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Vol. 10— New Series.
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A., AUGUST, 1878.
No. 5. — Whole No. 101.
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“ • hereby give n ml lii'fjticulli unto tlm Smitlicrn
Baptist Convention, forniptl in Angiwln, Georgia,
In the inontli of May, 18-13, null chartered It}- tiie
Legislature of thu State of Georgia, by an act
passed and approved December 29th, IS 15, ( here
insert the amount , if in money, or '•subject,' ij
other property, cither real or personal,) for Foreign
Missions.”
OUK ROME CHAPEL.
Purchase and Location.
The Southern Baptist Convention lias purchased
a liousf*' in one of the great thoroughfares of Koine
for some twenty-six lliou-and dollars. About four
thousand dollars more will be needed to make it
a convenient chapel. Located as it is, witli a the¬
atre on one side, and the University of Italy on
the other, and quite near to the Pantheon, which is
converted into a Catholic Cathedral, it is suggested
that this little. Raptist church may be the moans
under God, of attracting some from the vanities
of the world, ami of •ridding others to that wis¬
dom which is from above, while it shall stand an
equal protest against the superstitions of Pngan-
ism and the errors of Papacy.
Necessity of the Chapel.
Dr, Matthew T. Yates, when in Koine, said that
a chapel was the necessity of the Mission. It is
necessary to impress the idea that we have gone to
Koine to live, to inspire with confidence our Pro¬
vincial churches, and to give us a fixed center for
the radiating of that truth, which we have so suc¬
cessfully scattered over the land of golden skies
«nil spiritual darkness. Eight years ago the name
of Baptist was scarcely known. And now from
the Alps to the Gulf of Taranto, from the Adriatic
to the Mediterranean, onr little churches rise up
here and there as beacon lights; and are well rep¬
resented by the
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of our station in the Wal-
tlcusian valleys, La Tour, derived from a watch-
tower of those noble Waltletises, whose piety anti
prowess never yielded to the powers of Rome, and
whose grand motto was: Lux TKNEimrs i.ucet.
Something like Heroism.
Carlyle says that we live in an imiicroic and uti-
religious age ; that over-looking the dynamic forces
of man’s moral and spiritual nature; wc give our¬
selves to materialism anti machinery. But there
seems to be something which calls forth the deep
and holy sentiments of our being, and which sa¬
vors somewhat of the heroic, in this enterprise of
Baptists who have been battered through the ages
by the Catholic church, to set themselves up in
Koine — in Papal Koine — more venerable in anti¬
quity ; more unified in government ; more fruit¬
ful in resources; more far-reaching hi rule ; more
beloved by subjects ; more sensitive about en¬
croachments ; more determined for Universal em¬
pire than was ever the Rome of the C:u«ars; and
scarcely less essentially and irreconcilably opposed
to the polity and the princlplesof our church, than
ancient
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was to the religion of Barbarian,
■lew, or Christian ; and not the less disposed to visit
extreme retribution on all who question her au¬
thority, disregard her behests, or antagonize her
progress.
Pity or Contempt.
If
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shows no uneasiness, it is because she
disdains tiie power .-lie does not understand. When
Seiplo and llaimihal met before the walls of Car¬
thage, they gazed on each other in mute admira¬
tion ; hut George B. Taylor, confronting Leo XIII,
would ho as Paul before Eestiis, or the shepherd
hoy of Israel before the hero of Philistia ! But
Baptists have a mission which burns in their hones;
and the day may conic when anathemas shall he
hurled against them as hotly as those which fell
upon Luther and Mulancthon, Zuiiiglu and Calvin.
And let our people prepare for the worse, and fol¬
low tin*, example of that grand champion of tlm
faith who said : ”1 am ready to preach the gospel
to you that are at Koine also,” and whom we would
present as our encouragement and onr inspiration.
Paul was likewise despised.
Tiie Corinthians saitl that “his bodily presence
was weak and his speech contemptible.” He was
slapped in tiie face, in the temple of Jerusalem, he
was stoned at Lystra, and dragged out of the city,
as if tiie carcass of a dog, and his own epitome of
the ignominious treatment lie every where received
is: “Ill stripes above measure, in prisons more
frequent, in deaths oft.”
He ulso hail a mission and was truly heroic.
Paul was possessed of the grand idea that tiie
gospel was “ the power of God unto salvation,”
and that he was a debtor to the world. Not satis-
tied with preaching in Palestine, and Asia Minor,
and Eastern Europe, he, like Luther, who would
go to Worms though opposed by as many devils as
there were tiles on tho house tops, resolved to go
to “Koine also,” although there, the .row and
Christian were regarded the same and were utterly
detested as “the enemy of mankind;” although
corruption festered the vitals of society and gov¬
ernment, and overspread their surface as tho pus¬
tules of the small pox ; although all the gods of
the Pantheon were honored in classic song ami
eloquence, and wore sustained by the service of
sages, the statutes of statesmen, and the swords
of soldiers, who, knowing the lie of their mythology,
preferred for the good of the Slate any faith to in¬
fidelity; Paul would go to Koine, although there
reigned there a man, of whom, when he was horn
his father said, how can he be otherwise than a
monster? and who verified the paternal prediction
by the murder of his own wife and mother, and by
the illumination of his gardens with the blazing
bodies of the disciples of .Teens, accused of the
conllagration of the city, to which the monster
himself had applied the brand ; although he knew
of the horrid dungeon of the Marmurtine prison,
where the wretched Jugurtha was hurled anil
starved, and where the apostle himself was prob¬
ably made to exclaim with new emphasis : “ Oh,
wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me
from the body of this death !"
His heroism rewarded by success.
And executed was his high resolve, though itinust
be as a prisoner appealing from the procurator to the
Emperor, and through the disasters of the fierce
Euroclydon. And his grand doctrine rang through
the “Eternal city,” and captivated even members
of the household of Ca*sar, and sounded forth in
every direction, from the grand capital of the civ¬
ilized world, and resounded from the Baltic to the
Sahara, from tho pillars of Hercules even to the In¬
dus. Gibbon, whose illy disguised hatred of nur
religion never loses an opportunity to give by
his brilliant pen an infamous immortality to current
slanders against the early Christians, admits In his
“ Decline and Fall of Rome," that this doctrine of
the Cross, preached so heroically by Paul, was an
important factor in the disintegration of the Roman
Empire, into the ten kingdoms represented, as wo
think, by the toes of the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s
dream, which was shattered by the little stone, which
filled the whole world. Though immolated on the al¬
tar of his spiritual heroism, Paul’s grand achieve¬
ments warranted a broadcreignificauec to his tloxol-
ogy with regard to the Christianized Romans: “I
thank my God through Christ Jesus thaUyour
faith is spoken of throughout the world.”
Vaticination.
A modern critic says : “It is a sign of weakness
In an individual or a nation to bo given to vaticina¬
tion.” №o. are not a prophet, nor the son of a pro¬
phet. But God prophesies ; and what does lie
prophesy with regard to that “little horn,” with
“the eyes of a man,” and whose “ month speak-
eth great things?” The Sabbath-school scholar who
has recently studied Daniel’s vision of the four
beasts, replies : As tho winged lion of Chaldea
yielded to the devouring bear of Metlo-Persiu, with
three ribs between bis teetli ; which in his turn fell
before tiie four-headed and four-winged leopard of
Greece; which was trampled under the foot of
tiie beast of Rome, which bad iron teetli, and was
diverse from all the other beasts, and was “dreadful,
and terrible and strong exceedingly,” aiul which
had ten horns, to represent the ten kingdoms which
sprang from its ruin ; so tiie little horn with human
