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ONE LORD, ONE FAITH. ONE BAPTI8M”-EPHE8IAN8 IV: 5 N'I'W SERIES COLUMBIA, S.C., FRIDAY, S ITT EMBER 6. 1872 OLD SERIES, VOL. V.-NO. 208 Religious, The Higher Christian Lift. of this higher life f Wherever it exists it wilt show itself in the ways above indice ted. A highly spiritual noil devout lift unn not he hid in thie eiufiil world, and among the too general meagre growth and dwarfish atature of the audorUj of proftMod died plea. He who baa attained to the atature of a man in Christ will aland among the broth retire. He aimaks of the believer as crucified, as dead, as buried, and aa planted. No ouc cau imagine that he intended to he understood ea •eying that they were literally cruci Awl, or that they were as crucified and as dead to the sinful pursuits of the world; end why shall we not un derstand him that they were also os buried to the same sinful pursuits t And, moreover, if it will be iuaiated on that the burial in baptism was n literal tdacinn under tiic water ‘the accumulation of littles” for the moat port, (while “the strength of larger sums” was not altogether wanting,) thrilled and electrified the age with the most illustrious instance of libertdity for the name and causa of Christ that adorns ifii annals. Dimes need only to be multiplied in sufficient numbers to be worth more than the dollar. Are there not in almost every Association half a thou •and persons, now giving nothing, who could give in the aggregate at east half a hundred dollars; and if this be all that they can spare, while of equal market value with the same amount from a single wealthy man, must it not wield a more mighty power iu the work of the Lord, be cause hallowed, in larger measure, by the self-denial, prayer and faith of the multitudinous contributors ♦ What the cause of Christ needs, to secure ample means for the prosccti tiou of every enterprise of gospel love, is—the small gifts of Christians 'who are poor in the things of this life. Nor cau these gilts be kept back, and the Christian stand guiltless before God. It is as much our duty to give as to pray for the ex tension of the kingdom of Christ. Praying without giving, where both are in our power, is one of the ways of “mocking God,” and not the least offensive in his sight Chr. Index. ever, which wa must suppose there would have beau hud baptism then burnt a novelty. The truth is, baptigp, or iu equiv alent—the application of water to persona and things iu token of puri fication and dedication—bad been familiar to the whole Jewish people from the days of Mooes. Thus when Aaron and his sons wore set apart to the oAm of ftho posathoml, water was applied to them m a sigu of the purity of the office they wore assum ing. When a permit became core- That a higher chrlstiau life than that which commonly appears should be enjoyed aud manifested is certain, and that it may be attained by dili gout attention to the means of grace, by living nearer to God, and by more earnestly and prayerfully fid- lowing the example, aud cultivating the spirit of Jesus, is equally certain. Poter exhorts us to “grow in grace and iu the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ;* aud Paul says, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing 1 do, forgetting those things which are behiud, aud reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prixe of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Iu this mannei only can a higher Christian life be attained; and it must consist in greater likeurm to Christ, aud more intimate anion aud com m tin ion with God Where did the Sous of Adam get Wives! The chief design of the Scriptures b to make known to fallen manithe will of God for his salvation. On this design the alwve question cau have no practical bearing. There- | (bre it is not surprising that' the Scriptures contain for it no answer. Bnt this does not stop inquiry. Mnu fens been endowed with an itiqnisi- I five mind. He wishes to know ghe I origin of things. And donbtlees > every coming generation,-in whose l hands the Bible shall fall, will ask the same question. I Some believiug the Scripture* to tiach that Adam and Kve were the only created members of the tinman family, have supposed that they must! | hsve married their sisters. And here the whole matter might rest; for the tenth of it can not now lie ft-certainly known. *But there are ^ : some who will not let it rest. They g have their theory respecting a diver sity of origin of the different ra- i res of mankind; and they ' think that the fact of Adam’s sons having : wives is proof that there were rfinre « women created than Eve. Marriage between brothera and * sisters is now unacriptural, unlawful, unusual, ami therefore seems mmatu ml. They assume that it must al- : ways have been so. Heuce the dons of Adam must have found wdftcn who were daughters of some other \ created parents. But the assanqt- tion is too sweeping. The right or I the wrong in such a case could not l exist, primarily, in the nature of things, but most have origtnat^Un the will of the Creator. Unless'tipis * Gwbiddeu, we cau not see why ('’sin I mid not have taken a woman n of his parents any more than y Adam should not have taken 5 formed of his bone and his flesh, making such a woman and bring- \ her to Adam God distinctly ight him that he should take her. , also, if he placed the sons of am and their sisters together, 1 no others with them in the rid, they were thns taught, as tiuctly, that they should take m. It is trne ‘the Bible says king respecting the birth of ighters uutil after the birth of ;b. Neither does it say anything >nt the creation of any woman sides Eve. fhe way is therefore open for sup lit ion and inference. We may me between the supposition that ler women were created whose ation has not been recorded, and i supposition that dangliters were m of Eve whose birth has not »u recorded; and so long as the ter supposition may be made, the iner and more violent supposition *d not be made to explain the fact it Cain appears to have hud a Fe before the birth of Seth. But *re were important reasons, in- lately connected with the chief dgn of the Scriptures, why not ty the Wrtlis, bat also the names r eu to Cain, Abel and Seth, should recorded. Bat these reasons were no way connected with the births the names of any of Adam’s other ildren, whether sons or daughters. ;ncc we have no record of their •th or their names; nor have we y intimation as to what Eve >ught, or hoped, o* said, when ly were born, as we have when in, Abel and Seth were bom. About these names there is a natn I, carnal way of speaking which tc the Scriptures. , 241110. IK HOW church eight id in this war the church. ........ .01 00 t as 1 so 2 00 .......... 9 AO ......... 9 75 ra gilt.. 3 00 A 00 lu his “Treatise on Regeneration,* Dr. Anderson has a pungent para graph, which may furnish matter of timely reading, now that the churches are making up their contributions. He holds that a want of interest felt in the Christian cause, of preference shown for it, or of help rendered to it, is “a decided proof of an unrcjrvu- era Us state.* He discusses this point,: iu oouuectiou with the withholding of support from churches, Sabbath- schools, missions, Bible and tract societies, etc. Take, first, his brief but weighty argument iu proof that such support flows “necessarily* from the new birth: “A heart regenerated loves God, and therefore the means by which be is glorified. It loves Christ, aud therefore the nieaus by which he is gratified aud honored It loves the Holy Ghost, sad therefore the means by which hearts are secured for him, in which he may complacently dwelt It loves the Bible, and therefore the means by which its fame and con quests are extended. It loves the church aa the patriot loves his coun try, and therefore the means by whisk its iutereals are prospered aud its glory is made great. It loves though it may be all upoooscftasly to himself; be will have no need to declare hie loftier stature, for none will be il^m lit a superiority so manifest. If there things are so, It ft not well for auy one to boast of his spiritual attornment*. and indeed there in no neeeeeity for it; they will be area iu this life, ami if not area there, the asserting of them will be injurious to himself sad others ee who CHAF1 CotuM required to take hyssop aud dtp it iu water, and sprinkle it about the tout, apostle was speaking of the effects of baptism, or a profession of faith in Christ, without any reference to the mods of the ordinance.—Vreskn [STORE, Street. hr .iKtuimed tli** above IIHUH-(I kale every vs- If this is what is meant by the phrase, it is intelligible; it uiay be the sutycot of profitable conversation ami remark, and demands the prayerful and per severing effort of every disciple of Christ; but if by tbe higher Chris tian lift is meant an emotional ele vation, which lifts tbe person above his fellow Christians, and, as in some known instances, above Christina obligations and duty, above the means of grace, and above the coo scioosneas of infirmity; if it unfits him for, or relieves bhu fhmi chris tiau effort; if it makes a man boast of his spiritual attainments and his exalted spiritual condition, it is net titer to be desired nor approved; it is but Pharisaism without the phy lartcries and the tithing. Tbe apstolie instruction, “Giving all diligence, mid to your faith vir tue, and to virtne knowledge, and to knowledge tem|*eisure, and to temp eranee patience, and to patience god liness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brother!) kind urns charity,” demands the attention ami observance of every Christian, and is the only way to a higher npfntoal of a parson bring dipped or put o ttrely under the wafer Hre Nui xix: 11 A11 ml ms to ika in UhL 1N»»I aa% “For when Mows had spoken era iik. Church Any -books r abroad, mpe > old and new, to order, to form slim*.’ ulso, aids for M-rn. Tlie or iidentSjTeach- ift sorted draw tag room. disci pica of Jeans shun hi become more like their Itoft iu spmi, iu purpuor, aud in wlfenusurutlsu to the glory of the Kathar. For this all shook! seme, exhorting, prompt iug, eucwuraging, helptug ouu an other “till wo all GIVEN arenas of their salvation. It loves hotioess—has a taste for its scenes— asd therefore the menus by which it is produced. It abhors sin, and therefore zealously cooperate* with cknsttou brethren in the work of it* desiruction. Since, tbeu, you are destitute of the netsweary conse quences of the regeneration of the heart, the producing cause cau have uo existence within your bosom." Take, again, his refutation aud exposure of the pies on which this support Is withheld in certain quar tern : “Treteod not that you admit the legitimacy of the reasoning, as a general principle, but deny the jus tice of the aiiectol application: that W <lo3 anti ‘ all the other object* enumerated, but question if there Habhuib schools, and all those surickfts which have been gotten up in ouch numbers, are proper means for effecting the desired cods; and that yon suspect—yew, upon your brer ns n gentleman, you do—that tbttar mhufioonries (and agents) ftbri cute tales for extorting money from the credulous; but that you are too knowing to be duped like the rest o' aa. Wretched man! it is but aa scewmulatioo of the proof of jour rrprotmey—blaspheming, as you do, «t once thy wondrous work which the Spirit of God is performing among the heathen, and the charac ter of some of the wrest devoted and holy, both men and women, whoa piety sod (thihrothropj have ever inspired to go forth amid the polio Urn and wretchedness of the world, to reclaim men for God and for ba|>- preens, llcjwnt joo of this great ms, and quickly, Irwt in mlay-School n t fret. DERICK 31—Jill in tbe unity to the faith and of tbe knowledge of the Bow of God, unto n prefer* man, unto the mean ore of the stntntw of tbe fulness of Christ.* Then usr life will hr hid with Christ In God, ami the higbnf Christian tkfc will give manifest proof, of itarM, and show that “we are member* of His body, of Ilia flesh, and of lit* boars * -Retrod t kmrek Memtemper. trwcrenslj tbr Lord had defer Hesrilsh, first from tbe dan are*. Hbe thro mod bow visitors came with |*enrnU from the king of Bah) km, and how Uesekiah on tevtaimd thews. Wkat dwl hr show them f “Not the IsnTi doings,* •aid the lady to herself, with a Those who love variety of color aud variety of form cau scarcely reap a deejier pleasure than is his who walks slowly through the lower part of ouc of the Italian valleys of the Alps when spring is at its height. The meadows are full of flowers, at once so brilliant, soft, aud manifold of hue, that the grass seems sown with dost of rain bows. The gay boulders, which lie like castles on the sloping lawns, are stained scar let and gold and bronze with many lichens- Chestnut aud walnut spread their rich leaves below; above, the oak clusters in tbe hollow places; higher still, the pines climb tbe heights in dark battalions. Color, form, development, are all different; each flower, leaf, Mid tree, each va net) of grass or lichen, has its ow n peculiar beauty, its owu individual! Rective Trows and relief of TruKK hsA re- most eminent , who do not those afflicted iperior to all * will retain the inri the wearer lainK a remedy Do wot I m ormL4c livxrkiah ? Two y«an ago the Lord driivored are hi my trrnhh ouoisrt with unUbcf, mod brought m out into the Iitmrty Md vl 4 grew ore **k a, f m I , |» i| felAiii pf V | ■ VPi How may owe who reads lire Eu glisli Hrri|4ores oslj, retmfy hu mind ou tbe meaning of 1n|*iWB M »i hrlfltlw mtmmm f Answer: My atw(|ln| lie Henp tores aa a whale. » Tbe New Testament to he mopevt) fhkHicd of tbr ponding ioio earea of tbe Holy Soirit, ami com minded la b sdouhfotrn il m ths tame of tbr father and of tbr Non, end uf tbe !!••)) (ikst a and eflerliwl we jrtiaranb-e -ho may conn* tu ft) darkemd Then Christ dwells in tbe heart by foith, and His dtsripies he come rooted and grounded in love, anti hare “the full assurance * of hope." Tbey will say, “We know that if our earthly house uf this tubt»rnacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in tbe heavens; but they will also say, “Wherefore we labor, that whether present or absent, we maj be accepted of Him." True piety is always humble, and most so when most deeply ••onscions of greater nearness to Ood. The pure light then surrounding Him will reveal to- this far ore* I one more of his own nothingness and nnwortbi ness, and suppress every thought of boosting ami every disposition to assume superiority. This is indeed a higher rhristian life. It brings a man to the throne, into the loving h«»rt of Jesus, Into the infinite foil ness of Clad. HU sense of imlebtedues* is not lessened —it is all of grace, ami huosting is excladeil. How must this higher ehrisHan If ft ft * real liinal belts tor womb, and ok tul abdomitiiil IW and stock bers and weak IHM» with tbe Ufel. Neither tbe ward the <Md Testaaurot, hat Ibaw e*|Uivakm4 ft. Baptise, in Ibm re •fiect ft like tbe ward sfiarrik W# do not find ibm ward in tbe «*d »s, vents aud wpinc of the niOKt superior - iiiliitstea and all physical tin? spine, liow ebvfded Artifi- 'atent Rubliei Silver Uterine bee* my gweats. I fnar they are tao much like tbr viailors from Bab ylon. Aad aow tbe Lord asks, “What bare tbry area in thine LwaocT What bate 1 ta answer t Laat night, a dinner wao given for tbr* I renumber however one ad mtred tbr new painting* iu tire diking mom After diuwrt, I showed Ore* all oar water ootor draw tag* ; aad tbm I took Mrs. ft. ta my baa doll la oar my new raqvi I do •at rewMmbrr wbal they saw on It seems imjiossible to include them all uoder one term, to say that they are all substantially one thing. Yet they are all transmuted sun shine. Every fibre, every cell, every atomic arrangement which enable* each of them to give us tbe sensa tion of red, or violet, or what color lies between these, has been built up through means of the force or tbe foroes of tbe suushiuc. Never theless, this one original clement has licen modified by the tendency — I use a word which lint expresses our ignorance—of each seed to as sume a specialized form at a certain stage in its grow th ; to be modified by what one would call in mankind its character. So that we have two things: one simple source of vege table life, iilfiuite forms and uioditi tation* of form through which that force is conditioned. It is • happy analogy by which to arrive at tbe idea of the one spirit of Christ's life, received and modified into a thousand forms by different characters of men, aud different types of nations. Christianity is like the sunshiue—not a given form, nor iiu)>osing a uniform system of grow th —it is a force of spiritual heat and light, which exfiauds, develops, aud irradiates: a spiritual, chemical force which destroys dead things, aud quickens half-living things in the character. It is assimilated, but according to the original arrange ment of the spiritual atoms of each character, so that it does not destroy, but enhances individuality; does not injure, but intensifies variety. There has scarcely ever lived a •ingle Christian man whose christiani ty has been identical in form with that of another, though the species may have been the same. There is certainly no Christian nation which lias produced a type of Christianity uniform with that of another. Look at the Apostolic Church, read the epistles which remain to us. Tbe letters of St. James, of St. Peter, of St. Paul, of St. John, differ as the oak differs from the chestnut, as the fir differs from the ash-tree. These represent in various forms what the sunshine has done for them ; tbe epistles represent, in various forms of Christian thought, what the spirit of Christ had wrought in their an- Urea of Morn*, vayw. “This Is be that ta tbr sfioreh iw tbr wilili vwrwm* Ho in regard to tbr word hay while we do wot find tbr name th’s Stem Per- s competent y attended to [ARSH, timore St., ltimorv, Md. soys, “Which stood rwiy ft arete and drinks and diver* washing*" (Every onr who ire rend Grrrh will tell yon that lbs word “washings." in that i rrar, ft “baptism ") Ha tbr qoMh tearhe* mi that there wrre baptisms daring tbe «Hd Tratamrwt tbit bran Ufa! art <«f jewels gare are. We qrst Wed evil thing •wddrnly U-tsU yon, in jour person, your fsmity, or jour fortune; aud when you huwfelj confess, sec that jwu briug forth frwits meet for re- pcretancr. ‘Be not deceived ; trod is not mocked : for whatsoever a maa soweth, that shall he also reayi. For he that Mooetb to his fioslt shall of tbr flesh reap corruption; bat be tbnt soweth to the Bpirit shall of tbr Kptnt nwqi life everlasting.' (Gal. ri: ?, k) t unsafe for yourself tbe •tatato book, and see bow approprr atdv these words have bees quoted. There you will find that the mocking of God "to which the apostle specially refers, and which be declares will not pass w ith luiputuiy, consists iu re- fwreug or negieotiug to contribute lor Uk s**p|M»it of the ordinances of thedtilc. ieil, connect in;: South Cnru ■n ; also with ith on Chsr- sta Railroad, and Angusti life manifeat Itaelff life, and not a Pharisaic boast, there will be indications of it which can not be mistaken, and which need given When tire posoovav •t i toted, great part lew Wsiity w In describing tbr laftb, tbr and tbe rory posture to hs oha while rating U. Bo when tbr Lord's Hopper natty, idlrens, wordly tends to degrad Likely every mother, if able to speak, soon asks some question or makes some remark about her new-born infant. But that any of these say ings, taken indifferently, would be worthy fef a place in a liook de signed to show to our fallen race the way of salvation, no one capable of thinking aright will, on due re flection, admit. It is evident that Eve expected to give birth to the “seed* which wonld bruise the ser pent’s hood. Hence, over her first born she shouted “Cain”—I hare got ten it” ' Doubtless she soon saw something which undeceived her; and when his brother come, she said, “Abel”— vanity. Bnt evidently, she afterwards changed her mind; for when Sctb was born she said, “God hath appointed me another seed, iu stead of Abel whom Cain slew." While all were her seed, in one ;»oiut of view, yet she accounted Abel, nmi afterwards Seth, her “seed" in a sense in which she had long ceased to account Cain. Bnt when a daugh ter was born, it raised in her mind no expectation as to the promised “seed." Hence, neither its birth uor her sayings over it have been re corded, A. R. vkwtr upertflrd, by bfe breaking Uft bread wiwl by tbe disCribwtfow of tire win#, the manner ft which tbr ordi nance was to bo otowrvrd ssUI bis srcood coming. Hot wbsre Ire spooks of baptism as S standing ordinance of hi* rbnreh, tbrrr ft not are re mark rxpftuntory of tbs nature or th# mod# of It. Hr simply says ta bis disciple*, “Go y« therefore and teach an nations, baptizing them la (be name of tbe Fat hre. ami of the Son, and of the ffdy Ghost.* ill all the graces of Christian lift. There will be less crnistdrr.itton of self, less regard to the world, inerms iug heavenly mindedac** ami more earnest desire and prnyerfhl effort for the glory of God, ami the aalra tion of sinners CP. Arrive 7 50 pm Leave 715 p ui Leave tt 30 p in Leave 5 30 p m Leave 4 30 p in tui on Branch ‘dnewlava and There are other quarters in which this support is withheld on very different ground*-—withheld because tbe sums which person# feel able to contribute are so small that it seems aa tboagh no appreciable results could follow from threw. But this is an error which ought to be traos si family worship ited Although 1 alt will be rouse crated to Christ and Ills rwase, ready, ever ready, for service or for snffering. If, instead of these feature*, self complacent remarks are made, and a censorious spirit is Indulged; if there appears no greater purify of life, no greater faithftilnea* of nor vice^no greater heavenly-mindeffnena, no less love of the wortd and Its possessions; and If, aboro all, there appears an A flft, fit they wg soon nothing (tore from Baby inof Hesebfth lie at.10 30 a m ly 130pm Herat Snp't. the Free l*reabyterihn churches of Scotland, seceding, a few years ago, from tbe Eat*Uliahment. were con •trained to rebuild their eodeeiaati- esl structure “from foundation stone to turret*—when they were ceded to provide d* mom for the maintouance markable brew upon any other view tbs a that what be meant by baptism, was already well understood by tbs apostles and all to whom tb# Gospel was first preached. This remark will apply to tbe baptism practised Company, June 9,1872. D into effect on buried with him (tftM) by baptism, eager grasping after money, a spirit of discontent sod of negligence of the means of grace, as if they were of little or no value to persons so spiritually exalted, then, indeed, this higher christiau life is but spiritual pride, v*ln self asset tion, arising from Ignorance of seif and of God. Who must be the Judge “What bare tbey viour. When be came preaching ta tbe wilderness, aad tbs multitude* went oat to be baptised by him, tbs Jews sent priewts and Levits* from «f w orship nod ...fl 50 pm ...7 00am 7 10 p n« ...6 40 ft i" Train will *» formerly amrs urged that they should look, “not to the strength of Urge sums, but to the accumulation of )ttUcs r Tbe issue vindicated bis sagacity: