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V ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAFT18M”—EPHE8IANS 17: 5. SEW SEEIES, VOL. 2-NO. 43 COLUMBIA, S. C„ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1870 upon yourself; or upon yonr faith 5 floe to Christ, keep under hi* wings, stay under his shelter, let not your own, but liis righteousness aud grace be your shelter; so Unit you may be unde un heir of eternal life, not by the grace which you have received, but, ns Paul snys here, by hi* grace.” [PVom & HmM* Tmutlntiaa. ;.^ r » .. IS PUBLISHED ■ . EVERY. WEDNESDAY they moan to throw a sop to an un easy coiiirienrt-, and as they have quieted there misgiving* l*-fen, ibryr will admltibrtcr these good intention* again as a pU-oKunt anodyne. Ho the heart is hank-tied by the dew-itful- ness of siu. We way well depend opra it no uiau ever yet intended to go to hell; and surely no man whose heart baa been touched by the preaching of the gnsj*-1. and who has again and again been al most persuaded to be a Christian, ever intended to deceive himself by (lie flsttene* sad lie* which have rained his sonl. The heart that has been made pure by the grace of Ghrtot, and that has been wholly freed from the dominiou of sin and "elfish motives, and has thus lieen perfectly satisfied, docs not throb in this lower world. Hueh a state be longs to the beatific vision. While we are here, both Christians ami those who know that they are not the children of Cod bv faith in Jesus Christ, have need daily to dtatrnat themselves, and hourly to look to Him alto alone can lead in the any everlasting. lie that frustetli his own E-art is a fool.—Ckrittiuu In trltigmrrr. As a man thlnketb in hit heart, an is tsr. Man judges by ti* outward apiH-oraiKs-; but the laud searches the heart and Irka the twins of the sons of men. I fork! was wist, for instead of insisting upon tbs parky of bis iuu-utioua, he prays Uiat the U»id would try him and see if there was any wicked way hi him, and lead him la the way everlasting. This is, emphatically, Urn way of wisdom. The worid even sets little store by a man's aasrverations eon eeralng the purity of his motives, ami the church still leas. Those who are moat sincere hate the lewd to My on that score, because they know fall well that they may be most aktnrrely mistaken. Paul ver ily thought to do God service, sod Dr. Stnart ltobinson thus charac terises modern skepticism; “The one grand peculiarity of modern skepticism is its tendency to disguise itself under the mask ai reqiect and even seal for the ratigion of Christ Even the Atheism of our day, while denying practically the Divine existence, takes care to sub stitute for God some sort of shadow of Him to conceal the iu&uite vacuum in His universe. The Pantheism of the modern age, while denying the Divine jiersunality, yet provides some idol of the imagination to nianse and quiet the terrors of s conscious orphanage. The Naturalism of this day, while denying, as of old, the existence of a divine Providence, yet personifies some blind eternal law by way of providing a keeper of the universe. The Spiritualism of this age, while denying the need of any personal Divine Redeemer, carefully provides opiate* to loll the con science to sleep while it steals away the redeeming sacrifice from human thought. The Secularism of this day masks itself to iwraonato the Goajid philanthropy, while it soofls st the laggard church, and waist* that man shall “live by bread alone” without ‘-every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God,” and per sistently endeavors to silenee the cry of souls still hungry- after “feed ing on the husks that the swine do cat,” only with more busks. But Still more duugc-rotis than any or all these foes in the field of speculative philosophy are the masked ; that emerge in rapid succession from the cavernous wooden horse which the modem church has allowed to be brought within her very orfytem, through the broken enclosures of the covenant, to stab while saluting with ‘Hail, Master,' and a kiss. Her Lib eralism im|*-raHNiates Christian love and charity, to make more Jdeadly and sure it* Wow at the witnesses for the truth. Then Formalism, deny ing the Gospel to be inherently the power of God, multiplies its ritual of aaturfiev, attars and priests, for the imagination, to smother the cries of the sonl «jr the sacrifice offered once for all, and s ‘High Priest that ever liyetb to make intercession.’ It deifies its Co-sar as the representa tive of Jeans, and fills its pantheon with heroea. gods and demigods, from a prolific womb of a Christian mythology. Here, Rationalism, under guise of teal for the honor of the man Christ Jesus, with its relentless criticism, learned, keen and cold as the breath of the North, sweeps like a tempest over the inspired oracles, eradicating alike from the Pentateuch the awful mysteries of Sinai, front the gnspeta the ineffable wonders 0# the incarnation, and from the Acts the su]wruatdTal glories which attest the exaltation of Jesas to the throne of all power. Then, wily Erastun- ism, under guise of seat for Catholic unity, clothes the martyrs of Christ's crown and covenant in the skins of trild beasts, and hisses on the furi ous dogs of popular passion. Cue fact should, of itself, suggest the preaching of the Gospel as the antidote to modern infidelity, vie: that in all its forms alike, Jesus RUBE & MILLER, TERMS: a rHKKVX YisiToa is furnished riWm at #8.30 per year, if paid men, their Widows, and Stu- Theotogy. are elmrjml #3.00 per SUsum of Women in the Churehs* whTdo not pay within three •maths of the time their year ts-gm*. will, iu every rase, 1*> charged fifty rents addition ul. Hire or AOVEKTItrsc : For aae square (one inch of column): Tint iusertiou # 73 One mouth 3 30 Three months. 3 00 Sis months .. 7 00 - Twelve month* 10 00 On advertisement* of three squares and upwards a discount of 30 net rent., of five square* and upwants, »> per vent., of wit squares and upwards, 40 |>er cent., ud of one-luilf column and upwanls, SO percent, will be deduct,*1 from the niton- I *0bi*uari»-s. when more thau fire lines, tea rents for eight won!*, ] sty able in sdvaiHc. ^ ■■ Pospagr—Five cent a per quarter. rr lfiease remember all business let ters uhouhi be addressed to Kxv. A. B. M’DK, Columbia, N. C. RvC. A. H. Rosa, in the IliblioDitra Sacra for May, argues iu an article on the silence of women iu tbc churches, in this manner s I. A positive limitation of sort is put by the Her inures lilroad. upon women. II. This limitation, of whiUt-ver nature and extent it may bo fouud to be, is not bounded, as some other direction*are, either on some present exigency, or social custom, or uhsug- iug propriety ; but it is founded oil something as |icruiunout as the rela tion of tlie sexes ami the fact of the first trangresHiou. III. The parts of public worship reflecting wliich silence is cqjoincd tijion women, are prenehing, teach- j ing, prophesying, s|n-ukiitg uml pray | ing. If there ho doubt rvapecting any one of these, that doubt toiu-bes only the service of prayer. IV. The kind of meetings in which women tut- commanded to keep si Iciice is every sort of religum* meetings when- both sexes are jirt-s eut. Among the olijrctiou* which be mcerts is the follow tig, with his an- j swer to it: “There are canes,” it ia said, “in which the continuance of a church or of a social meeting depend* u|ton . the violation of this injunction of silence; shall tlm church or meeting die, or the iiqtitictiuu he violated t" Calvin long ago answered: “Tlii* j (rule) we must understand as re- - ferriug to ordinary non ice, or whore . there is a church iu a regularly constituted state; for iM-cvaaity may occur t»f such u nature as to require that a woman alioultl sfteak in pub- i lie j but Paul has mcrrly iu View what is becoming in a duly n-fuliitnl assembly." These practical difficul ties do not annul the prohibition ns j the law ortlniiied for tlm chinches, any more than the difficulties which sometimes attend the public contra- j sion of Christ make void tlm be- , liever's olriigutiou jatbRely to confea* him. , Of the irreverent spirit evinced liy some in tlm tlrienssion of this sub ject, be says: It is perilous to speak and write ■ ns many do on this subject. If Paid was inspired, as he eiMiinm to tie in ' oue of tjiese passages. anil We must hold him to have Im-oii in them all, : then tlm reasons he rentiers tor the silence of womeu in the churches I are at true as tliey are pertnaoent, I and are worthy of all acceptation ns 1 commands of the Lord Jesus. If lie was not inspired when he uttered them, let some one show it, anti end the controversy and unloose the tongues of women in the public assembly at tho same stroke. Itnt pause first, ami tell us why every doctrine Paul tnngtit, every precept he gave, every command ho uttered, ' can not also be sot aside, as null anil void, 0:1 precisely the same grounds t Why, on this theory, may not the atonement of the Son of God have been a mere mode of thought suited only to tlm tiinca in which it was announced ! regeneration a require ment for the times t heaven ami Imll mere figments of the imagination, engendered by the times, and for the times T the Scriptures of the Old aiid Netr testaments, a revelation from God for the times ? And why, as tho times have changed, may not the reasons for all these bnve ceased, and they themselves, of consequence, lie no longer binding!. Away with such arguments!- A is neither be fitting a scholar nor a pious man, nor an interpreter of Scripture, nor a teacher or preacher of the oracles of God, thus to trifle with the reasons given by on inspired apostle as the grouud of au inspired prohibition. Only three honorable ways are open to man: Either let him show that the reasons given In l’apl for the com maud of silence" docs no longer -- » «am — -tj 40 a in — 1 40 p m ... 4 90 p ni with Trains points North ■ester. of grace ia not a trilling thing. You, 1 Now,ami Tm:.x! \\ ill oar thoughts Christian, are heeded there; duty ' »" J »»J* spprar In Dir Inst hour of calls you there; privilege nails yoe^ or w * r * w * stand before God to there; covenant vows call you there; **' I't'W M they apt war to n* to ami your own spiritual devclopuienl *** } 1 "" jostlfy ounu-lvr* Iu in makea y our prvau-ucr ixvcasary. No dtdglnf certain aflertiuns, ui pursuing one appreciate* three thing* ■«* «**■>• ootirar. of action; wilt litre, folly than your pastor; sod wbra and courwre ap|«*r right you are often itlarat, his heart is I "* “* &** the world ! heavy awl bis hands hang down., 0 **' vmdmrm are mraa.in.bl> at Would you indeed assiat him ! Thru , r ”” c **• lorgrtfuig God, restrain rng lie regular iu >oor attendance upon 1 l**J pr * ^ living to uurerlvra; ail] tlm means of grace. !**» ** ■» «•■*“ "*»“ day U 2. You can assist your Pastor, by revralad which shall try every man’s a IM, opprrriarirt recognition if Ah Work of what sort it la!” lakon. If you have bcea specially | The nulsdicving, the cut etous, (he refreshed by say mreauge be has selfish, and sometimes even the uo- bnmght, don’t be afraid to tell him scrupulous, lUluk they are, ami per so. You do not knos bow otU-n. 1 hapa ap|*-ar to other* to he, la the after tlm labors of the Habbatb, he mate estate a* the upright who fear goes to bis closet, asking, “Who tiod; will they think So whea their bath believed our report, nod to day dress to iUrluue! thaoc stip. whom iu the arm of tire lord re- |*are their infidelity to their vows, venled f* His heart > rams fur sym tlreir ft.Wares ia frien.lalii|x their laitby, and you are tbc. on* to give tortuous ami mereeuary courses, and it. He is human, and the wrnkuras unmeroua naforankra oldiquitn-s, are, of humau nature Is his. If, while dead secret* to their neighbor*, ami Ire is cudenvoring to feed the flock, really glossed over before God by a he receives tbc asaurame that you aam-timoukiua demeanor qad sets of are 1W1, will In- not, must lie not, piety; will the appcuratirr he «1 feel cornu raged f While |in aching ways as it Is now f Will there cm to the unconverted, In- ia tho land's bo au awaheoing from lire tire*in of messenger, ami it matters little to security t him what they think of him. Hut There lay in the rams «f tire fallen wluii (ceding the Dis k, he ia your evart-runm at Rk-hmoml two men slirjdu-nl. Then folio* him Into tire r> rer each other. Oor cried out in green ]mst<ftv* of troth, ami grate agony, ami repratmUy, “Oh that I fully aeknoulrtlge his act-eptalde hml shrfiy * feared toal sa 1 do mo* P uiinistratioim. Thea. while Ire will | bnve le.1 a wicked life. Oh that 1 hr cm-on raged ami stimulated, yon i hml always feared God as Ido aew r will Is- profited. The other wa* liesnl to any, “Oh 3. You run assist yoar l*a*t«r, by death. * here ia thy atiag 1 t>h death, ynar proper*, lie nee.1* tiretn—greut- where la thy ating r iVrhapa three ly needs them. In the pnl|dt ami men w«wtt arigidawa ami In equaUv out of It, in nil bis wslhs ami minis good n-pitle. The diffen-m-e was ap- trations, Ac nerals them; aud Urey purrat when tira'h waa at the door, arc equally ueeeNaary ftwpas. Prayer The forrarr, up to the hour when for y.M»r Pastor, prnmpte.1 by love, that floor gave way, did not fear will make your sonl expectantswill tiod. Wham he Ml ia the rains be qniekeu your sensilsKtiaa— while, us M fear Him whose authority Ire your Pastor listena, they will fill) hml despised. like refreshing dew upon his fainting There is a difference between faith sonl. Said a Pastor to a brother ami no foltli ; preparation to areet minister, ns he rattle Into Ilia imlpif 1 God ami no pre|«raltmi; a man of one Hubtath mortiiiig, “I know tlmt tire worid uml a real diacqde of Je. my people have hen praying for nre 1 ana; the day at sunshine ami the alay Ihia morning.” Never, In yonr aoeial of yudgarenl. To him who afr)|M hia meetings, forget yonr Pas(or; for, In ear to the rail of arerey there ia to so doing, yon forget yonraelvca. It l»< a terifir nuilrast between Now is through his brain, bis heart, his aud TlUOL—Tic interior. tongue, uud his Jijm, yon are to — —■ receive counnnuM-atious from God.' Miracles of Orsce Even Patti Mid:' “Rrethrefi, pray _ for us." Tims you wUI assist your The smiling of a flinty rock, for Pastor. the purpose of obrniutug water, was 4. You may assist your Pastor, by a aclrenie of tire Divine Mind, whose *ptaking kiudlg of him wkrrrtrr you ways an- higher than oor way*, and jo. Thus you may increase hia in- hi* thoughts than owr tlnnigbu. It flnenee for good. 1s t no oue, saint was certainly the last place to which or siturer. Ire In donht whether vimi j Mnara would have gum- for water; love yimr 1 Niator. Iret no rold erith ! and be might havw e\|reetnl the ... 123pm ... a 57 p m ... 5 ff! p iu :— 8 50 p ia with Trains uilrnails for in Harid*, icjy. Mobile, insiira, Mem- Cincinnati, th and West. ; all* Night Id, and Hug- IMiints. •""to coinu ret- niffvrt'ut I i i\ bij/t. Freight and Religious, The Victories <U the Gospel. Over eighteen hmulnxl year* ago, t’hriat, the (Saviour of the worid, wiuti'l twelve fishcrwreti to accom pany him during hi* anjoum upon the earth. During this time he in- strurtrd them in nil things relating to the kingdom be was then estab lishing opoa the earth. He told them ptainly, “My kingilum ia not of this world.* which was difficult for them to comprehend, as they-, in. common with (he Jews, were looking for a king to come in janap and roy alty, exalting the Jew* and compel ling atl other nation* to submit to hia mandate*. The humility of Christ, notwithstanding hi* ostonud- iug intrude*, ransed tbetu at times Is doubt hi* Messtohship. Tlii* coatinned until afrer the erneifixion of Christ. Ilut as toon as they received the gift of the Holy S|*irit they ceiourenced ppb- 'liahiug it everywhere that he was the very Christ, aud that there waa no other name in heaven nor among sreo «hereby sinners can he saved but through the name of Christ. Tlii* new doctrine met with op|io- aition among the Jews—for it was new—and filled them with rage, aa they could not help but are that its U-udctM-y waa tow ards the destruc tion of the Jewish religion ; hence, they concluded tlmt it could not pro ceed from tiod. They were disposed to hedge up tbc way of the gospel, aud every possible mean* were re sorted to for this purpose. Tliey souurged, imprisoned, and even put to death many of the leaders, but out of their ashes, as it were, God raiard up others to wnfuri tire ban ner of Christ. Hundreds, nml even thotiaumfav, were fioon brought to yield to the glorious terms of tho go*|iel, and but » few years had r!u|mrd until the gospel waa preach ed throughout Asia. Old, proud For the Lullivran Visitor. Gems from Luther * Sermons. “Faith incites love, and love in creases faith.” “We are children of God through faith, which constitutes us heirs of ail the divine blessings. We aro children through love, which makes us lieueficcut towards otir neighbor.” , “If you are in jsvssessiou of faith, it will be impossible for yonr heart, not.to laugh for joy in God, and to grow bold, secure and courageous. For how eon a heart continue sor rowful and cost dowu, wheu it enter- tains no doubt that God is kiud to itr “Christ lias saved ns at oin-e iu. two diverse ways:'. Iu the first ]ila<-i-, he lias done every tiling that is necessary for our salvation—uuuio- ly, he has subdued and destrovetl siu, death aud hell, so that iu this resjieet there is uothing more fur auy one to do. In the second plnee, he has given all this to all of us iu baptism, so that whoever believes in Christ—that ho lias accomplished this—assurevlly, jmnmdiutely, iu the twinkling of an eye, has it, and all his Kius, with dentil aud hell, are removed, «o that he needs nothirg more iu order to salvatiou (to be micetlj, than .sueli faith.” “Dear friend, yon must have heav en, ami be in a state of salvation before yon eau do any good works.” “We are heirs—yet this is conceal ed ill faith—ami we wait in hoi>e of its manifestation. This waiting, how ever, and the life we live after we are baptized, are designed to subdue the body, aud to display the power of grace iu the conflict aguiust the flesh, tin! world ami the devil; mid yet all this fluallv, to enable us to work for the benefit of our neighbors, and to bring them also To tile faith by our preaebing and example.” • “‘in Christ Jesus neither ciremn C8ion availeth anything, nor nneir- • uimi.dou (that is no work of the law,) but a new creationas if be should say : It will not thus admit of being patched and mended here and there with works. There must be an entire new disposition; the nature must be changed; then works will follow.” £• “Concerning this birth, Christ al*) snjw, John iii: 3, ‘Except a mail be lawn again, he can not see the king- 4om of God.’ Here we see that works will not do; the individual himself must die, aud secure a differ ent nature, which occurs in bap- tJsm i when he Relieves; for faith is this renewing.” “The grace of God is great, strong, powerful and effective. It does not l**, as visionary preachers presume, in the sonl, ask-ep; nor does it per- »it itself to be borne, as * pointed boord bears its paint. Ho, not thus; H hears, it leads, it drives, it draws, it changes, it works oil in man, and Iflte itself be felt' and experienced. u « concealed, but its works are manifest; words and works show wht’to it dwells, ns the fruits and reavss of a tree indicate its nature.” • “An entire conversion of onr na ture is necessary.” mil •' A “The self-righfeods.” “O, they are »pormeions people, and in the eyes «fGod- wliolly destitute of grace, although they imagine fkey sit in4lfo lap.” v :. . r xr» 7-, *• i.wi.) “Gnard against fidse jm?acbeni, against false fivith also; refy not i liable their nrtiuti may have been. 1 iLjs ud ujum it, they meant sell. I Tbs brad may bar* U-ra at fault. I lad lire heart waa right General I v | they are Uatakru. The stubborn | ires* with w fork they c-Uag to tireu | opinions »h*n they have been proved uutwishlc, ia always the mraonre of their protratotiona ofaiarooty. There u great danger here, not so mueh la o’bet* as to Ibemselve*. The laat | tiling «hub a proud, un renewed I hrart ia Willing to do, in to oonfras I its ain ami to foraakr lb* wrong > which has grown out of it, aad It is •onataatly betray ing iu misgiving* > by the seal with which it insists upon th* exerUrno* of th* motive. Even admitting tbu to have been good in tU way, the artaai itaeir eau not he aanrtifled by it. The grossest crm-ltua that hare over •burked the moral sraar of hnnuuuty, have bee* imrpetnitcd In the name of real for the honor of tire Lord of Host*. Love of mischief, or of ra- vragv, tin- fording of a gnt lgr, the •ntmtiug of hatred, or the gratify iug ! of a sell <--iii|4araut alfeetsliuii of amvMU|>roausiug iutefrit.v, are not i for a mooreat to hr Muqmctnl as tire i real motive poawr. Far from R— the beau Is |>uns The man knows if. Ho t’rerrr Arina-*, the wrat Unsrrn|Niloaa and rraMTSeics* of all grand inquisitors, rkauated that ter rilds isViatka at Almighty wrath while tire smoke of th* qmnnadero waa rising abuv* Ure eolnmns of fire which sonaionl the Iwtrlin, who lin-ferted ileath by flame and fagot to denial of th* trolh of i'hrist. Tbc man was sinecr*. In his way Uc was pious. \Vben the vietlui fainted under the tettnre, and still refrtsrel to make a confession which would have been n lie, the holy man onased himself, smote u|*m his luniit, uml cried: “Impenitrat still!” Ami so , w bra tire fire and smoke were stilting | the gruuus of tho lmruiug victims, ! Arhoramuig while others riinddared: “Lrt God arisi-; let Hia i-nemiua be scattered; let Ibi-m slss that hat* Him lleo Iwlnre Him. As smoke I* drivi-M nsay. so driv* thrill sway; a* wax nieheth by-foro tin* lire, *o k-t I bo w icked jicrisb -at the ptvwncc , of Owl. tint bt the righHxm* be ghid; let tbetu rvjutre ticlbro- G«id; I, yets, let them exceedingly rejoice.” 11 Tho tuan waa sincura, no dmibt; f what st itf lie waa • murderer . said blasphemer noire the has.— j atronge m it may Mrtind, tiicre Are , many atoorre hypocrites. Dm man ; who deceives himsslf Is a hypocrite , quite its much at he who ticecivcs , bis neighbor, rielf-dcncjition ks tire - must eommon fianit of hypocrisy, \ amt deln#*i*)ti is tire most crowded , avenue to the pit. 'Thp more s man | knows of hhosetf tho less hr- trusts- , himself. The now* Ire raamiue* liht ’ ■'•f.lT'i *“• will he run meeting- with irolina Itoad, rfit Train on Ofista Road .... 7 OOatu .... :» -Warn 10 10 a .in ^... :t 00 p m .... 4 Mom ,... 3 00 p iu ;... 5 45*at .... 6 33a iu l... 8 00 a in ..13 85 pm .... 3 10p m 3 43 p m mi Ih-lton to 'i iibiv uMiru- tKDft’H,- rmtendent. ROAD. Christ is the tx-ntral object ofattack. Hie storm, tiiough so thrcateulag nrosind the wh.de horizon, at ouoe oonoentrates and thickens into dark ness nronnd ♦hat sacred Head upon the cross. For what is -the purpose of hM the atheistic, pantheistic and naturalistic spec al Minns alike but to ignoix- Christ f •artiest litfen- fcilly mothets, itii their cbil- ivfnit. ofthe ir so sorely.** i and cerbun- rlieftte ftifrat- A UtoJLxrttrvh Idea.—Far away Binmig the AUeghaniee, there is h spmig bo small that » single or, In a summer’s iky, could drain it dry. It steals its unobtrusive way among tho hills till it spreads oat into the beautiful Ohio. TheucC It stretches away a thousand miles, leaiiog on its banks more than a hundred villages and cities and many a cultivated fUV.ni, and beorhig a half h thousand steamboats. Then joining the Mis sissippi, it stretches away add iwray some twelve jmndred miles more tiH it foils into the emblem of eternity. It Is one of the greatest tributaries of the ocean, which, obedient only to God, shall roll and roar till the angel, with one foot on the Sea and the other on the huid, Shall lift nji his hand and swear that time shall So with moral lii etuAferoam**- eredwllhtli* moreTor the iilrtle th»n been ros»“- tiry. but then- [* Son fc Co-) jttuboreh. F* 3G—iy ^ God’s revealed truth are being annu ally thrown oot broadcast over the wo ld. In the island* of the hoo, where ignoranos ai(d wretehtdness pivMviWsl predominant « few yeofs ago, the native now sits trader Iris own via* aad fig-frak Mid reads the gospel of Christ ia hi* own native tongue, thru bows in pious adora tion before the God of the Bible. • ft. writ ye wind* the story. be no longer. Horace. It is a riU—a rivulet—a river—an ocean—and as boundless and fafli rnjjess as eternity. The msM-ki of n Christian we-. Faitli iu Christ, love for Christ and dhedlmee to Christ