The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, April 14, 1871, Image 4
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m UJTHBBAN
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with your tenths
" Ofj*d*lry! v
nor diamonds of a
f - * Tfdl amoAjsf,
towards their hotaes. He Mid hia
daughter Mary told bin that the
not gone. Do yon think, Walter,
that “ anything from the Bible ta
taught there f Any good lessons for
the young to leans f*
“No air; 1 never heard that they
taught anything like that.”
“Well, then, if the men who coo
dnct the cireua are bad men ; if the
•performer* a*g bad mien and women;
if the language need is low, wicked
and vulgar; if the people who attend
are mostly low and wioked; if they
teach yog nothing from God, tort, on
the contrary, all from Satan, am f
not right when I call it the dmfi
trap f There is where be catches
runaway boys and girls, men sad
women who do not ttop ta think about
the matter *
“Well, father, yow are oertaialy
right. I did not think about it my
self. I only thought of the pretty
ponies and the wondetfol feats that
the pictures show us, and Ned said
it was a nice place.”
“My son,* said Mr. Hay, “I want
yon always to think. of two things.
Time is nofours. It is a gift of God.
and he expects os to improve it Ha
says that he will call os to areoont
for every idle nsomsak Money h sot
ours. We mast use it so that it will
accomplish the greatest amount of
And malachite!
* <> winu-wi u
ye fondly keep the reeoDcc-
And press to see
that ever are In wondrous
Above you head,
1st km. la no case should the aggre
gate width of the aisles he greater
M* (hi aggregate width of the
doors. A very common toait to to
jhould we, while to dear A
With tendereet care
Sven ward, where the K<**i
In upper air.
«f God! in gradM* ways
' * ’ With gentlest touch
atalea than are required.
i. The Soar af the pulpit ahoukl
»ot be elevated more than a half
torh prr loot os the length of the
building j sod the pulpit should he
aboat two feat sine tarheu high, ami
only wide enough to aocpmnmdate
the Bible and hymn book. Never
l*«t the pcraahrr la a box, tort ghw
bus!ok a iavae.
circulation of IntoxfeaUag liquor. I
have also succeeded la tiling the
large cities and Iowa* of the king
dom with moat attrsrtire plgrm to
. A lew weeks’sojourn in
Virginia, has enabled ti
bear most of the noted [j
this Southern capital,
toped to none with mu
and profit than the Jfev.
of the Second Presbyter
On a recent Snbbsth, in i
eloquent and impressive -
the text, “Be not frith
lievin",’’ he invested ti«
Faith with an interest so
apprehension at least, tb
thought even a meagre ah.
is all wo can attempt to
not fod to 1 be inters ti
good. The gold a& diver are the
Lord’s. We have no right to waste
money, or spend it on foolish objects.
Don’t you think you could spend the
price of a ticket to a much better
driafcs)
“I think I coukl, sir.”
“I am not stingy or selfish towards
my children, Walter. It is not that
I should regret the fifty cent* you
would sjMsid, but I seek your four*
good in aH that I do. flue is the
qponey. Think over the matter. You
arc old enough to understand and
reason upon what I have said. Do
as you like. I shall say no more.”
The following Sabbath Mr. Lane,
the pastor, told the congregation that
he was going to Synod, and that he
wanted oue hundred dollars to take
with him for the different benevolent
causes. He told them of six worthy
young men who were studying for
the ministry, who were poor, and
noeded money to he*o them. Ha
told them of several pads for Home
Missionaries, and of destitute church
es that needed pastern. He spoke of
the coming circus, and said very
nearly just what Mr. Hay bad told
Walter about it When the deacons
came round with the basket to the
pew where Walter sat with hia father,
he put his fifty cents into the basket
He saw ki* father wipe a tear from
his cheek, but -he did not know that
an inward prayer of thankfohieaa
arose from his father’s heart towards
that God who had put it into Wal
ter’s heart to keep out of fee Arifs
frap.
mtods of even the mo*;
m, thaii say other cam
trine in the Bible. His cj
if possible, to clear up th
by presenting it under a i
Old tooths are very pr»*cn
methods of treating tin :
times very tiresome.
His object was to show
instead of being Invested
mystery as to afford th 1
subterfuge, was reason
the very highest re-o- :
thing be wished to shov
as we have faculties sjk <
an to apprehend physi*
we have been provided v
usd faculties to appreben E
truths. _
In the constitutiou G«h “
»s we have, Jin?, play sir. |
intellectual : th j
itOal. Bach of these d I
of* man's being has its ov I
»fst do its own work. i I
way, and its work can-u I
fay other department j
•mt tell the qualities oJ I
by feeling them, uor tL< I
of object* hot by the sen.'--1
that liquor on the Isnfi day, ami
to aholiah the sale uf that Uqanr aad
in nay vary serious way to restrict
it, is an infringement of the natural
liberty of the subject. 1 hare sag
grated that every man has a right to
buy his drink on the Lord's day if
be is inclined to do not and, there
fore, on the pits of fricdoei and
liberty I hava been able saneaeafully
going,” and “so am I,*
jys but one.
r Hay stood apart firou
i ng at the pictures tl
>a»ting up—gay pk-tur
right rods to length by two to width.
BLL£ KJUUGh RAUdtoAD.
BAINS on the~Bta* Bidgv M
id Walter,
ist be ft mean old
Is real jolly, I ten you,”
“Don’t tell him aboat to
u in. €Ome with us boys,
l crawl under the canvass,
that way.”
Hushed up in a moment,
father is not mean, and he
ies me anything 1 want,
it. I would not steal my
rhow,” and be walked ofl
formidable thing for yaur majesty's
kingdom ; but I hare succeeded to a
good measure to frustrating them.
P. B. I AMUR t SO VI,
OPTICIANS AN!)
VAXiai ittAi;:1^2
Baltimora 9|9 8traat.
which is a broken reed, and wfll
pierce their hands sod sides I have
made them lean upon their own rrs
olntions sad the help of bum, instead
of leaning epoa what your majesty
known, if leant upon sto easily aad
unm oolp raum
Mimou,
of objects hot by the
nor their color but by sigh
"ould be absurtl for men t
*“*11 not believe spiritual \
they can uot appro
W the senses. Just as a
to say they will notjxd
they
nan not prove b;.
of reasoning, when it is
wlpch can be apmvheo.1^
We Nke sttogtortw. We
don't like economy, when it eames
down to rags sad starvation. We
hare no sympathy with the notion
that a poor mas should hitch him
self fast to a post, and stand still,
while the rent of the world moves
forward. It to no manfa duty to deny
htomrif every ammmaasat, awry
frcrratkm, tvfij comfort, that ho
mmy get rich. It to do mao's duty
to mike srn Iceberg of htmaclf, to
shot his ayes and his ears to the
WAtVHES & FIlfK JEWELBY
may I ask you a (Joes-
* *' •. h |
i!y, Walter” said his fa-
oiiASs tta
mnm bknt
^ nBf ud^Mtan ManubwtWMsf J..
OfUr and Xeir H’awwsi, Js. I
K. Liberty 61., Baltimore, M4.
sriEFra PiANOs
cun tun all toe latest uunrovcmeuM teh
found ins dm-clam Wano, with ami-
on the following Saturday from the
river elfflh, where they had gone hi
the afternoon, they saw a crowd col
lected in front of the boons where
Ned lived. Updo inquiry, Mr. Hay
learned that some boys had tried to
get under the canvass without pay-
tog, and that there had been a fight,
and in the fuss Ned's leg had been
broken. *4 * t MM t
-Oh, father,” said Walter, “how
MrrxrLca spooks, rote* akd sil-
VKR w.\ ttl OKKKRALLT.
May Iff 1 m 40-tt
your mqjesty—I have swept through
the land with a breath uf thirst for
intoxicating ^rink which flHa every
mouth, inflames every heart, and
more or lets compels all to take ft—
first, to moderation, then more, and
then to quantities that make them
your majesty’s subject* now and for
rigor *
d rather you would not,
don’t like to have you go
of ike fail*
a devirs trap T How can
% the study of man’s u I
Jjjtotiou are driveu to : I
&lon there is a spirit m I
» Gml, a heaven, .a h< 1 I
sever bestowed an> [
If ve have spin a |
to appreheml there is a G<|
en ? : a then we kno* 11
2* If ^ith gras]as spirit; f
most be such troth > I
uian the foculr r
^leave him to darknl
the eye and adapu
^ Use - 8o he did not I
gyy * eDfte without pru\ i I
objects for itH nse , ,
man a moral fiaeult I
Providing troths and faol
r^torrwl on man apiritnn! I
tkat they should Im I
-^feat spirit world in m|
„„ > he Pot»r obj«- t-
Htooe, how unreason ab. I
j!?’ Wl11 oot lieKevc spirt |
. 4 I ria demonstrate then f
Reason! The m;»
totai b differ*
U ( CJW) not bel
of the Bible, be*
[Who are the men that <xra :
liiusT 'Arethey members of
H ministers, Sabbath school
fo” said Walter. “I* never
such people conducting, a
they are * the
<1 Mr. Hay, “and (A«t point
who are the per
k Are they ladies like your
Utofs wif^ Mrs. Hart, Wk
ged others 1 might name!
ibot usually spoken of as
fa low wtossy with whom
ies would not associate 1*
Walter,
duct a c
a shard
teacher*
•.
beard o
circus.”
5 “Hiei
devili’’ a
Naims Always es
from the best afi
glad I am that you warned me. I
have no desire ever to see the inside
of the (im'P* trap? B.
to quarrel nbust. M|^grr an
economy which to evvry nrna’a 4aty,
terms as these t “Thou art the moat
active, and the moat sneesasftil of
my ministers, the very prop of my
Dio Lewis, is his book, Omr Girls,
■ays: “I am astoafabed that a young
wfutau who is am bi Up as of a dear,
fine "kin should drink tea. It to a
The Polities NT jfenother World. -Whs
~A*Work sur Wsfilt
I Such is the title of a sermon
presetted before t^S Mayor (Law-
rebec C. Spencer, Esq., HLD.) aad
the Gsvporatien, to the Parish church
of Preston, on November fiOsh, lfilfi,
bs the Kev. Canon Itorr, vicar. The
Herman was. taken in dborthaad, aad
to printed se n tract from the ffu-
\ton Herald* of November 23d, 197a
w^rwd getttlemau commenced
by observing that there were taro
kingdoms—oue inferior and the oth
r >bheiMW’VfMMBr
hsae for whom that
tent with hsmisris, and *1 rigspafi
he practkwd If the poor num would
thut will be aft
withoot ti
the skin *, bnt us
tog become* s mg-
ntor hatojL the eye of th- dtocrimiu
Are th
women
those U
j not up to, tort within
JACOB S
rih&ff, sad should Sever be taken
lata aoeaaoi foour lodgment of mcaf
but competence should always ho
urwri, when ft rUO Be, by the
practice of economy and setf ilrtital
*to only n tofeniMc extent. It should
be Hceursd. not so much for others
ta took Upon, or raise ttn to toe
for fttomtostlon huvr brim SWpfoVfd
Both are meatioued is the Bible;
and MMlceil, it Is difficult to on-
derstand from ficripfme owratire
whether randleu or Inmpe are infi»-
catsd, lufops homing oltys oil befog
bhvcUgn:
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from Its mvpitmnents sod
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