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PREFACE.

THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE.

THE GRAND WORK BEFORE US.

THE WORK OF CREATION.

LOTTERIES.

NO PREACHERS ON DANCING, ETC.

HARDENING PHARAOH'S HEART.

OUR CENSUS.

TRUE MISSIONARIES.

NO DEPARTURE FROM THE JERUSALEM CHURCH.

BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT.

A HIGHER MORALITY REQUIRED.

POIMEEN SHEPHERD EVANGELIST OVERSEER.

CALL NO MAN REVEREND.

PREACHER DID NOT SUIT.

THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

WILL YOU ALSO GO AWAY.

THE GROUND OF UNION.

IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON.

EATING THE LORD'S FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD.

CHURCH ORGANIZATION.

THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.

PROGRESSING BACKWARD.

NO DIVISION CAN COME.

SOME THINGS CAN NOT BE SETTLED.

OUTWARD APPEARANCE.

LITTLE MATTERS.

ONE IDEA ISM.

MINISTERING ANGELS.

NO SIDE STRUCTURE.

LIGHT WITHIN.

BE FIRM IN THE RIGHT.

THE BIBLE WILL SAVE THE WORLD.

NOT RECEIVING THE REFORMATION, BUT CHRIST.

LIFTED ABOVE SECTS AND PARTIES.

MAKING THE BIBLE SUPPORT HUMAN SYSTEMS.

PIONEERS, SUPPORT, ETC.

UNIVERSALISM.

SUPPORT WORKERS.

RECKLESS TWADDLE.

THE KIND OF PREACHING REQUIRED.

WE ARE A MISSIONARY PEOPLE.

RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS.

FINE CLOTHES.

SUBTLETIES ABOUT IMMERSION.

ALL THINGS COMMON.

DELUDED.

REFORMATION A SUCCESS.

WHAT WE ARE FOR.

A SUGGESTION.

ANNIHILATION FUTURE PUNISHMENT.

DESIGN OF MIRACLES.

CAIN'S WIFE.

WHAT IS ESSENTIAL.

WHAT WE KNOW IS RIGHT.

INFANT SIN INFANT SALVATION.

OUR AUTHORITATIVE RELIGION.

REFLECTIONS FOR DANCERS.

SPIRIT OF INDIFFERENCE.

APOLOGY FOR CREEDS.

HEAR YE HIM.

EVANGELISTS AND EVANGELIZING.

A WORKING MINISTRY.

PRESENT PUNISHMENT WILL NOT SAVE.

THE MISSION OF INFIDELS.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO AROUSE THE PEOPLE?

A MOTHER'S GRAVE.

TENDENCY OF UNIVERSALISM.

VALUE OF LEARNING.

THE BIBLE INFALLIBLY SAFE.

EXCUSE FOR CREEDS.

OVER AND THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS.

REASON, PROVIDENCE, AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD, TEACH US TO OBEY GOD.

WHAT IS CAMPBELLISM?

YOUNG PREACHERS MUST BE PRACTICAL.

CHRISTIANITY.

KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THE CHURCH.

UNPROFITABLE SERVANTS.

BOUNDARY LINE OF REPENTANCE.

RECEIVING SINNERS WITHOUT BAPTISM.

THE FALL OF BEECHER.

SPEAK PLEASANTLY.

VARIOUS KINDS OF SCEPTICISM.

CHRIST THE CENTER.

RICHES OF FAITH.

ONE BAPTISM.

DISTURBING ELEMENT.

WOMEN IN THE CHURCH.

WHO CRUCIFIED THE SAVIOR.

CHRISTIAN ZEAL.

JUDGMENT, THE GROUND OF REPENTANCE.

THE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST.

ADHERING TO THE BIBLE.

EXCHANGING PULPITS.

KIND OF PREACHERS AND PREACHING NEEDED.

WHERE IS THE POWER?

COMMUNION.

WANDERING PILGRIMS.

DEDICATION OF CHURCH EDIFICES.

THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS.

SOUND MEN.

CHRISTMAS.

PREACHERS BELONGING TO NO CHURCH.

A CHOIR.

COURTESY IN FELLOWSHIP.

PRAISE GOD BY SINGING.

CHRIST WILL COME.

ONE RELIGION.

A. CAMPBELL'S SUCCESSORS AND CRITICS.

AUTHORITY OF A SINGLE CONGREGATION.

CLASSIFICATION OF MISSIONARY MEN.

INFLUENCE OF THE DANCE.

NO MODIFICATION OF THE DIVINE PLAN.

ONE WAY TO GOD.

POPULAR UNION MEETINGS.

WHERE IS THE ARMY OF THE LORD?

FUTURE SUCCESS OF THE LORD'S ARMY.

FEET WASHING.

SUCCESS TO GOOD MEN.

OUR PLEA.

NO CAMPBELLITES.

CONVERTING THE CITIES.

A HAPPY MEETING.

CHURCH DECISIONS.

REIGN OF A THOUSAND YEARS.

METHODIST CLERICAL PRETENSIONS.

MOODY AND SANKEY.

TOO LATE FOR THE CARS.

LORD'S DAY MEETINGS.

LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF A CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.

UNIVERSALISM UNBELIEF.

PERSONALITY OF THE DEVIL.

CLERICAL YOUNG PASTORS.

EVERLASTING AND ETERNAL.

ENDURING HARDNESS AS GOOD SOLDIERS.

HOW A PREACHER MAY STAND FAIR.

DELAY IN TURNING TO THE LORD.

WIELDING THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT.

WE ARE NO SECT.

MAINTAIN A PURE FAITH AND WORSHIP.

THINGS NOT FORBIDDEN.

BRANCHES OF THE CHURCH.

WHOM THE LORD RECEIVES.

NOT OF ONE CLASS.

HOW THE WORLD REGARDS DANCERS.

SAVED WITHOUT BAPTISM.

RECOGNITION OF, BY SECTS.

WEALTH OF ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.

FAITH, REPENTANCE, AND BAPTISM, DO NOT PARDON.

PROTRACTED MEETINGS, EXCITEMENTS. ETC.

SCENE IN A HOTEL.

"FAITH COMES BY HEARING."

WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?

EVANGELISTS PASTORS.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IN PREACHING.

TEDIOUSNESS IN PUBLIC DEVOTIONS.

RESURRECTION ADAMIC SIN.

PAYING PREACHERS A STIPULATED SUM.

SELF-LAUDATION.

PREACH CHRIST, NOT OURSELVES.

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST A PROSELYTING INSTITUTION.

OBSERVING THE SABBATH.

MARK THOSE WHO CAUSE DIVISIONS.

RELIGION AND POLITICS.

PRAYER BOOKS.

UPWARD TENDENCY REFORMATION NOT A FAILURE MISSIONARY WORK.

MEN CAN BELIEVE AND DO BELIEVE.

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.

BELIEVERS ONLY TO BE BAPTIZED.

THE KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY BEFORE BAPTISM.

PAUL AND JAMES, ON JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.

CONTROVERSY.

CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE SPIRIT. [A]

SECTARIANISM.

DANCING IS A HEALTHFUL EXERCISE.

PRAYER.

WE HAVE A PERFECT GOSPEL TO PREACH.

BIBLE NAMES.

INDIVIDUALITY AFTER DEATH.

BELIEF IN THE BIBLE IS INFALLIBLY SAFE.

REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY.

EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH.

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

JESUS REVEALED AS THE SAVIOR.

CAN NOT A MAN KNOW THAT HE IS A CHRISTIAN?

EXALTED POSITION OF JESUS.

PUBLIC OPINION INFANT DAMNATION.

THE WARNING.

HOW THE CAUSE OF REFORMATION WAS ADVANCED.

A PHALANX OF YOUNG MEN.

BODIES RESURRECTED, NOT SPIRITS.

ANOINTING WITH OIL.

GIVING UP PRINCIPLES.

MY CHURCH.

THE BIBLE AND BIBLE MEN.

BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

SMALL IMPROPRIETIES AND ANNOYANCES.

ONE IMMERSION.

INNOVATIONS IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

THE BIBLE GROUND.

THE WORK OF THE DISCIPLES.

 

— OR —

Choice Selections

FROM THE WRITINGS OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

ARRANGED BY

J. A. HEADINGTON, 

— AND —

 JOSEPH FRANKLIN.


ST. LOUIS:

JOHN BURNS, Publisher.

1879.

Copyrighted by

JOHN BURNS,
1879.

  PAGE.
A. Campbell’s Successors and Critics 241
A Choir 230
A Happy Meeting 260
A Hard Question for Preachers 458
A Higher Morality Required 24
A Mighty Good Foundation 457
A Mother’s Grave 140
A Phalanx of Young Men 393
A Suggestion  99
A Working Ministry 130
Activity in the Ministry 453
Adhering to the Bible 207
Affirmative Gospel 428
All Things Common  94
Annihilation—Future Punishment 100
Anointing with Oil 396
Apology for Creeds 120
Authority of a Single Congregation 243

Baptism of the Holy Spirit

407
Be firm in the Right  65
Belief in the Bible is Infallibly Safe 371
Believers only to be Baptized 350
Bible Names 368
Bodies Resurrected, not Spirits 395
Born of Water and the Spirit  21
Boundary Line of Repentance 166
Branches of the Church 292

Cain’s Wife

105
Call no Man Reverend  30
Can not a Man know that he is a Christian 381
Christianity 159
Christian Zeal 196
Christmas 227
Christ the Center 186
Christ will come 234
Church Decisions 262
Church Membership 349
Church Organization  42
Classification of Missionary Men 244
Clerical Young Pastors 277
Come out of Babylon 471
Communion 217
Conclusion of the Year 498
Converting the Cities 259
Controversy 354
Controversy about the Spirit 355
Courtesy in Fellowship 231

Dancing is a Healthful Exercise

363
Dedication of Church Edifices 221
Delay in Turning to the Lord 282
Deluded  95
Design of Miracles 103
Developing the Talents of the Young 475
Dialogue about the Preacher 489
Disturbing Element 191

Eating the Lord’s Flesh and Drinking His Blood

 40
Earnestly Contending for the Faith 374
Enduring Hardness as Good Soldiers 280
Evangelists and Evangelizing 126
Evangelists—Pastors 320
Everlasting and Eternal 279
Exalted Position of Jesus 383
Exchanging Pulpits 209
Excuse for Creeds 146
Extent of One Man’s Influence 420

Faith Comes by Hearing

316
Faith, Repentance and Baptism do not Pardon 308
Feet Washing 253
Fine Clothes  90
Future Success of the Lord’s Army 252

Giving up Principles

397
Glorying in the Cross of Christ 439

Hardening Pharaoh’s Heart

 15
Hear ye Him 123
How a Preacher may Stand Fair 281
How the Cause of Reformation was Advanced 391
How the World Regards Dancers 297
Household Baptisms 433

Imperfect Medium for a Perfect Revelation

482
Individuality after Death 369
Infant Sin—Infant Salvation 108
Influence of the Dance 245
Innovations in the Church of Christ 413
In Season and out of Season  38
Is it Possible to Arouse the People 138

Jesus Revealed as the Savior

379
Judgment the Ground of Repentance 202

Keep Politics out of the Church

160
Kind of Preachers and Preaching Needed 211
Knowing and not Doing 435

Laying the Corner Stone of a Catholic Cathedral

271
Lifted Above Sects and Parties  69
Light Within  61
Little Matters  53
Lord’s Day Meetings 270
Lotteries  11

Maintain a Pure Faith and Worship

289
Making the Bible Support Human Systems  71
Man’s Accountability 462
Mark Those Who Cause Divisions 335
Men can and do Believe 345
Methodist Clerical Pretensions 265
Ministering Angels  58
Miracles 426
Moody and Sankey 267
My Church 403
My Kingdom is not of this World 466

No Campbellites

258
No Departure from the Jerusalem Church  20
No Division can come  48
No Modification of the Divine Plan 246
No Preachers on Dancing  12
No Side Structure  59
Not of One Class 295
Not Receiving the Reformation, but Christ  68
Not to Keep Company 419

Observing the Sabbath

333
One Baptism 190
One Idea Ism  56
One Immersion 410
One Religion 235
One Way to God 248
Our Authoritative Religion 111
Our Census  17
Our Plea 256
Outward Appearance  51
Over and Through the Mountains 148
Overlooking Humble but Good Men 484

Paul and James on Justification by Faith

352
Paying Preachers a Stipulated Sum 326
Preach “First Principles” 474
Personality of the Devil 276
Pioneers, Support, etc.  73
Poimeen—Shepherd—Evangelist—Overseer  25
Policy in Preaching 467
Popular Amusements 451
Popular Union Meetings 249
Praise God by Singing 232
Prayer 364
Prayer Books 341
Preachers Belonging to no Church 229
Preach Christ, not Ourselves 329
Preacher did not Suit  30
Present Punishment will not Save 133
Progressing Backward  46
Protracted Meetings, Excitements, etc. 309
Public Opinion—Infant Damnation 384
Pulpits 422

Reason, Providence, and the Spirit of God,

Teach us to Obey God 150
Receiving Sinners without Baptism 175
Reckless Twaddle  78
Recognition of, by Sects 301
Reflections for Dancers 112
Reformation a Success  96
Reign of a Thousand Years 263
Religion and Politics 336
Resurrection—Adamic Sin 325
Resurrection of Lazarus  89
Revelation of the Mystery 372
Riches of Faith 188
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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