THE BAPTLST UNION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11629, 3 November 1887, Page 3

THE BAPTLST UNION.

■tHDEAW, flfip^S 1 * MRSPU3GBOIS[. I ■'IS QHAIiGES ; .^AIKST, THE S3 ASSOCIATION,) B ! " ' : Ijoi,?l)p it, October 27. nß] ke Rev.* Mr, Sftu/iigeo n ; hßs withdrawn Hr Vthe Baptist ÜbiiSri;- as Ihe is dissatisfied Hbi: the action; taken Yin \ connection with Bt*ui ohargeß- he^odf'jed against the ißtry of the Church, ■> 'which he asserts, H[ declining vSpiritually iiv'pd' theologically. refuses to form afresh < denomination. Bjj „ IHB DOWK-GB lIDB. ■■Mr Spuigeon's "charges a gi finsfc the minis* Mr. referred to in the i ib«ove cablegram, •teiined in an artiol c written by him [J the . August, number oj ! ibis well-known Higazine, the Sword anj d 1 Trowel. The Htdcle, f«^^which:'t}xe.fi; jllowuig is an exBiot is headed,! " Another : Word Concern' ■Hg the Downgrade :"-- J V B^ 1 No I6vei? : df the gospel oart conceal from the fact -that tb * days are evil, are willing'toiriako alt irge discount from ■Br apprehensions on the' ; score' of natural the caution of at ge, and the weak* produced by pain; bj ut yet our solemn 5b that thingß a re much worse in churches than thq y seem to be, and Be rapidly tending down^ wd. .Bead those Vwhich\ reprj 3sent Jbhe. Board BJhool of Diaseiifc, and as! : yourself.' How j^Huch farther' could they g0 ? What doct« He remains ''\to be abaiadoned? What HBher trutlv to be the objei it bf contempt? B^new religion, has being initiated, which no more Christianity thah chalk is ; and this- religion, b eing destitute of HH honesty, palms itself . off as the. old |Hith with slight imprbyem/'ztnts, And on this H|ea usurps pulpits which , -jrere erected for preaching. .The. Atonement is Bouted, the inspiralion.ji.sOf • Scripture is flftrided, the Holy Bpiritikj degraded into an BHpuence, th'e'lpiinish'eSe^'.t; otsin is turned Hho fiction, :)and (the: rh^urreotion into a and yet these enemi es of our faith cius to^qaUtbem broth ren, and maintain ■Bconfederabyinth'ttiem!' ' B «' At the Mbkofdoctrinnl falsehood comes H| natural decline rof Spiritual life, evidenced a taste for questionable amusements, and jB weariness- of "devotional meetings. At a Blertain meeting, of miniiiters and churchBfficers, one after £ 'an6tiheri<ioubted the value Bf prayer-meetings .; 'all conf easad that they IBad a' very^Bmall- attendance, arid severni, BntnnwißH/rt^, f ,wg3^a>-4>ne -alignteriir com Hbunotion * th.^jt^iad quit© given them Hp. . What 'meansthis ? Are churches in a Bight condition(when t;hey /have only one Bneeting for -prayer 1 in .a wjeek>and .that a Hnera skeleton?- r ' ' v : 't** . v