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fttfjitati* Ifrtiifiir. COLUMBIA, S. C. Wednesday, March 38,1670. EDITORS: Ret. A. R. RUDE. Columbia, a C. Rut. 3.1. Millkb, Htlvtxto*, Va. MW |7y t h^m fltfCHftVtil fcW'*, in ali litittya clarity.' TEEMS; $1A0 lor ot» year .42 number* t.SO i<T tit moiitla. Kh'ife.' '..M “ ) 00 for ttaeanwutba 13 “ iit, JT/JT CeiUiay and The Lutheran Vititer Mgetlier for $5.00 per year. Clergymen, Clergr merf*» arfdoaa end (ha Thaoteftail Student# are only charged $4.50 fat the Magazine and paper. or. All conmmoicaUoaa maul be written correctly and legibly, and accompanied with the aaam of <tm wrltaca. which, hoaraeae, may be withheld from Hie public. OorreopondcoU fasti not expo A declined communication* to be ra- |W~ Wo request our autacribeca to make remlttanees lo us only in registered letters, or In (fee Ihrat of pool trike money orders or hank All such remittal)oes are at our risk. We nut iad lake Ike risk what money it aeai in i. M but Home may reply ; “I intend to give to objects «f general beiievc tents*, bat just now I can not com mantl in money nay portion of my rotate*, beyond what in actually necea aary for the support of my fondly, aud the neoeaaary wants of my own congregation. My estate ia amply sufficient to euable me to give a few handtod or a few thousand dollars to endow colleges, or establish a theological seminary, or to take stock ia a female school, or in a publics tion house. But owing to the pecu liar times and the financial difficulties through which we are passing, I can not ooatrol it so as to stake it available now in doing good.* Vow, we readily admit there is some forte in alt this. And yet the difficulty is not insuperable. And tire very mrson you nrge for not act ing now on this qneution, only deep ens the necessity for some prompt action in trebalf of theoe general objects of benevolence. These times are telling with distressing effect Formerly there way have bee* aome ground tor dm remark, tlwt the only eflbct of regimre- tie* la holy m make die lei ter mere KaMc to be " But under die ucw law, which went into operation last June, wc think registered letter* are perfectly wife: and we know from almoct dally experience that others aa> art Notice to Pu8TM.t8TEtm.—rosuwatera through, nut the country trill ante trouble by obeying the tairs is regard tonewspapom,etc. Whewspcprr remains tlcwl in dte office tor four coeaeculitc weeks, it la the duly of die postmaster or hie deputy towns the publisher of the pn para written notice of dm fact—statiuz, if posable. the reason why (he paper ia not taken. The returning to the publisher of a paper marked “not taken," "refuard," or ‘'uocjllcd f r,” la not a legal police. THE PTHWIAN VISITOR COLUMBIA* SirWEDNESDAY, -MARCH i». 1870. t -. M-t-X— jsg|^j|=fp=s^^=ES=:^£gi^F==ti=y=y=sg^ fcssMesg aM i j ti ■ '■ fl" • «tee reformers, s bo think and affirm Thiwr daily papers, ♦he Ha Hour’s Par the l.nlhrrea thw Vi Aids to Aadaetioa. Aa scarcely a number of reaches us, that does not contain complaints of personal annoyances, private grievances, or ohtm-h difficul- affirtn that the Ha Hour’s conduct at the marriage of Oaaswaarptpoltftc. Quea , Hotia in reference to tim arnsKsn of the tobacco plant will arise i troable yon. We are all very weak eroatoras. IVofite gat into s atraags ties of some sort—all showing eon j ease sometimes, and think and any clusively that the rightcons souls of and do strange things. W« wees fhmilisr a qssrter af a century ago with a D.D. of oar owa church—a strong man, n very cory |iheus of church enterprise and! some of the brethren are vexed, Ut at ease—you will surely not object to oar pouring a little oil on the troubled 1 waters, or endeavoring to divert them Into smoother chan nets. And to begin, we will akeieh tret a from real life. to show how troubles arise, and how they might | one of the atorf caustic and ratting be avoided or robbed of tbeir peace [ articles against the naa of tohaaaa his sanctum owe day and found him bnaily engaged ia writing, certainly disturbing power. We have a little I we son of some ail summers, whose genint spirit and sunny smile, ordi narily, are things to tie bo ret ed, and yet the nnamiaMe disposition to com plain sometimes seises upon and transfonns him Into the very picture of turbulent or moping discontent. One morning not kmg ainee, when hare ever read; and be worked himself np Into such a furor tbeir weeltMto for corintry aabaeritar*, are ia this city,. sn<l are top be all doing a good busi ness. In proportion to the number of inhabitants, Wilmington has but tow (hatches, no asorc than eigbt for tbft white popalaiion, mmI totuc* ftwir or five more for the colored people, who see vary unmerous here. The churches for the white ritiaene are: two Rpteeopal, two Methodist, one Presbyterian, one Lutheran, one Baptist, and one Koman Catholic; the latter, however, la quite small, and not imposing in appearance. We have also a line of street cars running from the Railroad De pot, where the Vorthurn and Hoothera trains meet, to Oakdale Cemetery, upon our institutions that have no 1 ,W ww r " IW to endowment, »nd ure yet crippled '*• ” w "*‘ «>""»• ,n * with debt; therefore, the importance *** toble ww» reached and he diaoor. of relief bom*, and not when yob i err< * t * ,rr '‘ wss “ IK ’ I**®' *'’’ * ,r ***** can control your means sa.ywu might ' thm , "» r 5' W*rit waa at once arnuard. desire. Then ft may be too late. 1 bu » knowing that R would not do tn Fearful sacrifices of property and n " l * t '‘ * ***** ♦•*** rxistiag ar I raagements of anfrr.feailr, he drew of Church prosperity may ere then have to he made. More than this: Before yon hare the opportnnity of carrying oot voor lnndahte purpose*, you may be in yonr grave, and all over his thee a most unnatural scowl, * “Mr the Ainlt we see." ran hia hand into hia punts’ porkrt I with a force that alarast Iwonght his centre of gravity outside of the line of on the subject, that be aormed to he 1 a boat'a mite out of the city. The 1 wholly uncooartoua that be had al fare U but fire cento, and afford* a moat filled a moderate slxed spittoon cheap and convenient ride to all who 1 under his desk with the Juice of the I me unable to keep their own cow- I “vile weed* which he waa moat to vryauce. tiemeatly chewing. This oid veteran ' Wilmington tow quite n number 1 fought oat the stern ha I tie of life.' of rrry bandanme private residences. 1 all the time doing the work of both and at one time quite a large amount the Virginia Bynod and “Orient* of wealth was In the hands of our ' Chewing, smoking, aad scolding, and 1 rittoeon, but ah, well! let the whatever else may be ssM of him. 1 pnat be forgotten, and be buried He aemmpHabed much, very much, * fewua our sight ; the feature is still Ibr hia church, and his exccHcacw snffietontly bright to arouse all to 1 and errewtrirtliea, his fault*, aad ! energy and activity. ! great achievements, adamniah us lo | Our rtttema are very Ibnd of the 8KXKJL yottr sincere Intentions forever (h,. 1 •'■rccton,, sml growled out: ••Mama’s ill 1 Premiums. We will give to any one who sends os two Subscribers and #5, one copy of “ Ihetinctirc Oortrimet,'’ We will give for four 8ubscriU*nt and #10, a copy of “ Lift and Dttda af I.ntbn-r Wc will give for five Subscribers and ffl2.,V>. a copy of “ Lwtkrr's Ser- mo He. Vot. I.; or if preferred, a copy of ,4 i)r. iSirtts’ Keclrein Tntheranaor “ Lulher'e Chareh Poetilf in 18 imm- bers. ‘ We will give for ten Subscribers aud A25, a copy of ‘•Tie Book of Concord? , The names aud the mosey must accompany each other. As regards premiums due for Vol. I., the former pnlriishcrs are resjmn sible. For the premiums for Vol. II., we are. A. li. RUDE, J. L MILLER. Going To and Fra. We returned hist Wednesday from Sandy Rim, fifteen miles from our city, and had to go hack again on Friday to btuy John C. Geiger, Esq., Who departed this life suddenly. Obituary in mirWxt. We leave to-day, Monday, for Charleston; consequently can not write. By and by, when our cbnrch Is finished, and the Lutheran Viritor self-sustaining, we will stay at home. Brethren, help our chnreh and do something for the paper. We want communications and paying srtbscribers. R. Liberality. We intend, by way of application, to close this series with this article. Our purpose in all that we have said on this snbject from first to last, has been to awaken reflection which would Itsatf to action. Action I ac tion !! on the duty of beuevolenoe, is Li.‘‘t „„ „ ni.’. “ t. ensiled by the war, it is true. if, as with the Macedonians, Rut opr deep poverty wilL only 'alwuud tutto the richer of our liberality, ail will . he Well. Wo will find ourselves abundantly able to support tbe min- ’iiitty to that Extent, that, with proper economy, they wifl bq.above anxious concern about their doily wants; fouml and endow a Theological Hem inary; free our colleges from existing pcetmtlfrT embarrassmen and endow two or more professor ships in each one; fill, to the extent of wff detnaiMs, our missionary and edueatiim tiywiuy; cstablisli, by means of a jpint stock couipuwy , a publiciktiau knw" for our Church in wtbp *8auUl, with wliieb rtnr Chnreli trated; therefore, “whatsoever your hand findeth to do* in these things, set about effecting to the best of your ability under the circumstance*. I believe North Carolina College ia not enilMmissed by debt. Newberry, however, is sadly crippled in Its ot**r ations from this runs**, and so also in a measure ia ltounoke. Now, shall these institutions struggle on In the face of a strong liability to ntter 1mn|y rnptey, mid nothing be done to save ' made this pocket no deep that I have ] to get on my knees to reach the but ' tom of it.* INmc little follow, If be bad thought for a moment what a 1 good time to* mould have of It, when the crowd won away, and Mama hud time to pay special attention to him. all this trouble would hove been avohleal, and these words of com phiiot never spoken. Home tlrar brother ia North Caro lilts, whose communication tat a Isle I'tritor shows htm to he a man of Tat ika Ulhm raw Wilmington, I. a Thin m the Unrest aud ioua city to the - t Md North Mtale,* j atauatod so the Capo Fear River, oot | them to the church because the times are jiecnhsr anti finances straitened t ! • w '* We di«|mrition and Christian This most not la*. Financiers in the *“** "*’ w<i htm * r,f to get to I Church must come to the rearne. * , " mI b,, " w *•**»• th< Wavs and mean* must lie devised mHur * ouftumr meeting which will pat them on a safe fooling ! ebar W‘’ •« "b •’omplaifis dule aml start them on a new career o»' h *"- v « brotl.reo, hot that hia lot prosperity and nsefetlness. bil * ***** root on the wroug aide of the We lay no Haims to fttr-wghtednea* ’ °fe8*rerMv district or viliagr in mud. as to money matters; we have never ‘ **_** ,HK kMOW l ^ J * l besides, trusted our ftmtnciitl ability, ami ■'■“H* • hha Ms It m Uu ostlet fur Um to huol atari* luwdurtioaas of Kaat era North Cofullua: pitch, tor, tar penltoo aud lumbar | thsae of them •cites ate sufficteol to make any port of murk importance to the nauamvn mt Use world, sod sandy nnthlsg lo sneer at, |roetd*i, they famish uu fitflnre to ad who am ia his aifttaifd ia them, aad,;aovtdad, to the | aria nee of (ouimerof, it payu henee do not claim that the plan we suggest Is the rerj bat that might lie ;>rop»>sed. Bnt we will give It, with the hope that, If seriotmly drfiartive. It will call into exercise the talent of some one else I letter qualified to devise plans in snch cane*. We sng gest, in the absence of anything better, the following: “I do hereby promise aud bind myself or estate, to pay to the Treas mer of Kuunoke or Newberry Col leges, as soon us I can row maud the lueaua so to do—and if I am unable to do ibis dnriug my lifetime, tbe same shall be puul at the final settle incut of my estate—the sum of dollars; tbe same to bear li per ceut. interest from date, and to be ]>nid annually. Signed, ? Tbe blank dollars may with whatever figures Hie Wr ran awom* toar readers thst this I mi Melt of i naimi n r ta hath Hottest »nd profitable, few any one ran Jmlga* | of the latter (torn tbe marked evidence ot |irtsv|ierit5 all over the erty. Vessels ran obtain bright* here at any time, the wharac* aud ware luatw-s arc nearly alwaj ■ overrhargeal with prvslucv awaiuug shi|naeut. MUIkmi* of fort of lumbrr, mad< of' our rich yellow pine, are ajmuail) charge, be would have done hla owa , ■ PBl *• •“ •* lk * ; huge -Agitation kerpa water puts,’ aad preselling, and been as genial all the * u "* m * a " foGla can be aren ou both ft may be that agitation will keep time aa a May morning ; or If yon or I *****_** ,hr n ' rr * ■** kept nadmtl) J our General Bynod from atoguatioa. ■bees to b»t nnaghty thing* of the brethren at Nk 1‘lrasont. We do not know tbe nggrtevrd and complaining bro ther, but we do know that it waa not Brother Gone; fine If all the meaitwrs did fad to attend a meeting ia his ml tore of flowers. Many Uandanuao gafdrvM, tdnoming with exotics and other flowers. «rnameutrd with over ImiIh* aad hedgva, trimmed aad other fanciful shapes, grace the magtuficvtit dwelling places of oar praaprroaa rititewa, aud make the prnioeumle along the side a .itks exceedingiy pfeaaanL The white population of this city ! consist* mainly of nativeCaroDniunm 1 Xurtheraera, German*, Scotch and Jews. There are a few Irish, and 1 but few of any other nationality. Fifteen years ago, there were not 1 many Germans tvdding to this city ; 1 they art becoming quite numerous now, and hare Irmly planted them srtvra upon this aoH, aa ia evidrnferal from the large aaroant of real eatato ’ already la their pnaammoo, which ia somewhat muarksbtr, and speaks 1 wed for the raise of German titdas try and economy, aa they arrived here principally a few years before and since the late war. la my next I expert to have some what to soy respecting the rondittoa and (blare |woapect» of the Latheraa rltmvh ia this city. W. __ whi< h have been resorted to in eader to dethrone Deity aod redder Him to a men* man. I have been ted to this train of reflections by leading, for tbe second time, a work entitled : -The Power of Prayer," by Dr. Prune, of New York. No oae can read thia work without proflty it U a “frast of reason." and its reading will result la a “daw of aoal," if read with a proper spirit It commences with details in regard to the origin of the “Fulton Street prayer meetings,’' and it gives unmistakable evidence* of the grand result of that magnifl- neat effort. Although this work was published long anterior to “Mai ler’s Life of Trart," It may be regarded aa a grand sequel to that remarkable wetk. Bach works as these ought to be read in our day; for if there ever waa a time wbea earnest, persistent prayer was needed, that time is now, Brethren, let ns get down upon our knees and beg God, a prayer-bearing God, to avert tbe dreadful Jndg metita, moral and political, that are a;me ns. The prayer of fiiith will remove moantahM, and surety a more dreadful and ponderous moun tain waa never upon any people, pretaring them down into the earth, than the one under which we are groaning at this time. It need* moving, It must he removed, or we are a doomed people. The prayer of faith iriff remove it, and Ood will give aa that prayer if we ask him •right Brethren, I rejirat, -Let tu pray." LAYMAN. F*«ui tie*’ A. R. Pifflbt ft-rutix. 014 AXD Fw Hit LiIWm Ytffiter Work hr the next Oeaarml tyaal to preach Ibr him. and if be to give ns light, he would with his own strong right arm have held np the chandelier without a word of complaint. He ia jnat that sort af him. Mr. Editor, yon i loti brims well re member, when wr tried to hare a meeting of the Northern t 'oiifereme of the Virginia Hynod in Shenandoah County, and foiled to “run the ms clone" on'that ground, wr did not ait down and arold at “alt the world, be filled < and the rest of mankind.* No, wr running, employing many hands, say nothing of the vast rafts of brr cuulinnally floating down the ATTIOELl'YIAN THKOUMiV wograir. Braprcting this subjeeA little ia ulllnscd, but something more ia clearly implied in tbe Bcriptumi. The recorded farts which throw light an it, are briefly them: Tbe human family were created innocent and happy—were tempted ami fell —were sentenced to an existence of misery—in the progrras of their misery were doomed to the sejiara tion of soul and body—while watting in terror for that separation, God clothed them with ooata of akin, plans! thee> without the garden, and placed bet wean Uteut and it tlir cberubim aud a flaming sward. If not before their eyes, the garden waa j in their mind a .place near or more ivmotc, in which they had once lived md been hajqiy, ami in which they coaid not but wish to live and be happy again. There was aome hal lowed spot, inaooeaMble to them, WBvV IlMKXnBniIftt IV lilt Hit ». to la tklaking of what te to be done at • «tw IW.K* of the IsrnT- hun the next meeting, mtmtoue will enter lbi User went Cain and Abel with (he tkfe mirtol mtssl m.tlv tkai. lkt.nwl.1 1 . . . . ' *i . a. . * .. viindy Md vitli tUi ttMUttgld ? | ofrriMf—Abd oftnd of I4»# Ami U,-that arttete of great rsrrt for the iaartlvity of nor Htnrcfo a^ji ^ hn. fb^k^iffered by notonety, spoken of an derisively by in the past. * - river. many, both in aud out of the army of 1 In Florida that faith—waa accepted. Out from that •iliug land of presence of the Lord went Cain, after occupation is Virginia; known to ail' floarrw-vre har« many Latherana ^ ^ ^ At the churches, bnt J birth of Eooa men begun to rail uj*»n, or call by, tbe name of Jeho vah. Enoch walked with God, pro|rii- htotory of our early race, to the ex- »on e# other things desirable te be If no tea t The matter staadiag before them aa it has been rrcotdad for um, it eonkt scarcely have hap. petted otherwise than that ik^. desire of regaining Faradtee shook] have found in the promised bruiting of the aerpeat’a head aa ofmi a^ of hope. Btreoguiy enough to an, the wotfl of God paeeea silently over oar trm (Mtber, Adam. li doe* net deeps word about what he thought or hoped, whether he sacrificed by father sacrificed at all. Except aa fe j, named in genealogies, he paaMSaff the stage. Bnt Eve lets oat the aecreto of her heart That seedof ben who wae to bruise tbe serpraft head, fills her heart with hope. At the birth of her first bora, the a . claims: ‘-Cain'—l kart pot U ! Rat when Abel was born, a change W come over her. Hence she — ed: “ Abel r — rouity ! mtnt! Still, at a later jieriod, foe cbouged her mind respecting tki* child of vanity. Evidently she «. pectod that the seed of delivenaee won Id come through Abel; for after hia death, whan Heth was born, foe said: “God hath appointed me an other seed instead of Abel, whom Coin slew." Was Mt Cain her seed as well as Abel and Seth, in a unto ntl point of view I CoaW net tbs offspring of Cain hare aaltiplied and filled the world with iuhsMtasu, though she bad borne no other anf Then, why overlook him, as if he were do seed, unless she inferred, from his killing of righteous Abel, that he was tbe seed of the serpent, and at eumity with her prowued seed of deliverance* HU- may art, proluitriy did uot, have any coueep- lion whatever of the doctrine of the incarnate God. Nor was that i aary . l’laotsl under a in which foe had at least aome pal pable and infallible proofs that God had appealed ami spoken and made liromiscs to the human family, it did not place an unreasonable strata upon her credence to believe God’s prom ise of deliverance in tbe future, though she knew not bow. TV bruising of the heel of her seed when lie would come into conflict with the serpent, was indeed K.vinboliatd to her nuderstanding and typified to tier faith in such sacrifices as Abel offered by foith. But tbeevaet character of tbe victim, the compo sition of llte sufferer's person, and the source whence tlie worth of the sacrifice would arise, wen* matters unknown to her, and bnt dimly revealed to the latest of the Old Testament saints. Degrees of knowl edge respecting theoe things did not effect the eaneoce of faith. In God’s sight tbe faith which believed His promise to redeem, without knowing how He would redeem, was as pre cious as is the faith which trusts iu a redemption, the foundation of which has been laid bare to th£ understanding. A. R. Fhm tl* Lot!«f*» Otaerrar. Christ ! Descent Into HelL — - —^» — |nr7wiHT- wt ihv lshu uciu vmiij ihm:a i (losers—vre have many Isi the ran* l*a* Lull ml li i ii ft*Im Ke> ,# Iwte i ♦ tKn grograplu-ra, ami cvra aieutomed by sinl several laitheran ehurelie*. but' l*irts ; by many snppos d only acre* no ImtlMwau minister. We have * *ar> to lubricate uagun » heels—i. no beanl of many friemb iu thst State, small item to eonimr^e, as every ' who are devotedly nttaclied to tbe M ju dg®eut, and was sailor will teu yon. for hi. bauds Mini dtan h of their fathers calling for a translated. At some time during clot lie* are never free tom. tbe scent minister. The church* are too weak | thc au ,ide!uvia„ ^-riod, the human i ..M „ ^ JL’JE" wifo tM in order ’ ^ ^ ^ “'i “‘"l f “ mil > *** divlU ‘' 1 iot ” ‘** **•"**■ Many 1 mreo.. N to their worfoip, guor down to dear ohl mother <* h U "' W T‘ “T to **«tk*ain: “The repeat tbe A,s*tlc’s Creed, w.thcat may ti-rl able to give, ranging from Higlert and got • wsgirn. and after *• "•*•* " ‘ P w 1,U * 1 * ok ‘ , "* M ‘ to H»e wuHl ^ of God" aud “the daughters attaching any definite idea to the fifty, to one, lira, or twenty thousand taking • few cop. of bar inspiring *•***! l *‘** *■“** r ^ M,rk * W * They would V gratefed fora aimoa- of ^.o Xtt ah jhvm*bed righteous cisuee: -He descemled into hefi," dollnnv, as the case may be. And if, and invigorating coffto*. kmded the «*•» «** “ ^ * • •rf, ■«"» ‘he Geuevsl Hynod can send ne(w ^ God made revelations to Evcu tl.e.ilogun* themselves have to sonic cases, the assignor would Northern Conference and aome pi|-s hmrr.'. a.M will lavambly teak out them one, and ia blind to its interest biln . and> fruui tbe Urgtoiug of their! hmt some ddfirully iu nrrivtogats feel font bis estate would justify him and tobacco on a wagon, and hauled between Uw stavi-s, and yet it is foe if if do.** not do It. f a ik » coodithm, they had tbe prom aatistoctory view rf its imparL- to obligate hi in nett' or it for a certain the whole thing sixty miles up to the J T "7 ■ r,k, ' to °*' ,l . t0 m ‘* k * * ve * rl j Georgia has a Syno.1 rf iu own, foe that the need rf the woman would J Committee* on Liturgies and Bosks orahip have been pendexed, <-w, *• — <» —.is? ~ —■*.»«».. »«w," Zt isiiaters not to avcl any prater at 1 The General Synod would gain this late day. ' largely and glorify Ood abundantly Hut rosin, tar, turprallne and lum- by- neudlng that wlf deuying little lire see by no tnenn* the only article* ' band of brethren a miaionary. ! of exportation town Wilmington; cot- — nun uu tu*: imiy oi ueuevoieius*, is ~ » » ** — —— K • i ... — ..... . iae ttiat the. area rf tbe woman wonkl Com mi Vlmt. as a Chnreh, we now most »um, totw pni.1, if not sooner, after ■ Honthern Confereucr meeting tn Au water-tight, by talking it with oakum but the chnreh in that Bute ia greatly bruiae tbe seri>ent’* head. Theyhad,©! Wo "neeif have been much impov l'** tteceane, bnt tlw Way would not mata Connty. And we had a good '* taw ratnnited and covered within need of a missionary, and tbe alao tb< . Sabbath Uie division of oral lot ! U»% 'J0'i 4’V -. .«- -* - • . . i _ _x *_ Si »_ *».: E si 1 few*—... Is JtJ^h u .11 ... 1 tram I.'iusin and htriMSifttto Dsnulu-srs * 2. a -_t. a. .1 i bo clear to paj the interest thereon, <•«** rf it—didn’t we t let it be so provided for in the bond, dear Bm ; don’t wold—haul ) * n «h*isuU , But, by all means, let our colleges yonr tVmferenee to some other ptner. I c***tly known have the lieneflt of there boma Another good brother, (East, we fide bonds, if in some eases without I believe, is the English of his name.) interest, and onr word Ibr it, they had the good fortune not long since will be greatly aided thereby. This I to meet wfth the Northern Conference will eoitetitote a buna rf wealth, j rf the Virginia Hy nod, and Unit was upon wliich their Ann! success can be a good fortune (would it had been t0M comes here in large quantities, built np. ours); qnite snflfeient to pat qj not as much so snhi Chsrieston, Mo- ’ ■ Now, let this, or a better |ibtn. If Christian man tn • good humor, aud nr Oilenns, but snlBHent to any one wilf be good enough to offer a 1 letter, lie* tried. Let Presidents •Bfrtlc mid HmHtxffr, and Bickle, If bin. Institution steeds it, be eheered by the Infinx of snch bonds to (he mhdnftt of twenty, fifty, or one hun keep hhn so for u fong time. It! kw T* many vessel* employed In carry. seems, however, that'In spite of all 1 *“ff M away to other Northern and the good he saw and enjoyed, ami to 1 Eorvqieaa porta. Rive is also shipped handsomely srknowlnlgeM, the spell from this port. Ground peas, rail- Mred Mm, and nothing short of the 1 «> pra-nots at the North, are ml- abandonment of the lnxnry of their! tiwuteH in large quantities in this Prague. Naw strike ant of the Mosaic dis- Book of Cumman Prayer the Bp**- pcuMtina everything that oorre { copal couventiott have authorised la aponds to there, aud how little will j the; rubric tbe change of Um* {ihism, remain t Is there not, then, good , into: “He went into the place rf da* , reason for the conclusion tlut the parted spirits," or its entire oauatsea. I antideluv ton and the Mosaic rites, j The German Reformed Chtueh, to , worship, aud theology were subeton , their liturgy, have endeavored to ttolly the same I Even circumctoion,, relieve tbemsrivea of all diffioalty , the paying of Uthes, aad the raising rf grayer, i up rf tbe bouse of a brother who ba.1 I aw folly aattofled Uiat no iieraon can examine tits sulyrot , dispaasiouatelyr and entirely divested died childless, are first mentioned as , of prejudice, who out fail of coming ordinances already existing, and not , the conclusion that it ia the most as then first instituted. And it is important powor ever placed to the just as probable that they were insti I hand rf whereby he te enabled rttvd thousand dollars tateh; sad 1 P 1 !’** and tobacco win bring liim to ; l* rt of ‘he Htate, and sre shtpjicd (o ru te (so to spaakj the Divine mind, tvrih tlds as a basis, they win be | uneOuiplahilng terms with there dear freui this jiort to fill tbe mouth* of ( yiist God wortts by means, is as tone to be connoted; aad’aMe to relieve their colleges from brethren. Well, the conduct bf that ’ey else '«]gr/ Church and 1 pecuniary pressure, and fhelr own brother wlio tot in thc pnlfflt with saida demands. dq l^tfevor el tba .ffelvation, ml But dn you start back in amazement, suit >toyi t “rttnv is all'this ’to be how much it onto to the imlefati- https impoHte; but let ns not fret 1 Wilmington * Manchester, the Wil doner The answer is simple eudugh. 'gaMe labors of there Self-denying ‘ about ft; he mi ant no harm by it; t mlngton ft Weldon, aod the WH- -** i *.ku'mington, Chnriotto ft Rutherford t^f^ypjry/metpWr of the Church of Christ give in proportion aa the IfohUiiith prospered him. TkiS WouM cover the whole rirte. refiierwe Goif doe? hat want mane money for the Bopptoi.afrhto rausu than the piMttoal working of the principle of libeodity which he has laid down, toirf-Ifroeurej therefore, let tlds rule eobscietitioasly adhered to by all who' name the name of Christ, at|d , what great things would w* be , able to do for God! Ministers, students preparing for tlic 'mfni^rtry, colleges, theotogicjrt seWnapcs, Church pu Ctepi,&c., would ail be snstaioed so . well as to teave none to languish for want of support. minds from a trashing loud of rare. : his feet on the Bible board smoking, The church, ywrimps, will never know (wwa, to ssy the least, impolitic—per- tbe jwvrtiWra, and even adnlts, oak «Me of Dixie. Three Raflroods ooocentrats sad have their termini in this city-: the «en. ‘Hut if we wonhl lengthen out tbeir term Of labor, and still ■ their nsefttlness, we tbeir minds of •fit to only s way be has f perh*|w hr lire converted a sinner from the errors of his way, saved a soul from all anxiety 1 death. What an achievement! How abonS money matters. Brethren, 1 it tdionld move ns to "|s»as his im- yoa wfeorir the* Lord has made bis 1 perfections by* to rererve ottr caustic Railroads : beside* the additional'ad vantage of Bteamboat navigattuu in- loud to Fayetteville, with the regular line* of ocean steamer* to New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, all of SteWatito, by committing large es- j animadversions few sdtne harder ease! which keep the river st this place in tsites tot your dis|iOs:i), what response Perhaps, ton, If that same man, when a constant state of commotion. And do you make! Will yon not come liberaDy apd promptly to the res- cnet We are in earnest tn all We have said on this whole snbject, and we ardently pray that it will lead to efficient and immediate action on the part rf hundreds in oar ielOvfel Honthorn Zion, and then shall wa be compensated a hundred fold. ' M. 1 the shrill scream of the railroad engine whistle, which U heard at all hours of tbe day and night, (be occa- I atonal booming of small cannon, an nouncing the arrival and departure I of the ocean steamers, the continual quite young, had been put upon n vegetable diet, ami Into an anti- tobacco straight Jacket, he would have spent his whole life in dime limiting, or some world dtetnriiing reform. ' " Come, brother “Dried t," don’t give rattle of drays conveying merchan way to throe tqielTs ; they will grow disc, give to Wilmington the tuna Is on yon, and yon are in danger of. t&kable atgna Of a dty of no ordinary getting into the ense of those nntf aa holy writ; indued, that Book rf books, ciyotus that doctrine on al most evcQ one of iu bleared pages. Taka Um com rf the blind man who wont to tho Saviour to ho heated rf his malady. The Saviour, alter examining him upon the subject rf faith, and tectmiu foUv tutirflnl rf { it* gcauiueueaa, spot on the ground and mad# clay, with which He anointed hia syea, and ho “went see ing/ Who on believe that the day itself had any vjgttte in it! It was simply a means to a great end. It is type that .some of our would-be wise have endeavored to attribute the cause to the fact that tbe clay contained an aetrinptut property—as Alumiue, of something of the sort— and that the cure was effected by virtufi of that property . WUat a miserable subterfuge, in attempting to be wise abovj that which is writ ten: bnt no more of a subterfuge tuted before as after the flood. As to theology, it would be un- reaoonabto to suppose that Adam and Eve, after their removal from the garden, became unconscious rf their change. They certainly remembered what they had been, aud often con trasted their fallen unhappy condition with that which they had tout. If ia their hearts one desire wae felt to be stronger titan another, that must have been for. perforation,, not only to the garden, but also to the peace rf mind a«d inuooency rf nature from which thqy bad follen. And whatever may the Creed, aa used universally, have been their conceptions as to the time, and aa to tbe manner, iu whtqh the seed rf the wostan would bruise [in the serpeut’abeqd> they cop* have scarcely regarded it in say other light than a promise rf some kind of used in ito Integrity, er not deliverance and restoration, if it waa not designed and adapted to inspire them with such a hope, why announce it iu, their hearing! And why insert it in the few brief para graphs which contain all thc recorded Iby transferring the Greek into English: “He descended Jafo Hades." This, however, does *• make the import store Hear and is- lelligibk* to the people. A Refenrfd congregation, in saying: “He de scended into Unites,” has no mort satirfaetory understanding ef it. titan a Lutheran or Episcopal ainTO bly in ray iic: “He descended inte belL" The Liturgical Committss,* their rejiort of a form for Honda? morning service, nt our Ust-Gerortl Synod, proposed striking orf the obscure phrase. It is, however, te* sorted in that form ia bracketsss* 4 appears la the printed minutes el Item Synod. Nose of these «*fl***' [onto, however, are rf any avafl. 1* ja certain, that it has been a part of marc than a thousand ymm, hy oB the Church, and in some copies of It early works of the That venerable Creed shesM not ho mutilated. Itshonld beedhte at aIfe 4 Bat what is the llto clause t The q w been asked, When __ way the Lord descended into hriit Whether it took pla«*e. anunlin? the devil thoiity — I abould Wiki ima Tbe Usually a the invisible language* there an Wi (Gehenna taeaniug. Into onr belt Tb the word tbe saaM- depend it stands, inal. wbi‘ Hacrexi H<| means the of tbe «1< bodies world of times tbe invisible, nsually* ex of tbe Eug Bhcol in in ftecck. bore tie.' dark, ik*ep bavp>K Wi depths—ti. in which t dwell—thr tbe dead dintinct n and White in tl ♦tows from word HU... used, as a is views with I wotedm npirita. Ar i do term. Gebeumi Testa n lent place of aoute of tJ lasting tin Psradiix* spirits of The word include* of depart i, or mteerabl that inv and p* In arriv standing to the to Christ's remember was wriUe but Greek Greek used, aud the giving an the creed in mind tl ivisibl ot I in Id tin. In addi original the true m the^cript rf CHrist’i AO admit that XJitrie hi* spirit world. U eqniv the whole this duett There n IV f- s quotations this definite ideal merely into t| the invisible, HAMA gloomy reals and, for bell Powers rfb. § ""'eight li^ declaration otp quoting frou. r wilt not kwvJ • passage has great body oil riosive as to m soul having a.S