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COLUMBIA, S. C„ WKDNKSDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1870.
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commauieatiouc to
(«r clinrcb nml nntonf the brethren
of ottr own Synod. Lot every mem
ber of tbt» Synod, !ny ami derienl,
ami every member of our respective
congrcffntious apply himself to the
diligent aeMrhing out and removal
of these onuses; let the errors of the
' a
pest be elmuited, and proper precun-
tioii he taken for the fbture, ami we
may yet hoj*> to see the sUlulity
ami immanency of the ministry of
our church once more restotvsl.
-■ rrt T^tctz^fz.
Fraw lb* Lutltrnp Otawnrer.
Frequent Pastoral Changes.
The following is the conilmuons .of
the report to tlu: Allrglif'iiy Synml
on the causes of fres|tu4t l>a>toi-»I
changes:
CAUSES AXO>*ti T11K t’LKKUV.
1. Then' arc pastor* who scruple
not to obtain |HMUtions by means
1 which, to say the least, arp of doubt
ful proprH>ty. d^ome have tlu iusclve*
recomnftemksl ami tlu*ir clHiuis advo-
cated hy iutiueutial trunuls, when
really tlwy are not at all “the men
for the place.*’ Others a lien preacli-
iug “on trial” take sermons, in the
jtreparation of, which they have sjwut
months, raising thereby ei|ieeUitious
which they can never
. A few have been no
r r
what degree of truth w
of having, when “on t
themselves of the serin
and abler men than them
tering a pitstorul held b
similar means, can not bi
sihI, with
knew not,
l, n availed
of otlier
ilvq*. Ku-
the.se and
result in
disappointment, ; h|is* ol confidence
and *i»eedy dissolution of flic p;»st or
al relation.
2. The amount of self-di
ed of the ministry, frt
adequate nab«ries, ami
large and lutiorions fie
favorably,afi'euted some o
ters, so tliat they lieetmie anxious to j rate, of what are believed to be facts
find fields requiring less
whose burden* are lesa
be Imrne.i Oh this
I •-
lial requir-
, la<‘k of
•ausc of
has un-
our iniuis-
Creedlets Rsligion Impossible.
L«4 us start fairly with an explicit
understanding „of the terms em
|doyed.
By the word “creed*—from credo:
“l believe*—we mom some exact
.stntement of definite opinions. By
the word “religion,” we meaii n lift*
of oi>edienee and affection toward
Got!, ami bene\T>leiice tow aid m n.
So that the proposiHoii which we
propose to argwe, is—that it is Im
possible for any man to live n life
reverted toward hi* Maker, and
useful toward Iim followii, without
holding, as the basis of that Ilfr,
some fixed faith, which is but another
method of enunciating the iiupnnai
b»lity of a cried less religion.
Religion, as we hare intimated, is
a life. It is a life sluqied toward
God according to the pattern of a
child's life townrd a pnrent; ami
toward men according to the pattern
of a brother's life towanl brethren.
It is a life of love. It is a lifi* of tine
resficct. It is a life of obedianee
where obedience is owed. It is a
life of eb-operation, where eo-iq>cra
tiou is demaniled by the efomcntal
«lata on which It resta. That is, ft
is a life which is sedulously and
habitually mmle to be one thing and
uot anotiier, by tlwee first principles
which underlie, derekq*, ami eoutrol
it.. To hive Gotl, it must be first
comprehended and frit, (I) that he
exists, and (2) that lie is worthy of
love. Rut these are definite dogmas.
This is a creed, as toward God. To
live a Imother's life towanl brother
aieii.it must be first cumpreliendeil
and felt, (1) that such a course is
possible, and (2) that it is right for
us, and indeed imperative front ns.
But these, again, are definite dog
tuns, lien 1 , once more, is a <tcci1 ns
toward men. 8o that, as rational
life enn not exist without action, and
rational action can not siteml itself
excejtt aloug lines of choice, ami ra
tional choice can not take place bnt
as the result of the weighing of mo
tives, and motives are atnqily the
rational usage of facts, or, at any
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m < ’Hina. Aud a IftUe more I hare Knttchmro that Bt %’
i to tall yon,’ laid the misrionary j <1 | their own fhtr soil, are the
had h» this letter a bank note for merits of Him who visited
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is calculated to excite tho Asking
Love must love some being, and
must firm know that be m, and that had In this letter a bank note for 1 meats of Him who visited teirfbly
ha k lovable. Ho for forth there la ume him«ln*d dollars to aid the work.’ bis own people when they sinned
dogma, and a owl. Worship mast j “Now said the oW Baptist Clergy- against him.
reuogmar a being worthy of worship fman, «I waa truly commiaaiotied to The hundred timusaml Prasaiaus*
—ami there again is a creed. The < preamt that request in behalf of who die la the same boor and act,
head which fifrwpfi away tbs ereed, that mkarion. 1 did not know that i are none the less a proof that God
annihilates all basis both of wurektp j the missionan*, about to utnke hit*, is a jealoos God; for they, too, have
ami of love. TV rrtigiooa sentiment' a|»pcat to Uie churches, was In the wantonly cast off all tear and re
—aud we are quite willing to allow meeting. TV) my surprise I learned ! strained’ all prayer, avowed them
he was there, and sat unoltaerved,
and heard aH that trauiqdfMil.
“l>o yon accept this as an answer
to pmyer t (appealing to the meet
<lay af life open owr souls to social
reMgiecm istfoenee if we would apeak
or prey with profit it art times and
occasions.—Christian Cmivn.
Tbs Msaey-Tsst of Flsty.
It
it is
sdvra skeptics, ami indulged in
every sort of horrid mibetlof. He
makes a sinning nation punish a
sinning riinreh. lritssians and
hYeorlimen are leoraing, hi this
soon, that Ond the Ixwd
will not allow his naase to be taken
in vain. lie wilt be revered as the
that there is in the soul a tendency
toward worship—deprived of its
natural fomulatioai in trutli,
rates and dies. I
. It is astoulidiiug bow insanely ! mg.) • Is this not sufficient to nui
eager a certain class of religioaists mate iwr foftli and confidence in j terrilde
at tile present tin*e is to expel any-1 <bal t Is this imi aniaet t I accept It
thing like fixed opinions frout re- ns such. 1 beltevr God mo veil the
hguui; and laar the very name of a jhfibrt of this fathiT to give his sou only and eternal God of oar Hex iour.
creed sets the si to foaming at the and hi* money to the muse of nils , Mighty France lb crashed as an
mouth. Tliey regard the religioas skms in t hina. In answer to oor | egg alrelL Her boosted strength in
roasciuuMness—•which, to a degree, prayers yesterday. And as sneh an instant is utter weakness; luw
is ihmbtiess inlnwvnt in every man— ' I accr|* it.—rkrisfisa 1 otclligmcrr. | powerful reler a feeble fugitive, ner
us religion itself; sml that vague, "tFi <W<U "* hrr ca|iiul
dreamy, arnauan* sensibility to goo»l i _ ^i^mnsiiiij. ^ Aicaost in jiower of the enemy,
words and kind deeds, which mark* \ Once ujsai a time there waa a j Who is the wise, and will con
tho difference bet sera a man and an
orang-outang, us all the piety which
ia neoessury. Ltogma, they say, is
just u buiauu, unuuUioriscit iucrwstu
tiou uromtd the wirk of this ernsi-
bility, clogging and glooutiug its
pure fiuuie. But cun u mere fueling,
so vague, insuUetuatial, and form less,
that it can not l«e nslaet-d to ex
pression aud imprisoned iu a form
of words, be euough to meet the
highest wants of a humanity which
iusists upon laH* of the *tubbi>rnewl
quality us the food of its lowest f
Aa a lute w riter bus sunl, “The very
lights an«l wliudows that come and
go over the Lmdsoiqic, und leave im»
trace bidiiud on the earth they
darken iuto gloom or |mint with ten
Ihotisuud hue* of beauty, have a
substance aud a lifr and u ouuse. A
religion* enioiiou devoid of dogma,
but begiiuiing uimI ending as an
emotion, is more unreal cveu tltsu
they. It is ub»olutrl> unsubsUintia)
—a thing eau*rk-a* ami
not only without a form, but even
without a name, indistiuguishulde us
the HjHi-tr.d idiadow of d«*utli con
ceived by the genius of Milton—
he railed, that «kapr
great day at the chief commercial , shier these throe things I
efty of Judea. A man had made j Out of these barters will Christ
himself popular hy twrloin flavors : come forth triumphant. French and
he hod given the people, and ou i Germaa shall awre than ever war
his visit thither they had made a . ship God ami his Christ. The tide
holiday In his honor. He put on I of infallibility and inftdeltty Is stgyed.
his robe of parade and yellow, velvet J God has crushed the haaghty as
mid satin, fitted a crown to his head, snaiptiou ol his avowed represents
set on a seat high and lifted up.
aud made a speech to the 'multitude
The dignitaries of state, wikfims f*better
firiests, ami cmwds of peofds fried
oat, “It Is the voice of a God aud
m*t of a man.’*' lie Hxtmed, aad
accepted the homage. The sou of a
Jew, the King of the Jews, made a
ruler solHx ns the representative of
a jealous God, this jriine aeee|gnl
the :mriumut)on that placid hiiu by
the side <»f tin* Ism! Go»l, tin- <‘reat»ir
of tlie universe. Gml liiiuw-tf imua
distety makes Id* sppearanci-. Jle
instantly nemts bis angel, smites j
tbi* a|mstntc son, nnd he is c«mi " by is it that when ehriafians get
Tf shape it mitflit
had !*•»»«•
Dkitiftniitlulilr in ne-mljrr. joint, nr limb,
Or sultstanre misht be rsflnl tlrnt s1hu!i>s
arras-d,
Kof earh weBM*I either/ *»
r lT»e reasoning which these men
atlopt on this sutqeef is so atteriy
unlike that which they a;q»ly to
every otlier subject nrnlrr heavni,
that it is impossible to believe them
suite if ’honest, or honest if sane.
There are several causes which of
ifice and —it follows that there can bo no
forsake fields
pro v id wit mily
possessed j of
ambition, and
more liouorab^e ami
position*. Thi s way be
iu partiefdar-to l>e
many of the young men
try at. this day,
3. There is a class of
are afflicted with pit i
to whicl
eulU-d.
an undue
abandon
the
,evous to
mt many
they are
. few are
degree (rf
mble for
lucrative
tid perhaps
ease with
the iniuis-
>rs wbo
iruble rest
lessness and Akoouteut.* They are
every v:
.’Where,
of their
inovi
are
ut field,
>y s;>end
iu look-
packing
g and re
cuses.
;gestions to offer in
for
never at ho
tba greater i
uig about for
aud unpacking,
moving. They
We have no
reference to
4. Many of pur pastor* know not
how to ‘deal with oougjregatioual
troubles. Their passionsget the bet
ter of them, when confronted by evil
disposed person*, and
to (tersoiuil abuse aud
nations, by which they fieftder their
give way
crimi-
stay either very
Utterly impossible,
remove, by im
ate trouble*
or even iut|>osfiible to
irmutr and!
fil ghgnge*
W fh# error* of such
fUeiv iliv
want, of
chure^ j# also A most
«f eviL W« have alwi
vacancies, jgoiue more
inviting., Theue present
kh strong to resist, to
^positions. Let the
n h^r«y tbs
li «rvertto sew) forth
his harvest," dediea
•°*» to the ministry
^furnish the in cm
Ben. ' ~
These are not aH, but
% wore prom incut
to bring al*
so fre<juent at
tble or
ere they
t, em
it difficult
a sue
a number of paator-
in quick, succession,
corrected
UfftSiS.]
iu our
source
scores of
some foss
of restless
awake
of the
laborers
her pious
al,
y some
which
g about*: the pastor-
time hi
• j.
such thing as religiou (which i* lifr)
except as the ultimate result of the
w orking of human nature upon cer
tain real or assumed fuels. And m
those facts are it* creed, there ia no
e*ca]K3 from tlie conclusion that a
crecdless religion is possible.
Approach the subject from another
side. We find oil twelves here in this
world. We have mind* that cun
think. We have wills that enn
chooec-. We have hearts that can
love. . Our mind* irresistibly tend
to reason outward towanl a creator;
to aay wo did not make ourselves,
that were impossible. Homebody
with power greater than we run
conceive, and with aa much of skill
as power, aud with as much of good
ness as skill, most have made ns.
That somebody must keep making
us—that ia, must be sustaining us.
Aad so we feel onr way np towards
the supreme Being. Until, putting
this and that aad all that we know
tegather, we come to entertain no
doubt that he exists. Then, accept
ing him aud reasoning ou that
corner-stone premise, we, with this
conception of God, unlock tho uni
verse. It is lbs, for he made it He
governs it. It unfolds his character.
It tells us he is wise and good. And
so, step by step, we creep onward
and upward, until we beliovo in God,
his attributes, and tbcucu bis word
and its unfolding*. And along the
trellis of these facts the tendrils of
our faith stretch aud son themselves,
until they bear fruit unto holiness,
and the end everlaatiug life. This
fruit is religion. And those facta
arc our creed.
We make bohl to aay that the
very attempt to ©cmeeive of a creod-
leas religiou, implies an utter want
of knowledge of the fundamental
constitution of a human aool. We
con uot have anything that the moat
adventurous innovator would call
religion without feeling. ‘But we
can not fed without something to
call forth the feeling. That is, we
can net feel without first coming to
the knowledge of some fact which
rained with wortna, and give* up the together for a prayer-meeting, they
«*4l '-rented, t b,wt - , *° <**••» make a dead foilure f Where
th another set day, a body ol \
UM-n prnlrsmng to rr|>re*rttt the most
Cxalted of alt earthly rriatam*, tl»c
tniui«trv of Jesus Chrid the Hon of ‘
God, and pmfemdng to s|teak for
the moMt exalt t*l id earthly instil a-
Ron*, the Uburrh of Jesaa <‘hri*t,
were gathereil in a temple erected
to His worship, nod out the iqiot
H-patcd to bo the septtlelrre of the
tn«*u promimnit of Ills apuntlew, and
errtntnly the srptilrhre of thoumands
of wiartyrs to His faith aad reuse.
Above tile** n*t an «>M man, rlad in
royal satin and velvet, in gold and
„ . . ... gram- He asks tlnin whether ft
f w .vep other tliMn (M hr *»ll br dr
rrove for thrm-rlvr. «nd Mhrr*. „ H . , nhlNllU . ^ thr
facta, definite ojHniou*; that i*,
dogma and a creed. They have a J
creed for tlieir geology, their astron
tony, their t-ln-mintry, their sgritTil-
tore j why not have one for their
religion! * ‘
No reason can hr gixeu. For the
thing sought to lie defended iaeaaen
tially agaiiiKt reason. It is not
ueccssary to settle it what is the .. . . ...
earth, lie atnitew the horrible ays
may
cars, but
that the maney-teat ia the best erite
rkm of a mini’* religion. Hornetimes,
indeed, we may find a man who ia
willing to contribute liberally to s
muse for which be ia unwilling to
makh any other sacrifice. We some
times—perhaps frequentlj —find men
who seem to think that if they will
only pay handsomely into the tree*
nry of the chareh, they need not
trouble themselves about living ac
cording to her reqntrementii. But
while we concede that there are
oners hka these, we still
the general rale, that the best
are the heat Christiana. Of
there are ia every ekctrrfc eery good
mimt Iwnw iv rasgiif I flare I# n il
Vvlflil Ww l!il!Ui"L
aad whom much eookl not be
Bat ft they he earnest
will prove it by
their liberality, arm though tber be
pour. Far it is
than the amount, which
the spirit Every car who has any
In business, knows that
mb who pay largely who
to bo called good
ey pay only when
they sen not help it, and then with
•aril a show of rriertenre that it is
evident they hsd uiot-h rather not
da ash Ho, there are men who eon
tribute to the church largely who
are not to be classified a* liberal
giver*. They show too plainly that
other motives than the cause of
Chrirt urge them to yield of their
aiilMtanre. Sometimes the oflforrs
who liave it in charge to moke col
lect too*, have to ojicrirte on the
lamer feetiag of their as tore iu order
•to get from them the amounts which
their means warrant them to give.
. , ... Now a maa who torn a genuine real
thin to hffawed tot ^ tkc wHfare aml of hm
f 11 "’ chun k, will ueud «ta> attaiHlating to
creak like ra ohl, wretherfefed, un him to ak! ^
«re*l forming wagon I [m{] ^ J ~
tire, who sita in a amt of his own
i re*turn. * He will uplift France in a
life, and Home also. Her
ministers shall yrt hr elothod with
salvation; not, aa now, with hiss
pbeuiy. Her aaiuta shall shoot stood
with joy. France and Germany,
Home, Paris aud Berlin, shall yet
unite In aarribing infallibility aad
salvation alone to Iltm that sitteth
on the throne, an*I to the Iamb
forever.
If the Lurd
.. .. . , has Messed him with abundance, he
hr. *™l ,o .mA, «W »«*ni <|Ui< ^ aUll ^ uor ~ ^ v .
■iwiits **■«- h tw| ht>-rt ^ tai<Md
purer,
philosophy of tin* their unsoundne**.
Thu great fact which it concern* the
world to know, ami of which it gets
ever fresh illustrations from their
antagonism, ia thul ereedieas religiou
is a thing impossible.— Comfrepmtion-
did.
-4 * ■ , 1
Remarkable Answer to Prayer.
A venerable Baptist clergyman
arose [in a Into noon day prayer
meeting In New York city), saying
he had a message to tho praying
people in behalf af the missions of
the Reformed Church at A'moy, Hi
China. . 1 An appeal ia abnnt to be
made to the ehUn hiw for uhi, and
one of the miaaionuriea behotgtag to
that mission, now here, is about to
return, and wishes to take back
with him a missionary phyatotou.
He wishes the man and the means.
He spoke bat a few wards, bat tbey
were vary earnest, as coining from a
warm heart, a heart deeply moved
with the importance of the subject.
Then lie led in prayer, very appro
priate, very short, sot more than
two or three minutes; vary earnest,
sod it seemed os if it must be
answered. |
The next day be took the floor at
an reriy lmmieto) to aay, “You know
yesterday I brought China and the
Amoy Mission before yon, and I
stated the object for which ws were
asked to pray—lor a missionary
physical! and help. I met that re
turning missionary within iui hour
after the meeting. ‘Here is a letter,*
said he, ‘and jour prayer to an
swered. This letter says that the
writer has a son just gradoatiag
from a medical college, whom he
consecrates to the causa of mission*
t knrch, aud five hundred grave and
reverend voires ie)4y, “itaref f “it
|dense*.* Ha bows anlimmaivc to
the decree, and oces|its the pre
rogative of G od.
That God who smote the Jew for
his assumption of political cqnality
with his f'reator, arises ou this
declaration to shuke terribly the
fr-ui that l*renl* sucli profanity, with
ftonaoi
Tho ngtrl Masphrtner lias not yet
fiap|tml the rlirnnx of Ms inqdety,
and I* tlierefbre left for the present
untouched. Tlie Met day is coming,
when with his triple crown and
bes|tangled robe, be to to be lifted
upon the rear wall af the great
cathedral of Rome, almost half up
its height. Into a chair, called the
uhair of 8k l*Kcr, there to receive
of cardinal, arvh-
. That ex*
of warsMp
ns God may bring to Mm the touch
to hta body that ernne to Herod
Agnppu, nnd flby too, way be physi
roily consumed of worm*, and give
up the ghost. Bet his realms have
ti lt the touch of God. It has struck
hint hi his two most mortal spot*, his
private patrimony, his chief national
support, llis owe wqq«ort to taken
away. Tho soldiers that have de
fended him march oat of Die oity
almost as soon aa the infallibility to
flfbfilflkMyL. The great (tower that
Uat been the solo military and Eu
ropean protection, to trodden umlor
foot of the vary net ton that bred
the men who cat bto domain in t warn
three hundred years ago. Lather's
sons smite the followers of Fins, as
Luther smote Leo for declaring that
forgiveness of sin waa Ms preroga
tire, aud eoakl be sold for money, to
be consumed an hto own Intta.
; The overthrow of France to of
God, nnd that because God to a
jealous Gad, and would not allow
bto glory to be ghresi to another.
The great fields of Haguensn, MeU
ami Hedaa, are God’s reply’ to to
fallilnlitr. The hundred thousand
One to the
ignsriug of the pnnripfr of apoatani
riy. Ws haw heard clergymen seohl
ekurrii membera for not attending
and for not ’’taking part,* without
regard to their roosriooa sfdrHaaJ
needs. We have witnessed a system
sf Mack mailing among Christian* by
which those who did uot attend were
hrumled as iudiften-nt to the rense
of t*l>rist. We have sat in many a
storting composed of reluctant ami
|Mwj»U>xed apirits wbo were prwwut
only bees use titry had been brought
to belirve that they were to rreeive
lieoefit friun Its awkward ami an-
meaning ram ark* and silence*. The
entirely free acceptance of an invi
tation, ami an acceptance fonndetl on
a renl desire for such a privilege, ia
an alMolute pre requisite for a sue-
oraatui reiighwa eonfrfetKv.
Another rouse of dtoapiwsHtox’Qt
aad failure to the neglect of social
religiou* culture at other times and
pi aero. It to tmtoh tbe lisbft of ehrto-
ttons to talk on every possible sub
jeet of eonin*on intereHt except re
ligiou. An unnatural n-tioem-e to
etiltivateil, and, once groan into
strength, It is imjMmsitile to break
it sure a week hi tlie formality of
the lecture room. If we Have learned
nothing nt home, or at other (duces
of tho views, feriisg* and
UbC /%nt> fie^a flw it*ii M«|i]
t sun we spook to edit-
cm tiou there. Oun drooon Blank,
who keeps bis mouth shut from Fri
day sight to Friday night, open ft
to purpose and all at once break out
In remarks or prayer which shall
worm ail hearts and touch all coo
sciences I He will be for mure likely
Iu give far the hundredth time a
pressing to
to binuMlf.
Aud Brother Green offers a prayer
full of regret* and selMeepiaiog, and
Weep, after a toug panes,
tbe stagnant condition of the
church and wonders wbea there will
be a revival! We ail roar like bears
and mourn More like doves. Why to
it that soak to the history of many a
prayer-meeting f la it not likely be
cause they who love the Lord do not
apeak often one to another, making
religion tlie home porter of the aool f
la it not because as ebrtetiaas we
hold ourselves in constraint to each
other’s presence like bashful children
who are afraid of “society *” Lotos
remember tbet not only the answer
of the tofttu but also tbe prepare
tiou of the heart to from the Lord,
and that we mast to every horn* and
r •’
■ V ,
to
he to ever
looking oat to see where money may
be profitaldy invested for tbe Mas
ter's service. If be lie poor, there to
•till no togging. Tho mite that he is
able to contribute, to paid to with
promptness aad with phmre. He
does not wait to be sited, nor expose
dcueoua to the on(ilrsssnt duty of
eekiug for hto quota time ami again,
lie knows that sorb dehu<|ueucy
would make them feel aa unpleas
antly aa it would him, aud though
pride to not hto ruling motive, lie
does have too much (aide to wait
to be poshed into doing his duty.
The inau who gives to hia chareh
aa largely as bis means will allow,
will, as a general thing, enjoy hia
chuvvh privileges. ^ He will feel that
it ia hia church; that be has an
inf enrol in all that she baa and to.
He will not be pnUcd half-rrluetantly
into her enterprises, nor fret like a
stranger a lien he enters within her
walls. His pastor nml his Iwrthren
will aU be the dearer to him when
be frets that be and they are all
engaged in one common work, sad
that he has aided its frirthernnce as
for as hto ability s ill allow.—.fader
sad liaptitt.
[Extract from a Utter.]
Experience hat demonstrated that
a Professional school—whether tegs),
medical or theological—ought to be
in a great centre, where the ripest
and choicest influences of social,
literary and religions maturity cau
be felt, aad from whence influences
can go forth. Ia a great city theo
logical students are educated to what
they must need a knowledge of
auut—* knowledge sf which they
generally have wry tittle. Man, aa
tbe creature of God; man no the
sinner, aud aa the object «f grace,
to one groat subject with which the
minister to to be* acquainted. Tbe
divinity student wbo has hud very
tittle intercourse with hia soul, to
like the medical student who knows
the human system only by picture*.
The city furnishes more perfectly
than to possible elsewhere the clinic
which both need. The cross-road
policy, which bn been so total to
onr church, mnst be
the delusion that we are to
not what to good, but what to
aa if failure or Utfertor results could
bo cheap. The. very strongest men
of the church should be put into
the theological professorships at finy
cost. The disciple is not g^Tn- to
be above hto Master; and if the
church provides inferior totehefa,,
the popffa they send out will ho
wretched. We moat not haw mere
pot iuto her theological chairs
■rea who hare approved
aa practical workers. 8be
never make a professor of
wbo has foiled aa a partor.
eh ukl hare men whose JUMfite*
is vitalised by a great (mrpore aud
a holy enthusiasm. The Seminary to
the great maia-spHagof the church’s
power; it makes and moves what
moves everything else. Whatever
the Bemiusry to the church wUJ be.
If you can establish the beat Semi-;
nary iu the chareh, you will have
the beat ministry aad tbe greatest
future within the church. X Thao-
tegtoal Heminary of the highest order [
is a pearl of great price, iu order V.
secure which the church weuid be
wire to aell all she baa, if Bred ha.
The Seminan aud the College react
ou each other, and are each other's
beat aad meat aafcasary friend.
Give us aa intelligent ministry, and
we shall see our colleges sustained. 1
Bat it to the Seminary, or tbe rrttg
teas impulses toward ft, which begets
aad begins the colleges, aa it to the
college which then become* a great
feeder ami sustainerof the Seminary.
May the church be truly more ia
regard to both, avoiding above all
things the penny-wise, which is the
hopeless folly which ia sore to fofl.
[Osr. Lutheran & MUfiooorg.
H is one of the things which
distinguish the wicked man, that
“God is not in all hi* thoughts."
It to one of the thiuga, cortWatively,
which indicate that a man to good,
that be does think of God; that ho
love* to think about him; that hto
mind tends naturally to thought of
him; that he remembers him upon
his bed, and meditates on him in the
uight watches; that he has rasped
unto him, aud unto hi* statutes
continually.
It to a law of oar human nature
that tbe mind, when the (treasure
of its daily tasks is lifted, and tho
strain and flexure of its habitual
drudgeries is eased, by instinct re
veris to its dearest objects. The
lover, when ius task is douc^ iu the
twilight shadows turns to the dear
unage of hia beloved one, and next
to the joy of being with her to that
ef thinking of her. The absent
husband aud father improves every
momeut of respite from those labors,
for them more than himself which
engross him, to call up before the
eye of hia miud the faithful focus
of his sweet wife and children, and
to listen, with the ear of the soul
absorbed, to the remembered music
of their happy voices. How many a
camp through the strife* of tho
rebrlliou was kept pure hy this
reversion of thought to distant
homes and kindred.
By this law it cau not but be that
if a human soul really doe* love God,
it shall love to think of him, and its
meditation of him total! be sweet.
Sweet iu that it to fixed upon the
grandest aud most glorious object of
thought ia the universe; who Is from
crertasthig, eternal, immortal, invis
ible, who covereth liimself with light,
whose greatness is unsearchable, and
yet who him told us to call him “Our
Father which art in heaven !* ’ x ‘\ ^
Sweet hi that ft to fixed upon The
infinitely Holy One—glorious in ho-
Mness, fearfol iu praises, doing won
ders ; who to of purer eyes than to
behold iniquity, and yrt wbo encour
ages the moot sinful and miserable
creature to como unto him in pen
itonce, in the parable of tbe prodigal
wnt , ? " r
Sweet especially in that it Is fixed
i lather ef our Lord Jesus
upon the F
Christ, who so loved tho world that
he gave bis only ksgitteu Sou, that
whosoever betirvrth is him should
not perish, bat bare everlasting Rfo;
and that it oan take hold of aH those
prfeioas aud Massing promises which
re-assure the fainting, and embolden
the weak, and cheer aU believing
ones as they are walking and work
iug on from the city of destruction to
the city of life—where their eye*
shad see the King m hto beauty,
while tbey behold the land that is
very for off.
8wert it is to meditate upon such
a God, when all to light and bright ;
sweeter yet when ail to dartt, and it
i« very tempestuous round about:
* - fiwaet on hh foithfntora* ts tea*,
Whom tore cau sorer end ;
L ?CSi7i
V KSitinthc'conftth.mw ol faith
TO trmut hi* firm deem;
- Awret to lie pawuve in hu hands,
And knew no will Imt his 1
[ Congrcgetionalut-