The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, March 10, 1871, Image 3

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THR lillTHBKAW VISITOR. COLUMBIA, S. MARCH 10. 1871 m LUTHBAI BOOK ROSE, 117 Strtk MM/W, PH TLA PP1PH1J, U now prppued to fill orders far d <wr ’ Church PuUicatian, Theological tat MiuoDaaeou World. /?£!£«»**■ s ^ f * n 40 1 SUNDAY SCHOOLS. ;• And espcri*l care taken in the wire torn of wmn %wmh hmm&L SSM* ’ For emu we bent author oj 18. Cbarch lom in ion love of God, Iflfc uml in Mr uor with Mr. WatsoD^^||§Rii ‘‘deliver Mice from the tiondaga of sin, mud the power and the ^ItlJU) do all things which are pleasing to God, both as regard* toward habit# nod outwaril Obit-iariw. to state what ^05 to be. tiou product9 “^radical change in the inoral character f but the work of regeneration ito**lf in the soul, is not “hatred of fito,* ftc., but a sovereign act of God, which act “radically changes the moral charac ter* by the imputation of the right eousHm oJ[ Christ, and the gracious mtlucuce of the Holy Spirit, mhich create in the soul “a hatred of sin," &c. And we admit 1 that Mr. Watson is substantially correct, when he nays regeneration is “deliverance from the bondage of sin ;* and this is perhaps the best idea we oan get of regeneration—-deliverance from bondage—but it U not “the power and the will to do all things which tare pleasing to God.” Cogeneration . * , m>- 14* * ' • " % A • PUBLICATION SOCIETY have exhibited the scriptucel mean !w of the «*“•. “regeneration.* It la consistent and beautiAil in all Us imrts. It is Lutheran. U assribes CArtH—fiAO per Turn of 9,600 tea. at Factory. TIME—#55 per Tc fiyfiifi lbs. el Fartary. Payable Sov. IsL, 1871, without imtirat. WM. C. DUK8H ft CX)., Gtuerul AgMdt, salvation to God alone, and makes it all of grace. It brings to poor, help leas man a whole Savionr, and gives Him all the glory. It yields all human greatness, and allows God to “work in us, to will snd to do of Ills gbod pleasure." Iwrtthstotitoelf * jhmtiam ft prodmf*s snd is preparatory h of the soil is p ej a sowing of the grai i. though not until after her marriage a professor of religion, always lowed “Zion awl her heavanly ways.” Humble, meek, snd deeply impressed with s seoSs of bsr uuworthiness, she Ogsof Raw T. H. BOINRHT Feb 1 «Htol The fall puiilisix-d The CoUs In the MU EIGHTEEN YEARS OF PRACTICAL SUCCESS! A -■<, m j . oed la I8KL ? Ui < " Patented Dec. 30, 1889. determined not to lease It, her ftuth all the time growing firmer and stronger; mad though oft cast down and depressed while waitiag, she yal at last was enabled to apply la herself the promise given to baptised believers. She sleeps peacefully, respected by her aaquauiUaas, tewed by her fricods, miamd sail word—hy her children, hat most of all by her husband, who writes: “Deer Broth cr, my tic*\cnly Father la His via- dom ha* sets proper severely to attmt me in taking «»ay the partner of my baas in, and dm mother of my dear chiUlreu. Ify dear wilt left ma with sevea children to noftt oar »Me loan, bat wa kaow that our lose is her otrraal gam. Four Mr. Editor: la the good provi ileuce of God, I was permitted to leave Columbia, S. C., at 7 oVloch A. M., on Saturday, February 18th, 1871, on (be Colombia ft Greenville Railroad, and after a few hours travel arrived at the pleasout village of Frog Lend, Newberry county, at 10 o’clock, A. M., where 1 was kindlj met at the depot by Rev. J. I*. Smeltxer, Preskleut of the Lutheran College at Walhalla C. H., Oconee ooanty, ft. C., and Rev. Jacob Haw- kilts, President of the Krangelical Lutheran Synod of Booth Carolina, who eaeorted me to the store of Mf^or P. E. Wise, the worthy and efficient Treasurer of Synod, where 1 met Postmaster David Ktbter, Kaq., who conducted me to his com fortable and happy home near by, aad be aad his excellent wife enter tallied me during ay stay with their usual kindness snd attention. Bra. Kibler is the father of the Lutheran Church at Prog LeveL On Sabbath, 19th instant, at !1 o'clock, A. M., repaired to the La thersn Church, sad It was made my dnty to perform the usual morning service is the chancel than the Book of Worship, after which the Rev. Mr. Smeltser occupied the pulpit and delivered an excellent sermon to a large ami attentive congregation. After the , prisoner ja Joist i tog to la», be i, pas withont punish: (her esse is the i , *» it were, coven [I ifllk inmdi |)Jv« ' HmW jlaoil Hi ** fM« tviour when He 'e followed me .ttrone pf His sit on twelve twelve tribes BOSKS, PUOBPHAT1C GUANO, CONCENTRATED AM MON LAC AL ANIMAL MATTER, AND SULPHURIC ACID. Me Atett. Plaster. Ateit ftefe, Kir* Coke, XOR A XT ADULTERANT uittal unto the law that It Is good"—my will is good to obey God’s law—“but I s#e another law in my members (my powers), warping against the law of my mind (my will), atul bring iug me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my member*.* “In all thiuga do we offend," aad “our righteousness is as filthy rags.* When we offend and repent, God forgives os for Christ’s sake, snd is pleased with us for His saks, bat still cau not look upon our sin, of which we have repented, with soy degree of pleasure; and His act of forgive ness by no means makes the siu “pleasing" to Him. Many of “the things" which result from “the power and the wilT of the regenerated man are not “pleasing to God," “both as regards inward habits and outward acts." So that regeneration la not “the power and the wifi to do all things which are pleasing to God,* nor do these alwaysfotloir regenera tion. We agree with Mr. Wesley, when llmi fig#'words ewai of lift* are in tin Apology interested la tbs sahfcol of refcg ioa snd suited with aar Lotheraa Church We them dedicated oar children fi» God by holy baptism, sad.we have both tried ta raise them up in the fear aad nurture sf tbs Lord. My dear wife’ll lows for her children vm great, sad oar liuk hobs, two years old, had learned ta Usp her prayers by bar mother, la deed, the first thing she learned her dear children was to lore their Mesa ed 8av war. Mag Gad grant me wisdom to raise up oar dear child rra in hta fear aad lore, that they may be an honor to the memory of their mother, and that we all mag meet above la heaves T Augsburg Coi most be und< The Ammoataeal matter ta M APES’ NITROGKN1ZED SUPER I’lIOSl liATE OF LIME consist» of the Hash (containmg 10 per ceat. of Ammonis) sad the blood (containing IS per cent of Ammonia) of beeves, harass, fishes, sad other animals, after expression of the fist sod oil by to used in reference ties sf man, amit be srently. from what fcstood by the jus rightly relation inge oar ^^■efe < pmit—re- r iu Christ KINSMAN & HOWELL, OEHXSAL AGENTS. It is not faith. F;«ith is that me of the mind by which we Aend the terms of Ife, and lay of the promises of (the gospel, m weare impelled and assisted ic Holy Spirit, and enabled to ie that Gad for Christ’* sake wa our nature and makes ua k of i fife. It is believing what knnmid—regeneration is wbat the Rev. Jacob Hawkins, accompanied by several elders from tbe three churches of this charge, surrounded the chancel, when Rev. Mr. fkptlti i read the installs tiou service from the Book of Woe- ship and feev. Mr. Hawkins was doly indmtetl into tbe pastoral office. At 3| o’clock, P. M., I preached la tbe Lutheran church; after which, the Prog IawI Bible Society was organ ized as auxiliary to the American Bi ble Society, with tbe following board of managers: Rev. Jacob Hawkins, President j James Fair, Kaq., Vice .President}. H, 0. Mosley, Hecretary | Major P. E. Wine, Treasurer: Rev. Church Notioet. IMPORTANT NOTICE he says, “Kegenerittion relates to the great work which God does for us in renewing our nature f bnt we differ from him and his followers in regard to tbe powers of ear nature after tts renewal, as mneb as we do in regard to tbe ageueies employed iu that re newal. That great reformer snd his followers bold that in regeneration, ia active aad. f eotrfbuTuled with rt Coi is sn active exercise in i i regeneration is an ac reign power. Iu couversior to (kdl; in pogaaoration ve t*m God. Oogvoraii part of the profit* Price,in Sheep... - Agonta Wanted for as ia eonvcrsioi as It were, afisi or, at feast, tbat'lds natural powers are exercised as agents through which regeneration k eflbcted—That that renewal is so complete that it results in sanctification in this life—man be coming so holy as to become sinless, and therein has “the power snd the will to do all things which are pleas ing to God." On the contrary, we teach that regeneration is an act of sovereign power alone, and that man is simply tbe passive recipient of that gracious work. “Not as a Mock or stone," says Lntber, “bat God of his mercy has desired the miserable, fallen, human 4• UmmUm catw% pardon, and adoption, jvereign acts of God, enter fcdcfaiittute oar regeneration. *»• m expressed bj tbe phrase, Of of Christ }" the other: is, •t in os the hope of glory." wiversiou we are attire, and in our regenetratioo ra'^pferie^ and receive from The Form of Concord, com ag upon this view at Lather, A eoRoctle* was tskea up. ami the amoont reported to the American BfMe Society. The Add of the Frog Level Biidr Society is the nootii- eastern portion of Newberry county. It will reetlvc books to tbe amount of nearly fifiO far sale snd dtstribn tbm, includitig sold * copies quarto, gilt family Bibles, and 1 copy octavo, great (winter New Testament. In company with Trofeanor ftamlu cr, visited Rer. Mr. Hawkiaa at his now and Cheerful host.-, which is beautifully sitaated in sight of tbe village of Fivig Level, where we were kindly emertsiaed by him snd his amiable .md jdessant wife, good aunt and cliii.1 r.-n For many year* past, I have vis ited tbe people of tkis comtnunity with pieasore, and have always found them kind snd hoepitable. May God Ideas and (Wosper them. During this month I preached sad held a meeting of the Oconee Comity I» j HI.* Swhtj- at tbe Lutheran Church in the growing town of Walhalla, on which occasion a good oollsetioo was token tip for Bible distribution. Tbs Rev. Fletcher Smith, of the Methodist Episcopal < buck, ftoatb, is President of the Ocoftfifi Ooanty III We ftooiety, and the Rev, J. P. Smeltaer Is tbe 73 MKDAIJ8 r other highest premiums, for dem uWrmtod wupariorHf, in Europe and JStries, mcUaliif tbe irstwteas adal at tbe PAKIB EXPOSITION. NEARLY 1,000 MC81CIANS idadiac a stafonU of the muni mi ls# ia JwcrvTi, and many in Eurojw, sve given written opinions that they EXCEL ALL OTHERS. ot made to those who DUFFIEiv i MAP' BELLS that “he wishes to i nply that of himself, or by his own *1 powers, is nnable tio effect ling, or to assist in 1 is regeu- aad that this rej eneration t only in part, but wholly and ■I and a BUCKEYE BELL F0L/ltI)HT Chita BLjsnrD rx tar. fiopsriar MSA bsffe fur dmiteijdwih, fee.. a«W of TURK UKl.i^-MKTAL—v'«H>pr-*' and Tin—frilly Warranted, and mosafei wffa our PA TUFT fMPkO VKD MOT ART imte HN Kw ad smart. Ctnriaaati. O. Fab 8 i . 113——ly rglRE uadenigaed respectfully inform* A hi* friend*, sod the public generally, that he keep* constantly on hand a terse fi»* *riert saaoitmeat of Guns, Pistol*, Ammunition and Suortmen’s eqtdnmeut*. He te *ten agent for Singer*. Wilcox fie Gibb*’, adpaa’* Shuttle Sewuig Ma- chinea, which can be examined at his Sewing llachiuee. Guns, Platola, Iron Safes, Lock<s^&c., repaired in ^tbe best Work from the country promptly and faithfully attended to. F. A, SCHNEIDER, Mam St, Columbia, 8 C Jan 26 1 21—ly DrTimri r' Orrmtmr, *rai Pm*.) r Styles sud Reduced Prices noato. An niustratfd Cato with elegant ffhirinitioo* from graph*, aad fall iaformatioa, rae. Addiam hiSOI ft HlX MAS CO-596Broadway,N.Y. Tremoct St., Boston. i K r r 1 nature again to htoome and to he sas- ceptiMe of being a participant of con version of the grace of Ood and of eternal life, not throngh any of its own natural aad active or efficient fitness, aptitude or capacity, • • • bat Of pare grace, through the mer ciful and efficacious operation of the Holy Spirit.- v Au<l the symbolical books ofoift church teach that “although renova tion and sanctification are a benafkc- tion from the Mediator, Christ, aad a work of the Holy Spirit; yet they do not pertain to the article of justifies tiou before God, but follow after It, since on seuount of the corruption of' ■ our fiesli they ate not entirely pore and perfect in this Hfr.ty*'“Faith Mid jngtificntioD befomGod opnfidet aei tber In eeatrition, nor in aar in other virtues, but to Christ aiano/ depending upon that |»«rfect ob& dienoe with which he in billed tbe law for uu, srrnl which fa imputed J ■ tf-amr . . .. All. g * - I - -Vrt , te *nU C. O. D. Paovrr-pATmo Waoi swo Invited te inspect t Mbiwr *ad Packmr Dc «lnn* HAMlLTONlAffT rn, 1SS, SSI aad SOS Weet *1 m operation, a < of the Holy Ghost" ' not agree, tlier Ujtrby's Propl.ylactlc Fluid. AHEAD AS USUAL f Bible, it is faith and coaver- which our regeneration (•pended, and not at all upon arbitrary dlgposition ouUho part °M- It is positively declared by ylf that He wills not the <^eath 11 and Christ temeuts/ffYa will tome unto ine that tirroal, diptficria; DIERCKS. Wholemle ami Retail Grocer, Cwnibis, 8. C„ icapertfel- inns hi* friend* and customer* tbs* i removed to hi* uew establishment, r+v Ktefier’s huDding, os the comer bnnlM.il snd Tsj lor *treet*, whew I! constantly keep on hand a well a position to a!! its follnett* jrfial rwtovring LACTIC rift might lent to to ’ re^en- stitutes TUB LABGBBT AMD BB8T STOCK vm HAVE K VMS OFFERED TO TBE FUBlld i not only fared tons, to (on. When the eujoy'wt by true scriptural ,i$ of rpose of devel- not be * ^nfiay lie regenera a come to him only amt faltb, which o rifio<a|»d the act of April IA, 1AS9 taytelf M St.ite Agaot, for hta energy nnd aetiN ity in the sate aad dfetriba- tiou Of Bibfes and Tratomefita. Hia example is v<» th# emulation. His the importation to u4 which Christ has refer ^old that in point of; **tum i* preo*kxt .by WHOLESALE Aim RETAIL of tbe teriBj the npiritbn' it botoniouly \rith St. Paul prefer fo “rejatoi? ia Cbiiat Jesus, and h*v* *u cssfeaw* in the flesh." * We hjifiJ fto '^ympath/Vith self- t oufersibn, which teedgaizes no ageu- |Df*W the Holy Spirit, but maintains rs. D. Bfeinsn also eo wifortabtg and hand»<> bmt8, mm, airs. toit in point of fij multoaeous. Whei lied to believe, we t of convietioD: a Vours, truly. G... A-i A. B. 8. for