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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
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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.
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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
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R ^ bet ia the one recorded above,
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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
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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
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aim, it is too much
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kn, promptly send
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mable Goods, of
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tn the largest ami
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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
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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
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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
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*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
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