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Experience. Sylvester, Ga., March 31, 1895. Elder Lee Hanks, Boston Ga. My Dear Sir: You will doubtless be surprised to receive this letter from me. But often have I thought of you since Ifirstmetyou. You will remem ber that when you were at Ty Ty last I did not get to hear you preach as my work necessitated my stay ing at home. But as you talked of little experiences around the fireside at the home of Mr. W. W. Williams. I could not repress my tears. My heart was full to overflowing in thankfulness to God that there were little experences. I felt that if Isaih’s record of a preachers mission were true, you were preach ing that night. “The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted to pro ' claim liberty to the captive and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the accept able year of the Lord and the <Uy of vengence of our God, to corfiTurt all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion; to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaveness that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glory fied.” If I have one at all,my hope is very little, so little that I cant call it one. I doubt and fear that I am not known of God. I concluded that my impressions are fancies, delusions of my own, and that my prayers fall 1 concern. I can reason 1 Way ' belief that I have a hope but there are some things that I cannot rea son away. I cannot rid myself of that inward craving I have to bg a partaker of eternal life. I cannot rid myself of a love I have for those whom I believe to be the saints ofGod,nor can I nd myself of a de sire to live uprightly; leant help ■ but believe that the Primitive Baptists are right; thcugh once I dispised and scorned them; good preaching is a feast to me, and I crave to hear it oftener than I have the opportunity. There are many times when I can silently rejoice in tears for some good feel ing I have but whether it is that Christ died for me, I know not I realize that if ever saved it will be through his redemption, and not my works tor I have tried the latter as far as I can go. I also have much darkness and clouds to hide the little evidence I can sometimes have. There is one great trouble that I have,others can date their experi ence to a certain day. I cannot, I sometimes therefore conclude that mine is simply of human cul tivation. Sometime since in meditating upon the goodness of God to poor sinnersi penned thefollowing lines. In them you can get some of my feelings: Poor mourning sinners here be low, In darkness, struggling on Where stormy winds cease not to blow, And foes are never gone. Poor sinners, mourning Christ to view, With hearts sinsick and sore, Yet looking not to Christ so true, Who stands cn Canaan’s shore. 0, yes, ye mourning sinners look Unto the Saviors arm, Your cates and’ fears on self He took, » To save you from all harm. Ohl sinners mourn ye not nor wedp, For Christ your Savior saith That mourning souls shall never reap , The fruits of sin and death, Therefore, dear paints, though sin assails Thee with its deadly sting; Fear not; yoor Savior’s blood avails, No harm to you ’twill bring. And though you cry, and weak you feel, And poor in spirit be, The Savior is your strength and shield, With love He’ll honor thee. Then sinner dear, be not down cast, But look to Christ your Lord, He'll drive away the tempest’s > blast, , And make you love His Word, Look up, your Lord and Savior 1 i • king, ' Sits on His throne above • And intercedes, that he may bring You to that home of love. Christ came to save poor sinners here, ' And if you feel you’re one, 1 You need not faint, you need not ' fear, j Your cross and crown are won. Oh I happy thought is this, to feel That Christ is our own Love, And that he will His grace reveal, r And carry us to Heaven above. i . It melts our humble hearts to tears, And fills our souls with joy, 1 To know that through eternal 1 years, : No foes can us annoy. AiloneWin His?strong power, The darts ot Satan can nqthniove, < Our hearts from that bower. .4 1 The**world is dismal, dark and dead To sinners sick with sin, And hell appears to be the bed To which they’re sinking down, But when the Lord who reigns above, Has led them into light, The world seems full of sparkling love, And very, very bright. Then let us sing redeeming grace To Him who reigns above, — To Him who shows his tmiling face, In token of his love. Please write to mo when con venient, and remember me in prayer, Yours Unworthily, W. W. Harden. ON DANCING. In 1 Peter iv. 3, wo read, “For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles,whqn we walked in lasciv iousness, lusts, excess of wine, re vellings, banquetings, and abom inable idolatries. “Revelling” in this text, is from a Greek word which is used in the Greek Testa ment but three times, as I now remember; in this text, in Gal v. 21 translated in both these places “Revel ling”and Romans, xiii. 13 it is rendered “Rioting” One of the definitions of this word as given by Liddle & Scott, is “To make merriment bv music and dancing.” Rom. xiii 13. reads: Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in riot ing and drunkenness, not in cham bering and wantonness, not in strife and envying”and in Ga1.v.21. ( reads: “Envyings, murders drunk enness, revellings. andsuih like: ; j the which I tell you before as I ; have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Verses 19. 20. the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, forni cation, uncleanness, lasciviousness idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, vari ance,emulation, wrath, strife, sedi tion, heresies. Note the fact that “revelling” is put by the apostle i'i connection with a group of sins, anl the brethren are urged to avoid them. For the sake of the reader I will put down the whole list as put by the scripture. Revelling is associating with rioting, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lascivi ousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulation,wrath,, strife, sedition, heresies, envying, murdering, drunkenness, lusts, excess of wine, banqueting, and abominable idolatries,drunkenness, chambering,wantonness, strife and envying. I would not for a moment think that those who delight in the dance are guilty of all these sips,yet danc ing is groupedin God's word with ’ all these. It occurs tome that the design is to show that the vain, worldly mind, is manifested in all these ways. Some persons are gu.il ty of one offence named, some of another; and perhaps some of many of the offences named. Reveling and drunkenness,revel ling and excess of wine are put together.’ Persons who seem most to enjoy the dance are often persons jvho frequent the dram shop and if they are not in excess of wine at the time of the dance they are per haps so at other times, so that the temper and spirit that loves the dance, is like the temper and , spirit that loves the of strife.' It is not unfreqThW that strife’ (fjghtning) is cairied on at such plfwgs. In my Wide - » » have frequen- . ly heard of fighting and druken- : ness and other sins above , named in connection with danc -4.' X iri£. The heart that loves the dance is as evil as the heart that loves the saloon, adultery, envying, strife, etc., although not guilty of these offences. From my ac quaintance with human nature I am not suprised to find those who love the vain whirl of the dance in dulging in any or all the sins named in this list. God’s word puts them together and I shall not find fault with the arange ment. The spirit that presides and rules in one of the above sins does in all. The prize fight seers are actuated by the same spirit, and horse race, all are akin to each other. Young people are apt to think that parents are too rigid and strict• and break over and restraint and conform to Lie advice and wishes of who are not concerned for their welfare, and when parental restraints are ; overleaped, it becomes easier to yield to further, and other tempta tions. When satan came to Eve to bring her into sin, he came with a claim that her Master was too sever»«aud strict, that to eat the forbidden fruit would make her wise and lift her above the present state and so I have herd the argument that daii cing is harmless. “The most refined and cultivated practice it.” “Parents oppose it be cause they are ignorant and fogy.” “It will start me in the best ao- ciety etc.” And when we find out who attend the dance, it is not a coming together of the best spirit and the tending is bad of the whole thing. How a true lady or gentle - man can in disobedience to a good father and mother, take this step, I can not see, nor am I sure they can. Nothing is more proper in a child than to obey parents. This God commands. Where children conclude that parents are too strict, it is usually because they want more liberty than it is proper for them to have. Few parents indeed, are too severe on their children. Most of them are too indulgent. I regard it as a shame to an Old Baptist neighborhood to become famous for dancing, and I think that children who love their pa rents as they should, ought not, fortheir parent’s sake, to indulge in this habit. I hold that the duty of parents is to keep their children from such habits, if it be possible. So far as Baptists attending dances is con cerned, I regard it as the duty of all our churches to exclude mem bers who attend these places. This is the feeling of our people, gener ally, and I would gladly encour age it. Elder Wilson Thompson said he “regarded it as a sin equal to drunkenness.” I could give the names of many who took the same view, and if I am not de ceived, our people generally take this view. Think of a Baptist face at a dance to-night, all aglow with the vain display of carnality, and next Sabbath that sama face at the house of God singing “I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord,” and partaking of the bread and wine in commem oration of the scenes of Calvary! Even the average wicked man will and miserable sight. Tne world generally admires thepnan who lives out his profes sion ; and despises the professed follower of Jesus who lays by all obligation to duty. The sensible young man or woman who wants a companion for life would much prefer that one who listens to the advice of pa rents. I am writing perhaps strong but am writing just what to be true. I desire our churches all to deal with members who attend these meetings. Your brother with a desire to be faithful. J. H. Oliphant. REMARKS. We are certainly opposed to mem bers of the church attending, or participating in dancing. When we have heard ot such things we have sometimes thought of the midnight reveling of Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, and the handwriting on the wall. We often fear, at least that in many cases if they were weighed in the balance they might be found wanting. We feel to en dorse Brother Oliphant that church : members should* not be endulged in dancing by the church for one moment. We have never known Old School Baptists to allow their members to dance, and we do feel like it would be very discouraging to a faithful minister to have to preach to a set of members who are in the habit of attending the bait room. We do hope that all our readers will heed the remarks of Brother Oliphant in the above article. We however, do not have any fears that our chufches will tolerate such things but all our churches will do well to take warn ing.—Ed. *♦ - - . V.- V .:’-.'‘"Tirm --r | JOB * PRIXTiXG I S J —: OF ALL KINDS I— - I | Designed by JOHN B. CHAMBERS, 0 « o in tbeflighest Style of the Art. | Send us Your Orders. Estimates °® ® SSatisfaction Guaranteed. All Classes ofVV ork.g | THE BANNER JOB OFFICE, | | VALDOSTA, GA. ‘ "I - -.-g l ime Table No 11 GEORGIA NORTHERN RAILROAD TO TAKE EFFECT ON AND AFTER, JAN, 27,1895, C.W. PIDCOCK.Supt. 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