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ONE LORD, ONE PAITH, ONE BAPTI81T—EPHE8IAN8 IV: fc
COLUMBIA, 8. C.. FRIDAY, MARCH IB, 1871
OLD SERIES, VOL. V.--NO. 131
^oowett be a aarefhl reader of
th * Bible, without being Impressed
with the proretaeure given to its
to the domestic sod and si
dfcctfens. Clastfe literature to stri
kingly find redly defective in its
dettMtiosa of the ftunily sod the
fireside. But the Bfbte does great
honor to the frmiiy relation. “In
the whole range of eastern story,
there to nothing richer thso the
seoooDt of Iassc'a courtship. The
witching pages of flcdoo have never
yet aurpnaoed the story of Joseph
snd hto brethren. And the sweetest
refinement which modern taste has
thrown around the pan, to iafcrior
to the simple |>stboa of the aged
Jaoob, ns, to hto dying momenta, he
■sid, ‘Bury me with my fkthen in
the cave that to in the arid of
Epbmo the Hlttito. There they
bailed Abraham aud Harsh hto wife;
there they buried Isaac and Rebeka
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reports, are nothing ton than appal
ling.
I am sware that many, on rending
these statements, win torn atones
to their thoughts to the East, and
vaguely hope that deliverance to to
arise from that quarter. It to true
that New England and the Middle
States have furnished many laborers
for this Western field. The time has
bees when to was only reneenahto
that they should be expected to do
so. Whether the Interior and West
should continue to depend upon the
seaboord Stolen for the gospel, I will
not just now stop to argue; bat of
one foci it to well that we should be
apprised.
through his heart at that weU knpwu
chime, had snapped Us strings l*
And so, sometimes, to after life,
when the feet of some wayward man
hare strayed (hr away from the home
of hto yonth, and hto heart has wan
derad far from his father’s God, some
memory of the past, like the sweet,
sad melody of the evening chime,
may wake long-slumbering echoes
and stir long-sealed fountains; and
a father's counsels, snd a mother’s
prayers will come up again from the
•acred burial place of the past with
wondrous power to melt and win the
wayward heart.
Tea, a family ought to be a little
church of Jesus Christ The father
should be its pastor, conducting its
daily worship and leading the dear
circle in the way of truth and duty.
Christ should be acknowledged as
the Haviocr, the Friend, the Ruler
of the entire group Every affection
should be consecrated by faith to
Jesus and love to Ilia. Every tie
which binds one loving heart tfe an
other, should be made stronger and
more tender by the influence of a
common tie to Jems Tbecr circum
stances may be humble and their
tot may be lowly, but if they have
Christ to the family, there will al-
totally
hto salary as truly as the day laborer
his wages, and that people have no
moms right to criticise hto flunily than
they have to subject the families of
the doctor, lawyer or merchant, to
their inspection. %
'1 have thought as I reviewed the
Various torn Hire of ministers 1 have
known, that God takes eepi nisi cave
of their children, Immmuah as minis
understand it except through expe-
To uight 1 shall talk to yoa about
the death of children. All ace directly
or indirectly interested in each a
theme. There to a great difference ia
Christian parents to meeting sack
trials and troubles. I hare found a
tow who fete ahto to meet them with
calmness, mrauity, aad trust to thu
Saviour ; they have beta lifted above
the trial. But I think U to a gift,
and those who do not find to
themselves this ejiperieaee need not
grieve at it. ,
Many say: “I never thought the
child ooold die, and it’s gone.” The
flood gates ure down { they can not
be comforted, and they ought not to
be ; let grief hive its way.
1 remember the slaters of Laaarus
Bat the history snd lito of Jesus
wn more strikingly and beautiftilly
tog a surplus of ministers have,
daring the pari thirty years, aeeu
the proportion of ministers to the
population, within their own borders,
steadily and rapidly declining The
percentage of graduates of the New
England colleges who became mtoto
isters to fast clecrnwng. The right
colleges, Amherst, Bowdotn, Dart
mouth, Harvard, Middlei/ury, Uni
versity of Vermont, Williams, and
Tale have furnished, from their six
teen thousand graduates, four thou
sand minister*—twenty-five per cent.
Notice, however, the proportion of
ministers to the course- of several
decades. From 1H30 to 1840, thirty-
five per cent, of the graduates be
came ministers. From 1840 to 1850,
twenty-seven per cent From 1850
to 1800, twenty per cent. From 1800
to 1870, eighteen per cent. This
exhibits a vary great decline during
the last half of the period. Am
herst, during these thirty years, has
Wedui
Mpfrcf their own children to attend
to other people’s; “the Lord takes
structum which they receive, causing
to to bring forth abundant fruit. 1
asked a young man the other day,
how to was that he became pious f
knowing that hto father’s ministerial
duties prevented him from fi™** hto
family much attention. Hahl he, “My
father’s life and example preached to
am more forcibly than any words
could have done. His labors for eth
ers, neglecting himself often, were
bettor to me than hours of tostroc
lion.” The laborious, self-denying,
and often thankless duties of the
minister—not self-imposed, but laid
upon him by a Higher Tower—claim
the sympathy, not the censures of
those for whom be is wearing out
his life. I have often thought it
stowage, that a minister aad hto tom
ily should be considered as scape
goats, upon whom every family in
his charge may lay the faults of
their own children. They suppose
thst they shield their qwn tamHy
from blame, by hunting for similar
faults to their pastor’s family.
When 1 compare the morals
aad prosperity of a community
deprived of pastoral labors for
k time, with one ei^oying the
regular mtototratioua of a pastor,
the contrast impresses me with the
immense benefits of God’s living min
istry. This consideration should in
fluence os all to an exercise of that
charity and respect which the position
of the minister demands. B.
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brother had not died." He answered
thorn not a word; he was silent; bat
he weat with them, step by step, to
the grave.
Grief has its right, a certain right
of its own.
Others there arc oho reproach
themselves, aad think themselves
points to
lontgomsry,
dred Presbyterian churches without
more. They have gone through so
much, there to a reaction. Feeling
can not run on forever. After much
anxiety mod watching, nothing to
more natural than sa inability to
M. Sensibility to at its limit} al
most Ufo itself to goos.
With another, it may be a first
moved by death; ooe hundred nee
churches annually formed; all heath
thirty-five.
Do not these facts show that if the
Went to to have an educated minis
try for her churches, it to high than
she set about the work of consecra
ting her own anas to this calling,
stimulating them to K by all Chris
tian and appropriate means, aad
educating them here at home f
I venture to suggest that it to not
aeosmury, neither is it the part of
Christian wisdom and independence
for the Interior and the West to
remain any longer dependent upon
the East for the Gospel. Why should
not Ilinoto raise up her own educated
is passed hv the
vers, and I heard
( What a dreadful
making P “Yes,*
iV is our minister’s
that accounts for
principal points.
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prevented it “That cold water,
when so heated ,** “That ride on a
sultry day; the child was merer veil
from that hour ? or, “Tb* child
complained, but I thought tt was
nothing; if I had only thought ia
time |* or, “I've said to my kasha ml.
I'd never cull that doctor Oh! if 1
had only seat for the other doctor P
exception, are the graduates of our
Tbeatogiral Seminaries; and from
these not more than seventy-five can
pomiMy be given annually to this
part of the flekL Ia the six The
ological Seminaries in the United
States, connected with our church,
there are at present about four hun
dred and fifty students. One third
of these graduate yearly, ooe hundred
aad fifty. The majority of them are
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sional life ! And especially is it not
kept, for reasons which must suggest
themselves to every observing mind,
that she, and all her sister oemrouni
ties of this great Interior, should ed
ucate her own sons, here at home,
for the work which is here to be
done! She is able to do it She
is rich now in comparison to New
England at that day when the foun
dations of her great institutions were
laid. Were she to give to-day for
these objects of eduektum as those
men gave who established the Col
lege of New Jersey in 1746, or the
Princeton Theological Seminary iu
1812, it is not too much to say that
“she could surround her cities with a
cordon of colleges.” /
It is most earnestly to be hoped
that there will be found at the West
the liberality upon the part of the
rich, the personal devotion upon the
part of the young, which will secure
for her the ministry drawn for her
own sous and educated bene; for
nothing is more certain than that
her chances of receiving any adequate
supply from the East are growing
tom every year—Interior.
There is s great difference between
the views even of natural men on the
sutyect of divine truth—a difference
which is strikingly exemplified by the ;
different language of the three Roman
governors, Festus, Agnppa and Fe
lix, in reference to the preaching of
SauL Festus spoke out in bold lan
guage of the natural man, to whom
“Paudos worn. Nothwo.*—A few
days since, when visiting an old man
who seemed anxious about salvation,
I found great difficulty in making
him understand that pardon to the
free gift of God, through the pre
cious blood of Christ.
At last I said to him, “Now, sup
pose I were to go to a shop, and buy
something for you, and pay for it,
and tell you to go and fetch it, need
you take any money with you T"
“No,” said the old man, brighten
ing up; ip would be paid for.”
“Need yon make any promise to
pay at some frture time!” I then
ohIp fruits of
I bars Wt
tended, and the larger part of these
aauual graduates will be secured by
the churches of the East But if we
rsoeive our full half, drawing largely
every year from the young men of
wglier stations of society, are filled
bF 1 these same ministers’ children!
^ tay life, I hive noticed timfc
msntcn’ children are nearly always
■ms u tod. Borne early in life adorn
frfcfreflMiikm,ai d are active lay-
rembess of toe c torch, others near
tb* close of the r days; but the
af their parents are most
y«|n answered, it is true, some
Njj* * ministers d ;> “sow wild oats,”
**• there not nore wild youths
parents a © not ministers,
frequent the >ar, and gambling
than those thus stigmatized !
Pwould ask, Wbe ice does this false
ypression arise!
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powerful in after years, as the mem
ones of the household altar. I can
travel back over the path of forty
years snd recall the vary tones of
my father’s voice, as he reverently
read the Bible, sad devoutly prayed,
ia the midst of bis family. I can
remember how he prayed for his
children; bow faithfully be taught
them the toeaoas of Christian truth
and duty ia these thoughtless days
There to a great difference between
people in regard to tenacity of feel
ing. Heme carry their grief forever }
the woood, if only healed on the
surface, ia always sore to the teock.
There to a difference ia the vibrating
Our anxiety in view of this appall
ing state of thiaga would not be so
great as it is il^ upon a further study
af the facto, ws could discover nay
prospect of au improvement at aa
early day. Though so few young
men are now in our Theological Sem-
giveneas of sins; the Lolrf Jeans
has paid the fall price for it. He
has had the groans, the sighs, the
tears, the wrath, the pain, the pun
i8hment; yea, all that sin deserved.
He bore it all. He paid the whole.
Yes, bought forgiven©** with Hto
precious blood, and now He gives tt
sa a gift to all whs bring their stoa
to Him.”
“Tea,” said the old man, aa hto
eye* filled with tears, “1 see it sow;
it to pardon for nothing T Christ has
bought ft, and He will give H me P
Dear reader, may you also learn
that Christ atone can sate; that net
inaries, it would be encouraging if
we could find that anywhere, in our
an adequate number of youth who
were looking forward to the ministry,
though their professional studies had
not begun.
What are the (acta upou this point!
The habit of the Presbyteries to re
port to the General Assembly the
youth in their membership who are
things which are behind, and reach
ing forth ante there things which
are In-fore, tot m press toward the
calling of God ia Christ Jtaas.” ;
No frailly has ever toil a ehBd
but that the tore to paid back in the
other children- J A child ws love so
much is superlatively loved. There
to ao lore like that, whan wa took at
ear children to the Ught af Gad,
when our tore ia burnt to by death.
Death gives a wonderful sweetness
to the liii that's gone. Death ia
libs frost that ripens fruit before
acerb sad dry. It always to the
sweetest child that goes
The oHfM * Atol was fit* ©MM
most precious. Tell me, did yoa
not tar* with latqarer fteitog, sash
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^ what was th
&at the boys
rood he join*
hit s boy wfa
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16 to the door i
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bton* a c.
matter.. He told
[«© ptoyihg saow-
also, and his
from your sins, and make you fit
to dwell with him ^bove. . •
moved, for, “as Paul reasoned of
ngiwNHHH) wraperanoe »u\i jv«g
toewt to come, Felix trembled.” The
natural man. then, may know some
thing of divine truth—-he may even
he impressed aud affected by it, with
out acquiring that saving knowledge
which our Lord himself declares to
saw him throw
site caUed oftt,
i» gp hwje, mov- they are l
•u are a bad hoy, secret sin,