The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, February 13, 1874, Image 1
t
tl REL| EF
/"ty Minute*.
OUR
1
•nt sh
paih.
Ik 18 a cc** ^
|M Is
,^S? ! “•oil V
ri Ha.
J’.*>i*p{^ ^»,r, ..
T Y »*UEF
tapi
i. r s Tn * «.*««*
i('tmxa* LCx *-«.
E\ ar *&«*«*
!l «*
p u - RHk ^*ati,^
F KU i» wiaum.r,*.^
. : *A-ra;!;;'7
iV*** « r**.
I dr^M*
f->-r »r BtoSj**
^the.
* AY K RKtbYftl .
UTY!!
ay^s
(ealmt
purifier.
iHrrn emu*; »>
Tvh r 15 PLTKSc*
V VI. XKDiasl
ise ii M
anil Felt
I »-t. s».,. rrtBA
r. y4 i* rn ’’*a*%»r5
» t!h *?T* »04
IttiroAt. Mouth T».
[ I'krta of tlw «r«MML
Ifror* th« Kur- «3
. Eruption* in*
Ktiount. Erystiwi*.
fVch. Tumort. C«».
inti »iwd painful Jfe.
r-Ti and alt vutnar
IratiTe raaa* «f ,hi»
fow <*»tV M w-n
■r ol these forms of
kiiocd by Om vua
|t ly piwesain*. *w-
•I repairs the mum
ithy blood—and this
lloes aecnre—a ruts
|pdy commences its
Lin dlalaMunc the
lv»d- and erery 3ay
1 'rter and strowttr,
ip coring, and deai
is Bsmmrtittl
Ira of Chronic. s«to.
cases; bnt b l* tbs
>m plaints,
bl. Diabetes. Dropsy,
f t rine. PrictifsDts.
k* where there are
pi'-k, cloudy. mind
| «;•?. or threads lika
ark. hilioos appear-
, and when there is
| ra-«*in: water, aad
Lotaa
rs’ Growth
Insolvent,
AY’S
with sweet gam.
strenatben. Rad
rs of the Stomaeh.
>u of the
Itlve cere. Purely
funeral* or d*MMft
will free the spe
lt r*. Price.»teats
Send one letttr
I Warren SA, *sw
i wtU beseat rea
>ad.
«!, counectiiig
South Caro
rn; also with
ith on Cbar-
stA Railroad,
and Anjcxata
.. 7 15am
... 9 05a®
...10 40am
... 8 00pm
... 3 50pm
... 5 30p®
k£k
trM rtil*fi
ckei
'hedul 0 *
C03IP^ Y ’
pber 9.1*^’
fe r _Stbodd«
n after * vs *
•5
■pp®
THIT 1
1 n Jljj
m
——
> f>..
- i. ■ ■ ' H i
jjts. Rode & Miller, Editors.
OVX LOAD, OVI FAITH. Oil 1APTISM."-IPH*SIAXS 17:6.
0 SERIES, VOL 6---N0. 21.
COLUMBIA, S. C.. FK1DA1: FEBRUARY IS. 1874.
FsiiiK*
unications.
.fefiZ
15 a®
For tho Lutheran Viaitor.
a^tt I Do to bo SaTodr
important questions have
m propounded to you, dear reader,
doabUww you have thought of
**V but the above is the
itapoudous, the most uiomeu
, that has ever occupied your
It claims the attentiou of
tit ohiW of Adam. Men of all
rtuks, and conditions, ask
^jetect upon it, aud form some
gggltiion as to what must be done
t R saved. But notwithstanding
& plain declarations of God’s Word
^ Ike subject, how diversified,
m «altiplj«d these conclusions 1
gm sea aspect, boj>e, to be saved,
1|#i how varied tho grounds of their
fcp! Though it is solemnly de-
tomi ; “The wicked shall be turned
m leU.’' “He that believeth not
)tf ii be daomed.' 1 “These shall go
into everlasting punishment,”
^•mae say that all men will be
wad; sod therefore, and for no
4fer reason, they believe they will
Is >
gibers believe they will be saved
inMW they have coutessed their
iHtetbe priest, aud been absolved,
•jehera, because they have beeu cate
eiad, confirmwl, aud bad the Holy
fenaent* of Baptism aud the
Insfs Supper administered to them.
Dim, because they have prof eg—d
y gives of their substance for the
iMotioo of Christ’s kingdom, taken
art externally in tbe forms aud cer
amics of worship, are moral in
irir lire* aad honest in their deal-
ki Others still believe they will
stared because they have had such
•Mioas, and such feelings, and
«h experiences. They have wept
i bitterness and shouted in joy;
itnfore they believe they will be
•rad.
While many of these things are
{ml io their place, all of them are
deficient as a foundation for the
itiitf that yon will be saved. They
of works, of aeif-xigliAaamaN
sod rest upon unbelief, the
pat, dainuing sin of the world.
8 you, dear reader, are in nn-
fcjrf, it is founded upou two things:
•pad opinion of yourself and a bad
ipaion of God. The former causes
to think it possible to win God's
by your doing, feeling, aud
more than others, or than
have doue heretofore, or, at
to think you are better eutitled
expect God's favor than you were
you thus qualified yourself by
own good deeds, as yon call
‘To take comfort from our good
tboee who will, trust ia
vslices, their doing aad feeling, bat
do yoa trust confidingly, faiplietOy,
and only in God—ia hie lave, truth,
and Cnitbfalneee, all of which stand
pledged in yoar behalf. Da Uua jest
now. God com in and* yoa to bolts ve
now, and M il ia at yoar parti If yoa
attempt to alter this imperative aad
immediate obligation by the eabeti
tutioa of something preliminary” for
the purpose of roeoooUing Uua al
ready reconciled, or pereaadiag Hie*
to do that which He la already moot
worthy to do for yoa. Los the laa
guuge of yoor boast bo:
‘‘Ju*t as I am, am
To rid my soul of ooo da
To Tho», whom blood eon
0 Lamb of God, I come!
Ju*t aa I am. Thou wilt veeeive.
Wilt welcome, pardon, close». relieve ;
Because Thy promise I hettfva,
0 Iaali of God, I coma !*
Nr.
For the
"Bqjoicing la Hope.''
* Hope in the foundatiou of
of earthly joy. We am
more with the expectation than with
the realisation of temporal good.
Hope buoys in all eons, cheers ia all
dimes, and sustain* in all change#
and misfortunes. Bat for its din
tiuct whispering* amid the darkest
hours of adversity, w* weald sink
helpless io gloom, nod never nor*
put forth so effort to repair our leasee,
or recover our wonted health aad
strength. Hope is tho saintsttag
principle of *11 man’s persons, aad
its extinction would put so embargo
upon *11 human enterprise. It gives
strength by importing joy—tbe joy
of anticipation, or the earn eat ex
pectatioo of tho good for which we
long. Notwithstanding it* object is
so generally upatterned, bops renews
itself contisoslly, sod beckons oe
onward in same asw direction, with
a still confident promise of ■senses
Though the most of earthly Uoj—a
disappoint us, they still charm, faoct
nate, and lead as onward with svsr
vivmg awmatiou. U luring they
deceive os, and are in their essential
nature drlarir*. They fail of realise
tion; or if not, tbe realisation falls
far below the glowing prospective
which they had pointed.
But the hops referred to io th#
quotation above ia type which t# not
thus deceptive, and which is not cir
cumecribed by time, nor snbject to
it* fluctuations; a hope which peers
through and illumes tho grave, sod
takes fast hold on immortality—sur
viviug the dissolution of death.
That is the “living hope” of tho
Christian unto which “God tho Fatb
er, through His abundant merry,
i^deiai of ifio
Lord shall
vithsoags
their head
oad ever looting joy
1$ they shall
lag aball fine away •
•■•MRaRisiaiassoomamsassoammsnmsmnmes
W. D
e
Terms: $2.00 a Tar.
OLD SERIES, VOL 6-N0.281.
can
in vpu
hich ia
giro at t!»o hour of death,
near at band t
Of tho
Sfilfictiottlk
bat o di
or good feelings, or good hath begotten us agam by the reear
or good prayers, or good ex
it to delude ourselves, and
|*ny peace when there is no peace.”
attempt to work, pray, or weep
ihes into anything better than
sinners, to win God's
por thereby, is to attempt to make
rectiou ot Jesus Christ from the
dead.” It is tbe hope of an imper
isbable and fadeless inheritance.
Believers in Jesus Christ abide “In
tbe hope of eterual life, which God
who cannot lie, promised before the
world began, but hath is doe time#
['arks, prayers and tears instruments manifested His word through preach
[* *df-righteousues8.
^ken those who sincerely ask
l’ r ht they mogt do to be saved are
H to see sod feel that there is, and
Nbe, bo merit in them or anything
r**2
fpm
£{S%2i
iug, which is committed auto us sc
cording to the commandmenl of God
oar Saviour.” It is guaranteed by
the truth aud fidelity of God AI
mighty. It is pledged by Hie no
have done, or cau do, sometimes 1 changeable promise, which is slen
had opinion of God prevents confirmed by an oath: “That by two
from trusting in Him. They immutable things, in which it is i
that they are too vile, aud j possible for God to lie, we might
** become good or better before have strong consolation, who have
** C4Q and will look graciously fled for refuge to lay bold upon the
J® them, forgetting that God loved \hope set before t»s: which bofie wo
7**tsod Christ died for them while have as an anchor of the eoel,
*7 »*re yet enemies unreconciled, sure and steadfast, and which
T**fiB 1 knelt day after day, and tereth into that within tbe vail.*
^ after Bight at the altar, aux- Thia is glorious hope of tbe gospel
Baking, “What must I do to whose foundation is the eternal Je-
* feted!” I thought 1 must do hovah. In this ws are invited and
j^thiug I had not done, or feel ss commanded to “rejoieo* at all tii
. Dot felt, or get into a condi- If the hope, born of eortb, and limit-
. 111 w bich I had not been, before ed to time and sense, imports joy ss
be saved. As long as I at- a ministering angel amid the chang
thus to save myself I was iug scenes of this vanishing life, how
. inconceivably
Ta > to be saved is not, Do potential that sublime hope which
^ 0r that—not to trust to pray- has God for its security sod eternity
to tears—that would be sal- for its possession. And who con be
^ by works; but, “Believe in joyless with such sn outlook sa this f
Jesus and thou shalt be Why should be who has it, allow
w ’ “Whosoever believeth shall any temporal calamity whatever to
ULook nuto me » and ^ overwhelm or paralyse his sooll Is
was “dslivered for it not impossible that any evil ia this
Uf j e “ ce ®’ raised again for world should counteract the prepon
Cation ‘’ , “died for the dering influence of this God giv
^hatk .“This is the record, that expectation t Hence it is said that
I In j- f ? lven eternal life, aud “we are saved by hope.* That is,
Imw- . U iD bis Sou ” Hence sal- we are preserved, sustained, apheld
‘‘ by grace,” as a free, un- by it in all tbe woes and trials which
kith, “ tbrou gb faith.” The may betide us hers, or obstruct our
hop€ ’ or or joy that way to beavso. Tbe sssnrsd bops of
ST°“ performances or our | final aud oomplete deliverance from
The Lord i Veal
Net hi tbsasMssf
enn it bo sold (hot tho Lord has need
of soy thisg TVs rsosnwsfe ef oes
are sR his own. TW onrth Io the
I -ordX and the fslneos thereof, the
world end they that deal!
Ilia srs the rattle epee o
hills, and treasure* of
mine*, sod fuc his plraonre nil things
Why, then, shoo Id he seem in sp-
tbo misistry ef
ralj upon tbe
sympnthies, end the «n-
*f bis friends! TVs fimfi
is incoetestnblo that he does ask and
nee the ftp will offerings and soldi
ary agency of finite helpers Ho
oven deign* to pratoae bin need «if,
and In employ irratiwsnl rreotnras
and inanimate fnma i«l »~i tkinM
»****** (••■'is»w io*v*mj y raowfeo MW sSi^j.mi
which, In a seoes, “wo ae«* to fbr
thor hie wies deotgos to bring io
eoegbt “things that ora* All Mg
hr so doing wo oray sot
Bet hie pravtdaofiBl aad
ecesMimjr ssshra osom of
very pirns.
Rot what have wo that we hove
not received f Tho very power, so
well ae the opportselty, to sera, to
obtain, to retain, or to inrrvee* is
from hiss. Osr property of oboS-
over sort, is wholovor fisvm, sod to
whatever amount Io no torn bin, be
coo** io its preeeat *b*po end twp
leg then before he gave I vein®.
oVm*o» sMesasRaWlor o*4f Win ttaruwl ! > »m
Vw* wt RMim ▼■WfTffrag •’ssfipTtm^
whatever stybs we may knew them,
doe* not work a fbrfisitare ef bis
sod ooo tret of of!
Monos ka m—h*e
w vaolts, or In tbe shape of rain,
henh notes, lends and hoooos, is ha.
Just ns trely as before it rams from
the mine*, end gas trine, and fora*is
ef Ids ewe wsshi. The eheeR* ^
form dura not olteooto it, ran nut
diminish, bet mny even ierrenss end
intensify his *i»vereign right- And
when h# ha* one am! rail* for II.
only Io the reopen** so reformat f
His appUcotioo, it Is Ires, is often
pet cm other grounds than that of
right His pie* is arise that ef nr
cosatt>, “the Lord ha* need,* there in
fit and argent srraalee, the Hume lav
Ita ttwr hs* ennr aad aoiwwtanitv
brings tbe divine reqeisiithm.
Ring Jene* eeems the* In throw
himetlf upon tbe loyally of bio onb-
jeets. He expects his servants te
serve him, te he In fell accord with
his greet demgse, sad bsertily cm
opr rate with him in
terpriseo. iVe woeld awake* their
(•■I (nil lUrodua bv r»n*tac tham to
feel that, la a sense.
And, indeed, be does
iaatremrat* of |
lie bee
II*
Her
IO fkllk.
ee eye
ImMI v!A *U the regal teeignie
that te MM Almighty power
t* her, was hot a
the Master**
a is thy froth
ss thoe wilt.*
IWi
hy soy
Uoeiog
nay
rap«>. We
•hy
« Is
wuh tbe
ell
§ •«
ilhftnsra Ms OMfe
we gfr* ^Mfiew fifm
IA Ii# lM> iMg* twr
ef
sc
i 4MI
God |o grant;
my
ewe
in hk*
v ovary day.
Tiwat* i* (leoad
nob
tbay
i* aetory of miraeMo; whlMit
trothfal occwont baw
bn IAmm^
Ha who
pb«bt«
Him that Ha ran os*
• tegtee
lady,
r “jt#r «wby
• bo bsgee te she was
“Wkj «>! il M |M* late
Whrt Sol ofBaota BhaU I (Hn to My
Chilim ?
Who ran duly eatimate tbs benefits
which woo Id fiow in npon us, if
paroet*. even but far one year,
woeld withdraw from their children’*
kendo «R works of fiction, and anb-
stilote (hose which contain only the
troth f Long and general habit has
corrupted crar teste, enfeebled osr
minds, pervert**! our judgment, and
dethroned in ear heart* that high
regard fur truth which I* so general
ly found in the human inmd until
Lot es^ow ^
would be produced In ftajr family,
taught to rale* troth, and to reject
fiction mm necessarily inferior in
vain*. TVs weak, unnatural, and
often injurious work* of novel writers,
large and email, would give place to
hook* of history, travels and science.
The mind would lie trained to con-
template tbe characters, habits sad
deeds of mao, and the varied, aweful,
wonderful and glorious work* of
God, ** well o« the (tower* of oar
own minds, and our relation* to oar
Maker, and to ouch other. Now,
bow assay of os enter upon sosors
ef doty Ignorant of ourselves, oar
fiBlIow-mee, sad the object* around
na, with false idee*, erroneous prin-
tapir*, end unfounded expectation*!
If wo wooid ruauev to oar children
n life of disappointment, mortifies*
tine nod oohappinras, s downward
eooros to tbe grave, sod tbe loss of
hope beyond it, we might teach
them te pesdm the vagaries of fiction
writers to tbe observations of sense,
tb* discovert** of seiraer, the tree®
era* of learning sod tbe revelations
of God. Dot if we woeld regard
the mind according to its nature
nnd mperrisca, are should be among
the advocates of sound taste, useful
troth, nod the aeeo of learning sod
labor who have claim* on our high
of life.* Death hs* passed npon ns,
“for ws then judge,* says the ftpoetle,
“that if one died for *11 thee ell
died”—(for each is the literal Greek) i
“and that he died for *U, that they
which live should not live heeesfnrth
unto themselves, bet unto him tint
died for them and rose again.* W«B,
then, beloved, if we ate deed, I de
uot wonder that God rays he does
not rememVer our sins, for wo are
new creatures; we here come into e
a new life, and God looks open ea
from a new point of view, nod re
gards ns uuder a now aspect oe
members not of tbe first Adam con
demned and dead, but of the second
Adam, the Lord from heaven, the
living and the quickening Spirit
Well may he ray to men who era
raw creatures. “I will
ber your sins.*—Aporpsoe,
... _ in its hands all the avenues aud in-
.^^4 .u._ rw*mM Uhl
W bat so at
stpM I* bat* I It I
display ef ostf, end
defeat *f heart. Shi
|. | k mi
* 1
pHebtag bin
0 them is bis
must be
unstable
—* i them enables
t 0 4 Jeas th ®y »*■©• patience, and _ I v
ever-enduring founds-1 the glory of God ” And we
I you, dear enquirer. - —--*
to bear thorn with
we “rpriv in hope of
“hold fast tbe
factors, so that tb*tr agmey and llnir
—J. Wte _ S- — — — 4^1 S.,Mk «h*ii«iaaia^iA
K11 vM iMM lHi# MPIUIAI kO pflra*
gfortons rsaalu In tbia —as* tbay
necessary to him, not boraeas be
Id not dlope— with tham, bet
oed bl* work are sf bM ewe
id blessing.
Hew meek thsro is oe thin Mbfrat
yet to he learned f Whet ra Made
qoato son— man,
ef CVriat have sf Iht
privilege on wall so U
of giving t Frequently
Orion it le »
te ability and te
•My, to fiirra so gredglagly, rad
with snob evident roloelenoo, that
there to little of grant er
dlaosrnibts ie tbs act. Or
tbe gift be torge ia newmet, It may
bo pro—o fed with —
eed to • means
In destiny Me xeoeptabtoaa
Lord towns e sbeerfbl giver
should be banrttaa— to
as well ss to ear prats— sad ootivl
Mae. Giving, or londieg te the Leed,
is na important pba— sf tho —tig
toes Ufa and worship of tho prapl* of
God; e
vital Christianity,
the Spirit, le wktoh It
Christians to
Moreover,
needs miters, — that to may
a
H|
the frails of
mg to the help of tbs Lard, te eee
a lkte. —k, ■ ii m rn m- jot kt o*MaS ohm.—um
“•Jt Wm WP# dPfefiPro •fffMPMWMfl# Min
bis da®. If any severity or eponly
If J lit tPYwrfWMra-'ra Rlra« URVJ m$mj wm
p—t him to ass— way — thwart tbs
A od while they toes tho
eeernhte dmtmttoe of an
wuh God. help ooo—e to
him from naoth— geerter. Ho to at
all thtogn am fhetekv tfiefiephto es
to sa opirttnal* obey bis order j
>1 ov—i o little froaly lent to him.
frvilhi
view,
OUTs plea sf
Io
giving
ran
dotgo a
•Cm ft* by
tor talp It to
godlike i—btt of
la na Gm it
Etas)
ns, then. If
if It
le g!ra
ipoedi
Dtvlno
Sim
the i noonsistr u t
members!
ge thy bro
ft ef es shall
W God.”—
I. Is It
(«•( m . things ssoco thee eternal
tbNsgsf “For wbot obeli to profit a
MttAfi^. if fttofi emmAes ratmlgt djtoik na
mMto-*®* ge raw' mira»raet ^giranra gp—a—' a^m^ ™ se"vmp
world, and toes hi* own ralf-
Marii rui Jd.
1 Io M hens osr yon ora indulging
W wmttm AAralral |*r*h»
am not willing In give up! “Mia,
nhan It m fistohad, briagrth forth
A Is it boonn— yoa think them to
an danger in lit iug os yon ora iftf^og !
“Ilow shell we i"snapi if we neglect
e* grant —fvottoa T*—Heh. d : 2.
4 Is II haran— you her jr**# ora
too grant a atarar to uome to Jems!
“The U—i of Jean* Christ, Uto
mi c iin*nmiL o* from all *»».’*—..1
dm f sf*
h leu
ndnet of
“Rot oby dost (boo
tbsr I Rn than every
give oermont of
Ross, sir 111
d. te it
Io
“For
Mo ood of My
the Mon ef mm be
Me shell name »• Urn ewe glory.”
Lake li:M
f. to fil boro am yen era afraid of
bank sliding t “He whtob 1
gen e good work to ywn, trill
It snail tho day ef
Phil ltd
A la to beseem
trine emmgh f “Reeet net thyself
s—wi * w sv • e —•* —^w^^sn ^s- wws
what a day may bring tortb "—I’rav.
nsMtL
1 lc M beseem there to no ad
in e religions Uto! “Gad
to profitable sale all linage,
sf tb* Uto that raw
to eed ef that whtoh to to coma”-1
Ties. Is i A
IA It to bans am yen have ao(
tovHa-
mf ORctofi WfA M Gmra aeto Me,
yethnt toherandambaavy km
| I wttt give yon reek "—Mats xi;
m. And tot him
r t seme. And tot him that to
I eed whosoever wm
tot him lake ef th* water of
freely.* Mm. ufr * IV.
MViiy, then, era fee rate
of Cbnuth rborrb ! Wb* ?
PeTsaaa- SesposxiHlBjjr,
God deals with oe singly, aud ws
must deal with God siagiy. Ws
have little concern with what others
do, bat everything with what we do
ourselves. Let ns live, and think,
and speak, and act as if we and God
wore alone, and an if the whole
weight and responsibility of bis
work upon earth toy npon us, ns
it does to the fall faaob of oer
power to bear it. We are responsi
ble for oar own tools end for the
tools of others. I constantly fori in
what p very different state the shureh
and tbe world would be if every maa
who is called a Christian had hto
heart on fire with divira love, aad,
like the Christians of apostolic days,
went everywhere preaching the Word.
I do not mean the speaking to pub
lic to many which most ever be the
gift and calling of a fow; bat I mean
the frank, candid, spontaneous, un
affected speech with which ooo who
loves Christ may tell another of the
beauty of his Master. Were every
Christian that to act, what aa enor
mous power would be set to work,
sod an agency which bolds at once
earth contain*. Brought to thi*,
lb* toocbtoco*, how soon will the
bra tea counterfeit* of U*te and
tears tag expose their worthlessness
nod tb* corroding canker which
would ponton ns aud oar children !
Os thi* subject we have a fund of
isficetrims to make, of arguments to
diwplay, and of interesting examples
to quote, when opportunity shall
—ot. We can only add a worm
wish to see oor country men waking
to the perarctoUN influences of that
prevailing taste, which produce*
oh varums and extensive evil.
Symbols for Christian*.
1 think it wns Augustine who had
on ones s great sinner, and after
i was converted hs was met in the
street by one with whom be had
often I si loo into sin, and when she
upeke to him aud said, “Augustine,
It is I,” lie sold, “Ah, but it U not /.
I am deed and mnde alive again.”
Now, when God'* jurlioe meet* a
man who believe* in Jesus, that
man »s no longer the l that sinned,
lot that I to deed In Christ. “Know
ye not that we were crucified with
him r The believer was buried with
Christ, an that, as be that to dead is
frae from tbe tow which condemned
him—tor boo shall tbe law arrest a
dead mauf-~oo we, being dead io
Christ and r»—« again in him, are
now creators*, and do not oocue
under the divira aeotenoe, sod God
knows os os raw creatures io Christ
Jess*. He knows and recognise* in
mi tbe raw life, having “begotten us
again Into a lively hope by tho resur
motion of Jeans Christ from the
dead.* That to one of the instracti ve
feature* «f the ordinance of baptism.
Tbe believer there sets forth the
doctrine of aalvotion by death aud
banal. That wee Noah’s salvation.
He went into the ark mm one dead to
the world, he wm burtod in the ark,
nnd then be floated out from the old
world into the raw. “The like
figure,” sold Peter, “whereunto bap
team doth now save us (not the
patting sway of the filth of the flesh,
bat the answer of s good couscieoc*
before God) by tbe resurrection of
Jeans Christ.* That to to say, bap
item is a like figure of salvation, for
it onto forth a figure, aad only in
figore, oor death with Christ, our
burial with Christ, oor rssorrsetiou
with Christ. Therefore where there
to trra faith, ood the soul has com
munion with Christ, w« are buried
with him is baptism unto death,
“that tike as Jesus raw from the
dead by the glory of the Father,
own no wo else may rt— to wewn*—
peeted from above, if every man did
what be might do for Christ 1 I one
the phrase advisedly, because I am
sure that all that God puts in our
power to do, God means us to de.
He that does nothing in vain, but
in his exact economy never wastes a
drop of water or a dead leaf^ has not
given time, talent, money, position,
influence, to be thrown nwny. We
only need the xeal—the heaven given
fire of the Spirit—the all constrain
ing, all subduing love of Christ
Tbe Gravbyaed.—The grave
yard is usually a cheerfrd place,
except in its associations. It has
ita walks and avenues, its green
grass and flowers, ita trees and
haudsome monuments; and at any
hour io the summer birds sing there
ns joyfully ss in the meadow or
garden. It is only when we think
of it as tbe place of tbe dead, or the
rest of friends departed, that our
sonlfl sadden amid its beauties. And
io the same way.we ooo template tbe
closing year. Tbs skies ore as bright
as at any other season. Never do
the stars look more beau tfsi than
on s clear December night; and in
our homes aud in all society th—e is
s festive joy produced by holiday
exercise* and gifts which gladden
ever}- soul. Bnt we stop amid it all
to think of passing time. Another
year is gone. Life has taken an
other long step towards ita ooorin-
skm, and memory fills ns with and
thoughts of links broken daring the
year which both weaken tod shorten
the chaim of our evtotones. Bat
above the grave, and looking down
on us, is the good God—“God over
all ;* aad also the “resurreetton and
the life.”—United Pretkfteriem.
The Brain*g Bush.—Bat what
is this that the both to not boned
aud ooosumed ! It to this: Although
Christ suffers and diet, ha shall not
remain in death, but rise, and live.
And why to this! Because Ha to
not a mere maa, but the very God.
If Ha had bean a mere man lika us,
he would have been for too weak for
death and bell; but beoaoM ha to
God, and God to lifo, it to impossible
that aooording to hto eternal God
head he should die. For ttofr if hs
dies aooording to the flesh, he eon
not remain in death, because lifo
must live. Therefore, thi* God man
ifest in the flesh, though dsnd, must
rise again, in order that Ha may
give forgivorass of sin, lifo aad sal
ration to oil that believe oa him.
Hell has broken her teeth upon this
Christ, sod thereby lost ber power.
—Lather.