The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, May 05, 1871, Image 4
THE LUTHERAN VISITOR. COLUMBIA. S. C., MAY 5, 1871
anil lays, ‘Ah ha! my boy, my girl, hit faithful domestic! “Annies I *ay,
I will keep yet*, test bow }* and then Annie, Wee comuiUtr*l a miatek the
he thqowa hit chain of another bad day. Ye maun jiat gang your waa’a
habit about them, and then another, ha me, and yell get my aeroon oot
until at loot only the power of ^saas my breekpooek, an’ well slug to the
can break these bands of the bad praise o’ the Lord till ye come back
spirit, and cap giw us good habits ag*iu.” Aunie, of course, at oooe
of honesty, troth, gentleness and executed her important mission, and
kindaeea. brought the sermon oot of ‘’the
“I bare seen some little girls who break pooch,” and the ssrvteo, so far
do try to be good. A few days ago as we beard, was completed without
l saw a dear little girl, of three years further interruption. The same min
old, who brought a stick to her inter had also a very feitkfa) “aria
mother and said, ‘Here, mama, is s ittert moA,* who luul been in his
stick to whip me with.’ ‘Do you senriee fer many years, and was
want me to whip you, my child T engaged, at the time ws speak of,
said her mama. j ‘Oh not now, but to be married to the younger of
when I get bed, and can’t bo good, the minister’* two female servants.
I do waut to be good, but something Johnnie went u|M*nir* one evening
won’t let me. g' think it most be to arrange details with the old gen
old Satan, and then you must make tlemau, who immediately said to
him go away.’ This little child is him, “Ou, Johnnie man, is this yoo t
trying very' hard, at even her yonug Fat’s this you’re come eboot the
age, to conqaer her temper, ami she nicht f Sit douu an’ tell me.*
will succeed, for Jeans hears little “Weet, sir, I Jiat cam to tell you
children’s prayer*, and he is glad tliat I’u» gauu to be married, an’ I
when they ask him to help them to wint to settle fat day’ll be coove-
be good. 11 fe||y • don’t try, and uieut fer yoo * “Vera wsel, Johnaie
won’t be good, by the means that mail, but w Im u t that you’re takin f
their parents take to correct their “On,” nays Johnnie, “I’m no gaun
faults, then very ofteu the Saviour fer for a wife, tor I’m feat takin* the
takes severer means, and takes away lassie drain In ymir kitchen, an’ we’re
their little sie-ters and brothers, and g*nu to hi' proclaimed u|«o* Sabbath ;
their impas and mamas, so as to na’ we’ll gie you as little trouble as
make the children do right aud think we can, an’ jist crane up the stairs
about Him. He says, ‘Suffer little ouy eveniu’ wqvxsteo* .for yoo, air,
children to come unto me ami forbid an’ get it a* dune here by yoorsel,
them not,’ and be wants all children sir.” “W« l, weel, Johnnie, I shall
to love Him, and grow up to he good he mlr yW to settle some nicht aeiat
men and women.” B. week wi’ yon Imith. An’ I’m rale
■ i j happy to hear a* thia, tor." added tbs
good old hurihelnr (at this time ibovf
fewnwv years old) “i« ay opiaion,
Johnnie, mafriags is a rrrm karmUaa
aaMnssMwA*
A i*i|M»laf Anglican Nuneonform
i*t minister was residiiig with a fast
white on a visit to
votes sms pouring oot so the night
air an avalanche of caress. Going
to the window, wo looked oat and
sow oo the opposite skis of the
fi lowly, lord and kIuyc,
l age with silver hair,
d strength and bounty
venal and the feat,
doom of Dust to Dust!
intoxication, reeling from aids to aide
of the walk, and a little girt about
six or seven years old, holding him
by om hand, and endeavoring all In
her power to guklo his erratic steps.
“Don’t, father,” she says, as the
blasphemous wretch poors oot the
vilaness iaspired by the vile aom
pounds lie has drank. Her remoo
stranoe marts with a quick return ;
■Aar on effort or two he socoseds
in hitting her with his disengaged
hand, aud she fells proac upon the
sidewalk. After a moment she fete
up—meantime the father has cm
braced ait awaiug post, and is watch
ing his child white he seesaws
backward and f irward ia his maud
llu efforts to maintain bis equilib-
num. The little girl immediately
cranes to bis side ; there is no fear
in her approach, and the tone in
which she said, “do, father, come
home,* had power, it seemed to ua,
to melt a beurpof stone. The ago
nixing cadence brought op from a
bleeding heart hail no effect ou the
miserable rum soaked wreck, and as
they moved in a xig xag course down
the street, be made ineffectual cffoite
so strike his child again, st the km me
time making night hideous with his
clamorous profanity } he fells ou the
sidewalk to be assisted to his feet by
the little ooe, and as he sends oot a
new volley of oaths, and slowly gets
down the street oot of hearing, feo
last words wo hear are in that heart
breaking, pleading strain: “Don’t
father”
"Tat a future that little girl has
before her; once her father was kind
to her, else she would mri hare loved
him so well; else she would not have
borne his brutality. But wften the
demon raw fastens Ills hold on a
man. all his better 'nature is gnoe ;
be not only has hell in him. but he
tries to make a hell a poo earth u>
all shunt him. Even now we hear
ringing in our ears that “Don’t,
fether.* Will it have the power of
refermiag that fetiable wreck of
manhood f We fear not. Of the
many that enlist under the banner
of King A touted, few have the
power to leave the ranks in the fere
of the army that urge* them on to
destruction. Ha raffed friends, in
•tend of raising a warning voice
when the fetal discs*- is fastening
be fee next to die!
read his neighbor’s t
ystle dooming trace ?
e«t heart and limb,
iy sootiest call for hint, [H
p victim lingering HI,
the air of Heaven still,
ere’s life, there’s hope and tnwt
toot of Dust lo Dust! i
&*MI
father aa invalid tor
why t To hartkw tin
of draas which thay i
I ashes, uoble clay,
irith the dust to-day.
ig round the sable urn,
Ighty nation mourn,
i in memory’s breath,
j soldier sleeps in death! I
krth he loved to plough,
[well* the farmer now,
iy the nation’s trust,
£ Rider, Dust to Dust!
Dust! The story’s told,
dust the stone is rolled,
ere darts the spirit then,
TOUCH
downright foolery
This triumph of Draasia over
Prance haa even a broader signifi
cance than appear* to the unthinking
observer. It revolationixes the lead
teg Influence of Europe. It is the
trinmph of the Teuton over the
Latin, of Protestantism over Homan
ism, of the new drift ratio* over the
old. The I Attn race*, with their
intriguing priesthood, their ignorant,
poor ami superstitions people, monk
erica and nunneries, and relics and
shams, are staking to deeay. Italy,
France ami Hpain are all in trouble,
while Portagnl Is hardly mmated
among the nation*, so insignificant
and powertesn has she become. ATI
are bankrupt, and neither seems to
bohl within itself the power of re
covery. France is a republic today.
dsmtaally i but those who know
Arrivs st Columbia..
Leave Coituahia
Arrive at itiaHratuu
trust till the thought* of men.
to’dnst! wbot power may save
d dust from earthly grave I
midlist! the chant of doom,
u We hasten to the tomb.
i$ feeble, God is just,
ijmnf f Dust to Dust!
The above trains
Pwlage— Five rent* pc;
All remittance* and eons
be addressed to
Rrv. A. R. K’
dren’s Department
For the Lutheran Visitor
The Spider’s Web.
Miscellaneous.
Religion
beautiful morning id. June,
ell and her daughter Lncy
it in the garden attending to
raere. Lncy was about eight
Id, and was helping her mo
fc somo boquets for the flower
Presently she said, [
mother, here is a bdautiful,
shinin' spider’s web. See how its
silken breads glisten in the tent like
silver i nd gold ! IIow fine it is. I
never saw any web so ligttfc anti
beaut 1■L”
Mrs. Bell admired it to« r as it
hung fi upended from some slender
twigs let' the bash, and she fchowed
Lacy liow regularly the spider had
ilrawni*fbe silvery threadannri woven
the lUit but strong web. While
they afcfrod looking at it, an Idle fly
The nineteenth edition of this un
fadingly popular little book Uh* been
issued. Here are three of the added
For the Loth
v—The Lot
were
some
ily in Glasgow,
that city*, whither he bad gone on a
deputation fVran the Wesleyan Min
stouary Society. After dinner, in
reply to an invitation to pnrtake of
some flue fruit, be mentioned to the
family a curious rirrumstaocr eon
«w»ruing hi mac if (which he hnd also
mentioned repeatedly to my cures
pomtent)—\ lx., that he bad sever hi
Ms life tasted an apple, pear, grape,
or Indeed aoy kind of green frntt
This fart seemed la evoke consider
aWr snrprise (Vom the company ; hot
a caution* Scotchman, of a practical
matter <4feet turn of mind, and who
had listened with maeh nnennrem.
drily remarked. “If* n peaty teat
ye had been la Farad ter, mad there
mteht na hae been ony fe’P
Bonn* time heck, when it wao net
Wacom man for cb.UU-ngc* to he gfvwn
and accepted for insults, or «ij«poaed
insults, an Rugiidi gentleman was
entertaining a paarty at Iarenmas
with an acconnt of the wondora he
I-csre Awrust*
Cotttmhte.
“ Winasbora
Arrive at Charlotte, K.
luklaf rinse connection
at North I'aiterne Umd ala
and East .
Train* Sum &
Leave Charlotte. If. C.,..,
** Cheater
Wtowtero..
* "HHlii*’ln • • • » ••
Arrives* Asgnsto «...
aspiration io all these con a tries; hot
what ate they, what ran they do.
agataat a church organization, hoary
with experience sod pecfeetly united
i« its nkfet .that street bring the
perpetnations of Ha own power at
whatever coat, against all the eo
of Central and 0,<H»rtrin TL-uln
• 1.^ mis, and all point* Si nth m
Puwv Sleeping Cam an 1
Trains. Thrmtfrii Ticker* aid, a
gage checked to all t»nu< inal put
HP Passengers by tab rate
Nsrdi, hare choice of tve <f)
rentes.
c. BOrtXIGBf
K. R. Diwrar, Genera! Firi
to hi* own master 1m. *§'
feUeth.” “For none <tt
turn self, and no man d. ;
sett” \
Xo o^ia at liberty
his own wiff or plensui .
pendent of higher anti. |
he at death capable of e 4 ^
own aeoessitiea, or d<‘tt |
own destiny in amdio l-
being; he is then st den |
lately dependent upon tr
all good, as in life be is
to him for the right .jvu^
use of all the beuefits <> I
For he belongs to the ! ft
property or (toasessioti, .ft
can never be alienated: E
death. “Fqr whothei -
live onto the Lord,” &« .
j This passage tearing h
^hmg to Christ. Hi- t
both here sukI hereaCerf
or proprietor, hr 1
to control us, or disposi •<
fe»y Ideas**. He is tin |
ttiose events over which 4
.eniitrnl. He “detennim-,-?
of our habitation”—the <
aud circumstances under!
live. Oar times are in l
ftte events of life’s ch* . I;
^ appointed of h\m. /nf
prosperity ami jadvt
m »y effect the on* M I
0 ** # ^' auce of pgodeutia; *
fGbaa given, and the tWlsI'
tollies and miedak
Joy and aon V
Jfd richness, life gml «i
t* s ®overeign direction
Nothing hut uwiver
instituted, cnnlrritotl,
formed in India, froo whence he hod
lately arrived. He mlargwcf partfe
11lariy npoo t!e sins of the ttgera he
had and with at different times hi
travels, and by way of corroborating
BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD.
T rains **». thJHiuc mage u
run «b*il\. Sundays excepted:
Lcsre Anderson at ...41
Aim* at \YMihails st ...1«
I^cave Wslhalla at Sj
Arrive at Andcm*n at ,wl
“Now Lucy,” said Mrs. Belty “this
teachek yon a goo<l lesson.! Boys
and girls are like the fly, and are
ofteu jldle and careless of , con sc
i. They form a baql habit
res, which, the first titoe it is
S in, i* bnt as slender as that
ead of the spider wh ch she
ver the fly, and if th4* cbil-
ould try to break of what
4 been let! to do, tliey
P. B. 8ADTLBR & SONS.
OPTICIANS AND
waxxja asAasuxiaff
L U€ every um who reads this
dr constitute himself o* com nut
of one lo work for legtteation.
modes of pongrram, la the rit iUaatkm
of the future. Does aoy ooe doubt
It f Let him point to a single (hth
olie net too that t* makiag |>n»gtwi
today, aod to a single Fmteotnnt
nation that ia not!—Dr. F. tl. Jfri
indnlg
tiny tl
threw
dren
they 1
the evil, too me not orang )our
duty to your fellow man If yon neg
led to worn >our aeighbar when yoo
are hum going down to perdition,
and all with whom you are brought
to ranlMt are yoor neighboru. Chris
lion men, when. In the final reckon
teg yoo ore called oo to account tor
SEVEN GOLD KXDAIS
ia October aud November, lM| te
Ten First PREMIUMS aid Mff
. ia October aud November, 187%
AW ARDED TO J|gi
oAva.agiwft*
FOR THK BEST miW. ..
over IUdliiu.il. , N>» V,»k. I1ul.^i*K
and Boston MaDufactnrira
GfPtor and y«r Ysmvoai, Nk ^
if. JAbtrUf Si.. Baltimore Ht
STIEFF^ I’LVNOS J!
coulsui si! the latest impiwueate t|ft
ftwix! in a first-class nano, with, if*
bona) improvcBieiitsof his owa
not to be foitnd in other isstrmtete
The tone, touch and finish of theaemite
imcuu esu no* W excelled by any Igte*
raernmt. t „ ,
SBtJilfPBS,
would
11 ill freeing themselveh from
pping; but by yieldin first
j and ' then to anoth r bad
jufter a while these habits
‘like cords, and drag i tys girl
brho is thus bonncl bj them,
ij the home of the loti.
ins that fly did not tee any
4i the bright, shinin ; web,
h|en see no danger in telling
b story or a small lie. After
ijye indulged in it a few< times.
» of telling falsehoods grows
i(r r , Bo, taking a little thing
Tppple, a marble, or piece
H»», that la not youi own,
tery light and trifling a tnnt-
t ends in the strong ford of
8o, also, of mauy| other
Ibat I might mention j If a
W Is peevish and cross for a
$Wo, the third or fourth day
|t not try to correct hf r tera-
[jT will snarl at her little sister,
ih her away when she comes
ys with her, and final y will
h very disagreeable ho her
i So, if a girl tries tj> culti-
*jjenth* manner and kiiid tone
l|y of two, by the enfl of a
i| Rff9 be easier for heir to be
it than at the beginning.
Smlpthmnm* Arid aa a iSaimfrctamt.
—The v nine of mdpfcurrate arid gns
aa a disinfectant, derationwv, nad
btoockiag agent, has long tmti well
cstsUtehcfl.
WATCHES A FINE JEWELRY
wrong!
to one
habit,!
become
or boy;
down i
There is. however, o
more row rente*) t way
of applying it, in general use, than
by burning sulphur In sir. I’rot
Gamgee rolb attetitum to the see of
so alcoholic notation of the gam as n
feorv raoveatent mode of applying It
tor sick rooms, aud general dials-
tcctant purposes, thsa those hitherto
ase*L Cold alcohol vW, he urru,
dissolve threw buudml times its bulk
Of tbs gas, amt where, for insUmw,
it is nsccwsiiry to disinfeet a box of
riothteg, n few dra|» of the sristtou
let fell into tbs bottom of the box
will set a suflfctenl quantity of tbs
SPfeTTA* LIW SPOONS, POOKA AND SIL-
Tdn wark oenriiaixt.
May lfl IRfiO * 4<Mf
it was oo the brink of mi awful pee
oipHJS, what will yoo say t How
numy little children plead ia vain
for their fathers to come borne from
the galas of boll—Urn grapery. It
doss seem to us that if drunkard*
RUPTURE CURED.
Marsh’a Radical Cure Trust.
►ut not ouly does~b*' |1
and exercise sov»
external and feiiij» rl
hut also over oar
obedience. JTe is I -
I «s well as ‘of J.he F
he is its law-giver.
law—its supreme ttiLft
[ to his obedient *u
eyers—the observance |
I Ooarce of ooMtant ♦
> u ^ge of their besrt
g % biw * it. is m> :
In the lH»r
^ rits enthroned, and
over him. I
W*® statements won! s
1 we to view • |
trilr > Sovereign, coi r*
‘Pricioos wiUj but tin
^ of unsj>eakabh ooi
r ®d in the light of b:
®s a being not on!
^y* bnt of Infinite j
^ooe; a being who is if |
"!ios«* wisdom is ai
’h!e. His psternni
security to It.
‘*wbicL
^ Wood, nor of tic
b »or of the will of n
Uu to, they would reform. Of all the
dmguiuteg, filthy partwre* uoo sues
in a lifetime, next to a dmakea
seems
tear, hi
sthalil
habits
little 1
T HE Item ami most effective Tram
known for the core and refe f of
Menu* or Ru|*tnre. This Trass has re-
rrived tile ISMIKII) of the most emteewt
phyterism of this country. «1k» <b» not
heMtsto to reroi^inMmd It tv those sfilicted
rift Heruis ss beta* superior to all
tit hi I j, * m
h is the suly Trass thst will Vetsin the
bowel* with any certainty, site the wearer
us® fesl **H»uied thst he Womldk * rem.-Uv
thst will lie at all times safe ftdffbtefl
te It* (ftBafon Of this w«* guarautee
cat in- sstiteactisti to aff who aisy come
Csayoffog JnUrrmt.—TV ftelowiiig
rote tar oumpatiag intorast te so
risipk that sverj booker, broker,
UMWvhaitt, or oierk, ahould post, it
ap for raftemMr. There being no
(ractmu in it, there te scarcely any
ItsbUUf to error or mtetake i
MU l*er OnL—Multiply any givau
aarnbar of dottera by tbs number of
days of interest desired, and divide
D HHiJL KBurwellASon*
stitnte, Charlotte.
bsvs tbs tonal> smell entirely re
moved, sod nil gsrma of fungous
growth completely destroyed in them
by the apfdw-ation of a few drape of
the eolation deuorihrd. la comment
ing upon the eogTstino of Prof.
<i am gee, the llrxtiak MadaeaJ Journal
the Steiff Inano wtece
Wh$ Do Chikbn IMe t—The IM
test Record* replies to this rpirstten
M follow* i
The reason why ehlldren die in
bccnase they are not taken con* of.
From the day of birth they are staffed
with water, wffueuted la hot rooms
nod steamed with bad clothes. Bo
mneh tor In door. When permitted
to breathe n breath of pore air once
JACOB S.
nod ad\outage, hi introduced aa a
general article of pharmareoticsl
commerce for mediate sttri mnitsn
of days, ok nix par cent.
Eight Par Oent.—Maltiply any
gtvon nmoont by tbs number of day*
apaa tkkk t» te deoteed to OMartatn
•he infereOt, aod divide by torty
five, and the resalt will be the inter
nal of aoeh asm Ira tho thaw re
103 EAST BAVi
CHARLESTON, S.
Oct 13 I— 1 *
children,ftr# naturnlly bad.. A|1 theii
evil d^8b■c3, , and passions come from
a bad pi am and if not cotiquejred by
going lo the 8;tvkmr and asking ,him
for a iftteil, new heart, and by trying
to do: tf|ght, will end in tbei 1 ruin,
jnat as ithat little fly wa§ dogged
away. | patan is always settin * riiin-
ing write for giri.s and boys }o fall
l. curraturc of the spine, how
rat, fas, -
and crutches at the most »p-
ke.
8. MARSH & CO, * :
No. 3 Holiday Streak, «
Baltimore. Md.
daring the colder month*, only the
none is |*erroitted to peer into day
light
A little later they are sent oot
t