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y ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE B APTI81T-EPHE8IA N8 IV: 5 COLUMBIA. S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 15. 1872 KtiW SFRIES. OLD SERI1 in its due order, giving milk to babe* ! me by thy works ; 1 joy in the works Religious. yourself almost a stranger in the world where you have lived so long. Those who set oat in life with yoa have nearly all |teased away. The fxwnpanioo dearest sod best of all others perhaps has left you, and pos aibly yoa have buried the c hildren you expected to carry yon to the grave. You stand like a solitary tree in the wiklerueaa. If added to this adversity lowers, and bodily sufferings come, how great is the trial It is therefore, • 4. A period of ptrulimi solemnity. It is appointed to all tneu once to die, and the time ie uncertain. Hut the old are nocemmrtiy on the borders of eternity ; emphatically “I here is but a step between thee and death * Uow good it is then for old age to offer up the prayer, ••Cast an? not off,' ••forsake arc not. and ment to men, iu humble do of thy hands. O Lord, how great peudence upon “tho power from oa , are thy works, and thy thoughts axe very deep. The brutish man know eth not, neither doth the fowl under stand thee.**. God makes the heart of those rejoice in bis works, whaae joy it is to draw near to kirn. 4. Prayer is a key, for it o|nhs ns the dearest and most glorious knowledge of heaven. U brings us into spiritual harmony with the em ployarenta and enjoyments of the inhabitants of heaven, so that we can understand better what is the borne of the blessed. Oor faith is so strengthened that «r* obtain clear \ lews of the eternal heights and the heavenly Arid*. No hill on earth is Work afths Ministry." j g ^ obviously, a vtm onuipre- iv g phrase. The Apostle oer- v )0 |ndes in it all the work that ajttdoue by the apostlesjproph- evttugelists, payors and! teach* irlileh Jesus Christ appointed for lifting, fostering, and perfect- rf his church.! By the ministry the whole official working • of the church. The term still jgl the whole official working > if the church; but that force >t hrfdsely the same that it was ^tolic times. It dot s not now IfjhajMstles and prophets, at all miuistry wisdom, but in the power and do mouatration of the Spirit" What ever |iower logic and rhetoric and j eloquence may have over living reaaou in things spiritual, they can | not reach a dead soul. It is not a bad idea of priaiary ministerial work that they are to bring “the sick of the palsy,” and even the dead, and set them down where Christ is. Bat when sinners are converted, is “the work of the ministry* fin ished f Is every converted man perfected in the moment of his regeneration aud instifkatioaf Nay; verily, there is yet a greater work to do. The a|*oaUe thought that after believers had attained faith, then they were to begin the work of adding to it “virtue," 4fcr. Faith does but enter the mau into the aclMsft where ha it When a lurahia, 8. C\ j •bm* •, 1871. i to ro into effect instant: evestk Bat, although m »y not be identically the same that H tas then, the u work of the - 1 - 1 - substantially the same. A | way el less old age is one of the most melan choly spectacles preseated this tade ot the world of dcsjuui. Happy they who are not strangers to a throne of grace. Most happy he who can say with this inspired sin grr, “O Lofd God. thou art my trust from my youth." Hut bow innumerable and great are the reasons why God might “east off" aud “forsake.' The number aud magnitude of sms. unfaithfulness aud forgetluliMws, how often have we forsaken him! Where then is the ground of hope that such a prayer will be answered ? /*»rot, Horn the motor* of the d»rise fere. It ia act founded o|mni youth, or beauty, or wealth, or power; not apou aay earthly coumderatiwi. Its spring m far back iu the eternal couaaeU of Hun whose ways aud It Is (got that we bavi adequate B of that work. yt is the object of »tt The jg gives us a very icom prehen md at the same tinjje, clear and |e idea of that work when he “For tbo edifying of the body riat (the Church), j till we all in the unity of the faith, and i knowledge of the Hou of God, i perfect man. untp the rneas t the stature of thh fullness of t* Also he gives us a very icsot description of the objects iuisterial work wbieu he says, shorn we have received grace apostleship, for obedience to lith among all nations for his ,* From the former of these tores we learn that the nlti- I object of *‘the work of the by* is the ‘^edifting of the [of Christ and [hat the ed pu of tlavbodr of Christ j bringing—**we alF—the whole of Adaiu’s rate, that had jgiven to ChrisW for redemp- j “to the uuity U ; the faith, ot' the knowledge of the Son *1, unto a perfect man, unto |iwisure of the /stature of the is of Christ," Yea, the church Ie edified. v. hen nil. from the | to the greatest. shall kndw. (try same things about Christ, i)l the very thiijgs that are true tihim—his divihity. his human- is mediatorial offices aud rela his vicarious works, bis rights, lowers, aud resources, his pity, and consequent ineflicieocy, partly, at least, because they have not Heat ly apprehended, in ita simplicity, the uatnre of true religion.—Presbyterian. iufiuit Chutcli. Atul yet tyi this un equal couflict U had uoother weapon than “the preachiug of the ero«s r — that croc* which an elegant living writer has said with equal truth and beauty, that fur us it is almost im Itoeaible to realize the association* which clustered round the w old; for as it sfNtikles hi the crowns of inou- arch*; it is embroidered iu onr flag; it rises over our village churches, and surmount* out cathedral spires. Onr dead rc|»o*e with its shadow projected over tbeui iu the summer evening. Tl»e very name reminds us ot a sublime sacrifice, of a divine •elf denial. As we bear it iqiokeu, the ivkaw of liytnuK float sweetly through our hearts: aud if we be Christians iu more thau name, we s t ice-President. Ticket Agt. to be educated for beavru. mau becomes a laborer, he knows but the a, b, e, of religion aa a worship—a fllursa for being with sad enjoying God. All those taste*, those moral aud spiritual powers, all that submission sod coosocratiua to God which is to III s mss lor heaven, are to be acquired sad per fected after the new birth. Aad this is a part uf “the work of the miuistry :* to see alter and promote the education of men for .brawn. This deportment of the work com prise* all proper paatoral work. It embraces teaching doctrines, teach ing practice Uow that rude scpuldu.il uiouu ment carries one buck into the misty past 1 Look out over the sea to the lonely seclusion of Patinos. The seven churches pas* in review, as John in ecstatic visiou looks behind the lifted vail.- Then a little way across the sea was Smyrna. lie had often been there iu blessed spiritual oominuuion with the disciples, and Pdyearp, his bosom friend, converted by his instrumentality, is uow the angel or pastor of the church. And the voice said, “To the angel of the chorcli iu Smyrna write.’' “I know thy works, and tnbulatiou, and pov erty (but thou ait rich;." Heaven estimates not trealth by earthly bal ances. * * * “Fear none of those things that shall come upon thee. • • • Be thou faithful uuto death, aud I w ill give thee a crown of life." John realized how soou the trial was to cotne ! Soou a violent persecution broke oilt against the christiaus. An outcry was raised against the veuerable Folycarp, and he secreted himself from those that sought his life. Home of the prominent *ruem bers of his church were arrested, and were about to be pot to the torture to force them to reveal his hiding place. The old man oouldnot endure to see them suffer for bis sake. He came forth and voluntarily gave him self np. saying: “The Lord’s will be done." He was arraigned before the Komau proconsul. Being urged to curse Christ, lie replied: “Eighty aud six years have I served him. aud be lias done me nothing but good, and how can I curse my I»rd aud my Saviour! If you would mgs; and are we not sore that ev ery one w bo bus thin kef that of tens the treasurr chambeis of the Must High, must seek at his own door the blame for his shame and hi* misery.— M'sfc kman mod ktfoHur. RAILROAD. Ine Ridge Railroad ys excepted: -4 to p m >* •**■-;• ••...7 00 pm 4......8 so sm it.... ..... • 15am reproving, rebuking, admonishing, with all long suffering and doctrine " All that belongs to edifleatiou j watching over the In k, instructing them, show ing (hem w hat ia right and what wrong in faith and in practice, encouraging, comforting, strengthening, ruling or disciplining them—erasing traces of error and superstition, and writing in their stead, in a Hear, full copy, the per ccpts tti Christian ethic*. From this hasty sketch, though very limited, ae see that the work of the ministry is a great aork. Nehemiali thought when he was building up the broken down walls of Jerusalem, that the work was too great to be left for useless cun ferriwr a Uh Sanballat ami Gas hem. Is not this a much greater work! Why should those engaged iu it leave it, aud conic down to the pursuits, entertain ment* and pos times uf th« world ? Is it light that loved thee with an everlasting lore, therefore with loving kindness have 1 drawn thee." .sm*md, from rjMmpUo ntordrd im tmriptmte. b<ui at the death bed areocs of Jacob, uf llsnd, of Hi moon and others. Ilea* the tri ad! lar them to procure as *oou aa thr> e.,u. # It Is a small volume fall of rich lootnirUun. Is it not proper at this opening of jfe yeei to devote a few thoughts Acielly suited to the enodlHoii whom God ho* spoirel -dow n to old age V And aha! brllrr guide to our thoughts rat* br *ngge*tr»l than (he prayer of the l*nslmuu? lie say* in P sal in Ixii: ft, “C W me trd «»jf im the tiar *ff mid opr f ftronlr me not ok* * my strength fo*l*iA." These aunU aetv tvukotl^v aril* ten when h« was tar advanced in life. This ia |dsiu ftont the text itaelf, but •till more so from the l*th terse, where he says, “I am old and gray beaded.' We hive uo meaus of knowing precisely what his age was at this tune; bis death did not take p!a« e till he had ouuplet**! more than three score years amt tea. What an eveutfiil life he bod passed through! Ha|q>y are they who w lieu the shadow* of death are fall ing ttpou them, may And their souls thus resting upon the eternal (tick! lie give* us a delightful view of his piety, of the exerrises of his mind, of his rum tuning trust in God, as he felt buniteif drawing near the reali ties of an eternal world. The a bole Psalm may lie railed the proper of rdd opr, ami in full of precious truth. How many reflect ious gather around that expression, “old age." It i* a very obtioa* tiuth that their are two kmd* of professor* of Christianity. The ten virgin* uf our Saviour** fumble rrpreweut those who an* professedly waiting for the coming of onr !s*nl ami of his bride, the glorified chnrrh, and hoping to go iu with him to sit down at the marriage supper of the Lamb ia heaven. They were all waiting with lighted lamp* for the returning pro erasiori, when they should .join the lwide and bridegroom ; but by the time the bridegroom came, - their lamps needed trimming aud replen ishing. It then appeared that there was a difference between the virgin*; five had brought oil in their vessel*, and now, refilling their lani|*s. were ready to meet the marriage party; the other five now j»oreeived that their lnm|*s were going ont. (not pone owt f ) hot no oil canid then be ob tained in time, oould not Kelp them moff. dition in the cbnreh; wheu there Mkall be no more' need for a polo- gstica; but all that are ordained to know shall nnUerstHiid, and appreci ate, and approve Christianity as a fond as a worship, and as a life; and wheu all sha 1 have the same living, working g ith, ruling them to a glorious conformity', in the whole man, to tie image of Jesus Christ; wheu Christian men and womtn shall be in t^eir heads and in their faith and practice, like Christ—.then indeed shall the church “look jTorth a* the tnom- hg, fair as the ifioou, clear as the ■on, land terrible as an army with FiimuJ.D. K. Skiwtit, Pii-Uivlenan mniurr »»f IbihfhaHow. Hkfiwswl. Their companions ; and virile they sought to repair their mistake, the procession passed into tlm (Hut, qnd the door was shut. It might be bettor, porh:»|»s to say that then* are two kinds of religion called Christian, or two kinds of hope, than to speak of two kind* of ^irofesKor*. For it is uot meant that the professors of «me kind are sin rarefy professing Christianity, and jhe other kind insincere*. There* are two classes, both sincere* in their profession of a religion and a liope,- wtrite one class only has the good ho|»c and the christiau religion. It is meant that in a Christian commu nity and a Christian chnrch. one may have a religion and a hope that win puss for Christian, and at length find ont that lii» religion is unable to shield him from the condemnation of Owl’s law. and his hope is a de lusion. No one will nwd auy proof that this is the teaching of Scriptnro who remember* the parable of the sower and his seed, some of which grew among thorns, aud some iu stony places, and brought uo fruit; or the parable of the wheat and the tares; or that of the drag net, with onr Saviour’s explanation: “So shall it be at the end of the world; the angels shall eotnc forth and sever the wicked from among the jnst, and cast them into the furnace of fire or his command, “Strive to euter iu at the strait gate; for many, I say unto yon, will seek to cuter in, and shall not be able. • When once the Master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without aud to knock at the door, saying. Lord, Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say nnto you, I know ye not whence ye are; then shall ye begin to say, >Ve have eaten ami drunk in thy presence, and thou bast taught iu oq;grata; but be sliajl »yUtell the world's history." Iu ttye contem plation <»f his most |*erfect life, as of his mysterious death, the advancing science ot our days as well as ita erudite skepticism, has to confess, not without humiliation. Unit it must silently stand as before au eternal proltlem." Not soch the attitude of those who know iu whom they have believed. Not no have they leumed Christ. For iu them from Mours to ■tetimes wImjii I look at this te of the e< lifted church, and look at it is it is now—with iHclj ignoranjee; so much error taperstitigp ; so much strife and :ntion; so ii;tle faith and self- " an d consecration to Go<l and css; so little brotherly love, and- teh sin and failure; so much inor- formity; so nauy more dwarfs caricatures of Christian life—I hnost ready to despair. Homc- when I go forth into the great ^ays of the world, and see ihient professors of religion in S to and frp ilike drunken or hear them boasting and ’S> or it btf swearing, or Iging in Togr, dirty, filthy lau- ©; when f go into tho court e a, ‘d see a brother contending brother, “before the unjust,* ID & *t great coat, to do a palpu- rr °ng; when I listen to the dis- uqu.s. and often false pretexts hicb profess'd Christians excuse '■elves for shirking their duty; ‘times when the report comes 1(1 a disgraceful row between [>artie« in the church, and I am of how they raved, and cursed, swore at one another; or that °r that man had wantonly pro- ^ the Sabbath, or was intoxi- l> or in some other flagrant man- iad com prom ised his profession given the enemy occasion^ to mrrirr, foot over any assembly, 1 aud how few okl persons ore to tie seen. Oor fact shown by the census of 1480, ( we have not a later at hand, but it would be substantially the same,) is that of the whole number born in the country, one third die before the age of ten years. Notice also some other feels derived from the same source. The number of those in the Failed Bute* at the date mentioned, who hod passed TO years, was only one in 84. Only one in 390 bad passed 80 years; only one In 2,331 bad paaacd 90 years; ami only one in 24,143 had passed 100 years. The whole white pojKilatioa of Virginia was set down at 894,000. Out of those, the number who bad reached 70 was 11.462; those 90 years of age were 3,307; those at 90 were 517 ; while those at 100 were 63. In view of soch feels bow slender is the proapecl that the young will live t o be old Blind Factory, und jicceptance of mau. Hence, it is a fundamental “work of the min istry,” preparatory, it is true, bnt nevertheless a vital |»art of tbe work to go, uot only to colleges and semi naries, and by diligent, and laborion* study to ask science, to ask philoao pby, to ask logic, to ask rhetoric, how shall I vindicate Christianity, and recommend it to my fellow man f but to Jesus Christ, the Great Teacher come from God, and ask him, by humility, by prayer, by implicit faith, to teach ns to know what Christianity is, aud to givens a mouth aud wisdom for its defence, that all our adversaries shall not be able to gainsay or resist. The power by which the ministry are to do their work, is “power from <hi high.” By far the most important part of min isterial work is “tarrying at Jerusa lem till they are endued with" this “power from on high"—till they “re ceive the promise of tbe Father." But when the ministry have done this preparatory work, what next f Iu the very strong aud significant • '*t _ Messiah is slowly drawn, until s cross rises dimly from tbe mist of age*. One bangs thereon with pierced hands aud feet, smitten by some mysterious wrath, and wailing out some unimaginable sorrow. The story of that sorrow, the preaching of that cross, has changed the face of the world. And those who are most reluctant to admit it, are at tho same time most unable to deny it. “We can learn,” says Theodore l*gr ker, “but few feet* about Jesus. But measure him by the shadow be has cast into tho world, and by tbe light be ha* shed upou it, and shall we be told that such a man never lived—that the whole story is s falsehood f Suppose that Plato and Newton never lived, that their story Is a lie; but who did their works aud thought their thoughts? It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What mau oould have fabricated a Jesus ? None but a Jesus?" The historic reality of the life »od death of Jeans are thus seen to be arrested by the monumental character of their result. Christendom ia a great feet. The Who Enjoy Church.—It takes good people to have good 'meetings. Christians who serve God at home have little difficulty in worshiping him when assembled. But men who live iu sin at home are not changed by going to church. A man who had rather talk, and joke, aud smoke thau pray, or one who prefers a newspaper or a novel to his Bible when at home, is not changed in heart or nature by stepping into a prayonneeting, or luingUng with people who love the Lord. He was dead out of meeting, and he is dead when in it. The responsiblities of a christiau profession, so often feared and shnnu ed as intolerable burdens, under tbe pressure of which we are likely to make a disgraceful fell, ought rather to be invited as safeguards aud helps iu tto working wt of our cultural. haBd iS in th« special -- and Cannon . P. 0*. k kept on xmlitry trade r own factory proprietors i List. Factory K- oppo"^ v C jity railway*,' to know mine eud, aud the measure of ray days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am." 2. It ia a time of trmknem mod m Jtrmitiem. This ia strikingly express ed in the 90th Psalm, 9th and 10th verses. Solomon also has given ns a moat vivid piclare of old age ia the 12th chapter of Ecdewtaste*. inland, France. ,1 Fftlea of Enroj£ and from the E }££ un New York. tended to aid rein' t-uent. _ • & CO.. Banters, r., Charleston, »• ailing remit us »*y bfP«JJ r. and they will jtl> attended to. * •eeth thee,” says Job; “wherefore l abhor myself and repent iu dust and ashes." 3. Prayer opens to the soul the glory of the natural world. A preyer- lese man does not know one in aj thousand of the liesnties of nature; and what be sees not, that he can not enjoy, aa the spiritual man en* josh jfc “Fur, hoed, ***** language of ouc of tbe Great Teach er’s most instructive parables, they are then to “go out to the highways and hedges aud compel men to by carefnlly plying them »nu siiung down m j coiue m" by carefnlly plying them But upon second thought | with the creed, wjtb tfe* whole oeed,' U ff ij m