The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-17
THE CONFESSION OF
FAITH AS REVISED
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Wnere upon the hearts of men to restrain
them from evil and to incite them unto
good and whom the Father is ever will
ing to give unto all who ask Him. We
believe that He has spoken by holy men
OF God in making known His truth to
men for their salvation: that, through
our exalted Saviour. He was sent forth
in power to convict the world of sin, to
enhghten mems minds in the knowledge
OF Christ, and to pursuade and enable
them to obey the call of the Gospel; and
that He abides with the church, dwelling
in every believer as the spirit OF truth,
of holiness and of comfort.
Article XI. of the New Birth and New
Life.
We believe that the Holy Spirit only
is the author and source of the new
bilth: we rejoice in the new life, where
in He is given unto us as the seal OF
sonship in Christ and keeps loving fell
lowship with u.s. helps us in our intirmi
ties, purges us from our faults, and
ever continues His transforming work
in us until we are perfected in the like
ness of Christ in the glory of the life to
come.
Article XII. Of the Resurrection and
the Life to Come.
We believe that in the life to come
the spirits of the just, at death made
free from sin. enjoy immediate commun-
ion with God and the vision of Ills glory;
and we confidently look for the general
resurrection in the last day, when the
bodies of those who sleep in Christ shall
be fashioned in the likeness of the glor-
ious body OF their Lord, with whom
they shall live and reign forever
Article XIII. OF the Law of God.
We believe that the law of God reveal
ed in the ten commandments. and more
clearly disclosed in the words OF Christ.
is forever established in truth and
equity so that no human work shall
abide except it be built on this founda
ticn We believe that God requires of
every man to do justly. to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with his God: and
that only through his harmony with the
will of God shall be fulfilled that broth
erhood of man wherein the kingdom of
God is to be made manifest.
Article XIV. OF the Church and TIE
Sacraments.
We believe in the Holv Catholic
Church. of which Christ is the only
Hedu. we DclitNc THAT lilt '-HuI Gil III
visible consists of all the redeemed, and
that the Church Visible embraces all
who profess the true religion, together
with their children. We receive to our
communion all who confess and obey
Christ as their divine Lord and Saviour,
and we hold fellowship with all believers
in Him.
We receive the sacraments of baptism
and the Lords Supper, alone divinely es-
tablished and committed to the church
together with the word as means of
grace made effectual only by the Holy
Spirit, and always to be used by Chris
tians with prayer and praise to God.
Article XIV. OF the Last Judgment.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ
win come again in glorious majesty to
judge the world and to make a final ser
aration between the righteous and the
wicked. The wicked shall receive the
eternal award of their sins. and the
Lord will manifest the glory of his mer-
cy in the salvation of His people and
their entrance upon the full enjoyment
of eternal life.
Article XVI OF Christian Service and
the Final Triumph.
We believe that it is our duty as SER
wants and friends of Christ to do good
unto all men, to maintain the public and
private worship of Cod, to hGlloW the
Lords Day, to preserve the sanctity or
the family, to uphold the just authority
of the State, and so to live in all hon
csty. purity, and charity that our lives
shall testify of Christ. We joyfully re-
cciVe the Word of Christ, bidding His
people GO into all the world and make
disciples of all nations and declare unto
them that God was in Christ reconcilins
the world unto Himself, and that He will
have al men 10 be saved and to come to
the knowledge of the truth. We conf
IDENTIFY trust that by His power and
grace, all His enemies and ours shall be
finally overcome, and the kingdoms OF
this world shall be made the kingdom
of cur God and of His Christ. In this
faith We abide, in this service We labor,
and in this hope we pray, even So, come,
Lord Jesus. All of which is respectively
submitted.
HENRY COLLIN MINrON,
Chairman.
CHARLES A. DICKEY,
HERRICK JOHNSON.
SAMUEL j. NICHOLS,
d. W. FISHER,
WILLIAM M'KIBBIN,
GEORGE b. STEWART.
s. Z. SPRECHER,
HENRY VAN DYKE,
JOHN DE WITT.
j. ROSS STEVENSON,
ID. W. MOFFAT,
s. B. MCCORMICK.
JOHN NJ: HARLAN.
DANIEL K MOVES.
E. w. c. HUMPHREY,
WILLIAM j CRAPBE.
JOHN Z. PARSONS.
ELISHA A. FRASER,
JOHN W. FOSTER,
CHARLES Z THOMPSON