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of that i mortal state where we
■hall meet to part no more, and
dwell forever in His sweet pres
ence. It our joys are so great
here, 0 what will it be to be for
ever in that sweet heaven of eter
nal rest where no more nights,
no more sickness, sonow, pain
nor death but we shall meet to
part no never on the sunny bank
of sweet deliverence. Those pre
cious metings will he be a green
spot in the pages of our memoiy,
and we shall ever feel great ful to
*
those dear people for their many
words of encouragement and acts
of kindness extended to a poor
sinner. Dear Christians, pray
for the poor imperfect writer that
he may ever live in our sweet
fellowship.—ll
WOMAN PRAYING.
Brother John Ellis of Sessoms,
Ga., requests me to write concern
ing woman praying publicly, but
I do not feel that much can be
•aid upon thia point more than to
five the Scriptural position, wilich
position has been held by Primi
tive Baptist universally so far as
my knowledge extends. We do
not condemn the idea of woman
praying—indeed I have thought
that there was more fervent pray
er and contrition as a rule among
the female portion of the Church
than among the male portion. I
remember now that it was a wo
man .who washed Jesua’ feet with
her tears and wiped them with her
hair. Women were first, at the tomb
of our crucified Lord and they
were first to hear the joyful news
that he had triumphed over the
grave. Their devotion to their
Lord was certainly greater than
that of the brethren. Even now
there is more love and less con
fusion among the sisters than
Yet it can-
in the Apostolic age of the church
was given to a woman great or
•mall, but she is to learn in
•ilence.. Paul says I suffer not a
woman to teach nor to usurp
authority over the man but to be
in silence.’’ 1 Tim., 1. 12.
Again he writes to the church
at Corinth, “Let your women keep
silence in the churches.” No
doubt some have thought that in
Ist Cor. 11-5 is recorded something
that would warrant women pray
ing or prophesying in public, but
this taken in that sense would con
flict with the scripture just quoted
above. Paul says here “But every
woman that prayeth or prophe
■ieth with her head i.nc«y>red dis
honored her head. The verse
preceding this reads: “Every
one praying or prophesying with
his head covered dishonoreth his
head.” How different is the in
structions concerning the man and
the woman. He mast have his
head uncovered; she must have
hers covered, else they dishonor
their heads. We will now notice
that the head of the man is Christ,
and the head of the woman is the
man. If a man should attempt to
pray With his head covered which
is Christ, methinks his prayer
would not be answered, for when
we pray to the father it is in the
name and righteousness of Christ.
It is in faith, and believing that
he is, and is a rewarder of them
that diligently seek him, and every
vail and mist of darkness is re«
moved and we are in living com
munion with our living head and
in this sense he is uncovered to
us, There is no covering of dark
ness or doubts that would hinder
our approach to his Majestic pres
sence, but as oar natural head are
uncovered in his presence, so we
have access to the throne of grace
through our living head, who has
unveiled his beauties and uncov
ered his glory to us, and in loving
confidence we ask what we will
and it is granted. But should w<»
try to pray with our head covered,
it would be dishonored. If we go
through with a form of prayer
Without tire spirit; if -we try to
worship him with our lips when
our hearts are far from him, there
is a veil of darkness between us
and him, we being in that dark- 1 ,
ness, and cannot view him by fa* th
Hence he is covered to us and in-1
stead of his being honored. and •
we comforted by our praying in
contrition to him, he is dishonored
and we confounded, by our miser-;
able mistake of trying to ap
proach him in the flesh. He must
be uncovered to us if we honor
him by any service whatever.
Christ is the head of the man,
but the head of the woman is the
man. We believe that our sisters
pray with the same spirit t-> the
same great Head of the Church
that the brethren do, but not pub
licly as the brethren. The man
was made first and the woman
was made for him. She can bn
and is his equal in purity,in faith,
in spirit, hut in all public matters
he is her head and representative,
and she is to learn in silence with
the proper feeling and recognition
of him as her superior. When
woman occupies her proper share
iu modesty, 01 what a jewel is
she, and what a power does she
yield over her husband, but when
she transcends the bounds given
her in the scriptures and presumes
to lead, and lord it over her hus
band or try to be bis equal in pub
lic matters spiritually or political
ly, she dishonors her head or hus
band. She has now assumed the
leadership, she has advanced to
the front, and the man, the grand
est piece of God’s creation the im
age of God himself, has to retreat
io the rear and see disgustingly
the order of things changed, the
modesty of woman departed, and
the valor ot man considered worth
less. When this is done her hus
band is dishonored, hence is un
covered and his covering of author
ity and responsibility has been
tramfered to the woman, Her
head is uncovered.
With love R. H. Barwick.
Barwick Ga.
Barwick Ga Oct. 5th,1895.
Dear Brother Simms:—l wish
to say to the readers of the Banner
that lam an agent for Durand
and Lester’s Hymn and Tune
Books, and have them on hand.
Can furnish them at 85 cents sin
gle copy, or SI.OO sent by mail.
I keep them for the benefit of our
people without any profit to me,
except the knowledge that I Lave
been a help to have better singing
in our churches. The advantage
of these books is, that the music
is written with the words and we
can learn to sing all parts correct
ly-
One of the churches of my
charge has bought 1 1-2 doz. of
hymn for the congregation, and
they are well pleased with them.
They .contain almost all of our
old tunes, with a great many new
ones, and the sentiment of the
words is strictly in harmony with
our doctrine. It is a book that
I feel willing to commend to our
churches, singing schools and
homes.
Yours to serye
R. H. Barwick.
APPOINTMENTS.
Appointments for Elder Lee
Hanks of Boston, Ga., in the
bounds of the Lower Canoochee
Association, during the month of
November, as follows:
Bethel, Monday 11th,
Daisy Monday night 11th,
Bethel, Tuesday 12th,
Beard’s Creek,Wednesday 13th,
Loves Chapel, Thursday 14th,
Bay Branch, Friday 15th,
Belleville, Friday night 15th,
Andersons, Saturday and Sun
day, 16th and 17th.
Old DeLoache’s,Monday 18th,
Upper Black Creek, Tuesday, 19ch
Fellowship, Wednesday 20th,
Lanes, Thursday 21st,
Bethelehem, Friday, 22nd,
Upper Lott’s Creek, Saturday
and Sunday 23rd and 24th.
Savannah Baptist Church, Mon
day night 25th. He will need con
veyance, L.M. Nichols.
CHRIST
1< T! IF, SIR EXG fll 0 F TIIE
POOR AND .>r.F.DY
‘•I r ,i hast b ■ rength
i- thi- . oor.a strengii tothf n- j fdy
, i his dislr ss, a rof'.:g- f -mi
L. so in. ft sll: v 11 ■ii * lO
tent, win i; ihebl of the C'l ri
ble onre is is a s .n agninst l'-’-'
wail.”—lsa.xxy: I.
On<‘ chara•< <• of the fam
ilyofgraco is poverty of spiut
and a cone, rusness of their weak
ness and dependence upon the
Lord. God’s people are afflicted
and poor, eternally and enternally.
A sense of sin and deep depravity
of nature causes them to realize
that their sufficency is notin them
but in the Lord. In our weak
ness and afflictions we are direct
ed to the lovely Jesus who is oiu
strength and righteousness; he
strengthens us by his Spirit,prom
ises, ordinances and the preaching
of his word. In our great weak
ness and when we feel the most
needy, a smile from the blessed
Jesus causes us to feel strong in
the Lord. When we are conscious
that we have nothing worthy of
God’s favor in oar poor sinful
hearts, how sweet to feel that his
grace is sufficient for us. When
we are poor and need him most,
he is a present help in .time of
trouble. Every poor doubting
weak, trembling, heart-broken
Christian, who is longing for the
courts of the Lord and desiring
his strength,Jesus is your strength,
a refuge from the storm, a shad
ow from the beat, and will be a
river of water in your parched
soul, an hiding place from the
wind, a covert from the tempest
and the shadow of a great rock in
a weary laud.
None have the feelings describ
ed, above.but God’s dear children,
and in all your - persecuHons and”
afflictions, take it to Jesus, he will
fight all your battles for you. He
loves the poor and needy and will
not turn a deaf ear unto their
cries. You who have poured out
your soul in nraver to God, and
felt that he had shut up his ten
der compassions from you, and
have spent sleepless nights over a
heavy heart, Jesus knows your
every weakness, and he will come
save you. You may leave him
and his people and desire to live
with them, but feel to poor and
needy, but Jesus is your strength.
Obey him and he will bless you
in the path of obedience. Yes all
these storms may beat against
us and the heat poured out upon
us, which is almost unbearable,
but when Jesus speaks, all will be
calm. He can still the tempest
and cause our tempest-tossed souls
to camly rest beside the still wa
ters of his love. “These terrible
ones” that come as a storm against
the walls, are our external and in
ternal enemies. The external en
emy I will say hard things against
the Lord’s humble children and
percecute them and misrepresent
them, but they stand as a wall,
immoveable, for the Lord is their
strength.
The external enemy cannot de
stroy us. when we live above re
proach, but we can destroy our
selves by our ungodly deportment.
That internal enemy which
tempts us so much to deny our
blessod Savior, and deny our hope
in Christ, fills us with so much
unbelisf that we ofttn disobey our
blessed Redeemer and fail to en
joy the blessings in store for the
obedient; but this enemy can
worry the flesh but cannot take
our life eternally.
When those terrible ones are
suggesting to y&u that you are
no Christian, aidtrying to make
you beleive that you have deceiv
ed the Lord’s poiple, and telling
you that you aqp not worthy of
church membership, and that
Christians woult not get indiffer
ent like you d), and that you
would have a br ghter evidence of
a hope, and thai you do not love
Christians in the right manner,you
can say, “Get behind me Satan.”
Jesus makes no such suggestions
to his piople, ‘but the terrible
ones” do. The ’Christian realizes
that they are terrible indeed to
them for they pause them much
trouble.
The more i£ obedience and
i.eirer to Jesusiou live, the less
the terrible onei will worry you.
But bless the* Lord they can
never destroy ynu. Cast all your
care upon for he careth for
you.—H
Sparks Ga.j Oct. 16th 1895.
Elder A. V. Simms
My Dear Brother: —I feel im
prested to writ| you of last Sat
urday and Sunday’s meeting at
Salem, and how I passed the time.
I have tried to 'resist the impres
sion to write, but it seems in spite
of all I can do] my mind turns to
you. Then I remember how often
in the past whhn I was permitted
to visit your Jdear home,* how
sister Simms and I would
talk of our joy? and sorrows to
gether arounj, ymr fireside,
and even yet 1 love to turn to you
when either joy or gnef is mine to
bear. So please forgive me this
intrusion, and,will try nut to be
so burdensome in the future. As
you already know the annual meet
ing at Salem h|as just passed. I
looked so eagerjly all the year to
its coming, Roping I would once
more meet with the dear saints
if God’s will. J But I was aware
ere the timftQi| me » that I would
strength.
would not per Will
While much
yet I was uniafle t)take the trip.
But I tried Olfao hard to be pa
tient and resigned, when I saw it
was not the Lord’s will for me to
go. And though lonely and dis
appointed, I was not forgotten.
On Saturday Evening Dear Bro.
Barwics and brother Charlie Stal
lings, with many other dear saints,
visited my humble home and sit
around my fireside and talked of-
Jesus. Brother Barwick came to
hold services for me. When he
arose to speak, there came over
me a desire for God to fill bis
mouth with words of comfort,that
once again if I was one of His lit
tle ones, I could feel the Lord was
precious to me, and I cannot say
the Lord heajrd my feeble petition
no-no, but I"do know that it was
a glorious meeting, for the Lord
was here. Qnce more I feasted at
the Kings table, and my soul was
filled with joy and peace. The
text was, that sow in tears
shall reap in joy.” Beautiful
words. Sweet thought for the tired
weary pilgr&is of Jesus. I think
I can truly say there were others
here that feasted as well as poor
me. Then<rother Charlie closed
the servicetewith many sweet and
blessed words of truth. Besides
the preacMfeg what a comfort to
look once more into the faces of
those I lov| so well, and to clasp
their hauls in mine. Though
how poor and unworthy I felt of
such company and loving
words of cheer and
fellowship! O; how often did my
thoughts fly to de.ir old Sa’em
while the flear ones was assembled
there in worship I could see • them j
in my imagination sitting around :
feasting cm th* blessed' truths ot •
God. Sunday nigiit Sister Alice I
and Sistet Janie Parish come to see .
nv,you know how sweet and Christ;
like they are, and too are affleted !
and sufferers for Jesus’ sake. How i
oft we have mingled our tears
together.! I told Sister Alice my '
cup was full that though I could
not go to meeting the little service
the day before and hers »nd sister
Janie’s visit had so filled me with
joy and peace I felt wonderfully
blest after all better,far better than
I derserved, and I feel to hope
God was with me while the others
met together to ■worship Him. I
was enabled to praise Him though
lonely and upon my bed, I fplUa
blessed and peaceful calm steal
over me and could imile through
my tears and say “It is best. God
willed it thus” I feel sure He visits
a lonely bedside as well as a multi
tude, and one little whisper from
Him is werth far more than the
grandest sermon or speech that
could be uttered. Though oft
alone I’m not forgoten. His tender
pitying eyes I feel often looks
upon me in tenderness when lonely
or sad, when racked with, pain
and anguish. Blessed Savior. 'The
meeting at Salem was one of love
and peace.
Again I ask your forgiveness
for bothering you. May
God abundantly bless you and
yours. Pray for me. In Christian
love, Your little Sister,
Fannie Shuman.
Josie Ala. Oct. 15th 1895
. Dear Elders Hanks and Simms.
J have just returned from our
Association to-day, and I feel like
I want to write a few lines rela
tive to how I ought to feel to the
Giver of every good and perfect
gift. I feel like I never could get
words to convey an idea how I
should feel towards my brethren,
and to my God. I joined the-
Pnmittye Baptist church about
eighteen years ago at Ramah
cburch. I stood a short time as
an excluded member. Out side
of that time I have been chosen to
nearly all of our associations and
district or union meetings, but
hope Ido not feel puffed about it.
Our letter to the association shew
ed up 136 members. We have a
> goodly number of very intelligent
men, as well as good men. And
, how it is I do not know. They
L must certainly have soVne confi-
have Ido -not know, fog ~t nave
none in myself. I feel like I nev
er can reverence my God and the
brethren as I ought. If I should
live to be old and unles-s I do better
than I ever have done, I desire to
praise that God that I feel like
was the great word at the associa
tion from which I have just re
turned. As David says praise ye
the Lord, let us praise his holy
name. I also desire to thank *my
brethren for the confidence they
seem to have in me, and hope to
live in rememberance of the same,
while I am permitted to live in
this woild. And I very often feel
like that will not be long, accord
ing to my afflictions. But I de
sire to live and die in the confi
dence of my brethren, “above all
things” and in honor to my .God,
who hath bestowed so many bless
ings upon me, who is so vile and so
forgetful of him “The Allmighty
God,” the everlasting Father, the
prince of peace, the King of kings,
and Lord of lords. We ought to
bd the most God-serving and God
honoring people in the world. The
Psalmist says the heavens declare
the glory of God, and the earth
beneath hie -handy work, day un
to day uttereth speech and night
unto night sheweth knowledge.
So we cannot praise the Lord
enough for his groat blessings to
wards us. I myself, am so forget
ful of his goodness, I am made
to cry out like the eminent apos
tle. 0! wretched man mat I am
who shall d< li\ r tn-- fix m the
body of this death. \d-1 now in
conclusion I desire iy to my
brethren and sxst-.s 1 desire :6
| feel greatful Ur.ytu.ls them for t'ae
I continuation of their confidence in
ime up U-- the present. Though 1
Ido imt feei worthy of it by no
' means.- And I leel like ottfers
■ should take my place or their own
' places iu the future, I feel like if
i I should liye to see another year,
, that I should not be honored to
! that position auy mpre. You
never can get around. Please all
ithat have the spirit of prayer,
remember your unworthy brother
if one at all, and saved by grace
if saved at all. Farewell.
J. J-. Jordan.
Bellville Ga., Oct, 3. 1895.
Mr Alford. F. Patterson,
Macon Ga.,
My Dear sweet boy.
I have had you so much in re
memberance since we parted at the
Association till I feel that I must
write y©u a line,
Have been absent from home since
Tuesday a week ago. I so much de
sire your good and prosperity that I
have often pr ayed for you, and
hope you can and have prayed for
yourself. I would rather, my
dear boy, you had the spirit and
religion of Christ than all thing*
else in this world. May you re
member God in your young life
while the evil days come not.
Will respectfully ask you to read
some portion of God’s inspired
word each day it it is not more
than one paragraph or one verse.
I cannot tell you the tender
emotions of love I feel for you,
and I know that many temptations
lie out before you. God grant, to
give you the word of life and to .
taste the powers of the World to -
come.
I want you to write to me and
tell me if you are interested in *.
divine things, and if you have - >
any hope of immortality. I have
often wanted to talk with you on
this subject, but I have felt so
unworthy myself that I could not,
I have a hope for Johriie, Roy’ •
and Ljnie, and want you to know
that you always have my tender
love, prayers and good wishes.
Your devoted father : ’
, • A. W. Patterson.
Macon Ga., Oct. sth 1895.
Elder A. W. PattersonMy
Dear Father. I am in receipt of
your letter of the 3rd iust. but to
answer it now seems a difficult
task for me.
I cannot say that I’ve prayed,
but ceyi say that I haveXoften
I would rather have the Spirit
and religion of Christ, than all
the wealth of the earth,. but how
can I get it? Can any one but
Christ himself give .it to me? I
have realized that the Bible is a
precious volume, aud read it more j
now than ever before, and I pray
that God will give me the spirit,
that I may understand its teach
ings.
I know that temptations are
constantly before me, and I try to
avoid them as much as possible.
I am so glad dear father tha t you
care so much for me, and I will
always endeavor to have a simi
lar affection for you. I can not
thank you enough for the kind
ness you bestowed upon me at the
Association,. .I do hope some day
to repay you for the cares and anx
iety you have had for me.
I feel so thankful that I have
been and have endeavored
tor some.time to be a better man,
but it seems that I get worse every
day.?
I had a letter .from mother and .
little sister last week. Am in bet*
ter health now. Have quit work
ing at night. »• . +
With love and best wishes to
you.
Your affectionate sou
A- F. Patterson
——.—
In the fear us the Lord is
strong confidence: and his chil- •
dr on blfafl have a place of refuges
Proverbs xiv. 26. . .
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