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\ ft L THE LUTHERAN VISITOR, COLUMBIA, 8. C„ AUGUST 9. 1872 liberty; fa all thing*, chat ity. n ;ial MOT1CM. an' fount Office Orde if possible, send the moi TER. All flHjpifiH Paper* an express oeived, and reqnired by number of t fjeient. All comm ribers, i atinctly, old and tin, 8. C. f EDITORS: Kkv. A. R. R0$)E, D.D., Colum Rev. J, I. MILLER, A.M., Staunton, Vs. tn essentials, unity ; in non entials, must be made Rank Ckecka. ofl Drafts, esc can not be < btained, in a Register ed Lrr- isater* are otfiged to hen reqnirwLl nt to subscribers until | to discontinie is re- rearagea are paid, Merely returning a paper by mail, is not auf inter law tia relating give their naifea yerv Ref to snb- carcfully indies e w iich an' new aul wribera, ot only the name of the poi t office, lit also* tha ; of the county ai d State ~ each auba -riber ia necessary, in order it the profi >r entriea may be promptly d accurately made Marriage md obituary notices, and natter intended for pul lication, be written aepnnvtely, an 1 not in letters, to receive prop* r atten Prof. J. & Davit. The Profr s»or left us to-day usta, Atlanta, the Georgia Springs name, which for Au we can ith the In Neither sin'll nor prouonuce, A lou tits- ille, many (Other places, am home. Ve hope lie enjoyed his ' isit to ifouth Carolina, even though he was ept hard it work. The P ofessor [> reached twice for us, once at Beth- aud once at Beth Eden, New rry Couutvj. He also pretjc ed two iiucrnl sermons—one for lev. D. ingtou County, i nd one y, in Laurens < Jounty. Newberry Cou ity, he address on agri culture. iy warm friends, all of !y welcome bin again, to part with hm; he three score year u We ve a tew months longer, we do not, th< refere, ini, iu Rev. Sh it Pom a livered ai le made m fliom will g! ^e were so past the rill, if we Attain to tl pect to ofbeu again, this life, Mfith those to wb om we farewell. It is pleasant, hough, feel that i c shall all mec again part no more. May it, h Dwever, be mau r years fore Profei sor Davis’ labon in the >llege he serves so well, and the lurch he lo r es so much, reci ive the hushing tou sh from death’s hjiud. f ever, Seminary of the Evangelical i hurch of the Soufftern General Synod, at Salem, \fa The tirst Will ojh'.i ofclock A. apply for a punctually exercises. h|e obtained ion of this Seuinary 9th, 18 2, at 9 Those intern! ing to are urged to be at the opening information can it Salem, S. A. lit-:pass. o. A. i ke Co., Va. of Our Sou fixed fact, uuited efforts be wanting^ eeeds, the Lo d’s w iu our mi iq the Sou cot want cfediugly di caused by d the border, the many our people without a si neglected, gelical prey of rav to them in present nti ological Se our i>eople, prayers aud factions, become a power for not only su enable ns to look to us for Letitth ' now a hope that it will not th to sustain If tlje Seminary sne- k must prosper and the waste places built up. The pres ini8ters makes it ex ult to supply the losses rtions, removals across d death. To answer from places where scattered likei sheep , uncared nated from th and made t ng wolves ti cep’s clothing, is at impossible. Cur The ory, if cheria icd by remembered u their ted by thei r bene within a short time and Christjblessed iu onr midst, y onr vacancy rovide for th of gladj tidings, be sustained It will es, bnt who Almost.— 11 times, and conclusion H—is the Lord, go forward. - Just so, apt to am discourage il some re almost con e to the our little cl urch in lifeless, bat I pray to Me encourage i me to vain. No ineyard of te most been those ley accomj Paul, Lul [|ou moreovi you to it of ther. We are but too | disheartened md dis are often t<o impa- Ink that because (crowned with ministrations |e results wlich we therefore i e labor labore Lord laborn our ;he suc- not fol ia the in rain. rho preache ■* have because Remern others. mourned so little, aud many have much to cncour- instaut in se son and Remember, oo, that sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine baud: for thou knowest not whether it shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.” It is ours to plant and to water; it is God’s to give the increase. The times of re freshment most come from ou high. Preach, pray, and live as an earnest believer, my brother, and rest assured “that your labor is uot iu vaiu in the Lord.” You have also much to en- aome call charity, as to the future j popU here. Take away Ike church relation of their chUdtet, te, which to have teagbt in effect, a criminal nnoonoarn for teacher*, and, of V The Day in Post Drafts, courage you. You say, “Our little church in is almost lifeless.” Almost!—bless the Lord for that! There is life still, and that life is the leaven. “Know ye not that a little leaven' leaveneth the whole lump.” Take care of that leaven, watch it, attend to it, aud let it work... Faith and works are inseparable. Pure doctrine and pure practice must go together. The Lord also, in answer to your prayer, “encourages you to go forward.” What more do you want! What else do you need f Is not His grace sufficientf lie auswers your prayers. lie is with you. “Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, ami bless the Lord.” The Way to Do it.—A |»rivate letter informs us that the books lately pre sented by Mr. Cooper, of Savannah, Ga., to the Staunton. Female Semi- nary, were obtained through the effort of Rev. l>r. llittle, of Savau- nah, Ga. Through similar efforts of other friends of this institution, which promises to be an all important in strumentality for good in onr chnrch, a respectable library might he se cured. We wish the ladies would undertake this meritorions task. If they will but go earnestly to work, and solicit donations from book" sellers and book owners, the object will soon be accomplished. N. B.—Novels, even Walter Hcott**, Dickens’, George Sand’s, and Mrs. Muhlbach’s, are not wanted; poeti cal works must be very select, while culinary works by accomplished art ists will no*doobt be very acceptable. We would suggest that if there ia a work extant in the Fijee language on what Rev. Sidney Smith railed “roast missionary,” it might sflbrd entertainment to the young Indie* if illustrated with cuts by Naat of Harper** Weekly. The True Principle u knowei i uot the work i of God Mho maketii all. Iu the morning Iu a letter received from an intelli gent layman from a distant State a few days since, informing us that he intended to send his daughter oeit session to onr Seminary , the follow ing language is found: 1“I think it my imperative and religions duty, as well as that of every person, to support, encourage, sustain, and try* to build up the institutions of his own church, when this can be done without too great sacrifice to his private and personal interests, or to the disadvantage of his child. Moreover, I think it will compensate for no little jiecnniary sacrifice to have our children under proper religious influence.” The above is language which ile serves to be well weighed by every member of onr Lutheran Zion who has sons or daughters to educate. It has been too ranch the practice of onr people—a practice feat yielding, I am glad to believe, to a better one —to consider nothing but their pecti niary interests when about to select a school for the education of their children. Bnt snch a policy is detri mental to the beet interests and prosperity of our own church.» It withholds patronage and influence necessary to th«w success of onr schools, in whose prosperity is bound np that of the church ; while it ren ders it very probable that children thus brought np under the training of other churches, in whose schools they are educated, will be lost to the chnrch of their father*. Thus a double wrong in done to our church. Said a man to us two year* since: “Had you started your Heminary fifteen fe&rn ago, I wonld have sent you all my daughter* [he hmf quite a number], but I had to send them to the Episcopal school, and now they are all in that church” And this will be the result in a large number of cases where our children are sent to other than onr own schools. It certainly ought to “com pensate for no little pecuniary aacri flee to have our children under the proper religious influence.” And where can we expect to And an influence of the right moral and religious character, if not in the schools of onr own chnrch f We do not mean to disparage by these remarks the wholesome moral influ ence exerted upon the young in the schools of other churches. Theprin ciples of a sound morality are doubt less tanght in many of these schools, bnt still, the “religious influence” under which they will be is not “proper,” if we wish onr children to remain with and love the Reform a tion Church. It is uot bigotry to train up iu the doctrines of ebriatiau ity, as confessed by the Lutheran Church, the children whom God has given us. This indifference, which their highest spiritual welters. If truly seek their salvation, I if we are intelligent members of church, next to their convention will we desire that they become member* of the great Lutheran household of faith. But to secure this, we must see that they are brought under the “proper religious influence,* which is the religious training to be found in schools of our own eburah. But some object on account of the expense required in sending a little farther from home ia order to a school oi their own church, some say the schools, especially for our daughter*, in the Lutheran Church, are more expensive than those in other churches, aud thus justify themselves in patronising other schools. Just yesterday, in a letter from a friend, he said he was asked by CapL , who has been sending his daughter to a school under the con trol of another denomination, “What is the reason the Lutheran female schools are aoexpenslveT Now, that brother is too intelligent to have made such a mistake if be hail care- telly examined into the subject. It is not true that Lutheran Female Srhool* are more expensive than other schools of like sdvantage*. Indeed, as far a* this objection holds to 8tsnntou, it iy entirely groundless. Of the five seminaries located ia this city of "seventeen" bills, the laitbersn is lower iu terms than aay of the ot Iters. Atnl my investigation of this sab jeet lead* me to the conclusion, that in all onr female armiaariea of high grade terms are lower than ia other Mcboola of similar grade. Wa eaa make onr term* low enough to salt the most exaetia|t no this point, bnt when that ia done advantage# mast lie brought down correspondingly. It is mere nonsense to talk about offering ftrwt class advantages at third rate terms. If the advantages are fine the rates mast and rice reran. I was oocr traveling, and to a city where I knew a certain hotel gave the best accommodation*, but at high figures. I intended to spend the Sabbath ia the city, and thought it wonld coot me too mwrh to stop there, dost then 1 by a drummer of a "first hotel, to he said, at jast half tha rate* of the other. I wewt with him, saw at once, on entering, I was taken ia, found the sceommodation* and association* so intolerable that at eleven oetork at night I paid my bill and went to the hotel to which I should have gone at And. 1 learned by that experience that the beet in any line of bnsinews ran not be get ten at the Imaf rate*. 0 Aud while academic* and schools ot low grade can offer low rates, beware of that school that murk at little coat. I must the denial that Iathmn school* charge more for the same advantage* than ia door by the schools of other charrhes. *On the contrary, their terms sre alway s thing less than are found ia school* of the same grade. And while my pen Is running on this subject 1 will take occneiew to refer to one other point, as it upon onr own srbool. which ia of drew*. Home person* hare the idea that it will cost quite a heavy ram to dresa their daughters la a place like Staunton, and hence are deterred from sending. Hat Iwrson* labor under a very misapprehension as to this matter. The uniform, which. I* simply a d of good material of winter which each girl te required to have, te all the dresa a pupil will need for the fall and winter. This dress te not expensive aud need rant little or nothing more than would in most cases be spent for a winter dress for the pupil were she at home. Ity this system of a uniform two things are effected, vis., economy la avoiding the necessity of more than one good drew* for a girl while at school, and equality as to appearance among the pupil*. Those who are wealthy and those in moderate cir cuinstances are alike andiatingntehed in apparel. If the dress of a pupil costs more in oar school than it would cost her at home. It te becunse pa rents encourage expensiveoeas in dress in their daughter*, sod not because It te necessary to comfort or standing. And we earnestly ask parents who send ns their daughter*, to co-operate with n* ia necaring economy in this particular. If ladies most spend money foolishly *n drees, let ft be at any rate afrrr they leave school. It is neither consistent with economy nor success in stody to waste time and means in extrava gant dressing. We have thought it nreessary to give these explanations, so that per sons who desire to send to Htaenton Female Seminary may have a frill understanding, with what additional information they may get from onr catalogue, of the coat of sending a than at furafol On th* Wuto, » 1872. ( comfort la the ding, oar for tha pqpflfcj way of carpet, bad do. But let tin* AX to Jaly 25th, / For some time trying to And “a to say something inatita la the South A reoent visit Staunton Female Seminary Rditobial FBOM ru Ll* impressed us so favorably that we AXD Mismoxaby. —The «ball delay no longer Although ao I'tetter of Jaly 5th said that “Her. much baa recently appeared in the Dr. Conrad staled at Salem that he j Yieiter about oar CoUegni sod Semi could sot blame oar General for da nary, wa feel assured you will wll clioing to rwesive Rev. V. F. Bolton ; lingly publish anything Intended to as the delegate from tha General . advance their welfare. 8}pod North.” Dr. Coored in the After having heard aud read Ohserrer ot last week contradicts the | many favorable reprehentations of statement, mod aay* “it convey* the oar Staunton School, we were very impression that we (he) approved of ’ agreeably surprised to And that oar the coarse of the General Synod i expectation* needed considerable South in drabotug to receive the! magnifying to do justice to the delegate of the General Synod North, | reality. la aa age like oars, where the blessings of edoastioo are becoming so generally diffused, we need highly cultivated women, as well aa men, ifooar Church te to sustain her high position and fnlAU her grand des tiay. We trust all will ace the urgent ncraaolty of sustaining a Seminary, and that a liberal patronage, ao well merited, may show that the Church appreciate the importance of female education. By building up oar sem inaries and colleges we speed the brighter day which te now dawning oa the Southern Lutheran Church. When opportunity offer* we in teod flay ing more about oar colleges. Hastily sod truly you*, Kappa. te not the case. lie fort her explainsthat he only said be was “not surprised at his (the dele gate’s) not being received.” Oar friend* do not seem to prehfted the subtle depths of metaphysical distinction* which ”al ways lie ia reserve ia Dr. Conrad** mind. He does not "blame” aay body, hat he think* “the proper coarwe of the Hyaod wow Id have been to receive and hear onr (the General Synod’s) delegate T. WHIs, New Y A very entertaining number. W# have read sad epjoyed very much the article* oa "The Kef Ml lit km Nominees for I*traideot, Expression, l*rteon Reform, Ctemet, The Pie Adamites, sad Character i« Angu*i. Nen burgh, Nc f*. Of read’s York Everybody Hkrs N we too. Herat t arot tan, a C. The Rural ia improving with new appearance, and of growing into fevor with Cultivator*. Th< great ers te this i thy mtads wjt*otty telrtake of Upon ranching the bastling city of Staantou we found I’rof. Miller at the depot to escort u« to hi* bos pi table borne, where we received a warm welcome. We were ao kindly entertained for several day* that we Id almost imagine ourselves “at ’ If the preaetice of the young ladle* makes it more pleasant, (and no one hot a hopeless old tmrbelor would doubt it), the i*rtocip*I sod his accomplished lady would do well to be carifmt ia artiding mutation* to "step uritk them white iu (Ac cifp.” Oar Seminary ha* the most |*romi neat site ia the city. It is ow aed by a joist stork company, the members of which intend enlarging and im proving the building* aa noon aa iorrcaaed |*atrooagv will warrant. Already they praarwt a highly at tractive appearance, and, when An tebed according to demgn, they will be obyrrts of admiration, not only to vhdtora, hot to all who pass Staon ton by railroad, tiom which paaseo get* will e*doy aa excellent view of the Seminary. The Srhool It te hofied wilt hr self All that te asked ia, its im and give It a liberal patron If this is done, no rails for 1 will come to the rtrarvh from Institution. It te under the mtprrtutrwdancr of a priori t inspires eon An able ready to while influence* of a roMJva wit! retwlet it for the voons ladies to th. Hautoia, (te, July ‘JOth, 1171 iMmr l*c. Hmdc : I Hiring the last year there was much sasd about the salon of the General Synod of North America with the (Ad General Synod, and ateo the General Ooaarfl | with both was '»h*ch alas! is too true) and that the> had money of great advantage to as. Now brethraa praie your "Faith by year worha.* We want to build an Evangwheal Lutheran t'hnrrti la the rapidly growing town of Ga. We ask a Postage Stamp every mao, woman and child of the Chnrch north of the IV Wbst sax }(wf m it mack Yon restricted to thin, but every do this. moon why I te that Kev. L two teroag peals through the Lefhrrwa it is, of all other*, the nod suitable IwrnUnw for onr Srhool. TV very bent talent can be asrnrad for seve ral hoar* a day ia the various de ls at a much smaller coat be provided rtaewbero. but it this , pares favorably with that of any in the city—indeed the bring* oat the encour •cbm.! bad sorb a time. W| friends at the Seminary, both in Staunton and in the country, and all were sanguine of its sneers*. In fart, we heard no words of dieoom- agement. "W# mast I mild it np,” “the rhnreh need* it,” “we most have a Swbs— »■■■ iti •■■!■■■■ * fee-, Ac. of the opinion* 1 the church, and he received only one 1 foliar ia all, which was from Vir finis. Send on your fUam/m in awury to Rev. L Bedenbangb or Rev. J. H. Klmora, Heooia, Ga. AU I’aprrs please copy. Kaixxot. I*, ti—Will Northern Imtheran paper* please tv publish •r If the Imtheraas of the South will only give their patronage to the Mtaautoa Srhool, we will soon have a large Avanehing Seminary for the training of thoor who are to wield so powerful so influence h|kmi society and the deteiny of onr Church. Wa for behind ia female schools—be i the age. sod behind onr stater It te high time that inch mortifying ad- be removed. Out of the bitter experience of |mnt fail ares*wo should learn lemsuia to guide as to more fortunate result* ia The following resolutions are in tended as an expression of that 11 «« r Churob was awak high appreriatioo entertained by the »« *® u of her duty in direct Board of Trustees of Newbony Cal IB < ***** social and religious lege for tbe late Rev. T. A. Botesot. ^Auemce of woman. A highly col a worthy and latellifeot member Ur »*cd Indy exerts a for greater and ax officer of said Board : lafloewee than a man of equal at- WiiKKKA*. Ia the Prwvtdeoer of tafote*«U moving in the same circle* ao all wtea and aranflfol God, Rev ^ soriety. History will sustain us THADDBt's a Botxnkrr, long a faith , ,n assertion A little stndy of fol member and ex officer of this dtetinguiabed female ebararters will Board, has been removed from , ^ r . v «*«! much leas of among os by the hand of dmth. u,tAr power u> personal whereby Newberry CoHagr has been beauty and stiperAcial accomplish deprived of a devoted friend and IOf " u ^ euMmtiag sf their ihh advocate, and this Board of a minds. The unbounded influence of kind companion and wise crmaaelor : j •• n ) ,,f those, both for good sod Therefore be it, ***** te to be found in that superior Resotred 1st, That white wa bow in «»Kuro «*icb brought them l<amble sabmissioti to the will oT int4 ‘ •y«prthy with the learned of heaven, and deeply deplore our lorn ** M ' ,r raepective ages, lo tbe death of a member no prompt Wherever distinguished men have ami faithful in the discharge of all been inclined by the attraction* of, o«r Sinats 2-v-y ■ ~ mute of tbtedn M-l in ft* at mint Ul " IU,r '* «"• “ «kkfc rndrMTd kia to *11 wUk * mo "K «*<• Inulm, nun of ikr! whom he met, and rendered him ef ' time. We need not instance |suite Iteu-nt and prominent in the high m \ar example*. History, for cento L ^TMaek rsgT tn fW ’ «»«*•**»• accmints of dietin oar Rouord Book be suitably mambrri S***"' «***" *bo became sods! to his amatory . J. A. &uou, qorons by right of superior Intel /fotfyr ef Board of Trustees * tec to* I culture. For the Lutheran Visitor. Lay Delegate*. Mr. Editor: Toe time for the meeting of several District By nods te approsching, and the diurch Council* of the differeat charges will elect s dategatc from each pa* torate, to represent the same in tbe 8ynodical (Convention. It is to be feared that onr church officers do not always rightly esti mate (he importance of haring ao intelligent and active representative in Hynod, nor their responsibility in making s selection. In some churches it te the custom to elect a mender of the church who is uot s member of the Council, aj£tiictr lay representative iu Synod. And this is sometime* done, we doulrt not, without any reference to the fitness of the mau for the |*o*i tion. We bold that this iji all wrong. We maintain that tbe lay-defo gates to Hynod should always be elected from the member* composing the councils of the several churches. The membership has elected them to the office of Elder* and Deacons, and they have been solemnly induct ed into office. Beside* tbe solemn promises they have made to perform the duties that pertain to their re spective offices, to tbe best of their ability, they have a better opportu nity of teaming the wants, necessi ties, duties and abilities of their rrapertive congregations, in the meeting* of the coancil, than one who te not a member of it. More oxer, there is a ftnrm in an officer of a church, which is not existing in a private member, for s lay repre sentative, from the very fact that he has already been chosen to this position by* bis brethren. In the next place, when a council elects a lay-delegate, be should not only be a member of tbe church (onaril, bnt be ought to be an iatet legeai man. We have beeu mortified to see the amount of Jgnonuicc that te sometime* sent to Hynod in a single lay representative. We hare ao need of men in Hynod who are afraid to express an opinion. There, sre want the talent, not tbe ig norance of tbe church. In addition to intelligence, the lay representative should be a worker ea tear; for if he is a dead weight there, though he may make a spas aflodic effort at activity in 8yt»6d, hi* influence will hardly be itercep- tiblr. (for Synod* need workers, not dromes—intelligence, and not ignorance in her counsel*. Furthermore, a lay-delegate should be a pioos man, imbued with the Spirit of bis Master—one who can load in jwaycr, as well as make a speech. We can not conceive how a man conkl be a good represents tive, who is ashamed or afraid to let his voice be beard in prayer, antes* it would be to represent to Hynod that we really have some ch tire he* in which even the church officers will iu>t lead in {mblic prayer. Much tens should a lay delegate be a dram drinker, or liquor dealer, or a whisky seller. None such are fft for the kingdom of God, nor are they (It to sit in the convention of Hynod. If any of onr churches have to suffer the humiliation of having members who are guilty in either of these ros|iccts, wir do protest against oar Hynods being humili ated, by any aucb characters be coming member* thereof by tbe suffrage of the Council men. We ho)ie, then, (hat iu the future the councils of the different church es, will, in all cases, as far sm prac finable, not only elect a member of the church Council, but also that they will endeavor to choose intel ligent, pious aud working men, to represent them iu Synodical meet ing*. The miuiatcr* need the coun sel and influence of intelkgeut lay* men. Ami w hen those shall be sent to Hy nod, all the work, and speak ing, and resolving will uot be done by the clergy. Then too, may we exp<<ct more efficiency iu patting into |»rsctical effect the legislation of onr Hynods. When lay men an* active, something can be dooc. •In the select iou of lay-delegate* to the General Hynod, we have been more fortunate. This is attributable largely, we tbink, to the fact that at least one-half ot the votes cast for representatives ia the General Synod, are cast by minister*; aad they knowing and feeling the i* portance of good Un representative*, usually cast their votes, with a rite to this feet. And as each of the District Synods will at their aext meeting elect delegates to the Gen-' eral Synod, as well as Director* of the Theological Seminary, w« be- speak their ballots for the learning, piety and seal, not only in the rank* of the ministry, but especially of the laity, to these position*. R * always with interest that we cast our eyes over the roll of lay-dete gates, to any of our ecctesteatie*| meetings. Fraternally Yoon, Bficitti, A Word ia It te refreshing to bear the folio*, ing vigorous protest against certain practices extensively prevailing is the Church at present, from the sac oeasor of tbe ill-otneoed Dr. Es*, who imagined “Protestantism a foil are.” In a beautiful little treatfa* ou Absolution, which we an tempt ed to call almost Lutheran, be eo* trasts primitive practice with that of to-day. Speaking of the trestamm tbe excommunicate received at the hand* of the early Chanck, “cvm casting bis gifts after him, sod refos ing to pollute herself with his offer ing*,” he continue*: “In days .of pious fairs, festival*, and lotteries, and especially in day* when a g'*lle«« ‘pew holder’ some times is allow <1 to control a ‘chnteh; it is strange citongh to go baek fo the old rub* oa this matter: “‘A bishop must know whom- gifts he ooght u» r-eeive, sod whom not. He shall not receive the gift* of fraudulent dealer*. Neither Khali be receive the gifts of wLoremoa- gm, nor the obligations of coveten and adulterer*, for the sacrifices such are abomination to the Lord." Nor the oblations of such as afflict the widow and oppress the father teas. He shall also refuse all corrupters and lawyers that plead for injustice, and makers of idols, sod thieves, and unrighteous publican*, and those that use frauds in weight or measure; all murderers, and hang men, and unrighteous judge* ; drank ante, blasphemers, usurers, and, is a word, every wicked man who lirei in rebellion against God.’—Apeetshc Constitution, Book IV. c. vt “ ‘There are men whose whole manner of life and method of basi doss is ao outrage ou human sad divine law and right, and yet these men are allowed, even begged sad flattered, to give of their evil and accursed gains to holy uses. They seem to themselves to sanctify the whole by giving a part, and tbe religion that allows them so to do is conspiring to ruin them eternally. “The fact that their whole life » accursed should be brought to them by the absolute refusal to permit any jiart of their ill-gotten wealth to pollute the altar of God. “If the Church ever gets fsith enough to stand again on divine and not worldly principles, *be will find this bit of ancient discipline, which brands the evil gains of men with outspoken condemnation, to be one of tbe most powerful weapons of dis cipline iu her hands. “At present she is borrowing money on all hands from the devil to build altar* to God, and the great trouble is, that the deVil insists on security for principle and interest, and KoaietiniciT forecloses on his . mortgage and takes tne whole. It it were uot for this, it might be some satisfaction to think one bad chested him out of his money for a good purpose. But he has never been easy to cheat, aud looks sharply sf ter every interest, church or charity, iu which he has invested a dollar, and iu due time claims his own.” The followiug words, from the same work, on th© ceil consequence tf Sectarianism, are also well worthy of attention: “The multiplication of rival sect* has destroyed discipline among chn* tiauK, at present, iu many countries If oue sect rejects a man, its rival e*i>©ciaUy if he be a mau of in® 8 ' ence or w ealtii, statute only too esg» r to take him in. Among sects which claim only a limnau origin and ai thority excommunication means noth ing more thau the expulsion ot a man from a social club. R •*** no terrors, aud uo disciplinary power to bring a man to a sense of enormity of his sins. It is no longer delivering him over to Satan, or, indeed, to anything which he fears. ' “It was far otherwise In the dt) s of a Church which was one over all tbe world. Spiritusi though the punishment was, and unsupported by any touqiontl pains or penslbrs to the faith that grasped the reslify of spiritual thiugs it was very and terrible. The branding of bis sin by tbe church was the visible sigu of wliat took place iu tbe court of lieayeu, and the casting him oat for it from fellowship below, rt* takeu to be only the earthly tyr of what was doue in heaven. The man’s sins came back upon him !- cn.ri.b-te. n-* r ,c tbe <l»*ly «W given in the Wor ni empty fora”*- BOrk of then. tritbin- «8o tbe sUrtl pronounced excoi ^ his position like a voice fro* Adam after ^ of the g»rd and ft A* trim b»ck from of life, the altiu theme Rtandani V r At a reoei ents iu Bos **ehools wer chief wants A missio in those n< herence to feeling of o w eJl as to the tear he thought th P>*«t Sabi f or the tmt R nd home nrerage of j tions, a n viction of t in hand, an conversion evanj preparation on the first ing in -the cl tile rixisfan 1‘ath in ay te ' tual teache w hy their s W »H find * knowled J who their pet I - r>: Aa Arab * Op "Auriand” ha> from the Arabic containing vci oK-nts by ft Chril pfcnont «Uti | knowledges, tb.it m Enrope, but base of liberty rthat people do m« in peace and off cribe this erroi i« sprcmlixg m<*rj rope.” “The Eu coed and know ffbat is n<K a suit j the improvement preparation for free outwardly aij u\Ve talked to J* with us (to *ee tl Verona;, about ti] said that they school for th<^ a4 tradicted him, saj Without in these schools, learn ? Whatev^ for entertainm< for he sees evil, i not deter, and gc product of our the grace of Go strengthens ns believe. Thereto theatre is a scho i error, and impels than good. A c such pleasures an are teachers iu be praised that has not been inoc with this evil. G many blessings and many treasu that the nations, lish, the French. are more j»o\» < nations in thr ». evident, that in God, but foil frou which is the sour and live like the | And many of full of spiritual! which perdition into our couutr. as you know, -ij same who read meu's book, hav« We read it* too learned the Word in the school* of experienced its p ed ujxm us only the ^Infaucy of bles. For Ren.i occurred to him. and gives us tin] in stood of the wl< has quickened in time of Christ Our friends am often laughed atj e<l them to n* | “Exhort the c of the Franks to ject it, they de.n| tain that He wa- men, and that deceptions; aud a* a prophet an I des, and withoiq divinity we aiv than tbey|”—iwj \V k' t i ^ = >- IV m - 1 ’ Heeds of a Si L l '