The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, November 07, 1873, Image 1
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ORE LORD. ORE FAITH. ORE BAFTISK."~EPHZSIARS 17:5
COLUMBIA, S. C„ FRIDAY. IOYEMHLR
OLD -SERIES. VOL. 6-NO. 268
oil of said church has applied ti> tkta
Conference for adrioe in the mailer ;
therefore,
“AVralrerf, t. That it to the opinion
of this Conference that there is aa
implied slander upon Mr. J. W. Miy
ra}', wife and relatives, In the inscrip
tion upou said toaitafton*.
“AYsvlr*/, i!. That the said Mi
chael Garret ia within tb* jurisdiction
of the church eon noil, and that be
subjects himself to ouspetMUou or
expulnkw frutu the cbunjfirtiy refus
ing to ui«wt the evened when cited.
(Vide Formula of Discipline, chap.
4, sec, 8.)
“/toeefosd, 3. Thai it in the opurioa
Selections.
This 1 meeting*. There seems to be no
f# th# Lutheran Visitor.
a-ocs of North Carolina
mind unfavorable to giriof full at
Usui too to a work whose importance
always to wen infinitely above every
ether—that of saving the multitudes
from sin through a revival of pare
end aodeftled religion. Eve* the
financial disasters which have occur
red and absorbed so much attention,
tend rather to rhasten the mind* of
the people of God, sad may be a
means rather thsa a hindrance to
bumbling the soul and bringing it
Hut tf it be trie that the Ixwd can
Mad pleasure lu us, let it be our
filmy to ssjotaa and lie glad in him.
“U is most hr os,” says our Father,
“to make marry and be glad * “The
King hath brought me into bisobam-
bers; we wdl agate* and be glad in
bias.” “I will go until God. my cs<
eroding Joy * “Itijow* ia the Lord
always, and again l any, rejoice-”—
Oqs of the principal stsmsuto of
bliss ia the world to cams ie lift.
Ancient cities ware called aflat
bealbeu gods. Athens was tho ettf
of Minerva, and Roms tho efty of
Mars. These were dead and false
gods; but tho holy Jam sal am—tho
city of the ever tasting kingdom—to
tho city of “tbs living God.* Aa its
gales are ever ofma to eJQ who may
mrt'iuaif to r Si tor 1 hrmn m mm
within lf« pearly gates, furs moat in
the sort**, euthrousd ia gbsry, ap
pear* to my eoul tkttHme who is tbs
‘ftmaa r reel ton sod tb# Ufe ” tho^oaa
flfMpee, in aoootyhmoe
* ^^oas resolution, met at
Bownn County, N.C.,
Lisby, the 24th of Sepfem
ft was one oi the most
S-gjmdbest attend A meet
'fjgkiBd I bare been present
ftfttfe become a member ot
fLod. AH the clergy be
' thl* Owiferoad* ,were
the exception of j two,
S^i w*s sf&l other
Brnfesttettou of N^awmJr
Lpj opened at 10 o'clock
with a very instructive
Ah’edifying sermon by Kev.
^iJer, lately ordained to the
and probably at no period in our
history were they mom extended
and salutary. We ask pastors,
aiders, member*, one and ail, if it be
not time to unite In the prayer, “O
Lord, revive thy work V'—Heroli mod
Garret should either insert the ini
tial * of the father, ‘J. W.,’ or strike
out the clause, "Daughter of Leah
Murray,’
"Resolved, 4. That it is the opinion
of this Conference that the church
council baa charge of the burial
ground, aud can notify the said
Garret either to change the inscrip
tion or remove maid tomb*too.*; and
in the event of hie refusal to do
either, the church council has, by
virtue of their office, the right to
remove it,”
A certain obnoxious, unadvised
aud partial editorial aud aueolutmu,
which made their appearance in that
paper, preaumptuoualy termed “Oar*
Church Vaper. claimed the attention
ami consideration of this body. We
will not burden the column* of tho
Visitor with the affair, for were we
to notice in its columns all tho
pcrveraiou.% uiiarepresentation* and
digressions of which that abort is
guilty, you would have to enlarge
the Immtor to a quarto, aad the*
want for room to print your edito
rials. Of late, it has descended so
low iti the scale of joaniolism as to
drag into its column* the grimiest
personalities, and wilfully insult aged
christian minister*, for the simple
reason that they loved aud honored
the “mother Synod of the .South* t**o
highly to allow U to humble and
degrade itself ip twiug prematurely
and unlawfully Joined in a union
ter, whose past history is not very
desirable, aud whose works #e!
dea.I. Yuu «l» wW |M) I,
! not paying any wurMthw to that
: insulting sheet, for it was ebunfte*-
j tineiy begotten ami clot lied ru tbr
foul rags ot insult, rotor* present*
tiou and perversion. One thing is
certain: it will never do much harm
iu our 8) nod, for it is taken by but
few aud relished by less,
A very interesting article from tbe
columns of the Westsr* Imdumtor,
headed “Kmauuek's CkiurciT" was
read before Conference, and as it
contained light as to the split be
tween the North Carolina and Ten
uesaec Synods, it was ordered to be
preserved in the archives of Confer
once for future use. A commute*,
consisting of the Revs. Rothrock
aud Neifler, were also appointed to
, investigate the claims of our Byood
. iu said Kuionuvi’s church, Lincoln
| ton, N. C., aud report at the next
J meeting of Conference.
A resolution was passed to ammo
4 rialize Synod on the subject of bold
j iug an anuuai Hunday school Con
vent ion within the bound* of Synod.
Resolved, Tkot tee, the member* of
the Rastera Conference, recommend to
the favorable consideration of our peo
pie the Li tukkas V* imitoR, published
by the Ret. A. if. Hade, PJK, (Mum
bia, IS. C., aud that tee esert ourselves
to in tr oil act it among our people
The next meeting will eoav«o« in
1’ilgriiu'* church, Davidson County,
I JSL C., on Friday befon" the llfth
a Sunday in March, IB74.
b The Conference was closed accord
II iug to the regular form, and all
the members returued to their re*
^ spective fields of labor, delighted
6 with the nuauimity aud good feeling
° which prevailed daring all its sea*
11 sious, and encouraged to prosecute
e their work with renewed energy.
The gmat ofegect of the gospel is
to save the world from sis. For this
cud it mss forth the merry of God
through a At v tour, aad appeal* to
Individual men to turn from ungod
linens aad hod iilvslMa by faith in
Christ. Te overworn* man's loddfor
csmmi to ipiritwnl things, to break up
the dominion of sin in hit tool, to
mobs him n aeo creature ia Christ
.) reus, oim! to aid Inn in all his
struggles to gam the taaaiery over
every enemy sod reach the kingdom
of heaven, it offers him the Holy
Hpirit ia hie regenerating and aaocti
fjiag power
then related his hell did dint lit
died at tho very msffieat of the iw
. *•: Vi sf An ffipp^y title
•f omto colj fswwoaded
toddy rviij'tiljjr U took with
camsmahm was prayer, aod have
g a. s a, • an^o a Su. a ^^
UPVMaDPl Jmwk |P*^I k'% wn lffiPP
.. . g.,1 ^ h«^a.^-S a^ ia. fk
pi 11 Mpj TiPffiwWKI (Ml it nm%
Is a privilege a* moth higher than
that as hcaveo la laghor than earth,
mss H t ffiM>*mumasak fLs iMnanasusmsfi mmrntkunKhk
as «io*r* raloess r* nvjmo man •
wmMtm Wf gn to war Father
siMt oar left to telt oat oar iroatdea,
ton settom oar joys, aod wo go sway
etMvftalt* shetWt oar Fattier has
take* say interest ta the matter,
His subject was,
llfkt of the world. r He
a^jt is jut'li a dear, lucid and
ysimnnee that the subjev-t
\0d d» discourse will be re
Tiie Eibls in Efdns&iioc.
To the savage there is no past, no
history, no arts, no science. His in
dividual memory can not retain the
facts that belong to a period anterior
to his fathers, or bis grandfathers,
or that pass the narrow limits of his
tribe, which traurmit them by means
But a book may
Ljggtil by alt who heard him for
to come. Ho is “a work
Lldmedeth not to be ashamed,”
Ifglsrd has blessed him with
Lgjgitiadmg heart, rightly to
||he Word of truth,
gptkis sermon the Conference
• sgsiarly organized, the roll
!ja aod the names of clerical
I if senators recorded,
gtfceiioo for officers for the eii-
m mt was next in order, and
yid ic the choice of Rev. S.
tigg, President, Rev. J. G. Neif-
ktoret&rv. and Rev. 8. Scherer,
Tbs acuvs •ymimihy
of the Fsthar. the tino aod tbs Holy
Ghost arc ores dispisjred in man’s
of oral traditions
be tho memory of the human race
fur thousands of ceuturiaa. With a
book m our bauds we may recall the
lives of Moses, Domer. and Socrates,
of Plato, C*>sar, aud Coufadus; we
know their sayings aud doings, and
iu the order in which they took
place. N Ws have therefore lived in
all ages and countries, and know
those who were great either for their
deeds, thoughts, or discoveries. And,
indeed, the Almighty, as if he would
show mankind the importance of the
written word, has given ns the most
ancient book in the world, the first
book penned by men. the book pat
csceUenoe — the Bible — which has
come down to us through forty ceo
tunes, translated iajto a hundred dif
ferent Lou goes, studied by all nations
oi tbs world, aud waitiag them ia its
course ia the beads of a common
great li the mystery ot
i Yv. I» HwHlkaani «f wfc»t Clod says
IS S m Itflll CXO-nr <»f If:- <1< jj
W^a w iftijF mh 4snlb ^M*yHgggg||Mgjm|na j
pilfl wFR WtititMi WWtiPldHffiffim PPffiHMffillh j
■ ftilrw* MMKtr matter lutes— * as with
« ssmes if ner-4, would ft amt hn
Hr tier te watt silratly Wforw the
lewd that tie may apet ta am, than
I ta kneel in the sttiiode of prayer
sad gw through n tifehms form 1
Prayer is a enakity when ft «
jwrssrs a felt want, wfthoet this,
the Hess form af wards is velar. Taw
eaght, iodsusl. te pray without rams
tug, snd ta he ever tanging for
—•snathrag higher sad better. Hat if
« m.-, ... -i... —- mstiO tah amIJ smum
h’Wtiif HMnffifh & wlffitiffilty fpO lip miffiti UCHi
; say, “Apemh, Lard, for Thy surreal
The chief mstnunentaiity ordamed
for thm work is preaehiog—* preach
the |—ptl [irrmhiug the sued niter
ated truth as God has revealed it
This is God’s plan. But however
faithfully truth may be preached, ft
will fall upon the soul lifeless unless
the ftpmt af God give It power.
“Not by might, nor by power, bwi
by my ftpint, mattb the Lord of
haul*.* “1 ^Peal# have planted,
A polka watered ; but Ged gave the
•waters, h using* ms imdtad him
SMASffife* smutoSM—a. ■——h- a. M c. j—SI
P* ffiP’fm’ffib, Mffir mWmN|P ffiw
a distance; tint ft hriifs me as a asm
la a Fafttinr, I«* hear to* vuaoa, ta «ea
hs» smile, fo share km jay. (Iwl) a
§■ *1 —a# 'a ■—a I iltMaSwS »• ! -k • fan m
I mwi fo tmtiW miMNfol mm* m m
bfosatag, small sons nta ismsttw it.
tiregabr order of business was
hiriftftad considerable intercut
jjtisader “pastoral experience,”
md religion in each congrega*
s’asd “interchange of views on
themes sod usages of the Rvan*
fedLattorsn Church." From rs*
ihusde by each minister pres
l it was evident that the true
it aid eultus ol' the Lutheran
•cli remained uo longer a thing
ill p—t, hut that, like « living
Nfte, it has infused itself into
raftfatt, aud is working with happy
dt the great ends for which it b:
iti. A pure go«|>el ami si right
i jtropei use of the sacrauieuts
iwer been the boast of the true
tifc, and to-day both of these are
dm tbs bounds of this Coofer-
t, ia is clearly show u from exist
There is no
Thin brings ns to the point ws would
nrge. If every faithful pastor in
ttir church were nuked, Whnt is at
pswarnt the great need in your work f
the nanwer would no doubt be, the
out panting af tha Holy -fwrlt, ta
Uf earthly
to bring ninaurs to Christ; in other
word*, n genuine and powerful revi
eaten, after centuries of barbarism,
widened the sphere of intellectual
action over the whole world, the
publishing of the Bible was the first
effort of the in font press. The read
iug of the Bible laid the foundations
of that popnlar education which has
chang'd the face of those nations
and lastly, with
# i ~ — Jft mu* m m
WWW foWH fffWFfo WWt pWlT fffo Wffiirffii rlTl
upau tho earth, tbs fiuwefw will mti
hUwm. fto guar efforts may be wu
uearfod, Ira! you will bring forth no
frail unto God nukes yon abide in
Chits! And bia words abide In yon
I nosh) nay a fen words iwgaid
that w^mw iP «iwhn f ftai woT
with those who have pot um Clbrtst;
not so with ito— whom God dehgni |
eth to hoSMW ; wot so With those who
have eaten of thr Ittwad that came ;
down foom hr*vest, for “who—»ra
shall eat of thi* brn-l shall ti«f for
ever.* They are —nasi sulo the
angels, end shall dm no mote $ foe
bfr fill* tha entiec system, aad as
they walk the golden street, joy and
fore bra*u from every eye, Arose
entry eonatemamw, said fear hat
takem Might fra— every hyua. 11*
tuiUI iKf.m on the IsjiG at Lhs “fit if
of Hie r ft* water, pars aad ctasr
M crvsfaJ flows at their fesA. *a
emblem of the portly of the oeantcy
they inhabit Gver their head#
wave the branches of ths “tree of
i life,* its jpfT foC^foNfoifo (trail latsmdsd for
| the health of |he aatams of thoes
| “which are written I* the Lamb’s
book of life.* They (dark sad sat,
for they shall “haager no more,
neither thirst aay more, for tha
Lamb th*t to in Ihe msl< of the
It to conceded by the evangelical
church ie all denomiaations that re
vival*, ia the tru« sense, are decora*
bte, tf not s aeceasity. It to aoeoe-
tunes said that ft chnatians would
always do their duty, were always
being as they* should bee. revivals
LetdL*
* Gan this be inset Wber«j* «— 1
have follow atop with him --4 tor wofa*
af thadast with the hmg of haagw.
tho chief ««f *it> tort r • ii L 1
s4 glory ! Let as suney (W giuol
thing* ah* k trad has prspai*.*! for
ttirsa that love him. The gtortoa of
him ufto whose Mtora stop 1, a pom
hot ohe. am unHed, asq naenmtared
and * salted; but grara make* ns
parhahera of them all Ie be 8— of
the moat high God 1 He am I Is
he heir uf ail things! Ha am I la
he a cttisen af heaven! Au am t.
Is tor a jrip jovest * lie am I * Ie
which posse** it
the Bible In their bands, aod moved
by the Bible—the primitive book,
and father of all other books—the
English immigrants crossed the At
lantic to establish in the north of onr
continent the most powerful states
in the world, because the most free,
aod those iti which all, without dls
Unction of age, sex, or fortune, know
hoir to read all that the science,
talent, genius, experience, and ob
serration of all nations aud ages
have treasured up in book* A com
plete course of education may be
thus simply expressed ; read what is
written In order to understand what
is known, and continue the work of
civilisation by adding tne fruits of
yoer own observation.
N cireamstances.
ker my modern, spasmodic revi-
NspBit—Wiiich always undervalues
pawns of grace—found iu onr
h&k Wherever the Word is pro
mti ia its parity, all these human
Nrf plans and method* vanish.
Wtof tome of the “tares” which
r wil one sows where the “good
wtaw taken root; and although
r* tores are very obnoxious and
yet must we be careful
***tro©t them out. Hainan in-
ttir rLarch wmtid always be reviesd
a* we femstoh fehr Duly Hpini to
take ef ihe Ikwgata t htve* aad ata»w
ttiem aula as. The lugforat jay to
bras— ms earth as She Jay ef to* tag
6ft: else tore* ffisal reft—ca meat
Tly* to the mi ef llmset, ef Whmh be
asya, “Tb«we thiag* hare I spakem
!* >**» msA that year J«f emy be
Jtott.*: Tb# Ibrngs «tach he has
rpshiro *»* words ef deepen. Hod
tifoft tare. , “Aa the Fattier hath
leaed am, a» ha«a I toted yaa. Gea
tiou. y t in my tova.* Wa are |—
la fimtoreia his demga rwgmnfoag
ft ** presftsspUasi la lab* heme these
a amis to mt own heart* May , but
toved mm The gtoty wtaeh tie has
gull** be has gi vs* ie aa 1 f Gad
has esaltsd Utm aad given him tit
he head ore* ell Ikftft, II to “ta his
shareh * He will ata take has plere
witiitMki ax bi* Mitstrx
vmpmmpmftvmr smm^a gmimm|(jmmamaTipmpumiimm|j.,.':
The gtary of aU ttoage to heightati
ed whew we kaaw •* a tit to to him
•sttysad what tie hremain to otdiw
that we might be egfthml ta thae
dtoUmetto*. The mfo^tl itad aad
•reflfeetiag Fattier, Ita 1‘n— ef
t—1—drev w-n,| vt sum t< stalk
pert ef fifsh iid v meed. hnrimr
Hut hern, ea ia other thing*.
Scottish Piety.
traa ef om deserts el ell Uemaftty,
kaowtog that tha gr—ad e< his
tare to aU w htmetof, weeM rattier
say *1 — “Lei hoe kies am with
tha kieses of km aeoeiti.* Goetittaed
u. k|A |(.| t It mrf m Slful »anrtHHl
Pea we sre *w e wr s w mmws
bet d«*Uin« epee ttir |woofs ead
them uelo bring fuuotains of eaters"
Everything to life—like ia the toy.
Ob, heerenlj Jfrusetom, I long ef
ter thee! ! hunger after thee aad
thirst after thee; sad my soel, as
thou * fewest the day at head when
the eternal weight of gtary shall ha
given to those that are Christ**, let
it animate thee to greater energy, to
greater diligence aod duty Thaw
art celled to he a laborer to tha
vineyard, and art aof a drone er a
snail by the wayside. Arenas, then,
from *hy clamber! (tools are perish,
leg to their tons; there to an tiara to
be lost! life was oarer made far
dreaming. God’s own arm hath
need of thine! If (be frtocditfeo or
the vanities of the world call after
thee, say, “Get thee behind me, %
Ian.” Then buckle on the full armor
of faith aod lay hold of eternal life,
or imitate Banyan’s pilgrim, who,
: sticking his finger* ia hi* ears, ran
on crying, “Life, life, eternal life.*
f would to Clod
eels aa in all other matters—tie has
told an to regard to than very thing :
“Thus saith the Lord Gad. 1 will yet
for this be required ef by the bouse
of Israel to do it for them; i will
increase them with men like a flock."
Prayer to n moan* for obtaining the
outpouring of thr Hpirit upon the
people, aod he who intelligently
prays will faithfully work.
While ft to
One day recently the Hutchison's
steamer was stalling round Cape
Wrath, carrying some five hundred
Lewis men from Stornoway to the
herring fishing *1 Wick. In the eve
ning the captain was “dialled* by a
tourist about the Scottish strictness
of view in relation to the Babbath—
it was Saturday evening—as a really
impracticable strictness. The cap
tain said that of the five hundred
Lewis men “aft,* not one, landing at
Thurso late on Saturday night, would
otatast aattt death, grew ttis death
of tha mm, that ha m*ght make as
partaare a* hi* throne, partaker* of
hi* gtary, efttaams of hi* efty, breth
mo Ins tils liffesati ! Here to
illy desirable to
eajey the Spirit's reviving preatooe
among a people at aU time*, ft to
watt knows that certain conditions
foftuMMl aa ttiroiv
Mor Is ft alrara to ha the poxtmraa
of hto gtary that wa aft coifed; wa
A mO igiaa *1*0. foktim m^^msamsss* awmAl mot
ffiifo m mm i«wrrww mm wiw mm
to hto Jay, to hto labor a* wsfl *a to
take a step towards Wick till Mon
day morning; that if the weather
proved fine they would spend the
night in the open air; if it proved
bad, they woald seek shelter in out
houses; and that on the Sabbath
day they would worship In groups,
led by their headmen. About ten
o'clock at night the captain’s State
ment was strikingly illustrated by a
solemn act of joint worship—singing,
Bible reading and prayer—on the
part of the whole five hundred;
their grand shaggy heads, surmount
ing broad shoulders, being laid bare
to the pelting wind and rain. Any
oue seeing those heads aod shoul
ders of men worshiping God, would
have felt that, so long as men of
their class people our country dis
tricta, we are not in sight of the
poet’s *Woe
To that land, to hastening ills a prey,
wku wealth accumulate* and men de-
gregatiott are unfavorable to this.
We need not hare specify. Any
other thing which absorb* or dis
tracts atteotto* may, humanly speak
tog, he unfavorable to the revival of
God Hi work, or may put an end to
the most powerful work after ft has
begun. The troth of this has often
owe rurreptod breath Nothing bet
the tore ef God to Ctiftet, k*ow* aod
tattered, ea* rertvw crar oohl heart*.
ft*ta*’» most re a o tog device la
hinder the onflow to our affections
to, to keep u» looking downward
ami Inward, tiratimd of ootwarek and
heavrwward. At the aamt tiaras, we
frfemfohtpa, thorn who were ctamrfy
k»ft i* fwospeniy banowe att»—tod
to ndfevatty. lift imtos to ton* took
TllK PkasAJIT’i* 1*kAYE*—A |ieaa
ant was employed by soute Jtoauit
missionaries to Hccompatiy them on
their journeys. They observed that
when they halted for prayer the
;>easunt also knelt at some distance,
and appeared to be engaged in devo
tion. One of them took occasion to
ask him what was the subject of hto
prayers. His reply was, “Well, air,
I am but a poor and ignorant man,
and I don’t know what to prey for,
so as I know you are good and holy
men, when I see you praying, I just
ask God to give me the things you
are praying for.” The simplicity of
this poor mao may teooh Christian
people how they stand to relation to
the intercessions of the Havtaeur.
It seems to us that the churches
said their swrrooodings are favorable
to a united effort, at the present
time, for a revival of religion. “The
tunes and the seasons,” with God,
may be the same, tail man hi a crea
ture of dreomsUnors. We have
arrived at that season of the year
wbre earnest work to recommenced.
M tutelar* are back from their vaoa
tare to hto retftaato of ft Htrange
ft! to, bat tree, that be dam delight
to the lore of each a* wo are. It
doe* not are torsuge that tho bride
stioald nay, “Tby tare to beitor than
wise ;* b«t ft ****** pasmag strange
that the Bridegroom should *ay,
• How much bettor to Thy foie than
everywhere
would seek with **eh determination
to obtain eternal life.
General Nell was ooe of life moot
distinguished officer* of the French
army. Il woe the ambition of hto
life to become marshal of Free—
he r sraod a* up *u high, sad why to
aU ibto made k*e*n to aaf It to
that ha aright bare fellowship with
aa, aad w« vfth htofo It *iB bo
voted to that high pooltloo ho wae
■|||; Jptoppatotori boraase the
position or Honor had not friles to
him. Bis frtoada hoard hUs say
begaa. Tha great Atom nee tne has
coma aed gmw. Fwdbytortfe hod
Ryaods hare oeorly all bad their*