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Bate* fbr Hearing Poor Sermons. n v persons will m[u as th < m n, or pai i may \«i ir iteighb >i suite- The lies are and to he modified b remain oa upon tfceir flwt *re slated as follo^r 7*.I Do not go jog dtriug the we devotional; exerci rer hear any other >gnixe the follow- they prai tice, 11 ways, hear good ish to understand ra achieve differ formula of which is as okl as the bile it is thought tlie years, they uul invincible as ipplicution. They s: a prayer ni»«et- k, nor attend any in your neigh <• * P» (l.) Do not en age in iu»y relig- that ma r need your help. i» a me ting to attend, a to encourage, or any special io, keep steadily is apt to induce dMoJk work to clear of itj Work i and (levotioi (c.) Live in as 1 My a as nutting ^us tht jdace or favor. (4.) If you reiu the week, let it be Subscribe for the ght, frivolous and possible, uot i»er- ughta to have any history, travel, or might put your is a dam p within bettor; bat if tha try buckwheat c of food, if Hjties, will an An overloaded f$.)i Feel as so enient till chu VOL. 4.---N0. 49. “ONE LORD, ONE FAITH. ONE BAPTI81T-BFHE8IA N8 IV: 5 COLUMBIA. S.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. 1871 OLD SKRIKS', VOL. V.-N0. 205. anything during light ami frothy. xdger, boy traahy novels or get the n from a circula ting library. Do 90 touch a book of biography. They mind to earnest thinkiBg, which is to be avoided. (9kj Spend Satui day eveuing and $ greater part of t le night in some styUI of sociaf dis ipation. If there reach, nothing is is not available, a gay party, at wt ich t by .talk is all light and the food pll unhealthy, will do as a substitute. (Jl) Rise late Sa^ibath morning. If sluggish, all tbe rty breakfast. If you are doll and betoLr. Bat a hei you have pork, esfi Mjially in th« form of tausage, eat h rgely of that, or kes, though any %kcn in snfliyieut wer the same end. s omach is an old ;ef iu the ct use of poor ser- ibre and dull as xdi time. Do not any in the Bi >le or other good 1, thinking all its of the e 8a the while of the ening before. It is important to k« p tbe most foolish ices of th p previous nigbt in mind, for they go far in the of arcnmplimiiitg the desired Is* ‘•J Feel sore yin shall not enjoy services. Reason with .yourself you might letter stay at home read some entertaining book, or a good sleei, for ‘*ia not tbe th a day of rest f* When at Iasi, you do start, Jlo not i»ermit the thought that you! are going to the liotise of God or ti worship him, but •neiely that you are going through a lorlu that is the custom of the neigh borhood. i.) Rub your tirehead to discover you have incipient heail- »nd cough] slightly to know cold. If you can of either ailment, ou ought to have will help make moo. to give any col ly protest against for money. Mat- ignaf on against missions operations, and if th t-Mre is to be a ny money collected ou are takin made yon thought that ined at h dislike the >) Conclude 1, and iuw; constant cal your i missionary for home use o .vchrself that y tri rntor, fo* the <lql y of giving, wii 1 not be edi When y stand about t hodr, talking j®4«, or maki duties aud p w «tok. This oa npied duriu sc tv ices. (l-J When y i sit straigh tn in the Sat is any other, assure will not be a eon- selfish as you can, may preach 011 the agree with which ng. get to the church, door lor half an some worldly sub- plaus for secular res during tbe keep your mind a good )»art of tbe verts the soul,” and will rouse people np betimes to take an Interest in holy things that they did not intend. Therefore do not sing—do not even look 00 a book—but watch if any one sings out of time and harmony. If you do detect sock a thing, either laugh at it or sneer ; 00c will do as well as the other. (®-j While the Scriptures are be ing read, study the boo nets, drew, crania, toe., of those sealed ladore you. It is important that you should not hear any part of the chapter; for the scriptures are “profitable," which is something yon are guarding Hgaiust. fj*•) After the seraton is begun go to sleep. This is a sovereign pro ventire. You will thea be sure to be able to say when the sermon is completed, “It was not worth listen iug to," “It was not of a ktad to suit me," toe. Or, if not convenient to sleep, be very restive. Look at yoor watch or back at the clock, change yoor )>o«itioa, yawn or hang yoar heat! in apparent effort to dose through the tedious service*. This will likely make tbe minister ner vous, spoil his tfcgught*, eon fuse his utterance, ami otherwise interrupt the facility and completeness of the duties of his ofhec. ff.J Keep thinking the aertaon is too king. Ill your own mind de nouuce all long sermons, but this long one in particular, and declare that tbe one thing in the way of the conversion of sinners and the spread of tbe Gospel is tbe crime of preach iug too long. fr.) Here and there walrh the minister's pronunciation and gram mar; see his gestures, ami partieu larly notice the tones of bis vote*. If you i-atch him in a mistake, or see him coaimit a transient impropri ety, treasure it up, grow disgusted with it, aud fairly scowl ii|*on Mich inexcusable blunders. If you will observe (hear rules, either in whole or the main part, as is most easy, you will have do diffi eulty in getting sermons as poor as you want them. Over and over again they have been tried, with but Mpe result. An exceptional case may, of course, br instaired. but sorb are rare. If you will try the plan next Sabbath, you will find yourself sat istted of their valor, and a Her wants you can use them as much as you wish. “With such service God is not pleased," but that does not mat- , ter to one w ho seeks tbe better way under another guidance. Or if all we have suggested fail, a supplement may be added which will greatly help. As yon go out of the church tell of your weariness, speak of the want of fine imthos, freshness, thought, strength, directness, appeal or some other failing in the dia course, and look as gloomy as possi ble over your disappointment. This works like a charm. It develops latent disgust, and transmutes a cas ual good impression into nrornfnl contempt. All of UR know hundriMU of good Christians who never hear poor srr 1110ns at all. They are not always equally well pleased. Sometimes, loo, they are only partially fed and profited. But from every discourse, in smaller or greater measure, they get something that teaches and strengthens them for spiritual work anti warfare, anti the enjoyment of the Christian life. They do not, bow ever, follow these rales. They live in an opposite way . Going to church, it is with hearts foil of the meaning of tbe exercise, and engaging in tbs worship, it is as under tbe infioeuoe of a power from heaven. They are gladdened, and go ou their way re joicing. They seek fruit, and Hud it. Watching and waiting, it falls into their laps, and tasting, eating, they go away saying, “I sat down under his shallow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.” — i’nited Presbyterian. mmmm I had believed this twenty yea©* 1 ago, I might have been spared» much anxiety. If God had told ma 1 aomr time ago that ha was abont ‘ to make me as happy as I ooeld be ia this world, sod then bad told me ! that he should begin by crippling me In nil my limbs, and removing 1 me from my turns! aonrens of enjoy rnent, I should have thought it n very strange mo»!e of aocom(dishing this parponr. And ynl how la bia wisdom manifest avea in this?—Ar. fbpaam Tha J avals ia tha Cap There was a fine touch of poetry as well as of Christian philosophy in the cheerfbI words of n yonng servant of Christ who was asmr bia last boor. “When I have the moat pain in my body* sold be, “I hare the most panes In my aoal I do not doubt bat that there la leva in tha bottom of the ewp, thoagh it la terri bly bitter in tbe month.* It was at the bottom of the cap that God had placed the prerkma Messing; and it w » whole tdttrr h IL Vat I. tot Chrbt An old man of more than sixty years, who, had, ia later It*, wan dered for from the right way, was led to attend oar special arc-rim*, and his mind was arreted by tbe phase of guopal truth presented. The second sight foaad Mm a remote iag believer Tbe gram of tbe Fa thee, as exhibited la tba 16th chapter of Lake, embracing and cordially receiving the morning prodigal, canard him to bare! forth ia lorn. It was teaching to as tag, in opfite of nM Ma tha laMftaa fi Help *Har meh of a help to into, At the sf oar of the door hy an old who had bee* a ehareh 1 yearn, bat avid—fly had smbremd s theology Urea the trred tears, was ti Hut tl been « (slab the di sorb sad c pnm|« The lie si Jes*» bitter was a ro«M a gait re fol rough \ trial lifik Having taken the I, he ante I ate U> 1 rap •T| “Wb« grace afflict from I aught “As 1 b ha.* “By What fiiag 1 sorb r Inn exrra go to your Meat, do id erect, but crouch rner of the pew, or, , put your head lek of tbe seat before r n on the , or ccjverj it with your hands handkerchief. At any rate look dull and uninterested, aud exhibit much df aj persecuted spirit as ihle. !-j Do iioti rise at prayer. That ht excite ttome devotional fi»el- incousist^nt with the end in iw. *-) not sing. The words of l saliu luipbt be injurious; “for law of G d is perfect and con Trusting God. Christians might avoid much trouble ami inconvenience if they would ouly believe what they profess, that God is able to make them happy without auythiog else. They im agine that if such a dear friend were to die, or such aud such bleasiuga were removed, they should be mis erable; whereas God can make them a thousand times happier without them. To mention my own case. God lias been depriving roe of ouo mercy after another; but as one is removed, he has come in aud filled up its place. Now, when 1 am s cripple, and not able to move, I am happier thau ever I was iu my life before, or ewer expected to be; and if wu m il into for his fori I tnma I us»s the H tortur ClAtJU Of Ml I IMS own I lions, brr c it wet snoth the di rbosr the tr srr a this— Only fit srs “e*ll« , thful." This is certoinly s truth—whether it fem thw true meaning of tha Blbla text or not These choice Christians are often chosen for afflictions, and become more choice, and excellent through the regimen of severe trial. There is an experience of the lore of Jeans which they gain in their boars of bereavement, or poverty, or hard ships, which they never could have acquired In any other way. The “love in the I wit tom of the cap* was only to lie reached hy drinking the sorrows which held the jewel. Tbe school of suffering graduates rare scholars. To the disciples in that school it is often given to “know the love of Jeans which passe th knowl edge.” Buffering Christian! be not in haste to quit the Master’s school; thou art fitting for the High School of heaven. Push not away peevish ly thy cup of sorrow j for tbe spark ing diamond of Christ’s love for thee is in tbe draught He gives thee to drink.—T. L. Oxjfbr. If peace and truth can not go together, truth Is to be preferred, and rather to be chosen for n com panion than peace — TiUingkmst. you will strive to haM To all tl savored of horn , and with I P, VlMH A • ******* • • the fold of God.* nr net. ia iu reived a truth of fhripterv, which ft nltfUl in ressfU when kn*»w» terete murioM fete, Mthinktagty, briterete a asi ri*ty|nd way of ex- which, at Irate, ts «s lad tain is rely ut, and ter jmy af sal hy the arenas t of in the attempt. Christ sad hi* w«rt are arkaawl edged, hat in rerh a way as to hr cores nothing more than a pedes tal fbr the errata re to show himself as he cries, “Behold ar.* To the brherrr, taught of the (Spirit, and «h«* experience ia moulded according to (Scripture tench- tug, how different! The substance of his confession lies Hi the exprra toon, “As# f, 6aI f’krist.* O, to learn in our hearts the power of that great truth, “I am craHfiod with < 'brief; nevertheless I lire, yet not I, but Uhrist liveth iu me; sad the life which I now live in the ffeah. I tire by the faith of the Hon of God, who loved me, and gave himself fbr me." Thus Christ, an# irl/. becomes ALL.— t* “la the Isle day walking on the sea share, 1 remember coo templating with thrilling interest an old, gray, ruined tower, covered with ivy. There wan a remarkable history connected with the spot. In that tower was formerly hanged 00a of the beat governors the island ever possessed He had been a© cosed of treachery to the king dar iug the time of the civil wmm, and received sentence of death, later cession was made on his behalf, and a pardon was seat; but that pardon fell into the hands of bis bitter enemy, who kept it loeked op, and the governor was hanged. His name ia still honored by tbe many; and yon may often hear a pathetic ballad sung to his memory, to the music of tbe spinning-wheel. We mast feel horror ^ struck at the fearftil tor pit ode of that man wbfi, having the (tardon fbr his fellow-creature in his possess too, could keep it back, and let him die tbe death of a traitor. Hot let os res train our indignation till we ask ourselves whether God might not point His finger to most of us, and say : ‘Thou* art the man I Thou hast a pardon in thine hands to ssve thy fellow orealures, not from temporal, hut from eternal death. Thou host a pardon suited to all, sent to all, designated for all. Thou hast oujoyetl it thyself; but hast thou not kept it back from thy brother, instead of sending it to the ends of the earth V’ Hugh Htowell says of Mao, as I was owe ntary charities then dead sacrifices.— are no bet - 1 seem to be f * said a young half pitiftd, n his foce. He was quaking of a friend who had late her rely daughter. Not himself s beHerer, he had an ideal of what a believer should he, sod vaguely felt that Iu such stress of wwwtear as sorrow brings m pity ought to be a help. flow Is It with you, friend V You perhaps have lost from your home the joy and the light A dear com pa®km, an tdotiaed child, the son of yoor hope, the brother of your love, ia not, for God has taken him. Are you cast down and destroyed, and so numb with grief that you no fowl the tooch of the Havioor ! apt Hull, ia your sadness, an trust the hand that waa to the cross. Hull you may your hand re the “pillow of tbe If not, your “religina* is not the help it ought to be. Not to bereavement alone do wo need belief to Ghnat as s |»rarucal help, a lever to lift over the hard places, a leaven to lighten the lump of care. Iu the household It is sad a Christian who gets no aid from a hope to Jeans; a mother who la not. homo— of it, more patient a father who is not wly and teroag. Tha pntn- the irritations, the frictions that tarvitaMy come, when people live together to the familiarity of every day life, how ran they be sweetened by the raur the generosities that the beat love of all! What little things upset a day's pleasure t The impauence of a aer vast, the lose of a book, the scorch lag of a garment, the breaking of a dish, are trties to themselves, but they ciond the brow and make the would be met with patiener. Herein ■mffo ImSs 'I 'Xkjk •re Iftelff ^TTWte. 1 lir ROUM’tfqMr who ran see a ate of China broken, or a taMertoth 1st rued, ottb unruf •ml composure, is well ou iu Huts Uan life. The parent who distiu arts sod thru learned in t'hnst's 1 a ho has Uuie to be polite to a boy , asking, not order tag service, sod paying it with thanks, has felt the Gospel spirit. Be narefhl, pilgrim to Zion. Over nil your sorrows, the sunlight streams from heaven, la all yoar cross the One who was Bailed takes the belt of tbe cross. Yon have a hope that will stand you instead, even at the last great day. If year religion is not a help in the thickets, and the It is not * bat it may be ami Christ means it to be. Thanks, prr ems Saviour, that though “There are brier* besrttiag every path That call for pate nt care | • There is s cmnfc hi every ln<. And s need for earnest prayet j A b*b heart that team m Tber 1* happy may«here.*' “According to yowr faith be it unto you," is a truth running all through the kingilom of grace. If you do not expect an immediate answer to your prayers for a scholar, you are not likely to have it “Ask iu faith, nothing wavering. For be that wa- veroth is like a ware of the sea driven with the wiod anti tossed, lx* not man think that be shall receive anything of the land.” “Whatsoever hi not of faith is sin.” It is s sin against him who has sent you to that scholar, and who is your advo cate sod intercessor with the Father, to doubt that you shall have aa answer to your prayer for tbe imme diate yielding of the scholar’* heart to tbe Saviour. When the father of tbe child with a dumb spirit came to Jaaax, crying out, “If thou canst do anything, have compassion on us and help us," Jesus said unto him, “If thou canst believe, all things are IKieaible to him that believeth.* Aud straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, “Lord, I believe, help tbou my unbelief." Then It was that Jesus cast out tbe devil and restored tbe child. That same Jesus says to every Sabbath- school teacher, pleading today for the con verston of a particular scholar, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." I>o not bane your expectation of the scholar's oouvonuon on your preparation of him, by faithful in straetion, to be given and accepted. No scholar can be trained into regen •ration. “It is God which worketh” in him, as in you, “both to will mud to do bis good pleasure." And God can as easily, and wHI us gladly, receive s believing scholar into his own lore 00 the first bonr of that scholar's admission to the Sabbath school, as after be has learned a whole system ot theology, or been instructed for years in the words and lessons of Bcripture. Nothing that y ou ran <lo u;m>u or in that scholar be expected, “confusion and every evil work*—a lore of f*mer for good. Persons sometimes allow their dif fcreuoes to carry them so far, as to lay their faith in God and the future, their religious enjoyments and Iiojhs, aud their sincerity, open to stisjH cioo. They can not be, enjoy, and believe what their profession 'implies will increase his fitness for redemp and requires, aud allow themselves lion ; but your simple, earnest prayer to indulge in tempers am! pursue of faith in his behalf shall be an a course of conduct, just the up swered as surely as God “is faithful ; pomte of the spirit of religion and that promised.” Delay then no longer wholly irreconcilable with »L for any growth of the scholar into What a singular method do some godliness; but go “boldly unto the men adopt to seek reveuge. Because throne of grace," teat yon “may j they differ with a brother, they will. neglect the means of grace—religions dntv, and rqin themselves to sjnte another. Why Is It? Why is it that Christian |K-oj*le are so often skeptical a I suit the early conversion of tbeir own children ? They present them to God in the rite of iufant baptism. They admit that their children are at the most impressible ago of human life; they confess that early piety is exceedingly lovely ami desirable. They open their Bibles and read how Samuel w as called iu his boyhood to God's service, bow Joshua served the Isjrd from his eighth year, and how Tim othy, “from a child,” understood God’s Word. They pray for their chil dren. and yet about the conversion of these young supsceptible hearts theey have strange doubts and mis givings. They do not expect their childreu to be converted, nor labor for it as the very first aud most vital concern of their existence. So they let the goldeu hours of childhood ruu by unimproved, and secretly intend aud expect that in after years they will be overtaken by some special effort, or revival influence, and then rescued and received iuto the fold of Christ! Thousands of pious parents are committing just this fearful mistake. Surely they ought not to doubt that as soon as a child is old enough to be a willful sinner, it is old enough to be a voluntary Christian. As soon as it is sufficiently old to choose tbe wrong, it is old enough to choose the right. If a child of seven years knows w hat it is to commit a sin, it knows what it is to be sorry for it and to ooufess its sins to Jesus. No conscience is more tender than a little child's. No heart is more easily touched. The Saviour has reached out a promise. “They that seek me early shall find me," for their y oung souls to cliug to. As soon as a child can love its mother, it can learn to love Jeans. As soon as it trusts its mother euough to swallow the un known draught of medicine, it can trust Christ. As soon as it begins to obey a father's commands, io ran obey its heavenly Father's command ments. Now these three thiugs— love, trust and obedience—are the very essence of religion. The love of Christ is the marrow and pitli of true piety. Keuiember. too, that (rod’s Spirit offers bis supernatural aid in producing and confirming the couvertiug work in our children's hearts. As soon as the chi hi gives good evidcuoc of a Christian heart and Christian conduct—as soon as he exhibts, not- a man's piety, but a child's piety—he should be admitted to the family of the church. The fold is for the lambs as well as for the maturer sheep. Nay, more ; the Divine Shepherd offers them especial welcome, for he kuows how much they ueed its shelter. Christ does uot promise to make a little girl a woman ; he ouly makes her a purer, sweeter, lovelier girl. “Boys wili be boys," but they will be infinitely better boys, and at length better men, if they come into the spiritual fold in the impressible days of boy hood. Those who come into Christ’s school the earliest, commonly make the greatest attainments and reach the highest usefulness in after life. And if they die in childhood, they have already won the unfading crown. —Reformed Church Messenger. obtain merry and find grace* for him from God, who alone has power to change his heart. “Now is the accepted time" for such intercession, and Koch “boldness in tbe faith." When you pray in faith, God will answer ia promptnen*. Then when your ncholar is a trusting believer, your true work of culture will begin for him. From that time be may “grow In grace" through your in struction in tbe things of God. But first intercede believiugly for his ira mediate '-onversion.—A S. World. .. fitete » ■ OmaforL 1 Let u« carefully mind our duty, which tbe Word of trod hath set before us. and then leave our com fort to our good and gracious God, who will certainly dispiae it in soch measure* as be ace* best and fittest for us. There is mam a one who might have tieen iu a rnnch more comfortable state of miud than he is if had minded his duty more, aud his comfort lew*; if he had studied more the pleasing of God than the peace, pleasure, and satisfaction of his own mind; if he had labored more to lie a true, obedient child of God. than to know that be was so. Do not therefore, as tbe manner of some ia. lie down dy ing and whin ing for comfort and assurance, in the meanwhile neglecting dntv; but rise np, in the name and strength of God, aud set thyselt in good earnest to thy duty ; honestly ktndy to know and do the will of God; take heed of stifling thy conscience with any wilful sin ; rail upon God for his grace, by constant and daily jwayer; and in this way of well doing commit thy soul to tbe good ue»s and mercy of God in Christ Jesus; aud whilst thou dost so, be assured thou art safe aud canst never miscarry. Rememlier that ordinary and abundant comfort is the reward of faithful piety, and therefore endeavor to grow in graces and iu the know ledge of our Ixml and Saviour Jesus Christ. In a word, ;iersiat and persevere iu thy duty, ami thou canst not foil of that com fort which is convenient for thee; and be sure that what is wanting in thy joy and comfort here, shall w ith infinite advantage be made up here after, in that fulness of joy aud those ideasurrs which arc at God’s right ham! forevermore.—Hishop /lull. —« «■» *- — • ■ Misunderstanding We an* uot all so constituted as to nee thing* in the same light. Men may honestly differ in opinion. Paul Mid Barnabas differed in judgment “ami the contention wan so sharp between them, that they departed asunder." And Paul “withstood Pe ter to the face, because he was to be blamed.” Differences between prom inent members of the church are serious draw backs to its prosperity, and often cause the wheels of Zion to stand still. When Christians so far forget themselves, as to indulge in unkind, uncharitable, and resent ful tempers toward each other, Christ is “wounded in the house of his friends." Self-interest often warps the judg ment of men, aud when it is the controling principle, it lays the foun dation of irreconcilable divisions. Conscience, duty, influence, friend ship, in fact everything, are sacri ficed, but selfishness. A little yield ing—a few steps from the ground of exclusiveness, would stifle seed in the germ that bring forth year after year, a crop of deadly fruit Two prominent members of a society dif fered with regard to the title of a fragment of land—both claiming it The interest involved would have been covered by a few dollars. But each in his own judgment was right —neither would yield. Tbe society was divided, siding with one or tbe other, and the strife extended even to the neighborhood, separating chief friends. The result is what might Three Great Words.—A chris tian traveller tells us that he saw the following admonition printed on a folio sheet in an inn in Savho, aud it was found, he learned, in every house in the district: “Understand well’ the force of the words—a God, a moment, an eternity : a God who sees you; a moment which flies from you; an eternity which awaits you ; a God whom yon serve so ill; a mo ment of which you so little profit: an eternity which you bastard *m> rashly."