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-row " ■" "' v " “ ' ■ THE l.iTHERAN VISITOR, COUMH1A,’ S. C., BBRUARV 7, 1873. THE LUTHERJtl VISITOR. Columbia, C\ Friday, February 7, 1878. Editoid: |Uv. A. H. KUDE, IXr>.. Cotnmbia, A C K» v. J. I. MILLER, AM, Stsantao, Vs. 7a ementiol*, unity; fa now msralfal*, Iikerty; in all iking*, charity* srcciAL wot tea*. Remittances must be auMk in Pont 0®ce Orders, Bank Check*. or Drafts, V possible. If these om not be obtained, flend the money in a Rkumtkmko Lst- rim. All Postmasters are obtiffed la register letter* when required. Papers are sent to subscriber* until on express order to discontinue hi re- wived, and all arrewrsffe* are paid, aa required by law. Merely returning a number of the paper by mail, ia not suf ficient. AU communications relating to aab ibers. should give their names eery inctly, and carefully indicate which old and which are new subscriber*. -.-T only the name of tbe pool office, bat also that of the county and State of each subscriber is necessary, in order that the proper entries may be promptly and accurately made. Marriage and obituary notices, aad other matter intended for publication, should be written separately, and not fas business letters, to reeeiTe proper atten tion. ■f m ChbbLng. To Clubs of Are (5) prepaid sub scribers, sent to one address, we mail tbe Visitor for $2.00 for 52 numbers. Resignation. jRsv. A. D. L. Moeer has resigned St. Enqcli Pastorate in Rowan and Cabarrna counties, N. O. Any con gregation wishing his service* as p*Mor, can address him for a while at Mill HiH, Cabarrus County, N. C. Comapcndancs. Mississippi.—“We can not do without the Fisrior. The clrurcb in our part of Mississippi is at a low ebb, and the Visitor stimulates us to be more zealous, when we sea that this is not the case everywhere. O, may the Lord smile on our Church, and gladden our hearts once more t is our continued prayer.” A Layma*. South Carolina.—‘ A One thing very much desired : The pasture shook) write more for the paper. Not doing so shows a lack Of interest OB their part to advance the caose they are called to labor for.” A Laymas. VimenviA.~~“By tbs way, it is not strange that yoo receive flattering words in regard to the Visitor. Its improvement is too manifest to be unnoticed. I hail every number with increased interest. There Is about it a spirit of couciliatioo that is truly commendable. And this ia what we now so much need, what we want, what we lack. A spirit to harmonize and reconcile conflicting viewp and parties. There are so few of oar leading men that seeai dis posed to poor oil upon the troubled waters. They write wonderful ss says, bnt they are incomplete with- out an uncharitable fling at some body or some thing.” A CLKB4YMAH. ViEGgNiA.—“I think that every good Lnthcran ought to take your paper, i If any are not good Lather* ans, if they will take the Flatter, and read it, they soon will be.” 14 , . . A Layma*. South Carolina.-H. W. H.— we will call him Honest, pays up la full, and adds: -‘Please stop my paper, ss I think tbe best plan ia, never to take a paper unless it can invariably be paid for in advance." Yon are right, sir. Will you set become our General Agent 1 We have the highest opinion of your integrity. Please, are you aa honest God ward as you are usward f North Carols* a*—“Tbe Visitor is the best Lutheran paper extant, especially for our Church South.’' | $.■ '' A Cuuioyma*. Virooua—“You know what the word gays about suffering wrongfully. If you bars enemies, you have some very true and Arm friends. Nega tive men are not of much account, and glide smoothly along. Positive men ate angular, do something, and generally have a rough time of R.” South Carolina.—“A friend sends us five dollars, and postscripts: “Your ’possum I bad to kill. It was fat enough to make potatoes good eating. Yes he was.” Query i What right had “a friend 1 * to kill nod to eat our ’possum ! Wiam* ow Nxwsr x raut —The Mowing truthful estimate s4 the I vein* of a good aswapapnr Is at tribute*! to Daniel Webster 8very word of It is true: Small Is ths mam that is require! j to patronise n newspaper, sod smjiijr i rewarded fat Its patron. I safe not j how hnmbte nod #« pretend!,.g tin* I geaette which ho takes. It ia next to impossible to hU a sheet without putting Into it something that is worth the whacripitoa price. Ever} parent whose aoa is away from home at school «heutd supply him with a newspaper. I wqjl to member what a awrtol diflereore there was between those of my school mates who had, and who had not access, to newspaper*. Other thing* being equal, the Arm were always superior to the l**t in debate, composition and gsniraHntelligearv. Ml*'Sr* "riff* ty these Authorised by the administer the risers mumts to) minister*." sad by the nor tTvsnrk «r» 1 RPwjTq administer baptise*, whfle Irvimety doubtfql mish Clergy are frd minteteve," in the fififa this express! ua is naod in Tun GaamsuiiMi rsl minister*, sssee «*f the* sent nttnsr*. have lately | f sited Hy nod of the Wank ted with the M »s ms* as e*h' me, lev. J. p. Rev. B. F. Allemao, of Topeka, Kansas, has accepted a call to Woodtboro, Md.. and bis address ia Wbodsboto, Frederick county, Md. Fbom tmk Omaha Journal.— “The people of this city and teat* will learn with deep regret that Mi. Kobo* Is about to transfer the scene of his labor* to Mouth Carolina. Ilia long residence here, bis unMemiahed lift*, his abilities as a pastor, aad his mm teflf * *'. , * n * IlfJRI 999m many years the mom prominent among ths minister* of Omaha. By hundreds he la regarded not only with internal, bat with love, lie cemented their aflbrtkms by the sn ored rite of marriage, nod ohm the angel of death has brooded over ths household, be has hern present to speak comfort fa the mourner, and perforin the last sad dalles tor the dead. “Though pastor of the Utter** church be was looked upon as the common connsellor and Mh4 *<*l In addition to his ordinary pulpit work performed task* usually depu ted to four or Are sompaats of the ministerial otter Few men ran boast of a pastorship In the w**t «*t tending without Interruption through fifteen year*. It betokens bin pan session not only of nil tbe quahle t tioos demanded by that high office, hut of those natural qualities of tin position and char after which endear others to ns. Mr. Kahns goes uiih our beat wishes tot Ins future proa parity, aad we know that ia the views we have expressed «« have only given (hint expression to the sentiment which pervade* this entire community." Bubibti —Mr* rinrab ( aaghmsn. wife of Rev. E. Caughman, Lee* ville, 8. C., on Satiday. Janaary 28th, at Lee*rllle, 8. CV OvGhsrehtt. 8hhfu K niwrr< • w *. w. Va Ths fine parsonage came near being burnt. It was on Are twine. Cnasw —defective const ruction. 8mm*a*doah Ox, V a —A Lay man in n letter sayn: “Tbe Lutheran Church in this coonty bus lost many members within the last ynar. God ia warning ns Lutheran* by hiu a# dieting bund to have eur lamps trimmed and burning, ready to re MteSmStetea Blhtsn bmnssnis iss*r n aa fa m.1,. ^ Cpff?* v fa Iwv Mtei$av||gsuPlFlae ^W etb, and to he always randy. “Aar In such an boor an we think not the Son of man enmetk" RmnoeATlo*.—Rev. U. M Gil bert has accepted the call to W» cheater, V*. Ill* snnaeotioa with the Btauatou charge will dose April the 1st. From far Hichor.;-^ The Mohtmly Ranitn-Rrm o fal.—I think that our Arttclos were framed expressly to include the asm Episcopal Okwehei of the Itelorms lion, in which “the pure word of God was preached,* and “the Heera meats duly mintetermt.'* If they hnd meant to limit ths power of salting and sanding miwketef* to bishops, the framer* of these Art! cles would have nuid so in plain term*, and thus ovoid si) cuatrurcf ay no the point. They recognise all congregations of believer*, ia which tbe word of God was truly preached, etc., as forming parts of Christ’s vfcri blc church, aad those to whom au thority was givea to call men iato the ministry In say of the cuugrrga tioos, they reganletl as possessed of that aatbority As n nooseq netHu, then, those chosen culled sad seat by them, we are to conalder ss law tolly called aad sent. I am aware that the practice of our Church doe* not conform to her teaching*, as thus collected from her Office* and Article*, but this only shows that her practice is lacoasist ent with her theory, which is the ease on other points as well aa tbt*. From the examination of the Avti dee of Religion, I conclude that it ia at toast extremely doubtful, whetb er according to the teaching* of our Church, the Church of Rear, farms any part of the visible church of Christ, while (he non Episcopal cotv gregatums of toithtol men, m which the word of God is truly preached, etc., ore branches of the visible church, though imperfect ia (heir y t wilti Liumw. «.«nr hand red dtdiar* raise tbwmsrlva* will hardly be . - M . | K| pf||||j||)|||Sg|g ^ |^||y .yy church |»uper J * in the tor the extenstou *f that it # mmwm NtoMIVfNI UMI RlH ehteh < «>u tains dtechmuras about the * 4;r l t ,.uid.I>«.*! ul Ik** t tiH^’d 8ywad of lbs Wrai, whteh Atewteh renewed evidence, that an external union withoat natty In wcsnil te bat s bellow tmna Bari If them minis tern have left thstt riynod an acmmnt of tin laxity of duttirtar, they have not belleml thwmselves In the Kpis copal I hurcb, in whteh tor yearn the High rhurra, the Lee tfesite, sad vne tvrnnn cnsrvu pansns nave ussm ctuwlewdteg. Bat if than* guat.ls mi* maiutnto that the tJhBttNfftoA gffitolun of the EpiscwpsU rhurah ugyee with the t^eutomteaal eriilug* of the 1 Church sf the German Rsdarmall *. 1 w* And it, as regards the Lutheran Church, extremely rtdtewleua, and mate entirety duay A Rev. Riedtt, I iftk-n* ssaifcfAk# | Ixji imMi' imsmf h mm g)**iw T ' wwssism w* e eater uungrte* .BteSImatete + tensH moreover made aarwral chaages nl ready Ue want Dram the ITaton la the Itotrh itetoraaed Charch, Arum It to 1 hr Itomaa 1^*1 hidw then Iwwrh again to the Catoa, and new ha la la ; the kpmuwl Churah, ti la hard to any where he will Anally stop, ' ■—i" lew PoHkstkas. The tmuiiMi Uiimu Howl VoL 2- ths the Miracles of amr lari By Rev T. Titan Phils f . ' . ■ jh| AtbSHgam a* ^Kskin n*$ in.., k. FMtotsttlmFemm u>ewRtt»F** *181 r P Nat having reewieed V#| |, we l«vetor to lay It ss» the table tor the LirmxV Lrtxu Aug.—No Ittri of 71# hieing Aye, tor the week ending Jan UL has the fatten lag seta worthy wllrhs, smeag ether*, tii-s Middlemareh, frass fflarlmamFs g t KstnCiimHIRPRI ttRI$l teitioa*, fWateR Magurior, The Publte tamh of the raUed Mtote*. #Veeier't Mmgnsims f The Maori Clmr ■iti.lahH ^HLwoiMsAim:dUime ^ff^nSiSH ^^8aHMiiSH aBthUMUioe m0 * ttteMP •ffwPte MmRMrjr uMT the 8h«ps sent hy Char tea L to aswo update ?l>. French Prutaatanta. Atkonermm; Animal Gtetoafaeu, tutor f Brule* and Bridals, fasmrte tor; “The White Man'* Oiwve,* hU! Mott tuxrtt* ; pan UL of “Ills Lilli* Aetna* lligharea,* truasialed from the Pia## fkmterk of JVter Stem tor t and Part II- af “The Two Brother*," from the French of MM. Errkmaan < Ustrtaa, etc., she. The j Arte number of January (Re. Ittl) ' Imgaa a now volume and aew anrira, utlb entirely new serial*, aRhtdmg aa utteaaafly excellent affwftsMty fur the beginning ef new subsurip tioaa. The •utmcriptlau prise of this A* page weekly msgasiae to $11 a year, or to* $lt say one af the American $1 magustoaa to seat with TV faring Age tor a year. Llftlafl 4 Gay, Boston, Publishers. 1*BTKJM* Mt StCAL MuftTHLY, Feb- ruary.-r We wil) send • ewpf af ear paper aad a copy ef frtorf Jfawml Ifostkiy far one year to any aae seed ing us $4 0*1 pager speak* ter itself, and you may Me* tha value of TVSrrv' JfasMWf Monthly from the lact that evawy yearly sabaevitenr pu about sixty Hongs, Itote*. and Che ruses, and from fifty to sixty Bsiw l»wcea» earth at laaaft $«o flniiMMx Mtuacax. Jchuxau Jsuaary —The J—nsmt is hut one dollar a year. Hpetemau tmpaaa uaoi free, (sadden * Hales, .Havaunab, Ua Far ths Lttheraa Tldter A Kiftootti TtoH Mr Editor. A* perhaps some of tbe numerates render* of your ante excellent paper, as oell a* you reel I, would tike to hour something from the Isolated mountains of Booth Western Virginia, I will sak a small place ia tha FMter. Owing to the great irregularity of the mails ws often do not get your puffer until sftet It ha* been issued secern! weeks, nevertheless its approach ks always hailed by oa ss s rtefar, as we are still without s thermn minister. We have preaching in our. churah by MMoe otter deuoaainaUou, sad for this one |*»rttowlar res son some d our brethren shook! attend to this rhorah; there see a grant many young per sun* in I oho will sooner or later themselves with some braoch of (he tom- MLsfi I " Tltelffl W w ishss of all, «md rldt * iff ever in! aad will ever ho page with a Ahant two ttaoth* ago Rev. J. A. Brawn visited us. oad haW • pro by all who ml under tha ussah vuiufi Raverwl sdditems worn mads In tha shorah, and if M worn osdjr paste Ids Aar a* la hate a preach <f, I tod isffttrrl theso wonld he Will - —* she RmuMI^ ow 88* Rw udRfiF dferatt-! brsthran. ohs bar* R In their power, km etMd uiitoh alflUhSel * omi *m g , ""l ttuavol ■♦•Tnmfie^y Is abroad In our me we hsva Omni nomui aw^Kff Rimit , m X, aosiR! Wi 1 »Wl WR pmvi WIIA IR# tt>l8 team ef surtt to thstt long home, and as wo aff And pnrtkotoriy to tr reeled in tha yeong, we b«qa* aom* one will attend to thm g>md work, ttBrifel RMBM& ffMMff^RttRt. nsa f s-gatl terns. mas 'w wwr stemi fifiuate mttNMn to Uis Idy Word. “Go ye ioto all tha toe, the Fsi her is the of the buslmudmaa, Bn. Bo says our aulhor. Thru thu»r to n door, a food Shepherd, u way, truth, Ufa, * vine, bread from hear- ass* kmmfi' i *. * s e*# #kss» Asa* in ss MRP|i ^lRRP!l||RiPlOT wjp «'dhim|k ’-pra l" 8 • * L^juh. gM donnk , , ■ **RP^Bffff8(| pi *7* It win he aswn at once that aoch a uac of ths verb “to be" destroys not only ths sense of Hcriptorr. bat the God head and muibiMl of the Ksviuur, and hestce the very found* Won of ths chrlsttoti doetriue. And men will aa wittingly do (his to *<**■»•' mm# ss *am«sA dmkeasimnHw ttissa CMrf) 0811 I pH UMOr) IOC J rogrt** Row why not tot is h*vo its literal legitimate sense In the words of tbe institution, us in tbe drclxraUtMi, He Is tha Lord of glory ,* “1 om come that they might hare Ufa," “I om ths rtmi tract ton and the life V Ac. The Saviour was not dreaming, nor interpreting dreams, nor s|mak- tng in purabhu, nor using metaphors, hat iwakiag s scdemti, direct address to Us dtemptes, when he aakl, “This Is my body " And no sacred writer, Matthew, oho wrote for thr Ue Ureas, n For the LuUiersn Visitor. Tht Public Warship of God. (Concluded.) Text.—Oh worship the Lord in the beau ty of holiness, (sr in the glorion# mne- tiisry—Msrgia.V—-Psai u *cri: fi. Ill The ruBPOHB oa I>khioh OF PtTHLir WoBKHIP. This unquestionably is the glory of God and tbe welfare of man in tbs advancement of tbe kingdom of heaven oo earth. Its object to happily expressed in the natal song of the heavenly host fit tbe birth of the Great Head of tbe church, when in mid heaven they hung over tbe plain of Bethlehem, praising God in tbe bearing of tbe wondering shepherds, and saying, “Glory to God in tbe highest, and on earth peace, good will to ward men.” This angel song is the key note in the grand anthem of redemption to which public worship bears a most intimate relation, and of which it constitutes a most im portant elemeot. Public worship is one of the most Mark, who wrote for the gracious di<qiensatiotis of God to Luke, who w rote for man. Its design is to afford a suita- thc Grreks, the two latter using a «4e, rimvruieut and appropriate op did hate words to portouity, statedly, collectively and OUJMIXIOHf. r*r —I am s MMrmbsf’ of ths MbstetoFs Luague, Of w hich Dr. Moms Is Fraahtout. aad Dr. ftirobet Awrisri Alteuttou has town call *4 to It to lit Visitor, hut I have just rami u Short afttete iu ths Otor usr, that exprimar* my own Mu|» a* wstt, that I wish to rapraduns it hate. Tha writer, after speak mg sf the teHlisk stttets that w«ra made a jom os on n§o to break H dovra. says that to* tote paid out, aiucw he be ths hurt that b* knew he «ss dslug sf guie W 8* I tori ! hues paid oat $5, aad j I wSfitete ttsw*k ff*k t 9 temem * § hmmamsm 4 m * MW *Wi I RRYW A irfwiff IR the familllU sf Revs. My era aad Fray I pttd the money «Wrfhlly, hnsuuus t tost i 1 UfMte R Ss u far bet o^m | m Aiku **4 ^ mm j mv. mmy M^^^RIRRpA* Ihau If I hud put R to huate ■ ^ smsk Xtom u Asm f Amis o^n- jwft a A^ma H mttnM' Jf ute uttfaF W^mPnw^W m *ttl 1 Rite I'mittr, If ym an aide to (save your west them ups* thu charity sf sth re to a g«hi way to do to toy up treasure la jriy ttdtosii x «g.: * fa susd ss i^iw uurai ^^e^o^^oo uumums tss, wMI sutorgs year grace sf RhRAffRRlki sad give you graut emwfart. J. Hirttix for I hr I .wtfew <"*•* YOstot. Irvtow M lor l 1 fern it. Our author sprat hi* ilrismutem A A*^* mte a$ « ^ s .SI VTuPWR *raRr * jRPm8$I mfA f8fwMpf.fPte iu his lutradurtory chupt* 1 # by sts *i»g list the fijr*<‘haldalr Imfxaps that used hy the ftsvtour st thr fa *4notion, unutaln* ua *r*rd to mmxn “In stgwlfy. tu rrfwvsruf. lo sy mbu Has," sod my* that “the candid and erudite Dr. Clarke* Is of uptatoa that If thr Ravtonr had *pokeu in Ufa hr would have said “fam usr ewryu* mewm shgoijkmtf m "ttym hsfum sri snrpms smL* This luuud oiyo(jisi my body, or is a «ymlsfofi •y body lie then fim numerous tint sure ■ both frvMu (he Old and New Turium su to *b«»w that thr ttfswdfai ^1 4m txi^ol ^tedttfa4ri# , k#*81fu so* mo r* ur * e wt, W* do not H» issue Witb him in smmSiusI Sm .a. . —.... — ..s Jfi .. rvflDi 9m ■MPMpMful Aftffl amMlllS and do not deny that ihe verb “to tri* Is used in the «msr of “to •iff *<fy" to «Msr instnares, uhere dream* am interpreted, or a metaphor is in tended to hr nurd ; toil we «lo must emphatically deny that fc is mUgnyt used metaphorically, m that it is ever so used fa a direct addmas or dsrlaruftoa, such as Chris* mad* st ths InatlTnltem of the riapprr. And { the laataacns hr dies an proof of Ida position show the slmurdity of bin views. For instance: The rxpls nation sf the Parable of the How er is riled throughout Now let us sue how it Indd* oat. “Kir (tout sowrth t!wffk if* mm I tenw ii* iif i~#ttiigr ws^^^w way HMHemwswv^H iff w *.pe - *r aradt the Hsu of Man ; thr Arid sig m*fm m ayshban tbe world; the good seed spmhrlrie the children of thr ktagdom ; the fares rrprmrnt the childrao si the W irked owe; the deoil ia tsri the enemy that sawed the ewestf—ths harwat is not the end sf the world, It only dewtern the end | Ihe su grit am not reapers, they ifaMia reapers. Christ Is not the brand that cum* dow* from «mis fc *■ l^mh suMM-uiim kan^sfi ■ ^hmhih sw^^^u* v w-7*w f, |( *vsrw^^r , s - *ew w' ■ m^nee ^ Christ is ant the door, the good | ■bepberd, the ««y, truth, lifa, hu only Is » epmM of them- He is tbs i “to aiguify," “to mean,* **to *to aymbolixe," dared to thr form at the Huviour's No transistor of the Bible af any respectability has net at tempted It, No lexscographrr of say standing fives to the verb “to bcT thr litoral meaning of “to sigui $,* “to symbolise." It doss not follow st a!) that bee*use the SyrnChaklak or the Hebrew language toss no term to convey the Ue* of signify or rap raamit that the Saviour necrsaanly intended to way that the tody Sac ramrut rqprmrotsd his body ami a.u1 t«> r 1*110 kill'll an |t]|j>f pratatkm sf bis own words oa this found, is aimply “• lagging of tbe quest tea." Dr. Clarke and Rev. Gross know ss little about w hut the flurtoar would have said, bad be spoken Iu Latin, m I do; and no man ran with nay honesty «sy that ht would not have said, Hie emt cor pm ami (law then is the matter to l*e derided t I contend that it must ha settled hy the connection of dr- caaxstaacws attending the last Passu rur sad the tnstltatioa of the Ho|«prr, the train of thought iq the Saviour'* mind, ecrieriuoticul custom, suiheo- Ue deriarwtiaas of Hcnjdure iu to- gurd to the object sad design of the Atonement and the land's Hupfiei, sad the analogy of faith and general harmony of doctrine All these, when rightly studied, call for a kfars4 interptotaUon of the Hsvtour’s worda # CMskauara, a far more rriiabk* ex- pualtor of doctrine than Dr. Clarke, says, “Kxegaam should not Wise aright of the train of thought in the Ha rfar's mind shew he instituted the dapper, should not separate the or diaanew from acelusiastacal practnw, from the aathratlc drrlarslions of Hnriptato cuuceramg the natnre of nor from the general ihe uhriatian lioxinne*. Taking Matthew and Mark alone, wu aright inter that the Havictur in leaded to take leave «»< his l>us-iplc* hy mesas of a symbolic service rep resenting his death. In 1 Corinth isaa aad fa Jobs fab s Mpecific spiritual character is applied to the >up3*r», srlfexaminsttou is enjoined prrvMsua to its rroeptiou, and a Urn <s# off carrsr is aai»exi'«l oa it# sane Imnis. This gives to it a specifically h*fh> f fssh/jr than sn ordinary “tvmi- memorativr meal," snch as Ewingle mad. it, “and hemw," he says, “I bold that Luther's notion of the hriy Happrr Is that which unmuIm most oumpletriy iu all cwaeutlaU with rodraiastkari (irartice, (he au- thrutic derlarstMNis of the words of the iwatitniton, and with the hsrnio ay ot Mcriptura ductriiicw." R Af our author ts so auxtvus to make is wh (Miblidy, to all so disfiosed to ac- koouUdge Christ before the world as their prophet, priest and kiug— to draw a line of demark alien be tween his friend* and liis foes—to make manifest who are for him and who are for Belial—who are for God and who are for Mam mom ; to show who are Christ's witnesses, and who are ashamed of him and the testi mony of liia word before men and augela j to enable the frienda of God and troth to come out from among the ungodly, and be separate from sinners; in short, to identify and openly connect themselves with the church of God, and thus be brought into communion and fellowship with angel* and ihe spirits of just men made perfect. Among the purposes contemplated by social worship was that of prof- faiing and urging upou all tbe duty of making an humble, public confes sion of sin as meet ami proper and well (dcasing in the sight of God, extending to the church, aud to all, the inestimable privilege of confess iug the great foundation truths of 4-hnstiau religion ss embodied iu the rrsed of all evangelical deuoniina tioos, and which has received tbe unqualified approval of the Reform rrw and wonts of every age and dime. Also the gracious favor of uniting iu the general prayers of the church, and her hy mns of exultant praise or pfeuiteutial sorrow; of tes tifying sn abnliug confidence iu the efficacy of the sarnumeuto, aud tbe great truths which they symbolical ly inculcate By tbe institu tion of public worship it was in tended that the entire congregation should enjoy, during the hour* devo ted to religious exercises, the invalu able blessing of unit iug the services d God’s house, and that pastor and IM-oplf should be octuolly engaged in the respective parts of devotion ap propriate to each. Thus God will lie “exalted in the congregation ot the )*eopl*, and praised ill the as aembly of the elders." “Let the people praise thee, O God; let oil the peuplr praise thee, aud let all the people soy, A who " Another eud had in view is the preaching of tbe word and the dis pensation of the sacraments. Preach ing, as has been stated, is merely an dement or jwirt of worship, but not its tutors*; yet it has its appropri ate {dace in the (iosjnd economy. That too much consequence has t**eti attached to it aa a part of pub lic worship by most Protests ut de- uoramatioua, we think highly proba- ble, but it is necessary to its com pleteness, and to tbe ndvaucement of tbu |»ur)>oses of Gial in the evau- gdizatiou of the w orld; for “it pleases him by the foolishness of “signifies" will w|»|»eu! 1 praochiug to save tbem that belie\e." u* we adv*ocr. I>r. Kraulb, iu his cousrrvutive Reformation, bn» proven iu over seventy |mges of bis careful ly prepared work, both by trrefrugi bis argument as well ss by abuudsut quotsttuiis from tbe best scholars of Aud Paul declare* that he was sent not to baptize, but to preach the gua|iel. Preaching is ous of tbe great aud diviuely a;qioiuted iustrw- luctitiUiues for the conversion of men. By it the saving truths and to*b conn lien:*, that IS, ill the words , precept* of God’* word are ex{K>und- uf inwiitiiuou, is to l»e understood cd ai«l tflibmvl i»y the liviug voice, Idorctty, (bat if the t'svHHii's word* teach «dhrr« ise than a real presence, tbs argument must be round iu the other mortis, simI not in the verb. J. IUwkinh. The Jtynod ef Seer England.—This body has not yet been organised. Tbe material* for it are 16 laithcnwi l<**t<«ra, liehMiging to the following Syutsls t Missouri, 6; New York Mtnitfenum, 41 Augustaim, 2 ; Penn svlVauta, 1; East Pennsylvania, 1 ; Husqaehatma, 1; New* York aud Nsw Jersey, I. On tbe basis of language the con gregations are divided as follows: Germsn, 10; Hwedish, 6 ; English, 0. They are scattered among tbe Stale* as fbUosw: Maine ha* 1; Ver mont bus I; Massachusetts has 10 ; Cuui.ectlout has 3; aud Rhode Island has L aud earned home to the hearts and minds of the multitude by the Holy HpiriL By it tbe pride aud vanity of man is beaten down aud God ex alted. Saints arc edified and sinners I*i inked to the heart. Mourner* are comforted— transgressors warned— tht* ignoraut instructed—the luke warm revived aud the wayward re claimed Iu connection with tbe preached word, the spirit of God diffuses his vitalising and sanctifying lower upon the hearts of his own children, imparting to them courage to do Uis will, and fortitude patiently to suffer for his cause, whilst he gives to them an autepart of the deep, aud hallowed joys of the heavenly in heritance. Here also in the sanc tuary the mute elements of water, br**ad and wine impressively teach the uature and necessity of regene ration, and the profoundly my nas nature of that spiritual &omu I ment, which is commanieated tTkl lie vers in the broken body, and ak! blood of tbe Lord Jesus for thT* mission of sins. *■ Finally. Tbs sods -ms™,. public worship are innaroerafa and iU benefits incalculable , public morals, the domestic m? tiona, the civil law and Ha wte some administration—upon ffa q ty, )N>litics, patriotism, pbilanfamj general benevolence and edmwq? interests of a comm unity or Should the public worship of iu its restraining aud positive to* ences, be intermitted for s single w eration, we may form but a Ah conception of tbe horrible c©* ^® of society; and the deplorable of moralx, individual, social md tional. By it is preserved ia minds of men a sense of their $ pendence upon God—their fafa tions to him aud their feDo*.*,. with their future accountability q^ its rewards and puuishmeqfa | with these powerful considerathw as incentives to virtuous o continually presented in the worship of God, a loose monfa prevails—aud corruption, aud licentioasuess have invadedvj& their |M>llutions the channels of tifa politics, literature, and the rafas avenues of social life—what i be our conditiou withoat the trxlixirg and sanctifying power« the gracA of God in onr Srifafc ministrations ? C'owper has hspyk exprasseil fin* value of the in tbe following nervous lines: 4< I say the pulpit (in the sober eeuae Of iu legitimate, per iliar power*,} M urt Ktwnd sekno wle*lx* *1 whitettomq shall sand The most important sod eflertnsl ynd Support snd ornsment of virtue 1 * There stands the messenger of there stands The legate of tbe skies; his His office Mtcred ; his credewlisls d—t. 1 IV.—The Mode ob Majotib Public Worbhip. We hare considered its iusi tion, natnre and object, and fal come to inquire how it shall be fal ducted so as to secure with curtate| the great porposes contemj it as a dispensation of grace, should undoubtedly be so as to {Hxmiotc order aud prof behavior, a reverent frame of a devotional spirit, and the tion of the congregation. ‘Let i things be done decently and is der, tor God is not the nattier coufusion, but of peace/ We repeat that the worships God by a congregation demands e l preteion, the co-operation of the a» j ister and people, the participatesrfj both in the services approprite each, aud neither are to be spectators. It is the office of tkl minister to lead the more devoteari exercises in which the congregate| should unite. It is his provisos 1 read, expound and enforce the wri| and to administer tbe aud it is theirs to receive means of grace as appointed of l in his church and worship, h s| their duty also, in oonnectioo tbe minister, to eugxge in the ship of God with suitable and expressions of solemn awe his majesty and holiness sod A] sanctity of bis dwelling place; exalt his name in a joyful song < thanksgiving; to make a ot siu, aud of the faith of his i universal; to unite their best’ll»| prayer, and their voices iu hy*w»< gratefbl praise; and where this not the case, worship becomes jxjte I snd vapid. Withoat these eontej ents worship is in tbe main ed by tbe minister and choir, congregation is mute and pafa*| and the services are resolved" fal modes of religious entertaiument, #1 which minister and choir are exp**I ed to eiify and please au ad»ir»lj audience, who assume the prertFl tive of setting iu judgment upon ft* j performance of each. My brethren, it must not be frj gotteu that God has said, thatFj “house shall be called the lion# M prayer.” The church is not •SM hall where men aud women sr* **1 lie entertained with a lecture music, but God’s holy temple *^1 sec rated to him aud to bis servid j People should not go to church ply to be edified by what they • r | aud hear—to be mere spectate I The church is the hallowed pi*® p | worship God, and this will only *1 really effecteil when the oougTeFj tion heartily joins in the service* the occasion. Assuming that this discussi*# 1 # | true, up we believe it to be, in light does it present the motive* *** practice of those who attend dira service merelv as hearer* and FI actor* f—simply to hoar readral preaching, praying and singing- ® it lie said 'kith any degree of bFI that those who do so worship lu connection with the un** 8 worship there is a subject in to which onr church in the 1 States has been greatly exert**"| and about which uufortuuateb is not united iu seutiment •II tio»i ooooert*^ 1 Hi *> itS m ! nd f si to * reach * '• b< Mr urosp—itl- •2SSS& ^ Of tbe Zaaent »D J ro ‘ ,, "r h 7 ng of « Til * Mtio e T**® eoD ‘ have boeo *« ’ ■ tkM tbe nee °l JTpoertl di*o*( Sir **' ic ,t ende°f P 111 ’ moi* perfectly ott wt |,«ri»d form* uac: 0u» Sp U. tbe M*J pastor and his fo We decidedly f form of service* preferenoo the tioos: (1.) Because it l order of service ex at • ver J 1*' Lord’s prayer at Apostles creed f< which were mor< daring the second jios, and subsequo general use as ti church, uniform variations in min (2.) Because an was early introdi ti^aa Church, of prepared one, tb years since. Mor of history that th ters rho first sett made use of sue true that it fell in not a few of our the ose of a liturgy oocasious. We tl respect to walk in the ancient fatht church, of the ref pioneers of our ch dred years ago, is the theu wilds o| We think it sen.* Head in the foot trious servants o were giants in In piety and zeal for and in their uusw the interests of t it am not prove h the general usage venerable with tl cen tones. On the lieve that it was t tnnatetoha\*eaba landmark. We how not a tew ot remain oblivious t< history upon this they can comforts position on and And we pity those who are influence by members of of vho are igoorau usage, aud know b own church, or iu T; else. (3.) Because o thority aad coinfor of the chmfch de otergy and laity. ^ e would seem of modesty to imj tod resist the adv Synod aud tbe DistJ tore warmly reco of service contains worship. Moreov chordi love shoul forego the pre]>os> tion or other cau ^cr practices of hundred yoxrs. If whether of neoessit fathers iu AmerT tinie houorwl “way their sous under ^^ces, aud euj clearer historic ii from onr wauderiftl ourselves and to o should uot our ch! "••■to her real uoi ' v hy maintaiu .... lotI ger her auoiualo Uot l>ut herself in *** with the the Reformation, trough all her bci ^tions of her m J ' “« ■» to b« k.»l 1 |f»cious doctrines, the I “Til Of libtT ''uitating tbe eia„ h * v * f »Hen iwie,.,, J '"fared ioto r,L, be as Our am a i- We shall , om the charge of i thl a !>ro f >er »*1 ® church and to c shall com maud j ‘"felfari of °os, and give prot ooxipaotae nod efficici ml ic