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THE lUTHERM VISITOR. Columbia, O. lot U» bod yoa own M nothing. Believing sod praying for a that yoa will before long thtak kind derivable aud eKMMWtoe*! tier of an then yoa do fool bow, wt, airdopM Mot oal by tb# praying the Lord to Moan and kawpJ b# thrown aside witboat considers (town bo broofbt to Friday, January 23, 1874. Cl 4 0*8i Rbv. A. R. RUDE. D.D., Columbia, 8. C Rkv. J. I. MILLER, A M., Stanntoo. Vo. In eeecntial*, unity ; in no* essential*, Hbarty ; it all thing*, charity,” SPKC1AJ. KOTl cos. Remittance* nawt bo tt**dr Office Order*, Rank Cbecltt, o if poaiiihto. If the** «oa M Ut in Pott Drafts, ncnd "toV.'i?T."toaMTWUD Lgx- TBS. At! Postmasters ore obliged to renriateftattos «tn » ■' Paper* srerout to an express order to echred, - MW we rifilfiflffilBffiMJPpPH required by, low. Merely return in* • number of the paper by moil, is not *uf licient. | All essomuokotkrns minting to sab- until ue is re- are THE LUTHERAN VISITOR, COLUMBIA, 8. C-, JANUARY 28, 1874. kmk wMatod, wxl il»!th« of tfcdr iwljhbor.. yon, reinstu yoor brother In Christ ! tioo. A Cheap Library. Not only the name of pM but also that of the county and of each KakowrUx r is nsressary, la wnfer that the proper entries may be promptly and accurately made. J^tS^STZ. W ^3M£ should be written separately, and not In brafeM«irtMlpteMffiteHfl Saw. Hr. D. B. Bittla Savannah, Go., January 14th— Dr. Bittlk died suddenly this morn iog. Can you attend bln funeral to morrow afternoon 1 We tea re at once. Invitation—The Ciceronian So ciety, Roanoke College, Salem, Va, bos honored ns with an invitation to its anniversary celebration on the 23d of Febinary. Mr. D. M. Floyd, Va., is the orator; Messrs. W. McK Murrell, Va., and Tb. C. Hern dan, Ky., the debaters; Mr. A. Z. Koiner, Va., the annirersariao. Tb# com uiittee of 12 represent 11 State* and a territory—-Indian at that. OLeP Fooyism.—The ZeiUchrt/ says: One sermon every four weeks, once every three mouths a meeting of the church council, and once yearn congregational meeting, belong to Old Fogy ism, but not to the goc* old usages we have inherited from our forefathers. To preaching every Sunday belong a monthly meetiug of the church council, and aleo a month )y meeting of the congregation, in order to keep constantly alive the "cTiurcE! Rend oo one dollar to tb# Ns# York Tritons and receive in r#iara its valuable series of fourteen extras, among which are j Tyodal oo Light ; Beecher’s Leetaree tor Ministers ; Agaiwix on the Method of Creation —there are twelve leetaree, we are reading them now, and dellgbtfol and iastruetive reading nhev are ; the Evangelical Alliance ; the Farm er’i War—which tolls alt about the Rise, Purpose and Progress of tb# Granges, etc. Semi on yoor dollar, learn to spend tbe long winter eve nings profitably, instead of doting oo a chair from rapper till bed time Hke a sloth. Or If one dollar la too much, send on fifty cents and gel numbers 1 to 9 inclusive, or n a saber* 6, 7, 8 and IS. For ministers tbe Iasi tour will prove the most valua ble j to general readers tbe first. • ton C .1 IT zh Tbe pastor of this growing little grofntioo, in this centre of tafia baa already informed tbe read era of tbe Viaitor at oar success la raising foods Ibr the removal of a debt resting oo oar pareoaage. Bat there are some thing* farther which may be of intereel to tbe Chareh at large to know, an well an to raeoor- age many encompassed with like #m Oar membership is Bat let at ! pastors to whom they ore sent, j the duty of doing what they cue bo urged upon the people by the paster*, sod all the foods necessary for tbo nrotmeed undertaking will be st band. Though oo Christmas day such a liberal offering woe made by tbe eongregatiou here, yet when we met on the last evening of the old year to offer thanks at a congregation for God’s merries to as, the eovelopee forwarded to oar pastor by Bra. Hol land were distributed to all io the ooagiwgatioa, sad the importance of this euterprtae and our duty to the some sarueetlj prueeated. Many, it ie to be fouled, would bare sum! t “It is an unfavorable time now j tbe ooogregaUoo hoe juai raised a large ram of money for borne purposes; let the mallet be dofotii^l to ams future tins* Mux aoS so wen it is gonled hero. We felt we maid beat r appreciation of the U«#i to as as a congregation by « yet any reasonable sat oust at te debtedoess necessary to tb# welfare of tbo church it hi always willing to Our Church* Mt. Tabor, Va.—Our friend, ( apt, G. Mbirey, informs as, that Rev. Bashong’s meeting which we have already mentioned, lasted several week*, and resulted in tbe occeosiou to the church of twenty-five bers; all young people. Marion, Va.—“The Lord is with us. A few mouths ago during a pro tracted meeting in one of my church es, sixteen persons applied for firmatioa, aud about forty have formed into a catechetical das*. n. it, •-.* Pantor.” Tit for Tit “1 have written thus plainly under the supposition that my comm tion and notes Co yoa were received, bat if they were not, then all reflec tions open yoor conduct in this ter are hereby withdrawn. If ever they were received, nod yoa still refuse to pablieh, then 1 again earnestly request yoa to return my communication to me, and also that you send a bill of my indebtedness on account with the Visitor. I do not suppoee that the discontinuance of my subscription to the Viaitor will kill it, but I can not lend my aid in the support of a sheet whuee editor persistently refuses to do a simple act of justice to an aggrieved brother.” Our Amtcer—Jtfy dear brother, you ale putting the kuife to one, throat, and softly, and sweetly, naff lovingly raying: 1 know it won't kill yon. Well, it will neither kill eor scare us. We ace doing just what is right, j. We hove not relied on our own judgment, We have consulted impartial brethren, and they justify us and our course. Only harm could result, if we published yoor article, and your own object would net be accomplished ; those for whom you wrote do not take the Viaitor. As regards returning your communica tion, we have published again nod again, that we do net return rejected communication*. We eon not afford it. We would have to pay fotter postage on all such papers, sod it would be quite an item in our month ly expenses. So person ha* the right to ask it of u*. As regards tbe die coutinuanec ef your subscription to the Viaitor, ell we have to say is, we regret It on year own account, we believe, tbe Viaitor was of great brae fit to yon. The loss is yours, not port- We have stopped your paper. oo which baft about 8900 ef debt re mains unprovided far, baa cost tbe church 13,000 A few handled do! Ian of the amount necessary to pay the obligations thus Her have procured from abroad, while tbe bo* come oat of the congregation. Truly in tbe history of thin ebarrh there ie much to stimulate ether* ta efforts tor promoting the eases of Lutheranism wherever there is any material. Lem than a score of year* ago, sod tbe church ef the A ef**#ry Camf*watou was no* knows ta the town of Mtawnton Maw there is a congregation here ef upwards of one hundred member*, with s Monday school of ninety pwpilm under the leadership of an tmrarat ^ogfl, qfl showing unwonted seal in all that pertains te tbe interest uf the ebarrh, and hence, with the ruattnaed np probation of oar heavenly Father, the time ie not far distant when thi* congregation will rook among the first in the Syood of Virginia. In material prosperity few coagre gallons have a batter oat took. The church and ground* connected with >u which there ie wot a dalles ef indebted ue**, ere worth at e Idw ra ft mate, 913.000 Tbe parsonage raet •3.000, bat would comaraod, at any time, not (era than 80,000. with a debt of only |900 to be provided for. Is there not raeaoa for grant ode on the part of ns who sampans the church here, as wall as torn the church st large, that in a thriving and rapidly increasing city tike Staunton, the Latbarnn Chareh be* so firm a foothold f An an done here eon he where, if but a Hke spirit aad faith onset those who, under many dfte- cooragemenr*, are struggling toes tsblish the church which under Gad has given an «p« Bible sad a gospel to the world. Let oocm situated then despair, bat a wen doing, end though the “night be long and moarnfol,” still nuniing cometh, when win break sway end tbe light ef prosperity shine brightly over them M. n still and sand up a mood. How maoh will be feom thi* chareh for that Mission wa era not now prepared to stats , bat we bntiav* w* may anlr!> tbe prediction, that if ell the in the Month weald do their well ee Ihi* little church will, the for 1m in the i* eel a oongvwgaiioo in impoverished Month, bat something, If it but took* tbe Again do ae bespeak for the Hack a prayerful cuaeidera the part of every lever uf oar Zion to • feme natter it* eteune are pramated. M Miaoorgi os thi Colloquium The Deurmber number of Lehre and m*l urge ail onr berth iVcArr contains an article on “The •round Laray to unite Goner*! Conned aud Colloquium,” The Hi^hrn'Tl It i* but natural that this impor tant enterprise should be eoggeeted >y what we have raid above This is a work that will try tbe faith and steadfastness of those having tmn>** dints charge of IL Bat as we wrote ta Rro. Holland, the other day, so we freely believe: “Faith and perse verance will do the work.” And who can estimate the imoovtaiK* of that ooterprim being aarried ta a successful termination f So words of ours ran do iosticcrlo tbs *n were we to attempt to depict tb* glorious results to oar oharoh in the South, flowing from n vigorous Eng Ush Lutheran chareh ie the city of Mich Stood. The whefeChereh MeotA, eye, end JTeril too, oegbt to eoite io pntliag this raierpnse upon n raw csasfnl basis at ***** The hi too important te lot it drug. “The Kiog^s hasiuem raquirctb Mach valuable material ha been loot there, by a failure on the part ef the ohuroh it large to to the rescue in the Let ae m wfe> sec laboring Virginia Levy, JTnft CessMlp **Ch» the Ifeh November Kev. Mttrewalt dedwmird e new Lalbetsa ehareh nrar the Bias Midge. Mm l oader ptear fed the dediratioe wrote. Itev. A told lb# congregst*wn that when the last t»*il woe driven the tsel net doe <m the church as* paid. It »• named Mornieg Mtor lUongwhcoi Latfenras ebarrh. tin the UMi Nevembrr n Itildr dismiar*# was delivered la the Mrthodtet chwrch «a Lars* by Itev. Mtwart, ef Kwiimed, end the first end <wdy ftlible Moeiety »» Fage eras ersa. Bpiscwpel. Iteptua and M#lfe» disc [vvadef, fell ae Vtrgtai* My a ml preeehiag. fire. F, Miller «say vtdl ae be bare fee# Me*. Mtuwwalt bse aa eppoHiuimawt te pteaeh m Imrajr on tbe third (fendaf m Ja»a ary for the first time. II* rtpseta te he; a let fe Lwray for the |eipm **f erecting a church on it.. Muam of hi* mrmiwr* ere ht lag lei aad around town, and hr wants ta units them and ns at that place.” ffditmiai Waste glad of tl» and prey the Lard te blew Bro Mtiiwwalt la hi* eflkwt* In furnish **»« dtsperaed |*eph with the bread d tie Let by all amen* all tbs Latheroaa, ne matter wbat Hyaeds thej towseetiy lifi 1 i n fill 1.% a.,1.1 t . -To: rspriP'gwa# wmim" e"'*^pp*e s wl•le ,, e fie* *^w tela an Evangelical with Rev. Mr. Muiewolt for their pastor, if hi te willing ta eerv# Tennessee end we do not in foudnmeatala. As regards tbe Bible, the iroanusl ('trade «s4 aroera ee#wwp| ws^s^mPwppsmnsiBmiw nwwmmfwmisp esaseam w# are easentiaie or it in ant only a lolly, but tta he ollae them ta eeparata aa any •eveath Ariicie of tha >hmo> decteroe: “Far thi* i* Mflchst fist the tree aariy **f the ebrtHian church, that the goepwl is oreerhml thereto mvetiliss te its pare ialaot and menamg, ead that are admtateteved te with the word of God the true unity of the ehris it is set eemissary that •m«»o*ea. Instituted by •foraid be every w bare oheerv «d ” Aad ohm la Ibe tenth Article of the Form of Caacovdi “Acowdl ingiy we believe, teeeh and oanfera in *ii rtbrst simI Si all |J»M the chareh of God has aathority sad power, aaroedkag to ctrrmm*tnocu«, ta altar, to dimmish, or te increase Si done deaeatiy sad in order, with- oot levity and oflbnea, aa 4 may at any time tie deemed most useful, profitable, and oundacive to good order, chrisusa dm^pMiMuevaagfemal propriety, aad la the edifienttoa of the etoaicb. And bow for, In them* oat**rd and indifferent ibtege we with good good order sal edification ef the ohuroh treated * Moreover, wMrr ought e Lutherae go to worshipf Of rare to the ■ rrrmntfji n/ LmUrrmu w aisfiipsrv. Ie this city we lure not a few vote* hers ebo once belonged te onaiMOted with the Teooeo- see fftynad \ tet there are also thaea here both ef lorth Csrolina, Mouth GaroUna and lenneesoe Myood, who, although they knew that there is a Lutheran rburtsi here, yai preferred Geneva to Anglbarg, Wesley to Lu ther, and formeto truth. But Jobfi tells ns wbat tech men are : “They went oat town a*, but they were not of ns; for if feey hod hern of us, they would oo teuU here continued with ns; bol Hey went, that they might be made main feet (bet they were not all of es.” 1 John ii : 19. If LalheiaueOvie os wdl acquaint* ed with their iburri*. bar doctrine, her fifes, her fed-ny, her *tamling, her work aud hrr uumioc ss tfe*y ought to hs, Ihev might go to the ef tb* earth and they «<>‘»ld Lsilurfia* *tiU. We eeaea in aad te dfltofaip together, to be of oo# bead and of one mind, tor they have one Lord, uae taith, and one baptism. All Lutheran* are fcf tew disci idea We also reroaunend ear Laray brwferca to atganice a4 one# a Maaday fiihoul sod a weakly devotional sei vjec. # OttrlBhnja. .Ifsitei t im thiQomsral .Npmod.—The rodieal pxrti iff th* General My nod, lad by the Afiffrtma Lutheran, ie not viewed with mneh romplarencv by the anwre rawerrvstive purtfen of that My nod fW pn«e|wrtu* of e Monday eSfend Joomal to he by tfet former has hern p«h lished, and iwturoo a oorTrapond oat of tha Lutharn* Otorrrrr and soya things HM| thi* : “Fur several weeks past *e fffouaial entiee, in the in the rolemne tt mm* called ebarrh paper, ha* pwhifehrd (tie proepertas of a paper to bdlpallrd The Tmcher** say % that *m«aig the ex ported contributor* Io that sp)4e of dterurd, sflrl iy*h id isH*m. would he iUn Crofid> Bsrnhs, Hsltxly, Mtelting, etc* B« greater lie than that Has ever fowen told, «nd (he rdiiov knew whom lie wrote the names that neither of the gentleWM-o I h*»* osarod fipnid • •*,«- ■ f .-i- •, And whoa one calmly end in a dig nlfied way goes on in tbe path of his convictions, declining to be dis torted by rarroauding clamor, be is declared a bigot aad an worthy of fra terns! respect” That has been, sod w# fear U still too much the beatting sis of Ameri can Lutheranism, snd for that matter of German Lutheranism, as, «. g, iu the 1’russtea State church too. Tbe evangelical doctrines of onr church are strange doctrines in nome Luth (•rau pnipita, our church psjiers are oot circulated iu not e few Uitlieran neighborhood*, sod os for loyalty to the Lutheran Church, even some of oar ministers, when they can not have their own way, threaton to leave sod unite with one of the sects. The Cclioanium. • ua^u * We give in full the Observer* at tufie oe the Colloquium, sod odd the deleaue oi Dr. Krsutiu bis indiv ideatfeei end dtsnord So work ever nederiokra by our ch«m h prrastro*! heUrt ramlt* thoi. «ror flslteth arfo«*l |iewsn»n «<*i, «» i m «-i garated by the finny ru* amfr«tMa, until Ibis wet blanket feian York appear*(I, sad I tra*4 every Inhm-u Monday Mrfeml owrk«-r in tie rheirh will few* a dowa ep»*i. .rod n fu- tw Vrach nr hare nay thing to do «t<b U pevneiical ifett has (•* rrsavt ta each mbterfoges to teing it tiefnre the ehatch” gltsd#^ Jispfmf..—The fiNpu»ts have ife-tr share ef tronbfe abon* the l.feiwmn Iqr Mev. A. Crall. After pteaeoimg the action of tbe General Council, be added the eommeuu which we trans lated and published Inst week. One uf the editors, whose signature is G., append* the following remarks We must, first of ad, disoppiove of the course of the General Council, which has not administered one word of reproof to those of its district My uods, which now already exchange delegates with the district Synod* of the General Myood ; yea, that it still t tcaaes and defend* this irregularity, inamnurh os “it attributes sorb a state of thing* entirely to local and persons! considers tiocie.” • • • We must dec tare that neither par- eounl nor local cottshlorations dare exert any infiirouce in matters per tabling to tbe divine word. The word of Gad is the rule and measure of faith and life in all places, and for all person* and God’s word con damns nosh own fusion. • • • How must matters stand ta tbe GeweraJ Conor!!, when It very well know* the reasons which condemn soch an exchange of delegates, and, never theless, allow* It to its district Myu ode Bet why aboutd we wonder that tbe Couneti tolerate* a disorder among its district Synod*, wbieb it acknowledge* ** worthy of tejeetiou, when it fitter* not 1he sfigtiieet censure npo* Pt'. Krauth sad Pa* •availt, a ho look part in the Kvan gwlroal Albanae. If member* of tbe ( outM-tl, otv-apyiug such high and infineotrol pwiiMNiA, stand «p*i so broad s basts that they can confer with (’edvimsta, MetfeMlistn, Baptist* ai«d person* of ail p« Muter canfew am*, «it boat brtug ivtakrd bn it, • hat shall wr think «f the Coaucil itself t And thto ifeanctl propose* a t’tefeqniomV Tu it all are invited who ark nowlodge without reserve 1 iron the Aegshnrg < Vwifomi m. But ibe Connevl itself denies is a rrernt »*»•, uttruev hi Break ly » ; I*uwt« a conned tailed to# tee rwrogmuoa at’ a trow i ban'll in Marry svsnra aea» very mar bmug e tev# least. I>|. Fulinu first de derail that he would not ait upon the alaaril if tbr Lee avewiro rhurt-b was admit lev! W e nappose that the sherrh was act sdiaitted, -rose Dr. Fatten kept hi* *eat- Then a demand r*4 mod* that IN. JrffWy, fths paster do t at the new church, tefilte a etatimront a* l« wbstfe f ■ot he is an open •coin in unMtolsl. Dr. Jeffrey rrwrnted ife* intpoiaiKMi U!*na hm tegwlsrily , and there were play ful Words IwlWi-eu the hmlhreit, la the coarse of wWirti Dr. I'slton gen lly remaikrd thol hs did mil mean to mob*) away ope«i ounmitaioaiala from the chonh, but loexdrid# tlteiu from the fouMnushm table j sad “Dr. Jsffrvy* knew hs nested a lie when he sold utherwtwk* Crire of “Fat him oat f* end hfest-* followed thi* mild Ineinnaifen. Dr. Jeffrey insist ed upon standing pu hi* record, and the church was feimitied to fellow •hip without soy futtiter assarsnew ef the orthodoxy ef its poator. At the First Baptist church lost Toes day morning tiro tev. J. It (’leaver, of the Mixth avenue church, who Oocwpird (hr |*uipit, Icunuitced in aion questuro 1 *. 1 us /odqpeetemf thus j u* *« a •• reserved rscw(*t»«wi of the AnflMMrg ( ra*leosfe«u to t<deenttng a partirt|Mitfen ef of its members in the EvoageMcal AUioncr. Tbr* IN.uncit pewfoou tu ftroptmi iron for a oelfeqninm to s Mynod whieh wands npou a still broader noiontotro haoia, which acknowledges in a measure (but it will not permit itaclf te tie bowod unreserve d> IO tbe Vug»t*org Gwfirsuou—Io the General Cyssd as such. It is to tie an otto Obis! mnforav of private (•erarwi*. Bat inasmuch as tbs Couu- «1 ha* elected h* coounittou to take matter in charge, aud renom- n similar coarse to oilier budros, «t becomes, nevertheless, oi- fiote! te its origin. In (rath, it will be a difficult thing for Lutheran* who aim *1 pre serv ing the pare lrolberan doctrine a* I he apple of Ibe eye, to take part in a Colloquium pixquroMl by a body »hroh does not reeognixe the rouse qusacee ot aa anneserved acceptance of tiro Angwborg l'oufen*KHi, aud to which a unionist ir body, villi n Lolbcrati name—the Geiroral Mynod —is officially invited. l>r. Conrad, of tbo General Mynod, found himself entirely iu his element at the Kvan gelicel Alliance, in New York, auioug Methodists, Calvinista, Baptists, etc., aud it may not up|*eur so difficult to very strong Uagusgc tiro inquiailhro ( Kraulh aud Faraavaut to take established by fim Fulton k'‘d iVAt \ in aueh a Colloquium. If they Marie* at the Maitn sv. iiur iiistsl!* tfen, fitondisrA part iu such a Aa»Uo<|ulum. could stand it among ell eotta of f.oiaiic* at New York, lliey will be The /alerter, (Fa*»bvforiau), say*: able to endure it for « few days “W* hnttwvwui toateiog lb#doctrine* aisong ibe **»Xtr«mro” Lnlberans. of oar church, oi kvaliug out people) Bat to ifecuh*! Luthcrsuio,it remain* I M I I I II »Bh out deewminatHMisJ hiarmaic, difficull (o confer with men who can <*>11% 18 te* »‘**»k te faith. Fan and te being loyal to the nbureh te ounfor with all shades of sectarians xtv 31, and rodmoto* | wbrob we bnlwng a* at leaat pn amuplive brethren. his usampte. Arts x«i: 3, and xx» ■, Jh, and I Cfo#, tx i iff* B vv alt bet -aad he la good authority —maj* te kiq FasCotnle i “If tea neMfol|li||af dour too and MixfiliHRI of shriaitaa bhorty mt sraUagerod, eves; chntwh is to *&p» oc to refea the one of tha swnmss w vane TpHa^ef this MSihmwt, ibe j whims! Real Miasouri l miimt I*r*mkyir> ton •*> #; fs »stfei«m! we hear many exclaim. “B«t It not fashionable to pabiiwb | It surdd lie nearer the truth to way ; •Stth duct roe, the prevail tag noutj- j Lntlroniu, atnl therefore Misaouriait. being iaal «qqn shaaid te) utorv s Tbe superbu r*odcsiahtk al college oi to everything iban to Uro»r ow* j the Frumuav Lutheran* iu Breslau fibetr 4*rilf ta «• spewted d> at in guiabed ItsHf as La tbe ran in to Itt to briMid that they will qu» Uf.v, j this rittpect. It hesitated to acropt ■edify, dtalon, u*^. ami eves deny ] the fidhllM to a general Lutheran thett own prt>(tiMh«a« in older to suit i t'onforeiKw in Hsuovcr iu 18CM, be- How the man who to-dxv u m several thousand poo«d« W9 ^ i cause the tevitation was also ex tended to the Lutherans in the united nationsl church of Prussia, who were also fully authorised to take an active part in it. As sub sequently tbe invitation rat reiter ated, I)r. Huachke afiid: M I must still find a conscientious ground, in the equal and authorized position which was accorded the onionistie Lutherans of the Prussiau national church iu the Conference, for pre senting our view of such a participa tion. This, accord,ing to our former writing, hindered us then, aud will rout in ue to binder us in tbe future, so long aa this obstacle be not re moved. It do«M not, therefore, arise from sel Tconoe.it, or a though ties* undervaluation of the importance of holding together in our now fearfully threatened church, but for conscience take, that I :un now as heretofore uuable fto take part iu tbe proposed ecclesiastical undertaking ” (Answer Aug. 8, 1H69.) But wbat Is tbe Geo ertl Bynod other than tbe nnited Prussian church with another name f It is self-evident that the Missouri Synod will leave the question of par ticipatiou in the proposed Conference to tbe free cUoice of each one of its mem tiers, if it should be called into existence in *uch a manner a* not to burden the conscience.—Obeervar. The AIXULNCK.—The Standard quotes some monthly as staling that the Alliance “(eft behind it nothing but animosities.” We may add that it has created one more sect. Ws have kept out reader* posted all tbe way along of the ehallowness of tbe whole thiug. Yet the Lehre und We- hre Iterate* u* amf the General Couu eil for favoring that coucern, and tolerating member* of it! Prof. Spaeth aud Dr. I’asoavaut never were near it. Dr. Krautb was asked a« professor of philosophy iu tbe University ot Pennsylvania, to read an essay on philosophy, which he did, but he wa* not a member, and never dreamed ot becoming one.— Hitmens ry. Free Columbia, to Columbia, iu Colum bia. Han* Amleraeu, the Dane, once traveled from Kougcri* Nyetoro to A mager, .rod although the dnOauce is ouly four miles, he told things that no traveler ever saw before «>r siuce. We have traveled huudreda of mile*, and to follow prccedout ought to write at least one hundred volume* ot travels; but we have aeither lime nor imagination sufti- cieut. We can uot rail spirits to appear; we only relate what ws bear, see and experience. We left Richmond ou the DauviU# tram. Tbe paoseoger* were but lew, and after scaoutug their facet we c»melnded that we had better outer- tain onroelve*. At the Juuctiou we recsived a reiiiforcemeut; the iraiu waa crowded ; every available amt oivupted. A* soon os the train was iu rovuou, we went from cor to car to inspect tbe oew arrivals. We mere glad to sec two Columbiana, Mr. Kraft and Mr. Oliver, the one a German the other a Scotchman. Both hod been North. Satisfied, we mt dow n cogitating, when a lion-like roar startled us. We looked. Erect, user us, stood a roiowiu*. A round head, a deter wined face, a form aud figure look ing as it hewn out of grsuite and dieased up, caught oar eye. “From Canada, where are you from T it said. Tbe answer wa», “Xewr York.” Bilance reigned; the colossus dropped in a seat behind us. “None of hi* business,” said it to tbe gentleman already occupying the seat, “I am an Irish main” “I aui a Pommy Ira nian.” the other said, “aud have o»»me Mouth to buv land.” We kept watching the coiosau*. After awhile he began to get uneasy, both his bauds moved about his body as if he was performing Erin go bragk, his eyes glared, in his mouth wo* stuck what is scientifically called “a weed;” we at once understood wrhat it meant, handed him our safe, he actually smiled, bowed, struck—not us, but a match, heaved a sigh, sucked away, the blue, fragrant smoke curled around hi* massive head, he leaued back, perfectly contented, and a man of |M*ace. We felt elated; had we not tamed the liou f We knew that wild animals are afraid of fire. After awhile he aud we found our selves on the same scat. We then learned t hat be was from Irelaud, aud had lived both in Australia and Cal ifornia. “I was young,” said he, “when I went to Australia. I made Some two thousand pounds, went back to Ireland, acted tbe grand fool, s|*ut all I hod iu six months, returned to Australia, stayed six years, aud visited also California. 1 have made some money, and I am going to take rare of it”. His iu- tentiou was to locale some where iu the Mouth. “I know the Mouth,” •aid lie, “l have been bore bsfor#, __ There is money to be made if a man eUaixmn toot (even so by tbe will attend to hi* business.” Ue told pus of one, came) unto all men osof U*s wild, the reckless, the tor- pufo* of Itfe. 1 Tim. ii • 1-6 ’ V rible life tbe Australian miners lead. one week spend oil ta dmto~ * and then return iu rag* gings. It wa* a hard school, tefef It mads man a wild beast, ht men who regarded not theh oua would think but lightly of other men. From what ha too* ws are convinced that the gofij ^ are hells on earth. He teftl California was worse than a—»Jt because not only did the leas men of Europe aad collect there, but those also wJS made Australia too hot to feM te* w eut to California. Our eye folia on another is a gentleman, no doubt. wJT what he has to lay ! Ws^jT* he is from Georgia; has to* $ to buy goods; is doing xg^L. neat; is contented; j* north of Ireland; bia wife, altfeJT he married her in Aaariea, j»& the oorlb of I relaud too; aad bia pastor. Ue is a pleaoant, md. Christian gentle moo. Gnutedh God, affectionate in dupmhfe,, warm hearted believer, aad jaatml a man aa we like to have fe# er and a friend. Another gen tie mac accosts « ^ expectedly with the qaestiea, to Richmond f” “Yes, sir.* “Lffi tobacco r We look at hte^att^ ourselves, D<ies he thinkthattfechg end of man ie to go to Ricbawet* •ell toiivcro f Ue kooks st w m saya, “B your pardon, fir. I* are a miniate-; ” We affirm,. Eefo, looks us aU over, for ought websv he uo*e» c aud remarks, “Blija know somtthui^ du>ut tohacra* V« modestly reply, * A little.* fetel8 Ue treats us to an e^y o* tstew growing, tells ue that U;. aegdf he larger, but inferior, owie^ a fe wet season aud tha rapid growl that tiro planters wrill tasks mm. that ha has a large crop, aadaefe get wbat else he enlightened«a. We tried to get him to iafeifex religion, politics, Louis Bismarck aud the Pope, but it m no go. Ue was a man of «*t the, and that tobacco. He was, sai l 1a lives, yet is, completely utera ized. What ivill that man debit next world if be can not be a fetee oo planter aud does not find a fid mood. We are at Greensboro. Hereto change cars; i*et separated fronte old fellow travelers; fiud ourself* to our utter as touishment, in • aft alongside yoon g Mr. Heihg, the omtRDury. TL As is pleasant. Wt, Ux>, are bouud ’ diither. At 2 o'efad iu tbe morning we leave the neb, aud the omnit tit takes us t* ik Boy den House.. Mr. Heilij rate ou our going wikh him, but we krov better. Two o’clcpck iu the awnwg is not exactly tt at proper lira hr calling. We ba\*: oo notieeffa com modi ng our fi-lends, althMfik** are well satisfied that we rill h made welcome. The hotel is aNfik ready to reoei'^e guests. W« m carried to a a nulorUhle roow, hill a good, clean trod, feel gmlefid tet. we have been safely led tfaai hr« our homeward bound joernsy,*# soundly, arise refreshed^ atteri t» the wanto of t be spiritual eed pkyw cal man. Col . Hfulig calls, oat fte t«*rs are tran xlerred to and oomforta ble residence, ate-te Salisbury re< juires a whole efcfffe . a . 2: JoH’d df* ” 1 i to ■ Z- H«b' '> : 9 - die<S v Tlii* i* -of ttic N. I IcA The Uniter mlity of tte NUMBER III. 4. Storr tend Flntt, tied The purjioero of God, uot to men to |>UDdsbment > (l) htot salvation cm teem through OmM just as uni versal os is that m«tofe which is difrivod from Ads*!® 1 * v : 13-19 ). Accordingly, Gri * teuded salvittiou throegb CknA* liveranoe from the inoate depr*ntf of our ua tu re aud the evils eoSM^ with it (such as the terrors of de*A Sect. 60--64) not only for a fe» viduals or nations, but for the tote mass of mankind, (2) not sxtoffe* even tl *os<* whose who had drii ^ fore th.fi advent of Christ. (3) I* Thes. 't: 9 : “God bath imM *«*•* ed ua to wrath, but to obtain to^ tion tl trough our Lord Jesus Cbrto- 2. Ch rist tasted death forertU *** tlie ; itonement is general. I* * paasr«ges. Matt, xxvi : 28; **’■ ^ Heb. ix : 28; Rom. v: lh; the te pollo i, “many,” does ate anoi ber part of the hums* w hccm the declaratioo oootttejU tho so passages cau not he ttte*; Bu a the object of this word m** uao re a limitation of the ^**2 to a few , or to any particular su ch as waa the limitation to OJ.d Covenant to a single natio* 1 ’ oi jpositiou to the New. 2S! Heb. ix: 15; xviii: «» f this is here the aignifiestioo^ 'ford many is evident from •cages, iu which “all” is used ♦f it (Rom v: 15,19); i*jf hi verse 1A ei* panto* a VWW<* VJ tyo. i w - - I Iff; Tit. ii: U; 2 0to. v: 15 tete ffOhrist- i—rralitv ***!£& tbe odp j! the misci aA*». H»«n- ' H * b - jg. 15-2®* b7.—1 jTduo who sha flTfeto** T: 9y *' ? where P»a* ! that his exer t Lio**- Matt vl P* *= “ 2 ^ |T (,er« 21) the nnm Zr* V. . wfi blood. II 1 to* and a! TL ike aniversiilt to not there by jgsld the eon of n a**body of crimm -jff- for them al ML oo eertain “■“’ by tbtu, whether the benefi: wicked a tosj rffuse to a goi.i: 18, 18? «■ n . Acts xiii: 46: jfett xxiii: 57; I- 11 H; the Pharisees tot being b^»tixe<i ul ffie counsel of tome****- 4. Ezckfl pat# terra 32; xxxii: fi; Bon. ii: 4 ? > x : 4; tPte i»: 9. gWfi, Cbapt. 3, rant of Christ con tearioos satisfaction pmt obedience is - (Jro. iti: 16; 1 Tim. i I; 2 Cor. v: 14; li< M etc.) It include tee, and also those fee Christ r-A ■ L' I«TE.~Augustinru-, t | • the Bfcfonnrd Chuj- | fete denied the un i vt i -v. | x «f Christ, bat it has afo. ed by the Lutherans, i the Anniuians. Marten* m, J F. Set. £ fee, that knew fro possibility of tbe L from eternity the w* tics. Out of free lov Ftofaer surrenders th«- ji- . bwn. to obedience -aud the Mon as the secom atary obedieuce bet loti to the demaxil rifhteous love, offer> u whieh our sinful rac- (ftevd, but could no up of suffering for sii •emptied, if the sinfa • to be re:race<l ami naraenced. Tbe act fed’s own act of grad te human family ; bt te highest sense bu nt, for it is God iu the l *h the second Adam te daim of nghteou tanan fornUy. Withi •te the partition bet' teo removed, within t * th# pure, the holy te disturbed relation **I man is restored to kwa which divine lo ter out into the wo teold the entire bum tew Adam, it follow s nitrous 80 are r 4rh for all so are all c * the first Adam all *te°®d Adam shall all b PCw. v: 14 ; 1 Cor. x conclusion we sum * reot *athorities as foil Christ died to save si 1?H ■ AH men are sinners *terefore Christ di 1|# - John iii : 16, 17. K- . t v H — - v 1^ - ’ s FortheLiidx Bidunond **ause is advancm! opens favorably. B ^ cause and of Christ I to ‘uake thank» of the follow ul ^teiuga: fo T r. ' ^•D. Dreher, Roan-kl fer.j t -ul!* I Vr' r , 4 ' Fr “'' Maa.X M„ \ j ^ Uhw,, I <x*itrfbutinn« ■ iv.; * I kudi l# life iu I "I CTOWn «*»h, ' w; 10 the si., I '*■- cal Bar*. ^«iouK° 0t golnR mail < I ff *vi l^ r ^ of the chu! 1 To y "* u i ^ n rnl r ® *« intul 0n * <* the l elt , V