Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-10-18

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The organized evangelism of the day is wrong
morally, relgously, politically and bibcaly EJobn
I the Baptist went about feeding upon locusts and
wild honey--sent by missionary society, depend-
ing upon plarisaic Board for support pay, and
! interfered with in the work on which God sent him
by no Prudential Committee of Stowe and Beecher
hypocrites The Twelve Apostles were fishermen,
OF low estate, alike sefreiant, enthused by nspra
ton rather than aspecunary incentive who did their
work untrammelled by impertinent aims giving So
cietes, the proxies ONO stay-at-home two-shiings
a-month evangeiists. Howard wrought his Hercu-
lean labors of philanthropy, prvily, quietly and un-
ostentatieusly appealing to no associations" for.
material aid and getting his deeds trumpeted through
no putting gazettes, nor profane, man-praisng, set
sermons. What sort of Gods service is that which
stays at home bcstowing its affections upon things
of earth, and thinks to convert Fejees by contrbu
ting fifty cents month to the support of
known and possibly lazy missionaries at the
antipodes? What sort of evangelism is that which
breaches the gospel to every creature" by ;proxy,
and turns the duties of soldier of Christ,
drafted citizens delegate military service in war to
hired mercenaries. Evangelism can't be done by
substitution. 1t is contradiction in terms. This
is not the sort of evangelism that instituted by
Christ when he sent forth his apostles, commanding
them that they
Take nothing for the journey, neither slaves,
scrip, neither bread neither money neither two coats
apiece.
These genuine evangelists were not in the habit
of keeping an eye homeward and writing back i'm
ploring letters for money, Clothes flour, sugar, ct
The missionaries of this American Board take all
these things with them, and they take also travelling
trunks well filled, purses comfortably provided Gin
the case of the Chcctaws by the federal govern
ment alone to the tune Of 500 per num- and that
"better half' of the modern mssionary--the wife
and her hand maidens. They go to get salary, to
live upon the fat of virgin land, to enjoy the milk
and honey OF the praries, to select out the good
lands for homesteads, and to preach the gospel to
the Choctaws and Chickasaws. Their employers
in the land of steady habits stay-a-home missiona
ries, evangelists by proxy, rejoice meanwhile at the
brave ticks Heathenism, Sin and Satan getting at
their hands; and put flaming and boasting proceed
ings" and Reports in all the newspapers inter-
sperscd with their names in large capitals.
This is not the evangelism of the new Testament.
1t is sowing of seed that only fructify in har-
vests of tares. tits but pharsaica system of in
termcddling by Yankee neutrality-suspicious., abolition
mschiefmakers and fanatical male and female gram
MES generally, in the affairs of other States and peo
pies who are infinitely more competent to manage
their own concerns. 1t originated the mpertinent
abolition fanaticsm and iniquity of the day, and
taught Northern people the grand lie that Southern
institutions, vices and SINS are lawful matters for
inpudent Yankee Government. What is the Ma
tional Colonization Society but scheme for enabling
Northern hypocrites to agtate, debate and wrangle
the condition of classes of people in South
ern States and to cogtate on stupid plans for plant
ing negroes in African economy as absurd as
rying Goals to Newcastle, shipping ice to the
North Pole. The sooner Southern people cut loose
from these officous and vicious organizations, the
better. Let her phanthropiss and evangelists stay
at home, preach the gospel at home, give aims at
home exercise their benevolence in person and at
their own doors, and sever their suspicious connec-
ton with the thousand and one Paul Pry Mrs. eila
by associations which have their headquarters at
Hartford, Boston, Cleveland, and Syracuse. Let ev-
cry whose spirit moves him TO evangelist, imi-
tate the example of John the Baptist Paul, Howard,
Luther and Christ himself. Let him go out taking
no thought of what he shall eat drink or where
withal he shall be clothed inspired by an earnest
and pious SOUL trusting for support to selfrght
Association, but only to that Providence which
fed Elisha in the desert, which filled the widows
cruise with oil, which saved Jonah in the belly of
the whale which opened the prison gates before the
feet Of Peter, which assuagcd the poison of the
pent hich struck its f,ngs into the hands of Paul.
and hich has spread the gospel over the world, in
spite of the baleu and ofIcious efforts of hypocriti
cal societies to take the good work out of its hands.
Rich. Examiner.