The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, September 12, 1873, Image 1
Unde & Miller, Editors
OVI LOAD. 0*1 FAITH, 0*1 BA1TISR"—EPHISIAVf 17:6
COLUMBIA, 8 C.. FRIDAY, SEffTEMBKR 12, 1873
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thee, because tbon hast thought that
the gift of God may be purchased
with money.*
18. What ure we to IhiidAf the
fiwt* of |he Homan Gfahobmt
Alww^: Nothing at a»; for fju*t-
ing doe* not consist In abutafning
from any porticnla* kind of food, «e
the i»oj>e pretends, hut in eeaefng
from »in and intemperance ami keep*
ing under the body. The prophet
laafc* Mg'*, Uii: 5* **fe »l aueh a &m(
that 1 have chosen V*
Paul, iii 1 Tim. tv: 3, clam thou*
who-forbid the use of meet* with the
corrupt teacher*, when he add* t
“ Forbidding to marry, and tmmmanl
ing to abstain from meats, which
God hath created to be received
with thanksgiving of them which
believe and know the truth.*
19. Bat the Homaoieta say, that
the church most be beard, fbr the
pope ie infallible in inch matter* t
Answer: We moet bear the church
which receives and bolds (Wet to the
word of God as the only infallible
rale of faith and practice and not
the one which burdens men's eon
sciences with the doctrines of men.
The Holy Spirit says, Jer. vitt: 8,
“How do ye say, We are wise, and
the law of the Lord ie with nsY The
wise men are ashamed, they are die
mavert and taken : to, they have re
jected the word of the Lord; and
what wisdom is in them T
that to ask a bfcmtog every day
non Id at last became a heHnrl
thing, and moaid then he dene
tbough Ureal v, and the* «f Uretf the
far the Lotln*r»n Visitor,
j foundation of Faith.
[fwmiswrf-!
[aK dissemble iu order
r property, friends, etc. T
toll be at heart a good
One leading fester* ef the great
day ef rwrkoutug—tlie one, |*rba|*,
more then any ether, pressed epos
oer regard In Holy Writ~wi.sH be
A placid old lady, who scented to
be all gentleness, once told me tliat
if she ever got real angry It always
made her sick. Some writer says
that a fit at passion tears down the
eystem Uke an attack of typhoid
fever. However that may be, the
effects of it are all bad, in body j*
f*y favorably to
It Is is earns ns a thief in the night.
It Is to take the world by surprise.
One nan not help often fancying to
what a sharp, abrupt, sad swfel
dans the bony movement* of the
•aid t “Dear grandpa, dare I than
also no tonger eonra every mining
and any, gnod morning, grandpa,
and every srsalaf too and ray. good
night, grandpa F*
Would yan know the rotor of the
Ittbtot L»f me mtredaes yen to a
anram ef deep and thrilling isurest
as tela tod by a mi altar, an sye wit.
,, j^y God keep you safe
I* delusion. “Far,? Job
*ri»t h* the hope of the
^Mgh he hath gaiued,
soul r
well as soul. Habitually angry, fret
ful people destroy their health, as
well as their own comfort, and much
of the happiness of others. Yes,
and it is really true that worry kills
tsketh away |
g, v ygo word shall not pass
m xii: 1, “Beware ye
^ in wo of the Pharisees,
Hi *> we Lutherans teach
HI io the merit of Christ
«!
. ah going an as usual Over
kalf the globe Its inhabitants
ha rating and drinking, buying
sailing, marrying and giving io
doer calculating bis gains 1 the
people faster than work. Bo, if y ou
with to live long in health and com
fari. Inara to keep the soul Quiet.
of the eighth Psalm and the
verne: “Out of the month «
and amok lings hast thou m
strength, because of thins «
“The ornament of a meek and quiet
Optrit," the word of God tells os is
in his right “of great price.” Ob,
what could be a higher inducement
te strive after this ornament I The
Lord loves it. He values it more
than the Kohiuoor, the grandest dia
mood in the world. Aud only think,
the poorest child can get this jewel.
Yon can learn to rule your spirit,
oven though it is fiery. His grace
Is enough for all the world. Bat it
is like say other fire; you must
check it betimes. If yon let it get a
little head way, it may be like the
Chicago disaster. Nothiug bat rain
from heaven cun pat it oat.
Don* let your beautiful bonne
bum down just because of these un
checked fires of temper. Watch for
the first sparks. Speak low if you
ate angry ; it will do much to quiet
you. Tbiuk over what the Bible
•ays about the conquerors over this
rin, and resolve you will be another
to win such honors. Watch well the
fires.
flSHB is i^dst s man is justified
r tL. Ed fa of the law by
Efat dad Epb. »i : “For by
Lgg, y* asred through faith ;
'SmS™**** yourselves: it is the
n Al* A.:. * VT-.A rariiwtra likof M rt »>
We were much utml with the
lodietoos msairav iu whrah a uhIil
s^HwWU ramre fan ™ flfffaJfal ww ^faRp QHfa
tire reader reoeolty met the ofcfac
thxra of a skeptical ahoemwkrr He
Ovrr the other
aecount of (brio* Is teheo from
Translated for the Lutheran V|*it»r from
the Zaitarifarfft.
Emphatic Truths from Luther s Works.
“Will you shade by yoor own dr
fasten on two qooriiuug I will put to
youf If so. I will freely do the
same | will abide by your own
answer* ; by so doing we shall rare
mocb tiara, ami arrive quicker at the
truth."
u WeU," he said, “wot with it, aud
let as am If 1 can susww j there are
bat few things but what | mu ray
something about."
-Well, my (Head
•God to flseipture,* reomfaiiiiMoho
to my power, to ioeirwet toe igiw*
mat, reform the wicked, rafpflrm the
rtrluoou. Man farted* me to da this
happy dayw to caret shall he haunt
tog many a ) oathful slum borer's fen
cy; aud the ball-room aad banquet
room shall have hung out their
glittering Ugh to, and spread their
One of .the most appropriate and
precious of biblical similitudes is
that of the Shepherd. It lends beau
ty and fitness to the strains of David
and the parables of Him who alone
is the true Shepherd and Bishop of
our souls. A correspondent in Kan
pthrtJfWW
Texas, says: “The affection of the
aheap for the border is remarkable.
He it with them day and night, lead
tog them to fresh pastures and pre
serving them from all barm. If they
are stampeded they return at the
sound of his voice. In case of sad
den danger they keep their eyes
upon the herder and cling to him for
protection. Their confidence in him
is un boa tided. They follow him over
‘the plains beneath a burning sun for
hundreds of miles while being led to
slaughter. He shows them water,
and after drinking they await bis
pleasure. When night drops upon
the plains, and the herder wraps his
blanket about him aud goes to rest,
I the drove huddle np to him as close
as possible and fall asleep, forming
an Immense white circle, of which
be is the centre. Up with the dawn,
they patiently await his movements,
and when finally corailed and in the
power of the butcher, they bleat
piteously for the false friend who
has led them to death.”
replied the
render, “my first question Is, sup
pore all mewjworr Christiana, accord
tog to the account given to us to
the gospels concerning i'll Hat, shat
.i$*yt lligfr. faflMfeitot- #tof rifawmlsriifas 4Nt
Bt remained silent for *ouw tiara,
to deep thought, sad then was cuu
strained to says
“Well, if all am were really chrta
liana, to practice as well a* theory,
of course w« should be a happy
brotherhood indeed."
“I promised you,” said the reader,
“that I would abide by yowr answer j
will you do the snare r
“Oh, yea,* he readily replied, “no
man can deny the goodacra of the
system in practice j but now for the
other question ; perhaps 1 shall gut
on better with that; you have got a
chalk this time against me.”
“Well, my next question is this:
Suppose all men were infidels, what
then would be the state of London
ami the world P He seemed still
more perplexed, sod remained a long
time silent, the refder doing the
k Fkjtodtt may He.;
Calling upon a neighboring phyat
and command it, and the VOW* are
spoken, then he takes and givre the
true sacrament, that is, Christ’s body
and blood, just as mturb as the one
who gives and receives it most
worthily. For it is not founded on
inau’s holiness, bat on God’s word.
And although no saint on earth, nay
no angel iu heaven can make the
bread and the wine to be tire body
aud blood of Christ, so can also no
one change or transform it, even
though it is abused. For the word
iff (hriig, m is written in James
B; hr thin is not the true and
ifhto,-tat inflated science and
red hypocrisy, which the true
rianfcith can not at all tolerate.
tiiUsopgh the real christiau faith
ftrat i» nothing more without
refafi the sun is without heat,
ktym Beans follows that good
m (father with faith justify and
*®)kr trie positive declaration of
ttoptniet that salvation is ouly
fad by-grace through faith and
Itosgh works, that God may
pd ike honor and the glory, re
partaken. * .
Ought the saints to be wor-
aad the jest half uttered, the song
half sung—they shall store upon
one another there to pale affright
la the busy market place the buyer
shall forget the price he offered—the
sellar the price be asked. At his
deck the pen shall drop from the
writer's baud. The reapers shall
fling the gathered sheaves from their
hands. And to that quiet church
yard that group around the grave
•hall be convulsed with wonder, at
the oottLu bursts and the deed man
springs to life sad stands np by their
Mdfi.
she could gather strength aaftetoat
to communicate the state of her
mind. la Ure meantime 1 u#s per
untied at brief intervals, to speak
to her of Ure rujn of the soul by sin,
its recovery by the blood of the
Cross, the faithful saving of the Gos
pel, aad the mere) of God to oer
Lord Jeeea Christ. At length, one
cuol morning, her decaying energies
revived.
Having repeated to her a portion
of Ure 14th chapter of SL John’s
Gospel, 1 asked if she had any sweet
sense of pardoning mercy t She
whispered, “I have, through faith to
Jeso* Christ.” Tbeo gathering re
uewrd strength, iu a sweet, sort
voice, she expressed herself io sub
stance as follows: “A short time
since 1 was enabled, by the grace of
Ko, Hear Isaiah lxiii:
fa thou art our Father,
Abraham be ignorant of ns,
red acknowledge ns not:
1 Lord, art our JFatber, our
blood; likewise: This do (namely
which I now do, institute, and also
call;) give and take. Tbia is as
much as saying: God gives, yon
may be unworthy or worthy, there
fore have you here his body and
blood, in virtue of these words
mountains which I will tell thwe of.”
Without stopping to ask s reason for
this manrehms transaction, are with
At leugUi hr said, “You certainly
hare beaten me, fur I never before
saw the two effects upon society ; 1
now are that where the Christian
builds np, the infidel is polling down.
I thank you; I shall think of what
lias pasMMt this afternoon."
The sequel was that be was fully
persuaded to his own mind to give
np all his infidel companions, and
was led to follow the lord Jeans
Christ. But the change did not stop
Iso the Lord Jesus, Mat. iv:
•Mwers Satan out of the
®*ot: “Tbon shalt worship
its esscsittoa. He rises early In the
morning, with his own hands he
cleaves the wood for the burnt offer
ing, and gets all things ready for the
sacrifice; sets out on a three day’s
journey, carefully looks about him
ae he goes for the place appointed by
God for the offering^ and when he
has discovered it at a distance he
%. j
•ays to his young men: Abide ye
here with the see, and 1 and the lad
will go yonder and worship, and
come again to you. He binds the
wood for the burnt offering upon his
son’s shoulders, and with tire firs
and a knife in his hands they pro
ceed both of them to the spot. He
talks with Isaac as if he were going
to offer but n common sacrifice;
hears that very trying nod most af
fecting queetioo: “My father, behold
the fire and the wood ; but where is
the tomb for a burnt offering r Bee
with what holy reeolntton end com
posure of mind he builds an altar
there, lays the wood iq order, binds
Isaac, hie too, for it le necessary that
Pbb8oxal> Application op Truth
—A friend recalled the case of a
teacher, who, going to meet his class
at the hour appointed, found but oue
present. Annoyed and discouraged,
his first impulse was to place him in
some other class, and spend the hour
in visiting the absent ones. He,
however, opened the Bible, and was
it chance or was it the good Spirit of
the Lord that caused his eye to rest
on the passage which spoke of Jesus
sitting on Jaoob’s well t Yet, weary
as he was with his journey, he faded
not to beoome the teacher of a Hast
of one, and through that one leading
many to believe in his name. The
lesson came home to his heart The
application of the lesson that day
was neoessarily direct and personal;
and daring the ensiling week the
faithful teacher received a note from
his scholar, thanking him for speak
ing to him as he had done, 'telling
him that the teaching of that morn
ing had been blessed—that his one
scholar had found pardon aad peace
to Jesos.
Burning thr Bushel.—A poor
woman who had what is called a bad
memory, went one day to church
and heard a sermon upon dishonesty.
A short time after, being questioned
about the text, she complained she
oonld not recall it, ‘‘but,” she added,
“I remember that when I came home
I burnt my bushel.” “Be ye doers
of the word, and not bearrtu only.”
Afflictions are as nekdfhi for our
souls, as food b for oar bodies.* -
Truncated for the Lutheran Visitor
Two Incidents.
A DUKADPt’L LAST WILL AND IK8
TAMKNT.
Dillcher relates fhe following io
his “Weg dee Lebens”: “A mer
chant, who formerly had been a me
chanic, was on his death-bed. He
sent for a notar)* and witnesses to
make bin
great, shall rise. Aud in a momeut,
to the twinkling of an eye, by the
forthgoing of one flat of the Ouaaip
oteat, over all the vast congregation
of the living with which that still
vaster oongregatiou of the dead is to
mingle—over all the bodies of the
living a cliauge shall pass that shall
make them like to new bodies of the
raised. And all ahall be caught np
together ifc the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air, temporarily uplifted
above those fires by which the world
that now is, and all these its present
works are to be burnt up. And the
vast oompany as it rises from the
earth shall meet another, perhaps
vaster oompany descending from the
skies. For he who shall that day
oome to the clouds of hesren with
power and great glory, shall come
with all his holy angels with him;
and there too shall be those angels
that lost their firyt estate, and who
had been reserved to everlasting
chains under darkness unto the judg
ment of the great day; heaven,
earth, hell—coming thus for once to
gether—that out of that intervening
earth, heaven and hell might gather
all that each could claim aa Ha own,
know all you say; it is refreshing;
I thank you for it.” Her irrefigioua
husband was a silent and deeply af
fected listener to these words, aa
they dropped from the lipe of his
dying wife; and we trust not* with
out good effect. In another instance,
such interviews, under similar oir-
enmstances, resulted, under God, in
the conversion of the patient and
her siater-ln-law. Both are aow so
joying the fellowship of the saints,
and the privilege of membership of
the Christian church.—Christian Ban-
. Apostle Paul admouishes
Chians, 1 Cor. x: 14, “Where
dearly beloved, flee from
*7" t
j* purgatory spoken of in the
’ V' ' *.-•*; v t •;
lTlL Far fr®® h 'y the Bib,e
■*** very opposite doctrine,
b of the righteous are with
ao torments assail them.
: A3, “Blessed are the
w ich die in the Lord from
And Luke xxiii: 43.
and commenced:
First, I bequeath my body and my
soul to the devil and all the spirits
of hell for eternal torment. His wife
listened terror struck and asked to
tarn hie thoughts to another snbjsct:
What he wanted to become of her f
Yon, said be, shall bum with me in
hell fire, for you are the cause of my
serviog the devil for money and for
possessions. I could never satisfy
your love of show, bad therefore to
give np my trade aad beoome a mer
chant, and lie, cheat and impose on
people; you therefore neither ought
nor shall have it any better than I,
and must burn with roe eternally.
Isaac, his sou, for it
a sacrifice be bound, and, having
bound htoiftbe lays .him on the altar
upon the wood ; now, with his hand
o« the head of the victim, aad ep
parent!y forgetting the bowels of a
father, aud putting on the awful
gravity of a atari Acer, with a heart
fixed, aad an eye tilted up to heaven,
be asihre the knife nod stretches out
bis arm to give the fatal blow. Be
astonished, O heaven, at this; and
wonder, O earth f Here is aa ex
ploit of faith aad obedience which
^halt thou be with me in
tee we to think of papal
^ sod the jubilee-penny t
^Nothing at all, Listeu
Micah, iii: 11, re-
h g ooorere; “The
^eof judge for reward, and
thereof teach for hire,
P^hets thereof divine for
jet will they lean upon the
**y» not the Lord
fa r .
what 8t. Peter answered
i* i,l° ffered bilu moue ^j Acts
* ^hy money perish with
All Have a Wore to Do.—Tbare
is room in the ebureb, aad need for
all manners of workers. The poorest
ami least recognised are as much
needed as any. Open your watch,
your eye falls on jewels there. But
the sparkliug jewels can not say to
the modest coil of steel beside them,
“We have no need of thee,” for that
is the mainspring. And the main
spring can not say to the tiniest
cogwheel, “We have no need of
thee,” for without it the works stand
Let You* Light shinr.—Shall
ws sot be eoottomllj letting un
saved men see that we have got what
they might well eovy I Surely If
they saw ns winning Christ, and
finding what delighted us, and kept
os ever searching further, they might
be allured. If they saw that we had
got a rich secret they knew nothing
of, it would draw so ora, who fancy
when they hear only a few oommoo
place words about Christ, often re
peatsd, that there Is very little to
Christ.
OUT OF THB MOUTH OF BABKO.
A wealthy family dhl not ask a
blessing at meals, ami when their
minister once dined with them, be
not only asked it, mit requested there,
to do it also at all other times., The
request caused some embarrassment
and silenoe, which the head of the
•till. It fa just so to the church of
Christ One little worker can mar
the whole bjr failing to ftilflll its
office There fa s place for each.
wonder to angels aud to meo. Abra
ham's Isaac, Sarah's darling, the
church’s hope, the heir of promise