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ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM"—EPHESIA N8 IV
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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.