-1 IT" CAL RECORDEI Biblical Eecoebi . . 3 SUED EVEIiY WEDNESDAY ' . J XT " ' - - - " ED IDS, . BROUGHTON & CO., - RALEIGH, N. C. OSC'- ayetterill Street, Standard Building. ' .' jtfjfif OF SUBSCKIPTIOX; ' ' Oj of oo yew,, . ............... . .... .. 50 Oner '' . ix tuontbv I., . 1 50 Clabi fire, t . . v '- -'i - .11 00 Out ten, ::.,. . ... - .20 00 "RdwUnce of CO or nndcr may be made by thi ordinary mail t bar rUk. but all Eimig above lUt aidant must be acttt by Post Office Order or Regis1 -gcd Letter. ; . . - - SEESOXOXETEKS, - i'"''r f ; , rTjr rjy ij i , ,TN1 f ' THV -" MTTn . I " 1 . i.UJ . I ' ; .-jr r : :"j , v'sj r " . T j ' :' . - ..." - - f .-. t . ,.t ' . . s i ' . '. ; i . - ....... 1 T1 .,...', ,.: . i ' " ' I ! l ADTEZTZSZyG BATES: Spaci. itime, ixa. m. 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Bat, - - " ' . r K - ," - '"' hare been developed iu coiitciviov tteai and even beautiful nets for our. beds, so that wo can lie quietly upon our hair mat tresses and hear those little pests per forming their nightly serenades. ' We night, and congratulate ourselves on the highly ornamental appearance of our de fensive arrangements, and we feci proud that the ingenuity of man. can defy the blood-thirsty nature of a musquito. - Bats too thoso princes of impudent knavery have tried to gnaw . through, our.theory, just as they have gnawed through our barrel of flour; but wo set our wits to work, and devised a tin-covered barrel, which protected t our flour, "and at the sametime defended our theo ry." Besides, what a vast amount of in genious thinking much, of highly artis tic and ideal has been done on the fruit ful and suggestive theme of rat-traps. There is an extremely active little crea ture, whose name seems to be (for some reason unknown to us) unmentionable in polite circles, and whose habits of life are such as to apjpartoconflict with our theo; ryj but then this conflict is only apparent; for we have seen persons who never exhib ited any sort of industry or activity, ex cept when they were engaged in catching (or frying to catch) the agile creature ary way in I Samuel xxiv: 14, vw . Another creature of almost the same size, with the last mentioned, and whose name is equally contraband in ... refined society, has given our theory some heavy blows. But when we think of the thriv ing trade which is carried on in horn and ise tusagrLa naoiis or in. -aforesaid ; and " especially when we remember that the inopportune presence of one of them, upon a lady's bonnet, at J church, jgave "occasion to Burns' fine impromptu, addressed to the Aglyi creepin' blastit wonner." We cannot help thinking that we have re ceived more benefit, than injury, from the existence of the animalculae, which tiOUS. t ALi AUU.Ua V ill I llhlO. I Our object in this paper is to defend a certain class of people against whom a vast deal of odium iheologicum is contin ually poured forth from press and pulpit, and whoso varied and valuable good traits have been singularly ignored. We uave neara uiem uenouncea time ana again, and have seldom heard one word spoken' in their defence, except by' tho humble writer of this paper; The much abused and long-suffering class, "whose defence we have undertaken, consists of the tlccpers in church If the reader will have a little patience, we feel confident of being able to present various advan tages which accrue: from sleeping in church. In the first place t A man who goes ;to sleep, will most probably not. interrupt the preacher and congregation by get ting up deliberately, in the midst of the services, and walking out. "We have often been annoyed by such ill-bred con duct j but we never knew a single . in stance of it on the part of one who was asleep. In the second place : A man never de files the floor, or the carpet, of a church with tobacco juice while he is asleep, Spitting, at best, is not one of the fine arts j and almost any thing is desirable which, insures a man against so disgust- inff an act as making a vile puddle of tobacco juice on the floor of a church. Thirdly i A sleeper never disturbs the worshin bv whispering to the people about him. - He commonly keeps still, and this is a great point gained. , Fourthly : A sleeper does not turn his head to stare at the folks who come in lateJ " The starers at church are great nuisances. We never, knew anybody to stare about him while asleep. Fifthly: A sleeper is pretty certain not to interrupt the preacher and congrega tion, and may be alarm . the neighbor hood, by crying out, shouting, clapping the-hand3, and making strange, wild : noises. We have known some very hon est wide-aicake people do this; but we never saw anybody do it while asleep. Sixthly : Sleepers are not apt to make ill-natured remarks about the sermon. They are apt to be lenient critics. AI most any preacher who does not disturb their nap, is a " good, sound, preacher."- sale "E"t all these good qualities are neg' cut:," jrys t-3 elector. True, but they are none the less valuable on, that ; ac-; count. ' Besides, wo have yet to. present tho positive side, and .wo feel that; it is very importanL , Indeed, the chief use of sleepers In cb.Txrch,'consists in their value as termonometcrs. Wo are not sure that, this woitl is ia the dictionary, but wo are . by no means sure that It ought not to be. Dictionaries are very bungling con triv ancesafter.all, and Garriclc once said of a-tnan.Uvat. ji.fUe fpllow was a .fool j , U; w- ioiciag Ti'Uia diefU&atyjQT th mean ing of a " word." 7 Wo can easilydefind" and defend our .word, however, without a dictionary. Analogy shall guide i us. A thermometer measures heat A barom eter measures the weight of the , atmos phere. t A termonometcr) then, . would measure a sermon. . Now, we have some capital scrmonom- eters in our church. Indeed, it would be difficult to devise a better ? test of the value of a sermon, as delivered' in our church, than is furnished to our hand by some of our sleepers. By the way, can a church be safely trusted to stand with out 8leepert t iThe carpenters say not. At all events, we have sleepers j fn our church, and they are useful. -; We; look anxiously at Brother CPs. face before we get half through the introduction of the sermon. If Brother ia wide awake, we feel much encouraged. If he and Brother W. both stay awake during the whole sermon, and show not the least sign of sleepiness, (a very rare case in deed,) we feel that we have done remark ably wellor us. It Brother G. stands it through the introduction, and holds out pretty well during most of the sermon, only nodding a little towards the middle, we feel considerably encouraged, and say to ourselves, "Sot so bad this time. -If Brother G. and Brother W., both, get to sleep before the exposition of the text is entered upon, and wake up only when we are on the closing, exhortation, we feel considerably J discouraged. But When both fix their heads upon their hands, and their elbows upon the scrolls of their pews, before we get well into the introduction, ;andsink jnto theirregnlar sleeping posture, and become utterly lost to all around them, until we are about concluding the final exhortation, and then rouse up, rub their eyes, stretch them very wide open, and assume the ap pearance of men who were never asleep in their lives, then we feel that we have made a dead failure, and conclude that we. must study a great deal more for next Sunday. In short, our scrmonometcrs are at zero. 2Sow, from hJng and regular practice, we have learned to graduate these instru ments with an accuracy which is abund antly sufficient for all practical purposes. Our two aermonemeters generally vary from 100 degrees to zero j but we feel pretty certain that we have seen them fall some degrees below zero, when we have felt that we should have done better had we not preached at aH.' , ' - After this attempt of ours, to defend an ill-used, long-suffering f and valuable class of our church-going population, we trust that we shall -not : be obliged to change our opinion as to' their effective ness in their peculiar sphere.' It may be admitted,' however," that we have one sleeper in our church who is of not the slightest value as a SCTmonometer, be cause lie always goes to sleep ' before the sermon begins. ' " ' But it is now Saturday : and we feel that we are not so well prepared for the pulpit as we might bej and as we have no disposition to see our sermonomcters run down to zero to-morrow morning,' we must close this articlo with one of the profound sayings of the son of Siraet (Ecclesiasticus xlii : 24,) " All things are double one against the other, ana toa hath made nothing mperect.,'- -:-: i u. --t Povertv in iteelf; is not a crime, but it is often the cause of crime, and ; some times its result, . "r ' . For the Beoorder. , v WHAT'S THE MATTEBI ;" The progressive fonn'in the Active voice has its corresponding progressive form in the Passive voice." OlarVs Er glUh Grammar. Very well; let's try it : Corn is selling Co iJiiinff has been selling- had been selUng may . be selling would have been selling, &e. Jsow lor ine massive form t Corn is being sold was being sold. win this do f .-' But well go farther. r v,a hrina sold had been being sold m&j be being sold--would have htina sold. All wrong I wrong i Is the rule wrong, then 1 What's the matter t- " ML Olive, IT. C, Oct. ICtA, 1873. We should retain tho remembrance of faults wo tavoenco fsriven. PISTIXGUISUEDt BAPTIST MIXfSTEE s ? WHO WERE BORN IN KOBin CAKOUNA SI HVT UTED ANb'LABbSED IN .0T1IEU j STATES. . , , ' ,EliV W T. BSAJfTLY, P.'I. After my last article on "Pr. " Brautly was written, I encountered" two' letters, one from Dr. Basil Manly, the othifrom Eichard Fuller, addressed t6Dr.Wm."B'. Sprague, author of "Annals of;.Ameri- CanBapt'TulpiVhrcljk'tfiftoOf untisit I al Interest, and I know will be read with profit by the friends of 'tho'IlECoSDEr Next week'I will give the" letter of ' Dr. Fuller. '' ' ; " T.'H. P. ; r From tho Ccr B Manly, I) DM if msxDxsx or xaa 'cwrrasBmr o aubama. . ' TTiOTZBsrrr ct Aulbama, March Cth, 1843. Bev. and Dear Sir: At length, amid tho press of business, I snatch the brief intervals of comparative leisure, for giv ing some reminiscences of tho late Dr. Brantly. I do it informally, , supposing this to be more in accordance with what you wish and expect from me.; ; My first distinc knowledge of Dr. Brantly was in my nearly boyhood, and when he had justlcompleted . his College course. It was in the meeting-house of the old Fork Church, la Chatham Conn ty,2J. C. He was then of very youthful appearance, and attracted my attention partly by this fact, and partly by his ex ceedingly fine person and voice. Though little qualified to judge, yet from the ef fect of his discourse on myself and others, rem embered long " afterward," I should judge that he had not then laid aside the starchness of the College, nor acquired that ease pungency, and ' force, which afterward distinguished him. ; For sev eral years I saw him not f a gain ; until, visiting his parents, with the first Mrs. Brantly and their elder children, he came to his native . county. .Then he shone conspicuous; and made an impression on multitudes of those who had known him from his childhood, which will never be forgotten. From that time my admira tion of him grew, as my opportunities of knowing him were extended ; and now, after the lapse of many years, and some acquaintance with men and things, I re gard him as a character of singular ex cellence, in so many points of light, that, to give evon a sketch of him is a task of no ordinary difficulty. ' Nature, - educa tioo,and grace, had thrown togeUier, in his composition, such liberal and varied contributions, and my immediate inter course with him was so brief, that it be comes me to speak only of those traits which were brought personally to my VieW. :j ... V Under an aspect and mien . unusually commanding, he cherished a spirit 'of kind condescension. When the poor and wretched came in his way, he ever had a heart to pity, and a hand to relieve. To young men of modest merit he was, sin gularly attached. Such seemed to have a special attraction for him : his eye often detected them in a crowd ; and he would follow them, and seek them out ; nor did he ever seem so interested or so happy as when directing and assisting such to as pire after usefulness and honor. ' Yet it was equally remarkably that, if he dis covered any Bymptom of shallow conceit and self-sufficiency in any young person about him it excited his especial dislike ; and he pursued it with such "invincible disgust, that he invariably either broke it down or banished it from his presence. He seemed to test his young friends early in his intercourse with them, for this quality ; and until repeated proofs of a self-renouncing, v submissive, "ingenuous spirit had been given him; hi3 criticisms and reproofs had something awful and almost crushing about them. . Superficial or casual observers might have regarded him severe and unrelenting.' He was so to impudence, assumption,, and conceit ed folly j but a gentle, inquisitive and docile spirit disarmed him completely. xowara nis Dreinren more aavaneea in years; whatever were their' distinctions. uo one could be more tree from censori- ousness, jealousy, and envy; or, how ever scanty i&eir endowments, none was more free from airs of superiority or re serve.? What was truly excellent in the efforts of another, though it might seem to overshadow liimsclf, he acknowledged and admired witn c entire ; simpncity. Walking with him from his - dwelling in Philadelphia to his own. church,- to hear Div Wn of Albany, who had then begun to , attain celebrity, the ; fame of the preacher was the subiect of remark be tween us, as neither had heard hini. Alter tne discourse, when wo had lett the retiring crowd, he seized my arm with a sudden and forcible grasp, and said, "I will tell you, M it is no fable. The ap-, pneauon ox me remarc was well under-, stood. - TSo one accustomed to be with him in private, could have doubted the sinceri-? iy anu vigor oi nis piety, xiis prayers, both in the family and in pubho, were ever remarkable for their simple fervour and appropriateness, w They were always plain, yet not commonplace : comprehen sive, yet brief: apparently unstudied. yet ; leading every i devout worshipper through the circle of his own wants, in entreaties so distinct, yet ; varied, as - if each single case had been alone , under his eye. Although his life was a con stant scene c-f bustle and toil, this never seemed to disincline or unfit him for' de-? votion. The prayer-meetings - of hid church he uniformily attended with alac-; nty and delight ; and although he always went oppressed with the recent wear and vexation of the school room, with scarce-; ly an interval to snatch a hasty repastj certainly none lor retiromenc, yet, to tho surprise of all, ho ever seemed to come a3 if fresh from tho closet, and from communion with his Savior, as though his devotion had been mellowed azd enriched amid hours epent by the still waters of prayerful ,seclus(on. . Be side 'the . Scriptures,- ho made ' freqnent use of 'such works1 ; as Bishop - Hall's Contemplations, i end Adam's Private j (Thoughts.! t.-pCtlie latter .work ho once made this remoxk' to mo Spmo inav? doubt the propriety of a good man's dis-l closing so much secret impurity remain-1 iug iu himself. But that writer, exposes i to mo my own heart his experience is fiiiuoj anilwhilold- not hate impurity; anyone IcbSj becauso a good man' has ' groaned undet it, I confess that this fact helps mo to take a aittie nrmer- iiold of the hope that impure andfile as I; am, I an not quite fcajken.ctSGod.'' , , What 1 shait cay of tne nualitics-of his intellect must:. be especially meagre, ; for the simple reason, that I a mind like ' his,, strikingly devated and even maj es-; tiCj yet well balanced t presents so many I potuis ior contempiauon, nuu cacn. so ex-1 tended, as to require rather a ' separate treatise tor each than a hasty glance at tho whole. That which struck me most, however, was the readiness with which ho could turn tho whole vigor of his thoughts on any subject at -will, togethor with his power of comprehension and analysis. -Being often in his study when he was preparing for tho pulpit, he has seemed to me to make a sermon, com plete, in a time not much longer than it has required to write this paragraphs I have then gone with him to church, and heard him preach thoso sermons, the skel etons of which I took klowu, and have preserved to this tune ; and, on every re view of them; they surprise me by thfc justness of their distributions, and the rich veins or well elaborated thought to which they lead. .Jlmagery and illustra tion he had very flptly at command. His g&at master, in such matters, among un p1?ed;men was Jeremy Taylor: whose liistl fie considered equal to Homers. FoEtho same purpose also he thoroughly studied Milton, and the graver poets. But, whatever was the haste of his com position of a sermon, or tho suddenness with which an illustration or argument was suggested, his audience could not be aware of it by any. seeming ' want of familiarity or comprehension. On one occasion, when preparing a sermon for the afternoon, the bell struck, denoting the hour ot service.. "Ah," said he, liling, as he rose from his paper on which he had hastily dashed off a dozen lines in large misshapen letters, my sermon is liko a half formed, insect- on tho banks of the 2ile, part out, part in.? I walked with him to the house of wor ship, and never heard him more fully in command of his subject, or of the minds and feelings of his audience. The secret of this was, ho elaborated ideas, not par ticular sermons, d ragmencs. oi - ume were all he had for study. These ho im proved with singular industry and per severance. His mind was over on the stretch. Whatever were his theme at the moment, he instantly brought his wholo powers to bear on it, and dispatch ed it soon. Thus it was not unusual for him to be substantially prepared with "a sermon before he had his text. His style was very carefully modelled after the classic authors; perhaps, for some years, it had a little too Close resemblance to the rotund and sonorous Latin. He had a clear and accurate judgment. and an abundant fund of common sense. Thi3 was seen in the facility with which ho would adapt himself to every person or occasion and meet the demands ; of every case. He could awe or attract, re pulse or win, with, equal readiness and self-possession, as he saw most lit. . He had no freaks nor whims he was stead ily nnder the influence of principles well understood, so as to give a consistency to his character, which lett no one in doubt where to find him. .. He was .ever like himself, both in his excitements and reiaxauoiis, anu always uigmnea anu , jj 3 f, : j : :j3 1 j commanding, j The following incident may illustrate several of the points at which 1 have glanced. .. While residing in Augusta, "between 1810 and 1820, he was one of a Committee, sent by the Georgia Association to another body of the same kind, to labor, ' to restore com mon views and feelings between the two Associations on the subject of Missions,' and perhaps other points of difference.'' On this errand, after explaining himself with great patience and Mndness; to his brethren, the Association took the mor tifying and repulsive ground of refusing to .receive Mm, and the other messengers of the Georgia Association He submit- ; ted to this discourtesy inf a quiet humor. The public i feeling of tho congregation,! however, required that he should preach on the Sabbath. In presence of the body that had rejected him, on the day before ho rose and announced his text,' J ob xxxvi : z, annex me a ntue, and I wiu snow xnai j. nave- j et , to speaK ; on Uoas behalf.?--.' ixom this starting point. he poured forth the Divine message of grace to guilty men,in a strain so grand, subduing and attractive, that, though no visible manifestation of. Deity was givenJ and tne Aimignty , answered; not out or the whirlwind, the stricken multitude could scarcely have been ; more affected and overwhelmed, had such really : been the case. : By an action not uncommon among the Southern Churches, while he was yet speaking.4 he came ' down5 from the platform, - and nearly the whole as sembly rushed involuntarily to meet him,' Down they fell upon their knees, many at once asking . him to pray for them, while the big tears in 1 profusion coursed down his mainly face. Such 'was' the sequel of prayer and love which followed the rejection ot hi3 mission on the ; day before, , . . That period of his ministry in which heard him oftenest, and knew him best was tne last year or " nis residence in Beaufort, S C, and shortly . after . tho death of his incomparable wife. The aged, judicious, and spiritual-minded people who formed a rare cluster of in telligenco and piety m that church, at that time, used to speak to mo with great emotion of the sanctified effect of this affliction, of tho richness and savor which it Lad imparted to the, ministry, o thcnT.jL'aswr., : Uertain it is that,! .hot then and since, I must regard him as th most- unilbrmly engaging, instructiv inspiring preacher that it has ever bee my. good fortune to hear.1.;If:he did no often electrify by.sometounding effort,' ho neyer failed to'meet the' demands of an occasion and never fell below : him-l Belf. t'HiS sermons were-:not: all equally! Interesting, of coursOk; but I dOi Oofe ire-j mpmDcr that lever heard-, a remark fall1 from him, whiclCl considered common place, tor foebhyor said merely' to fill out, the time. The Volume of sermons, pub lished near thft eloftA of Jhin reRidftnen in' -Philadelphia, was written amid as heavy! a press ot aflairs as ho cverw3ountered.i 1 l was in his house during - that : period,; and he told mo that he had tasked him-j self to write one sermon a week, of . that' scries, besides his .other duties. These1 discourses are" certainly not .better than the average of his ordinary ministrations..' As a Pastor, he was exemplary - and truly affectionate toward his people. ; If asked what was most remarkable of Mm' in that relation, I should say it was the confidenco ho inspired." ' As a genera! thhig, his people gave up their mind and reelings to him, without suspicion, or re serve, or uneasiness of any kind. When1 ho approved, it was common for them to feel satisfied that all was right. : ' 5 Wlifle-walking together to tho House f (flyvrl . 4Ta 'ff-AtiffmnKlfA - MA4-YAwi. Tm ?- i vuut vug loiawio uiuuiu vi i. Bichard Fuller, of Baltimore, made , this! remark to me evincive of her, character-i istio sagacity: I" How pleasant It is to" have a Pastor in vhom we can thorough-5 ly confide F She added : " 1 can ' go to church under any : circumstances. and carry any friend with me ; and whatever turns up, I never feel any anxiety or un-! easiness about whatMr. Brantly is going to say ordo." ' V " ; i Buchv my dear Sir,- are a few Imperfect; hints. of what Dr. Brantly was while I knew him. . My admiration, affection, ' and gratitude' are ever due to his mem-! ory. 1 ! ; very truly yours, wf: ) B. MAK1.Y.T ; SUte of tho Church la ff Indsor Coalition of Colored BaptlstsBemedy-hnnberUnd University Whero is It f question for Agr' ricoltorallsts Eucalyptus. ; . , 1 WiNDSOa; X. O Oct 14,' 1873. Dear Recorder : We are progressing pleasantly at old Cashie, although sadly disappointed that our good bvethrea re fused to give us the next session of the Convention. Elder Jeremiah Bunch still serves us in spiritual things ; at our last church meeting i ho stated that t he felt duty1 to say; that he could serve the: church no" longer.. . Tho church, he said, ,was abundantiy able to have a-pastor to. go in and out before them every Lordt. day, and i. the community - required a jpreacher of ".sdperibf abilities and better i mental, training,,, We are well pleased; with Bro. Bunch, his modesty has en-' deared ' him. still more 'to our hearts ; members declared their unwillingness to part from him, . His brief ministry has; been a success, many valuable, members hav been brought into the church, and he leaves tho church In a delierhtful frame.: IdnlCraiife; were added to church, four by. baptism, and one by letter ; j; all in the bloom of life.:' The church will make an .effort to call a pas-! tor to serve us all tho time. Elders Craig: and Hufham were . suggested "as Elder; Bunch's successor. .Our church edifice, with its cross .on the ' steeple, (so obnox-i ions to our good Bro. Egerton) is under going thorough repair. We have a noble band of young brethren, who love our Zion, and are willing to sacrifice their all to the blessed cause: f At bur1 last' meet-; ing it was stated, by a committee, -that $125 were needed and must be forthcom-; ing.;' We had been pretty severely tested on a money matter just previously and there was a dead . pause, uo response to the - appeal ot the ; committee; 4 membera thought' they had done all they could. A young brother arose and. made a fer- vent appeal to the .cnurcn n oenait ox the committee, - and some $40 or more were subscribed or paid. . , The speaker then addressed the committee and urged them to go on, assuming the amount of the deficit himself. Bro. Moderator, he continued, " I joined the church four years ago, and at that time I dedicated myself,' my all to Jesus; when I sulv scribed to the fundor endowing Wake Forest College I gave all I could .sparel I shall deny s myself necessary comforts to aid this committee, and if that is not Hufflcient I give myself I now redeem my baptismal vow, in doing it I never felt happier, in my life," Powerful sen?, sation among the young and old church bothed in tears. , There is hope among such a people... ? - t . 1 5 . The condition of our colored members is highly interesting. Something should be done. Their ministry seem5 disposed to do all in their power, they enforce dis cipline, tbut they are illiterate and see but dimly. Intemperance is their bane, and whiskey doggeries derive their jgreat- est revenues .from the poor negro; the church seems to exert no controlling in fluence on them. It has been suggested that a temperance organization of some kind would "prove of great benefit. - f Your ncishbcr,the &r.'.r.s ia Edver Rising" the - V Cumberland University;' Where Is it located 1 Is itlntended fori Columbian University f . Will our good friend Rev. Dr.' Walteri tell us what principle it is in the seebn cutting of clover that produces sativatton in horses. "Mercurials produce it in the human, speciebuf clover 'does not con-j tafa that", mineral, nor, wilt mercury prol aware of. A friend of ours has a finei pastfuVeof grass,5 but' horses f turned' on! it to grazo are soon salivated as badlyaa on second cutting of clover. - Why is itf or what will prevent the salivation 1 The Eucalyptus tree, a" native of Aui- tralia, is producing quite a sensation in- the country ; we are trying to idttoduce it into Bertie, t It , is a beautiful shade tree, grows with astonishing, rapidity,1 a powerful absorber of moisture, planted in swampsj they soon become dry and arable land. I Its chief value, " however, consists in its anti-malarial properties., Neither Agne and Fever nor Bilious Fever can exist in its vicinity ; its leaves are said to possess the antiperiodic qual ities of quinine If so, the introduction of the Eucalyptus will bring down the price of quinine within the reach of the poor man.' :'" " : r." ? I Tho Helianthus (common sunflower) is said to keep off ague and fever if planted around out dwellings: Those of your readers who have visited the -National Observatory, near Washington City, are aware that is near the low wet grounds of a marsh, and consequently was at one time the means of diffusing ague and fever among those in charge of the Ob servatory. . Professor Maury while' in charge of the Observatory, suffered from the malaria in his own person and Jin that or others, lie procured seeds 01 the sun flower, planted them freely; and never, suffered from fall fevers afterwards. Seeds of the sunflower yield abundantly a delightful oil, superior to sweet oil and is used by the Bussians as a substitato for butter, ' - Yours in a better hope, , , s. J.Whekjleb. ' P. S; Some of my neighbors have put np stacks of crop grass for, hay, a better article than that we, import from - the North. Our old friend Dr, Phillips, ot th$ Southern Farmer, and Professor in the University of Mississippi, - calls it Craurass. How is it, Dr. Walters 1 .. 1- . . w " The following "article7 was published not long since in the ' BeUgious Herald; and, as we have been called upon (through the columns of the Becobdeb) to furnish: it for republication in this paper, and as the subject is one of very great import-' auce, as weu as ono upon wmcu we icei the need of further light, ;we 4meerfully .1.. ,i ii. it. : vrrJ- i. J discuss the subject farther in a series of articles in the Kecohder, and hope that the discussion may 'be attended with, some fruit in the way of desciplinary . re-f' form. "' ' ' '-' H. Looseness of Discipline. ( ' iaTHEKE ANY REMEDY 1 Some years ago, at a Baptist State Convention, or at some similar gathering,! I remember hearing one speaker (a city pastor) say, - that he believed that one fourth of the Baptist communicants in the State were utterly worthless, or worse than worthless as church members, and ought to be excluded.; .Another speaker followed. He was the pastor of theiarg-f est ' and, perhaps, .the most influential eitv church in the State : and he . Quoted the estimate of the first speaker, and said very , emphatically, He has put it too low ; there are thirty-three and a third pet cent Of ourmembersbip who are utterly worthless, and who ought to be exclu ded. The last5 speaker was one of the mast genial,? kind-hearted, loving and lovely men that I have ever known, and one of the very last men in the denomin ation to indulge in harsh judgments of his brethren, or to take gloomy views ot our condition. - That this estimate of the! man is correct, will be admitted at once by every Baptist who happens to have the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with Thomas H. Pritchard, the bishop of Now, so far as I am advised, there ii ho reason to believe that such looseness of discipline is more extensively preva lent among our Baptist brotherhood in North Carolina, than among, the Baptist churches mother sections of country and yet what are we doing, or attempt ing to do. in the way of improvement t Who ever preaches a sermon on church discipline , How many artides on it do we ever, read in our religious papers! Who has ever known of three churches in the land nay, who has known of one church from which wortJuess members. or even covetous members, could generally be excluded 1 lam glad to be able to sav that I know of one church, which re cently excluded one member for covet ousncss, and another for "general worth lessness f and I do - not hesitate to say that I regard these two exclusions as un usually promising signs of a i revival-- nay, further, that x ieei every connaence that a revival spirit is already in exist ence in any church that can rise up to SUCU a View Vl IU rtaipuuaiuia ijf iuuiu; volved in such action. " " . . - I The ordinary, current view on the sub ject of church discipline seems to be, that the exclusion -of a member ought to take placo only when the member has com mitted some heinous offence against the ordinary laws of morality, or against viit wo 13 plQissa to caa u ciurti cr der, or gospel order.?- It seems, , too, to be commonly" believed that, even in these cases, the offender should give evi dence of being .incorrigible, before tho church is justeiiod in resorting to exclu sion. The idea that worthless members should be excluded that utter tcortlless' ness is one of the most heinous f ai f." fences against , H gospel order seems scarcely,; to have entered the heads of even the pastors,' to say nothing of -the average members of our churches - I JSome. time ago, the pastor of one of our city cnurches was visiting one of his flock at her house. ? She had been a member of the church for years: yet the pastor had never seen her face, except when he visit ed her ;at her own house, or met her on the street, or at a neighbor's house. As the ;pastoraslrring 'the house, she said to him, u Bro. H., I am told that " they have got me up, or are going to have me up, before, the church. Can you tell me what it is fori Idout know whv they should have me" un: for J" haven't . done anvthina.n " Well, madam." said . the pastor, that is precisely the charge against you ; you haven't done anything and the church is disposed to maintain the view which the New Testament cer tainly teaches, namely, that a church member must do something.9. The mem ber continued to be; guiltless of u doing anything," and was excluded. jnow, to many persons, this will seem . severe. Indeed, the action of the church in this case was condemned by- some good people in the community ; and yet it will, perhaps, be difficult to give any Bound reason tor such condemnation. " Years ago I knew a Tiip.mTxvr nf 'a citv church in Virginia, who would 5 not at-' rend preaching : in. his own?, church ; would do nothing and ; give nothing for. the support of the gospel ; , said he did not want to be in the church ; and in-" sisted that he ought not to be. i One Sun day afternoon, the pastor and one of the deacons were going into the country to attend a meeting, and they met this man coming out of the woods with a gun ton -his shoulder. He had spent the day in the swamps with his gun.4 He was some what notorious, I believe, as a frequenter of grog-shops. It took a year's hard work, on the part of the pastor, to get -this man out of the church.'; - Another member of the same church flatly refusal to attend any of its services; became' notorious as an opponent of the church ; would have nothing to do with it in any way whatever ; denounced its members and its action ; said she did not wish, to Ibe t member, and did not consider herself one ; and yet the pastor had probably eighteen months hard work to get rid of her. . Still another member of the same church, a woman old enough to have grandchildren, insisted that she did not wish to be considered a member ; said she would attend dancing parties, which promise she frequently i fulfilled, dancing with distinguished agility for a grandmother in Israel ; could not be pre vailed upon to attend church with any sort of regularity; and-yet the pastor, after two years' hard work, found her still on his roll, and left her name on the roll, I believe, when he resigned tho pas torate in 1868. - - A deacon of another- church, in the same city,- became dissatisfied with the church for some cause JI-never learned what), and one night offered a resolution at church conference, and threatened the church that unless this resolution passed he would at once withdraw all his influ ence and support from church and r pas tor. The resolution was carried ! ' Does : any sensible person believe that this man retained any respect for the church after this action, even supposing (a vio lent supposition) that he had any before t Now these cases do not stand alone. Many others could bo given. - For in stance, one of the best and - most vigor ous churches that I ever knew, in spite of the earnest and persistently repeated remonstrances of the pastor, retained on its roll the . name of a member who was tot only utterly worthless, but a no torious and incorrigible swindler. - Every member who know: him, knew that he would lie v and cheat. He had no con science about the thing. He swindled his brother members notoriously and in famously.' He could not be trusted for twenty-five cents, and his word was ut terly unworthy of credit. When arraign ed before the church, he would make statements 'which were utterly untrue, and which nobody believed ; and yet it was only after twelve months' hard and intensely disagreeable work that the pas tor could manage to get him excluded. The same pastor had to labor for some months to get rid of a member who was a notorious thief, an unconscionable ' liar, and, I believe, terribly profane, though a woman I The cases here cited are not matters of mere rumor. ? - The present writer hap pens to have a personal acquaintance of long standing with each of the churches here referred to, and he is familiar with the facts, as well as acquainted with the persons that have here come under no tice. He does not believe that his own experience and observation in this direc tion have been exceptional or peculiar ; but he does believe, that nearly every observant pastor, who has had ten years' experience in the p.astorate especially among city churches of any considerable membership can relate some such in stances as are here recorded. - Now the simple fact that such cases do, or can, exist at ally is certainly very significant. There must be utterly a fault among us, when it can be doubted wheth er such cases are very few, or very extra ordinary. To many persons, perhaps, they wilt appear extravagant : but this is not the fault of the writer. My design is to call attention to what I honestly be lieve to be a serious fault among our peo ple. It argues nothing to say that the Methodists are just as loose as wo are, and the Episcopalians inoro so ; for tee are not Zlci!odlsis nor rjL,isc:-allc:nSj and we are not responsible for their - discip line, while we are far our own -