Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

I i \ m \ nv VOL.-1-NO. I “ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE Bf PT18 M"~EPHE81 A NS IV: 5. OOLLM 111 A. S. ('.. l'|{ 11) AY. 'UTTLM I’Ll! ]3. 187-2. OLD SLINKS. VOL. NO 2<l!». m Religious. faith. Reason and Knowledge- 11m- givr STeut lovim , |U . tito Faith- 1 leure some, wishing many things tiuiwht in them B ,av not be tn«'. try to draw the tn H-rence that >* ^imred by Ihe Hi We. These, "hen exhorted to “repent ««d Mieve the gospvk .vsurne an a.r of .'trended dignity, md sorrowfully ask. -‘"'hat! would v „u have u» to boeoino irrational ?” Now it is very true that -without faith it is iutj*osaihle to pleas*' God. .•Ho that belteveth not shall be (honned.'* Hut the faith required is not the stupid credulity ot besotted heathen. There must he smiie know 1 l^ ot the witness who is to he believed: -And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the mils Oi Chnst. Fhotn fait h true God. and Jesu tuoit hast sent.” N*»r ean th .uni knowledge exist w if limit reason : tools, and slow of heart to be |j e ve all that the prophets have’ .(token ! Ought not ('bust rpafcave suffered these things, and t<> enter into bis glory ?*' Those disciples w ere indeed reproved for their ifnheliet ; hut the’hindrance to their 1ai(h lay not in their superior, know ledjA an^ rationality. Afterwards, when they had learned more, and had their auderstandiugs so opened that they could reason aright on the facts they possessed, they did htdievr. And so it is m all Christian experience—be I Levers have a reason for the hope |, that is iu them, and are ready alwax > to give an answer to every respect (ill mq mrer. The imagination that faith is an tagonistic to reason, i' doubtless suggested by “the god of this world, who blinds the minds of them that k'lieve not.* 1 It might, therefore, lx’ well for such to attempt, to their own minds, a definition of faith, leant* and kntfwledgt. and t<> imptire .it their consciousness as to how these mental states occur led. and at are the knowledge, so, also, dims it take up things presented, some by < oust-i.>n new, mono by the senses, some b\ testimony, and some by picvious iiiferemc. and from tlie \\ln>le draw other inferences, which eventually become know ledge as certain as tied drawn from tacts presented by mu senses alone Hut if we should him timn the world .ill the KnowLd^e which reason was enabled to di iu by the help of facts ir.ei\J-d mi testimony, how meagre would be the knowledge left ’ W here nmdd he all th*' lesions of history * How would the physician have learned the science of medicine had lie nm helievial his teachers ami hooks? If jurors are to have no faith in any test immiy , com ts of justice would all come to a di'iid lock. It “witlent l trti'th il is impossible to please God." iso without t.uth society could n l reason is also the (tod ot tailli. As the hand can not say to tin* toot. • I i have no need of you. so. also, 1 iieitliei t.uth nor reason ean say the l one to llu* other. -1 have no m cd "I i you." l'hcic arc many things which l ; ' < 1 . tin t '1 ull th" t III 1st . .ills Ml II. > | , D "I « S'. I'.n \ nd It l ' 1 \ " X ll 11 • •lit I X t >MC ll Ml ! 1 MH ll .ith * ] !.>"• b\ ] M ( .itTiing it \ F.tNl \\ iu- \\ ;J1 S 111 Si i in !i D III!-! 1 1 1 • ill. u ,u Ic II. |M 11 < ; \ i s tl:. 1 l li.- !i Mill / 1 d !..; ( i t 1 M 1 Is t-xciT .M Met! 1. \ i ! \ i A il X h. 11" f.- •'t* .1 \ nd it is till "g.l'.lt lb’ •' Ik 1 ( Mil N| Mi' in ids llf.t t 1 I. .1 I'll 11" Il ! > ON A ! , • \< . !D i i r 1 IB'', >li'l ll ,111ft- "I 1 i 1 l III.Ill |'"W t > t, 41111 > i > I : 11 \ . \\ 1111 st In- \ l"!i lice t > > \ l 1 t : 1 m "• IS t II; .Mi i< <1 (> t th < ■ r \ . .-1 b at t!i. /*" / . !' /..../ i j ] , | | ^ ,, j l I lid |S t \ t 1 l .1 1 .'1 . ilia : w lu- \\ 1 i ( 1. ill’ s. ‘ ( > l ll.it ( f <■ has d. > 1 U * < \t "1 i» II11 \ . h" 1 .i ! < \ . 1 \ l"ll "U ( I • < 111 111 it . th- i- s;ii ill : u ll. II 1 i. i. h hi III 1 111 rifled. l! !.*1111 1,'d. : i mi lilt, .r 1 ‘ i .All ibi I in ltd 1 l 11 mbit . t 1 1 1 .1 hum! l-'t. . 11 1 t l"l 1 s tilt • 11 III; ' nan 'pi ttatoi s, rcsti it ting then rxpies s i < 111 s ot interest iu vsli.it passes around them to words and kindlv sympathy, and hotalXvays preferring even the best advice unless set'll It I- needed. The habit of active iu t< t teicm e is so strong, the lepug li.Mice to t lilolfetl tjtlief so gie.it. It is vi iy hard indeed to see that in g* m tal the strength of an old man m woman is to sit still. Nit Mi no othei way tan they do •» much gootl, oi continue then e.uetutness to the last. They teach I ( hlust but by example the virtue ol patience, ! i :ig I Ills 11 || in word and s that a 11 lie hi and m.mi /.i'ii! vv h n Ii '••shipping al ■ilid htoodv ■ and t tlie.iev ; behind 11 to . and to innke •to l i •»«l si lets ,'rr Ills word i .■r spint ami ie and bench •achings and vim* Master, 1 self-denial, fortitude and a controlled •pint. The imiid tlot •, not grow old ’ as long as its health 1 la i Mn I > Oi am ni< lit According tw K i w mage i i, W (‘ w .Mild never know 1>\ icaso a, cr It!'.! /< mi ’hat !i.i' *!(>*»«- in.Mt ,uaii:sf *■■*11,1 b\ >t / /*• c 1>\ c(»Usc loll' lies'. Jill ( 1 . 4 ( i"d ’ h., i i i ! h * ~ * ll wc did out know it first by lai I ll. ( 1 ( ► 1 U ■ 1 W.th a!! ih r H- \ (Mi .lie .i faniK-i A li 0; .1 ii "in a 1 A . 1' a e.l i . -1 ( 1. .1, I'll! ■ t givar distance, in W llcM.l you 11. t X i. ■ k IV* > W led M" . v. || M'h lit! i iia! A ,|s .1 't ri ., M 1 ^ confidence. 1 ' 1 . 1 1 .Ml. "I I h" k Ifl sr 1 n|« much N'lMt.s \ (Ml. lie e li.-.i t; 11 s. M 1 • . ( . -II. 1 I. : 1 I >h tells 1 - ! k : t!:' \ 1 s 11'' I ‘ 1 ll 11 U h 1 i t t • 1 > 1 «i \ a 11 \ . w 1 It*: i you "I a pi an by W il icli ("11 W 1 ' t 1 : 1 1 "Slllf > "1 hi' sii""*- may, with \t*m i isiial ( X.pc'ltd i t l)1 .' . : - j (, - j I'll »> \ Its III 1 II 1 st"! (.>[ ca pii il aud tabor, «'- mill. ■ \ "ill the (M ti . s t s III.: < 'll let j M I "'t -. 11 A l 1 " i^ v 1 ,11 1 1 1 1 i 1 l i » 4 G l l 1 *. cot to] a c i u p. 1' dr Hon- 1 s .. ( s .. . i> assured, hut W hen tin hotly tails it should imt lit forced by its companion to an mi giact fu! and unbecoming comjiet turn with the \ umg. The sjiectacle «>t Lutil Brougham at tour score and moil', essaying suit to nil his <,! ] place ill the Knglish Parliament, and tlroppilig a set of teeth mi! of Ins mouth as la- spoke, could not have hit ;i all t tlily iug one. 01 < 1 age prolonged with Ijlliet .'table occupation, inh in ex I e. ! iles.st (1 'With undmitletl lies nf the lollg da\'s u. u k s past and wt 11 assured hopes • life to conic, surrounded with a Christianity and the Child. Il .seems to have est ajtcd the no tice of model n mfidcLs that those old I lorms ol religion ol winch they make • so Uillcli, and which they seem to consult-! etpial il not prefeiablc to Christianity, made no provision lor the < hildieti. This of Itself ought lo he eoiisitleietl a sfiotig reason tor rejeeting them as detective .uni tal sc A religion which docs not cinlnace : fhe children, w hich makes no proves | ion loi then ptopci training, and! which shuts them out from its sacred bttoks, is unworthy of reception by i nalionul j*cople, and,carries iu it>cLt l!jc plools <)f if* ‘.llse prctcusioim ! and the elements of its own ilc>truc lion Tlie fair which tTil istiaiilty taki > of thdtlien, tin \alu< it set ft ( upon tin in. ami the Uaiuiug with which it supplies them, a:e among 11s grand pet ala.ntics. At the re cent aiimveis.uy 'ot the American ( Sumlav S. ho.T l i,,u.i. at I'hi.adei t ph.a. lit v. In. llioiu.i' A i milage, "f NeW N oik. e.X pi e.ss< d tin* tolioWlUg sinking and suggestive thoughts: •1 fuel a child in •)«> religion but in lli> 11 see lilt li chihl. •ion ul desit' .Mohammed to .1! '!lO tlld accompany m m . !"V e. . .hediencc and -1 iimv.iM >aah!< . W hy i h arc m»t ac< plain ted vv ith any which your icasoii cotihl a COMclll ' : oil. I Ill'll l S'! :ot : with the conclusion data hei or your moil.' niseience— i'<•< i . ■ i'i. an a m; : lino a .. si-1 V H t and all efl’t with cotton < i« as"!uug pi"< o", I'lir 1- - .1 s I / ( ' , 1 • , M' < . "d . b-lt 1 • 1 . J v in n 1 \ •'! is 1 e g H 1111.11 e i A.' : • k h » » \ • • 1 ^ ' ' i1 It'll « i , i’ you. The eno: : i ria u 1. lieu l ? 1 i f * w.l> Saul, 1 1 i . !\ ■tioils, a.s.siimptatn .-: 1 <uu til.l„ I II. 11 .11 )« 1 WO?! 11< ’ 1 • t ! * 4 : (1 t Ham tuL that y on know .di . , 1 i l *s< S 4 * t 1 > t ! . . 1 • : m i , ", ..mi ! > MM -1,f N4 Mil eLs that *-ju !»<• C'mm- .eel oh. 1 < . i’:>* Hi.-. '• , . tli« ;n I is j >el tmint'd I liildoy CT VI .1 !••: him t" pul " w .Mk and frit ; tills. . d" ' i ra 1 *11 . 1: nt-t tl' imt if> —n writ tiviry if by that I- in*.mt un did ’ ! I. '? "f the p. >"! ..Id I. -! It ■ring body ‘ * a I: > 1 f m di n g '*'!isrs 1 • is m"'t i 4 . 1« 4 » -s'. 1 IS. lid. II. *<t i . \ "i iiiak* ' tli" * ■ -,. 1 Ml * ■-< - i-li nquisjiiin ut ot w ii.it it . 1 li.' <1 >•<. d' . 1!! in long*a tin s rrrtt Ms "fT:t Is. hm.. tm tl • -_-i act-fidly .it all. am ! turns to ' «11 io lo ti th. city that 11 a ij, d m 11111 .dn'ti. and *h..t sj, j,( th" i st that :• maim th Sin li an t li <ts. w h " "!d a^t- ' U'"I ai! f" Hm l.i 1st. - V. < ll llll" t!ir /•*■ 'hyteria ti. ho.'C wlii’si- th;.- V 011 lilt UI tl r. ) l < • UlMUfj-mbs * ^Hfll pro wu ^Kitiy/ on wTtirTI tbc mental s - * l..p ,t., 1 l...> - * • * 11 m reasoning. uiioast.ii.,1 i t son says anything more, jt is about the plan, but about tin t worthiness ot your tneird. li is not because art in ikt'ir m o # e. -ainl g \ apjireeiat . il:t Watt hi!, absent evidence* in v 111» not in i inent as of knotting. r*a*9nituj anti b> Iterintj oi**rato. Knowledge, in its purity, deals ( vnth w'alities—with the things which • lulo b t lt exv't and w hich ticcur. both in the .tiatSqai and in the immaterial world. Because it recognizes only realities, it is widely different trom imagina- tiou, the latter having a marvellous (imver of presenting to tin all possible existences and occur reuces. The sole prov ince of reason is to amsider these existences anti occur- ( rences, both* the real and the possi- j F“' u V 1 vear wouhl be onu ten pci n.M Ilk to at M Tent and clamorous for m.: is? ill. ill 1 • ♦ 1 k l > i 1 In pi. * i •I All" 'I i »- li g no ml m ; s .if ' L , * ,. ?; ' l ■ 1 ■ 1 ■ 1 > , .... . . ( I,, m -d ■ I * ,tl I* \ _i <rw . 1 lo I : - a:- ! :-M "It ti. 1 hi ; aliml v , maml. Tim y r* bilk. .Id! th -fit The Book, of Psaimt i 1 c.mta ns ora- humlretl atid titty st paratt' conifxisitions. ()nt- of them ext.ml' to one hundred atnl sevt nt\ a m/ ■ anothri rontair.s about •» "nWl \ ^ ^54 s XT' T T* Iliryf rnpn J it Mf , . \ k i»t t! 14* flit is t* his w ife b«Tow, M otne up her*'! coin* light up lure, every one of you! < tune up here.* And when they catne the good mail t»f the liousf said. ‘Here ix Mr. Whitfield’s me* tinge. It is true—every word true; we all laet the one thing needful.* -The wife h.iid. ‘I tliought how sail he looked. < >. so sad! Now I know why hs looked so.' l O lei is pray.' sani the husband, dor that one linug needful, a ml choose tot lay tin good part that shall m vei !»<■ taken away.' “They fell on their knees around the bed, au<l there gave thvaMitdy.es to Christ, and afterward pvofed U*^, sinivrity of their eomtven*li<m it# then earnest Christian lives. Too Good for Ood Some peojde act as though then 1m st things were too go»*l for <i<nl Tlni'j li^liest endeavors are th* world's Their corn and wine ami oil gladden their own hearts, and on particular occasions the heatt> of their friend' Hut fhey give grtulg 111 g 1 y f m o gooti to be a UiiUisUx ; he is too goovl to be a missiotuuy ; lit i' t<»<i goo<l loi (jod. The writ* rot this knew .1 young man "ho "anted to be a uii.ssioii.il y. but Ins wealthy and worldly lather tliought he w.t' too good for that, so he madt a merchant of hue. The young man went sadly about ins daily i.usk.x. lake the statue of 11 .olumbus at (o-noa, which is niadt *-v 1 1 to look longingly wentwanl, the heart ot the young man would look longingly towards the ministry—to l wards tlie sublime service of Ahat printf of uiivsionarivs, the Ix*nl 1 Jesus ( lirist, *• 7<«< t/<*cxl tot hI. 1/ook out. I profhaaor of religion. le«t m the great knovv iiothiiig about a ’ The heathen -vtiiiitxi to kuovv about ( Li 1 idt eii and thi 11 my UiuiogJ. Hull goti.-v Writ- liollsuu 1 as chihli 1 n. .They w« r» ncyei clothed with th' .sympathies of children. Tht*y v\oi< lien-! endowed vv ilTi the alll iblltcs of t'hildieti. lheV v\ ci v gods iit 1.1 ntr, god.' of passiou. gods ot lust, ginlsot blood, gutls t»f might: but they weii "newt go<i' of hsTpr lessTWiss. a span long. ( Hi ! 111). That wouhl not liav e .Min natural. I hat wouhl not havv been tl.vim, in their concept lull. And lu net they make no provision loi children. -The religion ol JcsUe is the only iviigioii that dares to put Us sacred book* into the hands ot a child. No other religion cwi tonceivodof such a thiug. Notulw-r religion dare ( j. iy von< who have thought you 1 ii.vz.iitl its existence ou such a veil tiUr as that. Siictxxl biniks ot Hm .la !s!i s.c.o*! lvest earthly jxvwssions too good it*t topd. shall find that heaven. t... lf.s «e»/v>r 1 .1; 1'sa'm The Pulpit» Power 1 * ic plan tuab'o has become any more ten- bjit because y 011 have faith mi 1 You try. It succeeds, -Mth tinct results. You .now know sensation and by 1 cason . 11 .tw .0 i it t fiat only about one :om the in )\ of I sI'illT. ii tin- pulpit is really God's agent y tor saving men, or a mam feature and method ot the divine agencies, it will Ik- continued as such, and not vii 1; you niMid ! before the i-xperimetd km-w *»: ;y by faith, ami your confidence in yea friend- is inci easctl. Hut tak*' < 11 • * * 1 • *' 1 view of it. He told you that on his al yield ot * a* h rent, oil the last, ami that this would o<n tiuuc until the annual increase would reach three hundred p* i < < :it. 0:1 the original productitui. 1 he gi'cat !ie» of the last promist* might -sl.ig^' » •i u 1.1 [ble, iu the relation of cause and j effect. From causes it anticipates 1 Icfleets, and from effects searches hack tor causes. Thus it increases our j knowledge. Kut tin* sole province of faith, in its purity, is to believe j testimony concerning real existences [and aetual occurrences. It can not have anything to do with the possibili ties of the imagination: its appropriate I'diject is the truth, properly testified. We say frequently respecting jtliiugs: “1 knore them.” Few; pause [to inquire hoic they know them. |The sources of our knowledge arc through our senses, by the inference's ^ on of PCHSon, by faith iu testimony, ami , assurance p»y onr consciousness. We arc very confident that we know the things decrease a of which we are certified by our (senses or bv our consciousness. Hut to , l«m little To we thus know! ift «'»•"'* l»* rti >*I f " l ' ll i ""' llls raa not tell throDgli tbein wlietlier j wonl tlml be -l"’" " 1111,11 'he universe existed one hour before mou ‘ f ,u ‘'b 1 [ VT « came into conscious existeneb, |or whether the eattli terminates ii • v .• d _• . vv n u 11 .it .! d : lie \ *• i v i .i■« ! "I :; i! i s .od d. t; iv * 11 i * i ,iib .i-1 ' it lighted V " . : (it iM'‘ ition ind ! . a l _!»*,♦ ill c.tltil, 1 ‘ \\ , i s ,s i ’. i i i a .' i •. 11 vv 11 u 11 ill i'i aiii-' ag.mml * ■ i * * an . tl I ,l \ l tl flit' I ll 111 1 111 t til His t i i ti r< h, 11 d lo vv r i > at at ■ ’ V Ctl dll dlul , ll i g 1 '.i\ id's i. igti. about " nr t lion alll ,1 m ,ii ' brim*• thr ;n lxrllt "t In'll , Tni't |A\" ot thrm an* a st i ibrd ditbl fill .till* ! your faith entirely, but the Miiullm '■> of the first wouhl not be opposed by 1 \our reason. N,t>u try if, and y< .u i by \ear you find the promised in 1 crease. NN itli it your faith incic.ises 1 also, to cxjicct the great promised, ace,urate things Your talk is md strictly when volt sav you may reasonably expect th** increase to go Withdraw from the count the of your, friend, ami it would be as reasonable to expect a an incieasc. The only ii: ssi-I;siii:i ami bi11* r i:.s; i ,i*• 11 «it 11« i . 11 adi’ig ni.:. I‘nTuthl Iniw these < i»iie another . but l• *■ c\ liglt and iC'i' uptmi N i it, i’.ihidd the peace ill tli« y 1 • i i u g 11 > men. 1 i In• iiUnaIslict 1. the ami slaiightci wilh h M :cw t lit w i -1 Id. t• v vii , Mid ut their but hi eii. io.se whom the * i ' i - • f « ( . ♦ 'i l !I \\ " 1«t ^ 11! i a t o a -a 11 f | Il g VV i >1 11. a I: d st i v ice ;hat begin' (Hi the b ' I • 1 IicV CI s( ! V a i M h 11 lilt. 1 ill 1’hallset s (.tins ol 111;111 and all.'*' and i mnmiu an •■>!tea an <>Ilcncc. The publican's (m nileiit > i.'. and the 1 m tor womans gift MM two nnt< >, "<ie m, • '.i In i sa! g. mus. King S.do ••lottv and in*Tam-holy he ninetieth, vv hn h has 1m < n chanlt d as the funeral march .■i so luanv a th j>a11*-* 1 s.linl. is um \. i '.illy bv .Mo: magiiM DOUkS • Oi AiO*iani!l*3f»- a t oii put iuLo the hanu* Oi *vo v-i. dicu. vvotild shock its authors and u.s \ ot ai ICS. Hm the Christian reli -ion brings it-s .sii<nvd b»M.*ks t<> the child. It s»f\ s to the little one. •T hey are able to makt tin e w i>e unto s.il\ atioU. thiough l.vith th.it i> i the laml Jesus;' and although the seven soils of Seeva will be found the chihl can not mostei their niys ( m it, w ith pyroteclruics or ftonsational leu. s. still he can inostei their my s extravaganzas, but preachers of tlie tt-ries |u>t as well as tie- sage. Al word of God. For the real power though the chihl can imt master ,,f the puljnt is in God, not man, (hen luvsteiH's. lie can UTic\*• their and in the manifestations of divine m \ steries, lie ean obi y tln.ii mysteries. , truth, taught by the Holy Spirit, ami lu can elm religion ulate their my steiics. *The not of philosophic, or scientific or of Jesus is tin only religion historic truth, discovered or general that boasts its noblest workmanship i/.ed by human genius. trl.1 tain:is it- ohl ot '*1 <*lt U How i nt thi s am it nt ly 11« o j m u ' : vvioiight iu the spirit child.' *' — Vrettb. Haunt >. ot a little Whitfield Another Incident . I I : 1• •! \ Ho i \ i th v. hole 'on leu If V o It ( la s b*Tumi iLem. Useful in Old Age. 1/ in t: u blood <-l .t 1 Inlet el was c u.s mstc.nl of glorifying led men t" blaspheme In - ( >ld I >i. opinion t Hat lied io t lu isi ia11 to thing that reason can do in the case Goo. tm-y It call infer j name, to u-jeet lit' Gospel, and b> faith. So it is with the faith which Iht Hi ble demands. Some of its teach »l>raptlj- » few mil,-h iwvom! the eti.l >»8» »'“« va - v soon n "2f "*? or our travels * of our consciousness. 1 hough many For the bi'iietit ol the many chil- j « f its l' romis, ' s a ‘ T i,! * hi K" -Iren who rea,l this paper, I will am > lls lal U,IC 1 " 1 ' *. 11111 -' illustrate what is mount by knowl- t urn t lit ii I* tl aw ay ! roin li is t cst 1 monies. Wc, iu I Ins lalci ami light* i day. iiavc a secuiity against such p'-rvor .sitMis ol zeal, which they in Ah-xamlt'i was *• t the it is not tlcsii able lor a live t" im* v|« ry ohl. t-.specially when all utiivi service m the eause t>l i hrist is exclmleth U is perhaps the fault "t ohOage that it tiesires too much ft* 1m*. j “active ami does not attend it* foe hints that then luist been the <1" filing i t!i\ people m all genera I'.cftu* flu* HKMllitailis wen 1 'V«rt!i or thou hadst formed th ' . j ;h and the world, even from ling to evti lasting, thou ait lie authorship ot sixty of dn.s i' somewhat 'lined tain, nui of them aie ascribed to A gentleman said he heard Kev vh. S]*urge mi. in lxmdon. relate the f'olltwving in ivgartl to NN hitfield : “It had (‘(Hill- to be lM‘li<*ved among (sunmoii people <>t baiglaml in th ."ii " f Txornh !’* (bit* at same tributed to the pen of Htman. an 1 They Ktlirali. tlie win. 1 -Im-o! of roligH,,,. In.t n.mous. , ‘ St> the husband said, one day. 4 '' tie, r ., .... .1 . i t o... not -.1 cliristinn. nor is either ot ! b-dge derived through the inference reason. You journey to some 1 L _ lH)int eastward,' circling northward N the ait line between the points, land yon cross five streams, all jtunniug to your right hand.— jTlien yon return by a toad circling I southward of the air line, and cross pwit otie large stream running to- I wards your left hand. Almost un- l |, onsciously you infer that somewhere l"ittriu the circuit that you have Hrateled the five large streams fiovv l'ngether, tnakiug one. Should any [doubt, you would say with emphasis, it contains many others ‘which vve receive fs installments; and simih* things that wc receive with feeble faith grow into experimental knowl both lived m the days of Solomon. , ' n ’- 1,,, " r V' , ' <;in0 ^ {hr . Vi T 'Its ! tmr'five ehildmi” 1 ' Now. let us send accompany three seoiv and ten winch inscribed them on tie p-m '"j "'| t . Mr Whitfield and ask him to stay admonish that the time to, activity they all bear the same So thev sent an earnest former is past, ami the approach*.! sunset dene,- „t a re.esnu ; illx itat i7 >n t o him to «nne and spend not possess. The truth should bring rest. There fire plenty tin Luther sty U-d the book o ^ thpy wou m do all IS now well established and well un | of things for old people ttmlo with “an epitome ol the on <»^ *o« rou ‘ ul t0 make him eomforta tlcrstootl.tli.it physical (k>vvci , that out attempting t«» keep step vv ith the a little H.ible in themselves. a • and strongei. T hey art* have been lead, and sung, and stud away from tlit* ied. and prayed over, and wept over v iol.-nee ami physical loree, we now crowd and the tumult and <|nite Dm twenty live centuries **f time, well understand, religion not only j apart from the heat anti burden. Tlie most ancient of them has *een discards, but forbids. The power of j The beauty of old age is best f»*'en 1 in existence loi o,300 years, tie force and service "I are not at the i younger F.v t-rv form of i called to i existence the quiet and dignity of voluntary latest written was composed at least and from the ‘ wisdom * 2,300 years ago. While the Iliad of dust in the balance, and which is . and charity and benignity which Homer and the-T.neid ot N irgil hax e promised to anti annexed to the true should accompany the hoary head, been enjoyed by the intellects oi tic , in its lov •! Americans arc said to be lacking in learned few, yet the praise songs ot edge and thus’become the ground , Ood is in place *»t it. that power to j in our reasoning ourselves into | which all other power is less than i retirement. Hence it. is tlifit tin of higher faith inspired writers sometimes say. “wt know,- when It «»l«j"™ [ I ™ce for'whatever is old. they ! ..avid and Moses have boon the that,.(tunatcljsp . „ - • j( , , |(re »ci-il„.«l m the (iospol. i soom to have no sacred associations 1 heart hentnse and delight of the “>• bal,eW ' M,,t th " 'u isthc spirn. of love and not! io-- with the past, no love for rcHcs.! low cst as we" a, the loftiest. Schol- This. then, is the secret of prayer —namely, the co presence ami co o|*eration et th* Spirit of God along with the truth of God, presented from hearts set on fiix* with it t** ot hei hearts for the same eonflagra turn. Wherever there is this fire there w ill be power, and the acknowl t-dgment and ad iteration **f it. But if the Holy Spirit is neglected, and U- absent, nothing can be inure unin ten-sting than religious truth: lor • •the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, but they arc foolishness unto 1ii,n.’* And it. over aud above this, upthiug but a natural mail presents them, then they must be doubly foolish aud m\ stwious: they are as t-hc de<i<l coloring of transparency presented by the showman without its interior light,— -V. V. Evangelist. ' * Our Bible. How lamiliar the Book is, tot»— 1 sjieak now as to my own feelings—as "When Mr. Whitfield came, iu | to all that concerns us! lt talks obedience to this invitation, they did i about my flesh aud my corruptions, all they could to make him happy, and my sins, as only one that knew general that Mr. Whitfield never stayed over a night in *i family that he did not have them all converted wlifii he left them the next morning. 1 well to do family had heard tins ! jXH Jill* thing and they believed it- were not indifferent on the I know it 1Se so, fbr where do the j l^all five go to, and the large one I'ntne from T* To convince a stupid P'fl>ehever, you might be willing to r° " 'thliini to secj but having seen, L? ,^ oald feel AO more certain—y ou I old sayM ‘<1 knew it was so.” i®st as our reason takes up 1/ ^'stcuces and the occurrences (rtn Wh,< * we rtre informed only by Reuses, and from them draws which constitute certain 723 *T -fy correctly. Faith grows into cxpi'ii mental knowledge: “I know whom I have believed;” ‘ Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye Ik* repro bates !” A. It- Quit Own Faults.—Bet us not be over-curious about the failings ot others, but take account of our own ; let us bear in mind the excellences of other men, while we, reckon up our own faults, for then shall we be well-pleasing to God. For he who who looks at the faults ot others, and at bis own excellences, is injured lei ice by which the Gospel is to be We have no storied ruins,,no ven-I ars,'statesmen and poets -have all propagated- Not the devastating crable traditions, but we h*ve aged united in extolling the incomparable storms, which bring ruiu and calaui- I people, and it ought to Ik* one of the beauty of these songs >ion. *a ity to good as well as evil, and do most rigidly enforced iossons to our nmrtine,. iu his floret Frcncli, ex- uiorc evil than good, but the Sun of children to rise up before the hoary claims : ‘ The Hook. Righteousness, whose influence is | head and honor the face of the old 1 ^^and shedding abroad like the natural sun, under whose man. odors to tlie heart of all huuiani life-giving and lile supi»oiting beams | The aged should themselves assist both the evil and the good, the just , in this work by tiring careful of the and unjust, have the blessings of | impressions they me making on the existence and are wooed to God, whose benign rays are tlu^ inspira tion of life to the world, and of plentv aud beauty to the face of nature. This it is which is the em- young who surround them. Perhaps it is one of the hirdest lessous for old age to learn, that after tin active and useful life, it would be better now to fold the bauds and be quiet tv. The little shepherd has become master of the sacred choir of the universe. -V chord ol his liaip is to be found in all choirs, resounding forever in unison with the echoes ot Horeb and EQgedi. David is the Psalmist of eternity: what a power hath poetry when inspired by the Almighty Owl !*— The Independent They were intelligent people and knew how to do it. The first day passed away, and Mr. Whitfield said nothing on the subject of religion. On the next their attentions were redoubled, but salvation was not named. The third day passed iu the same way. They were sedulous and anxious, but religion was not named; aud the hour of his de parture came, and he was gone. “These people were in sore dis- tress, and they said to each other, ‘What does this mean T Three days, and ho has not said a word about religion—not a word. “Mr.. Whitfield, just before leav ing, mid written on the window pane of the room_ where he lodged, with bis diamond ring, these words: ‘One thiDg thou lockout.* “The host-, iu lookiug over the room where the good man had slept, me could speak. It talks of my trials in the wisest way; some I dare not tell, it knows all about, lt talks about my difficulties some would sneer at them and laugh, but this book sympathizes with them, knows my tremblings, and my fears, ami my doubts, and all the storm that rages within the little world of my nature. The Book has been through all my experience; somehow or other it maps it all out, and talks with me as if it were a 1el low pilgrim. It does not speak to me unpractically, aud scold me ami look dow n upon me from an awful height of stern perfection, as if it w ere au angel and could not sympa thize with fallen men; but like the Lord whom it reveals, the Book seemifefcs if it were touched with a feeling of my infirmitfeA and had been tempted iu all t»oitit» aul am. discovered these words and called to fywrgetm.

Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, September 13, 1872, Image 1