Gospel Herald, 1859-10-15

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GOSPEL HERALD.
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iEHOLD,   I   BRING   YO0   GOOD   TIDINGS   OP   GKBAT   JO-y  .
ON   EAKTH   PEACE,   GOOD   ¦\VILL   TOWAKD   MEN."
VOL. 16.
DAYTON, O., SATURDAY, OCTOBEE 15, 1859.
ISi 0,23.
ORIGINAL POETRY,
Wriiien for the Gospel Herald.
lines Inscribed to T. B- J.
Oil the occadon of tier invalid hmband's departure for the the Sottlh of France, in ihe hope of resto¬ ration to health.
I cannot bid thee stay.
My dearest one ;¦ Thougli dark and drear the hours,
¦When til ou ftit gone.
I cannot bid thee stay,
Though -well I kno-iv Ho-vy full of grief thy soul
la even no-sv.
I cannot bid thee stay,
Hope becks thee on To -warmer, Dlander climeR,
She bids theo come.
But thou -syilt come again
To bles? thy homo. Thy children and thy -wife;
Yes, thou -\vilt come
With cheek no longer pale,
But lip and broiy Shall -\\ear the hue of health,
Tho^-gh pallid iio-iy.
Then fare thee -w-ell my Ioto,
In Cfod's oTi'ii liand Are wind find tide and wave,
Ih will command.
Yes, fare tliee well my love.
My husband deaii We'll put our trubt iu God,
Nor ever fear.
ORIGINALITIES.
WritU^i for ile Dailiel Herold.
Observer, No. 3.
A.-—^Bro. B., I aia truly pleased to moot with you at thi.s time. Ihaveboon wanting to sop iinrl uonverao with you, ibr some timo pa-st, luid ttiUi about m.atters and things conuc(.'tod witli our cbufyh- Tliore ai'e.sevoi'al things whieU aKould oall the titteution of the brefch rffift, and be attended to soon. There is oae thiwg, ia particular, about -which I have Ui^n tbintcin^j^ much ubout foi spmo time. past. I'do tell you that I a-m not able to keep it out of ray mind aad do npt think I -will, until it is set tied up; and tho nioro I think about it, the more unpleasant I feel about th matter. (I -would be much pleased to have you do right in all such casCiS, and th-enyou and all Qthers wlio havo been uogleetiug such matters, -will all feel much better.) Many ofthe ohurebes tiro very slow in attending to such thuigs. It is all wrong to thus neglect chrietian obligations.
B.—Bro. A., What do you mean by that thing to which you refer? You must expl--un yourself Youri-emarks are eingular—i cannot understand yo-ijr mea-ning—you almost alarm mo. I hope that you have not been commit, ting murder, or any such thing. I have always taken you to be a pretty good sort ofa man. I have lieard noth¬ ing special against you. It must be a atrango imniaginatiou of your mind since your severe sickness- This is of¬ ten the ease. I think it will all come right in a short time, and thon you -will feel much better in j'-our mind than ^11 appear to foel this raorning.    11 in
not good to permit-small matters to rest too hetx-vfy on the mind. You must learn to take things easy. All will work for good to those who love God. A-—Bro. B-, I wish you to under¬ stand most positively^that I have not been committing murder, neither have been sick in body, but my mind has been, and is yet, in great trouble, and that too ofa serious character- The thing has by.some means, taken a deep hold on my mind, and the more I try to content myself, that the tiring is all right, as it is, the more I feel condemn¬ ed about it. It haunts my guilty soul like a ghastly ghost; and I would be glad if it would only take hold ofthe minds of all the members of tbe church in tlie stime manner it has of mine- (Amoii- That is good. Stick to that brother A. Hold B. to the point. He never understands you; but wants to shun the truth. You are about to put it to hira. He is only trying to make you bolieve it all a foolish notion of your mind; bat do you hold him to it—do not per rait him to hide, or turn your atten¬ tion in another direction.)
i admit that I am guilty before (4od, and you and the rest of the breth¬ ren aro as much in fault as lam. I hope you hear that ray Dear Sir. This is no trifling matter, I wisli it was.
B.—Bro. A. You must be cautious how you talk in this unguarded man¬ ner. I want you to come out liko a man, aud explain to me what you mean, or so far asl am concerned, take the charge back. 1 wish yoa to ro- niember, that I have been a membpr ofthis church for many years,andlhis is tho iirst time lliat my namo has ov¬ er been among the unruly members. Do you mean to say that wo have not paid all of our honest debts, if so, tell me wliat they tire, and I am ready and willing, and able to p-ay all my part of it. If wo are behind in pa} ing any of our preachers, we must settle up ev¬ ery cent duo thom, poor fellows—they haMO a hard time to make both ends ofthe yoar meet on honest principles; and 1 am not ablo to boo how they do it; but thero is one thing connected with their calling—they should work ibr souls, and notmoney. Ithink from what you say, tlia-t it would be much better to call a mooting of the church, and then you can explain this thing to them. I want you to tell mo boforo you leave, that I may have time to think it all over.
A —Well, Bro- B., I suppose that I must tell you all about it, tmd perhaps 1 had better <Io it at this time; but it maked me blush to think that I must speak the thing in words and hear the bound with my own ears. Just think, this thing bus boon standing over threo years, in an unsettled state, and will stand until the judgment ofthe last day, and then oome up against us I must say, itis a burning shame on all the members ofthe church; but I eon sole myself with tho reHection that oth¬ ers aro as guilty as I am, aud other churches have'done the same thing, and nothing said about it; and now, if I should be content irt' my mind, I would never mention the tlifng again, l)ut I cannot do it, J have been tiying to bo content to lot tho matter rest for the lii8t//(ree years, but hero it is right beibre int-, and I am not ablo to get clear of it, a-nd now I had better out with it, and not hold baok any longtr.
I tell you. Sir, if all the facts in con¬ nection with this ease were unfold¬ ed before us, they would not appear very pretty to our minds. I suppose- that you rem ember several years since, when brother preach¬ ed for us a short time. Well, I have come to the point, at last,  but I must
idolatrous iisuages, proving a very im- - perfect emancipation from the poly¬ theistic sentiment; and the most open contempt of the authority ofthe apos¬ tles. JSTo perfect realiziition of chris¬ tian commnnion to Serve as an exam¬ ple, and a standtird for successive ages, and by thechiim of its beauty and re-
say, I do not feel much like telling the ! pose, to awe and silence, the outbreak thing after all ray effort, bnt I had bet-1 of individual thought- ter tell the truth and shame tho devil. I   Thesearenotthepictupeswhichprim- Well, the simple, naked truth, is; yes, S itive christians present in the Epistles
it is the truth; —as I was about to say, which thing I will tell you in a fow words; we have not paid him for a portion of that time; and 1 have every reason to believe that ho should have the money to pay bis own honest debts. I have been thinking this mat¬ ter all over, and remember of hearing a man say, that he did wish that, that preacher would pay him several dol¬ lars, that had been standing lor some timo, and be as good as his; -word: and I was of the opinion that ministers (should be up to time, and nol disgrace the good cause, as many of thera do by not paying all of their honest debts. But then, 1 rcracmber that we are justly indebted to him five timei as mucii as the sum claimed of him. It is too bad for ablo chui'chcs to treat ministers in  thih trifling- manner.    If
of St. Paul. But, the real picture which that ago presents, is full ofthe lessons of true peace; fbr the present, it repre¬ sents an attempt of fraud to combine a .unity of spirit wi'th the -otmost diver¬ sity of forms. Son-ship to (Jod, and brotherhood to Christ, -with the freest varieties of national and intellectual differences, and it exhibits an apostle claiming no authority to settle contro¬ versies, to reduce to one common for¬ mula, modes of worship, or irregu¬ larities of speculative vie-wa, bnt leav¬ ing every m^n free to be what he pleased, provided only he preserved uninjured tho sentiment of christian Iovck and founded his rule of conduct, not in an intensely concentrated re¬ gard for his o-srn rights, but in the sympathy of a christian spirit.
The practical direction  ofthe apos-
wo would come up to the mark, and | tie to tho contlif'ting elements of the pay our debt, he could pay a number i primitive cburth was. to yield ovcry- of smaller ones. It is too Bad for min-i thing external lor tho sake of a. eoni- is,iers to be called onto paythcirdobt« Imon st^ntmient of fellowship with and have nothing to do it with, tinil at I Christ. Therulo of "the successora of the same timo the churches refuse to j the tiposlles-'' is, to mako cveiything pay them. (Ithank Godthetrnth has ta- j yield to external unifoi'inity, and to let ken hold of that brother's mind, and I tho unity ofthe .spirit and of l«v-o pasa- pray that it may take a little deeper for nothing, without the Otttward sym- liold, not only of his mind, but of till hols of agreement. Iho iiierabcrs'ofthiU elmrch- iHsd ofthe The-sc are thogreflt lessons wo learn different ehurches, who h,ave been hold- from tbe studj'of these epistles; that ing back a part of the jn-ice, and give i there never was a porloct realization ihom no rest day nor night until thej'i of a chri«ti»iu church; that only ji uni- pay tho last cent duo to minjj-ters foi- fbrmity of christian teinpcr, can grad- proacbing, and Lhcn Icould pay allmy ually produci; ihat roalizatioir, and small debts, and have a little left-—i that meanwhile, he is working against The curse of a Just  G-od must rest on j Christ,   who  adopts   any   other  aim.
that churcli, who  will be -so  careless about paying their ministers-')
Wntl^nfortliL („)., ¦; Hendd
Unity in Diversity.
BY JI. S. s-
In looking over the christian wnrld- of the present day. and vicjvint;' the vast differences of the opinion, with¬ out any seeming bond of universal brotherhood, it carries us hack to tho primJtivo age of the church to iinjuire of the ins'pired apostle^ and their teachings. St. Pttul, who alone in the apostolic age conceived aright the uni¬ versality ol' the gospel, not in peace and triumph, but against oontroversy and resistance, proclaimed the essence of Christianity,—that which risch above outward tlitferences, and unite-} souli by an inward tie; to be  a righteous-
than a desire for this inward unity of the spirit and moral purpose, as a rule of christian conduct-
1 Wrdli n lot llw Uv,pcl Ilei a IJ.
The Holy Bible-
-BY WILLIAM-PINKEKTON'. .ttt.' *"
Oonceriiuig tho nature and impor¬ tance ot the contetUs ofthis book, the majority of professed christians arc un¬ doubtedly very ignorant. I sometimes wonder that Christians ('•'J sRouk| con¬ tent thenihelves with "so' Tihiitod a knowledge of the sacred -writings. Could I bo the means of incitiiigpeo- ]jle, religious and irreligiSua, t-o a moro general study of tfie scriptures, and a mote a-nxious and earnest inquiry con- eerniiig the 'Vay of th-e Ijord," as taught therein, 1 should regard inj- self as  an inatrnnicht in   the Lord?s
ness with which anything etorinil can i hand» of acoomplishing a greater interfere but ''the rightenusni-hs of God-1 work of benevolence, than Is being ac- procecdingout of faith.'' complished by the nnitt^d   efforts of a
Thoopi'stles tothe llomanH-exhibit.s.| thousand of thOso p/opular sermonizers tho .fewish and the Gentile forms oTj of the''day, who aroburdening tho peo- mind, looking upon christia-aity from i pie wrth interminable disquisitions different standing points, ¦M-ai the two I conci^'ning the speeulative, metephys- partial views, "in bitter animosity j ictii theories, and doguuts of antiquated threatening destruction to each other   j theoloey.    Such may please   the itoh-
Tho Epistles to the Coristhiahs ex-i ing ears of the vain and philosophic; hibits schisms in doctrine, iimnol*ali-{ but the heart, or tho seat of flio spirit- ties in practieo, faetiona orffaniziidun-, nul affections, is left niitouohed. Al- doT loaders, a perilous  obaervanoi^ nf j in-w-mo, then,du'ietisn re*deB, to.raake