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OffE LORD, OEE FAITH, ONE BAPTI8M."-EPEE8IAH8 IV: 5. fifcW SERIES, VOL. 2-NO. 55 COLUMBIA, S. C_ WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1870 OLD SERIES, VOL. IV.-NO. 88 ■WWPLl. Hl ^Visitor Vfe repent It, therefore, the greet need at Uh' time* ta tatth In GoiF* character, in his word, in the doctrine fit Me npeoial provide nee, in tW aiilliitkm mA *apn-in*ev of! Jeena t’hrtat—faith to lay M<1 upon Gwr* “covenant and strength,* and to “commend him coocertiing the work of bin hand*.* f’lrll govern neat, national perapcrity, tocithkIuI ugricnltnn« and ewotncrvc—a *alu ] tary social system, ami aortal, civil and political institutions, jwoliflc of p*aw aa<l happlnra* to man—a sal Mary Vocational system—* church, effective aa the ebnrrh qf Oral ought to be, in moulding governing princi ples tar society, and bringing every thing into the obedience of faith—all u» works of God's hand, cuiieecultig which wo must command him by a faith which lay * bold an hia row naat. The want of such a faith hi a terrible evil—M ia a dead pa lay to (hr coniaannlty where It exists. “Help Lord; for the godly mau erasrth: for the faithful fail from imperfect and Ha piognaa to perfre tK*n gradual. tt la like the maatard need which when planted la the aaaaHeat of all seeds, hat which in erataeo by an onward growth nntH It heroawo an largo that the btrda Ltfltot |m ilg Kmitoltna f h*» ULa fi.. m m WUJv In M" iHnlirUrn, UT imp H*ftTPt) which dictates it* influence* (bom one part of the gtamral mono to •nnther on til the whole to \eo ren t'd. Tbtae atatiUttatlea, employed by I'hrist to shadow forth the adrancr- aaent of religion hi the hearts of epiritoal strength and fife. Let him aaC doubt that hia Mlleaeeo, ia the ■•atter of godly work, moat aggra vate the malady from which it flows; attifle, while many have found mac and atom wore deateoyeri hy Are; a peotilcnee raged tbrnngh the colony ; and in the political boricon, a dark and omintern (toud wm gathering. Tbeoe circa motanoea led the Qeaeral Court, In Hay, 1*70, to eall upon the rhnreltea to appoint meoaengera to meet in Beaton, for the solemn din rnsamn of tbeoe two questiuejs - “Whnt are the provoking evils of Mow Ragland T* and “What la to be •tone ao that those crib may be re taant depemkare an God. We can m* hoar the poor widow, whose bar rrl of meal has tailed, and whose rtnae of oil ia spent, ahoukl and can nak thru humbly and urgently tha day’s provender; bnt it seems strange to na at first, that nock a petition abould auit as wdl the rich—the owner of house* and tarns ami bank rtock—the man whose garners cun- flpily styles indolence,) it stands to reason that no one can ever find health there. Let him not play the port of the man benumbed with cold, who aits still shaking, when with a Uttle stirring be might send Hie wanu blood coaming through his veins, and “he himself* again: bat let him straightway enter upon every form of Christian labor within the power of hia hand, according to that “working of Christ which worketh mightily* in the saints—even the weakest of them. Let him cry to the Lord for help against the spirit of sloth, that “idleness, the sepal •Are of a living man,* may entomb him no longar-that, through the quickening of the Holy Ghost, he may experience a reaarrectioa to new activity in the cbrUtion Ufe.. JL jam UiaaaiV Vmroa to atmtoto'i *> mta ■ m H1 ft sa per year, if r*id hi siiraam. Outrun- ■Mr WiJows, »u4 Soxkuu df \tiiltiS-~ darpvd fl.aa par j «*r, If p«i4 Is T1k**> who do sot fay wilLin Ibrss *3^1/0* to tboir rrsr Uyln*. will, ia nut ta ctoM|ad aflyoafe addliiuaat urn «* AwtanaiKa: ,Mho< **mmh» IVOiMMtos-y $ » though he was “that light,» yet the world wonld know him, and form their impression of him and the dor tritoca he taught, to a targe mcasnrr from the way In which he was exhib itod to the lives of Ida disci plea, nance the command, “Let year light ao ahioc before men that othera seeing your good worts may glorify yo«r Father which is in heart*.* The rfariattan has ao innate light, hut ia only “the light," inaamm-h as hr reflects tha Lord Jeans. Kerry true Christian la a minor which reflects ( brim's glory, his power ami love; and a consist rail rhristhra example at Aral, whim-tided in a am all degras. and that he grows in gram* antil he antra* at the fullrn** of the stalner of Christ. He is at flrnt a babe : nfterwaid* he forgets the things that are behind, and pranara forward to wards the mark of the prise of hia calling hi (fertta Jiass '■ The word mortification hi employ V in the lb Mr to dearrihe that rot of grace hy which men are made holy. It is not ward to signify something In its nature distinct from regeneration or cun version, far .myriads of months besides his own, »ttd this not for to-day only, bnt far yearn heuee—the merchant, it may be, whom groaning ware- bonne would victual whole navies. We eao see how Itarkl might, na turully and moat argently, offer anch a prayer as to ear text, on tiie day when he aad his soldiers wore hun gering, and the show-bread was given them; bat how Bulomoa his son could use it, when his purveyors sent him, month by month, such pre- flue mppUos tar his tabic and pabme, acenm not ao easy to hr nnderetood. And yet this very language would equally auit both—the hunger bitten father In the day of his want, and the luxurious sun in the acxaon of hia imperial opulence. Job in bis palmy days, alien he was tha richest of all the mru of the East, aad when hia son* were feasting anch in bis own house; aud Joseph, when open mg the granaries of Egypt, where he had laid up the food of seven |4ent«o«* years, for an entire natiou —each needed the spirit, if not the terms, of this pcayer; and we doubt not each was wont to ait down to kis own well atoned board la the tetuper, dependent and gretefnl, which ia lueulcaled by (hia very prayer. Do nut the rich depend t Let an in- reused and tatgoOrn Ural send but pervading aentiment of thorn* times that the “Lord reigned;» that when there was evil In a etty, the Lord did it; that God was jnet, and afflicted communities for their Mas; and that, when ao afflicted—when blasting and mildew come a|wn thrlrfieMto— when their ships were wracked at am— their !tonnes and stores were burned up—when jieetilenee raged siul po- lltictil dangers thrrateued—it wss the righteous God i-ontending with them for their rina; and that it wan the duty of the rulers of the land to call for a nrnnrhing out of the pro dneing causes of such evils; and that all, Ixtth high and low, rich ami |ioor, shonld huinlde them selves under the mighty baud of Oral, that He might take away from them the blow of bis baud, by which they were likely to be cou*ume<L " Was this sn|ierstitioMf If it wua, it (deius'rl God, at all events; for we are told that immediately following the deMs-ratioiM, fastings, confer sions and prayers of the eouven tion railed by the General C'onrt. there waa a remarkable Wrrain; of Gral came upon the land In the form of u general swnketttug ami a great revival aud reformation. Another fnct will serve to show what kind of flHth, uml what degree of it, isi'VMhd iu tboMc days. There wss a .lodge Hewel, of Hnlem, who on one occasion, at the Court of flyev aad Tcrmluer, had fmrtieipoteil In condemning «wtsin prvnmis to he executed for witeberafl. AflerwunG. iietlule; Rev. A. K RUM; Ural, and of grratiy promoting their highest gaud. It wonld he tar better for both the church and the world if Christiana felt tbia more keeuly, aud wen- more careful in their, example. A nvwnt address says, "ChrmttoMa at* um carries* about srparatioa from the evil that Is ia the World. It must be a separation ’ work of which regeneration to the i-ommenceaseot. They diflbr not in kind, lint la degree. The efficient ageut la both ia the same ; the mean* used are the taaae ; the result aeeom plMbcd Is substantially the same. In the beginning of the work by which men ate transformed into the moral likeness of their Maker, holy (Uapo^it KiQJi and priufliilfn mtv In- [dasteil in the soul; to aanctifleeth* they are n>s*risked and devetoprd, until by a gradual |itogrraa, all shi Ail <Iis|mmiIhxis being mortilicii. and all holy dispositions bring tally nm In red. the aul^ert of this grace is hn mralistriy. ups death, si rale perfret in holiness sad therefore meet for the Inheritance of the satnts hi light. It is God who works In ns both to will mid to do of hi* good | drawn nr He begin* the good work, and he |ierfann* A snMt the day of Jeans Christ. "Then will I aywmkb- cleari water npoo von sral re *balI he draw - from all yonr fflthtnras. and from all Religious, 1 am not to enter upon a crnamle against the pernanl of works of fic tiuu. I should he ao ry to debar the child from “Hohmsou Cnuoe* or the “Pilgrim's Progress,” or to prevetit any one from hecomiug acquainted with the character of “Jennie Doans" B«t I da proto* against that coast oat gad iadioerim- itrnte perusal of routanem in wiudi oo many indulge. In the use of such atiuiuionts I am an allocate nut of fotof storfacaee, hut of temperance principles. I am not afraid of an, ocro-suwial glam of fiction, provided iwraons be not constantly sipping at it, aad prnviiled they be taking solid food in Ar larger measure. For ererv novel devoured, h-t there be eaten and digested several books of his " lory or of biography, several books of voyages and trai els, several books 01 ftol riwyhaavand at, least a tamk or two of newoce. If yon examine some of our circulating libraries you . 4.00 a.m. . 9.40 a* m. . i 1 40 % m. . 1.40 p. ik. . 4.20 p. in. mm of North iuifcwL IIoHaras la tlie opposito of ain. “Hia la the transgression uf the law * Holiness ia obedience to the law. Sin is the opposition of tlie heart ami the life to God : holinesa is conform ity to God, or os Christ is the image of the invisible Oral, holiness is con fortuity to Clirint In moral character, “/fr war AWj, harm lent, wudejUrJ, ami trparnir from sinner*.* He did mi sin, raw was guile found in his mouth. The spirit of his mlud, and the deeds of Us life were all In perfect agtee meat with the taw of righteoafocra The love of God rulrtl ia his heart, and he always did those things wbirh were pleasing to kis Pother. All God's people are predesrinntnl to lie cun binned to Ike Image of his Hon. They are to let the same mind be in them wMch was iu Christ, and to walk as be also walked : and they are holy only in so fur as they nwemblc him iu the temper of their mind, and iu their outward curat net. Cwnfonuttr to Christ iu moral rlmrui ter b hob fidieter*. I suppose I will uot ■its the mark for, when I say that every eomudcralde iuten-st of the church, «f the State, of families and af individuals, is suffering more at the present time from iuAdehty aud its near kinsman, practical atheism, than from any other cause ;*or. per haps, from all other moral causes, ■whatever. I do not mean that there are more open mouthed, speculative infidels or atheists of the school uf Home, aud Voltaire, and Paine, aud Hobbes, than there has bt*eu at uuy previons period uf the lust three cere tarini; but I do mean that there is leu effts tive faith of tlie great truths which infidelity bates sml assails than at any time during that |ieri<sl. The truth uf God's character, rather thag of this existence ; the truth that he, by and through Jesus Christ, is the effective Administrator of the ratire affairs uf the universe; that he is constantly exercising a deter- airing power ujion the cnrrvnt events of time; that he orders, in •inate detail, everything that takes phtee, and diapi'iiscs awards and pUBtohnteuts, setting up and pulling down at pleasure; that he ix. holy aad hates all sin, aud does cLunitise men and nations for their sins ; that his favor is essential to success iu »ay enterprise, and that, that favor Wttd be conciliated, by eonductiug that enterprise according to his will; that the Bible, which is the word of h “profitable to direct," in «v«y department of human activ- 'ty; and that tlie supremacy of Jesus Christ aud his mediatorial functions, aad Utility, both as the meritorious i catae and medium of all divine favor, most be practically acknowl edged, h. order to a safe, prosperous, and healthy gtate of affairs in this world—are, almost all of them, mere j "Pewlative notions, having almost ao Atennining poorer over the great Public aiind. Hence it is, I have no doubt at all, that God is striving with this laud by aoiuany judgments **d terrible things—judgments, so Palpable, aud ao unequivocal and Pwutcd, that “a man, though a fool, PMd not err therein.* I repeat it, therefore, that helieren j* **** great want of the times. It *** very popular for some years j*»*t to flout and rail at New Eng land Puritanism, and to hold it np p* a hideous monster of hypocricy and every abouinntiou. That New England Puritanism, like the rc- every other section of this ho* fofgely deteriorated, I “fo^no doubt The wild olive, no TT/**** h"® enffrafled upon the **°ek, and as a consequeuoe, Eitfov fruit is borne; bat at .MI.X0 S. U}. . IJL5 )» lu. . 2.57 p, m. . 5 07 p. m. 9.50 |i. Rly ain* of Oi>- truth, ami tu JUM, li out bid, CltatUi- iflc, Ciuciiw fond Wwt -bl Trams. [ c hecked tu man; tt may be torture to do ao, awl I toright get away from him withuM v mint mg duly, bnt remain tag in his society affords op|Mrtn ■Hy Aw akowtag the ehsrweter and temper of the Christian * Moreover, tko light of thr Hub linn life mwy show whnt awivntioa in. Mnlration in not to be kept an wptkennrd in nn atabnater box. The salvation provided for a* ia n sal vation from sin, and tar tl*e prra- tire mt Holiness. "Know ye not that the nnrighteasm ahnll not inherit the king*Him of God f The Christian's lire mnkra Christ manitest. “When thry saw them tbrv took knowledge ;ng Noimr, rrtS. intyStnL «U<1 Ticket the garners of wraith oral pride, and hour aoon, and how tardy, ia ail their acrumnlaled abundance am- verted into rottewissw. let him allow tbnr tried sagacity to be at fault, oud bow easily one rash sperm tattoo sweeps off, as with thr besom of itaotructiou. the galas of a life time, and writes them buukropt aud iw-nullcss. A man mwy be praad of his indus try and eeouaray and skill; n nation may exult over its enterprise sml energy; bat aw not these, or the qnolHtas that win bread, aad win tt sbwndantly, thernsrlrw gift* of Htor m. “la it not lie that giveth time power to get wraith V The states man or political economist, who overlooks this palpable tenth, baa master at pointing, aratfitarr. or ar- i hitiv lare, makes manifest the com I will take away the atony heart oot of roar flrxh and I will give ran an heart uf drah. And I will pat my spirit within yon, and ranae yon to walk in my statute*, and ye shall keep my jsilgmsntw and do them.* la this psrange ia n hrtet 8erai;t hm uf that work of grace by which ato nes* are converted and mart toed. It to eminently the work af God ; o work wbirh he promises gr at tonal v to perform on bte bring inquired of by the honor at Israel to do H for them. If wr woo hi he part ah in of that kriiaras mil hoot which wo con not see the land, wo may spread oot i) «!ie under Bit a Wrpe Lt »ge, Ims witliout » k rt*tn [xi*t ra t: therclM* i more can- pot be too I u ch ota ; for him to ids gUwhnu i'restnr, awd ptonged tola sin and mtarry-. Ait hm pawtertly aw Imrw to his oww likeness. “Thnt wkirh is born af the flesh to Atwh.* All are by nature chridren uf wrath, conwiwil ia ata, ami fhMtitnto of bottom*, tint has con-opted their moral rirararter and conatitntfon, awl brought them os JiT tin* dominion of tafluenra* which are Impair In their nntnra wild ten deucy; awl thna K lUaqaaMflcs them cially thr Father wkirh ia to heaven. The candle is not pat under n bushel. The Christina's light may be ob- atrnrted by such things as (bear, •fellowship with the works of dark ness j* silence when he shoo hi speak oat j intentional rourenlment of Ida relation to t*krtat; abumee from the post of duty, Jtc., Ac. Conduct which to the reverwe of this gives light, aad H to light wbtrh ran not hail done tlie wrong; oral thnt it was the way to escape from such 1 chastisements, to pdidMy con ft** bis sins and implore the pardon of God. Was this superstition f Verily, it looks very much like whnt the Bible enjoins upou men in authority.-— “Wherefore,!) King, let my comma ud tic acceptable uoto thee, ami luvak off thy wickral works by righteosu*- ness, aud thine iniquities by ahowiug mercy to the poor, if it may he a lengthening of thy tranquility." (Don. ivs 27.) Aud yet whnt would be thought and said of the Judge now who did as Judge Howel did 1 Wonld he not bo laughed to scorn t True it in, in those days there were some absurd notions uud practice*. Judge Hewel, and increase, and Cotton Mother, believed in witchcraft, and at one time thought it right to put witches to death. But even aueh absanlities aa these reveal con sciences tally alive to the authority of what thry understood to be the win of God. This, indeed, waa the great leading characteristic of those times. Mrn’s consciences bowed to the will of Gral as they thought it was taught iu his word. Now it to not generally So. There are ten thousand tilings about which men seem to think neither Gral nor eon science has anything to do. Ia ten thousand matters of affection, of purpose, and of action, wo never consult God nor eonactanec, bat fid- low the sight of oar own eyes* The great truth of a special l'rovideDcc— that the current eveuts of any period prom tar. and snyt “ITash me thor oughly from mine iniquities, and cleanse Mr from my tana. Create in nr a c-lraa hrart, O God ; and rrnrw n right spirit within me.* J. seated io Script ore as bmrotag to- ceonr to Ida net and drag. Ia it not Ho that bestowed all the material roost it neats of wealth, the ores and gram kM in the wocanra of the earth, mi aril oa the harvest* reaped flam Ha field; sod to H not Hia Provi deoee that diarwveca to man. m the fitting age and hour, the treasures of oaf too, and mtggetas all the inven tion* of art I If lie bs forgotten ar deffed, U to bat far him to speak, and the blight oa tha wheat, or the blasting of the root oa which n whole people (beds, ahull send torn toe, and perhaps pctattaoce through wit Ha border*; «r leaving to a na tion these stores, ho amr florae them. shonld glorify oor Father. \V« are made for thta. NT* are saved for this. We are mheoni onto God. We ate to think of uorurivwa oa Tha Dying fialdiar. “I’M toe down,* raid a wounded aohlirr in the Crimea, to his comrade* who were carrying him, “pat me down; do not take thr trouble to carry nm any further; I am dying.* They |mt him ilowa and returned to the field. A few minute* after an officer raw the man weltering In hia I dural, wad said to him, “ran 1 do anything for yon f* “Nothing, thank yon." •Shall I get yon a little water I* raid thr kind-hrarttsi officer.’ “No, thank yon ; f am dying" “In there nothing Icon do for yont Shall 1 write to yo*vr friends t* “1 have no friends that yon ran write to. Bnt there hi one thing for which I wonld be mneh obliged. In my knapsack yon will Aud a Testa ment ; will yon open it at tho four teetith chapter at John, and nenr the rad of the chapter yon will find n .serve God acceptably, or mjny the happincm of his kingdom. “With out holme**, no man shall see the Lord.” “Except a man bo born again, ho ran not see the ktogvtum of God.” Huhitens begin* to regeneration. partK-ubtly \A. Tbi*i» let M be only in roar Bible, or hyma book, ar any other thing. Be a light, and take heed feta the light that Is in you be dorkjmaa Be a tight b the right plesr. Horne Is a right place for the Christian to shine, now nnlmppy is H when n man Is nN hrigbtewaa In n rtaigbm* service sad nil ffkrknew at home. The shop, the coanting-honar, the rtrrte of friend*, thr bnl of dnfamt, the rhsmber of death, ore all right place* few the chriattan'* tight to shine ; aod •o U The place of Innocent enjoyment and pore recreation, as well as the church aad the Lord’s table. Make » knit by trouble c»c .ie-threail, jwinfT Ma- “1 had rather be tack than Idle," «y« Seneca- Bnt the Christian who tapHrs fate kBeoeos, na regard* “the work oT Otith ond tabor of fore,* •uffctalWim both evils at once: souic airkneos of the son! has amitten him already, and this akKhtalncss is the symptom of Ha presence and power. The malady must be one of rat ion* type, too; for no aMght ailment, rarely, coald chill into Inaction Ike love and ardor that hojw to pour their grntotal tide through eternity, and that wait far the “word* which H Is not poariNr for man to utter," u thr only vebide of adequate ex prarahm to tbtar overflow of faHness. Whnt avafls to Beena these, until thrir cwreut runs cold and atuggiah under the tee-crutfof formality, must Mods Iff of moat grave aad malign ^TeTthe alofhftil Christian, then— fitritef that he is rm-ehriattan so far fifrth as fre is stotiiful—rat vigorous srIT marchtflg on fi»t. to ferret *rait habitual attention to exhibitions of fictitious distress is in every view cal culated to check our moral improve ment. It diminishes that uneasiness which we fee! at the sight of distress, and which prompts ns to irtfeveit. It strengthens that diggnst which the loathsome concomitants of dis tress exrite ia the mind, and which prompts ns to avoid Hie sight of misery; while at the same time It haa no tendency Iff etatflm those habits of active tmoffrotooce without which the beta dispositions are ana lean*—Dr. MeCath. , & ‘ any of out* rlbeokJgi* id vantag© J versa that begins with -Pracc.’ Will you n od It r The officer did so, and rand the words “Pence 1 leave with you, my pence I give nnto yen: not ee the world givoU, gtr* I onto yon. Let not yonr heart be troubled, neither tat It be afraid.' “Thank yon, air,* said tbo dying man. I have that pease; I em going to tfata ItaTionr ; God U with me j I want no more.* Thera we*n hia lata words and his spirit nseendsd to to j with Him he loved, ^ ; • Be gratetal for torery aetof kind- ‘ oesa shown, and always to ranflv to prove yonr gratHnde by doing alt yon ran to help these who have }done yon good. v l a Z\ most thc ***■ ^ faith of Puritanism, a* it existed •* huiHlred years ago iu New Eng w °dld to of incoieulabie bene- 1 tow, in bringing us buck to God, »d filling us that reverence light af tha wodd. Ton may be railed to some doit place to to a light that*, and yaw ora to go. If the workTs light ta not with the rhriatiuu, it in nowhere. It ia not with men of actaame. Their power ta ia showing na God's Warts; the arj m, “flhow na the fbtaar " Xto •.xtesmeu, not with acholart, U they have some light lo gifffe light thnt ia oearatinl to the wo with the Christian. Itm the lq life. “ Tt are fhe liyht af the «r*r Thera is not a grace thnt can adorn the Christian character hot you will have need to appear iu at some time at other. stoat ho line**. Thta new amttoa to the with begiuuing of religion in the heart. The wort, in its commencement, is