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The PilgrinTOnner. PUBLISHED* SEMI MONTHLY BY A. V.SIMMS & CO. VALDOSTA, - - - GA. editorial staff : A.V. SIMMS, Valdosta, Ga., R. H. BARWICK,... Barwick, “ LEE HANKS, Boston, “ MRS. R. ANNA PHILLIPS, Office Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN AD VANCE. FOR THR UNITED STATES. CANADA AND MEXICO. Single copy one year, SI.OO Single copy six months 50 Single copy three months.... 25 Single copy & Sample copies sent free on appli cation. Address all Communications for publication to THE PILGRIM’S BANNER. VALDOSTA CA, Special Notice, In writing communications lor the Pilgrim’s Banner, please ob serve the following rules: Rule 1. Do not write on but ONE SIDE of your paper. Rule 2. Write PLAIN AND DISTINCT, so that it can be easily read. Special Rule Jfo. 3. Above all things, do not write with A DEA D PENCIL. Strictly adhere to the above rules and you confer a great favor on us and a Special Favor to the Printer and Compositors. The Publishers, Entered at the Post Office at X al dosta, Ga., as second class frail matter EDITORIALS. Elder Mo’gap Brown li«r mov fcfc. and will Hiftk* Correction. In the Banner of Nov. 15, in 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. Correspondents should be very particular and write proper nanvi very clear and plainly. !['[_!_ _ Notice. I have on hand all the time, “The hymn and Tune Book,” both 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 ters,” wh’ch, since her death, 1 sell at cnst—GOots. It was pub lished for her benefit. I have also my bonk —“Meditations on Por tions of the Word —Price $1 00. SljiAs H. Durand. Southampton, Bucks Co., Pa. 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