The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, April 14, 1871, Image 1
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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:*
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***** 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
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