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OKE LORD, ORE PA1IH, Oil
AFT1SM.”—EPHESIAIS 17:6,
OOUKBU, 8 ft. MMTiSEPTEMBER S.,187.1.
Communications.
5. I believe ell thin, bat neverthe
Selections.
fecw temptations will beset me. aim) I
led that many yield to them mm!
Ail! away; may' 1 nett therefore apply
to myself the saying: I most do a*
others do t
! Answer: God forbid l Do no! be
Ifko them, for year Lord says, Zeph.
’|M • 12, M l will alao leave In the mklat
df thee an afflicte^and poor people,
aid they shall trast la the name of
the Lord.” * And listen to the w#d*
of your Saviour, Matt, vlt : 13, 11 :
‘•Kilter ye in at the strait gate; for
irtde is the gate, sod broad m the
way , that leadeth to destruction, and
taauy Dare be whieh go to Ihsrest;
tmeaase stmdt la Mm gate, sad aar
row is the way, whieh leadeth aato
life, and few there be that tod it.*
" 6. Bat most I not obey my supe
riors, although they are Koman
Catholics Y
Auswer: M»»*t asanredlf : b«t not
tanoe which is laid up in heaven far
all believers.
ftlMbted for the La the ran Visitor.
sm** 1 Foundation of
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fgg AUOSBUBO CJONKKSHION.
fie seven last articles treat of the
•tea* which the papacy had intro-
fcerf, snd which our Evangelical
{jtfbcmo Church has corrected
ffcsw : Art. 22, Of both kinds
|fitto LMd^ Supiier)— Matt, xvvi :
If j Ait $3, Ol the Marriage of
priests—Tim. iii ; Art. 24, Of the
;:Mgy»iCor> X and xi; Art 2a, Of
ftHtodW- IV -Ijtii aixl 1* - Art
M Of the Distinction of Meats
" Odf? Art 27, Of Monastic Vows
Jbtt.iv; Art. 28, Of Ecclesiasti
,*1 Fewer—John xx.
A fopte-bcarted Christian ought
amdiagly to abide in the pure
frmgebcAl Lutheran religion and
Mae, because it is established
toyasd eostradiction that they are
a every point based on the revealed
sad of God, they lead directly to
Cbto, they afford inexhaustible
•oafcrt sod consolation in trials and
*i*»008, and they guarantee eter
wl life to every believer. Moreover,
IKMPTATI058,
» Batter how strong, are success
My net and conquered by the use
Mtbe word of God. A pious, chria-
. toa Ban, who lived long ago, has
proved this by his answers to the
Mowing questions:
. 1* How can I obtain comfort when
1 aa persecuted on account of the
Evangelical Lutheran doctrine 9
Answer: Seek your comfort where
fevid fouad it, when afflicted—P».
nriii: 6. Trust in the won! of Jesus
ttoist. Matt v : HM2— «• Blessed
we they which are persecuted for
righteousness' sake, for theirs is the
hofdosi of heaven. Blessed are ye
wkm men shall revile you, and per
•to. jw, aad shall say all manner
deni against you falsely, for my
•to. Rejoice and be exceeding glad,
jj JO«r reward in heaven:
thigh wen before you.”
1 Bat others dwell iu safety and
poms. What have 1 done, and why
as 1 ao severely persecuted because
l to • Lutheran I ; t
iagwer: Do not look at others,
lit examine yourself and confess
nth Jeremiah xiv : 7-9 : “O Lord,
b«Mh aur iniquity testify against
«%Jo tboa it for thy name's sake: 1
fu oar backslidiugs are many; we
tow Based against thee. Yet thou,
P lard, art in the midst of us, and
•eare called by thy name ; leave ns
to” Others are also subjected jo
totor trials and afflictions, ami all
•toia this evil time daily expect
Btoeotiou to overtake them ; there-
1. It to a amam sMv to mp
pout that mtototuw am #!••)• at
liberty to coavares with aayWy
who a»ay mil >pgs I torn, la my
find pastoral BtlkBMl aa «M lady
it is oot optional with you, my
friead, whether you shall Live on a
redeemed earth, and in times on
which the ends of the age are come;
it Is only optional with you how you
shall Uve here. It can not be with
you as if youSaviour bad not
sanctified the world with bis feet,
and aweeteaed LM air with his chsri
ty, and judged it by his cross. These
supernatural facts are a part of the
estate you occupy. Neither your
ingratitude nor your caprice can
root them out, or clear you of the
accountability they bind upon you.
dam tore year heart cat upon the
ttofi wbtob mam pans away. Kvea
Minus |aa lava may to btodrmooc* to
«»n ttsati .
EJSJT »> the
<>r 8 8 PwUl
world within, the world
•totor to to apiritaMQy
Mediatorial ministry, or of the
reckoning that must follow it. In
any case, therefore, the scale <>t
your choice does not hang evenly
balanced. Your right decision is al-
ready weighted with tbe coming of
the Sou of man. The way of life
has bis light upon it. Choose you
this day whether you will sene, iu
joy, tbe Master of the house, or turn
arise My tug:
lata (hrut.*
M gti a hgt there th»wg* with earnest
dour, sad who straws U» fit himwelf
more aad mars by daffy exercise to
nseivt heavenly mysteries. For
tht* to aot tto wort of one day.
Bat It to by striviag la this way—
►ns are re-
rers at once,
IPV* cent, is
gar >n a very ebreefol tear. *Wtoa
cat* I have aa haas with y«o T
**3tovmrF said I, toaa rkothM)
Think of a arna asking tor a wtogfia
hour’ Ur had hotter tor* ashed
that pa will shortly find your whole
tdh fall of ja> aad poos*, -the Spirit
brnrtag aiWmas with yoar spirit that
yoa srs* aar of “them that are bin*
‘"Till* laslaat !* I rrpllnl <M
eoarar the area had oolhiaf la m$.
It »aa easy to «aa ito* «*■—•«» was
nothing la baa, aad thrrwtorw lt*£j
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_ ^ a vffifipFT * Wfifififfitpi
firs a saratoaa mmtrnm
to sarerat iwqairy, bat shat the dsar
vary sharply apaa all gwaalpa aad
MPAp,
datoll with you, nasbling
mil yaaaaaM la him mot*
aad to humbly aokaowl-
mwv* Ittrivr to be
that jraa ire of Godto
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tto great thing*, tto
Aa agad Christian mao was ua bin
death tod, and was happy iu the
prosper* of moon entering into the
joy of his Lord. He had a brother
who tod made the world tto great
object of hto hto, aad who, of course,
was vary poor towfird* God, and
with aff Ida wacwllx aburwdaeae was
OMPANY
KTJIlfiCr.
13, 1873.
M- 15, 187*,
ill lie ran
to to not feel aggrieved, but re-
jto rather, and remember what
gays, i: 2, “My brethren,
«w»t it all joy when you fall in|o
hrm temptations ; knowing this,
tot the trying of your faith work-
to patience.”
& i admit willingly that it is bet-
torto be chastened of the Lord in
to life than to be eternally pun-
tod in tbe next on account of our
#to* but must I leave parents, wife,
todien, friends, money, and prop
to »nd become a wanderer ?
Answer: Bear what God com
toded Abraham, Gen. xii: 1, 2~-
“tot thee out of thy country, and
too thy kindred, and from tby
tober'a house, uuto a land tliat I
tow thee : and I will make
* toe a great natiou, and 1 will
thee,” &c. Bear also what
to blessed Lord says, Matt, t: 37,
“He that levefch father or moth-
w Bore than me ia not worthy of
to; and he thatloveth son or dangh-
^•are than me ih not worthy ot
wm Mieve whatsoever la writ ten ia
the law and the prophet*. The d«c
tribe of Christ was railed .a new
doctrine, Mark i: 27, “What thing
it thisf what new doctrine ia thin f*
but that did not hurt it any, for it in
the troth.:
.10. But they nay bather wan n
rrnrgade monk
Answer: Haul 4aa treated ia the
name utnuner, when the Epicurean*
in Athens asked: “What will thin
babbler say f” And yet, Haul wan
provialoa fm ths world to ooom\ and
had mm* wlen ol enjoying an iaberi-
t*«oe beyt^Nl the^grare.
Ills dviug bmlber had jyiveg
greater attenUua to tbe acquirement
of iroe riehre than Uijhe realisation
of worhUy wdalih ;*lM»d in hia in-
ftrmitifw nod nieknesa h<- required
thatehrinttaii friend* nhould miaiater
to bin mweaHitma, as the holy w<^
men ministered of their suhstanee to
the Uni
When hm rich Iwotber cmmov to
net him be apbranfed him for giving
so mnch attention to the things of
God, and givmg away an much of
hts aubatBBBe for religious parposea,
aad subjecting himself to poverty,
when, if ha hod followed his ad vice
aad oxampla, be might now have
been la the eqjoyment of plenty,
instead of bring, aa he termed it, a
harden u. his friends.
W ith great nalmaaaa and earnest-
neaa tbe dying saint replied—waving
hia*washed hand toward hia poor,
naif deceived brother—“Quint !
Quiet! Whist, whist, Tom 1 I have
a kingdom no began upon, and an
inheritance that I have on yet naan.*
Who was the richer of the two
brothers f The one who had hit
good things here In this perishing
world, or the ooe who was begotten
again to a lively hope by the resur
recSten of Jeans Christ from the
at attf Are ytoLsp weak “In the
free* which Is ii£ tiri*t Jean*,* end
, .... —a s ua i#Hr ii wife.<1 (*11.4^
to* rri*MH|fW | ll *" ••tel lll»n|p» Csf TJSIM
present world, 1 * Mutt it is wfrh dif
fi. .(*», b eg fletevmiix- *rtiwe
jrosMr heart Is «mm* Hlxed,* or to
whsf It im most loeHoed 9
.orrfre Ideas. O «f sso, “ettive to
make f oot railing and election wore *
Id these word* iHre before job. nod
horn hi Mm ayre of year mind. For
y ffn* wnwpj hi|{ m ifiniii pidcp
Happy are jn If ye shall so consider
ii. sod fcH alarm. Thrry not ia
this place of aaerftainty. Stay aot
la all this pinto ef spiritual unrest
and worldly anxiety . For the grace
of God in hindered by the lore of
earthly thing*, and even by aa aai
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oho oaderwiaii d. W* hove no time
infie .with aaab psaado. la a
sense thff ran ho* appreciate, it is
*wilf aayth»ng hat eowy to preorb
up in victory. There is a happy me
dium bet ween sadness which is usual
ly called melancholy and fanatical
joy ; and this is what the religion of
Jesus demands. It is a solemn but
not a sad thing to live, and true
Christianity elevates and purifies
tbe spriug of joy and cheerfulness,
by removing all that is low and
trifling and furnishing the highest
motives to rational and healthful
pleasure. It transforms the sorrows
which work death in the unholy into
means of sanctification, so that af
flictions are ooonted light in view of
the “eternal weight of glory” which
they work out, and the peaceable
fruits of righteousness which they
prodnoe in the heart and the life of
the Christian.
Let the followers of Jesurconsider
it both their privilege and their doty
to maintain a spirit of cheerfulness,
and to manifest the fruit of the
Spirit, whieh ia love, joy, peace, and
cheerfulness. Thus they will honor
their Master, beoommend religion,
brighten their own lives and the
lives of others, and diffuse elements
of love, joy, peace, and cheerfulness
wherever they go. “How beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the
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aad with teoderamm an healing that
their service becoatea iavalsabte to
the church. Tbara are other area
who are aa ataalfwdy called of God
to ptescb to crowd*, and to direct
the thinking and the energy of whole
eoogTegatioos; they eon not vtolt;
they can not apeak to iadivldMla;
they are mighty are ia the preaaoeo
of n throng, hot bashful sod ailent
In private. Do yoa undervalue aa
express train bemuse It does not sot
you down at yoar own door f Do
yoa speak slightly of the pabtic
A Fraykr Schenk.—I * pr»n open
iug the Anderson School of Natnrn!
History, on Fenikeoe Island, Profes
sor Agassiz, after shading to their
peon liar, surroundings, proponed the
observance of “a moment of ailenrer”
for asking tbe divine blessing^ Act
ing upon this suggestion, the stu
dents reverently bowed their heads,
nsd the Professor, with devout mien,
stood uncovered before thorn, sll
united in silent supplication. An
qtchange says: “We know of few
finer pictures tbnu that one mi the
Island of Penikeae, when our ae
kuow lodged modern king of science,
with bare bead and reverent mien,
amid the scattered stones, and sea
galls’ nests, sod the rude gatherings
of his projected work, stood with
his forty pupils, waiting on the
Almighty Creator*
or what ye shall drink * If yoa
eoald feel more anxiety for a while
abewt eternal things, yoa weald
altty-eight
inutdw
itli Csro
tiUo watt*
on Cli*5*
KrtitroftA
Angnd*
n W
' to And be that taketh not his
aad folio we th after me, i» not
Wt i ’ ■ -*
- - f n
•toby of me.” j . r ,
L Bat if i depart with au empty
Ptos, who will support me 1
Atom; U is not a difficult thing
** yoar Creator to provide for you.
patriarch, Jacob, declared, Gen.
tuii; 10: »‘L am not worthy of the
ban of all the mercies, and of all
troth, which thou hast showed
•Bo tby servaut: for with my 8ta ®
1 psweil over this Jordan, and now
to 1 become two bands.” And youi
^premises with an oath, Mark
1 129: “Verily I say unto you, there
i* ne mau that hath left home, or
^«tbreo, or sister, or father, or mo
lh «r, or wife, or children, or lands,
w— -
yoor pocket f Every man moat keep
to bin own ordef# within hia owa
sphere he may ho anoqnaled, ytl
of It he may ha hot I
shorn Bomann.
3. It la a common mistake to sop
pose that bemnae a minister dooa
fhlly Axed oo him. Ilia only be
yoa hove learned the depth of
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Dior reader, while yoa.provide
for thing* bones* in the sight of
agon, lot yoar chief care be, nqfi to
be rich la tbe worMPs estimation, Bat
to be rich la the estimation of God—
to have e good hope through grace
of eqjoytof the ovorloatiog ioberi
Bah
®y sake, and the gospels, but he
11 receive a hundred fold now in
gospel of peace and bring
tidings of good tilings* Ma
Lord^help us to be cheerful
n AW*
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Not a single «ia of a |ieoitent sin
t«*r remains unforgiven, and just as
little should a single aiu remain in
IPMMMmi and evil influence.