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ingly; and it had great iron teeth,
’ll devoured and broke in pieces,
and stamped the residue with
the feet of it, and it was diverse
from all the beast that were before
it, and it had ten horns.” We are
told;, in 24th verse that the ten
horns out of this kingdom are ten
kings that shall arise. Here is the
political power of the beast cen
tralized in the emperor of Rome.
Verse 8,“I considered the horns,and
behold, there came up among them
another little horn, before whom
there were three of the first horns
plucked up by the roots, and be
hold, in this horn were eyes like
the eyes of a man, and a mouth
speaking great things.” Then this
little horn represents the Ecclesi
astical power that was givea to the
emperor of Rome, which made
him pope, then as a matter of fact,
he had but two horns, the political
and Ecclesiastical, yet the politi
cal had ten horns or kings to sup
port it. The time of the little
horn coming into power was when
Constantine united church and
state, and the union of these two
powers constituted the beast that
John saw rise up out of the sea,
which I am now trying to find the
image of, for it certainly exists :n
the religious world to-day. Re
member the most striking feature
of the beast is the union of civil
or political and Ecclesiastical
power in one head “the man of
si#?'
“And the Dragon (papal Rome)
• gave him his power, and his seat
and great authority.” And this if
what I have been representing by
the anti-christian woman, who if
represented as being the mother of
harlots, and now let us hunt up
some of her daughters, and see if
they are not the very jpaage of
their mother, “and the kings of
the earth have committed fornica
tion with her.”
When Henry WHiking of Eng
land was refused divorce from the
queen by the pope, he then com
mitted fornication (spiritually)
with the old mother, and begot a
daughter the church of
profflinQfMtfeatu re
"*^** aaßa *Bmking image ortho Least of
Rome, is the union of church and
state, uniting civil ahd Ecclesias
tical power, the two horn?, in one
head. There are other daughters
I will not take time to mention,
but there is many granddaughters
and great-granddaughters, etc., a
numerous progeny of late. Some
think the number of the family
will increase to six hundred and
sixty-six. There is none of the
granddaughters has the image per
fected yet, but they are making
growth. They have the bead, cen
talized power, it matters not
w’hether in one man dr in a numbei
of men, as a congress, a synod or a
conference, and in this head is ont
horn,that is the Ecclesiastical, and
any of them is ready to flirt with
the kings of the earth, in any way
to get the other horn of civil power
and unite church and state.
“And it spake as a Dragon,” that
the voice that rang out clear at
the parliament of the religions of
the world at Chicago September,
1893.
It will require a union of church
and state to give life to the image
of the beast, that the image should
both speak, and caused that as
many as would not worship the
image of the beast should be kill
ed. And he caused both small,
and great, rich and poor, free and
bond, to receive a mark in their
right hand, or in their forehead.
And that no man nought buy of
sell, save he that had the mark or
the name of the beast, or the num
ber of his name. This part of the
image is getting pretty well per
, fected, for it seems almost impos
sible to do business without be
longing to, or at least catering to
some of the religious denomina
tions. The mark in the right
hand is the church work and
church support, and the mark in
the forehead show’s the educated
intellect, giving directions to all
their right hand work.
Ido not wish to be an alarmist,
or to cry out danger, where there
is co danger, but judging from the
histoty of the past, has not the
religious world always been ready
whenever it was possible to grasp
the arm of the law, to secure pow
er to enforce their dogmas? There
is a voice of warning in history,
for whenever church and state has
been united, somebody has to suf
fer
God has his faithful witnesses,
who, like Shadrach, Meshack and
Abednego, will not fall down and
worship the imago which the king
set up.
May the Lord enable all his
children to stand aloof from all
the religious abominations and
images of the present day.
John Downey,
Wenona, 111., March 25, 1895.
Okapilco, Ga., April 1895.
Dear Brother:—ln my first let
ter I wrote mainly upon the re
lation of pastor and church; and
the duties consequent upon that
relation, though highly important,
are only a few of all the duties of
the child of God. They are mani
fold and varied, and we cannot
write and talk about them too
much. They are just as necessa
ry to the health and growth of
Zion as the doctrine of election
and predestination, because they
are just as plainly recorded in the
Bible. There is nothing hjft on
record simply to fill blank space.
It is all written for us to study
and practice, that we may be
thououghly furnished unto all good
works.
That preacher who fails to faith
fully proclaim ail these good works
to the church shuns to declare the
whole council of God; and there
is an awful curse pronounced a
gainst the preacher who neglects to
exhort, rebuke and warn us. I want
every one who should become
interested in this humble letter
of mine to carefully read the 3rd
chapter of Ezekeiel,where it is plain
that there is a positive uncondi
tional comand to the minister of
God to exhort the church to obedi
ence and warn them of the curses
of disobedience; and he who fails
to do it brings down upon his shoul
; bMfodjhf those wlfts die in
fconsequemS^ereof. '
Israel was a type of the Gospel
church today ; and nothing can be
plainer than the fact that she was
blessed when she obeyed the laws
of God and cursed when she broke
them etc, Therefore it follows jhat
we of the Gospel church today,
the prototype of Israel will be
blessed when we walk humbly in
the footsteps of Jesus, and cursed
when we rebel against Him. The
preacher is sometimes a savior in
one sense.
“He that converteth the sinner
from the error of his way, shall
save a soul from death and shall
hide a multitude of sins.” — James
5 20. This sinner is a disobe
lient child of God, and it is spir
itual death the preacher saves him
from. The multitude of sins which
he thereby hides is the appalling
amount of transgression which the
spiritually dead child of God can
_;o into.
We do not have enough such
preaclisng as this.
The blood of how many spiritual
ly dead children of God, is resting
upon the shoulders of many of our
preachers,God only knows. The fact
that many bretheren and sisters
do not like to hear such preaching,
is only an evidence that it ought to
be preached because Israel often
treated the warning words of their'
prophets with contempt. The
Scriptures everywhere abound with
exhortations to good works, and
they are all for the child of God,for
him to learn and profit -by. We ,
should study the scriptures more,
and implant them into our daily
life. “Godliness is profitaple unto
all things, having promise ot the
life that now is, and of that which
is to come.” 1 Tim.4—B. The
preachers should also be a perfect
example of good works, for unless .
he practices what he preaches, his
preaching will have no good effect.
Paul comand?d Timothy to be an
example of the believers in all
things. Also,“Take heed unto thy
self jandunto the doctrine [continue
in them, for In doing this thou
shalt both save thyself and them
that hoar thee."' lW*w»that
tin; word doctrine embraces the
whole teaching of scriptures
not simply election nnd predestina
tion.
May God help us to live at (he
foot of the cross.
W. 8. Smith.
. One joined at Bethel Brooks
county at their last meeting.
We are glad to note that Bi-
Zion church, in Thomas county,
that was dropped from the Och
lockonee association for following
disorderly men, has returned and
confessed her sins.—H.
Parents should encourage their
children to read the Bible, good
books and papers, and not allow
them to read trashy novels which
have a tendency to demoralize the
mind. They* should take their
children to meeting with them and
not allow them to run at large
hunting, fishing, etc., on Sundays.
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Danville, Ind, Feb 27th 1895.
Eld. A. V. Simms,
Valdosta, Ga.,
Esteemed Brother in Christ:—
Find enclosed one dollar ($1.00)
for which please send me tht Pil
grim’s Banner one year. Ara
sorry that 1 conld not send sooner.
I had hoped to be able so send
some buAwing to
the hard times, many do mot feel
able to takeut at present.!
very old win
ter which makes it hard on the
people as crops were short last
year. We have had the coldest
weather this winter thatlfc have
have had for ten or twelve years.
Elder R. A. thompson is now
making a tour through here. Ht
will be at Danville to-morrow, and
Elder Geo. A. Bretz, will visitus
next wee|?. They are boih very
itble ministers andjwe dq
ate their iatJufs.
come all who come preaching the
TRUTH. ’ . /
May the heavenly Eather
strengten and sustain you through
life, and in death own and crown
you heir to immortal glory.
M Unworthily,
Cora A. Thompson.
“But the path of the just is as
the shinning light that ahineth
more and more unto the,
day.” Jesus is that just and holy
one, and his path or way is life and
peace, and how glorious is the city
of light and of day to which it
leads. It leads to eterrfal day.
The souls that travel his highway
do no harm, guile is not in their
mouths, nor crookedness in their
step. No ravenous beast, nor
lion’s whelp shall walk there; it is
for the ransomed of the Lcrd.
They shall not destroy in all this
holy mountain.
O happy people! O gl >rious
city!
A Church Constitute!.
A presbytery consisting of
Elders L. Register, William Luke,
A. A. Knight and C. W. Stillings,
met at the new meeting bouie near
the Lenox bridge in Berried cbun
ty, Georgia, March 30th, 18®, for
the purpose of constituting a
Primative Baptist churchj The
presbytery organized by
jng C. W. Stallings, moderator, and
William Luke, clerk, •/ t
After usual
for and read letters presented by
brethren and sisters, (fourteen in
all) after due examination by
•Eld. A. A. Knight, prayer ly Eld.
Register and charge by Eld, Inigo t
.the presbytery pronounced <them
a church of Christ by extfiding
to them the right - hand of fellow
ship, visiting brethren and listers
participating. j
By a vote of the they
named themselves Pleasant
*
after which they sat in conferance
and 'adopted covenant and de
corum, corresponding with that of
other Primitive Baptist Churches.
Then called Elder A. A. Knight
to serve them as pastor the re
maineder of this year, and settled
upon the forth Sunday and Satur
day before, for the holding of their
regular meetings, and the forth
Sunday in July for their com
munion meeting.
This little church is quite
young composed of young, mem
bers and has a young man for a
preacher, but still I hope the lit
tle church is the Lords planting.
The)’ have an able minister to
serve them. May tho angel of the
Lord go before him and may he
have grace to sustain him and
keep him humble. They have an
humble deacon in the person of
John Cornelius. There was many
there whose duty it is to unite with
the church and people of God.
May God bless and protect them.
C. W. Stallings.
qhituahy.
DEACON JOHN STUDSTILL.
Deacon John Studstill, died at his
home near Milltown, Ga., on the even
ing of the 9th of April. He was
struck with something like paralysis
while at the'breakfast table that morn
ing, and lived only about twelve hours.
Dear Brethren and sisters, to you
that were acquaihted with him it is
useless for me to speak of his many
noble traits of character, for as a
neighbor.,we all know he was unex
celled, and a husband and father I
have never known his equal.
He has reared to man and woman
hood seven sons and four daughters
I have been a member of his family for
the last twelve years, and I never have
heard of his speaking a cross, or harsh
word to any of his family. As a
Christian, I hope we may all fondly
cherish in our memory for years to
come his orderly walk, and godly con
versation. He was a menber of Old
Union church forty-four years, and
for many years served the church as
deacon. I believe he came as near
having of his calling as any
man I ever knew. He has told me he
felt the weight of these duties long be
fore he was ordained, but never felt
able, nor worthy to fill such a high
position in the church. His prayers
and desires were always to be
to
His remains was hurried at
Union Church, on yesterday,
rounded by many relatives and friends.
Funeral services was conducted by-
Elder William Tomlinson in a short,
but edifying manner. Hoping that
the prayers of the Lord’s people may
go out in behalf ot the bereaved fami
ly, I will say no more.
•. . D. A. Sandsks.
Vatdosi, Ga., April, 12th, 1895.
“Uncle Jack” will be sadly
.missed. Surely he has “used the
office of deacon well and purchased
to himself a good degree and great
boldness in the faith.”—Ed.
Lenox, Ga., April 13th 1895,
Dear Brother Simms:
Pleased publish for Elder L. H.
Stuckey the following appointments
and not publish the first I sent you :
Pleasant Grove, May 1
New Hope, “ 2
Pleasant, “ 3
Cat Creek, “ 4 and 5
Empire, “ 6
Union, “ 7
Naylor, “ 8
Way fare, “ 9
Unity, “ 10
Antioch, “ 11 and 12
There is a change made in his ap
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C. W. Stallings.
Dr- H. Sanche.
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