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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
September 17, 1908.
7
ago—“It matters not what the Consti- tion assembled in the city
tution says, or what the laws framed recommended that the third Sunday
great calamity was the failure of in both the line of his mother and that
a throughout the world, and the Execu-
What 2:13-15; II Pet. 2:10-22.)
The Nature of Marriage.
be found largely in the majority among breakfast was taken more from habit
of the legitimate blood of David or severed.
He does not believe this. He and “of things they understand not ” foods and coffee meant headache
-
vine direction, inherited by them. And
that character they retain to the last
old men of today remember what a
band of sons of Belial said sixty years
ing the patriarchs the prominent fea- to Solomon and Nathan, both sons of
ture was, “Thy seed shall be as the Bathsheba, whom David married when
John
the
And
anti-slavery Constitution, an anti-slav- by Evangelical Churches everywhere
ery Bible and an anti-slavery God.” as a day of prayer for Sunday-schools
long time; but it culminated in the tive Committee was charged with the
desolation of Sherman’s march to the duty of publishing this recommenda-
posed is thus made impossible,
is the faithful spouse to do?
fried
, nau-
children. i
of Rachel:
You are, therefore, invited to ob-
serve Sunday, October 18, 1908, by en-
gaging in public and private prayer to
Almighty God for a special blessing
to show that civil law cannot be main-
tained outside that authority. It would
perish in its own utter inefficiency. Civ-
GEO. W. BAILEY,
Chairman,
penchant in this direction.
The Covenant of Marriage.
Every covenant is formed with
no kin to the race. (Heb 12:8.) In- And he knows that every hour in the resist the powers that be, which art. way I was losing weight and strength,
stead of showing sympathy, he lays an day one spouse dies and is buried. the ordinances of God, “shall receive when one day a friend suggested that
ALL LANDS.
The World’s Sunday-school Associa-
te a court of equity which will can-
cel the covenant and leave such spouse
free to form other arrangements, and
live and prosper. Our adversaries say
toil yields nothing. There is neither
subsistence, nor hope, nor entertain-
sons and daughters of the blessed Cre- ter of regulating the marital relation sionally be a recurrence to the flare of which is “the power of God unto sal-
ator. Now in the perversity of human is left, in the Old Testament, as well evil passions, when all restraint was vation to every one that believeth."
keep his law, “Thou shalt be blessed marriages, because such dissolution
they could not draw him into this tur- They all bore him children, and all the
moil. And today our adversaries have children were legitimate. In that char-
to make a new Christ to gratify their acter the land of promise was, by di-
of Abraham in his veins.
this for
no. This spouse must toil on, keep- law of evidence rigidly inhibits this, the dirt in Sherman’s abandoned cav- Association,
ing every part of the covenant as if Truth never seeks to do it. So their airy camps the only mitigation to the
sickening spectacle of thousands upon ministers of the gospel and Sunday-
Christ. They Twain Shall Be One Flesh. both ministers and laymen. than appetite. At first this insufficient
Our adversaries manufacture for The anarchist seems unable to at- Good reason had Peter and Jude diet was not noticed much but at work
themselves a totally different Christ, tach any definite meaning to this-ex- to pile high their anathemas against it made me weak and hungry long be-
He is an abnormal production of an pression. He argues that it shows such as “despise government,” despise fore noon.
under it say. We mean to have an in October of each year be observed
mon sense and the civil law, to which “antiquated, obsolete” “left behind in helpless women and children, who had who are interested in the work of the
Christ remits this matter, say, apply the world’s progress,” and “not worthy never before felt want, unsheltered, Sunday-school. “And all things what-
adulterous intercourse — not a drop that the marriage tie can not be dominion,” “speak evil of dignities”
there had been no breach. But this whole contention is demolished.
of Rome
We thought lightly of
or what the civil courts decree.” We TO EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS IN
be male or female barren among you.” law. So our Lord was, by the con-
(Deut. 7-14.) On the other hand, a tention of our adversaries, illegitimate
Oh, how pathetic the wail of his reputed father. Such a charge
a day of recorded time, when
sea. There was a specimen of an- tion.
their birth and training. Again and they represent the whole multitude
again God says, “Be fruitful,” “multi- of the saved. We show that the gen-
ply,” “replenish the earth.” In bless- ealogies of Joseph and Mary run back
view to achieve some purpose. The shows their names written on
achievement in marriage is children, twelve gates of the holy city.
that brings salvation. This is our heresy.
above all peoples. There shall not was not then required by the seculer
sand of the sea, and as the stars of he had nine living wives. All this
heaven. To Israel he says, if they without a dissolution of the earlier
iron hand on the faithful matrimonial while the other lives on and marries damnation.” God forbid that we should I try a ‘Grape-Nuts breakfast.’
il law was ordained of God and s partner abandoned by her husband and again. The real teaching of this undertake to judge any man. But “So I began with some stewed fruit,
left "like man’s moral apncin t "•8 arbitrarily crushes her into life-long expression is bountiful. A fraction of when the anarchist shall come up Grape-Nuts and cream, a soft boiled
exercised Inimmamsor' , 0h sterility, though her heart may wail the personality of the father combines against Paul’s malediction he will re- egg, toast, and a cup of Postum. By
KE discretion1^ adhon nip"n as did Rachel's for the normal fruit- with a fraction of the personality of member that this humble writer faith noon I was hungry but with a healthy.
... , 8 age of marriage. the mother in the child. So they fully warned him to stop before he normal appetite. The weak languid
responsible for its proper exercise. So, —1 ~ 2—0 K.,. -
when ou T ord was brought to face They Repudiate Their Own Witnesses, twain, in the child, become one flesh, reached that place. feeling was not there.
. n 0111 . . aS ug . °. 1 These men dwell on the expression. No physiologist has devised a happier We cannot conclude without show- “My head was clearer, nerves stead-
ehvVm ouTof this regulation hessos From the beginning it was not so.” form of words to express the trans- ing that the slogan, “It matters not ier than for months. Today my stom-
“Thii^is L,° domain 'of caemm An So they run back to Eden and to Noah mission of being from one generation what the civil law says, or what the ach is strong, my appetite normal, my
_ ' and down to Moses, and exultingly to another. But it has nothing to do civil courts decree.” is not only in de- bodily power splendid and head always
45 ee °re’ ’ ° vasmt 5 t ingS proclaim, never a man took a second with the dissolution of a marriage. fiance of all Bible teaching, but in clear.
xpat.ae a 55m Wb 48 °m nt wife, in the life of the first, but in The Nature of Anarchy, like defiance of our Twenty-Third Arti- “There's a Reason.”
o : wo • en ,5 sought to adu]tery. And this by a higher law A fierce controversy now rages be- cle of Religion. That article states Name given by Postum Co., Battle
-ni im in. ° 1S Vy, Hs45sS of than the law of Moses, a law that pre- tween the Constitution and the laws the authority of our legislative bodies, Creek. Mich. Read “The Road to Well-
ivi ing an m er ance, e u ere a vailed from the creation. on one part and the moneyed trusts Federal and State. And the foot note ville," in pkgs.
s mgmg reproo , an, w o ma e me We reply that Jacob married Rach- on the other. Our President, with his in the last edition of the Discipline Ever read the above letter? A new
a judge or a divider over you? (Luke el in one week after he had mar- fiery zeal, champions the former. But makes it clearer in these words: one appears from time to time. They
ROMANISM OR ANARCHY. NO 2.
til our paper of June 25, in the Ad-
vocate, we show that in his discourse
oil putting away a wife our Lord dis-
cussed solely the individual action of
the husband, apart from legislative uu-
thority or judicial decree. In the nu-
merous replies to that paper the dis-
tinction between such action of the
husband and action under legal author-
ity is wholly disregarded. Our adver-
“Yet a breakfast of rolls,
He is says it may be severed for one cause. Like reason had Paul to say, they that sea and kindred discomforts. Either
Christ in Sympathy With Humanity, who regarded it in that light were of the other world, would feel that
To redeem the world our Lord had in error, not knowing the Scriptures, he had not measured up to his ve-
to come very near the world’s heart. “The children of this world marry sponsibility did he not leave on rec-
It was not enough that he should be and are given in marriage. But they ord a refutation of the teaching that
the mighty God, Maker of all worlds, which shall be accounted worthy to leads to evils he knows so well. Since
It was not enough that he should take obtain that world, and the resurrection his former writing he has found the an-
upon himself the nature of angels, from the dead, neither marry nor are archists are not so numerous as he had
It must be the seed of Abraham. He given in marriage.” (Luke 20:34, 35; supposed. But they are loud-mouthed,
must be our very brother. More than Matt. 22: 29, 30; Matt. 12:24, 25.) boisterous, dictatorial, abusive, seek-
that, he must be tempted in all things When filling the world with people ing to subvert the whole teaching of
like as we are, that he might succor shall be accomplished, the purpose of the sacred Word, as well as the whole
them that are tempted. (II Heb. 16- marriage will have been served and power of secular law, for the poor
18.) All this, not to give him power, it will be known no more. Romanism privilege of hurling their pet words,
but to melt poor humanity into a makes it a sacrament. That is to give adultery and illegitimacy, at them they
sympathy that might combine with their Church exclusive control over it hate, not sparing the blessed Christ,
him, so as to be one with him as he and thereby to maintain a despotism Good people are overawed by them,
was one with the Father. Only thus over the world. Some Protestants are and are too timid to speak out. Were
could spring up the submissive trust afflicted with an inkling of this same they encouraged to talk they would
Com- The only reply to these facts is thousands of decrepid old men and school superintendents, and all others
saries content themselves with repeat-
ing the words of our Lord and then
proclaiming, “it matters not what the
civil law says, or what the civil courts
decree,” the man who takes a second
wife pending the life of the first “lives
in adultery, his so-called wife lives in
adultery and his children are born in
adultery.”
Possibly we did not make this mat- .
, . , 1 Iy L. of Rachel: Give me children or I against the strength of manhood would
ter as plain as we should. We beg & . ........ ,
leave now to set it beyond question, die." Only for this could she dispense be understood to justify their introduc-
m . ... r. .. a na R with that most sensitive feature in tion to the solar plexus. How dare archy. None but those who have seen
I O liiUsLIaC. I W O Ulcll, A d-I — —»
claim that a third man owes each of woman’s nature, the demand for her they make it against their Lord? and felt the like can appreciate its
1 , ,1 , g"c ,1 A husband’s undivided love. She says: Abraham, measured by modern sen- horror,
them a debt, and refuses to pay. A, , ,
, . 11 .. a .+01 “Behold my maid. Take her, that timent, was guilty of a grosser fault; Sherman said: “War is hell.” Dr.
upon his own authority, and without
establishing his debt save by his own there may be one birth in which I he married his sister. But when Ab- Rankin thinks he spoke the truth. So upon Sunday-schools in all lands,
declaration lays hold of the property may claim an interest.” The like ex- imelech made advances to this wife, does this writer. Every child of God, young or old,
of his alleged debtor sells it and ap- perience bad Sarah, also Leah. These not quite seemly for a married woman, a philosopher says: “In the midst of learned or otherwise, may constitute a
plies the money to the payment of three cases on record show the im- God interposed and said to him: “Be- arms law is silent.” It is the silenee link in this chain of prayer which is
his claim Now A has done a griev- portance attached to the achievement hold, thou art but a dead man * * * of law, rather than the activity of arms, intended to encircle the globe,
ous wrong His unestablished claim proposed in marriage. In this one for she is a man’s wife.” A volume that makes the hell. For a check on strengthening the tie which unites us
was no authority for the seizure If thing the purpose of God and that of evidence could be given on this the tendency to anarchy, we old men in a common bond of service, deepen-
he took the property privately he is a of humanity are at one. It looked line. The above is sufficient. It es- should not permit the young to en- ing our affection for each other, and
thief If he took it forcibly he is a far in the future to an innumerable tablishes, if the word of God can es- tirely forget the ashes of Columbia increasing our zeal in an effort to se-
rALer Now B takes a different multitude of intelligent, holy, happy tablish anything, that the whole mat- and of Atlanta. There should occa- cure the universal study of the Word,
course. He presents his claims to
to be noticed.” Why, their whole the- unfed, unclad, the pallor of famine soever ye shall ask in prayer, believ-
ory is built on what they call facts on the cheek, the utter destitution of ing, ye shall receive.”
from the beginning. Thus they seek hope in the heart, the grains and frag- By direction of the Executive Com-
to discredit their own witness. The ments of grains of corn picked from mittee of the World’s Sunday-school
the court having jurisdiction of the
amount. He has citation issued to the
defendant to contest his claim, and
prays for judgment for such sum as
may be found due. On the trial the
evidence sustains his claim. Judg-
ment is rendered and execution award-
ed. Places that execution in the
hands of the Sheriff. The Sheriff, by
its authority, takes the property of
the defendant, sells it, and with the
money pays B his debt. Now B has
done no wrong. He has utilized the
proceeding authorized in all civilized
lands for the collection of debts. And
yet our adversaries refuse to see any
distinction between the action of A
and that of B. They bring authority
to show that A is a thief. They need
not do so; no one disputes it. But
then they make the preposterous as-
sertion that they have shown B also
to be a thief. We submit;’ they make
no pretense of an answer to our argu-
ment.
Our Lord never discussed the disso-
lution of marriage, prospectively or
otherwise, by judicial decree, based
on a cause prescribed by the sover-
eign authority. You shall see why
he never discussed it. The regulation
of the marital relation involves all we
hold valuable. Let us see what would
be our condition were the civil law
wholly deprived of authority to regu-
late that relation. All statutes pro-
viding to whom one might be married
would be annulled. The amalgamation
of the white and the negro race would
be free. The validity of all marriages,
and the legitimacy of all children,
would be beyond the purview of the
law. The inheritance of all property
would be an open question. Then, as
every dollar of property in the world
is destined to pass by inheritance, the
courts could not adjudicate the owner-
ship of a dollar. A thousand other
evils grow out of the proposed an-
nulment. of authority. This is enough
We have seen that the purpose of days. Prosperity, as the smile of the There is no way for showing our
12-14.) The disciples were sorely ried Leah. Then he married Bilhah at this writing the latter is decidedly “As far as it respects civil affairs, are genuine, true, and full of human
vexed through all his mission becase and Zilpah. the maids of his two wives, on vantage ground. No man oan say we believe it the duty of Christians, interest.
THE WAY OUT
From Weakness to Power by Food
Route.
Getting the right start for the day’s
work often means the difference be-
tween doing things in wholesome com-
fort, or dragging along half dead all
day.
There's more in the use of proper
food than many people ever dream of
—more’s the pity.
“Three years ago. I began working
in a general store,” writes a man,
“and between frequent deliveries and
more frequent customers, I was kept
on my feet from morning till night.
“Indigestion had troubled me for
some time, and in fact my slight
nature it often occurs that one of the as in the New, to the secular law. lifted from a vast horde of demons. In order that this recommendation
covenanter abandons his covenant. What the moral law does is to enjoin whose sole ambition was to appropri- may have the widest publicity possi-
No inducement can secure its perform- upon this question the utmost respect ate all they could, and to destroy all ble, we earnestly invite the co-opera-
ance. The entire achievement pro- to secular law. (Rom 13:1-7; I Pet. they could not appropriate; to the tion of the religious and secular press,
pangs of hunger. Philadelphia, August, 1908.
God in his mercy shortened those ---------
whether we shall be ruled by Con- and especially all Christian ministers,
stitution and laws, Federal and State; to be subject to the supreme authority
or by the ’Standard Oil Trust and its of the country where they may reside,
confreres. Of all times in our history and to use all laudable means to enjoin
this is a time to stand to the death obediepce to the powers that be.”
by the institutions of our fathers. But This accords with the Bible. But it
this is the time when an evil crew is utterly repugnant to the teaching
combine to strike down so much of the of our anarchistic adversaries.
authority of the civil law as shall J. D. THOMAS,
render it futile. Their slogan is, “It Oak Cliff, Texas.
matters not what the civil law says, -------••-------
ment in this stupid course. No mat- marriage is to people the world. The morning, returned. But lo! the spirit appreciation of Christ’s sacrifice for
ter. The whole purpose of marriage effort to give it a shadowy spiritual of anarchy comes to again throttle the our sins that means so much as our
must be subverted, and this faithful nature never succeeded. Were there law, disappoint its purpose and turn sacrifice of ourselves for the sake of
spouse must accept life-long sterility anything spiritual in it, it would sur- the country over to the same awful winning others. “The Lord Loveth a
as the sole fruitage of the marriage, vive in the next world, the home of calamity. We hope for better things, cheerful giver.”—Pearl F. Ankrom.
This teaching is not of our Lord. spirits. Our Lord taught that they But this writer, tottering on the verge I --------+•----------
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