The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, September 08, 1871, Image 1
ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPT18M"—EPHESfANS IV: 5.
COLUMBIA, S.C., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1871
OLD SERIES, VOL. V.-NO. 157
in applying to me the text, “Being
confident of thin very thing, that He
which hath begun a good work in
you will perform it until the day of
Jesus Christ” (PhU. i: 6); for it re
fers to the work of sanctification, ami
a* yet I was not justified.
I sought my old frieud John
Cameron, who wept in his sympathy
with me, and took me to his minister,
Christopher Anderson, author of the
“Annals of the Kuglish Bible.* This
devoted man listened to tny story,
told m a romantic style; for 1 spoke
of my sufferings as if I was passing
through purgatorial fires. He saw
I was lifted up, and said, “Young
man, were I-to say I am pleased with
you, you would go dowu that stair in
a happy frame; bat yon are yet far
from the kiugdoiu of God. You have
never yet dealt with the jnstioe of
God. His instice in condemning yon
for breaking His law has never yet
entered your thoughts. I see you
are angry with God for not giviug
you salvation as tha reward of works.
But it must be pwee from first to
last.” After a few words he told ant
to go., f thought it very harsh. 1
seemed cut off from all hope. I
reeled to the door, aud when 1 reach
ed the street I felt shut up to God
and alone with Him, and exclaimed,
“O Got^ it shall henceforth be Thee,
and Thee alone!" After this I dc
sired that everything might be set
tled between God and myself, and 1
prayed that every truth might be
burnt into my heart by the Holy
Ghost.
Wearied ami auiioua, I left for
home. A great change was seen in
me. My fierce temper was checked ;
the lion had thus far become a lamb.
All the town beard of it, and pitied
the poor I ml who had, as they
thought, gone mad. Old corn pan
ions, who 1 feared would hinder aw,
never came uear me. Faith was still
the prevailing question. The dor
trine of the imputation of Adam’s
sin. I conk! not see, and I rebelled
against Xhe sovereignty of God, and
thought He dealt hardly with me.
Slowly the trnth in regard to itnpn
tation was opened up. Dimly 1 be
gan to see that I had nothing bo I
unholy Brought*, words, or deeds,
and that for these 1 must die. I saw
that Jesus only had holy thoughts,
words, and deeds, and that these
were placed to my account the mo
ment I believed. I wanted a right
eousness in which I could appear
“The Hev. Mr. and the dfetin-
gnished Mr. Y., contribute to the pa
per." Mach contribution* are fre
quently bought up by these papers
for baits, to entice Christians to sub
scribe, and secare not only their
(istroBSge bat also their influence.
No. Examine carefully what you
would have your children read, dis
carding everything that does not
come up to a strict standard of moral
and literary excellence.
If yon feel incompetent to decide,
get some one in whose judgment and
piety yon have confidence, to decide
for you. Ktidesvor, in the light of
Christian duty, to keep yoor own
mind, and the minds of those yon
love, free from the vitiated taste for
flimsy itenodicals. aud tawdry novels,
a taste which unfits for great deeds,
ami a taste to which can be ascribed
a great deal of the mental incapacity
and general inefficiency which daily
coulee under our observation Ckris-
Building on the land.
In the Hast the peasaoto’ hats are
often very unsubstantial structures.
They are of mod or sunburnt brick.
A night’s hard rain-storm will some
times nearly demolish the entire
village. Their mountain streams,
also, possess a very' peculiar char
actor. The beds of these brooks are
called wadies. In the hot season
they are entirely dry. Yet, even
then, they often offer the best pas
turage. In the rainy seasons they
are swollen streams. The shepherd
builds his hat by the banks of one of
these wadies. If it is built high opou
the rock, it is safe. If it is built on
sandy soil, though there is no water
at the time of building, the treach
erous foundation gives with the first
freshet . Appearances are deceitful
—this is one lesson of the image.
The man's house seems safe so loug
as the wady is dry. It needs a tor
reut to test it No man knows
whether be is safe till he has been
tried. The storm is needed to show
whether be bnilt on rthe rock or on
the sand.
There is another lessoh quite as
ioqKHtant The bearers of Christ’s
Sermon understood it, doubtless. A
friend of mine was onee traveling
through Palestine. The party pitch
ed their tents one night in one of
these wadies. The night was fair,
the air dear, the grass green and
soft, the torrent bed dry. Suddenly
my friend was awakened by hearing
the gurgling of water. Before he
was dressed it was a foot high be
neath his bed. He escaped with
difficulty. His clothes, books, man a
IS PUBLISHKD
At a time when the country is over*
flowing with every variety of literary
production, when the powerful and
Urrleas arm of Urn proas is scattering
frii>ay
and opinion* of every etas* and grade
of writer, it become* a most impor
lent duty of every Christian to guard
himself and family from the noxious
inflneoee of evil paMtcntiooa. It can
not be denied that the prana, to a
great extent, is prostitute to the ser
vice of the devil. Outside of thoee
vile and obseroe publications that
ineult decency at almost every news
depot, and which no true man or wo
man hesitates utterly to condemn,
them is a class of literature more
respectable, which, perhaps, is pro
ductive of more evil results, on nc-
ooaat of the extent to which it ie
patnmiced
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pe«on who take* a|j*ai*r reg-
om the post ofth-e- > Whether di-
, toto (
the better class of
people. In the garb of fiction, and
generally ia the shape of pamphlets
The following beautiful thought*
have an interesting meaning to all
men:
It ia uot only appointed unto ns all
to die, bat also that every man shall
die in aad separation from all earthly
friend.*. The hand that press** as
out upon the great sea keeps all
earthly aasneiattoo* aahore while we
make the voyage. Without earthly
captain or pilot or companion we
must |mss over the water*.
In the loneliness of death ran there
be found no companion t 1* there
no friend there f Oar faith, hope and
love respond, yes. There ts One who
sticketh closer than a brother, life
lore, Miffmag and change and death
have tested, hot not destroyed, life
perernrr, the trials of life sod the
lonqjincm of death ran not exclude.
His rod and bis *tsfl wifi protect and
comfort when nil earthly power fe
broken and nil earthly comfort shall
have censed. “ Yea though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of
death I will fear no evil." Let our
faith embrace Him, and neither life
nor death aor thing* to roue, nor
even the kmettaea* of dying, shall
separate as from the love of God
which fe in Christ Jeans.
It fe perha|M more easy to |er
reive and feel that tar life is not a!
together oar own than it it to per
reive and feel that oar death fe not
altogether oat own. To tinman oh
serration it woukl seem that nothing
broadest license its alluring but de
struct!ve nonsense, to minds capalde
of nobler things.
Kvery day the mails are burdened
with paprrs, |mmpblrts and book*
that are filled with tales aud ro
mances—the emanation* of diseased
bnuns—whose ante popularity mats
in their valgar scenes of passion,
horrifying detail* of hair breadth
escapes, sod ia their power of exci
ting* n maudlin sympathy for crime
aad seosnabty, and a morbid craving
in the mind of the reader for more of
the uisaflerabte trash. This liters
turr. especially intruded for the
young, while fe attracts, asps the
fountain of intellectual strength, ro
cerates the moral system, aad bFin
fusing its richly and immoral scab j
meat, its (todleas sod antral philono
phy, leads the hearts of the youth
captive, sod unfits sad disinclines
their minds for purr solid thought.
Not only fe H intended to coin money
by feeding the vitiated taste which it
excites, bat it fe let often mad<* the
vehicle for diffusing the moat nbaox
ioas heresies, aad men hating the
most baneful and dangerous ideas of
morals sad sociology. Kvery doe
trior that threatens sueiety, every
heresy that strikes at the ehnrrh,
sneaks into it* popular fiction, from
a hoar gilded |mge« the pofeott of a
ikations to
Religious.
|*osed by man. It is a marvel even
In the marvelous Book of books. 'It
is the most spiritual and ideal of the
gospels. It introduces us into the
Holy of holies in the history of our
Ixtrd; it brings ns, as it were, into
his immediate presence, so that we
b*bokl free to face the true Stick i
nab, “the glory of the Only Begotten
of the Father, fnll of grace and
truth.” It presents in fairest har
mony the highest knowledge and the
deepest loro of Christ. It gives us
the clearest view of hi* incarnate
divinity ami his most real humanity.
It seta him forth as the Eternal Word,
who has the sourer of life from the
NOtTCE
DRY GOODS!
■fehai <o $20 «*4
• hell at every* stop,! and, like
t other awakened sii ners, I be
to work for life. Tin language
*y heart was, “llav - patience
Ijme, and I will, pa; ’ thee all.”
t| I did pray, and a; ;ouixe, ami
fe! I was on the w ong track,
did not know that
"Doing is a deadly tliitfer.
: 'Doing ends in death.”!
hegau to read man/p chapters,
king that would do lute good. If
M started to my eye I felt proud
, aod thought surely now Jeans
regard my case. ( I had a long
r >f seventy steps to climb to my
«; at every step I uttered a
I r. lake Lather, as be ascended
i teps in the chnrch at Koine, I
feed out a petition for deliver-
S bat w> voice came to tne say-
] The just shall live by faith.”
bond to make of my works a
% to heaven. I put my anxiety
Ace of Christ; and instead of
titig the One to be believed in, I
tint in gearch of faith,
that they
of jrllterf
promptly wp-
1**4* and pa|mr« are eagerly bought
by the youth, sad rend with avidity.
Ami but only the young, but the old
people, to a must lamentable degree,
greedily devour the literary poison,
uhirh charurterinrs a large number
of t be popular periodical* of the «lay.
And what fe still worse, very many
profeusrd Christian* who, by their
tows hare ram winced the world and
its vanities, sra among the most life
eral patrons of this literature, there
by lending 4»r evil one an efficient
helping hand.
We know member* of the chirrrh
a bo do not subscribe to any religions
paper, a boar fireside fe visited by
some of the weekly *eunational
“blood and thornier" ps|wr* of the
day, ahieh are eagerly rand from
the head of the family down to the
youngest child who can rand. Is
not this inconsistency f ('an any
intelligent Christian deny that the
taste for sock rending fe detrimental
to spiritual culture f < 'an any chrfe
linn parent he Mind to the feet that
this sfusatkmal stuff fe ruinous, not
only to the minds, but to the hearts
of his children f If so let him wake
np to the fart, aad if there fe a doubt
mi to the propriety of jfiviug hi*
children such food for their minds,
then the duty fe Hear and plain.
Ws propose no tirade upon the
ftress at large. The high toooil
literary journal whose commendable
otyert fe to encourage a taste for
pure literature, and cultivate a high
state ol excellence ia all of its
branches, deoorrro the honored place
fe already hold* in the estimation of
•rety enlightened people. Neither
would we countenance the narrow
minded puritaatsm that frowns down
all reading that fe not roseatially
Faith come* ta with ltooC
“No man dieth nato kit
break* the Mdttode. .i
adds: “If we db* we <
Lord* That binds the
to the thing hriool
“Whether We live or die.
Uml V That smrtiir*
and aaptratwm. Imoked
light, the death fort fe ti
looked at friuu the other
surpassingly brilliant.— .V
Bt txks
c in oar
SONS,
parent* bate a share, in his birth
the mother sad the child are part
ner* in the agony ami the joy. Along
all the ways of life he may have a
companion j in all the sorrows sad
joys of life one who sympathises.
In all the march of life hr keepaHnp
to the music of humanity. But vhrtt
be comes to die he fe separated, lie
fe alone. He fe hearing a burden
which none ran share. He fe fight
ing a battle single banded, in the
dark
Many a
jf lionr I spent trying to discover
faith is.
a.tion.
t ^ rnSBU *
one volume, at
read and learn
ii*. It should be
WhL throughout
le eiremar, with
I read all the books I
I find, and searched the Word
rod. Faith! faith 1 faith! was
®y cry. Oh, if I had faith!
Star of Bethteh.em was shining
jfr before me. Jesus was
ling near. He was uttering
voi<-e, “Ix>ok unto Me, and be ye
<L? But I passed Him by.
' ent to a minister in Kdiubnrgh,
began to tell me bow good a
t |t was to be awakened, and
ajviewfcomy being comforted,
i<<i passages of Scripture that
'gt d only to the peoplei of God.
Iij:ed me to hope, instead of bid
tne believe. Thns mauy are led
ri I they may be saved, ami rest
k instead of obeyiug the com
il 5f God to “believe on Him
to He hath sent." The effect
I )ecatne proud of my convic-
my fear* were hushed ; for
► < ays I felt great selfesatisfac
I i nd, thinking that He who had
|n i good work wonld carry it
it smoothly. „
' days after this I was startled
hiding my heart beginning to
things I had forsaken, and theu
) the terrible question, Wlrat if
Is felse pence f I felt £ bad not
Q bold of Christ, and something
:^bw or ueverl now or never!
It fe the wisdom of life, mm well mm
mm Its joy, to be always feeling thi«
grout need of Jeon*. A Urnc chrfe
tiaa feel* that he could no more tiro
for on hour u it boot Jean* than he
could m hour lire without air, or
under the water TWro fe something
delight fat in this sense of utter de
Ot e Coming Joy.—If even now
our hearts burn within us while
Christ o|ieiis to us tbe Scriptures
and makes himself known unto ns in
the breaking of bread, what shall it
be when we become like him, and
see him as lie is, and share his glory,
when wc drink the uew wiue with
him in liis Father’s kiugdom f But
wc know this, that in our oommuuion
now* w e look forward as well as back
want; we eater iuto a fellowship of
glory as well as of suffering; we roll
before us the uew Jerusalem not less
than the old; it is the P^sover of
Cauasii as well as of Egy pt aud the
wilderness; we sit together as in
heaveuly places in Christ Jesus, and
have au earnest of that day when
tbe veil of iuvisibility shall be reut
asunder, and all shall be fulfilled iu
tbe kiugdom of God. “They shall
hunger uo more, neither thirst auy
more ; neither shall the suu light ou
them, nor any heat For the Lamb,
which is iu the midst of the throue,
shall feed them, and shall lead them
uuto living fountaius of water; aud
God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes."
He is happy who knows the will
of God, and has a heart to do it
Christ could say, “My meat is to do
the will of him that sent me, aud to
finish his work." We are to partake
of his Spirit, and find a joy in the
Lord’s work as he did. Perhaps
only a few chriRtians have tbe expe
rience of the Psalmist who ooukl
say, “I delight to do tby will," pud
thus become tbe spokesman for Christ
himself/ Instead of being meat to
ns, tbe will of God » often medicine.
We do it or take it, npon preeerip
tioo, and nave sometimes more of a
legal fear of consequences prompting
us than an evaugelical love constrain .
ing us. But this i* one of the “in
firmities," and it is ouiy overcome
when the “Spirit Uelpeth"
, in n vAttan in which cloaking
steel ran give no sound.
Or, to change the figure, he ha*
soiled out. Tbe rabies have been
loosened. The s nr born haro been
lifted. He fe slowly turning from
port. Tbe spectator* look ou in sol
enmity. He glides into the stream.
He * team* down into “The Narrow*.”
A hue gather* about him. Bat long
before be fe lout to *ight he fe hast to
hearing. If he speak, wo hear him
uo lotiger. If he fire the forewrll
gnu, we see the flash down the bay j
but there are too many utlervewtng
sound* and we are too for off to bear
the report. Il« goes on and on, like
a vessel going to sea, until his marts
lie like a speck on the horison, and
then he has gone. No firing of a
cannon, no waving of signals, no
telegraphic communication can roach
tbe ship. It fe oat oa the ocean, and
shall behold token of land no more
nntil it sera tbe birds that come fly
ing and the flowers that oome drill
iog from the shores on the other
side.
Horh seems a stas's death to os
who see It from this side. Out to a
certain point ws can hold common!
cation with him. We can follow him
in from the market, the forum, the
crowded assembly; we can gather
about his last ill ocas; we con speak
to him nntil his hearing become wb
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ihg to be offlefeL
Brockett’s, in
attending chntrh. Never go, except
when you can matin tort nrr no good
excuse to stay at home.
2. When at chnrch,
asleep or staring about,
listen to the sermon.
3. When yon go home, complain of
the sermon aa light and chaffy, or
dry and uninteresting.
4. Treat your pastor with a cold
and uninviting civility, and then
complain of him ltecaiise he docs not
visit you.
3. Neglect to pray for a blessing
npon him ami his labors, aud then
complain of him because tbe church
does not prosper.
«. Be always finding fault with
your pastor, and yet regret that be
is not more popular with the i*eople,
7. Be very Inkewsrm and worldly
minded, and yet complain of him for
want of seal.
A Neglect to iwovide for his doc
rosary’ wants, and then complain of
him because be wants bis salary*.
Do all these things, and yon will
never foil to have a poor pastor.
vest, our only liberty m tho world
It fe the bandage of our imperfection,
that we can not be directly and nrtn
ally thinking of Jean* all day aud
night, yet it fe art mushing bow near
we m*w to this. Owr %*ery sleep at fort
becomes soltjrot to the thought of
Josns j and saturate! with it. It fe
part of the gtadar** of growing
older ; not only that we are thoroby
drawing nearer to owr first sight of
him, but that ere feel oer depmdrocr
npon hub move end more. We have
learned more about him. We have
had a longer aad moro varied expe
rience of Urn. Oar love for him has
become moro of a passion, which, by
be either
Do not
tan. is the most
WSi ©heap mm
Look to your
md you oa® 5X! n
*pe>:p & (*>"
ora)* ; four
can be nagrowiag. la our pbyiurjl
spiritual life, we
sensitive to the
k, to the necessity of
,w Iew deal with anxtons
! Here was a g<x>d man set-
in b on my lees, taking the chil-
s bread and giving it to a dog.
ia4 no right to give me any
i8f pddressed to the children of
The promises are all yea and
but only in Christ Jesus.
» Genesis to Revelation the
isR8 belong to tbe 1 Christian :
afe his iu Christ
“This little fellow," said Martin
laither of n bird going to roost, “has
chosen hie shelter, and is queitly
locking himself to sleep without a
care for to morrow^* lodging; calmly
holding by hi* little twig, and leaving
God alone to think of him."
and grasp bin hand until be a
longer recognise whether it h
pressure of lovo, or hypoerfej
hate; aud thou, still dying, out
—be fe alone. He doee not heu
wailing wife nod children- lie
not bear the oob of the ntaoly f
Kvery art of sin is more ii^jarious
to him who commit* it than it can
possibly be to any other who suffers
by it; but it will return into tbe coo
•aieoee aad perform n strange work
Many have
wn to hell, pillowing their
a promise, but not taking
The good man was wrong