The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, December 22, 1871, Image 1
ONE LORD. OIE^FAITI, OIE BAPTI8M"—EPHESIANS IT: &
COLUMBIA, s ( . FBIBA1. DECEMBER it 1871. *
YHdlor
touched with the feeling of our in
HrtnitieH, hot »« tempted hi all
points like as we are, yet without
sin.” If the trees seem henry, he
knoweth our frame, he remembereth
that we are bat dust. Re known
just how much we can bear; and he
known how heavy* ia the burden; for
44 He has borne oar griefs and carried
PAY
sheer felly, bteaaas *m Ariight hi
glring—aad glrfef according to our
arenas—the peer glrlag of their
**m and the rich of their aben
spirit of lore aid HW-rntm -Triftri
Mly bear the croee his gentle haada
lay oa yoat Janas, "tor the joy
which was set before him, endured
the eroaa.” Go than, child of God,
“consider him, lest ye be weery sod
payment faint in yoar minds.” Ye waso—td
of the Lard, ye are returning from
| the regions of the shadow of death:
SKaTT >*» are coming home. Ootae with
fjhhther snugs and everlasting joy upon yoar
Ministers,
From John,, the ttnela
friend of the 3avtear, the
among the twelve, sad the
patriarch of the ipostedr
ccttld look bach to the mar
v^Fmsi^wa swspw srar wem* spspsi
traction of Jerusalem, and Ieoh fee
ward to the certain triumph at ohrio
i utility over the tottering ideie of
Paganism, we uioet naturally expect
the ripest, ee it was the last, eempo-
position of the gospel hsfecry, fer
the edittontioo of the CkntHm
CkurcA m mU epos.
The Gospel of John Is the Oe*iei
of Gospels, an the Kpialto to the
Kihmniie is the £pietle of Spietlee.
it in the most remarkable an well an
the most important literary predas
liou ever composed by mss. It Is a
marvel even in the marvellous Book
.of books. All the fllerature of the
world could net repines Ik it In the
most spiritual sad ideal of Gospela
It iuProduce* us into the Holy of
Holies in the history of ear Lend;
it brings us, as it were, late Hie im
Christian’! Life.
remarked, in the
rile to the Phil
should also be
i life. But there
4 diseiples, who,
4k are willing to
fbnt are always
By bear, rather
■Knotting from
Saviour. They
ort flowing from
df tbe glory due
rib praise gtorifi
thoughtful tone, “do yon take saris
aerioas views of life ns that, sash
face to Awe the trae Sbekiaah. “the
glory of the Only Begotten of the
Father, fell of grace ahd truth, ft
presents, in faucet harmony, the
highest knowledge, nad the dee|nri
love, of Christ. It gives ue the
clearest view of hie Incarnate Divia
ity and bis proper bamauity. It eats
hint forth as the Kterual Word, whs
was the sou roe of life from the be
ginning, and the organ of all the
revelation* of God to man; as the
Fountain of living water that
quenches the thhrri of the soaf; as
the Light of the world that iUumi
if, like the boy
her sail are Im-'
destroys the terror of death. It ru
fleets the lustre of TrauaflgaraUee
on the Mount, yet nabdwsd by the
holy sadness of Gethesmnee. It
abounds in festive joy and glmftaesa
iloft. Jeeas is
* he giveth all
id for the con
tbs crown, fie
his eye.” He
▲mid the de
ft Christian may
mixed with grief ever the 1
tude and obtoseaess of eabe
men. It brent has the air of
and yet sew ads at times like
of thunder from the ether we
soars boldly and mqjastIraM
the eagle towards the am
source of light, and yet has
gently aw a darn over the eai
is sabJime as a seraph* «impl
deep and oris|hramble se tl
It u tW> ulnifmat in mmvI a
to their not
/know the
i wiU lead
Are yog
of Nth upon Hi I who paceed
^■•NfeAha oue nud here the other,
“fe,feem.no balm hi Gilead! is
•etri «»e physici m there r Yes,
‘•whhdlfe *trif#a4,htt healed.'*
Christ, oa which the beloved
I ye that labor
| fad I will give
3re hi rest for the
fee, and rest hi
ia Jesus fllleth
minds, and furnishes ine
food for meditation and
It i* the Gospel of peace
rid and thy ex-
“I sot dowu
4k great delight,
dWt to my taste.*
to He down in
wjrib lead you
rtt* ! Hence the
u ia hia exalted
Ifeough the fig.
% neither shall
MG the labor oi
pud the Helds
; the Hock shall
L „fyid, aud there
S#® heiU ih^^tair—though
comforts seem goue—“yet
Wee in t^e ( .Lprd, i wUl joy
bleeeed future when all the discords
of the Church militant on earth shall
he solved in the harmony of the
Church triumphant In hear
4(6 Aa# \ I
the still i
t could exc
Jehovah,
Aad God audtes nee of the troubles
t scads ca hia people la this world
The Holy ScBLPTuaKe.—The
veneration we should feel for the
Bible, as the depeririry wf savitig
“Well, well! What’s all that gat
to do with yamf saying ia answer to
my offer, *1 can’t afford iftf"
“Why, as off west to yon, hat it’s
got all to do srith It. I coat afford
uot only from what we attach to my
other book, but from that admiration
its other proi»erties inspire ; and the
variety and sntiqntty of its history,
the’light it afford* ia varieae re
wonshes, Us inimitable touch os of
nature, together with the sublimity
and beauty 90 copiously poured over
its puges, will be deemed subsidiary