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EDITORIAL. WM, L. BEEBE, 1 J. L. PURINC-TQN, j Eliltor‘J covingtonTgaT^ Devising Liberal Tiiings. —The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at their late anniversary, proposed to raise not less than $400,000 during the coming year. — Religious Herald. The above item strongly reminds us of the case of the miser who was so well convinced by hearing a charity sermon, of the duty of giving alms, that he was strongly inclined to go begging ! When the prophet by inspiration declared that the liberal deviseth liberal things without instruction from theological schools who could have known that among those “ liberal things ,” was included such an amazing act of benevolence as this? Who can dispute the claim of those who will resolve to beg so extensively as this to be called liberal? What a liberal set of men they must be to be willing to beg so much ! Os course their liberality oonsists in their willingness to let others perform the more blessed part of giving, while they [liberal souls!] are willing out of fervent charity, to perform the less blessed part of receiving the money designed for what they profanely call the Lord's treasury. That was an unfortunate allusion, Mr. Sands. Read Isa. xxxii. 5—7, and call tho at tention of your patrons to it if you please. B. Sept. 1, 1860. Messrs Beebe & Purington :—Please give your viows on Rom. viii. 3, through the Messenger, if that will not be a departure from your custom. A Reader of tiie Messenger. Remarks on Rom. viii. 3. We received this anonymous letter early in Sept., but have not heretofore been able to comply with the request. The text reads, “ For what the law could not do, in. that it w r as weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful fleshj and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” The Apostle treats in this connexion on the liber ation of the children of God from under the law which held them under condemnation, and by which death has passed upon all men for that all have sin ned. And the law being unchangeable could not re lease its demands so that the prisoner could stand justified in the sight of that God whose holy law had been transgressed, neither was it consistent for the justice of God to be satisfied with any offering which the transgressor could make, since his life itself was forfeited from the moment that ho became a sinner. Hence the necessity of a Mediator recognized by Di vine Justice previous to the transgression, without whom the instant execution of the sentence of the law would have cut off the transgressors as soon as sin had defiled them. But with the human family as also with the’ nation of Israel it was As the new wine is in the cluster and one saitli, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it, so hath God done in his holy providence for the sake of his servants, sparing the whole human family for the sake of his chosen ones. This mercy was not in the provisions of the law; it knew no forbearance or mercy. “ Cursed be the man, forever cursed, That doth a single sin commit; Death and damnation for the first, Without relief and infinite. $o Sinai roars, and round the earth Thunder and fire and vengeance flings, But Jesus, thy dear dying breath 4-nd Calvary speak gentler things.” SOUTHERN BAPTIST MESSENGER. While the law condemned the transgressor, and placed the sentence of Divine Justice upon him, it is evident that it could nevtfr justify those whom it had once condemned, for the law is holy, and as ho liness includes perfection and cannot be improved, it is necessarily unchangeable. But this thing which was bej'ond the power of the law to do, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, so justifying us from all things from which we could not be justified by the law of Moses. The weakness of the law through the flesh must refer to the impossibility of the sinner ever attaining to life and justification by the works of the law. In the law itself there could not have been any blemish or weakness, but the text explains wherein this weakness consists, that it is through the flesh, or the inability of the sinner to comply with its righteous demands. Then the only remedy that could reach the case was in the interposition of God himself in the person of his Son to do that for his people which could be done by no other being in the Universe, that is to make them free from sin. An un limited sovereign might indeed have freed them from the penalty of their sins, but in reality their guilt would have remained the same. To remove the guilt they must pay the penalty prescribed by the law. — That was to give up their life to the demands of Jus tice. But the members of his body had no power to deliver up Christ, who is the life of his people, to the satisfying of divine Justice; then was manifest the necessity that Christ should die to deliver those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage, and in the fullness of the times before appointed when no sacrifice for sins could be aecepted as an atonement, “ Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.” B. (Obituaries. Departed this life in Newton Cos., Ga., Sept. 9, 1860, BENJAMIN GIBSON, son of William and Amanda Gibson, aged 19 years and 17 days. Deceased cut his toe about four weeks before his death, though he never complained of it. It become dry and dead, but did not heal. Soon after it was cut he began to linger, though he was unreasonably hearty, his strength failed, and he was unable to do anything. Ten days before his death he was taken with Typhoid Fever and died, leaving a father and mother, two brothers and sisters, and number of relatives to mourn their loss, but we hope their loss is his gain. Deceased though not a member of the church, was strictly moral from his youth ; ever obe dient to his parents, and kind to his brothers and sis ters, and all his associates. lie professed a hope in Christ about two years ago, and lived a pious life until his death. The writer was with him in his last illness, and can say that he bore his affliction with much patience, and though his sufferings were severe, ho was not heard to murmur, andwa3 enabled under the most severe pain to exult in his Savior, and would exhort his relatives to live right, and may that dear brother whom he called to his bed side when dying, and so earnestly begged him to live better, long remember bis advice, and prepare to meet him in a better world. Just before he died, he requested the writer to pray for him, and then said, lam not afraid to die, He then resigned his all to the hands of him who wifi do right, and fell asleep in Jesus. To the bereaved parents and friends let me say, dry up your tears and soon you may meet him again. 1 G. LAZENBY. Again, in the inscrutable providence of the All- Wise Disposer of all events, the painful duty de volves on us to record the still further mortality in the family of our late lamented brother, Deacon George Doland. Another lovely daughter lies cold !in death. Miss SARAH ELIZABETH DOLAND survived her sister and father but a few days. She was prostrated by fever, almost immediately after the decease of her sister, but at the time of her fa ther's death, we hoped that she would recover; but God had ordered otherwise. On Friday the sth inst,, fifteen minutes before four oclock, p. ji., she closed her eyes on all terrestrial things, being 24 years and 7 months old. Thus two lovely sisters—but a few weeks since blooming in youth and beauty—with their aged pa rent have gone the w'ay of all the earth, leaving the surviving members of the family overwhelmed in grief and sorrow. In rapid succession the hurrying billows of desolation have passed over them. In three successive numbers of our paper we have pub lished the sad tale of their bereavements; and others of the family are still prostrate on beds of sickness. May the Lord rebuke the disease that wastes their mortal tenements, and restore them to health, if in accordance with his holy will, and bear them up with his sustaining power and grace, A large concourse of friends and relatives attend ed her funeral on the Sunday after her decease, and a discourse on the occasion was preached at our place of worship, by Eld. G. Beebe, fromllosea xiii. 14. “ Death has laid them down to slumber; Solemn thought! to think that I Soon must be one of that number, Soon—ah, soon, with them to lie.” Signs of the Times. Westchester, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1860. Elder Beebe : —Please publish the obituary of my father, THOMAS PETTIT, who departed this life the 6th inst., aged 64 years, 7 months and 8 days. His disease was consumption. He was a firm and consistent Old School Baptist, and a member of the Olive church, Ulster County. He loved to read the d Signs and Messenger, as long as he was able, but got so sick and weak at last he could not hear them read. He had talked a great deal about dying for many weeks. The day he died he said to us :o,if I could only talk, how I could praise the Lord for his good ness to me. lie said he hoped lie was almost home, and thought he should not live to see the next morn ing. Neither did he, for he gently fell asleep that evening between 7 and 8 o’clock. He leaves a widow, and eight children, all married, to mourn his loss, but we sorrow not as those with out hope; for we believe that our loss is his eternal gain. Yours in tho bonds of affliction, MARY MENZIE. Signs of the Times. RECEIPTS. From Sept. 25, to Nov. 2. GA. —J. P. Johnston, (to end of I860,) 1,50; 11. Childs, 2; A. Preston, ,25; P. Ilousoworth, ,30; J. Herring, 1; Eld. J. Bowdoin, 150 ; Mrs. L. A. Young, 1.50 ; R. N. Morris, 1,50; J.'Keene, 1,50 ; I. Tinney, 1; D. F. P. Montgomery, 1,50 ;J. W. Jones, 1; Col. S. W. Parker, 1; C. Hollingsworth, 1, Susan M. Young, 1; J. McArthur, 3; Eld. J. Oates, 2; R. Woodall, 2; T. Clegg, ,25 ; S. M. Smith, 1,80 ; B. F. Preston, ,25 ; Mrs. L. Harper, 1; Mahulda Lansford, 1; J. G. Malcom, 1; E. Martin, 1; I. M. David_, ,25; Martha Logue, 1; T. A. Gibbs, 1; C. Bass, 1,50 ; ’ ® $34,60 ALA.—EId. 11. F. Pickett, 3,75 ; T. R. Gal loway, ,31; Eld. J. J. Dickson, 3 ; 7,06 MiSS.—B. F. Saunders, 1; J. B. Langston, 2.50 ; F. M. Casev, ,30; 3,80 TEXAS.—Mrs. Jane Luce, 2,50 2,50 ■* * 1 \ • Total $47,96 159