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i K hi lul^tsan Trisilot. \,m 1 • t >I,T'MBBAVP. tj? Aeta =-.4- aK-eae»=3ysr=jrr^r~;- y— pifcX- =T— Friday, August ll] 1871 liberty j m all thing*, < Jurrity. *?eci.u. ironcEj. •tfc mutt Ih> iii|(U« a 1 -.' ftttm-- 1 N>nt Hank CheekA, or j Draft*, f tlie»e cu not l*e obtain id, money in a Rkc.HtkrkO Lrr 1 lVwtnuwte i» artl obliged to i» when requicp l. $ M 5 sent to Bubaribem until ffider to digcoqtinuu i* re- ill arrearages are paid, us law. Merely retaining a in Rentil Oft* ifw mo TER. TO an oeivi mpui _ - „ - nuiuber, of the paper liy wai I, hi uot sut- tlcient. * ** 1 , All coaiiuuiiieations relating to snb- scrilKiisj slimilil give their names very distinctly, ana carefully indicate which are old] foul irhich are new sultsrrilters. Not outfi the) name of the |H>»t office, but also Ihntl of the county and State of each Bkibedriber is "necessary, in order that the pi ope r entries may be promptly and aecirhtel; ’ made. Marriage and obituary untie©*, and otyr nffittdr intended for fpuhlication, should t e written separately] and not in business lettefs, to receive ppoper at ten- tMB. A liberal Response July 25th, 1871.—I nested Lippincott A 'Co. to I y]ou three copies of Dr. k. Pjease dispose of rfy u your judgment, they Yours, respectfully, , “Cr. A. D ” giver will accept our iacjk low ledge m out for his Kindness. We will to f pi tr ken dispose of th£ o fcr ch acts of benevolence Matt C Dr. Si&* Mimionar< r, “The letter fi that Dr. ’> words, recorded -46, apply. id Challenge. ! ‘jBLaaigi* :• * f t ; Vdj. * '•>! ’I • 1 s iu the Lutheran ami uly 27 : Visitor says: A , Va., informs ( ns statement before the brethren ye4t< rday, iu reference to Free Conference dis- his part id t-fie ciission, 1 *k, tory to Id to W1 Sv Dr. Siess will •If l>r. letters he on this which the sul he will pi was perfectly satisfac lo were present,’ If furbish us with ‘Ai# part’ written^ r o' the Lutheran Yisitor, we will pnbli! li it verbatim et literatim and leave :o ot ien* to comment njion iV statement fe ml to/ Well, What h not sa ter recei sAtisfy t Siess say lyut then self to prill * * ^'BL: N ude will thus publish the lias r weired from Dr. Siess e< t, particularly the one o 1‘ lim before a word ou appeared in the Visitor, substance ot the h nk we have doue it. '£ iess to say ? If he is w< will print every let- fiom him. Will that Do:tort Only let Dr. e iiord, and we win print; t<o must obligate hhn- Ch it we wrote him; Synod outside of South Carolytft this year, it will*be as mm-lvffii we can do; and that Synod mast be the South-western Virginia Synod j the invitation is {leculiarly pressing and acceptable—the brethren offer to pay our expense*. A flood Time Coming.—Rev. Dr. Krauth, we learn, intends to lie at the Synod of North Carolina, and Dr. Siess will favor the South western Synod of Virginia with his presouoe. How grateful those Synods ought to be for the deep interest iu ami the evident aurfety for tliuir welfare manifested! Who visited Southern Synods before the war I Mississippi—Her. T. Derrick, of Leesville, B. 0., has received » letter from a friend in Mississippi, which we publish iu {>art hoping that the loftd call for one of the laborers in • the Lord’s vineyard to come to their assistauce may not be iu vain: “Bro thers Strigly and Brown, the greet pillars of (h* church iu this country are gone. Brother Sheppard's health is failing, and he U» unable to break the bread of life to so many, and our church must go dowu unless we can obtain the services of some one else. If you can not make up your mind to come to our relief, please inform us, if you kuow of any good ami efficient minister that would be wil ling to come. We are willing to give him a good ami comfortable support. The harvest is great and the laborers few; may the Lord send a laborer unto us is our earnest de sire.” We hope that the minister, who has given up the ministry for some other calling which pays better, will read the above, and ask himself the question. Am 1 keeping my ordma- tion vow now ! lint we fear it will be with him, as with us iu former days; when a man shrinks from doing his duty because he is not wil ling to deuy himself, then has he a thousand ami one reasous for refus ing. Once an aged minister visited us; admonished us kindly with sim ple and earnest words to take up the cross; we felt self-condemned; our face burned, for conscience agreed with him, aud we became angry, aud left him. We were told after* artU by one who was present, that the tears rolled slowly dow n his furrow ed cheeks aud he suid as he wiped them away, 1 feel sorrowful for my brother. That aged minister was father Scherer of Botetourt county, Virgiuia. He lias goue to his I*wd ami Savior long ago! It is easy enough for a minister to lieeome rn tangled with the affairs of this life, but to get out of the iutauglemeut. is difficult, exceedingly so. It is im possible for him to do it by his owu strength; Christ must shiver his fet ters and deliver him. We feel die posed to pray the Lord to make every luiuistcr, who refuses to serve the church, because his worldly affairs must suffer by it, as poor this veiy day as our Lmd was, when In- him self preached the gospel. Kxtnvotfrmii letter of Kebm 1871 : *p respect your coliseum ness is opposing the general and free meeting with the bfethren b^rty Conference. I- We were present as a Visitor ami ah advis4i*v member. Conference tnQfa at St ' A id riew’s church, in the Dutch Fotk, i o- railed, which is one of the gar [fen ots eff South Caro liua, and wh;rd the people dwell together afc'br ?tbreu. We need not say that w p w ?rej kindly entertaioetl. All men ki iOW th at our people in the Fffrlc are * ftve n I o hospitality." The Lord has indeed cast their lot in a pleasant plact, and blessed them both in basket and in store. Nor are they uhmitH|lpl'of His goodness. They are they are the rock whence ey have not for- their fathers, nor k from the com is lips. Their g, and blessed tor. The confer- well attended and \ the Secretary is of the Yititor all sileut. The visit returned refreshed with bright aud esan our heart, clus saken the have they mandmen church is with a faithful once services vre; interest iu to tell tbe about it, -awe did us and stren plOMUQt tors of fo<get-me-hots ami heart's ease. Tbe Lo^d bfess and keep kind friends who administered to ns! like your paper May the Lord , Georgia better bless you iap-our arduous labors.’! Yirginia ji ’rites: [‘The paper is a my family. I >u jl N welcome Yisitor would not do wittu ness in everj thiug church, and your tics is what I admj is not Ilka same have seen, always or another with strife, if pos lible.” Invitation have us from.I^rth Carolina, Virginia, ami Southwestern Virginia, to be present at their jSyi odical meetings. We would g adiy.ccfrnply; but it is utterly toivisible l r us to command tto time. If aide to attend buf oue it it. Your fair- it concerns our itrality in poli- Tbe Visitor fious journals I lling one way litics to keep up ?n extended td A Kiastatement. We have endeavored, but as yet in vain, to obtain l>r. ttciss' Htatc me»t made at Uoauoke. Parties are singularly reticeut. \Ve, however, do not despair. Wo shall learn the truth, although it may come to us in broken doses. We have already been told that at a ndlwfuiuM held, it was stated that tee first proposed to hold a free conference, am( then subsequently changed from aud opposed it. Dt. Seiss could hare contradicted that fiction, aud ought to have done it, for be knows full well that from its very iuception we opposed the conference. In proof of this, Dr. Seiss himself, to the con trary notwithstanding, is our author fey. We quote from letters written by Dr. Seiss to us. Extract from letter dated Jauoary 5,1871: “We have proposed such a conference to sliow our interest and to promote the common cause. We believed that it was due that it should come from our side, and that we were under obligations to show our feelings and good wishes that any ice or severance might lie broken first from onr side.” “The silence of your paiwr on the subject apiiears to us somewhat strange after the manifestatious of a disposition to co operate as Lutheran brethren.” The above extract shows that the idea of a free conference did not originate with qs. As regards ro- operation, all our brethren know that we are willing to cooperate with every Lutheran brother. The “I am Evangelical Lutheran” is a pass word to our paternal affections, and a talisman that secures our efficient aid. We have met with brethren of nearly every Synod in the Union, and we call on all soch to bear witness against ns if we have acted otherwise.* Dr. Seiss adds in the same letter: “We have named the summer to give ample time, aud because we cau theu better leave home. Now, shall we meet or not I If uo, why not! If yes, why not say so, aud set the ball in motion f” South. What you say of your men and churches we know to be true. V ou have a vast amount of radical ism, prejudice, and igtioraitce of the doctriues and animus of our cbnreh, ] the charge of Kev. B. 0. Way man. to couteud with. Wo honor you and your co workers in tattling with it. I can hardly Imjs* that you will now chaugc your jiosUion of hostility. From indications the conference will be held, and you should be iiromi nent iu it** Extract from letter dated Feb nutry 10,1871: “It—the free con frrence— is my own proposition, i* • very commendable step in which I first submitted to four or right direction, therefore. fbr| five of the brethren with whom I am reasons. associated." Firwt, Itecaose “««*os churches,* Extract from letter dated Fell- •*> railed, are not fit all desirable for any of our congregations, and we For *r Lsthsran Visitor. liberality, and ch^chly qririt in the trioif of each church, wbettor right Laying ta Virginia. matter, for which they are deserving or wrong, were instilled into chi! Jf — of commendation, and it is bettfived dren, from the infant school to the ’/y Dear /feefcr: <h» tbs morning that With tbe suanessful completion i Bible class. This widened deuomi- of July 7th, | secomimnied a friend of their enterprise there will be the national differences, instead of bar to the uppef portion of Augusta dawning of a brighter day for that monixing the whole church. Dr. county to be present at tbe lay lug of •ougregaUoiu Tbs new oburob will i Dolliuger says that tbe Jesuits a corner stone for a new church in be of brick, thirty five feet by forty | succeeded in pnssing the dogma of five in The l/Utlx-ransin that locality have to be' not been a day too soon in saying : Fall, oue to another—“Let us rise up and The build." They have be*o worshiping the laying of the comer stooe was hitherto in s building which they have owned and occujded jointly with congregations of the United Brethren and German Reformed com munions. letter dated Feb ruar>’ 16, 1871: “You hare dis tioctly saitl that you do not speak should have nothing to do with them for the brethren Booth, in this mat "I*™ U t» not absolutely necessary, ter, and we hare couriering mam Nenondly, because the (tarticular ranees that you do not so speak, and structure in quest ion, known in these that the conference is generally wel- I •art* as “Old Zion Churrh," is really corned aud approved. Why, then, not respectable as a house of worship allow ourselves to to beaten from it f° r Christian people. on the basis of allegations which we totally repudiate. As to anything that 1 have written, yon ate quite at liberty to publish it. Your stern opfiositiou will doubtless cripple tbe whole thing, awl much weaken the good effects that would otherwise hare resulted. This we regret, but still believe that tbe conference is pro|>er. wise, and desired by the rant majority of tbe brethren Houtli. We do not. therefore, think to with draw it.” The above extracts pn»\r that we did not pro|MMc the bolding of the free conference. We hare also been iuforcned that it was stated at Roanoke that the idea of holding such a conference originated with Rev. Dr. l’ansaraot; of nwmr Dr. Seiss’ own worth will put a stop to such a report. preached by Iter. J. I. Miller, Princi pal of HUunton Female Beminary. it need hardly to added that it was able and eloquent—replete with go* Their present enterprise pel truths, sod truths concerning the the history and character of Lutheran ism, very forcibly and admirably ex pressed. After the sermon the coo grrgatiou rtgauted to tbe site of the new chuivh, a few hundred yards distant from the ohl, where the corner stooe w as laid according to the beautiful and impressive order given in oar Book of Worship, Hev. D. M. Gilbert officiating. Amongst the articles deposited in the stone were the “Minu|es of Hynod of Vlr ginia, 1870,” “Church Almanac, 1871,* sod a recent copy of the Lutheran Yimtor. May the divine blessing prosjM-r pastor sod peo|4e in their laqiortaut undertaking. Fraternally Ac. ROTATOR. Home mad Health. August. Puy A lliw, Rew York. We pleased with it. There is ao sense m it. Wnntfa Momarktdd .Vffoiar. An gust. Rewburgb, Rew York. Al ways welcome, and always read with interest and benefit. Peter*' Atmoieal Aiomthiy. New York. It funtuhes i tbe tn ill ton. Tbe publisher thirty pieces of good musk for fifty cents. We will furnish Peters’ to subscribers fur #2 prr year. M httney* Moment tlweoL Tui Ohio. W« notice the sooga tifal Rainbow ; Up at Outral Park ; Bonnie Little Rurute—don't know though what Burute is; ami Gera ainu March. We will elub with it for 75 cents s vi Is it not strange, that there are no many to to found Oiroughoat the land, calling themselves God's poo pie, who are content to asset statedly for public, divine service in the ahab by, tumbledown rookeries which they have dignified with the name of churches f Home men appear U> think that tocaaar oar Lord was bon in n manger their places of worship should therefore to made to mieaibie a Uahie as dourly as posmblo. Home soch thought was suggested to my mind, at least, as 1 sat in “Old Ztuo,” by the general asprrt of things, and particularly by the appearance of a quantity of hay oo the fenced in platforms, or galleries, against tbe sales of the church. That hay ex cited no little canustty ta the miads of yoor-curfespuadeat and the frieod and brotbrf by whoee tsntaUoa be was |*feaent; the question* hew and why it came to to thsre. being shrowded ia after the seines of the the paster ten, | that the workmen upon the new . i >otiding slept at aigkt in the aid, j and the hay was their bed. I will not trespass oo | cd drwrnpMou of either the exterior fep* •otd Zhh»/ You tore m the surt day tin*, when ao am* of them are to . There is ia the far* that it was hull of tt has always, Ithis nod wit tool, been sUsrljr mm py it. m tto fort Up an murk of F«f the Lwtbcnui Visitar. ksfiaassf Osd v o mmmmm Tto mum* at fW*l «*ar |n prrwrol I tots- dresjbrfnre the l*d,istisH «to devil H|H*a s time, saw. mi the great mistake of mauphyatoiaoa, ia all thetr Iresiisea, eousssted in the hot that they dismssed the laws of mi ad lodependont of dcpiarity. Their rales nod principles, to said, would apply to angels his folk hot > it prarity The Hreerhr* Bible “liupriutcd at IxMKlmi by Rotort Raker. I*ri»trr over to the tyueeaa Most Excellent Majesty. ltiOA" Tto title page say* it is still in excellent |»reorrvatioa. It is called the Breeches Bible lenwie in tto seventh verse of tto Mneuth chapter it read*: “And they sewed fig tree leaves together anti made themselves breeches." In Titos, necond chapter u»l fifth verw, it iwd., -Worker, at home,” inateud of “Keepors at j ^ r%tnkrt ^ hfimr.” Momaa sails it “a trMuxi ^ “aqaatlrr Borrretgnt)to forth.- Iwlh-.. in impmrr.1 irmo.lo ltM , „r lk , -r.fr,. I .».lt two, iu * BiWr iu wou-lrrful pmrr n«hl noir, m br « ■ Ml wau rou rutiou for itr iff. Hut then “Mu crurd, rterpt that I hud uo wppd moV of thr HI gin Curwr, to » m> u«-k | ,, that I bachelor. Whul ilon h. know .boot , w n,,, ,urv-.rr of ll- the ladies ? spine to get any comfort oat of the logs behind me, sml 1 noticed too, st tto same glance, from tto arcnmula Uon of what t w|)|ww to to “tbe dust of ages* upon them, that it is not enetomary to lean hack in tto pal pit of “Old Zion.* There may to every thing in use, as sonic any, bat to me it is a sad thing to see oar pro ' pie anywhere getting nurd to that sort of churches. Tto sooner we do away utterly with tto notion that alnajwt any shelter wilt «l«» for a house of God, the totter. Herioosfy. my dear Horfor. this is not one of tto feast of tto et ils of this “»•<•* rhsrrh" arrangement. H may answer, ia in the toginniug. Lrniui. Rev. U. A. Stork ha* finally de- clineil the professorship at Gettys burg, haring retsHtsidered it Rev. E. Unaugst has returned from India Rev. 8. Anghoy has srceptetl the prufeosondiip of Natural Science in tto Hiato University ef Nebraska.. ... .A lot ha* been bought for fi 12,500 in tlie mirth western part of tto city of Baltimore, ou which a uew English Luthmun church is to be erected. .... In Australia are 18 Lutborau chnrctos sod JOottor place* ! However well of worship Tto executive com w*mc mqmcte, mittee of tto Fetiosyl vania Hymal snoner or later, so murk difficulty will not sustain tooeficiariea who arises tot ween tbe |«artiea to it, as to refuse to attend the German classes tto proper division of ei|ieoae and in tto institotion* they frequent, labor for keeping things decent, that .....Missouri By noil collected fit JM)0 thr church become* shabby, dirty, for the family of Rev. Karhler, who and altogether diwrnwtitable. And died near Pittsburg, Jtinc Pith. .... it is hard, utwler such an arrange The late Albert Bchumactor left, by mciit, to remedy tto SMittrr. No«nh* will, fi 10,000 to tto Gcrmau Lutheran takes shame to himself at seeing tbe church of Baltimore Rev. W. churrh 1 mi tiding negiected and going Berkemeyer has coltotnl fi.k).000 for rapidly to dUaftidatioo—oo ooe feels tto Emigrant’s Hotel in New York. reo|»ouaibie—H in everybody's buffi- The Swede* hare appointed a ness sad nobody’• business, traveling missionary for Minnesota. It speaks well for Rev. Wayuisn’* By the way, we were asked tto other people that they could not and would day wlut hod become of the General not rriasm satisfied with tto eon- By nod’s committee on Domestic Mis dittos of things at “Uhl Zion,* nod sions. Will the chairman {dense to that though totng neither many nor and separate organumtions soon ap- auswerf We will uot look in the Min wealthy, they nwolred to build a peaml, together with danotninatioaal utcM for hi* naaio ; let him find it out church to to owned and oun in tiled book* aud distinctive interpretations himself, wkI prove whether to is solely by ttomaelve*. They hare of Scripture. This lndoood other* to dead sr alive by hia works. displayed a great of dimension*, and is expected Papal iufolllbility in tto late council for eoonpstion in tto at Rome, by* having taught the doc trine lor half a century to tto cbil- upou tto occasion of dren and youths in their schools and seminaries, through text-books suited to tbe purpose. But widening denominational din Unctions and fostering bigotry aud acrimony, ia not tto only evil to to lamented in the 8unday school sys tern. Tto literature, at first so in struct! ve, has been superseded by something more attractive. Rivalry soon sprang up on this gronud, and the result Is, that all tto literature we now have from that source is in tto attractiee gari» < of novels and tales. Open almost* any book issued from that prolific press, and you find tto cuLnp sentences and quota Lion marks, designating wbst one said aud another said, so character istic of tto cheap, dime literature with which onr country is flooded. I am sorry’ to say, that tto charac ters employed in those piotu noveU see not always commendable, nor do their sentiments aud language al ways rise above those of the “yellow covered trash.” The only hope we hare of relief from such a state of things, lies in a revulsion of public sentiment, produced by disgust, on less, indeed, some denomination will take the initiative in producing a superior literature, aud be the mean* of creating a wholesome rivalry in tto right direction. Tto nous of God met to orguuixe tto Tract Bociety, and the deoil met too Perhaps, in its design aud wig »nsl workings, there never was a more |*owerful and useful agent, as a human sgent, for good than tto American Tract Society. It extractr ed from tto pages of dal), prosy and pondrroa* works all that was en livening, evangelical aud practical, and than, in a cheap form, dianemi anted tto most valuable information Minong the people generally. The Officers of tto Society were ox boxy s* beam, sml si ho raaemblcd bees in another important respect. They extracted the honey from many an old folio and moth-eaten volatile, found. |«-rh*|** begrimioed sml cover- ed with du*t, in tto library of mime eccentric biblkumantsc, ami pmtwUxl it, ui a neat and very readable form, to the general reader. Besides this, tracts from the oldest (tens were printed and nrcolated in profusion, “like leaves tn Yalambnisa.” Hun deeds of person* were converted through tto troth flowing in n thou sand channel* from this *tti|M»ndoas organ tut ion Rot sin*! sla*!! the deril ami ton. He spiked this mighty cannon. Tto late war ho* furnished tale* and tract* and book* without number, and the snrteiy ha* become nert tonal and partisan. I greatly fear that there is more troth than poetry in the assertion of a friend, who said in my bearing. “Tbe Tract Boriety has lieeome a political ma chine, and ita late publication* are religions campaign documents and pious political jKildication*." Wheth er tbi* declaration be true in [art or in whole, I leave for other* to decade; tat one thing can not be *u<'cea*fii!ly denied, vix: that many of the tale* and incidents to which tto war gave rise are uncharitable, unchristian and utterly untrue. Men “believe a lie that they may be damnedbat tbe troth alone can accomplish good. Blioald |letter and tbe suppression of the terrible Km Kims restore tbe Tract Horiety to its original spirit, I greatly fear that its former and once powerful prestige is goue forever. In tto formation of the “Interna tional Moral Science Association,* we lack proof a* to whether the sous of God met at all, or bad aught to do with it. 1 have been following Dr. ('albcr's breakfasting career iu America with some interest. Borne whis)«eriiigs came across the Atlantic, purporting that Dr. C. tctu no better thorn he thvmld br. The w arid could not demde whether the science thus elevated to the regions of morality by this association was gastronomy, or aomething else. It seem* now that during all tbi* series of break Costs the Doctor had iu view the selection of a proper place for his American headquarters. He has settled down n{K>n Boston, the Hub of this great country, the city of moral ideas in onr degenerate age. The selection ot this place for his purpow* is, to me, abundantly sufficient to determine the character of this new-fangled society. There let I>r. 0. breakfast on cod fish, dine on baked beans, and sup on onions, if his taste lira iu that direction. I hare no sympathy with him or his Society.* The sons of God met to establish religion* newspapers, and the deril met too. Mr. Editor, do you heart the dertl met too. For a time the thing worked admirably, aud tbe ttotta Uni we ahoakl kmk tor behind u, around no, aod all about a*. i‘««l werms to have had a vivid alra of aarh a dirts Haag emane in all hia dathm; for he nays. When I * *• g»V«- • of hia opinion satfieet, when to lurried hi* inkataod at tto toad of tto drvil, at Wait borg. lie miaaed the devil, it is tear, toff to hit tto wall, and left upon it as isdellible evidesoe of hia brimf in Batsaic aauovanoes. Tto mmi of God art together to esiabitab tto -‘teadayschool Uhkmi, and never for a moment aaapected that the deed met tom. They eatab- Itailed this moat imwerial engine for good, and it worked moat admira bly. ll pabiistod ami circulated a liters tare at uitor «‘vaagelmal, in- otrartive amt beneficial, and withal aaiteil U> tta r*|maty of rbitdreo. Tto youug vw< trained, and entered the church by scores and hundreds. It sranted ns though all the different denomination* of Christians were about to be united into one grand, gioruMt* churrh of GhrioL Tto ckil dren united in ainging tto wane hy mns, they studied the same lea sons, they had imparted to them the •awe inatemtHMi, and tto hope wan not unfounded that ia another gen cralKMi deuoauaattonal distiiicuoua would begin to give way and lone their ffiiarpaeas through this system. But Uenoaiiimitonal Banday schools kept posted in all matters to the religions world. Now j: {KiUtic*. seoalar news, editorial Z/ ommeudiug quack nostruias hair dyes, ami not uofreq^ tirade* of abuse, in all of which fe very' meagre diet for the Borne editors publish a doable sfoT one for tto church and one for!; 1 * world, with perhaps tbe fimh aafi a! devil indoded. Borne m iagfe ^ two iu the same sheet and op^ , same page, and others pablisli^ satire political, aecnlar paper, merely the headlug religious, potj? of religions oewspa|*ers ore follow^ of Paul in one respect They taw. all things to all men, in order tw they may gain sotne-ratara** The sons of God often uh<. ( in synodical and other ecdeffiaffifol mosociatiqp*. Let them moke c*kn lations to have the devil m«et t H In view of this fact, extreme caatios. great faith and much prayer^ necessary in order that success £ attend their tost plans aod wfog resolutions. Too often we sttm| Bynod, full of zeal for God sad tfc church, propone resolutions, cbf WKi them, have them passed, coojmfe. late each other, *{ieak of the ta. proximity of the milleniam ia queoce of seeing our triumphantly carried, and then, fectly exhausted, we say: “Now I fey we down to xWjt* until a year shall have elapsed, tt give us ao other opfiorUinity to shov our zeal, display oar wisdom, mi wear tmrveires out ia the service of the church. Far tin- LutlM-ran Tfcife. Paul s Thorn in tto Flofo—Wkst wuIt? i do tto name, and tto jteculiar doc- Much has been written, been spoken, but most has bom thought aod wisely left both no writ ten and unspoken upon the shots much mooted question. Were si tto views aod opinions that hare ever been entertained regarding it placed collectively before ns, their variety aod difference would be equal led only by their nwmfor ; w hilst the felicitous conception of thought in some the ludiconsoess aod absurdity it! Others, and the great variety at opinion in all, would richly raw their perusal. The writer’s otea opinion of the Mibject—for be, too, has thought upon it—has, at different times, net been always the same. Whilst he a disgusted with some, no little nam ed at others, and not wholly — with any of those to has read a heard, be must, at the same time, honestly confess that lie it not alto gvther satisfied that his own is ex actly the correct view of it. Ife writer does not hold with those who think that when one expresses as idea concerning anything, he mast always, whether right or wrong, ex press himself in the some way regard mg it, feat be expose himaffif to the ’ charge of incousisteucy. Errart ed kmmanum ; man is human, therefore to ia liable to error. And when one is convinced, in whatever way, that his expressed opinion relative to any subject is erroneous, it is not only right aud pnqier, but manly sad worthy of all commendsUoo, that fe should acknowledge his error. Though a truly wise man w ill not hastily and without modi nffiectM give an opinion on any import*#! Hubject, still especially with rsgnrd to simulative sqbjecU, to which tfe theme at the head of this article « doubtedly belongs, even the wise* of meu not only may, but Accordingly, the writer, though art aware of having expressed his opin ion on tbe subject, certainly of to having published it, is still to ashamed to confess that to does to now hold the same view regarding it formerly. And (he more to thinks concerning it, tto more he i> inclined to conclude with regard toil the preacher did regarding to question, who Melchiaedec was. U was bis invariable custom, upon king {Nweesaion of a new charge, fe preach six sermons U|mmi this suhjto and be as invariably closed bis sermon with: “So you see, my to thren, that we do not know vte Mddiisedoc was; nor is it a rnatfef of great concern tor us to know wfe be was.” So, methiuks, the elaborate discussion of the quest*** What Paul’s thorn in the flesh wall might with equal appropriated** fe concluded with: “So you see, ffi brethren, we do not know what P**! 1 * thorn in the flesh was, nor is it* matter of great concern for «* ^ know wliat it was." Did the importance really to this sul?ject that many attach t» it, Paul would doubtless have verj explicitly revealed to us what Ife thorn in his flesh was. J bit the vert fact that lie did not plainly ***** what it was, is sufficient evidence to us to conclude that he did not tto it of any importance to be ntfifi* known, However, the obscurity ■ which tlie subject lies, afftofe to amide field for searching that possess an uudue amOOttt 1 curiosity; aud tlie time vainly people were instructed sod were 1 iu exjdoriug it, might be put to oV ** tmprofital -rr^hita b« rffeto ^^gurd to what Po*l i vw at tto oam u** 1 p ‘ ni “’i 1,0 , owe must ata a* Paul himrt’R- * n» mtn, oi to be w*ia»e<l »i to the eobjeet u llrtoo, «<" P" that ° f ^,i« doing eo, the r ®* 4l ‘ eooelnde w.U. b.n, L-ted wioelj w» d J“ <,M Merei,o tl j rJ, ttpSttone- that be -I eaJted in eoo«e«|0. 'LrtrtvebiHoD.; hew .11 Swe likewise, beexeu Station» *»“>• t « Ml "l pUuoed tbi" thorn to b.- L n . of the fleeb .o Pa» ! by the Latin tort ret mi*, a thorn * ■Vi: unt this cannot do justice] for temptations of tbe il l ^ coll thorns, since n»ther i» something p:« to A here, thorn of the ^ by which tbeffe-h| ^ by which it is stun which tbe Greek text thoin for the flesh, or a or in the flesh; no that itj jcoembles the Genn “The clog is bomsl t* jjeek;” as though be -even as is fostenefl . i dog,” a ring in the l* | bridle in the mouth of a » g*€ * B 11 mouli may not ruu too mud mischievous; so has itj unto me, that I have a is a great cleg to wy might not exalt myself. Bat be himself explain thorn or dog is; he - messenger of Baton, tba t <*to buffet him,” that fe. him well. Therefore, it the temptations of tto tbe explanation ple.i^ little, that this thrashing the persecutions and sufl- be recounts above, so th* 1 ing is this: I have r<-* revelations, but on. this dog is tied to the dog; nj have related, tbe many t misfortunes, so that ! forget to exalt myself. thorn in my flesh, or np for upon the soul God " mit it to come. Yet it nevertheless - the text, that the devil something peculiar to tl Bt Paul, since he says th* dog. is the messenger of which Satan beats his also because he oeseeci diligently that it might <]*] him, and be is nol hearel not conceive that to sh that persecutions might to were unwilliug to ouft* tions; but since Le himsel| indicate what it was. w< let it remsiu a secrer known to none bit St. Pa] and it is sufficieit that w»*| much, aamcly, tlat even given him such great which no man tau know, wise bound up*n him si j aod such a thou upon h order to prevent him fro himself, of whick. likewise himself cau knov how tto devil, beat or bufeUnl Li in Sermon on the Epistle for Sunday, 2 Cor. xi: 19-A 1-9. WE > S ... \ 1 - * VI K V •N “ All it Lost ’ St. I»ui», July 24 Editors Christa* In*ty clip the followiig from city papers. It so u mis like tto mourn til cry e Especially whee oue win fallibility utters such won not to be regaribd as of li tance. It shoos the luv Papacy for the future. w °rid has been on a gnu But idl the reveieu<*e uu*i world pute upon him, (th* not lift his waiing hop tells to tbe wofld the sml eeruing himselfand bis kt v On tto 28th ult., at lfol>e held a Consistory, r toeconcized the Bishop * Hungary, of 0{Hrto iu Po o f St Jogo, in the Cap fejfefefe- He nfenmnls * 10 toniinatiom made juoutli in brief o< a I*atria *en, and of the lishojis <* aud Miranda, in Portugal “‘shops of Me« and Eie us- He then a|dresst*<I l o»ege in Latit, i„ wh n °*!I^ ed his dw * is *w *n the - 'r e are . ray fery dea 4 . hat,ds of Svto . e have uothiiii hnman aid, for n*- >\Uy shoufowc ^ totter I sbouldjtell and govern m*.,, promises, leave ^ eddressed ui