The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, January 10, 1873, Image 1
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your coffin ltd, and six feet by throe
•f graveyard estate. That U all.
Auti now where it the soul ? (Jooel
U) 1^ the price of your folly I
Uncover (be fathomless pi (-look
<ioern (be abyss profound—“a here
(bo worm dxxb not, and (be Are ie
not quenched forever}» (here, eee
(be soul wrapped in fiery flame*, pay
Selections.
Sub day Bkkasm
Foreign Missions.
In nome mitult ft i« a question
w liHWr foreign missions »bov re-
•u!u equal to the expenditure of
rootwy him) labor devoted to them.
Whether they do or not the duty of
(tie rhimb, under her great commis
sion, remains the
byterian Church for instance, 1 .the
increase in the foreign field J ft much
greater than in the home in propor
tioo to membership in each. In 1870
it was estimated, in this comparison,
as U to 6 per cent greater. The
foreign tnistonaries of the American
Board show a still greater propor
tionato increase. Among the great
flsets attesting (be sneoeot of foreign
missions, are (be wonderful results
accomplished in the Sandwich Is
lands, where whole communities have
been lifted from the lowest degnda
tion and barbarism of heathenism to
(be refinements of Christian civilian
tiou, and the moot earnest gad libe
ral devotion to the work of extending
the knowledge of tbe gospel. The
largest church in the world, nom-
beriog 4,500 members, is in Hilo on
the island of Hawaii, not yot fifty
years removed from the lowest order
of heathenism. Over 40,000 Feegee
ans are devout Christian # worshipers
who, withiu little over twenty years,
feasted on human flesh. Twelve
years ago Madagascar bad but a few
hundred scattered and prosecuted
oon verts. Since that tin: the Queen
and her prime minister and over
200,000 of her subjects have pro
fessed Christianity. 8ixty years ago
there was not a known convert in
Polynesia Now i« the Eastern and
central parts of tbe island, where
Christian missions have been estab
lished, it would be as difficult to find
a professed idolater. On the West
ern coast of Africa are about one hun
dred organized churches. In Sierra
L*oue there are fifty thousand Afri
cans who worship tbe true God.
Two thousand miles of the coast
have been wrested from the slave
trade, and churches and Christian
school houses substituted for the
slave pens.
In Iudia and Burnish there are
7,480 missionaries, native preachers
and catechists, nearly 3,000 stations
and out stations, 70,857 common!
cants, 137,326 youths in schools. In
China, so recently opened to tbe goe
ff#k»igsiopa bare.
400 native preachers are employed
in preaching the gospel to their
countrymen. About 10,000 converts
have been received into the church
es. Altogether there are* already
For the Lsthemn Visitor.
Gains must hi
desirable reiiftJ
(be Apostles cbm
wishes into Ibis |
wish above , all
majst prosper au
as (by soul ;*i
measure of iMid
Ire betu in a most
p condition when
id (brow his good
k» s “Beloved, I
ilbitiga that (boa
t be in health, even
btreth.’ Buch a
Richard Osmsraa. tbs fiat ah Martyr
It is a (tauifiil foot, (bat tbs
spiritual, vital force, like tbe physl-
sal, declines sad withers by disuse,
sad that ta days of prosperity sad
ease we are liable to sink into suck
iadtdeuee as results ia spiritual Hfem-
ioacj} and it ia well somstturns to
call ta mind wbat tneu and women
suffered and died two hundred years
ago, to the time of bloody |*erwee a-
tiou in Scotland, when dragoons
were stationed in every hamlet to
hum out tbe bumble worshipers of
God. How every bouse was an
asylum for those who were driven
from their homes, and all it contained
was as free for their ase as lor tbe
owners, and abut strength, wbat
vitality, waa wrought in tboae per
secuted Christians.
Richard Camerou, hauled like a
deer upau tbe mountains, went by
night from plsoe to piece, where be
could find some of tbe scattered
sheep, till be earns to Ily nbottom,
where be (wees bed to a large coogre
gatiou, while a guard was set to givs
notice if tbe soldiers approached.
After pressing Christ upon bis
bearers with tbe moat thrilling eto
queues, be cloned by any tag :
M VYe offer Hun to all you that
dwell hereabout; and abut say ye f
Will ye lake Uimf We lake as
testimony these bills and moon lams
that we offered him to you thin day.
Look at them now, for they are all
witoeeors and when ye are dying,
they ahull corns before )<m» face.
Aud we take you to be witasomft
one against soother, that we have in
vited and urged yon to come to
Christ, aud yet ye would wot "
Tbe whole congregation twgwu to
weep. Pausing sgam a few minutes,
be added with great aweetnesa sad
solemnity :
e *
44 Angels are going up to report be
fore tbe throne, wbat every one's
choice has been this day, sad will
say. There are soma in these
I hr. among other valuable
papers, a lew years ago published
one describing this remarkable dis
esse, which has not yet been treated
in books of ^athotogv
L This disease in of tbe intermit-
«iag kind, .marking the patient by
violent paroxjsma, which return
mrery seventh day. Those pares
yams return only on tbe Lord> day.
aud beooe it is called Sunday sick
oeea, but by the forutty ft is teohttf
sally known by no other name than
“/Xei Ikmim Jforhas."
*• Ft partakes aomewhat of tbs ns
ture of ague, c*pectall> as it is at
tended with s great degree of cold
•use. This coldness is first apparent
ssrty in (he moraiag of the Lord's
day; ia many oases seising the pa
tmnt before he has left hie bed. Uni
A begins m tbe region of (be heart,
ed, if he shall
lose his own
gmder, lure you ever seriously,
same. She in to go
into ail the world and preach the go*
ing for tbe gain of tbe world. Let
outuid ages puss away. Look once
more—there yet ia (bat soul in misery
coneugpiite, exquisite- tbe mighty
ils are making ia
M things would
sement to many,
tarsi and true to
, to express one's
•■form- l wish
per even as thy
or family, proa
Inward and «pirl
be no great advi
It would be more
the farts with tua
kfndly desires iu’
thy soul may pi
body,* or I hi tines
But we may be quite willing to
submit the claim* of missions to tbe
test of results. By these it is made
manifest, that sweat in n-spoct to the
temporal interests of the world, uo
other enterprise has accomplished so
much. * Wherever Christianity has
made itself felt among tbe heathen
it has wrought changes in social life
and means of useful sod comfortable
living, always efovatiug and meliora
ting. In the Sandwich Islands, In
dia and different parts of Airies,
whole communities have been lifted
from the lowest barbarism to sfot«
of comparative civilization. The
priog mil] unpaid, the foarfol debt
still uocanoolfod. TeUme, reader, and
all thoroughly versed in questions of
profit and loss, “wbat shall it profit
a man, if he shad rein (he whole
if he shall gain (he whole
world, and lose bie own soul F
Mary ut mi.
( To b* continued.
And yei even off perwoual religion
ought to have at treat three things—
Growth, which dillitiguisbes aU Uv
tag things that fuve not reached
perfection; Comfort, wbirb attend
the healthy exerifon* of all our ea
pueltiea; aud 1*o4|r, which we pos
•ess fa right, aa 4 royal priesthood,
but which alas! i*fsd, we forfeit by
mdoteuoe and «4|ier forms of sin
ntng.
.Home of us »uffor trom bating too
many ore actions, (V r attempt so
many things we cun do few or none
of them welt < time la frittered
away on miscrlbufomis puiwuita, ami
onr strength ia waited over too wide
a surface
r;„ Kor (he Lutheran Visitor
Lathsrsniim uxleath-WicUri Virgisis.
%flsor Visitor >tjw»* much pleased
with a communieatkm which appear
ed recently in joffir columns, hem led
“Lutheranism in Booth Western Vir
giuia." Nothing is more cheering to
every lover of our Lutheran Zion,
huad. followed by yawning ami leth-
•egy.
3. The imlieot is sometimes de
prired of (be use of his limbs, rs
penally tbe legs and feet, as that be
is indisposed to walk to the house of
U«i
4. In some eases, this attack has
come upon them after they have gone
lo the bouse of God, aud has been
attended with yawning ami slumber.
X In other
mission* among them. The com
meioe «-i*at«d with the .Saudwich
Islands alone has been estimated at
#4.4UU,4^)i, while the whole expendi
ture for foreign mission*, by all de-
iHHniualtous in our country, was, in
1870. only 11,633,801, less than one |
aud three fourths millions, agaiust a
trade of #4,406,126, which trade has!
been created by missions, sod one-
ludf of which is with tbe different
port* of the United State*. Now
•4,406,426 lo 11,633,801 is nearly as
eleven to four; that is, we pay oat
four dollars for missions in all tbe ]
world, and commerce receives in re
turn trade rlrrrn dollars from oue I
mission ia the .Sandwich Islands.
Again, the commerce between the j
British possessions in Africa and tbe ;
ports of New England, during the 1
y ear ending June 30th, 1871. amount j
ed lo #2,671,613. Fifteen per cent ■
gain «** the trade gives #44)0,786
P**!? H* iM* ••»*«*( c\ j ended
mission*, the same year, was only
; so that New England re
from Africa
We ah not very good
•rbolsrw, nor vevj gviod |wdtl4rians,
nor very good fsnRerw, nor very good
artists, nor very thorough wortllings,
nor very good ekn^isn*, from try
ing to do a little fo several of these
characters; and #t*Uie who reaiftne
Ibemsrlrrw to, perhaps, one thing
©*dy, in sdditiou to their spiritual
condition, are an awfully ia earnest
about that one thing as to leave too
Uttir time aud strength for religious
advancement. Fur reading, or, aa
the Apostles represents it. feeding
on tire »«rd, three to little time.
Ilnrried eating of the daily food la
bad for the phyailal health There
is such a thing as swaUtowiug tire
siren JnmJr
tiou or rwffertioa Is sail of the qoes
lion. To drews, pay aswl receive
visits, keep abreast of tbe bteratare
of the day, do common duties, aud
“be bhe other people,* and at the
same tiare “think." ia out of the
question. And what prospect la
there u! being much in praye* with
burned Strripture rea»iing, and no
thought? Look about, Christiana,
there has been
great uneasiness ia the house of God,
and a disposition to complain of the
length of the sermon, though they
hare been known to ail very con»
tented!> ta a playhouse several hoars
at a time.
A iNrrwous affected with this din
mm never mourn on account of (heir
con fine meat from public worship, aa
many afflicted with other disease* nf
ten do.
7. These persons often surprise
their nrighboew with their great sc
tivfiy and health on Monday, how
ever unfavorable tbe weather may tie.
i. Most of tire faculty agree that
there ta a low, feverish beat, terhni
ram#fi*w IhiaMrfff |< A.ir*> 2 in ^ .ai.. —„— .. n
4JN*
*«*« «*■#•*»•, •«■«« mmmjf m J -»* *mm
these |«atieuts during tbe intervening
day* of tbe week.
ff. There also seems to bo a loss of
appetttr for savory food, and a want
of relish for jmnm rife, bread of life,
which ia this eam ia the iodispreum
KR B!TT**3 CMC*
ln(«mltl*al
k v»Jl«T» of r»w
espccvfi*
kri, liiinot*, T«*-
Colorado, Brarat,
r-~-— w D ninnfcR.
kisl tribatariw,
fee Summer u4
ksons of uousoal
p-tnmd by txtat-
I liver, and other
bore or Iws ob-
trritable state of
S btmrele, be-.ng
growing com!ition. Oar ministers
are laboring with su earnestness and
with a seal exhibiting knowledge for
the salvation of soule and the exten
siou of the Redeemer's kingdom. A ud
tbe great head of the church has
blessed their effort*. During these
protracted seasons, many have beeu
enabled “to rejoice in hope of the
glory of God,” who but a short urns
Sf» W**W •* 4 +W Ife *»>l sC Wsam*,,
and in the bonds of iniqoity.* Quite
a number of these have made appli
cation for admission into the church,
and will be received in due time.
These will add very greatly to the
intelligence
net, oviuraiuwi
, Mercurial A(.
irn. Sore Eym,
itiooal Disum
■own their greet
and intractable
.leans Christ, and Ire baa hccumw
their laxnlf then there will be a
great shout, for this wilt be welcome
wews there.*
Tbe whole coogregaireo wept.
Strong men, as well aa women and
children, stood, as oar said, aa if
their faces had been washed with a
suower of rein. And many that day
declared themselves on tbe lord's
side.
Il was his last sermon. As be
passed away across the moors, ia
company with two friends, the
troopers overtook them. They rso
till he tell down exhausted, and as
they raised him up (he aokUers fired
end he fell, snd they plunged Into a
ravine. The soldiers pasted on snd
left him, snd bis friends returned.
They found him stive; he knew them
and said :
“I am dying, l am dying; but I
am happy, Aappy, yea, happy ; and if
I had a thousand liven, 1 would
willingly lay them all down, otre after
another, for llirial'a sake Ob, R ia
aweet to suffer for Christ! Many a
pleasant hoar have I spent In re
liglous ordinance* ; but I have never
Spent a happier season than since
these balls passed through my body !
1 shall soon see Him whom my soul
loveth sod who gave himself for me.
I know that God bus received me for
Jesus* sake. I feel it, I feel it in my
heart. He has sealed me unto the
day of redemption. I now die as a
witness for Christ, snd wbat a privi
lege Is that! Bear my lore to my
dear parents ami sister Marion. Teh
them not to weep, but continue stead
fast in tbe faith, sod not to fear a
suffering lot for Christ
“Oh, he is near me. I think I see
him. I am jnst coming. Lord Jeeua.
I leave my love to all my suffering
brothers snd sister*. I forgive my
murderers. Father, forgive them for
they know not what they do."
I Two or three hard breath*, sad be
was with Christ They gathered the
blossoming heather and strewed it
in bis grave—gently laid him down
on the moor where he fell, snd
strewed more heather blossoms over
his beloved form and left him alone,
and went on their way, »o do and
suffer for Christ.
Ob, bow far we have fallen from
Is it not
#420.844
reived in real gain
skme. within #20,000 of aa much aa
tbe American Board expended on
all ita foreign missions in the whole
world; and probably #75,000 more
than the people of New England
gave to support that Board.
There are no means of knowing
the extent of all tbe trade created
with Africa, Syria, India sad the
Islands of the I*sciflc, where Chris
tian missions have awakened com
munities to new life and industries,
but there can be little doubt that
the gains of trade are mauy times
greater than tbe cost of missions to
tbe natioos sending aud supporting
them. It has been estimated that
for every dollar England expends
in miwMons she receives tea buck in
trade.
lu addition to all this, Christian
missions, in ojienitig new countries
to the trade of tbe civilised world,
are at the same time opening np
new and more direct routes of travel
and commerce. It is uot too much
to claim a* among the incidental
results of tiiisiuotii) some of the
grandest enterprises of the day,
such as tbe ship canal across the
Isthmus of Suez, shortening al*out
one half the distance between En
rope and India, to meet the growing
demands of the commerce that has
been created in the East. It is not
too much to refer to the same cause
most all of the new life aud progress
now working such wonderful changes
in that |*art of the world. Viewed
in this light alone, as they have con
tributed to human happiness and
progress. In opening up new coun
tries to commerce, in developing
their various resources, in piomoting
agriculture and manufactures, arts,
literature and civilization among
them, aud so contributing to the
material prosperity of the world,
who will say that ebristiau missions
do not pay ?
But all this is but incidental to
the great design aud effect of mis
sions. This is tbe conversion Of
heathen to Christianity. In this far
more has beeu accomplished than
may appear in a general view of re
sults. Looking at the vast numbers
yet to be converted as compared
with the number of converts ia
heathen lauds, the results may seem
vety small. But a comparison of
piety, the strength snd
of the congregation*.
Just here a thought
mind. Is it not a pity that whilst
we may honestly differ from each
other as to the mode in which these
meetings are conducted, we should
reiuso to co-operate with each other
simply because we may prefer some
other way f Surely no one will pre
tend to deny that God has signally
Are there not
not much short of 30ff,00#*8foverts
from heathenism, and 31,006 Chris
tian laborers in the foa«ign field.
It is true, that in mil this the
church has not done all she had the
power and means of doing for tbe
conversion of the world, bat it is
just as clear and true that what she
has done has been crowned with
a success that may well encourage
her to new zeal in her missionary
work. Her Head has the promise of
the heathen for an inheritance, and
the uttermost parts of the earth for
a possession. Let His sacramental
hosts push on their conquests for
him. They have now the strategic
points from which they may, more
successfully than ever, carry on all
operations necessary to subjugate
the world to him. With the advan
tages gained, tbe progress that may
be made by tbe present generation
should bring tbe kingdoms of this
world to be the kingdoms of our
Lord and his Christ, and make the
whole earth ring with the triumph
ant shoot, “Hallelujah, for the Lord
God omnipotent reigoeth ”
On such a review and with such a
prospect every branch of tbe church
may work on with increasing energy
and brightening hope. A most in
teresting aud promising part of the
work has been given to our own de
nomination. Let us endeavor more
fully to act up to onr responsibilities
and do onr fall part in the glorious
work.— United I'rtobyterian.
1ft IVraMMi affected with this die
ease gvaevuffy Raws a 4fiMPMMfii fiar
private reliffoas exercises nf the
rinse* sod the rending nf the Scrip
ia also contagion*;
II. Thisdia«»!
1 |> *l'ni ._. i, 4. J. I,, L * ,, . W* ^44.* j»lk t, it. a....
liftgiiDun rwiTf 11 ircmi nfifiioori,
and children from ;«srenta.—great
hindrance—tie arnnl of m.tingW rye.
We are anxious to have mam ria
tern* oat of which to draw the
waters at happiness We do not
wish to crucify mff altogether. We
desire to stand fairly with the world.
We look til many directmmm besides
upward*. Our eyes are not to God
like the faithful maid** to bet mi*
trees. We can not say oar expccta
ttun is only from lllm, for «• expect
s good deal from arif, snd so wt
please, indulge, and magnify self ; a
good deal from tbe world, anti an we
tolerate, ami even coociUate and
flatter it. Our eye is not single. And
so when something ia wrong about
self and we would crucify it, or
something ia rery wrong shout the
world, ami we should, for our port,
resiU it, we “eaa uot ace* We do
not wish to see it. You may band
us the glam of the word ; we pat it
blessed these means I
hundreds, and even thousands, iu
our churches to day who have beeu
influences,
The mightiest force* in the uni verse
are silent form Who ever beard
the budding of aa oak V Who waa
ever deafened by the falling of the
brought in through tb
who are giviug evidences of the sin
cerity of their faith by a oorrespoud-
ing exhibition of good fruit seen in
their daily walk ? They stand like
rocks in mid ocean, and all tbe storms
of iufidelity and apostacy which may
sweep over them can never influence
them to deviate from the path of vir
tue. Is it not one of the great cardi
nal fact* developed by tbe reforma
tion of the 16th century, that liberty
of conscience must be allowed in mat
tors of this kind ?
solar eclipse t Ho it is with the
saga*! pbeaomeaoo of a change of
heart. Ho far a* we know, it ia tbe
most radical change the human
spirit can experience. It ia a revolu
tionary change, ihaembodimcnt by
death, morally estimated, tesot »
profound. Still, a change of heart
ia not an asnatami change. It ia
not weresanrtly even destructive of
self po mem ion. God employ* in it
an iustromeat exquisitely adjusted
to the mind of man aa an intelligent
and fere bring. Truth may act in it
with an equipoise in tbe orbit* of
the aura. No, it it not of neoeaaity
In essentials,
unity ; in non essentia)*, liberty ; in
all things charity, 9 should lie the
motto of every Christian.
Hntojf.
Gob’s Love, Not Mine.—Some
year* ago two gentlemen were riding
together, and as they were about to
separate, one addressed tbe other
thus: “Do yon ever read your Bi
ble?" “Yes, bnt I get no benefit
from it, because, to tell the truth, I
feel I do not love God." “Neither
did I,* replied the other, but God
loved me.” This answer produced
snch an effect npon his friend that,
to nse his own words, it was as If
one had lifted him off the saddle
into tbe skies. It opened up to bis
soul at once the great truth that it is
not how much I love God, but how
much God loves me.
ive Trum
. relief of
ss lias re
al eminent
ho do not
se afflicted
ior to *R
retain the-
the wearer
r a remedy
i effectual
Prayer.—Has not the oh arch
almost to learn yet what is the
power of prayer ? What conception
have we of believing prayer, before
which mountains depart f What of
persevering prayer, which caasee os
to stand continually open the watch-
tower in the day-time, and which
sets ns in our ward whole nights 1
What of importunate prayer, which
storms heaven with its violence and
What of united prayer,
nay come
1 belt* for
tb, and •*
sickness nnd pain, disap
pointment and sorrow, care and
a nxiety, remorse ajul awful forebod-
ai g» of the future. Thousands have
|nAue the exchange—given the soul
. tforld—when they found out,
1 as t0 ° kd® 1 that the purchase was
e 11 cumbered with m these evils and
n ot worth the price they paid.
, ^PP 08 ®, however, that you could
w °rltl absolutely free from
evils that bow endanger the
***cbase, wibuld bo worthless,
. J 18 ® ^ ou can not retain it always.
ever re ^ "4* giV6 !t ° P f ° r ‘
\ How precarious the life that
i*, yon know full well. To day
. on m a y ^ ft m |]|j ona j r ^ an( j
own
Joar broad acres, I
Let ns shout, “Glory lo God iu
the highest," in riew of the fart that
daring the year jn*t closing, Eng
land aod America have given an
emphatic cmtdetnnation of war. and
have applied Christianity to tbe set
dement of their complicated and
embittered differences. Let ns be
thankful that this illustrious victory
of peace is doing winch to deepen
the conviction of Christian love, that
the time has folly come for well
considered and definite action upon
measure* for substituting reason aud
Justice for the barbarism of war. Let
a* rejoice In the msnifest and in
creasing evidence* that God is areas
ing hi* people to more energetic ami
definite effort to secure “i*es«* on
earth."
force?
gathering us together to ask the
help of the Lord? What of con
sistent prayer, which regards no
iniquity iu our hearts? What of
practical prayer, which fulfills itself I
Settled Peace.—The momeut we
begin to rest onr peace on anything
in ourselves, we lose it; aud this ia
why so many saints have no settled
peace. Nothing can be lasting that
is not built on God alone. How can
you have settled peace f Only by
having it in God’s own way. Not
by resting on anything, even tbe
Spirit’s work withhi yourselves, but
ou what Christ has done entirely
without you. Then you will know
peace; conscious nnwortbiuess, bat
yet peace.
Good Advice.—Miu what you
run after! Never be content with
a babble that will buret, or a fire
work that will end in smoke and
dark moo. Get that which yon can
keep, aod which Is worth keeping:
Somethin* *lcrime that will may
When *£><1 *»*er «J W
i Artifi-
Kubbei
Uterine
«*> Per-
tb« rigor of tbot piety t
possible, by n voluntary offering of
ou reel vc* to Christ, to cultivate
something of such strength and
energy ? Now, almost ooivereally,
outward prosperity generates in
doU-uce, aud indolence wsakneos, till
the very life of religion perishes
from the soul sod the church.
American Messenger.
Let such prayers be understood,
let our spirit but break with such
longing, and the expectations of our
bosoms shall uot be delayed. “And
it shall oome to pass that before
they call, 1 will answer; snd while
they are yet speaking, I will hear."
—Dr. James Hamilton.
There is some promise in your
Bible exactly adapted to every try-
iug hour.
tomorrow alt that
you is the silver plate ou