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2 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. Selected. the Any publication mentioned in thia de partment may be obtained of the American Baptist Publication So ciety. 93 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga When prices are named they include postage. The Editors of the Christian Index desire to make this column of service to their readers. They will gladly answer, or have answered, any ques tions regarding books. If you desire books for certain lines of reading, or desire to find out the worth or pub lisher of any book, write to them. 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. 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