Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 18, 1885 Page: 1 of 8
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TAKING THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT.
BONHAM, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY; NOV. 18, 1885.
[In Advance.
No. 35.
tie Christian Stssengrr
Is pnblished weekly by
THOS. R. BURNETT,
BONHAM, - - - - ~ TEXAS
Tnxfr—per annum, ------- *2.00
six months, - ------ *
Obituaries exceeding ten lines in length will be
charged for at the rate of two dollars and hfty cents
Ark., to Little Rock.
N. B:—Entered at the Post-Office at Bonham, Tex-
as, as second class matter. Office of publication
North Timber Stree t.
We wish all the preacliera to send] us
a synopsis of their summer's work.
The report that R. W^. Officer is going
to leaVe Texas, we learn, is not true
If Mark Smith, Joshua Jones, Nancy
Brown and Bro: McPherson can not es-
tablish progression in Texas, it is a
bad case.
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We regret to learn, by a private let-
ter. that Bro. Barclay, of Paris, Texas,
is very low with consumption, and not
likely to recover.
The Casksy-Alderson debate is an-
nounced ior the 25th of November. If
Bro. Caskey is not able to debate, Bro.
Denton is to take his place.
The Methodist conference is in ses:
sion at Paris, Texas, this week. The
North Texan says the roostere- "have
not been heard to crow in jtliafrplace in
a week.
The editor of the Messenger will de-
liver a series of discourses at 1 aimeis
ville, Texas, beginning on Saturday
night before the fifth Lord's day in
November.
Bis>. M. H. Lynn and Bro. J. M. Nor-
wood are in the field canvassing for the
Messenger, and devoting their whole
time to the and preaching as they
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The brethren at Paradise, Wise coun-
ty, -Texas, ask that the Milbum-Burnett
debate be held in their town. The
.Baptists there also ask the same. That
would perhaps be as good place as .any
other. What saith Eld Milbum?
The pastors and progressives are
giving warm and fierce in their oppo-
sition to the Messenger, but from the
*• many letters of encouragement we re-
ceive from all parte of Texas we are as-
' surecfltiiat the heart of the great broth-
. * erhGod of this state is still true to' the
-principles of New Testament Christian-
ity, and that we shall not be left alone
in onr battik for the ancient land-
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f ;-t jl brother writes the Messenger
[ \ from Thorp's Spring that Mark Smith's
There is a Christian preacher in Ken-
tucky by the name of Bramble. He
must be severe on the sects.
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T. J. Shelton baptized a son-in-law of
Raccoon John Smith at his meeting in
Little Rock,*lrk.
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A debate is to take place at Mel-
bourne, Ark.^ in December, between
Bro. W. B/F. t eat and J. N. Hall,edi-
itor of the Rapt 1st Gleaner.
The debate between J. B. Moody and
David Lipscomb is set for Dec. 15th.
Moody i^ one of the editors of the Bap
beans, grows best on poor soil.
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The president has designated the 26th
of November as a day of thanksgiving
and prayer.
Josh Billings says that if a man does
not have a well-balanced head, he may
part his hail* in the middle.
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In Burmah editors receive elephants
in payment of subscription. In this
country unpaid suberiptions are the
elephants on editors' hand§.
working well. It is said there hare
been few polygamous marriages since
the law began to be enforced.
“When the editors learn that the
kingdom of Jesus Christ was not estab-
lished solely that their particular paper
might be a> grand success, they will
have taken a long stride heavenward.”
—Tex. Dep. Guide.
Have not the editors of the Gn de
learned that yetji Well, you are far-
ther from'Jerusalem than we suppos-
ed.
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The religions (?) editor who sits d* vn
and studies up little flings to throw at
hades, and the Old Testament revisers
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tist Gleaner. The debate will be held! brought it to sheol, and he thinks an-
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at Round Lick, near Lebanon, Tenn.
A witty writer says the New Testa- auu S[UU1CB up U11W> w ...
ment revisers cut it down from hell to»his brethren as matter for his pa -er,
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There is a Methodist minister in Ar
kansas named Buzbee. It is said that
other set will modify it till it will be
nothing blit a skating rink.
Jsmuono uauicu w _____ _____ Here is another argument against
a few texts of Scripture thrown at him j liquor. A man started a distillery near
will make him buzz worse than a, nest 1 ~ ♦HSwirmnr
of yellow jackets.
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had better be at work in a coal mine,
where he will get pood black. The ,d-
^antage is that this black will wash iff.
— Tex. Dep. Guide.
In the column from which the ab *ve
was clipped we counted - ten flmgs
thrown at his brethren by the edi;or.
Dr. D. B. Ray has been down in Ar-
kansas again. We only obtain a glimpse
of the whereabouts of this quondam
doughty warrior. He is so afraid of
Texas editors that he will not let them
read his paper.
liquor. mail siarieu a uiauucij ucai -
his apiary in Tennessee, not thinking |:»» not know whether he has yet surt
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A brother writes that there is a great
deal of opposition to the gospel in liis j
community. “Not open and manly op-
position, but sullen, dogged, wont-hear,
lying opposition.” That is a bad kind
of opposition.
it would injure his bee business. But
the bees would go to the distillery, get
blind drunk, and refuse to work, and
so in the winter they had no honey.
Instead of putting §100,000 in a sense-
less piece of marble to stand over Gen.
Grant’s grave, it has been suggested
that the money be used for- the found-
ing of a soldiers’ hospital. That would
be a monument that would perpetuate
the name of Geit. Grant.
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A little lad asked Bro. Jones what
they did to a minister when they in-
stalled him. “Do tUey-put him in a
stall and feed him ?” Bro. Jones said
he thought they did, and sometimes
turned him into, a green pasture to graze.
The question is submitted to some of
our installed and pastured pastors.
The West Texas Methodist confer- Tlie Christian Review republishes
ence, in session at Brenham, voted down ^ creeq written by Isaac Errett for the
f/A nhannro t.VlP n amp of i • TA .l-.-i. If* V 1.A urna
A Methodist minister in Arkansas
writes to his paper that one sermon on
infant baptism brought twenty-two in-
fants: into the church. That beats all
the preaching that Paul and Peter ever
did. All their sermons combined never
brought a single infant into the church.
We would travel all the wav to Arkan-
sas to hear this remarkable preacher
prove infant baptism out of the Script-
ures.
ed for the coal mine.
J. H. Rosecrans,the singing evangelist
of California, has been elected Slat®
Sunday School Evangelist of Texas.—
Christian Herald.
A mistake. Tli§ statg of Texas has
not yet voted on the question, and there
has .been no eleclm. In fact, there is
no such office ir \e gift of the people
as State Sunday-school evangelist. T wo
or three individuals called and sent
Bro. Rosecraiis to act as Sunday-school
evangelist, without any authority from
the state or from the Scriptures. With
those exceptions, your statement ia
correct. »
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the proposition to change the name of
the church from Methodist Episcopal
Church South to Methodist Episcopal
Church of America. If “there is noth-
ing in a name,” and the church is de-
termined not to wear the scriptural
name, why change the title ?
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The failure of the Texas Baptist to
reach our office for several months is
accounted for by the fact that tli? edi-
tors of that paper have beep “using up”
the Messenger in a discussion. We
did not know what was the matter with
church in Detroit, Mich., when lie was
“pastor” there over twenty years ago.
It is a regular Baptist church covenant,
and one of the m jst remarkable speci-
mens of human folly ever perpetrated
by any one connected with the reforma-
tory movement. The scathing criti-
cism of Moses E. Lard is published
“Rev. L. H. Hitt is pastor of two
churches, one at Piny Grove, and the
other at Chidester.”—Arkansas Evan-
gel.
“Rev. L. H. Hitt” has hit a line of
succession that leads away from Jeru-
salem. He is unlike any preacher of
ancient times. Not a single preacher
in the apostolic age was a Rev.,, or was
the -pastor of two churches. The
churches of that age had a plurality of
elders to each church, and not a plural-
ity of chtfrches to each elder.
What is holding the brethren back
from sending contributions to the Sher-
man church for missionary work? Have
they all concluded that it is wrong to
enable this church to do missionary
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cism of Moses E. Lard is published work ? There is a general cry of hard
with the creed, and is line reading in- ’ times-searoity of money ; but the mon-
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ey is certainly not all gone. -Can the
churches not send up something i Come,
brethren, wake up.—Texas Christian.
The brethren have waked up, but in-
stead of sending up their money to the
Elds. Hayden and Anderson, that they At Lowe’s Pond, in Henry county,; Sherman^horch. which lA the m.ss.on-
would not exchange with us. It is ac- Tenn., a Presbyterian preacher baptized | ary hoard of the state meelrng, they are
____........ tKav wnn> rnrrvincr I n. man hv T>roxv. that is. a stout lay- spending it for the spread of the gos-
deed. The wonder is that the man who
wrote this creed ever attained the emi-
nence among the Christian people that
Isaac Errett has attained.
counted for now. They were carrying j a man by proxy, that is, a stout lay-
on a debate with this paper, and thought; man led the candidate into the water
and dipped him, while the minister
stood on the bank and pronounced the
ikie-Texas Christian, and the pictures
‘ r in that paper, upon the church at
Thorp’s Spring. He says the Texas
i Christian publishing company is com-
posed. of a very few individuals, and
* that the church does not endorse it^
ljyr; progressive viewsi that the main
body of the disciples at Thorp s Spring
are upon the old landmarks, and sound
to the oore.
formula. A Methodist minister near
debate better when their opponent is j Manly ville, Tenn., was askedby one ot
not in sight! Battle Flag Ray cut us ; liis members to accompany him to the
off his exchange list because lie could river “to take a bath.” After they had
not stand our criticisms, and Elds. Hay- undressed, and gone down into the nv-
den and Anderson have followed suit, er, the member told him lie wished to
Well, if we did not have a system of re- be baptized,-and the minister, consent-
ligion we could defend in honorable ed, provided he would not take him in-
controversy, we would lay it down and
get a better one.
to too deep water, “because he could
not swim.”
A
spending it for the spread of the gos-
pel in the apostolic way. The state
meeting is an unauthoriz^I body, and
as long as the Sherman church has any
connection with it, or is selected by it
as a central board to do the bidding of
the state meeting, the church will be
looked on with ^suspicion. Let the
church at Sherman, and at Thorp’a
Spring, and at Bonham, and everywhere
else, do missionary work on its own re-
sponsibility and authority, and it wifi
meet the encouragement of all good
Christians everywhere.
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 18, 1885, newspaper, November 18, 1885; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth914297/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.