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■1:■. ,uu . id.;i,Jbbuw,Asi'IM*;., L1 iMl Wr<iS "I" 1 ■■1 ■' 'VOL. IX. Mki-:; '-i. -it j . 'tfi PETERSBURG, V til iir<i mm 4, 1885. NUMBER 33 THE GLORIOUS SONG. “The Church which is His body, the fulness of Him who filleth all in all.”—i, 22, 23. Bound the Lord in glory seated, :; Cherubim and seraphim Filial his temple, ahu repeated Each to each the alternate hymn: “Lord, Thy glory filleth heaven, With its fulness earth is stored; Unto Thee be glory given, Holy, holy, holy Lord ! ” U . __ jpU^JL_ priagings Came from heaven to earth to die— Came to purify his temple, For Himself a meet abode : His own body its ensample, - Filled with light-'The Word of God.’ Now with angels and archangels, Cherubim and seraphim, Now with His church wherein he dwells, Let us swell the solemn hymn: “Lord; Thy glory filleth heave®. With its fhlness earth is stored; Unto Thee be glory given, Holy, holy, holy Lord !*' RETURN FROM CALIFORNIA. LETTER NO. 2. * BY BISHOP HOQD. . Precisely on time, on Saturday July 25th, we reched . Wamega Station, 1994 miles east of San Francisco. This distance was made in a little less than four days. If, however, we de duct two hours lay over at Ogden, one at Cheyenne, five at Denver and tour hours 3toj* for meftl8,to Bay noth ' '' mg of the numerous one to five min utes stops, we had tor actual running time only about 81 hours, making an average a little over 24 miles to the; hour. j Wamega is in the State of Kansas, about 100 miles west of Kansas City, Mo. We have no church at this point Both the M. E, and A. M. E. have • been making efforts to establish a col ored church here, but have not suc ceeded much. There are quite a num ber of well-to-do colored people here. One colored man who lives just across the river, raised 19,000 bushels of com last year, and has a prospect for a larger crop this year. He has two com fields a mile square each. He told 80 hogs a few walks ago, weigh ing from 400 to 800 pounds each. He has several horses and a large number of cattle. Another man has cleared enough in five yean to buy him a farm of 160 acres. If five hundred thousand of our peo ple could move from the South and settle in Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Oregon, it would he much better for all. The best time to go to Kansas is about the last of Feb ruary or first of March. In this ooun try, our people are absolutely free. Public conveyances, public houses mid public institutions are all open to white and black alike and the ballot is free. And yet, so fiur as social in tercourse between, the races is concern ed, there is but little more of it here than in the South. This western country, neverth.le«, fc the natural that prince of soldiers, Gen. U. S. Grant: "I have fought the good I have finished the ceursef Ijiave kept fight better than Gen, Grant. H& was therefore, pre-eminently a good! fight. No man ever more .completely finished what he undertook* He fin ished the business for the Confederate Generals at Donaldson, Vicksburg and Appomattox. He finished the rebellion and restored peace to the landj He finished his book to his own satis4 ^ ™ tv'• a To make a goofi fight you must havev a^ood cause. No man ever battled for a better cause, nor did map ever. faction. jno man was ever more iaiumu tq his convictions of duty. He never hei trayed his trust A good man who possessed his confidence had nothin; to fear, he was ah uiifeiling friend, &ras a mortal man could be, H gained many victories, but his grea est was the victory over satan andsin, by which he was counted worthy of the crown which.the Lord, the righitj eours judge shall give him. • He was not a temperance lecturer, and yet he rebuked intemperate ruler* by turning his glasses upside down, at the first feast tendered him in his jour ney around the world. He was agree1 that the t by his example, he taughi kbit can be overcome. }5.Tfi< Christo worty itfowes in ^ ^ that tiie neatest hero bf the age ac knowledged his feith in the, despise* Nazarene, and died in conscious en joyment of the religion of Jesus, “Th< Christ,” On Thursday July 30th, we reach ed St Louis. We spent three dayi with Elder Claibume and his amiabh lady, whe did all they could to mah< the stay pleasant. We found St Louii exceedingly hot, and comfort alinbe out of the question. Our special visi at this time, is to the Gorondelet, o: South St Louis church, aboht‘ 5 mile i down the Mississippi. Elder J.B. Kidc He has hil people wfl in hand, and secured for us more coin fortable accommodation than conic have been obtained elsewhere in tin i diy. (-,.4 Bister Julia Russell, with whom w< are stopping, has by hard #Ork an< good management, secured for hersel “ a nice home, pleasantly situated on i high bluff; far enough from the rive: to be healthy, and yet theboats play ing upon the river, are in full view Sister Russell is one of nature’^ nobl<1 She has a body weighing be women. I tween two and three hi heart Urge in proportf er-in-law and family seem g spirit of hospi Infect,the c though smhlbin number, people as we have met, I meml idential that We *h< among such people ai We were hardly se three weeks, we have wanted for i mg thatthese kind ministeringai could provide. Sister RuBsejl' never tired watching ever us and iug tor us. If Elder Kidd had an oWhltatoiber- he couldnofhave more for us. We hope to get to j; anapolis in a few -days, but o* hope to d# much more, before co FROM ABINGDON, VA. Mir. Editor: I have just dosed a revival at place. The Lord has doner ,g things for us whereof we are j The result is 35 converts and 47 ditions to the church. We are paring for the annual confer which will convene here on the Wednesday in October. We ] the brethren will hot brin of their wives than poesfji] no reference to our^p Pray for us. Yours fpr God and Zi< Aug. 25th. F. R. White. from: mocksvillb, N. c. Mr. Editor: ' The Statesville District conferen* aasembed here on the 19th inst. T| entire delegation, endorsed the unio ion will continue to cord and c remains divided as Ambitioi^ and and unmerited worth, than for the glory of God and the spread of the phurch, will hake advantage of every difference that may occur in either branch of the Methodist church to lead off the disaf&dtahts. That learned and patriotic Bishop S. T. Jones has spoken in unmistakable ternjs. He has struck the key-note and sounded the death knell to amb: competent aspirants foi the Methodist church, low in the Jhe footsteps er as Bishop Jones, both churches may be | such a leadr bodies will % union; imm., ‘Tfe( oblivion an United Me1 mtmm i'wVto’-uiw llifrnr^nrft th*ifinlif i)lvA»« Wv*®**®' ”4 4-„ g^t; for witneates put u^a the stone Carlyle Smiles, Matthew Arnold, Hai risoht, Greg, and a score of others, Kor ’are the moralists and humanii torians alone in thillind oT teaching for it'certainly is also in our pnijnto and in so called Christian ethics. 1 But who has wereedfer intothe i _i. J.’_ by character is utterly wanting; inf some men? Sink yourrfmft. andmu XOTii. tunnels into the being of some of the humanity about you and find only empty darkness. There are all tk< requisites of the mind except* paying '«fe. Develop character? But wfieri is the seed? Build character? Bui ‘ there are neither foundations nor mat erials. Mold 'character? But then is no lump—no plastic matte*. In aome men seem to inhere qualities 01 that seems barren may be only fallow: and the inlying powers of a nature not be denied amply because they are hidden. The grooves in which these powers run traverse all, human spirits—in some filled up un til they are but lines of indication; in. others deepening until they become channels through which surging fore 68 leap and rush. But the man o« channels we call a genius—the man of im an idiot oi* a boor. Ahd thtis, within similar limitations, Wemaypru perly speak of some men as possessed* of character and of others as destitute of character, ft is not* distinction between the sinful a»£ the holy, the vicious'and, the virtuous, the igm»H ant and the wipe, thp rich and the! poor. The character line runs ath wart all these division lines, and you will find rit as difficult to discover character under silk grownsas under n«s, in the hallsof learning or in the royal palaces asm the unpainted hov el, for the lack of it may not justly be reckoned nmong the necessary privft tions of poverty and ignorance, nor its possession among the vested privileg of rank and learning. jNo#, viewer our Ood be TJniver* sat Law, or the All-Father; character aa here understood, as a gift. Men do t acquire character any more than fey acquire naturalfacultyor genius, ealth, learning, faculty, reputation are acquisitions, but sois not charact ..<?• Some men. bpn^H with them whenlhey appear. Some appear -with out it, and tide without the exercise of petisonaltchoiee in either case. The distinction is equally clear in mature life and childhood—it even shows it self in the maneuvers and facial con tortions of babes in arms. Common languages has devised, a thousand ex pressions to mark this contrast. A man has “no backbone, ” hole a good-fort naught,” a “ne’er dowel V' he is “like a weather-cock.” Yon cannot “reach him,” hois “not to be depended upon,” there is “nothing iahim,” you “need Street nothing of Mm.” And this Weakness, this negativeness,; is not a matter ofexterior.but of the interior and refers, notto what, has come to iMm while here, but to what he brought with him, or did not bring with him when he came* In i word teto . Ibis gift afcharacter, sane men seem to have been endowed With a tolerably compile equipment, and other men with none worths mentioning. And for the justness of these concltaiow the appeal is made, not to theoiiaers nor sentimentalists, hut to men whose business it is to deal, with human char acter. ; in iniiftfi#. mf};? In this awful, equality orpcharaoter endowment is a problem whieh those Who make rules for buman ieonduel should first solve. For of what pea sible use is a^u|e of conduct where S have come infer th& world practicaflj feWaoterlesi? It musi. be conftmed that to them the culture and develop by the educative and self-lifting pro cesses of the current teaching, the mtpeapfmen have no chance, for they positively cannotraise even the small amount of capital necessary to go into the business at ajl. Ovation by culture is a greater thtvesty upon Divine justice than gti^oifby'1 elec tive decree.'. But Christ meets this original me quality in thegifip OflpKaraeter with a solution. Prisoners and wayfarer s def men and blind, beggars ral/ticb fools alike have a chance. Helpleiftaess secures help. Character is, indeed, a divine gift. However soosemay oeme into this world without it, no man need enter the next without having obtained it, To some thereis,in ac purposes, a richer endowment,?jmt to none is the gift denied. Salvation through Christ begins with the gift of Christ, and when in any man—even “the wayfarer, though a fool”—it has come to pass “Christ is formed in him the hope of glory,” the foundation of character haws been .laid. The pow er oi the’Gospel isnotthat of educa tion alone, but creation fortt, and then Of development. Christ’s purpose is not to Mlsome men through the pro cesses of self-help up to moral perfec tion, but to give who will trust him the Basis ofatrue char enter and the plan and materials and power wherewith to build upon it. with all other systems. ' But there follows from all this an important conclusion which directly effects Christian practice. Many men through conditions of blood or dr cnmstance or training, or by Special endowment are greatly gifted in char acter. They are geniuses here, as oth ers are in art of letters. Their force ofcharacter is recognized in trade, in politics, in society. . The world con sults their wisdom, the weak lean up 0» their strength, they “seem to be pilfers.” And yet, how frequently such force is felt in every direction but that of actual Christian work! Other endowments become the will ing instrument of God. Men lay their money and talent upon the altar of consecration, but the very gift which is reckoned at the highest worth by i^e JHvine giver is withheld. The hu mility that keeps it in veiled seclusion 4s fake, for true character is not the acquirement oftnaa, hut the gift of God. Not in his wordsorhis works but in himself; does the Christ reveal the character of God. And never morq urgently has he invoked the aid of true character in the rebuke and the detraction of the ialsenes of the world than now. The most important feesoh for the church to learn id this age is that character must be consecrat ed td God.' Its eloquence reache ears which are shut to human speech; while learning fails it teache; it Convince* where argument bewilders. The Bi« bfe has no such intefcpribor* no such rebuke, virtue no suoh inspifa
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