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omoR ONE LOBE, ONE FAITH, ONE BAFT18H"—EPHE8IAN8 IT: 5. COLUMBIA, S. C., WKDNK8DAY, APRIL 13, 1870 OLD SKRIKS, VOL. IV.-NO. 85 Of* and color*, and hanging from our Milling the moat brilliant lamps— ministering to >0 oar wnuU with water, air, Ire, food, clothing, light, who go into prisons, traa ranting them into temporary oharebra, who seek ont the little wanderer* fa ferir Alth and rags, and introduce them ta flraiiltaera, ordar, and all the prnprie- tto# of a Chrietian lite, who are willing to wateh for souta serving them hi every way to edification— washing, teaching, elevating them— taking of (he old man that tin- new man rauv be pot on, and willing to endure all, in order to present each prefect Iwfora Christ. Vow arl&ah- item, pride, will, habit. all oppose this com iroce union—this going down to the wear and tear of uaetalaea*. It is gratifying to he aerved, hat a aoerificc tow? rr; and tor this reaaoa the reward win hr all the greater. Yet tSsre is so other way to arrve the Master, gad Messed is that servant whs shall be fonud «o doing. The ptow mother U the last one to give sp sad say me can’t support a pastor. She wlU go to pros thing ad payer masting and Sabbath school, if Mm haa bat half a ehaace. Moo* but a godly Christian mother will go through •* much labor sad go round *o smug dittcaltica, tn order to attend ■ church. Men, is all the walks of society, speak of ta trials occasioned by the war, hut who (eels more rmU§ the effects of our social revolution than the piowe •. 5.00 p ta •• stism • - *-25 * m ... 'A.QQ a m v. 12 35 p m • tl»p« ■ •. 3.45 p m .to Aodoraou ts pCBLisntD * ** { WEDNESDAY was watering, and hrt klratificution with Ms work complete. Her* me practical ability waa her banband’a never-fading ally. This was shewn la a power ef gutdsace mod counsel, fat the womanly tact which aaa thread ita way through diflkeritie* where am intelligence is ha toed, and la the extent to which she re lievad her husband of the practical oowccraa that would aa a matter of course have fallen to him, but for the details ef which he lacked pettoncs and capacity. To the labor involved la this and in the ordinary fiatig* of her position, which she admirably* music, hope, and oooifort—taking cafe of us when we sleep and whrs we wake, and overlook tag nothing, however humble, essential to our KDITH, mmmttafc *—tf rriwo *» V 19 f» r TfaT if p»w in ,'dr.iKv. 4. The conduct of Ids Son, Jeans Ctantnww, tk«4r fi*n 8»whsu <* Christ, to a living commentary oa Tv«y-- f: u * to* y* r«' *• (tbfe ffhh. Ho ,, ut rvrry other form .y Am whs da sot par mu. > fim-kTO contfoscenrton Into the diode, by j** «* «f»u <p<* f<» ib. , Ato o, 1P V»I1T!S1X^: | ronn ° r lrtnu : lowest form, that <W* loch "f evJuu-A: ' W that, noltl at a slave's jaswwftwo 4 li l*iet>, he bright die for the slave* of i n> ! s 1 "- wdtff flown into the huaifli- aa .Sates .a. vi a* - * •** rition of Gcthaeainne, the contempt T^aunh. io to I ay the Judgment-hall, the gloom ef ttnivc, toying to all of to, -I •Ml Fsssrto *• pwt-wit. of Ha aquMoi <uut jow,nW. ,» pM IVIW- »nJ oi 9»« Uutf who** 2a aswank M |»>f cent will 1m 4vducfc.il lets a[>]H>im unto you a kingdom, aa my Father hath appointed unto at.* How ia that f By serving other* aa be served os; so that as he was exalted from the cross to the skies, *o be must be served by roodaeeea- sion and self denial. •V The same (a exemplified by the holy angels, the courtiers of heaven, yet condescending aa their Great Kiug. They ate all of them minis tering spirits to those who shall he heirs of salvation; and, when ap pearing in a human form, willing to perform the most humble services, as tolling away the stone from Christ’s sepulchre, or preparing firs and food for the wearied K10*h ia the wilderness, or, alter ministering to some disguised beggar like Laaa- rma. Wring him from the place of his death to the Paradise of God. These mighty ones—these Priori politics and Powers in heavenly places—who look into the fhec of God, think it not beneath them to serve the ieeldest child of Ood or man— the iufaMa of grace or of nature— because, through Christ, both an* amounted, as snrh, meet for heaven. 6. The Uvea of the apostles eon firm the same truth. Leaving all to follow Christ, they surrendered tbelr prejudices of reHgiua and race, and tieenme willing to eat with those hitherto regarded as Gentile dogs. The once Pharisaic l*uul became the servant of sit the ehurchw, enduring every form of contumely and perse cution from Jew uml Greek in palace, prison, or ship; weak for the sake of the weak, ami dcapisi-d for the sake of the despised, that be might serve some. In the spirit of the Moravian, who sold himself that be aught preach to the enslaved, these self denying men were willing to serve the world's outcasts In order to make them the sons of God, to become men's temporary mesial*. that such might become the Lord's everlasting freemen. 7. Christian experience will confirm all these statements, that humility is the way to lasting honor. Wbeu Moses chose the reproach of Christ, when Pant dotted the robes of the Pharisee for the garb of fee Naxarene, wbeu Count Ziuzcudorf left the pal ace for the cottage of the United Bret hi eit, when Istdy Huntingdon left the cathedral for the tVhitcfield ion conventicle, tiiough going down to hninuu view, they were mill} coming up into God's house Beauti ful, into a light, joy, honor, and use fulness hitherto unknown. Tbs deep things of God arc seen in low pis ass, where, in serving tbs lowly, men an brought into direct contact with Christ. Banyan, in consenting to twelve years’ imprisonment in Bed ford jail, saw his pilgrim ennoniaed to the world's fame, and saw heaven so opened before him, with it* dto- sliug hosts, that, to use his own language, u l wished myself among them." What don my reader think of this! Whatever donbts you may have, tot me ray that trial wiU prove It true. Heavenly happiness wiU hare little to do with oar stations in this world, but with tbs nuuiasr in which we discharged their daties. hwjulv »rd»T»\ »,Ui (rational and syliogiotieal formal*— that are still preserved, is perfectly marvelous. Everything that was sent to the press, sad all the eonraea of toetam, wan written by either her, to fitouttea or from a copy. This week aha did ia the truest spirit of love and devotion. She had a power, moreover, of keeping her husband up to what he had to do. She contended wisely against a sort of energetic m* dolemee which charactcrael Wm, and which, while be was always laboring, made him apt to pot aside the tank actually before him—acme- times diverted by sabjeets of inquiry suggested in the coarse of study *■ the matter in hand, soou-thaee di* twanged by the difficult}- of redaeing Beiigious, a truth can ha put; requiring both aseurncy of thought and a measured use of laagwago, for ita doe ex pres sion. It to simply bringing together two or more statements, which, though in seeming hostility, hove a real bat hidden ground of reconcilis Han. The eoutnuHetiou in language serve* aa a note of alarm, which rouses the aioggtsh mind to note the truth concealed hraraih. Hence, It la the eeiebration of the Last Sup per with the apostles, Our Lord roue from the table, laid aside bis gar meats or upper cost, took a towel, sad pouring water into a basin, be gan to wash their feet—a work not done by a superior to au interior, bat by the lowest serv ants. Ho after he had trashed their feet, and rad down again, ho gave this explanation of his conduct: “Know yo triad I have <ione to you ! Ye rail me Master uml lord; and ye say well: for se 1 am. If 1 thro, yoar Lord aad Master, have washed yoar fret, ye id so ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as 1 have done to you.’’ lly deed and word lie thus said: ‘■The world's law is self greatness by others’ service; but that of my king dom is self-service for others’ great ■no. Yon must in lore serve one another; being wilting to go down in htnnifity that yoar fetlows may o»- wod to honor." Say not, “This is a hard saying, who can hear it I" fi* by a little attention w* shall see that it is but the work ing of a universal law : that wbat he mid;"Nature and Revelation both con- iHp? T. Holy Scripture here most un mistakatily utters the voice of hear- m. Addressing the mighty ones of the earth, it says, “Ye that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak." “Bear ye one another’s bur dens, and so fiilATt the law of Christ.* Reminding ns of tlie fidlen mid the port, it commands ns to “condescend ts men of low estate," for “charity «eeketh not her own." The s|ririt of the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount, the Lonl’s Prafer, and the golden role, enthrone that bene vo te*** in the heart whh h makes obe- ‘benee practical. k- Nature, to every attentive stu dent, seem to work according to this ter, to which the great and the strong <*"*deseend to the little and the weak. Tbs mighty power of gravitation »«<*», though mandible, “I serve nil, binding ail together, and guiding- all tohnrmsay, raring for the smallest! globule a* wet! as the greatest plan «•* The son says, “I shine for all 5 wwteng into fife the insignificant tetoaalcafc, gtaddeniitg the ephemera ths* fatter to my beams, delighting to scatter with my rays the gloom °f uncertainty and the darkness of 'tetger town the wandering and the ■tet.” The mountains, beauteous **••1 fcw, cascade, and rain bow, *to*k to an their grandeur of height, •tender, aad avalaache: “We serve <h« plains with our contributions of torth aad water, cooling the air, ea ^whiag Ac *,,1, .nd directing the winds. While we shelter the weak *tetoe persecuted ia oar bosoms, we asad forth every river aad rivatet the servants of beaefierne*; obey tog fee Maker’s order, we wash the «et flf afl created things." 3. God himself hero gives us the tovinity of his example. He to aL *»y» working far others, especially te thee* who are poor and lowly, :in,t » meek aad contrite spirit, .IU.M* a. . 1 2S p a. . 2.57 p. m. . 5 07 p. m. 3 50 p. K. fiins of On- iiniMih, trml nbua, Moot- aw. Uhatu- ille, Cincio. hnii Vm. ^lit Train*, t checked to earnest writings, aad arcara with great freqaeaey la the epistles of I*aaL Take tbs following example. In Galatians: “1 am crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live—yet nut ' L hat Christ Nvcth in ae.* Ho ia ColossiatM: “Fee ye *rr dead, aad your life to bid with ( brim la God." Again, in Corinthi.itu: “For when 1 am weak thro am I strong;* while ia the sixth chapter of the same epistle, he string* • numhrr of them together ( “a* deceiver*, aad yet true; os nakoown, and yet Well known; as dying, aad kehohl «# live; as sorrowful, yet always re jutriug; a* haring aothisg, aad yet psoaeaamg all thing*." To the child of God, who haa been taught in the Deboot of experience. aH this to exceedingly plain ; and he carries within him the double srsar of all these expression*. Bat to the men of this wurhl, rhe myrtwy to inexplicable, aad the whole (Ttriatiaa life to a riddle. Much of our lemi- mony however, coaster* In iwtaruting these very paradoxes to their stten tk»n; and the roproorb of praetlral religion is cancelled, the moamut it is discovered how Divine Grace com bines the most opposite elements In the character of the believer. We propose to submit a tea of these strange contradiction* to the reader, ia several sacressit r paper*. Chatter then tkt yn/rwl humility aad »df re* uncimtiom •/ fir CkriaUma, ■sited ttifk trm lo/timm* of seal ood fee eoHM-iommm of difmiff. Experi mental religion fouuds upon a thor ongh ronrietton of am aad guHt. The Holy Spirit takes the sinner ta the midst of his complacency up into the presence of tbs pure and holy God, that in the light of the terrible contrast be may are how rile h* really 1*. The tow to toitkfulty applied as the instrument of conviction, to hi* rials which be had ansa-daHa ia aad ehserful disposition sastaiaed and refreshed him, aad never more so than when daring the tost twelve years ef Mb life, his hodfly strength wss broken, and his spirit, thoagh languid, yef cessed from mental tofl."—Biibhirfh Rent*. without a prlain lint In th* ; thfretore more cd*i- oi b« too the Thames, took his first We* from the ship-worm, as he oheervvd it per forate. with its well-armed brad, first ia ooe direction and then in another, tiH the airbed way was complete, and then daab over tbs roof and sides with s kind of varnish. The art of portrait painting to be lieved to bare bad its origin m an accident. Oorinthia. a young girt of terra*, discovered her beowtifrd lover asleep; the lamp which burned be side him east the shadow of his profile on the wall; struck by the Hbeaess. and inspired by love, she traced it, and thus produced the first speeimea of that delightful art. The hammer of a blacksmith suggested a subject ter oar of Haydn's best rom position*. An artist ia rain tried to give tbs drapery about which he was em ployed ia his picture the groeefU folds which alone could satisfy him; vexed at his failure, he was aboat to pat fee printing away, when a ser vant entered the studio, and, putting to rights such thing* as feO to Ms way, be threw his master’s etoak across the stand; it fefl into the graeefol fetd* so much desired by the painter. 80 aa artist, in despair of imparting thwexprossion of the excitement and beat of the chase to the noble horoe he was painting, flung Ms brush impatiently away; it f4-.«iMMi upon the nostrils of the bon* , and represented at «n« the foam, which was all that was re quired HobUmtu land, every day, quietly, continually, laboriously aad often, with sad hearts. They ought to be helped, real said so, aad we believe, if be were hero now, he would argue any, whal is « Board of fitoaw for, it they do not see to it that tbs house of worship to made comfortable, by keeping glass in the windows, fee doors si used, tbs stove ta goad order sod fire in it, and a fire, too, ia the session bouse for the mother aad her little ooe* f Help, men ! help! rad the walls of Zion will be built ap. ike pur- >veroowinpT d fell oYcr of life iff ihnefftock’ff tf tUilr. before (tod ta tbs obedience of hie 80a, which the wasM to unable to estimate—aad it to Jaat this experi efiee of purdon through lbs Redeemer, that arrests the praams ef deteriora tion which ta the ease of the Ua penitent tinner would aadoahtedly occur. purchase' irtictihtrlr Tli* to This passage brings as to one ef the most beantiAil and interesting points la a noble history. It to right feat the world should know—as those nearer at hand did—how modi fee world owes to Lody Hamilton for putting it in possession of the ser vice* of her greet husband. Instead of being s tale too often told, it is a tale too often omitted, to let as know what the man of peculiar gifts some times owe* in rending them avails Mr, to the faithful partner of his days—to the enoouraging, fee assist ia«, and the directing wife, The services rendered by Lady Hamilton to her husband, and eooeeqaeatiy to the world, remind ua of thane ren dered under very similar drcum stances by the tote Xiw. Austin to total Austin, the great jurist. It was by her care feat fee fragmentary and incomplete writings of her him band on jnriapradeoee became aaeee- tible aad iatolligiMe to the potato; aad we are ia troth indebted to then two todies for the preservation of fee atost profound and abefaaae discus moat of tow aad matephyaies whtofa have appeared to Britain in our time. Perhaps there never was a batter picture than Urn following of safe aa Hss ew >ajr. , knit br ires bis or ole-ilirwwt wing Xt- liberel to a terrible disclosure to fee tool, when the mask of self deception to oaee removed aad fee rent eumity against God to felt to exist. On science, which baa long lain dormant, and which before undertook to deal wHI> the jrrtstipte of fen, roaaee ttarif to fee performance ef jadtetal tone feme; and fee trembling culprit quails before Ha flrofeton, aa though it were fee damme of fee tost day. Then comes fete act of (Wife, aa anoa m Christ te revealed, ta which tone ceaaarily involved fee satire rranu station of rtBrights*noncss -In me,* erica fee tinner to fee Crat hour «f his trust, -to ase, that to to my flesh, dwvfleth no good thing"; and whHae bis heart rejoices In hope, bin testimony ta, “ by fee grace of God, I am what I aaa.” It to very difficult now to mmetive how aD these convictions of persons! 81-desert rah bo indulged, without * roi responding loss of self I'Mqmct sad a 11,11 seqnead depreciation in ciftttac ter. ft i» just thi*, which seaadnlise* Fsul entreated somebody “to help ferae women who taborod wife him ia the gospel at PhiUippt.’ That somebody was not Fast's wife; hat pfyMftpdi B|Mt{)Mndil«us the pastor, on* of tha oktors, or asms of “fee women who resorted to the river side for prayer." However this may be, the truth waa, fees* wars aomsa at rhiQipvi who sutetissd the sum ol Christ, aad who seed help. We are not an apoatir, aar fee aaa of an *p satis, bat we eon my jaat aa truly feat (here are wamea ia aar (Santas now, who are rartaloing tha goad caaae, aad who need help. Aad they are not only mm liters’ wives. The greatest in heaves are those who were not reeipieate of 00 much honor, bat fee doers of ao much good—who were the originators Not Wubox, in Chbwt Car- arms.—“Men bow before talent, oven if ■■associated with goodness; bat between them two we most make an everlasting distinction. When once the idol ary of talent ra ters, then farewell to spirituality; whan men ask their teachers, net for feat which will make them mare bumble aad godlike, bat for the ex ci test out of an intellectnsd banquet, then farewell to Christian progress. Here also 8t Pari again stood farm. Net wisdom, but Christ erndAod. 8ti Paul might have complied wife these requirements of hi* converts, and then he would have gained ad miration and love, he woo id have been the leader of a party, but he would have been false to hia Master— •Ivan i ago attention and workers of vast plan* of util fty. Men are not to be honored fair their shining quantise, but for fee uses to which they are put— commenting their wealth, learning, power persuasion, eloquence ami influence for the welfare of ethers. The richest churches are those most abundant ia faith and good works. Those who are most esteemed on earth by the most oxafted In kravra, are those who go from homed to home reffevtog want and Ignorance, who go down into the haonta of vice to fktft