Newspapers / The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, … / Aug. 12, 1874, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Biblical Recorder, t Biblical Recorder. - rUBUSUnD EVESY "WTDlvISDAY - bt - : , edwards, broughton & co., KALEIGII, N. c. ADVERTISIXQ RITES Sfack. 8m. 6m. 12m. 1 inch,;:..;, do ..... 3 do 8 00 If IS 00:$25 00 Office on Fayetteville Street, Opposite Market Square. 15 001 25 00 40 00 CO 00 60 00 -85 00 20 00 23 00 S7 00 85 00 45 00 60 00 100 00 TERMS OF STTBSCKIPTI02T i - 4 do ... Jsf column,..., S do ... One copy, one year,..,. . SO 60 00 170 00 -One copv.aix months,. ....... 1 60 1 Club of fire. ....... .11 oo 1 do ... SO 00175 00 SOO 00 Clubs o ten. , :....'... .20 DO Special Notices charred 20 cents per line. Obituaries sixty -words long, are Inserted free of Remittances of f2 150 or under may be made by the ordinary mail at our rink, but all. sums above this amount most be sent by Post Office Order or RAXEIGH, K C3 ; AUGUST .12, 1874.: charge. When they exceed this length, one cent or each word must be paid ia advance. Registered Letter. . , - x . ; .. " 1 time. lm. 1 00 $ $ 00 a 00 00 I 8 00 8 00 , 4 00 10 00 6 00 IS 00 10 00 27 00 IS 001 so 00 : -J s i "I AGREEMENT WITH BR. II00PEE. We are ' always gratified ..with ian op-? portnnity of expressing an agreement in our views with our old, much-beloved, and bighly'-honoraLf riend,. and .brother, Db. Hoopee. This happiness we enjoy on the present occasion. We perfectly agree with Dr. Hooper, that Baptists are chargeable with inconsistency, while re? fusing to commune with Pedobaptists, at the Lord's table, in franternizing with - them, in the services of the pulpit. ; We are convinced that these two institutes, in regard to the necessary qualifications for their observance, . stand . upon : the same footing: and - that the same princi pie which will admit a person, as a' min ister, into the pulpit will admit him as a . conimnnicantv to the Lord's table ; and that the; principle which - will eject him from the table, will equally eject him from the pulpit - The two practicesmust stand or fall together. ; We are satisfied 'that Pedobaptists, in their discussion with Baptists; on this vsubject,1 have the full advantage ot th& argumentum adkomin nem. V f I WXfy ' fr-Kv Baptists admit that the ministry, as an official, and authorized service, is, like all 'other ecclesiastical ' rights,: derived from the Church. "But they attempt to establish a distinction; between the char acter of an authorized minister, and that in which they, exchange pulpits with a Pedobaptist , preacher. -: A . distinction seemingly so factitious, 'and. so at vari ance with' what appears upon the face of , the case, ' should be sustained by clear and indubitable testimony. . We believe, on the contrary, that the attempt to prove tbi3 distinction is futile, sophistical, and sel f-contradictory. iin'i-iHk The advocates of this , position say, in s its defense,' that ; every believer has a 1 right to preach j and that in this charac ter, only, they admit Pedobaptists into : theirpulpit. Wbythen, do tbeir church ( s assume judicial authority over the sub ject of romistenal eligibility ?, Why do they allow some to preach, and forbid others T w ny would they, hold a mem . ber to discipline, who should. their authority in this respect authority have they to deprive believers of aright wh Christ I or to restrict to some, what he has conferred upon all T' Why do they - interfere with a right which, the King of Zion has put beyond their control! If, too, they admit . fedobaptist .ministers into their pulpit only in the character, of believers, why do they not upon the same principles amJiate, in ministerial services with all believers, whether men or women either of their own churches, or others I they are certainly, either wrong in prin ciple, or they need an important reforma tion in practice. What, in the meantime, becomes of the distinction between the "ministry? and jne,"eArcA 7" or the "Alders? and the i "brethren Tv This distinction evidently implied what is manifest from the gener r al tenor of the Scriptures that the min- i istry is an Institution. Bat ,if all be ' lievers are preachers. I this institution is subverted. iThere is no necessity, or in- s deed, in the nature of the case any jwm ; Mify,of investing a particular class with 1 a character which is common to alL The I only official- attribute which can distin-' i : -l- t . - L .1 . ,. i g uisu a minister lruni any ovnex oeuever j is that of authority to" administer the ori 1 dinances. " Upon this supposition all the i soleuvuities of the ordination service ; the prayers ana lasts or the church the sol emu examination of the : candidate, re-. i specting his piety, doctrine, and motives, I Q engaging in the work of the ministry 1 i his, solemn vows as .in the. presence of . uod, or fidelity to : the responsibility he r is assuming, i than a pompous ceremonial, in which he j is invested with authority to baptize ajjd 5 which could be done equally well by the t i . n i . - . icfc wonuy mraiueroi nis cunrcn. uap- , tiani, though confessedly, a . solemn and. ! sacred ordinance, the Apostle regards as 1 he does all ordinances as so inconsider ! able, compared with the ministry of the j word, as to say, "Christ sent me not to baptize, bat to.preach the gospel.. Yet, ; while every believer is authorized, to preach the gospel, and capable, of course oi ciisenargiag this solemn service only ; i to men of the Church, most distinguished ! for wisdom and codUness. authority can be confided to officiate in the administra tion " of the ordinances, t This authority is all that distinguishes them from the humblest member of. the church. V Thus, use sacramentanans, . we exalt ordinan ces to.a'pre-eminencelover the ministry of the woid. While guardinz the minor right with a vestal vidian ce, we dispense I i gicttwsr witu an indiscriminate pro digality. ' If, as Baptists 5say thHmite their own, and Pedobaptist ministers into their puipit, in diflerent characters, they ought not to .designate them both by the same appellation. The word preach, is an ec clesiastical technicality, which signifies iue omctai and specihc services of the ; Christian ministrv. in contradistmriirm. frora the general j and natural duties, by wuicu every christian should, accordin to his .ability, promote the cause. of ; Christ.. To use this word in. a different Sense, aad eSDeciallv in nnA that m. - founds the. very distinction it is intended ; to specify, is to disregard, equally, the vi language, ana ot logia ui this sopnistry the case m -question, is an ex ample. When it is said that ail believ : ers have a right to preach, the affirmants : evidently do not use the word in the same r sense, as tuey do, " in it3 apnlicatioa to authorized ministers. For they deny, that, iu this ,sense.Pedobaptist ministers . "v e a ngnt to : preach y. or that they re ; CeiVe them. Sia havinrr cniVi . o, ri rrht They must, therefore, "use the word in a howe Jver, wit At "n w iae vigor ot logical di3- cuss;nn. W believer Las tL i tey mean 13, tat every 5 i:-l torrcclo, r.-ccrJ- -T, t..3 causa cf CLrist. , l;cn this premL that Pedobaptist ministers have a right to preach, is a manliest nonsequiter. xney reason from one sense of the word preach in the premises, to another in the conela sion. Their argument is that every oe liever has a. right ;to do what he can in promoting the gospel, and therefore every Pedobaptist minister has a right to as sume the ; ministerial office, j f, to free themselves from this sophism, they con form the sense of the word in the conclu sion to that of the ; premises, they only prove the bold truism, that every Pedo baptist minister has a right to promote the gospelv t Bat: before this conclusion will avail them, they; must, show that a right to promote the gospei,f, anq; a right io assume toe luimawjnai vuiue, w.x tuv- alent terms i or that the former general risrht includes a right to . the latter spe cific services.. This is. the heavy onus, which they:Volantarily take upon their. shoalders, and nnder the weight of which we Deuevft tnac ; tneyr? must lneviuiuiy sink, av! f '4 m V a-; Ve believe therefore, that . Baptists err in their fundamental position, (that every believer, has, m any proper sense, of the words, a right to preach. , ,Snch a mode of speaking is a confusion of lan guage ; . and i serves, instead oi einciaa- ting a subject to involve it in the wishes of sophistry, It creates, and destroys a distraction with the same breath. ; We misrht as well say that every citizen of a State, has aright, upon the general prin ciples of Ethical Jurisprudence ' to be the sheriff of a county, or the goveror of the State.- It is his duty to demean him self, in wbrd and deed,' as a good citizen, and to do what he can to promote the welfare of the State, but its special guar dianship, with the authority which is ne- cessary to tms enu, is coiuiuituxi uy jjaw to official hand's ; and it can come into no other hands, except by usurpation. The argument then, that every believer has a right to preach, is deceptive and false. Its fallacy consists in overlooking the distinction between a' general and a specific, or a moral and an inttituted right ana in comoanaing, uy expressing uiem both by the same term. "The question in gament of the affirmants is the same as if it were said, Voltaire preached infidel ity, and the Apostle aul preached the gospel," they were therefore, both preach ers, in the same sense. It seems to j us somewhat strange that the ambiguity of the word preach should so easily beguile sagacious minds into such a covert of sophistry. , jf-; 7S":i& But we believe that Baptists are not less unfortunate in the conclusion of their argument, than" in its premises. v Were we to grant that every believer has a right. to preach, we should still maintain that in : fraternizing - with Pedobaptist preachers, in the services of the pulpit they do. in .fact whatever may be their intention, receive them, not simply in the character of believers, but as aathorized ministers of the gospel.' For what is the property of an . authorized ministry ; but; its recognition by competent authority, as having the right to . perform ministerial services! When we seethe properties of a substance, we see . the substance it-. sen. ai a scone snouiu ; say, x proiess so lidity, and extension,! but I disclaim the character of a material substance, the declaration would be; of the ame kind. as that -a:Peddbaptist preacher has a right to preach, but is inot an authorized preacher. . Authority is legal right : and he recognizes tLuai right whether consist ently or not who admits.of its legitimate anainucuonai exercise; ana sou more fie who becomes himself a' party to its exe cution. : A disputant may disclaim what b e pleases ; and be, will not ; be held re sponsible for an intention to do or say what he disclaims. - But whether he does or says, what is alleged, must be deter mined vby . the : en quiry, whether the act he ; does: possesses the elements; which constitute and identify that, he is said to no. , lie may be allowed, to disclaim the intentional commission of an act, or ex pression of a sennmeut, but for what in fact he does, or saysJ he must be held re sponsible to the laws of language and logic. ; That Pedobaptist ministers have a right to preach, but that they are not authorized ministers, is . a . proposition, which seems to carry in itself its own refutation. We cannot see' that it falls short of a plain and positive contradic tion. r llow can a ; man be unauthorized to do, what he has a right to do Tor how can he have a right to do, what he is nn-, authorized to do I we do not know what defines an authorized act, if it be not one which the agent has a right to do.. c .j.-.i-..'-.- .; . . f If it be said that Pedobaptist ministers though authorized to preach are not au thorized by the Churchy the ': affirmants shift their ground and 'givef up their cause. 4 For.the very basis of their argu ment is, that Pedobaptist ministers are not authorized, to preach; If, besid es, their authority comes not from the church whence does it come 1 and what is its nature T Ecclesiastical rights cannot be derived from natural or moral law. Every government has its constitution: ? and that constitution - is the source of its rights. ' Xatural or moral rights - are not cognizable in a church. They do not lie within its jurisdiction: and; a church is no more concerned with, their origin, or exercise, than with the rights of a Tem perance Society;, But the right to preach, is an ecclesiastical rights - It must there fore be derived from i an ecclesiastical source: that is troin the church. IS not from this source, it can be derived from none. It cannot exist. 5 If therefore Pe dobaptist ministers are not authorized to preach by. the church, they ? are not au thorized at ail.. -.lhey have therefore no more right to preach. than - to commune: and their right to these respective ser vices nmst be determined by the same principle. ; . ; . .' ' If, moreover rcvlc-itis t ir-icisicrs cro not a-.'. ;r:.. : I Ly ILz Cl.-rch t5 .w - ' , cr3 j L . . . t iH..-3 v.ftr.criZwil Ly t Church to receive them as ministers T If they are, the Church authorizes her ministers to receive as preachers, , those whom she does not authorize to preach; But this seems labsurdj' especially when we consider, that in positive institutions what is not authorized is forbidden. . To cooperate, as a yarfy, with another, in any act, invblvesy either, his authority to do such act, or our own guilt, as an accomplicey in doing what tho, principal himself is : not authorized to do. IVater nizaUon, is a fraternization in righteous ness which cannot be the character of an unauthorized act, or it is a fraterniza-; tion in n. ? Either one, or the ' other, that is righteousness, or j sin," must of necessity be the consequence of an act of fraternization. Tha, only exception or seeming exception, is to be found in such circumstances as create a moral necessity to depart from the letter of the law. But even in this case the subject is not .enUUed?.to;';.iieAZ0Mtf(eeran:A which he does not do. ,1 He - is only ex cused by the Bighteous Judge from re sponsibility, in relation to its observance. Indeed, there is no responsibility in ; the case: for in such cases the requirement of the law ceases. It is, in fact, our duty to depart from the law.: For moral law prevails over such as is merely ceremo nial or positive. But there can. be no moral necessity to substitute an nnau. thonzed institution, for one which is authorized: or for observing, as a service; of God, what he i has not appointed as such. For positive institutions do not originate from moral law, but from, the will of God. The only necessity for , ob-i serving them is, that they are of Divine appointment. Where no such appoint ment exists, no necessity, can exist for the observance of a religious institute. The necessity, and the only necessity; for observing- a christian: ordinance, exists in its character, as a command of Christ- The necessity, is the necessity of obedi ence to Christ. It originates m the command, and with the command it ter mmates.:- They ; are , contempory, and co-extensive. , But there can be : no obe dience, where there is no command. The necessity, la buuU a case is, not that we shall do, but that we shall not do. Obe dience consists -not in action. bat' in re fraining &om action. la doing what the .Lord does not command, we do what he forbids For, as in positive services, the law of God is our only rule, in doing what he does not command, we disobey him, as mnch as in refusing to do what he ' does command. In either case we. substitute our own will for. the will of God. If fra ternizing then with Pedobaptist preach- ers,' Baptists are either guilty, as acebm- puces, in ine : commission- oi, an unau thorized act, or they receive them as au thorized ministers. As we presume that they will not be willing to admit the ter mer conclusion, they must, as- their only alternative accept the latter. ' : (To be continued. J ' , ' " - (Prom the Chicago Tribune.) . MAN AS A PROCESSIONIST. The wits are not all dead yet. But wit is not the only recommendation of the f 01 lowing article." ; It is full of a ' kind of wisdom which frequently goes along with the highest, style of , wit and indeed makes an important part of it. H. v . , The tendency of menTto-herd them selves into processions is one of the mys teries of human : nature, which is only equalled by the tendency of those who are not in the herd to stand in the broil ing sun and admire the others. "Why this should be so, what 'peculiar satisfaction the man tot the procession derives from; it, and what object he 1 has in view; a: problems yet to be solved j- and yet it is; probably the height of the. ambition of every average man to seethe day when he shall go in a procession ; happy it he can march on foot , ' doubly happy, if he can caary the Star Spangled Banner or some other banner bearing a strange device 5 thrice happy 11 he may ride a horse, ter- ,rify the women and- children with the caracoling of his fiery charger, and shout hoarsely at his division of the procession. AH of this is more remarkable from the! fact the procession is but a child's sport with the Oinerence that i the paper hats have . been ; changed - for beavers with feathers in tbem, ;the lath swords for steel ones, the tin pan and whistle for the drum and life, the red-flannel stripe and .bit of ribbon for a wanagated uniform bespangled with jewels and gaudy .with tinsel, and the stick which the leader straddled so gracefully for a live horse, Iwhich the leader nine times, out of ten straddles ungracefully. ' 4 j t The efiect of the 'procession upon the Individual hardly has a parallel among natural 1 phenomena. Yonr butcher or your shoemaker may be, and probably is, a very ordinary man; not blessed with wealth or beauty : ' haying; no soul-crav-? ings or yearning desires for the good, the true and the beautiful ; the owner of a brood of rather dirty and promiscuous children with an intellect capable of the scientific carving of a sheep or skilful cobbling of a boot.- There is nothing majestic or awful ' about it. 1 You would not invite him to your soiree as a para gon. Indeed in his morning call at yonr house your servant receives him, and they gossip together in a friendly way. Bat once array your butcher in a plug hat and white apron ; throw an embla zoned crimson scarf about his muscular shoulders ; put a boiled shirt on him and stick a rose in his button hole ; hang two or three tinsel crosses and other orna ments on hia manly breast , r.:;.l, if he be a large butcher, let Lira carry a baa-' ner stuck in a pouch, looking as if it were rooted in his ample corpus,' and he becomes metamorpliosed into another creature. As he inarches along in Li3 stately manner, keeping time, tine,-tisie, ia a r:rt tf Ilanic rhyiue, to tLa ti-tinna-lalatlu cf tLo L.:uJ, I.o ii f. i r.wfai zzJ lacjeEticbtin, who t.. z. oa yea a3 J CU E.uvi U"j1 tu3 CU.lLo'CIIC, Hud IocIlS. down upon you as one of the sans culot tes. Yesterday he would have taken 011 his hat to you ; to-day, if he sees you at all, he only sees yon as an atom; one of a thousand admiring him as h magnifi cent being, only equalled by a royal po tentate and possibly surpassed by a sul tan in the grandeur of hi3 bearing and the gorgeousness of his apparel. As you retire to your chamber at night with the coDfused pictures of - nags,'t banners, crosses,: swords, ? aprons, horse-coiiars, trombones, and guns fitting before you, the vision of this majestic creature ap pears looming np like Mount Blanc among esser hills, x on regret now that only yesterday you vexed his ; great soul with complaints about vtough. beef: that you had threatened to discharge this awe-in spiring creature and employ another. You regret your dullness in not recog nizing the possibilities lying dormant in him, and you mentally , resolve to make your respects to him, the Thrice Hlus- trious l'rince, or Host Emment Grand Seigneur, or High and Top Lofty Baron, of Pythagoras,' and request the pleasure ot eating tough steatc hereaiter. There is one ; man in the procession. however, who does not possess these at ixiuukjs. no is tne xitsc .man. - xx, is saa that there must be a Jast man in a pro- always be so until some one is discovered of making up the procession in a circle , and then giving it motion lixe a rotary shell, turning its own axis and going straight ahead also. This last man is a weary, worn, pathetic creature, who looks as if life was a bur den to him. - He is a rusty, seedy, biped, without any good clothes. Ko stars blaze on his breast. No ; banner shields him from the fiery sun.-; His ear never hears the inspiring notes of the band. " He catches all the dnst of the procession. By-standers rush in front of him with impunity. He has no pride at all. There is no pomp about - him no ; majesty of mien, lie always looks sick, tared, dis- neveiied, ana lonorn. ismau boys jeer at hfun'i'Bna drivers contemptuously order him out of the ' way. Eeckless yottn s men- make desperate eiTorts -i to drive over him. lie gets mixed up among the news boys, bootblacks, yellow dogs, advertising wagons, , fan sellers, drays and frantic women rushing after erratic children: and loses the procession : and by the tame he regains : it he is a poor. harrassed, dejected man and brother. and an object of universal pity. The chances are that if he does not go off with sun-stroke, or get run over bv an ice-cart and have to be taken home in an express-wagon, he will, as the result of his pathetic situation, get drunk with re markable dispatch before sunset So long as there must be a last man in every procession there should be some compen sation, lie should be: made attractive. liet him be handsomely decorated and caparisoned. Let 4 him have on two aprons. Let him carry a banner and have an American flag in his hat. Let him also have a drawn sword with which to keep, off the small boys and yellow dogs, and thus the last man in the pro cession will cease to be the most wretched object in existence. UNITY AMONG BAPTISTS.: A perfect unity of sentiment in all things cannot be expected. Some will be Arminians and : some Calvinists. But as to the great points ;; of : difference which distinguish ns from others we are a unit now. . We have in all ages and every where agreed , on the questions. What is a church T What are its ordi nances and officers t and who are fit sub jects for these ordinances f Our church government is the same in every church. - Havingr nothing but the Bible to guide us, this union of sentiment is remarka ble." Is. J'-'!'-' - 4 ; And there ? is ' not - much difference among us about the work that; is to be done. . Indeed our educational and mis Bionary; interests are doinjr more : than any other power can do to strengthen our union. JSvery man feels that these works and these interests are his. Not long since," there appeared an article in the Eecobder written by Bro. Haynes Lennon and endorsed by Dr.'Pritchard, recommending a convention of Modera tors and Clerks of all the Associations as a means of nnion. But this williot do. We are not going to unite on any men nor any set of men. One will be for Paul and another for Apollosv 'It is true we have our-Pritchard and our Hiden, Out Wingate and our Huf ham and others who are exerting a mighty influence for good. ' But their influence ought to be extended and will be, as our people be come better acquainted with them.. We will unite on objects and principles, but not on men.K;i;f;::r:" ;;;;;;!; v,; : f The E piscopalians ' may endow their Bishop and Unite on him. but the Bap tists will take Christ as their head and the Bible as their guide: and being im pelled by love, will unite on the princi ples that are therein inculcated.; But we are divided i about doing our work, for some do all and others do none.' Now the qnestion is, how. are we to unite in this important point I Not through Moderators and Clerks of Associations, nor alone through agencies, but the preachers hiast instruct the people and give tbeia an opportunity to help. We have lost ono object which would have done much to unite us in tcork. Iallade to charch " extension. " This ; would soon have been felt in every neighborhood. It would have been something which all could sec; Now. : since .we ' are : united about what ought to be done, let us unite in the.doing of it. B. G. Covington. IIow many ask the woild what they shr.!! do with Jesus, 1 to Gcvl's tr.es:a-: s. and f.,Il3wincr the dic tates cf tc.r Cuii-. 1,1c JOSH KILLINGS IN ENUUSn. , 'Cl:rZ& -. ,.: tyZ:k f-'-f tt-' The discovery has been made by Tlie Spectator' (London) that "Josh Billings' has written things that translate into ex- celient English, the wit of which is not helped but- is rather obscured by his oncograph jv One of our own contribu tors, a year or two ago, called attention to the same fact.' We doubt whether Billings is justly ranked as an imitator of Artemus Ward, who seems to "be thought by English critics, ignorant of Mai or Jack Downing, to have been the originator of "dialect literature But The Spectator's estimate of him is flatter ingly high: Examiner and Chronicle. Artemus Ward made his bad spelling funny the absolute difference between the method of conjugating one expected and the: method he tried, exciting of it self the sense of incongruity, which is the first cause of laughter; but his imitators or quite ; completely. The person . who calls himself "Josh Billings" has entire ly. ... . What the object of this spell ing can be, we are utterly unable to dis cover, it is not comic, as JLrtemus ward's often was. It is not intended to express any dialect, as Leland's wasj or if . it is, it does not succeed. It is not phoneticj it is not ingenious; it is, in fact, a mo tiveless absurdity, all the more , to Jbe condemned because such wit as f'Josh Billings" possesses is entirely of the sub- allusive kind, which is so seldom liked except among the educated; - The real man is not "Josh Billings," but to com pare small things with great, an Ameri can Montaigne. This sentence, for. in stance, "We have made justice a luxury of civiUzation,',is essentially of the Syd-ney-Snuth type, and is not made i more subtle, but only unintelbgible, by ridicu lous spelling. It would be hardly possi ble to express ,the truth that civilization has secured justice, but has not secured it to the poor, in a terser or more biting form, but its pithiness is just of the kind waica a reader capable of speUing is7' as "iz" would never comprehend, any more than he would this - cunous ana quite true observation in natural history, "Monkeys never grow any older, in ex pression. A young monkey looks exact ly bike his grandpapa melted .up and born again;" or this, "No man can be a healthy jester unless he has been nursed at the breast ot wisdom," f a sentence which contains the whole difference be tween the humor of a man like Sydney Smith or Charles Lamb, and the humor of Mr. Lear. Where, again, is the sense. not to say the taste or. the propriety, of misspelling a fine sentence like- this t - "Humor must fall out of a mans mouth like music out of a bobolink," which is intelligible only to those to whom i bad spelling, and . especially' artificial 4 bad spelling, ij a mere ; cause of disgust. There is a world of wisdom in the saying, "It is easier te be a harmless dove than a decent serpent" that is, to be a man constitutionally outside temptation, than a. man who, keenly feeling temptation, yet resists: but in what way is the .wis dom flavored by spelling a dove a ?duYt The bitter, worldly experience of this re- mart, which Kochetoucauld might nave made, and Prosper Menmee would have written to rlnconnue, if he had thought of It, is. utterly lost in a cloud of bad spelling: "Some men marry to get rid of themselves, and find that the game is one that two can play at, and neither win." ; : All the following are suggestive shrewdness, much better than Franklin's, whoso "Poor Bichard" Americans are so inclined to praise; but they are ' not f the more biting, or the more popular, or even the more racy of the soil, for being in jured by a farcical spelliug: - ; s J "Time is money, and many people pay their debts with it." . " - - "Ignorance is the wet-nurse of preju dice." - 1 "Wit without sense is a razor without a handle." . - - "Half the discomfort oi life is - the 1 re sult ot getting tired of ourselves." 1 : "Benevolence is the cream on tbo milk of human kindness." ' '1- ; ' "People of good-sense are those whose opinions agree with ours." ' "jace an tnings; even Aaversuy is polite to a man's face." ,i- "Passion always lowers a great man, but sometimes elevates a little one.". . "Style is everything for a sinner, ; and a little of it will not hurt a saint." - "Men now-a-days are divided into slow Christians and Wide-awake sinners." "There are people who expect to escape hell because of the crowd going there." "Most people are like eggs, too full . of themselves to hold anything else.". '- -i -T- Even when the sayings contain an ele ment of groteaquerie, they are improved by ordinary priu ting: . f - "It is little trouble to a graven image to be patient, eveu in fly-time." , "Old age increases us in wisdom and in rheumatism." " - . . -''' "A mule is a bad pun on a horse." ; "Health is a loan at call." :- "Wheat is a serial. 1 am glad of it." "Manner is a great deal more attrac tive than matter especially in a in on key." j . "Adversity to a man is like training to a pugilist. Ir. reduces him to his fight ing weight. ' " "Pleasure is like '-treacle. Too much otit spoiU the taste for everything." "Necessity is the mother of invention, but Patent ltight is the father." - "Did you ever hear a very rich man singr ' "Beware of the man with half shut eyes. -He's not dreaming." - "Man was built after all other thiugs had been made and pronounced: good. If not, he would have insisted on giving his orders as to the rest of the job." "2Iice fatten slow in a chcrc'a. ' They can't live ca religion, &;iy lucre than ministers can." ' "Fi.ioa cheats the eccentric with the claptrap of freedom, and makes them serve her in the habiliments of, the har lequin." , . ' ; "xnere are larmers so lull of science that they won't set a gate-post till they have had the earth under the. gate-post analyzed." : "When lambs get through being lambs tney become sheep. 2 Ms takes the senti ment out of them.1 1 : " LIGHTNING RODS., Many losses by lightning have occurred Of late, and the. Tribune in " referring to these, give some facts of general and scientific interest s 1 ' - ' In Germany there are insurance com panies that provide especially against loss by lightning, and the .testimony of their collected data u conclusively in favor of the protection afforded by ligh t- ning-rods. " One of the most remarkable results of their investigations, backed by an abundant compilation of instances, is that the frequency ot damage by hre is materially lessened by the presence of any non-mnammable material to receive the first onset of the stroke. The bght ning seems to lose, in the instant of strik ing its power to inflame ; or rather, it expends this power-on the point first struck, and in its subsequent course it rarely sets fire even to most inflammable roofs and buildings. The ? denser the body first struck and the greater its con ductive capacity, the more is the light ning robbed of its power to inflame ; and thus a mere iron - knob on the . highest part of a building has served for the pro tection of an exceedingly combustible roof.' i. - - t--si - u-j t But perhaps the most valuable infor the English Association of Telegraph mation on this subject was collated by Engineers. After long and disastrous experience m the irequency witn wnicn telegraph-poles were struck by lightning, the English companies adopted measures that resulted in perfect security from, this kind of damage to their property. To each pole they hare attached a Ko.; 8 wire, running from the upper end to the ground. They state that it is chiefly necessary that these conductors should be continnous : that there should be no joint unless well soldered : and chain link rods, braided wire-rope, and tubing, are not so efficacious as the simple jno. o wire. The Secretary of the Association referred to, Mr. Preece, has suggested further points of importance in attaching ugntning rous to aweiungs. xae under ground connection, where ; ; practicable, should be made with some large mass of metal, such i as gas or water-pipes ; : or else with deep, solid earth. . It is evident that the latter requisite can usually be best attained outof cities, by carrying the rod underground to a suitable dis tance from the buildhig, into earth that is permanently ; compacted J by natural moisture. Each conductor, if there be more than one, should have a separate ground connection : but they should also do connected togeiner, anu wuua meuii roof or any other mass of metal in their, neighborhood. There should be no points or acute angles in the conductor : the straighter it is the better," as electricity will follow the line of least resistance and greatest directness. Insulation, with snch a conductor, is regarded as unneces sary. .,- --. - . ' - , Among other instructive suggestions from this source is the estimate that the area protected "by the conductor is equal to its height above the ground; that thef uyper part of the rod should terminate in; a gilded or polished point: . and that lightning-conductors require periodical examination to xeep tnem in good order. It is stated as an established fact that a chimney with a thick layer of soot and an ascending current of hot air is an ex cellent conductor that is, if you want the lightning brought into the house, With facts like the foregoing before us it is not difficult ; to understand the oc casion of the recent disaster at Weehaw ken , where the ' ascending column of vapor from the oil-tanks probably served as a conductor, and the oil struck, before the fluid reached the iron of the tank, burst into destructive name. , -. t AS EEAEDS EATING. . , The idea of getting up from the - table hungry is unnatural and absurd and hurtfuU-quite as much so as getting up in the morning before your sleep is out, on the mischievous principle that "early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - J' ; Early rising in civilized society always tends to shorten life. Early rising of it self never did anj good. Many a far mer's boy has been made an invalid tor lite by being made to tret ud at davlicrhL before his sleep was out. Many a young girl has been stunted in body5 and mind and constitution by being made to get up before the system has had ; its full rest. All who aro growing, all who work hard, and all weakly persons should not get up until they feel as ir they would be more comfortable to get up than to remain in bed; that is the only true' measure of sufficiency of rest and sleep. Any one who gets up in the morning feeling as if he "would give any thin g in the world" to remain in bed a while longer, does violence to his own nature, and will al ways suffer from it not immediately, it uiny be, but certainly in later years, by tue cumulative in euects ot the most un wise practice. In any given case, the person who gets up in the morning before he is fully rested, will lack jast that much ot the energy requisite for the day's pur- SUlt. - v.--.. -. v.- As a people, we do not get enough sleep, we do not get enough rest, we will not take time for these things; hence our nervousness, our instability, our hasty temper, and the prematura giving out of the stamina cf life. - Half of U3 are old at three-score, the very time a ir:an ought to be in his mental, racral, end physical prime. Half of our wives, e?pccially in the farming districts, die long before their time, because they do not get rest and sleep proportioned to their labor. IS me times out of ten it would hA-.wt.Pi for all parties if the farmer should get up uu iigui me nres ana prepare breakfast for, his wife, she coming directly, from her toilet to the breakfast table, because it almost always happens that she has to 1 remain up to set things right long after the husband has gone to bed, when real- j ue uas uouimg to ao alter supper out to go to bed. This is a monstrously cruel imposition on wives and mothers. HalTs Journal of MeaUK - J ; MEDICINE THEE. The peculiar value of the Eucahmiua' globulus medicine-tree or fever-tree, has uicdAijr ueeu uescriDea in the iCECOBDEE, and it now appears that there is a virtue in this tree that rivals that oossesspd hv the Peruvian bark. The oil of thA 77. calyptus has been proved to possess the same antiseptic action as quinine, and it is said will, in like manner, prevent de composition in albnminous solutions or blood, while it hinders alcoholic fermen-" tations even more than, quinine. Eucal yptolj the name of this new reagent, as tsiatea m uie meaicai. report from which we quote, depresses the temperature of the healthy even more than quinine, ef fecting the same result in fever as well asin health. - Like ouinine. it also hin ders oxidation in protoplasm, and large uoses are very Denenciai in febrile dis eases of the respiratory organs, especially wuoopmg-congn. v " ,. STTJNDISTS." We mentioned; some time since, .that name wpven.toBaptists m Eussia. -out n is not given to them alone. In the southern part of the Empire there are several hundred thousand pious Ger mans, who stand aloof from the Estab lished Church, and the name is applied indifferently to all these, whether they are Baptist or Pedobaptists. It is deriv. ed from the German word, siunde. hour. that is, the hour of prayer, or the hour ior tne prayer meeting. The meaning of the name, therefore, is, the people of the prayer meeting. -We like it v We like at least, the qualities and - customs which induced men to employ it, as a ;designa won jot our, brethren abroad. And we would like exceedingly to know that all Baptists at home were entitled to bear the name. Oh, if we were, through our . whole membership, without - exception, people of the prayer meeting I Header, ought you not to be a Stundists t Will yoa-fn'ot llnttex. -; ' - . . : COMET. . Mr. S. Norman -Lockyer examined Cotr- gia's comet through the twentv-five-inch telescope at Mr. Newhall's observatory, and communicated an account of his ob servation to theLondon Times. He wrote : . Perhaps I can give the best idea of the appearance by asking the reader to im agine a lady's fan opened outflGO deg.) until each side is . a prolongation of the ' other. An object resembling this is the first thing that -strikes the eye. and the nucleus,-marvellously small and definite, is situated a little to the right of the pin of the fan not exactly, that is, at the . point held in the hand. The nucleus is, of course, brighter than the fan. . . 7 . Still referring to the fan; imagine a' cir cle to be struck from the left-hand cor- ner with the right hand corner as a cen tre, and make the arc a little longer than the arc of the fan. - Do the same with the right-hand corner. Then with a gen tle curve connected - the end of each arc with a point in the arc of the fan half way between the centre and the nearest corner; If: these complicated operations . have been properly performed, the reader will have superadded to the fan two ear like things, one on each side. ' Such ears are to be observed in the comet, and they r at times are but little dimmer than the fan. At first it looked as if these ears were tho parts of the head furthest from the nucleus along the comet's axis, but careful scrutiny revealed still the ad vance a cloudy mass, the outer surface of which was regularly curved, convex side outward, while the contour of the inner surface exactly fitted. the outer outline of the ears and the intervening depression. .... Any great change in one ear was counter-balanced by a change of an op posite character in the other; so that when one ear thinned or elongated, the other widened; when one was dim, the other was bright ; when one was more picked than usual, the other at times appeared to lie more along the curve of the fan and to form part of it. A. newspaper correspondent who ac companied Donaldson, the aeronaut, in a recent balloon trip, over New York and New Jersey, has given a vivid account of his experience, in which , occurs the following: "Far below, passing rapidly over rivers and across green fields and woodlands, was a distinct and beautiful shadow of the ) balloon, and while it seemed to us that we were suspended motionless in mid air, this shadow afford ed complete and gratffying ; evidence of the rate at which, we were sailing along. As the balloon crossed the Midland Bail waya train went by, seeming to be crawl ing along at a fly's pace. The balloon had ascended, and the altitude was 2, 250 feet, but the whistle; of the engine, as it blew, a shrill salate, came up clear and distinct, and - the passengers could be seen waving hats and handkerchiefs from the windows of the cars. Shortly afterward loud cheering was heard, but nobody could be seen below." 9- How fickle are they popular current instead who isako the cf truth tL :Ir principle cf ceucn, cr:z cut t c.-3 time, Hcsanna to tho Lea cf Day; 1 ! r.:.i at another, Crucify hiia I
The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 12, 1874, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75