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THEGOLDSBdRO MESSENGERi M AMONG THE METHODISTS. The Work of the General Con ference at Iticlimoiid . v; Trying to Regulate tHe Appoint- ments by Bishops.' I tCor. of the Charier ton NewsCourler. -J Richmond, Va.. May 1C The Conference, on Fnday, diseased two measures of imporianceThe first, a resolution asking the Con ference to give dt, as its sense of the law, that the Bishops should make no appointments without first submit ting them to the presiding elders. This elicited long and very animated discussion, in which a number of dele gates, lay and clerical, participated ; but when the "vote was finally taken, the recommendation of the committee on episcopacy; to which it had been re ferred, was adopted; namely, that no legislation was deemed necessary ; so the matter remains as it has been all along. The Bishops, of course, ad vise ;with the presiding elders in rela tion to the appointments J but every now and then there is some little friction a presiding elder is thwarted in some pet project. Such things will happen, and resolutions like those just mentioned are the consequence. The Conference, however, is - very conservative, - and almost inyariably "sits down" on the malcontents; lay or clerical. - 'Z.s,-, PAYING THEIR OWN WAY. The second measure that elicited ; debate was the report of the com mittee to whom had been given the duty of devising a plan for providing for the payment of the expenses of de legates to the General Conference.) This, of course does not apply! to the ; present session. ..Heretofore the trav elling expenses only, of delegates have been defrayed ,by tbeif; constituency. Hereafter, (beginning. with the Con ference of 1890,) both travelling ex penses and maintenance (or board) are to be thus provided; and the larger and more wealthy Confeiences will assist those that are unable to furnish their full quota toward this fund. There is a tendency now on the part of nearly ail the larger religious bodies to adopt some scheme of this sort. The -Southern Methodists, I think, have been a little ahead of other denominations in this matter, and one incidental advantage arising i from the adoption of thisj measure is that the Confeience can now go, with out any hesitation, to any place where there are hotels or boarding houses, ;and need not be under the fear of over- J taxing the hospitality of a commu nity. It is not yet known where the next .General Conference is to be held. It has never sat in Charleston. Perhaps we may be favored. The sessions have been as follows : Convention m Louisville, Ky., in 1844; General Con ference in Petersburg, Va.. in 1846; St. Louis, 1050; Columbus, Ga., in 1854; in 1858 at Nashville; no session in 18C2, because of the war; in New Orleans in 180G; in Memphis, Tenn., in 1870; in Louisville, Ky., in 1874; in Atlanta in 1878; in Nashville in ISS2, and in 18S0 in Richmond. There is some talk of selecting some one city or town where the General Confer ence is to meet every four years. I do not think, however,; that this measure will ba adopted at the present session. Monteagle, in East Tennessee, would be a suitable place for such a gathering. THE BROTHER IN BLACK. On Saturday Dr. Phillips was re ceived and heard, as the fraternal de legate from the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Of America. The Hev. Dr. Phillips is a very black dele gate. He read his address, and was frequently applauded. He represents' the colored ottshoot from the Southern Methodist Church, a body of over 100,- 000 members. The General Conference is now in session in Augusta, lia., where also is situated their cheif educational establishment the "Paine Institute," over which .the Rev. G. W. Walker, ot bouth Carolina, pre sides. SAM JONESJN THE PULPIT. I Quite a stir was created in the Con i ference-room by the presence of Sam Jones and Sam Small, who had run over from Baltimore just for one day, to see their friends here. Mr. Jones looks very thin, wearv and worn. I think he needs a rest. No public announcment has been niade of his preaching here, it was mentioned just before the adjournment yesterday, when the "notices" were read out, about half-past 1 P. M., that Mr. S. P. Jones would preach in this (Cente nary) church at half-past 3 P. M.; and so great was the desire to hear him that a number of persons remained in the church, and before 3 o'clock the house was packed, and large numbers were outside, yainly trying to get in. This eagerness to hear him is easily explained. He has had so much news paper notoriety that almost everybody wants to hear him. He has never been here before, and there were also a large number of the members of the uenerai vonrerence wno nad never heard him. All the circumstances thus combined to insure a large audience upon even the shortest notice. REVISING THE HYMN BOOK.'- The special committee on the Hymn Book, Dr. J. H. Carlisle, chairman, made their report yesterday. They recommend that the Bishops appoint a committee of five, to be composed of one Bishop, two ministers and two laymen, whose duty it shall be to re vise the present Hymn Book of the Church. The book thus to be revised and su- gerseded is the only regular standard iymn Book the M. E. Church, South, has ever had. -It was prepared princi pally in Charleston, S. C, in 1S46 by a sub-committee, composed of the Rev. Thomas O. Summers, the Rev. W. M. Wightman and the Rev. White foord Smith, all resided in Charleston. The last named is now the! only sur vivor of these. Dr. Summers was the chief editor, and those who knew him will acknowledge that he was eminent ly fitted for the post. This committee was engaged in arduous labor for one entire year in preparing this compila tion, and their work met with the entire approval and cordial apprecia tion on the part of the entire Church. It was a collection carefully made of the best hymns for public and social worship, selected from a number of the most approved evangelical writers of hymns. Charles Wesley, the poet laureate of Methodism, furnishes the largest number. Next to , him comes Dr. Isaae Watts, whose hymns adorn very collection in the English lan guage. Dr. Philip Doddridge, John . 2tfewton and the poet Cowper come next. ! John Weslev contributes a number of. elegant translations from Latin. FrenchXand. German"-hymns; Then we have selections from f Addi- son, Thomas Alooro, Montgomery, i&ir berg. Steele, Hammond, Stennett, Cennick, IS. Jones, Hart, Xiyte- ana others. - v-o vy ,. . v- This book has stood the test of forty vears. and is as erood to-day as ever, Then . why. changa! Thisis a pertinent question. The answer . is that the modern development or ounaay- schools has brought into popular, use a r class of "religious song and tune books which have captivated the ear of the younger people by the spright ly music. -. These have been reinforced by - the Sankey s and Towners, and their', numerous predecessor," who have introdu ced books ? of '! spiritual superceded the regular' Hymn . Book -v. 4 .: JI L-. Ol tne unurcn. aiemoiiais nave come up from' many parts of the connec tion asking, consideration. 'of' these facts, and such action as the Confer ence may deem best under the circum stanced '.The Conference has "not yet acted on the report; but T; presume it will' be adopted witnout any mareriai change.7 83 z.z:. zz THE COMMITTEE ON COMITT. f From the report-made yesterday of the committee of t',fcomity,,,i &c, who were , to arrange, matters ; under de pute, with; a like committee to be.ap pointed by the-.Northern, Methodist Church, I infer that . nothing. i will be done in this direction at; this session. I predicted this result. The time has not yet come.. Fraternal: professions are very nice, , though i somewhat empty, but this is all - we can get just yetv Sabstantials will doubtless fol low "in due time, - Had :the ,war not supervened, the forty years' wandennsr in the wilderness -(' until all the generation of the- men of war were wasted out from among the nostt" Deut.ii, 14.) would now be up. The split in the Methodist Chnrch took place in 1844. But the gap was greatly widened and deepened by the war. So 1 suppose we shall have to wait until the year of our Lord 1905 before we shall see inaugurated an era of peace and cordial relations working in actual and practical reality between these two branches of the Methodist Church in the United States. If it were lawful to quote Latin I should be tempted to say: "Tancene animu cailestibus iroef" which in English means ; "Can such anger dwell in heavenly minds. &OW TO PROMOTE TEMPER ANCE. What The New York Journal Commerce Thinks of it. of Those who oppose fro'm principle the enactment of laws prohibiting the sale, or the manufacture even, of any form of intoxicating drinks, are often charged with indifference to the evils of intemperance: There is no founda tion whatever for this charge, as many of them have done excellent work in restraining: the immoderate use of alcoholic beverages by the only meth ods that have ever proved to be of practical utility. Even if drunkenness could be lessened by statutes of the character described, we have always believed that such legislation, although advocated often from the best of motives, would be a blow at popular liberty far more dangerous tp the well- being or society than the evil it seeks to cure. But all experience shows the futility of such legal restraints, and the prohibitory law when enacted is powerless for good, and only pregnant with evil. It debauches the reverence for law by setting the instincts of every freeman against both its letter and spirit. It leads to rebellion and and does nothiDg in the way of refor mation. Temperance is a virtue and there fore comes only from planting and culture. There is a great deal of sneering at doctrine of original sin but it heeds no divine revelation to establish the fact that human nature itself, in any country or generation, tends always to the practice of that which is vicious and degrading. Ill weeas win monopolize tne son that is left uncared for, and intemperance not only in drinking but in the indul gence of all the animal appetites and passions will follow as naturally and inevitably such neglect in the train ing of the race. " . Temperance must be taught at home, and habits of self-restraint must be built into the character to be of service in the life. Some believe that total abstinence from every taste of intoxi cating drinks is the best training for the young. We have no quarrel with those who urge and practice this theo ry for themselves, but all our observa tion has proved to us the inadequacy of this system as a remedy for the prevalent intemperance. There is a certain discipline of self-denial per haps in such abstinence, but where nothing has been tasted from child hood up, it does not establish a habit of self-restraint in the presence of temptation or trial. Abstinence is not temperance, and the appetite has never felt the curb and learned- submission to it. If those who have totally abstained from their youth from all intoxicting drinks, never feel moved to break over the rule, they are safe enough; but they have not learned to practice restraint under the pressure of trial, and a neg ative as a safeguard, can never take the place of a positive hatit. If all indulgence of the appetites was wholly evil, then total abstience would be the perfection of virtue; but they are poorly fitted for the great, conflicts of life who have not learned by early habits of self-restraint, the value of moderation. The man who banishes wine, beer and distilled spirits from his house and has only taught his children never to touch them, has not guarded them against intemperance half as securely, in our judgment, as fie who gives them the opportunity to taste those bever-ages-and early trains them to self-restraint in their presence. We have often seen one who never knew in his boyhood at home the flavor of any such beverage, who yielded to the first temptation when he found the cup outside, and having no habit of tem- Eerance became the slave of his un ridled appetite before he suspected the danger. The French woman who quenched her thrist with a glass of water and declared that it would be delightful if it was only wicked to drink it, illustrated a profound truth. There is always a secret craving for forbidden things, and simple prohibi tion does not provide the shield against excess in the hour of temptation. But there is a double motive, it seems to us,-in the method of training we.have suggested, Many, persons as tbey grow up will have stimulating drink, anjl it is-important that they shall have a taste cultivated, if they use any; for that which is comparative ly indcuous. The boy who is accustom ed -(to see )ight , wines or beer on his fatherVtableis offered ihem-jf, he wishes -to have them, but is taught that he does not need them, and that proper-, self-restraint- requires at all times, a very sparing use of them, will have his' ' appetite under contol He will be indifferent to them, will never have occasion tos obtain them surrep titiously, and will acqurre a habit of leaving them untouched while he has access to them As he grows older he will feel no temptation to indulge in them to " excess, -and if he uses any stimulant at all, will out of i custom resort to such as are of a mild charac ter 'and 'cannot' injure him by-their temperate nse.? ' " '- The child brought up in the constant presence of light wines A&heer, which are not denied to him, islr less likely to become a drunkard tfan one who is wholly restrained ; fronhall sight or taste of : any such' ' stimulants. In countries where all children can have such wines or beer if they desire them, drunkenness lis a rare exception. In' American femihes this is true. We asserted it in a ' spirited discussion on. this theme about thirty-five years ago, establishing it by incontrovertible evi dence: and our later-observation and experience ' fully - justify and Confirm all that we then insisted upon as tne best safeguard against intemperance. jWe know there are many worthy peo ple who cannot accept" this theory chiefly because they believe that any use of such stimulants is a ; concession to the Evil One. It nevertheless re mains true that an established habit of temperance is the best bulwark against drunkenness, and that a sim ple practice of total abstince does not sufficiently confirm the habit of self restraint. The child who is told that any taste of such beverages is sinful, and that he must never touch them, does not believe the one and is not likely long to obey the other; and when he does plunge into indulgence will select the most potent torms ot intoxicants? with no positive habits of self-restraint. We knew that many believe in the ascetic doctrine of becoming virtuous be shutr ting the door on the world and its temptations, but trials will come even into a cloister; and a character built by patient self-denial and restraint amid the surges of the world's tempta tions is the only one that will achieve the final victory. But whichever theory is adopted, it will be found that temperance is not a matter of legal restraint but of an in ward curb on the appetities whose ex cessive indulgence is the cause ot so much human misery. While so many people drink to excess dram-shops cannot be suppressed. All attempts to do this by legislation have utterly and signally failed. It seems to ns that the wisest thing is the high license system, which brings the liquor selling out ot the cellar, greatly les sens , the number of the shops where liquor is sold, and makes every one Who has paid his high price for the license a detective to aid in putting down the illicit trafhe. Beyond this we would have drunk enness punished as a crime not only in the theory of legal enactment, but in its treatment by society, ihe-mistak en sentimentality that makes the drunkard a helpless victim, sinned against by the rum-seller, and only needing a prohibitory law to cure him, is directly in the way of his redemp tion. Drunkenness is not a disease, but a crime against the laws of God and man; and if the offender was pit ied less and treated as his offense de served, he would be greatly aided in his efforts to break the chains of an evil habit. The cure is in his will and not in a crusade against the distillery. By the very effort to keep the liquor away trom him, toward which all the energies of a large class of reformers are directed, he is made to believe that his only chance of safety lies in such Erohibition. He should be taken in and as a sinner, to be reformed from within, a form of reformation which is the only hope of the world. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS FOR 1886. The principal astronomical event of 1886 will be the total eclipse of the sun on the 29th of August. The line of totality m this eclipse will cross the Atlantic Ocean, traversing land in the West Indies just after sunrise, and in Southern Africa toward sunset. On the coast of Venezuela the total phase lasts nearly five minutes, and at Gre nada, in the West Indies, the duration will be nearly four minutes. It seems probable that in the latter part of April and first part of May we are to have the unusual spectacle of two fine comets visible at the same time.; Barnard's comet is increasing in brightness. Another comet was discovered by Fabry at the Paris Ob servatory, December 1, and this will finally surpass Barnard's in brilliancy. It will be seen in the North, and its position will be very similar to that of the brilliant comet of 1881. For a short time it will not set at all in our latitude, but will remain visible throughout the night. The comet is now visible in a moderate-sized tele scope, and is increasing slowly in brightness. About April 1 the in crease will become more rapid, and by the middle or latter part of that month it will undoubtedly become visible to the naked eye. Its maximum bright ness, over 600 times as bright as when it was discovered, will be reached about May 1, when it will be situated in the sky, not far from Barnard's comet ; and by the end of May it will have passed South of the equator, be coming again a telescopic object. 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