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ADVOCATE F7 OFFICE OF TIIE ADV00ATE -O0RNE & OF HaEGETT AND DAWSON ST8 EALEIGH, N. 0. BATES OF ADVEETI81HO. BP4CB. 1 Monro. ) Hun.. 8 Mox. I Mum. IT. a TERMS. I t'i CasisTiiu AdvooatrU furnished to snbscri- ir Al jut annum In advance. If payment be I ? tre,lalx month., $3.S0, onecopy.rtx month,$1.25. Oui4 UUtuti.oiruflUnia. s .iinnanliai1'"" for publication enould be carefully I lien, a"'! ya :ttt on0 e,J" of lQe Sheet. All letters 3 ir ,racw should be addressed to tb.0 Editor. OTJB AGENTS. .j ,h) trav.'liiiR and Locarpreacher. In the bounds 1 , i Nor'.h Carolina Conference are our aathomcd TIAN REV. J. B. BOBBITT, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. PUBLISHED IN THE INTEKESTS OF METHODISM 1 1ST NORTH OA.ROLI2ST. VOL. XIX. NO, 22. RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1873. WHOLE NO. 970. 1 Square, i (iuuvs, ii Col'mu. t 1 M 4 Ml IM a mi lu w 8C DO t 4 M (HI -i mi it) UU IS 0(1 60 Ou, t A UOii f 10 W, 1H (Ml 90 00 I Culuuio, J W 0jj 100 00 1 ,;ont. 1 HOW TO KEMIT. AdvortUt-mcnu will lie oUngcd .no .vary thro, month, without .dditlonl eburge. Pur .tit othr ehuige tl.Te will bo an extr cWso of twenty ce.t u Inch. Twontjr-flT por coot, b .Ud U th W. rU forfji;iai notice In Lootl .olomn. in jondiug money, an amounts snouia do Bern in ' , -sirred letter, post otEce order or check. The coat Ilf"r ji?ratioa, or Tost Office order can be doducted ! f- ,m t'no snount in hand. If money Is sent otherwls eKr. specified it will be at the senders risk. 11 1 ioa US tl. I 4 t M 00 ll j M 4 OM 6j Uu 75 vB j mi 0 ' U 51 V MOTHER'S BIBLE. o? the wheal.'' Psalms lxxxi. 16. .My moitiev's Book ! .My Shepherd's crook. Volume with Love replete: 1T$ ttiidy yields I.Ike harvest fields, Tlu flnest of the wheat I My niolher's faith ! Whale" er ssith. PN.-i'l earth nor hell defeat; Us seed will keep; Who S"-s slt&li reap 'a l,e tli.ee! of the wheat ! My mother's st ay ! Strength for each day, I.'rks of a chain coinploto; " i rttt re ives, AU precious siieavt-s, T!.e tiuest ol tho whe ttt ! My mother's liope ! Ki'.li' telescope, What tsious so entreat ? On eery plain V':ivs golden i.-iin, T':.- tlnest of the wheat ! My mother's rout ! l! rvef prest l' v :'owers r ire ami sweet; AU seeker? find, Wf.ii j-y they biml The finest of the wheat ! My mother's love ! Ang; above And saints below shall meet; Where Christ shall come To Harvest Home, The finest of the wheat 1 O, n-a"cLle;?s Io"k 1 Our Shepherd's o.-ojk His Thr .ne the Mercy-Seat; There glean and laugh. Truth free from caff, Th? t'.ueM. of thj whet ! o ro m u m if a t c it. For tlie Advocate, l-i the Adwcatc.'&a.y Tth.an argument on 'Destiny,' declaring 'it is as man wills,' to accomplish a thing or not, seems to me to be a very weak thing, inasmuch as it gives man the greater power, and makes the purpo ses of God of no avail, places Him as a silent spectator of omnipotent men, men whom the Word of God de clarea to be 'nothing more than grass hoppers.' 'The workmanship of His otc hands.' "Of His own will begat He us,' not by the will of man or of the il-.?h. For his own purpose He created man, 'according to the mighty counsel of His own roll.' 'He holds tho destinies of nations in His hands.' Not a sparrow falls to the ground without his knowledge.' 'The hairs of the head are all numbered.' The ap pointed time unto man to die.' 'He Lardneth whom He will.' 'Hath mer cy on whom He will.' 'Ha bringeth the counsels of the nations to naught,' s:eing the end from tho begginning. 'Nothing new beneath the sun.' cThe thing that is to be hath already been.' Now, if the Word of God bo true, r.ul I believe it to be, not from a historical faith alone, but from ex perience, observation,) no one man, njt even the great Napole m, can role the destiny of a nation, except as God permits, and decress it. Now, if God saw an 1 planned the destiny of the French nation from the beginning, aad one man, Napoleon, did accident ally s'ep on the stage of lifo, and act the great drama according to his own will, different from what God had teen aud decreed, he makes God a mat able being, a being disappointed ia His plans. His foreknowledge of these things being frustrated by one hose power was greater than His (God's). Napoleon didn't hold the destinies of France, or his own, in his own hands, only as God willed and permitted it. He made Napoleon with great mind, overpowering gen ius and intellect, a master man, with ambition the ruling power, to etirnu fote, to nerve him, to force him, to se and develop every resource, for the accomplishing of the purposes for which He had made him. 'The great mm born to rule the storm.' When ms greatness, his splendor, his buc c"i6, his ambition, had all reached tue height, God saw fit to take them &li down, to show to the man and all f r.ure generations, that He was om nipotent, and would bring to naught t!is greatest man the world bad known. 'Man proposes, but God dis poses.' In vain Napoleon Bought to r-epect God's works, in tearing from L heart the love God had planted fbcre. In thia he failed, and, in try lng to immortalize his name in having Br3 succeed and reign after him, dif ferent from what God had decreed. Ia eTy great event ot his life there a marked destiny, which was but &e fulfilling and developing of the tTtnt8 in wnich he was born to act toe most conspicuous part his faith id belief in his destiny ever preced JDS bis success or downfalls. God few what was necessary to make napoleon a good man, after making "a a great one; it required all that ere punishment and humiliation w tea-;h him, the French and others, e u't(:r insignificancy of man of all h, and that God was the Omnipo the Almighty Tower. In Napo 'giaat days-a lonely exile he t4ad- fult the great beauty and force of the Christian Religion, and declared in most ben at if ul language, that Christ's sermon on the Mount was the grandest, greatest thiDg cvor written or expressed. Wc can come home to our own late civil war and find the strongest instances of destiny, for, long before it occurred, it was predicted by great minds. In all revolutions and wars there have been minds stars to shine to act more conspicuously, more brilliantly than 1 others, and minds which are prophot ic,and precede the age being fortified by such wisdom as experience, obser vation, and the truths of History,they are enabled to see beforehand what smaller minds do not comprehend at the time; and, with an eya of faith they predict they undertake. In Ca?sar, a heathen warrior, we sc9 the mighty power of faith, which God gave him and by which ho was en abled to go forward accomplishing his destiny, even on the stormiest waters. On one occasion, when the old war riors and old shipmen were desparing of life and safety, the groat mind of Cio-jar had only to speak an 1 teach them tho great lesson of faith when he said, 'knowest thou not that the fortunes of Ctcsar are on board ?' With stronger faith than Gesar's, Stonewall Jackson, the Christian sol dier and gentleman, acted his part in our late war and when he fell I the mantle of subjugation fell o'er the S.uth! But think you, that such minds as Jackson's, Lee's, Davis'j Stephens', and the many others, who have acted such conspicuous parts in the late drama, were mere accidents, experiments? that they didn't ac complish what God made them to do? Think you that the surrender of the great, the good Lee, of the for tunes of the 'Sunny South' to . the mighty Grant, was a surrender of her chivalry, her true principles, for which she had fought, bled, endured ? Nay verily. In that surrender some of the grandest scenes, the eublimest feelings, iho holiest tears of the war were shed. Those tears were holy they 'are bottled up in heaven,' those noble feelings and principles were re corded in due time will have their reward. Think you that in the death of Jackson and Lee their minds and principles died ? Such minds can never die, they were made by God. Their bodies are gone but their spirits are transmitted, 'and the na tion is their Tomb.' Those scores and hundreds of noble stars and sol diers, who shone less conspicuously, are not dead though gone their spirits live in younger, stronger minda and bodies, and in our subjugation and submission, their resources are being dsveloped. And whilst we are being punished for our national sins, the dross, corruptions, and cursos of our nationality are being swept away. When we are prepared for it, the South, like the phtcnix, will rise from the ashes of the dead, more beautiful, more triumphant, purified. I once noticed a speech of Mr. Davis, when he was Senator from Miss., in which he foresaw the war bet .veen the States. In another at Richmond a few years back, note what he said in reference to the great North-west. In the po litical aspects of that country, the shadows, of what Davis has declared, are being cast. The most insignifi cant trifle the merest accident, often turns the tide of battle the fate of nations, which is not chanca, not ac cident of itself; but the mighty hand of God in which he shows that 'He works all things according to the mighty counsel of His own will.' May 23. N. L. Jonx Wesley's great success in 'win ning souls' was due in a groat meas ure to his habit of interesting himself personally in the people of his charge. 'If he saw a young man tending to ward a dissolute life, he sought his ac quaintance, asked him to his table, fonnd out his taste in study, etc., and helped him in gratifying them. Then he would introduce him to tensiblo com paniona of religious character, and watch over him with a father's inter ejt and tenderness.' In several of the large cities in this country the Jewish Churches finding that Sunday-Schools have been ma king inroads on their flocks, have es tablished Sunday-schools of their own. The Rabbi himself takes charge of the school, and instructs the children. I look upon e very man as a suicide from the moment he takes the dice box desperately in his hand, and all that follows in bis career from that fatal time is only sharpening the dag ger before ho strikes it to his heart. Cumberland. Fifty thousand dollars worth of wa ter cress is annually sold in the city of London. No vegetable is more whole some aa a salad; it is most excellent for poultry, and 25 cents worth of Beed cast in a spring-brook in spring , or fall will so w a mile or m ire in length Letter from Bishop Pierce, Mb. Editob: Since I wrote you last I have made quite a circuit. The labors of the year began with the Louisiana Conference, in New Or leans, on tho Sth of January. We had a short and pleasant session. Bishop Keener was with me. Then and there the Mexican mission was inaugurated, with a missionary col lection and the strong endorsement of the Conforence aud the Church. Oar people are expected to respond favor ably not merely by verbal approval, but by large contributions. This en terprise ought to stimulate our mis sionary zeal. It ia our field. Near to us. The door is open. Providence has furnished a native preacher to be gin with. Others are in training. Say not, 'there are yet four months and then cometh harvest ?' Lot the Church lift up her eyes and see, all things are ready. I expect to hold Conference in Mexico, perhaps, in the halls of the Montezumas. After my return to Georgia the ex tremely cold weather and the abun dance of rain shut me in more than usual. A fow short trips to the neigh boring towns, and two or three ser mons a week, made up my labors for a month. The home fireside was en joyed thankfully. It was my purpose to be present at the Baltimore Conference for a time, but the sickness of Bishop Paine made it necessary for me to hold it for him. I was glad to serve tho brethren and oblige the Bishop. Bishop Doggett was present, also, and added greatly by his presence and labors to the in terest of the occasion. The session was more than pleasant. It was de lightful, socially and religiously. The great Head of the Church was near unto us. It was my privilege to dedi cate the Bond Street Church, on the Sunday before Conference, and thus I was in the city altogether about two weeks. From all I saw and heard I am hopeful of the future in Baltimore. In the territory of the Conference the Church has more than doubled its membership in seven years. All this under many discouragements, hin drances, and disabilities. The vital force is strong and enduring, and now relieved of the pressure under which it has struggled, I look for in creasing prosperity. The reports to me since Conference are very cheer ing. The Lord grant a large ingath ering as well as an effective organiza tion in every department of labor. I left a day and night before the Conference adjourned. The business of the session was all done up, save the report of tho committee on the Huston case, and the reading of the appointments. Sad tidings from home, as well as other engagements at hand, made it necessary for me to leave. Bishop Doggett kindly con sented to remain and wind up for me. A day or two at home and I went to Augusta to attend the General Conference of the Colored M. E. Church in America1 Eleven years of my ministerial life, as station preach er and presiding elder, were spent in and around Augusta, and I love to go there still. It is a dear old place to me. This visit was fortunate as to time and attending circumstances. A very glorious work waB in progress in Brother Evans' charge (St. James), and I was allowed to help him with out stint. My old friend Evans and myself have been yoke fellows a long time, and it was a pleasure to relievo him and rejoice with him. What a boon to a preacher is a revival of re ligion I how refreshing 1 how strength ening ! How a man can live without one I never knew. The three preach ers in Augusta are a unit. They work together. They have plauned a regu lar campaign and are going from vic tory to victory. Already hundreds have been gathered in. The Lord add unto them a thousand fold ! The colored Conference was a call ed one, assembled for a specific pur pose. The death of Bishop Vander horst and the growth of the Church made it necessary to strengthen the episcopacy. After conferring together with great unanimity, they elected three Bishops. As to the future for tune of this organization, I am hope ful. They have made great progress. The signs of improvement are obvi ous. It is commanding public confi dence and respect Free independ ent conservative if the preachers are faithful to their principles and policy, this Church will be a blessing to the colored race and to the country. If ambitious bad men, 'grievous wolves,' do not enter in to corrupt them by divisions and factions, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America will be strong and useful and enduring. My agency for Emory College has been greatly interrupted by other calls of duty, primary and official, which I do not feel at liberty to push asidet Bat I work the interests of the college in as well as I may, and improve every interest for her benefit. After leaving Augusta, I visited Thompson and Warrenton, preached three limes, raised somo money by the kindness of the few, not from the liberality of the n: any. Well, it is ever thus. All places are very much alike as to giv ing. Glad to say the work is going on, and payments regularly made. No debt is contracted. If we must be slow, we mean to be sure and easy. If I were free to work in this field, in fi?e month? the whole amount needed could be raised. But my main work is ministerial. By the blessing of God, and the good will of the people, 1 6xpect to succeed any how. Let no man croak or fear. The hu'ddings are going up and will he finished. Daring thia month I have held three District Conferences. One at Americus, one at Camilla, and one at Blackuhear. I made a chain of the work by preaching on the way at Smithville, Albany, Thomasville and Savannah. At all these places I saw signs of interest. Soft, tender, joy ous emotions in the Church peni tents at the altar some conversions and some admissions to membership. The chief meetings were continued. Hope to hear of good results. What a blessing to the Church these dis trict meetings have been and still are! What a work they have to do in revi ving experimental religion, restoring practical godliness, reinstating the ad ministration of discipline, and damm ing b vck the flood of worldliness I The Church is suffering everywhere from the same class of evils. Bad in themselves, they have grown worse by toleration. By long sufferance, they defy authority and claim impunity. I take ono crying ein for example, the neglect of family worship. It is very general. So common that family prayer is the exception, not the rule. What surprises me most, ia that the preachers report that their charges are spiritual and prosperous, with the certain knowledge that hardly three in ton discharge this important duty. What a loose idea of religion is this 1 Are these delinquents in the favor of God? Is God well pleased ith the neglect of duty ? Does He compound , commute, compromise with any man ? Can children be trained in tho way they should go without the Bible, without prayer, religious conversation and social worship ? I know a great many clever people are guilty in this matter. With all due respect, they are poor Christians very loose exam ples. Nay more, after proper time and cdbrt, kindness, entreaty, pa tience, if they will not bo reformed, they ought to be cut off. Is there a member always at preach ing, class, love feasts, quarterly con ference, everywhere the Church ap points and expects him ? Mark it, that man prays in his family. All this, he promised when God converted him. The obligation of a covenant is upon him, and he does not mean to forfeit it by infidelity. Ho stands to his bargain. As a citizen of Zion, he is law-abiding. He means to please God and keep a good conscience. Is there a member very irregular frequently absent, rarely in his place, person il or official, worldly in hid tastes, lax in his morals he does not pray in his family. This is not the cause, perhaps, of his errors. It may be an effect. But the man's ideas are low. His religion is loose, and the looser because he has no con science as to one of the leading duties of Christian life. No man can leave out of his religious life anything which essentially belongs to it, with out damage and grievous peril as to final results. 'I stand in doubt' of all these delinquents. They may be clever, liberal be free from sin never reproach the Church with dis orderly conduct, but they do not en joy religion; tho root of the mat ter ij not iu them; there is no oil in the vessel; they bring no fruit to per fection. Wells without water. They do not dig deep enough to strike the vein. Clouds without rain. Light, fleecy, vagrant, they drop no fatness upon the earth. 'Ephraim,' said God, 'is a ca&e not turned' bakad on one side only; neither bread nor dough. So with these people. They are not cooko J. Their religion is not done. It is not thoroagh. They must be salted and turned and baked over. Let the preachers go to work gently, but in earnest. Amen. G. F. Pierce. Southern Christian Advocate. A principal source of erroneous judgment is viewing thiegs partially, and only on one side; as, for instance, fortune hunters, when they contem plated the fortunes singly and sepa rately, it waj a dazzling and tempting object; but when they came to possess the wives and the fortunes together, 1 1 1. onDnort f.Sav ll (1(1 Tint j made qaite so good a bargain. Jons-80X. CREATION IS GENESIS AND GEOLOGY. liV REV. V A. WUEDON, D. D. The two records of God's work in croation, as found in Scripture and in nature, cannot contradict each other. In this belief Christian scholars have hoartily accepted both, never doubt ing that when they shall come to be rightly read and interpreted their en tire harmony will appear, while the rationalistic Bchool generally pro nounce the difficulties to be so many and so great that their reconciliation is impossible. Few persons of intelli gence can now be f-jund who believe that in six literal days of twenty four hours each the whole work of creation was accomplished, from the first call of matter into existence to the placing time of man. That God could in six days, or in one day, or instantly, have made the world as we find it, is cer tainly possible, bat the evidences that he did not, aro multipliad, and the notion that he formed by his fiat the several systems of rocks with their im bedded fossil remains of plants and animals that never lived, belongs to a past generation. Various hypotheses have been sug gested for reconciling the first chapter of Genesis with the ascertained facts of geology, of which that is probably i the most widely accepted which finds a parallel between the two, reckoning the six days of the one a3 identical with tho vast and indefinite periods of the other. They who hold the agree ment to bo ideal rather than literal are compelled to a very free interpre tation of the words of Moses; and while they are content with the sub stant'al assertion that God produced his works in a certain succession, they would sc?m to have overlooked the remarkable precision and defini'eness of the narrative. There is an exact order of succession iu tho works of the several days, and the days are carefully numbored, each having its appropriate work begun and finished, with no overlapping of one upon an other. But how do our geologists of the literal school succeed in their task at harmony? The first difficulty is to find the eix great geologic periods, and it would be more easy to find a dozen than six. The great changes by which the earth became ultimately prepared for the abode of man wore doubtless for the niojt part effected slowly, so that in defining the six pe riods we are obliged to Bomotimes di vide them at ideal points rathor than by lines of convulsion and widespread ruin. Moses' 'days,' on the other hand, are sharply (defined. But, sec ondly, when they nave arbitrarily dis tributed their periods, there is as yet a failure to mako tho stages of crea tive progress, as traced in the rocks, tally with the order given in Genesis. For instance, Moses tells us that plant life belongs to the third day, and animal life to the fifth and sixth; but Prof. Dana's scheme introduces both in the third period, as do also those of Prof. Hitchcock and Winchell, the last gentleman finding the Proto zoan in the Laurentian rocks. In the third period Prof. Dana finds lifo 'introduced under its simplest forms;' and Prof. Winchell says that in it 'sea weeds appeared,' and Prof. Hitchcock follows with the lowest or ders of vegetation. Bat Mo3es ex pressly assigns to the third day the highoot orders of land vegetation, 'grass and herb yielding seed, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed is in it self.' Thero is a wide difference be tween fruit-trees on dry land and ma rine plants. Moe63 puts the appear ance of the sun and moon on the fourth day, a matter that Prof. Win chell alone of the three finds a place for, and he is compelled to it by Scrip ture, while Prof. Hitchcock substitutes for them the amphibians and fishes. According to Moses, animal life does not appear at all until the fifth day, to which birds and fishes belong, and land animals not until the sixth, the same day with man; but in the geolog ical strata,fishe3 flourish in the period preceding that of the bird-tracks and even of plants, animils and plants are called into being cotemporaneously, and 'he animal and vegetable king doms go on in parallel progression through the rocky cycles; and their relative order of appearance is, if any thing, rather the reverse of that given by Moses, while as littb coincidence appears in the order of land and wa ter products. These discrepancies are important, and show that our la test science haj failed to bring itself into harmony with the account in Genesis. Is theze not, afcer all, a mistake in supposing that the Mosaic record was intended to present the same series of events which the geoloist finds in the revelations of the rjeks ? May they not be accounts of different periods and different creations, and both be abso lutely, literally true? Dr. Chalmers was the first to suggest that the sis days' creation belongs to the present order of things, leaving ample space between the first and second verses for all the phenomena of geology, even though they filled tne entire hun dred millions of years which Dr. Thompson fixes as the longest allow able period since the original creation. And now, afcer the lapse of near sov enty years, in which oar scientific men have done their best to establish the identity of the geologic period 1 with the six days, and h ve not succeeded, it begins to look as though we shall be driven to f 11 back upon the Resti tution theory. It will then appear that there is a great similarity in the outlines of Gcd's successive creations, indicating a uniformity in the divine plan from the beginning. It is doubtful if Mosoa intended to outline the various geologic eras from the birth of chaos to the creation of man. It would hardly havo been con sistent with his purpose to pause so long upon ages that had so little to do with his apparent design. His pur pose was to record the law of God for his people, and Genesis is the simple introduction to his work. He would show that the God who claimed sov ereignty over Israel was the God who originally brought the universe into being, who created the present races of vegetable and animal life, who de lirered his law to Adam, and who had maintained his relations of supremacy over the world until the revelation from Sinai. Would it not be' exceed ingly consistent for him, after having assorted that God was the original Creator, to leap over all the revolu tions preceding the last great cata clasm, and come at once to that which is most directly connected with hu man history ? Again, the moral ar gument is of some weight. The fact that 'in six days the Lord made heav en and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day,' is made a reason for our working six days and kooping sacred the seventh. There is a beauty and force in it if they be definite dajs; but who has not felt a sort of breaking down in the argument when it is made to mean that because God worked during six long, indefinite periods, probably of unequal length, and rested in the e ev enth, which is yet in progress, and equally indefinite, therefore a definite and exact one-seventh of our time is to be set apart as holy? The first verso of Genesis, on this theory, asserts the bringing into exis tence of the whole universe. All that follows relates to our earth. L3t ge ology tell us, if it can, what occurod between this verse and the second. There is ample room for its chaos, its strata, its creations, its successions of life and death, and i'.s fossils. By some great caf astrophe the earth was then once more thrown into fearful disorder; 'and the earth had become a waste and a void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep ; and the Spirit of God was brooding upon the face of the water.' Murphy. Thus it would have appeared to a spectator, when God took in hand the work of reconstruction as described in the third and following verses. On the first day he brought light into that dense darkness; on the second he re duced the turbid waters to order and established the expanse between the lifted clouds and the earth; on the third he brought the water on the earth into limits, made the dry land appear, and created grass, Lerbs and trees in full growth; on the fourth the sun and meon, which the chaos of the catastrophe had hidden, are made again to ap pear; on the fif.h, fish and birds are created; and on the sixth, first, the land animals, and finally man. These are six days of twenty-four hours. Tne narrative is thai simple, clear and intelligible. It connects the vegetable and animal kingdoms with man. It does not conflict with the known facts of science, and af .er the second verse deals only with the pres ent great geologic period. New York Christian Advocate. Supernatural in Nature; Op inions of Scientists Considered. BY REV. F. MEURICK. There is yet one argument against the supernatural in nature I have not noticed; or, what has with many, es pecially with those who are not them selves students of science, the force of argument, and probably has more in fluence than all others; and that is, the opinion of scientific men. Why, if such intervention is a fact,should these men hold to the contrary ? Why, I may ask, should any hold to what is not true on any subject ? These men may be in error as well as others. Nor has it been any uncommon thing for men to hold erroneous opinions upon subjects to which their attention has been chiefly devoted. But this question involves a department of knowledge to which many naturalists give but little, if any, attention; that is, metaphysics. And this nog, lect of metaphysical study loads to a a posi tive disqualification far a sound j -pigment upon the quesli jn at issue, which involves both matter and mind. Tho writer in formor years suffered too much by a too exclusive devotion to physical science, not to appreciate this point. That prejadico and falso principles of investigation have something to do with the holding of these opinions, at least with somo, is manifest. Says Professor Tyudal!: It ought to be known and avowc 1 that tho physical philosopher, as such, must be a pure materialist His inquiries deal with matter and force, and with them alone. The action which he has to investigate is necessary action, not spontaneous action; the transformation, not the creation, of nutter and force.' Now, I submit if this is in the spiris of true philosophic investigation ? The true philosopher seeks truth, all truth; and not isolated truth merely, but truth in its relations. Indeed, these relatione are truths themselves, and often give to relative truths their chief value. Sappose it to bo a fact that mind doca act npon matter, or direct force, should not the physical philosopher know it? As a philosopher, does it not become him to look care fully for evidence of so interesting a fact, insload of thus cutting off all in quiry by a pre-aloptod theory ? That pride of opinion, that subtile voice of most minds, may have its influence in the formation of these opinions, it is hardly uncharitable to suppose. I know this is a suggestion which may cut both ways; but that the temptation iu thin case is chiefly on ono side is too obvious to require remark. And is it not a sad fact that wo all, until renewed, shriek from the thought of a God near at hand One who can interfere for or again it us whenever ho wills ? That this may influence tho opinions of somo I am compelled to believe. Bat I do not presj tho point, though legitimate. It should, however, be borno in mind, that not all scientific men, by any means, question the supernatural in nature. It is admitted by many of the ablest scientists of the age; while unnumbered multitudes of tho most intelligent men, who, though not reck oned among scientists, have thoi ough -ly investigated the subject, and thus prepared themselvcj for an intelligent judgment, find no difficulty whatever in admitting the fact. In short, the weight of opinion is decidedly in favor of such intervention. Th it it will be increasingly so,hardly admits of doubl The recent admission i of such men as Carpenter, Tyndall, aud Haxloy, eu courage this hope. Above nil, Ho who is fcr the truth is more than all who aro against it. Let not, then, our f iith in God or in his Word waver. L'jt none fear the Almighty will not maintain the honor of his throne as the Universal Sovereign, by doing whatever Beometh him good, be the dicta of men what they may; ox that he will ceaso to hear and answer the cry of his needy child ren. Let all rest in the jitsuranco that he is very nigh to every one of as, and that his providence reaches to the least of his creatures. Lat us fear not to call bin Father, and, with an unwavering faith, repose iu his love. And so, let all hold fast to the Word of his truth, the blessed Bible, assured that in it all the nations arc to be blessed. Christianty is tho only redeeming power known among men. Philosophy, science, literature, art, all have their place in human culture; but none, nor all meet man's pro foundost wants, nor satisfy his highest aspirations. Christianity alone can do this; and it is doing it. In con stantly widening fields, it is quicken ing, enlightening, and ennobling hu manity, lifting it up into a reigon of purity, love, and power; and ere long every nation, kindred, and tongue of earth shall bring their choicest offer ings of talent and culture, aad with load halleluiahs, and tho incenso oi grateful, adoring love, cast them at ourlmmanuel's feet; for he is to reign, and his truth to triumph. Western Christian Advocate. 1IIXTS TO CLEnOYJICK- Supposing all other more fjnda mental requisites, fpiritual aud in tellectual, present, then, first of all, sneak to the people in a mtnly way. Seak to them as a man to men. Let j oar thinking be clear, and your words wise and strong. Let there be in your discourses the genuine nng of sound sense and healthy, manly sentiment. Let their frame be muscular, not tofi and flabby. Don't speak down to the people. For one thing, many of them are not below joj: and u tney were, it is no compliment to them to tell them so. Avoid feeble and mawkish sentiment. The feminine stylo ot thought and feeling, or even the in- fint school stjle, may have its ad mirers in Belgravian or My Fir oir clea, but assuredly it is no favorite with the brawny sous of cara and toi 1 . Theaepoak in a brotherly uviunor. Make thorn foel, iu every word you speak, aud iu your whole intercourse with thein. that you bio not only a man, but a brother. Shjw that you understand them, that j-ou fool not for thorn only, but with them. Iden tify yourself as a true prij3t of God with the people of your charge, shar ing their rioffl, bearing tlioir sorrows, fighting if you can, their ba' tles. They thiuk that yoj arj vim ul a class, aud therefore suspect you, anl keep alojf from you; make them fool llmt they are wrong iu thU that you aro nun not of any chi83, b it of every class that yoa aro men, and doom every man your brother. Loirn what they are thinking abjut, what thoy are most deeply interested in, wh it they aro aiming at and struggling for; and when they come to tho hoose of God , let tham fo.d that thoy aro hoaring the voice of a friend and not of a stranger ono who uuJoratauJs tham, aul is at leat trying to h jlp thorn in bear ing their lifo burden nil fighting their lifo battle. Thus shall yoa indoed drink into the spirit and follow tho footsteps of Him who wai not only a man, but pro eminently the Man who therefore deemed overthing hu man His on whjwas our brother, boi n.and born most of all for adversity Last of all speak to them earnestly. Tho common pooplo, of all classes, like earnest speech. In their wholo life they have to do with earnest work and with earnest things, and they have littlo sympathy with anything else. Thoir lifo is necessarily, at least as regards this world, a life in earnest earnest wants, earnest toils, earneit cares, earnest sorrows, nothing of mere fiucsso, and form, and conven tional ceremony. Thoy combat with lifo in itB sober, btcrn reality; thero aro fow flowers, fow sunny bowers on tlivjir path; mostly a plain, rough.du'jty highway. Thereforo, whoever would soak uuitably to thorn must spottk in earuobt. lie must tipeak ia plain honest, downright fashion; tho more plain, honost, aud downright tho bt- ter. He must be a real man speak ing to real men, or ho is nothing. Other desirable qualities may bo dis pensed with, but this is essential. He may or ho may not be a man of taste; he may or he may not be a man of learning; ho may or ho may not be a man of eloquence; but he must be a man in earnest, and speak like a wan in earnest, or Lo never can be tho friend of Iho pocr a shepherd of tho paoplo. How pre eminently was this tho case with our divine Mister! If every man on earth was in real right earnest, it was Christ. If over man looked on life, and on the world, and on tho sins and sorrows of men in thoir reality, and spoke as one that did, He did h.o. No one that heard Him could ever feel that Ho was trilling with him that Ho was mocking his misery, that He was playing with his disease. II a spoke as ono who felt himself in the presence of awful powers of death and woe, who knew all, and in the depths of His soul felt alL This the common people loved; this they welcomed as the thing they needed, the only thing that met their case. Thereforo tho y heard Him gladly. Let hi servants go and do likewise, and they will hear them gladly too. North lirdmh ll-i-view. FREEDOM OF TIIE WILL The will ia determined by motives, it is true. But those motives are not like weights in the market, or coin ou the merchant's counter' fixed and con stant in their relative force and weight, in all circumstances, and for men and characters of every kind. They dooide tho acts of the will; but their relative force depends on something deeper than tho will, the moral state, the dis position and character, of the agent to whom thoy appeal Mn are sensual, prudent, honorable, or holy, as the motives which chiefly prevail with them are momentary pleasure, romoto prospects of worldly gain, the highest principles ot cjnlact habitually recog-niz-id among their follows, or love of moral good and hatred of moral evil quickened by meditatijn ou eternal things. Tui dopon iencj of mtivjj for tiit-ir practical fo.ee on the injrul charater, on the stalo of th harc, i taught alike by heathen moralists and the Word of God. Tue mixim, Trahil sua quemque volup'as,' has its counter part in thj weighty text, 'All we like iheep have gone asiray; we nave turn ed cv'-nj one It his wn way.' Mm' choice of hi own pa'Ji doterminjs,to a great extent, the class of motives wh:ch havd tne njareut acjeBi, hjur by hoar, to guidu and determine tho separate acts o! his wil- The temp tation, urgencies of evil, thickan aad crjwd urjuud him in a boudagi like the chain i of late. Tae bauues aud the j -ys of virtue, tho good land of nope and heavenly blowing, opeu around him in briguier uud origuter vision, iu that hie. ' wlucu is 'tb jve to the wise.' And they lobuo in tnat 6er vicj which ia po.feot Irouioiu, ud ia tho 'liberty ot ihat peilojl luw of mor al g joduuus, whobu eca, in the words ol Hooker, is the bodui of God, and her voico tho haiiajuy of the world. Canon JStrks.