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ONE LOBD. ONE FAITH, ONE B APTI8M"—EFHE8IAH8 IV COLUMBIA, S.C., FRIDAY, MARCH 24. 1871 OLD mum, VOL. V.—NO. 133 about touching the sensibilities of those who compose it sn<l who are expected to contribute to hi* vup port, tie seeks to avoid the “hull*- 4i «f ' * *.. >’ 3' ^ y ■ •*. crest expression*” which may rioter intending pew renters, nod put a long faoc upon the Trussurrr, when tlmt officer waits upon him with the next monthly or quarterly Instalment of the salary. 4. “This same enslaving motive may be present in a far subtler ami far more seductive mode of its o{MMatiou." It to natural for a man of noble mind to dread a fall into the error of rdVlenes* ami incivility, if he uses a faithhil frankness of address towards those from whom he has himself iswhwil only themss* (State ful appreciation, the most flattering attentions, the most agreeable bospi talfty, the most open handed gener osity. Bartel blandish meat* and personal fa roes, with ths illusions of ractpeocai obligation which they imply, form the silken coed that softly ties the tongue of many s minister of the gospel.” \ “In the fifth place, tbo dread of being personal, or of being thought perasoat, imposes no unimportant limitation npon the proper frrodom of the patptk* We moss distinguish between directness and personaltty In pulpit address. Hugh Latimer fhiled to do teat, hot made sore of hitting his mark by calling the name. Bneh mss, woman and child of his congregation got “hi* portion is dne season.” Modern manners hare done weH In changiog that, hot have done ill iongoing to* ter in the opposite direct ios. “They hare to* ported the idea' that if the pastor km&trn of a member of the congrega tion to whom the rebuke nf a ais has a damaging adapted ness, the roar teey of the pulpit require* that he should omit the rebuke, teat he be blame worthily persons!." That idea is altogether wrong. Opha siu de mands, and should receive, open rebnke. 6. M A sixth (mint, wherein the bondage of the pulpit presses, ts found In the fact that the rhnrrti will not , support its ministry by legitimate coarse* of discipline. ?fo man with any self respect Hken to become rox et pnrterm nihil" • • • “There is no question that the laxity of ecclesiastical discipline acts pow erftilly to intimidate the pulpit." “Ami, unhappily, a daunt lew brave ry in the palpit would avail little withoat practical support from the pews.” 1. Again, “the pulpit is circum scribed in its freedom of rebnke by its nucousuious circumscription in serviceable knowledge of its congre gation as individual men and wo men." Tbe pastor is more or less insulated from the currents of in formation concerning his people, that are flowing freely all aronnd him. y “In general, the minister is not to bis congregation as are other men, awl bis congregation are not to their minister as they are to othsr men. Whereas tbe community at large know his people tv a practical, world ly way, the pastor knows them in a spiritual, and, as it were, the other-woriddj-way. The parallax be tween Deacon Huiith’s pastor’s views of Deaeon Smith, and Deacon Smith's business acquaintances' views of Dea oon Smith, is often something euor mous." * • * “Many a zealous imstor would be simply astounded to learn what the general community, that know them, think of the Aarons and Hurs on whom be, not knowing them, relies for sympathy and sup port. Fortunate., and, ye had almost added, singular, tbe church that has not a sanctimonious deacon, whose reputation in tbe community is a spot on the love feasts of his brotherhood; while tbe unworldly pastor, it may be, is profoundly—and shall we not say blessedly I—-ignorant of the true state of the facts. How can a min ister rebnke the sin of which he la as innocently ignorant as a weanling babe P Groffebv Oleankr. thsOospsl to ths LUm) ,n.i*fti0g fill wbag Ms membms sad ,U» ivmistort do 1 Mf toil In* dalg to preaching the goapul to every cssolfe- ^ rm0i Tha toaoM«6^ ' M>te to t*t , *u BPiaraUjr. reoogntord, and yet wc reymnl Ure wot toss UuporUut.- That the support of tha friatoUy asks you to rat that bread of Hfe which will gave you from death. Hi? is so near that he wilt 5 notice your first faint effort to come to biiu. and wTH stretch oqt his hand to help you. He I# ao near that he will see your first tear of repentance, and catch yoqr first sigh for pardon. He Is so near that before you call he will answer, and while you are yet speak ing he will bear. Burners, wherever yon are, Jesus to near, ao that to all countries, under all cures umtauoes, by day **ul by night, o& home or abroad, yon may owm to him i no come now.—Mdi§. fwo parties. Radi party has his offices to fultl, according to the fiiw—"IT tha mnmuttf and particularly, parents have duties to perform as conditions precedent to the grace thereto sealed to their chHdtWo. Ito promises are not given as premiums to suputeoee*or oofeith folnws.' jrpr toe they mm expres terns of the goad will and gramous purposes of God. AH his promises, and as much as any others, those which respect the salvation of our U PUBLISHED HY Vjur* ti vbvtena from the foUostog ounaid to The command of Christ to preach the gospel to giraa to ths whole church. Ike ohUgatiou which U hofMMos doss not rote upon Lb* officer* or upon any one eteea of its MManbcr*, but to blodtog upon oil who make up “the U*4|- A church msittbor has not met hto iMpocmibU ity when b 4 ' has secnml lb* know l edge of the gospel for hto own family and immediate neighbonL Ht ha not done all that ho to required to do «he« he nnite* with uthrrs in Ik support of a pastor, tkae wha an- far away* even to ths cads of the earth, hat* Uaime apuo him that frith to God, prayer to him, and faith fsinew in the performance of the duties laid upon us, Tbe coo dition was expressly stated by. (ted, respecting the original covenant with Abraham. “I know Abraham that he will command his children and hto homnhold after him, and they shad keep the way .of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lerfl may bring upon Abraham that which Ue hath spoken of him.” Gen. ivihi If. The declaration is ex pens, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when be Is oM, he will not depart from it" But the memorable examples of the children of Lot, of Eli, of David and yf pjbere 4 |g»ow the promises to be forfeited by unfaithfulness. The very' purpose of our children being placed in our charge, with the sane uous of the covenant upon us, is that we may train them up in the nurture and admonition of tbe Lord. If we fail of this duty, we need not he surprised if God retime to counte nance cor ■nftithftUaeos by follow ing it with Hto blessing. It may, therefore, be held as n rule of nniver sal application, that where the children of the covenant forsake the way of holiness, ths primary cause to parental neglect or tran* groenoo of ths terms upon which We are not saying that aa Ih existed hi this land at ita Amt dement, to cuald have been el wise. Ws are nrouoauemg cons ed by which H to utterly 1 Me to obey the com and tag ths gospel to the poor. The children of Oodk people are by him net apart as hto own peculiar propertv. rteimhig them thus, he gives himself to them in a reciprocal covenant, resting on and appealing to parental frith : «f wfll he a God to thee, and ts thy seed after tbse.” He Invites parents to *aH*fr the yearnings of parental affection and anxiety for the salvation of their chil dren, by bringing them in the arms of frith, and placing them In the Path er*s bosom, with Implicit confidence in bis paterual love, and undoubting reliance on hto ability to save, and hto Oddity to lus ooveoaoi and their trust. He appoint* baptism as the aerate** and weans of outuumma ting and seeling this act of parental faith and consecration, and of enlist teg for tho lamb* of hto fold the tender interest of tbe church and its officers, their ooutinual prayers, their watchful care, and their guardian ship, nurture and admouitiou. In that ordinance, be sets his own mark upon them, bestows on them the seal of hto covenant, and proclaims them I# the world, tbs church, and the apuii* of light and of darkness, bis above Words, been tbe chief rantnllia car l*re*h) tertou mnehi then ww want the resalt logically from thi* to be met hto ohligatiou only when bo bn* done all be possibly so* do to bnag ths gospsl to boar upon * “every rm lure." ('hitstian ties ore not local; >Uch b.vr hm c*mnll> n*o* , . __ ,, h 35 nlwd In Ik. rknrrk. bat nhfck *» -w_ M J. t , * ZzT SafesIWiri- are illsjoined, ronfrisiou and foeffi Father of aU,’bat u, 0 are immbrr. Heney most follow. The one in, that u ^ myteual l*4y of Cbriat ttf the ?^.»P "7“ U ■**** JmlmMttwg uf the Holy Gbcte; so is entitled to an adeqaate snpfmrt > (hat if uno member suffi, te the and the other to, that the obligntton . . . U lt ami if So to fnrutoh this mpport doe* not real i*-**—! *!i [w- n 'ZZ I .L VOa . ** l '* n "" Ut ™ I «3> S AH jc air Wkm.- grogntion that ml npn *| The iwcogfoUeti oh thto tint), »ym IW WMttoto pathy i ith our Mlo* chriattens, a The first of there principles does ^,,1,,,,, ^ them, to Uhl down not rnlmit of debate. It to a divine a the Iklde m a principal evidence iwdtnance that ihore who jireech the of oar stuuu with Christ * Us that gospel -houUi live of the gospel, k is brother have need and Our laird say * in reference to hto •hatteth up hto bowels of compsatooa mimstera, -Tbo luburer la worthy Ovm him, U.w dwrlkth the Uve of of bis birr.” lie lias a right to IL God iu bin) f~ To withhold it from biro to an injoa | y Hiute|rr» are ordaioml to tbe 41 Wfte—we» i toiitd Bausons non fr. j o articles npou the above gi'ii- anlpecti of which ke l»ece re- i snr account, do nut foil to i oat tho ctotf co^rs, as well »e nature, of the pulpitTs boud In tbe unfoldin’ of these is, there to ao wich that to estives, iostructive, and adinir pot, that it to lurid to decide, *JL m • 1:1 « • te can not be j givel^ what sfcct. We must content our a with a compai ut vely meagre ft, in which our author shall nutted to speak for himself writ as possible. Tl4.;f < ir b ef the average pulpit, otj tbe be it remem »*ereL is, accord * this writer, that it does not Illy, openly and sternly enough parental bear!*, a yearning love to their cteltl—«n and anxiety for their aalratreu, which nothing site will WWw V*C- r .. iik> And yet, w« oousuutiy see many of those on whom God's mark has been set, whom be bn* refected and apt apart to lumaelf by an inalien able right as hto properyr, and des ignated aa “holy,” who have been dc-licated by parental faith, and by the consecration of |*rayers and tears, and instructions in the knowl edge and way s of God, grow up to become wanderer* from the fold, and apostates from God’s grace and cov enant of life. There to no subject in connection with which more pro found emotions have been stirred th the heart* of many of God’s people, thafi this; aiipoaling as It does to the warmest natural affection*, ex alted and intensified by grace. With what poignant distress have their minds been agitated, and bow se verely has Uteri hulk been tried in the efficacy of prayer, and tbe fidel ity of a covenant God! What means ths liupsnttrnos of there beloved and consecrated ones f Are they to pariah bacuass of oar ahortroomings and snfaithfuhmte in tiietr (routing T Is God indeed rhrawer of proper f Will be keep lus covenant with hto nawosthy peopto, or is it tortiuted by oar sins t Haro we w holly mis us derriietiou in •f'tW ministry, are pastors of Uteri orrernl rhurehea, ,B> I bat too) are minister* la hety things now a •vmyrwhere. They qspte authorite mnsani tirel) in Chn«t's name evea when the go • thousand mile* from home. When regain Ute rolothm of p pastor with hi* pu*mhi church to dissolved, ha no mare and ■ osnsss to be s mintoter than tha mains church enters to hr organised, n* oomph is a servant of the chureil as a whole, JL O. J wherever its power may be lodged, aod ba to bound to obey ita rule over > him—to go where the church amds him, no*) to do what it requires him. ,l * Aa he receives, hto orders from the ebarrh as a whole, and obeys three ® m! *** ordain,ht has a claim upon it, which m •■an not be disputed, for hto support, sod not a pus ths people to which ha miatotevi An officer la the army, M under soy government, Is the arr- f£&]H vaat of tbs goveromsuU He may ba > im 01 sent first to one place and then to lhronr soother. He to to go wherever hto • government reqahea, and to tha m iP>vernment he looks for hto rapport, and not to the people whom he may be employed la protecting. As a cbwreh, la its wld# and not local ^ttoaet ■mas, com missions and control* fta a “ ar( * minister*, so precisely In tee ume rn sense should It support them. 1 i. The effect ire laborers hi the P nWl1 early churdb, whC are mentioned •“ specially iu the !fsw Tests men t. *Jw were not pasture of part irolar church wrk r *‘ ea, but men without Aarge, who tocom) went wherever tbs providence sf hr * 0,1 God ,ffifetotedf a door, and who were supported bpr the geoern! eoatriba retired tion* of the ebarches. Faal acknowl jjffiiffi edges the enatributioua which he J received time sad again from rhnfffik es ts which 1 ba bore wo pastoral or fr” r relation. There I* no single local JjM pastor named In tee New Teats meet, ontoaa Jamre of Janwatoln ha am ezeeption. Tbe great aygrosalre M *he t work lit the Hpodolk age was done by 11 siijinkr aod not by local imstore. We do not underrate the l Is tbe first place, rebuke to tbe «S prosupposcs ttoral voium^< I pa-son wbo gi 1 es it. Moral ge, as already s id, i s u rare wong men. Miuinlen are iheu,” are, as a class, |sit|»cripr,, |*er- m moral oouragd to any other of men, yet ve*4 few of them is it in sufficient quantity to » them properly to cpnfrout Iwtes wludi ad tiie average i into bondage.” la tbe second ph oe, tbe boml- | the pulpit has m iutel U-ct ua 1 It to not alw *ys primarily Mntoteni are not morally brave b. It is also often first that rie sot inteliectfally iu<l»»|H‘n mough. These wo poiute of tot iufirtuity are closer of kin Is commonly rei{icniberetL|- It p* moral courgg i to be iutel My iadepeudent, tid it requires pteal iudcjn-iult-qi-c to be mor- pwgeons. BviddiUy, if a pan pke a stand, tens important p make up hto niiud where to Ik Uncertainty Ito weakness. ie» certainty if misapplied the M|KM*tlc has argued to must fully' and most clrarly. 11 is Isugnage to most ea photo): “Do yc not know that they which! minister sbont holy things live of the things of tbe temple f and they which wait st ths altar are partaker* with tbe altar 9 Even so bath tbs Lord onlaiued that they white preach tbe gospel shall live of the gospel " How the church meets this obligation to well known. It to sue of the staoding reproaches of the world against ths church, that tbs support given to mintotera, with a few exceptional esses, to most shamefully stinted. Tbe inadequacy of ministerial Sop port has been a running sore hi the and It to not Hkelv soon to often insure t a* uuuUter’s toinmph. Oftei “hto mental !»ta the sinews of his moral k.” Having u< Axed, inde- t judgment u K»n a gijeu n > Ae probably compromises. } » into I m ditch, and lift nwst of Lor I>ce tbe weil-fo ti sins of fhurches aod \ ongregatioiis. f however, in cl arity be said Ib .that they r re generally, h intellectnal b< ndmen before f morel poItro4^ .. j church \\ healed. The coin plaint crones not from those who are directly interest ed in this conqtetent maintenance, Iwt from the private members of the church and people of the world. God to carrying on hto work to spite of the derelictioii of the chuioh In this matter, find will doubtless eon tinue to carry; to on. Ministers will preach who have to live of their own labor, and not of ths gospsl. testimony of Peal, that by the They do not get half the credtt for this that deserve. God will still furnish hi- ebarrh with ths living ministry; he may even raise •ti’men wift» inch a plenitude of gifts am! grace and knowledge that they may, as Paul did, labor night and day with their own hands, and yet preach the gospel in season and out of season. Bat thi* to not God’s ordinance; aqd It Is utterly vain In this way' fo expect tbe church to attain ita foOret HBctewcy. TVs church win have the approval of Hi tbs jury hare brought him ia ‘not guilty f * ‘Only a minute.” ‘When a sinner is convinced that be to a sinner, and to sorry for it; when be desires forgiveness and delivefcance from sin, aud believes that Christ is able and willing ts save him, be can be converted as speedily as the pris oner can be discharged by the judge. It does not take God a long time to discharge a penitent soul from the condemnation aod power of sin.” ^ hto cor. He to stttitig nr yowr Aihich coutribi ti> to abridge Nat, freedom jof; the j^ulpit f mentioned t ic pecuniary, NS| motive, j This does upou th< teuistijy, ; «s gross form ;; but, under of “volufitarytom,” the