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COLUMBIA. S.C., FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1872
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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
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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
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Jrs tiavi greatly increased am
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eye, the tone of a voter, the s> mpu
thy of warm loving hearts, charged
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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
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go home with the poor and the igno
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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
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in heaven. Who then won id spy,
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