II CORINTHIANS 5.21 (BEEBE)

Brother Beebe: Will you please give your views on II Corinthians 5:21. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” 

I am aware that you have many such requests from brethren and sisters, but I am so situated that I have no preaching except that comes to me in the “Signs of the Times.” The “Signs,” with my Bible and hymn book supply all I receive. There are no Old School Baptists within fifty miles of me, that I know of. Elder T. H. Owen is the nearest, and I have not seen him for eighteen months. 

Yours as ever, B. Newkirk. Yola County, California. April 11, 1866. 

II CORINTHIANS 12.2 (BEEBE)

We understand the apostle to be speaking of a vision which he had received of the Lord, some fourteen years before he wrote this epistle. “I knew a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.”

MISSIONARY PRIESTCRAFT (TROTT)

 

II CORINTHIANS 11.2-3 (BEEBE)

“For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so poor minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” 

NEWS ON ELDER LACKEY'S FUNERAL (SANTAMARIA)

Elder Lackey's Funeral will be held on January 5 at the Welsh Tract Meeting House.  Visitation will be from 11AM-1PM with service following interment in the church graveyard.  All are welcome.  Here is more information from the funeral home in West Virginia:

Robert Neil Lackey, of Fairmont, West Virginia, went home to be with the Lord on December 26, 2023, he was 68.

He was born and raised in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, where his love of music and history began at an early age, always eager to learn. After graduating from Sallisaw High School in 1973 he went on to study at Oklahoma Baptist University. He mastered the guitar, from country western, classical to flamenco, and in most recent years found much joy playing and teaching the dulcimer.

Robert’s devotion and love for the Lord was seen in many areas of his life. In his early years, this devotion took him to England and Wales, to research church history. He was an elder of Welsh Tract Old School Baptist Church in Newark, Delaware where he led services monthly in addition to weekly online bible studies.

Robert was preceded in death by his father, Charles Lackey, and wife, Pat Lackey. He is survived by his mother, Polly Anna Lackey, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, special friend Elizabeth Grohgan of Fairmont, West Virginia, two aunts, numerous cousins, and beloved friends.

Services will be led by Elder John Napier on January 5, at 1pm, Welsh Tract Old School Baptist Church, Newark, Delaware, with burial immediately following in the church’s cemetery.

Flowers and condolences may be sent to Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Homes and Crematory, 121 W. Park Place, Newark, Delaware 19711.

THE ANTIQUITY OF NEW SCHOOLISM (BEEBE)

 

A GREAT WARRIOR OF ZION HAS FALLEN! ELDER ROBERT LACKEY WENT TO BE WITH HIS LORD (SANTAMARIA)

This morning we were informed that our spiritual leader Elder Robert Lackey, pastor of the Welsh Tract Old School Baptist Church went to be with his Lord at 4:30AM this morning.

II CORINNTHIANS 7.1 (BEEBE)

Brother Beebe: - As I have never troubled you much, will you give me your views on the words, “Godly sorrow worketh repentance,” etc. What is it that repents, the new man or the old man, or neither? Is the Christian constituted of three parts? The new man has nothing to repent of, and the old man will not. 

J.M. West 

Troy, N.Y. July 20, 1867. 

ANCIENT & MODERN BUILDING ARRANGEMENTS (BEEBE)

 

II CORINTHIANS 3.7-8 (BEEBE)

“But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away; how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?” – 2 Cor. iii. 7,8.

II CORINTHIANS 2.16-16 (BEEBE)

"For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: to the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?" 

MEANS 2/2 (BEEBE)

 

ECCLESIASTES 12.5 (BEEBE)

Brother Beebe: I am a stranger to you in the flesh, but hope that I am not a stranger in spirit. Please give your views on Eccl. 12.5? “Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.” 

MARY A. JONES

MEANS 1/2 (BEEBE)

 

ECCLESIASTES 6.1 (BEEBE)

“So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.” 

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DANIEL 3.25 (BEEBE)

“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever (Daniel 2:44).” 

JUDGES 6.12-19 (POOLE)

 

CREEDS & CONFESSIONS (BEEBE)

We publish this article given an article that was posted on YouTube by a Reformed Baptist minister.  He preached that Christmas Carols and creeds were recited by the apostolic church. We beg to differ with him - ed.

DANIEL 2.44 (BEEBE)

“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever (Daniel 2:44)."

FAITH BY WILSON THOMPSON

 

II KINGS 20.1-6 (BEEBE)

Elder Beebe — Dear Brother: Will you, or some of your many correspondents, please explain II Kings 20:1-6. It has perplexed me for so long that I feel now that I must have an explanation of it. Yet knowing, as I do, how you must be daily harassed by such inquiries, I hesitate even now in sending my request. But if you, or any other kind brother, will grant me an answer, you will be favoring one who, at least, desires to know and to love the truth. 

Owensville, Ind. March 1, 1869. 

JUDGES 5.23 (BEEBE)

In our last number, our brother and sister, William and Mary White, present their request for our views on Judges 5:23. “Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.” 

JONAH 1.5-6 (BEEBE)

If not asking too much, please give your views on Jonah I, 5,6: "Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship, and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not."

I remain your unworthy sister in the gospel, 
SARAH W. SMITH. Edgar Co., Ill., Jan. 4, 1859. 

JOHN 17.5 (BEEBE)

“And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” 

I Kings 6.12 (BEEBE)

Elder Beebe - Dear Sir: If you will give your views, through the SIGNS, on 1 Kings vi. 12, you will much oblige me. Does it not convey the idea that there are conditions on the part of Solomon, which lies entirely to his choice, on his part, whether or not he will accept the warning given, to obtain the promise given in the thirteenth verse? And does it not also convey the idea that it is left entirely optional with Solomon, whether or not he will receive the counsel? This, with other similar passages, appears difficult for me to reconcile with absolute predestination, since there are numerous passages in the Scripture wherein the command, precept, or exhortation is given as if it were in the power of the creature to obey or not to obey. I only ask for information and would be glad of perusing an editorial from you on this subject. 

Yours truly, J. GROOM. Muffin, 

Tennessee, April 14, 1860. 

JOHN 15.22-24 (BEEBE)

MUCH ESTEEMED BROTHER BEEBE: – I propose to ask you a question, which I would be glad to have you explain through the SIGNS. If the whole human family fell in Adam, and are under the law of sin and death, why did Christ say, In John xv. 22, 24, “If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.” “If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both mean me and my Father”?

You brother in Christ, as I hope,
JOHN MORSE.
Jasper County, Texas, Jan. 6, 1880.

JOHN 14.21 (BEEBE)

“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”

JOHN 14.12 (BEEBE)

ELDER GILBERT BEEBE – DEAR BROTHER: – Having been a reader of the SIGNS for forty-six years, and never having troubled you, I now request you to give your views on John xiv. 12, especially the last clause. I remain your brother in hope of eternal life.

RICHARD WOMMACK.
Old Alexandria, Mo., Jan. 21, 1880

“Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

JOHN 14.1-3 (BEEBE)

“Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

JOHN 13.14-15 (BEEBE)

Dear Brother Beebe: - I have received a great deal of comfort and satisfaction from the Signs of the Times, on different portions of the scriptures, and if it is not asking too much, I would like to have you give your views in full on John 13:14,15, and its connection. By doing so you will greatly oblige a well-wisher to the truth, though an unworthy sister, if a sister at all.

M.C. Townsend.

JOHN 10.12-13 (BEEBE)

Dear Brother Beebe: I have decided to ask a favor of you, which is this, your views on John x. 12, 13. 

JOHN 10.9 (BEEBE)

Brother Beebe: Will you do me the favor of giving your views on John x. 9, particularly on the latter clause of the verse?

ALEX HARRIS.
Malam, Texas, May 13, 1860.

JOHN 10.23 (BEEBE)

AGREEABLY to the request of Brother Robbins, on another page, we will offer some remarks upon that part of our Lord’s parable embraced in the passage proposed for consideration, viz.: “But he that entereth in by the door is the Shepherd of the sheep; to him the porter openeth, and he calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out.”

JOHN 5.40 (BEEBE)

Elder Beebe: Will you oblige a friend by giving through the columns of your paper, your views on John v. 40? which reads as follows: “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” Is not coming to Christ set forth as a condition, the fulfillment of which is requisite to the attainment of the life here mentioned? And can we not reasonably infer that by coming unto him aright, they whom he addressed might have secured this life? And lastly, does not the power of refusing to come unto Christ, herein attributed to his auditors, imply also the possession, on their part, of the power to come unto him?

ALPHA.

JOHN 5.29 (BEEBE)

Very Dear and much esteemed Brother Beebe: It seems that I cannot do without your comforting paper, as I am situated where I cannot hear the Old School Baptists preach, or but very seldom see one of them. Will you please give your views on John 5:29. Some time ago this text got hold of my mind and seemed to worry me very much. “And shall come forth, they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” I seemed to be fully impressed that I had done nothing that was truly good, but I had done evil all my days.

Yours in much tribulation. Hargis Farthing. Newbern, N.C.
February 20, 1869.

JOHN 3.7 (BEEBE)

“Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”

JOHN 3.5 (BEEBE)

In reply to brother John W. Henley, of Georgia.

“Jesus answered and said, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

JOHN 2.17 (BEEBE)

BROTHER BEEBE: –As I have never troubled you with any request before if it is not asking too much of you, I would be pleased to have the benefit of you, I would be pleased to have the benefit of your understanding of John ii. 17, especially of the words, “The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.” What kind of zeal was that, and whose house?
As ever, your sister in hope of immortality beyond this vale of tears,

MARY PARKER.
Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 21, 1879.

MY CHRISTIAN LIFE (SANTAMARIA)

I have read accounts from hymns and stories of the experiences of different Christians throughout time. Many of them are moving and dramatic. For example Paul’s experience. But I will try to relate mine lately. I have been through many highs and great lows with my Lord. Here is my present condition - ed.

ELDER WILLIAM K ROBERSON'S OPINION OF THE "WISE MEN" IN THE PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION AFTER THE OLD/NEW SCHOOL SEPARATION

Letter written from Welsh Tract Church to the Signs of the Times:

JOHN 1.9 (BEEBE)

Brother Beebe: - When you have leisure, please give your views on the words, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world,” in its connection with the preceding and succeeding verses.

W.F. Kercheval Hanibal, Mo., August 17, 1863.

JOEL 3.14-17 (BEEBE)

"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her anymore."

JOB 19.25-27 (BEEBE) 2/2

And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.”

JOEL 2.16 (BEEBE) 1/2

“Let the Bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.”

JOB 19.25-27 (BEEBE)

At the request of Mrs. Elizabeth King, the only daughter of the late Mrs. Ruth Hoyt, whose obituary was published in the preceding number of this paper, we publish our views on the following portion of the scriptures. We had failed to learn that the deceased had expressed a desire that it should be preached until after her funeral. The deceased had been very much exercised in her mind some years ago, and it was believed by those who conversed with her that she had passed from death to life. The interest manifested by her in this text strengthens the hope that she felt in her declining hours the blissful assurance of hope in the living Redeemer.

JOB 15.15 (BEEBE)

BROTHER E. Moreland, of Tennessee, desires our views on Job xv. 15, viz: “Behold he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.” However correct or incorrect the declaration of this text may be, we certainly are not warranted to receive the testimony as a part of divine revelation, as that which is written by direct inspiration of God. 

JAMES 5.14-15 (BEEBE)

Friend Beebe: — I have been a reader of the “Signs of the Times” for about ten years, and have not asked for your views on any subject until now; I will ask your views on James 5:14,15.

NO MEANS OF GRACE! (SANTAMARIA)

As astonishing as it is to think that grace is UNMERITED FAVOR sovereignly given by the Holy Spirit, it is even more astonishing that some think that if they practice certain acts, like prayer, etc., they will obtain grace.  They admit that it is through and by the Spirit that this grace is obtained.  They also agree that the Spirit, like the wind, goes wherever he wishes.  Then how can they possibly do anything that will influence the almighty and unchangeable God to give them grace??  We are mystified by this.  These men claim to believe in salvation by grace ALONE, not by any actions they perform - ed

“THOUGHTS ON THE LORD'S SUPER: THE ELEMENTS AND SELF-REFLECTION” (SANTAMARIA)

The liturgy used for the Lord’s Supper even among Baptists -  Is it warranted from the New Testament? - ed

BEING TAUGHT BY CHRIST AND BEING TAUGHT ABOUT CHRIST (SANTAMARIA)

But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:  Ephesians 4.4-5 KJV

But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, Ephesians 4.16 NIV

JAMES 5.19-20 (BEEBE)

Remarks on James 5:19,20. “If any of you do err from the truth, and one converts him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.” Our brother T.S. Hatton, of Indiana, has requested an expression of our views on this text, especially on, “What death is spoken of?”

IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? (BEEBE)

From infancy we have been in the habit of hearing this passage referred to as implying a full provision in the gospel to meet the necessities of the Lord’s people, and the Gileaditish physician has been supposed to mean the Lord Jesus Christ. That there are healing virtues in the gospel for all the complaints of God’s people, there can be no doubt, and that Christ is a great, good, and infallible Physician, is equally certain, but that the passage refers to the gospel as the balm of Gilead, and to Christ, as the Physician there, is to our mind by no means so clear.

JEREMIAH 6.16 (BEEBE)

Elder G. Beebe: - Like the woman of Canaan, I persist in troubling you for your views on a portion of the Scriptures which I see so often alluded to in the “Signs of the Times”, namely, Jeremiah 6:16: “Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is a good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.” Your compliance will much oblige. Matilda E. H. Welch. Sykesville, MD, January 6, 1862.

JEREMIAH 2.33 (BEEBE)

"Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel"

Elder Beebe: - Please give your views on Jeremiah 2:33, and oblige an Inquirer After Truth. 

I JOHN 2.1-2 (BEEBE)

1 John 2.1-2 “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.”

Yours in love,

JOSEPH HUGHES.

Penningtonville, Pa., Nov. 21, 1859.

JAMES 5.13 (BEEBE)

 

“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray.” 

I JOHN 4.14 (BEEBE)

BRETHREN G. BEEBE & SON: – If you feel so inclined, and have time, please give your views on 1 John iv. 14. I have read your paper about a year, and am so well pleased with it that I want it to continue for another year. Yours in hope of eternal life, E. S. LEGGETT. Little Red, Ark., March 6, 1880