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The PilgrinTOnner.
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Correction.
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sister C. C, Neal’s experience, we
gave h p r mother’s maiden name,
«s Matildo Thomas, when it should
hav-i been Matilda Hammons.
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in round, and in shape notes; —
Price sent by mail sl.lO Per doz.
express paid by purchaser, $9
Also two hundred of Mary Parker’s
book —“Reminiscences and Let
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Elder Hanks.
In this is e up, it will be seen
under (he heading, “Valedictory,”
that Eld. Hanks bids us and our
readers adieu, to geek a new field
of labor. If such be the mind of
the Lord, we bow to it with per
fect submission.
Eld. Hanks’connection with u°
has been very plea c antiudeed ; and
while we ceertully consent to the
change, we do so with a feeling of
sadness.
May the dear Lord prosper his
wopk apd make him a blessing in
his new fleld.-rS.
VALEDICTORY
Pear Readers of the Banner:—lt
now becomes my painful duty to
bid you farewell, I have, in much
weakness, tried to write for your
perusal in the dear Banner and
tliHf, ogr hearts having been made
Kt nppr< ciate the sf»|pe trpth. has
mad*- my connection with t' o Ban
ner pleasant. 1 have appreciated
l ejbnging to the dbotch wirist
established and following Him tn
all His ordinances. Finally breth
ren farewell. Livein pescf and
th ay the God of love and pe4e be
with you all. Do not fail toJwrite
because you feel too unworthy for
wo are unworthv too. Wwwaiit
the church news
ity in tnuTouth, Cravi^g| n in
tn st in your prayers, we pman.
your little brother in gospeihonds.
Lek
(Synopsis of a sermon prealhed by
Elder R. II Barwick in the Methodist
church in Bronwood, Ga., on pe night
of the 12th of October 1896 the
following scriptures;—) /
’‘Come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon J*ou, and
learn of me; ror I am lowly
in heart; and ye shall find Pesfc un t°
your souls. For my yoke if easy, and
my burden is light.”
This ocripture hasbeei supposed
by some tn be, <n,<
invitation of the g oP l e^” —An in
vitation from God to the- race oi
Adam indiscriminately; and is a
favorip* text of friends who
pleach and beJiev»ia fflixtqpe of
“grace and works”! for salvation,
to prove their theop.
We take the posjliou that it is
not an invitation lit all; and that
instead of its being applicable to
all men alike, it iallain that the
scripture itself defies the charac
ters addressed, let them "be mai y
or few.
First, let us notice the difference
between an invitation and a com
mand An equal can invite an
equal, or a superior to do some
thing, but a superior does not in
vite an inferior to do something,
but simply commands. I can in
vite my neighbors to help me to do
something that I canndt do my
self, or to visit me, but! I do not
command them. Wbjl? Because
they are my equals in rawer and
authority and perhaps«p'y superi
or in many things; consequent
ly I cap only invite IhJ?m I havo
not the authority to command, nor
the power to cifflpgjkpbedieoce,
mercy.
If I should call upon a congre
gation of people saying, “here is
water, it is free and inexhaustible,
come all you that are thirsty and
drink” it would only embrace the
thirsty ones; the others wouid not
be concerned in it at all, There
would not beany pay to them in
9; but to those dying of thirst, it
would be glad tidings; and instead
of their rejecting it, they would be
only too glad to receive it.
Jesus says “no man can come to
me except the Fatner which hath
sent me draw hitn” (John 6 ;44 )
Again. “Every man therefore that
hath heard,and hath learned of
the Father cometb. unto me” John
6:15.
Tnis shows the immuntability
of the word of God and is in har
mony with the language of the
Master when be said “the hour is
coming, and now !=», r hen the
dead shall bear the voice of ihe
S r -n of God” and they that hear
shall live.
But one will say, “if your argu
ment is true, God calls the sinner
and compels him to come against
his will,” But we say that wh°n
God calls the umney he begins to
draw h m away from sin and e-ls.
And as the divine light begins to
dawn upon him, it discovers t<»
him a mass of filth and blackness,
which is revealed plainer and
plainer as the light shines bright
er, until he flies id terror to the
law far justification, only to find
that it saith “pay that thou ow-
PSt.”
The sinner is now aliye to his
own lost condition, and here the
Messed words < f Jesus come to him
as water to th« thirsty, as help to
the lost; —“Come un'o me all ye
that labor und ate heavy laden,
and I will give you rest,”
The sinner ig willing and not
only so, but glad to have one glim
mering ray of hope break in upon
his trembling soul, and in this
hope, his soul is made to rest. His
c ong then is grace. ITe can wit
ness with Paul when he said, “By
spread and explored again. And
what a fenst I did have time and
again I—my best times, spiritually,
are always at home, alone.—Truly'
it lasted me forty days. Do you
remember that sermon? Do you
remember how you hunted for the
poor and maimed—the helpless
beggers in the lanes and hedges by
the way-side—the homeless out
casts? Then you found me, or
rather found where I had been.
And my heart bore v itness,not on
ly to the sad destitute condition of
such, but also to the welcome of
that blessed invitation. “All
things are ready, come to the sup
per.” Ah! the rich and full
hande 1 offer excuses ; some had
bought land—some had bought
oxen, and some had married
wives—none of these are hungry—
But to the empty-handed, th* l poor
and hungry, how welcome the in
vitation ! what a blessed privilege
the chance! From there you
took me up, and I accompanied
you on till in tho name of JesUs I
was advanced, so to speak, to an
heavenly place—a broad place of
rest and peace.
Why in the world is it that we
want to hide our joys in Christ?
I felt like praising the God of my
salvation th ,t day ; my soul did
magnify the Lord, and mv spirit
did rejoice in God ; and yet 1 tried
to hinder and hide it from, others.
Elder Respess met you at that
Association ; both of you were to
go home wi.h me, but an appoint
ment mace in Atlanta for you,
made it necessary for you to go on
there. And the accommodation,
were not so good, but it caused the
thought that especially endeaj>
God’s ministers ‘o me, that is, that
you and others had left the ea«e
and comforts of home to wander
through the world, sharing the
rough fare of th© poor—enlur'ng
hardness—following J.*sus for
Jesus s\ke. How confirming to
me is this test of a true minister.
Here the ministers of all other
sects failthey wont suffer bar’-
ness &c, for Jesus sake, nor for a
now, the contrast seems fearful
It seems to me her garments are
blemished, her weapons are carn
al, and her help is from Egypt,
and her strivings are for personal
mastery which causes the bitter cry
from my heart —Lofd is she thus
blemished, or am I blind? Do L
see professed ministers of £hrist
seeking their own personal honor
profit, and aggrandizement? And
brethren and sisters, some for this <
man, and some for that man? I
think I can clear myself of the last
for if not for Christ, lam for no
man only as he follows Christ.
But that view of the church in
Christ, makes me still hold to her
however carnal grown. I am so
glad that it is Jesus who is to save
her. —hp who di» j d lor hpr. And
having died, will heal and
hpalmg, cleansing Ac. I know thijfl
is not, worth an answer mH,,. P r ‘jH
for me, and pray for Z'cn.
Sorrowing,
R Anna Phillips.
CHARITY fl
—— 1? ;
Ami though I bestow all my
gnjds tn fppd thp poor, and though
I give my body to be burned, ana
have not charity, it profiteth m e
nothing. That is, it I were to give
all my money, food and raiment
to feed and clothe the poor, and
love to God and thus djj| thus
move mo to so give, it would piof
it me nothing;—l would not be
happy in, or from, the deed, as
that not prompted by this princi
ple of love proves I was prompted
by some carnal pnncinle as to be
«» o en and prai«ed of men. And so
men alone could reward me. Love
to the poor must move me to sup
ply their temporal necessities,
\ receive neither
spirit^|6^oj blessings
his cause moved me to surrender
my body to the flames I wrould |
receive a blessing in this, for the