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ONE LORD, ONI FAITH, ONE BAPTI8M"—EPHE8IAN8 IV COLUMBIA. S. C„ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1870 OLD SERIES, VOL. Y.-NO. 113 actor. HU dislike to holiness and to God should convince him how Ur he has fallen, and lead him to seek through the gospel, which alone brings it, the remedy—even that holiness “without which no man shall see the Lord." Holiness restores to man the true dignity of his character, and enables him to do his duty to hU God. It U also in holiness that his true en joyment U found. A grant mistake needs to be corrected here. “God liness,” says the Scripture, “is profit able unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which U to come.” But men do not believe this. Those who admit the truth of the Christian religion, but who have not come under its power, whether out of the church or in it, believe that godliness is profitable in the long run—that the way to be happy hereafter is to be godly here$ but they do not believe that it is profitable in respect of Moment in this life. On the contrary, they think that it stands in the way of eiyoyment. With them, a religions life is one in which a person must consent to give up much enjoyment. If they consent to live such a life, it is with the hope—the vain hope— that their life of constrained godliness will render them safe hereafter. And if they attempt such a life, you may be sure that they will temper down their godliness aa near to the course of this world as they dare for fear of the fatnre. Hence, we fear, the carnal lives of so many profeasors of godliness. 1 Such, whatever they profees, be lieve the great falsehood that holi ness and duty to God into exercise, Into self-denial, into sacrifice, into endurance for Christ’s aake for a season, awl gradually tempered into practical religious work; mod then the gospel would have power on the minds and hearts of sinners. Every church ought to have its annealing apparatus, and keep it turning until every brittle vessel of the Lord is tempered into reasonable diacipleship.— Workday Christianity, by A torse der Clark. of the right kind of material. Borne of these are now in a very sickly condition, and some of them me numbered with things that have ventions to divide, confuse, and destroy the unity of Christian broth erhood. We do not urge objection to denominational organisations, if only they are sympathetic and sup plemenlary in their methods. Bat The tendency in the religious teaching of the preeeot day is to lose sight of the cross. Perhaps it is the tendency of every age, as it is the natural out-working of a cor rupt human nature, in its pride and M>)f sufficiency. But the oroee stands in the centre of all thoee precious truths that relate to oar reconcilia tion with God and our right to the inheritance of the saints in glory, and as such the eye of the lost and ruined should be constantly pointed to it Around the cross me exhib ited those peculiar facts and princi ples that are distinctive of the ohria tiau faith as a system of religious truth for sinners. Around the cross the disease that afflicts our ruined race and the glorious provision of Infinite Wisdom for our health and healing are also exhibited. For in stance : (L) Tht kelpUi xnn.t qf men it ten in the cross. “For if there had been a law given which could have gives life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.” Had it been poa- aeeumnlated and aggravated guilt of life f If Judgment was thus ua. mingled with mercy, when Justice claimed its penalty of the dearest object of the divine compassion, “what shall the end be of those that obey not the gospel of God F If the representative of the violated law, himself bety and harmless, was Otto, Strictly in where shall the ungodly anat appear,* “when God ouam-l over L otto**. “Fanning Mill* winnows the chaff and i,r, M .K ttom wheat s* follows. We are r*«A <V, do „«*. to to.rtSthl "*“ OW wh “•» 1--.IT. .1 . proposes to do about it: UuoentaUous not only of sainted krat of rtiniria hJ yo®, Mr. K4ltor^ ptroit m€ the pity of the ascended Lord him to my m Word or two in peUtion *» self, “The precious sons of Zion the* h*™ 1 «» important lw*r- oomparsMe to fine gold, how ai^ iDg Upoa U * int * rwrt * they esteemed as cartheti pitchers, reoer * 1 ' * ,K * ® hnrt * “ Pratic the work of the heads of the Hotter f” TbO if® hot ssbuned or I Wathdan ( hnsdoMit* *fr*id to mre yemr pro, or the pen of i v others, to expose the moral coirap The A L-K K ProceM **<»» that are ykl "**** high and low places, amid the teeming In glass manufacture them is a ihoatUimU *« this mighty city, out {trooess called annealing, which es °* th ® church, or the defects aod pecially interval* the visitor. Glass, »bortrComings too, within it on suddenly cooling, acquires great Bot what have I to say about the brittleness. A chill, after the most church sad Iter agencies, her mal- pninataking aod successful mould P*»«Gce, her wise, or unwise mess ing of vase or goblet, would due nrM V Ixwking over one of our the beautifal structure to fly to religious publications the other day, pfeeas. A slight touch of finger * - * w or two Articles in relation nail or crumb of glam has, in • totfe home Add or miasiooaiy work, critical moment, sometimes crushed *®d calling young men to the ftpnt the finest specimen of artistry to The field is the world, but ss we can dust. There is u remedy for this not cultivate this whole field, we tendency in new made glass. By must select that part most accessible, annealing or re heating the wave, ‘“d for which we can find the best to a degree a little below that by qualified laborers. Borne In the which it was melted, and gradually church would call our young men to removing U from hot to cooler tern ‘he front aa soon as tliey leave the but send them out two and two—the young men, and the man in knowledge, experience and grace. Now I ask those who are so zeal oos in calling young men to The Front, what they wish to do with the middle aged, or those whose raven locks give place to gray? I do not mean the snperanqated. Are they to be ignored in our church, and no man to be tolerated in the pulpit with gray hairs In Ms~head f Or is the order promulgated from headquarters, “old mm counter- march to the rear and take back seats, or become drones and loiterers at the earners of the streets.” If such be the doctrine and policy of Young America in toe church, I ignore it and set it down as proof positive of degeneracy and moral corruption in our church, I am sure, very sure, we do not learn this doctrine from the great lawgiver, Moses, under the Jewish or Theo erotic disjtensation. Now do ws leant it from Paul, the “aged,” of the Christian era. It must be one of the fashionable movements of the present enlightened age. A vast improve ment upon the practice and order of the church, ss founded by Christ, and upon the Twelve sent “To the Front* by our Lord. These twelve were solid men—am of matured Judgment, and although, not im proved and iseparoil for their gseai att of three sq mi of 20 per upwards, 90 ] —BO loved it, “that He gave Ills only begotten Bon” to all the ha mil iation, suffering and shame to which Us waa subjected, “Chat whamertr believeth In Him should not perish, but have everlasting life !F “O the n h depths of love divineF Who can fathom them, or grasp the Ml the favor of God, toe sacrifice of the cross would not have been made. To mao himself would have been committed the work of restoration— of rendering satisfaction for the past, of working out a righteousness for a Religions. au eternal reward. The fact that “we are not under the law, but se der toe the fact that the righteousness which secures our ac ceptance with God is not the work of our own bauds, but is wrought out by another—the fart that, when are more apt to be addree regard to their safety than in to their moral state; and beu come to regard the gospel as according to which men art safe in view of toe future, than as the way by which are made holy. This is not 1 ministers and others who den sinners undervalue the impo lance of holiness, or deny its necessity, but because they find men] more easily impressed with a seise of danger than with a sense of kinful ness. This is well enough, if, it lead ta concern about their sin ilness also. But if it go so fur the than who fare, and in the Boa who came. Fur it waa a free-will offering of His. No constraint waa laid upon Him. “Ixi, I come,” He cried. “I delight to do thy will, O my God : Yea, thy lau is within my heart.” “He loved us, ami yarn Himedf for ua.” And -farm omrsMion like s God. ) they plan made lie in oue direction, and happiness in another. Tliey believe that the commandim uts of God are grievous—their state of mi ml thus contradicting the plain statement of God by his apostle, that “hie commandments are not fries- otm.” It is the venom ot the old serpent yet rankling within them, who induced the beads of the human raw to believe that some great good would be gained by breaking the commandment of God. Divine grace alone can cure ik But thoee of whom we speak have not experi enced its healing power. If they had, they would know that holiness and happioesa are to be found to gether. Holiness is the fluty of man, and it is the great interest of man. roers of our substitute, we art exhortid to look away from ourselves even fur the strength needful to lay hold of the offered blessing—the fart that we are not to dwell upon the wound that is bringing death and destine tion to ns, but to turn our eyes to Him who is lifted up, as the serpent in the wilderness, for our healing— all this teaches as oar Ir^lwusi We are totally ntiard aad unflsue “without God and without bopeu." (A) 21s asaymty of Gate law it •indicated in the arum. It waa mag nified and made hnasrehls through Him who died there, both as to Ha precepts sad its penalties. He ©b them forth with only their A. B. O. knowledge, taught them by their Professor*. I once heard ooe of the most pkms and aide expounders of God’s Word that ever filled the chair of a tbeotogirhl professor, say to a class about to leave the Seminary, “Young gentlemen, you may think you now have a vast store of theo logical loro, with which to combat the enemies of truth; but you are mistaken. You hare only the general principles or marks laid down in this vast field before yofe as your guide in working out the specific truth best adapted to your great work of preach ing the Gospel. The filling up will require years of hard study, close observation, and earnest and humble to produce a desire to be i tie in view of threatened punishmei j, it is purely selfish. Such convict on is not thorough enough to be fu lowed by true conversion. True conviction most apprehend the real stole of the case. £ mklea the mere alarm because graft has exposed us to puuishment, | there most be the conviction thqjt toe soul has fallen out of harmony with God; that in its present condition, without a change, it must *ct in contrariety to the will of Godf that there is in us neither the will n k toe power to make the needed el sage; that this condition of the I njnan sonl involves all that is evi, and can attain the perfection of Us being —iu point of duty, in paint of dig nity, raid in point of o^joymeat Let its necessity, then, be urged upon sinners, sod it* nature ex plained. Withal, show them how to obtain it, for no more can their own efforts make them holy than their In proportion ss the inner life is vivid, the outer life will be af fective. St. Paul was naturally a man of vigor. His yefy faults were those of energy. When he appre hended, or rather was apprehended by Christ, he did not lose vigor; he became mote intense, mote earn est, more executive than ever. The inward life does not distract, it con centrates—-does not enervate, it em phasizes—the outward. While it calms it stirs, while it gives repose it also gives force. You have seen the invigorating influence of a human pamkm, You have observed how love will make a timid woman courageous; how it gives rush and flow to a desulto ry, purposeless man, to have within himself the consciousness of a vir tuous affection, for the sake of which it is worth while to be brave, and necessary to be pore. T You have said sometimes of one and Young men, now called to The Front, arc comparatively ignorant of the world, and-of the pastoral duties of the ministry; and they will find, that some or many of the rales laid down in our Theological'schools will not aid them much, when they come in contact with scoffers, or men who tell them they believe only that which they learn for no reason. Those who go to the Front, to the new and rather dangerous or unor ganized parts of our land, will meet there men of intelligence and power, who will atm to mould society to their own anti Christian aims, men who hate all moral or religions re straint—and call all Bible religion priestcraft. Sorely, to cope with snch an dement tome ought to be materia], well furnished and well balanced minds, and men who have selfreliance, and reliance from past experience. Was it the young men sent to The Front who established kingdoms, and laid the foundations of great cities, and organized society, out of hetrogeneous materials in our own and other lands f Were the Pilgrim pioneers, young men, sent to Hie Front, to found and organize a colony that was to extend and perpetuate a new and religious influ ence which would reach, and be felt for good to the uttermost border of our land ! Do our skillftil and brave generals send young men from the school of the drill squad, when a strong position of the enemy is to bs stormed, or when the centre line is to be broken and thrown back on the wings! I think not Men of tried oourage and of steady purpose, —men who have seen the bayonets and heard the clang of the sabre in deadly conflict, are the main reliance. It is no very easy task to organize a church on Bible principles, and lay a foundation that can not he moved by every moral earthquake that may shake its foundation, or be changed or blown away by every wind of doctrine that may rage against it Many churches have boon organized in haste tot want of improved judg ment, and the selection of toe right dqaft nod piocdj and the employment m and glaze, and dmripleabip, brittle that in this, condition of eonti iriety to God happiness is impo isible. Such a conviction must cans deep concern and a desire for ha inees, which is the opposite conflitiou. Without a conviction of tb* true state of the case, the gospel, is its remedy, wilj not be uiKlersto| i nor embraced. If men are only sq isible of danger, the gospel, if at* nded Both are equally the result of free grace, and faith in Christ puts in possession of the one ss well ss of the other. While the meri to of Christ have procured pardon, so have tocy procured the good offices at the Holy Spirit to make of sinners holy per sons.—United Presbyterian. ss the Scriptures teach, “He was wounded for oar transgressions; He was braised for oar iniquities.* “He bore omr tins in Hit awn body on the tree.” Bo God can he Just aod the justifler of him that bsUewath in Jesns. The way to a fall aad for* pardon is open to the transgressor of God's law, through the atonement of the gracious Saviour. Thoee who are in rebellion have bat to lay down their arms, acre;* of pardoa through the provision made by the crucified Son pf God, ami be at once admitted into the family of God, with all the righto and privileges incident to the new relation. i (A) The most powerful nppsah ta By prayer and patience the new convert must be disciplined to daily duty, advanced by carefal degrees Into Christian work, sad ooroe by time and regularity into strength. And there an* some old Christians who have never been annealed. They may have been converted years ago, bat not being needed particularly, being more ornamental than nsefal, they hare, like blown bat unannealed glass wan*, been on the shelf and hidden. Their names are on the church register, and that is about their greatest achievement in reli gion. They are never in net*. They have become so accustomed to the shelf sod the shade that yon never miss them. They keep in rear plaoes and dark corners. - They have the form of Christianity; they rasy have tone enough to pray; they may look solemn and behave respectably in God’* Omnipotence He commands. the light to go forth, and it goes, bounding along the horizons in silver sandals swifter tlian a fleet-footed hart on the moun tains. He recalls it, and it obeys in the tremblings of eventide. The stftrs give light in"th*»ir midnight watches, and sing. When they are called out as sentinris to keep vigil in the solemn silences, they answer, “Here we are!” Thii stupendous machine which God has erected is subordinate to bis will in every atom of its substance. When the captives were led out of Egypt toward Ca naan, the sea saw the approaching host and parted its billows before their weary feet Before the children of God, Jordan rolled backward its currents and stood still. That the sons of Israel might prevail in battle, the sun halted in bis march across the heavens. The Almighty touched the great orb with his finger, as a jeweler would touch the spring-wheel of a chronometer to drop a moment from its conut. He who created absolutely controls. The miracles of Jesns attest this truth. I A .. -« *1 "When God came down from heaven, the living God, What signs and wonders marked his Itoliness will not be sough desired. Now, may it not be that ll «der the partial kind of awa) to whicii we liave referred, profess their acceptance of til pd, and become members c visible eh arch, while all the I they desire and look for is exe* from punishment in the future May not this help to account J low grade of piety so common church f May not this be the| zhy so many seem to be stjj; ho|r closely they can conform^ ed the great facto connected with the birth, toe life and the death of the Bon of God. The monger in Bethlehem, with its touching story of human privation and suffering; the scenes of poverty aod want, of reproach and ingratitude, of love and mercy, through which too Di vine Saviour passed daring the weary years of His pilgrimage on earth; the garden of Gethsemane, with its tale of ioexpreseible anguish ; the judgment hall of Pilate with its mockery and insult, its cruelty and shame, its falsehood and peijnry; the hill of Calvary, with its last act in the dark and bloody tragedy, at which the earth shook to its founda tions and the sun withdrew in hor ror—all these are at once suggested by the cross. And they ask us, with the most awfal solemnity: “If they do these things in the green tree, what shaft be (lone in thodxyF “If God spared not His own Son, bat freely deliver sd 'Him np for •• all,* “how shall ws escape, if we asgtsst so groat salvation F If these awfal ssmtitoea and yon have found toe explana tion afterwards in some secret kin dling on the altar of hie soul of a fire of human devotion. So it is in that one higher region still— the hidden life, that death to the world, of which St Paul tells. ; If yon wish to move hearts, if yon wish to influenoe mind—if yon wish to be a statesman where before you have been a politician, an orator where before you were a rhetori cian—if you wish to warn where before you shone, to kindle where before you dazzled—leant to live the, life unseen, to oome forth from God’s presence into the communion and oontaet of men. “The life hid den with Christ in God*wpl show itself in an elevation a dignity, a nobleness of sfairit, due to a pres ence inwardly felt and munifestod, without pretense or parade, in the words and in the notions of the possessor. “They were not able the empty forme of religion, while they deny tile power. They are earthen pitchers, the work of the I letter's hands. Not the gospel of too Bon of God, not the Holy Spirit, but treaties on theology have made them what they are. Custom has fashionM thorn, and not the blessed Christ. Many of oar popular churches “our church," “our minister,” “our doctrines.” But all the while they have never been annealed. A end den temptation and their temper fifes. Invito them to the prayer meeting, ask them for missionary money, suggest a few hoars' earnest work for Jesus, and snap! they go to pieoee! They may have been converted, bat they were pot on the sbelf before they were annealed, and they are worthless ware I have seen so Might a thing as * bit of wooden pencil, dropped from the hand Into aa unannealed glass gob let on the workman’s table, shiver It to atoms. But no matter how long a piece of glass-ware has lain idle aod unnoticed on the shelf, it may still be annealed as easily ss s new-blown specimen warm from the God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and Unrighteousness of men” Warn them, urge%tlunn. teaeech them to “flee from the Mjrath to come.” Offer them, in God’s name, a free pardon through the blood of Christ. But by no means leaup them ‘gimrant that pardon, great as the might have place and power, are nothing more than spiritual potter ies, where toe sum and substance of all religion are ran in elay, tamed, backed, and finished in fancy styles far exhibition. It Is pretty, and so ts a pitcher; aad as a pitcher is hollow, so is this pious pottery of the rhumb**. 1 Bat the fleet Was*of the is only a «tep ; to the higher benefit of hoik »ouW be of little value wi The great idea of the giwqx yft°g of sinners saints. V rnaQ M! Holiness—the ei “ofl nobility of this being, in likeness to God. tom. His prefer Worldly or spiritual enjoyme l*oves the debasement ot 1 tally alear aod prematurely cold pro feasors should be put into discipline,