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A I ite lYOCci E'-v. J. H. iHobbitt, ID. D., Editor. jpublislied in the Interests of MetliodWn in North Carolina. Subscription jPrice, S2.20 per annum. Vol. XXIII.-N0. 3. Raleigh, N. C, Wednesday, January 23, 1878. Whole No. 1,192. The la(orH Keveiie. Tiio pastor sit in his easy cli iir. WUh the Li ! bio ujou his knee. From gold to purple the clouds ia li.e west Are ciingiiig momently ; Tie shadows lie in the valleya below, A ad hide ia the curtain's f-.!d ; And the page grows dim wiureou he road., "I roxeruber the days of old." "Not clear nor dark." the Scrip urt faith, lue patot's uuuiurie are ; No day tint is youe was sliatlowles?, No nigh.; ws wi:hut it star ; But mingled bit.er and tweet hatlt bt on The portion of his nip : "I'Ue hund that iu Kve hath smitten,' he saith, "in love hath bound us up." Flcrtt flie? hi; t'lotht over many a;ul' Ol stubble ami siiyw and bloom. And now it trips through a festival. And now it hall: at a tomb ; VouQg lace" smile in his reverie U: those that bre young no more, Au l voice iu:e heard t:.at only come. Wiih tue winds iruiii a-iar uilcUora. lie thinks of the day when first, with lVar Aul laltcring lips, he stood Tu pea in ;h6c;fccre.I place the Word To tho n-ii iu mal::tude; He w alk again to . Lc houe of God, Wi.h the Vuice of jy and praise. With many whose feel ?oag :ime have pressed ilearen's taie and :dos.-itd avs. He enters aam the homes -f toil. And joius in the homely chat ; He stands iu the shop ol the a.iisau ; Heetta, where the blaster sat. At the poor man'a nr and the rich mau's tea t. Bat who 10-day a.o the poor. And who are the rich ? Ask Him who keeps The trvasures that ever endure. Once more the gren and the grove resound With tue merry children's din ; lie heard their shouts at the hrisimas lide, When cauta Classtalss in. Once more he iizts while the camp fire roars On the distant mountaiii-ziJe, Or, provi- g ap'stWhip. pli.s tie brook Woere the derce yoan troutli ga hi e. Ani now he beiiold- the .e'LUiii traiu Tj tae altar skiy move, Aa4 the solemn word- ar; sa. u.t seal ' he sacrament of iove. Anon at ik- lout me-, ts enco a jre Tao tremulous youthtal pair, Wtn a whi:e-rob."d ca rah crowi.ij ro-po:ies To the constferating prayer. B y the coach of pain he kneels, a.iiu ; Again, the thin hand nn Cold in his palm,"Vhilo the las; far look Steais into the steadfast eyes . And n-.tr the bnr den of h .-art 1' t brca';. Lies heavy upen his own The wi low's woe and thv orphan s cry And the desolate Joiner's moan. blithe anl glid, so heavy and saJ, Are the days that are no more. So mournfully sweet are ihe eounds that float With ihe wi ds tr- m a f:r-o3f shors. For the pastor has learned whatmeaneth the word That it.givea him to kep "Keioice wra ttitju ua ao rt-joa u. And weep wi:L thtm that weep." It is cot in vain fcvtt has tro 1 This kmel ar.d toilsome way. It i- nut in v.in tat he bas wrought In toe vineyard ui the day ; Fur ibe eoul list ulve 11 1 ie oal that !1t, Aiid bearing aLoihrr'e l"..d Doth lighten yuar own,ad sr.orion iho w:y. And brltghtun the faomtwird ioid. om muni calf tJ. To Iter. L,. S. HiirUhcad, Si. I). Deab Doctor: It was my gocd for tune to be associated w:iu you. as your Presiding Eider, when you were yoart; in the ministry. I was then impressed with a sensa of your mental ecdowments and great moral worth. The many years that have -inc trans pired have only increased the im pression that I lien received. It has always afforded tue pleasure to agree with you in matters that ail the interest of that branch of the church within whose ale we have both la bored from our youth to tbe present time. And wheu I have been com pelled to differ from you I have de sired to do it with tbe ctmos' defer ence, and never without feelings of regret. Such were my feelings when I lead your first article on the Uni Teraity; which lesulted in the dis cussion between yourself acd Co ..teele. 1 det-igneJly refrained from expressing any opinion upon the merits of the controversy while tha discu?6ion continued. But now as it has closed, permit me, in the most respectful manner, to cmi your atten tion to the difficulties which it seems to m" your position involve1 I regret thai. I t avo not access to yoar first ar.icle, and must state from memory what 1 understand to ba your position, which is this: that the ileihodist, Baptist, TresbjterianB and Episcopalians being the four largest religions deaominat ons of chriotians ia toe State, onght, as a matter of right, to be represented both in the Board of Tsu-tees and tbe Faculty of the TJnivereitaccordirg to their numerical strength in tbe State And the ma.ter complained of I un derstand to be, that the Methodist, being the most numerous of the four denominations, has Dot the repre senta'-ion either in the Boa d of Trn3 tees or the Faculty to which they ! are enti'led upon the basis above I named. Now, the first difficulty that I de sire to direct your attention t.i as ; nacessanly growing out of your posi tion is this: If the Board of Trustees and Faculty of the University be di Tided among the four denominations J of christians above named, and upon K the basis stated, and that be done as ; a matier of right, what becomes of ? tiii rights of all the minor denomira ? lions f And what of the thousands : of citizens who belong to no denom h ination ot christians 1 Have they no e .lights ? Do not they.iu common with the members of the four leading de nominatiauB, pay to support the Uni jvfrsify? And are tbey to be out lawed by the four leading christian denomina'ions from the common rights of citizens so far as the Uni versity of their own Stata is concern ed ? When you remote this difficulty you will have one lesa to contend witti in uiaintain;ng your posit on While we are clamorous for what we may conceive to be our own .rights let us be careful that we do not ig nore the rights of o hers. The next difficulty is in defining what we are to understand by th four denominations you mme. Take 'Jlethodist' for instance. There are two organized denominations of Methodiaits in tKe State bjsides st v eral fractional portions of others. Are we to understand all included who bear the name Meihodist ? We suppose not. For if the Methodist Episcopal Church, S uth, be repre sented, t :at would be no representa tion of the Meihodist Protestant Church and vice versa. So with the Baptist. There are the Primitive, or anti-missionary Biptist; then ihe Missionary Baptist ; the Fice Will Baptis ; the Seven day Baptist, and the several organiza ions of Campbelite Baptist. Which of all these are we to understand by the term B-tptUt ? If one is selected, what becomes of the rights of all he others? If each one is to be rej. re sented,' he Faculty will have to be in creased far beyond 'fifteen' mem bers. Another difficulty is. that n tie Methodis have- the ritit to ba rep resented in the Board of Trustees and Facivty of the University according to their numerical strength, that car ries with it the relative obligation to patronize the University according to our numerical strength. To deny this, is to sat, that the Method is, as a denomiuation, have the right to con trol the education of the children of o her denominations, at the Urivn sity, while they have not the right to control ours. But the Methodist of the S ate can only afford a certain amount of college patronage. To saoplv cur quoto at the University we "mst draw it from our denominational wC-Ilegea. That we cannot afford to do With the meager Methodist pa- tronage we are now giving the Uni versity, Trinity has not more than is absolutely necessary for her support. To withdraw the present patronng fiom Trinity to fill up our quoto at the Uni'er-rity would be thG most sui cidal ac of which we could be guilty And yet it could not be otherwise done. Why then clamor about not getting what we do not san, and what would be the ruin of our own College if wa had it ? There are Methodists in the State who will ntver patronize Trini y with its present organization. Then let them seud to Randolph Macon. North Carolina has contributed her thousands to es tublish that College. Bat if they will not send oat of the State, let them send their sons to their own Uni v-rsity. And let all the Colleges move on in harmony. They are all ourd. Randolph Macon and Trinity are ours as Methodist. Tbe Univer sity is ours as North Caroliaians. It has been assumed that the several denominations of christians ought to be represented in the Board of Trus tees and Faculty of tbe University because they all are taxed for its support, lhat, I understand, to be the position taken by Bro. Dodson. The error is in the premise atsumed. No denomination of christians is taxed to support the University If we are taxed to support the University, we are not taxed as Methodists, Bapiov., Presbyterians and Episcopalians," as citizens. -If we nave rights in the Uilersity growing out of our payiug tax to support it, then we have our riyhts in the same relation in which wo are taxed, and that is not as m ru bers of this or that denomination cf christians, bu':- as citizens of tbe State. I think your error in this matter is in assuming that the four leading de nominations of christians ought, as a matter of right, to be represented in the Board of Trustees aud Faculty of the University, whereas the Univer sity is not denominational at all, aud therefore no denomination as sucb, has any right to representation. The University is the common property of all he citizens of the State, and the legislature should see to it that no de nomination of christians pervert it from its original design by making it denominational. With great deference I submit the above thoughts to your consideration that you may ask yourself if a posi tion embarrassed with such difficulties may not be wrong; and knowing that if yon see it is, your magnanimity will lead you to Bay so. Tour friend and bro., Wr Closs. Envy makes a? see what will serve to accuse others, and not perceive what may justify. Foi the Advocate itarlliuff Facts. The undersigned has well nigh reached three score years in life, has. never diank a drop of alcoholic bev erages, is neither a member of any chnrch or temperance Poaiety, ns from clost observation ai.a iorty jars reading of history, come to the con clusion, that in the United Slates, as much money is spen; annually for useless drinks as it would cost to build and equip five lines of Biil Roads from Maine to California; and as much as it wou'd take in addition to that, to endow a University with, ten million dollars in evtiy State in the Unior.; to build a five thousand dollar bchool house for every one hundred peop'e in the United States; and as much as it would take in adii tion to all that, to put out at interes and pay for one first class teacher for every one hundred of the forty mil lions of people in America. If all 'his were, for the next, five or ten years, turned into production, in cluding the grain, to go o feed the poor, and the money spent in liquor applied to honest and legitimate pur poses, would we no: be the happies , richest, noblest anci greatest nation the world ever Baw ? Statistics for tbe centennial year just passed, shows seventy four thon sand, two hundred and fifty religious organizations in the United States, wi n a membership of twelve millions, and upwards of eighty thousand min isters . TL same statistics further show all tb.p cont ributions for benevolent pur -loses to be less than fifty million of dollars, thus proving while we paj one dollar for btnevolent and reiig ions enterprises, we pay fifteen dollars for spirituous and fermented liquors. Compare the above with medical statistics showing the premature deaths caused by a'c hoi aud its prep arations, to be a million and a quarter annually; sick from the use of 'be same, one hundred thousand; number of insane from same cause, ten thou sand, being about 50 per cent, of all the insanity that occurs in the coun try. 1 ben it may be safe to infer that tbe drinking system is directly responsi ble for 20 ptr cent, of our idiots, 50 per cent, of our lunatics, 75 per cent, of our criminals, 90 per cent, of our paupers, and 95 per cent- of the shift less, never-do well, broken do vn, broken hear ed, miserable people, all over the land. Oh ! what a sad piciuro and subject for contemplation by those who are thus erring. Fiftx Five Co. Shops, N. C Dec, 25th, 1877. Does Dcatii End All. Vi'.:h Lecture by Joseph Cook The Uppei nod Lower Kfyboarda of the Brain The Soul ihe Mu-iciau Is Instinct Imuii rta:? The Rev Joseph Cook delivered ihe fifth lecture of his course in this city, last evoking, before an intellectual au dience which filled every seat in Asso ciation hall, acd even made demand upon the stand my room.Tbe subject of the lecture ws 'Does Death End All?' The Rev. Dr.Phillip Schaffintroduced Mr. Cook. Suppose that I have here before me, Mr. Cook siid, a frog and a fish, a rabbit and a pigeon. I remove the upper two-thirds of the frog's brain; nevertheless, without assistance, he can keep his poise upon my hand, and as I turn it over he Btands now on the edge and now on the back of my hand. But if I place food before him he wi.l not touch it. If I place him beside the pool from which he was uiKen, he wil not epripg in to join big stes-gs 4s-a msiaay, sad -teX starve to death, if I leave him, amid the very surroundings which have al ways kept him alive. But if I toss him into the pool, he will swim away, and will keep on swimming in a straight line unti something intervenes to stop him. Perhaps he will come out on the opposite bank, but there he will stop; without external stimulation he pos sesse no activities whatever. Just so with the fish.If I thus mutilate him,he, if tosse i into the stream, will keep up the rythmic motion of his fins, stima lated by tho action of the water, but not as he once did will be shoot up from his aqueous couch to neize tie unwary insect. The mutilated rabbit Will ran away if you discharge a pistol near its sickly, sensitive ear; the pig eon will fly while tbe air stimulates the marvelous mechanism of its wings, but its flight is iu a straight line. Thus far we have not deviated from the strict method of exoeriment. I must again, this evening, lead you into tbe shadowy border land where all science stands in expectancy; I might better fay into the border ocean on which we are already approaching the blessed isles of certainty as to the im material When we hare taken away the upper hemisphere of the brain.we have taken away the power of self-direction. The nerves are two folded, the influ ential nnd the automatic. Oar experi ments have made two things clear. j namely, that when an animal possesses ins entire nervous system, it can mi tate motion, but that when the upper part of the brain ip iemot( d,it becomes a mummy, an i w.ll starve beside its food Up to this point, we have placed our feet upon no boggy sod. Motion can not be accounted for by mater. Tyndall has defined matter as a double faced somewhat, physical on one side and spiritual on the ether, lie has cot said exactly that, 'o Le bare; he has never said anything us definite as that In matter we have exten ion, nertia, etc; in rnii.d we have nono of these q ualities, Matter can never account for its own coordi nati n. The ghost which will not down at the bidding of materialism has a name lull of foreboding to the future of materiali lie bolief; its name is collocation. We come back to th animals which we have mutilated, and we find that the mechanism i f their bodies, marvelous as it is, must be stimulated from without. Now what is it that stimulates ? You s-y that behind the operation of this m chan im is the reflex action of the nervous system What is the cause of the reflex action f Why, the co ordinat ed s ructure. What be hind that ? The biop as s What is back of the bioplas s ? Chemical affiuitits. What caused the chemical affinities I Ah I you have net given an adequate causf. There mus be a s-uffieient cause for every cha ge. When men tell r.s that we must not knock at the door of the inscrutable mysteties, let us keep ot knocking, arid by and by the door will be opened. SciPnce appeals to C;c-tar, and to Cseir Sue oLall go Matter has one a-tound'ng attribute, namely : inertia, the incapacity to originate force. Force is that which causes or resists motion. This lower keyboard of the nervous tyttem will produce no music unless we play upon i . We are agreed up to this point. This lower keyboard is matter, and cr,n produce of itself no anthem of motion. Turn io ihe upper keyboard, wh'ise office is to initiate movement But how does it initiate movement? The upper keyboard is matter, just as cer tainly as the lower, and if nutter can not make motion in the one. itjeannot in tha other. something plaj3roi-: the upper keyboard, too. What is that something ? What is the musi cian ? Like causes, in like circum stances, produce like results. There is doubtless a perfect agreement be tween the operation of the ivory keys of this organ and the anthem which floats forth from its pipes. But par alleiism is not identity. We come to the conclusion that there is a Cunnec tion between the upper keyboard of the brain and that which we call thought. Let ns adhere to the ortho doxy of straightforwardness, and then, and only then, revere the straightfor wardness of orthodoxy. Parallelism. I repeat, is not identity. The cause is outside ot the effect; motions are different from forces- We are toid that the shiver of all the ultimate par -ticies of matter produced light. But what produced the shiver ? 'God said, 'Let there be light,' aud there was light.' Truth shoots through the universe, ar..1. it is as true beyond the north star as at yonder k?yboaid, that eveiy change must have a caus-. Wills, pressures, as the universe transfigured. Will produces motion, and nothing else has pro J need it. or ever can produce it. It is will that moves my hand - back and forth; it is will that causes tha planets to march in eternal harmony, every one with uprigh pole. The universe is a burn ing bush, of which Orion and the seven stars are but the lowest-reaf. Tyndall says that we must so define matter that the i?:ry keys will explain lvo y is, be replies that ivory is t which has tbe promise of tbe of all music; that ivory is the accomplished. Bo t unti! tbe set i set in the east, men wifl not the belief that th6re must a sufficient cause. The invol' equal tha evolution; as inur in as comes out. Now whpj of the organ? Soul :h : Beethoven, a Mozart, a soul must go in. If you wi comes out of matter to ent . defioiti n muter, why that" ter. Laughter Carlyle sayi erick of Prussia said before it is inci edible that intelk. emotion ana cnoice wero pt man by a being which had none to giv. Transfer this metaphor . rgan to the human frame. That t4 ii thebrrfin. and the invisible nu Mine Key ooara win the nngl Gryges on his fioger is the sou' this human organ we hare two key bo-trds, the lower ancl the upper. Tl lower is ivory and so is the ripper 1 Thero is a parallelism betw -en the! motions of these keys and thought but nervous substance in motion ij not though', piralie iam is no identi'j and sc:enc3 can not bridge the chasral Motions are not forces and there raus. be a musician. The brain like a elrnt hand: we can not tell mil 'Jont what is inside by studying ihe kiuckles. Just as the ear do s not hear r.n'i.'3S ta air vibrates against - it, jus as th? ye does not see andis valueless un ess tLe light strikes upon it so the h.irp in the interior of the brain, through which the symphen esof Beet oven.the Iliads of Homer, tue iEaeids of Virgil aro given to the w. rid. is dumb and cannot play un'ees it is p aye J uiou. Bui as the d-st ruction of the eye does ay involve the d-s ruction of li-zht. as tl destruction of thear does no sior thtv v b stiou of ho atuiiiar.h-rfl r i t'nn U3Ction of ihe brain vhi.h hv not. imp.y me destruction ot uieVoui set it in mo ion Djes death end all will the destrnctin of the harp d ;s roy the harder! Tins i a question before which you st. nd in :e. I nm sorry for my poor treat me;jr of .i ti:Cino fit to bianch the cite k. D.je-s d. -nh end ah? Not if the relation of the soul to the body is ho same as that o the hirper to the harp 1 nm not asking whether or not immora i.y can be prove., bu. whether or nut death .iu troys the .-oul. Ther may by soma thing after d -uth which doe. But if death !oes n t eud all, hat does If on the Mtssiippi I pass s and No 10 and New Ooi leans, aud, gel into the gu.f, I can .-ad tu :-.ny port on the ocean But what of tbe immortality of in stinct? You say tint perhaps the case is the .-ame with man and animal. I am not here to dodge. What if straijht-forwarduess calls us to admit that instinct is immortal'? Aga-siz wo ul ; not be shocked Ke sa;d: 'Mav we not look forward o a spiritual ex istence, where we shali listen to a con cert of the combined iife of all the worlds?" M.y it not ba tha to that song he is now listening? H anding at Agassiz's grave, with Batler and Rich ter and Tennysou s :pporting this opinion, should we not well look earn esdy into the question if our future existence is tobe a concert of the com bined life of all the worlds'2 Would i' not bean immeasurable loss to be de prived of this means of communion ita God, a: d if it is so ia it not best that it should be so? The argument for ttie immortal j ty of the soul.by striking likewise ha immortal, is but aloiifitd. Wheu Diniel Webster was ia his bett moral sta e, and when ha was in the prime of his nvonhood, ha was one day dining with sumo literary gentle men in the city of Boston. The com pany was c mposed of e'ergjmc-n, lawyers, phys:ciane, statesmen, mer chants, and almost all class -s of liter ary persons. During 'he dinner, the conversation incid ntly tnrned upon the subj'iCi of Christianity. Mr. Webster, as tha occisiou was iu hon or of him, was ixpec.ed to iake a lend ing part i'i the conversation, and he fiankly stated as his religions smi nieuts, his belief in the divmity of Christ, and his dependence upon the atonement of the Savior. A minister of very considerable literary r-pu:a-tiou saj almost opposite him at the table and looked at him and taid : 'Mr. Webster, can you comprehend how Jesus Christ could be both God and mau ?' Mr. Webster, with one of those looks, which no maM can imitate, fixed his eye up n him, and promptly and emph iticaily said : 'No, sir, I canaot comprehend it; and I would be ashamed to acknowledge Him as my Savior if I ecu d comprehend it. If 1 could comprehend Him, He could be no greater than my.-el', and such is my conviction of aceountabiii!j to G od, such is my sense of sinfulness before Him, and such is my knowl Support of the Cleyjry. The relation between pastor and people is one of mutual d --pendence. Tbe people look to the pastor for in struction, for counsel, for sacraments, lie is an ambassador, a minister, a steward. The pasior looks to the people for his just support, for sym pathy and love. If for any reason they withhold his just dues, he must sillier. If lie contract debts which he cannot pay, he has brought dishonor on himself and people, and reproach to the Church of Christ. They have no right to take it for grauted that b ho got ?n some wav last week he wiil get on some other way next week. Do not, I pray you, treat the messenger of Christ as you would not treat your hired servant. What ever you do, do it cheei fully, do it lovingly, ,o it promptly. It is just as easy to pay a rector's salary monthly in advance as to pay it a halt year after it is due. There is nothing that will take the life and manhood out of a man so much as t: be harassed by anxious fears for his sup -port. If our cLrgy were paid prom pt ly, it would give cheeriuluess to their intercourse with the people; it would destroy all roots of bitterness; it would make them a hundred-fold bet ter preachers and pastors. Show nie a parish which is as it ought to be, as the Lord's dear lamily, and I will show you a people who are faithful to their pastor, and a pastor who is bound by the closest ties to tke peo ple. Most of the changes which are so perilous to work, and so injurious to the people, come from lack of such management of its financial matters as is necessary for business success liishoj) Whipple's Convention Ad dress. American Silence. An English traveler who ia giving h s first impressions of the United States in a series of letters to the Manchester Courier, says that it is a mis ake to suppose that AmericaLS are loquacious and inquisitive. They do not kick their heels at a railway sta tion; they often go through a meal without saying a' word: r buzz of con versation is sola m haard; their silence is really oppressive; thsy are the quietest and most orderly people on the face of the earth. For instance, the traveler entered a large shaving e tablishment in Boston, where there were a dozen barbers, v and several customers waitirg for their turn. When a chair becama vacant the fore - man pointed to the man whose turn cama next, bt not a word was said. After being there foi some time the Englishman looked at tho clock to see how long they would g on without speaking, and for nine minutes the only sounds were a sueczj aud an in quiry, 'How much ?' He fancies that he has discovered i he origin of this quie , patient order of behavior. It ia the disc pline of the public schools which produces such marvelous re sults. When the pupils go ftora one room to another, thy march to tLe sound of the piano, and the slightest tendency to disorder, if itari-e, is cor rected not by words but by f ins 'From five years old till fifteen to sev nteen every Amercian is subject ed to this constant diil ing. The schoolmaster is the drill sergeant, and his operations are universalThe critic had been here three weeks when he formulated this theory and discover ed the Silent Hand. 2f. Y TiibuuG. False Libekatism. Sume p:op'e who call themselves liberals refuse to influence the mindt of their children religiously on the high groand that thev wrct everything to be spontan- d natural. The consequence is liy lhat whe l the child becojaes ,3 is not overburdened witi Coleridge once said to Thel as uf er this sor',ard who ing of the weeds in Cole Oh shit is became g spontanou and eds, you 83P, have ty to grow, and I o prejudice tue soi1 i an1 strawberries ' app'ication? New i UOU8TRS9IP . J.U1B tship of hia fiirst wife ' first, when be was a at Portsmouth, ai.d Gia-e Fietobor. At its he had, probably i ilty and er j ojment, keins of aiik thread for denly he stopped, say have been engigrd iu i; let u see if we can ch w .1 not uatie for a o ka pi-ice of tap?, anJ, ug a knot of a .ec di ir (ii to uer to comp ete. ie ceremony and rat:- nr engagement. And in marked by tiot with recious Document,' con tiers ot his early coart- Hi4 memorial was found . Lever untied.' liar 1 Y l-U. ASD FACT. The most warlike nation is vac cination, because it is al.vays in urms. 'Sally,' said a fellow to a girl who had red hair, 'keep away from me or you'll set me on fire.' 'Don't fear,' she answered, 'you're too green to burn.' It con-oles one for many things that are unalterable and inexplicable, to bear in mind that old saying of t hristian philosophy, that whatever tbe cross we carry it is rough hewn in heaven, and thai at every step, Christ will aid us to bear it. Lee. AO "' tt,!-', ii f cicztaf was the vay a compositor set up the words, 'No cross, no crown.' A South .Find grocer is willing to admit that honest tea is the best policj, but when it comes to coffee, he doesn't believe in running the thing into the ground. There is a beau iful precept which he who has received an injury, e who thinks that he has, would for his own sake do well 'o follow: Ex, cusc half and forijioe the rest. Say, hast thou ever sought God's help in vain. E'en when His hand it was That gave thee pain ? Ask thy poor broken heart Trembling frum conscience' smart If with this truth 'twould part "He loveth me ? ' Professor: 'What was the inline diate cause, tho first hostile act of the Reformation? Senior: 'Luther's sacrificing the bull of Leo X.' Each day's light on tbe day's responsibilities, bring wi' b it tbe sight also of the provision of the God of all grace, whose promises to His children are always larger than His com mands. A man, praising porter, said it was so excellent a beverage that, though taken in small quantities it always mada bim fat. 'I have seeD the time,' said ano;hf r, when it made yon lean ' 'When, I should like to know?' inquired the eulogist. 'Why, no lon ger ago than last night against a wall.' dren, 'Why do we fay in the LordV Prayer 'who art in heaven,' since God is everywhere ?' A little drum mer-boy answered, 'Because it's bend quarters. We have httln conception of the sou'.'s j', or of capacities of joy, till we see it established in God. Tije Christian soul is oue that has come unto God, and rested in the peace of God It dares to call Him Father, withou any sense of daring. Horace Hushnell. The Shcphonl i'ocs not sk of thea Faith in thy 1'aitli, hut only f.ii'li in Iliui; Anil this Ho meant in saying, "Come to Mo!" In li;;h' or d rknosa seek to ito Ui will. And ie-ive U.j work uf t'aitii to Josna, still. At a fire in the conven' at Lim- oyes, France, on Nov. 19, 1838, it was suddenly di-covered that one of he children of the girls' school there had i ot beeu rescued She was in a disiant room, and doubts were ox pressed of the abi ity to save her. A young lady s ud, 'I will try,' and . rushed between the tlamea on each side of the entrance. She wa re garded as lost, but fiually appeared with 'he child in her atm. King Louis Piiillippe sent her a gold medal, and a young captain in the army, who witnessed her act, married her. The captain is no v President of tbe French republic, and the lady is Mine. Mac- Mahon Christian Union. If I but have thee, O my Savionr, Thea the wh Jo wide world is mine; And while I gaze, Upon the rays, That from Thv glory shine, Enrapt in holy thought of Thee, Earth has no gloom or fear for me ! A gentleman whose proboscis had suffered amputation was invited out to tea 'My dear,' said the good woman of the house to her little daughter, I want you to be very par ticular. and to make no remark about Mr. Jenkins' nose.' Githered about the table, every; hing was going wdl; the child peeped about, looked rather puzzled, and at last startled the table: 'Ma why did you tell me to say noth ing about Mr. Jenkins' no e? He hasn't got anj!' Oh, to be daily crowing More like our blessed I.or I, Chnog-d Into Hi imago By contact with Hliw'jrd ! Swing Him tere reflected From morning onill ntsht, Sly Jesus fill onr vision, nd be oar hearts' delight ! 31 oral Gems. Be not affronted at a jest. Iil one- throw salt at thee, thou wilt received no harm, unless taoti hast sore pla ces. Man without religion is the creature of circumstances; religion is above all eircnmstanfiL'S. stllil Will lift htm UP above them. Conversation outdit to be mental tun sic, in which diversity of thoughts in the unity ol humanity make harmony tor the soul. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. What is won by prayer must be worn with praise. Happy will you be if you learn what it is to find love an occupation. The cross of Christ is such a bur den as wings are to a bird bearing it aloft- What is virture but a medicine, and vice but a wound. Heaven is the reward b stowed, not upon riches or ancestry, but upon quality of spirit. The imprudent niaa reflects on what he has said; the wisa man on what he is going o say. . Tru h'e supreme revelations come in sorrow to individuals, and in war to nati us Freedom rests in jus:ice; jua!ice iu love ; therefore even free Join rests iu love. Many a inaa full of good qualities ofien lacks the only one which would make them of use. The nicftic soars within the little lark. Aud the lark soars. It Is not thus with men. We doot mke our places wi h onr strains Content, while they rise, to remain behind. Alone on earth, instead of so in ueaTen. The cultivation of a h.a t should be l.ko that of a garden, where we prune and weed before we begin to plant. Spare moments re the gold dust of time. Ol all the portion of our life; spare moment are the most fruitful in good or 6vil. No man can be brave who consid ers pain to be tbe greatest evil of life; or temperata who considers pleasure to be the highest good. We are told that the education of the people is necessary to tho eupport of a Republic But it is equally true that a Republic is a powerful meaos of educating the people. Ral holiness has love for its es sence, humility for its clothing, tbe gool of ot hern as its employment, and the honor of God as its end. Thoe have generally the most need to fear, who think tbty have no need to fear. Vain confidence is the forerunner of shame. Wxt gaxm. LEAF-MOLD. M- W. T?aioomr hurl tho following timely remarks on this subject in the Rural Keif Yurker: Now, when leaves are plentiful and drifting about everywhere, in the time to secure a pile of leaf mold. Al most any kind of tree-leaves are good enough but those of the oak are reck oned the'best, aud anything in the way ot pine-ttee leaves, or needles, as they are olien called, should ba reject ed. A barrowful won't do. Why, that would hardly yield mold enough for three or four pelagoniunia; get a big pile may be a dozen barrowfuls, or more or less as your requirements may be. Pack it into a solid heap in the back yard, or in a corner of the garden; in fact in any place where it iil not be scattered by the wind, to prevent which, a few branches placed over the heap, or even some spadefuls of dirt, will help considerably. Don't make the pile on a bill, but rather in a bole, es it needs a deal of water to make 'he leaves rot quickly. Discard any sticks that may be among the leaves, ae decaying wood is produc tive of I ingi, wmoa are ezirmeiy de rimental to tLe very lauls we want o improve. In order to sweeten the mass and hasten decomposition, the pile should be turned over two, three, or more times during the year. If, in turning, th leaves be dry and m Uy. give all a good soaking of water, but don't apply lime to kill the fungi; for though lime may be healthful enough o some plants, it is poison k camel lias, rhododendrons and Borne other evergteens. Instead of rounding off tbe file, lik a hay cock, raiuer maite it fl it or hollow on the top as it is to the benefit of the mold that t'. e rain escape not. Hot beds are tometime maae ol loaves alone, in which case a great bulk, thoroughly moistened and farm- ly packed, muit be ut-ed, and the re suit is a s'ea Jy, mil'i temperature oi long dui ation. Ur a targe proportion of leaver may be used with the litter for hot beds, to ameliorate tbe neat and lengihen its duration. In both of these cases the leases, when thor oughly decayed, make excellent ma terial for potting. Leaf-mole, before it is fat lor use, should bn reduced to an earthy com po4t, ai-d it usually takes two years to bring it to this condition; but by the end of the first year enough may be sifted out of the heap to keep a goiDg with. Earth worms love to ramble in the lent mold, so that the most rigid scrutiny must be exercised to displace them when using ihe soil; fjrbdtter be wi'hout it altogether tlan introince to your pos these cna'uio-", to choke the drainage, tunnel the oarth and render it a clot'Ked, ptrfora ed, unheulthy mass. The miourial properties of leaf mold are not much, but as u I ght, easily a ge .ted and highly apptti.ng tood for most plaata trees or herbs it hclu a fir.-t rank. Besides, it opens and lighten stiff soils, ana for pot plan's it is invaluable. Laf mold, excepting in ihe case of some orchids when fcptiagDnm is used, is the bes , if not ihe only enbe iiute for peat we have, aud curtly it is better, if the te.t be had, do. to use it at all, but iu tend to emp oy leaf soil. For p i.uguuium-t, fuchsias, oxalises, roses hdcI .iher plants, about one third of le iu Id and two thirds of turfy loam, with rharp sand enough to mako it k ntty ,t u tn i compost. Wbataver cf thoroughly rotted manure the grotr niuy like to add should b3 applied in addition. 1 : 1 f
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Greensboro, N.C.)
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