Sink back and dream it o'er again. Thy name, like some magician's mystic wand, The rest remain, and though we're severed far, To hear his voice, as when to listening youth, For sweeter far was David's tuneful lyre Than all the muse of Rome did e'er inspire; And naught e'er heard within proud Athen's wall, Who taught our feet to walk in wisdom's ways; But I were faithless, Memory, to thee, The sad sweet answer of her sweeter songs; My younger brethren, now to you I turn, For we are bound by ties which naught should break, And life must be a conflict to the last; Battle for right, ne'er lay your weapons down, My ardent thoughts now fondly turn to you; Past hopes, past fears, past joys, past sorrows rise, OBITUARIES. CENTREVILLE, Ky., June 23, 1849. Brother Campbell-Our excellent and long afflicted brother JOHN HERNDON, sleeps in death; at about 10 o'clock, P. M., on the 18th inst., he peacefully expired, at his family residence, near Georgetown, Scott county, in the 70th year of his age. For several years he suffered much from neuralgia; but towards the last a change of disease freed him from his pain, and carried him gently to the tomb. Near twenty years ago he publicly professed faith in Christ, and, when friends to the Ancient Gospel in his neighborhood were few, he gave himself and his influence to aid in forming the church, now called the Church of Christ, at Oxford, (Marion.) He was a brother of warm, generous heart, social disposition, most affable and courteous in his manners. As a Christian, devoted to God, strong in his faith, his love to all abounded; he was truly a friend to the needy, and the THE MILLENNIAL HARBINGER. . SERIES III. VOL. VI. BETHANY, VA., OCTOBER, 1849. No. X. TRACTS FOR THE PEOPLE-No. XXXVII. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CITIZENS OF CHRIST'S KINGDOM. SEQUEL OF TRACTS ON BAPTISM-No. II. HAVING in our preceding Tract stated and partially developed our views of Hierarchies, National Churches and Secular Religions, in contrast with the pure and holy church of Jesus Christ, we now proceed to the investigation of what constitutes a legal or constitutional citizen or subject of Christ's kingdom. It is altogether unnecessary to assume that any of our readers needs to be told, or to have proved to him, that the Lord Jesus Christ claims to be regarded as a king, and that he has a kingdom which he himself in person proclaimed, and afterwards by his Apostles ordained and established in the world. Any one that either denies this fact, or assumes that Messiah's kingdom preceded his personal advent in the flesh is not in our present horizon; and, therefore we address the reader of this essay as one that admits that Jesus Christ is a king, was born on earth to be a king over his own kingdom soon after his departure to be established upon a new constitution, and not after the model of any kingdom then existing in the world. The Jewish nation, and every Pagan nation then on earth, were in their nature worldly, temporary and founded on fleshly relation, without any spiritual qualification. They had in them, indeed, words and figures which might be so arranged as to give a full and graphic view of what was to follow after their fall and dissolution. But they went no farther. Jesus Christ could not be a king till after he was born again, and, consequently, he could only speak of it in parables and represent it as afterwards, and at no very distant day, to be organized and revealed. Hence both his precursor and himself spent their ministry proclaiming it to be near at hand, and in giving right conceptions of its great peculiarity. |