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When they exowsd this length, one cent for eacb -word must be paid in ad VOLUME 41. iNTJTMBER 12 .4 1ft I : ' ! : : " : ....... . . . , .. , .,.,.,,: ; ;:. i II 1 : .11 SI ,' V,L 1ll.ii. i;. ,, i. iW. I .1 jM!-' ii 1 H M . ' .. ... L.. , .... . " ....... , . ' . ' , ,. MM o i .e t 3. d r) e ; payable t tne oraer or me x'uoiisoera. j ' " " """" ' " " L PASTORS AJtD '' THEIR CHURCHES. We learn fioui the teacbings of the New Testament' that Christ hk de signed that all who embrace Chris tianity shall be gathered into local organizations called churches. He : has assigned to these churches the important work of keeping the 4Or dinances as he has delivered them unto" them," maintaining good dis cipline, and of spreading the gospel in their own community and through out the world. 1 In order that churches may more successfully accomplish their great ! work, Christ has ordained that each : shall have her own officers a pastor I and deacous. - - i -Preaching the gospel and taking the pastoral care of churches is the uiossasred and important work ever committed to man. No one is au thorized to engage in this work un less he has a direct and special call rom God, and has received from him 'special qualification for it. ' A call to a work so important, a call so direct so special, so imperative, God gives to uo other laborer in his s vineyard. Hence it was that Paul exclaimed, "Woe is me if I preach not the gos pel." ' ' . '.f,.;. Now when a church calls a man thus called of God to be their pastor, the relationship becomes one ot great importance, and should be well un derstood and its requirements faith fully performed both by church and pastor. Such a man thus called is designed by God and expected by the church to be their cheif teacher and leader in spiritual work, and is unaulmously considered among Bap-, tists as the chief officer of the church, r . t j ,: ., All this being true, it is a matter ! great importance that pastors should be well informed in regard to their work, and that they should ever feel a deep interest in it. Called as they are of God to give themselves "wholly to this work, they are ex pected to understand it better than others. Therefore it is right that the pastors approval and j co operation should be obtained iu all importaut matters engaged , iu; by the; church. Hence it is that Hiscox, ia his "Bap tist Church Directory," a ; boqk, I believe, approved - by all Baptists, says: "The church, with the concur rence of the pastor, meetings. It :s the appoints all its right and duty of the pastor to conduct ail meetings for worship and devotion,' and to act as moderator in all meetings for business.'' ( ; - .' Again, Hiscox says : "Permanency in the pastoral relation should most earnestly be sought as tending to the welfare ot all concerned. Trifling disadvantages should rather be en dured than remedied at the, expense of those serious evils, which In quent changes seldom fail to bring both upon jchurch and pastor.' These are words of sound wisdom and are worthy of careful considera tion. A good brother said tome re cently : "1 am opposed to frequent changes of pastors; . My children grow up uuder the Influence of my paster, and I want him to remain to exert that iofluence over them for their good in after life. It would be almost impossible for them to learn to love a new pastor as they do the old one-with whom they have asso ciated from childhood. Children growing up iu a family frequently visited )y a good pastor, learn to love him almost as ardently and un ceasingly as they do their own father." - : ; ,-: - ! Mauy churches now exist which have bad the same pastor for more than twenty years, and are contented and prosperous) But there are circumstances which justify both churches and, pastors in chaDgiug. For instance, a church - ought to dismiss a - pastor whose moral character proves to be defect ive, or oue whose 'qualifications are utterly uuequal to the duties, he has ; nndertaken. On the othr hand the Terj be8tot pastors are justified in leaving their churches when they fail toshow them that respect and sym pathy, and to give them that support aud co operation to which they are entitled as christians, and especially as Chiist'd "AiubSssadors." . cnt mppose a church has a pastor lio U a uian of piety, and ability, ttt who, at the 7im " e- want of the frU.j ot.human nature, at times say and do some things that may to gome extent injure his christian character and the xause of Lhri8L In a case like this what aght a church to do f Ought: the caurcu members to go to each other and their neighbors and talk of their pastor's delects until his influence is so crippled that it will be necessary to dismiss him as pastor f Or, ought they not rather to 1 go to him like christians and kindly tell him his faults f Surely . the latter course would be more in keeping with the requirements of Christianity. ' Such admonition would be thankfully re ceived by any right minded pastor j and in all probability be would ad dress himself at once to the correc tion of his faults, and he might soon become a pastor so beloved and ap preciated by all his flock that they "would be reluctant to exchange him for any other. ' ; May God hasten the time when all our churches and pastors shall study nntil they understand the duties He requires each to perform to the other and to live in the faithful discharge of these duties j and then shall such prosperity attend our work as will gladden our hearts, and glorify Him who is "Head over all things in the church.' J. A. Stradley. OCR NEW YORK LETTER. Were you in New York you would be simply one of a vast crowd of strangers withiu its gates. I have not seen so many people in "all my born days." We are commanded to entertain strangers, for thereby some have been hospitable to angels un awares. These "hordes of the un civilized We proving themselves messengers of mercy, for they are putting a good deal ot money into circulation j and though it is but a drop into a vacuum which au ocean only could fill, yet it is better than I nothing, and nothing is what we have been having a long while. Many of these people are in a large city for the first time in their lives, and, not being acquainted with the tricks that are often played off on innocence, furnished rich picking for (the sharpers who- inhabit this V i i; a tl . Ai metropolis. .jjeuueiuau irom me South-west who, while an excellent and open hearted man, is also unwary and unsuspecting, was ingeniously swindled, or would have been, but for his disposition to demand his own or nave a scaip. Liet me ten the story. Mr. W- of M., was anxious to . ascertain; the location of some object of public interest and stepped up to two well dressed men and in quired of them. He was politely in formed. They perceived he was from the country, and added that the safest way to get there was by the Broadway Stage, ' as it3 passed the locality on its way up Itown, and, thatas they were going there they could all go together. Beaching the spot the gamblers said to him that the regulations here were the same as at the Centennial, and a fifty cent note or piece was required lor ad mission. One of them added : "If you have not the change I will lend it to yon, sir.'' His reply was, "I have not the exact amount, but sup pose I can get a ten dollar bill broken.'' I can change it for you." you , please." Opening bis purse the sharper i examined its contents and said directly, v"l havu't the amount with me, but will step across the street and get it for you." I Suit ing the action to his friendly proposi tio3, he was on his way before the gentleman had time to suggest that he would not put him to so much trouble. Waiting some time longer 'than he thought was necessary the unsophisticated brother began to suspect ne.was being played upon by two professionals, and made the ac cusation to the one who remained. (He was grossly insulted and grew xjuite, mad and ' turned round and walked oft. - Mr. W. went back to his hotel a sadder but a wiser man. He remained in thecity a week or two longer, always brooding over his mis fortune, not so much at the money he had lost as at the fact that he had been outwitted ami so palpably cheat ed. One morning, some ten days after, coming down from his room he met the "friend" - who had appropri a.ted bis cash and eagerly recognized him, "but, what f was not astonishing, was not recognized in.- turnl , The failure to meet a cordial recept ion did not, however, hinder Mr. W. from quickly stepping up and saying urgently between his teeth, "It you don't give tne back that ten dollar bill -you stole, I'll blow your brains but ;" aud as he said this he manifest ed jast enough of his native barba rism to bo convincing. Thethie : saw it was nscless to say that he did not know the man who made such a demand upon him,' and, instead, re plied : "I had to walk" further the other night than I expected, and when I returned you wee gone. But here is - your money, sir, and I hope now you see you were wroDg.'' After recovering his bill the minister, for it was a Baptist preacher, told the story with considerable relish, i While I am writing about preach-1 ers l may as well tell you of an episode which occurred with Rev. J. B. Hawthorne and . myself. Last spring my church had an excursion br the Sunday-school. They went on a boat up the Hudson just oppo site You kers. - I could not co so early u the morning, so getting Mr. Haw thorne, I went up later on the train to Yonker's and crossed over to the excursion party. We rema iued there few hours and . then returned. Getting back to the quiet city on the banks of the beautiful river, instead of going put of the gates and walk- ug round the pathway through the ticket office to the depot, (for up here it is necessary to purchase your ticket before you are admitted (o the train) we attempted to go there di rectly from.;, the ferry, when the keeper came towards us cursing at a furious rate, .hallooing at us to go out of the gate aud pot attempt to come that way. Yv e simply stood still and waited for the bellowing: Irishman to come- up to us. When he did so, Mr. Hawthorne looked at me while his eye twinkled merrily and then turned upon the bully ; with an assumed determination in his voice and rolling up his sleeves, be said, "Do you wanttoflghtt Ifyou do I am your man." The fellow glanced at him m astonishment, aud then calmly surveying his lengthy form, which was rendered more for midable looking by means of a huge overcoat, said . "No ; I do not want to fight You are too big for me, any how," and, thinking he had got him self into a scrape, added: "I can't tell that I am talking to gentlemen when I am so far off." Haviug fright ened the fellow into respect, we walked out of the gate. The 6torv was repeated many times by'Bro. H. with much zest. ! The Centennial j still attracts thousands of people from every part of the world. I have centeunialize'd and j centennialized, rnnning down from New York when ever I chose, and I have chose often, yet I find many things new. The way to see the great exhibition. j I have seen and read many recei pes. I say tM way, pre-eminently, i3 to go there, see everything in all the build ings that yen care to see, and when you nave aone, mase one a pro gramme for yourself and on your last visit: take the whole thing in orders This is the way par excelleiice. The points of interest that attracted mo were woiks of art. Of course I brought to mind learned recollections when I viewed the hideous remains ot ancient ' sculpture represented in uisngureu ousts ot dead emperors and fossilized saints, exhumed from Pompei and bther boned cities. I I V !''-.'. "t- "'PS"j '''-., " -M '! --r-'-. -"4 hi V- ii-''"w , Certainly I felt the iush of impe rial ardor when I stood before a broken nosed bust of the Emperor Trojan which i represents age and ugliness in equal quantities. - Sud denly and almost suneptitiously was transported to the days of John son, ' Sheridan, Burke and Garnck when I beheld ' the J portrait of some homely Englishman by the celebra ted Sir Joshua Eeynolds. - And my patriotism was -indeed stirred when I saw a portrait of the brave old handsome General Lee, by . the dis tinguished Carolina artist, Albert Gaerry. I wandered through aisle after aisle of beautiful specimens of ancient and modern art gathered from the finest galleries, and repre senting the most famous artists of the world. : But the two pictures that fascinated and transfixed me are in the Philadelphia Academy of ; the Fine Arts ; both of them are by that extraordinary- genius, ? Benjamin iWest. They are a painting called ,"Death on the Pale Horse" and an other entitled ,"Christ'8 Bejection," Tbey are both famous pictures am are more magmficeut; than tbey are famous. , Any description wo aid fail to give -you an approximately just .idea of their excellence, much more si discriptiou by nuy pool pen. I wij aiot aHempt it. I will say only tha his visit to the Centennial is entirely incomplete wha, has- not peeu these woBdcrtul pictures. i Bat 2ew York is the objective point ot all people who visit Phila delphia, for, excepting the show a i it Tl i i f i i 1 1 -1 s T TT the grounds and the Academy of th Fine Arts, the real Centennial is In this Lwonderfu inetronolia ?poiis oi me Westefn world PI ; if in u-1 Mr. Huxley, the a e of evdlm- ? .1 . IB. ..till, t tion, l . . ; It i f Y ,1 ii. s lecturing iu the; mmm direct JevidericeB of his1 theory. to hear him; to i i v i i r I i a I. fi iil HiYNtt; Leavell.; York U rifiEii vissa i At xiy?i. I know of nothing better i-alcula ted to! cool our ardor: 1 usefulness and I check bar eflicit-n k ' ban a spirit b,fidissatisrabtou ; aujl ; yet hiw common !t is, nwith every; class bnd condition of oien.i Miiis-1 ters vjith gifts and graces and. a tmndj to wdrk. are hot i satisided withtthe field for which their talents are suit ed and to wbich providence has di rected them. I "Higher Is a grand old watch wo d that should inspire all ; aud yet ley in stepping higher often step out f of 6ph ?res I ot great usefulness, and into positions for which tbey have no special fitness. How many good, earnest, brethren all over the land! haviug itness fot the wurs vi luoj i uiiuisiiyj uib resuess. Providence has placed them in the midst of good people to whom they could be of vast service,but it is not )n not in the country, wbebjth truth is, they are fitted I for thkt very1 work. They would make excellent pastors and preach good Isermcjns ; i--L bat could not hope to turn tbelwor d upside down, or to competition. succeed against strong 1M. I III. Bfethren, yf.m restlessness pedes , you n r f l' : yout vprk. Stic your chdrch lor cuurcues m 1 i ! God will . - 'i i take care of I the towns and cities; and ' a hundred ; and oue ! or mbre preachers arjer ready jtbjcome jtb his help, as all the city pastors and ;li torsand college presidents will testijry. inese Dreturcn want rest ana your salary will be larger i by; saving your postages Your usefulness 1and your happiness will be increase by con centrating all your efiorts where you are. i This spirit! s not confined to minis- ters, but is jsometimesj found; in the churches. They are also responsible for the restlessness of the pastor be- cause they do not pay his salary. Thus they make it uecssary for hitn to see k auotner uem ueiore ue joaa a. .!;...!.. . if v. i !' :..; s. . t : i i; t had time to develop his girts, j ij I might speak of doctors, and law yers, and merchants, and larmers, many of whom whom are! pot ; succeed ing uecause iney are . '.1 L '.a : li cpnstantly med itating -a change and hence never project pi an, s or make (efforts looking to great results.; Stick to your call i . T . Ti ' ill I iug and yoqr place (especially if fym have a good one) and trust God for thej result. , f Jf Ai Sl'Eianxj i Berkley, Va. ! I'-' THE LIQUOR TKAFFIC. ! 1 1 .1 I see iu your issue of! the 13th nil. the following! iquery '"Can wei as Baptists consistently,! an( according to the revealed word of Gbd. lioio in tellowship members ; wuq-trama in intoxicatin if- ' - !'-. M nquorsj Hud ft i selling the-mti l Shal 11 ing we ; deal with thpirt aa nfTtiiiriWa Ifli n From tbe: words ot the queryJithej answer must be based on the revealed word of God. i j Hot Saying, 1 by gaf means, tha i 'your answer is; not based upou that v prd, i yet ;there;( is jpne tniug wnicu we cannot imiy under staud, supposing thaj; wine is iuc edin the query.; We; find! in od the Naw TpfttflrYiPnf that iwltiu ! 4a fre- quently mentioned. I 111 would Seem irom the reading of Mat. xi i V) tha Christ drank i wine4. From the fread iog of John 2 : 7, 8 ; that Christ putde wine;' and, from the words pi the Governor of, the feast,! there is.no question as to its being good wine.' We are aware that soxnej Temperance jjectnrers argues that the wioe whic Chiist made would not make drunk also the wine used at the Lord's sup per. But j from the reading J of 1st! Cor. xi ; 20 21. Wil this argumen ti hold good f i There is also another; passage toj Iwbich tuauy I of .us'cliug! with foudness, 1 Tiin. 5 ; 23, not sui much thHtlwiue is needed 'for1 i'thd slomacli's bake,'' as that it Is i?tt rtl together forbidden iuj the New Testaf ment. As we prefer to take Oliristj for our example (anil wb should t'akrt no other) the question ' arises:- Is iij wrong to drink or makewiuet i If ii) is theu it must be wrong to buy or sell. If not, is it wrong to buy or sell wine t, ' ' ; ' ' " '. We have only referred'jo wine. - k to or m Q XT flAr nil rliflArtcanri liArAnfAl ." - i , t 1- .1." .-i.ia: :r VU. Vl IJ! l i.f . : i..''l , i- fjs iu our repiy ro ine query relerriBd to1 br Bro N, we had refer ence to the traffic iu distilled alco- ioilc liduorsJ,,He who1 wishes to dft- iena tne righteousness jot that tn wjth;al tt4 rpitious yesults, must sqmeothetf hicleji'or itiedissfin fend tho righteousbess lof that traffic, find Aminsu ; ii :, i .. i i i rr , n -- . tion ;-ofl his ;4ew8i The columns of the UecordjsE cau inot ;be used for such, a purpose jThe ! query did not havdjlrefereppe to ;tl e making or using pf wiae, neithferj did oui replr. We pave a oistinctiinWssion. how- mrj that tje less due bas'to do' with It tle betterjit jrill be or him, unless, iid(3d becan I makjJ of use suh jines as arp kjiesignateii in the Xiejw festamentjltho Hghl!ewiu'e8 of Palts incjj DrJ' John Aj BroudusM found theui in common , use during his re cent visit to tbatcoiintrvi and he savs hey1 axe aibotit as Stimulat og as a hup of coffee. Eds iBiBLickt BecoRder. FEOM BRO, DO IKS ON very utbil oonda ought to be fatiiized for Sunda chools, lAssdcia- ttional MissioUs,$ta! Missions, Home Missions,1 . Foreigh Missions; Und wonldj prosper give ben times endowment. i 1 . . cj i i , i ! i i m - i i i l Peofll more if they 1 i . were mdre to al these Qbjects. There are not many inOre Cu Berland Prespy- tenans in I all 1(1 ; ti J'i : the South than there ar Baptists fn Uorlh CarJlinai. vet they are aiming, td raise, 500.000 ibr their. University i6 Leban Teun. ; I Wb should keep th chainl stretched in kha n.aritnnnit,1 4. Jr.. I. )' -,! S05IETUIXW aboH ' foreign "ms- our six iSTlansstbARiEsJ 1 ifc; l-JU !' fi i ' ' ! ! Ret. Alfred Lhth er Bojnd and Mrs. llelfc ti na Dnmairnn RnnA. j - . I - or the 'nrihcmalt iloM inf :lhia sKeccn, aa oi ;tue lonei immediately iollowing, wje are nMtd tp the blo quent disdoiirsej of pr.; t Ju6, W M. Williams pastor Qf the First Baptist church of Baltimore, delivered in ft .4 . if -r. -i r:iFT -i -r ; r.--? t- thati church J December Sthi IRfiT in commemoration oilthe life and delath of "The Lost Missionaries" j 1 ! 1 Birth', Chlldliood and Tonth. ' Alfred father !Bjnd;iwS ! horn of Met loqisc , parnt8,! DrJ At l J.i and Mrs Pi Bond, in Athens, Ohio, July 2ud:, 18331 !Hpr4uf ajchilji;' Md mkh- and affecfiohato djspositiobJ He was truthful, highly; sociable, and geber- pds in hisdispositjioin.; He was Slow to believe without evidenced he was firm W ihat he did believe, land peisevtuvii m wuaiever ne t naertooK and felt to j be Jright. At an early aire. heSwfent to 1 BaitimoreJ and employed! as, al clerk ; onlBaltiipore street. : MUe peems'never td havei for gbtteii t We laiscipjjirie of hdma ; iThe praters 4nd. soliiHithde 'of pious par eoti folldwed ind iresthiiaed him in j ConTerslott; and .Christian Character jijAs a seeae alter truth, be was 'strjaightfotwatdf calm,f eai-nest, and bohtestly; Fiotjuired : What jmustll do td be saved f Dri Williams further saya : !was favorably; Impressed who ns une persona appearance, and hil ihd abdlnianly baringi; twiug rareu in if e ian n or tne Meth- ndisithi rrth U. Sr.if struggle;tojadoptit6e doctrines of any otuercnurcu. ," ;? Lie tooK the Word bt God alone foe us role of action. ; f I ThM reverenjbe for the Sctiptures Characterized jhis whole future life, hi t and ml who .conversed with1 him were astonished m his fund pf relig ious information; and familiarity -with thelword of God.? He wab baptized by Pr ilJianYsiilHd lh fellowship of his church, on the i5th pfFebrhary, 1854;rtFi6m jthdl begitoitigMf his Christiaii Bfehii dim wasoul pros perttyahdheset his staodard high." juw Bcemeu io oe (ueepiy impressea With thej btevltyof lite, as1 it comins Events were casting, thir shadqws weyue. ? oix irmns r uei uesirea to realize. The first two were : '1. Time is quickly; bassing! awdtJ "i 2. Life is Short at;best A Beriesl 6f Rules of Action cfonducive to prqgress, in the nriBuan;ute, adopted by him,' soon aner ne niaae a proresstoh pi religion opens inus: "lime is precious and must i be j husbanded.! His mother ouserveq : ., ivnomer item ; 1 nnd in althis letters. He is impressed with the truth that time is short, and that Whatever i be i doesj musti be done quickly.? !! His life t appeal's tohive Ven ip harmony withi hl pious ind prayenui utterance j "Jesus, Master, I dedicate myself lunreservedly nnto tnee. jn give iwe u Wisdom and strength to honor thee always.1 !- ittlnlstrv. MI8SI0&9 and! VnrHa7A. Sustained by Lis church, be enter qd; Columbiau College, 1) C, to pre pure himself I loir the ministry, to wljich "it Wa8.etident,rwd his pas-i tor,'Gbd ! had billed him." :. In all his studies "he stood amorgthe first.' liuc it was as a man ; of God ,hat he shone as "a shining Hghtr -.'A fellow student says : "His constant ct f was Oh that I could; dpproxiihate neurrf to the character of Jesus r i His last vacation be spent as a colporter in bej Intoxicating j liquors may Virginia. ; Dr. Binney, when presi dent of the College, said that "he was worth his weight in gold to the institution, so excellent washis moral influence upon the students." With regard to the heathen, he said: "Shall I not go ! Is it not my duty T Shall I not do as much as possible for my Saviour, when be has saved my soul P After: be resolved to go, he became a one idea man. - Dr.! W, says : "I do not suppose that any one ever gave more thought to jthe heathen, and especially those of China, than he did.", Proffers were made him to settle in North Carolina- where he preached during one of bis vacations, but he exclaimed : "I'm croinc to China I God calls, and t must go!" Ho wrote to the Board, oavinar. "Here am I, send ine." After an iuterview and examination, which he describes as "a very pleasant one.7 the Board accepted him ia April, 18G0, as a missionary ro onangnai. id the tol- owing June he was graduated from the i Columbian College. In Jul v. 1860, he was ordained and married in the First Baptist church, of Balti more. ' i Mrs. Bond. Helena Dameron, the wife of Eev. A. L. Bond, and the daughter of William and Adaune Dameron, was born in Baltimore, Dec 20th. 1840. She united with the First Baptist church, of that city, on the 10th ot February, 1850. This high eucomium is pronounced upon her : "She was never known to disobey her parents. In the home circle, she was a beautiful Christian character,' Her preceptor, Professor Thayer, Pxinci. pal i of the Eastern Female High School, ot Baltimore, says of , ber : 4bhe was eminently mild and amia- Die in ner aisposition, and iar from being opinionated and dogmatical: yet, when in the; path of. duty, she was steadfast . and immovable. Anxious only to know the will of God, she stopped; not in the path tf unty to consult her own ease or com fort,. Her native ability, untiring industry, and assiduous attention to instruction, secured her at once a high scholastic position, and ever maintaining this ! rank, as well as a continuance of conduct, which was enriched by every principle of dispo sition and of action that could render a pupil admired as well as beloved, she deservedly graduated amongthe most distinguished in : her class." When "comparatively a child," she took a school in Virginia. The gentleman, who engaged her services, wrote: one its a irue woman we are pleased with her," and could not be better suited.'' She formed a Sab bath-school in her ""log school room." The servants, to whom she would read and explain the Bible, called her fThe little missionary." fWith regard to becoming a foreign mis stonary with MrJ Bond, she wrote to a friend : "I feel my obligations to that bayiour who has done so much for too. 1 would thus show my grati tude by consecrating: mv life, mv all to his service, and do my parti how.- ever humble it be, to promote his pause, j to disseminate his glorious gospel among the poor heathen. We know for whom we ! should go. and who has said, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, and who has promised, Lo I am with you alway.' For his sake wo would go, and in obedience to his command: who, ' then, and what shall 'hinder P " : ! Costly Sacrifice. il On the 3rd of, Aufrust. I860, thev sailed from New York, in the ill-fated "Edwin Forest,? which, : to this day, has never been heard of I Befernng to the elevated spirit which Mr. Bond assumed uud maintained after fixing the purpose of devoting his life to the cause of missions, Dr. Samson, one ot his rrotessors of Columbian College, wrote 1 1 ' Always peculiarly manly and noble in bearing, as he was in form, there was a radiance of countenance and a general air of de votion to some high and holy service that made him seem a marked man, even in the recitation room and in the circle of friends, as he was in the College, prayer-meetings, and in the pulpit, l here could hardly; have been a costlier sacrifice to missionary real than God ? required, when Bro. Bond and his companion, with their! wives, were, far off on the ; ocean, taken by theiri heavenly. Father to himself." V ' r t t. Love is always unconventional. ! It knows nothing about poverty. , or class distinctions, or birth, or charac ter. Love sweeps away all of these. It is the loving; earnest souls that' have an influence for good. I' What would you give .lor the poet apart irom the love which is in all true poety, or for the orator who was not all in a blaze, or for the sculptor who was not all aglow with love f ' What ; will a non church-goer give for your endeavors in his behalf unless he Knows that you; love him I If you find a non church goer, be be skepti cal, or a poor man, or an Ignorant man, or a sick man bring to him your, sympathy, just as the Lord Jesus did to all with whom bespoke. Ut is said f that , the natives of India, wheu they waut to quarry: out a stone, first take a -chisel and run a groove, then they kindle a fire in tho groove, and last of all they pourm a jiiiue water, wnicu, oecoiumg heated. causes ine stone to expand; and eventually to burst. This is jast what the Lord , Jesus did. First ho grooved right (down s into the hard ness of the human heart, theu poured iu tho water ot his love, and thus gaiueu an eotrauce and broke it , asunder. Armitage. - ', THE II EAT ENS OPENED." Several instances have lately come to our knowledge in which children just before dying seemed to have a view or. heaven. - One was the case of a young person who seemed to see the angels coming, a case which answered almost exactly to f these words of Morrison : "The young girl, wno, tnroogn some mysterious sym pathy with them, or some strange moniuon to ine soui, seems to near the sound of their coming from afar, and, without apprehension or: sur prise, composes herself for the solemn change, and in perfect trust leaves all she loved on earth ; goes already ripe for the harvest." Another was that of a mere child who, throwing up bis hands declared he saw Annie, a little sister who had just gone be- tore, and who exclaimed in his broken language, nicely, nicely," by which he meant something beautiful. "I don't know," said his ; mother to the writer, "but he saw the Lord." Why not T If Isaiah saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the apostle John had such a view of paradise that he could describe it in detail, why may not Such glimpses of heaven be granted . to believing children f If their angels' do always behold the face of the Father In heaven, why may not they behold it, not with ; the natural eyes, indeed. but by some clearing of their vision as a means of strengthening their faith 1 Think of a young child who naturally dreads the dark leaving father and mother and the delights of home in sheer ignorance and blind ness. There is to be no return to their earthly paradise, and yet there is no sight of any other. How wet come at least to such little ones when they are holding father: and mother by the hands, and are about to say good-bye, to nave some vision-of that better home to which the angels shall welcome them, and where God shall embrace them. -; -wii,.: There is a painting by one of the old . masters representing a dying saint to whom a number' of beautiful, white robed spirits have iust ap peared, to give her the assurance of their " presence and heavenly ? com panionship. There .is another in which a strong angel Is lifting a young child above the darkness of the world, as it nothing less than this could make ' it content to be separated from the" embraces of its mother. All this, it may be- said, is mere imagination. But what shall be said of believing children to whom something of the sort seems to be as real as anything can be I r Is it hard ly supposable that when a child of five or six suddenly throws up his hands, and breaks out in exclama tions in view of some beautiful vision of heaven, that this is a mere dream of delusion owing to some peculiar condition of the nerves T It is cer tainly no delusion when ' a Iittl6 igirl carnes nerseit tnrougu tne nnai struggle with as much sell-possession ana composure as inougn wnac is called the king of terrors were a smiling friend. And what could be more natural than that he who eaiu, "Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me, ; for of such is the kingdom of heaven," should sometimes vouchsafe to them in the last hours such a view of heaven that it takes away all desire of living, and all fear of dying, and. gives to them a dignity and courage which the most matured saint might almost envy I . What if this is one of the rewards which-they receive who are declared to be greatest in the king dom of Godl i. It is not to be supposed, however, that such experiences and visions, however we resolve them, may be expected aside from christian teach ing.i All ; the children k referred to were offspring of christian parents. At home and in the Sunday-school they had learned of heaven and snng about it, until it was something as certain to them as their homes on earth ; and. of course, what ; they seemed to see , may have been, in some sort, a reflection, ot what was Written in their characters, lint even then, how beautiful the picture; and how full i of comfort I y What an an swering of the heaven within them to the heaven above them l :. And this projection of what is mirrored in the soul.' and which is seen as a sort of mirage, is, to say the least, a bright foresbadowuig of that world upon wnicn iney . are entering. , vu, thenearness of it, !Pr of it! And if, after all, thisrision upon which: they are entering. .. uo, is but a sight of that New Jerusalem which has come down from God out of heaven .to entrance these little ones,and receive them to its company, who of God's dear children are more worthy to be waited upon in this way, and . to . enter npon , the joys and rewards of saintship 1- S. . S. Times . The Eev. Dr Charlton Henry, on beings asked : "Do you find that gloom In death which some appre hend f? replied : "A sweet falling of the soul on Jesus. O. what mercy I what mercy 1 ? I don't understand it. I feel a sweet, com posed, delightful calm. I am .willing to trust all in the hands of mv liedeemer. " He is now very gracious to me." ! - ' ; As the rays come from the sun and yet are not the sun, even so bur love aud pity; though tbey are not God, but merely a poor; weak image and reflection of him, yet from him alone, they come. If there is mercy in our hearts, it comes from the fountain of mercy. If there is the light of love in us, it is a ray from the full suu of love. Charles Kingsley. THE LIFE-BOAT. ' A preacher of the name of Taylor, who had remarkable power in ad dressing, sea-faring, hearers, ;was on one occasion " attempting to give to his sailor congregation an ideal of redemption. He. began t with an elo quent description of a terriffio storm at sea, rising to fury in all its gra-, dations ; then, amid- the waves, a vessel is seen laboring in distress and drivin g on a lee shore. ! The masts' bend and 'break,: and go over-, board $ the sails are rent, the helm unshipped, they spring a leak t the vessel begins to fill, the water gains on them ; she sinks deeper, deeper, deeper I deeper! He bent over the pul pit,? repeatin g the - last A words again and . again j his voice became ' low and, hollow. The faces of the sailors, as they gazed up at him, with their mouths' wide openiand' their eyes fixed, I shall never forget. Sud denly stopping, and looking to the ' farthest end of the eh ape L as, into space, exclaimed,- with a piercing cry of exultation : "A life-boat 1 a life boat"! Then looking down npon his congregation, most . of whom , had sprung to their feet in an ecstasy of : suspense, he saitl in a deep, impress ive tone; and extending bis arms ti "Christ is that life-boat "... ' A NEEDFUL HINT. ' A minister was about to leave his own congregation for the purpose of visiting London, on what was by no means a pleasant eirand to beg on behalf of his place of worship. Pre vious .to his departure, he called to gether the principal persons connect ed with his charge, and said to them t ; "Now I shall be asked , whether we have conscientiously done all that we can for the removal of the debt ; What answer am I to give! Bro. so-and-so, can yon in 'conscience say that you have given all you can?'' . "Why, sir," he replied, "if you come to conscience, I don't know, that lean." . . v The same question he put to a second, and a third, and so on, and similar answers were returned; until the whole sum required was sub scribed, and there was no longer any need for their pastor to wear out his soul in going to London on any such unpleasant excursion. . SING-SONG IN THE PULPIT. Bro. Beuben Jones is right in what he says about the "sing-song'' of the preachers of a former generation.! It was their , substitute for scientific elocution, and it was very effective. I myself have felt its power. There are only two effective methods of de livery, j The method of otfr. fathers and that which is the result of vocal culture the manner of great actors. Our young ' preachers must imitate the one or cultivate the other. Not , unfrequently, when subjected to the frigid delivery, of some of our con temporaries made up as it is, of unmeaning or absurd intonations, dismal monotony and false cadences, where the sound perverts the sense I have felt that it would be a great relief to have one of the old fashioned preachers take the stand,' and sound his molodious horn. J. ' L. Reynold) D.D in Working Christian. ; Aaron, after he had offered the "Iamb without blemish; unto God, "lifted up his hand towards the peo ple and blessed them (Lev. viiu 22.) Christ after that he "by the eternal Spirit bad offered up himself without spot unto God," led his disciples out as far as Bethany and lifted up his hands and blessed them." As the high priest on the day of atonement I went through thatcurtain oi nine ana purple into the t holiest '. of all,' so Christ disappears now from the strain ing eyes oi me uiscipies, gum through blue curtains of the heavens, and the purple clouds shut him out from their gaze. , . . - : - It was the custom of the Boman Emperors, at., their .triumphal en trance, to cast new coins among tuo multitudes ; so doth Christ in his triumphal? ascension y into heaven throw out the greatest gifts Jor the good of men that; ever were given- Wbn tb goiog 0p0f Elias may be com d gt0 fhel flight of a bird r . nnnA..nfoll',be ascension which none can follow, the ascension of, Christ is, as it were, a bridge be tween heaven and earth, laid down, for all who are drawn to him by his earthly existence. If- you go to court, yon know ; whether you have seen the king, and whether he has spoke to you or not. And when you 'attend an ordinance, jou know whether you have enjoyed the presence of God or not. David would ; not have been so often upon his knees in prayer if affliction had not weighed him down. j There are, I believe, more prayers ia I the writings of David arid of Jere-- j miah than in any other portion of Scripture. TopZatfi. ':( Generally speaking, the sunshine of too much worldly favor weakens and relaxes oar spiritual nerves, as weather too intensely hot relaxes those of the body. A degree ot seasonable opposition, like a fine dry frost, strengthens and . invigorates and braces up. Toplady. 'ft: .: i. 'i:,. j I . ;u;-
The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Oct. 4, 1876, edition 1
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