Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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OLD SERIES, VOL. IV.-NO. 59. J,ljf inlljfrnii Visitor M IS PUBLISHED EVEltY WEDNESDAY BY RUDE & MILLER. TERMS: T» Lctbsr .h Visitor Is furnished to sub- krihen at P« J'« ,r . in aAvaooe. Oravwn, their Widows, and Sludeuta of ^taolOCT, are charged fi oo per year, if paid in Mranoe. t** Thole who do not pay wilhiu three UonUisaCthe time their year begiue, will, in wrery rao* charged fifty cents additional SATBB or xdvsstisixg: For one sqURre (one inch of column) : first insenioo • J* One month * J® Three mouths • " ?® Six months J SS Twelve months. 10 00 Oa adyerURemenU ot three squares and up- -wards a discount of 50 per cent, of five squares Mil upwards. 30 per cent., ot ten squerve and •awards. 40 per cost, a ml of one half column tad upward*. 59 per ceni will be deducted frvrn the above rates. Obituaries, when more than Are line*, ten cents for eight words, payable in advance. Postage—Five cents per quarter. jy rieuso remember all business letllrrs «bouid bo adtircftiPtl to R*r. A. R. RUDE, OdtaMa, 5. C. Communications. I ] Ilk. ddresa on IAX, ibis, S. C. For the Lutberau Visitor. Greater Church Love—How to Awaken it xrxBKit FIVE. BY ITS LITERATURE. We have mapped an extensive work for the ministry. It in far too great for those who have large par ishes and preach to each congrega tion only once or twice a mouth. It it too iuncli, even, for the tgost labo rious town or city parson culling Ills people regularly twice every Sabbath together to preach, ami once during the week to deliver a lecture to them. But we have an invaluable assistant in the literature of the church, ami in awakening a greater love for her we must exert ourselves to circulate among them her periodicals, her journals and her books. Many, very many, care but little for, because they know so little about her, anti they know little only be cause they read none. Indeed they ean not be very much attached to her, unless it be by a blind devotion very mnch akin to prejudice, while they remain ignorant of her nature, her character, her history anti her operations. They are cut off by that state from all but their own congre gation, and the pulsations of the church's life does not extend to them. They are ont of sympathy with her cons, their brethren, outside of their own community and its immediate vicinity, and that want prevents love. But no man has the time and strength to make and keep them fully ac quainted with her in these important particulars without the aid of her literature. In teaching her present and hex past this is the great, and oftentimes, only means. We have seen the importance of establishing them in the faith of the church, and here again we know no more effective way than through her writings. The importance of this means may be known both by observation and experience. Sister denominations haye seen this influence and taken advantage of it. They have spread their publications far and wide, and if they are not able to issue the best, they are eager to circulate such as they can produce. Biographies, liis- | tones, tracts, sermons, papers, Sab bath-school books arc found in every tomiiy, and where the most of these have been introduced, tlicre the deepest affection for their denomina tion is seen. The first step of prose- lytism is to put some plausible book mto the hands of him whom they intend to seduce. The more numer ous the works they can persuade him to read the more certain they become of succeeding. Our fatheig, without the public ministrations of the gospel, still maintained their attachment to their church by reading publicly, and, *hen sufficient copies could be ob tained, privately, Arndt’s True Chris tianity, Luther’s Sermons, and other authors of the church. Though •keep without a shepherd, they re pelled the prowling efforts of wolves, mid for years departed not front the ■ttii. In the dense forests of the a*w world, wherever they kept in their houses these books, they stood a* Arm in their religious opinions and mve as the sturdy oaks that sheltered ••sir humble dwellings. have abundance of evidence, commanded by slight reflection, of the imiKtrtance of this means. We are sure none will queatiou It, and we ask you to recall only what you know that you may feel it sufficiently to set at once about the work of scat tering it among your people. We have a literature, or can have it, suited to any class, from the gray- headed grandsire down to the little boy, proportioned to every degree of mental calibre and culture^ from the gigantic intellect and learned phi losopher to the child and Ignorant African. We have little |mper* for the childreu, and reviews for the theologians, and pa|>ers suited to the leisure aud pecuniary ability of every render. We have books uml trea tises, historical, devotional, practical and doctrinal. We have them treat iug upon every - subject upou which we desire to iufortn our i*cople. We have them of recent and older dutes. They ore just as readable and may be placed in the libraries of our families os easily as those that we so frequently find there. Whatever may he the iieculiar wants or tastes of each one, we may easily supply out of the ample stores within our reach. As to what particular parts we shall bring to the notice of bis peo ple, we will leave to the judgment of each ]tastor. However, we would re mind you of the importance of in ducing them to subscribe for tlie iwqter which is tlie fairest rxjsmcnt of the interest, wants and views of that section of the church to which you belong. This should be the Unit effort. Many will read this who would never open a book, aud it will excite an interest and awaken a spirit of inquiry that will pre|>are the way for the introduction of other thiugs. We insist that it should be our own |iapers first. Though Mime may think that those puldislied in oilier portions of the chiueh are better, yet it is our duty, due not only to the self denying men who an* laboring to supply us, to enroumge and mipport them, but it is due also to our own parishioners and the truth (iod has committed to our keeping. These only make them acquainted with, nud secure their co- o]ieration in, the enterprises of oar own Synod. After that, if we like others better, persuade them to take those also, and it will enlarge their views and expand tlieir real. We would suggest that the next effort be to ]iersua<le them to procure sonic of the smaller publications upon the fundamental doctrines. We know one brother who derived great ad vantages from Krauth’s Augsburg Confession. Through its influence tnainly he made his little Hock firmer, stronger, better Lutlierans. and to it he was largely indebted for large aeeessions to their numtier, ami among these the heads of several families. And then the smaller biographies of the greater lights of our own country and of the Father- land ; and then—we leave you to your own selections. • In concluding this nunilier let ns remind you, brethren, again of the very great importance of the means we have been considering in the attainment of the end we seek. While we are away it will tie in tlieir homes as welcome visitors charming by their newness and freshness, or abiding there as inmates binding the hearts by their association. The children will be trained from early yenrs to read, and they will love that church of which they know so much and which has supplied their minds and hearts with such precious food. They will see the name constantly and learn to love it even before they have received mnch benefit, anil with increasing age and thongbtftilness take in draughts uiulesignedly from the pure fountains of its holy teach ings. All the memories ot childhood wttl be connected with their church, and they will be bound to it by all the tie* that link them to their early homes as well as by those higher, nobler, worthier ones which its litera ture wiU snpply. F. Ministerial. religion ( churches are built and theological schools endowed, Imt still there Is a lark of deep spiritual piety. We Join in ancli an appeal, believing that nothing lint an “ag gressive Christianity” can sneccosftdly grapple with the materialism of the age. Christian ministers mnst know what they beliere, as well as wlud they dray, in order to meet the “un belief which grows out of false philosophy or the wickedness which comes ns tlie child of inatcrialbun,” and overcome them. Np religion of beauty, no tnuiarcndental vagaries, no humanitarian system has the positive aud vital qualities which alone can nerve it for the conflict and make it victorious. Only fc ministry which believes in siu us a fearful and uni vernal fact, ami in a divine Saviour frimi this dread fid aud all corrupting element, can make aggres sive warfare iqsin tlie present ene^ mies of Christianity; and it is upon such ministry- the nmluissadora of Je sus Christ, “by whom we have now received the atonement," that we call for a new onset upon the |H>wers of evil as they manifest themselves in philosophy and materialism.—.V. 1\ Obterrer. The Battle of the Age. The Ckrietian Remitter makes au appeal to tlie Christian pulpit to meet and “confront unbelief and indiffer ence in a large and generous spirit, but with a bold, clear and aggressive Christianity.” It justifies this special call upon the ground that, owing to the materialism of the age, men of inferior moral quality lead. “Su preme devotion to money-getting lowers the tone of public virtue, and tends to make men gross and mate rial.” There is a show of respect for The Pulpit and ths Littls Osss. The share of the pulpit in the re ligions training of children can not Is- ignored by any minister wlio is desirous of doing Ids whole duty. I’ious instruction at home, or efficient teaching in the Huinlay school, ran never become substitutes for minis terial duty. Yet theta are preacher* who rarely if ever have a wort) for the children in their sermons, and never |ireach an entire urnimii to them, though they may monetimes preach aliout them. It to a startling truth that then* an* children of Christian parents who never hear preaching of any kind. Law no tions of lairentul duty prevail among many, and the childreu are premlt ted to tlix-ide for theuiarlces whether they will go to church or tart—the drrtokm in such caara bring, for the uioMt part, in tlie negative. We do not think, however, that the blame for this should rest entirely on the parents; tin* pulpit has Mime n*s|Hiu aibility in the matter. There to, we an* sorry to My, in many tiinn-bes nothing in the M*rvieeN to interest the children, ontsidc of the singing ; ami though they are easily- interest ed in this, eveu here there to si mu tinies a failure from want of liyuiu books of tlieir own, or by reason of strange and difficult tunes which they can not sing. Imagine Isiys or girls of aver age intellect compelled to sit for a whole hour listening to a discourse, arareely a wonl of which they- nn derstand, and not one wonl of which is directed specially to them 1 ilow IMiiufiil the restraint soon becomes I They wish tlie good man in tlie pul pit would hurry and get through; and if he nm-s mannseript, how wtot- ftilly the young eyes watch the tnni ing over of the leaves, wondering how anybody canid ever write mi much, when their own short M-hool eom|>oeitioas cost them so great In Isir! And what a feeling of relief these y-onng. lively hearts experience when the last leaf is turned over ami tlie last word read! No wonder that human nature aonirtinip re bels Is-fon- that point is reached; no wonder if children, to whom motion is life, break through the nn- nntnrul restraint forced upon them, and And relief in the |M-rpetration of chihliah pranks, or gradually settle down, like Mime of their elders, into quiet nlno>l>er. Tlie scoldings they get when tliey reach home are maiuly undeserved. How many adtilts could sit quietly for an hour hearing, but not understanding, a sermon in French or an oration in Greek t And it is no exaggeration to any that much of the preaching to which children ore compelled to listen might as well be in French or in Greek as in Knglish, so far as they are concerned. We would not,, of coarse, have every sermon pre]>ared, in all its details, expressly for children. There are many themes of pulpit discussion beyond the caimcity of childhood, and yet of great importance to othera. Bnt we would have some part of every service, if -not of every sermon, adapted to the capacities and the moral need* of the little ones. Let the children be thonglit of in tfie pastor’s preparation for the Babbath; let there be some point in the services of the hoar toward which they- may- afterward look with feelings of in terest and of pleasant recollection ; let them be recognised in some wrty aa a part of the congregation. Tliey will thus become interested in the services of the churrh, aud will not require compulsion to attend. They will Mainer liegin to cximjirchend the nature ami design of these regular weekly meetings on the Haldaith, amt will delight to learn in tliera the use fill lessons there taught. Practical. Tft of Jwdgmsat Jrniuie natal to any that it seemed to him aa jf the tmm|M*t of tin* last day was alway s sounding in hto ear, saying, “Arise ye dead ami come to Judgment." The generality, however, think but little of this awftil ami ini portaut |M*riod. A Christian king of Hungary beingTery ami and |s-nsivt-, his brother, who was a gay root-tier, was desirous of know iug the cause of hto amdm-sa. “Oli, brother,* said the king, “I have lieen a great sinner against Hud, ami I know not how to die, or how to apjirar iiefurr him id judgment.” Ills brother, making a jest of it, said, “Tbcsr are but melan t-hoiy thoughts.” The king made no rejily, tint it was the custom of the country, that if the exeeutiooer waa to sunml the trunqiet la-fore any man's dour, he was presently led to exn-utkm. The king, in tlie dead hour of the night, sent the rxectt tinner to Miami the tranqiet before his brother’s door, who, hearing it ami seeing the messenger of death, sprang into the king’s pn-m-m-e, be seeching to know in what he hud offetidi-d. “Alas! brother,” said the king, “yon hare never offended my. Amt to the sight of nv executioner mi dreadful, and shall not I, who have greatly offended, fear to lie I trough! Is-fore the judgment seat of Christ f [ fUUlrml Treasury. Pton* Exutpto. Example to*more potent than prece|it in inflnrticing others. Our Iireo-jits may be judicious, but oar example may nullify all its effects. No doubt, the contrariety which to evident between the profession and practice of most of ua, militates more than any thing else against our influence aa Christiana. Good men are some times led to doubt the genuineness of our piety, when they behold our strange prartlcra; and Shaking Hands as a •f Grace. I maintain that shaking of bands, rightly admiutoftmt, to a mruna of grace. You, tuj dear sir, an* estab lished, and every one *knowa yon to be, solid man. There to a man be side you just ggiitiug bis battle ami making hto way. You know him ami mid to him. Take him by the Imml, my dear air. It sill do him gissl; ami if he waa cast down a little, as men will sometimes be, it may en courage him. “Our minister shook hands with me.” What made that skulking fellow, too tag to lie a hoy, too raw to be a uian, announce that fact so loudly w hen be went home ! The truth to, for aruaililc effirrt tui him, it wiw more than the sermon. John Smith has Is-en a hard drinker, but is trying fairly to get out of it. Going down the village street, be meet* Mr. Itmwu, who is “boas” at “the works alsivr.” Mr. Brown shakes Lands with “Mr. Smith," in sight of tlie entire village. Ikies that do Smith any gissl f I tell yon it to as gisal to him as one of Mr. Cough's admirable lecture*. It ■ay*, as plaiuly us if Mr. Brown had written it, “Mr. Smith, you have only to take can- of yiiorarir, ami yon will be a n*s|M*etuble man in spite of alL” That make* Smith stronger; uml wliru Ih* goes to rburvh next Sab bath, and looks over at Mr. Brown, Ih* will flud it rosier to believe God’s must hiving word : “Their sins ami their iniquities 1 sill remember imi more.” So “shako bands ami be friends”—at market, on the street, and above all, at church. 1 presume the Apostle meant something when he said, “Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.” Home pro|de quit eliun-ii for waut of this means of grace. Everybody looks as if just returned from tin* north pole, and there bad not burn time to thaw, and the deacon, who "runs the church," (If any thing so lifeless ran be said to be run) had l*-en in eommaml of tlie |iorty. I susjieet the boys Mime- times say, “Well, I guess I ought to be good, but if ever I do, it won’t be long with the deacon." They wait, poor boys, till some one comes along with a heart—getting no good in the meantime whose genial, life-like waya make them “feel kiml ’o pwdj” and they catch the inspiration "and run with gladness in the way of God’s commandments."—Dr. John Halt. lilnted I tag.—Through the week we go down into tlie volleys of care and shadow. Our Sabi*ths should be hill* of light nud joy in God’s presence. Aud so, as time rolls by, we shall go from mountain-top to mountain-top, till at last we catch the glory of the gate, and enter in to go no more ont forever. godly men candidly declare that we an* lint hyps-ntra. Tlie direction of the Scriptures to that we “avoid the appearance of evil.” No donht, by following this advice, two evils are prevented. Our own souls are I not jco|Hirdixed, and others are not | enticed to ain, and treat cuntnuptu- i misty our religion. There to something shout the ex emplary man that recommends hto religion. Others “take knowledge of him that he has beeu with Jesus." He to consistent. There to no jar ring lBetween his profession and hto practice. Hto prayers are no loader | than hto acta. There to a visible j resemblance between hto profession and hto daily walk and conversation, j llis religion to not made up of Haklist- | iral ceremonies and week-day irregu larities. Hence, there to a potency in hto character; there to a dignity in hto demeanor that recommends the Goeprl of Jeans Christ to every | one with whom be nmra in contact, j Such an individual may occupy a ; very huaiMc pusitiua in society—he ! will he humble and modest In hto <lrportuietit—Imt at the same time lie will be very influential. Hto neighbors will rail him “a gissl man,” and hto counsels and admonitions will be regarded just and safe. The ! death of suck a man will make a | vacuum in any community. Who ran estimate the glorious effect* of a pious examide t The worts of the gissl man fullow him I in the grave, to the resurrection, to the JnilgUM-nt, to heaven, and ‘ through all eternity. The I •Tightest l Jewel in the crown of the chrtotton is hto godly example. It to a gem ; of exquisite lustre. The more in- | tense tlie snmmnding darkness, the more sparkling its light. It to better than gold, more preeions than fine gold. “A gissl name to better than preeiqus ointment.” Etoh far a Moment. The British ship ljritanui* waa wrecked off the coast of Rracil, and had on board a large consignment of H|MUiish iUUir. In the hope of saving some of them, a nunilier of lmreels were brought no ileek. Imt the vi*aael went to pieces so last that the only hope for life waa in taking at once to the bout*. The last boat was alsrat to push off, when a young midshipman went Isu-k to see if any one waa still on tssinl. To his aur {■rise, there sat a man nn deek with a I m I diet in his hand, with which he had broken often several of tlie casks, the contents of which he waa now heaping up about him. "What are you doing there r— shouted the youth. “Doiil you know tlie ship is fast going to pieces T" “The ship may go," said the man; “I have lived a fnior w retch all my life, and I am determined to die rich.” Hto reuiouatranees were auswered only by another flourish of tlie hatchet, ami be waa left to hi* fate, We should count am-h a |s*raon a mmlmnii. Imt he has too many imita tors. Men w*em determined to die rich, at all hazard*. Leaat of all risks do they count the chance of losing the soul in the struggle, at any moment at all. Ami .vet the only richea we ran hug to our bosom with joy, in onr dying hour, are the riches of grace through Jeans Christ, which gr must make ours before the dark hour come*. Oh! how rich have many died in their garret* and huts, while kings and prince* have entered on the other life more desti tute than beggars. Who would not rather chooac to be rich for eternity, than rich for the fleeting moment in which the ship to sinking into the dark waters?—& H. Timet. % “1 thank God,” said Richard Bax ter, “for that wonl Wkotoerer. If God hail said that there was mercy for ltichard Baxter, I am so vile a sinner that I would have thought he meant some other Richard Baxter ; but when he says Wkotoerer, I know that include* me, the worst of all Richard Baxters.” iMtotiag the Holy Ghost Rev. I>r. Cnylrr delivered in hto church in Brooklyn on a Habitatli evening recently, a sermon on the text, “Ye do always resist the Holy Ghoet," which to thus reported s “Who to this tieing T" it was asked. The very being whom men are al ways opposing. Has any one seen ldm? Certainly not; bnt hi* exist ence to by no means to be doubted on that account. Who saw the wind that smote him nn the face last night ? Mini, t Lough it was unseen, doubts its existence on that account ? You see the thick-ribbed ship reeling iu the storm anil the bods bursting out under tlie warm south wind, and yon know that there is a jiower, though invisible to the eye, wliime might and whose geiitlemws you can not but feel. IMd you ever watch a ship’s comjMiss ? Whichever way the ship pies the needle is «m* to And its way liack to the iioles. It is an un seen power that controls it, yet mi unerring that the fiflot guides the Grent Eastern by it safely to her harbor. Ho it to with the Uoly Spirit. Though unseen, its power sod gentleness are not unfelt Every time we follow the monitions of con science, every time we have a fix-ling of penitence, every time we get the victory over sin, we know the power and the fircaence of the Holy Hfiirit Alway* the Holy Hfiirit afquxUing to the heart, and be who rejects him will lie lost forever. Itestoting him to like the famished li lingerer push ing away bread. What to the work of changing and regenerating tlie heart ? It to the Hfiirit alone that <«n do that. No man ran say that Christ to the Lsinl without tlie Holy Hpirit. If Christ died for all what more to needed ? Was there not something minimi beside the inner of the troubled pool to heal if tlie lame would walk, and Wind would are, *nd the deaf would hear ? Why did the poor rrqiple sit so long Iwside the pool seeing others pi away rejoicing mite power? Why, alas! he bail no one to help him in. It to just mi with the sin sick, sin |silluteil soul. It to not the power of Christ that is lacking, but a power to help to come to Christ. It is to heln such a soul to t 'Urist, to believe in Christ, to follow Christ, that the Divine' Hpirit waa given. Whenever a man fails to do what he thinks it his duty to do, be to resisting the Hpirit. In every attempt to compromise with God, by doing something else than what he requires of yon, you are re sisting the Hpirit. If you were on your dying bed to morrow you would say, “If I could live my life over again, I would live it very differ ently.” Why not live a different life to night ? Why not commence this very minnte ? IVi not seek to hide lirhind the inconsistencies of profess ing Christian*. Because of tliem your punishment will be none the less. If tliey an* Imndy saved, you will be lost. But yon say you will keep on trying. Has “trying” beljieU you yet ? Yon nay you are not dis couraged. You ought to lx*. You have l*x*n standing Iteshle tlie foun tain all your life long and are still sick. When Jem drew near you resisted. Tlie very fact that one -knocks nt your door is a proof that he is not within. If Christ knocks at your door it is a proof that he is not w ithin. Selections. Pic-Sic Religion. Is money to*Is* raised for church tlclita, church building or rciiairing; a Hahliath-acliool or a missionary en terprise ; for the increase of the min ister’s salary ; to relieve the poor, or for any lienevolent open^ion. What now ? How is this money to be forthcoming? In a sober, rational, gosfiel way ? Nay, a feast is prepar ed ; a aoircc introduced, a fancy fair, a pic-nii-, a concert or exhibition of Mime kind, a donation, tea or straw- lierry party, a sleigh-ride, oyster- supper, a tin or golden wedding, nnmething to inflame the passions, excite and enlarge, the appetite, pro duce a little fun or vnlgar merriment. The entire community i* put in re quisition for week*. The excitement to intense, outburating on- the right and on the left. To open the purse strings worldly policy to resorted to, foolish talking ami jesting, feast iug and frolicking! These festival* nft the rage and fever of the day; tlie world is on fire with them ! Where is there a church or society, white or colored, Popish or Protestant, that doe* not resort to those unholy ex citement*, thcne stratagems of Satan, funds for some object of olence ? It is money, mosey 1 Money we want, money we must bare, gospel or no gospel, heaven or nb heaven. Gospel and soul-saving are laid aside. “Away with serious or aols-r looks, away with them ! On for a jolly time of feasting!” “On with the dance, let joy be uncon- flmxl ” “Know ye not, friends, the frienitohip of tlie world is enmity with God V “Whatsoever to not of faith to sin.” * “Win y» fltj, than, will yon dolly With your music sad toot arias? Up! tt is Jehovah's rally! God’s own nnn hath need ol thine!" Conviviality to the ultimatum, the first and tlie last. “Let ua have a .lolly time, eat, drink, and be merry, for to morrow we die.” The excite ment for week* is more or leas dissi pating. swallowing up every thought of the sonfs welfare. Children and youth are on Are for a Kpiw—and what else are very many of there pic nii- festivals and excursions bnt spree* or frolicks? All false religion* seek to attract interest by amusements aud animal gratifications. The worshiper* of tlie golden calf sat down to eat and drink the oblations to their new god, anil then rose up to play. And a bait of sensuality in some form has always been the lure to heathen worship. Popery has always follow ed hi the same line. Even its Sab liath worship connects a dance with the mass. And throughout the w hole structure of that “mystery of inkjuity,” the sensual and the comic are interwoven with the pomps and ritual of worship. And one of the most common methods by which de cay advances u{ion sound churches, to by |deas of amusements to give an attractive and hilarious character to religion—which usually are so many pica* for conformity to the world. We are not unaware of the value of a cheerful religion. We respond to tint reasonableness of the command to “rejoice evermore." And yet we read that the “joy of tke Lord is your strength,” amt that' our rejoicing must lie in God to make ita religious joy. It is not a religious joy, where professedly religion* men indulge in gratifications that are worldly, sensual, and frivolous Standard of tke Cron. Honey-Comb of the Pnlms. Martin Luther styled the Book of l'shlng. “an epitome of the word of Gfld—Ylitfle Bible in themselves.” Tliey have been read, and sung, ami studied, anil prayed over, and wept over, for twenty-five centuries of time. The most, ancient of them lias been in existence j for three thousand three hundred years; the latpst written was eonqiosed at least two thousand five hundred years ago. While the Iliad of Homer and -Lucid of Virgil have been enjoyed by the intellects of the learned few, yet the songs of David and Moses have been the heritage and delight of the lowliest as well as the loftiest. Scholars, statesmen, aud jioets, have unitixl in extolling tlie incompara ble beauty of these songs of Ziou. I-amnrtinc, in hto florid French, ex claims : “Tlie Book of Psalms is a vase of perfume broken on the steps of the temple, and shedding abroad it* odor to the heart of humanity.” Tlie little shepherd has become mas ter of the sacred choir of the universe. A chord of lus Iiarp is found in all choirs, resounding forever in unison with Horeb and Engedi. David to the Psalmist of Eternity. What a power hath poetry w hen inspired by ths Almighty! A thousand eulogies have been uttered over these hymns of the heart, these soul-songs of all God’s children. Good old 'Dickson, of Scotland, speaks of them as “this sweet scented bundle of Psalms.” Gerhard, the German, says: “The Psalter is a deep sea in which are lud the most costly liearls; it is a paradise liearing tlie "most precious fruits and flowers.” How many a one, as he, or she, lays down this brief article, will respond: “Yc«, blessed lie God for the Psalms! From childhood they have been ray solmi- and my song on the ljfe- jonruey. Sweeter are they to me than the honey and the honey- i4kl>T. L, Cuyler. Adversity has ever been considered ns the state in which a rfhii the most easily becomes acquainted with -him*, self—particularly, being free from flatterers. In the voyage of life we should imitate the 'ancient mariners, who, without losing sight of the earth, trusted to the heavenly signs for the guidance.