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m s I it JUL 9 Published by a Joint Stock Company under the Patronage of "the North Carolina Conference-Win. E. Pell, Editor. VOL. VL NO. 28. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, ' 1803: T li I" "f S THREE POLL.' its A Y7.AR' IS ADVANCE. 4hvislian Advocate Publishing Company. Dr.. JXO. F, FOARD, riu.sinr.xT. Wm. (. CrMfiiM. 0. U. M. J. Jic xt, ami Ze.no II. -Rev. roAl.l". Ef.;.. UKKXE. Kf;. teV. TKR3IS. i no J. ! puiiu-!iea every Wednesday i.or unuutti, tmulrtin'-e. Our busi- :( -. ;V r-ii'itcteU strict' on the Ci"U rinciplc. All ndrcrtt-eau-ut will be charged $1 per square 12 linos r loss, fvr first insertion, and 50 cents j i-r ftuarc f"r o:ioh subsequent insertion. All It-ttcr the editorial or busings tnat- r V'. ; o'.icr. tn.tnut tie ttaa rcssca tfius : "JLiev. ntC &igh, N. C." (Original. God SuTerciga uud Man i'ree.,, The first proposition, God Sovereign," is furnished all men in the universal tes timony of consciousness, confirmed by the Bible, and the collateral teachings of the visible works of creation. The latter, 'man free," is given us iu consciousness, and re-affirmed in the Bible. No doubts exist as to G-od's absolute immutable, ab-. siiact sovereignty oyer all his works, ani mate or inanimate. But forsaking the onlv grounds of our knowledge as regards man's 'freedom, consciousness and the Bi ble, men have endeavored to subject this deliverance of mind and revelation to the lights of reason ; end when becoming be wildered amid the;r efforts to transcend the limits of consciousness, they have de nied man's liberty as inconsistent with Oo'l s supremacy. Man's freedom is given bv conscioas- noss from which there is no appeal, Ail U. than which we can give no greater reason, as we know nothing better than its testi mony. Philosophers agree in reducing first principles on this subject and kin- dred ones to this ultimate formula : "We believe we feel it, and feci we believe it." But permitting themselves to overlook God as revealed.and reeasoning from what thev imagine him to be, men involve all things as passive in his sovereignty; and ignoring our consciousness of freedom, by a svstem ofstrangely contradictory errors, they reach the doctrine of unconditional predestination, in this way: First, .God must be the '-first cause," and all things else are the effects of causes traceable di rectly to God in a series of alternate cau se aud effects, th-i p: celaie sll contingen cy of human action. Thus boldly predi cating of mind what we observe of matter. Secondly, they deny the testimony of con sciousness to our freedom, but receive it .s to the existence of a First Cause, and our knowledge of a concatenation of cau s:s and effects ; forgetting that one denial of its testimony involves a denial of all its. testimony, snd that if, we deny our con sciousness of liberty we must be incapa ble of knowing anything of cause, effect or anything whatever, as all facts rest up on that testimony. Ail these, shifts and false positions are the result of a failure to admit what we cannot comprelien d: We cannot conceive of aaabdolutc tcau3e and therefore we deny that man is a cause in hini-elf, which he'must be to be free, and affirm of him truths only predicable of matter. It is an effort to identify the provinces of reason and faith. It were well if men would learn not to join what God has put under. To deny the uu ncessitated action of man, because we do not understand absolute causes, is to deny creation. We can as easily comprehend independent action snd liberty in man, as creation. We do not understand either from the finite nature of our faculties, but c -limiting one we n.ut admitthe o'her,and ruau is a cause within himself. There is one other view of this subject '-f special importance, to which we direct our attention ; it being one of the protean tonus that the Caivanistic dogma assumes ur.der the peculiar genius of its advocates. It is this: God is absolute Sovereign and UM-.i is free; therefore God can control man consistently with his freedom so a? t- p reed tide all contingency in human ac ' Wc admit God is Sovereign in the "i. that he was not forced to create any- :i;; and having created that he can -Ti'y, m.ind and matter. Under which f-ir.juiriKtaiices we are left to the anonially or a Sovereign over nothing. With things created and existing, we cannot conceive him as Sovereign to the exclusion of inuencv withoi it involving pantheism, man can be thus con- i lie doctrine that trolled look s inovitaoiy to the salvation o: ;' men under fo;-:c moral dispensation hereafter to be revealed; for it is impo.si ll'i to think that God will not bless and in -vlpch it 1 five his creatures at ti:a tn v;li be consistent with hs and their nature-). Admitting that God can make in teiligent beings with such constitutions ai to admit of control without contingency, (which may or may not be, wc have no moans of knowing) still our minds arc fchut up to the necessity cf conceiving hap piness to flow alone from freedom and con tingency of choice. The objection which we first offer against this novel effort to prove man's control a3 consistent with his freedom and fiaiultaneously precluding disobedience, is that we can form no argument upon abso lute or infinite .principles of which we know comparatively nothing. But again object, God does not reveal himself as absolute governor. We cannot conceive absolute creator or governor, over any thing or nothing. We cannot reconcile lhe co-existence of an infinite and finite ifjirig?. We cannot reconcile finite nc Uln with infinite attributes. We dare ;"'t assert that infinite power and wisdom .-r the wo; Id after its creation ; it may be or not, but we have no means of deciding the question. .The fact of infinity is suggested by the finite, and stated as a fact in the Bible, but man ifestation or revelation is not made of that nature as such. Wc could not grasp it. The system of morals by which man is governed must be a codification of eter nal principles adapted to the relations of mis m. "uou uiq not create absolute morality, it is co-eternal with Himself. lie did create the human manifestat ons of morality, when He created the moral constitution of man." Hence. God fests himself in the capacity of a ruler equal to the administration of principles adapted to man. In the very act of bes towing existence, he recognizes man as an independent and free being, not absolute ly, but to the extent of the system under which he was made, independent of God, not as absolute, but as the author and ad ministrator of a modified system of moral ity. Adapting morality to our limited be ing he manifests himself as its author ; the one correlating with the other. The State can control men as the State only in accordance with its laws, of which it' is author and administrator. It can destroy the rights of citizens, but not as the State, but as a usurper an armed mob force. God being perfect is incapable of controll ing man except by the laws of a modified morality, under his present constitution. But there ire other insuperable objec tions to this controverted position found in mau's naure. The error that man can be controlled so as to destroy possible contin gency in his actions, is the sequence from A. 1 . . ,1 . 1 t me previous assumption that uod rules i man as anabsolute giver and administrator ': of laws; which we have endeavored to I prove impossible from the nature in which j he is revealed, and from the impossibility i of controlling man otherwise than as re- veaied, being subversive of human na ture and the gospel, both of which are adapted one to the other, and to the char acter of the administrator; created, hence not absolute. In every sense in which we admit God to be absolute, we thereby acknowledge his control to preclude any possible opposition to his will. But in the range of our knowledge of mind and law adapted to"that mind, the absolute is excluded ; and liberty of choice and cor respondent contingency of action are the stipulated essentials of the existence of either. The nature of man is antecedent to the Bible. Consciousness, that element of cur nature upon which rests all our knowledge, and whose testimony must be accepted, a denial involving the desiruction cf all knowledge, assures us that wc are free, capable of doins risrht or wronj. The Bible confirms this fact given us from within. If this united testimony be true, no action can be committed without the reverse having been possible, and all life, contingency. : But liberty necessarily involves contin gency. The subtle ingenuity of the po sition we combat, consists in a willing but only apparent admission of unobstructed lib erty of will, controlled however, by means preclusive of doubt as to the moral results, which is contradictory, suicidal liberty of choice in the presence of motives in volving necessarily from its nature, contin gency of decision. This is the re-appearance of the old difficulty of conceding that will is a cause in itself, not governed like material by greater or less influences- A controlled liberty involving no contingen cy! We can as wisely affirm hardness and softness of the same . metal at 'the same time, i A liberty to do good only is no liberty at all. Liberty has regard to the relations of good and evil, . We object again to this view, that it is based upon the assumption that the will acts from preponderance of motive, com paring man to scales that yield to the side of superior weight. The aigument stated reads thus : ; Man cts from motive. The motive to holiness God can present, is greater than any motive to evil afforded by the world, therefore, by presenting; this motive in sufficient force, God can control man consistently with his liberty without any contingency. Man is here compared to magnetized particles that attich themselves to tire greater magnet, readily relaxing the small er in presence of the greater. It is as cribing to will a passive susceptibility of change that attributes the cause of action to the motive and not to the will, reducing man to machinery. Control of man by presentation of motives so as to destroy contingency, is inseparable from necessi I iv, put necessity ia yui i ui ntuun. Wc find m general and individual his tory that will is not determined by superi ority of motive always. In the case of the truly pious the will is generally controled by the greatest motive, but in their lives all departures from the lines of propriety are the results of the election of the small er motive. In the cace of the wicked all their actions are the results of smaller mo tives, except those things that may be call ed indifferent, that demand little or no self-denial and sacrifice. Which facts prove that will is not governed by superi or. value of one motive, but action is de pendent upon a strange power man pos sesses of choosing either, the greater or smaller. This argument in question postulates that all motive, all exciting cause to ac tion, is externahto man. But who dare affirm it? All actions must ha-te some relation to external objects, but tfffcre ia a mysterious principle in the soul that acts reciprocally on the object of happiness by which it can give a nominal value, to tri vial objects that arouse more motive than greater ones. Philosophically, all nature is in man; the exciting object is external. Who can affirm that man is not as capable of loving money as truly with the whole soul as he is of loving God? The objects sustain no comparison in merit. And the difficulty to be overcome in making man holy is not to be accomplished by'greater objects presented to excite action, but by voluntary determination on man's part to yield to the convictions of the understand ing. The icadinc- 3 and viiror of action of will depend greatly upon the habit of yield ing (to understanding. If man does not have this power of choice in the presence of motives, m what consists the principle makes man a sinner ? cf evil? What If man can be controlled without contingency, it is true that where man fails to; be holy it is from superiority or equality cf evil motive' with good, in which state man is not responsi ble for it, because it is a Jaw of his nature, and hence there is no evil. But if the moiive to holiness exceeds the motive evil, man inevitably becomes holy by a law oi His nature ana mere is no evi Hence, cn the supposition of man's control oy motives or otherwise consistently with his liberty without contingency, destroys it. : . 1- -. .:i 3 ..I -1 mu piii:uiuie oi evu uuu man s umenaoilr ity to punishment. Bryan. The foregoing article from a j o X(mrcr friend of ours, exhibits thought, training and ability. His pen should not be idle. n e wotuu surest to mm ana cur younjr friends generally, who would write "for the million," to employ the most easy and perspicuous style, possible. Editor Drift Wood from Cobb Creek, 1 ST EZT. TIlfOTUr SVSItitnAlf. In the early part of the last century, one of the purest and noblest spirits that ever glorified this fleeting world with its presence, ws.3 born. His name was Hen ry Biiooke. In after years by his high genius he encircled his own name with a halo of glory ;'nd added new lustre to the literature of his age and country. He wrote many works, but it is to one alone" that he is indebted for the perennial fresh ness with wh:ch his memory is cherished by the true devotee of genius and learning. 'The Fool cf Quality' was his chef tTicnvrc. Unlike ail other productions, bat more nfvltr vfverrihl!no' thnr.fi nf "Richardson W i tv1 it, i and Madame D Arblav than any oth ers, it is yet rich in thought, pure and oft- en beautiful in stye, and uncommonly el- production of books. The elements nec ev&ted in sentiment. Nay, more than essary for the production of a great book, this, it is fairly unapproachable amongst unirspired works in the power, beauty . and perfection of its ethics. Indeed, un- less we go to the great Fountain of All Truth itself the Holy Scriptures or to some work professedly explanatory of it. we cannot find so much that is ennobling; for in it we find set forth in hnguace of exquisite simplicity, purity and elegance, very many of the great fundamental truths of the Bible. It wa3 this work, that the noble founder of Methodism published an expurgated edition of. Mr. Wesley, though an enemy to novel reading was eo , impressed with the usefulness, power and spirit of the work under consideration, that lie gave it to his large and increasing Church with words of cordial commenda tion. Mr., Brooke was a Methodist, but notwithstanding that, such is the merit of .his great work,the Bev. Charles Kingsley, . one of the first creative minds of his day and a most original thinker, combining in S him:-:elf the varied excellence of poet, I essayist, novelist and divine, haspl&ced I the .reading public under obligations by , republishing a new edition of the long neg i lected classic, contributing- at the same time from his versatile and fa pen, a most cuarmmg preface, in which lull jus tice is done Henry Brooke, gentleman, au thor and christian. To the praise of Mr. Kingsley, be it said, he is a clergyman of the Established Church. If I w ere fortu nate in having the vulumes by me, I should regale the reader with some sweet rhetorical flowers which I -flight easily pluck from their affluent pages. I regret that I am unable to doQo, because the reading of them would possibly indue others to procure the book if net now in these davs of blatant war, at 'east when - our bruised arms shall be hung up for monuments" and halcyon peace shall emile upon us again. He who will read the " Fool of Quality" in the spirit of a . christian will be taught by its wisdom, en couraged by its beautiful and wholesome morality, and strengthened by its deep pervading rell -"S truth. The mere lover of elegant balderdash ' or the feverish dcYOurer of loYesick,-senti- mental novels, or of blood and thunder narratives, need scarcely seek entertain ment from the pure pages of this book. Its poor plot its defective delineation of character its many sided extravagan ces its oft-recurring, peculiar exager ations,will repel the patronizer of the Har rison Ainsworth's and the Alexander Du mas' of the present century ; whilst its deep sympathy with human wretchedness; its profound analysis of religious emotions; its pure and elevated philosophy ; its ethi cal teachings, its grand religious truth, will scarcely furnish such aliment as story readers seek. Henry Brooke is peerless among all men of genius, in having conse crated his rich and abundant gifts to the amelioration of the condition of the hu man family, by presenting the grand truths and pure morality of the. Book of 'joks through the medium of a fiction. He has accomplished this by interweaving into the web ef his rich fabric the leading truths of G od's Revelation, making thereby an admirable lecture at once durable and ele gant. All honor then to Henry Brooke, the Good Samaritan of all novelists. The edition wc read, a Yankee repub lication, was disfigured by a contemptible (i introduction" by that literary charlatan, Bev. Dr. Strickland, whose" Life of Ash bury'' is incomparably the most inartistic and begarly piece of biography that we ever succeeded in " worrying" through. The only thing readable in the "Introduc tion," is filched from the giftedKings ley. May, 1863. The " Fool of Quality" bo highly com mended by our correspondent is undoubt- cdly a work of merit, but we must enter our protest against all works of fiction of whatever kind, as improper or injudicious to be read, especially as sources of amuse ment or to while away a leisure hour by christian people, even though they should be written by such men as Mr. Brooke oi Mr. Kingsley, with the endorsenjent of Jchn Wesley. Had Mr. W. lived in this day, and witnessed the baleful effects of nowl reading -upon the tastes and habits and morals of those who indulge in this god less recreation, he would not have endorsed Mr. Brooke.'s book even after he had used his scalpel upon it. Nor do we moderate a whit our censure, in application to Bev. Mrv Kingsley and others so called rdi.j ious novels. They arc of the earth, earthy. It would be a sad day for Christianity, if the sublime truths of the Bible, and the sweet, ennobling and purifying doc trines and morals of the Christian sys tem, r.iust be dressed up in the tinsel of a fascinating literature, to make them at tractive. Truth is saving, though rude, uncouth 'and unwelcome to ears.polite fiction is damning,however sweetly it may be coated over. What a ccmjrfimcrJ to an ambassador of Jesus Christ to call him a nmcltst, and what a reflection upon the piety and moral force of a christian to call him a novel reader ! Editor of Advocate. I Hours with the Hooks, There is a remarkable providence in the are under the providence of God m apro- ces3 of development for centuries. They Krow into great layers and stratas of thought and principle, as grow the rocks in our geological formations. When all things have been prepared, God raises up some mighty mind that upheaves the vast layers of thought mtn grand mountain ran- ges of truth, thus making it accessible to the masses of society. It is true that even after thi?, the pressure of necessity or the fires of affliction, are necessary to melt down the hard ore and press out the pure metal of truth, but Gad in his providence sees that these agencies shall not be want ing for the production of great and good Mc ton would probably never have produced his immortal poem, " Paradise Lost," but for his blindness. If. John Bunyan the preacher tinker had not been imprisoned by the enemies of a pure Chris tianity, the 7.Torld had nver been blessed with the Pilgrim's Progress. But for Bax ters afflction, we" would never have bec-n enriched, by the great christian classic, the Saints Rest. Some of St. Paul's best epistles were written from his prison. The capstone of the whole temple of divine truth, and the crowning glory of God's revelation to man, was wrought out by John in the loneliness of hi3 ocean prison. The greatest works in christian theology were produced amidst the fires of persecu tion, kindled to consume the martyrs of the reformation. The great poets of the world have been great sufferers. The path to success and immortality in autho ship, is the path to suffering. Thus does God in his providence bring order out of con fusion, harmony out of discord, strength out of weakness, might eut of feebleness, wealth out poverty, prosperity out of ad versity, joj out of sorrow, pleasure out of pain, lif'a cut of death, honor out of dis grace, and glory out of shameT A Book Worm. Preserving Dried fruit. One day last week, while purchasing a lot of dried fruit we discovered small pieces of sassa fras bark mixed amongst it, and upon ex amination, were informed that it was a preventive against the worms. It is said that dried fruit, put away with a little bark, (say a large handful to the bushel,) will save for years, unmolested by those troub lesome little insects, which so often de stroy hundreds of bushels in a single sea son. The remedy is cheap and simple, and we venture to say a good one. To Remove Iron Moulds. 1. Eub the spot with alittle powdered oxalic acid, or salts of lcraon, and warm water ; let it remain a few minutes and well rinse in clean water. 2. Wash the spots with a strong solution of cream of tartar and wa ter ; repeat, if necessary, and dry in the sun. Have faith in God The Death of a Faithful Slave. We cheerfully comply with the rcquer-t of an unknown female correspondent, in publishing the following notice of the character and death of a favorite, pious slave: A letter recently received from Nor folk, bearing date of March 30th, brings to the writer hereof, intelligence of the death of Toby, a negro boy aged about 1G or 17, the faithful and devoted ser vant of Mr. of that city : and in these times when our enemies are not onhj ridiculing all thought of human relation between master and slave,butare shouting this infidelism into every ear, willing and unwilling, it may not be considered amks to let facts speak for themselves. But our enemies out of the question,! believe there is no Christian paper in the Confederacy that would not cheerfully hold up as a les-' son to the other slaves among us,the trib utary notice of one of their number who died faithfully to his Heavenly Master, r.3 . he had live u faithful to hia earthly mas ter. Mr. - writes from his deserted hearthstone thus : " I- am pained to an nounce to you the death o my poor boy Toby ; he died on Wednesj.iy last, the 20th inst., between 9 and 10 o'clock in the morning. He had been rather deli cate, ycu know, for a long time, but still I had a hope that as he grew up lie would strengthen, and finally become, a healthy man, yet T believe he never fully recover ed from the measles which he had in Au gust, though he seemed afterwards to bo as well as usual ; but he took one of those violent colds which have been prevailing here, and which settled on his luugs and carried him off in thecourje of three or four weeks. Poor boy ! I know not what to do without him. lie was one of the greatest comforts I had, and I feel as if I had lost one of my children, so entirely did he seem interested to do everything for my comfort, and to make mc happy and contented in my forlorn situation. II is poor mother I pity from the bottom of my heart, she seemed perfectly bewil dered with distress, grief of the deepest kind, and as for poor Henry, I really was fearful that he would go into convulsions, 30 violent was his grief ; in fact it seemed to know no bounds. Let no man say iicreaitcr that negroes can i Let no man say that negroes have no grat itude and that they forget kindness ; my own experience gives a flat contradiction (o it, since the evacuation of this place the i'tlsity of the charge has been fully prov ed to me. But for the comfort my own have afforded me I know not what I should have doue; their conduct has been as dutiful as it ever was, "notwithstanding the outside pressure by Yankees and oth ers to induce them to leave me. But I must stop for the present, a subject which so harrows up my feelings, although I cannot keep it out of my mind nor lift the leaden weight from my heart. Before poor Toby died, Ellen could, get employment very often which brought me in something, while he cooked forme and kept house; but now its very different,and I shall have to scuffle along the best way I can. I should not forgetr to tell you that Toby selected the text for his funeral ser mon while he had the measlea last Au gust, from the 25th chapter and 4th verse cf Matthew, from the parable of the Ten Virgins : ' But the wise took oil in their vesseb with their lamps," and verily he must have been of them and gone in to ihc marriage suppef with the bridegroom. for,his face after death looked exactly as if he had just arrived at home from a long journey and was at rest. It was among the few placid, satisfied faces after death, and one the most so I ever saw; I have no doubt he is at rest." ; The writer of the present sketch expe riences a peculiar pleasure in offering this brief testimonial to one whose daily walk was such as to elicit the real friendship and gratify i a of his owners, and the comr mendation of all visitors to bis master's house. He died, as for a year or two past he had lived, a faithful and consistent member of the Methodist (Afrran)Cburch where he had long set under the spiritual, faithful teachings of Rev. Mr. Coffman, so peculiar gifted in the duties of this color ed Mission. Poor Toby ! though but an humble ne gro boy, may he not, from the memories of those he served with such fidelity on earth, speak his master's message in the words which, among others from thesamo holy Book, he loved bo well to read to his , mother when their evening work was wncn meir cveuiuir wuia.- was done .- " Servants be , obedjent to . b.m ...at - with four and trembling, in singleness of your heart as unto Christ." Strangely enough, in pondering upon the career of poor Toby; I have inadver tently come upon a passage from an old No. of c7AajJ?oer'bnrna?,respecting "A faith ful Slave" of the late Secretary Upshur, which I here subjoin ; strange to say too, Judge Upsher was a near relation of Mr. , the owneAof Toby. Here is the jAssage from the Edinburg Journal : "A Jaithfxd Slave Liberated. The fol lowing is an extract from the will of Judge Upshur, late Secretary of State of the U. S., killed by the explosion on board the Princeton : "I emancipate and srt free jny servant David Rich, and direct my ex ecutors to give him one hundred dollars. I recommend him in the strongest man- per to the respect, esteem and confidence I ' V-nnmnnit in whioh h mav happen tolive. He has 1 r-cntny slave for twenty four yer, ; '.l which time he has been tru.-icd to o v-vy extent and in every respect. My confi !.v e in him has been unbounded ; his rch-tion toniy-clf and fam ily has always bee:: such as to afford him daiiy opportunities to deceive and injure us, and yet he has never been detected in rpv f crious fault, ror even m an umnten- ml 1 tional breach cf decorum of hi3 sta tion. His intelligence is of a high order, his integrity above all. suspicion, and his seu.-c of right an-l propriety correct and even rd'uc-l. 1 thit he is justly en titled to c?rvy thi., certificate from me in the ncw"Vjxtions which he must now form ; it is du to his long and most faith ful service, ?nd to the sincere and steady friendship which 1 bear him. In the un interrupted and confidential intercourse of twenty-four years, I have never given nor had occasion to give him an unpleas ant word. I knovr no man who has fewer faults or more excellences than he." RrrraziE. Ccmmriuhtblc Liberality. Buo. I8lt,l :: In thesetimes when so many depredation's are committed upon public cud private propcrty,under the plea of " military nr-ceity," it is gratifying to be able to record such acts of justice and liberality as the fulk wing. I respectfully re quest you to publit'i it as au dimple to others : On the afternoon' of the 2nd Sun day in March, three drunken soldiers be longing to the Montgomery True Blue Jiight Artillery, Ca't. W. G. Andrews, from Ab-kvin'.. entered :-nd demolished tbe windows and un:e of the furniture of Sa- lorn Chu is proper ciuner-i. ; e.i cu FvcrctL-villc circuit. It (c o that they were for- .::: 's. On the following y was ordered away and has nd arduous duty ever since. I received a letter from Scr. r.: ' -i:;g CGI with the fpl ii' -'.. ; 1 please find sixty one h'aUiry contribution of the ti e purpose of repairing or day ths bat been i Ye: : t, Shacklcfo lowing : dollars the v. company fjr partially rcp:;irin' r-'alem Churclu "This is a jim-dl amount, much smaller than we expected ; so small indeed we are ashamed to trend ii. It would have been lareer. had i; not been that wc received only two i-.-jiitu.-j p: y w;;cn we vcre uivro than four months iu. rrrtars. Besides we took up a colic ttii. for the benefit of one of the men v.- n:;ed at Washington. He is a i- or ina:i without a home, and being a foreigner L a '; stranirer m a stranjre land," and oy the 1 v in a worthy man and on .! of our I ? schiiers. This amount, thuu.Ji siuali, we hope will be received as au earnest, that we as a company regard the desecration of God's sanctuary as the wo.r t crime that could be committed, and that we do not coant".!ance the perpetra tors of the deed." The fj irii :;ced in the above extract ;n ;eeu c.i;;,uiciHlabIe, and I hope h.liOWot iov iii.ny of our brave sol- in Christ, Jon v N. Anpkews. Ci-me to Christ ! Reader, if you really want to be haved. I give ycu iui :;ivi;uiion this day. If you want to have -.accrith God now, and glo ry in heaven hcita;er,I invite youo come to Christ at or.ee. tivA both shall be your own. I invite V'U lcii!y, because of tbo words which'Chr:-1 hum-clf ha spoken. He says, "'(Vine unto mo, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will gjve you rest." " Him tb:.t coiueth unto nic I will in no wise cs-r out." Matt. 11 :28 ; John G : 37. Bead. . ; arc you tired of your sins ? Are yon hdnivng and heavy-laden ? I invite ipu'thi.i un'j to come to Chriit, and you shall It tcccd. Iknownot rhoum arc, or what you havi been in tim past, but I say boldly, Come to Chibt by faith, and j-ou fhall have a r.irdon. High or low, rich or poor, young xman or maiden, ol man or chiia, you cannot be worse than Manawch and Paul before conversion, than David and Peter after converge ay come to Chrit', and you shall he frtclij fur-jirm. Take the ad'vice I give you this day, and act upon it at o:;ce. Stand still no longer, waitiuir for swine imaginary frames and feelings which will never come. Hes itate no longer, under the idea that you must first of all dn the Si A then come to Christ. Arise and corte ... CirtV ju.t as y',u are. He waits for you, and is as willingto save as ho is ruijrhty. . . .- , Ti v-.tt- hi wouM wilh your doctor about ;hc care of a disease of your DOdV. .iai" n uirccu application iu Him, and tell i.w.x an your ; . 11 1 ' wants. Tell Him you want to be ?aved, and at him to save yu. Ret v.-t till you have actually tasted fur yourself tlit the Lord is gra cious. Cast jourselfwhollj and unreserv edly on Christ, and your coul shall be say cd. Reader, once mora I invite you. Como to Christ. The I-ord grant the invitation may not be given in vain. COME TO CHRIST! COME! TiiE Seeming Shipwrecks wc meet within the voyrgo of life, often prove he very" things which best speed our course to the haven where we should be. Hour of Prayfr. Wherever I have a tent, tbeft.God thall have an altar. John Howard.
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Greensboro, N.C.)
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May 20, 1863, edition 1
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