Vol. VII uation of the former. This is not taught in the sacred scriptures, But supposing the analogy the most exact in the introduction of the two institutions, it will not follow from any necessity that the two institutions are in other respects analogous. For instance, the Old Institution was national, and based upon family blood. But not so the Christian. It takes not the whole of any man's family, from any necessity or provision in the Constitution. It is based, not upon flesh, but upon faith; and therefore, every citizen must be born again of water and spirit before admitted into the Kingdom of Jesus. He is not a citizen until born of the water. If all the children of the flesh were counted for the seed now, as formerly under the old economy, then some plea more plausible might be urged for dispensing with the converting or proselyting institution. But as every one must be born again before admitted into the Kingdom of Heaven, and as every one must be justified and washed before adopted into the family of God, christian immersion must remain a unit in the Christian Institution until all are brought home. For as in the beginning, so shall there be to the end of the Christian Institution, one Lord, one faith, one immersion. As to the note to which you refer in the January number, additional light will be thrown upon that subject in an essay upon the voice of God in the third number of the Millennial Harbinger.

In all affection yours,

EDITOR.

Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Christian Baptist, dated "CINCINNATI, March 18, 1830. "WE are all very much pleased with your first number of the Millennial Harbinger, and pray for success to attend the laudable enterprize in which you are engaged. Your friends, and the friends of the common cause, are rapidly increasing, while the adversary is becoming more violent and deadly in his opposition. All that is requisite to insure success and to obtain a complete triumph over error and will-worship, is to let the light shine. Just as darkness flies before the Sun, so the fog, and the smoke, and the gloom that hang over the christian world, vanish away as the beams of the Sun of Revelation shoot forth. "The entrance of thy word giveth light." Ignorance, superstition, and infidelity predominate in the human mind; but the word, the living word, dissipates them. It is the lamp which God has let down from his throne of light into our dark world, and who can extinguish it?

"When I look round me, and see the awful delusion that Satan and the Priesthood have caused to pass upon the minds of the people, my heart is sick, and every day's report convinces me that the aiders and abettors of the modern state of things are under almost any other influence, except that of a heavenly one. The weapons of their warfare are most assuredly carnal, and of course feeble; such as slander, detraction, vituperation, and falsehood. These are the instruments with which they combat. They are never used by those who have confidence in their own arm, or who are surrounded by the ramparts of truth. They are the poisoned arrows of a retreating and vanquished foe, which the shield of faith will quench. No one who has the fear of God can fear them, be:

cause they are perfectly harmless. The pulpits and religious papers of our day are as so many quivers full of them; and their occupants are industriously throwing them at all those who stand forth as the defenders of the faith once delivered to the saints.

"As a proof of the straits to which some of them are driven, and the feebleness of their resources, the Enon Church of this city, lately, as I am credibly informed, fell upon the following expedient to arrest the flood of light which is every where breaking forth:They had a colored member of their church, from old Virginia, who, as I learn, in early life was very much neglected as regards his education, and cannot now read intelligibly, if at all, who having been, probably in the neighborhood of Louisville, on his return reported to the church the rapid and alarming progress of the "ancient gospel." Upon which he informed them that he thought he was called to oppose it, and requested a license to that effect; which they accordingly gave, with this provision, that whenever he should cease opposing the "ancient gospel," and should consequently op. pose the modern gospel, his commission should run out. armed cap-a-pie, this champion of the Enonites has gone forth as a man of war to put to flight the armies of the aliens. You may expect to hear of a most horrible slaughter in a short time on the banks of the Ohio, by this representative elect of the colony on Walnut street. I think I see a peculiar fitness in the selection the Enon Church has made in sending out a son of Africa. with a mind as dusky as his skin, as the name by which this church is designated (Enon) signifies darkness. But enough on this head."

Thus

JONES' HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. I AM glad to see proposals issued by Ephraim A. Smith, of Danville, Kentucky, for republishing this valuable work. While other ecclesiastical historians have been giving us the history of the Man of Sin, rather than of the Christian Church, Mr. Jones aimed at giving the history of the Christian Church. And if Mr. Jones has not given us the history of the Christian Church from the Apostolic Age till now, it is because he could find no Christian Church for more than a thousand years of that period. He has, however, given us all the fragments of valuable history of the most faithful and intelligent witnesses against the Man of Sin, and therefore his is a work of very great value. I need not eulogize this work-its merits have already been appreciated in the Old World and in the New and many testimonials from some of the best judges of such matters, are to be met with in the English Reviews, and in the notices taken of it in the United States. The following are the conditions of the publication:

"In consequence of the number of frauds that have been practised upon the public by persons publishing books by subscription, I deem it unnecessary to state that the contemplated edition of Jones' History is not to be published for the purpose of realizing a profit by the sale, but solely with a design to extend the circulation of this valuable work among those who have not the means to procure the great number of voluminous works from which this is compiled,

or leisure to examine them if in their possession. In order to effect this object to the greatest extent, the work, containing 576 large octavo pages, will be delivered to subscribers, well print. ed on good paper, and in excellent binding, for TWO DOLLARS A COPY. (The same work is sold in this state for Five Dollars.) That the public may be assured respecting the mechanical exe. cution of the work, it is only necessary to state that it will be printed Transylvania Press," Lexington, Kentucky, and will be bound by Mr. Benjamin Keiser of the same place.

at the

"It is designed that one copy shall be given to those who shall pay for 10 copies when delivered, and every sixth copy beyond or above ten. Those who may take to sell, the same discount will be allowed in money. The work is too near cost to be expected at discount, and is expected to be generally taken up by subscription." Concerning the publisher (brother Smith) I can say, from an intimate acquaintance with him, having spent some months in my family-a more faithful and upright christian, a person of purer and more exalted piety, I have not found in the commonwealth of Kentucky.-Ed, C. B.

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BETHANY, BROOKE CO. VA.

MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1830.

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"Style no man on earth your Father; for he alone is your father who "is in heaven; and all ye are brethren. Assume not the title of Rabbi; "for you have only one teacher. Neither assume the title of Leader; for "you have only one leader-the MESSIAH."

Matt. xxiii. 8-10.

"Prove all things: hold fast that which is good."

Paul the Apostle.

To the Editor of the Christian Baptist.

DEAR BROTHER,

Arcadia, Rush County, Indiana, March 15, 1830.

A GENERAL conspiracy is forming among the "Orthodox Calvinistic Baptists" in Indiana, the object of which is to put a stop to the alarming spread of those principles contained in the Christian Baptist, and advocated by all who earnestly pray for a "restoration of the ancient order of things;" which they, however, have seen proper to honor with the name of "damnable heresies." I have had the honor of being ranked among the first victims of this conspiracy. I have been immolated on the altar of party prejudice and sectarian jealousy. I have passed through the furnace of clerical indignation, "heated seven times hotter than it was wont to be heated." But the smell of fire has not passed on my garments. Clothed with the panoply of faith, with the volume of unerring wisdom in my hand, I would be ashamed to fear a host of sectarians who have no stronger armor, either offensive or defensive, than their creed.

Nearly four years ago I had the presumption to oppose the doctrine of creeds, &c. in a public assembly, for which I received repeated rebukes from the dominant clergy, who, however, made no attempt to oppugn the arguments I advanced in favor of my position. The three years immediately succeeding this passed with my saying little or nothing on this or any other of the religious questions which, during that period, were agitated; my time being entirely engrossed by studies of a different nature.

After spending some time at Cincinnati, I returned to my former residence in Rush county, and being more at leisure, I determined to give the Scriptures a careful, and if possible, an impartial examination. I did so, without favor or affection to any party, The effect was a thorough conviction of the truth of the following propositions, viz.

1. Faith is nothing more nor less than a conviction of the truth of any position from evidence.

2. That faith in Jesus Christ is nothing more than a belief of the facts recorded of him by the Evangelists, to wit: that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised Messiah, and that he gave impregnable proof vol. vii.

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3. The evangelical writings, containing the facts relative to the mighty works which were done by Christ and his Apostles, together with the corroborating testimony of the prophecies, form altogether a phalanx of evidence sufficient to convince any reasonable mind that "Jesus is the Christ."

4. I became convinced that the popular doctrine of a partial atonement, and unconditional election and reprobation, was alike antichris tian and unscriptural.

These opinions I at all times expressed freely, not a little to the annoyance of my Calvinistic friends. At length, after considerable threatening, the following resolution was adopted by the church on Clifty for my special benefit:

"Resolved, That we will not fellowship the doctrines propagated by Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Virginia."

I entered my protest against this resolution, as I conceived it was intended to condemn a man without giving him an opportunity of defence. But I soon learned I was to share the same fate. The heresies of Campbellism (as they pleased to call it) were charged home on me. I claimed the right of defence, but was informed it was a crime which did not admit of a defence. I next denied the charge of being the disciple or follower of any man, and required the proof of it. I was again told that no evidence was necessary. Thus you see I was charged without truth, tried without a hearing, and condemned without evidence; and thus, in due form, delivered over to Satan as an incorrigible heretic. Several more of this church are destined shortly to share my fate. Bishop John P. Thompson, and about 40 members of Little Flat Rock Church, have been arrested for denying the traditions of the fathers, and will no doubt be formally excommunicated.

Notwithstanding these sorry attempts of the clergy to patch the worn-out veil of ignorance which has long covered the eyes of the people, light is dawning apace. Truth is omnipotent and must pre vail!

1 shall make a defence of my principles before a candid public, the substance of which I would send you for publication in the Harbinger, if it would not be too much a repetition of what you have already said on those subjects in your essays published in the Christian Baptist.

The above facts I consider as public property.

Yours in the bonds of christian love,

R. T. BROWN.

REMARKS ON THE ABOVE.

WHAT meaneth this intolerant spirit? I ask again, What is the meaning of it? Is every man who acknowledges in word and deed the supreme authority of Jesus of Nazareth as Lord Messiah-who has vowed allegiance to him-who is of good report as respects good works, to be sacrificed upon the altar of opinion--because his opinion upon some speculation, fact, or doctrine, differs from mine? Because,