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T TT IT PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF METHODISM IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA- LI Vol. II. c. C5 i;y ohakles f. nnois. It is an amazing truth !-IIe loved , There was no vacuum in His - infm - ite heart to be ailed, no craving of His soul to be satisfied, no wa't of His nature to bo supplied bv loving sucn persons n.s we are. We poor mortals have tendrils growing and go ing out of our hearts, creeping for ward to the light, begging for the sun shine of love as for life, and seeking for that on which we may lean. "We ?;:nst love and be loved The neces- S2l v oJ loving ind being loved is a part of our nature. Little children open their hearts like morning flowers ferthe lasses ot tlie sun, and strong , , . ' , , . men have the solemn silence ot their A , , ... , ,. hearts broken with the crv for "moth- , , , . or and tor "wile, and women s hearts , . . , , run down to love as rivers f eek the . , . , . sea. And everv full, true woman mis r . A. " , , . , f It the instincts of maternity m her , " nearu "Y t sitting in their despair, With their unnoticed griefs to bear, An- childless women everywhere; Who never know nor ruulorsiood Thiit whieliis woman's greatest Rood, The sj-eivuiiess of motherhood. " That up from a desolate hearthstone and out from the statelincss of a man si":i whose grandeur giv uive ljev ! eieni Home, hecause its walls luive nev- r given eo to the voice of children ' we can fancv how a motherless woman would rush to the "Home for the Vri, i-dless' to take up the beautiful ; ample and iniluence, were all perfect babe some dying mother was compell- j a5ld Pro divinely powerful, yet, ed tn lay tlwn,wfd strive to tie about i fonverls lack(d in tpirifita? pmcer. the little stronger the loose and throb- Hence. "Tarry ye in the city of Je biug mother nerves of her lonely heart. ! vusalem until ye be endued with pow Jhitif Christ's iniiuite heart demanded ! 01' from on high." objects of love He, was under no nec- j JerumUun." Every Christian essity of seeking us, poor, distant mor j !lfis- or ought to have, his, Jerusalem tals. Consider who He was and j religious home and its there he where lie was. He was the Son of is to abide for the anointing. He will God. He had the love of the Father ' fl that. Christ commands him to do forever. He had lived in the high and ; so- This public or collective waiting tender mystery of a complete and j in earnest prayer in Jerusalem for the profound fellowship with the Father J unction of power from on high, has of heaven and of earth. All about I substitute in secret devotion. Kim we ii ti e antrels. cherubim, fcra phim, beautiful, brilliant, noble nd i glowing. Every holy heart in the uni- I v. r,e swelled with love f r Hiai. From lifrtr, f.om lofty throne or f:o u ! celestial mould, thev gazed with looks of tender adoration at the onlv-begot- I ted Hon of the Father, or rushed to ! pile their crowns of glorv nt His feet ! aud bask their f iidess spirits in the liht of His transforming smiles. The countless souls of the immortals on whose, beauty Jay no blight of sin, lood, shouted, soared all about Him in his populous heaven, and He could j not have needed "me." He loved me ! A s each nian of our race says H, i , r f i j .i , mf Time- icxit Ihsi.r. tli.i-f was really nothing in our poor, fallen, stricken, sinking race to win the love of Jesus. It was not drawn out. It caaie. There was nothing in us to at tract it. He loved. The tide f-et in to us and bore us up. We were not morally pure or beautiful, or sweet or (harming. All these characteristics, which we are accustomed to consider j the kindling causes of affection, were it- T 1-11,.. ,n f : lacking in us. If we had been full oii ail holy sweetnesses and richnesses, ; tl ere mitrht have been nothing ama zing in His love. But tt over ana oxten i towr.rilfifiTir fpllow-men we have a feel- . ., . i r i i . ; 'llipro is Ki-.fb nn iiitpnse consciousness t i i v i ,,i, ,i i of real unlovehnf ss, and s.uch a clear self-knowledge, that it Dften occurs to ns flint, if nnr fsithers or mothers rr wives, or very intimate and devoted I hiends, omy knew all Ihe bid cfr.fi that we ourselves know, they would at once thrjw us from their bosoms for ever. Perhaps we save ourselves by the reflection that it may be that our friends have a similar self-consciousness, a similar self knowledge, and we endure one another because each man ! endures himself. ! But when we come to reflect upon the love of Jesus we know that He was immaculate, that He did not love a fellow-sinner, aud that of those He lo- ved He knew more vileness, meanness, ! "wickedness, impurity and general mor al unloveliness than they ever suspec ted in themselves. It was a love tha' was in Him, and nothing more thor ! onghiy demonstrates the essential pu ' rity of the lovingness of Christ tlian j that He, the Sinless, really and truly I loved us siime rs. It is a saving truth to believe that in ti e universe there is j not 01v a PibIe lnt al Person, who being incapable of any ' vilonCSS' "evertheless Revile; ; t, want of goodness does not throw i oo ont of the circle of the poaaibiUties ! f W 1Jle8a he Got1' 11,0 aniazin .irumiuai "j-ie loved mo aemon- jslratos that proposition. Every ! Month. Need of Spiritual Power. m- jjev. j. eooricn But tarry ve in the city of .Terusale ra until ve he omlne-.l with power from on bigrh." Luke 24: -1'J: : - , , , ,, ' Stivior on tlie Last or fortieth day of ! . . .... , , . ! his visible appearance to hr disciples I , . ,. j aiter his resurrection, . ,., ... . , . , i Alt hough the disciples had enjoved , , , , . . , , : the great advantages arising from the , .... . T ; most perfect ministrations of Jesus, i .. , . , . ' ami v.ere themselves, in their degree i the sincerest of Christians, yet they i were very inadequately qualified for j the duties, privileges and responsibili j ties of future diseipleship. Yes, aud j not the far ofi" future, but the imuie- diate future. i What a lesson here for us preachers aiK! memucrs : 'e may have correct dents and teachers, may imbibe the w,olc lru1' :1S iJ is in JS,1S. theoreti- C;l11 aml ?el le exceedingly dencient. -uanc yon: Jcsus w)iMs, manner, cx- i Both are required. Besides, much i pa!mel off as S(cret devotion cmists in a formal repetition of some fi'dliar words perhaps the Lord's prayei, and "Now I lay me down to sJeeP W this down wher8 c;m S(,,i it: Generally, the 'nau loos not lW earnestly and frequently in public, (say in the regu- I:ir Church prayer meeting) does not ! nn v-'itruv S-mie iiirl f lo-isfmn who most always "can't come" to prayer meeting, will color up at this, and ve ry likely tro into an enthusiastic enlo- of the blessedness of sacred devo tion, where none but uou can see By private prayer we especially help iu Mir ui iscii 'v muni- vi oji.iai ' - 1 prayer we especially help to save oth ovs. And nn'fi hf;TP. .Tesus is ad dressing his disciples. As if to say, "Your poor souls are sar"J, but yon must sa ve other and von have not the power yet, hence, "Tarry ij" Wait stop everything ! else, but prayer, till you get this. Do ! not say, "If I can possibly get through ! with my work and chores I'll go to oei uaiem. uo: iop your woiiv ' ' 1 T 1,.., " ti.T ,.. - 1. you lack spiritual power, been telling everybody so You have i be en tellnio- evervbodv so in class and 0 - love feast for a long time U bile m such a state your soul is such a state your soul is in peril von are in great danger of eternal loss. O, tarry, then! tarry ' ' J now! Let what von call pressing du ties go just now and get ready for eemi.y. Tarry until.' Ah ! how strangely "Tarry intif." Do not leave or quit praying "until" yon get the blessing. O, I fear we all often fail here. We don't tarry until wo are made consci ous of the Loru's blessing. We often say, "I would like such and such a blessing, but then if I do not obtain it now I may some other time." If in special darkness we don't pray until we get into special light; if in trial, un til delivered; if found weak, until Kiade strong in the Lord and in the power of his mighf. Oh, come, dear reader, let "s T;irr-V nilt! wf be , puwui iioijj on jjiu. j.iiis, iiieu, is the object of tarrying the obtain ment of spiritual power. "Power from or. high." Its alone of RALEIGH, IN WEI. W God's bestowment; but, ..o a.!,. shall receive; seek ai id ye shall find." "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." Its the power of light and life, of strength and courage, of wisdom and meekness, of patience in suffering and doing, and of love and holiness- holiness e- pecially. As a man becomes truly m,u,ulUrtU,,m,1J .:x.vu, isan Francisco Spectator of Aur.. 29. surplus religions power for doing good and saving others 'Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly dove, "With all thy quickenii; powers; Come, shed abroad a S ivior's love, And that shall kindle ornv." as- r; Liberality of Metltodist crs. PreacSs I venture the assertion, that there is not one case in a hundred where an appeal was made in vain for help, to an itinerant Methodist preacher in the Southern States, who had the means with which to respond. As a class, they are proverbial for their liberality and generosity. Accnstomeci them selves to appeal to the people for mon ey, they illustrate by example, the du ty they urge by precept. I have seen them deposit in the Lord's treasury tlie last cent, with a faith that was heroic and sublime. They feel humiliated and mortified when the meanness of their congregations puts it out of their power to respond with something to the various calls that are made upon them. I do insist, that it is the duty of the Church, raising t he preacher's support, to have it large enough to leave a mar gin of one hundred dollars annually, to meet the contingencies of which I am speaking, if they should arise. If they should uot, the Church may rest assured it will not be uselessly spent or recklessly wasted. But suppose personified illiberality, in the person of a non-payincr, moies sing Methodistie miser, suggests that this bonus does not fall within the ob ligation of indebtedness, bur that, it is a gift. Well, suppose it is a gift he is the benefitted party; for the Bible, which he professes to believe to be true, declares, "that it is more blessed to give than to receive." But it is not true that is a gift. It is as much a gift. deb and of as bis owi an oiiiLraiion a the subsistence that, sustains his is lire, and the life of his wife and little ones. I have said that preachers, like oth er clever- people, love to dispense hos pitality. Their relatives and friends sometimes visit them. Hospit ality is a social duty, as well as a social pleas ure. Their supplies should be suffi cient to enable them to dispense its blessings and preserve the worship of its altar. Ye:. this contingency is nev er taken into the account in the assess ment. But when a relative or a friend spends a w eek with the family while he is absent and his wife is lonely, and, it may be, sick, those who never pay complain of his company, and of the burdeus it imposes upon the Church. Her very liberal "brclherinff who thus complain, to save a tavern bill, will put up with the preacher du ring court week, with their horse, when they happen to be summoned as jurymen or witness. In traveling one hundred miles, they will go twenty out of the way, and claim kin, related in the fifth or eighth degree to some old acquaintance, with the party with j whom they wish to stay. I know a "good brother," living six or eight miles from town, who was summoned to serve on the grand jury. It was in Confederate times, on a poor circuit. He and his horse "put up" to spend "court week" with his pastor who was pressed for subsistence. He was in good circumstances, and exult ing over the abundance of his rye crop boasting of the number of bushels he had made, and the superior quality of the giain. The preacher's good wife asked him to bring her some when. he came to town, to make coffee, sup posing he would bring her a bushel or two. "Certainly," he replied with an air of princely munificence that was absolutely magnitieent. Alexander or Oesar would have given away an em- j pire with less demonstration of king ly liberality. The next time he came to town he brought the rye two ta ble spoonsful tied up in a pocket hand kerchief 8 by 10 inches. Such is the liberality of manyMeth- C, OCT. 14, 18G8. t tAHll wuWlo ru me piocuuiei ae perids for the support of himself and famib,'. -- . But more of this in my "Stat Umbka Nomixis." Uialsop Marvin 'next, ! j j We bftJ the pleaSTire of L,arin Bigh op Marvin last Sunday, says the lie preached at the Minna street , . . , . , at the Minna street tiiuLcu liioiiiiii" uiiu eexiJULr, 10 crowd - -i t - , , ' ed au.aences, whose high expectations were rjsruisappointea. lie a great tJi tlll.(! I XiJU iOIUCUOO JL 1113 m CUt" , r, ness m t, hp nn nir,. h ke. t.nosp nf n II orpnt. , ., . , , . , pulpit orators, are hardly defmable.- But some things are apparent, and may be noticed. 1. He is in earnest. TT' 1- ' 1 . 1 1 1 1 . , , I His sonl is evidently burdened withf . , A, lius grcui; Liieiue, urisii crucineu. He is solemnized with grand thoughts of God, of sin, of judgement, of heav en, of hell. 2. He is natural, with out the least shadow of affectation, di vested of pride, self-consciousness or self-seeking in any way. He holds up the Cross, and stands behind it. ?. He possesses an intellect of extraor dinary sweep and vigor, capable of sounding the profoundest depths of speculative thought, and of compre hending and unfolding the sublime doctrines of Christianity; and all its . " ' , . . powers are concentrated upon his , . . a xt theme and mission. 4. He is sur- rounded by an atmosphere of spirit- r; " e tt i nahty, an " unction from the Holy Holy One" rests upon him, and gives that chnracter to his ministration with out which the most important element of pulpit power is wanting. His preach ing is eminently calculated to meet the religious needs of our people, and with the blessing of God great things may be hoped from his labors on this coast. On ?.Iond ay the Bishop start ed to Oregon by 11 e overlan l route. He will attend the session of the Colum bia Conference at lloseburg on the 7th of September, and return to Califor nia in time to preside at the Pacific Conference, which convenes at Sacra mento on the first Wednesday in Oc t ober. Mil rd of tlie Swiss Women. The Swiss are not neat. They are not offensively uncleanly in their per sons. On Sundays and holidays, their gala attire varying much in the dif i'erent cantons though sometimes grotesque, indicates great regard for personal appearance, aud in some quarters is even beautiful. On work ing days, the men are decently clad. and nothing can be more charmingly picturesque than the costume of the women at haymaking broad straw hats with bodices. But they love to heap all the litter they can in and about their houses. I have been in cottages, b uilt with exquisite taste, and presenting at a distance a most inviting aspect, which were not near ly so clean as a well-kept stable. In deed, the cellar of a farm-house is gen erally used as a stable, and the small er live-stock have the unchecked lib erty of the whole house. The women are subjected to a very great amount of severe out-of-door toil. In the cities, the street sweepers are all women. All over the country, beside-V performing most of the agri cultural labor, the women carry heavy burdens, on frames or in baskets fit ted to their backs, and the girls are inured to this task from very infancy. They thus acquire a uniformly stoop ing gate, as if born under the curse written in one of the imprecatory psalms, "Bjw down their back always." Yet the severity of their lot is due not, as in Saxony and Austria, to the com parative degradation of women in the social scale; but rather to the brevity of the working season, which compels all the members of a family to the maximum of effort, to provide for the l$ng period of inaction. Over bights which no wheeled carriage can sar mont and at timc3 when all attainable mules are required for the use of trav elers, the human back is the only me dium of transportation; and, ifthewo- ! men bear heavy burdens, the men b stiU heavier. Many of them are employed as porters carrying enor mous articles of baggage, aud frequent ly their feeble or indolent owners, to the highest mountains. Others take care of the herds that are pastured far up among the clouds, and bring - aown me products ot tnese renal dai- !rips tn the-. Wr-ncfint nnvi-.ic. "v-wwm.vwwVAAVJ V l A tU til X ai. in For all of them, too, the cutting and transportation of firewood apne make a severe demand on the strength. Peabfuhfs Remen incense. Tlie Revolution in Spain. An insurrection in Spain does not ! fenerallv nt.trnof. mnpli nf toiitinn - lmf . , , , , , , j the rising which began last week has 1 i , , . already assumed much larger than ! , , . mi , . , The despotism of the present government had become i jilt - , , . i so intolerable, and the general disor- . . . ! ganization of the country so alarming. j that nearly all political parties had agreed upon a common effort to bring " " l- - . - v.. . . , i vu..unv. Alio ill - r - . union, which contents itself Avith de- manding that the Queen shall exercise no absolute power, but shall respect the rights of the representatives of the people; the Progressists, who fa ! vor the introduction of universal suf frage, and some of whom would like to unite Spain and Portugal, under the name of the Kingdom of Iberia, with the King of Portugal as ruler; and the Democrats, who hold Republican ideas, have an equal share in the pres ent rising. One thing appears to be certain. i The fanatical Government, which lm ! . . . j persecuted every exhibition of Protes- : .. . , . . , i. . , ,. 1 book, and even the reading of the Bi- , . j oie, witn consummate cruelty, and which, while the whole world predict ed its imminent collapse, deemed it- self strong enough to offer 30,000 men to keep up by force the temporal pow er of the Pope, is on the eve of a com plete overthrow and utter annihila tion. However the Liberal party may finally arrange their family quarrels, thev will agree in conceding to Spain religious toleration. The advanced Liberals are in favor of full religious liberty and separation between Church and State, and if they should not be able to engraft their principles imme diately upon the- new constitution, they will now and hereafter make for them a good and manly fight. We hope, therefore, for the immediate be ginning of a new era of religious lib erty and political progress. fiST" The temperance people of New York and Brooklyn are working for the good cause. There are a strong corps of out-door lecturers, who gath er impromptu audiences on the docks, at the ferries, in the parks aud public squares; and these earnest and faith ful men are not fair-weather advocates of their cause. Summer and winter, spring and autumns, through heat and cold, through mire and snow, they hasten to their task like guests to a festival, seeking no reward save that of a sense of having done a noble deed. There are also associations embra cing the members of various temper ance societies, who open halls and churches every Sabbath night for the advocacy of temperance principles. Eureka Division of the Sons of Tem perance, in Williamsburgh, hires at great cost a splendid hall, and throws open its free door to all comers, invi ting them to hear the gospel of total abstinence. Thev secure the most at tractive speakers and singers to en tertain those who attend the meetings; and it will never be known, until the great Any of assize, the good that has been done by this organization. Wil liamsburg Division has also opened an elegantly furnished hall to the public for the same object. We learn that, in some of the coun ties, ccme of the Comissioners h.ve not qualified, and others have not been appointed by "Gov." Holden, to fill the vacancy. In other counties, no Justices of the Peace have yet been appointed by the "Governor." Iredell, Catawba, and other counties, we un derstand, are among the number which have no magistrates. Why is this ? The 15th of October is approaching, when the Registration must commence The Registrars, according to the law, j must be Justices of the Peace. If the "Governor" delays appointing magis trates, the ends of the law will be de feated. Senliivi While California is producing $15,- 000,000 in gold, she produces $00,000,- j viz: Nebraska, October 6; Ohio, Indi 000 in farm products, and $50,000,000 alia Pennsylvania and Iowa, October in manufactured goods. j 1:J. yest Virginia, October 22. ISTo. 39. The Chops. During our trip to the Northern part of Brunswick county we are glad to learn that their pros pects for a crop aro very good. The corn and pea nuts are especially most promising, having advanced beyond that condition in which thero is much fear of an' bad effects from the casu alties frequently fatal to those crops. The rice crop along the river, which is now being harvested, is very fine. Onhy a limited area has been planted, but an abundant yield will be realized. 117. Journal. The Cotton Citor. Charleston newspapers state that a total failure of the Sea Island cotton crops may bo expected. Although the crop is more advanced this year than last, the cat erpillar is three weeks earlier. In, reference to this insect, it is stated that they are sweeping the entire cast j coast of Florida and are pervading ev ery island on the coast of South Caro lina, and devouring the crops along the whole lino of the Savannah and Charleston Railroad. Bixgham's Git.iMM.ui. Tho "Round Table," one of the ablest literary pa pers published in this conn try, say that Bingham has given us the best book of the kind we have seen that is, his Latin Grammar. We arc glad to know that this North Carolina work has been well received wherever it has been callod to tho attention of tho public. We predicted more thann year ago its success. Many of tho Schools in this section use this gram mar, and as the teachers get over their natural but unwise partiality for old authors, and their prejudice to South ern works, we may look to find it the text-book in all our Schools. WU, Journal. T3TR.EI7'ia?I3IlS. The less a man makes of himself tho more of a man he in in the estimation of others. About one hundred students have made application to enter tho Drew Theological Seminary next year. The number of distilleries in tho United States in 13C0 was 1103, and in 18G7 they had increased to over 3000. Four hundred citizens of Macedon, N. Y., signed a remonstrance against granting licenses for tho sale of rum, and presented it to the Excise Board. It is estimatad that New York will this season receive eighty cargoes of pm a apples. 1 ho cargoes vary from two to six thousaud dozen each. The Baptists have seven Theologi cal schools in the United States. Tho whole number of students iu these seminaries is loO. A new paper has been started in London representing tho banking in terest, under the appropriate name of The Staff of Life. The cross of Christ is the sweetest, burden that ever I bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or as sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my desired haven. Regret not the golden nge that is behind. There is one before, and it beckons you. Its rewards are not for the idle, but for the brave hearts dis ciplined to toil. Reforming the world is liko patch ing an old coat, which will soon need another patch; but if it were not for reformers the world would always bo out at the elbows. Never lay a stumbling-block in the way of a man who is trying to ad vance himself in the world honestly aud uprightly, for he is likely to walk over it and laugh at it afterward. The young women of Phillipsburg, N. J., havo formed a society whoso members pledge themselves not to en courage the advances of any young man who makes use of intoxicating liquors. There appears to be no diminution in the rate of emigration from Ireland. The number of passengers booked for America by one steamer from Queens towii was fitteen hundred. Among the articles stolen from the house of Mrs. Jared Sparks, widow of the historian, at Cambridge, was a gold watch, chain and seal, once the property of General Washington. Bayard Tavlor, who is now sojourn ing at Gotha, the place of residence of his wife's parents, will return to A-merica in a few weeks to be present at the golden wedding of his parents at Kennet Square, Chester couny, Pa., on the 8th of October. t-t.fiB hold thrir elections in October. .3 J &
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