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ONE LORD, ONE FAITH. ONE B APTI8M"—EPHE8IA N8 IVs 5, Augusta R*jf SKRIES, COLUMBIA, S.C., FRIDAY. JI NK 2. 1871 OLD SERIES, VOL. V.-NO Hrripture*. Bat imfbre » PUBLISH«0 ERY FBI driving him lE & MILLER. aCuh, Itricily i» Atirinoe. f’Emonth*.......... 3;.J 1« L- Widow* of Miuidfn, heolorical Students 8.00 ^r^who fail to irmli it airatiou of (hrir itulMMM . ffll be charged per anmdUr 8.00 w names are entered mi the sub buofc. without the firri payment «e. ’ it | S*WSPAP*K DECISIONS. ’ J3C wo at all overlook the phwa mmiguirt to Israel In Um Pilai We haw already indicated what we botinva ...8 20 a m ■••• ...W 15 p ni ix*i»’<ia aopS • •......6 00 paj connection mbm and Au ng with trains Carolina, ami eonrin—making »»*ht trains of mitral Railroad Hut though the Holy Spirit can and doq* one Scripture thus la the souls of an intis He, on the other hand, often allow* as to out the bitter fruit of oar culpable ignorance: and the personal misapplication of the Psalms is always fruitfal of dis honor to Christ, ami sorrow to our- selves. It may he useful to give a single example of this which cornea to mind while we write. An aged Christian whose home and heart had been recently desolated by the death of all his immediate family, was met by a servant of the laird, who gave expression to his sympathy, and sought to otter some words of eonao- lotion, when the aged but nniaatmet- ed mourner interrupted with, “Yea, yea, but the Lord has poured forth upon me Hie hat displeasure, and sent over uic all the mares and Klimtre of kit *r ruth." (Fa. vi: 1, alii: 7.) Rat we have only to tom to Psalm xhr, ta And a stiU mote striking ttralsm nowhere king ta the Plmlme (Psalm rxlv: f, $.) It It nothing bat M’brist and the ('barrh ;• and still others are nothing bat (hrtat and Israel, or, as it is ox- uncalled for, is vrima fade iteutkmal fraud. [ It© tents per quarter, ice* anil communication* to ........6 00 a m 7 50 pm e 45am iecti«m with Up bvse wnnectkm »d Central Rafl- a® points South writers of Rkv. A. R. RUDE, D.D Columbia, & we have la the tkn*k of Psalnm ('briat and His rbarrh, t'hrtat sad Israel, Christ and the Remnant, in one word, Christ and Ilia redeem f Religions “Read yoor Bible daily, aad every day pray for heavenly wisdom. Re Mae to he fused in the company of vile men. Re member that character Is made op of morsel* • every book aad gesture, word and smile and frown constitutes each its distinct any be without hesitation af- that the measure of imjtelli- which any one has of the gs of the Old Testament, will peding to the measure in which Hrheud.s the mind of the Spirit Book of Psalms. Nor do we in statement on onr own lim- ►b^rvation and experience— this one thing, that Jesse* in Hi the Psalms (hr Chief Speaker, and that ilia experience, in all Ilia varied relations, is the chief banlrn of the booh. If Aral He U seen in the Psalms, everything else in them *1)1 fall into its right place. Aad ta the exhibition of His pi are In the Poatam wc at present devote nanmives. First of all, we shall oflrr aon* remarks rm Psalm i, aa com straining us to sew oar lard in the honk. Aad secondly, (In another paper) we shall endeavor to prrarnt a mot eiamplea of the sppliratiou of the (Naims to Christ in the New Testament The Orat Psalm is, we brtirre, a prefer* ialeoded to prepare the saint for ('tirint in the halm. It opens with the announcement of the principle u|mxi which God will bestow abanlnte happiness u|son man: “Blessed is the man that walkcth not in the connsel of the an godly, uur standeth in* the way of ahmeva, nor sit let h in the scat of the acorn era. Bat bit delight fat in the law of the Lord j ami in His law doth He meditate day and sight.* v. 1,3. Here is jwHert hap^sness Aw a perfect man—a man morally and spiritually perfbet. The word “Mem «P means more than that its subject is a happy maa: literally it is, “O the happo****,” or, aa lleory A loa the “hot displeasure" au«l the temp est of “wrnth* Were tall exhausted on His'sinless Lord, when He was made siti for ns. We can easily conceive the deliv erance which r»nw to the soul of the bereaved saint, when he nadavniuad the tilings in the Psalms concerning Christ, with which he had Imen tor-' luring his own soul, and doing dia- honnr to the Father’s love j when he miw that Jesus having tiorne amt exhausted tin' wrath, God mo not vhaeteu llis antis in displeasure or anger, hot only in love. But it is very certain that many carry the same dark thoughts all their days, to whom no one comes with deliver ance from the darkness, and who conaeqnently travel all tlieir journey through with the terrible harden of wrath in theiT bosoms, wrap|wd up in false applications of the Psalms to tbindrn> That the Holy Bpirit, iu David and the other writers of the Psalms, made their circumstances the occa sions of writing them, aad in them gave expression to thwr feelings, there can be no donbt: indeed, this is expressly Bunonmid in many of the inspired ^titles. lint the de scription of circumstances, and the thoughts and feeding* expressed, vary often go far beyond the occasions of writing, and the ex|wrieuce of the writers. The fact in, that the wri ters of, the Psalm* are numbered among those who “prophesied of the grace that should come ante as, who searched wldrt or what manner of time tin* Spirit of Christ which was in tlicm did signify, when it testiAed beforehand the suffering* of Christ and the glory that should follow ; unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us they dal min ister the things, which are mm re ported unto us by them that have preached the Gospel unto ms with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.* (2 Pet. i: 10-12.) Thus the ap|>rebension of Christ in the Psalms is the very first thing of imjioitance in tbeir study. Till this is reached there can be no intelligent use of them. And we trust that it has been already more than sug gested that there can be no jast self-application of the language of the Psalms, a util they are recognised as only ours by virtue of that one- ness with Him, iuto which we are brought by the power of the Holy Ghost, and by means of the goapel of grace, which they anticipated when they testified beforehand His goffering*, opd the consequent glo ries. These things recognised, the .saint in Christ will be prepared to distinguish between those things in the Psalms which could only belong to Him—as, for example, the assump tion of life and acceptance,, on the ground of personal righteousness, and the wrath which He bore aicne—and those which, »u His lavish love to His redeemed, He most share with them—His life, His standing in righteousness, His Father’s love \ the bliss, the glory, the crown, the throure—yen, all the reward of what He did and endured alone. W« propose, further, to establish what has been said by reference to the Psalms themselves, aa cotuimred . 1 57pm 4 00pm • 30 pm 1)119 with Train* full points North *g confirmation—but we fouse atemeot on the place win* h redout portion of Scripture es in the New Testa me® t. lie first place, our Messed Lord ly assigns pre-eminence to the L He said to His disciple*, s are the words which I spake on, while I was yet with you, ill things must be frlfilkd, we written iu the law of , and in the prophet*, and in mhos concerning me.” Luke 44. That the Lord should et by itself “the Psalms,” as three leading divisions of the lestamient Scriptures, wifi be ( indicate forcibly tbeir iip|ior- especially wkeu it is consider t, while these are themselves r, or rather wholly prophetical, ngles them out from “the ..... 8 20am It 15 am IX 58 p m 8 45pm 8 »pm * with Trains Railroads for * in Florida, ►»»cry, Mohik. In* route coin* tire (If) different arrtbra. *AtM he shall hr like a ire* planted by ihr rivers of waier, that Iwiwgeth Mil bis frail in bts wsms ; his leaf also shall ant wither: igjIt, 8o?t. 1 Freight and prr * v. X liens indent, is the “Tree of IJAr. “the liras True,* (tba aontraat a ‘♦the dry * Lakr xtM: 31.) Hi whoa death nwW not dent ray ; “the very cnotraot of the horrea fig tree with reed by tbr carer.” Here Hi the perennial FruitBearer, fruoi whom all the “trees of righXroasacss” And derive tbeir life, and then their fruits. (John xH: 34; xvi 4k) Of Him alone ran it hr said absolutely, “And OTICET RY GOODS! ntina tv F20 «»d L Those who do it, lose their tune and labor in coming to ebazeh—pity to do so much foe nothing. If sleep is their otyect, they can get that without so muck trouble. _ 2. They exert a bad iifineuoe on others. Sleeping in meeting is aon- tngioas. Where one sleeps, many learn how, and soon catch the disor der. Thus some pews, or ooroora of the church, might appropriately be called the sleepy pews, or the sleepy am of Ood Hi llim * W© share all llis Miss; but forever and forever, His amrthinms to ott mar song. It is ia such s|qw*hrnsion of Christ ia tbr Pnalms, aad of our rrlstioo* to Him as the** exhibited, that we derive from them aid iu grasping the groat sod birsard truth of our death in llim, and of onr hidden life with Him, in God; and it Is thus that wr shall And ia the Psalms ‘the nounshsMHit of this newness of life, that In It we may walk aa He walk ed. Ife passed through this pollnt ing world “uudeAkd iu Uto way.” fur llis path was directed by “the law of the Lord,” In which fie “wed listed tiny and night* To have the heart rooting hi Him, as “onr right eoasneos and our strength*—“the strength of our Hfr*—and to cherish Hit word, is that abiding In Him, and He ia am, of which He spoke to us when He said, “He that abideth in mo and 1 in him, the some bring oth forth much fruit* “Kvery bud of this irae grows into u grain.* For this ia He, of the frwM of whose olirdtoner unto death H is ■ah!, “He shall prolong his days, and the please it of the lawd shall prosper ia Uia hand.” (Isaiah H«i: 10.) meet tlie want* ers st >v distaneu IBBAtr urt V1 J U,V ,V A tblfl ol >amcstic Manu al! times to , than any hoo* jhe largest imd ictnrer* m toe V and imporus* ict to Baltimore, i promptly «oP* of the London and hearts that God's plan is the result of uiAuite wisdom; but more thou that, it is baokod by iu Suite rowul But there it stemk out, written on the very ly then it becomes us to a foil knowledge of the tt ed in a book to wMct pint has given such pi May He guide and oof offer a few remarks y U of this knowledge iu habit. The oftener one permits him- self to sleep in time of public wor ship, the more Is he disposed to deep. So that this habit, like every other bad one, strengthens by indul gence. 4. It disheartens the minister. Af ter he has labored bard daring the week to prepare to give to each of his hearers a portion in doe season, to sec them have so little appetite for the food which he has made ready as to fall asleep while he is dispens- ing it to them, is truly discouraging. He is ready to ask, “What, can ye not watch one hour in a whole week 1 9o short a time to be together to worship God and prepare far heaven, and that abort time be slept aw^y! 5. Sleepers disturb the devotiooe of others. This they do by their indecorous appearance, or by their load breathing. A. Tfcqy give others a bud impres sion respecting their religious char acter. 7. They endanger their souls by insulting God, for be will not be mocked., . j. Remark: No sleeping In eternity, and all wbo are going there should be watohfbl here. of diviue provj- TJLAT HOSOKKTH Ms I mu. sosoal Lost week, in reading the record of a precious revival Hi the church at Moutville, New Jersey, of forty persona being converted and uniting with the ohurvh, this incident came to mind. The pastor in that church was the (mstor in New York whose counsel led that workman to obe- Uoiy Spirit, ia Jeremiah, am name Ago res, sad nearly the ■ought by viewing them as gooerally, and of course in u modified souse, characteristic of any true Christian. But this will seuroely satisfy the individual conscience mm to this Psalm. The feet that Joshua was enjoined, to word* very similar to those now under consideration, to meditate cooatantiy in the law, and No be guided by its counsels, baa been add need. */v for ens able and w TtatoFiiTtw than if ws g*** •e&2£*§ goods,'from the by the iosh n*U h.esalk Bvrxxt Hie -Block in our Fl&W&t' f vtesfo 9—tf (wactical and jiersoiial a so of Wm* will, in tlie case of «j\ery ) depend On the idea e«ter- i* R fo their scope and design j m idea will he mtcording to belitnon reached, or ira- [• on the mind, as to the N hi each Psalm. BeraJa* in XBaeh’s reading gf Isaiali, h*g tarns upon the answer to “Of whom sjieakcth ►Fhet this f Of himself, or of ^her man V> Acts viii; 34. Ih* true answer will, we are i|i l»h found to be tho same: Bat God demands nothing less than this of nay: and Joshua’s |>erfo« t bappineas, Uke that of every other mint, most have been wrecked, hod it depended on km per fect obedienoe. His most serious failure, indeed, so Car os there ia record, was that, iu commou with the prinees of Israel, to the sis I ter Of the Gibeooitea, he “naked not counsel of the Lord.* (Josh, lx.) Bat there is One who appears In the Psalm*, who ia “holy, and harm leas, and uadefiled, and aeporaU from sinners f who ran claim all Messing on the ground of His own perfect righteonanesa. He can aay, “The Lord rewarded me according GOD in Ef^pj nt, fbe other on j the nnwritig L themenio^j* ir ?°4 a11 Xf- “It** itiafection thaj a Tfxa^ dnrM ntiSl induce- IpF.ED k L’0*» We replied—that it was evident that (he dark ante-chamber into which be had been (breed by Provi dence, which seeaaed to be the tomb of all hie pleas aad his bapos, was the very place where Gad wanted to bring him. It was the very place them service. The name “aaint* in tide world is often a term of reproach. Q, what a different meaning does that word convey to the mind of Him “who sesth not as man seeth, but who looketh upon the heart,* and to the mind of intelligent heaven. In exhibiting the fm answer, however. would jBiven, concerning the Psalms, BMjority of ebristiaus. They them only the voice of Davhl, hther writers; and their oi tier writers; and their ase Kalins depends open how far ^ their language appro|>n.w< H ow, » present rirenmttanccs ^erience. This we cau not the clean nees of my hands hath he recompensed me. For 1 have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all His judgments wore before me, and / did os4 put away Hie statutes from me.” (Psalm xviii: 35-3^) This and similar language often staggers the Christian wbo ia aeskiog to aettfr ® the least iutelligeiit, and of this precicuH {Kn tiou - It is, indeed, tfue that gg it fit*JS Spirit does not refuse to *hd snstaiu the -<>al8 of ***u<se of their lack of Intel- ^ because they occupy lower