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COLUMBIA. 8. C THE LUTHERAN Wirt'.*nog aod death a the North we*t, wlam the South with Its kindly aod riah soil, iH aoaombeiufl n«*a r^d r^UMdii(^S(S^^ l^fas genial rhmatr, in mode rat# viator*, aid tha enrtately that industry and food management will ia a comparatively brief tin* ■scare a nompeieyey, and attimatoij M A MLaKaaiaaaaeia^iMaidtoaaw NMPPNMBM I, HVMi HM MHM The parent i* engrafted lot® **» church bjr baptism, aad though ha <hU to bear frnit-foil to oojoy M* privileges to which hi* .NffiMf •» trodooed him—he baa, nevertheless, received the rite, and he can never Miaul that rite; whatever be may do, whatever Mb he may lead, be la still a baptised peraon. And tale nppUcw tioa to iba minister tor the baptism of bit ehikl la evidence that be rue- ogwitoa hi* owa baptism, and that ha places aooh a value upon H that he b unwilling to derive bit child of It. The coodsahMi then is, that any nan, or woman, who haa bean bap tised— whether a communicant or ■ot, who haa not been exeommuni eated—can, at any time, apply for paoation mainly afreet ia tioo," aaya oor antbor, “»*, •Friday, February SI, 1873 . -EDiroti: R. RUDE, t>.D., Columbia. 8. C L MILLER. A.ML. Staunton. Vo. grant*. What tha (tooth waata liberty; ia all ikinpa, charity. fch and m (he trash] » work* t nothin! y faith to i k* wim* CoiUfw had «l»ir«d by law. Manly vWtoiaiaa i gntgr of the paper by mail, i* not »«tf All coiumunicattoes relating to Mb our Lord Jeans Christ* He then relieves biam claiming ia holy horror “ aot 'defend k, and if o m author A tnoTiacmm Dtyraaamca. — nottoiag the appearance of Om Ckmrtk refer, ‘ that ft was orifiao rlow of dfoeatibg A North Carolina minister aaha t “la U consistent with tha Mymbala and Formula of Government of tho Evangelical Lutheran church, to rw- quin of road id* to* tor tho ministry to oommit Ihtmaalvoa agataat ran vala of retigtoa F (i Although should be written M>p*rately, sad not ia basines* letter*, to receive proper atten tion. . -»: The birth of the Christ-child—tbe grant gift of the heavenly father to hi# children—w** to be celebrated. Christmas was fast approaching. The henna of the children were toll of expects tSou, vision* of new toy*, flaxen haired dofl* and hobby horaeo floated through their waking and sleeping dream*. Mother* and God —mother* were bogy preparing cakes and present* tor the little ones. The little Katie, tha child of live aammera, had her bright dreams too, yet her thoughts were not sloue di rected to oelf. The desire of her lit tic, loving, generous heart was to make others happy. Far away at “Wattless Farm,” nearly four ban dred mile* distant from her home, lived her little cousin Mabel, leas than three yean of age. The chil dren had never met, yet little Katie's heart was no toll of love for her little cousin that she entreated that her pretty clothes and toys might be sent as Christman gifts to Mabel. Katie was taken sick, she was pa tnmt aad gentle, not thinking only of herself, still wishing to give plea* are to other*. Constantly the child asked. Have tile presents been sent to liuto Mabel ? gbe was delighted when (be heard that the express wagon had come, and the gifts were traveling sway to the distant Geor gia home. That night came a letter —the aagcil* had couie for little Ma bel, sad she was dead. The mother did not know bow to tell loving Katie that Mabel was no longer on earth. When she said to her, “your little cousin Mabel ia dead,* the child raised her soft eyes, so toll of intetli g*ow sad answered, “Mama, little Mabel ha* cone to aneud Christmas in heaven,” and her little bean was comforted. On Christmas day when the Castor of 8t» John's, Charleston, addressed the children of bis coo gregatioa, in touching word* be rela ted the atory of these two dear chil dren of his flock—little Mabel—hun dred* of miles sway, and Katie, a pet lamb of the fold, whose unselfish joy it had been to give pleasure to another. •Children,’’ be said, “Katie loved a cousin whom she bad never seen; doe* this not show you that we ran love an unseen friend, and can yea not love the dear Lord Jesus tho’ you hsve never seen him t* The The Pastor next dwelt on the beauti ful, firm faith of a little child. When told that Mabel was dead, Katie iu Mtanllj exclaimed, “Then Mabel bus gone to spend Christms* in heaven.” She did not grieve, for in faith she pictured to herself the joys of the besutltol heavenly home. Charleston, &C. C. L. B. Clubbing. To Clubs of five (5) prepaid sub scribers, sent to one address, we mail the Visitor for $2.00 for 52 number*. Wai.U41.lx, a C. Dmr Sir .—You will please find (■(Closed #2.30, which yea will ptaew to my ersdit for the Fiafeer. I hold al*■> the same amount ject to your order* for tha benefit of brother John K. Menu, who it her* with his wife sod thru* little childiua studying for the mtoistrf Brother Koon mcrifieed hia Utile boom ia Florida. oame here, aad is la great need, lie steam to be is earnest, la llvto* 111iihiihmihIIi bat with *11 hi* w rMm| wuw^imuweemumuinetoemiiaj * m industry sod oteas living |m too oat heap np tm the #180 Ryaod ho* sp preprinted to him. Its needs help, aad nuat h*\* it. or he amtmflo mms* sow ^mww v^mur ~ ws tu dMfervut ways We scad him to Iks flajil f IrmMMI that r hltolklMNi MwtJ I allM m latfHwa' kru* I itol v^ *wivr» honest to pendet charge when it. has hjmliwl time* by tb tberan*7 Oar abfhor sayfe ware unable to push the Lord’s Sapper amsubiUmtiation; thi Kow tot u* see 1 tiny* is in this l*old - Dr. JfraMth, the \ thority to this coom RBfoTBi3twrr,«iyfl: J the Lutheran Chord areas doctrine has Pams without numt Kkv. W. A. Houck.—We regret to learn that thi* faithful servant and most exoelleot brother wss un able to All his appointment last Sun Ou the way to church he was suddenly taken very ill. tt to miod, sod not as at the grave,” a IIabd Cass.—A minister, who may be ton ml somewhere between (jhe Potomac and the Golf of Mexico, writes #0: “It took thirty miles to marry a couple, and the happy man said: ‘Thank you, sir. Call in when you pass this way.’* That fellow was either an hliot or a pauper, or too mean to have a wife. We pity the woman. A man who will not pay a wedding foe, will not support a wife. He only marries to t it some one to be his slave. We ent lately thirty-eight miles to marry a couple, met any number of accidents, the train run off, the car riago broke down, we had to ride home on a cotton bale, it was eokl, dark and dreary, but the happy pan paid ns ten dollars, and he would pave paid na fifty—he was so well satisfied with his wifo, his marriage, pod the parson—if we had not cried, “Hold, enough* “What,* sak) he. “Yes,* said we, “you are a new be ginner, if God blesses yon, yon can make a donation next year to the chnrch.* Will he remember! Bat the fact is: be has for two yean read the Visitor. tend ti stdl circular •my to fill its page* Meas of the Confess gekcal Lutheran ( great theologian k. dissenting voice re trine, the name and t ami in etery one of i Waterland says: “T njr and ctis-ovru ax elements into the hr as, likewise *»gm ptnation, yea, and and eoneomitancy” ! mental union, note < Gotta says: “Bnt tan that M088TE< h UOIWUBSTAKTIATro to oar church. sin< #S«*f**P jgHMg ^ x * wot lieiieve either jaootioQof two lx*in word from you will seaosnphah i • • P. H—Do sot aso mg ass* probably know brother Kook's $ teg waats better lima sn> «>Unrr We gisdlji say the word; bat »• have so iafloeoce. If Ns* horn Conference would only move! If Dr. SmeiUrr would write as *p peal! Then!! It la really aa easy thing to assist brother Koon He does aot east money He waata food aod cktihutg. All that ia acoeasory la that a tow of the MH handmaiden# of the Lord go around and sak the omay who hsve to spore, sad who wfll aot feel it ia the least, to coatribute from their corn crib, their nmehr house, and their pantry only what tt takes to tornish ou#» omal for thew ml vto. The foot Is in Many country boueae elements instead of the bom Giver of them, would be stefi flagrant absurdity.* “Instead of interpreting thefh ‘This is my body, according to nm loquendi. of which the ft text i* a translation, aad ago* •a the erprettrion. Lather andenO it literally, aod thus, unfortmai aa ter at least as the dogma d Beal Presence ia involved* the* fideoce in him as a reliaMt am later of the holy ScHptmmmja Rev. John T. Campbell writes: “I aave been qnito nnwall for about Wo week*. Cause exposure daring |o«r very severe weather. We oever have had such a winter to my re membranes in the valley of Virginia. 'For nearly two months the ground has been covered with snow aod toe. On the 29th of January the mercury stood, at 8 A. M., 2° below Zero for an hour. On tha 30th, at the same Jbonr, 14° below Zero, aad in Stiraa- burg (me or two degrees lower. Oa the 31st, at the same hour, 2° below Zero. At 20° and 30° we felt quite comfortable. We are to have seven weeks more of winter. The ground hog was sot, saw—unfortunate!y— his shadow, and went book.* Groundhog or not, shadow or aot, a*y that we belie 1 ftripnagfiaa or Con • Leiboits say s : * Approve of the di ttantiation or of is one could impute la the first place, in the mis given, Jesus is a mere mss, win power to bless. Hi* wordisilf as those of any impious Jew. * Mark,* says be, blessed, sod d fore Rev. Gross will wot tote" He simply said grace as say f man Would. He did not am his Father to bless the tern* w ine, but tkemked him for tes Christ to hare commanded *bid on that bread and wins, oar to says, would have been “a pt stoordtfy.” Christ's word, not a few, who have nothing for the suffering child of God, feed a parcel of makes n g for the children can also be obtained, and a little exertion. • few steps, a a willingness to terra Christ, the church and tha disciple, will ha crowned with sueeisil Brother Koon aad hia Gundy most be auataioed. Wa do not kaow kim, bat we know rhfe—the mam who aiM fVPi VP •PPry mmmmff ff# mrrw \ dnif, aa ht has dear, k earthy We fool also confident that liom Poomria, Frog Lsvel and Newberry, ample •applies will at once be forwarded to brother Koon. Every eh art h ought to have a dfl II. Uid |t| S 4.1 IWOM # wifi if fir w rut toTbhd foiled to ins Jl kCqaginted with These oitittkms to nay length, h •have is sufficient. -.What a pity th prejudice will so tom, that he cat though it skiues i Where »m>w the; ther got. no farther Nation! It is eas tious, and theyv w j flaeuce with the igi lies not in bare sta hold the Individual I-WtAR Bofli SMUUI at ita atuholx of u <*..irurally rv*p*sst yta verbose to quote, eoald have nothing. That word white M the universe into axfttoUMflN cansed a deluge to destiflf * 1 of siaaers, which opened the <to receive Korah aod hi* which nostopi>e<l the deaf { ad the blind eye, raised to ^ dead, that word could not a*® a sacrament, nor command * * ing. Then the Savkmr dte those mothers who broogb* children to be blessed. Nhff it, let ate ask, that caused tif * and Jiahm to increase ! Whte* that the five thousand Was it bread aad fishes, c*<bj only imagine they were estiaf. Christ, when he “goto that occasion, only say f*** return thanks to the Father^ New Teatameut tolls us M»*t not the Father, perfoimidtej* {»ciudouH miracle* that hia Messiahship } ttod itet*** 1 . thinks he ouly said giaoeat» |K?r like any other JeWt ® J did, it argues nothing for—fj No Lutheran claims that he"* or mcreased the breail.ffPPilBj that be united himself that <*ccasiou. I only “**;] palpable blunder to show ■ will degrade aud obseme #yj stndi power of the flaviosf J world, to carry out * 0SJ fouuded iu uiiscou(»ptte* feuded by prejudice. ^ J All this array of prove that old Lutheraflt Carolina it has been cold, hot wo have had no snow storms; in Vir ginia tt has been cold, but nose have frozen to death. On tha other hand it is distressing to read the accounts of the sufferings from the severity of the winter in the North west. In Minnesota for more than fifty hours, from Tuesday, Jan. 7th, till Thursday, the freezing wind, the telling snow and the intense cold continued. At Champlain the thermometer was 5i degrees below Zero, at other points from 8 to 42 degree* below. Horses froze, men* perished, houses were buried beneath the snow—aod boa bands and tethers In the forest, on (Are prairb, in the highway, harrying ( home to their temiHea froue to death, and mothers and children while j watching and waiting grew cold aad stiff Ond (tied. Winter claimed its tribute of precious Uvea. In Min in the year 1134, Heinrich Wacker beck preached iu Macbow, near Neustiult, to Meek leu burg: “Christ ia truly the door of heaven, but Mother Mary is also a window, aod through this window urny all those be saved, whom Christ will not per mit to eater in through the door.* Binoe thru the church of Home has changed. Now site makes Mary the duoi and Christ the window. We never raanl to the Uibtoof the window, but we hsve often read that Christ is the door — the ouly door aud the wily enloanee. But even Protestant# block up the way ; some with epos- toUc saootusMMi, others with mourn- arm" benches, others with symbols, and aot a few dig a deep ditek and fill it with water to lump the children UUt, .. Lom war. v. 'Hf*rn, ot > irftBn, aas nt ua a very interesting totter. “print* it i,RPm a * -<*•*| wlfflfp ipfWI f FfvfR home moot of the Winter, sod will j m s nnri wmivinwi v* wvffn m*v-t tnga I have attended. I piwurh ed a week at Friadena ohureh, Reek toghom ' oattly. Brother Barb haa mods, and the revival of tho people of God. I vteited (It. Pauls', Page ■MafisfljiteMMMfe 1 '- 'THtehou' fi.fiuks-» fo folk s*nti u s L ,i» a, e w^Wwalf wy * Mmma . •3PPMMPMI pf’rsMCjfilwWf w dsaire to rsultae, to private export •owe aad public lobufu, the folftt) i'uen* .J iU#i iiUHiiin 1 n> sw w^‘ "• fT w s ^^Pk w mma vtimo you *Jw*>, eveu usto the aod of tho or t The entire be it rooXK Tbiar^nh for tho oatpounag of the Spirit o j«• n sB# tetoten, kmo cJj neeh SMM|' mU* world, wa br-UM'sm to fwu the follow fikifi Mstel#ptfiteitef oeocort s 1 That God may tearsaas the tool aad piety of th# stodsots^ asnl fta* pan thorn to bo amaaoaafuJ smhessa dors of (ho cross of Christ. 1 That hi Ua mmctftol provtilsoss nesota alone from 200 to 300 have perished from cold aad exposure. Add to these the dead ia Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, sod the ^ number will ha—we foot to moke aso merit <rf a ** tested - Vear » to U dr develop The Bahi 2E22” of Gri17 a Kucce^s Siam's * national 33"^ aud reli he is nut to toqairs whother towoot Is u esnimosleoaf or Ghriat says: “Be that beliereth wt»f4her either hot ham bop- and is bsprired shall be saved.* All t either has received the aao> who are baptised and do not believe, ef bs|*uem, then he to bound belong to the visible chnrch ; all who m tha child; if otethur has see both, who heMsve sad are bap I tbte rite, then ho la to to- ttaud belong to the viuiblv and in- ha psoral, an applying* may risible Ckurfch. But there are not Welted hie right to the earn- two ehnrehea, bnt only one, which table, hot ha ran never undo are related to om-h other as soul and tam. Ha the teridfoge of that tHrito, ao khmhertiel and the shell. jhM a so iik Wt fot i jfi ama >w| |Wl “ fHK (M WHM M» uBuiSO • i iMtt e V ^ hsSMak BiulsiusoJI Wm Itoito# mm fiMfmlwjl * MtaRNPHMPh I regTeUerl to leave Recently I assisted Bi hi 8t. Matthew «* obi Coanty. I remsiseii i say that at toast 500 or even more have perished. Tho limber will never be known—it would atop im migration; it would turn it 8outh ward to tell the truth. Indeed we are at a lorn to explain toby it ia that men will prefer hardship*, exposure,