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OUK OBLIGATION I'o DISCIPLE
THE NATIONS.
In previous issues we have seen
how radical and revolutionary Chris
tianity was designed to be. The
Saviour’s last commission contem
plated nothing less than the religious
conquest of the whole world. Christ
sent his disciples forth to overthrow
every system of faith and worship,
and to build up a new system that
should embrace in its pale the entire
race. We have seen also that Chris
tianity is admirably adopted to this
designed universality. The glorified
Son of man is entitled to the king
ship over humanity. His gospel, in
its provisions and promises, meets
the universal need and hope of man
kind. As was its founder, so is
Christianity the “friend of sinners.”
Out of these considerations arise
obligations. 'The commission in
Matt. 28: 18-20 was given not to the
apostles alone. According to the
the most reasonable hypothesis the
words were spoken to the assembled
“five hundred” brethren mentioned
by Paul in 1 Cor. 15:6. Certainly
of none of the eleven could it have
been said “some doubted.” At the
time the commission was given every
Shadow of ddubt had been driven
from their minds, and we may con
fidently believe the same certainty of
faith also came to the five hundred
before their Lord finally ascended.
We conclude, therefore, that the com
mission was given to Christ’s follow
ers as such. The obligation to disci
ple the nations is the heritage of
discipleship “even unto the cud of
the world.” It is plain says Dr.
Broadus, from Acts 8: 2, -I, that the
first Christians all set themselves to
carry out the Lord’s last command.
“Christianity is essentially amission
ary religion, analogous to the great
conquering nations, the Homans, En
glish, Russians. It must be spread
by a law of its nature ; it must be
active at the extremetieg, or it be
chilled at the heart, must bo enlarg
ing its circumference, or its very
centre tends to be defaced.” The
soldiers of Christ are to-day under
the marching orders of the great
Captain of Salvation. It is our du
ty to discisplc the nations. The obli
gation to send the gospel into all the
world rests on us, and will rest on
nil suceeeeding generations of believ
ers, until the final victory is won.
It is the obligation of Loyalty. It
is the King—tho enthroned
Prince of life who says “Go.”
Aye, it is the word of him who
claims our loyal obedience, not only
because he is the crowned one, but
because ho also is our Saviour. He
calls us to tho glorious service who
died for us and rose again; who
hath freely forgiven our sins and
given us a name and place in his
Father’s household of faith. .Surely
grateful love should constrain to
enthusiastic loyalty ! We contend
earnestly for the ordinances of tho
gospel.” Baptists are sei. for the ex
position and defence of scriptural
views concerning baptism and the
supper. Here is an ordinance of the
King equally demanding the loyal
attention and obedience of every
believer. It is the King's ordinance
that the nations shall be discipled by
bis followers.
It is the obligation of Humanity.
It is too late for intelligent faith to
ask, “Ain I my brother's keeper?’’
The whole world is kin, and our
neighbors are mankind. As was
Panl, so are wo “debtors to the
Greeks and to the Barbarians, both
to the wise and to the unwise.” We
cannot sinlessly withhold the gospej
committed to us. A world lies in
the shadow of sin and death, ami the
Saviour commands us to hold forth
the light.
"Shall we whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,
Shall we to men bi n iahtod
Tho lamp of life deny?”
It is the obligation of Opportuni
ty. As loving children of God we
should be ever watching the movings
of his Providence, even as old Isreal
was obedient to the pillar of cloud
and fire. Our eyes must wait on
God. Surely the eye is dull indeed
that does not see the divine provi
dence and presence in the grand
missionary movements of the past
century. Who can doubt the mov
ing of his Spirit on the hearts of his
people as they have been led to sieze
opening opportunities to send his
gospel to the nations ? As those op
portunities are multiplied he calls
upon the hosts of faith to press for
ward in the grand work.
It is the obligation of Encourage
ment. Success is often God’s stamp
of approval and encouragement.
Sometimes his people must walk
wholly by faith through darkness;
but it does seem that in the modern
missionary movement God is leading
them beneath the shining sun. “The
morning light is breaking”—aye, it
has already broken ! The day has
dawned, and missions are no longer
an experiment. We must not meas
ure progress by statistics altogether.
M uch has been accomplished that
cannot be tabulated.
The foundation of Christianity
have now been laid in heathen lands,
and the superstructure will go for
ward more rapidly. The edge of
the wedge is in, and will bo driven
home by prayer and consecration to
the sundering of the solid mass of
hoary heathenism. The sacrafice of
life and the contributions of the cen
tury have planted the divine seed,
which will spring up in a rapidly in
creasing harvest to the glory of God
and the redemption of man. It is
not too much to say that when an
other century of such rapid progress
and such blessing from heaven shall
end, starting from such vantage
ground as we have now gained,
heathenism will be crumbled to dust
and scattered to thcjwinds, tho evil
spirit will be driven into the sea,and
the whole world, like the released
demoniac of Gadara, will be “sitting
at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in
its right mind.”
A LAW THAT NEEDS MENDING.
In one of our Georgia Courts, tho
other day, a man was convicted of
incest with his own daughter. That
a father should have been guilty of
an offence so infamous and horrible,
and that he should have made con
fession of Ins crime before tho tri
bunal of his country without a blush,
these are two matters of wonder
When first feeling their double shock,
one is apt to conclude that they could
not come into connection with any
thing more surprising than themsel
ves. But the special astonishment
of this case lies in the fact that a third
wonder greater than these two has
been found to bo linked with them.
It is this—that grosser marvel is—
that the State, by its Law, and by its
Court, condemns such a flagrant
offender to nothing more than im
prisonment in the penitentiary for a
single year! This seemed so incredi
ble to us, that we could not believe
it until both the evening and morn
ing papers of the city concurred in
reporting it I Is that sentence, tri
vial by comparison with the nauseous
misdeed, a fair measure of Georgia’s
abhorrence in the case ? Nay, is not
so light a punishment for a crime so
grievous a virtual apology for the
crime ? We call for an amendment
of this law. Let the penalty attest
the enormity of the offence. Let no
other man like this so nearly “a lump
where all beasts kneaded be,” come
so near escaping entirely “unwhipt
of justice.”
Wo read that there are now
throughout France 41(1,600 establish
ments for the sale of intoxicating
liquors, 27,000 of which are in Paris
alone.” It surprises us that the peo
ple supporting these establishments
can look on one hand and see un
warned that “one tenth of tho men
who die prematurely in Switzerland
die of alcoholic poisoning,” ami look
on the other hand and see unwarned
that “delirium tremens kills four per
sons per day in England.” But what
cause is there for wonder in this?
Is it not the quality of fallen human
nature to follow tho way of evil
blindly? When Wrong entices us,
is it not in ourselves, is it not all
men, of whom it is written: “He goeth
after her straightway, as an ox goeth
to the slaughter, or as a fool to the
correction of the stocks; till a dart
strike through his liver, as a bird hast,
eth to tho snare and knoweth not
that it is for his life?”
We are happy to agree, as far as
we may, with Dr. Arthur T. Pierson
in relation to the Metropolitan Tab
ernacle. In a recent letter, he wrote:
“I have never for a moment had a
thought of effecting if I were able,
any change on the doctrinal basis of
the Tabernacle or in its polity. My
belief has always been that the fu
ture pastor should not only bo ‘an
immersed believer’ ami a Baptist by
conviction, but a Baptist by associa
tion and life-long history. No other
man would be tit to command the
confidence of this great church, and
of the greater denomination which
it represents." That is to the point
we strike hands on that. Then, let
the “other man” get out of the way.
And as Dr. Pierson happens to be
that “other man,” let him get out of
it. We hope that he will agree with
us as cheerfully as we agreed with
I him.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1892.
ONCE MORE—AND FINALLY.
Our brother 11. B. Hillyer, of Bel
ton, Texas, is not satisfied with our
recent editorial articles on the resur
rection of Christ. We are sorry he
still clings to bis Watsonian “inter
pretation” of the “three days and
three nights” in Matt. 12 :40. We
do no not see the necessity of any
further discussion of the subject, but
he does. He writes:
“In your review of my article you
quote largely from scholars and com
mentators. Now my good brother,
let me say that nearly all of those
authors are Catholics, Lutherans,
Episcopalians and are mere apolo
gists for our false translations Os
passages relating to this subject, and
all in an effort to establish Good Fri
day of their church.”
This is positively amazing in view
of the fact that -we quoted, we be
lieve, only three scholars, one Bap
tist and two Presbyterians! It is
well known that the latter as well as
the Baptists have no regard for
“Good Friday.” Bro. Hilly er says
ho “does not get his theology from
such sources.” He continues :
“I hold the Bible to be God’s Rev
elation to man. If God has made a
Revelation so ambiguous and hidden
that it requires a priest to discern it
spiritually, it is in no sense of the
word a Revelation, one so plain that
a ‘wayfaring man tho’ a fool need
not err therein.’ Away with com
mentaries ! Let us to the ‘Law and
Gospel’ as our ‘only sunlight in
dark places.’ lam really amused
to hear men talk about ‘Hard passa
ges.’ They are only hard when we
try to make them teach error.”
This is decidedly rich—almost
amusing. The wisest men of alj
ages have acknowledged the value of
reverent and competent com
mentaries. It is a pity our Texas
brother has advanced so far beyond
them. If he sees no “hard passages,”
he has eyes different from those of
the apostle Peter, who saw in his
brother Paul’s epistles some things
hard to be understood. (2 I’et. 3 :
16.) But again :
“Christ says ‘three days and three
nights,’ not in ambiguous Hebrew,
but simple, plain Greek, lie did
not say ‘three onah’ nor ‘three nuch
theemeron,’ but three days and three
nights.”
As a matter of fact Christ did not
speak in Greek at all. Ho almost
certainly used tho common language
of the people, viz: the Aramaic.
'Then by what authorityjis tho He
brew characterized as more “ambig
uous” than the “plain Greek ?” Mat
thew’s gospel is in Greek, but at the
time he wrote there was no single
Greek word to express the time
word “onah,” which wo know- to
have been used by the Jews to ex
press the entire day of twenty-four
hours. Again we let Dr. John A.
Broadus speak : “The expression in
Matt. 12 :40 is explained by a state
ment in the Talmud, that a night and
day together make up an “onah,” and
any part of such period is counted
as tho whole.” And neither Dr.
Broadus nor the Talmud cared a fig
for “Good Friday.” But we had al
most forgotten that Bro. 11. has no
use for scholars 1 The brother fur
ther says :
“All agree that the burial took
place late in the evening, and (im
mediately) ‘the Sabbath drew on’
and we find an inspired apostle
(Matthew 28 :1) says in the end (or
late) in the Sabbath, as the first day
of the week began to appear, ‘draw
on,’ or ‘dawn,’ ‘begin,’—the women
came to the grave and found it emp
ty. This was late Saturday evening
about 6 o’clock. Here I might rest
my ease as proven, but I am requir
ed to harmonize every Scripture or
repudiate Christ’s and Matthew’s
statements. Now it is a fixed piin
ciple in law, that one definite, credi
ble statement in testimony will out
weigh any amount of ‘believe,’ or
‘think,’ or indefinite testimony. Now
Matthew states as a fact, that Christ
was out of the grave Saturday even
ing about sundown, and the other
evangelists do not contradict it, but
simply state that tho women visited
tho grave Sunday morning and
found it empty. Christ had risen,
they do not say when. To find the
day of crucifixion we count back
from Saturday evening, at 6, three
days and three nights, and it brings
us to Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock
for the burial. How simple !”
Our brother dogmatically assumes
that his interpretation of Matthew’s
words is the only possible one. Wc
, have before admitted a difficulty in
tho use of the Greek “opse,”—ren
dered “late” in the Revised Version
i and in the Bible Union. Yet there are
explanations which relieve the pas
sage of the absurd idea of a visit of
the women to the tomb on Saturday
evening. Indeed the only respecta
ble scholars, so far as wc know, who
assume such a visit are McClellan
and Westcott, strangely enough reg
ular “Good Friday” Episcopalians I
Meyer, regarded as the most emi
nent among exegotical scholars, un.
derstands Matthew as reckoning the
night following Saturday as a part
of the Sabbath, departing from the
Jewish custom. Morrison (quoted
by Broadus) says : “Tho difficulty
vanishes if we suppose that the meth
od of adding diurnally the night to
the day, rather than the day to the
night, had got more or less into
common use among the Jews, so that
there were two ways of reckoning
complete astronomical days. . . .
Here the evangelist was thinking
of day-night, and hence ‘late in that
day-night’ would mean about the
end of the night that followed the
day of the Sabbath.” Several oth
er explanations are offered by com
mentators, (excuse us !) but on the
whole the foregoing is the preferable
one.
We find it impossible to seriously
consider the supposition that the
“resurrection and the visit of the
women occurred on Saturday about
sundown.” The idea is really gro
tesque when we compare the several
accounts of the evangelists. What
Matthew tells of the resurrection
and the conduct of the keepers in
verses 2-4, and verses 11-15, seems
almost necessarily to have occurred
late in the night. The “raiment
white as snow” and the “countenance
as lightning” recall the night glory
on-the transfiguration mount. Then,
wouldn’t it have been a pretty story
for the soldiers to tell that they were
asleep before sunset! The Satur
day evening theory thus becomes
simply ridiculous.
Further : Bro. IL does not shrink
from affirming “three distinct visits
of the women’ 1 to the empty tomb.
The first he says was on “Saturday
evening,” recorded by Matthew only.
John tells of a visit in the early
morning of Sunday while it was yet
dark, while Mark says they went on
Sunday morning at the rising of the
sun. Thus the visit described by
Mark was nearly two hours later
than the one described by John, and
twelve hours later than the one de
scribed by Matthew.”
The man who can seriously pro
pose this is beyond the reach of ar
gument. He is making the gospel
narratives puerilities ! In a similar
way, another distinguished man once
insisted that Peter’s wife’s mother
was healed of the fever three times,
because he could not reconcile the
several accounts of the one event !
It is impossible to think of the same
women going to the tomb twice on
Sunday morning, after a previous
visit on Saturday evening, saying as
as they go, “who will roll away the
stone for us ?” Road carefully the
several records : Matt. 27 :57 to 28 :
1-7, compared with Mark 15:40 to
16:1-4; Luke 23:50 to 24:1-9;
John 19 :40 to 20 :l-9. However
fragmentary and apparently confus
ed these records may be, they can
be intelligently understood and har
monized only as they relate to one
visit to tho open tomb.
It is needless to follow Bro. 11. in
his rather labored effort to show
“two Sabbaths” and “two prepara
tion days,” intervening between the
crucifixion and the resurrection-
True he speaks quite authoritively ’
and if strong assertion, and charges
of “tampering with evidence,’
“wresting facts” and “contortion of
Scripture,” were allowed to pass un
challenged for argument, his posi
tion would be demonstrated, and the
scholarly world of cxegetes and
commentators would be compelled
to retire into darkness before the
light from 4 Texas. He will excuse
us if we prefer the testimony and
opinion of able and competent, rev
erent and conservative interpreters
like Broadus and Robinson. We
think enough has been said .on this
question and promise our readers
that wo will not further impose on
their patience.
The Forum for December has an
article by an anti-Sabbatarian preach
er in favor of opening the Colum -
bian exposition on Sundays. What
this man wants is that the United
States congress’ should rescind its
action in regard to the Sunday open
ing, not, we suspect, that he is spe
cially interested in the exposition
but he is anxious to score a victory
over the Sabbatarians ; and in order
to do so he is willing to enter into a
league with the enemies of all reli
gious observance.
His insinuations that the vote on
tho subject in congress was due to
tho approaching election is a gratu
itous insult to the honesty and pa
triotism of that body.
It is a suggestive spectacle when a
plain American citizen like tho Rev
Dr. Talmage of New York, becomes
the real or supposed champion of
autocracy. The careful reader of
the doughty doctor’s “glittering gen
eralities” will not fail to note, how
ever, that ho utterly ignores tho
whole question of the Russian out-
rages against the Jews, and the per
secutions of the Baptists m that un
happy country are passed over as a
bagatelle!
•‘BRIGGS-ISM.’’
Whether there is “a wounded
snake,” or a snake of any kind, in
the case we will not say; but the
trial of Prof. Charles A. Briggs for
her esy certainly “drags its slow
length along.” It has as yet only
reached the stage of “amended
charges and specifications” before
tho New York Presbytery; which is
in fact, about fairly “beginning to
begin” on the side of the prosecu
tion, while the doctor, on his part
declares himself still unready, m
view of the amendments, to answer
But the parties will warm to their
work by and by, and we shall know
its final issue some day if we we
live.
The amended charges and specifi
cations make up a pamphlet of thir
ty-six pages, and we compile from
it the eight points of doctrine which
are accounted worthy on the one
side to be assailed as false and harm
ful, and on the other to be defended
as true and wholesome. This is
done to remind our readers that the
times theologically are sadly out of
joint; that questions of gravest mo
ment are held subject to challenge
in the most unexpected quarters;
and that we cannot lightly whistle
current discussions down tho wind
as altogether inapt to affect men
who are influential as classes of
thinkers or to involve matters which
are vital in ranges of truth and duty*
Here, then are the eight heresies al
leged against Dr. Briggs.-
1. That “Reason is a fountain of
divine authority, which may, and
does, savingly enlighten men, even
such men as reject the Scriptures as
the authoritative proclamation of the
will of God, and reject also the way
of salvation through the mediation
and sacrifice of the Son of God as
revealed therein.” 2. That “the
church is a fountain of divine au
thority ; which, apart from the Holy
Scripture, may, and does savingly
enlighten men.” 3. That “Errors
may have existed in the original
text of the Holy Scripture, as it came
from its authors.” 4. That “many
of the Old Testament predictions
have been reversed by history, and
that the great body of Messionic pre
diction has not been and cannot be
fulfilled.” 4. That “Moses is not
the author of the Pentateuch.” 6.
That “Isaiah is not the author of half
of the book that bears his name.’
7. That “the processes of redemp
tion extend to the world to come in
the case of many who die in sin.”
8. That “sanctification is not com
plete at death,” that “the souls of
believers are not at their death at
once made perfect in holiness.”
The case is manifestly a serious
one. It would be, if Dr. Briggs
stood alone. But he does not stand
so. There are many who range
themselves by his side, men of re
pute, of piety, of power who may or
may not accept these eight points of
doctrine with him, but who after he
has accepted them are willing still
to accept him, as a personal believer
in Christ, as a preacher of the gos
pel, as a professor of dogmatic theol
ogy. And “they are they” who es
pecially trouble us.
There is an apparent tendency in
certain quarters to undervalue the
effect of habitual goodness, on the
ground that it becomes involuntary
and so ceases to be goodness at all.
We think there is some virtue left
in goodness which is the product of
persistent effort, and which repre
sents a series of victories, even
though it may now be more or less
involuntary. It is hardly possible to
keep our moral optics so continually
turned upon ourselves as to make
each and every seperate act the re
sult of a distinct approach to the
source of guidance and help. If
moral actions are to be valued ac
cording to tho amount of direct con
scious effort they represent, then the
training of children makes the great
est moral achievements impossible
to them. We do not believe that
self-conquest is ever so complete in
this world that the force of habit
may be depended upon with safety,
but we do believe that tho habit of
devotion is an important vantage
ground and the most welcome aid in
moments of weakness. By all means,
our piety should not degenerate into
mere routine, but he who has firmly
fixed tho habit of constantly ap
proaching tho throne of grace has a
moral bulwark which will stand him
in good stead in many a time of
storm.
Wo wish to place on record our
unqualified gratificatian upon rea d
ing these two sentences in Governor
Northen’s address to the legislature,
and we do so now that they may not
be forgotten : “No state or nation
can live long in power and influence
after it forgets God and abandons
righteousness. You should not pass
any law to which the seal of the
great Ruler of the universe cannot
be affixed.”
We most devoutly wish that this
might be the standard by which
every legislative act in our whole
country should be tried.
Bishop Benj. Tucker Tanner, of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church, has an article of nearly two
columns in The Independent, Nov.
24th explanatory of the defeat of the
Republican party in the late presi
dential election. He begins thus:
“And so the Republican Party
has suffered what seems to be an
Appomattox defeat. To use a strong
figure of speech, Providence may be
said to have literally kicked it out.
“ Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high
places!
How are the mighty fallen?
Toll it not in Gath.
Publish it not in the streets of Askelon;
Lest thedaughters of the Philistines rejoice
Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised
triumph. 2 Sam. 1: 19,20.
Worse than the defeat is what
seems the appearance that many
quadrenniums will pass before it will
be reinstated, if, indeed, it ever be.
The question of moment is, Why?”
The main reason assigned for de
feat is the neglect of the negroes, es
pecially, in political and social mat
ters. The Republican party pulled
down, or moved to the rear, the old
banner which had inscribed upon it,
“Humanity and Freedom,” and this
was the precursor of disaster. If
this cry is to be hushed, there is no
longer need for the Republican
party. According to Bishop Tanner
it is the business of the Democratic
party to ignore “Humanity and Free
dom,” to fight for spoils, to lie, and
to shed blood, and as that party is
in power there is no need for any
other. He closes with the pitiful,
but misapplied, wail of David over
the death of Jonathan.
“And so the Republican Party is
asked, ay, is commanded, to step
down and out.
“lam distressed for thee, my brother Jona
than,
Very pleasant hast thou been unto mo;
Thy loVb to me wus wonderful.
Passing the love of woman.
How are the tnightv fallen.
And the weapons of war perished.”
For how long? As wc read the
signs of the times, forever; or until
it repents and does its first work
over.”
Repentance is, indeed, in order.
But it is most devoutly hoped that
the Republican party may never
have a chance to do its first work
over.
The topic considered at a late
Ministers’ meeting in Chicago is be
ginning to attract the attention its
importance deserves. The facts em
bodied. in the following statement
show the value of the opportunities,
brought to our very doors, by the
presence of so many foreigners in
our larger cities and towns. Brought
under the influence of the gospel
and properly trained, they seem to
be most natural,and wopld,no doubt,
prove to be the most eflicent and ac
ceptable foreign missionaries among
the different nationalities they re
present.
The Chicago Ministers’ meeting
on the 14th inst., considered the top
ic, “The Foreign Population of Chi
cago.” Among the 385,000 Ger
mans, there are 1100 Baptists and
only 4500 evangelical Protestants.
There are five self-sustaining German
Baptist churches in the city, with
property valued at $90,500 with
an indebtedness of $21,000. The
Scandinavians number 105,000, and
are largelj’ Lutheran. The Swedes
have been very accessible to Bap
tists. There are nine Swedish Bap
tist churches in the city, with a mem
bership of 1500, and property valued
at |82,750. —Christian Standard.
God seems to be turning these
people into our hands and saying to
us, “Here are Chinese, here are
Turks, here are Indians, here are
Italians, here are Mexicans, here are
thousands of Negroes, take them,
use the means I have given you to
bring rhem to the knowledge of the
truth, they already speak the lan
guages needed to communicate with
their own people, they have habits
customs an<l sympathies in common
with them, prepare them for the
work and send them back to preach
the gospel in their own lands.”
Earnest work in this direction,
will produce rich fruits in our foreign
mission fields, before tho end of tho
present century.
There is no real tragedy except in
wrong and evil; and this tragedy of
evil and wrong is always double—
the harm wo inflict on others, tho
harm we suffer in ourselves. A re
cent incident in one of our Southern
cities strikingly illustrates this truth.
Two men waxed fiercely angry, and
one of them, dealing tho blow with
a gun, and the concussion of the fa
tal blow discharged it, sending swift
death to the man by whom it was
wielded. In the nature of thingsg
such are our relations to our fellow
mortals. If we smite others, it it
with loaded guns: there is no weapon
else for the hand of wickedness, an d
in killing we are killed.
UNLOVELY JOURNALISM.
For sometime we have been hav
ing an exhibition of unlovely journal
ism, which is shamefully suggestive
of too much of the “old Adam” in
the minds and hearts of certain
brethren. The world has come to
expect newspaper quarrels between
secular editors, for like a certain
quadruped, of which the nursery
rhyme tells, it is their nature to
‘‘light.” But better things are to be
expected of editors of religious jour
nals. Petty jealousies and spiteful
charges und insinuations should be
impossible among them. But alas I
We scarcely ever open our Baptist
organs hailing from Richmond and
Louisville that something most un
lovely is not read. The Virginian
and the Kentuckian for some reason
not wholly on the surface, have an
implacable spite towards each other,
and their subscribers have to be the
unwilling witness to a very unfra
ternal warfare. We do beg the
dear brethren to bury their ugly be
havior and cease their struggles for
each other's scaips.
Then there is an editor in Missis
sippi who perches himself up in his
observatory, and scans the horizon
as far as his glass will reach, to find
something wrong and heretical among
bis brethren. He has sent forth his
arrows (not always dipped in love)
against devoted servants of Christ
and the denomination, from Chicago
to South Carolina, and from Texas to
Virginia. Nqj is the Texas man
wholly faultlefS. He has shown him
self not unwilling to accept the chal
lenge thrown fit his feet, and para
graphs have disfigured his fair col
umns, which had been better un
written. Really brethren, is it not
time to stop? .Unlovely journalism
■s| not the bestrway to champion the
Master’s cause.
The Augusta, Ga., Chronicle, in a
recent issue, says: “It is a rather
singular thing, almost peculiar to
Augusta within our experience, that
our best speakers do not coinmit to
paper addresses which they are call,
ed on tojmake on special occasions.
It is impossible tor a newspaper to
get a manuscript in Augusta where
the speaker is one of our best ora
tors.” This fact indicates a practice
on the part of these speakers, in ac
cordance with the counsel of the
ablest teachers in rhetoric. The
books tell us that too slavish a de
pendence on the selection of words
and the preparation of sentences
before hand fetters the free and vigor
ous action of the mind, renders the
manner of delivery less natural, and
takes something of the freshness
from what is most original in the
orator. Is this one reason why tho
local eloquence of Augusta is of such
unusual and widening repute? Did
that city welcbme unawares a model
of natural oratory to her bosom, and
are her sons reaping from her hospi
tality an unexpected harvest of bet
terment ?
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Laeoyvillo, O.
Catarrh,.Heart Failure, Pa"
ralysls of the Throat
“1 Thank God and Hood’e Sarso*
partita for Perfect Health."
“ Gentlemen: For tho benefit of suffering hu.
inanity I wish to state a few facts: For several
years I have suffered from catarrh and heart
iatlure, getting so bad I could not work and
Could Scnroely Walk
I had a vary bad spell of paralysis of the throat
soma time ago. My throat seemed closed and
I could nos awnllow. Tho doctors said II
was caused by heart failure, and gave medicine,
which I took according to directions, but It did
not seem to do me any good. My wire urged
me to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla, telling mo of Mr.
JoJeph C. Smith, who had been
At Death’s Door
bnt was entirely cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla
After talking with Mr. Smith. I concluded <r
try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. When 1 had taken
two bottles I felt very much better. I have
continued ’akiiiglt. and am now feeling excel
lent. 1 thank God. and
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and my wife for my restoration to perfect
h<nlth.” Harvry Herd. Laceyville, O.
HOOD’S PILLS do not purge, pstn or gripe,
but net promptly, easily and efllclontly. Me.
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