The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, October 20, 1871, Image 1
■ March t, mi.
« d»te, March i i», t
SK^jgkjS,
with Train"*“«£
£ 00 a u,
10 a m
:*••• ?
•••• «5 00n in
«»S5
ItVN.v*
*V •. • « ,
* 8(S aui
:«Si;
-WgiS
> — 1 P m
[T.'bartleVt 1 '*
polnmbia, S. <! }
9,1871. <
|5h*SS,S7* irw ”»
Train.
• * -7 40 » m
ssoiS
i '* * 8 40 p m
? h f and Accomnodo-
* «S P01
® 45*.®
* J 10 p m
* 8 00 a m
,'w?K- n Tr ? il1 will
•lnmbia w formerly'
& Vice-President
| Ticket Agt
RABLKOAdT^
iBlue Ridge Railroad
lays excepted :
r * *-—..4 30 p m
Iti ..7 00 p m
I'at 1 S an '
i w.... ..—6 15am
advertisements.
NOTICE
DEY GOODS!
A
naunting to $20 axd
m* aay Part ©/
untry
resa Charges.
& SONS,
lORE, MD.,
to meet the wants
tomers at a distance,
IWBUAH,
ition. promptly tend
'ample® of the New-
bionable Goods, of
M Domestic Manu-
r at all times to sell
ridrs, than any house
om the largest and
Miufacturers in the
lirope, and iinporting
# direct to Baltimore,
imes promptly sup-
Ities of the London
only for rath, and
I ane able and willing
tox Ten to Fieteex
>fit than if we gave
■ W
specify the kinds
Keep the best
i of goods, from the
etly.
tied by the rath will
r holes axe Biters
ct the Stock in our
) Department. Ad-
lASTER &-SOXS,
Test Baltimore St.,
Baltimore, Md.
, ' 48—ly
Think of This!!
sss!! ! 30,000
ie Franco-
s. It now
:ed Rebel
600 pages
id wul sell
re. Price,
reDcn, me
ion#, and,
lie official,
kett’s, in
the most
heap and
to yonr
a can com
) & CO -
148 Lake
-tf
11
foo.vdky
ill IN-
.j/ec 9
IT
on, a c.
7—iy
H.
1
11
f t'.f!
',1
m
H
SERIES, VOL. 4.--N0. 7.
ONE LORD. ONE FAITH, ONE B A PTI8 M”—E PHE8IA NS IV: 5.
Columbia, s. c., Friday, October 20. i87i.
OLD SERIES, VOL. V.-N0. 163.
V'ijilo#
Wife
itaa
Tjj ptTBhtSHBD
Y FRIDAY
by :n
E it MILLER.
8trietly in Advance.
JL.. $3.90
°X**V 1J45
of Ministers,
MaaMtsU 3-00
fail to remit at
of their sttWrtp-
charged per annum 8.00
_ are entered on the sub '
without the first payment
!?*
=
»APiR OlCWlONS.
1 Who takes a paper reg-
? post office—‘whether di
ne or another's, or whether
jed or not—i* responsible
n orders his paper discon-
st pay all arrearage*, or
may continue to aend it
is made, and collect the
i, whether the paper is
office or not- n
i have decided that refu-
*wspapers and periodicals
office, or remtiving ami
ncallec l for, is prima fneie
rational fraud,
re cents per q muter,
tes and comm tinications to
A. R. RUDE, D.D„
Columbia, 9, C*
Religious.
] or the Lutheran Visitor.
A Sketch oftk b Church.-For the Young.
taTMBEK n.
Cod'
different rulers of the
p re the dames of perse
relentlessly against this
uj ch, and we would ear-
■£eBT L.
tioea. There waa a little church of
the Waldense*, Id the mountains of
Piedmont, which la still in exlatenoo,
and which constantly bore testimony
to the truth, although every Individ
uni who did to was immediately put
to deuth, when it waa possible to do
it, by the peraeonting power of
Home.
And now yon will understand, if
your attention has not been directed
to the matter, why a reformation
was so much needed as that success
folly inaugurated by Luther and his
associates. Some attempts in this
direction had failed because God’s
time had not yet come to bring his
true church from the wilderness of
obscurity 4o which it had retreated,
and to expose more folly the iniqui
tous pretender who had dispossessed
her af Jpr rights.
It is not within the scope of this
very hasty sketch to give more than
a mere glance at things which are
deeply interesting ; and it would be
altogether a superfluous work, even
for the children of the church, to add
another account to the already nutu
berless ones of Luther’s life, and his
mysterious, providential preparation
for the great work before, him. Our
only object is to direct the attention
of yonng persons to these things,
that they may feel the deep interest
in their own church that even chil
dren should feel, and that they may
inform themselves from other and
better sources, which are abundant,
and to which they can hare ready
access. It is a shame to grow np in
ignorance o&^he history of one’s own
chnrcb, and t
—
the Lord to them to “Boost thou a aud a thousand other such tilings,
mnu wise in his own conceit 9 there before they mm prevent him from
is more hope of a fool than of tom f ( having the pereemiaeuee, who loved,
hot if a man, on the other hand, has bemuse ho loved us, to call himself
sooh a sense pf his real deflotoncy, the “Boo of Mao,”
that he feele the ueed of education j oeUed him the ‘ Boo of God.”,
ia divine things; If be soys, “The
work to so great that it oau only be
accomplished by the putting forth The Tis#
of every endeavor,” then there will
be that /her end trembling of which Tbs flrst uicutioa of a vineyard in
the text speaks—that natural insight, Bcriptors is counseled with unhappy
that alertness, that earnest circuit * otreuinstances, throwing a shallow
spection, winch every man has who OT * r character of one who had
addressee hilusslf to a Uiiag whkh is “found grace ia the eyes of the
valued, and which stands ia distinc
tion from that atonement which a
man has who thinks he is well
enough off.
At any rate, bring to this work
that earnest nr** which ncu bring to
things which they desire and amm
to have lu secular life. There to
nothing ia this world which requires
more spirit, more pur|toee, more
' Lord,” Gen. vi; A aud who stood#
by the aids of -Daniel and Job as
S‘«*» of spectal approval m Jehovah's
fight, Ifeok. xivt 14. There to a
perhaps to everything which the
Bible has not revealed, and therefore
the optuioa of maty that Noah was
the hrst who cultivated the vine,
and pressed its grapes for wine,
should be cautioeely received; for
lbs Ixnrd has said uf the antediluvian
aiuuvrs, that “they ate and drank,”
watching than this work. There is
no more various cultare than that
which m derived from seeking those MaU. xxiv: 38; nevertheless
great ends which are set before ,Lir idea of the anefenta that ignorant
every one in n christia/i life. We ,u power. Nosh may. have drunk
can uot afford to be indifferent Chris
tiana, We eau not make progress
In Christian life, if w« live in s state
of supine indifference. We are to
work out our own salvation as ear
cent men work, thinking lielore,
thinking after, foil of resource*, foil
of desirea, as men are when they are
searching for things which their
w hole heart is set upon.
It is not, then, servile fear ami
of the fruit of the viue, to worthy of
notuw.
l'alewtinr abounded in vineyards.
We know from the visit of the spies
to Ksbcol what ita grapes were, aud
to express the qniei and plenty of
Israel in Canaan, it became a proverb
that “every man should sit under
his vine aud under his fig tree,”
Mic. Iv: 5. “Tbe anelent Hebrews
proliabh allowed the vine to grow
nil barren wood of the
vine used to be V Oh J what bitter
neas there to in these wild, mlf-im
planted grapes, growing by the
world’s wgy-side and not in the vine
yard of tbe Lord of hosts j perhaps
ww have known what it to to have
been assailed by their bitterness—to
have come under their cutting lash
and the strife of tongues as “they
shoot their arrow, even bitter words,”
while they tauntingly say, “what to
tbe vine-tree more than any tree, or
than a branch which to among the
trees of the forest T Then the vine I
of Hudoui; just like say other fruit
in color—|ierhaps more beautiful. '
but so hollow that it contains noth
who when down here could say, “To
me to live to Christ,” Ah, there will
be a recompense for works which are
the fruit of grace and faith.
I'nul knew his aooeptanee to be so
perfect that be could look right up
with au angel’s eye iuto the light of
God’s presence, aud say to all down
here, “You have seen me dwelling
in the light, and have seen the light
shining oat of me; et’Tjvthing in
the very bottom of my heart has
been made manifest in tbe light.”
Jerusalem.
How touching the description of a
dear friend of ours on coming in sight
tng but smoke and ashes, smooth I of aud wa!kiug iu streets
enough outwardly—fair and soft to I fur tbe flwt “ W ® rode on.
the touch—hanging iu lovely das
reached the summit, and could ouly
t^rs—yet just handle them sod test i W **P ‘ Strange aud deep are the
them, and vou will hod them on | v ' rwotum* that sight creates! ‘O Je
puff-balls, fearing nothing behind rUHi4,e,1, * Jerusalem! thou that
but runl and shreds. stouest the prophet*, aud killest
them that are sottt uutu thee !* O
city of the Great King! once so
high: uow so low! O scene of the
precipitous Vale of Uitinom, and the
softer valley of Jehoshaphat, in the
rocky summits of the city walls aud
towers, and in the varying views of
surrounding bills, and glimpses of
distant country. But it to on what it
might be that one likes to dwell, not
what it to, for tbe sweetest spots on
and around it are alike marred
by ruin and degradation—misery
stamped on everything. What a
teitkering thing to the /rows of Ood f
Till that to removed, till Zion ‘in the
blood of her victim shall wash her
deep guilt away,’ her desolation—
her awful blackness—most remain,
and all that [tass by must be aston
ished at her!”
What a contrast when she shall
appear like a bride adorned for her
hnsband, aud be as a royal diadein
in tbe hands of the Lord!
But bow pleasant it to to turn
from these wild viue* and vines of
W
Bodotn to tbe vineyard enclosed by
tbe walls of grace, yet rich as it to
in im|i*rted mm! imputed richness,
to sit under tbe shadow of Christ
tbe living viin*—a vine of the wiue
(aa vine tree to rendered. Numb, vi:
4>—tbe true vine—the vine of truth
as the Hyraie Version reads, and the
The Wealth of Age.
_ . __ „ —, —- . ..nal shame to he so
our vouthtul readers to . ..— „ ^ ,, , .
* u- wi • ludifferent as to suppose all churches
tiou on this highly in
t deeplv mournful sub- .
0 , . . j stand if Ay we are members of a par
$re some Buudpy-school* . *
trembling, but geusroua, uaul>,«mur trailing on the ground or upon sop
ugenus, wltoh
bliug, which
fear and trem-
coum-s fnHu the beet
which they can learn
sbojitjU, and we think them
r>adiDg for our young
Me over-wrought stories
and impossible little
who haVe converted
and then l^kl down
lives as victims to
youthful zeal. Such
excite thoughts within
they have never yet had,
discover what their pres
religious security has
in the heaveu-
sofferiug, agony and
equally good. We should under^. feelings, acting iu tbe beat directions,
and inspired by the best influences,
that we are called upna to be ae
porta: this bitter mode of cultivation
ap)H‘:trs to be alluded to by Kzekiel
(xix: It, 12). The vintage which
formerly was a arasou of general
titular chnrcb, so long as these
differences unfortunately exist, and tuatrd by in working out our
test its doctrines by the infallible
rule of faith—the Holy Bible.
M. B. B.
(Ttf be Continued.)
Godly age is beautiful, because of
its wealth of experience. A chris
tian course of forty, fifty, or sixty
Saviour, who will yet establish His j years, is a grand volume of history,
earthly throne iu thy midst—do our ! adorned with admirable illustrations
eyes behold thee f can it be ? to that of divine grace. What joys have
Mount Zion, which God loves ? Oh, thrilled, ' what sorrows have sad-
how our eyes devoured it! and, I dened, what battles have beeu lost
must confess it, how' disappointed and won, in that aged heart! What
were our expectations! • • • a testimony he can give of the power
Heptuagint wholly true, is indeed ! ^ uo ^ er thing for which I was hardly of grace to sustain, of the truth of
drinking of the “wine which maketh ; I’ nf P aret * WiM » lh e ruined state of Je- ’ the promises of God, of the change
glad the heart of man.” jNot iutoxi ' 1 uosalom. 1 knew it had been repeat- less lore and tenderness of tbe
eating, fermented wine, which Bolo ! ^M.v ruined aud rebuilt, but did uot Brother and Friend Divine! It is
toon saya “takes awav the heart,”)— j ex l KVt to fiuU 4t uow bterally a imim
all we want to the word of power' 0 / »ocb »t iatoan iudescriba
from himsetf, “drink, yea dnnk 1 *** ^gree—ruins of ruins repaired
abundantly, Oh, befevtnir But in aud ruined a « 5iiu ’ r 0 ' 0 * with
jret a %*er\ little while, atter having ru,n, k ruiued buildings built of the
been sustained tbnmgh our wilder o( former buildings, and ou tbe
! teas coarse by this noul sustaining' rain ” of others. ‘Heap* of stoues’
in
festivity, commenced in September. | Wr ^ ^ to eve *nd rverjwhere; and nowhere; save i
The towns are deserted, and t^e sight of him agate, this! 4 few European structures, anything
tion. Ami surely the apostfe teurben pe*q*fe live among the vineyards in
us that every man needs to work out lodge# or tents. The grapes were
hi* own salvation with tear and trem gathered with shoutings of joy by
bltng—that to to aav, with uoceostug the graja* gatherers, Jer. xxv : .HI,
vigilance, with untiring watchtalueai
i
J
the
swell
the Christian religion
over obstacle* and adver
se Emperor or Constan
that it should dis
in his portion of the
Empire, and by war * aud
to was established over
of the empire. Depressed,
t nd persecuted, it uow be-
domiuant religion ; of
was also the fashionable
“Working Out Our Own Salvation.''
Tbo apostle soya that tee are God's
husbandry. Our souls are his farms.
And when God begins his work iu
your aonl, and seeks for humility,
and meekness, ami love, he says to
yon, “Work ont these traits. Plow
for them. Sow seed for them. Aud
when they ooinc up, cultivate them.
Bo many are the
sen re the mind ;
things
IHirpose
thing* whirli ob
m> ntanv are the
' W
which tone down a man's
; so many are the diversioan **’ r ^atlbg were
which load tbe #*>ul with core, and
and put Into boskets, Jer. vi: 9;
they were then carried >.n the heatl
and shoulder, or slung upon a yoke
to the wine press. Those attended
put into flat, open
baskets of wicker work, as was the
again,
living. truO| Mhfiriif VonL
Knowing Christ ta Hrevon. and Walk*
tag Worthy of Him on Earth
obstruct a man’s purpose | so tnaay ' l « Egypt. Tbe xincyanl,
are the diversions shn-h leo«l a man w hfeh was generally oo a hlH,
from the goal toward which he is •orroumfed by a wall of hedge, in
aiming, that uo man can sneered iu ‘wder to keep out the wild t<oara,
maintaining a religious life except at j****!# * nd few*. W ithin tbe vine
one or more towers of
in which The vine dressers
f
live*!. The |>ress and vat, which
were dug or hewn out of tbe rocky
And when they are ripe, gamer and the price of continual thought, ami >* rd vrtl *
harvest them.” Every one of these continual faith, ami continual de- , “done.
it* is to be made subject matter termination, ami continual depend
carefnl thought, mnch prayer, cnee upon tbe grace of God.
much endeavor, much skillful educa
tion. And that is the interpretation
to a large extent of the divine prove j
<fence* which are co-operating with
grace, and are giving men op)*ortn- |
uity to develop these traits.
How shall men learn to be patient,
if dverythiug is just as they want f
t dare was not taken | Uow Hha11 u,eu ,ear “ l>vnicvevam*e,
them thoroughly in the » f the I have everything without
the truedaith, aud the ; endeavor ? When men are crossed,
ligiofe became a mongrel j when their plans are subverted, |
when they find the world beariug
zeal to make cou-
the ranks of the
soil, were |*art of tbe vinevaid fomi
The In Ads It Task tore *
That the vineyanl is one of the
Before infelels cau prevent men strongest metspbors of tbe Ghureb
from thinking as they ever have of God, we bare the authority of
done of Christ, they must Mot out God*# own word, “for tbe vineyard
tbe gentle words with which, fu the of the Lord of boots to the bouse of
presence of austere by pocriay, the Israel,” Iaa. v: 7, and in ch. xxvil: 2,
Saviour welcomed that timid guilt vineyard may be read wine garden,
that could ouly express iu ailent love h was planted by God’s right hand,
in au agouy of tears; they must Mot Pt. Ixn : 15—kept by him—watered
out tbe words addressed to the dying
IHMiitciit, who, softened by tbe tua
jcatic |iutience of tbe mighty Sufferer,
I
every moment, lest any hurt It uigfat
and day, la. xxvii: 3, ami there were
tbe foxes, tbe tittle foxes that *|M)tl
the gra|>es. Nataralista tell us that
“the branches of tbe vine are so
Paganism ami ebria-
»«. the Kut|H-ror. all bo* j heavily ujMjn their eheul.k-m, Owl i. j,, ^ „ u .t Ihe Monen h umler
U to pronounce too .log i to them, “Work out p.illen.'e; , he of KVru - <>
bout uuythiug, we would " llrk «“t IH-raeveniu™ ; work out KUlra ^ „. ak , hlt tb , v IK ^.| be propiw.)
collider a ebriatuw of a very courage. " lien men And tli.it pride by l|U| »|, eu I,e came iuto bia king I hr walla, tree, anil atakra. tbeY are
ktheeedaje. dom.nalea iu them,and tbat by ,.nd. , Uum . Tll|1J blot out the >» a**|»nhv fro* *NMO of Ihdr
will be inclined to they are led iuto tnliiug, aud Into [jruuce of the
As a t'hristian, 1 hive to know
tbe Lun) Jesus Christ in heaven,
ami to walk worthy of him during
tbe uigbt, as a child of tbe day and
not of the night. The light of Christ’s
rye to coming right dow n njton.me;
«- M if there is one corner of my heart
covered over, 1 am uncomfortable
under it. 1 could not sit in tbe
Father's house and have Uis eyes
meet om? corner of my heart not
brought out. I don’t waut one cor
ner in it to be covered by the thiu-
nest veil possible. It to a solemn
but blessed thing to the soul to hsve
the eye of God coming right down
into it. It to a very blessed thing
that the One who has washed you in
his own blood, and has undertaken
to conduct you to heaven, has an
eye that sees down into oil the
recesses of the heart; and it can
detect tbe least budding of evil.
When you have beeu doing what
y ou thought good, be may have seen
evil larking, and Satan near you;
sod He bos discovered it to you, and
enabled you to judge it iu tbe light,
so tbat it will uot have to be judged
hereafter, If we don't do it now.
else but ruins. The seventeen cap
tures the city has sustained, of course,
account for this. Indeed, we are
told tbe present level of the city is
far above the original one. It ia
raised many feet ou the ruins of its
predecessors. You may dig down,
do* n, aud ouly get deeper, iu ruins
and traces of antiquity.
“But oh! how can I describe to j
you tbe present state of the city
witbiu the walls T My courage fails
in attempting it No words can con- {
vey an idea of it so well as the
blessed Lord’s prophetic expression, I
‘Jerusalem shall be trodden dotes
of the Gentiles.' 4 Trodden doie*,’
tram jaded under foot, crushed to the
dust, and groveling in it—that is the
idea the first walk through its dark,
dirty, ruinous, crowded, narrow, ill-
paved streets, conveys to one’s mind.
Inexjtreasibly sad, sorrowful, aud as-
touishiug to it to see with one’s own
eyes tbe meaning, the fulfilment of
these words. The motley melee of all
nations that throng tbe streets, or
dark. JUthy lanes as we should call
them, especially at this season, when
some thousands of Greek and Latin
j>ilgrims are in the city for Easter ;
the variety of false and foolish forms
of worship oelebrated on these God-
chosen aud God honored spots; the
Turkish soldiery (a most degraded,
delightful to sit at the feet of such a
patriarch, and draw from him tbe
story of a consecrated life. If you
visit the far-famed hospital of Greeu
wich or Chelsea, you secure the coin
panionship of some war-worn, scarred
and battered veterans, who can tell
you moving stories of flood or field.
The hoary hairs of tbe aged chris
tian cover the bead of a veteran
whose campaigns have taken place
ou better and more instructive fi<£ds.
As you listen to his record of the
doings of the Captain of his salva
tion, of victories gained iu moral
battle-fields, of valorous deeds done
and suffering nobly borne by godly
comrades who have fallen by hi*
side, you feel that the grace of God
invests old age with peculiar inter
est, and flings a beauty around
hoary hairs. Let the young man
listen to the voice of age, aud take
heed to the counsels of Venerable
piety. “Days should speak, and
multitude of years should teach wis
dom;” and so they will if the days
and years have been seasons of lov
ing service to their Saviour, times of
refreshing from the presence of the
Lord.
He will talk to his jieopfe about their ill paid, evil-looking set of nonde-
ftfnk tbat the promise of Christ to , fault-^uding, and peiliap* into
tears which he thin juice,” sod nor has ctosrrihed its
, - . _ UJL .shed at the grave of Lazaru*. ih« branches “eo weak from its limber
dlion k, that the gates of bell terrogaliug God, saying, \\ by am iurely for blni wbo|Il u<} about l)Htnrr a „ r j ir flapping and falling
f prevail against to, was | 1 thus dealt with, O my t-atherFI^^ b|ll ln lllire *,th *11 manner* of way#.” Ye are the
sorrow# of humanity, for the braochea, said tbe Lord—poor weak
Father 7”
but even at this time G°d is saying, “\N ork out humility ; I ^
j , — _ . 4 ii ti man it j, iui mr orsuriit-s, MSH1 isc uiru—is*or wrs*
number of Christians Wl,rk gentleness. . Are circumstance# o{ j eMobi t,. mourner*, who things trailing upon tbe earth and
rath depressed f Is home acowliug aud i lUhll I<1 (Uif tr i f it Vf upc ill* in Iti*. — iko. L..I.1...
truth in its purity, and j depressed f Is home scowling
tuted the tteo church; clout, y f H life obstructed t Do you
period of apostacy God from da >' to da > flud Jourself kick-
his witnesses for the | in « a « ain8t the I ,rkk ” T The l ,rovl *
deuce of God is saying, “Work out,
could not, with Mary, fly to him aud
say, “laird, if thou hadst beeu here,
my
constantly needing the upholding
prop# of divine grace, exposed like
mother, brother, sister had not Jacob to the drought by day sod tbe
Ml
®4ot
to
lagainst this little flock
>f bell have never pre-
visible church was a
im[losing organization,
nt from the little band
orohipped in catacombs
by wild beasts, but
of iniquity” lying dor-
was about to be mam-
terror of the little
by these helps, your own salvation.”
Educate yourself ""in those moral
traits which, if you bear up muufui-
ly, aud act the part of a Christian,
under such circumstances, can liot
fail to be dcvelojied aud established
in yon.
But we are commanded, iu work
ing out our owu salvatiou, to develop
kafsetoBa
whtich hig
recognized the seven , in ourselves those traits of character
ho had not bowed the j which shall make us like Jesus, and
as the n al church,* to make it jxisaible for Christ to be
comjianiouable with ns, aud to save
nlise applied.
8o t le impure seeds debited
fj 1 ® to a aturity in due time, and
visible :hurch became more and
re eorn >t. This religion, iii its
P® etted 1 »rm, was then the religion
°* Dea rly a| the
r er
-so®,.
Euro[>eau nations;
ion of our ancestors, to
tiouality we may belong,
state religion, aud the
h propagated it was the
lolic Church. But even
oiids ; of this almost universal
$ id error, there were still
t| it church, and in every
nation, who
us throughout all eternity. We are
commanded to do this with fear and
trembling. . .
Is it then that oar God to ca
pricious T Is it that we are like cour
tiers iu au Eastern desjx>tism, who are
liable to be supplanted, and are sus
picious of each other all the time I
Is our God one tbat inspires fear f
No. What is meant by fear and
trembling is th# antithesis of couc$it.
It is the antithesis of contentment
which sjiriugs from over-weening coo
fidence or indifference. If rneu think
fains 4 '“^' vure not misled by its they are so nearly good that they do
vOQtrl$©s and muustrous prac-
not need to be anxious, the word of
died r They must blot out the
scenes of the sepulchre, w here love
aud veneration lingered, and saw
what was uever seen before, but
shall henceforth be seen to the end
of time—the tomb itself irradiated
with angelic forms, and bright with
tbe preseuce of him who “brought
life and immortality to light.” They
must blot out tbe scene where deep
aud grateful love wept so passionate
ly, and found him uubiddeu at her
aide—tyjie of ten thousand times ten
thousand, who have “sought the
grave to weep there,” aud found joy
aud consolation in him “whom, tho’
unseen, they loved.” They must blot
out the yet sublimer words in which
he declares himself “tbe Kesurrec
tion and the Life”—words which have
led so many millions more to breathe
ont their spirits with child like trust,
aud to believe, as the gate of death
closed behind them, they would see
hiui who to invested with tbe “keys
of tbe invisible world,” “who opens,
aud uo man shots; shots, and no!
man opens f letting in through the
j>ortal which hods to immortality tbe
radiauce of tbe skies. They
blot out, they must destroy these
frost by night. Gen. xxxi: 40—de
riving warmth from the jiareut stem
—its thin joiee enriched by the life-
giving sap, sod resting upon that
parent stem for **ip|K>rt-
But other vines appear also on the
|»age of Scripture; there was the
wild vine “which of its own accord
grew by tbe wgy-aide, and produced
wild grapes hitter as gall.” “Then
we have tbe vine of Bodotn,” Deut.
xxxii: 32, tbe celebrated apples of
which Jose|»hus speaks, which in
deed resemble edible fruit in color,
but on being {ducked by the hsnd,
are dissolved into smoke and ashes.
Dr. Robinson says “tbe fruit greatly
resembles, externally, a large smooth
sp|ile or orange banging in dusters
of three or four together, it was now
bur and delicious to the eye, aud
soft to the touch, but oo being press
ed or struck it explodes with a puff
like a bladder or jmfl boll, leaving in
the baud holy the shred of the thin
rind and a few fibers. It to indeed
filled chiefly with air.” Are not
these spurious vioes representation*
of empty, hollow professor*, foil of
dust—living by the dead Be*, hating
light and life, whose end to to be
walk, and tbe effect will be jierfect,
blessed confidence between your soul
ami the Lord. If I commit any sin
now, the discovery of it in tbe light
to attended with conflict aud agony;
them be will tell me bow he met roe
aud probed me, that I might have
every thought brought out.
It is a aoiemu and blessed thought
that God expects you to walk as one
in his jiresence. A person'# life may
be perfectly blameless, yet that jier
sou may have to say, 14 Ah, but I
waut more of the jiower of Christ's
life.” He to the Head!—It to not the
question of a #j>ot or blemish here
and there, but I want more of the
volume of the life of Christ and of
his affections to be disjdayed in me.
so that I may be practically witness
iug down here for him up there.
Nothing should satisfy ns bat tbe
jiower and testimony which tells
that Christ, our Head, to at God’s
right baod. What a difference
between the testimony of one who,
like Tsui, has Christ in hto heart,
and counts everything else but filth
and dross, who puts hto foot
wherever Christ left s footprint, to
follow hard after him, and the testi
mony of a man who to living after
this world’s course; who to on the
foundation, but who is buildiug it on
wood, hay, stubble, instead of gold,
silver, aud precious stones. 1m
tneune difference between Abraham
aud Lot, in this life aud in the uext
too— though Lot will be perfectly
saved. “How beautiful!” 1 shall
exclaim, when 1 see one like Paal
script#), jiarading the areas of the
Temple and Church of the Holy Sejv
ulcher, and excluding Jew and Christ
ian alike from the large quarter form
erly occupied by the house of God,
now by the mosque of Omar; all
these thiugs sjieak in loud accents,
4 Trodden doten of the Gentiles?
One's very heart sinks at the sj>ec-
tocle! and at each step is ready to
weep at the pitiful sights a Ad sounds
on every band. Can this be Jerusa
lem T is this Mount Ziou f we said
continually to each other, as we as
cended the steep street leading to the
top of that hill, not more than twenty
feet wide. A very roughly j»aved
gutter is all the road, aud there are
no sidewalks; it is filthy beyond de
scription, and the swells so offensive,
that twice I was absolutely sick!
Oh, how unlike that city that was
beautiful for situation, and the joy of
the whole earth!—how unlike the Je
rusalem that teas, aud the Jerusalem
that shall be !
“This is the only thought that re
lieves the mind in contemplating her
present degradation and misery. It
is all foretold by tbe Spririt of proph
ecy, aud the unerring Bjiirit ha* also
predicted another and a brighter
state of things. God will yet create
‘Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her j>eo
pie a joy,’ and we who weep over her
now will rejoice over her then. It is
easy to see what a city might be, easy
to see that it is ‘beautiful for situa
tion,' aud cajwble of being one of tbe
most imjMxung, singular, and roman
tic of places. There to great beauty
The Lively Oracle#.
Would to God that the clergy
wonhl at last awake to a jierception
of the “heavenly treasure” commit
ted to their custody! We are not
ex|K>unders of a book (however ven
erable) rejilete with j)ecnliarities of
human infirmity. We have in our
hands the Oracles of God, which
have stood tbe test arid survived the
hostile ingenuity of centuries of pre-
teuded criticism. That “criticism,”
upon being brought to the test of
real scholarshiji, resolves itself into
the individual ojiinion of exj>eri-
menters, more or lew qualified for
the task which they have uuder
taken. Nothing has ever beeu ad
duced in moderu times of sufficient
authority to reverse tbe testimony of
nearly nineteen centuries of fiery
trial and j>atieut investigation. The
charge of iguorance against the old
school of interpretation is singularly
unsuitable in the mouths of [ire
tended professors of a “higher criti
cism.” They are ignorant, not .only
of the elementary features of the
sacred text of the original Scripture*,
but they demonstrate their acquaint
ance with the fact that there exists a
vast and profoundly learned liters
ture in Hebrew, Latin, and Euglish,
in which all thfe real aud snpjXMed
difficulties which they complacently
proclaim as recent discoveries are
treated of and calmly discussed with
the dignified jirojwiety of a real
erudition; that is evermore, distiu
gnished by its modesty.
manifested in the golden city; one | now in its deep ravines, in the steep,
Resignation Stftained by Faith.
The habit of resignation is the
root of peace. A godly child had a
ring given him by his mother, and
he greatly prized it, bat on a sodden
he uuhappily lost his ring, aud he
cried bitterly. Recollecting hjmsell.
he stepj)ed aside and j>rayed; after
which his sister langhingly said to
him, “Brother, what is the good of
praying about a ling—will praying
briug back yonr riugf” “No, sis
ter,” said he, “jierhaps not, but
praying has done this for me, it has
made me quite willing to do without
the ring, if it is God’s will; and is
not that almost as good as having
it T” Thus faith quiets us by resig
nation, as a babe is hushed ip a
mothei’s bosom. Faith makes us
quite willing to do without the mercy
whioh ouce we prised; and wlien
the heart is content to be without
the outward blessing, it is as happy
as it would be with it; for it is at
rest
r
J