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Friday, August ll] 1871
liberty j m all thing*, < Jurrity.
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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
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5 sent to Bubaribem until
ffider to digcoqtinuu i* re-
ill arrearages are paid, us
law. Merely retaining a
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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
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“ 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