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Tffti LUTHERAN VISITOR COLUMBIA, S. <I„ WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 23, 1870. ® j* luijgniut iVitlliit CL UjS «■». 1.1 ISfclMUilLiii p, i M*.,M»»I 'COLUM0IA, B. Cjv Wednesday, Iffibruary 24, 1870. EDITORS: Rev. A. R. RUDE, COLUMBIA, 8.C. Rev. J. I. Miiakk, Staunton, Va. “In essentials unity) In non-e*u*tial* liberty, »'* all thing* charity.'" tZUD: f one jw... 52 ■ r nix nmnthi t« ) A* tor tbrMatotillM....... IK* XIX Ctsboy tad I%* Lutheran tee; r«i» «g*ttwr hr *5.00 per jr««r. CtarvyosMi, Qerjy- ■an 1 ! widow* end tbe Theolocteol Stud.-nw are only charged $4.50 liar IU Magaiine and paper or AU cofiuDODicathwa mint be wnuee correctly and legibly, and aoronpanM with tbe amen of Urn writer* which, howeeer, may be wilbheM fiuiu the public. Coneepoodeuia must not expert declined communicatioaa to be re turned. ’ or We rcqnret oar eabncriben U> make mnmancee 'o ua only in registered lettera, or in tbe turn of poet office money order* er bank check* All aucb remittance* are at enr riefc. We on* not lot, the rids total money U tent hi empded Mint. Konwfay tUm may have been aome ground tor the remark, that "th* only eflect <rf regirtra- Moe la oalyto make tli* teller more (table to be Molea." But Ojder tbe new law, which eial into operation last June, wa Clunk registered lettera are perfectly rale; and we know horn abuoeC daily, axperieona tiiat oti.rre are not None* TO Posts t.tTKlts.—I’uoliLuutera through out the country will wire trouble by obeying the hurt iu regard to ueaapopere, etc. When a paper remain* dead in the office for four ooosrcutire weeks, it ie tbe duty of the poeunaMer or In* deputy toeeixi the publisher of the paper a written notice of tbe fact—Meting, if poeaibie. tbe reason why the paper ia not taken. The returning to the publisher of a paper marked “not taken." “1*6 a d,” or “uncalled f r," ia not a legal notice. Troutnu. We will give to am otto who sends us two Subscribers and $5, one copy of “ XHMineti rt Doctrines.” We will give for four Subscribers and 810, a copy of “ Life and Deedt qf Liter.” We will give for five Subscribers p T dr Haory Gobi*. ntAELKSTfl^ 8, C. My Dm Brutktr: Henry Cobia w*a buried to-day. Hfa death glorious As the light of earth re tired—the brightness of heaven cam* on—caught him up. We are stricken to the dust Pray for ua. Last foil we met together in Syood; Bra Cobin waa the delegate from St. Joha’a Church, Charleston, 8. C. We worshiped once more together at the installation of Bro. Hicks. Oar de parted Brother waa then hale, vigor nun, and deeply concerned for, and interested hi the welfare of the eburrh. Tfaeq eaiae, a few week* ago, a letter informing us, that Bro. Oobia waa very low and given up bj the pbyrieiaii*. We Borrowed, fbr we held him in high eateein. Then came another letter rejoirihg, because onr Brother wan out of danger. We too were glad. The church can not afford to surrender her good and true men. It ia a More trial to every pastor to part with those, who act well their port as brothers, friends, counsellors, and follow-laborers. The men on whom the pastor can depend, and to whom he can unburden him self, ami who are always ready to honor Ood with their substance, autl do nut think the time lost, which ia given to the work of the Church, are not many. We know wliat Henry Cobin was to his pastors. And now we are all sad—we are all sorrowful. Our brother is no mitre! And now we grieve; we silently ponder; we remember that Cod’* ways are not as our ways; we feel assured that all is well with him who has left us, for lie was a believer. The family, the community, tbe church, tbe aged jiastor anti bis young assistant are losers; he Whom we mourn is happy—lie ia with Jesus. The Charleston Cott ier says: It is our mournful duty today to and $12.50, a copy of “ Luther-, Sec^ “ ™ ,r aut > , , ,,A v, T _ - , , record the death of one of Charles mont, TV. I.; or if preferred, a cd|>y , (H1 - S m ost prominent mercbailta— most highly esteemed of u br. Sic**' Eeeleuia Lutherana or “ Luther 1 , Church rottil,” in 18 nmn- ,o tixeus. Henry Cobia, died Tester bees. We will give for ten Subscribers and $25, a copy of “The Booh of Concord.” The name* and the money must aceompany each other. • As regards premiums due Tor Vol. I., the former publishers are respon sible. For the premiums for Vol. II., we are. A. R. EC DR. J. L MILLER. To Agents anti St-bstrirers.— Always deduct expenses of remittance* made to ns. We neither want nor fifoe oar agents and friends to be the losers. R. To Sunday-School Scholars.— Be sure to read what we engage to do if yon have energy. Look nnder New Publications. Sewing Machine. — We would call the attention of aewfers 'and sowers to “ The Fairy." “ It"—is a fairy and it—“does as good workss any high priced machine; its me chanism is no simple that it cannot get outof order, any person can nn- derstand it," and every family ought to have one. Every ‘church ought to furnish the minister’s wife with one. R. ton’s most one of our dty morning at his residence 0 Wentworth Street, after an illness of several weeks, aged 03 year*. Mr. Cobia was a native of this city, and commenced business here ia 1833, under the imwe of Jllum A I'sitnu. Upon the decease or Col. J. Cha*. Blum, the firm Was changed to Ileury Cobia A Co., of which Mr. Cobia was senior jartner and remained a mem her to the time of his death. Mr. Cobia was emiueutly public spirited, taking tbe warmest interval in every measure that had for its end the welfare or prosperity of hia native city, or of her people; and hla disinterested benevolence, no leas than hia ripe judgueut ami wise counsels, were rewarded with a large measure of the public confidence. He had repeatedly been elected one of the City Aldermen ; and at the time of hia death was a praaainent member of the South Carolina iiisti tut*, President of the People’s National Bank, President of tbe Cor poration of 8t. John's Lutheran Church, President of the Board of Trade, and a member of the Hoard of Commissioners of tbe Orphan House for the last nine years. He represented the Charleston Board of Trade at the formation of tbe Natioual Board of Trade in Phila delphia, two years ago, aud again at tbe meeting of the Natioual Board at Cincinnati. Tbe Little Banner.—VVe are well pleased with this new Sunday school paper, published by order of the Associate Reformed Synod, by the Rev. J. I. Bonner, at Due West, S. C. We have no doubt the Ai ciaie Reformed ministers and people will support it liberally. Whatever Bra Bonner undertakes to do, he does conscientiously, and it is, there fore, ably and well done. Each de nomination ought to have its own Church paper, and its own Sunday- school paper. When shall we have one of onr own f Until then we would reccom- mend either the Butty Bee, General Council’s Sunday schobl paper, or tbe Lutheran Sunday-school Herald, pub lished by tbe General Synod North. Beth Eden. ON DUTY. We have but now returned from a visit to Beth Eden. We were hospi tably entertained, attentively listened to, and have returned borne with a pocket-book that was so distended with green food, that we could hardly get it in our pocket. And there is more of the same sort left As soon mb we receive tbe "balance jet to be collected, tbe donors’ names, etc., will Be published. Of course we could wbt travel, talk, preach, beg, and write editorials. If our brethren and friends would only hurry np, and send us enough to finish our church, WJ> could stay at home, and wopld w/t not write 1 May be! We have ®asy brethren, that never 8° from home, and yet they do not contribute to the Lutheran Visitor. •We are afraid that some ministers Church, acts contrary From Our Letter-Bog. Mrs. H. writes: “ I must ask yon to erase my name, until I send yon my name again. I cannot at this time pay my indebtedness to ywo, and renew my subscription, hope to do it at an early day. The Visitor Is certainly a dear Vititor to me. It comes as a friend from onr Lutheran Zion. I am the only Lutheran within iy miles. 1 am surrounded by Methodists, Baptists, etc.; but aui not weaned from the church of my fathers, aud shall make many sacri fices rather than give up my paper." We answered this at once, saying that we would not stop the paper, and that us loug as the church sus tained ns, our beloved, though un known, sister in the Lord should re ceive it. Would that we had many- like iter! If we bad had in days past onr church in Virginia would not have to mourn in sackcloth and ashes over tbe many prodigal sous that have wandered for away from tbe altar at wh>eli their fathers bowed down; if we bad many such daugh ters now they would be as corner stones, and them would not be as many waste places in onr land, nor as many ritios and villages in which the Chruch of the Reformation ia un known. \ We have often been told by indi viduals of whom we hsd a right to expect better things: My parents were Lutherans, bat I foil tlte Luther an Chnrch long ago. And we have woudered at tbe utter absence of self- reproach, and tbe want of self respect which stub »<v»nlHwion evinces. The Lutheran Reformation was God’s work, the Lutheran Church is God’s Church,' and the man, tbe woman, whom God sends into the world to be »o heir to tbe rich treas ures of truth, graces and gilts with which He has endowed the Lutheran to tbe will of is consumed, the *8 wise; the betted cent, sad tbe holy purpose* of Hia Creator and Redeemer. W* know that every renegade will deuy what we have written, We know that they who strive to build j up their own denominations by pro- ‘ seiytlng, the member* and the people | of our Church will denounce us for i writing as we do; but what Is our | Lay PBBACano. Sermon, bjr the wait dll business boors wen past, Bev. Way land Hpyt, at the First J**, long before amen waa pro Anniversary of the New York Lay nounced, aome were out puffing a w^y. Preaching Association, held ia the and so very ntos are tlmy getting to Madison Avraue Baptist Church, t«e, that they two not smoke ordinary New York city,"Not emlicr 1A1808. rigary They must be ‘-Gold tipped," American Baptist I’ubllt atioti 8o- or “Stonewall," or “Grant’s beat," ut ciety, Philadelphia. ! name other lugb-flovu and high The Baptists have S3 lay pivwrbvra tlavorvd cigar or it can not be smoked who address those who do not come at all. Now, bow miniatrr* of die (loupe! ; ran smoke and chew toliacvo in God's bonar, east out their cud’s and eject their spittle In the pulpit «f that hotter, and then teach from that same pulpit, that all things must be “tltaie decently and in unlw* in that bonar. is quit# a query in my mind. Not litter.years ag<> I aaa a rninia- offence la reality I It is this, W* | to tbe churchs* to worship. This ia labor to hold fast thui which God j what Lutheran laymen ought nisi to ha* given ua. It ia one of the aieel-, da No eburrh iu our connection lenciea of the Lutheran Church, that should be rkrned bream* the minis it does not proselyte. I ter la alnarnt—Mill less, If it la va- But Dome one will say : Luther led j cant It ia unarriptnral, unrhriatian, the Church of his flutters! We an aad hn Lutheran to clone the hon* You are in loin formed and mis-1 of Owl on ills holy dsy. Tea, mid taken. Luther never left the Church It ia folly to build a house .tud then of his fothers, be remained la it, only oUcupy it tme Hnuday iu a auatib ' tet, (a m.sU worthy undvxtv.h-nt H-an labored to refiirm it, aud when be ' that has four, or even five Sunday*. um>) and on. o! hia ap*l tui-atb. is, aud the faithful men that labored j We bold fost to tbe universal priest on HubtMib morning, take out ri.i-u with him were driven out of the , hood of baptised believers. We ;,i;s**, and take a g.sst *- isl suu.k.- Catholic Church, Luther and his tearh that brethren sh.sild ih4 “for ' in th« Clmi. li. «hilt theroi.gr. g.itUm brethren remained tbe true Church, sake the a*wmMtng of yourselves 1 was coiieetmg hn pn aytuug. And for they had the goapel preached together," but that they almtild unvt ' it was noun a list amn-ang l<* *ce lltai among them In Its purity, and tbe j in the place where prayer la aont to ; *:un< guud Bro. sitting iu tltr puij.ii , holy sacraments admiuistered acvortl be made, “admonishing one anothei on Monday, with a hugli pipe to his iug to the goapel. The Pope was and ; In psalms and hymns," aud “exhort j month, bis fret crossed ou th* Bible is Anti-christ, and be ia the In-ad of! the Homan Church, and therefore is ; tbnt Church also Auti-cbrist. Much thotigh can be mid, ami we | are willing that it should be laid, in <>oe another while ealk-d biday. Rut this la not enough. Every church should be a miaaiouary auei- ety, aud every mruilwr should be a missions i y and a teacher. The brelh Isuml, ami si tbe same time pies.tl ing over a uns-t iaipnrtant and inter esting council mertiag. To hear tbe inleieatiug sjiec bcs uf tlnste council men, and Ikeu took at the chair excuse of the past. Tbe guspef was ! mi should unsshiaslr—that is, eatab stetuetl to be rather a commingling not pn-sclwsl In iu |xtrity, and the lish meetiug* in every plats- where of the sublime with the ridicaluua. sucTftmeut* were not administered (arcless, improiteul autl unbetieving ^ yj mmarragiag, mvoiding to the gosjwl in many a aools are found. And are there nut Jp> 1>nictttlliI B onvj. L-okl ebnrrb railing itself Evangvlieal such iu every aeigb bar hood, aud in iu,,-. iiu,t is inilclil.lv nmtaiui Lutberuu. The means wee* also every city 1 “Neglect nut the gift UJ in,g every Uod’s bouse ia the bind, wanting by which oar English s|w*ik (hat ia in Thee." If R ia the gift of w Ukj \y e ^ ,, M ing |ietqtle could ob'ain a currrct song, alng praises I If it ia tbe gilt wtl j t p j nir j »» aee it at Cal knowledge of their Church. The of prayer, offir up |«tUiuna aud j^^,^ ^ , every ••l > To,ta<’. Catechism had been laid amide, the wrestle for souls! If it is teaching, Cbaiabel’ iu the UuhI, sod yet (bear least educated preochtwa tInsight lie a Httmlay school teacher! If it is meu stand ap sod Ulk aiu! h about tkcmm-lvea wiser, better, aad greater |Mvo.bing, preach! If it ia the -pj^. men than Luther aud Mplauetlnst, nt$ii«tiy; of Jbtj, GMgpel, let tu> the Confession was never thought of, j ministers! Let ua br—let M tin sound bins— lest when the eveuing uomctb, we are asked: -Why have ye stotsl all the day idle I" Every ausu has at least one tafouL Brother, what have you door with yuan I K had done its wurk, so it waa auhl, and every nouister made hia own raaifcsston, ami every' church member I made hia own meed, and propo unded with the rhurcb which was must convenient, or moat influential, or more tike tbe pattern of the CAorch i of Christ, which they had fashioned unto themselves iu their ignuraare, their (wide, sod their arlf-drluaiun. Ilut blessed be God, things are rbangt-d among ua now. The Cate ; chism ia used, the CtmfoeaNin ia sta dn-d. the Chnrch ia returning to her first love; she is becoaiing truly lAithrraa, not iu name only , bat in word and in deed, (n doctrine and ia practice; in frith and in works It is OtsPs doings. It ia marvellous in onr eyes I O, the great, the gformn* Scrips tr«m Jet Lag* - wvrr aome old >atiug*. my anutl ha* been carried back lot he last meeting ! of the Potomac ( . afcvcocr, ami 11 ^ you think the fidlowitig thougbts ' readable, you ran ymldisb them. It waa on oor time, lavuutiful, ImIb.) mornings in autumn, while the sighing ehids leg (banting their melancholy dirges through the fhsited leave* of the sumstinling iuks, that the ('(Oifcreme s'us aieemtaliiig round tile little vIhuI biSnw- ( ailed “Ilrvs.k Union." standing an one of ihe an cfout lullsnt Nhcnamhmh. Tin um-m ing on this bill was iu i-vmsr.ju. tici- of the new t'bufvh not bring quitr ready to receive ns Under a Isanti All little shaitr tier 'hard liy th. “Union" tbe Btrtbteu Were coOVctw Mippoar you do not love Lliia, sup]>oar ing before the opening arrv Uc^filr.r yon do not serve him f Whose fault were several brethren already seated, is it t Suppose von hare no retigitaw ! while others were Mill coming. .l‘i|«-» cx|ier*ncef Whnaefoult isilt Sap otal riguiw were hrhtg lively samkid jsise you jieriab I Whose fault ia it f naklM the fiusltes of wit, gissl humor It it your nra fault, your own tin, amd and sorbtl eiyov uicut. It was a am tat, not your Churek't. brotherly time. Nearly ail • w* it May Ood bless onr faitbfrd sister, OJfo and M. ll’a. Jnst then: Tb. n- change that has been wrought among uatluring tbe hurt twenty-five years. We aay to all: “Thine' own friend, and thy father * friend forsake not." And what friend ia more true than the lambs’bride, tbeChu|ch, in which your parents lived and died. The rbnrcb hi which yon were baptised, anti which yon were tanght tn know, aad love, and to sene t!bri*t. But We have bad several atrolla to gether, dear Vititor, through this dty, and aero much to Interest ua, and a few tbinga to atop us ou the way—as, for instance, when wa were going down Fourth, and saw “old Zion's" lying in the dnat, a magnificent old mass of brick, mortar, debris, la solemn ruin blended; bat we bare never yet been entirely dumbfounded na we are Just now. 1 think we are on 39th street now, near Havrrtbrd rood. We have passed several very elegant t-hurrhea, In oar walk, but In re is one not completed, and y r ott stop, of course, and want to know wind fine ebnn-li that is! 8>-e the heavy butti.-sn, lb. Gothic window*, tb- gra'.d arch.-*, the iHitiijite tuason- ry. i/uok thor.-; eurmouuting the port'll, or vcttibtilc, iso Latin arot* ! And sec there, on the t.qi of fbe tur ret, i* a Maltese mm* ! Now enter, and nt tlk- l-ear of the pulpit you see Ihc “ i( He. lion oi hell-file "—staiued window glass! And non a* you are anxfooa to know w list ehun-h this ia, we shall whiafs-r iu your ear: -'This 1 it a Methodut Her tin Haute.” I see tbe Irnir elevating your hat atsiui two inches above it* place, your 1 eyes are stantliug out, your mouth is wide ojm-u, and, raising your baud* 1 in terror, you stammer : “ Are they, too, on the way to Rome " t Don’t be alarmed, my friend. Although it ia to be wished they were, for they would br sure to take the mounter’s bench along, and I hare no doubt they would find as much virtue in it as iu aoote other holy retire there. Bat don’t yoa see how the times change, aad we change with tfaeai t These austere primitives are coming ■ gradually, and will soon leave tbe dowTKws Lutheran anti the Obtrrrer far brhiud—the former shouting after them, “By-mhoHata," and the other. “ Kstremr Hyrnhulista." The Latin ernaa rejtreaeata the By mbolisto; tbe Maltese, the “eitn-me," liecause it is higher ap. There waa a time— spoaking of the crass and tbe Ob trrrer— when a “ STR.1AL ranriDKNfK," thnmgh the agency .if conflicting nat Itral elemetits. iieiuol tailed the rnswt mi tho tower of 8t. Mark’s Lntberaa Chnrch, in this city. That was made the occasion of some special lecturing ua the put of the Otserrrr men for stich a heitions ofleore against Chris tiaoily. The cross savored of Borne, they would out nae the U«f.) Md m,| thU , judgment of God. yon have left 1.0*2 malre. Ku M «ar Brefoc. this, there was a general wremberw do not w jjp ^ satisfaction sj>rend itself ov er nse it, aud yoa have Ml I.IW who ^ (w-t.igri rnantetiances of some of are Mt|.|<usnl to use tutmreo. Now , g,. jLii k wo wdl idotr tbr average rual oa low „ . . , Itat the tunes change, and «• ch.:i ge with th.m. Theu there *erv- men in the General Syiiod so fouati,- '* •*' —' Wltcr that they could aee aignifirtfnrt and nae, ia ordsr that you may Bre the reason why tha American Lutherans prefer the fa), nl ubjeot to the cross. The infthfr of the Greek word iehthus, (whifr eona a flab,) forms tbe fotlowfog sentt-Doe: lent, .Jesus; Christs*. Christ; Thaou, of God; Lire, ife*! Molar, Bav four,—Jeans Christ, Baa of Gad, tbe Saviour. Yoa mo, o-- )L fore, what B lubLun* there to in What other meaning than t attache* to tire enam, wa bare ^] fouru. For our port, wean at boliat, believe iu the »y ■ and in the etoaa, and in the faT And to some extent, we beiiors fr Ilk eternal fitness of tha rwmhr at * maguiftccut ay rebol of that kW of Lutheranism which denies it* ana cwiitaasloiutl faith. _ UN DBS.' | For Alias Tha Fsttor't law flow esa wa preach, as we should, beoevuleoce and charity to oar peo ple, and si the some time eneoor ago, yea, practice a worthless, filthy bats I that ia coMiag the Virginia H) nod slMl (at least I Ml much aa she ia coalrihating la reutauna aad edatotioa. Now thfa may startle the reader, bat let hire iuuh at U calmly fur a moment. What /Ksar Lutheran Visitor la ImAiag | ^ >«* * 'year! A Uymaa, a lew days ago, told ate that his l.dmroo costs him taeot) five dullara a year, and that ha km msuy who paid more than that amount. Noa we have \Xtb ((snmuiiH-uuis ui oor by aad. Htnhr aritl nbun.lantly reward her. While we have tbe means she shall not be without the paper. Would that those who are able would enable ns to rend tha paptr to the destitute among ua. Every pastor and every church should aee to it, that the fam ilies that cannot afford to snlaw-rilwt, I are furnished with the paper. There were K. Sud D. aud L. and M. ami 8. and H. and others. And there was Bro. “Potomac" of former days, ex hibiting as much good huiuor and aarraatir wit aaayiMtli of only twenty summers. He was decidedly in a better mood than whejt Cutiterence convened at Stone’s Chujwl; for then unfortunately our “Potomac" had a* attorn dot.«is tur tarh man per year, oral «* have IlfeCi*. Now turn In the 19th poge at minutes Virginia Synod, and you win find appropriations to br $1,47&.. Now reader, yoa can go on aud make yoar own ralrulatioa*. tt ith tburB|H-tior suv t*l, we coo Id in a lew years nat uaty endow Roanoke ( ollegt-, lint we oaiil iHtihr one ot the Bloat Female t (..leg. s in the Htatr at Virginia, and wisl home mismom.rii« to every cuuuty iu the State. Are we “taw oralif the Lard with our suustmuee P But 1 have wamleced far from the little “ Brook Union," ai d have been rather mixing mrape. I wish jtiM here to tall attrtitfoa to, without dis cussing at any fongtli, Diairitt or C*hilercoee Hrhools, a subject which baa been too morh ucglertrd at our Conference meetings. These imjior taut feetb-ra of our colleges sboakl 1a too'much Indifference, and too much inattention to the want* of the I b>R», rock* and stump*, waa poorer brethren, and the cause ia,! 1 F—l tfo< idcdly in a worse pre ilicament, than wbcu riding ou that “nnnihwcript"of a w agon, over the top that there ia too little love. Read Phil. 2 chapter, aud 4 verse. It has a meaniqg. The man who ray s: It ia indiffi-r ent wbat church I belong to, will anoo say in his heart, it mutters not wheth er I belong to a church or not, and will end by being rtjected by’ Christ at last. Rcvclatfou of Bt John, 3 Chapter and tfl Verse. R. New Publications. “In the Midst op the North Sea.” From the German of Marie Boakowaka. By J. F. Smith, Eaq. 16mA, doth, illustrated, 7A cent*. Lutheran Publication Society, Phil adelphia, Pa J. K. Schryrock, Superintendent. A charming little hook. Fancy, ami yet fact A tale, and yet reality. A parable from actual life, teaching high and holy lessons. Wo are made acquainted with scenes and events new to moet of us, described with fi siinplicty and earnestness which car ries conviction to every reader. Tbe incidents of “Lost in a Fog," “The Shipwreck," and “The Innndation," are Atlrring, deeply intereating, and illustrate admirably tbe loving-kind ness and patient car* of the Lord our God. Tbe hook ought to be in every overflowed Ilia banks, and while out •*' ,,r kfortcd Every conlrretice ideal hi have at least onr gtaal rlassi- cal "rhooi. Let this subject he well conahlered at the next meeting of Conference. Pardon me. dear Lutheran Visitor, for tresj-asslng njion your sjwoe, end for not earlier sulmriibing myself, youra truly, ORIENT. of “Back hone" moon tain in the days of yore. But now under this little shade tree, cheered by the presence of his brethren, and Tanned by tbe gentle sepbyraof autumn, be seemed to be in quite a happy maud. Up comes old Bio. T. M. looking “ns dry as a chip,” but ev luring the vivacity of youth, and duriug hia stay he waa pleasant, sociable, affec tionate, earnest in.his sjieechea on tbe floor, showing tha warmest attach ment to hia brethren and the Church of the Reformation. Next comes np Bro. W. 8. Bowman with hia smiling face aud warm heart to joiu this group under the oak. He too knows how to handle a joke, aa well aa a sermon. How interesting his speech on the floor of Conference. Bow soul-stirring, as be went back and drew up from the well of memory, many reminiscences of gone by days, and especially when the Va. 8ynod laid her ordaining hands upon hia bead. I have spoken of pipes aad cigar* nnder th* tree: yea, nnfortuuateJy, many of oor ministerial brethren smoke, and aome not only aatoke bat also chew “the weed." (Sboakl I here tramp upon Editorial toes, you will please not jump book, and Uft your type away from my humble scraps.) This habit has increased te a disgust- ing sod expensive extent in tbe jtre flay dreamers. CV- - God, and defeats, os far as he himself Sunday school. type away from my humble scraps.) Mr. Oiivur Hayden, of Braintree, We will send it and (tie Lutheran Thin habit has increased Is a disgust Mass , has hit by his will, 01,200 to Ufrtfor to every Sunday-school schol- ing rod expensive extent in the tbe Congregational Sabbath School ar who, before tbe find of May, lends. Church. At tbe last meeting of tbe (and Publishing Society, and $1,000 two dollar* and seventy 0ircrjtta. | Va. Synod, the brethren amltl banUj ; to tbe church ia tbe plaoe, Not at all, Brother Orieut. We perfectly agree with yoa. Chewing we abominate, hav ing tried, bat ut terly foiled to conquer n constitu tional inaptitude to extract aay en joyment from the weed, we have given it np iu disgust. As lor mo lting—well, we do smoke some; but in n gentlemanly way. We are more over compelled to smoke. Dr. G., in whom We bad the utmost confidence, advised us to smoke thirty years ago. He ia no more, and bow can we stop. His advice did us good, does us good, and ia good for us. We never smoke cigars, unless we receive them aa a present. JL A priest in Hungary having crated tbe wine in tbe Eucharist, which, of eouree, according to the Roman dogma, waa, by the act of tnin«TiV‘an«i“t^ r "» > tfEDbloriof'd in(o the blood of Christ, drank it, aod— fell down dead, Tbe wine bed pre vkmaly been diluted with sulphuric t al and imthiug but anja retitioti in tbe holy •\ mbol of our faith, simply la-coasr it waa rt-ongnisi-d by th* ciiun-b of Home. They con'd sr mote n-ltgfou in a pin* Iroch Hum in tb* enwa. But now, whut do w* art When the(i*li*ral Sy nod met in IlarrialHirg, ltcv. Slellitig, «bow chilti waa j.u!*- litly bajttiscd l»y a roving It*.t-rialux lUTCRt! (.laenora i.ulit* r.i:t.aui; oi “Cnthoihity" — tbai'a the «ouL)j Weil, Rrv. stcilmg swung ujwu lit* dtann oi the Ubutvh to -th* 8> nod, 1 and the am sight, that gm-uxl the *yre ass, a Jtorol mat, hung bigl. tlllOVc the )Mii|Hl. Htitl over ii'm Lirge chanctm: “ Wdcumc to tin (leu- i cnil 8ynod." iliac* (hat linn , we have heard oi j rasps, ol auy uutuber, alien- ibe Ainericau eliun lieH have broken over tin-lines, anti made IbemaeJvea wb- noxfous to th* ct*looms oi th* Ob- merer, by having th* cioss at auui vt-rsanrs oi Buuday -scbooia, Ac. It ia too bad, and w* want to know when these tbinga will eutL It aj>- pcara, however, that 8i. Mark's waa not ecclesiastically damned by the cross, and the gown, introduced by I>r. Kraut h, but that it ia now one of the most fiourwfaiug congregations in th* city. So much for extreme sym bolism. OH THE TOT of 8t. Mark’s, Episcopal, yoa will see a cross, aod above that e rooster. This church ia decidedly ritualistic, and yet they do not scruple to adopt one of the outward signs of American Lutheranism, for it ia well known that hundreds of that abnormal rises who aee a fearful superstition in the cross, am nothing of the kind in a rooster or a fish. No, they don’t ob ject to pot a fish up in tbe air (a moat unlikely place for Ash), and accept as a lymbol that which the half of them know nothing about, but they will ■tumble at tbe cross, tbe true sign uf our Christianity. And yet tb* Aah, which ia no complacently accepted, and put ou thounatufo of church spires, mesas prerierij what the cross does. This emblem originated ia the times of heathen persecutions, tad waa first pat by Christians upon their tombs aa the symbol of their frith. Aa we know, it came into general use, aud it, to this day, seen upon church steeples, we beg to lay before you the meaning of the word, from which this emblem derive* its JL r, re. > ■ •* Die i‘nat or-elect of fit. PauPt Eng. gelieal 1 ait tier an t'bureh, in Wiimigy, too, burl been instructed, before Mr removal to that city, to irlrgisph ass' of the members of that Ch be reached tioldsboro with hit I ly, in order that, oa his aimak ig Wilmington, th* inn g range inputs might be ready to wel come their pastor and Ua family to their new home. This, of coum, all right and projier, and highly ap preciated by him aud hia family, hat they had not the slightest ides what was awaiting them on that ev evening. AM the lime, - afternoon, whilst ao tbe trria, the children freely indulged ia surmises and speculations whether the tele gram reached the gentleman ia timet How would the friends iu Wilmiag- toi. receive them, on their arrival! W'luit imprrmomis would be mods upon their minds by the city, and their new home I “Be petieat," was the iiguactrim of patir families, “sufi tbe answ er to all your inquiries ott . soon rouse.” No owe, however, had the most reasote idea that sorb a ie erptieu wes awaiting them, bat fr the praise of the members of tbs Lutheran Choreh in this city, be it raid, that they always hare a asm way uf doing things in all tbrirfis- aM*tk>, as w*U a* eeriest We are glad to learn that aa Bmantains of Virginia they haveMhe- wiac leartud the same lemon weB, judging from the moaner a certain nmpvfsIioH surprised their poster, the Bev. J. H. Cupp. But we are getting off tbe track of our narrative. As mat an the train arrived at iu dretinatioii. a commit tee of grtii.cjocn took charge of the pastor awl his family, pfatred them in two carriages, sent trunks, baud- boxes. Ac., ua in uu express wagaa, »ud drove sway to the poraunagtw How tbe little folks were delighted with a passing glimpse of the gee-lit stores, wondering what nice things Santa Cisus eould And ia thorn well- tilled toy-s)hi(m ! One of tbe commit- toe isiinted nut the rboreheo, aad tsber handsome buildings of this city, to the littie folks on their way to liieii in w lioaie. All w. ly buiird at the iloor ot the | age, where a couiniittee of ushered the family up stairs, wh* were taken by sm prise, to find every thing arranged lor their Arwt night’s rest; caqsia, IniI-sUmiIh, and bed- duig, partly jiurebssed by the jmstor, ou one of bis v fait* to this city , and partly sent a few necks in advance Item Baitimoiv and Mount l’leaaaut, ail ui their appropriate places, and ready lor Hie leception of hia family. Down Mails, in the dining room, another Mirprfae awaited them: A long i xte issmi table, groaning nnder tbe weight of every conceivable aee- essary article for the susteunuee of lile, a.id filled with nlmost every lux ury the market could a fiord, sufficient to last many days, so much so, that the good wife exclaimed to her hus band : “ This looks like n wedding fount, it seems as if we were to be married over again.” I will not tir#' your renders with a bill of fare, and simply Mate it was both excellent, abundant and luxuriant, in meats, different kinds of bread, pastry, relishes, fruits, sweetmeats, *r., Ac. Christmas usually contra but once a- year, but in 166b it certainly amt twice, or, at least, it was postponed for tbe benefit of that family to the 2Uth of December. Tbe next day the pastor was take* to his study, fitted up for him iu the Church edifice, in one of the snafl rooms built ia tbe rear of the pulfri and over the Sunday school room, where he wu Assisted in patting ap his library; here be fonnd two fine book-res*n, arranged with shelves, made out of grained pine, sod var nished, to oorrrapond with the finish ing, and furniture of tbe Church; a handsome oak writing-desk, inlaid with walnut, with drawer* and com partments for Church record-books and papers; n cane seat arm choir, made of oak; a neat Move, and a nicely papered wood-box; gas fix tures being is the room, and an aban donee of wood in tbe basement, be was requested to help himself to all flight an. What post _M*jgt9.tedt:{ BB d (loail iu \ gallon dure, and tl- that a eorft • scarcely be re bring; rtill endeavor to •] fall extent n most forgot! evening on.- paatorS nrrv ling with a bi thing more fcabie—the |M I, * in it l*y » rl '' I hf tbe rlehcs from the ladf ; Tbe next 8 Ant r. guhi: tor of mirUh'i Dld-Lnther.i i found no ou sound doctn frith were jus and in the the beta vc sweet item..; of mtmyof tb Since the d« | tbe congregui withafunm. < t of the Chare-h“ both the fir school room ing pl.ic-d out struct tbe v pastor to an w hich any oil -centre of on* ■Church, woul® ^ Tbe new B nately ■econx member* of t ling tickets m Iieople tor two Tremaine bn.i tainly a magi although it i. baa the aha|s with two bani, j. L I Tie Roll or aa iotu tbe whole Chi of tbe stofMt arrangement sweetly when teriodra betn hymns. Tbe in by New York, an in the worsh Tbe divine in Wilmingt.'i! German and required by t Chnrrit, ado;tt The present the German equal rights Sunday we Ual an English sei have German and English next Sundav and then we morning and ( lieraon seems arrangement love and here; may it i v - IX LU Bethlehem (] I'nge Co, Va, had be Stanton’s i —*- , has paired, and is, I pondent, “Iikul ~>d looks likj around it.” rounbry chun-l gentleman in bJ tbe cbnreh w it another well ( •enrpet, tbe i although but *re circulate. | Lutheran's in without their ttaya been a mj Miffliuton. fwrryme Rev., “Non the flu« Btatra “® »on from Um Our Min client, richness Prom foil gregatio onr G« frvoraU A.. herns, ha «Boe,be, tbe auth article of