The Lutheran visitor. (Columbia, S.C.) 1869-1904, April 03, 1874, Image 1
ova lord, ova faith, oy
PUSH."—IPHSSIAVS 17:6.
tutt «r uia
oow be told in the
mJjpHare." Aud with folded wings
M bated breath the angel aaed:
from the remarkable sermon
j3,« preached last Sunday, I fear that
■me one has been telling yoa the
JMHr that is spread all over the
Jsaasnitj $ bat I assure you i have
psys denied it, and have done
•jdfeg to circulate it."’ What ia
*e inquired, before we were
■*** •* *** Have 1 stolen a horse f
jfcksd a pocket f or committed
‘l** 01 * 6 * “Well, no," was the *»tto
I* answer. “h ia—well—ah—hem
Bp •* Umt yea, or rather that w«,
Bjjfebj admire each other—aud—
^—fell, that is alL” But never,
iesNoah eauit out of the ark, was
lipooT, maltreated’ publk—togeth-
* with the much abused Mr. and
>«. “They Say,” so wilfully ana
"Hmente<l; as it transpired that
peaceful, and no
the dead or living
the soul, and th
God and man, th*
things that laavt
tag the roafrsaitm that “tkia ia the
Word of God * aa that tame oM
Bible hao mightily done. Add after
ever} oppression ia made, which tree
aoisooa cad extort or demand, the
spiritual truths of that Book will
•dill shine, a goWen chain, linking
and height of the rumor was
^ ep under the angels wings.
4 searching sermon, truly, to find »
* that had been so securely hidden.
Sneral months now elapsed, and
fcmpjKwed that the sermon and its
y* aealed up against the
*!*f®ent day, wheu we received a
’•ttfrom a minister, a holy and good
?■* *b° lives in a distant place,
older than the writer of tbeae
Mtidea, be kindly offered aa
***> advice, which was as kindly
g**- At last, with a solemnity
*®auot: the chamber of death, he
“There is one thing that 1 would
**»li«oed before this, but was
"•aw of ofleoding yoo, knowing
l d, *po»iUod at times to be mat
ami which curtained by death, and
drrwdlt |allied by UntdfUjjr tHM fflMjp
bntftun, agitate and oppress the
inquiring spirit They cat only ta-
1 love yoa, my dear child, in the
love of the Divine Master, whe on
abased Himself by love! O, what a
weight of love, since U canned so
setoirishtaf a fell—from bcaven to
earth, from God to man! There fed
beaatifel passage la the imitation of
Ohrtat— 14 Love to be unknown.* Let
Christ's
Owr herd says the old doth asat
he pat away with the ohf garment,
ae maiming beat therewith, and m
the old age of the Christian fetus la
happily with the olden eternity.
God Himself given the peamder, with
long life will I satisfy Mm and thaw
knowledge of the kind of delight
afforded by the experience of earthly
conception may be inadequate, and
yet) ao fer as it can reach, it may be
an aaaaagd m atina to tha ratift
And so, in like manner, with tha
beautiful fat aoaneiy. Ik would be
feUy to attempt to describe the de-
taBa of heareolj aoeoeiy, fast the
gmral idea stand* soffidantiy oat
to justify belief. The mo*t glorious
bunts of harmony that ever thrilled
aad quivered throagh tha beam of
Handel, the pealing triumphs of
“Halleluiah Chorus" the -»—t—
•# v “ v *a^ r garwAmg
■Batches of Mosarty tha gorgeous
sonatas of Beethoven, the almeat
speaking melodies of Mandalashoo,
and all tha exqufeita eomaaptkww of
tha moat gifted masters, may he only
feigt aad far-off echoes of the grand-
er perfonnaooea abovej yet aa echoes
they bring down something of heav-
ealy muaie to the ooooeptiooa of men
oa earthy aad make oa yearn aad
bead before the thought, “if them
loving aad nerving God aad thus
obtaining it, that there la ao much
through the wilderavae to that Nebo
oa iU border; let thorn stand there
and look awhile aa the goodly load
hevotid. *«mI thru vwlri an their arxif
wewrjg w w>* jy ee si^^ww7*au ■
late the haada of a meat memfui
God aad Saviour, aad tha body to
‘t, so 1 have feU a delicacy in
****<* it.” After mm* eoomtl
aad conjectures, we ftaaUy
^rtauied that the sermon alluded
w *s the one that baa just appear
^ TM only thiag “terrific* about
'r»* *• ferrifee dallaeea.
\2 » P^Mral visit to a
Tha cry, “who wffl show oa any
good r Ls net answered, because the
quoatioaoni ask aot bod, beading
tha diriae raply, aad taktig Him ta
be the aapraaae wwtfoe of their aapi-
hope tt wffl be happier thaa the laet,
fer ia that I do aot remember one
happy dag.* And Gibbon, lu hie
“Decline aad Fatt,*«aperU the fol
lowing esafeasioa of the Kaliph Ab-
1 u \*m |m
“I have BOW reignod ftfty yean, in
victory or peace, beloved by my
subjects, dreaded by my enemies,