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BANNER & BAPTIST.
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“Holy Bible,—Book Divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine.”
' JESSE NI. WOOD, Editor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA:
Thursday, July 26, 1860.
Our terms of Subscription, $2 00
per Annum, always in advance.
For our terms for advertising, see Ist
column of Ist page.
A Special Request.
Our friends will please remember that
Bro. Wood, the Editor, is not the Book-
Keeper, and also that he is frequently ab
sent ; therefore, all business letters or ar
ticles, to receive proper attention, should,
in all cases, be directed to the “ Banner
& Baptist.” Will you not remember
this? . .
stAw kon eL*
We learn that there will be an extra
train from Kingston to Rome, Sabbath
morning, to accommodate persons coming
down the State Road, and all others who
may wish to attend the exercises on Sab
bath morning st Rome. A train will also
come out from Rome, Sabbath evening, so
as to connect with the up and down trains
cn the State Road. From all the indica
tions there will be a large meeting, and
Christians should pray that it may be a
good and glorious one. r.
PASTORAL TALK—No. 41.
Dear Reader:
Over a large belt of country, God has
withholden the rain, and drought prevails.
Famine and suffering threaten the poor
and afflicted. Even the rich are alarmed
for the safety of man and beast. How
solemn it makes a Christian feel to think of
death and misery in this free and usually
prosperous and happy country 1 The Al
mighty has a purpose to accomplish. The,
people have become proud, haughty and
forgetful of the mercies of God, and he in
tends to humble them.
But there is a question for Christians,
and all philanthropists, to settle. That is,
who is to take care of the poor, who, with
out help, must suffer, or even perish? It
appears that our heavenly Father is about
to afford an opportunity to practice Chris
tianity, and for the world to see who loves
Christ, and who, like. Christ, will do good
to the poor.
Loved Christians, see well to it that you
do your duty. But especially should chria
tiuns pray, that temporal judgments may
be sanctified to the spiritual good of the
people; that the people may humble them
selves under the mighty hand of God that
their souls may be saved. Better for us
to live in famine, misery and wretchedness
a life-time, and then get home tn heaven,
than live in luxury and prosperity, and, at
last, go down to hell. O, Christian, it is a
time for prayer and devotion to God.
The Future of the “Banner" and our
Arrangements.
We have already announced that, at the
commencement of the second volume of
this paper—on the sth of October next—
we would enlarge it, by adding what will
be equivalent to about three whole columns
of reading matter.
It is our settled determination, Gori being
our helper, to make the Banner & Baptist
tully the equal of any religions paper, North
or South, East or West; to make it a
straight-forward, firm, fair, sterling ex
ponent of sound Baptist doctrines.
It is with no little pleasure that we now
announce to our numerous readers that
Eider 11. C. HORNADY,
ot Americus, Georgia, one of our corres
ponding Editors, will become interested
with us in our enterprise, and assume the
duties of Associate Editor on the Ist of
September next, at which time he will re
move to this city.
Prof. A. S. WORRELL,
who is also connected with our interest,
will remove to thia city the first .ffSep
tember, aud our readers a ill also have, oc
casionally, the pleasure of perusing the pro
ductions of his vigorous pen.
In addition to this we expect to have
able contributors from all portions of the
country, as we have most fortunately had
heretofore, and some that have never y<t
written for the Banner.
We also design, with the commencement
of next volume, to puldish weekly a Secu
lar Column, giv lag iu a condensed form all
the important foreign and domestic news,
report of the markets, Ac., An*.
Thus you see, friends, what a rich store
awaits sou! Aud while we are doing so
much to serve you. and to advance the
cause most dear to your hearts, will you
oot—one and all—make a strong, a long,
and energetic effort to very largely increase
our circulation I Cash-paying subscribers
are necessary to sustain such a paper to
the &n>a«r now is and will be.
Friends, will you not now work for the
in earnest» We ap|wul to you
with a firm reliance, that you will from
now until January next make an earnest
•Jfort in your resjieetiv* neighborhoods or
churcbe*-—or wherever you may go—to
double our circulation Nothing short of
that will reward us for our expenses and
toil.
o<a re ausaisw Mteaanuort.
Our building has been retarded a little
in its erection; but if nothing prevents, we
will, ie the next tec days, occupy oar new
press-room, with two Hoe Cylinder pres
ses, and one Adams’ Book press, all run
by steam, when we will be prepared to
execute any miscellaneous kind of printing,
from a card to any kind of book —plain, or
ornamental—in any quantity desired, as
we can occupy the buildings we are now in
with our other material, until the balance
of our new offi.e is completed—which will
be in a few weeks.
By the Ist of September next we expect
to have our whole office, in all its depart
ments, in full operation —fully prepared to
do any kind of printing and binding; in
fact, our establishment will be second to
none in the South. Our determination is
to make Georgia, in this respect, indepen
dent of the North, by preparing to do
work to any amount as well, as quickly
and as cheaply as it can be done anywhere.
The people of the South have depended
on the North long enough. Now let us do
our own publishing. And as this is an en
terprize, that seeks, in one of its features,
to render you independent of your ene
mies, we shall expect you to encourage and
sustain it by all proper means within your
power. By so doing, you not only sus
tain us, but you strengthen yourselves.
JOB WORK.
We will also have a complete Job Os
flee, prepared to do, at short notice, and in
the best style, all kinds of job printing, and
trust our friends will give us a fair trial.
As a guarantee to the publie for all we
ImAre »Koh*—work, Arr.fTve lutvefKe'
pleasure of stating that the mechanical
execution of our whole printing department
and bindery will be under the. immediate
charge of
Col. C. R. HANLEITER,
who is most favorably known as, perhaps,
the best printer in the South, one who
thoroughly understands every branch of
his profession.
•J. M. WOOD Ar Co.
COMPLAINERS.
Complainers are troublesome persons,
and we are happy in knowing that we have
but few of such in all our two thousand
subsribers : or if they really are complain
ers, they keep complaints to themselves
where they belong, and do not trouble us
with them.
In Paul’s day, there were “unreasonable
men,” and there are some “unreasonable
men” in the days of the Arkansas Baptist.
These are almost continually complaining
of some person or some thing; this is most
commonly owing to the same cause that
influenced a man to report every man, wo
man and child in town drunk—being drunk
himself and looking through drunken spec
tacles, he thought every other person as
drunk as he himself was. Those incessant
complainers are displeased with themselves
and with every body and with every thing
around them. No one is so blamable as
they are, yet no one complains so constant
ly as they do.
The number of “unreasonable men” that
have annoyed us, has never been large, and
the number is growing beautifully less as
time advances. Last year a few such tipped
us their hats to our great satisfaction; and
the present mail delights us by bringing
the knowledge that one more closes his pa
tronage with this volume.
With this volume, we hope the very
few “unreasonable men” will quietly with
draw their patronage from our piper. No
tice—those who are “unreasonable,” are
they to whom we allude but to no others.
Where the. shoe fits it belongs.
[ArFanrax Baptist.
Well, Bro. Watson, we sympathize with
you in your troubles. “Unreasonable men"
do trouble Editors sometimes.
There are many classes of “unreasonable
men." One class is displeased with your
Editorials, another with your selections;
another with the paper you use, another
about this thing and another about that-—-
and, we had like to have forgot it—another
class get mad if you ask them, or expect
them to pay for a paper, after having read
it for six months; they take a red mark,
or a circular, calling their attention to it,
in high dudgeon. These, Bro. Watson, are
very “unreasonable men.” They expect,
of course, the Editor to live on wind, while
they—good souls —fare sumptuously every
day, and read the Editor’s paper for noth
ing. Well, they don’t read the Banner
now in that way —you know, our terms
are cash. But after all, the most "unrea
sonable men," and the largest class too,
that we have to do with, is that large class
that have never subscribed for the Banner;
but we hope to reduce that class largely
this tall. R.
The ** Daily National American.”
The Proprietor of this journal proposes to
issue a Daily on the first of September next.
With the pities ot the “ American” we have
nothing to do; with its typographic appearance
and the moral tendency of its selection* and
general conduct, we have only an interest in
common with the ;>uUlic. The typographical
appearance of the “ American " is unexcelled
by any journal in the South, if uot in the I nion,
! aud in, eonfiNMMsdly. a credit to it- Puldedwr,
even with his euaiable :ia a superior
I iruLster-workman in his art.
In its Miscellaneous selections there is pre
sent a refinement and elevation of moral tone
which commends it to the approval of the most
fastidious in taste aud chaste in sentimito. No
thing immoral is admitted into its column*, to
that no head of a family need to fear to admit
it at once to the family circle. The warfare of
the “National American” against those* swin
dling shops—Lottery Offices —should entitle
him to the thanks of all good citizens, and to
their liberal support. This claim fe strengthen
ed by the fact that he has lost money by his
remlule refusal of the seductive inducements
held out to him by the holders of Lrtttery char
ters to admit their advertisements into the col
umus of his paper. He depends (M mates no
upon the moral and the good in society,
to make good by advertising and sul«scriptam
patronage what he has sacrificed bv his course 1
In reference to the politics of the " Ameri
tifinp we will simply remark, that it is Cousti
bUional Union in principle, and *upp«>rts Bull
and Everktt with a cordiality, zeal and ear
ncstne*- which would do credit to the Ambus
sadors of our holy Cnrisuiauity : and to those
who agree with it in politic*! sentiment, in
view of h* moral bearing and intaptetiness to
the family circle, we know of no better paper
to rtoMumemi It i* published M eekly at Two
Don. csts per annum, and Tri Weekly al Fol n
Dollars The Daily will be Btx Doix*Mper
annum, when issued Address. “ National
American." Atlanta, ua R
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W Mrs you receive * kindness, re-
Wember it; when you bestow ose. f< -rget it.
AFFLICTIONS OF OUR BRETHREN
OF THE PRESS.
On the 16th inst., A. B. Seals, Esq., as
sociate editor of the Locomotive, buried his
only child. On Sunday last Dr. Hamble
ton, editor of the Confederacy, lost an in
fant, and on Monday morning last, Col. C.
R. Ilanleiter, editor of the /Imeniwi lost a
little daughter.
Thus as the insatiate destroyer, death,
is claiming as his victims the little pure
innocents of our brethren, we are led to
exclaim, upon whom will God next lay his
afflicting hand ? To each one of our breth
ren we tender a real sympathy in their.be
reavements, and would pour the oil of con
solation and comfort into their wounded,
bleeding hearts. Brethren is not this a
dispensation of God, for the purpose of
withdrawing your minds from earth to
Heaven. Brethren, look up, your children
though hurried by you under the cold sod
are now shining saints in ITeaven. Look
up, put your faith in Christ and press to
the mark of the prize of the high calling of
God, in Jesus Christ —and your b’essed
children, now in Heaven, will be the first
to welcome you with golden harps, into
that happy land where death, nor sorrow,
nor parting will ever be known. r.
ftSgr' The following front the “Southern
Baptist,” we publish, at the request of Bro.
Carson, most cheerfully. Ours—Bro. Car
son—is a/ofr-dealing paper, and ever will
We have not Bro. Ba
ker’s article before us, but we doubt not
he will do you justice, by correcting his
statement if in error or proving its correct
ness. Bro. Baker is a prudent, thoughtful
man, and able to take care of himself.
r.
J. 8. BAKER.
In the Banner and Baptist, brings some
very hard charges against “ the Charleston
influence.” We are rather perplexed to
understand brother Baker. We suppose
the churches in Charleston exert some in
fluence, as any large and highly intelligent
church does. But we have never heard
them accused of taking two much on them
selves, or making any special effort to con
trol other churches. Nor do we believe
there is a church in South Carolina, or out
of it, that would think for a moment of
asking what was the cnstom of the Charles
ton churches when considering upon the
proper course to be pursued in a difficult
case. Will brother Baker tell us what
church is accustomed to appealing to the
practice of the Charleston churches, instead
of “ the Law and the Testimony ? ” Such
charges, brother Baker, ought not to be
made, unless you are prepared to sustain
them by facts. If you are thus prepared,
give us the facts, and we will publish
them.
He specifies, among other things, “ It
sanctioned, in the case of Mr. Tustin, a
Baptist minister’s officiating as a salaried
pastor for a Pedo-Baptist church, and the
use of a liturgy.” He is mistaken again.
Mr. Tustin never was a member of any
church in Charleston. The Charleston
brethren are in no manner responsible for
anything he did. We are entirely disin
terested in making this defenee, as we were
not in Charleston while Mr. Tustin was
here.
COMM H NIC ATI (I S
For the Banner <fc Baptist.
WORK FOR CHEROKEE GEORGIA
BAPTISTS.
NVMSF.H IV.
In our last, we spoke of the work neces
sary to be done within our own territory
—at our own doors; and we would fain
hope the brethren will not neglect this
duty. We propose now to talk a little
about missions outside the home field.
The most thrifty missionary interest
amongst us is the Indian; upon this the
brethren seem to have been more ready to
bestow their labors and money than any
other. Besides contributions to this ob
ject, the Coosa Association has her Mis
sionary in the field; the Cherokee Baptist
Convention has secured one who will go
out to the Cherokees in October or No
vember; and the prospect is good for us
to have another in the field the coming
year. Now, while all this is commendable,
we can do much more, and as the cry from
the Indians to “ come over and help us” is
kept constantly ringing in our ears, let us
“devise liberal things for them.” Men
will be ready as we lay by us in store our
means, and if we shall not find brethren
among us who will say, “ here are we,
send us,” there will lie native men ready
to declan* the unsearchable riches of Christ
to their own brethren.
But our efforts are not to cease with the
“ home field ” and the Indians—the field is
the world. The commission under w hich
we act, and from which we derive our au
thority, is as broad as the world. Not on
ly are we to carry the Gospel to the na
but “every creature;" tie *‘foreign I
fieldf ’ therefore, conies up for a share of
<air efforts aud contributions. “The ends j
of the earth " have as imperious a claim up
on us as the destitute aections <>f our own
laud, and, if “charity l*egin** at home,” i
like the Gospel, which was to begin at Je
rusalem, and from thence to lie preachtsi to i
all the world; so our "charities" should
embrace the wide spread earth. Listen, i
brethren to the cry of woe and misery
which comes up from the millions ofChina
and Africa! Shall we disregard these in
dications «>f divine Providence—of the i
Master, to “go work in my vineyard?”
Shall Ethiopia stretch forth her hands in
vain ? Shall we lie deaf to these thunder
ing appeals front those benighted lauds ?
“ Shall we whose soul* are HghteJ
By wisdnaa than on hhfh
Shull we !•> man benighted
•Die tighi life deny »“
< >h, ao, l»rethren, let us <fo and p<»e until
our full souls can say—
•• Salvation ! O, salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim.
TUI earth * n-moiesl nation
Ha* learned Mes»i*h‘« name.”
How can one whose heart is the temple
of the Holy Spirit, aud the home of Jesus’
love, l«c mJrtferera to the very work to
which he is called, and feel not the sym
pathy of a brother* love fi>r the wretched
ones of earth, anJ reach forth a helping
hand to snatch them as brands from the
burning ? If the Priests pass by on one
side, and the Levite on the other, do let us
be neighbor to the wounded and crying; let
us bind up their wounds and give them the
W’ater of life, which Jesus has made so free,
that we may be as those yho turn many to
righteousness; that we may shine as the
stars, forever and forever. Amen !
G. F. C.
Dalton, Georgia.
For the Banner & Baptist.
CHEROKEE BAPTIST COLLEGE.
The Commencement exercises of this
institution for 1860 created quite an excite
ment in Cassville and the surrounding
country. There were more strangers pre
sent than had ever yet attended one of the
Commencements. Cassville was literally
thronged to overflowing, and all came away
delighted with the exercises.
The Graduates—Messrs. R. B. Headden,
J. B. Tippen and J. Carswell —acquitted
themselves finely.
The President’s address to the Graduates
was chaste, appropriate and well-timed, do
ing great credit to the heart and head of
that able man.
The honorary degree of A. M. was con
ferred on Rev. G. F. Cooper, of Dalton ;
Prof. W.II. Sullivan, of Guntersville, Ala.,
and Mr. E. N. Broyles, of Cedar-Town.
At 3 o’clock we were again assembled
in the Chapel, enchained for inure
than an hour by thA address before the
young men’s societies, from Rev. C. W.
Howard. His theme was “ The Southern
Gentleman." To say that it was ably dis
cussed would be useless to those acquaint
ed with the ability of the orator. We
Could only wish that every young man in
the South had heard and believed the sen
timents then delivered. As it will go to
press, we bespeak fcr it a large circulation.
Wishing the College, and all connected
with it, success. w r e close by signing ourself,
A FRIEND.
July \Sth, 1860.
For the Banner & Baptist.
RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE.
No. 3.
Another peculiarity of religious preju
dice is, that its intensity varies with the in
timacy of the relations existing, or once ex
isting between the parties. The same thing
is true to some extent in every species of
prejudice, but it is manifested more prom
inently in the species we are now consider
ing, than in any other. This is in perfect
accordance with a fact previously noticed
—that the soul feels more intensely on the
subject of religion, when it is sufficiently
excited to feel at all, than on any other
subject.
The father, who has been devotedly at
tached to one denomination from his youth,
has scarcely any toleration for his son who
has “deserted the fuith of his father.” The
old gentleman seems to regard his son as
having despised his instructions, and tram
pled all his kindness under foot. He con
siders that his son has now taken a step
which Implies his inftflorily and mental
imbecility, or that he has lieeome blindly
attached to error, and is rapidly hastening
to disgrace and ruin ! Should he take this
latter view, then his prejudice is, in a mea
sure, modified, and pity conies in to supply
its place.
The mother is, perhaps, more violent,
but not so persistent, iu her prejudice to
wards her daughter, who has deserted the
rank of her mother. Brit, in either ease, if
the parties are not very conservative, there
will be many unpleasant feelings and
“heart-burnings.” There is something,
however, in the parental relation, to soften
bitter, strong prejudice, when the mind
ceases to act vigorously on the hated theme.
This it is, perhaps, which plays more suc
cessfully on the mother’s feelings, and
causes her to appear, in this, as in most
other things, less stable than the “sterner
sex." Her powers of concentration are,
perhaps, as a general rule, not so constant
as those of man ; and on the principle that
where there is little thought, there is little feel
ing, her mind, attracted more readily to
other themes, and perhaps, too, less inclined
by nature to cherish ill-feelings, is less oc
cupied by this hateful vice.
Members of the same denomination, and
especially of the same church, are among
the most violently prejudiced, when, for
any cause, they separate. Many painful il
lustrations might be adduced, but lest the
bare recital of them should tend to arouse
the base passion, they will be withheld.—
He has been a poor observer, who has not
seen that, though the separation may have
taken place on account of but one point of
disagreement, the parties euiov a more lib
eraT sTiare of mutual prejwotee, than these
same parties entertain towards others who
have tew, or no principles iu common with
them ; that ainid the clamorous excitement
of this sou (debasing passion, the common
foe is forgotten, and their mutual energies
expended in weakening and crushing each
other; and that, too, with “carnal w<*ap
ons,” with which they are forbidden, by
their King, to fight! Those who, in former ;
times, were wont to visit th* house of God j
in company with each other, and whose
souls, like those of David and Jonathan, ;
were “ knit together,” have, for some slight i
cause, it may be, l>een repeHed to the op- j
posite extreme of malice and hatred.
Another proof of tin* truth of what we ,
are u«»w considering, may hr found in the
fact, that the old “ hoary mas of sin,” the
Catholic Church, attracts to itself, from
protestant sects, much less prejudice than i
these same sects entertain fi* one another.
'Die so thvan wave has. in a measure, w ashed
from their minds tin* recollection of past
intimai*y. aud the dregs of prejudice have
settled beneath its soothing waters.
All these fact* abundantly establish our
proportion.
Another circumstance mav be mentioned
as tending to intensify thi» prejudice, viz; j
The suspicion, in one’s more sober moments,
that his position is founded inerror.
It is the pride of rational beings that
they have reason as the foundation of all
their positions. Indeed, few greater af
fronts can be offered most men, than to in
form them, even by implication, that they
have no reason for what they do. They at
once construe this language into the insin
uation that they are either idiots or knaves.
The former insinuation is hard, indeed, to
be borne ; the latter is quite insufferable!
The head you may censure, provided you
will preserve the regions of the heart from
blame. But when, unawares, a few rays
from the sun of truth fall in, through the
mists and clouds of prejudice, upon the in
tellect, and reveal, in part, the emmeows
and rotten foundation on which his position
is based, it requires a sudden multiplica
tion of mists to obscure this light, ere the
soul can repose at ease. Hence it is that
when you refer directly to one occupying a
false position, his “face colors," his “eye
flashes,” and arguments (which would, by
no means, read w ell in the syllogistic form)
are used—your “bigotry" and “ ilUberality"
constitute a sufficient plea to justify him in
his course. Thus it is that some religious
setts are so much more excitable than oth
ers. When you refer to some of their dis
tinctive tenets, they are “all in the fire” at
once. Why is this? Why should a recr
sonable (?) being shrink from the investiga
tion of his position, when he claims that
they are, of all others, the most
If he thought, from his innermost soul, that
he was built uppir. the truth of God, w ould
he not say, with the poet:
“ I’m not ashamed to own my God,
Or to defend His cause
or, viewing himself in the attitude of one
clad with the whole Gospel armor, would
not his loyal soul be stirred, on such an oc
casion, with sentiments like the following?
“Am I a soldier of the cross—
A follower of the Lamb ?
And shall Ifear to own His cause,
Or blush to speak His name *”
Why is it that “men love darkness ra
ther than light,” unless it arises from the
fact, “that their deeds are evil”— that they
are founded on error? Is there any thing
in the nature of truth to give a man Me
blushes, or force him to retreat from fair
i and friendly discussion ? If so, what is it?
Know ye not, that “ if ye love the truth,
the truth shall make you free ?”
In accordance with this principle, it can
not be otherwise than that the purest, bold
est Christian on earth, who is not content
to be at peace with error, but “ attacks the
enemy in his own camp,” who wishes, from
the interest he feels in the eternal welfare
of all around him. to convince them of their
error, it can not be otherwise, than that
such a man will be forced to bear the heav
iest load of prejudice. Even his own com
rades, more timid and less inclined to have
men speak ill of them, often forsake him in
the midst of the hostile camp. Too many
of them, like those who stand upon error,
are unable to distinguish between “prtnei
ples and men." An attack upon principles,
they seem to think, is an attack upon those
who advocate them, not knowing, as one
might infer, that if I am your friend, and
believe you to be in error, it is not only
iny privilege, but my duty, to use all pro
per means to convince you of it. Am I
not a Judas, rather than a /rare friend to
you, if 1 make no effort to reclaim you ?
On the same principle above named, it
will follow that, if there is any religious
sect based upon the truth, and others founded
in error, the former will share more liber
ally in their prejudice than any or all oth
ers. The aggressive advocates of the truth
inherit the prejudice, hatred and opposition
of errorists of all grades. They may ex
pect to be a “sect everywhere spoken
against”—an honor, by the way, to which
very few can lay claim.
A. S. WORRELL.
(to he continued.)
THE NEW VERSION QUESTION.
Thomasville, Ga., July 17, 1860.
Brother Wood.
In reply to a Methodist writer, in the
“St. John’s Mirror,” (Jacksonville, Fla.)
1 laid down several propositions which 1
offered to sustain. As certain editors,
claiming to be Baptists, seem disposed to
rally to the aid of Redo-Baptists, in their
endeavor to retain the obscurity in which
divine truth has been shrouded by King
James, Archbishop Bancroft and their
translators, I bog leave to extend to them
the offer made to my Methodist friend, and
propose to discuss in their papers, or l»e
--fore a tribunal, the propositions contained
in the following extract from my article in
the “ Mirror,” on the conditions therein
stated :
If the author of the article which has
: elicited this communication wishes a discus
i sion, I propose to discuss with him, who
ever he may be, whether Mr. T. or some
nWe else, iff any of lil* "Christian Advo- i
cates,” or before a tribunal of competent
and disinterested men, who are familiar with
the laws of evidence, the propositions here- i
j to addl'd, provided it be agreed, that the
decision of said tribunal shall la* made in I
writing, and shall be published in hand- i
bills, or in pamphlet form, pro re nata ; and
that the expense and the edition published
lie shared equally lietwcen us.
As Mr. Townsend represents that the
; “Bible Union” is a Baptist Society, not- j
' withstanding the evidence afforded that
■ there are nine different denominations uni- t
I ted in it, I will proceed with my proposi
; tions as though that were an admitted fact
; —which it is not.
Prop. I.— Baptists have as good a right
'to bring out a new version of the Bible as
have Methodists or other Pedobaptists. They
have done nothing to disfranchise them, or
to justify a proscription of them.
IL—Mr. W esley brought out a new ver
sion of the Testament, and it was publish
ed for the Methodist Society in New Y’ork
in 1815.
111. —Other Pedoliaptiiits have published
versions of the Bible without exciting a hue j
and cry against them.
IV. —The same process of reasoning, and
the same laws of evidence by which it is
attempted to prove that the version of the
“ Bible Union” is a Baptist version, would
prove, much more dearly, that our present
version is a Pedobarptist one, and, therefore,
if the one be considered a sectarian one,
much more should the other be so consid
ered by Mr. T.
Mr. T. affirms that he has “ proved be
yond the possibility of a doubt * * * ,
that the object (of the Bible Union) was to
print immersion.”
V • —I deny that it has been proved, or
can be proved, that such was the object of
the “ Bible Union.”
VI. deny that any instructions have
been given to any of the translators as to
how they should translate baptizo, or any
other word that occurs in the original scrip
tures. (In one instance it has been Ten
dered in their version dyed.)
VII. —I deny that Judson practiced any
fraud (as affirmed by Mr. T.) upon the
Am. Bib. Soc., or upon any one else, in
translating the Scriptures into the Bur
mese, as he followed faithfully one of the
rules of that society.
Baptists might, with more propriety,
charge fraud upon the A. B. S. for retain
ing the funds contributed by Baptists, up
on the supposition that the rule referred
to would be continued in force, (over $75,-
000) after they had virtually repealed the
rule, and thus cut Baptists off from all par
ticipation in the benefits of those funds.
Y 111.—1 affirm that the A. B. S. has con
tributed funds to aid in publishing and cir
culating copies of the sacred Scriptures in
which the word baptizo was rendered by a
word signifying to sprinkle, and another
in which it was rendered to cross, in mani
fest violation of the rule of the society.
(Yet we hear no charge of fraud whenZiap
tizo is translated sprinkle !)
Mr. T. affirms that “ the great and good
among Baptists will not have anything to
do with it.”—i. e. the “Bible Union.” On
the contrary.
IX. —I affirm that there are men con
nected with the “ Bible Union” who stand
qs high in Eurppe and America, both for
sichlorship and piety, as any tnen who are
unconnected with that society.
X. —I affirm, positively, what Mr. T.
positively denies, viz: that the translators
were appointed by the authority of King
James.
XI. —1 affirm that some of the transla
tors were subtle tools of the King, used to
, promote his views of King-craft ; some
were notorious prodigals, and others left
no memorial behind them by which we can
judge of their moral or literary fitness for
the work assigned them.
XII. —1 affirm that the translators were
restricted by rules given by the authority
of the King, and were prohibited from
' changing old ecclesiastical words ; and that
; “baptize” was considered one of the eccle-
> siastical words which they were not at
. liberty to change.
, XIH.—I affirm that the translation pre-
pared by the translators was not published
> as they prepared it. It passed through the
hands of the King and Archbishop Ban-
L croft, the persecute!* and master-spirit of
the High Commission Court, or “ British
Inquisition,” as it was not improperly eall
-11 ed, and several important changes were
! made in it.
i XIV.—I affirm that, according to the
> testimony of many learned Pedobaptist
. divines, and some distinguished Methodists
among them, there are in our present ver
sion serious errors, calculated to mislead
us, both in matters of faith and practice.
XV. —I affirm that the improvements in
. science, and the discoveries of many an
l cient documents, inscriptions, early ver
sions of the Bible, ike., &c., have thrown
much light upon the sacred text; and that,
, therefore, the facilities for obtaining a cor
rect version of the Bible, at the present
day, are greater than ever they have been
’ at any former time.
XVI. —1 affirm that the necessity for a
! new version of the Bible is, to say the
I least, as great as the necessity for new
translations of the classics, or for new Greek
and Hebrew and Latin Grammars. (Who
would be content to be confined to the
translations of the classics made as far back
' as 1611 ? Who would be willing to send
his sons to a school where the Greek, He
brew and Latin Grammars of 1611 were
t used? Echo answers—who?)
. As it has pleased Mr. T., in a very un
courteous and unchristian-like manner, to
term the Bible Union a “ lying, dishonest
and corrupt society,” I hold myself ready
to prove, lastly,
XVII. —That the members of the Bible
Union arc as truthful, honest, incorrupt and
incorruptible as are the members of any
1 kindred society in the denomination with
i which lie stands connected.
I repeat, that I am ready to sustain all
and singular the foregoing propositions in
either of the ways named, and upon the
• conditions specified. Any man can make
i bold assertions, but it is not every man
■ that is willing to submit his assertions to
j appropriate tests. Error shuns them;
j truth ever seeks them.
JOS. S. BAK ER.
For the Banuer & Baptist.
This is the month set apart by the var
ious denominations to be occupied in fast
ing, thanksgiving and prayer. What a so
lemn thought it is, to see, in our imagina
tion, a whole nation supplicating before the
Ruler of the Universe; to see such a mul
titude, great aud small, upon penitent knees,
beseeching the Great Being to bestow
mercy. The thought is of great impor
tance, and, one upon which rests the souls
of many men.
The time has been set apart, for us to
unite in sending our prayers to Heaven,
in behalf of the Gospel—that it may spread
1 aud be glorified. We are to join in ask
ing the blessings of God upon the Mission
-1 ary of the Gross, that lie may be comfort
t ed. sustained, and blessed with revivals.—
i We are to pray for the churches with
- which we are connected, aud for the niinis-
■ ters, and for the brethren; and more espe
. cially are we to unite in our prayers in be
; half of those who have never tested the
; riches of God’s Grace, and who are rapidly
pt/sting the downward road to destruction.
Oh I yes, we are to pray for their conver
sion. We are to pray for revivals in our
’ churches that our spiritual strength may
lx? renewed.
Then let us all unite in earnestness. Let
us come out from the world and serve God
in the right way. God will not deny us if
we ask in faith. His promises are faith
ful ; His word is true.'
< >h, mother ! would it not be a time for !
rejoicing to see your husband or your child j
clasped in the arms of Jesus ? Father,
; would your soul not melt with joy at be
holding the companion of your bosom join
! ing in ascribing words of praise to God ?
Then, oh then, let us commence. Let us
put aside those daily pursuits which would
be calculated to draw our minds too much .
from Holy things, and be fervent in pray. I
er; for it is by these means, and these
alone, that God deems prayer wot thy of
answering. SINCERE.
Christ has taken our nature into
heaven to represent w»; he has left us on |
earth with his nature to represent him.
UOIES’ DEPARTMENT.
TOK THE BANNER A BAITIST.
CLEANINGS,
OR
THE SOUL OF RELIGION,
“The Christian temper is one great part
of true religion; that is, the passive vir
tues and amiable affections of the heart, or
what is called ‘the meekness and gentliness
of Christ’—that ‘charity’ so beautifully
described in. the thirteenth chapter of first
Corinthians, where the Christian temper is
set forth in clear and heavenly light.
Young professors, and indeed older ones,
too sadly forget that love is the very es
sence of the Christian spirit; it is the very
soul of practical religion—love that re
presses the strong and unholy passions of
the heart, that subdues the boisterous con
duct of life—a love that makes us cautious
against giving offence and slow to receive
it—a love that renders us forbearing and
forgiving, that produces a calm, equable
mind, and which speaks in language, gentle,
soft aud kind—love that shrinks from the
infliction of pain and covets to communi
cate happiness to others. O, divine and
heavenly charity, offspring of that glorious
Being of whom it is said, “God is Love,”
personified and embodied in the dear and
blessed Jesus, benign, gentle, soul elevat
ing and pride destroying Spirit, how little
is th}- nature undesst<,>yd or ad
mitted by the world. llow often is thy
holy name traduced by the. life and con
duct of those who profess to be thy vo
taries !
How peaceful, prayerful and active,
how tender and sympathetic towards others
would this love make us. What bright
and attractive specimens of the influence of
our holy religion. Believer in Christ, here
is the spirit in which to make Christian
progress —the effective means of soul pros
perity and of doing good to others.
Too many show by their lives that the
temper of their mind has not been brought
fully under the sweet subjection of the re
ligion of Jesus, and yet, what is changed, if
not the temper —or what good is there in
any other change ? If one be as passionate,
malicious, resentful, sullen and morose
after conversion as before, what has he
been “converted” from and what to?
“Let the mind of Jesus be iu you,” says
the Apostle. Aud again, “If any man have
not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”
Now the spirit of Jesus was loving, kind,
meek, gentle, unsuspicious and forgiving—
and unless we possess these virtues, we
have not, cannot have the mind of Jesus—
the spirit of Christ. I leave it with every
brother and sister, to ask the question—
“ Have I the spirit of Christ, have I the
mind of my blessed Jesus, and do I act it
out in my daily life?”*
The foregoing, substantially, are the me
ditations of the sainted James which I ven
ture to transcribe, hoping thereby to bene
fit others, as I hope my own soul has been
in the contemplation of the blessed theme
of Love. Such beautiful and truthful senti
ments sjiould be .spread broadcast in the
laud that God may be more glorified in
the life of His people. Would that I could,
in this simple way, raise the standard of
piety among professing ehristians and ele
vate the cause of my precious Savior. —
These meditations remind me of my past
and present experience, and lead me to ask
the question : “Am I a true disciple of
the Lord Jesus Christ ? ”
M. H.
FOR THE BANNER A BAPTIST.
SABBATH MORNING REFLECTIONS.
I feel in my soul to ask with the Psalm
ist—“ Lord, wilt thou not revive us again
that they people may rejoice in thee ?”
Father, help me to pour out my supplica
tions to thee, for the spiritual blessings 1
most need and desire. O, for faith to
slrenghten, for grace to help in this hour
of great need. “Bow down thine ear, O,
Lord, hear me, for I am poor and needy;”
“rejoice the soul of thy servant, for unto
thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.” My
soul is with the Psalmist this morning, I
desire to be taught the way of the Lord, to
walk in his truth, that 1 may glorify His
Holy name by a godly life, and encourage
others in their earthly pilgrimage. May
we all more effectually let our “light so
shine that others may see our good works,
and glorify our Father who art in heaven.”
M. H.
WOMAN’S MARRIAGE.
To marry one man, while loving and
loved by another, is about the most griev
ous fault that a woman can commit. It iy
a sin against delicacy, against kindness and >
truth. It involves g'.viiuj that to lygal Jfight • >- . e
which is guilty and shameful when given . «
to anything but reciprocal affection. It in
volves double treachery and a cruelty. It
involves* wounding the spirit, withering the
heart, perhaps blighting and soiling the
soul of the one who is abandoned and be
trayed. It involves the speedy disenchant
ment of the one who is mocked by the
shadow where he was promised the sub
stance, and who grasps only the phantom,
soulless beauty, and the husk, the shell,
the skeleton of a dead affection. It entails
ceaseless deception at home and abroad,
by day and night, at our downsitting and
our uprising; deception in every relation,
deception in the tenderest and most endear
ing moments of our existence. It makes
the whole of life a weary, degrading, un
rewarded life A right-minded woman eould
scarcely lay a deeper sin upon her soul, or
one more certain to bring down a fearful
expiation.
It is not high crimes, such as rob
bery and murder, which destroy the peace
of society, but the village gossip, family
jealousies, and pickings between neighbors,
and meddling, are the worms that eat into
all social happiness.
I hey who have an honest and en
gaging look ought to sutler a double punish
ment if they belie it in their actions.
Never purchase love or friendship
by gift, when thus obtained, they are lost
as soon as yoa stop payment.
I? any one speak evil of you. let
your life be so virtuous that none will be
lieve him.