THE LUTHERAN VISITOR, COLUMBIA, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1869.
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COLUMBIA, S. O.
Wednesday, December 1, 1869.
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EDITORS:
Rev. A. R. RUDE, Columbia, S. C.
Rsy. J. I. Millkb, Staunton, Va.
u In essential* unity, in non essentials
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why the paper ia not taken. The returning to
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J. t MILLER.
Ho Paper Last Week.
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In spite of our efforts, we failed to
get -out the Lutheran Visitor last
week, for want of paper. We had
ordered a supply in ample time, but
it failed to come. We ordered again,
tried to borrow, used tho Express,
but after all it was a failure. No
paper was received until the Visitor
akouid have been ip the hands of its
readers. Wo need not say that we
deeply regret the failure, bnt we did
the best sre could. We will try to
avoid such an occurrence again. We
have paper enough on hand now to
last us several months. Of course
we will make up <he lost number to
our subscribers. It will be our loss
at last, and not theirs. They will
excuse us this time.
Pastoral Chanom.—Rev. Jno. C.
Repuss, the present inctiml>cnt of the
Giles Pastorate, will, the first of Jan
uary proximo, take charge of the Mt.
Airey Pastorate, in Wythe County,
Va. '
From One Extreme to Another.
—Samuel Fisher and Richunl Cla-
ridge, two of the most distinguished
Quaker ministers, had been, before
they became Friends, distinguished
Baptist lMinisters. First, all icater’;
at last, none at all.
Still Ahead.—The Star Spangled
Banner, which for seveu years has
“waved” to the great satisfaction of
its mauy thousand readers, and to
the dis satisfaction of all swindlers
jpnd rascals generally, is even more
\\ide awake than ever. It has at
an immense expense secured the ser
vices of an eminent artist, and tin*
result is that it proposes to gietatray
a splendid engraving entitled “Evan
geline” to every subscriber for 1870.
This superb work-of art is one and
one-half by t>co /ref in size, and is
equal to the best 83 engraving ever
offered. The Banner is a large eight-
page, forty-column pajter.overflowiug
with splendid reading of all kind*,
and costs only To cents a yeor, which
is very cheap for the paper alone;
bnt the publishers piopooe giving
every subscriber a copy of their
elegant engraving gratis. The paper
and its publishers are reliable, ami it
will pay to send for specimens to the
Star Spant/led Banner, Hinsdale, X. II.
or they can be seen at this office.
Patience.
This is one of the cardinal virtues,
and we hope all who are concerned
excel in it. We have been out of the
eity for a ft w days, and find on onr
return, a pile of letters, communica
tion#, periodicals, complaints, loud
and abundant, praise# faint and few,
atul money, well not lunch of that—
which we almost shrink from attack
lag. We have, however, begun to
analyse the conglomerate, and wlU
soon be able to satisfy, even though
wo fail to gratify every one.
The Present Humber.
Contributors from different and
widley separated parts of the Church
make this number, iu our opinion,
one among the very best, that have
yet appeared. The article on the
Rook of Worship is from one of our
ablest and most acceptable writers.
It is the first of a series, which will
follow in regular succession, discuss
ing thoroughly the merits and de
merits of the Book.
J. F. G. is interesting anil in
structive. He never.ia anything else.
We only regret, tint ho does not
more frequently wafer his highly
valued favors.. .
Caleb brings us good tidings from
Tennessee. It is not only gratifying,
but it calls for grateful praises to'
hear of tho prosperity and increase
of the Church of the Reformation
within our borders. The Ilolston
brethren are working men, they la
bor quietly, but efficiently; they are
doiag a good and a great work. We
wish the elder Synods had the like
aggressive spirit. Our Church should
be a Mission Church. The main
work of onr Synods should bo Do
mestic Missions. We should heed
the call from many a desolate neigh
borhood, from many of our dispersed
people: Came and break to us the
bread of life. Give us a watchman
from the Church of emr fathers! We
should obey the command sX onr
Lord, which is: Go!
The Reports from the Conferences
are also cheering. They prove that
the brethren are not luke-warut, when
they assemble together. We liope
Rev. Berly will not forget to write
out the sermon according to promise.
That good Brother will also please
to accept our thanks for his advocacy
.of the Lutheran Visitor. If he would
now become a subscriber, his would
be -the enviable lot of teaching both
by precept and tfiuunple.
Orest Excitement.
The excitemeut at Bt. Matthew's,
S. C., was intense the other Sunday,
because the Lutheran failed to reach
the subscribers. Their poet uffiee is st
Orangeburg, fourteen miles from the
settlement The good petqde have
therefore organized a club, and send
for the mails every Wednesday and
every Hnturday. The Lutheran was
not received on Saturday, and the
murmurs and complaints, which we
heard—we were in their m hist—made
us feel very uncomfortable. We soon
found, however, that they did not
blame us. The mails at Orangeburg
are uncustomed to play such tricks
on the community there; wo heard
of one gentleman, who takes the
paper of another denomination, and
who fretted and complained becansr
he did not receive his paper for sev
eral weeks, and who all at once wits
favored with four impers of different
dates. Query; where were those
four jmpers; and w here were the
Lutherans that did not come to time t
We most respectfully venture to sug
gest that there must be gross care
lessness somewhere.
The 7air— The Kail—Lebanon- Orange
burg—Home.
A busy week. The State Agricul
tural Fair brought visitors from all
parts of the State to our city, anil as
the Lutheran VtsUorta an institution
in which many of the yeomanry are
inteiested, our time was fully occu
pied. The Fair, which by the way
was a perfect success, had also to he
attended to, the fair at the Fair had
to be waited on; a journey was
docket; pastoral labor on hand ; and
the Lutheran Visitor had to be tnnght
to address respectfully, convincingly,
and edifyiugly the many minds ex
amining and criticising it from
various standpoints.
Our mission is not the improve
ment of agriculture, though we are
deeply interested iu, aud fully awake
to its paramount importance, we
therefore ouly observe: that what
we saw only tended to strengthen
our conviction, that South Carolina
must become, agriculturally, a great
State. Tho elements are all here;
science and art, energy and industry,
perseverance and economy, faith and
works, the union of the divine and
human energies must do the rest
To working farmers—we hnvo too
many gentlemen aud fancy fanners
—with limited means, portions of
this State are a very Eldorado.
Laud here is dog cheap.
We saw at the Fair lovely aud
fascinating • women, vigorous and
intelligent looking men, children
unnumbered, from the prize babies,
ouly they did not get any prize—up
to—we we at x lews; we really do
not know at what age little girls
become young ladies, sud boys
young gentlemen. Is a four feet
high chop, smoking a cigar, a gen
tleman t
There were also, out on exhibition
of course, line l.oraes, rather too
many fhney, and too few working
animals. The #how of cattle wits
not large. The hogs and aheep did
honor to their respective ancestry;
and the fhney fowls, from pigeons
np to a pair of Bremen geese, that
made ns think of Bt. Martin's eve,
were well worth looking at.
There were also ears of corn equal
to any the Bhensndoah Valley ever
prodneed, and wheat, foil, heavy,
golden grains that would have taken
the prendnm at any Fair. The dia
play of implement# of husbandry,
machinery, all was qnite creditable.
The ladies had also contributed
many both ttsefol and beautifol nr
tk-les. There were—but really, look
ing ut the ladies, their ingenious
and admirable handi work, and the
crowd, confoaed us. We left not only
the Fair, bat the city too by the
CHARLESTON TRAIN.
Our Railroad I rip is very much like
all others, unless there is a hrvak
down, or a collision. Thanks be to
the Lord we have no accident of auy
kind to recount. We tuet several
acquaintance* on the cars, talked
about the Fair, discussed “Sum
Small* and “Sidi Brown,” and left
the train at Iwwlsvillr, where ltcv. T\
Derrick met us, and we found oar-
selves after a couple of hours ride
through a good farming country,
well timbered aud watered, at the
parsonage of St. Matthew’s.
We are on a collecting toar for our
church, which Sherman, the angel
in Unr, burned for the good of the
Uuited States. We confess that we
are not much of a beggar. Our back
is too stiff, figuratively speaking, our
tongue is not oily enough, and we
prefer giving to receiving. We started
oat however the same evening, saw
one gentlman, who at once gnve u#
five dollars; saw naothcr, he liod-hut
lately given — dollars to a negroe
church, anti we in our simplicity
thought that be would do a# murk
for his white brethren; but we were
mistaken that time, diary uirkle did
we succeed in squeezing out of him.
Brother Derrick saw that we were
disheartened, and pat a five dollar
trill in our band as we writ* seated
in the evening at his fireside. We
thanked him, wondering at tin- flap*
time, where j*x>r ministers get all
the money from they give away, nnd
arrived at last at the eonctarioti that
their liberality has grace fur its root,
lore for its trunk and brauchrw, and
self denial for Its flowers. We did
not ask him—never dreamed of d<iiag
it—hat he gave it; his wife looked
on with a smile of approval, and we
bowed our bead, and whispered:
Lord, bless the clieerftU givers.
Xow we are not going to net un-
gentlemanly. We will not, like the
Rev. llniry Column, of Ma«aachu.
setts, describe the inside and outside
of the houses in which wc are bospi
taWy entertained; we win not tell
what the gentleman of tin- house said,
and how his wife dressed; we do not
intend to proclaim wluit we had for
breakfast, dinner, and supper; nor
win we make a sketch of the chamber
on the wall, iu which wc slept. We
are, therefore, not going to have it
printed whether Itro. Derrick's house
was jiaijited or not; whether his
floors were carpeted or not; whether
his wife did her own sewing or not;
wbethel—no, we will only say, that
the sooner the |x-ople build him a
study' tile better both for him and
them.
Every cliarge should have a par
sonage; every parsonage should
hare a study; every study should
have a library. The- Apostle Paul
had a library'- And—but it is late,
everybody tired, and what wc have
to say wiU bear keeping.
Mark! this poor stmt did not be
waU the fact that be teas rich, but
the flat of “u lift DEVOTED to money
yetting * Rirhss, in themselves, are
not wrong, if sot »troayfuHy gained,
but to make the securing of wealth
tho end of life—to derate the best
energies of “the life that wo now Hve
in the flesh," to this one purpose—
to make the acqusition of wealth
paramount to everything else, this,
Tins u the sin.
Thu reflection, it wan, that filled
with remorse, the soul of the dying,
Xew York millionaire. Though a
member, “in good standing," of a
Christian Church, yet his heart was
not flxed uu Qod but ou stealth.—
Like the Samaritans of old, “who
loured the Lord, and srr\ ed their own
gists," so ho feared Owl in form, but
in heart, bowad down to mammon.
And, reader, ia not this one of the
prevailing sina of this age, and not
of the worhl alouc, but — of the
Church t
Though many profess to las the
wurshiptvw of God, yet their life is
derated to the securing of the “right
eous luuituuou." Hundred* and thou#
ouds ore acting aa • if money, at
whatever sacrifice secured, is the
chief end of hie.
This chum do not rvfose to give
m auditing u> the church, tot wit It
■tuudiug their rovetnms desires and
aims The ggorva too, in their eyes,
*ccM Urge, when cuutniatcd with
what others iu the church give—
Thus they delude IhmuM-lvfa with
the not ton that they an truly litmraL
Hut they i.iii to keep liefurr their
j minds tho comparative ability of
, ihcUMeiica and those with whose
i contnbutiutis they compute their own.
SuiqMiae, by way of dluatniuou, I
I givo owe hundred dollar* towards the
support of a pastor. The subamp
Uoti areata large. Few men give so
, much. Iu the saws congregation
, there is one shone suhorriptiua ia
| treaty dollars for tho same purpose.
At me is Jin tunes the amount til his!
| How aide the difleivucv! Aud Iwa
easy for Mr to lauigiue that my
| libunddy is a puitein deaorviug if
; all imitation.
Bat by chance, his tax ticket tolls
i into my hands. 1 know he has no
it is a Life Devoted to Koasy-gsttug
that I Rtgret"
The above is one sentence of a
death bed lament of a man worth
his millions, who died, a short time
zince, in the city of Xew York.
He was a member, iu good stand
ing in ou orthodox church, and yet
he declared on his dying bed, that
“a life devoted to money-getting,”
weighed him down, nnd mode him
despair of the life hereafter.
When his pastor offered ronsoln-
tiou, he turned hi# face to the wall,
exclaiming ns he did so, “you have
never reproved my avaricion# spirit.
You haw willed it wise economy and
forethought, but I now know that
riche# have been only a snare for my
poor soul.”
llow bitterly did he tlicn realize
the truth that, “They that will be
rich fall into temptation, and s snure,
and into many foolish and hurtfol
lusts, which drowu men in destrue,
tion and perdition. For the lore of
money is the root of all evil: which
while some coveted after, they have
erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves tlirough with many aor
, other Iona of wealth than that for
»Wk he is now tend. I see he pays
, tax uu personal pro|<erty or teal
estate to the amount of fttt dollara.
while 1 pay to the uuauint of oar
hundred.
How uaw compares my lils-rwlity
• itbflisf He gives owe00th ss much
1 In the support of the ministry as I.
Bnl, front reliable data, I am wirth
■<* fee hut t treaty times as mnrh as
hr. Tow hub of a*then iathc|irwiar
of liberality due f Or *upp-<*e a man.
worth at tho almost. * re thaa*
and dollars, gives all told, to the
< au»e of CUrtM, ttrntfy *vr dollar*
anmmmUf ant! anutirer, «ko la worth
i/**• tkowmmd <rU4Ltr* % jrfvtMtynurlv
out hundred, which is the liberal
i man t You say, neither. And strir-th
speaking it ia true. But is not the
i one who gives four times what is
i given by the other, the more liberal
■ of the two! ft«f thousand dollar*
• at am-uiulh of forty pee thousand.
If then be w ha ia worth hut Jls#
i thousand gives fir* dollar* of tty
tfamtsand to the rhmvh, in the same
! smell proportion, the owner of sn
| estate of forty tire thousand dollar*.
'■ mast give, to he as Hbrral ss the
former, taw hundred aud heeutyfirr
dollar*. But 1st us take into eimahl
oration, further, that the man with
the small estate, is simply making a
living, while the other, i* engaged in
a Inrnitire fmsines*. and it redttres
hia apparent liberality still more.
Suppose, again, a man with no real
estate, ia engaged hi mercantile life
with a capital of twenty-fire hundred
dollar*, who gives to the Lord yearly,
tweuty-fiee thdlar*; another member
of the mm* ehtm-h, worth, above
all encumbrance, hrnty. fire thi. stand
dollar*, gives tereaty fue dollar*.
What \k their comparative liber
ality t The one give* our dollar oa
[ every fire hundred of hi* capital—the
! other, three dollar* on every thousand
' of his. Did" the latter gtro tn prtv
jMiition to the former—he would gjve
instead of trrmtyfire, tuw hundred
and fifty dollar* annually, to the Lord
and his cauM. And those cun
given, are not strictly accurate in
value of estate, or in contributions,
yet we would not have the reader to
suppose they ore altogether' imag
inary. Few pastors are to be found
who enn not call to mind instances
aiming their own people, in which
'this great disparity of liberality ia
constantly exemplified. And now
what does all this prove t Just what
1* declared by the language of the
dying man, which stand# at the head
of this article; “it is a life,” on the
part of these more pros|s-rous per
sons, who give so out of proportion
to their ixKirer brethren, “devoted to
money getting.” They may not be, in
most 'instant cs, art not aware of it.
They look at what seems to them
their large contribution# and thus
i satisfy themselves that they are do-
j lug their whole duty in this pnrtieu-
; lor. They persuade themselves, in
1 osmucb, as once they gave ten doll or#
to the Lord’s ettse, and now give
orn hundred, that, though ricbm in
crease, their heart* art not set upon
thorn.
They fail to couaider that their
enlarged liberality has not been in
any tolerable proportion to their en
larged ability, and hence, enlarged
responsibility.
And like tho dying millionaire,
whose ease started these reflection*,
their pastor, from timidity or wonts,
“uevrr reproved their avaricious
spirit," and thus, salt deceived, they
go ou, to rualisu, it is to be feared ou
a dying bed, that a “litis devtded to
hum try getting, makes them dc*puir
of the life hereafter.”
Reader, if you have been bU-saa-d
with prosperity iu tbiuga teuiporni,
let them not Iwcouie your (i«#l, but
usider, I pray you, the impurtont
•luestion of tbs Saviour: “What
shall it profit u man if be pain the
a hole world aud lose hia own soul V
We have more to say ou this sub
ject, but will defer it lor another
article.
The American Lutheran has lately
favored its rvinter* w ith another of
Umar lurid com ivsatkma held in its
“Munenim," whirh make every aub-
jeet diarosm-d as clear as mud. The
convenatum to which we srfer was
all about -Edita- Katie," attorn Peter
drrlarcs to be a gw#! Amen, hr Lath
cron, which makes John so happy,
that he ela|M his hands. Why did
be not shout f Peter, though, has
his misgiving*: It* doubtaear Ast.-ri
nmian. nnd rsthtw nagOntieamaly,
bat rhmrsrlrrintuailly, oitim»lea that
“Editor Ku*le" ia auswl.v acting a
part, pretending and sliaiomiug.
peter, don't ha naughty; judge not!
Don’t thiak evil iu your heart. “Kdi
tar Bad<-" bus nmttni lu lorr that
you do not, and ran not prove your
atandpoint, utidenitand hita atul his
brethren, and he reiterates the msm
lion. He dim not, like >ua, grofinj
to love the Omfeasioa, aud yet tern
it to pieer*. He does n«M i.ke ymi,
abuse the otln-r Byrnhots, I ml reveses,
ami ttaro them lor the better uiel. r
stamlinguf the<'onfrssioii. Hi love
thetfy mhuU,bul they areuot hisDibfo.
Hi* rule is, the Bible UrxL My minds
next, the Hpirit above all. “Tlu
letter kiileth," 1‘eu-r, “the Spirit
i]ui< keueih.* Southern loiUitruusaiv
led by the Bptnt, which eouie* to us
through Baptism aud in the sold.
Ibr Sj utbuln help us to understand
the w uni. The (liunh in the div turfy
antharisrd iaterjin-t. r iff the nv . uied
word. 2. IVta-r, 1: 20.
eighteen hours, and we do at time# fool
exhausted. We have read with satis
faction and interest moat of the
articles; and advise our friends to
the same.
For Ih* Lothana Visitor.
of Worship.
HO. L
4S A LITURGY.
Olfaction.—Liturgies foster a formal
religion in opositlou to that spiritual
worship which the gospel requires.
Anstccr.—Then the Jewish religion
was merely a formal Worship without
the spirit But God himself insti
luted that worship, and acee|>ted it,
then God sanctious mere form. But
Jesus Christ also conformed to the
Jewish worship, using their forms and
oereoiouirs, nnd asserted that it be
came him to fulfill all righteousness.
He also, on two different ocossiune,
gave a form of prayer—used it him
self, and left it to be uard by us just
as he gave it. Then the Saviour
sauct foiled the use of form#.
Dues the use of tho Lord’s prayer
make our service formal T Does it
take away ita power! After all,'bow-
much more formal are that pray er
aud those well studied prayers in
our liturgy, than the stereotyped
prayers of one half of our clergy,
who reject and condemn liturgies t
Every intelligent man will tell yon
that he never saw a more formal aud
kfeisss religion and worship than
those wituessed in some portious
of our church where liturgies are
looked upon with lioirwr. The prayer#
are always the same, filled w itli repo
titions, and empty expressions, and
slang phrases, aud their umwrittm
liturgy ia followed to the very letter,
if a brother uuau-s from a distaacc
aud deviates an iota from their
adopted unwritten liturgy, fruit is
found with him immediately. He
must ounform to their mode, ur be is
ixmismlured guilty of au inuovatiou.
Th*- uhjectHui to the Book is really
not to forma, but to a form that
ditfeis ioaa theirs. The fceiuig ia
that Hu oue lui# a right to preacribe
,a form for them. It awuuut# to this:
1 must have some fonu bc>-juse it i#
uUsuiutrly uetx-ssiuy, but 1 claim a
better right to luskc that form than
I he cbun-l. lots.
Xow ue contend that the church
are more likely to think of what tfo,
are doing than if left to be gafrZ
over the eangrcgstfon. The Bo<*
of Worship Is designed to make the
congregation do what they often fail
.to do without a form—that is, f*fr
part in the worship. Before we mp*.
dnord our B<x>k, the idea of most
congregations in the country
to be, that tla- minister was to Wor .
ship, and they dt and look on an#
see that it was well done.
Instead of standing in the c-foud,
yard and talking abemt their nm*
and the politics of the day until the
minister reads his text, the Book
directs that “the worshipers should
proceed to their seats, offer up ,
silent prayer, sud then quietly #»«,
the opening of *ervi<-e.» Theniiurt^
of tiie miniiiter getting up and tellij,.
his congregatfoa Out he is Miffe nn ‘
with a severe cold, tw that he h
uterty nnprepared to pr^arh, sad
asking them to rail upon God to'bha.
his laziness nnd indifference to hh
sacred vows, thereby enlisting ^
symjmthieK in his behalf, he rket
and the congregation with him, and
he solemnly announces that the Lord
is there, and that they sh.mMTnuoblr
their heart# before Him. The whole
altar service is well calculated to
prepore the heart# of aB to hear the
Word to profit aud edification. Ij j#
not sinply “going to fnwhing" h j,
worshiping, und we do not see bow
any can lie indifferent to any
of it. It i» not new. The Lutheran
Church has always been a lifor^-,)
church. Every part of the Luthermn
Church has it# Book of Wauhip.
The old General Synod was the ha
to sew the necessity, but it too now
has its Book of Worvhip very similar
to ours. 8AM SMALL
New Publications.
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folly up to its high standard.
Westminster Review. October,
1800. Leonard Scott Publishing
Company, Xew York.
Coutent* : 1. The Quaker. 2. The
Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. A
Water Supply of London. 4. Sunday
Liberty. 5. The Afghan Triltes on
our Traus Indus Frontier. C. The
National History of Morals. 7. The
Albert Life Insurance Com|>any. A
Compulsory Education. 9. Prostitn
tion. Contemporary Literature.
London Quarterly Review. Oc
tober, 1S09. Leonard Scott Publish
tag Company, Xew York.
Conteuto: L Islam.’ Lsaoe Bar
row. A Higher and Lower Animals.
4. The Byron Mystery. 5. The Water
Supply of Loodon. 8. Lord Lyttle
ton's Horace. 7. The Reconstruction
of the Irish Church. 8. Soeradotol
Celibacy, 9. The Past and the Fu
ture of Conservation Policy.
North British Review. October,
1800. Issmsrd Scott Publishing
Company, New York.
Contents: 1. InventusMundi. 3.
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 3.
The Different Schools of Elementary
Logic. 4. Mr. Browning^ Latest
Poetry- A The Pope and the Coun
cil. fl. The Constitutional Develop
ment of Austria. 7. Literature and
the Land Question In Ireland. 8.
Contemporary Literature.
We regret that our various engage-
to snpply a fi-lt want in the service*
of the Hitm-tnsry, sod to rrpttau- tlist
« bic-li formeity »-\i*t«*d in di*ord<-r.
For instance: The response* are
much disliked by those very men
w ho rv*|#mdt he most. I have heard
mauy response* from these brethren
which meant the very opposite of
what wa* intended.
A good old father was praying on
one occasion. He mid, “O I»rd
this i* in all proliabiUty the last time
I will ever be [tenniUed to meet my
brethren on earth." A brother broke
out with s response: “Amen, Lord
grant it.” Xow our responses are
intended to do “decently and in
order" what is done without order or
eommou sense. God isa God of order
und not of confusion. Who will pre
tend to say that God is better pleased
with such i espouses than those in
the Book! These prayers ami re
sponses however by no means debar
any brother from the use of - his
own, but it recommends all to be
have projK-rfy iu the service of God’s
house.
But the Book requires us to kneel
in the confessional prayer, and stand
in the public prayers.
Is this not proper t In the confes
sion vie. humble ourselves before God
as js-uitenla, in the public prayers,
w e gire thank* as accepted children.
Suppose we lived under a king, and
we hud a itetition to offer, iu which
we asked some gracious favor, how
would we approach him ! Aud then
when the favor was granted how
would we return him our thanks!
The Bible prescribes no attiude or
|K)«ture for us to observe in prayer,
and wo have selected those most
befitting the object of our service.
We have just aa much authority for
standing os we have for kneeling,
und in thanksgiving it is certainly
the most appropriate attitude.
Objaction.—All that tho service
contains is good euough, but the
minister and people just say it, and
do not fee l usd enjoy it
Answer.—How do you know that t.
Xo man has a right to say that litur
gies are only mid by rote and uot
felt. Such may be the case, aud so
it may be in the services of those
who do uot use liturgies. I heard
ou nnti-litorgioal minister say ro-
ocntly, that he often prayed in the
public service when he did not fool
what he said. It is for more probable
ent Reviews; but our day has only
menu do not itou to give an ab-, ^ ^ ^ wlI1 ^ llturRKal
struct of several articles in the differ- service more thaa apy other, for with
their books before thetr eyes, they
for Uw Lallans Ymux
Corner-Stone Laying.
On Thursday, OeU»b»-r 28th, the
writer, in eonqiany with the Rev.
Geo. A. Long, of tlie Newtown
charge, left home to be present at the
cerejnony of loving the corner stone
of a brick church in course of erec
tion by the Evangelical Izttheran eon
grcgati.m at WanlensviDe, Hardy
County, West Virginia. It was a
bright and beautiful autumn day, *nd
as our road lay acros* mountains and
valleys, the scenery was snffieientlv
hns the right to prescribe <onn# ami! diTC ™ fl,vl to mak ‘‘ th < intw «
liturgies lor her I#*q>le. ami kival ,n c am id'^t-aat.
.-.embers of the ebureh wUI yield | ^” rcaehrtl fbe MWc v.Hy
their prQuatn-e* and pretlilectious to '' nu ' nBet nigiitfall. and drove
her outI.oiitv. Ska disclaim* anv " ,n ’"" h iU dark :,! " 1
light or anv intention to l.tinl the ™>r biRhly esteemed
viuidn-n, but she i , '" rt,ur ’ ™
IVf**r-Miller, whn rep-
rftKents our diuiomhutfiou in one loyitl
Stubs oi»c» militan* ilifttrict. »v(*ni
u..unties, and (cirts adjacent, besides
pro.vbing ooeastoBaJly to the rest
of mankind. \Ve received a most
eotdbi giwting fn>ni tl»c pastor aTwl
his family nnd soon were comfortably
seated aronml a blazing fire; whilst
In tin- meantime the amiable better
h:ilf of the estat.Iishnient iwejrared
for us an excellent supper, to which
in all truth we did ample justice.
The rejrast ended atul an hour or two
agreeably- s|<ent iu iuutiu.1 iuqairie*
and the exchange of sentimeuts upon
various tofucs, genersd nnd special,
we commcnderl onrstdves to the care
of our Heavenly Father and retired
for the night to eiyoy “ kind nature’s
sweet restorer, balmy sleep.”
Friday morning broke cloudy and
chilly, and the indh-.itious of a rather
unfavorable day were visible in the
heavens above us aud fell on Un
earth beneath. Xeverfheless we were
hopeful of a change for the better,and
cTiecrfnl i^view of the foci, that in
a few hours we would eqjoy tlie great
pleasure of listening to the polished
sentences and edifying utterances of
Brother T. TV. Dosb and of eugag
tag in the interesting ceremonies of
laying the rwuor-stonc of another
new Lutheran church edifice.
Public services had been appointed
for 10J A. M.; and as the preacher
for the occasion had to make a long
aud cold ride of 28 miles, over, hill
and dale, by that hpur, we could
not altogether banish tlie annoying
thought that he might perhaps, &o®
some unknown occurrence, fail to be
in time. As tlie hour for service*
drew near, our apprehensions became
rather painful, as in case of a feilnrf
upon his part, it had beeu determined
Holes* roles* Uut your correspondent
must hold forth, prepared or utn«v-
parod. Awfolly perplexed, ami **
most h<qwless of relief from the dire
ucocssity of preaching without hav
ing anything to say, a small package
of undent manuscript was carefully
examiued and nothing found to meet
the emergency. Judge then all f 6
who Lave been in such a fix, or ha ve
any desire to be, what was the joy of
tny heart when the* tidings
from Up to lip, “he’s come, he’aoomc-
And sure euough, w eary but punctual,
there he. sat astride kis black pqnj.
bland and smiling as aMaymoruwg.
and none mors delighted to see k> ,n
than your humble servant Our re
lief was instantaneous, our joy uu
bounded—the great pain killer 1»»
come aud our “peace flowed like *
river.”
The time for public servioesbavi* 1 ?
arrived, he proceeded at once to tb»
village chan
from ah am 1
whtol. to «
Lord deliver
genera' m«*
front cam"
thaa**
ah d w»«m.
tie* otteodu:
tentton fixe.
moat exncll
•daptetl to
well beaten
m:«wy P«"”'
impression-
t ,eased rc*t{
Hathar Chu
The sernx
fidtltosse*. *4
aeription# it
prize, which
reajMHtke. ”
■nnaber;
flingniue an
were
plemwrc in-
all was doi.i
as become?!
God; »«d 'j
comic, or -1
OoahfM moA
After the
had been w j
and coogi'j
site of the 11
tion bad U -J
of Thtoh wJ
fill block otl
finished: tlj
congrcgatioj
of the nsaal
Bible and I’j
been dej#-j
I’astor of tl
P. MilUer
“ Cotser-Std
pressive an
tained iu .>•«
jKirtieular!,
by- the uami
Tlie chnnj
the cewtfc J
street, stanJ
of tlie side
feet, and -
«>-nt a vcJ
size it is fon
will be sarii
which we tr
the silvery
worship tl.
hamlet anuJ
ezperttsl tId
plchsl. und
May or duo
ipiite a »»r
lavnrn in i\
pit I—ft t.l i
this praiset*
in the work
IteUg. >US
on Friday u
day inoruui|
Monday nis
Ou Hub '
moot of tlie
jk*u-vc-d. an<1
to Church
and cxmfiq
during the i
ing was vc|
state of tin
dated t-oudi
Olierch. W
tatacd durit
saotptuous!
nesday eve
and found t
coining.
Onr pray
self and brat
' the mount;
glory of Go<
of liis km
welfare of 1
eomunica
of a gener.
of -wlxv
above <
T. i
the far
ately e»
ocousio
a gener
tions tc
charge
distanc
their In
confide
f.