Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-03-20
THE GREAT LESSON OF THE WEEK.
Subject-THE TRUE AND THE FALSE.
The THO Builders-Me Wise and The Foolish.

The THO Builders--The WISE and the Foolish.
"Beware of false prophets which come to
you in sleeps clothing, but inwardly they
are ravening wolves"
aye shall know them by their fruits" =
"a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can u corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit"
The wise man builds his house upon the
rock, but the foolish, upon the sand-the
one stands, but the other falls, and great is
the fall thereof.
This is the substance of the great Lesson.
And as a singular coincidence, our ministers
preached as follows on Sunday.
Rev. r. j. Craig took Nehemiah vi 3.
81 am doing great work, so that | cannot
come down." He showed the great work to
be the Christians work. the true work, and
the interference of the enemy to be the
false work. Here we have the true and the
false the arise and foolish builders the good
tree, and the corrupt.
Rev. NJ. b. Dewitt had his subject pre-.
| scented to him in an anonymous letter and is
as follows: "The place OF condition Heav.
en-; the place or condition He'll" His text
was Matt XIV. 46,
"And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment; but the righteous into life
| eternal"
He argued that Heaven is place--a de-
lightful place that Hell is place-a miser.
able place that Heaven is state of perfect
holiness, and that hell is state of sin; that
Heaven is the blissful home of God and an.
gels, and all saints, and He'll is the eternal,
dismal prison of the Devil and his angels
and all unrepentant sinners.
Here also appeared the true and the FALSE
the wise and the foolish builders, and the
good and evil trees, with their fruits. Heav.
en- is the place of the true, He'll, of the
false. As to the location, he said nothing
had been revealed, and hence nothing
known.
Elder ]. C. Martin, dscoursed from the
text, II Tim. ii. 10,
"Study to shew myself approved unto
God, a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word Of truth.
How to read the Bible to proft-a true
way and a false.
2 How to read it in order-a true way, and
false.
3 God being God of order, gave book
of order. Here is order the true, against
disorder the false.
The purpose in reading, may be either
true, or false.
The application of what we read 0Ay be
either true or false. The great lesson
though not designed particularly so, on Mr.
MS part, appears plainly in his teachings
throughout.
Rev. Alex COwan, took for his text, Pet
ii.9,
"But We are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, peculiar PEG
pie, that we should show forth the praises Of
him who both called you out of darkness N
to his marvellous light"
Here we have the true and the false plain
ly set forth. The chosen are the true anG
wise builders, and those who are not the pc
culiar people, are the foolish builders.
That all denominations have some Of thu
true people, as well as some of the false
That no one denomination can claim to have
all of either. That Gods people are scatter
ed among all denominations. The discours,
was characterized by earnestness and yea, "a
J well as liberallty No reference was had t.
the great lesson, but the reader will see how
it may be applied.
Rev. j. NJ. Walters, without regard 10 tn,
great lesson, and any concert of action will
the others, took for his text, John viii 81,
"lf any man thirst, let him come unto me
. and drink"
Here the great teacher makes the distinc
' ton between men, those who thirst anC
those who do not, the true and false, the
wise and unwise builders. The characte
invited and who accepts is'the true and wis
one, the one who refuses is the unwise one
e The invitation is not limited, nor the powe
| to save, it is whatsoever ioiU, and whosoeve
will not, He who wils, builds wisely HI
who wiHs not builds foolishly.
e We have given the above to show the CO
e incidence in the teachings of the differen
pulpits in town, on one day.