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ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM"—EPHESIA N8 IV - r I,, -|^ ! ,, ninr-11-rriiwiwiiii—i .mi * -• , • COLUMBIA. S. c. FRIDAY. MAY M. 1871 OLD SERIKS, VOL. V.-NO. 142 ^ Neither bid to M|bt to wy to Ito company. Many believed tm Mm. Wtot need to epeak to ttoae who did not f N«w *e «i m tow, through all *to4r wnw, Ctofet vm with tto unfltorm and ttoir friends. That a Creator joy mod more glorious sptr Itaal manifestation miebt come to ttom, had to permitted thin night M»Cht of weeping. Now had itoy la ftoj truth mm “hie glory " For all tiaie to oome to Mnfbt bin pee- I'uffcasa TRsifor IS PUBL1SHKD . ;euY FBI HAY any are found who “out of the good treasure of their heart* nrr bringing forth gooti things," tt is not because they are naturally good, but because they have, in a certain way, been made good by the grace of Ood. A holy principle has been engrafted into the sinful mtock, which, without this engrafting of the Hedy Spirit, would have coittinncd yielding slnfol OmH, Hut all who know anything about fruit culture/ know weir* that in order to make a good frnit bear ing tree thq work H not Ani»hc<l, but only commenced, wheu the good twig has been |»ngniftcd. H aban doned at that point, the roots and stock of the old tree,will send up such a thicket of luxuriant sprout* as to choke ami dwarf tto engraft- ment so that it will scarcely ever to seen, and bepr little or no fruit. Hence, early and eonstunt atteatimi is necessjiry. "This given, the evil spumts call to easily nibbed off with the thumb. Neglected awhile, they require the priming knite. Neg lected awhile Itoger, ami the heavy blows of tto sse must remove ttom. in the spiritnah husbandry it is tto tome. The luAnrianee of sin, always hurtful to tto liealtby growth of the holy engraft incut, may to neglected Tto Trials of Aged Ministun. Rev Dr. John' Todd, fn resigning bU chnreb at Pittsfield, of which he had been pastor fifty yearn, gave the following u atfiong tto trials of an old minister: 1. The first great trial ia, of bourse, to feel that to has done hit work, is ito longer ueethsi, and must be set •aule. Tto world no longer looks to him. Wtoa a lawyer retires from jMtblic speakfag, to can go to-his •dfiee and do oflw business. Prob- ablyeicliUteijttoof.aU tto law bus meaaia tto commonwealth hi done iu tto office. Wtoa a physician re Uraa from visiting hia patients, he can go to bis office and still cany un bts eon milt n liens; bat when tto mtukaer returns from public apeak- tag, to has no each resource. A trial this. 3. It is a trial to stand still and si* hia powm and faculties decay, sad to know that to oeght to take joyfully this s(»oi!ing of bis goods. 3. It is a trial to eee hia flock all turning away from him, as they ought to do; and following another shepherd. He reasons that they are not turning against him, but the poor human heart is ia danger of feeling that- they do. Reason does not always ait firmly on hifThrone, with tor eye dear. 4. Another trial it, that If the minister has given hie life to his appropriate work, me he ought, he finds in old age that to most be curtailed in many comforts to w hich “ Tkim wnHtl | dseitt a bssndtsl drrom, iff dal»»w» Hast an aot what ttoy srs, Whne viaioof rtsr, giving dim MitprUs Of all tlihuts that nhstl nrH oar w skins ryes.** Men of all ages, of every degree of culture und of every form of roll gkm, have been profoundly exercised about tbc wtor* and tto tour of tto aoul aftef death. Tberv la sqprrety another question that bus such a bold and fascination npon the hn man mind. . And yet Ihc Bible, whilst its ntterances u|wmi tin* final) ties 41' human <b-*tjny tire distlm t and < iiiphatic, is remarkably reticent «|K*n the. minute details of that destiny. Kven Christ, in his teach ings of the foturc, add reams himself Ito iqierulativr Ministers’ salaries arc generally fixed according to a penurious stau <UnL They ebonld be more liberal Yioth on account of the congregation ami of ths pastor. The former some times suffers even more from this source than the latter. In many cases the sheep are left without a shepherd liecause noneffton be found who will subject himself to the heavy cross involved in taking charge of them. *ftie ministerial offioe has burdens enough without the unnecessary load imposed by thoughtless congregations in with- holding from the minister the a of subsistence. It would indeed be sad if RUDE MILLER Terms Cash, Strictly in Advance . copy, ji?r annual *..*...$ In tto Jewish coaueptfoa tb was not only a name of tto pa raffing seme place of tisswty mu •v|news, that lingered m men a lovely dream of the night, wee a word of promt** and Ik tto foture—tto symbol of I Evidently ( hrtat used tto miu', six mouths.........v« .*• 1*15 linistere, Widows of Ministers, I Theological Students.,,...3,00 abserihers who fail to remit at pxmtation of their sutoerip- will be charged per annum U.OO new names are entered ou; tto sub lion hook, without the first payment ,K*W4I»A1*E* DECISION!*. A«y penon who takes a ps|H f r«*»r- ly from the post office— whether dl- to his name or another’s, or whether m gakacribed or uot—is rtfqpnislhle he payment* To as to aajrs j May wo wisely heartoat ltoil Urn groat stone of tto world sway. Behold mjr glory and your own ultimate highest joy ia the sorrows that yon suffer. Come forth oat of your obi solves. lamse yourselves from every weight, and onlers his paper discuu- _ pay all arregntges, *»r may continue to send it men sought tto ministry as a lucrative business. Better to have a scarcity of ministers than to have a rush for tto office because it is pecuniarily profitable. But it is unreasonable to ask of a man who,is willing to devote himself wholly] to tto work of the ministry, that he should submit to unnecessary deprivations not so much to fancy as to faith and our moral instincts. Apart from tto partible of Dives and toiaarn*, there is hardly any thing In bis teachings coticeruing tto state of tto sou! totweru death and the judgment. .Those wh«*n» to rivalled from the nnseeu world aay nothing of that wortd. Tto widow's son, we nnr told, sat up and began to *)>eak, but me are not informed what to said puvuH-nt i* made, uud collt tt the amount, whether the phpj'r Is ftoat the office or uot. The courts liave dtvittol that rvfu- to take newyvipers and periodicatls I the post office, or rcmortnfr and injr them npcalled for, is prism ftiric »nee of intentional fraud. etagcw-Five cent* per quarter. 1 remittance* and communimtions to Mn-sM-d to Rkk A. R- RUDE, Up., » Colmuhnu S. V. while tto aod destined to cover ymu narrow grave remains uncut, “preach*—in yonr daily Uvea, in *r*y way, to avery msan»~“n»y gaafrei * Not U. a chosen few, not to (to willing ear alooe; bat to evwj erea tore. Ami “lo, I am with y«i alway, erea an to tto ead of tto world.* Then will ( brut realize to as tto troth of )us owns weeds, **I am tto Ilcaamvtioc and tto Life.*— Jf. r. Ofiprm. which encumber him with cafes. But cangri^.i;luiis suffer by ttoir stingitoas toward their ministers in another way. When the pastor has acarcely means enough to procure the necessaries of iile for himself and frunily, how can to be expected to supply himself with the books and periodicals requisite to give freshness aa wed as thoroughness to hia pulpit ministrations f The want of boohs aa aids ia study is often tto greatest wan inters : and this can be by furnishing ttom wi wherewith to buy ttoi frw congregations whi do more for ttoir min would, and would not 1 era by doing it Religious. It may to tto mother and friends that stood by tto bier heard the words of the returning spirit, only as the hobble of a child, from which they could draw no definite meouiog and to whirh they coo hi mt(M»nd .only by earc **.•*» Lazarus, ralh-d kirk, said nothing about the spirit world. It U doubt ful whether, if he bad spokru, his sisters could liave understood him. All that ran to said concerning this is thus expressed by Trttnyaou in his 7a JVimvmm ; "Whrrr wrrt lbs, lnudst, lb** Umt days? Then* lives no rmsil of reply. Whirh. trliins wtot ll la to die. Itmt ■otelr >ildrd pnUmr toynor. “He I Mild a sum ratod «p Hy (Into! Tto teal nsulsrUi wmisM * He loU it not j or ■iwortlana ornlrd Tbe Kps uf that rvtairiiS * Hut whilst ( hnat is vtrmagely re tkvnt upon tto details of tto ftiture 1 life, hia ntteraoces conrerning tto 1 Jtmmittir* of human destiny are vus det tally clear and eu|»)uitic. It may 1 be that to bis viuw tto one great, underlying fact of future re tn but Ito —«if **evetlasting (Minishment* ami “eternal life' f w the time when pome i*«r- dissatislicd with »the . fruit by some of their ttroti, umy «i going to and fro, cutting troui the good trees of their (Laftara* f (applied only h the money l There are b could not asters if they p great gain- in danger of dreading j»ox*e«ty, or of being a burden. It ia said, too, that uauatly his I«eo|de occupy tto first year of his surrewanf’s lift* in telling him the faults the <dd minister. In this rone I ahould not wonder if it took two roars. These are sonic of tto trials of an oW minister, In addition to those infirmities rtf ago under which all moat bend, as we see the streams of earth one after another dry up, and feel the fret grow unsteady as we shuffle down the hill of Hfr. These trials you will. 1 doubt not, most kindly take Into considera tion. “Lord, if Thou had*! hero tore, my brother had not died * A our rowth! repining sddretoed to Christ It had not torn ash, prrha|i*. had Martha known what Jrro* had and to his disrildes—“I am glnd. for J*»ur ankro, that I was nut I hero, to tto intent ye may brHeve* With woman’s intuition aho might have taken hope from tto latter clause, knowing to resM not have laws “glad* at an event w Mrh hod Hood ed tto Uvea uf others, unless he had juror a a revealed purpnae In ttoir temporary grief. Not so with tto Atari plea. With that dark news span ttoir mtoda which at time* seemed tn over shadqjr them, we may istagine their questioctiug ooe of another, “flow aayeth to, I am glad at that which will eaoar sorrow of heart auto those whom to loirth f Neither was the perception of thottr moat ororlj ro laird to Laaaru* at aQ dear. Yet •ome of their d«*ubt may have arisen from that joyfhl oubelief we all •ooiettmea M when aa we aay , “It Is too good to to true.* It I* plain, however, Christ’s words were out iu the vegetable kingdom “like luces like.” Hence we do not ; for “gra|ics on thosius, or figs thistles." But when a bird of sir carries and drops iu a field seed of some unknow n free, we uot tell what, the fruit Will be I it matures; even the seedling ibe apple tree baffles, all our res as to whether it will fee late larly, aiyect or. sour, s.nory or M<1. But hiving oiice tasted of ■nit. we exjiect the true always ar that kind, but no other fruit, .ration may change ita size, srunce and tCivor, but uhange itH : A) Trouble w"Yto arrow Iht* eurae the rroom uf tto ai 2. When trouble falls upon him from without, a guilty conscience • ill testify him from within ; ao that the mind can giro no veBef to tto body, but both sink under tbelr own weights. It is uot as with tto pro pie of God ; they hare in want relief under outward pressure*. f2d Cor. hr: IA) <Tto religion of Christ waa no new invention, first instituted and estab lished by him during the time of his sojourn ujkmi earth in human form, but a religion w hich dates ita origin far bock, and was first revealed to man soon after the foil, in the prom ise of tto seed Of the woman which should bruise tbe serpent’s bead, aud which was contiuocd'unchanged In everything essential to its integ rity and ideutity, through various dispensations, down to the days uf the A poet lea, aod from them to ua, and which will be continued un changed to tbe last lapse of time, couciuaion* srriyt-d at aa to what kiud of persons they tups! be who an* capable of such conduct, iu many pho-es there Iras toil monk iu fashion a siffkly sentimentalism, wearing an air uf overmuch |dety, that condemn* ail such conclusion*. Disciple* of this school teem to have but our idea: “Judge uot.” -But lie is fortunate who ever met with one of them that did uot jndge fiercely when their |>et idea was opjsessl. There is, also, the other extivme: Judging rashly, judging “before the time,” “answering a matter l**fore hearing it,” There is, ttorefore, ample scope fat liotli xinhnumU: “Jndge noH" and “lb-wart* of folsc prophets,” without their eoiuiug in conflict. Then* are some who, ou hearing a stranger talking piAusli for an hour, will s.*iy : 44 Who* a go*Ml man or woman that is.” And then* be smne, oftener than otherwise rbe Mine persons, who, ou bearing of some outrageous conduct of a efinrck inembcr, will bjnrt out, “He, or slic, is no ehristian.” Anyjnan on taking |H)>.s4»s*ion of a newly pthrknrod farm, and flnding the neglected men’s trouble* may Mow them into toll, and hum them into destruc tto : if death march towards them upon tto pair horse, toll always fol lows him. (Rrv. vi: A) ILJtOAD. Ridire Ualbtwd is law, so well understood ifi egetable kingdom, pen gfles all rorks of creation^ subji eted to Mpectiohof man. Man lilmselt, iy aspect in w hich he may to Ml, whether as a material or momentous as to overshadow tto mere arridrtttal nn«l minute omditto* uf tto endless lut ure. In that gulden promise dropped from tto erosa tu tto prtii tent thief, then- Is a glimpse of untold possibilities of life and felicity to tto saved immevtiatrly after death. That poor, dying, trusting sinner Hi ussurod of instant transi tto from Ito crow to Paradise. “Today thou shalt he with aor ia /VtrwrtMV.” Hut what dirt Je*ms m«.in by PnnHlisuf (’ertsinly n»*t wxnr de- jwirtmcut of //s«/r*, according to the {sipular sentiment; some m\iic wlien the Son of God shall have wound up hi* mediatorial reign. In whelm ttoir hearts, itoy can giro them ao root or roar by prayer, faith, aad resignation u> God. as hia peopla used to do. A Wtoa ttoir trout** aad due (ream* nme, than come tto hoar aad power of thru b*mptatioi»«; and is ahtttt sorrow, ttoy will foil Ittto WI, having no promise Ao to topi ia tto hoar of temptatma, as tto salats have. (Bov. id t 10u A When ttoir troablro oome, ttoy will to loft notice our text, Prophets and Apostles are inseparably linked together. Ttoy stand, uot upon different founda tions, but upon tbe same glorious and immutable foundation. So, too, when tto future glorious extension of his kingdom loomed up before his eve, our Saviour assured bis hearers that many should come from the east and from the west; and from the north and from the south, and should sit down, not in a new king dom, but in the kingdom of (km, with Abraham, and Isaac, and Ja cob. Upon this point we lay par ticular stress, and wish it to to distinctly understood and borne in mind. In things pertaining to man’s temporal "Interests and happiness only, we frankly admit that there may be and ought to be changes and improvements; but in things pertaining to his spiritual eternal interests, there neither can, nor ought to be, either changes or im provemeuts.—A, J. Brmrn. I Won lying long in tto stomach ** bard tu get out Weeds that tow grown foug in n fluid bold thsir position against every effort to remove ttom. Potting off outvo- Uoo grins Satan a plea for right of poanmgtou. It is hard to dis ponses* him at tto tost; and the longer he remain*, ito more difficult tto task. Sunset is a poor time to togiu a day ’s work; aod work done late is seldom done well. Tbe bands •re weary , and tto light grow* dim. To |nit off salvation ia madness and foUy. “Tto night comet h, and no man can work.* The offerings that God required were tto first fruits. He sqyn, “Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth.” He prom lacs that those that neck him early shall find him ia tto audst of ttoir barduua, and tone ttoro. God’s rtald©, supporting In «aly with his own pro tel) him tto body will to offroadrr. Maying in effort, “Of what n« to seek tto grave.* Christ goes calmly on. Team alone prove his onearon with tto arrottpa nyiag mounter*. Ills trays are not the ways of men. fir bad. not told them that, withtn n few momenta, the dead brother weald to again with ttom. Only had be mid that they ahould “are his glory* Arrived at (he solemn tomb, Christ first rails upon the friend* to roll aaray the atone. As ia all oases there ia something for man to do toward answering hia own prayers. 8o this was tto human portion of tbe work. It was what, and all, man could do. , Then tto Boo of God enlls upon the Pother, who made man, aad tto rocks, and Ito mountains. That tto people near might know that to was scat to be tto Saviour of men. A third time Christ speaks, and now to thf dead. What mockery for a man ao to speak I Bat to who was dead bears tto oail—“comm forth," to tto astonishment of all save Him who was sad Is the Ilea urrectioa aod tto Life. So sur prised are ttoy who, bat a moment ttom aa a storm, ttoy have no aa char of bofle to drop la the storm. “The wirked is driven away in his wicked aero, bat the right eon* hath hope ia his death. (Prov. xiv : 32.) By all which it appears that a Christ «Vtls, ho called np«m them i and to judge sfe in other “Kither make the tree id hia fruit, good;'or el*e * tree corrnpr, hod hi* fruit For the fire ia known by ” That is, if I pt-rfonn a *k', allow that i it proceed* good source. Hut if you to condemn the source as ideruu the work also; ’ tell e that it is a bad work. Be it: do one or tin other. The James also askjs with great He says to the young, “Wilt thou not at this time cry nnto Me 4 My Father, Thou aft Dead, yet Living. The cedar is the most useful when dead. It is the most productive when its place knows it no mofe. There is no timber like it Firm in the grain, and capable of the finest polish, the tooth of no insect will touch, it, and Time himself can hardly destroy it Diffusing a per-* petual fragrance through the cham ber which it oeila, the worm will not corrode the book which it protects, nor the moth corrupt the garment which it guards; all but immortal itself, it transfuses its amaranthine qualities to the objects around it Kvery Christian is useful in his life, but the goodly cedars are the most Lcrmei on 1‘ixachixu. ( arsed combine to urge u* to an immediate are all prrootora that ia ths church j deriaioii t Whv waste the freshness aim at high aad hard things, aod tf iif e *a morning, an4 the dew of Dugfoocing I* 1 ® aa*i®ff health of the beauteous youth, in ways of sill and poor unlearned people, seek ttoir f 0 ty iniquity, and* come at last own booor aod praise. ampthcrewiU) with tbe wreck and remnant of a to please one or two ambitious per ruined, withered life, as an offering *° ,ML . . to the Lord, who bought us with His When I preach, I rink myself deep Mood ? I Mays are worse than use- down. I regard neither doctors nor leas, and the call of God takes no magistrates, of whom are hare in notice of a future opportunity, and this church about forty ? bat I have makes no promise of a future day ao eye to the in altitude .of young of grace. To-day, this very hour, people, children aad servant*, at mercy aod grace and free salvation whom axe more than two thousand, are offered. To-morrow all oppor I preach to thoae, directing myself tonifies of Mossing may be forever to them that have need thereof, past. Now is our seed-time. Let Will not tto rest he^r me f Tbe us improve it, in tbe fear of Gad. door stood* open unto them; ttoy If we* neglect it, the bnrvest-day may to gone. I aae that tto ambi will come, and instead of gathering tion of preachers grows and in tto ripened sheaves into the garner on a—a ; this wiU do the utmost of the Lord, we shall oome before mischief in tto chareh, aad prodace his presence bearing nothing but pm disqtiiecAaaa aod discord i for J leaves. “Nothing bat leaves, . y-. . - •Had memory weaves „ v, 1 No vail to hide the pari; And a* we trace our wfcary war, 1 Ofxwtta* each lost and misspent day, fisdlv we Aod at Isst ?, j Nothing but leaves.” “ft; - f iT olive berries ? or the vine As every tree be traits appro- useful- . Luther is dead, but the Reforma tion lives; Knox,‘Melville and Hen- I d^rsou are dead, but Scotland still i retains a Sabbath aud a Christian ; peasantry, a Bible iu every house, and a school in every parish. Ban yan is dead, but liis bright spirit still ! walks the earth in its “Pilgrim’s Progress.” Baxter is dead, l?nt souls are quickened by tbe “Saint’s Rest.” Cow per is dead, but tbe “golden apples” are still as fresh as when newly gathered in the “silver ban ket” of the Olney Hymns. Eliot is (food, but the missionary eoterprise ia young. Henry Martyn is dead, bat who can count the apostolic spirits who, phmnix-like, have start ed from the funeral pile I Howard is dead, but modern philanthrophy is only commencing its career. Raises is dead, but tbe Sabbath-schools go ou .—Her. F. Hamilton, death, that they are themselves, as it were, “bound toad aod foot.” Standing quietly aod majestically ia their midst, the Saviour alone ia unmoved. To Him tto appearance of tto living ghost is bat an ordi nary occurrence. Aa though to call Tbe nearer we keep to our Shep herd, the less is onr danger from the wolf. The nearer to Dim, the more we grow like Him, and though riches in this world do not always make men rich, the riches of His grnce, and the joys of His communion, we realize to be riches indeed. voice is once non heard rowing, “Loose him and lei him go.* Yea, let him go. Cknet has nothing to aajr to him. He -would know now, ee never before, the solemn reality t naturally— n degenerate a strange. vijie, bringing grapes. I Wh m, therefore, common multitude.