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Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$300 per Annum, In Advance VOL. 111.] WINNSBORO, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1869. [NO.5 [From the lanner of the South i An Irish Maiden's Love. Not in jov could I forget thee, For tha pulses of my heart Can thrill whit gladness only While they Ireablo where thoru art. There nro anany wiles of tungio. Taugh I by fairies 'neath the skies, Buit I final any spell of beauty In a pairuf Irish eyes. Not, in grief could I forget theo; II. would not be hard to bear Nor the tear-drops half so bitter If the thought of thee were there Nor the thorny way so toilsome, 'so wearisone the strife, Wit i thy tenderness the hencoi And the promise of my life. Not. in time cotid I forget thee, For the brightness of thy sile Is a mnemory forever, And a beatty all the while. They my talk of Friendship's treason Words are worthless-truth is sit ange; There's a tenderness, Mavourneen, Titne can never touch or ohange. Wealth could not tetnpt me from thee, For no weight of yellow gold Can be meted in the measure With a consciettee never sold, t ith an honor all untarnished In the world's polluted mart No, I find my mine of rielaes In an honest Irish heart. Blessings rest upon thee brightly; As the dew of even lies, May no sorrow ever darken The blue heaven of thine eyes, For in every tlaoight I hold thee Abive all, where e'er thou art, Anal I love thee with the fidness Of an Irish Maiden's beart. Uses of Knowledge. [BY THE REV. G. R. nRACKETT.] My people are destroyed for lack ofknowl edge.-Iloa. 4 : 6. Man was originally a creature of wants, and when created was placed in a condition where everything re quisite to supply his varied wants was stored away in the bosom of nature, and in the constitution of his own be. ing. Had he continued in a state of innocence, his physical, intellectual, and moral well-being must have been secured by the continual acquisition . ' knowledge from these two sources, i#lcss his Maker should be pleased to advance him to a higher state of exis tence by means of a supernatural revelation. The effect of sin, however, was to create new wants, beside introducing innumerable evils ; a curse was pro. nounced upon the earth, as well as upon the transgressor, and physical and moral suffering was the judicial consequence. The necessity of knowl edge must now be measured by naan's resent wants and miseries, as a fal. Ten creature. We must take man as find him, individually and socially, in his unnatural, abnormal, condition. Viewing him with reference to his present wants and sufferings, we shall attempt to show that the lack of knowledge is destruction of every in terest of man. Let us verify this pro position by an appeal to facts. What is man's present condition? What are his wants and sufferings ? 1. As a physical being, he needs food, raiment and a habitation, and had he no other wants than those which pertain to the body, then hav ing enough to eat, and comfortable clothing and shelter, he ought to be as contented as a fox in his hole, or a pig in his pen :an animal nature has onl~y animal wants, and when these are, satisfied, the end of life is answered.| It is a heart-rending reflection, enough to make angels weep, that millions of mankind have no loftier apurpose than this, and al1 the knowl edge they seem to desire is that which ~,brute instinct alone is sufficient to ob. tain If man has no higher end of life, reason is altogether an unnecessa *ry faculty. He has no need of truth, abut only such raw materials, as the Sland 'the bee, the ox and ass, in e otly seek to gratify their Immedi ate wants. But man Is a rational and social jbeing. As God has made him, It is criminal to be content with bare food 'raiment and shelter-to be content rl~with that which satisfies a dog or a %rabbit, when ho has the means and opportunites9f obtaining, more. 2. As an inteliectual being, man has corresponding wants. The very na ture of the mental faculties, as Aris Stotle observed two thousand Jyears a "o, Indicates that truth is the end ittended by their Creator. If' the 4ee was mdae to see, and the ear to , s the mind was made to know. 'has appetites which knowledge Salnen 'an satisfy-a life, Wvhieh truth jaone can nourish. There can be no "lhealthy development of our being 4:without the love, pursuit and posses 'i~sion of truth, any more than without :arelish for our food or an affection oour species. a The relation which our Maker has astablished between our nature and bo external world, Indicates the ource of that knowledge which meets the wants of the body and mind. The aterial used contains all that man's 'aahysioal necessities require. There Is ot an animal want for which the all iso and beneficent Oteatot hte~ not ? ade suitable and ample provision. very appetite has Its appropriatis ource of gratification. The "eouth s a vast storehouse wrhere everghlpgis reasured up, seleceIe, and arranged or his use, '--every variety of food o nourish him, boundless forests to jrih mat jral for h I ellings, nexhaustible beds of coal to warm urm, every species of mineral and me :alliu ore to enrich him and promote ais comfort. In a similar manner, it might be ihown that the earth is adapted to mian's rational nature. The material system, is exquisitely adjusted to his mental constitution, All the laws and agencies of nature are so arrang ad as to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge The uniformity of nature in her regular laws is ada pted to a being who acquires knowledge by observa Lion, abstraction, comparision and 3lassification. As a rational being roience opens to man her boundless fields for the exer Dise and unlimited expansion of his faculties, affording him at once the widest scope for improvement, and an inexhaustible source of enjoyment. As a being endowed with imagination, and raste, he can contemplate the beauti ful and the sublime in the actual world, and soar into the regions of possible beauty-evoke the hidden forms of nature and give them a "lo Dal habitation and a name ;" and thus entertain himself indefinitely with visions of beauty, majesty, and glory, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, and which he has no power adequately to express; affording him the most refined and elevated intel lectual joys, filling him with noble and lofty aspirations, and elevating him above the gross and sensual things of earth. The graceful forms and delicate coloring of nature, her mag nificent landscapes, her gorgeous sun sets, her sublime mountains, oceans, and cataracts, respond to his love of the beautiful, the grand, and the sub lime; and he is endowed with that marvelous creative and constructive power of calling into existence new worlds, and peopling them with his own ideal creations. Again, there are emotions in the human breast which nothing but the gush of music will satisfy-sources of joy and happiness which nothing but her magic key can unlock. Now the earth is a vast sounding gallary re sponding to these emotions and sensi bilities. God has inlaid the princi pies of harmony in man's nature, and Riled the world with music to awaken and develope them. le formed the spirit of the air, and set in motion those invisible wings. He contrived the cunning mechanism of the ear to respond to those mysterious undula tions, and framed the soul to inter pret their hidden meaning. 'He gave to the extended wire its melodious vibrations, and breathed into the or gan pipe its solemn voice.' Thus music meets an essential want of our nature, and comes as a divine nessen ger to supply this felt necessity, and preside over the mysterious operations of the soul. We observe further, that the forms of matter are not unchangeably fixed, but capable of infinite combinations, to suit our infinite needs; and this is adapted to the genius of man, whom God made in his own image, when he endowed him with a creative power, out of existing materials to construct now forms of matter, in the sphere of fino art, and useful invention, as well as new forms of beauty and sublimity, in the realm of poetlo and imagina tive literature. Now put these facts together. On the one hand, we find man endowed by his Creator with reason, imagina tion, taste, the love of music, the power of invention. On the other hand, we find nature singularly adapted to such a being in her uniformity and variety, her analo gies and correspondenoies, her images of beauty and grandeur, her music, and materials for instruments of mu sic, her mutable. and mobile forms of matter, ausceptible of infinite change and combination. Thus it appears that it was our Creator's design, that Nature should furnish the 'waterial for the supply of our physical and rational wants. Only In so far as these wants -are supplied can ye be happy. But these materi als to meet our' wants must be known and applied. They are obtained by knowledge, and this knowledge is de nominated Science, Philosophy, Poe., try, Art, Literature, according as it is applied to our various 'wantg, to satisfy our reason, imagination, inven tion, and taste. If man had never sinned he would have had similar physical and rational wants. The fall dld'not destroy any organs of the body, or faculties of the mind, but "wakened and perverted them; nor alter the relations of man to natute,but deranged them. Were the race In a state of innocence they would still acquire knowledge by stu 4l7 ,audrqfeotlon, though we might dispst ,gith book~s and machines : reason,' 'Imanation, all the sympa thioes'nd -amotions of the mind would still' find their gratification in the inateial world. IDat sin has dsetroyed the haelth of thebody and mind lntredueed disease ands suffering-. Labov -0 isased and becomes. toil and drudging. The earth Is. etbrsefr hma'w sake,s with therns' se 'rihte, barrue nd sterility, aarshes and- fenE, breeling lIestilence and death. Por all these physleal evils,; conse quent upon sin, natnre cantains abn. dant provision. Nature may be lik ened to a vast storehouse where every thing is sold that man needs for his temporal wants and evils, and the prihe is labor. The mind of man must work upon matter and dig out his supplis-in other words acquire knowledge, and apply it in relieving his necessities and sufferings. She has her apothecary store, as well as her grocery, her market, her dry-goodo store, her machine shops. Mental and bodily labor, in the ac quisition and application of knowl edge, will furnish the remedies for disease, and the means for removing sterility, for cultivating and enriching the soil, for removing the causes of malaria and the drudgery of toil. Compare the nineteenth century with the tenth, and observe how knowledge has developed the nature of man, re moved physical evil and suffering, and added to the sum of human happiness. But for knowledge man were a savage, or a barbarian. low true it is that men are destroyed for lack of knowl edge! They perish by disease and pebtilence, by drudging and exhaust ing toil. The nind is starved for want of food, and poisoned with error. Most men have capacities for receiv ing the treasures of Science, Philoso. phy, Poetry, Art and Music, if they were only developed and furnished with knowledge. But they perish for lack of knowledge. Their intellectu al faculties are practically extinguish ed. 3. We pass to consider man's social wants and miseries. We do not de sign to introduce here a discussion of political economy, or civil government. We merely allude to these branches of knowledge to show how the doctrine of the text applies to man's social condition. Man was made for society. Our Creator has bound us together by mu tual relations, and made us mutually dependent, out of these relations arise manifold wants-all that is essential to an'enlightened civilization. Hence we need not only a knowledge of the facts of nature-the laws and proper ties of matter, but a thorough knowl edge of the nature of man and his social relations-the principles and laws of the social organization-"the conditions under which association shall be maintained, whereby each member may, according to his position and ability, best satisfy his wants and improve his condition." It cannot be doubted that the foun dation of material prosperity is wealth. the fundamental idea of which is the means of gratifying desire. The first thing essential to wealth is production, which implies such a modification of the materials God has given us, as to adapt them to satisfy our wants. An other thing essential to wealth is ex. change, by which we receive the bene fits of each other's production. This is effeoted by a division of labor. That every man may receive his just proportion of wealth, there must be laws of distribution and (on9umfption. But in oid3r to production, there must be facilities for changing the form of matter, such as machinery, mills, factories, tools. In order to exchange, there must be facilities for communication and transportation, such as roads, bridges, canals, wagons, railroads, ships ; and a circulating medium of exehange, money, and banks. Consider the vast amount of knowledge involved in the construc tion of this complicated system of society--the knowledge necessary to keep the whole machinery of modern civilization in motion. Consider the number of wants supplied, the desires g ratified, the amounteof temnp oral coin fort and happiness promoted. In the distribution and consumption of wealth, by taxation. Consider, again, the extent to which the physi cal, iellectual and moral wants are supplied by public education, by re moving pauperism, by maintaining religious worship,by providing for the aged and infirm, the widow and or p han, the insane and the blind. Looking to the social relations as affected by the fall, we find them sad. ly deranged. Under the dominion of passion and lust, man, in his natural condition, has but little respect for the life, liberty, property and happi ness of his neighbor. The selfishness, avarice, rapacity and cruelty of man haa filled society with thieves, rob bers, murderers, libertines, so that the very existence of society demands some effectual mode of protecting the rights of individuals. God has or dained civil government for this end, and left it to man to discover the principles and laws,- as revealed in nature, and republished in tlie moral law. We must~ construct our sconce of governiment for ourselves, just as we construct any science--from given facto and relations, deduce prinolples and laws, and apply thoem to the ox. toting state of society, our Creator ha. left uas to form our own govern ment, whioh must be determined by the Intellectual and moral condition of a people. Cotatider the amoeunt of knowledge involved In a sytemn-of igovernment, like that. 'of En fand and Aerie. Bitt out poInt toshow hot iil government is fitted to Oounteraet the evilofo soolety. Asour Oreater hae made provision In nature for our phyi sical evils, so he has provided in the constitution of man and Pociety, for i social disorders. How important is i knowled ge in order to dlscover princi. 1 ples and laws and apply them to our a social condition. In proportion as we i lack this knowledge our wants and de t sires are ungratified, our sufferings I unrelieved. Ignorance is destructive I of our social well being and happi. V ness. The necessity of a general dif- s fusion of knowledge to the existence V of such a governinent as ours, is too v plainly evident to need discussion i here. Who can estimate the mis- F chievous results of ignorance in a < popular government: Who can say < to what extent the text might be ap- I plied to our own country. "The peo- < plo are destroyed for lck of knowl- i odo ?" Universal suffrage, without a universal education, Is universal an- F archy-the utter destruction of well- t regulated liberty. I The practical inference from the i subject as thus far considered, is, that < the acquisition of knowledge is the < duty and interest of mankind. If a God has given us a physical nature, v whose wants and sufferings are provid- s ed for in the material world, then it r is our duty to satisfy our lawful wants, i and remove our evils. We are bound to acquire the knowledge requisite, F and apply it according to our ability < and opportunity. t We are under still stronger obliga- s tions to develop our intellectual and u cmotional nature-reason, imagina- < tion, taste, by acquiring all the knowl. v edge of science, philosophy, art, poe. a try, music, so far as we have the I means, and satisfy our rational aolivi- r ties and desires. We have as much right to destroy our bodies, as our I minds by starvation. It is criminal i to allow either to perish for lack of s knowledge. As rational creatures it is p oriminal to be sati.'ied with food, rai- t ment and shelter-to live in a log- v house, and forego all the innocent re- s finement of civilization, when we have < the means of surrounding ourselves a with the comforts. conveniences, and < elegancies of life, which are fitted, to l refine, and elevate our higher nature. t It is our duty to adorn our Awellings 1 with works of art, to bless our homes a with the harmonies of music, which I have more affinity for heaven than i earth: to cultivate and gratify the a imagination with a knowledge of all that is poetical in nature, history, and 1 religion. Our Creator never gave us i these faculties, surrounded us with < all that is filled to develop and satis fy them, to be trampled under the t sensual feet of the world and the i flosh-of passion and lust. We are I bound to develop the nature we have t to its utmost capacity. As we have the t means and opportunities of culture. ' it is our interest as well as our duty. < As members of society, it is our ' duty to acquire and apply all possi- a ble knowledge essential to promote its I welfare, The prosperity of society a depends upon the maintenanco of all " our civil, educational and religious b institutions, and this depends upon < wealth. Each member is bound to do a all he can to add to the material wealth 1 of society for this end. It is his in- I terest as well nas his duty to make e some personal sacrifice for the public I good. We are bound to do all we I can to secure the education and eleva tion of every member of society, and to contribute of our time, talents,4 money and influence, to establish pub. 1 lie schools, and support existing insti tutions of learning, that all men may have the means of acquiring that i knowledge which is essential to their own welfare, and the well-being of i society. To the extent that we fail< to fulfil this obligation, we are respon- 1 sible for the mischievous consequences I of ignorance to society, and for the s fate of the peonle who are "destroyed I for lack of k noledge." The importance of knowledge to a I moral and spiritual being may be< argued on two grounds. I. The intimate connection between1 the rational and moral natures--be- i Swoen the operations of reason and Oon science. It is the ogfice -of reason to analyze the facts of our moral nature -the phenomena of conscience, and 1 generalize a code of morals. It is a' function of the reason, also, to deter mine the occasions and circumstances to which specific roles are applicable ;1 in ether words, to examine facts, toi weigh evidence, and ascertain truth I In particular cases, to do for the eon- a science, what lawyers do for the jury, in examining witnesses, and < eliciting evidence. If the evidence be false, the jury must render a false< verdiot ;for they judge not according< to the real facts in the case, but the a representation, whether true or false. Thus, if the Intellectual faculties do not elicit the mtruth from given facts a and circumstances, conscience must pronounce false judgement. hence for lack of knowledge men are con tinually pronouncing erroneous judg mont upon their own principles and actioni, and those of other., putting darkness for light, error for truth, corrupting the heartb blinding. the understanding, and intig wrodg and injustice upon the. lnoeent. noranme aways geeates etrror man who yieds t x b seepe ,0o passionad prejudi eehssdo fsbi~ estly seeking the tratb, so prv1d his conscience that it will very uoo# >ronounoo false judgements as a mat or of course, and his life will be a issue of mitakos. Ile surrounds inself with an atmoetphore of delu ion, breathes In falsehoods with eve. y breath, then stamping his nalignt. y with the seal of - conscience, >reaths out threateniings and slaugh or," against the unuoffending. Thus the roret crimes, the most relentless per coutions, the most cruel and bloody rars, receive the sanction of a per erted conscience. The blackest. page a American history is written with a erverted conscience : all other causes ombined, social, commercial, politi al, could not have produced such ertible results. Postulato a pervert d conscience, and the mystery of uiquity is unriddled. We see a cause dequate to the effect. We see the rinciple, operating in the perseou ions of the inquisition, and the Prench tevolution, oropping out it this Satan. o strife, in its most awful, and hide. 'us development. The history of the onscience of the great masses of those rrayed against us, is a history of per ersions and misreprosentations. In ulated examples of abuse have been eprosented as characteristic of an ntitution they hated and sought to lestroy. It would be a miracle, sur assing all the "signs and wonders" f the past, if a conscience, educated brough all the gradations of the nur cry, school, press, pulpit and lyce im, to regard this system as the "sum f all villainies" and the "climax of rickedness," should do otherwise t han anotion the horrid outrages and bar arous vandalism of the federal ar ules. To a great extent ninny amongst us ave employed the same principles of uisrepresentation and sophistical rea oning, to justify ignorance and do radation to a degree uinite inconsis cut with that justice and equity, hich the Gospel requires. Tie re ponsibility for these evil consequen es of an unenlightened and perverted onscienco rests mainly with the un ducated, unreflecting masses, who are orne along passively and irresistibly pon the rushing tide of fanaticism. ?anaticism ensnes when the reasonihg lnd reflective powers, are overborno >y the tumult and excitement of the magination, passions and feelings, roused by a perverted conwcience. What a weight of grief must rest pon ministers of the Gospel. Edi ors of the Press, orators of the Ly eum, and demagogues of the Stump, 4orth and South, seek to accomplish heir party schemes, or gratify their ualice and ambition, by arousing the >assions of the ignorant populace, un il the tide of fanaticism sweeps over he land, like a devastating flood I here is no remedy for such fanati ism but an enlightened conscience. .he mightiest power for evil is a con. cience perverted by error. It is the rime cause of social anarchy, strife, nd bloodshed. Had the North and louth always understood each other, ad conscience on both sides been edu. ated under the the influence of facts, uoh a war would have boon impossi. de. The people have perished for ack of knowledge, and ,his knowl. idge is not furnished wholly by the ight of nature or history. Conscience a no safe guide, either in the Aphere f morality or religion (if the do tinction is admissiblIe) until eunlight d in the Word of God and guided y a sanctified season. The efifeot of in was not to destroy the human con cienee-to eradicute the principles of ight and wrong, innate in the moral 'onstitution, but to pervert and de ange thme functions of conscience, to bacure and darken the moral judg. nents ; conscience still dimly reveals he principles of duty, but does not ecure their proper application. The amp which God gave man, at his reation, burns dimly, by reason of he fuel-sin has deprived it, almost ntirely of its oil-the seement of ight-and there remains only' a thin niok, emitting a fliokering, uncertain lame, affording just light enouga to how us what we ought to do, without howinS hot, to do -t The heathen eel that they ought to worship God, ut without the Bible, they 'stumble on the dark mountains 'of in" into every forn of supersmtition~ ad idolatry, The lamp whiph sin as emptied, must be replemniuhed a he Fountain of Eternal Truth.' This a the provision God has made for our noral wants. Hie has endowed as ith faonlties which when satisfied, nlightened by his Word, are capable f acquiring that knowledge, in refer. noe to the various oooasskns and cit. umatanoes in whioh tre are placed, equisito, to the performance of all arivato and social duties. 2. The necessity of knowledge is een, again, in making 'us aetguaited uIth the natore of God, and oar tela. ions, tobhina, ae the God of Grade, ud l(edemption, in order to m99~ pyrt want, as spiritual audfleneo Itee wsin this p d r faln oit~ hat the effooth of the F41I ere thiot Maal.; We~hye sek that sin n~ iot leatroy the hys' l, Inli a4~~pd inorel .faou1 Is, t. wa oe a~d bas ,wligioe I*WId eesdittet a i9ely VxeofIse as is manifst front he religions of paqanism Bu sin did utterly extirpate the principle of holiness, in which man's spiritual life essentially consisted, and which do pended for its existence upon union with God. Sin broke that union, and separated man from the fountain of holiness and blessedness. Three things may be considered as essential to the s4piritual well-being of man, viz: that he should resemble G od in the holiness of his character ; that he should lore hihn supremely--as the satisfying portion of his soul ; and that lie should have free and uninterrupt ed cornmunion with hiui. Indeed fellowship wil Uod is the life of ho liness and love, But thle sinner has lost the divine image. The form of his moral nature is depravity, the very opposite ot' holiness. Instead of love, the carnal mind is enmity against God. Instead of communion, man is alienated from God, and shuus his society. This is his misery and his ruin. It is the utter destruction of All spiritual well being. Now as God has provided for our physieal wants and sufferings, in the treasure-housn of nature ; for our so cial wants and ovils, in the' constitu tion of man and socioty, in the appli cation of natural principles and laws, (aided by Revelation, HO far as they are republished) ; so God has provid ed for our spiritual wants and mise ries,in the Scriptures. Nature, and the historical development, of mankind, are the great sources of the knowl edge we need as material, rational, and social beings : a supernat ural re velation is the only source of knowledge, which meets our moral and spiritual uccessities and sull'or ings. The truth of naturo is not fitted to meet our wants as sinners. If met at all, it must he by other knowledge than that furnished by the light of nature; and of other knowledge, then, it must be that it is supernatural, and this is just what the Bible claims to be. A knowledge of natural relations and necessary principles mny he all-sufli oient for an unfallon being. Adam had no need to transcond tho natural relations he austained to God and Ili fellow-man, nor the necessary princi ples of imorlity and religion given in the striu tiur of his being. -11it sin has modifim) our relntions to God end completely changed our moral charac ter. Hence a knowledge of those new relations, and now moral and spirtual wants must be made known by a special revelation. The- fitt want of a sinner is pardon and acoeptance,doliveranoe from guilt and condemnation, and reconcilia tion with God, securing peace of con science and a hope of heaven. The second want Is a new principle of life, or holiness, implanted and sustained by the supernatural power of the Spirit, applying supornatiral truth, securing a deliverence from the power of indwelling sin. The next want is strength and con solation amid the duties, temptations, and sorrows of life. This is supplied by the conmmunicationsof divine grace in connection with the promise of the covenant. Another want Is personal Intercourse with the Triune God. This is in fact the prime want of the soul, that in which its very life and felicity con sists. There was first. a necessity for thme atonement of Christ,' to change our relation to the laws of God, and then for the renewing and sanctifying slir ito change our depraved heart. TJhe firat scures a righteous statec. The second, a holy nature, in sympathy Iwith God's moral perfectione, which qualifies us for loving communion. Hence the necessity of spiritual knowledge. The9 kqow lodge of Christ and his atoning work, is rnecessary for 'our justifitiobm. The knowledge of the HolyiSpirit andk his peculIar mission Is tequisitie to our sanotifloation. r~The knowledge of izr relation to "'God ammd Father .of our Z4 J1, 0.,"' and our covenant 0,d in ):Im, is essential to afford us spiritual- consolation. The love of. the Father, the merit of the 8QO, the strength of the holy Spir it, meet all the wants of the sinner. "This is life eternal, to know thee the true God, and Jeosus Christ whom thou hast sent." "We are saved by' the wssh qg'fregcnoia'tiod and the rotewing of h' fr.y Ohost4"~ It is by means of the truth, i6telleotually apprehend ed, and experimentally received, that Wpen ini regenerat ion, the. prinei pe of h lines# Is imbilted, the peow, Jife is siistained anid nodrished bf -spiritual truth, under th& tuition of the Holy Ghost. "Wo purify. ourselves,,in obeying the trudll through tihe Sjpirt." The discussion of this part .of thme enhjeot conducts us to the anepFac tIMal lesson, as the foame~r. "i It Is tour duty and our interest t uek~ forimo dtot providp for. tle wants and auf efm~ of our physical, rational and ' Kmtira, hiow ineh sonethe -obligatioh f?d provide fot' our' ruo-al wseeesities and evi ls-.--to "satiefy the Qpa0$, tAf a beeg ,ho, ie capsbje eo~froi to4nt Inadru the bar des of~~i W Ip Le an4wiey. How shalt these want. and *ederings be met? IlRaoon taches ta the provision God line made for the ani. mial, tle intellectual, and social na turcs, is not ruited to our moral and spiritual nature. The body cannot eat, drink, and wear scictice, litera ture, and art. Reason cainnot feed upon bread and ment. Neither can the moral nature le nourished with bodily anil mental food. No ! the Bible furnishois the only knowledge adapted to our imoral wants, and how inany souls are destroyed for lack of his knowledge. Milfions of the hu nan familv ire perishing by a "'fain lae of the Word of God." What a t-miiiendous res1ponsibility rests upon tlho.< who have the vord of life, with referen to t he destitute nations! To perish without the Bible is aw ful, but to be destroyed for lack of l:knowledgo, iu a Cbristian land, and with the Bible in our lmide, is horri le to co!template It is our duty and interest, ncreover, to keep in mind the relit ive importance of physi 1al and moral truth. As God has but one system-nature and tihe superna tural -the former being subservient to the latter ----so the end of all knowl edge is one. Physical, historical, moral truth, how much soevor they may differ in their nature, look to tho same end; in relation to ian, his per footion and happines'i ; in relation to God, his glory. It is essential to hu mnan perfection, that the physical and rationial naturo should b subservient to the miioral ; that we should seek for knowledge in nature, and history,that we may hetter utlerstand inil apply the siupernaitural knowledge of reve it ionI. 1Both n aturo aind revelation meet inl history, which is but tihe de velopietint of the hunan race, natu rally and supernat urall y. I I' such be the importanen of trut i we do not, wonder that the 8,!riptuires utter such terrible denunci ations against thos3e who hato and reject kno( wledge, a oiiur suifferings, physically, men.. tally, 10oeily, moraliy nd spiritul ly, are thlie n1t ura v n ncessa ry conl seilice of th lack of knowledge aid wisdom----kInowlodge, adapted to or nature, and visely applied. ''Wis m ' Phe prhpe thIin iug." Knowl. edge ean he of servive to us, only as it is applied. "T e letter killeth.'' "Knowledge puffeth up.'" "Ilic that iencreas(th knowledgv, increaseth sor ro W." On 01na1.y uniderstanld aill mlys.. tory and all1 knowledge," and it, "proflt hiin iothin."' More knowledpl' feeds on pride, vanity, self-conceit, and under tho guidance of passion and Iuist, renders its possessor powerful for mischief. "Wisdoim is the prn aci pal tling' truth known tiid applied to its appro priate uses. Wisdom consists in oim ploying the right ine1ans for aecoiml plishiig the right end. The 11imme diato e1nl of man is hisown well-boing an d perfection, piysic. 1, 111onial and mtoral. Tho icalls, 1ruth, whatever (od hasstored away in naturo and to volation. True wisdoin consists in dis covering this truth, and then practi cally using it to satisfy our waiits and relievo our sulffering. It is not moro food we want, but. appropriate food, properly prepared, eniteni and digested. It is not materials maorely, but ma torials wisely put together so as to form comifortable and elegant gar mnents and( dI wellings. It is not mere intellectual knowledge we want, but knowledge cordially embraced, ox peorimentally recoivedl andl daily prac ticed. "TIhe excellency of know ledge is, thant it giveth /fe to them that have it,"' and life in the scrip tures is only another namie for well being anid happiesso. In scoiuring the immediato end of k nowledge, to satis fy the wants for which it is applied, Wisdom keeps in view the uhlimule end, the glory of the rTriunej God-our moral and spiritual perfection as a me dinum of "mnamfasting the manifold wisdom and grace of God to princi palitics and powers throughout eter nal ages." iuar. Nicanyngn A'r As'impoo Fr~in nr.-Tlhe Ubarleston News. on Satur day learned the following rogarding ai buamurder comm113ittedl on Tuesday latbythree niegrees, at Ashepoo Ferry, on the Charleston and Savan nah lie ilroad, thirty-sovon miles from theo city. A negroJ man, it appears, had interfered with the domestic ar rangements of another negro. The wronged husband, with two friends, went to the plantation where the dIfs turber of lisa peace lived, and, withott warning, shot hitn. 'The negro fell andi was 1(hen bacikedU to picous ith hoes ~y' the two frionds. T1hie vbtimn's hoad wasB boaten in, and his, logs and army out off. .Thma huisban<L has es ecaped, but his companions are under arrest. 'lhe historiaiis wh6 have beon vext. ing their. hearts over-the persistent re fusal .of the WVar Popartment to ran t them access to the .archives or theo Confederate GIovernrnent might hotter have posessed their souls in patience. It Is reported 'that the Presi dent is about to throw open those records, un deriproper pestrIctIons, to applicant. ~e No g ork /Tribune says thKt if the testli'ioy of those wdo have ex adlilned themii may be excepted, it will then ibe tiod that the' arohlve 'to' psagerly *ought are nearly. worthleas when attainerd.