-alei .dvocate. OH i T1 J 1 11 hlM t t , V .1 I'- BOBBITT, 1). I.. v..!. xxm-Xo. a IJoctnj. I. FT :V:"M"-S 1,: rViN'ES. I . ; '111" 1 ! -ones; i: bysonni aero .- omfed ' "v ii.f tHt asion :i rati!! .' re';vt, tvi ' . :iini ci .ret L.l-liviu lie -hr.iii.io.l; ' V. iie m ! i s kin.l ' !g ! torpet. Lit i- t"r-- i. l.viin.'s an 1 o-.vi li exti .ictiM ;.: ,nrr in li i'. i Ml.? tn :ro'; ,,- o. iii. r :i - liiv- ..o!ih y a-e.J ;:i i s ..r !! e wli. ' rvte and fr ei I.e: T i'" ti l .,. l.y o tl: o rh rii?h no IwifciT h: h' Min ol Art.-' lion luis set; ut. ttf ria will Mronyer. j - . ' '..'i i ' h i ri Ati torsive md Hrj;t r ....... ) l .li s: Mini art will b lighter. t.-'Juol.K wt:h riv.-p i:: httsiue!; l5. . . our Kf "ill 1. purer 3!:d Iwihter ! n : oh, inrt'-ut ;le leaven ! U v to l rt;ic anJ Iorj,et- :.:!. -iiuct' we a.l : iu ilt-b:: i ::i:;:n:c oo li e too rheai'ly lt liit I'n-t-ept 'l or'.ve a A w zei" v", . c o in m u n i c a t c D. i or i in.- A.iv.A ..r i nr. N . '. .'im khi-.n. i:. ... l-'rcliiiii that we. the ( ;! I t ; i.-t. are miuu.ie!-t.H.Mi as .!;; wisii.-s in i.-uar.l to a division of ;':! N-.j-iii 'ai'oiina 'oliferi'lice. we de t . u ;- right before oiir - - i : - - t 1 . -1 of tin- Hast." -t.i!: !i!i- 1 i hat ..!;r--l'. .'s io tiie X. ' s'n.iii'. t '. allowed a eo v. ' iiohex or V wishe u In n w e 'oufer V. -stern I it, and 1 o ! ; polliT we desire to ho liarrett. then 1 isi riot, pre-oiifer.-nce. in his histriot. - . ii. E. 'i- ( :i ! i .t 1 1 i to . !,,! laoaeiii .1 fr, i;. l' bo prosoine 1 tig 1 ii'lieni! 'olit'eretloo, t ! il a'i'i!.g a isioii r etn-e. A ooiiiluitt t' 1 li,- X. '. (.'olller- was appointed hy f ot!V 1 istriet t 'ollfelell.-e t t'.il r'-'ji:.-t of the Euijiin l.-poU't to 1 itriit." 1 Tiia iiimiittoo report. -d. favoring the with certain proviso's. The JslllOiOCr Mas i.... 4 I no r.-poit nniv iiiot treeiy itiseusso.1. voted down by a very ;;i!--i nii.jo-ity -nut a sal.st ii nte iteojar- ltlr in elilpli.Mlie languau i jnjscit- r'yo-- im to a iiivisioii. was a.iopieo rv lare majority. - true that in order to be very ! - lie ! NTs. !1 i :II-: ill", lllls sill. i i ftlie' allow.-1 it to 1 i read. " pp-sed to I exists;'" but ii was si a !i!o:e led a s division as it now rtaitilv evident to 3 evi ! V ..tie pr sent, that the "liarloite lis- : tri.-t was very decided in her . :, the oroieot to divide. 1 '' ippositi.ui . tine that i'.lst upon the eve of adjournment, when jinanv .iel. eates wo:e absent, a resolution : was introduced, favoring a division in ease the General Conference should ,s-riv Us the X. ". teliitol-v now belonging to the Virginia and Hoi, ton '.inferences. nnall majority that wo ha-l t.. count two or three times to ascertain whether the Voa or navs had carried. Even this, claiming . 'is it did. I he Virginia and lbdstoh territory, would have been "vn te dow n" if our delegation J had been -fiili. hut mam delegates not dionming that the question w ould again be sprung, had retired Temi.ornrilv and were much .lissatishi-u. hnn.ed th- when act ion thev returned and taken during their absence. Xow it cannot be claimed, as the 'h.irlotte District is that so far c ilicerned, lie- time has conn- for a division, ac cording to the terms upon which we loft :the S. C. and joined the X". C. Confer- once. Xo, sir: we certainly do not wish a ' division of the X. C. Conference. We are certainly satisfied with our connec tion with it. We are proud of it, and point to it with exultant joy a the most powerful, influential one and fti- cient bodies in the connection: an honor t . tin- M. E. Church, South, and the "glot-v ..f North Carolina. " No. No; I'.ros. Yates, Hurkhead, Ch.ss. ;..bbitt and P.laek i.n.s. Kornegay, irav, Rain, Clarke, and scores of ot hers '(.four Eastern brethren, clerical and lay, Whom we might name. We do not de niie to I. ave vou or to be driven from . ; When we think of our past struggles, jriaJs. and t riumphs, our past insigniti- Cance and our lileselit .strength, our bearts swell with gratitude to ."Ilea veld v Father" for the success our that now sui- las crowiii-i iiir lal... ha 11 w. that wo have become strong, be so ?!-Cidal, a with our own hands, to 'ciit '; ours"lves in t wo J We answer, no neoer and it it . . . ... . ,Bhoubl be (lone, we wish it to bo !is- ,ti"etlv uiideistood that we, of the Char Iptto District, are most positively p- . posed to it. W"e love North Carolina "Heaven bless her." Everv inch of soil w ithin " hfir hounds is dear to us. We love tin -j snowy flakes, the mountain peaks, tin rich valleys, the beautiful landscapes, the rolling brooks and sparkling rivu ; :'let of t hi. West. Sublime scenery ! ;A e love her beautiful, rosy ehoeked V blushing maidens, and her stalwart t i i . i - , , .... iiiuoo.i. u; love her -North, her lHjlson and her Itoby. We love her Otficm", lir-r Rohhins, her Miller, and - (her deyr.frd Methoilist whom W Kl.lTOK AM. Pl HLI SIIKIt. might nam.., who nn. an 1,....,. I, ,th to Ho less tiror il I.- -.1 i j are ' wiui iiorofciiu "linivs h.r Irw e-iti.-.-, I.';,il K.,.,,1 f.K.;n. tics, her schools, i-olh-gvs, attnictivv t;i tioiis and d.'siraWe rin-uits. - j ; t 1 .-ianmii;as w,lo up-.n tin- honhr ""''"'.'I.-'tod hi,.- of division, wo ay: j rothron. vo h.vo yon loth t..o well t. j give uj. either. Let us remain uxe, and i as w iv are. no m interest, one in devotion ' j i" -uetnoMisiu. one hi name, and one in j . o... 1 c lot .X.irtli t arohiia, "Let then- ! t-- iio.iivisuni among us.'- hut let us he ,l. ,,:lu,ral arrangement of things, there one m our efforts to huild up our hureh- is an astonishing equality preserved ho es and spr, ad "S.-riptuva! holiness i ),o i tween the-. miinher- hy n li.ed natural ' !:iw. Hv nalural law Eden consists of A I.wman. j Adam and Eve, and not of Adam and , ..... 1 m tw.i Eves or tweiitv. There has lieeti no .!tEIH COtlK'S M()N"V .V.C- i , , , ,- 11 deiarture Iroin this law of I'aradise sim-e ' j the career of man opened. The fiat as TIIK llll NT or HAH Tt: A lis A! lnfid.'Iity sometimes thinks that it has j exclusive poosioii of the topic .f tl.i hereditarv deseent of uood t r.i ii and bad. If you put ground and Hm.-ii, a a a student of tin your ear upon !.0 I it is niv SILI'IS of httv to do, the times and anm tlook committee hen-, to the : "'"""'l, that is, thel)ivin', ideal. I subterreanoan noises of discussion, vou 'defy any man who reveres the scientific will Hud hot a few of them coming from j method, or who loves to think boldly, pickaxes, undermining faith in the nat- j north, south, east and west, to look into ural laws which proclaim that the fami- j the natnrl arrangements on this topic, !y is a li"ine institution. Approaching i nnd find support for any other party than the delirious traitors who handle these ; od's own, as a guide for future civili-iil-omoiiei weapons, you will find that i .at ion. I should be almost willing, were there bun s above their foreheads a mi- j men sure to obey wholly the dictates of tier's light composed chieflv of blue tire, j "hat we call nature, to leave the justifi And yet 1 iiere is often one streak of white i cation of monogamy exclusively to those tlame in it. These sappers of the fouti- j "ho correctly understand co-equal and dations of society profess a desire to ' iuitial heredity. have mankind improved by obedience to j 4' The average ability of the race is natural law. Although t heir method of j "t 'l1 l" its l"''sent tasks. Gallon improving the race would usuallv land ; sn.vs thflt m,'u in times are in it in i ii chaos. ..no of their central danger of being drudged into imbecility. purposes is not . bad. ..no. namely, to 1 There is hardly any class, of the advanc o:uo enla god obedieneo tn natural law I "1 intellectual labors of die world, that as the method of raising the average in- j ,l,,rs w"t need a higher grade of ability tvllectual and moral merit of the human I l" "" i,s tasks- Von- sir' (turning to family. 'hristiauity has had that r- St,rrs ) " w tolling us last evening, motive fr a h.ng while. She has un- j h"w tn s"lvi' thi n'nt rrf,,,lom "f ," deist. .od ever since the IVonh.gue was j government of cities by evangelization. pioolaimo.l that the g 1 and bad traits ! Vou were showing us how cities reach of parents descend to the third and fourth ' the gh.be ; and as some of us listened, generatio is. She was the first to rover- j w wishing that we oftener had ence women adeiuatoly. Even in what It-adership like yours into these wildomes y,m rail rho half benighted .lew ish sys- ' f iniquity, greed and pelf, where luui oi. i;rejvoiiuoi uMLli.-,.)...v u.i... Jiu'UygJUn.lX.I'-al as was shown to her nowhere elsewh. r i 1" because they are not strong enough to .,11 the ihiiiot. The Mat ys. the Ruths, ; stand for the right. We want higher the Sara is thev. whose aiipollat tions ...tiling down across all the turinoi a ., -I... ....... ...;.. .....! l . t ..s (O.i, ,1... th. foremost female names of all time, were upon it by modern civilization, growths .f what you call the scrawny, ; .. Whatever light Kcicmv can throw stunted tree of .Judaism. the root out of : "p" the methods of improving the which has sprung Christianity. Sweet i average ability of the race, consistent was the root: majestic is the tree. My with the natural institution of mon foelings is that wore y..n to cut down j ogainy. is therefore, needed, and should the tree, and were you to deracinate tha' ; bo diffused. ro .t.thor-' is little phib.sphy on thegh.be i '. The intermarriage of highly gifted that could he depended upon to pcrpetu ' relatives tends to diminish rather than ite the ftmily. (Applause.) How can the t vera go ibility of the race be raised hy tho appl cation ..t the laws of hereditarv . scent t In puttitur this .Miestioii bo- fore vou. J am perfect Iv aw are that I am . . venturing int.. chaos, oi at least into re- rions where it is difficult to find fin.. round ,i, which to out dow n the foot, I am to speaking hero at random, but cauTioiisiv selecting the low sound en- usions which science has reached, and combining them in such a manner that we mav see, it our eves are open, the i .i tread of investigation on this most blaz- j ,s n Nl,'m" nm,r- ll,ls ,1""s' 1K sml ing of all social themes. It is the duty j I ' "nt sa.v that 1 am uttering blas- f this lectureship not to skip difficulties : and delivering now tl ito-hundroth Boston Monday lecture, you shall not i . . soe mo i oiige. .Milton, vou know, setnts out Sat; n across chaos, and he is to build i road iiidcr himself as ho proceeds to the garden of Eden. I am on an oxpe- lilion of similar difficulty (Laughter), but of diametrically opposite purpoe ami iiin ction. I i.aug; iter anil applause, i Courage, mv friends ! The, road is be ing bui t the other way, from Eden out across chaos into the caverns of the lost spirits, over the outer works of infamv ' and degT-adation, and through the gates of death. Let us, standing upon the nngh; v parapets of l.-valtv to natural truth, that is to J. iKs will, as revealed in the fami- lv, build a bridge out from it into the w-orld (.Host s,,irits, over the chaos, and mn-t S-,tai. half-wav throttling ,;, backwa rd beyond the forms of sin and death, t Great am.lause.i These are the .. ,-..,..uO;...,s leloeh I ,!(..,. ,,.lt tel. j...,. - foot, a tor a prolonged study of those themes : 1. The best results for the improve ment of the race will ho attained by obe dience tot to a few, nor to most, but to all of the seven laws of hereditary, direct roversio lal, oollatcral.oo-equ.il, pro-martial, pre-natal, and initial. For defini- nitions of those tonus see '.tilth Hoston fo.id.-iv Lecture.! Here are the seven ... ..... j laws of hereditary descent, and yon and 1 cannot vote them up or down. We mav obi v them or disobey them, and if the race is to he improved by the appli cation of these laws, the first thing to feel sure about is that we must obey, not one of them, but all of them. The trouble with most reforms of the wild sort is t iat thev are merely fragmentary attempts at loyalty to nature. They put into the foreground some one of these seven principles and not all of them. Nature revenges herself always for any partial loyalty with which wo serft hf-r, f 2 The ;iv of co-oqual haredity is the loud pnxdamation of monogamy as of natural that in of Divine or.lain-ii.t-iit. -i. The law of initial heredity has ji simi'ar iiK-ntiing. We are. on h ! uround. Wo mav well riause hern to ;,!l,.v our thought- timo to oxproKK muc-h whiVli oiiht not fob uttered nudildv. Tlrere is a mvsterit.nn law by which the numbers of the two portions of the hu man family are preserved in substantial e.malitv. Hut. on the In nr.. mvniw. in to co-equal heredity exhibited in the ear- ! li'st hisr..rie dnenments, eertainlv has "'J changed for six thousand years, tl has been expressing his mind as to social arranjreine.its these six thousand J e.-us. ilo lias afwavs mamtaineii the co-epial liereoity, ami hy it lias 'maintained the law of monogamy as the abiiitv in overv grade of intollectua! ac tivitv : nor is the physical capacity i the race eoual to the demands m.-n to increase the ability of the race. 1 lie marriage of fiiglil v-gifte.I per- . sons oi .lillorent lines ot descent, is a j ; method of imj.roving the upper, hut only . .i .... .1 . ... . r..i..ii....i1 : t lie upper, wiai is, mo uiosi iiiieuecuii f unions, jm.i ion oi mo iiuiiiiiu i ... i : . i. . i J family. Fa.cc to face with the question i i;at is God s sitting machine in his ! o vn application of the laws of heredi lary ueseeni io mans impro emeiii , i i j must whisper, that for one, 1 think there is an indication in nature as to what parties sh:;i;!d enter into marriage. It , phemy if I allirin that i .od speaks m a I'"ro ami permanent lust love, is t here j human being ot the average order to i .-lif.n 1 '.-.-.,f. ... .l.'.j.c; ...tt wrtT.il llnl in- i " " ".. ..... ..... .... ...... dieation of duty? When it is sent, it is to lie respected as a Divine sign. We are not left in ignorance on this most critical of all points. 1 hold that in the laws of the supreme affections a pillar of fire is set up before men for their guidanoe ; and if the noble pre fer the noble it is well they should. That is for the benefit of the race. If the de graded prefer the degraded, how do wo know hut that it is w... tney snou.u. : Extinction is before them the sooner, o have learned to face terrific facts j 1"'r'' 5 n,""n "th,,r factN wc have ! the oirctimstiince that God puts an ! to " incorrigibly wicked family in this worM. These subtle laws hy which j "Mreme affections are determined arc the sifting machine of the Divine Powers. f. ...I,-. 11.1 .1 1 ! Ull SUlltlC And subtle as the laws are discussed foolishly in parlor, in pulpit, in press and on the platform, degraded age after age hv vice, prated about only too suborfi ciallv hv poetry, they nevertheless have retained their sanctity. All around the globe the word that hushes humanity quickest, next after the name, of God, is ! the name of hrst love. Such is the fact of human experience; and when 1 stand I here to assert that the Divine indications in this particular are not given out at random, that where a supreme affection is granted, there- a Divine indication of dutv to he discerned, you will find the hotter part of the philosophy of the globe on my side, vou will find the better part of poetry on my side. Of what have the best singers loved to tell us oftenest, ifit he not of the first supreme affection? Where is there anything so hallowed in side the whole range of secular discus sion, as this unspeakable theme ? God grant that the spirit of our German fathers, who found, according to tacitiiB, .'TTit))i! celestial in troman, wha PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS Baleigli, 1ST. C, Wednesday, Maivh revered her responses, anil buried the adulterer alive in the mud, and whipped the adulteress through the ::tto;'', m-iy h the jiermanont principle of our Anglo Saxon civilization ; for, if it he not, I foresee only the fate of Rome for the sins of Rome, only the fate of Sardanajialus for the wins of Sianlanaptilus, only tin' fate of every nation that has violated these subtle laws, only the fate that comes inexorably to a luxurious age when it loses its purity and falls into such callousness that it cannot discern God's touch in these supreme natural in dications of bin will. Applause. L--HU.ol.se. -thud Kiu-estffulf1 the lower portion Even wore this m there would remain in of the race a ma jority of beings of infe rior minds of which hereditv would per petuate the deficiencies. (Rihot, Her edity, Am. Dd., pp. lSI)-o(H).) it. Many writers hold that a physi cally ami morally superior race united w ith an inferior one, lowers itself with out raising the other, so that all such alliances are a loss to civilization. The question is, whether such mar riages are justified by the subtle indica tions of which I have been speaking w ith bated breath. If they are not, beware how you cross the current of God's pur poses in natural law ! Vou say the cur rent is not very swift hero. Hut if it is a current God urges on, no matter how slowly it moves, it carries with it the in finities and the eternities, and you must not try to stem the force of w hat is deep er than all thought can sound and more powerful than imagination can measure. Of course I remember what intermar rying has done for nations, standing nearly on a level with each other. There has hardly been produced in history a great nation, or a great man, tint com posed of very diverse elements, but the intermingling lias usuallv been of strung bloods. 'I'., that there is no objection. In favor of tln.i ii.oie is much in these subtle currents. 10. The application of the laws of hereditary descent to human improve ments is, therefore, beset with groat na tural diflicultics, and will continue to be so until, by other menus than the laws of heredity, the intellectual, and especi ally the moral averages of merit in the human family shall be greatly height ened. Condensed from Boston Adver- jiaaWi i i ri.'in n j .--.-7. Tl ' yp . RVSKIX'S ADVICE TO YOUNG MEX. kiiom an oxroiin i.r: -n i:i:. int nim;ti-:i:ntii CKNTITI V. Head your Bible, then, making it the first morning business of vou r life to un derstand some piece of it cloarlv, and your daily business to obev of it all that you understand, beginning first with the most human and most dear obedience to your father and mother. Doing all things as they would have you do, for the present: if they want you to he law yers he lawyers; if soldiers soldiers; if to get on in the world even to get 1 money do as they wish, ami that cheer fully, after distinctly explaining to them in what points vou wish otherwise. Theirs is for the present the voiee of God to you. But, at the same time, he quite clear about your own purpose, and the carry ing out of that so far as under the con ditions of your life you can. And any of you w ho are happy enough to have wise parents will find them contented in seeing you do as 1 now tell you. First cultivate all your personal pow ers, not competitively, hut patiently and usefully. You have no business to read in the long vacation. Come here to make scholars of yourselves, and go to the mountains or the sea to make men of yourselves. ( Jive at least a month in each year to rough sailors' work and sea fishing. Don't lounge and flirt on the bench, but make yourselves good seamen. Then, on the mountains, go and help the shepherd at his work, the woodmen at theirs, and learn to know the hills by night and day. If you are staying iti level country, learn to plough, and whatever else you can that is use ful. Then here in Oxford, read to the utmost of your power, mid practice sing ing, fencing, wrestling, and riding. No rifle practice, and no racing boat or other. Leave the river quiet for the naturalist, the angler, and the weary student like me. You may think all these matters of no consequence to your studies of art and divinity: and that 1 am merely crotchet ty and absurd. Well, that is the way the devil deceives you. It is not the sins which we feel sinful, by which he catches us; hut the apparently health- ones, those which nevertheless waste the time, harden the heart, con centrate the passions on mean objects, and prevent the course of gentle and fruitful thought. Rkvivai.s, as well as individual Chris tian experience, art; often hindered hy manifest enmity between the professed followers of Christ. It is a fearful re sponsibility which one takes upon him self when he allows the work of the Spirit to lie hindered in a community by willfully continuing such enmity. Northern Christian Advocate. Qnarterly Conference Blanks fcr ! sale at thin offira. OF METHODISM IX NORTH CAROLINA. OVERCOMING TEMPTATION . i One nignl at a late hour. Dr. Bent-! "I had resolved." writes Dr. Guthrie, ley was disturbed at his studies hy :t ; "on coming to Edinburgh, to give my rattling sound among some w ood, which, : evenings to my family; to spend thorn, sawed and split, had been left by a j not as many ministers did, in the study, teamster, the, ::itoruoou previous, too j but in the parlor, among the children. Into to lie housed. He arose, went cau- ' "The sad fate of many city ministers' tiou?!y to the window, and saw a woman , families warned me to hew am of their filling her apron with wood, which she ; practice. Sjionding the whole day in hastily carried away. He resumed his ' the service of the public, they retired to seat, and commenced his study. Short- spend the evenings in their studios, ly alter the same noise occurred; and on j away from their children, whose ill looking out. a second time, he saw a j habits and ill-doing in their future ca- tiu.ilar ojienttiou; the woman filling her i - ' 1" ' " , .... ......... ...line jiei I TK,Vrtl to lie utmost 1'dts of its 1 capacity. lion she had gone, he re- j turned To his book with a t ndor pity 'ing, in his heart for a dost it utfon which; "Thus the only time left for prepara sotight relict in this lonely, d vary, not j tion for the pulpit, composing my ser to say sinful manner. ! tuoiis and so thoroughly committing By-and-hy he was startled he a ! them that they rose without an effort to heavy crash of failing w. od. and hur- my memory and therefore appear as if rying up t-i the window, beheld the ! horn on the spur and stimulus of the poor woman cast ing the very dust from j moment was found in the morning. her apron. Ilo remained motionless, his ! For some years after coming to lvlin gentle heart filled with commiseration. 1 hurgh, I rose, summer and winter, at She swiftly depart, -d, and soon returned ' fi 'clock. At six I got through mv heavily laden with the wood, which she 1 dressing and private devotions, and kin throw on the pile as if it were the "ac- j died my fires, prepared and enjoyed a cursed thing." j cup of coffee, and was seated at my desk, The doctor's compassion and curiosity having till nine o'clock, when we break were now intensely excited. He follow- : fasted, three unbroken hours before me. ed her retreating figure till he discovered i This being my daily practice, gave me her residence and thus ascertain m1 who ! as much as eighteen hours in each week, she was. What she w as, w as no mys- j and instead of the Friday and Satur tery to him. The last hour had shown I day the whole six days to ruminate him her virtue's lofty height. Ho call- J and digest and do the utmost justice in ed early the next morning on Mr. ' "i.v sermon. A practice likethis I would B , the wood-dealer, and directed recommend to all ministers, whether in him to send half a cord of l,is -best ' town or country. It seems ample time wood, sawed and split, to Mrs . j for pulpit preparation, brings a mau but by in. means to lot her know from j fresh each day to his allotted portion of whom it came; w hich was readily prom- j work, keeps his sermon simmering in ised. Mrw B "s teamster, who j his mind all the week through, till the happened to bo within ear-shot, though j subject takes entire possession of him, out of sight, was hot so bound, and, j and, as the consequence, he conies on when he tipped the wood into the poor j Sunday to the pulpit to preach with widow's yard, replied t. quiry, who had sent it, her eager in- I hv relating the I conversation he had overheard. j The conscioiioo-st ticket: mot her,' feel- j ing that her sin and repentance in the i lonely darkness of that midnight hour, ! Were known and understood by another I heart beside her own, hastened without : delay to tin; house of the benevolent ! man, t express her gratitude and her mci,vc,uit-i fiH- l...-o h.n.iilU.y t..i ltt-"; teruess, told him the temptation to which her extreme poverty had reduced ; her, of breaking the eighth command-; mont. j " Though my house was dark and , cold, though my heart was wrung with l anguish at the sight of my poor shiver ing ones, I could not keep it; my con science would not lot mo." "Say no more, my dear madam, said the good man. "I saw you conquer the devil in two fair lights."' A HOY S INFLUENCE The following incident, related by the late Dr. Xoal. of England, beautifully i illustrates the power of example. We j give it, hoping it may be encourage- j meat to all young people to bo faithful i to their obligations, that they may roa- ! lize in their ow n lios - that whosover Christianity has only begun its con honors (iod, (Jod will honor." quests with the poorer classes of civiliz Dr. Xoal says that he was visiting a ed countries. It will yet organize its large school, and among oihor places he f,irces so as to roach all the outcast, was shown a room, or dormitory, as i ignorant and destitute persons who form they called it, w here as many as eighty t1(, jrn.at army of unfortunates in every hoys slept. It is at present a rule of the Christian country. It will found and school, that, before they ret ire silence ! establish Industrial Schools, Heading shall he kept for a certain length of time, ..... tl...t ..11 tfie li..s- in:i- kneel :md urav I undisturbed. Now, twenty years ago, of all the eighty boys that wore there then, not one over knelt in prayer, and it mav be interesting to you to know hw such a radical change was effected. A hov entered the school about that time, not more than eleven or twelve years of age: he was not strong in health, and was rather backward in learning. The first night he was surprised to see all the hoys get into bed without praying. It occurred to him that if he only prayed from the heart, that was all that was necessary, and ho might say his prayers after he wont to hod. Then he remem bered what our Lord says, "Whosover, therefore, shall deny me hefor men, him, wi'.l I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." And after a groat struggle, he knelt ; but he had no sooner done so , , , , .,,,.1, .. than there arose such an outer-. , sua a hating, as might as well frightened a brave man, much more a poor weak boy. Night aftornighr this was repeated : dav after day lie was m ..eked and , idi- ceded. But by and by some of the bet t.T bovs grew ashamed ot their , COlldUCt, and oegaii to iieienu ami i.iko his i.m. ; and finallg followed his example in j . . . i . i . . i. . i. : . kneeling and praying. And so it came to pass by degrees that they all knelt in prayer. Thus wo see how the truth in this one boy overcame a school lull ot iniquity. And this one tiling I am sure i Til ot, that ot all tilings that are caneu glorious now, groat victories, groat con- o iests, great overcoming of dilhculties. this is one of the most truly glorious.. And something of this kind any of you j may be called on to do at some future i time. I The Mormons are building a niagni- : ficent temple on the summit of a high i mountain in Manti, Utah. Five hund- j red men are at work on it, and it will I lrot 1" completed for four rears, - 6, 1878. H1XTB FOR MINISTER. roer showed how thev had hein sacrificed o - . "i.."". ...... U1V1 11.1.1 1.1 "ii the altar of public d thought no father was warr lutv. This I warranted in do fullness, freshness and power." THOU AND I. Strange, strange for tbee and ni S-dly afir: Thou safe, beyond, abov- I 'neab the star: Thou where flowers deathless spring I wbre they fide; Thou in Ood's paradise, I 'mid the shade. Thon wherA each pal a broattl br btdm, Z tumpfMt-tOMod: Thou where true joy la found, I where 'tis lost. Thou counting ages thine, I ant the morrow; Thou learning more of bll s I more of sorrow. Thou in t iernal peac e, I 'ujid eartUV strife; Thon where care hath no riaine I wher - M - die. Thon without i eed of hope, I where 'tis vain; Thon with wings dropping liht, I with time's ca&ln. Strange, strange for thee and me. Love, loving over; Thou by Life's deathless iount. I I ear Death's river; Thou winning Wisdom's lore, I strength to trust; Thou 'mid the seraphims, I in the dust. PlftKHF. Cahy. APPLIED ClimsTIANITY Cratrtes L. Jimitn StiwI'Vt AfUmiton. ,)()ms, Lodging Houses, Model Tone- nients, and Chapels for the poor all guided not merely by religious impulse, but by the great principles of political eci.tiomv ; and will produce such effects with these and similar instrumentalities that the great tide of voice and misery in civilized lands will Is1 arrested and turned back. We have not at all seen as vet in the world's history what can be accomplished by Christianity sup ported by science. It is not at all in credible, that even in this century, pros titution may be diminished by a com bined effort in civilized countries, as much as i litem pora nee has been, and that the great evil of organized pauper ism mav receive as heavy.' blow as that of organized slavery has done in this generation. The world, since the time of Christ, 1.., ....t. e.lt.'llll li.-iliitnl unnatural vice I .1 :. .:i l .... : coliilileteiv pass awav inn., miiitu so- 1 illt1ll,.Ilw. f the teach - n,rist, until they are scarcely knoWtl eveu y Iiam,.. Ahy, in another ! two thousand years, may it not see the more o,.en evils of Pauperism, 1 Tost it n- Intemperance and Slavery com- t loll. .1. ilisni.i.e:ir " Or. it this be too i Mill. I. ... -. , - i . ....,.,., ,r,.,.o eli.ni- snori a i'e. i...i o. - tor "groat is tiic iois,,,,- o, no.... .. we mav still look forward at the close of vet other centuries to a more complete Christian social reform, and be assured that the prayer of ages will, at length, he answered! and "the will of (Sod be done on earth as it is in heaven." A tkavki.ku interrogating a back- . WO)K,SI11.,n- reived brief but pertinent j w,.rs ,h,,s: Whose house is this?" " Moggs'." Of what built?'' .ogs. Anv neighbors ?" 1. rogs. What is the soil ?" " Ih.gs." The climato?" " Fogs." What do you live on ?-" " Hogs." How do you catch thfm ?" Dog," REV. IT. T. HUDSON. CoitRrnruNMNo Editor. OPINIONS. The various "opinions" which we j A Mr. Latotu he has been publishing n print in t hits cohtuin are not given bo-' new work on Spain, in the course of which cause they accord with our opinions, but j he describes a visit he made to the house simply for what they are wotth. The I in which Columbus died. He was taken follow ing is from the London Christian to the palace of the Duke of Veragua, tha Wurld: j descendant of the Admiral. It was not The peculiar value of a religious jour- ! always a palace. In 1500 Columbus, on nal in times such as the present, and ' n's 'Tral in the city, put up at a posa still more so, as wo believe, in the near j ,,a- 'as b.ng after bought on that future, is that it shall be not only free '""'"""t by a Duke of Veragua, and ulti bnt anxious to welcome truth from "lately developed into the residence of th whatever quarter it may come, and! n,'a'' "'"'n' house. The little room where never knowingly to stille its heaveiilv voice for fear it should be unrecognized by the Saddtices of the world, or he frowned upon and condemned hv the Priests and Pharisees of the church. It is not an easy thing, however, to row against the tide of opinion, whether po litical, social, or religious the last, least of all, Protestants though we pro-fc-ss to ho, or perchance oven creedless Nonconformists. Wo have not vet ful ly conquered the evil spirit of persecu tion, though, like Bunvan's "Pope and Pagan," it has lost much of its power to injure; and the Christian journalist, therefore, who has the responsibility of addressing a vast audience from week to week, is blind to his duty and deserves to he banished from his office, unless with strenuous endeavor, and at the risk of any sacrifice of personal fooling or of friends, he resolves to let all reverent thought on divine things have the full est possible expression in his columns. The Nation : The Turks, in the meantime, have boon preparing themselves for the Con ference by another change of costume. The creation of the constitution and the parliament not having produced the de sired effect on the European uiiud, the office of grand vizier, which has come down from the earliest days of the Cali phate, has been abolished, and a regular Furojsvin ministry substituted for it, with its "portfolios" of War, Marine, Foreign Affairs, Commerce-, and so , in. The object of this evidently is to produce the impression that now that peace has been restored there is going to be more "reform" than ever, and that the little that remains to he done to make Turkey a modern State will le done ri-it kj w-e.iit.v. 'Vlw netv IVes-utero tti' the Council, Ahmed Velik Effendi, is one of the few genuinely civilized anil cultivated Turks in existence, and his colleagues are mostly men of progressive views. Mahuioud Hamad, the Sultan's brother-in-law, an ignorant Turk of the old school, whoso influence has, with slight intermissions, been predominant at the Palace during the w hole war, and has hoe it vicious in every wav, goes into retiieineiit at last. Alliance, rospeeting Dr. Rey nolds and his " rod-ribbon " move ment : The work deserves the support and sympathy of all decent people, and though here and there a few great souls, too noble to forego a little pleasure for a public good, think they are signing away their liberty, the gre.-it majority of respectable people are in favor of the work. Saloons and saloon-keepers are the worst enemies of society, and among people of even passable morality there is but one sclltimolt, that the use and sale of intoxicating drinks must lie stopped. Dr. Reynolds deserves the I support and sympathy of the entire com munity. X". Y. Observer: For once, in the long, dark history of intemperance, the people of this country an' beginning to awake to the enormous evils which the appetite for maddening drink and the almost unrestricted sale have brought upon the land. Let everv citizen who has any love for law and order, any detestation for crime, ;my comnassioti for the victims of crime, anv regard for the welfare and prosperity of society, give the whole weight ot nis influence to the movement which hn begun for the rigid enforcement of laws already existing, and at the proper time for securing better laws to restrain and suppress the evil. Lii-k Ixst tiANi k mav be well enough, where persons investing in policies an able to make the yearly payments. But after all, there is something rather dis- i nnietinir about the whole business. If, i . I in case of hard times, a policy is trans I..vi..l ni.l .rets into the market, a man : ......... i is soon put into the unenviable attitude j (f f),t.,iu ti,.(t s!nebo,lv, somewhere, is mai'lv illterostod, to the amount of a 1 - : ' j parture to that mysterious bourne, poet- sru.-jL-mcr fMraniro. tfiimrs have. .,.. ... .-j'. .... ---- I . i .1 i;a- . ..... , ,,(.(.n reported recently, in iiiiiereui p;.ns , . , . ,, , r .,... Ol 111. V." Ml....., ........ .' ...... ". .. i vocation among certain parties, that of buying up lapsed or heavily-taxing Life Insurance jMilicios, and of the sudden deaths of the originals. It is better never to invest a dollar in Life Insurance unless the policy can be promply paid up by the party insured. Such p..oers should never be put into a stranger's hands. They may drift away into the possession of foreigners or ene mies, even, and become a source of very great annoyance. The persistence of some of the Life Insurance Agents in sr-euririB- tiatronage against the bettor ind nneut of the people, and of actually . ,p . i . .i . . " c inducing spoc.uo.. to iac , their neighbors' lives, has become a liuis.-itice which falls for ihatotu.itit, Whole jSTo. 1,198. TRADITIONS OF COLUMBUS. Columbus died is still shown. There is a hole int he floor. According to tradition, it was made by the Admiral himself in order that he might see whether his mule, was being properly taken rare of in the ntablos which were just underneath. In 1494, by the way, a royal ordinance had forbid den any hut clergymen or women from riding mules, that moans of conveyance having become so popular that it was feared the breed of horses would almost be suffered to die out; and military con siderations rendered this a very serious matter. Hut when ( 'olumhiis decided on making a last effort to obtain justice, by presenting himself to Ferdinand in jsr son, he wrote by the hand of Diego to ask for ermission 'to make use of a mule saddled and bridled.' Naturally, ho could not he refused this favor; and the mule, after which he is said to have look ed so carefully, had probably carried him to Valladolid, where the king'scourt was usually kept. There, as every one knows, he soon died, his eyes steadily fix ed on the chains which he had worn, and which followed him wherever he went. 'I always saw those irons in his room, writes Diego; and he desired that they should be buried with his bones.' Yet ( 'olumbns seems to have given this order rather in sorrow than anger, for his death was eminently Christian. Possibly ho meant to symbolize the fact that, in for giving his enemies, he buried his wrongs. Tup American says : 'Hon. Win. S. Fleming, of Columbia, delivered a lect ure last evening before the law class of the Vaiiderbilt University. His distin guished reputation as Chancellor had prepared the class to exjs-et a very able presentation of any subject he might se lect; but they were agreeably surprised i by the rich vein of humor which ran tl.r.n.irl. It in ..t. 1 1 f.. . o'w.tlUM7. .tl ftn irivmn. - ... od the prominent features of the law of husband and wife, and passed with ra pidity, though with great, clearness, over the various phases in the history of its remarkable development. His style is easy and graceful, and was well calcu lated to enlist the marked attention with which it was received hy the class and the visitors present on the occasion. We are glad to see such prominent jurists as C-hanoellor Fleming taking an active in terest in the we 1 1 fart and success of the Vaiiderbilt Law School.' Phe Jiritish Quarterly gives our own American Board the distinct ion of hav ing done more for the evangelization and actual uplifting of Turkey than any other modern Christian organization. What Russian bayonets can never do to end Bulgarian and other 'atrocities,' can be done in some other way. And our un daunted, devoted, astute, far-seeing mis sionaries and Christian educators in that land, are the men who well understand the way to do it. Without the need of any special 'appeal,' then, let American Christians, from San Francisco eastward assure the society at Boston that our missionary brethren at Constantinople need not take that hntciul cry of 'rn trenchment' for their watchword the coining year ! Ex. A Poi. ok Pkas. Persons who pat ronize jiajiers should pay promptly, for the pecuniary prospects of the press haxa peculiar power in pushing forward pub lic prosjH'rity. If the printer is paid promptly, and his pocket-book kept plethoric by prompt -paying patrons, Lo puts his pen to paper in peace ; he paints his pictures of passing events in morn pleasant colors, and the perusal of his paper is of more pleasure to his people. Paste this piece of proverbial philoso phy in some place where all persons can jH'rceive it. Be pleased also to jxitidor upon it thyself, patiently and crscver ingly, and profitably, and orsistently practicc its precepts jierjietually. Ex change. XATUREAXD MAN. PitoKK.ssou SiiAinr, ill his "Poetic In terpretation of Na i lire,' says : "lie who has once perceived the wonderful adap tation which exists between the mind of man and the external world how : exquisitely the individual mind, hm well as the mind of the race, is fitted to the world, ami the external world, fitted to the mind if lie lias once vivedly felt the reality of this adaptation, lit' must have paus ed in wonder at himself, and ut the world that ciioompasses him, and be come penetrated with an immediate conviction, deeper than sill arguments can resell, that the reasonable soul within him, and the material world without him, which on so many side i seen to be the embodiment of reason, and which yields up its secrets to man's intelligence, ami is so plastic to his ! imagination and motions, that these; I i o existence. o nn-wering to each : oihi-r. ami strangely i i , iii, . aeli oilier, are both re omruuning rooted in thi w.ntml aml miiv,ri.U Intelligence, . whkh embraces and uphold? both Na- tun- and man." 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