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Vol. L-"""Xf), 28, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY A COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA CON FERENCE, L E. CHURCH, 50UTH.-RUFUS T. IIEFLIN, Ei:t- RVLElCn, FRIDAY, JULY II, IS3G. 1$ n t i r ij . ! diifj';'! you, th-M to rlo'jll an'J tnn ' i f.rtii fn.it. ar'J that vour lru:t bU'rii-l T':- TO VnOII SHALL I CO EUT THEE 1 I : O l,,r., tot:.':':; In v-t i i.:,4 ri:vou thou-1.' I h'-ir thy cJ! ; A ti i I rw : '.-orji or :-: froia th'; I fail : -!, :r in i:ii-':rv. rn Jj ;in. fruit, c John xv this, it i' f k'-f.t T'.j J hi i l':-t 'J'.': I !r. At, Y t'l r Fr'in '1 hf.';, O 'rr; .v. rl, to ''I rt, U Thj lov'r, at o'er c'u! J 7-1 'J. .From t:;l t-r.p'.-ari tni; our ...r..ui j-.'u-s-x . 11 i-;W':r- (Hi- fl.oio to :j.-iit't'i Jinn, ; st nl bo t ob'lioutto Jlifji ass J It h.vlbt-C-a ; to Ili-i J'ath'rr. ; Th'.? .vim'; jo;trino al.v deflnitoly ' tju'hl bj .-'t. Jo'iii, tbas: 'And hereby .vr- io know that wo know Ifiio. if we t ii ... Is, l!i'r;i :.'i ':ooni J iil!T:ant !i;':riiO r h' :'-rt trour.o, h 1' ,;r..r (Jr(;r, J, .1 Y'.-t I in 'I 'it coin': to 'I'i;CC ; Th ,u !,it-.t t!.'; wor-l-i of Ii"", ::u Thou :i' .x.y. 'J'hou ."itt'-.-t iiiort t'j'; McKjitor' throne: AViicre hhou! lu hifincr X'r Fuitit nor anz-l'H will Coul 1 lift ti;-.- hunlofi from t h i -s loa'i'l brost Wetiry I curr.c, sin-1 Tiiou wilt iv; rne r':nt Uh m vilt Tiiv word fulfil ! His (-oifnairiJii'.-nt.-;. He that K-iln, ii know Jfirrj.tri'l ko' p'.tli not His coiwiiitir:'!- Tfio-nt-, i s a liLir, t-ml the truth i- not in : j bifn. li lt who.-o k'.' pf.-th His word, in uoon thf: iiiount.-uoH ; hnxj veu.'y the love o! joa jeneetea : , ; hereby know we that we are in lliiu. He ; j that sjit'i lln abiJet'u in Liin, ouht Lim-! i .self uho so to walk eve;i He walke'J.' I. John ii : 'j-'i. Co:npareJ with I. i'et. j ! ii : 21-21. This it, then, a seeon-l mark j ; of tho ' .sheep,' that they do the command- j 1 in e nt:- of Christ, a they ,-ee that He kept, ; I I'm Father's corntiiuu'Jrncrjts. it in to j ' j such that lie promises ' eternal life' ; hence j 'He says: ' IUohho'I are they that do His st:e-i v To . i. me to Thee. Since u - f '.I-'. f . . . ,lin !, oouf, huit, ia.iinie'l :i:i:i duuib. iJdore thy feet 1 fa!!. AVh'.:n Vr. t Thou turn away? rom what )!-'!' -- v.-a lii'l thvoitvin AVliat i;-,l l rebuke "race ? .';Hi i Ui: er cueckol tiie le i pray , t Saviour , tlcii.ie to save :ak but the wor'l, Thy f-ervant whole : j c-onii!iuri'Jment.s, that they iuay have right to the tree of life, awl may cuter in through j i the gates into the city.' Kev. xsii : 14.! And, ' To him that overcouicth will I grant j ! to hit with me in my throne, even as I also , ; overcame, ana am set uown wiin my ra-i I ther on His throne." He-v. ii 1 : 21. Ami ! j finally, ' Be thou faithful unto death, and ! face? I vrill give thee a crown of life.' Rev. ii: ;ry f .r . j f) tbut the true iutcn.retation of thi-. ! : charaeteii.-tic h : 'He that endureth to the ! ; end shall be .saved.' j j 2. Christ does not say in this pas.-agc, j fcliall 1,0 i that they cannot cc-ii;-e to be lilt '.sheep,': : but that they, a3 His ' sheep,' cannot be; Turn, Lord, and look upon me. Qnickcn wy plucked out of His and His lathers! houl j hands.' This is a true doctrine. No pow- ! Out of this living grave. ; (.r arrayed against them can ever overcome ! j them : but what has this to do with tlio.se J hnlcr my opening heart; .sheen' that have irone out into the wil-! derne.ss, following their own hearts' lust?, and left to perish in their sins, as was the j ease with many in the days of B.ekiel ? j See Kzek. xxxiv : 1-0. And this was, I and stiil is, tho case with the Jews of whom I I'aul speaks in Rontons, xi, who evidently had withdrawn' themselves from God, and j were therefore cast away by God Himself, j Hce Rom. ix. j o From all these considerations, it sp- j pears that our Saviour did not intend to teach the doctrine of the " certainty and infallibility" of the perseverance of the saints unconditionally ; but only intended to assure them that, while they ' heard His voice, and followed Him,' there was no j weapon formed against them that could harm them; that He and His leather would protect them from all their foes ; and that if they continued thus to 'hear His voice, and follow Him,' that they should, without fail, receive ' eternal life.' He certainly could never intend to contradict so many passages, iu which the couditionality of Fill it with lovo, and peace, and l'"ht from heavci ; (live me Thy.ndf, for all in Thee is given: Come, never to depart ! Cnnimuiiinitiuu 5. For the X. C. Christian Advocate. TIIE BOCTRINK Of the Final Unconditional Perse verance of tin: Saints considered, and refuted. x u M r. E It VII. ll v. 11. T. ll. jVn : In this No. I still continue my examination of the Scripture authorities relied upon, to prove the " cer tain and infallible" perseverance of the saints. 2. The passage from John x : 2, 20, is equally as invalid an authority on this point as that of I'hil. i: 0. There is cer tainly nothing said here, that afiirms cither the " certainty and infallibility" of their ' Unci perseverance is so clearly asserted; final perseverance on -the one hand, or of the 'impossibility of their being deprived of salvation,' on the other. That this pas sage does not furnish the proof for which it is used, will appear by tho observations which follow. 1. Christ does not say here that these ' sheep' shall be unconditionally saved ; but rather the reverse. This is evident, if Ave consider the character which He gives of them. (1.) They 'hear my voice.' This cer tainly means something more than simple hearing. By it, we are to understand their obedience to His commandments. This is plain from what He says elsewhere on this point. Hear Him : 'Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house and such other Scriptures, where lie as sures His people, that while they continued with Him, He would abide with them. As, for instance : ' And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah, the son of Oded: and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin : The Lord is with you, while ye be with Him ; and if ye seek Him, He will be found of you; but if ye forsake Ilim, lie will forsake j'ou.' II. Chron. vx : 1, 2. See also chap, xxiv : 20, and also I. Chron. xxviii: 9. I shall here add a good exposition of the subject of this text, embracing the argu ment in favor of final unconditional perse verance, and a sound answer thereto. ' If Christ hath assured His sheep that they shall never perish, and that none shall snatch them out of His hands, then hath He assured them that they shall never fall away finalh-, seeinj they who so fall awav and it fell not, for it was founded i will perish; and also that no tempter or upon a rock.' Matt, vii : 24., 25. Here, j temptation shall effectually seduce them evidently, the security was the result of j from the way of piet-, since then they 'Joins' the 'savings' of Christ. He was would snatch them from Christ's hands. Himself the 'rock',' but yet, He could not! 'Answer 1. The frequent cautions and avail any one finally, unless thev, by ' do- j exhortations directed in the Scriptures to ing the sayings' of Christ, built on that i Christ's (a) sheep not to fall from grace, rock. And that this was indispensably but continue stedfast in the faith, are cer necessary to this end, is not only clear from : tain demonstrations that they may do so ; these words, but more especially so from J for if the sheep of Christ can no more the following : 'And every one that hear- i cease to be so, than a man, whilst he lives, eth these savings of mine, and doeth them ! can cease to be a man, these exhortations not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the ruin descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell : and great was tho fall of it.' A erses 20, 27 to take care they fall not off from being so, must be as vain as a caution to a man would be not to outlive his manhood. To answer, therefore, directly to this text, I add, '2dlv. That Christ here only promises This ' doimr these things is necessary His sheep should never perish through to ensure a final good result", and cannot bo any defect on His part, or by the force of safely dispen.sod 'with. This, I think, is ! any plucking them by violence out of His the clear teaching of the Apostle Paul upon hands, so the particle 7,-ai, whicli is here this noint. 'Therefore we outfit, to p-ive i illative, shows, viz: they therefore shall the more earnest heed to the things which Ave have hoard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgres sion and disobedience received a just re compense of reward, how shall we escape, if we neglect so "reat salvation,' &e. Heb. ii : 1-4. Demonstrably, therefore, does it appear, that our Saviour chiefly meant the obedience of his ' sheep' by the term used in this passage. This, then, is an essential characteristic of the sheep of Christ, to whom this text is applied, and determines, of itself, the question of the couditionality of their perseverance. (2.) Another characteristic ia: 'They follow me.' To follow Ilim, evidently means, imitating Ilim, by conforming to the example which He has set. This is plainly the view which He himself has eiven of this whole subject. Hence He says, 'If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit ; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Fa ther hath loved me, so have I loved you : continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's command ments and abide in His love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy miht be full. Ye are my friends, if ye do what- soever i command you. le have not not perish, for none shall pull them out of my hands; and this is still more evident from the reason following, My Father is greater than all their adversaries ; so that none can pull or force them out of His hands, now His power and mine is one and the same. Well, therefore, said Isidore Pelusiota, No man can snatch them away by force and tyranny, for then they must perish without and against their wills; but this may be done by deceit and allure ments, (para fen ton autexonsin anthrctpon rathumian,) through the negligence of men who have the freedom of their wills ; for sucb men, who, by the allurements of the world, the flesh, and the devil, thus cease to obey Christ's laws, are not snatch ed out of His hands, but choose to go from Him.' Dr. "Whitby on the Five Points, pp. 444, 445. I here close this No. Be persuaded, that my next will more properly compre hend what I have to say, in addition to the preceding discussion. As my next will close my examination of the citations in favor of the doctrine of the final and infallible perseverance of the saints, I will in the following Nos, take a view of the Scripture doctrine, proving the possibility of apostaey. Yours, affectionately, PETER DOUB, Normal College, N. C. (a) John x : S, r ::!. N. C. CbrUtian AdTocii. '0-ght net CLrist to have s'JTtredfaese things ? ' in the bi;ru;-geof U.n- YThh reirl to the fu!21 cv. I won! i r t Hifo-el?, that it Lecometa u- to :u.,i c. ; tcoun ri''hteou.-eh " But nowhere is it s-ai J, i c-duc-;.. " it beeon.et'i us" to fulfil -in. or wicked- vA:.':- n .-..;. Rut that wickedness is foret'-H, will ! teres.' i.ot be der.ied by any tjuke it right. All sets Lre just as f T ,r ti y. C. Clr. We vrant aa Educated '. 1 Lure L ?ert-'l tou hrve -7 v' pr"'v- !: I' ii2 A iTfSt. fiCt?. I !, Saf;d Ii' -t. th-t tie iciikies for K'j, tT."l have in Let acquire J, tLe .n ti'-ces-urr to like thtrn " zlU rs of the New Te-t.?:;etit Serij- Ti:C applicabuaj of tbe.e fact-. 1 t tbe:-e that are revetie- G therefore, we &rue the ueec:-.-ity of : n set from propheev, we sre led into the daring r:--urj.pt:on tht God necessitates every tet in the universe, whether it hs jwl or evil. Yet thi.s docs net ; as trt-uitTit, rots upon the a:-uxpti"n i :Ut a kuowkd-e of tho truths of the Bi ble cor .-th ate an cduc-jtc-d ii.ini.strv. f;.ets t-rc, ther acce.-.-. f-f-v. crreetlv translated into tneir own ver nacular tongue ; end if they hive equd .-hare of native intellect, and an eourd 1 to If, The that your i:,:nister- have i ' . 1 .11 ..t . .t Tl'll livwua ail omer?, toiQe uivm, An I i..r:n, His tool, mu-t be- damned lor j clatm upon the promise ot God to a:ithem of forty days, what was the condition of j cpj the city ? They had repented of their j c-j, bv His Spirit to comtreiji-nd it, and an That prophecy JVs not necessitate the j -quil de-ire to understand it, and put forth thing foretold, and that it is contingent, ! the effort possessed and made by others, it d'-pending upon the being or beings by j h but just to suppo-e they know it as xn-ll whom it maybe fulfilled, is satisfactorily j as others. Agtdn, their facilities afforded shown in the ca.se of Nineveh. Jonah J by co?nnjenta.t.'r topological works for . was directed by the Ivrl to go uu-t ray "to j une'erstunding the truth .- of the Bible, ere' the Ninevites, '' Yet forty days, and Nine-; greater than those possessed by ministers veh .shall be destroyed." But at the end of other denominations. This, as a fact, eppears not only from the profounuiy learn- trulv logical and phtlosophical eharae- wickednos.s, and God forgave their sin, and Iter of their works, but ilsu Iroui the uni Ninevch. was not destroyed. Thus it might j form agreement of their teachings with the have been, and no doubt would, with the I common sense views of an unbiassed mind Jews, notwithstanding it had boon foretold land unprejudiced heart : the mind is not a thousand years before, (a thousand years, j perplexed and the judgment clouded and with the Brd, are as one day,; that Jeru- j t'ith assailed by disagree:. ictus between the saleni would be destroyed, yet it depended creed and articles of religion and text upon the dispo.-ition of the Jews whether j books, and the plain, common sense views or not it be fulfilled. This fact is very ! (,f the truths of the Bible. They can use manifest froir the course pursued towards jail their helps to enable them to obtain a them by Christ. Repentance was preached j deeper and more extended knowledge of the teachings of the Bible, ihey do not have to study works on theology, to enable to them before and alter tne crueilixion. Was; lie in earnest when He offered them repentance 1' Was He sincere ? Bid He want them to repent? Had they repented, would they have crucified their Lord '! Who dares answer these questions in the negative'' who dares question tho sin cerity of Christ, and thus charge Him with assuming a false pretension ? And if an swered in the affirmative, would they have crucified Him ? Who can affirm it '! After Christ had told them at Jerusa lem that they should see Him no more then, on one occasion, he '-'drew near the city and wept over it, saying, If thouhad.t known, even thou, in thi.s thy clay, the things that belong unto thy peace ; but now they are hid from thine eyes." What is meant by " this thy day," and the things that belong unto thy peace, but that it was possible for them to be saved even then. 'Vhy did Christ weep for them? Y'ousay that it could not have been otherwise with the Jews, so far as they themselves were concerned. Could not Christ (who was "God with us,") have saved them ? All power belongs unto God : and if He had been sincere, really anxious that they be saved, why did He not manifest His power in their salvation ? But 3ou say, it was to be so, because it was foretold. Who foretold it? God. Why did lie foretell this fact ? Because it was to be so. And it was to be so because God foreknew it would be so. Is God the author of sin ? No ; but this is one of those points which we cannot comprehend. We should bow with humble submission to the dictates of heaven ! Wonderful consistency I ! How do you know that it is a " dictate" of hea ven ? Because reason contradicts vou 1 Does the word of God tell you so ? Let us see. Christ tells the Jews to " repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." But they can't "repent;" they have to crucify the Saviour ot" the world. Thi.s is determined in the "secret counsel of" the "will" of God. You had better go back, Saviour, and get a copy of the will of your Father, so you may not forget how to ad dress yourself to the Jews. They are learned men, and rou may get yourself in to a difficulty by such mistakes. God save me from such inconsistency ! I will now explain a few passages of Scripture that tiiem to reconcile tne JjiOic, according to their interpretation, to common sense; hence their rapid proficiency in theological studies ; and this also solves the problem that so often perplexes other ministers; it is thi.s, that a young man, but commonly educated, in two years after his conversion, will occupy the pastorate over a church remarkable for its intelligence, with ac ceptability equal to those who have spent years in collegiate studies and have diplo mas of scientific and theological distinc tion. The secret is, the latter attach as much importance to possessing the means and helps of knowing the Bible and its correlative subjects, and such knowledge as may be used in teaching the Bible to others, as to the proper understanding of the great saving truths, of the Bible them selves ; while the former is willing to be called ignorant of many things, and is content to know only the Bible. But I am wandering. The next fact is, that your (the Methodist) ministry devote more time to the study of theology than other ministers. They usually devote three years to preparing for ordination, and a portion of this time is devoted to Hebrew, which I have shown 3 not a necessity. Y'our ministers have a prescribed course of four years, and appear before those ap pointed by the church, five times, to be examined on their theological knowledge, before they can graduate and be permitted to exercise the functions of the eldership. The last fact I mention is, that they, you will find by comparison, have to read and understand, and be examined upon a larger quantum of theological matter than the candidates for the ministry in any other church. More anon. A. Fayetteville, June, 185G. For the N. C. Christian Advocate. Pleasant Hours Ho. 1. BY REV. JOUX BAYJ.EV. "Like summer bees that hover Around tho idle flowers, They gather every act and thought, Those viewless angel hours." Bp.yant. THE HOUH OF It EST. Ono of the most prominent traits of may seem to favor the crucifixion of Christ, j a Christian, is to labor for the good of mankind, and to do this with a sincere ana 1 have done. 1. " But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of Christ." What is the desire to please God. Hence the truly p-ious abhor a slothful spirit and nee cross oi jurist : is it tne piece ot umoer ; from i(llenegg ag t ,vould from the on which lie died t It so. we had better j , mi i. ii i. plague. jiie pious man iviios mat secure a splinter from the Pope of Rome. Is it the sufferings inflicted by the Jews when he was rescued as a. brand from on the tree ? If so. why did not St. Paul 1 the fire, adopted into the family of God, glory in the cross of the dying thief ? His and numbered among the citizens of sufferings, so far as crucifixion is concern- j the everlasting Kingdom, it was not ed, were of the same nature as those of! for the purpose of supplying a vagrant Christ. No : the cross of Christ, in which St. Paul gloried, was the deep "agony" of soul He willingly suffered for our redemp tion. 2. "O, fools, and slow of heart to be lieve all that the prophets have spoken, ought not Christ to have suffered these things ?"' It will be seen that the disciples of Christ had taken up the idea that He (Christ) would never die, but that He would be a king forever. And when He died, notwithstanding He had told them, time and again, that He would die, and the prophets had written it, yet, when these things were fulfilled, they were ready to deny His Messiahship. And it was with reference to this point that He di rected them to the prophets, not to prove the necessity of His crucifixion, but to sat isfy them that He was the 3Iessiah. " Thus it behooved" Ilim to suffer, not be cause it was right that He suffer at their hands, but because lie had taken upon Himself the form of a servant, and placed Himself among men, He was in honor bound to abide the decision of the rulers in His case. He was the last man that would have resisted the sentence of His rulers. He endeavored to dissuade them, but when they were determined, it be hooved Him to yield. Had the Jews re pented and gathered around the Saviour in Gethsemane, I imagine that He might have expired there, amid the sympathies of gazing thousands, who might have spread the news of salvation in a short time to every son and daughter of Adam's apos tate race. " FORSYTH. June, 1S56. S Subscribers still wanted for the X. C. Christian Advocate. :e merciful pre- ; "-'::!; in hrkr,... an of rest for men hf eighty deep, a ich a sa l :i'A 'j i-l b . 3.1 b!e p'rtic that hrkris. an 1 the crest n; :::; -r 1! came, an I fiw, eor;iu re 1. And the moanstui ' u e h.iv ract the enei;;v." and v nr th-V. t-l'ow Jak; ce2ei to be, through the reejf-s of the The bii f.-h run ahire. wj hr- t ":ie S. il 1 bresth-'-d no ir-.-re. And the 5 They ?ecm to rc-ar l Gol a? a cruel -: c arAii. . issiriaKf-r who -works his slaves to Scraps by the Way. loath, and gros rich upon the r:e-: Trl, .;'..;;? r."- of wt. " .-. rk- of the victims of L: rer. j y.'A j. Atkh.. u. Yell Ji r-1 a -: Strange, htlee-J, that anv one with the i wh-sle rert'v c--.n-i-JKvn irl v visit th : Bible in Lis .bar., which tells of the j future crina-ierc-i.-il en S- y 1 Y ; IT' 1 f. ,1 ; ur.rrt-ance ol i.i'-l on the t.zyj'.i ; u: . :.-:n h.rm, tn ta-.-c-mastors, an 1 cf ite l virion of a weekly dav ! and leasts, cLoc! J fall into s : n:-:ake. i There are minv sweet wo ; Engii-h language-, but few that are . sweeter an 1 richer in meaning to the toil-worn itinerant minister than that ; b!cse i word rest. When I cease for ; a while from mv labors, at the house of a brother where I find a temporary ' Or tt-.-r rain an. I dmnati-n, home, and sit down under the shade ofL v T.h ?f-1'1'1 K ? crk l -c . , tit ,i But 1 i w .Lvk ecure- th? Ter-1 t UJ.IIIl;,tlU 11-.'. -M. i 'J-J X 1 J I J 1 . A I j ; fields of golden grain, ripening for the of i harvest, I listen te the merry caroling! ; of thVi.r.'ir I, the mockingbird, and the wren, and to the rtul sweeter song' of on-' who glad lens my heart by her: : cheerful smiles ; I bless God that lie : gives me a season of rest. And th-n , I seem to Lear those words of level that BbdV.r.-! r thee, rnv l-rethr! If- enre ?hm Ivf on r.r.f.rma:i'",n : Ani cho-e tout L. IYKS and T-'-ar talTtti- n Ar.-l 'he Whale frixutel " cl-.f a-h jr-. tir.rrr.iti.'n tii.v th.-.u-ht no more ; AnJ tl.-i the Hi-h .p -bed. lUu'iUsrat in ttcr. I.. iUiarfllnurnna Jlriirlw. were snoken m Feraals Extraragacce. l)n every hand ar.'i in aii circ:es. ; we hear complaints cf female e.rtrava- j gatiee. Husbands talk about it. fathers f complain of it. the pulpit thunders! again.-! it, newspapers argue and de--j claim nj'on it by turn5. Doe? specie ; go out 'of the country ''. We are to'd it is because the ladies i-uv .en manv davs if vore to lust ?-ic:tinners as 1 am: '-Lome unto me ail ye that labor and are heavy la den, and I will give yoa rent." Audi whenever I cease for a while from my: toils, whether it be to spend an hour j in sweet social intercourse with a friend, to take a walk amidst the beautiful works of nature, to commune with my,.iC? brocades, and other .French ex"- : own heart, or to hold social intercourse ; trava-'ances. Is a merchant ruined ? : wh God, it is my privilege to be grate-; Iaf 07, javs jt to the prodigali ; ful to God for such pleasant hours, and tv of ;;, wjfe. Young men shru- their : to see in them a prehbation of the hap-f shoulders when advised to inarrv, and , ; pmess of that rest that remairieth to J ?av t.ev cnnriot affor,i to iriV ,i;e lrii. ; ; the people of God. j lhlers' i.ill. Old men rate their daugh-1 Best Land, Va., June, 1S-S0. t,.rs for tiie Tn3 thev Hiuander on ! j French finery. From all sides, a fire ' j of wit and objurgation is kept up upon j JJear Brother Jfefin : I have seen . the extravagance of women. second only : several articles in the Advocate on ' in fury to the fire on Stbastopol the j j Class Meetings. Thev are interesting day the Malakoff was captured. The ! to all lovers of Methodism. I will say , anathema maranatha rises immediately ; ! a few words respecting our excellent j to the lips of the men whenever Brus-; jBook of Discipline. First The lie-1 sel lace or brocade, diamonds, India I ception of Members. The rule is, How j shawls, or other feminine extravagances shall we prevent improper persons from j are mentioned in their presence. j i insinuating themselves into the Church? j Yet the fault is not all on one side, j The answer I understand to mean, they If Indies love choice laces, gentlemen ! are to be recommended by some relia- j like fine cigars. From the day laborer, ! j ble person, or by a leader with whom j who will have his beer and tobacco, up ; tuey have met twice or thrice in class, j to the rich citizen, who drinks pure ; 1 would ask, Is this rule carried out, j wines or drives last trotters, selt-grati- For the X. C. Christian A Ivocate. when probationers are received, or not, Sometimes it is, but often broken. This accounts for dull class-meetings many times. It is well known by all who have thought upon the subject, that when this rule of our church is i not faithfully kept, that many persons fication is the rule with men rather I than the exception. Many a husband, I who sours when he receives his wife's bill for gloves, spends twice as much ' on oysters for himself. Billiards, sup- 1 pers and sporting excursions consume their proportion, at least, of the family : I do join the church, who, if we were to i income. In justice to woman, too, it judge from their conduce afterwards, j mu.st be admitted, that, while her prod- j I did not intend to serve God when they j igality arises from the desire to look : joined the church. I do not say all : ; lovelier, which is hu the instinct of her ; 1 say many do. Then, what hard work j sex, to render herself more pleasing to it is to have a lively class-meeting, j man, the extravagance of man, on the i when many of the members neither j other baud, springs generally from a j love God's people nor God's cause. I j selfish desire to gratify his appetite or , take no delight in saving this: would ; pander to a morbid love of excitement. ' j to God it was otherwise. Then, what j At most, vanity is - more pardonable t is to be clone ? Let us keep the old j than gluttory or drunkenness. Women! i rule faithfully, and in particular the ' squander money on show ; man wastes j j teachings of our blessed Saviour ; and j it on wine or horses. Y'e rarely hear 1 if oar number is smaller, our strength ! the stronger sex denouncing the weaker will be greater. j as spendthrifts without saying to our-' Perhaps I may sav something more ! selves "take first the beam from thine '. i hereafter. I own eye." j CLASS LEADER, i Onslow Co., June, 1S5G. For the X. C. Christian Advocate. The Devil and Lis Enmity to Kan. i To what do these words tend ? Not ! to the increase of recriminations bc- twee-n man and wife, but to the foster- f mutual forbearance and self-: nijr cf lenial We wish to impress our rea- That there is an evil snirit in the ! dors that there U no station, however i world, denominated the Devil, who is exalted, no condition, however poor, in j represented as " walking about, seek-; which one sex does not often gratify its ; in-' whom he mav devour," is clearly , vanity or appetite at the expense of the ; I the doctrine of the Bible. That he ' other. Sometimes it is the wife who ; ! possesses the most " implacable hatred 1 h sclfi-h. and spends more than li'-r I against mankind," is equally clear. i share ; but quite as often it b ti:?hus- ; But whence this hatred? This I re- i band. Custom, however has warrented i or a loiterer on the king's highway, or a poltroon in the army of Prince Im manuel, but that he might add to the number of lion-hearted soldier's who fight under the bright banner of the Cross. The language of faithful Nc hemiah, UI am doing a good work," is appropriate to every child of God : and the more he loves God the more will he labor for the . good of mankind. There is a limit, however, to our capaci ty for toil, and therefore it becomes necessary that we should have our reg ular hours of rest. And none but the laborer can know the sweetness of rest. The soldier from the battle field the sailor from a perilous voyage, the hus bandman, after a toilsome day, the minister, just from a protracted meet ing, the student after a season of se vere mental effort, and the Christian after a desperate struggle with the powers of darkness, know something of the delight that is signified by that blessed w ord, rest ! But the sluggard and the indolent, who will not toil, must forever be strangers to the blissful feel ings with which the God of grace re wards those who obey His summons to labor. There are some, however, in these past times, who will not allow them selves a sufficient number of these hap py hours, to give sufficient play to the recuperative energies of nature, or to afford an opportunity for a time of re freshing from the Spirit of the Lord. They seldom retire from the tumultuous din of the world, or cease from their toilsome labors of body and of mind. i gard an important question. It, how- the latter in complaining cf extrava- i ! ever, is one nowhere answered in the ; gance, while the same custom has clos- 'Bible. We can only conjecture. j ed the' mouth of the former, till half i I have recently seen a volume of , the world thinks woman has ro cause i sermons from the pen of the Rev. Wil- j to complain at all. We justify neither. liara Winans, D. D., of the Mississippi ! We say both, as a general rule, squan- j Conference, on "Fundamental lied i-! dcr too much. But we maintain that gious Subjects." In this volume is a if husband's, instead of swearing at discourse upon the " Origin and Char-! their wives' bills, would show the exam acter of the Devil, and his Enmity to j pie of economy by reducing their own Man," in which I find an answer to the j selfish expenses, the female sex would j question presented above. It is given not be long in being ELamea into re in the following craphic and impressive j trenchment. The last vices a man sees Sun. j lanuae : ! are bis own. It some ot us would iook j "We suppose it is because man was' at home, instead of abroad, we would ! created m the image of that God : pirate less about extravagance ! against wnom this evil being had re j belled was created to enjoy that God I and to manifest forth His glory. Pos sibly, moreover, the Devil looked upon man. as designed to succeed to the hap piness which he and his angels had for feited ; to shine in the sphere of glory and brightness from which he and they had been cast out for rebellion against their Creator. Envy, then, and pride, and malignity against that Pow er which had thwarted his ambition, crushed his rebellion, and punished hi3 treason, by headlong precipitation into everlasting perdition, raaj have been his incite ments to the inveterate hatred with which he ha3 ever regarded man. " Be this as it may, it is placed be yond question, by the Divine records, that he does regard man with bitter, inextinguishable and unmitigable ha tred, and pursues him with rancorous and indefatigable hostility." S. D. ADAMS. Moctsrille, June, 185G. The Cheerful Giver. 2 Cur. ix, 7: Every man according aa he purposetb in Lis heart, so let Lim give, not grudinsly, nor cf necessity: for God loveth. a cheerful giver. Mrs. Graham, cf New York, made it a rule to appropriate a tenth part of her earnings to be expended for pious and charitable purposes. She bad ta ken a lease of two lots of ground in Greenwich street, from the corporation of Trinity Church, with a view of building a house on them for her own accommodation. The building, how ever, she never commenced. By a sale which her son. Mr. Bethune, made of the lease in 17 95, for her, she got an advance of one thousand pounds. So large a profit was new to her. "Quick, quick," said she, " let me appropriate the tenth before my heart grows hard." What fidelity in duty ! What distrust of herself ! Fifty pounds of this mo- .l 50 a Year, in A!vaor?. fhe to Mr. Mvor. in aid ct the far. U he cxb:l;nc f-r the c ubiijhmcr.t cf a tho---gic.t . rr.irary. 77. 7 I.,- . ' Not gru : -:r.gly, or of r.cce-'i'.y." The Jen ha I in the temple t--chc-: f--r alms: the or. v of what wr? r .,-ccs-iry, i. e. wr it the law re dirt !: the ether cf the free-will offering. o OS j-K-r n. "rrse would cru ir.jlr give what rsceity obliged titeri. Others would gite cheerfully, f r t'-.c love ef Go, anl thresh pity ! th" p- or. Of tie firs', n-thing H ?ai ; : the law require 1, i w id. m.jch is sail: G tr.'y sirr.piy ... Of the scot love them. The lcT.of.t of alrr givit.- i lot t the giver when h- d v it with a grur, bling heart. And a lie d- not the duty in the spirit .f tr. il ity. eve the pcrf rn.a-.ce if tl b ;'"r of l--w"is a! orr-imt; .:. ::i j.'g!.t of G-- ' l,jA-r Clark-. A Cler.cal Anecdote. S m--thirty-five or f.rtv car a ? a Mr. Wi.lar., a c!crgy:i.n f ::. oi l school, s- r. it ce ' ; ' ', c: : to SaVm, fr "i the e''-;ntrv.t. V..' b -ks wit f Lr.:h n i. n. r:.in"-;ry. (hiring Sal hath I " i. in':-rn is-iion he said tohU daughter, "1 a:a going to li d wn : if St. P;i'.:l c- : hi:n- lf ibui't y.. i ili-H:rb me." Mr. Ibntly. who preached iri t! " East Church, wh- had been . ry tnt mufe with Mr. Wiliinm-. hn; l.'id i sen him for sev ral year--. l.-.ri:.g !. was in town, burii 1 off after .lo'-tn-r 'o make his obi friend a call. 'Where is hr.th r Williams?" 1. in quired as lie m t the daughter. 'He cant be distmht d, f-i r, not if St Paul fhould call-' 'I mui see liim !' was the impat: : rcjoindor, in the inimitable i.i'Uir:er j -cuii irto Mr. Benilcy. Kesistane" t mch a v. uit w.is ont of the 'piestion. The roo-a of tho sleeper w.n desig nated. With iio gi nth; v.ic, and .i corresponding shake, Mr. William wa- aroused. He wan delight d to sec hi. old friend Bentley, reiterating in hi fervency l is gratification. 'I think, Brother WiHiams'says Mr. Bontb y, "that vou are a littln in'-oi.-i--tent." 'How so ! hov. sol Brother Bentby.' 'Didn't yod tell your daughter o:i was not to be di.-turbod, cwn if St. Paul called? vet you ajj cared vty glad to see ine.' 'No, no, Brother Bentley, not icc:, sistent at all. I wit I aM gb 1 t- see vou. The Apostle Paul ! why I hope to spend a A' -d ctcriiity w hirn : buttyo, Brother Bentb-y, I n . r expect to see you, again.' Jinyh"i.i 'uiirnaL BAbLY Tai omt. Rev. J. C. Ry! the popular author, who is a clergy ma :i of the English e-.tablidiir.ent, thus char acterizes the average theological ed i cation of the clergy of that body. It would su:t the most inveterate hater of theological scininarie-i. " I mu-t in fairness concede that there are proba bly no Protestant ministers on earth r ha Uy trained for the work of preach -in" as the clergy of the Church .' England. The great majority of " j were never trained at all ! We a-o nent forth to do the ino-t difficult w rk in the world, to n l ly -t large hod e ; men in a popuhir r-'y-, about the mo-t irnporta-it cf all fubject", the hal .ation of their s;ouls. But wc are never fright bow to do it. We receive no ius'r'ic tion about the con.po.-ition of a sermon. We get no hints about fctyle, i:.:n.i' r, (.locution, "nd the like points, o.i v.l i .h a university degree is no help at all. Our rennons muht necessarily ! o no thing better at fir.st than experiment.!." Encouraging Younr; Clergymen. We f nd the foil ov. ing anecdote iou' h ing our venerable friend, the Rev. Ab-r-aTlt-r Bullions, D. D., in the N. Y. Chronicle : A pastor of this city, on a vMt to his venerable friend, the Rev. Dr. Bul lions, cf Cambridge, Washington coun ty, New Y'ork, was surprised to hoar himself" addressed by Dr. Bullion- u Dr. G. Supposing that the doctor associated the idea of his father, who was a doc tor of medicine in that town, and for many years an acquaintance of Dr. Bullions, he said : " Dr. B., I find you are under a mistake in reference to myself, as I am not a doctor, although mv father was." "" True, my brother," refilled Dr. B-, " but you are a Doctor of Divinity, are vou not .' "No, tir," replied Dr. G. "I have not that honor." " Indeed," replied Dr. B. " I am surprised at that. True, however, when I graduated from Edinburgh, ar.l for many ye'ars after, only ripe scholars and profound theologians, ar. 1 they at least fifty yc-ar3 old, were hon ored with the title of D. D. But of late years, and in this country, in par ticular, I find the colleges and univer sities are ia the habit cf giving the ti tle to young men, for the purpose 0f encouraging them to commence their Etulies ; and I was in hopes some col lege had given you a slmdar crumb of encouragement." rd ot Trustees. 43 25 4t, " ) r