The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, November 22, 1872, Image 1
ONE LORD, ONE FAITH. ONE B APT18 M”—EPHE81A N8
Columbia. S. C., Friday; novfmbkr n. ivi
The great majority of thone Imp-
ftUdwl the pro|ier instruction e*m
cerning the grace nmtved *»d the
foith reqatred
a. Wttoroscn — sponsor* — should
alao be present, who la the name of
the Christ too chttrrh and
thing. by prayer and
with thanksgiving, lit
tixed in tb« apustolic age were usees
sarily adults, us a toother ehurvh
had first to be sstabl tolled, tine*
in taut baptism depends on the cbrto
tian family life ami training, where
•ince I waa enabled, by the grace ot
God, to east myself entirely upon
the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.
For yon know God’s promise is, M» a t
whosoever believeth on B;ra shall
be saved. That la the ground of tay
hope, and nothing else. I shall love
to hear yon speak of Jeans and the
promises, but I ean not answer yon;
I am too weak. They strengthen
and comfort me; I am happy; 1
know all yonaay; it is refreshing;
I thank yon for it." Her irreligious
husband waa a silent and deeply af
tated listener to these words, as
thaw droiMMd from the lira of Me
dying wile; and we trust not with
out good offset In another instance
such interviews, under eir
cu instances, resulted under God in
the conversion of the patient and
her sister-in law. Both are now en
joying the fellowship of the mints,
and the privileges of membership of
the Christian church.
May not these he regarded as ex*
amples of what a physician, rightly
disposed, may do few his patients f—
Ckria. Banner.
For the Lutheran Visitor
laptiee.th* hittis Children
forgive sin*, much more now that be
Is seated in his glory. He is exalted
on high to be a Prince mod sBavkmr,
to give re; wo tenor sad remission of
Wd from the Gerraau.]
g wS rsoeive the child entrusted
eongrega-
I iMrotina
that the child shall bn, as stoch an
circa instance* permit, browght op
in the faith and the baptismal grace.
.1 ChUdreti should only be hap
to mas Godto gift, it of oourae
foHews that ve cjuroestlyi endeavor
to secure for it in its earnest years
J.X hhiiidnr H**®
children to boms nnto me, and forbid
them sot: for of mart »• ** king
do* of hi**’ Chrtst’* corn
,n*ml to his dlmdpleS, who relinked
the BOthern Mnugbt their eba-
dres tolfoi, mm^lfoight beortve
big blrastogi’—-dCaric* X ■ Id. This
a Ml, however, ad positive proof
forJlhs'pimtiine of infant baptism,
Used within the Christian church
snd congregation In which opportn
nitiea exist for pnwsrrtog the child
in the baptismal grans, for nurturing
and oaring for tb« sew ssnn within
the child, an that It may grow ap
and become a perfect man In Ohrint
Selections.
Bilious Dium
m, Tetn, so
»j onto thee, Except a man be
iNrt#h«fofund Of the Spirit; be
am mi tiiter into the kingdom of
6«di r IK hrfhnts are Conceived
sad tort in Sfn, they are descendants
of Aten: and as such, their nature
is corrupt, sod they are children of
rrtit. They, as well as adults, are
stntiWimder the law, And most be
sadc pkrtatfoi of thb grade of God
by hcptfcflk *o child. no mutter
hovytokgfcte, cfofbe saved iu any
other tty that! through Christ.
Tbom*ads of redeemed children iu
besiwi atasd before tin throne of
thsLMthssyfog: ‘‘Alleluia! Sal ra
tios, mi glory, and honor, and
porir ante the Lortl oar God!”
Jens shod his blood to deliver these
rtiMwsfrom sin aad fitwn death,
and this holy stream of love washed
"The pass* af Gad. ... «fo*B Iwwn
y«sr hearts and aria. ,*"-1*1. Hr r ?.
Here is the groat seas wC the hlsan
iug and its eforcta: the panes of God
•hall keep yonr hearts and mmdn
through Thrift! Jeans. It takas poe
nhn hi its fovnv. On
to knrn hnnn a Merc
who feared (M with
and prayed in kun alw
sod lYtoriil* a«e alas
chnftka, that thay experience the
trials and sorrows ad life even more
Ntterl) sometimes than do the men
of the world. But, then, the} have
a never foiling fesuv of joy and
romfori of which the wicked know
Ww&ftf, Viusca* ft,
;nr»at tint nrrr -.OttO*
V iraw, 'rtrluntat
We clip the following from a West
ern secular paper:
The churches of all denominations
have been sadly grieved in the last
year or two by the falls into grierotu
sins of one or more of their popular
ministers. So far as we remember
no church of any sue has been ex
empt in this particular, or has aught
History teaehro ns th
Christinas were am
this religion* doty
perhaps, la the I
< bnrrh, was there «
attached to family m
primitive
The same may hr a
bytroiaa Cbsreh of tj
ably an land, la prof
habit—is, ever had a
families. Jf« deoomi
tiaaa has a higher
the 'Importance of
thaa (feotrh Prvobj
firmly adhere to th
roltgwa
&m* ; .3SJ32F HUfe
S; “the seal of faith," Acts viii: 37;
aad it is written (Gal. iii: 37): “For
w many of you as have been bop-
| tiad into Christ, have put oh Christ.”
I Pml also tells the Romans (vi: 4):
•‘Therefore we are bnried with him
by baptism into death : that like ns
Christ was raised np from the dqpd
by the glory of the FatberJ even so
or carta, *r l* unhappy, yen, (•oadlfve
ly mmrralale Bat wimple trnat in
«k*1 to the areiret of if Ml.
This joy uao S'*^ 1-1 * *'C 1,^1* »'♦ I
every f'hrtottoa Is entitled to enjoy »
ami if he would only renouaer all
con fete tice In the flesh. let go his
hold »|w«n oartbly thing* a# a source
of hippiiM’**, and trust entirely tn
God through Christ aa tin* grand
central source from whence all joy
jrtweda, then would the dark clouds
hovering over hi* soul tie dispelled,
and the ghwioa* noonday brightnens
of bis Father's coontenaiwe be found
w ithin his heart.
•Ilk ! If out tra*t were but omiM wimplt.
We would take him at ki* word.
aim) mi liro* woakl all be *an«Attw
in the iwHntn of the lard "
j f«M fVeskyfertaa.
" , HU lue WWW apostleu under
"U. I^r.l'a immediate anperTMoii,
ta? J«?>4 have been no 1 M than
years, and yet one hundred, it not
a less number, would include all
who have fallen within that time.
Whenever one falls now, bis fall in
all its aggravations, and often far
beyond its real enormity, is proclaim
ed by every newspaper and telegraph
line in the whole county. It was
not so twenty five or thirty years
ago. “But,” said a young coxoomb
the other day in oar hearing with a
curl uiKin his lip, “the preachers are
getting to be the worst men in the
land.* 1 “Not so fast,” siad we,
“young friend.” “Take forty-eight
thousand doctors, or lawyers, and
apply the same strict test of moral
couduct to them that you do to the
ministers, every time one of them
gets drnnk, or is otherwise guilty of
immoral conduct, put his name iu
the newspapers, and telegraph him
all over the world, and you woold
not have room cnongh in the news
papers, were they ten times as large
as they are, for one in ten of the tales
of scandal that would fill them.
We say, after a long and intimate
acquaintance with hundreds, yes we
might say, with thousands of minis
ters of all churches and sects in our
land, we have found the great mass
of them neither impure nor intem
perate. '
Earnestness.—The late Re\.
Howland Hill, in once addressing the
jieople of Wotton, raising himself,
exclaimed: “Because I am in earnest,
men call me au enthusiast.
„g_ * ° ? •* has
„ . i-rr m*.
I Ih hint' { ^S!^\dow me trum;
For the heaven that shine* shove n»c,
Anri wail* lav spirit foo;
Fur the rasw* that larks aasistanee.
Fur the «n*(t that tw-ed* resisUnce.
For the fiilair in the distance,
Anri th*- «*w«i tliat I can do."
{fotirie.
think of it! TIms proro of ikul tak
ing |MiaaeaaHM) of and keeping onr
heart* aad »»»«!*% What a wonder,
panning underwtamitng!
It keep* them from rare and
aaxtety, drive* away our over alid
tude. aad keep u» in atrvait} and
oon»}MMMirr. Aavi what a merry,
what a ble**ing, to have peace keep
mg guard at the door of o«r heart*
and not allowing cruel care to enter!
Oh, the love of God! He not only
send* hi* aagel* to be aiiatatenag
wpirit* to bia profile, but ha Mads
I fieaee, Uke a heavenly ilove, to keep
| their heart* and mind* from care,
anti to prevent even it* dark shadow
I from falling upon them! Herrin »*
hs. Wai.kkk’s V]
M.hcn*ip-»n4 C»W
i\ Stiuti«. Coant«-l
:.r Sidjure p
, »•, awch.WBd
XI.: ic. M*»P*
Rend* tb»**|ai
a »n ihx KidfAj
•4ia.it
hi* paticutw. I doubt not tuts ques
tion has, iu some measure, engaged
the attention of the profession; at
east individual memliers of it. But
may it not be worthy of jet more
no non* anti extendetl consideration 1
fko not ctrenmstances often arise in
with the
of the Holy Ghost.” A betterTrans-
iatioa of this Scripture is the follow
ing: “Go and make disci files of all
n»tioo8 by baptizing them in the
of the Father, and of the Sou,
*»d of the Holy Ghost, and Hy teach
ing them to observe all which I have
cnmmatMied yon. In agreement with
•his rendering, we learn from Acts
: lo-33, and 1 Cot. i: 16, that
the apostles baptized whole families,
itilants were thus admitted into the
vwible eh arch of Christ.
Additional proofs of the Scriptural
character of infaut baptispi are, ac-
i of wW®*
the Killers oo ph*
e and one-hail nMf
such as bee ““TLi
ui an ® •
cf iwdf
i.n«DOSiU , 5
i Chailwi'
I STS ANir PM* 1
Bnt think of what Jesus the Aon
of (kwl Ime done. He who wa* God,
and thn* Messed forever, left the
(brittle and royalties of heaven, amt
•t«N»iM'd to vender manger- There
which a physician way.
greatest pro|»riety, do gor*\ to the
mhiI a* well a* to the body of his
patient; and so be the means, under
God, of saving both soul and btnly;
or if this can not be ilone, i»en*oii-
allv, may be not, in certain cases,
call in tire aid of some Christian
friend t
To do tbts, of course, requires him
to exercise the greatest wisdom aud
discretion a* to the time and manner
of presenting subject* suitable for
serious meditation.
Without entering fully into the
merits of the question, may 1 present
a <5H*e which will serve as an illus
tration.
Calling upon a neighboring pliysi-
morning, he remarked to
kSTEB *
O B B, *
oivtimte _#rd
ir* amounting
hd Over-
riders are wn»
either Bank i
must puyi®^.
return *
af ter the birth of the child, was
a type of baptism.—Gen. xvii: 12 ;
Lokeii: 21; Cd. ii: 11, 12.
& The extension of the blessiug
the covenant to Abraham^ i>08-
terity^—Qou.' xv jj. 7. ^ ct>8 jj. 39.
“d 1 Cor. vii: 14.
The import of the infancy of
Jesus.
The universality of the atoue-
m eut, which embraces every age and
condition of men and of nations.
When I
first came into this part of the conn
try, I was walking on yonder hill,
and saw a gravel pit fall in and bury
three human beings alive. I n P
my voioe for help so loud, that 1 was
heard iu the town below at a dis
tance of near a mile; help came,
and rescued two of the sufferers.
No one called me an enthnsaet then ;
and when I see eternal destruction
ready to fall on poor sinners, and
about to entomb them irrecoverably
in an eternal mass of woe, and call
aloud on them to escape, shall I be
^tallroad.
ctaii one
me that one of his ;>atients was very
tick, and that bet husband desired
she should receive christiau instruc
tion and consolation. 1 was request
ed to call, and did so. Such was
her physical condition, however, that
several visits were made before she
could gather strength sufficient to
communicate the state of her mind.
In the mean time I was permitted,
at brief interviews, to speak to her
of the ruin of the soul by sin, its
recovery by the blood of the Cross,
the faithfod saying of the Gospel,
and the mercy ot God in our Lore
Jesus Christ. At length, one cool
morning, her docajing energies re
vived.
Having repeated to her a portion
of the 14th chapter of St. John’s
Gospel, 1 asked her if she had any
sweet ssftts of pardoning mercy
She whispered, “I have, through
faith in Jeans Christ.” Then gather
ing renewed strength, in a sweet,
soft voice, ahe expressed herself in
substance as follows: (
mintutero and officer* of the Church
should see that the warship of God
Is property observed within their
bound*. In those families to which
social worship has been neglected
1ft family altar* be erected. Let it
no longer be considered as n matter
of indifference. It is onl of the
means of grace which God has ap
pointed for the salvation of man.—
Boomer of /Van.
body faint oftentimes with banger,
nad'thirst, sod labor; his knees knit
to the earth with midnight praytif
bis eyes red with weeping (for often
called an enthusiast nowt No, sin
ners, I am no enthusiast in so doing,
and I call on thee aloud to fly for
refuge to the hope set before thee in
the gospel.”
point* like as we are t Matchless
spectacle! An Incarnate God dwells
among sinner*, and endures their
contradiction ! What glory flashed
forth ever and anon from the midst
of this lowliness! a glory which
should render faith to him inevitable.
Thou who didst walk to the sea;
thou who didst raise the dead, it is
not rational to doubt thy power to
forgive sins! Didst thoo not thy
•elf put it so when thou badost the
man take ap his bed and walk!”
•‘Whether !e easier to say, Thy sins
be forgiven tbee; or to «ay. Bite up
sod walk.* Assuredly be is able to
and the mage* rkmrtm of n Christiau.
There be reads of Ms heavenly
Father's love, Ami of bis dying
Bavioorts legacies ; there he see* a
map of his travels throogh the wil-
derneaa, and a landscape, too, of
Canaan; and when he climbs 00
Ffsgnh’ft top, and view* the promised
lam), bin heart begin* to burn;
delighted with the blessed prospect,
and amaied at the rich and free sal
»e nve tnstauees in the New
cut of the baptism of whole
*’ "'here the presence of chil-
1 mo * t of the ca«es t is far more
than the absence ot chil-
One important secret of it toy *n
some ol his habits. One of these whs
that of taking, every *
verse or passage from the Bible tor
his meditation during the day, ana
with the view, he said, of havtoff Mj
entire life filled with itsfpWt and
its influence. David said to^God,
SHI “Thy word have I hid i> ’
“A short time that I might not sin fig*httt
a is a u»”
m
i train*.
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