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AUGUST 8, 1873 THE LUTHERAN VISITOR, (COLUMBIA. S ( or th# feet right number* will be amt yoa, postpaid, for 82 Address, J. L Peters, 5W Broadway, Sew Mfegfc. It Ik* «h JgrfnU**- 4W. be Z thn t which Oo<i **U <*>■» " _i«d •dTiwI, known oatjr Co Uk» Deuu. Mode of attaining o beurikiary erboUrmhlp loom cm 1 by applying to Dr. & fl* Halliard, Down, Lou i»v ills, Kjr. AO ►be next oeoatoo begin* to Staple*# tier, oil .young ummi nerding aid iboultl apply mm early a* po-wdtd** In looking over the recently ^ . “IJfe of the late Right John Henry Hop km*," w»fe|gj < ?} one of hi* noun, my eye feg ** *ome iiaaaagea in tin; 2|«* which seem marvelously repc^S oneuncustomed to think tbeBeZ tion the work of God, aud mhtm to the church and (be world. On page 374 tbe author Tbe Id lowing wo* received by Mewwt*. ('raddork A Co , 1032 Race tk., Philadelphia, Po. It ex|taint itaelf: LowmiodMirg, Anderson ( a**, Ky., I Friday, August 8, 1873, Tbo Lwhcran Vldkr. It* friend* are entreated to be op ud doing, to collect data, acud oa enewala, and to him tab largo ad Bkw* to tbo subscript i<m u*i Rev. Margavt'* |taa, (wthliahcd la fo. 352, meet* Che approval of ovary metical business man wo bavo mot rith. Will ear minuter* adept and arty it oat f Editors: Ukv. A. U. KUDK, II I)., Columbia, 8. ©i Rk.v. J. f. MIIXER. A.M., Staunton, W February 10 f 1873. f mmmn Ckipdock A Co. Gentlemen:—1’kwif lend me twelve In essential*, unity ; in non <memtials liberty ; »a nil thing*, charity* gjtialk, HttiltiNnr, If #iisi^n*I rin^^smr F9dits#ng^b#p**l f^rogaoutoet w*. I1 t*#e#y, Mferibaarorihn*, fipnngrofidiy » Art8booo >> f b# : 4 *Wi liMtAdMyfekiMli' 8Ntt|bta|knij|jLh www.*, ” *ffl®*'rfffvnffi|fflmjFt ffrfiwlfroff 91 tPwwJ 9 of Pitt* *od Ointment, for a friend of tbe fact of hi* frequent intorrfeT and conversation* with bit f— subjects of chorch uitereat, cieot reason for claiming « f ttii quatulance with hi* view* p****! them. He then adds: “l* these conversation* 1 bappam allude to the common Protema proverb that ‘jastiAeatka ( and os year medicines cored me of Coiumniption ooiae three years age. 1 want him to try them. I gained After* pounds while taking the Aral three bottles, and I know ft is past the thing for him. If AariAidfn 11 *» J. V. Hull. SrtiCIAI. XOTJCKS. Remittance* inust l»e wade in l*o*l Office Order*, flank Check*. #r Dmfl* if possible. If these can not l»e obtained send the money in a Kkoistsrko L*t- teh. All Po*d master* »w obliged t« rerister letter* When required. Papers are stmt to subseribers an til hu esprea* order to discon tin «e is re ceived, and nil! arrearage* are paid, a* required by law. Merely returning a number of the paper by mail, is not suf ficient. All communication* relating to sub scriber!*. should (five their mum * very distinctly, and carefully indicate whkli fere ohUuid which are new auWnbera Not JKho name of tbe post <Ate# but also that or the county nrtd Stat* of each fethm-rbrr h nectMwnry, In ordei that the proper in trie* may be promptly and accurately 4*h. Marriage and! obituary notices, anil other matter in ended for publication In bis reewut excellent address Hsfom tbe Pres* A assetstiun of 4 Tennessee, Gen Ira P. Joses, of he Nashville Ynten and >1 mormon, pave the follow tog truthful account 4 nsvtntnsr morLsIttr - *#• www ”UfCww»i atm mows wumstm s “We do loo rnoeh work without KHUpenaaUoo. We pay too much only is the teat article of a ffiotak or a falling church,’ when he huh iu with a ooutemidootis sbuig iM very rare with him, ‘that is ail On the subject of justification, ^ is no built to be found with | Council of Trent.’ Tbe atttbst|*. oeeds: “I have looked through g the volumes of his work* devotefc our controversy with Heme, sail flud that justification is madcap ing issue in none of then.” Pgftbg, “I wo* myself surprised at them* gy and contemptuous tersenem «|g Urn 3Ath of J«A|, which Tm the Minuter* nmd Member* of the Chmrrh : Dear Bikthsx*—Shall the Ln thrmn Yuriior be dinoruitioued T Coo ore afford to suffer it to suspend f Will we be doing right to allow it to withdraw from the field from wont of proper patronage ? The editor write*: “Seod me 200 prepaid •olmcritmr* and I will eon tinner* Now tin* ran be done carried «wav with them, which IhO IV> establish on olemocynan mstito lion at oar own sxpeium. Wo keep a charity sehoid oa our own hook. We conduct business a* if we owe everything to the poblsr. and the public ie not mtahted to on o farth ng. We an preyed ttpow hy the iharimr* ami iooocent* alike. We idvertim^ gratuitously every week, when we should have the mooev for it. The gracrsl public ore entirely Ignorant—-probably ourselves are not folly aware of the extent to which newspaper* ore burdened by this laahluou* drum upuu it* manor re*, it insinuates Uaelf in every caaertt ibie form. It doe* It through cur respondents, through oulltura, through trnsme** manager*, through prwpri* too, with a* to receive proper stten business letter*, turn. Theological Som nary of the Svxngeli Lutheran Cl nrch. at Salem. Va. toed, and others to F» - m ffie otber-ure we ti \~ in t»ie Unguagi: t bove qoote<l: “It liar 0m which take* inf t j^od. and a revived J which ding* to them it f wb the neck of the Poj 1 trisreb. to beseech tln i F Bpd not to make the ter K which be swept the fooudotiofiof ffi I'rotesiunt dogma Usui into liak* 1 On |m^i* 377 tbe author ujt, kuo* bow Very strenuous be »u g opiNMitioti to .4»i> tiling like Moheh try. Allet diawmg from ku*ai» oerattou u4 hi* view* about the. k«. lulneas of anthei.iv 1 asked *Hhi there wa* auy otgeotnm to the opt tifiou of any one purtivuUi autfiwn, Ho said: ‘Certainly not; they ntj siug the same one every day m th year if they like.’ 1 then ssksi What objection could bo mafit ( the words of the anthem were Am of the augodic saluLatKm, 4 Hail, Mitj, thou that art highly faTorady’ Uo, Let every miatsler and every layman at oik* go to work. .Send in your subsenp tKMis «t «mk*. iki not wait till new so bam tier* can be obtaiued—but become responsible lor a certain oomlier of new subscribers, and me- oompony your order w ith tbe cash. Thru yon will be more likely to secure the subscriber*. There is no time to kmr mot* number*, ami the fmper will hr diacontinned without tm mediate and efficient action. It wifi be easier work to give sufficient |«strouage to the I’mfor to eoutioae It* pubiiestiuu, than will be necessary to start o new (taper. If 200 sub- aenbers ass be added to the list now, a three fold good will be ac corn|dished : The (taper will be sus taiuod—good will result to tbe new aulwwaribers—sod tbe present edits will be in a better condition to tran* frr the paper to other hands. He is noxious to retire from the editorial The next sc&iiou of this institution will open on Tl tirsday, September 1873. TUo«c v ho desire to enter are expected to lx promptly present all the oixqiing ex *reises. Testimonhil* with regard to heir Christian chawc ter, literary att limnents, etc., will he re(|uircd of al making application for connection lith tbe Hetuinary. I w«of| gggoabip too difticul |tod Bishop can end or Ota of Mary, now in v> torsbip here on eart prepared to go quite a - the twelve, *%Vb*f j# bear In tin *■40*# I fikiss A raorm in anils «:oa mtaub *wim* I'HI V Wlf JpUP I “w$w Iffff topa,* sad they wees lu go -wad make disrtplew of stl nut bam (* hut there are uot everywhere l*ntheraa puiptls Her Iowa prearhera. nay, irs, and geoerHlU neb dhmdvsatage to the public as oBonstenc} won Id ca gome invite him—even tuaef the “Mother of < Sow let us not, as I I aftM that we have v fim haven of Puseyisr Lg from it. Oarchu; Ipboes intimately a«s [aMAership with that < We are <•< Thor* is not a Ihimoom, from the lispnuaer of ginger cakes and mbr U> tbe largest manafsetorv, wbieb will not ndvartisw with you gratia—. wbieb vrtll, if yon listen to it, eu leuvor to cooviae# you that it a* four doty to tbe pobtie to do ao. There is not no aspirant for public aud if they were used at every m- vice throughout tbe year ! Halmk- ed very grave; walked on ulmtfc for some minutes, aud them rtfhfi deliberately, though rather reUumm ly, that ‘no fault could be fetal, the pulpit. If thum min Haters of the a iffcHif at ififfim ipit wm vim piianr!* lest fund, amni bAfi hnly to eufier the pulpits of other than tmlfewma llev. Llr. 8. 8j Bchmuckcr died at Gettysburg, l*n„ July 27th. The memory of no mini deserve* to bo held In ^renter reverence bj English sneaking Lutherans tbar Dr. 8chmuckevV. He entered tb« ministry of our Moved Church at a time vrbeu tbe faithful laborer* werr few. Neology, rationalism, iudiflVr once to distinctive KvangeTTenl Lnth cran doctrine and order prevalfod while godliness and spirituality wen With the lows ol with it, provided the words mti were simply those of the Holy heap ture, without the uuscnpturai aifi Uon of ‘3'ray for us sinner* now, ant at the hoar of our death.’ ” ^ Lu those extract* I have given (few fall connection aud moauiug. Tkg are full of siguificauce, aud a§ » dioea are certainly startling to ife evangelical 1'roteataut clmstiax- Sttch seu tun cuts, expressed with tk acknowledged aid of “slang, 1 mi with such “energy and coutemptam toiseueas,’ a fiord sufficient reaaaak suspicion and painful apprebemim ns to the (waitiou aud prevailing tm deucy of the “/Vofrwfoal Epimfri Church in the United State* 4 America.” We can not suppremmr amazement at tbe Eev. prelate’* wfr mate of tbe great doctrine of a*l» tiou, that “we are saved by gnat, through faith,” aud that, “tatf justified by faith, we have peace iA God through our Lord Jesas Ckrnt’ That is a dottrine which has al*ra$» been esteemed au essential one aiact the great reformation. Luther’* A» tguatiou of it as “the article at« * lauding or falling chunk,” «* caught up and re-echoed by ah fe* pure Eugliah liefortuere. Calvin td said, “If this one head were yuMri , safe aud entire, it would not pay d* cost to make auy great quarrel other matters in con trover*) itome.” Oranmer, I>atimer ami B*4 ley had goue to the stake in it* ^ leuce, after having assisted « P® panug the Jiturgy? bomilim *>4 articles of religion w hich g»V« church of England her |*osit»aa witness to the truth over ip** the corruptions of Rome. BlffM quently Hooker said : “Tbe gttd. question that hangwth in controvOff between us aud Home i* nbotf "p matter of justifying rigbteoata* Usheralso: “The stroug baadta* our lteformed Church is by faith, • • • That goue tht^ pie is takeu, the ark is in captive ‘from the daughter of &on lieauty is departed.’” Aud aotaff noble men in tbe same ohnrob Mm ml Chorch set to the unconsci^nK . £ ~ NBpUoeot attempts of \\^e lany com muni tics to | ^ oung people through \ | Me motives, based upo u wumefi social or ecclo I ority. “The temple I h*. temple of the Lortl . |k . ivrpA F And many w ^ ffffi panic at any close n r i> — 3 on of their children w n * quite asampicioii' I leased, when their chi! f *** *twl, as some would isrch in which the boi p »* can be preached. r Jvsiest “Ritualism*’ can P itk impunity. Tbe L | act thus can have j ■t his pride aud his K fogforiwis truth trhki «lway ; tfewy onU have alaw4 Iwtaw the pwlpit, or Iky wi|M feats twowght with Hmmm lartfewrcm cfeafcr* aw (srtrknhi to ott# •* hi lanlvr that tfewarn wHbo #1 Widay aftvw ftwatha? Iw do#boro* might Aar urn* enjoy th# hgfet and hear tfea truth They mwl ewmffy tow re ffemvl to prvorh in tfea wwfewml pro waSisa r . mb x ol luihiiMu.o>a fi miOuJI |Hir« IvrWR fmwm+l mwm I'Mff IMkiaHa’l ... I liffii'ffta manmimi im **&&&*» iverwhelnung The altiwMUom ia trim* you. Hhnii the 300 inr ukcrthri be me cared and the cash tent Is the editor at once f or shall the Yieitot be diacon tinned f With murk sol«c*Uide we await the reapouar of those who read!) led the necessity of a religious paper to (hr welfare of the church. J. D. StURBY. it to be tbe imperative duty of the press daily and wewhty, to speak kith a pan of taleanop*# power, of hia pforoaeopfo daawrvingw. Kvrn that btrmy of stroller* which iafeal th# country and the poopte aa a sort of kiaitaAkio of l*rov taw in# oar imqaitte*, from the atreet nmmf heller of prise com tv «» aragie oil to khe operatic ratprsasarfo, will a«peel proa o write an imlwAaite anmtwv of L *#4 * t gw v ix 1st 4 aa f-fe ****«> amm oa.* P5WWI IMP DH » WFfP tajU w feTv Ailffr kiaement. iaaavted for Ave days, chhafeable (Italy, without charge. [We are required to write ep, to argw np, and pat throagh every rndvpar, ■Teat or small, that almost extinct, tbe fovm tbe substance bail also dis I appeared. Dr. Boh mucker devoted tbe freshneas of his youth, the vigoij of hi* manhood, and the ripeness of] his old ago to the restoration of a living faith, and tlio promotion ofj tbe Higher and spiritual life within] tbe church, and as professor and president of the Theological Bernina ry of the General Bynod, be trained and sent out hundreds of devout, earnest and self denying laborers. The Doctor was eminently quali fied for the work tbe Great Head of the Chnrch called him to perform. He wnseudowed with talent* of high order, which education developed, study enriched, intercourse with ao ciety refined, ami grace sanctified. But his life’s work is done. He has gone to his rest. He departed in a good old a£e, and is with the] Lord he served so long and ao diii gently. We do not mofirn him. We bavel no tears to 8bed2 over him to whom! the Lord says, Well done tbon good! and faithful servant, but we bojM that oar Synods trill render him the tributes of respect dqe his memory] and his distinguished services, fori he was a great and a good man, and! he is more than qjny other man en-l titled to be called tbe father of thel English speaking j Lutheran Church.I Bat for him tbe Church would notj this day occupy tk|e prominent poai I tion, nor wield tbt< inflnence it doesJ We knew him well in foruier yearsJ aud esteemed hiifi highly; the wan parted us, and tlic later church-de l velopmeuts, the return of the Charcbj to the ancient Lujthcrau I ami marks] made us strangers J but death uuitc*.] Now we but remqmber the faithful whose faith waJ Md wriUwa about lb# “Box System,” both pro and eon, bat the bust evi tasme that w# oaw bare of any thing is that of expcneuoe. Religion ia worth nothing to aa except we ex pe so nobly, uticompro all time confessed 1 •Pooora, 1‘ope* ami .< |” d if there is no satvj I s in her—the E van ge u i. nt *—pure doctrines- k. > ia there uone on e I. oarvowweaa fmbnH mar ptraefe#** lo preach any and every whetv the Gropel to all mew. to bar# a possible uawwatka with the pwbtie. But wa nover hear of a share of tack, or of a dividend The ehurrh, be State, commerce, industry. art, uveaitioa and humbug atike, wna :o regard the press aa their Mwvitnra, We have adopted the “Box By* tom,*’ aud find that it works w«IL W# had out twenty-three boxea ia my charge, and al the end ol the firm quartei they wen* brought in, and given to tbe church council to tie opened. Upon oftesiing them the twenty threw Imxro wore fiHiud to contain A91.5C. We publish Una for th# cmworagrementof those who may fori lavhued to adojd the Box Sys tem, and to con vino# other* that the plan i^i a goovl otic, (for |ieo|de about Kiewieacr arc generally in lim iter! csreomttaaoe*, wad they wen* thoroughly Shermaaisetl during the tat# war ; bat while their mean* are small, their heart* are large, aa a general thing. I am not stating this bnsttM I tbink the amount ia ao large, for I know lharr arc charges able to give three times the amount my charge ia; and they may do it lor all I know. But I will say for ' ■* *!*• hi th# German aa weffi a* fe the Kwglfoh Inngnmg* brt «fl <di y««of mew ai*4$ Ife# Getmon fob gwage ll la a wwhfe bmgwe. |i heir advantage Bit littiT kamtlirinx. An Ad dhiMi iff''itav. ffowc w» juMiMik D U The tlrlifo and fomtala of the Nioety fir# These* of Dr ML *§ mj hkdMio Id a- Ijxa-te' A * ffh MUSIff* |b M*"‘to i I w*rwP"w a >>» m * Kronth. D. I», together with an Wf *#:««'4. fi asmi aataA l da#'tanta* f h#a» j ** anff-a** five Theses. f*hftadriph4a 1-other am I’fonbstore. 119 Morih Sixth St US. A * aloanle.tract af ?A iwrivo mo, l^qprw Bead foe il. nod cite wist# IL Agents of th# American Bible Union are about ia different aoeiious bf United Blades raising money for the ciroitlatioci of the Bible, 7 “ oeooie think that thev are th# jBnftaafi tranalaUon, whioh is a aocta Brian hible, having for its chief olgact kb# glorification of th# Baptist Chorch. By th# way, tbe Baptists, in order to ha cowiiateot, ought no fokni (t m atom aorh food i hat many “rhlhlivw of Ife# cborvh* a*e rroted foe Mamet Q What fo the eamhaeirt f A- It 4p {J^nM j (BH^I IiImiikmI of Christ. Ife llow did th# bread h»nomt th# body dthrm f A. n# took M tarn hfe ha left i a it aoid| “Thh* la my badly, fife Wfeat dfcd war ffhtfemr giro ih» aaMsatlss ik* we# to do t A. To taohfe required, attended loviagty to this afflicted lady ami rated for he# to th# lost It was rvfcfoat from the first that b#r life could not be asvrd, hot oaly (wokfoged hy tender watch fulness for a few months, and a pel !>at Immersioniets They have trana latod th# word fa/ptsea to sort them lelvea. Why do## U sot soil them lo translate it outaid# th# Biblo to sorrtapood with thrir o#w vorrioa f •ervittg them for the last eighteen ytmem, aud have ail that time found thorn to be prompt in doing their doty. They pay the salary ol the preacher aa promptly as they pay any other jmnt debt. Not that they at# rich, b#t becaaae they feel that tha “laborer is worthy of his hire.” Not long since my congregations (Ebetiesnr and Zkm) made me n life member of th# Aaforicaa Bible Bo ofofiy by paying over to the Society 830, throagh Bar. K A. BoUm, Agent of the Bible Society. 1 say to oar readers, if they have a liberal people, adopt the Box Sys tem j If tbar her# not e liberal peo ple, adept the Box Sy stem ; it works well either way. If we who ore in the ministry laboring for the salva tion of son la and for the church will In New Market, Va^ should he rn (wired an oar standard English ver the hospital, sod th# phj skrlaa# war# charged to cove lo the bret of their ability Ads- th# patient • • The servaut of Christ, evangelical, whoa church love wa fervent, and whoa v praise is in al the churches. Tnx Mot Titan ranianv ran tax Ms- vt*w Jaly Utaamhifo M GL Oootoata. L Aa Kxnmlaaitaa of ( vetaln Meront Asoatala on rhyafeml Bataan#, 1 Miaawaa ta tha Dnoalal (feaivhm X UhrtaUna Theology aad Unmai Thosghi A iVoah of Di «u»# Rsfotene# Faroiahed hy Mata rat MeUghfo. A Th# Family 14a# of the Charah. A C'ntinal Nottaow.— Wa her# read with profit and |h*i urTihr Amt, omwfod and hfofth aril this have done a w«wh whkh t# oat often wrought ia this world. IMdo the oMMithly eipeass#, a Indy woo daily pee weal who provkdM! Mia* irmiarh with mqilfof afe# r» qmnrm&t dlMl Wmwmm |M»Tf filff Ml CVMI Beneficiary Scholarships for Students, toy purpose whatever ahookl have a intten rcconintciitlaiiitn from the 'reaideut of the Byned ia whkh ha mrports to operate, and if he lo vithout such a eortificate, not a anal i boa Id be given him. A groat data said by th# priori hi the altar fife What ta th# hafy ewefeariat brofek# a«aeraa»#*tf A. ffametldag taforrfi to Gad apoa aa altar <fe Ghfif rif. hope m he mrod witfemst It 9 (tfef ■nils a tn i !•» ta o IIwm fifeaam#uA*al^KAamao Ait-*■ M l.* Ik cacu oilier in inrntaaiag w#f wtta •mall rellahea, aad aa rita wa* ##vy then r. °^* ct f ' :i „ “getber the S, coo *Mleration of "ewbebev cold ^ n M W JV®k»» of lu. cl r ‘ H,Ub »nw‘ o ^" Chorch, being pr to «*te a* odvi •Xti'™ »pi-' ^Port of the J first class medica education. Gnu beneficiary student) ia received from; each Senatorial District of any State] aud oue from eajch Congressional District of the Different States — Sons of physician^ and clergymen; are very properly; accorded benefi clary scholarships. Each scholarship is worth to the reeipieut of it 8200, aud those recta v it g such aid ire in worthy ohleci* aa«l mean# an* ia# ## ### ussjr ■ ' 4 ***1 rows aa ro#*/^**W’7* row w veu furniahad th# qq#mk# of lh# Svnagaiist Church ta injur# and dr poil her by th# iodiorrimmating nd injudicu>uA libarality of bar own Twtt MW Fourt* < dhe church and tiwir duty, they will HI fc#nSiMi Mv f* |^g r> ro I f* mwem tfi-Plhfil 11 Tmhlljf'• figMACifff 11 WC will not trust th# Lord with our nuanwy, will we trust Him with oar soals f J. A tsrin. essavy of thslr awn charoh; thqy ve to oataulers lhwughUessi>, sod «y have nothing talk with whkh to spend to the appeals nod relieve