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v i - : -.1. ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTI81T-EPHE8IA N8 I?: 5. *\ COLUMBIA, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OVEMBBR 2, 1870 OLD 8ERIKS, VOL. V.-tfO. 114 which have a high degree of hfatori cel significance. The difficulty Is to properly interpret them. It «m predieted year* ego that these would completely overthrow the Bible; but in proportion ft* they become prop, erly understood, they Moot clearly confirm and illustrate the truth of that blessed Book. Tim scientific expedition under the first Napoleon met with oertufa monuments which were claimed by some to ptwve au antiquity long anterior to any records of history, either sacred or profane. The priu- j eipal of these were the Zodiaes of Esueh and 1 fenders h, which were snpjioeed to represent the state of the heavens at the time when the temples in which they were found were buiB, and to prove a very re mote antiquity. The discovery' made a sensation, aiul it was triumphantly asserted that the statements of Moses were erroneous. “M. Jomard proved to his own satisfaction that these Zodiacs were three tbonannd years, ami M. Dupuis that they were, at the very least, font thousand years older than the Christian era; while M. Lori wonld not abide a week of seventeen thousand years.* Their discrepancies Of course weakened considerably the fort?« of the general argument, but the oppoucr* of the Bible were not willing to acknowl edge the defeat, ami would not give op the eondnston that the Znritar* proved an antiquity of at least six thousand years. The seeming tri nmph of skepticism against Reve lation soon shauged into a signal defeat. In 17tK>, while certain exCacntions were going on near ltosetta in Egypt, a French artifiery officer, tunned Benchhr<l, discovered » large stone marked with various sinpilar rhsr acters awl hien>glvphies. These were found to contain inscriptions in three different fanguages, one in Greek, another in hieroglyphic or saertd, and s third fn aneient Coptic. Tliis was rolled the Rosetta Stone, which Is now in the British Museum. By a Comparison of tin* characters found in tlie different insrriptions, s key was fonml by which to dec! pher the hieroglyphics that covered! the obelisks, temples and tombs of Egypt. By the application of this it was discovered that the celebrated Zodiacs extended no further bark than the early Roman em|»erora. On the walls of the great temple at Deuderah, in the celling of which the Zodiac had been placed, Cham poleou had rend the titles, names, &c., of tlie enqwTora Tiberins, Clan- dins, ?fero, and others; and flu the pyramid that point to a grant Domical event that oumresd weeptng, no pain, no sorrow, no change forever. They that dwell in It **dud! hunger no mow, neither tUnt any maw* (Bev. vi: 16, 17); for “the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and mm to it with songs; sorrow and sighing shall flee away* (Isa. xxxv: Hh) Blessed city! City sf pesos, and love, and song! } Fit aeemupautiauit of the new heavens; fit metropolis of the new earth, where- ip dwdlcth righteousness I Bow ea gerly should we look far it! How worthy of 1t should we Mve! well the tamptatfaas which wa have to say popular things instead of true things; and whan a pastor is sow pressed to maintain hit family, he Mure than thirty years ago the Astronomer flerachel first so K ♦*< l that the ago of the structure might be ascertained astronomically. Three Is a pdersl movement of the heavens rolled hy astronomers “the great processional cycle,* by which the different si stems in the vatvsrar revolve around a great neater, la this movement it can be ready safer taiucd what the relative position* of certain bodies or systems aw, ar what they were Cy years or thou samla of yean since. The ooopmc tmu of s Praeonis and the Pleiades oeearred at midnight in ( ►< tuber, 2170 years before Christ, and snll not occur again till years after that wist This result has not been arrived at hastily, but by patient uud mist laborious scientific investigation. The late John Taylor, of I/omkin, taking np the suggestion of Hcrsrliel, OWWnbscrfbere v ho fail to r the expiration if their m tiuus will be d urged per-. No new name* its entered wription book, w thont the II RATES O AOVRRTlMNa: equate (< ue inch of rqlunm): insertion ............*1--fi 73 uonth... 4-e • W months 5 00 onthi.«. monthi .... • m..... 4).It 00 rertiaeuM at* of tiires square* and i a discount of 30 paTsent, of are* and npward*. 3Q per ceut., quart* au l upward*. 40 per cent., >n«-hatf • olutnn and qp wards, 50 . will be < sdtictad from the above iris*, whfu mors than firs line*, t* for ei| ht words, payable iu ■MDt y*a» begia ta tremble before an auditor, yoa aw gone! Fear God always; bat man aerwr / Another temptation is to write “splendid sermons,” amt oovrt popu lar np|danse. To be udd after preach ing, “You gave us a magnificent discourse,* may lie a cone to you; but to be told “that sertuou cat me to the heart,* or “seat me to Jesus,* la a blessing btyood measure. It ia the real of the spirit You may toil all the week ou aa elaborate, onia mental discourse. am] |-Jidi it with the pumice *tooe to the last syllable, and nay t« y “There? I fancy that is a good wuh* * But it is imohsldc that God will not think it a very gmsl sermon. aad He will ■mash your pride and sell conceit, hy making ft a« Issrrru of rronltn an the east wind. On the other band, you will sometime* deliver a plain, simple sermon that yoa are ifluaist ashamed of, and you shall afterwards learn that it drew some poor siuaer to the Haviour. The year after my lkvmsure, I pi«-.*cl»cd at Saratoga. The next day a baker in the Milage mid to me. “Young man ! you are a -dnuiger here, and yesterday I pitied you a hen you Itrgau, for you did not know shat a critical audience vou hail to mklfta*. But I have noticed that if a minister can only convince hi* congregation during the first fire minutes that he caret for oothiag but to asrv their mh, he will Hft mil the retries is the Isom* J have al ways thanked that oaker far the heat pmctn ul ’ ul ut | ever fut,-*fus Humbly confessing oar sins, our Sods of Zion! What a title of hrmor! How poetical and signifi cant! Yet, under the proud oppres sor's hand, bow are the mighty’ fallen! The punty of hearts and tha sanctity of tool* are nothing is the eyes of wished rule™. Although estimated by the inspired penman aa fins gald, goad aiea are Recounted by the world as earthen pitchers. Men (M if fats—1 John iv : A—This single announcement of the beloved disriple, contradicted hy ao many appearance*, yet carrying its own evidence; in the world around as met by many a no and many a mahnur,. ami fro* the caverns of despair fetching up a fiendish laughter, and yet countersigned by Jehovah’s handwriting na the ruined tablets of the heart, and la trumpet toors reverberated from the hills of immortality; this ftorttst of went to Egypt and dwell far months iu a cave near the pyramid, and investigated and explored for him self, and tlie result wss a Hi which he gives the facta uud grand conclusion. He regards the pyra udd as having been erected by the direction of divine inapiratiou, and with a great rod to be accuMopHsknl. He regards its testimony to the Bible aa being of inralenlabt* value. Fiazzi Hesh, the astronomer royal of Scotland, vhitul the pyramid after Taylor, and arrived at the same result, embodied iu throe Ist^e volumes imbttshed in lumdou. This being the oldaat of the m«»n timenfa, ;uid its age being deter mimhsI, all other monumental evl dence (ivodureil to show the extreme authprity of Egy pt aa a nation mast b* regarded as groundless, no man amenta) tv pawls extending IsryutMl this. There is use suikmg fsatacw sboat this atmrtare, which la ita saltire faaedom from every vestign at ifisls try, which ran not ba said at the other monument* around it, and Ihrnugtoftlt Egypt. Here ia the «fideat, the largast. and most perfect .drurtare ever i-resdad by maw on earth fare from any nv of the of holy principles and noble purposes, are genuinely valuable. They have Intrinsic worth. They are the salt of the earth—the light pf the world. Yliey are really great and rich, al though apparently weak and poor. Re ligions, They are covenanted in sacred bro therhood; they are heirs of immor tality. Angels are their aer.anta. Jesus Christ is their redeemer. Heaven *» their home jp or (he universe revokes ita shilling pm All t’lVags are theirs. Believere of creri name and nation are the pre vious sons of Zion, comparable to hae gold. They who are faithful have a name aad a credit for Christ’s sake, which are honored among the shining hosts above, although they may be often hungry, and. hated, and hunted down o» earth, la all ages God’s people have been at dis count in the marts of the world. Wealth mixes its alms with curses, aad tosses the compound toward chill, shelterless pilgrims, as crusts and bones to a dog. The Old Testa ment saints were thus treated by peers of the realm and sous of estate. The first disciples of Jcsns were ridi culed, mocked, and derided as the offscourings of the earth—as the fol lowers of him who was hanged. The Redeemer himself appeared as a root out o& a dry ground. He was despised and rejected of men. Down through the whole history of the church, good men have suffered per secution— Workday Christianity, by Alexander Clark bjr the enemies of the Bible to show that Egyptian history and antiqua rian Remains ire in conflict with statements mat e by inspired writers. But the more s e become acquainted with the fact*, the more Evident it new supply of grace. Clouet duties faithfully obrerved will bear precious fruit in tha Christian's life. Let uo i bristian therefore neglect the duties of the closet. Q. R. Messenger. I)r. Bouar, gf Ifi^ogst* thus dfa-ouruM upon Rev. xxl: 1J>. 1* ft b a great city. “Hist great rity,** Mid John, gazing upon it IW circuit is vast—beyond Babylon, or Nineveh, or Paris, or London. That “mighty city,” says John, *k ing of Babylon, the Great (Bev. xiii: lfl) ‘ There is no history < -Egypt extant. Tlie histu generally refer ed to as authority is ti iat of M« is often declaipl with £ ranee that this a riteFs hisl that Egypt existed as a m sands of yean} before tl and therefore thv> Script™ of that event can uot be who was Maijjethof H Egyptian pric«t that lit tire/ huudred jye»rs bef What is knowu about hi That history, Which «*on* inally of tluw! volumes, existence. Tbit work, • we can jndge, wa* far f truthful. The j author li know led ged, iu iWicatin^ ailelphns, king! of Egyp but this ia mightier far. ’Dmre has been no dty like it ft •a the dty, the one dty, the great metrapotis of the mighty universe, ti* mighty city of the mighty God. 3. It ia u trail bailt city. Ita “builder and ia God.” Religion is, in ow aspect, a per aoual BMttter. It parUkra mlpct ivt4> of the personal type of each indit idual's life. The aptsogs of life be hidden from outward view. And all true soul-life has its secret side. Iu private the moot |«oteut forces of life jtvuerete what reveal* itself •f ROAD. djre Railroad Mi 4 10 pm .....7 00pm Mam I Mam aa given to fill ita heaven. The glory of God is ita “light/ or “famp,* ao that it ueodo no candla, no sunlight. There ia no night private Ikcndcreh, lie rend the Tuunea of Lord. And it shall be for a idgti riandtus and Antonin*:* l»iu«. Thns * w d for a witness unto the l*ml of it was proved t>,*t the moonmerfta ho»u* in the land of Egypt.” for which r,n extreme antiquity had There stand* that pillar to-day, been claimed l*y Volney and other that was erected centuries heforv infidels, were found to belong to that I Mooes, and while otter monumrnts perils! in which Egypt wna under *** crumbHug uround it, it stats!* the government bf the Romans, and regardImm of tlie tooth of time, conhl not be dated farther back than I "’hetlier or not this is <Breetly re the flfat or second centitry of the forerti to by l*siuh, as a matter of Christian era. ;Thns the IlwHta 1 ^ *tamls as an immovable Stone in the < , onrsc of Providence dasheil to atoms what, had been regarded by skeptics as a gigantic and invulnerable argument against the Bcriptnrcs. There is one of the monuments of Egypt that has been attracting spe envy of ike el nasi. Our blessed Saviour, who kuew all that is in mas. aad therefarr ry far Uw base stale of the soul, makes it a duty resting on evoty oue to attend ta orrtaiu private devotreoa of the clonet. lie oom- uiniids to “enter into the closet.* Ami sveu there, sbn, the privury of tin’ place is to be further guarded, by excluding the |MMMihility of oth ecu* tiremuMv. “And when thou hast shut thy dour,” ia a direction given to hur out all else, and leave the soul ah me witli God. Tim solemnity 4. U ia a «cwti srulsrvd rity . A pure river of Um water of Ufa flown the throne of God and the Tomb What must its waters be l Who in * it can ever thirat f Its inhab itant* shall thirst no more. o. it is a mall, jwswunsri city. The true of life ia there, with its twelve variety of fruit* nod its health giving leaven. It has more than Kales had. It iu Paradise restored. Paradise and Jerusalem iu oue: Jerusalem iu l’aradiae, and Paradise in Jerusalem, % tk It is a arail gmardad rity. uJiot only has it gnte% uud Hriia, nud delushhi ware to be avoided, this oouhl only be areom|dish«d Hi the shape in whmh it won actually re quired. If it were to be whalh' an net of frith, left to its own energies, without any other porit of rapport, God eould uot merely ask a mental Bt. Augusliito rriates, iu Ids “Gou- fsasions," that one Yiet«iruHi*« agrrat wan at Uouw, who had nmny m b heathen friouds and rria tiara, was converted to the oh notion rehgiou He TU|sdrn*l to a friend of km, akm a <xmvert, aud t<4d him secretly that lie too wua s Christian. “I will uot believe thee to be a Christian,” mkl the other, “until I see thee openly firnfess it in the cburch,” ,“V\ bat, 8 said Yintonura. “<lo tlie church walla make a Christian V But directly tin- answer came to kin own liemrti >\Vbouo«ver shall be asiiamed of Me and of my wards, of him, nJ*>. shall the Hon of Man be ashamed, when he cometh iu the glory ofhin Fitikor, with the holy angels.” I He was ready to hear the scorn cud attention within the last few years. I mean the groat Pyramid. This was one of the seven womler* of the world, six of whicii have passed away, and this, the last of them, stands in its own solitary graudenr. It is -situated near Cairo, and covers nearly tliirteeu acres of ground, and is henrly flye hundri*! feet high. ILnslitus visited it in hia travels, and describes it a* the Pyramid of Cheops. Tie says that it required ten years to prepare for its erection, and one hundred thou sand men twenty yeftrs to builil it. The huge atones were brought five hundred mile*. Thisb* the most won derful (if all Egypt’s monuments. When was it erected t Written history does not decide tiusqutriMO. The two greatest .authorities in Egyptian arclneojogy are Bunsen and Lepiius. They state most expressly that there is no evidence of any monument ^fifing older than Ihis. This Ik-ing, a* there is evidence, to believe, the oldest monumental re cord, a knowledge of its age most have au important bearing. This is provwl to have been erected 2170 yearn before Christ.. J can only at present indicate.the proeea* or step* by which this 1 result . has. I men reached. A tone with Gad, shut off from the world ia the dorp privacy of- the clorak tfco hnmou arail uMUfi also pray. It is not eoongh, only to plsisty offered up his son, God interposed and |irai entud the ssuri- ftos which wra UO longer requiml for the iwqwsrof trial. 8 The snyv pusitiou of oirisiii German eritkss that Abraham turaw soaratiy that Isaac wss ant to ba put to <loath, King ia the 3oo of God; the Miuff of khunL • the Kiu£T stir- usl, whose scapfire ia righteousness; who lovetli rigliteonaness uud hstetb iniquity.. - >'o misrule fa then, no disorder, uo lawteaeoeas. ..v. fc i •<:* 8 U fa a mil tangled rity. It has gathered within its walls all gnu onc«| against ret giving implicitly his statements, b;n ed, as tliey w ere, lunipljr on whs ; - Mfjptiio priests told him, who ilid not. hesitate to hq wlien it sec ned to i#rve their thst the regarded itbor, and authentic a (area, and does violence to the text of Scripture. An exchange rays that the fallow. Ing is the pftbfafit sermon ever preached : “Our ingress lu life is naked and bare; our progress thro' Mb is trouble mud cure; our egress out of it We know not where; but doing weft here we shall do well there” But w© have heard of n shorter, which was ones preadfad by the Irish Dean Kirwan. He was pressed, while Buffering from a severe fluid, to preach a charity sermon in 8L FeteF* church, Dublin, far the benefit of the orphan children of the warish school. The church was ftowdod to aaffuraSiou, and the good fdeua, on mounting the pnlpit sod announcing his tart, pointed with bis hand to the children ia the aisle, and simply raid: “There they are” TlrasallMlfaff fifflfiiM riltHlfifl - non for thr late, ths® SC Prayiug to God fa a very real and a very spiritual act. : So room fa left far hypocrisy, hor fa it poorilil# ta Is inmaeere while tha* closeted with tht Esther who sseth in sesrai. Saksd and exposed ta the eye of Gad In the awfal privacy* of the tlfat Mane the, writer ou Kin most that he might honor hie Master ia a Manetho and ierodotifa being the l#<) cliief liten ry authorities per- Irining to ancieiit Egypt, jwo readily that no 'itii>ortant. loucioaion be safely biieed ou tboir stute- ]*H*nts. Jbe in fid d is tlM^rafare driven monumental history to try to *«ake out hi* cm u But hjre, as can (■py ft® showi, he signally fail*, *«wd the weaixxH from the armory that he endeavors to turn against Bible turn iut to bd so many it is gokl, aud peon, and gems. Ev er> thing rrapfamdeut fa there IL It fa a Messed ofay. It fa truly the joyous eifa. it fa the thrsus and to (rod, fa au absolute godliness. No one can neglect uud grow ia spirituality. A fa