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•W"«' • '■ W'lirr— Revs. Rude l Miller, Editors OME LORD. ORE FAITH, Olft BAPTISIT-BPHESIAHS IV:6. VOL fr'-NO. 32 OOLUBIA. S. C., Original m well •• |K»y*r only of my own plraaure, or of it* •to- influence a port n.y»olf 1 take my mMUm, tbe seat. Yeoder L a young mao who »m, womau and ha* been enticed to the place, not ipoa toe mmm of without aomt misglvittjca of con the interests of aol—aa; he cast* kia eye up, and hrad la tbe sola **v» to himself with much aatisfac qaeecioo which Uoe, -Ah t there la Geo. Fiak. He M every ooe feel 1* a good Christian mao. I beard f dangerous aad kirn deliver aa addreea to a Babbeth t diabonorabl* to acheol tbe other Sunday; aorely I «r aa veil. Tbit moat be all right In company corn pa r inculcated aad oy.* No, 1 * maid tbe noble Christian to, will wield a mao, “I cau oot lend my iuflueaee to w of reform.— that wb wfe oorraptiog tbe yoath of our land, and debaaing socle ty.” confessions, systems; faith in which la important, bat faith io which (yea, a general faith ia the written Word) may be fatally mistaken for foith in have written ia the resell of patient and earnest refection, rim! embrace* the honest convictions of one who haa ba<i ample opportunity to efe Uin correct Information on the mA Jeet. Reviewing the peat history of For the Lutheran Visitor Ooiliges sad Hirh School*. NXfUBSR lit. The Wbm> Wltoto Experience la a tatiafaciory ta •tractor A man • Uttered with a peiofel dieaaaa may deny the fact. whore it Usteto, |Lr j^OManadm iLaMmai ; » «*%* % wwnrw'^sebji example, death, resnrrectioB, are ob leetively aad aa Inactively, the grand, io forming, controlling rnle of faith to bia disci plea. “ Follow am 1 9 When Jeans waa upon earth this was tbe abridgement of all his doc trine*, tbe epitome of all bia aermon*, bia whole body of divinity; and this is still bia demand, refusing to obey which we “lack one thing, 9 aad arc fatally defective ia ovary thing. “Fol low me; 9 Me, not a religion ; Jeans came not to teach, bat to be our religion. Me; not a dogma. Me; not a doctrine. Me; net linen de cencies, apocyphal successions, mys- j*#r Bade: The scholarships no ^bt saved the College from sua- jioiioa, and perhaps from absolute gifsie, at a most critical and trying piHod iu its history ; but the relief lid brought was only temporary, ffoact suppose it waa ever expect- # that they would accomplish any thing more than to enable tbe fasti- pica to tide over a difficult crisis In h affair*- Experience baa shown tie [visa to be cumbrous, and in n iMsU measure impracticable. The {emits attained by it have been by maesns satisfactory, and I da not ©or church and looking forward to its probable fotore, 1 foei, and feel deeply the transcendent Importance of the Colttgw. To »y mind it is * question of life or death to oor church In Month Carolina, hecaaaa 1 do not think any church eon soooeed and prooper aft this enlightened day that neglect* the grant interests of ednoa Uou at her own doors. Do not teU that ho Is taboriog faith folly daughters to the Lot her a a Colleges in Virginia aad North Oamllaa ta he educated. If wo are so poor aad destitute. of enteruciae. ml mm hum Roligloa haa to do with the indi daol—with the heart, the intellect, *d the whole manner of life. Wn a to repeat nod behave for oar Ives * we ore to be born again and ilk. la novaeos of life for ourselves. can not, or «fR|M real ©V own Oollega, few abd fax beta will 1* tbe »tod«dta seat ebri WW«t! ta.ttt.Oo... u»l will at ooo* begin fto retrograde I deeftoe, aad other denominate hundred fed fitly scholar- •fee ♦•Aril Xlhtt Fete .old arc nW’iely f or wRMr that are Coosid- htgbt teas Is committed to fer 1 ft Are we will mg, having from God, raise* tbe sou! above tbe senses and passions; ini breeds in it temperance, chastity, self-control; cherishes in it that abiding conscious ness of the preseaoe and power of Jeans which will cause it to be al ways perfecting its heavenly facul ties, having “its fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life. 9 —Mer. Rickard Fuller, I). D. wWsuyur A otf* t*i Ktttj dr activity of Christiana. Nothing elae oan ho a anbsutate for tbs grace of God la the heart and for its manifea- tetioo la the life. Hence it ia that to contrive, awl m or femMIMto of toft kind, M* ! expfct to ccmiiua© the College, ImakWftft k firet dare Institution. » kfot Ik fed* nwtters squarely in »fiiee, and to know exactly what •re doing and ai*ft going to do. is both unmanly aad unwise to Irk ear dntyhfe thin matter, and feavor to shift our own respond ity to* the Shoulders of another, h its matter of great and vital we in which every member, from the least to the greatest, should feel ; ft deep and Abiding interest- If it i be true, aa soma timid and deepen- i dent persons among us seem to think, that the Lutheran Church in ; j South Carolina is uunble on account; t of the poverty of her people, the , vwit of union, intelligeoee, enter- j ^ f pise and energy, or any other cause, j to have a college of her own, the , . wooer the unpleasaot and homili- ^ atiug fact ia known and acted upon, ( the better it will be for all concerned. | If wa are content to take a subordi nate and dependent position in the j t Southern Church, and look to Lu theran institutions which have been j t bailt up by tbe enterprise aud energy j of oor brethren in other States for oar educated ministers and other ■ professional men, we should. no L longer deceive ourselves and bold ,, out delusive hopes to our people, but j ( we should at once cease our unaatis- I fcetory aud doubtful efforts in this j direction. I . I There are objections, I kuow, on the part of some to the present loca-1 tkm of the College. I admit that j Walhalla has its advantages and ^advantages, and such would be j the case with auy location that <jould j he selected. Whatever may be tbe j *operior claims and advantages of j other places, it is useless now to cou j dder them, as the conditions on trhich tbq Institution was located at Walhalla were such, that its removal ! ooder existing circumstances would ; beuuwise, if not indeed impractice- ! hie. TA* Byuod at its last meeting very properly and wisely, I think, settled fe&nitely the agitation of fhe ques- | *ion of removal, which had only done | by locating the College perm a- tently at Walhalla, provided tbe; Pfepte of that towu expend as much ; ** two thousand dollars on tbe pres-! building. The people of W'al- j halls are not able to raise that sum n 8ht away, but I believe they will | ••ke all tbe required improvements | ou ike house and grounds iu a year | * two - And in this connection it is | *•11 to bear in mind the fact, that it **»ot the location of itself that will •••tain the College at auy place. w hile there are perhaps other placet w bere a larger local patronage could •t ftfat and for a time be obtained, it *ould not obviate the necessity of endowment,, aud the nrincinal •tpport would - ultimately have to C * KR6 other portions of the •hurch aud from a distance. . * n c ® n tl»*i«n I would say that I tave eiidetivored to present this im- kfetaut matter to the iniods of our thee* aad activity hi them are not grace la the heart, aer can they be a deraace ia fevor of oonveraioos on the Forage field, la the Sandwich islands slows “the number of per sons received into Church fellowship oa profession of their faith is more than equal to the present population haa a wort to do within bit own tool, or rather Is to seek to have a work doe* la hts owe heart, that he may Mvo properly before God, and that he mey discharge faithfully his de ltas te his fellow area. It is not too meeh to say that what Is most need ed al the preeret thee to give ad* dlttaaal power to oer ccricwastkal reform, la a higher degree of (personal piety hi iodivldeel Christians. This to of prime importance, *»d should raariv* the most prayerful etteattaa feme all Ihs devoted follow ere of the lx*d Jeeas Ohriat Witkoot ^fifo some ef high expeefteftaaa ire dhter- teta are likely to be eadly dieap- died of wounds Inflicted on himself, In 1619. The atheist Hobbes (died la 1671) always described Christianity m a the human eye. Baft it ia interest teg to know that outside the bounds eft Christendom there are Jaar tkou send centers ef chrieftfen work aad gospel teaching, 2,500 congregations, 272,000 commauieaate, aud 1*350,000 rhri Strifes 9 * The Rev. Dc. Malleue, Correspond iag Secretory of theleadou Misaiou ary Society, aftya: “In mere then tereefemdred ialanda of Ffestern and Southern Polyneria the gospel haa swept hcatoonlam entirely away. The miamondriei of Man 6»«r ^eat eometfee (English) ha we gathered 14M,ooa people mim dwiffiaai in fiaanoe, of whom a quarter of million are living, and 66,000 of there are on toe life IFAuhigne tiler bearing Haldane bemeu depravitj, he what in vividly are-Docnpying they will wel- lowiag Christ and Jjphme ef anfipflMl