CAUSES OF CRIME (BEEBE) 1845

[Does this situation sound familiar in the present time? - ed]

INTOLERANCE OF PROTESTANTS WHEN IN POWER...

New Vernon, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1845.

HAVING expressed our views freely in former numbers of this paper, upon the intolerant spirit which is manifested by certain Protestants, in their indefatigable efforts to control and manage all the schools and fountains of mental improvement of our country, and to enforce their sectarian dogmas upon the community, without regard to the consciences, or constitutional rights of those who honestly dissent from their standards of orthodoxy; and also in the extraordinary exertions they have made to get our civil government committed, and our legislatures to so far transcend their constitutional power as to legislate upon the divine law; and having, with all, strongly repudiated the recent unprovoked persecution and slaughter of Catholics, for their religious faith; we have been most unceremoniously denounced by the “Holy Alliance,” as an advocate of the Catholics - a friend of publicans and sinners.

SOT: SUNDAY SCHOOL...

After so long a time I once more resume my pen to continue my remarks on some prominent errors. The fifth comes next in rotation, which is, “Holding that the natural man knoweth not the things of the Spirit, neither can he discern them, & yet that parents and guardians ought to, and can teach their children the things of the Kingdom of God.”

THE BLACK ROCK ADDRESS OF 1832...

Black Rock Address 1832

MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND RESOLUTIONS, DRAFTED BY THE PARTICULAR BAPTISTS, CONVENED AT BLACK ROCK, MARYLAND SEPTEMBER 28, 1832 ALSO KNOWN AS


THE BLACK ROCK ADDRESS OF 1832

(Copied from the first number of the Signs of the Times.)

SOT: AN EDUCATED MINISTRY...

This question, whether a classical education is necessary to be a gospel minister, has elicited much disputation in what is called the christian world.

SOT: ANTI-CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS...

Our brethren in Georgia are right in asking of us scriptural authority for the position we have taken in regard to the religious inventions of the day.