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T nn Published by a Joint Stock Company under the Patronage of the North Carolina Conference Wm. E. Pell, Editor. VOL. VI. NO. 31. RALEIGH, "X. C.JWEDXESDAY, JUNE 10, 1863. T R si three dollars; a yi:ar,ix AL VANCE. I I A A VO Gi I E wn .'hi: Ai'vocatc Publishing Company :.. 'NO. F. 1'OAKD, rarsiPEXT. v.-IU-v. V:.r. 11. Cininc:gim, 0. fl. 1'?.-.. Hot. M. J. Hint, and Zexo H. i.-. !-... n;, Fo n TERMS. 1 '.(,' is published every TVednesday . at tr annum, i' ail a nee. Ourbusi- .....vf' ': ' '',' o M,' t'((i principle. , .' .;! r. wii! be charged 81 per square c i v 1 f r i'.i-?t iusertbr. and 0 cents tv ur tji-ii r'.-'i'.-t'iiiient instrtum. .1.7 ';jr the editorial or i iixiusss mctt-offii-c, nhtnld be uduregsed ihtti : 'Rev. -.i i.. Kaleigh. N. C." Tie . A.i - Ot . per . . "J" ft of t- vr. e. r (Origin ;t I t;is VS ..i k iu tkc Avr.ir. fi ,1 i ovr hi g letters will be read with !v the friends of Zion. "We trust I t. inters. this Is Tit the beginning of a general work of art of the Sou: 2 throughout the entire army IS THH AfiliY. Bno. Prr.L: The Chaplains in this Corp.- !i ci last Tuesday as usual. Sever al Chaplains reported gracious revivals in progress in their regiments. Two X. C. Brigades have been greatly blessed. Lane's and Rancour's. Large numbers . in the 25th X. C, have been converted and ad ded to the Church, under the labors of Bro. F. M. Kennedy, Chaplain. Bro. Stusih's Eegt., 37th X. C has been very ereatly blessed. Sorry to learn that Bro. SmuVa's throat has gotten into suchastate that lis has been compelled to leave for some weeks. In Raniseur's Brigade, the 14th and 30th X. C, have been much re vived. Bi o. Power of the 14th, has seen many converted and 'has added many to the Church. My own Eegt., 30th has been graciously visited by the Holy Ghost. About 15 have beeu converted during the pat wo ok. The most striking answer to our pray ers was last night. Twelve young men came forward as penitents, 11 of whom have never been jublic penitents before. Five of them tell mo this morning that they have received pardon. Five in a night ! We advise these converts to join ; to j i". car Church, of course, we at once receive them. "We offer facilites for all to join whatever Church they may wish. Rev. X. B. Cobb ot X. C. and also Rev. J. A. iraiiey came into our Brigade last week- Bro. Cobb has preached for us once or twice. Bro. Power and myself, each ealie I a Conference of Missionary Bar-risf ';io:hers to axamine candidates for reception and restoration into that Church. Bro. CV there ?r Church. immersed 5 last Sunday, and ime more who wish to join his Let christians pray for us. Yours forever, A. P. Betts. M-.- 28. 18G3. Dr. -n Btio. Pell : I have justreceiv 1 1 wio-i cheering letters from our army in Ya . extracts from two of which I give you t'.r the readers of the Advocate. A minisur writing from Richmond the 80th nit says : Revivals, such as we have not had in this country, are now sweeping over the. Yirginia army. In almost every Brigade protracted meetings are being held and thousands are enquiring the way of life. My office hero is thronged by Chaplains a id Missionaries begging for Testaments, ti-u' fmy.'l ('f;in Hymns. And now. that my supply is exausted my only alternative is to turn and beg )ou. Please send at 'f.-.n. every page you can spare." Another witiiug o:i tho 27th ult. from Pt tro.-eur s Brigade, Picket lines on the Ltppahanr.'. ck; says : 'X great revival of religion is going on in this army, and we want Testaments, II yr.m Books and Tracts. Send me all u c in donate" for the army, and I'll see thev reach their destination in lver- S'ui's, Lariiei's, Ramseur's, Pender's, Lane's Ii..ke Wright's, Doles', Heath's, Smith's an other Brigades to which the revival ex. ud-.' May God help every one to help for- 1 this glorious work among our noole lenders. W. J. V. Crowder, Tract Agent. Raleigh, June 2, 1SG3. 27th X. 0. Regt. Cook's Brigade, C&mp near Kinston, X. C. June 2, 18G3 )r. :i Br.o. Pell: Another package of the Advocate was placed in my hands yesterday, dated 20th May, and1 1 gladly gave them out in -the several companies to men that, were anxious to read them. On ly o-i.e other package has come to hand since we left "Wilmington and that came to Goldsboro. The men seem to value your most excellent paper very much, and eagerly pore over its columns with intense interest. I humbly trust that its divine teachings coupled with other religious in-flueiK-es, may speedily bring about a revi val of the Lord's work, and a universal reformation in this regiment. I see some good signs and I rejoice to see them. Ev ery evening after tattoo I have a short prayer ir.ceung in my own Company, (13.) and for all of other companies that wish to attend. Hitherto very few of my com pany attended the meetings that were not membeis of the Churuh they seemed to be recklessly indifferent concerning the eternal interest of their souls. But they are now beginning to evidence their de sire for salvation by ceasing their brawling disturbances during the interval for pray er and pra;se, and quietly sit and listen while I speak briefly of Jesus and his claims upon them, and join in hymn ing the praise of Jehovah. Yesterday evening I noticed a greater interest mani fested than usual in my own company. There seemed to be a geaeral desire for reformation. O that the good work may begin in earnest and the dear na??ieofoTir merciful Protector be honored by all our soldiers. I begin to hope better things concerning backsliders. Our Col. has ap pointed Rev. D. Fairley of the Presbyte rian church Chaplain f this regiment, and he has preaebjd for us once. I will try and keep you advised of our wherea bouts. Yours in Christ, C. W. W. The package fur the 27tb, has been regular ly forwarded to the points designated and pre paid. The regiment has moved so often the last month it is difficult to catch up with it. It is likely there are two or three packages for it at Magnolia, whero it was last directed to be sent. Editor. Move About Books. The soul feeds on books- cannot be. fed with material things books enable us to trace thoughts to their sources books discover to us tho vaga ries of the science of logic. Books contain food for the soul. The lives. and grows by eating. Its only food is thought. Its proper nourishment is truth. The soul lives, and therefore it must feed ; for every living thing is a feeder. The trees and the flowers feed upon earth and sun beams and showers. The animal cre ation feeds upon such food as is adapted to their nature and wants. So man's soul is a feeder. But as the soul is spiritual its food must be spiritual ; as the soul is in tellectual its food must be intellectual ; as the soul has a moral nature its food must be moral. The intellect feeds on thought, the reason on truth, the heart on love, the conscience on holiness, and the spirit on religion. This food is presented in books gar nered up in libraries. This food for the soul is produced by the soil of the mind, as food for the body is produced by soil contributed of material elements. Only the soil of mind grows the food suited to mind, as only material soil will grow food suited to the material body. Yon can no more satisfy the soul with the food suited to the nature of the body, than you can nourish the body with food suited to the nature of the soul. You cannot feed the body on thought nor science. You can not satisfy its hunger with love nor poet ry. You must give it meat and bread, rice and potatoes, or it will die. So it is im possible to feed the soul on things purely material. Vegetables and animals will not, satisfy it. gold and silver will not meet its demands houses and lands will not nour- ish it. The soul hungers for the sublime, the true, the beautiful and the good. Holi ness, righteousness, truth, goodness, sym pathy, love are the spiritual elements, that constitute the soul's apt ropriate food. These elements we find served up in every conceivable variety in books. Poetry, philosophy, romance, history, biography, ethics, chemistry, botany, and theology, are all so many tempting dishes prepared to meet the appctito of the soul. The reader should be careful lest there should be poison in his food. Books afford us great help, in tracing back thoughts to their sources the' foun tains from which they gush up and roll forth the seed-thought from which they grow, or the sun-thought from whichthey shin How much of the thought in books, o;i3, lectures, tracts, reviews, and news paper articles, can be traced back to "But ler s Analogy" as the great mine of truth front-which they were dug ? How natu rally have the diversified systems of laws in Europe and America, grown up from the works of Grotius and Blackstone, as a great harvest of legal principles from a few seed-thoughts ? 1 once heard a verv eloouent sermon from this text: i:Xow abideth faith, hope, charity, these three but the greatest of these is charity." The thoughts of the preacher, or I should say of the sermon, were indelibly impressed on my mind. remembered them. In my reading I found he derived them from Suftnmerfield, he probably derived them from Paley, sni Paley probably borrowed the thoughts from a sermon preaehed in the sixteenth century by Adams. This much is certain, the same sermon is to be found substantially in the writings of the three authors I have named. Mansel's boasted chain of destruc tive logic, as. given in his works on the limits "of Religious' thought, is but the amplification of Kant's famous antinomies. Thus it is seen that the thoughts of one generation descend to the next, and be come their heritage of truth or error as the case may be. Old thoughts are reproduced in a new form and new dress and claimed as orig inal. Old systems are revived, and their aid invoked to give immortality to the name of some ambitious writer. Thoughts never die. They are like the mind from which they shine, endowed with immortal ity. The' exert an ever widening, deep ening influence, that rolls down the stream of time, until time's last stream is swallow ed up in the ocean of eternity. The general and thoughtful reader of books soon becomes astonished at the wild vagries of what is termed the science of Logic, and is satisfied of its utter worth lessness as an instrument of knowledge or the discovery of truth. Under the influence of its teaching Spinosajbecame a Pantheist, and Hume is made an Infidel, and denies the existence of the material universe Mill denies the doctrine of cause, and Lewis writes a history of Philosphy to prove that there is no philosophy that the systems which claim to be such have no usiu to existence. ir. ia uantmon to confess that the only evidence we have of the existence of God is the evidence of two contradictions viz, it is a contradic tion to believe the existenco of God and it is a contradiction not to believe the ex istence of God. It is a principle in the science that we cannot logically have more m our conclu sion than we have in our premise. This being so it is apparent that it is destruct ive to all philosophical generalization. This, Thompson in his laws of thought confesses. He fully recognizes the logical wrong of using induction to prove laws that are more extended than the premises, lie would prove by induction the great canon of the uniformity of nature; but he confesses that thus he partakes of the same formal defect that may be charged against other inductive results, viz, its term are wider than our experience can warrant. Again he says, we draw a uni versal conclusion from an experience less than universal, and then employ it to j us tify us in drawing other universal truths from other particular experiences. In all logical induction nature's unifor mity has to be assumed. Xow from whence do they get it 1 It cannot ba giv en logically by induction, for it is the ba sis of all induction, to reach it in that way as Thompson admits, would violate a logi cal canon by drawing a universal conclu sion from a limited experience. It is not a self-evident truth. It is not given by intuition. Then from whence do they de rive it ? It was not believed by the hea then. It is an inference from the teach ing of the word of God, and is based upon the fact that the Bible teaches that the or der of nature is establised by God. This re vealed fact then is the only thing that makes science logically possible. "With out it all induction would be a violation of . the canon of logic we have .specified. This may account for the fact that the induc tive sciences have only flourished under the light of the revelation. What we want is a christian logic that will reco nize this princple. 1 A Book Worm1. Pay of Chaplain?. The Army and. Ntivy Mtisscnyer. saya : " The pay of chaplains in the Confederate army is utterly inadequate to the support of a family, in the present times of high" prices. Unless something is done for their relief, those who have families dependent on them and who have no other resources, will be forced to retire and leave the field to single men. There are no Relief Socie ties for their benefit as. for the private sol aier " Here is' a proper sphere for the benevolence of the churches. Knata. Dear Brother : Allow me a brief space to correct a few glaring errors which crept into my last ar ticle on the " Christian Soldier Victori ous." I know the reason why so many typographical errorrs occur and do not therefore complain, but lest I should be saddled with certain phrases and gramati cal errors I beg leave to correct. You know Tony Lumpkins received a letter once that was written in indescribable characters. Perchance my "fist" is of the same unreadable kind and therefore com positors are excusable for blundering over my manuscript. "A few lines before th close of the first column omit the word " much." In the third line in second col umn, read "which" before "has riven &c." For "emphatically" read "complacently" in third line, second paragraph, second column. For " inate " read " innate " in next paragraph. In same paragraph read "sustain" for sustains." Near the close of the article read " their immortality" for " its, &e." The article under correction being the most elaborate and the last too of the spec imens of "D.rift "Wood" which I shall send from that purling, "noisy little " Cobb Creek" which meanders near our little town, I was anxious for it to appear in the most appropriate and well-fitting garb. An actor strutting upon the stage in his trionic buskins is ever anxious to appear in becoming and well arranged costume ; so the poor writer when he is ushered be fore the reading public in the columns of a paper is anxious that his visage should not be marred nor his dress disfigured ia any way. Sincerely hoping that the friends of "our Advocate" by readily rallying in strong numbers to its support,may lender your seat upon the editorial tripod alike easant and secure. I remain faithfully, Timothy Eversiiam. Leasburg, X, C. May 29, 1863. Thr ehirography of our correspondent is real- lv exe'iii thc;v J 4i:.! vxctilt4tiy lcibi',. Comp-'sitors find it 'difficult to decipher' sojuo word.', srd often the editor must read several lines together to get at the word which stumps the compositor. Ud'nr. SUtttijorns. Gea. Jackson on Religion in the Army Every opinion of this great man, who has so recently given his life for his coun try ought to have weight with his coun trymen. At the late Presbyterian (gener al Assembly a letter was read in which he gave, at the earnest solicitation of another, and through his modest appreciation of himself with evident reluctance, his opin ion on the subject of providing religious instruction for the Army. We make some extracts. He says : " My views are summed up in a few wo r dig," " Each branch of the Christian Church should send into the . army some of its most prominent ministers who are distin guished for their piety, talents and zeal, and such ministers should labor to pro duce concert of action among chaplains and Christians in the army. These min isters should give special attention to preaching to regiments which are without chaplains, and induce them to take steps to get chaplains, to let the regiment! name the denominations from which they desire chaplains selected, and then to see that suitable chaplains are secured. A bad selection of a chaplain may prove a curse instead of a blessing. If the few prominent ministers thus oonnected with each army would cordially co-operate, I believe that glorious fruits would be the result. Denominational distinctions should be kept out of view and net touched up on. j?4 as a general rule, I do not think that a chaplain- who would preach denominational sermons should be in the army. His congregation is his regiment, and it is composed of various denomina tions. 1 would like to see no question asked in the army what denomination a chaplain belongs to, but let the question be, does he preach the Gospel ? The neg lect of the spiritual interests of the army may be seen from the fact that not one half of my regiments have chaplains. " Among the wants of the Church in the army, is some minister' of such ac knowledged superiority and zeal, as under G od, to be the means of giving concert of action. Our chaplains, at least in the same military organization encamped in the same neighborhood, should have their meetings, and through God's blessing de vise successful plans for spiritual conquests. All the other departments of the army. have system, and such system exists m any other department of the service, that no one or us omcers can neglect his duty without diminishing the efficiency of his branch of the service. And it appears to me that when men see what attention i bestowed secularly in comparison with what is religiously, they naturally-underestimate the importance of religion. From what I have said you may think I am despondent ; but thanks to an ever kind Providence, such is not the case. I do not know when so many men brought together without any religious test, exhib it so much, religious feeling. " The striking feature is that so much that is hopeful should exist, when so lit tle human -instrumentality has been em ployed for its accomplishment. In civil life ministers have regular meetings to devise means for co-operation in advancing the interests of the Church. This can be done in the army, and I am persuaded it should be. " Some ministers ask for leave of ab sence for such trivial objects in compari son with the salvation of the soul, that I fear they give occasion to others to think that such ministers do not believe that the salvation of the soul is as important as they preach. It is the special province of the chaplains to look after the spiritual interests of the army, and I greatly desire to see them evincing a rational zeal pro portional to the importance of their mis sion. Do not believe that I thiuk the chaplains are the only delinquents. I do not believe, but know, that I am a great delinquent, and I not only design saying what I have said respecting the laxneis of chaplains to apply to all of them. I would like to see each christian deiuoni nation send one of its great lights into the army. By this arrangement I trust that if any one should have denominr tiou al feling3, that they will not be i i the way of advancing a common and gionoua cause. Jesus, the Soldier's Friend. Soldier! sick or wounded, lying in drea ry hospital, with strange voices, and strange faces, and strange hearts though they be kind hearts around you, the mother, the wife, the sister, who now may be kneeling in prayer -for you, are too far off to press with loving lips your fevered brow, to smooth with gentle hands your pillow. are there -no friends near you to pitv your sufferings ? to cheer the weary hours till health returns, or if health return no more, to soothe your dying hour the hope of Heaven ' That lovelv Christian and brave soldier, Hedley Vicars, whose Christ-like spirit found delight in ministering to hi? com rades, when they were dying of cholera in their hospitals, thus records the power of Jesus there : "Laptisinal "e7en eration, church privileges, the s.orrn!cnta!s' sto-m. confession, and priest! v abfobtti: do for sonic people whe In health 1. ut no smile 'of-ioy front a sick iaan. I I 5 tfVC, would ever be the fruit 0? such m''-e;ble comforters, in the las: hour. When a dy ing man can say or feel, M know Lut my Redeemer liveth,' he wants no more; it i3 Jesus he thirsts for and longs to hear about. I have witnessed the effect of even iha name of Jesus ; I have noticed a clm and peaceful look pass more than once over the face of the dying, as thitt blessed name passed my lips." Poor, suffering soldier, is it thus with you ? Does the dear name of Jesus fall sweetly on your ear ?. Does it remind you that He has said, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee-?" Then you arc far more blest than the man nirrcundcd by loving friends, possessed ofe very comfort and joy that earth can give, who doth not know the love of Christ that pas?eth knowledge. His hopes must fade, his joys must perish, but your hope "abideth forever." You can say, " "Who shall sep erate us from the love of Christ; shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword ? Xay, in all these things wo are more than conquerors, through him that loved us." But, perhaps, with a hopeless sigh, you say, "I cannot trust him. In health I cared not for II is word, I scoffed at the gangers that threatened my soul, ..and now when 1 am sick, perhaps dying, I am left alone." Xp, not alone ! ' Jesus j'onr slighted ye pitying Saviour is near you still, waitiu to catch the first feeble cry for mercy that breaks from your tremb ling heart, waiting to hear you cry " Je sus save, Jesus forgive ne." To throw around you thesarms of everlasting mercy, to wash you " whiter than snow" from all your sins, to fill your heart with peace, and joy and love, and to be your hope and your Saviour forever. Death of a Christian Soldier. The correspondent of the Columbia Guardian in his " camp notes" has tho following : After the heat of active battle the suf fering of the hospital is doubly painful.- The scene is impressive, however painful, and is not wholly devoid of spirit comfort, though the physical and moral suffering be high and tragic, the scenes of moral beauty tint often arise shed a gleam of sa cred light over many a one of terrible darkness. The wound of Col. Perrin, which was known at once to be mortal, terminated his life early Monday morning. "With him in his later hours were the ministers of peace; and they, found his manly and noble spirit firm, reliant and ready. As a patriot soldier he had met the dangers of the battle field Avilh a steadj and glowing heroism ; and so, when the final hour came, his soul, from iu em inence of faith, looked upon death with the serene composure of an. Addison or a Havelock. The solemnity cf the becisien, the sacred lunctuary in attendance, . the contra'sfwith the bloody and suffering be ings near, and above a'-"ho peaceful tran sit of this noble soldier all these combin ed to make a scene lovely amid horrors, bright amid gloom this "'death-bed cf a christian soldier. " The Chris? ian Life. A trite but important subject espe cially for young converts in our army, who have just commenced their Christian life. They are not fully tware of its conflicts. They cannot foresee how imjtcrceptibly they may lose their present vivid and joy ous emotions, and what grace and strength they will Deed' to resist tho powerful in fluences of the world, and to follow Christ with an unswerving faith in Dim. Christianity, as a mere abstract theory, can save no one. It is a lifeless thing of comparatively little value. The religion taught by Christ and hit Apostles ia a sjnritital living power, mani festing itself in the thoughts, words, and acts of cvery-day life. Christianity it lifo and the life of the Christian is a conflict with sin, temptations and trials within and without. It is a conflict in which you can truly say lfie BattU is the Lord,," for it ' is a battle for the right. It is right that you should renounce all sins, for they are your worst enemies; that you hould repent of them, for they have dishonored and wronged both God and men; that you should believe the "Word of God, for it is the truth ; that you should discard and forever renounce all self-righteous ucss and all your own works as the ground of salva tion, for they are all marred and polluted with sin ; that you should believe in the iord Jesus Christ," for this is pre-eminently " tho work of God j thatyou fhould confide in Christ alone, for He is worthy of the confidence and supreme love of eve ry saint and sinner on earth; that you should "rejoice in the Lord always," for the glory of His perfections and works, if appreciated, would fill every heart with joy. Some religious teachers deem it inexpe dient to speak to young converts of the danger of backsliding, and of the tempta tions they rcuvt encounter from the world. But Paul did not regard this kind of teach ing as unwise or inexpedient. It appear that he thought tho tendencies to unbe lief and worlJliucss wero so strong in young Christians u to demand unceasing watchfulness and the vigorous efforts to overcome the enemies which they must enconnter in their own hearts. He com pare? the new life upon which they had entered to a rare in the Olympic games, requiring the i;:wal .strenuous exertions of the competitor to win the prize; ?:o to a battle. exhor;!r tl tr. t. "fg-,f '' c good fight of faith." ile culls upon the 111 to "put on the whole ;ninor of God," "tho breast-plate of righteousness," " having their feet shod wkh the preparation of the rospel of peace;" and "above all, to take the shield of faith" and " the helmet of salvation," and " the' sword of the spir it," that they "may bo. able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand." These metaphors are intensely significant. The reader who studies them may understand whakind. of cfiort is de manded of him in thS confliet of a Chris tian life. Christian Observer. I'raycr. We must brsak our gloomy and pullcn silence, and begin to speak to God. II has upoken to us, ud thall we not speak to him ? O, what ioving words has he addressed to U3 ! Look unto me, turn un to mc, draw nigh unto me, ask. and it shall be given unto yoa. Shall wc malto no response, no return to such advances? and, that," too coming from the infinite and eternal God our Creator, our Father ? The alienation began with us, and yet God alone labors for a renewal of friend ship. We are in no way necessary to him f he is infinitely necessary to us ; yet he plans and pleads for friendship between us, as if it were just the other way. Now we must yield to his condescending and merciful importunity, and seek the Lord. This is the beginning bf piety, to peek the Lord. And we begin to seek him by speaking to him. It is as when a child has been caressed and corrected in vain; it seemed to have elapsed into a stubborn dumbness, the effect of conscious guilt and unsubdued pride, and that silence saems like the zeal of despair or its alienation from its parent. At last its heart breaks ; it throws itself on its father! bosom and weeps, and as soon as sobs make way for worua, it speaks ; it says, ! am sorry ; tor sive me ; I will not do so again v O, tho eloquence of those muto, tears and bro ken words I Addresied to God, such words are repentance, faith, the beginning o? prayer, the first in the divine life. The Worth of the llible. A little boy once asked his father what good the Bible ever did ? A few days af terwards, his fat!;er took him to ecc a poor and sick woman, who' was endurini; the severest sufferings of poverty and disease" and yet was cheerful and happy. The liU tie boy was astonished, and whispered to his father, inquiring what it meant. The good woman heard him, and drawing him to her side, she pointed to her Bible and said, "It is this blessed book that makes me so happy. It tells me that God is my father, that Jesus Christ is my elder broth er, that heaven is my portion and my home, thn.t saints and augcls shall be. my com panions, and that the praises of God' and the Lamb hall be my cmplovn ent forev er ; and when I fee! that ail tnesc arc mine how can I be unhappy?" The Key. - In order rightly to under stand the voice ot God in nature, we ought to enter her temple with the Bib!e in our Lands. C1 v