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,1 if* i !. : •'• ••*?! i - 1: > u ;K ill v- m m r: ' EVER* SRR € *&> U i'UBUSHjU) WED BVi & ONE LORD, fc— TX SS, VOL. 3 —NO. 4. ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTIS1T-EPHE8IAN8 IV: 6. COLUMBIA, S. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1870. OLD SERIES, VOL V.---N0. if oi Term* I m ! HI One copy, , am! The« V>W iwbacri the ex tfetlH, ■•WlHWWnNn»«* >i(v Iwtik, wl^to On fehr< —— Strictly r Sahara.. months.. Widow* « cm! St who fail tion of their ho be shroffed for am entered the ti a Advance. ...$X.30 t • hi. • « • Minis! r«s [Hit IM 2.00 find an 3.00 he wth- «ayH»»*wt Wription In In advance rto vnvxtmsixoj $sr one N}i*»re (one inch of rolnhmj: First insertion........ * .* V3 One mouth.:..., .....I... 1 3 30 Three month*... 1 3 00 m ’ utont i*. Velve months V\ and at per cent, rates. ton emit* advance of discount and up and \ column be dvdu , . - r whoa a»orCi r eight wprda, A ■ ? ■ I:#. : _ ; * [a nr |u m its. How to Catch Man for nr ar.v. i. ej C. rs of men, by an, ijector of j] * A very Fishers Ilaslaui hates AW. I ,i- j meu. A Tkird. men for While ignorant he learner snggkaitiye, little tire iueken CARET. w he let low he tied to preach, cached to cratch v it to in' dependence on wrote a strmon to sti l» r L-lied au< to caught J *- Christ, vat ton, Happily, he had something better than tho dmrch to preach to these awakened sinners, and was animated with a higher idea than simply catch ing them for the church. As before, he had tuaguiffed and exalted the church. He now rejoiced to magnify the Saviour and exalt Him. No longer preaching in reference to a visible organisation, ‘\Lo, the King doms / be began to preach “Heboid tins Lamb of God,” aud to cry before Christ as tjicy cried before Joseph in Egypt,. “Bow the knee.” The consequence was that lie who afore time had toiled all (the night of nature ami taken nothing, now in tliia morning light of grace was blessed with abundant success. Here wo come upon our main point bow to secure this success. The answer is that to catch men fur Christ, a threefold process is nec essary. It is not enough to launch out into the deep, or to venture on God—to lay hold on God, by faith, ami in addition to let down the net, or, by means of preaching adapted to convict and awaken, to shut up men to Christ as their oaly hope; but “last, not least/ says Mr. fias- Uiu, “w« should draw t* our ueteJ* now suggestive] It is to be ex pected that preaching adapted to impress, certainly will impress in some degree; and from such preach ing, he says, t*we may be sure very many go away enlightened, thought- Ail, serious; but if these impressions are not nourished by some subse quent and appropriate means, they will not, generally tqieakittg, ripen to the good result we desire.” llow true is this! How obvious that after the letting down, there | needs to be a sultscqiieut and ]>er- 1 lisps, very diftienlt .process of draw ing i in; and just at this point, a little I of what Mr. vrruirci!- m rfeasE=sSSsr-5 laying hold of the net delicately, Ih the exquisite, khl glove stylo, instead of feeling the love of souls as a “passion,” giving one’s self np jto it ill glorious self-abandonment, and putting forth the IWe, boM, jaffe longed effort demanded by cimifit- stanees for brhigbig the convicted and inquiring to JHms! There is reason to believe tiret many souls have been lost beoansC, owing to the fear of being reproach#*! as Metlredtotieal and fanatical, or Oh favoring “new measures,” golden opportunities have not been Wisely improved. No doubt a great deal of machinery, very objectionable, mid worse than worthless, has lieen em ployed in revivals; bat while re “prove nil thing*/ lei us “hold fait that which is good/ ami not cant away the good with the bad. A word now, in conclusion, abofit the “aaxioas seat,’! as a thiag which may be very *»*mire*ble, in a time of revival, in the work of “drawing in,* though, of ('curse, not essential. It may be safely assumed that there is much to be said in favor of what has been so widely ami peroiat.-ntlv used. Whenever g revival is in pro gress it is ieK that merely casting the met is- but a Small port of the work to km done. There is a gt-maud that preaching should be firikMfl immediately by an earnest, direct effort to bring the awakened to n decision ; aud it Is felt that without this effort, there is great dani that what has been gained way of impression will be tost. Well, what further shall be done ? As tliere is need of some sort of nuieliinery, what shall it be t Khali the anxious be asked to rise 7 T)hr objection to this ii that it require* a hard effort, besides exposing them to tlie gaze of the rongregatioa. which long ex 1 to be, wkeu rightly used, good and tuiol^ertionuble, and which should be no longer desptotrf, nor classed with things which have brought reproach on revivals,—The Interior. Tbs Spirit s Mgfe hil- the — — r .-*h by [.putting. .. . _ away *Ut. alf'uUiraiS ’"V *• T «* hcl|«.” "fThua atrimaal, £ Went I:®** “P** 1 * ** * Ilia iaUlrit, Staclual kuow buw to O" 1 *” .i,.... after they ure once enclosed in his The'! ,wt A,ui ,,OWTor >' im|H>rtaiit that rowded i a ,n ‘“‘ 8tvr should know liow to follow up amf take advantage of impres sions made by the preaching-of the gospel! How plainly n great deal depends ou tliis! - v ?' j • V "'r-w-ik*- * tt / . There arc doubtless many who are effective as preachers, hut who accomplish comparatively little, be cause they stop short with casting the net, aud peiliajis seldom, or he]{»s. (waying God, a rwardi result waS iiKipalarity and a house. II# was regarded a successful! minister. But found th:t; something mo effective b: :teuiiK>rA : pre«Chit|g dra w- iug crowd*, aud Uinkii)? so easy a matter of pew rimts and all exter nals is accessary to secure the spirit ual welfare of Qu a aud the title pros perity of a cougregatiou. 'People Wight calls “revival Shall they, then, be requested h» serviceable. ( remain in their sejats lor “an afjqr fishenuan that meeting T (that it aeuds away est of the evening P«'t*Liii[w a majunty cction to thisi is before the iutef has culmiti.it who would a very ,0 soon than with attention, gdoiired j “‘‘ver, make any effort U> drow it in; ’ hennl him -|iud praistxl him, bnt “remiitted in *tbeir wocilliness and nngodliness.” “Toiling liaixl he caught nothing,” and had ihc sense 'of some great want { .'. j. - “Dissatisfied wifh empty ity and fruitless tcrfl/ he l*gan to ;ry »e be He the thing Chnrcli/* eateh men men wen lotting of take on : thing c to try about p the Cbnreb, and thus Nbej €hurc this sort of preaching to form of godtin#«8, and apparently indifferent in reganl to results; indolently leaxHug results fo God! Imagine a fisherman who should think of nothing but casting bis net, and leave it t« God to do the rest; expecting success as possi ble without any . further effort or care on hi4 part. Groundless ex- ly remniu ami be;heucfitUHl by maiuiug. Tlie following ist believed to be a more cutcdkmt w*y and the best ever defised : Tlie sermon or exhor tat ion ended, a hymn is given out, e. g., “Come to J#miml* The w hole cougrcpition rise ami sing ; the anx- ti> come forward and if i-hri*tiaua i|npcuiteut frietMls “eoiuu,” ujhI go ions arc requested * during the singitig seek out their aud say to them, opular- ys: u t , ^.ud as “the hiugf Have we not in this an cxplaua poet at ions ' mg to Aud ght by; forward with them, what is there wrong or unworthy in thatl As all uiv standing, couiplinnoc witii the invitation is easy. The singing iirocwds, and the solemnity increases. Borne feel that the time luu* coim> for them to set with reference th nalvution. One yields, then anot)ier, aud another; ini to say boas ti ugly, “We luife A brar by coming forwn they say, “Pray for ns.” The singing ended,prayer follows; tlicn perhaps a few words of oihor- tion of the i»oor success of many ministers! They fail not so much as preachers, as in hnikiug alter and gathering up results; and the com- imrative small results of their labor jtation from one ijnd another; then are to be attributed, ^Hjvlnqw, ill a j rwlinpa a concln(ting prayer. Now ham to o^r father. The temple of! great degret^, to the honor they have j in nil this what i* theVe to be ccn- the Ixml sre—without aix- dogs.”-ever felt of anything apjM^ring like sum! f What is j there inconsistent But this distinctive church teaching “machinery’' in the work of bringing made his |»eople partisans, ready to men fo Christ, esjsocially machinery compass sea and laud to nluke one that has been widely used by sen proselyte, iirnf, umde himself narrow ' satiwi^l, revival pnsichers : and it, ’ result was may be tlwit, able and orthodox ns and exclusive. Its tiest fore* without Iffe, body witbbnf Spivi ik ’ Men were made churchmen, not Chrtatfeiaeu; eaagbt in fho church net, ttot the Gdspol net;; gfciard to tbc^erfermtl' visible church, hot gtb^* ed to OMK 'itot saved; *Vitk all d- "ipn dug by Uiulf ii*. their [MrdltJon. 1 1 B»ft as eipies af length to came their night of toil, so at light df the * darkened a tiew creature in Christ .Jeans, and Immediately the {>& pass ed away aud all things became dew. ‘OfaTVtdlous Mo me w:is fW' light into Which I ball been brought; but f still that I f tlhd not sueemjt before.” Pun of gratUtide *ud 1r began to* jfreach with purred Startling lifs hear* ing out to his pulpit, “t? 1 last week, T Should MaVe Gouvinoed of roiit by na tieu by gnuv, and the ft ' * ir- -tr cesHtty of regeneration, he Hi at last into possession of the and as, aeeordiug to ‘ niaud of Christ, lie tod iftto the!deep, and to hto it down, hto amazed ^gan to fiurt thqt they tofoWt Snd behind, enclosed «ud to a^k^witli sotemd fttt^.tijrhatr' will boeomQ of j should die as wc now are ijj •...fit • cry- died lost.” nfe he h» ? come they ai-e, they might learu of some of the least of their Methodist breth t en as to tlie most effective way of laying hold on nuni awakened under the Gospel, oud pressing them into the kingdom of God. ,j,p; , * There are, iierhopa, those who are duqmsed to irnss ove^i this subject lightly and fiip{H»tly as one of no cottsequenoe. But bt»w obviously to it w orthy of the most earnest at ten- tion of those w ho are set to watch for souls! How unhappy for them to toil because of not nnderstuiulioir well that which comes lust in the worki,of gaining meu to Christ! How pitiable a thing to be helpless after letting d#>wn ttyi nob—not to know how. to? proeded; Anrther—not to understand that there to a way of applying to ^wakened men, as to fishes cnelooed try ing tf break away, a kiud of fonee, or which they can with and which'; may be the very thing needed to bring them |to a decision iu favor of Christ! - HW very pitia ble, m a time Of revival, wlien many aredeeplj itPi>resse4 K to bo tUinkipg onjy of the proprieties, aud the cob with the order which must ever be maintained in tlfe house of Grid t There to in it no excess; no “Con tinning of the meeting for Into the night;” no “urging of boys, girls, and women to Stood np and speak ieolt.y resist, in large mid mhc#d assemblie* f no umluc excitement; no outer}- or con fusion. Grant tltnt what would be jusflr offensive to jieople of culture sitooM not be conn tenanted in re- yH»l meetings siny more than in K othere. But in tliis ose of the anx ious-seat, what in there to which tlie most oaltivoted uun with any reason (What dm bo more appro priate than the invitation t What more appropriate than compliance with it f ,r«|| pi l *fi # *M9 Trf ii! tbougli fo# so doing you are Culled “Methodist,” a name which in thesij times to only a synonym for power and success. It may at first cost you foitfc, courage, a sum inditing of all jioor strength j but fisher* of men, when the not to full, must expect to be taxed to the nfljlflift* There to doubtless immense power in iL^It to .a means of ap pealing h» tl»o lpost direct manner to the awakened,, and pressing them «d at the same time power Ii says eoruoafe mmgm tiured sensibilities, and u*e danger of offending thu' iaatsa qf people who, tboagU refiued, bxoi>vi Imp a. desti tute of aU daep rGtorfuua eamaafe ness; nod to bp in cons< qm ueo ndt self.foi'getful but sett-odnseious, tim id, reamved, formal, uncomfortable y. gently, and at fully, to act at ly, temfciiy,. “Now to the accepted time; delay to dangerous | to-morrow It way be too late.” TUc*e can be bo doubt that l|h has helped mate, rialiy in securing right decisions in umltitudes of instances. Thousands, in going to the suxious-seat, have in effect token the first step in the way ©f life. It is ou©'of the things • Under the figure of anointing, we shall endeavor to set forth the work of the Spirit,.in tlie aalvatiou of God'* people. It to a Bible illustra tion, aud therefore must have some thing appropriate hi it. And if we notice the various uses to which the aiHiiuting oil, in ancient times, was applied, we will see at once the IxiHuty and fitness of the figure. I. The sick and woauded were auoiutiHl in order to lieaUng. In that beantifal paralde of the good Bumuntan, where the pilgrim stran ger stoopctl by the way to lift op the braised and mangled form of an unfortunate man, he anointed hto wounds with oil, and then kindly hprr him to an inn tp be eared for. Aim) in the instruct iof of the iaspired Apostle James to the nick, he enjoins, that if any are sick, let them call for the elders of the cboreh, sod let them pray over him, anointing him with oil, hi the name of the Lord. And under the direction of the blessed Saviour himself, we are told by Mark that those whom Us sent forth, two a^to two, anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them. Nor has this custom passed away. The Orientals Rtjll believe in the huh it ary prejH-rt ies of oil, and under this impression tliey anoint the nick and apply oil to wounds, as did tlie ancient Jews. how in this custom we see ills* -» • * ^ -- * (rated the healing iufiuenci-s of God’s B|iirit. It Is Hto to heal the sin- sick soul and cure the wounded heart. Hto presence to sanitary. Ilis touch to health and soundness. By nature, the whole head is sick stud the whole heart to IhiuL There to no spiritual health in us. From the aowus of our heads to the sole* of our ‘feet, tliere to nothing but wouudsaud bniua** and putrefyisg •urea Sin has disoreU^red all. And from Kueh a dist-imed condition the Biiirit of God delivers hto people, lie purifies the soul from the poison of sin; He restores to order its deruiigid fseultie*; He regulates the {tower of conscience, controls the oetiou of the will, quickens the moral Kcmiibilitie*, invigorates all the energies of the soul, <um1 restore* to a healthy tone the a hole spirit.ml being. * It to true that tlie balm of health ami healing was provided by One whose ;«i!e, marred foee dreplied teai-s for siuner*, and afterward who *bed Hto blood, but il to by the Spirit that it to applied and rendered efiicacioua. It is only when lie anoiuts that the glow and vigor of health returns, aud the lift' current of the soul Hows free ami pure. But the work of healing to a life long work. The disease of sui in never eutirely eradicated while the believer dwells in tlie flesh. Again and aguiu it breaks out in tlie soul lik© old sores in the body, and causes the child of God many a heart l*aiu. OjM, imtienU may rejoice over vanquished diseases that never rvtarn to cause sickness or sorrow any more. But the believer’s dis ease of siu wears out only with hto life; Ilk© a poisoned robs, it rliuga to the soul, aud is laid aside ouly with th© body. But the blessed Spirit by hto continued presence carrie* on the work of healing, under hto aiioiatifit the disease to broken and controlled, which otherwise would cat into the soul like a cancer, aud ding to it like memory to the dauiaod, aud be its ruin and torment forever.. , , . \. . How wrell do many of God’s |ieople know the soothing aud heating effects of GoiFs Kpirit. like oil on a boru- iog sore bos been the gracious droppings of Hto influence ou the woundwl heart. And w hen over- coma by temptation and trial, you have cast yourself down in Sorrow to mow? oyer the ft ild work your sins liavu made, und, like a sick aud fover ed child weeping for its mother in the night, you enn not see tlie form nor hear the vole© you love, aud tilting your Ugnds from out tho darkness for some one to help and Irani, how sweet ami soothing, like the worn kisa and soothing baud of tire watch ful mother on the brow of her iovgd child, have boon the vole© and pres ence of that blessed Spirit I c * “WhothydtSMsmsU, and pains Doth heal, sad thee reliare.” t j And hew tenderly H© does bis work I How well H© know© where tire wound to, bow it was inflicted, j and how painful to to. lie knows a poor widow’s anxtooR thoughts for hot children. He to toterested in a little child’s tears. He fuels for a imreot whom gray hetid to bowing down with sorrow fo# a wayward som lie feels deeply for the poor faded mourner weeping over the green grave of tairied |u\ e. Aud all lito symiuahiee ore enlisted in tieholf of the tried end teuipest-tosmd child of God, whose liosom to oovered with scars of sorrow, and hto heart sore aad bleeding ie bis conflict with sin. j* j i « ,h. And how skillfol, Uxs ia His work. He baa healed the worst of eases. Hto gratia hands hotr* bound np grief’s deepest won ads and healed •into ugliest sore*. Surt-tU ii« has stotoa into the riefui Ikmuhh of the degraded and outcast, and into tire lost and rained drear#* of felleu dying hi tire streets, aud of HBC¥I IB u imgCOft j or expiating their gnilt on And time ,o«mW foil me to tell of all tire grwiou* work of beating this preereo* HpMt dees. Aad how many who mar rend what win have written, can joyfully testify of the work of this wuJlrouo healer, nod myi “When worn with rich atm. oft hsri thoa Wkh health renewed sv face j And whan to ria and renew renk. Me rived mjr ayttl with gtare.” [Tirniftos Instructor. ■P 1 — " 1 m are w i Tear Own Wnpom Martin l.utbi-r, in hto mouHatcry •clI, rend how Auguftine grew in grace, and Wjuw> a Kaint of God. Bnthnsiastic as Dtvid, to cotM|ucr the giant sin, he would fight with the devil )n Ju*t tlie stay Augwstlne did. He would pray re many times a day; he would font as often and a* severely} he would draw down the blessings of heami by refhsing the blessing* of earth. Bnt some- bow GoliaU drove David back dis graced attd dtomarvd. Ilis soul »w ovrrwlrelnred. Monasticiam was not bis armor; Reclusion and aosterity were not hto wrapops. God had made him n man of latge heart, and brood syni)iathies; a man of popular eloquence and adaptation to society ; sell wilh other a man who mnat dwt men, ami tret npon great masses, and be acted njion by them in return. These natural gifts Were the shep herd's sling and the Smooth atone* from the brook. But lie tried to put on tire cumbrous helmet of setf- starvation, the breast plate of nightly vigils, tire greaves of voluntary scourgings—nnd tiros, hampered by his clwiusy armor to attack the Goliah of his own itiwanl comip- tion, bruudtolling Kiinfs sword of m-closkni trom society, I ret no Chris tian of onr day makeitbe same nils take! Hie biography of that saint of God, lh\ William Marsh, tells ns how tunny times In the course of a year he read the Bible through. To him ft was a ldefend means of grace. Bat here to W young Chris tian jmw setting out upon the way to heaven; he resolves to “mind the same rule.* His time for devo tion to neeensarily'lifetted, and he harries through Mn Ntipwtotod ehsp- ters for each day wrttti tha speeil of a race horse ntohfoy to the \?*\\. Like many who visit • foretgn land hasten flrom place to place, and speed ©a tire wings of rieaai froas ope fomous city to another, and com© back as ignorant as they went away | »o «ddi S reader, nnder the ordinary circumstances of life. H© t treads te Study the Bible ; but he ©ply akfcni Its stirfuce. He takes Hoal’s armor, and because the king of Israel ootid “«»t he thinks that he can ton. M 'l' * So with alt the means of grace The precise rale* of tiirir employ ment which proved a blessing to tutetirer, may not be such to me. 1 hare no right to efebaraaTO myaelf with fiaaPs armor. -I mast work with my oWu tools. Bo la regard •too ho work tot others.—Tto# Chris tian at Work, * In one of tlie paralfeM of oar Lord he said, “The Hon at Mnn to as a man taking a long jonrney, who left hto house and gave authority to hto sen ante, mmd to every men Are tcark." Kver> man baa a work divinely allotted and adjusted. This work to preseut4wl in varioiai forms; bat wbother in tire slia|ie ut the duties of oonmton life, the secular concern* of ever}- tiny, or the direct duties of religion, it to really one iu spirit. And as ever} man has hi* own work asnigiiod him, so jnust be accept it from God, and In it do all in hto power to glorify his Father who to hi heaven. It to a sad mistake to look upon the work of tire church as one for the minister, eider, or deacon only. That wss not the plan of Ure church which Christ set up in the world. It was not tire apostles and inspired men alone who entered into this great work. Bead tire Acte of the Apostles; read the Epistles of those apostles, especially of Paul. No tice how often he records tire names of men aud s oared also, who were his “ fellow-helpers.” Malt) ©if these seem to have been in the common walk* of life. But they were all wurkers, they were all evangelists, they were all witueaees for Christ Wherever tirey went, wherever they abode, tirey amde he gospel knowu. That was the plan of operation in the early church, and the church now which most taitUfully carries it out, will most please God. The great draw back now to that this primitive idea of nmvi-rv^ oonaecra tion does not pervade the members of our churches. Whore to the evi dence that every' man and woman within it, tlie oldest and the young est, the richest and the poorest, the most aeootnpltolied nml the least M-couiplished has a work to do for God t Ought not any one to be uKhamed to belong to any part of the Christian chunk, and to be doing uo w ork iu it. They ntny think they have no time, bnt it is a vain pica. They find time for other matters. How many find time enongii for things which do them no good, often much harm. How easily they might find time for religious Services, that, if performed heartily onto the Lord, would refresh and strengthen them for the toil and burdens of life. A lste writer has most ap; asked, “Do you not think that when Paul was working with Uto hands to xapply his wants, be would be strengthened for tlie task by the recollection that the night before, under cover of darkness, he found hto way to some ©Urure street in tire city, ami showed to a multitude of Kiuners the wray of salvation by Christ, and by the nnticipatiou that this night again, when the people tost iparv me trom such It will frighten the and I feel others I con “You pr people.” “It to my dying that you most do it. Lot take warning by my death, not excuse you.” So Father M > at hto funeral, after he bod finished the sermon, came down from the pulpit, and/j approachiug the coffin, laid the tip©^ of Uto fingers ou then* marble lips, and with tears streaming from hfeij eyes, stated the man’s dying request, j and pronounced tire words: “This ©oul is muijsp foe hell!” O, my reader, whether Christian or not, be admonished; If your peace is not made with ilrer that soul is T-- follow ing that infidel’*, and will ere long be res led. * Your lip© can anore* ia prayer now. The time may eonre when this the greatest of oil earthly privileges, will be ta vafo* tion brother, remember that the seals of year rntm to hell; and a© small share of re- spowsibUity lies at yflar door. May God help ns to feel the importance of that MUM’S «■ A lew Urn of came together to hear him, lie should preach among them the unsearcha ble riches of Christ V'—Central Vres- byterUtn. Tho Dying Infidel'* Sermon. Two must be ■ of religion demauds of God demand* boro ovate- If > twice before yaa hero good fire yon been horn. Thoa© die twice-—they die they die au who are bora t ooee—for on tbte hath no power— Father M , of Massachusetts, who reccutiy died in faith, was once ralkMl t© the dying l*ed of an aged infidel of hto acquaintTim good idd man Imd lobg pfayed for his friend, but liis entreaties had ever been met by the infidel’s argu ments ami scorn. As he approached the bed he saw that hto mind vw in agony. The man confessed him self ft sinner, and thst he was not prepared to meet death. Father M —r* a*k<*I him if he had prayed. «yo, I can’t pray'. I have con tumidly refused mercy, aud it is now refused me. I have tried to pray, bat my Up© won’t move/ “Are yon williug that I should pray for you, then, and let your heart’s desire go up with my words !* “No, you can not pray for me; others have tried ft, tut could »©t. You may kneel, fiat It would be useless.” Aud tho aged .mm, kneeled ot tire bedside of the ivfpoized sinner. Those Ups had daily moved iu prayer _nv.- Ye fo* Waif 1 «#"!• The oatuu. 1 had daily broughtIhf name of *m The nature m*rs before God’s throne; but, strange One young man joined Us, whose •tor}' 1 mast telL He had an nnsual degree of iutelligenoe, possessed a fair education, aud wras imrtieolariy versed in history. Borne months be fore the revolution being in tire prov ince of Galicia, he come upon Ueuau’s “Life of Jesus.” lie admired the subtle eloquence of the writer, aud the caviling spirit of the book. Car ried away by the style and a subject treated so mack in harmony w ith hto own incredulous mind, he determined to propagate the doctrines it espous ed. To prepare himself the more fally for his new npostleahip he thought it but fair to verify- certain citation* w hich he found at the foot of each page. They were references to the Bible. He applied to a village enrate for the Book of Books, but thst gentleman did not possess a copy. Several others sought on the same errand rewarded bto pains in the same wray. At tout his interest fed him to the capital, and there be wss enabled to procure Seio’s version (Catholic), with tlie notes of the church, in several tomes, at the priee of £5 ($25). H« bate home bis {wise, ami began to look up the citations of Ben an.' As he rand tire passages referred to, be became singularly drawn to tire context, and so from one chapter to another, till in fine he perused tire entire work. He bad thus occupied many days and, as he told ns, many night* too, devouring tlie wonderful doctrine that giveth life, till he could say from liis heart, I/ord, be Thou my tfeiclier, my guide, iny nil.* When the revolution t came, Ire attended the eariy service* in- a simple hall, rooeivid tire liglit, ahd rejoiced in believing. Thus God caused the “wrath Of man to praise Him.” Renan awl the Spaniards wil 1 mrver |^> nkmg nrdi-in-srm. \VTp»t‘ Valera, in 1509, published iu the preface of liis “Dos Tratados,” ist»o longer prophecy, it ia history: “I testify of my nation teat they have a seal of God, though ft be not ae- oarding to knowledge- Few Span iards will be found who are Atheists ie must be are not boru jouae, It had yon had trevor once only, tem|K>ral, ftnd Bnt those eon dfe but •eoood death t*'- ItoligioH to not an dexterity and skill, Em matter of a new uatnre. to soy, all hto focultfo* of speech seem pnralyred now., Morey was a word he could not speak, and fur the first time pr^yqr, was impos* aibl©.,’,^.... > *i’ “Now.” said tire infidel, as Father M — rose fi-oui hto kno^, “I wont good deeds, like tu preach at my own funeral. When you have dosed tire jOtl^r parts of or' cam© to onr notice through a French serriee which we lad established, and entered our theological school at once. To-day he is prsaokiug tire Gospel to hto ttmuttynrea, with rare logic and power, as one of onr evangelists in Madrid—Hr. Cor. if X. r. Evangeliet. , j V*: .ti. L B&auTuruL Twoi ght^—Unro to bat n breath of air fred a bent«f tire heart between this world and tire next. And in the brief interval of a painful ami awftil suspense, while w© feel that death to with fee, that we ore powerless, and he afl powerihl, and the lostfointpulsation hereto but the prelude of endless life here after, we feel iu the uihfet of stun uiiig colaluity about to befall us, that earth has no compensating good But the service, l want you to com© down from tire pulpit and place your two forefingers qu my Ups, and sav, “2*m seni it valid for hell !* to the severity of our loss, there is no grief without some Ire- neficeut provisions to soften its inton* si ties. When the good and the lovely die, aud the memory of their ^ moon beams on the stormy sea, lights U P <*** ened hearts, and lends to the sur roundings a beauty * » s®f> 80 sweet, that we would not, if we could, the darkness that environs dispel us. 1 :*s-