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E'LUTHERAN VICTOR* CO k unified ge dt Christ Jeaes;" te* grum whfeh|pill make ua wiUia- io fffe day W Ood'i power; that “charity which hopeth, belier^ endurrth, beareth all thing*, thiak eth no evil, rejoice tb in the truth. 9 To obtain thee?, and aU other chnatian freer* we need, we wtt pray till we meat, and whan », meet, and while we are togethar n twl u-lion *>r« /»•> La ^ jn (jrGomuui (tig *« • r^'d' ng at the , Mi ber aahfect brinL thoo»l. their pot | and what it <§ >aoe was not a*. 1 israday ween«i^| ** EdRorm, preacher*, ahd then* in public occupation* generally, know the dMffcnlties, yea, the iinjNMisibtlity of pleasing everybody. Your mis sionary ha* jnst had, in aundry coni muuicaUons, evidences of this fact. In his last oommirifeaiioa in the //vMmM and Mieeionarg, with re«pect and to a Virginian woo is used to well Ailed store-rooato end smoke house#, it comes natural, when the barrel of Aour is empty, to sab r What shall we eat t And if be has little fWtoWfo* •"** » wife Who to a goMhaoaae-keeper, we or who *Up exhibits, it is a rawarft appointed means of gran theory riwpseting it they —Lntheran, Calvtolatfe. o fuwbia, C. tnonton, Va pjly whene'er m HticoUrly pointed lecturer thci ph of her aodk-u. - tbe same way d>. ~ City, "here o* of her oouve . mooted tba condition In conuee if be can not answer tte question on minister* m4 pnfeAi, then ther will not only resolve, bat win ex* cute their plane; the*liberality wQ be exercised, and money will flow into tbe Lord's treasury, aeola Into tbe lord's house, and ntfttKi yoau men into the Lord's ministry. * ,.7 We have been organising, netth& e establialiing boundaries fer oar faith and work*; now hasoeamthetii, fir reams Ion gar t a# an empty crib, an empty shea, an empty hat, aa empty coat, and. a*Meet of all, of fhftj hearts; of maffmra. la pain fnl abstraction, wnwderiwg why their daritng romia wot la ardila la their bnssm, «w to any. «Xuw ! lay am down to day,' and (hen. tm|ir!nttag the goad night kirn, to he twrfced away with bar own hand in Ha tittle had; af fat bars, who, with “haagry ear,* are waHtwg for the little prat tier to ettmb apse thrtr Ism*, as always, aad with soft, dimpled arms ■runml their uerk. reprat the sweet words, “i leer fafm ; m of sen mug little brether* or •tst**t*, Ukmi satisfactorily. But we ah *ikf walk by feith, not by sight We Hve not by breadalooe, but by every word of Ood. A missionary mast be strong in the^tUk- The Lord is train ing his aerraut, that he may do a good work. Let him hot he belie' ing. The Lord is even afiordiag him tangible, eatable proofs, ,which wa hope he wfU properly digest. One minister has sent the ana*ion ary package* ot provisions, and a barrel of Aour. We hope many of the good housewives and kind ladies in tbe two Virginia By nods will follow the example. Do as you did daring the war. Do not form commutes*; large bodies awe slowly. Many who have not atooey have provisona. Get hams, chickens, lard, batter, potatoes, hominy, apple butter, etc. Appoint a day and a place fur the oollectors and contributors to meet, to pack and to box up. Mark tbe box: Rev. D. M. Henkel, Richmond, Va Send also a letter by mail, aad all parties will feel better, aad addi tional treasures will have been laid up in heaven. We have something to any about “tbe upper chamber” in which the missionary preaches, but will defer it to a more convenient season. several fetters both commending and condemning him fur bis article. For example, one very excellent brother and a (had of the mission, says; “Tim whole tenor of your article was as dearly either the result of mom rotary discouragement or of on 8ec. MT. *11 in net of knowledge, it i* not news of felt#, Hint 1 den nation to himself. jugerted that ft wa for them to retire int the short permd ol come ac^twiwirtl, a rfth the delosioi.- t M to the priest, *h - intelfectnally U*au a .jc u ver wh»m Um*> tWot the judicial *> man Catholic Chur* is sagacity and f*» AB y other Chnrch. She waked: “Did Judas f* *“d •M'sw Bl ai feaa will be ah that the Mooring is gfeow to him who la went ta faith, aad who has weed af strengthening; It fe jwnt the comlbcv that the Lord descends to ua, comes to the help of our weak- oown. • • • It la wot seakaemef faith nor doArteney iw dortrlwsl tw algfat which cawwr* a person to rat coodem nation to biamell. It id the unhallowed arose which fells In Ala earn betwson the holy end the pm- fane, and which draws nigh to the table of the Lord wtt bout preparation tw hero hewn suppressed* Well, ■aether hrsthu write*: “That was the mistake 1 think yoo committed, that yea dad not keep yourself before the ehartk thrwwgh tbe chwrrh pu pare. Lot |*eofde know you are alive; moke them think ood talk wlmut yon f let them hear what yoo are doing* Which ta right t Let the result of the artfefe tell On the following Monday after the article appealed men may say. I for one, my «v, are fully able.* Wo wig ^ ^ »e want every delegate, cfeinl ma§ fej-, to come with bis heart burefafe with love to Christ aad hfe cfcgfoh, resolved to make a farorabfefrfmrt, and to devise liberal things fer fei. We want no ooranh, an attagy fe egwtes, no ertmkem, hot Kte m, Christian men, who are wiri ng to work, and who esteem ft a pririfem to make sacrifices for Hip ^wbo made so great sacrifice for We mud hare a Seminary. | • are not to dU ns* a matter eo pal lia ble to every Intelligent member of unr South'‘ it church. Team not wtn-n» It is luestifi, or whether fr is located at ali'£r not T never could see why it sbou’!-Dost maht- dent more to go from Bout'u to Virginia than to go from Vf^ufia to South Carotin*, f'olaubis wifi do, Halem n il! do, Staunton aU! do, Ridnnoud, or Charlotte, or Wythe \ file, or Danville wilf do fer a Idea lion. It is tbe Seminary that maket the preachers, not the place. It b tbe Seminary we want, and God muHt give it to oa^ for we hare tees that man won't do to trust for it Well do I remember, that at 3«w- Iterry, it was decided that as there would be but one student, it «w thought $1,000 annually m toe much to ask of tbe Chnrch fer hit training, and the Seminary querihoa was dropped. Souls, perishing scad*, are not worth $1,000 ami rally to the Church! It would cost each mem ber but 15 cents, and that young man might have saved many aonh, but it was not undertaken! Now, we want no more each KtOe- ness. We want men at oar left Synod who can My, *What skaA it profit os if we gain the whale world and hme souls T Or ahaS we exchange $1,000 for souls f We are determined to keep oat selfish, sectional feeling*, and knew only tbe Church. Tbe PaMmatfea House, however desirable. Is not ab solutely necessary. We never fed publish books like the Laftafek Board in Philadelphia. Now tha laymen hare take* hold Uf t, aai resolve to raise $10$,$$$ to sastaia it They will gladly puhtiak anf matter we may desire, aa we direel and cheaper than we era. Tbe Committee on Miasmas, per- hs|)a, has done what ft osdkt Tbe mi^onan spirit is feggieg hi ear Church, and grncr alooe aaa revive tt» <Mi. my bretbrrte, let as Del ah and complain. Let'us up and to doing. No branch of the chrirthh ct urch, and no section of the Lath era 11 Church, has so invifiag a Arid as (fer*. The harvest Indy is pto, sod the laborers few, botfewthtofk we lie, **They that be with n* tot mon* than they that lie agaiust tts." We must go to work to idrid** tbe money of tbe Cburch. We waft teach onr people to bold It Ml fe the uses and wants of Chrfet 1 * king 4om, and what Christ don’t want they may nse themselves. That b the Scriptural idea of mooqf- Christ deuiamU it all it BMmt sot l» withheld. Until this is undrrttoM ami acknowledged, Cbri^l will drag. 4* ® received W) nnexjieetrdly a fetter feu n warm friewd of our chwn-ti hi general, containing the followitig eh renag wards: “You must not de sert yaar past, bat Maud by it, 1 beHere Richmond to be an important field. Ood will not and can not tor aake thoae who are laboring for the upbuilding of Zion. To assure yoo that 1 feel tor yen, I promise, with God's aid. to give one hundred do! torn this year towards your *n|»port. For the *rst quarter I ewrlonr to your order my check tor $!£5.” An other friend and linn her of onr Virginia Synod writes: “Today I hare forwarded to Rfebmond, to vonr address, taro packages of provisions ;< will alee forward you a barrel of Aotrr ia a few days. I think vour letter published will do good.” With eorb mmlt* and atatewenta I will let roar readers judge whether I ought or ought not to have written aa I did concerning this mission. For the information ot all concerned, f have tbe pleasure to make knrtwn that tbe Exeentbre Committee of the P Ceneral tVmnril have iqipnqiriated $3k* to tbl* miMdou for another year, commeociag with A|»ri1 next. Mo Car, mo good. But on fitfen nlone I can not live, ami what the Virginia Synod, or tbe General Sy nod Soatb, can or will do, I am not aide to say." Yet, judging from what the brethren my to me, I doubt not in the least but appropriations will be made at tbe next meeting, both of the Gen eral Synod and of tbe Virginia Syn od. But bow ia your missionary to live from the first of April until Aegaat or September without an inooa*e, or without any appropriation other than that of the General Coun cil f The General Sy nod does not mart until May, and the Virginia Synod not until August. No* what shall yonr mission ary and family live on an til those 8ynods meet and make their appropriations f There is but owe nay left open to him, and cape dally to the brethren of the Synods who have any interest in the life and saccem of this mission, and that is, to follow tbe example of the brother whs forwarded packages of pro vision* and a barrel of thmr. How really could this be done by many others, not in the least impoverishing them, but greatly enriching the scanty larder of the missionary. If Lutheran* throughout the South, and especially of Virginia—no be tratornUiug with X 1 should aupj»> what I know* The feet that <*> this city noticed Thursday evening press of Baltimort Catholicism. Then paper that had dai« port of the lecture Amrrfesa. and *b< these things thus she wa* todependf here to it, and not eoij coal we believe ia “theCoaMaauii Saints," bat also practice it I hkLi PHKKAN BoOXSTOfiK.—We . am from the Lutheran mndMiuion- : ry that “the Lutheran Bookstore, m it baa been ran for tbe feat four and a half years, ia in process of winding up it* affeirs. Mr. pchrack ia no longer its superintendent, aad Dr, kflmaa, Mr. J. W. Grubb aad Again, they pot blighted Who is a LrnilJLi !-A«y aaa who receives the Augsburg Can fee aiua from tbe heart, attaching ta it* word* Ha own meaning, we ac knowledge to be n Lutheran. Any Highly Honored Lekre end Wekrt, tbe Miaeoari Synod's monthly, devotee nearly five pages to read us a toctuie “actor die where be mast have stood ta 1330, in order to be recognised by our Con Tensor* aa one of them, ia a const stent Lutherau Any man who in 1863 reject* the trnth* which tbe Coofea*a>o accepted, aad accepts tbe errors which tbe Coofoaaiou rejected in 1530, la not n true adbriwat to that Coufeeaiou, nor a conafetent Lutheran.—Dr. grmutk. A father, overwhelmed with gnef at the )oaa uf hi* Aral bom boy, wrote; open communion. It also loaches us up 00 “die Kamel femei—cka/le jfeff—the exchange of pelpita with nou-Lotheran believers, and reproves ua rather severely for speaking well of oar neighbor—the Old School Presbyterian Chnrch. We acknowledge it: ear offences are many and heinous. We hare too much love for all the brethren. We do not call “common what God bath cleansed,” and we try jo keep tbe eighth commandment. We know “8.” in Lekre und Wekrt mean* aa well; we are convinced tkat he de sires to do us good, and are grateful for it. We have the higbeet regard, too, for tbe authorities be quotes; above all, for him whom “8." calls “the old Jenaer Theologian Job. Mosaean;” bat still we must beg leave to differ from our Miarauri brethren, because, I. “8.” does nut quote a single Scripture against as. We infer that he could not find even one condemning as aad our brethren. II. He is a New Lutheran, aud we an Old Lutheran. He ia a Lutherau of tbe Concordia of !M$; we are a Lntheran ot the Angaburg Confession of 153$, 111. Tbe Coocor- dts, moreover, sustains as. Form Concordia, Kpit., Art. 7.—“Of the Lord's Sopper.” A “We also believe, teach and coulees that there ia bat owe species of unworthy guests, namely t those who do not believe. Concern ing these it ia written (John iH: 18) 1 ‘He that believeth not Is condemned already.' This coodem nation ia ren dered greater and more heavy through an unworthy aaa of this holy sacrament. (1 Cor. xi: 3$.) $. “We believe, teach and confess that no true believer, as long aa be retains a living faith, however weak it may be, receives onto judgment this holy sacrament, which was instituted es pecially on account of Christiana who are weak in fartb, yet penitent, for the ooosniatioa and confirmation of their weak faith.” 1$l “We believe, teach and confess that all the wor thiness of the guests at this heavenly feast, consists in tbe moat holy obe dience and perfect merit of Christ alone—which we apply to ourselves through this sacrament—aad by no menus depends on owr virtues or interior or exterior preparations."— IT. Lutheran theologiane are on out side. Storr a^d Flatt. ReneJiU of Ike Lor#*' Supper. Bee. 114.—“But tbe blessing itself does not dejtend on ns or onr views of the doctrine, bat on the divine agency of the Lord. Hence if they do their doty, and endeavor to partake of the ordinance with proper intentions, and with a grate ful recollection of fbe death of Jeans, they may still, though nnknown to thcm.Helves, become partakers of the blessing that conferred. It Is there fore to be regarded as a matter of jnst congratulatiou that those violent and bitter contentions have been buried in oblivion, which formerly harassed the Protestant churches, and in which, as Lather himself con fessed, tbe theologians of onr church also were hurried Ip two great ex- orate an attack apoi bear a word agaiu- i aad that tbe ill-tre f. secatioa which *h* * •bowed bow weak ihl when it could not enj ei one feeble worn- 8be asserted thatI priesthood had cqu tr <| bloodshed aad crim. * I that three-fonrth- * il acts committed in th J committed by tlios K priests had sway. " tbe hand-to-band co.it been waged with t ligion in Mi la it. V> aud asserted that V mraeed in this ooum the riots in New V01 I July last. The feeturer n« parish of Father V. I feD, X. J., which hounds oue tUou.s.uii . I whom are very poo ; are com | tel fed to *u;»; | M a salary of fel,50n aud Wn# has death into «« Fundi) and 1 G. W. Frederick, who is ad -ised by hit physicans to demit bis ministerial labors for a time. He proposes, ac cordingly, to devote himself, foe at feast aytear or two, to this, sphere, .<4 one related in importance to the direct ministerial work.” net)Warn here, God look him ; he k infinite to u tadom, infinite as a teach er, aad had higher, holier, uubfer uork for him to do a Unr New Publications. LittetTe Li ring Af* The last tw# weekly numbers of The Lirirng Apt contain: The life and Writings of John Hook ham Frere, t/mmrirrtf ft* fine { Quaint Castowi* In Kwei Chow, CmmkiU Vaporise; lace mu king as u Fine Art, Edinburgh Eerie*: Notea 00 Fast Greenland, by a member of the Germai^Arrtfe Expedition of 1*60-70, fVaarris Mag ezine: Tbe Find Earl of Hhafres- bory, Weetmimetrr Review ; A Mining Adventure, Putt Matt Gazette; Im portant Discoveries during the late Eclipse, Hpeetator; The Venus ei Milo, translated for The Liriag Age from tbe Rteue Dee Amur Mendm; The Ethics of Infection, Ratnedag Review; An Old Himaiavan Town, Chambers' Journal; The Warm Lake Yen, many rberiahed by parents for their child rrn, that God, ia the orderings of his wise, yet mytterfous iwoudeiMc, sees fit to hide ahat in the lamb ot those cuorrmtog* nlidni (hey hn't beru cherished. Aad though the chrisUaa purest feels that “it 1* wrll" that Ibena bofien hare not rx|au*ded into frni turn, yet say not it in easy to be reconciled to the dnuppolutmeiit which their blight has canned.— Many a mother, atoa. has nothing felt to life conormiug ehuh to hope save a darling child. lie to whom she gave her yonng heart with it* •*n hole 'ulaamauf eufallenag trust,* has with strange prnmnwa Iran* ferred hie lave to the “Aoning bowL* And now. if with affection border ing on idolatry, she crutraa nil her hopes ta her child, who can wonder at H f Ta it she turns lor the nm fort aud strength that the uunatural father ought to git a. If a ana, she indulge* the fond hope that ta the yet to none hr will br at once a bosbaod to provide lor her wants aad ta protect her from evil, aad a son to giaddru her heart and ever growing t ailed Statev t No city south at Virginia in a suitable location, for yonng men will come North to school who will not go South Virginia, *a a State, ia (he mo«t desirable 00 aeooant of cliauue, line* of travel, aortal con (I it mo. cheapness of schooling, etc. Aa a “center," Salem. Va., la the moat suitable town, for two tootitn Onr people are determined that this mission shall not suffer. From various qna rters we tatrn that tbe 1 harches aud stewards, who are faithful, are doing their part. Three things are needed. First—prayer. Christ prayed and gave thanks be low he distributed the “five barley loaves” and the “two small fishes.” Then there most be something to pray fair ajod to bless, beside the cheaper ia nrapert to boDdiaga, pew fesnofV aalarim. to, than to create people who are to be fed with the true bread from heaven by the mis sionary ; ip other words, tbe lad must tether e, and he moat not come < mpty-handed. And thirdly and lastij—as we ministers are apt to ■<.iv—the mmsionary should te in qaired after, sought out and visited by ii: eve*y disciple from a distance It ia tetter to hare a Literary College and Th«-ological Seminary the other, 0. §-, reoaay lvania Oaltoga and iVaiun at Gettysburg. Tha young minister spoken of above told me : “Three fourths of the stadent* we ha«e ia the Taion Theological Hemiaary in Fiinor Edwards county, Va^ m»mc from If»m|w4ea Hydney College, aita* ted right by the side ot it. Yonng mem of tbe church none to College, and their attention and interest are turned to the miti let ry through the iafioeorr at tbe Srmiaan neat them, who others uu* souhl be carried aany into other M, a salary of #44* hemdaa paying then aaafetiiig ia the bui ‘‘terth. which will Let tiiere te a regular division of labor. (.Wci have among us some to wlioui God has given the gift ot prayer preeminently: they should pray. We have others whose chief talent is their sabetanoe: they should honor tbe Lord with their substance and the first fruits of their increase. We tevo others again whom either business, or inclination, or friend- ship, or the leadings of Providence, carry to t^ minhM field: they should visit and make glad the heart of the missionary. Some, however, haw$ only qoe talent, otters have two, pod not a few have five. Every tpM^k | every God-given gift should be impreved and made profitable. Tbe day; of reckoning ia sot very far of\t- If the servant who had but one tjaient was deprived of that tal ent, and calked wicked gad slothful by his ford because be had hid it ia the eaij% what will onr Lord say to tbpas who, having received either Black j with poetry etc. Tha sabocripti 64 page weekly mi year, or for $10 a by his honor. And if a infer aurh rirram stance a little grave hides el once child aad hopes centered ia it from that mother, how blighted and dark must be ter future! Aad yet many sack ate to te found in this tear stained world of oars, whose lest hope for life has gone oat to the darkness of their child's grave. Hud enough Is it under any cir cumstances for tbf tender mother to Rural Carolinian Charleston, 8. C A meriron Agrimltnriet, New York. For the Cotton Rtates, the Rural la invaluable. For the wheat and grass region tenth, the Farmer to admirably adapted. Tha Amieal turiet suite every latitude^ and both old and young may derive benefit from it, if they will rend uodcratatid tugiy. matter whether they lieloug to tlie Virginia Byitod or m*t—who are favorably diiqaamd towards this mission, would all feud u helping liaud, how eanily and comfortably could this work lie sustained aad (iroeecnted. I am glad to inform you that the salary due me has teen |»aid. D. M. H. Owing to the condition of the Virginia chnieh aad ansae yonng men, Theological lustructkMi ip now given at Ran note College privately, not to militate against the interest in argumH 'opines 1 ieficcti,Hi.v *°hi. She said th.»t I :l * e Couveut it was >. forsook tte Cat and that she woohi L 100 glud if she would sympathy and aasfet. s°i»e from priests t» j J'*® Archbishops, s, >m *** toughed at “te told that she wx. »t SO hard, as H was ml 8he asserted that wh ' doiiugton aad appl to J ! h,, teelphto f he. hadTl •« would receive aud *** « Pe »fe*t kiadtKH, •*“*!» >» hi. hoQK, m tkf “«* O—id IUH oe cireumstatHv s; tfa. -L t r ww ’ tun, h '» “Uil tb. ( Northern mat lint ions con Id not gra tuituoaly mat rncl them, they coo Id not go tenth, and unices instructed there in connection with their lite rary course they would not te able to enter the ministry. No one 8yand For the Lutheran Visitor. A leyfty to "Shall We Meet f The artkfe “Shell wp Meet T in m Yieitor aroma rather wvsw. U tbe reenIt of the effort to raise funds by the different 8v node for the pres cut Beminery, we can nee preUg tax toio the future- -r t ii.tl Uuu I expect to get myself into a horuet’s Drat, Mr. Editor, by this at Ucfe, and prolmbiy to get stung by yoo for the first, but in order to save otters Iroui bomg stung 1 wilt say to yonr readers that this ar*tcle is written without the suggestion, knowledge, or Asosra approval of the Faculty of Roanoke College, or of aaj one interested or connected with it or them or their relatione. Hoping the subject wt)l be frilly etodied and acted upon by the Synod at iU approaching meeting, 1 done with saying that the Virginia Lu thrrma Chaidh is not willing to do without the Thcofogfeal Seminary. Let watchmen, and those who are not, suggest their places and plans, Aud then there can be no private only a child's grave, is the 1 talents to bring him, r have gained nothing ! t not but that many offered up in behalf of but are they all prayers Some pray who ought Their prayers are not ae they are not ctoeed girt Amen. It is very through oug church yards aad , UA * oongregntion in Brooklyn have given I'EIumS «- *» a—• » dM4>uw I Ktfvrmti, Ute trermmn.—TU “ Life be- me*nod Elott thinks that onr ******* ttDdoua Reformed brethren are ant at f**®* among tbemselven. There aie, it row." j iu this small denomination, pie are ing about WW miuintens two pulous. directly op|>o*ed to each * se* are so called Mercershnrg ) short, thinks a great deal of the litarEfj 0 pteu- seems to teach a msgioal , ready the sucrameuts, atol feto— ******!!! ike onr- tow aivis Cstliolicism. Pastor* Jl over this temfewqr very fteqaeatfy dam iik! the with the Romish chsreh. is life or Western party ai*pruncte« m** .1 «wn. | to tbe OW-lto««K< nisterm, j tberefiire, lu order to r»i* •m, hut strength prefer to whito ?•** t that strict calviuHttic They seem to think, that tmcaana Ua name had hardly been known, and ita influence felt bey ood the narrow circle of Ihe home to which Rev H 3t. PUhlamm, A A—We met aud traveled a short distance lent week with Ife. Pohlinsn. We found him as healthy, clieerftri end active ae ever. In e few weeks he will enter the 73d veer of his life. is to pray who never h able. Such prayers [ 5 nothing more. Such ten they pray, are only regards giving, we nre i to learn that the call iu vain. A layman— rail, locate him—will feed dollars the present Jtocntive Committee of t But it is needless to say such are not parents who than lightly think ttefftferilla with sorrow every fitea <* ttto heart. They knew that while flrtfee Ihqqghdeee. .and utoxprri Knapp. Ta ctura* tec. 146. fcrtt- ieal Remark«, d^L ^pecatatiorte Uh* w*+ gsfijL in 1