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. F i# n £. 0 ’ •KVfTOHt ONE LORD, ON 3 FAITH, ONE B A P T18 M”—E P H E 81A N 8 IV: 5 COLUMBIA. S.C., FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1872 OLD 8ERIKS, VOL. : V.-lfO. 200 0V41 Yet Id all thin mighty movement ment, and there to none advancing ywu by y—r u to the kingdom of the I xml Christ there are churches that have not furnished a single man for the serv ice of Christ. They have not put one soldier into the field to go oat and do do battle for the Lord agaiust Satan his hosts. They have qnletiy looked on, or closed their eyes, and sakl, what is all this to us f • There are some calculations that we feel con strained to make. Indeed, they force themselves on ns as we read of a church existing a hundred years and not furnishing one minister of the gospel. Suppose one third of the raw to be evangelized, and the other two- thirds heathen. This may uot ho very £w from the truth. Snpimse the one-third evangelized to be com posed of churches that in a century do not send out oue siugle minister, how long would it take to evangelise the world! The apostle inquires: “How shall they believe ou him of whom they have not heard! And how shall they hear without a preacher! And how shall they preach except they be seutT If of Chrift “Desponding Christians do iwit make successful workers or valiant soldiers. ‘Feeble hearts,’ and ‘rpad> to-halts,’ and ‘little faith*,’ whs a* battles, and wear bo crows. Ifcey are ho occupied with fbeawCNe*, with their own experiences, their own ml As life advances, * mors wsdest, a calmer, sweeter, more tolerant •pint begins to infase itself into man’s miud He begins to attach less and lews importance to the points which divide sects and church es from each other, to think tk&t lew of them are worth a breach of char ity, at my rate to tie convinced that it is aot ou these that the relation of the soul to God and eternity depends. Seeing in all churches men whose sweet and saintly Jives breathe the very spirit of Christ, and of wboiu it is imposible to doubt that to Christ they ate dear, dull he refuse to rccoguise those whom his Lord has received, or tun away with unchristian hardness and ex- clssiveoess (him uwu whom he may soon have to meet in heaven ! No! whenever in the heat of party feel- hag, amid the weary strifes and ri ll our tom and Saviour Jesus we receive grace for gruee; iim wo receive onr beginning oar supplies of grace, which hfm onr! Alpha and Omega— ginuing land fiuisher of onr excellent and desirable to our .“the CWief aiming ten thon- #nd altogether lovely.” He bread bT the hungry, water thirsty, mercy to the perish ght to he bliud, makes the *j> fbr j< y. All onr reliefs are hand, he is the Hie of our the joy < f our hearts, and the of onr tongues. He is our [tom ail onr sins, onr deliver- tom wrdth to come, onr glo- tfediatotj onr days man. He with Ood our heavenly Father, ith us, and he is the wisdom over of God. How glorious onr beldved. Let us dwell ou oughts of it, for this is the i mystery, great without con- sy, admirable throughout all y. Whjat poor, low, perishing do we bft spend our medita- m. But if we would be bene- by this most astonishing dto- ion, let Ins reflect on its excel- glory, beanty, depths, Ac., for fesenrefce flower of ottr inqui- s Onus of Bead Tbs loyal Onset. The* Kuglish papers eontainml, some years ago, the following story in reference to Queen Victoria: While making a summer tour among the highlands of Scotland, she went out one day, far from her residence, when the heavens became soddenly overcast with threatening clouds. The night was drawing nmr, and her mqjesty began to entertain the thought of finding the best shelter possible until the morning. A me* seoger was sent quietly to examine a cottage nestling in a shady nook of a hillside. The humble abode was (bund tidy in every |«rt, and its sleeping room especially cleanly, with enow white aborts, looking as if prepared on purpose far n royal It is said that a graiu of sand when placed under a microscope, reveals large numbers of 1 icings inhabiting it, to whom iU grain is a continent; who bide in its valleys and scale its fountains—where “hills peep o’er hills, and alps o’er alps lugs, that they have m> time f&t minify, noble service. They are no Imay in trying to perform ‘acts of faith fand having performed then, they art m intent on analyzing them, bt order to ascertain whether they be all of the exact quality orquawtity wide* will recommend them to God, that they leave no space far *fo\ f*» be having,’ and us room for tlip fna*. large-hearted labor, which aaeh joy can not fail to dead to. Tossed up °f th< ffrinjji » AV/A Antrtcm. me to the chuixli. 1 ' -ti oo * i ta It roqatie* but Utile fancy to as cribc to them—schools, lyoenma, tures; health retroala upon the hills; geographical discoveries j specula lions about any beings higher than themselves, and the jealoua of social Ufa. Death is there; for where has it not come. Pain and suffering are there, perhaps aggravated by war. Inevitable destiny preases upon them; and the great question of ‘‘To be, or net to be,” agitates enabled me to bear it, aad to repress Impetkmre of suflfertag; bet this morning, at I lay awake iw the dart, after long touring, I seemed to have power to hand the whole thing over to Christ, ft was a wonderful effort, aad it fa a sore struggle at And to keep It there. (Urange that H should be so; bet nature will strive bribes grace conquers. I often thank the Ixwd far all hfa deal tugs with me, aad “most for the severs ;• bet I think that I have this morning, as never before, transferred the iritofe over to Him.'’ Aad now yon ask, “Is the safe* lag goner So, bet It fa laid on Christ; and mg trill, which after all was one large element of suffering, seems quite gene, and t He in the arms of JSmmm. la a hospital, those who fall) resign themselves to their position escape much that the rest less ones have to bear. 1 am satisfied with hfa will, whether 1 su/T.i Urns my life, or whether the weight of suffering be removed. I feel now that I have done all that I ran do, committed it mil to Jesus. Xow it fa my IxwtTs concern and ordering, “.fad « bra it ■» i-ss au shpsrr « chase* F rwm grief ess art me free, Hope Sad* Ms •rveafth is hrtplesMw-M, Aad drily writs a* The. Mas's weak seas writing spas Mad. in fear of perpetual shipwreck, and have no heart to work. Shutting their eyes against the light, fliey grope their way uocertaanly, and can not run the race. Afraid to believe, but net afraid to doal* : afraid to tniftt, »4mt not afraid to dfatrasl; doubting tbetaselvns, ami making that a reason for doubting God; patting a wav peace, bat giving foU scope to gloom, refosiag tight, bat ; letting darkness reign within them; they am not in a condition to do hard work—nay to da awy wort. Strength comes from joy. sad o€ that joy they have sow. They refuse both fond and mcdfotar. and they become lean Had riukly. They are fitter far the hospital than for the battle firife They seem, too, to get more mid more emnemtod. though the food provided in abun daut- Laboring under what physi ciaus called atrophy, the more they eat, the leas they seem to be fed.”— Bannr. ‘ engaged, for a storm threatened, be nighted lady without anoounciug her rank. Tbe Queen came without ostentation, and guest and hostess were soon ou chatty terms. In the moAiiug her nuqrwty surprised the cottager by the announcement of her name, and the beetowment of a royal gift, praising at the sao»e time her well-ordered home, dec tor ing that she had never rested better iu her palace. There fa an older and bettor an thenticated story of a young mao, who, having wronged an elder broth or, aad deceived au aged father, fled to a distant relative. It was in the olden time, when long journeys were made afoot Ho this fugitive, And ing himself weary and benighted, made hfa camp in a lonely place, and took a stone for hfa pillow. Having taken the spot foi the time as a house, be seems little to hare thought that royalty would c**u»e uud be hfa guest. Yet so it was. A glorious ret unit- of shining ones apiwaml, sod they hurried to and fro from' the pillow of the steeper to the palace, heralding the coming of the King of kings. Yea, the weary traveler exclaimed, truthfully, “God fa iu this place!” Victoria dkl not eater the out lager’s home until she had assured herself that there had been made, though unconsciously, certain |wepa rations for her coming. Had her messeuger reported a filthy abode, the dwelling place of wrangling, or if bnly disloyal sentiments had been spokru to him, she would have nought another resting place. What au bouor would the hostess then have missed! What a goodly be stow ment from royal hands would she have lost! Jacob, it may be fairly assumed, made preparation for the descent u|*m Bethel of the world's .Sover eign ! He was not more weary in the body than In the spirit. The sun had gone ilown, sod night had enclosed him, lmt hi* rerent sins bad brought a darker night upon his soul. The penitent longed for hfa father’s house, ami the all merci fnl Father saw his broken and con trite spirit, and hastened to meet and comfort him. now memorable was that meeting! An anointed Tf/AriHAPMAV are tempted to indulge in the spirit of theological or rociesiastieal ex- dusiveoess, or to tori fbr intellectual error the mdiguatiou aad hostility that should be reserved for sin, there fa one thought that may well bring us to a lietter mind. Let us recall to miud the good and holy meu of different sects sad churches who once were with ns, and are now in the presence of Christ, and ask whether the points which divided them here, and about which, it may be, they contended and wrangled so hotly, can keep them asunder there, in that deeper, diviner life into which they haric entered. Let ns think, too, if it be oars to join oue day that Wissful society, whether we shall cany with us much of onr ecclesiastical partnership or our the ological jealousies into the still, street rest of heaven. Travelers as' We are, amidst the mists and shades of life, it fa not wonderful, i*erhnpK, that in its dim and deceptive light we should some times mistake a friend for a foe, or turn away from a brother, as If he wore a stranger or au alien. Bui the night fa far spent, the day is At hand, not distant is the hour whew the sun of our aoufa shall rise foil* orbed on our waiting eyes, and the mists shall dispe rse, and the shad ows Aos away forever; and then, at last, if aot now, we shall rooeguise convention be no oaaoeplioa of deity, the germ of which does uot exist within them. A pefier creates a deep senaatma by affirming the existence of giants who with a breath oaa send their entire world flying through the space—aav, from wboss chariot oust effective Tru*. «nd relief „f Vmn Timm kan h*. of the most eminent '‘J'V/’Tr. do not "d It to those uflHetci] ing superior to si! «that will rets fa th, aiuty, ami the wearer ite is nxrnjr a remedy We smile at the conceit. Hot that grain of sand bears an ap preciable relation to the earth or the universe; while neither the uni verse nor mil spiritual being* bear any appreciable relation to the !n. (but* Orator. Shall we presume to sit in jodg* ment on God—to scan Him by oar finite measure; or to deny what fa to us incoueeivatde or impossible! “The nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted ss tbs small dust of the balance; all na tions before him are as nothing; and they are counted to Him less than nothing, and \ tufty * How puerile are the objections of acieoce—how small the greatest human attainments of such a being. The miitrosoope shall be our teacher. Let it humble our pndc, teach us our plsciy and give a lasting faith in Jehovah. That grain of saud fa full of instructiou.— Entmgrlut. fa we guarantee who may Come e womb, ami a* sad abdominal and stock- ifeers and weak “With all Tsar Hsnft” For men oa earth a* «otk css dm More aa«rl like Dim this.'* I urge you, oa racrinug this, to go atone, and at sacr sad AeJLmtriy to lay your sorrow a holly upon tbs Lord. Then, having laid it there, Uffit there. You will thaa find the Ixwd pledged to order it to your largest Messing, sod to hfa own glory iu yon.—K W. /Vrdyfrrwu. The Divine promise is; “Then shall ye seek me and find me, when ye shall stanch for me with all your heart.” Have we been artoag tone without the ebuering and quickening iotiutticat of God’s Spirit, aad do we sow fori a desire to glorify our Divine Maxtor by rolnxnmflrio him ? Let as ask Mai -‘with aB oar heart" to help ns put away shi and ssak tifa gkrty. He promises thnt'hh “win be fonmP by os, aDd we riiall fM that be has brought us into a forgo place: has “art cur feet upon a rock,” and put a new eoag m onr mouth, oven praise tc mr God. Let ws do tbfa. -and oar cry wil bat “Hear what great things file Ixwd has done fat tl*i P fa’M f ('hristism brethren, mv wo 1m pressed with tbe truth Chat we Meed Ood> Mesring, and the iwviving hi flneoees sf his Bpim- tqxm osi churches? Ijct tis seek the Lorel with till onr hearte. “He wtU he inquired of bv tbs home of larnel to do it for tbcm. r God says to his people: “Hetorn unto me, aad I will return unto you." “Yo shall seek ms and find ton, when ye shall search far tnv Whh all your heart. r “Herola fa ta^ Father glo rifled, that ye bear moth fruit.” The fields ore white to harvest; are «c ready to reap!—A fasciae* Jirnnys. t. esxfly aiHnnled ami rntn for all pliyuk'iil ae of the R|Hnc, liow It’s Celebrated Artih- bdTs Patent Rnbfai Silver Uterine nfawofth’H .Stem 1 ’*• i * with s coNiprien; *i 'Miiptly attended to. 8. MARSH, F. B;Utitnore St, Baltimore, Md. —tf i Afacrrer men ioued a cbnreh in Sew i arsey a bn idred years old, and t tat had n< t furnished a single etodidate for the ministry iu all that t me. We we e not matle aot(naiuted \ ith the hist >ry of that church, nor ;fas even the name, I think, given, fut tbe case ms recurred again and ■*?'‘in to oa! miud, and has given grace of other churches. That it did not cease to have even a name— it owes auy preaching of the gospel not to itself, but to tbe supplies for nished by churches not so lack ing in this first essential duty, to provide for its owu wants. If such a church should become extinct, and if left to itself it mast, what wonld tie a fitting inscription to place over its desolate ruins ! Here died a churchy becauec is a huudfrd yearn, no one of all tcho tcere born and reared »cithin it* pair, teat trilling to nerve Christ in the ministry.—Lutheran Observer. In the early part of the reign Of Ixrals XVI., a German prince travel ling through France, visited the arsenal at Toulon, where Hie galleys were kept. Tbe commandant, as a orHnplmeiit to his rank, sakl he was welcome to net free any one galley slave whom be should choose to select k The prince wished to make the ltest use of the privilege, spoke to many of them in succession, in quiring why they were condemned to the galleys. Injustice, oppres sion, false accusations, were assign ed by one after another as tbs causes of their being there. Iu fact they were all injured and ill treated petto—. At last he cauie to one, who whes asked the same question, answered to this effect. “Your highness, I have no reason to complain, I have been a very kicked desperate wret^v 1 have deserved to be broken a five on the wheel. I account it a great mercy that I am here.” The prince fixed his eyes u]>on him, and sakl, “Yon are a wicked wretch ! It is a pity you should be placed arnoug so many honest meu; by your owu., confession you are bad euough to corrupt them all; but you shall uot stay with them another day.” Then turning to the officer, he said, “This is the man, sir, whom I wish to be released.” » Was this not a sibility of doing something for tbs cause of Christ, pay others to act as thrir substitutes; aad thus argaatza lions are nereantatod to aroomptish mechanically, as it were, what can be door effectually through ladi vktuai effort. Hnrh organixatton* no doubt acnotnpNrii a vast amount of good, and It fa not easy to are bow, in the present state of society, they can safely be abolished ; bat it must be acknowledged by all who have thought deeply upon the sub ject, that Christian work ha* fawn too exclusively directed into this rhsnarl, and that it would be well if along wish this oyacertod action There are few traits in our great Kxcmpiar which we may study to more advantage than the temper he manifested under the fickleness of hfa follower*, of which be had such large experience in the course of hit ministry- Dae pusses*mg tbe moral greatness necessarily belonging to the rank claimed by onr Lord, oonld not have been easily moved away from a lofty charity aud justice by auy minor provocations. Ordinary passion* could never have iofiamed bis breast. All common causes of mcutal disturbance mast hare im piuged on him ouly to subside at his fecL Aud so it w— Jesus never seemed wanting in a calm, interior recognition of hfa divine office. Ufa moral repose could not. have been as wc could wish, lie knew meu ; aud he was not at the mercy of uicji. lie kept ou the oven tenor of his way. Neither the hostility of adver sane* nor the (aithlessuess of friends ever disturbed his moral equipoise. We have a striking illustratiou of this in the aooounU which have been preserved of hfa private couversa tious with his disciples. Hfa artless biographer* have not recorded a sin gle instance of any resentment he ever expressed agaiust those who bad injured him. At the last flapper of which he partook with the twelve, just before his death, though fully apprised that be was to be betrayed by one of their number, instead of exhibiting any discomposure, be im proved the time In giving them con solation fitted to prepare them for the events that were at hand, dtill we should not have been so much impressed by this equanimity, had we not beheld it united with ether traits equally observable. Jeans manifested anything but a feeble temperament, or an incapacity for nr: fa Nehednlc. excepted, connecting mbs an Hontit Caro tid down ; also with ind Smith on Char- I Augusta Railroad, lnmtna and f \ujru*t;< Rev. Wm. Arthur says: The Lord founded a kingdom very unlike any other kingdom. He founded it with out drum, or trumpet, or banner, or scepter, or throne, or crown. lie founded it without fortress, without fleets. lie founded it as a kingdom whose foundations were laid in thought; as a kingdom whose in struments were those of thought; whose sword was not the sword in hand, but tbe sword that “proceedeth out of the mouth of God;” whose charter was the jiowcr of the Word; whose liattle field was only and ever the battle field of thought. luto this world ot thought, Christ’s king dom came to attack ail who opposed; and in its owu calm, searching, but but irresistable way, with a word, with a message, with an invitation, with an argument, with an exhorta tion, with an entreaty, with a con tinuous pointing upward—upward, as if it had a distinct connection with invisible powers, which it had ; and bringing into captivity every thought to tbe obedience of Christ —thoughts high, thoughts deep, thoughts old, thoughts built upon the foundations, as men supposes of everlasting principles—thoughts cer tainly reared up with all the elabo rate beauty of human genius, and of vast national toil—thoughts consoli dated by the suffrage of ages, and thoughts adorned and enriched by the splendor of empires. What was the result! Of all other Powers none has the hold upon human thought that Christ has at this mo. JxivA.—The greatest difficulties which societyhas tt Encounter spring fondamefatolly from • dc- ieiency of htotberiy love—fttnn every grade of careioaaaees, iutlif feronee, and cdUness, down to u»^ gnrdneas, shabbhtess, and the wratali • od mania of boarding jealously what hfi who boards is afraid to one. How--much more iatoaseJv and extensively‘lliaa in agg other association Lews has operated in the Christian oimrehea, fro lathe day> intelligent individual action. What the world needs mere than anything elm—more tima gifts of money , mis*, ive 750pn> ,ve 715pm i re Stop m ive 5 80 p ni Th» discoveries and im- ita [if a century would fill Qtn -s, indeed would make a T te kingdom of Jesus I progress Some r o iSj scarcely a kuudret ii i the land, are strong, % iheir members by hun- tfc ousauds, ami by their and dev itiou causing themselves ^ ftjfa throughout the earth. Jrs tiavi greatly increased am tbe revival of personal ageocy ; the touch of a band, the fiance of »u eye, the tone of a voter, the s> mpu thy of warm loving hearts, charged with all healing influences, to sow tbe desert wilderness thickly with the seed of the kingdom. We wish the sower to go forth atone, and by individual contact with tbe evil of the world, to rceaedy it by the influ enoe of personal faith sad living love. like Kltyah, we want tbe ser vant of Christ to toy hfa own living body, through synqiathy, upon tbe dead body of suffering and ain ; and tiius, by imparting warmth to it, prepare it for restoration to spiritual life. like a greater thaa Elijah, who identified himself with the outcast of aocietj, and said: “Kaccbans, come down, for to day I mast abide at thy boose,” we want every' obris tian, who fa a debtor to all men, to go home with the poor and the igno rant, and make their triala bis ton, and thus he may Italy relieve and Oam Leave 4 30 p m win* rim on Branch s Wedueaday* nml W> . i , i i '*> : xTfffIPFri. ^ Abbeville at < 1030 *ni ’okesbftry—ltopni AD, General fefr’l* trnrml TtrM Aft- ibrary, 'hrist bus n ade wonderful faring these huudfed year down to Ftoronoe Nigbt&ngkle aad her Crimean oampaiga, need net be told; nine-tenths of the active be nevnionoe of the day in this ©enntry are Christian im thfar ocigia aad iu " ,n “Sfe 9[ iim. ( e. to iro into efect uv th inMtfnt: trnffer 'Drain. i ....7 40 s W 3 topni f 8 20“#’ hi and Atcornmotla i da git rteepted). ....7 00 p »• .7 7 10pn> 6 00 a n. odarieti Train will olnmbiii ss funner 1> *ys and Saturdays sired entertainer is. Upon tbe hills aud through the valleys of earth, he goes seeking sack. Whether he And them in palace or hovel, be gladly accepts offered admission. The roy al gnest of heaven comes to stay, not for a night, bnt forever, lie would abide with us. He comes, too, with words of ootnforting ap proval, since be makes the fitness which be ctanmenda of hfa home in the heart. lie has royal gifts, too, to bestow; gifts in comparison to which earth’s treasure* are trifles. His coming brings pardon, parity, wise decision! Must not all who hear the story allow that the man who was ao sensible of kis guilt, and so submis sive to his punishment, was, in all probability, the most worthy' of pardon, and the moat likely not to abuse it! Sense of sin js t&o first step to* There is hofio am, or lies rly all, the great national Hiievolent societies of the church have come into existence during these hundr sd years. The Bible So ciety has se it out the Bible by mil- Jfons. The Tract Society has done likewise. J issionary societies have Rent men to preach the gospel to the heathen. C n nearly every hcatkeu »hore the. lx aeon light of Christianity Ua * kindled. The gospel is preached in many lands and in man; ■ tongues. Christian nations Hava wards forgiveness, of a roan who confesses his guilt, , } ' . and feels that punishmetd fa his Single is each mao bora; afagk desert. And the deeper the ouuvic- Jk* dies; single frq receives the re tiou of sin, the more hoi>eXul 0ft® word of his gosdf and single tin fa the oondition. , punishment of his evil deed*, f .? d Company, Is. C. f May 17,1873. of Sight Pa**eny<i 4 i - fl 50 p»** it . J. 6 40mn ter Sunday, May LR, Vies-PretudeMi- in heaven. Who then won id spy, “Conte to. come ia. Thou hsavealy Owfa DeUxkt fa what Thyself hast riven . On Thy own gifts spd graces feed, And make ffieootfmteheart Thrheaves." w >«««« r-rqfr? his country,