The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, July 28, 1871, Image 2
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<1 and taught
embodied is
Is, as, for in-
Creed: “Who
Bat tho pd-
la, thntHib
will it smbsr
fun Forweglfb—resolved that e«|ry
pastor iu the Synod shoald, If possi
ble, daring the coming year, spend
one month in missionary labor out
side of his owu parish.
Ttte vary thing every one of oar
Synods sfeoald da We have mission
the gov*
, ,,i,. , j
principal
*tta5£!:;zzz'jg.
la oar shatah in behalf af a choroh
•*** frr ««t t«» tin* f\'
of
^Zjf the right* of
JSetors, either by -H
dim* •opr"*'
tie-
, fc0 dal javimlict** w H
ZZZd *>y the govern
WhtehrvcnH
iirtr 1 »© ««*
freedom of 11“ «
j g yet <»ub*r
l^htof FT©**®. **“>
Ck««k In either M*
ST**! ««,«»*
rifveroiuenf, rB«
.3* by theemtfirefr* «•
^ altenuitive chol^»«.
^L*». Clinch of SieiU
-twritefit to betboufft o
i •*%« *ynod holds
, ndbaos, witl» **eut««
hrno«l t.
,Iooth. The nw*mhea *»(
t <f (teaks- The seomr*
J}M. public i» eilnMM> l«i
through the cottrf<“\j°f *•'
(Dr. vea Gerber, off**!
g ticket to -gov oiiHii;
The debate proceed b?
the roll, each m ' ' 1 '
Ms view, in turn, p*
nol seem to me toto in
ditftHigatKhed lookig °*
have. je<t heard «*y o
■MTORS :
DE, D.D., Columbia, 8. C.
his practice dots wot always
paad with his prineipta* 4te,
lit rose sod left the tomb * tn ainrtl
m« over destb, the grave, hsjfjjjj
Sstsn. Now ju« we able (* ~
“O death! wliert* is thy stingf <%
gn»%*e! wbore is thy victory f Thanb
be to God which giveth as 1
victoiy' through osr Lord ^
Christ*
At his ascension into heaven )**.
leg thraagh the bright cohorts g
angels, which, we are told, ^notkttd
him oat of sight,* be first - r p ij_
before the Everlasting Father hi |a
glorified humanity. There did the
sainted Stepbeu see him at the rirfa,
baud of God, where he
make intercession for as who bdkX
in him, where we shall be with hha
in those eternal mansions net
with hands, when life toad l*
done.
“T. a," by denying this doefcfe
of the sfMistolic Church, roht Cheio
of part of the glory of his Mtnfa*
and deprives the Christian ef tbs
consolation derived from that ahidhe
faith and cheerful hops, founded
npon the free, fall, perfect jtf&fJL
turn tor sin, in the person of Cbria
on earth, ia hell and at the right
hau«i ot God. *, k
mads at flknuium sad produced af
Arimlnmu. Bat it fiWleis to and
tiply authority from these sources,
for *T, 8.* sweeps them all away by
his rejection of the* Ajwotleif Creed.
lie not only stands in opposition
to the Charcli Fathers, but be stands
iu direct ojiposiUou to the plain
teaching of Lather ujhiii this subject,
who says: “We therefore in simplicity
tteller* that the whole person, Ood
and man, after his burial, ie+ccaded
into hrll, destroyed its power, con
qntwed the devil and took sway all
his power. And thus we retain the
sound doctrine and hare the oonso
latlou that neither the devil nor hell
can eusuare or injure us or any one
upon as mteHigcnt, and dsvoted a
body the aaeassity of satastamg
Boaaoke Cottage, the very hope and
pride of our Synods T AH know that
upon the prosperity of this tnstitu
Ban depends, in a great measure, oar
individasl ministers of our charch,
requesting them to bring osr condt-
tine beteto their respsetivw charges,
snd, tf vom<h!> m help as h little.
WVB, l am ad4$*1ft say, np ft date,
we have In ever}' neighborhood scat
tered members of one church, who
*rP%oking anxiously tor an erau-
Mlttar minister to break to them the
bread of life, to administer to them
the holy communion, mul to heptfse
their children. Nome are becoming
fafnt and wt ary; others are
fttest we leave the Kvangettos!
Chhrch, and if, where fhalt we find
her pare word, where shall we find
her altar ! Many have left ns I We
have no ministers to send ont aa
missionaries;"we have no meant;
theHvar and burdensome taxation
sre impoverishing as; theertly thing
l*!t fbr ns to do is to follow the
example of onr Scandinavian breth
ren. If the ministews are slow shoot
if, th* chnrcbes Should urge them on,
and gladly dispense with their ser-
viees for a few weeks, that the gospel
may be preached to the poor.
receiving cxaulmo the
bolical books. Tel fie la one of the
moat fanatical ohiltiaatVin ths load,
while the 17th artkto of the Aaffc
supply of mini«teo But we will not
adduce argument* to snataia so plain
a prnpositlon. A colour ministers sit
IfrhVlkf WTh they relieve the
g*v, cf rags fVmiity, ▼a.) has ra-
•fWiitded by rorioafrg to me sue
dollar, whhRhfhfhBlii piijBI'lhfid
w* may speedily soeeeed* "Wsi.y
sre mdy 10 SdmMiW that there are
hot fear Ilf Mr (Mahtaulon but what
eMW |fve bne dnlhir to bafld a
Church. That is teas, sad It sliosra
how easily ws d»nld hulld a cbnreti
when nMteri, fr oar people wwutd
gfre bat a **m JHHldn of the bun
deed* and UtoftStfud* fhdt they pns
I we from the Vi nates of the last
General Synod Sboth, that !?.*»
oommunicanU dr/ 4 reported by the
Hynod compoaHig that body. Now,
sappose aa average of only twenty*
Are eeotg a mrmhsc WOW SSalrihatrd
fbr baUdlng paipssss, ft would give
as $4,333, which would totMl s aeat
church whenever needed, and ao one
wodtd be Injured la the least. And
the Sant of th*ie the
. >rrl. must gn'dokn r s ,less onr
|ieople do twtte#| contilbtNf more
libersny, and tsi fVMri>l
In rhnfch enierptise, the fliareh mtuit
laeviiah^^tt'wnirtcml to the wiad*.
Seuole Is s AoarWhfbg U«ti.
The A if IJbe ttisd from Atlanta to
Ootamba*. If 1*401, dill almost be
cerbdn fo through ThU « fH
the pdpaUtH*ti and
in the most unequivocal ty a Ua
la.,visitor a oooristaal ayiabulut,
oot, a oousistent cbuMaoh Vot, if
rwa;;
w»T M«Hy rctnnrinff *
ni>w by mail, is not sof-
IhKd.ms relatiOfr td %kN-
would rcuounoe his yhUhasw, and
if be were a ouasistoat. ehiliiast ha
would give op his ayaiboUm, Bui
H» ha|q»y iactmjuatoacj aaahtes him
Iu cling to then both at uuoe.~~.4«*
Lutheran.
-wftvkh are new strew
e iaame of the soaS
it,|nf the county aW
who believes in ChrlsL^
lie also pomes, lastly, ht conflict
with the express teschiaga of the
Hilda on this poiuL Psalms Ixxxvi;
13—“Thao hast Ui-Ij \ end ray soul
ftvm the lowest hell.* fcpli. If; U—
“boa that he saoroded, what Is it
luii that he first into the
Inttmi part ^ the earth r This pas
sage the * evil'll t t<tUii‘ii uadeirstood
as k$U placed la the Iswesl part' of
the earth. Ho also ia {John iii: U
1 iVUa Hit LA, IS—“For Christ also
bath oaor suflered tor sius, the jaat
for the unjust, that J»e wight bring
M le God. beiug tmi to death in lb>
flash, l*ul qua baud h> the Hptrit: b>
which also he aeat sad preaelMMl
auto the aptnu in priaou.* This
)*ssaaga was quoted often by the
eariy fathers as |*roof that Christ
Went is his aptrit to hell, as we
a*d nhitnarv notice
r ntewled fqr puWi
itfen separately, autl
em. to receive proper
•trike them as fordid} as it doss us
sod the frasihtNty of the plsa pro
|XMed, as cfesrly. Thi* plan saves
the oerraaity of say expense or su
so}'lug delay*. The work once com
lueuoed, would •ecurr monthly pay
menu oa the debt, and the whole be
sxtfnguUhed hi twelve months, with
©ot any mishap or peradventsm.
The Synod of South West Virginia,
will meet la a short time, when we
trust that *u<h .if the Trustees us
may he pvrsost will ihonMighl} vra
tiht&r the M-bnor and sevurr* its
s<!«>p! lot.
The Virginia Hynod, at iu next
meet big will doubtleos co-operate
with their South western brethren.
What we want Is harmony sad con
©ert of action, fudunisskm to the
legitimately npnwnf judgment of
the Hynod*, «y atom is our coOocUoos
other iw
diould b
KlIAtnAUU
tsm. i
Death has again iavadnl ths raoks
of our ministry. AnoUiet of our
brethren, one who tor many years
has faithfully preaobed ths gospel
of Christ, has vecoRsd, as w« trust,
the suuiiuoo* of the Master i “tome
uf higher r Ws have been furnish
ed w|th the following brief aco»unt
of bia life:
Jacob laixtan, son at Usury asri
Mary Killian, was hum Iw Jmmala
coasts , N. CL, Jaws mb, IfiiA Ue
mfhlly comjdy fePH the
if Her. O. Bernheim,
0| !N, 0. Synod, t;o publish
of the synodical meeting;
the Secretary not think
>*. proper, siml according to
rg fr snjijHlrt ns, ,4f h* ein
Dr. Heiss, iu the Lmthermn and
Mineittuargy very kindly reproves ua:
u Ww slip the following from the
Lnikmrnn Visitor:, ia Berlin, I'rum
l*ot ih
it but'*
fair de
l^etfnn
Lutheran Church sf flsxasy
IYuf. H. M. Hopkins, uf WHUusm
College, w rites the. followuig to ths
to be erected to John Arndt, the au
thor of <The 8ix Books st True
Christianity.* It is » perfect shame
that the Knglh.h Taitheran Cborrh
has not yet a faithful translation of
the best work mi Christian godliness
ever produced by an aninsptmt
man.
“It in ft little strange that Dr.
Rude has never beard of the saparb
English Edition of the preeions work
of Arndt, to which be so haOdseUsi'ty
refers, published by the Lathers*
Bookstore, 117 North 8th Street,
Philadelphia, edited by one of the
best transferors now living. The
‘shame* he speaks of is net upon
the English Lot Keren Church, and
he ought not to nae hi! columns tints
unjustly to defame the chnrcb which
he professes so m neb to love and honor.
We can gnamntec that the tranola
tion of Arndt's original work, which
the Bookstore offers to the public, hi
h» fhithlViP one.*
ker ic iiou ljcrv Japp,
mis iu &e eigintrj an
US , V< TV ,lu.s Wkter
cs and prunes are rc
youth. | To day Mr,
it us tlip tin t clusters
- 0»rfcm
^C& 7 - ytoMWM
>• melons,
newing
l)r,^,rl
rapidly
growth of the place. The B»|4lsft«
•it just finishing x i}4eu«lld eharrh.
The Methodist* k»i e ooe, and hrfW
©V are drffig aoffelag Other* are
taking the Add. sad fast tor the
want of the WldowM mite, the rhnirJl
mast go down
We hsn* a beautiful one snr lot,
upon the ruodiusn that we balM a
rhnrrh oti It. If we toll, ws loos the
kd. For the want af a know, we
can makr no effort to build up the
rhnrrh. We have the prliBegi* of
ptwaehiag In the Methodist eharrh,
but T caa nut take aay aathrity ia
another man's house. We mast have
a eharrh uf oar owu, if we ever
m of ripe,
Sf ' sea.-
^r’ -ft S’ Wm
likely the case. 1 ' I
that the detogarim r»»4
president by eoiroof b I
asys the body itneh av.<!|
piwrideat. instead *
self to his pimpet tuurt ul
takes part iu tb«lcl»ii: ;J
tfioos ot anwovsi f th»‘ «*> 1
rather freely iudak*! in.
dent, oa being flrddtn |
chair, and all the hmibet l
tusk the IWlowiu^atli:
ia the jiresence o (rod. t|
ray action iu thist nod 1 I
best of my knoicdgi al
Thre»i
eldest f{
eight yet
v oar call, f
church m
they will
think tin
tiou wa*
friemU of
eating elder meiulier* of the
example, which ( we hope
iot he slow to foljow. j$VTe
letter iu which t leir doua-
nolo|»od, worth p emwviag,
it iatfull: ,.p ' ■ I
toctari la the V »itor y two
s you requested some one
ou jijn cn dollar r, to pwf-
r* ln<oks for yoar the«>k>gh
uto.: Little sisto * Mamie,
William aud inyt elf, unile
; you please to accept ©f
p/a/t, (tiro dollar*. J wishing
i assist yon more. Jkith
f'e aud many wlanes tor
"l)oa>
weeks a;
to send
Evangelical Loti ran Chi
it may in all th4e* grnwJ
who i* the Hca. even i 1
mity be taken writher it |
oris coutr.ist witHii*aid* 1
that when Ihr. \w <»crl*-
that (toe seamouadtould
with prayer, ther was c l
show of disoaliaetifti
finally agreed tin l»»u lx*
might be used : #d t.Ubv
devotional exetyp* of :n
which the synod tijpiges.
«f a synodical pn er-nn * *
I iqesmnc. provkc hu:.
rhlu-ul*-. _ LsH 1 lta)«*
assembly, whirl is lookc*
sumve of U tw» polir .
|*oint the wqy tn-arde a u
Ife for the Etiigclu >•—
Ohnrch of Haixor. •
We were taking *tep* to batol a
eharrh hrte before the war, sod ws
would have Socrmled. Since then
some uf our leading men have died,
sad others wfll out take hold, and
What as thought was yet in ao
embryo state, ws find tally matured
in the Charleston Charier. *0. E.C.*
is a rateable ooutrilxttor t
“ Wnlh/ifla Seminary.—This thriv
ing town is about to receive another
addition to its growth and prosperity
in the estabBnhment of a irst-stess
Female Seminary The Rev. J. A.
Hligh, a Lutheran minister, who has
been attending the Commencqpent
exercise* of the College here ss a
member of the Board of Trustees,
has arranged for the purchase sf a
valuable prof*evty sHaated la Wnl-
balla. Hie iweperty eoasists of a
largo ami commodious baiMing,
which he dcsiga* still enlarging,
and about two acres of land under
the highest * state of cultivation
This is considered the choice prop
erty of the village, and can he easily
made nailable tor the Seminary. Mr.
Bttgfa is now nekwting his corps of
teachers, and lift* a promise already
of about twenty-five young ladies to
commence with. He hopes to have
all his arrangements completed early
in August next, and will then be
prepared to receive many more pn
pils. The sdrantage* which this
salubrious moon tain region presents
for fmch institutions of learning are
very great, and parents would do
well to consider them be tore sending
their daughters abroad. Here they
will be in a most healthy region,
where there is plentjv of pure air
and water, good society, ami under
good moral and religious care aud
training, ft is to be hoped that this
enterprise will succeed, and become
one of the largest in the land *
your be
main yoi
friends, i
to get sp (sad* for that parpoae.
Hut aajros there few reaction among
oar people In point of gitlhg, it will
prove a fritarr. Well, If onr i«ewplr
hare ao use for rharrbe*, uf course
they will need no predehtrs, and' so
all wlT! go by the board. I still hope
that o«r |wop!* will ronrirfer, and
hold np oar fesUe hstuU
t. m.nr.viiAniii
< barch dates fnsn die year 1868, wri
i* tegsrdc<l by (lie party uf ths aw»%-
meut as oal.v a teaqwrmry stoiisa Is
the exodus from the old Kgyp* si
Htate control to the t aosaa of tns
her of fqneral sermons to
front' his labors, and his
follow him. ,
Although Hev. Killian
In U1 health far tho imst fe
-A prom i pent l;iy-
*nd of in a iy years’
c “Donor aoswer
bitter and ;iersooal
it can nd injure
itifiil, conr eosis, sad
railing railing.
(Mod
ness of this Hyaod is to perfect h, is
fur ss present rtministances permfe
after the model of Ylte CiesbytOluflr
orgsaixed cfaarrkm of Bsdea. West
pkutlis sail Hanover. For tins pot*
poor, three popostioM have ksiO
laid before the Hywod by the fSiWV
meat. Tim first contemplates the
appoint incut of an “upper teams
lury, r sKich ahull Is* rhithed Wife
all 1h«* ercU-Ktsnrical power* sffed
(iresriu in mist ry in rra ngdieis; vkft*
the latter shsli confine itself whollf
to the oversight of imblfe insOte
lion. According to the jneseut «•»'
Ktitntiou. the Hy tiud is In meet srif
tmee in five yean*; and tha **d'
Iiroposithsi contempUtes *• 0*
pcfttnxHit uf s committee o4 <a(cr**h
which shall exereiae oertsifi of fe»
1 rawer* of the Hynrel during few fe*
terval. The thud proposes the shs
litioii'bt the oM right of patrol
which though modified sad HsKd
by various legiahttiou sines
atilt remains ss au inenhos so M
religions pros;icritv of the Bvsagfe
tad Lutheran Olmrch af Saiaaf*
The first two topics have been l**
into the hands of the “Gesiadttte of
Chart* Polity* (Verfowafifi^
chusaeei; ami the Hynod
ooeded at once to thn duwaKW , i w
the question of patronage. •
Among other ihfewesicos hetw***
die Zwiagtwin and the K iAithcrW
rrforiuntioiws to thq ailvantsfle *
the former, wuaf his: that m Salto??
laud the okl n lntioiis between the
Chan* ami the State* fo—dsfedF
the feudal system, were abatotodi
while in Germany they wcrenUfeto
fjnther, proceeiling oh the fw****^
of changing existing usages m J
as they were not dinctly *»***
to Heriptuns n« little a* pofeto
reserved to tlie ft*ud»l pro|>ritod
the right of pnwwitiiliw* to fihtofe
livings wKhin their dumsiu. w
people had not—nor up to this I
Dtw Btatk or Tifw Dkad. • • •
We nre /happy Is jfM him (R«-v.
Anson West) rvporfwrfioy the literal
deem at of f%riut into halt, and its
(wafsote dmefrine of purgatory. • • •
f.a* ^
expectedly, both to hlamlf
frieods. Finding himoslf i
Vifffnto hi hehmtf
New Pblicati
1 •*« puaei oad sstaat«he<l to
Had the above laaguape Hoed by
“T. *v" in tho noth*- o tdrfti he gives
of tho uew work entitled “The State
of the Iftend.” I hare heea otss
toonad to regard **T. H.* as being
eroageiit-at, stohongh aoiaewtMt ex
Inivsgaat sad inesfitiowK In Ins
expremioii. bat <» find that the dor
trtfia df Christ's dearwmt it pfooed,
oith h> *Mhs «Sb the ISniawh notion
nf purgatory, is Indy distressing to
a chnMisa heart. U is wtd, “Will
n aau rsb GadF gat “T. S." *-eks
torobttevisS sf part «f hi* victory
over Matsu. Kxtravagmt language
torial in
that it m
reasons oi
General 8$
- upon ute s
churcbly dt
oral Byuod,
that nofii
Ouaacil, cti
w traitors to
Christ, afed
and. toe <
church, (of wide*
1 The N(
iMjvkktfd. The |4ans beretoShec
adopted ji4>s proved toadaquatr
General
Tnnitv *1)ripUeom Btrherum* A
pmsiiNst toeiso of feds country,
who is generally highly esteemed,
mtoft, “If slavery were taught iu the
Hi bis. i would hurl the Bible from
fern pol|dt.* A minister lately des
ignated the betpiiMB uf children very
; John—Bev. Dr. Joseph Hums haa
been down Booth to attend that
u Free Conference,* of which thorn
line beert so mat* written pro sad
con in the papers, y For some rwasou
or other ths “Free Conference* did
not come off; not a word ia printed
ahoaS it any more: whether it has
been postponed or abandoned alto
gether is not stated. But the doctor
and to aim
bjMlifl proposal of
t, Which has reoeiv-
treatment on the
asafe, fist twelve mouth*, it wiM
give $3,730. Bow. what ia to hinder
standing it
made it. J ti
ever, bays
whether thi
It devils by tect-l/alHib. the
lured it adffitestioia
now postdble, and
exist- 8pectforhis disappointanest,notwith-
j standing. He went totheoomiiemen.
1 soul ment at Roanoke College, aud these
iat it fit the special request of Preaidaot
limit*, Bittlc, he preached the Bsoealaareate
wives sermon, a condescension, which I do
f s*ut. nut remember of evur having seen
South practiced by a CVdluge Freskteut.
xo»st Then Dr. Stem also addressed tho
my of Yonwg Men’s Christian Association
with of ths {date, iu which address hr ia
L. ill fa. SM fiuhxL fe. — tl *— ^ A li .IS.
That Ohrite did ibwoend into bell
id (meompNah the end af bia aua-
ttott^cterksb we b.i
*pliuv»]i»!ii^g an* -h:t
glovec; an< of Biel
«**, <* mfc* it is
‘^mail's kidr i
his dH*cx‘M 4s dstll>
vchiciry.^ j‘Fstbei
meet ef thehr own pastor*, g
vested in the manorial pwi*
subject only to the eon firm xl
tl»e “ministry ta semigsririfp
not liewssury h» tiwwll on to
- ■ , » >"*, .?*■ • i, v..''tr.
apuakotte eharfih. Rufilnn v, who first
efipMHitied too Aqwitcisn Cored,
mfeai MMHitiuit of his deoccut into
lull sepornHs apart and distinct