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CIII'RCIL SOUTH.
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11ALE.TGH, 1ST. C, WEDN E8D A.Y, JXJ'E 12, 1807.
VOL. I.
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From the Amtw.-:i Messenger.
T!se Trti-os anil Iiie Wlierii.
Standing together, side by side.
TV res niiil wheat in the Master's field.
It-teli v.iih its liiad ot shining given.
Each with it;; grain in ;t. silken shield.
The wheat v:i ; sowed bv i ho Master's hand;
The seed Avasgood. and sowed wiin care;
JJut while .men slept, in the summer night,
The enemy came, and scattered tares.
Hide by side in the cheerful sun,
Each refreshed by the snlViiiug shower,
Alike they wave in the balmy breeze.
And bend their heads in the owning
hour.
Wailing together till hnvvest time.
Tares and wheat in the Master's field,
The reaner comes wiih Ins sickle keen.
And both to its shining sweep must
yield.
'Cast forth the tares in the tire to burn.
I'.ut." sihh the Master in accents RAvoot.
Into my barns, with thanksgiving and
j IV.
Gather my beautiful golden wheat.'"
Ah. th'.is in onr 7mstcr's harvest -field,
The wheat rnd the tares stand ride by
side;
Tie sendeih his sun, and r.cndeth his rain;
Blessings Ik seattereth far and wide.
At last lie sendeth his rentier forth.
Ills reaper Jeath. with his sickle keen,
Ami he gathers t lie beautiful golden wheat.
And the worthless
tweeu.
tax
that "row be-
Oh. patient soul in the harvest-field.
Wait. Oh wait till the Master come:
lie kiiowcth his wheat from the enemy's
tares:
His own will he bear to his harvest
home.
Mks. C. E. It. Tauke!!.
Froia the X. O. Christian Advocate.
Christians Fr tin- Times.
In the economy of the plan of sal
vation, there is not only progression,
but also distribution. The hidoyv of
Providence shows that Clod has a pe
culiar work for every age and genera
tion. "While the patriarehial, the He
brew people and the Gospel dispensa
tion, all converged to one grand point,
yet each had a particular work assign
ed it. And as the work of Xoi.b a;yl
Moses, the Apostles and lieioruitrs, in
their respective generations, was pe
culiar to them ami their limes, so ifc is
with every generation and individual.
It is said" of David, that ''he served
his on-,) ii'iierofi"!) tj flu ' f h'
and Eothor, " who knowcth whether
thou art come to the kingdom for such
n .'iiic 7s llti?'' A good man is de
scribed, not only as a tree that brhig
eth forth fruit, but as one that bring
eth forth fruit "in hi ri-i)." Thus
every man's duty grows out of his pe
culiar surroundings, and lias direct ref
erence to the wants of his day; raid
this is the reason why he was born in
his particular gene-ration, and not in
another. As no one can occupy your
position, except yourself, it follows that
m one can perform the duties of that
position as well and as easy as your
self; for, the most diilieult duty may
be easy in its proper connections, but
hard and painful, when undertaken out
of .season. He only is the true Chris
tian who attends to every duty in its
Reason: who tills his appointed station,
however humble, and directs the whole
vigor of his mind, whether great or
small, to the accomplishment of his
heaven-appointed task. To do this, be
must watcii the signs of his own times;
acquaint himself with the new phe
nomena of his age; study the controll
ing principles of his day the wants of
liis generation -the resources to meet
these demands, and adopt the best,
means to accomplish all these impor
tant ends.
In the Providence of God, the pres
ent generation are surrounded by ex
traordinary events events, we believe,
that may bo so used as to widen our
sphere of usefulness, by opening now
channels for doing good. While some
are rocked to slo p by the very convul
sion which God designed to arouse
them, let ns avail ourselves of these
times to labor more earnestly for God
and humanity. Onr whole social fab
ric is, just now, in a formative state;
society is thrown up from its lowest
depths; old lines of demarkntion are
rubbed out; the isolate d and obscure
driven out of their hiding places the
mass are wandering in the chaotic
fields of uncertainty; thus the multi
tude are drifting on these troubled wa
ters, driving into a darker sea at every
plunge, anxiously looking for some
beacon to guide them iuto a peaceful
hail or! The intluences that are brought
to bear upon the crude mass, while in
this plastic state, will be the controll
ing intluences for generations to come.
We need, therefore, Christians for the
linns! Men of deep principles to sus
tain t hem amid the rage of this terrible
storm; of burning zeal to stand along
the beach of time, as the light of the
world peering far above tho wreck
that sweeps around, and throwing their
brilliant rays far out on the coral reefs,
to guide the storm-wrecked mariners
to the cross of Christ. Men who will
ride upon the crest wave of progress,
rise upon the flood-tide of improvement,
and keep pace with the spirit of tho
times, to mould and direct them all,
and make each subservient to the ad
vancement of the kingdom of God.
We need Christians of "stem metal,"
who will ring out clear and strong up
on the world, to call it to pause in its
mad career ; men of prudence and pow-
erful faith, who can stand like ilie
storm-swept rock tho same amid tho
' combined shock of winds and waves
! unmoved lv the taunts, or sneers, or
! ridicule, of the skeptical and profane;
; men of moral power to command our
I resources and direct our energies to
arrest the proud monarch:? ot crime,
the devotees of fashion, and the wor
shippers of mammon, and secure their
allegiance to the King of kings, and
Lord of lords !
Every one has some power J can
; nsc for doing good; cither to contrive
plans, or labor in their execution; to
encourage them by his inlluence, or
support them with his means; to assist
by his example, or further them by his
prayers. 0,"av1io can tell of the latent
energies and dormant powers that are
slumbering in I he very midst of souls
going to ruin ! Truly the harvest is
great, but the laborers are few. Where
arc the men ami women that ought to
be in this great harvest - Held, gather
ing fruit unto life eternal? Alas! some
are running the giddy rounds of world
ly fashion; some, are immersed in bu
siness, making fort lines that may drown
their souls in perdition, others fire
nursing the vain delusion that there
arc yet four months until lira-vest ami
others have become weary in well-doing,
and given over the struggle be
fore tho appointed time for reaping.
P.ut, thank Clod, there are some, still
at their post guarding, with faithful
vigils, the vestal ilame glowing upon
the altars of the church, working, in
patience and with earnest supplication,
for the manifestation of that glory that
will announce the coming of the King
of the Saints. "Who will join this faith
ful band, and go forth in t lie great
work of spreading scriptural Holiness
oA cr those, lauds?
J. M. DoLAXH.
The t.jit!g Iii-,llc,
Dr. Guthrie says, in the Snnday
Magazine:
He who so orders his life and con
versation as to bring no dishonor or
reproach on religion, who gives no oc
casion to its enemies to blaspheme,
nor by Lis falls and inconsistencies
luvmsiies scandals to be told m Gain
and published in the streets of Askelon
dots well. He may thank God thai,
amid life's slippery paths he has pray
ed; nor prayed in vain, "Hold up my
gi-ings that my footsteps slip not."
Ho ,1o.. I...ttol- rfU iu. v.-1-.o.-o li:'c-i " elis
ion presents itself, less in a negative,
and more in a positive, form. For,
while it is well to depart from evil; it
is better to do good; nor does he live
in vain who exemplifies by his daily
life and conversation the pure, and
virtuous, mid hob, andbenetieicnt, and
sublime, and saving doctrines of God
and las Saviour. The first is good;
the second is better, but the list is the
best of all. So to live as to be leauti
ful as well as living epistles of Jesus
Christ, seen and read of all men so
to live as to recommend the truth to
the admiration of others so to live as
to constrain them tc saA What a good
and blessed thing is true religion ! as
in some measure to win tho encomium
of her, who, looking on Jesus, exclaim
ed, " Blessed is the womb' that bare
thee, and the paps that gave thee
suck !"' so to live, in fact, as to resolu
ble those books which, in addition to
their proper contents, are bound in
gold, are illuminated, and illustrated
with paintings; or those pillars which,
while their plainer neighbors support
ing tho superstructure, are also in or
naments, rising gracefully from the
.'loov in fluted columns, and crowned
with wreaths of flowers. this is best
of all.
TIsree Kinds of I'reacliim
Dr. Pond, of Bangor Theological
Seminary, in his very able and instruc
tive address to tho last graduating
class, which has been recently publish
ed, speaks of three kinds of preaching.
He says: "I have heard preaching corn
pared to lightning of which it is said
there are three kinds: tho flash, the
zig-zag, and the slant. Tho flash looks
brilliantly; lights up the sky; the peo
ple gaze at it with wonder and delight.
The zig-zag is hero and f hero and eve
rywhere: darting from cloud to cloud
without any apparent object or effect.
But the slant sends its bolt down to
earth, and rives the gnarled oak, and
is mighty, through God, to the tear
ing down of strongholds. Bo sure my
brethren, if you deal in any lightning,
to prefer the slant." The comparison
is not only apt, but tho lesson to bo
derived from it is certainly instructive.
Exnrnixo Infixexce. Time, change
absence, distance, break off no genuine
relations. The love which the inter
position of a continent or an ocean can
dim, which the separation of years can
alter, never was love. I had a frienel
once, a woman, who was the friend of
my better nature who taught me in
spiration, taught mo the valuo of
thought, maile me believe tho worth of
life, showed me the joy of growth and
progress one whose soul was so large,
so deep, so generous, that sho reigneel
like a queen among the highest intel
lects anel hearts. She left the earth
one stormy night, sixteen years ago.
But she is as near to me to-day as she
was then. The life I live, the thoughts
I think, tho acts I perform, aro colored
by influences which camo froni her
mind to mine. If sixteen years cannot
separate souls, why should sixteen hun
dred years separate them? When our
friends leave us for another world, thoy
are less with us outwardly, but more
with us inwardly. We carry them with
usin our heart.
No. II.
TO l-AKEXTS.
Parents, do you realize j-our respon
sibility? Do you remember, day and
night, that you are entrusted with tho
fearful duty of Educating your chil
dren for - time and eternity ? Have
you over considered that on your faith
fulness or neglect depends in a great
degree the fate of your children in this
world and the next ? Is it not so ?
The Word of God assures us " Train
up a child in the way in which he
should go, and when ho is old lie will
not depart from it." Oh study that
p- ssage of Scripture, and ma v God
helxi you t o understand it ! Does it not
teach you that your child may be so
well educated in the duties of life that
ho will not fail to perform them?
That ho may be so established in tho
way to Heaven that he will not after
wards leave it?
Now in the discharge of this momen
tous trust 3-011 need all the help you
can get- You can teach your cliildren
many virtues on which their temporal
and "spiritual interests depend. Yon
should train them to habits of industry
temperance, el icerf uh ic-ss, relief -i i on ,
truth, honesty, economy without stin
giness, lil icraiity without extravagance,
benevolence and obedience to rightful
authority both human and divine.
You should be sure to inculcate early
upon them the gn at t.utli that useful
ness is a universal and perpetual duty,
and that upon it depends to a great
extent the real happiness and success
of life. You should not fail to educate
them in the opinion that while all that
is useful and right is honorable, how
ever humble it may be, yet tho cultiva
tion of the mind ami the acquisition of
knowledge is a lofty privilege and fluty,
more worthy the efforts and sacrifices
of man than anything on earth, that
ministers only to the lower animal ap
petites and desires of human nature.
All this and much more you may and
must teach them, if you are true to
their interests even in this world. But
the best part of the nature of your
children will lie sadly neglected if you
do not aspire to a still higher aim in
their training. They have moral na- j
rurcs. Uiey are immortal. J-Jiev
youi own precious off-spring, must Jtvt!
forever cither in a state of misery or a
of bliiss. accordin;
to their char-
actor ami com met in tins l-rooattonarv
life. Oh, this is enough to make you
shudder ! it were a million times bet
tor never to be a parent, than to bring
a chilelinto the world and educate it
for an et ernity of damnation. Where
can you ibid a stronger illustration of
the direful depravity of the human
liefrvf lltnn in uttut' irwliiVevc-nce to tin i
r-Lllcinnn ' llo linn ivi . v n .i i
these verv children witn a lervencv
that can not bo described. Strange
inconsistency! Awful recklessness!
Now, how should you, hewr must you
train these children? Teach them to
be good, as far as you know how to
teach thena. Teach them by your v
ample, it is worth so much more than
precept contratlictoel and cancelled by
example. Let their first lispings syl
lable, night and morning, the werds of
prayer to God. leach them as soon
as possible that happiness can only ho
secured by goodness. Try to prevent
them from forming bael habits. En
courage them in all that is useful anel
upright anel pious. But in all this, I
repeat, you will neeel help. This help
the Church of God strives to give you
through the Sunday School. This is
the leading design and tendency of all
properly conducted Sabbath Schools
to instruct the young in the doc
trines and elutics of religion. We pro
pose, in this beautiful Spring, to begin
a new and happy era in the achieve
ments of this benign instrumentality
of tho Church. TMs wo cannot do
without your co-operation.. Shall we
have it ? May the spirit of true relig
ion dictate your answer ! What must
you do, to bo faithful? Send your
children, encourage them in the mat
ter so that thoy will love to go. If you
can go as Teacher, Goel requires you
to do so. The noblest women I have
knowu in tho N. C. Conference have
regularly accompanied their children
to tho Sunday School. Thoy hold liigh
positions in Society anel still had much
to do to get their little company ready
by the time tho bell rang. You ought
surely to be as industrious when you
aro working for Got! and the salvation
of your children as when you aro work
ing for yourself anel those children in
temporal things. That can not bo
called a christian household in which
there is so much laziness and disorder
that the ehilelren cannot be prepared
for the Sunday School by the late hour
at which the bell usually rings.
Don't be too sensitive anel particu
lar about the dress of your ehilelren.
Let them be neat and clean anel I as
sure jou that all who are fit to be
teachers will not think the less, but,
rather tho more, of them if they are
very plain. If your child were sick
with a fever, woulel you let him lan
guish anel die sooner than allow him to
bo seen in plainer clothes than your
neighbor's ehilelren wear ? Is tho boely
then better than tho sonl ? What if
some ill-bred, poacock of a boy shoulel
laugh at your child, woulel it hurt him ?
Some of tho noblest scholars of earth
havo been laugheel at in .their youth,
but eclipsotl all their snecrers in the
pursuit of greatness and gooelness.
Teach your children to disregard such
things. Don't be foolish enough to re
gard them yourself. Don't be a fault-
S;iblatU Schools
finder rbout the schooler the. teachers.
If there is neetlof improvement (a3id
there always is) be good and consis
tent enough to make the suggestion
anel lend your assistance. Encourage
your children to study at home, but ue
not afflict them by confining them to
their tasks too cioseily it will make
them dif.liko 13 te School. Send on your
children to te School, or go with them
if yon cm n, and 1 -fture to take the
Sabbath chool paner.
A. W. M.
?5;iiP Ticket."
I was lately in ;i
when a young man
where .'was about- to
I took out my ticket,
to him, sa; big:
''Yomig man, I hjv
vail way
ev it-red
ia'.e niv
staiiou,
tho car
seal.
suoweu It
no
t-Ket.'
' I seo
"Y
hav. i
I t!
s:r.
no
rep
vou
. ad lou, ,;I do ;nt V))'d o have
no not now to ask for one, or
I ha ; a ticket. I have it that
ahi.y. Just in like manne r. I
it. I ha-'
to wis I
is a cev fi
have s-lv
some d:
not to r
salvation mercy, I
".on. J to l:ot eoy ..' i may
o- other 1
; now to
e saved;
l e s.'ive I-
JL nave
-T hire
'cakau-e
. j iirongh Ot ''Vs unsi
at.) saveii."
e '; a;i lool.ed pi me
.!!., sunt Sa."., t"i,
Xi:e vo
t h
lis
astonix!
is very
T -..,t 1 "...,-. ,!
iionie en
other h'ie
a! out half tae faie bv the
ut somehow I could not
go fcliao wav. Somo.iitvr tw.l 1 must
ji
come by :his train, and felt I must
get into il ..h; ear. Now -?U teli you:
there i:i a m;r. works in the s.ir.ie shop
with me, civl be .says the sai.ej tiling
you say. Ho says he "has eternal
life;" and, mind you, he not on"y says
so, but every tiling he noes shows he
has. Bless you! he has no fear of
death at all; and when he has any
trouble, this having "eternal life, makes
him so ejuict anel happy that I cannot
help feeling that lie has got something
that I have not. An. i no matter how
wc teaze him, Ave crnrot touch him;
for lie tolls us that he hf s found J. r
nat lift', !y reading and believing iiie
Bible. 1'or myself I inns! tell you, I
used to read Tom Paine and Voltaire;
but somohem'. wlie.i i go!, reading at
night, I ;-:.-,iiV Totii lam:f?nou canst
not give i le eternal life;' ai.l I felt so
miserable, I banged the book on the
floor."'
As lie rite red this sentence, lie suit
ed the noli ' to tho word with r.-al
in hi-: pock ',
fnl edhio-n oi'
it nrou;.
no'-hei,
:lt
nut. a oeaiii t
ic, and sail,
"I have
known c
w got Lin booh that makes
mil hie, to I cannot sav
A'.aiit, o)
that I
I sa id
t'leik '-hi
b'.Kird, t!:
t ii.m :u
, .- ., i ;..i
'When the
lie AiindcAA'-
you say, 'I
before I
,(u on
tnornii
fr' that, .have it.
t.lke ii ;' or did vo;i firsi t: Le
then feel that, you had it?"
"0!t!'V.aid lie, "I now see
pic it is! Mt'si Ji.,-4 ';
and '' 1 ?!iV fa-' ihaf I ,-,'jf
We dare ssay, m-uiy avIio
it. and
j!v Si.m
.! 'i-a i !',
' i'.
read til's
paper fiavc
Iho very same diffieulty
that 11
tus voting nia.li iiad. i uoa' sneak
of Jesus as ,VV ,Sv"''n:r: btri if asked
aro they saved by him whom they call
by this inime, they shrink from such
an acknowledgement as most pre
sumptuous. Thoy regard salvation as
only a distant, uncertain hope. They
aro led by -; 'inrj, instead of being led
hy foil h. They want to feel something,
and then believe it; instead of believing
it first, anel linen feeling it.
NeAv, roaeJer, wo appeal to you,
Avould you act in this way in other jf-
lairs-' Il a k.-iu ii-iontl canto to you,
and sri ', "I havo eletositeel some
money for you in the hank," what
would yon do ? If you believed what
he said, wotve: yon not feel happy and
thankful, espeViaJlv if vou wore iu much
want of ;-o nonijy? "Would you not
go and d -;uv tho money, anel use it and
enjoy it ? Yon wowM not. sure! v say to
your kin, 1 frienel, "Well,! must first
jeel AViia': von sav, and "vhou T have
felt onoi7gu. .T vviil l;eli;ve it." iNo; if
you were to sj leak iu this way, wc
should suspe ct that yHr"""Se.re not in
vour right minci. But men do not act
in this manner abou t the. t hings of this
life. They .are wise as io worldly
tilings; but too often thev are fool
ish anel blind as to the things of tho
Lord.
Instead of beheving tho word of God,
which declares tha t " eternal life is the
gift of God," (Bom. vi: 28), to those
who really believe m Jesus as their
Saviour, thev look, and look within to
finrl some unknown amount of com
fortable feelings, in wliich they may
rest, or rather, on wliich they may
grounel some hope of being saved at
last. Anel they never obtain salvation
in this way. Salvation is not to be
rati by looking into ourselves, but by
ooking in faith to Christ. A believin g
look saved the dying Israelites of old,
and so a believing look saves tho dying
sinner now (Num. six; (J, 9; John
iii: 14. 17.)
When tho tremuhng jailor asked tho
apostlo what he must do to bo saved,
he apostle did not tell him to look
within, or to wait till ho got better,
anel felt more comfortable.
How simple is God's way of salva
tion! Christ is Geid's gift to sinners.
have onl y to receive Christ as mv
Saviour, rani in him I have all I need.
If I have received him, I havo eternal
life; for he is "tho eternal life." (1
John v: 20.) "He that hath the Son
hath life." (1 John v: 12.) If I have
received lin, I have righteousness;
for "he is made unto us of God right
eousness." ( 1 On-, i : CO. i "Jf Xhave
received him, I hnvo salvation; for lie
is God's salvalion," (i.u':.eii: 30,) unto
the ends ol the earth. "Bless tho
Lord, O my soul; and all that is with
in me bless his holv name.''
Tlzi' &trilii;s i-"is're of CSariti;$
lit mi.
"Brethren, if I were to 3vproseni to
you, in a figure, the condition of man
as a sinner, and the means of Lis re
covery by the cross of Christ, I should
represent ir something iu this way:
Suppose a large graveyard, surround
ed by a high va"l, with only one en
trance by a, large; iron gate, which is
fast boiled. Within 'b'-se walls are
thousands and lens of thousands of
human beings of :!! ages, and of all
classes, by one epidemic o'i' -use bead
ing to Hie grave-: the grave yawns o
swallow them, and. they must ail die;
there is no
m
to
relieve t.iem, no
physician there; t:-ey must peSii.
This is the- condition of man as a shi
ner; all, id I havo s.-nneel, and tho soul
that s"hmo!.h shall die. Wln'.'o ::ian
wss in this doTKorable state Mercy, an
attribute of Deity, came down tvud
stood at the gale, looked at tin scene
anel wept over it, e;;claiinhig. " 0 thvi
I might enter: I would bind i'- their
wounds; I would ve"'i-vc bieir sorrows;
I woith.lsa.A-e their nh .'" WiV'o h.er
cy sieod weeping -:X ;he ;;. e, an em-bas-.y
of angeh-, conv.-.Tt.'shionod from
tho court ci Heaven to sone other
world, passing over, paused at tho
sight; ami Heaven forgave v pause.
Seeing Mercy standing there, they
cried, '"'IJerey, hiercy, can you not .en
ter? can you look upon this scene and
not pity? canyon pity and not re
lieve'?" Mercy replied, "I can sec;"
ami in her tears she added. "I pity;
but- cannot relieve !" " Whv can you
not enter?" " O," said Me-ey, "Jus
tice has barred the gate against me,
and I cannot, must net unbar it." At
this moment Justice himself appeared,
as it wore to watch the gate, hiiio an
gels inquired of him, "Why will you
not let Mercy in'?" .Justice replied,
"My law is broken, and it must lie
honored; die they or Justice must."
At this there appeared a form among
the angelic- band like unto the Son of
God, Avho, addressing himself to Jns-
li.ee-, -iii:ti, iiai an uiy teiuain is :
Justice! replied, "J-Jy terms are stern
anel rigid. I mn:;i havo sickness 'or
their health; I must have ignominy
for their honor; I must have death for
life; without the shedding ef blood
there is no remission." Justice,"
said the Son of God, "J accept thy
terms. On me be th's wrong, and let
Mercy enter.'' " Wh.-n," r;aid Justice,
'"Av.il! you perform tins promise." -Jesus
n plied, "Four thousand years
hence, upon the hr.l of Ca'va y, with
out the gales of Jerusalem, I wilt per
forin it in my own. person." The diced
Avas prepared and signed in the pres
ence of the angels of God. Justice
Avas satished, mid Mercy entered
pi". -aching salvation iu the name of Je
sus. The deed was committed t tho
patriarchs; by them to the
ings of
them it
Israel and ine
was preserved
prepuces;
l,v
till Daniel's seventy
Aveeiis were accennp-hsnctl; and at tho
appointed time Justice appeared em
the hill of Calvary, ami Mfrcy pre
sented io him tiie important deed.
" Where," said Justice, " is the Son of
God?" Mercy answered, "Behold
him at tho bottom of tho liill bearing
his own cross," and then ho departed
and stood aloof at the hour of tr'fd.
Jesus ascenelod the hill, while in his
train folloAved his weeping Church.
Justice immediately presented him
with tho important, deed, saying, "Tliiy
is the day when this bond is to be ese
cnted." When he received it, did lie
tear it in pieces, und give it to tho
winds of LcaA-eu? ISio, ho nailed it to
his cross, exclaiming, "It is finished"'
Justice called on Iioly fire to eomo
down anel consume tho sacrifice. Koly I
fire descendeel; it sAvallowed his hu
manity; but when it touched his di
vinity it expired, and there was dark
ness over iho whole heaveus; but, glory
to Goel in the highest ! em earth peace,
anel good-will to men."
Do i-Tet he Ii.sconrag?l.
Do not bo discouraged if, in iho out
set of life, things do not go on smooth
ly. It seldom happens that the hopes
we cherish for tho future are realized.
The path of life appears smooth and
level ; but when we conic to travel it,
wo find it all uphill, anel generally
rough enough. The journey is a
laborious one; anel whether poor or
wealthy, high or low, wo shall finel it,
to our disappointment, if Ae havo
built on any other calculation. To
endure it wiiJi as m ucii cheerfulness as
lossible and to elbow our way through
the groat crowd, hoping for little, yet
striving for much, is perhaps the best
plan.
De not be discouraged if occasionally
yon slip doAvn by the way, and your
neighbor treads over you a little; or,
in other words, elo not lot a failure or
tAvo dishearten you. Accidents Avill
happen, miscalculations Avill sometimes
bo made, things will turn out differ
ently from our expectations; and wo
may be sufferers. It is worth while to
remember, that fortune is like the
skies in April, sometimes clear anel
favorable; anel as it wetuld bo folly to
despair of again seenng the sun because
to-day is stormy, so it is unAvise to sink
into tiesjtondency when fortune frowns,
since in the common course of things,
she may surely bo expected to smilo
and smile again. i
Do not bo discouraged if you are
deceived in (ho people of tho world.
From such sources as those you may
bo most triexpocteelly deceived, and
you will naturally feel sore under such
deceptions; but lo those you may be
come used. If you faro as other peo
ple do, they will lose their novelty be
fore yon grow grey, and you will learn
to trust r.ior:; con ! iously, and examine
their chiracter closely, before you allow
groat opjotluuilM.'! lo iSjtuu twu.
Do not be discouraged under any
circumstances. Go steadily forward.
Bather consult your own conscience
than the opinions vf men, though the
latter is y.ol t bo disregarded. Be
industrious, be sober, bo honest ; deal-
come iu yonr way, exercising a neigh
borly and obliging spirit in ail your
interc ourse; and, it yo;i d not preisper
as rapidly now as mnn of your neigh
bors, elopoud noon ir yon will be at
h'-asi as I appy.
Jv) no . be di icoura v-d. "Trust in
ihr Lord iitxi do good: ro shalt. the.u
tiweli :
b .-d
Jjord:
bring :
vor.r
'0
l.-.nd
;n::ht
an
! ;l"
vo--;ly liioisiialt
v"y un,o tiie
Ci
a is in
il.m; :m : ;.e snai.
'u . ;
f-ieui.
hrou
n ha
:0 i-r
I? yen have ( i-.y.i as
bej-'g ;-ecy;y il-'d io
JiO d JeSTC Christ.
JJiri t
vou or
God
Us?"
h ii.
;o ground for fear. "If
'IS
who c-.n . against
Tise Asji-i off Africa,
i ue st lay ecu ng
Ju deliverer at the
Nov,--York, the fir.!
la-', M. Du Chail
Coojter Tnstii nte,
of a series of h-o-
Hires o-,t con. -tonal Africa, the scene
of liis laic explorations. Among m.a
ny curious things related by him, the
foiloAving Avilisiril.o tho reader as very
rtsnas-uahle:
Ties evening time forbids that I
shou'd siH-.-sk at any longlii of the nat
ural history of the country. Tu those
eeniatorial forests ttiero aro found a
vast number of r.nts, sonic of which
aro so tc-i riblo to man, anel eve n to iho
beasts ' tho Aveiods, from their venom
ous biie, their tierce temper, mid vo
racity, that their path i-t frequently
abandoned iolhoni. Tin; most remark
able tiul nieist dretnied i" ail is the
black Uashiliony. l'.ashihotiy is the
name given it by tho J I ik -t !.-i. Then"
are two otnor xto-ieties of tin; ilasiiiko
ny bt sides the Ma.ek kind. Tiiese
black Basihi-ouy may be wt-'l called t lie
lo'-'b of tiie foiwt. J' is the most vo
racious creature: .1 ever me.-!
It. is the
elrcad of till living
animals from the
tl.,..t 2 4.. Ti :..
j itt 1 1 ii. i riu . tn.M i;..--. j.t i:-,
their habit to march through iho ft tr
esis iii a h .ng, regular hue, a lino a'temt
tAvo ;, n-s i.ro;;d and often several
mile.-,-;.! length; ail along this lino are
ia-ge? nuts who act as ofliejer stand
onlsido the ranks and keep this singu
lar army in order, if they conic to a
pl;:e:e a in re tin-re are no trees to shel
ter them from iiie; sun, whose heat
the-y cannot bear, tiny immediately
build r.n underground tunnel through
Avliieh the whole army pass in columns
io tho forest beyond. When they grow
lmngry, ;is by a sudden command, the
long lilo spreads itself through the
forest advancing forward, attacking
and devouring aii living things with a
fury that is quite irresistible. Tho ele
phant and iho goiihht liy before them;
the black men run ivway; oaoi v animal
that lives in their lino of march is
chased. In an incredibly short space
ef timo those that are caught are over
whelmed, killed, eaten, and only the
bare skeleton remains. Thev seem to
travel day and night. Many a time I
have boon wakened out of a slee p anel
obliged to rush into tho AA'ater tet save
myself from t hem. When they enter a
house they clear it ol cverv living thing.
Cockropcl.-os arc devoured in an in
stant; rats and mice spring ai'ound t he
room in A-.a in. They will not touch veg
etable matter, thus they arc very use- j
fill, clearing the com try of many in
sects. When on their march the in
sect world ilies before them, and I have
often had t he approach of aBashikotry
army heralded to mo by this moans.
Yherover tliey go they mako a clean
r;woep, even ascending to tho top of
trees in pursuit of their lrey. Their
mauner of attack is an impetuous leap.
I list a at ly tho s.troncfarj s
icned a:-el they onry ::fc "JT"vjicn the
piece gives way. At such a timo this
littlo insect seems r nimalod by a kind
of fury, Avh'ch causes it tet disregard
entirely its own safely. The negroes
relate ihat criminals by which they
generally mean wizards, have some
times been exposcel on the path etf the
Eashikony ant s, lied tet a tree that tltey
might not escape, anel they wero ele
vourcd to tho bones. They are larger
than any ants Ave haAo in America.
The number ol one of their armies is
so great that one does not like to en-
tcr into calculations, but I havo seen a j which passes knowledge? l'aul, when
continuous lino passing at a good speed groAvn obi, sitting fcra -haired, sl.ivcr
a particular place for twelve hours. So ' ing in a dungeon iu lloino, coul l k.v
you may imagine hoAV mpry millions I with greater emphasis than wo can, ' l
there may have been.
Do always frank and true; spurn
every sort of affectation and disguise.
Have the courage ioconfess your igno
rance anel awkwa rdness. Confide yonr
faults anel fetllies to butfcAA
An e-poelition is to Ite sent out to
Central Africa, to ascertain, if possible,
the truth concerning tho fato of Dr.
Livingstone.
It is stated that of 1,327 Episcopal
churches in tho United States, 2(!t) bear
the name of Chris r., 2G4 of St. John,
257 of St. Paul, 242, of Trinity, 172 of
Grace, and 122 of St. James."
1 arv.
IVonclj to ilte Children.
"I have hear.1 ray !' !jer s.iy. and well my
father Iiiiew,
In it was meat tor tall grown men, mid
meat ur children too."
There was an element in the dis
courses of the olden time, which the
sermonizers of tho present day, for t lie
most pari, wholly ignore. Those an
cient men, of whom it is now so fashion
aoie to speaK stigiiiuigiy, as men wi
iron mould-and adamant heart, had in
theni some spring of tenderness whi' h
j icopt ai;ve au jin.lvst jn tH. little peo-
pie. Parsing by that species of put,- t
eloquence which m our day oilers
hardly more than milk iMid water for
the " full-grown man," h w few of t hosts
sermons-which aro worthy of being
calljtl food for the experienced disciple,
have in them a single word for the
little one. Whi'c the sheep are fed,
the lambs are. frisking a 1 tout the mead
ow, or fast asleep bom ath tho summer
sun. Do you no; sec them, ministers
from your h'gh v. -..i age-ground ? Do
you Hot detest ih" .arious epe.l' uts
to which the ch 1 ircti resort, to whiic
r;? 'Hie !:i!oiling
of h 'lulherclreiV.
Avitli vhi-pitiei s
b- i.f; Aviiiioui
restless Avar ci in
small bnfi'oo'H r;.
.ho
is wroiv "in,
on many r sur .ict?
sucii dcor;itioii; the
of i he c'o'k; the
of ih.ce-makiiig; ami
at longt
rarents ami all
na.tu ral gna rd-au s" as t o t he 1 i ! 1 le 'iad
i.m : . !.! on ', a
mloriab:-' r.ap?
i m go v i i.o
You may try, " J-i
S'bi.aih school, iii.'1-.
it'ii-n." Y.-. ?,,i;
Jikice. llof t iie bt-s; p'
be er.'i .' ta".";': tnai
s tin- -i
r.ee n r
he 1 1; ; !
. -t iio,. ; !n
ce. The y -.
hey h i vi. a
m.il
.'id.
i.i iiie ".etiioie
as we
as in tile p-ircii.
Ti.e 3i;;i.
)'(-ot,!e Kii 'UI.l not in :-i:u:o
,1,
i t) fool i hemsi iv e:t a
should bo taught (hi
whore eongreg'd itn.
tribe ajiart. but
r unity with tl o
The hiinb-t urn
as irr.ly a pitrt'on of iho llock, as tho
lloeco-'adoii shoep. 'j'hrf e minuten a!
I it-it i't the (' dren in every Hermon
surely wor. 1 i t little timo to give
1 hem, a hen you n ilect thai tin f:ist
llyitig hours and days are bringing
iiier.i te be, .almost before you :nc
aware, the men and Avonien, tin !' . her s
and i.iotiK'rs, of ocieiy. Ar i w -t e
tliey sure that the: 0 few WOitis m o
coining, ih: ir interest Avetnld bo kept
awake in watching for them, mnl h,
I y the av.'iv, i icy mig'it pick lip some
-c- L- of tt't.ih Lii'cjitit'ti tbr their elders,
wiiich yet should spring nj in tho
good noil of tho young heart, and grow
avtl bring foii Ii fruit to tho glory of
Ilhn who loved tho little children:
which should add to tin "golden
sho wer;" y.u sha.ll bear to the heavenly
gai ner, tho tender ami graceful beauty
and tho delicate fi igranco of the open
ing t'ower, or the just reddening bud.
Think of if, ye preachers of tho
Word: think of tho great inlluence you
would gain over thin class of your peo
ple, by showing them that you under
stand and love them. Setme of litem
Avill live fo bless you hero; many of
them wiil bo called early to Jesus. Will
it not bo a glad and precious greeting,
when you also shah! go through tho
gate s of pearl, to hoar the chili l-veiice s
singing around yon, and joining in
your Avckteime homo V To hear from
the lips whence fell tho command,
"IVed my lambs," tho blessed assu
rance, " Inasmuch us ye did it unto
one of Ae It'asI tffhrtw, ye did it unio
me.
"Get I bee up liH lln IliIi 3!omi
tit in 'I.
Our knowledge of Christ, i.i somo
Avhit like climbing one of our Welsh
mountains. When you aro at 'lie base
yem seo but little; the mountain itself
appears to bo but one-half as high as
it really is. Confined iu a little valley,
you se e scarcely any thingbut tho rip-
piing orooKs as ine-A' uoscmm i:no mo
stream at the foot of tho mountain.
Climb the first rising knoll, and tho
valley lengthens and widens beneath
your fee-t. Go higher and yoii seei tho
cent ntry for four or five miles round,
anel you are delighted with tho widen
ing prospect. Mount still, and tho
scene enlarges; until at last. Avh.-n you
are on the summit and look east, west,
r.ejrth and south, you see almost nil of
Ihigkui-.l lying before you. Yonder i)
a fcro'.t iu sei,ic ilisi.uri country, kt
haps two hundred miles away, ami
here 1lo sea, and there a shining river
and tho smoking chimneys of a maim
f.icturiiig town, or the: masts of the
ships in a busy port. All these things
pleao and delight you, ami you say;
"I could not have imagined that so
much foul I i'O see n at this elevation."
Now, tho Christian li 'o is of tho same
order. When we first believe in Christ
wc see but little of him. The higher
aa'o climb iho more Ave discover of hi
heantios. Dal who has OA'er gained
the summit? Who has known all the
heights and depths of t ho love of Ch list
j kuoav AUietm l nave iteiioveti, ien- tacu
! experience had be n like the climbing
of a lull, cacii trial nau ik-cu like as
cending another summit, and in death
scorned like gaining tho teip of tho
mountain, from which ho could soetho
whole of the faithfulness and lovo of
him to whom he had committed liis
soul. Get thee up, dear friend, into
tho high mountain. $jitrgYn.
IIev. J. W. Lanky, a supcranuated
minister of the Montgomery Conference
formerly presiding elder of Eufaula
District, died at his brother, llobert
Lancy's, in Pike co., Ala., last Fcbru