The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, March 20, 1874, Image 1
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