SERVILITY.—I was early taught that it was an evidence of low breeding, and depraved mind, to pay great respect, and esteem, and attention, to the rich, and popular, and great, while at the same time you would despise the poor, and the dependent, and the lowly. It is better to make a sort of average, and bestow love where it is most needed.
A WARNING.—After giving a needed rebuke pretty plainly, it is natural to say something comforting, and the danger is of spoiling the whole. The best way is to let the thing work awhile, and bestow comfort when penitence calls for it. Do your work well, and do not overthrow it by mistaken kindness.
“IS HE RICH?—When I see an individual living highly and dressing richly upon credit, I ask, How much better is he than a thief? It may be a sort of comforting plaster to be thought rich by strangers: but this will hardly overbalance being looked upon as a sharper by my creditors, and a grief to angels, and a monster of pride and injustice to all the good and just. “Is he rich?” His coat indicates it, and his equipage asserts the same; but an enemy has the taunt ready, “Not if his debts were paid.”
POVERTY is no disgrace to the honest man, who has used his best endeavors to avert it. To the proud and unjust it has a thousand stings; but to the conscientious, good man it brings no sting of remorse, no reproach, but with the worthies of old, he counts the loss of all things but gain.
CONFESSION.—Much stress is laid upon confession in scripture, “confess and forsake,” this is the order of God’s word.
It may be more consonant with the feelings of some, to forsake without confession, but if I have wounded or injured my brother, confession is first necessary, in order to fulfill the demands of scripture.
It is dangerous, as all profane and sacred history shows, to reverse gospel order. The papal church is an example of the danger of trusting to other oracles than the word of God, and they plainly cite us to the law and the testimony, and anathematize those who reverse them.
I may be naturally averse to confession, and my heart may say, “Only do right, and this is the best confession;” but the scripture says, “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.” O how many a bleeding heart has been healed by contrition, finding vent in humble confession; and I think I may say, that heart is carnal which is constitutionally averse to confession.
No one will say that sin is not to be confessed to God. All allow this; but I allude to those who will not rectify an error, or heal a wound by confession. So well do I know the scripture demands on this point, that I tremble for the brother who will not confess when he has injured the feelings (unnecessarily) of a friend or an enemy.
J. CLARKE.
OBITUARY.
By J. C. Lawton
Fell asleep in Jesus in Exeter, Otsego Co., N. Y., July 5, 1860, Bro. Luman D. Armstrong, after a short illness of six days, three of which he was able to be about. On the third day of July he was almost instantly taken down, and in less than three days was beyond the reach of pain, where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. May we all profit by this affliction. May it be sanctified to our good. I feel to praise the Lord for the bright evidence and hope of his adoption into the family of the sons of God. He lived with me seven or eight months previous to his death, and I can say, it seemed to be all his desire to know and obey the truth.
Thus has the Lord removed one of us, that he may be hid in the day of the Lord's fierce anger; but he will come up in the first resurrection, clothed with immortality to bloom in eternal youth and beauty on the earth made new. None of the messengers being in the vicinity, some remarks were made from 1 Cor. xv, 57, by a Methodist minister.
May the Lord strengthen his parents and friends to profit by chastisement, and to overcome and be prepared more fully to appreciate the great and inestimable blessings of the truth.
J. C. LAWTON.
A New Sect.
By Editor
CONCERNING the church in the days of the apostles, we read that "their sound went into all the earth," Rom. x, 18, and that the "sect" was "everywhere spoken against." Acts xxviii, 22. Well we suppose it is better that the sound should go out, and the sect be known, even though spoken against, than that it should exist in inglorious obscurity. The single eye of the honest-hearted will be able to see through the smoke of slander and vituperation, and discover the gems of truth which the enemy would endeavor to conceal thereby.
It seems that the remnant of the church are now beginning to enter upon the same experience through which the people of God passed in the early days of this dispensation. From the news items going the rounds of the papers of the land, we perceive that people are beginning to learn with apparent astonishment, of the existence of a new sect. The following items will illustrate.
"NEW RELIGIOUS SECT.—One of the New York papers says:
"Iowa has the credit of having added a new religious sect to the many already in existence. They are known as soul-sleepers. Their 'belief' consists in a total unbelief; as they are opposed to churches, deny the divinity of Christ, teach that the soul is a material substance, and sleeps with the body until the resurrection."
The above note we clip from the Sabbath Recorder; but we fear it is not impartial in its quotation; for we have seen the same item in other papers, where the keeping of the seventh day as the Sabbath was added to the dark catalogue of their belief. Was the Recorder ignorant of this fact? or did it see fit, from denominational considerations, to omit that portion of the "total unbelief" of the new sect?
But Iowa does not get all the credit of adding another sect to the religious world. The following is from a Massachusetts paper:
"A NEW SECT.—There is an organization or denomination in Michigan who style themselves the 'Church of God,' but who pass by the appellation of Wyno-barbarians. One of their peculiar ordinances consists in the washing of each other's feet. The Elder offers a prayer, then removes his coat, girds on a towel and proceeds to wash the feet of the member nearest him, wiping his feet with the towel, then takes him by the right hand and salutes him with a kiss. The washed then washes the feet of the next brother, and the washing proceeds until all are washed. The sisters in the meantime are busily engaged in washing each other's feet. After a hymn the services are closed."
Perhaps all that need be said of this is contained in the following which appeared in the same paper, from some one who was evidently unwilling to let a Bible institution rest under the imputation of "barbarism."
"PROOF OF BARBARISM.—The Standard of the 21st inst., contained a singular proof of the Barbarianism of a 'New Sect in Michigan.' It seems well calculated to cause every lover of Bible truths, to look around in dismay, and wonder, if the time has come when civilized man can, with impunity, set aside the teachings of that meek and holy One, who suffered and died that glorious light might take the place of gross darkness. Nothing was advanced concerning the doings of the 'New Sect,' that is not in accordance with Christianity; yet, they were styled Barbarians.
"Were New England Churches in a more fallen state fifty years ago than now? Was there then more of pride and less of humility? The ordinance, so much despised by the author of the remarks, in relation to the 'New Sect,' was then, in many Churches, as general as baptism or communion. And why should it not be? Can one ask for more convincing proof of its divine origin than the following:
"John xiii, 4. He riseth from supper and laid aside his garments; and took a towel and girded himself.
"5. After that, he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash his disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
"12. So after he had washed their feet and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, know ye what I have done to you?
"13. Ye call me Master and Lord; and ye say well, for so I am.
"14. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye ought also to wash one another's feet.
"15. For I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done unto you.
"16. Verily, verily I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
"17. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."
Of such falsehoods as that we deny the divinity of Christ, as the first item affirms, or the inaccuracy of the description of the ordinance of feet-washing as contained in the second, it is unnecessary for us to speak to the readers of the REVIEW.
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Church, Chapel, and Organization
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A correspondent writes: "I would like to request some of the brethren to give me the evidence for the propriety of using some words in the connection they occur in some of the communications recently published in the Review. 1. The word "church" is used for chapel. 2. "Organization" is used for gospel order. Now my former views have been that Bible expressions were preferable."
ANSWER.—It is doubtless preferable to apply Bible expressions to all things for which they are provided. But we think our correspondent will find upon examination that the word "chapel," and the expression "gospel order," are not known in the New Testament, and hence are no more scriptural than the ones to which he objects. The word church in the N. T. comes from ecclesia, the primary signification of which is, a body of people called together, an assembly; and the word has come now to signify primarily, the place or building occupied by such assemblies. Chapel is defined to mean "A house for public worship erected separate from a church;" from which we see that chapel cannot properly take the place of church.