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V 1 G H R ci n PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY A COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA CON FERENCE. M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. RUFUS T. HEFLIN, Errr- RALEIGH, FfUDAX, 3IA.Y 23, 1850. c 1 50 .i Year, in AdYanei L ii n a t i r t . I r-'-Liptiz';', thi-5 argument of the iJoctor j is practically r'-pu-l uted by his i.wn breth- I'rorn the New York OJ,erver. A Sainted Wife. " Weep, j'; I ereaved, a dearer head, Ne'er left the pillowing l.-rca.t ; The good, the pure, the lovely fled, "When mingling with the idiadowy dead, .She meekly went to rc,-.t." Another hand in beckoning us, Another call Is ghen; Ari'l glow once more with angels fcteps, The path which reaches heaven. The idching f her quiet lift Fell on ua like the 'Jew ; And pood thought. where her footsteps pressed Like fairy blossoms grew. Sweet prompting unto kindest deeds Were in her very look ; We read her face a.i one who reads, A true and holy Look. The measures of s blessed hymn, To which our hearts could move ; The breathing of an inward psalm, A canticle of love. There i-eetns a (shadow on the day Her smile no longer cheers ; A dimness on the Mars of night, Like cye:-s that 1ok through tears. Alone unto our Father's will, One thought hath reconciled ; That lie who love exceedeth ours, Has taken home His child. Fold her, O Father! in thine arms, And let her henceforth be A messenger of love, betweon Our human hearts and Thee. Still let her mild rebuking stand J'etween us ami the wrong. And her dear memory serve to make Our faith in goodnes3 strong. And grant that she who trembling here, Distrusted all her powers, May welcome to htr holier homo The well beloved of ours. rcn. One would th were it not fori very evident nroof to the contra rv in other j phvee-, that, he hold-i the credit of Lis own ; ! understanding as cheap an he does that of ; all Lis opponent-. " H. (Pago 170.; ''Even if found 'in'Jln r cr,n in.'' i! , enjoining the baptism., of the infant of believer-, I should not ' move an inch from my position. I should ; still say, this is not included in the apos- toJic commission. This is another coin-1 mission, and cannot interfere with the! former. There would then be two bap-' tisnn on jaite different grounds." Hut if another Iivine command would not bring j infant? within this commission, how should j (a iju.-ua'y x iix. iiiiiijvi.'-j , J1 x xtxi.-jii'.r'.x of the immersed, bring unbelievers within its terms ? If this reasoning be good, there are ' two baptisms on quite different grounds' in Baptist churches. Iiut this argument is practically repudiated by the admission on the part of the Baptists of the sufficien cy of the baptism of unbelievers, provided j they themselves be the baptizers. " I II. (Page 1 7U.) ' Not only does this commission exclude infants, if there were another commission onioinirig the baptism of infants, vluii these infants who hme been baptized, in infancy, according to this second commission , believe the Gospel, they must be baptized according to tlw. coram is- y bvteriar and K;ieoj.;:.'n3 w-; waters of Tubbermore without hnpilorv baptism '. I am no k near the "In conclusion, ire obsenr that the dinner of -'heme of Dr. Carson has corEf'Icd Lin, thi:.g he iJ, a in d.' reet or position to Scripture, to dej.-y the structure of this pi -.-are, whether the I that disciples were baptised 'with the Holy r tr.-.t bsp denv that tj ar..- rj d-wj t- Fa "vi : : Yv3 ie fW t Lis LfV' or intended to r-pplv this ir.trrogation ! Ghost, not ma by davs hence,' tbe coj science merely to the remark of tisiu was only a catachresis to he :d it to on of the com of his opponent, or whether sui rtort his own interpretit ijii.-rsion, which he ha I previ ously sasti-ined by the assertion that ' unbtiieyers would not submit to baptism.' ' If it be merely a reply to his opponent, of course those re marks on the fourteenth particular are in applicable; that is, they are only applicable so fir as it is insinuated that our interpret ation authorizes the use of force in exe cuting the cominis-ion. " These are all the arguments lean find, deduced from the commission. The author tays of thorn in his Appendix, 'This is the ground on which 1 have placed the subject my treatise. 3iany a lever has been in employed to move off the foundation, but it remains like a rock lushed by the waves of the ocean." 1'. 200. This is some what boastful language. If the rock be not subverted, the theory of the Bap tists mast be wrecked upon it. These great guns of Br. Carson are turned upon them a well as ifcin witl upon us and i more effect than upon us. mon, Matt. From the American Messenger. Jesus Only. " And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw bo man, Eavo Jesus only." Matt. 17:8. Jesus on?; Blessed Lord All my hopes hang on this word; Here my soul reposes still, Here is eafe from every ill. JewM.v onhi not alone. Though my beloved ones are gone; He above all friends can bless, lie ean lighten my distress. Jesus only dark the cloud Hanging o'er mount Tabor proud ; Light from heaven filled the place, Jesus only showed his face. J'sns only this my cry When I lay me down to die : Jesus only, when I stand Justified at thy right hand. Jesus only when above I his full salvation prove Kvermore my blissful song Jesus only shall prolong. Cnmmmriratiuira. For the X. C. Christian Advocate. Infant Baptism. NO. II. Rev R. T. llejlin : Agreeably to pro mise, I shall in this No. give additional extracts from the author before alluded to. He showed in hi5 views given in No, 1, that the interpretation of the commission by Br. Carson was not consistent with its grammatical construction, and that the ar guments on this commission, as used by the Baptists against infant baptism, are unsound. He next proceeds to show that our Baptist neighbors, as well as Br. Car son, are not governed by their arguments in their practice, aud that therefore they "virtually and tmicticallv repudiate" their own arguments. This is sufficiently indi cated in the last paragraph of the extract I sent you in No. 1. I shall now proceed to give his full views on this point. He proceeds : " It is no answer to say they baptize in the confidence of the truth of the profes sion. The inquiry is, if only believers can be baptized with Christian baptism, as Dr. Carson repeatedly asserts; and if all believers ought to be baptized, as he dis tinctly maintains, why does he not baptize ou a second profession in all such as have been manifestly, or even on their own con fession, baptized in unbelief ? If he reply he has not the opportunity, I then appeal to the acknowledged principles and recog nized practice of Baptist churches gene rally. But let us hear his own arguments : 44 1. (Page 169.) ' I will risk the credit of my understanding on my success in show ing that, according to this commission, be lievers only are to be baptized. It is im possible that a command to baptize believ ers can be extended to include any but believers, TVe need not say that this can not be done by inference : I say it cannot be done by the most express command or explanation. No command, no explana tion, can bring uubelievers into the com mission, that enjoins the baptism of be lievers.' Br. Carson is so fond of risking the credit of his understanding,' that he really starts it against the principle of the Baptists. If believers only can be bap tized,' unbelievers are not baptized accord in" to this commission, although immersed inhis baptistery. But as all believers outrht to be baptized, why are not those persons who have been immersed in unbe lief, re-baptized on conversion ? The ar gument applies as directly to them as it does to infants. But as it is a principle with the Baptists that they arg not to be Are infants "unbelievers," and therefore excluded from baptism? If they are not unbelievers, then are they not beyond th range of " all the nations" who are to be baptized. Oar Saviour intimated that the infants which he blessed did " believe ;" they must therefore bo baptised acoording to Pr. Carson's rule. F. P.J xxviii: 19, without any regard to their baptism in infancy.' If infants, I baptized on the supposed case of a Divine command, ought to be re-baptized in obe dience to this commission, a fortiori, un-j believers having been baptized in opposi-1 lion to such a command, ought to be re baptized. But Baptists repudiate this ar gument. "IV. (l'age 170.) "The commission commands all men to be baptized on be lu cing the Gonjtrl. The command of Je sus to every believer to be baptized, stands engraven in indellible characters in this commission. Heaven and earth will pass away before it will cease to be a duty for believers to be baptized. It is impossible for any explanation, or any cj press com mand for another baptism, to excuse them from this.' Iiut without any explanation j or express command to excuse tlypm, Bap tists will not baptize, 'on believing the Gospel,' such persons as they have bap tized in unbelief, although by excommuni cation they have treated the hypocrites as heathen men and publicans, and therefore they repudiate this argument. Hovers to observe any ordinance whatever, ran never imply any but believers. This is as clear as the light of heaven. It is a first truth. The denial of it implies a contradiction.' The Baptists deny it in recognizing the baptism of unbelievers on their conversion, aud therefore contradict this first truth. "VI. (Page 172.) 'A colonel sends out his recruiting officers with instructions' to enlist men six feet high. 1 Bid not the instructions that mentioned six feet as the standard, foi'bid all under that measure to be enlisted V ' Cease, Br. Wardlaw, to pervert the word of the Lord cease to I force a commission enjoining the Lajrthm j of believers, to sanction the baptism oj in- Jiints. lhe obvious reply is, Cease, ye Baptists, to sanction the baptism ot unbe lievers, but re-baptize them on their belief. Your five feet eight inches of unbelief are no better than our eighteen inches of in fancy. " VII. (Bage 173.) None can be saved by the Gospel, but such as believe the Gos pel; none can be bajitized with the baptism of the Gospel, but such as believe the Gos pel, mere is no exception to eitner. is there no exception ? Are all the false pro- A-foui, YUiotu riv-cmmm ' ixoct huiuciScu, ; uubaptized 1 with the baptism of the Gos pel' '( Should God convert them, will he re-baptize them ? We repudiate the argu ment, exclaim all the Baptists with one voice, for we never re-baptize. " VIII. (l'age 173.) That believers only can be baptized by this commission, is clear, Ironi tnat 7uownien tney are saiu to be baptized.' But what becomes of the ' into' in the unbelievers' baptism, the va lidity of which Baptists acknowledge : " IX. ("Page 253.) ' I would gainsay an angel who should say that this commis sion may extend to the baptism ot any but believers.' The gainsayer of angels has first to gainsay all the Baptist churches. "X. (Page 179.) " That commission commands believers to be baptized ; and except both sides of a contradiction may be true, it can never include unbelievers.' How does it include the unbelievers ex pelled from Baptist churches as false pro fessors ? " XI. (Page 179.) 'Were a thousand baptisms found in the New Testament, they could not serve for the baptism of the. .til- I commission, nor relieve tne oenever ironi his obligation of being baptized on the be 7.W nf tip, truth.' How can one immer- - sion of an unbeliever in a Baptist chapel afford the relief which 'a thousand bap tisms found in the New Testament' could not bestow ? " XII. (Page 235.) ' They may appear to be Christians to-day, and therefore ought to be baptized ; to-morroic they may prove the contrary ; and therefore tney cannot have been sealed by baptism.' On the next day they are converted; why are they not baptized, seeing they have never been ' baptized with the baptism of the Gospel : " XIII. (Page 177.) ' John's baptism did not serve for Christ's. Surely, then, they who are baptized in infancy, vion j any pretence whatever, must be re-bap-! tized when they come to the faith of the Gospel V Why are not adults, baptized ' upon any pretence whatever,' ' re-baptized when they come to the faith of the Gospel?' " XIV. (Page 2C0.) 'I ask the con science of my antagonist, if he thinks that the lansuage of the commission commands the ungodly in the nations to be baptized by force.' Does it command the godly to be baptized by force ? If this be a com mission to baptize believers, aoes it autnor On these principles, Simon Magus ought to have been commanded to repent and he re-baptised. Yet Baptists never command convicted and converted false brethren to be re-baptised. That we may understand them, they ought to act a fair, candid and consistent part with these arguments. Either let them honestly avow that they adopt as a principle "believers baptism, and therefore re-baptised false brethren, if they know them, on their conversion, or let them as distinctly repudiate in words, as they do in deeds, the arguments of Br. Carson founded upon his interpretation of the commission. Ihese arguments being surrendered, there will fall with them as equally opposed to the Baptist theory, another class founded upou passages which are said to assert that only believers can be baptised. The series begins on page 211. "From John iii, v, we see that bap tism is a figure of regeneration ; they who are baptised are represented as born again. Now this is peculiar to believers ; the ordi-. nance exhibits the pier son as at the time horn again." If it does, it is often a false exhibition, and edways an exhibition of whose truth or falsehood the administrator knows nothing. But when it is found to be a mockery of truth, why is it still ac corded as a Christian ordinance ? These arguments, which, if good for anything, say to the Baptist minister, physician heal thyself being excluded, the book in its reduced and attenuated form will occasion to neither party very much trouble. Unless Our TJaritlKt. hl'fthrm alrkiat: vinr-.I pleot re-oaptising, will practically avow, or disclaiming Dr. Carson's arguments, plainly deny, that "none can be baptised icifh the baptism of the Gospel but such as believe it;" we have a right to regard them as retreating from the crisis of the contro versy, the discharge of which directed against us exposes the unfairness of the position which they have assumed. If they will say of the one symbol in the in stance of unbelievers, this is not baptism, as we say in the other, this is not to eat the Lord's supper but only a mockery; we can understand these arguments. If they will not, it becomes them to answer Dr. Carson, by proving that unbeliever's bap tism is good Christian baptism, although it docs not "exhibit the person as at the time born again," and "serves for the baptism of the commission," better than "a thousand baptisms found in the New Testament." "To examine Dr. Carson's reference to the practice of the apostles, would be to liUICi v . A- 7 . m passed in the discussion of the lecture. In noticing one instance of his mode of explaining the historical references to bap tisir, I may select that which we have the first occasion to consider on opening the New Testament. In reference to the crowds whom John baptised, I have said that he baptised without discrimination, all appli cants. Dr, Carson imposes a restriction, which his system and his mode of inter pretation both require. Hespeaks (p. 229) of "the persons whom John drove from his baptism." lie is often very angry the 'fathers were baptised m the sea.' for that was only 'a figure which vanishes like- fa winding-sheet of snow;' to deny that John baptised the brood of vipers, for 'he drove them from his baptism' to assert, that believers, not figuratively but really, have died with Christ and been buried with him, so that 'there is do more fiirure than when it is said, they shall die them selves though Jesus was alive again long before they were born, and they have never been within many hundred miles of his tomb ; and, worst of all, in contradiction of the whole Gospel, to assert, that our blessed Lord confessed hia ,ins? unto re pentance, at the baptlr-jn ol Jc?.n. This is to me ' another gospel and rather than receive it, I would surrender the whole doctrine of baptism. Jesus standing a penitent, confessing his sins to John ! There is nothing so revolting in Popery on the one hand, or in Unitarianisra on the other. God in mercy protect the Baptist churches from so dreadful a doctrine '." Il'jley's Lectures on the Sacraments, Ap pendix to Lecture iii. Xotc 13, vol. 1, pp. 010, 010. From the views brought to light in the foregoing extracts, we are prepared to judge of this controversy on the subjects of bap tism ; as it is managed, both by Pedo baptists and anti-pedo-baptist. The former nave evidently the advantage of the latter, as they keep close to the literal meaning, both of the original and our authorized version, in the interpretation of the great commission, which is the laic of baptism. This is clearly the case. 1. AVith regard to the commission itself. Its literal interpretation, necessarily con cludes in favor of the right of infants to baptism. No quibbling can make it appear, that, "all the nations" is a term which can be understood, (in its grammat ical and literal view) to exclude the infant offspring of man. Xo such "nation" has ever existed. Infants constitute an indis pensable and integral part of every nation on the earth ; and we can conceive of none that can exist for any length of time, which shall exclude them from its arrancre- , wt w Jl-ht f M-bts. ' hit Mrht? 1 :revr-.. -i; Sol s-y to y,.-j, Br. 11 y vj ought to c ,:i.-e r n here t ri : I bh-etl net atU-rr.pt to tell you ail I hi seen, but -rrhen I get In in good order. I want to go down an 1 get jlij yvur sanctum doa t yoa cill it ' : ,.u ; and give you all the particular?. Once I whit? was eaht-i upon by a lady who said she j Daniel : been appointed :; matron sfc I think rf z :;nn . 1:t su;h a ..-.. I. a.. 1 a um rv-- i h: c i.-.;ry -'...v. i.::v : are -- ' 1 W ' "l !?r w? r ,-, a - .i bridge, aoi the n-xt thing I a' x "' p c-l-rjRg th:- wh-il; I sh -s! i th:nk it six! - : i r.- - 'tV.v.t th-.-;rH tVr- l f -:ir.i in l.'.Tti t ' f : -' -v f t '.."! J 1 . t aer.'S- and it :i it : ha i gre,-; uir.. : wa j lint- 1 r. 1 1 l thought in-':!v of s vision. Va it I t w's.. ,-.. of our j he an he aw wfWh r Pin over wl.--L was a young woman t-.j. r.rct- A-f T tnm.-..l . . .v . n. ... t. j 1. I.- j , - , , ' .-.- .... t,-- i!r-f:i.:i sirnR-.r. I IV 'r. 1 I j . i n .-r r. .-1 K . V. I - . . . ... , ... jvau n, uc 5mari.ia'j.:laKc.J him, What s that V That's I II0 frH eVer ali hM ! the wheel of vcmna-nt," uij 1 o " Th roaized I never c, uld understand. he indeed how ..da.I 1 an, ,. it TV. ? . , i . - j , i v. v ! county : j which did not sit verv well on 'her, aud japproacmng me. says she, "lather '.nr-e, l can on you this morning as the matron tJ many times, and fitr.le hnif t r. dieted that it would stop ften I'm rU v rejoiced to ?ee it. Where's the otht'r wL"cl .' Ii)rlMr,o!i.!..w.l ,-.-. .v, - - - w v , , ' ... It.ui nftha 1 r.,i,r.-. I,. ... A'. , , "Whats that ' says I. e have po.mod it out v me iu,t under the Li- formed an association of ladies all over the; one, running the cth.r' way "Whc rZ hmon to raise funds to purchase .Mount ! d.s Prcc stM ? " I TiiCn t r, Wnon, the last resting place of the Father tvd out a great'white linc L-use t-jta The commission requires "the merits. nations ' to be "baptized and nothing short of this, meets the principle of this commission. It may, however, be objected, that the passage in Mark xvii. 15 16, necessarily excludes infants, because there the com mand is to baptize "believers onh." To this, I reply, 1st. This text does not con tain a command at all ; to "bantize" anv . whethfir laJij'.f.e.v ttr i 1- command is to "preuen lae gospel to every creature," and not "baptize believers," less still, baptize believers only. As the com mand applies only to the preaching, it fol lows conclusively, that bapism is left out of the command entirely. If, however, the command for preaching, necessarily involves baptism too, then will it follow that it reaches the case of infants with unquestionable certainty, because it is a command comprehending "every creature." But 2nd. I reply, that the verb in the original in the Aorist, and every scholar knows that that always expresses past time, and can never be "made to mean time sub sequent to a present action or duly. So that he that "is baptised" (or more liter ally, "having been baptized,") can never mean, he that shall be, or is yet to he bap tized, "shall be saved." In this view, (and it is the grammatical, therefore literal, and consequently, the only true view,) this text in Mark, demonstrates the propriety of timethe Wbjetsupfstejild, anx'cytt t itiT " Viewed in this light, infants come in as the principal subjects of this ordinance. We learn, also, 2. That the interpretation f the com mission upon the prinoples of the Baptists, necessarily nullifies all baptisms adminis tered to adults, who at the time, were unbelievers or hypocrites, for, if none but "believers" can be baptized; it follows in evitably, that the baptism of an unbeliever or hypocrite is invalid, inasmuch as neither bns "faith" at. thft time the ordinance is i i - n-ith those who add anything to Scripture, administered. But, if their baptism is and I think, his virtuous indignation may valid, notwithstanding their unbelief, I ize Baptists to immerse believing Quakers and Fedo-Baptists 7 May. not pious Pres- be unsparingly indulged upon this extra ordinary assumption. The reader finding no information in his Bible, will probably inquire who did John drive from his bap tism? The structure of the passage shows that 'the scribes and pharisees and sad ducees' are intended. Let us examine the fact, (Matt, iii, 7, ii.) 'But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to coma ?' Let the reader carefully observe, that John addressed these words to unconverted Phar isees and Sadducees, knowing them at the time to be unconverted. Of all persons, they would be the most disposed to abuse the ordinance, because they were prone to lean upon external privileges. 'Think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father.' Yet to them, John saith, 'I indeed baptize you with water, unto repentance.' Dr. Carson says, in plain contradiction of the text, that John drove them from his baptism. I reply, in his own words, (p. 177,) 'no ground can be found in the passage for this conceit ; no force can extract it from the words it is man's scripture, not God's.' "Dr. Carson says, (p. S34.) 'John's say ing. I baptize you, addressing the people in'general, did not imply, either that he baptised the whole nation, or the whole of the present audience. But tne words, recorded by Matthew, were addressed to 'many of the Pharisees and fcadducees, and not the 'people in general.' He said unto' them, that is to the brood of vipers, 'I baptize you. In accordance with Dr. Carson's scheme, the meaning of the words 'I baptize you unto repentance,' must be, I drive you from baptism, and baptize other people after repentance. " A more palpable contradiction cannot be imagined lu wuiiw , ms graeoi a-umgton. i mii. i.h ...:.i .i i i- i i , - i , , , , , , ' i - ' ' .-"i'i, u:cr . wne rr l :cr,-.c j and a tear tncded down her cheeky U , lives, but von the off,.-, ri-ht d.w, jhrnshed. "Ah, wLats tht V s.ys I, ; there near the wheel." Sur," tn c; X 1,1 a-r, , ". 1"U'J u" wu' enno ;,t v-.s ; tat 1 think cv-i.m j.-ring ho that s clever : 1 ve rot a fine tr.ict J m. h,.,....... .-.:. .i . . . . , . l I'viuiui it n is mar tr.y wa i "v -v f '"-' ao " i ui ui- nient sht.n i t,p f . fenng it very cheap, and as for graves, it ker,t "rea-d couiaiuo me graves oi more taaa twenty; I think I shall v I men celebrated men too, those men killed his bvu.se , :, by Major Williams ; they beh.nge J to the ; over near th..". hh j celebrated Tory corps of the British army ; , When we "..t out at you can have it for three dollars an acrj." i asked Crane if h- had (Would you believe it, she turned right ,,f government."" He ; iuuuu, aui sas tne. rainer i.rir.e wo .. i: i -,i , - . . . - --r- - ; i a ui- hjiiii mill UuHii tln-n- Inor tii.- i consider this a sacred mission to secure the ' canal " Would v.,n 1 , l ; ,; 1 r . 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" Nali-mai,'' 1 ! :' the w hi -ci- r. lied, ' no ! hut A. t : i r v- V , ra Wl,n twenty dollars; savs 1 only valued der,Larnumisedby some Yankee show-1 it at twenty dollars in Wc"ld,m, and now i man, and the soil we venerate for its asso-1 want t0 uiakc Lhu fift f, ' . y I ciations with the mighty dead, desecrated nfW.l ;.. 'e ... r" ... t ' , . .v vvvou. uyiiiisciMI 1UIIV. fU I 1 1 . ii V S ii ,1 , it i mm . . . : ny tne trcaa ot a sLsillmg-payiug multitude, hf.'ll It , v-.11 n.. ' i " if,., . - , - . tt"-" " " i iiui e ne may : hi 1 thcrC0,Ua;n?: TC I'atr,0i,T Pont I am saving something in the way ; in your breast, help us." Ihevoungladv ,.f u-t; .- .S ... ..,;. i r i i ii " " i auu uui. wealing oui vrane s was excited. I have hardly ever seen a shirts. A-? Writ,. L n. i.,.. i - i the bu !ne U u- Wa? f01? I kc"P thftI" true to their duty, hut d-.n't nle- M T" c lllhay " make any proposition to them about the tude, said I Then you want me to publishing fund. Calve don't know the vaiue oi money, and Abimileck has to support his family, providing for his house hold, &c. Crane sends his love. Your faithfully, PIOCS (JUIPK. : .i..-h i i :. : . .: . : . ... pr r. . i t'. - , .: ' t . i . , i . :,-,. 1 n- -ty of her c;i:i .- I ' ' ve'...:-; ue h . n steidilv . u i , ;: . .. ; i !uM d"V !..piiig h-r v;:: r-. . h bf.-i pru h-'il iy, n;il!uj -Inlying J the esperit-iii'i' of oih- rs th- s'lrcr, .. r j'Uth t-i gr-.it!ie-s and g! -rv r rrf rr;i. g rather to d. t'i little than t l-eoucath t p'..t-rity a b inkrupt treasury and re -.i-diating ain-:.-tr". J'at uh.it-vcr nuv U said of th p-t.-t, it is cvi.i "it from h. r raniij strides in internal in ; give you a shilling, do you ? here take it, and I hope everybody will be as liberal as I am." I was sitting at dinner, when I heard the bell that hangs up on the top of the boat ring. I asked Crane what that meant, lie said we were passing Mount Yernon. So I bolted the rest of my dinner, and lan out to see the mountain. I was sadly dis appointed ; there was a hill on the west side of the river and a kind of two-story double church looking house on top of it ; that is, the steeple was right in the mid dle two or three out buildings were scat vnierits, i't d n.'chm. t ni 1 to hi. that Norlli t i h r tr . For the X. C. Christian A ro"tf. GREENSBORO' FEMALE COLLEGE. To write a good composition is evidence of mental culture. The compositions rr-;A by the graduating class of Greensboro' fe male College, at the Commencement, on last Friday, were all well written, and friffi&ftWw anAoiktuwrngifw-iudml-TTVr tu, ms : f.. -,'- - i i t i I Atrial Jlatir. With soon: difli-ulfv. we river a attle, winch I supposed was built I ... "". for a fishing place, from which I drew the j Stained permission to select one ,f t!:-:c very natural conclusion that Gen. Wash-j compositions, for the Advocate, and have ington was a g-eat fisherman. Crane said availed ourself of the privilege, to pre- nt it was a wharf for the steamboats, but as j the fujiowin2 as a f;i;r ,p(,0imen, in literary i Tu.riT rit . I I this, not ie. i . i i T .f ti. f.r.i ,.r mem, oi an. e nave s-iecie iaO AJll.CCiliLl. J. I1LUL LW Lilt; llUlit til X. 1 k, ' boat and mingled with the passengers. ) SfJ lnur-h because of intrinsic bt-n.ry snpe " Where's the gravel'" says one, aud the riority over others, as becau-e the writer oucstioned individual pointed with his I fv-.,.r.... ; , . r .. .i x x : i.d.-5 ivi luikuc in nnj r-. i u. I i '.Ml Oi a injiiiu finger at a cedar that stood on the north side of the house, " that's it," says he, '' right under that cedar." I walked olfto the back end of the boat, where another crowd was assembled and a little Dutch man was pointing outthegrave of "Wash ington," as he called it. He said, "dar under dat cedar to de sout, dare where he be." What is the truth about the matter ? The American says north and the Dutch which must wake a responsive chord in the heartof every North Carolinian. It breathes; the spirit which placed old Mecklenburg in the van of the 1'cvolution. Epitoii. North Carolina Awake. j I5Y MISS AIiA S. ALKXANMiTt, Of Mickltatur, X. C. Amid the constellations of States which contend that the baptism of infants is much more abundantly so, notwithstanding their want of "faith, because 1 : lhey have innocency, which the former have not. 2. They are in the justified state, (accord ing to Horn. y. 12, 19,) whichin the other does not exist. 3. They are in or belong to the "kingdom of GoeJ," Luke xviii. 16, which the others do not. 4. They have not forfeited their innecence by transgres sion, but the others have. 5. They are therefore not in a condemned condition, like the others. The adults, in every re spect, havejxsit'iVe, real and moral reasons against them, but infants have none, there fore. 0. Their right to baptism is better than the other. To get rid of the argu ments, the Baptists, must both teach and practice re-baptism, in all cases of unbelief in adults, or they must admit the validity of infant baptism, and consequently, adopt Pedo-bf.ptism as the only true practice. lours anectionateiy. PETER DOUB. Normal College, April 17. man " sout. Une conclusion I came to ; lonn our glorious l. nion, there is one to i was that the land was very poor, and if the j which the true patriot and lover of his coun-! which I was informed the dear silly crea-1 liberty was first kindled, and the soil wh-eh ! tures, (with hearLs in the right place, ! lirst spurneo tne toot or tne mvaor. j nai however) were willing to give. I intend ; fc'iate is Noittli Cauolixa a State which to see Miss Matron, and tell her what poor ; yielded brave sons and daughters to to - ( land it is. As we gradually approached j cause of liberty and inih-poiid.-n.-t a State ; Washington I became intensely watchful, i which, thirteen months prior to the pro-j . . . - t. i , l' .i . 7" i i i. ,i :. . ... to et the first view ot the capitol ot tais ; muigauon oi me j i.-ueiai jciaiii,o.i, o.i j great nation. I had it all spread out in j the heights of old Mecklenburg, lir.-t pio-1 my mind, and gazed upon it in imagina-1 claimed herself free, sovereign and inae- j 4.:,., r-xic Ttl,r,r,litf,flr,mp "the i Tr.r..lr-nt. nr.d stakiri" the " lives, the for-! mistress of the world ;" of Paris, with her i tunes and the sacred honor ' of her cm-, monuments of mighty deeds of valor' and j zens upon the issue, proudly absolved her- of wonder ; of London, the dwelling place : self from all allegiance to the British crown ; ; n.,,-Q r.f n lnno- linp r.f kins and ! n State within whose bosom the fir-t deci- j aiiu cia i v. w v - education, comiiiercc, tra'1 ical indu-trv. and tlic attc... '., torical and literary pur-o.,-,, Carolina is now wide awak- plory, and that t-he is rupidi s-cending t-j that proud position among 1. r riter Stit' , to which she is entitled by 1 ' true wurtii, her f-teiling integrity i cnt-rprisiru' industry. J'.dueation hi wide its portals to every ' Carolina ani a hind inv. to all, to come t Ik r f. tioiis and h-re bathe in and In aling foiiritains o hold our i i;n' honored Ii slitution wlnse sons I bench and bar of almof the Confederacy, and n : ('ahiiiets and Senate of on; -. , While a score of kindr'i. in vaiious .'- etions of tl. the bh -Mrig" of inli-lle'-hi?r sons and daughfcf villi a gen rons liher..li stitutiorn to U!i--al t!;-; tog'ive spe- h to the d;. . eves of th-blind, and tin i Mentalities many niiij'h : siirou'l-d ii. n.i'lni'd t o..i . blwUght t '..: ''.'. t of' ..i ciiristiLix !i---- . ; it l a n.'ign: J--'-ot. hui.ihi. ' tion and caret ul tr-.. an i n.-titution y. leasing t -to the State and a Lis ti n the philanthropy and huin:i:ii i.ens. And, however late in ra.ee of intern.il iinprove:n-i.! olitia will not be the hvst in r aehh.g the gojl of an honorable fi'i.e. 11 .'iroidi, jilankroads, ri ver iruproveiu'.-nt -. jri-i oilier arteries of public life are win through jhe State wit n great "oV- '.'r 1 '"e the seaboard " r the east and wr.-i bacd-?, fih-id u-i;t-hur;-..h. f-r car'-' r - ' U i;. . ' -" f-ictur.'i : sai i th..; . ;.- -in the iiia. re:-.o'jrees :-re ii: -.! to o.Y.-.nr.i. f,. . lil C-:l. Ml I S: ti-" and id! ti.- i . r iwn op- a in North ..- extendi 1 n-; irirtitii 'j.nrklirig Igc. Be--ity. An . rn.-d the State i i i '-To ti th f l-.ns I'nion. itioni, f.r - i . ilVpT).' ' ; anion ,i Caroliri4 e--U-'l in th" deaf, .'II the ' initru l. ive been , hav b"t-n -.jgo aoc ' . -.pie .. i.; . , ... i. oiior : ,T).i:i i-v.t of 'j of h'-r cit . :it -r:r.;' th -. Not :.h 'ar- 1 . 1 r' . ni .:' -r .i l . X. I 1 .. ,. r.C I'.,-,.Iiti, ,ri rrux tollrrht I queens. X tnougnt our lanu so mucu m tive icioiy . advance of the countries over the water, and won when, at Moore's Creek, her i pro.-prro'j. - . -.' it-., u .. ..t :xt ; - . v. .a , h d ry t co..st and if iej;a- that our capitol would combine the gran deur of all, but alas '. how I was disap pointed the boat came up to what Crane insists wa3 a wharf, under a mud bank ; we got out and entered one of those "om nibuses," as he calls them, the horses groaned under the load as we gradually ascended the bank and rolled along through a thinly settled village. I looked out but there was nothing to be seen. Presently one of the passengers said, " there's the Smithsonian Institute." I looked and saw the oddest shaped house I ever beheld in j mv life. " What do they teach there V I ! brave sons bid defiance to their oppressors, and gained forv the American arms the prestige of invincibility, and ceasing not in her struggles for freedom until right conquered, she forced her last oppressor sullenly to reure ; a r-utit.-, uim wuhhij j have been distinguished by the learning of j Harnett, the eloquence and powerful rea- j soning of Iredell, the fervor of liurke, and j the patriotic impulses of Johnston and ! Cawelh Whilst her valor has been e;;em-1 plified in the field by the gallant deeds of Howe, the strategy of Moore, the daring ! of Lillington, the bravery of Nash, and tute her a ir dont State. Such is our beloved North Carol i an, land of g'od mora! and i- ' i'.-'-t a land of historic renown, a l.nd con;c-- d by memories a endearing. i tirao a:.d M glorious tji the tttars of heaven. For the N. C. Chrisiian Advocate. Letter from Pious Gripe Still goixg ox North, 1S5G. Dear Ero. Heflix Bro. Crane says I must write to you again, giving an ac count of our trip. He says he has toM you all, up to the time we were ploughing inn the Potomac, with 150 horses in a r . . i rri steam engine carrying us aiong. iiierts many wonderful things in this world I be gin to think. Somebody said " there are more things than were ever dreamed of by philosophy, Horatio' or nearly so vou remember. One of my neigbors onee went down to Fayetteville and staid two davs. When he got back home several persons called to see him, and the only aked of a very agreeable genxleman who the intrepid bearing of her Davidson, Gra- tam, ana a nosi oi omers wii.e liiui..-.-will live in song and story, while the spirit of patriotism finds a home in the hearts of her sons and daughters. Even yonder battle-field attests the invincibility of North Carolina arms where Green, with raw re cruits, turned Uck the tide of defeat and expression that was overrunning th' entire Southern htates, an'I causea tnai tuni-eui sat near me. " Arcnitecture, ana tne house i3 built to illustrate all the styles from Noah down to the present time !" It is so much easier to teach by illustration ; for instance, there is the Anglo-Pormic, and the Franco-Creek, &c, &c.;" he enu merated seven or eight styles of architec ture, and pointed them all out in the buil ding. I saw at once the benefit of such a permanent, life-size model, and felt pleased. , British statesman, Ioj, to deciare in loT Presently he exclaimed, "there's the j 'lament that another such victory u.i.t Washington Monument." I looked ; they j which the Britkh claimed at Gun:orJ had built a square house out of white stone, at least ten stories high, and hardly a window ia it ; there did not seem to be any use in it at all. I examined it closely, an"d tried to think what use could be made of it. It wou'l i'nt do to live in, it is unfit for a barn, it would make a good smoke house, but how to get the meat up so high I could not see. I asked my friend what it was for ; he saidthey were going to put Gen. Washington's remains in it. I should hate to be buried under such a pile of stone; I want to go to heaven when the resurrec tion comes, but, but I'll say no more about that ; I can't express the weight Thinking Aloud. CM Col. Tora S. of the Infantry, a v,-ry largf, burly, red-faced gentleman, with a snow-white head and a voice like a trombone, ha3 an unfortunate Lab.; of thinking out lou-1. While station I tc-rnjrarily in Washington, the old p :...ifcman one Sunday morning took it i.v.o hia bc-ad to "O to church, wriere s'-'""" a pew beneath tnepuip. book in Lan 1, attentivf It ck-rvmari through tne pc-ned to bo the 1 1 th Kut in .Tiving OJit the dav, the KeV. Mr. P. : and announce 1 Thr Court House would not only re-iii ia t.iO defeat of their army, but in the; is of tife bri"ht-e-t em that adorned the lir.i.a cr-.wn. iiic-3 ici i. -- " pride of her son, and daughters Wj, that their lots have been cast ia the o!d North State Ood bless her! a Stats that he chc u nacred rcrard for our glon a Unian, a Union cemeiiie l by the b'o-yi of j ber noblest ecu, and by which she will j sttnl erect, with her spirit unbroken and i her face to the foreign or domestic i-j. bs unyielding in her attachment as hir native j gmnlte hills, and as firm in her devotion I thi ItiOTi at tho b, uom-.nz pn TL'ih P 'aii Hi. " " ;wcd the month; for the . raiitake day of t, bcinninz Vt'rn to the astorsament of the cojcrczati'.n, Old - 1 C A. Tom in the pew t btiss voic3 thought ale ; day cf tHe month, by cltrzyatka-i irainc-'liatelv self "Ah! the 17th d- morning prayer, begin.. Psalm." V hen the pr.: i a fleeti 17th The . 1 Lim - month, ... :Le h't-iXx of the a-;m'.v was irnir.?d;. - :i.-.iuro It another thought fro:n O ' V -ra, who in lhe s-'imo deep tone i .e l. "tlad T im th-rc-:" II? hi'L ce.;iinlr, and aa the mounUin; tht skirt her western j the congregition r.! . i i
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.)
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