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J CHRISTIAN ADVOCA mi 71 rUBLTSIIED WEEKLY 15Y A. COf.MITTEE OF AIIINTSTISTIS FOTl TI I K ffiTHODIST F.PT8COPAL OI-IXJ ECH, SOXTTH-rufus t.jieflix, Kditob. i RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, SEP. 25, 18G0. TERMS: TWO DOLLARS A VKAK, IS ADVANCE. VOL. V. NO. 36. NORTH CAROLINA ft f j f. 1 1 l s i 1 ...I ISusiuess otioe. THK ""KTR I'JRiM'W t'B.ISTMN AlVOrATE, .hii an !" the CJen.-r.tl OonlVruui-Ci and of the X'TtlH.'arrtlin ConiVvence nl'llii- .IcUiutit Epis copal Cbirch. smith, is published in Raicigh, eve ry T.ii'S'iiy morning. .Si tftsirri. s :- $i a year, in aiivanoc All papt-rs art- .iiscnniinueil at tlx- expiration of the time p.ii't for. Suli5oril.ir.-i w til foe r.-mimkd of tho ti or renewal, and re? pi.-tfully re quested rcce- subscription, Ajf Citoss mauk upon their napers. Mt- All '! traveling preaehers arc Airents : ..fun .-ronnts are krptnith l!'.i.m. upon .ou.iitiun of prompt settlement at CobIiti'h"'. AwTECiJSlvf. : i'? square of 12 lines or les, first insertion, $1. For eaeb subsequent insertion, 1 eetit.. Rusine.-s Curds of S lines or leys, per an. . 6 00 A nrc f 12 liiM- or less, per auuiitu, 10 Oil All aeeu.mts for advertising are due at the time vi the first inserti:-n. or hen presented. S K 1 j ECTIONS. HEJ1ASK.IBT.E CONVERSIONS. The first 1 shall relate is that of an Indian. This extraordinary conversion lor suck I htve ever regarded it took place I think, in the autumn of 1S43 or 1844. It wa at a camp-tneeting held in a pleas ant grove in one of the rich prairies in what is now Kansas Territory. Our meet ing had progressed with increasing in terest for three or lour days. Many souls had boen made happy in the love of God, as from time to time we gathered around the altar in prayer. But there was a straggling camp of Indians of the "Kaw," or Kansas tribe, who seemed rather accidentally to have pitched their tent near our encampment. These Indians were very ignorant of revealed religion, and also ignorant of the languages of all the other tribes who were there represented, and participating in the exercises of the meet in sr. Nevertheless they continued to stand and sit around the outskirts of the con greation as spectators from day to day; their curiosity seeming to increase as the rneet-ino- ltow warmer, and the general interest seemed to deepen; until, as before stated, on the evening of the third or fourth day, while many penitents crowded the altar, and God's people, of some half dozen dif ferent tribes, and speaking as many dif ferent tongues, were singing, praying and exhorting in his " own tongue wherein he was bom," I observed our " Kaw" frieds standing in a group, as near as they, could approach the spacious altar, now strewn with supplicating mourners or rejoicing believers. One of their number, a tall, manly looking persou, was evideutly much coucerned and greatly agitated in mind and body. It was not long, however, after he attracted my atteution until his almost gigantic form tell prostrate to the ground, as we have seen the sturdy oak succumb to the impending storm. A considerable num ber of persons, red and white.now gathered around where this man lay stretched upon his back, all satisfied that there was no collusion in the case, and for hours did we ail anxiously watch and wait to see the result. For some time he seemed not to heed anything that was going on around him. but appeared to be wholly taken up with what immediately concerned himself; meanwhile the large briuy tears with which his face was literally bathed, witnessed the ... .vC k; -u and the s':" pungency ".M.jj..cr,'Jnn rr " " .11- ana tne ceritnnd thev were e jitrrcrf ttwWrfcWOTETe r self-reproach for having sinned against Go J or cries and entreaties for Divine incrcy. There was bui one present who could understand bim. except his comrades. This was the wid w of a most worth- decease 1 missionary, who, with her husband, had Fpetit several years among that people aii. wiring their language, and preparing t, fabor for their instruction and salvation But just as we thought this devoted man of God was ready to begin successfully to preach t the poor benighted Kaw In dians. Goi took him from earth to heaven. But, as I said, the widow of this man of God wa present and could speak some words f encouragement to the stricken pinner and in tarn could tell the rest of us wlat he said. And after he had lain as joove described for some hours, he. sur'ienly arose and sat, up wiping the te.rs and sweat from his face, as he said, 'How strange I feel-I never felt so before What is this? I love every body," a .cntimet wholly at variance with all his former habits, sentiments and notions of what was right. So visible and sudden was the change in this man, that no one present doubted the genuineness of his conversion; and so peculiar were the circumstances of the case, that all were constrained to alniit that this was none other than the work of God's own blessed spirit. Miss M. A. E. was a student in one of our Methodist schools. When she was about eighteen years old, a revival of religion- occurred in that institution, while tdie was still there. And although she hail pious parents, she opposed some of her school-mates who became serious, and were seeking religion. Not only did she oppose others, but solemnly vowed that nhe would not become religious. Ard I was informed that on the evening of her conversion, before starting to church, she derided and sneered at religion, saying that she was not going to show her weak- j ncss as snme of her comrades had done. But before she slept that night, if indeed she slept at all, God had stricken her down and clearly aud soundly converted her. , She was a young lady of rather more than ordinary intellect, and of very marked and strong traits of character; nmd all who knew her had the utmost confidence in her sincerity; and some seven or eight 3Tcars of a most exemplary life since her conversion, proves the work to have been a genuine work of the Spirit of God. This I have always regarded as a very clear and marked case, showing unmistakeably that sometimes, even in opposition to all their plans of life, sinneis are brought to a state of conviction by Divine power, and thereby led through the way of rcpuntance and faith to Christ. And the fact is, without the interposition of Divine power no sinner can properly repent and believe unto salvation. I preached one night in 1843 at Piek insville, AlaJ during a protracted meeting and at the close of the sermon I invited penitents to the altar; there was a man in the congregation who had'been a gambler for some years; he had a family, and resided in the place; he was not known to be under any religious concern; but when tho invitation was given, to the astonishment of his acquaintances, he arose and walked towards the altar, just before he reached it he fell prostrate on the floor, aud began to cry aloud lor mercy; his associates, and the congregation generally, rose to their i !ect and gazed upo? him with intense interest, lie never rose till God spoke petite to his soul, and his prayers were ! turned to praises. He joined t he Methodist Church, and lived and died a changed man. In 1845 I held a protracted meeting at Warsaw, Ala., at - which about thirty persons joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, among whom were the wife and daughter of Colonel 15., who was keeping the tavern iti that place. The Col. was a very wicked man, and was much incensed when in formed of the fact; I was told he threatened tj disinherit them. He took to his bed and fancied he was going to die, and ap neiired to be an "TV with everv one. I visited j him frequently during the meeting, and urged the importance ot religion, l nave no doubt his illness was more of the soul than of the body, for he arose from the bed a changed man,andjoined the Church, himself, the next time I came there to preach. He is still in the Church, but his wife and daughter have gone to their reward I WISH I WAS A CHRISTIAN. BY REV. DR. HUMPHREY. This wish has been expressed a thous and times, and with the greatest apparent sincerity, by persons living without hope, and without God in the world. Sometimes it falls from the lips of those who have no present concern about salva tion, but oftencr from the lips of persons under awakening. " Do you think that you are a christ ian ?" " I am sorry to say, that I do not ; but I wish I was. I want to be, and know I must be, or I cannot be saved." Well, dear reader, if you wish to be, what hinders ? The Savior invites, and stauds with open arms ready to receive j ou : " The Spirit and the bride, say come; and whosoever will, let him come, and take of the waters of life freely." How can you say you wish you were a christian ? What sort of wish is that which prompts to no striving '"to enter in at the strait gate ?" You deceive yourself. You wish, no doubt, to be saved, when vou give the subject a moment's thought. But you do not wish to be a christian. That is, you have no wish or desire for spiritual enjoyments. You see no form or comeliness in the Savior, why you should desire him ; but the language of your car nal heart is, ' Depart from me, I desire not the know ledge of thy ways." How, then, can you say, I wish I was a christian ? What is such a wish irood for ? But perhaps you are not as stupid as you once were. l'erhaps you are under real concern for your soul. l'erhaps the Spirit of God is now striving with you, and you think that if ever you sincerely wished for any thing in the world, it is that you were a christian. Well, then, if you are sincere, why do you not give your heart to God; at once ? Then yoi wo'i',1 be a christian, ': un heir of God. and a joint heir, with Christ, to an eternal inherit ance. l;0ri- v:.ioe J1'" tow the matter stamls with y m. Here i.- a poor man, who says he wishes he was rich, and the way is clearly pointed out to him, step by step, how he may ac quire an independent fortune. Instead of girding up his loins to the work, alter a few faint endeavors, he saj's it can never be, so he sits down and takes it out in wish ing he was rich. Or he takes some of the steps prescribed, and exhausts himself vith other endeavors, which promise nothing but disappointment, and finally gives over, bemoaning himself that the attainment of the wished-for possession is impossible. Or, to vary the illustration a little, a friend says to him' " On such and such conditions. I will give you a valuable farm." " It is just what I want," is the reply ; " I have been wishing for such a farm for ' a long time." But he does not comply with the condi- J tions. Are they beyond his power are they unreasonable ? O no, but he feels no disposition to comply with them. And yet he says : " O, how I wish I could get that fine farm." How preposterous ! What are all such wishes good for? ; Again : some man has a chronic and j dangerous disease, and he says : 1 O, I uwish I could obtain a radical cure." " A skillful physician prescribes certain remedies, and assures him that if he will follow the prescription; there is every rea sonable prospect of his recovery. He throws away the medicine, and resorts to other remedies, which no well-bred prac titioner would ever recommend. He gets worse from day to day, all the while com plaining that nothing will help him, and repeating the desponding exclamation, " O, how I wish I was well !" Why not. then, use the remedies ? " O, they are so bitter that I cannot take them." So with the sinner. lie wishes to be come a chi istian. The way to become one is clearly pointed out in the.word of God. Ho is sure to find the pearl of great price, if he will only follow the directions there given. An infallible remedy is prescribed for the plague of sin which is rankling in his heart ; but instead of obtaining the pearl, he neglects the means, and remains poor and wretched, blind and naked." : Instead of being cured, he waxes worse and worse. Instead of repenting and ac cepting of the free invitations of the gospel, he "goes about to establish hisown righteousness," or tries to " climb up some otber way," all the while clinging to the delusion, that he wishes he was a christ ian. DETACHED THOUGHTS. If we had more heart to do good, we should think less of our present endeav ors to be useful. When a man says much about a little compliment paid him, it is a sign that more of the same will by no means be disagree able. In the human heart true religion is an exotic ; and without unusual care it perishes. The pages of the book of life, if seen, could not afford so satisfactory evidence of piety as a christian tongue. Salvation is by one Redeemer, and his work is perfect ; he pardons, he ac cepts, he renews, he sanctifies, and he glorifies. A preacher lately said that he read in the Bible of the conversion of a harlot, a publican, a seller of purple, a jailor, a thief, a drunkard, but did not remember any ac count of the conversion of a hizy man. Header, do you ? Which is the greater error of belief, that God is too good to damnt, or that we are too good to be damned ? More men regret going into company than into solitude. The gratitude of some consist wrflatterH mil tneir oe itmmw . t e nojie iuuuliicji will repeat their kindnesses. If small' temptations cau'overcome us, great oucs may. I n is said that more than once in the Bible, instructing and chastening are ex pressed by the same word. If so, every rebuke should rally us, and every trial teach us, and every scourge encourage us. The ooor chambermaid of a sinking gulf steamer, is said to have filled her pockets with bags of gold. Of course she sank the sooner and the deeper, when she missed the plank that might have saved her. So shall it be with all who make gold their trust. One of the hardest lessons any child learns, is to sit down still. The same is true of the child of God. Genuine piety is always possessed of three kinds of knowledge : 1. The knowledge of one's sin and mis ery. 2. The knowledge of God's justice and mercy. 3. The knowledge of Christ's grace and all-sufficiency. Because the best of men are men at the best, we shall have to bear and forbear till the end of the world. That which is per fect will not come till time shall be no more. A gift with a grum word or a surly look, is rather the fruit of malevolence than of true kindness. If men could have profitted by having more revealed to them, it would have been done. Job. iii : 12. If Christ is all in all, let us seek no other Savior. A Y. Observer. is coxsnrPTiox cuxtageot.s Eminent French. English and Ameri can physicians advocate the doctrine, that Consumption is catching. Morgagni, one of the greatest medical lights of h-s tinid, was such a firm believ er in the opinion, that he never would as sist in the examination of a person who hail died of the disease. Some of the most distinguished writers, as well as some of t lie most celebrated aud successful practitioners, in that, disease, have eventually died of it themselves, among whom were the great Laennec, Morton, Yv' ouster, nnd not forgetting the empiric St. John Long, (so said ). A large number of persons evidently consumptive, will be found on enquiry to have bad a husband, wife, sister of child, to have died of that disease. Statistics seem to show that a wife whose husband r . oucttmptive is more liable to consump tive disease rlom liflilr kncKnwl v.t! a consumptive wite ; the reason of this it' true, will suggest itself to the thought ful. Introducing the matter of small pox, into the system prevents small-pox. Laen nec inoculated himself with consumptive matter, but it did not take. He subse quently died of consumption himself. He made this experiment to show, that con sumption was not innoculable. MM. Alberti and Bictt thought that cancer was not communicable by the mat ter of cancer, and to prove it, tried to in noculate themselves with it, but it did not take. Both of them died afterwards from cancer. It is most probable that consumption is not of itself communicable, that it cannot beget consumption in one who has vigor ous health, and is perfectly free from all taint of the disease. But if any person who has not a vigorous constitution, wheth or inclined to consumption or not, lives, eats and sleeps with a consumptive, as man and wife do, as a sister is apt to do with a consumptive sister, or a mother with con sumptive children such persons will gen erally die of consumption themselves, not from its eomrnunicability per sc, but from the foulness of the atmosphere about a con sumptive, from warm rooms, decaying lungs, large expectoration, sickening night sweats and bodily emanations ; but the same amount of exposure to air made foul in any other way would light up the fires of consumption in one of feeble vitality, or broken constitution. It is best, therefore, that the nurse of a consumptive should possess the most vigorous health, and to make assurance from infection doubly sure, the most scrupulous cleanliness possible should be observed and carried out in every conceivable direction, extended to every minutiae, and obtained with the most inveterate constancy through every hour of the twenty-four, not allowing any excretion, even a single expectoration, to remain about the person, bed or room, for one instant. An incessant ventilation should be going on in the chamber, the best method for which, under most cir cumstances is simply to keep a fire on the hearth and an inner door open; even in midsummer, this is better for the patient as well as for the nurse, than a room kept closed all the time from an almost in sane dread of taking cold. Hall's Jor. of Ilwlth. GREAT RESELLS. A writer in Zion's Herald says of the Wesleyan University : ; Seven, hundred educated men have al ready gone from the halls of the universi ty into the church and the world, most of whom are an honor to the institution. The first student who unpacked his trunk in the rooms of the new college, has since become a bishop in the Methodist church Rev. O. C. Baker, of Concord. The university has furnished American colleges with ten presidents and nearly for ty professors, besides not less than two hundred teachers to the schools of the country. One-third of all the graduates have en tered the miuistry, and a number of them have gone into the foreign work. The missions of Methodism, with scarce ly an exception, have workmen educated at the Wesleyan, and the very latest gra duating class has several candidates lor the mission field. " LOOK HERE THAT'S MY MARK." I was lecturing, says J. B. Gough, in a small town once, and when the lecture was over, persons came up to sign the pledge. A number of young ladies were standing by, and looking at the signers with inter est. Directly some of them came to me and said, " Mr. Gough, do go out there at the door, and get Joe to sign the pledge." " Why, I don't know Joe." Well, he is standing out there by the door." Out I went, and standing there was a poor fellow, with an old tattered cap on his head, torn shirt, dirty "clothes, old boots, and a woe-l egone look. Says I to myself, this must be Joe. " How do you do, Joe ?" said I. " How do you do, sir ?" " Joe, now I do want you to sign the pledge." " What for ?" " Why, Joe, those ladies in there sent me after you." " What ! who ? why I did'nt think I had a friend in the world."' " Come on, Joe come on," said I. He stopped and said, " Look here, some fellows told me to bring a bottle of liquor in the meeting to night, and get up and drink, and say ' Here's to your health !' They said they would give me 50 cents if I did. Them's 'em all along the gallery up there ; there they are. I aint going to do it." He went to the door and we heard him smash the bottle on the steps. He came in and went up to the table and commenc ed to write his name, but he could'nt do it; so he braced himself, and caught hold of his arm, but he could not. Says he, " Look here, that's my mark." Then the ladies came up and shook hands with him, but he pulled his cap down over his eyes, and now and then wiped a tear away. " Stick to it," says one. "All right,Joe, all right." Some three years after I was in that same place, and while going along the street, I saw a gentleman coming along dressed in a good suit nice black hat. boots cleaned and a nice shirt collar, with a lady on his arm. I knew it was Joe. Says I, " You stuck to it, did't you '(" " Yes, sii, I stuck to that pledge, and the girls have stuck to me, ever since." Some people think when they have per suaded a drunkard to sign the pledge, they have done. Its a mistake. Its then he wants your help. He is at the bottom of the hill, lower than the common level ; he must climb ; it's hard work : he" com mences tremulously, feeble, doubting ; he gets a little way, and becomes faint ; you see he is about to give way ; run and put a little peg under his feet, ; there, see he rests, he's tired; he starts again, fearing; he goes higher, ho gazes around him and looks wearied; he has worked hard and stops; put another peg right, under his feet : he rests ; help him un; peg bim fright up, and when he gets up. he'll look l .1 T..1---.- T..1I..T 11- ai'il see mose iituc pugs aionj, ami ne will not. forget them, but bless aud remem ber you. AN OLD IIEKO. The Rev. Thomas Jackson, of the Brit ish Methodist Conference, was re-appointed at its last session to the charge of the Theological Institution at Richmond. He is precisely the age of Lord Palmerston. and like that nobleman, is yet capable of active public service. During the Confer ence, the question ot his appointment be ing under consideration, he said : '1 am now within a few months of be ing seventy-seven years. 1 am not consci ous of any bodily ailment. As to my men tal faculties, I am no judge. have often smiled at those passages in Mr. Wesley's works where he says he was not conscious of any failure. He once wrote on the fly leaf of a brok : " So gentle life's descent We think it is a plain." I may be liable to some delusive feeling of that kind. I have consulted various brethren, my confidential friends, as to whether I ought not to retire voluntarily, and they told me I ought not : and in com pliance with their counsel, lam placed be fore you t'gain. The committee have recommended a re appointment ; of course, they never con templated a re-appointment for six 3"ears, but thought I should simply go on as at present. It will be a great relief if you will release me and appoint me to an easy circuit. (Cheers and laughter.) I like the work of a Methodist preacher, aud 1 think I could resume the work of the itin eracy. (Cheers.) I do pot ask for a re appointment. I have served this connec tion to the best of my ability for 56 years. (Hear, hear.) I wish' that service had been better. My heart is the heart of a Methodist preacher. . (Applause.) Noth ing I lite so much as Wesleyan Method ism, (hear, hear,) and if:. I can serve it to the end of my life, I am ready to do so. I can not fully agree with the sentiment contained in that verse ending : " Hy body with my charge lay down. And cease at once to work and liv e." I should like to have --say a few months, or, if it should please God, a few years, of abstraction from all active service, to think of the future state, and to gird up the loins of my mind in reference to it. (Applause.) An appointment for six years is quite out of the question, and it will be a great relief to me to see another man in preparation. I thank God I have been enabled to serve youfor'5G years, and now do with me as you like." Mr. Jackson is one of the many illustra tions of the wonderful vitality of the pub lic men of England. Lord Campbell, who sits on the wool sack, is 80 years of age. Lord Brougham and Lord Lyndhurst are older, and all these, as well as the veteran Wesleyan, are still in the enjoyment of great intellectual vigor. M'jthodist. QUAKERS. We are informed by a correspondent, that the Society of Friends have resolved not only no longer to enforce peculiarity of language and dress, but that the law hither to in force amongst them, excluding a mem ber who marries out of the sect, has been abolished. Such persons may continue in communion, but their children arc not members. Leeds (Enj.) Mercury. THE BEAITT OF THE FAMILY. The following is "going the rounds" of the newspapers. It contains some truth, and yet we presume it was written by some excessively homely person. But here is the article : "We leave it to you reader, if the beau ty of the family don't invariably, turn out the worst of the lot ? If she don't culti vate the outside of her head to total forget fulness of the inside ? If she is not pet ted and fonrUed, and flattered, and shown off till selfishness is written all over her ? If she is not sure to marry some drunken brute, who will bruise her body, or heart, to a jelly, and be glad to come with her forlorn children, for a morsel of bread, to the comfortable home of that snubbed member of the family who was only ' our 'ifohn,' or 'Martha,' and who never, by any possibility, was supposed by them ca pable of doing or being anything ? We leave it to -you, if the beauty of the family, be he a boy, if he don't grow up an ass ? If he be not sure to disgust everybody with his conceit and affectation while he fancies he is the admired of all eyes ; if he don't squander away all the money he - can lay hands on, and then die in the gut ter ? We never see a very handsome child, of either sex, set up on the family pedestal to be admired by that family and its friends, .to the exclusion of the other children, that we don't feel like patting these child ren on the back and saying, ' Thank Providence, my dears, that you were not born beauties !' " ' O10N SOXG AND CHOlll'S. BY GEO. P. MORRIS. This i3 the word beyond all others Makes us love our country most ; Makes us feel that we are brothers, And a heart-united host ! With hosanna let our banner From the house-tops be unfurled, While the nation holds her station, With the mightiest of the world ! CHORUS. Take vour harps from silent willows, Shout the chorus of the free ; " States are all distinct as billows, Union one as is the sea!" From the land of groves that bore ns He's a traitor who would swerve ! By the Hug now waving o'er us We the compact will preserve ! Those who gained it and sustained it, Were unto each other true, And the fable well is able To instruct us what to do ! Take your harps from silent willows. T i Shout the chorus of the tree ! 1 " States are all distinci as billows, Union one -as in the sea V 0VK CHURf ll 1: SAN FKA.NCISCO. " The fourth quarterly meeting for the San Francisco station, was held last week. AYe learn, (we were absent from the citv,) ' that the exercises conducted by Rev. J. C. Simmons, Presiding Elder, weje more than ordinarily interesting and profitable. The progress in our church in San Fran cisco has been steady and healthful, not withstanding the lack of regular pastoral service and other disabilities. When these disabilities are removed, as we hope they will be very soon, with the continuance of the Divine blessing, which has so signally rested upon us thus far, increased prosper ity may reasonably be expected. The erection of the new church will be commenced as soon as circumstances will allow. The lot is secured. It is all that we could desire as to size and location. Messrs. Leonard and Eisen. architects of this city, have donated an admirable plan of a building, which will be worthy of its position as our representative church in . the srreat city of the Pacific, It willconi- fortably seat a thousand hearers, and in the basement provision is made for Sun day school and lecture rooms, book depos itory, and publishing interests. This en terprise cannot be consummated in a day but will be carried through, for the ne cessity for it is felt by the whole church. Pacijic Jl'ithodisf. THAT BEAUTIFUL LAXD. There is a land immortal The beautiful of lands : Beside its ancient portal A sentry grimly stands. He only can undo it, And open wide the door ; And mortals who pass through it, Are mortals nevermore. That glorious land is heaven, And death the sentry grim ; The Lord thereof has given The opening keys to him. And ransomed spirits, sighing And sorrowing for sin, Do pass the gate in dying, And freely enter in. Though dark and drear the passage That leadeth to the gate, Yet grace conies with the message, To souls that watch and wait. And at the time appointed, A messenger comes down, And leads the Lord's anointed From cross to glory's crown. The sighs arc lost in singing; They're blessed in their tears ; Their journey heavenward winging, . They leave on earth their fears. Death like an angel seemeth : "We welcome thee," they cry ; Thefr face with glory beameth 'Tis life for them to die. BAPTIST EPISCOPACY. A paper presented to the American Bap tist Missionary, Union, at its late session, by the Executivo Committee, says : " In the Karen mission, you will want, hereafter American missionaries, only in limited numbers, one man for a province, to act in the true sense as ' a shepherd and bishop of souls,' and have, as Paul did, ' the care of all the churches including the pastors.'' SOUTH EKX METU01UST ( Aiir .MELTXl.S IX miiKiios. Ihto. FiTZOKRAi.o ; Rejoice with us in the Lord. God is with us in great mercy. e have just returned from the independence camp-meeting, which clos ed on Monday hist, the twelfth day of the meeting. The congregation wasjlarge, sup posed to be near two thousand on last Sab bath. Good order prevailed, and serious attention was given to the word. The vast crowd was fed by a princely liberality mainly at three tables, without charge. No " pay table." Bros. CLAMl'lT and BuRCHAKD were my helpers in preaching ; all worked well, but, best of all, Gotl gtre tin: iitcrwsc. Sixty-five joined the church. Many were converted : some in the alter, some in the woods, some at home some very powerfully. Many others were deep ly moved, and apparently almost persuaded to be Christians. ' The meeting closed in the full tide of its prosperity ; the whole community seemed to be deeply moved. May God give us another harvest from trint. sowiniT ! - Hrn. GRmvET.T.. assisted bv Pro. Ko'rNchem, to which BishoD Morris responded be and Bro. Stout, held a camp-meetirux at the same time, on the Eugene circuit, which resulted glorionsly. Jnear J$jmy were cenvrrted, I understand. ButBJhfi. gruwell will of course give you a&S count of it. Is it not encouraging, that in less than a year after the birth of Southern Meth odism in Oregon she .has been able to hold two camp-meetings at the same time, within forty miles if each other, and with snch glorious results ? It is the Lord's doings, and is marvelous in our eyes. Let Him alone, have all the glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. But we shall see greater things than these. Let all pray for us ; and let six or eight preachers get ready to come to this work after Confer ence. We mmt have them. The Lord hath need of them. Money is exceeding scarce, in conse quence of which we have been able to do almost nothing for the Methodi ST, and our receipts are far below our expenses But these things will change for the bet ter by-and-by. Our work, as God's in struments, is to save souls, money or no monev. We did not come here to get money, we came to save souis. uoa speed us in His own blessed work. O. Fisher. Corvallis, Oregon, June 28, 18G0. I'acijic Methodist. WHAT BECOMES OF THE MOURXEItS LEFT AT THE ALTAR! In order to describe the extent of work ot grace, wnters irequently tell us of the number of penitents at the altar when the protracted meeting closed. We made some inquiry after the subsequent history ol these penitents a few weeks ago, and suggested the duty of the Church concerning them. Some replies that have come in, in response, are very encourainu":. One man, a week after the iiri,t.r;ot,l lilr.otitl'- do.!. WOUt . nsiilc 1" 1 his stable to pray, and was converted there. Uuppy oui, me Saviour came to him in it manrcr! Jesus is meek and lowly, Another, keeping up the struggle was converted on his horse, as he rod' alone the highway. It is a good sign wuen mourners are converted at other places as well as at the altar. It shows they have been well in structed. and that their convictions of sin and the ncccessity of salvation, are fixed. lhey do not need the voice ot the preacher. or the presence of a congregation, to keep them stirred up. Rest for their souls they long to find, and therefore they seek it all the trine, and everywhere. Feelins aftej God, if haply they might find him II e reveals lumselt as notlarirom every one ot them. "Some who were present for prayers at the last meetinir, are not here," said the preacher ; "and I am glad to tell you why. One brother was converted last night after he went home. One of the daughters of an old member fouud peace this morning at lamily prayers. Sure, that was a good meeting. The work was going on all the time. Let those who pray for others as well as themselves, those enlared souls on whom God has poured out the spirit of grace and intercession, remember the mourners left at a hundred altars, lhey oucrht to be converted. By all means keep them moving on, lest they stop at some of the many resting-places Satan has provided for awakened souls, and sleep the sleep of death. Invite them to the class-meeting, admit them to love-feasts, call them out at the prayer-meeting. O, nurse the spark that may kindle into eternal life . Aash- vule Atluorate. MARTYRDOM OF HUGH LATIMER. Hugh Latimer, one of the early Eng lish Reformers, was horn at Thurcastons, near Mount Sorrel, in Leicestershire, about 1472. After taking his degree at Cam bridge, he entered into holy orders, and was quite a zealot on behalf of popery. Ihe influence ol 1 nomas Bilney in duced him to scan the subject more thor oughly, and to study the Bible. His eyes were gradually opened, and at the age of hity-three he renounced Romanism. His bold opinions against many Romish errors soon, made him notorious in his own .university aud elsewhere. He even vent ured to remonstrate with Henry V 111. on the sin and danger of prohibiting the Bible in English. Through the patron age of Thomas Cromwell he wasappointcd to a liuing in West Kinton, Wiltshire, where he preachee with great earnestness and fervor the evangelical truths of the Reformation ; and he first became chaplain to Anne Boleyn and then Bishop of Wor cester in 1535. When the act of the six articles was passed, ; he dissented, and proved his sincerity by resigning his bish opric. ' For his disinterestedness and firm ness he was committed to the Tower, where he lay a prisoner for six years; and though tho accession of Edward led to his liberation, he would on no account resume the government of his see. No sooner had jjlary ascended the throne, than Latimer, as might be anticipated. became a marked object of papal ven geance, lie retused tp fly trom the royal citation, conscious that his hour was come. After a manly vindication of his opinions. he was, along with Ridley, condemned to the names. On the day of his mar tyrdom at Oxford, 1 Cth October, 1555, he appeared in a shroud, was, with his fellow-sufferer, bound by an ircn olu in to the stake, ard five bags o:.? :,nt,twder were fastened round, his body. 1 be fagots were kindled, and Latimer, turning to Ridley, cried with prophetic voice;" He of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as, 1 trust, shall never be put out." Latimer's sermons, which were collected and publish ed, London, 1825, -in two octavos, are distinguished by quaint and homely sense, and pointed and vigorous admonition, the offspring of a playful temper, a happy disposition, and a sincere and noble heart. Eihitic. EISlIOJSASIURrs SPECTACLES. At the kJrO session of the East Genesee Conference, presided over by the venera ble Bishop Morris, Rev. D. D. Buck, in hchaUl rrf' Mrs. Ch.inin of Genr-rn nro. r? - . 1 i - sentl fBishop Morris a pair of specta cle i i tortoise shell frame, which Bish 8ilyP1"y wore for the greater part of his lofrg-Skiinistry. He gave them in his old age to Mrs. Judge Dorsey, who gave them to her daughter, Mrs. Chapin. Mr. Buck nade an eloquent address on presentiti! Un his usual style. As the Bishop is al- ways simple., and unaffected, he usually succeeds ingoing such a thing in the best possioie inrtuycr. lie saia : I am very' much obliged to the good lady for her interesting gift. I will care fully preserve it, and if I live to return hom-q will deposit the spectacles in the drawer with the watch which was given me by the same lady at the General Con ference in Buffalo. I never saw Bishop Asbury, but as nearly as I can recollect, I was received on trial on the day on which the Bishop died. I am glad to receive the glasses, through which he read the Word of Life. I have long esteemed Bishop Asbury as the great apostle of American Methodism. By these glasses I am forcibly reminded of my own infir mities. When I was about eighteen years of age, I received injuries in the optic nerves. For three years I had to wear goggles out of doors, and spectacles with in. It was to many a matter of great doubt whether I should have eyes or not. At last I quit doctoring, and my sight mended more in the next three months, than it had in the previous three years. They have continued better until to-day, nevertheless I still have to use two pairs of glasses. I change during divine ser vice, as I cannot read with the same with which 1 look out upon the congregation. So I work along. Bishop Asbury lias got beyond the need of glasses. I presume his eyes arc like " apples of gold in pic tures of silver." I hope to reach that happy place. Brethren, pray for ine, that I may hold faith and a good conscience to the end. Zio Urrnhl. SPLCU5EX3 YIKj'A HOOD. 1 nomas Hood, the great English wit, was peculiarly nappy m epigrams. Here is one on the death of Kimr William IV: " The death of kinrs is easily explained And thus it might upon his tomb be chis cueci As long as V ill the Fourth could reign, he roitri.Pti, And then he mizzled." T All .1 i jn. .Miie. on i nni'e jvinert s Dreakinfrin through the ice when skating, and 1 icr Majesty pulling him out with Lor hands : ovrn " Lons life and hard frosts to the fortunate Prince, And for many a skating may Providence spare lnni : For, most surely his accident served to con. vi nee That the queen dearly loved, though t!ie ice couluu t hear him." The following, on himself, when he was in: My heart's wound up just like a watch, As far as springs will take; It wants but one more evil turn, And then the cords will break ! A PASSION FOR SOULS. A- ' . i e r- t .in Eminem servant oi uou, now cone to his reward, used to speak of having "a passion for souls." Now men have a pas sion for many of the perishable objects of earth ; lor lame, lor glory, lor riches, for pleasure, for literature, for science, and art; but how few, alas ! have a passion for souls! But, thank God, there have lived men who had this intense love for souls. Paul had such a passion. The devoted minister of Christ in Scotland, McCheyne, had this passion ; lor it was declared of his preaching by a plain but godly woman, Uh I he preached as n he was a dym to have you converted." The faithful missionary of the cross who lea es the comforts and societies of the land of his birth, and treads the hot sands of Africa, or the frozen snows of Greenland, for the Gospel's sake, has a passion for souls And last, though not humblest, the real, true, faithful Sabbath-school teacher who in all weathers comes up to teach his little class of Sunday-school scholars, and to lead them to Jesus, has a passion for souls. Oh ! that we might all have it ! PULPIT ORTHOEPY. A correspondent of a late number of the New York Evangelist says:" Recently I have heen obliged to sit on the Sabbath and listen to this murdering of our dialect, and that too where the errors were not those of anilliterateor uneducated speaker Had it been thus, I should of course have passed the case by without remark, but they were not only the utterances of an educated mind, but were also, I was led to judge from the whole manner, etc.. of the speaker, the result ot studied effort. It is on this account that I am led to direct your attention to them. The follow ing are some specimens of this new lan- gugage: Cetcstrophee for Catastrophic dery lor Hay; glaury lor glory; (ciyht uo h tfe for liijht of li'f ; tkry for sky; arrant for great; tool; me for my, as me God and me soole heetrud ang nutkgatee for hatred and malignity; vwfiiesx for sadnntu; tool- enmctee for solemnilir. blcuced for llissi d. woorld for world, etc.; the whole scrmou abounding with like follies." JERUSALEM. Bishop Gobat speaks of his mission at Jerusalem in the following terms: " I must candidly confess that it has not progressed of late as I had wished and expected ; but I must also observe that the exertion on our part has beon feeble, while the opposition on the part of the Romanists, the Greeks and the Armenians has been increasing with an abundance of means compared with our poverty." i I THAT SlXim-SCHool. 'l III MIIV; H Nil. int. IMHTok: Inasmuch as Hie orlli Carolina annual Conference, not only cheer fully and heartily endorsed the project for a " Sunday-school Publishing Fund," but also accepted, and agreed by hjicciul roo lulions. to raise the sum assigned to it of the S100.000 proposed fi.r that purwe, 1 beg to call the particular attention of I lie preachers in charge, in your Conference, to the importance of tipjMiinting a day at every church, or preach ing-placc, on which they will make an cxtri effort, pre-K-nting the subject in a sermon or address, uiid taking up a collection and subscriptions in behalf of this grand enterprise. Do you ask what are ihe precise reasons why such a fund is called for? If you will go to Dr. McFcrrin, and Dr. Summer, th y will tell you that complaints are often coming to them of the limiud raritty of Sunday-school books in their catalogue ; that superintendents are frequently wai ting to them something after this manner: "Our scholars have read all the bookn f our library over and over again, till they are tired of them. Can't you send us wnuo new ones ?" Then Dr. Summers says, " I have here some excellent new Sunday-nchnl liooks, all ready to be printed. Dr. McFcrrin, can you print them ?" Dr. 3IcFerrin says, " No, sir, there id not enough money in the treasury of tho Sunday-school Society to pay l'or the type setting, and ink, and paper, and press-work, and binding, of a single book." " Well, then," says Dr. Summers, ' tlicro the look must lie, covered with dust, on the shelves in my room, till enough money comes into the treasury of the Sunday school Society to enable us to print it." And so word is sent back to the super intendent that they have no new books, and cannot publish any at present for want of funds. Then the superintendent says, " Well, I am very sorry. We must have soino new books, or our scholars will lose their in terest in the school, and we shall lose them. I hud much rather buy the books of our own publication ; but, as they arc not to bo had, we must, though very reluctantly, buy thcin elsewhere." So off goes, by the next mail, fifty dollars to some Northern establishment Calviuistic, or Addition, or both fbr books to put into Southern Methodist Sunday-schools. And ho you may find their publications in our M'hools all over the Jouth. But how conies it that they have m much greater variety of books than you ? Simply because they arc some forty or fifty years old have been publijiing all tho time and have just such a fund to draw from as the one wc arc now pleading for. Whereas, we are young, have, com paratively, but just started, and have fn such resources as they. But we humbly submit, if it is not y far the wiser and wifer policy for our ' ple instead of putting their money ;nto the coffers of Calvinisticor Abolition "Fn ions," thereby enriching them, ami receiv ing in return a tainted literature for our children and youth to contribute at o'ice to our own Sunday-school treasury mi.-'i a sum as will enable it to meet fully all ibo demands upon it for the supply of all the wanU of our multiplying school itii books and periodicals of homo manufac ture ? '1 his in one of tho rc;isons hy r in el and ask for a " Sunday school Publishing Fund" of our own. Is it not a valid one We will give some more hereafter. Ciiari.es Tavlou. Cor. Sec. Sunday-school Society, M. E. Church, South. Columbia, S. C, Au-r. 1, 1HJ0. WASJIIXuTOX AS A CIVILIAN'. However his military fame may excite the wonder of mankind, it is chiefly by his civil magistracy that Washington's exam ple will instruct them. Great general have arisen in all ages of the world, and jHjrbaps most in those of despotism and darkness. In times of violence and con vulsion, they arise, by tho force of tho whirldwiiid, high enough to ride in it and direct the storm. Like meteors, they glare on the back cloud with a splendor that, while it dazzles and terrifies, makes noth ing visible but tho darkness. The famo of heroes is indeed growing vulgar ; they multiply in every long war; they stand in history, and thicken in their ranks, almost as undistinguished as their own soldiers. But such a chief magistrate as Wash ington appears like the pole star, in a clear sky, to direct the skilful statesman. 11 w presidency will form an epoch, and be dis tinguished as the age of Washington. Al ready it assumes its high place in tho po litical region. Like the milky way. it whitens along its allotted portion of tho hemisphere. The latest generation of men will survey, through tho telescope of his tory, the space where no many virtues blend their rays, and delight to scparato them into groups and distinct virtues. As the best illustration of them, the living monument to which the first of patriots would have chosen to consign his fame, it is my earnest prayer to heaven that our country may subsist, even to that late day in tho plentitude of its liberty and happi ness, and mingle its mild glory with Wash- 'toii . rtsier A mi x. A CHRISTIAN HOME. The liitiUigi un r, in a finely written article on the value of a Christian home, says: Home is to us, not only the place of enjoyment, but also of safety. Ita en vironments arc all so many guards to keep us from temptation. Within their circle wc are safe; beyond it, exposed to danger. Many a temptation has had power to des tory, which would have qassed away like some idle, shifting wind, if the restraints of home had not been removed. I low many of our good people leave all their religious observances behind them on their summer tours, and engage in balls, and routs, and other frivolities, which at home would have been felt to be unseemly! How many young men religion, ly educated, ami virtuous in every habit, have' returned from a European tour almofct hopelessly vagabondized! Our watering places have witnessed the disgrace of many a dignified and staid mother, as well as sons and dau ghters innumerable, who. if the restraints of home had net been taken away, would have continued on quietly and creditably in tho path of virtue to the end of like They left their sweet and virtuous homo at the command of fashion, and returned to find it litter, grown up with thorns, and thistles, and many noxious weeds, which they were never able afterwards to eradicate." i v f r : t i I 8 4