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LUTHERAN VISITOR. COLUMBIA, 6 *°* „ child food »' <SS not »■ church, of t i chosen M the empire strong #'• WhnaMmbgereaKk fry perti nent <fiestion, ^though We apprehend the parties concerned will call it very impertinent. He first gives an ex tract from the Frankean Synod’s report on the last year’s /tate of religion: “Some of the churches have )et*i favored with refreshing teutons 1 of grace. In some cases them have been gratifying secessions, and a desirable state of piety seems to exist; all of which indicate the existence of a. living faith aud no fettle work ou the part of both pas tort and people. In some of the ehnfchpes, while there is nothing new > bumble France, erecting i! unpeople We will wpAtr, unfc. the Aliiifhtjo^ himself nope rates us. “Sow, God is witness to the ?q* # we have exchanged. May he gfa 40 bumble France, erecting itqPf in the midst of Europe as a Protestant power; while France, which put out the light.of tbs gospfl with blood, Is becoming ultra montane, and sur rendering those ‘liberties' which her Kings and Bishops defended forlorn April, 1872, towtiine tn tbf next meeting of Conference. During both the days that Confer ence was in sessiou the weather was quite inclement, still there was a very good attendance on the pro ceedings of Conference by Hhe ment- bere of the congregation. These good people, by their actions, which often speak louder than words, show that they not only appreciate spirit ual blessings, but that they ateo know how to entertain property those that come amongst them to minister onto them these Messing*. The congre gation being a country one, the * liter which R ad in 8t. John's church November 17l 1871 Preaching during the meeting was iardrlt i£ rvices, on Sunday morning, the aft is fere.” -ThCT. let to' 1 ' ' oar child bapti*' Mtfennw wilb'i ] ggni n ? but h* 4 withool any t gbd psuhuhly b» -Jkift Beprisn* »■ »«• nbieotion to it turies against the ambitions of Phpes and Cardiuals.” 2. Education aud Christianity. 3. The First and Highest Office in the ‘Church. While not entirely agreeing, we yet commend. We invite atten tiou to a few extracts; “The office of the preaching pres byter is the first in the church both for diguity and usefulness."—“As to the office of prophet and evangelist, the preacher is both, is the only souse in which their offices do uow exist. The preacher, then, being in some sense a pus tie and prophet and evangelist, there plainly can be no other office in the church compara ble with the preacher’s. For, as it includes three three highest fuuc uoa essential* 1 beseech you, then, let us strive with one another, who may love the assoimab towards me, or 1 towards you; rnd thus let us go together the wty q heaven. God has united Uh,ttot j industriously aud truly, should —tki known to yon, from his word, the way <*' life; that you industrious}^ and truly shook! receive the iastnu tiou pf everlasting blessedness^ ^ that we industriously aud'*trulv might travel together the way that leads to heaven, and there osotfeoe the bonds of fere, which we top* this day established. Let aspq^ : Have mercy upon us Triune Gt*. Send thy Holy Spirit into our hearts, that we may remain true to thehsmL by^ which we, ia thy eight, ]£** aad bearing; true tn faith, death, that we may inherit the csnm» oflife. lais*^. k , special to report, yet there are evi denced- of a steady growth in grace and efficiency.” He then insinua tingly adds: “Sneh is the pleasing prospect as It presented itself to the mind of the committee on the slate of reMgion;* and—unheard of inquis itiveness—asks more, there existed some degree of co operation—possibly not Synodical,' but• fraternal—between our I r .•«.?. element here and t#e vast German population of the 8Ute. Bro. Itude, our chhrch has u vast field here in Texas; she is derelict * in not occupying it Could we uot support here, for a year or two, six or. eight evangelical missionaries, BWase paid, a* ly rtuumifi# n, uail. i* not qtif- datiad te sub- KdardS morning, bringiug with tbetn baskets filled with a variety of good things necessary fbr the well being of the inner man, and remained till the clone of the exercises for the day— the enjoyment of which good thing* the absentee* deservedly missed for /kiting to notify Conference of the res ton o f their absence. This is not the first time that Conference has been )Aftd at Stone's Chapel, and it will be “passing strange" if it will not be held there again ere very long. Divine services were hold twice a day during Conference, and were continued during the remainder of the week, and on Sabbath, when the sacrament of the Lortl's Supper was administered to several tables of communicants. One person was re ceived into frill membership with the church by the rite of Confirmation. There is reason for believing that this series of meetings was not held ia vain, bat that several will, in doe time, be received into the ekureh as the fruits of H. Hi? ,f . HaWlins, Who goes to labor iu anbthfr part of the Church. are]new subscribers. 'We Mil bqtv remind the congregu tious that their fielegutes for the next year artist bring with them, to the meeting, (heir proper cre dentials. How much is all tlfo prosperity worth in moneyF Did any one ever read the like 9 Dgfb—the Jew! To value the piety of the Frankean*—the most ad vanced of all Lutherans, who have outgrown the Augsburg Confession, who hare no use tor the Catechism, and who teork not a little—by the amount of their contributions to mis stone, education, etc. What docs Vase Clomantls mean 9 These Frank- dms are serving God day and night; they have many and protracted meet ings; they are converted, most of them can tell the time when to a minute; they pray, they praise, they atteud church conveniently and in conveniently, as the new version has it, and yet he is not satisfied. It is preposterous! Are they not fhithfhl workers 1 Must they be liberal givers also t The only thing they reserve for themselves is their mouey; sorely Vox Clamantis ought not to be un reasonable. He sayB: “We find that the total contributions of this Synod, with its three thousand three hundred and thirty-six communicants, in the enjoyment of religioos prosperity, was jnst $640, or not quite nineteen cents a year from each member.” How stupid the main must be! The thing is perfectly plain. Their en joyment and their prosperity were so great and so superabundant, that their cop was frill, running over, and therefore it was not necessary for them to give, as it could neither have heightened their enjoyment nor increased their prosperity. Why, we know a good many chnrch roetn bers who never give anything, and yet they are crammed frill of religion, they are continually boasting “Of inward joy* and *in* forgiven yet “lay hp treasure for themselves,” and are “not rich toward God." There is too much illiberatUy, nay, covetousness in the churches in oar day. The Frankeans are not worse than the Tennesseans, but What these give is nothing to nobody. Now, do not misonderstand us: we mean to abla and willing to preach ip German aud English! Conversing, tome time hack, with an excellent Presbyterian clergy mau, whoee congregations are adjacent to some of our moat flourishing German settlements, be remarked“If youx, church would send evangelical men Into this field, rneuiu whom Germans could confide, able to preach in tier man and Euglish, willing to teach German Euglish schools, you would find that the rationalistic infidelity in which they are thought to shut themselves up is more mythical than real” A corollary to this, to my mind demonstrable proposition, would be that evangelists for this field must be intelligent^ whole smiled men. Here In Austin there are many Germans. With no church, hardly a secular school, they are the tool tiona, so far as they now exist iu the church, so also it includes ueocssa- rily every other which the Lord has instituted, down to the very lowest.” —“Diocesan Episcopacy is not the form of government set forth ‘in the Beriptures.’”—“lHocesaa Episcopacy ia a man made power in the church. ’ —“The Beriptures give the especial aud highest honor to the inresbyter who labors in the word and doc trine.”—“Diocesan Episcopacy pats a ruler—a single ruler—over many preachers.”—“The order of Scripture, the order which Christ the King and Head ordained, he the bishop—re verses; pats the first office below the secoud, and claims especial honor for himself, precisely not for laboring in the word, but simply ruling well; and yet all ht^-JAs bishops— ruling is unlawfhL" 4. Education. A Susteutatioii. 6. The General Assembly of 1871. 7. The Practical Efficiency of our Church H. S. WifVftAKD, rtte»y. wpasstwy, aaad sot in ihis^atten- , Met. pursuant to adjounraieut, at Mtock* Chapel, Ifi the Bmithfieid charge, Tuesday evening, October 94, rtfl. ‘In the absence of the ohr broth of UPS . Solomon mitfeoftery pas rday we held a urge. Ob Mon Ktal health, and 1st ids*, he fell died suddenly, mem >er of his t. Aii Was his posed, he laid and Jhe follow id dead. Being PUGH TUK SOSTAftttBOm A geotleiuj t called ou hia pastor, and seemed to V rather excited. What is wroug now 7 thought fee minister. He was uot Ml ieag « ignorance of the rnase of his visit. the Father, the Word i Ghost; and these tbr>- John v; 7. Three tin; called Samuel.—1 Sain How often has he eulfe Ijpd Simon Peter dt- o£s irrijajy&n “Sir,” said the gentWuw. “[ not going to have my child hap. tixed.” T * Minuter.—“ Why not F 0.—“Because I think it a wrong doctrine of our church to to—h and practice infant baptism T Jf.—“Have you left our church r G.—“No.” if.—“Then you are still a mem ber r €r^—“Certainly.” if.—“And you consider me year pastor 9” 0.—“Ofoouree.~ M.—“Then you also will admit that the sheep should follow the stop herd, instead of the shepherd foSsw- reached his befert and &0at(i. Th; absence fie of n Strigge, the >euro of his features, able tfeat Ac died while beautifully ligiiificant mg at bis funeral i— V. Five wounds of I h refagh 'WithRve bre.v thfftimHr 1 men..—Matt, x I hand is not shorten* net save.—Jaa- lix1. [ Yt "fcx hours my S I on the fomilfe' m\A shall deliver thee; \« I there shall no evil tou< I with the Germau character, sealous io ever} thing it tooebea, they become, in the hands of bad men, a dangerous implement. The Scandinavian element ia our population is increasing. The Swedes are not in general isolated as are the Germans, settle among our American families—consequently, learn our lao guage rapidly. 1 notice that they retain v a deep rooted hive for the church. If not out ot |4ace, Bro. Rudi . I most express tbs belief that, were our chnrch 1n the South to oeaar disagreeing about Syubd* and bouu dariea, unite in forming a seminary & Critical Notices. As Monatshefte. September. Alien town, Pa. Contents: 1. A Bejoiuder from a Missourian. 2. “Exact no more than that which is Appointed You.** A Important Explanations of Prof. Walther. 4. Dr. C. F. Schaeffer and the Four Points, so-ealled. A Re- ge concourse of friends t his bortal. 1 H 0 was For the Lutheran Visitor. Pastor Louis Harms' Union Marriage much with Hli Oongregstioa. la these -latter evil times,” wbeu the holiest ties are broken with indif- feranoe, and even levity; aud when the nouuectiou between pastor and people—between shepherd and sheep —iu feet, between soul guardian and soul, has become so weak, that hun dreds of pastoral charges yearly take plaor, the following words of Tas- tor Harms seem to be strikingly io point. They are taken from his in troductory serin ou, preached the 22d Sunday after Trinity, from Matthew xviii: f 21-48, after be bad been, on the previous Sunday, installed Pas tor of the Hermansburg congress tiou: “1 look upou the past Sunday,” aaul Pastor Harms, “as a spiritual wedding-day, when I was married, by word and vow, to this congrega tion, in the uame. and through the calling of the Triune God. Such a spiritual marriage, bc&weeu pastor and people, should be as irrevokable ms a worMly nuioti betw een man and woman ; and. as ! knelt with you on that day, 1 solemnly vowed to my God, that 1 would, through his com mission and wifi, live with you—ex hibit to you Christian lore and troth desert you in uo weed and t rouble —and never separate from you, unless the Almighty God shook! call me from you by death, or through his otherw ise expressed will. And 1 have prayed from the muoeeut depths of my heart that he wooM not remove me from you in any other way, if it be bis gracioos wife than by death—that 1 may be borne from your midst to the chureh-yard which I have consecrated, and in which my fether reposes. But what I there vowed before the heart searching God. my beloved, tbo must also vow fa war hearts: barch In that com inunity, had feboted for 31 years e charge. He leaves many lourtiers, an afflicted wife hildreu. I can uot wrifce r, hint fiope some one ac iritb| Ibis tifo will prepare PrayS-.~*£even werd^ Thc first: “Father, for they know not Vrba Luke xxiii; 34. The aJ mas, behold thy non K 36. The third: “Verily j thee, Today thou aha]; in Paradise;”—Luke XXI fourth : “IWi, Kit. lame That Is to say, “My G why hast thou forsake fifth : “I thirst.”—Jo The mxth: “It is fhi - xix: 30. The seveutr into thy hands I entnni« : t! Luke xxiii: 46. > times, but until seventy must I forgive my bt xriii: 22. . VIII. Eight times did nounce, “Wo unto xxiii: 13. Unto you. t IX. Where are th*- xvh: 17. Hare I aK give glory to God f A grateful f f X. Ten oommami tn Wd given me. Do 1 n keep them ? Even about the < brgoes out to seek $fc< On taking the chair, the Preakient ade some remarks appropriate to The following are partieaiariy in tereating: Jamas MeCoah, Presidest of Prinoeton College; A Man among Men; Spiritual Presence; The Ede- anted Man in American Society; Alexander H. Stevens; Thoughts ee Phrenology ; The Tagals and Visa- vans; Heakhy or Diseased Children ; “fill ep the (Meetei) Measure ; Pre historic Msn; The Boa Oooftrhtor; Consumption ; His Recommenda tions, or the Boy who got s Situa tion ; etc. The publisher ofleie the test three numbers of 1871 free as a that I am your shepherd. How tins comes it that you want to reveres it, sad make me follow you Y That W9 not do. As long as you are a mem ber of our church, you mast Mknr your shepherd. You wife therefore, present your child for baptism.* 0,—“But, sir, I do not think it is right to baptize children.'" Jf.—“Why not 1» G.—“Because K is not taught hi the Bible.” Jf.—“Indeed. Then our Lord Jesai Christ did not baptize children V G.—“Ho, sir P Jf.—“What, then,'did he do with the children that were brought to him f" 0.—“He took them in his arms, kissed them, pat his hands on them, and btesqed them.” Jf.—“Would yon suffer Christ to do the same to your child 9* G.—“Yes, dr, that I would." Jf.—“Well, then, bring yodrtMM here; 1 will take it in my arms, kiss it, and put my hands on it, aad bleu it. Will that content youf* f»\—“Xo, sir!” Jf.—“Not me either, for I am net the Lord Jeans Christ He store can truly bless. We must therefore baptize in his name when the same Messing is received, which wos§4 have bee* conferred if be in persoS had put bis hands upon them sod blessed them f* “No, sir !* Jf.—“And what did Christ tbcless do to them P G.” “Well, he nevertbefcus them” Jf.—“Are you, sir, rilling that your child should live rittotot Christ's blessing, you kuod not for bow many yeaisl Nay, would ^ vm be willlug that it should die without nr G.—“No, sir." Ji.—“Then suffer yoot child to » baptiWd.” 0.—Buf children can uot be thz» fill for it* ” ilf.—•ritf hat theu did yoh, s * r ^ 0 with your child when it was bornr “We laid it st'onue In s Fans bed.” * •»]>*• i ■'■••• Jf.—“But Why did yo« hot iet alone, or even put ft dut df dore* of the feet that there was no qoes tiou chosen at the last meeting of Conference for disenssfou st its pres- couies ter learning colloquial Germau, and send them in Moravian zeal and Lutheran faith to Texas, God would bless his church. Tmo*. C. Bittul to aii! ‘Be ye alAo ready/ “tUt; 'lh.ien.ay,' A. Repays.” -Ir • I Hipnon Bay-Lob.—We re- learp that this excellent xauB fin voted oburcbmau, »Mtlbfk Of the steircb at t Ya-i and irequeutiy its ^A uod, uo .longer is in toriPto him t- J MlHsot^hrAXs' have got fefnffiii elrnrcbes iu Bk>ston, ileb was Some years ago jMd Reformed minister, the day be spent iu a free talk con ceruing the condition of the charges Represented, aud that, on the follow ing day, the passage in the Apos tle's Creed, test speaks of Christ's descent into hell, be discussed. The suggestion wss agreed to, and the films of Conference was thus stately 30 cts. S. R. Wells, 380 Broadway, N. Y. » Old and New. November. Bootou. Among the contents we notice: The Modern English Novel; The Language of Brutes; Forgiveness of Sins—this is, however, too muoh for Old and New; its theology is too humanitarian to tp worth anything. We like the number, however, be cause it is out spoken, gentlemanly and high toned. Whitnefs Musical Guest. November. Toledo, Ohio. With a glance throsgh its pages, we notice some very infievesllsg srti clea, editorial*, fee., and also an announcement of the publisher, offer in* to send this valuable musical monthly oo a three months trial trip for twmtty five cents, giving over four dollars worth of musk, sad a hue opportunity for all those who desire to examine this choice publi cation. We also notice that to all those who subscribe for 1872, before January 1st, will be seat this aad the December number* free.. Barely now is the time to subscribe; $1 per annum, speeimeo copy IS eta. Ad dress the publisher, W. W. Whitney, Toledo, Ohio. CkarvMs Musical Tisiksr. October. CindoBsti, Ohio. ! Moral CaroUaian. November, 1871, ,i Charleston, 8. C. • Our rule is, wbeu we go among our friends in the country, to ask s Do you got the Hared Carolinian f A mam may as well try to form successfully without it, as to attempt to eat hot soup without a spoon. American Agriculturist. November. Wie is tend to secure a patent reeommeodatioa for the Amshaam Agriculturist No. 1. It is worthy of iu Only the bear pictare must bare server says: The credit system m conducting a newspaper is a snare, au aunoyauce, a wrong, and a nui sance. The Zeitschrifl has discov ered this through long and bitter experience, and announces that ne cessity compels it to abandon the credit system, and to adopt that of advance payment. The editor says: Iuasmucb as we again find ourselves in great embarrassment, because so many of our friends are indebted to us for periodicals and books, and have paid no attention to onr re quests for immediate payment, neces sity compels os to refuse henceforth to give any credit, and to enforce strictly the rale of requiring advance payments. a hulf feverish and i rether languid and »er by a Lutheran. All in churohes in Ifew Eng- i the bands-of old Lutheran and nearly all of the new he *West*4w States have ■Wished by them. Even nothoruf ns all” is a little tills business, liet Mis- ? the credit, for she Cer- s ‘rtje WofC' Jft 1 , ii 4 *»,.■ k) j>0T Iukoki Old -F, ; 8. writes from V#.: find i . I au* au old tQi the Visitor, pud am M Be.—Matt, xx: 6. 1) n tot thou his invitatioi f Xil. Twelve aposti ■ eta, move around the Ei ^Ighteousoess, Wilt til ite of these planets? prostrates thee ou a si Christian eyes o pieet ; but it is both Jo do it while yet thou J b#tfc i»WU> iMd Mr, . rhf: tho* be sick, a oi SiI,s rejientaf« ?*** ^ »nay be a t*. \ Clurist's deaosat hits hell, elicited the fis t that the frith of the primi tive church upna this poret wss still retained to Its parity sad simplicity. What is there coafesred wv room re •ad hold, rithost sStmoptisg to be esoUidMiAfe wtoeh smoas paid to him, was by loom 8t Mark's Church. What 1 got from otbsr chsrehco aad asis, 1 know not. He did nc to aw, and hence J will not for it The asMNWt paid to he used i* aid of the pans with the paper, and s not fescoff all i will take their church New Publications. Die Harfe. A Collection of Select and Religious Songs, with and without Organ— Accoufpanimeut for mixed Cnorch Choirs. No. 1. By Jn lias Sebakf, Organist Schae fer & Koradi, Philadelphia. The first number of a selection of chnrch music, which promises to be very valuable. The two first chorus’ are taken from a mans of Mozarts. These, as well as the remaining pieces, can only be used in Protest ant churches as voluntaries before the regular order of service com mences. For this, as well as for musical entertainments of a religious cast, they are admirably adapted. Many would no doubt prefer if the name of the composer of each piece were given. K. Acrtcic. meeting of < ’oofrreoor, aad that they be pubbehed atoua wkh the notice of the pext meeting of Cou- fentoce, in the Visitor. besotted, Tbst tbs President, in hfs opening sermon of the next meeting of Conference, preach srpon some subject connected with the doctrine or coitus of our church. The following paper was received and adopted - Wirt KEYS, a mfodrity of the eterl- cal feemberi of CVtefereure fir8 ab rent, and Ouly on* of the absentee* has offered an fiictfe : therefore, '** * Bmtdrcd; That we ore pained is wltoemfing such cfelinqaeoey an the pkrt of our brefhreti, and express « rapid flight. Tl. h'ae-piero. h life's time-pie* r can wind it up ? le »ve rnartfe h all. Then “j *—I John ii: it>.- This Conferetioe met in IJbeftV HU! rhnrefa, Ttev. J.iD. rtbireyW charge, oo Friday the %7th of Octo ber. The folia wing members were prea eut: Clergy.—Revs. "3. D. 8hirey and H.8. Wiugaid. Laity — Messra. J. H. Counts, Adorn Berley, aud J, N. Ep^ ting. .yLfeer the Couforence was opeued Uy the becretsry, BexJ. D, 8hlrey was called to the chair, and (be Minutes of last meeting wore road and ap proved, Conference then a^ydrued Tjjflif|retiqp ou Haturday morn ing, tee Preoideii declares to the wife must the wife declare to the h ns baud. Ho it is spin tn ally with us. The same vow which the pastor make* to the people mighty God dissolves our aittoa. Holy Ghost, *( c *y I .. S** JOU »«. I to your real.*; 1 I S?”* 1 ' We Mi d „, § 1 te * t ■$* ?<»t fmi | s “'<8 Ml r Mnt0 Th L kt £u toll [. The tiouthern October. 187L Columbia, s. C. * Contents : 1. The Keforaation in the XVIth Centnry, contemplated in some of its causes and results. 8a- periicial and hasty. Reads as if the writer had crammed to write it The best thing in the article we quote with pleasure < . ,,i t “The internal political weakness of Germany was the streugth of the Reformation. The internal streugth of France was the weakness of the Reformation iu tb»t country- Io Germany Mtow Hilftgnly is house, established after many a storm of ter bopr that Ihev wffi bwacefrrlk tUefrd onr mmlkpfif * all fnibiv cable; Hr, ft prertlksftlmitypnimt ml. comply #«h the feomfeng re quirement ol this »WmT>, to adViee it with your views, yo* tones chilfi in a warm bed, fer fil ^ could neither uuderataod yew OT core fork, dot h it able fie you for it now. You mnky * Reaciii reeeiv. thank Easton G. A. Sligb aud 1. iWkert, la gates, appeared aud toph their seats. Rev. A. R. Rn^e, , Wing pres ent, Nfe received a» •*« It both eato ^ tirnore, work. TM flMfblf Of war la at end, aud drill tnnsf gb on qs hetv . - ^ m * ivro > soouti IP r y i "IT* \m 1 *£E Jfl lit. 1 St| be J Wei bfru Ihi Hr tbi