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t * c Rkv. A RkV.*4 Js “tr Sr l«ait Vi4fpi. j T ‘J* TJE K«‘iuitt n Office I)t if IMMwit* send TKK. >ap<ta an exfci wived, required tin moor ticieuL All c< 8«riWrs, i HIV old Not on , but .also of each lIAJM^ApS. ^7 ".IS! at, July 14, 1871 Editors : it RUDE, D.D., Colnml*[*, 8. C. MILLER, A.M., fhaun unity; in non esi Attials ffi alCthing*, char SPECIAL NOTICKS. must l*o made nk Chocks, or "these aui not b« in a RkojstkRk, item are olil when required. nt to subscribes tier to diseontiiii amwip'K art' Hit* lantil fas re nt, an th< arrearages f. Merely returning a paper by mail, is pot suf- . • ij. 4 tmnications relating o snb- ImM Rive tlioir nanij** very iuiitt carefully imliciiu which <1 \ liich are new sul*» dribers. ild* the name of the pos , | office, so that of tlie cofhity an 1 State nbse ilier is necessary, i n order that the ' rbpe • ontnos may be p inaptly and iwcu at el} nuule. .[■" Mania M a m obituary notic •*, and other matter intended for pub icution, should b« imtleii separately, and not in business iltteis, to receive prop*4r atten tion. mi! if ' J. Ij “ "" ■,?•*- r J qt a scrape of a pe^ about Newberiy: College Commemiomciit, except t ijis : “Had a tine time. jjBro. is i rjepariug (! 1!) to give you a full ao -quii: of all the proceedings.” Oh, and lave we not waited impa tiently, i l d gone to the P. O. twice every d i; — here is a sprite there who sot fa times tosses both letters and pa {Mis about most provpkingly —but al n Main ; nothing about the Common ci iiHt ut. We are slow here, yet imaj me ourselves to be F. F. F.’s —first, f )i em ast, aiul fast. ,j . **> day; a the shy way tli an app hard as beautifi made ji Keller, or tli pleasant to be rememlx i‘ oil by trie (ids and highly gratifying to have Mutual proof of their kindly regards- |]W< made a visit the other le jirl sidled up to ns in harming and inimitable litjtle ones have, and put in Our hand. It was as reck, but to us it looked her heart and her love Last May, Mrs. I)r. Matthew’s, most uuex- a 9 i "M'S * *'*i us a large basket of strawberHks. We never were sole propriety,of so many and such de licious lg»i rje» before ; this inoruing Capt. Nit; ofnan, of Lexingtou, sent ns a basket of exhibition jieacbes, amt to-myro v. evening—stop—it is coining.Wo eat, aud are both grateful: id lopefbl. larkable Fact r . While,JiA ill huge: number of the colleges r t lul i emiunries of other de- nominatu (js (ierniAn is made an ob ligatory g li id}, there are yet Luther an iustitutj mk iu which it is either ignored, or ljut very slovenly and indifferent] r, aught. All Lutheran ministers o igfct at least to be ablo to read f (■ er nan uuderstandingly, and to u| j »j 3erman liturgy accept ably.. ■ A leti us that D the bi to his discussion, factory to Would memory us with himself partj v tor, we literatim, ment upoi Dr. 5eies’ Explanation. irejm Salem, Va, informs Sciss’ “statement before » yiestorday, in reference iU the Free Conference tc., was perfectly satis- who were.present/’ jof the brethren whose i^op be depended on favor 'hw\«tatement f If Dr. Seiss furnish us with “Ai# hu j/or the Lutheran Vi»i- ]«iblish it verbatim et eave to others to com- We J wi Ai i ? Incident. ^efnee passing along a wheu we were stoppeil emin, who asked : “How iCivie the body and the st) in the Communion V wered we. “Then I am ” said a learned Doc “Can’t help it, n ; we went on our way pondering |and wouderiug. The fact presence of the body and with and under elements (?an not be y, those who reject 'the street in by a ge s do we blood of C “Orally* not a Lu tor of Divinity remarked, am A Query. % •' y 'MH - iM A correspondent from Bulem, Ro- anoko rounty, Va., writes: “1 know THE .LUTHERAN VISITOR. COLUMBIA. & C.* LULY 14. 1871. i That the thanks uf.the Board oi Trustees be tendered 11^. or 1# lined W. II. mml Mrs. C. T. Trajl*, for 1 Vo^tLiuk of the doaation of a bilf acre lot, ad as well as you do, that your paper joining the College grounds, and that does not command the reajiect of the j we pledge ourselves to comply faith* church.” We do not know it; we f W Hy with the comlifiioas required of know that we do not please all—If the donors. It was wo did, and could, we would be ^csofiW, That the Board set the greater than the all-wise Is>rd, our example in the giving of bonds for God. Men murmur against Ilim, aud find fault with his dispensa tions. Nor have we tried to please the ftttnre endowment of the institu tion. Upon the adoption of the abo\e, all. We are well aware that many $&&) were subscribed. —but uot a majority—find fault be- . President HsielUer was sp|MHitted cause we di\ uot fall down and wor-1 a committee to repair the College ship the new image that has been | building, for which porpuae about set up. .We are uot a ChiKast. We #oOO were raised during Commence kuow that we are blamed because ment week. we will uot blow hot and eohl with The eommissiooers of schools fur the same breath ; and we know that Oconee <*ouuty pro|msed to the Board we are not forgiven, because we to appropriate a portion of the School would not sell out to a certain i»arty. Funds to the Preparatory Depart- When we die editorially, we will die | incut of College. The pro|s*sita»u like Ca?sar. Brutus is ready. , But wiis atvepted. is it true that our i>aper—the Visitor j —does not command the respect of the church! Speak out, brethren. .. , — — - We know what we ought to do then, I p ot u.. L«thr«wa Ym|m aud what we will do. We feel, how- German Settlement, W. Va. ever, encouragiHl to go on—our nub j J. HAWKINS, tier. Hoard «*/ Trtutcn. u riptioH litt is increasing rapidly, and JLARGKU TUAN IT KVBU WAS!! The Conservative Reformation. Dr. Kninth’s work has one blem Her. Ur. A: H. Hndr—I bar Jim t If yen were to form your rooclMknu from the communications written by oar “Mountain Pastors” for the Vis itor, yon might suppose they are all dead. But they are not all dead. ish. Too much prominence is given j And I will venture to any, that those to a section of the American Lm <*f them who are alive, are aiarr theran Church. By selecting the j alire than all the real of the atna basis of the Constitution of the terial world. 1 mcaa, they are aiore General Conned in preference to all j busily engaged at hard work, others, the Doctor impliedly affirms | And this account* tor the fart that that the Council is the only Lutheran ! some of them, at le churchly organization in America. We regret this; it gives this other wise admirable work a partisan char acter; it will make it objectionable to a large majority of American Lutherans, aud will cause it to be an|*ereeded some day by a work Into sectional, and breathing leas of a party spirit. It does not in the least, however, diminish onr appre ciation of the book. The proi>cr place I# assigned the Bilde; the unaltered Augsburg Confession is affirmed to be the Creed of the Lutheran Chnreh; and no undue authority is claimed for the other symbols. We stated that if we found auything objectionable we would point it out. We do thin, not in a fault finding, but in a truth loving spirit. The Cbnneil will |mias away, the Lutheran Church will! abide. I)r. Kranth’s hook is written for the Church, not in the interest of the Council, aud therefore any advocacy of or preference given to that which is only sectional and temporary, is oat of place in snch a work. Mt, do not write more frequently for the Visitor.— They all, ao Air aa I am acquainted, like the Vfaritor, and desire its pens parity, amt are doing all they ran to ittcreaae its circulation. They coo aider it i»dis|iensablv necessary Air the welfare of the church in the loqhlity in which they are laboring. They know that if they could ptwee it in the hands of nil their people, and they would read those excrtlont articles which you publish in relation to the important duties of |m*tor ami people, they would acquire more correct view* of this matter, and would be incited to a more fhithfnl discharge of their obligations. Mem ber* of the church would berewne better chnstiaus—loving God and their own church more—ami the re suit would be, the people would mane up to the **belji of the Lmt against the mighty”—there would lie |4«eity of Aarons ami llura to hold up the weary harnls of the minister, there would church and istry. karate— as i niiTst* In preacher is sometimes not allowed to kfco* what be Ium to 4r|*e«id on until he gets it But please rxouse me. I will st«|i. 1 diil not intend to write half as J. II. 0. head «it Off, f offer. What do ! U it uot hard f 1 Ifkr in t I apprelMd tliat this is tree, not only of some of onr “mountain IMstors,” I Nit also of many others In other plane*. Ever) faithful embus s*dor of the Gosjiel must “endure a good soldier of Jesus addkino, however, to the trials which are every where mm ! much when I begun, mow to the minisierisl office, there ! sre others pemliar to our mountain ous region. K.\|insure to the seven tie* of the elimato, during the long winter season, ami the *|ieaial lack o( pro)*er view* in regard to the re ciprocal duties of pastor ami people, and in reference to general U-aeeo leooe, are the pecuUae difficultie* with which the “mountain psator” has to cuutend. There is no fan in riding a wIm4* day, « eveu a half, against the driving wind and drifting onus. Am! then, there ia no fun in Iteing censured fur not reaching the spot in good time, when both heaven aud earth hava conspired together, thus to blockade • ^he road*. It will wot do Aw the clerical mountaineer to (ail to go to hu appoint tueula ou aoxiuwt of foul weather. For if he does an aan, it will tm srtasd upon aa a preeudeut, and the result will be either small eougregsUows or imm> at all amwoliaieu. atsl the imudnclkNi of a great many “fair weather chrla Uaaa.” But I must do our mountain peufde the justice to say that this s|mrics of chnatiaaa is out ao uiimer ous in this region as they are where they have their churches near (bur doors, and where they ran -go to church upou |mvememt walks. We have, as a certam giKNl brether <mce remarked, when on a viut the winter season, “a great For the Lutheran Visitor. “In him that thinketh hr «4aadrth. lake bred, fret be talk”-* Cm. t: xiL Wa are not justifiable in eslling into question the moUvea pf any man, or number of mru, whose cou duct may be reprehensible, aud whoae plans may have resulted in dtaaater. The motive of David in numbering the pqpple ami thereby UM'umug the dia|4eaanre of God, would have remained a matter of mere cutOecLuar, even to this day, but for the fact that luspirattuu set lieu the question by informing us that pride was his ruling motive. Paul strongly oomlemmfthe conduct liturgy, and withheld the Augsburg of Maul of Tamus, in the wretched ooofcssiou, by refushig it an English murder of pour Stephen, but as J drew aud general cipculatioo. Thus straugly insists u|mni the |mrity of an Kngliah minister said of his Ger- his moLies—/ pertly thought with man neighbor, whose church stood sjf«^, trnt I ought to do many thiagt just over the street from his own, contrary ta the name of Jeam* •»/ JFar arHh. . In tostury we find some prominent cliaractera, whose motives will rematu masked until the great Day of Aonwuti Oliver i'romwell is an example. The world must ever “that he catrcbiMcd aud confirmed, aud there is an cud.’ He said that bia German neighlsir treated bis flock, uot as an etpericawd aliep- herd douM, but a* an old Dutch farmer does f that is^ “he catches his acknowledge that he was a great lambs, slits their ears, and then lets mau; bat the wurid will ever be di them run, to produce tcool for hia be ' * vidrd in opituou as to whether w aa n great good man or a great bai man History also furuishea ntn ce w ho •lo lued their motn es, and dem here in ousUmtrd the truth of the drdara deal of tion hi their live* aud conduct, thu« weal her” iu this country. 1 hi moat preveutiug any difirremor of opinion of the riabhaih days daring war Are as to the purity of those motives, months of winter the storm king is Martin I at (her is prtltaps the moat raging, fi* that, if we were to rrgu ] |»n»mtaeut example d this chum. It .* lair our religion here by the that ammeter or barometer, we would hai e a long spiritual fast ami fam ior. And I have no doubt that the spiritual life of many wouhl frreae out, or “Aasie out,” some way iv other, during the winter. You will nwtcJttdr, thui^ that it takes a great deal of gremung, rub tong aud Mowing to k«wp the mm- efaiumry of the church m this locality to luotmu during the jruar. gdnd i'uusr<|oetttly ywu may tutor the truth of what I have saw!—that the “menu | lam pastor” has a Urge flwhl of hard lists*. There is nut more than **or be a more efficient l*«mcbcr m Umuly wham* coustitn more egtowet mm ’ tom «^t»hl tmdare It- Hut as the of our muwntsiw peu|dr are * pn< M*i* ui Hh sight «»t t«<sl hu has made a man suito would appear that the idea of old .Mourns was icrricd out iu Luther, I emaigh to freear Mill- is, the blood ot the con acceu oral eat Form Cbnfotd.-—“The of the b<* y and blood of not only i piritqally by faith, also oral}^ r cir with the lips, yet not in the gros ph sical sense in wh(ich the people of ( apernaum received it in John vi: 52-59, but in a super natural an< venly manner.*’ Paul.—’he jup of blessing which we bless, is it u>t the commuuiou of of Chris^f The bread rea c, is it not the com- e body of ChrisM” 1 Lange’s Coinrneuta- the bl which m union Cor. x: ry.) ., i Paul.-Jf clrinketh drinketh discerain xi :&). 4 Christ is my bl Mark xiv j ^ and and lie t drthi m ition to himself, not si lord’s body” 1 Cor. that euteth inwirthily, eateth For the I^nthernn Vlnilnv. Abstract of Proceedings of Board of Trustee* of He wherry College. The Board met at WsUItalia on the 27th June, thirteen members present. The President pro tern submitted his annual report, which showed a more prosperous state of things in College than formerly. Eighty seven students were in attendance last ses sion. The examination was very satisfactory, and the conduct of the students good. The number of one hundred aud fifty subscribers had been secured on the #20 plan—two thousand seven hniulred and eighty dollars had been paid the professors, and one hundred and fifteen dollars {mid on back salaries. A vote of thanks was tendered the professors aud students of the junior .glass, ior extra lalior jterfonned in College during the absence of Prof. Smeltzer. Rev. Mr. Scherinbeck, the German pastor at Walhalla, was elected Pro fessor of German Language and Lit erature, aud Mr. S. 8. Khan Assist ant Teacher in Pre{>aratory De- partment, and the situations were accepted. A plan of scholarships was adopt ed, by which five years tuition will be given for five consecutive .years, (•or #100—the whole amount to be paid before the student enters the institution. It was Resolved, That the clergy aud oth ers interested in the welfare of the College, lie requested to solicit liomls to be given, bearing interest at seven per cent., the interest only to be paid annually for five years, after which time the interest aud one-tenth of the principal to be paid annually, and if death ensue, the bonds become null and void. * Captain G. 8. Hacker, of Charles ton, was elected Financial Treasurer of the Board, to whom the Treasurer of College is to pay over all surplus funds of College for investment. Bills for advertising iu Lutheran Visitor and K&ncce Courier were or dered to be paid. Prof. J. P. 8meltzer resigned his But, these “Mountain l*uNtonT have a hard time of it. They hare a mii*eralNMMlaucw of work and small W«* tor every |to* where there are pay. Their fields are an large and |*e«»#to who weed the Guwjmi of ml vs their apitoiatmeato so iiumcma*. tkm. Ami 1 tuitteie, to the prow that if they would give the pwstorwl drum at God, that the right man is attention which the rhurrh ought to generally called to labor in the right have, they wouhl have no time to ptore. 1 slao briieva give to their families—no time to spend in their stmliea, in the pre paration of sertaou* ; but, like Gen. Pope, they would have their “head quarters in the saddle.” And then no iloubt their tutoress, too, would be God calls a minister to labor, he has given the ptwpte the mean* to sup port him. kiwi this mruas is fra- tqwetilly withheld, and apt«n*prialad to other poqioaca. ami the man if bow God has aaJled to driven awav like that of Gen. Pope. In addition fnmi hi* appmpnwtr field of tohor. to all this work in the |>alpit and If !•«#• could only he made In <Kit of the pulpit, thesr mountain feel the truth of the jiivioe prerepl: for hr asMMal to wear a window iu bts breast, and all the world could read his heart. Simple declaration, however, will not always solve the «|uesta*i of man's sincerity . There is |«ri lia|s* as tutich truth as aamutiu in thr reuiaik of Talk*}rand, that eras is rented tm conceal let us llterrAwe art U|nsi the wrllktHiwn legal maxim, and regard every Issty’s anNlves pure, until proven to Is* ptherwtoe by ittref ntable tiwtimooy. HupjMWMiig, then, that sit nun sre Hnoeat in tbetr in tent sms, ami ton cere In their motives, we hare the •ad trnth shadowed Awlh in the text that man may be sincerely and boti rwtly in error. Nor to this a matter of small importon***—f<* man be lie res the truth that he mat be a*r«f, sod be tsdirees a He that he may be damned. We are refrrml “to the lawr aui to the testimony” | truth, hot mf#!** tnlerpretattons dif fer ii|ski the simplest declarations of Srri|Kore. When our Saviour told the Maddncec*. “ye ilo err. not know lug the Scriptures,” he did not mean that they were nnfamiltar with the writings of Moses and the lyopbrts, lmt that they erred in their inter pretatkm. Hut I shtol ramble no farther, pastors have generally, during a |mrt f ‘‘Man shall not lire 'Is* liread only, My object to to point out a few |*rom of tbeir time, toenguge in some arm- Amt also by overy wwnl that proceed Inent Umlmarks In the historical lar employ ment, to siqiplement their dk out of the mouth of God,” ami |tothway of our Chmvh in this conn scant salaries. And iuiloing this, they wonhl art mwictbngty, ami make try. A boot fbe time that you ami I, must necessarily heeome secularized, their arrange menu to pay him who Mr Editor, in the expressive allvtcrn and to some extent unfitted for the ; |wcaches the word to them, as |>n*aptJy and -«dn|Ustel> as they pay the merehant. sod the uiillrr, ami the Idarksmith. the ehureh. the rauar of |tod, and the salvation of the workl, would not move ao slowly fathers, who brought the Cburrh on aa they do. MauV jioofde regard the suptsirt of a minister a mere gratuity—something which they are antler no obligations to ilo, and which they ran neglect to do without “the Holy .Scripture*, the Divinity dislionetoy. They will pay every of Christ and the unaltered A ugs other debt first—then, if they have Inirg Coofessioti,” as maybe seen in any thing left, they will give it to all the uariy constitution* of all our the minister as an art of charity* ofal churches. They thought surely Ami if they sultscnbe to the siqqioft that they stood, amt stood firmly, welled and discouraged, could preach „ of a mintoter, it to all the same. If being thus fiMtmleil. They intro- the gos|*el with no (tower. It to true in the uonrne of human events, they dnoed the deep-toned organ of Their that under proper circumstances the pay it, the preacher ought to be native land, joined reverently in tlie gospel preached is tbs wisdom of thankful; ami if they never pay it, use of the liturgy nod snug, with God, and the power of God unto he lias no right to complain. And eheerfal Henris, the ticantifiil and salvation, bat I stuqiect that where in tlie snm total of the anbarriptiona amtl stirring hymns of their fathers, people expect their pastor to mini* for fi preacher* meager salary, there They saw English churchy*, of oilier ter unto them iu holy things without are frequently a oouahterable mint- deomwinatSHis. snnmd thrift but a sufficient compensation to afford her of such subscri|ittona which are never attempted to intertere with a comfortable living, they are legs never |*wid. Yet the minister has, them. Finsilly, however, they saw qualified to be benefitted by the in agpie knalitiea, to depeml iqsai their own children, having become such subscription papers for his (my sngticiaed. unite with those churelies. Slid the siqqiovt of hto family. If This wss, to them, s deetsration of they are not all paid, the loss mnst war, and they determined to defend Im liis, and nobody wviiim to doubt themselves ami tiieir cbihlren. They God helps those who do all they the honesty of such treatmeiit, or to made their attack ii|Hm the Engbah cau to help Uiemselves. But strauge lie so much concerned sliout it ms to language and English unsges. They to say, some people expect their inquire whether the preacher ram ileterminerl to inwiquer by making staml it or not. “Mink or swim, live C otln-1 |4MN wi «*«», kith hi* f protruding, be i md k«M’ifcnitcd t«Nn* that old Stentor might have envied : . ,, M My ili'-me thnmtrh Shall glory, ol.otri, This hwl miniaterial work. They are thus «le- priveil of the necessary time to pre pare for the pulpit, ami consequently their efforts must be very meager. With the consciousness of this fact painfully pressing ai*on his mind, and an anxiety about the iteceasane* of life for his family weighing like a crushing incubus upon his apiriU, how can he go into the pulpit other wise than with a heavy heart ? And how can it be otherwise, than that the labors <yf such unfort mate preachers must be greatly crippled t An angel from heaven, thus train witiMffit dishonesty. And ! their liturgy, their by i Just and buiflheaa- sctom into Kngitoh.i In portions of transaction* between man I’enasy Ivania they still cling to Ger am] mao, excel* in some eases, in man preaching and German schools, relation to pastor and |ieo)»le. The with a tenacity worfhy of their atur dy ancestors. About the time in which we were bofn, it was deter mined by men, w hot* memory we have been taught to revere, to introduce English preaching. This occasioned a fearful strife of words aud some timeu even of blows. In localities where English was positively and sometimes constitutionally forbidden, new church baildiugs were erected, in near proximity, fbr the jmrpoee of English services. A* in Htate, ao in Church, the English language baa prevailed. But this English j*ortion of tlie ehureh, finding so much opposition from the German jKirtion, took high er grounds Utau they would other- wise have done. They ran to the opposite extreme. They denounced their German (at hers, aud vindicated their time honored usages. They refused to translate and use their volition, lie to obliged to use “aeir measure*.* Here his jodg*^ and honesty are, appealed to, i« ^ matter, anddgnored in another, by universal consent, admitted to itial. This looks ugly f ^ ■■ H non looks arbitrary, it looks [>opish. bemeftt." In their zeal to oppose everything German, they sometimes out methodised the Methodist*. In the earlier dais of tyeXhodtsat, it is said, a minister of that persuasion once beltl a protracted meeting in Miasia*tp|N, and labored both bodily and mentally for a number of days, without any appureijjt result Final ly, he scour one evening sod said, “Brethren, this Meeting is cold i—I! Sister I*er- kins, give us s real, old faahioned, Methodist shout” Sister Perkins re*|MMidod immediately, and like Da vid Isdon* the Ark, hbe engaged in the mailer rill nil jher might. The result was tlie usual amount of grouas. *liout» and iwoona, furnish iug the gmsl mintoujr with tlie most rouvinring pmof* that a certain ugly locality that he had just named, « w in no dauger ot liyiug frozen over just 11*4-1*. Of ciNtrae the Mctb*Hliata tbrniMrlvra wouhl *•>( now justify such extravagancies^ But some ofj our English fathers, in thexr oppoai tion to tin* Germs*, equalled eveu this. For instancr. a certain *me of them mice threw liimself u|mhi bis hark, in tlie altar, aorrmiitdeil by a uest railing, lie drew lus feet up to hto lwsly, I snp|tuse. Aw ui*slitalH*u. Tliet* by s sodden kick. a<iimt|iniiicd by a tremendous gman, be straight for the ‘*«e leg, two or more kfarkeil with the tike n-stilt. Then, extremities thus »*e*l hi* liainls and scattered some iters. Tlien he AmW with a ftedal dap- in a gospel, and leas prepared to receive the blessing* of God u(kni their sanctuary privileges, than their craui|HHl pastor is to preach to them. Ll ready we may tat foreshadow For in- ., they allow a member of a preacher to go forth into the con flict of the church with Ute world, and fight the battles of the Lord or die, survive or f>eri*b," he must of America. They ftirbmle the use look out for liimself. * If a dny-lslior of English in their eiinrHies, iu their his honesty to act, as to whether tlie German the prominent language such society is in sic ty is my body” “This he New Testament.” position as President pro tem of Col- alone, and without adequate Rations, er, or a mechanic of any #tnd to em whooto, mul even in tiler fiiiniliea. lege. Hto resignation was accepted. They oafpect him to fierform the *lu- pln.ved tu <lo a piei-e of Woric, there Tliey settle*! tkivn iqMtn victory, and whereupon lie was uuaniinously and ties of general,"colouel, captain, and must always t* a responsible jau-ty fosterwl all their strong, native prej* by a rising vpte elected President of private soldier, all in one person, to secure the worfcmullri* pay, mhen udices. Here they mode tbair gvuod Newberry College. Ajote of thanks And then, if he doe* not succeed it is due. A definite amount is fixed mistake. Even to this day, you can was also tendered him for the energy and make w onderful conqnests for upon before hand, and u definite aud not nuivince their dearoiidsnta that aud zeal which crowned bis agency the ehureh aud for GuU, they eriti- regular contract to made between an easy conquest lay within tlmir with success. It was vise and abuse him, and say that the two parties, from which neilher grasp, by translating their symbols. '.V wny piety ot detrimen tal to his personal piety or the good of ih«* church. Butins to whether he ahall hold a meeting of a week jdft.ved to *k> s pietv of #ort(, then- Tliey settlctl down upon victory, and ; or more durntinu, Or preach hII night, »k Paul did at Treks, or nae any means iu addition to! the routine of catochisntioiif confirmation and regu- Isr Subbath service, lie hiu» positive ly no choice. By a resolution of the same body, passed iu solemn cou tlie term “anc measuresthey mean nothing else than what differni from tlie usage* of our (Ws„ ^ them, and was autiaeqaeuUy *md to our Kngtiah fathers. Here pray* meetings go by the board, « ^ plainly shown in their syaodi^ meetings, for no boor for spedal am social prayer to set apart, as U the custom in other sy nodical bods* These good brethren shoQld rruitti. ber that the Holy Spirit waapoo^ out ufion the 120 whilst in s prayer meeting, and that Peter was led aw of prison by an angel in answer te the prayers of a very late pr^r meeting held at the house of Mark. If our German fathers & vioted from apostolical usages, thei must not be followed ; and if (English fathers restored say q* afNMtolical usages, that had hem neglected, tliey must be followed: uot because they are new Iaitherx* mat because they are old spostoiic. | It strikes me that the true Iatfer- au Church to one heartily recognizing the symbols of the church, cheer fully liturgical in its worship, fan*, iug all measures, arte or aU, sq inconsistent with that deeeacy ad order insisted uj*on in the Bible, ssd I withal promotive of revivals ad general spirituality among its aw«. bership. It strikes me, farther, that our General Synod in the 8owth filU this definition. LPTHKKANUA sll eternit} OA-UWIT be." tin* th*s rv*l effect, ami to thi- eliurch were n-jiorted. But the <q«|iositioii to the Germans consisted not alone iu a different practice, but the sym- ImiIs «»f the church wen* ridiculed, thm *»f my pw*l friend. “Valley able,” i *»»d every obstacle wss thrown in “fir*! realize*! the jHtngvnry *nd (be way of their circulation, and potency of |dn* and physir,” the finally by the .4*art'*on* Recension Lutheran t'harrb was, with few ex- ! “i» attempt was made to repudiate ce|*tH*ti*, all German. Onr gnoil old tin- laiUierau doctriut**, and thus un- I<mmh* the okl ship from her moor into thi* *iNintry, together with ings, mid h*t ber clrtiA on the wild chests fnll of theologies! and |*r»* ti | «•# of fwiiatM-ism. Not a six months rnl books, organize*! congregations has yet passed sinco the eilitors of ami planted tlwm squarely u|m>ii the Lutheran Observer (IicuhhI an a|M»U»gy to their resilers necessary, tor publishing in it* column* the Unaltered Augsburg Confession. The more conservative |s>rtioti of tin- ehureh eluug to t|ie symUtls ami erected the old standard. This, so far, was all right, bud unfortunately they go too far in*an opposite direc tion. Their zeal is kpent in finding oat wlist Luther sml the bribers in tlie Reformation said. There to dan ger of n rej**titK»n of the old )iopiah error, to resort to iqiinton* outside the Scriptures, for the proof and siip|s>rt of doctrine. This im;>airs independence of tlmtiglft and Bibli cal interpretation, see inconsistencies tl alarming conseqi stance, by resolnti( minister to Us-omc rt secret society, say a Mason, and trust to his tudgmenfc to decide, and For the Lntberaa V Thaw Shalt Hot Steal Children sre taught this i from their earliest comprehetUMa— so soon as they can associate-its teaching with the apples and pttn and melons hi farmer A.’s enetosam. From this first application they si vance, by gradation, to everything held iu itosscssioti by another. 7Vj soon learn “It is a sin To steal s pin. * . , . . It is s greater, To steal s tatrr. m But the boy become* a man. Had 1 earns that there can be i*ruper and legitimate i*osseMiou in the prodoc tion* of mind and genius. The in veutiou of the cotton gin is as purely ami legitimately tlx- property of Whitney, or the electric telegnqA that of 1 *rof. Morse, os are the fan and fanning initdeineuts of neighbor Jones the rightful property of aud Jones. So iu like manner the “Par adise issa” is (be (woiierty of Jtb Milton, beiauae it to tlie prodaetim of hto geniu« and lolmr. A mta» ter , s sermons are liis projwrty, br cause tiiey are the product of kh labor, genius, (if be has any,) study and prayer. He does not reliaqntoh his claim by preaching them, aor fay publishing them, any more than Whitney rrlinqnishetl his eBtoi t* the invention of the cotton its general introduction ii|swi every cotton (dantatiou. The theft Kw ml in the war of tlie article, but in tfaf appropriation of the invention.— Janies Kuiusey, the inventor oftto steamlsMt, is not injured by them of ten thousand steamboats, bwt fay the appropriation of his plans sad models, sifter his death, by Rotort Fulton, and the claims of Fultont* their originality with him. IV to erary theft of using a pnWishfd m- MOM or address, lies not in it* so, or tlie object of jmblicatioii wnsld be defeated, bnt in tlie :q»|»ro{Hiatas of the autborsbip-—in claiming as the production of one’s own uioA and lalior, which lias lieen elsborstrd by the miud and labor of anolhtf. When l*eter Baehler rend Ijnthri 1 * “Freface to the Romans,” in Akb»- gate 8tivet, in Ixmdon, the teadisf of which was instrumental in to” conversion of John Wealey, it *** not stealing, liecause ltm-hkr «•* noOuceil that he was about to n*d Iaitlier's thoughts instead of hi* ow* The effe*rt pnaluce*!, of which fa” was unconscious, might have **• |kis***1 him to investigation* dam aging to his reputation as an to** 1 * man. Perhaps the reason whyjd* gial ists of onr day escape expo*®*^ is ts-cauae they have never oouverMP a Wealey, and I fear, by a dishflot* course, never will. . Even in the day* of Solomon, making hooks there wa* **° much more is this true now, *#• every day 6 “The press groans, ami lo! » The question then may he very propriately asked, what istheproi^ use to lie made of all these tions, g*ssl, ba*l and Uidi^ The answer is simple. VNe uuindtHl to “get wisdom, * ,( d , all our getting to get un<leratkfiffi#to These publications then , means to an end. We read, and think, and ponder and ■»«** ami compare notes with our through conversation until we ■* “Our lieitdci r»-pleU“ with thought- other men,’’ b K \ WI X] m ad<H^ >n to ***** > original suggest “Mi. Z tbr.n »U. »•>•' M bat they w* 1 * 1 ! ’l «!>»"• w.. I “^HTten fr«n> F th-t won,.hy ' ■ L ,e can ««*, w,tfc W| "'i -ear o«r fri.-n>r» A* Wf« ,,0( cons U. »wu- 'l'-' 1 '?.", .hh-li o«r awl i« io-mI- sum * Co -- _o.noo.K-.- the «»m- that ** nm 5 ,m J’ |c . We oi»v gatbor SO dn I ^ w we need not -lm* I* ..romineiK-e l>J fnMi. o bem-.- So man oobM t w, ‘‘' whence or lms- l*ination* or diwluctams. or otherw ise In* may h.e - )0ffr «.**si»n of an wL’-i {JTsnbje^ 1 «n liafid. idea lms <’']*' - gupmvor in *tvle, «h-.h- to oue’s own abilkyv «lispos<-4l to embody « e be hom-st cnongh to < t Thor- The effo-t literary walk* of lit*-, r iiicions. Detecthm d. - good result to the beam awl greatly detw* «»ral usefnlness ot tln- writer. The «M *uch pilferer will tin*- the petty larcenies p- r our large cities an* l thr oughfares. Sujipos*-. An listen to a sermai on tl*,< of Christ.” witl the r attention and with prof admiration for fhe tab i | ity of the preiclHT. ai home and tin«I the wfal language, fignies, i^u^• all, iu a j»a«t n ton her t Rejiository” wtot must of such discovry ! rati not read the ait* thinking of tli- dtslto frieud, nor «-a» I meet _ without a jioinftil nw**ll« ••!?> “BiWieal Kepdtoksry ” j I iujtirtHl by tlieimpoidtioii Tlie effect is preci.- w heti I beat a uermonr. most glowing des*-i iptiur, and then find the whole bodily from Itowe’s “it! tlie Rigliteons.’ Or win a city jiaj^r iiwl n*a*l giving Sermon by si' ^ orator, taken ibwn in > atsl publish*-*) will* c**i temarks l*v tk* «-<lit**:, have |*laml irto in-. Ii K t friend, a littli voluia- “ ‘ Hamiltmt, fni* which transcribed tsfhatim. re»*l an extr^t, of uni' lieauty, (roiu i publish*•*! a cnui(»auy fT sts-ial tii liave one sa>. “I lieanl ti With a feelisg of pain I He replies. -Osr tuiiiist*- it last 8nulai” A tliir* a lsMik iu wlii'li f|ie ext taiued. and I fn*l it havJ by tteo peufotyt and * Mil. Tln-se ax; # not fsm-yl Tliey are ticU 1 n>iil*l instances tid not the i«- article adtronfah me to f<« more, howcvei What ti the boldness of a fiiiuistcr. B\ invited to [wegdi iu a lb ehureh, tran.-ri'iiH-*! ami i his own, iu pt-M-nrc of .1 rian D.D., oim of Dr.-Dw uious ? You. yourself, )[ •nay recollec) many yen i^ing a thn young tna: tion, “IKi y4i i\»ad G**rn ^»»d he did and you “Then pleat- translate f. a Cieruia'i sriHou next tii not crib ft>m a trmiili.t every one* library,” at time exhibiing to him h* mon of tilt evening. Print / I know amiuister of ? like ! “Achiiw, le »V»oclinil*,Hl «h* »re , HI Ixml to s*-e," av >ng bem irivit*-tl to pr< - vJerittU gfaur, cousAlet S1X fwt >» stature. It w viliei Dame Fashi«> I ber,x>taries, longwai X* H P^^hgiiHis length ■ a l»cn»le«l. Tlu- litt hi a linen ir*uit, a?n btottier forbade him to J ^ment. The U H - 0 n, »g. and the big otJ throwiiig a broa*i ,, over a ojkair, saviiJ ® bell rings, jnit that «»i* \V° i I W ill IH.N-1 j the !***ll «|h! rin- ’*«* °°hffregatio(i went *> 1 gvurity f»r w«n-Ht»ip, l»> ‘ a ‘* 8Ulk| h^up tilt* utoieJS hil 8 the cn,rs touted ! ' K>W ’ , S in Oriler that tJl? Protrude, and the **d rlv 7 “* Ue I‘ ttan-'^ 1 ,U ‘ U "’ 8 ' r " , “"-'" s 1 , ® OOMt, only- the audi* I V .>!!' | Ms — i'