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THE LUTHERAN VISITOR. COLUMBIA. 8 C., JULY 18, 1873 bar* who hold fosttoti* % tially correct,* which the\ 8y»o<I North hag atricke* «m Free Coufereuce *o«ki h»f« Into fragment*. This boon I be result, A fee? would have united wH* ( a good many would bare tv the Lancaster resolution* d to tbe General Hynod a* ^ ; itea went to Israel, a few wm remained inde[tendent fo, and then sought to fa r ^ Southern Synod ; for there i* yet! Dr. Hies* and Dr. Hum nh» unhallowed and unwarranlei drag the Southern church 1 General Council, it the main < the present state of (jfe . church. We give tins don*. Doctor Biesa: The Free Conference, at' would be of no account «*. the floor before the minlater, and tbe bridegroom baa auawered yea, aaya: m, refuses to be married, and re BMlto In tbe negative atate of aingle blessed tiros, no the Tenneaaee Synod moat unexpectedly even to some of ita own member* said no, wheu the General Synod confidently ex|>octed It to say gen. Then the North Caro lina By nod left the General Synod South in order to effect a union with the Troneaaee Synod, and it turned out a real flirtation. They viaited each other, they hold loviug inter views; bat when the time came to oMMuastoi the union—why “Barkis was ‘not 1 willing.* North Carolina indeed wan so afraid of any union either with Tenneaaee or tbe General Synod South, that a resolution was paaasd, that the question should not Here Oolumbiti* 8. C •a Bet A. J. Browu, of Tbwueawro. This will, we think, by all who bare Friday, July IS, 1S73. Ur. Brown, he regarded a* an appro prtat* leotiaaouial to bts ability and worth. The chair of Modem Languages was changed to Modem sod Oriental Languages, and Tboaaoa C. Bittle, A M, Principal of Forma Semina ry, Taana, elected to fill the chair. Piet Bittle has the reputation of hetae a swaortot orholar In Modem ~—■» fhmrysa.—“Will tiro hundred now subscribers prepaid, ur in other words, what would lAOl) do hr the continuation of the I'iflflhrP Answer t Too late. Nothing ohm IV. A, BllUDl* D.D.. Cfotflaahta, ft. C? iv. J. I. UILLKR, A.M., Staunton. Vs. In essentials, unify; in non essentials liberty; m nil things, e<harity. n sracui. nortems. Jfoaiithwtco* must ha made in Font Once Order*. !Umk Checks, or Drafts, if possible. H these mo Ml to obtained. MUMLfhe money In a Hkoistkhku Inrr- tkk. AH Postmasters am obliged to resistin' k-ttera when required. s ssuaflagi a'Wl.nR*H t' BtSllX t" mefll nwt-ls Hlsuai As the beDdinge, with the addl- them how making, win no* aecosaaso date more than jiffy boarders, par ■ana intending to auad should make application as early so possible oo so bo broaght up for five years, wo think that tbe friends of the General Bynod Booth in tbe North Gnedina Byuod allowed themselves to he overreached. Fire yearn’ nia uipaint ion by the determined a^vo- cafes of union with the TmgBee Byuod can not fail, unleaffPHmat protects the old and faithful Synod, to make that body as symbolical and as lifeless as the Tennessee Byuod. The object of the aniou of Tennessee and North Carolina had for its float jHirpuse beside the better support of the North Carolina lite rary luaututious, for which, a lead ing minister tohi us, it—the union— would he a good thing, the uuion with the General Couual. We sek now if neither Tennessee nor North Carolina Bynods, after all the efforts made, and all the time and labor wasted, have succeeded in effecting each an uuiou, what probability is there that tbe other Bonlheru Bynods would have oouuected tbeuiselves with the Council f Bat Ilolstou Synod sefiurated from the General Bynod Booth. Yea, and the beat and the most enlightened and godly men in that Byaod were oppoaed to the separation! But we must be law. Measly roturninjr a he paper by suul, is not suf- lunfeations relating to sab* imtlet giva their names ran required their •Unghteru The prosper la now are moat flattering for a large alien dance nett mmftou J. I. Mu.Men, fViasipsf. Imt also" tl Lit of the rouutjr *n<t*Htatr at each sutorriber is iweewary. in srder that the i>ro|**r entries may be promptly and accurately ask. Mffrrtagw and obituary notices, and other matter intended foe publication, should be written separately, and not is business lepers, to receive proper atten tion. I. us for |»uhi i hie letter tons It ia indeed arwtifvins to and kwltli am amp fwwwww g■ wess jr owe mss*e sw s g* sas jj praciatad by na to rccaivo auah a tarn had been accepted in the a which it was proposed, tkdi would now I* in the cooflfe which tbe Visitor no mnehaaS Well! We had friends, mi Boo them church had fticnfch Council, and for alt Dr. Muff sight, lie tn a Chilian*, they«» ther Ihiio he did, rind tbsrflj agree with him. We are Agi Dr. 8ie*s udmite ihat the ft*t ferem-e would It,- uf no IftOUll, We *up|hum ! MT*«Sveas flunk* K« not now effect n iinion witktkl ral Cooncil. If so, «*- are ffajjl If oar Bontheru GeurrJ <fe|J not (uaiutain itself—b«f it aqj necessary efforts are put /arA,iH required means employed; 1t m Here, pray, serve and honor fl»|j Gad ; if ministers and ptepk cease to seek their own, said fad and be spent for anb4 our voice ia for uuion with tfcfi ral Synod North, ptovidcdlb! caster resolutions are rvteiahl the General Synod North’st* eomfessional, and yd hare fkh liberty. We regret that we had b l It baa been a drag; bbvUti compelled ua. And now tut write till the price of ink h hi we will not answer him Vk the one f We never knew ifl BK mboliid dr 4 Fbitt«ntWsdl|| and the mau who is both—ti* lifted in his strongbohhu it man may change, butoMghi Symbolist and a Cfailiast trip this i* rather an anorndy-U doea asa focelbit d iii.- SlTDDK^ DliATH.—Kev. J, Win* coff, of Livausville, Fa., died and deuly of 4>opH xy*, oo Buaday mom ing, July pth. Our departed brother was a native of North Carolina. Hu yesym agd was pastor of several cl>mHies gi Frestou county, W. Va., aud a hi (hly esteemed member of tbe Virgiilia By nod. G£N. I . A. WlMK'S ADDKXSti.— The Add ess delivered by General Henry A. Wise before tbe Literary Societies >f Boenoke College, Jane 17th, 187;, will be issued in pem^ phlet fori i early in July. Subject, “The l*hjaical Structure of tbe Do main of tie United Statea, and lift In a narrow, but witrwnwG fertile. MNdl lUlHifilj iMMMIIilkli x Jjlrj' Ml (Im of MtaM (1m and raphlly growing tillage ef Bn hmn. Its henlthfhl nmfl suluferinmi nf lha hmfieud word of Gml. Urn word of Christ In not to bn triad before the triboaa! uf ruanon, but to Dr. Hum also s}ieaks of bis efforts to develop a common arutiment, aud to ambiw forom in our (ieneral By nod, anya: la this, bowevrr, we were resisted, opfMwrd, and made to suffer much wrouglnl abuse. Nor from soy one more than from the editor of the Visifor. W# do not, refer to it to reopen the old diatmattan which has long mot been fimried; but lire. Hsdr can hardly fail to remember Without a degree of regret what bq dSmt »ABlted*si»d ( NabhshAl * safest ns, and against our khidly intended Crabtree, College, 1 tag in the OM llomiswm A! htddon fen flow in the thtahly wwml oarprt, so*passing any * Church Piter On opening our exchanges ftaai Thursday,; we read an j>art of the head of one “Church Paper,* we in stantly concluded it moat bo Our Church rafter, but as it In not aura, and having resolved not to be both ered with |t, we at ooee enclosed it in a wrapper, put a stamp on it, nod seat it to the post office, directed to New Market, Va. We are! much obliged to tbo un known friend who mailed it to as, aud hope he will excuse our refusal to benefit from bis kindness. The first number only of Our Church Pa per was apt ns; too late to begin nowr. We have better things to at tend to. m Apart trout the fads that tbe rieoeral Byaod South was aucresM- futly. tltcugh pmlmbly not as fast as Itr. Bless desired, laboring to tiring atatut ouoocaa and harmony, and that also Dr. HbWefforts, for which we give him all the credit nf disin terested Im-dcviileitcr which be claims, wuw an unwarranted and arhismatie iutrtfereooe with the oonoents of tbe Grtieral Byuod .South, we assure Dr. Blew* that we an* not in the least sorry to have a sanded in (irerenting lh. Biesa fmu* holding his Free Con ferwteoe in the Booth. We did what we thought duty to the church Booth and tier preservation in' one body imperatively demanded. And we aiill believe ao. We fivel^ admit Bkat we often wrote too baiahly and too arverel>, our hand is heavy, and our style ia plain; but that is all that we do regret. We never w rote aa a North Carolina brother did to •a: “Jan. 9tb, 1^71. He—(the wri- ferj—ui not siirjnriaiti at your four) course in the controversy 3-011 have provoked, |»rompfed by the devil, and has no hesitaiioa in saying that be consider* you a mtuthy Srhip of the old block. 1 * AihI iu the same letter : the writer—has uo ftwHdroop iu the honor, integrity, or religion of a man who w ill descend the scale uf human bring ao for aa to tie with deli Iteration.* lliat was written to us by a disruptionist, a frirtid of Dr. Bicss, and a leading member of tbe North Carolina Byuod. Are we not imrdooable, if at tune# we failed to preserve equanimity, and forget to be gentle ? l>r. Biesa then adds: Time has now shown some things; tty iiMiflfffl ■flfl'iiidpflw fiaiAm V v t»flaajjgyt ahua^l 1 IS. S|n ij|T*li at *» }|| ||j former within ila church, aud It has • ta#gsf* tafllfCkAiAdM l|g|r4*|*p Ika We are latorgtcal, but we art op mistakatde IsatMiaaiy ia the grow lag 1* on*'m wue gg V wjy w^^a w*. Ipgfl. t^PBP^t MhflMflW uv*t^lfltiaRe to the surer sa of aa juwtitwtlew tkuiw this eould he dearaaded. Bat thia ts Yak lag us ufl from the whsrh we aal dawu to uevtr. ft was cur privilege firm ta last. Ou Buaday aetwiif, Jump Uth, ia faith. We advisedly say firith ia stead of doctrine. Wo regret exceedingly to leara that a fire daring tbe night of J«ty 5-6th doatfoyed the greater portion of this prosperoue town. Thirteen 8tores and five dwelling houses were completely destroyed with their con tents. Among the sufferer* are the following lubscribers to the Fteefor; *. Bobb; loss $3,000; Wheeler A Mosely $3,000; insurance $2,300; Wise, Whites & Co. $10,000, iasn ranee $2,000; Hiller ft BheaJy $2,* 500; Bowers, Wheeler ft Co. fl 1,000; J. A. Beden bangli $1,000. We sympathize sincerely with the sufferers, and credit in fall, up to Nou 260, every' one of them who art ia arrears, ft is all we are able to do. When weftose so much through tbe unpardonable dishonesty of many who are a! le, a few dollars addition al do tiof thakc us any poorer. tvaparted fruud, «m) Umcat with him the dw&rarted and weakened eonditfoa uf the ffMVkl afliir* of mar rfcarvb la the HnutheiwBiaiua; Mil If Wmw IWil wfllTpiPni MV W tiff* WMfi man* ahsmt We mw the *ii«*tiun y ears ago, and dal t hr brat we knew *a mat fraiaraity to further « p*»d smlrotiidHii N«*t to fwwvewt the thrrwtewrd into dhwwr diflareui iadivkkaals require labors iadlvidaally to build ap Urn church baa tell and unshackled lib erty ta devise aeaewres, aad to We ue grateful he the Ihartm 1 # sympathy; we k*M*« its v*lw*. As for Ms tasM-ntatasa, ail we have to any la, that tie ha* to kamr the larg- auisifl feMewMAiMMm- ami * ka *i» km tmstus^ suss v N:WS||^w *»*'> t Saw 1 ’ s^Was cstc« iiiratioa, revirals aad cool aiooa, public sod private, ate baa 1 n*tifn»fun* We have labored to (b*MM uhlts fti ffrmui the i—l* 1 a*| it wa> fivea, would do woff la get It ia typo aad oftaai read its eluting give Mm all the credit fijfi iMia>nSniis- , «*.- n f A 4 rtsftpy paieu^i i*jf ? * Bat on cam hot «e*la»| • few q. e- * mgttlftaf 1 time enjoy the teUeot liberty ta Qod within the ehaxuh; we heart aad I aad (hr Bebtcn. always had ia OmW wlgMB |Rff MMI ®mMG1 glfJHP Jf Of VffOml* the |aal triumph of the Kvaagattead aksfiffh tent I ifckte mmlfasa ml teteU f tNMmwViy mww mmsms wwitmif law : MIMNipiVPmi aad white wa hare ta regret that wo have deoe ae little, aad oftea mads sad the unpleasant results which vft sought to prevent, and which we still tieUeve might have been |»reveuted in the w»y |»ropo*ed, are now ae- kiiuwltslged und lamented in the very paper which than s%vehemently aud unfortunately withstood our pro fiosst. | Oh Dr. Biros! Dr. 8»ess! We be have you read tb rough spectacle*. Do wifi* them! Tbe very state of things which now extato iu oar Southern church you helped to de vetop. Tbe germs were these; but if you had lot ns aloaa Uit-y w ouW h»v* | on shed You have alienated thour* among us who sympnUiise with you and tbe General Council, and yoa awakened the Tears of the many who sympathise wfth the Gene ral Synod North. Yon profess to know all aliout the Southern church. Do you know that we have liip Van Winktes among us who still use the Hywiu book tbe Northern 8ynod has dtecurdedf Do you know that we still have both clerical and lav mem- Iluwe whontp ww owe are vary prompt, they never foil; those who owe us are very slow sod onrteiebfo. We hope^hat H la not tbeif inten tkm to pd| Os to the disagreeable oe- cesuityef pitber pobltebing or pro ceeding against them. As a proof of tbe lagging honesty of even good men we mkntioa: '* Staunton, Va.—Oat of fourteen de linquents! hree have paid. One aflya n* A. ml mm.dtoitt'M'A «s*«SkmtnMl xi^svkSimaaarosJteasas ** flip ro mroP“™ YMHifPIT WfMl “ aumdl 'kSik tefoid$ krow# ro* «**«.*» ; Lj, omms usmtass . * ’* MUR M^Rmi * i*f -t flyiMli of tkm Himlit, »t*4 « |itutleti Umi in mm mmatm bodr t tW ol nhwh tmm In jt g. .^ ♦ tu,s»'U‘o>‘- $ 1 ir_ tiwf al fi-trikumew sukx ■* IwRr ' Ti YfvwfYfil fly ff^X, RMBm fufldforiwaf Wmtth..—.Wm. Miller, Ytrgteta fie tewwsf 4Mr ef Cufkgy Jdte— IL W. tttufo, Itetem, fm MA.jl -a , ■||,ni Hr teHPHPHwwy. “ 4 ftewlroihaugh, Ifoatb f'arotina. rmillff IT Y. Hiwe. Virginia. through the proses aad we have am baaltaaey te sskj lug- th* nflteet uf that grouih, and tbe combination of ita rowvgiro a uuld have made it a power IMlpiwK This reads writ. It b plauaitilr; fiat what ere the fact* f Tbe Urn* rat Byuod South wee doing Ml It oeatd to eBiwl such aa union All IMlm rMMIT IMrTt\ n\ IWini INII iW XBMni are wear united ta owe gmerel body. Tbe Tbsmeearo B> nod made over lares to tbe General flywadg all tbe Teoneaare Bywml asked «aa freely and ail bout medal rroecvn ffoe con- ceded. TWn the Teuawmrr Byuad stopped. Like a bride, who baa paea ed pleasantly tbrongb the aeaaon of cwartoklp, and who, not till ate w on be does njot owe as, for be stopped the papers That teay be so; but wa never werg told. Winches 'er, Fa.—Ont of nine de liaqaeuts < inly three hare sauted. Skspkert stown, W. Va.—Out of five in a rears, only one has re- sponded. T; h.» Satisbur r, N. (7—Out of eleven, bat one tent a P. O. order, and ha wrote that he coaid not do without tbe Visiiot/i. ^ Pomnria, 8. C—Out of twenty- two indebted to as, two only owa us nothing uaw. d**(*]>i'• with y■' 1 iu your troubles. 1 do so the more because I am aalaafled that you hare labored earoeetly, aad t 1 ^ tku A ^ Wjrife** su Wiai' imt ifhiu* ■ |!NNS#vl?-y IwOfRcwu.^Jy v W niaflw JfvTm. Hr* mardad as tbu true wtoraala uf the Church. It te true, ! bare on guv mi owMkmm diAfind wiArty with vou ftiiil niAtn at nv hM&Jt ran In the South, iu matters of poll cjr. But ao for aa the dtetiuetiva doctrines at the Church are eoeamm ■itete. Va flf<Rte*/«b forte IlfeflBMtb.i raeririag dm rndforui af rotes CVatteit, \ ugfoto Vateitetory. 1 It Cteupfo, Vir r > f H|HHH:! ; H At temat RtoM thte vteas base tbe aacrod mi«t«l«) M 'tew. May a hlssl ProvklriKt pUflU'il'ThwIl 1*row aad health to |#n»eeeato tlmte thra *- F .. : ^ lL.1 (tow WtAH —«—I R^^pf^to* US' cent y knight. This caw teat a* site* groat Interval am the part of (he patentumtj at largo, aa ahww n by the tin tutor* who * i. s u{ iK#m The medal at the late ot^niros **,* awarded VYuak H 1 halmsro, of B»