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ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE, OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.
1 Rev. W. II. WIS llVCi CJI3I, Publisher.
VOL. I
j ix.miGxi, int. c, AVi5DN3i:sr).ir, jtje io, 1807.
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views is the passage of Scripture till a- 1 Paul, ;ukI yet in that very connection
. .'. ii; thy hui'.Ii ii. lii-iii- it joyfully,
i. ur nut sin's darkest cave t- enter in;
tf -ive iliy yet Israel's l.e.r.1 is
niirh.
Aa.l u'i'f thy f. I'.ov,- mon In- hears thee sijjli.
-i kin. for thou lov'st. a soul to win.
(. there i- no -'(low en 'by '-VW.
No t.vir that ri.es. nr. swill" cry to l.i.'ss
Tin- soi-il tiiuii barest, liut 11.' heetlefu. Thou
S!i:ik soon rek'iee liirht lire.i'teth even now:
Ua." to the murk of thy liirfi caUiiv press.
i" h j) isiurt's of tin' iMeriiess may moefc
Tiiiii' earnest lalmi's. Lock thou to tin hills.
;..! .-hall tin- chambers of his dew naWk.
'1'il! livitiit water from the smut- u rock
SVLt ii lertiliziiiir streams, each furrow fills.
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h.'.iv.'-: a liolv iiatienee keen;
liijllie ir'.y :iiil tae latter r;.i:t:
thartaitii hath s-eatieivl.lovchalIiv;iji.
w:i: MiV i.oiit may let iuee weep.
1 thine shall tie in vain.
nave;
TIs thy 1. ve'l irensly ft ckons on:
His ime iliunies for thee each l.-is.-mir cl
When yon fair lau.l oi'liht al !at i.- won.
And si-.'.i time o'er, ami liarvest work hejran.
He'll own the fruit '.hut shadows now en
shroud. i'.ehold: the Master st andeih at the door:
fry for S.ih iotu- l.-n-.l rai-.' thou thy voice!
h.ri hour of la!.or. .mn shaii it fe oVr:
'l'lio dawn is lireakinir -ni;j;n shall lie no more:
Then ui:h thv hurv-st Lot .1 tno.i -halt vji.iee.
Aitfft ,';..,'.
5ii-Inl Jvinslcy on tiie Condi
tion of tUe Heat lieu.
In the o V.-''r;v of the 9th January..
I find the following query and an edi
torial note:
"Are the heathens who die without
ever hearing the Gospel saved? If
saved, then why is it necessary to send
the (rospel to them? If not saved,
what do the Pith, 13th, 11th and 15th
verses of the 2nd chapter of Kumans
mean? LI. A. Lf.mast
" AVe fear no one can answer this
question in tlie space we allow: but lot
them trv. Ed. V. C. AJi'rM'"
lllCL- of
ded to in the query, "For as many an
have sinud without law, shall perish
without law, and as many as have siu
ed in the law shall be judged by the
law; for not the hearers of the law are
justified before (Sod, but the doers of
the law shall be justified. For when
the ( 5 entiles heathen j w hich have not
the law the written revelation do by
nature the things contained in the law
these, not having the law, are. a law
unto themselves, which do show forth
the work of the law written in their
hear L. their own conscience also bear
ing witness, and their thoughts mean
while accusing or else excusing one an
other." It remains, then, but to answer, the
other question, "Why is it necessaiy
to send the Gospel to them" the
heathen ?
1. It is not necessary to adopt a
false theory in order to present strong
motives for sending the Gospel to the
heathen. The truth, and not error, is
to save men. The notion that the
heathens must perish forever .simply
tor navmg their existence in circum
stances which lie forever bevoud their f
own control is not the truth, but a
slander upon the character of God,
and abhorrent to all right ideas of jus
tice, to say nothing of mercy or good
v "ill. It is contrary to all sound theolo
gy, and would but poorly convince the
heathen that ' God is love."
2. The motive for sending the Gos
pel to the heathen is just the same as
that for sending the Gospel to any
other sinners. The Gospel is the pow
er of God unto salvation, and we are
commanded to proclaim it to every
creature. The e'ospel faithfully pro
claimed, v."o:idirfu!ly increases the
probabilities of salvation. Oar Saviour
espivs!y tc-.ichej this doclil:ie. 2no
he has shown it possible for a heathen,
without a written revelation, to bo
saved.
Does this destroy his zeal for preach
ing the Gospel to them ? By no means.
His '"'hole life was one continued effort
to save the heathen, lie needed no
unscriplural theory to stimulate him.
Believing as he did, may wto imitate
his untiring zeal for the conversion of
the heathen world.
I'aily Metliodist Clmracters.
HY KEV. mt. STEVEXS.
.iuister has a right to sav that A, B,
one horse (having
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, is
'r C cannot be saved unless he
the G spel to mem. Ho know
possible that all ihree of them may bo
saved without him. And vet he mav
i'eol that there is imminent daiK-vr that
Vv" ill not the jn-actical
me question justify a little more space j
tlian is usually te voted to these que
ries ? If you think so I will submit the
following:
The query is not evidently whether
all heathen are saved. This cannot 1 e
affirmed bv all who have the Gospel.
The real question is, " Is it possible
for the heathen who have never heard
the Gospel to be saved?"'
It is possible for some heathen to be
thus saved; or else all heathen chil
dren are lot. If sinrply never hear
ing the Gospel Ls sufficient reason for
being excluded from heaven, then not
only all heathen infants, but all other
infants must be excluded. An adult
heathen is no more guiltv than an in-
they never will.
j-iio same motives urge Ufa-istians to
reach -the Gosnel to the heathen, as
urge them to preach it in the Five
Points." Take the worst case in all
that horribly corrupt neighborhood
it is not a necessity that, that person
shall be lost. Yet the probabilities are
as a million to one that he will be un
less Christian effort rescue him. It is
not a necessity that the child brought
up to lie and swear and steal, will go
to perdition. He may, by a desperate
effort, tear himself away from tlie vi
ces around him, and reform; but the
fearful probabilities are, almost beyond
comparison, against it. "What Chris
tian, with a Christian heart in him,
would stand aloof from trying to save
fant for the time or place of his birth; I , .i "' -n , , ,
x . . ' I elusion that it is possible for him to
escape the fearful pollution that thrcat-
nor can he, anv more than an infant.
embrace a Gospel which was never
within his reach. To suppose that the
one or the other will be punished for
ever for not doing something never
possible to be done, is something con
trary to all justice, blasphemous to the
last degree, and without a shadow of
foundation in the Word of God. If,
therefore, a heathen is punished for
ever, it must be for doing somcthhi"-
which he could .have avoided, or foi
failing to do something he could have
avoided, or for failing to do somethin
he could have performed. By the very
nature of the case, therefore, he had it
in his power, by avoiding the cause of
ens his eternal ruin. The alarminj?
probability is that he will rush on to
perdition; and yet if that man or that
child stands at last condemned at the
bar of God, it will be for doing what
he might have prevented, or neglect
ing what he might and could have per
formed. Every human soul i3 judged
according to the "deeds done in the
body." All men and angels cannot
save a soul without his own effort,
nor can all men and devils destroy him
without his own consent. Such is the
high and God-like liberty with which
the Creator has endowed his creature,
roltOOTTEN HEROES.
Tjie two brothers, Coleman and Si
mon Carlisle, were successful evange
lists of the South. The former joined
the intinerancy in 1792, and was sent
to Broad Biver Circuit; in 1793, to
Tar River; 1791, Broad River. At the
end of this year he located; butinlSOl
he rejoined the conference, and was
I sent to Broad River; in 1802, to Salu
da; in 1S03, to Sandy River. This
year, compelled by domestic necessities,
he again located; but he loved the itin
erancy, and whenever he could leave
his helpless family to travel, he did so.
In lbl9, he again entered the itiner
ancy, ttnd was appointed to Bush River
Circuit. In the latter part of 3823, he
''finally located, not from choice, but
from absolute necessity."' "lie was,"
says one of his ministerial contcmpo
laries, "a poor man, with a sickly,
though truly good ttnd excellent wife,
and quite a number of little boys and
girls. I have known him, after re
turning home from preaching several
miles distant, after supper, take the
but one, ) and
moonlight until
tn n go oif next
morning to tan tippoiuuneuis, etc. lie
neither owned nor hired ser ants. Oh!
tell me not of the hardships of our
itinerant brethren in the present day !
In Carlisle's time there was no provis
ion Tuade for family expenses." Bverv
married preacher lead io bay Ids corn
and meat out ef the small pittance of
his disciplinary allowance, which, small
as it was, was very frequently not re
ceived. In such cases, the poor itine
rant had to raise his bread and meat,
and make a little, to school his children
by hard and incessant blows, with anx
ious watching thereunto.
He was a very popular preacher, and
when local, lie would be sent for far
and near to preach funeral sermons;
and what is strange, passing strange,
if for his long rides and good sermons
he ever received a present to the
aanount of a picayune, I know not.
Ho was a man of strong passions, by
nature quite irritable, and his peculiar
temperament was a matter of deep re
gret to him. Hence he used to say to
mo that he believed an ounce of grace
would go further with some than a
ed hini in the ministry by two years,
endured also the severest hardships of
the itinerancy, and an additional and
at last one of those providential vin
dications W'hich so often occur in the
annals of English and v American
Methodism, and which may well in
spire with hope till innocent sufferers.
After having labored with humble but
intrepid devotion on some of the hard
est fields of the South ho was arrested,
before the Church, and expelled in
1791, and his name appears in the min
utes of that year branded with reproach
as a fallen and outcast man.- Nojj'flie
tion, no martyrdom could have beeu
more appalling to a faithful Methodist
preacher of those days of ministerial
chivalry. The charge alleged against
him was such as, if possible, to enhance
the bitterness of his grief, by combin
ing meanness with
guilt, for it was
ough wi'li him
vie I,,;,",.;-.-!.-!
nearly ninuui
Iran
theft ! For two years the guiltless
man bore, with bowed head, this great,
and to him mysterious sorrow; but his
faith failed not. He had gh en'offence
by reproving a disturbance in one of
his rude frontier congregations; under
the provocation, a young man went to
his stopping-place, placed a pistol in
his saddle-bags, and the next day got
out a search-warrant for him, making
oath that he believed Carlisle had
stolen his weapon. An officer hastened
after him on his circuit, overtook him,
and charged him the with crime. The
astonished preacher, conscious of inno
cence, readily consented to have his
saddle-bags searched. The pistol was
found in them; he was thunderstruck;
he knew not what to do, but calmly
gave himself up to the officer. He
was found guilty, and had no way to
clear himself. Even the Church threw
him oil'. But the wretched youut' man
was cast on his death-bed. About an
hour before he expired he frantically
cried out: 'T cannot die, I cannot die
until I reveal one thing". Mr." Carlisle
never stole that pistol; I myself put it
in -his saddle-bags." Ho then became
calm, and so passed into eternity?
Carlisle was restored to the ministry,
and died in it with peace, in 1838.
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For the F.(iseoial Meihudist.
A I'it'u fur Asscmtii!s.
BY ! II W.JA.
moil All1 t'.f ii- irtrtimlt.. w. 1 .
punishment, to avoid the punishment i . ,
1 j will give his consent m accordance with
the influences around him, esxjecially
itself
The heathen who is condemned is
condemned for not walking in the light
he has, be it more or less. One rule
in this respect applies to all men every
where The heathen or the christian
who walks in the light he has, and in
all the light lie can obtain, will be saved,
and i hr. lio-if finr. t, "!, i .
loves "darkness tW ti,o ui,. hm' 111 ev0,7 Ptiug form,
....- . ;. " . . taints t
u.j. xiiil oi salvation
if these influences arc nearly all on the
one sido or the other. WTiat stronger'
motive can be desired or conceived
than those w-hich urge tho Church, un
der such circumstances, to Christian
activity ?
The case of tho heathen is darker
Christ is "the
true light that lightens every man that
comet h into the world." All men have
some light as tho purchase of Ids death.
As a man may derive light from the
natural sun, and yet not see the sun
himself, so may a heathen derive light
from the Sun of Righteousness, who
has never seen the Saviour nor heard
his name. The Holy Spirit whom the
Father sends in Jesus' name, "re
proves," that is convinces, "the world
of sin, of righteousness and of judg
ment." A heathen who thus walks in
the light, according to the degree that
God has given him, wi51 be saved, and
saved too, by the merits of Christ, al
though tho first time ho hears the Sa
viour s name may bo in the city of the
Now Jerusalem.
In perfect accordance with these
ne very air. The influences are
almost without exception, on the wrong
side. Yet the heathen sinner is not
condemned for these influences, any
lurther tnan he has helped to produce
then
if Im
pound would with others. But he was
deeply pious, conscientious in his at
tention to closet and family worship,
and by grace was enabled to subdue
his natural passions, and to keep them
in proper bounds. I never knew him
thrown oil his hinges in the jralpit but
once. While preaching, a woman sat
right before him with a child, which
kept up a constant squalling; about
midway of his sermon he said, 'Do,
sister, take that child out;' and down
he sat, not rising again to finish his
sermon. He was in general quite so
cial and agreeable with all around him.
He was in particular a great favorite
with the young. To myself he was a
father, brother, and sincere friend. I
hope never to forget him. Carlisle
lived to a good old age, 'and he died,"
when, where, or how, some of his chil
dren and near neighbors, may know;
but, alas! the Church at large in South
Carolina knows it not. Yet he was
among the pioneers of Southern Metho
dism. He endured hardships as a
good soldier of Christ. He often hun
gered and thirsted. He labored, work-
or tailed to oppose them. And j "anus: oemg revitea,
is condemned for yielding to ' eit,lu,uT again; being persecuted,
them, this very fact implies that he ' Jie ulUlurc,a "J bem h-famed, ho en-
could have withstood them. A neces- ! u;oatca 110 endeavored, as. far as in
sitated sin U an absurdity, a mockery : m ay' to rr-':tc!l Christ crucified to
on human probation; and yet the hea- ; por' to wluto aud clored,
then, in these circumstances, will yield ; to yOU11? and old- Tlie llay of jJg-
to the corrupting influences around ment tel1 of mailJ who were
them and perish; while it is equally i hrottSht homo to d and to glory
certain that proper christian iid'ucn- ; : J1"0" instrumentality. Peace to
ces, to a similar extent, would increase :'
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i Jms remains wherever thev mn.v liV!'
t .. t. i ... m y
if io. "1 - M i
a million fold the probabilities of their ' the name's of such lab 1 VT
h V-fc KJ tjL-VX
ration. Does any Christum want n-s for the Church from oblivion how-
stronger motives for preachint' the evt1' stid may be our sense of theinade-
Gospel to the heathen ? ' iuacy of tLeir record.
No man has ever given a darker pic- iu:mai;k.u3Ee delivekance.
turc of the heathen world than has St. His brother, Simon Carlisle, preceed-
We possess in the sacred scriptures
the only reliable history of man in the
early ages of the world. The history
of tho Jews, the most favored nation,
was drawn with all the nimuiyuess of
shade and coloring that truth and in
spiration could give.
If we trace the history of that won
derful people, while under the divine
government, we find nothing indicative
of tificnilp or rnri!i.Sitif lirineinlos mnnii
them, until Ave roach the time of the
Pharisees, some two or three centu
ries before the Christian era. They
had many feast days, commanded to be
kept, but few fast days.
A number of seasons set apart for
rejoicing, while but one day set apart
for " afflicting their souls." That was
the day of atonement. Lev. xxiii, 27.
This chapter shows that the feast-day
and holy-day economy was to bring
the people together in social worship
and rejoicing, nothing tending to
drive them asunder and into solitude;
no penances, tortures or self-inflictions;
no command to appear before
tho Lord sorrowing.
The first intimation we have of any
sect avowing principles hostile, in any
way, to a rational enjoyment of amuse
ments, occurs among the Pharisaical
religionists. They adopted, a -system
of religious belief, founded partly on
the Scriptures, and partly on tradition.
That made heaven the reward of earth
ly trials and sorrows. They imposed
vows, more or less rigid and onerous.
Those vows were mostly directed
against indulgence in tho common en
joyments of life, imposing, as our Lord
in one place sjeaks of them, " heavy
burdens." Hence they fasted often,
and made long prayers,
ded love for all his works. Hence,
they taught that true believers would
love each other, enjoy each other's so
ciety; that they would " look through
nature up to nature's God," and that
every beauty, bounty, and delight
w ould bo a support, around which the
affections would cling, and twine, and
grow, till they blossomed in heaven.
This was a new and strange doctrine
to tho Pharisees, and they looked upon
it as a rank heresy. Their first ob
jection to the new sect was tho enjoy
ing the pleasures of life.
The first teacher of the new doctrine
came neither eating nor drinking, ami
the old sect said he had tC devil; that"
he was too ascetic in other words,
out-doing them; and they denounced
him at once. John the Baptist was
followed immediately by his Master,
Jesus Christ, who como eating ttnd
drinking like other men: and as good
as said, all the good things of life, are
not made by God for .sinners. He was
present with his disciples at a marri
age festival, which, according to the
Jewish custom, was celebrated with
great rejoicings. lie went there with
no cold feelings to frown upon its
bright hopes and warm congratula
tions, but to heighten its joy by Lis
presence. He was eminently social in
his nature ; all this was carefully noted
by tho Pharisees; and they denounced
him as " gluttonous, and a wine biber,"
and charged him of being " a friend of
publicans and sinners," they charged
him with indulging in tho bounties of
Providence and social delights. The
difference between the creed of the
Pharisees and that of Christ and his
apostles seems to be, that tho former
required their disciples to oj pvar holy,
the hitter required theirs to l,: hly.
The former had no suspicion of them
selves, but stood in fear of the iniluen
ces of outward things, such as the
beauties of nature, and tlie pleasures
of society, and the amusements of tho
World, hence they hated and shun
ned them; while the latter taught that
the seat of moral disease is in .the
heart, and that if that was corrected
and purified, all of God's works would
harmonize v- ilh it. The Pharisees
feared the world; the followers of
Christ feared the deceitfulness of their
own hearts.
A few centuries after tho Christian
era, the Pharisaical doctrine reached
its utmost limit in establishing the or
der of ascetics who were dissatisfied
with nature as it was, and noplace for
them; a mistake in putting them here;
hence they shut themselves up in mon
asteries and ummcries to correct the
evil as far as they could and set right
God's mistake. They thought there
was too much that was tempting and
alluring in the bright drapery of tho
heavens, in the gaudy furniture of
earth, in the rich bounties of nature,
and in the social disposition of man, to
leave room for heavenly contemplation
and preparation. They saw no other
way than to make a little miniature
w orld of their own, in the shape of a
monastery, cold, dark, dreary and un
social with a few torments of their
owrn seeking, to constitute, as they
thought, the true outlines of a world
for the tmining of their natures for a
higher and better sphere of existence.
In accordance with these principles
they looked for joys in heaven just in
proportion to the tibsenco of till com
fort and happiness here below. Pleas
ure, amusement, joy and delight, be
came synonymous of the word sin, as
self-denial, abstinence, penanco ane
self-afflictions, wero synonymous of the
-A)
(otl Finds Men to Accomplish
II is Purposes.
'We thank tbee, Lord, when thou lost lie ;d,
The man aye ripens lor (he deed."
Even bo; I believe it. "Whenovcr God
has a need, there will be the man
ready. God has a college as well as
we ; and God knows where his collegi
ans are. He is training them. Storm.
3Iinl Di'ieinlciit on Hod v.
( j reat men havo, as a rule, had stroi ig,
handsome, ime-fibred, enduring bodies.
Napoleon was very strongly and hand
somely built, and had immense powers
of working and enduring fatigue. So
had "Wellington. Humbolt all his long
lifo needed only four hours a day sleep.
Agassiz is a man of prodigious physi
cal vigor. Charlemagne was of colos-
tcmpest, trial, temptation, sorrow and stature and vast physical strength.
bereavement are all God's great teach
ers engaged in getting men ready to
turn the world upside down, and when
God wants a man lie -will Lnd him.
When did he ever want a man, indeed,
that he could not find ?
"When was there ever a grand work to
do, smd no worker ready to do it?
"When God had determined to bring
the people of Israel out of bondage,
and wanted a man to lead them, where
did he go? He did not go where you
and 1 would have gone. We should
probably have gone to some stern Jew,
w ho, whilst occupied at the brickwork,
was "nursing his wrath to keep it
warm," Not so with God. God went
to the most unlikely man living, to one
who had everything to lose and noth
ing to gain by coining out. God went
to the son of Pharaoh's daughter, and
said, " I have need of thee." The suni-
AVashmgtou was an exceedingly strong
man. Henry ard Bccchcr is re
markably powerful in hiu make, strong
limbed, deep chested, heavy, and ut
the same time quick and active.
Daniel "Webster was of massive physi
cal proxwrtions. Henry Clay hail im
mense endurance. So had S. ii. Pren
tiss, probably the most wonderful ora
tor the United States ever produced,
and who could travel, speak, eat, talk.
plead in court and gamble over a faro
table for three or four days without
sleeping at all, and looked all fresh and
bright when he got through. AH
great soldiers have had great strength
and endurance, Sherman and Grant
and Thomas have it. Scott had it. Of
"Wellington and Napoleon and Ctes ir
I have spoken. Frederick the Great
had it; aud Marshall Save, tho strong
est man of his day; and Charles XII,
mons was obeyed, and the new leader of Sweden, and Gustavus Adolphns.
ureat philosophers and great poets and
artists have not been so rennukabl i
for vast strength as for fineness of tex
ture and (in tlie ease of the poets at
hast) for personal beauty. Goethe
was wonderfully handsome and statt ly
in person. Shakespeare was a hand
some man. Milton was singularly at
tractive in person. Byron, though
lame, laid otherwise an extremely line
face and person. Tennyson is a man
of great strength ttnd commanding
physique. Southey and "Wadsworth
were men of fino person. Keats was
handsome. Raphael, Albeit Durer,
Michael Augelo, Titian, Leonardo do
Vinci, Reubens, Vandyke were all men
of very beautiful or of very state
ly personal appearance. Ihruld ,f
Jlralth.
brought them out of bondage, and the
people of Israel said, " The Lord hath
donG marvelous things."
And so in after days, when that
haughty giant of the Philistines strode
up and down before the hosts of the
Lord, and set them at defiance. "When
Goliath thundered forth the challenge,
" Bring me out a man that I may light
with him," God sought his champion.
And where did he find him ? Not where
you and I should have gone. "We should
have gone to some one who had been
a man of Avar from his youth up, well
disciplined and well trained, and should
have said, " Go ye up to meet him."
God did not do so. God went to a
ruddy youth. Ho went to David, who
was watching by the flock, knowing
nothing of the sword, and the spear,
and of military movements, and said
to liini, " I have need of thee." He
called him out, and the bimplo shep
herd went and met and fought the gi
ant. Ho was not to have a sword; he
was not to have a spear; but was to
oration or tlie .soul.
From immemorial time in all coun
tries the seat of intellect is universally
admitted Lit be in the bruin. Wiv
patient and very learned anatomists
meet the giant with a stone and sling; j have explored that organ to find the
and by-and-by tho giant fell, tho Phil- exact locution of the soul, but without
istines lied, and the daughters of Isra
el sang, " Saul has slain his thousands,
but David litis slain his tens of thou
sands." Afterwards, when God de
termined that the Gospel should be
any degree of success. Still, all uiuto
in the admitted fact that it is some
where in the brain. By a blow or
concussion tho mental powers are de
ranged or suspended; and when the
preached unto all nations, and wanted I delicate mechanism of the cerebral
his first Missionary, whero did he go mass is diseased, alterations of tho
for him ? Not where you and I should
have gone. "We should probably havo
thought of John, with his loving heart,
or we might havo converted one of the
Magi, and made him tho preacher.
God did not so act. God went to one
mind immediately follow. Thereforo
all are agreed upon that ono point
that the characteristic manifestations
of the intellect are performed in tho
brain.
Now for an anomaly. In hydroco-
words grace and virtue.
a near way to heaven, through self
imposed tribulations and tears. The
Pharisees behoved in the virtue of good
looks, and hence held to scouring tho
outside of platers, and whitewashing
the sepulchres, and as they always
kept the outside in good trim, they
figured largely at the corners of streets
and in market-places. A century or
two after, a new sect arose, who con
tended that it was the inside, and not
the outside, that needed praificatioii.
The "Wife. It needs no guilt to
break a husband's heart. The absence
of content, the muttering of spleen,
the untidy dress and cheerless home
the forbidding scowl, and deserted
hearth these and other nameless neg
lects, without a crime among them,
have harrowed to the quick the heart's
core of many a man, and planted there
beyond the reach of cure, the germ of
dark despair. Oh! may woman, be
fore the sight arrives, dwell on tho re
nouncing collections of her youth, and, cherish
ing ihe dear idea of that tuneful time,
awake and keep alive the promises she
so kindly gave.
And though she may be tlie injured,
not the injuring one, the forgotten,
not the forgetful wife, a happy allusion
to the peaceful love, a kindly welcome
to a comfortable home a kiss of peace
to pardon all tho past, and the hardest
heart that was ever locked in the
breast of selfish man, will soften to her
charms, and bid her live, as she had
Ihey taught that the heart was the Jloped, her years in matchless bliss,
seat of health or disease; that there i lovVvmg, anil content the sooth-
' KIT nF wi i-.ivcnu 1 .
is no purity nor piety without supreme j q caomf ort tmd the siiiriii o- f inv. I -
ovo to God; and that herein is inclu- ! mymous.
of the narrowest hearts, to a Hebrew of j phalus, water may so distend tho brain
tho Hebrews, the straitest of his sect. I from within toward tho circumferenco
God said, I have need of thee. And j as to really make it appear almost like
from the lips of Paul were first heard a simple sac, and yet the oieratioiis
the glorious words, " God hath niado J of the mind remain apparently almost
of one blood all tho nations that dwell normal. All the upper surfaco of the
upon the earth." j bruin has been reieutedly torn away,
So again, further down the path of ven to severing tho olfactory and
lime, when the Reformation was to oplic nerves, exposing their lacerated
burst forth, and Popery was to receive extremities without impairing tho m-
a blow from w hich it was never to re- tellcct for hours, till inflammation corn
cover, where did God go for his eham- menced. An iron bar one inch in di
pion ? Not where you and I should ameter and four feet in length, waa
have gone. "We should have gone to blow n by iowder entirely through tho
tho Wiekhffites. But no; God went center of tho brain of a railaord man
into the very ark of Popery; found out at Cavendish, Vermont, a few years
Martin Luther, and said, " I have need ago, carrying away both bones above
of thee." And out he came, "the soli- a,Kt below, beside forcing a column of
tary monk that shook the world;" and the brain beforo the end of tho bar,
Popery has never rallied from the mutilating the interior delicate struc-
blow w hich that solitary monk's arm turo within, and rending arterial twigs
then dealt upon her. So too, ,JJ the dozens, and yet he recovered,
w hen Formalism was to receive a blow
that she was to feel until she had ceas
ed to exist, and a preacher was wanted
to deal that blow, where did God seek
his champion ? Not where you and I
should have gone. "We should have gone
to the Independents. AVe should have
brought out a man under that influ
ence, and htwc said, " Go and denounce
Formalism w herever you find it." God
did not do so; God went to a thorough
Formalist, to one who would have made
a capital Ritualist at that time, one
John "Wesley by name a man who is
said to htwc declared that he shotdd
have thought it almost a sin for a man
to be converted out of Church. But
God wanted him, and laid his hand
upon him and said, " I have need of
thee." And out he came. All tho
walls were thrown down. Puny men
went up to him and complained, " Yo-i
are comrug into my parish !" " The
world," said he, " is my parish."
with till tlie usual mental and moral
powers intact. "Whero is tho soul
lodged, Messieurs Philosophers?
A Goon Yeau's "Wouk. A Methodist
preacher, the Rev. Mr. Hallis, who
wiis appointed to labor as a missioiniry
in the City of New York, gives tho fol
lowing Summary of his labors during
one a ear:
A summary of mission work for tlie
conference year is as follows: Fami
lies visited, 12,051; (of which 483 were
colored;) families prayed with, l,10-;
pages of tracts distributed, 20,310;
sermons preached, 259; prayer-meetings
held, 179; class-meetings held,
111; children's names obtained for
Sunday-schools, a large portion of
whom have been brought in, 9S7; ses
sions of Sunday-schools held,
chihbi n baptized, 57; adults baptised,
G; funerals attended, 30; conversions,
142; members and probationers gath
ered into classes and societies, 134.