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THE ROWERS COLLECTION fi a nniji J I 1 JjJo PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY A COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA CON FERENCE, M. E. CHURCH, SOU TIL RUFUS T. IIEFLIN, Er itok. H 30 Year, m Advance. From the 15 ston Traveler. The Lesson. See yonder hanr.er in the sun, And list the tells within the sty, And hear the teeming minute gen. Then know that good men never die. See yonder crovrded, living street, See ae &nd youth, with beaming cy-, Togathcr throng with dancing feet, Then know that food men ncvor die. Look on that spot where once has stood The boy with questionings so high, The man who loved tha true and goml, Then know that good men never die. Ii?ar"aecia tions loud and Ins, Anise? the t!i? tear, r.nd bear the sigh, As liTgh tluughts rise within that throng, Th know that good men never die. Look en that mute yet speaking form. And hear those words, 'sublime and high,' That trc-ithe a calm, or move a storm, Then km.w that g od men never die. The C.-nt jries may tarn their wheel, The Years iu myriads may lly, 0;li.:;u may deatly steal, Ju: great and good men never die. Then young man faint not by the wr.y. 'Take hear again,' azain to try, And i'eel the lesson if this dav. That great and good men never u;e. From the Herald and Journal. Ta'.k With Jesus. Art thou passing through t' e farnace ? Talk with Jesus, he is riiii : II? who said, 'I'm with thee alvray,' He will hear Ids children's erv. 1 D ies thy heart grow sad and weary, Sighing o'er tho loved one? gone? "Whisper to the 'Man of Sorrows,' G.-u-e he wer :, in grief aloue. Is thine earr'nly Shows it sign; fallir of k d eeay Listen, and t! 1'lt hear him saving, ' I await thee far Till him all thy heart is feeling. Waits be now to grant relief: Lists he ever t thy ea'iing, Feeletl: all his children's grief. -d.inscn, Nov. .frlrrtinns. Frcm the Xew Orleans Christian Advocate. Pdag-riring' a Hardshell- Tut- 1 1( CAci j! YniETiEs of Hardshell Symp- TOMS-lEEATMEXT-llAPri lutus . it -?- i I-: A LA5I: , I lais is an interesting process and thoroughly evangelic il We will let our readers into it. The editor of the South- Western 7?,-.f.V (Tuskerree Ala.,) being present and taking notes on the proceedings of; the Alabama Conference, says : "An incident occurred in tne oonier ene which is v.uiui, -i uii,o led. When the body was engaged in ' asn" upon the characters of the pro- I was ealiea. war riuinAM.i int-uu, Brother Ferguson, very omplaisantly informed the Conference- that Brother A had been astonishingly success ful and that among other wonderful achievments, ho had taken in some thirteen or twenty-three Baptists, - 11 have forgotten w hi clu an 1 quite a num- Ler 01 Prcshvterians. V"l:eveupon, there j was no little of 7?;?ofa Vr? indignation ex nre 1 !v sur.drv me-aucrs. ! Brother A ainot'iT, and 1 1 been skulking i r-crsuadir.s mem 1 ' .... ,n . 1 j . t 1 1 1 1 t Church, his nar.v? ought to be drop- J pod.," etc., etc. Brother A's presiding ti ler, however, cam? to the rescue, j ai:d exonoratcd him from censure, av erring that '-he had ring-fired them." His name was not " uropped." Now, without casting any insinuation upon Brethren A. and F. as to the truth of ih'3 statement, we should like to hear from our Brethren Bnllington and Carroll, as the scene of this achieve ment lies within their fields of labor. Alas, fur the poor Baptist wncre rotn r A. nreaches ! Who knows who is to j e e "ring-fired" next ! Woe betide ttic ; I . - ., .,, be "ri7 Baptists who live in his circuit, emphatically a dangerous man. He i3 1 Be- ware of hrn !" Now, without casting any insinuation on the substaT tial correctness of this statement, we, who were present and perhaps calmer than the Editor of the S. W. Baptist publish a more detailed one. It was stated, as if to his praise, that Brother Abernathy had done some thin considerable in that way. No other man could do the like: and he was about passing, as a greater than John the Baptist. Whereupon a mcm W nf the Conference Rev. J. Barker, than whom none could do it better ob jected. If that Brother iiau icic on converting sinners and gone skulking about other folds, unsettling the minds of weak persons, and women, and children abont their Church relations, then he praised him not. Such success, in building up the Kingdom of Christ, was only apparent not real. It was miserable, pitiable proselytism that made nobodv better : and the Confer ence ought to take this oe-asion to con demn itas unworthy a Christian Min ister. The world was full of sinners lathnarj preachers, the case 01 iroun- can't aft0rd an Advocate tor nis iaun- er A , who rode the circuit in the jm Arguing and figuring is vain. Noth- Southern part of Talladega county, ; jn butCring-fii ing will cure him. go after them. If however, Brother A . wrought a change in their ecclesiastical relations by working a spiritual change hs could not object. If he found them unconverted, though in other communions, and by preaching a pure gospel and present salvation had be gotten them in Christ it was a fair gain and good. The Church wherein they were born had a right to them, and they would be drawn to it. Like a case he knew of: A Hardshell went to a Methodist meeting. The fire got hot around the altar and he overcame his prejudices so far as to get into it. Happy in the adoption and the witness of it, he began to shout and clap his hands. It was awkardly to him at first, but he soon got used to it "Glory My soul is happy. I was a Hardshell, but these people built a holy fire round me and burnt off my shell! Glory They ring-fired me ! Hallelujah." Now. said Barker, if those souls re ported by Brother Abernathy wheth er Baptists, Episcopalians or what not were raif-fired, 1 vote ior the pass- ! age of his character, but not without, j The presiding Elder answered that they were all ring-fired ; and the broth I er passed. j Doubtless the Editor of the S. W. J Baptist, winced under " the incident" ! he has thought "worthy of being chron I icled." Unfortunately or otherwise, he i happened a few minutes before to have been introduced to the Conference who received him with sincere courtesy I and was assigned a conspicous seat. This "incident" came off to the roll j call, and was not got tip for any spe I cial entertainment. We sympathized ! with him painfully at the time, and j feared that, as the hit was so palpaple, it might seem intentional. We can assure him it was not. And if any such i suspicion put an edge to his temper, in j his ill-natured remarks upon the Con j ference proceedings he was in error, j Our cotoinporary has had a close j view of the Iron Wheel ! We should : judge he was impressed, at least, with ' its symmetry and strength. May he ; like it better ! He knows too, at what ! quotation a proselyting preacher stands j in a Methodist Conference, j Ring-firing is a good idea and worthy j of a wider application. All Baptists j are not Hardshell. The Baptists are I doing a great work God speed them. i and Henderson stripe, shall not set us in firmr firr.qinsn tiim.1 liuuiciuus anvi m iinuv uiiaiuiMi nm.u g need gbarp. enino - on this everlastir sting Baptist con- trovcrsv bo it is ; We wish there were less of it und less need for it "Wero half the breath so vainly spent, On hartiz-o and government, To heaven in supplication sent jt would be better for the peace and piety of God's Church There is a member who thanks heav- fn for a free eosDel It does not cost ,;m one p0r CCnt a year on his income He takes a political paper or two, but TTor i p. whole society eivmir noth ing far converting the heathen nothing for Tracts or Bibles. Terhaps, while the individuals live in fine houses, the congregations worship in a meanly fnriTkhl mnvenlicle. They count 1 j 1- . ,..11 .i. fn mill TVltll- noij from chairities abroad that which Benevoieiii. airnniMt ;'aiv'v " tiev (0 not bestow at home. Alas, they ar0 Hard-shell 3 Methodists ! And their chll is vorv small, and thev are urawn 7 are dr; un in it. There is but one nope 10 r bers of;bPTT, A or-nuino revival of religion . ( . . . . cninf- nalities. The entrance of the Spirit enlarges and enlightens the heart. Builda holy fire7and burn elf their j idicll A pas Lor mourns over his charge. TT!j rnrdo are m a baa way. ine brethren do not love each other. The young members affect balls and dances. Classmeetings are neglected and even spoken asrainst. Trayer-mcctings lan guish. What shall be done ? " Have them all tried and turned out," says vour Disciplinarian. That is a summa- rv m-ocess. to be sure : but not the most S:ltisf 1 ' factory to a pastor's heart, nor to ho. rr-sortod to. till others fail. Alas for them, too, cutting off is a small terror. Privation of Church privilege would hardly be felt. Oh Brother The evil and the remedy lie in another direction. It is not Discipline, but Ring-firing your people ncsd. Artificia" Religion. When Archdeacon Hare first visited Home, sonic of his Protestant friends, it is said, who knew his love of art and the per sonal sympathy which he had with the Eternal City, trembled for the effect it might produce upon his mind. These fears were groundless. Home was all and more than all he had imagined. But the splendid vision left hiia a stronger Protes tant than it fouud him. 'I saw the pope,' he used to say, 'apparently kneeling in nravor for mankind : but the legs that kneeled were artificial; he was inhischair Was not that siirht enough to counteract all the resthctical impressions of the wor shin, if thev had been a hundred times j v stronser than they were : Thus it is with Romanism, with all mere ritualism and other formalism the lno-a which kneel are artificial. In that characteristic f-mybul, the moral and niys tcry of the whole system comes out Frcm the Autobiography of Peter Cart wriht. AXOTIIER SIGNER DOWN. "While I was on the Sang trict, I roclc one dav into Springfield on some little business. My horse had been an excellent racking pony, but now had the stiff complaint. I called a few minutes in a store, to get some little articles ; I saw in the store two young men and a young lady ; they were strangers, and we had no intro duction whatever; they passed out, and off. After I had transacted my little business in the store, I mounted my stiff pony, and started for home. Af ter riding nearly two miles, I discov ered ahead of mo a light, fwo-horr- t wagon, with a good span cf horses hitched to the wagon ; and although it was covered, yet the cover was rolled up. It was warm weather, and I saw in the wagen those two young men and the young lady that I had seen in the store. As I drew near them, thev be- pan to sing one ot our camp-meeting sons, nd they appeared to sine: with great animation. Presently the young lady began to shout, and said, "Glory to God ! Glory to God !" the driver cried out, "Amen ! Glory to God !" My first impressions were, that they had been across the Sangamon River to a camp-meeting that I knew was in progress there, and had obtained relig ion, and were happy. As I drew a little nearer, the young lady began to sing and shout again. The young man who was not driving fell down, and cried aloud for mercy; the other two, shouting at the top of their voices, cried out, "Glory to God ! another sinner's down." Then they fell to exhorting the young man that was down, saying, "Pray on, brother; pray on, brother you will soon get religion,'" Present ly up jumped the young man that was down, and shouted aloud, saying, "God has blessed my soul. Halleluiah! Halleluiah! Glory to God!" Thinking all was right, I felt like liumg uo, ana loining in the sorii-s ot I... triumph and shouts 01 joy that rose from these three happy persons ; but as I neared the wagon, I saw some glances of their eyes at each other, and at me, that created a suspicion in my mind that all was not right ; aud the thought occurred to me that they sus and that they were carrying on this way to make a mock of sacred things, and to fool me. I checked my horse, and fell back, and rode slowly, hoping they would pass on, and that I should not'be annoyed by them any more; but Avhen I checked my horse and went slow, they checked up and went slow too, and the driver changed with the other young man ; ; and then they began ! shout at a mighty ! again to rate, and down fell the first driver, and up went a now shout of "Glory to God! amiuit,'i Binui;i o uuviii. ii'o -"', brother : pray on, brother; the Lord I will bless you." Presently up sprang the driver, saying, "Glory to God ! he has blessed me." And both the others shouted, and said, "Another sinner's converted, another sinners converted ! liaueiuiau: vjioi y iu wju. AiuMiui;"; . .,vK - , indignant feeling came nil over me, They were aH ecly imbedded rn tJte and I thought I would ride up and red sandstone. . W e cut out about CO horsewhip both of these young men ; pounds of bone, one of which measured and if the woman had not been in com-! about 16 inches m length, and of huge -rr 1 - 1 t 1 j. .V .,1, f A r pany I think I should have done so; but I forbore. It was a vexatious en counter; if my horse had been fleet, as in former days, I could have made right off, and left them in their glory; but he was stiff, and when I would fall back and go slow, they would check up; and when I would spur up my stiff pony, and try to get ahead of them, they would crack the whip and keep ahead of me ; and thus they tormented me before, as I thought, my time, and kept up a continual roar cf "Another sinner's down! Another soul's converted! Glo ry to God ! Pray on, brother! Halle luiah ! Halleluiah ! Glory to Gcd !" till I thought it was more than any good preacher ought to bear. It would be hard for me to describe my feelings just about this time. It seemed to mo that I was delivered over tn hr tormented by the devil and his imps. Just at this moment I thought of a desperate mudhole about a quarter of a mile ahead ; it was a long one, and dreadful deep mud, and many wagons had stuck in it, and had to be prized out. Near the centre of this mudhole there was a place of mud deeper than anywhere else. On the right stood a stump about two feet high ; all the teams had to be driven as close to this stump as possible, to avoid a deep rut on the left, where many wagons had stuck ; I knew there was a small bridle-way that wound round through the brush, to avoid the mud, and it oc curred to me that when we came near this muddy place I would take the bridle-way, and put my horse at the top of his speed, and by this means get away from these wretched tormentors, as 1 knew they could not go fast through this long reach of mud. When we came to the commencement of the mud I took the bridle path, and put spurs and whip to my horse. Seeing I was rapidly leaving them in the rear, the driver cracked his whip, and put his horses at almost full speed, and such was their anxiety to keep up with me, to c&rry out their sport, that when they came to this bad place they never saw the stump on tho right. The fore wheel of the wagon struck centrally on the stump, and as the wheel mounted j Fearing it would turn entirely over and catch them under, the two young men took a leap into the mud, and when they lighted they sunk up to the middle. The young lady was dresse i in white, and as the jwagon went over, she sprang as far afc she could, and lighted on all fours; er hands sunk in to the mud up to jher armpits, her mouth, and the wholp of her face, im mersed in the mudu- water, and she certainly would havfe strangled if the young men had not J. elieved her. As they helped h"r, and out, I had wheeled my hors-.'.j4'sets ihe fan. I rode up to the edge of the mud, stopped my horse, reared in my stirrups, and shouted at the top of my voice, "Glory to God ' Glory to God! Hal leluiah! another sinner's down ! Glory to God ! Halleluiah ! Glory ! Hallelu iah!" If ever mortals felt mean, these youngsters did ; and well they might, for they had carried on all this sport to make light of religion, and te insult a minister, a total stranger to them. But they contemned religion, and hated the Methodises, especially Methodist preachers. When I became tired of shouting over them, I said to them : "Now, you poor, dirty, mean sinners, take this as a just judgment of God up on you for your meanness, and repent of your dreadful -Ttiekedness ; and let this be the last time that you attempt to insult a preacher ; for if you repeat such abominable sport and persecutions, the next time God will serve you worse, and the devil will get you." They felt so badly that they never uttered one word of reply. Now I was very glad that I did not horsewhip them, as I felt like doing; but that God had avenged his own cause, and defen ded his own honor, without my doing it witn carnal weapons ; and 1 may here be permitted to say, at one of' those prosperous camp-meetings named in this chapter, I had the great pleasure to see all three of these young peopje conver ted to God. I took them into the Methodist Church, and they went hack from that state, and went homo with feelings very different from those they possessed when they left. From Curiosities. the Observer. Messrs. Editors : Some time ago ivlr. it. 1. bteele ot Montgomery coun tv N- C- fouml on his premises, on Cheek's Creek, some petrified bones apparently of some huge animal. By the request of Mr. Steele, Mr. C, J- Cochran and myself accompanied him to the place ot discovery yesterday, and after digging into the sand-stone a little to our surprise we found a great quantity of bones of all sorts and sizes, which seemed to have been deposited w crvmf Trnrirht'W civnnn et f ho -. ... size. Samples ot tne uoncs can ut bl-i-h in Pekin or at Troy. It is supposed by those competent to judge that there is an immense quantity of coal imbed ded in the valley ot Cheek's Creek, and a meeting is to le held in Pekin on Saturday the 17:h inst., for the pur pose of forming a company to commence operations. Jau'y 2d, 185G. II. Very Benevolent ! ! jtfrs. A was a church mem ber ; she thought herself to be exceed ing bencvolerft. She gave to almost every cause. We will see how benevo lent she was. TSUrgave six dollars for a pocket handkerchief, and having a dollar left after the purchase, dropped it in the box for 'Foreign Missions.' I She gave forty dollars for a crape shawl, and two dollars the same day to 'Domestic Missions' she gave ten dollars for a pair of car rings, and a quarter of a dollar to the 'Tract Soci ety' three hundred dollars she expen ded on a fashionable party, when her daughter Amelia 'came out,' and fifty dollars went towards repairing the church and paying the pastor Her elegant cut velvet hat, cost fifteen dol lars she paid fifty cents about the same time towards a new Sabbath School Library. She gave three dl lars for Eliza Ann's senseless wax doll, and one dollar towards educating a young immortal in Africa. Which weighed the heaviest in her heart, Christ or the fashionable world? Will God be satisfied with the drillets which chance to remain in the christian s purse, after every elegant taste has been gratified and that too when a Jieatlien world is perishing. Gold from California. The amount of gold received at New York from Cali fornia during the past year was $40,319,. 929, which is ?4,iIC2,595 less than was re ceived the year before. Church Music. BY Q. K. PHILANDER DOE3TICKS, P. B. "The organist here made prepara tions to gyrate ; he rolled up his coat sleeves soas not to interfere with his fin gers then he rolled up his pantaloons so as not to trouble his toes, then he unbuttoned his cravat and loosed his vest. At this instant a very muscular man disappeared from the rank iq. the gallery, vanished through a cubby hole, and was instantly out in the anatomy or tne organ then there was a great rattling in the bowels thereof as if it couldn't digest the muscular man, but naci a great deal ot wind on its stom ach. Thi3 was the preparation. Ihen tne organist commenced a vio lent struggle with the key board, as if ne regarded the unfortunate organ as a fisticuff enemy whom it would require his utmost strength and dexterity to overcome so he went m he hammer ed him on the white keys, and pelted him on the black ones, he punched him in the semitones, he kicked him in the double bass, he put a series of running kicks on his chromatic scale, he pelted him on the flats, he battered him on the sharps, he smote him on the high keys, he hit him on the low notes, then he grabbled both hands in his octaves and shook him until he squealed. Then he ferociously jerked out the stops on one side, as if he was pulling half his teeth out of his head then he savagely jam- mea in those on the other as it he was knocking the rest of his grinders down his throat After three quarters of an hour, the left hand, which had been doing manful duty in the lower suburbs began to fail and sent for a reinforce ment; whereupon the right hand after hitting the chord of G. sharp a furious dig to keep it quiet in the interval. scampered to the rescue, only stopping by the way to bestow upon the middle j. a couple of punches by way of a re minder then the player with both hands, both feet, and both knees, went at the poor instrument and belabored him, so unmercifully in the lower pipes that he lost his wind and cried 'enough,' in the roar of agony. This wa3 the prelude. The singing commenced; the ovcra folks stood up to earn their money; they " r . i , , . . . " go up a note and then slip back each one w-ent a note higher than the one be hind him, but fell back and his voice subsided into a discontented growl low down in his ribs. At last five trials, each one of which ended in an attenua ted squeak, a female with a mouth like a hatchway loosened her bonnet strings and made a desperate scream and went so high that she got a firm hold and they all stopped. This was the singing And the muscular man came out of the bowels with the perspiration drip pring from his coat tails, and as he hadn't another suit handy he sat down ! iu the draught to dry. Ihis was the finale Th In the pulpit, Dr. a loss for a subject, theme of discourse. was never at Christ was the It was a feast to the soul to listen to him. He did not! omit doctrinal subjects, but he was pre eminently a practical preacher a preacher that never descended fo llow or inappropriate illustration. His de light was to dwell upon the doctrines of grace, and the office of the Holy Spirit in converting, sanctifying and preparing sinners for heaven. ) A t, the time te which i now alluue, ms subject was the " Spirit as a Teacher and feanctiher. lie bad teen uescno ing the place which ordiances have in the Christian system, and as he allud- ed to the great mistake of depending ; upon these instead of Christ, he stpped j sbort looked round upon the attentive ! audience, and said, " Brethren, when I j wish to get a most teelnig sense oi ine value of religion, of tne way ot access to God, and a preparation for heaven, I go, pointing with his finger to yon der cabin. I go there often, and con verse with old Robin ; and though he is ignorant of books cannot even read, is scarcely ever able to participate in the external ordinances of religion ; yet I sit at his feet and learn of Jesus. I had rather have his simple faith his childlike trust hi3 experience of the enlightening and teaching influences of the Holy Spirit, than all which can be gathered from any other source." Old Robin was a poor ignorant slave. He was too old and decrepit, and dis eased to work ; and he settled down in a little hut by the chapel, where, when he could not provide for himself, the families and the students of the Semi nary supplied his necessities. It was to that humble dwelling that the emi nent divine went to learn the power and beauty of religion. Thither also went many a young soldier of tho cross to learn the value of the Christian faith, and it was a school which taught lessons a school which taught lessons portant than the " School of no less im the Prophets," for here was Christian faith, and patience, and the " teachings of the Spirit," practically illustrated. Western Episcopalnia. A Capital Story of Boswell and Johnson. We have rot met with a story for some time as well told as one in the new volume of Angclo's Reminiscences of Boswell and Johnson. Angelo, it seems, got it from the landlord of the inn where the lexico grapher put up. Johnson gets off the pony, and the poor animal, relieved from the giant, smelt his way into the stable. Boswell ushered the Doctor into the house, and left him to pre pare for his delicious treat. Johnson feel ing his coat rather damp from the mist of the mountains, went into the kitchen, and threw his upper garment on a chair before the fire. lie sat on a hob near a little boy who was very busy attending the meat, and Johnson did not like the appearance of his head; when he shifted the bast'iHg ladle from one hand, the other was not idle, and the Doctor thought at that time be saw something fall on the meat, upon which he determined to eat no more mut ton on that day. The dinner was announced. Eoswcll exclaimed : " My dear D -ctor, here comes the mutton what a picture ! Done to a turn, and looks so beautifully brown !" The Doctor tittered, and after a short; "race JJoswell said : " I Suppose I am to carve, as usual ; what part shall I help you to ?" The Doctor replied : " I did not trdl vnn before, but I have determined to ibtaiu from meat to-day." "Uh, dear, this is quite a disappoint ment, said Rozzy. Say no more: I shall mate nivself ample amends with the pudding." Boswell commenced the at tack, and madn the first cut at the mutton. -'Hew the gravy runs! What fine-flavored fat so nice and brown, too I Oh, sir, you would have relished this fine prime piece of i;iut- The meat removed, in cam; t!i2 lon wished for puddiug. The Doctor looked joyous, fell eagerly to ; a few minutes near ly finished the pudding. The table was cleared, and Boswell said : " Doctor, while I was eating the mut ton, you seemed frequently inclined to align; pray, tell nie what tickled vour fancy V 3 The Doctor then literally told him all that had passed at the kitchen fire, about the boy and tie basting. Boswell turned pale as a parsnip, and sick of hims:If and company, he Carted out of the room. Some what relieved on returning, he issited cn seeing the dirty little rascally hoy, whom he severely reprimanded before Johnson. The boy cried; the Doctor laughed. "You little, filthy, snivelling hound !" said Boswell, " when you basted the meat " I couldn't, sir," said the boy. " No ! why couldn't you ?" said Bo.mvoI!. " Because mammy took it to toil iho pudding in I" up his herculean frame, stood erect, touching ihc ceiling with his wig; he stared or" i squirted, in deed, looking any but the n,jht way. At ju&i, wiui iueuia wiue open, (none or I L u.l . il. 1 A i be r!na"c?2e)B?.d fto,,,!,eh ,hc".vinr' Lti witl,1 suiuu uiwcuiiy recovtxeu ii is tiratn aud looking at Boswell, with the lungs of a stentor, exclaimed : " Mr. Boswell I sir, leave off laugh i tig, and under pain of my eternal displeasure, never utter a syllable of this ah .-unliable adventure to any soul l.ving while vou breathe." "And so, sir," said my Lost you have the positive fact from the .simple mouth of your humble servaut." O, precious Gospel ! Will any mer ciless hand endeavor to tear away from our hearts this best, this last an 1 sweet- est avenue through which one ray of hope can enter? the aged and Would you tear from mhrra poor tuo only prop on which their soul can re- pose in peace ? Would you deprive ths dying of their only source of consola tion 'I Would you rob the world of its richest treasure ? Would let loose the flood gates of every vice, and bring back upon the earth the horrors of supersti tion, or the atrocities of a theism I Then endeavor to subvert the Gospel throw around you the fire-brands of infidelity ! lauch at religion, and make a mocK ... . . i of futurity ; but be assured that ior an these things God will bring you into judgment. I will persuade myself that a regard for the welfare of their coun- try, n no nigiicr Kiuminji inuuv. men to respect, the uunstian religion. And every pious heart will say rather let the light of the sun be extinguished than the precious light of the Gospel. Dr. Archibald Alexander. Important to Baciiklors The Court of Oyer and Terminer, at l'ithburg, a few days since, an application for divorce, made principally on the ground that the wife was au inveterate scold, aud therefore a most undesirable life-companion, was re jected. Judge McClure remarked that, if men married sharp tongucd women, they must expect an occasional excoriation, and not trouble this Court, with applications for a severance. Bachelors should remember this decision, and we advise them to cut this paragraph out and pasts it in their hats. Plain Counsel. A minister who had received a number of calls, and could scarcely decide which was the best, asked advice from a faithful old African servant whe replied 'Master, go tcutrc there is the most drcil.' . The Poet tut Ric.iit. A promising hnv. not more than five yerirs old, hearing ; so'e gcntieuian at his fat jcussjng tne familiar line- J' . ... .i: laiuer s iuu.v ma- "An honest man's the noblest work of ho 1, said he knew it wasn't true his mother was 'better than any man that was ever made. A Good Anecdots. During the inauguration of G'.n. Taylor, at Washington,!). C, Ma:ch 4th, 1S49, the police regulations, a- usual, required that after the speech oi the new President had commenced, the gates of the Capitol Grounds should ! closed, and no carrage of any kind al lowed to pass, until the speech was fin ished, to prevent confusion. The Minister of ail th? Russia, M. Bodisco, was very late, and after tho speech had begun, drove up tothegato in great haste, the horse.i covered with foam, when the coachman shouted to tne guard, " Ujcn zc ftates, iv you please." The guard bhook his head and stood still. The foottian next call ed out, " Will you open Z2 gates for zo Russian Minister?" Tin- guard apaiu shook I113 head, without nniwcr'n a word. Next, the grand Minister pur his head out of the carriage window and called out to the guard : "0:rn : gates to zo gran Minister of all 7.e Ku sias, Minister Plenipotentiary, M. Bod isco ; I am ze Minister." There was a great crowd around th" gates, within and without, and all ihi.-t j fuss created quite a stir. The guard drew himself up, :'rid 1:1 a firm and pleasant manner, replied: ' If yni were a free bom Atmrican citizen of thcsii United Stnttn of America, yon could not pass thes?. gates in a car riage." The crowd came very near giving ! three cheers for the guard, hut better j manners prevailed, and M. Bodisco stepped out of his elegant equippjge, ,and entered the pide gate with the j sovereign people, hi j carriage remaining ' outside until all the ceiv-inouica wcru over. Luther and ErnzmTit. The characterization1? girtn in Ja cob's prophetic bb'syh'g (Gen. li.) hare often been made the theme of ad miring remark. Drawn while as yet the tribes had scarcely any I cing, yet with few and vigorous touches thev shadow the destiny of ages. A striking rhetorical application cf two of those delineations is given by :t writer in thf Xorth Uritish Jleri ic : " With his stiaightforvvardnesi, hi I kingly strength, and his daunt Ic-m j courage, Luther reminds us of the em- :onc up, my son. lie cou:iiel ai a : l ,1 i . .u I lion, ami us ;ui uut im. ii , ttiil biau rouse him up?' But, trimming between Rome and the reformation, there is an- i other symbol in that old heraldry ,which ; the name of Erasmus inevitably sug ! ?st3 : Issachar is a strong ass, courb i iug down between two burdens. And i be saw that rest Was good, and tbc l.-nd ; that it was pleasant; and lie bowed i bis shoulder to Lear, and became a s-er-J vant to tribute.' Every poweiful mind. ! in every agitated age. is called to repeat j the election ; and which i. it best to be. ! a king of hc forest, or a partisan d' j peace at all hazards, temporizing, low ing the shoulder to bear, and, ia ordrr j to enjoy the pleasant land, content to ; pay the devil's tribute ':" j IJone Exempt. ! Inland votf Utt Wad,irgU,alrv .stately lady, Mrs. M irih i Washington j 'If wfl were to give our private opinion.' says Mrs. Kirl.l.mJ. 'we should my tlv.t ! Mrs. Martha Cartis VWd.in-to-i, with b-r ! lirqe fortune, her strmg domestic UW ! and affections, and her dutiful twmw u i miiso character, exercised her full vh.ire ! of influence over the Comiiifiider in C't.i f lot the Armies of the I'-ited States of ! America. She had a very decided way of speaking, and us she never incddte.l m public siuairs we can eaily i nagitie tho General letting her have her own way in pretty much every thing else. 'A guest at Mc unt Vcrn n liappcti-d t sleep in a room adji iioni. liiat oecuph d by the President an 1 hi.-; ! dv. Ste i-i ! evening, when pcop'c had ret.r 1 t tn :. various chambers, lie lnurl the ltd deliv rrin a vcrv animated lecture to her Ior . and'urjster upon something be hud d'ifc, I that she thou-jt.t ought t bu done d.'lei ! eiitly. To all this he li.dvn-d, iu tho piv- founueht silence, anil when fciie, too, w.m silcut, he opened his lips ro i tqke, 'now. good sdecp to you, my dear.' TLm uw dutc of the great man i.i his nit eap i nnite characteristic of Liu;, bat it is equal ly so of most lords and m isters, who, we IV. - I . i ... .. j jvr.Caudle and Washington did, in pr. j fo unJ 6jjencc i:Xr orieiiC probably teach mil cr n all receive J eurinir. n-i-iun., es them that it is the bettor way.' Eead and Hcflect Three thing? to love coura, gentle ness and afTectiouatcntss. Three things to ndirirc intellectual power, dignity and gracefulness. Three things to hate rrucltj, arrogance and ingratitude. Three things to despite mcanncus, nf fectatiou and envy. Three things to reverence religion, 'y tice and self-denial. Three things to dciigbt in beiuty, frankness and freedom. Three things to wish fur health, friends and a cheerful sjiirit: Three things to pray for faith, pene;; and purity of heart. Three thing to esteem w'wdom pru dence and fhmness. Evil coniuiunieatioui coirupt good ui jr- als. ) ?5 v. n
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Jan. 23, 1857, edition 1
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