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2 Qv,r 'pulpit. REFUSING AND CHOOSING. A SERMON PREACHED BY / -\X f W *W 'ISr hr T7 ' ' / 'l- Z'-- A ■ 1 LfJh _,/ fc / " ll * J* Rev. 'l'. \V O’KELLEY, at Ghii i in, Ga. By faith, Moses when ho xvas < ome to yenr*' refirset! to bo called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; chooshilt rather to sutler afllie lions with the people ol God. than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, lleh. 11: 24:2'. The most prominent trait, in some men's charm ter is their otter lack of deep-seated conviction. They are mere driftwood, floating with every changing current: atoms driven by the weakest winds. They don’t know what they be lieve; have no clear-cut conceptions of duty. Religion or no teligion,—it is all one with them. They have no rule of action, except a very flexible one, which can be bent in any direction to get the greatest amount or pleasure or profit out of the present. They arc often re garded as successful; and win a name for always being on top of the waves beneath which so many sink. But they keep on top, “not so much for their skill in swimming, as by their lightness in floating.” Moses diii not belong to this cork variety of man. He had weight enough to sink, anil faith enough to be lieve that he would rise the stronger for his experience in the deep. His faith was followed by action, the certain re sult of all genuine faith. Just how faith is born in the heart God alone knows, for He is its author; but there comes a time in the life of him who has it, when it stands foith in bold est outlines, like the rugged granite cliffs on the mountain side. Little is recorded of Moses from the time he was taken from bis ark of bull-rushes, till Hie day' he left I’hai aoh’Syeourt. We are simply told that he was brought up as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ami was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. But when he was come to years, a holy conviction seized him. His entire being was swayed with a great purpose. The momentous question, whether he would be an Egyptian prince or an Hebrew deliverer, had to be set tled once for all. It was the crisis of his life: but his heroic faith turned him in the right direction. These crises come in all our lives. Then a single step may mean usefulness, honor, heav en anil glory; or shame, dishonor, hell and misery. There comes a time when we must decide for- God and the right, and begin our heavenward career; or lie left in the waters of the whirlpool to be sucked into the eternal deep. I tremble for those that have come to years before whom life and death have been set with the command to choose; who feel the right, and know they ought to choose it: yet are dallying with opportunity, and putting off the day of decision. It may be that some of you to-day have come to the parting of the roads. | Here the nail-torn hand of the Crucified Christ is pointing to the gates of the eternal city; here also the black hand of j death is pointing to the gloomy gates of | hell. Which way will you go? Poor fallen mortals are so weak that they must choose when Jesus graciously bends to help. There is no choosing life except in response to the Spirit’s call. How hazardous then, to resist the Spirit and to stifle conviction. The saddest words I have ever read are those spoken by Esau: "For ye know how that afterwards when he would have in herited the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though ho sought it carefully with tears.’’ How many have said, “there was a time when 1 felt that 1 could be saved; but now 1 no longer feel it. Those who wish to become the servants of the Lord must learn to do two things—refuse and choose. These they cannot do by human strength and wisdom; but by faith in the Son of God; for they must refuse that which they would naturally choose, and choose that which they would naturally refuse. First, Let us examine Moses’ “refus ing." At one stroke he severed every tie that bound him to the Egyptian throne. He deliberately put aside the brightest prospects of the highest worldly honor. He was on the road to the throne; was almost certain to be Pharaoh’s successor. Yet when con vinced of his duty, he bravely and gladly left guildcd palace halls for a common bondman's lot. He that would not trample diadems under his feet and throw sceptres to the wind for the sweet privilege of trusting in Jesus, is not fit to be a Christian. Few have the opportunity of renouncing the world on such a grand scale as Moses; and yet Satan holds out to every one some kind of kingdom. From the loftly mountain top of temptation, he shows each one the very things that his heart desires, and says, “all these things will 1 give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” Here is the rub with many who would be saved. They cannot refuse the princely offers of the world. (Many young people are afraid to come out boldly on the Lord's side, lest their standing in society may be injured. Many ambitious youngj men stifle their convictions to keep from blighting their prospects of rising in the world. Who would want any better society than God's holy angels, and his blood washed children? Who can hope to rise any higher, than to the exalted position of a son of God? In the face of these immortal prospects, many are led on by the delusions of the devil to sell their souls for what they I consider a kingdom; but it proves to be a burning, barren descit, in which they are scotched and starved. In the cloud of uncertainty ahead they imagine they see the beautiful rainbow of promise; but. soon they realize that it is the death winged lightening that forever blasts their brightest hopes. Moses refused this alluring offer of the world when there was the strongest earthly reason for clinging to it, Pharaoh’s daughter had saved his life and made him the child of her sympathy; she had given him the best possible education. It would have been no more than common gratitude on his part to regard her wishes and strive to honor her. How many would have listened to such plaus ible arguments, and ignored the solemn voice of duty! Gratitude to friends and desire to please them are admirable, when they do not conflict with plain duty to God; but when they become barriers to keep us away from the Sav ior, their native sweetness is trans formed into the tires of hell. The strongest, tenderest, cords that bind us to the loved ones of earth, must be broken like contemptible, rotten threads, if they would draw us away from Christ. “He that loveth father or mother more ' than me is not worthy of me; and he ; that loveth son or daughter more than !me is not worthy of me.” If you would come to Jesus, you must not even listen to the arguments of the world. Let your heart’s affections flow out to Him like the rising waters of agieat itvci,timt 1 1 must be Jesus though the earth sink beneath your feet and the heavens melt above your head. ‘l’ll goto Jesus though my sin Hath like a mountain rose; 1 know his courts I’ll enter in, Whatever may oppose.” Moses might have been tempted to wait awhile, lie could acknowledge in his heart what he ought to do, but postpone the public avowal of his purpose till he should come to the kingdom. Then lie would be able to do more for his people. But that was not the sort of conviction Moses had. Ho would enter into no partenership with the devil in the hope of doing greater good. His motto was to obey the voice of God as soon as he heard it, regardless of the consequences So many say they expect to be Chris tians as soon as they get into condition to be of some service to the cause. What a low notion of Christianity to think that some worldly preparation must be made for it as for a business ora profession! What a fearful mis take to think we can be better Chris tians after wo have gotten control of more of the world! The more we get of the world without Christ the more we are under the influence of the world. Instead of controlling, we get con trolled. You want to wait until you can hold out? Don’t want to be a travesty on re ligion like so many professing Chris tians’? Who ever became stronger by letting his life blood How longer? Who ever grew healthier by letting the fatal poison spread more widely and strike more deeply into his system? All such arguments are the devil’s veils with which he is blinding your eyes to the truth. “To day if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.” He that waits is courting damnation. ' Just as lam, and waiting not T" rid my soul of one dark blot, ToThee whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God! 1 come, 1 come!” He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, for he was not her son. He would not live a falsehood. God had spoken to him; He knew his duty, and that was the end of all argu ment. He could not as an honest man, do anything but refuse. Oh that God would grant us grace to do what we know is our duty! Moses turned his back upon the throne, because it was reeking with in iquity. He knew that however proudly it might stand, it was a doomed throne. O ye that place your hopes on things that are sinful, know that the Almighty will destroy them. Our God is holy, and will consume with avenging tire everything unholy. Renounce the world with all its fasci nations, for the fashion of this world passeth away. Second. Let us consider his choosing. He refused royalty, and chose servitude: laid aside the sceptre, and chose the yoke of bondage. By what strange logic could lie have reached such on un reasonable conclusion? We may be sure that he did it, not by logis, but by faitfi. Who would think of giving up a good comfortable home to live in a miserable hut? Who would exchange a vigorous healthy body for one racked with pain, and wasting away with dis ease? He chose to suffer afflictions, not for afHiction’s sake, but for Christ’s sake. It was a pleasure to do the will of God, even at the price of suffering. With the consciousness of obedience there came a higher, holier pleasure than he could have ever known by dinn ing to Pharaoh's tottering throne. He was one of God’s people, and wanted to share their sufferings. He that claims to be a Christian, and does not find it in his heart to choose the common lot of Christians, may well doubt his sincerity. Those who love God are bound together THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15,1894. by the strong tie of Jesus' blood. The same spirit lives and burns in all their hearts. When one suffers, they all suffei: when one rej ices, they all re joice. He chose to suffer, because his God-given faith looked beyond the suf fering to the waiting triumph. As he caught the spirit of Christ to come, he knew that those who suffered with him would also reign with him. Like the Savior “who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despis ing the shame," he chose to suffer afflic tions as a sort of mournful prelude to the swilling strains of joy w hose heav enly harmonies the ear of faith already heard, lie was willing to face the threatening cloud that lie might be bathed in the life-giving waters that fell from its awful darkness. He would gladly climb the rugged mountain steeps that, from a loftier summit, he might catch’a broader, brighter vision of the coming glory of God. Faith saw the pillar of cloud and lire that would guide the people of God in a safe exo dotis from the land of slavery to the land of freedom. “For our light afflic tion, which is but for a moment, work eth for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” He chose to suffer rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, bin has its pleas ures in which the carnal heart delights to revel. There is no use to tell a sin ner that he does not enjoy his sins, for he knows better. There is a pleasure in it, however low brutish, or hellish. It is true that the unregenerated do some times dread the consequences of sin, and tn mblu at. the thought of approaching doom; yet when they have driven the solemn thoughts from theil minds, they enter into sin with a keener relish than before. It. is idle to say that an unre generated man would not have eagerly seized the opportunity of becoming king of Egypt.; and it is false to argue that the unconverted do not regaid it. their highest pleasure to revel in their favor ite vices. The great mistake men make is, in thinking carnal pleasure the only pleasure They imagine that Chris tianity is a gloomy prison house in w hich there is neither freedom nor joy. They don’t know that there is a joy as far above the carnal as the heavens are above the earth. They don’t know that they are running wild over the light of a glow-worm, while eternal sunshine is streaming forth from on high. Oh that God would open their eyes and cause them to look up! Moses chose to suffer; “rather than en joy the pleasures of sin for a season.” He not only desired the highest pleas ure, but that which would endure the longest. The time element should have great weight in ail our decisions. But how heavy in the scale should the thought of eternity be! This is the fatal rock on which so many vessels are wrecked,and so many souls are eternally lost. Let the solemn words sink into your hearts: “the pleasures of sin for a season.” The short season of life is no more to eternity, than the flash of a match to the eternal blazing of the sun; no more than the tick of a clock to the ceaseless cycles of God. Sin is pleasant? Oh yes; but it is the dreadful drug that lulls, delights, kills and damns. The warmpth and glow will soon be kindled into the flame that burns and torments forever. The sweet strains of music will soon die away, and the funeral dirge of the second death will take theii- place. “The pleasures of sin for a season,” that is the solemn strain to which your feet are keeping time in the downward march to hell. Let the awful thought stir your slumbering souls, and bring you trembling and peni- Jent to the Lamb of God. ASKED AND ANSWERED. BY DR. C. E. W. DOBBS. Dear Di:. Dobbs : 1. Is ihere any conflict between the Mosaic account of creation and modern science? 2. Does Genesis 3: 15 refer to Christ? d. it. f. 1. This question involves very many subordinate questions, which must first be determined. Some years ago when the newspapers were tilled with flippant paragraphs about the “mistakes of Moses,” we wrote an article for one of our Baptist monthlies, in which it was sought to be shown that the Mosaic account, as giver, in Genesis, was marvellous ly in accord with the confirmed reve lations of modern geology. Nothing has yet developed in the progress of modern science to change the opin ion then expressed. In that article we substantially said: The Bible begins with the announcement that, “in the beginning"—first of all things in which we have interests— God created the heavens and the earth. It does not tell us in what year, for untilthen there was noth ing by which time could be marked. W e are then told in what order things were created, and that God pronounced them all “good.” They were just what God designed that they should be. His work was per fect. For five “days” God carried on His work of creation, while there was no human being to take account of it. On the sixth “day” he made the animals, all that move upon the earth, the Hying things excepted, and finally, on the same day, appar ently after making all the rest, and as the crowning work of his hand, he made man. For years scholars and doubters have been trying to see if there was not some error in this account, and if it were not possible that some other order had been ob. served, or that all these things had not come from one germ or seed, and simply grown, or developed, or evolved. But all their efforts have failed. They have not been able to show by any actual scientific tests that the account here given is not in accord with the proven revelations of nature. We find in one of our re ligious weeklies of late date an ad mirable re-statement of this whole question. The Examiner says : There is a whole library of books on the relations of the account of the creative week in Genesis to the discoveries and conclusions of modern science. Very 7 little of this literature has any value. Most of those who have undertaken to write on the subject were ignorant either of science or of Genesis; some were ignorant of both. All schemes of “reconciliation” or “harmony” are open to suspicion ; for, even if the authors information was exact at the time of writing, the progress of Biblical and natural science soon made his work comparatively value less. This may te said, as a general re sult of these numerous attempts at reconciliation. A very remarkable general correspendence has been shown between the narrative in Genesis and the facts and theories of physical science. Men of high scientific attainments, such as the late Professor Dana, hate not hesi tated to pronounce this correspon dence minutely accurate. It used to be objected that Genesis was at variance with science in making the creation of light precede the crea tion of the sun, but modern science confirms this order and declares that light existed ages before our solar system assumed its present form. Often it has happened that scientific pFogress has removed old objections, but it sometimes raises new difficul ties, and it is not wise to press too hard the theoryjof a minutejeorres pondence between science and reve lation in our present imperfect ap prehension of both. A general correspondence is admitted on all hands, and this is too striking to be rationally explained as a happy guess. The object of the narrative in Genesis is not to teach astronomy or geology or biology, but that by faith we may “understand that the worlds have been framed by the Word of God, so that what is seen bath not been made out of things which do appear,” The last word has not been spoken for either revelation or nature, by their students and interpreters ; and in our present imperfect stage of knowledge, nobody has a right to say that either contradicts the other. No doubt a fuller knowledge of both will show their correspondence to be more exact. God’s word’s can not contradict each other, and that written in his world must agree with that written in his Book, when both are rightly known. 2. Yes; otherwise there would seem to be no meaning at all worthy of so solemn an occasion. Compare Paul’s evident allusion in Rom. 16: 20. Dr. Conant well remarks that if we admit that in the transaction narrated in this chapter there is any thing worthy of the divine and hu man parties to it, we must recognize here something more than the instinc tive enmity between man and the ser pent kind. It is evident that there is a higher application of the words, which has gained for this verse the title of the ‘Trotevangelism,” or the “First Gospel.” It is certainly signi ficant that the promise is to the seed of She who had been foiled, ill the first encounter with the wily enemy of the race, should triumph over and subdue him in her offspring,” p -gracious offset to the sentence t>f in the next verse ! Adam Clark has this just and forcible note: “The ad dress is not to Adam and Eve, to Eve alone; and it was in consequence of this purpose of God that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin ; this, and this alone, is what is implied in the promise of the seed of the wo man bruising the head of the ser pent.” Was John Wesley ever a Metho dist preacher. s. l. h. Mr. Wesley was a priest of the Church of England, and continued to be until his death. Yet he was the founder of “Methodism, ’’ and in that sense he may be regarded as having been a “Methodist preacher.” In England Methodism had no separ ate denominational existence until after Air. Wesley’s death, which occurred in 1791. Mr. Wesley had organized “societies” and placed them in charge of preachers. He had al so organized a “conference," which met annually and was clothed with substantially the same powers now exercised by Methodist conferences. After Air. Wesley’s death the breach became gradually wider between his “societies" and the established church, and the result was inevitable. A separation took place, not by any formal action, but by the gradual trend of events. In England the Alethodist churches are known as “Wesleyans." They do not have “bishops.” Air. Wesley consented to the formation of the “Methodist Episcopal church” of the United States after the revolutionary war,and in 1784, he sent over from England Dr. Coke with instructions to organ ize the new church. Coke and As bury became the first “bishops,” though Wesley himself called them “superintendents.” Being only a priest he could not, of course, ordain Coke a bishop, and episcopal ordina tion could not be obtained from the English bishops. Hence Methodist “bishops” are such only by courtesy A GOOD BUILDING UP A of a run-down system can be 1 accomplished by the use of Dr. T | Pierce's Golden Medical Dis-1 covery. 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Regular Baptists hold to strict communion because they believe it to be according to the New Testa ment. There cannot be the shadow of a doubt as to the primitive cus tom. Unquestionably baptism was the initial act in the formal Christ ian life, following immediately upon the heart acceptance of Jesus as Christ and Saviour and Lord. Such baptized believers formed the churches organized by the apostles and their co laborers! These churches as thus constituted of bap tized believers (professedly) only kept the ordinances they were taught. The Lord’s Supper was among the ordinances delivered to the churches. Here would seem to be an impregnable rock on which to rest strict communion. Among oth ers see these passages: Matt. 28: 18-20; Acts 26: 41, 42; 8: 12 ; 20: 7 ; Rom. 6: 1-5 ; 1 Cor. 11: 2-23. When a man is ordained to the Baptist ministry he accepts the Baptist views as to the ordinances. If he afterwards finds himself not in har mony with those views, consistency and common honesty would seem to require him either to leave the de nomination for some more congenial church connection, or to preserve silence on the points in question. Certainly he should not openly tram ple on the cherished principles and practices of the denomination. If he persists in so doing, there would appear to be only one consistent course for his church; it should with draw fellowship. How long did Adam and Eve re main sinless in Eden ? n. j. k. The Scriptures do not give us any information on this point, and it is folly to speculate concerning it. Rather let us be concerned to reach the heavenly Eden, from which the redeemed go out nevermore. A matter of choice:—whether to suf fer, uninterruptedly with a cough or buy, a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup and cure it. SOUTH’gEORGIA CONVENTION- Dear Index.—l have been re spectfully asked by my friends to write something about the South Georgia Convention,j but as 1 am disposed to let things, worthy within themselves, show by their own works their true merits, I have hesi tated to write on this subject. But the cry is repeated, “Let people know what you are doing.” We have nothing to boast of ; that is within ourselves, only God for Christ’s sake, has deigned to allow us through the death, merits and resurrection of His dear Son to be come heirs by faith |of eternal life. (He that believes has eternal life.) Has put this hope in these earthen vessels; and that these lively hopes in us are making many of us be lieve that His command to “Go preach my gospel to every creature from the rivers to the ends of the earth,” is meant for us. Do you think, in this, we are pre sumptions ? God chose to show His strength through the weak ones. And we think this is the reason the little insignificant wiregrass Geor gians are not overlooked by a kind Providence. Well, what are we doing? Nothing to boast of. For should we invest all of our time, means and ability, in this one object, we should even then have nothing to boast of. We would still only be unprofitable servants. Only doing reasonable service to God who giveth us all the benefits of life, and has a perfect right to expect this much of us. “Ye are not your own! ye are bought with a price even the prec ious blood of Jesus.” Some of us are interested in one part of the one big field (The world is the field) and some in another. I know of churches in our bounds that are supporting a missionary on foreign fields. I know of two indi viduals in one little wiregrass church who will support one mis sionary in China this year, and I know one church member who was converted less than three years ago who has a representative in Alexico whom he pays regularly twenty-five doallrs per month. He, the young convert, cannot go himself to tell the glad tidings of great joy, but he sup ports another in his stead. When brother Davis, of Greens- t The Largest Retail CLOTHIERS in the South. I PRICE TO ALL.^' - ') 9 . . MACON, . . . ATLANTA, . . W 552-554 Cherry Street. 39-4« Whitehall— 33-34 S. Broad. boro, died and urother Powell c tiled on our people for help to sustain the men who bad been paid by brother Davis, one of our wiregrass sisters sent him two hundred dollars (so I have been told by a preacher.) But in the olden times “Jesus was sitting over by the treasurer" and He said of the poor womans two mites, “She has given more than they all.” And to-day I believe He is still watching the treasury —still seeing whether our gifts are offered “in faith,” still approving or disapproving as to wl.at and how We give. And lam afraid to say a single word about ■ wba j we are trying to do, lest I boast o‘, what I really ought to be ashamed of. Alany among us are trying to ad vance “His kingdom on earth” but even the very best in our midst are not more than “playing at missions.” People from a distance have seen mines of wealth in the yellow pine timber in our section. We see mines of wealth, for God’s glory, in the natives of South Georgia. And to ' day we plan and work for the de velopment mental and spiritual, of our own people. Alany are interested in this work, but no one in our midst will equal Rev. P. A. Jessup. He has don » more to build up the educational and spiritual interest of this section-of I country than any man in it. He, I brother Jessup, can endure more [ hardness as a good soldier of Christ I than any one of my knowledge. He will endure more censure, more hardships and more self-denials than any man I know. He will suffer more to shield an antagonist from deserved public censure than any one I am acquainted with. He is not a perfect man, we don't grow them down here, but I think he will balance well with the best workers in the State. If you favor this with a place in your columns, I may possibly write you again. Mrs. .W. Ashburn. Eastman, Ga., Feb 3rd, ’94. "MISSIONARY DAY” AT THE SEMI NARY. The mainjtopic for the day was “Central Africa.” Brother L. M. Rice, of North Carolina read the principal paper, in which, after outlining the physical features of the country, he gave an account of the mission work. A few para graphs are selected with the hope that they may stimulate interest in that portion of the world’s great harvest field. “Victoria Nyanza, 4000 feet above sea level, is one of the most beautiful of inland seas, and in size is second only to our own Lake Superior. Numberless is lands, strangely beautiful, dot its surface, while its 750 miles coast’ make an impression upon the mind of the traveler not soon to be forgot ten. Here a level plain stretching away from its border; now a high hill looming up, or bare cliff tower ing over its waters brink like some huge monster, again, a wooded slope stretching away in the dis tance ; all these together with the numerous inlets lend a diversity, snd beauty ot scenery unsurpass ed. “ * * * The position of wo man is extremely degraded. She is the slave of the lord of the household. Polygamy is universal. A strapping young savage works diligently till he has obtained a sufficient amount of valuables to invest in wives, and then he gives himself up to hunting, gambling and a good time. His wives are compelled to labor for his support. While they toil, this lord of the woods enjoys his pipe and looks on to see that the work progresses. As to law, there is no such thing unless it be that “might makes right.” “The rights of property are un known. Human life is held in no esteem. Upon a tribe’s being over come in war all the men are put to death while the women and child ren are enslaved. “There is the universal belief in a great God who is father of all. But the conception is that this be ing is so far above them that they have nothing to do with him, and he nothing to do with them. All believe in good and evil spirits, though the latter receive the greater honor. Every lake, river and mountain is thought to be the home of some one of these spirits. “ * * * Uganda is as we have said, a kingdom a little above the ordinary, though here as every where, superstition, cruelty and fetisch worship prevail. Slavery and polygamy are rife. * * * The climate is moderately healthy. Here the European can with care, live in perfect health. The soil is very fertile, yeilding abundant crops of potatoes, beans, tomatoes, rice and various other vegetables of the temperate zone. The na tives are well dressed and show many works of superiority. “ * * * At present a rail road, to be completed in ’94 is be ing built around the falls on the Congo. When this work has been accomplished thousands of miles of navigable tributaries will be opened, and the heart of Africa laid bare to the trader and the mis sionary.” The trader will go in. How many missionaries will go? Look, reader on the cover of this Journal and see what Southern Baptists are doing forthe millions of Africa. What are you doing? All of Africa is open to the gospel. The concluding words of the paper were, “The prophecy of the Psalmist is fulfilled ‘Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands un to God.’ Upon his people, God lays a mighty work ; can we afford to disregard‘the beckoning hands.’ ” U ■ lii CURES WHEHE ALL ELSE FAILS. EJ Best Cough byrup. TMteß Good. Use In time. 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