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    Vol. 2.
IRRECONCILIATION.
Why am I Lord so restless now;
80 unresigned to thee?
Unreconciled to all that is
Or, all that e’re can be?
Why so impatient,—why am I
Dissatisfied so oft? \
What makes me look on earthly things.
And not on things aloft?
O, unbeleif, thou hateful sin,
And thou forgetfulness,
B Together with distrust in God,
Doth cause my wretchedness.
And too, ingratitude doth fill
Me with untbankfulness,
And hinders me in praising God
For all his lovliness.
Oh! might it be, that I could see
The glory of God’s love,
This holy sight would sure indite
My heart with thoughts above.
Above; where we shall ever see
The Savior’s blessed face,
And all of those whom God hath chose,
To magnify his grace.
—Morgan Brown.
ONE HUNDRED QUESTIONS
1, If Baptists object to sprink
ling for baptism, with what f ro
priety cag they approve of the
popular modern institutions of
men?
2. If the Lord Jesus Christ died
to save sinners, could that object
have been secured unless he by
his death saved those for whom he
died?
3 If by his death he only made
salvation posible can it be said in
truth that he saved #ny by his
. 4. If by his death he saved his
people from wrath and condemna
tion, baring '.heir sins in his own,
body on the tree, did he not make
j- it more than possible for them to
K be .saved? '
assert, the afone^ 1
meat of our Lord made it possible
that ail men might be saved, why
was it not jiossible for the rich
man to cross the gulf and come to
the bosom of his father Abraham?
6. If the death of Jesus Christ
was for all” men universally and
indiscriminately, did he not die
for all such as were in hell at the
time of his death?
f 7. If Jesus died not for all
those of the human race who were
inliell, how can it Le said that he
died for all mankind universally?
8. If the Lord did not repre
sent all men universally, whom
did He represent?
9. If those who were in hell
were not represented in the
death ot Christ, how can it be said
that he died for the original sins of
all mankind?
10. If Jesus died for all origi
nal sin and did not atone for act
ual sins, how far did the benefits
of his death extend?
11. If Jesus died for the origi
nal and actual sins of all mankind
what more was necessary to secure
< the salvation of all mankind?
12. If salvation is made possi
ble for all, yet left dependent on
the volition of the human will,
was Paul’s testimony true when
he declared, “It is not of him that
willeth?”
13. If salvation depends on the
volition of the human will, how
can infants be saved?
14. If salvation is based on
principles to be comprehended by
human reason, and all men are re
quired to understand and believe
or be damned, how are idiots to
be saved?
15. If no more be required of
men than what is given them, are
not the heathen safe? *
jk**' 16. If mankind are excusable
L on account of ignorance why send
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“THOU HAST GIVEN A BANNER TO THEM THAT FEAR THEE, THAT IT MAY BE DISPLAYED BECAUSE.OF THE TRUTH.”— PbaLMS 60; 4.
missionaries to enlighten the
heathen?. .
17. If men are not excused on
account of ignorance, why are we
told that their punishment will be
augmented in proportion to the
light they have?
18. If souls enlightened by the
Holy Spirit can go to hell, why
may not unenlightened souls go to
heaven in darkness?
19. If enlightened * seals can
not go to hell, how can the punish
ment of the damned be in propor
tion to the amount of light they
have?
20. Are sinners condemned for
sinning or for neglecting the gos
pel?
21. Are the sons of Adam sin
ners from choice or neglect?
22. If men are sinners from
choice, did any man ever choose
not to be a sinner?
23. If none of Adam’s children
ever choose not to be sinners, are
they not condemned?
24. Does the gospel condemn
sinners, or are they condemned by
the law, independently of the gos
pel?
25.1 f there is no condemnation
in the gospel,how can men be con
demned by it?
26. Was the law at Mount Sina
given to the Jews exclusively or to
them in common with the Gen
tiles? If Ijp the Jews alone how
came the Gentiles under it?
27. Was the same law for man
kind to keep, or to detect and re
prove sin which was already in ex
istence?
28. Was heaven or hell made
to depend on the keeping or the
transgression of the law?
in substance the same as the law
given on Mount Sima? If so, how
shall we trace the analogy?
30. Was the Sinia law given
as a test of obedience, as was the
law under which Adam was crea
ted?
31. Did the Lord Jesus, on the
behalf of his people, fulfill all the
requisitions of the law? If sc.
what more can divine justice re
quire of them?
32. If the people of God were
redeemed from under the law, how
can they or any of them be con
demned by it?
33. Is God the Father of all
mankind because he made them?
If so, why may the crea
tures he has made claim the same
relationship on the same grounds?
34 If God, as the God of na
ture be the Father of all men, how
can they be subjects of adoption?
35 Does the adoption of the
sons of God prove that all man
kind are not his sons by nature?
36. If the Lord has sent h’s
servants to preach the law and the
gospel, by which does he intend
they shall be saved?
37. If a minister who believes
in particular redemption, tell the
redeemed while in unregeneracy
that the wrath of God is upon
them does he tell them the truth?
38. x If addressing those who are
not redeemed by the blood of
Christ the minister tells them if
they will believe they shall be
saved does he tell them the truth?
39. It those whr» are not re
deemed can be saved by believing,
and those who are redeemed can
not be saved without believing,did
not Christ die in vain?
40. If, as some have argued,
the atonement is universal in its
efficacy and limited in its appli
cation, how can its efficacy extend,
•beyond its application? . .
41. If one drop of the Redeem
cjt’s blocd was sufficient to redeem
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millions of worlds was it just tu«
take from him the whole? . ,
42. Fullerites believe that the
attonoment is general in its nature;
Arminians believe that Christ
died alike for all mankind. Why
are they not Universalists? The
Universalists can believe that he
died for no more.
43. How can the doctrine of
universal attonement and limited
salvation be reconciled with the
doctrine of predestination?
44. If God has predestinated
that all unbelievers shall be dam
ned how can any be saved, seeing
by nature all are unbelievers?
45. If the love of God to his
people in Christ is eternal, when
did it begin and when will it ter
minate?
46. If God loved his people as
he loved his Christ (see John, xvii)
is not his love to them of the samd
nature, date and duration as that
to-Christ?
47. If any of the objects of
God’s special love should be lost,
would there not be souls in hell
whom God loved as he loved his
own Son?
48. It God knew who would,
and who would not believe, was the
creation of those who would not
believe from necessity or choice?
49. If the love of God to his
people is eternal, can Satan get be
tween it and them? If it existed
before the world began, was it not
before Satan existed?
50. If we are changeable creat
ures, and the love of God is un
changeable, will not such love
maintain a stronger hold on its ob
ject than we canon it?
’ “~bl. fs at iDd^nTte’condescension
and mercy in the God of all grace
to hold poor, helpless worms so
fast as to secure their eternal sal
vation?
52. If the absolute will of God
is the universal cause of all his
works, can anything thwart him
in the accomplishment of his pur
poses?
53. If God’s absolute will be
irresistable, must not the purposes
of his will be brought to pass?
54. Are not such terms as
chance, fortune, and luck calcula
ted to reflect on the providence of
God in the management of his af
fairs?
55. Can that which is the fruit
and effect of God’s will be the pro
curing cause of such fruits arid
effects?
56. Are faith and repentance the
cause or effect of God’s love to his
people,and must not all causes pre
cede their effects?
57. If all who are homed of
God should live as they list, would
not all live to the glory of God?
58. Was Christ the surety for
all for whom he died? If so, if any
for whom he died are not salved
will not the failure reflect on the
suretyship?
59; If the suretyship of Christ
was not sufficient to secure the sal
vation of all for whom he died,
what further surety was necessa
ry to secure that object?
60. If by the atonement all
men alike were reconciled to God,
were not Cain, and Pharroh, and
all the hosts of Sodom and Go
morroh, who are now suffering the
vengence of eternal fire reconciled?
61. If reconciled sinners are in
hell, what evidence can we have
that any are or shall be in heaven?
62. If reconciliation to God be
-only by the blood of Christ, why,
SLo men exhort sinners to make;
their peace with God?
63. If Christ has done as much
, to save those who are m hell as
those who are in heaven, why are
n<st all in heaven or in hell?
64. Has the blood of Christ
more power to save his people than
sin has to destroy them? If 00 ,
how can any for whom that blood
was shed be lost?
65. Are the saving benefits of
Christ’s death, resurrection, and
intercession of equal extent as to
the onjects they embrace?
66. If Christ be all in all in the
salvation of sinners, must not
saved sinners be nothing and less
than nothing in effecting that
work?
67. Does the doctrine of free
agency make man the cause of his
own salvation?
68. Does the doctrine of free
will place the grace of God in
man’s power in subjection to God’s
grace?
69. Can things in nature pro
duce things supernatural?
70. Must not spiritual fruit
Spring from spiritual root?
71. Does not the purposes pf
God comprise the end, together
with all connecting circumstances?
r 72! The Ephesians were chosen
in Christ before the foundation of
the world. Was that choice the
of their will?
j 73. The Ephesians were pre
destinated according to the will of
Clod. If it had been according to
their own will would it not have
been destination instead of pre
destination?
74. If the salvation of men de
pend on their perseverence to the.
is predestination or part des
to -their,
75. If souls may be lost for
want of money, may not souls be
redeemed with such corruptable
things as silver and gold?
76. If more missionaries in the
field would result in the salvation
of a greater number of souls, are
not missionaries the saviors of
souls?
77. If Missionaries are saviors
is it true that beside God there is
no Savior?
78. If Missionaries can not
save souls, why are we told that
the blood of souls will be required
of men for not providing for and
sustaining a greater number of
Missionaries?
79. If theological seminaries
williproduce Missionaries and Mis
sionaries will produce the salva
tion of sinners, which are the
most essential to the salvation of
a lost world?
80. If there never had been
any theological seminaries in ex
istence would the number of saved
souls be any less?
81. Is God dependent on any
thing outside of himself in the ac
complishment of his purposes?
82. Does the salvation of sin
ners depend on God or on man?
83. If the salvation of sinners
depends on God alone, can man
add to the number saved or lost?
84. If man neither add to the
number saved or lost, in what way
are the popular religious institu
tions of modern date to convert
itye world?
85. If the keys of hell and of
death are in the hand of Jesus,
will he suffer those doors to be
opened to the destruction of his
people? *
86 If a portion of those who.
claim to be Baptist, have found
a new light, can they inform us
what it is, and where they found
it?
87. Are the popular money
begging religious instutions of the
present age of God or men? • If of
God, in what part of divine rev
elation are they authorized?
88. Are the agents of modern
religious societies, who go about
the country to extort money from
the people in the Lord’s name, and
without his authority, to be re
garded as honest men?
89. If A should forge an order
on B in C’s nameyian draw money
on that order without authority
from O, would not A be a swin
dler an/l subject to the penalty of
the law?
90. If it be an offense to pro
cure money from men under false
pretences, is it not still more
abominable to forge orders in the
Lord’s name? '
91 Why do not the Arminian
Baptist and the Arminian Metho
dist unite in one denomination?
Is it because they ‘are too near
kin to contract lawful marriage?
92. If the popular institutions
were invented to'make men see
eye to eye in religious matters,
have they succeeded? or are there
not now a greater number of sects
and religious parties than ever be
fore?)
93. Is not the gospel of Jesus
Christ a sufficient rule of life for
all Christians? If not what is
lacking?
94. Are we not forbidden to add
to or to take from the testimony
of the Scriptures?
95. Is it computable with the
, ChpstiaiL_Jffiarax^4« ? wise
above what is written?
96. It in the Lord’s estimation men
are less than nothing and vanity,
how much can we reasonably sup
pose the Allwise God depends on
them to perform in the execution
of his purposes?
97. Jesus said to his disciples
that without him they Could do
nothing, how much, then, can men
do without grace?
98. If inspired apostles were in
sufficient of themselves to do any
thing, how can uninspired and un
regenerated men do of themselves?
99. If Paul suffered reproach
because he trusted in the living
God, can we expect less if we
trust in the living God to quicken,
justify, and glorify?
100- Finally, would not the re
proaches and persecutions of the
Old School Baptists pease if they
would renounce their confidence
in the living God and fall into
the ranks of those who worship
the works of their own hands, aqd
ascribe saving power to human
means?
—Pimitive Monitor.
Dear Readers of the Banner.
I wonder if any of you remem
ber Emma Co wart, the Missionary?
Well now I come to you again.
And must tell you that many have
been the changes and trials I have
passed through since you heard
from me last through the Banner.
I have had many strugglesand hin
derances in getting from among
the Missionaries. But finally by
the Lord’s help, 1 must say I was
enabled to break the chains and
move and settle, as I believe, in
the dear Zion of God.
I was baptized last August, and
it was a joyful time with me. For
months after I united with the
Primitive Baptist I had many hap
py seasons in visiting
and other meetings, and spent a
good portion of my time that way
enjoying a rest and peace I had
known nothing about before. The
brothers and sisters treated me so
kindly and tenderly I wae always
glad to be there. But this God
given privelege did not last long.
In January I married a good Chris
tian man, but who wae not then a
member, and moved here to Sa
vannah, where, to all external ap
pearances, true and undefiled re
ligion is almost intirely unknown;
and I am still here, I have spent
many -lonely hours because of no
one to talk to, or be with, who
knew the way through which I had
passed except my dear husband,
and he has but little time at home.
With no preaching at all, my sit
uation has been very gloomy and
sad at times. I get so hungry for
preaching, and long to be in com
pany with some one who could
talk to me about Jesus and his
Kingdom. Though this City is
full of man’s religion, it is no com
fort to me. But Oh bow sweet is
communion with Saints. One
can not live alone and grow; we
need companionship.
My husband was baptized the
2ndSuuday in J uno. This was a glad
time with me for I felt thatl wasnot
alone. I feel io thank God to-night
for he has heard the cries of his
people in this City for bread; and
has come iu the, person of that
faithful and zealous brother, Eld
P. G. Mcdonald, to gather the
scattered sheep of the house of Is
rael in this wicked City. Elder
Mcdonald came Friday before the
fourth Sunday in June. He spent
•the day hunting up the Old Bap
tist, and succeeded in getting sev
en baptized ones at my
that night. Tfeie little meeting
the *
hearts of all who were present. Up
to this time I had not met any of
them before. After hearing broth
er Mcdonald talk and having
the pleasure of entertaining all
these dear ones in my own house,
I felt lifted up, and rejoiced in
my heart.
But this was not half that was
in store for me. Elder Mcdonald
soon found some little lambs who
were on the out side who were
struggling along under the cum
brous load of disobedience. His
sympathies were enlisted, and with
a burning zeal for the good of the
Lord’s people, left us Saturday
morning and went to Spring Greve
church and got that church to ex
tend an arm here, that those who
were impressed to do so, might
have an opportunity of following
Christ in baptism. After preach-*
ing an able discourse Sunday morn
ing, he announced- the church in
readiness to receive members,
when two bright young men of
this City came forward and related
experiences of grace and was re
ceived into the fellowship of Spring
Grove church. My heart goes out
to that church for aid and inter
est in us here. I fee] that there is a
better day drawing upon us.
But the grandest and most beau
tiful part of my story was to see
the fourteen of God’s little ones
gathered afthe water for baptism at
the unusual hour of six o’clock Mo
nday morning in this City of sixty
thousand inhabitants and the old
est City in the State, with but
fourteen visible Christians I While
it wassad to think of thCjindifferen
ce of the busy multitudes of people
who live here; yet it was a sweet,
peculiar specticle to see and know
that a few—only cate more for the
services of God and the honor of
his gieat Name than for the pomp
and splender of fassionable life;
rand like Moses, who chose rather
'to suffer affliction with the people
of God than to enjoy the pleas
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