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UNITY. ( Conclusion from First page.) under Jesus. “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God ; n wo were not then eternally the sons of God. So far from it the inspired pen says that we were by nature the chil dren of wrath even as others. Chil dren are persons decended from a parentage;therefore,as many only a? are born again,—born of God—and aie led by his Spirit, are his chil dren. Yet it is true, as the Scrip tures teach, that in the foreknow ledge and eternal purpose of God, and according to his everlasting convenant, they were and are his people forever; chosen in Christ be fore time and predestinated unto the adoption of children. But not “eternal childrenfor this idea destroys both the necessity and the possibility of predestination unto the adoption of children. For no father can adopt his children. Fourth. The term,“The eternal vital union ofChrist and the church is not scriptural, and it is also con fusing and misleading; but if by it is meant only,that Gcd has given to his people eternal life, and this life is in his Son, then we all be lieve this; and in a judgement of charity, let us think this is all that is meant. For it is certain that we were not in living union with Christ when we were dead in our sins, nor untill he gave us eternal life. He says of his sheep,“l give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish.” But if they were always in eternal vital union with him, then how could he give them eternal life, which they already had? The very idea of union is tc join together those that were not one; as, the union of two in marriage, the union of the States, or the un ion of two rivers. Fifth. Our people, as a people, believe that the Bible fully reveals that God is the Creator of all cre tures, “and hath made of one blood all nations of men-for Io dwell on all the face of earth.” one blood was “tlie first Adam; ” th ‘ / »ul race are the children of Adam, and they all were made sinners by his disobedience. So when Paul says “And so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned”in and by the one man, —he means the same that he does when he says that God hath made of on? blood all na tions of men and that one blood is the man by whom sin entered into the world. Therefore, my dear brethren, there is no cause in the people of God why he should save them rather than others; “for all have sinned,and come short of the glo ry of God.” In the third chapter of Romans, Paul strongly proves that the whole world, Jews and Gentiles, —all are guilty before God. He shows that they are all alike corupt in every pari; that there is nothing good in man. Bence, in God alone is the cause and source of salvation, and it comes to us from his simple mercy and grace only; not because of anything in us; for then it could not be of grace, but would be of debt! We believe the scriptures testi fy to a two-fold relationship be tween Christ and his people; one in the the everlasting covenant, . which he gives them. Yet these are not the cause of his saving grace in Christ, but the effect of I it. So we truly sing: ’Twas grace that gave me to the Lamb, Who all my sorrows took.” Yea, Christ; eternal life and all spiritual blessings are the gifts of God’s “amazing grace,” and his saved and holy people in blissful Heaven shall forever be “to the praise of the glory of his grace.” Then let us all unite in believ ing and saying, “by the grace of God I am what I am.” D. Bartley. Crawfordville, Ind., April 21, ’95. We send out quite a number of sample copies of this issue. If you are not a subscriber, we hope you will be.—S. Valdosta, Ga. April 14th 1895. Dear Brethren and Sisters. Some days ago it got on my mind that I wanted to visit a Christian sister that lives not far from me, and when I got there to my sup prise she had just returned from the burial of her aged father and step-mother, this of course made her feel sad and lonely, and she showed at once that she appreci ated my visit. My stay with her was short, but the conversation of the dear sister was pleasent, and I felt like I was doubly paid for my walk to her house. Since that time I have been meditating upon the neccessity of visiting one another oftener than we do and of trying to speak words of comfort to the broken hearted. Could not we as brethren, and especially our min istring brethren do a great deal of good if they would spend more of their time in visiting the lonely sisters and the poor of the church, those with whom they are acquait ed, instead, of traveling so much abroad? Brethren I feel that I the neccessity of this change. How often is it the case that a poor brother or sister is received and baptized into the fellowship of the church and then not be visited by a Baptist for months or years? Brethren can we expect anything but coldness to exist among us when this is the case! Why is it? Is it because some of us are poor? If so we are not tollowing the pre cepts and examples of Christ and the apostles, for they had all things common. We are warned against saying to one that might come into our assemblies having on a gold ring and gay apparel to take a good comfortable seat, and to one in poor apparrel to sit on the footstool. Brethren we should not shun one another because we are poor, for God has seen fit to choose the poor of this world, unto Salvation, and heirs of the king dom. as well as some that might be rich. Brethren and sisters select the poorest and most forsaken brother or sister that you know of and visit them at once. If they be g ©t them again to a lively hope. I fear that sometimes our brethren and sisters are neg lected to the extent that they be come cold and lukewarm and go astray to where they are expelled from the church; when if they had been properly cared for they might have become bright and useful members. The whole don’t need a physician but they that are sick. It is neccesary that we con tinue in the apostle’s practices as well as their doctrine. I once knew a man to join one of our churches and in after years he went to the Missionaries. When asked for his reasons for so doing he said,“l have lived with you peo ple for a number of years and I find that I am not respected as I desired to be. I have often made preparations and invited the preachers home with me, and they have refused to go, so I have de cided that they haven’t got any confidence in me.” But in a short time he camo back to the church and acknowledged that he did wrong in leaving the church as he did, and was restored. But I am sure that the old brother as well as many others feel that they have been neglected because they were poor. Brethren, God’s people is an afflicted and poor people, and Israel of old was a people that was everywhere spoken against, and was not numbered with the great nations of the earth; and so we need not go among the great and noble to-day to find the true -Israel of God. But we should look for the mark that Jesus has laid upon them, and when we find that th ay have been with Jesus, and can sing one of Zion’s songs, we should esteem them as brethren and sisters as long as they walk worthy of the vocation where with they were called; regardless of their condition or standing in life. Dear brethren and sisters I feel too little, and too unworthy to sigil my name to this article, yet I hope that I have not written it in a spirit of envy to anyone? but have been prompted by the Spirit of God to write,for I have felt con demned in my own heart for not being more careful to look «ft er the poor of the flock than I been.' I think it is too often case when we visit our sister churches that we follow the preachers to some place where we expect to fare well, instead of go ing home with some poor brother or sister with the view of trying to speak some words of comfort to them which might build them up in that pure and holy faith of the Son of God. Would that not be letting brotherly love continue and following more in the foot prints Jesus? For Jesus loved Lazarus and his sisters though they were poor and often lodged with them, and if we would visit the homes of our poor brethren and sisters oftener than we do, we might find Jesus lodging there too. For he was a man of sorrow and acquaint ed with grief, and lam sure that there is no home so humble or child of God so unfortunate that Jesus would show, or fail to re cognize. Now then brethren if you think this would be worth any thing to any of God’s dear people you may publish it. So I close hoping to be remembered at a throne of grace. D. A. Sanders. A man the Lord calls to preach, it almost kills him to have to preach; but the one that volun teers to preach, will almost die if he does not get to preach. Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continue th not. —Job 14: 1, 2. If you hear a brother complain ing about the preacher being se vere in biffiggproofs for disobe dienceffT an ® evidence that h e 18 guilty and ItandS reproved. 1W reason so many complain of our brethren for exposing that abomi nable sin of covetousness is be cause so many are guilty. Breth ren, the God fearing minister that tells you your faults, does it for the love he has for you and the well fare of Zion. “Open rebuke is better than secret love.”—H. <Appoir|tments. Elder P. G. McDonald and I. P. Porter will fill the following ap pointments in the Lower Canoo chee Association, the Lord will ing: Little Flock, June 15 Anderson’s, “ 16 Bay Branch, “ 17 Love’s Chapel, '* 18 Beard’s Creek, “ 19 Bethel, “ 20 Corrith, “ 21 Bellknap, “ 22 Deloaches, “ L 3 Upper Black Creek 24 Fellowship, /“ 25 Lane’s, ‘ “ 27 Statesboro at nigbt“ “ Bethelehem, “ 28 Lake, “ 29 and 30 Sunlight, July 1 Cedar Creek, “ 2 These brethren will be met at Collins, on the S. A. M. R. R. June 14th. A. R. Strickland. obituahy. MRS. SOPHIE STEWART. The subject of this notice was born August 16th 1808,inTwiggs county Ga., and died at the htorne of her sob (Henry Stewart) in Schley county, Ga. February 6th 1895, aged 87 years six monthsand ten days. Her maiden name was McKenny. She was mar ried to Henry Stewart in the 1831 in Bibb connty Ga., and moved the same year to Talbot Co., and later to Marrion (now Schley) county. She joined the Primitive Baptist Church at Old Phillipi (SchleyCounty; August 2nd 1936, and was baptized by Elder Hood. She remained a consis tent mtmbsr of PhillipiChurch as long as she lived—nearly sixty years. Her life as a Baptist was truly a model one. She always attended her meetings when she could. And now I may truly say another precious one in Israel is fallen. Aunt Sophie—as she was familiarly called—was the mother of eleven cbil- : dren—six sons and five daughters, three of whom preceeded her to the grave. Her husband and two sons died in the late war between the states; ahd thus she was left with the responsibility of raising Irer smaller children all alone—a helpless widow. She was an afflicted woman, and be came so feeble, that she could not at tend her meetings very regular in her later days, which was a source of great trouble to her. But she bore her af flictions with much patience and Christian fortitude. But meetings would be held at her home often, which she enjoyed very ranch, and rejoiced in the truth as long as she lived. When the summons came she seemed per fectly resigned and passed away with out a struggle. And now she is no more. Her cup of suffering has been filled,and God has called her home. “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yea saith the Spirit that tney may rest from their labors and their works do follow them.” The memory of her godly life will not be forgotten soon by those who knew her. • “Sleep in Jesus—pleased sleep From which none ever wake to weep, A quiet and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the worst of foes.” Rufus H. Jennings. MRS. KEZtAH ZIEGEER, The wife of deacon J. D. Zeigler, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Carter and grand daughter of the late Elder William Knight. She was born November the I3th 1831, and was married to J. D. Zeigler, July the 25th 1847. She received a good hope through grace and was baptized in the fellswsnip of Unity church by Elder T.W. Stallings on the 4th Sun pay in May 1875,and after a few days intense suffering with of the bowels, she fell quietly asleep in Jesus on December the 25th 1890. She was the mother of fourteen children, seven boys and seven girls, and raised them all to be growh, thirteen of them are still living. She had forty-seven grand children' (all living but four) and nine great-grand children. But she is gone; oh how we miss her in many ways and many places. Truly a great woman has fallen. The good Lord saw proper to remove her from pur midst tor His own glory. In the death of sister Zeigler, deacon Zeigler lost a help meet indeed, the children a loving and compassionate mother, the GJiurch a bright and devoted member,' ssjd the community at large a great. But we inborn not as thosw Mtlibut hope; for we believe that our loss is her eternal gain. We tender our sympathy to all the bereaved ones; and may the God of* love, who doeth all things well, comfort and console the dear aged old brother and father in Israel and sorrowing family is the prayer of the unworthy writer. J. A. Wetherington. Naylor, Ga. ' 5 NO HAIR, NO PAY! If you are bald, or a little thin on top write us. We can grow hair on BALDEST HEAD. Enclose stamp. PARTICULARS FREE, a book “ON TREATMENT OF HAIR,” with HOME REFERANCES <fcc. DRS. E. B. & D. W. JACKSON. 21-2 West Washington, St., Indianopolis. Ind. eb 15 &ns. ______ Dk. H. SanchE. Dear Sir: We have been using your “Oxydonor Victory” in our family with Inostwonderful results. 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