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THE LUTHERAN VISITOR,, COLUMBIA. 8. C., JANUARY 16. 18J4 er*, ar* M Bobir me* M eafa be n*§t with anywhere It grieved ins t but I (lid not biennia imfhonally acquaint General 8jtm4 to North A whtab resulted la the *d«p •bet I regard M a were corn) aa# -r eweriblaqoem tioa In lie iMfflh*. «• the grounA tliat the death V rhHet due* not •ctaellj error* the eat ration of the wicked, and la af no ed* mitagr to them. Bat Iwrauaa aomr, by their earn fen If, df nee no id tentage from the death a# Chit at, we sea not m| that the death of Christ doe* not doniem thorn, u<l lb*t ( bnetdld not die for them, am more than we can *ey that divine instruction haa M power la itaelf to reform men Several week* previoos te OUmt- tax* Rev. Barb anncmocad to Ida country congregation a that at that time be would bare a Cbriattnaa' iwrrice iu Ilerrieonburg, and Invited all tbe members oCthose congrega tions who coaid do so to attend thebe service*. In cooaeqeenoe, however. cd with Mr. Claneaan. The family which received me ao friendly, I iy greeting and duxiancA*,” “Hau, tom vioub.” In one we* anap^ vrrxwss: east waa a golden fttar eocut pulpit wee a floe portrait of i and to the west a Crsmy gj rounded bj.wreatba.of.ihem> quiaite workmanship. Thai ning the whole rear and < church, iu graceful^ were the sentence*, “Glorj t ia the highest, and on ^mb good will toward taei,* hj« movearent and the friends of a union with this Synod, which postpones all ■aioe movements ter the reit flea year* Bat ioateod of patting the would no my thinks to. Bet the energy yfth which throe kind grntleoten took hold of the cause of emigration la, a fist all, the beautiful qainteaaenoe •*f the whole. The blessing which flows from it for the bomaieea chil dren of oar people is as refreshing ns the dew of flenuon waa. As It already haa descended upon the life «>f many, It will hereafter fall more abundantly upon the multitudes for wbom the emigration doors of South Carolina stand wide open. With the gvoeiiug; good lock ! I close for God with us! Then shall dents to the General Synod, North, and one hundred sod two to the General Council, and says “it la easy to ago wlmd will he the relative strength hi twenty years, sad that the Lutheran Church ia u>m aouoirv is ou its way, with tell sails sad a fair wind, to ha a very different thing from Gruefal Syoodtam, and * ritfc pceple. Hov •rLatberanis^ f light havi Rfjt. A. It- RtrtiE. D/b„ Coin®hi*. H. C Rkv. J. I. MILLER, A.lfStaunton, V*. some that U would do, ft only aruae ed the friends of uniou with oar Synod to greater diligence ia their very few person* from tbe country were present on the occasion. As the membership in town ia small, numerically, the oougeegatiou waa not large, yet the service waa of a very iuteicatlug character. . The church had been bcauUfuUj dnoorated far the ocoaeiou. Several appropriate inscriptions were placed in different parts of the charoli, and proiaiueut among these waa oaa ia the, roar and above tur speaker: “Glory to God in the highest.” These were all formed from evergreens, sod presented a flue contrast with eat- n here upon «item VI. “My professions! engagement* at home compelled me to kart before the rad of the meeting. 1 left wish amid reelings of pleasure gad re fret, pleased with the«energy and seal manifested by these brethren for the pro an 11 imti af true Lutheran- lam la the Booth, bat pained to ksow there ia division of sentlnsrat l« regard to eaa things among ► reformed by it. ntott la iucousiftfrcit •lament. In IVter ecber* and dearie In eMwntiaU, amity ; ia non essentials liberty / in oil fhingt, charity * Moreover this i with th# New If: 1, tbe Ww m*- am 1-, .. tma ,« frTP-* W le*rill (f SPECIAL KOTICK*. them. Miseuteidnadiag and logo maebv may be « \r eted by attending to the Just remap <* tbe korimm. that the dtatyisdhlhedeath of ChrM and the arfwal apeulta af it err to ha dltteffehad tM« p*Mae, Chriat died ter all m**) but arte seceade, not ter ell mem# but only for betiev. iu arbor-vitau >.**>. At each front angle of the, 4 stood a beautiful Ohrkaami upon which burned thirty m this time Christmas arise aa a sun with healing la hi* wings—Annabel Per the I.uUmhww Visitor. Richmond Mission. • Wn am grateful for the tokens of camocagement creel red. This reuse is growing in favor. U ia kakiag bald of tbe hearts of tbe imopls. thir “anvclojica” am iu dstuaod. Wa look for eticosraging returns. ,. . 4 A letter just received brought good cheer. We sliall taka the lib rrty to quote from it as follows: “I am glad you are punhieg forward tbe Richmond Mieeiuii. 1 write now to >on to say, that with God's aaniot- aoce I iters M»r proaiiee wade (or iunr|y to givajono hundred dollars to aid ia buying a lot, and mil sand the money when celled ter. Also, with GodV aaaielaacw, willywe mm*' ihiug toward the Chapel whan yon romenenoe to build." Thank yon» id carrfully Indicate wl which are new mbaerit mndered ham.s by 1st; bat all do not me aetnelly to take In thomaolraa; sad aally attain to this uuderuktag of uv small maguitude tor the hi tie band of Lutherans thak gregnuoo, bet then •Her. U. M. Uenkel was rleuted eorrsepondiag delegate to this *y n-d, and 1 think that this iatemhaagr of delegatee should by all amass be eonUased uutd the desired uuiaa can he effscud. A J- Fox." Parochial Boportet IS paetors re port fll coagregatteae; <,906 mem compose this every one of them is a hast within hitu, or herself, and know of no such, word as fail, when they wndartabe* tyi much were some of the good other i should V*—» ptaUhrm the K-iigtli of the ehaaosLAay thi vote for the tial»batkashog saf ^. for firieiNtSv Not the dsagghm* foe tare of the ieeticsl h« caaery b»i«Uiu tear Thtengg churchy wbtw** «>ngM|g gam Ihg the *hw*ioo»» uxm! fitwmm rn.ih Pbddtnu, rlmd •■ir H ay^ IF* Subscribers will please remem ber that, according to established •sage, no paper waa issued Decern her 3Qth. The printers are very chtirchfy during Christmas weak. ladles e&oruiited 00 the eubjecx that %y cooW not shpqp. > A | But to the service*. These wore opened by dhe pastor rnueg the In- If^iL sad pcey er given isoor Book of. Worship ter the nocaaten.^.Aitep sieging a euiudde hjmo the ymetor anuoupcad Uia.UU; “Let usgp now e\qu unia lteihkslmm Luke U ft 1V Up Unit portedqut eomeof thp4t^i Bugmr raflouiu. I heve r^tarde*! from my journey In where i mt$e Ihia Am sgein eestml at the old table m the amna by the confessional k Warshin, ouutitatua Fund, flflflAT. Of this amount, Beva A. L. Urease sad D. Kflrd of Booth Carolina cualrtbated B3ll.*Jfl. Doflkiios.—Bev. P. Miller, Wood Stock, Vs., Writes: “Our frleads here made a# a ,donation on Chriat sum era, which was suomiwhat sapplw men ted during the holidays The nggregute value of srtides given, about $160.'" tame scene* I Usee had te keek upon ‘ ♦eery winter for the Met niue years Iteubt not et d M»at I will sgein Council. n Truly this ia gratifying. Two both claiming na It certainly prove* that anr Geaaral By sod ia a respect MUins attending a jounpty to Beth. liginui, and then Jjnefly viewed the scout- there pruneuu*l- „ 1 would just say that (he sermon was worthy of the preacher, and this will be a suf ficient guarantee for it* mar da |M ail wjio kuoe lira. Barb, as a man or an a preacher. It was listened to atten tively, and i have uo doubt that,all fuit it good to be thsrs- - a flow appropriate a service ol kbit kind ou Uu* glorious aauiversary J W tiat a contrast between apendiag the day lu this tuauuer and the way j iu which it is usually' spent. Instead I of making it a holy day most per- Sans com mu more eia ou that day than on any other day of the cuitins y ear. 'Tie true that u u a enaaon wt nejMHnioc. «4 giving and reomviHjg I gdU in taemory of the great, the I iucetiuiable gift that was made to I tu.ui on thi» day, boi l call not ene I what coMiwotion there oaa Im, or j w hat iHei«‘*ce can be bed, by the I discharge of fire arm*, Are-crack era, , rockets, and ail the other teoU^imese that is beuig uidelged in ou (hie day. The truth, however, ,is that heattily in the hope yon so kindly ex|H»s* “of are long eipoyuig the grant pleasure of dedicating an Eu glisb ohurcJi ia that important fluid." Wa are of th* opinion that this same brother has eoulnhutod with equal liberality heretofore toward the sup pari of this Mission The hand of tbe laicd ia ia this work, and Ha will aoooinplieh hu KNViiWLKIX'tMKKTK. fl, A. Ifablev, Italnmere. flltlOiK) Jsu. H. Graves. Waynesboro, Ve., /through Rev. H.| 1(M)0 < atmi forward. Gerhard Lam, Tern //, Lee 7, Ch# hr 4: Tbe tears et Christ-- Lake xis: 41—are a aura indication that fhrial tank no rlfiinft IB the lie < 'wppamaram smwiF ^ ^■ammaaemmieifMw:;;veepR • imeseew' < j •peerMiM’ % poral and tbe eleraal rata af tbe Jivt Foe tear* are, aa Cyprtaaae aay a, embeeaidors of grief, aad, ac cording to Brea tius, tbe blood of a wounded spirit. Houm insist that temporal destruction is bate meant. We answer : bat the Jew* *affcted not oa)y teaipofal bat also eternal puuishmrut, Iwmanee they had ne glected tbe e hele*s*»e Here «f their satoalbm. Meveavee, Gad dnae nut taka pleasure absolutely aid aaeoa ifittenally la the temporal pmneh DistnbnUou And f tad than k * good has been done A goodly nnmber a gmpsl min retry in d mfeimis wire claim ns dffdhar, and some Who from their dvr Protjiaotbd Bnnvioaa. -A Indy correapondaat, who dates a letter to ua—Blacksburg, Vs., December i8tb —makes thin apology, which wa gbwl ly nocay)t; “i have neglected writing dins, fifiv jmmtilt irf ittn. fin four peuoda of ndema, and «w«ka dred and flfyy oranges. Tkmimi d isurrt tnied ip Awn hundred aadlfc tarltau bags and eo mall vmri distnbuuoo managed that bath* annexed aad appropriated. We daim la balaag la Jeans t brist; ta be at present independent both of the General Synod and the General Council; tei agree with and te differ from both. In doctrine oar sywrpa (fates are with the CooneiL, while la practice they are with the Cl snare! aeri in the bette post year we vri liou of a man' l aad of his wile, 1 Will Bro. Turner please to tell the readme of the l uwfor something aboat tha| amotiog f tbe delivery of gifts pat that h friend*. Wa.know not the atari af boxes snd bnndlea, b*| rim must have been over thro* hate* Ope thing wa do knew, jft* t**tf fri^Jhhro.Yere handled* t^nfll faces -and happy hearts, sad ifat j*» lor and lus faadiy oaucm tetri and received presents to the arnma ff about Aid. i Every body weut **n»j happy, a* king will Christmas he reamflmi by the Ltitherane et hifafaphtrfftiet, Tbe Ckmrk Jourmol says that the clWfy ate ne longer honored ter their woritri sake as they enee were, and Mlits, “A clergyman Wtth tbe leanring of Orlgea or Jeroare would starve in the American church out sen he bad the ospecity to he delighttel iu aomety, te preside properly at sewing: societies, conduct a Sunday- •clwoly aad hold bis awa at vestry meeting*." - - Boath, a here ihrv are m no itwngrr of pdiblllf nfher frwwi hnngev or from raid, se a the naer ta the wJ4 %ah Us warn I- M-re ere iheju mure ovei, ta ri* immepiaairel I tom lb# origitiel teresl of human tMtaga tii the large ctlles v«* the deurti piarsMi ia lb. Boatb ? Where I was, l sew nalhiug Ido whet uiei sec es Omou *e I irtaiwed ta New Yath, One ep penarhad ana aad request* a load- tieket, swot bet warns wrnk aud sap port. The thud on* give* me a u»t» stub ticket from UsiuUeig, where he ha* already pledged hie bed clothe* Arrived at Buqtati. be aside to the Street without money and without •belter. Hi* wit* aad child ('roach »a a eat are a#** CaeUc Garden. Luke the flu-wee big M today is the heavy chred of misery which ia this pinra eemtrrleo me sad—m> srei) feels again the whi i*rtweare. iWAtuxruii The GcrwtSa* here have Nithrrin buna perlcct euvuigrr* to each arets Actively engaged, bwmli et work, they have thus ter iwH »ti<»wred aoi idler* In their Hty tt barvre- «-aa*v wa* taivdrf with wrert. ot h*d to leave, even if tie* menu* bad to be j«ru«Hlud Umh. lit re it aerma like « dream when one rerails fbadcelaia lima made: We bare no Uertniu hi {gtri la uar dt>. Thi* ilwtiliw also the n**btc clanekrr «if the t ier mans threw Tie culminating ex oellemey of theft aortal rile is foasal ia their nueiety hulk, which tbe Bonederbund erected ter itself, and the Frettndwrbsdlabund built at a aunt to each variety of from #3U,(IW) ts> #40,000 The bHlHnnl remirai point Is the hUatifril ebtirch urn King etnwt, wtfti tbe highest of all the steeples t* the mty* wkiob nmt from #40.000 to 7 0,1*00. The Font Monday 1# Adreai I enjoyed the pleasure of preaching ‘ter ltre». Muller, who Ua* Wo the phslor ter mar 23 years. Jhi the clurch is n hnmhnane ftimt buddmg. »u wbioh the Bwndhy wteed with ahaat 400 children wa* aasenlWd. Oh Sah- Smm me, fhd.69 Thattk vo*. brethren! Wba next 1 There ware not regn ij war were they at the They were instruct*-; denUiaga, they wed sod prayed for; and] mg united with tbe food evidence of a el Rf recently bdd a ttwaat charge, preae »«A, visited about tk Re^Ttri which we read' printed, and received j tkmwmmreh. One a riyyr# Walked over viatad-several famJ - . ^ vit *■-• i m Hi £? v*y. We suspect WBlier bBcGirtii wi New Measure. I 1 we goiag either to the Coo net 1 af tbe General Byawd, North, they earn both cause U> as, ter if w* try ta gw to either tbe ana or the other wa Mill inevitably become divided agaiaak • that thru the off tire two wilt Gadk «a the prophet mya, Mika I»rwot of tMii •toes a strange work— Isafmh xxviu : II—ft mast lie satire |y foreign to fat* nature to doom «nm men to pan mb men t from afaonlair haired. The oath of Gad also iout weight> Uetimoii) aa regards fata booevelcnt «bepaa»tnwi towards all man. Emk. txxrili It: “Aa I Ine 1 have na (daaeair in the death of the a iched, but that tbs etched tarn from bra way and U«a* ibk V#t 14: 'Men rarity awaar by the greater; and aa I'or the I.utbrr*u Viritof Colloquium ia the faith, ami moat become li They both mast already. SirorLD x Miyirrxn pekach a Trial Skrmo.w.—TTalthar in bis Pastoral Theology, p, 435, lays: “A preacher, who already has a charge, should never consent to deliver a trial—or “dfcitfoi# sariann. If he doek, he exposes himself to the dae gar, it he in this way obtains another ebargw, and eooeequeotly baa bimaalf ran after It, of being always doubt fnl shoot tbe lawteloesa of bis call lag, shows at all events tbe offboelve appearance of a mercenary diepoai fion, and makes himself, ft be does hot obtain the coveted promotion, contemptible to hi* congregation, wMcfr tttasf keep him. 0 end of aU strife. 17 ; Wbrreia God, wilbag more abaadnnllf to show auto the heirs of premise the ua •alshliq of hie c saimal cunkmal it by so oath, lit; That by too imgu table thing* ia which it Was tmimeei We ter God to 11* we might hare a Editorial.—Wi- J If Hev. ftebickeUs J H* net only has tl bwrfl. but any crlderi Rfr Yu the churches "••r to |is. But wtij among uo J ^•w Measures, we. “mpreheml. NeitluJ m,r mouTner*’ nr an * , * r protracted meetinj “aetiug* are institut **d they see tberetejn They are ham ll *y have onlv bun t.*ud baa amd lint be will that *11 be saved ; if this doe* not nffrr, then Christ baa bore witaeaa to God's deotarwlkwi with hie loarw: am! if “Laxucerm CanAL* > is it to br put out r was .the axpnasfve Okie of .a lecture recently delivered ia London by Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown. In view of tbe apparent progress of Catholicism In England, there ia some anxiety felt among the ardent Protestants of the kingdom, wbioh shows itself ia various forma. Mr. Brown’s lecture was called forth partly in response to this anxiety } aud it waa just the text for the occa sion that he took when be quoted the famous saying of Latimer at the Utah*: “Be of good comfort, Master Ridley \ play the mao. We shall thin day, light rnoh a candle, by God’s graces |a England, aa I treat shall neves be potent. many years thm Synod (Tennessee) and tbs Virginia Synod will bn fully cDolrnet it with a Mhn* oath. Hlamaym; Tom II, Kfwai. 44: “He therefore swears, that if wa do not believe la God who |womieee, we may at least believe cm ncreaat of the guarantee which the oath give*." Vacant church** s It Martin's, ia Iredell, 130 mam bars. Friendship, 200 members; Leylsfo, ie Burke, aed Philadelphia, in trildasll eoauty, having each 25 mam bars, and Fher mel in Rowan. Rev, j. R. Merer writes that there are twenty pteeee west of the Mississippi that ti*\< ®%it has been and 1 "••ted to the salvatLre ® ot t ^ase it i& catl it i* teachjn» preaching in I* 11 ""- And the N^ktru men tali ties 2^ We Mso be«“i *i»d three au **?jr* m f ° r » «re»ed just iu pn> 1 accordance with tl purity with wUitta For the Latf.enm Visiter. Ohrtrtmas at Sbaphartxtown, W. Va Imbed liecauer the Script eras ia ex pfreit laagaage, Christ with tanra, and God with hri oath tore witness to ilia beoevoioat will, according to which Ood desires the salvauoo af all area, sad it ri therefore f«i*e that Ua haa eoademaed aome uaeoadi Uonelly to eleroal death oat of ahao let# hatred." **k Al aepp Ufaeology, HnL ///, 2L— iSImEH prospect* of orgastxing coogrrgs Ilona. We give ia fall the report of the Correspond) t>K Delegate to North Caroliua Synod: Ptesched.’ observance ot ^Hfan orders ia not e <* tbe chim b r* *<** not require KMiSS^* 004 brethren iv i canon, Ron! weak hrteitb. doubtful dUputl do ^thren aJ “Acconltog to the riser leeti iy of the Bible, Clirtst” endured CmrNaftr £»a* ©p Turn Livwa Aorea-The an* bee aft Ariteffr Urn iag Apeter thar wmaltcfldmg 1 January 3d biffMkm dmrewflflaareririte 120th) Cor. v : 14, 15, VJ i tun. u: l 1 John Ri 2. But the preregas which are meal explicit ujwm this salgact are found iu the rpiaUe to the Ro laene. whera Paul (ualrovert* the mietakeo flftoiuii of the Jews that the blessing* of Mraatab'e kingdom belong exclusively to the pretend of Abraham He «ri«* Rimb*«»s v ; I# -19, that as ore a»an was the author of < 0tu ia the wfH. and of the cea men of God, slid wiiimi Cfarfat, andrltbid kheri iBat then i kaow aria present ia tliivriflria aamflaslIsRt Bam for thqf(teito^ ,> # Af Rewanbecrip tioare dtmaor'rifa’ohutdam ef the pradmi^teiteteariiM# t aaomimirebls article from the Britiskr ^Nmflevty aa the Sourocs uf Pleaaiaa ii* Land, scape 9 The Parisians, by Lord Ljl teo'f BosMi satartaiulag 4Ux#>ma of bows vary * cl veT e aaa uot very cbHstrim chnr •H* Jesus ( 9J\are serrinjr bv forbidding as te aaeally the rare te the North. Hriy, oa the contia?}p or in every pcaallda ^ tyfry. to . •vrve sad seqoeat pum*h aw at whieh all row Midure iu om sum m the author af salvatten end forgiveness ter all In Roman* ill; 9, 22, he shows that M ai the morel ilissot i* ruh ml of fllmael f Awaheued Tbarehy, hj Ma»y -Gowda© Clarke f 8utee’s Boy, by the Shtborof the ^Hagnaaet Fam ilyV Udtbiaad Ends from Dr. Rob ® to* name, ^ Yilri ; bec Hi I V- V This should ■ f *»<> who pro heart of tire lite of the Oerrus* j-x> fde. Although l man Ben the Gar Th* rated rramyturiqa jjfmreht pt AnoBaad. has hate a rimtek sad two run Ran feu, JF IImnVvPkR beginning of