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(ffl AT E. . N -of t iK )x it' i , at v, 1. M L i AL PUBLISHED WZZXLY BY A C02I2HTTZ2 OP MISISTZES F02 THZ ILzSHOLIST ZPI3 COPAL CHU2CS, SOUTH.-SUrUs X. HX1L--3. "Vol. XIT...To. SI o a vear, in advance. 2. 4 lH FT U 11 1 n nn 1 v3 h A A D V 2 cOnqina!. For t( X. C. r:j,rjMin ,VJv ear. Things ard Though! fond here end th-re. INFANT Baiti-m. Tn the fifth cen tury of the Christian Lra, os we l-arn from N-aTj'l-r, f-ur thou-and nir.e hun dr'l ai.-l Sf;v r.ty-;x of t'u roi-rnhf-rs of ihe church in CxrthTe, iiif:!ij'hri' the fl'fv an-1 laitj, v -re Lanifhul hy the Van'iah irsto an African 'jf-rt. On the way to the place- of their ban ishment, they w-re met W rnuhitu'ie of tlieir brethren in the faith who thus. aiMreMel thetn : " Wlorn do you leave behind with unfortunate onf-, now '' .. you go to v.ir, the martyrs erown '' i o will baptize tlitut: our children -n carried jri th-ir nrtr.n) ? '..-itr to us the holy Jiun-f-er Wiio will ac-omr sny im with j.rayc-r and fcirigiri to our la-it phice of reht. I'nAYIXG Alway.s. FuTgenti;-:?, an African hihop of tiie fifth cenfnry, f-ays : i 1'jay freOjiif-ntly in words, but fiicjjfi with holy thoughts arid a holy l;ff. Tinn !r.ayc-t. thiu fulfil wl-iitthe ;ip;tle -njoiii:-, (1 Tin v. 17.) that we sho'iM pray within ci-.i-jr,,' for b' fore io 1 every good work is a pray ;r in which the a!l-suflicier.t God de ihtd." Xcindrr. Co VS CI EN'CK. " Tfi; -'.t.cj'-n' O, that holt n:on:irc!i v in man, O'.vin all' i inci; tn n :arthly prjiice , Ma'le ly th? elict f (JraM"n free: Ma'Ji; acrel, ina'Ii; a'vp a!l lniriiati law-s ; 111-Iiri of II- aren iilwrm ; of niut divit-e uA- fnafililo authority; An iniiivi'lual Kicrnirify that none Crt'alf'l luiVit, uiipuiii-licJ, ,'w r touch." l'uLI.O'.K. The Atonement. " O love i.iiio! O mercy infinite! O love, nl! li' i-fit n hove, nil (Jeptfi j'low, llrpaf-inf; far all knowledge, all de-ire, All tlHXiphr, the Holy One for singers dies! The Lid of life fr cuilty re held hiecd.i ! (Quench' t eteriial fire with bloo'i divine ! ; Ahundaiit mercy ! overllowir.g grace !" i'oLI.OCK. An Aoed We.-leyan Minister. ' The Rev. John Iliekling, of Audley, England, now in his ninety third year, preached two sermons in King's Hill, Wesley Chapel, on Sunday the 14th of June. JtoT'J.tiv ..tlvovt."r.s " The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteous- j ness." Humility. Mor.sier de Kcnty, a French nobleman, in the 17th century, ' was on one occasion assisting with his own hands in repairing one of his houses, when he thus expressed him- self : " I see we are not, by a spirit of: pride, under pretence of the glory of God to dispense with ourselves from laboring in things mean and painful, i It was a work very gross ami mean for Jecus Christ to converse with men Tho j had more rudeness than these stone3 I ! deal wkh. O that I may obtain a part i in his obedience and submission to the i order of God bis Father." Wexley's i Life of de Kent). j The Converted African Chief.--; Sechele asked Dr. Livingston to al- low him to ask questions on any new j subject brought before him. After i hearing a diocourse on the resurrection '. of the body and a future judgment, he j said : ' You startle me ; these words j make all my bones to shake ; I have j no more strength in me ; but my fore- j fathers were living at the same time I yours were, and hew is that they did! not send them word about these terri- j ble things sooner? They all passed j away into darkness without knowing! whither they were going." Living- st oil's Travels in South Africa. It may he that the question of the Afiicm chief will lie aked on the day i of final reckoning. Header, if you j believe the Bihle, and the terrible' things it contains, if you know the! terrors of the Lord, why do not Y'OU j send, or help to send, the knowledge i of them to the perishing heathen ? i Ants in Hot Weather. I put the i bulb of a thermometer three inches under the soil, in the sun at midday, j and found the mercury to stand at loO to 1-34 ; and if certain kinds of bee tles were placed on the surface, they ran abcut a few seconds and expired. But this broiling heat only augmented the activity of the long-leed black ants ; they never tire ; their organs of motion seem endowed with the same power as is ascribed by physiologists to the muscles of the human heart, by which that part of the frame never be comes fatigued, and which may be im parted to all our bodily organs in that higher sphere to which we fondly hope to rise. Livingston's A frica. The Difference. The editor of a certain paper, when about to vacate his editorial chair, said : " I feel as if I were going out of purgatory; but my successor thinks he is going into para dise."' A Singular Horse. I have some times driven a horse who would aiways quicken his pace when he got to the loot of a hill, as though he wished to get over the difhcult place as quick as possible. And then I have thought that the Christian might learn a lesson from the brute. When he arrives at a difficult place in his religious progress, by increasing the vigor of his exertions in watchfulness, prayer, faith and w or its of r'oty, he n.ay with a iheerful heart overcome obclac!-. rnd 20 co-. r r 'l j BETA. Tj hi Way rejoicing. For a c. chr;,t;,n Aoct. The Ger.eral Conference in its ripe w i dora ha i-ctn fit to take away a part of our territory, and place it under the pristor-il care of another Conference, thereby niakhig smaller our already too bruited bound-?. We are shut in on all ftideB so that we cannot enlarge our border?, or increase our limits. But the Gf-neral Conference thought it best thus to 'ircum-'.-ribc u. Since we are thu surrounded, IV hat it h?nt for t'j d'j We cannot go into the territory in our .State held by either Georgia, S'"Jh Caro'h.u, Ilo'ston or Virginia Conference, hence we are left to that portion of North Carolina not embraced in either of the before mentioned Conference-?. If there is territory anoccu pied in our own limit-;, we may occupy that provided we raise the funds in oir own C'Tiference to do eo. We fchou'd feel thankful for these little op portunities of doing good. I incline to the opinion that we are not behind the chiefest of our hisfer Conferences in im proving our circuits. and Ftaiior s ; and I truit that in the next four years our little Conferer.ce will, in all her bor ders, "rejoice and blossom as the rose.' There are some wild, .spiritual wastes, over which the demon of spiritual dark ness spreads his light obscuring wings. There are places where he who '"is as a roaring lion going about seeking whom he may devour," holds almost unlimited sway. There are places where super stition with all its enervating power reigns almost without a rival. Shall not these spiritual wastes be made to rejoice; shall not the great enemy of God and man be driven from his strong holds ; shall not the withering, blast ing, ruining power of superstition be removed, by the Gospel of the Son of God ? To accomplish this great work in our Conference, we must cultivate with diligence our present fields of la bor, and as our means, in men and money increase, we must either enlarge them which thing I am opposed to or establish other pastoral charges, un der the name of Missions, I know of no better name to give them. This is what we should do ; and it may be what God intends us to do by our contracted limits. This is not that spirit stirring work known as foreign Missions. But it is a work, to us, of great importance We must take care of this home inter est. We must relieve them that are at our doors arid perishing for the bread of life. If we break not their chains of superstition ; if we throw not the beam3 of heaven-born light upon their hearts; if we give them not the bread of life, and they die in their iniquities, their blood will cry against us in eter nity, There were many other poor in the days of Lazarus and the rich man, but Lazarus' blood cried against the rich man because he lay at his gate, and he might have relieved him, but left him to the dogs. He was either too loathsome, or too poor, or in that country his friends might have cared for him ; and, therefore, when the rich man did charity, he must find a wor thier object, lie, perhaps, did sympa thize with the far away poor, but home suffering was a small matter. Iieliev ing the distressed at home would not pay. It would not either increase his treasure or bring eclat to his name as a great benefactor of the human fami ly. May we not learn a lesson from this case, and .hun the rock upon which the rich man fell ? It seems to me that our mission is to Home Missions. To take care of the sons of Ham who are upon our coasts, as well as their owners to give the Gospel to the des titute portions of our own " Sunny South." Our system of operation and doctrine is the only one I knrw of, calculated to make the poor feel that they are cared for, and to make the negro feel that he has a soul; is above the brute creation. Our Ministers go every where. They visit the palaces of the rich and the homes of the poor ; they will kneel and pray upon the richly carpeted floor of the wealthy, and with equal zeal will kneel beside the bed of the poor black man, upon a floor of earth or punch eons. In one word they are baptized with the spirit of Chrht, and their one object is the accomplishment of good. These are the men for the times. May God give us zeal and wisdom for his cause. AMIXIS. Montevideo, N. C. For the X. C. Christian Advocate. Hall's Journal of Health," "Tu do good a nd comm 11 n icatefur;' t not." The great objects of life with e?ery one should be to do all the good in their pow er, in their day, and to their generation It is said that the way to be happy our selves, is to do all in our power to happify others. With this view, I wish to call the attention of my brethren to the Journal whose name I have placed at the head of this article. It is a Medical Journal, dif fering widely from any of its class which has come under my observation I have taken a good many religious papers in my day, an-1 among the periodicals which I have taken, I merely mention the Xaticn- al Msgai.&e, Ladi Iip--'torj. Metboiit ...... T ; i : i t . . - II - a tii c stains mors rel - tu ? j far j cf ihem j":t t-'2 thr. 1 iif or-ujioa ci i:'.3,tor jtb ""d t' the rT la ht atr.re'j Jr ta the InCiv.z fctt- 1 th'; March number of Li JoarLib A to rt.orai, h-ive a c.ovirrtion as firm earth's deepest j-ir-Autwm, that the ' t ltiyle. gs interpret d by LvaDze-hci Caris so'c r J; tf faith sn i I prietief ." : The feircjje-Rt arguments ag-sin:-! novl r'.vding tht f have ever ret with, are to te f ufj'j in tht jouiDu!; and it frequently c-ntaiia. artrutj.entt " i iVy i-ir-'r.-.z in f'jv r tf tne rtbgi jus oUc-r-.:-:e of the .tba-u The Kli'or tike the groan -, that what ever conducs to man s hprrje. ' :". conduce- tn Li heukh ; av! h-oee he pe in for practical religion wi'h a!! hi- tr-igbt ' In fact, th - Bibb; i, hi, b-.ok ' f Avgie'ne. Here bcr : in edi'ori&l iiom the Ju:ie mai- I-KAMNO OX VVA' M,.r,ZY.. Priceless above all of Op-birs Gold, am i.-c j -.ng -lamed mines oi o n-ji, c-ctiorjate and trustiosr abinor.i!itnt : of on:'B .( If, to the di.-p virion and le:,d - i " T of Il:m wh'-se loviiig kindnrs-i- over all hU witl;. Happier far tbno any King, is the hunjh!ct ni' eh:j!ii!-. 4 who-e mind h ; st-ijed, wL. se heart i txed, tiu-ting in the Maker of us fell ; who, through irk-ne-s and .-orm, io f-ickn'-.t", atsd in fcer.-ave- inent, in purn ot body ana me: f A grief, can lovingly look upward and say : 'Thou ;h : Perfection,' which they professed to un-L-i th.y toe, y t will I tiu-t in him.' Such d T3tarid, :n.d rtmed to teach, if a lu iti never commits suicide, never be- thev s-honbV after 11 ,;B t-.r-.frto . comes Lunatic, never 2!!s a drunkard i. .fe( -o,,lc - ,n(litterentnspe(ting it, what can be 4 Beaniri on Providence, is thctrue liaiin ' y i.,f.it ', ir .1 , , , ,, , ' , . ... thought ot tl em ere they sincere m : ot tjt if ad, would too' he more hearts, would , , : ' , . P J . , ,1 ' ; making their profession a rrofessun . quiet more restlessness, would avert more : c , . 3" , , -1 . , -of eatin-r anxietv. and drive nut. n.nre re !ot understanding and believing it.' of - rrIXTrt I (-it-: ctr, rln c- i , i ! , , t -T n n r f '. ,' morses groundless or for cause than j groaning alter it: ot expecting it in this I aoy remedy known to men." We? 'dJ rccre, in their Discipline i Vet this does not profess to be a religi- they say that they belive God's design ous Journal, and consequently its teach- j in raising up the people cafled Metho , ings on morals unj ia many insttnecs, be , dists was to 'spread scriptural holiness i brought to bear with greater force ihan if i over these lands ?' Do they now demur? 1 such were its professed character. But j hesitate ? What does all this mean ? It j aside from religion and morals, this Jour- most assuredbr has a very significant ' rial is of peculiar value to all ministers of . t .:. i , . pet the gospel. Hie Editor has made diseases i of the throat and lungs a sort of speciality, jand hence, there will be found in the pages ! nu"l1 gage nearu y in mis grariu I of his Journal, mtifh that, relates to tbe!work- Ihey above all others should t u-e of these orgaDa. The voung prca chcr : have tl3e'r own hearts fil ed with 'per ! will here learn that hard "preaching, and ; ft'Ct love.' They above all others, I exposure soon thereaf.er, often lays the j should know how to deal with idctuir ! foundation for the affections cf the throat ing souls, who, groaning under a con- and lungs which fro frequently end in dis- j scious sense of indwelling sirs, are seek- ability or death. In an article relative to j ing a ' deliverance from this gal line eu.uso- wiuc.i mimsie.s snuuia au- pi 1 for the preservat-on of the voice, the Edi- tor says : 'The next important point is to j eool f ir very gradually before leaving the ! assembly, when the discourse is ended j very gradually indeed and then, even in j summer-time, bundle up well before !eav ! inr the bouse, and walk away quieklv- ; Many an excellent minister has sacrificed i life by the neglect of these two precau- j i tions.' j ! Dyspeptics generally,will find this Jour- i inala much better and safer consehor than j ! many of those who profess the Uoal' ng j Art ; and t hey will save a great deal by ! taking it, tor it will warn them against 1 p -n 4 . n- u ; guggling down the Patent nostrums which I profess to cure all the 'ills to which flesh is heir. I might extend this notice much faither, j but I have already written more than I j darts at the holy believers, who are I intended The Journal is published walking in the 'King's highway of ho ' monthly at SI 00 a year in advance. Ad- liness,' or may strive to lure them from : dress, IfoU' Journal Health, Xcrc ', their godly simplicity, but they are not ; VorJc, Very Respectfully. ! permitted to enter the 'straight gate' L. W. MARTIN. Blocker's, X. C, Aug. 3, 1S5S. fdrrfiniis. From the Christian Advocate and Journal The Recent Eevival. I Ministers must take the Lead Hence must have an Experimental Knowl j edge of Divine Tilings Methodist ; Ministers icithiut Excuse They ' should experience and walk in the way cf Holiness Revivals always i i accompany the work of Sanetifica-! ' tion Truth of this proved Ex- ; tract from Edwards All Chris- ! tians thirst after it Responsibility1 '; of Ministers Laymen must co ope- i rate with Ministers. I It is a truth all along inculcated in 1 Uhe Holy Scriptures, illustrated and ; i,fi,-,,l irv tb wlmlo K;ctnrvr nf b o i Chureh, that the ministers of the Gos-glon have been accompanied with this pel are to take the lead in every good : important doctrine, either expressly or word and work. Many have been called i impliedly, sot only among us, but also and appointed for this very end. Hence ! amo?S other denominations. I think they are called to go before the people,!3? impartial examination of Church and are therefore called the leaders of h,st7 w, confir the truth of this the flock, shepherds, feeders of the peo- mark. In proof of this I will cite ! pie. How shall they go before the peo- j pie, and lead them in the right path, at Sunless they themselves are walking in ! Jat Srea,t lfv.'va w,hich occurred i.u v tv, ;. .ui2Sew England in the last century. He Scribes and Pharisees, and indeed ! s:iJ : . . against the false prophets in every age, I.feh a horning desire to be m eve has been, that thev were blind leaders i th.ir;S a complete Christian, and that of the blind,' that they prophesied i m!Sht hve m a" thmgs according to ! smooth things unto the people, thereby j",e Pu,re' ? aim euruie 01 uie I deceiving them with false hopes of safe- j Gospel, I had an eager thirsting after ty, and leading them blindfolded into ! progress m these things, which put me the broad way of destruction. These"! uPon Ping and pressing after them. I have always been a curse to the Church j was m7 continued strife day and and to the world. On them rests the rnnndhilitvf Hnrrino- over the truth, and thus hidins its peculiar gloriesfrom human view. Such have substituted human learn ing for divine wisdom, a theoretical knowledge of revealed truth for it3 ex- tiijrimpnral veritvnnOn their nwn hearts ! land consciences. Hence thev dwell jupon the surface of things, and never enter xpentr;er.ia.v 'iijy depths .. ' - - ' i Ta.k to rheta on tin s inject, and. if tot dutch, tber will .'er int dis- tu;e on its realnv. ar.d rif a thoi- Sin' fr"iV''h'OS ohjectieri. which it jTa;Le tiresome to answer. these htse are r.-t qualified I'J.ead souls ?n o the experimental k? 'edge of the truth as it in Jesos. 7ey taast fist drink of the refre hingp aters of Y's themselves before they -i believing!? invite others to comejjj- Sowitg fountain and drink of 4jr--ving and Kanctifvin" streams. Es1j.b - There can be no ; ant riinis-ters On tt; . - " -j ny i : - f - i in tne octrme tetore r.rof": to I they are received into the ministry, for Mr" We-lev's 'Plain Account of Chris tian Perfection is put into their hand? as one of the b"oks which they are to ttu ly, and on which thev are examin ed: and before they are rccered into '. full connection they ar required to an- - Swtr the toiiowmg ue?tiOB3 in the af- firrcative : 'Do you expect to be made perfect in this life ' Are voa groaning ijfter it''' And after having answered these questions in the affirmative, and thus taken ibis solemn vow upon them selves whr-lly to the Lord after hav ing studied and been examined on Mr. Wesley's 'Plain Account cf Christian . J -"- t"" -K norance o ti e d( ctr ne, oppose it, or he ijic.ioiii. it ui luiiiiy uugiii. iu t'Aisu JItthodist pireaehers, above all others, should engage heartily in this grand yoke. They most certainly should be abe to before the ,e an(1 Fnllnw " fnfiJ Ci-t CrJr. and drink where we have drank. Let us 'go on to perfection,' for I have found that perfection of love to God and to man, which I said at my ordination I expected to find in this life; therefore come with me and I will show you a more excellent way. It is called 'the way of holiness ;' it has been 'thrown up fQl. tne ransomed of the Lord to walk j . and no s; not even thg devil him. self tshall be there, nor any ravenous , .1.11 n .1 mi ceast shall walk therein. Iheseene- . , , . , mica ui uuu aim man never waiK ju tne way of holiness. They may sneak along by its side, and may throw their fiery permitteu to enter the 'straight gate j into the narroio wag of holine8S,ns this j is designed exclusively for the ransom ; ed of the Lord to walk in; and while in ; it they are perfectly safe, because God j is their pirotector, leader and guide.' Now if all Methodist preachers were j thus 'filled with the fullness of God,' and were diligently employed in prcss- ing its necessity upon all believers, would the work of revival stop ? For in the same proportion as believers are stimulated to 'run the race that is set before them,' layingaside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset them, will the work of God revive and prevail in all its branches. Read the history of our own church, and you will find the truth of this verified in every period of its existence. I do not say indeed that there have been no revivals in the absence of this doctrine formally !iiid on' or Terf. h h3 bef" vi?Ua!," enied; but I believe it will be found true, that all the great revivals of reli- ?"e stance irom cue journal ot j. res- j night, ana constant inquiry, now 1 i should be more holy, and live more ho- j 7Z an Hve more becoming a child of i God and a disciple of Christ. I now sought an increase of grace and holi ness and a Inly life, with much more earnestness than I ever sought grace before I had it. Here is a most explicit aTowalofhis belief in the attainment of a complete rd c-rn; V f an ih? thirtud after fT'jrt. jo thirt ':.tei after it aa to putt-u after it with the utt2Cl eTrntrint, evn ith w.orc earnestness tha& he did after gr3te be fore he had attained it. Now if E ! wards had fully embraced the doctrine, that it 35 his privilege to expri'-nce t this holiness in this life, to experience jit now, without a moment's del3V,wou'd not this thirsting have been satiiSed ? Ti - j i " j r. .v - ibis inward Iodcui' desire after thi.) blessing m'at have beer, begotten ith ;in him by the Holy Spirit, which always inepires a thirst in the heart of the be liever in exact conformity to the princi ! pies tit its own reviations ; and could " this '"bps rft" ' cr cat c-fvA :i f l-rr rwi icoold be realized? Would God the i Holy Ghost thus mock nis creatures ? ' set them in pursuit o a phantom of their own imagination? 1 say, there i fore, that ail experimental Christian. of every rume arid sect, hare evinced their belief in this doctrine of holiness of heart and life, and have expressed ' the'r earnest desire for its attainment, ; if we take Edwards a9 a fair, sample; Clautlan. and this ' we take Edwards as a fair, sample;!11 in auvance i mm. nd Bramard and Pay ton are equally J capitalist, who conu-n plates trong and emphatic upon this sul ject; ' t0 f;"'gn country, convert nd Chalmers is no less so. Had they ! PerIJ Ull uraf:?' and rcm.ia an i stroi anc not been fettered bv their erroneous r-reeds tbev wrM.bl" .Inubtle vf ,m(.r,l ir,tA tb.. f:,ll librtr T.f Or-h. sanctified children. Hence this doctrine must be pressed !bv the ministers of the Go.r.el upon the i churches with all plainness of speech, and urged upon God's rple with all that zeal and earnestness of manner which characterizes the holy embassa- dors of the Lord Jesus. 0 my brethren ! in the ministry ! what an awful respon-1 Rihilifv Ur. w.v nTll' Tf K(mta should perish through our neglect,whati ! an accout shall we have to give ! We ! have great need therefore to pray most (earnestly that God will .uakv our gooa apostolic noast, Our high commissi r let ti prove; T.O f.t)T.loi lS tViO II .If l".l.,.t And filled with faith, and hope, and ' love." 1 This done, and the work of revival ,.1 n r t., .1, . ,.v.. .i...: j to be performed, and other agencies are to be employed in the work. And it is a notable mark on the present revival, that laymen have ranked among its workmen, and have exhibited a zeal worthy of all praise in exhortation and praver. This is as it should be. While ,. ,i . 1 ,!.:, ergies together in the cause of God,this 'work shr.il.go on and prosper. But this can be done only by a. reciprocal un- derstanding of duty.and a hearty union i of spirit, each working in his peculiar sphere, discharging his and her duties nii,r... with ndelitx'. ana not one usurping the place of the other. For if the minister lay aside his dignity, and level himself down to be dictated to bv the layman, or the latter leave his or 'her sphere to usurp the place and to discharge the c .i.. r....:, luimiious 01 me mmisiei , cuiii uaiui, anu III aim - every evil work will be the inevitable i result. Let both work in their place j harmoniously together, unitedly call ing i on God for wisdom and grace to guide, strengthen,and sanctify them and their j efforts, and they shall reap the reward j ; of their doings the revival shall con tinue and spread. N. Bangs. Prayer Tennyson, the English Laureate, says "more things are wrought by prayer than the word dreams of." La- mi rtme say3 prayer was never mven- . t . -L . .. it. .1 i tea; it was oorn out. o uie deepest. . Huntington says, " there is much in j prayer that passes our undersfanding. This is true; but the mystery i3 not j the darkness of confusion, but the ex- l ceedinw brightness of Divine order and ; love. Prayer comprehends all the in terests of the creation, and is the intel ligent flowing back of all things to the j Creator. By it man is made the priest I of the universe. J One great end of christian morality ;is to assist u3 in praying well. ! " Watch" for duv " watch" the con duct "watch" the tempers, and pray. Texas Ch. Advocate. Beautiful Inscription. A little girl, about five year3 old, I died some time since in Cortlandville, New York, of malignant scarlet fever. After the disease had taken complete possession of her,so that it was difficult to determine whether she recognized those who were about her, her mother asked her if she knew who was taking j care of her? The dying child looked j up with a smile, the expressiveness of which cannot be described, and said, i ' God takes care of me. ' i Thi3 expression wa3 transferred to I the slab that marks the resting-place !of her perishable body; and no words' j could more simply express tne sublime I idea of immortality. Methodism. Methodism is a Eystem of piety, its tbeoiogy is simple j ana won little it has is plainly sua-ervient to tne higher principles of experimental godli ness. As a development of religious histo ry, it does not move upon the plane of doctrinal theology, bat U confined to the nobler sphere of religion in the heart. a Terr Lirire Pr:t?r!. v y it! He had taken great debg'.t in a: cama'a' rg it. A be a iled I to ' e!-!, and firm to farm, be U ! : I i 1 : with pride epos hi extendtd d -:ra:n, .' conscious that be was the largr-t 3n l holder in bis town. His ca':b if rot ; wandering upon a thousand hill, ran ged over more thin that uo-nber cf acres of rich pasturage. Stoc k, r t, , bond, mrt crowded hi ife. fc ..fe . ' 1 , , . And it was all tbe iru t ot b'- on :n- dustiry, energy, and gl judgment. The rust of usury and the tinker of extcrtion had net scarred any cf Lb gold. It was well and fairly f.-jn;ed, i! d h-?Joed tt all the n.ere because it? as so. li grirveiv. ni to i-iubi large prop, rty, to u-part from the; world as poor as he came into it. and , to enter the other world utterly !e-ti-1 tute of the wealth be so much Lvcd in ; this." But he had to leave it, every I cent of it. I Jit: might have takfii it trith him. ! Rath r let n.e fcay, he might have sent : it forard in advance f h-m. A. the removing j s h;s pro-' from t n. e ! ! 1110 V HV, ? U " ' ! deifce, he miglit ha ve tn ;ide rcui' 1 1 ancos ; 1 to that undiscovered country. 0 that ; 1 t'v seaven ' .0 had on ' his arrival there, h( ' Mr"iant treasures bi l P in i fw ilin- Lvt rJ .,Uuv whl5h 6lven' (consecrating it with sincere; P.er,) assist in carrying the ghid ; 01 salvation to the e-is or t ie , earth-every contribute, in ard of the. many Christian entt rj.nses for the glo-; T ot Go , and the good of man : ey, ry , cup 01 coia water giver, to a ui-cip..e, iritl.e rialue of a, disciple; every tear) of PloU?, sympathy for the sufu ring ; of kindly chanty to the nee- ' w,u11 hlive tld t0 lhe of' his '' durable riches. He might have been rich towards God, and a joint heir with Jesus Christ to an inheritance in- con uptihle, undeCled, and that fadeth I not away. If it was sad for him to' I'avel tL;it PPl "inch sadder ! that he sent none of it betore bun . It is much L' tttr to go to, than to leave a large property. The man w ho, poor in this word's goods, but rich in faith, closes his eyes upon this life, goes tu take posccosion of a '-.go property. He owned not a foot of land on earth, but for him "sweet fields beyond the 1 11- n 1 1 .1 1 1 bwciiin noon sianu dresaeu 111 iivmg 'Srt - 'fn - " rt: ' , ' 'r , ' ' UUV,T 1 T ,J n . . tvwe,vt ,uaUTvr. of fr,ults IJK!; r'ts h,erff were P,a,T' aml f?nr- ut xu rc, h ! 8ha" clothed in white robes washed ; and made white in the blood ol the T , TT . , . . . Llamb "soaatea here w.il. .those . twho are fP'1 ar" rejected of men, j but lhe" h)S companions will be an in-1 numerable company of angels and the j J;s JU ,U,U,UI n tirst-bom. Who would not rather go j , , , e j lu u iare FFe.h " i A Bad Temper, A Ud t T h a cura, to thc r,.,MM. ar,d it, jflut.D(.e ilMt dcadK where : ever jt js fun,j. it js aiiit-d ro marfytdom t to be obliged ro live with one of a complai ning temper. To hear one eternal round I of complaint and murmuring tobaveev- ery pleasing thought tcared away by iheir j j evil spirit i.s a core trial. It is Ike the! ! sting of a scorpion a perpetual nettle, de- j ! i.: nr.. .. burden. Its influence is deadly, and the sweset atmef-pbere is coiitadiinared into a ' deadly miasma wherever this evil genius! prevails. It has been paid truly iha we - uhf to ;et ,be bad len.pc-r cf ethers. lDSuence us, it Wful'i ocas unr a-ona ie to prr-ad a plaster of .Spanish flies upon the skin and not expect it to draw, a to think r f a family not snff-rieg tecanst of the bad temper of any its inn ares. Une string. ,nt . of rune wili de-rrey the mnsic ef an instru ment other wr-e perteet so if an the mem- : hers f f a church, neighborhood and family, j do not cultivate a kind and s.ff-cti'iiar; j temper, there will be discord and every evil : work. 1 The Liquor Traffic B.ev. Dr. Francis Wayland say 3 of ' the liquor traffic: 'If any mar, choose to continue the traffic in alcohol, I have ; one word to say. My brother, when you order a cargo of intoxicating drink, ' think how much misery you are impor- j ting into the community. As you store i it up, think how many curses you are : heaping together against yourself. As j you roll it out of your warehoue,think . how many families each cask will ruin. ; Let your thoughts then revert to your own fireside, to your wife and your lit-, tie ones:look upward to him who ju Igcs ; righteously, and ask yourself, my bro- j ther, Is it right " I j "My Wife." 'When we married, my wife erected a family altar. I could not pray, but ; she could. I did not love to pray, but j she did ; for ten years she led in pray-, er, and, blessed be God, she ha3 pray- ', ed u? all into the kingdom of God rue, my two apprentices, and I expect all three of the children, said a rough man, now subdued into Christian meek- : ness and sobriety. I thank God for a wife that has had courage to pray, before an ungodly husband. j Th; Rrr. -T -ho J, f Birrs r-' - . EngUn 1. write in the 1 ol" 1 ' is, which wi.l raeet with r i ll i r-porir? in .-nencan hert. We w.i : t? b?r tbi Erglan 1 i en joying tr en tetter things than we cava fieen in t is fafore 1 hrth Saji Dr. Jarsc : 'O-.g5,. we rot to expect re we not aat'i'--r"se-.l to expect rre richer , -ne more won irrful tnant s e.f ih Spirit" rower than we festal: :: haveh: accuf.orod t wit?3 or re ceite? U thi Divine Agent confined, and ou,v : vt expectation to be con Sif routine, f-rr sbty, a I fueJ order sn ! metsorc ? Shoud ; nof lo-ik f r tmes f rfrehing. day of power, ir.tirr.at c-J of the corning mil lennial g'ry ? Are not the.., awaken ing the tery thing we haTe prayel for. lo.igel for. waited for? Are they not the -u' j'-rt of inspired prophecy T Are they not given tofurpott oar faith in Divine prediction, and anirntteour languid i ' pes of the coming glory of the mibei.Tii.il ag wh-n a nation hall be b -rn in .1 d y '. Arid are there no hotef'il s:gns ef svich nn awakening am r.gus? D we n-'.t ee a cloud, thoug!, no ligger than a man' hand, rising ou. of the oi, the auspicious por tent of a coming rain ? Whal mean this univ.-rs.il .tir about the working classes? This breaking down of the barriers of ecclesiastical formalities? T is stattit-g up ef lay evangf lit in the noitii, and of cb rical irregularities in the south ? This op.-ning of our ab bey t hurcheJi and cathedrals for tho preaching of the Word of God to tho masses ? This entrance of the gospel into places of trade and arnn.sement? This gradu il removal of the distinction between things sacred and secular? When the sacred are . sot becoming sec ular, but the secular y.icred. And es pecially this miniature representation of the American rc-virals in some part of our own country? Let u-s not bo daspon ding, but hopeful. The voice of this revival in America come to every country, and to every Christian, as the midnight cry of old, " P-ehold, tho bridegroom cometh 1" A new era is struggling in the birth. Christ is rnovin m reorganize the world." - Ihturrm ,,,. Iitdi jf m I. ti J,i: Clergymen in the E1VU"', UrJ u rrn-ifi:f 'I.', for p'lhrirt rnt. A eorr spoudent of -be ( bicr ,., and Tribuoe, writing lr: 11 A'lanta. Loum U.rlr. county, 111, describe! the siugu ar term, nation f the l'ourth cf July b-.il in rhat town : It appear tbat the macjager, Bve ral Java mucc, scut fp--cial invitations to thc mitii-o r of the various churches ia town, to n "udthc cUiieo, tbinking lo bavo a good boj-.!, to thcdi-ei vcfi over it; but to thc varrrNc of those present, aftT the ball had got under full headway, fuur of the aforesaid lo.nisters mad-: their appearance in the hall, au-1 oon wer raingiin with thc b)-tan lers. The 'oct' being through, the anuoUNcnient was made that the ruin-i-ters having been solicited toa'tnd, do sired tint a portion of the time should bo set apm fjr them, which was acceded to. Trjeu co mu -uced the rrd'yiout ' j.rr;ie of tU: bad '. One preichcd, another prayed, and ano li- r .-.truck up a g A old rtVijiiunn hymn, when the danceri-, neeiofj wliatt'ira tiiattt rs w-re lii ly Uj uke, ordered the rnusiciat.s t proceed, and bf-gen the dneo acraia, leaving the iuiniters to their t wo sininc, and to ruake their eiit the beat way thty c-ou'd. The Comforter. The word Paraclete, from the ..reek word 11 -ed by fit. Jot n t j designate the third pcr-v'i of the Trinity, souadi .strange- Jf ir. IV 4.nr tV.iir.il in fii,if,fiirtf WCe and used oc.a-ionally by poeti, a ia tbo lines of 'barhs Ws!ty, 0 s'jur'.e of uncreated beat, The Fiitber'i! pr' m'-eJ Paraclete. It has never taken root in the laognage It soundi st.fJ, tedautic, uu-Eegli'b. the C i.tr-.ry, at ia well aid by a writer io the Dublin. bnti'r$ity Maijaziw, : How gracious and te'-der, how ditine, yet bow E "iJiib, ia that word C','&forter as lhe eq-.iva entof pjodete ia the latter pan of .-t. John's jope!. Vet rot of u, perhaps, arc not aware who it was to whom ocr language ow-d tbat glorious trauilati m Five hundred ye-m has tbia word bee '1 poking from iip to lip, where ver Euj-ii-h i npoken. It has been as cending in hymns and prayera, alike in the mu'ic of cathedrals aol in the simplicity of family wr-hip, by the giant hVd of the Mi's;-itpi, in the p'ains of Australia, and ber;'-..?L the palms of India. Who first employed the word that has sunk into ha many t. tilts, and ri-en from so many lips? A p r priest, with bare feet an 1 rasset mi;;ie ; b'it that prie-et w John Wickilf.' Going to Law. An npp-er and a lower mill Feil out about the water To wr they went, tht U to law, Iles-'!vei to gie n- quarter. A biwer was by tact, engagJ, Ani h -tly they contended; When f:e grew la.k, tbe war they wr They judged were better ended. The hii.vy cost reariiong still Were settled without bother, One lawyer tjk the upper mill, The 1 jwer mill tbe ether I 1 f I
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Greensboro, N.C.)
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