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7 i i ii -r 1 1 i I rf UNITED WE STAND, OUR COUNTRY FOR GOD. DIVIDED WE FALL. VOLUME 3 MBER 16. CLAY CENTER. KANSAS, AUGUST, 18 1892.

WHOLE NUMBER 66. 1 'WMT WE ARE. I and while pondering the matter over to herself, finally said she to tin old colored lady that was We're workers for the Lord. He is oar nope and stay, -J tendiug by iter "1 haye lived 78 years, and hav-never realiz ii I was a With an astonished look, mid a surp-'; The olorl woman "D- Laud a all de tnii" Such is the case with such irofei-Mrs, they don't want to realize their sius and will not until they are upon the brink of eternity. It may be that after judgment such may be sent to the hell of hypocrites or to the hypocrites hell.

The quality of such may be illustrated by com solemnly and enrnestry. It surely needs an answer. If, there ever was a time when there should be great heart searching it is now, and a frank acknowledgment of of coldness and indifference. Wc speak all this in the fear of God and know that judgment bar we will have to give an account for what we have written; surely your answer will not be one of bitterness. And if the description we have given is true, what an awful parison.

They are like plastered walls, the plaster beautifully colored, within which, as the windows are open owls and dirtfull birds are flying about. who lived only to the glory ot God and the salvation of lost souls. is something in them that makes us feel that they were men of God true shepherds! Think of Venn, and his preaching, it is said that men "fell before him liked, slaked lime!" Thinkof the much blessed labors of Whitefield, how thousands swayed to and fro at his preaching like the mighty waves of the sea, he seldom ever preached one sermon in vain. Take Berridge and Hicks, in their missionary tour through England four thousand souls were awakened in one year. Oh for those days again! Oh for just one day of Whitefield again! Oh but you say that time has past and gone! Yes, that is true, but we serve the very same God and his arm is not shortened that ht cannot save, it is only our sins and shortcomings that caused his departure from us: From HINTS TO Pentecost VVorrkers.

They are like whitened sepulchres that contain is In him alone we trust, To guide as in the way. We are from sin set free, God, he th- woik has done, And bids us fight on in his strength, Until the victory's won. re not tor the world, Nor for its vain applause, 1'orG ..1 'vt-'ll glorify, Wmle worku.s in his Sometimes the way si em hard The cross seems heav. But Christ is ever near, To say "I'll see you through." We're hated and we're mocked, And many at us do sneer But through it all we go Without the least of fear. God to thee we coiw Just asking thee for grace, That we may holy live, And view thy holy face.

sin among the ministers and people how great is the spiritual desolation that prevails! dear workers we come lo you with the facts in the name of God, asking dead mens bones. They are like the bark and the wood that surround the rotten heart, and are like the garments of Aaron's sons, on a leprous body. Yes, like ulcers containing foul matter, but covered over with a thin skin and sunposedto De healed. Who does not know that a holy external and a profane internal does not accord? But it is to be kept in mind that those heretofore spoken of, are not to be confounded with those who you to profit and not be as others who have gone betore. Just think! Fields plowed and sown, yet no gy.rnering in ot Machinery do well and believe well, nor with those who re- constantly in motion, and not one particle of produce! Nets cast i'-to the sea and prent of some sins, and who, while in worship and still mare while id spiritual temptation, speafe within themselves or pray from an oral confession like that of the others, for that general confession both precedes and follows reformation and spread wide, yet no fishes caught All PENTECOST CHURCH.

THE 31 ERE ORAL CONFESSION THAT ONE IS A SINKER IS, NOT REPENTANCE. this been done for years yea, for a lift-time! How startling! Yet it is suiely PAST DEFECTS. true. We have not exaggerated the mat ter a particle. If you think vve have, just question some ministers and see what oth er account they give.

They will tell you MY GOD, I AM ASHAMED AND BLUSH TO LIFT UPMY FACE TO TUBE, Mr GODJ 0 OUlt GOD, WHAT SMALL WB say after this!" 10. To deliver sermons on each Sabbath, to administer the Lord's supper statedly; to pay an occasional visit to those who re- of sermons PREACHED, but ot sermons BLEST they can say nothing. They can speak of discourses that were admired and applauded, but of discourses that were made effective by the Holy Spirit, they can say nothing. They can show you the names of scores they have baptized, how nfony members wereadiTjittedtbjf souls awakened, souls converted born again, alas! they have come to a dead stop now. They can ennumerate the sacraments they have dispensed; but whether any of them have been times of awakening they cannot say.

They can tell you of howrnany cases of discipline have passed through tlieir hands, but as to whether there was any godly sorrow for sin, hether any real repentance, any of them washed in the blood of the Lamb they are at a loss to know. They can all tell you of the atten S. F. IE. Concerning this oral confession, the reformed who adher to the Augsburg confession teach as follows: 'No man can ever know His sins, wherefore they cannot be enumerated.

They are, moreover, inter iorand hidden, and the confession would therefore he talse, uncertain, incomplete, and mutilated: hm he who confesses himself to be all mere sin, includes all sins, exclud none, forgets none, but still thd enumeration of sins, although not nee essarv, for the sake of tender and timid consciences is not. to bf done uway with. But this is only a childish aiid common form of confession for the Simple Page 327, 331,380. But this confession was by the reformed instead of actual repentance, after they had separated from the Roman Catholics, be-aj)se. it in based upon their imputative faith.

Which alote, without charity and so too without repentance works the remissnn of sins and regenerates the man, and also neon this, which is an inseparable appendage to that, faith, that there is no co operatiou on mans part with the Holy Spirit in the act of justification. Also upon this that no man free will in spiritual things, ami again upon this, thai all things are of immediate mercy, and nothing whatever of mercy made mediate by man and through him. Among the many reasons why the confession of the lips that one is a sinner is not repentance, is this, that eyery many, an impious one aud even a devil, may so cry out, and this with external de-vontness, when he thinks of the torment ia hell Impending on through which he is then passing. But who does not see that this is not from an m- ternal devotion, and consequently that it is Imac- lonary and therefore ol the limgs. But notvol- untary from within, and therefore not of the heart or an impions man and a devil still burns inwardly with the lusts of the love of doing evil, from which they are born on as windmills are driven by strong -winds: therefore such an exclamation is nothing but a continuance to cheat God, or to deceive the simple, and for the sake of delivereuce.

For what is easier than for to compel the iips to give forth the cry, and the breath of the mouth to adopt itself to it, to turn the eyes upwarl and raise the hands i This is what the Lord says in St. mark. hath Isaih prophesied of you, hypocrites, this people honereth me with their lips, but their hearts is far from me. And iu Matt. 23 25,26.

"Woe unto ye Scribes and Pharisees, far ye made clean the outside of the cup and platter, but within they arc full of extortion and excess, thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and platter that the outside also may be made clean." In hypocritical worldlylike this are they who have confirmed in themselves the faith of the present day, that the Lord by the passion of the cross took dance at Sunday School, of the abilities of T. E. MOORE. What doth it profit my brethren though etc, etc. James 2: 14, 15, 16, 17.

By any one (whose vision is not beclouded with self satisfaction) and who applies the forgoing text to. the condition of the popular church or organization of this day the conclusion must be reached that there is a vast amfiunt of dead faith in this our land. The history of the churches taking in the time of the Apostles, proves that the churchliovvever "plfftua! and vigorous looses its opportunity and becomes inactive as it neglects its practical and temporal duties. That is, that no church and individual soul can posess that power that comes from the smile of her rejoicing Lord, who do not consecrate them all to God and prepare and will to walk alone with God. Therefore it is no marvel, that with the losees of his smile the church as a spiritual power should loose its hold on the masses of souls, who she is not only intended to bring to a belief in the love of God, as sending his Son to die for them but to become their Saviour'in bringing them to his feet.

The professing church is looked upon by souls who are looking for realities, as a vast assembly of humbugs with all its practical realities in the sweet bye bye and only a whimsical faith in the present Who can wonder at this. Seeing these things are so, and that a new professian of holiness, no matter how clean cut may be its theology (and there is lots of it anything but clean )that is not accompanied wuh practical temporal help, will ever have the deserved-stigma of spurious, passed uponitby thenon professor. This is what led us to adopt the title of Pentecost Church, for we are sure how narrow, however selfish, those men and women might have been before they received the baptism at Pentecost, that spirit did not lead them to continue so, but as any candid reader must see, led them to acts of benevolence. And we want to assert, that never has there been a soul that received that spirit since that day that it did adhere to the same result Continued next issue. quest it; to attend religious meetings; this, we fear, sums up the life of thousands who claim to be shepherds of the flock of Christ.

Being a pastor at one pJAffjthcty- QJlJfortyars, yields no more than this. So many sermons, so many baptisms, so many sacraments, so many meetings of various kinds these are all that are found on the annals of the pastoral record, the all of a life of ministry to many. Of souls that have been saved, such is not mentioned on the record. Thousands have perished under just such a cold and Godless ministry; Judgment day alone will disclose whether so much as one soul has been saved. No doubt there was a great display of learning, but there was never a word uttered to help those who were weary.

There may have been an abundance of wisdom displayed, but not that wisdom that "winneth souls There might have been a sound of the gospel, but it did not contain any "glad tidings" at all; it was not sounded forth from a warm heart and warm lips, that were burning with the love of God, that startled the hearers at the grand and glorious message of God. Men lived, but it was never asked of them by their minister if they were "born again." Men sickened, sent for their minister, received a prayer on their deathbed as a passport to the better land. Men died and were buried were prayers offered at their funerals, and decent respects were paid. But they went to the Judgment seat of Christ, unthought of, uncared for and unsaved. No man, not even the minister, who had vowed to watch over them ever aid, "Are you ready?" Or told them of the dreadful Judgment to come.

Reader, is not this a description too, of many a minister in our land to-day. We don't speak in anger, we don't speak in scorn vye merely ask the question the teachers, but how many of the precious little ones whom they have vowed to feed, are seeking the Lord they know not, or whether their preacher be a man of prayer or piety, they cannot say. They can tell you the number of their congregation or the temporal condition of their flocks; but as to their spiritual state, how many have been awakened from the awful sleep of death in sin, how many arc really following God as dear children, they cannot pretend to say. No doubt they would deem it rashness, presumptious, fanaticism to have you inquire into such things. Vet they are sworn before God, betore angels, before men, to watch for their souls as they must give an account! But oh, of away all the sins of the world, meaning by this the sins of every one, providing men only pray accord- what use are schools, if souls are left out in the cold to perish, if living religion is lost sight of; if the Holy Spirit be not sought; if men are left to grow up and die unpitied and unsaved.

Oh, it was not so in other days, for our fathers watch ed, prayed and preached for souls. They ing to the formulists about propitiation and medi-" ation7 Some of them with loud voice and apparently burning zeal pour forth from the pulpit many holy things about repentance and charity, while they deem each of themselves in respect to salvation, for they mean no other repentance than confession of the lips. But they this to gain the people, and they also practice no more charily than that whictf belonged to public life. There was once an aged woman who had belonged to church lor many years. During a severe Illness the old lady felt that she was a lost sinner, asked God for them and they expected to get them.

They were really blest in turning many to righteousness, Their lives tell of their successful How re freshing it is to read of the lives of those.