COMMUNICATIONS. FOR THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. New Lexington, Ky., Feb. 16, 1841. (Dudley)

COMMUNICATIONS.

FOR THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

New Lexington, Ky., Feb. 16, 1841.

ONE BODY 1868 (Dudley)

Near Lexington, Ky., April 9, 1868.

MY DEAR BROTHER BEEBE: - I have read with interest the communication of Brother W.J. Purington, and, with your permission, propose subjoining some remarks on a subject immediately connected with the closing part of his communication.

OLD SCHOOL DISTINCTIVES 1871 (Dudley)

Lexington, Ky., Jan.19, 1871.

MY DEAR BROTHER BEEBE: - Strange as it will appear to attentive observers of passing events, some of the opposition to the views of Particular or Old School Baptists are laboring under the hallucination that we have left the ground we have all the while maintained with regard to the great and fundamental truths of the christian religion, and have come over to their views.

QUICKENED SPIRITS 1877 (Dudley)

Lexington, Ky., Jan.25, 1877.

MY DEAR BROTHER BEEBE: - My attention has been recently called to an expression which occurs in the Circular on the Warfare – “quickened spirits.” I remember the expression was severely criticized immediately after the Circular was first printed.

OLD MAN AND THE NEW MAN 1871 (Dudley)

Lexington, Ky., May 25, 1871.

MY DEAR BROTHER BEEBE: - I have read attentively the kind and affectionate letter of Elder John A. Thompson, of Lebanon, Ohio, published in number eleven of the current volume of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and brother Thompson will pardon my obtuseness in not perceiving wherein he has shaken the position taken in my answer to his former communication, in which I represent the earthly Adam as the old man to whom Paul alludes as one of the antagonist parties of the christian warfare.

PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE 1877 (Dudley)

Lexington, Ky., Nov.7, 1877.

MY DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST: - You and I have been permitted to live and labor long, as we have presumed to hope, in the cause of our divine Savior, and have witnessed many defections from the faith of the gospel, among those who professed to “walk with us to the house of God in company;” and why is it that we have not been “turned away from the truth, and been turned unto fables?”

THE PARDON OF SIN 1874 (Dudley)

Lexington, Ky., Jan.3, 1874.

MY DEARLY BELOVED BROTHER BEEBE: - Although my natural vision is so much impaired that I can read or write but little, without suffering more or less, yet my thoughts are more busy on the things of the kingdom of our dear Lord, I think, than when less embarrassed, and I sometimes hope my spiritual vision has not been obscured by bodily infirmity.

MISSIONISM 1873 (Dudley)

Lexington, Ky., March 27, 1873.

To the Editor of the Western Recorder:

My attention has been called to a series of articles over the signature of “Old Flint,” published in your paper, the first, of date Feb.1st, the second, Feb.22nd, and the third, March 1st, in all of which he labors hard to establish his claims to the title of Old School Baptist.

CORRUPTED MAN AND HEAVENLY FAMILY 1861 (Dudley)

By Thomas P. Dudley, 1861

CIRCULAR LETTER of the Licking Association of Particular Baptists of Kentucky, now in session with the Church at Bryant’s, Fayette County, Kentucky, to the Churches of which she is composed, sends Christian salutations.

PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE 1877 (Dudley)

Lexington, Ky., Nov.7, 1877.



MY DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST: - You and I have been permitted to live and labor long, as we have presumed to hope, in the cause of our divine Savior, and have witnessed many defections from the faith of the gospel, among those who professed to “walk with us to the house of God in company;” and why is it that we have not been “turned away from the truth, and been turned unto fables?” What anguish has that question stirred. “Will ye also go away?” I feel the language is appropriate to me.

BORN OF THE SPIRIT (Dudley)

Lexington, Ky., March, 1880.

ELDER G. BEEBE & SON – DEAR BRETHREN: - For more than sixty years I have esteemed the Bible as among the unappreciable blessings that our God has bestowed upon his church, containing everything needful for us to know, believe and do in his service; but what solid comfort or instruction could it afford us in the absence of that other inestimable blessing, the holy interpreter, of whom it is said, “He shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you?”

CALL TO THE MINISTRY (Dudley)

 

Lexington, Ky., Nov.24, 1874.

MY DEARLY BELOVED BROTHER BEEBE: - A short time since I received a letter from a brother in a distant state, asking me to write for publication in the “Signs,” my views on the call to the gospel ministry. I can only give the exercises of my own mind on this important subject.

BORN OF GOD (Dudley)

Near Lexington, Ky., April 20, 1868.

MY DEAR BROTHER BEEBE: - I have read with deep and abiding interest, and decided approval, your very kind and brotherly reply to both Elder Vanmeter of Illinois, and Elder Wright of Indiana, and feel disposed, with your permission, to subjoin some thoughts on the interesting topics you have discussed in those replies.

THE CREATION OF GOD (Dudley)

Lexington, Ky., Dec.30, 1876.

MY DEAR BROTHER BEEBE: - I have been able to read or write but little, in consequence of the condition of my eyes, for many months. I have read your reply to a correspondent asking for your understanding of the expression found in the Circular on Christian Warfare

THE ADVENT OF CHRIST AND ITS EFFECTS (DUDLEY) 1830

Beloved in the Lord,

The revolving seasons, directed by an unerring Providence, have brought us together again, in our associate relation; and we are especially indebted to the Head of the Church, for the harmony we have enjoyed in our intercourse with each other. The character of the letters from the churches comprising our body is highly gratifying to those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and the peace of Zion, and cannot fail to elicit such, grateful emotions to the Author of our Holy Religion.

THE ADOPTION OF SONS (DUDLEY) 1878

 

Lexington, Ky., Dec.12, 1878.

SONG OF SOLOMON 3.1-4 (DUDLEY) 1879

Text. — “By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.” – Song of Solomon iii, 1-4

ADOPTION (DUDLEY) 1879

 

Lexington, Ky., Nov.29, 1879.

ELDER G. BEEBE & SON – DEAR BRETHREN IN CHRIST: - I wrote an article on the doctrine of adoption, which appeared in one of the earlier numbers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES of the present year. I now propose with your permission to offer some additional thoughts on that important subject. As important as I consider it to be in the Christian system, I have never seen it incorporated with any formula of faith, either printed or written.

ADAM (DUDLEY)1841

MY DEAR BROTHER BEEBE: – Although a controversy has been going on between the Old and New School Baptists in the West, for some years, in relation to what Adam was antecedently to his transgressing the divine command, yet I was not aware of a discrepancy in the views of “Old School” Baptists, on that point, until I read your editorial remarks in number 20, vol. viii., of the “Signs,” in which your readers were informed that “A part of the Redstone Baptist Association, Pennsylvania,” take exception to the views contained in the circular of the Licking Association to be “built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being Chief Corner Stone,” and consequently that she recognized the Bible as the only infallible standard of faith and practice.

REPLY TO “OLD SCHOOL.” From the Western Recorder (DUDLEY) 1875

Lexington, Ky., 1875.

Four numbers have recently been published in your columns over the signature “Old School,” which are so unjust and perversive of truth, that I feel called on to respond.