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C , WEDNESDAY. JAHUARY III, 1870. OLD SERIES. VOL. IV.--N0. 74. fit $idt«an WifUvt * IS PCBLISHKP EVERY WEDNESDAY BY RUBE & MILLER. TEEM8: V.r ixiwoui Visitor I* larnislied lo JX, tiSi SO (*■ frar, ,f r»« '» *>«"« (3efgrtnc«, their Widow*. sub- I mlvance. Snxhtth of .£<**4 $LW l»t ><*“.« "> 'sdmttce. , , ►«- fws. wt.0 do no* P*T wthiu Ihrw ifk* tub rwt fow<«. «‘ H * "• .vrrj 1 <»V, to Bharged ttfty ctuU vtditrnini. «.irss or jLOVdRTiaisu: *W one **«S» (*»♦ *»«fi <* oolumn) : ■ First InScH'wi.,.. “! .jj Si month... .? ™ Swclrti 1 On .dvortlwmenw *t throe «qu*rv* *«<i vp •.nb a ditooont ,ot JO p.r coot, of WJSJ**"* M.inpe.rdeto pwtoto. U y* *&**• »•* toward* 40 per mot. and •< <»* h*»f col.no.. upwards, 10 per cent. wifi to-jcdncM lr*»> the .t*« .-Hies. LOV OUituanr*. when more than «Vi‘ lis*^ *»n cnU for eid*»t wunfe. toyabh. in ml.ancc. TWdJ- fnv cents per qt) ,rtrr. •y nm rem.-mhqr a 1 twiner Miters should to addrcwnl to ' „ JtKT. A. R RICK, ChtonbM., S C. * sa£- • ■ '•*" — jJFf^ Oomnmnicatlons. Fur the But Ik run Visitor. Philadelphia. TT05DEK WHY. la rqtuliug the interesting niuuWrs of the tMlkeran Visitor we ofteu see in ueiMuats of Conferences, Synodi- ml proetsslings, &e., tlenr familiar names front whom we should love to hesir . through contributions to your columns. And we often wonder why ministers do not mate them selves felt through the press as well ss the pulpit! By the former, old friends far nway enn hear from those who to them otherwise wtmhl Is* only as the memory of a jtreeiotts ointment. My their }>en they can qnkkeu the. dead past, stir silent depth*, mtd reach tit* siulienco lie- side hearth-stones all over the hind. If thus they wtmld do good and *VMMniii&<tr, the e.bureh would lx* instvuefetl anil tdtl fiietMls clieeml, and the editor, no doubt, immensely pleased. There is I*r*>f. Biekle, whose gi-.ttlu- ittmg speech was written in (!reek, a copy of which is in our pnuf tsinu; now, why must this brother Ym to us jis a dead language ! There is Bev. (iills rt, whose grace fill ]ten liegan the pages of the *“(fmd Sum'" at college. Always gentle, mild, and lovely, lie won the affections of all by whom he was surrounded. We have tleligldtul memories of Bev. Hush. His commanding [ires «ue®—the dignity of iiis mien won the admiration of every one. H>s measured ttud stately sonteuces were like the march of an army. He eon- tpteivd as he went. Bev. Loug is not forgotten. He was noted for the tho titer in modo et fortiter iu re; and his terse, concise Wjings were like “short, sharp and decisive” battles. Who conid forget Bev. Webster Bichelbergert He had no peer in stature or Christian grace, when nt cnllege. Iu addition to the graces of the true. Christian life, as it scholar, “lie wrote in Greek, Spanish and Latin.” Some of I lie, fondest recollections «f our boyhood duster about the revered name of Dr. Kittle, now of Roanoke. He. was the warm per- sotiul friend of the father of ’ your correspondent, and shared with him the toils ajid pleasures of the chris tian ministry. Those were happy hours to hs all which he sjieut at our home. The hot heron Church has no firmer exponent »f lier trite fait*, as maintained in her tJonfcssion and Wks, titan he; nor is tliere another Readier to defend, or more willing to Jiroinotc the interest of that church And so we might run on and mention others win* hold “the pen of a ready writer,” and whose occasional con tributions to the Visitor would con vince to the pleasure af friends, nnd the edifying of the church. Byron lias truly said, that ‘•Many a poc; bath nm penned Ids inspiration mid we say that the Lutheran Church has many u noble name standing iu [dace Of some note we give )dit * few items concerning it. As you know, it is a Moravian town, oral was such exclusively until tbo last few years. In 1844 it nninhered one thousand inhabitants. Then for the lr*t time a move was mad® by some of the most enterpriring citjAeus for o free town, which they succeeded in carrying after a vigorous campulgn. Lots were then tipenwl and sold to. Jew and Gem lie—the railroads gave impetus to tlie work, and to dny It numbers twelve thousand. The Mo ravians have but ouu church iu Bethlehem, (although they contem plate rt mission oil the other side of the river shortly) which is a very large one, seating fifteen hundred persons, right elegantly furnished, and prettily painted and trescood, and has all the convenience* of culi nary ile|mrtmeut nnd fixings for “Love Feast.” “This custom,” said brtc of the deacons, when showing me through the bn tiding, “Is not es sential, but we don’t intend to give it up." Tlie memliership numbers eight hundred. The present pastor is Rev. IS. IVSchweiuiU, who i* also editor of the .VurarilM, ptibllslted here. The first church planted in Beth lehem after it became a free tow n was the Lutheran. It is now under the pastoral care of Rev. J. B. Rath, and iu a flourishing condition. .Vs Bro. Ruth was a classmate of ours, wo enjoyed with him not only a good Peniisylvunia dinner, but an old time, and old fashioned talk in His sanctum. Bethlehem is a pretty town, sot on a hill, and lius many elegant resi dences. It is fast building np, and is becoming a great business centre. Near by, are the famous (Tinpmau Slate Quarries, of which space w ill not penult mo to write. With Mr. C. we etyoy od a pleasant evening, at his house. Extensive preparations were already Ming made for Christ mas; Mr. Chapman remarked that Christmas was a grand day tlier,- for ■ evergreens and presents, and tlutt enemies gave gifts to each other. Talking a rant cuamrw v*. remiiHltt me that this lilessed natal season wraa WynhrrtW Iwre bv the Luthenin anti Kpisco]ial Churches. St. Stephens h id a gathering of the achojls, and a huge CliristmaS tree filled with presents; and St. Peter’s hail Sunday-school Festivul Services at night, and iiiWwww from l>rs. Seiss ami Krantli, which wf re Mttcr than St Stephen’s sugar plums; and the other churches also appmpriately celebrated tins day by full chiireh services iu the morning. \\> hope everybody had a merry Ciiristuius! Indeed everyInsly ought to have one happy duy iu a year nt least, and that day Christmas. Well, it is over, and with it has gotto sweet scenes about heavily laden trees, and glad reuuhiua, me mentoes and gifts of tender senti ment ami earuest truth, nud, alas for human selfishness! enormous piles of picked, broken, scraped ami gnawed bones of many an innocent turkey. LIS DEN. T at a t all, the circus, tho theatre, or it Imt pirns* was, of all others, the playing a game of cards f And, sanctuary of everything on which ought a Christian td gn any whun*.. they might think with plearatre—that in such n place there could not possi bly I* anything odious aad repulsive. And, therefore, the report that so ghastly an object aa a skeleton was beneath the pastor's roof, sad in the moat honored place in all his house, created an uproar that shook the parish from centre to circumference. Whose skeleton was ttl How cubic it theret llow loug had it lirea there f What in tin creation did the man ilo with it f Did he grim and spend — or 10 lie found at ItUy plaee, where he would be ashamed, or tremble, lo meet hU God f Again ought there not to be a distinct line of demareu tion betweeu the Christian uihI the sinner, between the man who pro fesses a love for tlie Saviour, and the nutn who makes no such profession t I suppose all will udmit this; ami, st th® tuiuie time, if there be any such line, at this time, and in this tiny, it must l>®,admitted that, in hundreds of instances, it is very faintly drawn j write bis aertnun* in tlmt —it would require apowerftd mien* awful presence t Dare scope to sec it, If it lie drawn at alL i long hours of the day, aud some in This is a humiliating confeaaioi<7 but the uight. iu the same room with so it is nevertheless true. ■ odious uu olpect f There is another evil, of terrible j Scandal hghted its fires, and ro und awful iui|M>rt, which ia alarm- ntor blowed the liellows. And the ingly prevalent, at thia time, and ss wicked were glad, aud tlie aaluti uujiopular and resiamaible as it may were sad, for all tongwra in tho be to diseuas it, I must refer to it: |iurUh were fonouti, and the oldest It is the habit of indulging iu the use inhabitant hail not known such a of intosicatiug drinks—not only ou lent|»e*t. the |inrt of those who are aUhoot, Had any one seen the horrible but by those who are Witliin the pale thing t No eye w itneas , apjieared. of the Church of Christ, la there a - Has the atnrtling fort leaked out ftfMn any word of tin* ; mat or, or of his household f No such leak caiuc to light. But “Gaaiimu said R.” And “ribiraei said It," aud all said it who were glad of a blow at the |km- tor’s good name. And all who loved nod honored him eonhl not deny it, and did not know hut that somehow ami how are they to In* reformed f , it might he true, os they must our Thia reformation must commence rowfully own. with the Church, aud so long as this Twt» venerable men, urged on by evil is tolerated in the Chniclt, and the general exciteim-iit. felt imjiellcd fcy the Church, it will In* in vain to | towsnl the juirmumge to see bow expert any reformation whatever.— umttri* stomL They would The Cbnrvh must set its free against , know if it could lie |MMidl4e that in srn-h ghoatly uct upon tip* ni!c of 41 touch not, j alarmed them ns they sp|mtaeh<-<l teste I^T, handle not," or onreonntry , the bon».* f and nothing gum orterri U dr4titu*d to go the dogs, aad I was, ble spix-atiHl as the door ois-tusL about to sny th t “ Ich.diod ’ Is j The smiling p ndor gnt e them a already written upon h«*r earntchron. welcome that mads them tel that If I repeat, aud 1 do it In sorrotr, not in iIhtc were a dead man's bone* it, the Hindi la the state of affisirs in this jisrish. It was ihought bast to make a chronicle thereof, in hope that the heroic purisiar of onr people to make ou important change in Affairs at the parsonage, may stir np ]Mrishtoners elsewhere ton virtuous indignation against there being, after Thsnkagir Ing, Christmas, or New Year's, any thing like a skeleton in the study of any pastor. for Christ** sskr* Cor. xii, 10). Fur these things only show we are line of demarcation here, Imtweeu Christians and outsiders, in reference to this habit T There doubtless is, on tlie part ol some, but it is uwfully to be fraud that in a vast majority of instances, that Ijnc cannot Is* seen at all. The drinking habits of the country are awflilly on the increase. dram driukiug—Christian* of all tie- their honored jsistor was IMHIltmiUiin*) mid of both sexes, must a condemnation. Nothing them proves we are strong iu the Lord. Blessed condition, happy peo ple, this is Tabaris top, this is Pisgah’s view—this Zion’s mount, this is not only to have fellowship with Jesus in His sufferings, it is to kuow, feel Mid enjoy tlie power of His resurrection.” The Lord, the Eternal Spirit, lead us with love and power into this mercy nnd blessedness, for Christ’s sake. PreMh Christ We need not fety that the world is weary of hearing about Him. It wearies of everything else, but it God is determined tKat the proud never wearies of Christ. After the heart shall be brought low, that “the i ap *. 0 f eighteen hundred years, He lofty looks of niau ahsll tie humbled still exerts over foes and friends the weak j and faith to rtieerfttily bear t®rn, and a glorious victory be won. Are’three stages dt gracious expe- j rienec iu tlie people of God, but what kicking, what rebellion, what op;>o*i- t ion from onr proud and legal hearts before we will or can submit; but! again, and hear His voice, and whether the tide of buttle will not aud tlie haughtiness of tnen shall be bowed down" (Isn. ii, 11), for “ God mustelh the proud” (James ir, 6; 1 Peter v. A). Ah, my brethren, we must bond before Divine sovereignty und God's way of salvation. Divine sovereignty is tlie great stumlding- stone to all proud. Pharisaical pro fessors, and all the op|io«itioii of onr stuldtoru nature will only uske mat ters worse. How often have we proved the tmtli of Proverbs xvii, .1, same mysterious power which belong ed to Him when He was on earth. Every attempt to tell the story of HU life again, stirs the Immau heart as nothing else can stir it. The genius of M. lleusn, the ineffable grace and beauty of his stylr, his great reputn tion, invested his rt Life of Jesus” with exceptional attractions; but after all, it was the story itself that France wanted to boar ; and when even he I wrote about the “Apostles,” France The foolishness of mau )M*ncrteUi; cared uotbiug for hu book. The his w ay. and bis heart freUetli against Utorary beauty of “Km- Homo," the the Lord.” And where is there a child of God who has not found it sot This bumbling of tin* heart is the Dad’s work, and there would be no freshness of its spirit, the originality of some of its views, and the igno rant and uwlisfriuuuating abuse which it provoked, all contributed to submission to tin* troths aud precepts j it, popularity ; but what made men of the Gosjiel nnlcaathe lorel Himself read it with such eagerness and tie- begun, carried on and completed His li^ht was this it was auother effort own work, see Iftiil. i, fi. Then turn to toll the world the wonderful fact* We know how marvellous was the spell Ho exerted over all sorts of men when He was here. The rabbi came to Him by night; the woraaa that was a sinner crept to Hit feet and washed them with her tears; fishermen forsook their boats and their nets to follow Him; Zaoeheus, the extortionate publican, climbed the tree to aec Him pans by, and repented of all oia rapacity as soon as Jesus entered his house; rich Pharisees asked Him to dine with them; the common people heard Him gladly; Herod desired to see Him; Pilate pronounced Him innocent; the offi cers who were sent to take Him said, u Never man spake like this man;" the thief on the cross became a pant tent, and, taming his eye* to the in scription which was hung in mock ery above the bead of the rejected and crucified lieasant of Nazareth, cried, “Lord, remember me when Thou comost into-Thy kingdom.”— The ancient spell has not lost its power. In our great controversy with unbelief, our supreme argument for the authority of Christ is Christ Himself.—Sex if. IV. Dale. - Christ ii Preached. to It Ham. xxii, 45, compare with I'saltu xviii, 44, for one graciona plan tin* Lord use*, I say one plan, U u» soon a* they hear of me, they shall "Hr «”* tbo strangers shall submit of the life of Christ. What do we, ami our Churches, and our follow-countrymen know about Christ? Uon much of our strength is given to the endeavor to themselves unto tue,” “tries theg hear ‘ make turn familiar with His eharae aayre, that so long a* Christians in dulge in the use of iutoxicating hcv- era“»•* of ao> sort, ritlier pal-’icly or privately, in ttie h«-rc»im nr nreontl tlie family ein-le, at parties or ong ithere rise, w« may lisik, lait 'we w ill look in vain, for any ri*forin:itliHi on the |Htrt of the young men of tlie country. 1 have lieanl it said, I know not how often, by that inter estiug fins* of persons, oar going men, w ho are the Iki|k* of the rtmtifry, “ why do you talk to tne almut drink ing? I dout indulge in the hatiit any more, if as iiineb us do KMers, Deaeou*. Claas-leadens or even SoMe hotine, lliey sould Hot raver hi* face with gloom. It Was a delicate matter they hml tw hand. It was enittiourly ap- pnrniml, Iwt mu-lied at lust. u Dh1 the juistor keep u *kel«*toM in hi* straly r A shrah* of wonder and suqiriae ! went over the good mnii's face for a uioiiHMit; but tlie wuii*hine soon broke through. “Brethren," mid hr, as In* led tin in to the study door, ' *‘you may judge Tor youns-Kes about 'tlie rumor that brought yon hen*. ■ I*>ok at thra* *hHw*v They were, 1 made for Imok*. Abut for the lean ike shade, and many » silmit jh-ii Which, if brought to light nud use., would create iutluenco* for good like rircle* in the sea that widen to nn Measured slioves. Wy do not doubt Lut that we are allowed to say that it is the duty of ministers to sustain their church paper l>y stated coutri hntions, as well as by securing sub scrihci*. bethlkuem, pa. We took a run up to this flourish ing town recently, and as it is a Selections. Dancing, the Circux, the Theatre, the CarfeTskls, Sram-OrioJuag. Ac. Mr. Editor: The aliovc caption embraces u part of tho catalogue of the so-called “ innocent amuattnicnta.” Are they innocent f This ia an im portant question to the Christian. It is admitted, ou all hands, und by all Christians, that sin is mixed with all that we do—evea with the discharge of our mostimportMt religious duties. There is, there can be no question, but that there is a taint of sin, even iu th® exercise of onr devotions, onr prayers. Is every Christian as dc vout as huonght to be iu the exercise of this duty t Do not his thought* sometimes wonder 1 I* there not sometimes a little self mixed up in its performance ? Tliere is sin, be yond all doobt, even ia the perform mice of onr best services—in praying, at th® Hncranieiitol board, when we are partaking of the emblems of the broken l*ody, and shed blood, of our Saviour. And is then* no siu iu dancing, in going to the theatre, the circuit, in spending onr precious time at the card-fable, raid kindred amuse ments ? If not, and if thepi is sin mixed np in the performance, of reli gious duty, let ns quit praying, tak of the Clergy. I nqieat, w hy do yon ' lean! Good men are there; hut bow remonstrate with me r Again: 1 few they are, aud how solitary and have heard it said, often, that |iro forLwu they look! Robert. nall’i feasors of religion drink until they feel it, ami nothing is said uhnat it; lmt if a young nutn happens to la- ] dnlge a little, n terrible line and cry is raised about it all over the country; hi* name is in everybody’* month. My dear Christian friends and breth ren, thia ia awfotly true. I h vc seen It, and heard it said, more than once; and place yourselves U M.v aitiiation’, go out and talk to th® young, as 1 frequently do. aud you will see nnd feel it too. Would to God thnt ever}- professor of religion would »]icn hi* eyes, and her eyen, tipon this *nhjeet, anti see the evil, as I have seen it, for days, and weeks, nnd months, and years, gone hy. I have sja-nt aleeplesa hours in reflecting upon thia awful state of thing*, but I urrer ex pert to see a reformation until tlie Church, untit Bill tiffin US do their duty. I believe that t a nnd coffee are indispensable to my health, but, as God is my judge, nnd ns I expect to answer at Iiis liar, for every word I write, I would drink no more of these delicious beverages, while the world stands, or dnring my brief life, if mtcb abstinence would reform the drinking habits of the Christian Church. of sir,” the graekn* work will be ef fectually dour, u with wwjiiiig ami ppliratioiis will I lend them* (Jer. xxxi, 0). O, brethren, when wc hear “tlie joyful soond” of Hi* “great love,” Hi* “temU-r merry," Hi* loving- kiiidue**. not withstanding all our folly, how tiumbtiug, bow melting, thru bow easy and sweet to submit and foil nt Ilia feet in Gosiicl obe- ter and bistorj t 1 suppose that moat of ns are ronciou* that when we at tempt to preach about Christ, we are ia danger of preaching about every thing und everybody that hail any connection with Him, aud of forget ting Christ Ilimaelf. • • • We suggest ingenious methods of har- mouising the «liscre|iancies jo( the four G atpels. We ansa-er objections ing the laird’s Supiier, Mid kindred exercises, anti siieml our time in the enjoyment of these “ innocent amuse ments.” Oh, consistency! thou art a jewel; and, oh, religious consist ency I thou art a greater jewel! But again. I* there a Christian on earth who would lie wilHng to die The Skeleton at the Parsonage. | The following account of th® “Skel eton at the Parsonage," is taken from th® Congregatumalist: There ha* been » stiff breeoe blow ing in this mml anti usually very peaeeftil pariah. We have one of the best of men for onr lwistor. And R has been supposed that his was one Of the most orderly and best rvgu Iat<nd families In the land ; und never till of late ha* there been the least suspicion that there was or could, be anything beneath thnt roof Imt what was lovely or of good report. Bnt n startling ntiuor went over the parish lately like a whirlwind. It was said of the pastor that be kept a hnge and frightful skeleton in his study! People had supposed that wwrk* are tho only urrnpanta of that shelf, which could hob! a score more of good men. Edward’* works, by msnbtBqr only, can Lke otit the next shelf; while uprightness on their part sould show a hidc<m* chasm. Barnes’ Notes, with a sort of hypoeri *y, are trying to hide the nakedness of the next shelf by spreading their covers, right ami left, as far aa they «wix Run your eyes, brethren, along other shelves, and set* only here and then* good men, like solitary palm trees iu a desert. They are (Mtieiit ia' their kmeliness, though I have thought there was at times the mournful humming of the. wonts: Oh. ffulitude ! »Vro ffiro rtio charm* Hm»i have m ihy Rfic* ? “Now brethren, you havts seen tlieae empty shelve*, und tlie chasms that nliound nn* ta*fore your eyes; ami you can judge wlietlier there is not a aad deficiency «*f tleali on these Uincs. And what other report can you make than that sure enough tfoir is a skeletou in the study of yonr imstor T” Uow long should It b® there 1 A of the an\il, soitl, with a ringing blow by way of emphasis, that there nil.mill Im* *oun> flesh on th® liou®* before New Year’s. B th® butelier, wonld give u quarter of a beef to tlie same intent. D the doctor, said the otw skeleton in life own office was all there ought to be in town, and there should not be another if any prescription of hia could prevent it. J the judge, gave hia voice against the wnndnl nt the paraunage, null hts pledge to aid ill the removal. L the lawyer, co-hicldcd wttli bis honor ou Use bench, nnd also came to tlie rescue. Ami the young men caught the iuqiiratitin, ami th® maidens would not lie the weaker vessels in this good enterprise, nnd the whole parish were fired np to the determrnntion that before Thanks giving dinucr smoked ou the table, dieneej when love draws how plea* to the Christian miracle*. We take nut to obey, this is not legal uabmis- isolated moral precepts from our si on, but gracious Ooapct obedienee.; Lord’s discourse, aad show their ap- Thls will lead to tlie next stage, 1 plication to modern life; or isolate® CMMtfimt; how blessedly Ht. l’aul statements of doctrine, and illustrate speaks of tbisiu rinl.fr, 11, “I have their bearing on the controversies learned, in whatever state 1 am, < which divide hostile schools of the therewith to be coutcut.” Yco, St., ologv. I , hra«r* < which fell from Hia Raul had learned this lesson that ‘ lips, phrases which occur in the Gos- ••godliness with contentment is great! pel narrativoa, suggest long trains of gain” (1 Tim. vi, C). 1 kuow from. thought, which apjiear to ns to be experience that the jieoplc ] striking and patiictic, and perhaps (mostly “the jics>r of this world"), ( "original.” Wc discuss a thousand when oppressed with poverty, sin and questions about Him; we reply to a temptation, find it bard to submit, thousand difficulties; we declaim, we ami much harder to b. content; grace 1 argue, we entreat. Wc may do all alone enn make it easy. In Hebrews ! this, and fail to tell the actual story, xiii, 5, we have tlie exhortations, “lie We may criticise the portrait cou pon tent with such thing*aa ye lutvei,” which is barked up w ith an exceeding great and ]»rcrions promise, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee;” tamed ia the Gospels, instead of try ing to paint it afresh. We may dis unsa the merits of the drama, instead of letting men see it acted before when we lose sight of this Sweat j their eyes, promise wc creep into the flesh, our j Hence it happens that, to the very feet “an* almost gone,” “ onr *te|is j people to whom we are constantly preaching, the story of Christ’s life, In the late re-opening of 8L Paul’s Church, at Lowell, three - different speakers, from three different locali ties, without conference, or sugges tion, preached each on “Christthe first, UU mission; the second, His fulness; and tlie third, His gifts. This is a sign of the need and the current of the times. This distin- guishesevery Christian preacher from his fictitious neighbors. This makes the heart of God and angels to rejoice. “Whereupon," saith St. Paul, “I do rejoice, and will rejoice, that Christ is preached.” Preach him in all hia fullness of nature, work, and reward. Preach him every Sabbath, and in every sermon. The world is dying for want of faith in Jesus Christ its Saviour. Preach him in walk and rouvernation. Preach hln ia business and reerewtidh. Let his name be on your lip, his lore in your heart, his grace iu your life. Make the scoffer see his saintly bounty in your devo tion, make the sad and honest doubter see hope and happiness in your confidence. Make the shrewd ob jector see higher, highest wisdom in your faith. If the clinrch earnestly, ceaselessly, lovingly, preaches Christ, great will be her reward. The enemy that assails him and her, will confess both conquerors. She will put foith into loving practice, and all the world shall see tlie beaut}- of her principles in the perfection of her humility and love. She will go down to the bottom of society, to pull its crushed victims up into light and liberty. She will know no brother according to the flesh, with prejudice and pride. Each will esteem himself tlie least, and all others his superiors. Let Christ be preached and practiced. Llustration* and Extracts. well nigh sltjipisl,” and why ? Be cause we envy the foolish when wc sec the prosperity of the wicked (Tsaliu Ixxiii, 2, 3), here ia no con- teutmeiit, we are pricked in our reins, und onr rebellion ami corruption boil up within us; but wheti wc nro ena bled to “look unto Jestis, in Hi* hu miliation, Hia having nowhere to lay Ilia head—His nfliirtions aud sor rows; when the Bpirit leads us to Calvary, wc enter into communion with Joshs in HU suffering*, are shadow of a shade of that skeleton in the study of the pastor, as a whole, ia new and unfamiliar. When it ia told them, they are, as we have seen lately, charmed and fas cinated by it. We may have been able to give them many admirable thoughts about tho facts of our Lord’s earthly history, but the foots them scU’es arc better than the thoughts. If we could ouly make them see Christ as He lived and moved among men — if nis own thoughts, His own words, and HU “‘partakers of the afflictions of the own deeds were so presented to them Gospel" (2 Tim, i, 8); this give® con tcutment, then a little of thU world will abundantly satisfy, wo shalljiot envy tlie foolish, but “having food aud raiment we shall be content,” and when this contentment is sweet ened with peace of conscience through atoning blood aud justifying righto- that they should feel as though they had listened themselves to His ser mon on the Mount, and to the para ble of the Prodigal Son—had been with the A post 1 os in the boat when He walked across the stormy sea— had seen Him lay His band on brows burning with, fever,* and take the ousness, with a hclieviiig view of our i little childreq ia His arms and bless covenant standing, eternul relation "! them—had stood by His side when ship aud bleaaedues* in Gkrist, t^is , lie wept at the grave of Lazarus— will bring us to the next stage—\e- sat in the upper chamber when np 1 quiescence. Just read Utb. x, 34, said, “Let not your hearts be tron “and took joyful!} the spoiliagofyour bled”—watched Him in Iiis anguish, goods.” Theg tool, there is snbuiis- i and gased on Him ns He ascended slou, they took it jogfoltg, there i* i into Heaven—I can not but believe coutentmept and cheerful acquies- ! that we should have new and won- eeuoe. This ia a blessed ajiot, we set* derfiil proofs that Christ the Ixinl’s hand in all our move- 1 speculations nlxiut Christ, not onr meats; every inch of the way jsmer arguments hi support of His Divine cy, we would have nothing altered : j commission, not our learned disaer- all is right, the language of the heart rations on the geography Of the laud ia, “Thy will be done;” we find wis ] in which He lived, and the civil, doiu’a ways pleasant, and all her: political, and religious life of the B ]laths peace. With 8t. Raul we can j Jewish people—but Christ Hiratelf, or soon after, there should not bo the in our little measure “take pleasure j is still the power of God, and the . . i _ r .i . ..... i... t.d „„l. ne In nnM.ia. wisdom of God. • • * * * 1‘HIU IT: 13.—The late Robert Hall, when suffering from most ex cruciating pain, said he was “able to cryoy everything,” for Christ strengthened him. Mark the con trast ! When Lord Byron was suf fering from pains caused by a most vicious life, he said : “There is noth ing but misery in this world, I think.” X Sam. xxvi: 20.—Mr. Emerson tells us that in some parts, where th® people arc not provided with gun powder, they chase the wild fowl on foot until the birds are so wearied that they are easily taken by tho hand. Thus it was evidently that Saul hunted David. 1 Sam. to : 7.—The margin reads, “Thus did Samuel before he knew the Lord, and before the word of the Lord was revealed unto him.” This is iudeed striking aud most beautifril. The Lord njay call to a sinner in a thousand ways, and the sinner not know it is the Lord who calls. But once when he .has lieanl the Lord’s voice in the pardoning of his sins, 0, liow he recognizes it and rejoices in it when he hears it again! There is no mistaking the voice. Exod. xii: 19.—The Israelite did not put away leaven in order to 1)0 saved, bnt because he teas Sftved; not our jdind if he failed to pot away leaveu, it did not raise the question of secu rity through the blood, but simply of fellowship with the assembly. The cutting off an Israelite from the con gregation nnswers precisely to the n nlirioHan’o lialimrehin iu infirmities, in reproaches, in news si ties, in jieraeewtion. in distresses wisdom of God. bet the world look on Iiis face suspension of a Christian’s fellowship, if he be indulging in that which is contrary to the holiness of the Divine presence. God can not tolerate evil. [A’ofn on Exodus.