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8. CU M« lx * i, l>4< *'- couuec : ONE LORD, ONE FAITH. ONE B A P T18M"—EPHE8IAN8 IVj 5. COLUMBIA, S.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1871 OLD SERIES, VOL. V.-NO. 164 alternative bat to withdraw, lent they should become partakers of her sins. They began to see that the Pope was the “man of sin* of whom St. Panl tells, and that the greet “falliug away,* or apostacy, of which he also speaks, was plainly discerni ble in that church. They felt that by remaining in her coinmanion, they endorsed her errors, and thus became partakers of her sins, and might consequently expect to share in her plagues. So you see fhis little band constituted the true church in reality, and had organised no new one whatever. They taught no novel doctrines, but those that were as old as the Bible and Chris tianity themselves, which they sim ply disinterred from under the su perstitions and errors beneath which they were buried technical bishop, professors, doctors, lawyers, and all sorts of people; our sermou lay quietly in the open Bible ; but as much beyond oar natural sight almost as the moons of Jupiter, and our glasses In fragments and utterly useless. In popular phraseology, you can imagine our feelings better than we can describe them. We art* always somewhat nervous before preaching. But here was something so out of our usuil line, and so embarrassing, that our whole frame quivered with excitement. If ever we cried out of the deep to God for help it was then. We felt, if ever, we must uow claim the promise: “As thy day, no shall thy streugth be." We caught a momentary iuspi ration from the promise of our as eended Lord of God I have been able to make it a well. But, my friend,* she con tioued “I have been happy only since I oeaaed to strain after what was be yond my reach, and resolved no longer to hog to my boeotn my grief* and disappointments, but to take them all to God, and leave these with Him, content to be what be wishes, and only that.*—Christ**a Weekly. Our religion, iu distinction from all others, has mainly to do with our character aud demeanor before God and before men, aud very little corn paratively with ceremonial obeerv slices. We are, however, creatures of sense, and may be graciously im pressed by religious symbols as well as by word forms of truth. It is doubtless iu part, to meet this susceptibility of impressiou, that the great fact fnftu which all that is real in christaiu life is derived, is author itatively set forth by surb sensible images as are offered to us in the bread aud the wine of the sacrament. It may also be true, that God w ho gave virtue to the waters of Jordan, aud of the pool of Hilouiu, and to the presbyterial anointing of the sick, has chosen to oouvey through the sacrament a grace iudtqieudeuUy of, or at least far beyond, any merely moral impression. The operation of the Spirit we know to be a mystery; and we also have reason to suppose, IS PUBLISHED “ An angel now; lii- treads the aapphire floors of Paradise; All darkness wiped from his refulgent brow, 8ta, sorrow, suffering banished from hit «*yes; Victorious over dt-ath, to him appears Tlir vista’d joys of Heaven's eternal Rifl'd Aff amenable to ('iirist It Is possible to hope for salvation and yet live in sin, to expect heaven while lust, hatred, euvy, detraction, or idleuess or world ly living, are like cancers in the vitals. The nearer, however, a nominal din clple is brought to his Master, the smaller this possibility becomes. Call him from time to time to tut act of formal fellowship with Christ; let him handle and (tut to his mouth the bread aud wiue of such s solemnity, and you diminish the danger that bis impurity, his infidelity to his oaths, his frauduleut gains, or any other iniquity, will go anrebuked. You makoJt less easy for blut to live him self. And more particularly, there is In the supper solemnities a wonderful constraint to good punwaea, an in spiration to do, sod bear, and nufft-r, and wait for Christy aud a marvelous impulse to s self forgettiug aud Christ like life. There is little danger of making too The merit of his blood—the excel lency of his righteousness, the glory of hut priesthood; mil this summed up iu one word—“a day’sman," one who can lay his hands on both par ties, great and pure enough to speak to God, kind and meek enough to speak to man, and by the merit of his life and death able to bring both together—this is the Christ that is daily preached among you, and if any of you have received by faith the testimony that God has given of his 8on in this respect, oh! if the load of guilt has gone off your mind, oh! if you have gone to a throne of grace and seen the face ef a tender pareut, oh! if you have ever tasted matchless mercy and redeeming love —love that shuts hell-love that opens heaveh—love that calms a reproaching conscience—love that sets all the soul at ease aud says, “Peace, be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven”’ O God! shall we, after all this, rise up aud say, we are not obliged to love Christ T Who loved ns iu the garden ? Who loved ns upon the cross f And who said there, “It is finished T* Shall we, alter all this profusion of good ness, shall we say we are not obliged to love Himf Christ has laid us under obligations to love Him by teaching ns a body of comfortable knowledge. He has obliged ns to love Him, by giving His life, His blood, a ransom for our souls. He has obliged us to love Him by giving us His laws, and giving ns the means to obey them; so that I think oar first part is sufficiently clear—Chris tians are bound to love Jesus Christ »ap*r decisions. a who takes a paper reg- a post otli*«—whether th aw or another’s, or whether xxl or nol—U responsible t. n orders his paper discon- *t pay aU arrearage*, or may eonttnuo to send it is made, and collect the t, whether the paper is office or i have d< ;2 »f ^ p at * «pln / am srilh pom; and in bia uarne we went to our work, preaching what we ooahl recall of the aermou, and a great deal that was not in it, and never would have Ucn in It but for this occasion. The next evening, walking with a number of clergymen on the beach, tin* conversation drilled as was natural, to preaching. After telling them our )»aiaJul experience on the preceding Maldiath, one of them. They had no right to Introduce doctrines not taught in the Bible, and they did not evett wish to make any innova tions upon the mode of that refu- *ud periodicals >moe, or removnnt and ailed for* is prima\fade itional fraud, cents per quarter, land communications to Hj A R. RI DE. D.D., * Columbia, 8. C. orship or customs of the church, which expe rience had not demonstrated to be injurious. M. E: S. -f f*o be Continued.) Religious ?pr the Lutheran Visitor, hi Church —For the Young. nothing anvtug iu the ordinance, nor any secretly coramuuicated grace, ex cept as the partaker ia iu ocudiliou to appreciate, aud is affected by, the scenes in which he formally share*. It is, therefore, quite impossible to over estimate the neoeaidtj ef taking into the tuiud, as food for thought and feeling, those ideas which the material, and acta, and declarations of the ordinance are designed to con vey, ami of responding, if we may so aay, to the ;i|»fireNMdi and greettug of God to us. Believe as we may, aud as our standards teach, that the sac met it ia a “seal* as well a “sign* of grace, we have the assurance of the aiMistle, that he wbo eateth and drink etb unworthily, instead of receiving a secret grace, eateth ami drinketh condetunation to himself. It the ay in- boltst*—or those who regard the aac a merely An eminent divine wrote, long Ago, that “there ia no greater mis take thou to suppose that Christians can impress the world by agreeing with It.* The experience of all who have much o/ ceremonial observance* in the Presbyterian Church. We have wisely preferred the utmost aimplici ty in worship, and have wisely pot honor on the preachag of the word, as the every day instrumentality for converting and sanctifying men. We might, however, make more of our sacramental occasions to our profit. There ia nothing so imposing in our religion as the dmplc rite of the sap per. We have no preacher so elo quent as the clement* ou the table of the Lord. |p u not to be a|»proaehed without previous knowledge of the nearness of the ro user rated hour. It ought not to be the burred, ami rnervJy formal euarluaioa of other, and (irrhape wearisome serv ice*. It ought not to be desecrated with glib ness of apreeli, nor be used aa a embarrassment, and thought that the ex tern port* was our usual method of preaching; another, who ia an old friend, remarked that it was a good thing the glasses were broken. We suspeet our fttcrnl bad read the anecdote told of Dr. Guise. The doctor was a very close and mono! on on* reader of sermon*. undertaken to convert the world by conforming to it—by com promising religions principle—veri flea the truth of this saying. Chris tian power is frittered away in attempts to meet the world half way; for there is nothing that.so commends itself even to the nnsauc titled as a life conforming to the faith and doctrine pne professes to hold. There is aj general under standing among tfle ungodly as to what a Bible Christian, and Bible [F HEY GOODS! Wt/.y l~eaa .Charge*. . lynht & sons. In (tie latter part of his life, from Ions of sight, be was obliged to preach w ithout not*-*, ami was more natural and animated. One day. as he was going out of church, an <4d lady grasped hi* baud, and, with much feeling, eirlainiod: “Doctor I wish r to nfceu i«»e wants sioniejk a, a distance. hi ' - IBV’JtXAW, fV.iOtl': Sc tuple i oJ toe New- •!iio;». ’>1e 0oodv- oi wd Dauvik ILop- u? ptjfll dmeviosell y.icetL ijlian sjv house . <" > from die Urgwiaud i; .»r in the Er.trvh. *».id i.u S • duvr*, tO C. Ivimoie. i ti.neV pioin.i !y srp- ebie* o? xtr Loudon Fell 6 iht y>.*er*7>. rud efierReiw 1 willing rument of the supper commemorative ordinance, a kind of religious drama- do not go Cur enough, it ia certainly true that no adequate idea of the supper can be formed without including ita »Uatmctivel> 1. I believe in God the Father. 2. I believe iu Jesus Christ * 3. I believe in the Holy Spirit. 4. I believe in God’s Kingdom. 5. I believe in Christ’s gospel. 6. I believe the gospel will tri umph. The last is the logical sequence of the preceding five declarations; and each belief has a sequence of Its own. Believing in God, tbe Father, I pray. Believing in Jesus Christ, I hope. Believing in the Holy Spirit, I am helped. Believing in God’s kingdom. I aid its extension. . ‘ Believing in Christ’s gospel, I aid its proclamation. Believing the gospel will triumph, I do all iu my power to hasten its triumph. ?i ox Tex o Fiftes* :orrr than we &«>ve t> teeijp i>>* binds We Keep u»e best as dr poods i.Oiu the ‘Only. h : t ihe rash wiU. Whole-ale Lutsss ^ce. d.oek i-ior, y© Der». Ad- K1/STER & SONS We:«i Bi-l.inso.eS- t Bi'Kimoiti lid. 48—ly < otutuemoralive design of the gospel, but by a reverse line of action—by bringing the church down to a level with tbe aspirations of unsauctitied nature. Compromises of truth with error are always hurtful, and they are especially so in spiritual things. We have no warrant to abate one jot or tittle of God’s truth ; “it Ls written,’’ aud no authority is given us to change it to meet the chaugiug eon Liberals’’ mav We have just read I*ruf. Park’s ar tide in the Itibliothem Smarm on Preaching. It is ia hi* usual classic and winsome style, without telling us anything new, or suggesting aay new line of thought or methods in the ho miletical art. Among other things be says: “There is a small class of preachers wbo will be more useful if they rend their sermon*." So we tfitnk, and we, fortunately or other wise, belong to that class. He thinks it best that the three fundamental methods—tbe reading, tbe aemoritrr, sod the extempore 'The change amine* himself, aud discern* tbe Ijor*T» body* This telf-exaanning or self arraigning, and discerning, in clude dl that is requisite ou our part to a suitable use of the ordinance. But these two terms include a great deal. > The self-arraigning covers the qure tion of ouresfieiitial loyalty to Christ, of our docility aa disciple* am! fidel ity aa servants, aud our right rela tion to our fellow meu. When it is truly done, we are in a thoroughly penitent condition; we abhor oar sins and turn from them, and, what ever infirmities may beset us, neither allow nor desire any forbidden thing. Ou tbe contrary, we purpose not to allow or desire anything disallowed by tbe law of tbe Master. We are in an estate of good will toward men, aud forgive our enemies as we hope to be forgiven of God. The “discerning the Ixml's body" includes a knowledge, intellectual fusion. A woman, who chanced to be there, noticed that he w as dee|4y agitated, and inquired: “Pray, sir, what is the matter with you f* He replied : “I have not brought a err non with me." Putting her hand upon bia shoulder, she said: “is that all V ('aa not you trust God for u sermon T “That question," says Wesley, “had such an effect upon me that 1 ascended the pulpit aud preached extempore with great freedom to myself and acceptance to the people, and I have never since taken a written sermon into the pulpit." This was, uo doubt, the beat thing for John Wealey ; it might not be for every minister. “There are di versities of operation, but it is the same God who worketh all in alL" Let every minister find out what bis (irculiar gilt is, aud do the very best be can with it for Christ aud his kingdom. We believe with Prof. Park, that “there is s small class of preachers who will be more uaeful if they read their tenuous." We be long to this class. Let every minis ter tlud out what is his best way of preaching; how he can liest pro claim the unsearchable riches of Christ to dying meu. And, then, let ua put our very liest into our sermon*, as Christ did when he preached to tbe ungentle woman by the well of Samaria; as God did when be made the song of tbe lark, aud taught the bees to murmur among flower*. utiou ! Think of This!! :cess !!! 30,000 K listory of the Franro- 3ret ao days. It now rv of die flea Rebel- ag nearly 600 mgw trations, and wiJlse'l n heretofore. _ Price, let© works, written in rish and French, are 4d illustrations, and, Iniming to he official, uch. Brockett’s, in Ikat all should rejoice <!<: ge of the tfuth aa he i e influence upon their so ho^ lect ared, and wrote,, 4id his teach- t initiated fin and wide; ; Spirit sc! operated ditions of mankind sneer at this as the “old theology," and may demand that it shall be altered in every generation ; but those whose npchor is the word of God will always take a different view of duty, and decline to be swayed from the true path by every One of the advo- the heattw of the p eople, that ruth wa^feceived with joy. d had bee a prepariu f the way ia( truth tt> be iisse niuated iu lirectioui; by the diksovery pf h g, that j lad taken ^lace some * prior tfr that, and $o printed s could iow, be pis iuto the 8 of th j people. jjPbey had p been i ble to rea4 the Bible selves, b <ause ijt wa^i in a lan- ® that th *; r did hot understand, lor it wai translate^ iuto the by Ldther and jhis assist ed this |reat work of refoinia- s {read te kiany otheri countries, tie tru 1 was received with id afte i while the jieople iu 5 Jountriisl also, had the Bible rir nativi > ongu^L ■ ttjtbe chqr|li that h ftom the jt<ue faith < ‘hi going oc calmlv, ry—lie intermingled from one method to another gives to tbe preacher elasticity and complete ueua, and relieve his pulpit from a most deadening evil—monotony." This is sound doctrine. It is well for tbe preacher to accustom himself to tbe three different methods referred to, for there may happen occasions when the memoriter or extemporary method will be tbe only available one left him. It so happened to n* du ring our summer sojourn at the sea side, which memorable incident we now proceed to relate and explain. We had promised to preach in tbe Presbyterian church on a certain Sunday in July. The Sabbath came, serene and beautiful, such as we im agine that Lord’s day to have been when John walked the lonely beach of bis Tatmoa, and had those visions of Heavenly Jerusalem. The church, as ia cotnmou in the height of the season, was crowded with people of all professions, aud from all sections of the country. We had our written seruiou with us, and all weut on well until the singing of the hymn imme diately preceding tbe sermon. We had placed our glasses ou the sofa during the preliminary worship, and lo, when*we reached for them, they were literally crushed. A somewhat corpulent, good natured Presbyterian brother sat near by, and we had our suspicion that in returning to bis seat be had carelessly done this eviL We say carelessly or accidentally, for though he wax against reading ser mons, we cau hardly tbiuk he would do such a thing with malioe-q/brt- thought. However, here we wore in a most painful crisis. Before us was a large audience, made up of one German, is tbe reliable, cheap so® ;tant. Look to yo? r wind of doctrine cates of flie continued remodeling of the theology of the Bible to suit circumstances, recently said : “What might have answered for the igtio ranee of tbe early a|>ostolic ages, what may have satislied later peri ods, and cveu the ignorant now, will not answer for educated Truth.—“Truth is God’s baptism on the hills. First, in the little dew- drops silently descending through a cloud of mist and vapor to keep the petals of some drooping flow er. Theu it is a little pool, gathered in some tiny ba$iu in a fraternal embrace of atoms. Then it is a rill that goes cutting its channel way through the green moss, and down the sloping hill side, hastening to the meeting of the waters below. Theu it is a stream, hurrying over precipices and down cascades rocks, turning the great wheel of manufacture, grinding the grain and working the spindles and shuttles of man. Then it is the river, slowly rolling ouward through the mighty channel, upon which great barges rock, and tbe paddles of tbe steamboats beat. And then—then H is tbe broad sweep of the ocean, on which is borne from land to land, the products of tbe industry of tbe en tire world. And that’s the way- truth comes, and that’s tbe way truth acts.” The Secret of Happiness One of my neighbors, in tom u and chnrrli, is an old lady whose drees is of a style belonging to no period of fashion. I wonder, sometimes, if, for forty years, the cost of it has exceed ed as many dollars. Her step is light as a girl's, her manner bright and. cheery, and over her otherwise homely face spreads the glow of a heart at peace with God. Her youth was spent in a struggle for daily- bread, aud scarcely was this pressure removed before sbe was called upon to mocni tbe loss of first one and then another loved member of her family, nntil she has outlived every relative. Her home is plain, almost bare of tbe luxuries considered as in* dispensable to comfort, yet there is not ooe to whom I so much enjoy a visit as to this solitary woman, ever •o warm in greeting, ao cheerfully companionable. “There is so much heart-ease about you," I once said to her, “that it re freshes me to meet you. Why, you are the youngest aud happiest per son I have seen to-day P “Oh, yes," she replied, smiliugly, “I have stopped growing old, for each day brings me nearer the i►os- session of endless youth, in my bet ter home. And bow can I be unhap py in this beautiful world where my heavenly Father has placed me T* “Still you have had your frill share of trials and sorrows.* “Yes, I have sorely passed through tbe valley of Baca, but by the gtaefe reason. The theology of the Jews and of the primitive Christians needs to be re modeled to meet the demands of this progressive age. Reason will no longer submit to tbe dogmas of two thousand ago." With such, Reason is God, and its creations gospel; therefore there is aud can be no stability in their faith or doc trines; they must preseut as many differeut phases as tbe changing moon, for they have no abidiug foundation; they must couforni to the world as it progresses or de dines, aud as human reasou is dwarfed or enlarged, or distorted, so will be the dogmas which they call religion. True christiau {lower cau aloue be preserved by a strict loyalty to God’s word ; by adhering as closely us it is possible for humanity to do to his truth, as revealed iu the gos pel. That man, or that church, or that denomination, which exhibits tbe most marked fidelity in this res{>ect, will always exert the great est influence upon the world. This is not theory, but fact, preseut aud .historical; LL FOUND®? IN 1837. Superior >*, schools, Ac-, m . ETAL-Copper «g 1, and mounted witn koVED BOTABJ fohistn»tedcaj*Mf V ANDUZEN L Tir hr^et, Cincinnati.D* i in Prio**- r'juot a,. "i platform it rockaWHVB. 4 apostal- id not see i i. without an •other was the eugeince, but “Around tbe statute-law of Moses there aroa* a traditional law, over shadowing tbe primitive Mosaic In stitute. It was ruled that grass should not be trodden on the Sab bath, for tbe bruisiug of it was a species of harvest work ; that shoe* with nails should not be worn, as that was carry ing a burden; that a tailor must not go out with his needle near dusk or ou tbe eve of the Sab bath, lest he should forget and carry it with him on tbe Sabbath. In all this there was not only a wrong ren dering of tbe Mosaic precept, but beyond, aud much worse than that, there was the erection of a false standard of duty, a false test of piety— the elevation of the out warn, the positive, the ceremonial, over the inward, tbe moral, the spiritual; the puttiug of the letter that killeth above the spirit which maketii alive. rotestauts, as they ause thejj protested kTobIekf-^ i * —-r~ P STEVEWi $. Stevins & 8? (e to ensltye them, m of 4 all the benefits I by a knowledge of ii at a Dipt of Spire plso made to suffer jamiy| It | had been ito leave klie church i for 8chi^ux seemed dug, laud ithey knew was taught in her is ofily 4ioir in ten her from the error . in and 'totally ob- th. But this could paving so long be- FUfrlly blihd church 4e to see an 4 accept he reformer^ had uo Slothful Heart.—Is not the soul more than raiment, more than friends, more than life, yea, more than all! Then why do you not labor to enrich your soul I Twere better to have a rich soul under a threadbare coat,. than a threadbare soul under a golden garment. If be be a monster among men, who make* liberal provision for bis servant or bis slave, aud starves his wife, what a monster is he who makes much pro- . vision for his baser part, but none for hi* noble uature f Ah, fronds, a never; whatever may be rooted out of bis experience, never this—that he is bought with tbe precious Mood of Christ. Whatever may be newly suggested to him as bfilongiug to the law of life, it must in some way at tach itself to tbe death of Jesus as “cleansiug from all sin." And into STT SlO> slothful heart uTtliu thin, Is g vefjp b«gvy judgmeaf.