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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
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