PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF METHODISM IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA-
RALEIGH, 1ST. C, MAlGH 11, 1868.
ISTo. 8.
ll) I f he pulpit educates 1 he mind to
' think and reason by the force of e
5 u Vnivit a i an ;.:.incatr of the aple. The weekly spectacle of an in
:V.5iir t!inl tellectual gymnast, bringing into visi
ble play eery mental and moral mns
hftt r. w m li i.Ahis Nt v -s.! r., i. .v. j cle, teaches j hose who look on, In a
. measure, the art displayed. It is nat-
ii.e inipoiianco of the puipit, us an ural for children to talk, yet they ac-t-.lueato!
of the popular mi tvd, although quire the art by mimicking their el
but feebly recognised, can scarcely i'e ders. So it is natural for all men to
overstated, reason, set the rat iocinativo powers
Without spying to inquire into the i are stimjiia ted and developed by oa;
eaiise. iM , ah""- :fYW -M'Jil iU.it ; pJe. It'is impose!. ;e io estimate; the
ihoiv rov I. lely prevalent anions us j iniiuenee which an educated ministry
in this practical age, opmiousin regard has had in exciting the mind to think
to the nature and ends of education in ' and reason for itself. Intellects that
"eneral, plainly erroneous and e::- j have shone resplendently at the bar
tremelv pernicious. Ine great tallaey j and in the halls ot legislation, have ta
of these views is th.e belief that man's j ken their first lessons in argumenta
t hief end is i he. creation of material j tion and oratory from the Christian
values of something exterior to him-j pulpit. Lord Chatham studied Bar
elf, which shall add to his individual j rows' .sermons until he could repeat
, onvenienee and comfort, and to the j many of them by heart. It. is said that
general 'wealth. Accordingly, that, j Patrick Henry caught the iire of his
and that only, is esteemed a right ed- : impassioned oraiory from the Hps of
ucation. which developes, exercises, j that eminent servant of God and elo
and thus perfects some particular fac- j cpient preacher of righteousness, Kam
ultv or set of faculties, and tits them at j uel Davies.
once to be- set to work in the lield in-1 Once more; the pulpit, educates the
, heated. Hence, it is frequently ask- j mind, by the demand which every
-d, "Wliv should our youth spend so j properly constructed sermon makes
much time in mastering the classics '? j upon a concentrated and sustained at
The lawyer may need a smattering of j tention. Every such discourse has a
1 .sit in to enable him to comprehend I beginning, a middle, and an end ; there
his legal phrases; the clergyman, some j is a constant progress in the thought
acquaintances with the Greek; but for j from first to last, and a culmination of
the rest, lei our boys concentrate their the ideas in the production of some
energies upon living tongues, and up practical result the conviction of the
ou such practical studies as arithmetic. j understanding, the moving of the af
book -keeping, surveying, civil engin- ' fections, or persuasion of the will, or
tering etc. Then the scholar will pass ; ail these combined, Sermons procee
with credit to himself from the school j ding from educated intellect have a
to the counting- room, and the student j tendency to assume this form. Now,
emerge from the college hall at once when the hearer's attention is arrest
equipped and fully prepared to com- ed at the outset, and he is held to 'the
liience producer, and to add to the subject during the entire progress of
general capital by measuring land, the discourse, his powers of abstrac
building mill-dams, erecting factories, tion are necessarily strengthened, and
, ovtstruet.iiv re i!vv: -s, and developing
tin- mineral resources of the conn- : patient or continue-! tnought in which
ti v' ; Sir Isaac Newton could l'ind the only
N iW, that one eni of education is to ; difference (if difference there was,) be
nevfect the mind as an instrument with j tween his own intellect and that of or-
whu h ho may work upon the material
w. .ild, and convert and subsidize its
resources to the manifold Uses of life,
none will attempt to deny. lint this
is surely not the on!v, and, as Sir Wil-
liam Hamilton has conclusively shown, i pulpit. An instance occurs to the
not the main end of education. Its I mind of the writer of one who, in her
chief design should be the full and earlier life, enjoyed the most limited
symmetrical development of all the j elneatioual advantages; yet this defic
faeultiea and power of the mind itself, i Was scarcely appareut in her
and for its own improvement and en- j ..eeeh, and in the workings of a mind
largement. ; ur more than usual vigor and spright-
Those who adhere to the theory of j . Her life-long teachers had
education upon which we have anim- ! ju,eu JlU educated ministry living and
adverted, v. ill be low to discover any j ,,.:Vd. The writings of the one she
particular value in the pulpit as an ed- ; perused with avidity; the living voices
ueator of the popular mind, li has no j oj ie other ever found in her an at-
direct in linen -"'e m liHinin
hear, r
for any specific employment ; it touch
es none of the principles or rules of
any art ; it imparrs no in.-ji ruction ii;
sv.T of the applied science:, lint as
,ia;.:? the more dignified theory of ed
ucatio'u to be correct, and the value of
the pulpit a 5 an educator of mind l
comes immediately apparent.
It educates by the truth which if
projects into the lain dot the hearer.-
Truth is tie- jiutrimeut of the iutelleet, '
the food upon vi inch it thrives and ; hainl, and r-irs in a genial old age wait
grows. No ne who has not reriVcled j jag the jiI .jstet a call. Xot. at all an
deeply, has any adequate conception of j orator, he is yet a sp..iker and writer
the immense body of truth that the; ' ,,f rrt-(;fll clearness and consiseness.
iir-)k of books contains, and which it j Ue is eminently Western in his make
is the duty of the pulpit to expound, j up, genial in sympathy, earnest in pi
The pulpit - we. of course speak j ctv, and possessed of a humor so abun
thronghout of theedncated and Chi'is- ! d.mt aud a wit so quaint and keen
tian pulpit educates in purity of
thought and expression; and this for
the reason that the preacher's ideas
and words must take shape and be
largely colored by that Iook which
the most eloquent men have studied
tor the improvement of their oratory .
The pulpit educates, that is, calls forth
and trains, all the mental faculties and
powers by the diversity of the subjects J
of which it treats. Now the scenes de- j
picted call to exercise the imagination, !
now its snarp tienneanons oi truth ,
and falsehood, of sin and righteous
ness, develope and strengthen the dis
criminating faculty, the judgment,
etc.
The very topics, too, in which the j 1
pulpit deals, are of such transcendant j overflows with Christian and human
importance, that they take strong hold j sympathy. Pretending neither to or
upon the intellect, rouse it from its j atorv nor 'neatness, he is yet an excel-
1 il 1 "11. .1 ! T
lemargy, ana Aviinai are oi such a
breadth and length and awful sublimi
ty that, in the very effort to grasp
them, the mind is consciously enlarg
ed and invigorated.
his mind disciplined to that habit of
dinary men. A practical proof of the
correctness of these view a may be found
in the general intelligence of those
communities whose principal means
of intellectual culture has been the
t.ntiv' and iu'.erested listener.
A SkeU'Ii off I lie Northern SJisliops
r tiie .i. i:. ciiiiii ii.
The venerable senior bishop, -Morris,
o.vnp'es the centre of the picture be
fore nr.. He is a benign an. 1 portly old
gentleman, truly episcopal propor-
I If. hi.id:
in
his right
that he is socially fa scinating.
Of quite a different character is Bish
op Janes. With a small frame, origi
nally slight, but tending of late to em
bjiipoint, a nose rather aquiline, and
a voice shrill and piping; Janes, if not
the greatest man on the Methodist
bench, is, perhaps, the greatest bishop.
He is always a forcible speaker, often
(.1(Uin01lt Aquiline in feature and
l;iiu,p ie I(0aUces upon his ideas with
(iX1,it;Vnt, eagle-like swoop. His fi-
rirtll:rti ..Hlitv is of the highest or-
j
der,
Bishop Scott is a genial, gentleman
ly, saintly man of the bench. Devout,
I ...al.niii .-. , .-t- OCiaIi--V1 1 1
....... 1M..,af.iier iu,i a man ofsyreat orac-
I - n - r
tical sense. His life and spirit are full
of piety of the old, earnest, Methodis
tic type.
The large frame, full chest, promi
nent brows, and somewhat massive
lower face proclaim Simpson a very
prince of pulpit orator. Bishop Simp
son is not pre-eminent as an adminis
trator, scholar or writer. His sermons
have many line things, but they do not
sat isfy expectation when read. It is
the majestic presence, the coble voice,
the grand, earnest, triumphant face,
all surcharged wit h the electricity of an
enthusiastic 'son, iAv.it mukc-i Dr. Simp
son the orator he is. Xot that he is
without noble mental gifts, but that it
is the addition of his wonderful physi
cal magnetism that gives him his roy
al position as an orator.
Bishop Baker is, like Bishop Janes,
n Xew-Englander. He is a refined
and polished scholar, bearing yet the
stamp of his years of service in the
chair of a professor. His diflidence is
always apparent, though it never cau
ses a loss of aplomb. Thoroughly ver
sed in parliamentary usage, always
ready and self-possessed, he has few
equals as a presiding officer, and his
work on the Discipline is the standard
of Methodist law.
Bishop Ames, though of Puritan an
cestry, is yet a Western man by birth
aud by every characteristic of mind
and body. Like Bishop Janes, he is
eminent for executive ability. With a
will fully equal to that of Janes, he is
less careful in using it, and is some
times thought arbitrary. His mind is
like his frame, massive, and his sym
pathies deep and tender. The one
word which characterizes him is states
manship. As a preacher his move
ment is smooth, his discourse singular
ly clear, with passages of genuine sub
limity, and a pathos that stirs his hear
ers to the depths of their natures.
With a tine physical presence, a face
full of dignity, somewhat forehead-bald
Bishop Clark looks, as he is, the refin
ed scholar, 'carrying with him still the
impress of his life in a literary institu
tion. He is a smooth and polished
writer, an accurate and pleasing spea
ker, stating his propositions clearly
and advocating them forcibly. He
was for years editor of the Ladies' Re
pository, at Cincinnati.
With a rich humor and a sarcasm
that knew how to take advantage of
the absurd position of his opponents,
who were anti-slavery in politics while
they were conservative in the Church,
Dr. Kingsley used his official position
as editor of the Western Christian ad
vocate, of Cincinnati, to urge the adop
tion of a more stringent and unequivo
cal rule against slave-holding. His
political articles were also bold and
trenchant and when the progressive
party came to elect bishops, it was al
most a foregone conclusion that Dr.
Kingsley would be among them. Like
several of his colleagues, he has been
a professor; but. no one wonld suspect
it from his manner. Without being
eloquent, he is forcible, manly, and
strong in all t hat he says.
Last upon the list, and in some re
spects, we think, greatest on the list,
is Bishop Edward Thomson. Petite
in stature, absent-minded in bearing,
with heariug a little impaired, and
modest almost to excess, he is not,
perhaps, just the man for an office so
executive in its character as that of the
Methodist Episcopacy. But as a wri
ter he has qualities of the rarest sort.
None of our eminent American writers
excel him in purity of diction, or in the
"art of putting things." As a speaker
his voice is defective, and his manner
generally somewhat deficient in ani
mation. He often confines himself
closely to his manuscript; but we have
known an audience to be carried into
rapturous applause by the triumphant
elocution of his thoughts. His books
of essnys and travels are the classics
of American Methodist literature.
Such are the nine Methodist Bish
ops who, on the whole, are nine as
able men as any Christian denomina
tion can boast. Independent.
Chuech Attendance in Germany.
The English Independent says that
Hamburg, with its 200,000 inhabitants, i iNMA.Thera are twenty-five Pro
seuds no more than 5,000 to church on t testant missionary societies here, em
Sundays; Stettin with G0,000 no more j bracing about 600 missionaries, and
tnan 2,000; Berlin, with 630,000 no their success in saving the he then is
more than about 20,000. Personally, vronderfuL Think of it! Only G00
too, the clergy have little or no
xuuu
ence in any direction, save as far as
their official positions gives thempowe r
A Toiiciiiu Incident.
A young man and his wife were pre
paring to attend a Christmas party at
the house of a friend some miles dis
tant. "My dear husband, don't drink
too much at the party to-day; you will
promise me, wont you '?" said she put
ting her hand upon his brow, and rai
sing her eyes to his face with a plead
ing sieL-. " No M.7.3ie, I will viot, you
may toi-! mp," aiy-fchc wrapped her
infant in a soft blanket, and they de
scended. The horses were soon pran
cing over the turf, and a pleasant con
versation beguiled the way. "Now
don't forget your promise,' whispered
the young wife, as they passed up the
steps. Poor thing, she was the wife
of a man who loved to look upon the
wine when red. The party passed
pleasantly; the time for departure drew
near; the wife descended from the up
per chamber to join her husband. A
pang shot through her beating heart
as she met him for he was intoxicated;
he had broken his promise. Silently
they rode homeward, save when the
drunken man broke into snatches of a
song, or unmeaning laughter. But
the wife rode on, her babe pressed
closely to her grieved heart. "Give me
the baby, Millie; I can't trust you with
him," lie said as they approached a
dark and swollen stream. After some
hesitation she resigned her first born
her darling babe, closely wrapped in
a great blanket to his arms. Over
the dark waters the noble steed safely
bore them; and when they reached
the bank, the mother asked for the
child. With much care and tender
ness he placed the bundle in her arms;
but when she clasped it to her heart
no babe was there ; it had slipped from
the blanket, and the drunken father
knew it not. A wild shriek from the
mother aroused him, and he turned
round just in time to see the little rosy
face rise one moment on the waters,
then sink forever and that by his own
intemperance! The anguish of the
mother and remorse of the father are
better imagined than described. Glas
gow News.
mi i
xne numoer oi missionary
; ) ,-
soeieiieo
throughout the world are 4S. These
societies embrace 8.G00 laborers, and
319,000 members, once heathens.
What an army converted to Christian
ity from heathenism ! Such success
in converting men to Christ in heath
en lands is truly wonderful. The an
nual expenditures of these societies is
about four and a half millions; it should
amount to ten millions, at least, for
1868
Glorious TaiUMPH or Tki;m. One
hundred thousand of tli3 inhabitants
of the Fiji Islands have been supplied
with the Holy Scriptures, and are in
structed in the Word of God. There
are 17,000 church members, and 1,000
native catechists, and '..I A native miss
ionaries, ordained, or on trial prepara
tory to ordination; 40,000 pupils are
regularly instructed in the schools of
the mission. When a supply of Bi
bles, in the language of Fiji, recently
arrived at these islands, the native
Christians were greatly delighted in
being permitted to handle the book.
One of them exclaimed, " Now let thy
servant, O Lord, depart in paace, since
my eyes have seen thy words complete
in the laugnage of Fiji."
There is still a great work to be
done in some portions of these island?.
Biker and his associates had gone to
these savage tribes, and fell in their
attempts to save them. Others will
go, and the time will not be far dis
tant when Christianity will triumph
here, as in those parts above referred
to. The mission here is under the di
rection of the English Missionary So
ciety. Japan. The way is opening here
for the spread of Christianity, though
serious difficulties must be met and
overcome. Dr. Hepburn, Presbyte
rian Missionary, has compiled a Ja
panese Dictionary, and is now engaged
in translating the Scriptures into that
language. He proposes to do for Ja
pan what Dr. Morrison did for China.
The Jesuits are active here, and are
aided by the French Government in
their work. The Protestant mission
here should be largely reinforced, and
that at once. The Missionary S )eiety
of the M. E. Church should have a
strong mission here.
Is this all the church can do to save
these millions, passing so rapidly to
the tomb and to the judgment ?
A Touching Reply.
In a Chrfstian family, near Amoy,
China, a little boy, the youngest of
three children, on asking his father to
allow him to be baptized, was told
that he was too young; that he might
fall back if ho made a profession when
he was only a little boy. To this he
made the touching reply: "Jesus has
promised to carry the lambs in his
arms. As I am only a little boy, it
will be easier for Jesus to carry me."
This logic of the heart was too much
for the father. He took him with him,
and the dear one was ere long bap
tized. The whole family, of which this
child is the youngest member the fa
ther, mother, and three sons are all
members of the Mission church at
Amoy. Minx. In?l.
The Methodist Temperance men of
England have just started a new mag
azine devoted to the cause of total ab
stinence. There is also a Church of
England Jloidli; Temper a are Maga
zine. The Methodist Recorder says of
the former:
A new Methodist monthly lias just
appeared, devoted to the advocacy of
total abstinence from alcoholic drinks.
Tie Me! hod iM Temjieranre Magazine is
well got up, is presented at the price
of one penny, and bears on its cover
the names of three responsible editors
the Rev3. George Maunder, Charles
Garrett, and T. Bowman Stephenson.
These gentlemen all belong to "the
old body," but they disclaim for them
selves or their magazine any represen
tative character. There are 250 Wes
leyan ministers who are practical ab
stainers, and a yet larger proportion
in the branch churches of the Metho
dist family, with a corresponding pro
portion of the laity. The editors ex
plain that total abstinence is a primary
article in their social creed , and also ai
' part of their religion, on the ground
m -
of Christian expediency. The names
of the editors are a sufficient guaran
tee, both for the ability with which
the publication will be conducted, and
for the spirit of temperance and pati
ence toward conliicting opinions
which we are assured will distinguish
each successive issue. They believe
that they have something to say, and
that now is the time to say it; and
were any advocacy of ours necessary,
it should be forthcoming, to bespeak
for them a kind and candid reception
from that great church to which they
more especially address themselves.
Unprofitable Waiting.
Do not wait for a change of outward
circumstances; but take your circum
stances as they are and make the best
of them. Luther moved the world,
not by waiting for a favorable oppor
tunity, but by doing his daily work, by
doing God's will day by day, without
thinking of looking beyond. We
ought not to linger in inaction until
Blucher conies up, but the moment
we catch sight of him in the distance
to rise and charge. Hercules must go
to Atlas, and take his load oil' his
shoulders per force.
A Fountain Sealed is about to be
opened by the Wesleyan Publishing
House. It has long been known that
a very large number of Charles Wes
ley's poems have never been published.
Those that have been printed are not
collected in a single edition. Over
thirty different volumes, large and
small, were published by him in his
lifetime. A much larger number are
still imprinted. Many efforts have
been made to bring all these treas
ures to the light. They are soon to
appear. The Weskianjlook Concern
will publish all his pTis in twelve
crown octavo volumes al the very low
price to subscribers of two guineas or
$10 in gold. It has been said that his
best hymns h ive been published; but
we cannot doubt that not a few rare
gems are yet unseen and unsung. We
hope arrangements will be made by
our Book Concern for subscriptions,
so that his hosts of American admi
rers may obtain them at London pri
ces. Faith and Works. They are but in
fidel Christians whose faith and works
are at war against each other. Faith
which is right, can no more forbear
from good works, than can the sun to
shed abroad its glorious beams, or a
body of perfumes to dispense a grate
ful odor. Feltham,.
Better go about than to fall into the
ditch.
One third of the sugar consumed iu
the world is made from beets.
What is eternity? A day without
yesterday or to-morrow; a day with
out end.
A confirmed Christian is one that
taketh "olf-denial for the one leaf of
his religion. Ba rter.
Mortification is the soul's vigorous
opposition to self, wherein sincerity is
most evident Owen.
Sincerity is speaking as we think;
believing as we pretend; acting as we
profess; performing as we promise;
and really being as we pretend to bo.
"W hat Time Takes and Gives. The
passing years drink a portion of the
light from our cheeks, as birds that
drink at lakes leavo their footprints on
the margin.
Some one has beautifully said;
"Truth is immortal; the sword can
not pierce it, fire cannot consume it,
prisons cannot incarcerate it, famine
cannot starve it."
He who sedulously atteuds, pointed
ly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers,
and ceases when he lias no more to
say, is in posession of some of the best
requisites of man.
When I see the most enchanting
beauty that earth can show me, I yet
think there is something far more glo
rious; methinks I see a kind of higher
perfection peeping through the frailty
of a face. Owen Feltham.
A minister travelling through the
provinces some years ago, asked the
old lady on whom he called, what she
thought of the doctrine of total deprav
ity? " Oh! I think it a good doctrine,
if people would live up to it."
In matters of great concern, and
which must be done, there is no surer
argument of a weak mind than irreso
lution to be undetermined where the
case is so plain, and the necessity so
urgent; to be always intending to lead
a ne-V hie, but never ,to find time to sit
hfin iT-i-i- ' i -
u. j j t.
Every hour, life's sands aro sliding
from beneath incautious feet, the tri
fler goes to his doom. The requiem of
each departure is an echo of the Sa
vior's question: "What shall a man
give in exchange for his soul?"
Galileo, the most profound philoso
pher of his age, when interrogated by
the Inquisition as to his belief of a Su
preme Being, replied, pointing to a
straw on the floor of his dungeon, that
from the structure of that object alone
he w ould infer with certainty the exis
tence of an iutelligeLt Creator.
One morning I found him quite alone.
He bade me remark this. "Formerly,
he said, " when I was young, scarcely
any one passed my door, men or wo
men, without calling to sea me. To
day, from that window, Iobserve thein
all go by, as formerly, but they enter
no more." (luiml on Lord Hol
land. K::cirK nK haim-imss.
Jii.tt weal'ili enough I" keep away
OI wiiiit tin' iliret'ul Hcnie;
Just h':ili!i enougU to hIM Oh 1hv.
Ami m ike iil'e's coiirne Herene;
Virtue enough to art that pan
Which is devoid of sin;
Coinage enough to ak the heart.
Art I lion eciii e within?'"
We recollect heariugof two New York
ladies, one of whom was an attendant
at the aristocratic Grace church, and
the other at the humbler St. Paul's
that the former one, one Sunday morn
ing, sent a request to the hitter that
she would go to church with her; to
which her friend replied that she would
he happy to do so, only she was dress
ed for St. Paul's! Christian Kra.
A sociki y (railed the Christ adelphians
headed by a Mr. Fish, has been form
ed in Chicago, for the purpose of
spreading the beleif that "all men 'to
.lust return,' and are completely anni
hilated, no principle of immortality re
maining, and that the ashes of the
vood during this life are at length re
vivified, while the wicked are blotted
out. There is no such a thing as im
mortality of soul. In this respect
there is no difference between a man
and an ox." Mr. Fish has positively
demonstrated, at the start, that there
is no difference between himself and
an ass.
The Colored Preachers South. The
General Assembly South have rescind
ed the resolution which excluded col
ored preachers from the Presbytery.
The reason assigned in the Assembly
for this action was that the Freedmen
were heathen and neded the gospel,
and that the Assembly were as ready
to ordain one color as another if the
party could meet the requirements of
the Book of Laws.
Foreign emigrants, to the number
of 241,619, arrived at the port of New
York during the year 1867.