
i'7-’i t,iat Vjotionary is Noah Webstee’s, the great work, un-
I Dr. Webster’s great work is the test Dictionary of the English
$ ft} i uia t% JHoPt %7i l * o'*’
v " lur, * emUßt way into all our public and private
■iDruries, for if provisos me English student with a mass of the
Swy £S,r‘ e WoUid ‘ n Val “ seek
petionary compiled in this country, or wy
LlAy aimJksellers. Mat*., and for
I The Whole Subject.—Much iu Little.
■r REASON'S FOR BECOMING A BAPTIST. By Rev S
K* p. rnin ??^ n !* te Pm* Pi’ St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal
■hurch. Lowell, Mass. Also, a farewell Letter to his charge
■ H. PrEDO-BAPI’ISTS NOT OI’EN COM.VIUNIONISTS.-
H- Defence ot Restricted Communion, by the same author
■ ill. BENEDICTION OF INFANTS AND BAPTISM OF
BELIEVERS, the only Primitive* Pure and Authoritative Organ*,
■atton and Order of the Church of God, as founded by our lord
■asms Christ and Ins inspired apostles. By Rev. Wm. A. Shaw
■Vfishmgton,N. Cl Each an 18mo. pamphlet. Price B,cento sin’’
e, #4 a hundred. Tnousaods of these books have been circulated
■ad thousands more onght to bo. *
I LEWIS COLBY, 122 Ndmu-st, New York.
I April 19 4 jg
fciiM BjfriKs ran
■ BRETHREN, Clerks and-others, will confer a favor by send-
P mg tome * cop* each of the following Minutes of Associa
|ons tor 1845.. Aiapaha, the two Canoocheos, Chnatatee, Echo-
Kouna, Little Rivor, Ocmulgee (minor), Primitive Pulaski, PrimU
live Lookout, Primitive Western, Springfield, Uharlee, Upatoi,
iJnited Baptist, United Chattahoochee, Connasauga
I To ensure their arri val by the mail, it will be necessary to pm,™
■hem or enclose them in a letter envelope.
Ix cii v ‘if ia 7’ Clerk of Convention.
I Penfield, Nov. 27th, 18-IS.
.roaus ssssks oaix.
r|NH£ idends of Indian Missions are hereby informed that Elder
JL A. 1. Si. vandivere has kmdly consented to collect funds
for that object, as he may have opportunity. As brother Vandivere
expects to travel most of the p, event year in the bounds ( ,f t C
tnoopfa Association and elsewhere, it is earnostlv hoped that ali
persons friendly to the great work of Indian reform", will hand over
their Contributions totnm for tins oLscct, especially our bttinren
iu Hie b&. epta A^>ciouou.
Those persons who may not meet with Elder Vandivere, can re.
mu to too undersigned at Public Square “, O,,Green.y oo.irty, C-,.
March 8, 1849. ts
SIMPSON FULTON AA>i;PHAMS.-Ai.v uac wi.u wld
’ v ® ,0 Vs. Ck ; rk us ;“ c ?per Court 0; Chei ok. e C ou:>
so, fra., notice of the p ace of residence of the Irirs or relations of
Simpson Pulton, a- cca. ed, will and., them a kindness,
j March 8, 1849. 3 HI
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