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VOL. XIX. NO. 47.
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CUBA.
Siempre Fielissima Iala de Cuba.
13 Y JAMES BAR RON HOVE.
O'er thy purple U Us. (), Cub . !
TiiO'U'li "O valley ! lomaime.
Ui : 1. v irlori-.iis 1 f.-.i m i.l fr-o.lom
i i.u1 lir-aml as a trauee.
M :i .: ti:i : iss a:. 1 I iii.ttul v .Hoy -Mini
tt.wii :tii'l spreading plain,
w :;i to !,-.; of the .panitrd.
i his Imniiii;! Insi inr itaiu.
Si ill c irav il .1 uil-ii
i.l I'fd lii'si up tii v strand,
Kv'rt'lill- .'.tm'lt itioe. Cuba.
s,j -vs ilu' ui'ii Sp.m .-'i Iii .d.
i ,if Ci .; ci'.-li i'l tn irli.ii musio !
i- 1-..H1 i.n-pl.z. tiuxv u swells.'
ii...v n trembles witu tin. moaning
ui ' story tint it to'.U !
i" i r :i ihy 'tops to Vrtaros
i' lt-io -V.I-; do io ,i lt.-d ol shame !
i! I;ile.-- men were coldly butchered
lis part ui op inisb fam-.
W : 1 1 i T now d v :i to liie 1'u i (a,
i.iy t'riy h n i up i hy throat,
l iiu i wilt, so a Spnuish emblem
(:i ilit-' dark and grim jjarrote.
l i tho Murn in tho iu irket
1 i tii'1 s'j do .v in the sun
'l i i wilt soo tho heard 1 Spaniard
'Vii-'ii' a seMfii pi o- in iy b." won,
A i'i now S.mti i-iV stjry
'iv-'s t!i world a mi'iiy s!nck.
--vmth ami Vulcan li;i.l their victim
To "5i- a.l mi lutino rock.
An 1 they fatten on the?, '"hiba !
J iy Sad-lido cun:iing I'riest--!?'
those vuU ires fl ick and hover
ill thy torture 1 bro-st to feast!
T iiii tr :a? h -i of th- Ocean,
I'-j-.n 1 down, not lor w'lat thou'st done,
But for fe ir thy social statue.
Siioild e-alt living in the sun !
A :d idve tho tears. O, Cuba !
And 0'ir tears to God iiplil,,
Tii i". at 1 it the fl iiu s ceVjtial
My c nil"? down to thee a gilt!
o in rouawatcd.
Tor tlie Advocate.
The Youth of our Country.
Although tho unsanetitied genius of
Stephen Decatur led his haughty
sjiirit into misconce.tions of gentle
manly dignity and honor, and induced
him to place on record a precedent
which christian intelligence will ever
deprecate, the sentiment uttered by
Lis noble father should never fade
from the American mind: "Our chil
dren; the property of our country !"
it is a lamentable fact that too many
oi the youth, who are to characterize
the future of our country, are contract
ing debasing and disreputable habits.
31 my of them seem to think it smart
in them to shrewdly deceive their
parents, and indulge in degrading
practices after they have retired to
ret. Go to our week-day prayer
m. .tings, especially in our towns and
vil aires, and who do vou cenerallv
find there ? A few of the aged mem
tars of the church scattered over the
church, while the young men, who are
to be the guardians of the dearest in
tcrcsts of the church in coming years,
are, in too many instances, frecrnenting
gambling, billiard, and drinking sa
1'juns! Disregarding parental counsel
a'nl admonition, and wholesome re
straint, the out-croppings of their
nightly carousals too plainly manifest
their preference for grop-shop associa
tions, instead of the cheerful fireside
at home. Although I may not hope to
arrest the mighty current of moral cor
ruption which is sweeping so many of
the once promising youths of our
land into the vortex of degradation
and ruin, may I not hope to induce
some, who have not passed tho Rubi
con, to pause ere borne down antl fet
tered by tho force of indulgence, like
the victim of a merciless reptile writh -i"g
in hopeless agony, they find them
selves powerless to resist !
When young men think they are
vhi'wdhi deceiving their mothers, and
seek the association of grog-shops,
billiard and gambling saloons, and
fcthcr scenes of debauchery after night
full, they occupy truly a perilous sit
nation. Such young men are to be
pitied, and have much need of caution
lf,st they bo "led captive by the Devil
at liis will," the bane and curse of so
ciety. Young men ! The old Serpent,
the Devil, has a numerous progeny
whose venomous bite is deadly and
ruinous, engaged in the work of bait
ing his traps and deadfalls with tempt
ig bait to decoy and catch unwary
youths. Your parents and your sisters,
nd the church see the perils which
surround you, and feel a doep interest
w your happiness and welfare. Why
leave the high road to respectability
aad usefulness o seek the fetid at
mosphere and inviting shades of the
moral upas which poison and debase
the moral sensibilities of man ? If the
small-pox or yellow fever visits a peo
ple, spreading gloom and desolation
ifl their midst, the electric wires con
vey the mournful intelligence to every
corner of our sympathizing land. We
very properly send our afflicted breth
ren needed assistance. But how few
feel concerned for the church, and
sympathize with the afflicted mothers
of the many deluded young men whose
feelings of respectability and responsi
bility are being smothered and crushed
in the miserable cess-pools of moral
corruption which infest this land.
Young men ! you know not the heavy
weight of sorrow you are heaping
upon your kind and afflicted mother's
heart when you disregard her admo
nition and her council, and prefer the
association of scenes of debauchery to
tho cheerful fireside at home, and the
church of God. It is a terrible thing
to have your affections, inclinations
and desires crouching iu hopeless des
peration in degrading homage and
servitude at the altar of a degrading
and ruinous indulgence, with ghosts
and frightful hobgoblins chasing you
in your phrenzy, and terrifying the
nightly visions of your soul. Make
one more effort to disentangle yourself
from the coils of your indulged and
besetting sin. Go with your kind,
forgiving, and care-worn mothers to
the house of God, and rejoice their
hearts with tho cheerinp; reflection that
their noble and considerate sons are
ornaments to the church that a bright
er future awaits tho church and the
country when they shall be reaping
their reward in the land of unsullied
bliss.
Young man ! lift up your head and
resolve to be a man. Like the eagle
with liis eye turned upward to the orb
of day, lifting himself above the tem
pests and the clouds, look out from
the moral gloom which surrounds you,
and like a Sampson, in the strength of
a manly resistance, burst asunder
the fetters of habit which threaten to
chain you to a sad and hopeless desti
ny. Lift yourself to a higher and
purer atmosphere, high above the de
basing practices which brutalize and
fetter the mental and moral percep
tions of man. God did not endow thee
with the thinking faculties of an im
mortal soul to be desecrated to the
manic-ajwlu of loathsome cess-pools
of moral darkness and corruption,
frightened into madness by imaginaiy
demons and hissing serpents. Man,
created in the image of his God, was
made to stand erect in all the manli
ness, dignity, and nobleness of his im
mortal nature the noblest of created
beings; with his soul drinking in the
purifying, elevating, and illuminating
light of a higher and holier influence.
Young man ! the love and anxiety of
a doting mother's heart pursues and
clings to thee with deathless tenacity
in your waywardness and thoughtless
ness of your duty to yourself, to your
parents, and to your God. Should
sickness prostrate you, with christian
fortitude and resignation, she would
watch over you in your lonely horns
of feebleness and of sadness, hoping
px-oper nursing and medicine might
restore you to health. And when de
basing and beclouding habit is deaden
ing the refined sensibilities, and crush
ing out the manly and generous emo
tions of your nature, and an unfeeling
world is spurning and frowning upon
thee as feelings of self-confidence and
respect are fading from yom mind, like
a lingering angel of mercy, her love,
anxieties, prayers, and hopes will pur
sue thee, hoping for thy moral rescue
and elevation and undying felicity in a
brighter land. You know not how
poignant and oppressive the weight of
grief which is embittering the cup of
her joy and sinking her to the tomb,
as she sees her beloved boy whom she
nursed in liis infancy, tirrning Ms feet
from home associations and from the
path of Christian consideration and of
duty, and plunging in scenes of dissi
pation, disreputable, debasing, and
ruinous. ine solicitude 01 JJavids
heart for the safety of his son, as ex
pressed in his lamentation, "O my son
Absalom, my son, my son Absalom !"
conveys but a faint idea of the inex
pressible grief of a sorrow-stricken
mother's heart, when she sees her son,
the object of her many prayers and
tears, sink into the grave a mental and
moral wreck of manhood, and the last
lingering ray of hope of Ms reforma
tion and eternal happiness fades from
her mind in the sad realization of Ms
melancholy fate and hopeless desti
nv.
Young man ! your pious and devoted
parents love you. Do not disregard
their kindly admonition and counsel;
but obey their teachings and follow
their christian example. Kneel with
them around the family altar, invoking
the blessings of heaven upon your
head. And when they stretch their
aged limbs to x-est upon their bedsj
do not desire or seek the debasing
scenes of outside association; but re
tire to your rooms, placing yourselves
under the care and protection of the
great Shepherd that neither blumbers
nor sleeps, feeling that if the material
sun should never again ilhunine your
pathway on earth, that your purified
and redeemed spirit would bask in the
eternal and ever iUuminating sunlight
of eternal light and love. Let it never
be written on the tombstone that
points out your mother's grave, "Hoi'e
lies an humble, devoted, and affection
ate christian mother, whose gray hairs
were brought down with sorrow to
the grave, by the waywardness and in
gratitude of an undutiful and wicked
son."
Young men ! bear in mind the teach
ings and the council of the Inspired
Apostle to the Gentiles: "Flee also
youthful lusts;" and forget not the
admonition of the angel of mercy to a
lingering Lot, when the merited ven
geance of Heaven was about to do
scend upon the cities, and tho wicked
inhabitants of the plain: "Escape for
thy life: look not belxind thee, neither
stay thou iu all tho plain, lest thou be
consumed." Take the high road to
respectability and usefulness, shun
ning the demoralizing influences which
contribute to tho degradation, down
fall tuid ruin of men.
Oxonian.
Oxford, N. C, Oct. 28th.
For tho Advocate.
Historical Society of N. 0. Conference.
The question of having the History
of North Carolina Methodism written
is being now agitated. All agree as
to the propriety of the enterprise. The
successful career of Methodism in our
State, is earnestly worthy of being
embalmed in the permanent form of
written Mstory. If secular Mstory is
philosophy teaching by example, eccle
siastical history is Christianity teach
ing by example. We have a number
of N. C. Histories in reference to sec
ular affairs. We have general histo
ries of wars, of heathen and civilized
nations. AVe have N. C. novels and
biographies. The History of the Lu
theran Church in Ji. C. is already pub
lished that of the Presbyterian, is
largely written in Mr. Foote's sketch
es of N. C. The Baptists, I leam, took
the preliminary steps, at their late con
vention, to gather materials for the
writing of their Church History, in N.
C. Methodists, equal at least in mor
al forces, christian usefulness and in
fluential power and numerical strength
to any other denomination in the State,
ought to have self-respect enough to
preserve the shining deeds of their
forefathers in the form of history.
AYhat shall we Methodists do 1 Let us,
at least, orgauize a Historical Society
at our approaching Conference, as the
best means of collecting the widely
scattered materials necessary for the
writing of the proposed History. There
are two sources from which we can
gather facts. First, the fragmenta
lyTsketches of Methodism to be found
in books, magazines, papers and the
unpublished manuscripts of our- pio
neer fathers. Secondly, the knowl
edge attainable from the memory of
the aged persons now living in and
out of the State. The information
from this last source, must be obtain
ed speedily or else it will be irretrieva
bly lost by death. It is just one. hun
dred years since Robert Williams be
gan to preach in North Carolina in the
Roanoke section. This was the first
Methodist preaclnng in our State at
any regular preaching place. It was
then Missionary ground. The first
circuit was formed 07 years ago, and
was called "Carolina." Two years la
ter, the Carolina was divided into three
Roanoke, Tar River, New Hope. It
would be eminently appropriate for us
to siznolizc, the hundredth year of
Methodist preaching in the State by
taking the preliminary steps of having
the proposed History written.
therefore, heartily sanction the article
written by Bro. Raven on tMs subject,
and write this to get the enterprise
put upon the footing of practical op
eration.
H. T. Hudson.
Letter from Dr. Pierce.
Mr. Editor: In my former letter, af
ter a brief reference to myself, I sug
gested much in the way of my fears,
and a little, in reference to my idea of
reinstating Methodism in its primitive
excellency. Than this, there can be
no higher object before Methodist pas
tors and people.
Methodism, as a system of practical
godliness, never can be improved upon
its original John Wesley foundation,
All attempts to improve it are more
abortive than would bo the folly of a
surgeon who would attempt to benefit
Ms patient by cutting off Ms natural
legs in order to substitue cork ones.
have never known any one to fall out
with Methodism, as Methodism, ex
cept for the reason that there was
more religion in it than they had any
relish for. Such a church can neither
be created nor perpetuated, without
strictness in receiving members, an
constant discipline in preserving it
from accumulating a stock of merely
denominational members. Such ac
cumulation will take place in any pop
ular church, just in proportion as what
is called cultivated and refine social
life, increases under a popular religious
influence. Hence, the importance of
a strenuous guarding of the door of
entrance, so that all who look for
leaven, may well learn the rule of ad
mittance there: 'Straight is the gate,
and narrow is the way that leads to
life, and few there be that find it.' The
constant exercise of a high nioral dis
cipline is indispensable to the mam -
tenanceof a spiritually minded Church;
and the very day when a Church, like
oiu-s, ftdls below tliis standard idea
and law of church membership, it en
ters upon its own dissolution. A
aerely religious organization, for the
sake of religious reputation, is the
darling of tho devil, in my opinion; is
so, because the more religious any
people become, while the light that is
within them is darkness, the better is
Satan's chance. Hence, you will find,
in every country where a formal re
gion is becoming an ingredient in
the composition of high civilian life,
the startling fact, that the higher the civi
lization idea rises, tho lower sinks the
evangelization idea. And this, just
because the flesh, and spirit, are con
trarythe one, to the other. It never
has been, neither will it ever be, that
the idea of high civilization is associat
ed Avith any idea of what I am calling
high evangelization by which, I mean
spiritual regeneration. On the con
trary, every appetite that is engender
ed by what is commonly called fash
ionable lift, is of fleshly origin. The
old but tine adage, 'birds of a feather
will flock together,' applies to these
worldly affianced members. They are
always ready for any tiling that 'will
increase the gorgeousness of a formal
religion; half crazy at the suggestion
of any measure for raising money to
magnify the Church, its a tiling; and
the more grandly it is social, the more
cheerfully will this class of members
contribute Labor or money. In the, to
them, dull rounds of spiritual duties,
such as prayer-meetings, class-meetings,
etc., they find no attraction. Take out
what feeds tho carnal appetites and
put in what satisfies only spiritual
desires, and you will establish a test
of genuine church membership, as in
fallible as inspiration itself, wMch says,
'They that are after tho flesh do mind
the things of the flesh, and they that
are after the Spirit, the things of the
Spirit.'
Now, Mr. Editor, if you w ere on an
ecclesiastical jury, and sworn to give,
to the best of your judgment, a right
eous verdict, in such a case as I will
now set forth, would you not write
the veiVlict, so far as your vote was
concerned, 'We find the accused per
sons guilty of 'living after the flesh?'
A charge of living after the fllesh, is
preferred against a number of yomig
persons of both sexes, based upon the
fact, that they are to be found at eve
ry fashionable or social party within
their reach, wliile seldom or never at
any of the sociable meetings
of the Church. They admit the
fact, and confess that 'living after the
flesh' is the characteristic of their
lives. If iiviiur after the flesh is a
crime sufficient to damn the soul, of
course they are mifit for the Chiu'ch,
and such a verdict would lead to their
expulsion, unless the Church consent
to turn out its laws, in order to keep
members in. And yet, the Chm-ch is
crowded with just such cases; which
proves, only too clearly, that prose
cutions are waived, because conviction
and consequent expulsion, would be
inevitable. My horror is that this ig
noring the sinful course of members,
to avoid expelling them from the
Church, will grieve the Holy Spirit
away from us, wliich alas! I fear is al
ready largely the case. I fear so be
cause I believe that any church recog'
nized of God as conformed to His will,
would have more power with Him,
than we have, as an open endowment.
I tell you, my brethren, God meant a
great deal when he told Jeremiah,
that if he separated the precious from
the vile, he should be as His mouth
My idea is that the neglect of the
Church of the Living God, commited
as it is to our hands as God's appoint
ed rulers, is a crinie of fearful results
in many retributive issues.
Our office is to show God's people
their sins. This sounds strangely,
but "God's people" means churchmem-bers,-
all who have entered into cove
nant with Him. This we must do by
open and faithful denunciation of all
conduct wMch we believe to be con
trary to God's Holy word; and kindly
but firmly mforrning them that, if af
ter such denunciation on our part, they
persist, we must and will bring them
before the Church upon the charge of
living contrary to God's word. The
specifications may be drawn upon one
or more points, in wliich, in our opin
ion, the accused does not make the
word of God, Ms or her rule of faith
and practice. The Chm ch, as God's
Grand Jury is to find a tine bill or no
bill. When this verdict is rendered,
if the Church should be so corrupt as
to find no bill in cases of obvious guilt,
you would be at your end as guardian
ruler, but not so, as a minister of truth.
It would still be your duty to preach
faithfully against all those ways of evil
living. But on the other hand, should
tMs Grand Jury decide that the accus
ed is living contrary to God's word,
yon have notMng to do but to say to
the offender, if you accept the judg
ment of the Church, and will yield
obedience, all is well; but if you de
termine to go on in your own way,
you leave me no alternative but to read
you out; as you are obliged to see that
no clmrch can deliberately continue to
retain in its fold one who is is deter
mined to live in a way which the
Clmrch, in the fear of God, litis deci
ded is contrary to God's word.' In
cases of persistent obstinacy, always
suspend the execution of the sentence,
with an earnest exhoitation to the de
linquent, to comply with the judgment
of the Church. But let it be clearly
understood, that dismissal is absolute
ly certain within ninety days, unless
he sets himself riuflit with the Church.
Do tMs, and you will be joyfully sur
prised, to see how few you will lose.
I tell you all I mean yon pastors
of churches that the way you arc go
ing on compromises the whole Clmrch,
yourselves along with it. These
worldly, fleshly minded members, feel
that they have the consent of the
Church, in the course they tire pursu
ing, because through your failure, no
decided dissent is ct up by the Church
This cannot be had by individual ex
pressions of opinion, but only by uni
ted utterance in response to distinct
charges. Take the proper course, file
your bill of complaint, put it before
the Church in this Grand Jury form.
and you will always succeed
.' u'hurn A locale.
The Death -bed of Prince Albert.
Most, of our l eaders are probably
familiar with the remarkable sayiii"; of
Prince Albert when upon his dvinc
bed:
"I have had wealth, rank, and pow
er. Jjnt it tuis were ail 1 litul, now
wretched I should be now.
Roe'.t ol attest cleti f r ine.
Lot me hi lo my.-i-iri i tlieo. '
It is not easy to conceive of a more
brilliant and happy life than was that
of Prince Albert. He was a child of
illustrious birth, and the heir to what
would generally bo considered la
weal Ui. a no iiome oi ms cinuuioou
was one of the most imposing of baro
nial castles, which feudal pride and
opulence had reared upon the heights
of Gfcvniy. In his early youth ho en
joyea every privilege oi education
earth could give. The best teachers
of Evu'ope guided his mind in all
branches of knowledge. Obsequious
attendants anticipated his wants, as
he freely moved amid the luxurious
surroundings of the castle. Famil
iarity with the most cultivated society
gave him the Mghest polish of man !
ners, and made him familiar with the
etiquette of com ts. He was by nature
endowed with a fine mind, much aniia
bility of character, and remarkable
beauty of person.
Prince Albert thus early became, in
personal attractions, in mental culture,
in princely bearing one of the most
accomplished gentlemen in Europe.
When about eighteen years of age he
visited the royal family in England, to
wMch he was nearly related. In the
gorgeous saloons of Windsor Castle
and of Buckingham Palace he was an
honored guest. He was introduced
to a circle of society as brilliant and
refined as has ever been known upon
earth. And here he won the love of
his cousin, the Princess Victoria, tho
heiress to the throne of England.
Their marriage was an event in
which not only all Christendom, but
every government on earth was inter
ested. Embassadors flocked to Lon
don, in honor of the occasion, from all
the principal dynasties of Africa and
Asia. Westminster's grand cathedral
was never before crowded with such
an assemblage. All that earthly am
bition could desire was now attained
by Prince Albert. He was in the en
joyment of wealth unsurpassed in the
visions of romance. He had rank
which placed Mm on an equality with
tho. most illustrious kincs. He had
power such as few mortals ever pos
sessed, and yet without the pressure
of toil and responsibility.
An attractive family of sons and
daughters grew up around liiin. He
had no paternal anxiety as to provis
ion for their future. As each child
was bom, the British Parliament voted
that child, for the support of the dig
nity of the royal family, an annual in
f.nme of about one hundred thousand
dollars.
One daughter married tho heir ap
parent of the crown of Prussia. Thus
there is onencd to her perhaps the
Mghest position which a lady can now
occitpy upon this globe - that of the
TJmwess of Germany. The eldest
son, heir to the throne of Great Brit
ftiii. manned into the royal family of
Other brilliant alliances
opened before others of the chil
dien.
In the midst of all this prosperity
in the meridian of Ms days, being but
forty-two years of age, sudden diseasa
strikes Prince Albeit down, and he
lies upon a dying bed. The regal
couch is draped with an imperial
canopy. The splendors of a palatial
chamber slitter around the bed. The
highest dignitaries of Church and
State are present with their sympathy
aid homage.
But death is the equalizer of prince
and prcasant. Tho queen is but a
woman weeping, broken-hearted, over
her dying husband. The royal chil
dren are but sons and daughters sob
bing in uncontrollable grief over their
dying father. Prince Albeit is but a
man gasping, fainting, sinking in
death pawing from the shsidow of
an earthly crown to the tribunal of
God, where, like the humh'est subject
in his realms, he must ::in wer for eve
ry thought, word, and deed done in
the body. In a moment of cessation
from pain, he looked up to the weep
ing ones around him :md uttered the
memorable words :
" I have had wealth, rank, and pow
er. But if tin's were all I had, how
wretched siiould I be now.
R -k of :ip. cl. ft. Tor ir.o,
lj'-t HI- h'llo nn elfin ttiee."'
He had, we believe, som ething more.
Faith in an atoning Saviour sustained
him. He had a professed faith in
Jesus, and all who kuew Mm believed
him to be a sincere disciple.
Reader! yon will soon be placed on
this dying bod. Have you this faith
to sustain you in that dread hour? A 7
vanci'. Palm Sunday at Rome.
KromCau!ai VOid Rome and Now Italy.'
It is Palm Sunday. The great
Basilica of St. Peter is going to be
stow the benediction of Palms. Be
hind in the church the people are
crushed together, as if they had not
received with baptism tho sesil of
Christian equality. From the grand
altar to the great door are two lines of
soldiers to prevent the multitude from
pressing on the Vopc. Although the
assemblage is most numerous, it does
not fill the immense space; for St
Peter's could contain sixty thousand
souls. Tho words of military com
mand resound loudly in the temple,
where the voice of prayer should alone
be audible. Tho butts of the lire
arms fall noisily on the marble pave
nient. Those present are strangers.
The Roman citizen litis almost dis
appeared in the inundation of foreign
nil it i i - -
ls couch, .py tue y ope to nis syor
t the time
nxett, tne procession
bringing Pius IX.
appears. It is im
possible for any one to give an idea
of the different dresses woin by his re
tmue. lo ao so wouia necessitate a
masquerading nomenclature like that
of Bizancio. At length, after an army
of courtiers, comes tho Pope, seated
on a gilded tln-one, and borne like the
saints in our processions, wearing a
robe of crimson velvet and a white
mitre, his left liand holding the golden
crosier, his right uplifted in benedic
tion to those who implore it kneeling.
St. Peter's appears a theatre. The
stalls, raised on steps under the vast
arches wliich support the wondrous
dome of Michael Angelo, are occupied
by ladies. The arrangement of these
religious scats seems the same as that
of the central area of the Grand Opera
of Paris. Gentlemen whose costume
is strictly cn rrg'e occupy the places
below tho stalls.
During the Mass, some talk, others
walk about, and all occasionally use
opera-classes, sometimes turned on
the ladies in the stalls, sometimes di
rected toward the cardinals. The
noble guards dressed like our cava!
iers of the Court of Philip IV., with
trunk hose and silk stockings, short
velvet jackets, the sleeves slashed and
adorned with clipses of satin; the man
tle on the shoulder; the dagger with
hilt of steel before; the black head gear
under the arm, and the wliite collar on
the neck join in the general conver
sation and mingle in the general prom
enade. The Swiss only are immova
ble. It is pitiful to reflect that they
have been so weak-minded as to for
sake the liberty of their native moun
tains to serve poor mercenaries ! a
foreign sovereign. Their costume was
designed by Raphael, and in this the
great painter did not prove himself a
master of color - it is a mixture of
strips of black, red, and yellow cloth;
a helmet ornamented with a wliite
feather covers the head, and each bears
an elegant battle-axe. They look like
lay figures dressed as harlequins.
Going Through the Thin.
A venerable father was giving the
charge to & young brother, who had
just been installed over his first pas
toral charge, "You must be prepared,
saidhe, "my young friend, to g through
thisl: and Ami." Then raising his
voice, ho added, "' effevial!y th
thiii. Tho pastors ami missionaries,
who are labeling on salaries of from
ijjiOO to $800 or $900 a year, will ap
preciate tka point of the charge, wheth
er then- congregations do or not. Thg
stinginess, and sometimes absolute
meanness, which ministers are compell
ed to submit to at the hands of the
people they serve, is one of the great
est trials they are called to meet. They
have one consolation: the 'Master they
serve is not mean, if he has some mean
people.
Thought B ittor Than Books
KliV. C U. MTIK'EON
I would eamt stly impress uprn all
the truth that a man who is short of
apparatus can make up for it by much
thought. Thinking is lettT than
possessing lxioks. Thin king is an ex
iTtise of the soul wliich both develops
its powers and educates them. A little
girl was once asked whethcr'she knew
what her soul was; and to the siu--prise
of all; she said:
"Sir, my soul iH my think." li
this be correct, some persons have ve
ry little soul. Without thinking, read-
ng cannot benefit the mind, but it may
delude the man into the idea that he
is growing wise. Books arc a sort of
idol to some men. As the image with
the Roman Catholic is intended to
make Mm think of Christ, and in ef
feet keeps him from Christ; so, Ixxjks
are intended to make men think, but
are often a hindrance to thought.
When Gkouge Fox took a sharp knife
and cut for himself a pair of leather
breeches, and having done with all the
fashions of society, hid himself a hol
low tree, to think of tho months to
gether, ho was growing into a man be
fore whom tho men of the looks sjiecd
ily boat a retreat. What a flutter he
made , not only among the Poperies,
and Presbyteries of his day, lint also
among tho well-read proprieties of
dissent. He swept no end of cobwebs
out of tho sky, and gave the bookworm
a hard time of it Thought is the
backbone of a student; and if more
ministers would think, what a blessing
it would be! Only we want men who
will think about the revealed truth of
God, tuid not dreamers who solvo rC'
ligions out of their own'eonse.iousness.
Now a days we are pestered with
set of fellows who must needs sttuid
on their heads and think with their
feet. Romancing is their notion of
meditation. Instead of considering
revealed truth, they excogitate a mess
of their own, in which error, and non
sense, and conceit, appear in about
equal parts; and they call this broth
"modern thought." We want men
who will try to think straight, and
yet think deep, because they think
God's thoughts. Far be it from me
to urge yon, to imitate the boastful
thinkers of this age, who" empty their
meeting-houses, and then glory that
they preach to the cultivated and in
t jllectual. It is miserable cant. But
earnest thought upon the tilings which
are assuredly believed among us is
quite another matter, and to that I
urge you. Personally, I owe much
to many hours, and even days, spent
alone, under an old oak tree by the
River Medway. Happening to be
somewliat indisposed, at the time when
I was leaving school, I was allowed
considerable leisure, and, armed with
an excellent fishing-rod, I caught a
few small fishes, and enjoyed many
day dreams, intermingled with seiirch
ing of heart, and much ruminating of
knowledge gained. If loys woidd
tliink, it would be well to give them
less class work and more opportunity
for thought. All cram and no diges-
ton, makes flesh destitute of muscle,
and this is even more deplorable men
tally than physically. If your people
are not numerous enough to supply
you with a library, they will make
fewer demands on your time, and per
haps you will be even better off than
your brethren with many books and
no time to meditate upon their con
tents. ChrU'ian at Work.
How Arizona Lost Her Forests.
I egend of the Utcn.
A legend of the Utes, for which I
am indebted to the perusal of Major
Powell's M. S. notes, explains the
cause of the absence of woods in north
ern Arizona. It is not long, and there
is sometliing so inexpressibly novel in
its movement, as well as in the fact of
our drawing a new mythology and
fresh imagery from the very heart of
tho continent, that I give it, as it is
remembered It is called. "The
Origin of Fire," and tells how once
upon a time a bright spark fell from
tho point of a reed upon the ground,
and the nightingale picked it up in its
leak and found it was fire. And the
mighty cMef of the Utes asked what
it was, and the nightingale said it was
fire. And tho cliief asked if there were
any more in the world, and the night
ingale said, that far off in the South
was a people dancing ever about a
great fire, with songs and shouts. So
the mighty cliief of tho Utes made
ready, and put on a fine cap, with long
eagle feathers upon it, and started for
the people of the South. And, as he
went, he stationed nimble nmners of
Ms tiibe all the way from the land of
the Utes to the Fire People, at inter
vals of a mite. And, journeying, he
came, after many days, totnelu-ePeo
pie, dancing v. iLh songs and shouts
about a great fire. And he mingled
with them, but they Baw he was a
stranger and looked askant at lmn.
But he danced and sang, and shouted,
with them, end suddenly stooping,
thrust the end of Ms eagle plumes in
the lire, and they blazed up mightily.
And the lire People wouldltave catiirht
him, but .he leaped over their heads
and ran to the first man of his triU-.
and falling exhausted, handed Mm Ihe
Razing torch of plumes and told Mm
to run. And lie ran and 'fell exhausted
by the soeo'nd mail, handing him the
plumes. And m they 'ran, each man
catching the fire pluiutr. from the
hand of the runner, until the last man
brought it to the land of the 1'ten.
And they were no rejoiced, they put the
torch to the roots of a mighty tree on
the edge of the forest 'and Khouted aH
it burned. Butagriv.t wind Mining
up and carried the lire into the forest
and it spread in every direction, mid
all the woods were destroyed. And
the people of the Utcs prayed long
and loud to the god Tawotz, and at
length he sent a mighty rain, which
quenched the hre. But a turtle sat
upon a spark of fire and kept it alive
luring the rain. And this was tho
origin of fire. Tho myths combined
give a not uninteresting barbaric his
tory of the origin of the Grand Canon
and river of the Colorado, and of tho
absence of forests in this part of Ari
zona. - M. S. S vrrnnit; lit Oli AND
Nkw, r li miter.
MiBchievous.
A paper mill--a light R tween
rival journals.
Before slates were used people
multiplied on the face of the earth.
Athens, G.i., lias a pa ter named
6V, with the motto "I can scratch."
Out in Montana when they htart
a man down hill in a barrel, they
speak of liis "appearance in a new
role."
"What is your name, little girl V
"Minnie." "Minnie what.'" "Minnie
Don't; that's Avhat Mamma calls ine."
A Boston diy goods dealer ad
vertises "financial crash towels."
Some people have their think
ing, like their washing, done out.
An Irishman has defined nothing
to bo "a footless stocking without
legs." A description by another Emer-
alder is bettor. "What is nothinir?"
he was asked. "Shut your eyes and
you'll see it," said Pat.
The lowest? thing a Southerner wiys
he has read latelv in a Noi-Hii'in imir.
t
mil, is the thermometer record.
A cow at Rome, Ga., lay down re
cently and her tail froze to the ground
A Southern paper, in giving a pathetic
account of the affair, says that when
the cow got up there was another
snap.
The only Oimections. 'One day List
summer,' said Mr. Nast, to an inUr-
viewer, 'I received a genuine proo
sition of marriage from tin admiring
young lady in Ohio, in which she re
ferred to (lem ral Schciick and ex-
Goveinor Denuison as to her h-
tion.'
'What did you do ?'
AYhy, I sent back a cartoon of Mrc.
N.ist and the children,' lalxlled tl 0
only objections.'
Seed Thoughts.
Reason can not show itself more
reasonable than to leave reasoning en
things alovo reason. Sir P. Sidkey.
Nothing tends so much to pro
duce drunkenness, or even madness, os
tho frequent use of parenthesis in con
versation. SlIENSTONE.
He tliat impovcrisheth his chil
dren to enrich his widow, destroys a
quick hedge to make a dead one
Fuller.
Ambition thinks no face so leauli
f nl as that which looks from under a
crown. Sir P. Sidnky.
An excuse is worse and more t r
rihlo than a lie; for an excuse is a lie
guarded. Pope.
The ready way to the light em
ployment of life is, by a pronect to
wards another, to have but a very
mean opinion of it. Spectator.
Mere bashfuhiess without merit
is awkward; and mei it w ithout mod
csty insolent But modest merit has
a double chum to acceptance, and gen
erally meets with as many patron as
1 icholder s. 1 1 vo ues.
An Akron, Ohio, cat relying upon
Ms nine lives to save him, allowed his
tail to swell, his spine to curve, and
with a war cry emanating from his
jaws, waded into a buzz saw in rapid
motion. Tho cat was never seen again,
but the Jmjss sawyer, who always stood
with las mouth open while at work,
remarked to his assistant that he could
'taste iiddio strings and sausage mer.t
in the air that morning.'
One of the Ohio papers tells about a
brave little boy out there who found a
broken rail on tho railroad track, imd
perceiving the eril in which the train
would be placed if it should romo
dashing past without warning, sat out
on the fjnee for 5ve long hours in tho
bitter winter t ohl, in order that ho
might carry the first news of the acci
dent to his father, who is local editor
of a paper published in the neighbor
ing village.
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