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(llitrolimi (iiiait ; ptate. RALEIGH, N. CJ The Editor i ' way responsil!. any one shou1 .1 its matter or complaints i know who h. keep ii warm plain of the i. must beg le. for we take "We are in 1. posed to ci COuld UBiV ' more could rsason for i. ore conEdcr if Kt. vocate would ix.. The Editor. ' ent this week, and is in no Lis issue of our paper. If FTiosod to complain of cither will please bring their ; and as they do not T nurse their wrath to d out. If they com of the paper, we .m over to the printer ; .-ibility in that direction. Ter, that no one will be dis we have done the best we distances, and in justice no .t oar hands. There is good e of the Editor reasons we ,vn to the readers of the Ad with their hearty approval. So you must on uo account bhyae him. . . Why Should I Seek God. We should seek God, because a feeling sense of his presence is necessary to our happiness. This results from man's relation of perfect de pendence upon God. Man is dependent upon God for life, reason, Intelligence, food, raiment, home, friends, the pleasures of social life, the in fluence of the Holy Spirit, and the joys of His Salvation. Every blessing man receives from God, is a manifestation of God's prcseuce to man. We see in life's blessings, the beamirjgs forth of his wisdom, goodness and love. Should we not seek him oa whom we are dependent for every thing ? 1. Man' intellect demands the presence and influence of the infiuite mind. Mind must have the communion of other minds, and intellect de mands as a necessity of its nature, the fellowship of kindred intellects. Man's intellect is weak and it demands the presence of the omnipotent mind to strengthen its weakness. Man is ignor ant, and he demands the presence of the omnicient mind to in.-truct his ignorance. Man's mind is dark, and he f els the need of the Divine pre sence to enlighten his darkness, to guide him in to the fulness of Divine light, and to impart to him perfect truth. Should not man, then, as an intelligent being, as a being of thought, reason srid judgment, seek the presence of the central I sun of intelligence and the infinite fountain of i wisdom and knowledge ? I 2. M::ns heart demands the presence and needs the influence of an infinite love-uature. The vast capacit" for love, with which man is endow ed, demands, as a necessary condition of its de velopment, exercise, growth and perfection, an object of infinite perfections. His heart demands d who can reeinrocate bis fiffpction return ni- satisfy with hi.? rich ful- demanus of his God-like nature all uie cravings or r:is imnionai spirit. j.ne hearts :-t, infinite, unchanging and ould lead us to seek God. 1 that freencss and fullness . and fill all the cravings is love. The law is a revelation of the divine will the trauscript of the divine mind, and a re flection of the divine likeness. What is the di vine mind,' will and likeness? It is love. "For God is love." Love 13 the moral essence of the 'liviue nature the base of all his moral perfec tions. Hence we are assured in the language of inspiration, "that he that dwelleth in love dwt.1 leth in God and God in him." The man that loves God supremely and his neighbor as him self, has the image of God instamped upon his spirit, the law of God written upon his heart, the life of God breathed into his soul. 4. Love is the fulfilling of tho law ; because it is the well-spring of all good action. No ac tion is truly good unless it springs from love. If ye love me says the Saviour ye will keep my commandments and my commandments are not grievous." Love is the fountain from which all other christian graces flow, as so many divine and fertilizing streams. Christ is the vine belie vers are the branches, and love is the sap of life that passes from the vine to the branches, giving them life and making them fruitful. Christ is the Sun of righteousness, love is the light that beams from him on christian hearts, and all other graces are the varied reflections of this love-light in the life of God's people. It is love that speaks in the voice of sympathy that beams in the eye of faith that bow? in the posture of humility, that endures in patience submits in resig nation forgives in meekness and bestows in charity. Love is a ray of divine light which, passing through the prism of :he human heart is refracted into all the graces of Christian ity. Are we fulfilling the law? "Do we love God with all the heart, mind, soul and strength?" Have we kept the first and great commandment ? Do we love our neighbors as ourselves? Have we been made perfect in love. These are mo mcntus questions dear reader press them home to your heart and conscience untill you receive an affirmative answer. . me yerrmngs, tor never-failing Iov In him man wi! of love which of his l..ve-n:t - 3. -Man's r God as a bc-ir moral being j late holiness, i abounding m though supe sympathize -moral coudi: know i' We of the div! voice of a t and man, h:. in our seasons not seek that tr. nands the presence of noral perfections. A -ibl ': justice, imuiaeu ' -, infinite love, and . being like himself, if a being who can j:or:d feeling, judge of his -rove his moral action. 1 experience, how a sense .on, with the approving id of offence towards God :ed, blessed and cheered us and affliction. Should we whose approving smile can impart to us, such lulness of moral joy ? 4. Man's spiritual, religious nature, demands the presence of God, as its only appropriate ob ject of worship. An object of worship suited to spiritual, iutell ctual, moral, emotional, affection al and immor'al nature a being who is infinite and omnipresent filling all worlds, all hearts, all homes. To whose audience-chamber, all can have access to whose altar all can approach around whose throne all can bow. Such is the God demanded by man's spiritual nature. Should we not turn our hearts to him, as the sun-flow- turns to the day-God? 5. Man's guilty, suffering nature, demands the presence of God as a Savior, to pardon his guilt, forgive his sins, soothe his sorrows, comfort his heart, to quell his rising fears, and calm his trou bled soul. Let us seek God, dear reader, and in finding him, the soul will attain the true end of its be- in .'Love, the Fulfilling of the Law. Love to God and love to our fellow man, em braces our whole duty to God and man ; for love i3 the fulfilling ef the law, and on these two com mandments hang all the law and the prophets. 1. Love is tha fulfilling of the law; because where love for God and man dwells as governing principles it shows a heart renewed and right with God and man. If the cause be good, the effects will be good ? if the tree is good, the fruit will be good 1 If the heart of man is right his motives and actions will be right? If the law of God fills the heart, it will the life. 2. Love is the fulfilling of the law ; because all morality is seated in the motive. When leve controls man's actions his motives, must be pure, and wherever there is purity of motive there is purity of action. -For if thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light." When man loves God- supremely the great ruling, governing, regulating motive of his life and conduct is a flesiVc toj please God, and promote Do You Attend Class ? The class meeting is an institution to be found alone in the provisions of the Methodist Church. As an institution of the church and as a means of grace, it is wisely adapted to man's nature and wants. Man is a social being, endowed with a social nature, that fits him for society, and makes the society and sympathy of his fellow-men necessary to his happiness. With such a nature, man is un fitted to live out of society, and disqualified for life in any other than a social state. Now no form of church organization, that does not provide for the religious development of man's social na ture; or in other words, for the education of his social nature under religious influence, is adapted to man's nature or suited to meets his wants. That religious organization that makes the best provision for the religious education and chris tian training of Kan's whole nature, is best adap ed to man and is best calculated to be useful. This no one will question. The question now I presents itself, what religious organization does make most provision for the religious development and christian education of man's whole nature intellectual, moral, social, and emotional ? To this question, we respond that the Methodist Church is evidently in advance of all others in this regard. No other church makes such pro vision for the religious development of man's whole nature. The social nature of man in other religions organizations is overlooked, but little provision, if any, is made by them for the education of this department of man's spiritual being. But how is it with the Methodist Church in this par ticular? There is a special provision made in our church for man's social nature. A provision wi.-ely made, and perfectly adapted to meet the wants of man's social being. This provision is the class meeting; and much of our success and prosperity a church, has resulted from the prac tical working of this provision of our ecclesiastical, system, in its perfect adaptation to the social eli ment of man's nature. The results of experience, aud the facts of methodist history, are accounted for upon the most widely known, and best estab lished principles of physcological philosophy. Let class meetings be discontinued in our church, and the strength will depart, and the glory fade from Methodism. The reason for a result so much to be dreaded is apparent; for then our church will no longer work in harmony with the fixed universal and immutable laws of the human mind. Its perfect adaptation to man's nature and wants will be lost; and as a necessary result, it will no longer wield that tremendous influence, over the popular mind and heart that has been displayed in its past hi story. What Christian ? What Methodist is not anxious to prevent a result so much to be deprica ted? now is it to be done? now is the mighty tide which is setting so strongly in that direction to be stayed, and its waves rolled back? Judging of the future, by the past, and looking at this question in the light of history and experience, it is evident that the only way to prevent so great a calamity, is to look well to our class meetings. Do this and our -beloved Methodism shall arise and shine " She shall look forth as the morning, Sleeping m Church. " It was a sleepy eougregation to-night even the Christians went to sleep ;" so said a young lady, a member of the church, to her male com panion as they were returning from service last Sunday night. There was more of truth than poetry in the ramark. It was a sleepy cougrega tion. But why will people sleep iu church? Is it not strange that good men and pious women, keep wide awake an entire Sabbath evening, as dull as it is witho-it public service, and then go to church at night and sleep soundly, under an eloquent, feeling, and impressive sermon ? It is strange that persons of good taste should select such a place for sleeji in the presence of a large congregation, sitting upright in an uncomfortable church pew, with open mouth and bobbing head, to become the subjects of mirth to a serious, re ligious audience, is certainly very bad taste. The practice is impolite, as well as in bad taste. It is condemned by all the codes of etiquette, and meets the disapprobation of the common sense of society. To sleep in company ! Who believes that is polite ? What would you think of the gentleman or lady, who would indulge in a plea sant nap, while you were addressing them on the street, or conversing with them in the parlor ? What would they think of themselves ? We ven ture the assertion, that neither you nor they would regard it as very polite. Yet this is the way many good people treat the preacher. They ex pect him to consume the mid-night oil in the pre paration of an instructive and eloquent sermon, and when he goes to church with the palor of mental labor upon his brow, and the burden of souls upon his heart, they show their respect for him and their interest in his message by going to sleep under its delivery. They do this and theu complain that he is a dull preacher, and preaches dry, uninteresting sermons. Fine judges of ser mons, they ! when they sleep during their de livery competent critics of preachers and preach ing, when they were on a visit to dream-land du ring the whole performance. We wonder that under such circumstannes men can preach at all. What inspiration is there in the appearance of a congregation of closed eyes, vacant faces, and bobbing heads ? But this practice of sleeping in church, is not only in bad taste and impolite, it is also, irreverent. It is God's house, which they convert iuto a sleeping apartment, it is his assembly that they treat with disrespect, it is his worship they treat with indifference, it is his mes sage they hear a sleep. Do we sleep in church nind reader, let us repent in earnest for the sin and do so no more. of administration in his providential government. But we would ask such writers how do they know God has such a secret will? Who made thorn acquainted with it ? Is it in harmony with his revealed will ; or is it in couflict with it ? If in harmony it is but one will regulating his adminis tration, in both his moral and providential gov ernment? If it is in couflict with his revealed will ; then the unity of the God head is destroyed and his Kingdom is divided against itself. His moral and providential government, is arrayed the one against the other in his providence God prevents what he has commanded and brings about what he has prohibited in his moral gov ernment. Thus does this theory destroy the unity of God, and the harmony of his govern ment leaving man without a God breaking uo the order of providence aud destroying the unity of creation. But, again, if God Las a secret will in conflict with his revealed will, it at once destroys his truth and sincerity, ana at the same time destroys our confidence in him. For the question will come up, if God has two f ills, the one in "conflict with the other, which am I to credit? they both cannot be true which am I to obey ? for' both cannot be binding ? We cannot receive his re vealed will, because he has a secret will n con flict with it. Nor can we receive his secret will, because, it is in conflict with his revealed will. The tendency then, of this theory is to weaken our confidence in God, and to destroy our con victions of obligation to obey him. Human Influence. Man is so constituted that he necessarily ex erts an influence over his fcllow-mcu The glance of the human eye, the music of the human voice, the light of the human smile, the expres sion of the human countenance, the pressure of human character, and the grasp of the human hand, all projects an influence. A glance, a word, a jesture, a smile, a frown, a tear, may thrill kindred hearts with joy or sorrow, with pleasure or pain, with cheerfulness melancholy. The contact of mind with mind, aud intellect . with intellect, the sympathy of heart with heart, aud spirit with spirit, the power of will to subdue will, and of thought to awaken thought, gives to man the power of exerting over his fellow-men a constant influence, for good or evil, for their weal or woe. No one can live in the world as a member of society in association with his lellow-men and not exert over them some influence. This power gives to our words, thoughts, and actions, trcmen- Episcopal Decisions. In to diy's paper we publish a communication from Rev. William Closs iu which he propounds a series of questions to the College of Bishops, in volving some of the fundamental principles which lie at the very foundation of our entire system of church government. We are in hopes tha College of Bishops 5 will find it convenient to respond to the questions of Bro. Closs, aud throw some light on the legal principles. governing our ecclesiastical administra tion, which have been involved in so much un certainty, by some late Episcopal Decisions. There is certainly wide, apparent, or real dis crepancy, between some recent Episcopal decis sions, and the letter of both our statutory and constitutional law as laid down in the book of discipline ; and it is due to the church that the Bishop making, and the College of Bishops con firming such decissions, show whether the dis crepancy be only apparent if such be the fact ; or if it be real let them admit it, and define their true position before the church aud the world. If the errors in their decisions be really errors, but not intentional, th-n they should admit it, and correct tneiu, that neither they, nor the church may suffer from the results of such errors ; and if they are intentional and our B shops in ther decisions are over-riding the law of the church, usurping the authority of the general, and in fringing upon the rights of the Annual Con ferences, the ministers and members of our church, they should tell ua so, that wo may know where they stand, and what we have to expect from their administration. The principles involved in the questions propounded by Bro. Closs a: e purely legal, anil stand now, unassociated with any per sonal issues, so they can be discussed now in the light of reason, the discipline and general usage iu our church, free from the bias of prejudice, aud the blinding influence of passion, which is produced by toe mental frictioa of personal con troversy. The discussion is demanded by the vast prac- j tical importance of the legal prineip't-s involved, j and by the spirit of the age, which will not be the Annual Conference of the to determine how far the law thus decided or interpreted is applicable to the case then pending" is said de cision nul and void ? Question4th. If such decision, origianlly made in contravention of the Discipline of the church, and depriving an Annual Conference of its right guaranteed by the Discipline, be confirmed by the College of Bishops, is it still nul and void, or does it then become the law of the church ? Question 5th. If such decisions become the law of the church when confirmed by the College of Bishops, which then is the law making power, in the M. E. church South, the General Confer ence or the College of Bishops ? Again, I find on Page 38, ch. 2. see. 3 of the Discipline, the following on the powera of the General Conference : "They shall not do away the privileges of our ministers or preachers of trial by a committee, and of an appeal : neither shall they do away the privileges of our members of trial before the so ciety, or by a committee, and of an appeal." Question 6th. If a minister be charged before an Annual Conference of which he is a member with mal-administration and the Bishop decide as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, does not the Bishop deprive the minister of a right secured to hmi by the restrictive law of the church ? Question 7t: If the College of Bishops con firm said decision,- di not the Bishops do away with one of the restrictives rules of the chorch? and if so, which is practically the highest making power, the General Conference or ti College of Bishops ? ..-'"?' Question 8th. Which is :tte,v law .of, the M. E. Church South, the decisions of the Bishops, or the Discipline?" : r vX".V ' f f The above are all prepared to show from the record that the cases Straits Circuit, Trent . " Jones " New Bern " , Snow Hill " Everettsville " . Smithfild n - " Edgecomb " . Conteutnea ' Five Missions, 10 00 2) 00 20 00 20 00 50 00 50 00 50 00 40 0t 10 00 30 00 -pondi nt " .V0 00 The meeting then adjourned, W. S. G. ANDREWS, - - Secretary. N. B. TheJ?. E. is to present his account for travelling expenses, to each 2d quarterly meeting for settlement. is nearly u fiwill; l-.-.hv o! For the N. C. Ch. Advocate. Nkw York Bay, Steamer Illinois, April 7th, 1800. My Dear Bro. Clous : Thegun has fired my friends have left we arc pushing down New York Bay, aud I am on my way for Europe. My heart turns fondly to our old and tried friendship, and I write my final adieu ! May the Lord God bless and keep you. Pray for me. Yours truly, , - . CHAS. F. DEE MS. "kJtev. W. Closs MISCELLANY. A Block of Buildings Kaised at O.vck. ThefoHowing is an extract of a letter from Chi cago, Illinois :; , 'fV, all practical qI h; ?X Mders here just now is frn, t, JSaiw thll cases nEespeotaceof 18fit. r stores and the immense 1 mnrhlf-hniliinr known On the Marino Ii;inlr nm. supposed have ..ising 6ne side of a whole block, which are being tentionto this matter.-Qflfc-wahdefiire toyevwre . -r . o ' . .. o nve ioet m: unemr. dv means oi sixtnous- -vtx.'i-U;4 wAJUfcV raise r"u,c" Z?1 rJZ'i! fEd screws plat V. Y .uderthem. ., jfi-a 2 ',it?if pw screws pint uuuertnem. inc the purpose of;r.e tJ.of,the Street, w cause I conceive 'S1? this blocktUw or four ftet.below and members .ui.ef theresent 'Wateot things are insecure. The gwfms through.;-which thi section of the church have passeoT lire now over. The church is calm. I cbaoeive this to he a fa vorable time to look narrowly into the government of our ' church, and jto discuss the powers of the several departments.'-: It' can now be done with out the storm of passion or the blinding iuflu- ence of prejudice, I 'desire not reform in the Disciplins of our ehureh.hut that we enquire for the old land marks, and that the lines that mark out the rights and powers of the seYerfil "depart ments be distinctly drawn. More anon. A WM. CLOSS. Goldsboro, April 12th, 1800.., For the N. C. C. Advocate. Mr. Editob : I have Just closeiBy Quar terly meeting on the Snow Utttcucmt, which i satisfied with .nnv trntli thn-. Ima nof nnccl nn .i.... -f m.. f, ! J uous s.guiucance. uvy un iuicc, injured through the fires of open discussion If we do not discuss these questions others will, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners." Who does not desire to see the duwing of that day, when primitive apostolic, Methodism, shall be restored to all of its former purity and power? his clory. W. niauTj h. motive of ' wrong. tl. Love is the the law is love. is the great controling conduct he can notact 7 of the law; because ; i. the life of the law Snow Hill Circuit. We are pleased to learn from a communication published iuto-day's issue, of the jrospcrity of the church on this circuit under the very efficient la bors of their present pastor Bro. Baley ; and of the ample provision made for the comfort of him self and family, by the Brethren whose official duty it is to make provision for the temporal comfort of the preacher and his family. It is generally the case that faithful and efficient la bors, are properly appreciated by ourchurch, and the man who docs his work well is but seldom left unprovided for. In cur judgment, and it is based upon observation and experience, the min istry of no sister denomination in" our land,, are better, or on the whole, even so well provided for as the ministers of our church. . ever exert upon society, an ever widen. ng, deep ening influence. Thus our characters become immortal, and every man is endowed by God with a two-fold immortality. While his spirit is im mortal in heaven, his deeds arc immortal upon earth. They walk the earth and act, when he is sleeping quietly in the grave they preach in more than mortal eloquence, when his tongue is stilled and his voice is hushed in death. What a motive is there in this view of the subject to do good ! Every good act we perform, every good deed we do, every good word we speak is a good rendered immortal, and gifted with an im mortal influence for good. What a motive have we here to avoid doing wrong. Every wicked ac tion, every profane word lives forever, and is endow ed with immortality. Will live to curse the world, and injure society, after the hand that performed the one, and the tongue that uttered the other are stilled in death. These two immortal parts of man, his immortal spirit and immortal influence, are to meet at the Judgment Seat of Christ, and stand together before the bar of God. The immortal soul will be judged for his immortal influence, and acquitted or condemned, rewarded, or punished according to its character. If wickedness is endowed with an eternal in fluence, it may in justice, be visited, with an eternal punishment; for certainly God may justly punish the sinner as long as his evil influence is cursing his fellows. From this ever widening, deepening stream of criminal influence, memory will forever gather fresh fuel to feed the fires of remorse. But while such is the case with the wicked, it is very different with the righteous. A knowl edge of their immortal influence for good, and of its grand and glorious results will forever aug ment their bliss, and increase their joys. If such be our influence how careful should we be to. live holy ai.d act righteously before God and man. A bad action, becomes the perpetual fountain of a stream of evil influence, that will forever flow; which can never be arrested its moral tida-wave can never be rolled back, it can never be recalled. The reflection upon the results of that one act will bring regret to useven in heaven, and make one drop of sorrow in our cup of bliss. it cannot long be evaded free irquiry and in vestigating thought cannot be suppressed, and these questions will be brought before the bar of the public mind and be made to pass through the fe-y ordeal of rigid investigation and logical criti cism. was held at Jerusalem. The church, at this place, is a new building, erected within the last twelve or eighteen mouths, at a probable cost of some two thousand dollars. It is large and coiuodijus, we'll planned and neatly finished, and will compare favorably with t!i3 churches in our towns and cities. During my stay on the circuit I visited Huow Hill, and spent a night very pleasantly in the kind and interesting family of Bro. Baley, the preacher in charge of the circuit. The Parsonage which is located in the village of Snow Hill, is a new dwelling, purchased by the circuit during the past year, and neatly, conveniently, and com fortably furnished for tho accommodation of their present preacher. There are on this circuit two other churches in course cf erection, which will be completed during the preseDt year. .1 r T i i - inese cuut'ji iscs nave neeu commenced since Lro. i Baley' s appointment to that circuit. In addition to these enterprises, which the members of the church on this circuit have finished, and others which they are now prosecuting, for the advance ment of our beloved methodism at home, the cir cuit has contributed liberally to the support of both our conference colleges. Trinity and Greens boro. The Saow Hill circuit has done thus much for the advancement of the various benevolent enterprises of the church, at home and a broad, after meeting all its pecuniary liabilities for the past conference year and making liberal provision for the present. WILLIAM CLOSS. Goldsboro, April 18th 1860. The councils had Inch placed the level of the sUeet aid 'this ifunieuH block of solid build- CallitinittMl by solid masonry, have just been 'a!o!to hejgia"Imagin',the block of build ings on tmsjtjaare wnereJirown s notci is situ ed, in Washington, being raised up bodily at one tinie, and you can5 Have, tome idea of the feat whieh has just been performed here. The csti "mated weight of all-the buildings is computed at 35,000 tons, andj thegjk 'has . been doue so smoothly and skilfully that fSot a pane of glass has been broken "br'a ceiling (Tracked. .The pro cess of raising is by a screw three inches in di ameter and of three-eightha thread, 6,000 of which were placed under the buildings, with 000 men, eachtuan of torn could domniaud about ten screws ; signalawere kept up, 'and every man turn d a screw at the same moment They raised the buildings fifteen inches a day, and iu five davs the iob wis completed. Is it not a wonder ful feat '" Church Dedication. The new Methohist Church at Clayton, Johns ton county, N. C, will be dedicated on the 5th Sunday in April. Our Second Quarterly Meet ing will be held at the new Church in Clayton on Saturday, the day preceding the dedication. LEMMON SHELL. April 12ch, I860. It is au unmistakable evidence of the prosper ity of our church, aud the increasing liberality of our people, to see new, handsome and comfortable churches, going up in every city, town, village, and hamlet of our land. It speaks well for the prosperity, liberality and ed Secretary. For the N. C. Ch. Advocate. Proceedings of the Board of District Stew? NEW BERN DISTRICT. i At a meeting of the ioard of Districs.Stew-; ards, for the New Bern District, held at Golds boro', on the 17th of April, 1860, present Rev. WM. CLOSS, P. E. Rev. J. A. Suydam, New Bern Station. Bro. Wm. A. Darden, Snow Hill Circuit. " J. II Wiiistead,r3eontentuea, " " J B. Beekwith, Smithfield, " " D. B. Everett, Everctsville, " " W. S. G. Andrews, Goldsboro Station. " Robt. D. Johnson, Wilson " W. S. G . Andre -s, of Goldsboro', was appoint- The California Y.yv.. The Editor of the Dover Weekly ,Tm,-ntl, of the 27l!i, thus speaks of tins new article ot family use : A gentleman of this county informs us that he has reliable information frm,i one of the profes sors of one of the .Medical Colleges at Nashville, that several dca. lis have recently occurred that can be directly traced to the use of California Beer. Post mortem examinations have discover ed ihe yoast in the viscera. This beer lias recently been introduced into this country, and has been f'mud to be very use ful in making light bread, etc. We would, how ever, ad vise our readers to desist from the use of j it, at least fur the present. Nr.vsit no too Aii'cir at a Timk. Sir E 1- j ward Buhver Lyrton, in a lecture recently ddiv- j t-rcd, gave the following history ot his library i habits : Many persons seeing me so much engaged I in active hie. and as mucii about the world as it I had never been a student, have said to me, " When do you got time to write ail your books ? How on earth do you contrive to do so much work?" I shall surprise you by the answer I make. The answer is this : " I contrive to doso much by ucver doing too much at a time. A man, to get through work well, must not over work himself, or, if he do too much to-day, the re action of fatigue will come, and he will be obliged to do too little to-morrow. Now, since I began really and earnestly to study, which was not uniil I had left college, and was actually in the world. I may perhaps say I have gone through as largo a course of general reading as most men of iny time. I have travelled much, and 1 have seen much ; I have mixed much in politics, an J the various business of life; and, in addition to all this, I have published somewhere about sixty volumes, some upon subjects requiring much re search. And what time, do you think, as a gen eral rule, I have devoted to study to reading aud writing ? Not more than three hours a day ; and, when Parliament in sitting, not always that. But then, during these hours, ,1 have given my whole attention to what I was about." Wheat Cuu ixTu.ixmis. (-. nt I . Ill .1 ... . -I ..v ...... ...... iiiiul-i .line .i j,;,, vi; We have bad no rain to tpeak of i!ur:n'. i, who!- mouth of M.ir.-h. Oar fall wh-ut (. I' bird a very large incadtu was sewn last fa!!, all a total failure. Fanners have b. considerable .--nrin-' wh at. and in , ,., the failure of the tit 1 1 wheat will plant at! ti ...... ,. 'ft . . . . 1 uujwiiiit n iinii. iiie rnwjn'et, al p:v.-vn abundant fruit crop (s very jir.i:,:.-in weather, thus fatf has b. en very favi. putting in spring croj s " Rev. Cleiiiuii l'ratu hou, principal o lege of the Association, at Sandwich, C. seonded on Monday night the 3rd in;. . large amount of fiindsainl properly of tin The authorities of the college arc citirelv !iald. d, and can discover no trace what - tr to indieate what course lie has taken. The Legislature of the State of Wiseon;!! Jut refnsed to repeal the law abolishing capital puni h liient in that State. It is estimated that the cotton c;op this .a will be about 4,."00,000 bales, and that h.i!l,f i will be shipped from the port of New Oi leam. Letters just received from Sierra Leone furnish distrc-siug inteliigene.; of the mortality whieli commenced prior to I lie ile; ailinv i.l'tbe previous mail. The coast is usually healthy at thi .-e.i-.,u, but the number of deaths in the h'j..ij'.', a im.ii the officers especially, has been allo-ell.er unpic" ccdented. 30 fatal eases have occurred in tbn-o Plymouth ships. N:w York, April 18th. Beverly L. Clark", Miuister to Guatemala, died on the 17th of March. The Lath Stoiim axi Fuksih.ts. TlieM,,rni of Mi ttday last did considerable damage !u vVest moreland county, Va. Barn-, stables, oitt-boit -es, and fences were blown down, and numbers of trees uprooted. At White Point fi.-hiug landing it seine boat, containing four men, was upset end the captain drowned. The M-hoouer Jmttt.'tr;, Captain Wilkerson, from White Point, wiih l.'i, 00u herring, was capsized on Gum bar. The crew escaped. At Cumberland, Md., the (U.,1 was the greatest that has been known ninee 1 Hi. The water forced a chaunel tlin.iih the Ptiry farm, on the Virginia side. Nuni-rnis reliant were overflowed. At Grantsvillo the saw-iiiill of Mr. Farm! was swept away, and the Mr. Sava'n railroad had about 150 feet of trestle work c.inied ..if. T j.m-o.mk of TUB WKSI.EYAX jllssloxAttY 'o riKTV. Ihe Lou ',il,I,iirii iiir.iuuiiee (!,t. the in. .-of the (KuglUh) We.-Ii van Mi--i..ii- ary Soeiely for 1 .",:, including a h gacv. tie- tu t ine.iine of which wa .!MHO, was 4' JO.Oil.'l, or about Seven bundled thousand dollars, an im n a-e of upwards of fury thousand dollars upon the pievious year. SuritKTAKY of I.LI.ATIOX TO Fl! A i K. M. V. Cluskv, late postnia.-ter of tho II .;i.-e of Jb piv sciitatives. was a few days a-o, il is said, ! ti V red by ihe President, the p.1 of a-!-tuit (ei. t oy of the legation to France, Mr. Wilbur, f Nt V Vork, having b en removed. Mr. t iu-r ev, hm ever, declined, and Mr. Clark, of Maine, has been nominated (or the place. Exi'r.XSIVK CofKIX Till! Coflbi of tho .Mrs. Bind, of Phi'adelphi;:, Pa., was eiub.-!li.-lic 1 with gold to the value of over ei.hl hundred dollars. Jt was made of red eci.ir. cu-liioncd aud lined with satin, and cover d wiih lh! r.ire.-t black! broadcloth. It Was inoii. I 1 wiih (hive handles at t aeh side, and one a! cadi cud. Thc-e handles, wiih the platen beneai It t hem, were of gold, while the heads of the i-ercv... uorv mad of ihe sa;ne metal. The Secret Will of God. In works on Calvinism we hear a great deai said about Goc-'s secret purpose and will. It is said by some writers, that God's revealed will is his rule of administration in his moral govern ment, a?.d his secret, unrcvealcd will, is his rule piety of our people. It shows that they have minds to work for God, and hearts to give for the advancement of his cause. How long shall it be before all the old log-pens in which so many of our people meet to worship God, shall be dis placed by new, neat and comfortable churches ? 0 MMUNICATIONS. For the N. C. C. Advocate. Mr. Editor : As the College of Bishops is aoout to meet, permit me through the Advocate to propound a few questions. 1 find in the Discipline, the following on the duties of Bishops : "He shall decide all questions of law coming before him in the regular business of an anuual conference, and may require such questions to be presented in writing, and, on the order of the conference, such questions and the decisions of the Bishop shall be recorded on the journal of the conference." Page 50. ch 2. sect. 5. Question. 1st. Should a Bishop volunteer to make a decision, when there has been no question submitted to him either, orally, or in writing. Is not such decision without authority ? Question 2nd. If such decision be confirmed by the College of Bishops, is it still nul and void; or does the confirming of decisions origianaily made in contravention of the Discipline of the church constitute it valid? Again, I find in the Discipline the following : "When the Bishop shall have decided a ques tion of law, the conference shall have the rhjlit to determine how far the law thus decided or in terpreted is applicable to the case then pending." (Ib) Page 50. Question Srd. When a Bishop professes to de cide a i V-s tyr '2w anc zv. so doinrr de""iv--- The Board made the following allowance for the support of the Presiding Elder, for this year : P. E. Wm. Closs and family, Disciplinary al lowance,- ----- SOO 00 Table expenses, (9 in family), GOO 00 Wood, 80 00 Horse Feed, - - - - 40 00 Rent of Parsonage, ... 150 00 Servant Hire. - 150 00 " Clothing,- - - - 25 00 Total, .... $1,435 00 Which is assessed upon the Circuits and Stations as follows : New Bern Station, Beaufort " -Goldsboro' " - Wilson " - Straits Circuit, Trent " - Jones " New Bern " -Snow Hill " Everettsville " -Smithfield " Edgecomb "' -Contentnea " Five Missions, - $200 00 125 00 117 50 100 00 50 00 75 00 50 00 75 00 125 00 150 00 117 50 75 00 50 00 125 00 $1,435 00 Bro. J. B. Beekwith, of Snikhaeld Circuit, was chosen Conference Steward. The Collection of 500 was assessed as fol lows : New Bern Station, $75 00 Beaufort 50 00 Goldsboro' " 50 00 Wilson. " , The officers of the Smithsonian Institute are endeavoring to obtain $3,000 by subscription, to (.efray the expenses of hiring a small vessel and equipping her, to convey a party of asl rononiers to Cape Chidlay, the north-east point of Labrador, to take observations of the solar eclipse of the 18th of July. The duration of the total obscu ration at this point will be 12 minutes 30 seconds. A Soldi kr Go.nk Gen. T. C. Miller, fr merly a prominent citizen of Adams county, died in Cumberland couufy, Pa., last week. During the war of 1812 he raised a company of volun teers and marched to the defense of Baltimore, was chosen major of the battalion. The ladies of the Mount Vernon Association have paid for Mount Vernon, and have $20,000 iu possession, to restore it to what it was iu it palmy days ; but it is estimated that they will need $140,000 more to keep it in perpetual se curity and good order. Hon. Solon Borland was attacked and knocked down by rowdies in Memphis lately. Total Eclipse of the Sux. On the 18th of July, a total eclipse of the sun will give an op portunity of determining the longitude of tho Coast of North America, such as will not occur again for many years, The determination of lon gitude by means of this observation is second only in accuracy to the telegraphic method, from which so much was expected in case the Atlantic Cable bad been successful. The path of the Total Eclipse will be eastward from the mouth of the Columbia river, across Hudson's Bay, having this continent at CapeChidley, the north-eastern point oi .Labrador, it then crosses the Atlantic, Spain, and Algiers, and passing to the south of Tripoli, leaves the earth at Massowa, on the Red Sea. The Astronomer Royal of England; the Bav irian Astronomer, and several corps of French observ ers, will watch the Eclipse in Spain and Algiers. Nearly a hundred observers will be stationed along the path of the Elipse there. Recently a severe hail storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, passed over Charleston aud Augusta. The hail stones, it is stated, were of exceeding large size, and isregularly shaped. One hail stone, probably larger than the average, measured one inch and a quarter lengthwise, and the samn in "'"rtb. At Wiliiiiii-.'lon N. C . on the wiuir i;;y. ineic was a Miavv : r .n. ! NOBTir CAROLINA Fl CMS. Examination- at Oi.ix IJioir Si tiom. annua Examination of !in lli'!i Sclio. take place on the 22, and 23d, M.iv in xt Col, B. Moore, of Salisbury, wiil deli. Annual Address. Rev. Thomas E. Mann, of the X. ('.. . ferenc", will preneh the annual sermon beiore ;Yj two Literary Societies. n,'f yrjifn. J. S. PuicoTT Acot :tti:i. -V.'c noiieed several weeks ago, says the Ili'.'li Point (N. C) Ilep u Vr, the fact of the arrest of Mr. J S. Piggott, of tl,is place, on a charge of f irgery, and exj.it s-ed then the hope that an ,'iivctigalioii of tin) nfl" i i r wuM show ii in a beit- r light than that in which it then appeared. 1 he case came up forbearing al l!nj Spring term of the Superior Court for David- m county, before Judge I'ailey, la-t we(;k, and the accused was triumphantly iiequ'.ttel by an intel ligent jury. The dwelling house and kitchen of J. T. L: f;,-Aitc-h, of llockinchaiii, X. C, were burned lo the ground on Thursday, (he 5t!i inst., together with most of his furniture. The forty-fourth annual Convention of lln Pro testant Episcopal Church, iu the diocrsoof Xort'i Carolina, will be held in f't. Peirs' Church, at C.iarlot.e, on the !lt!i of May next. Mr.DiCAI. Examinkiis. "The board of M- di cal Examiners of North Carolina'' will m i;i Ruli.igh on the first Monday in M.iy, f r the pur pose of examining candidates for the ion -liec i f medicine. 1 lit; act of the I-gisb.l ur.-;. nt !ioriin:j this IJiiar.'. provides tli.it from aid tif .r ihe !.";! of Apiii, lS il, no person shall praeti:v ni'-dieitu) or f-iug- ry, or in any case prescribe f.r ihe euro of disc-Mse for fee or reward, unless In; U ill have been first licensed to do so by tho iioir .1 of Medi cal Examiners; though persons practicing inso lation cf the Act are not he!d guilty of a mind.. meaner, but. they cannot recover their bill by law. lliikhjh R'ji.-t'r. Mr. Ellington, a North C iroiin.i merchant. wn robbed of 1( 0. at the Columbia Hotel, Rich mond, a few nights since. Fir.K ix a Post OrrrcK. A letter fromllandal Prcsnell, Esq., Postmastir at Cod Spring, Moore county, states that a fire accidentally in curred in his (-tore a few nights ago, by which about 20 yards of domestics weic burn', and all his po.stoflice papers, including none letters f..r Fayettoville, one for Clinton, one f.r Carthage, and others not recollected riy v. r'.lUt A' V. Observer. Patents were issued J.ist wale to Calvin C x, ofC'-xVille, X' .'., for an improvcmi nt iu breach loading fire-anus. A new Post Oflicc has lecn c.-fablished nt Richland Institute, Haywood pounfv. X'. ('., called f Kichland Valley," and Rev. Win. Hick appointed Post Master. Joscphus Barbae, of X'orlh Carolina, has ro ccived a verdict for ?2,2'Ml. against tho Wilming ton and Wcldon Railroad Cornpiity, fr injuries sti.-taiucd by the brcahing of l!n axle of one of tho cars, a year or two since. Thk Western Extensions. We arc gratified to learn that this road is progrosing westward! y with rapidity. Tho cars now make tho depo eleven miles west of Xcwton, and will rer- : within teu miles of Morgan tun by mid-sunn in time for the low-landers to spend part of season among tho mountains of North Cart ' Contractors have gone to work bryonj Mo, ton and arc pocking away iu thu uide of tho o
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