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ONE LORD, ONE FA TH, ONE B APT18 M"—EPHESIAN8 IT: 6. COLUMBIA, S. a. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16, 1870 iW SERIES, OLD SERIES, VOL. V.-NO. 116 He knew of tfa surrender of Napo Icon at Sedan or the fall of Stras bourg only hcetvchour* after his city brother had first received the intelli gone**. Around his own happy five- side he rend the news to his family, und made remarks as sage ami instructive as his city brother did twelve boars previous, lu conver sation you find him intelligent and posted, and his congregations are not fed upon stale and uninteresting commonplace; but his sermons par take of the freshness and salubrity of the monutaiu air iu which they are composed aud delivered. His congregations are composed of persons iu the humbler walks of life. As biographers say, they are “poor but respectable,” and hence the sal ary they can otter their fuithfal p*w» tor is rather meagre, if viewed, as the Hermans would express it,/row or city standpoint. In order to get eveu this small salary, he is obliged to serve from six to ten congrega tions, ami his rides are sometimes thirty miles and the same hack. Tbe roads are over unbridged torrents and rivers, over hills and mountains traversed by bridle paths alone, und through gorges often flooded with all of and after supper rides to Ms ap pointment Its does this tor twenty or even twenty-five day*, except during Saturday and Sunday, when he remains at church aud preach**/ during day appointments. At tfa close of the meeting he gathers up the fruit*, meets them as oftea as M can and confirms them, aud feel* abundantly paid for hia labors in seeing his church prosper. Bat when does he study f y ou ask. He does not belong to that class of mortals, a representative of which the poet says t * “Trudged alou*. unknowing what hi •; sought, ' There is no life-path in which we may not look to Jesus as our exam ple. In the borne where God has placed ns, let a* strive to realize this troth. If Christ be in the heart, he will ever dwell with us, enabling ns to perform each daily duty, to bear each dafly trial; will help as to withstand temptation, to resist our easily-besetting sin, and will sup ply all oar need oat of the riches •miller but particularly are strongly possess ed with an opinion of the evil eye. When a child is commended, except you give it aoase blessing, If they are not very well assured of your good will, they use charms against the evil eye; and particularly when they thiak any ill soooeea attends them oa account of an evil eye, they throw salt into the fire.* “No nation in the world,” says l>r. Shaw, “is so much given to supereti lieu as the Arabs, or even the Jto- houMsdane in general. They hang about their children's necks the fig ure of an open hand, usually the right, which the Turks and Hoops paint likewise upon their ships sod houses, as a counter charm to oa evil oy* ; for foe is with them an unlacky number, and foe (meaning their fin- get*) im your eym, is their proverb of The bright aud fitfol « that “little Hammer" whfc erelly have is now away, inters, Widov * of Minim* 1 'heotogwal S adwrts..... scribers who Ail to remit n>i ration of heir sulwer will be chart ed per anm w names are uttered oa i u book, with* ut the first I from the trees, till, by and by, than will not be one vestige of Hu aimer's beauty and Autumn's rich coloring left. And so, my friemla. Is ft with ourselves; we see not the diaajipear aner in ao vast a aumber (yet in the aggregate it woukf be well sigh as vast) | we see not, I say, the altera tions la ao great a degree; but, silently, slowly—hot ao leas surety- are all around us dropping into the grave—the honor appointed for all tiriag. We need not press the mat ter to euforce the truth of the word* heading this paper— “Wf all do fair as a leaf .** If we cast a look around us, we •hall soon call to aund missing links in oor earthly companionships—bow many are gone from us never to retain !—how many vacant places around our family boards! 5am bent! Home old, some young—faded from us forever—gooe to their k*»f h«xue. Nov are thry In earth's aria ter house, pent there until the recur rectino. How ought these thoughts to come home to each and all of us! fur are we nut fading f What does the ia creasing weakness of some —the want of energy—the weariness the slower walk—betoken f Is it ant the begiuoiag of the etui—the first streaks of the tint of Autnmu—that shall, sooner or later, end la the fell of the leaf—the pwsg down into the grave T And here the humanity of Jesus should be very precious to us. It will brighten many a dark hour, and bring peace to our troubled souls, if we remember how He for so many years passed to and fro in those Judaean homes, telling them, “I am among you as he that eerveth;” weeping with tbj* mourner—rejoicing ratks or a lyaRTtsrsa square (one nch of coin Let ns sfads near our Saviour—y ea, ia him—then we need not fear whether we meet with “ sudden death,* or, in the good providence of God, we sink through the sere and y ellow autumn of life peacefully to our nmC May we all aeck a liv ing union with Christ, such a union as will arakr as look upon the end as a friendly aid to rood act as into the blessed presence of our Lord; insertion fiwyMf Hie ‘mind is ewer active as his body, sn«i he Brakes many p good sermon on horseback. It is said of President Kdwards, that upon hi* return from a ride or walk, he had the lafiels of hi* coat covered over with bits of paper or leaves pinned feet, la this condition he wonld eater his study, remove scrap after scrap, hold them in his bauds and write. Uis power of asmwnstiisi was so cultivated sad developed that each little scrap was associated with some idea, sad they were idem* tcorth writing. Ho onr Mountain Pastor, when he rides to and from his meet inga, thuUm, he does not tehmtlc, aud whether he plus his ideas to-his cun* or not, one thiug is certain, his c**q- grepitions reap tbe fane fit of lfa thoughts. But when does he read f W hen yon, my dear reader, may fa sound ly sleeping until the fall of Biddy or Iliuah arouses yon to breakfast at H or 9 o'clock, then our Mountain Pastor has lieen reading, ruruestl) reading, fur three <w f«>ur hours, until, “His mind ir|4rtr with thoaght* of sis BH-U,” gives him food to digest even while he is laboring in tbe “Delightful fauk to rear tbe tender tbo t. To teach the young ides how to ehefU.* Query : Did Thomson ever tearh school T My own experieacs LAs felled to realise the drlightfulnrsf of the task. I think our MuunUia Pastor would pronounce i| port* famey or humbug. But what does he do iu summer time ? Well, this can be answered by piloting from an old song: “Hr plows, be mows. He traps, hr mow*, He gets np wood for winter; And then he snes. months months of three squi of 20 per < t cent., -r cent.. *rd*, 30 • above law of kindness ever on His lips— comforting tt* ««y bh*tofc«fc* little children, and doing good to all. Sinless among sinners—in the world but not of it. How lovely a character! how divine an exam ple! when, come how It may—with no fear, no dread, no dismay; the graTe to us will fa no more dreary, fat the “ports! to life immortal," frill of bright hopes, of future bliss; hope* that shall never i*erish, never deceive; then, with ao dirge of sor- row, shall we think of our dear departed ones, fur we shall remem far that they have begun the an them of triumph, and it will fa oor great drain- to follow after them and dwell with them ia that blissful si*sir “which God has prepared for all who love him." Err soother Autumn shall ram. we may fa ia the silent land, ami the withered leaves may twelve month* hrncr fa faltisg oa our tombs. May God, ia his bonndless merry, grant that over us may fa v nttrti. not in marble slab or sxwiammuil tablet, fat, as ft were, with the finger of God—“/a pence im drili f 9 —Marcus H. /ops. R. RUDE, Columbi years carry with them some para graph* of their Korun, which (as the Jews did their phytaderiee, Exodus xiu : 16, Numbers xv : 3d) they ;*lsce a poo their breasts, or sew upon their water and fined with mud, which would appall the stoutest heart unaccustomed to sneh local ities. In these lohely and fierilons rides he frequently takes, what hi? calls, “short cuts," fat theu be is obliged to lead his horse and walk for miles over grades so steep that no one fat “Old Put," with British bullets whistling in fearful proximity to bis bead, would even think of He therefore cuts Fa the Lutheran The Moon sin Pastor. Rev. J. P. Gttliver, in “a talk with college students* in the Advance, gives this advice: If you wish to find a system of ethics better than all the “Poor Richards* for practical use, and bet ter in theory than all the books of casuistry studied in the schools 1 read the Iwok of Proverbs. It is a wonderful book. It is full of com mon sense. It is discriminating, and yet downright. It hits the nail squarely every time. As a means of success in business, as a node mccum in our intercourse with men, good and bad, sluggish and excita ble, cunning and simple, with men of all sorts in all states, with all characters, there is nothing in litera ture which equals it or even resem bles it I advise you to make it the rule of your life to read two verses in Proverbs before commeoc- • ! ’ . » S ing the work of each day. If you would like to have the name of never doing a foolish thing, or using a foolish argument, or uttering a fool ish opinion, study the Proverbs of Solomon till their spirit has pene trated to tbe very marrow of your daily Hfc. b, the suec «ses aud reverses i City Past* r, the Village Pas- id die Coi ntry Pastor; but good meani ig cliriatimi people nonuit of he very existence Mountain I tutor. They know, ue, that soi ic ministers preach mountains, but by associating with Coni try Pastors, they make of trow a distinct class. *;t is, they i re jieculiAr beings, pug evident y to the gn|at fain- the genus , lomo, but forming met species under the genus, will see by iud by. toy description of of Pastors* I shall me alone, and use riding over them off some kix or ten mile* by walking ami leading his horse half that dis tance. This he calls “short ruts.” In order to visit all his congrega tions be innst ride from 10O to 150 miles. He told me that be had kept an account of his regular rides for one year and they summed up *2,500 miles. Think of this, ye stare 1 ten 1 and delicate city pastors, who ride in street-cars when duty rails you to the next square from your res idence—think of ruling through the mountains tiro thousand fre hundred miles, on horseback, in one year, to preach the gosjwL One of these earn est aud self-denying men told me, with great simplicity, “I had a lone some ride,"noma time ago, over a new road I bail uever traveled.* I asked him the particular*, and he said this: “My corn misled lafar ^ntaxSith Don't frei, for a fretful Christian is like a prickIj pear, hitler within and irritatiug without. God says, “Cast all your cares on we. for 1 care for you." “No you don't,” says the fret ting Christian, “and ao I'll fret over ay cares." * Don't fret, for you are a w itness for < 'brisk What is your testimony worth if jar fretting contradicts Hui word, “My yoke is easy and my burden light T Don't fret, for fretting, instead of I nag youl pilar cla&jj ye upon pilar nut ifar, assuring the that the >icture will repre- Let m< say farther, that hall not o ice use her brush picture. 1 shall spepk only owledge a nd observation. 8 physiq* * he is tt|li, well '’firmly k lit, muscular, ath- iry, elasti having H chest of contai ling and nmintain- ital cnei gy that llercules ave envie I. He is impatient ue, regan less of neither in lauges, si tiling at h^nlshii>s tigers, wl L*ther arising from easts, sv olleu torrents, or in storms. He will idave his i winter, during a driving sleet sto m, aud in Summer a thumb; stonu, duch as described iu tfa Al|>s, and i or fifte* n miles to] preach i any men I asked Why he >oscd him telf, and hid) answer f I shonh fa a&scnt roiu an nent once on accouu of the , a cloudy sky might fa suf- xcuse for mine w eak brother away frt m church it next tuent.’’ I said no im ire, fat lights we e very busy deep my own mart. ly he is t le highest ’type of (e Christian gentleman. He iatically t ic leader aril shep . his moui itaiii fiock.f He is boveithe fatty, i nd sometinies seri- n|s .annoyances <>t gossip ai|d scan- lal,,s» common ill some othfa locali- ies.’ Conscious bf his unllotiuded iiHucuoe among 1 is iieople, h0 enter* ^ie family of any »f his parisfiiouers; Undhas the childr *n, pats th^ young- fers on tfair rosj cheek.* or chucks em | under their fbt chins, makes miw|U generally agreeably; but kesj Occasion, t y happy minis in nvchiation, to i ijcoinmend i to all, tli old and yob tig, the all! impor- nt fad tremeud ms claims of reli- on', l liefore he liraves be calls the nityj o devotion; and after reading & Md of Godj aud prayei, takes Hedge of Tfanui. — Ilaaea ii: 1— That (born fadgr* were cultivated few defrnar, ami t bat ft was difltenlt. If not uapusstliir, to bnsak UiPMagii suck a fence, la evidratly implied la this dr claralloa, which is foumtei apon tfa practice of tfa Eastern people. Thus Du Tutt (vwL ii. p. 312) informs us *Hbat tfa Indian fig tree, of which toe hedges are formed, serves as an relieving from -trouble, will lay on you heavier farden*. A* fear slays more persons than cholera, so fretting kills more than care. Ifon t fret, for God's invvidenoe goverus all things. Consider tfa hairs of your head, the fowls of the air, the lilies of tfa field. Thus stay your heart oa God, and thou sbalt have perfect (teaoe. One of Cromwell's friends was a fretting Christian, to whom every thing went wrong, and portended disaster. One day when unusually fretful, bis scumble servant said : “Master, don't you think that God governed the world very well before you came into it T “Yea; fat why do you ask7" “Docrt you think fa will govern it very well when you are out of it T “Yes! but why do you ask ? “Well, then, caqt you trust him to govern it for the ^little time you are in it f" That shot killed his fretfuluess. rity of tfa fields." Ho also a recent traveler states: “As we rode through Hibhah. we perceived ft to be a aet- tlcmani of about fifty dwellings, all vary mean ia tfair appearance, and every one fenced ia front with thorny bushes, while a barrier of tfa same kind rocirtW tfa whole of tfa town. This was one of tfa nod effectual defenses which they could have raised against tfa imunuoos ofbursr Aruba, tfa only enemies whom they have to dread, as anther will tfa horse approach to entangle himself in these thickets of bner, nor could tfa rider, evsii if fa dismounted, get over them, or remove them to clear a passage, without aaststauce from some one ,m1thin.”— Mmckimghmm't Travel*. Hompitmlity fa Strangn s.—3 Samuel xii: A Though this paasage ia only part of a parable proponed by Nathan to David, it is evidently grounded upon the prevailing customs of tfa time and pfeoc, and may be oonaid eml as a correct representation of tfa treatment which traveler* then experienced. In some measure it is unchanged even at tfa ineaent day. “A foot passenger could make his way at little or no expense, as trav clem ami wsyferers of every descrip tion halt at tfa sheikh's dwelling, where, whatever may be the rank or condition of the stranger, before any questions are asked him as to wfaiw fa owes from, or whither fa is going, coffee is served to him from a large pot always on the fire, and a meal of bread, milk, oil, honey, or batter is set before him, for which no payment is ever demanded qr even expected by the host, who, in this manner,• feeds at least twenty persons on an average every day ia the year, from bis own purse £ at least I could not learn that he w as remunerated hi auy manner for this axiienditare, though it ia ; considered as a necessary consequence of this situation, as chief of the community, that be should maintain this ancient practice of hospitality to stranger*.— to you. flow ia it with your soul f Is that ripening for glory T Are you losing you pies sn re ia this world, How wa* He wounded who heals every disease. How was He crown- j ed with thorns who crowns His martyr* with unfailing garlands. How was He stripped naked, who clothes the field* with flowers and the whole globe with tbe canopy of heaven, and the dead with immor tality. How was He fed with gall and vinegar, who reaches oat to His people the fruits of Paradise, tbe cap of salvation ! And when at tbe ern- cifixkJn tbe heaven* were confounded, and the earth trembled, and tbe sun, that be might not behold the villany of tbe Jews, withdrew his shining, and left the world in darkness, still the blessed Jesus said nothing, and betrayed no emotion of anger; but endured without murmuring all that earth and hell oould lay upon Him,,] till- He bad put the last stroke to the finished picture of perfect pa tience, and prayed for Hi* murderers, whom He has been ever since, and is now ready to receive upon their repentance, not only to pardon, but to a participation of the glories of heaven.—ifcfap Home. . some pastors, whose salary would afford them a change of rlmthm, ami exempt them from tfa labors hinted at in tfa first linen of this verse, may still ueglect tfa duty <-n,si in the last liar. But most singular of all, I spoke to two of these Mountain Pastors in reference to using any influence I might have ia procuring for them a lean arduous Held ut labor. Both. $m one man, answered, “I can notr leave my present field, unless you procure a proper man to take my ;>lace.” Tbe argument was, that no mm would take upon himself tfa latsir for the salary paid. No one would be willing to subject himself and family to such hardships, and there fore the people would be left destl tuto, and aU tfa labors of thtek faithful men would fa dissipated. Buck a disposition reminds on* strongly of Baxter aud bis Kidder minster weavers, or Ofartin and his peasant (lock in tfa mountains of Alsatia. . - , ♦ But all ministers are not similarly di*(>asrd. Tfa} do nob all have tbe same interest in their rang regal ion*. Well, ministers are bat raeu, »u<l hence we find squraliou* for |»o*i lions of more honor aud name, aud son>«• timer*, too, more salary. We do not blame the good brethren, fur they ail have a hard time, at beat. There is, in this, a laudable ambition, aud promotion ia ministerial rank.)* la honorable, when based on merit. But 1 fear that there exits also a tfa grave are is the way, yet are you looking with pleasure, triih joy, bey oral them to Ural “home,” Ural “aisnsiuo,” that “better laud" of God's elect t Doss day by day wit ness to a greater conformity to the mind and will of Jesus T Is fa “all your aalvatiua sod all your desire T* Do yen look upon him as tfa “At- thor ami Finisher of yonr faith,” aa your only Bov four, your only hope, your only guodt If so, weieome, thrice welcome to you must uAfa autumn of life, for yon knowNfnll well it brings you “nearer horns." I know of no arore til rased or encour aging sight than to see those who ara searing tfa -end sersae and happy, sot shrinking from death as the “king of terror*," bat obsrrfuily awaiting tfair final summon* to fa “forever with tfa lawd." teas only tseenty one mile*, 9 himl he added, “/ hope the pottr family mere comforted ami benefited. 9 A rule of forty-two mile*, on lioraehack, to bury a poor woman of whom he had uever heard ! 1 hope the reader will be as much benefitted an I was, by think ing this circumstance over in his own miml! But with the utmost economy, his small salary will not pay ne«w*sary expenses, an*l lienee he teaches the school, nearest liis home, for some three or four months of the fell aud winter. During this time fa hokls protracted meetings, not by calling in some neighboring pastor, who would thereby neglect his own flock uml upon Ida return find them stray ing or strayed, nor does he employ a traveling revivalist, furnished with set harangues, which he calls his big-uuxtin' sermonn, aud profess** to have discovered a new rndlhod, which, for aught 1 kuow, Ik* may have patented, by which to have people converted. Such a fellow eon Id not preach for our sturdy Mountain Pastor. Up has no con fidence iu him or his new method. No! our Mountain Pastor believes that tie pure word of God aoeoin panied by the iurtueuce of tfa Holy Spirit, and a proper use of tbs sacraments of tfa church, are the only authorized means of man’s con version. How then does he manage his protracted meeting f He moontt his horse, after school has closed, and after he Jins had bis supper, and rides from six to ten and even more miles, oyer horrible roads, aud preaches and prays ami instructs til] 10 o’clock at night. He then appoints a meeting tor next evening, dismisses tfa congregation, mounts his horse aud arrives homo about midnight. He puts away his own horse and lien down to rent. Next morning by snu he is up, sees to his family duties, teaches all day, Borne years ago, a Frenchman, who, like many of bis countrymen, had won s high rank among men of science, yet denied tfa God who is tfa author of all science, was cross ing tfa great Sahara in company with sn Arab guide. He noticed with a sneer that, at certain times, his guides whatever obstacles might arise, pot them all aside, and, kneel ing oo the burning sand, called on his God. Day after day passed, and tbe Arab never failed, till at last one evening tfa philosopher, when he arose from his knees, asked him, with a contemptuous smile, “How do you kuow there is a God F The guide fixed his burning eyes on the scoffer for a moment iu wonder, and theu said, solemnly, “How do I know there is a God T How did I know often Maura ia hia * tllity either bltod* Um mast shortly come to It is a good thiug to make more Christians, but importaut to make better oues of those already believ ing. The work of the church is two fold—to convict and sanctify. Not oue Christian in every hundred is doing half that he might do in the cause of Jesus. If a man with ten fingers and thumbs were to be seen going about using only the little finger of the left band, he would be called a fold. All his interests and his happiness would suffer by his folly. But the Christians of the world are acting in a way just as unworthy. They are little finger workers. The main portion of their strength is given exclusively to secu lar and sensual matters, while a mere touch of effort is devoted to Christ. When will Ziou awake aud put on its strength! for heaven: fa would rat far suggest doubts iu their minds, that, though they arc old and infirm, yet there is plenty of time, sad they mar still put off religion to a more convenient opportunity. Ok, if any read those such thoughts, let me pray you, dear aged pilgrim, net to listen to Um I Be not led sway tag tfa voice of tfa wire-pulling. I fear there exists also , ,s species ot ecclesiastical or mini*fe rial buncombe. These ins,} not be as flagraut as iu politics, but |w*rhsp* the only reason is that the body politic is corrupt, and tfa body ooclesiaetic—ought not to be. A calm looker on may sometimes «or a tendency' to three thing* croppiug oat at our Synodical meeting*. Our Saviour seems to have alluded to this weakness in human nature, of which even ministers can not divest themselves, when fa gave bis in structiou* recorded in Luke xiv: Mi, r rr <. ^imiMBANVa, incomes tht* theme ofjlauiily potion unti he call* again, fcente take t ucasiou to | govern itruct their children b; refer- [ wbut the I ms tor said. ♦ - feint of inh Uigence fa is, by the rtugh uioun aiueer « position v ould seem o imli- His library is well iocked jfa standard r; and ns Ito the of tfa. worn], he is posted. “The Bible is so full of promise* that 1 have sometimes wondered why God ao ofteu assures u* of hi* help. Over the door of His store house has be written, ‘Ask and yte shall reoeive,’ and I think it may be, so that we can have no excuse for being poor and unfed while the riches of hi* grace are so abundantly to you than to most: cry aloud, “God be merciful to me a sinner F Take ail your load of sin sod guilt to tfa foot of tfa Barfoorfacrom. “Believe in tfa Lord Jeeus Christ, and thou •halt be sarud.” In the judgment day there will be a feorfal reckoning against soft, white hands, as well aa against hard, htosk hearts.