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PROGRESS AND POWER OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH (Continued from page 73) ii.: 44-45; iv.: 34-35). Here were no poor, no rich; no colossal fortunes looking down on humiliating and degrad ing depths of poverty. The very origin of the office of deacon is found in the determination that none should be neglected in the daily ministration. (Acts vi.). And what can be more touchingly beautiful than to behold believers having all things common, selling their possessions and goods and parting them to all as every man had need! What a Christian family that in which there was not one that lacked! 3. There was also equality of privilege. Even in teach ing and preaching there was no rigid priestly line of separa tion and exclusion. Every believer was a herald and a witness. There were some who gave themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word; but in no such sense as to shut out the exercise of any disciple’s spiritual gifts. And we find that even the sacraments were not fenced in by severe prelatical notions. Philip, who was ordained as a deacon, to serve tables, both preaches as an evangelist, and baptizes, though he was set apart to serve as deacon that others might be left free to minister the Word and the sacraments. It is very plain that the modern church has far departed from the model of those first days. It has been said that the possession of the charismata, or special supernatural gifts, may have had much to do with the power and suc cess of the early church. But we cannot see our way clear to attach much importance to these as the conditions of high spiritual life. For, if they were essential to the true power of the church, God would not have withdrawn them unless the church had first become virtually apostate from Him. In that case the loss of the charismata argues addi tional guilt on the part of the church. If, however, they were not needful to true success and power, their disap pearance has no vital connection with our great theme. Let us be candid. Is it not the fact, that with all the surviving good to be found in the church of God, both in true doctrine and pure practice, the world has encroached far too much on the real domain of the Christian life? The primitive body of disciples was an unworldly body, gov erned by unworldly men and maxims. By as much as dis ciples were separate unto God, were they separate from the world; and this separation begat sanctity, promoted service, and secured success, itself mightier as a testimony to! Christ, than all mere preaching without it. Nothing is more alarming than the worldliness of the modern church, and it is such a formidable foe to all true power and prog ress in bringing men to Christ that I feel constrained to give it a more extended consideration hereafter. Arch deacon Hare says, that we often think that “the world is becoming more holy when it is only the church that is be coming more worldly.” Let us boldly dare like Hezekiah to strike for a new Re formation! Let us purge the priesthood, the temple courts, our own hearts and lives, of every unclean and defiling thing; and bring all the tithes into the storehouse, putting God to the proof, whether He will not open the windows of Heaven and pour us out a blessing, till there be none left to pour out! Whenever the beauty of holiness is found in God’s courts, the shekinah will flood them with the glory of the Lord!
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