The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, February 08, 1871, Image 1

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ONE LORD, ONE FA>ITiH, ONE B A PTI8 M”—EPH ESI A N 8 IV: 5. COLUMBIA, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1871 OLD SERIES, VOL. V j VrUifo# IS PUBLISHlfD rY WEDNESDAY fork of his quill* unit carrying to hU neat a anpply for the future. <)r he saw the marmot* running about, gathering together the softest gni**, one making a wagon of the other; this ime lying on hia back nn«l throw ing out hia feet tike a rack, while the others loaded him with hay, mid then seizing him by the tail they draggl'd him and his load to their storehouse. Meanwhile, one marmot was posted on a high place a* a sentinel; and if Ulrich langhed at their ingenuity or threatened them with danger, they made a hasty retreat to their homes. In midsummer the shepherds went far up the monntaius, and the herd* -cropped the tender grass by the side of the glaciers. The hardier sons wonhl remain there days and weeks tending the flocks, but not fbrgotteu by their parents nor nnvisited by the young villagers. On a dear day the youth would form |mrtiea, start early and wind their way up into the fresh breezes, to meet the shepherd boys, and sjH'nd hours among the crags, taking with them baskets of pmrin- kms for the herdsmen. As the) went up they played their rustic instruments and sang the ran* /fern ruche» ,* the shepherds welcomed them from afar with shouts and A1 pine horns; and when the parties for a priest, and they began to thiuk he might do better than tend herds on Mount Seutis- One monuug. when he waa nine or let) years old, his father took him by the band and started tor Wmwi. They went panting up the Oulmen, ami fr»ui became the greatest theologian of the Roman i'hurch in Germauy, and entered the lists against Isitber as Doctor Kck. With snch studeuts young Zwingli mingled during bis two yean* stay at Vienna. In 1303 no more;® aad the ieoa Rome eg the Camara is held in precirhp—focupa tion by a feeble hand. And yet the Book that foretells this still aorrivea. While nations, kings, philosophers, systems, institutions have died away, the Bible now eugagee men’s deepest thoughts, is examined by the keenest intellects, stands revered before the highest tribunals, is more read and sifted and del sited, more devoutly loved, and more vehemently assailed, more defended and more denied, more industriously translated and freely given to the world, more bon ored and more abased than any oth er book the world ever saw; "Simugi words fulfilled, aud mighty school. This teacher A the child of the Yiskeuburg to bis warm heart, and «i helped him forward that the U»y soon got beyoml the man in knowledge. It was tin* (lull- ion for youug stodeuta to imitate the learned doetora iu bolding disputa tion*. In these debating Hubs young Zwiugli excelled his claaa mates. lie was the V bam j ion who *«tu the vic tor). Ilia oilier rival* grew > almis of him. On a small scale he waa meeting with what would try his temper at a later day. He outgrew the school at Basle, aa be hail that -•t Weaen. “Scud him to Ueinr,* said his uncle Bartholomew, aad thither bo waa aent, at the age of thirteen, to wonder at its fomlne** for |ietted ^ran Cask,* Strictly in Advance per annum., .f.. $4.50 (.,,,, v. sx mm * h* .j, 1 ... lAt ImiWw, Widows of Ministers a Tfoglogicid Student*........ 4.00 Mthw-ribers who fail jto remit at . rxidration of their anbadrip- o*, will be charged per anfuia 8.00 »uew wnt^ are eufarml the sub ■Kan Wk. without the Uist payment r>HN*T?, MOH] 1 NWahud of learning, and lie could not be content to live among the ttouga of hia brothers and the lowing of their herds. UkkI bad another pur )ioac coucetuiug him. lie went again to Bade, taught in Bt. Martin’s school aud studied in the nuiversity, earning enough to |Ni) his way, so that ha drew uo longer u jsm his father’s slender purse or his uueh* Bartholomew’s generos ity. Woltepug Capito became hit warmest friend, and was struck w ith the wit and music of the student of tin-, Hculi* mountains; for when Ulrich waa weary of his studies in scholastic divinity, lie took up one of his numerous musical instrument* ami made his room ting with the tunas of his native lamb *»r saug the souga of the Swiss warriors. In hia love (or music he w as quite equal to Luther. If any thiuk this a weak ness, let him remember David and his Hebrew harp. There was not aa instrument of which Zwingli duild not soon make himself master. ^ ili* euthttaiaant lor the art was oonta gious; he iini»artcd a taste for it throughout the university. But be did not lose time upon it, for, haring related his mind. Ik* returned to his *4udie« with the greater zeal. The theology of the schools ami the monks disgusteil him; it was fall of useless questions and trifling an swers; a 'mrelley of i*oufused ideas, empty bubldiug and liariiarism, with out uiN' grain of sound doctrine. u lt is a men* loss of time to study it,* •aid lie, and lie waited for something bettor to ap|s*ar. The I*»rd. who bad led him hitherto, was bringing the right tciacher. la the town of Bienne, on a little lake at the base of the Jura mown tains, lived a burgomaster who had t educated his son Tliotnas with great cart*. The j oting man had gone further than most students of his I tutu*, and made himself familiar with I the Holy Scriptures while he studied , under the celebrated Ileuchliu. The worhl was beginning to hour of I Tbotnaa Witteiubach when he came to Basle, iu' loOo. and apuMd a nwra* of lectures. The students dis ked to hia clans. • He *pokt> with i life, ami'souie of bis words were , prophetic. “The turn- is not far dis I tant,** said Hi*, “when the old scho tastic thi*ology will Is* swept away, I ami tlie aneient dnrtriaeu of the chiirrh be revived. God's Word is tlie foundation of all tmth. Al>*oln tion by the priest* is a Romish cheat. Christ's death is the only rausoin for 1 oor souls.’" The good seed fell into ’ the soft heart of y oung Zw ingli. A ucw path was pointed out as the he and his friend time to Vagi* a warfare for the truth of Gud. But Ida eye* were Astwl on the little silvery lake of Walietiatadt, and he Wished himself at the lower end of it, sitting at his uncle's diuurr table. Alter a journey of eight or ten hours, they eu tonal the bouse of Bartholomew Zwingli, the down of Weatik “You have put lofty ideas into Ulrich’s head," mud the father to hia brother, “aud now I have brought him ao that you may try what be can do." “Right gladly will 1 measure him," said the dean. “Bo Ulrich, you will bo as a aim to yowr unde * Thu* the lad was left with one who loved him ami took delight in his qniek mind. < fo. rial h--art ami Arm ait hen*nor to truth. Ulrich wag seat tp school, wh« n* ho soon learned all that the village arhoolmaster ontld teach. This will not ap|iear wonder fwl if we n memlier that the common schoolmaster was anything hat a prodigy iu learning. A class of |wor. stall often lary men. rosined about teaching for a pittance, the m ration. Two of th** oliloi now are many oontmies before the city of Borne was built on the banks of tlie Tiber, and they too are mod ern. Go to the banka of the Eu pin at e* ; there lie, iu fragments of mawairy, remains of the city of Bab ylon—perha|Mi vitrified fragments of the Tower of Babel itself. These are aftecinieiiMof antiquity worn and mu tilated by the lapse of time. All that w as once connected with them is gone. Tlie hands that built them, the pride ami beauty of their city, the crowds that thronged their streets, the touiba where they lay, are all gone! But the Bible is fai more ancient than those crumbling monuments. When the p> ramids were gazed upon as new buildings, Moses penued his Penta teuch. David wrote his Psalms prob ably two centuries before Homer wrote his Iliad. When Rome was but rising aa a village, Isaiah was denouncing the corruption* of the Jewish kings, and predicting their downfall; when Alexander the Great set out for Eastern couquests, the Jewish nation had existed for 1,000 years; when he entered Jerusalem, the Jews had iu their sacred archives all the books of the Old Testament which we read now ; anil Josephus tell* us that the. High Priest even showed to Alexander Daniel's proph ecy n*s|s*cting himself. God made the Jewish nation hia librarian ; and with rigorous fidelity did they pre serve every book, every psalm, ev ery prophecy, scrupulously guarding eyeu the. letters from corruption. Thus tlie Bible is its own witness; it ia the oldest and most venerable monument of antiquity ; it is minute ly interwoven with the great eveuts word* achieved, And truth in all the world botb hated and believed." It survives all changes, itself un changed ; It moves all minds, yet is moved by none; it sees all things decay, itself incorruptible; it sees myriads of other books engulfed in the stream of time, yet is borne tri umphantly on the wave; aud will be borne along, till the mystic angel shall plant his foot upon the sea, and swear by Him that liveth forever aud ever, that time shall he no longer. ‘ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower tliereof falieth away ; but the Word of the Lord end met h forever."—Chris tian Observer. V--7 43 —V'*-*v.4gp ai *'i'*" *0pm < c-cccpledJ. S0 Pm V® 41$ a m 'I * SO pa .-® ®0pm jw 6 “ > “ iSSftaasfjs 'M*eu C aajtlrn ami snuarv* aud npw iid* 40 per oe*t- one-half ruliimr and upward*, 50 it. trill be Uedart- d fnwn the above rutrie*. when moie than five Hues, at* for eijcht wtml*. payable in age—Five rents per quarter, emittanee* ami i onuntuiieatiou* to Ue had o|wnol the first academy of learned hiuguage* in Bwitzerlaad. Ha had traveled ta the East, had seen the Holy Sepulchre, h#d spoken Greek in Atlirns, and wituesaed the Papal corruptions of Rome. Hiatory waa at his tongue’* end, and poetry dn»p|icd from bis gmarful |*en. Ui- nch ft in nd in hia school a new world. He read the cUmmmw, admired the Roman orators, and imitated the I«atiu poets. He came iu eon tart with the monk* anil their style of religious life. All Switxerland was talking of a iu.»n who had wntt the (dace of a aaiut in the mintis of the |iro|iir. lie was Nichols* ton der Floe, who had been a mtldier in the field, an adviari in council, and at the age of fifty a hermit in the valley of Mrlchthal. where he dwelt in bis lowly cell anti pasued his time in the In 14*1 the 8wi*a RUDE, D.P., Cnimmhia, S. ( Shepherd Boy BORN JANUARY 1, 14B4. s'kt far from the old church of ilfihans, ami still nearer to I*isig- iti, on a jwth that leads to the dnre-gromidH nermw the river, nti* the cottage of a peasant. The ry is, that the trpes of which it is rr* y » j |R were fallen on the very s]»ot. $rars the marks of an aneient a». Tlie tiinbersi are black with »; the walls an thin; the win- ws arc made of s nail, jronnd panes rings; the root is ta Railroad. gorges, vv e max imagine yonng Ulrich among then^watcliing a lamb that ventures ujam more liberty, leaves the flock and strays away, hidden at limgtli by some jutting erag. He arc* the movrmenta, hastes with nimble feet, climbs over the rock* and drives back the wan derer. wlwvse bell tinkles so fast that it inspires the comimny with laughter, sight lost ! Th* Refiner of Silver. id Ticket Ojjii t, i r.. Dee. ?s, 1809 { ,X&>£h. "•••* 4 0b * in *. -i 1 45 r m • ...... . 1 57 p m 4 ODpni : '*;.» i • 30pm lectmiis with Trains ad at all point* North South. 1 rt--...... 8 00a m Some months ago, a few ladies who met together in Dublin to read the Scriptures, aud make them the sub ject of conversation, were reading the third chapter of MalachL One of the ladies gave it as her opiniou that the Fuller’s Soap and the Refi- . ner of Silver were the same image, loth intended to convey the same new of sanctifying influence of the grace of Christ ; while another ob served, there is something remark able in the expression of the third verse; “He shall *it as a refiner and puri fier of silver * They agreed that possibly it might be so, and oue of the ladies promised to call on a silversmith and report to them what he said on the subject. She went accordingly and, without telling the object of her errand, beg ged to know from him the process of refining silver, which be folly de scribed to her. “Bat sir," said she, do you ait while the work of refining is going on f" “Oh yes, madam," replied the silversmith, “I must sit with my eye steadily fixed ou the furnace, for if the time necessary' for refining be ex ceeded in the slightest degree, the silver is sure to be injured." At once she saw the beauty, afid the comfort, too, of the expression, “He shall *H as a refiner and purifier of silver." » ’ Christ sees it needful to put his children into the furnace, but he is seated by the side of it; his eye is steadily intent on the work of puri fying, and His w isdom; and love are both engaged in the best manner for them. Their trials do not come at random ; the very hairs of their head are numbered. As the lady was leaving the shop, the silversmith called her back, and said he bad still further to mention that he only knew when the process of,purifying was complete by seeing his own image reflected in the silver. Beautiful figure! When Christ sees his own image in His people, His work of pnrifying is accom plished. time, preserved at Hawk*, show u* what them* drollhig mauler * niMimel to tench. Karh represent * a antM*4 room la «N»e, the children are sitting or kMeeting on the floor with their lamks, while the teacher ia ready to adifiiniater the rod if the Inn al hia desk dor* not rente well, ta the other are older scholar*. The follow mg ml new But tlie lad linger* out of 1* the child of nine yearn He is watching the eagle that had an eye ojpan his lamb. !le is gazing devoutly at the f«eaks that seem everlasting, ami appear aa the stepping-places into the skies, where God dwelleth. He is getting other illustration* for a work ovi “Tlie Providence of Owl," which he wil write at a future day. One of hi* friend* said afterward: “I have often thought from- these nnblime heights, which stretch upward toward heav eu,’ he took unmet hitig henvculy and Divine." Thn* |winsed the Hummers. Tlie • ff winter evenings were long in his futher’s house. Books wen* mi*, and Ulrich could not often sit in the chimney comer and read bv Urn light of the fire. If the wiser men dropped in to talk polities, he wish ed himself in some of tlie ueighlK>r ing hamlet*, where the dreary time was lighteni*d l»> the joymi* voire* of song or the merry tone* of sneh in strument* as were skilfully played in filmost every cottage. But the lad did not always find the conversation * v a dry ami somnific. The leading men of the pariah often rehearsed the legends of the ancient times, and vSt. Gall seemed a giant. They told how their forefatlier* groaned under the heavy yoke of ronnts and ate hots who hehl'ruh* over them. , “But did not the TockeulMirger* mttqner the Zuri« hers and gain their inde pendence f* little Ulrich would ask. “Indeed they deed," one of the elders replied iu a boastftil tone. “They »ltd it easily; there is no such a jwopte aa tlie Tockwilmrger* anywhere among the hikes. 1 re member tlie year—dt wa* !4tN>—for 1 waa wounded their. But 1 pushed on and laid low** Zurich captain, and that turned the tide of battle." The company *miled, for this hero was not usually mentioned with so much honor excef* when he wo* telling bis ow n story. eiglwd down Stoues to protect the shingles the stortw. Just exercise* of p*rt\ canton* wen* at strife, ami war waa threatened. The wise men disarm -14 58 pm .... ...... . 3 4ft pa L.fcr ... t* 50pm ectioa* with Train* >i gia Railroad* *>r in Florida, ioutgmuwry, Mobil*, Uhattanooga, Mvm- aisville. Cnwiamti, at* South and We*t. I’ars on all Night -Arts sold, aud Rag > lucipal points. y this route «oiu» of fore (ft) firffomit the grasp of »nt ift a bubblkig spring, an em- of the pure wratera «f eternal by fiugry debate. . tfomc of them sought the advice *f the hertait. He went to Stan*, *udd< ul> apfieaivd iu the Diet, adtlnwd (be wrath fnl councillor* a* a father, and secured |kmuv. The anion of the canton* was preset\ed, ami lie was honored throughout .the land a««uie a hoar u udom aa* almost »upethu man. He died six year* after, and lleory iaiptiliui sang the life uf the ptou* hermit with enthusiasm. To this day crowd* of jnlgnm* visit and [is c(nime<1 ths , this is the house pkch dwelt a mini named Zwingli, le latter half o the fifteenth cen ^ He was mon* than “an linmWe but" in the eye i of bis neighbors, W was of hi i*lent ifamilv, and highly esteem *d among the Al- monntaiiieere. The parish of lbsius has Ion r lH*eu under, the rel of St. Gi 11, w bone hbbott led it as his ina lor. j Rut)‘the count* mill read ; and if any one be too stnpM to Irwin, a* f have taught him nothing, *o will I charge him nothing, lie he who he may, luirghcr or sjiprewtice, woman or girl. Who ever coupes in. he will be faithftiltv taught for- a small *um, tmt the young girl* ami !»oy* after tlie Em ber week*, aa the cuafom K" (151ft.) Uhildren ami adults often sat nj«on the *:fro* lieoch. There was nothing like a division into classe* ; euch did the b»*st he retold in hi* own way. Tim rod was one of tin* |**r*«a*ive* to niody. In the better bitfn m-hool*, one rule was, “Theschool mastershall [I KNIGHT, Supt. bnCral Freight v»i RAILBOAll lue Kutge Raiiniaa ).-t excepted: >. j* A 30pni k ..7 Oftpre • •a 3 a»*B it; 6 lOaw c#^ Annuity, haviijg the power tc rit $ tbeir own parish officers. They at F»e<‘ made Zwingli their ammani (h sd-»ican or bailjfT), and oliose hii hrnther Bartholonfew »* tiieir parson Tlfejatter was ata» dean of Weaen. Pfargaret Meili, tin* lsiHiff’s wife taw the respect of tiid ; villag»*rs refftNi her two sons, Henry am Nfiholas, in the wiv liest she knew m] 7 • • . 7 aim often tohi them of their nncle Meili, who Became an abbot ir :kets North. leaf* Office. ) littik R. R. Co., > 2., Sept, 4, 1870.) date, through Tick i, Philadelphia, and Richmond can following Station* rcenville, Andewon. Kcwlwrry And Al- [OltE, GjiiJ &tp±~ foi?fTicket Agent- young min mto Uietr cou\cut.-— Tlie Diiniiuioous pstm iiLuly uoUcrd Zwingiu They were charuasl with hia fine apjicaniniv, bis voice of song, aud hi* manual skill. They beanl of hia ready wit, his large mind, hi* nohfe spirit and hia anlrut love of knowledge, lie might, he come a brilliant ornament of their Onler. They attrnctrel him into their convent, mel by their crafty arts almost |ier*ua«le<l him to live and I w *rii tlieui uafil he ahould lk > cotne old cmaigh to lake thi* vows of a monk. But Im* was too lumind to take any step w ithout asking advice, ft Mvuts that he talked with hia teaclier aud wrote to his father on tlie subject. They took alarm, ami parson Bartliohancw joined them in recalling Ulrich frw«* Benia, to M*ud him to Vienna iu Austria. At the high-school in Vienna were mni two young men, on whose brows the In Emperor would oue day place the ally poetic wreath, aud w bom all BwiUer- lary land would one day honor as eminent ear. scholars. One of them was Joachim -hat Von Watt, or Vadian, the son of a Tlie rich merchant of St. Gall; the other »iug waa Henry Loreti, the son of a poor mi peasant of the U an ton of Glaris, aud at who took the name of Glarean.— tier They gave a hearty welcome to *tae young Zwingli, aud these three rere Swiss students iudnlgvd iip poetry, He music, tlie classics and/soientiflo He studies, formed a lasting friendship, ight >uid preparrel to work nnitiwlly iu a ight great reformation. They admitted hau to their circle two 8wabiau youths, ban who were to become the eoemiefl gin- of their doctrines at a ftatnre day. em One of these was John Hefgeriin, ion* called Faber, because be was a son on of a smith; he waa a man of pliant the character, proud of honors, aabi tiouH for renown, and fitted to be- the come a courtier rather than a scholar, mat The other was John Meyer, of Eck, ther a man who read much, forgot little, ■ney spoke with eloquence and won friends an’a by the liveliness of his geoios. He true way of life Uapito rushed into it. Ainoug the stndcuts was a young man o( twenty--three, small in stature, pale and sickly t .luit gentle in his manner* ami intrepid in spirit.— Zwingli fonnd him to be leu Juda, the son of a married ptu ish priest in Alsace, ami tlie nephew of a hero, who dtrel at Rhodes, fighting against the Turks. Leo was fond of music, had a flue voice ami |>layed the dul cimer with skill. Love of song and of truth united him and Zwingli in friendship for life. Often did they H|N*nd an hour in, singing together, and no doubt rehearsing the new doctrines boldly proclaimed by Wit- teniharh, or recorded for their eyes iu the Book of God. But they were not to tic loug iu friendship at Basle. Soon the lionr wag struck when they must patt until with stronger powers they should meet again to urge on the cause pf the Reformation. Leo weut to his uative jirovinoe and set tled as the parson of 8L i*Ut. Iu later years Leo wrote of Wit- tembach: “Zwingli and 1 eqjoyed his instruction at Basle in 1505. Under his guidaure* we passed from polite literature, in which he was fully at home, over to the more earnest study of the Holy Scriptures ....Whatever of thorough knowl edge we possess we owe it to him, kml must remain his debtors as long as we live." Zwingli hail conferred apoti him the title of Master of Arts, but be never made use of the degree. He used to say, “One is our Master, even Christ." A call was preparing for him.—Rearmed Church Monthly. n New Yenr*n flay, 14A4, a third was bom in the qitiet cottage, seven weeks iftcr Luther came iivi into th 1 worhl. Parson rhojomew earn ; over from Weaen, :izi*d him, ati 1 fixed upon lilin name of Ids fi ther, Uliih h. One f iitiotlier, t re sons -arreVin rfu* f: ifitty ; find! ninthly. *> »«oy cimnn-D- if five year* T TM* children <be subject of remarfi a*t«ry cause th:it worjn* sad^'j* jiu its earliest intaj* [ e^pecialb mi»tbe^ mtlywith th«4r rtf' i> ohserx ing ot . ms ; forso imreg ^ safely npil We do not Pray Enough.—Felix Neff once made the following com parison ; “When a pump is frequent ly used, but little pains are necessary to have water—the water poors out at the first stroke, because it is high; bat if the parnp has not been used for a long time, the water gets low; and when you wraut it, you must pomp it a long while, and the water comes only after great efforts- It is so with prayer; if we are instant in prayer, every little circumstanoe awakens the disposition to pray, and desires and words are always ready'. But if we neglect prayer, it is diffi- colt for us to pray; for the water in the well gets low." Lilians had been a simple, song-lo ing race of shep- ». It was t leir enstoul' iu May ead their fl jcks to the lower * *8 of fht* me in tains; and every hat had his 1 imb went shonting r the herds o sheep and cattle, * numberlesi bells were tinkbug the mirth of the morning.; i , Ulrich Right go to these pastures, b it wheiil the flocks higlier up Mount Sentis, he linger near it* home, and direct r f we nay judge that in Vgs of his mnntiood he >me of he memories of his may in agine the tliought- *earchi|ig for illustrations *rovid«kiee of Oml." He the flmfl-monse bad lM;en gh to take cafe df itself p its winter storto. Hid- id siMnp rock, he perhaps the pefreupino making a fc.MA8I.fcTT' stock’s Hob .& ^ )>.*, PitfoiHUvb) iu—iy All business men should “remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Of all the dames, this rest and change of employment is to them most essential. It not only prolongs their lives, bat gives them greater power for its duties. As a mere worldly measure it is expedient, as a duty to God, it is all important K D. For any «1 )»lre*cIiWf. L it xv It is pref i piles *oduo Excitement does not constitute the Christian. Sept 12- Iy ■ .,w