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Vol. 2. po6fr«. I ■WHO WANT A SAVIOR. Who want a Savior? ’Tis the lost. The afflicted and the tempest-toss ’ Ti e sinner overwhelmed with care, . And XIJ tempted -o despair. Who want a Savior? T>s the meek. With their whole heart who Jesus seek, Who often inlj cry and pray, Although they know what to say. Who want a Savior? Those who fear Christ will not fortheir help appear, X’ aner I him, through And whom to know their hearts desi Who want a Savior? Those who know The certainty of bliss and woe, And oft shut up in unbelief, Conclude of sinners they are chief. Who want a Savior? Those> who se< At times a glimpse of Calva rj ' And sweetiv raised to hope, appea their interest clear. These are the folk a Savior want, > XndGod their hearts’desires willl gran A precious Savior they sJaH have, W ho from t he lowest depths can Gospel Standard* CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST. p lam now ready for the conversation on the «ucifix>on of Christ; and I w!mt t 0 11 y in the out-set, that I think it was one of the most wicked deeds ever committed by man, and that this wicked act was the result of grea , lasting and never ending goo o the people of God, R. I agree with you, that those MiC'JwWtow tUat sin was good or the saints I can not see so| clearly. It was the wicked, sin ful act of men that took the life of Jesus; but our reconciliation to God by the death of Christ, was not man’s sinful act, but the righteous act of God. It was the wicked, sinful act of men that shed the blood of Jesus, but it was God’s righteous act that cleansed ns from sin by this blood. The murder and death of Jesus was man’s unasked work. If the wickedness of the crucifixion of r» Christ was the result of great good to the people of God, why e not give these wicked men the praise and honor of such good? Remember that grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, and not by sin, and that it was God that re conciled us to himself, and not r these wicked men by their sins. The shedding of Christ’s blood was man’s act, but cleansing us from sin by that blood was God’s - work. Every sin committed at the crucifixion was man’s sin, and every thing that resulted in our good at the death of Jesus, r was the work of God. P. Well, I had thought that the w ickedness of these men was for our good, but I see now that it was not sin that was good for us, but it was righteousness that was good for God’s people. If these wicked men did great good for the people of God, why punish them , for it? R. We must not mix the sin ful deeds of men with the right eouH work of God. Men, by wick ed hands, betrayed, taken, mocked scourged, spit upon, falsely ac cused, denied, denounced, derided and nailed to the tree of the cross, and there murdered the Prince of life, the Lord of glory,the Holy one, the only begotten of the Fath er. Now this is all their wicked ness could do. They could do no more. They had now killed him, and shed his precious blood, and would do no more than gratify their murderous desire, and stain their hands with the innocent blood of ®he piunicr. “THOU HAST GIVEN A BANNER TO Jesus. Now their sinful work >e b» done, their murderous spirits a gratified, the Son of God is °a . He is murdered on the tree o cross, and his precious blx) I poured out upon the groun • they looked on him whom they slain, and no doubt t b°“B ht U had done a righteous deed. But P more wicked and eXtreml y h ble deed never was committed, blackness never can be described , a it was abominable to the utmost a Wickedness never can excel that 1 of the murder of the Holy Son of r . God. Here ends man’spicked •• deeds. They could only take his v life; they were suffered to kill him and shed bis precious blood , thatwas all they could do, and itll , e was all wickedness. Now ' the work of God, which is just as I separate and distinct fromUm wickedness of man, as day at night Man’s wicked hand shed 2 precious blood of Jesus bu God’s righteous hand takes thi innocent blood and makes applica te of it to all his children and) it cleanses them from all sin. Therefore, all the glory and honor he o f being cleansed trom sin y on blood of Christ, belongs to God, wholly, solely and alone. If the wickedness of man in the crucifixion of Christ had any thing to do in our eternal salvation from sin and death, then wicked I men with their utmost heinous- Less, should have the praise, the . the alorv for it. We |^^^^ B wickedness of shedding his blood. Jesus died for us that we might live with him; therefore, we live through his death, and not through the wick- I edness of those who caused him to die. The death of Jesus on the cross was man’s sinful work, but all the blessings derived from his death is the work ot God. I may be wrong, but it looks awful bad to me to speak of sin as being a good thing, or resulting in great good to God’s people. Angels have suffered, are suffering, and will suffer, in hell eternally, for, sin they committed, The devil, the old serpent, and satan, has suffered, is now suffering, and will suffer, everlastingly, for sin com mitted by him, against a just and holy God. And human beings Wave suffered, and are suffering, and some of them will suffer to all . eternity, for sins they committed. I And the righteous judgments of i God are revealed from heaven i against all sin, wickedness and : unrighteousness of men. And , then say it is a good thing; it has i done a great deal of good for us, , and it has been the result of great good to the people of God. I must t confess, I can not see the good j there is in sm. We derive no ben t efits from sinful acts of men, and } their wickedness, but all our bless -3 ings come from God and his right j eousness. dP. I see, now, and am tatis i fied that our redemption through the blood of Christ is God’s right- eous work, and not man’s sinful work. Ido not now think that the wickedness of those who cruci fied Christ was the result of great good, but it is Gbftd’s work that was the result of great good. Sin , does not end or result in good, 1 but always in destruction, ruin and death. Good comes from • God, his law and his righteous ■ ness. Every thing that is for > our good in time and in eternity j comes from God. And everything r that is destructive to our peace r and happiness in time and in eter f nity, come from man, sin and DEVOTED to THECAUSE OF CHRIST. A T FEAR THEE, THAT it may BE DISPLAYED BECAUSE OF THE TRUTH.” Psalms 60■ 4. Valdosta, December 15,1895. man ® righteous I the Sat ® U * rt „iddo nothing toward tha <ICe r salvation, surely his sinful sin. 0U / oalddo nothing. I de Now°letu»seeif our lio ’‘ come from God wholly litt | d °A 8 tirely God 10Ved US; he ”0 r" de“a chokeofus, redeemed us, liv t - home to heaven, and to God b« gl 811 tIW Trover “ adoration, both now 8 dl , The Almaty, h>s 1 righteous, u> . they work o lthey ,lt for good tons, and they i together for 8 o{ God h 1 are good to *’ P train of • But sin with its » ] ftW dneßs tlblackness, ol s heinousness, abom ina s unrighteousness is 8 ,t tion in this 11 , brake 9 th(j IS hell after death. 1 a- heart and causes it id I wounds t e so. , g i c k neßs n I hodv. and brings iv v disease and death. Andasapun or disease anw creat _ he ishmentfor si , 1 and >d,lures must die ana b ’ the earth shall quake, _ and he ho sun shall become as black as 'ng cloth of hair, and themoon become 8 as blood, aud the stars of heaven °a “11 to the earth, and the heavens : d J shaU depart as a scroll, andlever, the I mountain and islan s L moved out of their places. Ve J^thegethi^ban. 00 ” 6 a9 ' puuisikuftvnt> iur destable sin, horrible sin, departs aegone, abscond, hide thyself in the ceaseless depths of annihils tion and nothingness I 0, i art the abomination of thou art hated to the all the hosts of hjgftte ou shalt come to naugfff; thou shalt come to ruin; thou shaltcoma to judgment. Thou hast C thyself to heaven, but thoir shalt 36 thrust down to hell, and there confined in horid, frightful, hid eous, alarming, dreadful, terrific flames, unceasingly. Thou hast ruined angels and men and devils and for thy sake, kings and great men and rich men und bond-men and free men, shall hide them selves in the dens and rocks of the mountains, and shall say to the mountains and rocks, hall onus and hide us from the face of him thatsitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. Sin you are no good; you hurt me all day, you hurt me all night; you will soon kill me and make me go to dust, but Iwi have he victory over you; I will get the better of thee at the resurrection, when God shall make me ahve. Then you will torment me no more. _ . R Thank the Lord, we are nerfectly agreed that Bin IB not S sor y nß and I m-t bid you farewell. lam 1 ” et y °“> and a loving oonversatron has be p Tam glad we met and had • we’meet in heaven. Respectfully Poverty and Rags. ' Church Advocate. „ c.vms And Hanks. E ’' DEK X Brethren:— Somehow I <re f e from a desire to write a few lines for the Basner and hoping the ? • * a nf the Lord, I will try i n deSlre kness to do SO. I often yW an impression to write but often conformed with a fear that it does not come from the right source; and Knowing ha that “whatsoever is not of lai th is da sin*” I do not write at all. “t I know if I am one of the Lord’s sc chosen ones I am a very poor and oi little one. Often I find myself fl< wondering for what am I made to live, and sometimes I am made to ir say with Job “O that I had never u been born, or had given up the tl ghost in childhood.” Like him I s: am often brought into the very v ’ dust. But we find a typical shad- t . ow in the life of Job, David and s others of all the Lord’s people of g v to-day. David was chosen to be f i King over Israel—was God’s an- | ointed—-and yet we find him so low ; Sj down at times that he cries out 3 f from the great deep of his sorrow ia ln ß heart*. “Save me, oh God, for t h the waters are come unto my gs soul. I sink in deep mire where a- there is no standing.” Sometimes ul the poor child of God feels in his he heart to say: “Out of the lowest it depths have I cried unto the Lord.” But David was not so always. Sometimes we find him praising God and rejoicing in his salvation with exclamation of praise, “Oh Lord, thou art my God. I will ex alt thee and praise thy name in the holy hill oi Zion.” And at an other time he said: “Though ] pass through the valley and shad ow oi deaih, I will fear no evil.’ 1 And sometimes the poor saint cai 3 say the same. Oh how thankfu t we ougb to be when he enable He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters.” And thus this heavenly and divine love flows into the heart of every true believer in Jesus, cleansing and purifies our old hearts, which once was a cage of unclean birds, and creates within us a desire for things pure and holy—to live upright and walk in that way that will honor God. But this change in ones heart, precipitates a warfare between the flesh and the spirit which only death can end. It is another law in our members, —warring against the spirit of our minds and bring ing us unto captivity daily to the law of sin. But Paul admonishes us to “Stand fast therefore in the liber ty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not again entan gled with the yoke of bondage.” “Ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.” And oh dear brethren and sisters how we should “strive to enter in at the strait gate,” that we who were “afar off” and have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ, should walk as becometh saints, and that as members of the visible church of Jesus, we should strive to walk in obedience to the laws of Zion’s King, and not be conformed to the perishable things of time. When we attempt to gratify the lusts and pride of our evil nature by min gling with the hidden things of dishonesty, and having “fellowship for the unfruitful works of dark ness,” are we walking as children of light.? And do we not love the princi ple upon which is built the pure a nd undefiled church of God? If we do, shoud we not strive to hold up the standard of Christian ity by keeping ourselves unspot ted from the world? In this dark age of the world when “darkness has covered the earth and gross darkness the people when the “three-score queens and four score concubines and virgins with out number” are growing and I flourishing as the “green bay tree” —in this age of religious enlighten ment? which in truth is only spirit ural darkness intensified —is not this the time when the church should shine forth in its beauty— when every member— every one that has named the name of Christ should depart from iniquity? Why should we follow the vain tradi tions of men and worship other - gods? Why should we not honor / Him whose blood it taken to hon t or us? There are many poor children I r of God entangled in the meshes V I and sins of Babylon, and are anx-1 e iously enquiring for the place '3l where “Jesus feeds • among the I is lilies;” and shall we by our un lt godly conduct mislead and drive •” them away from us? We should not be slow to en- € tertain strangers, but we should If remember that 'thereby “some h have entertained angels una- i wares.” But we should not ‘join house to house, nor lay field to field” with people who “love not the truth nor regard the council of the Almighty.” He never does bless his children while in affinity | with the world—ingaging in the service with others in the wor ship of their gods. We should - be filled with thankfulness that our God has given us eyes to see, ears to hear and hearts to under stand the truth, and thus should we “walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil.” ‘ ‘Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because ot these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.’ Living a Christian life is some thing more than a mere profes sion of the name of Christ—some thing more than just to join the church and attending the confer ence regularly. But we are to be “obedient to the faith” in all its details, and ‘be governed by that principal of love enthroned in our hearts. We have need to “watch,” for “we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but against prin cipalities and powers, against the rulers of darkness, against spirit ual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand in the day of evil. Stand fast therefore, hav ing your loins girt about with the truth,and having on the breast plate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; and above j all things taking the shield ot faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked.” It is not to make ourselves children, that we are to do this, but because we are children. Nei ther is it to make ourselves alive, but because we are alive. God forbid that none of us should ever, either by word or deed, dis honor the blessed cause of Christ which we have espoused. Dear brethren these are some of the many thoughts that have been running through my mind of late. I submit them to you. Asking your forbearance in my weakness I am, I hope, your little sister in Christ. Lucy L. Marsh. Bertha Ala. From an Afflicted Sister. Elder I. A. Wetherington. Dear Brother. When I last saw you I promised 1 would write you, and I have not forgotten the promise, but my afflictions are so great, and I have been cast down and troubled in mind that I felt that I could not write anything that would interest you, I have kept wanting to feel better till I have despaired of ever being any better in this world. I tried to write you three weeks ago, but I was taken sick soon after I com menced the letter, and am just I now able to be up a little. I have thought of you, and have so much desired to hear you pray and preach while on my bed of affliction, till I felt like if I ever got up again I would write you a letter and let you know how high ly 1 esteem you all at old Unity J Church, my dear old home. I “There my best friends,my kin- dred dwell . , ~ There God my Savior reigns. Dear brother 1 want to be resign ed to the will of the Lord in all things and bear my sore affletions and trials of this life without a mur mering word or thought I want to be more like Je%us. But the flesh is weak,and Ido not all times feel willing to be “crucified with Christ.” my hope is that when He, who is our life shall appear, that I may be with him and be like him. While I was so low down ' in health the dear Lord seemed very near to me. At first I coul uvu umu CXlfttA AIU.V David I said; “I am feeble and sore broken, I am weary with my groaning. All the night make I my bed to swim; I wetr my couch with tears. Have mercy upon me oh 1 Lord, for in thee do I put my trust.” How precious is the book of the Psalms to me. When I was so troubled and des pondent one night these words came into my heart with peculiar sweetness; “Truly God is good to Israel and to such as are of a clean heart.” I did not feel that mine was a clean heart, but I got up from the bed and read the whole chapter, and it was so full of comfort I was made to rejoice in the Lord. It furnished what I needed at that time, and so I felt that I would never doubt the Lord any more. But oh how uncertain and unstable we are! What helpless beings are we? If it was not God’s pitying care over us where would be our hope? Dear brother if I know my poor heart I do love the same old doc trine I loved so long ago. Noth ing comforts me more than to know that God reigns. But oh how often do I have to go oack to the time when I first felt a Savior’s love to me. If I have any evidence of a relationship with I God, it has been a long time ago, ’ and I have passed through many sore trials and afflictions, as you know. But I have never forgotten the time; especially the last day and night before I received a hope, I was in so much trouble I thought I could not live another day. My husband came into supper and found me crying,and , asked what was the matter. I told him I did not know, but that I did not think I could live till morning. He talked very kindly to me, and tried to get me to be lieve I would soon be better. I felt like I ought to try to pray, but felt like it would be mockery be fore the Lord. My very breath ing was “Oh! Lord have mercy on me and save me” After all had retired for the night, I lay there (Continued on 4th page.) No. 23.