The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-04
HARVEST DAY AT TABERNACLE.
Eighteen New Members Received Into
the Church and Nine Baptised.


Sunday was harvest time at the Taber-
nacle Baptist church. The two-weeks'
meeting by DR.. Barron had just closed
and, as result, eighteen new members
were received into the church and nine
of them were baptised at three O'Clock
Sunday afternoon, the remaining nine,
together with others who are expected
to join at that time, will be haptised
Wednesday night at the regular: prayer
meeting service.
The Tabernacle congregation has
. greatly enjoyed DR.. Barron's preaching
for the past two weeks. He has won Il
warm place in their hearts and will bc
ever welcome to their homes and their
pulpit. No one has preached in the Tab
ernacle who has given more general de-
light, nor has anyone done more faithful
preaching of the word. The church it
self has been helped in it's spiritual life.
and number have professed faith in
Christ. And these professions have ran
! ged through all the scale of life, from
: those ten years of age to old men past
eighty.
; The Priesthood of Jesus Christ" was
! DIR. Simms' subject Sunday morning, his
! text being taken from the 18th chapter of
: Hebrews, oath and 18th verses.
/ Among other things, DR.. Simms said
| in the course of his sermon:
| "a priest is an intercessor between
! God and man.
1T is sin that makes a priest necessary
/ for the human race.
Men will have a priestly caste be-
! cause they are conscious of sin and
/ want an intercessor.
The only true priest is he who is di-
vinely appointed of God. No man. says
! Aaron, takes this honor unto himself
! but is called of God
Jesus Christ is such priest His
! acts bind the court of Heaven Whom
he acquits can never be condemned. He
| sits on the right hand of the throne OF
| God intercedmg for us. We can only be
| justified through him.
J when this priest pleads for humanity
| he brings no virtue, no righteousness. no
merit of man. 1t is his own sacrifice
himself, his death upon the cross that he
! pleads. ! He presents himself a living
! sacrifice before God-for you and fol
| me. ,i4r-.re..ts , .
| NO soul is so lost. no man is so low,
! no life us so marred that Christ will not
| go before, the bar of God and intercede
for it, There is no doubt about His
mercy. He has been tried and trusted
| through the ages. He has taken men out
/ of the gutter, women out of houses of
| shame. gamblers out of their dens and
| saloon men from their hiding places His
| blood is able to save unto the uttermost.
| There is no doubt about his ability to
! save.
Study the divine appointments of the
universe. The sun has been made to
| rule by day and the moon by night. They
cannot change places. They are divinely
appointed. There is the great law of
gravitation, a silent but mighty law.
The clouds are divinely appointed buck
cts to take up the water and carry it back
to the fields, and the rivers to take it
gain to the ocean. These laws cannot
be changed. God has appointed them;
he has backed them up by divine charac-
ter and divine life. The appointment Of
Jesus Christ as our high priest proceeds
| from she same source. He who trusts in
Him shall have eternal life. God hath
said it