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Jf 0 B nn A Y C JL VOL. VII. NO. J. chii -iiu A'lv-icatt Publishing Company f; v. V" u. If- Crsticone. O. O. II. lv?, and Zbso s - hiM trr 9U4lt- t win i rati nit $ T ! ... !iCV. VI. I. WtMHi. ;:i.i. i ' ; t i : a . J aiy -1. 1S. tliluV that I m ix'norant of 1: ih i v ::r,i . rt -. " - "a 1 - liitn-? w::i sap 1 ' - '.' i r i mail hri'i2 mor.? or lrorn tfto Soisi.h." ' -c tiif verv idUvt. L-ut u is ' i h. Kt--iil r.li me that t 7? f'tn ii'-?'' resumed la.-;t A;--s-'-S ; that s-verai news- s-.uf.c-i, iT wor-j srai-tiag, in that P4?er was j: ,i(.--n-ivch- ncvlr, aai medxeices ;.ti,r; sr. J, in ti-c SuUiJi I luod been j v- ; -no th.it hvts und an;iiu- j it. ; I-ui ii i reoeniiy tnat gaiznnt that they m:x they need frotu 1 knew they had r evvrv 1 i i I and eou' I u -j them when it M il they have gone fa- b;.vo'.;d my. hi-best expectations. In djcl,the; have :v-tonlsl;ed the entire -k on Witn au-az-ment ri. t-clleves tl: tV'-vuth will :-e- b;atea ia this nnienta !'.. t'iu-r t. i ho u-iiioaality of thr Con " N--a:o rh-at-es Is regarded as a fixed fact ; m i sSl thi the family Hc-Hicti tu place ntr among - ! t!itiou. w a iorui?u 1 ' J z but wiua those I do m t know. Northern States heir sei ses, and execr-t It may come a iiit tit least, rea."-.;n o :t::;iiy eutb.ror.o It is evident to aii, tnat pjs- ei-.iu u tiy ruier i n tsJ Jitii HjW, aii- , - v.,. betrumintr of this ij'.t the nes of the 5 . I iorsvillc, and thal'-fight- vr?;i fjariuily heatcn - -i -it U r,.o .h.' l!.MTTia- .i i stin, ac- : 4 jompiiS-i'-ii vonuers in nie ia-cn -uvt tscif d (nrJiil'J.iwn . p.;r says, "cspe whvT tecT-crd is hotter tbau A Califorma pa- e victory w: s ex anaiiiilaticu. 1 re-rretU:d v heir ,if the death of Gen. 'Mor.ew.ih Ji.'-Uon. II is k ia irreparable, and we :r-el it. lie was r? yarded the great man Ho wa.-4 the admiration oi n:- eamieo respeeU-d him, and tiroi i:ii? fstt hLi ?.-ir. h done, anu nut -!i mun. and all wiil be i. . ? T w,-ml.l ak. eaiiiut the Ad- v:K.i-'Ci-d iu running the blockade, ivnd Had its way to Shanghai once more ? .'a: ill hb a mo-it welcome vw- itor . If it v reach me occasion- Hliv. It o'.!d bi p )rLvid very mucii; r ri 'i -.i . . . .. droomu'i hearts, bo- -,i7-.J vah-' vii'i can lutHfifins It hai been T ci,v r " have received a S-GO ..F ri? a,?r.r irie-miJ m tXie JC'A , - uuld remark, how- ';:7, that I vcftived one letter letti durincr tnat timo .ritteu about last Chri--:n iVov a vory dear friena. It iho Conied :er3 i.-rae ;e to lun 2hai frv-n .1 ciu:; J T th lgh tho 1 il liUK 1 Ii light be sade jiad by like fa- I" Int. Board n Tllehmoud has i lit: ; - . ado arrangemeat s tV Co., Charicstt.n. in IiVt-'rp'X-'b, Frzo omuiissioa merchan witii j-.an 1 razor . ('., and Iheir house r, Trcnbolm fc C , is.) to write to their d elsewhere, and for Missionaries here iV.ntr iv-rwlx to write to them Why not my friends mak. a similar arrangement with the s'lmc, or noma other firm es Ali very frequently go in and out at V il- mingt.-n. , This is lot oaly a "hmd of darkness, rL vt!.. urA siKjwlow of delta. t dwells beneath the Roil; it lives upon tho prounJ; it grows . . . tl'w u in every plant ; it flows m every stream ; it. b's in everv pool ; it walks by day ; it lurk- by niht, and it rides every breeze. The whole atmosphere is fiitel with death. Just a little out from the community, hundreds and thousands of coffins he up on the ground, sending forth all the hor rible stench of as many decaying bodies. Hundreds of Chinese die daily. There hs a Chinese report, that in ouo day, about two weeks ago, there were 1500 deaths; this probably, is an exaggeration, but there is no doubt that several hundred are swept off. each day. It is said that in the city there have been as many as 500 and 800 coffins a day distributed gra tuitously to the poor, besides many that o bought by the better classes. Per sons will be perfectly well, eat heartily, and in a short while feel a little uncom fortable, and in a few minutes be dead. Bat then we are not at ali aatocisbed that ,r,.;. - j m jwvcm Huppm-auyua me progress ana advancement of the physical . -.. , 5' ....... ,nMd i , 1 or a i8W, daJ8 Fa? therc bcen, a success of our arms. Our hearts are ful- j sciences. As christian men have tuithful- V S'nUai. (h,rf,J- j m ll?e atmosphere, and the sick- ly enlisted in the cause of the Comedtr- j Jj applied their discoveries in science to 'ut4 wir.Vfiy u CuA prixryir.. j ness--principally cholerar-has somewliat ate States. I often wish 1 was there to ! the glory r.f God and the elevation and sal be ehur-oJ i persqiwr? j aba!d, and deaths are not quite go ire- j by down my life, if need bo, fur Lor de- j ration of the. race Gd has enab'ed them , !-., f-vr ?tm inscrt.un, ani d cent'. , ,.,.,., ! !;MnM m ! i .it.... ' " , . ProUSUED BY ArOIST STOCK COBPASY UJ.DF.H THE j the Chinese die. The vender is, that more do nut a;e; notwithstanding, themor tality i.s frightful. They sleep out on the damp ground, eat all kinds of vegetables, 3d whatever the appetite craves f hev iav re no idea oi takins: care or j warm weather warmer than for years past, it is warm vet, but not ho warm i as a few days ago. Last summer we n?.d j ; ouc Oi thj sickliest seasons that has ever j ??een experienced in the Rnst. In Shang i i-a, beyide,? the thousands of Chinese j that died, there were 1300 foreign deaths. We ivif-t some invaluable men. One ex cellent 31 issionary Kev. M. S. Culbert son, of the I'rcsbytci'ian Mission died. InShuntoong several missionaries died. Mysolf and faiiiily were. among the su-k. 'Ve were not very ill ; but were unable to do anything. We had ro leave Shang hai ti regain uur health. A short sojuurn in Naaasuki, corapietely restored us to teaita ; ana ve roturriol w:tnoiit aiiy trtiors .f Yu-e:uu:rjariaitiriyi. i nere r.nve t'ocu nuiie a number of ?ea.so?i arnonsr i u'-ains in OJiafiiiaJ. s tUH frreig tiers : bub they Lave Leon mainly confined to the floating population. iJat n..w of the resident.- have tiled. Yester- day evening, 1 attended the funeral of a iittie child Jess than a year old of a Missionary, Kev. Mr. Farnham, of the Presbyterian minion. There are no se rious eacs uf sickness among the Mis sioiiaried of Shanghai at present. Noce are feeling altogether comfortable. The health of our own mission ia good, ex cept my own desr little Eddie Mis stom ach has been inutili deranged, and he could nofc retain anything that he nUi, and his liver 15 not in good order. I am happy to say, that he i.s a great deal better now, but is rot looking like his former self ye. I hope lie wiU continue to improve till he becomes himself again. It is out ot the question to do much work, whils the weather continues so very warm. If we can preserve our health through tiiis trying time, we will have accomplished no little. To work now aad bring on debility and a slow disease, or eevcio fth'-lcuce.t and death. t?ouH bp the greatest of follies. When, by keep lug quiet for a time, we may avoid illness, "w hen more tolerable weather comes, v,ili te able to resume our usual labors with vigor, we shall thereby gain much. Oa the Sabbath we have services fr our native members. I have quite an inter esting Sabbaih school class. The finances of our mission are not all we could desire ; but they are such as to keep us front embarrassment. I think we shall be able to get along without debt, er at least with very little. I am certain that we have done much better than our friends and our Uoard have any idea we could. We have done better than 1 once thought we should. We have found the Lord a present help in time of need. To Hioibo all the pause and all the glory. For some time past, England has been on the verge of a war with J apan . Last autumn a BritLh subject was murdered at osahuma, I) one of tlie Paimies Prinr bv some one of his retinue by the Daimie'a authority ; and several csthers were wounded. 8uea things have been occurring for quite a time past. This time the'Engllsh government took it up, and demanded of the murderer .Cl 10.009 to defray tho expenses of the rxpditioa, 25,000 for the murdered man's family. The' 110,000 has been paid, but wbethor the other demands have bee a met or not, I do not know. Any way, it is thought that they will be aide to amicably settle it. One of the I conditions the Japanese wish to incorpo- rate is, that all foreigners snail leave uieir ports. They have dechvred that they must leave, and if thay do not leave peace ably, they will be expelled by force. n this, however, they are not at aU likely to succeed. If hostilities had com menced, the Japanese, would have made o distinction between different nation a! Sties hut would have fou-jht all alike In fac, two of their war steamers did fire i into an American merchant steamer The vessel succeeded in escaping without licing much injured The Japanese arc thought to be a brave people. However that may be, but firing into an unarmed ship of a nation with whom they have no quarrel, was a very cowardly act; and if ''Uncle Sam" has such a veneration for the "sacred" stara and stripes, as he has been pretending for the two years past, he will attend to the Japanese forthwith, and visit upon their insolent heads a se vere condign punishment. If he don't, he is a coward and a knave. And to perform such a chastisement, it will re quire no little force. The Lhinc rebellion does not seem to be gaining ground, but on the contra ry, it is losing. The T'ien Wong is being closely invested in his Capital ; and it is thought that the city must again fall into the hands ot the Imperialists. The indications are that Suchow will be at tached before a great while, by Chinese froons. trained and led by Europeans. They have already taken several of their cities between tnis ana oucnow, auu, doubtless, will try the latter toon. Should this reach you, it bringp with it hearts full cf love to ycu. to all the (h.,.,-i. . v. a i v : j i: v RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAyTnOV. 11, 1863. ? brethren, to all our friends, to the "good old North btate' to the Southern Confed eracy, and our prayers fcr her success in her noble struggle for independence, Yes, you all have our daily prayers. And to the God of battles do we lift up our merciless and relentless enemies. Pray for us. I remain, as ever, Affectionately and sincerely vours. f. L. WOOP. For tho A-:lvoctt-:.?, The Influence of Christianity on Science. That Christianity has exerted a very great influence in producing that activity I oi the humau mmd, and in giving that direction to human thought, investigation and research, that has resulted in the rap id progress made in the arts and sciences for the last three centuries, is evident from a variety cf considerations. First, Nearly all the great lighta of sci ence who have shed the luster of their ge nius on the path of scientific research and discovery, were not only members of a o.Krtsfinn ..t,m.Tifff ti an? in a o5mS. tmn land nnd eAnptA nndor ihr iniln. en cl tieal cnrisiums, p pel of Christ, with minds quickened and el eratl by its subliiue doctrines, ad puri fied by its divine f pirit. .Second. The grand revolution in Euro pean thought, which resulted in giving to the world a purified religion and an unveil ed universe, at the ame time, must Lave had its origin ia the same great moral cau-e. Two great men, it ia true, were commis sioned by God to inaugurate that revolu tion, but the spirits of both were previous ly baptized by the same divine fire. Lu ther was doubtless the prophet sent to awa ken, elevate and purify the church, while Bacon was commissioned of God to unfold to the world the' true philosophy of inves tigation. But both these great men were the embodiment of that intellectual matu rity and energy to which God had con ducd the Kyiwisi" wind wer tl-e qu his as heralding the approach of abrighter day for the church, .wLile Koger Bacon bad arisen as the brave pioneer of experimen tal science, both a prom be and 8 prophecy of that light that should disperse the cdouds of ignorance and error, aad ligbt up two continents with the brightness oi his beams. The proposition of the great minds that have done so-mtieh to give direction to hu man thought in both theology and science, will ehow how tlat light wao being diffus ed which now shines- upon us in ae-cn day effulgence, from an open Bible aad an un veiled universe. Copornicu3 appeared in .1473, aid pub lished his astronomical conclusions iu 1 543. Luther was born in 1483, and published his thc?is in 1517. Kepler lived between 1571 and 1630. Galileo from 1540 to 1012, and Bacon's great work appeared in 1G20 21. These we find co-existing in about one century in the mighty two-fold movement of modern nded. Some of them breathed the same air and looked upon the fame skies. Not a generation intervened between the first and the last. These facts indicate very clearly the influence of the christian religion, as the central fountain from which these two grnnd streams oi thought, gushed up and rolled forth to ben efit and bless society with their pure and healthful waters. We see here almoet the actual birth, as well as the unparalleled growth of modern science in the quicken ing and transforming influence of the word of God upon the European mind. t The influence of the christian religion upon the rise and progress of modern sci ence, isabo evident from the fact that that branch of the human family whose whole character has been mcst thoroughly per meated with' the teaching and spirit of the Bible, hasbec ia advance of every ot-ner people in the successful development of every department of ph-&ical science. In j physiology the jtwo greatest disco veries ever -nfafrJe, by Egyptian Philosophers. arvei'latecXea the circulation of the blood. Sir Charles Bell distinguished be tween the nerves' of sensation and motion. Sydenham laid fhe foundation of medical science, John Hunter that of comparative anatomy ; and Jenner evoked the wonder ful secret of vaccination. In chemistry also the English have taken the lead. Br. Black of Edinburgh discovered carbonic acid gas and first announced the doctrine of latent heat. Dalton first explained the admirably adjusted laws' of chemical equivalents. Priestly discovered oxygen gas. Watt and Cavendish ascertained the composition of water. Davy . founded ag ricultural chemistry and invented the safe ty lamp. Newton discovered the law of gravitation and the analysis of light. In America, under the influence of the chris tian religion we see men equally success ful in the discovery and application of new powers in nature. Franklin discovered the identity of electricity and lightning. Fulton applied steam to purposes of navi gation. Waury haa fenced the highway of the sea and written finger boards upon the atmosphere. Brooks lias fathomed the :e of ebrlstianitv. but were practical I preached among them, it is very (i-- iristians. Uaeon, lKcke, Boyle, Newton, ! couraging to be cicrac l tnp privilege. Baeklan, Miller, Pritchard, Hamilton, ! ver.v 'eii knovr that ux lhe midst Rush and hundreds of others were all prae- i of muraI unJ rzlipo-o tramiog, thafc the iekeninsr and eaimhteniner influence of I word. Wickliffe had already appeared 1 men? su are as vaiaaouj now a ih wrnmin. Sf-r r.f thp rfnmir,tion tuey ure ta tunes oi toe greatest qmetn PATROKAUE OF THE NORT0 CAKOLIM CONFERENCE. great deep and uncovered-the monuments of its ancient dead. Morse constructed the magnetic telegraph and made the light ning our news carrier. These facts show conclusively that the christian religion has exerted a powerful influence on thp. t?s ', irrcaier aiscovenes. tnat everv j pnysicai science imgnt revolve round the I cross of Christ, catch its light, and reflect ! its tilory. i F.'-r the fVts seated in this arsrumftnt. ! T 1; 1 ... ' , Vv? are indebted to "science j the Uible," by Pendleton. a witness for J. W. T. Tor the Advocate. WeihcJls1. Preachers of 'orth Caroliun. Dear Bkkthren : When 1 say preachers, T mean those who do tru!ynd honestly feel the weight of their mission, and who, like the great preaclu r of the Gentiles, are de termined to know noth ing, save Jesus Christ, and him cruciS.-.-d. There is 7evhaps, no greater calamity that can befall any part of the christian ( huvcli, than to be deprived of the eonso- i iUtlOHS OA UxO UOSpCi. JO a pOOpIO TSiiO 3ave fccen accusumied to Mtvmg the gos- err, and in the absence oi' these advanta ges it becomes more nnd more sinful, until it becomes "desperately wicked above ell thiags, who can know iL" Moreover, in the absence of patoral guidance, the mem bers of the church grow careless and co.'d and lukewarm about their .spiritual inter est in this world and their eternal welf re beyond the gray. Sinners are under less restraint, they are ever and s&en seeking out new modes of pinning against the gra cious Author of their being, thus widening the breach between them and God, who purchased them with the blood of his only Son Jesus Christ. Brethren, lam inclined to the opinion that because we ;ue here unfortunately furrounded by an enemy, that this should not be plead asa&uShuent reason why we should be neglected. If we can do without the consolations of tie T?osT.-3i in these troublous time!, why can- TiOc v:e do without them in times ot peace? 353. But tho word of God is as firm as the piLars of heaven. Hear if, "When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalfc surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor Pteakest to wai n th wicked from his wick ed TOy, to save "his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Aain, when j a righteous man doth turn from his right eousness, anu commit iniquitj", he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, Le shall die ia his sn, and his rigbfeous aess which he hath d ne, shall not be re membered ; but his blood will I requira at thine hand." Brethren, the above Is uot written to rive ofieneo to any, bat irom motives of the purest character, thinking perchance, it might arouse some cue who has the care of souls at heart, to take up the cross, come among us, dispense the word of !if, and share with us the fortunes of wsr. I know it will pay, if it does not in dollars and "cents- it vill pay in a much better way. Try it. Yours, in christian love, LAYMAN. Fairfield, Hyde Co., Sept. 22d, 1803. Tb; Soul. Follow only one human fouI into eter nity ; trace its endless course through de lights which flesh and blood could not sustain ; or through tovment-s which hum an nature musthate super natural strength to endure; purue it along the course of its eternal progression, and contemplate it making acquisitions in knowledge, holi ness and happinc'5, til but infinite, and leaving behind even the former attain ments, of cherubim and seraphim for for ever sinking from gulf to gulf of misery and despair in the bottomless abyss gnd then conceive, if it ho possible, in same tolerable degree, what an event i.s the sal vation of a single soul ! And when you have revolved the comprehension of this mighty and mysterious unit of a singlo soui carry it eti to the tens, and hundreds and thousands or. tens of thousands of such souls that are hurrying on to eternity, ev en in the town where you dwell I Chris tians, again I say abjure these vast ideas, or set more conformably to them. Aban don your belief in these stupendous reali ties, or at any rate prove that you are ab solved from the obligation of arresting this tide of ruin, and swelling this stream of salvation, or else be more in earnest in your endeavor to save souls. You must do one or the other. In your present con duct, with such a profession on your lips, and with such lukewannness in your zeal, your conduct is the most monstrous incon sistency m our world. J. A. James. The joy of the Spirt is a delicate, sacred deposit, and must be kept in a pure casket ; an unholy breath will dim its lustre and fade its freshness. Cecil. A little sin may at once bar the door ot netvn, and open the door of heJi." itlklkns. Baptism. . But it is said that Christ, when He was baptized, was immersed, and we must fol low his exampleC Let us suppose he was immerscd.- Now, where are we taught we must do ev- t r i i . via -w t erjinmg jurist aidf no wslh circum cised. Must we be '( He was presented in the temple when six weeks old. Must we be ? lie always travelled on foot. Must Ills ministers do the same? He had no sett led home. Must we have none? He partook of the last sup pr at night.- Must wo never celebrate it in the day time? When He instituted it, He and ah His Apostles-reclined on couches. Must we ? Now these things show that it Is by no means necessary to be immers ed simply because Christ was, unless it is otherwise commanded.' But the fa t Is, Christ was not immers ed. The Baptism of John was bo diffe rent from Christian baptism, that they who had been baptized by him, if they be esms Christians, had also to receive Chris tian oaptifm. He constituted no new so ciety, nor required belief of any particu lar creed. II S bsptisra was similar to those practiced by the Jews from the days of Mose.s. And it Is to these that St. Paul refers (ileb. 0 : 10) when he ppeaks of "divers washings," (baptisms in - the Greek.) The law of Moses was stiil in force in the da-s of John the Baptist, and the customs of the law would of course be observed. If a person were defiled he must be purified. One way to purify was by means of water ; but if the defiled Jew had washed himself he would have so de filed the water in which he washed, that it would no longer be tit for purification ; consequently, the law 'required that he should wash him' elf either in running nea ter, or in a fountain or pat where there was much water. (See Leviticus 11 : 33 36.) fleucc John, in order to purify the people, went, in order to fulfil the law of Moses, either to running water, like the river Jordan, or where there was much water, as there was "in Aenon, nesr to Salim." That this Ls the true account of the character oi' John's baptism is plain from the circumstance, that afucr Chris tian baptism was instituted, we hear no more of baptism in a river, or in a place hero there was much water. 2?zvt there Jewish baptisms, to which as we said St Paul refers, were of Jrwrs kin-is, so that, even if one kind wero by uvmerfi"" , oth er kinds were not. Bat ws dc cot read of ony ciwr fxn'nf y I'jnmcrsi'ov'. So that this rite of purification, or the b;ipvitim to which our Lord submitted, was not by im mersion ; water wa either tprinkled or poured upon Him. And all the ancient pictorial representations of Christ's bap tism represent him as standing.in the wa le r, and John pouring water upon him. This shows us tho meaning of the phrase, ' Jesus went up straightway o it of the water." He had been in the ter, but had not been immersed, because immer sion was no part of the command as res pects the "divers baptisms" oi the Jewa. Either way, then, our argument is es tablished. If Christ w;s immersed, it is no example for us, unless we must do ev ery thmtj He did. But if He was not ini mersed, of course it is cot necessary for us, so far as His example is c r'neernea. Tfoc W'offe f Christ. Hsoi half a century ago, 8 great man was seen stooping and working in a charnel-house of bon s. Uncouth, nameless fragments lay around him, which the workmen had dag up and thrown aside as rubbL-h. They iKdonged to some far back age, and no man knew what they were or whence few meu eared. The world was merry at tho sight of a philosopher grop-ri ing among mouldy bones. But when that creative mind, reverently discerning th fontal types of living beings in diverse shapes, brought together thof-e strange fragments, bone to hone, and rib to claw, and tooth to its own corresponding verte bra, re combining the wondrous forms of pat osres, and presenting each to the as tonished world s it moved and lived a hundred thousand ages bafk, then men began to perceive thiit a new eience had begun on earth. And such was the work of Christ. They saw Him at work among lhe frag ments and mouldering wreck of our hu manity, and sneered But He took the cry bones such a3 Ezekiel aw in vision, which no man thought ceu'd live, and "He breathed into them the breath of life. He took the scattered fragments of our ruined nature ; interpreted their meaning, show ed the original intent or those powers, which were now destructive only ; drew out from publicans and pmners yearnings which were incomprehensible, and feel ings which were misunderstood ; vindica ted the beauty of the original intention ; showed the Divine Order below the cba os, exhibited to the world once more a human soul in the form in which God had made it, saying to the dry bones. "Live!" Only what in the great foreigner was a taste, in Christ was love. In the one the CTatification of an enlightened curias- ity ; in the other, the gratification of a sublime affection. In the philosopher, it was a longing to restore and reproduce the past; in Christ, a hope for the future "to seek and to save that which w8 lost "- W. Rvhertivn. TERMS: Fire Dollars a IVear In Advance. The Vanity of Sin. The mind of man, tho guide and souroa of hhj actions, while it w estranged frora God, is nothing but a forge of vanities. The apostle Paul speaks thus of tho Gon tiles, that they becama vain in their imag inations, and their foolish heart was dar kened," Bom. i. 21, their great natural ists and philosophic net &cccrted. and tho more they strove to play the wiso men, the more they befooled their selves. Thus likewise, Eph. iv. 17. Arjd thua the Lord comp'ains, bv his prophet Iaalih. of the extreme foil y oi hi people, xiv. 20 and by Jeremiah, that "their Lc&rta are lodges of vain thoughts." iv. 14. Inc whole c-crse cf r.:n hie. out cf Christ, is nothing but a continual trading in vanity, running a circle cf toil aui li ber, and reaping no profit at all. Nat on ly others are not benefitted by it, but it u fruitless to himself; there arises to him. no solid good out of it. That is ino&t truly vain which attains not its proper end : now, since all a man's endeavors aim at his satisfaction and contentment. that conversation which gives Lira noth- ing of that, but removes him further from, it, is justly called vatn conversation. What fruit had ye, savs the apostw. 'in those things whereof ye are now ash amed?" Rom. vi. 21. Either count that shame which at the best crew cue of them, their fruit, or cocfe?s they havo none : therefore, tliey are called "tho un fruitful works cf darkness." Eph?a. v. 11. Let the voluptuous person declare upoa his death-bed, whatpIeai-ure cr profit dth then abide with him of all bis former do- lights. Let him tell if there regain any thing of them all, but that vhich he would gladly Lave cot to remain, tba sting of accusing conscience, wuich li as lasting as the delight of sin vra" short and vanishing. Let the covetous an 1 am bitious declare freely, even thoK of theta who have prospered most in 'the pursuit of riches aud honor, what eae all 'their po3sesionfl or titles do tben help them to; whether their paina arc tho Jse bocausa their chests arc full, or their houses etato Iy, or a multitude of friends cr srrvanta waiting on them with bat and knee. And if all these cannot ease their body, hov much less can they quiet the mkd ! And therefore, is it not true, that all pain ia these things, and the uneven ways into which they sometimes step aside to perrd those jends, and generally, that all the ways of s:a "?br-in hy w?vlf tlm selves, were- vain rollings and twMagi op and down, not tending to a certain haven, of peace and happiness 1 It Lj a Unaec tablc bRg 40 W -'deluded a whole lifetime with a falie dremn. fee L"lilI ii. 8. You that are gtiog on iu the cemmon rcd of sin, although many, and pofibly your own parents, have trodden it befor you, and the great r part of those yea now know arc in it with yov, and keep you company il it, yst be persuaded stop a little, and ask yoar.-e!roa wtai ia it you seek, or expect in the or.-l of iL Would it not grieve any laboring mac, to work hard all the day, and have no w?giH9 to look for at night ? It ia a groa-;r ioe t,7 wear out our whole life, and in tha evening ol our day find nothing but aa guish atd vexatica. Let us then think of thin, that to much of our life as Li tpaafc in thtVays of ein, is all lout, fruitier uni tV"7 eonvet j 'tea. Tjf-itjtirn. ojr1 ft? lllu If, in our own age, and pciba a in our own country, Christianity has uot cub been boldly opposed, but aud to." only vili fied, it has only teen so math tho moro seriously examined, so muia tli3 mora vigoroasl7 defended. If ita truth has been questioned b rodio, ind denied by others, it has been only the more careful ly sif'ed, the moro satisfactorily ' cleared. The clouds in which sophistry had sought to envelope it, are repelled. The facta, arch-like, have been btrengthened by be ing trampled upon. Itfi-J-jIity has dow its worst, and by the energj ot its cfForta and the failure or ?ts attempr!, h nf.hitra how littlo it could do. Wit, and ingenui ty, and argument have contributed each its quota to confirm the truths, whioh wit, ingenuity, and argument had undertaken to sabvert. Talents oa the wrong plda have elicited superior talents on thcriiht, and the champions of the gospel have bea ten its assailants with their own weapons. Pyrrhonism ha been bcnencial; for, by pi'opagating its doubts, it has can&ed them to bo obviated. Even Atheism it self has not bcen without its uses ; for, by obtruding its impieties, it has bi ought defeat on the objectors, and abhorrence on tbeir abettors. Thus tho enemies of our faith have done service to our. cans, for they have not advancedasir-lcchargo against it which has not beU followed by a complete refutation ; the shaking of th torch of truth haa caused it to LflV.e a clearer and etroager llhL-f Hannah More. "Christian Courtesy." The South rrn Christian Advocate states that tho Presbyterian church, Augusta, :Ga., hav ing been, and it being undeMccd thafc St. John's Methodist Ep'S'-epfd church was about to be, taken for a hofpital, th Greene Street Baptit church adopted resolutions inviting the cogregaios9 to unite with them ia worship ia their church edifice, and tendering the exclusive use cf tbe edifice to them ca ccaiiauuica or oth r rtcjuiciu when they desire it. A A
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Nov. 11, 1863, edition 1
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