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OWE LOAD, OWE FAITH, ONE B|PTI8 OOLDMBIA, S. C., FItfD M”—EPHESIANS IV JANUARY 3. 1873 OLD SFCIES, VOL. V Commuiiications. For the Lutheran Visiter. TJu View sf Breve*. ptvmkm of t'hririt “V< my uou> you, What« “k the F«u«, f mj , !*«• >* ym* But w A torvaai of Christ, whose bend faithful labor in the vineyard of the Lord had whitened, traveled, accoui ponied by a yonug friend, a few gammers ago in Switzerland. The object was recreation after long con tinued and arduous work. Their wanderings among the moan taint led them one day to a naked wall of '~ tL ~ " r wa* D0 ‘ “**“ fur owe to btrt by in.mnwin, him**/ ; mi; Krsr.jsr rp5K - *sS55 p». <* uw ed*. of tbe clit 1 wiu the Lord i. ^l go this way." I .. miejr * e< ftBfiW»e What do you think would be the alone, but by everTw^d that"** 4 result * It would not he long before ceedeth oat of the mouth of Gad* ( you would hMir a fearful fall, and a Haviug gotten this information he despairing cry of “lost, lost." makes ,me of it to Lwl so, dear children, it will bs of ^od Awn getting into the lift of , 1lii ***** »ho will not fellow tbe j ajan - ® people wUl go to church heavenly guide. We are all pasting *° d “to down to bear, Satan whirrs overn wy in life more dangerous * *• «chHect to put in JfrSTC ^an Iceland rosda. We are all the hid « ,he Poacher, and them to gtain time in danger of falling into tin that windows to hhia him mmbr * 'll ruin our soula TUey look plena tb « rtiigimw light* ^ eufer than the right path, but the b*"*** h*Pt <mt the pore*Lg «f »!' ° ur swde has given J^vcn, to djatribnte the stained us a hook to teach on the way. &o 1‘fibt in ghastly Nh^trhue making the pittm it tt that nobody tired make a **dd «wrn of one deacon a bright “• step. Jesus has gome the way l >ai *l<*, * n<1 the nose of another to In fore ns, mtl we hare but lovingly P 1 *! a lambent blue, and the do uot know; but we ate aU add, that the wonderful answ« the pray er of faith united thv-y belierew in feating bonds of cl tiau friendship.—ISlger mm* .Sack, rocks, the lofty top of which covered with so imposing castle. “We most ascend to it,” eaid the yooDg mao; “the view up there must be glorious." His aged oompauiou assented, sod both commenced at oooe to climb up the steep and rug ged path. When they at last arrived at the gate of the castle, permission vm asked to see it I * ^' n * <*®wwd to spare ttoL tZL* lbr,oh ® W **»««i«iefikdi. ?,** * thHr c«ti •cus ahiiold be delivered up to him, with haliers round their necks, to be immediately executed. W ben these terms wens announce# l« the city, tbsew was a oonsternatkio v ' rr > i The rulers ° lbi UiW * «■» together, «ad the *•*** ***-* " ho will oAt hi motif •eut for the city r There was si fence in the Assembly was freely oa P® through life. Indeed, we soon given. They were first takeu to the time6 866 the wicked flourishing am garden, where a truly magnificent ft P re *ding himself as the green bai and beautiinl picture of snow-clad I ^ i whilst the upright are dooms* neentsiss sad green valleys unfold- t0 P° vert y and earthly misery, editielf before their delighted eyes. And yet bow littfe depends upot Ibe young man’s heart was filled ttl0 outward and earthly coo,lm 0 i with rapturous joy, and his lips over- and circnmaUocea of n man l Sei iiowed with loud praises to the **« wealth, with its ease and emov m^tity and glory of God. The aged nor poverty, with its mgs and man is silent. The more excited his wretchedness, recommend an null jwthfol companion becomes, the vidual to God. It is not the outwsrd greater is his resenta. At last the surroundings, but the heart ui former exclaims: “But is not this which God looks. If eternal haute new wonderfully beautiful T” “Yee, ness deluded upon the wealth or heaVCD i8 yet ^ P°I>“*torityr or honor of an individual oeaahfW. The youth stands awhile ®»uj humble and obscure Christians «tiB thought, and as they moved would uever obtain it But it does ?r“r e, !t 8lj J 111)0 the P 60 ^ 6 DOt de P** ua u P° n »ny earthly dfetioc ^ ^ e . th,nk 50 r “We will rion, and many who are now in mis inquire, said the other, “O no! session of their thousands, ami have ^ T d ° that 1 Ifc is not the praise <* admiring friends sc i Mae of railway. They a J“ w * “HWUi body. Tto io follow bis footstofts and we shall ail reach the blessed borne in saleiv and exceeding joy—ChUtFt World. an atone * 3— for the Deaf We wish to make a plea for the deaf, that minister* would preeeh so that these can hear. Of coarse we do uot mean those who are as deef M * a utider, but those earn are dill •ud tsu fifed Kre<y minister may take ft for granted that si least one person * will Igy" down \'****Hy deaf is always present in rn I <io it frasljr tbc confregmiioo. Let him remember I that person, sad let him speak so that he or she cau hear. Ofteo have •re with pain noticed the rain efforts of P~PU with dull car* to catch what the speaker was saying; sod *bat s look of dtssppoiatmeat gathers over the countenance of the unfurtuoste one as be aetife. lltinan, • young Gw*ry—wbers mousy fe si stake ^ l *««tiuf unknown or doebtftil prom l he borrower—.whether an individaul or a rompey or a aauow- H.°l M. muv.y, u. 2 1 * 1 mot *f term a dsaf sar to and truthfulness of tlose la whom admirers by a space, as wide to*hitf Uiait U> him a Wank J^th» (iwiptair, mmI bjmu, b.1 mert lawinM. "W'W-vill speakers roar at the top of a thick husky voles, no that nobody coaid tell what was said. On the other hand, we bare beard orators who sroatd The world gladly lays all Its cost I test merchandise, richest estates, and choicest delights, all its magnift cetire and pleasures, at the feet of those who offer a seflMency of these “Are (bees the principal lahabt ate of Calais T he isquired menly. “AM France, my kwd,* they ivfdted. “Insert them to eseeattoe.* At this moment a about of triumph the singers away from the congrega tions as far as the real estate of the society will allow, either behind the minister, or lifted up between heaven and earth in the rear gallery. If in the Latter position, so that tbs con gregation can not see them, nor well unite with them, and so that, if ar tistic and ugly, they can frustrate all congregational singing; or, if be hind the minister, so that they can pour the confused waves of sound, organ and all, across the hack of his defenceless head, submerging all the nerves of his tympanum as with great billows rolling over him, sad each i>arUcuLar singer thrusting into Las ears from behind, at close quar ters, his javelins or songs. Give them, too, whisper* the adversary, a small and narrow box in front of the organ, and tkeu you insure a paid quartette, a fixed aud staring fact, and to bo stared at forever—eed you will never get the poor, timid girl with a plain bonnet to ait there, nor the modest joaug man with a very Aud so you will have Brace the Law to sebstaalmll; owe over angels as well as men, I see no reaeoe why the grace should net ha one, nor why It should not hr wrought every word so dis uactly that it was a luxury to hear, sod yet the volume of the voice was not great. Every one has noticed that Matthew says that when Jesus preached the sermon on the Mount be opened his month. This moans he used his organs of speech so that the vast open air audience could easily hear him. The practice of tiavtohly reading manuscript sermons is Against per eons whose bearing is dull; wheu the head to inclined downward, and the eyes ate fixed upon the paper, the enunciation is apt to be imper feet. It to of great assistance to un derstaed a speaker to be able to see his eyes and to read the exjireetiou there. Mumbling and dresses her. “We have come,” says hef “to thank you kindly for peruitting us to enjoy the beautiful view; but the view of heaven is much more beautiful. Do yon be fore this P The lady if astonished, ibe tarns around, hurries off to her htubud, whom she requests to go and speak to a most (extraordinary ®aa, who talks very strange, and vhom she can not at all understand. The gentleman goes, and. the aged pilgrim addresses him: “We have «>«« to thank you kindly for per mitting as to enjoy the beautiful riew; the view of heaven is far ®ore beautiful. Do you believe this! 9 Thegcutleman stands fora few moments wrapped in silent med itation. At last he answers: “I have company; wontd you be wil ling to ask my guests this question T” “<!!»%, if you permit me.” To- fi^tkor they enter the large dining ro®®- A large and fashionable com ply are seated at lihe magnificent tal> * e » bat earthly splendor has no attr aoti©us for the faithful disciple; l* 6 approaches the table, and repeats the third time fearlessly the same qatotfen, aad adds impressively, “Do y°« believe this t” Nor does be stop •boat to t«e inflicted oa the til vie nm*. tiw bsslreed to the king and (deeded lor their pardon. At first be sternly refheed to grant it, bat her rninralnrns ratH)acred, nod the king y**fe& t ailing the captives before bet. she said. “Native* of France, la its mmm» it to the some, a bother applied to the guilty in their nmawe ry fane rate, *er to the para, la pew venting their fall into It It to but believed. Yet Ihoee of God are die honored —disbel te v ed. What words can fitly charectonie direction, of a principle that to oaf* bfe of manifold uaaa, aad which has cfeariy been wrought a* a regulative rfeineut into the Divlae govern meat. Bat, upon whatever footing wschooae Jt's Vimkgak Brr- Nenrow distrust that moat fill the hearts of from, and to dtoerodit the Ererlaat ing Father ! Power belongs to God. HU riches are infinite. Be can not ecaflhdri Yoa ore fore.” What n lorn bfe emblem » this of the tat* recast an oi oar ford Jems rhnst! When w« submit ©or bowls as captives to the Father, and ted that we are condemned and lost, we have an eflbrtaal Mediator who stay s And If he has given as Christ, in whom are all riches, both of things present and things to come, shall he not “with him freely give as all things P Let the mind dwell and reflect on those words “freely* and “nil things,* and learn the fallneee and certainty of the Divine bounty mmienug are always bad m their influence. We who was in the healed by the PeacaeMker “throng*, the blood of Ills mans, reconciling ad things onto Himself-whether they be things In earth, ew things in Ueaw- havc heard of a the habit of asking a blcaamg at the table in m indistinct a manner that his little son oooe asked him, “Father, what to that yon alwayi say to yoar plate when we tit down nt the table P Mumbling to inexcusable. Demos throe* cured himself of this feult by declaiming at the scaahore with peb bles in hi* mouth. Borne ministers preach as if they were practicing in the poipit with the pebbtoe of We have understood that in some of the marches situated on Long Island many oi the congregations are hard of hearing (we presume be- cause of the wind and storms which prevail K aad that one requisite which they trek in n minister to a load, or si feast a clear voice. A minister, however excellent, who mumbled or whispered would be on acceptable there. Henr, then, this plea for the deaf, ministers of the gospel! Do not stop op the deaf earn, but blow the gospel trumpet in clear and unmis takable note*---HeraU and Prabyter. long aoae. little Dope of the grand and sympa thetic aud united praise* of the groat congregation swelling and surging up lustily from its own midst. Keep out the light, hinder the speaking aud hearing aad prafetng, make things unsocial, formal, spec tacular, mediaeval, floical —let the plain people, who have a good many children and can not get themativee all up in a style beooming the ohnroh interior, peep in, perhaps inquire the nails la the worship of God asd the Chritt. We inherit the blessings promised to faithful Abraham, and partake of the felicity to which he looked forward. It is not by obedience to tbe lew, but by faith, that we obtain tbe blessing, as Abraham did. All are on a level, aud all are much tbe chil dren of God in the same manner, and on tbe same term* that A bra bam was. They who are justified by faith through tbe Lord Jean* fee*,* all indorsed by Him who s**d, M Ask in my name.” And all thorn when actually pccoealod lhal to, when their fulfillment to naked In faith—give to thoae who do Ood* commandments a right to draw, aa thev hare need, on the book of On nipotcoce and Love-—foam the in finite treasury of the Lord’s everlast ing fullness. The “Bonds* of the “Fnithfol nod True" One are written with n “yen sod ameii.* and whosoever to in Christ Jeans incurs no risk of their repudiation Theta to, however, this peculiarity about them bonds, which distinguishes them from lO others i We can not boy them till we sell all b ran fed, low Lrs sent free. IN & CO« kicinnati, ©ow-Sly ' ■ Jo* believe this T” Nor does he stop there. He keeps on, and preaches the gospel in demonstration of tbe %>irit aad with power to the brilliant The hearers become nn- ^y- They are uot prepared for *uch an entertainment. " bite tbe aged preacher bears ^itaees to the truth as it is in Christ, one guest after another worship Into Hto own rearer, and wave* it before the infinitely pare f South Caro n; also wi» th on Char* ta Railroad, and Angnett price of a pew, and go away—nil this suits the devil aa a church architect. But he never liked the old-feshfened meeting bouses, which were nearly square, and had the poipit on the oblong side, and the deep, aorronnd- ing galleries, and the people brought up clone and within range.* Before the Old South Ohnroh of Booton to pulled down, let the people go in and take a last scrutinising look, nod then let them go oat and apeak to the architects and demand of them more Christian common aeaee iu pfenning church edifices. Mr. Hep worth was asked the other day what sort of a church he wonW like have built for him. He replied, “Yon eee any street speaker gathering monad him a large crowd, every individual of which he to bound to reach end influence by his voice—-well, I wish that roofed over.”— Jto- votoesMMM, which for agea have poor #4 oat over the reentry mat floods of boding lava, which has cooled to every variety d form, making great 7 15 an* V ess** 10 40P» 3 OOp® 8 aop» 5 90 P ® feaves, and when ho is done only a fev remain over. mantes of rock tumbled together in the wildest rttofeetoo Here will be a chasm Mwmingty without bottom. Here the dark crest of ooofod lava will be too thin to brer the traveller. There a maasof te* and snow on a mountain aide will Uimbfe over the path, ready at a breath to fall upon, and crash, nod bary tbe traveller forever. Tbe kwee stooea, which are started by hie foototepa, often roll down the ridre of awful precipices, plunging from depth to depth till the *»uiml dire away. Oh how foarfol the He now turns to 9o too, but tbe gentleman presses u ‘ m b) stay. He declines ; but in that worship to parent, when the heart to at a whitr heat la the glow of lie fieri run, and whan the prater via# bounty. Aad than the as change to found to he ewe of amae ing advantage and t»tTttfe i iil>blt to joymaati By U we obtain a claim on Omnipotent power ; we quit the tronbfee nod aasfetiee of tils for the hope of n joyous eternity; our sot fed aad fragile posse ssu ms far an to her Spook kindly to the morning; Where tin enters, pride will enter lighten* the care* of the day, and makes household and all other af faire move along more smoothly. Speak kindly at night, for it may be that before the dawn Home loved one may finish hto or her s;»an of 1 tfr for this world, and it will In too ial* to oak forgiven***. ^ve8»P» [train .fr 09 * . on Abbe- traversing there path*! Bnl the ffoafeo pan* over (hem aa firmly sad unoouearwedly aa w* walk «Mir rood roads at home. Audi - We need more of that prevailing feilh that can lay hold with vigorous