The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-09-21


snd 50 let him eat What nsn4 An uu-
/ baptized man Certainly not Paul vas
gsrltlng TO bapsised believers, men who had
/ esen buried with Christ By baptism unto
death. To no others was such laaauaaa IN
+ Gods book ever addressed But aIr Gae-
rett's hberality would 60 Sc fsr as to adhait
/ to the Lord table any man Who claimed 10
4 have examined himself -Gnrises law
again ignored. Yet he says God has de-
cided this matter" Decided in regard to
whom Mr. Garrett knows, every bible
reader knows, that the above language de-
cides the question for a baptised believer
member Of the church, and for none else
the law being-lst. Belief" I'd Bap-
tism." Sd. Added to the church 4th
q Breaking of bread Nor dare any
branch conference, or individual, inyert
the divine order without treason to high
heaven
If Mr. &. claims the right Of protesting
to have examined himself to come to the
Lords table, does not the same right exist,
or a profession Of having examined himself
to come into the Lords church, IT man
cannot he debarred from the one II be says
be has Examined kinssslf, can he be from the
other. Universalist, Arian or=seeptie. can
demand admittanee then into Eods church
on the statement " / have erdHttaled my
self" If this admits to the table It admits
to the church, and all discipliness COMES
sions and church constitutions are lost 10
the grand idea that each man has examined
himself, and so enters and SO eats. And ls
this, blessed Saviour, the regard men haY6
to thine authority? Is Il thus that tHoss
who profess Thy name would have truth
tranpled in the streets No, no. Let
odium, hate, persecution, death and torture
come, but never will we bend thy truth 70
zauf- M
men on the petty earthly plea Of hberailty
and human communion.
To close, mr. Garrett insists with Intense
energy that these cherished principles, held
by Baptists IN every age-the supremacy OF
Christ's law" are opposed to the laws OF
our country" Ve cannot follow at length
his illustrations, but refer with sorrOw to
to the animus with which he dweJs upon It.
In every age the laws of men and nations
have been opposed to the Exclusive law
of Christ and His church. Jesus died be-
cause the Jews " had law and by that law
he ought to die The apostles were ar
rested, imprisoned and murdered for preaoh-
ing doctrines so exclusive as to be op-
posed by the civil law. Their descendants
in every age met this same argument Of Mr.
Garrett and suffered the penalties of law
The tall tower stands a monument to-day Of
the sufferings of Baptists because they would
not acknowledge the HeBuOGlSE claim, El6E =
church has the right to change, alter CT
abolish rites and ceremonies, and because
they clung to the supreme and exclusive Law
of Christ In New England in Virginia,
ia every land-by Protestsnts, by Catho-
have been threatened and pun
shed by the civil law. But they have risen
in the strength of God above 1t all, and
stand forth to-day as people, sublime
monument of the divine prediction The
gates of he'll shall not prevail against it
The Baptists fought this glorious battle cen
.uries before MethOdism was born They
and their principles viii live and triumph
when Methodism Is dead and buried in the
earth whence it sprung.
But through God, Mr. CARROTS half ut-
iered threats Of the laws Of our country
are powerless. They share his spirit; they
reveal what he would do If he dare; they
show that IN the conflict between the prin-
eiples of this world and the principles of
ChrisRs church what side he would take
He shows that in the spirit of the past he
would evoke the civil law to crush God s
truth Our principles are eternal Chains
cannot bind them. Their fountain is Christ
Their age is eternity They were coneen-
trated and raised forth amid the splendors
Of Mount Tabor, where Jesus shown forth
in transhguFed glory This is my beloved
Son, hear ye Hin. Not the Judgment or
" conscience of each man" but Christ, the
Lord Of the conscience, the law giyer in
Zion. VEEIEAs