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LUTHERAN VISITOR.
ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM.”—EPHESIANS IV: 6.
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Religious,
From the A. R. Presbyterian.
iu HwenitT of Holinet*
A holy ntau is tto most excuik-ttt
work Of Dial. He in God’s work
manship, created in Christ Ji-rntn
unto good works. He in a partaker
of the divine nature, mid the g»Hf«rn-
j»p |,orjMi.se of liu mind and the
actions of it in life are iu habitual
eouformitv to the will uf his Maker.
He lores God habitually aud su
premely, and is uniformly inrtneuoed
by a fesr of offending and a desire
to please him. He approves what
God approves, hates wluit be hates,
and delights iu whut is pleasing to
The necessity of holiness results,
1st, front the holiness of God. “As
he who called you is UolyKso be ye
holy in all wanner of conversation ;
because it is written. He ye holy, for I
am holy.” God is said to be glorious
ia holiness. lie is of purer eyes
than to behold evil, and ran not look
■port infinity. As a perfect Being,
he must and does love holiness and
hate sin. Those who are holy, he
regards his friends; those of an
opposite character, he regards his
enemies; and their views determine
Ms conduct towards them. “The
Lord taketh pleasure in them that
fear him, in those that hope iu his
mercy.” “Uis eyes are on the right
eous, and his ears a re-'open to their
ery ” Bnt, on the contrary, “the
free of the Lord is against them that
to evil, to cat off the remembrance
of them from the earth.” His holi-
•ess “is a consuming Are which bnms
np his enemies ronnd abont,” and
forbids his regarding with favor
those who delight in sin. “Thon art
Wt a Ood that hath pleasure in
wickedness; neither shall evil dwell
with thee. The foolish shall not
stand in thy sight; thon hatest all
wsrkers of iniquity.” Cnsanetifled
men, “being alienated from the life
of God, through the ignorance that
»in them because of the blindness
of their hearts.” ran take no delight
in contemplating his adorable per
fections, or hi jterforming the duties
of piety. They take no intercut in
pleasing him, no delight in serving
kim, and therefore can have no com
™union with him. “What fellowship
hath righteousness With unrighteous
ness, and what communion hath light
with darkness T” They in whom the
work of renovation is begun and is
wdraneing, are reconciled to God’s
character and government; they love
kirn because of his infinite holiness
wttfi excellency; they take delight in
Ms law, his gospel, hi* ordinances
Ms people; and he loves holiness
"in them, and he manifests himself to
ithem not as he doe* unto the world.
Holiness it an essentia) qualification
to communion with Him. Without
tt we can not see or enjoy him either
in this world or in that to come.
“Wherefore come oat from among
theta, sod be ye separate, saith the
k*d, and touch uot the uneleau
thing; and I will receive yon, and I
will be a Father to you, aud ye shall
he sans and daughters, saith
hwl Almighty. Having, therefore,
these promises, dearly beloved, let
«s cleanse ourselves from all filthi
■eunof the feah and spirit, perfecting
holiness in the fear of God.”
AL Uis eternal purpose makes It
•••■•ry that his people lie holy.
w hea he purposed “to take oat* of
801 apostate race “a people for his
■■»«,* be was not determined ia this
*** hy a foresight of any goodness
fo them, either natural sr acquired
deserve to be distinguished from
others, that bo made them the ob-
jecta of his gracious purpose. Their
bolhirsa is the ejfert, not the rag—
of their “election of God.* They
are characterised as “thorn who are
cuffed”—called to be saints, i. «., holy
persons—“according to his purpose."
Hear an iuspired apostle: “Accord
iug as be hath chosen ns la him,
before the foundation of the world,
that tee «ho«M he holy and withost
Waste be/err hisi is few.* Again;
“For vc are lii* workmanship, cre
ated in Christ Jesus ante good works,
which God hath before onlaiued that
we should walk iu them.” They were
predestinuteddo he conformed to the
image of Chriet, aud not. to be saved
amt taken to heaven without hull
ties*. Iu the development and exe
cution of his gracious purpo*e, God
sent his Sou to ivdeem them from all
iniquity, ami to purify unto himself
a jMfitlmr people, jealous of good
works. Jesus came to aave them frwm
their sin*, aud to hkats them in torn
ing away awry one of tlu-m trom their
iHH|oitiea. The grand and ailiamte
design of God in giving his Bon as a
Saviour, and ia sending Uis iluly
Spirit to perforin hi* peculiar uttn-,
iu giving his go.-qiel aa the. sword of
the Spirit, was the destruction of Mu
ttnil the xuiH tideation of his peoph-.
“Christ io\ed tl»e ehurrb and gave
himself fur it, that ho uiiglo shtu tin
aud cleans** it -vith the washing of
wafer i by tit® wonl; tluit in- might
present U to himself a glomw*
chuteh tMit having sjiot or wrinkle,
or any sneb thing, hut that it should
lie holy and without blemish.”
lleuce, iwraonal holiness is tin-
only; sndh-ient evidence that any
|ierSons cau have that they are of
“the election of grace.” This is the
trne test of |K-rsooal religion. “The
beloved of God arc enlh-d to br
imints.” If we love ami rlioom-
holiness, and hate and forsake tun;
ration necessary to introduce s man
iuto God’s heavenly kingdom; and
that qualification Is hottneaa. All
the views of heaven given In the
Bible represent It as pre-eminently
a religious state. Its inhabitants
are all holy. Their employments are
of a religion* character, and those
who are not themselves religious
could not eqjoy their society. Their
romnitinim' ion* with one another,
their songs, their joys, are entirely
of a religions nature. The low
pleasure* at aeoae and sin are not
fonnd there. The drunkard would
not find hia cop* there. The sen anal
amt the carnally minded would find
no means of gratifying their low
desires there. The moral man of the
world who is engroMi-d with the
things uf time and sense, hut has
no relish for holy things, would find
nothing to Interest him in heaven.
The lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God, wooW find no i-uqdby
stent, no reerentiona, no way of
I Massing the time that would be
pleasant to them. No; the joys ot
heaven are religion* Joys, (id In
order that they may be ours, we
most pours* a temper amt taste
conformed to them. Tlnffneaa is not
nnr Htlr to the heavenly inheritance,
hut It is our mtrtnnt for it. It is
the wedding garment in which all
appear at the siarrisge softer of the
lamb; uad all who apply for admit
tsnee witlnait If. will he rent sway
in disgrace and cast tntu outer dark •
IM*M,
Tlw nrrr«ffitT of koliumn In mhoo
lute. Wlth«nit it aalvathm is tmpoa
*>eeta s tth tha approbation of God : prwlmtiou, affording no evidener,!
or understand more of uoreaaity than conveying no exp re salon whatever
this, that, whether to be commended of the divine dlspteaonrr. On the
or condemned, lb tags foil out exactly ooutrary, the Bible, which thereby j
aa related there. In reading It we gild* life'* darkest cloud*, teaches 1
are to bear ia mind that no aeattmeut Oa that whom the Lord foveth be
there canto* tha weight of dirtae, ahasteaeth, ami acourgetb every son :
authority bat what name either from whom be teweivrth. “If ye were
God kimoeU, or from lip* which be without chastiremetd,* asys an spo*
bail itf jrtmi; mmI |Im4 iw it* ^iihi
aa more of the best than uf the worst
aa With a safe, aa-
ttorn, but shA aa
waa door under tha taqMlaa and
guidance of the Holy bpiru.
lienee the aiiotak* U sente whe
quote tint hook uf Job, aa if all that
KtmlmjL, iiiliUiL Zotklmr. ami cvra
the pntriaaob himself seat, sere gun
pel, ao to speak : acre abaolutoly
true ; were audeubhd, uuadsltrr
sled truth. No book, indeed, ia
Holy Writ, more \«aorable Ikon
this. Hoar s ilk tb* marks of age,
periMqa tho oldost hook tha world
poaareare. It ia on* of the moat
subiiate; artting forth the might
aad mqfoaty, the gundnsss aad kali
acre of God la the toft toot, ia nan
valed flights of poetry. At the saase
tiste—and the remark applies mpe-
riaMv to the speeMiea uClob's friend.
—Ihia I molt prearut* aoatc |utrtiai
tie, “then were ye baatanla, ami net
Iieaklm, what in point of Ihet
mere ttntrae, and ia point of doctriae
more anooand, than the iadnreiwwts
which they, iarngiaing that be, if
not all along a hypocrite, had fallen
■way from God, rm|doyed lo win j
Job bock I “H* they said, “thna i
return to the Almighty, then shall j
thaw lay up gold as dust, aud the {
pdd uf Opbir aa dm stoaes of the
brook j and the Almighty ahaD be 1
thy defence, and thou shall have
plenty of aflrer* Gobi of Opbir!
Piety and plenty of diver! Good {
area and gold aa stonr-s of the |
brook! Great worth and correspond
ing wealth! A lordly mansion here |
below, aad another yonder above |
the skies! These are not Bible j
troths ; if ia It, they are Dot of H; I
■ad are bat the talk of men aa igwo i
rant apparently of the character of ]
Tbs Tarim’s fimiatsat
A young minister waa once called
to a young and plastic church. One
of I he-first questions which be asked
was, “lie your poopie take good re
ligtoas papers f The elders scarcely
knew. He was unwilling to accept
their eall tin lens they would see that
the congregation waa supplied with
that sort of literature. They liked
hia propnaaL Tho people began to
read more open church and Chris
tian ■ (fairs, and ho began to arouse
them to earnest working aad I
aud very erroneous vies* uf (be God aad his provNlmer as were the
divine character; views of bU gov magicians of the written characters
rruaM-m at uoor diakomaiug to God, 1 "f the sen truer which a bodiles*
and calculated to iafiirt the diepsat hand left oa Htdsharzar’s bait Pity
sounds on the hearts of Ilia peaqde. the poor were it otlierwiar! Yet
Of this, Job himself offer* a pais -itl is not mwoniid in three men’s
(hi example. Teaching us the im- speeehea. There are grin*, pfeer*
perlei tiuu of all human virtue, aud ‘ of finest gold mixed up with a err
how aaiats may moat fail in the very
grace* by which tbry are most di»
tingwished. what a eontmst, not ao
rilde. We ran not he saved b.*j mncl lo otUrre, tu to bimretf, did he
; Chri*t in a state of *in ami a ronrwe
of disobedience to bis command*.
; We must I* holy in heart and Hfr,
or we can not he truly happy and
unrftil here, nor can we find any
: place of happiness in the world to
mmr. Ami we mnst be mode holy
in this life, or we never ran be. The
ant of rubbish.—fir. That.
Omtkrir.
Tho Myrisry Mfri
if
we iniHini over tho ivamina of j work mast Iw began here, or it never
deirtivity witliis n*, and truly desire will begin. The wtrked is driven
aiul strive ami breathe alter per j sway fa hia wh krtlt* **—die* ia hia
fectioo, we uuiy beUeve, on goml ( dn*. He retain* his *infrtf i bsrseter
groom)*, that we “love God and are when lie passes from this slate of
the railed areonling to hia pnqtoor.” prejiaratiou, sod with all his native
'and cherished aversion from God
present f There be aits ua the grave
of hia family, of all hia boom-huM,
giving exprresiini to that memorable
ssv ing, “The lord gave ami the Lnni
taketh away, Menard he the name of
(be loud r—asd nos, thi* same man
here turn* round na Owl, as a Invar
on the banter who baa latrstai her
of her whelp*, to cry, “Tb-ni hast
been crnel nato are, A lard p He
camr tight at last, as a life-boat that
aurue great ware tom filled «luaa not ,
“The only evidem-e of election,” nay s
a good expositor, “ia effectual railing
—that is, the production of holiness.
And the only evidence of the geua
incurs* of this call ami the rertninty
of onr perneversnee, i* a jmtient
continnnnee ia well doing.”
3d. Wo will be toqqty in propor
tion an we are holy. Bin has its
pleasures, such ns they are, but they
ore only for a season. They do not
deserve the name of enjoyment. They
can uot satisfy that thirst for happi
ness which bum* in the aonl t They
are ephemeral in tlieir nature, and
are usually followed by the fling* of
remorse. Bat wisdom’s v^ays are
ways of pleasantness and all Iter
paths are peace. Blessed (happy)
ore tho pure ;n heart. “Blessed are
the nmleflled in the way, who walk
in law of the Ix>nL Blessed are
they that keep life testimonies, and
that seek him with the whole heart’
Happiness is to be fonnd and re
tained only by doing the will of onr
Father who ia in heaven. “The
favor of God is the truest dignlty
safi the only bib* of man.” The
mnn who can look up to the God of
heaven and my with an appropria
ting faith, “My Father, thon art my
portion, aaith my soul,” la rich and
happy, whether his home he a palace
or a cabin ; whether his path through
life be strewed with flowers or plant
ed with thorns. Happiness does not
depend on any chrenmstnneea. Paul
slid Mils* could sing for joy of heart
when their fret were fast in the
stocks nml their barks' lacerated
by the persecutor’s scourge.
The Bible assures ns that mil)
where there is holiness tl»ere is
happiness. To be Kptritnally-minded
is life and peace. Tile enjoyment of
the Christian will abide nnd inerenec
only aa he finds himself growing
more and more into the image of hia
Master. The more complete the
victory which he obtains over (dn,
and the higher the attainments he
makes in piety, the more largely will
be experience the consolations of
God. While lie walks ia the fear
of the Lord, denying all angodliueas,
and worldly lusts, striving to pnt on
the Lord Jeans, setting his affections
on things above, aud abounding in
those good works which aro to the
glory of God, so long be walks in the
comfort of the Holy Ohost and the
peace af God willkeep hia heart and
miud through Chriat Jeaua.
4th. Boll neon ia neceaaary i
qualification for heaven. Thole are
qualifications necessary to inteodocc
aad holler*.*, enters tbnt world in
s bleb neither his rharseter nor state
will ever change fur the Irtter. “He
that is unjust let him be unjnot still,
and he that is fiMhv let him br filtbv
still* J.
Vat All hi tha Bhls Traa.
In hemlork and wolf's lmne, ia the
deadly night shade and the fox
glove with its beautiful bell*, our
sail hears poUsion* plants. Yet
few; few compared with sorb sa are
hurmlem nnd nseftil—with tha flow-
era that Iw-di-ck mnuntaiu and mead
ow, the grasara that fired onr flock*,
tha corn that foils to the oirkle. and.
stored np iu torn and starkyard,
reward* the labors of the yewr. Nor,
may remark, are these poiaooooa
plants themselves without their use.
They form no exception to the soy
ing, The earth la foil of the gnodnrss
of the Lord—seeing that thongti not
good fur meat, they are good for
medicine; and administered in that
form, cure many more than tliey
kill. Besides, if not useful In the
healing, many poisons, whether
growing on the aurfocP or drawn
the bowels of the earth, are
highly serviceable in other arts.
Like those ptant*. growing here
and there in this goodly world,
which the lower aninuila are tanght
by instfuet and man by experience
to avoid, there, ore errors, and some
very deadly ones, mixed up with the
truths of God’s saving wt.nl • so
that it were as dangerous to Mindly
reeeiee all in the Bible ns truth, as
to eat all growing On the earth as
fond. 1 couhl quote savings and
sentiments from Its pug)-* that on
to be rejected, not believ ed; and
point to actions thore which we aye
uot to imitate, hut ate, on the con
trury, to abhor. For example, I
find both a falsehood and a direct
encouragement to rin in the words,
“Thou shalt not surely die;* as hi
them also. “The Lord will not re
quite.* But no one needs to be tolvl
that the trot, amd by Baton to de
ceive Hve, and the acoeud, u
qur of the wicked to suppress the
voice of conscience, are sentiment*
as little to be received aa this, which
the Bible records, ia on action to he
copied, “Judas went and banged
buasett.” No doubt, ail Bcriptura la
given by tnoptrntiou of God. It ia a
Home year* ago. a young minister
of the gospel, ia eon versa tin* with
an old brother, naked him to explnin
a rase which had often perplexed hia
mind.
He anid that there were iu kU
congregation two men living on ad
joining farms, both about the sam<-
agr, uf equal culture, gifts, and
anrial portion, and with large fnnu
lies of children. Nearly all the boy *
dnk, but artrt a little, riora, rm|4ira, ’ M— ^ *• reached
sud rights brrarlf, so did he; buoy- '** r * - dbumUon, became active
ant, and ritwhg ia foUh to jnriify . «^riariona. while those the other,
(lud and rxrUun, “Though he May w,,ho *t exreplion, remained wholly
me”—ho has aiaia all my « bikireo— i lo *bfferent on the snbjeet. let the
though he should alay ay self, “yet * 4 * JT *”* • ■** trhone life by no
wiU I Irma in him P But for a while ■*•*’"""« •“ hta rhrint.au pm
ia charging God «Uk rrnrliy ; p, ] fenohm. while the latter was a rohnst
I oddly. Month wring whut other* believer. -hone P*rty nobody
have thought ; in that reflection, "named to hare any doubt,
nuw arrantable ocenaatlrm against the I ^ mintoer said that, had
goodness nnd Jurilre of Ptov Hence. »•» rmt* hem reversed, he wooW
what darkness was Job In. what bwro ua dBBenBy ; but aa matters
deqatir almost» Now It was very * ,ood ' M* »»■ at a ton to amount
much the friar riews of hi* com «* '*» The rider re,die.l.
fhrter*—“mtsrralde eontforiera,* as I “«"*• bmkml at the character
he rafts them—that brought him to
aneh a dreodfhl puss; goaded him : *bf • moment, and then aaid.
on to this. They assumed that he'** "° w - «hofa is aa |daiu
must have been a great sinner he- ] — — ^
muse he won a great suflbrer. r«- ^ ^ *** mnmun ' ri »-
*bie in their Ignorauee of the divine, experience, one who Brea
government to explain hia affliction* «**•*"' +* profraar*;
otherwise, and.act tag <m the prinrijde! ***** 'b** wtr, ‘ the other i* a^ wo-
that If you throw mod some of it will appureotly
Ilia friend reflected
“Ah, I
xritbant the
otiek, they got np at h.isard charge*! in the matter, nr if toe ha*
j any religtoua emotion, carefully «np
* preaaca it.*
agninst him ; proceeded, w ithout the
toadow of a warrant, to aeruoe him
of crime* whh-li hia aonl abhorred. ] CiltaMy this statement solved
Drawing the how at a venture, “I* the entire mystery In the nature of
uot the wickedness great,* the) aaid, j Hringa. children iu their enriy venra
“and thine injustimiulliiitrffhr thon'ore (hr more with Hie mother than
bast taken a pledge front thy brother
for imnght, and stripped the iiske.l
of their clothing t thou hast not given
wrier to the weary to drink, and
thou hast wtthhohleu bread from the
hungry-* And ao they persecuted
him whom God had smitten ; laying
the father, and their current af
thonght aa«l feeling hi directed by
her. The plantir senoou of life ta
paaoed while nhe ta In control. n»bit*
are flinaed and tootrs imparted,
which |mum on into later yesra sod
determine of what ehnracter they
n blister, not a plotter, on hta bleed i shall he. A father 1 * influence is un
ing wounds. ,• ; ilnuMedly very important, but it 1a
“Let another prefer thee, and not ( vastly exereded by the mother’s in
thine own lip*,’ naltb the wise man ; thot important juried when the
yet the ocrasion was one for Job to seeds of the fntnre arc pfentetl. An
jnatify himself, and through hlmorif saaertloo of thla kind has sometime*
and rharseter of been called “romantic gallantry •*
jnatify the cause
trne n-Hgton. And bow uot vie dors
he appear when, Mke a Hon nt toy,
he faces hta seen arm!—refitting their
charge in these eloquent and pathetic
words, “4th that I were aa ia month*
pant, aa ia the day* when Ood pre
served me; when hi* candle shined
on my head, when tho Almighty was
with me, and my children were
bat It is on tho contrary actual fact,
aa imoren by innumerable eases of
which that recounted in the foregoing
imragraph is only a remarkable spe
cimen.
Let every mother whose eye light*
upon this paper, remember that she
1s daily re producing tor own charac
ter in that of her children. Other
about me; wheo I watoed my step* 1 things lria* equal, as she us an will
tru« and infallible record ; but we which they based U wws
ore uot to suppose that everything
recorded there by the inoptratioa
with butter, aud tto rock poured
ms oat river* of oil 1 When tto eur
heard ma, then « Mossed aw; when
Ore eye saw me. It gave witness to
me; becanae 1 delivered the poor
that sried, the flttheriea* and him
that hud none tu help him.* So
apuka Job. The charge waa utterly
natron; yet not mere untrue as a
■tatter of fret than the ;riuciple on
matter of doctrine—suffering*
our present state, which ia oaa
they be. If her chfof concern ta to
ase them ; ctive, Joyfol believers in
Chriat. and she act* accordingly, she
may oonfldenify expect to find her
ends attained. Bnt if her life he
worldly, alas for tho immortal souls
given her to train I—Dr. T. IF. Cham
Fear ye not, therefore, for there ia
nothing covered that ahull not he
revealed, and hid, that shall not to
knows.
ffka PI
Meat. Frans and pulpit lent a force
to rack other. 1’sstor aad editor
ware mutual helpers in the same
good work. And bare ia the real
design of on earnest, thoroughly
rhrtatiau pap*v. It ta not to draw
dividends upon the large iaveab
iweats, not to wage controversy, not
to deal out the mere news of the day,
uot to publish brilliant emmya; it*
leading design ta to do what pastors
should to doing, if they knew ever)
thing awl could to talking and touch
ing ever) week iu every boose. It ta
bia assist ant awl vicar ia the pariah
U aupptemeaU hia work. It goes oa
wwg* stole he must walk. It goes
when and where to can aot go. It
makes a Saturday cull on hta people
awl flu them for hearing the next
day’s sermons. It follows up his
preaching, whispering again to the
nes-inm aad the heart. It ta the
unfailing “supply” ia vacant eborrh
es. It u never down with a cold,
nor absent on a vacation. Fifty-two
time* a year it brings happiness into
the homes of thousands, aad ia every
house tell* the seme “eld, old story
at Jesus nod his love,” of the church
and her cuoqaesto, of boUneos and of
heaven. Let every church have a
devoted pastor and a Christian pa
lter, and tto gue|ri wiU move the-
world.—JsIstmm-.
Family Wsnkip
AM Christiana delight iu the service
of (led, and drain' to wonhip him
at every opportune season. Family
worship ta of vast importance, bath
aa a duty and aa aa ahnoot taettima
Me privilege. It is a privilege which
the eeriy rhnatiane appreciated, for
there was a time whoa to kneel down
ia prayer, was to make certain that
death which awaited fjit’ Christian
as sera as to was detected ia the
worship of tto true God. Among
oo, ever) person ho* tto liberty to
worship hta Maker at all times, with
out flrar of dtatartance. Shall Chris
tmas slight this privilege every day,
by neglecting fsuuty worship 1
Every man placed at tto head of
a household should consider it aa act
apart for the worship of God, and
himself as tto poster or shepherd of
tto little flunk, bound, by tto most
sacred obligations, to teach them tto
way* of righteousness. May this
inqiortaut duty impress itself forci
My u|kki tto heart of every oue of
whom God has intrusted a little
flock, and may he resolve with
Joshua: “As for tae and my house,
we will serve the Lord.”
Divine worship, as practiced by
tto patria.Ybs, seems to have been
frcqneut as well ns regular. Tto
Psalmist said: '-Every day will I
bless thse; and I will praise thy
name forever and over. Seven times
a day do 1 praise thee, because of
thy righteous judgment*. Evening
and morning, and at noon, will I
pray and cry aloud; and to shall
hear my voice." Daniel prayed three
times a day, even w hen he knew to
woahl to east iuto tho liou’s den.* ,
Tto rending of tto Sacred Scrip-
torea should always to a part of
family w orahiix. We must show our
appreciation for that Meased volume
.by muking it a book of doily refer
ence for instruction and encour
agement. How often do professed
Christinas allow dust to cover tto
■acred oracles 1 This neglect will
dim tto crown, if it does not endan
ger tto salvation of those who are
guilty of it.
Hinging praise* to God ta a most
delightful service, and ought uot to
he neglected iu family worship—
“Sing unto the Lord, O y« saints
at hia. Siug praises to the Lord
which dwaUeth in Zion. Sing auto
the Lord.”
The necessity for family worship
may to argued on similar grounds
to t to— by which we prove it to to
the duty ofevexy oue to wonhip God
indivkloolly. The wants of fainilios
are daily reuewed, aad God ta the
“giver of every good and perfect
gift.” Families that do not pray are
living without God, and are eootioa-
stly exposed to htajast indignation.
Tto usual comfort* of life may indeed
be granted, but mercies to the us-
gratefoi are a* coals of fire eu their
beads. No family can rightly expect
tto Mooring of God except in answer
to earnest supplication. A nun who
has a family ta in a very responsible
position, and should, ia secret and
aronml the family altar, invoke the
favor of ■ merciful Ood. A very
correct ronrluaion concerning a man’s
character, may he drawn from hta
conduct in hta family.- If to ta faith-
and zealous, maintaining strict
Christian diacipUM> ia his family, be
is just tto same faithful Christian
everywhere, aad great will be hia
cwanl; but if he neglects hta duty
at home, to can not be safely trotted
anywhere el—_ Besides tto blessings
a man may him—If secure % family
worship, he may gently lead hta
children into tto kingdom of Christ.
To set an example Chat may induce
hia children to forsake sis, ta -well
worth tto immediate attention of
every parent.
Brethren, adopt Joshua’s reatfln-
tkm, and from this day worship God
at your fireside, aa well aa ia your
closet and in tto great congregation.
“These three beautifully cooperate.
Each invigorates for a doe discharge
of both tto others. Go from closet
to family altar, and from family altar
to church."—RHifiotti Herald.
Religion for the Ruing fliusratisn
Special effort ta required to secure
to tto rising generation an educa
tion free from tto influence of bad
oxamplc. The atmosphere which
our children breathe, from the cradle
upward should be pore Instead of
this, it would not be difficult to find
Common Schools ia which ignorance
and iireligion predominate. J?ven
w here tto intellect ta cultivated, the
heart not unfrequontiy ta corrupted,
and tto child made wise only to do
evil. In a great proportion of thg
higher schools to which Christians
—ud ttoir children, little exist* of a
.1 - — I _I .. .11.. -- - ns . _ — r J ^.. ■ ■ ■ ...■ 1.11 —
ia some a powerful influence is ex
erted against evangelical sentiments
and piety.
Aud though in many of onr eol-
leges there ta a salutary religious
influence, and repeated revivals of
religion ore eiyoycd, in none ta tho
influence of religion so decisive as
it might be; whilst ia some, ia which
pious parents scud their children,
tto influence is directly and power
fully hostile to religion.
I am aware that not a few regard
religions influence in our college* as
already too great, and that an effort
4s making to separate religion from
science during the progress of a col
legiate education. And tboue who
choose to rear colleges, and send
ttoir offspring where the power of
tto gospel shall be excluded, have,
doubtless, a right to do so—answer
able for their conduct only to God.
Bnt no Christian cau do this without
violatiag the vows of God which are
npon him, to train np hta child ia the
nurture nnd admonition of the Lord.
And instead of a compromise in tto
evangelical college* of our fend, there
should be, as easfly there may be, a
more decided tone of religions influ
ence. Our colleges should every one
of them be Messed, not only with
preaching, bnt with kiud, discreet,
and assiduous postoral instruct ion
nnd care. Why should these pre
cious communities of inexperienced
youth, separated from parental in
spection ood exposed to peculiar
temptation, be deprived of the watch-
fal eye and parental voice of pastoral
exhortation nnd advice 1 What pa
rent wo Id not pray with more faith,
and sleep more quietly, if to knew
that some one, acquainted with the
youthful heart, nnd appointed to
watch over His child, had gained
his confidence and affection, and
w as laboring for hta salvation f
There is no period in life when the
heart may be more snceesofolly as
sailed than that which is passed in a
college. And there is no class of
human beings among whom revivals
may be promoted, by proper pastoral
attention, with greater certainty, or
with greater power and glory. Nor
can it be expected that tto church
will ever look forth ftur aa tto morn
ing, until effectual care ta taken that
in her higher schools and colleges
her children shall be induced to
coosecrate to God tto dew ot ttoir
youth.—J>r. Lgmmn Breeder,
Teal
1827.
.. I rejoice to declare it, and
witness to tto glory of grace,
I am dead unto sin, and alive