STTA N I J J JL i i i N !Mf A D Y ri I 0 Jo PUELISHED WEEKLY BY A COMMITTEE OF JfTIHSTEHS F02. THE 2Q2.TH CA.B0LI5A C05FES EXCZ. K- E. CHURCH. SOUTH SUITS T. HEFLXX. E liter. ' II AtEIGH TlTClD AX A PKZL, 2-2, ISoS. SI oO a yea in advance. S s s- s- Vol. Ill NT o. 1 O. (Original. For the C. Christian Advocate, life. A number of these slaves nave The Belisjiotw Instrcctioa of Ssnaats. ' gone to Liberia ; vast numbers of them are returning every year, and it is The last Q'lirterlj Meeting Confer- found that thej are carrying with fht-ra ence on the Koanoke Circuit, p .i o f 1 a the glorious Gospel; and in a climate resolution recoxniending tho- head of where their constitution feels perfectly families within its hound? to adopt a at home they are becoming the suc-Byr-tera of religious instruction for their ; cessful preachers of that Gospel which servants. The voice for the resolution we have not been honored to carry in was unanimous. Jt was also voted that I to the midst of their dark, and barba- the resolution should he published. I j hope Boon to F.ee it thu;i before the public. That meeting was composed of men among tire Most influential and in telligent, in the intelligent county of 1 1 ..! i fa.:. This is a move bv the rijrht man in the right direction, It i3 a good text, and if I fiil to preach a good sermon, there frenn it will be my fault. But to tho professedly christian tn&'s-, ' ter 1 have a better text than this, 'But if any provide not for his own, and es pecially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an inG lei This text sweeps the foundation of hope from beneath the feot of a targe proportion of professors j of religion,-.-.. It lays prostrate all want-j ing in home religion, all who neglect to furnibh the bread of life to those lf- pendent upon them. It teaches that ; signated, he returned. Landing at they who deny the truth of Revelation, j New Orleans he purchased a horse, and yet obey the law of nature in pro-j that on his way home he might visit viding for their dependents, are better j such plantations that lay in his rout, than those, who, though they believe j On reaching home his brethren reques Christ to be a Prince and a Saviour, ted him to give an acconnt of his la yet neglect his plain command to 'feed I bors, and for this purpose a meeting his lambs feed his sheen.' To the guilty this a terrible blow ; but blame not in in for it. The thunderbolt was forged in heaven. It had better fall now than at the Judgement seat. Turn to the passage and read it. It is found in 1 Timothy, a, 8. 4 You have read it, have you V Yes ; and I find the Apostle has ref erence to material bread and not spir- itual.' 4 So much the worse, for if you i are thus guilty because cf a neglect ofjtion given came in conflict with their smaller matters, how much more guilty uo you become by neglecting the 'weightier matters of the law.' ' If to suffer the body of a dependent to per ish for want of food i3 a crime ; then it is a higher crime to suffer the soul to perish for want of food, since it is of infinite more value than the body. But there are other reasons that should stimulate ovory christian, and especially every christian master to la bor in this interesting field. Brethren, there is not in the world a missionory field promising and yielding a harvest so abundant and ready a3 the slave plantations in the South. I would not j have you withdraw one iota of assis tance from foreign missions. I would we were doing more for the distant heathen. But I must here draw a con trast between the result of missionary labor among the slaves of the South, and such labors in foreign lands. Different denominations have made a large expenditure of life and money for the conversion of China. As a re suH a few souls have been converted. In the territory occupied by the East India Company, much more has been done ; but the result is hardly more encouraging. Of a hundred and ten missionaries sent out for the conversion of Africa, only ten (as well as I recol lect, I have lost the statistics) were ef fective. The others died on the field, or returned with shattered constitu tions. On the other hand, look at the re sult of the missionary labors of the Southern Methodist Church alone among the slaves, and our statistics show colored members 40,000, and nearly 18,000 children under cate chetical instruction. Or if we include all the fruits of our labors among this population, the M. C. S. has in its bo som 170,150 colored members and pro bationers, while the names of thous ands have been transferred to the church book in heaven. Can the chris tian world besides show so much fruit of missionary labor, even though they have been in labors and means more abundant ? With such results, who that has a christian heart, will not la bor ! But the fruits of the Southern mis sionary do not end here. They are falling and springing into life and yielding a harvest in Africa. I must here give a passage from that eloquent and faithful divine of England, Dr. Cummings : 44 That country (Africa,) has been thought to be utterly impregnable to Christian effort. Our steamers have navigated its streams, and their crews have died in succession ; the malaria or miasma on the banks of the great riv ers, seemed to tell us that foreigners or Europeans never can penetrate into Africa and promote the gospel on any thing like a great and rapid scale. But singular enough, what seemed a curse, and what had become the shame and disgrace of a powerful republic in the West I mean the slave trade is being overruled by the mysterious ar rangements of Him who reigns, for the evangelization of that land which seem ed to be all but hopeless, and to defy every effort that we made to reach it. By means of Christian missionaries,the slaves in America are becoming Chris tians, and the most hard hearted slave holders of the South cannot, and the Irao'st enlightened do not, prevent ra's 'ghr.aries and ministers preaching to ' the slaves the glad tiling of eternal rou.2, and benighted land." It is reelkss to dwell upon the ben efits which must pour in upon master and servants by adopting the suggested course of instruction. An acquaint ance with the truths of the gospel must havo a salutary influence upon the ser vant ; and if converted thereby, he will be made faithful to his master, and happy in his employ. The master will be benefitted in his labors. Grace will be given hira for the use of this means of grace. I mu't here relate an incident which was told me in California, by, Bishop Kavanaugh. He, I think, obtained it from a gentleman who heard the ad dress to which I shall allude. The Baptist church in Illinois sent a missionary to Southern Africa. Af ter laboring ten years in the field de was appointed. He told them that 'he had labored faithfully for ten years, at a sacrifice of health and much money ; but had ac complished very little good. His labor with the adults was useless. Their principles of idolatry were fixed. He met with little better success in hi3 in struction of the children. He estab lished schools for their benefit, but when their parents found the instruc- notions of idolatry, they withdrew their children, and hi3 brightest hopes were gone. But when he landed at New Orleans, on his return, it occurred to him he would travel through the south ern states on his way home, as it affor ded hira an opportunity of contrasting the condition of the African in his native country, with that of the same people in a state of slavery. And to his surprise he found that God by means of the slave-holder, was doing more to christianize the African and prepare him for the truths of Gospel, than all the missionary efforts expend ed in the country of the natives ; that the slaver in taking the African from his native country, had only torn him from his idols, and placed him in a school of Christianity." Of course his abolition audience did not relish his address. But the truth forced itself upon him, and he spoke it. Ye that love Christ, have you not often prayed, Thy kingdom come ?' Have you not often wept over the ig norance of the heathen ? They have not the gospel. They know not the plan of salvation. God has called all of you who are masters, all of you to whose comfort the slave administers, to the missionary work. The heathen are at your doors, perishing for the bread of life. The Ethiopian is stretch- ins out his hand. Look I it extends over thy table. While he supplies thy body with bread, his soul asks for the bread of life. Shall he die for want ? Surely every christian responds 'no.' Let me close this article by suggest ing a plan that has worked well else where. Let the master spend a portion of the Sabbath in reading the Bible to his servants expounding the difficult pass ages and praying publicly for them. Let the mistress and Othis is a noble work for the 'young Misses' learn the children the catechism. Our church has published a catechism prepared by Dr. Capers, well adapted to this. The instruction is all oral ; but the children learn in this way with great rapidity. The servants should not neglect the preaching of the gospel. Churches should be constructed for their accommodation, and, where it is practicable, give them as a missiouary a faithful and 'able minister of the New Testament Now, brethren and sisters, to this work at once ! You may meet with discouragements, and even with ingrat itude, on the part of those for whom you may faithfully labor. But if you prove faithful, God will bless, and your reward will be great. Christ, when the voice of no other can comfort and cheer thee, will say, 'I was hungry and ye gave me the bread of life ; I was naked and ye clothed me with the gar ment of salvation ; I was sick and ye visited me with balm ;' I was in prison and ye broke my bonds; I was a-stran-ger and ye took me in, giving shelter from a storm of wrath. Come ye bless ed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.' T. V. M. nk-p Circuit. AdhI 8th. i For tie . C. C law A jT.vra;?. Savir a ocl from Death." Leah Bko. IIeili.v: Allow rr:e to state that the article "Saving a .Soul frum Death." which you selected f:r weeK promisc-a - resu.t in much good to soa,. an-1 it: ..V should be carefully read and actl out: Wesk-v' It always standoff with a by every christian. If so, an influence ; tremendous load. The road Vans roean wouM be started, which would deepen de-ring up the rivers, across i.he prairies and widen through all :ire, and thou-: through the woods, by all .the towns sand of sou's would be brought to Je-j along the settlements, pasevery hut, sus arid .save ! in heaven. The fact3 I and to tht verv tops cf thtinioun tains. and plan given in that article clearly . show that every ehrittim, learned and -. unlearned, old and young can d 3 some- .thing that will be instrumental in 'sav--; i pit-, iaiK, prayer, or giving a uaui, j ; wnien may oe Messed, sooner or later,, :in the conversion of that dear ungodly I , - , - ., t i - i i : member of the family, or that kind ir- j religious neighbor. Tnis was the spirit .of Christ, for "he went about doing j igood. ' And men, women and children '; ;who have Jesus in their souls, will cer- j tainly imitate him in thoughts, words, I inductions, for 4'if we have not the ! 'spirit Christ, we are none of his." ; it ill 1 ! J I ! ; of one who read that article, who has laid it in his Bible to read frequently, ;and has determined to commit to mem-i -ry, every passage of scripture it men- ; ; tions, and through me, he has ordered all the tracts it suggssts, which are ! three classes. ! First, For the thoughts ; "Baxter's i 1 trust m.inv will tnl nw t ri r? c xamnie ; ! Call; Heaven Lost: The Worth of the ' Soul; For Ever; The Lo3t Soul; The : j Day of Trial.' j Second, For the awakened : 'Quench 'not the Spirit; ThaGreat Alternative; ' Have Me Excused: Eternal Life or ! Death.' Third, For trusting Christ: 'The j Door was Opened; What i3 it to be lieve on Christ ; Sinner directed to the Saviour; Th way to be saved; What mu3t I do ? The act of Faith ; Come and welcome to Jesus Christ ; Self- dedication to God." And I will here add a fourth cla33 to instruct the young convert, and help all christians to rightly feel their individ ual responsibility and properly direct their daily influence and action in this world, wnere tney arc to be hTin5 epistles, known and read of all men :' 'Neven's Practical Thoughts : Life of Harlan Page; Norman Smith; Isabel; Zacheus; What shall I do for Jesus ? ; How to do good." I hope none will feel excused from using those printed pages for doing good. I hive sup plies of them at S. H.Young's store of this City, which can be had by person ally applying or by mail. And 1500 page3 of them can be had for one dol lar; those not able to pay this, the cost of them, can get them free of charge. In this way all may scatter messages of salvation, which will continue to preach Jesus long after the distributor is dead. Some of the identical tracts publish ed by Luther, hundreds of years ago, are now in America preaching salva tion by faith in Jesus Christ. A promising young man recently told me that a tract I gave hira a year ago, was the means of his conversion, and he is now having his mind directed to to the ministry. Ife is now scattering tracts, and he may be the instrument of saving hundreds of souls; and all from a little tract given given him in an obscure place. Let U3 be 'instant in season and out of season,' remember ing that the one object of God in let ting tis live is to get good and do good. Yours truly, WM. J. W. CHOWDER. Ptaleigh, April 12th, 1858. "Religion in California, Sax Francisco, April. The time has been when reliaion was a scarce article in this country. It is better now, and the moral and religious sense of the people is improving every day. The Methodists have their con ferences, their circuits, their stations, their preachers and exhorters all over the country. The Presbyterians, ever vigilant and industrious, are in all the cities and towns acquiring an influence, and swaying the popular feeling to a great extent; and the Baptrsts are equally industrious, if not so numerous or influential. The Episcopalians flour ish in the cities, where they have able ministers and the handsomest churches ; and the Catholics are prosperous at the old missions in San Francisco and other place3. The American population com plain of lack of talent in this church among the " fathers." The emigrant need not fear being without hi3 accus tomed church privileges in thi3 country. The great danger is that he will leave his religion behind him. There are several ways leading out of California to the " great highway" of which we read in the good book. The Methodists, Baptists, Episcopa lians, Presbyterians and Catholics, all have their lines which they say connect ing a soul from death eternal death. : When they start theygiV-t 5 f 'loud, long O what a glorious work and privilege j shout, and you would thmh-'the "king is this ? Surely every one that has Je- 0f heaven suffered violen.ee and the vio- su3 fo-r-ed in his or her soul the hope i ent (were about to) ta.kc,by stoma." of glory, - ill be earnest to do some-j On t heir banners ic.r? "v;i:, relign triw ! 'daily coSi'stent dhiisfian ex- j jn earnest," and .es th?ey "'iT33 througu ample, talk, prayer, or giving a tract, j the woods they make the welkin ring fdrrttnns. '.th the 14 Lichwsr of holh -ss ; is . each I is famishing &urt&.!e cars to acco'smo 1 to the 4; travellers to eter nity" ). ) start frota Califcrniv, Do you see those plain ,'ooking cars tc dor 't That is the Met! odist train. . ... , ( 1 i.e little hoist, strong-looking loco- mot:v ma e there is the 14 John : ai-,d the train stots at evci'v place for - - passeng'.,' The conduce: are plain, practieal,?and energeticjen. The pa.ssensers are zealous ancL'ntbusiastic. the woods tnev With the song, , . ti r, BnIit Canaan, bright Canam, Vm jund fjr the lad of Canaan r ..,., , . Yonder is tne Baptist depot. Their cars,are stout- the seats uneushioned,the coff to" ctmg and circumspect, passengers numerous and pious, The tram 13 drawn by the " Baptiato, a Greek word to immerse. It is sur- r o . take so heavy a train over so rougn a road. They have tunnelled " moun tains of sin," and bridged the hollows of " iniquity," but water has no terrors for them, and hence they go plump through the river Jordan "To Canaan's fair and happy land Where my possessions lie." it - i But see there ; do you notice that beautiful train of cars yonder, with handsome gothic windows and velvet cushioned seats ? Do you see the sur plice, the silk gown, and the golden cros3? That i3 the Episcopal train. That gorgeously mounted and smoothly running locomotive is " Henry the Eighth." L sweeps over the solid Trail a3 if propelled by "Eric3on's new motor." There is a large sprinkling of lawyers in that train. It is the most fashionable and genteel train that run3 out of California. (The Unitarians are not fairly under way yet.) They take towards heaven a vast amount of worldly wisdom, theological learning and pious gentility. It is supposed that St. Peter, who has the key3, is of tVi -&Iwua- tkcL tha pa,safin jera who come in these car3 are his relatives and descendants ; albeit, he does'nt like the name of the locomotive ; " Henry the Eighth," in his opinion having been a great scamp. The Presbyterians, however, are do ing the best business in California. They train the mind, inculcate inflexi ble morals, having skillful engineers, intelligent conductors, and well arran ged cars. They run through a hostile country ; they come in contact with Sabbath breakers, gamblers, and drun kards, and pounce on the " hosts of sin" everywhere. They are skillful in a manoeuvre, and display superior generalship in a fight. Their road3 run through all the towns ; they have missionaries in all the jmportantpIace3 ; they have colporteurs or runners on the ! steamboats beating for passengers, and Satan himself cannot get up an enter prise without danger of having a Pres byterian after him to spy out his plans and borrow thunder. But listen to those chimes ; the Catholic train i3 about to start. Those old car3 look as though thay were made a thousand year3 ago antiquated, dark, gloomy ; rusty but very stout old cars. They run full, however. See the crosses and Latin inscriptions, and see those "Sisters'" bonnets. The more one looks around here the more he sees to interest him. The road3 from California connects from that old line from Rome, which was started eighteen hundred years ago, and is supposed to be the most direct way to heaveir:4 - Correspondence (Mo.) Republican. The Cross. " Take up the cross and follow me." Thus speaks the Savior to every one who would be a disciple. Take up the cross how ? 1. If you are a father, or an elder son, by holding prayer in the family. 2. If you are a young Christian, by acknowledging your Savior in the com pany of the vain and irreligious. 3. If you are a lay member of the church, by participating in -the exer cises of its social meetings. 4. If you are a minister, by perform ing the unpleasant duties of your of fice such as showing the house of Is rael their sins, warning the wicked, and thus arousing their opposition. Brother, sister, there i3 a cross for you. You may bear it until it becomes light and easy ; for if you bear the cross, it will bear you ; but if you would follow Jesus, you must take up the cross and you must bear it. This i3 the condition of discipleship. You may refuse compliance ; but in doing so, you forfeit the blessing. Take up the -mr . T 1 . cros3. 1'aciv.c jueinoaist. Gold ia universally worshipped witheut a single temple, and by. all class??, without a single hypocrite. 1 ra i1. X. W. i'h. - Noisy Religicii. 'What rsales Tor mother prav forepmb. lloul?' Dori sr.e u.:r. Gcrl i rh-tf r.r ftr vtv-tv V 'N'. I r-reti x.rj. but she want? what he rraTs for, land means to have it. She is i earn- 1 est about it, and when the gets in earn- i lest she alwivt ? peak 5 !oul. bat never: Uo loud as f-he does sometimes when !r-ravir.!T for th ealva'r.-i rf sou!?, and ll thinlc'it all wfdl er.ou-h. far if the Bible is true, and souls are worth a great deal, and Chr ought tolau.t i niPfl.i pumps: v f ,r t.-r airi?i-n. ' j Soeh is the substance of a conversation a congregation. Mr. Clay, in the d. i which passed between myself; when a ;, charge of his duty as a lawyer, came ! boy,and quite a formalist 'who had been u the neighborhood of our ir.fjrt.oint very much annoyed by my mother's j ('Clover Bottom Woodford county.) j loud and earnest prayers. My mother . W have surveys ma le of seme hi. 1 then , I was a good 'old-fashioned Methodist ! in litigation. Ho was accompanied by ; jGod had blessed her with a good un-j another lawyer of note.. They made 'derstandin, a powerful phvsieal con a ! the humble cabin of brother B. their stitution, capacious and indefatigable longs, and had baptized her with the Holy Ghost and with fire. And being free'in Christ Jesus, and naturally of an ardent temperament, you can iraag- ine how she would pray 'when she felt that rh Pf.r,il .lot-inr r,f c.-.-i'a w; fit ! stake. ! Pr; raise God! I can almost hear her;oming sleepy, and his wife, by ! now, luting i a VOlCe like a trumpet. !We alwavs prize a mother's pravers, ; ! . w 1 ... ' . an.-l so 1 trust my partiality tor hers ; will be excused, "i would rather hear: one of her loud and earnest prayers than that of any music to which it'has , ever been my lot to listen. I may nev-, er hear that'voice again, but its tones of pleading importunity will never be forgotten. ' But I had not intended writing so ! much of a personal character. I will proceed. It will be easily seen that my i trary to nis settiea principles oi pro mind has not changed upon the subject cedure. At last, with considerable of loud and earnest praying since the j trepidation, he stated to Mr. Clay:ind '' conversation referred to above. I think j his friend what was his custom, and; I have established the fact that God ap-1 said that they could stay and unite proves of the most intense earnestness ; with his family in their devotions, or in prayer. Now permit me to suggest, ! retire, at their option. Mr. Ch y that the most natural expression of j promptly, and with some feeling, re-; earnestness in many is, in general, a; plied that "they would remain by all loud voice. That man that cries out; means; that the earliest recollections for help when in iminent personal dan- j of life were associated with such exer- ; ger, doe.3 not whisper he cries aloud, j cises ; that his father was a Baptist even though the friend from whom he j minister, and his mother was fctill a ; expect3 assistance may be at hand. j member of that communion, and that: Why ? Because he s in earnest. ! they had taught him to reverence the j We hear two men begin to raise their j institutions of religion, and none more j voices in conversation. We say they ! so than that of family worship." j are getting in earnest. There may be j Brother B. then proceeded with his j some exception.3, but as a rule, when wonted exercises, but with muh fear ! earnestness is the soul of speech, a loud i and trembling. He ays that he never j voice is the body. This is according ; felt so much embarrassed in hi3 life. j to the constitution God ha3 given U3. I ! When the season of prayer was passed, j therefore believe it is right. It holds j Mr. Clay approached him and said : j good in every thing else, and why not j " Mr. B;, never again feel the Sea3t j religion ? ! hesitation in the discharge of your duty ; But I wish to be well understood i to God on account of the presence of ' here. I grant that there are noisy pray- j men. I saw your embarrassment, and I ers which are not of God ; and so there j remained on purpose that you might i are whispered prayers which are not of never feel it again. Remember, my j God. I grant that there may be noisy ; dear sir, that every man of sense will j professors of religion, who are incon- respect the individual who i3 not asham- j sistent in their lives who are even j ed to acknowledge his dependence up- hypocrites; and so there are quiet and j on his maker ; and he deserves only ; silent professors who are hypocrits. contempt who can cheerish any other j But that proves nothing either way. I j feeling than reverence for 'the con?ecra- j do not s.iy that God approves nobse for ted hour of man in audience with Deity.' j its own sake. There is no merit, no And what are myself and friends here, j efficacy in the mere act of crying aloud, but frail and feeble mortal?, like you j Either that, or whispering in our pray- and your children, indebted for all that ers without the spirit, i3 a3 worthless we are to the great Fountain of Good, 1 as the 'sounding bras3 or tinkling cym-1 and dependent on Him for every bles- j bah' Sound and fury, signifying noth-1 singof life ! We and you are destined J ing, is no part part of the true worship j to the same grave, and to the eamo final , of God : but crying aloud in the Holy 1 retribution. The king upon his throne ! Ghost crying in travail for soub, giv-! . 1 i " 1 A ing utterance 10 an mspireu earnestness j m c; u. no vu.u..-v..vu. ....... for the salvation of men, is approved of j of this, Mr. B., and you will never God, and i3 sometimes our duty. j hesitate again to engage in pray- I do not say that God doe3 not ap- ! er to God on account of the presence prove and answer whispered or even! of men. For myself, I would rather unuttered prayers. There is often an ! know that the prayer of a pious man, earnestness of desire and a firmness of jno matter how humble hi 3 position in faith which claim and appropriate the life, were ascending in my behalf, than promises of God which never embody to have the wildest applause of listen- themselves m articulate speech. Ihi3, of course, all admit. There are various operations by the same Spirit ; but I believe that the Spirit sometimes leads men to cry aloud, and that we may grieve the Spirit by smothering our voices. Then I say let them out .' The Spirit as well a3 the Word of God must have free course if we would see it run and be glorified. A Dead Weight A beloved brother wa3 lately enu merating in our hearing the source of discouragement in his field of labor. Prominent among these was a brother in the Church, who, failing in a great degree to do the work fairly demanded of one in his circumstances, seemed to hang as a dead weight upon their pro gress. " Often," said he, " in my houre of despondency I am ready to wish he was away from us. But he must live somewhere, and perhaps we can as well afford to keep him a3 anybody ; only I have thought we needed a state alm3 house (spiritual) where such could be kpt. It would be cheaper than to have them quartered, a? now, among the different families of Christ, where there are no suitable accommodations for them, and where they are always in the way." How to make a short winter. Get a nine ty days' note disooooteJ ia a Lank. Spring and pay day will eocae roan 3 quite as soa as you are ready far them. Are-eic-t cf 21 r. Cay. Tut f,Ibw-r. h :Uu 1 I t a 1 " -v T Ken- '--J ;ve f- vory :: :- r, t o ; ;e G; r-. he cTn- : C COTf. Hv formed M"? T rnal of -s" onr 4inn-ff lansi ie. He had jus: c:-rr.T.r,?' 1 p:: ar frr a few years been mrmi : leering hvUif. He wis in !.-a tie circumstance?, an 1 cf a .x:te 1 ring t3 a edu: it:on -m!et anl It ws wil n great :y hit ne ca.jsummon reo;ution to a J-:res ua u.e urn nign; mey tayi ' & hin, our brother was redured to ' great extremity. He was in the la! it of hoJ ling family worship morning and evening ; but he tremble 1 at the thought 'of -4 so in the pre -r nee of gu-.-sts so distinguished as Mr. Oav and his friend. His little chi! h en were !e- "-" gviuica, ?ygvs4f- iw.iv mi- um; tor prayer had come. Lrotner 1. h:n- t . 1 . . 1. ...... I. i. .1 . ieu io in guests mat, pernap i:.'y would choose to go to bed." B it Mr. Clay, with great politeness, said that "he did not feel at all sleepy, and thai, unless it were intrusive, he wuuld be bppy to enjoy his society longer." Of course brother B. could not oj--ct. Still, the matter of prayer coui 1 not be postponed without .sen ling the ehil- uren to bed m advance which w m m and the beggar in his rags are the same ! , j, , ... rp . . , ! f . m .hA AffCO ? ' . d Tl ' " I T. n t I K 1 ' L' , mg senators. Mr. Clay and hi3 friend then retired for the nigh. Mr. B. say3 it was the best lesson of his life. He afterwards heard the great statesman in all the grandeur of his eloquence ; but he in- j gists that in no effort he ever heard, ' was he so impressive as on the occasion named. Exprez From the New York Observer. Salvation Tree. Jesus Christ i3 God'g unspeakable gift. What God gives, I am fully war ranted to take. Nay, more, when God gives, it is an infinite insult to Him to refuse His gift. My warrant for taking Jesu3 and His free salvation, is God's free gift of Him in the gospel to who- soever will have him.' I have no other I warrant. Nobody ha3 any other. All ! 1 1 .1 1 1 T? .L - ' wno near me gospei, ua.e equany iu same divine warrant for taking Jesu3, and trusting in Him for salvation. A man made sensible of his sin and ruin, by the convincing Spirit of God, will prize the Saviour more than one not so thoroughly awakened to a sense of his sinfulness. But h'i3 sense of sin and ruin, and desire after salvation, altho' they make Christ more welcome, do not make him one whit more free. The offer of Christ and hi3 salvation in the gospel, 13 absolutely unconditionally free. Nothing can make it more. No sense of need, no deep convictions of sin, nor any other state of mind in the sinner, can make Cnrist more free to that sinner, than the offer of the Gc3- p! rr.alfs l r:, r p?efc'rrs i:tTt, 5p5r, Chr': than thr ftt rr vc.m r. I CV.CT Cl t?i" c:e Y-r. Y :h : c- r. ;h Chris: th.n. Faith .n the :r.r.tvr'. rf-ctlv.r ar.d r::ng cr--n Chrit f r -n, in t'.its ef ti e riht which th fres offer f G i-l in tl.e g :?p-:l i bin do . Fa-:!. Uk(3 Chri ar, 1 crj v II n live cp-s:j Ilim. ar. 1 rr.ikci ue f Him for a!l the pirroo f r wl ic Gvlgivf-s II;:;:. It receives 1 1 i rr . . s Prophet, Ii j,.: and King. C'.ritlc Come s c;:r i l:m, righe'-u4:,e, s.ir.c t.ficatijn and redes ption nr ail. All c;r f alv.it" : :i, all o ir dcirc. T.1. belieTcr live uron Him and rrjvco in Him. II? i ir.l:pcr.sh!e to the le liovcr'i iftj, ho'ine. h ipp:nf s'.tk"' fulnts. lie i their hop., help, f r ti ;n, their rcent, nl to le their eternal jy anl glory. Under, is He ytur? ? A. M. "The Right Must Win." " T;.e fvl!iwir tju;'f.l hr.o we f ! in a ll man ('a':. Y.c w f k c-.r.ts.t.ir i.', ; lijni:., i f the K fi wi nri-ii.ary !i ! In er. (:-, ;i !" !. .7 i : . w rk f r ; . !. T r:-'' 1 ! ike Iii irt l t!,U .-:!c-fiM . ! erU. .u I n - inMitM J t. H. l.i i'' Ii!ir..''.f . wi n lri ii!y. A t!...!s'i 1 1 '. er" n i li 1, II Ii-t ..!. ti!I'tl.e i.vr 'f i;' a : e is; ": r i !. Cr .!f.'ru .is at t',' I. i.r 'i'i.o ii-.i i ' At: J Ml, t ) ! ir l t-l 1"! t I r .l.ht n!.''n -'' 1 1 l.-i ni"-!. I!', 1 1 . ri ! , r-s z-. -1 Jt""'l fcvcin t ' r! .V T' i!!. w.'.ii rrfii'f; p-i-o An i, w.rt I R-.'i-i !'.' .'""-1 Ii rt er f I'lirp-iM-v It N n t . l-':t u it I k. i : Aii'J wo 1 'f c iuri. t'lfii ; Ai'.l il.rjl." -.till 0'!n if i'$ .1 I.ath lj t ll:n pr.,i:i'- 1 t'i inp'i. Ah I 'ill M lit'i'T I '.i HI W,' tl.il.k 1 1 is w u - '.re f.ir rK 'if, I'.ir r.L vo 1! mh n' hfijit, nrtd r'a .Kcl U:ily l,y ;!iii i-lik5 I ,". 'I'll'- look, t!.! fi-lii')ta ''f In I'm wxy Ijivu'h lifc-lii) KtU'ly arc ; -!in iifh'iM, nn-I true, an 1 net. When r :vs(,n wou! I n ,t Jure. Sh has a pri'l'-nc? ' f her o-.vu ; llur :e;i in firm an '1 freo ; Yc thfrro i r-uiti iiM mi"im,o, V u. In her simplicity. AV'i.rkrnan ' f i ! ! ' h, ! .n'r r.i.t hftrt, I!ijt learn what ' I i" Ilk.' ; An I in l.trkt U-.tth; fi.-hl, 'J'h' u tln'.i kri'ivr wUrc t'i f.!rikc. Oh. !I' e l is li" to w horn i ivu The iti'inct that ran t'-'l That (Jo'i n tlic fe! J, when he Ii most i n I '-i L I ? ! An'l.h!o'!'"l in he who mn diaii.n Wh;re roil riijht ih.iti Ii'. An l i irf-t t i take th i.';le whii h Htul Wr'n to man's L!iiilf'il'l cvr. Oh, loam it -jrn t!.e trai-' of ni'.-n ! Oli. learn t 1 ive vritd i A ! For Jetiuvron the w?rM thr'iuh nh-ime, AuJ h';ck'.i4't theo hi road. (j t I'n v',TJ a rirt won lriui tLinj?, Mot strange in all it waj, Ar.l of ail thinH or. earth, k-ait like V.'hat rur-n a;rree to f.raiic. Mus! on hi justice, s'ul ! Mue aiid take L.'ttrr hrt; Back with thine angl t'i the E;M ; ( 'A luok hhall crown t':j j,art. Go i' justice U a 14, whrj we Oiir anxious hearU my lar, Ani weary with ournelre, m&j n'eep Our lic jntrit awaj. For right is rijrht, tinc God i God ; And riht the day mut wir; To d -iiU wul l he 'lis! .ja!tj. T' falter would be in '. Punch and Kansas Mr. Sam Slick having enlightene 1 Mr. Punch, of Lond on, in regard to the Kansis question the conversation ended as follows : Mr. P. Sir, I thank you for your explanation, and I hope no &eriou3 trou ble will arise in the United States, for which I always entertain the warmc :-.t regard. Mr. S. Don't worry yourself into a sort of perspiration aloatthat, stran ger. In a corrupt and detiliuted old country like yourn, a political difT.cu! ty might bring rain and dismay, but where a western Eun gilds the proud pinnacle3 of American liberty, such thing? are but the wandering breez-.s that cool the wing3 of our gloriou3 ea gle, and help hira to fly still higher to wards the transcendental firmament. Societyiim. It x3 not always an evidence of a bounding grace, but rather the reverse, that many societies are po posed. For malism i3 fruitful of echereea and agen cies. It expects much of them. Any thing but individual personal effort. Perhapa, says one. there is no other thing which human nature so gladly resigns to the hand3 of hired servant, as religious duty. There 13 norther service for which the world or the worldly man can afford, in view of pe cuniary profit, to pay o liberally, ia cash, as that of 44 working oat salva tion," whether for self or other3. N. O. Ch. Advocate.