The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, March 23, 1870, Image 2
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
Wednesday, March 38,1670.
EDITORS:
Ret. A. R. RUDE. Columbia, a C.
Rut. 3.1. Millkb, Htlvtxto*, Va.
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TEEMS;
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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