Berea Evangelist, July 1887, Vol. 3, No. 2

              Notes and Points; Prohibition Pays; What is the Matter?

NOTES AND POINTS.

(On this page Bro. Kokanour speaks of
the obstacle to Christian Union which lies in
the iixci that :<¤· great a part ot` the membership
mil the <·ln:rel:es is nnregenerate. This is an!
Q-rweeriingly important matter. There can’t be
any anal tieeling of Christian oneness between
one who   u Christian in reality and another
who i.- only a (`hristian by profession; the
"Apostles’ ihll(`}\'.'Sllli)” cau’t exist between one
man who experiences it and another who does-
n’t; a regenerate man (filllii "kc<·p the unity
of the Spirit” with one who isn’t "born of the
Spirit" at all; there can be no real brofiuwfy
love between fl child oi` God and a child of`
Satan. l
Some of Bro. Kol·:anour”s stutements of
facts as he sees them are somewhat extreme, I
think; {br instance the statement concerning
the churches that "therc-is ·ncync·¤.t` the divine;
and `eoly influence around thém,2 ctcgsz-.But·he
  correct in the main, I fear, as to   audi
la··g;·ly as to conclusions. J. F. B.
i This great truth needs to be told and repeat-
ed and urged again and again ; it needs to be
,,,nis·i-{;g:,.i,r as itedn ,be·xnu<le; it neévils to bc
illustrated iii every way possible ; the duty of
preaching it needs to be urged upon minister-
ters who neglect it ; it needs to be shouted
into the ears of sleeping, unconvertcd church·
members ; this, that THE ONLY Poss1BLE WAY
TO BECOME A MLMBEI: 'OF THE CHURCH OF
Cnnrsr, Tun FAMILY or Gon, is ro nn BORN
1x·ro rr ; that just as earthly children come to ·
belong to thc families of their fathers and
motheis by being born into them, so the chil-
dren of God come to belong to His tamily by
being born into it. "Ye must be born again ;" 
there is no other way into the Church of God
but thro’ Christ by the new birth.
In an editorial on the position taken by the
Evangelist, our neighbor, the Richmond Climax,
thinks we’d better stick to Prohibition and let
Freemasonry and other secret societies alone,
and concludes thus:
“It occurs to us that the Evangelikt would more cer-
tainly prosper if it would cease to tight the ancient and
modern institutions for the advancement of human
good, and ‘drive right at' Prohibition? `
We have thought all along that one great
obstacle in the way of our prospering in a
l worldly sense is our readiness to discuss the
secret society question. But success purchased
by keeping still concerning great but popular
wrongs is not true success. c No great evil
seems to dread discussion so much as the evil
of organized secretism, no "work of d¤·rkness"
more vigorously opposes light than the Lodge]
does, and we expect in opposing Lodge iniquity 
and idolatry to haven rougher road than if wel
didn’t do it. But we believe that the honor of ~
God and the public good demand u free, full,
fair and kind discussion ofthe Lodge question;
and our columnsareopeu. If any secret so-

eiety man thinks anything we say 011 the lllftt-
ter is lll(.'(>l`l'€('l or that his lodge is 11ot ihirly
used, we invite and rzvy/er hi111 to reply in these
columns. live <lo11’t 111e;111 to 111is1*ep1·ese11t se-li
cret. orders, and if we should do so we’1l count 1 C
it a favor to be shown our error and wo’ll C
promptly take it back. T
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By the way, will the Gif:/t1r.iv please tell us C
how secret orilers work "f`o1* the £lLlV£lliCCIllCllt (_
of l1un1a11 g0od," as it says? Multitnd-as ot` the {
best Cl11*istia11s, very llldlly ot` the best and I
ahlest preacl1o1·s, jurists and tl1i11l;e1·s ol` 0111*
country think otherwise. Chief Justice Mar- C
shall, who was once a ]¤1`COl'll1l,S(.)ll himself, said E
tl1at the institution of F1·ee111aso111·y ought to  
be abandoned, as it was incapable of` aecon1p— .
lishing any good that might 110t be as well ac-  
complished by OPOII means, and that it might (
be used fbr the basest; ends. Geo. \VllSlllll_g`lOI`l I
left tl1e Masons and spoke against Masonry.  
Daniel lllebster said that lllusonry was essen- _
tially wrong in its ll)llil(li\lZl()ll principles and  
that among its obligations W(3l‘€•SllCll as were ,
incompatible with the duty ` of good citizens  
and tl1ei1* £1.(lll1lI`ilSl1‘ZllZlOl1 should, he prohibited ;
by iw}, D. L.·LIoe:l·y* Sd€}’$‘b??_l}`1lSil1li4iS should  
have no place in secret societies, and strongly 4
warns against such connection. Christ, our ,
example, said "In secret have I said nothing." I
The Holy Spirit commands Christians not to  
fellowship unbelievers ; but such are welcomed  
in the lodges and all members of these lodges
must fellowship them as brethren. i _
. \Ve believe secret orders are bad in princi- l
ple and immensely ll{1l`I`l1llll in practice. The
question is a live one and calls loudly for dis- 4
cussion. Let’s have free speech. ° J. F. B. A
PROHIBITION PAYS. `
(The following was sent out from this office on hand-
bills for distribution in this voting precinct, in order
to help prevent the attempt to get license for whisky-
selling in the pxecinct. It contains good arguments,
and shows that we're alive and at work.) ’ `
  "In the city of Danville, Ky., we new have
fL0cal Prohibition. At last County Court day 1
‘n0t a drunken man was seen on the streets."
Judge WM. C. 300111.01;.
“In the County of Lincoln wenow have Local
Prohibition, and in jail only one inmate."
M. N. EARLY.
i “I have many men employed in taking or-
ders and delivering trees. Some of these men,
with {ine business qualities, when coming where
whisky is, become drunken and unreliable.
To have my men free from this temptation, I
have removed n1y business, which is large, from
Ohio to Kansas."
W. W. CARR.
Junon Hom ofthe Supreme Court of Ken-
tucky says 75 per cent. of the cases of murder
appealed to his court during the past two years
were the fruits of the li uor traflic. He has
committed himself for Prghibition.
  Prohibition pays. Let us keep it in the
Glade Precinct. ’
Juiy, 1887.

WVRIAT IS THE BIATTER ?
Editor Evce12geZisf;—-
Dear Bretlircu;—Ther·.—
is always a cause hw every e1°t`.rct. There is il
cause for the great schism and division i11 the so-
ealled “Cl*!llY(?llC‘?>”. Belbre we can SllCCQS5ll{li;,'
remove any great evil we must {ind out what
causes it. There   il cause hir this lllll.U1`t`llll1li1’
condition of Zion. \VllIli,i§llCl1,lS it ? It is my
opinion, nay to my mind it is Il de111onst1·:1tt·1l
fact, that the cause of all this is :1 want of gc-
nuine conversion to GO(l,-·1`Og_`0I]€l‘3Bl0ll. ’
A large portion of mankind are nnturqilly in-
clined to be religious. They hear the "s1iil
small voice" of God—"the grace ot God, that
bringeth Sal\'Htl()ll”—-·Sl)C1il(l}ig' to their souls.
They feel that they should “ti_11·sz1l;e ungodli—
ness and worldly lusts, and live sobcrly, right-
`eously and godly in this present lif`e". Hut the
`ehurehes are not converted, there is none ot` the
divine and holy influence around them whi1;·h
zi converted church sheds all around. They
thil to "prove all thi11gs," hence they do not
find the good, and of course cannot hold Ol] to
it. Thus left without the inward monitor they
jointhe c_l‘1u1·cli*»i_l1§i1·_porents belopw *,;;,,1;;: _tl,n;_,_,‘
one that is nearest, or the onctthat hm! the most
popular preacher, and $:1 some such way they
think that what sutiices others will suffice them
also. \Vhile yet unconvertecl, they thus join
and keep up the divisions in the proirssed
church.
Preachers and other church ofiicers are, as
a rule, I believe, (oft course there are exceptions)
in this unconverted condition, and cannot direct;
the multitude into the haven of rest. They i
are blind leaders of the blind. They no doubt
mean well in the beginning, but as they are un-
converted the best they can do under these cir-
cumstances is to keep up a form of godliness
without any vital power connected with it; i
The contentions which their small differences
give them keep up _s0me excitement between
them, and forwant of something better they keep
it up, tliinkingit is spiritual life. Their divi-
sions are thus kept up. ·
VVhen people get a=.,a:1¤i;to_n1ed to a dead form
of what they suppose is a worship of God, It
find it is almost impossible to convince them of
their error. _1
The same spirit which was so dominant in
Cl`A1'lSE,S day, of offering sacrifices instead of exer-
cising mercy, truth and charity, is still, these
almost 2,000 years afterwards, prevailing a·
mong the children of men. ‘ ‘
` To convince men of their error in dividing
churches, we must show them the »di§'erence
between :1 converted church membership, and
 an unconverted membership, and the unity. there
 is between those who have been born into the
 church of Christ. ' "
 Render are you converted and growing up
into Christ in all things? Ifsn, you have fbund
 the unsearchable riches of His Grace. 1 H notgt
why not ? Can you aford to remaiix as yon:
are 7-C. B. Koximomz, Clay Center, Kauagzl