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Our Views of Missiim Work. 23consecrated obedience ? Are we noi thus " bap- to generation, is nothing more than has beentized with his baptism," and made "to drink of promised her by her glorious Head, " Instead ofhis cup ; " and are not the highest, holiest, noblest thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thoumotives supplied to every form of active service, mayest make princes in all the earth." It mayas we recognize " our engagement to be the not be in the Hue oi natural generation or succes-Lord's ? "sion any more than in ihe case of Joshua, EhshaSecondly.—Bui again the passage represents or Timothy ; but as the plant seeds every year sothe baptized as, in some sense, baptized for others, that there may be plants every year successively,!' Wbat shall ihey do who are baptized for ihe so it is in the family of God. And thus it is thatdead ?" We may be sure thai this does not mean we have so many promises in reference io the seedgetting a name at baptism from some relative, or or offspring. " A seed shall serve him ; it shallfriend, or distinguished person in the Church, for be accounted io the Lord for a generation. Theygiving the baptized a name is no part of the bap- shall come, and shall declare his righteousnessuntismalordinance. The Greek preposition {huper), to a people thai shall be born, thai he hath donehere rendered/or, gives us a very clear idea of this " " Por I will pour water on him that iswhat is meant by being baptized/or o^/ier-s. Con- thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground ; Iwillstrued as in the passage, it signifies instead of, or pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessingin the room of, or on behalf of, and is frequently upon thine off'spring ; they shall spring up asused in the New Testament to express the sub- among ihe grass and as willows by the water courstitutionarycharacter of Christ's sufferings/or us, ses ; one shall say, I am the Lord's, and anotheror, as the old preachers used to say, " In our law- shall call himself by name of Jacob ; and anotherroom and stead." The force of this preposition shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, andis cleariy seen in Paul's words to Philemon, when surname himself by the name of Israel." Andspeaking of Onesimus, " Whom I would have re- thus it is ihat among the symbols of tbe Apocatainedwith me, that in thy stead (huper sou) he lypse the Church is a travailing woman, and themight have ministered to me in the bonds of the " remnant of her seed," for a long period, doesgospel." Now, in the expression, baptized in the noble work for God, and when one generationroom or stead of others, we have only what has " cease from their labors," even on earth in ihosebeen promised to, and enjoyed by, the Church of who succeed them, " iheir works do follow ihem."Christ since the beginning oi ihe worid, namely, Thirdly.-^Bui those for whom some are bapthatshe shall have, from generation to generation, tized are, moreover, here styled "the dead."members raised up, quaUfied and sealed, and under " What shall they do who are baptized fior thecovenant engagement to take the places and per- dead." To understand the force ofthe expressionform the work of those gone before. As eariy here, we have only to remember that through aas the days of Adam, Eve said, on the birth of large part ofthe New Testament era " the dragonSeth, "For God haih appointed me another seed was wroth with the woman, and went to makeinstead of Abel whom Cain slew." Joshua, with war with the remnant other seed, which keep themany formalities, was appointed 8,nd prepared to commandments of God, and have the testimony oftake the place of Moses, and act in his stead. Jesus Christ." Through this whole period theDavid reigned in Saul's stead, and Solomon in Church is in conflict with ihe worid, whether inDavid's stead, and Elisha was called and pre- an orga.nic form, having heads and horns, or thepared to act the prophet in Elijah's stead. Now, unorganized sea ofthe godless masses that rejectall this, going on in the Church, from generation the offers of reconciliation with God, and despise