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THE Christian Advocate. ' r,T ; ... UFFIt:E Tornrr of Dawson and Hargett Ms. T II E ORGAN OF THE CAROLINA CONFERENCE j NORTH OF THE E. CHURCH, SOUTH '1. KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION la JNE EAtt IS ADVAXCE, POSTAGE I'.UD, Sl. MONTHS, " " li payment delayed six months, 1.35 1.70 3ALEIGH. N. 0., FEB. 20, 1873 The Cross Mark is to re mind you that your subscription has cplrcd. 'ilie WoiK of tlte Xo. a. Stetvuitis- la our article of lat week, we closed our remarks on the class of apologizing stewards. Ye come now to notico a third class of delajing stewards. Their work of collecting is put -lT until the very last part of the car. They may collect a few dollars b-.foro this time, but the great bulk ul the quarterage is left to be gotten ir just a few weeks before Confer -eace. The first, second and third quarterly meetings have coma and gone, and two -thirds or perhaps thre j fouiths of the pastor's salary is yet unpaid. The "last agony'' has come and theie ia a great stir in the camp. j. he final day comes when the preacher uiust leave, and a reckoning is made, and he finds that he lacks 100, 200 or 300, more or less, of being paid. These delinquent stew ards are full i f promises just no w. "Mr. A is fc,DS to pay and Mrs. C. and brother so and so will be sure to pa; so macu; ana men counting ciaiekens that never will be hatched, they make up the salary in vague promises. The preacher goes off to -i . i i r Conference, and cut of the several' handled dollars promised at the last so tit men t, he gets now and then a stray dollar, and the rest fadts away like a transient dream from the minds of the stewards and people. It is right hoie, that the procrastination vf the stewards becomes the thief of I'iC preachers money. The law of oar church says: "The stewards of each station or circuit shall determine whether payments ai0 to be made weekly, monthly or quarterly." Note tLj fact ihat the stewards must fix 1. 1 . no of these three periods of col lecting and paying the preacher. Tiio vla.u of weekly payments can o v.isdy worked on stations, hnt that Oi' iuontuly or quarterly installment e must be adopted on circuits. In nc case, mast the payments be delayed Leynd the quarterly period. Much importance lies in the fact that tb times of payments are author itatiaeli, ed. The dnty of every board of stewards is thus made plain and im perative as to the times, when the pastor's salary i3 to be collected and pf.ul over to him. It must be done v.t-ek'y, monthly or quarterly and lift annually or semi annually. The 1 ;iw of tho Discipline is plain and positive on this point. Let us now notice ihe evils that arise from rot adhering to the plan of the Discip line. 1 . There is the moral evil of allow iug our people to contract the habit of violating Disciplinary laws. The noi observance of one law opens the v,-iy to break all wholesome laws It is oftentimes the leak that sinks the ship. Tho strict observance of eccle siastical laws is to the smooth -rolling prosperity of the church what linch pins are to the wheels of a chariot. If these little pins are taken out, the wheels roll off, and the chariot nth helpless on the highway. What it. the use for our General Conference to assemble and enact laws and print them in the Discipline, if such laws are to bs thrown aside 3 straws and trampled under the feet of oar peo ple ? Then the pecuniary evils at tend ng the violation of this law are many and grievous. 2. Thi3 delaying policy heaps upon the preacher the burden of trouble-s-ui3 debts. He is obliged to have d i ly bread for his family. He is obliged to have shelter and raiment for ifiem, consequently, he is forced, not having the money, to buy his sup plies on a credit. And in many cases, not getting his salary at the end of the year, he is compelled tc leave his work saddled with galling debts, which give occasion for much damaging criticism to his ministerial character. We know of nothing meaner than for a people to ei joy the services of a preacher a whold year, and fail to pay him .his rightful dues, and then flip pantly talk about him going away in debt, and insinuate by a hundred gos tipping tongues, that he lacks the cjmmon virtue of honesty. They withhold what they justly owe him. and then condemn him for not doing tliat which tho. deprived him of the power of doing. What would be thought of a father who should be so meri;iless as to cut off the arms of his children, and then punish them for not working f The spirit of that Egyptian tyranny requiring "the tale of bricks which they did make here tofore," without furnishing the straw, is still abroad in a christian land. In most of the cases where preachers become entangled in tho meshes of d-bt, the came is found in tho failure io pay him his full assessment, and the failure to collect it, arises from the dlay of tardy stewards. Here appsars again the wisdom of the lawj rcq-iiting the payment-? of the prfjtch 1 er to bo made weekly, monthly or quarterly. 3. Tins delaying policy makes tlio payment of the preacher,for the mcm- . . ihn ,ftWOf the Discipline. Every man's experi 1 enco teaches him that it is mnch easier to pay in small and frequent r installments, than the wiiole of any given sum at tnee. Suppose a member proposes to pay $20 a year, how much easier it is to pay 5 quar terly than the whole at the end of the year, suppose auoiuui agicco w 21 a year, is it not vastly easier to pay $2 monthly than all at any one time; or to pay 10.40 by giving 20 cents a week, or 5 20 by paying 10 cents a week ? It will be eean now how many trou bles grow out of a procrastinating stewardship Having the times tiled as the Discipline directs, and making prompt collections at the times agreed upon, would sweep away all of thtse financial calamities. And wo tamest y and solemnly urge upon tn t tew -ards throughout our Conference con nection, 'hat they conform strictly to the law i f our Discipline; "To every purpose there is a time," says Solo mon. It assumes that a duty must be performed and that a definite time should be set aj art for performing it. For it is too often the case, ihat w;;at is left to bo done at any time, is never done at all. The time of religious con uibutions is marked by Paul "Upon the ri'-st da' of tha week, let every one of you lay by him in store." Htre weekly contributions are clearly recommended. In ihe Old Testa ment times, the bringing iu of the tithes, the sacrifices, fea?ts, all the observances and ritualistic forms had a j fiIeJ rota ioa allll the regularity of a militarv camp. Our civil government . . pays its officers and agents at regular stateti times. Every emplojer of any respectability pays his hirelings daily, weekly or monthly. All the grand movements of nature roll m the grooves of prescribed times. Tli6 beauty of spring, the radiant glory of summer, and the rich abuu iance of autumn, have their set times in the rolling year. The silvery moon and ilowing tides, the rosy morning and dewy evening give their blessings to earth at stated periods. Even the far wundering comets never fail to ay their visits to our world at set limes. All nature has its set times for doing its appointed work, and these grand punctualities make its iaw3 perfectly reliable. What confusion, what chaos, what interminable disorder, what, a stu pendous failure this world would be, if it did not move in harmony with exact and appointed seasons Such a world would be worthless; we could do nothing with it, and simply be cause i had ito fixed Lima of perform mg its complicated work If a man Dronoses to keen his boly in the healthiest, end his mind in the sound est condition, he can only do so by the habit of eating and sleeping at regular intervals. A departure from this law persisted in is sure to re-ult in the wreck of the body arsd the in sanity of tho mmd. Ihe larmer, who pats off tho work that ought to be done in its season, is a dead fad ure. Tue merchant, who does not buy and sell at tbe right time, who does not collect his accounts when the people have the money, is also a fail ure. Anil tho steward, who is not prompt to collect his preacher's salary as it fulls due, but puts it off week after week, and mouth after month, and qaarterly meeting after quarterly meeting, until the year steals away and his neglect steals the money due the preacher, is the deadest failure of than all. '"Yea, the stork in tbe heaven knowelh her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;'' but many stewards of the Methodist Church knoweth not the limes of collecting the preacher's sal ary. S:JOO OOO to $7,000,000. There is quite a war in New York city over the enforcement of their ex cise law. Some fj iends of the whisky business plead that "the noble char ities" of the city ''need large reven ues'' from licenses. The New York Methodist, in a recent issue, has a brief but pungent comment on the subject and makes, no doubt with ample authority, this significant statement: "Our licenses have jielded 300,000, and our pauper bill is 87, 000,000." The whisky business and pauperism do not stand precisely in the relation of cause and effect. There is much pauperism that does not originate in drunkenness . There are other crimes that develop pauperism. But it will hardly be questioned that a very large proportion of pauperism does origi nate in drunkenness. That part of New York's pauper bill that may be traced to the liquor shops and that, m all equity, should be charged up to them in some way, is vastly more than 6300,000. So tout if the "noble charities" need the license fees, they need a great deal more than they get from this source. But to suppose what it is absurd to suppose that of this pauper bill of $7,000,000 only 8300,000 is due to theauperizing influence of the whole whiskey traffic, wheie is the gain to society 1 If S300 000 from licenses only meets the pauper biil that whisky creates, society is a vast loser in this the in cnbns of pauperism itself For having to support pauperism to feed, - 'otle, belter and pbyBic it- it is by n.v means the heaviest burden that it en tails. Indeed, thi is the least alfiict ive and troublesome feature of the case. The evil of pauperism is not measurable by the poor house ac counts ! In fact, it is not measurable by any money values whatsoever. The evils of pauperism are innurner- able and indescribable. For pauper- ism breeds crime in all its conceiva ble forms. It debases men and wo men. Alas ! some of its worst evils are transmitted. They reappear in the generations that come after. And what a tremendous loss to so ciety by the non productiveness of pauperism .' Suppose it costs a county $50.00 a year to keep a pauper jrom starving. Does $50 00 measure the loss to society ? By no means, for that pauper, under favorable con ditions, might have been a producer, to the extent, perhaps,of several hun dred dollars. But the sup; ositiou that the whis-i ky business, paying in license fees to New York city, $300,000 per annum, is responsible for only $300,000 of the pauper bill of $7,000,000, is out of all relation to the facts. No man doubts that this whisky business to duces vastly more pauperism than $300,000 of the $7,000,000 paid out to ielit.ve it- If then, the noble charities need large license fees they need enough to "foot the bill." Say only $1,000,000 of this bill of $7,000, 000 goes to persons pauperized by wiuisky, the license fees should cer tainly realize at the hast $1,000,000. Even this would leave the balance on the wrong side of the ledger. For the argument offered for the whisky business oidy proposes that the li cense fees may Le used to pay part of the pauper bill. It does not consider what society loses by pauperism itself by its non productiveness and, above all, by the crimes which it en genders. -To put the case more accurately: suppose in any given case one bar room makes one pauper (and some of them make scores) what should this bar room pay into the treasury for permission to carry on business? It costs say $50 a year to help that one pauper. Staou'd the license then be fixed at $50 ? Not at all, for this is the smallest item in the account. This pauper made so according to our supposition by tho bar room should have been, had he remained a man, producer to the extent say of $300 per annum. But this 'st. The h cense fee cannot tnen, in common justice to society, be less than $350 But this is not all: this pauper be comes the father of paupers and the whisky business should provide 'sinking fund' for the next generation Jjut this is not all: this pauper may per is apt to commit crime) that will invo've society in large expenses in criminal prosecution, not to mention the damages to individuds. The business that made the pauper should furnish what W9 may call an 'insu ranee fund' for the protection of so ciety in view of the probabilities that crime will be tho result of the pauper ism. Ail informed people have long ago reached two conclusions on the sub ject of this whisky business conclu sions that cannot be shaken. First, a large proportion of the pauperism of the couniry originates in intoxication Second, the vast majority of crimes originate in intoxication. Now the relief of pauperism and the prosecution of criminals make up a very large proportion of the ex pensea oi government, xt.e present status of the case is easily stated. The whisky business costs the govern ment millions; the whisky business pays to the government hundreds In other words the honorable and useful industries of the country are taxed millions to pay the costs entailed on government by tho dishonorable and injurious whisky business. This is a stupendous folly as well as wrong. Society should assess upon the abom inable business adequate damages and ample security. And this does not go far enough It is not enough to indemnify the general purse for the outlays of gov emment incident to protecting society against the traffic. The families of victims should be indemnified, in so far as money can indemnify them Railroads are mulched in large sums to pay for broken heads and limbs. An editorial m the Texas Christian Advocate recently, states the case as follows: "There is in every husband and father a money value. Whisky destroys it. The man that sold the whisky should pay damages. If the whisky business is a legitimate busi ness, it should be held to the same sort of responsibility that binds other legitimate business. If it is illeeiti mate, it has small show of reason for asking special favors." The same article lays down the fol lowing platform: "Our firm conviction is that society has the right to protect, itself. There fore, we believe that society has the right not only to repress but to sup press the liquor traffic. Bat if it is not suppressed it shou'd bo vigor ously repressed. If drinking houses are to be allowed to ex st at all, they should exist under conditions that limit as much as possible ttieir power to do mischief So long as they are tolt rated, we insist upon this princi pie: they should be made to work in chains, and compelled to pay for the trouble they cause and the mischief they do, in so far as money can pay for evils done. The whole satanic kingdom should bs held liable for da ta 93 wherever law can lay i?s hai-'Gr' apon one of its agents." i LEIGH OfiR' ' lie Clmieli Officiary. We fully endorse the sentiment ex pressed in this edi'orial, taken from the N. I". Christian Advocate. Our beloved Methodism is made to suffer by the nomination and election of im proper, and sometimes ungodly men,,1 lo & l om icial positions in the church. ice occurs, where a pastor, in An instance the k ndness of his heart, nomuw'i bro her for the position of s? .rd who was in the habit of leaving, the church whenever the Lord's Simper was to be administered. Both tte preacher in charge and the Presid ing Elder knew tho existence of&ris fdct; aud yet to save the feefiffgfc of the brother.he was renominated toTill the office of s eward . We have heard of ano her instance where a steward was renominated when it was kjiown that he was a frequent visi orMo a gambling saloon and participated(reely in the games. What can a church,with such officials, promise herself? It may seem to prosper for a time, but ihe future will develop a fearful reaction. Our book of Discipline says: "Let the stewards be men of solid piety. ' Let this prerequisite be observed by prea chers who hi.ve the right of nomination and the church will soon be rid of im proper officials. The fact that a per son has once beau an official member is no reason why he should always be continued in that relation. The edi torial referred tc says: ' As our churches increase iu tuna bers, wealth, and position, it oecomes ioiDortaut that our official fcoards be composed of men oi ability tnd judg ment. and erood standimr before the community at large In aa impor tant sense they stand for tie Clmrch, which will be judged by the character of its leaders. If these be true men living in the fear cf God and honored by the public, the Church ill eujoy the benefit of their influenoi end ex amp!e ; but, on the other haad, if they be uninlluential, iniuuiciocs, or ad dicted lo courses of conduct which render their manlinecs oi integrity Busoieious, the whole otganization will suffer. The public will justly dis trust a religious body putting such leaders in the front ; they vill be slow to believe the prhates uiuh in ad vance of their leaders. The preachers, to whom is accorded the ricrht to nominate, have much to do in avoiding or remedying this evil. They should put forward only repre seDtative men who are capable, and IIJJU Will UU UUUUI tu WO WUIlU. .0.0, ... . , , . . . , .,.,.! a delicate matter, aud calculated to test the firmness of the pastors, they should receive the support of all the good people in the organization.' Editorial Briefs. We havo received most t our ngv type, but our new and attractive head is, for some cause, delayed We hope to receive it in time for o!ir next issue. Several brethren write that they will make on earnest effort, to secure 50 subscribers this year. A Joyid Methodist will not drop his own Church paper to take any otuer He will be true to his own colors. Rav. C. C. Dodson writes us pleas ant y of Lis work and of the reception given him by his old friends in Wilson A telegiana of the 16th instant an nounces the death of Rev. Dabnev Ball. D. D., of the Methodist Church South, aged 57 years. He was a Con federate Major, and at the time of his death was the Presiding Elder of the East Baltimore District. Our patrons will bear in mind that when payment for snbscripti"n to the Advocate is delayed s;x months the price is 2 50 When paid in advance tht price is $2 20 postage paid. Ciubs of ten subscribers ae re ceived at $2 per annum, postage paid Let all who can do so aid in making up a c'ub of ten. There is considerable religious in terest manifested in the congregation of Edenton Street Church. Bro. Black is a faithful pastor, and a capital preacher. His labors are bjing crown ed with abundant success. We continue to send out bills to delinquent subscribers. Hundreds are due us from one to three years for the paper, lue tact tnat e Lave repos ed confidence in them, should be an incentive to fidelity on thtir rart. The payment of subscriptions of re- igious papers i is morally and legal ly binding as other debts. - We were pleased to welcome into our sanctum last week, Rev . L J TT f II 1 1 i . rt f-r noiaen, or tne xioiesvuie uircuit. tie gave us his plan for s-.curng subscri bers for the Advocate, the secret of which we cannot tell. The fact that he has a plan is a guarantee of suc cess. He generahy succeeds in ac complishing what he undertakes. Dr. J. W McGoe. of Magnolia, an experienced physician, proposes to take up his abode in the city of Oaks. As a physician he ranks with tbe best in the State, and we bespeak for bim a brilliant future in Raleigh. We ex tend to him, in behalf of the citizens of Raleigh, a cordial welcome. While we h:il with pleasure his coming to our city, the peop.e of Magnolia will regret excttdit gly to give him up. Brethren who have received ac give prompt attention to counts will their collection. We are in need of funds to meet extra expenses incurred in laying in our n6w offieo material. Send yjnr job work to tte Ad vocate oflic?, and it will be nea'Iy and promptly executed. 4 -I A D V O V A 1 & - t ii il.p Brcilireii. til u Rev. MISB-to-SaSfl Pegram, iu charge of L j circuit, writes us tbat he has beei warmly received by his peop'e, and that he is pleased with his work in interest is beiDg manifested on the If-bjectof building churches. Arrange- jaents are bting made for the erec ion ,Lbf two houses of worship this year. Ray J. J. Carden, writes that he has reached his new appointment, the Robeson circuit, and that the people gave him a hearty reception. He gives a gratifying account of his hrst yuar terly Meeting. Bro. Barrett, the Pre siding Elder, was present, and preach ed wih instruction and edification to the people. Bro. Carden is an earnest worker for the Advocate, and promises to send a club of subscribers soon A note fiom Rsv. E. A. Yates, of the 13 th inst , informs us that he has jasfc received a telegram announcing the death of Mr. Ramsey, his father-in Uw.He and hia afflicted family were to leave Wilmington on the evening of the 13 th for Beaufort to attend the funer al. We sympathize with them in their affliction. Bro J. M Caho writes from Stone- wall as follows: Our first Quarterly Meeting was held on the 26 and 27 ult. Our Pre siding E der, R,v. Dr Closs, was pre sent and presided. Our people had with pleasure his return to this Dis trict. Twenty years ago he waa on this Dit-ict. May he be spared many years to the Church. Bro. Bristowe, our preacher, waa also with us Bro. Carden was also present. He has beeu detained from his work on ac count of family affliction. He leaves to-day for Robeson Circuit, his new field of Lbor. The following resolu tion adopted by the Qaarterly Con ference and signed by J. W. Aldridge aDd S. W. Latham, speaks for itself : Resolved, That tbe members of the First Qaarterly Conference of Neuse Circuit beg leave to express our high appreciation of Rev. J. J. Carden, our pastor for the three past years, and tender our eongratu'ation to Robeson Circuit, his present appointment. Our Advoi iC. Mk. EniToa : I have had it in mind some time to write you a line or two but have been prevented by press of other matters . 1 am satisfied that our Confer nee paper, tli6 Advocate, is not taken as generally as it ought 1 T , ... . . , - -t to be. I am not writing from behind the scenes, for I know little or noth ing of the real financial condition of the paper except from what is publish ed by the editor. But every where in my travels I find numbers of Metho dists who do not take the paper. Some say we do not need it. But are such really seusible of what thtir need is ? I admit that we do not need it iu the auuow tL.t - rtnrl air. and water- Tn this sense, we do uot need tbe rail road and telegraph, but in a very im portant sense, we do need them . So ia a very important sense, bearing on many moral aud spiritual vi a ities, we do need the paper. The family needs it. The children ought to have it; and will read it if we give it to them. There is no comparison be. tween the a Wantage of the paper in the family and the small price charg eil for it. To say nothing of editorial aod other articles, the connectional news and Conference interests are more than worth the subscription price. We may not appreciate this un il we are deprived of it, and then 'ble sings brighten as they take their flight.' Conceding ihe fact, then, that we need it, the next question is, how can ic ba sustained 1 Not by a joint stock company and a hired editor, nor yet by the Conference and a hired editor. This has always falied, and ever will. Owned and published by an editor who knows his business, where econ omy and close a ten tion are identical with self interest, is the only plan for us. This has succeeded so far. But even this must fail, if the Church he comes apathetic. A -tJobbitt and a Hudson may wri e and labor, but the Church mut give the increase, or the press will stop ! Are we ready tor this ? I think not. The Conference pledged the support of the Church. Let us fulfill our pledge. Yours truly, E. A. Yates. The Morning Star of Feb 13th says : 'We learn that, commencing with this evening, Rev. E A Yates, the pastor, will deliver a series of short lectures on Wednesday evenings at the Front Street Methodist Church. The present subject for discussion is 'The Temptations of Christ.' The ladies of Edeutou St. Church gave an entertainment at Metropoli tan Hall on Wednesday evening, the 13 h instant, for the benefit of the Metropolitan Methodist Church. The crowd in attendance was large, and the receipts were h'gbly grafify mg, as we are informed. Rev. V. A. Sharpe writes: "I hope to send you 50 subscribers this year." Wuilo Bro. S. does not promise 50, we are qni'e sure thtt he will send even more than that number, before the close of the year. We need to learu tha lesson that this life is given aa only tha-, we may at ain to eternal life. For lack of ro- membering this, we fix our affections on the things of this fleeting world, and when the time comes that we must quit it, we are all aghast and teirified Fuller. Rnew yoar subscription to the Adoorate. Priee, $2,20 post paid. Our Coll-s's- Can we free them from debt ? We have fifty eight thousand members within the bounds of the North Caro lina Annual Conference. Can fifty eight thousaud persons pay a d bt of six'y thousand dollars ? One dollar and three C6nts and five mills eacn will pay i. Bat of ttiM fifty-eight thousand members t herrf are a 1 arge number of very poor people and small childr. n who canno'. pay any thing. Suppose there are twenty five thousand such. Tht would leavo thirty-three thousand persons to pay sixty thousand dollars. Of that num ber are thera not tweuty thousand who can and will pay one dollar each? and ten thousand who can and will pay two dollars each? and two thou sand who can and will pay five dollars each ? and one thousand who can and vill pay ten dollars each? These sums added together will make sixty thousand dollars; and no one would b - burdened, not even feel it very sensib'y. Now does h not look like we ought to raise the money in a few months ? 'Shall we do it ? Has not the Church suffered two men to carry that heavy burden long enough ? At least they are carrying the larcrer part of it- Will not tiiirty three thousu.d Methodists come to their re'ief, and at once ? Cannot every preacher laisa his part of it on his charge, by asking the amounts indicated above of such persous who can pay such sums f They are pledg ed by resolution to present i he Col kge claims, and the Presiding Eiders, ia addition have mutually resolved to aid them all 'hey can. Shall we all make an honest effort to arouse the whole Church to the imperative duty of pay ing off that debt at once i Shall it be said that it cannot be done ? M. L. Wood Ar Da Bobbiti : Though more than hree (veeks have elapsed since the dea'h of Rev. J P. Moore, I can scarcely i e aliza the s-ad fact . For the p.st five years I had been intima ely associat -ed with him, and I cau truly say tbe more I knew of him, the more 1 valu ed and loved him. It was truly re marked of him when his death was iiiv,t announced, 'A great man has fal len.' H- passed through the many years of his ministry with unblemish ed character and has left a noble rec o.'d upon the pages of our history aa a Church in N. C. His t items commanded for him the highest re gard of his brethren and the respect of all who knew hi.., whe.her in the communion of his own Church or that of otlr-rs In whatever position he was plac d, hi nobly met the re sponsibilities devolving upon him and sustained his high character as minister, xlis mental powers were much abjve mediocrity, his mind was well developed and well balanced in evary direc ion. Sound judgement and common sense weie preeminently his distinguishing characteristics. His of analysis keen and searching. His sermons were e'ear expositions of the text and generally able aud exhaus live He stood in tbe front rank of tbe preachers of our Conference. But this minister of the Lord has fallen fallen ac his po3 -. He died gloriously as the heroic chris iaa soldier might wish to die, with armor on, and his face to tbe foe. He is now restiug from his labors. His life was a bless, ing to the Church and his memory remains a precious legacy which we, his brethren in the Go-pei, will most g adly cherish and perpetuate. 'The righteous shall be in everlasting re membrance.' The end of a life so faithfully spent could not be other wise than triumphant. His abiding confidence was iu Christ the "Uushakon Kock, the pilgrims shade The eoldiers fortress tower." Truly yours, J. It, Gbiffith, Infidelin Council. The one hundred and fortieth an niversary of the birthday of Thomas Paine waa observed in Boston, Jan 29, by a convention of free thinkers in Paine Menioial Hall. The attendance was not large. Among the resolutions adopted was odo demanding the mod ification of the act ot Congress against obscene literature ; another protesting against chaplains, and thansgivtng and fast days; and another protesting against the adoption of the joint res olution recommending tbe sixteenth amendment to the Beveral States. 1, approves so muth of the resolu tion as forbids s?cfarian appropria tions, and it protests against that gee tion which stages 'hat the amendment does not prohibit the reading of the Bible in the public schools. The whole affair was a disgrace to Boston. On the same evening that blatant lnudei, logersoil, (wnose impotent and disgusting attacks on the Bible and Christianity in different parts of the country have already been ex posed,) delivered in Chickering Hall, in this city, a "lecture" on Thomas Paine," in which he vainly sought trjf rescue the memory of Paine from tbe infamy in which it was cast by his vices during his closing years. Of coarse, in this great city, such a lec tnrer will hae a 'following,' but we hear of no new converts made to his yiews. Brethren who hnve not taken the collection for the M irvin Monument, will do so as early as practicable. It is desirable that the collections should be made without delay. Send the amount collec ed to ua at Raleigh and we will forward it to the Treasurer at St. Louis. Qaarterly Conference Blanks for sale at this office. Book ami It'rlolical. ivt on Bible Readinh, ly Rev Jno. C. hill, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Adrian Mich. This is the title ol a new book of HG pages, issued from t'ie press of Rin dolph &Co , New York. It is a care ful collection of readingB from va ious sources, and is tn tended as suggest i ire to Bible readers I s object is to sup ply a want with B.ble Students. Cosmostokia, By Rev. J. A of Miami, Mo. Moses Murphy Warren, Chicago, Publisher. This is a most charming Poem.ded icated to the Itinerant ministry of the people called 'Methodist' through out the world. It is divided into thirteen sections.and each parr furnish es an iutrod ictory analysis Ttie u thor of tho volume ia aNorth Cwrolini an, though he has been in Mo. 21 years It is a poem of fine literary merit, and will d ubtless have a large sale Price $1.25 We have received the prospectus of a volume of Poems, bt R v. A. Means. D. D, L.L.D. It is soon to bj issued from the press of E. J. Hale aud Sons of New York Dr. Means it will be remembered, is a native f North Carolina. He is a ripe scholar, a sound theologian, and ac eloquen: preacher. The public will await the coming volume with interest. Tht Doctor has many acquaintances in the Old North State wlID will de ight to look into his 'Cluster of Poems. 'Price, plain .1 50 Guilt edge, $1.75. Minutes of the Virginia Conference, Edited by Rev. P A Peterr.on. Bro. Peterson is one of the few Secretaries who succeeds in getting out ihe Conference Minutes in good time and who has his work well and accurately doDe. Hon A. S. Menimoa will accept o'lr thanks for Congressional documents. We have received the Catalogue of James Vick of Rochester, New York, and ot Benj. A. Elliott & Co., of Pitts burgh. Pa. In looking ove- these cat alogues one becomes bewildered with tho magnificent display of flowers, etc. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE Rev. J. W, Taylor, former pas tor in Newbern, N. C, has accepted a call to tbe pastorate of the 2nd Bap -tist church. Kuoxville, Tenn. Tee Luisville cor espondant of in T -?rn Advocate, sas, '"Bish op Kavanaugu preached very accept ably to a crowded congregation of de lightad hearers ia Trinity Church, Sunday morniug, Jtnaa y 27ih.' In the lat 70 years tbe advances of Christimity among th 39 who nay er heard of it before, have been great er tuau in tbe faret 70 yeirf of the apostolic age. Cook . The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago has paid off its $35,000 debt. Lather was wont to say; 'Three thiDgs make good ministers temp tation, effl ction, upplic;ttion.' Dishop Whipole, of the Pro', estam Episcai al denomination, ha? bten compelled by ill heabh to go South for the winter. A plain mm sail: "Before 1115 conversion, wheu I prayed in Ihe presence of others, I prayed to them; when I praved in Secret, I prayed to myself bat do w I pray to Gjd.' rn i . tt. - a t- . . aue umiea xsremrea in Christ report for ihis year 4.0G7 churches in the Uni ed States, with a member ship ol 148 7G3. and 2,059 ministdra. Toere are 2,897 Sunday -schools, and 1G9.530 -eacher8 and scholars. Rsv. O. C. Pope, founder aud first editor of the Jtaptist Reflector, and late pastor of the Conral Cauroh, Na-hville, has become editor of the Texas Baptist Herald, Houston Rv. F. L. Ssuoar, of the Cenval' Presbyterian Caurcb, Pitfsb irh, I'a , has a Suaday afteruoou Bible class of ono' handle 1 and fifty reformed men, a considerable number of whom fofess to have experi -nc .-d a change of heart. mi wr t r , t . ine Jioision lueinoatst says Dr. W. E. Munsey waa the most emi uent man evar produce 1 by the Meth odist Church, in the bound of the Holq'on Conference. R-v. Stephen H. Tyng, Sr., who hoc, Uo(,n preaching f jr 57 years, retires from the rectorship of St. George's church, N. Y., after the 1st or May, on a pensio i of $5,000 a year for life. So mote it be with all suca men. Lord Shaftesbury has withdrawn his name from the list of members of the Society for tbePromotiou of Chris tiau Knowledge on account of tbe character of some of its recent pub lications. Nine Rules fob Church -Goins. 1. Lat nothing but an impossibility keep you from the home of God on the Sabbath. 2. Go early, and take your family and friend1) with you. 3. Go twice every Sabbath, if possi ble. 4. Go ia a prayerful state of mind. 5. Give respectful and pray erf ul at tention t) the sermon. G. Join in all the songs of praise, and think of what ycu sing. 7. Listeu reverently to the benedic tion. 8. Greet one ari?ithr ple-isantly and speak kincily to tun Mra- ger. 9. Think aud speaK of all the good i a the service:?, onl forge, all the rut, j ice to tii hS. The demand fjr Bishop Marvin's; Hook. " To the JhJust lnj way of the West" ha become so givnt 'hat it is impossib e for us to tii! orders for agentn prumpt y and attend 'o tho work of publishing the i ook We have, therefore, iu de arrange men s with Lc gan D Dauieron. agnt of tie Advo cute Pub ishing House. St. Louis, our gtnernl ngen- for its ale, to whom ad or 'ers au i applications for agencies must hereafter bo made. Those hof have here ofore been oidering d.rect. from u- will be supplied bj Mr. Dam eron. Bkyan Bkand &. Co., Publishers , J'll: 12 1878 M. Lo LOCAL AND STATE NEWS Tbe little town of Durham, for tbe year 1877, paid an Internal lie venue tax of .six hundred nud seventy-throe thoBuand, eight hundred and tweuty scveu dollars. We direct particular attention t the advertisement of E. J . Parish, Esq . , lie ia the popular proprietor of the Black well Durham Warehouse, the first ware house established iu Durham. If you want good prices be sure to send your tobacco to the Dluckwe 11 Wan bouse. Goldsboro, Wilson aud other towna 1 havo adopted an orjiuauee prohibiting! tbe erection of wooden buildings in the : business portion o.' these townw. The result si taese ordinances i that Bub stautbd brick stores ba been, erected iustead of wooden ones. The fearful raiu storm and cyclone that visited this city on Thursday night, did considerable damage iu Augusta, OaJ Tha Columbia depot at tli it city, and a J numoer of other buildings were almost' completely demolished Southern llowe. j - Trof. W. G. Kiebardsou, lato of Da-viu.-iou College, but now u professor in the Central University, of Kentucky, has written a paper on Latin pronunciation, which a writer in the Christian Observer and Commonwealth praises in the high est terms. We regret to learu of the. illness of Mr. Geo W CI eg sr. our popular County Treasurer. He bus beeu HulToiiug witu chills for the past two weeks, and for the past few days ha been confined to his bed. Landmark. GENE RA LN E WS . Muiac has abolished the ollice of Crier of Courts. It is proposed to light Chicago tun neis with electricity. Boston has put a portion of her steam lire engines upon runners. The Commissioaers state that tbo Brooklyn Bridge will be co up eted in 1SS0. Considerable damage has been caus ed by a fi od iu tli Sacramento Liver at Sacramento City, California. 1 A movement is iu proguss to ecure a new commercial treaty between Fiance aud the United rotates. Au Ohio pap.:r suggests Eing and Voorhees as a strong Democratic i'resi deutial team for 18S0. King Humbert i goiug to econo mizo. He baa sold oil a thousand of his father s horses. The herring fishing iu the B iy of Fundy has been very successful this sea son and unusually prolonged. a defalcation of -0,000, paper money, bus been discovered in the Santa CataLna Bank ut Havana. Advices from tho City of Mexico state that tbo attempted revolution in Tamanlipas was easily supprossed by tho Government. Tweuty cod tish were lately caught off the coast of Virginia, tho first ever known in the waters of that State. Merloni, tin (unom Iai.n ;i ;t hitec". vs killel a l.v.v da.vs a0'i ly Uu from tli top ol new urob on IM Mil.m t;.inHlrl. Uis ilei'h 13 regqnlcd in lialy a a national 1, The employee ol th" Ojclh i:n Mil's hive bti'n' jjrivesi notice that the mill will be cl .st'd on 1. l. in e :i-'uenoe of tb weavers' notic i tu it dt in im.I t., le ive work on ncc.Mint ol reJuc ion of j.t cnt iu tlieir wi gi s. Tba in?iirgiMfs in Kpirm hivo Hoc!.iim pit union with Greece, - M. ictor L-l'muc Wis ei.-cle.l a ble Senator ol Crane w-.-k ly .1 1 11 Ml for tbe Llnke -Princ Ama in, MS j.rrivd in liome. to tit i 'us piaca at li.- li.uii ,.f iiriuy corjjs o: m it ti:y. ol wtiic i ti: l i n,i in iitJer. A stroii) tiil.il wave has wet tbe co-'ui or Pern. To.. ja!l. yjy,. w erj0i,y damnged . Gran t liivii es wt-iv t-, ukc dace in mvana, iro'n 1-eij io ic ii,rt ot King Alpbon.xo'rt marriage. in h jiior The i:iinnsf niu.ml i., ,U(mi $1), 000,000; iliOOJOWwHoeni in mpprs ing lusi ytai a it hellion Il H HUtd tint sinci tlii ., mneMoeni.i t of hosiiiide, tiio Uu-sians hue cap iirp.l 120 000 miaiui u lin W p.lP,W( ,u,j i.niiuc.ii non, Thk Nevr York Herald want G o. lined Mc-Cio-skey io di . nex' "o,)j. Sixty.fire of tbe . is- t.y- iv Iost at the AshtnluU UUasier bave LenU ,r y the Lake Suore and .Mic iian S..ull,ern Kail road Company at a rie sverageing coo apiec The most expensive lile cost tbe comp.ny $') 000 and a nwly married coupU wer appraised ai only $:;,U00. Tbe Hon. Tbomaa A. Hendricks, ol Indi ana, lus a:c-pled an iuviiath u io uddreBS the Literary Societies of the University of Virgini oo ibe evening ot tbe iiiih, or June next. The Chester & Lenoir Narrow Gaii-rn Riilroad has been graded six miles from Lin colnton towards Newtou, and the Superin tendent. Mr. J.,ifpi fry, expects to li.d-,h it to New;ou by tbe 1st Oct, proximo. A res jbiti-jn admiitir- uromen to all tha University dervs, has l.eeu pa-jed, by 212 vote) against at a convocation of tbe University of London . Statistics show that the Ameiicin peo ple eat more batter than bread at least the value of the bulter annually consumed is greater than the yearly supply of wheat. Senator Ransom, ot North Uaroliua. l.as submitted a series of resolutions In tbe Sen ate, looking to toe investigation of tbe state of the life saving service on tbe coast ol North Carolina; and also tbat the secretary of the Navy may ascertain what can be done lor the improvement and security of navia tion in that vicinity. Waduell h is taken like action in die llouse. Do not fail to renew yo ur sub- j Ecription promptly; hand the money to the preacher in charge, or send di- rpct to the edjto ..... " """" nr.
North Carolina Christian Advocate (Greensboro, N.C.)
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