Okolona messenger., 1902-06-18
oKoLoNA, MISS, JUNE IS, 1902.
An Appeal 10 Christian II armOny.


and most logical in all Of his conclu
sions
The citizens of Okolono evinced a
keen appreciation of this good mans
work by turning out largely at each
service.
Yet we are sorry to say that the
Baptist church in this city is in such a
disrupted condition that Bro. Prices
preaching amounted to but little good
so far as that church was concerned.
The Okolona Baptist church has been
spit from center to circumference ever
since Sid Williams ruthlessly invaded
sacred rights of the local organization
and zealously labored for four days to
have the covenant changed. The
members are now at variance one with
another and Brother Price after seeing
the lamentable conditions of things
said: "Why no good can come from
this state of affairs, as every good work
was blocked, and the rules aud regula
tions which had been 80 arbitrarily
voted on the church and that too with
a spirit of malignance which was the
wedge that drove God out of the hearts
of the members, severed the bonds of
brotherly love and so sbamefully dis
rupted the church, were of no avail as
they were being broken more often
by those who persisted in passing
them, than by any body else, and there
fore they were not helpful in any to
the good of the church, but was stand
ing as poisoned arrows deadning the
spirituality of the church and driving
out all love that the members should
have one for another" So Bro. Price
wisely and with all the fervor of his
soul advise the brethren to rub out all
the rules and regulations that are now
destroying the peace, love, the unity,
and spirituality of the church and go
back and live under the grand old cove
nant with its rules and bylaws that
were in existence before the Sid
Williams meeting and those that were
sacred in regulating the spiritual life of
tie church tor the past 80 years.
What does God care for rules or
rule makers when they are engender-
ing strife, destroying brotherly love
and blacking the wheels of Zion.
In the day of final account what will
it profit a man to say Lord l helped to
make and ruthlessly push through some
rules 10 0kolona Baptist church which
embittered the members one against
the other, disrupted the church and
made it a thing Of ridicule where ever
It was known and even deadened the
spiritual life OF the church to that ex'
tent that sinners could not be convert
ed in meeting conducted in that
building. The man of God, the con-
secrated revivalist insisted that these
rules should be wiped out but we said
no, we will hold them on the church if
she is bursted to pieces, God driven
from this earthly tabernacle and the
whole thing turned over to the devil.
BY going back to the old rules and
covenant the whole membership of the
church could be united once morei they
are the same rules that are to be found
in all Baptist churches and are good
enough for any man or woman who is
a real christian and wants to do Gods
will.
We all wait to see whether the breth
rem desire to come together in b-Otherly
love and work together for the ad-
vancemeut of Gods kingdom or prefer
to go en- as they have been doing. cast
ing the love of God to the Wind and
maintaining a determination to sow
seeds Of discord and bitterness.
How can a church prosper in that
condition. How can sinners be saved
when somebody is standing in the way,
who is it,
God enjoys love above every thing
else. He even makes it the test and
evidence that one has experienced the
new birth where love is wanting the
proof is evident that the heart is wrong
in Gods sight. There ought to have
been 80 or more conversions under the
forceable preaching Of Bro. Price,
whereas only one little girl was bourn
into Gods kingdom. The church GER
tLinly stood in the way Of sinners com
ing to Christ for God cannot use life
less church in the saving Of souls.
Brethren get together for Gods sake
and for the sake Of your own souls, aud
let the church no longer be burlesque
in the eyes Of the world and an abomi
nation in the sight Of God.
The Evangelist tried hard to raise
money enough at the close Of his meet
ing to pay of the debt on the Baptist
parsonage, but the offers started out
with a string tired to them, so it all
ended in a gigantic failure.
A BAPTIST.
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