The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-09-11


for the Camp meeting on the wat
ers of Spruce, in the south. east cor
ner of this county. Bros. Clayton,
Ellis, Ozark, Carter and some WON
en- preachers, whose names / did
not learn, were there, and their
whole souls, bodies and spirits were
preserved blameless into the com
| ing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
These laborers in the vineyard of
the Lord have forsaken all the ties
of earth and gone forth into the
Lords harvest fields, hunting for
human sheaves, looking for their
wages in better, holier and happi-
err land. They give their audiences
free lunch from the tables of the
Lord, and they do so in such a
sweet, cheerful, happy and confid-
ing manner that the most skeptical,
doubling, and self-righteous person
that listens, cannot consistent with
the teaching of our Saviour, find
fault with them. They take the
Scriptures for their Rule of Faith,
AID when preaching prove the
Scriptures, read for a text by 9TH
err Scriptures, and connect them so
wide, that "a way-faring man, tho
a fool, may not err therein" The
New Testament contains five places
where Saints, believers, etc., are
commanded to greet one another
with a holy kiss, or kiss of love,
or kiss of charity, and all the prea-
cheers in all the towns and country
church houses seemed to have fail
ed to see or believe these COM
mands, but these Saints see them
and practice them and they also
obey the 18th chapter of st. John,
by girding themselves with towel
and pouring water into a bowl and
washing one another's feet, and wi
ping them with the towel where
with they are girded, because the
Master says; GAS l, your Lord
and Master, have washed your feet,
we ought also to wash one another's
feet, for / have given you an exam
pie, that ye should do as l have
done unto you, if We know these
things, happy are'ye if We do them. "
l have never seen a play ground
filed with children that wore hap
pier countenances than did those
feet washing Saints, while follow
ing the example set by the Savior.
These believers have no church
Record, but insist that they rejoice
because their names are written in
Heaven.
They make every ones religion a
personal matter between them and
their God-because "nO man know
eth the things of man save the
spirit of the man that is in him, !"
and every time one of them steps
over into the Broad Road and stays
over there till he wants to return
to his first love, he is reinstated by
being re immersed in pure, running
water. The Savior was baptized in
the river Jordan, which is the swift
test running stream ever discover
ed, and He says to all that the Fa-
Their draws to Him. "lf any man
will come after me, let him deny
himself and take up his cross daily
and follow me-" That word "dai-
ly," would keep some of the pres
ent crop of preachers standing in
the water all the time, if their
lambs were as conscientious as
these "Saints of God"
These lively members of the
church Of God are the plainest,
neatest, most humble, God fearing
people it has ever been my lot or
privilege to hear or study, and al
though a sinner myself, | cannot
help believing the religious world is
revoluting back to the days when
preachers we're scarce, and pray ers
of faith and oil were used by the
elders of the Seven Churches to re-
lieve the afflicted. Real glad to
see some people that are bold
enough to "step out on the prom
Uses and get under the blood, "
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