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ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE B APTI8 M"—EPHE 81A N8 IT: 5. 0 SKRIKS COLUMBIA, S. C.. FRIDAY, MARCH ISK 1871 OLD SERIES, VOL. V.--NO. 134 “Well, Mary, it's the truth. I dot)’! etro if I my it. I don't vut to mast—well, I wish be would pat it offt What don ho want of net IM be willing to make over—well, three millions, to found * hospital, if he’d be satisfied end let me go on. Yen, Td give three miIIfame to bay off from tomorrow." “1» lie not oar Beet Friend F “Beet Friend F enfal the men, with elooh heir affright, half miger. “Me ry, yoa don’t know whet you err talking about! Yoa know I always hated thorn thing*. There'* no oar in it; I can’t ere into them. In feet, to me ready awful,” I*orte and consolations, would be aup- phed with the glorious jgoepel of the blessed God; the ties of christum brotherhood would be strengthened —people far apart and differing greatly in other respects, city pee* l»le and country people, would be drown together and feel that they 18 PTBLI8HKD j every rRmsi gf ' ST RUDE & MELLHR. we do! !>o we realty believe what we hear in church, or it it n painted dream !* % “I do believe,” said my wife, ear neatly—(she is a good woman, my wife)—“yes, I do believe—but it is jnst as you say—oh, dear! I feel as if I am very worldly—I have so many things to think of F and she sighed. So did 1; for | knew that I too was very worldly,; After a pause, I Itl " “Suppose Christ shook! really ootue to Now York this Christmas— and U should begin to be snthorita lively auuouuced that he would ho in the eity that day I* “I think,” said my wife, “there would be some embarrassment on the part of our great men, legislators amt chief councillors in anticipation of a personal interview. Fancy a meeting of the ulty council to ar range a reception fbr the I*>rd Jesus Christ F “Perhaps,” said I, “he would re fuse all the offers of the rich nnd great. Perhaps our fashionable churches would plead for bis lire* euce in vain. Hewoukl not be in imiaces F “Oh F said uiy wife, earnestly, “if 1 thought our money separated us from him 1 would give It oil—yes, mil —might I only see him one hour.” She spoke from the bottom of her heart, and for a moment her (face was glorified. “You will see him some day,” said I, “and the money that we are willing to give up fat a word fer him, will not keep him from us.” That evening the thoughts of the waking hours mirrored themselves in a dream. 1 see hied to be oot walking in the streets of New York, aud to be cos acinus of a strange, vague arose of something just declared, of which all were rqieakiug with a suppressed air of mysterious voices. There was a stir of lmsh, a wbi* paring stillufets around. Groups of mm stand at the ooruers of the streets ami discuss an impending something, - with suppressed voice*. I beard one say to another, “ HemUp cogiiug? YVbat! To-morrow? And' others said, “Yes, to-morrow, on Christ mas-day be wiM tie here.'* It was night The stars were glit teriug down with a keen sod frosty light; the aho;* glistened in their Christmas array, but the same sense of hashed expectancy preva iled everything. There aremed to be nothing doing, and each person looked wistfully on fats neighbor, as if to say, “Have yon heard F Suddenly, as I walked, au angel tonn was with ase, gliding softly by my side. The face was solemn, se rene aud calm. ''Above the forehead was a (Kile, tremulous, phosphorus radiance of a light purer than any on earth—a light of a quality to different from that of the street lamps that my celestial attendant seemed to move ifa a sphere alone. Yet though I felt awe, I felt a sort of confiding love as I said, “Tell me—is it really true ? /« Christ cotiyagr *! “He c ia y ” said the angel. “To morrow he will be here.” “What joy F l cried. “Is it joy P safal the angel. “Ala*, to many in this eity it is only ter ror. Come with me.” In a moment I seemed to be stand ing with him in a parlor of one of the chief palaces of New York. A stout, florid, bald-headed man was seated at a table covered with pa pers which he wa* sorting over with nervous anxiety, mattering to him self as he did so. On s sofa lay a sad-looking, delicate woman, her emaciated bands clasped over a lit tie book. The room was, in all its appointments, a witness of bound less wealth. Gold aud silver, and gems and foreign furniture, and costly pictures, and articles of virtu —everything that money could boy was heaped together; and yet the man himself aeemed to have been neither elevated nor refined by the confluence of all these treasures. He seemed nervons ami uneasy. He wiped the sweat from his brow and spoke: “I don't know, wife, how you feel, bnt I don’t like this news. I doo*t understand it. It puts a stop to ev erything I know anything about” “Oh, John F said the woman, turn ing towards him a face pale and fer- yoa lay upon a dying bed, life’s lamp expiring, and all your powers sinking Hi to ruin—if yoa had reached such a point unprepared, had crowded this great work into that most unit hour, there would bo source tho slightest prospect that say appeal would avail. Wo propose here to show bow the evils exposed in former papers may be remedied. A plan is needed that Is practicable and simple and scrip torsi In the present condition of our Southern Church, so scattered and impoverished, nnd so long under the yoke of the* now prevailing ay a tern, it is, perhaps, not possible to have a common austeutation fund, like tka Free Church of Beotlaad, from which ail ministers shall be supported. Buck a fond could nei ther be raised nor effectively admiu titered. To Rapport evangelists and aid feeble churches is all that is ex ported of oar Assembly’s Committee of Basleotitiiou. But much more ip needed to develop the life of the church and secure the blessing of its Head. 1. Let every Presbytery regard it as a chief part of its work to famish • hU|>i*ort to every wan aaUed of God to the ministry and devoting himself to its proper work. This is not saying that every ordain ed minister shall be supported. Some are found unit for the office, and shooU1 be allowed to demit it. Some are disabled by sickness or age; these should be placed upon a retired list (as is done in the army) aad suitably provided for. Others get their sup port mainly or in part from secular pursuits in which they feel it their duty to engage. These aud other H mi taboos greatly reduce the uom her of ministers who have a claim a poo the charok for their main ten aaee. The Presbytery tries eaodi dates, judges of their qualifications, aad after being satisfied, ordains them to the work of preaching the gospel it does seem if there is an obligation renting upon any person «r body to support a minister, it most rest upon that body from which, under God, he dories* his comma* moo. The Presbytery can not shake off this obttgataoa; it can oot dele gate it to a local church. Ifithaa the ilower to commission ministers, it most in some wmy get the means to support them. Let this obligation gas flaih, Strictly in Ad n>oy, per sunuai......... sir • •• v-.-v SfcL—. Widow* of Muim iTheolojcioal Student*,.. Lwrftew who faff to rem •miration of their tuib* ,*^Sbecharged per an name* are entered or fc£b£k, Without the firm ^e asks ao mao tf he is ready. He drives his dart alike through the ready sod the reluctant soul Far nished or uoforoiebed for the world to come. It moat obey the dreadful summons Reader, by all that la iates or advektwisi square (one inch of col A young Scottish lady of rank, whoso heart the Lord had touched and opened, longed to draw others within the circle of a Saviour’s love; but among the gay and proud who She cant on him a look foil of pity. “Gan no* 1 tanks yoa see F she said. “No, indeed you can’t Why, look here,* he added, | Mint ing to the pa per*, “here Is what stands for mil Mount Tonight it’* mine, aad to morrow it will he all so maeh waste pafier, and then what hare I left? Do yon think 1 can rejoice? I’d give half; I’d give yea, the whole, mot to have him come there ha mired «lrt mouths advertisement* of three «, gds * discount of 90 net kQusre* and upward*, 80 bAouares and upward*. 40 Lf pne-half eobinm nnd a rot. will be deducted from jniarie*, when more than bats for eight word*, p Five rent* i»< r qusr Ute ffgy laugh, and light sad frivol on* manner of her associates, hin dered every effort and seemed to hedge her way before her on every baud. Discouraged and sad, op pressed with the burden of the Lord, aad knowing not bow to attain the 4eMre of her heart, she carried the above fev. A. R. RrDR,p.U ^ ColmmbiO, 8. toward linn, bat he poshed it back. “Do you are f said the angvi to mo HoU maly, “between him aad her there is a obkat orl* flood: • “They have lived in one bonne with that gull between them for years! Bbe can not go to him $ he can not come to her. To-morrow she will rise to Christ as a dew drop to the sun, nod be will call to the mountains aad roeka to fell on him—oot brewore thrill baton him, but been ore he hates <' hnst.” Again the scene was changed. Wa stood together in a little low attic, lighted by one small lamp—bow puor it wan—a broken chair, a rickety ta We, a bed in the cunier—where the little ooes were coddling close to one another for warmth. Poor thing*, the air w*a ao frosty that, their breath congealed U|*oti the bed clothe*, as they talked* in soft baby-voire*. “Whan Mother cornea she will faring Its some «* upper," they said, “flat Pm ao cold F aaid the little onUhSrr. “Get In the middle, then," aid the other two, “ami well warm you. Mother promised she'd make a Are when she came in, if that man would pay her.” “What a bad man far ta," said the oldest hoy, “he never pay* mother If be cau help tt.” * Jnst then the floor opened mod a pale, thin woman came la, laden with |<arkagr«. She laid all down ami came tu her children** hrd, ctaaping their faaada in a rapture. “Joy ! joy ? children. O joy ! joy ! Christ is mating ? Tie will be here tomorrow." Every little bird ia the newt waa up, slid the little arm* .1 round the mother’* neck ; the children bettered at once, they had heard of the good Jesus; he had bora their mother** only friend through many a cold ami hungry day, and they doubted not he was coating. “O mother, will he take ns f He will, won’t be F . “Yes, yes, my Httle one*," she said softly, Ainiling to herself; “He *hall gather the lamba with hi* arms and carry them in hia Iwieom.” * Sudden I > again, as by the slide of a magic lantern, another scene was presented. We stood in a louiely room, where a woman was sitting with her bead bowed forward upon her bands. Alone, forsaken, slandered, she waa In bitterness of afririt. Hard, cruel tougue* bad s|iokeii her name with vile assertions, and a thoughtleaa world had believed. There had been a 1 Nibble of accusation, a crowd to rejoice in iniquity, and few to pity. Bbe thought herself alone and she spoke: “Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity. I aui a monster unto many, but Thou tut my stroug refuge." In a moment the angel touched her. “My slater,” he said, “he of good cheer. Christ will be here to-morrow*." She start oil up with her baud* clasped, her eye brighter, her whole form dilated, as she seemed to look ioto the heavens, and said with rapture— “Come, Lord, ami judge me, for Thou knowest me altogether. Come, Bon of Mary, In Thee have I trusted; let me never be confounded. Ok I for tbe judgment seat of Christ F Again, I stood in a brilliant room, foil of luxuries. Three or four fair women were standing peaaively talk ing with each other. Their apart srent waa bestrewu with jewelry** laces, silks, vets, ami every fen ciful elegaoco of feehioa § but they fobbed trouMfed. It la strange that so many istefli grut rhnstaaas peraist ia regarding this as a proper of Simeon, now ready to die, and asking God to release hia from this life. Let any ooe conjugate the vrefc let; sad be will her custom, dosed the day with a song of praise. Shortly after she bad fin si bed her song, her serving- maid entered the room in tears, and besought her to sing again the sa cred words, and in broken accents told how those strains bad toadied and melted bier heart * “No words of entreaty,” mud she, could ever effect my soul as those plaintive songs to which for week* I had listened, as ay mistress poured out in them her love fbr the Redeem ex, and bar faith and treat in him.” Sleep fled that night from the eyes of the young disciple, in the neo- joy aad thankfulness that filled her heart, at the diaoovery of the bless ing God had granted upon the songs she had song, “that talent,” she said, “I have consecrated to God. I will sing for him; and if through this means I may touch souls, my happiness shall be complete." From this time, she devoted her self to tbe study and expression of sacred song; aad while she touched with skill the various instruments ou which she had learned to play, hex voice of wondrous power would en trance and thrill her hearers, it was the ootgnshing of bar joyous heart; the thanksgiving of a redeem «d soul; her testimony, poured apon careless ears, concerning the won drons love of Him who came to save oar race; who cares for all His crea tores; Who gathered little children to Hia arm*, and whose blcasings crown with joy the saint of God, even down to honey hairs. Many Religious r four successive Bum jays, the |it note hsjd been Mfadiug gh the church that I a tended, hymns, the prayers, he aer- ‘ all spoke of tbe seco id com- ' Christ. To it all, as a good huian, I had listened a riously, mingled aid | hops devoutly. It had imp dream-wise, with tbe tafepiug light df painted windows, filling in goldm, purple and crimson ofcef suc cessive pews, where fair forms in fcojpn aud flowers, satihfa] and iaefa^and the portly figures of re- 8pei|faUe citizens were to ho seen, horijidg in responses, rising at the pdKf, joining in the anthems aad is rax ways signifying absent to tiiclljonderfal truths whivli form til tielmpct of tbe sermon. Jpi dates, like a vjvid iriiaft of Mil some declaration friptui the epiailf or gospel would, fo#n ; mo neiftipieroe the gloomy sdfefaiuity amljf would start as if ai> faugei fed] fimehed me, with au awttkening fliriffj “THJC 3HGHT IS FAK SPBNT, TBiJ/^AV IS AT HAND." !ii j soul vibrated for a fatotm-ut harp. Whs it in* ? The ai#au the long niglit of tiie wcn-ld’s •*« hat ifa yoa ■ Ins r There ia a \ yoa—it* arrival is Hilary baywod ym tala at what hoar i will he made in the right direction. % The chonbos in the bounds of every Proabytery should 00aCri bate UU.VDM i»N Go© ALSifnt.—-tttr WilMam llamUtoa was doubt leas the tee should be folly explained to the peojde, and then let the demons go to every church member, sod consul or carefolly bis pecuniary condition, and feithfoUy toll him the sum he should give. The collection thus Noh should be carried up to every regular meeting of Presbytery, and pot ioto the bands of a judicious §£ agony audf blind ifesire, ia ■ over—m the day at bfand ? ■ afar: “Trey shill s|ac rfrs to MAN COMI -a n» AJ VIX)VJ> l POWER AND GREAT 'GLORY. then these things begin come to ] 1ok Oft mod rejoice, for poor re i m w nvjh.’’ timg! Tlie Bon* of M; 11 really —coming into this wo Id with attnd great glory ? Tl* ee were Nris when 1 thought ' if it, tw k] 1 rose up in my sohe and all bpireh seemed glorified !! m< iff i this really ever happen ? Nfl* solid, common-pLii-e earth <|! Will these skies w ei New tfbtighteu anti flasli, j ud | will shed faces in this eity l e watch »|faee him coining? . |, ! ^jmr minister preach d, in a M^sermon, ami for a moment; |b* I felt a thrill of jeaiify in tig Bot as the well drtstsed ||pa88e*i down the faisle, my Mr. Stock ton, Whispered jh«t to forget the meeting of iU Q. O. country. 38—ly la tbe learning souga. Tbe sweet story of old, thus rendered, seemed to tysaess new power to melt the Sdreless heart In cottages aad halls, in the draw iug-rooms of wealth and the homes of bumble life, she sang her iirnffi of Jesas, while with lifted heart she sought his blessing ou the offering; and ere ntauy mouths had passed away she had tbe delight of knowing that numbers of those around her had, through the songs she sang, been led to taste tbe joy which she tasted, being brought up oot of the horrible pit and miry day, and pleaoed upon the living Rock, and having a new song pot in their months. How precious is the gift of song 1 It has told in wailing minors, or in exultant strains, the story of man’s deepest sorrows, and highest joys, through all tbe ages past It has been the bright, consummate flower of human devotion, the highest type of creature worship. On earth, men weep and pray. In heaven they only sing. And when this world of tears and toils and conflicts shall have passed, when preaching, and prayer, aud exhortation, and entreaty are over, the voice of song shall still yet rise, joyous, rapturous, and efcer ual, before tbe throne of glory*. Christian, can yon sing ! Say not then that you have uo talent Say not that your talent is small. This discordant world hungers for the conoord of sweet and sacred sounds. Music charms and allures the multi tudes to hell. Let it charm and win some perishing soul to heaven. Learn to sing praises to God, and offer up to him, not “the lame, the halt, the Mind"—the contemptible discord that too often disgraces his worship, and disgusts his worshipers —but wherever you go, and what ever circumstances may surround yon, be readv to speak to one an other “in jodniR, and hymns, and spiritual songs, sm|ing, witii grace in yottr hearts; unto the Ixvra,**; AND as to bring oat tbe great eat miniate rial strength. Whoever is jodged omat useful in one locality should be charms of this world; oat of that torrent of arm which swrapa thought 4way j retool appeal, aod lot that which the uubliaded l change should forthwith he transfer nd to aaothsr field. Tbe power of Methodism for good aud Jeouitma for evil rests very maeh upon the principle that every laborer has his field of labor selected fer him. and is not left to hunt it for himself. Minister*, like all other men, are but poor judges of thefr fltoees for any Raid of labor, and it would be far bettor hi moat cases to have their ering on the bowlers of the unseen world, piat ready ta |«eaetrate its great mysteries, be was tieard to niSrainr. “Thy rod and thy staff, the) comfort me F none can be tWKMml «f no much ha purtanofa. item use, disturbing man’s sinful mind as it doea, they are Not disposed to |»reas it honestly aud earnestly upou themselves. Because an boocst, serious, enlightened deoi aiou of this question may ha of ever lasting Iwueflt to yoar soul. Because, amid tits harry of business or whirl of pleasure, ,yoa may at this hoar need something to lead yoa to coo Lruio Kri*n.KM.—Chriatiaas are epistles to lie read. Tbe world reeds them every day. How important that this living gospel which walk* and trades and stirs about in public place* should be correctly printed! Yet how many of these living epis ties have been printed from battered type, from mixed fonts, on spotted paper, aad in dim ink. Bot after aQ, orthodoxy is safer in the ooosa crated heart than ia the theological library. Evangelism is an upright, i directors on Monday ave- pd Mrs. Goldth waite poured wife’s ear a charge not to * Thursday receptions; and sr she came oat, asked me observed the extravagant Mrs. Penny man. *surd,” she said, ‘Vlfeo her | know can not be half what tod 1 never thiuk of sending ^ for my things—1 should in it as morally wrong!” li ke of the sermon, ffYka,” wife, “what a sereion !^j So I wonder that all New hot drawn to hear our Thai authority of the Presbytery over its ministers and churches ia, when rightly exercised, ooe of the most powerful elements in our system ; sod yet, as matters are managed in our .Southern Church, it ia almost a dead fetter. Every Presbytery shook! employ men of suitable gifts petto. Because, if tbe sutyect which this question urges upon you is not atteodi'd to, the soul ia lusL “Why ask me this question f* Be cause it respects interest* of yours of mfiuite value—interests in fearful peril, if you can not answer this quo* tion in the affirmative. Because this question ia suited to aroooe attention to wfaat yon may have totally negtset- ed. Because you may be the very person of all living who most needs sash an appeal; bring, pnrbapn, the victim of a false hope, ot of fetal error, and borne farther and farther every day from God by the grow ing power of sia. Ifa-* a>um it it of infinite i, going everywhere within its ids, cultivating tbe waste ptaeeo, bringing the troth to bear apon put away on the shelf for safe keep ing i it is always alive, alert and growing; it in oot dead Latin, bat vital mother-tongue ia this country ; it la not stoepfed in chan h, cadenced in ritual, or robed at the alter, ao much as hearted ia Uviag people and radiated io workday duties. . 4. In addition to all this, aud as a prominent feature in tbe proposed plan, every Presbytery should con tribute a per rentage of its funds to the Assembly's Committee, that it may be able to aid the feebler Pres byteries and frontier regions. The advantages of the system here presented are many and important The grace of benevolence would be developed more fully in oar people j their intelligence would be greatly increased, as they would naturally be inclined to inform themselves more thoroughly of the work to which they would give of their sub stance; the poor for w hom Christ died, and who so much tfoeU its imp- VFhat can be mors powerful fk discourse* ? My dear, h don't forget to change >t>al ring for a diamond one. P The Christmas presents 1to on my mind that I was R of them every.; now and J ehnrvh—and that waa.ro liev. Albert Barnes says: “No clergyman, old or young, baa ever folly appreciated the power of the pres* as an auxiliary ia the main work of his life; few, if any, have availed themaelves of the aid of the press in their good work as they might have done; more have beea too rilling to leave this important engine, so mighty for truth or error, in other 1 * bands.” decision of this question. Aud espe cially because the next bosom pierced by the dart of death may be yoar own. “Bat I am in health, in the fulness 'WsTr ^ 'Kr w t • e- V-w -W of toy strength; why pm* this mat