The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, February 07, 1873, Image 1
Editors.
A PUSH.”—EPHESIANS 17:6
ONE LORO. ONE FAITH. OVE
IEBRACRY 7. 1873
COLUMBIA. S. FRIDA
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ready for instant om. TIm man
aaked the traveler to retire to bed,
but be determined to aell his life m
dearly m be could. Hie (ban grew
into * perfect agony. Wbafc was to
be doue?
At length the backwoodsman
arose, and reach wig to a wooden
shelf, took down an old book, and
said:
“Well, stranger, if yon wont go
to bed I will; bat it is always my
custom to read a chapter of the
Holy Scripture* before I go to bed.*
Wbat a change did three words
produce! Alarm was removed trout
this skeptic's mind. Though avow*
ing himself an iaidel, be bad more
confidence in the Bible. He felt
safe. He felt that a man wb^kept
a Bible in his boose, and bent bis
knees in prayer, was no murderer or
robber. He listened to the good
man, and slept aa calmly la that
cabin as be did under bis father's
roof. From that night be ceased to
revile the good Bible. He became
a sincere Christian, and often related
the story of bis eventful Journey to
prove the folly of infidelity.
Selections.
Usiversaliim 111 t Nxisholl.
I, JtlUgioos Literature.
At the beginning of a Journey, two
“1 am a Universally* said G. K.,
boaatingly; “and yon orthodox are
not fair in saying that oar system is
inconsistent with reason.*
“I will prove the Irrationality of
yonr system,* said bis friend. “You
believe that Christ died to save all
men f*
“Yea, I do.*
“And yon don’t believe there is a
bell r
“No, I don’t*
“You don’t believe there is any
punishment hereafter V
“No, I don’t i men ate pantoed for
their sins la this Ufe.*
“Well, now let us pat year ‘ra
tional’ system together. It amounts
to just this—that Christ the Saviour
died to save all men from nothing at
all. Not from hell, because*, accord
ing to you, there to Done. Not from
punishment in the fatnre state of
being, for he receives hi* whole
pnnishment in this life. Years is
the «b*urd spectacle of rope* and
life preservers thrown at an immense
expense to a uian who is on dry
land, and in no danger of being
di owned."
febdP a darkled or a bewildered
flTa proper understanding of
"Vmbiect, it u» to “suppose
** 7 And the case supposed
* ^ter have had an actual exis
^ je t nobody is deceived. It is
M wstoriai v ,K “
oeesrred.
stttewent
things which vws
tomr* Now can we
Xhe parables of the
ft re presen toil as cases
without the modern for
nUt os wppow‘ k case,* for
introduction. But while this
of introduction fills well its
niite place, there is another
foe recital of facts, equally
Li* the ouat of this hostility.
timl will cxitag a thousand miles
with grace to matt him who
takes a single stop towards the cross
of Christ
A* long as the builders of Babel
am aaited, they would take heaven
by storm | bat as soon as God di
vide* their tongue* all their proa
slippery plaraa, or gropes hi* way
along ia the dark owes, aseottg pitfhUe
riayed on Thro, torento
The*. If, Ilka Dsfht,
C |n^| 1^0 dMF'Dyrc!!^ £
hearts, to try ne ead hi
that, if !brlr ha totoV M
tls may lead as to the
tag, we shall alee bat
say. “Then leaf 4dm
walking at bin
rare may bt a
Jgaea then),} are foil of instruction.
Says lbs Psalmist: “Whoso is wise,
iB d *tH observe these things, even
they ihsii understand the loving
Kind nest of the Lord.* The mind*
,.f old people who have been intelli-
geit sad tedectiug observer* while
making life’s journey, are full of
snch nafcer. It is instructive as
ttll as estortaiuiiig to sit at their
feet sod to hear them in their artless
coBvasatioual manner “prai.se Jeho
vab for His goodness and His won
derful works to the children of men *
Hasy things, so related, would bear
a to published for the reading of
the aillioa. Some of them, well
waked, have been published and
read with interest and profit by many.
Bat It fe painfully evident that in
ththrge mass of religious literature
now aioat, there is much passing
iwbr the guise of providential re-
>]utak, that never had an existence
mjwbere except in the illy regula
ted Pagination of the writer.
Of this class of writings we were
reminded a few evenings ago by a
story of a sea captain, who had cut
s bell from a rock where it bad been
suspended, that it might be rung by
the rising waves as a. warning to
mariners. Tears a/ter (vards, (so went
the story,) bis own ship Iras wrecked
upon that same rock, and all aboard
perished. AlUhis may have occur
red. Bat the writer’s zealous soul
was so intent uik>u doing good by
writing fiction, that he forgot to
spare even one who could suy, “I
only am left alone to tell thee.*
Yet, after drowning all, he artlessly
fuoagh told what the wicked captain
said just before he perished!
5©w we would saggest that while
these “nursery yarns* may be credo -
looaly received by some soft-headed
children, the thinking ones who are
sooa to take control of church aud
stats, have reflection enough to ask,
*ho told what he said when all per
“tod! The periodicals that publish
web stuff do themselves and their
young readers great injury. When
the child that has been believing
ever y word discovers sucb gaps, it
mast exclaim, mentally at least,
What! lies here, too! Far better
kave no stories at all than such as
vill mate children suspicions of
; <‘!$ehood everywhere. It will lie a
“ad day when parents will have to
of their church publications,
My child, you are not to believe all
you see in that paper.*
gwhfe. Yet he is fteqasrilly troubled
He Is afraid be may earns dart «l
TW ertoie of life* is usually the
•arret plurr of wrestling with God in
He wbo Is without trouble ia often
without Gad.
Hope ts the golden treasure and
the Bobiuet nit against fear.
As wa must uat trust to aa arm of
I have known a timid traveler
whose route toy arrow the highest
Alim, on a path that, no broader
than a male’s foothold, skirted a
dizzy precipice, where we saw the
foaming river fbr below mm tubed
to a silver thread, find It Safest to
shnt her eyes, nor attempt to guide
the coarse, or touch the bridle where
a touch were total, throwing steed
snd rider over to hound from shelf
to shelf and be dashed to piece* in
the valley below. And there are
tinu-s ami circumstances when, to
be saved from tolling Into sinful
doubts, and even Into blank despair,
the believer must, tf we may any so,
shut his eyes; and committing bta
way to God, let the bridle on the
neck of providence, ami walk not by
by sight bat faith. God however
things may look—has not forgotten
to be gracious, nor ia bis mercy clean
gone forever j and when we are walk
ing in darkneas and have no light,
there is nothing for it bat to trust in
the Lord, to “stay ourselves <w» God.*
Hail Jacob done so, he had not
been so utterly distracted and crush
ed by the loss of Joseph ; nor, a* he
ctnng to Benjamin, had he turned on
his other sons, like a Hear on the
hunters come to bereave her of her
whelps, while this doleful, angry cry,
“Me have ye bereaved of my chil
dren ; Joseph to not, and Simeon to
not; and will ye also take Benjamin
away f—all these things are against
me.* Hail he done so, he had borne
himself more erect before the king
of Egypt, n venerable ami noble
witness for God in a heathen palace,
instead of wailing out this pitiful
complaint, few and evil have been
the days of my pilgrimage on earth !
He lived to unsay that, and regret
that be hail walked ao much by
sight, and not by feith; living to
see, as all God’s people shall in
another world, If not in this, that all
things—the bitter and the sweet to
get her, losses as well as gains, cof
fins as much as cradle*—were not
against, bat for bim. One of whom
it might be sakl that “nothing in hi*
life become him ao much a* bis leav
ing i*, r see him dying I—his faith
breaking oat in foil and bright eflPnl
gence, like the sun at the does of a
clondy day. Propped op on piftows,
with ohe hand oti Ephraim's and the
other on Manasseh’s head, be raise*
his sightless orbs to heaven to
breathe ont this grand confession
and prayer—the God wbteh fed me
all iny life long onto this day, the
angel which redeemed me from all
evil, bless the laris ! With that his
tory, and many such before them,
never let God’s dear ehitdreu yield—
no, not in life’s darkest hour—to the
thought that all things are against
them. Even when deep aoswereth
unto deep at the noise of his water
sponts, and all God’s billows and
waves go over them, and their bark,
with toils torn to ribbon* and bnl
works gone by tb© board, to stagger
ing through a sea of trouble*, never
let them fancy that they are the
sport of winds and wares. Your
Father to at the helm! The Lord
reigneth, let bis enemies tremble;
the Lord reigneth, let his people re-
joice: He will make all things work
together for good to them who love
him, and are the called according to
his purpose— J>r. Qmtkrie.
How to Study the Bible.
' Men***
« ««-ctualW 432B
of the r^rtJiUk
Hie telescope, we know, brings
within the sphere of oar own vision
much that would be undiscoverable
by the naked eye ; bat we mast not
the less enjoy oar eye* in making
use of it, and we mast watch and
calculate the motions and reason on
the appearances of the heavenly
bodies, which are visible only through
the telescope, with the same care we
employ in respect to those seen by
the naked eye. And an analogous
procedure is requatte if we would
derive the intended benefit from the
pages of inspiration, which were
designed not to save os the tremble
of inquiring and reflecting, bat to
enable os on some points to inquire
and reflect to better purposes; not
traveler renoiittnl to hie Antnat
that day whsB all shall be assess 1 lo!
before their tot are has*, snd the
right to sater his reshisnrr hr re
qnired from ©ark.
If this be docw of aay «m to re
gard to sa earthgr jnsroey. with
■‘things that am area,* how much
snare will It he the ease to ear road
to the heavenly city, where we deal
with Ullage that see aaassa sad
eternal f
There Is, perhaps, hardly s satge**
in religious eipemeace which has
more fnwynently «r mere psis to 11^
exercised the miads sf truer chrie
liens than this sue. Looting m mm
Gad’s attribute*, like angel* oa
the * tug, are ever ready to coast to
the reara* of his chosca.
of iwligtoa. sad
folfoomt by the oarattotob or #vfl.
If wa kaew how many thousand
devirtes of the ungodly the Lord
brings to naught, before they were
bat to supply it* deficiencies.—Arc!
bishop Whalcly.
Family Worship.—A traveler
•ays: “One of the most beautiful
images that ever rose upon my im-
It amy be that they eoa
asnaraaee of taftl with the
chance delay for two day* among
the lakes and mountains of the Tro
•neb’* Glen. 1 happened to make
the inquiry wbat became of villagers
so suddenly disappearing at night
fall from the streets, and a sandy
haired Scotchman replied: Of oat of
them would be at prayers about this
time.’ And 1 looked np into the for
blue sky, and thought how floe a
thing it would be to have a resting
place, high enough just to hear the
mnrmnr of Toioe* aa they read a
verse about, and sung one of the old
Psalms, before the impressive hash
in which the father offered prayer.
How grand would be the swell of
sound when a whole village was
going on its knees before God !*
frrl the totter, they rout tads ttov
are destitute of the former Mo they
writ* Miter things against thrtr own
roots Every ohristiaa must at seem
stffjr have the nomroaro of feith he
cause that to ao less than feith HseH
rortfc.
pertly ?
TBItS. No epMMBB
med. Tb« lim, tS
and the nerve* m
bs will save as. Much was the feith
of the publican, who “would not Hit
ap so much ss his eyas onto hsavan,
bat smote upon his breast, saving,
God fas merrifot to ms a sinner !*
One may do thK sad vat go maam
lag mil his days “for waat of assav
SMe* ** f fa..,-I It tt*. ***** sti* ,■ rfi *4 fi mi
*.<^rrs Bw
ss the esat Is from the eel, ss jhr
A j*li If- y J oamam s
from as.* Not mitt rearers, after a
trying probation, bat toil removed.
He amy, however, object, “Tbass
are tbs feelings of a man after Gudfe
own heart ” one who kohl *srh ctosa
communion with (fod that he maid
dMiSnile MPp, | L j, Pli Ok «if —- m m in m
rmtoiij iMf VHP Hi I ftowT. n r r iprffi
toons" True, but lm waa also a
•inner roved by grass, sad he felt ML
lie says: “Thou art my bldtog piece,
and my shield ; / hsyw to Fbf awed ;*
“h«M Ties mm sp sad t shall ha
safe * It Is a mistake to suppose
that Ibr a person to have aasaraase
In Christian life to ston to bars at
tallied onto perfection
Pant would bars declared without
hesitation, “I Anew Wlem I have
believed, sad sa p rr res tod that Bs
is sM# to hrep that which I bars cam
milted onto Rim sgatast that day,*
Yet who more tremble than this
some Paal f Of haw^ he says,
“Not ns though I had already attain
sd, either were already porfiret, but I
follow after, tf that I may apprehend
that fur shirk I in pnmmfamd
sd of Christ Jesus.* Paal was a
happy Christian, sad tbs ksy ante to
hto >sy is found to his sptotle to
Timothy t “Fur thto la a fearful my
lag, nod worthy of all sreeptoitou.
that Christ Jsaas «ams into the
world to save stonero, i/stos / am
chief.* The rsty depth at hto «slf
Very much of the outward do
psads upon the inward; whore there
is hsasaa la the heart there wfl! be
forts, the I reudsv to Him ecosefeag
wuridly sahutssms. He hro tuhso hut
fib ‘h to A mtofc ssf s ■ msm imstotto' mm m »nt ^
“ IVHi >Pw 4 toroR Owe mMP rooRfifi kiWMi
so maay at my aeqaatotswe. D» I
Jitter* oa going to Of
I MK-haif wme-fcUtol
[etablee, and take re
led of poreir veget*P»
leDOXALOAlh
asstriiSh*
S AND DF.ALIZS
Flyino fob Hkfitob.—Th wasere
owes a little bird chased by a hawk,
and in it* extremity took refage hi
the bosom of a tender-hearted man.
There it lay, its wings and feathers
quivering with fear, and its little
heart throbbing against the bosom
of the good man, whilst the hawk
kept bovsriog overhead, as if saying,
“Deliver up that bird, that I may
devour it* New, will that gentle,
kiad-hearted man take the poor little
creature, that put* its trust in him,
oat of his bosom, and deliver it op to
the hawk t What thick yef Would
Well then.
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A Virginia banker, who was the
chairman of an infidel club, was
"f»ce traveling through Kentucky,
ii: ‘ vi ng with him bank bills to the
amount of $26,000. When ho came
to a lonely forest, where robberies
•md murders were said to be fre-
^ nt > > was soon lost through
I ni g in the wroug road. The dark-
jjffe’ of the night came quickly over
’®i and bow to esekpe from the
j ^toning danger he knew not.
II his a,ar m he espied at a distance
1 ‘ m light, and urging his horse
toward he at length -came to a
If * m L in f 1 I he anm m m I Itu
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Goal, may Ire roved from felting if
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tudur
fie Inijitiii b mmi to srewnl ,A the
tswd Jsaas Christ as my all sufltos—t
s*mI only Msviuur Da I ahaw my
sSMMNafhfofesstolkrek m. —4P •• m d- ii adim
iriiHiG# wj *» iiit ov iiRunfk| oiw
dtowUf
It to aof right to pvsy that oar
Heavenly Father should never eh**
rim aa, hut that Ire may chastize ns
with the rrij of a parent, sad not
with the sword of Justice.
Without the Bible we can under
stabd nrither life nor death; bat
with this everlsstiug lamp we under
stand both.
Th* life of Jesus to the greatest
sermon over preached, and it to
ttotaoad to thto day by myriad*.
The Croats that happened in the
primitive church, will bs repented in
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you do Itf No, never,
if you flee for refuge into the bosom
of Jesus, wbo came to seek aa£ save
the lost, do you think He trill deliver
you up to your deadly fee I Never !
never ! never !—Daeeae Mmikeson.
sanctify ing
Pbayxb.—Wbo will pray, must
know and understand that prayer
is an earnest and t©ifai»g
with God, to whom we declare oar
mercies, whose support and hfllp we
implore and desire ia our adversities,
and whom we land and praise for
our benefits received. So that pray
er contain©th the exposition of our
trouble*, the desire of God’s defense,
and the praisiig of hto magnificent
name, as the Psalms of David do
clearly teach.—John Knox.
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Can I now iret? say, “Thongh I
walk through the t alley at the
aosmsw as arete, & wmi nsre ao evu ;
few thou art with m»| thy rod and
lh, at|tf llut (vtMfuBrt Ml V*
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lirrocr of a Kind Wobix—“I
h»ve reason to Me** God for the
Sabbath,* says an emioeoUy useful
Bngltoh clergy mas, “from my own
experisnea. When a mere boy, a
pious and faithful pastor found me
trifling on the Lord’s day, and aflec
uonatelj reproved are; deniring me
to read and think on the Inst two
vereis of the drib of Isaiah. Upon
that reproof, under God, turned my
whole life, with all its happiness and
all its bltasfui hope* bexoud ibe
It is seldom bone in mind that
without oonstant reformation, that
is, withont a oonstant return to its
fountain bead, every religion, even
the most perfect, nay, the most per.
feet, on account of its very perfec
tion more even than others, suffers
from its contact with the world, as
the purest air suffers from the mere
fact oi its being breathedre-JfoflP
Mutter. '
If thy labor la nsefol to tfaysslf
alone, the service that thon pretend
eat to render unto Qod to a lie.—La
ther.
that we are ©rereiralaed to href the
retro which says, “I, the Lord, do
all there tbiaga* The will, which