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ONE LORD, ONE FAITH. ONE BAPTI81T-EPHE8IA N8 IY: 5. COLUMBIA. S.C., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1871 OLD SERIES, VOL. V.-KO. 167 throwing away the thing which occa sioned his trouble, but * more posi tive affirmation of iu realities. “1 see the heavens opened, and the Sou of Man standing on the right baud of God.” Although they forced him to depart from the temple and oat of the city, jet he departed (or oeaaed) not from praying; “but calling ou Gad, saying, Lord Jeans, receive my spirit, and lay not this sin to their charge.* No (ailing headlong and gushing out of bowels here, but “having said this, he fell asleep.* May we we not regard this as a representative of the death of all true believers, it was in consequence of Stephen being full of the Holy Ghost, and beholding the Hon of Man at the right hand of God which enabled him thus to die, and these things every true Christian can have tor the asking, if he will only believe. Every one must die. Every one wants to die happy. Thu is a uni versal desire, it is of no avail to . » V; ■ . ! desire the death of the righteous—it is uureasouable to expect it, unless we live the life of the righteous. Header, which life are you living f That of the hypocrite, or that of the righteous f The hypocrite hath no hope iu hie death. He has hope ia life; Judas had hope till he saw his Master condemned. Job says, “The hypocrites shall perish: whose hope shall be cat off, and whose truss shall be a spider's web. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though As hath gamed, wheu God taketii awsy his soul f Will God hear his cry when trouble eometh upon bun P Maa can not live long without hope. Despair soon drives man to despera tion—causes him to destroy his body. But this self destruction of the body is the farthest he cau go. He can not end the existence oi his soul. 4 Hypocrites, take warning! If de spair is such an awful thing that Mesh cannot bear it, bow nnuttera ble, then, will be the misery of the hypocrite after the resurrection ! Ye righteous in the Lord, rejoice, for “tAe latter end of the righteous is peace,” and “the righteous hath Asps in kit deatkf If the believer, only a few hours old, (as the thief on the cross,) would go to heaven—if Ste phen, fall of the Holy Ghost and of good works, would go to “the Hon oi Man sitting on the right hand of God”—then fear not; these repre sent what all should expect and hope to receive. Courage, brother! pa tiently bear the ills, cheerfally en dure the cross, and msufnlly resist the temptations of this life. The end is approaching—peace is st hand— glory Is waiting. me, gently as the falling dsw nod sweetly as the odor of flowers. It •• 8 15 n 8 05 a —* 8 15 a 10 07 a ; 1 50 p 4 05 p 55 i> BARTLETT, wl Ticket Agent is, after all, the maiia thing. If jm are no preacher, jam ana nothing. Let the pulpit be yoar throne. Who poor soel. “I had aa awlhl time ia getting here. I could not see my way; bat I believe I came rifht ever fences, hedges and ditches. 1 thought if I could only get here it would be nil right, no matter by which roots 1 came; foe 1 could bear the roar of the river, and a kind voice, laying, ‘Cotee, and take freely.** The doctor replies gravely, “My dear friend, yon did net come by the right path ; you must go buck,* and of the Havionr, Jesus, Christ «(fete f or that it has loat its power f God hiaeeetf has pot the pulpit on the throne. The preneher is not the One would not suppose, theoreti cally, that there could ever be any difficulty in praying, or that there would be any need of exhortation not to feint in prayer. Bat the Bible abounds in exhortations which Advance. nnibia, 8. t mutant: *!/er Train miss your way. If there be aajrtfti^ in our ministry which dees net lend to Christ, it is strange doctrine; God himself win destroy ft; ft is n Mem iah which disfigures the whole; it Is prayer, ns though, without this can uou, there was danger we should heaven is not more ravishing or more exquisite; it is calf arara lasting. The thought was thin: “God lores me.* Three simple monosyllables express it, but n whole eternity ena not exhaust its preetousaan*. The glorious, graetous, bleased God levee, not ia figure, but ia reality—Jovee with his whole nature—that moot worthless of all objects, myself, with out one claim upon his fevor, without one trait in my whole character that can call forth his complacent regard, with guilt and pollution enough to damn n world; yet He, between whom and myself aa infinite distunes intervenes, loves nee as really, aa cross road tarn to the right, farther along torn to the left, then at n certain point torn to the right again.* The directions are so complicated that they can not be remembered. Bat the poor soul is sent buck to find the way aa beat he can. Poor just this danger. We am continual ly losing our hold ou prayer, oar interest in prayer, oar fetch In the power of prayer. Wo either cense to pray altogether, or we maintain prayer by a certain momentum de rived by the habits of the past, the moekery of noon. Then preach Christ. Yon ask me how to preach Christ f la your own style. If yan ► gaper is that refu- periodicals it; if yoa have the eloquence af a Cicero, use it; if yon have a quiet style of yoor own, then he yourself If yon have the polish (a the grain, bring it oat; don’t let the pine grain sneer at the mahogany grain. Don’t let us have the class of revival and uoa-revival brethren. Be lucid aa Matthew, if yoa caa; logical as Paid, poetic as Isaiah, tender aad melting as John the beloved, stern and fiery as Ezekiel, only let ns feed the power! Yon need power—power over the couscfenoe. If yon speak to the imagination, the poet will beat yon; if yon speak to the dfe- pater, yoa will be wonted; but tattoo of answer, or say vital enjoy ment of H, ns a present communion with God. One obstacle to prayer is owr mood. We do not fori like praying. Sometimes, doubtless, this is to be yielded to, and prayer is to be inter mined. Often the body is wearied, the brain needs sleep, and it is n mistake to deny K needed rest for the sake of maintaining what proves to be but a form of prayer. Bet it is net always safe to >*dd to the mood. Often we sre to pray it tvertisements. ▲ grave men approaches kun, ssyiog, “Excuse me, stranger, but A want to warn you sgauiet pre sumption.* “Oh, sir. I'm dying with thirst; can’t 1 get down to this river and dnnkf* “Yon should remember that yon have been a hardened rebel lor many sshaaou. in Ins owq experience he felt, in his own conscious exercises he knew, that none but Jeans could save; and that he ia both able and willing to save all who trust in him. Unto them which believe he is pre cious. Paul believed, and Christ was precious to him because be be lieved; and hence he loved to dwell upon the name of Jeans; and that NOTICE no other creators in the aniverse, as if he had nothing eioe on which to. pour the wealth of his afwuoss. And now loving me, He will never cease to love mo: there will never be n moment ia ell the coming fetors in this world or <Aal world when there will be even the leant diminu tion of this love to me. The highest angel in heaven might feast on this thought; myriads might ait down to this fall bouquet, sod feel that they could want no more. And yet, strange as it may seem, this experience, so precious aad so prised, will wane, a hazy atmosphere will gather between me and the Ban of love, sod I will question the very existence of the thought that is now ho real and so ravishing. Net that his love to me will change, but my DRY GOODS! Mtingto <»wt/ any Part of - try ss Charges. 4f silver Depth, onds{ any circmustam rs. s mmething of (loom sod sadness R ^ bet ia the one recorded above, ■M is something especially sad i Moony. Lett us firett look at i action immediately preceding U of his destruction: throwing ay the sum he jjbad received for leafing his Master—“And he cast va the pieces of silvAr in the TER & SONS, RE, MIX, o meft the wants ntors at a distance. can rival yon there. Ten are n Czar of many lands Above all, be ia earnest. Preach wisely; aim at the fifth rib; lei there be no affectation; not the bursting of n voice no, but the gentle dawning of the light, that, while it would net awake the Hnmheriug babe, would fill the world with glory. Aim at ■access, God’s word prom fees it: “As I live, saith the Lord, my word shall not return unto me void.” Trust God. The husband ways, but need at liln I want to hand “Yea, hat after aim, it is too much jraa a'ju , kn, promptly send iuplei» of the New- mable Goods, of Domestic Mami- it all times to sell *», than any house tn the largest ami lfactnn-rs in the >pe, and importing But whatever infinenoe the natural temperament and peculiar mental habits and training, and religious experience even, nr. other ctrcuia steam* may have a poo the style of the different writers of the BiMe, they ail spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost; hence all Scrip tnre in all parts is given by inspira tion of God, fail, plenary, infeUible inspiration; and hence whatever is written in this book is to be reoeived ns the word of God. Hence we are not to weaken the force of anything ouutained in the divine record, by tracing it to some peculiarity in the character, or history, or circum stances of the writer, who was both the instrument through whom God spake to men and speaks to as. The peculiarity of Paul therefore, in the freqoent mention of Christ, is to be regarded ns a peculiarity of revela tion itself. The whole design of the Scriptures is to reveal Jcsos Christ and unfold the scheme of redemption through him. The testimony of Jesus is not only the spirit of proph ecy, but it it the ana and substance, the beginning aud the ending of the gospel. Hence to preach the gospel is to preach Christ; and to invert or reverse the proposition, to preach Christ is to preach the gos|>ei. This is the commission, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to even crest are. This was the com mission which Paul received, not from man, nor by man, bat directly from Jesus Christ, of him who railed him to the apoetleship, as TnTTal., 1st chapter; and how he understood his oommission, and how he fulfilled it, we learn from the fragments of Ms sermons to the Acts, from his address to the elders of Epheeus, and from the whole of his epistles. To the Bomaus he declares, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believoth; for therein is the right- eoasoens of God revealed; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto ail and upon ail them that believe. To the Corinthians he says, I determined not to know anything among yon, save Joans Christ nod him crucified; and wo preach Christ crucified. think Jadsi believed Christ itrne ; hilt confession, re betrayed Iu* innocent A^owsit. Nor do we doubt had,as dear a comprehension ueet to Baltimore les promptly sup ■n of the London world as only for cash, and re able and willing 01 TE5i TO F1FTKF.N it than if we gave tx specify the kinds [«• Keep the best >f good*, from the fly. M hy the cash trill IOLEsALE BtVEKS t the Stock in onr Department. Ail- >TEK & SONS. e<t Baltimore St.. Baltimore, Md. its palsyiag touch upon drive ns to owr knees! Let ns dread above aU things the tone of an nofaithfol ministry. Preach the gos pel. Don’t tear because of the prill of rank or wealth; don’t be fend of them, lest yon have the gwiit ot souls on your hands. “Deliver urn Any child anderstande what h meant by taking a drink of euU water, because it is a matter of ox perience; but if a man coaid bt found who had no exporienoe in end Is that which Christ mu e delay of God’s answer, e Seminary to explain the simple praoaaa the nature of thirst, the properties of water, the condition necessary to the application, the variety of me tal, nervons ami muscular action employed in taking a drink of water pupil would be lost iu a labyrinth of difficulties. Hence the aeoeamty ia a matter involving your eternal life i of this Institution ednesday, the 15tli D«»l is to fiirpisli a r for the education > Lutheran Church, nay desire to enjoy teachers embrace* able instructors as Dv similar Institu- F . i • '? > of a pupil foi English, Scientific, M inding famished .1 washing, for the lie §349 Extra God of my salvation." Ho who la bors for God will get souls. O that you may invoke the he prism of the Holy Ghost npou these bfetitetefc! the hoar of death thyy roe their ffe—era willing to giye np that wlich they bartered their souls. Itte, tfieul ^ | S et,a* consider his depth. “Aud aried, aad went and Ranged him , and foiling headlong he burst One of the most wonderful endow ments that we have ia the power of thinking—of apprehending aa ab stract idea aud letting it stand oat before the mind, sod viewing it in itself and its relation to as and other things and other thoughts. . A thought has no physical properties; it has neither extension nor magnitude nor weight; but from the poverty of language aud the peculiar nature of meutal operations, we constantly apply to thought those qualities that, strictly speaking, can belong only to physical things. We may deflue an idea that is present to the mind; we may describe it more or less accu rately, and feel its iuttueuce, aud be even greatly controlled by it; bat, alter all, how little we know of it! what a subtle thing it is I bow easily it eludes eqr grasp 1 And when we think we understand it fully, bow often does it present some new phase to tut, fuH of beauty or grandeur or horror, it may be, of which we had never dreamed 1 f , r- ' > ■ ™ • A thought is a spiritual something, and yet it is not a living agent; though distinct from the mind and operated ou by the miml, yet in its reaction it exerts n controlling influ in the midst, and all his gushed out” “Jpepurted”— temple was uo place for him -t u sud went pnd Ranged Atm- ' j Ha died wiijiout hope. Helf- bc §345. Rev. J. I. Miller Louis Ide,-Super •partment, will re traction is murder and sin, for ich there ran be uo repentance, od except ye rejpeut, yo shall all :wi*e perish,” dearly tcac repentance, there witf I of sin. Without 1 rderis an act pf despa uu ’ ^°^ eu,U ^ *4* 1 “diwwasthe first byr - Z#w Twuueftt U *1*1 we regar w^tgtive map of water or Ufo freely ;* “A pure rive« of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throoe of God and the Lamb,” watering aud re freshing all heaven, sad extending to the nttenuoot bounds of the earth. “Its streams ths whale emotion reach. try me, and nee bow great my want realty iu JYrhapa he wishes to strengthen il iYuyer for needed grace, persevering, persistent prayer, often converts n wish into n pas “Oh, 1 am in an awful slate; will God orsr have meray on such a sinner T” “Why, my dear sir, he has had mercy uo you. He provided the river for ail such as you. He sent bis Spirit into the desert after yon, aad hath led yon now to this ex- hand Las supply, mi invites you te inks freely. Vow drink or yon will perish. There is no possibility of relief except by driukiag.”—8ttord and Trowel. ocean, the sailing of the clowdu, Ms gloom of a storm, the dessotatiou of winter, the freshness of spring, or the glory of summer or awtamn, ite under usation The argument which Christ here odd a era for importunity ia prayer is derived from a contrast. A judge Enough for aU, enough Cor each. Enough forevermore.” Repentance toward God, reuniting in uni starved submission to his will, brings any poor sinner to the edge of this “river of water of life.” Now let as see how a plain thing is mysti fied by the traditions of men, that we may remove hindrances, and assist you in aa intelligent accept anus of Christ aa yoor Havionr. Home teachers proclaim, “Repent once is not necessary ; only believe, and yon will be saved.” This is equivalent to agylng to a famishing mau half a mils sway from the river’s brink, No need to go to the river; just drink where you ore. Others any to the thirsting, dying multitude, “Struggle uo, pray on; you’ll got relief when yon die. if yoa drink of the river of Ule, yoa can sever know Mm feet, nor foci any class f thophel, a coauselfor of David, who illustrious type of Judas’ man is of all men most feet to moral considerations. Yet importunity van quishes him. The widow is not dis couthged by his declension, hut comes again and again. Row much more should we come to God with confidence that be will bear us. The contrast it heightened by the fart (bat the widow to nothing to the judge; while the praying .Chris tian ia one of Ood*n own elect chit religion. But religion to a printiplf, not a mere glow of feeling; the flow of the whole current of oar nature, not a passing ruffle, sgafeet the stream, by a breath of outward ex citement t>k*K«ili‘ and a, Ss C., respectftd mid customers t h- new cstabbsb®^”’ •Si ^tiel«s-bfewP: e**, Much as Lixx« &C. , trayed kit *1 himself, hypocrites their own But we do Dxxd.—“Aod As died,* fe the sen teoce that ends the history of every man. How impartial, how iaexora bln, bow certain fe death! Worldly ■tattoo and dretmeteacee are noth tog to death. The meanest hovel into which the winds and rain Mow, where hall-clothed and pale feced parents and children are slowly starv ing, fe not too mean, too insignificant for him to enter. Age, too, fe noth ing to death: my little daughter la dead, said one; 0 fej eon Absalom! my sou Absalom ! would God 1 bad died for thee! groaned oat another. The days of Methuselah was nine hundred sixty and nine year*—sod has a moral character; yet it km no moral accountability: the aoooontu- biiity pertains to the agent who origi nates or promulgates or entertains it rum M .^1 ,- r / ^|. a ft <»t no Iw. A L approvtiijjiy# MiiimCtGf; ooin jpuou Religion at Home.—Religion begins in the family. One of the holiest sanctuaries on earth fe home. The family altar is more venerable than any altar in a church built with hands. The education of the soul for eternity begins by the fireside. ►1 lowers, Judas died before rited shall not ras the first his Master, live out half STEVENS, Stevens d’ &o n% ' uiture nd Delei IHH TRUE MAGNET.—The power of the magnet gains nothing from the gilder’s or the graver’s art; He attraction Wee to itself, and is dimto •shed by foreign acevettom. So it Is with the greatest of sll magnets ef which Christ spake when he said: “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw aH teen unto me* We may darw >01118, IN , No. 6 Eutaw and working snbjectiy upon the Now hs is at the brink ot the river, boi ha is Wind, aud wants some kind X DKCIU His exj f * ■ on a iormi