AND YE SHALL KNOW WILMINGTON, N. 0, Vol. JL ft—.. ■<iiirninmmnmMm Entered at the Port office at Wilmington, N. C., as sec ond-class mall matter.] _ TEE POOR MAN'S SHEAF. BY BBBN X. EKXFOBD! He saw the wheat-fields waiting All golden in the snn, And strong and stalwart reapers - Went by him, one by one, “Oh, could I reap in harvest f” His heart made Utter cry; “I can do nothing i nothing! So ■ . ^ At eve a fainting traveller Sank down beside the door; , - A cop of crystal water To quench his thirst he bore, r And when, refreshed and strengthened, The traveller went his way, Upon the poor man’s threshold A golden wheat-sheaf lay. When came the Lord of harvest, He cried; “Oh 1 Master kind, One,Sheaf I have to offer, But that I did not bind. I gave a cup of water To oae athirst, and he < J Left at my door, in going, • , This sheaf I offer thee.” Then said the Master softly, “Well pleased with this am I: One of my angels left it With thee, as he passed by. Thou mayst not join the reapers Upon the harvest plain, But he who helps a brother Binds sheaves of richest grain.” -S. 8, Timet. DEBT. •,» • ■ • —— - On this subject Mr. Spurpeon says: Living beyond their incomes is the ruin of many of my neighbors; they can hardly afford to keep a rabbit, and mast needs drive a pony and chaise. I am afraid extrav gance is the common disease of the times, and many professing Christians have caught it to their shame and sorrow. Good cotton or stuff gowns are not good enough nowa days; girls must have silks andnatirifl. and then there’s aTMH at fBe dressmaker’s as long as a winter’s night, and quite as dismal. Show and style and smartness ran away with a man’s means, keep the family poor, and the father's nose on the grindstone. Frogs try to look as big as balls, and burst themselves. A pound a week apes five hundred a year, and comes to the country court. Men burn the candle at both ends, and then say that they are very unfortunate—why don’t they pnt the saddle on the right horse, and say they are extravagant ? Economy is half the battle in life ; it is not so bard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would have never known want if they had not first known waste. If all poor men’s wives knew how to cook, how far a little might go l Oar minister says the French and the Germans bert ns all hollow in nice cheap cookery ; I wish they would send missionaries over to convert our gossiping women into good managers ; this is a French fashion which would be a great deal more useful than those fine pictures in Mrs. Frippery’s window, with ladies rigged out in anew Btyle every month. Dear me! some people are much too fine now-a-days to eat what their fathers were thankful to see on the table, end so they please their palates with costly feeding, come to the work-house and expect everybody to pity them. They tarn up their noses at bread and batter, and came to eat raw turnips stolen ontof fields. They who live like fighting-cocks at other men’s hosts will get their combs ont, or per haps get roasted for it one of these days. If yon have a great store of peas, you may put the more in the soup; but everybody should fare according to his earnings. He is both a fool and a knave who has a shilling coming in, and on the strength of it spends a pound which does not belong to him. Gut your coa,t according to your eloth is sound advice ; but cutting other people's cloth by running into debt is as like thieving as fourpence is like a goat. If I meant to be a rogue I would deal in marine stores, or be a pettifogging lawyer, or a priest, or open a loan office, or go out picking pockets, but I wonld scorn the dirty art of getting into debt without a pros pect of being able to pay. Debtors can hardly help being liars, for they promise to pay when they know they cannot, and when they have made pp a lot of false excuses they premise again, and so they lie as fast as a horse can trot: . You have debts, and make de*t» rtill, If you’ve not lied lie, yon. Now, if owing lea4» to lying, yon shall say not a most evil thing ? Of coarse, exceptions, and I do not want to . !sl .. «aV 1Y down by sickness or heavy losses; bat take the rale as a rale, and yon will find debt to he a great dismal swamp, a huge mud-hole, a dirty ditch ; happy is the man who gets oat of it after once tumbling in, but happiest of all is he who has been by God’s goodness kept ont of the mire altogether. If you onco ask the devil to dinner it will be bard to get him ont of the house again. When a ben has laid one egg, she is very likely to lay another; when a man is once in debt, be is likely to get into it again ; better ke«p clear of it front He Who gets in for a penny will soon be in for a pound, and when a man is over shoes he is very liable to be over boots. Never, owe a farthing and yon will never.owe a guinea. My motto is, pay as yon go, and keep from small scores. Short reckonings are soon cleared. Pay what yon owe, and what you’re worth you’ll know. Let the dock tick, bat no “ tick” for m|. Better go to bed without yoar sapper than get np in debt. Sins and debt are always more than we think them to be. Little by little a man gets over his head and ears. It is the petty expenses that empty the parse. Money is round, and rolls away easily. Tom Thriftless buys what be does not want because it is a great bargain, and so is soon brought to sell what he does want, and finds it a very little bargain ; he cannot say “No” to his friend who wants him to be se curity; he who gives grand dinners, makes many holidays, keeps a fat table, lets his wife dress fine, never looks after his servants, and by-and-by he is quite surprised to find the quarter-days oome round so very fast, and that his creditors, bark so load. He has sowed his money in the field of tbonghtlefis ness, and now he wonders that be has to reap ! the harvest of poverty. Still he hopes something to turn np to help him ont of difficulty, and’ to muddles himself into more trouble, forged ting that hope and expectations are fool’s in come. Being hard up he goes to market with empty pockets, and buys at whatever prices tradesmen like to charge him, and so he pays them donblfe^i^tig^^jM^^^injal, trying little tricks and mean dodges, for it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. This is snrejmt to answer, for schemes are like spiders’webs, which never catch anything better than fliesfF and fte soon swept away. As well attempt to mend your shoes with brown paper, or stop a broken window With a sheet of ice, as to try to patch up a falling business with manronvring and scheming. When the schemer is found out, he is like a dog in church, whom everybody kicks at, and iike a barrel of powder, which nobody wants for a neighbor. .knn'.) They say poverty is a sixth seme, and it had heed be, for many debtors seem to have lost the other five, or were born without comtnon sense, for they appear to fancy that yon not only make debts, bnt pay them by borrowing. A man pays Peter with what he has borrowed of Paul, and thinks he is getting ont of his difficulties, when he is patting one foot into the mnd to poll his other foot out. It is hard to shave an egg or pnll hairs ont of a ball pate, bnt they are both easier than, paying! debts ont of an empty pocket. Sampson was; a strong man, bnt he could not pay debts withont money, and he is a fool yho thinks be can do it by scheming. As to borrowing money of loan societies, it’s like a drowning man catching at xazors ; Jews and Gentiles, when they lend money, generally plnck the geese as long as they have any feathers T A man must cot down his outgoings and sale save his incomings if he wants to clear him self ; yon can’t spend your penny and pay debts with it too.. Stint the kitchen if the purse is out. Don’t believe in any Way of wiping ont debts except by paying hard cash Promises makes debts, and debts makes prom ises, but promises never pays debts; promis ing is one thing, and performing is quite an other. A good man’s word should be as bind ing as an oatb, and he should never promise to pay unless he has clear prospect of doing so in due time; those who stave off payment by false promises deserve no mercy. It is all very well to say, “ I’m very sorry,” but , i-- ' j1 i A hundred years of n Pay not a farthing of THE PBOMPT GLEBE. 1 A young man was commencing life ini a clerk. One day his employer said to him: d “ now to-morrow that cargo of ej>tton tnnst be got ont and weighed, and we must have a regular account of it.” He was a young man of energy. This was the first iime he bad keen entrusted to snper intend the execution of this work; he made inti otto night, tyoke to the men ■ 3 s’ i \in nisi ' h about their carts and horses, and resolved to begin very early in the morning* half-past four o'clock. So they set to work and the thing was done ; and about ten or eleven o'clock his master came in, and seeing him sitting itr the counting-house, looked very black, supposing that his commands had not been executed. , V ‘ 4 ** I thought,” said the master, jp you were requested to get out that ^owgofcthis morn ing t° '] "It & all done,” said thtfyoppgman, "and here Is thb account of it”J,:'t?Tl^ He never looked behind bfcn from that mo ment—never 1 His Oharacter was fixed, confi dence was established. He Was found to be the than to do the thing with promptness. He very soon came to be one that could pot, be spared ; he was as necessary to the firm as any one of the partners. He was a relig ions map, and at his death was able to leave his children am ample fortune. WE OF STANLEY'S.AB VENTURES. ’While Stanley, the Afriean explorer, was working his way down the great river whose onion with the sea he was first to disoover, he had* thirty-two adventures with the hostile natives, in some of whieh he lost a number of meh. One of these adventures is thus des cribed by a correspondent of the Boston Journal: • ' u . /• ■ .“The inhabitants had assembled on the bank, seeing this. curious boat filled with strangers approaching, and Stanley’s men said they thought the cries, which were almost deafening, of a friendly nature. But,Stanley thought not. To him the cries Beamed war like. However, visions of figgs,. chickens, fresh milk, and- perhaps goat’s flesh, for his exhausted men flashed before his eyes, and he gave the signal to put into the cove. No sooner had the boat reached the shore than it wps ,hauled fifty yards up on the shore by a hundred hands, and before Stanley and his astonished men could realize Where they were they found themselves in tbe^episs of a circle ufsaveftos, shah af iwb'lui WW atT^ row at the unlnoky rights. There were sev eral hundred of these people, called the Bum brrch, after the name of their island on the shores, and Stanley says that he expected to be instantly massaored* His gun and those of his men lay in the bottom of the boat, and to stoop to pick them up would have brought shower of arrows and instant death. So he endeavored to reason with the savages, and showed them some cloths and beads, which they accepted.: They crowded around the boat, however, and one man took hold of Stanley’s hair and gave it a violent wrench, thinking it was a cap and would come off, disclosing wool. This was hard to bear, and meanwhile one of Stanley’s men received a stunning blow from a spear-handle. Then the explorer made another little speech, ask ing for food and to be allowed to continue his journey, promising more cloth and beads. The savages then made several ferocious de fhohstrations, rushing down Upon him, gnash ing their teeth and shaking their spears in his very face, but they did not kill him and final ly retired to consult. This mortal agony of suspense lasted froth nine in the morning until three in the afternoon, during which time Stanley, did not get out of his boat, nor did be take his eye off the islanders. At last, seeing no chance of anything but death, be gave the signal to his men to be ready at a certain cry to drag the boat into the water. Presently the islanders began to return, and something told Stanley not to wait. So he shouted the word- ai ooa%maod, trad the boat flew down the slope into the Water, his men diving all around it like so many muskrats, in tbeireagernees to escape the javelins and arrows which they knew would come. Stanley picked up his elephant gnn and, as an island er bounding on the beach was preparing to fire an arrow after the boat, he shot him, and the immense bullet, passing through the sav age’s body, killed another behind him. Meantime it was discovered that the oars were lost, and Stanley’s men were paddPng with their hands as fast as they could to get out of arrow range, when they were horrified to see thirty-six Barrages pot ofi from Bumbrieh in three large canoes. The men,in Stanley’s boat were anxious to fire at. once, but he or dered'them to allow the canoes to approach, and Succeeded- in'iinkiug two of them by fir ing into their sides at the water line. In two minutes two dozen savages were struggling in the trater and beating away for the shore with vigorous strokes; the third eanoe nenonnoed pursuit, and Stands and hit men found them selves safe, but still half dead from hpugei when they joined the main body of thee;tpe dition.”’;vi- su j HOW TO FILL A OHURCE. The evening service on Sunday in a certain congregation was poorly attended. People thought they ooald not oome out twice a Snn day to ohnroh. The council talked the matter over. Their talk resulted in a pledge to each other that they would never absent themselves willingly Irom thestfrening service, and that they would urge every one they saw to plan for a second attendance. pafeffltTtalkednt"o ver. “TheylSuti® that their children were not in the habit of spending the evening religiously or profita bly, and they, determined to set them an ex ample of an earnest devotion to spiritual con cerns. They began going twice a day the Sunday after. The young men talked it over. They con cluded that it was their duty to attend both services, and to bring at least one young man apiece with them. The young ladies talked it over. They thought that if they could go to a concert or party at night it could not do them any harm to be at church after sunset. They decided that they would all go regularly, and take each a young woman with them. The minister did not know what to make of it. He began to flatter himself that he was a latent Spurgeon. The attendance was increasing every week. Strangers, seeing the direction of the crowd, followed. It became the most popular church in the city. 0R08S BEARING. “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and Jtake up hie crose, and fol low me.” “I want to be a true Christian. I have given my heart to the Savior, but I do not expe rience the joy and peace which I believe it is possible for me to have.” Such a one lingered at the close of a meet I have known many persons who could say, I -was among the “Christian workers,” and as I approached her I asked God’s help and guidance. I will briefly record our conversa tion. In reply to my questions, she said, “I gave my heart to the Savior a few months ago. I want to be a faithful disciple, but I feel sad and downcast sometimes, because I know so little of Christian joy.” I said, “do you like to tell others that you have found Jesus ?” “That is what I have felt I ought to do sometimes; but I confess that I have remained silent.” “Is your husband a Christian ?” “He was once a professed Christian, but he seems to have lost all interest in re ligion ?” % r“Does he know of the change in your heart?” “Yes he knows something of it. I told him of my purpose to live a Christian life when I first started.” •‘DoeB he seem inclined to join with you in your morning or evening devotion ?” “I do not think he would, but I have not asked him. I have not the courage to read my Bible and kneel in his presence. I go away by myself every night to pray;” “Have you ever felt called to bow in bis presence, even though you pray silently ?” j “Sometimes I have, but I cannot tall you how hard it would be.” “Do all your family know that you aire a Christian ?” ”ITo71 fear not. I have been almost on the point of telling them bu tTcould not make the confession, for they are not Christians.” Words of mine seemed weak. Only God conld help such a one, and; we knelt in prayer. , , She followed me in an earnest prefer—the! first, I believe, that any hnman ear had beard! from her lips—in which she sought divine strength and asked to know his will* She promised to take some,decided step be fore she closed her eyes in sleep that night— to speak to her husband and other members of the household of Jesus and his lore. We met as strangers and we parted, not knowing that we should ever meet again. A few weeks later I met her, and she said with a smiling face, “I want to tell you that I had strength given to me to tell my husband of my hope in Christ and of my anxiety for his soul’s safety, and I knelt in prayer before him. As my brothers came to the house, I told each of my Savior’s love. After I had done these things which I loug shrank from doing Jews seemed dpar to me. Ope day, as j sat alone I had sweet communion with him, and thb room seemed filled. ..with light. The ‘cross • - - 1 rtbaoi'dadT T bearing? rwealefl; tome l can say to-day, ‘Jesus is mine, and I am .» -sJnwtt ■ I Did any of readers ever > bear febe cross m w^a- find any ever undertake anv task lor Jesus when fcwanlepiaK. , sook me, and I bore‘:t»rrt»rd«ri bloftfc" op;nt»%oan.bo4jiiifea(n?^.t.o • JeeaA8aid/^Iio, ;I'am with you always even nut , nbter Goddard, t» AtMrvct*^ ^ i:w7a,f t0’r «*•» - J«<nT.t' messenger,_,. v ■: ::qo HUJiJil.M SUIJ9OT *71 Jfca l INDEPENDENCE QF THE Nm&$l - How edifies itthat p«Ht$iO; volume *eHM fjosed by imnilde, man ind science were b^t lf 3xerted 'more inf »nd on the social syete1$ ofinf bH)|^|^b^p“ put together ? Whence cefedr |t- |h«t 4Bl»i book has achieved 8ach maryelIotisch:^g^%« the opinions of mankind—has banished idol raised the Btan^rd trf ph^ic^M^ifea home—^nd oansed 5 tnbi^be by causing benevolent institutions, open and ex pansive, to spring upas wff* u %ahdbf feta cbaptmentP What sortWwbhbk fhfct ■ even the wind and the waves of hnman pas sion obey itj? What jothor engine ofppcial improvement pM|$tpd:so long, none of its virtue r Since it appea boasted plans of ameliorationTiaVi^ and failed, many codes of jarispt&defefe'havi arisen and ran their course and expired. B&t this book ie stiU goiugabqitdoingi ening society with its holy. princTp ing the sorrowful With consolation, gw ening the tempted, encouraging the peni . calming the troubled spirit, ifad smoothing the yellow of death, a Can such a book be the “ - of hu ' vamose at im onoow aomoawrato mo excel* lency of the power to be of God f—Dt. Mc Culloch. ' ■ A SERMON IN RHYME. ,'f iiin If you have a friend worth lovina, , Love him, Yes, and let him know That yon love him, ere life’s e veiling Tingehisbrowwithsunsetglow— Why should good words he’ir be ssidL Of a friend—till he'is dead? \ >L;a 4 ™ If you hear a song that thrills you, Sung by any child of song; gvmH icH Praise it, Do not let the linger o; Walt deserved praises long, ti ,£a ki * ',j«jh:7 Why should one who ^irUlsyeqr heart. * Lack the joy you may impart ? If your work is made more easy t\i % we! A By a friendly, helping hand, .vir?’, -,t . a c,j Say so. Speak out bravely, truly,+fi;. • ,, „ q 8 « ir: '.rote rul a: r.snho \%& .In fc ,^«8 j»$ Scatter thus your seeds of kindness, a f; - .{* All enriching af you^r. :. f. * frcw Leave them- Trust the Harvest-giver, . He will make each seed to grow. ‘ u> ' *' * ‘ So, until the happy end, negro u'^ao Life Shall never lack a friend. aft b iteOB tt! HUMOROUS CORKER, oj.-jjgo BnmB tao They dress expensively jwho go: V>jth»^r (r,er for their suits. E > . {,, . r -, A negro being adred. j»b^t0h§(vas>rAtt4aj tor, said it was.for borrowingjnon ^ they don’t put people in j 84 for pof money,” said1 theqtfeillkniiBt. **5^ the darkey, ‘‘but I bid' tolrnobk See it to me1” s*. saia a r onrtn street auseao« to as he.awakened . her.^pm deapifjim i<r tuttes ? owmo w nt 8&3pwi'o “Wife,!* said a Fourth street ihnabandT to his wife as he awakened.] ber, “I ' form ottfPI JVH ,, „ „ “Ob, Jet me sWejfr,” angrily Replied part, “and don’t be frightened;aftnyowmwn. shadow.” .b-yhiicn t -z. “Ish dere eoqie ledder here • fo* mefF in quired a German atthegeoeral deUpe^Jbwih dow of the postoffiee the none-here,” was tte reply. queer,” he CQntinued, getBheFfiw'J(b®ttF into the ifiMb*^“my Ips 'sbm^ dree leddere in one day.'imd Hi IgetnowrI “Well, Fatiher Erpsffohgss di^yi the sermon yesterday,?” ask?da haven’t J| HL, yoUrs. 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