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ONE LOBE, ONE .FAITH, ONE BAPTI81t”-BPHE8IAH8 IT: 6. iin"• |ii - ■-, — ——— — -»»■*» —— -■ ————. —-■ -.. ....... ...... -..— VeW SERIRS, VOL 2—NO. 37 OLD 88RIRS, VOL IV.-NO. 80 COLUMBIA. S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1870 to be the care wife you f An* yon ongbt at once to bo stoned. la their Killing to eater eternity mi prepared t rage amt ftiry they immediately took If not, then pray, pray eanwatly, up atones, wh Ah were probably lytag I»my traceaslngly, that God may nbont on account of repairs of thy iireompniiy His Wont to yonr heart temple, in order to noon Him. 1W with the Holy Spirit; that yojj may whole proceeding appear* to bar* be yak-kemd, may be made spirit- been a tumultuous and dtaorderly ually olive, and thus may be pre one, not regularly conducted, but pared for the eternal world. I’my sudden and unnuthorued, Ilka the new; do not defer It. Remember stoning of Stephen afterward. (Acts the adage, ‘•I’rocrastinatMn is the vii: 58.) thief of time.” To-momne may be — too late. Will yoa lord the wanting Me *U. JJ—-Jus*. mt sesurftsf «•«!*• and exhortationt W, R The sense of thin terse nuwt bn -; - - » r - sought A connection with fee enlgrcl KMe Iiskifi of which our Lord hate just been —— aprakAg. The Jews had onndetuaed Taken from Ryle’s new role me our Laid and denoaiK-ed Ilia as a of Kxpoaitory Thoughts oo the Oos- sinner »gainst the fourth command pels. meat, becunar lie had doue a work Me rb: it.—"If as; man nut *u hi*star on the Sabbath day. Our Lord %fo Trisilo c m t'CtusHitn that ft was an opportunity not to be lost, and followed np the advantage gained by reading the eighth chapter of the Epistle to The Romans. We knelt down, and grace was gives me to pray with fervor and eoofldcnce for this man, who already inspired me with so much affection. When we arose, my companion shed many tears. I am not aware that during my whole life I have expertoueod a moment of more perfect happiness than that hi which I saw this soul enter npoo the path which laadetfa to eternal life. I permitted him to remain under this bieaaed influence, and waited some time before asking him, “What did yon think of the words wo read together, of what God himself tells as t" “Ah, Don M*nu«J," he replied, "if I had known how to read, I should have learned and understood all these things, and I should never have become a criminal; it A won derful and beoutifal—I shall never forge* it. Oh, if I only knew how to read, I should not be oo on happy,” "Hbonld yoa Hke me to teach you T Khali we begin at onset* “Yea, yea,* he cried joyfully, and with all the energy which characterised him “Oh, yes; you are really a father to me. Oh, teach me, and Oed will reward you.* “Very well,* said I, “your application will prove to nx< the resHty of your dentre.” Minister, awl As Spirit of fas Aga One secret of what may be called the “worry” of the clergy may be fo«wd A what in termed tbs spirit of the age, meaning by this the bob- supernatural and materialistic spirit of the age. It is a day of vary considerable theological tuiTnrtarai One can no* but remark a lack at faith or satisfying conviction. As Mr Mooatford says in his recent book on “MireeAs,” “vest numbers •imply acquiesce A their creeds* and timidly reead from even u ”» i ~g about them.* The atmosphere at the time is so unsympathetic one. joy and month* manifested by my door friend, Mr. Greene, <* bearing the words of my oompaohm ; aad from that time be took a lively A- tereot A Am, recommending Mm to God’s mercy in prayer. *> . The time at length came when my companion was A leave the prison aad go t» Ac galleys. He wept on taking leave of me, but still was able to soy, “I regret deeply my separa tion from you; bat let os be consoled by the thought that Jeans will never dr sort os, and that God’s love A unchangeable. YVs shall meet agaiu A HA peuseooo-ehill we notr “Yen,” I replied ; “let os be faithful even onto death, aad we shall receive the crown of life.* Such was the friend whom the Lord gave me A my captivity—one of tho ooaooAtiona accorded to me daring that trying period. The re membrance of this awn, who, when he entered my prison, was bat a vile criminal, A dear and precious A me now. (A, how touching A this tnau tfcotatwm of the great love of God Awards sinners 1 Of any and every EUPE^MOiLER Us JM as nrlw si tssmsss, sa Iks 81a of tntf, Its* Is A* Uuny-lkM jrssr af his **.] During the earlier months of the third year of my imprisonment, my health became much enfeebled, and uu several oceaaluua 1 found myself enable, without assistance, A walk a few pae«s A my .fawn. Ikdr Widows and Student* of jf. wsetarfid **00 per year, if paid la Thoss who do sot pay wltLtu tbrw sf tHa owe Ifcair yaar wtS. n> a., ka ehamad Sftj easts addilMual. s*t» or sursanass: f ,. ,X Even this trifling exercise was beyond my strength. I felt, and my friends shared the conviction, that the mo- ment or my departure was not Air distant; anti I rejoiced in the hope of soon going A be with my 8a- rionr. The director of the prison, doubt leas convinced of the serious nature of my HI nans, offered, in the name of hie ulterior oOrer, A give ate the l«fivflege af choosing, aaonf Ae other prisoners, one whom I might employ as a servant. I accepted this propueithm. “WO,” said the a trade, “whom do yao select I* “Send me yonr greatest criminal,” I replied. There was at that trine A the prison o young man about twenty eight years of age, npoo wboae head mat ed the weight of sonwal accusations, for two of which alone be was con demned lo thirty Are years of psoal •frvitsdr. 1U bad been a leader of brigs ads. lie was a ataa of Intense energy and iatrppid courage, who had ssore than ouee resisted those this. ' He A not himself free from Ae agitations of the times; he A not nettled as his fathers were; he has fallen upon a time of recanting creeds, aud he A mars or less un settled. Even if ho A as firm A the creed which he has professed as Gal- vin was A his, be A not superior A the Aflaeaee* at bin day aud gener ation. As Mr. Mount ford puts it, the sermon when A comes A be preached does not sound as it did when it was written. “And the words which, while they were mod its ted A secret, srere fraught with the spirit, being ottered A public, The English language here foils to give the full force of Ae Greek. It is literally, '“If any man A willing Vo do—has a wind and desire and in- etioutieu A do God’s will* It A not tho siasple future of the verb “do.’’ There are tan distinct vert*. The stress, therefore, A res Aug the •paterae, must not be Aid entirely oti “ifoing” U<*1N will. It A “If any man is Killing to do.” In interpreting tbA verse, I bo lie w we iilttsl be carefol not to Ay more meaning an the expression “tlo liA will,* than our Lord meant It A bear. I *itx ThA bemuse I observe many mqieetable commentator* {date sttcli a very a ble and cniapreheosive sense npou “doing GodV wilt.* that they wia* entirely oar Lord's pur pose in spenkAg the wonts. They atari wiA saving that A “do GodV will,” we lauat have feitb A Christ, now hearts, grace reigning witbA uh, awl the like, and thus represent our liord as saying in effect, “If any man will become a true believer, and a converted amo, be shall ‘know of the dortrine,’” etc. I venture to think that mu-lt interpretation com plrtely misaea the marie, and is going round in a circle. Of ronrse any true believer knows trBe doctrine. I believe that onr IxmiV object was simply to cueonragc the honest minded, sincere, single eyed inquirer after troth. To such a matt, though at present very ignorant, He say*. “If yon really have a de*dre to do God's will, A pfease lliui, and to follow any light He gives yon, yon will be taught of Him, yon will find oat the truth. My dorlrine may be hid from the wine ami prudent, but it A revealed A babes.” (Matt, xi: 23.) I bold, A sAart, that we shonld take as simple a vies aa possible of the sentence, “If nay man will do HA will,” awl be very careful that we da not mar its usefiilaeas by puttAg more meaning ou It than fair Lord intended. Religions. ailrnud M OPFIUK r 14, fSJCI. nscr 19, tbs > daiij. Sun- Train on su, nnl wait nud AuguMn T 60 n n ... 8.SO s .» ...IS. 10 s si ... 3N r » .. . A20 |» m — b.nn f m ... 444 nm ... «.2»SSI . .. Ml A . lAJSp m ... *,!•> ® ... 1411.*. only the ear of the natural man, aad are powerless except as they may chance A be approved by the A teUect, testing them by logic, rhet oric, history, and some of tho satsral sendAiities. And the reason A very simple, for the atmosphere of the world aad of a worldly charrk A no* that of a christinn study, with its wiadoors opening Award Jerusalem. And even a preacher may be really 4 A the spirit oo the Lord's day f bo* he most be very happily oomtiMted if he does not find that, with crossing the street, no Ms way A the pulpit, the spirit has been umbo or lam quenched A Mas. Aad, frets ex changing look* with the hroretu, he A conscious that be A not qtrife what ho was while A the presence of the father*, and A sympathy with Jeremy Taylor, aad Ms fellowship with Baxter and Doddridge, and ia the communion of the saints.” J Brea A ehristAn In rain, exceed t»giy great A the majority of perm me fast live ami pass through the gate way of death into the eternal world anprrfiarrd to die. And this they in, notwitiistandiiig that they hate -tine apon liar, prea*pt upon precept, haM * Httle ami there a little,” urging £ i them the great neeensrty ot y preparation for .truth and the “hfe fo come.* They are constantly warned, at aloemt every step in life, nf the great rink they are ruiiAng of lasiag their souls; and yet, sorb A the strange iufittnation t Ait poasesat's them, thnt they heeiHeanly rash on. though they htoir it A at the iuuwi- amt ri«k of tbrir eternal welfare. Bom? one hna quite forcibly liketml than to trains of welj foroAhed ears spoa railroads of gbrne; which trains mare noitelanlyalong, bat with great rapidity. Upon these trains are the different generations of men: all af whom, with hero and there ao exception, are engaged A the pdrauit «f worldly pleasures, ef wealth, at of eartldj fame, nnmiudful of the »wfal destiny that swaits them, amt which A drawing nigh with such fearful velocity. Very frequently barer they been informed that w A-n the tram reaches fee end of the read it plunges info a fearful abyss, ami that all on board of it miserably preish. To convince them, if poani- We, more folly of the troth of this, the man;;!ed corpses of the preocling wrecked trains have been gathered sp and laid alongsid'- of the road, in AH \"icw of ail on board of the passing train. Unmoved by the «*ht, or else resolutely tmrnAg their ry*s from It, they ooafmoe their vsriwu* amnsemeats ami purwiit* till they are miserwbly destroyed by tha wrecking of their train. - A What other possible manner can this stolid indifference, so universally manifested by man, be ratioimlly ■Wiooated for, than by believing him to he tpirituully dead—dead in sin. A this state tuen may intellectually comprehend a statement—may be •*1 alive to it mentHlly—but spirit ually it does not at all affect them. Thar minds are affected, but their without looking below the surface." There A, prrUapa, a reference here to IiwAhV propimry aboal Mnriiib, “lie shall out judge after the sight of hi» eyes.” (Isa. xl: .\) The prriu-iptr here lab! down A one of vast iaiportauc*. Xothiug A so commuo a« to judge too favorably or too unfavorably of characters and actuate, from srerriy lookAg at the oat ward appearance of things. We are apt A form hasty optoMas of others, cither fiw good or sfll, on very iuau Aricut grounds. TVs pro- nonutv mate man A ha good and others A he liud—some A hr godly aud others to A- ungodly—without anything but appearance to ahi onr liq-Aw. IV« shoubl do well to reOMiibrr our Itiiodnesa, aud to keep A aiiod thu text. The laid are not always so Aid. nor the good ao gis*l a* tA-y appear, A potsherd may bn covered over with gHding, sad look bright ootstde. A nugget of gold may be covered with dirt, aud look worthless rnltAsA One man’s work may look good at first, met yet tarn out, by and by, A have beret done tn*m the bases* nmtivsa. Another man's work may Auk very quest ioa- abto at first, and yet at loot may prove (.'heist-like ami truly godly. Front rashly “jmlgiag by apfwwr suers’* may the Lord dallrer as i new apeBAg book, and the name day he had K A bA |>ork*C We h-gan immediately ; and from that ns ho cut be srisod every oppor Antty for improvement, even seeking sasistance from those among the prisoners who knew hew to reed. He employed thus the greater part of the day. His Asprovemeot was rapid, aad at the end of six weeks be wan ehto to read tolerably. He was regularly present at my rooroAg rending of the word of God, aad took port, wife unspeakable joy, A several reiigioas and fraternal gatherings which were held A my cell daring my captivity. Prom day to day his peace became more perfect. He no lunger tarned his attention, as A farmer times, A expedients for effecting hA escape; for be had beret brought to a condition of rumple*# •nbmimAo A the will of God. Out intercourse became more and more fraternal and Christ tanlike; 1 frit happy A the society of tide man. HA oflkciiou extended itself also A all the other prisoner* ; A talking with are be areal tented a deep in tcrest A them; hr knew their wants, and hi* greatest delight was A rrn Palpit Beading The Pirhyttrin baa a good oral timely article upon the importance of good reading A the palpit: Another moat important portion af pnblic worship A the reading of the sacred Script nfos. and of psalsu and hymns. In this some of nor <m* mconutere, eumpsUod them to give way. Hm-h had Ire hero, and sorh was hr mill, though A prison. Ev ery one hsral Mm—oot only the jailors, bnt also hi* rompanions A captivity, who had often experienced I he dfeets uf hi* farntal «trength. ThA man was give* to me as a sev- ' ant. Kv HenOy the director won gisd of the opportnnity thus offered uf *r|iaralAg him from Um- other*. Howev er tb.it may 4 have I wen, I re- reived him with joy, and felt myself move,| with profonml resnpaasioo for him on hearing bA history, as it was whiled A me by. the jailor. It was with pleasure, on tho other hand, that he entered my service; for bA pnsilAa was thereby greatly anreilocated A every rew|iert. He eqjnycd greater liberty, and hod aAo I he privilege of rereirAg from tame Is (tare, A my toons tbs vWU of Ms old father, who formerly had hern sfhiwsd to see him only at a certain distance and A the prrarose af the ufHrisU of the prison. By IKDITII. inalemiciit. 4—tf edly, we had ohnest added, criminal ly defective. They read the word sf God ns If H were s Send language, and imported a spiritual frigid ness A them the moment they open its tremendous Kfe A them t That dm divine word A the power of Godt Aw actor ooee sold that, oo fee stage, fiction A altered as if it were truth— whereas, A the palpit, troth A ot tered as if It were fiction! Mrs. 8iddous could so pronounce a few words as A make even no actor weep. Garrirk, by fee utterance of an indifferent clause, ooee act o soldier A the street into a downright cry. Why should not tbs word of God be ao read A the pulpit as A awaken joy or anguish, according A fee moral condition of the benrerf Is there not enough A fee etory of Joseph, of Gideon, of Absalom, at fee Prodigal Sob, of Urn Crucifixion, A stir the foantaA ef tears 1 Arc not some of the pealma, fee asstgs of Moaea, and Deborah, aad Solomon; the grand argument* of Panl about oar catting, aad safety A God and HA glorious advocacy of the remtr rrctiou, uu (Beirut to thrill the secret chord of rapture iff the betterert heart f And ought they not A be so read, if possible, si to convey A fee mind somcthAg of their divine fullness ? Let the preacher read these portions, and many others, with right tones aad inflections, with n deep sense of their moral grandeur, aad the eyes of hi* coo gregatioa will torn toward him with eagir look, indicative of apprecia- tboroughly rimmlsnfiil yields fee richest harvest. TriaA bring us into the condition which A adapted to produce the beat limits that can grow npou human hearts. If we examine fee Aside of a pearl ovster, we shall find feat it A lined wife a glistening layer which we call mother of peart. This delicate lining, which gleams with rainbow color* and radiates its manifold hoes upon ns whichever way we tarn it, A secreted by the oyster, and to of the name nature wife the poor!bnt fen round pearl ia far mere vnlnaMe than the thin, ontapreod layer. How Hindi the eywbrr be induced A secrete it* pre- eiona treasure A silvery sphered, instead of expending aft its energies A superficial work t It will net make pearis unless it A put isto a condition of trial. Let • portiele of •and fall within its valves and the oyster frets and worries over it- True the atom of sand AsawlLbot so likewise is the syotaw, ami the single grata irritates it, as a geed sized cobble-stone would trouble ns if tied AA onr naked fleob. Sow, I frequently saw him rendAg with bA companions portions af tha Mow Testament Hr distributed sAn sorh tracts ee I had A my ponwesslon; and firmness of hu demeanor pro doeed an rxcelteat effect. I was strictly forbidden A con verse with the other prisoocta; but he esteemed himself fortunate when Ira was aide A act M the medium of commaaicatioa between them and me, A console them, or A give them some religious book, which hr ac companied with the words, “Don Msnoel sends yon this A the name of the Lord.” lira* day by day hr advanced A the path of sterna? life. The growing pence which his soar epjoyed was depleted npoo bis cons turns Onr day I received a vbrit from Mr. TV. Greene, a devout BngtAh man, who had long been Interested A the propagation of the gospel A SpaA. Hr hod been a moat zealous friend A the Spanish prisoners, snd ctfrne to my retl A offer the eonno- lattons of Ms frateroal slfretion. During fee day which he passed with me, be had ample opportnaity A observe fee conduct ef my servant As I become more thoroughly acquainted with Ms character and inch nations, 1 was convinced that, A sptte of hA criminal aud drpraved Ufa, his heart was still capable of uoble and generous nenUwcuts. He aaid A me, one day, “If I bod oot had w icked anwcAtea, I should never barn committed theft; bat 1 wan urged on by cowards who ware afraid A art aiooo, and, once fairly Unneh ed, robbery noon became a habit * ith me. At all events,” he added, wife a satisfied expression, “1 have never taken aayfeAg from fee poor, and aeither my guu uor my dagger has eras camnd a di--i> HH lo I was a brigood, douhtlrea, bnt one who can boast of having been so wife honor.” Unhappy man I Cer tain details ef bA hirtoty were unknown A fee pnblic, and I was tho only person A whom he commu nicated them; for, had few been revealed, be would probably not have eeonpod capita) punishment. ' I feus gradually arrived at n thaw oogfa naderstandlug of hA moat secret freiiug*. One day, at fee mo tion ami feeling. £et him emphasize the mhjeetn and predicate*, iustead nf the mere /best-words, wbleh evprecs only reistAos: let him vary hA tones with the change of thought; and stndy the falling rather than fee rising A fleet ion, and he will be hap pily surprised at fee visible effect on Me audience. Maks op a congregation of a thou sand Christians. Divide them AA At* efasseo, uooordiug to the age A wkicbHhey become Christians. Place A the first class all Chore converted under 20 yearn of age, and in the stances of HA Ufr. Deeply Atereated by my recital, Mr. Greene aeked him, “How cm yoa endure wKb enlmoces fee pronpert of spending thirty-flve years In fee galley* T” “Ah, sir,” replied my pocw frietul, "*lta are thirty ire year* A the galtoya to a man who was condemned A an eternity of misery t Before I knew Don MaoaM, I thought only of escape, and, A Berompttfe A should Bible at Urn third ohaptre of John. During fee rendAg hA connteaaaee laameil wife a constsatl) inarene.ur joy. Mlm 1 reached fee sixteen^, ssveutosnth and eighteenth verare, i uhich I read riowly find foeribly, he **fayou have so frequently lAt- ever modem Socmans many feAk. aofflcAatferaove yon A They saw and knew at epee fe»« He ^■■fchtoneo and fee f n; of who apa*a A feem boldty ohriraml A *"»'Sfet Ago you not afraid that bo Jehovah, aud Ops far greater will continue A fee end of yonr than Abraham, bring very t.od. Th» ,|P» to hear the Gospel unmovedt they dal A* WAvc, »ud jfeenefore iif such should really prove regarded Him a* a hlosphrmgg -mho Master r. i