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THE LUTHERAN VISITOR, COLUMBIA, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1869. rsr COLUMBIA, S. O. Wednesday, December 1, 1869. HP” A correspondent uska: “At tchote expense are money Orders to bo seutf* Answer: u At the expense of the Lutheran Visitor. 9 EDITORS: Rev. A. R. RUDE, Columbia, S. C. Rsy. J. I. Millkb, Staunton, Va. u In essential* unity, in non essentials ’ liberty, in nil thhayt charity? TERMS: $2.50 for one yrar... .12 number*. 1.50 for nix months 26 •* 1.00 for three months. 19 “ QT Ail communications must be written correctly and legibly, and accompanied with the nemos of the writers, which, however, may he withheld from tho public. Correspondents mast not expect declined oommunicutiona to be re turned. -ST Wo request our subscribers to make remittances to us ouly in registered letters, or it. the form of post office money orders or bonk checks. All such remittances are at our riak. Wt out ml hate the risk when money if scat M unregistered tettere. Formerly then, may hare been some ground for tho remark, that "the only effect of rogi*»a- tion U only to make the letter more liable to be . Stolen.” But uodor ttie new law, which went into operation last Juae, we think registered letters are perfectly safe ; and wo know hum almost dally experience that others aro aot Nonce to PogTMASTXIiS.—Puntmasters through- aot the country will save trouble br obeying tho lea-s in regard to newspaper* etc. When a paper remains dead in the office for faor coneecutive weeks, it is Uie duty of the poeunaeter or Ins deputy to send the publisher of the paper a written notice of the foot—staring, If possible, the reason why the paper ia not taken. The returning to tho publisher of a paper marked “not taken,” "refused,” or "uncalled for,” la not a legal Hotter. Premiums. We will give to any one who sends us two Subscribers anil .8.1, one copy of -IMstinetire Doctrine*.” We will give for four Subscribers ami 810, a copy of “ Life and Deed* of Luther? We will give for five Subscribers and 812.50, a copy of “ Luther'* Ser mon*, VoL J.; or if preferred, a copy of “Dr. Sic*#’ Eeelatia Sacra ;* or “ Luther 3 * Church Postil ? in 18 num bers. We will give for ten Subscribers and 825, a copy of “ The Book of Concord? , The names and the money must accompany each other. As regards premiums due for VoL 1., the former publishers are respon sible. For the premiums for VoL II., we are. A. R. RUDE, J. t MILLER. Ho Paper Last Week. ______ i In spite of our efforts, we failed to get -out the Lutheran Visitor last week, for want of paper. We had ordered a supply in ample time, but it failed to come. We ordered again, tried to borrow, used tho Express, but after all it was a failure. No paper was received until the Visitor akouid have been ip the hands of its readers. Wo need not say that we deeply regret the failure, bnt we did the best sre could. We will try to avoid such an occurrence again. We have paper enough on hand now to last us several months. Of course we will make up <he lost number to our subscribers. It will be our loss at last, and not theirs. They will excuse us this time. Pastoral Chanom.—Rev. Jno. C. Repuss, the present inctiml>cnt of the Giles Pastorate, will, the first of Jan uary proximo, take charge of the Mt. Airey Pastorate, in Wythe County, Va. ' From One Extreme to Another. —Samuel Fisher and Richunl Cla- ridge, two of the most distinguished Quaker ministers, had been, before they became Friends, distinguished Baptist lMinisters. First, all icater’; at last, none at all. Still Ahead.—The Star Spangled Banner, which for seveu years has “waved” to the great satisfaction of its mauy thousand readers, and to the dis satisfaction of all swindlers jpnd rascals generally, is even more \\ide awake than ever. It has at an immense expense secured the ser vices of an eminent artist, and tin* result is that it proposes to gietatray a splendid engraving entitled “Evan geline” to every subscriber for 1870. This superb work-of art is one and one-half by t>co /ref in size, and is equal to the best 83 engraving ever offered. The Banner is a large eight- page, forty-column pajter.overflowiug with splendid reading of all kind*, and costs only To cents a yeor, which is very cheap for the paper alone; bnt the publishers piopooe giving every subscriber a copy of their elegant engraving gratis. The paper and its publishers are reliable, ami it will pay to send for specimens to the Star Spant/led Banner, Hinsdale, X. II. or they can be seen at this office. Patience. This is one of the cardinal virtues, and we hope all who are concerned excel in it. We have been out of the eity for a ft w days, and find on onr return, a pile of letters, communica tion#, periodicals, complaints, loud and abundant, praise# faint and few, atul money, well not lunch of that— which we almost shrink from attack lag. We have, however, begun to analyse the conglomerate, and wlU soon be able to satisfy, even though wo fail to gratify every one. The Present Humber. Contributors from different and widley separated parts of the Church make this number, iu our opinion, one among the very best, that have yet appeared. The article on the Rook of Worship is from one of our ablest and most acceptable writers. It is the first of a series, which will follow in regular succession, discuss ing thoroughly the merits and de merits of the Book. J. F. G. is interesting anil in structive. He never.ia anything else. We only regret, tint ho does not more frequently wafer his highly valued favors.. . Caleb brings us good tidings from Tennessee. It is not only gratifying, but it calls for grateful praises to' hear of tho prosperity and increase of the Church of the Reformation within our borders. The Ilolston brethren are working men, they la bor quietly, but efficiently; they are doiag a good and a great work. We wish the elder Synods had the like aggressive spirit. Our Church should be a Mission Church. The main work of onr Synods should bo Do mestic Missions. We should heed the call from many a desolate neigh borhood, from many of our dispersed people: Came and break to us the bread of life. Give us a watchman from the Church of emr fathers! We should obey the command sX onr Lord, which is: Go! The Reports from the Conferences are also cheering. They prove that the brethren are not luke-warut, when they assemble together. We liope Rev. Berly will not forget to write out the sermon according to promise. That good Brother will also please to accept our thanks for his advocacy .of the Lutheran Visitor. If he would now become a subscriber, his would be -the enviable lot of teaching both by precept and tfiuunple. Orest Excitement. The excitemeut at Bt. Matthew's, S. C., was intense the other Sunday, because the Lutheran failed to reach the subscribers. Their poet uffiee is st Orangeburg, fourteen miles from the settlement The good petqde have therefore organized a club, and send for the mails every Wednesday and every Hnturday. The Lutheran was not received on Saturday, and the murmurs and complaints, which we heard—we were in their m hist—made us feel very uncomfortable. We soon found, however, that they did not blame us. The mails at Orangeburg are uncustomed to play such tricks on the community there; wo heard of one gentleman, who takes the paper of another denomination, and who fretted and complained becansr he did not receive his paper for sev eral weeks, and who all at once wits favored with four impers of different dates. Query; where were those four jmpers; and w here were the Lutherans that did not come to time t We most respectfully venture to sug gest that there must be gross care lessness somewhere. The 7air— The Kail—Lebanon- Orange burg—Home. A busy week. The State Agricul tural Fair brought visitors from all parts of the State to our city, anil as the Lutheran VtsUorta an institution in which many of the yeomanry are inteiested, our time was fully occu pied. The Fair, which by the way was a perfect success, had also to he attended to, the fair at the Fair had to be waited on; a journey was docket; pastoral labor on hand ; and the Lutheran Visitor had to be tnnght to address respectfully, convincingly, and edifyiugly the many minds ex amining and criticising it from various standpoints. Our mission is not the improve ment of agriculture, though we are deeply interested iu, aud fully awake to its paramount importance, we therefore ouly observe: that what we saw only tended to strengthen our conviction, that South Carolina must become, agriculturally, a great State. Tho elements are all here; science and art, energy and industry, perseverance and economy, faith and works, the union of the divine and human energies must do the rest To working farmers—we hnvo too many gentlemen aud fancy fanners —with limited means, portions of this State are a very Eldorado. Laud here is dog cheap. We saw at the Fair lovely aud fascinating • women, vigorous and intelligent looking men, children unnumbered, from the prize babies, ouly they did not get any prize—up to—we we at x lews; we really do not know at what age little girls become young ladies, sud boys young gentlemen. Is a four feet high chop, smoking a cigar, a gen tleman t There were also, out on exhibition of course, line l.oraes, rather too many fhney, and too few working animals. The #how of cattle wits not large. The hogs and aheep did honor to their respective ancestry; and the fhney fowls, from pigeons np to a pair of Bremen geese, that made ns think of Bt. Martin's eve, were well worth looking at. There were also ears of corn equal to any the Bhensndoah Valley ever prodneed, and wheat, foil, heavy, golden grains that would have taken the prendnm at any Fair. The dia play of implement# of husbandry, machinery, all was qnite creditable. The ladies had also contributed many both ttsefol and beautifol nr tk-les. There were—but really, look ing ut the ladies, their ingenious and admirable handi work, and the crowd, confoaed us. We left not only the Fair, bat the city too by the CHARLESTON TRAIN. Our Railroad I rip is very much like all others, unless there is a hrvak down, or a collision. Thanks be to the Lord we have no accident of auy kind to recount. We tuet several acquaintance* on the cars, talked about the Fair, discussed “Sum Small* and “Sidi Brown,” and left the train at Iwwlsvillr, where ltcv. T\ Derrick met us, and we found oar- selves after a couple of hours ride through a good farming country, well timbered aud watered, at the parsonage of St. Matthew’s. We are on a collecting toar for our church, which Sherman, the angel in Unr, burned for the good of the Uuited States. We confess that we are not much of a beggar. Our back is too stiff, figuratively speaking, our tongue is not oily enough, and we prefer giving to receiving. We started oat however the same evening, saw one gentlman, who at once gnve u# five dollars; saw naothcr, he liod-hut lately given — dollars to a negroe church, anti we in our simplicity thought that be would do a# murk for his white brethren; but we were mistaken that time, diary uirkle did we succeed in squeezing out of him. Brother Derrick saw that we were disheartened, and pat a five dollar trill in our band as we writ* seated in the evening at his fireside. We thanked him, wondering at tin- flap* time, where j*x>r ministers get all the money from they give away, nnd arrived at last at the eonctarioti that their liberality has grace fur its root, lore for its trunk and brauchrw, and self denial for Its flowers. We did not ask him—never dreamed of d<iiag it—hat he gave it; his wife looked on with a smile of approval, and we bowed our bead, and whispered: Lord, bless the clieerftU givers. Xow we are not going to net un- gentlemanly. We will not, like the Rev. llniry Column, of Ma«aachu. setts, describe the inside and outside of the houses in which wc are bospi taWy entertained; we win not tell what the gentleman of tin- house said, and how his wife dressed; we do not intend to proclaim wluit we had for breakfast, dinner, and supper; nor win we make a sketch of the chamber on the wall, iu which wc slept. We are, therefore, not going to have it printed whether Itro. Derrick's house was jiaijited or not; whether his floors were carpeted or not; whether his wife did her own sewing or not; wbethel—no, we will only say, that the sooner the |x-ople build him a study' tile better both for him and them. Every cliarge should have a par sonage; every parsonage should hare a study; every study should have a library. The- Apostle Paul had a library'- And—but it is late, everybody tired, and what wc have to say wiU bear keeping. Mark! this poor stmt did not be waU the fact that be teas rich, but the flat of “u lift DEVOTED to money yetting * Rirhss, in themselves, are not wrong, if sot »troayfuHy gained, but to make the securing of wealth tho end of life—to derate the best energies of “the life that wo now Hve in the flesh," to this one purpose— to make the acqusition of wealth paramount to everything else, this, Tins u the sin. Thu reflection, it wan, that filled with remorse, the soul of the dying, Xew York millionaire. Though a member, “in good standing," of a Christian Church, yet his heart was not flxed uu Qod but ou stealth.— Like the Samaritans of old, “who loured the Lord, and srr\ ed their own gists," so ho feared Owl in form, but in heart, bowad down to mammon. And, reader, ia not this one of the prevailing sina of this age, and not of the worhl alouc, but — of the Church t Though many profess to las the wurshiptvw of God, yet their life is derated to the securing of the “right eous luuituuou." Hundred* and thou# ouds ore acting aa • if money, at whatever sacrifice secured, is the chief end of hie. This chum do not rvfose to give m auditing u> the church, tot wit It ■tuudiug their rovetnms desires and aims The ggorva too, in their eyes, *ccM Urge, when cuutniatcd with what others iu the church give— Thus they delude IhmuM-lvfa with the not ton that they an truly litmraL Hut they i.iii to keep liefurr their j minds tho comparative ability of , ihcUMeiica and those with whose i contnbutiutis they compute their own. SuiqMiae, by way of dluatniuou, I I givo owe hundred dollar* towards the support of a pastor. The subamp Uoti areata large. Few men give so , much. Iu the saws congregation , there is one shone suhorriptiua ia | treaty dollars for tho same purpose. At me is Jin tunes the amount til his! | How aide the difleivucv! Aud Iwa easy for Mr to lauigiue that my | libunddy is a puitein deaorviug if ; all imitation. Bat by chance, his tax ticket tolls i into my hands. 1 know he has no it is a Life Devoted to Koasy-gsttug that I Rtgret" The above is one sentence of a death bed lament of a man worth his millions, who died, a short time zince, in the city of Xew York. He was a member, iu good stand ing in ou orthodox church, and yet he declared on his dying bed, that “a life devoted to money-getting,” weighed him down, nnd mode him despair of the life hereafter. When his pastor offered ronsoln- tiou, he turned hi# face to the wall, exclaiming ns he did so, “you have never reproved my avaricion# spirit. You haw willed it wise economy and forethought, but I now know that riche# have been only a snare for my poor soul.” llow bitterly did he tlicn realize the truth that, “They that will be rich fall into temptation, and s snure, and into many foolish and hurtfol lusts, which drowu men in destrue, tion and perdition. For the lore of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves tlirough with many aor , other Iona of wealth than that for »Wk he is now tend. I see he pays , tax uu personal pro|<erty or teal estate to the amount of fttt dollara. while 1 pay to the uuauint of oar hundred. How uaw compares my lils-rwlity • itbflisf He gives owe00th ss much 1 In the support of the ministry as I. Bnl, front reliable data, I am wirth ■<* fee hut t treaty times as mnrh as hr. Tow hub of a*then iathc|irwiar of liberality due f Or *upp-<*e a man. worth at tho almost. * re thaa* and dollars, gives all told, to the < au»e of CUrtM, ttrntfy *vr dollar* anmmmUf ant! anutirer, «ko la worth i/**• tkowmmd <rU4Ltr* % jrfvtMtynurlv out hundred, which is the liberal i man t You say, neither. And strir-th speaking it ia true. But is not the i one who gives four times what is i given by the other, the more liberal ■ of the two! ft«f thousand dollar* • at am-uiulh of forty pee thousand. If then be w ha ia worth hut Jls# i thousand gives fir* dollar* of tty tfamtsand to the rhmvh, in the same ! smell proportion, the owner of sn | estate of forty tire thousand dollar*. '■ mast give, to he as Hbrral ss the former, taw hundred aud heeutyfirr dollar*. But 1st us take into eimahl oration, further, that the man with the small estate, is simply making a living, while the other, i* engaged in a Inrnitire fmsines*. and it redttres hia apparent liberality still more. Suppose, again, a man with no real estate, ia engaged hi mercantile life with a capital of twenty-fire hundred dollar*, who gives to the Lord yearly, tweuty-fiee thdlar*; another member of the mm* ehtm-h, worth, above all encumbrance, hrnty. fire thi. stand dollar*, gives tereaty fue dollar*. What \k their comparative liber ality t The one give* our dollar oa [ every fire hundred of hi* capital—the ! other, three dollar* on every thousand ' of his. Did" the latter gtro tn prtv jMiition to the former—he would gjve instead of trrmtyfire, tuw hundred and fifty dollar* annually, to the Lord and his cauM. And those cun given, are not strictly accurate in value of estate, or in contributions, yet we would not have the reader to suppose they ore altogether' imag inary. Few pastors are to be found who enn not call to mind instances aiming their own people, in which 'this great disparity of liberality ia constantly exemplified. And now what does all this prove t Just what 1* declared by the language of the dying man, which stand# at the head of this article; “it is a life,” on the part of these more pros|s-rous per sons, who give so out of proportion to their ixKirer brethren, “devoted to money getting.” They may not be, in most 'instant cs, art not aware of it. They look at what seems to them their large contribution# and thus i satisfy themselves that they are do- j lug their whole duty in this pnrtieu- ; lor. They persuade themselves, in 1 osmucb, as once they gave ten doll or# to the Lord’s ettse, and now give orn hundred, that, though ricbm in crease, their heart* art not set upon thorn. They fail to couaider that their enlarged liberality has not been in any tolerable proportion to their en larged ability, and hence, enlarged responsibility. And like tho dying millionaire, whose ease started these reflection*, their pastor, from timidity or wonts, “uevrr reproved their avaricious spirit," and thus, salt deceived, they go ou, to rualisu, it is to be feared ou a dying bed, that a “litis devtded to hum try getting, makes them dc*puir of the life hereafter.” Reader, if you have been bU-saa-d with prosperity iu tbiuga teuiporni, let them not Iwcouie your (i«#l, but usider, I pray you, the impurtont •luestion of tbs Saviour: “What shall it profit u man if be pain the a hole world aud lose hia own soul V We have more to say ou this sub ject, but will defer it lor another article. The American Lutheran has lately favored its rvinter* w ith another of Umar lurid com ivsatkma held in its “Munenim," whirh make every aub- jeet diarosm-d as clear as mud. The convenatum to which we srfer was all about -Edita- Katie," attorn Peter drrlarcs to be a gw#! Amen, hr Lath cron, which makes John so happy, that he ela|M his hands. Why did be not shout f Peter, though, has his misgiving*: It* doubtaear Ast.-ri nmian. nnd rsthtw nagOntieamaly, bat rhmrsrlrrintuailly, oitim»lea that “Editor Ku*le" ia auswl.v acting a part, pretending and sliaiomiug. peter, don't ha naughty; judge not! Don’t thiak evil iu your heart. “Kdi tar Bad<-" bus nmttni lu lorr that you do not, and ran not prove your atandpoint, utidenitand hita atul his brethren, and he reiterates the msm lion. He dim not, like >ua, grofinj to love the Omfeasioa, aud yet tern it to pieer*. He does n«M i.ke ymi, abuse the otln-r Byrnhots, I ml reveses, ami ttaro them lor the better uiel. r stamlinguf the<'onfrssioii. Hi love thetfy mhuU,bul they areuot hisDibfo. Hi* rule is, the Bible UrxL My minds next, the Hpirit above all. “Tlu letter kiileth," 1‘eu-r, “the Spirit i]ui< keueih.* Southern loiUitruusaiv led by the Bptnt, which eouie* to us through Baptism aud in the sold. Ibr Sj utbuln help us to understand the w uni. The (liunh in the div turfy antharisrd iaterjin-t. r iff the nv . uied word. 2. IVta-r, 1: 20. eighteen hours, and we do at time# fool exhausted. We have read with satis faction and interest moat of the articles; and advise our friends to the same. For Ih* Lothana Visitor. of Worship. HO. L 4S A LITURGY. Olfaction.—Liturgies foster a formal religion in opositlou to that spiritual worship which the gospel requires. Anstccr.—Then the Jewish religion was merely a formal Worship without the spirit But God himself insti luted that worship, and acee|>ted it, then God sanctious mere form. But Jesus Christ also conformed to the Jewish worship, using their forms and oereoiouirs, nnd asserted that it be came him to fulfill all righteousness. He also, on two different ocossiune, gave a form of prayer—used it him self, and left it to be uard by us just as he gave it. Then the Saviour sauct foiled the use of form#. Dues the use of tho Lord’s prayer make our service formal T Does it take away ita power! After all,'bow- much more formal are that pray er aud those well studied prayers in our liturgy, than the stereotyped prayers of one half of our clergy, who reject and condemn liturgies t Every intelligent man will tell yon that he never saw a more formal aud kfeisss religion and worship than those wituessed in some portious of our church where liturgies are looked upon with lioirwr. The prayer# are always the same, filled w itli repo titions, and empty expressions, and slang phrases, aud their umwrittm liturgy ia followed to the very letter, if a brother uuau-s from a distaacc aud deviates an iota from their adopted unwritten liturgy, fruit is found with him immediately. He must ounform to their mode, ur be is ixmismlured guilty of au inuovatiou. Th*- uhjectHui to the Book is really not to forma, but to a form that ditfeis ioaa theirs. The fceiuig ia that Hu oue lui# a right to preacribe ,a form for them. It awuuut# to this: 1 must have some fonu bc>-juse it i# uUsuiutrly uetx-ssiuy, but 1 claim a better right to luskc that form than I he cbun-l. lots. Xow ue contend that the church are more likely to think of what tfo, are doing than if left to be gafrZ over the eangrcgstfon. The Bo<* of Worship Is designed to make the congregation do what they often fail .to do without a form—that is, f*fr part in the worship. Before we mp*. dnord our B<x>k, the idea of most congregations in the country to be, that tla- minister was to Wor . ship, and they dt and look on an# see that it was well done. Instead of standing in the c-foud, yard and talking abemt their nm* and the politics of the day until the minister reads his text, the Book directs that “the worshipers should proceed to their seats, offer up , silent prayer, sud then quietly #»«, the opening of *ervi<-e.» Theniiurt^ of tiie miniiiter getting up and tellij,. his congregatfoa Out he is Miffe nn ‘ with a severe cold, tw that he h uterty nnprepared to pr^arh, sad asking them to rail upon God to'bha. his laziness nnd indifference to hh sacred vows, thereby enlisting ^ symjmthieK in his behalf, he rket and the congregation with him, and he solemnly announces that the Lord is there, and that they sh.mMTnuoblr their heart# before Him. The whole altar service is well calculated to prepore the heart# of aB to hear the Word to profit aud edification. Ij j# not sinply “going to fnwhing" h j, worshiping, und we do not see bow any can lie indifferent to any of it. It i» not new. The Lutheran Church has always been a lifor^-,) church. Every part of the Luthermn Church has it# Book of Wauhip. The old General Synod was the ha to sew the necessity, but it too now has its Book of Worvhip very similar to ours. 8AM SMALL New Publications. Tur. Mothkm's TW iunv ifuroi of her iiwtre-l*, aud «aru«, Riut aduMMirln* them, as a kind mutlti-r dots her N'ocrmher nimlier of tin* help to > hiidn-u. mother* is worth more than a yearV, The forms in our Book are dcfogutsl sahsrripritiu. Yea. the first article, -HMrniil Astkoritv." ic fWiccti-** in l-aht*. Send your orders to Hot 3.137. Xew York. The Xrw Eclectic.—'The South eni Frrshyterian say# of this mapizinc: “The \ew Lr'rrtir, puhHshi-d by Messrs. Tnrnhnll & Munfcrh, in Baltimore, began ita career in Jan nary, 1810, with the principle of selection from the best foreign and local publication* ns its basis, though opening its i>ages to valuable eon trilnitfona from any quarter. ' It has continued this pobey, improtlng as it went on in die excellence of its 1 selection#, adding to the number of ita original papers, uniting with The Land W> Lore, and »p]>caring, this year, in the handsomest dress of any periodiral we know. Its taate in selection is admirably catholic and pure.” What more U needed in its praise! The Xovember number is folly up to its high standard. Westminster Review. October, 1800. Leonard Scott Publishing Company, Xew York. Coutent* : 1. The Quaker. 2. The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. A Water Supply of London. 4. Sunday Liberty. 5. The Afghan Triltes on our Traus Indus Frontier. C. The National History of Morals. 7. The Albert Life Insurance Com|>any. A Compulsory Education. 9. Prostitn tion. Contemporary Literature. London Quarterly Review. Oc tober, 1S09. Leonard Scott Publish tag Company, Xew York. Conteuto: L Islam.’ Lsaoe Bar row. A Higher and Lower Animals. 4. The Byron Mystery. 5. The Water Supply of Loodon. 8. Lord Lyttle ton's Horace. 7. The Reconstruction of the Irish Church. 8. Soeradotol Celibacy, 9. The Past and the Fu ture of Conservation Policy. North British Review. October, 1800. Issmsrd Scott Publishing Company, New York. Contents: 1. InventusMundi. 3. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 3. The Different Schools of Elementary Logic. 4. Mr. Browning^ Latest Poetry- A The Pope and the Coun cil. fl. The Constitutional Develop ment of Austria. 7. Literature and the Land Question In Ireland. 8. Contemporary Literature. We regret that our various engage- to snpply a fi-lt want in the service* of the Hitm-tnsry, sod to rrpttau- tlist « bic-li formeity »-\i*t«*d in di*ord<-r. For instance: The response* are much disliked by those very men w ho rv*|#mdt he most. I have heard mauy response* from these brethren which meant the very opposite of what wa* intended. A good old father was praying on one occasion. He mid, “O I»rd this i* in all proliabiUty the last time I will ever be [tenniUed to meet my brethren on earth." A brother broke out with s response: “Amen, Lord grant it.” Xow our responses are intended to do “decently and in order" what is done without order or eommou sense. God isa God of order und not of confusion. Who will pre tend to say that God is better pleased with such i espouses than those in the Book! These prayers ami re sponses however by no means debar any brother from the use of - his own, but it recommends all to be have projK-rfy iu the service of God’s house. But the Book requires us to kneel in the confessional prayer, and stand in the public prayers. Is this not proper t In the confes sion vie. humble ourselves before God as js-uitenla, in the public prayers, w e gire thank* as accepted children. Suppose we lived under a king, and we hud a itetition to offer, iu which we asked some gracious favor, how would we approach him ! Aud then when the favor was granted how would we return him our thanks! The Bible prescribes no attiude or |K)«ture for us to observe in prayer, and wo have selected those most befitting the object of our service. We have just aa much authority for standing os we have for kneeling, und in thanksgiving it is certainly the most appropriate attitude. Objaction.—All that tho service contains is good euough, but the minister and people just say it, and do not fee l usd enjoy it Answer.—How do you know that t. Xo man has a right to say that litur gies are only mid by rote and uot felt. Such may be the case, aud so it may be in the services of those who do uot use liturgies. I heard ou nnti-litorgioal minister say ro- ocntly, that he often prayed in the public service when he did not fool what he said. It is for more probable ent Reviews; but our day has only menu do not itou to give an ab-, ^ ^ ^ wlI1 ^ llturRKal struct of several articles in the differ- service more thaa apy other, for with their books before thetr eyes, they for Uw Lallans Ymux Corner-Stone Laying. On Thursday, OeU»b»-r 28th, the writer, in eonqiany with the Rev. Geo. A. Long, of tlie Newtown charge, left home to be present at the cerejnony of loving the corner stone of a brick church in course of erec tion by the Evangelical Izttheran eon grcgati.m at WanlensviDe, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was a bright and beautiful autumn day, *nd as our road lay acros* mountains and valleys, the scenery was snffieientlv hns the right to prescribe <onn# ami! diTC ™ fl,vl to mak ‘‘ th < intw « liturgies lor her I#*q>le. ami kival ,n c am id'^t-aat. .-.embers of the ebureh wUI yield | ^” rcaehrtl fbe MWc v.Hy their prQuatn-e* and pretlilectious to '' nu ' nBet nigiitfall. and drove her outI.oiitv. Ska disclaim* anv " ,n ’"" h iU dark :,! " 1 light or anv intention to l.tinl the ™>r biRhly esteemed viuidn-n, but she i , '" rt,ur ’ ™ IVf**r-Miller, whn rep- rftKents our diuiomhutfiou in one loyitl Stubs oi»c» militan* ilifttrict. »v(*ni u..unties, and (cirts adjacent, besides pro.vbing ooeastoBaJly to the rest of mankind. \Ve received a most eotdbi giwting fn>ni tl»c pastor aTwl his family nnd soon were comfortably seated aronml a blazing fire; whilst In tin- meantime the amiable better h:ilf of the estat.Iishnient iwejrared for us an excellent supper, to which in all truth we did ample justice. The rejrast ended atul an hour or two agreeably- s|<ent iu iuutiu.1 iuqairie* and the exchange of sentimeuts upon various tofucs, genersd nnd special, we commcnderl onrstdves to the care of our Heavenly Father and retired for the night to eiyoy “ kind nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep.” Friday morning broke cloudy and chilly, and the indh-.itious of a rather unfavorable day were visible in the heavens above us aud fell on Un earth beneath. Xeverfheless we were hopeful of a change for the better,and cTiecrfnl i^view of the foci, that in a few hours we would eqjoy tlie great pleasure of listening to the polished sentences and edifying utterances of Brother T. TV. Dosb and of eugag tag in the interesting ceremonies of laying the rwuor-stonc of another new Lutheran church edifice. Public services had been appointed for 10J A. M.; and as the preacher for the occasion had to make a long aud cold ride of 28 miles, over, hill and dale, by that hpur, we could not altogether banish tlie annoying thought that he might perhaps, &o® some unknown occurrence, fail to be in time. As tlie hour for service* drew near, our apprehensions became rather painful, as in case of a feilnrf upon his part, it had beeu determined Holes* roles* Uut your correspondent must hold forth, prepared or utn«v- parod. Awfolly perplexed, ami ** most h<qwless of relief from the dire ucocssity of preaching without hav ing anything to say, a small package of undent manuscript was carefully examiued and nothing found to meet the emergency. Judge then all f 6 who Lave been in such a fix, or ha ve any desire to be, what was the joy of tny heart when the* tidings from Up to lip, “he’s come, he’aoomc- And sure euough, w eary but punctual, there he. sat astride kis black pqnj. bland and smiling as aMaymoruwg. and none mors delighted to see k> ,n than your humble servant Our re lief was instantaneous, our joy uu bounded—the great pain killer 1»» come aud our “peace flowed like * river.” The time for public servioesbavi* 1 ? arrived, he proceeded at once to tb» village chan from ah am 1 whtol. to « Lord deliver genera' m«* front cam" thaa** ah d w»«m. tie* otteodu: tentton fixe. moat exncll •daptetl to well beaten m:«wy P«"”' impression- t ,eased rc*t{ Hathar Chu The sernx fidtltosse*. *4 aeription# it prize, which reajMHtke. ” ■nnaber; flingniue an were plemwrc in- all was doi.i as become?! God; »«d 'j comic, or -1 OoahfM moA After the had been w j and coogi'j site of the 11 tion bad U -J of Thtoh wJ fill block otl finished: tlj congrcgatioj of the nsaal Bible and I’j been dej#-j I’astor of tl P. MilUer “ Cotser-Std pressive an tained iu .>•« jKirtieular!, by- the uami Tlie chnnj the cewtfc J street, stanJ of tlie side feet, and - «>-nt a vcJ size it is fon will be sarii which we tr the silvery worship tl. hamlet anuJ ezperttsl tId plchsl. und May or duo ipiite a »»r lavnrn in i\ pit I—ft t.l i this praiset* in the work IteUg. >US on Friday u day inoruui| Monday nis Ou Hub ' moot of tlie jk*u-vc-d. an<1 to Church and cxmfiq during the i ing was vc| state of tin dated t-oudi Olierch. W tatacd durit saotptuous! nesday eve and found t coining. Onr pray self and brat ' the mount; glory of Go< of liis km welfare of 1 eomunica of a gener. of -wlxv above < T. i the far ately e» ocousio a gener tions tc charge distanc their In confide f.