aJEZ tude A Miller, Editors .! id> k >S4< Oil. LORD, Oil FA!»«, 01 APTISM."—EPEISIAIS 17:6. ; ~ , _ COLUMBIA, 8 0.. FRIDA *. i. Training Children. O, this wort of training children for God ! Il In a tremendous wort. people think it aMgr. They here never tried it A child pinned in the arms of the young parent ft (• e beaoUfo) plaything. Yen look Into the laughing eyes. Yon ex amine the dimples in the foot Yon wonder at its exqieite organism. BenoUfol plaything! Bat on some nightfall, as you ait rocking the Utlte om, a voice enema to fell niralght from the throne of God, •oyiag; “Thai cJkUd it immortal.” The stars shall die, bat that in «m- merle/ / Sons shall grow old with •ge and perish, bat that u^mmortal! Sow, I know that with many of yon this is the chief anxiety. Yon mnmtiy winh yoor child to grow op Society is fall of worn-oat pleasure seekers—once the leaden of foahioo, now mere balks of humanity, wearily hewing at the cistern of gay Hfe/bat only to kill time. The happiness of the Christian, like the How of the fountain, lasts. The grey-haired man stoops over the same fountain which slaked his thirst when a ruddy boy, and finds it* waters as sweet as ever. Bat there is one crucial hoar in which the difference between the fountain and the cistern is sharply defined—the hour of death. The millionaire can not then, with ail hie gold, pot off a eagle pang, nor bribe the silent messenger to pease a single hoar in his steady eearae. The pleasure-seeker finds his cistern empty—he has bad hie good things. The infidel, with eager, trembling hands, swings his backet, bat it rings against hollow walla. “If I had only served my God,* said the dying cardinal, “as faithful ly as I hare served my king, he would not have forsaken om in my dying hoar." ft is jast at this point that God never does forsake bis people. Many a Christina who has passed through tile with a dim hope troth. If fihlip JWfor wore bneret he would elate that they man all Lutherans, from the king to the beg gar. He would state that they boM the (kith which was hutrnmmilal la the eoeverston of John aad Charts* Wesley, that their missionaries were planting the banner of Christianity In Tr*n finds them today. If he ware hen eel he would elate that from early in fancy they are tanght to the fomlly, by the parochial teoeher, by the min leter, in school sad to the oh arch, eo that they ere among the heat indoe- triaated people to the ehrtotiaa world. He woald forther my that the deepest reverence for reilgme right, bat jos flud it hard work te make them do as yoo wish. Yoa cWk their temper, yoa correct their waywardness { to the midnight yoor pmow is wet with weeping. Yoa have wrestled with God to agooy for the aahaltae of yoor children. Yoa ask am if all soriety kae been ineffectual I answer, JTe/ God understands year heart. He understands how hard yoa have triad to oaks that daughter do needing no more religious toetroe- tion, a single appeal to their wltgi oos feelings, accompanied by a car* tain whim and a frees yard Merer a- Mow or two, wifi eo arouse them aa to bring them to mwrsrofoe by the more. If they are thee sod there tohao, before they have time to eelm doers, and a fear of death, has at the dose found that hope strangriy^bright— the fountain strangely foil. And right, though ah# to so very petu lent and rortleesj end whet peine yon hare bestowed to teaching that eoo to walk to the paths of upright Jttkmesod became the first ■ft Gurievas Vasa, who be- mf%ig is 1523, strangely favor- I# wformatjon, and the wort mtiM tedt fbe Synod of Oere- ri,1l Ififo, anoctioned the refor- JlB, red the Synod of Upsal in if Mtlriiied and completed it. ttirij foe whole of Sweden be- jtolatiwran. Norway was indu- ■<|§§fl Drum ark soon followed. Ill whole of 8candinavis be- rei lefreiau and remains so to ii&j. I have not space to show to as% snd gratefully Sweden JWJGwbt. for the nnucioles of ItireinBKtMm through ♦TnSTavus dittos, in the 30 years’ war. Let t suffice to say that the record of snd Norway, as a Christian main- wrt; but not one word of Mtherity for It. Jast such mtariseaHm trev ereed Asia Minor and taught the churches planted by Paul to Galatia and drew here. In bin Kptotto to the Galatians be does act eompttomnl the taker of those mitoiommrim very highly, as for instance in tfro 4th nml 5th etor**** aer yornr tomhremm defoced with the toesaeeto, before the divine reepooae will name j hut ha who hath declared, “I wfil ha a God to time, ami thy T uTmfT nr i 11 1***“ onr 8avioor, “Go ye into all the world and .teach all uatioos," to go ' into a Christian land aad make proselytes! Jost sack mitmonmry work we would expect from the Bsptist cbnrrh, for they do not regard other deoomina tions aa members of Christ** chwrdb. A majority of their large member ship is composed of the baptised children of other churches. This we most expect, for they avow their [principles aboveboard. Ilia diffbr ent with Methodists. They call tba I Lutheran* brethren. They assert [that we are an orthodox, Christian I church. They find no objection to I oar docirtoes. They are however rift! is gnu id, noble and th^juople, for over three ceutn* ft rite been industrious, moral, fpl sad withal deeply pious. The htouary spirit was developed as vjiJ as 1705, and before the middle f&e ltkh century these pious, God- TOagnen were formed in the four Pfopn of the globe, and the aris tas stick they established, liter- % “from Greenland’s icy uiouu- ta^ to India’s coral strand,” exist rtj? as moQumeuts of their labor tajiety. These people are coming, enemy as a messenger to them of peace. But what shah we say of him, whom death strikes down hi the midst of health and happiness and growing activities, and expanding usefulness V Shall we count him happy to that he dies! Yes, the eoice from heaven bids ws call him such. If, indeed, it be to the Lord that he has died. He rents from his labors, forever rests, from all that bitterness and pnintolnest, from all that weary toil and tronbta, with which Ms earthly Christian tabors wore carried on ; bat, though resting from all that injects into these earth ty labors the etomeat of suffering. to groves the brood to vita hooarrer will, 1st him take liar sf Ikfo freely.” fo# ktaghf IfiB, a tong and weary rirenit, perhaps of pm, la establish a ngbtcoosneee of thtorowa And when they have ektriad the whole amphitheatre of Advantages of Sabbath Schools. The Sabbath school may be mods 1 oue of the most important means of 1 promoting the growth and usefulness « of Christiana The Christian should be there to avail himself of Its privileges, and to lucre*** lU power for good. The young convert, who absents himself from the Sabbath school, will not be likely to become a very thriving or useful Christian. By union with the Sabbath school, yon will come into intimate conaee- tiou with the most progressive aad spiritual portion of the church to which yon belong, and through the j various Sabbath school gatherings and associations, yoa will «os*e into connection and sympathy with the most active portion of other church es. You will thus experience influ ence*, which will bear you ouward to the development of a higher chris tian life than yon would otherwise attain. Besides this, the study of dirioe truth as there systematically par sued, is the very thing that young converts as well a* older Christians need in order to growth iu the knowl edge of divine truths. It ssaksu the study of the Bible more interesting by the various help* which It affords. And the diligent studeut of the Bible is better prepared to listen to the ex position aud di sensei on of divtow troth in the sermon, *aud more di# po*ed to engage in religious reading, i ft is safe to say, that you will hare I clearer and more enlarged views of cistern after naotbsr, are brought bark te the forsaken fountain, aad obtain la a mossest what they have vilely sought for year*—a foU talva The supply of the fountain to to • xhaesti bta—ihot of the utotem Km Had. Whs* the pilgrim has dipped undignified repose. Hi# worts shall follow him. When be takes np on that resurrection morn the body which be to to chrry with him into hto new nod everlasting habitation, be shall taka op again that service which before in hto embodied state he had beee prosecuting. Whatever difference there may be betwixt the kind of eervtoe demanded of him now and the kind of eervtoe com mitted to him thee, there shall be so diffsreaoe in the powers of intellect, of emotion, of will, of notion by which the services are carried oe. No difference but this, that those power*, ‘trained sow to their first efforts amidst the sins aad sorrows, trials and difficulties of the present life, acting here weekly and iaeon stoutly, raised there above the touch of ell defiling elements, with all with to and around, prompting to united, foil, untiring, harmonious effort, busy oe they shall be, in their very motion there shall be rest And foe rest of that sinless, eternal, untoiling, un wearied activity, to which, by its ever doing foe will of God, foe soul shan be over growing te Its own power and capacities, aad ever rising toto closer and closer communion with the eternal—that by eminence shall be the rest toto which foe re deemed in foe resurrection world shell miter.—Dr. Ho*** laddforeet, tom to easy to give that wait II; IS impart IS to Uw foty, ioreiy does not need •tatries. The testimony of the in the above extract, to the sad xeal” of the good peo tatokl be a wholesome rebuke possessed of Christian ^hes. Does he uot see that down his mittionary work, bio, W ith “surprise aud ^ 10 » eootemptable proselytism f °nhj- dig{| 0 uorable to any “ta charch ! If I were to steal 2*gkhor’s aheep, j might flud of an apology to the as- that they were poor,'starving .fold without pasture, and that “The God which tod sre sli my Ufr toeg were this day , to# aegwt which ii iismil me from all evil, btaes the tadef With that history, aad many serh bwfbrs them, never tat Gad's ht the heard, ts staggering through ysera, quality those- truths which pertain to the worship and service ot God, that you will make greater progress to know, ledge and holiness by attending the s.ibbafo-aehool.- Ckriotia* fltorfSery. roe unujMU* M rating passion, 1 and of both lives foe