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Raleigh Clu JaoiL V J J Oj 8J BEV. J. B. BOBBITT, Editor. PUBLISHED DT THE DTTEEESTS OP METHODISM IN NOETH OAEOLINA. $2.00 PEE ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. VOL. XX. NO. 30. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29. 1874. WHOLE NO. 1,018. A Holoing Hand- tin! ii ii he I' ll sweet success has cowiicd Thine ll'n.-., nd tliat fame 11 ;s trae ''1 't' "' her ejnrccratcd trrt.i:u Th'; recvrd of Ihy nani3. lie n't ui miii'llul "f ttio rheerk'R. fair VI loose v .v, Ifi'inj; still, ll.iv.' missed r.o l'lth, or fouuil it all to.i late, To hop they can Inlfill l li- i-rmnisj of their !d 'u d iyn of youth, When hlleeemcci fair and bright. And naught was wauti :ir sivo the ray of iraili To guide their fo-ilstejis right. An.l wheu thou e:.,st a wand ring ''"'tin r guide, Or help him on his way, Let nohiog turn 1 he nolde. act i.stde ll cause thee to delay. Kit toil is hard, and p- rsuvcranco xare. And failure fmi'ieut, too; thofe who would succeed have mueh to dure A? w"ll as mueli to do And belp from those who stand alolt, secure, Ij ever dmiMy blest. Enabling those wh i win not, io endure, Ai d leave 13 Co d the rest. The Mouth. ci m in u ntcatcti. For t lie A'ivoi;il' Thoughts on Education. The ocean's thunderin be heard for niany miles around, but no one seems to live in timid of its approach: for the mandate has gone out all along tlie coast. ''Thus far ehalt thou go and no farther." This great law in the physical universe is no more implicitly obeyed than the law in High Schools and Colleges made by custom, cost and caste to debar the poorer classes, which, as a general rule, are the more hopeful, from receiving a good and an accom plished education. It reminds me of seeing a horse '"touched up," as if it were meant that he should go forward and at the same time he is checked violently by the reins. Much has been said of the more general diffusion of education among all classes in our country, and men of thought who have taken pains to in form themselves upon this subject have had much to deplore w hen forced to the conclusion that "Many a flower i? born to blusb unseen. And waste it Iragance en the desert air.:' Despite common school money and Peabody Funds, it is to nry mind a difficult question to determine as to whether education, say in North Carolina, is much in advance, if any. of what it might have been had there never been a dollar collected by tax ation, or a Peabody had never lived. Since .State authorities and benevolent hearts have been aroused upon this subject, the subject of a more general diffusion of knowledge, there may be fewer persons who cannot read and write, but this is not the point I wish to make, nor is it that which should the more deeply concern us. It has been said that "a little learning is a dangerous thing." A complete edu cation afforded for more of our boys and girls is the desideratum. Let us carefully look at some of the facts in the case. In doing this I solicit all to keep cool. If, however, the blood should boil a little, not too long, I hope no one's days will be shortened much thereby. The course of study pursued in our best male colleges is what girls and boys of this day should be directed to accomplish. The law now in force, especially in male schools, permitting students to select their studies is det rimental to the cause of higher edu ction. It originated in the idea that it might draw patronage. Boys are naturally impatient. They want to be free and to be engaged in some honorable, and especially some re munerative or lucrative business. But a large per cent of our young men had better obtain a finished edu cat'on before they select a profession or avocation. itn out one excep tion, viz: the ministry, our young men we incapable of deciding, in ordinary providences, what lino of business t will be best qualified to pursue to after life, previously to receiving a thorough education. Seeking office a"d running to shady places made for others is not backed with much credit. Neither is running to where others pass money freely through t ifcir lingers an evidence that it would "- equally lortunate m passing trough their own. The benefit of fr-mary Schools depends mainly tt?on the literary character of their lchtrs. But few persons tach now 11 our State whose morals are objec taiiable. Yet it cannot bo denied that many teach who have good minds, I, at have been denied the privilege of r 1 4 'Jitter education because of exorbi- l"t Tirif j , t iu ( ILll'.'L'lil- Ufc Viir.,.. l, : l x i ... jnicuyu luiptuLuu uy a leacner 'ot transcend that which he has '-'Wired, no more than can the stream higher than the fountain. In mnetency in teachers places many i"" we same level. Jhe fact is patent, the cause should le concealed. Our best School a ;id furnish educated men and wo- iv any Jmd every callhl2 to k tljcy by nature are adopted and it no mistake. Educators say this is our work, object and aim. But will it not take a long time at the process by which it is being done? Where lies the difficulty? It is in this Inability to procure means. Now cannot schools be conducted on a cheaper plan'!' And will not the increase in numbers re sulting from ;i diminution in prices be equally or more remunerative? Few will dare to say positively that they have not room, even if this were argued as an objection. That schools are sometimes said to be crowded is u bid fur j i tore .students. I have never known of but few High Schools that could not accoiuniodo twice their num. !xi, and be healthy still. There are a great many boys and girls not many miles from where superior education is offered to the few, of as good pluck, mind and morals as the more highly favored ones, who would hail with unfeigned gladness the cheering in telligence that they could pay their way also. It is a dim light and ought to be extinguished in every school, the practice o? allowing persons to go in debt for board and tuition. It demoralizes aU concerned. 'When the practice is carried to any great ex tent it will cripple, if not destroy, the best schools in Christendom A young man can sec- how he can raise moneys when once he receives his A. B. and settle all accounts in a short time, but about the time money is raised he can see just as clearly how he can spend it in another direction. Now the remedy is a reduction of prices. Why do notour Boarding! Schools rely more upon patronage near home ? BficaiihC it is in the mind that those at a distance arc better able to pay, and sometimes the terms are calculated upon this fact as a basis. I know men who fill responsible places as educators who advocate a high rate of board at our colleges but the few whom they teach will save me the mortification of giving their reasons. Did you ever hear a man of sense who had a sou to educate, advocate high board? Talk of high board draw ing patronage.' It may and not the more hopeful cither, but the misfortune is it drives more than it draws. There is a difference between good board and expensive board; 'substantial food and plenty of it is best for students. It is presumption to suppose a boy or girl because from a distance has always lived on 'pound cake. And if thev have it should be a part of their edu cation to be taught what is better. Self interest lies near our plans and schemes and yet there is nothing surer than that we may be mistaken as to what may bo to our interest. So af ter all my cherished desire may not soon be realized, for there are still breakers ahead. None of them, how ever are insurmountable. They appear more formidable than they really are. nat mnlueprommence is given to studies not absolutely necessary is, I think, clearly perceived by every close observer of our Female Schools. will not be so devoid of proper feelings toward others as to say these studies are encouraged because the more re munerative. Good rules ought to work both ways. So no one will charge me with being only Fit for treason stratagems and spoils."' Iam fond of music too and. much can not well be bestowed upon the human voice. Instrumental music is of sec ondary importance to that of vocal and should bo in relation to other sciences. I do not ignore instrumental music but must be allowed to say the at tention given it in our schools and the cost of acquiring a knowledge of the art is greatly in the way of ac quiring a superb and Jiuished educa tion. I know it is a popular study, but popularity should not be courted for its sake alone, especially when ii is done against the grain and at the expense of what is more useful. There are certain rounds of duties in life that are essential and from these there are but few that are at all times exempt. That these be done in a creditable way is desirable; but there is another class of duties of a different order requiring a good knowledge cf our vernacular and a clear, precise insight into mathematics. Oh how many are deficient here ! There are, however, many that can be found who perform well on instruments of music but well almost vilify the math ematics and in doing so make it clear ly manifest that they have but very little regard for the finer feelings of our noble English tongue. D. 0. Hickory Slope, July 20 1874. An enterprising superintendent of one of the Sunday schools at St Al bans, Yt, was engaged one Sunday in catechizing the scholars, varying the usual form by beginning at the end of the catechism. After rsking what were the prerequisites of the holy communion ami confirmation, and receiving satisfactory replies, he askee. "And now, boys, tell ma what must precede baptism'?"' Whereupon a lively urchin shouted out, "A baby, sir." From the N. Y, Methodist. Posthumous InfluenoBi A SEIiMOX BY lilSIIOI SIMPSON. 'And by it lie, being dead, yet ppeaketli." llKii. xi., 4. These woxxls are spoken of Abel, the first who left earth and went up to glory; the first of human beings whose lips were sealed in death; and yet it is said of him that ho yet speaketh. '"By it." is, by faith; for it was said in a previous part of the verse: "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excel lent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was right eous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it (faith) he being dead yet speak eth." Faith, as used in this connection, signifies not merely justifying faith; but, in its wider signification, em braces all subjects of knowledge. We know by faith that the worlds were framed: it reaches to the distant past; it takes hold of the unseen; it is the evidence of things not seen; it reaches far into the future: "the substance of things hoped for." In this wide range faith signiiies a confidence which we have in things not present, and that we act as in full view of the distant past, the coming future, and the un seen all around us. It was through this that Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice, in that he looked not merely to the services, the gifts, the imme diate results, but he listened to the voice of an unseen God, who had commanded the services; he looked for ward to an unseen though coming Saviour, who was typified in those services, and he joined in adoration and praise with the unseen company of the hosts above, that he knew were lauding and magnifying the great Creator. In his case, too, he looked not merely at the lamb which he sac -rificed, but to Him who should come as the "Lamb slain from the founda tion of the world" to take away the sin of the world; and standing by that altar he seemed to point from it away into the distant future and to say in the language of one who came long ages after him: "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world !" Strange is it how long a word may ling out in the world's hearing; ho w long a thought may breathe through the annals of eternity. There have been many sounds in this world sounds of war that have rilled the ages with lamentation and woe; sounds of strife and discord, where nations have been arrayed against nations; sounds of triumphant joy, that have issued from the victors' lips, and of lamentation and sorrow that have gone up from widows' and from orphans' hearts. The world hits been full of strange sounds, babbling sounds the voice of the orator and tne voice ot tne statesman: tlie voice of the poet and the voice of the his torian; and yet, in the midst of all the sounds that have been ringing through our world,each coming like the waves, seeming to succeed the other, bending as we do, we listen to the soiuitl which comes from the first lips that ever were closed on earth, and we hear the voice of Abel yet speaking. And what say the words of which he speaks, the thoughts that seem to escape from his lips ? You will ob serve there is not on record a single word that Abel ever spoke. The words of Cain are given to us, but not one word of Abel's is recorded, not a single utterance has diyino in spiration left us upon record ; and yet it is said he speaks. The speech must be by his action. We behold him then, as speaking to us, first, of wor ship ; of what true worship consists in. Heaven has photographed to us two scenes in Abel's being. One, he stands by the altar : a lamb is on the altar ; he stands in adoration, in praise, in hope ; the other scene, he lies in his blood, slain by a brother's hand. These are the two scenes which are thus photographed by Heaven's own light, And as he stands in the first, the idea is Christian wTorship. He had doubtless learned what worship should be; for iu the text it is said, "God testified of his gifts that they were righteous;" that is, that they were in harmony with law. Our Saviour said, as if taking up this thought, when he was baptized, "Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness;' to perform God's commands; and Abel, having received the testimony that his gifts were righteous, intimates very clearly to us that they were in harmony with what had been commanded; and although we have not on record the command, yet from the whole tenor of Scripture we have the right to presume that God had commanded a sacrifice to be offered whose shed blood should be typical of the blood of the Saviour, that was to be shed for the remission of sins And doubtless Abel had learned this lesson from mother Eve. Think of his boyhood. The promise had been given to Eve that her seed should bruise the serpent's head; and as she went dejected and sorrowful from Eden this hope sustained her there should come one of her offspring who nhould conquer evil; and she saw, as she left Eden,its gates closing upon her, its beautiful scenery was gone: outside, amid thorns and thistles, in sorrow she was to pass her life; and yet the promise that one should come that should open its gates.that should restore- the flowers, that should crush the thistles under his feet, that should defeat the plans of the enemy, and send joy and triumph through the world, instead of sorrow and woe; and when siio first took in her arms her first born son, probably as she gazed upon him in his innocence and love liness, she said, "This is the seed to bruise the serpent's head," and she named him Cain, for, said she, "I have gotten a man from tho Lord;" or, as the passage might be read, "I have gotten a man, the Lord." Probably she expected him to bo tho coming One, the Hero, the Lion who should be victorious; but as he grew, she saw in him the traits of sin and sad ness, and when her second sou was given her she named him Abel, a word said 'o mean mourning, as when Joseph died, and Jacob, the lamenta tion was said by the Canaanites to be abel, or Abel-Mizraim, the sorrow or lamentation of the Egyptians. She was sad because, she knew not when that seed should come. And yet, how diligently, doubtless, did she educate that child. In the summer's eve, as the shadows of twilight began to fall, and its he stood by her knee, would she not tell him of Eden's roseate bowers; of how happy she was when she looked into its nlacid streams and they mirrored back her own boauty,just received from heaven? How she told him of the sad hour (and the tear dropped from her eye and sadness veiled her face,) when she was tempted and when she was per suaded to take the forbidden fruit. and tasted and gave to her husband to eat; and of all the sadness that came upon her heart her blighted joys, her fears, how sin came into the world with all its woe; and then, of the promise given in mercy, the pronv ise given in hope; and she turned with beautiful eyes as if to gaz'e on that grand picture of the Child that should come, and she saw the vision which Isaiah saw when he cried out in rap ture, "Lnto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, th. mighty God, tho everlasting Father, he Prince of peace." She told of sacrifice of blood that should be shed, and how that blood should wash away guilt. Possibly as the tear dropped she turned her eyes toward heaven and the bow of hope threw its blight ness across those tears, and looking away foiward to the coming Seed she saw the avenues to the npper glory, the higher Eden, the New Jerusalem. Possiblv she was able to read her title to mansions in that promised land With what interest Abel must have listened ! how he hung on those lips; thought of that coming promised! and his heart was stirred up within him, and he obeyed the teachings o t his mother. She taught him that obedience was worship, that it was disobedience that destroyed her, that closed the gates of Eden, that brought sin and sorrow; that obedience to God's word was the only mode of restoration, of hope, and of triumph. And under this teaching, having learned fully and thoroughly that grand lesson, he was prepared to obey. To human reason it would seem strange that a lamb must be sacri ficed, that blood must be shed. I fancy Cain reasoned thus, and ' said: "There is no use in taking the life of a lamb: there is no beauty in the offer ing of blood; much more beautiful is tho altar covered with fruits and flow ers, signifying the perfection of beau ty. What is there that God has made that is so beautiful as the fruits of the ground, the flowers of the garden, the beautiful shrubs with which God has covered this world of ours." And reason might lead Cain to say: "Let me take these first fruits; let me adorn the altar with the garlands; let me bring the most costly products of the soil, odorous perfumes, colors beauti fully, artistically wreathed together, and offer them as an offering of thanksgiving unto God who hath carpeted the earth with verdure and covered the plains with his beauty, who gives indications of his skill and kindness and love to man by all these mercies strewed abroad." It would seem to be rather reasonable that such an offering would be received, I have no right to suppose that Cain pre sented the kind of offering he did be cause he was parsimonious. I can fancy that his offering was more costly than Abel's. It Avas simply in this that it was defective: it was not what God had commanded. It was substi tuting his own judgment for God's command. And as he gazed I have sometimes thought it was partly be cause of the great care he had taken, the great arrangements lie had made, the time he had spent, and the skill he had shown in bringing what would be possibly considered the grandest offering th.it could be arranged that he was made to feel disappointed when God had no respect to his offer ing, and passing by it had respect to Abel's lamb, wlrieh had cost hun but little time or care, and on which he had spent no skill and no tasto, and the secret was his disobedienco to God's command; his unwillingness to do what God required. Now there is one element in Cain's offering that Is all light There was tho offering of thanksgiving: the pre suiting the fruits of the ground: tho coming with gifts to God. It i but right that man should offer something of Avhat God had given him back to God, and in tho Jewish dispensation thero was the offering of the first fruits. When tho harvest was to be gathered tho first ripened hoads of corn were cut by a sickle, carried up to Jerusa lem, offered as a thanksgiving, and there remained until the great harvest was gathered, and then the people were made to shout the harvest-homo tho feast of weeks, iu which they re joiced in the abundant harvest God had given them. (TO UK CONTINUED.) Eeligion in Business. The JVorthern Chrislum Adom'itte makes a fervid appeal, enforcing the idea that the "true Christian man has religion in his business, and business in his religion," from w hich we make some extracts: Active business men are among our mosi enicient church workers. e know of brethren full of worldly cares and enterprises, taxed incessantly with business pressure, yet they have tune for a hour in the weekly prayer meeting: Such men bring life, and power, and energy into the work of the church. The sacrifice they make for the cause of Christ is seen and felt. It carries conviction to men. mi. i-t -i . , . . -i j.ue worm almost aitogetlier over looks tne fact that wealth is one of God's great provisions for men. He meant it for a blessing. Tho gospel of His Son is calculated to increase its facilities and multiply its benefits. He has put its growth and develop ment under positive law. The true attainment of wealth is not a grab game. It is a grand business process under a great practical law, w hich. observed, brings its general results. Fortune-building may be a religious work; more it. should be such. Conr secration to God entire is no draw back to a business man; it may ba the means of his more rapid success. The praj'Qr-meetmg brings no danger to a business mim. True Christians will find time in the pressure of daily life to honor God and help His cause. Consecrated business life is one of the great needs of thS church. It is an age of business. The business man is really the prince of our times. From business ranks come most of our public men. They make good Congressmen and Senators. Our practical age has need of them every where. So the Church needs her business talent brought into earnest consecration to Jesus. We need our business men at our altars, we need them in our Sabbath School teachers' meetings; at our missionary gather ings, and in every place where strong hands, vigorous brains and warm hearts may give help to our Christian work. J0UAH 0VEEB0AED Last week tho Brooklyn Tabernacle excommunicated a member for con duct disgaceful of the Christian pro fession. He had long been warned and admonished; but failing to cease his evil practijes, he was by a unani mous vote cut off, and his excom munication as publicly announced as his reception five years before had been published. Brethren of the Churches, is it not time that our religi ous societies be cleaned of their un faithful members? Will not the world have more respect for the Church when it is understood that there is such a thing as Christian discipline, and that a man can not live an obnox ious life and yet sit at the commun ion table ? Let this cleansing process go on kindly but firmly, and the Church will mean more than it does now. The greatest dangers to Chris tianity to day are not those who are writing against it, but the professors of religion who carry around contribu tion plat-1 and communion cups, and stand prominent at prayer meetings, while they are known as defraud ers, slanderers, or inebriates. You won der why the old Gospel ship has such rough weather. It is because you have a Jonau onboard. Pick him up and let him "...op ovei- the sides very gently, and tho sea will cease its ra ging. It is very hard to do so, but bet ter Joxau go to the bottom than the entire Yfcotel. One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel.- Talm age, in Christian nt vork. A man advertises for a competent person i j mid'1: take the sale of a new medicine and adds that "it will prove highly laxative to the undertaker.' Music by Telegraph A wonderful invention in tele graphy has been made recently by Mr. Elisha Gray, of Chicago, by which musical sounds and tunes mav be .dearly transmitted for a distanco of 2,-100 miles. A writer in tho New Y'ork Times has seen Mr. Gray's in strument at word, and has heard mu sic played on a small melodcon, or piano key-braod, transmitted through an unl roken circuit of 2,-100 niilc.,and reproduced on a violin attached to tho receiving end of the wire. Mr. Gray played "Hail Columbia," "The Star Spangled Banner," "God Save tho Queen," "Yankee Doodle," and other well-known airs, and they were un ¬ mistakably repeated, note for note, on the violin, which lay on tho table near at hand. Even an accidental false note was immediately detected ou the violin. The writer says: Mr. Gray ex hibited many other experiments with tin cans, small paper drums, ike, which were attached to the receiving nd of the wire in the place of the violin. The paper drum gave the musical sown Is pist that peculiar buzzing twang which is produced by boys placing a piece of thin paper over a hair comb and then blowing on it. What this will all lead to, or where it will all end, is one of the most extraordinary problems of the day. The apparatus, by means of -which this extraordinary feat iu telegraphy is accomplished, has been named by Mr. Gray the telephone, or, an instru ment designed for the purpose of transmitting sound to a distance. It consists of three general parts; first, the transmitting instrument; second, the conducting wire, running to a distance point; and thnjd, the appara tus for receiving the sound at that dis tant. The transmitting apparatus consists of a key-board having a num ber of electromagnets corresponding with tho number of keys on the board, to wnich are attached vibrating tongues or reeds, tuned, to a musical scale. Any one of these tongues can be separately set in motion by do - pressing the key corresponding to it Thus a tune may be played by manipu l.ir j i . i - tt laiiug mo Keys in tne same way as those of an ordinary piano or nielo- deon. The luusio, produced entirely by electricity, of these notes is so dis tinctly audible in the next room that in spite of much talking, there is no difficulty in determining wdiat tune the manipulator is playing. To this transmitting instrument the conduct rug wire is attached, the other end 1 i i i -i i ii . Doing attacneti to tne receiving ap paratus, which may be anything that i .... is sonorous so long as it is in some degree a conductor of electricity. A violin with a thin strip of meta stretched between the strings at point where the bridge of the instru ment is ordinarily placed, will, on re ceiving the sound transmitted througl the conducting wire from tho piano, give out a tone very similar in quality to that of an ordinary violin. If then the metallic ship is electrically con nected with a wire, say, 500 or 1,000 miles long, which has its distant end properly connected with the transmit ting instrument, any one at the re ceiving end can distinctly hear, with out the aid of electro -magnetism, the tune or air which is being played 500 or 1,000 miles away from him, if he properly manipulate the receiviug ap paratus The length of the wire con necting the transmitting with the re ceiving apparatus may be one mile or 10,000 miles, provided that tli3 in sulation is sufficiently good to pre vent the escape of the electric current before it reaches its destination. In fact, there seems to be no limit to the distance to which sound, of any de sired pitch, may be thus conveyed with from two to live cells of battery, all the connections being proper. The quality or tint,hre of the tones depends upon the character of the receiving apparatus, which may be a violin pre pared as described above, a tin hoop, with foil paper stretched over it, after the fasliion of a baby's rattle, a nickel five cent. A sound, sufficiently loud to read Morse telegraphic characters, made by interrupting, with the com mon telegraphic key, one sustained note, has been obtained, under favor able circumstances, at the receiving end of the wire without any more scientific sounding apparatus than that of a piece of common tissue pa per. Deposed ! Bishop Cummins is deposed! The charge against him was that "he had abandoned the communion of the church.". No notice was taken of his perfectly courteous resignation; no recognition was made of his right of withdrawal from the church, which our civil law secures to every mam He was thrust out, and, as far ascouid be by a form of words, degraded. The parties to the act were Benja min Bosworth Smith, who signs him self "bishop of the diocese of Ken tucky, and senior bishop of the Pro testant Episcopal church in the United States," and more than thirty other bishops. The act is done as is osten ¬ tatiously declared: "In the name of ,he Father and of the Son and of the Kolv Ghost." Christian people of the 1'nited States will consider that the sacred name of the Trinity is here profaned, as it always is when used to cover a breach of charity. Bishop) Cummins has not consorted with base or un godly men; he has not apostatized from the truj faith as it is in Jesus Cluist. He has not perverted tho fospel or handled it deceitfully. Fol lowing his Christian impulses, he has sought a wider Christian fellowship. Ho has proceeded hi such a maimer to secure the good opinion of rea sonable men. Whatever may be thought, by those who dissent from him, of the expediency of his proceed ings, his right to leave tho commun ion to which ho has belonged is uu - questionable. It maj be said that the "canons" do not admit of resignation, but require leposition. So much the worse, then, for the canons. Thcv may thins t out bishop, with attempted circumstances of ignominy, but only to make his fel lowship with Christians generally closer and firmer. They cannot alter, by a particle, the judgment of the Christian world. WTe aro of opinion that this act will not benefit the chief tctors in it. N. Y. Method i.t. The Pope Expelled From the Tree Masons. At the semi-annual meeting of tho Graud Lodge of Masons, Scottish rite of the Orient of Palermo, Italy, on the 27th of March last, Pope Pius IX was expelled from the Order. The decree of expulson was published in the official Masonic paper at Cologne,; Germany, and is preceded by the minutes of the Lodge in which he was initiated, and is as follows: " A man named Mastai Ferret ti, who received the baptism of Free Masony solemnly pledged his love and fellow ship, and who afterwards was crowned l'ope and Kimr, under the title of Pio Nono. has now cursed his former brethren and excommunicated all mem bers of the Order of Free Masons Therefore, said Masctai Frretti is here with, by decree of the Grand Lodgo of the Orient, Palermo, expelled from the order for perjury " The charges against him were firs preferred at his Lodge at Palermo. m IhOo, and notification and copy thereof sent to him, with a request to attend the Lodge for the purpose of answering the same. To this he made no reply, and, for divers reasons, the charges were not pressed until he urged tho Bishops of Brazil to act ag gressively toward tho Free Masons, Then they were pressed, and, after regular trial, a decree of expulsion was entered and published, and the same being signed by Yictor Emmanuel King of Italy, and Grand Master of the Orient of Italy. Voice oj'Mosut Not Ashamed. Justice McLean, of Ohio, heard a misister preach. Ho hat" been a skeptic, and their minister spoke to him in such a way as convinced him of the truth of the Christian religion. He was led to see how Jesus had died for him, and he was bom again. He went home. He had hardly got there before he said: "We are going to have family prayer; let us go into the drawing-room and pray together." "But" said his wife, "there are four lawyers in there; they have come to attend court. Let us go to tho kitchen to haveprayors.' Judge McLean replied: "It's the first time L ever invited the Lord to my house, and I don't propose to invite him to tho kitchen by any means." He went into those lawyers and said; "My friends, I have found out that Jesus died on the cross for me, I have given myself to him, and now propose to invite him to my house You may do as you please; stay or go. But Tarn now to make my first prayer in my own house." They said they would like very much to stay, and did stay. From that day Judge McLean lived a consistent Christian life, and died a happy death. Jlmiuofd. Hansf on Like a Beaver. When our Tom was six years old ho went into the forest one afternoon to meet tho hired man, who was com ing home with a load of wood. The man placed Master To mmy on the top of the load, and diove homeward. Just before reaching the farm, the team went pretty briskly down a steep hill. When Tommy entered the house his mother said: "Tommy, my dear, were you not frightened when the horses went trotting so swiftly down Crow Hill?" "Yes, mother, a little," replied Tom, honestly; "but I asked the Lord to help me, and hung on like a beaver." Sensible Tom! Why sensible? Be cause he joined working to praying. Let his words teach this life-lesson: In all troubles, pray and hang on like a beaver; by which I mean, that while you ask God to help you, you must help yourself with all your might. Young I'U'jrim. Harmless Mischief "Tho groat American obituary pro voker," is tho latest for 1 The Indians complain at the prev alent fashion of short hair as a nor- sonal insult. The feet that aro covered with bun ions may not be stylish, but they are certainly iiobhj. And John Champlahiwas lying cold tnd dead, writ hing in his mortal agony," says a New Jersey paper. Would bo contributor: "I wish you would tell me something to write about." Editor: "Well Eight about face." That was bright little child who in- piirod "Ma, when cows die, do thev o to the 'milk way?'" A breach of promise of marriage, in which the damages were laid at $20 000, has been compromised with a resent of live dollars and a new chig non. It was in Kentucky. j - Landlady (fiercely) "You must not occupy that bed with your boots on!" Boarder. "O, never mind, thoy'ro only an old pair The bed-bugs can't hurt 'em. I'll risk it. 7 j ... Schoolmistress "Johnny. I'm as hamed of you. When I was your age I could read as well as I can now.' 'Aw, but you'd a different teacher to what we've got." It is said that a human being has seven aillions of pores Ihmgh which perspiration and exhausted particles of the system escape We aro all pore creatures. A Kansas girl wouldn't bo married without a yellow ribbon around her waist, and a boy rode eight miles to get it while the guests waited. Types continue to out up antics, evon in well -regulated offices, wo infer from seeing John Brown announced as "a linseed preacher." Tennyson says that Miller is the greatest American poet, and Miller says that Tennyson is the greatest English poet. A man couldn't im prove on that if he set up all night. iMi ott Free lkress. "Do bats ever fly in the day time?" asked a teacher of his class in natural liistory. "Yes sir." said tho boys, confidently. "What kind of bats'?" exclaimed the astonished teachor. "Brickbats!" yelled tho triumbhant boys. Don't be stubborn nnlcs's you are sure you can afford it. Right in tho midst of the late panic, an Iowa man chose to be perversely obstinate. His daughter wanted a 00 silk dress, and he wouldu't get it, and ho lost 60 by the operation. She took cold poison, and the funeral expenses were $150. 'How do you do. Mr. Jones?" said a stranger, blandly smiling as ho en tered the store of a dealer. "Well, thank yon," stiffly rejoined Mr. Jones. "You don't seem to know me; I am Brown, used to livo here," said tho visitor. "I beg ten thousand pardons, Mi-. Brown," said J ones, relaxing and shaking hands cordially, "excuse mo, I thought you were a tlruinmor." "So I am," said Bro wn. Ilelapse of Jones. The observations of a married man have led to the conclusion that money put into mirrors is a good investment, as it affords a marvelous amount of comfort and gratification to a woman. He says his wife thinks just as much of consulting her glass when she ties on her apron as when she ties on her bonnet, and while he goes to the door at once when there is a rap, she ex claims, "Mercy! Joseph who is that?" and dashes for the looking-glass. Housekeeper's Help, Cream of tartar rubbed upon soiled white kid gloves cleanses them well. Clothes lines should bo well wiped and dried when done with, for if put away wet they will rot. Stonemason's saw-dust is infinitely better than soap for cleaning floors, and much more economical. A mixture of oil and ink is a good thing to clean kid boots with, the first softens and the last blackens them. Bleeding from the nose may be stopped by putting bits of lint into the nostrils, and by raising the arms over the head. Moths may be kept out of furs and woolen cloths by wrapping tho fabric in muslin. Moths cannot eat through muslin. In sudden attacks of diarrhoea, a large cup of strong, hot tar, with su gar and milk, will frequently bring the system to a healthy state. A baby will progress very rapidly in its growth by laying it occasionally in a soft rug, and allowing it to have full exercise of its limbs. Brass ornaments may be cleaned by washing with rock alum boiled to a stronglye, in the proportion of an ounce to a pint; when dry, it must ba rubbed with fine tripoli. A good cement for mending broken crockery ware may be made by mixing together equal quantities of melted glue, white egg and white lead, and boiling them together.
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Greensboro, N.C.)
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