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jers. Rude & Idler, Editors. OHE LORD. OHE FAITH. OV BAPTISM.”—EF HE 81A VS IV:6. COLUMBIA. E C.. FKIDIY. MARCH 20, 1874 ic is uimctm co mm word* to proper ly characteri** It We giro it ap Ami in there not something para llorty refreshing In that parent h«-u»! damns ‘‘•o fang ns A# Ami nag folio* «r»*contained In thn above derUrw lion t A* we mid It ve thought of tha forty-II re- miHton* of Lutheran* Itrnltaml nw the world ; wo mmem I Mhrad that they eotistltate a hodj rat bar larger than III tha rest of Protestant •'ommankm* pot top*that, and w* felt a littla carton* to know what Sir. Harrla coo Id possibly mean by * peaking of Lather’* folio warn, and then adding t “So long aa ha bad W* at ill foel ewriou* Ho seem* to bare adopted Oivs the Strsuagsr a But Be attentive to the atanger who cornea into the church or prayer meet ing. Be courteous. Invite him to you neat, supply him with the raata book, ahow him tha text Take opportunity to speak to him at tbeeioaeof service. Do hot be afraid of being considered officious. A stranger will be grateful for any attention yon may render, and be nmrsgn; m _ t * • j For the Lutheran Visitor. and Con substantiation. In every laudable pursuit of life, there are certain elements of charac tar which, If brought into active ex vreiae, always insure •access. In dustrjr end economy, sooner or later, will be rewarded with tem)>ora! proa parity. Constant thought and dill gwut application oa the part of the student will conduct him successfully to* the goal of his aspiration*. In the Christian life, a firm aud onfal taring trust la God, coupled with an iaftesftde purpose, will lead the child of immortality safely into the the femftjr. Of Abraham G«4 said, **f know him, that be wtff command bis ehftdrra and Ids hnwsehaM after Mm, and they shall heeprihe wav of the Lord.* (Oen tvlh It.) fa )«i* shady the *«m# manner wws false rrlfjuM. |»r«tfmg»tei) la thnue early times Utesh gmti eompismt •gainst Jmmb ess hr tab tug away iw imnw-nodi jwit, ami mu »t*g atm JppXtlB " Christ iwjidesa ta sank things., sad smmM* seeatflMhp any followers." about It. pretty folly theXmheran doctrine of the lord’s Sapper without exactly knowing it, and we can not avoid the suspicion that be may have adopted, more or less largely, Luther's follow era, as well as his doctrine, nod counts them (some of them lave bishop* as a sort of Episcopalian* If he means to intimate at all that the Lather ans are, in any respect, a feeble or insignificant body, either In this country or In Europe, and that even then they are not, In aay correct the ologico.historical sense. Lather’* fol lowers, his sources of isformatioo. surely, must be very dilferent from those of moat other people. From what ttev. Mr. Harris has revealed of himself In his sermon, we can not think we are for wrong In supposing that he would look with a stars of incredulity upon the statement, that Luther's followers, in the Tnited States, for be still seems to have a fsw even la this country, according to the statistics, are just about itrim has numerous as te Episcopalian*. i Yet that to simply the fort In the case, as appears from the figures of Prof. A. J. Hohsm. who la said to he a careful statistician, recently pah lubed in the .VffoidM. The roods sion of the whole mutter to, that it would be no disadvantage to the Hev. Mr. Harris, sad to a great many diligently unto thy fihult talk sf (hum wl another. Soon be was removed foam this. Ho one offered him a scat. Finally, he concluded that there was no eeat in that church for a stranger, and he took his departure. May not church members be too neglectful of strangers f Many of these may come from distant homes, probably of the same faith; they feel as the heart of a stranger only can fed, when a smile of encourage, meet would warm the heart and make it feel that there to something in religion alter all, and that the bouse of God is indeed the bouse of £11 is our cuurcu » utawij, iu suu of this point. Wo might supplement them, too, with j^gtiou to the sauie purpose, from jpw Catholic and Calriniatic di- rio* »ml writers, (tor Dr. KrautU id stkers have furnished au abuu gate of such quotations, which are ndj to our hand) but wo content ^rseives with simply giving here, hu two of oar living American Intes, two seateuces which cover to whole grouud, and which we igud »a placing the matter beyond topste. Dr. J. A. Seias, who may ■Ml be presumed to know some- hag of Lutheran, theological liter* toe by this time, says: “ We offer a jnmtw to any one who will bring as hsathority of any acknowledged Lu torn writer, of any age or country, tot Lutheran* believe the doctrine of fomtolaabetio*.” Dr. 0. P. Krauth, too whom, we believe, there is no iirng man better qualified to speak drieedly on the subject, says: “It thtm #,msiia.it a wAmfito-iMu- kklm - ! A. A wtWI til wM(p tho gwvwfwaNst sf hll family, there iug him rtaruity, and all “I will some again, and receive you unto myself; that whom I am, there ys may be also.” There is to every man a sense of loss in parting with every material thing ha has ever possessed, his long yean of industry; and there to a sense of dreariness in the thought of his body, which almost seems himself, being carried out and buried among the dead, there to lie beneath the banting storms of ages, until it has beep absorbed into the and only in a new form te be gather ed ap and revived when the voice of God calls it forth. There is the feeling of loneliness in going off on the mysterious and unknown voyage, the dearest objects of our love ac companying os to tha shore, but not one able to step within the doskj barge that in darkness is to bear ns away. How sorely it is enough to conn- terbalmce all such thoughts about death, and to invest it with a very different aspect, if ws see it bat as that moment in oar history whan Jesus Christ comes himself for os to take us to liipirif We picture 4**d> ns a hideous figure ooming to de stroy ; let us rather picture Jeans Christ in glory coining to save. We think of death ending; let oa think rather of life beginning, and that more abundantly. We think of losing; let na think of gainiug. We think of parting; let na think of sseeting. We think of going away; let us think of arriving. And as a voice whispers, “Yon mast go,” let us hear the voice of the good Shepherd say ing, “I will oome.” If Jesus thus comes for ns at death, we shall never see the grave or the church-yard. They may keep our bodies for a time, but ws ourselves shall never die. We go with Jeans if Jeans comes for us, we do not go forth into a world of myttarv aud darkness, knowing not where, nor how for. We simply go with, and u» Jesus. If Jeaussomes for us, we do not go forth alone. When we lose hold of the clasping hands of the most beloved of all on earth, another hand, of one in whom we are all one, and whose love forever binds us all, holds ns fast; and tearful faces are withdrawn only to be replaced by the countenance of one whoie bone of our bone, who was a man of sorrow*, who himself died, and who,awhile he takes is away, as a triumph of his love, CM comfort those we leave behind, even as he comforted Martha. Mary at Beth any, or his own mother In her hour of agony. It is thus that the one promise, “I will oome again and re ceive you unto myself, 9 should ohaage darkness to light, diath to life, the grave to glory,-and make ns exclaim with the quiet peace, the sober and solemn calm of foith in the midst of much to distract aad disturb the seal, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the sha dow of death I will fear no evil, for thou art with me;” if “absent from the body, I am present with the Lord.” mfmion of our church, and we have mm teen ft u*ed in any standard dog- mtician oj our communion, except to mdemn tike term, and to repudiate the da that our church held the doctrine it Moires." It is conceded iu the discourse of tor. Mr. Harris, that the followers f Luther do not bold the dogma tech he asserts Luther produced; hi Mr. Harris’ method of proof on tot point is certainly one of the ant remarkable theological demon- simUeus that has ever fallen under w notice. The only hitch about it is that it proves utterly fatal to Mr. turns’ repeated declaration that Martin Luther produced the dogma «f Conaubstantiation. With that «e little drawback it is a perfectly proper and couclarive argument. Bit we will let the reader look at it to hiswelf. It is worthy of preaeu- htion, at least, a* enabling us to utimate the fitness of a considerable tow of the latter day theologians to their self-imposed task of eulight ing the world concerning Luther the Lutheran church. After showiug again what he be- to be the true teaching of the the right Airecrimi to inform them selves a little more accurately with regard to Lather aad Lutheran usai Wore venturing upon Shell positive, ex cathedra ut tern nee* a* the sab jeet. < Psalm Issif : %.) IV I tty is Uriah of to, 1 always tuff Selections. wealth and virtu*, he finds Imp to hugging to Ms beucm nothing but the viewless air. Unlike either of tlriisr rlsJHMMi, the njjtti of ooe inflexible purpose fixes Ms eye upon ooe murk and keeps It there. He makes all things else subservient to this ultimate aim. While the waves of droumetaacea may waft a hero upoe the shore of military honor or national distinction, the chances aie that it will waft Mas back again ; but tbs mas of one purpose reaches his goal la spite of storm sod wave, A paper read before the Kvaagrli cal Alliance by the Bev. William ti. Flamer, IXD^ Professor in the The ological Seminary, Columbia, ttoulh Carolina. In the sad and deep spiritual de clensions which sometimes come over a people, the lining coals of a purs devotion are last found in the aahea of the family altar. latter days, he distinctly asys that •very family ahall ssuare apart, sad their wives apart, (gash, ill IS-li) Ami Malarhl r luorm ka urmiAir r m — — iw wHoe -j*" ups gv* **s [ * 's, y with the stalemeai that Jobe tha BaptMt “shall tarn tbs heart of the fathers to the childrea, aad the heart of the children to their bribers, toot 1 name eml smite the earth »uh a corse.” (Mat. Iv: A) There mm ms to be no fair way at explaining this Script are which shall escfmls tha he gives briskly. la the cata comb*, in the caves and dens sf earth, iu the gleuw and rooks of the m»sn tain#, vital piety was chiefly pre served by Lundy religion, or by »o cial intercourse very mack partaking of its nature. In tha lata terrible persecutions in Madagascar this truth was remarkably illustrated. When the aw foil storm was blown over, Christians sprang ap in the most unexpected quarters. Kveu many who had sever before wit nessed for the troth declared them Helve* satisfied that Chris: was the Bon of God. They had learned the lessons of salvation in secre t place*. Bo when Elijah complained that he aloue was left to serve 6od, the an swer of the Lord to him was, “1 have left me seven thousand iu La rael, all the knees which have not bowed auto Baal, aad every mouth which has not kissed him.” Both the 8eptoagint and Paul, in transla ting this passage into the Greek, use a word which we render men, bat which commonly denotes the male head of the family, the baatmod of a wife. The altars have bees thrown down, and moat of the prophets slain with the sword. The true reli gion seems to have been publicly abolished. keeps Iu spite of adverse tides. When Lord Bacon was a boy, be formed as isflexible purpose to be oemt Lord Chancellor of England before he died. He lived to enjoy the snore** of his parpoae-. Very truly has the (met said : “The ssks whs seeks sue thing is life, flfclM§ dVIMDk May hum to achieve it before life be itijil In fkueil* r,.i*, L hi sf prsyer, praise, osa- •'toiptares and the Book of Common ^jer with regard to tho Supper, ***♦ Mr. Harris says: “This is not fo doctrine of Martin Luther, who to the ‘substantial’ change. But tot it is the doctrine of all his fol- f*«8, so long as ha had any follow- % clearly apiiears iu the Oafs- *hks of the Lutheran denomination. ** Catechism are the following Brotious and answers: ‘Q.—What * the sacrament of the altar V *A. ’"ft U the true body and blood of *** kwd Jesus Christ with bread *»ue, instituted by Christ him 7" n« Christians to eat and to Kow is not this simply wto «U(li«g to any one who knows ^Jthing of Comparative Theology, * to say to a Lutheran t Here is _ ktor. Mr. Harris, in a sermon 0oly delivered to his cougrega- toft deliberately given to the and published to the world, Lather of producing and stair*- to tbe ot Cousab- totion, and tbeu making it “clear- ^»Ppear’’ that “his followers, so M he had any followers,” did with him, or accept his ttrv 0n that P° iut > qooting, Ianoc ®ntly of course, o question I*tL^ er ia ^ en ' wor d for word, from , « Smaller Ontechium, written *ortl UtJiCr '* ou>n hand! In other m showing that Lutherans in h°ld »«>d teach Con- tt w t ^r 4 ' 011 ’ he hm hopelessly »k w ,u ? P^vious assertion, and tot r "? tl1 ® pecial coticlusi veil ess . ^othe. himself did not bold or tordly 1 ’ Tli0re . ’* ^‘oethiug so ab- whui: in the predicament in length lbs bearing oa this subject at those numerous passages at tbs Haw Taste mm i which speak at timetoarsb la the house, juh! of the rshstlve Jn Urs of husband and will uarwot* sv*w “ nw% spmuw wmBrusm sod children. Chrtotlaadty plsuwfi fluiOM | V j. I. . . m M It kMla J * i tkiffi iiif nripfi wnvrii »n»u qci TWm quality of character is espe nalh tMwmsssry is the Christian course. When a man resolves ta walk ta tbs footsteps of the “Sou of God,'’ hell moves beneath to obstruct his progress ; the world throws around Mm its bewitohiag euchaot menu, and stags to him its song of ease, aad even hto own heart unites with tbs wot 14 and the devil to en feeble Ms resolve. With sach an array of opposition, nothing but an inflexible parpoae, based upon the grace of God, will command the victory. Bat with this be will be able to ward off the missiles of hell, tarn a deaf ear to the siren voice of the world, and bring his own heart under the peaceful sway of the sovereign love of Qod.—Ts*w Ckrit- rtovofopod the tree Idas of tbs fom ( hrmen* AlejuuwJrtnua asya, “The gritsm*- ehristiaa has tha apostlea for esaaipto { aad ia tilth It to mi ta the solitary tils oa# shows himself a man. but he wets the tkclert «*«# *m sfiS^w wa * tow w UsWr wlw vtlw W SUi*Adww jf fiFw Is mediution, those who begin hsaveafv them eh tw and nmmwntr * so . y s»w*iir ss.ga. ue tw*; ta. them not, ass like those that kindle * fftom aadas amsisMMm mn#*! mavjd lam v ii. iH MmW »Ww| MU iViTV it as soon as II begins ta flame. tiding for wife aad ehtodran, asr But in the family there were parent* who still worshiped the true God, and tanght their children do the same Nor is this wouderfoil. God to the author ot the foorily. it is ooe of the institutions of Paradise which has survived the fall. God claims still to be iu author. SSXT OF GOD—Jesus trained aad then sent tbs seventy to convert the world. Bo he sends ua. Do we seek to know aad do hto will f He win lead us to our work. Ask, and di reetioa will be given ; seek, and the fluid of labor will be found. And It to safe to gw where Jeans sends. Dose he order as to preach ia tha wide field as svamnUatst We may wester* te safety, He will be with ua. !><*• be send ua to the great city, m be sent Jonah f We should go, trust- teg the results with him. Ministers should Mask to tosHk rather tikes wait to be called. b * f"i. .h nt , J ! . 4 >, a • i. ^ ~ t Sr, - iso nHHwr is ia# glory or ear rh.hlcua; the wits of her hasbaad) U« ‘"seUctb the solitary is families.”—-Psalm Ixiii: 6. For fall two thousand five hoa- drqd years after the DsU of Adam, the true knowledge of Uod was pre served among meu by prophets sad preachers, ami by tha heads of fount lies. ^ Enoch and Noah wars such prophets and preachers. Daring the *tev. Mr. Harris bus here placed himself, that