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EFFINGER EFFINGER, GENERAL Undertakers, PILOT KNOB, MO, IK i 1 1 ii 1 1 i i - ri 71 ii ii OX7R COUNTRY. AND THURSDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1894. Confirmation. Ed. Register Within the last few weeks, several persons have spoken to me on the subject above named; seem ingly, desirous to have some addition al information given to them on the nature of this rite, as it is taught in the P. E. Church. I mean nothing controversial in the views I propose to give in this paper, but merely to pre sent our own teaching as briefly as possible for the information of those persons mentioned above, and such others as may be willing read, this ar ticle. This is not a "rite" peculiar to the Protestant Episcopal Church, but is recognized and held in U9e by other large bodies of Christians throughout the Christian world. There is, however, some difference of opinion among them as to its im port and significance. With these dif ferent views we haye nothing, in par ticular to say in the present paper. Our present purpose is to write for the benefit and information of those entertaining sentiments in common with us. Confirmation, then according to the teaching of this church, is, we believe, entirely a spiritual rite, and is usually tai-med in the New Testament, 'the laying on of hands," which was fre quently practiced by the holy apostles in the course of their ministrations. In later years it has, too, been a very general custom, but may have varied in practice somewhat from the older methods. By some writers on the subject it has been compared to a sort of deed of covenant to which we, as heirs of salvation, must subscribe, when we come to years of discretion, if we be benefited by the great scheme of our religion; in manner as the heir to an estate must put his hand and seal to an agreement which had, dur ing his minority, been entered into for him by his guardian, if he would de rive the benefits which might accrue to him therefrom. The rite of confirm ation, though not held to be a sacra ment by us, because not having been appointed or ordained by our Lord as necessary to salvation, nor accompa nied with certain promises of grace, yet partakes of the solemnity of a sac rament; in that, that it may be made, unquestionably, a means of grace, by a right manner of preparing ourselves for its reception, and through the Bish op's prayer for the divine blessing and protection, which will have, undoubt edly, its blessed effect at the throne of mercy. To this extent there is but little variation of sentiment among Christians, generally. This Apostle's rite is sometimes call ed "a strengthening rite," from the etymology of the original word "con formatis," which chiefiy means the same as our English word confirm. which is but slight difference of form, derived therefrom. The scriptural phrase "laying on of hands" grows out of the form of im parting or conferring this rite, which was uniformly observed by the impo sition of the bishop or presbyters hands upon the head of the recipient. There are sufficient instances men tioned in the Holy Scriptures to war rant us in the constant practice of this sacred institution, and in imitating the godly practice of the church of the blessed Savior, throughout her entire history. No doubt, but that such practice is meant to continue the con veyance, to all baptized persons, the manifold gifts of the ever-blessed spir it of God. In Apostolic times there were very frequently imparted to the recipients remarkable "miraculous gifts" when the holy apostles laid their hands upon the persons designed to receive the same. But in our times these miracu lous gifts are less frequently imparted; yet, I am not unwilling to say that in stances, now and then, are believed by the "faithful" to occur when very re markable gifts are imparted. But there still remains very extraor dinary gifts, independent of the mirac ulous, if you will have it so. Among these may be mentioned, "Wisdom, understanding, counsel, spiritual strength, knowledge, godliness, and holy fear." It is that all persons hop ing to be so highly endowed oi tne Lord, must be in proper state of heart and mind to receive so great and rich a blessing. "The congregation, the candidates, and the bishop who admin isters the rite, unitedly call upon God for the outpouring of his holy spirit, and it is in response to the prayer of faith that the blessing come3 through the appointed means. In preparation for confirmation or in receiving this blessing, no one is authorized to look for any extraordi nary or unusual sensation, but only for graca to be given day by day as our necessary wants may demand, and all of this God will in proper measure 1x4 TRUTH: bestow, according to his own good will and pleasure. It remains for me to notice some of the errors connected with the rite of confirmation that should be guarded against. Some and not a few persons suppose that in confirmation they are simply becoming members of the church. This is a very grave mistake. No person can be presented to the Bishop to receive"layingon of hands," until they are first baptized, let that be many years or but a few days. In baptism they put on Christ, and enter his church, "and are made by that sacrament lively members of the same." In the subsequent rite, they renew and ratify what has then been promised by their sureties, if in early years; but, if of competent age, they only renew and ratify what they them selves may have promised before wit nesses in the face of the church. These things being all properly done, the pastor or some other competent person presents them to the chief pas tor, from whose hands, under God's good will and favor, they receive these exalted privileges and blessings of which I have been endeavoring to give you a faithful outline in this hurried way. T. F. C. J. The Presbyterian and Sr. Parkhurst. A resolution was introduced into the meeting of the New York Presbytery on Monday to appoint a committee to prepare a minute recognizing "the re form work carried on by Dr. Park hurst." It was presented by a layman, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was intended to supply the omis sion of the Presbytery to express a for mal approval of Dr. Parkhurst's pro ceedings. The resolution . was not adoDted. but was laid on the plea of the lateness of the hour, and accord ingly it will come ud for discussion at the January meeting of the Presbytery. Really it was thus disposed of be cause of objection to its consideration expressed by the Rev. Mr. Mullally. on the ground that Dr. Parkhurst's enterprise and its methods could not properly be recognized by the Presby tery as belonging to his function as a minister of the Gospel, in which char acter alone that body could regard him. If any members of the Presbytery de sire to declare their approval of Dr. Parkhurst's course as a citizen, Mr. Mullally said, let them hold a meet ing by themselves as citizens for that purpose; but he contended that it was a subject which did not come within the rightful province of the Presbytery officially. This was a very sound objection. Dr. Parkhurst as President of the So- cioty for the Prevention of Vice is one man, and as a Presbyterian minister he is auother. It is a mere accident that he is a Presbyterian and a minis ter of the Gospel so far as concerns the public enterprise in which he was engaged in the other capacity. He was not chosen to succeed the Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby as the head of that body, 6imply because he is also a Pres byterian minister belonging to the New York Presbytery, but simply as an individual who was selected as de sirable forthe post. He was picked out as he might have been selected for President of a oocial club or an asso ciation of Alpine climbers. It was not necessary for him to be a Presbyterian minister in order to visit houses of ill fame to find out the vile ness and shamelessness of them. To get into them on such an errand he had to disguise himself and pretend to be an old reprobate from the West. If he bad gone to them as a minister of the Gospel, it would not have been as a detective and a companion of de tectives, but as merciful messenger carrying the consolations and admon itions of religion to the depraved and dying. In such a pure and holy ca pacity priests, ministers, and sisters of the Church can enter any place, no matter how vile, consistently with the professions and obediently to the obli gations of their religious office. But, as Mr. Mullally said, "when Dr. Parkhurst visited the places which he wished to suppress, he was not acting by any commission as a minister of Christ." He was proceeding solely and incongrously in a purely civil and secular capacity as a volunteer detec tive. He was preforming a police function and not discharging u duty belonging to his office as a Christain minister, but one wholly irreconcilable with it. Christ sat and ate with pub licans and sinners, and the ministers of Christ are properly exercising the duties of their commission when they carry His Gospel to the lowest and the vilest; but they are not discharging them when they go down into this pitch of depravity for the 6ake of de tecting its existence, and arrayiug against it the forces of the earthly law They cannot do evil because they think good may come of it. ilW:: TERMS $1 60 :.'. Year, in Ad? ance NUMBER 25. At best the office of the detective is a concession to depravity, disgraceful to society because of its necessity. It involves dacreit, outright lying, false pretence, perfidy, betrayal, and the violation of the whole standard of honorable conduct. Most of all, confi dences to a minister of the Gospel should be sacred. He is a physician of souls, and if he makes of himself a detective to expose to the penalties of earthly laws the disease of sin revealed to him in that supremely sacred rela tion, he becomes a monster of depra vity beside whom the worst of those he betrays is a small offender. The only possible defence for the proceedings of Dr. Parkhurst, if on any ground they be defensible, is that he was acting simply as a citizen, and wholly apart from his character and' office as a Christian minister, lhe New York Presbytery deals with him only as such a minister, and hence it cannot approve of his methods without accepting them as required by the ho ly office he was ordained to fill. If in dividual Presbyterians deem his con duct praiseworthy as a citizen merely, they can meet by tbemseves and ex press their admiration; but for the Presbyterian Church to applaud it and bold it up as an exemplification to the discharge of functions properly apper taining to the Christian ministry, would be a profane degradation of that sacred office. N. Y. Sun. A Political Bill Nye. The Richmond Times is rapidly be coming the William Nye of southern politics. The editor has a 6treak of juicy humor in his bones that crop3 out in the most unexpected places. A few days ago, the editor announcd in the most solemn fashion that he would refuse to support Mr. Cleveland for a third term. This announcement, apropos of nothing on the face of the earth except the frolic fancy of a man who gilds the gloom of the heayy poli tical articles of The Times, caused a titter that extended to the back 6eats. A little while afterwards the editor de clared, behini the heavy mask of his solemity, that, as the people of the south were represented in congress only through the generosity of their conquerors, they ought to take back seats in the national legislature and allow their conquerors to dictate all legislation affecting the financial in terests of the country. This proposition was laid down with so mueh gravity that the readers of The Times would have been bound to take it seriously bnt for one fast, name ly: that the frolicsome editor reserved the right of the southern representa tives to dictate the character of tariff legislaaion, giving as a reason that the tariff affects southern as well as northern interests. This was, of courte, eqvivalent to declaring that financial legislation does not affest the interests of the north and south alike, and, as no sane man would make such an assertion seriously, the nature of the joke made itself apparent to the readers of The Times. Saturday, the editor had another burst of humor that will appeal to the risibles of the whole country. He de clares that he is opposed to the Monroe doctrine. He jumps on it and demol ishes it, and appeals to any one in the entire congregation to show him when and where congress has ever enacted any such doctrine into a law. But let our political Bill Nye speak in his own proper person. The Monroe doctrine is the sole ground upon which this country can take a part in any contest that may arise between England and Nicaragua. To join Nicaragua in the contest we must announce that the United States will not permit a European monarchy to establish any footing upon this con tinent. There is, of course, no princi ple of equity or justice in any such position. It is arbitrary, highhanded and dictatorial. Can England submit to the demand? We do not see how 6he can do it, We do not see how she can permit the United States to deny her right, to go to any part of the earth that she pleas es outside the territory of the United States and establish there whatever conditions suit her and the other peo ple with whom she deals. If the claim an be maintained at all, it would log ically involve a right upon our part to prescribe the terms upon which En gland might trade with other countries, and it would even go the length of authorizing us to forbid her trading with the countries of South America. Could England concede any such claim upon our part? It is preposter ous to suppose that she could or would. She would be bound to fight, and fight to the point of imperiling her future existence, before she could concede anything of the sort. Observe the side-spitting character of this proposition. Heres a demo cratic editor in tlie capital city of Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe's native state declaring that the Europ ean mnnnrflhlAii have n. nArfnnt rfarVtt to come over here, dispossess the , i..H. work areUBSurpused la and wt torn oat the best at v POSTERS BILL-HEADS; LFu STATEME1STL.J.: Envelopes, Cards, XtZ'cr. XBIEFStPAMJELX2S,ETO AT LOW PRIQZZC, governments of the Central and South American States, and establish them selves there! Here L a Democratia editor declaring that the Monroe doc trine is not only a fraud in and of it self, but that Great Britain has a per fect right to take charge of affairs In the Mosquito territory and that the American republic has no right to pre vent her. When a Virginian editor plunges headlong into humor at this rate it is only a question of time when his repu tation will become world-wide. On this account we take great credit for having discovered this political Bill Nye. Atlanta Constitution. "our Big Successes. 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