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The Christi an Index. Vol. 57- -No 33. Table of Contents. First Page—Alabama Department i An In cident with a Moral; Ministerial Consecra tion ; The Position of Baptism in the Christian System ; “A mother in Israel" , Gone : Religious Press ; Religioui News; The Sunday-School. • 1. ,7/ Second Page—Correspondence; Revival Scene and Incidents—J H Campbell; Kesoluriona of Thanks—J H Fortson; The Appalachee Association; Mr Mooty in Baltimore —T H K; Dr Weaver’s Re-lninikrsion and a Scrap of History—J LU; From A Naltye Indian; Among' the Third Page—Editorial Glances; Faith and Feeling, Work and Rest; QttestNin Box —Church & School. Fourth Page—Editorials: For Christ'siSake; Dr. Adlel Sber.woodg, .6,900 Witnesses against the Baptists; Liberia—Kansas— The Exode—The Elect ot God; Dr. W|*av- : er’s Baptism ; Rises to Explain ; Georgia Baptist News. ’ I Fifth PAge—Secular Editorials: News Para graphs; legislative Summary; General* News; Georgia News. ( Sixtli Page—Children*' Gamer; For Urn-Lit- ' lie Folks; Obituaries, etc. Seventh Page—Farmer’ Index: Cotton Pick ing; Turnips—Rye—Barley; Sowind Cid- ; ve-; “Georgia from an Immigrant Stand- Point:” Burrowed Notes. Eighth Page—Florida Department: Key West; Union Meetings,etc.; Reading No- i tices; Special Notices, etc* rT ”. , "C III'.''IT. Alabama Departments' BY SAMUEL HENDERSON. AN INCIDENT WITH A MORAL. I Many years ago, while we were liv-, ing in South Alabama, a servant be longing to the late Dr. C. Battle came ; through the town of T., where we were pastor, bearing the news from one of 1 the doctor’s plantations that his smoke- | house and all its contents, meat, syrup,' lard, and many other things to the j value of several thousand dollars—five or si? —had been consumed. In the I town of T. there lived a very worthy man, Mr. E., who made no pretensions to piety, but who had been watching Dr. B. and others for years, to see what effect religion had upon their conduct. On this occasion, he thought the doc- ; tor would scarcely maintain his accus tomed equilibrium; and therefore fol lowed the servant up to his residence to see how he would receive the intel- i > ligence, expecting, of course, that the \ old doctor would rail out at the qtare lessnew" of' the servants oh Ine prem f ises—inquire into all the details to ascertain who were to blame—and frtft and scold generally. Well,the servant stopped at the gate, called out the doc tor, told his story in a simple, straight way; when lo! the good Christian man only said: ‘‘Well, well; I’m sorry to hear it. We must try and get some more meat for you. Go put up your horse and feed him, and come in and get * your supper.” This conquered our friend E. He never after thereafter doubted Dr. Battle’s piety. The fact is, the Christian temper never betrays itself so impressively as under the losses and disappointments • to which we are subjected. Any man can preserve his self-poise in prosperi ty. It is adversity that tries him. That trustful spirit that accepts all events as from the Lord, can never be disconcerted. He knows that nothing can come from the hand of his best Friend, his Heavenly Father, but that k is intended for his good. The Psalmist details his character thus: “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings ; his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.” And why this tranquility of soul when otner men’s hearts are chafing and fretting, or “failing them from fear?” Why, he has conciliated the highest power in the universe, and has so covenanted with it, that “all things work together for his good,” and has manifested that active, working piety that God ap proves ; for, continues the Psalmist, “he hath dispersed; he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.” Why should such a man fear anything? Why should he that is in league with Almightiness, and for I whose protection and final salvation all the resources of the Godhead are pledged, dread any event that can be fall him? His faith has acquired that stability, that calm equanimity, that views the fiercest storm, and hears its loudest thunders, feeling that “nothing shall by any means harm him.” He has learned the happy art of “possess- 1 ing his soul in patience.” ■IfZNZSTERZAL CONSECRATION. * We have read much and reflected .'some upon this subject within the last tl irty or forty years, and have reached ‘ •B< ne conclusions on the subject which are at least satisfactory to our own mind. We once heard a very able Minister maintain, in a sermon, that no minister had any right to any coni jMjnsation for his services, who followed any worldly pursuit whatever to sup- S lenient his support. We felt at the me, and yet feel, that such a senti- ' ment ought to bo rebuked whenever , and wherever uttered. Nine-tenths of; the churches that dot our country, have I SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST. of Alabama. bden constituted and ’tagjM’ied ; up to this time by ministers Pilose meagre sallaries have forced them intb'some othOr avocation in life to eke out a liv ing. Such ministers—minister*, whb under God, have literally made our de ! nomination in the country what it'is to-day, the largest and most influential in out 1 land—it is not exactly safe to lightly esteem. We would have every minister adequately sustained', if 1 we could, 1 in city, town and country. But j there is no use in taking extreme ; ground on either side of this question. ' Abb general rule, dur country pastors— pastors who labor with their own hands in part for their support—are more r Successful in building up churches,than .j- Our town and City pastors; hence, there are relatively more Baptists in the . country than in towns and cities. Sb that, if the blessing of God is any cri i terion by which tp judge of true min isterial consecration, then our country pastors,, who earn one-half of their j living by their individual labor, are more fully consecrated to their work .tiun their more favored brethren in i c}tiep and towns. And this is just pre- I ciae|y what we believe. Who deserves i the greater credit, the man who per hi'W» a given amount of service for two thousand dollars, qr the man who performs the same service, and indeed more, if we consider wear and tear and ■ travel, for less than one-fourth of that 1 amount? We give all due credit to i (he well provided pastor who. does the .frill ippaiture of his duty; but, to our . mind, l/«oZ m the highest meanu.re.of con- I secratiirn ifihere a godly minuter, simply jrom tfatßve of Christ and the love of souls, ioor,ks five days in the week for the I the unsearchable 1 qfj (fhrisl two days. This we re i gar 4 JW;fhe, sublimest exhibition of Chrii^i#p fl |iqroism, of devotion to the cause ..of Christ, we ever We never jneet #Rch a man without vene rating h‘m frif.his “works of faith, his lalx)r»;„pf lovfe and his patience of I hope,” these are the men, after all, whqr"eqdure hardness as good sol- I diersj,’’; who give the highest evidence that mhhshus can give in their sacri fices apd labors that they love the cause. Measuring true devotion to Jesus by the counterpoise of difficulties ! tQf «rve him, the aver- ■age country pastor is not surpassed by any class of our ministers. If his ser mons are not so carefully prepared, they are more effective by their very irregularities. THE POSITION OF BAPTISM IN THE CHRISTIAN SYSTEM. By Henry H. Tucker, Editor of The ( 'hris tian Is dkx—American Baptist Publica tion Society, Philadelpnia, Pa., 52. If light on a great Scriptural doc- ■ trine were in proportion to the multi tude of volumes and sermons publish ed to expound it, then there is no doc trine in the Christian system on which the world has more light than Chris tian Baptism, in its subjects, its action, and spiritual import. But pre cisely the reverse of this is true a jargon—what an endless logomachy— has marked the history of this branch of our polemical Theology. By far the larger part of these volumes—volumes that would fill whole libraries—have been written to prove not what the Bi ble does teach on this subject but what it does not teach. Hence these elabo rate disquisitions, these tomes of learn ed lumber have darkened what they undertook to illumine, have confused where they purported to guide. Like a certain author to whom Robert Hall once referred, they “seem to have set out in search of obscurity, and to have overtaken it.” Now, all this “confusion worse confounded,” we mnst believe, comes of attempts to square the Scrip tures by the creed, instead of the creed by the Scriptures. The creed must be sustained, no matter what ’ becomes of the Bible! The decisions of councils, and Synods, and Assemblies, must be accepted, no matter what God’s word affirms! If we were to express our real judg ment of the little book named at the I head of the article, the reader might suppose we were extravagant. But it so happened that the day after we re ceived a copy of it, we fell in with two I of our most intelligent and able minis ters—ministers whose opinions are worth something. We all adjourned to a room and devoted an hour to rending it. It is enough to say they each indorsed it most heartily, and signified their intention of ordering it in sufficient numbers to supply their churches and congregations. We shall do the same. The truth is, no pastor who desires his chinch to be rooted and grounded ii the truth, can perform a better service, than to scatter this lit tle book in every family. If we had it in our power, we would multiply cop- I ies of it by the million. No Pedobap | tint can read it, and ever thereafter ■ misrepresent our sentiments on the I subject it discusses, without wilfully - „—< ■ ■ ... . Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, August 28, 1879. violating the ninth commandment: I “Thou shalt 1 not bear false witness ; against thy neighbor. The price of book is 10 cents per copy—one dollar n dozen, postage paid. Let etery pastor send orie dol lar to Jrs. & H<ni|on & Cq., Atlanta, Ga., for a dozen copies, and sell them to his brethren at one dime apiece. He need riot doubt w liether they will go. The unanimity, the enthusiasm with which the proposition to print it was received at Barhtog»i N. Y., where it was delivered, indicates how the denomina tion will receive it. Since writing thd -above, we fell in with Dr. Tichenor. afid handed him the little volume; on the next evening he returned it with this endorsement: “This little, book is admirable. It presents the Pbsition of Baptism in the Christian System’ in 'the clear light of facts. It is lucid; logical, forcible, ex haustive. I; T. Tichenor.” “A MoTH#ll.js'iSß4EL’’ GONE. ■77 xLi_ I L |G > When the good die we cannot dis possess our hearts .of a measure of selfishness in our grief. Their very virtues intensify this grief. So long have they been enshrined in our hearts, that when torn away, we feel as if we had lost a part of ourselves, as if some sudden wrench had torn a limb from our bodies. And this is especially true, when the departed one has been the companion of our lives, “the wife of our youth,” who has shared with us the • joys and sorrows, the successes and ad versities of life. O, it is when “she sleeps that sleep that knows no wak ing” ’till the resnrrbefton morn, that we “sorrow that sorrow that hath no consolation” except in the Christians’ hope ! Such were the sentiments awakened in oin* mind the other day, on opening a letter from our dear afflicted brother, Rev. P. M. Callaway, detailing an ac count of the death of his beloved wife. We had known her, and her mother before her, for the last thirty years or more; and we had only known her to "Ibve her for her Christian virtues. Weeks at a time, while her pastor in Eufaula, have shared he® hospital ity, living aS we then did at a distant point, Tuskegee; and we always left her quiet, well governed family with a still higher estimate of her intelligent piety. She was a “keeper at home,” controlling her children by the law of kindness. If we were to write her character in a single sentence, it would be what the Holy Ghost said of Dorcas, “This woman was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did.” Facts are worth more than the most elabo rate analysis of character that a gifted pen could furnish ; and it is enough to say of our deceased sister, that all her children, eight in number, seven daughters and one son, are consistent members of Baptist churches, and that of thirty-three grand children, all who are over thirteen years old are mem bers of like churches. Truly was she “a mother in Israel.” Mrs. Ellen W. Callaway, wife of Rev. Pitt Millner Callaway, and eldest daughter of Thos. G. and M. L. Jor dan, was born in Warren county, Ga., June 6th, 1816; was married Dec. 10th, 1833; was converted, and soon after baptized by Rev. James Per ryman into the fellowship of Tal botton Baptist church in July, 1834, and died at her home in Newton, Dale county, Ala., July 26th, 1879. The letter before us says, “She h:s been greatly afflicted for several years, and confined to her sick bed for the last ten months. She died as she had lived for forty-five years, testifying for Jesus." Yes ! she has “testified for Jesus,” and her testimony has been recorded on the immortal minds of her chil dren and others, and written in “the book of remembrance” before the eter nal throne; and she has been trans ferred to a higher sphere to testify for him before “angels, and principalities, and powers,” among the blood washed throng ! To the society of “just men made perfect”— to the companionship of angels, and to the joy of her Lord and Redeemer, we consign her, in the hope that ere long we will meet her “where there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying,” but where we shall "be ever with the Lord.” We can only tender to our afflicted brother that sympathy which religion only can inspire, and our imperfect prayers that, as he now trends the rough paths of life alone, he may share the presence of that spirit that animated the faith of his now sainted wife, to give to his own piety n still deeper and richer shade, and to his ministry a still sweeter and holier fervor ! For, O, is it not thus that our Redeemer educates his ministers for those higher spheres of usefulness, in which they can "com fort others with the comfort wherewith God has comforted them!” To her children and grand We say, “be followers of her as she followed Christ.” 8. H. Concert.—On the evening of the 6th of August, the Young Ladies’ Aid So ciety of the Alpine Baptist church gave a brilliant concert at the Hall at Alpine, at which we observed parties from Rome, Ga., to Selma, Ala. The singing could scarcely be excelled. We learn that S part of the proceeds go to the “Indigent Ministers’ Fund,” a most '.Worthy object. We suppose they real ized between seventy-five and a hun dred dollars. From' Selma, Ala.—We have re ceivtedyßp interesting letter from Bro. E. W. Solomons informing us of a very profitable meeting at ' County Line Church, Lee co., Ala., where Brother Duffiy is the pastor. The work of the Lprd sfrisned to be greatly revived in the hearts of the brethren; back-sliders were reclaimed, and sinners were con verted to God. The Religious Press. —Too true alas! is the following ut terarice r of the Christian Visitor, (St. Johns, N. B?:) ii We are morbid seekers after excitement. Every one after his kind gots to wine cup, to theatre, to religious services, to satisfy this craving. Heretical are we to place such unlike tastes io the same class ? Do not the following at.d outcome of much religious sensationalism prove us right? What re mains After the fetvors and j ys and prom ises of tod many have been rpoken in social religious assemblies? Too often little of solid, growing Christian character; too often liltle of continuous sacrificing, Christian ser vice. What of thereat? Senration monge ry, sensational pleasure—the more danger ous because professedly religious. We need less thirsting after religious excitement, and nyjre panting ot the soul after God, and we need to exercise care that the (ormer is not mistaken for the latter. Is it possible that there can be such a thing as -a religious debauch f These are strange words to use in connection with each other, certainly. A relig ious debauch I Just think of it! What a horrible jtixtiqiosition of antagonistic things. But we think we have seen the very thing described by these words, and it was called a revival! We believe in revivals. We bless God for them: fre«n hb,i. But R«- tan figs many counterfeu’ ; and the more Valuable and precious a thing is, the certain he is to counterfeit it; and the more ingenious and persistent he will be in passing oft' the counter feit as genuine. Many of our brethren have been deceived by him, and our churches are suffering untold distress in consequence of it. An unconverted church-membership, the very thing against which Baptists protest, has been ! largely foisted upon us by the evil one. j He does not ask us to abandon our theory ; he is satisfied if he can corrupt our practice. He takes advantage of our zeal to undermine our principles. Brother! have you been deceived by him? Be on your guard, and let him that thinketh he standetli take heed lest he fall. Fremont Temple.—We are pained to learn that Fremont Temple, a mag nificent house of worship, in Boston, Mass., owned by Baptists, has been destroyed by fire. , We clip the follow ing from an exchange: A fire broke out about 11 o’clock on Thursday, in the rear portion of the roof o f the Tremont Temp'?, and adjoining the rear of the Parker House. The Hanies had secured a pretty good headway before the arrival of the Fire Department, and before the engines had got fairly to work the roof was destroyed and a portion of the walls on the s de and rear had fallen in, almost c< m pletely destroying the building. The fine organ, near which the fire broke out, is de stroyed, and the building is in tuins. The loss on the Temple is estimated at from SIOO,OOO to $120,000. Several firemen were injured by falling walls, The fire is be lieved to have originated by the combustion of gas. The Publication Society’s stock was damaged to a limited extent. The Mission ary Union will sustain but a small los°. The insurance on Tremont Temple of SIOO,OOO is divided among thirty companies. More Exodes. —The Fall River strikers are considering seriously the advice of the veteran journalist and are “going West." They lately sent a commission to inspect the lands of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which has returned with glowing accounts of the fertility of the lands. And what would our Northern friends think of us if wo should give them from the Southern press fifty col umns of advice every week as to their treatment of the strikers, and allege in every paragraph that it is their cruelty to the laboring classes that leads them to seek homes in the West? —The city authorities of Memphis as soon ns the fever became epidemic notified the ministers to leave and send away their families, assuring them that they can do no good, and that their stay will only help to feed the epidem ic. We received this information from our Bro. Landrum, late of that city, who coincides in the opinion expressed by the city authorities. Bro. Landrum is an old soldier in this cause, scar marked and war-worn, and his opinion is of the greatest weight. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD, of Tennessee. RELIGIOUS NEWS. Pr. Moffat, than whom no one is bet ter informed on whatever concerns that part of the world, says that “Mission work all over South Africa has been thrown back fifty years by the present war with the Zulus.” The Baptist Weekly states that Rev. Jas. A. Spurgeon, brother of the re nowned preacher, intends leaving En gland in company with his wife, about the middle'of August, for a two months’ visit to this country. William Ashmore, Jr., son of Rev. Dr. Ashmore, and a recent graduate of Rochester Seminary, was ordained, at Rochester, N. Y., June 26th. Brother Ashmore is under appointment of the Missionary Union to join his father in the mission at Swatow, China. The Baptists of Sweden, last year, increased 17-J- per cent. The number baptized was 2,600. The American Baptist Missionary Union has 81,475 church members at its various mission stations, of whom 15,898 were baptized last year. The Union has decided to reopen and extend its mission in Af rica. During the last thirteen years the Wesleyans have increased 32 per cent, in London ; the Baptists, 31 per cent.; the Presbyterians, 12 per cent.; Epis copalians, 13 per cent.; Roman Catho lics, 28 per cent.; while the Independ ents hav increased only 5 per Cent. Careful inquiry shows that in the late war between Russia and Turkey, 292 churches, ten monasteries and twenty schools were destroyed on the south side of the Balkans. The de struction in other sections was even greater. In Paris, thirty-five years ago, stores of all kinds were open on Sunday morning. Now large establishments are closed, and only a few of the small er ones are open. In Italy, too, labor is far less general on Sunday than for merly. The Fourth-avenue Baptist church in Pittsburg, Pa., is entitled to high rank for liberality. The brethren dur-, jng tjae five years fcast have Hulycnhei!* and actually paidwiut for building, cur rent expenses and benevolent objects over $85,000. This, in the face of de pressed business, curtailed incomes and forced economy, is evidence that the congregation is no ordinary one. They have no floating debt, and keep their current expenses paid up. They pay their minister’s salary promptly the first of each month. Chatauqua, N. Y., Aug. 13.—At the conference this morning, Ira D. Sankey*, the singer and evangelist, spoke, prayed and sang. He said the prayer-meeting was the centre of Cha tauqua. The saving of one soul was worth more than all the intellectual and literary results of Chatauqua. Rev. Dr. Warren, of Philadelphia, gave a most interesting lecture at 9 :30 A. m. on “The earth as an astronomical body.” At 11 oclock, in the amphitheatre, Rev. Joseph Cook lectured to about 3,000 people, on “Alcohol and the hu man brain.” He was greeted, on his appearance on the platform, with tre mendous applause. He at onee enter ed into the heart of his subject by an experiment with alcohol and the white of an egg. His support of the cause of temperance was based on the fact that scars on the brain do not work out nor grow out, and that these scars may be made by bad habits or may be inherited. These habits may become automatic ; that while self-control lasts a bad habit is a vice. When it is lost, a bad habit is a disease. In the first place, the bad habit belongs to the do main of the minister of the gospel, and in the last place to a physician. In most cases drunkenness is a vice, not a disease. —The “Jasper Monumental Associ ation,” of Savannah will lay the cor ner-stone of a handsome monument to the memory of Sergeant Jasper, on the 9th day of October, 1879, which is the centennial of the death of this gallant young soldier who fell in the defence of Savannah. The funds necessary to defray the expenses incident to the erection of this monument, will be gathered by subscription from the peo ple of the whole country, and it is be lieved that all who justly appreciate the noble chivalry and modest worth of this soldier, who gave bis life for the liberties of his country, will promptly and liberally rcsjiond to this call of the Association having the work in charge. —Wo are in receipt of a note from Mr. Jas. O. H. P. Henderson, of Oxford, Ga., highly commending the process for managing bees furnished by Lizzie E. Colton, of West Gorham, Maine, an advertisement of which has appeared in this paper. Mr. H. expresses him self much pleased after proper experi ments. • Whole No. The Sunday-School. International Sutulay-School leasons. Lesson Xl—September 14, 1879. THE CHRISTIAnIn THE WORLD. 1 Tim., vi, 6-16. INTRODUCTION. > The two epistles to Timothy and the one to Thus ■ recalled Pastoral Epistles, because they frere addressed to ministers and not to churches. They were written near the end of the Apostle’s life. Timothy had been converted through the instrumentality Paul. His father was a Gentile, but his mother and grandmother wereof the Jewish race and taught him the Holy Scriptures. Soon after hi. conversion he became a com panion of the Apostle in his journeys and labors. When this epistle was written, Tim othy was at Ephesus, where, at the requestof Pau), he was looking after the interests of the church. Where the Apostle himself was at this time is not quite clear. A leading object of the letter was to instruct Timothy how to perform his duty as a minister of Christ, in the verses immediately preced ing our lesson, the Apostle rebukes certain teachers who supposed godliness to be a means of gain. Here our lesson begins. OUTLINE. I. Godly contentment; v. 68. 11. Solicitude to be rich; v. 9, 10. 111. The Apostle's charge; v. 11-16. EXPOSITION. I. Godly contentment. V. 6. “But.” The men mentioned in v. 5 professed piety, “supposing” that it would be a means of gain to them. This the Apostle rebuked, but he says there is a sense in which godliness is gain, even great gain. “Godliness” —Piety, regard for God. “Con tentment”—Satisfaction with our present state. "Great gain,” even in this life. The future life is not here referred to. “Godliness with contentment” destroys all painful thirst for earthly pleasures. V. 7. “For” introduces the reason. As we brought nothing into the world and can carry nothing out, our real source of gain cannot be in the things of this world. V. 8. “Raiment.” The original literally signifies covering, and may be applied to either clothing or a huose. Here it possibly includes both. While we are in this world we do really need food, clothing and shelter. With these, says the Apostle, let us be con tent, as Christian men. li. Solicitude to be rich. V- 9. “Will be rich”—Are ' ent upon be coming so. Such are not contented. “Temp tation,” viz., to get riches wrongfully. “And a snare” of the devil, as in Ch. 3: 7. Such men are entangled in their wish as birds in a snare, and so are nut free to act rightly. “Many foolish and hurtful lusta.” The to gel riches, even if wring doing be aWUkes other evil desires. ■‘l oolith,” b- cause their gratification does not bring true happiness. “Hurtful,” posi tively injurious. “Drown men,’’ sii.k teem as men sink in the sea. “Destruction and perdition.” The latter word is stronger than the former,and both together denote utter ruin V. 10. This verse presents the reason of the statement in ▼. 9. “Love of money” for itself simply. Not money, but the love of it, is here spoken of. “The root.” Literally, a root. It is not the only one. “Os all evil.” Literally, of all the evils—that is, of all k'nds of evil. ‘'Which,” money. ‘Cov eted after,” earnestly sought for. “Have erred,’’ have been led away. “Pierced themselves through," brought upon them selves remorse and painful forebodings of future suffering; a self-inflicted penalty. 111. The Apostle's charge. V. 11. “O man of God.” The Ap< stle may refer here to Timothy's official position as a minister. We think, however, that he rather means to distinguish Timothy from a man of the world. “Flee these things,” the love of money and its consequent hurtful lusts. “Follow after,” diligently pursue. V. 12. “Fight the good fight,” A meta phor taken from the Greek games, and de notes contend earnestly, for the contest is a good one. “Os faith.” That is, as becomes a believer in Christ. “Lay hold on eternal life" as the prize to be gained. “Whereunto thou art also called.” Called by the grace of God to eternal life, and yet he is to contend for it as if its attaiauient depended entirely on himself. “A good profession” at the time of his baptism. “Before many wit nesses.” This he had done in a time of per secution. V. 13. “I give thee charge in the sight of God.” ‘The exhortation, as the epistle draws to its conclusion, a-sumes a yet graver and more earneat tone. The Apostle, having reminded Timothy of the confession he made in the sigbt of many witnesses, now gives him charge in the face of a iu re tre mendous Presence, in the sight of God, &c., not to disgrace it by failing to keep the com mandment which the Gospel imposes on the Christian.”— Ellicott. “Quickeneth,” gives life to. “Witnessing a good conftsslon.” “It is the fad of a confession having been made in both cases that is put in the fore ground; and that our Lord’s was made in the midst of danger, and with death before him, is a powerful argument to firmness for his servant in his own confession.” —Alford. V. 14. “This (ra herthe) coiniuanditient.” The Gospel rule of I hristian life.“ Wit hout spot," with pure intention. “Unrebuka ble,” so that others could not blame. These words refer to “thou," and not to “command ment.” “The appearing," the second com ing. . ~ V. 15. “Whkh,” that is, his appearing. “In his times,” at the proper time. “He,” God. “Blessed," al soltt'ely happy. “Poten tate,” equivalentlo Omnipotent One. V. 16. “Whc only hath immortality” as his own tinderived attribute. “Light which no man can approach unto;’ more correctly, light iinapproai liable. "No man hath seen or <an see. ’ln t’ih< sublime image God is represented, rs i were, dwelling in an at mosphere of light, surrounded by glories which no created nature may ever «jiproao/i, no mortal eye may ever contemplate."—El licott. REMARKS* We should Ih contented in the spheres in which God has placed n». Love of money is a destrui ive sin. Eternal life is the great prize for vhicli we should strive. The Christian, while iu the world, should *o live i that ho may at all times be ready for the second coming of his Lord.