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n THE EPISCOPAL METH0DT8T. lit v SI. T. IN i)M, Directing Rriitor PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF METHODISM IN THE STATE OF MOKTH FA ROJJXA. ii v. . ii. r.Mf 'isMMk r 1 I. K A I.KKil T, 1ST. C, AVEDNESDAY, J A?s FA 1 V 1, 180S. 1 - " 4 L'.hc -tmpu, I i i lie 1 lirea i in a iau.VN. real and unfeigned piety, nut only in the just administration of his olivine laws, 1-ut also in his own private ex ample. He loved his people as an af fectionate father loves his children. His kinglv rule, though necessarily rigorous, wa:. ol'l.-ti full of kindness and ge Mlenes.-.; ho wan patient with thi.- people in .-..-as, ..is, of trial and dis order, and loiig-?.nffeiing in times of than a bundled ea!'-. I'elole t ",,!.!,-. . :.aii. d !oi Natal, oh .:., l !,t i 1 1 1 -n that the .untie had n..t bcm, discovered ' IH.pular cmmoiion and not. He , . . illlt the ' Ilncr ' aside hi-, natural dignity, or , . , ! . . ti... . ... ; .i . . .r l, ;.-,! .aV.e.. i ice. iiVt-r; hro ii o. ..-' M I In allusion to the integrity of the u :. N. eioj. lis SAnoien! Egypt H: Id :::- mlscl iM llfNfceil ehutlled i '.liitt'uch, t.e .bi-ir Tr.me " It lhai k ST "What greater reasons have there ever been to attribute to Mohammed his Alcoran, to Plato his lh public, and . ,: niii:-. .i i. :k t of the tilth year .... , ni ti .. n.t'rh Lin.r ,-kf i to Homer his Iliad : . i ..... .. .. i . l i . Iil 1 ia. i lo ! !. ,i il.-. i : t i. I l. "J il-., lit 1:1 f !lf I'cvpt i am- i ll.! il IS J'l-t. 1.1 aid ti; the t-i the nation. fhe is the .acied hook of t!ie I ,ftv, thai has leen read with venera . tion for thousands of ears. It in- m h philoso- ; eludes all then- ietn-e, all their eivil, ' politieal, and leligi-.ms eode, their great treasure, their calendar, their annals: the only tit Iri of their sover f ins and pontiiV-i: their onlv rule of politv ;i.iid worship. "Though ehav ed it'n iuiuosture, Tvloses speaks on lv truth." "What an impostor must he- be who first spoke of divinity in a manner -o sublime that no one since, ! til a s-utfieieut answer i .vim, ds," :-.ays tiiat i he inventors of nown that at Thi !' 'i-i the id-tal al- t'. ri,e !: iiii nto piiabet Bisb.Mi A'ailiurton iof the ooiliion that E-vf.tial. hioroe-lvphios did not i h ;llmost 'KlV tl,,nls:inJ l, eome',aered till after the invention ' llAS '""' :lblc to 8UrPa9s hiro!'- .com of letti Jo hns :ne::t inform ns that i: r-f Christ iauitv t ei Hiero..ivph;e- h.d t! am; l' li'o.te: pil't;i,l the Jen . . .1 , ' ...ii, y th f all t l.e l.u; r i ejoiiit lestiili 'hureh ai.o the s:u-r i- ( M Testament, and and Lis apost !os." '"Tliut ameudi-it'iits to it, either bv addin giut . is .'li .'i never tV-aiti. should bo exempt from tiona." "From M;se-, t.. tli. law was in eunst.-ti.t us. !.'--..- ;;...:. b-'.v. bv him. i oi -tc-'t ifT-l J ... ." . . 4 ...1. it C'le- ' imposioi luii&i ne iib Miofe onsidei 1 i style, equally simple, affecting, and ,i ; sublime, in spite of the rudeness of those first ages, openly displays an in spiration altogether divine." When (b d commanded Moses to in- dite the Law, he intended that for all time his r . .'.';-' revealed will should : be "Separated from the doubtfulness and uin'ci tainties of oral tradition." , With his own Huger he traced its fun ' dumeittals on a surface of rook, which i for aes was preserved in the ark of the covenant. He ordered his ministering servant ! to record in the most legible manner . ail of his commandments, so that in i the future thev might become a rule of it trm ';i v b. t a ot i -f the sviu i ricei s of the if the Sailniir 1 .fell llla.lii ( r b v eXplltl- th'iii ysrobaljle, for (iod d th:-.L the .-...! 1 books Mich . n iiiera- ertiiMVitv the , " 1 l eligion and policv s ariti.)gi'apa was I .The ..Tew followed this rula from i the remotest antiquity; they followed j it in all its details, with a reverence fitd.l to tt .iv;:. 1 n i. ., :-f..l i.r-:.i' ihp nrl: boiMenn:'- on superstition, in no pe-a-tvs ot 1 1 1 . nod ol their historv is there. an v evi- whero it was f.-un.; in tiio King To.-i,th. It is thought to have been de:;troj ed ;i the e:iptiity. To my lain 1 on..- of tin- strongest arguments that uu be adduced to prove the vnninenens and authenti city of the Veiitatetieh is t!ie benevo lent object of if-; fi' im.-r in ni dciae- Iii-j : , I . -I ll l I . -O'1 1 A ; 'III. I 1'. '7 1 -O : . ll l i " ' ! "Sparta iormed her soldiers, liome denee that they ever doubted itsgen ! uineness, or that they thought it to be the oitspving of tradition. I "Imposture passes away ; but f ruth i stands the test " j Thus ,ve must conclude that Moses j was not a political charlatan, but a true representative of Heaven, for he clearly mirrored the divine mind. Meek was ir- bevond all men that did no. , -.;. !.. I bey, ; a m a Vli't 11' m . d t!i .-.-ire to ! h-r con'UeiMi::, Caiih.e.'e lier njer- i . ..i .. i 4 1 i -. , ir. i .Meelc was n- enaiiis. o n ine mmiIiiiiou oi jmsi s i ueie upon the earth. He ruled the ........I... iii i-i. 1111.: iiIi.Im.1 tll.lil anon, a nation true 1 1 ' ' r' , ... i: 4- 1 f,...,.. .if ,;s statnti-s a nation ; i ruin, taught them th mind of Jeho vah, and established for them an im perishable rule of faith. The rabbis call him the father of all the wise men who went before him, and of all who came after, on whoso menu it v 1 peaco. statutes, a nation the ;h-it sii 'iild l.-i come an examvle -. !; -e 'Vol 1 1 . t j,;,! v ui,, pui.ty." In thi- n-iiii-h l tiikiie- lie main t' t-...t a v:i.- i... in and dev: Uoii unkuoii t all oih.-r la w:i'i vi-r.; and h-j.-i.-l.ttol's. He iui.ie i ! i.-.beii.-e the ealdilial ; principle of b;s i .-m-irl.abie oovern- ! ill. h! ; ob.-di.-!ii.-e hoi to m.i'i, but til t- Ali !l.. .-.Ilbie.'i ; W: 1 I I . t i:n. .. it-.-1 1 .; in. IV e. ilnOe'le.i vvi-j-, j!i-ti.-e, oo. .i ine.-s. ai! -1 i idi.-lH I t lie M tv ltahr of t iie universe, who m mii lute b v.- had heconn- tli.- iaiour an.l I edeeiilel o! the J leot lie. 'lhuN .-x cry l e le- ltl.ite.l b 1 ' l r l.i-il.'is la Vult eie. v.. I. ii. ' "i.-i-r ( ; o-'.iV I lit i .f ! r'v-i.'in." ( 'all IK 'I'.-' !iv:iclrf i.u the Pent cell 'Ii v.. I. ii. o .lews" l.t'tier-i to Vol I Hit i'. I -.;:niii:i!.i," l. i . " .-ei a in ..-at. 1 . iU. How Lot IS XaI'oI.IOX lilVAMK NaI'O- i r.on 111. The .storv runs, or at lem.t leli ! lie ni.iile Vum to f.-ar and love riinl ! "'el rim, that the idea of calling Prince this sai-i ed cone, p md. nre between Louis Napoleon III., arose out of the iio.l an.l his subjects was designed to I -rvorof a telegraph clerk. ' Ii the rule, ennoble, and sanclifv.'' Joseph us ! course of its preparation for eons titu- has well remarked, "In other systems I tinK tl--e Empire the Home Office i oi logis!aure piety ir, n ingredient of j wished the country to take up a word ' iitu.--bat in oui, all the virtues an; ' which should be an intermediate be- siibordinate ;arts . f oiety." tweeu President and emperor, and so Mo.- es lived far back in the mists of tho minister. determined to order that agea. Hev. a, surronndcl liv idola- France shouM suddenly burst into the tf-r.-:. wliose ni'u , , were a.-praved, C1T of " r''''" Mpoh;,,,:" and he wrote whose practices were debauched, i say. the folkmii.? order; (Jue le who.,e reliifious lites were cruel. He ! iV or('re oit n':i' X"kJo,i'" The tiiumpheil over all these dimicultios; delk Iuistook the llotes of admiration he arose above all these fumes; of cor- for Konmn numerals, and in a few ruption, he succeerled in establishing ! hours the forty thousand communes a pure faith, and in forming a humane I ofFrance had cricd out HO obediently and just rovermnent. i for Napoleon III., that, the goverment i , , . - ., was obliged to adopt the clerk's blun- "The kiiiglv rule of Moses.'' t-ays . ?T . 1 , r... ' ' .. , ' ... i ier; and Leuis Nai oleon, with ready St. Clement, "was altogether unlike ' , ... , , f , - . TT , , ; anuacitv, Jut upon the device of call- 1 he fashion of Hercules, who governed . T . , . , it,- . , , , ! nig lionaparte s son Napoleon II. the Argues; or ot Alexander, who i . . . f . , , , . ,. J his is the story. court Jon ma'. reigned over the Macedonians; or ot : c- i i i i i , . , : ,ni iianapniiis, wno . i;-in, irailZe. 1 lire I Assyrians. Mn.',e.i .oli,-ht Slot abso- j lute ?)ower for t!m .sake of domination i'lUO IN THE WOOL Said one Jacobin to another, the or despotic authority in order to grati- ! ' '1 , r , , , - , ,., . i ion ve lieard of a man v, ho riii'd at ty his i.ists. J o speak comprehensive- )M 1lftve yon notr ly, he became a living law, governing j "Ve.s," answered his friend. by the benign word. His whole sys- ' "And you've heard of the other one tern wns snitp.l f. n- tl.. Ir..,;i nf h( limt in tke.harnPSft?" us were capable of 1 e.-oming good and noble men: and this i-, the art vi com mand.",! He manifested all the exe jllencies of "Oh, yes," answered the Jacobin. "And yyis it publicans have Iird in Jt" e:W." His Mend saw the point and looked sad. fur the Kjiiscojml Methoilist. fOLREl roS'h'KREXrES I OUR i III ECU. Ma. Ediiok: The Methodist Epis copal Church, South, up to the close of the late war, numbered among her converts to Christianity and members of her communion, several hundreds of thousands of the colored population of the South. Many of these were to be found both among the slaves and the free persons of color. l.id vtay iiiiioTiueiiou oi Aiieiuouism in the Southern States, was marked with much anxiety for the salvation of the colored race. Our earliest minis ters showed this care, not merely by preaching to them in connection with the whites, but at stated times by themselves, and by t caching them the doctrines of the cross in their cabins, on the road side or wherever they me t them. This work was followed up with increased zeal and by increased means anil appliances, till the late war ended. Our ministers not only labored for their salvation in the cities and towns and at the country churches, but when no man seemed to cave for their souls, our missionaries f.nlowod them into the swamps and rice fields of the South and brought them to Jesus. The Southern Methodist Churches and ministers from the beginning es chewed Church politics. Their Church was neither pro-slavery unr anti-slavery. Slavery they regarded as a civil institution, the creature of the State, with which the Church had nothing to do. Like their Divina M is tor while itp.ni earth, they did not. ahteniot to regu late or control eivil affair, bur "ren dered unto C;esar the things which wore Ciosar's and unto (bid the things which were God's." They enforced the moral duties and obligations between ter ana slave, but did not fool eall- int.$rr.ro with their civil re- mas ed upon t latiuiirt. At an early day Southern Methodism had her colored ministers, her ordain ed colored elders and de. icons, many of whom reiidereit tillable aidiu preach ing ami in leading our colored people to Christ. It was a sad thing to the Southern Methodist Church, when the political convulsions produced, by abolitionism ami tho wicked insubordi nation of a few insurrectionary blacks, led the civil authorites in the Southern States, very wrongfully and unnecessa rily', we have always believed, to pro hibit the preaching of colored mi nisi ers and the teaching of colored people the reading of the Word of (Iod. The Christian Churches of the South sub mitted to this civil interference, but with the conviction upon many chris tian minds, that it was injudicious and a great moral wrong. What was really needed, was greater discretion in licen sing men to preach, and persons to teach, and not prohibition. boon of freedom from political bondage, (far less a blessing than deliverance from the thraldom of Satan ) shall prove a blessing to the colored race if they shall ever rise to a full appreciation of political freedom, to whom will they owe so much as to Southern Metho dism, which under God brought them to the light and liberty of the Gospel of Christ? I have said, that at the close of the late war, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, numbefv among its jz iemltafv sever! latiWmi'i.i of thou sands of the colored people of the South. "Where are they now '? It was natural, that the great change produced by the results of the war, in the political condition of the blacks of the South, would excise them, would cause gladness and joy, would make them for a time scarcely rea sonable enough, to act with discre tion. Strange to say, that wherever Notheru propagandists, white or black, calling themselves Methodists, profess ing extreme love for them, claiming to have been their deliverers from bon dage, could get access to our colored people, thousands of them violently broke off from their old pastors and old Churches, and without enquiring with out investigation, and in every case without seeking the advice of their old friends, connected themselves with the Northern African Methodist Churches. It would seem, that the most hasty re flection and the most ordinary pru dence would have suggested to them the propriety of waiting to see, what their old mother, the Methodist Epis copal Church, South, would do for t hem. No Southern Methodist preach- ! er forsook them ! They were still I ready to minister to them in the Gos ' pel, and seeing that no legal barrier would now prevent, they had every reason to expect that as soon as niin ; isters of their own color could be rais ! ed up, they would be supplied by them. But this idea did not suit the political , designs of their new friends. All haste was made to alienate them from their j old pastors and Church r id to se cure them to the mt:st3 of J new ! Churches, adverse to tCT peace and quiet of the South and their old ! friends. . "What has been the result ? Wher- ever congregations of colored Southern j Methodists could be found of sufficient numbers to support a preacher and j his family, they have been drawn into ; these new African Churches, and i Northern negro preachers havo been settled upon them as pastors, whose demands for salaries and perquisites are excessively burdensome, while our native colored men who have lie come preachers, and in some instances are men of character and promise, are ' sent out into the highways and hedges j to get their support as they can. ' The great question is. Is the spir i itual and moral condition of our eolor- i slow in its nioxemeii! cut the iiie from the fir.. I of tion vows. The usual committees I were appointed and reported, and the I whole proceedings were conducted i till the tir.-.l -i" ' . ml . with great harmony and decorum. It j bleed, ev-n i.. death. I'-. tt is a thorough Colored Conference, no! prune i! t ail th ..; i,. .... . white man being a member of it. j nivm.-.r time li VOU Will keen it train-J ! I f. . ! h p.. then i lie Mi V.I b a' ! w!., . flm: 1 . J . : 1 : -a iv : , enj.iycd by eUvLi.l 11,,-1 I I observe from the list of appoint ments, that there are fourteen Presiding i until if retches the heidit il.il von d.'- mm: irv or Elders Districts, embracing parts ofjsiro for your sc iii' i t a:) West Tennessee and Northern Missis- nird: vonr Mcali' Jd and let t! sippi and Alabama. Eighty-sis colored j run on the .scaffold .ad k.-. ; en preachers received appointments from j tll(J fj,.afl;,1d as the vine ; ,! siding PJalei. lbirty-ras Circuits j,,.,., it is ,'nit,V(.v different fro... were lelt to be supplied. Uev. Thos. ,,ther ..ecics of the gr.q.e. On- vine Taylor who has been indefatigable inj wo,dd after awhile cow-r ai: acre of his labors for the blacks, was appoint-, ..roUi,.l if kei-t i roi . rl v manured an.' ed general supeiintendent of (he! ri, , ' work, and twelve of the Districts were ! M-:"1"i",t" suppliedwith Presiding LTders from j Nc ivh' a!! Ine ti'-iiM:" and . m.e , ! other Conferences or from our local i cultivating the Ncnpperti..r.g,N in i.eep ranks. This is a temporary arrange- j itig up th" sea Hold; as ev.-rv man can m('- . - - , . I maketheestimaie for himself in hisown Ilns is a most promising l)eo-innireT : , .... -t t .... ; ; i ii,.. '..it: fa" rt iriou ol i ounlrv, ivint n won I 1 est tii-n-i x. 11 urn u iiuu ..lie uiu ,011s 01 ine : formation of Colored Conferences 1 to !),in,t th" l"'-'' throughout our entire bound. Why i upon tin m siniieii ntlv near and stron.'j may not he foundation of a Colored ! to hold up 'dm vh--fi, 'he can tell Iht Conference in North Carolina, be laid : .,:.. ,.,- .t,.,, ! r i-i. 1. 11 t 1.1 i. .. .......... 1 11 1 . .11 1 ... 1,,-T 1 i .i. 11 1 ; tor me jiexiveai . x tiiiiiK m,lliv 01 onv j resent and our former colored mem bers desire it. A little extra efi rt 011 the part of our Presiding Elders and preachers will effect ii. Let th;: ball be started. Asarnv !... ii , n. fd my iiavi wilu t; i s .in 1 1 ai x u of 1 : - Wi ill i 1.1 'V. of ll 111 1 he '!:;e 1 of !!. fo-'t b 0. A"o-ni to tffSNtct b?i oS l'U, ;dst, .. l'eliniofis ! -ae, ml peooi - 1 spiriiualb- !.,:::. d I hoi t- 1 i ami I ! our t '.miVi'i u Celidilig I hat ! !o : toilllel't lie.' .-i. r. of Souls nut.) the ministers mav 1 i w iri. 1 1 o i en: I !'e,i !- fa- Old put the poh s may see tm v. oru t,: ni'iine' in their hat-.l-. For the Episcopal Methodist. The Scuppci noou Gi n;c. friut. The most durable j.os.ts and pel -shotlld be secured ami tlmy would last for ya'V. mid th-us very !ii:o labo' would bo necessary in each yi-.iV. 4. It is a most luseiou- Mel wit oh some fruit. The lb.-v. J h: JVuu. thinks it. puni-rio- to any L-i-,.Vie he me -CVdV'i. A certain hi-ot-s . law anion-.' i ..- -.! i 1 iiai 1 : .i v 1 pro ' 1 v . Southern Methodism nevertheless j ec people who were Southern Metho dists improved by this change ? Are they better served with christian in- J struction then formerly or as well V Is ! the moral discipline of the new Church es as wholesome and as scriptural as formerly ? Do their new pastors preach to them Jesus and the resurrection as faithfully as their former ones? Or are not their new pastors more anx ious to teach them politics, than holy living? Are they as circumspect, as earnestly pious as formerly, and does the work of piety and earnest striving for heaven grow among them ? The last General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, provided fully to meet the wants of our colored people. Provision was made for licensing colored meiTi3 preach, and our Bishops were authorized to or dain deacons and elders among them, continued to make conquests to Christ among the blacks, following them into every possible door to teach them the way of life. Strongly attached as ma ny Southern Methodists were to the unity of Methodism in the United States, nothing so much reconciled ma ny of them to the division effected in 1844, as the moral and political status assunie.i iy the, .ortnern .uetlio. lists on the question of slavery, and by the conviction that iritliuiit 'juration the door to preach the Gospel in the South to the colored people, would be effectually closed to Southern Metho dists. Indeed, this was the strongest reason urged by many for the separa tion. After tho separatum, the "effectual door" to preach the Gospel to the blacks all over the South, was thrown open w ider, and the last twenty years in the South before the war closed, fur nishes the richest history of mission ary enterprise by Southern Metho dism, among the blacks, known to the world. Thousands upon thousands of the ignorant and unlettered sons and daughters of Ham were redeemed and disenthralled from the fetters of sin and Satan, and became members of our Church. With their con version to Christianity, their civilization and va lue as laborers, becamo the more prominent and rapid, and all over the South from almost every planta tion came the urgent cry from our slave owners to our Conferences, "Send us a missionary." If Christianity, if the saving doc trines and discipline of the Word of God, have been a blessing to the col ored race in the South, to whom under God are they indebted for it? To whom do they owe their reclamation from sin in its worst forms, but to Southern Methodism? And if tho 1 hep, ace of its nalicitii,-I ivhom ' with in his travels in iai.wu . To en Irovjht ivto notice Mod-: of proixi- j joy them in sill their pent. tion y.-.a gating Ease and simplicity of'ci'.Uivu- must eat them fve'di from the vines. fioa lis value a. an and for wine. The Seuppernong grape is a native of Tyrrell county North CaroJica. The original vine was said 10 be living on Roanoke river a few years since. Calvin Jones Esq. states in a, let tor published in the Soufhrn; 'iai'!ft- oi July 1SG7, as an extract from tue American Farmer: ''I am toi.; tl.at Governor Lane's and Capt. Phip .s re port to Sir Walter Raleigh, publisaed "'Son is matii- artidf of di.t Thev are vt-rv win fest bv t:.e longevity of those persons and faiailic-s where largo- and old vino ifiv;- beea cn'oved for many vears. Ir m'.-res r- wine kuoerior to anv rai-e r;.i-ed ia )ii ti.in.ks i v, : lie; ;-.!-, dm f ' ' e 1 '.he pUldshlin and Hair in ;i : i a ..ard;.i;.. !n ; . .hi-iav., ie .-. i vi a. i v : ci . v;. ' . . : i vol. tii of onr on, - ry brought ii) to hab'l: 1 much vici a n i mi- r d'-d. Suffered to hi ia too ni ur- ii- .!; mc ia America and Dr. Jack- the prey of the d- -i-o. would make a wine in i their par; n!: ,:in l :; p i 1 t i. ... i A . rra "... iu:i i'l'ji- w. i tie io;::i . . i.ui anil iair . J1-'5 i a ci im -;; lerimeiit has har.llv ever been made ! demands coin- .upot-rnong grap in l ia- our oitsprmg e. ! e.ini. and the jvtr.-nt wle ! if grapes, that mav 1 n moral injury on his S3 :;g Nv;m-. The quantity in Haklyt s Collection, speaks of this 1 be raised on an acre is large being j country, w hi e In. grape as growing on Roanoke river , sometimes several iniudred bushels. ; the wrath oi his . when the colnnv firsr Ijinrle'l tlwav " i i Tiii.i-ri ai-n wvr.i-il vnwl h. i f flu. l'Llli.? ai 1 "TkiLgrapcxBH -wine p.,d lib i'Jt,e 3oupi.K.kxuii--i soio "v.J"-.i, sup;eri.l-1 trio us haii Seuppernong given to them by Ken- j to othi f. V-; aether these varieties ' r-i:b.- ong.';. derson and myself, in compliment to spring from seedlings or aoil or culii- 1 i y dn-'i d 1 James Blount of Seuppernong .'a riv- j vation or defect in ihe branches from , pi y '' : er in Tyrrell County N. C.) .. ho first ' which the vine was taken, it is not t eupalions. su. diffused a knowledge of it in several ! easy to ascertain. Some are mnch i that tln-y may well written communications in our i larger than ol hers .some smoother jiaper, and it is cultivated with more j and thinner skins. success on that river, than in any oth-! The real Scuppernonga are a li white; 'oe c.'il'.ed Si-up- pernong. it will live tor ::niiv years. The letter of Mr. Jones is without I The late Emory Spruill Esq., of Martin date and in his other remarks about I County N. C, told me of one he had 'be very insects te. the grape shows that he was not well j known for more than seventy years. ind mtrv. Simil ( informed about it. j .1. T. W. son'. Thirty years ago it was commonly j reported in Tyrrell county that the I i in vi.-n ..i. - i v Rev. Mr. Pettigrew (generally called j 'fliis gf.ij'e w.. f.ni.l bv a Mr. Mi to g'-iK-raiiv in .1 r. . ! i . I be a,. - lis ;. e become a curse lo I i s. a-ii ly . '.!!' ."lay and 1 rani! om i al our iroid-,. el it inib. i ll i an 1 l.i-am-' If Jo va- o.' .-,H! er half of tho State except on Roanoke j no other should ever island. Cation and r::: the le.- sin o-f i and -st ars .ae lii.tiiCt oi tlieii j'i e rv.-d i '. ii il -.tll!- hi -t vy lie ' ie.!;0!t in tl i a " - v. al'til .ili,o, :i w.'iic! iediv Iravals onwa V.e i;v, i ! iii ii c minimi vri;ji i'i . . nii; Do-.v, Jr. below the town from whom j; Th it eccentric lie of his d.i,-c '111 Parson Pettigrew) grandfather of that j w10 resided a few mi! accomplished gentleman and brave c,f Washington N. C soldier (the late Gen. J. J. Pettigrew) takes its name. It is sometimes call; d first brought it into general notice. the Pamlico fr..m the mime ,A thn river 2. Mode of propagating. It cannot be j on which Mr. Mish li'-,.d. Tar Liver h. cm-. !i. : -1 i -1 - -raised from the seed with any cer- j ieinfr bequentlv .--died Pamlico hi low ti,. di.i.v like a -tainty, as many seedlings will be bar- Washington for thirty or forty nnlc, .-i,nb-v, :o.d noes the com!.; d .'chty. hi;-. ti i ! i iviV:. be ii i-mi!n-: ill liial. 1. ..1. !l e f a i v. III I i O .V. and to organize them into Colored Conferences. 1 have been much gratified in read ing in the last Memphis Christian Ad- j wvuie, an account ox mu oigaui.;ition of the "Memphis Annual Colored Con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South," by Bishop Paine of our Church, recently at Jackson, Tenn. After due notice and previous prepa ration, about eighty-six colored preach ers met Bishop Paine at Jackson, Tenn. Nov. 20th. A number of our white ministers met also to aid and c n courage them. On the first day the Conference was organized with the above named title. The characters of the preachers were all examined and regularly admitted. During the ses sion about sixty colored preachers were elected and ordained deacons and eight of the most experienced among them were elders. J. N. Stewart, an elder in the Baptist Church, was re ceived and took upon him our ordina- ren, raany utterly worthless nearly all j above when will be black and very few white. Sound. Nor will they often, if ever, come from The MUli grape i.-. cry sweet; Is mere cuttings. But they come very . black, not as large or prolific as un readily from lagi'rss. A bunch run j Seuppernong; it would probably make down to the ground and covered over j a strong wine. I do not know thateny with earth an inch or two, at any sea- person has, ever attempted to mali son from March to August wi'l take wine out of it. as it. was only broughl root and may bo separated from the into notice a few years before the com parent vine in December, ami if trans- menceuient of the late war. planted, without letting the roots get j It is worthy of much more attention dry, in January, it will live easily. j than it has ever received and mu-t b. Or a still safer plan is to fill a small j of vast value in all the South. It would box (say G by 8 inches four inches hardly grow well north of James Pi v deep) with rich sandy soil or loam and ' er. i. i ii.-i - i. : .. j . ii,:. , .. - ; tt..u i ii- - l: i 0 oemi me uittuvu into 111 is tan 1.1 as 1 lau wueiever int.' proper musi-aoine jn'f fortune of h:- ' above and in the last of November, or ; (indicated bv smooth slick leaver; and . 1 . , . , x - to annuals, we. may a; one December cut loose irom the parent j smooth hard barl; ) will grow well ami tnj PG1pixion of h: eh o t vine and bury the box where you want J produce fruit the Seuppernong nni the conlrirv ;f ! - m ' your vino to grow; the box wnl rot , .uish would both grow and bear truir. and the vine never know that it was j A rich sandy soil suits it best, moved at all. Do not bury the bo:c ' It should be propagated only fro:n deep; the roots of vines grow imar the , .V?r.-, ,:s seedlings sport too much, surface and should be planted thus. an.l cuttings rarely ever live. But 3. The mode of cultivation i.s very layers take root very readily and can simple and very easy. A rich sandy be separated from the parent vine in soil is best, for it though it will grow : Nov. or Dec. J. T. W. almost any where not too far north. h.i.i 1 he U1 v. il .. . v.v - her i'l:o k.-t p.i'.e i' a nd mos-ov, eci" pi ',. reau; and her who!. ! i,e ;. ii Iil lico 1 )' .. thi oi';-h a f u.,h le.'a wit':c!ie,!'ii's.-i ur.d w . - (.11.01 e '!'! i:. V; . cliaracfer liy i. i pleases him. ii ;i p light in low, sordid. , t t var song a no ; en.b.'aiice ; - ' . a i !, u i.i iie oi i i it j; :l .r-. Tli. : .iij.io d !. ti-...- : h t .b .1! I'or the Eniocopal Methodi.-t. C liiifei'fciire L.ove Feast. I have seen them froui the sea coast to Iredell County. Plant the rooted vines from thirty to bixty feet apart, plant shallow. Keep the ground clear of weeds and m-;is. fi.nd vaU iii;ic.V:e.d Ti . . , , . proceedings was much pleased, but I DiiAi: Methowst: I was present at the hes,sio.'i of our Conference which has just closed and with most of the esty, truth if viv; g.igo his heart and . tlOnf We iil'e f ati-' upright v.v.r.. V.:i : A car. rnon otou o u vvliiii e on being 1'. ruo.Vtl".: Li Oce.r.a.11, pleaded tin: very prosper in a C;"l.0 beggal'.S a.V.'c when r.:cy a.siLC-1 o; K-o.u-tl : "' s : 17. .;-- ii ...it his "!;. he . m:-r ; : wijat .la ss ,!, ine NUI '.....l'. i.l in ci iu i!y ivtermine in li.od-ell- ' ii. : t ; . a at ' IS i '.-.I ; i Vel , be- . i.::i 'i.-ii- I I'lW.r, Kno. i ,-:a . o ,! el': anv tni.-.ii n , , liitir.li p.t. v jl 1. ii.'.j.. ..i.ia.i t .i.-.i.,- , ' .,1 ., ., ., , ' pointed at not being permitted to at- any number wiif d.i well it the sou be 1 , rich and sandy. toad a "Conference love l east and Perhaps one stern looks best. If especially so as for months past I was you wish only one to grow, you may preparing myself for the enjoyment of iuuvuuui,.,, .,... . i v... uu,., ... 6.u.. y,rivi:e''e as i;eanuo- ami re- .v pevs.-tii was ia sprang irom a h; .said a bystander, " tue same taini - l ;-.ig t mo. no Wits i fm.hy. "Y(-s" h:i , : ef :i Mine of so hi -h th .1 their feet ?o!ild ftt touch the a 1." thev make tne:r o x. ear- as soou ance. The Scuppemoner should never pruned after the say) begim, to rail j whom were old soldiers of the cross; "6 ! child," baid she, you know in ex which is generally very early as it is very who could tell of many hard battles 1 of Ire I" eeiving spiritual bciiclii froia tiio ex oerioiice of our ministers, mauv of i. : ::.irg...-ei i-.-.b. bo.iv : : e. ';. Ci'.p." i: We!!." sa. ! the signiiies the pattern oi r lOil. "ll li Ui.'-hlciip
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Jan. 1, 1868, edition 1
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