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ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTI81T-EPHE8IAN8 IVs 5. COLUMBIA, S.C., FRIDAY. MARCH 1. 1872 OLD SERIES, VOL V.-NO. 181 ftauda of dollar* are contributed by professors of roll^iou, b) pivwibi‘1*, iiiul by lay men, by and by women, iaio ibt* pockets of Home of the worst and most licentious men and women the world ever saw, when this m-It same people, these professed disciples of Christ, would not contribute one-tenth ol' tbst amount to save a soul from ever lusting burnings. This is so, oude- nlaidy so, for 1 know whereof I affirm. My reiuurka iu regard to the circus are also applicable to the theatre. L. God sad Judge in an boor 1 And I have made do preparation far each an event. I knew that impenitent youths mm cat off thee eaddealy, bat it never entered my uriad that I vat to be oae of the naaber* Then wildly crying oat, “Ob, what must I do to be saved f he panted int eternity. Theta was notion tbea for explanstido. 8o, too, it may be with soy of as. Death may knock as sodden)y at oar doors, sad vo can moat it with eoa posare only when we have Christ for oar friend When He is oar hiding place we shall fear noeriL Death i* By this principle, in the worship of conducted by it into the higher and happier form of religions experience. Religious (ear and anxiety are the prdnde to religious peace sad joy. Worship prr «uppoarw haow ledge of God. Without the knowledge of 'bio, a perceptma of his nature, of his disposition towards as, his pur pose* and arts in reference to us, v« have no affet tions to experts, and uf necessity our worship must oessr. or become so empty form. Paul as sumed this, when be told the Atbe man* that he had sera so altar to the unknown God,gad said, “Who* ye therefore iguoraptly worship, him declare 1 uuU* you," sad tbeu at ooce pruorrdeil to instruct them to the true cooceptiou of Qod’s nature aod relations to men. false or distorted vitas of God make true worship impusaiblr. Our affections are form ter who was an infidel. She came and witnessed the baptism of her sis ter. After the service I found her salt ingot the dom you walk with me' It is all heiivro. I affection, aod ao promote the work •f grace ia as. And the public worship ol God leads os directly into His service by associating and binding us together with His people. We place ourselves in sympathy and communion with them, as in oommou adoration we lift our souls with theirs aod centre them upon a single, all attracting object Drawn to God, the worship era are drawn to each other. I'm ted. each to Him, they become one in Him. Then the spirit of the first commandment grows out into the spirit of the second ; the love of God broadens into the love of the brethren ; to sen e God ia to aurve them. And so worship leads to work. >ot writing w «» *' Hjwliieh ueods l tostadkiusly »vol«M|>y sll pub- j. gpeokerf. because it Jit* e\ idently 3trimeat4 t0 system.dif thought, 2rtet*» diffuse, iueoberont method of Unking, sod is wantiu£ both *» »*le* T ri1 atM j terseness of fiction. It is Jrii, for it reqiiires labor to Ste, snd our indolent natures, in yjnd fog a little, dislike to come T u the bard luumml exercise of Xviag the stylus from earliest dawu dlst«»f eie, burdened with thought. \i'e an* too ready to persuade onr- I Imothst an wirier must lx* a betta r 1 * • my- • I It is 4 delusive erHi We are , miy to foaelude, liecqusc we hart Tggn we com still mire jit pleasure. 4bc possibility is admitted, but prmc whj not <io *^° write dtth any tolerable ease pud fluency ifitmres oousUnt practice. Deprived of e ven a few months’ prikcticc, what Would the most skillful performer do iL the flianot “Out of practice” i 4i4S more troth than poetfv—a pain- fill, if not mortifying confession. So \ * imagine it to he with the art of rritiog. | The practice fitted; lie kept Hhv said, ‘Will I uniat tell you. »1y uaw the bnp j tism of my sister, giving lief soul, to rhrist. That sight made me bellev*.’ She liecume one of the most heanti- fhl Christ Ian* I ever saw. ‘•The brurrr of the mismage Wirr BE A HVVI’ATHtriWti PBUMOV. I heard a minister make an address that made me few! an if I hail a bole in my bark, sad some one had damped a load of earn robs on top ol iu#. Every word granted. Not owe syllable of the gos|iel did be know. Never he afraid of loving, yielding or (tearing too much, or of too tenderly (Miakl*ti«| the cirrutn staiMvs of the pen**** you ml dress. All a»y > outh I w as brought up an der an old ariuintcr. He carried a gold headed eane, and was very dig nified. I need to think be liked to bury (wople to get nd of them. 1 would as anon go to l*ed mi an ice berg as tell him the troubles of ay voting heart. If any one wHI love for thw eoocords. He, who in the Psalmist’* phrase has known the power uf Divioe the anger, ia visited with a manifestation of the Divine love. This method, ia the thirty-- second Psalm, is the method of sal- ration. Day aod night God’s hand is heavy upon the soul; the fear and sense of the Divine displeasure ia Itassing through the conscience like electric currents. The moisture,4he sweet dew of liealtk sad happiness, is turned into the drought of sum mer by this |>reparstory process* Tbeu the sou) acknowledges its ain, mm) its iuiqaity it bides no longer. •BABTLRTT »*ral TU*'t A> Religions Conversation June V, Mrfi.! leas. Bat we do not fear oa earthly foe when we have a safe retreat, into which he eaa never enter, where none of bis wiles can reach os. Even at the moment when tbtr (be seems to triumph, oar conquest is complete. “Thanks be aoto God, who givetli as the victory, through oar Lord Jeans Christ."—A. 8. Timm. |t)i instant: ^nrter Trai From the re|>ort of Dr. Tyug’s fea ture Itefort* the Tabernacle College in Brooklyn, we select the following the Lord—it justifies and approves of this wrath which it has felt—aad be forgives the ioiquity of its sia. It is nut s vain thing, therefore, to fear the Lord.— W. G. T. SkedA, D.D. However philosophers may have differed as to wbat beauty is, they have scarcely varied ia statement as tu what it does—the characteristic by which its presence is determined, vis; that it awakens agreeable eoo thin*. The pnq»het describes it as that a hirh leads us to “desire”—“no beauty that we should dekibe lint.” The true senss of the beautiful, then, is net ia the eye, or the brain, but »« the heart ; and ia pnqiorhoo as the i i brat ions of that sense reach deqier. we peas from the coast rip ples of sensuous pleasure, to the deep tide wave of spiritual joy. A , (tainting may by delicate coloring «*atch the rye, hut though laborious ly .torurate in detail, max yield no farther pleasure. It is beautiful only j to the outer x tsinn. Let the same 'oltunhia as form* lays and SateMa, ■ K, V lCe-Presideti '• Ticket Agt. ■ RAILROAD. One (.right winter’s morning, after a snow storm, a father took his list for a walk to attend to some farm affairs requiring his attention. As he started, bis little boy of live sum mere also snatched his hat, and fiol lowed the father with mock dignity, and an assumed business like sir. When they reached the door, the gentleman noticed that do track or pathway had beeo made ia the anew, and he hesitated about lotting his boy follow him. Bat the soft, fieecy snow looked so tempting, so poorly white, that he concluded to allow the child to walk after him. He took long aod rapid strides through the untrodden snow, when suddenly remembering his “little boy,” be paused, looked book for him, aad exclaimed: “Well, my sou, don’t you Aad it hard work to walk ia this deep I. bee that your religion makes you a better hmi or daughter, a better clerk, it better student, a better friend, a better workman By ibeir fruits ye shall know them.** 2. Do not set you reel! up as a stand art). 8huu all censoriou.vness, especi ally toward older Christiana, who may not look at thing* just as you do. Remember that each one “to his own Master aUtydeth or falleth," ami not to you. 3. Let uothiug keep y ou troui # the Saviour. Never be tempted to stay away from him by uubeliering doubts, by past neglect, by present fear, by Remember the faithful WORSHIP. <A* EumgclMt U, Aw/A America. i page*, 24roo. i» now re the church eight sofo, sad us this'WaT ■erne to the church ' edge....... - • 2 00 * so I.uu........—... 2 71 aperextra gilt.. 3 00 ■ — 3 00 cents extra. >ugregationa tux- rt their order* at once, it of ten per cent, i* EDITION. $2; Arabesque, gilt r tu key, #4. Ten j>cr to those who buv in FIE Sc CHAPMAN, sellers, Columbia, S (’ • 24—tf auy thing, saying, “Christ Jesus came into the world to save simmers* Be more in* timate with bitn than with any earth ly friend. 4. Never rejoice in your own strength. Jteftolutioos are of no avail simply a* such. A child looking to memory armed. Be reaolate in looking to him *looe for strength. This is all the resolution yon need to make—for 5. “Without me ye can do aott#a$* Let this be the settled convic tion of your soul, for without this all else ia unavailing, all efforts to grow in grace will be as useless as to build a house upon the shifting sand*. Finally. Do not be discouraged if you fail in everything. If you were perfect what need would you have of a Saviour! “Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find ; knock and it shall be opened onto yon. For every one that asketh re- orivetb,” and so forth. “If ye then True enough, the dear child was planting his tiny feet just where the parent's bad trodden. The child’s reply startled the lather, as he re flected that thus would hia child keep pace with kirn, aod follow in his tracks through life. He was oot a friend U> Jesus, not a Maa of prayer, aud not a Christian; aad well might be pause aod tremble as he thought of his child, ever striving ’oo many liook*.” Too Many rtain class, hut not too many fc», any more than there cati aauy churches and too much lg, until the wbofe earth bo th a knowledge ef tbe Lord, r as pricked men write *o he good and the. true must ore and more, ti The Circus and the Theatre. 1 bare grave and serious objection* to thejafcus, as well a* the theatre. Will a m allow iue to refer to a few of tbfin through the columus of your high-toned pn|w*r! Mrtbink* I beat you say, “Yes, Uith all my heart.! Then let me call your atten tion tq a few of them. I*» 1521 I visited the theatre on two ourasions, two nights in surces- idoti, dud | will add that 1 never was »t adieus hi my life. Possibly the readetj will say that 1 am not a judge of this good or evil resulting from onward, through life’s mysterious maces and myths, toward eternity! The little boy’s reply brought that strong, stubborn-heartodmao totksnl, when even the preached word of God.made no improaaioo upon him. Finally he repeated, aad sought aod found peace in believing hi Christ. We believe he is now mating such tracks through life that at some day that son may be proud to say: u Fa tber, I step in all of your tracks.”— British Workmen. tain*. On* a bo romr* to tbe place of worship without meditation bus n*» just notion of the meaning of arorshtp; or else rsreleselv or will fully enters u|«on the form of a service which, ia substance, be is incapable of rendering. He can not at the last moment, by a bare act of the wUl, Stir up his affection*. They move only under an iaexorahl^ law. They must be rliriled by a view of tbe object* that appeal to them. Those object* can only he x tewed with djatmetnea* amt effect by most profound meditation and putirtit «-on temptation. Worship is one method of commit moo with God. it is a direct ex prrnsion of tbonghl warm with affection to him. We conceive fora a present, attrutive persnu. \'r have from him tbe (tromise that be will manifest himself io Messing n*. Tbe experience of .erery can»e*t wor- abipprr will qualify him to witness Christ came, and came “without form or oooselinesa.” Faith make* men “seers**—it is Hie “vision of the invisible," tbe “evi dence uf things not seen." “But love ia the faith of the affections ; no longer a habit only , but changed to an instinct—a nature ; not timorous or slow. l»ur glad and free. Faith forge* tbe link that bind** us to Christ; tbe fire* of love harden it to Steel. Faith BKLIKVE8 Christ true : Love sees Him beautiful; tbe one « brings safety, the other power; the one saves ns, the other impels as to wave other*.—-Jesse #?. Th»mtts, im the Ckicmyo Pnlpit. sick and suffering man. He talked to him in a genteel way, a* a genteel mouse would nibble the edge of a « heese, and got up to leave. -Ain’t yon going to piayf *l’vt* forgotten it»v prayer-book, 1 must go and gel it.’ 4 We can’t wait for that,’, said the old lady, Met ns pray.’ And she knelt down and prayed for the siek and suffering man, and then t'«»r her pastor, rlmt lie might la* able to pray without his prayer-Ismk. . L V -» • “The Insirer of the message must have AN EXPERIENCE OP THE POXVKR OP THE TRUTH HE TKACWEH. “f shall never Lave a ilry nuro* for my Imitii**. Yon nm*t hare in your self the |M>wer to teach. A formsl way is like freezing up sonl* to keep them. Yon can not talk of wdiut you know nothing. Get the |s>wer in y our heart; when there, it will speak. A day laborer said, ‘I can’t tell the theory of religion, but when I love the liord, it feels gtssl hert%’ and he struck his breast. Yon ean not -warm your fingers at a printed fire place. The man that want* me to weep must weep himself, ltoliert Hill give* an account of a minister in whose notes wen* written, N>y here,’ then in another [dace, ‘Cry’ here.’ entrance. One evening I waa amt for to go to her house. Knowiag the feeling* of her bnstwimt. I toW mv wife where I waa going, in rune I did not return. Wl»en I entered Mm. It ——■** room, there ini the aofa, with hi* wife, sat Mr. K • A rich man was asked to contrib ute to a certain bencvoleut work, and the solicitor quoted tbe text, “He that givetli to tbe poor leudeth to tbe Lord, aod that which he hath given will he pay him again.” The merchant replied,with a sunle, “Your security is no doubt good, and your interest liberal, but I do not like to lend on such long credits,* and he coolly bowed tbe collector out. Abo, the day of settlement waa not so far off to this “|kk>t rich man." Iu two short weeks lie was called to bis last arcouut. > ,<r Aud so the day of our death seeui* far off to all of ua. Wo are reckon- b* no longer credit* still, when one message after another has been sent to warn us that our term of steward ship was drawing to a close. When we see one and another cut down suddenly about us, it leaves but a t) ament impression on our minds aod hearts. We think that a like calamity will never come to us. How fearful tbe surprise, too often, when a sudden summons calls tbe soul to stand before its Judge. A young man in the full flush of health was suddenly thrown from a carriage, and so severely injured, he was taken in the honse nearest at hand, and a pbyaiciao immediately called. The first question the youth asked, as be fixed bU eye piercingly upon him, was, “Sir, must 1 die f must I die T Do not deceix'e me in this mat- Perfect love cast- ter." Tbe physician informed him that he could oot lire an hour. ^ Tbeu hi* whole soul awaked to a Axil sense of the dreadful reality; .mottoo, Uiorou|Jl}- »od boort Sort l appeer lxjtore my Country Hf.areb*.—When I>r. Barnes preached before a seminary class, on their graduation, he said: “Young gentlemen, one thing never forget: preach your beet sermon* in the country! I have noticed that yanng men, preaching for me, chose their best themes and their best thinking, because they were address ing a city congregation. It is a mis take. I tell them so, and I tell you so. Tbe mass of a city coogrega tion read little bat the daily papers, and read and think as they live, on tbe ran. On anything bat business or social pleasure they think less than they read. People in'the coun ty read books; they have time, and they take time to think, and it you must make a difference preach ymnr thought in the country.” w Au exchange speaks of a fact, which is not known by many people, that a minister, after prouohing on t be Sabbath, is not likely to wisk to engage in conversation, or aay men tal exercise. Ho has used up his vitality in the pnlpit Ho needs not. Hence to invite him to a dinner, lie said. *1 thought I should like to sre yoo. Can smh a wnrt« h ** I be saved f That .mgrl. I’ve beat her, kirkrd her, pulled her round by the hair of tbe bead. I’ve watched o|i|M*ite your bourn* six times to shoot you if you had count by, but you never cauie; and now 1 can not statnl it auy longer, ia there aay way a wretch like me can lie saved f* Thai ntau tried to Sixth Street, E LB HIA, Ill orders for sll OHr . j-.li . Ji if • >>]■£ iblications, Klaudsftl ■ MMU Works. to the fiDinr The Pear of God TV femr of GoH oomdmetn tn the lore of God. Our Lord doe* not com mand u* to fear “Hitn, who after he hath killed, hath (tower to ca*t into bell," Itecauae *nch a feeling as this U intrinsically desirable, and t* aa ultimate end in itself. It it, In Itself, undesirable, and R Is only a mean* to an end. By It oar torpid aoals are to be awakened from their toe por; onr numbness and hardnes* of mind, in reaped to npiritnal objecta, f« te be removed. We are never for a moment to suppose that the fear of perdition is set before a* as a model aod permanent form of expe rience to be tolled after—a positive virtue and grace Intended to be perpetuated through the whole fix ture history of tbe soul. It I* em- jMoved only as an antecedent to a higher aod a hspjder emotion ; and when the purpose for which it has been elicited ha* been answered, then disappear*. .th out fear; for fear hath tormeut." 1 John fv: 1*.) Bat, at the tetne time, w<« desire to direct attention to fhe fact that he who ha« berff elerefted with this larged and u|difted; hi* purposes are c troubled, his joys increased. He departs iu the grace of Christ, the love of God, the rommuniou of the Bidrit, with power from these abid ing and al work in him to make him holy in thought, feeling and actioo. Worship gives exercise to our affection*. Tbe mere expression of' our affections is an action strength ening and developing to them. Ia the effort to make onr love knows to those dear to ua, we find its pulses Waling (aster. In tbe endeavor to toll our gratitude, we feel it swelling the excited heart. Ofteu are we surprised by unstudied trembling of tbe voice, the falling of “unbidden tears.” Tyrants know well that feel ing grows ou expression. They give the chafed spirit no voice to tell its soreness, lest It may be inflamed to burn more fiercely ; they allow tbe actor into i *omei Kiven SCHOOLS, eiHu the scLctiqu of %h umkum, rintendent give* hi* the rtirwd pure and becoming reflec tion* n tl,e inimfo of men, and more especially l>oy». My third oh above, to SCHKAGK, Superintendent i* that they them a great ’ which are little negroes, find these phrases in / grown np men and w f>me i. The pliram** refeiTe.1 to are anjttyng but pt otper * many of them ar P immodest, nnlrecoming, and any- STEE & SONS >RE, MD, itinuc scrvhy tJiei nth, will send W* width and price o mack of mind aud body. If you have a “supply” preaching for you, or an “exchange" or a neighbor assisting your pastor, let hia stay at his lodging, where he auy recover ^ from his exhaustion, and prepare for coming work.—Boiigsosu MteokL “My Beloved. i$ aine,” for he ha& given himself tb'W ; “anil I aMf bih,’’ Tbrbe hiw houghs mfi widi BU hfen blood! ■* UvtKg “the Lot**' 7 Z DrOODS. tud Anmriron M« n “j v Express freight ‘ 8 amounting f« d Over, SWKK tu*t pay tbe Expi t^* eturn of money »» ills. ■ i *> f * oval throw out tern riiuuL abolish4M*r £ Utiiulsb our..gfrUr, Ob'&BhG