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,0MB LORD, ONE PAITH, ONE BAPTISM”—EPHBBIA N8 IV-. 6. COLUMBIA,-?.; C FRIDAY, APRIL 21. 1871 ■wf * ■ i iai an? above mjr reason. atoiriuh the judgment «n4 ether ftm -T)» U ofUu propoMd, "'>*•» P ru ^ ttiuu »< * ko«ud U> appropriated to tb< utiw of Christianity ! We do not deem this qucvtiop of much practical la portance, after the view taken of the la* of ohdttUa btiQ, for the sake of solving the doable of fatyitreva, It may be mid In rrplj, the sjatem, or the Uv of tooth, am be oo universal rale. Am a general rule, it U presumed that, Christian* weald boi thiah of giving leas than one tooth, yet many might la II titef the fertroae art I vi tv of afeoahl go Id nourish sod develop the higher spiritual famltte* of out nstare. ♦ ** • ’ • •* eh* It tone to a more peroneal wppM cation of the subject, arid the ^wat er, wan there not a time fn yoor Mb when divine thing* appeared more through a grating into the Jowar. This aaaeoa w** ope of mare joy •raa thae harvest, ami just a* the Aakd* raaoand vilh the song of the harvester ao ynh and r> snhaad with the shoot of those who gathered lbs pA they who u am pled them aiu ' much more werioswoeas too reg wane thing* than you do i the nanraaaeatal emumoaton, o lest* of Scripture, and death f They should oot. that with increasing mesas the proportion is uot dimin ishad, bat steadily and consecutively increased. Instead of thm, 4i ia usually the case that those person* who haye in early life, or at a inter period, given s tenth of their hr ootur annually to bouevuient object* seldom, if ever, continue the prao Ike when they became rich. No iusUnor of the kind ha* ever come to the knew Irdgr of the writei. A* riches inerenae. It is, he believes, the universal rule to diminish the per erot Hut do one should be content to give only the tenth, If his Income allows him to give more. A chistian is bound to give m» th* ljmrd prospers lbs, and* the T/wd will bold bhn to this, as n universal rule, from the the ohHgntion and responsibility of which no living son! Shall escape. A tenth will do for those who can jiif do ntoTT , noi, I* nn nfm which many suppose it to be. It .ha* it* comforts a* well as it* infirmi ties. 0 It is usually’ a season of re cent* per quart ■ wid eomuiuni my, of geography, of history, and other sciences. Then why not be lieve the fact* of a spirit world *>n the tretimohy of God himself. • Now, it 1* to be remarked that faith, instead of being acorned, should be cherished wore than any other fneulty, for w ithout it there enn not lie n frill development of manS ns turn. There is both a ten eat ml and a celeatiid side to our nature. Man may be compared to a bnibling com posed of dttfervnt stories, fn»in the cellar npwjinh*, eorresponding to the earthy, the seutuona, the intellectoal, the moral and the apt ritual parts of onr constitution. Homo men live all their lives in the cellar. Home go up sometimes to the next story, bnt not finding it congenial to their low tastes, *smn again return to the cel h»r. Some prefer to dwell in tin* sunlight of the next story, and a ft*w still higher up. The skylight* are sometimes darkened with ilnst and cobwebs. We can live right only when these are brushed away, and the son I is enabled freely to aor to spiritual height*. J As it would degrade a man to let the senses rule, so it degrade* him to let the uiind dominate over the spiritual faculty? The supremacy of the spiritual faculty iu the soul regn fates all the power*, Just as a great capital regulate* the trade and fash Ions of a nation. * K . It is. a great epoch in a man's life when he first finds there i» a spiritual world all around him, to lie. appro bended by faith. When this begin*, a new life ha* already commenced within—the divine light has reached hi* soul. If a man live always in the lower stories, his lower faculties are strengthened, but the higher arc more and more weakened. The rea son is that all our (acuities are strengthened at»d developed only by exercise. The faculties of children arc developed only iu this way. There are under ground rivers where there are fishes without eyes, just because they have no use for theui. It is so with uisn's spiritual faculties; if he prefer* to live always iu the dark, he will come at last to have no use for them, and will be an though ho had none. If we close our spirit ual eyes against tlio**' visions which revelation uufolds—against those scenes which faith alone can per ceive, it will at last lie said of us with a most- melancholy truth, “Hav ing eyes, they see not, and ears, they hear not, because their heart is waxed gross.” Their faculties are not actually destroyed, but dark ened. ^ From this we learn the iuiportaoca of impressing spiritual truth on the wind iu early life. If a child is put to learn languages, he can acquire them with great facility, even two or three at the same time. But how much more difficult is the same task iu after life, when the proper exer cise of the intellectual faculties has been neglected. 80 we have spir itual fhcultiea to apprehend God, and other spiritual truths, but by neglect we stunt them all. There is oue more step in the argument. Undue activity of the lower fhcultiea consumes the nour ishment appropriated to the tyghrr. We have a forcible illustration of this in the work of the gardener, who is often compelled to lop off the redundant sprouts and limbs of a tree, so as to turn all the sap into the remaining branches, to promote their fruitfulness. And for the same reason we often See those remark able for their memory, whose undue concentration ou the one faculty ab sorbs the aliment that should go to j not feeling for them, uot looking out a work too laborious and tiresome. 11 cure the strangeness of the exprew tion, “1 have trodden the wine pies* tiou. We have sometimes seen the aid, in public ptoes, and in public conveyances, pushed aside by the young aad strong. It is an unlove ly sight Only the rode and the though tie** will be guilty of such^ selfish irreverence; and they wight learn mauuera from tb* Chinese. Among them old age is held in the highest veneration. The first ques tion which a polite Chinaman asks a - man of grey hairs is, How old are you t He glories in his age, and de- l ^lts in an opportunity of prodaim ing it j and the question Is proposed to afford him that pleasure. Among us the custom is different The po liteueas which prompts the Chinaman to ask the question would lead us to ■ay or do other things grateful to the feelings of the old. Ia general, how ever, courtesy accords to the old Those are the ward* of Jesus, the solitary warrior whom Isaiah aaw with garmeufa dyed iu blood, with the flush of \ ictury ou his brow, exulting iu his power to save. They relate to Christ's glorious work of weeks’ sojourn iu Ki< , has enabled the i it of the noted preat •apitnl. He with more ] redemption ; and the whole force of the passage seeius to be upou the word alone, fur hear him any , Of the people there was wwe with me.” Aad indeed Jeans was alone—soli tary as the peak that looms up to ward the sky—a* the ship upon the lers m a* li»- easure Huge, hnreh. ile and n from Kit be- |ect of to our e have which , could (o the which Christ's life was the perfect embodiment. And It Is fbr as, M tossing far behind IVfw, to patiently and dfligeutly bring outueNea Into His spirit It la the heat hi!it : . that Hfr ofllrrs to os that *« should learn hour by hour to be thooghtfh) Itonoue ■■HI profit than the Rev. 1)^ tf Second Presbyterian j Weat Sabbath, iu as aj tkt and impressive serrnj text. ^Be not faithlessj ak,” he invested the *u| fiirith an interest so uew eneti^ctt at least, that \ mt even a meagre outlim re can attempt to giv< ui to be interesting groat world of w store. Hi* thoughts weft uot like those of the sous of ueu j (bore was a grandeur about them—they ware uot of earth, but draw a from the deep fountain* of the infinite and eternal. There was a solitariness about him that seems almost oppressive. He was, as it were, separated from men —they did not comprehend him. He mac above them, a lonely pillar of truth aad moral grandeur. And wheu we review his life, and remem ber hi* word* upon the cross, we are deeply impressed with the fact that he was alone, and that “of the peo ple there was none with him* And it must br confessed that among all the children of 'sorrow uooe ever «m like unto Jesoa, for be is the ir )inu of socToms, and acquainted with gri* f * Child of God, that wine press was trodden for you. Through the suf fering ami toll that the Saviour ep- duttd in the work, you have access -to God. He has performed the work alone, a fret which should cheer and encourage yon, for what Christ doe* Is wefl done. Whenever thou dost languish—whenever thou art over whelmed with sorrow—when thou art lonely and forsaken, remember It was so with Jems. He was slone —Mid the work be performed for you hi of more value to you than all the stars twice told in gold. And thou Royal Conqueror, go on iu thy glorious career. Smite thiue euttme* and tread them in the wine press of thy wrath. Let the nations know that thou dost rule. Rare thy mighty arm to the coufikit. Let heaveu and earth resound with the shout of victory ; and wheu thy Wood redeemed warriors shall have followed thee through thy way of blood, in the temple of peace above, they shall haft thee as their Leader, and crown thee Lord of all.—fVfr- f»4* ITorW. ^ # innthm. (hat be has firm anything ; of oeursc he ran give all that aad raatfy more without beginning to fisel ft. What la done I* bwt SbeMng off some of the looaer outer Mbs first table, the best bed, and all the little courtesies which make life said the subject of Faith was ped with more myatec^ in the Faf even the most intelligent mau any other cardit id doc |i the Bible. His objei t was, hefbre the thought for aetC And It In by there daHy Uapoas that we mu to cum# into that charity without which knowledge, and fisith, and leal, profit nothing—In that lore whore spirit make* heavm Mbmtk Mxwfem fteddrita. The giving, to he effectual aa a dUu cfpir. avast be on n principle that fbr getting—the intent to have more; fbr nil (he nrinrhtef and meanaen* able, to clear up this it sentjpg it under a new! nth* are very precious,! Is of treating them art very tiresome. 1 s J object was to show tbit t frith, I of being invested wi h soch k as to affonl the sk qitic A jfuge, w%»*. reason itsef, and Ut old tp r some a^.— *-fi « ■ a- j-. %. rTuIffl rrjdlHVfiTIOtl. To oue imbued with the spirit of Christ, the qaeutiee. How much of my In come ought I to gtve fbr the good of mankind and the upbuilding are enough who need brip »H a rooml na, no doabt, and we enn not betiere ourselves rmjty ev»W hearted | aa, why is it that we do so little f The great reason ia, that we am so-ab sorbed in our own Intervals aa never to notice the thousand ehaneea to help some one else. The priest and the Lerite who came and looked on the wounded Samaritan, and then passed ou, were, let da believe, not worse than moat mao. if a whole hoot of people had paoard near, some with eyes and ears intent ou game they were chasing, some staring with all their might at stars they »y highest reason. A nQtber is wished to show wits, that have faculties spcciall; given apprelieud physical tri tks, ao e been provided with *uirlt- will be eaalty settled; fbr he who truly frya Ms body upon the altar of that Includes all his possessions, aa well as all hit time. It trftl be wril few us If (his Important truth Is kept fheolofftcafly and practically la «n riant remembrance. Then the rin and booor. Now most things are out of joint, or are going wrong. He is aware of this unlovely tendency in okl age to faultrfindiug; aad, as be Even while he ia preparing his dis course, It may Ite, he Was there good Haleuera ia his mind, iasaglaftng him self before (hem. He already feels them to he In sympathy with his subject ; ami this kindles Ids sod, and give* a smith and energy to kta composition. When, In the course of deUvary, he sees eyes attentively fixed upon him, aad look* (hat denote deep Interest, there la something in it which fires tbs and of dm speaker, and tends a glow and enthusiasm to the delivery which a congregation ran not wall afford to lose, find which a listless hearing will not impart vftcr a minister has labored hard throng* the week to prepare food for the fiock over which the Holy Ghost hath made him overuses, ft h very (lepresshtg to him to hare them receive (be food with indifference. There la repayment in feeding the hungry, but very Uttic In feeding those who will Dot eat Goring the delivery of the sermon there are some who seem, with bum gry souk, to be feeding upon divine truth, while others are Hades* and inattentive | aad tbs tain trier is eon strained to fieri that he is falling to film isi them. The hungry hearing, ctxxxirages him, warms his heart, kindles up hi * delivery, aad it may be, Mgjpmts tww fiwtu ftjipn»pn,iTr lOOdpiT jdm suited to the hungry soul, tons help ing hhn to prt aek with accept*ore and profit, while the Hstieaa, inntfeu ties hearer tsods to diaooorage nod wontd crane to Inqoiw how morfi ho nwy withhold and how tittle he muy give to the cause of Christ; and be both afraid and ashamed of • rule that allows him, when he can do more, to retain nine tenths, white he rants only one-teeth Into the Lord** treason . What earthly propriety- would consent to sock a division of some. This evil claims a very ancient origin. In the days of Solomon there were soma who* inquired: “Wlu£ ia the cause that the former day s were bettor than these 1* but they did “not inquire wisely cod ceruiug” it They failed to take sound and comprehensive views of the revolution* in society. They concluded that all roust be wrong which did uot correspond with their own tastes and stereotyped notions. Against this evil old persons should sedulously guard. Let them give their advice freely and candidly, but not be offended or grieved if it should be rejected. They can not rule the " "J M.—-IJjfiott* Herald. urawrif* study of man’s morn! eon- we are driveu to tbe< onclu- Frem this .World to the Other k there is a spiritual w )rld— a heaven, .a bell ; l» icanse r «r bestowed any fact Ity in f w« have spiritual power bend there is a God, a heav- I, then we know thes« ranst faith grasps spiritual t ruths, ‘stbe such truths. G d did f* wan the faculty of sight *t him In darkness, j He e eye and adapted the light ^ So be did not gh e any Wo' start iu Mfe an unbroken 1 A Great Semmon.—When Theo dore L. Cttylar asked Dr. Skinner in tire presence of a company, who was • W Erw»* But this state of things does not continue long. Qm circle grows less nod lorn. U is broken, and then doses up again; but every break and doss makes it narrower and small or. PeNmps before the son fa at hi* meridian (he majority are on the other side F tJfe drcie there is as large As the on* bereyaml we are >at they should be ju3 ipted *pirit world in whicl tjhey ! proper objects for 1^, jK? ;.■> '' v -' ' '*.* '' vkow unreasonable it ^ a «t believe spiritnal ‘ demonstrate their exit reason 1 The man is l two. totally different I '*» “I can not believe » of the Bible, because higher than physical qualities, as the wealth of society lies more in the goodness of Christian families aqd Christian institutions than in ease, or aboudanoe, or pleasure; so he roost worthily prolongs his life to an after-day whs so lives a* to give