The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, January 03, 1873, Image 1
OWE LOAD, OWE FAITH, ONE B|PTI8
OOLDMBIA, S. C., FItfD
M”—EPHESIANS IV
JANUARY 3. 1873
OLD SFCIES, VOL. V
Commuiiications.
For the Lutheran Visiter.
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A torvaai of Christ, whose bend
faithful labor in the vineyard of the
Lord had whitened, traveled, accoui
ponied by a yonug friend, a few
gammers ago in Switzerland. The
object was recreation after long con
tinued and arduous work. Their
wanderings among the moan taint
led them one day to a naked wall of
'~ tL ~ " r wa*
D0 ‘ “**“ fur owe to btrt by in.mnwin, him**/
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p». <* uw ed*. of tbe clit 1 wiu the Lord i. ^l
go this way." I .. miejr * e< ftBfiW»e
What do you think would be the alone, but by everTw^d that"** 4
result * It would not he long before ceedeth oat of the mouth of Gad*
( you would hMir a fearful fall, and a Haviug gotten this information he
despairing cry of “lost, lost." makes ,me of it to
Lwl so, dear children, it will bs of ^od Awn getting into the lift of
, 1lii ***** »ho will not fellow tbe j ajan - ® people wUl go to church
heavenly guide. We are all pasting *° d “to down to bear, Satan whirrs
overn wy in life more dangerous * *• «chHect to put in JfrSTC
^an Iceland rosda. We are all the hid « ,he Poacher, and them to gtain
time in danger of falling into tin that windows to hhia him mmbr
* 'll ruin our soula TUey look plena tb « rtiigimw light* ^
eufer than the right path, but the b*"*** h*Pt <mt the pore*Lg «f
»!' ° ur swde has given J^vcn, to djatribnte the stained
us a hook to teach on the way. &o 1‘fibt in ghastly Nh^trhue making the
pittm it tt that nobody tired make a **dd «wrn of one deacon a bright
“• step. Jesus has gome the way l >ai *l<*, * n<1 the nose of another to
In fore ns, mtl we hare but lovingly P 1 *! a lambent blue, and the
do uot know; but we ate aU
add, that the wonderful answ«
the pray er of faith united thv-y
belierew in feating bonds of cl
tiau friendship.—ISlger mm* .Sack,
rocks, the lofty top of which
covered with so imposing castle.
“We most ascend to it,” eaid the
yooDg mao; “the view up there must
be glorious." His aged oompauiou
assented, sod both commenced at
oooe to climb up the steep and rug
ged path. When they at last arrived
at the gate of the castle, permission
vm asked to see it I
* ^' n * <*®wwd to spare
ttoL tZL* lbr,oh ® W **»««i«iefikdi.
?,** * thHr c«ti
•cus ahiiold be delivered up to him,
with haliers round their necks, to be
immediately executed.
W ben these terms wens announce#
l« the city, tbsew was a oonsternatkio
v ' rr > i The rulers
° lbi UiW * «■» together, «ad the
*•*** ***-*
" ho will oAt hi motif
•eut for the city r
There was si fence in the Assembly
was freely oa P® through life. Indeed, we soon
given. They were first takeu to the time6 866 the wicked flourishing am
garden, where a truly magnificent ft P re *ding himself as the green bai
and beautiinl picture of snow-clad I ^ i whilst the upright are dooms*
neentsiss sad green valleys unfold- t0 P° vert y and earthly misery,
editielf before their delighted eyes. And yet bow littfe depends upot
Ibe young man’s heart was filled ttl0 outward and earthly coo,lm 0 i
with rapturous joy, and his lips over- and circnmaUocea of n man l Sei
iiowed with loud praises to the **« wealth, with its ease and emov
m^tity and glory of God. The aged nor poverty, with its mgs and
man is silent. The more excited his wretchedness, recommend an null
jwthfol companion becomes, the vidual to God. It is not the outwsrd
greater is his resenta. At last the surroundings, but the heart ui
former exclaims: “But is not this which God looks. If eternal haute
new wonderfully beautiful T” “Yee, ness deluded upon the wealth or
heaVCD i8 yet ^ P°I>“*torityr or honor of an individual
oeaahfW. The youth stands awhile ®»uj humble and obscure Christians
«tiB thought, and as they moved would uever obtain it But it does
?r“r e, !t 8lj J 111)0 the P 60 ^ 6 DOt de P** ua u P° n »ny earthly dfetioc
^ ^ e . th,nk 50 r “We will rion, and many who are now in mis
inquire, said the other, “O no! session of their thousands, ami have
^ T d ° that 1 Ifc is not the praise <* admiring friends sc i
Mae of railway. They a
J“ w * “HWUi body. Tto
io follow bis footstofts and we shall
ail reach the blessed borne in saleiv
and exceeding joy—ChUtFt World.
an atone * 3—
for the Deaf
We wish to make a plea for the
deaf, that minister* would preeeh so
that these can hear. Of coarse we
do uot mean those who are as deef
M * a utider, but those earn are dill
•ud tsu fifed
Kre<y minister may take ft for
granted that si least one person
* will Igy" down \'****Hy deaf is always present in
rn I <io it frasljr tbc confregmiioo. Let him remember I
that person, sad let him speak so
that he or she cau hear. Ofteo have
•re with pain noticed the rain efforts
of P~PU with dull car* to catch
what the speaker was saying; sod
*bat s look of dtssppoiatmeat
gathers over the countenance of the
unfurtuoste one as be aetife.
lltinan,
• young
Gw*ry—wbers mousy fe si stake ^
l *««tiuf unknown or doebtftil prom
l he borrower—.whether an
individaul or a rompey or a aauow-
H.°l M. muv.y, u.
2 1 * 1 mot *f term a dsaf sar to
and truthfulness of tlose la whom
admirers by a
space, as wide
to*hitf Uiait
U> him a Wank
J^th» (iwiptair, mmI bjmu, b.1
mert lawinM. "W'W-vill
speakers roar at the top of a thick
husky voles, no that nobody coaid
tell what was said. On the other
hand, we bare beard orators who
sroatd
The world gladly lays all Its cost
I test merchandise, richest estates,
and choicest delights, all its magnift
cetire and pleasures, at the feet of
those who offer a seflMency of these
“Are (bees the principal lahabt
ate of Calais T he isquired menly.
“AM France, my kwd,* they ivfdted.
“Insert them to eseeattoe.*
At this moment a about of triumph
the singers away from the congrega
tions as far as the real estate of the
society will allow, either behind the
minister, or lifted up between heaven
and earth in the rear gallery. If in
the Latter position, so that tbs con
gregation can not see them, nor well
unite with them, and so that, if ar
tistic and ugly, they can frustrate all
congregational singing; or, if be
hind the minister, so that they can
pour the confused waves of sound,
organ and all, across the hack of his
defenceless head, submerging all the
nerves of his tympanum as with
great billows rolling over him, sad
each i>arUcuLar singer thrusting into
Las ears from behind, at close quar
ters, his javelins or songs. Give
them, too, whisper* the adversary, a
small and narrow box in front of the
organ, and tkeu you insure a paid
quartette, a fixed aud staring fact,
and to bo stared at forever—eed you
will never get the poor, timid girl
with a plain bonnet to ait there, nor
the modest joaug man with a very
Aud so you will have
Brace the Law to sebstaalmll; owe
over angels as well as men, I see no
reaeoe why the grace should net ha
one, nor why It should not hr wrought
every word so dis
uactly that it was a luxury to hear,
sod yet the volume of the voice was
not great. Every one has noticed
that Matthew says that when Jesus
preached the sermon on the Mount
be opened his month. This moans
he used his organs of speech so that
the vast open air audience could
easily hear him.
The practice of tiavtohly reading
manuscript sermons is Against per
eons whose bearing is dull; wheu
the head to inclined downward, and
the eyes ate fixed upon the paper,
the enunciation is apt to be imper
feet. It to of great assistance to un
derstaed a speaker to be able to see
his eyes and to read the exjireetiou
there.
Mumbling and
dresses her. “We have come,” says
hef “to thank you kindly for
peruitting us to enjoy the beautiful
view; but the view of heaven is
much more beautiful. Do yon be
fore this P The lady if astonished,
ibe tarns around, hurries off to her
htubud, whom she requests to go
and speak to a most (extraordinary
®aa, who talks very strange, and
vhom she can not at all understand.
The gentleman goes, and. the aged
pilgrim addresses him: “We have
«>«« to thank you kindly for per
mitting as to enjoy the beautiful
riew; the view of heaven is far
®ore beautiful. Do you believe
this! 9 Thegcutleman stands fora
few moments wrapped in silent med
itation. At last he answers: “I
have company; wontd you be wil
ling to ask my guests this question T”
“<!!»%, if you permit me.” To-
fi^tkor they enter the large dining
ro®®- A large and fashionable com
ply are seated at lihe magnificent
tal> * e » bat earthly splendor has no
attr aoti©us for the faithful disciple;
l* 6 approaches the table, and repeats
the third time fearlessly the same
qatotfen, aad adds impressively, “Do
y°« believe this t” Nor does be stop
•boat to t«e inflicted oa the til vie
nm*. tiw bsslreed to the king and
(deeded lor their pardon. At first
be sternly refheed to grant it, bat her
rninralnrns ratH)acred, nod the king
y**fe& t ailing the captives before
bet. she said. “Native* of France,
la its mmm» it to the some, a bother
applied to the guilty in their nmawe
ry fane rate, *er to the para, la pew
venting their fall into It It to but
believed. Yet Ihoee of God are die
honored —disbel te v ed.
What words can fitly charectonie
direction, of a principle that to oaf*
bfe of manifold uaaa, aad which has
cfeariy been wrought a* a regulative
rfeineut into the Divlae govern meat.
Bat, upon whatever footing wschooae
Jt's Vimkgak Brr-
Nenrow
distrust that moat fill the hearts of
from, and to dtoerodit the Ererlaat
ing Father ! Power belongs to God.
HU riches are infinite. Be can not
ecaflhdri Yoa ore fore.”
What n lorn bfe emblem » this of
the tat* recast an oi oar ford Jems
rhnst! When w« submit ©or bowls
as captives to the Father, and ted
that we are condemned and lost, we
have an eflbrtaal Mediator who stay s
And If he has given as Christ, in
whom are all riches, both of things
present and things to come, shall he
not “with him freely give as all
things P Let the mind dwell and
reflect on those words “freely* and
“nil things,* and learn the fallneee
and certainty of the Divine bounty
mmienug are
always bad m their influence. We
who was in the
healed by the PeacaeMker “throng*,
the blood of Ills mans, reconciling ad
things onto Himself-whether they
be things In earth, ew things in Ueaw-
havc heard of a
the habit of asking a blcaamg at the
table in m indistinct a manner that
his little son oooe asked him,
“Father, what to that yon alwayi
say to yoar plate when we tit down
nt the table P
Mumbling to inexcusable. Demos
throe* cured himself of this feult by
declaiming at the scaahore with peb
bles in hi* mouth. Borne ministers
preach as if they were practicing in
the poipit with the pebbtoe of
We have understood that in some
of the marches situated on Long
Island many oi the congregations
are hard of hearing (we presume be-
cause of the wind and storms which
prevail K aad that one requisite
which they trek in n minister to a
load, or si feast a clear voice. A
minister, however excellent, who
mumbled or whispered would be on
acceptable there.
Henr, then, this plea for the deaf,
ministers of the gospel! Do not
stop op the deaf earn, but blow the
gospel trumpet in clear and unmis
takable note*---HeraU and Prabyter.
long aoae.
little Dope of the grand and sympa
thetic aud united praise* of the
groat congregation swelling and
surging up lustily from its own
midst.
Keep out the light, hinder the
speaking aud hearing aad prafetng,
make things unsocial, formal, spec
tacular, mediaeval, floical —let the
plain people, who have a good many
children and can not get themativee
all up in a style beooming the ohnroh
interior, peep in, perhaps inquire the
nails la the worship of God asd the
Chritt. We inherit the blessings
promised to faithful Abraham, and
partake of the felicity to which he
looked forward.
It is not by obedience to tbe lew,
but by faith, that we obtain tbe
blessing, as Abraham did. All are
on a level, aud all are much tbe chil
dren of God in the same manner,
and on tbe same term* that A bra
bam was. They who are justified
by faith through tbe Lord Jean*
fee*,* all indorsed by Him who s**d,
M Ask in my name.” And all thorn
when actually pccoealod lhal to,
when their fulfillment to naked In
faith—give to thoae who do Ood*
commandments a right to draw, aa
thev hare need, on the book of On
nipotcoce and Love-—foam the in
finite treasury of the Lord’s everlast
ing fullness.
The “Bonds* of the “Fnithfol nod
True" One are written with n “yen
sod ameii.* and whosoever to in
Christ Jeans incurs no risk of their
repudiation Theta to, however, this
peculiarity about them bonds, which
distinguishes them from lO others
i We can not boy them till we sell all
b ran fed, low
Lrs sent free.
IN & CO«
kicinnati,
©ow-Sly ' ■
Jo* believe this T” Nor does he stop
there. He keeps on, and preaches
the gospel in demonstration of tbe
%>irit aad with power to the brilliant
The hearers become nn-
^y- They are uot prepared for
*uch an entertainment.
" bite tbe aged preacher bears
^itaees to the truth as it is in
Christ, one guest after another
worship Into Hto own rearer, and
wave* it before the infinitely pare
f South Caro
n; also wi»
th on Char*
ta Railroad,
and Angnett
price of a pew, and go away—nil this
suits the devil aa a church architect.
But he never liked the old-feshfened
meeting bouses, which were nearly
square, and had the poipit on the
oblong side, and the deep, aorronnd-
ing galleries, and the people brought
up clone and within range.* Before
the Old South Ohnroh of Booton to
pulled down, let the people go in and
take a last scrutinising look, nod
then let them go oat and apeak to
the architects and demand of them
more Christian common aeaee iu
pfenning church edifices. Mr. Hep
worth was asked the other day what
sort of a church he wonW like have
built for him. He replied, “Yon eee
any street speaker gathering monad
him a large crowd, every individual
of which he to bound to reach end
influence by his voice—-well, I wish
that roofed over.”— Jto-
votoesMMM, which for agea have poor
#4 oat over the reentry mat floods
of boding lava, which has cooled to
every variety d form, making great
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feaves, and when ho is done only a
fev remain over.
mantes of rock tumbled together in
the wildest rttofeetoo Here will be
a chasm Mwmingty without bottom.
Here the dark crest of ooofod lava
will be too thin to brer the traveller.
There a maasof te* and snow on a
mountain aide will Uimbfe over the
path, ready at a breath to fall upon,
and crash, nod bary tbe traveller
forever. Tbe kwee stooea, which are
started by hie foototepa, often roll
down the ridre of awful precipices,
plunging from depth to depth till the
*»uiml dire away. Oh how foarfol the
He now turns to
9o too, but tbe gentleman presses
u ‘ m b) stay. He declines ; but in
that worship to parent, when the
heart to at a whitr heat la the glow
of lie fieri run, and whan the prater
via# bounty. Aad than the as
change to found to he ewe of amae
ing advantage and t»tTttfe i iil>blt to
joymaati By U we obtain a claim
on Omnipotent power ; we quit the
tronbfee nod aasfetiee of tils for the
hope of n joyous eternity; our sot fed
aad fragile posse ssu ms far an to her
Spook kindly to the morning;
Where tin enters, pride will enter
lighten* the care* of the day, and
makes household and all other af
faire move along more smoothly.
Speak kindly at night, for it may be
that before the dawn Home loved
one may finish hto or her s;»an of
1 tfr for this world, and it will In too
ial* to oak forgiven***.
^ve8»P»
[train .fr 09 *
. on Abbe-
traversing there path*!
Bnl the ffoafeo pan* over (hem aa
firmly sad unoouearwedly aa w* walk
«Mir rood roads at home. Audi -
We need more of that prevailing
feilh that can lay hold with vigorous