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* OWE IOBD, ONE FAITH. ONE BAPTI8IT—BPHBSIAN8 IV: 5. COLUMBIA, S. C FRIDAY, APRIL Hk SfiRIKS, VOL. V i igBg; bondage of fh* pulpit, ooBfd«t» fa a prevalent, very natural. J b«rt false 9evcm of what delicacy reqnirf* in the treatment of a das# of sins, which, however common they may be,* one might suppose, from the absence of all allusion to them in the preachiug of the day, had become Happily obsolete. “This prudery on the part of the ptripit la cruelly mis placed. The sins of which we apeak are mrt eitinet tin*. They lire, they thrive, they swarm under a public silence w hich seems to cherish them like secresy. A flash of calcium light from the puiptt ought to be aent streaming through the darkness, straight to the covert* when* they hide. What a sqnlnuiug and wrig gttng of the unclean things would fblluwr a Uttlc letting in of wholesome pnlplt light intto their noisome, lurk- ing places! ‘•There an* ten commandments. but daily breaks that law la thoaght, word aad deed, and the rttrwc of that law pats «Pmo kirn. The great quetiion with every man should he, Uow can this cwrsa ba removed t Tha law ia cuutinnally demaadlog satfakrthm Bat ia not abla to give it jnpoar he ia able to keep it pure ami retire from sow oatil the day of his death. 5:* * «P **> ***** Agraf. Men fear death, as children fear to go ia the dark; and aa that natural ffeor la children ia increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death aa the wage* of sia and the passage to another world, it holy and religious; hot the fear of it, as a tribute due onto ad that bound him before. By naming the heavenly Father't name, the patent aad the child together am placed adder the guardianship of God over all, and that parent ia to train that child to love God aa a Father oat to reooil from him aa a consuming Are. Through the earthly Obedience to day will »ot compensate us tore, Is weak. Vet, In religions meditations, there is sometimes a mixture of vanity and of supereti fan. Too shall read in some of the friars* books of mortification, that a man shook! think with himself, what the pain ts, if he have but his fingers? rods pressed or tortured, and thereby imagine what the pains of death are when the whole body is eop-upted and dissolved i when many times leavenly; and thus the dedicating his child to parent, God, rears a high wall around him self to fence him off at once from all that ia unfotbcrly and all that ia ungodly. jos are paying Again, in that solemn dedication, by naming the Saviour's name over the little one, he ia placed under aa almighty shield. The be Heving father claims for that little one the atoning blood, the sanctify- ing power, the renewed image of God—all, in abort, that ia contained ia the well-ordered covenant. Be moreover seeks for his child, in hope ful faith, the indwelling of that tlpirit who alone the torture of'a limb; for the moot vital parts are not the quickest of msme. Ami by him that spake only aa a philosopher, and natarsi man, make man holy, aad without trhnne kalbtciktj power ike 8mviomr would hate Pied in rain. Now, all these things involve obliga tions the moat stringent which heart «***¥« *0* II- his tafisufs mbI—who does wot, in baptism, seek the Christian’r God— the Father, the Bon, and the Holy Spirit—with all the heart, and all the strength and mind. A tittle one thus dedicated to God is weakneu placed under the guardianship of omnipotence. Parents may then nsr meows aad firmly hope hi God.—Her. W. K. Tweedie. D.D. : k tii.iL ministers are afraid ig tfeeir iaflaeuce br^U judged would fa i us tractive to whal proportion of weilre- tninisters tbu^t (qf ^.flsar of fair influence, abstain from r i* this kind of pvuucHiag, eupe- dally the consecutive uafokkaje aad aptdiratiou of some particular pan of God s Word, pecabariy Hurd to save soul* I I answer that three mm Hon fu(flfftfa tie far for the mo- hi# conviction U bat mostly b»b< fa* “They are foi of wealthy aad But such lagh* the fact.*, fa one place the connection was quite marked. In tbs first ease, I had proceeded about half through the Acts of the Apoatlea, when a revival began that gathered in about a hundred souls. In the second case, some seven or eight chapter* of Roman# had been gbne over, when a work began which gathered in some fifty soul#. In the third instauce, only a few chapters of Hebrews had been passed over, when some tWeutyflve had given their heart# to the 8achair that blessed Epistle no folly presents. ' My method ws# not to explain £ are $&L of Jfttd want tigurehfiad** in fair pul lot independent lie* in 11 ik doe* not duly appi gnsnihrhty/ Pool’s m ihdhdity haunted him a ■ *Tbo vary eautrai cj prartty trf the hn Iffa fas a conviction, fa. ip restless j|hi hs# imparted his conviction, (mriewa of duty* or* nit Ida to i hot to communicate. U is nut efagh for him to live by hi* con ■Wftee faxaself., lbs miuri induce tipfrs to live by his consul mew with rth This is of the very i maoco of fa tmiuntotad ofaxaoter.” The ab- •fa, «r foabfoue**, <ti this sense of f faflwwibility for oilier* foj he secret tfmwk MinLsturukl Ji. A tenth reason for thd boudsgv office imfoit U found in kauadig ■ m abdication of the Authority *fak, of right v belougs to ttfa miu- than to Jmttifr Mm, ex m mm horn of bodily weakness. Yet lie endured the awful baptism of God’s wroth for us. When we reflect, too, on the isct that He was fcrr-orPnined from all eternity to ssdfer and die for aanaers, with what feelings should we regard this pie cions Mood. Thiuk of the death of Christ occupying the mind of God for sges before man was created or the world called into being. . Another consideration which en hances the value of Christ’s blood Is, that by it we are redeemed. Accord ing to the Jewish ritual for the redempfaa of the first-born, the firstling of an was could not he ac eepted in moriflee, being unclean, and ff net redeemed by a lamb with oat blemish, was condemned to have fa neck broken. This was a vtvkl type of the foie of the ungodly. It it wa# found, hut to seise on the leading thought of tin* paragraph to be Considered, and unfold ft by a logical and illustrative exposition of giwwsora. lav ran not change man’s henrt. The father may rasa pet Ids —s, aa.i | aso h! m W?Ts*wsJ Hf 1 j vi tl a mid bat he ran not make them pray, fie may go sc for an to make a he faring them to pray, bat they ran, hi the vary attltade of grayer, wort the law and the law giver. An the aathor of *Kere I>ew»* hn# trafy •aid, “How weak and inoperative ts law. Its words am high swefltog. bat the heart 1# Its own master. The legislsfum may met ml* man from * tea Hug, bat H «ra*t make men B(U whim a chriafrau ha* been yswrtnkeu ia a faulty what shall fa do f Let him remember that for him, the unrighteous one, there is IMP advocate, Joan# Christ, the right cons. Fear not the javeliu of Dt fine wrath. It must ourne through Christ before it caa reach you. Xay, it ha# already reached him. The and apply what l)r. Edwards in his notes call# the IfatriMlNMi* Now, whatever we may think of the im ana andfasults in these eases, are iTe not in thi# way likely to avail onrnelvefi of God’s own adsf^ tatiou of bis trntfi to the salvation of KOnls, and td ensure with It the presence and jiower of his Spirit, who alone can make the trnth sav ingly effective t t God a Good Banker.—A pleas ant story ia fold by Kcv. J. Monro, of the Guiana, West India Iftsaioo. One Hiroday, on gobig Into the veotry of the station, he toond a common laborer sitting ou the step* aw string him. “Last year, 0 sold the man, “1 was poor, had nothing, scarcely cloth ing for my wife and children; bot dace I took your advice, I have food fog my finally, and clothe# with which nt*g» Of law, and fly to Calvary, nibrr, tm, #*»d B8 aad Vedas veiuber, 1870, ) TO f 5'jraaitfif. t rt\m ork, Philadt^pW# trero&fn*. Flo. * Many ran say, *Tf fa will gfa me a rign, I wiH trwst ia him ;* and ret, sign slier rign gfreti wonld lie met with calk far Cfiritr bring supplement ed by more, sad those more wonder fol. It wonld MU fo be eaay to trust the I*»rU when Ids hand of blessings I# almost visible, snd wh«| his hand of proterGon «pt faado, almost as a visible «hiekt. Faith in the Lord may foeiu quite natural when his dispensations are tram aw* aft ye that are weary and brave laden, and I »i fifv* jnoa rrat* ‘f •* *' • ; < A# the law was • Hally tnadrgnam toman’* mfafodm. God was tdrased masks of the wound* appear iu hi! glorified body. Your d*. monntiiig afflec. The. miAi#t jfN *ke fear ivt being '“ripiag,” Tfa question i ^^whether fa nhail as*i thought fir him is «q> U> the throne of Goth doe* not grt tfare before Christ, your advo cate. It is n grest thing whoo an advocate can get up in qourt sad my; TUc toeapsra of uiy cfaut has been already' atoned for; the full penalty has bran inflicted and now nothiaa can be imnnted to him. her fajiboU abdkHfo effiw invests him wil Be must use it, or be l ot «ow* it U ana their places of bnsinras on tfa Bub bath, bat It cant make men keep holy that day of the Lord. The taw is weak. It has no mastery over the henrt. Tt mar erert prison houses, and deooancr wrath sgafnxt vhda- tors, yet not withstanding all iu ef forts, it la Tonffauedly went. Law had long years to show what it coaid do; under (ts stem and righteous ft author, at this point, some u* d.! flgbt uot to include su bfad ^wetig the fetl | fa pulpit. 0 He tlecli Christ’s advocacy not oa]y obtains for us justifiesatioubut also the H|iirit .»{ God, who. with the blood of Christ, clcaerath us frx>m aU jia. We are richer in heaven than we are on earth. We have Christ the righteous! oor .advocate—mine— youra-*a heaven*.on Jfa eerth we Hare nothing fp rau ynally call our own. W*a/ufi fare in a .BNjNfif W ^ i« J»t ,tho fcr niiofo of an ipn*#-dura not belong over tfa mouth of tfa sepulchre, it ia the spot, above all others, where tfa Gospel, if it eaters, shine* and triumphs, in the beet sphere of life gad health 4 encounters an active antagonism; tfa world confronts it— *gpy dibuimmariug brighter than a prison boose, snd there was thrown sround human life S deep and melancholy gloom of ran sdOus servitude.* 1 Tfa Apostle says tfa law can not save man. Bj reason of his deprav tty It U unable to bring dritveranra from dn. The law knows nothing of mercy. Its nwfal language l#. “The soul that Kinneth It shall dfe." The law knows nothing of compromise It w!B Dot be satisfied with anything short of an absolutely perfect obc dience to all it# precept*. It require* os to love the Lord our God with all oar heart, sod if we fed to do this, we become violator# of lew, aad ratyeet to its penalty. From SinuTs awful summit, we beer tfa thuuder* ef low, “Du end live, die,* “Cursed is every rinnotb not in all thin Wfitfeu ia fa general subject o i*ng as follows ««, from reckoning fa ^n to a creed a source Ufa pulpit. It «eei I to be ooe of the a tot fruitful among tl of 4s freedom and air, I may tell you We are very hap py ; we live good. I want to hire that pew I tit t> for my dually; hew much for it F On being told iftwa shillings per quarter, fa auM, “Writ, here is tfa money for all last year, for though we did not alt tit in tfa chapel last year, yet I want to pay * The fltifiiis thit* 1 pounds. He then its claims—to drown its voice—to dispute its progress—to drive it from the ground it occupies. But from tfa mouth ef tfa grave the work! retires. It shrink* from the contest there; it leaves a clear and open spare in which the Gospel can assert its claims, and unveil its glories, ufthsafi opposition or fear., There tfa infidel and the woridlifif look auxioualy around j but tfa workl has left them helpless and fled. There Tfctf efcrisOan looks around. to us, save for a *H*aeiitary use. But we have unsearchable riches ia tfa country to which we go. When any one says, Jti£hat have you 1* may you haadtia te foismlfi. “I have aa advocate with the Father—the rfefaht of friend# in the moat toipdr- aim* man i iniumaiklfi fcfiV VcL ilk'll fallii M HI flaxM^AMl iMl , trrUt Utilfa !Pi#ioirafataHNppfo)i MUM# Jwoevahi a*A #is the * wmoi en use# for t he adtxtatioM of bpt for creed*, which pulari^, or, possibly, ft* hope of a larger ii m * <^hias of ntiiUMters His caoagh fare to fay, that delation of freedom oust be of %V t throws a and reveals it ri spirit? of th Religion ought to aweefon and whole unm. „ ^ ... >, of tfa Law to u* ffr 1 yit# etiDdi iwer/ ^ next ■ ■’' ’ .Jg*' ' . m * f# # #* faU w. f feve Home 1 <. 9 - teDve, LL oliateudon#! fraud.: Ljge-Fiyecratsp i v T" *JLr. ^ ^ . ^2 ujjj nwi d H * ntTvxs