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0 tt' Cl ** ' U » 4 THE LUTHERAN VISITOR. COLUMBIA. 8. C„ JANUARY 25. 1871 > These facts show that the Church *# the Waldeoaee is inspired with a hoWc missionary seal. It is in their hearts to attempt great things for the cause of Christ In Italy. But their means are very limited. How can it be expected that 32,000 poor inhabitants of three small valleys surrounded by the Alps, can supiiort their College, Theological Seminary, Orphan Asylum, schools and mis sfeas, without aid from wealthier and larger churches ? They can not. “Millions fbr defence, but #ot one cent fbr tribute.* (Charles C. Pink ney.) “The almighty dollar.* (Washing ton Irving.) - * v 7 ' 7 ' 1 • “As good mi play." (King Ohartsa when in Parliament attending the discussion of Lord Boaafe Divorce Bill.) “Selling a bargain* (Is in Losri• Labor Loot) Childrens Fpr the Lutheran VWtor » Loved the World. A door little girl aang clearly and Joyfully one bright day laol spring, joat like the beautifel birds, and her NKW SKRIK She wan n darling child, with soft brown curie and dark eyes, aad a •wool mailing month that had oovor learned to any anything naughty, sad her dear papa and mamma loved her oo very much. So she Staked about the bouse the whole of that bright spring day, oo gay aad happy. How little did her dear friends think that it woo the last day that that little bird would flit about to enliven their Pope’s (“Prologue to Satires,*) “In the wrong box,” (“Pox’s Martyvu,” “To tarn,* (in the sense of to boat,) “King sud no king,” by Beaumont sud Fletcher. The hackneyed news paper Latin quotation, “ Tempura mutantur, et not mm ferns r ia Mis* is not found in any classic or Latin author. The nearest approach to it was “Omnia maiantnr* Ac., and this is found hi Borhomos, a German writer of the middle agen. “Smelling of the lamp,* la to be found in PIntareh, and ia there at tributed to IMhine. “A little bird told me,* comes from Ecclesiastes x: 3ft—“Phr a bird of the air shall carry the voice, aad that which hath wiuga shall tall the matter.” * He that fhrkts aad run* away, May lire to ftirht aaothrr day. These lines, generally attributed to Hmd&ras, are really much older. They may he found ia the hook pub liabod in 1056. The same idea ta, however, expressed in a couplet pub lished in 1542, while one of the firw fragments of Meander, Greek writer, that have hewn preosrved embodies the same idea In a single 18 prBLIs!! § EVERY wkdni BY ■ TiUDE & Ml ; They appeal to other chniehes—es pocially to the Presbyterian branch «•» to which they are allied iu doctrine, ecclesiastical polity and discipline— for assistance to earry on M|elr work of evangelisation in Italy. Can we withhold it from them, whose forefathers “kept the frith so pure of old, when all our fathers worshipped Stocks and stones T*—Interior. power would all heai» th sweet minstrelsy, tthri 1, would with wondrous *k 11 THE BEST PIANOS NOW MAD* e’s mortal kin, ?.■& -nt principle of right, j? Id soon our honing? win, Arrive at Columbia forms CasMJtaJetly in O** «»py. «■“"*» tiUawwiU be chat**! p* v a uaa nameaWn* eat*-:« wxipt'on book, without tb v m advaare. > K RAn» or ju»vh: For our square foueiach of tioii eXvito. rantl incentive moved in His matchless grace; hat base foes He loved, nld spare the rebel race. Where familiar Quotations come Prom. singing, “I am .leans’ little hunk,” and be told a bright, breutifol so gel to go to Han Fran msec, where Lucy Alice lived, sod bring her straight home to him, for he want ed her in his lovely gardens sad beautiful bouse, aad he did sot want Hataa ever to eater into her pare little heart. Well, eo the strong, bright so gel came, aad that night the darii^F child got very sick, and the next day she grew worse, aad her (Heads prayed to the good Lord to spare her to them, if he was willing ; hat Jesus wasted her, sad she did not get any better, hat Boon had coavulshms; aad when she would he sensible at all, she would fold ^FT .W tv 9 « f high infinitude, «. v humanity, I jblenient of good. Stoat dcod comprehend t t) adequate return T « our thought* transcend, perc the mystery learn. 4 weakly hesitate love so vast as this f 1L11 bting sorrow wait might rejoic«- in bliss ? e IQ* highest gift, s’ avid and Hi* best, M y onr weak hearts sift, bV treat Him for the rest. u i* ii. e. s The 1 Todiei Can We OTe’e Its mug Nor« mrPimmm fai aw: Geu , Vs; Geu I Bsian—, CMtafiaJN C; Gov , Ts j f W apmtosL, j. 1 jrat in sei i ion........ ^ j One month. JJjrwt month* J Six IllOUtll* . Twelve month*. On adveTtbenwat* of th upward* » diec<»«u»t of to five lajnsiT* *nd upward*, of ini aqosiv* aad upm sr< aad of one-half ordomn anl pur cent, will be dednctefl j **^SltuAries. when wm u ten c«»t* for eight wo*<l- adrasra. Postage—Five cruU per AU remBtaabeS and eoo 1* addressed to Bar. A. R. RH Arrive at Chartastc Lure ChaHesfu.. Arrive at Cohnahie #W . ■bta.Hr; B 1 itiite, (’harlot! for a C'iiralar Then shfo! t To ti-fist a And long in Whenj yet And if He & the word of God, iu its real messing. Prayerftdly, earnestly, unceusisgly, let him study the Bible, to insure this; then let him hitnr is its pet* dousoess sod its power. Soihiog else that you cua do for your Hub Tho’ Satan ' Wew4lli bay tree.* (Psalm xxxvi; .15.) “Hanged our harps upon the wil low.” (Psalm exxvii: 2.) “Riches certainly make (uut take, as it is often quoted) themselves wings.* (Proverbs xxiii: A) ’ “Heap coals of Are upon his bead.* (Ibid, xxv: 22.) “No new thing under the suu.* (Ecclesiastes i: tt.) “Of making many books there is no end.” (Ibid, xii: 12.). “Peac£, peace, when there is no peace,” made famous by Patrick Heury. (Jeremiah viii: 11.) “My name is Legion.* (Mark iUaneous. •HQetitU- The Wa^Mn^s inhabit three val leys belonging to Piedmont. Tie names of Ihefe valleys are Lucerne- - comprising :tbe smaller ones* of I a Tour, or Bobi Rora, and Augrognn-1 St. Martin, Uiul Pragela. They' l e at a short. < istanoe froi^ Pinero)^ the tertnin|( of the railway froia Turin. The most interesting an 1 important of ;bese valleys is Lucerne, in whi^h is situated La Tour, the Waldensian • capital, and the seat < if the College. The Waldtnses were the first fo resi^ the corruption of Rome. Other nations,followed their example. But long before the era of the Reforma tion they were a light shining in the darkness. The lamp of God’s Eter nal Truth was always kept burning among them, in accordance with the Latin motto,! which encircles their symbol, the wooden candlestick, “Lux Imeet i* itenebris.* “Christ rod for the ungodly." “He gave Himselt for our sins.* “Christ Jesuit and Him crucified/' “Jesus, the. Lord of our righteous ness.* The* were the truths which animated thiB little army of the faithful. “Death rather than the mas8,”was tlieir watchword, which “F«»r u> he ranu*lly-itiis m but ♦« he apirirnsHy-wtiJi. ^l peure."—Ilmn. viii /■ IL Under tta* sreon.; fieued to point ont tl I coutiertiou between ear I mindediMVM and <k at that between njiintti. i and life. To utake pi necessary, again, to n meaning at termK . Ik a\ times used in a very re* agaiu in a very conipretx I When most restricted, it” uetwration .of soul ami h if any should contend thu other meaniug, he would ? apostle. For all the minded of past gencrat 1 Enoch and Elijah, have Still, respecting death in a poet well reinvented tl of n»ankiu«i w hen hi- said *Tt is* j« dread and axrfnl To all the carnally on have anythiug here to t dqjith is indei'd the “king > »B«it terrible as it often ap easy to conceive of u»an’> here tieing rendered so that this death would ! rather than life. TIumwi choom*, and even seek ii that ooudition, with all it* of heart and vexation i should accompany fhu v yond tl»e grave, and there cling to him so that ev< imagination of relief woo denly ctist ilown by the li.. he is “destroyed and rim remeilv; ”—then when. we fiud a term ha adapted to express the ti of that condition as i-lr ait thi tmth is their chosen term 1 t»ot only the separation oj ta<v, but also all the ev and spiritual, to whhli brt»UK* obnoxious bn aeon Yti this compreheusivi* s : may be deacritasl thus: lest coDimnnion with to under His wrath and enrs bw liable pi all the miserb HA*, to the separation of “Our darling sou the bright angul that was wuH tag Am* Imey Alice; hut she did, sad looking around at her weeping pups sad momma, a lovely smile Arrive St ( Making < of North Ci 1 hsd a long illness at the eud of last year—not dangerous, net very painful, but compelling me, os su indispensable aid to recovery, to keep steadfastly to my bed WORKMANSHIP me for twenty Are year*. I am habitually oh early riser, Reading little time abed, aad it seemed strange to me at first, with a stroage ness not nnmiugied with self-re proach, to hear the cry of the milk man from between the sheets; but this soou wore away, and there came over me a calm oaltafrdtou with my lot—something more than “Hang oat yoar banners upon the outward walls.” (Ibid.) “Keep the word of protnwe to our (not the) ear, but break it to our hope.* (Ibid.) “It’s an ill wind tarns no good,* usually quoted, “It’s an ill wind blows up one any good.” (Thomas Tasser.) “Christmas comeg but once a year.” (Ibid.) “Look before you leap,* (Ibid.,) mid “Look before you ere you leap,” (Hudibras y ) commonly quoted, “Look before you leap.” “Out of mind as soon hh out of sight,” usually quoted, ‘K)ut of sight, out of mind.” (Lord Brooke.) “What though the field be lost, all is not fost.* (Milton.) “Awake, arise, or be forever fall en,” (Ibid.). “Necessity, the tyraut’s plea.* (Ibid.) “Peace hath her victories.” (Ibid.) “Though this may be play to you, ’tk death to us.” (Roger FEstrange, 1704.) “All cry, aud no wool*—not “little wool.” (Hudibras.) “Count their chickens ece (not ‘lie- fore') they are hatched.” (Ibid.) f “Through thick and thin.* (Dry- den.) “When Greeks join Greeks, then was the tug of war,” usually quoted, “When Greek, meets Greek, then pomes the tng of war.” . (Nathaniel Lee, 1092.) > | “Of two. evils LJiave chosen the least.” (Prior.) “Richard is himself again.” (Col ley Cibber.) “Classic ground.” (Addison.) , if “A good hater.” (Johnson.) j;“My name is Norval.” (John cry tag. She asked as, too, if we did Mt go to our day schools wheu it chaw* of five <*) mtm C. BoritNIGHT. Aril The Sabbath-SchooL BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD. Leave AadrVuc st 4 1 Arrive at WalhaUaut... TS SpW*-.,---••• j i AtTlTf* At AMiFTMIB U ,wl willing to be wiHhig If we am go today, l m A A mmai # Am.) r of Ptnitan aad Deaim* not much deplore the necessity of spending it all over again. U ia the absence, 1 am inclined to think, raw 1 shall go to school to keep my place ia my Haas.” “Well I am willing, my dear, If yea wear roar school suit; go and testimony.” I At one time they are supposed to have numbered about 100,000, bat they were so t mattered and reduced by persecution that they now num ber about 22,0 JO, confined principal- which causes a wall men to think he ought possibly to be at work, that makes a period of sickness the nearest approach to a period of rest to which he ta ever likely to attain, until be has rid himself of all firshlj incumbrances. There is umaethiag very comforting in utter helplessness. It is God’s wiH that you should he for n while inactive—and there’s an end of it. Satisfied that all that comes from the almighty Disponer of all events is for the beet, you resign yourself to His bidding, as a child. It may appear to some and not unreasonably, that this notion of mine, that a mau in the ftpll swing of business to realise anything like an approximation to rest 1m must be prostrated on a bed of sickness, is not nnlike the idea of Klia’s Chinaman, that it was necessary to barn down a house to obtain the luxnry of a roast’pig. Perhaps it ia. But there ta nothing of which I am more assured, iu my own miad, than that, ia the midst of aa over native career,’ (I speak of cerebral, not muscular, activities,) to be laid aside by no will of your own, but by the ruling of One who better knows what ia good for you. may be in P. B. SAOTLBB ft SONS, OPTICIANS AND ttiUgJEitug Baltimore 912 Btraot, zuiivmz, ly to the valleys of Piedmont already mentioned. They are divided into fifteen or sixteen parishes, with as many churches and pastors. Of course their number and their posi tion renders them poor. But- though poor in the things of this world, tin y are rich in frith; and they furnish us an example of wba* ean he accomplished by a JOHN H. MORE. 0re*f 8m?l M. T. Bakltktt, Goal Ticket A|U from hie library she said. WATUHBS A FINK JKWELBY arnrTArtkA srooitR, forks, a\p sil- , VK* ware gkxsrallt. May IS 1089 4ft-tf Since the hrbar 1848, when they received from Charles Albert the tardy justice^ of equality with the rest his people, and most of the galling restrictions and exhansting imposts, whick! up to that time had oppressed them, were removed, their evangelical Iqtijors, in proportion to their numbers, if we except the Moravian^? have been unexampled in modern timef. They have enlarged their College, added more schools, erected parsonages, professors’ hous es, and (jin Orphan Asylum in the valleys) whilCjbeyond their bound aries, they have established a Theo logical Seminary at Florence, arid over thirty principle missionary Ra tions, flankediftf others of secondary importance, ii At these sfcati than thir| than fifty i TheThq enee has ! faculty, so] known to bodb Eur Seminary rin, whore to Flwem capital of affording tl of ucawun carved Iraplcs, atoaach navies which they severally to voire; if called by the Creator to cboost, would aat roa greatly prefer thonr to all the gams and all the ores which could fill the moantaias and be washed by the • “I am agreed, my love; 1 wi thinking 1 never oouki plead a to a vacant roart room, and thi ^vrijituTvs. It present- rb 1 L T*S of death, or which enter HU T iMieitiou. He who 1ms a«l\ M ^age, l« «s realh dead as ; A has the last. He I taatod of the first ingn i -‘wring out ill dregs* of the last, unless I by trie power of God from t| of Spiritual death. Now | how this comprehcusivo I r H|i the Scriptures. " K ^^1 said: “Let the d I dxnul” what did 111 ^d He mean that those wL| And bodies*‘had been s«l should take up and bun* til in like condition I thoto rihb had lost and nor I <**nmunion witlr God, m i under His wrath ahd cnrsi 1 . I nuftering some of I j life, should burr tl J preceding them -one stag ,*** °f death, had exjl reparation T Tlie lac I feetiv. - ^1 They contain no germinal principle. They poewess no power of re prod nr tioo or moltiplicalton. The rage of the sun foiling upon the diamond, kindle it indeed to gtoriooa sp'.endor, but they wake it to no life.* The rain, and dew, and all atmospheric forces call from It no rmponaa of vitality. It smbneoms no living tovoe. But the plain, dull seed, laid ta the •oil, and receiving m and fist, drinks ta titnltaiag taAneuce. Pres “How r f asked. “Ob, a word yon mid to one nf my frisods about me. It did me ever so much good* “What nos it t 1 have kttfl ten.” “You mid I bad good Imboimi and sands of other coses, the salvation both of yoar body and of yonr mind.—OomhiU Magazine. !—not “none the worse,” (Cowper.) j MfWbafc will Mrs. Grundy say. (Thomas Morton.) Burnefn Pleasure.—One of Bishop Burnet’s parishioners, being in great distress, applied to him for assistaoc*-. The prelate requested to know what would serve him, and reinstate him in bis trade. The man named the sain, and Burnet told the servant to give it to him. “Sir,* said the ser vant, “it ia all we have in the house * “Well, give it to this poor man ; you do not know the pleasure there ta ta making a mao glad.” If the proud man could only see olntions presented to the House of the vacadey Ids M would make. Representatives, December, 1790, pre- he would no! ho so vain of the place pared by Geo. Henry Lee,) be oaggries ta life. dropped has done so much, haw maay words of eftoouragement I might intentionally give I I wflQ try never to forget the value aad effort unit! America. L ®ie transferred from Tu- *?as formerly loca-ed, rhen it became the jf, for the purpos s of i dents an opportu dty Its mysfericas vitality, its rich umisea, its asan’clous poodoctive Lein selves with the iom. They look up- fiold of their e ran-