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JH Three month* Ik.,.,..,... 3 00 I ha... 7 00 Twelve months” 10 00 thi advertisements of three squares and ■inwards a dU-ount of 30 ]ier eent, Of Dvr squares and upwnnls, 30 ja r eent., at ten square* aud upwards. 40 jn-r cent., ami of nue-lwlf cot mint mid ujinards, mi »r cent, will he ifedueted from the almve ” > tli.itunries, when more Ilian five lines, ten cents for right wools, juiyalile in advance. Puepaise—I ive cents per <|imrter. If riensr remember nil Imslness let ters should he addreesed to Kkv, A. R. RI'DE. Oil am kin, S. Religious. ■r : ^ ?or 11,0 Visitor. Secolamed Ministers. A majority of our ministers pro . hat Indifferently supported. But this ts not nn evil; it IkIou^s to the office, ami if ri^htiv improved is hwiefieiah demanding the constant evereise of faith, teaching- ‘•trust in the Lonl," and preventing the hinges of the door that lends to the closet •f prayer from rusting; it is a school of self-denial, shuts out pride, and impels to greater activity. Theiv I are however east's, and w e fear not * fctr, of not merely indifferent, but •JOf Inadcijnate snj.jsirt. There ure ftiirhful and truly cUristmn pastors, who receive a mere pfitanee, erninhs from the rich man’s table : the rich man being the congregation or eharge. The resiilt is, the minister tarns aside from his legitimate work, and not only serves tables, but makes tables, ami also roots hard to get wmethir.g to place on the tables. This• is a positive evil, and there is, to the best of onr knowledge, no - valid excuse for it among ns. Frit target, if ttny, art unable tu sapper/, «nut to support hanilxomely, their pas tor*. Frequently not two or three, bnt many of the members composing a single charge are crying: “poverty ; *G moneyj, can’t mb my family; e#n’t afford to give everything to the ehnrch;’’ and some even say, “I will leave the church; it is too expensive.” This is all cant, the responses of eov- rtohs souls, the ring of the base metal, and the poetry of the love of filthy lucre. tfltese very fieople have an ahnn- dancPTif everything; they dives well, bny fine fnrnitnro, build large houses, purchase one jiiece of land after another, lay np and invest money, and increase in riches every year. Ihit tliey do not become more liberal; they do not discharge houestly and conscientiously their obligations to their minister; they do not reiuem, her him tluit WTestles for them—that teaches, admonishes and comforts tt*4t>, throngli whose faithful counsel , they unwittingly are kept from com mitting many a sin, ami restrained from rushing blindly into perdition. 1’reaching is tlie ]silver of tiod; it, therefore, never fails to impress the mind in some way, and to some pur pose. The smallest rain drop leaves its mark. There are hard risks in Triucb, when they were bnt beds of Hand on the seashore, rain drops that THl - thousands of years ajgo Jmve Hft tlteir impressions; the gentlest imeeze changes the fate of nature; muufs footsteps servo as way marks; dBau|s works as memorials; man's •writings as lessons; and the voice ...... of the prisielier, even though it ahonhl thonghts, attention and time. —'jjjr ■■...' ~.. r."g! Ministers are often blamed ami condemned for engaging in bust ness miliecootiug a minister. AYhose fault is it t Mr. Stingyman’s, who growls: “1s t him work for liis living; I have to do it." If tlic minister is a single until, a small salary may do; though we know of no reason why bo should serve for a pittance, while his mem bers are accumulating riches. As u general thiug, ministers make better use of money than laymen: The latter keep it; the former (fire it a trap. It is moreover wrong to servo a jicu- ple who are unwilliug to pny freely and cheerfully for the services ren- dcitsl. The uuui who tries to be a church mi mlier and to get to livnveu five of expeuao is a Rtieuk, mid is found out some day. There are no free tickets, no deadheads on the train that runs on the narrow gunged road. There are close-fisted, money- loving and avaricious church mem bers, twit not one covetous Christian. Tlte A | ms tie says: “Covetousness is idolatry." The minister who lives in a state of celibacy may get his daily limiil by going from house to house, and his clotliiug by donations, but he can not live tlins if he lias a family, lie can not take his wife and chil dren with him; though we know a minister in who went visiting, himself, wift* and three childrcu, all ritling oue horse—it was a very husg horse; and he always remained sev erid da vs. He, how ever, was a man of a peculiar temperament. Tim man of family, who Is uot siipiMit tcd, must either leave the field iu which he is called to labor—and that most Itiiiusters do not desire to do; they soon become attached to tlte people, and tVeijnent changes weaken the pastoral relation, and the minister who is constantly moving is tmt a We would retlier see a minister mi l* u °r shepherd of souls-tor, he innst \ the sline iuakcr's ls-uch. than tiehiiul COLUMBIA, S. C.. WEDNKSDAY, JUKE 15, 1870. OLD 8ERIKS, YOL. IV.--N0. cotton, etc., etc., become the subjects of conversation at all tiiuea, anti all idacea. Tho ruluistcr is only such in name. lie may be a good funner; he is—a poor pastor. He may he learned iu Agriculture; he is rusty in Theology. Wo knew stick a min- iattr, IIo payed for three or four Agricultural impers, but he could not afford to take his obureb |Ht|>rr. IIs uutdc up a club for the - — ■ Farm er; hut he uever tried to get a subscriber for the Lutheran . (He lived before the Lutheran Vititor was published.) Some ministers Imm-ouic tiicn-hsiits. They txirrow uiom-y, get credit, o|s-n a store, stand brhiiul the counter, teiupt |SHiplc ou weekdays to tiuy cxtnivagautly, nud preach ugainst eatravagunco ou Sinntays. Christ tlrovc the hnym and the ardent oat of the teui|ile. A minister should not lie a merchant. A uierelmnt's objtH't ia to make money, to g»-t rich in doulthwquick time. He learns to love uitmey, by handling ami mnnt- ing it constantly, uot on nrcnnnt of the giaal lie cau do w it h it, but lie cause it gives him standing, inltiieiii-c and (tower. lint by mid by It lie- conies bis Clod ; theft his ty rout ; and at hist his curse. I titter ministers engage in some handicraft. This is less oiifrctioti able, ntul imlcctl, perfectly legltl mate, |trjvidctl only a fir hours every day are devoted to the cm jihiymeut. The Ajswdtc I’uul Inls.r ctl. working with his own kniMls. He was not a naitroetor, though. He IismI not a large establishment, nor did lie employ ninny Islmrers. tint he w ork is 1 for wages to obtain bia daily lirrad. There are hnitdi milts whirh leave the mind rum jsiniHvelv illsengagml, allowing the worker to think, stnrtr amt cioupnw-. Miiqnoted TtxU An eminent and honored minister waa wire placed In a rurious predic ament. <ht the previous Hakbath he had preaohetl on the subject of growth In grnro; ami He luid argued tluit, as in Hie natural world, so in the spiritual, life does not ordinarily develop by e|Nuiiuodir efforts ami great crises, bnt by the silent and gradual assimilation of aliment and by the growth of faculty and func- lion. In the rmii-ne of the following w eck he waa amsing wi the tbrt that tho Antithesis of this was also true; that the decline of spiritual life is uot usually to be traced to some oue great and disastrous fall, hut eoni- nionty arises from the neglert of the little duties and gifts and graces, the ■ .. W>i?lg5Bfei We "-*"■5 ■'-■■■ i EverynUy Ssligioa. There*is a most unchristian te dewy, which has almost hardened into custom, to divorce reiigiou from daily bib. The peruirious effect of this divoreemeut is {Miiufnlly evident in all the circles of trade tuul industry I’hristiaus do not avowedly, some times do not at all, carry thoir ISCTaulfi It were the word of (lot! itarlf. wHI cits some examples. Ttiere are some expressions iu ram- men use ninoug as wbieh have a sort of resemblance to certain jmik sages of Horiptnre and are quoted ns sueh. “Ah, sir," said an okl lady not long ago, “I am often comforted by the imimise that *t5o«l tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.'” ltat the words are u line from Hterue ; aud ! religion into their business. They Hie only imssugc of Hrrijititre that Wer It up, if they do carry ft with • Wilis any resemblance to them is them, under the names of honor, that contained in (lie prophecies of integrity, aud fair dealing. Why Isaiah: “liestayetb Ilia rougti wind j this tlepreeatiug airt Why these in the day of the east wind.” Isaiah i disguise* I If the love of Christ xxvii: H. Again, we are sometimes HOOStlnlfifth us, let the secret out enjoined “not to In* wise above that j it will win.sympathy, it will waken which is written s" aud the <ulmom thought, it wiU, above all, 1 Minor the lion may be needed, hut it must uot Master. The business-man may, l.v -he aapiKMed—aa it often is—to hart-' his wslk and eon versa t ion, preach diligent and devout cultivation of i|m> sutlHiritj of Heripture, lor there j Christ where christmn preaching is which Is essential to ttie malnlrtianee i a no sueh passage in the Bible. || ' is luit uncommon, iu Naidiath even fog prayer meetings, to bear our brethren ask Uiat the |>astor may uf the life of the sonl. And our friend, the divine, resolved to make this the tli*u»e of his ilisrotirsc on the follow ing Habbath imirning, sud to fimnd Ids remarks on the passage, wbieh would serve admirably as a text, “He that eontemneth email rkiuyu shall full away little by little." In doe course the sermon was writ ten sud ready, ami on the Saturday it oreurTvd to the minister that he sorely needed. The quiet Snnday- Imiui is mit the most op|mrttia<- time for reasoning with men concerning rigUteuusiiesa, and temperaimc, sad have “seals to Ids ministry , aud souls judgment to come. Hearing the stereotyped sermon is s conventional Sunday doty. Tliere may be an for his hire." We cau not say that the metaphorical language here cm ployed ia very obvious in its meaning indefinite yearning for the religious ■P ery out in the wilderness, i» Krtglitier than any or all of tliesc. ^U1 men feel its infinenee, even , ; ,J ' tt, ®ugli all do not hear it. It is the power of God* it jiaascs out, over and around earth ; it never dies; it \ h , m ^wwdly in the hearts, through ■ the effecta produced. Kneli member A . of the OMumnnity that is blessed wth tlte labors of a faithful ininis- * , ter is benefitted, and It therefore is *he duty of all to contribute to his support. But it is not to be ex-, peeted that, as long as professing Ikosc who are not of the household nf faith will do much. And yet fre- fiaently, tiie most liberal supporters Gospel and the ministry are 1»t tlie men tluit make the kindest professions, nn<l offer up the longest Prayers. seek some orcii|wtion which ciutides him to provide for those vlumr natural protector he is; and this is an evil, and unseriptiirul, for it is written: “»es so hath Ike Jsuti ortlaiurti that they it kirk preaeh the gospel shall lire of the gospel." We tlicrefort* hiler that the people who coinjicl tla-ir minister to engage in any secular calling in order lo live, are committing a great sin; and also, that the minister who engages iu any worldly business for the pur pose of mukiug money aud or get ting rich, is a publican, ami a sinner to lioot. Whenever this is done, tho ministry suffers, the minister's nactiilncss is cinumseribcd, his iiiduciice for good wciikcned, for evil iia-reaseil; lie becomes a sliimbling block, ami tlie conscqiicnees are always disastrous not only to iiis people, but more especially to himself. Hr speti bp authority, even ibe authority of ex perience. Some ministers engage iu fanning. Wc do not object to n minister culti vating a few acres. Physical exertion is lieaeficial; good both for the uiitul and tlie body. A few hours spent every day ill manual labor give bread, heall ti, cheerful ness, anil vigor; the table, tlic study, aud the pulpit are gainers; lmt anforatimtoly it is not in human nature to Is* satisfied with a few acres. We know several parsonages that Ihivc from five to ten acres of land ; lmt the occupants generally rent large fields liesiih-s. The man with ten acres wants fifty acres, and lie who has fifty acres is not satisfied until ho Ima a con pil ot 1 hundreds, and then he wants but nnother piece all around, anti aronnd, mid be. has lmt one wish above all others, and it iai “If I only could get sudi a field; I ought to have itr Tlie minister that becomes a farmer is very apt to become a living proof of the truth of the Saviour’s wolds: “A'o man ran tqrrchro masters." The farm before long absorbs all his From Monday morning till Saturday night it fills tho miml uml- the heart, anti tlic odor of it clings fo the blank coat on Sunday8, Wo JSno who would talk about corn and wheat, cattle and bogs on Holiday to tho very door of tlie ffiurcli, and who often took np tho broken thread of the bovine uml porcine conversation the vary moment ho left tho pulpit. The forming preacher is apt to neg lect his study. Brother—- bad only aud auotlicr the Almanac, and the Christians refuse to give tv portion, third was Mason’s Farrier, and they many interruptions, and the. minister that farms is doubly taxed as regards 4ime. Pastoral visits become farm er’s visits, and starving souls often sigh : “O, if onr minister were not so much of » farmer!" Corn, wheat, 1 ^ >«r ' “t ; C.‘ •- *• i * r ? ' ’.■* y .v * # 'v> v - • j .•* • the ciKintcr. Rev. l>r. Worerstrr math- himself u scholar while making simes. Many ailnlstero tieonmc agents. Home sell imteut medicines, which is ihs-idtslly niimitibderiuL Others deal in aew inventions, washing- muchines, chums, setf-rncking era dies, Ac. This is also imsnitaUc. Not n few go to anti fm’ as Imnk peddlers; which is qnite laiMluhle, If they deal in Imoks that are Issiks, ami do not take advantage of their ministerial ehnracter to iinlm-e pm |d<- to panjuw trashy pohHtstiwn, which wiMild otherwise In* dead ihi the pnhlisliet's shelves. We have lieard of ministcM who tisik up tlie healing art without being qualified by a medical etlunition ; they bought the Usik and the -right to preacrilic as botanic physicians, tir as ateaiu- doctora, or nenralgnfharmers, ami flouristusl at least for a time ns mem- bora of the order of quacks; but the only one of that kind of Reverends that we rrmeiulM-r to have met with, did not make a very favorable im pression on us. According to onr vi*wa the only legitimate and suitable employment in wbieh a pastor, who is not snp- |*>rtcd ns he Nhoiild lie by Ids |Ms>|de, is at lilierty to engage, is teaching. It comports well with Iiis calling. It is hath ttsrftd and respectable. The fnithful ami welt qualified teneh- er Is a benefactor, nud has untold oppoi-tnnitirs for doing gmwl. True, it ia hard and trying to have to spend many hours every tiny iu the school-room; it is wearisome to the niiud, it makes study dlfllriilt, nud it forbids visiting; bnt it is neverthe less the only proper and legitimate hnsiuess in which ministers, not sn|>- IMirted, are justified to engage. I)o not liccome formers, my bretli- ren; do not feetl your jieople with lesanns on agriculture; tluit is uot spiritual food ; good farming is not a or very bcautifril iu its ex|>rvs*iuii Bile, but that fife is looked upon as But on this tastes may differ; wc j entirely distinct from the routine only remark that the wonts ure not of daily hnsiuess. It is a spiritual I scriptural. A not her olqertionnbli , luxury. It ia a thing of sanctuary had forgot ten to turn to the chuptcr phi use is sonu-liunn usetl iu jirnycr { anil the eiooet. It umit not be meetings, where it is aaknl that the drugged into the rough aud roaring latnl, or the Spirit of the IsmsI. tide of the world's lifr. It must uot “would go from hewrt, as oil from be soiled by contact with the worid’s veasid to vessel." But—as we fancy i filth. But what warrant is there for , Mr. Spurgeon has souiew here re this dainty i-onccjitiou of rehgion, liut, thnuigli some strange landrer marked—“oil Mrs mot go from vessel this divoreemeut of tlie Auth from tiaiee ou tlie part of the ('oumnlaacr, u, vessel;” aud ws tktok that the the practice of a man. It is all comparison has as tittle to reeoui wmug—this hiding away of chris mend it for its rhetoric as for its ! tianity in tlie church, the home, the theology. Wc need nut add that it closet, its uiissiou is a (Hiiilic oue, has uo M l ipiurnl w urraut. j to w slk among men rebuking wroug, itt the Ihsik of Kcrlrwfatsiea in which! the text w as to he found. He looked, lmt it was not there; iu the Book of) Proverbs, but It was uot I here. He took down the invaluable “4'nulett.” resented. You cull both censure sins and encourage virtues by dilating upon tbe histories wbieh you read in tlic inspired records, whereas you might never have touched upon them had not the chajder read brought tlie matter before you. If yon waul to make full proof of your ministry, and to leave no single point of reve lation untouched, your easiest mode wiH be to comment upon the Scrip ture habitually. Without tliia, much of the word will be utterly unknown to many of our people. It 1* a very' sad fact that they do not read so much as they should at home ; the ungodly iu England scarcely read the Bible at all; mid if only that port which we preach upon he expounded to them, how little of tbe Bilde can tliey ever know! If you wiD murk your Bible with lines under the texts from which you have spoken, as I have always iloue with an old copy which I keep in my study, you will discover that in twelve or fourteen years very little of the book has been gone through; a very large proportion remains unmarked, like a field ii ii pi owed. Try then, by expo sition, to give your people a fan- view of the entire compass of reve lation ; take them as it were to the top of Xelio, aud allow them' the whoje land from Daw to Beerabebe, and prove to them that everywhere it fioweth w ith milk and honey. (%srpnM. Two Lira* Below me, on the same square, In It was not there. Assistance was summoned, tbe Bilde was ransacked, tbe r«MMionlauce re investigated, bnt lift to no inirpu*.-; the text was Sot there. At last, when almost all liojs* of tracing the ftigitive iiossage had j •A wereifui man is merriful to bis, |*«tocUng tbe weak, strengthening beast.” “YVtftt," perhaps our reader Jimticcj con me. acting deceit, lighten fled, it vm found in the A|<orry|>ha,, is ready to say, “that, at any rate, hi | iug the dark plaees, making fronted brk'rtqathus vH : 1. M hat was to scriptural." But no, It is not; though ways straight—iu a word, leavening lie dour? “yon know,* said the i| ia not aalihr a passage that ia scrip society around It “antii the kiugilotus minister, in telling ns the story, and tural: “A righteous man n-gnrdetli of this world shall become the king langhlttg heartily over bU |>ast per ,he life of his beast.” l’reverhs xU : <l»mti of our Isml nud iiis CTirist.” ph-xilies, “you know 1 eouhlut threw j ju. There is siaSber text roneeruing The tray to make everyday We away a ps»l aenuon, and the only j the urn* of which there ia a most ndigioH*, is to bring reiigiou into one I had for the occasion, because | strange |swvcrahm even among di- thc text, ami the only text that vines. The other day a mau of would (It. was in the Apocrypha!" Imsioess quoted it to os in defense H«i he residved to pul a hold face ou , of hU roufessed undue abaurptioii the mutter. J in bis worbily engagements. “You Next morning he went into tlie must allow ’ he said, “that it is a pnlpif. conducted tbe intrtshietory seripturally enjoined dntv to be Mill iwt of the service as usual, ami gent iu hnsilicas.’ " We re|dietl that “ we allowed nothing of tlie sort. But the serv ice thru, opening his Bible, said what as fidhtws: “Did Haldutk morning we saw tbe divine lifr was by litth-s,” ami he coutset with every May life. It ia not tbe cold light of the distaut stars, but the beams of tbe near sun, that starts life iu the fertile Rail. Ho if you will make men —the world—fruitful for good, you must let Christian warmth ami life thrill ami quicken society. You must let f-hristian principle overflow this it ia not surprising that he was »*nlid earth lifi', healing where it ran, I but tbe growth of inaccurate, for we venture to say , cauterising where it must. that . . even among our most emiuent reealhvl tbe train «d thought that pnmehera tbe text is hardly ever had been followed, “i pnqswe to quoitil correctly. \Ye huvr si-eu the | nlmw you that the antithesis of this is true also; that tieeleusiou in god ready taken their Bibles in hand to find the text, and no sooner were the wonts uunnnoced than n great rust- _ ling .rt leaves s1.ow.h1 that the jmh, ,,f »huhU a frigidful pncipice! pie—as their |Mistor laid done lie tore —were turning to Proverbs ntul He- (MMm, bnt, of course, exiieeting tliiit tlie precise jmssjige would be indicated. But no I Tire preacher was proceeding w ith bis sermon, and the congregation, thinking that lie had omitted to mention the |wiawige wbieh you are to labor was not laid off with n surveyor's chain and cone pass, and tlic plants you have to train have not been classified by Ltnacus. Do not stand scraping, how a minister, bowiug, smiling, robbing your bands and asking: “What can we do for you to-day t” Do uot sell pills, drugs, patent nu-dicim s, or patent righto; let polities alone, and do not aspire to be legislators ; it tnny go with you as It went with Whitteioore. Teach! Be gin with a common achool. If yon are competent, schnlals will not be want three books, and ono waa the Bible, lug; take a few as boarders In yoor families; by and by you may have a select boarding school in which you were sufficient; for the there are so labor to educate souls for usefulness in time, and for praises in eternity. A. K. It. Kever meet trouble half-way, but let It bare the whole walk for its pains. “ '7?***** “ '' lines* is to Is* traced, not so much lo some .me great ealnmity pr a|K>stae.r ht the religintM tlie, lot to the neg lect of seemingly small means of grace and matters of duty; and I Brisf Comment* on Scripture. , quoted correctly. passage takeu us the tost of a eer ; AUun.hvut evidence has come be | mutt; tlte text was copied rmreetlv. r ' ,Tf mc “■ men ** B P®" Heripture iu our ordinary servirei* shall eonne. t the remarks 1 have to serving tlie Dint.” Romans xii: 11. offer you with the words of the lie-' Dr. t.'ainl, for instance, misquote* brew proverb: ‘‘He that routcmncth j jf. X, 1. Adem-w/r. smnll things sli.-ill fail away little hy little.*" Tim enugregiition had al and s few times quoted eorrertlv, but 1 through the remainder of the dis arP ““** »«*I*«hle and instructive cisirse the itopulsr misqiiotutuHi was •“ oar i»oo;»le. I have often heard substituted. The U>xt im, “.Yo< sloth | rhH “ " ,>rkiB S ,,K ‘ n mul ,Wr " iv «S fut iu busincHR, fervent in spirit, j Tnntfliilod iur lUe Lutheran VUiior. Rapidity of Life. A titfo to ltenvcn; the vincynrd in-f Eceiesmstcs ns did that jx-ople that day.” Next morning the truth leaked out: fhu text was in the Apocryphal Human life is like a path, the end We are told so at the liegiiming. We try to check our onward stop; but no, it is decreed that we must march, m;itvli. Alt invincible [Miner drags ns on, on unceasingly, ou to the fearful gulf. A thousand troubles, crosses, vexations, beset onr [Kith ; httt what are they, if only we could avoid the flightfol endt No, no; march, march, hasten mi. l-’roin time to time, objects pleasant to the traveller, running w aters, and flow ers which qniokly puss, tempt to amuse ment. Wo rejoice lsmause onr hands grasp a few flowers and fruit* ; flow era wldcli fade ere the close of day, ami fruits which are lost in tlie tasting. What delusion f enchanted, dragged on nearer, nearer the gnlf. It Is said, too, that the late Bev. Already tll0 j, >ya „f ){f e lohe -th.-ir by mistake, laid down their books, and gave their usual undivided at tention to the disemrse. On their retnm 11nine, however, their inves tigations were renewed. “Never,” said their minister afterward, “did a congregation so search for a lost [mssnge, and so study Proverbs aud Iluliert Hall prepared a funeral scr mon from the text, “In the midst of life we are in death,” and then fouud brightness; tlie gardens for us bloom less sweetly ; the gay flowers beeoiue dim; the plains lose their smiles, that tlie passage was not in the lni j ,i lt . i Vll (,. r( , their transparency. Bible, bat in the Book of Couiuimi Prayer. Ho much fm- texts that are not texts, but we have now tu speak of texts that are mutilated or misquo ted. Then- are many who, tu meet- lagk for prayer, a* well o» in ser mons, s|>ecfihes, aiid Conversations, ore in the habit of misquoting nml sometimes chricaturing biblical phra seology iu f wgy which is uot only undesirable, but is also communica tive and contagious. Indeed, there i« ia some quarters a kind of tra ditional or conventional Scripture phraseology’ which passe* from lip to VtiHp Death throws it* shadow on ad things. We feci that wc are uearer the brink; one stop more; horror seizes our senses; till Is confrtsiou; and—wo are dead.—Boss net. What a babe’s clothes are when tbe babe has sUpissl out of them Into death, amt the mother’* anus BlWe If the babe of Betldebrm :uid the truths of deep-beariedness that clothed iiis lifr should slip out of it. word administers might have seemed A writer on preoeiiing remarks: whole world to Wl of heart— and atom* to i>e regnmled as If the whole world toriur towrf.” ** and from uten-huots and (heir fumi lies, that my own ex[M)dtious have Imwcu moot helpful to them. They testify that wlien they read the Bible at iiome, in the family, the exposi thin makes it doubly precious to them; and tlie chapter which tliey bad unprodUbly read iu course at family prayers, when they peruse it tlie next time, recollecting what their minister has said ujwu it, becomes a real delight to them.' The mass of ear hearers, in Loudon at least, do not, to any appreciable extent, read commentaries or any other books which throw a light n]ion the Scrip ture*. Tliey have neither the moncy nor the time to do so; and if they are to be instructed in the wont of God in thing* which they csui not find out by mere experience, and are not likely to have explained to them by their associate*, they must get that instruction from us, or no where else ; nor do I see how we ure To give them such spiritual assistance, ex oept throngli tlie regular practice of exposition. Besides, if you are in the habit of commenting, it Will give yon an op portonity of saying many things which are not of sufficient inqior- tanoc to become the theme of a whole sermon, and therefore would prabaidy remain unnoticed, to the great loss of the Lord’s people and others. It is astounding what a brings before ns; niffi equally war thy of admiration i* the forcible manner in which that truth is ad vanced. Hints, given in the way in Cbsp only raiment, would lie the «*** the word of God offers them, are always wiae and opportune; as, for instance, the rebukes which the too severe had they been made by the pastor, uusustaioed by the word, and unsuggestod by it; bnt arising out of the chapter, they can not be overtakes some day. range of truth—doctrinal, practical, nml experimental—Holy Scripture six that life went out in swift and a northern town, was a little honsr which I often recall, because among the itrat thing* of memory. In that house were two meu; one old and crippled; tlie other strong ami rig orous. They are both iu their graves now. and the lesson of their lives may be of profit. The old man was a cripple all bb» life. On Sabbath*, you might have wen that strange figure wheeling leisurely through the streets to the church door, fheu creeping along the aisle with a [leruliar shuffle that made yon pity ami wonder as you looked. One day, he went to the ehnrch without his little carriage—the queer blocks w ith wbieh he crept were not used that day; he was borne down tlie aisle by the neighbors, and then out, not to eome in again—past all pity now, or need of it. There was much of sympathy, but little regret, that tlie good old man was gone. All knew that he was far better off, aud no one of tlie many who came that day to mourn would have spoken the wont, if a word could have re called him to lifr. He had suffered much, lmt patirutly; his life was one of endurance with trust; of pa tieucc with hope; and tbe villagers were sure that If there was a 1 teaven he was in it, and that it wonld have been aa nnkindness to have brought him back again. It was an example of a life holding right on when it was hardest to do so. That little crippled form that might have doubted the goodness of God, never did. He was always thankful aud happy, though you might have wondered what there was to he thankful for—what to make happy, lie was always iu the house of God, though it was hard work for him, who could be comfort able ia no position, to sit qnieth through the service. He might have been discontented, unthankfriL absenting himself from the house of God, and irith reason. In contrast follow the younger of that house. Not very long after, from tlie same door, to the same church, and ont to the quiet of the «Une country chureli-yard, on the hill back of the little village, thoy earried him. Bat alas! with what different feelings. That day was the first for years that he had been in the Sanctuary, though he might have been oneb week. Led astray iu early years, lie feD into Intemperate habits, became the terror of the town, ran a brief career of shameffil wickedness, and died a most pitiable death. His “turning ftway” slew him. Htrong men held him as be raved, and cursed, aud called for driuk. Thus at twenty- •$3 terrible judgment for the | doing it bad delighted in. Tin* he left a mother, who only sorrowed while ho lived, ten-fold more sorrow fill when he was gone, became there was no hope in all her thought of him. So is it ever! Not always so soon does slow footed justice follow, and overtake; but as there te a God ahe follows, aud, m all time is hers, she -t"; V.