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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BYA COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOB THE METHODIST EPI COPAL CHOECH, SODTH.-ETOUS T. HEIXIH, Editor.
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VOL. IV--.NO. 45.
ORIGINAL
For the X. 0. C!i. Advocate.
IT! ;d stations osi fJse Fciture Stute.
To (mi" last wo presented some reflections
i . reference to the con J Hon of the sou.
;' ...! eath to julg.ont, showing that the
. : ' f the good ras'-s immediately from
into heaven Iu this, we wish to
awhile in regnd to 'lovea ones'
' vi earth. These are many. How
! ' foodies are there now on earth?
. .".t almost say there is not one.
.. Y-r ''as long since been cut down
.. ' . ., signed to earth A few years af
i . . .. pciha-s, the chiUbcn saw th ir
.i ,t, !i;,:e mother breathe her last, and
:a!i asleep iii Jesus." N .thing of them
no v ;v'iiaiti save th. sweet remembrance
ot
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kindinss and words of t nderness
These still linger in the hearts
i. '..I'.. i:a tin: sweetest -nf rt f
; ! ! ,:: c. tl.- p-ir i,t- have is
( .; 1; sons and daughters in
i. ku-,.' o; i. riper years, whi-h has on-.-loi-ii
i-.iJ tlie slwt-. in- ii; th h.d i'iii. :.:s
if moiiriiiii z. I 1- it i-n: ::i hints
!L- ding, ft lid hopis i ea'tl.iy pr.-p cts i
bit Jit? 1 f'l-ever. S:i ;:iig that man is so
C"ii.
tituttril mat fVerv a:!eetitn as us
p.m,!
Ye! it i si.
F'. w fan.ilie? t an be
io-md where -hath has u.-ver visited and
lue.e tallen beneath his relentless hand.
But v.hv sh uh! we le sai ? And why
sh.nl.; the countenance fall' Li It up your
head-, oh ye broken families of earth, and
look away from this world of sorrow and
trou'ek- across the stream of death to your
glorious home iu heaven. Thy children
are fien thy fathers an 1 mothers, in Is
rael, are ther Jesus is there and thy lov
ed ones who fall asleep iu Jesus ; all with
out exception are thete at home sweet
word, precious thought. Then, "why art
thou cast down, oh my soul, and why art
thou disquieted iu me V hope thou iu Go.1,
for I shall yet praise him." We love and
venerate the memory of our sainted dead.
Though our hearts may have 1 een wrung
to th core, and almost broken with uu
ruih. w hen they were so abruptly snatch
ed from us ; though e may, like Martha
of old, have go:.e to the grave to weep
.1 . 1 , 1. nP urmn
poured out our hearts of sorrow over die
'm lowed spot, where the loved ones ie ;
. fond memory mingles joy with our
irs. and bore silently whispers, "thy
r shall risT again." W hve the
cry in Wiiien tncy repose ; we love
Urble that points to the spot where
eep : we love the vine that untwines
iiua I that sabred dut ; we love the
I that blossoms and sh ;us it, fra-
ma i-Mi!it;ui o i r u:n mat pre-
i i i . i .1.
and we live" to read and
upon the epitaph thut tells us
id h' W they died. No spot on "earth
;-r -d to us as that silent jr:.ve. Death
.-i-;: e aiol tear tip families separate
blight our earthly hopes and pros
. ; . v. n lav us low, in ts cold em
i it eanuot co'i.pu r lore or mem
, !;: im:norta!, (i-d- ike passion,
: .-. s i al'ouf ihe gave, and now and
.'! our into eternity, singing in i
' ; i die saint. d Wesley :
Hid: down 3-e epnratini hil's,
L " sin and death r m ve.
' I t- love drivi s my chariot wheels.
.iiii .le.itii must yield '"In e."
we t;:.t'ir;t!!y ieouirc. ;e
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ro 't I'o tliev s -e a:id !c;!ov wha" is :x -:
on, upon the earth, an ! should we re-rniz-atid
live th -m j ., ihr bell r' ml ?
I us meditate upon what w.,- have already
i, :iiid then riusu : this thought in our
sr. TITUS.
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F e- ihf X. i 'h -s ia? Advocate.
Ii.1!e CdiinH'ters Abel.
There are many tilings connected with
the history of Abel which make it deeply
interesting.
After the fall, he is the first who has the
testimony of inspiration that he was right
eous. As Cain demoiistaated to the world
the depravity of human nature, Abel
demonstrated to the world that, there was j
truth in the promise of redemption .and a i
virtue in faith to save a soul from sin in j
this life a power in the renewing faith to j
raise up man so to walk as to " please ;
God. ' He was, in all probability, the
first man who ever cr joyed the bkssing of ;
perfect love to God and m u.
He was the first to die. And what is i
remarkable, the first who Ik.s the testimo- '
ny that he pleased God ; was not only the !
first to die, but as if to show that all who
shall ever live godly should suffer perse
cution, fell a martyr lie was the f.rst to i
enter the paradise above ; the first to enter
into the rest t'.at remainelh to the people !
of God.
What a wonder to men an 1 angels ! A j
man dead on earth ! W h it a shock to j
Adam and Eve! Perhaps his budy was
recovered from its secret receptacle If so
with what amazement the living looked on
the ead. The word of God once heard in
t'le garden of Kden, "in the day ihat thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die," came
to the remembrance of the astonished pair.
I hey wa ch the body until it wastes away
to dust, and Adani sees tne full import of
the doom which was laid on him, "dust
thou art aud unto dust shalt thou return.'"
But to the angels. w hat a wonder ! They
behold the earthl" tabernacle dissolve, but
th; teuaut, an immortal spirit, stepping
for'h from its ruins, and w.th electric speed
wing its flight away from the bloody scene
to the paradise of God. Thus while the
first s unt, the first martyr "rests from his
labors," where the wicked cease to trouble
and the weary are at rest," we are assured
that "he being dead yet speaketh."
Ie speaks to us and bids us hope for
'.Trace tj h .lp us in every time of need.'
lb- bi us not to count ur lives dear un
to u, but to trust the Lord at all times.
He bids us not to flatter ourselves that we
' all me t with the smiles of the world, if
v are the f lends of God- Then, reader,
let u take the encouragement and the
wainiiiff giveti by tlu, life and death cf this
b.essed si rv; nt of God.
" Are there no foes for me to face,
Must I not t'-m the flood ;
Is tins vile world a friend to grace
To help nu1 on to God
Sure I must Sccht if I would rei:r:i ;
Increase my Courage Lord ;
I'll bear the toil, endure th- pain,
Supported by thv word."
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S E L E 0 T IONS
l;Y T. S. ARTHUR.
I "You are socer this evening," said Mrs.
Laudeli to her husband. " I hope nothing
has gone wrong during the clay."
Mr Laudeil, who hail been sitting with
his eyes upon the floor, silent and abstract-
ed for some moments, roused hiinseb' at
these words of his wife, and looking up at
her smiled in a forced way, as he answer
ed ' Oh. no ; nothiniat all has crone wronir.
'LVn't yon fee! we-! V'
Tiie voice of Mrs. Landcll was just shad
e.l with concern.
' Well enough in body, but not as com
foitanle iu mind as I desire.'
Then something has gone wrong,' sail
the wife, htr manner troubled.
' Nothing more than usual, ' replied Mr.
Landeil. The f.rced smile faded away
iVoni Lis countenance. Mrs Landeil siffh
ed. ' Than usual !' She repeated his words
1'oking with earnest inquiry into her bus
baud's face. Then she added in a tender
manner
' Bring home your trouble, dear. Pon't
hid anythiug. Let me share with you
the good and ill of Hie. Iid you not
know that hearts draw nearer in suffering
than they do in joy.'
' Bless, your Kind heart, Alice!' said
Mr. LandeU. a broad smile creeping ove r
his face as he caught her round cheeks be
tween Ids hands and kissed her. 'There
isn't anything in the case so serious as all
that con -s to. I'm not going to fail in
oiiin -ss ; haven't lost anything worth
sj-e-j.iiiiir about ; haven't cheated anybody
ao ! don t inten I to; it's oily his hast-,
i ;. pul.ii -temper of mine, that is always
leading me to tay or do something that
ica'.'es a .--ting.'
Ti.e clou ; p.'.ssed from the fuce of Mrs.
Landed!.
You will overcome that iu time, Ed
wrJ. ' I can't see that I make any progress.
Yesterday I spoke sharply to one of my
young men, when a mild reproof would
have been more just and of more fca'utary
eff ct." lie is sensitive, and my words
hurt him severely. The shadow that re
pained on his face all day was my perpet
ual rebuke, and I felt it long after the sun
went down. My punishment was greater
than his. But the lesson of yesterday did
not suffice. This morning I was betrayed
into captious language, aud wounded th
same young man, and threw him off his
guard so much that he answered me with
feeling This I regarded as impertinence,
and threatened to disnri.-s him from my
service if he dared venture a repetition of
his language. When feeling subsided and
thought uecame clear again, I saw that I
had been wrong and felt unhappy about it
ever since. I wish that I had more self
control ; that I could bridle my tongue
when feeling it suddenly spurn d. But
temperament and long indubed habits are
against nie.'
Mrs. Landeil encouraged and soothed
her husband, and so won his mind away
from its self-reproaches.
On the next morning as Mr. Landeil
was leaviug for his store, his wife looked
up at him, and with a meaning, said to
him
" Don't.
There was the slightest perceptible war
ning in her tone.
' Don't what ;' Mr Landeil seemed a
little puzzled.
' Don't forget yourself.'
'Oh !' Light broke in upon his mind.
' Thank you, I will not;' and he went
forth to meet the trials of the day.
Almost the first thing that fell under
the notice of Landeil was an important let
ter, which after writing, he had given to a
clerk to copy and mail. Instead of being
in Boston, as it should baved been, it lay
upon his desk. Neglect like this he felt
to be unpardonable.
1 John,' he called sharply to a young
man at the farther end of the st re.
Don't !' it seemed to him like the voice
of his w.e in his ear 4 don't forget your
self.' This mental warning came just in season.
The clerk came quietly towards him. By
the time he reached the desk of Mr. Lan
deil, the latter was under self-control.
' Why was not this letter mailed John V
he asked.
The tone was neither imperative nor
captious, but kind ; and the question was
asked in a way that said, ot course there
is good reason for omission ; and so there
was.
' I think, sir,' answered John, ' that
! there is a mistake, aud I thought it not
best to put the letter iu the mail.'
A mistake? How?' and Mr. Landeil
opened the letter.
It reads,' said the clerk, ' three hun
dred cases of shawls.'
' Oh no ; t irty cases' replied Mr. Lan
deil. But as he said this his eye rested
on the three hundred. 'So it is. How
could I have undo such an error ! You
did right, John, in not sending the letter
at all.'
The clerk went back to his place, and
the merchant said to himself, ' How glad
I am th t I was able to control myself If
I had spoken to that young man as I felt,
I would have wronged and alienated him,
and made trouble .or myself ail day.'
Not long after this a case of goods f 11
through the hatchways, crushing down
upon the landing with a noise that caused
I .. T-n J..lt, liucu trmpcriinicnt WiiB I'X-
ceedingly nervous, to spring to his feet-
To blame some body was his first impu'se.
' Wtmt careless fellow has Jet;e this ?' was
on his tongue.
'Don't!' the inward monitor spokn in
time. Mr. Landeil shut his lips tightly,
and kept silent until he could command
himse'f. He then inquired calmly into
the cause of the accident, aud found that
special blame attached to none. Opening
the case of goods, the dam ge was found
to be trifling
' Another conquest,' said ?Jr. Landeil,
as he turned to his desk. Self-control is
easy enough if the trial is made in earnest.
A dozen times that day vras the torch
applied to Mr. Landeil'- quick temper, and
as ofteu was he in danger of blazing out.
But he kept his temper till the sun went
down, and then he turned his steps home
ward, feeling more comfortable in mind
than he had ior several w-jeks. There was
no shadow on his countenance when he
met his wife but smiling good humor.
' You said ' Don't' as I left this morning.
iVeil I'
'And I didn't.'
' You ar a hi.ro,' said Mrs. Landeil
laughiug.
Not much of a ono. The conquest was
easy enough when I drew the sword iu
earnest.'
' Aud vou felt better V
' Oh, a thousand times. What a curse
of one's life this quick temperament is. I
am ashamed of myself half a dozen times
a day on an average. But I have made a
good beginning, and 1 mean to keep on
right until the end '
Don't,' said Mrs. Landeil to her uus
baud, as she parted wuh him for the store
at thj front door of their home the next
morning.
' I won t, Gcd help me !' was answered
heartily.
And he didn't, as the pleasant evening
that he passed with his wife, most clearly
testified.
Header, if you are quick tempered,
don't.'
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About Family IVasiaes.
Since the branching off of families from
Noah, (perhaps it was the case also before
the flood,) there has been wanting a family
nomenclature. We do not offer to supply
a system, at this late day ; but in an easy
talk on the subject we may indicate one.
Names ought to bo genealogically de
scriptive. The surname is ; but that does
not meet the case, by more than half. 31 r
Smith has a son named John. This John
Smith goes into the world, and euceavors
to preserve his identity his conscious
identity, at least Everybody knows, with
out being told, that his fathers name was
Smith, (provideu, always, no legislative
act has intervened, and no alias ) But
who was his mother? That may bean
important question. The mother, it is ac
knowledged, has most to do in giving
character. Great men are invariably traced
bac to great mothers. And has not the
mother at least and equal right with the
father to put her label upon what she sends
out?
To illustrate : Our John Smith,
aforesaid said, grows up and marries
Mary Jones. Give them three sons or
half-a-dozen, and as many daughters.
Proceed to name them: William Jones
Smith, Thomas Jones Smith, Henry Jones
Smith. Sarah Jonv Smith, and so on. Now
some folks, after the sweet William, would
fancy Washington or Bonaparte or Clay,
or some such, as a niiodle name all fancy.
But wherever you nieet with one of these
Smiths, it is easy to. tell which family of
that vast tribe he belonged to, and what
was his mother's louse, as well as his
father's house. Likely, the mother's name,
cleaving to ab of then, would be the most
distinctive, as well as descriptive.
This is the day of woman's" rights ; and
woman has rights here! WThy should not
her name be perpetuated in the sons of
her birth and training ? Why should it be
1 st, and like a stream' uiider ground dis
appear for ever, upon her marriage ? Let
it reappear in her posterity, with whatever
honor it gives to or derives from them. Such
a nomenclature is tin simple, we are aware,
to take with those1 who fancy Alphonso
and Alcibiades, an'l the like. We suggest
k they must choose fancy names, or grat
ify uncles and coiidas and godfathers and
friends, that it btf on the first name of the
child, and the peiiultimato always be that
which the mother merged in her husbanu
This gives a man s dese-nt on his most
material side, the maternal ; it helps his
tory ; and the fanidy tree is seen to branch
out in each initial. At a glance you know
one's eou ins and I'm on loth sides ; and
those ties which na'ure ordains f i happi
ness, and the conservation of society, are
not so easily lost yjiz of. If a mother
trains a man who uidces any figure in th;
world, her maiden nunc revives and lives
in his fame as it oubt to do. The pious
and patient woman, who was h nored
among her sex in beipg the mother of a
crrnuk .i.o'lc-n preaeher at Uisliop. had
been forgotten q;.ite, had' not the middle
name of her son, Henry Bidden an Bascom,
insured the mention of her. Other in
stances may occur to the reader. Middle
names are worth while, if put to such a us,
as that. Let the mothers be honored aud
remembered iu their noblesi work. It
comes to mind here that two if our living
Bishops are named on this principle
George Foster Pierce, and lluWiard Iliude
Kavanaugh. Our Saviour thought it not
beneath him to reward the good deed of a
holy woman by securing ihe world-wide
meu'kiou of her name. Nashville Ch. Ad
vocate. i
Important DiscJosuves Kespsct
iiigtlH! Harper's Ferry Affair.
The extracts wdiich we make this morn
ing from the letters of Col Hugh Forrest to
F. S. Sanbourne of Concord, Massachu
setts, Dr. Howe of Boston, and other Ab
olitionists, speak for themselves. They
were first published in the New York Her
ald of Thursday, the 27th inst. ' We ga
ther from that paper the following particu
lars with regard to Forbes : lie is a
Scotchman by birth, and first came to this
country about sen years ago, after the rev
olutions of Europe had been put down.
He served some years in the British army,
and became a companion of Garibaldi, in
his defence of Home. He was, for a time,
a translator and reporter for the Tribune,
and established an Anglo-American paper
in New York, which he was conducting
when he was first introduced to-Qssiwato-mie
Brown, by the reverend Mr. Leavitt,,
one of the editors of the Independent,
(Beecher's organ,) and a great believer in
Sharpe's rifles as a panacea for all evils,
religious and political. From the language
of the correspondence w gather that the
Humanitarians, as he calls the Kansas
SLriekers, undertook, among other en
gagements, to remit certain sums monthly
to Forbes' family in Europe, and to sup
por them after they had come to New
York. These terms were, in the sequel,
not complied with, Greeley and other lea
ders among the humanitarians, pleading
that they were not responsible for eon
tracts entered into by Ossawatomie Brown.
However, before Forbes had discovered
the utter unreliability of such promises,
and such men, he went to Kansas -for
the purpose of drilling Brown's men.
It is easier, we are disposed to think, in
genera', for rascals to agree than for hon
est men. This did not prove to be the
case in the present association, however,
and Brown and Forbes were soon at dasr
ger's drawn. Forbes had a plan of his
own for making war uppu the South. It
was to organize an army of stampeders all
around the slave States, and by continual
ly running off the slave, to drive the fron
tiers of slavery gradually back to the South.
Brown's plan, distinguished in the corres
pondence aa "the matured plan," wa3
that which he adopted and attempted
to carry out at Harper's Ferry.
Forbes foresaw that that plan must fail,
and to prevent its being attempted, he put
himself in communication with Seward,
Sumner, Hale, Wilson, Chase, Fletcher,
&c. , and pointed out to them the defects
of Brown's plan, and the superior excel
lence cf his own. Some of the Northern
journals affect to think that Seward was
innocent of all knowledge in the premises.
But there can be no doubt of the fact ; he
knew of the design of Brown as long ago
as-May, 1858, when it was communicated
to him -in person, by Forbes at Washing
ton city, for the purpose of enlisting his
influence to prevent its being carried out
The only reply he made when this intelli
gence was communicated to him by Forbes,
who, to use his own expression, "went in
to the whole matter in all its bearings,"
was, (after the expression of a regret that
he had been told ) to the effect, that "he,
in his position, ought not to have been in
formed of the circumstances." Forbes,
himself, regrets that he has been compell
ed to tell him, and lays the blame on the
New Englanders. who refused to pay him.
"But he adds, "being now enlightened on
the subject, he cannot well let this busi
ness continue in its present crooked condi
tion, instead of causinir it to be 'put staight'
both as regards my children's situation, as
well as the cotton speculation of the hu
manitarians." The cotton speculation here alluded to,
is fully explained in . the correspondence.
It seems that Drown wanted to "raise a
sum by coming to an understanding with
some commercial house which was to
make its own profit also by speculating
on the principal English and American
exchanges, for the rise in cotton which
would assuredly result from the diminu
tion of the usual supply through our pro
jected movement." Forbes says that he
indignantly rejected this proposition ; but
the disclosure of the transactions connect
ed with the 87,000 free wool affair, re
minds him of this proposition, and "indu
ces him to guess that Brown is not the only
New England humanitarian who entfrtains
peculiar notions cf speculation. Indeed,
"greediness to turn insurrection to pecun
iary profit may not unreasonably be regar
ded as the grand motive for that projected
movement South of Mason's and Dixon's
line, which moi.emrnt I looked vpon until
latt ty as being' jxirely philanthropic.
Judging of the probable march of future
events by those past, I say to the colored
people, as I and others have been duped,
so will be tiie slaves : and if they rise at
the call of New England humanitarians,
they will undoubtedly shed their blood
for the benefit of New England speculat
ors.
Iu these extracts we have the whole se
cret of this attempt. It was a speculation
a speculation in the blood of Southern
men a cold-blooded calculation in dollars
and cents, of the value of Southern lives.
If anything could add to the unutterable
horror of such a conception, it must be the
attempt which is now made by these baffled
speculators, to exalt the mercenary scoun
drel who was employed to carry out their
schemes, into a hero and a martyr. Ossa
watomie Brown, the man who coolly sits
down and calculates how much money he
can make by murdering a given number of
men, women and children, we are told is
not only both these, but he is a very pious
character to boot, and says his prayers as
regularly as Henry Ward Beecher, or the
reverend Mr. Leavitt. Dr. Johnson was
strongly tempted to define "patriotism."
"the last refuge of a scoundrel.' In the
the name cf virtue and religion, we protest
against ascribiiig any portion of either to
such a cold-blooded, unalloyed, unredeem
ed, unregenerate, unlimited, and illimita
ble villain as Ossawatomie Brown. Cour
age he may have ; but it is the courage of
a savage. His comrade, Forbes, iu his
letters, relieves him fully from the charge
of possessing any other virtue whatever.
He describes him as mercenary and treach
erous to the very !ast degree, and charges
him, in addition, with brutality and stu
pidity in so many words. One of his cho
sen associates was a man who had robbed
him in Kansas, and his reason for choos
ing him was that he had plundered two
houses in Missouri, thus proving, by the
selection of a burglar and thief for his bo
som friend, that he is altogether destitute
of any claim to respect, from the profes
sions of a pure motive which his admirers
are so ready to claim for him. He is a
bold determined, bloody desperado, ope
rated upou by no sentiment higher than
the hope of gain, and differing in no re
spect whatever from any other house-brea-ber
and murderer, whom the officers of the
law are, at times, called upon to deal with.
He is no fanatic, but only a speculator in
blood ; he murders, not to promote a cause,
but to fill his pockets.
RicKd Dis., 2dtiu t.
The New York Herald contains
an improbable statement that Bishop
Onderdonk intends to bring an action
for damages oa acconnt of his non
restoration.
From S. Ch. Advocate,
memoir Col. W. Davenport.
Our community has recently sustained a
great loss in the death of Co!. Win.
Davenport. He died at his residence,
Waluut Fountain, Caldwell county. N. C,
on the 19th August, aged 90 years. .
He was born in Culpeper county, Va.,
on the 12th October, 17G9. When buta
few years old, bis father removed to North
Carolina, and settled in Burke county,
where he resided until his death. Hero
Col. D. was reared. The means of educa
tion were limited, living as he was in a
frontier settlement during the exciting
period of the revolution. But with a
strong and vigorous intellect he managed to
acquire the rudiments of an education, which
qualified him to dicharge the numerous
and responsible public duties that devol
ved upon him afterward.
Perhaps no part of the country was
more severely scourged by the cruelty of
the Tories, than this. One day while
William, a youth about 10 years of age,
was at home, his father being absent on
military duty, a uoied Tory rode up, with
a posse of men, and alighting, orderrd
young William to feed his horse; upon
his refusing, the command was repeated
accompanined with revere threats, but
he pertimaciously refused, sensible of the
degradation involved in it, and upon his
repeatedly refusing, the Tory whipped him
cruelly. This fellow was afterward taken
by the Whigs, aud paid the forfeit of his
baseness on the gallows.
His first public post, was that of County
Surveyor for the county of Burke, which
office he filled, with great credit to him
self. He was Surveyor on the part of
North Carolina to run the dividing lino
between this S'ate and Tennessee, under
thejoint commission instituted by those
States in 1820. When 25 years of age ho
was appointed a Justice of the Peace which
appointment he continuously held until
his death, and in all probbability, was at
the time of his death, the oldest magistrate
in the State, if not in the United Statof
For many years he held the office of Public
Register in the counties of Wilkes and Cald
well. In 1798. he was elected a member
of the Legislature of North Carolina and
served several subsequent years, both in
the house of Common and Senate. The
duties of all these different ofllces he dis
charged with a most conscientious regard
for the publio welfare.
Col. D. was remarkable for his hospi
tality. With an unusually retentive mem
ory, well stored with striking anecdotes, of
great cheerfulness of disposition which he
retained even to advanced old age, he was
the life of every circle, and took the great
est pleasure in entertaining the visi ors
that were pleased to call upon him. But
with no class of persons Was he more
delighted than the ministers who so
frequently made his house their placo of
rest. Emineutly social in his feuliugs, he
contributed in no small degree to the
home circle. Humane and indulgent as a
master, affectionate to wife and daughter
warm hearted and devoted in his attach
ments, unwavering in his principles,
Irincely in his hospitalities, and linking
the present generation with the patriots of
the revolution, he has passed away
regretted by the whole community, who
have in his death lost a most valuable
member of society.
The Davenport Female College which
bears his name, i3 a monument of his
munificence, as be contributed largely of
his means to its erection. It is a beautiful
building, attractively situated, and is in
quite a prosperous condition, dispensing
the blessings of a pure and sanctified
learning in all this section of country.
He was for many years a member of the
Methodist Church, a man of sincere and
ardent piety, though quite unobtrusive in
his religious experience. His delight was
in the worship of God, and the marked
attention, and intelligence manifested by
him as a hearer, made it a pleasure to
preach to him. He anticipated death sever
al weeks before his departure, and in more
than one interview with him, during the
decline of his health, he expressed the ut
most confidence in Christ as his Saviour,
and looked hopefully beyond the grave to
his place of final rest.
M.
Power of the Jews.
The Jews, although scattered over the
face of the earth, yet maintain a secret
and indissoluble bond of union and com
mon interest. In every country they arc,
as it were, the servants ; but the time may
come when they will virtually be the mas
ters in their turn. Even at the prescut
time, are they not to a great extei t, the
arbiters of the fate of Europe ? Main
taining, on one hand, the bond between
the different states by the mysterous power
of wealth which they possess ; and, on the
other, loosening the ties of social life, and
introducing or fostering ideas of change
and revolution among various peoples? In
the Jewish nation stirs the Nemesis of the
destiny of Europe. Baron von Ifrxthav-sm.
( What Amusements ure Sinful.
Iu deciding what amusements are lawful
and what aro sinful, we may apply a few
general principles. Thus : k
First. Every amusement is sinful which
tends to the injury of the health and the
physical constitution. God requires that
even the body should be presented a liv
ing sacrifice in his service ; and when, for
the sake of momentary enjoyment, the
gratification of taste or appetite, the phys
ical Bysteni is deranged or weakened, God
is robbed of what is rightfully his. ' Men
shudder at the thought of the "untimely
death of those who, in a moment of insani
ty, or impelled by remorse of conscience
have put an end to their earthly existence;
and unless we have satisfactory evidence
that they were insane, we have reaion to
tremble in view of their sins. But why U
it any more self-murder to apply the hal
ter or the knife, and thus end oe's days,
than to do the same thing by a round of
dissipation or amusement. But,
Secondly. Every amusement is sinful
which tends to weaken or destroy the in
tellectual powers. Man is distinguished
from the lower order of created beings by
the possession of tt.e reasoning faculties.
These are given to him for some pood and
noble purptscs. If he pursues a course
of conduct, or indulges in such amuse
ments, as may disqualify him to exert thenu
faculties for good, be sins against his own
soul and against God. The youth who
spends his time in storing his mind with
vain and idle stories, or in reading novels
or romances, is an instance id which thh
iseffectnulN done.
m
Thirdly. Those amusements are fcinful
which have a tendency to dissipate from
the mind sober, serious reflection. Man
is living for cteruity. It thould bo Lis
great object to do that which will prepare
him for that world to which he iu hasten
ing, and which will be pleasing to his
heave nly Father and Judge. As a crea
ture of God, he is bound to do whatever he
docs to the glory of God. Can there bo
any question, then, whether those niuncc
u.cr.t.s ara sinful wbibh are inconsistent
with religion, or which inevitably with
draw the mind from those things that con
cern the interests of the soul, and drive
away the spirit of God ?
Tlic Death of it Aotcd lufldel.
The Rt. Ilev. Mantou Eastburn, Bishop
of the Dioce?e of Massachusetts, in a er-
mon preached beforo the Young Men's
j Christian Association of Boston, on the val
ue of tho Bible, related a striking and im
pressivo fact respecting the last hours jf
Thoa. Paine, the author of the Age of Ben
son, showing that the principles he aloea
tod in his life failed him in the hoar of hU
extremity.
Rsfcrring to the fact that, in the sol
emn and decisive hour of death, the Biblo
alone bhows us how to get an actual, real,
living sense of comfort.dcrived from a con
fident hope of better things to come, tho
bishop said, 'How worthy of consideration
the fact that this religion of the Bible never
fails to give comfort to those by whom it
has been embraced. And how remarkable
another fact.that no roan ever repented on
the bed of death of having made thee Scrip
tures his trust; while on the other ban'd.un
countcd myriads have repented cf the neg
lect of this book, and have closed a life of
indifference with an cud of remorse and ag-
ony. Even some of tae great leaden nr. I
apostles of infidelity have expired amidst
the most horrible blackness of despair.
'During my residence in the city of tw
York, one of my parishioners wis the phy
sician who attended in his last illness, the
famous Thomas Paine. And I had it from
the lips of that person, that thia noted blas
phemer, not many Lours before his depar
ture, and while in the powesfcion of hn
mental faculties, was overheard by him
calling repeatedly for help on that very
Lord Jcbus Christ whom it had been the
object of all his previous life to hold up to
scorn and execration. Hii end was the
vcrv consummation of fear and forcWl
ing" But who ever heard of a Christian
shrieking out for twrow, when his last
hour came ; that he had not been an
uubuliever? Ah, no. The Bible, besides
meeting all our other wants, effectually
provides for this last want the need of
support wheu time recedes and eternity i.i
at band. An I it hereby docs what notli
ug else is able to do.' .
Adviee. Y
A modern poet gives advice to preachers.
It micht be better, and then, too, it niight
be worse:
Wheu once your nerves to speak at all
you've strung, -T
Speak honest Saxon, with the plainest
tongue. I
If Smith or Johnsou a pet vice baft shown,
Slaoh at the ulcer cut it to the bona.
Though Johnson's dollars to tho treasury
roll,
Do not regard them more than Johnsons
soul.
If Smith's a liar though .seeming good
and pious
Preach about Smith, and not of Ananias.
These old evasions will not now delude us
If Brown's a traitor, preach at Brows, not
Judas. . .