The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-06

Lord Jesus, and thcu shalt be saved,
hou and thy house The churches
have modified AID diversified and
and have instituted long processes to
be undergone. But God way is a
simple, short, direct, and sufficient
one. Believe in Christ as the door to
entrance into life.
The sublime truth has often been
ObScured in the case of the Philip
plan jailer by bootless discussions con-
corning the method of baptism. Paul
baptized the jailer II his family, ana
the theologians have displayed AN
kinds of ingenuity and ill-temper IN
their efforts to prove that new con-
verts were simply s%prinkled or that
they We're immersed. Happily that
sort of thing is largely out OF fashion.
except in the case Of a few religious
papers that have not yet awakened
to the fact that they are not living
in the sixteenth century. We are no.
greatly interested in the form Of bap-
tism today. We know the jailer was
baptized, and that he was made a new
man and a joyous disciple of Jesus.
That is enough.
The WILle Family.
Four times in our consecutive SEN
fences the point of the whole famllyS
identity with the jailer in salvation is
emphasized. This runs Cun to the
mood of the Western world. We have
minimized the Importance of the fam
ily. The Orient, old and new, knows
better. 1t stands by the family and
by the elan. We are astray III our
intense individualisTn. The father is
immersed in business. the mother in
society: one daughter cares tor settle
ment work. 10Th for sport: n son
goes in for literature. the other toll
lows in his fathers footsteps. Each
has his own special interests. and
there is practically 30 common meet
ing ground for the whole family.
This is q g%rievOus twentieth century
evil. The New Testament plan is for
the man to be the head of his own
house, and for him to lead the whole
family in q unity OF interest. Nhen
families stand solidly together as fam
lilies, meeting daily about the n al
tar. We shall hear less of the need for
Juvenile courts. Nothing will keep
children away from the streets, away
from the gangs. and from the cheap
theatres. and the dance-halls, like 9
family life unified about common cares
and interests, and welded together by
q common love.
A Brave Mans Dignity.
Every man who submits to injustice
is a foe to his race. Paul had been
wrongfully imprisoned and the mag
iStratcS sent to tree INN. He, a RO-
man. refused TO be freed in any such
light fashion. "They have beaten US
publicly u~ncondemned, men that are
Romans. and have cast IS into prison.:
md do they now cast us out priVily?
no. verify: but let them come them
selves and bring US out"
This was spoken like q brave man.
The non-cOnformerS have ever been
The best friends of society. We can
not for an instant contemplate Paul
sitting supinely under the civic corrup-
ton Of one of our modern municipal
tiles. OF Winking at the petty graft of
the policeman on the beat. or the
Wholesale robbery Of the political
boss. He stood upon his rights as q
citizen. He was a mar before he
was 4 Christian. Religion has ever
been the pillar of law, The star
chamber has had to disappear before
The progress Of the gospel. Christian
citizens ought to be a terror of all evil
doors. Every proud and unjust
magistrate ought to be brought to his
feet in the same ObseQuiOus fashion
that Paul humbled the naughty phil
ipian officials.