ema, from an association, will produce any other effect than contempt from some, and a smile from others.

EDITOR.

NEW PERIODICALS.

THIS country is likely to become one of the most intelligent in the world. The increase of readers, writers, and periodicals, is astonishing. When this work was about one year old, or, perhaps, before it was a year old, a Presbyterian paper published that itself was the only religious paper in seven states and three territories. In Kentucky alone there are the Christian Messenger, the Baptist Recorder, the Christian Examiner, the Baptist Chronicle, the Western Luminary, and the Paidobaptist, said to be defunct, but to be succeeded by the Presbyterian Advocate. How many more I know not. There is no doubt but they will all do good. The Paidobaptist, I have understood, though intending to build up “babyism” in the form of sprinkling infant faces-a rite the most unmeaning in all the world, Jewish, Christian, or Pagan, has helped in some instances to pull it down. The person who was to have published it, then a Presbyterian, after the appearance of the first number was himself inclined to renounce paidobaptism as they call it-did renounce itwas immersed, and is now the Editor of the Christian Examiner. The "Paidobaptist" did certainly expose the weakness of the cause it plead, the most ably of any print in the backwoods--so much so that one year seems to have been enough for it. The Baptist Recorder. I learn, though I have seen but one number of it in six months, holds on the even tenor of its way. It, now and then, I I hear, from those who read it, gives me "a mortal wound." But I have been so often "mortally wounded" that I cannot die except by my own hands. Whether it was too weak or too strong for the zeal of my opponents, I know not; but they have got up the Baptist Chronicle. This goes hand in hand with the Western Luminary in advocating creeds and councils of human mechanism, and in publishing such calumnies against me as that from the pen of Randolph Stone, noticed in the first number of the Millennial Harbinger. The Baptist Chronicle will not fail for ingenuity and tact, as the Editor Uriel Chambers, Esq. is both a Baptist, a lawyer, and a christian-one, however, of the Georgetown school. He wrote me a long letter which I have heard he has published in the Baptist Recorder; but I never saw it in print, and I have little recollection of its contents, for I read it in great haste immediately before my departure for Richmond, and resolved to publish it on my return; but he would not wait for that, and gave it himself. I have an answer to it on file, sen me from the West, containing an exposition of facts and documents, and reasonings, which would nearly fill half of this number. I cannot think of bestowing so much importance upon such a trifle, as to publish either of them, unless it should become necessary from some cause I yet cannot see. One thing I will say, that, if published, it will not be very savory to my friend Mr. Chambers; and I do not like to publish what would appear a retali atory act upon him, unless other causes call it forth. I have already

exposed so many tricks of my restive opponents, that it seems a work of supererogation-like throwing water on a drowned mouse to be killing a third time those who are twice dead.

The "Church's Advocate," edited in Vincennes, by Elder Daniel Parker, author of the two seeds or modernized Manichean doc. trine of two principles changed from the Persian to the American philosophy, is engaged in slandering me with his usual dexterity in the good work of defamation. He boasts of great intimacy with Dr. Noel, and says he found a cordial welcome into his pulpit in Frankfort. This pulpit, it is said, is consecrated after the manner of the sanctum sanctorum of the Jews.

I did not till lately know that such was the fact, if it be, and that any church in Kentucky had refused to let any one into their house, who affirmed that the scriptures of the Apostles were a perfect rule of life, intelligible, suitable, and able to furnish every one who loved them to every good word and work. No, I did not believe, and like Thomas, I cannot believe upon almost any testimony, that Dr. Noel, or any church of which he is a member, will, by a solemn resolution, declare that any one of good moral and religious character who teaches that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is the Son of God, and that he died for our sins, was buried, and rose again, ascended into heaven and is the Judge of all men, and who teaches that the scriptures are a divine revelation, clear, intelligible, and perfect; even should he oppose the Doctor's own creed book, would be refused to speak in any house, Publio of private, which might be convenient. Dumora to this effect, it is true, I have heard some time ago; but that such a'step has actually been taken, I want stronger proof than is now before my mind to believe. I cannot reconcile this to all I know of the Doctor, nor of the intelligence of Frankfort.

Mr. Parker resolves every thing into his philosophic scheme of predestination, and he that denies his work of the Holy Spirit, or his call to the ministry, he represents in his last number as having committed the unpardonable sin. Reader brace your nerves, and read what follows from his fourth number!

"If so be, that denying the office and work of the Spirit in experimental religion, and call to, and work of the ministry, should be that sin against the Holy Ghost, (which appears to me to be the fact,) then with awful sensation of feelings, we know the fate of those who are thus engaged. We need not pray for them; the Lord will not hear on their behalf; their doom is filed, and their conscience seared. You cannot bring conviction to their minds~ and to say that we do not deny the office or work of the Spirit, and yet contend that the Spirit and Word are one, or that there is no spirit but what is in the Word, is making the matter worse. It is not only denying the work of God, as a Spirit, but also lying before God, for the purpose of covering a blasphemous sin."

Surely this a wonderful age, an eventful time! We may expect to hear soon that the Earth is as flat as a trencher, and that the Sun is a ball of fire whirling round it; that language has any meaning, or that Revelation is any blessing to man, may soon be denied. Every one who opposes the dreams of Daniel Parker about his

call to the ministry, is not to be prayed for!!! This is the fair meaning of the text and context. EDITOR.

THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.

I HAVE examined, with considerable attention, the four first num. bers of this paper, issued in Lexington, Ky. and edited by brother Norwood. I am very much pleased with both the body and spirit of the work. Some original essays in it possess great merit, and the devotion of the work to the religion of the New Testament, the pure, and simple, and amiable, and sublime institution of the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, who died for the sins of men, and brought life and immortality to light in his resurrection from the dead, refreshes me, as did the coming of Fortunatus, Stephanus, and Achaicus, on one occasion, the spirit of our great Apostle Paul.

The exertions of many able brethren engaged in preparing the way for the restoration of the ancient order of things among the disciples of Christ, are frequently alluded to in the work, and the essays furnished by our zealous and indefatigable brother J. Creath, jr. in behalf of the sufficiency and suitableness of the scriptures, against human creeds, are, in my judgment, unanswerable. The work is filled either with original articles of much interest, or the most judicious selections, and very neatly executed in its typography; ably edited, and handsomely printed-of the same size, and at the same price of this work. It breathes the peacable and easy to be entreated spirit of the christian, and manifests that noble independe nce of mind which is one of the greatest ornaments of christian character. We view it as an able auxiliary in the cause of the Bible against antichristian theories and practices, and we hope it may obtain a circulation commensurate with the need for it, and the claims of patronage with which it addresses itself to all the friends of the religion of the New Testament. EDITOR.

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EDITOR.

A FAVOR demanded by Elder Parker, author of American Mani. cheanism, and teacher of Persian Predestination.

"I would take it as a favor for some one to let me know who was the father of the son of perdition. JOHN, CH. 17, v 12. And who was the parents, (both father and mother) of the serpents, the generation of vipers. MATTHEW, CH 23. v. 331 And whether or not, the angel of the bottomless pit, who was king of the locusts, was by birth-right a native of the kingdom of ultimate glory, a near kinsman of the Almighty God, or did he, in reality, proceed out of the bottomless pit. Rev. CH. 9, v. 11, and was by birth-right a native of that pit."-Daniel Parker.

This is certainly symptomatic of a sort of moral hypochondria, arising, perhaps, from an Illinois Dyspepsia-we shall therefore append the following cure:

"CURE FOR THE DYSPEPSIA.

"We have heard of a dyspeptic clergyman, at the south, who, after a long confinement, conluded to try an experiment of preach. ing once more; and accordingly he delivered three discourses in one day, of an hour each. Upon his return to the house, he told his negro servant, that he felt much better for preaching. The servant replied, "I tought you would massa, to get so much trash off your stomach."

RELATING EXPERIENCES.

A GOOD old Virginia Negro, and a very regular and orthodox professor, of more than ordinary attainments among the sabie brotherhood, was accustomed to prepare "experiences" for such of his friends as wished to join the church. He disclosed to hem how they ought to feel in order to make good converts, and how they ought to relate their feelings in order to make a good confession. His usual fee was a good fat chicken for each convert that passed the ordeal of the church. But as he insured his converts for a chicken a-piece, if any one was rejected, he got nothing. "Ne cure, no pay," was his motto. Once a Negro, more stupid than the others, was rejected; he tried it a second, and a third time; but was rejected. Sambo then declared he would not insure him unless

To this he acceded; and

he would promise him three chickens. by great exertions he got him able to repeat "how bad he felt, how dark it was with his soul, how a great light broke into his mind, how happy he was, and how much he loved Jesus." He was received and Sambo eat his chickens with joy and a good consci

ence.

EDITOR.

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For the Christian Baptist, from the 30th December, 1829, to the 19th of February, 1830.

J. M.

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