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baptist fanner. ' v fe'lifil M' , ‘The entrance of giveth light' * A. C. DAYTON, Editor. JAS. N. ELLS, Secular Editor. SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1863. Our Platform. 1. None but those who make a credible pro fession of faith in Christ should be baptized. 2. None are really baptized except those who I are immersed upon a profession of their faith in' Christ. 8. None can properly be members of the’ church of Christ, except they have been bap- 1 tized. 4. None can properly be ministers of Christ I who are not members of the church of Christ.; 5. Non-afflliation with those who refuse to? obey Christ in these things—with those whore i fuse to walk according to the Divine rule. 8. We shall insist upon Baptists practising, what they hold and teach. While we shall firmly adhere to the. above i principles, we do not duny that others are'con- : verted as well as Baptists; but, as it regards • their ‘baptism,’ we consider tjiem as being in dis-I order—unbaptized. EDITORIAL AIiRAXGEMPAT. Henceforth the religious and denomina tional department of The Banner will be under the control of Elder A. €. Dayton ; and the secular, new#, and literary depart ments under that of Jas. N. Ells, as here tofore. Brother Dayton’s articles will be designated by his initials. WHO WILL HELP THE BANNER NOW? Since my engagement to furnish an amount of editorial matter for The Baptist Banner, I have become part owner of the paper. I would be glad if I were in cir cumstances to give all my time and energies to its interests, but this is impossible. I will do for it all I can in the intervals of those labors which must furnish a support fur my large family. Ido not intend, how ’"'""ever, that my brethren shall have any reason i to complain that it is not a Baptist paper. I The secular department, and the general conduct of the paper, must be left, in a greai degree, as heretofore, to the good taste of our brother Eils, who has large experience in the department. We will conbine our energies and strive to make The Banner all that a Baptist Banner ought to be. * A. C. DAYTON. PRICE OF THE BANNER. Our prico’is double what it was two years ago. Is there anything else that has not. more than doubled in price? llow is it with your corn ? your wheat / your market ing ? Think, if you can, of anything you have to sell, for which you cannot realize four times as much. The cost of producing the paper has increased like that of other things. I* is out of all proportion to our present price. We shall probably be com pelled ere long to raise onreteubscription to five dollars, or more. We suggest, there fore, that it will be well for those who wish-a cheap paper, to subscribe at once, before the advance, if it shall be found necessary to make one. . A quick and generous response to our appeal will go far to prevent the necessity we have hinted at. It. we had a thousand dollars to invest in paper, while paper can be had on present terms, it would probably much dimmish the future cost to us of pub lication. \\ e have no capital to invest, and hence must be dependent on the money sent, in to purchase our materials. A. C. D. . PUBLU SENUHENT VS. THE LAWS OF THE LAND. In South Carolina there is a law of the Statute Book which makes the wiljul killing of a man in a duel murder. Some- time since, a ease was brought before the courts in Charleston, in which the fact was notori ous that such killing had been done. .There was no room to doubt that Lieutenant Rice had killed Lieutenant Bellinger, in a duel. It was hoped by those who desire to see • law- triumphant over violence, that its ma jesty would at least have been regarded by its administrators, and that the barbarous and unchristian “Code of Honor' would be held subj ct to the Legislature of the State of South Carolina. We had reason to expert that at least the Judge, who is, we are told, a professor of religion, and a prominent member of a Presbyterian church, would T " ' •" I have given his individual and official sAnc-’ rion to the laws which he was sworn to ■ support. But, in his charge to the jury, it is said,; that while he declared the law to he that killing in a duel should be regarded as mur der, yet; that public sentiment must be con sidered in the case, and it was for the jury to determine how' lar -public sentiment should be regarded in the decision of thej case. In other words, the opinion of the i jury as to what public sentiment will justify a ‘ man in doing—and not the law of the land —is to be the test of guilt. We hope, for the honor of the Bench, and ; 1 of the religion of the country, that there has been some misunderstanding of the charge to the jury, as represented in the Southern Lutheran. But, if there be none, it presents a wonderful laxity of interpre tation of law —law is not what stands as such upon the statute book, law- m not that which jury is sworn to administer —law is nothing more nor less than what the jury | may think fit to decide is required by public; I sentiment. j If such be the administration of law and ' justice in Charleston—if wilful killing in a ' duel is no murder/here, though expressly | made such by the laws of the State, what I may we expect when the great day of trial i comes, and the God of law and justice de ! eides whether Charleston shall stand or fall ? ' . . AC. p. [For The Baptist Banner.] JPrayer for the Country. : When the war first broke out, a great deal was said about the importance of prayer. In city, village, and country, the l people assembled and spent much time in prayer and devotion. And then our arms I were successful to an eminent degree. But now we hear but little said about prayer, and most of our prayer meetings have been suspended ; and it is a fact, that a corres ponding number of defeats attend our arms. ! From the pulpits all over the Confederacy the subject of prayer was urged upon our congregations. Then we felt that we n6ed 'ed.help from God, and, unless He did help, 'we should be overcome by the foe. Now i ■ we have settled down into a state of indif ! ference, and begin to calculate the chances i|of whipping the enemy. We consider it as merely a contest which skill and bravery i; must, decide. Is it possible that the people 'of Georgia have forgotten that the “ battle • is not to the strong”? We need forever to be reminded that this is so. “ The battle is not to the strong”—strength does notde- i vide the victory. What, then, does? The I will of God—Divine help and succor. — That is necessary to the successful termina tion of the battle. Do the people of Geor gia doubt, this? Can it be possible that they 1 will ever forget this truth ? Yet I fear, like ■ others around.them, they are considering* this question as mere men. They are in 'criminal negligence of this great truth, that “ God makes wars to cease.” We should arouse ourselves to prayer, constant, importunate, and prevailing; be j cause we are contending against a powerful .and merciless foe. We fell this once—it is . no less true to-day. We are shut out from : all the world; while they have all the > world at hand to aid them. The odds re- • mains in their favor as much now as when ’ /the war first began; and we have demon-1 - strations enough to prove what awajts us! • 'if we fall into their hands. Surely if any .j thing can arouse us to duty.it is the fearful , odds against us. But this, from some cause. ' our people seem to have forgotten. i There is another thing which should se riously and solemnly impress us with the >i importance of prayer—the wickedness and ? superciliousness of our officers. Whatever - may be said of the wickedness of Yankees, /it cannot surpass that of our own officers. 1 VS hen a man in the army witnesses the pro i faulty and Heaven daring of the officeis, he • is appalled. And I am sorry to see that there is a growing disposition on the part of 1 the officers to treat the private soldiers as r regulars, or even worse. This grows out of wickedness, and pride of heart. And •’the wickedness of the officers has extended to the men. Swearing, levity, and the grossest wickedness, prevails to an alarming exteht. Drunkness, too, extends wherever • spirituous liquors can be had. These are. solemn facts for the Christian to contem j|plate; but they are facts—and they urge I upon importance of wrestling -'mightily with God for His blessing and' ‘ care upon .our soldiers. Pride and wickedness ruined the people •of God in other days—it caused their ban ishment from their own laud, and imprison- ', ment in that of their enemy ; and the same cause w ill, I tear, produce the same effect ‘on us. Our prospects for the future seem dark—the cloud seems dark and lowering ; j but prayer can dissipate it. To prayer, un -■ ceasing and sincere, let the people of God > resort. Prav fur the Confederacy ' ’ ' ’ C * II Will our readers do it I ‘ THE BAPTIST BANNER. [For 77m Baptist Banner.] HOW TO TRY THEM. BY A. C. D. “Surely you don’t think there is no church right but your own!” Such was the exclaimation of a lady some weeks ago to a Baptist minister. “Surely,’’he replied, “I would not be- ■ long to my church if I did not think it was I right..” “Oh, yes,” said she, “I don’t blame you I for thinking yours is right; everybody j ought to be fully persuaded in his own mind;. but what I complain of you Baptists for, is that you will not allow that any one else is right. Now lam much more liberal; while. I firmly believe that my church is right, I am willing to admit that yours is right also. We are both right.” “Certainly we are,” rejoined the minis ter, “ so far as we both agree with the Bible. That teaches only one way. If your way ; is the Bible way, and my way is the Bible i way, then your way and my way are exact ly the same way. Thus,'things that are equal to the same thing are-equal to one another. Now, you do hold t© some things that are in the Bible t and so do I; so far as -these things are concerned, then, we are both right, and so far we exactly agree. But then there are some other things in which we differ. — You say your way is right; if it is, then your way is the way laid down in the Word ■of God, and not only you, but I; aQ d every- I body are bound to walk in it; I cannot refuse to do so without sin against God. I dare not ’ say it is of no consequence whether Igo in God’s way or set off on a new way of my own; I must go your way because your way is the Bible way. And, on the other other hand, if 1 say wy way is the right it is oecause I believe it is the way laid down in the Bible. If it is, then you areas much bound to walk in it as I am ; you can’t . refuse to Jo so without sin against God.— ,So yon see you are very much mistaken ■ ? when you think you and I can differ and yet •: both of us be right.” , j “I never saw it in that light before, sir.” “But now, when I have made it plain, don’t you see that, one of two things must i be true: Either the Bible teaches two dif ferent ways, or else your way or my way is ! wrong in all those particulars where we disagree. But the Bible don’t teach’two ways ; there is only ‘one Lord, one faith, I and one baptism.’ There is only one sys tem of doctrine, ofie act of baptism, one kind of church organization, and one system of church government laid down m the; Bible. The Bible don’t contradict and stul-' tify itself by teaching one way in one place and a different way in another; if it J did, then we would know it was not the ,| Word of God at all, for God could not i thus contradict himself. So you see it is impossible that we can both be right. And you have no right, as a Christian, to be so liberal as to think that I am right unless you grant that you are wrong. You can’t do it without assuming that God is a liar and has contradicted himself.” “But how, then, am I to know- who is right and who is wrong?” • “ That is a very simple thing, madam. — ‘ You wish to ascertain whether your church ' iis right—you have first to see what those B J j : things are in which your church differs from > mine, and from others ; then go to the Bible and see whether those things are there; if ; llffiy are, then you are right—if not, then ' you are wrong. Or if you wish to know i 1 whether my church is right, adopt the same plan. First consider those points in which j we differ—-where you go one way and I go another; then bring these points, one by one, with an honest heart to the Bible. If my way is there, then you, as a Christian I woman, dare not refuse to walk in it; for’ if it is in the Bible it is no longer myway, or the way of the Baptist denomination, but' , if is- GOD’S icay, and it is GOD, not I, ■ ’who says this is the way, walk ye in it.’— ! 1 XT *• W J Now you are a Methodist, your sister there is a Presbyterian, and I am a Baptist— vour 1 uncle John is an Episcopalian, and you’ think we are all four right; but if we are,' there are some things concerning which the Bible teaches four different and contradic tory ways. If any man should declare himself on four sides of any question m science or morals, religion or politics, you' would at once set him down as utterly un-i of the slightest confidence—you' have no regard for anything that; such a man might say; and yet people professing to be Christians, talk and act as, though the Bible of God was like the an nouncements of'some pot house polititian, designed to suit all parties, and capable of being understood as many different ways as,- men may choose to desire. It can’t be so,I my dear friend. The Bible is all one way. j If it is on your side, lam wrong—if it is on ray side, you are wrong.” •“Yes, I see that is »o, but yet I am sure , the ministers of different denominations do find texts in the Scriptures to sustain their views.” “If they do, some of them must pervert the Scriptures from their true meaning.” “But how, then can we common peopk know where the right way is ? 1 beliew my preachers are as pious, and as honest, and as learned as yours—-if you will excuse me for speaking so plainly ; and I don t see why they should try to deceive me about the teachings of the Bible, any more than yours. They tell me our way is in the- Word of God, and you tell me your way is there —now whom shall I believe?” • “ Don’t believe either of us, madam-sgo to the Bible for yourself. Use your own common sense —search the Sc>iptures, not the sayings of preachers. Preachers may be deceived —preachers may have some motive for deceiving you. Go to the Bible, for yourself.” “But I can’t undersc.and it. I have not the learning nor the intellect.’ “The Bible is a very plain book, madam. If the things in which your church differs from others were in it you could easily find them there; or your preachers, instead ot telling you they were there, could.sAcw them to you, so you could see them for yourself, and s/iow them to me. The reason why it seems so hard for you to understand, is, that those things are not there. Baptists don’t have any such great difficulty with the Bible. They can not.only find, but show a ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ for every point on which they differ from you or from any other denomination. They have nothing to do but let the Bible speak in its own plain and simple way, and understand it to mean jnst what it says.” “I wish you would show me, then, in the Bible, abqgt your church—it will teach me better how to look for my own.” “If T can show you mine, madan, it will be folly to look for yours, unless yours and mine are alike or the same. If mine is there, yours cannot be there; if it is, the Bible must teach two ways about the same thing —be like a politician, pn both sides of the same question. It wont teach Methodism to you and Baptism to me. If it has my church in it, it surely left yours out-7-and so if it has yours in it, ij has just as surely left mine out. But lam willing the subject either way, or both ways. 1 will look for mine and show you that it is there, or for yours and convince you that it is not there.” “I don’t care to trust you to look for mine ; I am afraid you would not look very dilligently. But show me how you find I yours, and I will then know how to look I tor mine.” “Well, when shall I begin?” “To-raorrow, when you come to dinner. I want to study a little over what you have said to-day.” . - , [to be continued ] Letter from Brother Hartwell. Richmond, July 17, 1863. Dear Brother Ells: J am happy to be able to send the follow ing extract from a letter from our indefa tigable missionary, brother J. B. Hartwejl. The many friends of his lady, who is from your State, and hundreds who know and 1 honor his excellent father, will read this let I ter with interest. His letter is dated, Tung Chan, China, Feb. 27, 1863 So long a time has elapsed since 1 last j wrote, that 1 scarce!) know where to begin 'giving you a history of oyr doings, our ■ blessings, and our chastenings in Shantung. . God has evidently been amongst us since I we settled in this part of. the empire; sorao- ■ times showing Himself a merciful God, I ready to forgive sin, able to convert th<- stony heart of the heathen into flesh, and debghting to fill Bis people with joy and gladness; at other times visiting us with severe, terribly severe chastisements, and ) making us and the heathen to know that we are but men. We have been made to re joice with exceeding joy, and we have wept' bitter tears of sorrow. I suppose that no ! mission has ever been begun with more im I mediate success, and at the same time with I more severe trials, than the mission of dis -1 ferent Protestant denominations to Shan tung. Os ten misSion families of different denominations who came to begin missions I in Shantung, there has been but one which death has not invaded, and that family con-1 sists of only the missionary and his wife ; and there are but two of these ten in which ' the family has not been broken up by the death either of the husband or the wife.— ' My own, thank God, is one of the two. — : Though there has never been, in any. of | your letters to any of us, the slightest re- I ference to it, we suppose you must have heard long ago of the death, the melancholy death, of our beloved brethren, Holmes and Parker, who fell at the hands of the Houan I rebels, in October of 1861. There was an I immense deal of suffering among the people during that fall—the result of the destruc tive and murderous raid of those rebels • The summer of 1862 will long be remem bered as the cholera season. It was fatal in . the extreme among the natives, and quite a ; number of missionaries, as you have prob ably learned, fell victims to it. Among them was our next door neighbor, our be loved brother Gay ley, of the Preabyterian mission. He was peculiarly a godly man and we rejoiced in having him and his fam- ily, who were all so dear to us, so near.—; They seemed more like relatives than oth erwise, and his death was a very severe oereavement. One week after his death ins little daughter, a sweet little girl of a >ut twenty months, followed him toglory; and after this, as before it, one followed an ' t! - r our h eart,!i were almost consumed with grief. W e ourselves had the disease, out God ui mercy enabled both Mrs. IL and myself to weather it. out But we were not to be unbereft in our ; own family. On the 28th April, 1862 God sent us, as it had been, an angel from the sky, to tarry a while with us— a darling little daughter. She was so sweet, so gentle, so lovely ih all her movements, so mild in » temper, that every one who knew.her was , struck with it. She was well, happy and ■>trong until the cholera season, after which time she drooped, and was never well again. did not suffer very much intense pain, ! we think, but was very much emaciated, md suffered from weakness. For a long, long time, her nightly fevers were burning hot, and these wore her out. About a week before-she died, vve carried her to Yentai for medical attention, but human aid was • unavailing. God hsd called for her,andon s the 22d January, 1863, she went to God.— I For nine months she cheered our hearts 1 and lighted our house. It really seems ax if God had only sens her to draw our minds 1 up higher. Her little body rests on‘Mount > Ilope, ’ just over the sea. I trust we are : reconciled to the will of our God, but our ( home is O ’ so lonely without our darling . Carrie. 1 I will transmit for publication in your valuable paper, the other portion of the let ter,giving interesting references to bis work. God has been with him. The success with 1 which his services have been crowned, will 1 cause rejoicing with many. Let us continue 1 to pray for him, that in the future he may reap, more abundant fruits. , . I will ask your many readers to give us > their pecuniary aid, in the endeavor to keep up our missionary labors in heathen lands. I Who will not be ready to help? God has I been with us, and he will yet bless us more abundantly. . On behalf of the Board. Fraternally yours, ’ JAS. B. TAYLOR, Cor. Sec. I j -*•*•*■ r [ZW t.‘is Bapt 'at Btvnntr.l ■ 1 An Appeal for the The readers of The Banner have been - apprised of the visit of E. L. Compere to I Georgia, and of his statement of facts re-' , garding the extreme sufferings of the fami-' . lies of the Southern Cherokee Indians and frontier settlers—<many of wh»m have been robbed of everything, and driven from ' 1 heir homes, by our common enemy, and - have to follow the army to keep from I starving. In view of these sufferings, the t Executive Committee of the Cherokee, Ga., Baptist Convention approve of the appeals |of Rev. E-. L. Compere to get material aid for thur relief. Will not our brethren, . i sisters and friends in Georgia do something 5 1 liberally for this cause, and send their 00b- ■ tributions as soon as possible to The Banner •I office, Atlanta, Ga. i After a few weekß sojourn with us, brp- I ther Qompere will take charge of these gilts and distribute them when he gets to' I his field of labors. J. M. WOOD, CM A. B. RO3B. D. B. HAMILTON, } Com. Cb B- CL I A. J. KING. A. W. BUFORD J 1 I [For the Banner.] 1 i I To the Friends of the Cherokee SuF I * ferers. I hope those churches or communities that have been collecting clothing sos the destitute Cherokees, will forward their con . tributions to Atlanta by the 20th of the| '! month. If I can get through with my bus hiness, I desire tn start West within a few j days thereafter. Also, as many persons seem anxious to 1 make contributions, and are not able to col- ’ j lect up a box or bale of goods, if such per- i sons will deposit their small amounts with brother Stillwell, at Rome, brother Howard, at Cartersville, brother Selvidge, at Dalton, or brother Wood at Newnan, these brethren will forward to The Banner office. And if persons can do so, they may send directly to The Baptist Banner, and I will get the j contributions. E. L. COMPERE. Coosa Aaaoelatlou. Meeting commences on Saturday before the second Sabbath in October—at Poplar Springs, Chattooga county. Middle Cherokee AMoela’ion. ! i Meeting cemrnences on Friday before the ■ fourth Sabbath in September, at Dalton. t r t FlIrM River Aaaoclatbou. The general meeting for the Second Dia trict of this Association will hold its next annual session with the church at Jackson, , Butts county, Ga., commencing on Friday I before the fourth Sabbath in July. Intro ductory sermon byjJ. G. Kimbrell. (There is no small pox at this time in the 1 vicinity of Jackson, nor has there been for 1 some months.) W. Jkvf Sfeaiks. Behoboth Association. . i Meets with Union church in Macon coun , ty (three nnlea from Reynolds, on Cohuru k bus rosd), embracing third Sabbath in . September. * Religious and Family Paper Tbs BAPTIST BANNER is published every , Saturday noraiog, io AUaata, Ga., by BaTtm Elm k Co. Fo«r dollars per year. HOUSTON FEMALE COLLEGE. Pbrbt, Ga., July 15, 1863. To my brethren and friends in Cherokee Georgia and elsewhere: I havq Just consented to take charge of the Hous ton Female College, located at Perry, Georgia, and propose, with the assistance of an efficient corps of teachers, to balll up a denominational school of high order; and I beg of every brother or friend, who has daughters whom he expects to »en 1 from home to be educated, to consider whether he can do better than to entrust them to us. We are here io a place as safe from the dangers of the war as any in the Confederacy, remarkable for its health and good society, near enough to the railroad to be easily ac cessible at all times, and yet far < nough away to be undisturbed by every passing ru nor. We have a most excellent building, and sufficient apparatus; and, if-brethren will sustain us, we can have one of the very best schools in the whole South. Board can be had in the family of Elder B. F, Tharp, and ■ ti ers of the best families in the place, at from twenty > to twenty-five dollars per month. A Jew can, per- > haps, be received in my own family. , The object of our course of training will be not I to make household idols and parlour oruamen a of ; the pupils committed to qur care, but true and noble, i thinkii g and useful, women- fi<tu become the edu j cators of the succeeding gener«tioii- ! Our first term will begiq on the Ist Monday in _ September next,’and will close at Christmas. The . tuition is as low as circumstances will permit us to make it, viz : Primary department, for first Term, 812,00 ’ Preparatory “ “ “ “ . . u 0 ; College Cusses, . so’oo , Fren&, “ “ « . . i o s Latin, “ “ “ . 10,00 G’eek, “ “ “ , 10 U) ■ Music, “ “ “ - . 35'00 Use of Plano, “ “ “ . - 300 Incidi n-.al expenses, “ “ “ - i t oo Daughters ot indigeht ministers, of .all denomin ations, will be received and taught without charge myltrethren wish to do me a kindness, now is the time. A NEW FEATURE. In view of the great demand which there most shortly be for Southern teachers, it has been deter mined to institute a department for special instruc. lions in the Scibncb and Art of Reaching, to be under tho immediate direction of the Presl tent.— Those youngladies who desire or expect- to engage in this most noble and delightful e uploymeut will derive very great advantages from the Lectures and practical illustrations in thir- department. This Course can be taken with or wiihout the Coillege Course. Terms for firet Term, $lO. A. C. D. Vandalism of lliv Yankees A correspondent of the Richmond Senti nel thus sums up the instances in one county (Fairfax) in which the Y ankees have dese crated and destroyed the edifices dedicated to the Living God, contrary to the United States Army instructions, which declare that “religious edifices are to be regarded as sacred ”: j At Fairfax Court House they have con {verted the Episcopal church into a stable. They have destroyed the Methodist Church and Parsonage at the same place. At Centreville they have burned the Episcopal Church, and razed to its founda tion the Methodist Church. Paine’s Church, -one of the old colonial chuiches, has been razed to the ground. Pohick Church, the church of Washing ton—the walls are standing—the pulpit, the pews, with the names of Washington, M-v son, Lewis, &c.. engraved thereon, have all been burned, and the building is now used as a stable. Fall’s Church, another colonial church, has been seriously damaged and used as a hospital. Lebanon, burnt, ) Ananda le, destroyed, pulled down Andrew Chapel, do. do. ; Dranesville do., do. do. Mt. Carmel, do. do. j. It is said that the only church uninjured in the county was the new Catholic Church, near Fairfax station, but the latest informa tion from the county is that it was used as a hospital, and, doubtless, it has shared the fate of all the rest. Can the history of the world present a similar record of outrage , upon that which the Yankees profess to re | gard as sacred ? Yankee Blasphemy. i The Richmond Dispatch of the 16th inst. ' says: • , It seems to be as natural for a Yankee to blaspheme as it is for the “spaiks to fly upwards.” He does it, apparently, betause he cannot help it. He seldom opens his mouth but out pops something blasphemous, i.et us not, then, judge Seward too hardly because*he is a hypocrite and blasphemer. 4s well blame a dog for going on four legs. It is his nature and he cannot b® anything else, any more than the leopard can change his spots or the Ethiopian his skin. A school-master, advertising in one of the New York papers, a school for small children, commences his advertisement thus : “Suffer little children to c<ime unto me, and forbid them not.” This is the very jquintessence of blasphemy. The man who .conceived it may challenge the most hard ■ ened reprobate in existence to a cursing ‘ match without the» slightest apprehension. Again, on the 17th, the same paper re marks: The short speech of Secretary Seward, at the Yankee jollification in Washington, over the fall of Vicksburg, is the most shockingly hypocritical and blasphemous utterance that ever fell from the lips of man. He said he had “ prayed that the cup of this war might pass fiom-him,” butthat his “ Southern brethren” had forced it upon him. With a perfect recollection of the strenuous efforts Virginia made for peace— of the commissioners sent by the Confed erate Geveminent to urge a peaceful sep eration—and of his own promise no* to ’ reinforce Fort Sumter—broken as soon as lit was made, he has the horribly profane audacity to represent himself as a persecu ted Saviour, praying that the bitter cup, forced upon him by his enemies, might pass r from his lips I U’an any cause prosper which Abus u«trages truth and insults God?