Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 28, 1884 Page: 2 of 8
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THE MESSENGER.
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WE
OAT, MAY 28, 1884.
ADVENTISM.
BY R. C. HORN.
writers of the early ages of Chris-1 This was about A. D
tianity, but think it unnecessary 1 synod of Toledo cle
to do so now. There is no fact of
history more firmly established
than this one. The Jewish Chris-
tians no doubt observed the old
Sabbath as a national day, and
also the Lord's day in memory of
the resurrection of Christ. Ine
CHAPTER in.
of
what
qudtations show the mistake of
Adventists, in attributing the keep-
The next reason given by Ad-fing of’ Sunday to Constantine,
ventists for observing the Sabbath The fact is that keeping
is the frequency of it3 mention by it >y Christians is
the writers of the New Testament caused him to declare it * national
Scriptures. They claim that it rest day in his empire Thtt was
was the day upon which the apos- after his conversion to the Chris-
ties preached, as illustrated by tfan religion, and evinces the fact
Paul’s labors, and consequently that the church kep a, y-
the day kept by them as the Sab- Eusebius speaks in h.gli terms ot
bath. I reply, that preaching wa* I Constantine’s great respect for he
not a part of Sabbath observance. Lord s day. With these c
The Sabbath was-a day of rest, not fore ns, can we doubt for a moment
of labor. The Jews came together that the early church kept the first
to make the necessary sacrifices, day as a day of rest from manual
and the apostles took advantage of labor, and assembled to worship
this fact to present them-tho gos- God? “Let no man there.ore
pel of Christ. The fact, that they judge you in meat, or in drink, oi
preached on the pentecost after in respect of a holy day, or of the
the resurrection of Christ,, is no new moon, or of the Sabbath days.
reason for perpetuating this an- Lor it seems good to the o y
nual feast of the ’Jews. The apos- Spirit and to the apostles to lay no
ties took advantage of circumstan- greater burden upon you then nec
ces The fact, that the disCbursgs essary. Shun idolatry, - and flee
reported never mention’ Sabbath fdrnicalion, neglecting not the as-
observance, is proof'that it \Vas 'no semblies of the samts for worsuip,
partqf tjiq gos'pel.' and you will do well. May the
*rrv, “ \ ' i Yi: ' f truth make U3 free from tile tradi-
„ The AdfenUsts ridicule the proof
_____% C-*.7 -*'is » firms of men. ‘Amen.
synod of Toledo declared)"that
foot-washing should take place on
the day Christ performed it, viz:
Thursday, the 14th of the Jewish
month, Nisan. In the Greek
church foot-washing came to be
regarded a sacrament. The Roman
Catholic, Bernard Clairvaax (A. D-,
1115), strongly recommends it as
sacrament for the remission of
400-.-.-he jjieffect as ,we do. HenceVwHen
<g?feS(t ctfoje, his-feet wefe cover-
ed, y&tii dvijtt, and'-mnst beT-w ashed
before he^was ready to recline at
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the Holy Spirit/’—Campbell and
Bice Debatte page 615.
A. Campbell on a Change of
Heart: “You have heard me say
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the tqble/ * In the better class of j here (and the whole country may
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a
sins.
houses servants were waiting- to
attend to this. And they were
servants of the lowest class. Thus
the act of owr Saviour was in har-
mony with the customs of his
time and country, just as his par-
If he liad been teach-
middle ages at the installation of ling the same lesson to-day, he
princes and bishops. , At, the would not have drawn off the boots
Russian court it is still observed of his disciples and washed their
It was observed during the whites were.
with great pomp and ceremony
In England it whs formerly-the
custom for the king on the Thurs
feet, but would have performed
some act of lowly service in ac-
cordance with modern customs.
day before good Friday, to have To claim that we must imitate our
as many poor
men brought in as Saviour’s example - in
mean
all things
that we
he was years old, and to wash their literally,3 would
feet with his om hands. The must live, and dress, and travel
Protestant Queen Elizabeth even | just as he did. We don t cele-
did this. She washed the feet of brate the Lord’s supper m an np-
thirty-nine paupers when she was per room, at the end of a t “seal
thirty-nine years old, wiped them feast, lecfining on cone es.
with her own hands, and then I separate that which is essential
making the sign of the cross on and of permanent obligation from
each foot, slie kissed it, George that which was evidently non-es
>11. turned this duty of washing sential. We break the bread and
have read it and heard it many
time) that a sevenfold immersion
in the river of Jordan, or any eth-
er water without a previous change
of heart will avail nothing, with-
out a genuine faith and peni-
tence.”—Campbell and Rice De-
bate, 615.
A. Campbell on Rites and Cere-
monies: “We are represented, be-
cause of the emphasis laid upon
some ordinances, as though we
made a Savior of rites and cere-
monies, as believing in water re-
generation and as looking no fur-
ther than to these outward bodily
acts; all of which is just as far from
the trutb»andovi» views as tran-
sub tan Ration and purgatory.”—
Campbell and Rice Debate, page
678.
DR. TALJIaGE ON NEWS-
PAPERS.
the feet of the poor over to the drink • of the cup — - i - -■. ., £.. .
Archbishop of York as LoM High cMfches, and sitting in pews; and precision o this great blessing if
Almoner, L the custom "was not if we have faith to discern the 11 told von the monev. the brain.
abolished until the reign of. Qdeen Lord’s body, we believe t a we
one-story I think I could arouse your ap-
Yictoria.
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eat and drank worthily. If we
EOOT-W ASHING.
from Acts 20th "hhapterT Yh favor I of men’ ’Amen ’
of the first day worship. In doing
this, however, they try to apply
the-bld Sabbath law to the Lord’s A lady in Illinois requests me
day. They refute the doctrine of to write on this subject. She is 111
those who hold that the Lord’s ] a community of Winebrennenans
day is a Sabbath as the Seventh day
was ^ Sabbath under Moses. As
we deny that this is true, it is no
part of our work to meet the issue.
We only call attention to the fact
that the same argument u§ed to
disprove the sanctity of the first
day disproves that of the seventh/"
It is argued that Paul, and Luke
were sailing on the Lord’s day,
and consequently it was not re-
garded as sacred. I reply that
they were sailing all day the pre
vious Sabbath. They were five
days in coming from Philippi to
Troas,* where they remained seven
days, This is not designed as
argument in favor of the first day
as a Sabbath, but is given to show
the necessity of examining your
own house before casting a stone
at your neighbor’s.
I now notice the claim of Eld.
Killgore and other Ad ventists,that
the observance of the Lord's day
Is due to a decree of Constantine,
and they will not let her commune
with them unless she will submit
to a public foot-washing as prepar-
;ory, etc.
In 1830, John Winebrenner, a
minister of the German Reformed
Church at Harrisburg, Pa., hav-
ing-changed his views in regard
to baptism and other matters,
united in calling a convention to
form a new ecclesiastical organiza-
tion. Mr. W. was moderator of
the convention and the pleading
spirit of the movement ; hence
outsiders called his followers by
his name. But the name adopted
by the convention was “The
Church of God.” This is the
legal and corporate name of the
denomination. Their theology is
Evangelical Armiuianism. They
baptize only by immersion- They
might be called Methodist immer-
'sionists were it not for their pecu-
liar views in regard to the Lord’s
supper. They' believe that this
have faith to discern the 11 told you the money, the brain,
the exasperation, the anxieties,
the losses, the wear and tear of
heart strings involved in the pub-
lication of a newspaper. On the
tification, that we are willing to | theory abroad in the world that
humble ourselves - before them, auybody can make one, inexperi-
white, and represent the Twelve j.^ ^ecomQ ag eeTvants co them, enced capitalists every year are en-
apostles and an a§geh He was es, , — ortier to do them good, then we tering the list, and it is a simple
wipes and kisses the right oo ^ qlig the spirit of the com- statistic that there is an average of a
only of each of the; thirteen, and,[ ^and ot OQr Savior. .But if we [dead newspaper every day in the
should turn all our churches into [year Generally three or four fort-
lavatories, and spend
• , .. * I Knrfl such love for our brethren
On Holy Thursday the suet a-longing for their sano-
Eome washes theieet of thirteen tbat we are willing to
bishops, who are-all jressed m ourselves ,before them,
white, and represent the twelveW . .
then a nosegay and' a gold medal
are given to each, and the ceremo-
ny is over.
The foot-washing of Wmebren-
nerians is not based upon these
customs in the Greek and Roman
churches, but upon the command
of Christ, recorded in John xiii.
14: “Ye also ought to wash one*
another’s feet” They take this
literally and obey it. They v do
not have an official foot-washer
like the Pope or Archbishop of jw 1
York, but each member in turn
washes and is washed. If any
foot-washing is scriptural and
right, it is evidently not the
hour ones are swallowed before anewsp?
ictvcuuiiooj . i i «• i i rfYi
every Sunday in washing each pens established. The large papers
other’s feet as a religious ceremo- shallow tip the small papers one
would not make us ahy j whale taking down fifty minnows.
Although we have over 7,000
dailies and weeklies in the United
By, it .
holier. The example the Savior
would have us ♦ imitate is not in
WOUUl uaye ua »uuuaw/ aa
the basin, ancl the towel,’*aird- tbe States and Canada, only thirty-six
ablation, but in his lowly love for of them are half a century old.
his disciples, and his earnest do- The average newspaper life is
sire that they may be “clean every j five years. Most of them die of
cholera infantum. It is high
Doubtless, the' statement in the I time it were understood that the
10th verse~“He that is washed Lmost successful way of sinking a
needeth not, save to wash his feet, j fortune and keeping it sunk is to
Almost every
ill A. D. 311, I. can. best, do .this’ by | ordinance should -be administer*!
reproducing the decree, ^s given
by Lardner. Before doing this,
1 wish to say that we have an abun-
dant evidence that the day was
observed as the day of wprslnp
before Constantine wag. born. I
give one or two extracts from his-
tory. which must sulfide $or# this
article. Ignatius was a bishop of
Antioch in Syria, ia the latter part
of the first century* He says:
"“Let us no loDgar Sobbatize, but
keep the Lord’s day, on which our
life arose.” He was so near the
apostles that he could easily know
•their teaching on ft his subject.
Justin Martyr, a. d. 140 writes:
<*And on the day called Sunday, is
an assembly of all who Ike either
in the city or iA the country, and
-the memoirs of the' apostles and
the writings of the prophets are
read.” He then adds: “And after
that we celebrate the Lord’s sup-
per, then they who are able and
willing give what they think prop-
er.” Dionysius, bishop of Corinth,
in his letter to the church.of Ronm
says'. “To-day celebrated* tke
holy'I)w<lV&ay yten niad
, .your epistle to us.” I could add
the testimony of many other
qften, iij a sifting posture, and al-
ways in tlie evening. And they
insist that k‘lhe literal waehing of
the saipts’ feet, according to the
and
example of Christ, is
Wo think that thfv err in under- been much in the east this mama; start a newspaper or have
standing Christ’s words, as estab- explanation: “When .the natives I stock in one he must, or die Let
lishiug an ordinance of perpetual return from their ablutions-m thfeUettelh yon, oh man, that if
observance for Lis church. But river, or the- public bath, being have an idea on any moral, social,
;t fa safer to be too literal in our barefoot they reach-their homes political or religions subject, yon
interpretation of Scriptures - than J with dirty feet, clean all f*fef»tlhad better charge on the world
to go to the extreme. ' 1 have seen ( the feet. At the door a servant fthrongh the columns already es-
something of the Wmebronner- waits to wash the-feet, and then [tahliehed. Do not take the idea
iaus, and the Tuhkers, and- he’ieve they enter their divellmgs, “clean preyalenttlmt when a man ean do
them to be sincere, honest and every wliit.” The Chilian ta^ nothing else he can edit a news-
conscientious. And foe • suck
persons we should • haverespect,
however much we may differ fi-ozii| road of life he
them in our opinions. ,; . -
Our Saviour, on that evening
to-
word" — ------a. - , . .... . v . . ,
obligatory upon a*l Christians,! before his erucifixicn, wanted
rnd ought t<> be* observed by .all impress upon his disciples a great
the churches of God.” In the law of the; new diepensatlon,: viz;
neglect of ’ feet-washing theylindl-Tbat each believer is to do all'
that* evidence orthq apostasy of that ho can tQ promote the purity
been washed m the tlood. of .paper. If you can not climb the
Christ. But in walking' th^f miry HU back of your house you had
road of life he contracts more or i better Jot try the sides of the
less defilement. Hence he needs Matterhorn; if yon can not navi-
to seek daily cleansing in regard Uate a sloop on the North river,
, tlie other chtirclieS Which made; it
necessary for them to organize the
true church of God, or rather.to
reorgai^zo it in modern times on
the apostolic model.
I beli\ve the Menuonites and
Die 'ftiuKfcrs also practice feet-
washing. The census of 1880 puts
here three denominations togeth-
er and credits them with over!
000 churches an l with 410,000
coiHinunicants.
\fe have no evidence that the
church in apostolic time’s^observed leMOH \
and sanctification of the brother
hood. He is hot only to .try to be
hoiy himself, but to promote holi-
ness in the.chugh. To this end
he is to humble himself, he is
even to kneel • as a servant ht the
feet of his felld^dlsciples, and by
the lowliest offices of love try to
win them from whatever is evil
dishonoring tp Christ; and- unfits
feet-washing as a religiejufe Qrdl-
nance. But Tu the third and
fourth centuries itn ^obscfrVfince
seems to have been common. Au-
gii&tme tait,' anch says that
doubts wdreL entertafnecl ih his
day as to the time when the cere-
mony ought to be performed-
The
meaning la:
set before you ,by this impressive
act the ^spirit that jTou should cul-
.tivate.v “By love serve ^one an-
'other.
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‘duties ‘of'hospitality in the days
oE our*Saviour. Th^eople ^pre
sandals, and not shoes covering
Jo his -spirit and his habits; not Lon had better not try to engineer
that dm may.be saved, Rut‘that he the Great Western oyer to Liver-
may be sanctified. And in'this pool. . To publish a newspaper
cleansing we are to aid each other, squires the skill, the precision,
the vigilance, the strategy, the
boldness of a commander-in-chief;
to edit a newspaper one need to
be a statesman, an essayist, a ge-
ographer, statistician, and so far
as all acquisitions are concerned,
an encyclopedia.
To man and propel a newspaper
requires more qualities than any
other business on earth. I say
this to save men from bankruptcy.
If yon feel called to start or pub-
lish a newspaper take it for grant-
ed that yen are threatened with
softening of the brain; throw your
pocket book into yonr wife’s lap
aodEash up to Bloomind&le asy—
tom and surrender yourself before
yotidoeomething desperate. Mean-
while let the dead newspapers bo
oarrjyd out to their burial week
by »week, and let the newspapers
that live give their obituary.
Yve arc not, if we can help it, to
suffer sin upon your brother. But
we are to do this, not by going to
him in a censorious spirit, and
saying:’ look at your feet, how
dirty they are ; but by kneeling
beside him humbly, meekly, lov-
ingly, and washing his feet. If
we study this example oi our
blessed Lord until its fulfforce
and meauiug are apprecited, we
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them to 3it*at his table. He says : j shall /find it
“I huv'6‘given you ai} example.” ! when and how to imitate i .
We might reuiicc this ns V T _ '
Personal agency ok the
HOLY SPIRIT
w“ I-would not, sir, value at the
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i’oot-Wfiishing^was ong of^ rSspeata'Tbe^faiia.
a.-.cs irt i gt^njamfe,whose religion
is nht begun, carried on and com-
pleted by the personal agency of
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 28, 1884, newspaper, May 28, 1884; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth914287/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.