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.dvocate.
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, 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."
If.