The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-11-13
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FROM LAY Z. "
On the 18th inst we attended the commence
ment of series of religious meetings at Epe-
neezer Church-passing a church where we
had been told in error protracted services had
closed on the Friday previous: Inc coidf
hitter wall of the winds around the chureh
made ms feel SO stoical that neither the sermon
nor the stove could warm us, for the latter
had no fire in it; and just as soon as relieved
from dntv there we made forced march to
warm the outer and supply the inner man,
and make the banks of Mr.. Frank Lewis mill
stream in time 10 witness the approach OF
eight candidates for baptism by immersion,
where were assembled several hundred triends
and neighbors to witness the ceremony, which
was nerformed by Rev. George Hewes in an
IMPRESSIVE manner. Charles Wesley hymn,
GLOW Happy Are They" &c. next in sweet
ness to .sWashed in the Blood of the Lamb j.
was sung very sweetly. And, OF the ten can,
didates to date as the result of the Bethel
series of meetings, we have seen enough OF
"worship in spirit and in truth to induce us
IN believe that when the Master comes he Will
not have cause to say 'were there not ten
cleansed. hut where are the nine u And 1t
likewise gave as cause to repeat what we have
said before-the best Christians are those who
can extend the right hand of fellowship far
therst across the hiatus of honest differences
the blood washed and forgiven the way to
worship God most consonant to their own
feelings. while the angels ''fall at His feet
and the story repeat, and the lover OF sinners
adore.n -.
The Berret correspondent has 'dsSdyed'
and essaved. and said, and resaid, and gain
said; and after all he has said he still admits
our i'eternal process moving on" in harmony,
and concord,'' till he introduces his man of
'ssin on the stage, who inaugurates war OF ell
ements, confusion and discord." He has just
protested to be Mortified that we should hint
that the wild freaks of effect following
natural causes was other than the direct work
of Omnipotence, and now he says 1t Is the
work of his man of sin. But now, according
to him, his man of sin has been driven clean
off the stage, for he tells US mot till the plan
of REDEMPTION and restoration was finished
did the morning stars sing together, the sons
of God shout for joy, the innumeF;tbie COM
pany sing the new song, and angels sing glory
to God in the highest" And in the midst OF
it he accords us a splendid trip away around
the universe, past the Pleiades, sweeping
through the gates into the kingdom of Heaven,
catching the roll of innumerable voices sing
ing the new song-to all of which we feel
like breathing amen and taking up where
Berret closes his ''Glory to God IN the highest,
peace on earth ana SOou Will toMdIu hiehi
continue-all men-every man, till the times
of restitution shall come" restoration and
Berret himself shall find he has gainsaid in
alleging, as he does, that his breath has been
taken and his poor soul swallowed up by our
''eternal process moving on" And as he bids
us report cause and effect in the case of the
lost lnminary, or Plead (which we are not
ready to do with certainty, he scarcely allow
ing us time to count the six, when he swooped
us away, before we could hunt around for the
SEVENTH, probably it boarded our train OF
'seternal process moving on to take the stage
after his man of sin was removed, there to be
a leader in the one and only concert, com
prising four pieces that ever g, occurred IN
''eternal process moving on" This one, dis
tinctive, only, isolated, four comet concert
we find written in the book of the Berret
Historic Sacrd, all in one without fixed date
But from other reliable histories we are able
to fix the date about eighteen hundred and
eighty-ive years back, or Ammo Domini l.
Now is Berret going to leave us there, or will
he continue his Historic SacyG adown ''eter-
nal process moving on" Day.