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OVI LORD, OVI FRITS. OIK SR COLUMBIA. 8. (L. FkIDAY. Mil ■ *"»» —rnniym the fcvituml niUr the MTtk that did not go into it. Ill* Imagination therefor* start* on • wbtim»«M journey, following the beodtaga of the atraiu, and comet Hto bands were folded on bit breast. Hit ejes were lifted to heaven. tit- teranoa aeeaoed denied to btm. He stood abstracted and loat Atleogtb, bit fixed look unbent; It Married over the toeae, where every pomp was mingled acid ever? trophy strewu. It found no resting-plaee for Itoelf aoiidat all that idle parade and all tltot mocking vanity. Again it settled; it bad fastened upon the bier, glittering with escutcb eons and veiled with plumes. A sense of the indescribable nothing ness of man “at bis best estate." of the meanness of the highest bateau grandeur, now made plain in the spectacle of that hearsed mortal, overcame him. His eye once more cloasd; his action was mi speeded ; and, in a scarcely audible whisper, to a maos, or awaalain hollow, or •arid the mists and showers of moan tala tops In fhet, k does come to this, most lllerally and rimidy, that every rim begfoe in the air. Here !•> a parable for behoof of those who are apt to he over-wise, or over cartons, or overanxious, about the rnal begiitaiag of the religious life to the individual. What if we ace aot able to find It! What if it lies deep dtvR, or Car bark within *he wrote of that mystery which will be found to ear atop all vital beginnings! Are we the worse for not knowing whet God never manat os to know f —Cur not anetuir what onlv Omni- by St. Paul, is ea|y spmtnal. he broke the long drawn pease, “There is nothing great but God." —Sermons by Thr. J7 a mil ton. “snatiflsd before be tame forth eat of the womb"—bis religion, iiu- pUntljr, began before hie Ufa. Tuao thy had “faith" which “dwelt first Order In Creadon. Lord’* body T How eaa he a thing neS tier* to be die “The eat vernal Christian an Take up tin* commonest plant— the furae that grow* on the common, Urn sea weed that clings to the rocks washed by the ocean, or the fern that springs up iu the mountain gieu—and you may observe in its structure, in its leave* or pendicles a wonderful correspondence of side to able, and part to part Let the eye travel over nature as we walk among the cultivated fields, or the grassy slopes and valleys of our up land countries, or among the thick woods where the winds have strewn the seeds, and trees of every kind spring up, each eager to maintain iu place, and to show its separate form and beauty—and we dieeover an order in every branch, and blade, and leaf, and shade, and oolor. Take up a leaf or flower, and examine with or without the aid which art can furnish, and observe how one edge has the same number of notch es upou it as the other edge, and what nice balancings and counter poises there are, aad how nicely the tinea and dote and shadings of ooftor •«td at !fc* conclusion of the pea- jj btopiTt" “Avoording to the Uferal* the tocrumental wine ia the ftsfilf M*> snd, of course, to imtiaf sf the cup over which a Presence can b' fount! farther tart than the eleventh oentory f and our author boldly asserts that it was conceived in the twelfth century. 1 pot but little neatidsau ia what many of the fiat hers say, for they are now made to aay anything; but I quote the follow tog : Ignatius, A. I).. 107, nays: “The Eucharist hi the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thera to earn cup for the nuking of bia Mood.” Justin Martyr, A. I).. Itt: “The food over which the Bachartetie prayer has beeu made to the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jeonn" corruptible onnacimcr among (hem I flow Into anch Individual beuig from the first, aad wo never con be sure * ;niK to* been given, we have cmamton with Christ; and ia eot- igflkpnmnassntal bread, it being, •h tw hastily or too eredntonaly otoshrgfMted, the body of Christ, *» tor* again, of course, comma merit* Christ.” “fin other words, •tflmsst and drink the body aad btalsf Christ, and arc accordingly um% aad pkynoalty united with Mi through means of the risible Briigton to the aonl, like water to the river, comes original)} oat of the air. “Every good gift, end every perfect gift, someth down from mingled cap and broken bread re ceive the wonts of God, to broom an the Eucharist of the body and Mood of Christ.” " 1 "■ *» +- * — ” Ambrose, A. D., 307 : “We, reeMv ing the one bread aad the one cap, are receivers and partakers of the body of the Lord." Chrysostom and Tkmpkytaei, and os of the sacramental bread and rise in commemorate* of hia ricari omdwth. The shriatians tftqp eat ing ifid drmkiog sacramentally, cotn- nsne with (Mr Lord, or have fellow ship with Mm to precisely the same ray in which the heathens, at the cele- brstioa of their sacrificial banquets, tod communion or fellowship with Aetr gods to whom the sacrifice was Into, exhort, with aU long suffering and doctrine; and then to leave the hearer and (led together Bat does Gnd require ns to eipart, to answer to ear preaching and our prayers, that every creator* who hears will he renewed by the Holy Ghost, and come to Christ f Does he require as to expect that aay particular person will ha thus the aatyect of hia effce tool rail, and does be blame os if that person m not converted t Was this Urn manner and spirit of Christ’s preaching f Did be expect the con veroton of those to whom be spake, and was hia expectation diaapjiouited became they ware aot converted f The same Inquiry may be made re specting the preaching of Peter and U Panl. DM they evince the more anxiety as to the reswfbr or the man ner of their preaching f The die charge of their duty as the mesaen- oader the most skillful and tasteful eye. Enter the rich arbor or the cultivated garden and observe how the flowers have been enlarged and improved by the care which has been taken of them, and to ti»ia *sav- er oolor and that fuller erpauqT and mote flowing drapery and rich fra grance, mark how God, who rewards ns for opening oar eyes and looking abroad on hia works, holds sal stall greater reward to thooe who, to love to him, or to love to them, take pains with aad bestow labor upon Panl says “com■■union'* be means not “participation,” bat “Mguiflea something more, and indicates the greatness of the joining together * We cook! give many more, bat why burden you with an aero muta tion of aotboritiea ! I have quoted that is according to our nutbor: Tto aserament of the Lord’* Supper » aot a sacrament—an ordinance of Ckritl “instituted iu the Christian ttareh, having a divine assurance of P*» sthMhcd to it,” bat simply a wnflfltoStoltva festival such as was hHhj the heathen, aud the bread oA wine are similar in signification btotMerifices offered by the heatheu • toaar of their gods. This ia the -Mejjfrm* of progress! the roles of »Wri were unknown to Luther. to passage in 1 Cor. x: 16, while ^ b oet intended to teach only as “•Amatory of Christ's word* any ***"- «■ the Lord’s Sapper, is 0 * f ® rt tofcss, R« Lather properly ***• thunderbolt ou the heads wtorists in regard to the Lord’s St Paul expressly men- ^ t*o elements, the bread hrhich * to earthly, and the body of our which is the heavenly, and ^ these are the communion. e bread is not the body, it is not oauneiaorative of the body, it is not 1 V' 0 ®® ra Di°a in sign or symbol of ^o°dy, but it’the communion of the Grt «* »»ya: The cup is the their points, make many aaaertfooa that facta flatly contradict. (Mthauten in hia eritmaJ exegoau ot 1 Cor. x: aaya: “Blessing tbs cup, the bread, describes the effect ot prayer whereby the elements “It never raise (mi k pears.” The patriarch of U» to • mM«bu desdiag. There he aits m hto prmri Rising higher, we find all leadiog, events in the earth and heavens to run in periods. Plants have their seasons for budding, and growing, sod bearing need aud. fruit, and their whole existence is for an allotted time. The life of animals aad of mau himself ia a period; aad it has iu periodic developments of tofisney, youth and manhood, and of old age. The very- diseases of the human frame have their jierioda. The evenft of history in respect of politics, civ ilixation, science, literature and re ligion, can be arranged into cycles; and as a whole exhibit a regular, though a somewhat complex pro- grasaioa. The tides of the ocean, and in many places the currents, flow in periods; and in some comi tries, the winds blow and the rainr fall at certain regular seasons. The variations of magnetism ou the earth’s surface seem to be periodical. The changes to the condition of the earth have been arranged into geo logical epdehs. The year is a period and it ha* its seasons; and there are when a hading mr—rogue roohas la to tell the fair* at -tW *a*a" «M the coming of the writs ad shams turn, at JUU mormmoaimm, not trans forming the subeUncMs bat present at the moment of receiving.” An examination of hia Commas tary, Y'ol. tv, pp. 313, 316, wtU show a magnifleent explosion of oar sa tbor’s “exegesis,” ami the true inter pretatioo of 8t- Paal, as wilt any other sensible commentator. Our author aaya that the “eating and drinking unworthily” waa “a bacchanalian celebration of the Lord’s Sapper sod that the “damnation” to which they were subject waa “a punishment which reunited from to temperate behavior,” aad was “dia cipiinary or eocrective, sod therefore adapted to amend the evil ways at these unworthy Christiana.” All the same as if they bad gone to a public dinner and overiosMed IhetretoaBocha, or to a driukiag saloon aad Imbibed too freely. And It waa“dtociplroary." Then all a poor sinner need do to avoid being “condemned with the world" to to “eat and drink onworth ily,” and God will make hto gluttony or intemperance “corrective,” and save him from the “ooodemnation of the world.” Here to “exegesis" ac cording to modern rules, of which Luther, the Literaliat, waa so ifho rent. J. Hawxim. not this the one, the supreme thing ilfl ij|* ^ Fidelity moat bemsaanred by some •tandaid. Csqueationably. a want of aaoosae la toading soul* to Chitot may and should awaken the inquiry, Am 1 faithful f aad should stimulate aeifexamiaatioa ; bat aacotae can out be the atondanl of dnty. Duty, as God's a mbs ass dors, to to be tested by the ffaithflaloeaa, 4 r*, the truth ful ness of the delivery of oar message*, to which nothing of human opinion atay br added ; from which nothing may b§ anbsftracted. Daly, as the shepherds of souls, is to be tested by the coses and wntohfrtlneea, and pcuyerfnla— need to its discharge. tog the salvation of oar feUow mon, to to bn tooted by the seal and love manifested to the aacred pursuit. Bootees, or the want of it, to not the gnage or critorioo by which to esti mate oar ftdclsti •w« heathen festival, for in- *» was jnst as much » symbol > n of Christ’s body as the bread Bl ^ e ^rd’® Sapper; but Paul # u I**** RpfefoJk toe break, the "**ng which tee bless, to the lanion of the body and blood of * fording to Grow, we re- “« bread to be reminded of the »*ccordiug to Paid we receive ***; to r9e **ve Christ’s body. If "}** “ be broken simply to os of the broken body, why not teg as that bread at ) ttiOHls should remind us of body T T* a “*>**nKn4on of the body Ckr *, n fa some form s Supper. What is it 1 ^ or imaginary f St. Paul, ' ^ raut h, draws a parallel toe Jew and hto sacrifice, > Christian aud hto. Israel flesh, and Is ne l after the , ha 1 * r8€l aft w the flesh, or tbs L^ ave the typical sacrifice of ^ m blood of animala, on tafltilura. planets, and the re volutions of the binary aad multiple stars, and, prob ably, also, to the movements of the constellations and groups of the nebular heavens. Whoa Massillon pronounced one of thoat discourses which have placed him to the first class of ora tors, ha found himself surrounded by the trappings end pageants of a royal ftmoral. The temple wes not only hong with sable, bat shadowed with darkness, save the few twink Ung lights on the altar. The beauty and the chi valry of the land were “Spiritual plowman, sharpen thy plowshare with the Spirit! Spirit ual tower, dip thy seed in the Spirit, to give thee graoe to scatter it, that it may fell into the right fturows 1 Spiritual warrior, whet thy sword with the Spirit, and ask the Spirit, whose word is a sword, indeed, to strengthen thine arm to wield it F— •There Is a Hisrbt Power digious power in sisglimtss of love for Jesus—in the <l»<eg “jus* on* thing,” and that to to live solely for the Master. A man of very mode rate talents and endowments be comes a leading mind as soon a* Christ gets complete hold of tin. I can point to more than owe plain, modest, moderately educated ehria tian, who has attained to a great propelling power in the ehureh, aim ply from the momentum of hto godli ness. He follows Jeans os heartily, so persistently, that be sanies oth ers along with him by hto sheer mo mentum. And that to not brain Were it not for rid, death would never have had a beginning; were it not for death, rin would never