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P’XWmm ’ •t'liNwl'* * §m T irTIgw .IfitTi* • it - r f fmi'* Mtit i *y v\ .<f?- ' ■ «' " r ' r “ 0VI LORD, Dll FAITH, Oil |APTISlL n —1PH1SIA1S 17:6. trie A HiHer, Editors. mEVSk 8. ft, FKIDAT, APRIL IL 1873 upon bin; through every ivtitaMi»rt learningj wad to tn then in Hi «tefy, wbM mlmatm btowrtr, *** the Bible hi Ml Wad to Mb m»!y wpa|ion Wkmi • ptijr Amt A# 464 mT - Bik Bit n great conflict I* ended. Latbsc It dead, and the Tartan ahaplrtoe mar danoe open hi* grave and hum 11 hi* 1f«r tb« Lnthenm Ag t Revivalist nwder the following * * school f awbar; and bit nmf for saying an» hh*t he would COW* » contact with the second Sunday fa Idll, toelufltef OOIU **« ^vf*T J ^CTryj wBwwWteJjto WPP week. During this Una be pnauksfl earth with beanHe* of all kae*. It create* the brilliant plumage of the 7. Vivifying. It i* the great me diate too roe of lift, which appears from the fact that all animal and vegetable life declines in the partial tag ohitfreo wsnld be an note Um in tbe ministry, torn kb insfevnehona to bis ‘‘dear Gsasns,* bit interest in chiWie« t «i Ma bop* of tbo nbareb through pnfenMtve view* on this au bjeet. If ft. Its durability. It teem* impos tbe physician aay ehtem* * wifo f Or tbe ohenffe of n any claims upon his wifaf then should n Mfintatiita i looked a poo aad salted a mi la An tbe light of tbe WorLi visit daily tbe measbers of ber bn* baud's congregation f Why skunk! it be sakl, aa it often i*. by ike faaitr finding, long faced sisters: Pooh I what does she care whether we lien or die; sbe never cornea aasung a*, and never, even when sick, sends to inquire. Oar poor pastor, bow aavvy we are for kin. So wonder be looks If it* primal source is reflection from tbe throne of God—from the nmerm led Light, it follows that it can not ocanr to syisr Cariatian, behold your portrait, limned by Christ himself and touch ed by John aad Paul, and their brethren, the prophet*. Trace tbe to* amok. Von might a* well de- aasd *f me to prove that Lntber usd a moumer’a bench,. before yon •wbl be persuaded that be was a nrivahst. Bat you have a right to opeet that I should quote, fairly tri without garbling, thoughts and opiums and instructions that involve ail that ws claim for a revival. This I propose to do, and meet, from As works of Luther, all the objec* &»» that opposers of revivals urge, continue to barp upon, contrary kheti and results that are every *lite patent. To assert and prove katkalf of our ministers were sab* ***of revivals and protracted meet •P,ka*no weight with oppeaera. To Not to Gettysburg and instance any |k«i Bomber of yoaug men, in any f ytar, who came there fear the por- qualifying themselves tor law •nrtfcine, and by a revival half the ! >mb« give themselves to the miu- isu 7* 4 no argument. Even this tiperience in that institution ^■■rifatre this statement, but Wbnaation amounts to noth- IBf *M| persona determined to op- i 10 * revivals. If you ask such J***>»swhy they reject such fads Nnfiht ‘u evidence, they art* much ***** &kdy U> say they apt. waLa ««•«* than that they arc unscriptu- jjrkjjj* Wib therefore let Luthei their objections, in Ww »hwgu»ge. proceeding I would §*y that I* 1 ar f B *»e«t# ere iu traded only for w * 10 respect Luther’s opiaiou t ^-Wost wonderful interprets SwiptDre, and not ior those r ®«wA him as far behind the rivJH***’ ‘ft 1 * 0 ™ 01 of ^ great J^-euU iu biblical iuterpreta- ^ they themselves have made, "nteqoainted with the rules of ^ flldw* UV * Bg iU a rU<Ie * ge ’ tJizfr' 1 * fofiBw wnturie »- i •7T*~N»»g h> say to such theolog- of i tUat over the grave Few of ns ever stop to think bow old the Bible is. Yet “the Scrip tores are believed by candid critics to contain the most aucient forms of troth now known to men.” With the aid of chronological table*, any one may easily make profitable com parisoos between the antiquity of these books and that of other wri tings aad events. The Scripture* contain the only authentic history of the world before tbe flood. We find in the Pentateuch one or two stanzas of poetry composed in the antedilu rian period. Tbe Hebrew statute* were enacted a thousand yean be fore Justinian reformed the Bornau jurisprudence. In the Bible we have the reoord of chartered rights se cured to the people more than two thousand years before the Magus Charta. What a sensation would be produced if the first chapter of Geu esis should appear for tbe first time in one of the newspapers to-morrow ! Yet there can be no doubt that chap ter contains the oldest writing, twen ty-five hundred years before tbe iu veotion of printing. Xenophon’s re cord of the conversion of Socrates, in his memorabilia, seems as an old book to ns; yet similar topics wore Umnw now kvtag era #M*g an ln»A as thw Mima 4 tranr aaa mrry ikmm awny from tight ag*l hapa a«l ban*- m amt God l Jm tha wtui* nmtwy of God, wo have rwshrt tha gwnpnl. the day mar from m high ha* flaw* oat vhdting the eongvofa all the time. How that iltaotnitioa ot the (mover goes on hi many af the fia ety meetings, partkralaety (Hnappointed spiwter* m some of whom femd high « of beeonsing the “lady « figurative in single btomedaea*. Of eoors* there are ewo*pt»T»". aad many there are who taw* tha pastor’* wife, aad woald anske akaost M MLgM 4 j, , MAM S' 1%. |‘V, j - % Hii j wtrniB *' iwr nrr vunliwi* l frr\ go to nee ber, art with (he idea of peeping under the sofas mud choirs and into the dteoat*, to see if they can find any defect, or to ncrutioise her personal * appearance, whether her collnr in clean, or her hair In to proper order. No, not that; bat the kind member call* to relieve the warn ry wife and mother, to apeak eberr ingly to bar, aad to teH her all the gooiF news reepeetieg the ehoreh. Bee how attentively rtamMstona, aad bow pteaaod she look*, aad kww she regrets not being able to attead church regularly. Bins ply heoaa** she has no aid or sort*towns hi the man reeemtdmg coadiUoos aad pro pert •<*« to rrtigfcm and it* profeooor*; hence it become* our doty and In terest to coadder some of the pro pertte* of oar rtmllttnde, from which “Bisty pto** hopes their *piritoal may be iafirrred and givea to the public by enate of hi* reader*. light Is the most aabtle, or pene trating, swift, spiritual, powerful, purifying, beaatifying, vivifying aad lasting of so balance*. I. It hi the most penetrating, part ly by virtu* of it* subtilty, swift- noon, |trcpK*k>a, momentum—-in short by the will of God. It is absolutely impossible to make a perfectly sense what dark room. A gimlet bole will prsoffy illuminate the largest. It has boon known to reveal the bed of the ooaan to the depth of five hundred foot, with nil upon it, with the din Think of thht, ye fiaalt finding yean before. The works of Tacitus, Plutarch and Qnintflliaa an not modern ; yet the books of the New Testament are older than they. As to the book of Job, its age is beyond conjecture. Those who make it as modern as they can are compelled to place its origin at least one thoasaad yean before Homer. When Phi&m was King of Troy, Job was of remote antiquity. The name of Alexander has no modern sound for as, yet when Alexander invaded Syria, tbe book of Job might have been road before him as the work of aa author more time-honored than the name of Alexander is now. The writings of Increase yonr pastor’s salary, he more oharitable n your doaaitoo* to the larder, go to ssa Ids wlfo wtte kind intentions, not sipisting year visit always to bo retoraod, aad ( can assure yon Shore wMl hr »*> b|y, Plato pp—ihly, A My-*may ha , to ifra An various motions of the it would show, is through rhaps a magnifying glass, »d«re and treasures of the under those circuoMitoacas “help'* can be procured, and your pastor’* wife will he able to attend chare* and soeirty meeting* more rogalarky. and perhaps visit with her husband the member* of hi* fiook Ihoagn tbe claim they have apon bar mill not be any stronger than it waa before, for aha belongs to him and pared with moat of tbe Bible; and the most that the Hindoos can justly claim for their sacred books, the Vedas, is that they were written five hundred years alter tbe death of Moses. The Koran is a book fresh from the pres* compared with the Scriptures. Vi bile Christ represents to hi heaven, it is our duty to endeavor to represent him oa earth: aad them to be living “cputWef Christ—known and read of all men.” tar tha want of a better, to its analogy to tree, divine ttJt however, tts spirituality Oar fallen nature is like a troubled *1- 0 i«AH j •M n» i hi ■XM itively i Hal he n ck him in