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ONE LORD, ONE PAITH, ONE B APTI8 M”—E PHE8IA NS IV: 5. COLUMBIA, 8. C„ WtIDAY. 8KPTEMBKR 1. 1871 OLD SERIK8, VOL. V.~*0. H6 chain. Obedience is beat sccom pllshcd in detail. It become* prae ticnblc so. We arc to regard oar- selves as artists working under a master. The master knows Ike cod to which we labor, lie may vouch safe to os a glimpse bow and then of the Meal to which the statue under our bands is growing. Hut we are to strike our strokes of putieaoe la hnmiNty sml faith. ‘ It is \rr»nd refill bow many are the iudhrithml commandments of the fWbte, and liow infinitely msnifohl they are in application to the needs and uses of onr ever} day life! let the Christian bhfc read his BUd©—not so man> verses, as Paptafa const vhefr beads—there is no magical rir feue in Bible reading of that sort— but with tlie prpcMeal pwrpeae to do the things therein bidden, one by one, and his pegwe wHl begin stand taneonsly with hts obedience. If there is anything wanting in the spirit of his obedience, tlie letter of the commnndment to be obeyed wHl be note to tad it oat. The com **••• cottage. Bat ah hearts are in God’s hands, and he can torn them aboai at his own wflL Hecaascnd as help from the most unlikely motive*. Be let us never fail to call upon him to the day of trouble, and This was the pointed interrogatory addressed to young man by an apsd saint, to whom the youtbfn? eottred ast iiad been dapriti«ff ia giowiag colors, his ambittons schemes and happiness. Efts hopes and .dream* , Strictly in Advance. lITHHYtYl ••••••• «#«»,••• « * « - * w • • • - • -* Ww A Widows of Xliut^tcvs, we stfN have. We can not be in so had a case that we have nothing to be thankful tor.—CM* WvrH. » things that are seen and temporal. He bad not aocastsiaad himself tot look beyond the grave, to the thing* which are unseen and eternal. For an argument against the feasibility of been armed at m. point*. Bat fbr tho starting inquiry which asuamsd Chat success might crown bto effiuru, and yet that it was well to look mrmt beyond tttB goal of fifa aspiration*, he was not jfreporrif. *•* To bow many, just entering upon as untried career which youthful hope has painted with rainbow hoes, the same question might be ad dressed. True, disappointment may await them; their lot in life will be su exceptional one, if it does not. And yet, should every plan result in accordance with their brightest an tkipatious, this is not all, It would be well to look farther. To use the wools of One who spake as never uiau spake—words which embrace in one comprehensive sweep ah possible arms of liuiuau ambition—should the aspirant “gain the whole world,* yet, if this were all, he wighl"weU put to his own heart the searching question, What will it (iroftt f Hui not sloim warm hearted and impulsive youth should heed the same inquiry. Middle life, and even grey haired age, plodding ^aWg to the same beaten path of tod and care which they have beeu feus* ing fur weary yean, aud which with Ami for myself, I oan say that eace to detail to the actual main I menu of I’hriU did, om ter yearn, change H*u what* I harped per nttmnn Ite are entennl an tee «u)> ithout the first payment vea Decision*. who talma alUSper m«- .Mcn hare tried ail kinds of mrth U, except the only right, effectual d divinely appointed oar, for thareag into union the brolua aud and for tuning to harmony iU eordaut v order* his p»|w discon pay all arrears ices, oi ruses isbsrtd They have tried the compulsion of law, the ponaor of logic, the pcrsuautoB of ataqoepcc, the subscription of article*, the ap plication of teats, the authority of tradition; and yet all these means have signally failed, not only to pro em* internal unity, bat external uni tbrmity. tfcwpcrere sod klip*, popes and prelates, councils and convoca tions, oabioeU and senate*, divines sod lawyers, have all employed their wits and exerted their hand* in this great work of unity; and yet, what ever bare been their scheme*, and with whatever dftfgmce the> have been applied—however they may have ap|teah-d to the fears, the rea son, or the rtrpititty of the o|»poslitg parties—they have alt left the rhumb as dirktrd and as inbarmoniofi* as (hey lonnd It, and, ia the language of tfespair, bare confessed that mtkui among Christians was a state of things not to be expected in this per seat wocW. A i»d \rt there, ttpou the very surface of rcvdutioti, where every eye can mot it, He*, and has lain fbr eighteen centuries, a princi- ptr so Ktnrplc. that a chikl may un- demtaiid H, w hich, it properly felt and jndietoudy applied, would have effected that which has ever been considered so difficult. and yet so wowary->rn«MAxn»« crew aw otiict ix Ijovb.* :DW*dy inspired, heaven descend ed, God like sentence, how simple, yet how Miblime! By what ma- rhinatioti of Hat an, by what entitling artifice of the father of lies, by what operation of the dcoeftftilneag of sin, or by what treachery of the desper ately wicked heart of man, has the ttestify of thi* precept lieen conceal ed, its feme evaded, or its efficiency prevented 9 If (here be one practi cal precept we would w ish to be printed to wtavry fhanuMer* On the dark page of the niglgjy *hy, that the attention of men might be irre i siatibly turned, to it, it Is this iqjuoc- lion, “Forbearing one another in love** This one short precept uui- vetauhy obeyed, would sot aU right and reduce all to order. It would | not at once reconcile all miuds, but it would harmonize aH heart*. It would uut amalgamate ah churches I into tut external uniformity, but it w ould < oaiUne Uu iu all iu thr unity of the S|*int and iu il»<* buml of l*aee. It might net hush Uie von*) of «:ouUo\crw\, i»st it would toko from it the harsh dtemuance of hu man passtou, and cause it to speak iu tbv nweet tone* of divine chari- Uo* m And whoa He aotece again, •rely ere shall see Him, mid they dm that ph-rred Him. They shall are Ills bauds sod Nk able. And while Hts peofde are gfid wte-u they * Tiwln wi da as fonuerl nd Saturday*, >*-President. «* Agt. cents per quarter. I and wmmmwkotionH to *•- jdi A. R. Rri)K»I>.U., fWaaOrfs. 3. r. fererer, RU eaemtos wtll weep ami toiuem heeaase <rf Him. He si ap |war as their Judge, aud they most the* he driven away from Ilia |*re ■mire. mnI e is bn* Awever the vrsUi of the Vsaavkf Hmlasnl feoriuldueml Ilk. that tke> me wtea www, am! won Id enme to film while Ho totem IUtOAD. xcepted: *f Sp® I 92 P “» 3 team ^ 15 a m pto atari tor divina »<mdilp, Uusi and thurv muy U>«> etpato Cknai's pimruoa. Ilia diaujitos acts mil «x parting ty, a%l whun lie cojar and Bdigious. ibdnce is generally aonteived Christians as doing what ia rather than aa doing what ia ;m<$ed. This ia emasculating iaa ty of that which ia its most jr>j i teMIlitotto pocaliarity— MtMfoal relation of Christ to the f the believer. Christ did not mb sevsdl duty aa magnetise an I make it attractive by as mg it with himself. It has bteu claimed by skeptical iatl that Christ aihh-d uotbiug •Set to human knowledge of with *nrpp|9*, , ofhsu so with us f OTIOE net expecting Jesus k* aoaot wuh lav. and .if ww» sliooid ace u»} spmaal Buinifastalious of Uw «fo\ me pause o»s, •o unprrimrttl are aa, and re UUto do we look tor and vapuct *i> snob ilium, that M rInntliI t'lilutiL ustlnl Jsrok| “Huruly ibu Isjwd is m tin-* ptonr; ami i kins it nut! Uww drosdtet U tins pluot*, for God is bore f* This ia w rung. W« skuahl expect tied to inert with n*. Ur Y GOODS! of my experience. INd my iN-hswitli incline mo to despondency t ftew ophy Would advise me to keep ap tey spirits ia vain. Hygiewr nonbl pre scribe a hearty laugh feu bo ptnymsp. But one whisper feum the l/srd, “Be of good cheerp 1 have overcome the world,” wss enough to revive me. I SB * 801TB, S, MD., meet the wants th »t s distance, ss com is and. But it wns todtotely consoling to obey. My heart became as the heart of a (feiht hi tears whom its mother takes to her bosom ami wooing! v bhis be eomferted. It is It ia llo that tank* to all who believe. ward, they are, eoaieUtees hwguidly, MHoetiaMS renleusly, porsutog still, should (suite lo ask the tewa qaee liou. A laigo I*srt of their journey has been already' passed. The re wsiudor uaj be very brief Would iloiot be wise to consider the latter cord my name, & will mam* wain you, and I will Ursa jon.” lie lores the gates of dkm more than all the dud Umm of Jacob. Uu mar is there» not be careful to dispute . What ufen needed for I* of duty but more love of bis Christ offers to produce. ' it by taking ap the duties ring them teHtimoBials of himself. The absttset im to conscience becomes the huperative of Christ to the obey. Under the goading of a pastoral conscience unaware* beeomtog ia periou* beyond its aim I was grow ing harsh sad exacting to thought toward the spiritual sluggards of my flock f .1 came in from a walk fall of ceusorions solkdtmle, and took op the New Testament to got my reckoning afresh. There I read 4 “Be patient toward all men.* Aa an act of instantaneous loyalty to the Lord, bow easy it was, with an toward smile half of shame and bah of con scion* forgiveness, to lay aside iay foolish mood of blame. Well I remember having once re turned a stinging retort to some sharp word from a friend, and parted from him to the heat of my spirit. I strode hastily away, pushed on by inward stir to a rapid gait. • A pre cept .made uie slack my speed it made me pause—it made me tarn — and took me all the way back hi where 1 had toft my friend, to *s^ that I bad been wrong and Chut I with sorry. ‘tJoafras your (halt oat* to another* had conquered are. 1 sat oae day listening re a voiun teor teetere in a course of Agricultural Chemistry to New Haven. The tor turer was an elderly gentleman from the eooutry, whose torn It was to detail but views and experiences on the culture of fruit. He was not a preettaed speaker, and Ms talking halted and stumbled. Yielding to the critical spirit most habitual with me, I found myself luasiag ia a cap tious vein—‘*Mv dear air, you are should export to awl with Hiss, sad to have Hull meet with die Nor should this expectation hr nsduul to the worship of the Mortuary, am to the riahhatb; far Jesus Christ «ar*s “Where two or three are gathered together ia agr name, there am 1 in the midst of them.” Around our fruady share, aod ia the social meaUag far prayer aod pnusr, ire rt to Baltimore promptly asp Indeed, do wot tha people of Ated often deny them stives rt-itShmaVir privilege, wheu they too, amidst Ike cares, peridexities, and sorrows of life, fail to look forward ia a sorrow less and sinless future 9 Wfcy is it that the Christina, with such a tmaft ney of promises placed before him to the Gospel, so often refuses to avail »cc is soint*tlim_ r i—ntially from right dmugv Bight he conformity of oneVi cou- * rule. Obedienea fte the o of one’s wilt to u refer, tog is a barren exerci^* of solitude. Obedience is a having such attributes, maid have crested this upi vrewe with I* weadrr fid harsHWiw red adsiealton*. Tbs two rctoitohina are Mitetnhak Urea. Iu Mppfeowat eaoh other. It as se if Orel liad given two taiolaihMte. the hrtfrr bo otcreoom IMT) farm of ae Stock iu inir Twirtment- Ad- KKA SONS. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Mil. 48—ly tioo to he derived from dwelling upon them ami making them his own 9 Tossed as hs oflk n is, tike a mariner upon.the billows of a tempestuous sea, bow (ireefcms to hts sodl should be tlie possession of that hope » Wdi Is an anchor, rare and steadfrnl, nml which entoreth into that wttlrtn the ►r the People’s * D’Anbiime’s ’ THE ation- one volume, at reatl and k«xu *. Itshouraw* dly throughout le eirculafg with td commissions C«1 AdtolU. fT.& CO., 5 a 7th St., IhdelphiA, Pa. Thm bring Urns, reUgam has note tog to lose. Mai everything to gate, from tha iiitvsligaliore of svivarr To bo sore, (her* are, at present, U s a are ever placed iu great straits amt UilHrulUe*, there ia no remedy for it like pm> cr. “Call npun mo ia thr day d truubhq and 1 w ill answer thee* ^ A |hmit urea was ouoeroo i**lue«-«l that tie lre*l no feud for his fsiuily . and Jeans met with them, teal ua rspoetsdly to thru motet; so He has proudstsi to umrt witli His iwopfe at Blotted Oat TIow blessed to know tliitf att tfte didogue of siu and "nflt fur Hts wstndMp, aud a* at the last meeting with His dmciptra torture He was nailed to Uni tress lla suM, having lanfftated the eapper, “This do ia rciarmbraacv of mo,” sandy Hi* people hare speriat era*re t» expeet Hit pretence whea they most ls« * the Ueiuvinh, the revelation oi the Word and ret rlatmu «f u-Ourr. ltet three tlnwepturm are uob apperrot, nut real. Where ihr» er- loiig, dark catalogue of siu and ^nflt —the way warduo.ss and dWhe<^ncc of years—is blot led oat. Blotted out from (be sight of him with whom we Tkave to do. I ga*e,, as it were, upou each l>agc of tbst dark history of the past, and flmt that till is gone. ru-place of mectiiig at ev ery page my grievous slus, T see the brood— that precious blood tvhich coveys, yea, blots out ev^ry staiu. Seeing this 1 rejoice, knowing tha| Jesus has borne Hie prtulshtoept—til&the bus goue down' it.to the dseep, dark grave, having doue all that wo* necessary for tny acquittal from tfe* guilt, the shanle, amt awful cObse <juences of my sins, and this gives mO peace—cafrn, settled, jbxftil peace. The cblWren iiwt wreq^tg to bed, and tin* half frMniiibril mother wcpl over there, atitff she too v» exhwust- ed and fell ri#|v. The poof dither looked with anguish on lus Kloupuig oaaa, aud then weat out into tbs bright tunoidigbt» to talk aloue with L He walkod uu to a retired place, w barn be bad often guns 14 pray, tiers those words from Hate akkuk came into his mind: 4< A1- thiHigh the tig tree shall not blossom, neither shall frtut lm in the vim*; the labor of tlic olive shall fail, and the held* shall }icW uo mest; th# flock shall U’ cut off from the folJ, pk of This! I !U 30,060 <»f the Fmaco- day». It now fie Bed Rebel- fJJB ■toforr. Brice, When Jeans m«*4« with His pen pie He makes them happy, fftod sml joyful. When lie ntainU is their mtdfrt. Hr says, “Fence lie unto youand tlien no wuadev that they are glad and rejoice. Ifkl elfrinriteis when they meet alsreyu expert tbs HavtooFn presence, He would not <lisap|MrtHt them, wad tto-y would always have a good end happy amet leg. None would then rxet.iim, My cehhwte«, tny leanaeiml bat every heart Would be Warm, every eaul tel and flmtrhflitoff, nail all would —Jam IB tbe Hod of ffieir ashrarion. lto|s- be jeyfrit nml bsppy samainaifws ox|ireted always to meet Jsaaa at Hfs table; for He would breathe upon ua. and say, Ksotfve fo the Holy Ghost, He would stretch fwrtb His hands and My, Ifearw be onto you! Our expectation" of the Per fear* • presence snd favor should always Strattons, and, a to l>e dtfteiek Brockett'a, »n n, w the mort le, cheap I.ook to yoar id von can w® »EED A C0-, IPfais— which mean* that ire y intention do what Christ y* because Christ says it. |pwijas the Christian lrttolfliritoet- 9Hi>rabcnded the personal (piaUty '- H1Q obedience, he in still liable “tot b> bis obedience fat lack of ow ledge exactly how to obey. He U himself at large in tbe bound Wipl are of duty, where ha is lost fleck] e what the specific l thing is *1 lie should do. He fancies that faMbrnl it out lHmsrifei Hede- and there shah bo no hcnl iu th# stalls; yet I Will rejoice in the I **rd, Jf know that God Is jdst. Jfly siias have uirt their due in Christ upon the cross, so am t free from Ac pun ishtn^ufc tb^y deserve; yea, more, I am *■ in stifled—God looks upon me as though I never committed otie. Oh, the jierfection, the blessed com pleteness of that salvatipij b} 1 Jesp* Christ. It is this which gives mi shaken peace and joy to the soul thaa resting upon his finished work —upon himself. God hath declared in his Word, “that through this Man (Jeans Christ) is preached onto you the forgiveness of sins; and by him all who believe are Justified from all things, from which y*e could not justified by the law of -Moses.* 1 WiU joy m tbs God of n>> salva* tiaa.* As ho tiiought upon it, his heart ¥M lifted up oulil it was ChU of joy i td please Christ by obeying ] Me takes the most todnsive «t»tj of all, which we^mne the lemBule. But how to apply It f MM himself with a kind of baf ala|, what would Christ have me T int is not the clue question «#<1 him out of his lubyriuth. #t Cstion for him ia not, what lienor, imoauM it «Umanut cuaiptete- ly, and at onus, liarnMmoo wuh the toaohuigs of Bcrqrtare. Tha world moron, although GaUWo loved him. I imagined tbe way 1a which, for iastanoe, a daughter pres ent would listen to her father 1 # lac tom With eager sympathy, know ing his want of pmetioe, she would watch big beginning, and as hr sur mounted one difficulty after another would reflect, “Why, really, how well bather gets on! Who woald have guessed It 9 I shall feel quite proud of Mm!”" Tbto course of changed inedHation about tlie gentle man to whom I was listening, wholly transformed tlie ex(»erieuoe of the hour. My obediansa to a prsiwpt transflgursd my spiritual mood, but it alao fructified my miad. 1 tanuf of the thing. We are *o busy thiuk- ing, discussing, defending, Inquiring, or preaching, and teaching, and working, that we have no time aud no leisure of heart for quiet contem plation, without which the exercise of the intellect upon Cbristfa truth will not fool, and busy activfy ;)n Christ's cause may starve the soul. There are few things which the church of this day, in all its parts, need* more than to obey the iuvita tiou—“Come ye yourselves apart iuta a lonely place, and rest awhile.*—. Set. Alexander ATcLarm. shir, on a wooden bench, was joint of rotated meat aqd a very largo leaf ef bread l Ob, don't, you think he felt aa if God had sent ad angel to help him 9 He gunUy awok# his wife and then the litUe ones, and such a supper aa they feasted out it seemed like angel's food totbwp. What was stUl more rein.ukali.« was that Go»l had so influenced tbt heart of a revy miteriy okl laan, t# omU sp his servant in the night, and bid her cany the food to this poor Wltoh ispired the church tha more— this grand discovery, or the attempt to oeooral U1 God has not given ns bring in a world of wonders, sub ply to aortasd m( auc haa he suirMred- ed ua with eo mueh that ia beautiful, without <1—igssng that wa «ho«14 ciamiiH aod stedi IL lie feu giv#a OS the wondecfal aud the beautif** 1 . iu older UmI the tiMohimfe to uaUut No. 8 8. Cdj 6 Lou' ot»* v and Fr*™* tt 4-ir- f* 1 3hrist tell uie to do 9 bat, Mr Christ told uie to do f He 4 1 ® r »» answer to tbe for- (Ufetion {terhap*. He has only •en and a thousand answers to quest fey spring at once to y»| Let him frankly take hi* 5 4»d begtnj. ft wrktarS little Ptecepflfaltr VHii f Euch of them is a link is an eudfoee I'oKcivi^sLs.s.JSybp( leaves a mark of itself in th© w^bc, whereby it is know n so, it is witit every o»e who lma a readiness to fotgi' for by it the ckrUtiaa may know dfet God hath scaled the foigivcuess of his gins upon his heart.