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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, SEP. 23, 18G0.
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TWO MW.l.AKS A YK.VK, IX ADVANCE.
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Tiie t'irt. 1 shall Telate is l hat ofan
I'iJiaj;. This extraordinary conversion
for such lhivevcrrcgarded it took place
I think, in the autumn of 184-J or 144.
It was at a camp-meeting held in a jdeas-.-.p.t
srrove in one of the rieli prairies in
what': new Kansas Territory. Our meet
in : Lad proirrc.-sed with increasing in
terest for three or lour days. 31 any souls
had ln made happy in the love ot l.oa.
as from time to time we gathered around
the altar in prayer.
Jut tcere
wa a I
rr-. r,v!;,,.r c.-iini, of Indians of the -'Kaw.
ir Kani-as tribe, who seemed rather
jiceidciftallv to have pitched their tent near
...ir encatupinriit. These Indians were very
i-noraj't of revealed religion.
and clso i
i.-nont ot the langues ol all the o-.itr
tribes who were there represen ea, ana ,
participating m the exercises ol iiie meet-!
iiiL'. Nevertheless they continued to stand
aud
t around the outskirts ot the con-
irreation as spectators from day to day; their j
fitrio-ity seeming to increase as the r.'.ect-
row warmer, and the general intercut
eoi,i.Mt to .leci-'ii; .inn . a t.e o.c, . u, ,
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ivni!.. man p, ..-.. ,; : ;
:u.d .;0.1 s people of some hvii dozen . - ;
f-rent tribes. aud .peakinir as many d.t- ,
manv t'cn'.tents erowdeil the arar.
f.Tent twwtrue. were singing, praying and
cxhoi ti.'i.' in hi own tongue wm rein he
was born." I observed our Kaw" frieds
r-Undiim' in a group, as near as tliey. eonld
approach the .- aeious altar, now strewn
..ol, siiiivlicitiii" mourners or rejoicing
be icvers. One ot thc r
niniil.icr.
rail.
niaiih
lookinir pcr.-oi;. wasevideittK much j
coiiceriicl atl-t -reatiy agltateu in :
:md body. It was not long, however, after
be attracted my attention until his almost ;
uLMiitie form teil pro.-trate to the ground. !
is we have -een the sturdy oak succumb to
the impending storm. A considerable n'lta- !
b. r of persons, red and wbiie.now -ath. nd
around where this man by str. tcbed uj.on j
bis back, all -ati-!ied that there wa no!
...llu-ioii in the ea.se. and for hours did we j
all anxiously watch and wait to see the j
re-nli. For some time he seemed not to
b. . ! am tliiiiir that was going on ".round I
biiii bnt appeared lo be holly taken up j
with uicit i'!"i- diatelv Joneenied himselr"; '
incaiiw :i!e tae laigc
t,;i,.tb, l.ir "e l.rii-y tears n irti wlncii
bis fac- wa
a literally bathed. witnecd the i
pungency of n' i
eri'-..n 1 thev were eitrtv
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eil-reproa h Jbrliaviiiirsiisned against ibl
" ei-;. ; and 'iit'eafies for I;vine mercy.
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bis comrades. 1 hi
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ti e widow ot a mt worniv ilecease l
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et:r .cci.ii V'O.i ai'iviip in.o
vring their language, and preparing
tbof for their ii.struetton aud salvation
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lint ie.st as we thought tins ilevotea man
,.f lji.il was ready to bcirin successfully
l i r.i-. aidi t the tioor benighted Kaw In-
.bail.-. io'i took him from earth to heaven,
lint, as I slid, the widow of this man of
ii d wa present and could speak some
words, f encouragement to the stricken
inner and in turn could tell the rest of
us wlat he said. And after he had lain
. ' . . .
.-is ..ove. described for some hours, be. I
f ui'leuly arosu and sat, up wiping the
te rs an 1 veat from his face, as he said,
'now strange I feel-I never felt so before
What is this'' T love every body," a
jicntiinet wholly at variance with all his
former habits, sentiments and notions of
what was right. So visible and sudden
w as flic change in this man. that no one
p:-. -ei doubted the genuineness of his
conversion; and so peculiar were the
e-cui.-t -inef's of the ea-e, that all were
constrained to admit that this was none
other than the work of God's own blessed
Spirit.
.Miss 11. A. E. was a student in one of
our .Methodist schools. When she was
about eighteen years old, a revival of
r diirion- occurred in that institution, while
.-he was still there. And although she
had pious parents, she opposed sonic of
her scho d-matcs who became serious, and
were seeking religion. Not only did she
ippi.se other, but solemnly vowed that
.-he would not become religious. A I'd I
was informed that on the evening of her
conyer-ion, before slariimrto church, she
derided and sneered at religion, saying
that .-he was not going to show ln r weak
ness as some of her comrades had done.
JJut before she slept that night, if indeed
she slept at all. I lod had stricken her down
and clearly and soundly r inverted her.
She was a young lady of rather more than
'irdinary intellect, and of very marked
and strong traits of character; titid all who
knew her had the utmost confidence in
her sincerity; and some seven or eight
years of a most exemplary life since her
Conversion, proves the work to have been
a genuine work of the Spirit of G"d. This
I have always regarded as a very clear and
marked case, showing unmistakeably that
.sometimes, even in opposition to ali their
plans of life, sinners are brought to a state
of conviction by Hivinc power. and thereby
led through the way of repentance anil
faith to Christ. And the fact is, without
the interposition of livine powerno sinner
can properly repent and believe unto
salvation.
J preached fine night in IS4-'i at l'ick
insville, AlaJ during a protracted meeting
and at the close of the sermon I invited
penitents to the altar; there was a man in
the congregation who had'been a gambler
for some years; he had a family .and resided
in the place; he was not known to be under
any religious concern; but when the
invitation was given, to the astonishment
of his acquaintances, he arose and walked
towards the altar, just before he reached
it he fell prostrate on the floor, and began
to cry aloud for mercy; his associates, and
tlie congregation generally, rote to their
feet and "razed upoS him with intense
interest. He never rose till God "kv
peace to his soul, and his prayers were
turned to praises. He joined the Meihodist
Church, anil lived and died a changed man.
In 1S45 1 held a protracted meeting at
Warsaw. Ala. .at which about thirty persons
joined tlie Methodist Episcopal Church,
anion"' whom were the wife and daughter
of Colonel J?., who was keeping the tavern
in tiirit n .ice. 1 lie t.o . was a very wu-h.cu
man, aim was luucn liioeiiscu w ucu in
formed of (he fact; I was told he threatened
t disinherit them. He took to his bed
and fancied he was cninsr to die, and ap
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peared to he anirrv with every one. 1 visited j
him treiuently during the meeting, ami
uruvd the importance of religion. I have
no doubt his illness was more of the soul
than of the body, for he arose from the
hed a changed num. and joined theChuieh,
himself, the next time I came there to
preach. lie is stilt in the Church, hut his
wife and daughter have gone to their reward
I WISH I WAS A CHRISTIAN.
BY KEV. DR. HUMPHREY.
This wish has been expressed a thous-
and times, and with the greatest apparent
i sincerity, by persons living without hope,
and without (lod in the world,
i Sometimes it, falls from the lips of those
v i .....,t
wuo nave no piccm i"m.i-oi wuul .oi-
I ti.-.n lmt oftener from the lips ol persons
under awakening.
" lo you think that you are a christ-
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Well, dear reader, if you wish to be,
what hinders The Savior invites, and
stands with open arms ready to receive
you : ' The Spirit aud the bride, say come;
and whosoever will, let him come, and take
oi me w;iicis '-i in"; ului.
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christian? "What sort of wish is that
W11U.U prompts to no strivm- -to enter in
i,, you j,ccivc v.mrl;lf.
wish n (!u1jt; t() be saved, when
you give the subject a moment s thought.
"Hut von do not wish to be a christian.
That is. you have no wish or desire for
spiritual enjoyments. You see no form or
comeliness in the S.ivior, why you should
desire him ; but the language of your car
nal heart is.
lVpart from me. I desire not the know
ledge of thy ways."
How. then, can you say. I wish I was a
christian ? What is such a wish good
for t
Hut perhaps you are not as stupid as
you once were. Perhaps you are under
real concern 'or your soul. Perhaps the
Spirit of God is now striving with ou,
and you think that if ever you sincerely
wished for any thing in the world, it :s
that you were a christian. Well. then, if
you are sincere, why do you not give your
lo ai-t to God; at onee ? Then y ri wr-i'.l
be a christian, ""in heir of God. and a joint
heir, with Christ, to an eternal inherit
ance.'
v';n vol! bow the n
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Lattcr -tu;r.ls witli '. m.
Here is a poor man. who says he wishes ho
was rich, and the way is clearly jointed
out to him. step by step, how he may ae-
fiulro a" independent fortune. Instead of
ginl.ng up ins loins to tne worn, aner a
few faint endeavors, he says it can mver
be, so he sits down and takes it out in wish
ing be was rich. Or he takes some of the
steps prescribed, and exhausts himself with
other endeavors, whi h promise nothing
but disappointment. aud finally gives over,
bemoaning himself that the attainment, of
the wi.-hed-for possession is impossible.
Or, to vary the illustration a little, a friend
says to him'
' On such and such conditions, I will
give you a valuable farm."
" It is just what 1 want," is the reply ;
" I have been wishing for such a farm for
a long time."
Hut he does not comply with the condi
tions. Are they beyond his power
are they unrcasonal.de t O no, but he feels
no disposition to comply with them. And
yet he says :
" ( ), how I wisli I could set that fine
farm."
How preposterous ! What are all such
wishes good for ?
Again: some man has a chronic and
dangerous disease, and he says :
(). 4 I wish I could obtain a radical
cure."
: A skillful physician prescribes certain
remedies, and assures him that if he will
follow the prescription; there is every rea
sonable prospect of his recovery. He
throws away the medicine, and resorts to
other remedies, which no well-bred prac
titioner would ever recommend. He gets
worse from day to day, all the. while com
plaining that nothing will help him, aud
repeating the desponding exclamation,
"(), bow I wish I was well '."
Why not. then, use the remedies ?
u O, they aresobitter that 1 cannot take
them."
So with the sinner. lie wishes to be
come a chi istian. The way to become one
is (dearly pointed out in the. word of God.
He is sure to find the pearl of great ju ice,
if lie will only follow the directions there
given. An infallible remedy is prescribed
for the plague ot sin which is rankling in
his heart ; but instead of obtaining the
pearl, he neglects the means, and remains
' poor and wretched, blind and naked."
Instead of being cured, he waxes worse
and worse. Instead of repenting and ac
cejiting of the free invitations of the
gospel, he "'goes about to establish his own
righteousness," or tries to 'climb up some
other way," all the while dinging to the
delusion, that be wishes he was a christ
ian. MTACHED TliOUiHTS.
If we had more heart to do good, we
should think less of our present endeav
ors to be useful.
When a man says much about a little
compliiucut paid him, it isa sign that more
of the same will by no means be disagree
able. In tlie human heart true religion is
an exotic ; and without unusual care it
jierishes.
The pages of the book of life, if seen,
could not afford so satisfactory evidence of
piety as a christian tongue.
Salvation is by one Kedeemer, and
his work is perfect ; he pardons, ho ac
cepts, he renews, he sanctifies, and he glo-riircs.
A preacher lately said that, he read in
the Hible of the conversion of a harlot, a
publican, a seller of purple, a jailor, a thief,
a drunkard, but did not remember any ac
count of the conversion of a lazy man.
Header, do you ?
Which is the greater error of belief, that
(bid is too good to danmlfJ, or that we are
too good to he damned ?
3 lore men regret going into company
than into solitude.
The grat it ude of some consist in flatter,
iug their benai&WrHftrfie hope that they
w ill rojieat their kindnesses.
If small temptations eau" overcome us,
great ones may.
I, is said that more than once in the
Hible, instructing and chastening are ex
pressed by the same word. If so, every
rebuke should rally us, and every trial
teach Ui', and every- scourge encourage
us.
The poor chambermaid of a sinking gulf
steamer, is said to have filled her pockets
with bags of gold. Of course she sank
the sooner and the deejier, when she missed
the jilank that might have saved her. So
shall it be with all who make gold their
trust.
One of the hardest lessons any child
learns, is to sit down still. The same is true
of the child of God.
Genuine piety is always possessed of
three kinds of knowledge:
1. The knowledge of one's sin and mis
ery. 2. The knowdedge of God's justice and
mercy.
a. "The knowledge of Christ's grace and
all-sufficiency.
Heeause the best of men are men at the
best, we shall have to bear and forbear till
the end of the world. That which is per
fect will not come till time shall be no
more.
A gift with a grum word or a surly look,
is rather the fruit of malevolence than of
true kindness.
If men could have profit ted by having
more revealed to them, it would have been
done. Job. iii : 12.
If Christ is all in all. let us seek no other
Savior. -V. 3". Olimr.
IS COXSI'MPTloX CoXTACKOCS !
Kinineut French. English and Ameri
can physicians advocate the doctrine, that
Consumption is catching.
31orgagni. one of the greatest medical
lights of his time, was sip-h a firm believ-
er in the opinion, that he never would as-
sist in the examination ol a person wuo
bad died of the disease.
Some of the most distinguished writers,
as well as some of the nio-t celebrated and
successful j.rai tiriouers, in that disease,
have eventually died of it themselves,
among whom were the great Laennec,
Morton. Wooster. :md not forgetting the
einpiri'- St. John Long, (so said I.
A large number of persons evidently
consumptive, will be found on emiu'ry to
have bad a husband, wife, sis'.er o-' child,
to have .bed of that disease. Statistics
seem to sho- that a wife whose husband
- coi,.-!imi tiv,. IfI in, ,iu liable to coiisuum;
tu
'lleuo tllvoi j
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: the reason of this
a ce.isiiippti e w lie
if
true, will suggest itself lo th
tbought-
lid.
Introducing the matter of small pox.
into the system prevents sinall-jiox. Laen
nce inoculated himself with consumptive
matter, but it did not. take. He subse
quently died of consumption himself. He
made this experiment to show, that con
sumption was not iiiuoculable.
M M. Alberti and Hiett thought that
cancer was not communicable by the mat
ter of cancer, and to prove it. tried to in
noculare themselves with it. but it did not
take. Both of them died afterwards from
cancer.
It is most probable that consumption is
not of itself communicable, that it cannot
beget consuinjition in one who bus vigor
ous health, and is perfectly free from all
taint of the disease. Hut if any person
who has not a vigorous constitution, wheth
er inclined to consumption or not, lives,
eats and sleejis with a consuinjitive, as man
and wife do, as a sister is apt to do with a
consumptive sister, or a mother with con
suinjitive children such persons will gen
erally die of consumjition themselves, not
from its eommunicability ycr xr, but from
the foulness of the atmosphere about a con
sumptive, from warm rooms, decaying
lungs, huge expectoration, sickening night
sweats and bodily emanations ; but the
same amount of exposure to air made foul
in any other way would light up the fires
of consumjition in one of ieeble vitality, or
broken constitution. It is best, therefore,
that the nurse of a consuinjitive should
possess the most vigorous health, and to
make assurance from infection doubly sure,
the most scrupulous cleanliness possible
should be observed and carried out in
every conceivable direction, extended to
every minutiae, and obtained with the
most inveterate constancy through every
hour of the twenty-four, not allowing any
excretion, even a single expectoration, to
remain about the jierson, bed or room, for
one instant. An incessant ventilation
should be going on in the chamber, the
best method for which, under most cir
cumstances is simply to keep a fire on the
hearth and an inner door open ; even in
midsummer, this is better for the patient
as well as for the nurse, than a room kept
(dosed all the time from an almost in
sane dread of taking cold. Ifulf's Jor. of
lLallh.
GREAT RESfl.TS.
A writer in Zion's Herald says of the
AVesIeyan University :
" Seven hundred educated men have al
ready gone from the halls of the universi
ty into the church and the world, most of
whom are an honor to the institution.
The first student who unpacked his trunk
in the rooms of the new college, has since
become a bishop in the Methodist church
Hev. (). C. Baker, of Concord.
The university has furnished American
colleges with ten presidents and nearly for
ty professors, besides not less than two
hundred teachers to the schools of the
country.
One-third of all the graduates have en
tered the ministry, and a number of them
have gone into the foreign work.
The missions of Methodism, with scarce
ly an exception, have workmen educated
at the AVesIeyan, and the very latest gra
duating class has several candidates for the
mission field.
- 1,1 io K HERE THAT'S MY STARK."
I was lecturing, says J. B. Gough, in a
small town once, and when the lecture was
over, jiersons came up to sign the pledge.
A number of young ladies were standing
by, and looking at the signers with inter
est. Hireetly some of them came tome
and said,
".Mr. Gough, do go out there at the
door, and get Joe to sign the pledge."
" Why, I don't know Joe."
N" Well, he is standing out there by the
door."
Out I went, and standing there was a
poor fellow, with an old tattered cap on his
head, torn shirt, dirty "clothes, old boots,
aud a woe-lcgone look. Says 1 to myself,
this must be Joe.
" How do you do, Joe ?" said I.
I low do vou do. sir ?"
"Joe, now I do want you to sign the
pledge."
" What for ?"
" Why, Joe, those ladies in there sent
rue after you."
" What ! who ? why I did'nt think I had
a friend in the world."
" Come on, Joe come on," said I. He
stopped and said,
' Look here, some fellows told me to
bring a bottle of liquor in the meeting to
night, and get up and drink, and say
' Here's to your health !' They said they
would give uie 50 cents if I did. Them's
'em alf along the gallery up there ; there
they are. 1 aint going to do it."
He went to the door and we heard him
smash the bottle on the steps. He came
in and went up to the table and commenc
ed to write his name, but he could'nt doit;
so he braced himself, aud caught hold of
his arm, but he could not. Says he,
" Look here, that's my mark."
Then the ladies came up and snook
hands with him, but he pulled his cap down
over bis eyes, and now and then wiped a
tear away.
Stick to it," says one. "All right, Joe,
all right."
Some three years after! was in that same
place, and while going along the street, I
saw a gentleman coming along dressed in
a good suit nice black bat. boots cleaned
and a nice shirt collar, with a lady on his
arm. I knew it was Joe. Says I,
" You stuck to it, did't you?"
"Yes, sit, 1 stuck to that pledge,
and the girls have stuck to me, ever
since."
Some people think when they have per
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suaileit a iiruiikaru to sign iuc picogc,
I thev have done. Its a mistake. Its then
he wants vour help. He is at the bottom
of the hill, lower than the common level;
be must climb ; it's hard work : he com
mences tremulously, feeble, doubting ; he
gets a little way, and becomes faint ; you
see he is abuui'ro give way ; run and put
a bttle peg under bis feet ; there, see he
rests, he's tired; be starts again, fearing ;
he goes higher, he gazes around him and
looks wearied; he has worked hard and
stops; put another j eg right under his
feet : lie rests; help liiiu ui; peg him
right up, and when he gets up, he'll look
an 1 see I hoso lifiie Pcs. all uloii", nnd lie
a-Ul not forget them, but bless and remeni
bcr you.
AN Oil) HERO.
The Hev. Thomas Jackson, of the Brit
ish Methodist Conference, was re-appointed
at its last session to the charge of the
Theological Institution at Hichmond. He
is precisely the age of Lord I'almerston.
and like that nobleman, is yet capable of
active jmblie service. During the Confer
ence, tlie question ot his appointment be
ing under e.insider.:tion, he said :
"J am now within a few months of be
ing seventy-seven years. 1 am not consci
ous of any bodily ailment. As to my men
tal faculties. I am no judge, x have often
smiled at those passages in Mr. Wesley's
works where he says he was not conscious
of any failure. He once wrote on the fly
leaf of a brok :
" gpntlc life.-? descent
AVe think it is a plain."
I may be liable to some delusive feeling
of that kind. I have consulted various
brethren, my confidential friends, as to
whether I ought not to retire voluntarily,
and they told me I ought not : and in com
pliance with their counsel, I am placed be
fore you .-'gain.
The committee have recommended a re
appointment ; of course, they never con
templated a re-appointment for six years,
but thought I should simply go on as at
present. It will be a great relief if you
will release me and appoint me to an easy
circuit. (Cheers and laughter.) I lik
the work of a Methodist preacher, aud 1
think I could resume the work of the itin
eracy. (Cheers.) I do pot ask for a re
appointment. I have served this connec
tion to the best of my ability for 56 years.
( Hear, hear.) I wish' that, service had
been better. My heart is the heart of a
Methodist preacher. . - (Applause.) Noth
ing I like so much as AA'esleyan Method
ism, (bear, hear,' and if .. I canserve it
to the end of my life, 1 am ready to do
so.
I can not fully agree with the sentiment
contained in that verse ending:
Aiy bt iljr with my charge lay down.
Ami cease at once to work and liv c."
I should like to have -say a few months,
or, if it should please God, a few years, of
abstraction from all active service, tothink
of the future state, and te gird up the loins
of my mind in reference to it. (Applause.)
An appointment for six years is quite out
of the question, and it will be a great relief
to me to see another man in prejiaration.
I thank (Jod I have been enabled to serve
you for oG years, and now do with me as
you like."
Mr. Jackson is one of the many illustra
tions "' the wonderful vitality of the pub
lic men of England.
Lord Campbell, who sits on the wool
sack, is 80 years of age. Lord Brougham
and Lord Lyndhurst are older, and all
these, us well as the veteran AVesIeyan, are
still in the enjoyment of great intellectual
vigor. JUvthwist.
QUAKERS.
AA'e are informed by a correspondent,
that the Society of Friencs have resolved
not on!y no longer to enforce peculiarity of
language and dress, but that the lav hither
to in force amongst them, excluding a mem
ber who marries out of the sect, has been
abolished. Such persons may continue in
communion, but their children are not
members. Leeds Engl) Mercury.
.THE HEAITY Oh' THE 1'AMTLY.
The following is "going the rounds" of
the newspapers. It contains some truth,
and yet we presume it was written by some
excessively homely person. Hut here is
the article :
" We leave it to you reader, if the beau
ty of the family don't invariably, turn out
the worst ol' the Iol ? If she don't culti
vate the outside of her head to total forget
fuhiess of the inside ? f she is not pet
ted and fondJed, and flattered, and shown
off till selfishness is written till over her ?
If she is not sure to marry some drunken
brute, who will bruise her body, or heart,
to a jelly, and be glad to come with her
forlorn children, for a morsel of bread, to
the comfortable home of that snubbed
member of the family who was only ' our
Wohn,' or ' Martha,' and who never, by
any possibility, was supposed by them ca
pable of doing or being anything ? We
leave it to-you, if the beauty of the family,
be he a boy, if he don't grow up an ass ?
If he be not sure to disgust everybody
with his conceit and affectation while he
fancies he is the admired of all eyes ; if"
he don't squander away all the money he
can lay hands on, and then die in the gut
ter ?
We never see a very handsome child, of
either sex, set up on the family pedestal
to be admired by that family and its friends,
to the exclusion of the other children,
that we don't feel like patting these child
ren on the back and saying,
' Thank Providence, my dears, that you
wer not born beauties !' "
I'XIOX SOXG AXD CHORUS.
BY GEO. I". MORRIS.
This is the word beyond all others
Makes us love our country most ;
Makes us feel that we are brothers,
And a. heart-united host!
With hosanna let our banner
From the house-tops be unfurled,
While the nation holds her station,
With the mightiest of the world !
(Hoars.
Take vour harps from silent willows,
Shout, the chorus of the free ;
"States are all distinct as billows,
Union one as is the sea!"
From the land of groves that bore us
He's a traitor who would swerve!
Bv the Hag now waving o'er us
We the comjiact will preserve !
Those who gained it and sustained it,
AY ere unto each other true,
And the tabic well i.s able
To instruct tia what to do !
Take your harps from silent, willows,
, Shout (lie chorus of the free!
" i-tates arc all dintinci as billows,
Cnin oim is irf the. yen !"
on: cmurir in sax fraxcisco.
The fourth quarterly meeting for the
San Francisco station, was held last week.
AVe learn, (we were absent from the city,)
that the exercises conducted by Hev. J.
C. Simmons, Presiding Elder, weye more
than ordinarily interesting and profitable.
The progress in our church in San Fran
cisco has been steady anil healthful, not
withstanding the lack of regular pastoral
service and other disabilities. When these
disabilities are removed, as we hope they
will be very soon, with the continuance of
the Divine blessing, which has so signally
rested upon us thus far. increased prosper
ity may reasonably be expected.
The erection of the new church will be
commenced as soon as circumstances will
allow. The lot is secured. It is all that
we could desire as to size and location.-
Messrs. Leonard and Eiscn. architects of
this city, have donated an admirable plan
of a building, which will be worthy of its
position as our representative church in
the great city of the Pacific. It will com
fortably seat a thousand hearers, and in
the basement provision is made ior Sun
day school and lecture rooms, book depos-
rtorv, and tiublishins interests. Inis en
terprise cannot be consummated in a day
but will be carried through, for the ne
cessity for it is felt by the whole church.
rucijjc Jl'tlioiiff.
THAT BEAUTIFUL LAND.
There is a hind immortal
The beautiful of lands :
Beside its ancient portal
A sentry grimly stands.
He only can undo it,
And open wide the door ;
And mortals who pass through it,
Are mortals nevermore.
That glorious land is heaven,
And death the sentry grim ;
The Lord thereof has given
The opening keys to him.
And ransomed spirits, sighing
And sorrowing for sin,
Do pass the gate in dying,
Aud freely cuter in.
Though dark and drear the passage
That leadeth to the gate,
Yet grace tomes with the message,
To souls that watch and wait.
And at the time appointed,
A messenger comes down,
And leads the Lord's anointed
From cross to glory's crown.
The sighs arc lost in singing;
They're blessed in their tears ;
Their journey heavenward winging,
They leave on earth their fears.
Death like an angel seemeth :
"AVe welcome thee," they cry ;
Thefr face with glory beanieth
'Tis life for them to die.
BAPTIST EPISCOPACY.
A paper presented to the American Bap
tist Missionary Union, at its late session,
by the Executivo Committee, says :
" In the Karen mission, you will want,
hereafter American missionaries, only in
limited numbers, one man for a province,
to aet in the true sense as ' a shepherd
and bishop of souls,' and have, as Paul did,
4 the care of all the churches,' including
the pastors.''
SOLDI hKX .MI TlHMHSr ( AMI' MELTXliS IX
SOREoiiX.
Biio. FiTZciKitAi.n ; Hej ice with us
in the Lord. God is with us in great
mercy. We have just returned from the
indcjiendence camji-ineeting. which clos
ed on Monday last, the twelfth day of the
meet ing. The congregation wasdarge, suji
poscd to be near two thousand on last Sab
bath. Good order prevailed, and serious
attention was given to the word. The
vast crowd was fed by a princely liberality
mainly at, three tables, without charge.
No ' jiay table." Bros. Clamtit and
BiiRCllARD were my helpers in preaching ;
all worked well, but, best of all, Coil o,(y
tin: iiirrriisr. Sixty-five joined, the church.
Many were converted : some in the alter,
some in the woods, some at home some
very powerfully. Many others were deep
ly moved, and apparently almost persuaded
to be Christians. ' The meeting dosed in
the full tide of its prosjierity ; the whole
community seemed to be deeply moved.
May God give us another harvest from
that sowing !
Urn fjRTrw-FT.T, assisted bv Bro. Ko1thcm. to which Bishop Morris responded
be and Bro. Stout, held a camp-meetinji
at the same time, on the Eugene circuit
which resulted glorionsly. Near .fcjty
were convrrted, I understand. Butlfhft.
GEiiVELL will of course give you a-stp
count of it.
Is it not encouraging, that in less than
a year after the birth of Southern Meth
odism in Oregon she .has been able to
hold two camp-meetings at the same time,
within forty miles if each other, and with
snch glorious results ? It is the Lord's
doings, aud is marvelous in our eyes.
Let Him alone, have all the glory through
Jesus Christ our Lord. But we shall see
greater things than these. Let all pray
for us ; and let six or eight preachers get
ready to come to this work after Confer
ence. AVe mvst have them. The Lord
hath need of them.
Money is exceeding scarce, in conse
quence of which we have been able to do
almost nothing for the Methodist, and
our receipts are far below our exjienses
But these things will change for the bet
ter by-and-by. Our work, as God's in
struments, is to save souls, money or no
money. We did not come here to get
money, we came to save souls. God
speed us in His own blessed work.
O. FisiiF.it.
Corvallis, Oregon, .Tune 28, 1800.
1'arljk Methodist.
WHAT I!KC(JMi:S of THE AIOURXERS
LEFT
AT THE ALT Alt !
In order to describe the extent of a
work of grace, writers frequently tell us
of the number of penitents at the altar
when the protracted meeting closed.
We made some inquiry after the
subsequent history of these penitents a
few weeks ago, and suggested the duty of
the Church concerning them. Some replies
that have come in, in response, are very
encouraging. One man, a week after the
protracted meeting cIohu.I, went aside in
bis stable to pray, and was converted
there. Happy soiil, the .Saviour came to
hint in a manger! Jesus is meek and
linv'y, Another, keeping up the struggle,
was converted on bis horse, as he rode
alone the highway.
It is a good sign when mourners are
converted at other places as well as at the
altar. It shows they have been well in
structed, and that their convictions of sin,
and the neccessity of salvation, are fixed.
They do not need the voice of the preacher,
or the presence of a congregation, to keep
them stirred up. Best for their souls
they long to find, and therefore they seek
it all the tnne, and everywhere. Feeling
after God, if haply they might find him,
He reveals himseif as not far from every
one of them.
"Some who were present for prayers at
the last meeting, are not here," said the
preacher; "and I am glad to tell you why.
One brother was converted last night after
he went home. One of the daughters of
an old member found peace this morning
at family prayers."
Sure, that was a good meeting. The
work was going on all the time.
Let those who pray for others as well
as themselves, those enlared souls on whom
God has poured out the spirit ol grace
and intercession, remember the mourners
left at a hundred altars. They ou-rht to
be converted. By all means keep them
moving on, le.t they stoji at some of the
many resting-places Satan has provided
for awakened souls, and sleep the sleep of
death. Invite them to the class-meeting,
admit them to love-feasts, call them out at
the prayer-meeting. O, nurse the spark
that may kindle into eternal life ! Nash
ville AilcortUe.
MARTYRDOM OF HUGH LATIMER.
Iluon Latimer, one of the early Eng.
lish Reformers, was born at Thurcastons,
near Mount Sorrel, in Leicestershire, about
1472. After taking his degree at Cam
bridge, he entered into holy orders, and
was quite a zealot on behalf of popery
ihe mnuence ol 1 nomas iMlney in
duced him to scan the subject more thor
oughly, and to study the Bible. His eyes
were gradually opened, and at the age of
fifty-three he renounced Romanism. His
bold ojiinions against many Romish errors
soon made him notorious in his own
university aud elsewhere. He even vent
ured to remonstrate with Henry Vlll.on
the sin and danger of prohibiting the
Bible in English. Through the patron
age of Thomas Cromwell he wasappointed
to a liuing in AA'est Kinton, Wiltshire,
where he preachee with great earnestness
and fervor the evangelical truths of the
Reformation; and he first became chaplain
to Anne Boleyn and then Bishop of Wor
cester in 15J5. AVhen the act of the six
articles was passed, he dissented, and
proved his sincerity by resigning his bish
opric. Jb or his disinterestedness and tirm-
ness he was comantted to the Tower,
w here he lay a prisoner for six years ; and
though the accession of Edward led to
his liberation, he would on no account
resume the government of his see. No
sooner had iuary ascended the throne,
than Latimer, as might be anticipated,
became a marked object ot papal ven
geance. He refused to fly from the royal
citation, conscious that his hour was come.
After a manly vindication of his opinions.
he was, along with Ridley, condemned
to the flames. On the day of his mar
tyrdom at Oxford, HJth October, 1555,
he ajipeared in a shroud, was, with his
fellow-sufferer, bound by an iron chain to
the stake, and five batrs of trunciowder
were fastened round his body. The fagots
were kindled, and Latimer, turning to
Hidley. cried wilh projibeiie voice;" He
of good comfort. Master Hidley. and play
the man. AVe shall ibis day light such a
candle, by God's grace, in England, as. I
trust, shall never be jmt out." Latimer's
sermons, w hich were collected and publish
ed, London, lSijr-in two octavos, are
distinguished by quaint and homely sense,
and pointed aud vigorous admonition, the
offspring of a playful temper, a happy
disposition, and a sincere and noble heart.
Erlntic.
JilSHiift ASHURVS
srT.TACl.Ks.
At the hire session of
the East ( lencsee
Conference',
presided over by the venera
ble Bishpp Morris, Hev. 1. D. Buck, in
bchatfVrf' Mrs. Chajiin, of Geneva, pre
senteiS wJiBishop Morris a pair of sjiecta
cldtjiTi tortoise shell frame, which Bish-
v.. -7u a tui luiw suin .....ill;, n.o. 11 ai
ogBKiry wore lor the greater part ol
!on!iiuistry. He gave them in his
. ,i j .. .. . .....
ol ins
US OK!
age to jj.-s. Judge Horsey, who gave tliem
to her daughter, Mrs. Chapin. Mr. Buck
nade an eloquent address on presenting
fn his usual style. As the Hisl . p is al-
' ways simple - and unaffected, he usually
succeeds in .ijoing such a thing in the best
possible inftnpcr. He said :
I am very much obliged to the good
lady for her interesting gift. I will care
fully preserve it, and if I live to return
hoisted will deposit the spectacles in the
drawer with the watch which was given
me by the same lady at the General Con
ference in Buffalo. I never saw Bishop
Asbury, but as nearly as 1 can recollect, I
was received on trial on the day on which
the Bishop died. I am glad to receive
the glasses, through which lie read the
Word of Life. I have long esteemed
Bishop Asbury as the great ajiostle of
American Methodism. By these glasses
I am forcibly reminded of my own infir
mities. AVhen I was about eighteen years
of age, I received injuries in the optic
nerves. For three years I had to wear
goggles out of doors, and spectacles with
in. It was to many a matter of great
doubt whether I should have eyestr not.
At last I quit doctoring, and my sight
mended more in the next three months,
than it had in the previous three years.
They have continued better until to-day,
nevertheless I still have to use two pairs
of glasses. I change during divine ser
vice, as I cannot read with the same with
which 1 look out upon the congregation.
So I work along. Bishop Asbury has got
beyond the need of glasses. I presume
his eyes are like " apples of gold in pic
tures of silver." I hope to reach that
happy place. Brethren, pray for me, that,
1 may hold faith and a good conscience to
the end. ''"J U' rulil.
srtoi:.tF.xs from noon.
Thomas Hood, the great English wit,
was peculiarly happy in epigrams. Here
is one on the death of King William
" The death of kinjrs i.s e,i ily cvn!:iiue.l.
And thus il. might upon his tomb be chis
elled -
As long as ill the? Fourth could reign, he
reicned.
And lhen he mizzled."
.1 H 4 11 ..1 l
.moioei tin i mice ..a inert s orcakino-in
through the ice when skaiiiiir. and he
ai..:.. .. n- i -
-"ycsiy iiiuung nun out Willi lier own
bauds :
" Long life and
hard frosts to the fortunate
Prince,
And fur many a
spare hi id :
skating mav Providence
For, most surely his accident served to con-
vi nee
That the queen dearlv loved, though the
lee couldn't hear him."
The following, on himself, when he was
ill:
My heart's wound up just like a watch,
As far as sjirings will take:
It wants but one more evil turn.
And then the cords will break!
A PASSION FOR SOUI.S.
4 ..... . . t r ,
eminent servant oi iioo, now gone
to his reward, used to speak of having lia
passion for souls." Now men have a nasr
sion for many of Ihe perishable objects of
earth ; lor lame, lor glory, for riches, for
pleasure, lor literature, ior science, and
art; but how few, alas! have a passion for
souls: tiut, thank tjrod, there have lived
men who had this intense love for souls.
Paul had such a passion. The devoted
minister of Christ in Scotland, McCheyne,
had this passion ; lor it was declared of
bis preaching by a plain but godly woman,
" Uii . he preached as it he was a dyin
to have you converted. The faithful
missionary of the cross who leases the
comforts and societies of the land of his
birth, and treads the hot sands of Africa,
or the frozen snows of Greenland, for the
Oospel s sake, has a passion for souls
And last, though not humblest, the
real, true, faithful Sabbath-school teacher
who in all weathers comes up to teach his
nttie class ot fiunday-school scholars, and
to Ieau them to Jesus, has a passion for
souls. Oh! that we might all have it!
PII.PIT ORTHOEPY.
A correspondent of a late number of
the New 5'ork Evangelist says:-' Recently
1 have been obliged to sit on the Sabbath
and listen to this murdering of our dialect,
and that too where the errors were not
those of anilliterateor uneducated speaker
Had it been thus, I should of course have
passed the case by without remark, but
they were not only the utterances ofan
educated mind, but were also, I was led
to judge trom the whole manner, etc., of
the speaker, the result of studied effort.
It is on this account that I am led to
direct your attention to them. The follow
ing are some specimens of this new lan
gugage: Cetcstrophee for CatastropJu ; den
for day; fflaury for glory; Iciyht uo I tjV
for light of Uf,; fiery for shy; g riant tor
great; tool; ntr for my, as tne Cod and
me mule hectrad ang nwMgatee for hatred
and malignity; grudnesx for sadum; mol
emnetee for solemnity; bhaced for hhssid,
woorld for world, etc.; the whole sermon
abounding with like follies."
JERUSALEM.
Bishop Gobat speaks of his mission at
Jerusalem in the following terms:
" I must candidly confess that it has
not progressed of late as I had wished and
expected ; but I must also observe that
the exertion on our part has boon fetble.
while the opposition on the part of the
Romanists, the Greeks and the Armenians
has been increasing with an abundance of
means compared with our poverty."
Hi AT SLM'AY SUIool p ; siy, 'Mi
.Ml!. Elinoic Inasmuch as the North
I aroiina annual onicrciicc. nol only cheer
fully and heartily endorsed the project fi.r
a "Sunday-school Publishing Fund." but
also accepted, and agreed by sH-eial reso
lutions, to raise ihe sum assigned to it of
the ?H'il.li(0 proposed for thai nrj..isc, I
beg to call the particular attention of the
preachers in charge, in your 'inference,
to the imjiortaiice of apjxiiiit Ing a day at
every church, or jircaching-j.'aer, on which
they will make an exlra elf. ri, presenting
the subject in a sermon or address, and
taking up a collection and Mibscrij. lions in
behalf of (his grand enterprise.
I'o you ask what arc (he precise reasons
why such a fund is called for? If yi
will go to lr. Mcl'crrin, aud lr. Summer-,
th -y will tell ou that complaint- are often
coming to them of the limilni rarity of
Sunday school books in their catalogue ;
that sujierinteiidents are frequently wai
ting to them something after this manner:
"Our scholars have read all the book hi
our library over and over again, till they
are tired of them. Can't you send us wniio
new ones V
Then I'r. Summer says, "I have hero
some excellent new Sunday-Hchool ImkiIh,
all ready to be printed. r. McFcrriu,
can you print them 7"
lr. McFerrin fays, " No, sir, there in
not enough money in the treasury of tho
Sunday-school Society to pay for the type
setting, and ink, and pajier, and pre.-s-work,
and binding, of a single book."
" Well, then," says 1 r. Summers, (hero
the book must lie, covered with dust, on
the shelves in my room, till enough money
conies into the treasury of the Sunday
school SiK-iety to enable us to print it."
And so word is sent back to the mijicr
inteudent that they have no new books,
and cannot publish any at present for want
of funds.
Then the superintendent gays, " Well, I
am very sorry. AVe ittvrt have hoiho new
books, or our scholars will lo-c their in
terest in the school, and we shall lose them.
I had much rather buy the books of our
own publication ; but, as they arc not to
be had, we must, though very rdu'-tantly,
buy them elsewhere." Sooff goes, by tin)
next mail, fifty dollars to some Northern
establishment Calvinistic, or Almlitiou,
or both for books to put into Southern
.Methodist Sunday-schools. And so you
may find their publications in our sclnxils
all over the f-cutli.
But how comes it that, they have so
much greater variety of bniks than you ?
Simply because they are nunc forty or
fitly years old have been publishing nil
the time and have just such a fund to
draw from as the one wc arc now pleading
for. Whereas, we are yo-ing. have, ooiu
paratively, but just started, and have fin
such resources as they.
But we humbly submit, if it is not j
far the wiser and safer policy for our ji'-o-I
'le instead of putting their money inlo
the coffers of Calvin istie or A bolil ion 'I'n
ions," thereby enriching them. and receiv
ing in return a tainted literature f.r our
children and youth to contribute at
lo our own Sunday-school treasury mic'i a
sum as will enable it to inc. t fully all tho
demands upon it for the siijply of all the
wauls of our miiltijilyiiig m Iun.Ik it!i
books and periodicals of home manufac
ture ?
J Ins is one of the reasons t we in ed
and ask for a ''Sunday-school
Pub!,:
hing
Fund" of our owu. Is it. not a valid i
AVe will give some more hereafter.
ClIAItl.KS T.WMHt.
Cor. Sec. Sunday-school Society,
M. E. Church, Soulh.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 1, lHjil.
SIIIX0T0X AS A CIVILIAN.
However bis military fame may excite
the wonder of mankind, it is chicily by bis
civil magistracy that Washington's exam
ple will instruct thrm. Great generals
have arisen in all ages of the world, and
jierbajis most in those of dcsjiotisiii mid
darkness. In times of violence and con
vulsion, they arise, by the force of the
whirldwind, high enough to ride in it and
direct the storm. Like meteors, they glare
on the back clouds with a sjilciidor that,
while it dazzles and terrifies, makes noth
ing visible but, the darkness. The fame
of heroes i.s indeed growing vulgar ; they
multijily in every long war; they stand in
history, and thicken in their lanks. almost
as undistinguished as their own soldier-.
But such a chief magistrate as Wash
ington ujipears like the pole star, in a clear
sky, to direct the skilful statesman. His
presidency will form an epich, and be dis
tinguished as the age of Washington. Al
ready it assumes its high place, in the po
litical region. Like the milky way, it
whitens along its allotted portion of tho
hemisphere. The latest generation of men
will survey, through the telescope of his
tory, the space where o many virtue
blend their rays, and delight to separate
them into groujis and distinct virtues. A
the best illustration of them, the living
monument to which the fir.-f of ji.it rioM
would have chosen to consign his fame, it
is my earnest prayer to heaven that our
country may subsist, even to that late day
in the jilentitude of its liberty and happi
ness, and mingle its mild glory wilh Wash
ington. 1'inhi r jiitnA.
A CHRISTIAN HoM K.
The Jiitelliarun r, in a finely written
article on the value of a Christian home,
says: Home is to us, not only the phico
of enjoyment, but also of safety. Its en
vironments are all so many guards to keep
us from temptation. Within their circle
we are safe; beyond it, exposed to danger.
Many a temptation lias had power to des
tory, which would have oassed awuvlike
some idle, shifting wind, if the restraints
of home had not been renin vol. I low
many of our good people leave all their
religious observances behind them on their
summer tours, and engage in balls, and
routs, and other frivolities, which at homo
would have been felt to be unseemly! How
many young men religiously educated, ami
virtuous in every habit, have' returned
from a European tour aliuot-t boj.. lessly
vagabondized! Our watering places have
witnessed the disgrace of ininy a dignified
and staid mother, as well as sonH aud dau
ghters innumerable, who. if the restraint
of home had not been taken away, would
have continued on quietly and creditably
in the path of virtue to the end of like
They left their sweet and virtuous home
it the command of fashion, and returned
to find it litter, grown up with thorns,
and thistles, and many noxious weeds,
which they were never alio afterwords tu
eradicate."
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