Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-01-30

The following communication was crowded out
! OF last weeks edition. We not aware to what
| denomination of Christians the writer belongs.
January 2lst, 1851.
! Mr. EDwARDs-Dear Sir:-A paragraph in your
last weeks paper informs your readers of "A most
gratifying sight'' said to have been seen at the
| Methodist meeting house in this city on Sunday,
! the 18th inst.
This gratifying sight appears TO have been mo-
mentary exhibition Of Christian union. You say it
was good to witness this union, and again stru-
ly, it could have been said That occasion, see
! how these christians love one another..' o that
the peace, (Ove) OF God did indeed so rule in the
hearts ,tunto which called in body,) that
this pleasant picture might not hay been an eXcep-
| tiona and rare sight.
AS the observance Of the Lords Supper is inti-
mately connected with realizing permanent I'm.
ion among all christians, respectfully ask the lib
erty, through the medium Of your paper, to draw
the serious attention of the christians Of ns tow NJ
to very important truth to lie most certainly gath
cred from the Apostle Pauls words in his first
Episte to the Corinthians IL: II to 20, inclusive,
bearing directly upon the very improper relative
position in which they in (although christians)
as manifcstly sectalians.
according TO the above pas sage) partake of the
Lords's Supper s++-that they were not only divid-
ed, but divided into factions, sects, or (as in mod
ern phrascology. denominations. in which position
he ailirms 'they could not eat the LORDS Supper?
(see Creek:J or their assembling together as seca-
rians, ''t was not TO eat the Lords SUPPER"
The question then arises, why could not these
Corinthian sectarians eat of this Supper, answer
because, manifesty and clearly, their position was
direct violation Of the ordinance itself, for this
rite not only instituted for bringing to memo
ry or shelving the Lords death till He come again.
but also, (see Corinthians TO- II ls.) to shew our
common interest, communion together in the |
Lords death, with its results viz: making us one
undivided corporation body, animated by one
and the same liie-or it was not only life sacri-
feed for us to put away sin, but, also life given
to us: see John G. 32s5 and ~ 49, an everlast-
ing LIE, to be participated in and enjoyed by all
that believe Hence the proprety of Paul saying,
:" Wherefore my brethren. when ye come together |
to eat, larry one for another"
But why have referred TO this case of the Co. |
rinthians with its concomitan truth for two rea-
sons-tirst, that we should make the application I
Of 1t to ourselves, and .cease do eyil' and sec
ondly, to claim in the right observance of this Or
dnance, common ground of union for all chris |
tianS. Here, in this ordinance. all the truths
necessary for the making Of a church, not a SoCie-
ty merely, but a church in the scriptura sense of
the word, for no combinations societies. united
for the furherancc OF any christian object is or
ever was church. No would give the title
church, to the London Missionary or American
Bioie Society; the application Of this term in !
such cases is not thought Of and neither are we
al liberty to designate associations for the promo
ton OF SIN, Me hodism Roman Cath
oiiclsm, or any other real or supposed christian
object, churches. These Efforts are more or less
prima tacie evidence that they are Christians and
as such are mutually recognized by each other and
II is proper to do sos but that their alton are
church Organizations, never the contrary. inso-
much, as they preventive proper expires Of the
one catholic manifested union of the whole church,
they are, and are felt to be monstrous evil, work
Of the flesh. Galatians s. 20.
Feeling then most deeply the injury which is done
to Christ, BY these wounds, las it were received
in the house of his friends, would atfectionateiy
make an appeal to the better feelings and better
judgment of the christians of this place, to set a
bout obtaining not temporary gratifying sight,
as was witnessed on the above interesting occa- !
SION. but a perman nj realization of.'Ho good and
how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity. Ps. 1873. John II: 81 ST." -.
Yours, truly, II. -IlLO-i
A Member of the Commonwealth nf yxro,I |