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JPnblilit.'d m the Xnterests of SIetliodism in Ivorili Carolina.
Rev. H. T. Hudson, Corresponding Editor.
Vol. XXI 1 1. No. 4.
Raleigh, N. C, Wednesday, January 30, 1878.
Whole No. 1,193.
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Hymn to tin- Holy Spiiif.
uobkktii, i t- fvnit:. 971 llKil.
:n.rf ! I.., M s J. I: !
Como, ever Hesse-l Spirit,
Thy j.v let ;is inherit.
Thy liht wit!i:n us dart.
Come, Father.. f tho I'oot
Com-, ii'.j rich g.:: tUc st.rvnt;
Coiap, iiht rl tV'Ty heuf-t.
Thou. CumfortL-r. -i oiling,
9eet 'Uest within us .Hvi-l.ing.
Oar ialiou sffus:
Iu toil, rhou :ir. our retiii;;;
Oar help, whvti tviiip-stj br.-x-ti:.,;:
i'.tr tears, ;ir slare mo t.
l!L:b. vi-h r-iILiH.-? lo-iviii,,'.
Fill u. to ovir!! 'W;::
Willi tliv Tuut i-.re.-iou love:
With- ut 117 saving j-ovver.
"Notii: L.2-..- .uun for tluwtr,
. ". I - - --v.-rtLli".. v.rov..
Wash n;e, with toirn.--.. striving,
TUii is p.irvUe.1 reviviu:;
Piia oi'a 1 wj-:nls abate.
lVi:;a t:u i .-;.;nt ir;;i !.
iu d t:i. rvkr 1 ::-j'!t.
Thy U;;h:'n::ie-s bceto
Ti;y -...J:: in us jliuw Jug,
ilrvt-ii the s re.l -i- vpa
uiw .i.... vu tee rely::i,
Oive vu-iiv iu lyiu.
liive eu i.-ss LI.8S ia Leu.-n.
S o m m u a u a t e t.
Foi ijtf Aidcrttf.
Ilev. Col .
Ala El'LTo::: I suppose til it it is not
generally tno vn tint tlis f.ither of the
laie Chief Justice li.iiMa was a .ocai
Methodist preacher. Yt sucu is tiie
case, as tunny eti.i .iviuj in Oasweil
cjunty tli kuj v, wh kne- bim, &nd
heard him pr..a-jii Dr. A. leu Garni
kaevr him we:!, aud reme:ub;rs to
have secu his iiiicu cou: v,t-.t vhk per
spiration from !.i- powtriiui efforts.
Eaiiiu was a frt.jieiit visitur at Lis
father's house lie remembers aiso
to have beard L i u ive his father,
Star lie Ganr, au .a-comji of ii s con
version, aud a s'jort history of his life,
which was so remarkable 1 wi.i give it
to joa, as the Dr. gave it to me, acd
if you think ii. woiihy a place in the
A-7;ocate, you can sive it to the pub
lic. He was reared iu I usury, without
religious instruction, tiiii without
God, and without ho. e iu the world
Of course he sought pleasure in the
-ways of the world, and became immi
nently a man of the worlJ. gi' in
loose rein to his passions and appe
tite; foilovviug its follies, pastimes acd
fashions.
The Bible he had sc-jo. but Dever
read. Riligijii did not eater his
thoughts. lie was a gani-o'c-r: fond
of cards, dice, cock fighting and the
turf.
A ceiebralv-d race was to come off
in -.he city of Richmond. He hud
three tine horses iu training Ihe ret
timt: came, iLn set out iu ii:s carriage
for the c ty. Oa his way he became
weary, fe.t 1, kt-ly and gieat y op
pressed witb ennui. Comiug up to
a couutry s:orj, he inquired for a
novel. Ti.e honest tuerchaut did not
know what hat was. Wheu informtd
that it was a book, he replied that
they had no books but spelling books
and Bibles. Not wishing 10 read ih-
speliicg book, he purchased a Bible,
opened it, and beg in to read 'o while
away the time. It amazed him He
threw i. down exclaiming: 'Well that
i-, the biggest lie ever put iu a book.'
Riding alone, and no one but his dri
ver to ta k to, in order to divert his
mind, he picked it up, opened it, and
began to read again. This tints it
inteiested him. He read on and on.
Arriving at the city he called for a
room and a light; went to his room
to read; -ate bis supper, and returned
to his room, an J read himself to sleep.
Awke in the morn:ng, and read until
breakfast. It changed his thoughts,
and he determined to change his life.
Before the hour cam-; for the race he
bad made up his mind not to engage
in it.
He went to the race track and asked
his comrades what was the amount of
bis forfeit. Th-y objected to bis
withdrawal, and ro used to name the
amount. He was 6rm in his n solu
tion. They tl ought he had gone
crazy, and asked bim what bo meant.
He told them that be meant what he
said I'aid bis forfeit, ordered the
Bt-rvants to take the horses home, and
bitch them to the plow: entered bis
carriage for homr, reading the B.ble
nearlv all the wav On reacmug borne,
before entering his house, or greeting
bis wife, he ordered :be servants to
build a lire in the yard, upon which be
laid his cards, dice, backgammon
board, &., k".; -had his game c-ockfc
killed for the servants supptr; entered
bis house, called his household togeth
er, read the Bible, and Lv hi prayers
with them. From that time forward
the fami y altar .vis established.
Soon after he built a church at b'"s
own expense. Tbe first meeting con
Bistad of a pious old servant and him
self. They talked and prayed togeth -
er. bile thus engaged, a man pas3
i ing waa attracted by the noise. He
peeped in and seemed to be alarmed.
"When informed that they had met to
pray nd talk about religion, and (h it
( they won' el nor. hurt him, on being in
vited, he came in and crouched down
on the spat nearest the do r, ai d
looked on as ii bewilder, d. The uext
Sabbath was appo'uted for the next
meeting. Tha visitor snrea 1 the
news, and quite a congregation assera
bled. He kept up the nieetings,soon
fouud peace wirh God, and began to
exhort others to seek it.
He united hi ruseif with the M E.
Church: was licen-ed to exhort, avid
not long after became a local preacher,
iu which sphere he labored zealously
the remainder of his life.
A most triumphant dei.th closed his
remark. b!e career. He went up, us it
wore, iu a bh'ZK of irlory. The Div lie
power was so sensibly presen. that
Judge lli-flin, though a i E.oisjov Han,
shouted f r j.jy over hU father s iife-
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icjt ifuid.Ls. xiis asues renosj m
Ca-wtli county. some ten miles South
west, of Yancey ?ille, on the road from
Yancey vilie to Company Shops.
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LEockiugham. N C
We hava as little pleasure ia wri ing
as in reading disagreeab'o facts con
cerning our own people. Sometimes
however, it is useful if not pleasant to
iook jtaadily at disagreeable facts Of
late our thoughts b-.ve been turned to
the bubject of books and papers in the
S-uib. Our investigations have ue -veloped
several unpleasant facts Our
only reason for writing abon: them is
we hope for better ihings some day.
Few well informed people will deny
that our Southern people, ;n propor
tiou to population, take fewer papers
and buy fewer hooks than the peoj le
of the Northern States The evidence
against us is ccm lets. Explain the
facts as we may, .vo cannot while
our eyes see and our ears he.r ques
tion or deny them. Every publisher
and book mcicLanr. knows this
To bring the matter to a point we
compare the Northern and he Son b
eru Methodists :n one or two respects.
Iu round numbers they have 1,300,
000 communicants, of whom pe. haps
i!50,0Q0 are colored; we have 750,000.
of whom nearly all are white. The
XT. -v-- -., t it..:.
General Conferscce organ in 1S77
counted over 5S,000 subscribers; the
Nashville Christian Advocate our
General Conference orgau less than
10,000. They Lave several Adoocutcs
that have us many as 20,090 subscri
bers; we have, perhaps, not one that
counts over 10.000. Aad relatively
their Adoocxte patronage ii not hrs
divided than ours. If we have, all
told, about a dozen Church i apers,
they have more ban two dozou.
Take one other case. Their Sun
day ScUool Jou.'iud (for teachers) h-.s
a circu.ation largely over 100.000. Our
&undiy-S''hojl da-)-i:une (for teach
ers) has ntver gone beyond 15.000
We have conclusive reasons for eliev
ing that tbrir sti es of reiig'ous and
other books show as great dispiopor
tions against us.
Our special cone rn in this article
is not with the causes, explanations,
excuses, and apologies, that- ma y be
rr-, d in palliation of our shor com
iugs in th"se matters But th re is
not is fu l defense in ome of:he ex
planations offered as many sup vose.
The war should not be urged too con
lidently as an explanation of our pre
sent status. F-.r, unfortunately, this
much to b3 deplored state of things
existed before tbe war. Futhermore,
the war, to f--.r .t least as newspapeis
are concerned, added immensely to the
iaterest of the people in them. Ncr
will it meet the case to res'; our de
fense in high prices. The Nashville
Christian Adcccate is a lower priced
paper than the New York Christian
Advocate. A3 to the rest of our pa
puis they are not higher-priced than
the Northern Advocates. If any say
(mark it, we are not saying it,) their
papers me better, ablei- than ours, we
ask this question : How about the
circulation of arygiien book of gener
al interest, acceptable to Loth side?
ther and here It may be a reprint
an English Look, lerhaps. T.ey
buy many more copies than we d '.
Our post bellaru poverty does net
Berve us in defense, for our ante-bellum
wealth did not lead to a differed
result.
Ferhaps our best apology is four.d
in the fact that our Southern popula
tion is chiefly rend But even this we
should not urge over much, for tbe
wo.st use we can make of uur best
excuses is to fondle them till they in
duce a resignation that issues in satis
fac ion with our delinquencies ard
fdilarcs That is a very utuoi iuna e
explanation of an avoidable evil that
in iuces contentment iu its endurance.
C -rtainly no erplanatiou or apology
sbould leave Southern Methodists
satisfied to bo forever behind in the
chculation or good papers and usefid
books.
No conscientious man, who is in
any degree resp onsible for tbe welfcare
of ourZion and of our people, can
lightly put aside tbe consideration of
such a state of things as now xists
in our Southern land. It is sad be
youd expression to know that thous
ands upon thousands of our people do
not read the papers an 1 books thai
then and their children need to read.
O judrmt nt is, that few, 'f any of
us, realize the real state of things as
to this matter of religious lit-ra ure
we might write only literature
uu.ong our people. The real facts
would shock and alarm us.
One fact ascertain, d helps in th
t-x, 1 nation of others. Coun ing
them all - official and non official
greater and smaller we can nttine
thirteen we kly papers published in
the iuterests of Southern Me b elism.
Fro'i; the b-iat information we eran ob
t tiu we are left in doubt as to whether
a 1 of them combined have as many aB
75 000 . And many of them are con
fessediy far below what iheir editorp
wish thtpi to be in ability and genet al
merit. The annual exhibit of our
BjokAeutat Nadiville, eloes not
shuw a more encouraging i-ta'e of
things as to the sa'e and circulation
of good books. As to o her fac s, ex
plainable, in part at lea t, by the lack
of good books and papers among in
peop'..-, we mention here but a few.
Although there are evidences i f awak
ening sDiong us, we are very far bo
hind seve.al sister Chuicbes in tbe
work of foreign missions. We luve
but one endowed institution of ltarn
iug in the territory of our Church.
.1 ad ire did not endow that. What
is worse, we have not yet seriously
considered that our Church Colleges
(although they must do a great deal
of eleemosynery work) need to be
endowed.
There is trouble, perennial, as to
the support of our ministry trouble
that can in no wise be explained by
our poverty. There are o hers t'sa
thoughtful people will call to mind
we mention only these,
What can be done ?
Let each man examine himself and
fiiid out what be can elo, anel do it
Reports and resolutions by Confer
ences will hardly answer. We have
tried them long and well. Our pub
lishers should look more carefully in
to these matters. Let them study
their own ways and methods. If they
anel writes should study their wajs.
If ihey cm improve, let them do so
(If not resign, or "surcease.")
What can we preachers do ? Can
we develop a eleeper interest in books
anel papers among our people ? Can
we it-duce more of them to subscribe
' good papers and to buj books ?
How few among; us can say, have
done my best V Have we tried and
failed ? So have we preached and
failed. But we try again. We preach
ers owe a great duty to our people in
his matter. We make no appeal for
any yublisher, or editor, but for oar
i eople and our Church, and the good
cause of Christ. Ferhaps we have
made too many appeals on the lower
grounds. We write not to t-U3tain a
paper, or a store, or a publisher, but
to he p forward a good and great
work among our people. We want
t see twenty thousand subscribers to
this paper not to sustain the paper,
but to forward every good work. And
we can do better than evsr we have
done. Whatever in God's world ought
to be done, can be done.
We preachers are under the most
solemn and weighty obligations to the
c mse of Christ in this da. v We are
not guiltless if we leave our children
in no better case than we fia t our
selves to day. Rev. Dk Hayoood,
m Soalhern Advocate.
The Resurrection. In Dr Brown's
work on tbe resurrection there is a
beautiful parable from Halley. The
story is of a servant who, receiving a
silver cup from his master, suffe;s it
to fall into a vessel of aiia fortls, and
seeing it disappear, contends iu argn
meut with a f6llo v servant that its
recovery is impossible, until the mas -ter
comes on the 6cene, and infuses
sa't water, which precipitates the sil
ver fr ,m the solution; and then by
molting and hammering the metal, h
restores it to its original shape. Witb
this incident a skeptic one of whose
great stumbling blocks was the retur
rection was so struck that he ulti
mately renounced his opposition to
tbe Gospel, and became a partaker of
the Christian hope of immortality.
In the Frotestant Episcopal Church
he ritualists are again on the surface.
Three years ago Dr. Seymour was not
allowed, by vote of the General Con
vention, to become bishop of the
vacant diocese of Illinois, but the di
vision of the State creates a new di
ooese to which lie was recently elected,
and the old squabble and discussion
come up afresh. Ritualism expects
success
Prayer, to bo prevailing, must be
direct, intense, and personal. A gen
eral request uttered in a half hearted
way would have availed nothing here;
a specific and intensely earnest request
brought God to the rescue.
ITlETlfODISM A REVIVAL
As a denoudna'ion our chief element
o! gro-vth is an ggre3sive p:ety. We
have not the ociaI position of some of
our sister sscts. If our children aie
not convert d and early gath- red
within our Church folds, tbe social
ti les around them, as they grow up,
will bear them away towards other
Christian b irbors. Thousands of
M-.thodist p:irf-ntage are pow the hon
ored members of c ther religious bo
dies. Wo are gla 1 they are doing
good service in the Master's work
wiie-re hey are, but ihtij could find
ample opportunity in the Church ol
their fathers. We do not atjtrti.ct,
masse--by a rich ritual, by the im
pressiveness of our forms of service
and the breadth of our doctrinal liber
a ity. We have only one positive ele
ment o power -and that is a singu
lar adaptation in creed and modes to
effective evangelical work. Methodism
is a revival, or nothing. Our g:ovtu is
a continua' reformation. We are least
successiu , comp.iratively,when we np
preac j more uf-aily to some of our
neighbors in tbe stateiiness of o.;r
church edifices, ti e wealth of ourmem
brrship hnd the precision and grace of
our formal seivice. We are most suc
cessful when ihe necessities of a new
m vement call out all the energies,
sacrifices, prayers and consecrated
services of the membership. Here
the g owth is manifest and of. en won
derful. When long - establish.-el
Chinches, like old Be-.iford Street in
New Y'oik or St. George's in Fhiladtl
phia, preserve their ancient simp icity
and dev 'ion, the Church continui s to
be a hive of fruit-bearing workers,
constant y swarming in new centers cf
activi y The natural growth of Meth
odism in New England is slow; its
spp5-r:;atara' calls out the devout re
cognition, 'What hath God wrought!'
The vitality of our Methodist modes
is not exhausted,as the birth and vigor
of new Churches constantly demons
tr-ne. ZlorCs Herald.
"Gel's Financial Systtni."
One tenth of lipened grain.
One teuth of tree and vine;
One tenth of all tlie yield
From ten tenths" rain and shine.
One tcn;U of bleali:ig flocks,
F.-r ten tenths' Bliiuc and rain.
One tenth of all increase
From countin-rocm and mart;
One tenth that hCi6n- yields.
One tenth of every art.
One tenth of loom and press.
One tenth ol mill andmiue;
One tenth of evt craft
W. ought out bj i,.:'!3 of Thine.
One tenth of glowing words
That golden guineas hnld;
One tenth of written thought
That turn to shining gold.
Oao tenth ! aud dost thou. Lord,
But ask this meager loan,
When all the earih is thine.
And all we nave thine own ?
Th.- Cli'ii chinnn.
Bled i icily aixl Capillary A tl ('ac
tion. When a glass plate is laid on the
surface of quicksilver, a considerable
force is required to separate them
On the separation being made, if the
s ibstsnces be examined by the elec
troscope, the glass will be found to be
electrified positively, the mercury neg
atively. Their a traction or adhesion
is, therefore, a necessary electrical re
suit. S in'ene is this electrical de
volopment, that if during the act of
separation the meicury be in concec -tion
with a gold-leaf electroscope, tbe
gold leaves are commonly torn asun
der. In like manner, if some meltedu'
phur be poured into conical glass and
permitted to solidify, on making the
separation the interior of tbe glass acd
the solid sulphur cone will be found
to be in opposite electrical states
And the same occurs when surfaces of
various kinds are parted from each
other. There ought, therefore, to be
adhesion.
But if a glass plate be laid on a
surface of water, there is no apparent
development of electricity on separa
ting them. And the reason is obvious,
for the glass has brought away with it
a layer of water, and there has been
no true separation of the so!id from
the liepiid, but only of water from wa
ter. The force of adhesion of the
glass to tbe water has exceeded the
cohesion of tho water f r itself.
If a plate of po isbed zinc be laid on
mercury, there will, agaiD, be no elec
trical development apparent on sepa
rating them. For, owing to tba con
ductioility of tbe zinc, there is nothing
to prevent the opposite electricities
from uni'ing, anel all electrical mani
testations must cease.
Whatever can disturb the electrical
relations of a so id and a liquid, will
disturb their capillaritj . O j wetting
the interior of a glass t-be, so as to
form a temporary tube of water, and
placing some mercury in i , tee mer
cury will be depressed below tbe by
dros atic level. But on connecting
the mercury with the negative pole of
a voltaic battery, and the water with
the positive, the mercury at once
rises, their mutual attraction being
increased. Dr. J. Draper, in Har
jer'a JtJajazine.
Popular r.x-eis.
Psalm 1. 8. "I vi I u..t reprove thee
for tby sacrifices or thy burnt offerings,
to have been continually before Ale'
The serse will appear if she worels
'to have been' ba ommiited. They are
not in the original The people were
no' reproved for nc inir the ex'er
nals of religion They had n t neglec
ted these; on the contrary, tbe Lord
testifies, ""Yea, thy burn- offemigs
have been continually before Mo.'
But that for which the people irere
re, roved appears in the vcr.se 11 and
the follo.vi g.
z .
:
Pay-.' "Tlivi:i"u6 uevi.setli mis
- -i -i's; ike simTf? JazT', woikiug de.
ceitfully.'
'Woriiing deceit i'uiiv' tray be up
plied to tho 'ongue, or more striking
ly to tLu: razor, moving sile-utlj' aru
smoothiy.wheu i eutsiu.w keenly,or,
most, probably, as a close examination
of the structure cf t lie orglual sen
enca seems to show to the person ad
dres-ud, th mighty mm Perhaps all
these ideas vmm? present to the poet's
mind when tbi ; psalm was composed
Ps.vlm lvii. 8 'Awake u;, :i y glory
By some -gloiy' is nu.h-i stood to
mean the tongue, by others the son!;
but the most- prouab'w inrcvp-rBtaticn
is that ii is an invocation to the divine
inspiration w hich Lo bdii-. d came on
his poetic talent, and which he regard
ed as his glory. It is similar to
the invocation of the Mute by the
heathen. So Md cn:
Sin?, henvpi'lv M;ie, tl--a on ih - s.-tr. I t. t?
Of Or.-h, or i.f.-iuai, aids t -pire
That shephi-rd," etc. 7';r;i..'.s.: .$, . 6, 1.
This view is favored by the succeecling
words, "awake psaitery and haip; 1
myself will awake early,' or, better,
'awake, lute and haip; I myself will
wake the morning tawn ' Here 'lute
and harp' are ned as ihe p.ua lot of
'glory.'
The legend of ihe Talmud is very
interesting (ar-cording o Duliiz eh):
'A cither uuuy over D..vid1s bed, and
when midnight emit-, i.h; Eorth wind
Ivew upon the str;"j-.s, r-o th' it
(founded of i self: he arose ;ij, once and
occupied himself wi:h the law until the
puuars cf the .lawn arose. Isaki re
marks tij on this: the other kings arc-
awakened by the dawn, but, I. paid Da
viel, will Hwaiun the dawn Rev. Dk.
Deems, in Frank Jeslle'a isutula-a
Jaaif'te for Jiinmtry.
If a man does anything well, you
may ba sure that he ha-.i worked hard
in preparation for its doing. If he
preaches a b tier sermon than usual,
or teaches a Bible lesson with more
than ordinary skill, or makes a speech
of rare effectiveness, or rt ads, or
sings, or writes, or sketches, or tides,
or does anything else with peculiar
facility, it in Lecause he has give more
than common labor to fi- himself for
just this performance Only those
who are ignorant of the value of Lard
work have any doubt on ibis point
The men who are always expending
on 'the inspiration of the moment'
are the men who are neuhor inspired
nor inspiiriijg The grac Tul man in
any accomplishment is always the man
who has er.rncd his gracefulness b
downright labor. In Mears a Life of
Dr. Kirk i-:-i:ii illustratiouou t.his point.
It says of the Doctor : "His was the
culture of Everett, with whom he was
often compared as to diction anil do
livery. His reading of the Senptiiies
and of hymns always impressed men
with his power. Many a minister
came to him to learn tie secret of
such an utterance. One of thess has
told the story of his discipline. S;iid
Dr. Kirk, 'You may read the hymn of
Watts beginning
Stand uji, my ioal ! .-hike i-3 thy learn,
And gird ihe gosptl aruior on."
The clergj man began in hn custo
mary manner; but his tones only
wakened disgust in ; he teacher. 'Ca i
your soul John Jones, and then read
with enough authority to make John
Jones stand up, anel shake oil" his
fears, and march forward !' The voice
ofihe learn.jr assumed nt once a new
tone; be reael ai elirec'ed,
'Slasid ui, John Joneo ! sh.ie !! tiy fw.'
And the lesson was never forgotten.
Worshipers charmed by the Doctoi's
reading in ihe sanctuary unel else
where, mver knew with how great
diligence he had learned to become so
artlessly natural.7 But they might
have known it; for 'artless' natural
ness in reading aud writing and speak
ing never comes except by long eon
tinueel training
I Know He is Tin -.king v Mf. Dr
Cu'ilis tell--, in nei of his lprrp, e-t
an age l.C'hrist nn. wl o, lying on his
death b d in t Le Oon-irnp'ive-' Home
was aske i tho c use of his peifec!
peac , iu a s ae of such extreme weak
ness that ho was oitn ent'i-"K uncon
scious of all aioand h.m. Ha rep'-el:
"When lam able t il i k, I think cf
Je3us; find wdVn I am v able to tLink
of him, I know he is flunking of me
And to how many of the Lord's der
8tifferii!g -h;:dre!i have the words ol
iha P a'mi .t co-hh with s veer, c: nso a
tion: "1 fill p or ;;ll ! n"dj; yet ih
Lord thinketh upon me '"
The blood has two crie: it critS
either for my comb mnatiou or for my
salvr.lion. If I reject he ! looel, it
crie3 out for my condemnation; if I
accep' it, it cries out for pardon and
peace. D. It. Moody.
Our Dangers.
The difficulties and dangers of piety
rise in part from our diverse relations
Man is a compound being, a combina
tion of flesh and sp rit, a synthesis of
elements from the opposing spoheres of
matter and mind; and as conversion
does n t eliminate th ? former, there is
ever danger that ihe animal wid in
trude on the splritul domain, that the
ruler in iho Church will ascend from
the lower kingdom rather than de
scend from the realm of light and
p udy. Secular and even animal ties
boll ns etrougly; and ihe magmtism
of that great I ader, male or female,
is ofiec mere animal magnetise. The
grand physique, the flow of blood and
animal spirits the natural ihe c rpore
al momenta, are blindly acci pted for
spiritual forces These non spiritual,
mundane epuah ies, however brilliant
or powerful, have no tendency to ele
vate trie Church in the scale of sr irit
ua'ity, but are, i d the o her hand,
h.d.te :o drag it elown to their own
sphere. They are of the earth earthy.
The Church is from abow, is descenel
ed from ht;aven. and finds her most
etfecmd aids in spiritual forces. The
Church of this day. as of all days, Las
need to guard against the worship of
the beast, especially a-i human nature
hay ever shown a proclivity to that
sort of idolatry. An anima', especi
a'lv a fat and sleek one, in the Church,
in the guh-e of a s.int, is a grave peril
as many sil y people, laden with sins
and divers lusts,' are Lsdole to 'wan
der after the beast,' and thereby in
sure their own ; uin. Ziofi's Iluahl
The Poweb f the Bihle The
ei.ief duty ; f Piotea'antism is with .he
Scrip: ures. I-: is clearly to dec'are
an i publit-h them abroad. The Bible
dous not need any .Jefeuse so much as
it needs proclumatiou. ltd. fen Js it
welf wherever it is known. Deep iu
every soul there dweils forever a wit
nejs to ihe tiuth, whose clear ejeuu-j
steady voice will see ami respond to
it wherever it is J-n wn. We do not
need to implore men o bu.ieve the
rruth. We on'y ne;d tha'. tmy shall
iippichenu i', t.nd ilieti wemiy defy
t::e.-xi ;o deny it. Audihu- tho Bibkv
as o ernal truth, needs no oher ar"u
meat for its support than itself clearly-
preached.
There are defenders of t'i6 trudi who
tiik i; otherwise. They treat the
r-e bols cn d up aud car,f:ir ....
taiued, lt-st, it fall Aad so th. y bring
toge hcr their haruuig and philos
ophy, iheir huim-u rea ouiiig and re
search, which they use as proof to
k-.iep the L'-ibie up: trembling all the
w'ti e Itst. one of toeae should fail, aud
tLe uu b, unsupported, sink to its
hurt. But the Bible disduins all these
i'pplianres. It is no we.k'y infant.
L hi-s more than a giant's strength,
and can not n'y f-tand unaided, but
c;;n walk forth ah ne, c nqaering and
conquer.-- l'raf. ,$ielie.
Jesus. T.ilk to me- c-f Jesit',' saiel
;.n ageel Christian, wheu . n tie hanks
ct 1-0 river that was soon t j bear him
away. 'Tell u e of lliui whom mysout
lovi-th. aud of the many mansions'
'. h. re Ho elwells wh. h "His own' in
yloiy, and where I t-hall ' soon see
Him as He is. It ;s the newt- of the
Master's household I long t hear; tie
advancement tf His cause, and the
progress of His king lorn. Do not tel
u-e of things that ate pas ing away, I
eaie not for them This world and all
its possesions must soon be burned up
and wherefore should they dwell in
my affection? I hive a home tba' fire
c-runor, touch; a kingdom and a crown
that fade not awy ; find wi y si o Id
be concerned about nfl'ms of the
da '! '
A minister of We ,t Aqh ruther ap
pealed to Sir R- bert Anstrnther, wh
was an extensive land owner in thar
parish, to assist iu placing a xtove in
the church, which ho sud the con
urtgi'iou fouud very cold. ''Cmll,
sir, ctuld!' Sir R 'bert exfi'aime-t.
' Then warm he"i with your doctrine
sir John Knox never f.ske.l for a
s ove in bis k rk
From elifferent sources the strength
of he Lutheran Chu ch in the United
S' af.es is variously reported tho high
est figures boing Go.o:.o2t communi
cants, and the lowest lot),.r)03. A
large per cenc. of ibis church are
German, and only abo t 13 000 of
their communicants are in the
South.
Aa;s z 3ay8 thjt if you haviyour
fin -emails uncnt for a tn msand years
fiey will grow to be a thousand feet
long- We hope none of our readers
will tiy the experiment. Finger
nails a thousand feet long would look
extremely vulgar, t o say nothing of
'he inconvenience thay would eota 1.
Sorristofn Herald.
A man a, n -vs-r look so helpless
and ineignifijaut ;.a wlitu sUndiug a
roui.d in a dry gooJs siorw w a ting
f"'r his wife to get hro gh trading.
We can htrdly leru h. rai'.ty and
tenderness enough excpi by fcuffcr
iag. The Year Book of die Universa'ists
gives their number at 35 395, with a
parish properly worth $6,978,110,
Fins and Fact.
Behavior is a mirror in which
every one shows his image. Goethe.
If your furs e ver get worn down
short, whip them with forty rods, for
forty rods is saiel to make a fur
long.
We piaint our lives in fresco.
The soft anel fusil plaster of the mon
ument hardens under every stroke of
i be brush into eternal rock. IStcr
11 nt.
'Clara,' asked Tom, 'what animal
droppeel from the clotuls ?' 'The rain,
dear,' was the reply.
Some people have a way of think
ing that what they are about must be
pleasing to God, if only it is nn pleas
ant enough to themselves. Jean In
y clove.
The song of tho mortgaged
church according to the Gnfj hic is,
Sound the loud Kimball.'
A taste for the beautiful do-'s fir
more than minister to tho gruti.'ica
tion of the eye. It contributes to in
fuse s. lenity into the home circle,
smooths the asperities of lif., aud
reconciles us to much in living and
association which would otherwise be
unbearable.
A Suuday-school teacher in Al
bion, N Y , asked her class tl e ques
tion: 'What did Siiuou say?' 'Thumbs
up !' said a little girl.
In darkness tli6:e is no choire
It is light that enables us to see the
differences between thingp; and it is
Christ 'hit gives us light Aayaatas
Hare.
A young man sent ;ix'y cents to
a firm in M.chig'in that advertised a
recipe to prevent b:id dreams. He
receive;! a slip of paper on which wa
written: 'Don't go to sleep.'
When the earthly tabernacle
shakes, it remindj us cf the mercy of
having a house not made with hands,
eternal in tbe heavens.
There is a precocious six-year-old
boy who is wonderful on spelling
and definition. The other elay his
icacljci asked him to s,jeh 'matrimo.
ny. mm. -i i i i ui u u y, ottiu i.u
youngster promptly 'Now define it,'
said the teacher. 'Weil,' replied the
boy, 'I elon't know exactly what it
means, but I know mother's got
enough of it.'
There is at the core of all men
something which the whole world of
science anel art is inad. quate to fill.
Aud this part of man is no mere ad
junct of his nature, but bis most per
manent, highest self What this in
most personally craves is sympathy
wiih something like itself, yet high
above it a will consubstantial with
our better will, yet transcending, sup
pjortiug it. IShalrp.
A Semi-Classic Ditxv.
Maria habuit ag-nel lam,
Its fleece was white as snow,
Ubiqno Mary pro-ces sit.
Ihe lamb was sure to go.
Ad scholam earn se qui tur,
Which waa against tne rule;
Rident luduntque in-fan tes
To see a lamb at school.
Chorus Come, join my humble ditty,
etc.
Magister agnam ex pul sit,
But still it linger d near;
Patienr; mansit cir-ci ter
Till Mary did appear.
"Cur agn.-i amat Mariim ?"
The eager children cry,
'Quod Mary simt ag nel-lam,''
The teacher did reply.
Chorus Come, join my humble ditty,
etc.
A Ctoi Columbiana-.
"Beautiful Words"
Itisanrble and a great thin to
c ver the bh mis'oes and exc is tbe
failings of a friend: to draw a curtain
bdfern his steins, and to dbpl.y
bis perfections ; to bury his
weakne-s in silence, '. u to proc'aim
his virture-i on the house top. It is
an imitation of tho chxri Us of
heaven, which, when the creatures iied
prostrate ia ihe Weakness of i-leep
and erriue.iV'Pr' ats the covering of
night anil da kues o-.--r i', to cone a'
it in ih.it conoiion; but as so -u as
our f-p" l s are lef.es'ied an 1 na-nr
returns to i 8 morning vigor Gol
hen oidsthi sun to rm and thu day
shiny up n "8 h to aovance and
o show that ac ivi y. South.
l'li'it; -in trier.
According to R-v. James Pow
ell, 150,000 cc lored children at the
South are already under the control
of Roman Catholic priests.
"Foregoe-b" was the word put out
at a w ritten spe ling exercise by one
of the city eachers recently. And
one little boy handed in, "Go, go, go,
go.
Tom thumb mysteriously dis
appeared' the o her elay. His wife
seerched tbe house from cellar to gar
ret, and finally fouud her fo r year
old son sitting on his sleeping father,
completely hiding him from view.
Norriatoim ILraid Think of a man
baing hidden nnder his on
thumb'.' 1'hila. Bulletin .
Rural and Domestic.
CORN AS FOOD.
The Milwaukee Journal thus
compares the cost and food-raluc of
corn and wheat, to the disadvantage
ot the latter grain: "Wheat is tho
dearest food consumed by mankind;
and, when the comparative value and
cheapness of tho different grains is
more thoroughly understood, the sin
gular fact will be developed that there
is as much caste in lood as in the
human race that is supported by it.
Scarcity and high cost of wheat will
eventually force nations and individ
uals to learn that tho moral and finan
cial elevation of the masses depends
upon the substitution of some good
material cheaper than wheat and bear
ing nearer proportion to the reducted
stale of wages now prevalent the
world over. When the conventional
necessities of life increase in cost, la
boreis wages diminish, and suffering
and discontent ensue. The following
comparison will show that corn, as
well as oats, is cheaper food than
w huat. Oats contain 19 91 per cent,
of nourishment; corn, 12.30 percent, j
and wheat It 00 percent. Each pound
of nourishment from oats. .it. r.Kl om.
per bushel, costs 9.3.1 cents; from corn,
at 07 cents per bushel, each pouud 9J
cents; while from wheat, $1 07 per
bushel, eacli pound ot nourishment
costs o.oi cents, i lie corn crop of tho
Feted St.rtes equals the wheat" crop
of the civilized world, while 40 per
cent of the latter cannot raisA suffi
cient for their own wants. The defici
ency in the L inted States wheat crop
for 1 876 exceeded the entire export
lor 1875, while our exports of wheat
in 1875 were 10,000,000 bushels less
than in 1874, showing that wheat
cannot bo claimed as a sole depend
ence for the rapidly-increased poup
lation of the world. Corn must before
many years be consumed as a partial
substitute, at least, for wheat; and
the better the quality of the gaain
and the more perfect tho process of
preparing it for food, the quicker will
come the enlarged demand. This is
in part confirmed by the fact that our
exports of 1870 were 3 per cent, of
our whole crop, while for the twelve
preceding years they averaged only
one per cent, of the corn produced.
WINTER OATS.
The winter grain has been culti
vated as a distinct variety iu the
mountains of East Tennessee, where
the altitude is 2,500 feet, for more
than half a century. Not till within a
t.-w vnw, jut. mi tV.i; sj.riny; grown
crop no irequentfy proved a laifurr,
has this oat been known generally,
excepting in one or two neighbor
hoods. At the present time it is as
generally sown as winter wheat or rye.
It produces more than double the
quantity that the crop sown in tho
spring does. From the fact that it has
so much longer time to grow and ma
Hire itself, the grain is well perfected,
and weighs fully one fourth more
than that grown :n spring. The stalk
is stout, and it bears its lengthy, svell
loaded head without lodging or falling
down. It lias no disease, neither smut
nor rust It is sown very early, so as
to be used lor fall and held as winter
pasture. August and September are
not too soon to sow.
It was sent for the first time last
year to the North, and it has done
well in Indiana and other Northern
States. It is supposed to have orig
inated from an Irish oat, brought here
by the early settlers over a ccnturyago,
anel by being sown among tho winter
crops, year alter year, the fittest sur
vived, and by the law of selection it
finally became a hardy winter grain
as much so as any other. Udwln
Jfenry, In American Cultivator.
Si n-Si'ots a x i Tekrestriai Mao
xetism. The first coincidence obser
ved was in the field of terrestrial
magnetism. "A ireely suspended mag
m t, although it points in one direction,
is nevertheless, within small limits,
always in motion. Certain of tkese
motions depend, as is well known,
upon the hour of the day; but the
magnet is also liable to irregular,
abrupt fluctuations, which cannot be
connected with tho diurnal oscilla
tions. While llofrath Schwabe was
engaged iu delineating the sun upots,
Sir Edward Sabine was conducting a
scries of observations with regard to
these spasmodic affections of the
needle, and he iound that such fluctu
ations are mot frequent in years of
high sun spot activity." Nearly a
hundred years ago, V'aa Swinden had
euggested a periodicity in these irregu
L.r magnetic movements. Gauss,
Arago, Lamotiut and Gautier, pur
sued the research, and established
the existence ol a cycle of magnetic
variation having an eleven year perk)d,
the maxima and minima agreeing with
the maxima and minima of sun
spot activity. Schiaparelli and Broun
have confirmed these results, and the
latter observer concludes that while
the sun-spot activity is not an exact
measure of magnetic action, 'each is a
distinct result due to the same cause.'
This disturbance is so great that, iu
years ol maximum sun-spots, the work
ing of the telegraph has beenpowerfully
interfered with 1'raf. Youtnaix,
in l'opnlar Science Monthly.
An Invai.laiile Remedy rort
Rheumatism Take a pint of spirits
of turpentine, to which add half an
ounce of camphor. Let it stand till
the camphor is dissolved; then rub it
on the part affected and it w ill never
fail of removing the complaints. Flannel
should be applied after the part is
well fomented with turpentine. Re
peat the application morning and eve
ning It is said to bo equally available
for burns, scalds, bruises, and sprains,
never failing of success.
When the standard bearers are
fighting among themselves, they can
not be doing much execution in the
enemy's ranks.