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Editors. A PUSH.”—EPHESIANS 17:6 ONE LORO. ONE FAITH. OVE IEBRACRY 7. 1873 COLUMBIA. S. FRIDA —... iEEBm ready for instant om. TIm man aaked the traveler to retire to bed, but be determined to aell his life m dearly m be could. Hie (ban grew into * perfect agony. Wbafc was to be doue? At length the backwoodsman arose, and reach wig to a wooden shelf, took down an old book, and said: “Well, stranger, if yon wont go to bed I will; bat it is always my custom to read a chapter of the Holy Scripture* before I go to bed.* Wbat a change did three words produce! Alarm was removed trout this skeptic's mind. Though avow* ing himself an iaidel, be bad more confidence in the Bible. He felt safe. He felt that a man wb^kept a Bible in his boose, and bent bis knees in prayer, was no murderer or robber. He listened to the good man, and slept aa calmly la that cabin as be did under bis father's roof. From that night be ceased to revile the good Bible. He became a sincere Christian, and often related the story of bis eventful Journey to prove the folly of infidelity. Selections. Usiversaliim 111 t Nxisholl. I, JtlUgioos Literature. At the beginning of a Journey, two “1 am a Universally* said G. K., boaatingly; “and yon orthodox are not fair in saying that oar system is inconsistent with reason.* “I will prove the Irrationality of yonr system,* said bis friend. “You believe that Christ died to save all men f* “Yea, I do.* “And yon don’t believe there is a bell r “No, I don’t* “You don’t believe there is any punishment hereafter V “No, I don’t i men ate pantoed for their sins la this Ufe.* “Well, now let us pat year ‘ra tional’ system together. It amounts to just this—that Christ the Saviour died to save all men from nothing at all. Not from hell, because*, accord ing to you, there to Done. Not from punishment in the fatnre state of being, for he receives hi* whole pnnishment in this life. Years is the «b*urd spectacle of rope* and life preservers thrown at an immense expense to a uian who is on dry land, and in no danger of being di owned." febdP a darkled or a bewildered flTa proper understanding of "Vmbiect, it u» to “suppose ** 7 And the case supposed * ^ter have had an actual exis ^ je t nobody is deceived. It is M wstoriai v ,K “ oeesrred. stttewent things which vws tomr* Now can we Xhe parables of the ft re presen toil as cases without the modern for nUt os wppow‘ k case,* for introduction. But while this of introduction fills well its niite place, there is another foe recital of facts, equally Li* the ouat of this hostility. timl will cxitag a thousand miles with grace to matt him who takes a single stop towards the cross of Christ A* long as the builders of Babel am aaited, they would take heaven by storm | bat as soon as God di vide* their tongue* all their proa slippery plaraa, or gropes hi* way along ia the dark owes, aseottg pitfhUe riayed on Thro, torento The*. If, Ilka Dsfht, C |n^| 1^0 dMF'Dyrc!!^ £ hearts, to try ne ead hi that, if !brlr ha totoV M tls may lead as to the tag, we shall alee bat say. “Then leaf 4dm walking at bin rare may bt a Jgaea then),} are foil of instruction. Says lbs Psalmist: “Whoso is wise, iB d *tH observe these things, even they ihsii understand the loving Kind nest of the Lord.* The mind* ,.f old people who have been intelli- geit sad tedectiug observer* while making life’s journey, are full of snch nafcer. It is instructive as ttll as estortaiuiiig to sit at their feet sod to hear them in their artless coBvasatioual manner “prai.se Jeho vab for His goodness and His won derful works to the children of men * Hasy things, so related, would bear a to published for the reading of the aillioa. Some of them, well waked, have been published and read with interest and profit by many. Bat It fe painfully evident that in ththrge mass of religious literature now aioat, there is much passing iwbr the guise of providential re- >]utak, that never had an existence mjwbere except in the illy regula ted Pagination of the writer. Of this class of writings we were reminded a few evenings ago by a story of a sea captain, who had cut s bell from a rock where it bad been suspended, that it might be rung by the rising waves as a. warning to mariners. Tears a/ter (vards, (so went the story,) bis own ship Iras wrecked upon that same rock, and all aboard perished. AlUhis may have occur red. Bat the writer’s zealous soul was so intent uik>u doing good by writing fiction, that he forgot to spare even one who could suy, “I only am left alone to tell thee.* Yet, after drowning all, he artlessly fuoagh told what the wicked captain said just before he perished! 5©w we would saggest that while these “nursery yarns* may be credo - looaly received by some soft-headed children, the thinking ones who are sooa to take control of church aud stats, have reflection enough to ask, *ho told what he said when all per “tod! The periodicals that publish web stuff do themselves and their young readers great injury. When the child that has been believing ever y word discovers sucb gaps, it mast exclaim, mentally at least, What! lies here, too! Far better kave no stories at all than such as vill mate children suspicions of ; <‘!$ehood everywhere. It will lie a “ad day when parents will have to of their church publications, My child, you are not to believe all you see in that paper.* gwhfe. Yet he is fteqasrilly troubled He Is afraid be may earns dart «l TW ertoie of life* is usually the •arret plurr of wrestling with God in He wbo Is without trouble ia often without Gad. Hope ts the golden treasure and the Bobiuet nit against fear. As wa must uat trust to aa arm of I have known a timid traveler whose route toy arrow the highest Alim, on a path that, no broader than a male’s foothold, skirted a dizzy precipice, where we saw the foaming river fbr below mm tubed to a silver thread, find It Safest to shnt her eyes, nor attempt to guide the coarse, or touch the bridle where a touch were total, throwing steed snd rider over to hound from shelf to shelf and be dashed to piece* in the valley below. And there are tinu-s ami circumstances when, to be saved from tolling Into sinful doubts, and even Into blank despair, the believer must, tf we may any so, shut his eyes; and committing bta way to God, let the bridle on the neck of providence, ami walk not by by sight bat faith. God however things may look—has not forgotten to be gracious, nor ia bis mercy clean gone forever j and when we are walk ing in darkneas and have no light, there is nothing for it bat to trust in the Lord, to “stay ourselves <w» God.* Hail Jacob done so, he had not been so utterly distracted and crush ed by the loss of Joseph ; nor, a* he ctnng to Benjamin, had he turned on his other sons, like a Hear on the hunters come to bereave her of her whelps, while this doleful, angry cry, “Me have ye bereaved of my chil dren ; Joseph to not, and Simeon to not; and will ye also take Benjamin away f—all these things are against me.* Hail he done so, he had borne himself more erect before the king of Egypt, n venerable ami noble witness for God in a heathen palace, instead of wailing out this pitiful complaint, few and evil have been the days of my pilgrimage on earth ! He lived to unsay that, and regret that be hail walked ao much by sight, and not by feith; living to see, as all God’s people shall in another world, If not in this, that all things—the bitter and the sweet to get her, losses as well as gains, cof fins as much as cradle*—were not against, bat for bim. One of whom it might be sakl that “nothing in hi* life become him ao much a* bis leav ing i*, r see him dying I—his faith breaking oat in foil and bright eflPnl gence, like the sun at the does of a clondy day. Propped op on piftows, with ohe hand oti Ephraim's and the other on Manasseh’s head, be raise* his sightless orbs to heaven to breathe ont this grand confession and prayer—the God wbteh fed me all iny life long onto this day, the angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the laris ! With that his tory, and many such before them, never let God’s dear ehitdreu yield— no, not in life’s darkest hour—to the thought that all things are against them. Even when deep aoswereth unto deep at the noise of his water sponts, and all God’s billows and waves go over them, and their bark, with toils torn to ribbon* and bnl works gone by tb© board, to stagger ing through a sea of trouble*, never let them fancy that they are the sport of winds and wares. Your Father to at the helm! The Lord reigneth, let bis enemies tremble; the Lord reigneth, let his people re- joice: He will make all things work together for good to them who love him, and are the called according to his purpose— J>r. Qmtkrie. How to Study the Bible. ' Men*** « ««-ctualW 432B of the r^rtJiUk Hie telescope, we know, brings within the sphere of oar own vision much that would be undiscoverable by the naked eye ; bat we mast not the less enjoy oar eye* in making use of it, and we mast watch and calculate the motions and reason on the appearances of the heavenly bodies, which are visible only through the telescope, with the same care we employ in respect to those seen by the naked eye. And an analogous procedure is requatte if we would derive the intended benefit from the pages of inspiration, which were designed not to save os the tremble of inquiring and reflecting, bat to enable os on some points to inquire and reflect to better purposes; not traveler renoiittnl to hie Antnat that day whsB all shall be assess 1 lo! before their tot are has*, snd the right to sater his reshisnrr hr re qnired from ©ark. If this be docw of aay «m to re gard to sa earthgr jnsroey. with ■‘things that am area,* how much snare will It he the ease to ear road to the heavenly city, where we deal with Ullage that see aaassa sad eternal f There Is, perhaps, hardly s satge** in religious eipemeace which has more fnwynently «r mere psis to 11^ exercised the miads sf truer chrie liens than this sue. Looting m mm Gad’s attribute*, like angel* oa the * tug, are ever ready to coast to the reara* of his chosca. of iwligtoa. sad folfoomt by the oarattotob or #vfl. If wa kaew how many thousand devirtes of the ungodly the Lord brings to naught, before they were bat to supply it* deficiencies.—Arc! bishop Whalcly. Family Worship.—A traveler •ays: “One of the most beautiful images that ever rose upon my im- It amy be that they eoa asnaraaee of taftl with the chance delay for two day* among the lakes and mountains of the Tro •neb’* Glen. 1 happened to make the inquiry wbat became of villagers so suddenly disappearing at night fall from the streets, and a sandy haired Scotchman replied: Of oat of them would be at prayers about this time.’ And 1 looked np into the for blue sky, and thought how floe a thing it would be to have a resting place, high enough just to hear the mnrmnr of Toioe* aa they read a verse about, and sung one of the old Psalms, before the impressive hash in which the father offered prayer. How grand would be the swell of sound when a whole village was going on its knees before God !* frrl the totter, they rout tads ttov are destitute of the former Mo they writ* Miter things against thrtr own roots Every ohristiaa must at seem stffjr have the nomroaro of feith he cause that to ao less than feith HseH rortfc. pertly ? TBItS. No epMMBB med. Tb« lim, tS and the nerve* m bs will save as. Much was the feith of the publican, who “would not Hit ap so much ss his eyas onto hsavan, bat smote upon his breast, saving, God fas merrifot to ms a sinner !* One may do thK sad vat go maam lag mil his days “for waat of assav SMe* ** f fa..,-I It tt*. ***** sti* ,■ rfi *4 fi mi *.<^rrs Bw ss the esat Is from the eel, ss jhr A j*li If- y J oamam s from as.* Not mitt rearers, after a trying probation, bat toil removed. He amy, however, object, “Tbass are tbs feelings of a man after Gudfe own heart ” one who kohl *srh ctosa communion with (fod that he maid dMiSnile MPp, | L j, Pli Ok «if —- m m in m rmtoiij iMf VHP Hi I ftowT. n r r iprffi toons" True, but lm waa also a •inner roved by grass, sad he felt ML lie says: “Thou art my bldtog piece, and my shield ; / hsyw to Fbf awed ;* “h«M Ties mm sp sad t shall ha safe * It Is a mistake to suppose that Ibr a person to have aasaraase In Christian life to ston to bars at tallied onto perfection Pant would bars declared without hesitation, “I Anew Wlem I have believed, sad sa p rr res tod that Bs is sM# to hrep that which I bars cam milted onto Rim sgatast that day,* Yet who more tremble than this some Paal f Of haw^ he says, “Not ns though I had already attain sd, either were already porfiret, but I follow after, tf that I may apprehend that fur shirk I in pnmmfamd sd of Christ Jesus.* Paal was a happy Christian, sad tbs ksy ante to hto >sy is found to his sptotle to Timothy t “Fur thto la a fearful my lag, nod worthy of all sreeptoitou. that Christ Jsaas «ams into the world to save stonero, i/stos / am chief.* The rsty depth at hto «slf Very much of the outward do psads upon the inward; whore there is hsasaa la the heart there wfl! be forts, the I reudsv to Him ecosefeag wuridly sahutssms. He hro tuhso hut fib ‘h to A mtofc ssf s ■ msm imstotto' mm m »nt ^ “ IVHi >Pw 4 toroR Owe mMP rooRfifi kiWMi so maay at my aeqaatotswe. D» I Jitter* oa going to Of I MK-haif wme-fcUtol [etablee, and take re led of poreir veget*P» leDOXALOAlh asstriiSh* S AND DF.ALIZS Flyino fob Hkfitob.—Th wasere owes a little bird chased by a hawk, and in it* extremity took refage hi the bosom of a tender-hearted man. There it lay, its wings and feathers quivering with fear, and its little heart throbbing against the bosom of the good man, whilst the hawk kept bovsriog overhead, as if saying, “Deliver up that bird, that I may devour it* New, will that gentle, kiad-hearted man take the poor little creature, that put* its trust in him, oat of his bosom, and deliver it op to the hawk t What thick yef Would Well then. ibsdi^e Compact , Sept. 26,187L go into effect * latent: nm* Traiu. »oo a; 4 30p* 9 80S* 5 20p* nd AecowtModf' Th* Good Old Bible.. 1 A Virginia banker, who was the chairman of an infidel club, was "f»ce traveling through Kentucky, ii: ‘ vi ng with him bank bills to the amount of $26,000. When ho came to a lonely forest, where robberies •md murders were said to be fre- ^ nt > > was soon lost through I ni g in the wroug road. The dark- jjffe’ of the night came quickly over ’®i and bow to esekpe from the j ^toning danger he knew not. II his a,ar m he espied at a distance 1 ‘ m light, and urging his horse toward he at length -came to a If * m L in f 1 I he anm m m I Itu jgg€* W WO VMRNHfwi WNHRk luHr Oa Goal, may Ire roved from felting if hs «mly graspn the baud that smites tudur fie Inijitiii b mmi to srewnl ,A the tswd Jsaas Christ as my all sufltos—t s*mI only Msviuur Da I ahaw my sSMMNafhfofesstolkrek m. —4P •• m d- ii adim iriiHiG# wj *» iiit ov iiRunfk| oiw dtowUf It to aof right to pvsy that oar Heavenly Father should never eh** rim aa, hut that Ire may chastize ns with the rrij of a parent, sad not with the sword of Justice. Without the Bible we can under stabd nrither life nor death; bat with this everlsstiug lamp we under stand both. Th* life of Jesus to the greatest sermon over preached, and it to ttotaoad to thto day by myriad*. The Croats that happened in the primitive church, will bs repented in \g excepted). L 7»P® 6 80s* L I..7 10P» ...0 45*« lion Train vij jbia as fonurdf laud Saturday^ . 7 20** ..11 55 * * I 2 10p» [*•*:**; 6 55P* you do Itf No, never, if you flee for refuge into the bosom of Jesus, wbo came to seek aa£ save the lost, do you think He trill deliver you up to your deadly fee I Never ! never ! never !—Daeeae Mmikeson. sanctify ing Pbayxb.—Wbo will pray, must know and understand that prayer is an earnest and t©ifai»g with God, to whom we declare oar mercies, whose support and hfllp we implore and desire ia our adversities, and whom we land and praise for our benefits received. So that pray er contain©th the exposition of our trouble*, the desire of God’s defense, and the praisiig of hto magnificent name, as the Psalms of David do clearly teach.—John Knox. & Augua* Can I now iret? say, “Thongh I walk through the t alley at the aosmsw as arete, & wmi nsre ao evu ; few thou art with m»| thy rod and lh, at|tf llut (vtMfuBrt Ml V* "He IsssfoSh nm- f u tomsad HMsaghfe tog bat would sooji return, and she ^ sore he would cheerfully give the folio o this road; r i Tvaiu No- ^ £ 330»* 5 8 30 » * I Train No.®* 11 05 P* 6 00 a® 1 e slower tb** lbe»i Colo** o No- 2 <1^ o-aairech^*^ hsmaa fr-M-nilshir .*.<1 k»-re to festesi M 1 ' 1111 Jl 1 r" w T* V' lirrocr of a Kind Wobix—“I h»ve reason to Me** God for the Sabbath,* says an emioeoUy useful Bngltoh clergy mas, “from my own experisnea. When a mere boy, a pious and faithful pastor found me trifling on the Lord’s day, and aflec uonatelj reproved are; deniring me to read and think on the Inst two vereis of the drib of Isaiah. Upon that reproof, under God, turned my whole life, with all its happiness and all its bltasfui hope* bexoud ibe It is seldom bone in mind that without oonstant reformation, that is, withont a oonstant return to its fountain bead, every religion, even the most perfect, nay, the most per. feet, on account of its very perfec tion more even than others, suffers from its contact with the world, as the purest air suffers from the mere fact oi its being breathedre-JfoflP Mutter. ' If thy labor la nsefol to tfaysslf alone, the service that thon pretend eat to render unto Qod to a lie.—La ther. that we are ©rereiralaed to href the retro which says, “I, the Lord, do all there tbiaga* The will, which