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There is one thing essential to the furtherance of this object. We live in a world of Our own hearts cannot naturally be happy, because sin has separated us from God, the source of all happiness. Sin has effaced the image of God from the soul, and so changed the condition of man from what he was when fresh from the hands Christ only is the way, and all others are "NEARER Home! Nearer Home! A false refuges, lying vanities, and deceitful year's march nearer home!" we sing at paths. Because all fulness dwells in the close of 1862. Time flies, and swiftly Christ, what can there be but void and carries us on her wings "nearer home!" worthlessness outside Him? We desire, The surges and billows of adversity, some- therefore, by God's help, that Christ and times rising like mighty torrents, waft us His worth, work, fulness, offices, and "nearer home." We seem almost to see coming, may be the substance of the the first streaks of glory in the distance, pages of “The Evangelist.” and are again constrained to sing, "nearer We sincerely thank many who have home." But though our salvation be helped us with their prayers, and all who nearer than when we believed, it cannot have written for this Paper, or promoted be surer, cannot be more secure; because its circulation. More than ever, we value it is based on the already accomplished the prayers of God's people, and are inredemption-work of our Lord and Saviour creasingly assured that a publication Jesus Christ. which purposes neither to pander to the By grace, we will continue to go up follies of the world, nor the tastes of from the wilderness, leaning on our Be- carnal professors, but finds its joy in tellloved, and wait for His appearing. Still, ing out the wondrous story of the Cross and in an evil world, it shall be our joy to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, needs unfurl the banner of the Cross, point to the efforts of the godly to make it known, Calvary, and cry aloud on all sides, Sal- and further its sale, so that the expenses vation by the blood of the Lamb. We incurred in publishing may be fairly met. would sound an alarm, to awaken the If any say, "I cannot do much," let such vast multitudes who so quietly sleep on remember the words of Jesus, "She hath the mouth of an eternal volcano, whose done what she could." deep rumblings forbode a speedy eruption. Christ Himself, the Son of God, is the We would lift the voice of warning to the only object that can satisfy the heart, many who are busily taken up with the meet the conscience, or give peace and gilded toys of earth-born vanity, or charm joy to the soul, Christ crucified, manithemselves with songs and levity along fests God's perfect love; Christ risen, the the broad road which leadeth to destruc- triumphant character of His finished tion. We would seek to stop the giddy work; Christ glorified, tells the believer Hear what God says, "A new heart will I thousands, who sacrifice their souls to how near and dear He is to the Father of give you, and a new spirit will I put within beauty, or wealth, or twirl upon the fan- mercies; while Christ's coming animates feel, and very rightly, that you cannot love you." This will remove your difficulty. You tastic toe downwards to the bottomless his soul with blissful hope, and en- God as you ought, because your heart is pit. Neither would we overlook the self-courages him to serve and honour God, naturally averse to the things of God; but deluded formalists, who with words of till He come. God promises in the verse (Ezek. xxxvi. 26) truth on their lips, and a cold and lifeless With trembling foot we still tread the we have just quoted to take away the heart, go on religiously and respectably weary waste; with a remembrance of hardness of the heart, and to impart to towards hell. Oh, our God, fit us, by thy God's long-suffering, and hope in His Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us, for this mercy we shall not slacken our speed; and work, and use us for the glory of our pre- though conscious of much weakness, and proneness to wander from Him, yet, with We trust that our little serial will be filled with columns of solemn, heart-we desire to go forward, onward, upward, a deep sense of God's boundless love, searching, and sterling truth. Christless seeking to spread the precious savour of Dear reader, if you would live happily in pages are worthless pages. Christ Jesus Christ Jesus the name of Jesus, singing Nearer this new year you must be made "a new is the light of the world, and all must be Home." creature." (2 Cor. v. 17.) If you are in an darkness where He is not. Christ is the unconverted, unforgiven state, you have notruth, and naught but vanity and fiction dwell where He is excluded. Christ is thing to expect but God's anger against you on account of your sins. You cannot look the life, and apart from Him death reigns. forward to anything but judgment, if the Lord cious Lord Jesus! "With Christ in our heart, and His word in our hand, The road may be rough, though it cannot be long, We march on in haste through an enemy's land; of the Creator, that he neither loves nor enjoys God, nor realizes His presence. His affections do not naturally flow out towards his Maker and Benefactor, nor can he by any efforts of his own make them to. What then is he to do? Do you, dear reader, ask this question? it new desires, new affections, new hopes, new joys. Believe on the Lord Jesus, and He give," saith He. lost sinner, should see fit to take away your life during the You must be a "new creature." Yes, old things with you must have passed away, and all things become new. Instead of going on with a Christ-rejecting world, neglecting the Saviour and His great salvation, you must flee to Him for salvation, believe in Him with your heart would like to speak for Christ's sake." She passed, she said, "I think it will be about the unto righteousness, and confess Him with witness her happy death; she answered, "Tell for me; He is ready, and I am ready." She soul. him he may have the same, if he seeks it." your lips as the one that has redeemed your She expressed a hope that her death would enquired again if her end was near, and not be blessed to others; she then said, "I praise the words two months. "Two months, did hearing the answer given, fancied she heard the Lord that he has enabled me to speak a "you say." apparently surprised, and then little for Him before I die." " George, dear," she said, “this is the happiest time I ever be worth waiting four months for Him." smiling at her mistake she said, “But it would had." At another time she put aside his head It was difficult to detail all the earnest seemed at that moment to have a vision of Throughout that evening she often prayed. saying, "I want to see my Saviour;" and she and glowing words she spoke at intervals. Your soul must be cleansed from all impurities by His precious blood that cleanseth from all sin; and then with a purged conscience, that is, a conscience at ease, because freed from sin's curse, through the knowledge that Divine Justice has been satisfied, you will be happy, and a "new song shall be put into your mouth, even praise unto God." You glory, as her eyes were fixed upon the spot, Lord Jesus, come quickly." Near midnight may have sung the song of the drunkard, of she said, "I do not see you all as plain as I unconscious, and gently breathed her last. and her eyes lighted up with heavenly smiles; and when mother remarked it, she turned to her and said, "Did you see me see Him?" Showing that it was the sight of her Saviour that made her face radiant with joy. "Oh, how beautiful He looked!" And looking up to her mother, she said, "You would not wish to keep me.' At another time a shade came over her face, but it soon disappeared, and repeating “I come she said, "Oh, Satan wanted to have great emphasis. me, but Jesus put him aside, and looked so kind at me; how could I doubt His love, it was wrong of me to doubt. Oh,” she said, “if you only knew what He has saved us from." When the glorious prospect before her was "There will be no sin spoken of, she added, there." She seemed at a loss for words to express her glowing love to Christ. Some one said, He loves you; "Yes," she answered, and I dote on Him, my precious Saviour, my the time when God will "make all things new." blessed Jesus." She repeated the first verse of her favourite hymn : of Jesus in your words and actions. Once more. You will then look forward to "A new heaven and a new earth" shall shortly be revealed. The thoughts of this shall cheer you amid the difficulties you may have to contend with, and when the glory of heaven shall burst upon you, it will far surpass all that your imagination had conceived. May God grant both to the reader and the writer, "A HAPPY NEW YEAR." W. A. S. "Just as I am, without one plea," &c., followed. 66 These are comforts for the mourner, beloved. Our God is right. Dimly, though through blinding tears, we can at present read this truth. Oh, yes; He is love, He is wise, He is holy and in this dark crushing dispensation, which has taken from you one so dear. all is right. We cannot fathom the depth of this event; for His judgments are a great deep. Nor can we fathom the depth of His love; for His love is infinite. Let us then be still, and know not only that He is God; but that He is our own covenant God, and will be our guide, even unto death. The hand that has upon it, wounded and humbled, let us lean. Listen to His own consolatory words: "I wound and I heal; He maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and His hand makes whole." It seems hard to part with those we love; but we sorrow not as those who have no hope. Oh, how truly blessed is the departure of those who sleep in Jesus! The labourer is at rest; the traveller is at home; the voyager is in port; the child of God has reached her Father's house; and when the Lord returns, He will bring them and added, "His righteousness, His blood."smitten, is the uplifted hand of a Father; and Later in the evening she said, "I have seen Him twice to-day." And one standing near heard her say, With Calvary full in viewseas of blood"-but could not catch what She se med to fear lest anything she said might seem to exalt herself, and said earnestly, “Not me, not me; Himself, His Falling asleep in Jesus. mercy." More than once she spoke of Satan ABOUT four o'clock on Sunday afternoon, our having assaulted her; and when the text was dear Maria became worse, and her end was quoted: "Simon, Simon, Satan hath desired evidently approaching; and on Tuesday, when to have you," &c., she replied, "I did doubt, we went into the room, she said, "Oh, this is but I am forgiven.” Death had no terrors delightful, this is a delightful death-bed!" for her; she was longing to depart, and be Looking upwards, her face beaming with with the Lord." She prayed: "Oh, my smiles, she exclaimed, "I see Him; oh, let blessed Jesus, come to take me quickly! I me fly to Him; glorify Him; praise Him; long to go home to Jesus." She was disapHe is good: I am covered with His blood." pointed when told that death was not so near "HIM that is weak in the faith, receive ye." She prayed for strength to speak for Christ. as she thought; she said, "I think it will be &c. The apostle comes to questions of diShe said, "I have very little breath, but I in the evening;" and when the evening | versity of judgment in the Church. He says with Him. J. K. Thoughts on the Epistle to the Romans. CHAP. XIV. the holding tenaciously of opinions which isolate us from others. that those who are weak, as to understanding to the bondage of beggarly elements from which all have a common interest, more than their full liberty in Christ, are to be received which Christ has freed us. by the Church, and not so as to judge these “doubtful thoughts" in the way of settling them, and enforcing like-mindedness by an arbitrary decree. stand." go on Ver. 8. "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord," &c. He enforces the Lordship of Christ, both over the living and dead, the latter being, of course, considered as conscious-the dead state in fact-whatever that be. Ver. 23. 66 Ver. 20, 21. For (owing to) meat destroy not the work of God. (Heb. xiii. 9.) All things are indeed pure; but it is evil for that Verses 2, 3. “For one believeth that he man who eateth with offence." Probably, may eat all things: another who is weak (in that is to the souls of others. "It is good the faith) eateth herbs." We notice that the Ver. 9. "For to this end Christ both died neither to eat flesh....nor anything whereby weak one in the apostle's mind is the ab- (and rose) and revived, that He might be thy brother stumbleth," &c. We see, throughstainer (1 Cor. x. 27); and that the tendency Lord both of the dead and living." The out, how the apostle is insisting upon the of the strong one is to " despise the one best editions omit "and rose." The meaning purity of every creature of God, (Acts x. 14, who "eateth not," and of the other to appears to be, that Christ having passed 15,) and, consequently, his liberty of eating; "judge" him that eateth. The slightest through the stages of the saint's existence nevertheless, recommends abstinence in the knowledge of the human heart assures us (death and life) has a Lordship over both presence of those who are weak. The chapter that this is its abiding tendency; but the states. He revived (re-lived) out of the is an example of the evil effect which a good question for the Church is, has God "re-grave, and has given us this life; for we are and right thing may have upon those not ceived" this weak one? If so, we ought. to bear in mind that all the matters of the prepared for it; but it is, perhaps, only where Ver. 4. "Who art thou that judgest chapter are with reference to Christians alone. the appetites are concerned, when those free another man's servant?....yea, he shall be Vers. 10, 11, 12. But why dost thou judge to eat gain more in the denial of their appeholden up, for God is able to make him thy brother, or why dost thou set at naught tites, than in the exhibition of their liberty. If God has received him, God will thy brother? He returns to the two parties, Nor is it for one moment to be supposed, that with him-will "make him stand." the strong having the tendency to set at in his public ministry the apostle avoided Let each keep a good conscience, and the naught his weak brother, and the weak to such a question. (Col. ii. 16.) Lord will, in His own time, teach. judge the strong one; and he enforces the Ver. 22. Hast thou faith? have it to thynon-judgment by a fresh statement, "For we self before God;" that is, on the subject of Ver. 5. "One man esteemeth one day shall all stand before the judgment seat of which he is speaking. There are many things above another," &c. This clause must, withChrist." The judgment seat, that is the which a man may decree in his heart," out doubt, be taken as including the Sabbath, bema, not the great white throne of Rev. xx., which not being of universal command, but which some were esteeming, and therefore but a word taken from the magisterial tri- of private determination, are held as to God keeping, and others not; so also, in fairness, bunal on the Roman forum, where the citizens alone. "Happy is he that condemneth not it would include the Lord's-day, supposing were tried for every-day offences. It is cer- himself," &c. The meaning appears to be the first day of the week to be intended by tain then, that received into glory upon the that few are so pure as not to be liable to be this expression in Rev. i. 10. This verse ground of grace, there will yet be a family judged in those things which they allow. strikingly shews the opposition in the apos-judgment (1 Cor. iii. 13, 14, 15; 1 Cor. iv. And (but) he that doubteth tle's mind to any Judaizing spirit. (Gal. iv. 4, 5.) when things, such as our chapter refers (hesitates) is damned (condemned) if he eat, 9. 10, 11: Col. ii. 16, 17) We have, never- to, will be brought into light, according to because he eateth not of faith." Nothing that theless, indications in the gospels after the Isaiah xlv. 23, here quoted. a Christian does is immaterial. Although the resurrection of the Lord (John xx. 26), and Let us not, therefore, judge things themselves-meats and drinks-may in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts xx. 7), of one another any more, but judge this rather." be so, yet his conscience has its place amongst the division of time into weeks, and also of As is usual with the apostle, he recom-them; "whatsoever ye do, whether ye eat or religious worship on its first day, doubtless in mends liberty to be turned into practical self- drink, do all to the glory of God," "for whatconnexion with the resurrection of Christ. denial, lest we should put an occasion to soever is not of faith is sin." Humbling This supposes the weekly occurrence of a fall" in our brother's way; for whilst Paul truth, which places us, indeed, on low ground. special day, without a binding covenant obliga- knows, and is persuaded by the Lord Jesus. Nothing is allowed in action but what is on tion being incurred; for the conclusion, "Let that there is nothing unclean of itself, yet to the principle of faith. Everything else is sin. every man be fully persuaded in his own him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, Lord! increase our faith. mind," absolutely vindicates a Christian's "to him it is unclean;" that is, he would liberty. The introduction of this question have each respect another's conscience. of days is remarkable, just after, in the preBut if thy brother be grieved vious chapter (v. 9), having touched upon with thy meat, now walkest thou not charit- THE other day there were two sentinels, love fulfilling other commandments. Love is ably." It is not charity (love) to injure the one at either side of a tunnel, keeping entire. He passes into the question of days, conscience of another by laying a kind of watch all night. At length one of them as a thing no longer of importance, since love snare for him, in tempting him to do that had come in. For how can love confine which his own conscience, as yet unenlight- fell asleep, and dreams troubled him, and itself to a day? ened, would tell him was wrong. "Destroy in his sleep he kept calling out, "Jesus! Ver. 6. He that regardeth the day, re- not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died." Lord Jesus! Jesus!" Now, it so happened gardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regard- In 1 Cor. viii. we have this same subject that the man at the other end of the eth not the day, to the Lord he doth not treated, and with the same conclusion at v. 11. tunnel was in a very anxious state about regard it." Not, then, that this spiritual It were unprofitable to argue the question his soul, pondering over the question, liberty has the smallest affinity with fleshly doctrinally as to the limits to be given to the "What must I do to be saved?" licence. Herein lies the controversial diffi- words "perish" and "destroy." The truth culty; or, we might say, prejudice. It is is, the apostle is not upon a question of pure there, in the solemn stillness of the night, the soft zephyrs wafted the blessed name He is as much as saying, Cannot you will not you, for the sake of the scruples of Jesus all along the tunnel into his ear, of a brother, who is not to be forced into and as he thought of the love of God in convictions, give up a bit of meat, for whom giving Jesus, the blessed Spirit opened Christ gave up His life-went so far, even, as his heart, and he received Jesus, and to die? found Him to be his own comfort and joy. &c. Ver. 13, 14. Ver. 15. solved by being bound in spirit to the Lord. doctrine. Him thanks. Ver. 7. "For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself." Here is the great principle enunciated; day, or no day, we live to the Lord. Our life is in Him, and our profession is to live to Him, as also most surely we die to Him. "Whether we live, 66 66 The Name of Jesus. And heard the sweet name of Jesus, and it O my reader! How often have you has only been to you as an idle tale. Be assured there is no other name under heaven whereby you can be saved but the name of Jesus. And to that name, sooner Ver. 16, 17. "Let not then your good be evil spoken of: for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink." How often, alas! we make it so, when our godliness consists in nothing but a dry set of principles rigidly maintained, to the stumbling of those who, with more tenderness of soul, have less light, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." This and, therefore, less liberty. This and, therefore, less liberty. "But righteous- or later, you must bow. Every knee shall is evidently introduced for the purpose of ness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost;" shewing the claim of the Lord upon us for that is, a condition of soul rich in the enentire consecration; and not that only of joyment of God, by the fruits of the Spirit separation from certain meats, or of the keep- within. ing of particular days, for the whole existence bow to Him. Either now you must bow to Him as your Saviour, or ere long bow before Him as your Judge, and confess Him Lord of all in eternal misery and woe. Oh! awake, sleepy sinner! and listen now to the sweet sound of the name of Jesus, the Saviour of sinners, ere it be too late. "Come unto me," said Jesus, “all more certain, that to apply these restrictions things which make for peace," &c. Mutual ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I to the whole Church, would be to return edification is to be sought in those things in will give you rest.” Ver. 18. "For he that in these things serof a Christian belongs to the Lord. Certain veth Christ," &c. That is, who in the denial of it is, that with some a restriction in meats, things lawful, but not necessary, or even exand an observance of days, may prove whole-pedient, seeks to win the weak. some helps in their spiritual welfare; but Ver. 19. Let us therefore follow after the He Healed them All. A WORD FOR 1863. Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick LUKE iv. 40. In the body there are complicated diseases; sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool; for whosoever believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ hath everlasting life, and shall never see death. with divers diseases brought them unto Him; and He laid a number of pains, and a variety of sicknesses, woman, years, and had suffered many things of many and was nothing bettered, but rather grew "In every time, and state and place, When thy heart's bowed down with grief, Tell Jesus. When for sin thy heart is broke, In whatever state or frame thou art, Extract of a Letter From Benguela, West Africa, August 15, 1862, from a Chris tian miner of Tavistock (now labouring in the mines there), to his wife at home. "I WILL tell you, that at first I used to go every night into the mountains, or out of sight and hearing, to pray alone, and followed the example here as at Cuio-Loando. "One day one of the Portuguese was in a great passion with the negroes, and I believe would have killed him, with but little invi tation; so I, at night, at my usual time, invited him to go with me, and I have always found him ready and willing to kneel down with me, while I engage in prayer, ever since. So we soon got one more, then we could muster three, and now, I am happy to say, we number five. We read some chapters together every night. We read verse and verse, each in his own language; and we learn each other's language, and so amid all the wrongs that might be enumerated, we get Learn from this incident, THE POWER OF SYMPATHY, or the good we may do for others. Each of us has relations, friends, and acquaintances, who are sick unto death with the disease of sin. We may bring them in the arms of prayer and faith to Jesus, and He will heal them all. His blood cleanses from all sin. We may not be thanked for our prayers, yea, we may be mocked and jeered for our importunity, by the very individuals. Bunyan, in the second part of his "Pil- on very well. So we all kneel down together for whom we are pleading; nevertheless, let grim's Progress," tells us, when Matthew, the in our own hut, and if there is anything us still pray on, and not faint, then shall we eldest son of Christiana, fell sick, through particular that I wish to say to them, I ennot be disappointed. Our Father, who is in eating Beelzebub's fruit, the medicine com-deavour to find it in my Bible, and find the heaven, will in due time, and for His Son's posed of the blood of a goat and the ashes of same in theirs, where they can read it in their sake, hear and answer the voice of our sup-an heifer, was too weak to eradicate the sick-own language. I hope my dear Christian plications. The child of God ought always to ness; but when "Mr. Skill" administered his friends will not fail to pray for me," &c. pray, and not to faint. prescription, made ex carne et sanguine Christi "P.S. I should be truly glad to attend any "He laid His hands on every one of of the flesh and of the blood of Christ-place for worship, rather than none. I have them, and healed them." Men have divers it effectually cured him. And rest assured, had many private places of my own for wor diseases" spiritually as well as bodily, and this is the only efficacious portion for sin-sick ship, sometimes under a tree, at others a large now Jesus is exalted on high at the right souls. 'Tis only as we feed upon Christ's rock. You will wonder at my going to such hand of His Father, He is able and willing to flesh and blood by faith, that we are kept from places to worship God, as my own house, you cure all who come unto God by Him, seeing sinning, and when sick of sin, these, would say, would be better. I am living in the hut where we all take meat, twenty-one He ever liveth to make intercession for them. nothing but these, can heal and restore us. in number. Our table is some boards nailed Hast thou the hot disease of pride, the low O what a precious Saviour is Jesus! What together. This house is made of wood and disease of despondency, the foul disease of efficacy is there in His flesh and blood, to grass. The small poles form the framework. lust, the oft-recurring disease of anger, or the purge the conscience from guilt! What a The grass is tied to the outside. It is all tied 66 cruel disease of rebellion? Whatever thy disease may be, bring it unto Jesus; for His most precious blood is a universal HEAL-ALL. We have heard of many medicines which can do no good, and be ye sure, all remedies for a sin-sick soul, apart from the blood shed at Calvary, are false remedies; and all physicians apart from Jesus, are Physicians of no value. None save Jesus can do helpless sinners good. and rich mercy it is, that when we sin, Jesus can "Nothing but Thy blood, O Jesus, Nothing else can melt the heart." hut. We can put our leg through any part together, there is not a nail in it to make the of it. The floor is just like walking on snow, the earth is so dry. So you may guess that such a place is not the most comfortable for one to read and pray. chapel "I wish my dear Edy to attend your write to me some account of the prayers of on week day's services, also, and be able to sermons that he may hear; and teach the dear young one to say, Father." |
