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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