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nn tt ii x Si vi EPISCOPAL PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF METHODISM IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA- Vol. .11 RALEIGH, 1ST. C, MA'IMI 18, 1808. InTo. 0. ti'isisl in (itMhjsiil iin tlir "Wight." t.'"Ui'.l;; 'hmUIiT, Jii Hoi Hiliiliblt', 'tli.ni-.i-h t':y ; t li l.i ; Atilcas night; Thi iv - a strtr in tj uiik' trie humble: 'i'ru t in tJt.il anil .lo tin? right.'' l.ft the r.vid lioi'iii,uh anil dreary, An. I its oii-.l far out of sight, i"i...t it i.i iv. iv or weary, Tint in and tlo the rkrhiV" t'eiih 'ji.ihov' au.l "CUiiul'.;," IVrUh ail th.lt te l.- tile 1'oilt; Whether io- ia. whether whmiu, i'ruii iu ;. iaml do the right." 'i l iu-tllii Ji.il ;;., reet Of fashi.U' Trust no k'udi i -" i;i the ii;. h: !';;! m everv iv.in! an.'i aelixis, "I'rij.U :,"''..." aa.l 1 ihe rigbi." Tins', no 'i.i-v l.e.-tsi.- i1 jiasfioli ; l i ieiiils tii.ty hx.k like angels bright. Trust a eus'.oiii, sehi.! ur I'a-hi.iii; 'ill;--; ill tf.i tin ihe I i-';i." : ! i:ie ;;!!! s i!. . 1 1 1 ! i n ; a:'il pe.ie.- a1.!.! inward mi;; ill, ."i : i ;: ; i - il . 'ii !' ;; : in.; . i'.i' -. .:;;.'! asi.l do l!ie radii. " lilt- i i :! I ! I . I ! Will . UK.:, ill... VI th :,ud d" Hie rijjlit." II! I . ilk i' ul flit. .AiV' ! e.n ina tt ; ta iUh to tn i:i :t S:tV.ibk - 1 . i - - A - ' relation to , Christ's u.-tk only during his cent inn- a nee on earth; throughout the whole id' that perio. I he i; importuned by the : most earnest pe-rsiiasions to avail him- If of the benefits of Christ's medita- ! ti.-.u : and if, in defiaiice of all such im-; port unit ' he deferminedlv persists in j a trim in al course, how can he possibly ! escav.e the eUVets of the course V The ; qnerdion K how r.-.n he ? If pnnish- ' meiit is not iv g- nert ive; if selrish fear .; is not moral agent; if a moral creature j en i i. of be otuiihilni'-d; then how can j the criminal cheat God, and find a way . into heaven Is it suggested that a second probation might meet the i rase'" : A se.-oa.t .vs.''tv-.'f is an mipo.-sibili-; iy ; but even assuming the possibility, i vheie would be the eqrtity '? (rivo ; ijn ii t- know that there world be a ' -eooixd probation, and how maiiy of: them would care for the rirst V And i if they neglect the first, they are so j much weaker in moral nerve to euc urn- ', td- the discipline of the second. And ; if there should be two probations, why ; not three ? Hut ilV I ...ntlJ iiM . ."ti.l i.oi.-.ui 'ti.l i.bi.-.ui i: . a.'t of grace tay t'..,n X. .uid height i et .i'd I:!!:' llil-.X' 11. :l thntioht-', li. '.V ! tni-:ay Wh:it h-irr.,.' 1 . n"ti:ni--i.iii -wi.'iv ' w .iil.l re- ; i .e.t . in nU- ii; pail!, iir viuli'in a::d iid ,r , i ,i - i- ! 1 low do men regard tins i obattor.- j ., ' ; arv lot a as it comes up m the con-1 p t , 1(. .. nM -i ! cerns ut tlaiiv hie I Ju re is one seed-1 - t , ; .. Timr in till-- Vi.'ii" ;im linlrili 111 r iviopfi neglects it, and then sets tq the theo- j ry that to have not oitly an annual! seed-time is ridiculous! When pov-j erty comes as '';m armed man,'' does' society pity or reproach him V It may ! be suggested that po:-;sibly tlie suffer -i ings ndfJ'f liave a good effect upon tlie' lost; it might cause them to reflect; it i might bring them to repentance. It - e , , " , . . . t1 ! is for "of ten, howeMi, tnat everything has been don e for them which even! Tod could o.'i; thev hae resisted the i i i . i ,t , whole system of jv.-K-f-min'r !cv. : thmst ! a-.vav tlie bleed1. aisi d'i.ig Christ; and if iiier.-j siUici rugs will sa ve any man. God has tn- ie a stupendous mis- tat: e in smioik. le.r. Jr.on to save sin , , ., , iters, lioil wotiM 'Hen by more sue-1 cossf.il than the Son of God. We are not unaware of the plead- ' lnjrs of mere sentiment. All rood men would unite in tho expression of gen erous hopes v."i re they at liberty to deal with the sentimeiitalism of tin- subject : but as all tho arrangements of ! society show, the moral instincts of the world pre test against a forgiveness i of tho criminal apart from sufferinrr ! and contrition. If temporary punish- j ment in hell will bring men to God. I come sponsible to tne public lor why send Jesus Christ to die a sacri- I uliat tbe own ail1 contro1- If ey licial death, or any death at all? Why ! wiU tlius ,lraw 111 their wings, those m not put all men into hell at once, and : stations under their feathers will get save by fear those who refuse to be j saved 'by love ? Is it because we have I pleasure in contemplating the suffer- j ing of criminals that we have spoken thus urgently of future punishments ? ! We know that we subject, ourselves to such a taunt; it may be, however, that a frank statement on the affirmative j side of the question may be conceived in a more delicate and tremulous ten- derness than the utterance of vapid generalities of hope. We are bound to point out that nowhere in the sacred writings is hell referred to as exerting a remedial influence on the criminal; ! if it does exert such an influence, it was an inexcusable oversight not to dwell upon the fact specifically. On ! the other hand, it is distinctly taught 1 by Jesus Christ, that if men will not ' avail themselves of such moral advan tages as are at their disposal, they ! would not "be persuaded though one 1 l ose, from the dead." Men are apt to think that something which ha., not j been tried, especially .-.omcthing start- ling and sensational, would succeed in I - : saving the obstinate. Are thev wiser than God, or tenderer than Christ V ; Others, again, refer to the heathen, , and to those within our own eiviliza ' tiou who have never heard the gospel, i and they ask, ''Are such to be eternal ly punished '.'" This horror is uninfor- iin.'d and niirea.soiimg. No man will !e condemned lor not- believing what lie never heard. It is the man who (;,,.-.' that is to be condemned,; and the very terms imply that the case i ! has been laid before him. As for oth- j ers, they are in the hand-; of God, and j , will lie adjudged righteously. "It is! !. . 11 ... i . J - 11 - .. J. . ll. 1 1 ... ""!:! oeui i 10 iau iuio me tiamiH in vjtuu j 'than into the hands of men." Why ' preach the gospel at ail then? some may say. The answer i (1) Christ ; commmiimutl it to be preached, and j l'2.i the very nature of the gospel de- mauds proclamation; the truth will j not be silent. The appeal which most; concerns us is addressed immediately j to those who have heard the gospel, ; seen Christ iu his word and works, : and had an opportunity of accepting! eternal life. If men have insulted! God, poured contempt upon his Son, counted the blood of the covenant as . au unworthy thing, grieved and quen- ched the Holy Spirit, what can possi- j bly remain of n remedial kind? The inquiry is one ou which, reason may! expend its powers. What remains af-j ter God lias been exhausted? Those; who plead against eternal punishment often talk as though no mercy had been shown to the sinner; as if mercy j were an orb rese rved to shine upon t the uttermost darkness to show the: w-ay to heaven, ouch a suggestion is ; a oji-wa veflc'tion upon the plan of sal- : v i:icij -if. plainly, though indirectly, ! c:i-: -.ts -itii. pian nil i:it -urn jieicut-M, and violently enlarges the period of j i human probation. As if God's rnercv I were less than man's pit v ! Y'e at-! ' . . , i tempt not to read the unpublished de- i j crees of God; in our present sphere, I with our present means of judging, rea 1 ' J son itself binds us to accept the con-1 1 I elusions of consciousness and revela i . I tion in preference to the plausibilities i 1 1 of mere sentiment. --Acre Dsns. c. 0, IVoteri :'iJlii Texas. BY BISHOP MCTYEIl'.E. Next day led us over lands and scenes like the formei, onlv better wa ' tered. On the edge of the Salado 1 1 . " ume and beaut v, which glistens with i : the warm and vfiiioits brilliancy of a ! diamond. Passing Georgetown, the ! county seat of Williamson, about sun- i set, we found welcome with Brother; Snvdpv. Settlements abound, and! improvements are good in this por- of ihe country, which m some re- spects has an old look. Georgetown has its yi'ioii church. A village on tho west bank of t he Salado has a large and tasteful stone building called the I t 11 l 4 1 f 1"ege. uut uuua-i m so Prone to take institutions under their Patronage, I wondered how this hild escaped them. It may be that are Plowing wiser, and only be- j 1Jlore vital warnitb and lniow tlie ben' i fit' At Saka wo bave Poaching m ; tLe College, and some estimable and; titivated society, I believe no liquor j ls llowed to be sold Wltlnn a Jnile of lhe corporation. . hcto-g . wild geese. Since crossing the Brazos we began ; to find out where the wild geese went j to, that for a long time lia'd been seen ' flying southward. The grassy prai- ries and the open ponds and bayous down to the Gulf are. noisy with them, till the rigors of winter are past. Ma jor Downs told me he had killed as many as two hundred in a season on his plantation, a tew miles below a- co the secret of the downy bed on which I slept. Brother Snyder told us that the geese were troubling his bar- ley, and through tho night we could hear their cackling. iNext morning we were up before day for a shot. A double-barrel gun was furnished me that had been loaded for some time, and Xbout which I had suspicions which were afterward realized. Mine host and the Presiding Elder took na vies, counting ou close distances. Out on a high, dry prairie-field from which J regular turns, brg.u; the prime maneu-corn-stalks had been removed for seed- j Ver of the prairie-1 -red horse -pitching, ing wheat, we came upon the geese ; (Jetting the head down, if possible, they were in groups, -..nd with black j they .stiffen out their legs, as though Leu ds and gray necks, could be seen j. j hey were pegs, without joints, and go and .v. Wiser thai; we supposed, j leaping, leaping. They strike the they discerned between us and our in- ground all fours, and with utmost vio tentions, and the plowmen who had lenee to the rider and themselves, too, reported them not at all shy. They jasis betrayed by the suppressed grunt flew up just too soon in every case, and we were despairing- of a shot, when a flock, taking a turn, came lly- ing over us, low down. The pistol iook no eueci. iiy reii uaiier siiaj)- 1 V i If.. l,.(l 1 1 , ped, and now they were right over my head, and the other barrel went off bringing down one goose, but at the wrong end of the gun. big; stories or the texans. Texans have a way that may per haps be philosophically accounted for, of overtopping you iu anything won derful that you say or see concerning their country. I was amused at this frequently. "Lovely, beautiful!" you exclaim, as some vale of Tempe lies be fore the eye. "Ah, but you should see it in the spring, when the flowers are blooming." Speaking to a sedate gentleman concerning a very large flight of geese I had seen at one place, I ventured to say, perhaps a thou sand." "A thousand," he remarked, "I've seen a million." An affliction of this land is the want of water in the long, dry seasons. They have not yet resorted to artesian wells and to cis terns, on any general scale. The wa ter they drink, at times, in certain lo calities, and the distance they haul it, is not easily believed, and not credita ble to their enterprise or providence. The stock suffers greatly. The beds of the creeks into which Uiese wide water-sheds pour their contents give evi dence of sudden and violent floods, but are quickly dry. East of the Bra zos, passing through an extensive prairie, we came to a lake-like collec- tion of water, of small dimensions, to Avhich stock for miles around resorted. Gradually it was narrowing. The edge was so trodden, so miry, that nothing but thirst could drive a beast through it to the water, and nothing but strength bring it out again. Aiound it I counted seven dead cattle of vari ous ages, and a horse stuck fast and in various stages of decomposition. A veteran ox was lying, or rather stand ing deep on the margin, like a stran ded ship, and I was counting him for eight, but just then he gave a wink of his large, gentle eye, as much as to say "Mister, I haven't gon ft up yet." j one sees a long ways here and de This was a new sight, then, and I was j scribed their qualities. Some were telling it (o a friend. " O, that's noth- j for sale $3 to $5 per acre. The moil ing," said he ; " I've seen fifty around j ey would hardly put the improvements a pond of ha'f that size." One day on ; down. "Why are they willing to the San Antonia River we were facing j move?" Some are restless, and think the wind, and I buttoned up, with a they can do better elsewhere, for there slight shiver, remarking to the very i is plenty of room, and land is cheap; agreeable companion of the ride, that ; some farmers wish to move to the thin- it was pretty cool. His nose looked bluish and his ees moist, and he, too, was buttoned up tightly. "This is a trifle," he replied; "you ought to see a Norther, one of these real Hue ones, coming rolling over the prairie. Why, you can smell it." "Indeed," said I; "How does it smell?" "W e 11, it has a sort of brimstone smell." It is no use venturing anything extraordinary about their country before Texans. They always beat you. Before leaving Brother Snyder's next morning, I had an opportunity of witnessing the breaking of ahotse ta- ken from the cavy-yard; a very differ- ent affair from the colt-breaking of ' my boyhood. The animal, a roan mare, four or five years old, was roped, then bridled and saddled. Such a bit, such girthing, and such a saddle, would inspire confidence in most ! horsemen. In adjusting the crupper : there was a lively time. The Mexican j a generation who seem to be kept on liana .ir this business stood at the stirrup, caxingly. He had in hand his quirtz a short platted whip and ! gathered up the long rope in a fold j under his belt one end still on the horse's head. . The person assisting in holding covered the left eve with his hand, and the Mexican softly but quickly was in the saddle. Let go. The first seenjaitcrward was the man who had bru holding the bridle down ; on backjan?: inti"h h.. dread h-.ul j the beast sho'Ci- ;..( rike her feet into him in that position; but he sc; -ambled out of the situation uiilimit. farther dainave. After a few j'iiiii: es and ir- at each landing. If straightforward does not shako off the rider, they sud- j denly zig-zag or wheel. It would seem j impossible for anything but a Mazep- pa to adhere. The Mexican rode it out, freely using his quirtz. and in half an hour was walking quietly up the road. I was speaking of the incident to a friend, a man of decided moderation. He did not seem to think much of my Mexican or my horse. " Why," said he, "that's nothing. I've seen them pitch so that the rider's teeth would clatter like easlanois." I did not j know then what that word meant, but I kni'w my story had gone under. The next dictionary that came in mv way I j turned to it. " Castanet, Spanish, ; castaneta. An instrument composed j of small, concave shells of ivory or hard ! wood, shapedjhke spoons, piaced to- gether, fastened to the thumb, and beat with the middle linger." WHAT SORT OE PLACE TEXAS IS TO LIVE IN". I am taking it leisurely with my readers, but we can reach Austin by this afternoon. Wo pass Hound Rock, so named from a rock at the ford oi the stream which turns the village mil!. About noon we halt at Brother Bot.ts's, and though our stay is brief, we feel like we have known him and his pleasant family a long time. To worship with them, around their family altar at. parting, one ac cepts as a privilege and a portion of their Christian hospitality. Brother B., gave me much information about j the country and the best jolicy of a farmer, for tlie benefit of those friends in the old States who had said to me: "We will wait till you go and see and report, before we go." If any of my readers do nor fancy these business de tails, they will please bear with them for the sake of those who do, and to whom they may be cf practical impor tance. Many are in search of homes, cheap, fertile, and healthy. To such these items will be of interest, and if they do not. guide them to new places, may make them more content with the old ones. He showed me small improved places within sight and ly settled country and go to stock raising; some are iu debt. So much vacant space around gives a feeling and character of unsettledness to the population. The mistake of new-comers is that they buy too much land, and that unimproved. A small por- ; tion of improved land enables them to make a support at once. And with ready money they can enlarge after ward, indefinitely. The wide range is ! free, and not a small part of the living j even of working stock is drawn from ! it- "We are not much alarmed,'" j said my Belton host, "if corn does ' get scarce, so there is enough to bread the family: we can make a, crop on grass." Corn was being sold and de- : bvered along our way for :J ami 40 cents per bushel. It was surprising to estimate on what a small amount of land and labor subsistence could be made. Many luxuries and niceties are ( lacking, many convenience?., many em -, bellishments of life; but it is really aj relief and a luxury itself to be in a i land where the question. What shall I we eat? does not absorb every other! whore bread and meat are abundant and cheap, and nobody is in danger of starving. flections Clerical Aiecirtt b. VT r OP JR. l)F H4- i "Lecturing on a very stormy night, ! the Doctor bsered, 'Though ihe -is semblv is sin all, v it.i ' onlv to o the upper window a, a an overflowim- hou .t i iii we :.; au nave 'As I came nd having de had :i lively round the corner, ihe wim ranged my umbrella, I 1 sensation of what i ; called scudding umier oare poies. ). nnuiner oeca ib sion, when Ad mind (then Captain; Foote addressed the meeting first, Dr. Beth tine said, 'You know that we had to put our best foot foremost to-, Dout wait for your fervor to cool "Qig'ht. j before 3Tou act. The workman at a "Conversing with a stout gentleman j foundry might as well wait for the whose face bore external evidence of i ?lolten irou to ro1 before pouring it -. ,. - . , 7 . , ; into the mould, goott living, yet who spoke m feelnc , tones, complained of hi.? health, and j , May ft think8 ifc is virtue that , , , , I keeps him from turning a rascal, when sard that he 'was as wear, as a moth. , ifc ft full stomacb. fe0ne 8ho'ulll be A Benemotii, I tatnic,' replied tlie . careful and not mistake potatoes for Laughing minister. Sometimes, how- j principles. ever, his wit was fully matched by that j in Berlin, the policemen of all rail 01 his subject. Thus, when Dr. Beth- j way and police stations, and of tho une was walking with a clergyman al- j market-places, have been furnished most as full in person as himself, they th galactometers, in order to put a . , V, 1 1 , , I stop to the adulteration of milk, which spied another Brooklyn pastor, who , ia pvnctised there on a great scale. presented a perfect contrast to their ; . , , , . , T1 ,. i A horse belonging to a Boston steam rotundity, and who, at the time, was . nreengilje was rem0ved to another suffering from a horrible attack of dys- j stable to make room for another horse. pepsia. As he approached, Bethume j There was an alarm during the night, said to his companion, within hearing i aml tlie old fil' hovQ kicked down the t iC. , , , I stalls and everything else Ins heels oi the third party, 'See there ! anvbodv n i "i 1 1 ' ' : could reach, in his anxiety to get out that looks so cadaverous as that, can't : .Ui nQ 0 jU! jre have a cood conscience.' Tho thin i mi. r t .i. parson was wide awake, and rejoined, ! "R f 1 rt-k 1 e ' 4- rr on: nl .ATif Jl. CI LXX Cll j L . JV.i.i't t.V-'-Lll lilt conscience, but I'd rather have the ' gizzard of one of you, ii, i of both." "On another occasion, when intro ducing a lank clerical friend of the same denomination, (Baptist) to an other intimate companion, with a twin kle of the eye, and in tones which none could more amusingly employ, he added, to the ceremonial announce ment of his name and position, 'But he's rather shrunk in the wetting.' " "In a S3 nodical debate, Dr. Bethune, taking a ouesided view of a subject, was charged with being a jug with one handle; after a little while a man who got himself on t wo horn -; of a dilemma, was represented as a jug with two handles, but it was reset ved foi tin Doctor to make the best use of tlie joke ; for a brother having risen who was rather famous for mm comuithd ism, and who, on this subject was no where, Dr. Bethune said, we have had jugs with one handle and jugs with twro handles, but here we have a jug with no handle at all." " "A young friend, who had joined the Baptists, approached him timidly, lest the Doctor might cen-aire his choice. After some hesitation, he broached the subject with the remaik, 'Well, Doc tor; yesterday I joined the- Army of Zion.' 'Did you was tic reply, 'in which church?' 'Iu the Pierpont Street Baptist,' came tho faltering answer. '0! I understand,' said the Doctor, 'but I sholud call that joining the Navy.' " Tlie Jooloo Bishop Ken, born in 10 7, and who died in 1711, was the well-kno m wri ter of the familiar doxology, "Praise God from whom all Ineyitis flow." The poet Montgom eiys v:ry proper ly ramarked of this peiYjt composi tion, that it lias probably been more used than any other, except the Lord's Praver; that it is a master-piece at once of amplification and compression. Of amplification on the burden "Praise God," repeated in nach line; compres- I sion, exhibiting God as the object of ' praise in every view in which we can ' imagine praise due to Him for all His 1 blessings yea, for aii blessings, none coming from any othr source; praise by every creature, espicially invoked j here below and in heaven above; praise ! to Him in each of characters wherein ; He has revealed Himself in His Word, : "Father Son and Holy Ghost." Yet i this comprehensive stanza is sufficient ! lo oi'miilo ttint. tiv it. the imnrn.nt, n.nd wise, the young and the mature, may "perfect praise." water. No man ever sins at half-price. Youth and white paper take any impression. i Moderation is the silken string rnu I ning through the chain of all the vir- i tues. Thev e is one good wife in the count ry; lot every married mail think he hath her. East-Iudian princes cure witchcraft . by slitting the noses and ears of the j witches. lie who receives a good turn should i never forget it ; he who does one should j never remember it. i Who gives of his superfluity does good to others; who gives of bin nec essily does good to himself. .Second childhood rarely uttackn h man, however aged, whose mind hat been igorously and habitually kept in .ictivilv during his life. The essence of true nobility is neg lect of self. Let the thought of self pass in and the beauty of action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flow er. j. ii:; aiaiis ci niu uisi uu comecl moneys, and tliey used iron used first ; then copper. Athelstan first en- I acted regulations tor tne governmont t 1 1 i i i i a rirr mi s oi uie jLiiGfiisu mini, in a d. 050. ina hrst gold coinage in England was m the reign of Edward the Third. Tin w as coined bv Charles the Second, and pewter by James the First. "I Mark Only the Hours that Shine." Aye, that is the secret of a cheerful and grateful heart "to mark the hours that shine." He who does this will ordinarily find more hours that shine than that are clouded more good than ill in his lot; and he shall never be able to say, I have no occasion for thanksgiving. Bishop Strachan, who died lately in Toronto, retained in his speech to the last niany traces of the Aberdeenshire dialect, though he tried hard and long to rid himself of it. It was amusing to hear him advise young Scotchmen to get quit, as fast as possible, of their "braid Scotch, for folk coudna get on in Canada unless they spak guid En olish." There is a living power in lrti) sen timents. When we hear them spoken they take their place in our memoiies, and seem often to hide themselves away out of sight. But in times of tri al, temptation, or suffering, just when they are needed for strength or com fort, some spirit hand turns the leaf on which they were written, and lo ! they are ours again. A juror having applied to ttij judge to be, excused from serving on account of deafness, the judge .said: "Could von heir i iy chwgu lo tu; jury, sii ' "Yes, .the iid oiii" lioiiix s charge," -.aid the juror, "btit 1 couldn't make any sense out of it.." He was excused- Apropos of an announcement that a distinguished minister is writing a life of Christ, an exchange felicitously re marks that "there is an excellent histo ry of Christ in a work called the New Testament, which is not likely to be improved upon." The total lengtii of electric tele graphs in the world, not including the submarine, amounts to upward of 180,000 miles, which is more than enough to go round the earth half a dozen times. An old picture represents a king, sit ting in state, with a label, "I govern all" a bishop with a legend, "I pray for all" a soldier with a motto, "I tight for all" and a farmer, drawing forth reluctantly u purse, with the in scription, "I pay for all." There is more truth than poetry in the idea. It is said that Augusta J. Evans is to write a new novel in which tho lovers amuse themselves in their lighter mo ments with the problems of integral mid differential calculus. In their serious moods they talk to each other of theorgiu of the Chaldaie and Sanicrit tongues. "Mike, if you meet Patrick, tell him we are waiting for him." But what shall I tell Jnm if I don't mate him?' '
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