The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-05-12

thrown, ana the plolgh-share was run
over the site of the city.
We shall return to this subject in an
other article.
The North Presbyterian church. of this city, is
stirred up because Mr.. Ransdell the pastor has
married Catholic lady. The majority, how
ever, stand by him. Washington dispatch.
The Presbyterian minister who marries
a Roman Catholic fails to have the pri-
mary conception of what it is to be "a new
creature in Christ Jesus" We have no
special reference to Roman Catholics, but
our remarks apply to any union between
a Believer and an Unbelever The facts
are these; Here is household in which
the father is a Presbyterian and the
mother is a Roman Catholic, or in which
the father is Methodist and the mother
is fashionable woman of the world, pro-
Tossing to follow Mr.. Spencer, whose the
DRY is that we simply know, and can know,
nothing about God. Now they have chill
dren. What is to be done with these
children? Shall the Presby terian father
turn the souls of his children over to the
teachings of his Roman Catholic wife?
OF shall the Methodist father allow his
dear little boys and girls to learn from
their charming and intellectual mother
that the story about Jesus Christ is moth
ing better than "a Babylonish legend?
Again, the Presbyterian father and the
Roman Catholic wife each believes that
the other is going to hell, at least it
is their solemn conviction that such is
the strong probability. Are they pro
perly matched? Can one live happily
with wife whom he believes to be trav-
cling different road from himself;
road ending in the lake that burneth with
fire and birthstone? Can we imagine
more utter confusion in a family than
that engendered by radical difference
of religious faith? We mean where the
parties really beheve what they profess,
where they really attach a serious import
to their religion?
The Bible teaches this, however men
may try to shut their eyes to it, that this
human race now inhabiting this earth is
r1ia,ed-loSt and that the multitudes
who compose it are marching to eoerlaSt-.
ing death. That is the doctrine. If
false, reject it, and associate yourself with
the Agnostic company led by Mr. Spen-
Ger. But if true, treat it as fact Now
in the midst of this ruined world we see
the Church-the select band of the Elect,
fleeing from the city of Destruction, and
journeying with Christian and Christiana
and Greatheart and Faithful to the Celes-
tial City Now shall one whom God has
called out of darkness Unto his marvel
lous light" for whom Christ died who
has been illumined and raised from the
dead by the power of the Holy Ghost;
who processes to have been al born again,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorrupti-
BILE whose body is the Temple of the
Holy Ghost who has been united organ
ically to Jesus Christ who shall Judge
angels" shall such one ally himself 50
as to make her bone Of his bones, and
flesh of his flesh, to a woman devoted to
destruction, in the bond of iniquity, the
child of the Devil, living in habitual and
persistent rebellion against the Lord Of
Glory, one to whom the holiness Of God
is uncomfortable and positively repulsive
who flies the influences of the Holy Spirit
as an element foreign to her nature2 Is
not the proceeding unnatural on its face?
And, therefore, we read in the second
epistle to the Corinthians, " Be not un-
equally yoked together with unbelevers"
And note the reason assigned For what
fellowship hath righteousness with I'm
Righteousness? and what communion hath
light with darkness? And what concord
hath Christ with Belial2 or what part
hath he that believeth with an unbe-
lever? And what agreement hath the
temple Of God with idols2 Where
fore come out from among them, and be