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I’nilip and James They lived
to do much work in the Master's
vineyard. But they and their
brothers and sisters have all
passed away. Their descend
ants, however, m4y be found in
different parts of the State Bro.
Aquilla Mathews of this city, is,
I believe, the oldest living
grandson of the ventrable
preacher.
In reading these reminis
cences, many will be content if
they find in them entertaining
stories. My dear brethren and
sisters, the incidents themselves
are of very small importance. I
hope they may prove interesting
to you, but don’t forget that their
chief valua must be looked for in
the lessons which they teach.
We profess to have the same
religion that cheered- the hearts
and inflamed the zeal of the
fathers and mothers of our Bap
tist people. And it is the relig
ion that can be traced back
through nearly nineteen centu
ries to the day of Pentecost.
This religion began to be cor
rupted very soon. Even the
apostles found it necessary to
warn the churches against here
tics and anti-Christs. As time
passed on, the heresis increased,
till at length were developed the
mighty hierarchies of the East
ern and Western churches one
having its head at Constantino
pie, and the other at Rome.
But in spite of these colossal
powers, there were local church
es here and there throughout
Europe, who would not submit
to the supremacy of either Many
of these held to the faith once
delivered to the saints. Their
history is written in fire and
blood. They contended for an
open Bible, for soul liberty and
for the independence of the
churches. They repudiated the
union of Church and State, and
denied the usurped authority of
bishops and prelates. Mr reover,
they denied the doctrines of bap
tismal regeneration, of sacra
mental grace and of priestly ab
solution. But my space is run
ning short. I cannot mention
every item of faith that sepa
rated them from the Greek and
Latin churches. It must suf
fice to say, that in those dissent
ing and independent bodies of
Christi ms, we can find the senti
ments which to day distinguish
the Baptist denomination.
I have alluded to these facts
that we may more justly appre
ciate the self-denying labors of
our own Baptist fathers in the
State of Georgia. Animated by
their example, let us consider
whether we are doing our duty as
their successors. True, we have
grown from two ordained minis
ters and a hundred and fifty com
municants to more than a thou
sand ministers and three hundred
thousand communicants; but is
the work finished? Have we won
the victory? Remember, while
our churches have multiplied,
and our membership has grown
to a vast multitude, our State
population has increased in equal,
if not in a larger proportion. I
think brother Gibson’s statistics
would show that there are still
many thousands of people in
Georgia who seldom hear a Gos
pel sermon. No, the victory is
not won. Ask brother Gibson if
it is. Oh, our people need to
feel more deeply the claims of
Christ upon them for their money
and time, as well as for their
prayers.
563 S. Pryor St., Atlanta.
Baptist Position Stated and Contrast
ed—The Purely Local Idea.
BY G. A. LOFTON, D. D.
IV.
Organic ecclesiasticism was
never intended by Jesus Christ
to go beyond the local eeelesia, or
church; and official authority, or
jurisdiction, whatever its nature
or scope, was never intended to
go beyond the pale of this local
organism. Whatever the figura
tive or ideal meaning of the
word church in the New Testa
ment, as inferred from certain
passages, it is certain that the
New Testament nowhere dreams
of a general or universal church
organization, nor of general or
universal heads over God’s heri
tage, as comprehended under
Papal, Episcopal, Methodist and
other forms of church govern
ment. All legislative and judi
cial bodies in the form of church
assemblies and courts, whether
representative or not, are totally
at variance with the local self
governing eeelesia of Jesus Christ,
under the executive leadership
of its bishops and its deacons.
This position can be clearly
and unequivocally established by
the New Testament precept and
practice; and any assumption
that Christ left his people free
to choose any form of church
government or polity they saw
fit, under the guidance of the
Holy Spirit and Providence, be
cause no specific form is laid
down in the New Testament, is
wholly unwarranted by the prin
ciples and examples of revela
tion. The local organizations,
or bodies, of Christians, at Jeru
salem, Antioch, Corinth, Ephe
sus, or as comprehended in the
plural throughout Galatia, Judea
and other provinces, are called
the “church,” the “churches;”
and they are referred to and ad
dressed as organic institutions
having the functions of govern
ment and under obligations to
execute and subserve the law of
Christ. The officers of these
bodies, distinctly appointed of
God and designated as bishops
and deacons, are characterized
by their functions and qualitica
tions; and they are specifically
instructed as to their relations to
the churches and as to their ob
ligations and duties. The
churches are the recipients of in
spired documents from the
apostles; and when addressed, as
at Pnilippi, the saints are put in
the foreground, with the bishops
and the deacons in the rear of
ecclesiastical dignity and author
ity. In matters of discipline, as
at. Corinth, the Apostle Paul di
rects his inspired instructions to
the church, clothes it with judi
cial authority in the punishment
of one of its members, and never
by the slightest intimation or the
most remote inference, implies
(eeelesia in episcopo est} that the
church is in the bishop. In the
great matters of spreading the
gospel, of raising contributions,
of walking orderly, of obeying
the gospel and extending the
kingdom, the apostolic epistles
directly appeal to the churches;
and the ministry of these
churches are appealed to to di
rect, watch over, lead and gov
ern by teaching and example—
not lording it over God’s heritage.
The latest messages of Christ (if
John wrote Revelation last) were
directed to the seven sovereign
churches of Asia in their sep
arate local capacity, through
their respective messengers; and
if ever Christ had intended to
establish and exemplify an epis
copal diocese, or other form of
general organic church govern
ment, he would have here legis
lated it into existence, with, per
haps, the bishop of Ephesus as
the metropolitan see over the
province of Asia Minor!
Such, however, is not the case;
and such was never intended to
be the case. The eeelesia of
Christ, after the Greek model, is
a local, sell' governing body; and
Christ and his apostles so estab
lished and left it in the world to
take care of itself under Christ,
its sole head, under the New Tes
tament,its sole law,and under the
Holy Spirit, its sole guide. Un
der this form the first triumphs
of Christianity over the Roman
empire were achieved and there
is not another period, in the face
of such opposition, in which
Christianity was purer, simpler,
humbler and more mighty and
progressive in the truth and Spirit
of the Master. The gradually
developed-heresies of baptismal
regeneration, infant baptism and
episcopacy, finally hatched the
Papacy and the ecclesiastical
despotism of Rome; and on
through the dark ages came the
awful train of superstitious dog
mas and persecuting edicts,which
finally tilled the world with the
blackness and the blood which
naturally grew out of those early
and incipient innovations which
established the infant rite and
the episcopate, which overthrew
the democratic eeelesia of Christ
and put the clergy over the laity
in order to lord it over God’s
heritage. This was the work of
the devil in the enthronement of
Anti-Christ, the man of sin; and,
in this reversion of the order of
Christ’s government,Christianity
was set up backwards and thus
supremely dominant for twelve
of the blackest centuries the
world ever saw It all came
from the subversion of local
church sovereignty, from subor
dinating the church to the
ministry, from putting the
sacrament, the priest and the
church before Christ, and from
an appeal to State power to sus
tain episcopal and papal suprem
acy in forcing the conscience of
mankind into subordination to an
ecclesiastical despotism—a des
potism against which primitive
and liberty loving Christianity
then, as now, revolted.
The Papal idea is not dead yet.
Millions of Roman Catholics still
submit to its domination; and
there are modified forms of the
idea which dominate over mil
lions more. Protestant Episco
pacy, Presbyterianism, Method
ism, while recognizing the rep
resentative form of this idea,
nevertheless reverse the local
sovereignty ideal of Christ’s cc
clesia. These forms of eccle
siasticism legislate and adjudi
cate in all matters of religious
rule over the local bodies which
they call churches, but which are
more properly societies; and the
idea of “the church” among these
bodies is symbolized by—incor
porated in—their general organi
zation. The local church, what
ever its privileges, has no final
appeal in the decisions which set
tle doctrine and practice; and
what was intended to be the self
growing eeelesia of Christ —the
“pillar and ground of the truth,”
as at Ephesus—is but the subor
dinate unit in the organic em
bodiment of a general ecclesias
ticism to which it delegates its
liberty and its power. A local
Methodist society does not even
own the house it worships in,
and it has no power to choose the
pastor which oversees it; and the
pastor is at the mercy of a pre-
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. 1896.
ssing elder; and the presiding
elder is dominated by a bishop,
and the bishop is about as big as
the conference he presides over,
in many important particulars.
In fact, the college of bishops is
the supreme court which revises
the decisions of the conferences!
This is a sort of oligarchical
papacy.
The Baptist idea is the New
Testament idea—the idea of local
church sovereignty—and upon
this idea we have battled against
the despotism and persecution of
the ages. Thank God for the
great triumph of modern times,
in which, though great bodies of
Christians will submit to the
usurpation of this idea, no eccle
siastical powtr on earth can
force any man to submission
against his will. All slavery to
any form of despotic church gov
ernment, in this country, is vol
untary; and, thank God for the
fact that the Baptist idea has so
far penetrated and pervaded all
other systems, that ecclesiastical
despotism is impotent to apply
physical force anywhere to any
body. The Baptist idea was in
corporated, by Baptist influence,
in the constitution of our great
country; and outside of every
form of ecclesiastical despotism,
pure or modi lied, in this country,
every man may stand if he wants
to. The local idea—the self gov
erning independence of the New
Testament eeelesia — is on the high
road of progress; and the time
will come in this country, and
perhaps in all the world, when
even despotic ecclesiastical forms
will be merely formal and nomi
nal, and subordinate to the will
of the people within their folds.
It may be said that Baptists
have their general organizations,
such as associations, can ven
tions, conferences, councils,
boards, societies and the like,
outside of the local eeelesia. This
is true, but in matters of faith
and practice these general bodies
have no legislat ve or judicial
authority whatever. In such
matters they may advise, if
called upon, or if the general
good of the churches demand it;
but beyond advisory counsel, the
whole Baptist denomination con
vened in general assembly could
not legislate nor judge in the af
fairs of the smallest and weakest
Baptist church in the world.
Moreover, for the general promo
tion of benevolence, education
and the spread of the gospel,
Baptists organize in general
bodies and they co operate, as a
method of work; but even in this
sphere of organization and co
operation the churches repre
sentatively, or formally, control
the denomination and decide
upon its measures. We dare not
contravene the will and power of
our independent churches, in
their concurrent and general
wish; and there is not a general
organization, or plan of work, in
the name of Baptist, to day,
which, if necessary, the churches
in their expressed and concur
rent will cannot destroy. So of
our institutions, of whatever
name and character; they are
virtually and effectively depend
ent upon the will and power of
the local and sovereign churches,
whether directly represented or
not.
Finally, it may be asked:
“Where is your Scriptural au
thority for general bodies, out
side of a church, whether ad
visory or co-operative in the
work of the denomination?” In
the 15th chapter of the Acts of
the Apostles, we find when the
church at Antioch counseled
with the church at Jerusalem,
by messengers, with reference to
certain matters of doctrine; and
in matters of benevolence and
missions, we find where the
churches of Macedonia co oper
ated with the Apostle Paul.
Upon these precedents we base
the principle of conference and
co-operation among the churches;
and upon this principle we es
tablish our advisory and co oper
ative organizations as methods
of unity, fraternity and effort in
the promotion of the Gospel and
in the extension of Christ's king
dom. Hence our denominational
and moral bond of union; our as
sociations, conventions, societies,
boards, schools, colleges, papers
and other means of missionary,
educational and benevolent work.
This is the Baptist idea as im
plied in the conference and co
operation between the New Tes
tament churches in matters of
advice and methods of work, as
contradistinguished from all de
nominational organizations, or
heads, which exercise legislative
and judicial authority over God’s
heritage in matters of revealed
faith and practice. The Baptist
denomination is not“the church”,
but the voluntary union of sover
eign churches in matters of fra
ternity and effort; and we may
be compared to a long train of
electric cars, closely running to
gether, but each separate and
independent of the other, im
pelled by its own storage battery
and guided by its own motorman
and conductor, who do not dare
to lord it over the passengers
who own the cars. Romanism,
Methodism, Episcopacy, Presby
terianism and the like are long
trains of cars, inseparably
coupled together, pulled by one
engine and run by one conductor,
respectively to each train; and
the passengers who do not own
or control the cars they ride in
are completely or virtually
bossed by the conductor.
The Unity and Diversity of Chris
tlanity.
BY J. H. HALL, D.D.
IV.
DIVERSITY IN GIFTS.
“There are diversities of
gifts.” The churches consist of
a variety of distinct spiritual
gifts. This diverse endowment
might be assumed from analogy
—from the Spirit’s work in the
natural realm. See what variety
we have in matter —in soils, min
erals, metals, and precious stones;
then see in its larger views vales,
hills, prairies, mountains, rivers,
oceans, continents, hemispheres.
See the wonderful variety in
plant-life, from the violet to the
giant oak. Looking still higher,
we see the same variety from
the glistening butterfly to the
soaring eagle; and from the tiny
ant to the huge mastodon. Then
look up at nature above us—see
the erratic comets, sturdy
planets, glowing suns, vast con
stellations. See the variety in
the worlds dropping from his
creative fingers the diversity
in the infinite suns blazing from
his almighty hands. It is not
strange that such a Creator —the
Author of infinite variety around
us, should, in the higher spirit
ual realm, give us an Abraham
to believe, a Moses to legislate,
a David to sing, a Solomon to
build, a John to think and a Paul
to reason. It is not at all
strange.
Again, this diverse endow
ment is suggested by the creative
powers of the Spirit. A man,
ordinarily, has but one talent.
Hence, the proverb: “Let the
shoemaker stick to his last.” He
can do that work, and is at his
best there. Farmers and me
chanics, like poets, are born.
Writers are born; and about
them all there is a sameness, a
monotonous uniformity. Man
nerism attaches to our greatest
minds. But what marvellous
originality, creative resources,
boundless and never-ending fer
tility is in the mind of the Spirit.
The plenitude and variety of his
creative power appears in the
diverse spiritual endowments of
the churches. Even there is di
versity in the same calling
among preachers. Some are
practical, some experimental,
some doctrinal. They over
looked thist at Corinth, where
some members were for Paul,
some for A polios and some for
Cephas. They needed them all,
needed Paul for teaching, Apol
los for exhortation and Cephas
for conquest.
The Scriptures expressly teach
that the Holy Spirit endows the
churches with diverse gifts.
This fact is amply treated in the
twelfth chapter of Paul’s letter
to the Romans, and the same
chapter of his first letter to the
Corinthians.
DIVERSIFIED SERVICE.
Whether it be as a “garden,”
or “vineyard,” or “plantation”,
that Christianity is presented,
we see its diversified service.
There is variety in its culture:
“Having then gifts differing ac
cording to the grace that is given
to us, whether prophecy, let us
prophesy according to the pro
portion of faith; or ministry, let
us wait on our ministering; or he
that teacheth, on teaching; or he
that exhorteth, on exhortation;
he that giveth, let him do it with
simplicity; he that ruleth, with
diligence; he that sheweth mer
cy, with cheerfulness.” There is
variety in the grain fostered—
the graces grotvn: “Giving all
diligence, add to your faith
virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
and to knowledge temperance;
and to temperance patience; and
to patience godliness; and to god
liness brotherly kindness; and
to brotherly kindness charity.”
What diverse heavenly seeds,
and what royal growths ! Then
see the variety in its yield: “The
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, tem
perance.” What blessed, mani
fold products ! What visions of
industry and plenty-visions of
harvest fields and golden grain
appear in Isaiah’s prophetic con
ceptions of the reclaiming,trans
forming and productive influ
ences of Christianity: “The wil
derness and the solitary place
shall be glad for them; and the
desert shall rejoice and blossom
as the rose. It shall blossom
abundantly, and rejoice even
with joy and singing; the glory
of Lebanon shall be given unto
it, the excellency of Carmel and
Sharon; they shall see the glory
of the Lord, and the excellency
of our God.” This diversified
service of Christianity appears
in two general fields, depart
ments of church work —the in
ternal and external.
INTERNAL CHURCH LIFE.
Here we have diversity to meet
the demands of church growth,
edification, upbuilding “the
perfecting of the saints.” A
church is to build itself up. Its
gifts qualify it for this varied
service; they meet the demands
of internal development and
growth. A church is compared
to the body: “The whole body
fitly joined together and com
pacted by that which each joint
supplieth, according to the ef
fectual working in the measure
of every part, maketh increase
of the body unto the edifying c f
itself in love.” The body has
its head, hands, feet, eyes, ears,
etc. Again, a church is com
pared to a building: “Ye are
God’s building,’ Paul said to the
church at Corinth. There is a
variety of timbers in a house —
sills, posts, plates, rafters, etc.
And a church is compared to a
farm: “Ye are God’s husbandry.”
On the farm we see laborers,
stock, implements, culture, prod
ucts in variety. So is there va
riety in a church to promote its
growth.
Consider the varied service in
the inner life of a church, the
service by and in which it min
isters to itself. There is in it
hearing. How important is this
service. How helpful to the
messenger of God. See how at
tentive it is. Note its classes —
the silent, reporting, criticising
hearer. All are necessary. How
even the critical hearer helps.
See the service in faith. Hold
ing to its living Head, receiving
his wonderful words, how ii
sends bounding through the body
the currents of quickening life.
And see its varieties —the uni
form, intermittent, powerful.
The first is always confident, the
second sinks to rise in higher
grasps, the third reaches and
holds and moves the almighty
Arm. The latter often hears:
“O woman, great is thy faith,”
or, “Israel—for as a prince hast
thou power with God.” See also
the service of prayer. The heart
looking up, and talking or plead
ing with its Father. How it
brings down the smiles of God —
crowns church life with his ben
edictions ! It is diverse—stcret,
public, living. All are neces
sary. Living prayer is the soul’s
ceaseless sighings after God, its
breathings evermore in his Spirit.
It keeps perpetual fires on the
altar of the church. Then see
the service in song. How essen
tial it is. How it soothes, soft
ens, melts, uplifts, transports
the soul. Hear the swelling
music, many-voiced, rising from
the ancient courts of God -hear
the purer, simpler, sweeter
strains rising from the temples
of ransomed hearts. Melody is
a vehicle of the Spirit—on it
Truth moves forth,winning many
and mighty victories. Now in
softest strains, as on gracious
arrows, truth floats into the .soul
—now in swelling anthems, as on
gorgeous chariots, it storms and
overwhelms the soul. Some of
the songs of Zion will never be
forgotten. They are associated
in memory with the birth of the
soul. Also we see the service
of work. Working members are
indispensable. On every hand
there are calls for this service
in a church. Visiting, comfort
ing, helping, teaching— “doing
good” like the divine Master.
This work is not confined to the
strictly religious. Money-mak
ing is necessary in a church—the
church needs money. This gift,
like other gifts, is from God.
Paul is speaking to the member
whom God has endowed with the
gift to make, and who has made
money, when he says: “ He tl at
giveth let him do it with sim
plicity.” Then look at the all
important, exalted service of
preaching. This is the chief
gift. It makes the pastor, who
serves in “feeding the church of
God”, the steward who serves
in faithfully dispensing the Word
of life. This servant of Christ
and the church is specially called
to and anointed for his work of
preaching. The doctrines, or
dinances and duties of Christian
ity are his themes. These afford
endless variety in pulpit minis
trations. This variety meets all
the spiritual needs in the unfold
ing life of a church.
These gifts, with all other en
duements found in a church, are
to serve the body in its internal
growth in development, knowl
edge, training, devotion. This
inner service, this self-growth,
prepares for outer service, for
growth in missionary efforts.
Fora church to stop with the in
ner service- confine and restrict
its service to itself, would be
suicidal, would be spiritual
death. The inner life must have
an outer life. It must “go into
all the world.”
Christian England laughed
when Sydney Smith sneered at
William Carey as “a consecrated
cobbler,” going out on a fool’s
er j and to convert the heathen.
Carey died, aged seventy-three
years. He was visited on his
death bed by the Bishop of India
the head of the Church of Eng
land in that land, who bowed his
head and invoked the blessing of
the dying missionary. The Brit
ish authorities had denied to
Carey a landing place on his first
arrival in Bengal; but when he
died the government dropped all
its flags to half-mast, in honor of
a man who had done more for
India than any of her generals.
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Some Valuable Books.
One of the freshest and most sugges
tive books which has fallen under my
observation is one recently issued by
Silver, Burdett & Co., the title of which
is “Doctrine and Life.” It is written by
Prof. Geo. B. Stevens, Ph D., D.D , of
Yale. In fifteen chapters the author
considers the cardinal doctrines of the
Christian religion in their connection
with practical life. The work is more
devotional than didactic, and yet it is
fresh and stimulating throughout. The
author blends most happily our concep
tions of righteousness and holiness—the
outwardexpre-*sion of Christian conduct
and the inner realization of spiritual
life. He shows that the fundamental
doctrines of Scripture are not only a
great treasure to the mind and heart,
but are a guide for the regulation of
conduct. The treatment is somewhat
new, but is eminently practical through
out.
The reader will find himself, now and
then, perhaps, dissenting from the views
of the author, but he will follow him
with increasing interest from start to
finish
Anson D F. Randolph & Co. have
issued a series of books from the pens of
the ablest English divines which afford
to one, in a most striking way, the com
pass of Scripture history and doctrine.
There are seventeen small volumes in all,
which are presented as brief biographies
or histories. The titles of these charm
ing books are: “Abraham; His Life and
Times; ’ “Isaac and Jacob; Their Lives
and Times.’ “Moses; His Life and
Times;” “Joshua; His Life and Times;”
“Samuel; His Life and Times;” “Da
vid; His Life and Times;” “Solomon;
His Life and Times;” “The Kings of Is
rael and of Judah;’’ “Elijah; His Life
and Time-;" “Gideon and the Judges;”
“Ezraatd Nehemiah; Their Lives and
Tunes;” “Isaiah; His Life and Times;”
“Jeremiah; His Lifeaml Times;” Dan
iel; His Life and Times;” “The Minor
Prophets;” “Paul; His Life and Times;”
and "Jesus Christ, the Divine Man; His
Life and Times.” One will see at a
glance how such a series of works, prop
erly treated, would comprehend the
great truths and principles embodied in
sacred Scripture. The graphic pictures
afforded of the different periods of
Scripture history enable one to return to
the private study of his Bible with
sharpened zest The books are thor
oughly orthodox throughout.
One of the chief advantages afforded
by such a series of works is, the abun
dant illustrative material which they
offer to the preacher and Sunday school
teacher. B. F. Riley.
Shadow and Substance. By Rev.
Geo. C. Needham. American Baptist
Publication Society, Philadelphia and
Atlanta Price 75c.
This book supplies, with not entire
satisfaction we confess, but as much so
as has ever been done, a need. It deals
with the Tabernacle and its symbolism.
The appointments are accurately and
very intelligently stated. One gets a
clear view of the various fixtures and
material arrangement. At times Mr.
Needham shows a familiarity with the
symbolism that is not justified. Many
of these can be but conjectured and
should be stated with becoming modesty
of conviction At the same time the
volume is of great value.
Conflict and Conquest. By Rev.
Geo, C. Needham. American Baptist
Publication Society, Philadelphia and
Atlanta. Price 50c.
This is a well written account of the
conversion of a Roman Catholic priest,
who was locate 1 in an Irish parish. The
steps in the progress of his mind toward
truth are vividly set forth. The en
forced departure of the priest and his
subsequent life in America are all of in
terest It might prove very helpful to
Romanists in clearly presenting the
evangelical way of salvation.
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