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A- TEBMS. , ,'ni;uri J Advocate is furnished to subecri . , ....f milium lii advance. If tiavmeot be lv,-,i six months, f 2..TO, ore copy, six moutns, fi.o. OUE CORBESPONDENTS. . niiiiieati"ns fur publication should bo carefully n and "n bat one siile.of the sheet. All letters '" ' 1.1 K.. d.l.lpudtiorl l. lh Vflitiir j j- ; 'iii'e snoum -' -- OUR AGENTS. , ti,.- r:iwilii(! "t"1 Local preachers in the bounds .., . virtti 1'arolina Conference arc oar authorized HOW TO REMIT. 1-, jou.'ini: meney, all amounts should be sent In ,1, uxl li'tW. P'Bt offlCt wicr or check. The cost ' , ,...;r.iui'n, or Tost Office order can be deducts ',. '.Vttie amount in hand. If money la sent oth.-rwlae ..i n lii-'i'in spceiried it will be at the senders risk. For I he Christian Advocate. ! nil to reading, after an interval , f twenty-two j ears. Lord Macaulay' llis.t-.iry of England. It is a marve ,,f eloquence and power. INo one ver approaches hiin as a painter of ibiorical portraits except Lord Ciar udon mid James Anthony Froude. rnoii0" all the historical compositions imritbie in interest to this great work ad Motley. Hume, Gibbon, Lobert s.m Michelet, Arnold, Grote, Pres to't. Bancroft, and the other more fa faults historians, are absolutely dull Vu-u placed beside the glowing, pic- i ir. -. ue. splendid pages of Macaulay, Viion iu the fall flash of manhood's i-u": prime, I i- .ad his history with j.,r. miration and interest. And - pyx that ft e begins to creep npaee t t;.n . to write his wrmiues about 1se f;ce, I pour over his pages teem- with thought and resplendant diction, with an ardor altogether r i ib :tcd. and a fascination that oven exL-vils that of an earlier day. But I only meant to quote a si sen- r. nce from Macaulay mat appears io 1 . 1 i tie io be singularly suggestive. He 0!5- TVeS : "ft is a most, significant cireuui- B .a-- that no large society of which the tongue is not Teutonic has ever .turned Protestant, and that, when v.-r a lamraasro derived from that of W ' - - o u guek-nt Rome is spoken, the religion of modern Home to this day pre T.l'-ls."' 11. 1 iu Profaor Jowvlfs ' Ti ant-latiou : the Diaiogaes oi Plat..., occurs i!;e :l.i.)inf'd iiasaac which is found in U i l'ii.i.-do: 4 We are u t -.valkiug in ''.n imagiuatiou; t.it I atn confi l,.flr in belief tuat, there truly is mic'i a thing it Hviii'j nyiin, aud that i- rf. .nrni'j hum th-'. Jiwl: aiid the .ju!.i fth: ih'ad arc in c.ris leu': ', and that the good souls have a better portion than the evil.' This, cm-iCg from a Pagan philosopher, is sunly very remarkable. We ha'-e here distinctly shadowed forth three gr-iul Bible truths, to wit: The im mortality of the soul 'there truly is each a thing as living again;' the re- sarrertiou of the body 'L he livirg frpiing from the dea l;' and the reward of the saints in glory 'good souls have a better portion than the evil.' Job had given expression to the sub lime faith 'I know that my Redeemer iTeth.' Can it be possible that Plato ha 1 .-vor sec ti that grand Hebraic po' iu whence this enraptured excla raiitii.'ii comes ? III. :.SoSiie great authors liko Macaulay have long comprehended the influence of Methodism in the Eighteenth cen vtury, but for the most part, historians anl divines of other communions have been wholly ignorant of that in- flnence or have ignored it Calvmis tic divints are quite prono to omit the nauie of Wesley when enumerating grat religious reformers, or when dircussing the great factors in the progress of Cbristianity. Such a procedure being so foreign to every idea I have formed of true Catho licity, I have merely despised it. latterly there has been a growing tendency to acknowledge not only the fcreat wurk done by John Wesley in leaching the truth as it is in Jesu3, fe it to recognize the great work he ti l in saving England from the hor- xi of the French Revolution of the at century. Within a few yearB, I ive met with this acknowledgement vetal times. Iu a recent number of -e llritish Quarterly Review the or- m of Nonconformists and Calvin ta in a discussion of 'Nonconfor mity and the Progress of Society,' I ' --t ith the subjoined passage : 'What England owed, socially and jiiticaily, to the leaders and minis n of the great Evangelical revival, iat under the Wesleys is referred y when the storm of the Revolution ''-I't through Europe, has never calculated, and never can be. -U work of the evangelistB among colliers and miners, and generally "ong the poorest of the poor, icas ' jrani nofegaord to us when our turn ' ri oilaiiijnanj trial cam?. The chief on why the Revolution in EDg- ;"1 rau in the main a peaceful and 'Wly course, while in France it was ivulsive and distractive, is to be fl iu the nexus of the classes I htle great Evangelical movement -'ablished, and in the gleam of hope it Kinuied in the popular irt.' rv. V.tho ough Theology ia not in my f-ftti Goarchlv refrain from ra- 'ii'-ng a very striking passage r ;Vhe Birne article in the British ''r'j- I make no comments, REV. J. B. BOBBITT, EDITOR AND VOL. VI. NO. 6. though many might occur to any re flecting mind. Here it is: 'Theology, in the very na'uro of things, must progress with the pro gresses of the world or fall out of its march. The connection is a profound one, as we have said, between the secular life of an age and its religious beliefs The present collapse of the Augustiuian theology has its springs distinct' v in tho secular sphere. Because the world has been progress ing so rapidly, f nlarging its views of all things around it, searching out the secrets of nature and of man, theology must move on or perish. The belietof this ageabout God,. God's work for man, God's w;.y in the gov ernment of the world, demands read justment quite as much as the biog raphy, the chemistry, tho geology whieh our fathers handed down to us; and the idea tbat this new spirit must be made to let ti...ology alone, that theology is too sacred, too settled in a fixed form by a Divine hand, to be capable of progress or txpausion, is the nurse of atheism aud tho mother of dispair.' V. Dr. Wm. S. Plumer's 'Commentary on Romans 'catches it at the hands of the Jiritish Quarterly. His book is pronounced 'appalling.' He is de clared to bo 'not very learned, and not very logical.' On tho other hand Lange's Commentary is characterized as 'great,' and the Quarterly avers that 'whoever becomes possessed of it will have, iu a cornpf ndions form, the results of all ancient and modern ex egesis of tho Sacred Scriptures, with an apparatus critk u.i of surprising co piousness. T. B. KlXC.SDUKY. Jan. Id, 1S72. Oxford, N. C. Kr the Christian A THAT lEIMLLSOi OUT BY THE WAV." Whether this is a law or i or rule of iot, I shall universal ap;lie Vi m not undertake to determine. It is cer tainly good advice to persons asso cia-ed together for ea- h others good, as e'l as for the gau---ral good. If persons assnci-Me-.l together would not fall out by the way, they should be careful to have nothincr between them that would necessarially lead to that result. If any thing should be found to exist that would lead to such result, it should be removed at the earliest possible moment. Tbey should be careful to adopt no principle of ic tion among themse'ves that has the elem3nt of con'eni ion ini: and if such principle has been unwittingly adopted, as so m as it is discovered, it should he rescinded, amended, or repealed. The North Carolina Conference has said, 'Uuder the present plan" (of ministerial support.) 'the pecuniary interests of pastors and elders con flict.' Now, there is nothing better calculated to make persons 'fall out' than a conflict of pecuniary inter ests. Acquisitiveness, properly man aged, is a virtue, but when it trans cends its proper limits, it becomes covetousness, and covetousness, culti vated, becomes avarice. Avarice can not be converted into a virtue. It is always sin. When a person sees that he has the advantage over another in pecuniary interests,' unless he re stores the proper equilibrium, by de stroying that advantage, he will bo tempted to use it to his own advan tage; and when the other finds him so using, or failing tc restore the right, he will be tempted to suspect the in tegrity of the other; then goes the unruly member to work and they fall out.' Whenever a person sees that the 'pecuniary interests' of an other conflict with his own, it is per fectly natural for him to watch the movements of the other, and to put himself in a position to guard against the effects of a conflict. To prevent a conflict in action, and its ruinous effects, it is necessn ry to find some harmonizing principle, end make that operative instead of con flicting principles. Tho author of Methodism would never have given his consent to the present plan' of ministerial support, nor would the Fathers of American Methodism have submitted to it. In their days a support was allowed for the Minister and his family. But now that wholesome, and proper principle ia set aside by the pompons cant ; that, 'Noio the Church pays for brains, and not for babies.' That looks pump- inish showy ostentations. Vhat a glorious emancipation the Church has achieved in these days of Hhouyht V She, according to this pompous cant, used to 'pay for babies.' The name of the author of this pompous cant, should be written with boiled tar thickened with sand, that it might stick and shine. The Church never did authorize men to preach, and perform the great functions of Iho pastorate, because they had 'babies.' But when she adjudg ed a man called and qualified to per- IPXTBLTSHED IN TI I RALEIGH, form these great duties, and sent him forth upon this grand mission, she felt that she onght to support him and his family. And whenever tho Church shall descend from this high position to that of 'paying for brains,' she will smother her piety and extinguish her altar fires most effectually. I will drop this subject, to be resumed when necessary. Among those who ?re supported from the revenue of the State, there is no conflict t-f pecunia ry interests. It is not difficult to learn the reason of this. All the states ol this great nation,as well as the national government, proceed upon the princi ples that thoroughly harpionize all tho pei-uriary interests of claimants -upon' the funds of the government. So there is not even a jir, or a note of discord upon this subject. Tho har monizing principle in the government of the State, paying the daimnuio upon its funds, is this: The saiae pow er that estimates the claims of one officer, estimatrs tl; c! -.ims of all itu officers. The Legislature, or General Assembly, fixes the salaries of lh;: officers of the State. The Congress of the Unl'ed States fixes the sah-ries of all the officers of the United Strips. There being but one power to il v the salaries of all officers there can bo no conflict of pecuniary interests ilu ri . If this article ia published, tho next upon this subject will show Low the pecuniary interests of pastors and el ders may be thoroughly barmoEizod, and all bones of contention n; on this subject removed. Eu. Van Or v. Look O it. Foi' the CliriMlian Adv.it.-uU'. 1in; k on llic sickness n.tnl death of ', !::. A. Green, of Granville co.. N. C who H. 1 at his esideuce on the ll'ih of Peceinlier. I-J. in be ;7th year ol his age 1 1 w:w tlie li I lleteelttli ;if IK-cviii''.'!-. As we all do well remeirit.cr. About i!ie hmr of nine I. M., We l.ist a neighbor :uul :i rrietid. Wliut. he sutb red no iui;tu' r:u Le!l. His wife and chiMrt n thoimh lnirsi-; hint a.'!1, Ilia wife would al'.vnys there, be found. To rais him up or lay him down. Miss Kettle ur.n a duiil:l child, She'd lend her help all tho whi!-.-. She'd stand to bear the wants of hen, Who had proved to he her dearest f: h nd. Miss Vick was aiways ready too, To do all that she ever knew, To comlort hnu in his distress. To S'Kjtli the pains of his dear breast 'Ttvas every hour through the night, O ! Sallie fix my head it is i.ot rujul, She'd stand around his bed so near, To catch each whisper of father dear. Miss Montle then with beauty fair. Was called upon to comb his hair. She'd lay her hand upon his briMv, And say O ! papa I'm ready now, O! Alice, you my dcar.-st child, Wiliyou fix my chair awhile. That I may with my friends converse. And tell ihetu of our Heaven's worth. lie's left ih now ai.d ouc to rest, Aiie.-. the dt-a l we hope he's 11. .?se.!, An ! as he rests beneath the sod, May we e'er remember God. That God that rules on lilyh, May be a father in the sky, A father to the child below, A father now and forever m.,iv. wm. i:. is. For the Christian Advocato. Deau Advocate: Yes you are not only a strong supporter of Christiani ty, but you are very dear to tho min istry. For while you guard the cause, you also look to the interests of the laborer. We regard you discreet and therefore like to have your advice sometimes. Well here is a small mat ter, and yet the more 1 think of it, the more puzzled I am; not in the im portance of it, but the principle in volved, Bro. , traveled Cir cuit, N. C. Conference in the year 186D. A good man and a very ac ceptable preacher. His work was heavy, and his health not good. In the bounds of that circuit there lives a Mr. who is said to be ia good circumstancos. It so happened that the preacher did not visit him, and added insult to injury by passing his Louse without noticing it, so that if any one, a child, servant, or perchance the gentleman should be where the preacher could bo seen, he, the preacher might at least tip his hat. Well the year passed on raid soon it was time for tho Bro. to loave for Conference. An effort was made to raise his entire salary. The good brother much needed it. all said it was right for him to be paid, Mr. lik ed to hear him preach, felt much in terested in the advancement of Meth odism but could not pay Bro. al thought he In d, had THREE DOL LARS put by for him, for months, bo cause he had been indecorous in the above, named manner. Tho next year the Conference sent another preacher to that work. Soon after he arrived, the stewards told him of the three dollar man. The new preacher is rather fond of studying human nature, so to test the matter he mounted his horse one cold snowy morning and set out to visit Mr. three dollar m?.T, spent a few hours with the famiJy prayed for their spiritual, and tem poral prosperity, visited them sever d j times during the year; was careful to IMJiSUSHKR. K INTERESTS OP N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY tip his hat and make a very polite bow every time he passed there, if he saw any appearance of human life near the premises. The year closed; thi.s preacher too needed money, but the three dollars did not, find its way to his pocket. Conference returned him he changed his programme, continued his bows, aud hat lifting but found other houses which he had not visited. His preaching was as in the former case very acceptable wi h Mr. three dollar man, but the three dollars re maiiied in its place of deposit. Last Conference made a change, sending a third preacher. - The second is in less than one hundred miles of the i ol lt;rs "man, rind as all pi-osicbcrj feel, ? should feel an interest in thtir breih rens, do for the sake t.f one of our ckver, nice ycung preachers, if you can devise any plan by which that thre;; dollars can be brought outof its long resting place, nnd made subser vient to the erase for which it was in teitded, let ns near how ? . it is a bit;. rue f . r it to be ootrinually sound ivig in every pre.icuer'tf ears who may be Bint there. Thcro are THREW DOJjLARS deposited for tho preach er, and ho who needs it, and is justly entitle to it, as ha rides the road with an empty poclret sees in tho ery looks iA ih.'.- comfortable home of a profess ing Christian tlsat which mocks his poverty, and hears his screaking rt tling buggy, chime in the tune, Three dollars, Thr!0 dollars, Three dollars. Lei i hear from you. A it fx ie? Wu u vaxs. S..shi!iemu, C. E'SrSST THE SISU9051 OF OS. Whatsoever, ia tho words of the H;b!e; 'our hand Jiudeth to do, lei ns bv-gia this tirw year by doing it. Wo all have many things to do our bodivs to fi-ed and clothe, our families t-.' provide f i'; .iud he who, wasting his time in i iieLi..-..s or his money in drunkenness or any other vice, provi d'.'s n - n ; hi.-- own, and specially for '.ho.o of Ids own lioao, hath, iu the judgment, of Paul, denied iho faith, ai:d is woroo than au infidel. We have no excuse for neglecting the duties of our diliereufc earthly callings. But there is something to do which claims a first and foremost place; and, taking pi eeedence of all others, should be postponed to none. What that is, is a ques icn that admits of no doubt, no b'-." ituth u. Our Lord has answer ed it. 'betk fit-fit, he says, 'the king doui of God, arid his righteousness, asid all other thi; shall be added uni yon.' And such a value belongs t. these, in other words, to tho bless ings of salvation, that the k r.g.iom of God ard his righteousness are v. eli worth seeking, though nothing what ever should be added. More than that, Christ and a saving interest in L im, is the pearl we should sell all else to buy. Let attention to our souls cost tho loss of fortune, of health, of loved friends, of life itself, salvation is woith the sacrifice; worth it a thou sand times repeated. So judged the martyr when, standing by the fiery stake, the boldest and calmest in the throng, he exclaimed, 'Had I as many lives as I have hairs on my head, I would lay them all down for Jesus Christ.' The Saviour is worth leaving all to follow, and an interest in his salvation is worth selling all to buy. What ? Did Satan speak the truth for once at least when he said, Skin for skin, all that a man hath will he give for his life ? When the hand of a robber is closed on his throat, turd the point of a dagger is gleaming at his heart, and a stern voice tells him that if he move lip or limb, breathe a word, or raise a cry of alarm, he dies, what man iu such cir cumstances would not resign his money to a midnight ruffian, saying, with Esau, 'I am at the point to die, aud what profit will it do unto me T And if, in the judgment of such a man aud of common sense, a few more un certain, chequered years of lite are worth all gains and gold, which is the valrc of eternal i'fe, the divine favor, a happy death, and oudles? bliss above the skies what are those worth ? A question well answered by one who said, If I saw Jesus Christ on yonder bank, and the.-c rolled a river of fire between ns, I would dare tho flames, swim the foe, to reach him ? Lost., condemned, exposed, a-s sin ners, e very moment to tho wrath of Cod, thcr-J cun be no eloabt what many .should do; what their Land find':th lh.jir perishing souls and passing hours c.ill them to do. Steal into the pri.-on, fiud your way to the condemned cell, wake up the sleeping felon, fi'e off his felterp, you have not to speak a word, nor produce an ar gument, nor do aught bat sign of caution, and silence lay your finger e n his lip and point to the open door lie knows what to do. A man overboard ! at that cry, rapidly sung out from stem to stern, all, but the ADVO REV- II. METHODISM IN steersman by the wheel, rush to the rescne; quick as thought, a rope, a life-buoy, aimed with skill and sent whirling like a, shot through the air, falls within the grasp of the sinking, drowning wretch. He clutches it; nor needs any to tell him what his hand findeth to do. What a man in such mortal extremity shoulel and would do, admits of no doubt, not vi au instant's hesitation; but this is as pittin, that if years of graoe are gone, and this new year has found ns nn saveil, still in 'our sins, we should seize on mercy ' while it is in our reach. Wiry tnould wo perish wben we may lot-id fjitax to die when a iyrftV.l'K' 4ee ? and, time pressing, Jesus urges immediate flight, saying, 'Behold, I h;ivo set be fore you an open eloor!' Tin: following ptragraphs arc taken from Richard Gran'. Wuifco'a now vol ume, 'Words and their U.es:' Agghav.vte Tiiu word should nev er be employed in reference to per sons, as it means merely to add weight to to make au evil more op prcssive; injury is aggravated by in suh:. It is somoiiates improperly used in the sense of Irrigate, as 'I was much aggravated by his conduct. ' Bal:ci: in. tho sense of rest, re mainder, residue, remnant, is au abomination. Dilutee is metaphori cally the diii'-ji'Miee between two sides of au acc-'iint the amount which is necessary to nnikt oue toual to the other. Yet w continually hear of tho balance of this or that thing, even the balance of a congrega tion or of if! avmy. Jiorx nri L is applicable only to per sons. A giver may bo bountiful, but his gift, can not it should be c.d'ed a plentiful or large, A bountiful sliced is absu rd. FiiTuft c ipresu-'-s a d-ub!o motion first fitun and I hen toward the speak er; k is MWtiy equva-itt to 'go and bring,' and ought not. f o bo used in the sen-'-e to bring alone1. Cai.cfi.atk, bolides its sjctit.u tl mis use for tii'uk or purpose!, is some times, su the par'icip'e form calcu lated, put for likely or apt: 'That nomination is calculated to injure the party.' It. i- ca'cuhdud (designed) to do no such thing, though it may l e likely to. Citizfs should not bo used except when the possessicn of political rights is infant to be implied. Newspaper r- porters have a bad habit of bring itg it out on all occasions, when per son,' 'man' r by -3. aud; r would ex press iht ir me -ining much better. Cori'i.F. applies to to tilings which ave bound together or united in some way. 'A couple of apples' is not cor rect ' ao apple.; is vht is m-.-arit. DiiiT means fib b, and is not synony mous : ith earth or soil. Yet. people sometimes speak of a dirt road or of packing dirt around the roots of trees they are setting. Th'-y mean earth. Execute. When a murderer is hanged hi s sentence is executed, the man is not. A man can not be exe cuted that is followed out tr per formed. Expect look3 al-.vays to tho future. You cannot expect that anything has happened or is, happening, but only that it will happen. Get me ins to ebtain, not possets. 'Have you got good molasses ?' 'They have got bad manners.' Why will peo ple persist in introducing the word in such sentences as these, where it is so evidently superfluous ? Help Meet An absurd use of these two words, as if they together wore the name of one thing a wife is too common. The sentence iu Genesis: 'I will make him an help meet for him' i. e., a help fit for him. There is no such word as help meet. Lis Lay Persons not grossly ig norant sometimes say they wil! lay (meaning lie) tlown, and they have lay (lain) an hoar, or that the ham mer is laying (Ijing) by the tackr. Lie means to recline; its past tense lay 'I lay there all night;' its partici ples, lying and lain. Lay (used of present time) means to pat some thing down one lays a carpet; its past is laid 'I laid it uryscli;' its participles, laying and laid 'I was it -terruptetl while laying is, ami it was not ail laid till night.' Love rules the h?art, not the slotrach. You love your wife, or ought to; but favorite articles of footl you like. On-nuvE should not be usetl for say, as in the eft-heard sentence, 'What diel you observe ?' PRACTICE AK J.-IXIXCIPI-.E. Practical knowledge is knowledge that can be used or applied to some useful rurpose. It is a gross error to suppose that the various arts and pro cesses ued in common life are inde pendent of theory and abstract specu lation. To the untaught mind, the astronomer is' a visionary, sitting in GATE T. HUDSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. NORTH CAROLINA.. 7, 1872. his observatory in the lone night hour, gazing at those far off myriad points of light, and spending his days ia the solution of equations and problems as unintelligible to most people a3 the fantastic characters on a China tea chest. Yet, without hi3 labors, even the common family Almanac could not be prepared; the sailor could not be furnished with his chart, and of course, could never venture npon the deep, out of sight of land; indeed would be ignorant of the laws of the currents and winds, at whose mercy he coasts along the shore. Our standard weights and measures are all based npon astronomical works far above the reach of ordinary cul ture. Themanwho has a knowledge of the principles which govern tho growth of the vegetable kingdom, who knows the nature and capacities of his soils, the habits and recpiirement of his crops, and adapts one to the other, has the reputation of being a good manager. Bat inimy of these princi ples have been reached only by the studies of secludeel chemists and ab stracted botanists. By tracing out the slow development of principles and applying thos 3 principles in the laboratory autl in the field, they have found out the laws upon which nature acts from seed time to harvest. Book-farming may be laughed at by J those who love darkness, but it ia too late, at this day, for any man to deny, with his eyes open, the utility of a knowledge of principles iu the pur suits of agricuhure. 'CET THE DEAD IS I' It Y THEIIt DEAD' I chanced to be at an inland town at the starting of a regiment to the seat tf war. It was a tender hour, for almost every spectator hail some relative or friend among the soldiers; but the sympathy of the company seemed to bo concentrated upon a young captain, whose face wore an ex pression of peculiar sadness. 'That,' sail my friend, 'is the sou of one of oar mo t respected citizens. His father died yesterday, and is io be 1' Hti.-l f .1i -V- AI'VOll' l.ilf fltjTk l-iwiimitif .it IV. - OJ 1J Vsl.J.VSty Kill" I i LU U11H was ordered to the front, and he goes with it.' Thero was no lack of filial piety in that young man, who thus left the dead to bury their read, while ho went to effer his life, if need be, to his country. In the hour of the na tion's peril there must be no looking back on the part of any who were en Hste-d for her defense. Tho love of country was more than tho love of kindred and home. Ia this spiiit, of supreme, all-nb- sorbing devotion to the kingdom of Gtid i ave missionaries "one forth to the heathen. In this spirit of nnhesi tating. self sacrificing consecration must every elisciple outer upon the service of Christ, with no looking back towards the world, no divieled inter est between God and mammon. The Saviour has a right to demand this ; since for our sakes he left the glory he hail with the Father before the world was, and gave himself for us. He cama to save us, and when tho time for offer'ng up his life had come, he went steadily forward t meet tho fate that awaited him at Jerusalem, reaely to sacrifice himself even for those who rejected him upon the way. May the love of Christ constrain ns to feel that we are not our own. Rev. Joseph J'. Thompson, T). 1). Fit UG.l LIT Y A man who is frugal aud economical is self-governing. His eye begs him every day, and ho says to his eye : No." His ear pleaels every day for indulgence, and he says: "No." His tongue supplicates him saying, " In dulge me, indulge me;'' and he says " Thou must be obedient. Thou shalt not have this." Every inch of his skia pleads for some license; and he says: ' No." And amusements say, " Giveus the elay;" and ho says: " I will not spare the elay." Pleasures and temptations of varions kinds, a thoa sanel influences, come round a man, beseeching him to gratify their de mands;and he says: " I have laid out ruv plan, and I will not depart from .. t -it n A 4 V " It. lWiil save, ja-ixi uicio is it con tinuous process of selfgovemment going on within him. Ho is all the time governing his thoughts, check ing his desires, restraining his incli nations, putting do wn inordinat pride and vanity, and denying his appetites and passiens. This may be carried too far, and it of ten becomes miserish ; but it is an abuse of a good thing; and in this habit of frugality and econamy there is a world of moral benefit. II. W. Beeeher. The Bible. There is no altar for this divine Book superior to the dus ty tabid of the poor, where, amid foul fire and smoke, and fouler hearts, it lies day and night, gradually clearing away the atmosphere and changing the natures around it 71 A WHOLE NO. 2G0 U x a x a, . mo It A Li CliAIt UtlitR!TI('S Ol AX'I3'T CITIES. Of the moral characteristics of the ancient cities we should be glad to know more; how quiet the course of do mestic life glided beneath the walls of Karuak aud the tower of Belus; what vivid hues were prized; what joys or sorrows disturbed the current of ex istence. How far the modern city ex eels the ancient in the good order or tranquility is difficult to determine. Yet some indication of moral progress may be discovered. The corruption of Babylon aud Thebes was followed, after the lapse of centuries, by the higher culture of Greece. Athens taught humanity. No glaeliatorial shows nor human s ictiliees were per, mi! ted by its progressive people. Demons! hem s boasted that his life had been passed iu the service of hie native city, and iu a c.mstaut effort to win the esteem of his fellow citizens; Pericles, that no A'honiau had evei suffered by his fault. Benevolence and charity wen; c iltivated iu all the Greek cities. The name of Gil lias of Agrigentum is pivst rvcd, whose im mense fort iu h was wholly employed in ailing tho iudigent aud providing for the welfare of others tho Conlts I or Peabody of i'.utiq'.i'y. Integrity was prized as the thief of civil virtues. To m.iko profit from a public ofiie-o wat an unpardonable crime. lVrich - ! t ,t d that he had nev increase d ! i i i.e.... erate inheri tance by a single drnc'iun through all bis long tenure of - t-i -o. Aristides was knov.ii as tht Unorrnpt. In tlx purer elays of I .!. they lived iu pov erty, and Fr;tbricus cookud his own simple fare. C.-tto sas so careful oJ his honor that be weighed aud ac counted for ali the g. .Id lie brought from tho East. Ilegulup, rather than violate an oath, v ut b ick cheerfully to slavery and deadi. leaving his fami ly elepe-ndent on charity. Of all the pluneler of wealthy I'aithago Lo bad nothing. IIoiv.ee ha. painted, iu the grandest of bis I , i ic, the man ot consci-ais iut.cf.-rit v, who, intent on some nab'e aou, d fi. .ho rage of ty- rants or the clamors? o !0 people Juvenal Taji;u.. in doathie is satin hold up to a tlegi lietiite ago the rigor of ancient honesty. Lycurgus vras f r twelve years Ihi' c niroiler of Ath n in its last eljctiuo. Millions of reve nue passeel through his hands, yet every foutbyear iii.-i aeeo ir.ts wc re au dited.aud veie totm 1 Io bo rigidly col lect. At length, when he wat ilying.he demtinoed a new e semination. Tho an elitors reviewed his long career; his accounts were agai i declared to be perlectly accurate; ;hcy were engraved on marble tablets, ;uid the A'h"iii:in cou'reu: !' eiidi ..( ppy m tuo approval cf his own conscience t-ud of his ua tive city. Fnsgi.i- nis wf the marble tablets, it is said, have been eliscover- ed in Athens, and might prove in structive models for the modern financiers. JEIT'ERO.Va; VIE,VSOr "OLD AWE." In his letter. to Jo!m Adams, Jeffer son said: Our next meeting must then be in the country to which they have flown a country for us not now voty far distant. For this journey we shall need neither gold nor silver in our purse, nor scrip, ner coats, nor slaves. Nor is the provision for it more easy than the preparation ha'j been kind. Nothing proves, more than this, that the Being who presides over the world is essentially t'eiiovoieut stealing from us one by tu e the faculties, lead ing us like tho horse ia his mill, round and round tho same bey ten circle. To see what we huve seen, To histethe lusted, mid ut each retain l.esi tasteful ; o'er otir .alales to deseulit Another vi!it;i;.;e until, saliat)d and fatigued wi;h this leaden iteration, we ask our imnje. I heard once a very old friend, who had troubled himself with neither poets nor philosophers, sny the hT.me thing in prose, that lie was tiretl of pulling off his shoes :i.i.J stockings at night and putting them on'agaiu in the morning. TI e wish to stay here is gradmdiy extinguished; but not bo easy as that of return '.- once in a while to see how things have gone on. Perhaps, however, one of t he elements of future felicity is. to be a constant and u nim passioned view of what is the wish of occasional visits. Mercier has given us a vision of the year 2410; but prophecy is one thing and history an other. On the whole, however, per haps it is wise and well to be con tented with good things which the Master of the feast places befoie ns, and be thankful for what we have rather than thoughtful about what we have not. Raising a false note of alarm in one's ear only increases tho liability of his falling into real danger. OFTICI or THU ADVOCATE - CORK EE Or HAHGLTT ANO DAWSON STS., EahHiuil, Ti. 0. KATES OF ADVFKTTS'.NO. 1 Moxtii. 3 Mos. 3 Motta. C M..h. lruc I N.nai, - !jiiMri-a. i s.ju:.re. 4 S.iu re. ) Fol'iiin e'oi'in.t. : 1 Coluilll. ! t -' : I ;! f, mi ;o mi .!. IMi 1 '.! '.1 li lo He li no :a oo U ih. ! no lit Hi l: i i: i.. is (Ml i; no is no '. ,.i . 4. Il .," mi ' U no IU mi ' ui no 7f HO ; I'M kl ai ci. IN . . i t 0.1 ifi ,n no loii io y6 t"'ii sti tni:: hhi wi tan wi i i r -i no A-Jv.TtUvnu'iiu mil U- changed once rtery tlnrc m-nths wi;i,.ut ,!dni..nul rtini. for ev.ry other Cianjje Oi -re will h- n extra charite of tm-nty an inch. Twenty Ave j. -re. M. UaJdert to the alu rites f .r ii.vtal noitees In Lo.nl column. Nfoelrl rontraeta made on renwnli1 urnia, THE IIYJI. or CEEAXTIIi: Then arc m aty reasons f.,r a po cii'iar interest iu this hymn. It is re garded l y all competent judges as tho noblest hymn of alNtntiquity, except ing those of the Bible. It has, more over, great intrinsic cxcelleint, jadgod by an absoln'o b'iiu l ird. It presents the religions convictions and eimitl ns of the more intelligent pa- i.ius m a veiy inttres ing and in- s ructive light. It excites additioiitl interest in view of tho fact that it was read by tho Aposrto P.inl. and was leomed worthy of b ang quoted in his argument addressed to tho AMu-ni-ins on Mars' Hill. Iuthtt nrrrtimrtnt. lm set forth God, lh Crt a'or of all things, f... H ,,..mM vJ.i.1, and there by exposes the folly ef idol worship. Addressing an audience of Greeks, ho uppoahi to certaiu of their own pooti who had said, 'We a: t. his ofTsprir. ' ' and n awns from the conscious per il -nalily of man, tl: -Spring to tho co: responding rrouality of God, tho Father of ujuu; and tht:.s condemns the representation aud worship of thei diviue Spirit by 'i niig-s ,,f t,,J,l or silver or stone, graven by :ft or man's device).' What "igmueut can bo r,i re riwfonii 1 or fun dim -ntal ? I en not a : itional curiosity lead m (j iH. qidrc who wire t'.eho poe ts? Does their !io.g,i;igii, m they uud- rrftood it, su.-tiiii lie arL-:im nr. of I . n! wii.. is tiie lot.tcxt ft i in which these v.nrdj ar-. !iik-a.' hat light, if any, doe this quotation th oV oil P.HIi'jI ,;. quaiurtlice with the G;-e. k po Is itnd with cb.ssic d lite; t nre ? Tin ri) is no field of thought more ui.eliseiy nUeiv.-tieg lii.i i ri opened oy au attempt, in (mh-;w r iln sn qlloH- ' US. (., ami A'ee. ;tl;eill:l HOC .li NMN,; - js :l Lia. 1 1 Uti: pi rsoimge, tiulno sivty yeii'd of a'to. lli facj is bldleM- ml., ,,u .. to loeit !i!mxt ci!,,;iver.u.:. 'I'lii! out lines, .f (ho f.iee are handsome mid digndied. Tiu.re js n,Ch ol courtly giae a.id refiiim.-iit ;ibo it the l.mr iug ;n 1 ges'siies i f this p)i', vve-Hk, and wasted i.inn. M,, wear.- a J. n!C robe of vio'i t i;id., v, iih iti.e ! f da k c ij'e oi tv-ilnr, at..! ban t nriti:iv fold eli). in round his l!e-k. hiddil.f a.tuched to it r gr- ut j'old cros s. ihereisa certain nervous quivering about the cea and lips, but otln rwiso he ia pel feet ly collected and is muster ofthe eeMi;hn. His voice is Ihhi, but woitdcrfii'Jy cl.-ar and penetrating. It is hcaid all tiirou ;li tbi'j great hall moiisi nl. agi M noisy, now n: Hitont. The wen's fall with a nlov, quiet f.rce, lit., dropo uf wafer. Whao'ver your opinion i,i.,v b, f V.H, tvtmil,i chon: hub h0!, n; and, indeed, you want :.!;, to lioiea :md : ee. I'or this is tlx f.-ivmost. man in the ("ath-ilic Chun h i f Englainh This is the Car dinal fpand ion of Disra !i's "Lothair" Dr. Henry Edward M tnning. Bo man Catholic Archbishop cf Wcst minihter. .-luvess r in that office of the lao Cardinal Wiseman. The Galaxy. Hii1)kx Soi;i:o .vs. The woundd of the bouIh are not always such as bleed outwardly, nor in the mtst poignant nuguish caused by visible ngeii's. When wti fpeak of consolation, our minds naturally cali up the im:i"i,n of illnesF, I ere tvi me;;t, or p'eiil of life i r limb. But man u coirilituteri, thut an assault or reputation, or even a public tr geuend ceu.suro of conduct and character, wiil ef(ii inflict ns keen ind lasting pain as tho piercing of a sword. 1 lie re are, moreover, porno who co, ild, with more sju oiiiaitv, go to the cannon's mouth, than withstand the voice of disappreciation, w hen pro ceeding from grc.'t numbers or fn iu persons t f rank and iuporUuco. And wben censure and rebuke actually fail, there is always an emotion ef tui Uappiness, at lea' 1 for a time;, under which (he support of religion areas truly i cedetl ii;j under tho more palpa ble intlict ions. Nor is there :my itieai.i of rising altogelher ab jve smrh r-nlTi r ing except t!ia, wliich is afl"orl;-d by Christianity; because the true believer is the only man w ho enn rationally and universally app. d from th0 judgement of man f the judgement of God. HA-VDO.II READI.US. How noiselessly tin mow comes down! You may sec it, feci it, but never rear i. Such is true charitr j. It cannot be loo deeply impressed upon the mind that application is the price to be paid for menial acquisi tions, and th.it it is as absurd Io ex pect ttem without it, as to hope for a harvest, who: e we ha vo not tiowa the seed. We go through life like & rnn with a dark lantern, throwing light only on tho few steps before; but since, little by litt'e, all the miles of myste rious darkness that stretch bevond our sight will become the few stpps before us, tho light, thank God! is enough for the whole way.