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ONE LOBD, ORE FAITH, ORE COLUMBIA. S. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12. 1872 OLD SERIES, VOL. V.-NO. 174 Hftrtloi Of our commercial prosperity—t# "bo Mm —Bad m oat of dark* n«M into Mia marvellous light," and to whom all glory and honor, nil thanksgiving and praise are doe.— .Virm. I* the doctrine if b—vsnly iraif- nitioo true t i bulfevw la M, and I think the Bible toacMaa U ©lc*ri>. In tMo lm (dans caa it bo |in—lb to that if arc ao fortunate aa to fat bi h—veiq ao wW bo laoca ignorant there than we arm bora I A denial of tine (trerioue truth would clearly iiap«> tltiau» From a pretty exteumva examination of line eaM|oet for a loug tune past, and more —ireutoUj re cently—for 1 Marc bad oiucM to larw tu> attention m that direct aa*— 1 aut fully HMtiaffcd I bat tbio gluriuaa Irotb ia —deniable. -Whito! to it uoaaibto All Ac interest* aad hop— of iaaa iiMmoc centre ia bat •‘one *»«*-** religion of J—ns. To M tble to emphatically the pbtlo— »•»*• etoae, —averting everything ir into (Mire gold. Array ft*m all e ends, duties, aad happiness ot b, to iMo uan who bac not iMia *• thing,"thia true spiritual al PAY Me «M not a risk aunt or a prime. Ho did not appear to eeab wraith, or honor, or btoaeare as the groat rad of life ftff did not seem to live tor the sake of —>»>iag life. Yet be e% ulrutiy did o^ it, tor ha was always rejoa—g. Ho war % singular man, aad-fils history to worth knowing. Wo boro ao doubt that bo woo what the wudd ought S7 I Game aet to load Paaet Mai a fiw—ff/'-Bn*. s: ML The world to vary In—ist—t. On the one baud, it chargee ehrta tiaaity with being aggressive aad quarrelsome, meddling with other men's matter*, and turning the world uptodr down. Who ha* not board of the odium theologicum, the theo logies numor, which to held up — the ayuouym of the bitterest possible hatred f Who ha* not heard of the jagpotosr aad enmity of the safe t From one point of view it would kilroad. ia temporal things, I bepa the day ♦bfcpsli^lmeso and pstsfin—, dine and have all the bread aad batter ! who tHfctw a paper rep- pest oflkto--whether di- »or suottor**, or whether I or not*-i» reapenidble orders hh paper dinoon- parr aUfsmsrejres, nr ay eoatiaue to mud it i made, And collect the whetlieri the paper to £lve 0 de$ied that refn- wpapers |nd periodical* mce. or , removing aad ailed for. ia prtmo facie ha was ao* a penes t or a tonkas a. Like yua aud me, ht w—hu Iwi—a einoar to the eight uf God x posed to all the rntoutottos «f eihto. Owe of the sweetest consul* none of my litis to tba* l shall sow them again in tbs upper and bettor world; indeed, i* would hardly bo heaveu (1 write it roveroatiy) with out this dear thought «aa ho to* du I god. Dives, in the tower world, recognised Iaxaras area to heaven; and can it btf possible that the —au- Ou the other hand, we are told just as toucorely, that ohristiaoity is eflcmiuatc, that it does sot develop a robust aad vigorous manhood, that it lacks nerve and force. How re concile these inconsistencies t Ha in ly it is iapassfoto. O world! world l how oft— have we piped onto you and you have sot danced $> and mourned unto you, and you bars out lamented! Bui tt ia of the more oonsequeoca that Christian* should them wives have clearly debited notions of the olraded uuiun of the jwcific and the aggressive to our relations to the world. And truly! these are times *heu it scrota hard to know whether our proper wea|K>u to a sword or an tdive branch, llni it must be quo ceded that there ought to be and is some plaiu principle which throws light u|»ou this great question ot duty, that to, our Christian attitude iu duty . Christ tells us be gives ns /most. Ilia advent is the dawn of peace to a world of conflict*. Hto work to mercy and hu character to love. But again he says, 1 came not U> send pence hut A SWORD. bet us solve this riddle! The pesos Christ gives, to pence with God, (trace with goodness aad friendship justice and truth, with all of which we were previously %t munity. But he does not sQabliah pacific relations between hto disciples and the Devil or hto works, or hto followers. Peace with God, to war with bis foes. Per- haps there to no limit tor our capaci ty of an i not sane to peace, aad knowl edge of Christ, bat it iuvolvea a cor responding growth to thn intensity coots per quarter. i and communication^ to RAILROAD. iuo Ridge Railroad ys excepted: 4 30pm toss knowledge than ths inhabitants of the but loo ilea* pit T It sau\ bo possible—the very idea to abhorrent. Ths greatest bliss of heaven will no doubt enwatot in beholding the face of our Saviour, bat nett to that, to my bumble opinioo, it wig he in meeting with our dear loved ones who have gooe before as. 1 love to coo template this thought. This idea enters into almost every funeral dis course 1 ever heard delivered; is deed, it is' inherent ia ear very nature*, aad to. to instinctively acted ii|mmi whether are believe it or not. David said, ou a certain occasion, on the death of a beloved child, “be can not return to me, bat 1 can go to him T Who* mtotofsrtion could it be to lhivid to go to hto child If be could not recognize him, if be could uot see him f And how con Id lie knotc that he was with Ida child if lie could not see and reedgnise liiuif The fact mind be that David belieied this glorious doctrine of heavenly recognition, and hence the language be used bad a world of meaning in it. We are taught in the Scriptures of Divine Truth that if wc are ao fortunate as to be saved at all, it wHl be to us the cufiuina tin*, the entire perfection of puffed liappfncHSand bow can ltd* lv an lesw wc are able to recognize our near and dear friends as also saved f And again flic Scriptures also teach that the saved In heaven wifi Imw iu humble resignation to the Diine will In consigning our impenitent friends to eternal punishment in a world of woe. And 1 would now ask how we are to know whether our dear ones are saved or lost f bow we a re Ho recognize the goodness or justice of God iu saving or damning them in the eternal world, unless we can rrrognfze' them as was whipped aa if he were a felon; three turn* hu «u hunt— wifo rods; he wan stoned once, and dragged out of the town — dead; hu w— ship wrecked three times; amt hu w— abundant to a arks of beauvolrown to different cuuUlrica, nod — hto Mooorable than her called his Jabeiralled ou ths tog. Ok. tliat thoa toecL aud eniarge my .blications, Ulkal *ie. And God requested.”— and thirst and eukl, and w— ultra iu iwrilu hr hind and a—; and yut oiwwfs ryipif, and uv— •Mf>»og in tnhnlatsum Uk at him* U yu dewpondeats, who are coat down by baud ism of gkmn aad no—Mg, torn tog to peer into the dark ai— ui to* had been called pon to select that might (ulnded thorn the Bible without i toss or detoimeut, wu would chsuen the first tune chapters btvntotos. It wet^ld seem that \ ehupturs are *<-thing more in Mst of hard narkes, devoid of iictiso and attnokion; and ia Xuthiag eonld he more braadfhl than the spiritual suggewtioos and aaaoriatkma of Advent \V f have the try unto In them all to the exqwtoltr hymn of Zochariaa, when he took the child of wooderfbl birth to hto ansa. The first port of the above, to rouge cited : “Wind*mi to the J tkimf; therefore gut uriu- Hw father, David, had poaai uiudcru beruea, like potiUciaoO, have become common |*tare and tri——but the world has tow men, and weds many mure, who, like l**al, thn niMiuusry to the beuthrn. cam naffer sud r^uke as he did fur the elect's sake, to promote the kiugdom and glory ot unr Lord and Master Here •isrhe that Tito rejoicing of the Apoatle ap pears to have been the joy of grati tude. ft fiowed out than a grateful heart to thanksgiving, an walit lb— au o%*er ffuwiag fouatahi. la alt Iria sufferings, wu hear the not— of .grateful praise. Hto example la ihta respect merits the attention of at! •ko ha Ml intensely the depths of the political degradation of hto p—plc, and rej—ees to the hope of rieHvrraaae. And then the to— ch so gen to one of t—durui— and spiritual aigntocaace. '•And thou, child, shaft be railed the prophet of the Highest, fbr tbou Anh go htifiwi the to— of the Lord fo prepare hto ways! to ghre know!- edge of aalvscino unto hto people, by the remhmkm of their stow, rbrougit the tender mercy of our Ood: whereby the day spring IVom on high hath \ kited as, to give light to them that tot In dart a—s si d the shadow of death, to guide oar feet Into the way of pence.'* There to womlertol poetic b—aty to the Scriptural syrnladtom of Advent, by which Che coming of Chrlut to unmpnred to the dawning light. Modern dkeeuveriea, in regard to the uatdre and oomyioaition of light, add greatly to the beauty and toguM—acr of thin rimditude. Light to found to comprise various influences and pow. era which make ft the great source and aoatalnrr of life. That the light of CkrWk coming should hare dawned upon the world, to owing to the tender mercy of Ood. The object la to give salvation, by the remission of tons, aad guidance by which our feet shall be led in the way of peace. ft to wonder Ail how, in this repre sentation, the divine agency In man's salvation to etrtotovely presented. Tbe id— Is that of a gift bestowed out of Ifeu tender mercy of God, remitting oar ton*, and 1—ding as to the peace which u passetb all understanding* Wbflt this h the repreu—toclan of the ftibto, It to confirmed by the deep—t religions EDITION. 12; Arabesque, 'urkey, $4. Ter to those who be ! IE A CHAPMA “This an emotion foreign to our past expe rt—. The reverse of love to halved, and love to Christ proclaims autipa thy teauuobrtou That great peace ot God, sublime in iu glory, fathomless iu iu sweetness, heavenly in its caltu sincerity, bears in iu hand a sword. Hau stands ever between t«f© Eter nities, the eta uity of love, sud thu eternity of hatred. Divine grace changes bis relatione, and makes the antagonisms w hich before were mis er) and defeat to him, to be hence forth happiness aad strength. A •word is the -badge of the pence of Nw-wes— the n rdf hwhvklUHto w this earth, hu\in tncs of bitu- o once tried their (Might ewaona who, *dy engaged went* of life, rits of bappi toy bad tbeir eir pleasures (roubles ami ling the things which ore behind, and raanhiug forth unto those things which are before, I pres* toward the HACKBtl Blind Factory, One thing —ms up the whole aim, duty and happiucos of human ex- tot wire ; and that to to “fear Ood ami keep hto commandments.*' Man's Hfc to on wtter Wank, an awfttl foil ore on any other principle than thin. Kuia to this life and perdition to the life ku come to the fete, the certain doom, of all who will not reek la religion the repore and comfort of tbeir morel nature*—the well bring and security Of their souls in eter nity. Do any of our readers lack this u one thing T Let each nod all of us analyse our hearts; and when we have held an honest inquest over l*ast Hr— and actions, let the ques tkm be answered iu the fear of Ood. If we really lack this "sa tkimf” then, render, do we not lack every thing essentia! to ©or well-being aad safety f—FOMify A drees to. _ i —ved or aa tuKtf A denial of this doctrine will it most he true, and in tny the different vwrph I fe the various po duties aad oocupntioiia. Occasional efltorts or qpecial deportments of labor, we count as Christian service, forgetting .that cirrytkimg to to be —aerified through our fore to the Saviour, who orders aQ oar lives. ^1 wish I could do something for Christ* —id the little nurse maid to the motherly housekeeper, wlien they came home from prayer-meeting on Sabbath evening. “Well, child,* said the good wo man, “one of the first things I did fir him was to nceep do—. 1 was Carafes* about my work, and when ! let my breakfast dishes stood on uot do opiuion the teachings of the Bible, from GcnesiM to Revelation, declare its tmtb, either positively or infer entiully, and if true, it is oue of the moat precious and glorious truths iu Divine revelation. Kkfcwhrelv-, snd their fears, 1 heir pains, tbeir rials, and at la ***i God's paq 4dwdL How auk wbeu they * on earth, * the redeo- uafe, whose L> a careless w» still (iviug in the ifl world, that they have taken ponitiona iu the sgint laud, and Ah— aliouting iiod’s praises, or »rii*g beneath bis feown. » the.midst of these hard names, tol this beautiful tribute paid to •smory of Juhesy also re- •A hto pious prayer, and God's ertoit. This veiise stands in 4d»t of these ge—alogies like totfeit rose in the bed of ikror as the ,p—resiling stream kfsnltry deem.' If is a recoin- kife the careful mudeut who tofo examines God's word, com- to^one part with another, with- wtoiegaiding or undervaluing !“Aad dab— was more bou « than his brethren. Aad he fiton the God of irtfael, sayings In spiritual things ww are too often hviug upon self. VV# seek in fancy church (if be bud a favorite charvh] pi rhiilippi. "Be careful for noth ing; but iu every tbiug, by prmyei aut! supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made koowu unto (iod.** Tfiere are some men who seem to ttituk that they have little or nothing to lhauk God tor, eveu iu tbeir It was uot so with t’aat, pea— and stability which are to 1m found in foe ifedeeiaer only. Out ward duties are well iu their |4ace, but they burn ao divinwUfe in tbeia- •erieu, am) Llmrefors can grie none. They are to be (ariformed, but so* trusted La ; to be used - it to grace, but uot — the price with which grace may be purchased. They are as the scatiuhl of the building—n menus tor (*arryiag on the work ; but not the end of the grv»J design, in the power of Christ they are bias*- tags; without it, they hntnimpoa—. The whole trust must lie iu him; ho iu tbo (say,,lbs truth, sud the life; without him, prayers, pahses^ bl and orduiane ft are snrea»iiss wii hoot a soul. All^p* iToniiuiiecis iu under Ao be holy aud aooeptable, oiast be am mated by hto Bporto. Tboo to to that wr enjoy a cciamnnuai of heart and interest with the adorable Jesus, and a deliglitUii %«t>w, hehiad the veil <a «hii ward or4iii>uic*-s (auch — iio casual w City rfilww- ' ■ to somebody, my mistreat explained in mo that feitfcftdoess iu daily da ties, — unto the Lord, was working for him, aad that we most begia to nerve him jwat where we ore and iu wbatsve work we are doing. It helps me a good deal when I aai tired and fretted, to remember that i am working for him in the way be appoints." $ nale Shull ore, in the courts of the Lord's house, aud iu the pisseooc of ail his people, give him most humble aud hearty thanks for all his good no— and lo\ lujfkiuduc— to us and to all meu; shall we bless him for our orwatiou, preservation, aud all the bio—tags of this life, but, above all, for lbs redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, aud yut withhold from bis service the silver aad the gold with which be has blest us, aad a— our brethren have itfMnl, and shut up our bowels of compassion from them f Shall we do the— things, aad yet imagine that we are heirs of his kiugdom 1 No: we must show our feith by our prayers. aud we suggest to those from whom uo thanks to God are ever heard, Giui they might thank God for life, for (he light uf the sun, siul for (lie Gospel—for hto long suffering toward them, permitting such men to tire, even if thvy toau uni rejoice. But they ought to rejoice every day. A little joy would greatly promote their liuppiaves. it would enable them to Urar tire little privations sad Ills of life more < bcorlutly, sad greatly blew*tags which they lifted up, by a higher BumniSG or Affuctios—The aged Samuel Rutherford said, U 1 find such comfort aad advancement of soul through the afflictions ap pointed ynto me; aud as for m\ Lord's cross, which 1 am now carry iog, I find to just such a bordeu a* sails are to a ship, or as wings are to a bird. They weigh something; but they are worth their weight; they make the ship to go, and foe bird to fly ? aud well worth its weight ** cross of Christ to His people.** r including * [ and wanhbto L m be B to Bev- J- f EL LOui* I® enhance might nimjpiniu dpy m Did you never observe what power for good a rejoicing vhrVtmu parent or child h— in the fomily f touch a parent — cluid. • host counteoama la ever beaming wHh giateAil j«^ sml brnigmly.toan lavstosMs bis— lug to s fondly. Were the entire chart b »umponrd of *och perfitxts, It ft.t. rot®®®* ) IN 1«• S°CS iMMI ifihii |* “And Gud granted that iug the Ixn-l ip biHffpotbu.-**, Is uut.\, quest• d." , ,, T. gritltdvtir, tdeNju-dnex* end glory.— i)i.ipg[.y j.ijL L What s iff It lie ttt enjoy this v miUii ** may lai JUrukk mil. "**d eomuianiou wltluNtt veil lie- [„n. li.M J,*.| - tovatiy Oifdfo eujuyfo >———fi ^(hq uiargip; 4o u .i—ua, |aepsre me for it» and works, our love by our obedience, nod our abounding gratitude by de voting ourselves and our substance— our silver aad our gold, our flocks and oar herds, the first fruits of our Grace never appears grace till sin appears to be sin. The deeper our sense of the evil of Mn is, foe deeper oar appreberrttoa of the free