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X: ' J ' i : i t 5 t s 1 i frito Christian Advocate. I TKIOIS. J T!i C.tii:-.r:i ll"l"'1,s Ulrmsho 1 lu Slll.arrl- kem t - -" Pr ""l,m '" 'vau.-c. II pajinriit bo j,;,,, : iv immth . -'"; oac "I". all luuutlm. f 1 CUB KATES. it 11 i-ru's' uU" J',ar' P0' Palll - - - ( -'.00 JTitrj C"I,i',. e 'ear. P"t pai.l, . . i.7j I OI K At. K.N i s. All fli tnnflilug u.l Iscal prMobarit In the l.uimili pi Ilit North Orollnm Conforemo are oi'.r utliurltwd inputs. Any person enUU(( u tan aubooritnTH. for in y,.ar. will recetva the paier free. tThc pulpit. j KKTKIIUTlON. ; i:nM"N it v i;i:v. iit. mrw oi;rii. '!'.. a congregation that Clouded eViTT pew in I hf vast auditorium of the Church I T tit- I lsclj. it-. im. uepwonn iiivncut'd ik.. ii .i i i ii Sinniav his second . i i j --1 of ret t il.nt ion. sermon on the lit' selected tor hi text St. Paul's l'.pistle to Timothy, .. 'Jii .-1 1 1 r I "J7 "I'm it' we hin wilfully iiu i c have leech cl th- k:in loilie of tin- initli there remnineth no more saeri- ;icc for sin. bur ;i certain fearful looking f..'Y of judgment anl fiery indignation. , hieh shall devour the advcisry." The ;i.'ie von Minlv thee HHiiii, said Dr. ! 1,-owoi ; h. tin- more vi.iti are convinced IV'i.W thev state a very formidable judg j :it against wrongdoers. Indeed, one i ,:;!! t lea. 1 til" New Testament with euro iwitaoiit a;riingat the conclusion that -it ::uneiatii'!i of -in is made with all Si , -jit-nu'th t which language i- eapa- , . So me parage lioth in the New 5.1 the Old Testament Willi! v.- against . . .Ki'oiiirie- of the future though . . i -j'K1. wi re a cry oi horror, uigiu our oi -h ..- wt heart of things we are shown jwithiu otli-etves, aiul with the force ot j:;-;ii at ion, that every -in we commit. k. i i; it- coii-e.iu:u-e.-, will make the J .... : recoii when it thinks ot' it. Before we .1 i:i have a c.n-cii.iiiicss of a good lite 'fi mu-t become acquainted, a- t borough - i i . lo. wit Ii (Uirseives. Law is its coiiseiiuenees. i man cannot he hie-sed cxcej't lie is in V'i:'ii"'iv vvit ii iod. nu are hlessed :-t iii tiie j'loj.o; tiou in which you are Si ii.t;;ii"!iv with (iod. We know of no , v t.v which v.e caneiij iy the sun-hinp j v -tatiiiin-j; in the shade. The world ;-t he 'untie all over again lietore an :'; mind aii l a go. nl mind can live to- I-ll:e N.'W, voii iiuiv criticise the J.i't-lc a- much a.- you please: you may that nianv ot t tie statements ot the I K Tc-tametit are faulty, and you v.:?.y luisf.an-latioii- in the New 1 c-ta- , :,t. hut the bottom fact remains intact ;,t a man cannot u astray who obeys . -i i: it. an i that a man inevitably ends i:. di-cord and unrc-t who puts e teaching- "f the Hible out of hi life V" I sc-ard- the IiLte as unnecessary. !..,,. Hence alwavs has t'cen ami a :r., will be the -ynonyine of tin ;:ef;;e, u!ii-"t and dissatisfaction -Ives. This i- not so tiecause . . I'.i'.'e M!v it is. but it is o because :. the nature of things. l iiui k ri;oi o-n ions. :;,,u me to put before you these pro--iti.in- and to a-k for them your care I ,.u.ideniti..n. A- long as the soul t(1. verv nature of thing- it mu-t ..,l;i;.hed. If the -.ml -ins eternally, ,. i". the very nature of things, it d-hn.etii will be eternal. If in the : : natural law . the time ever comes fp.m habitual preference for evil, capacity for good shali i-...te.l ..in. hell i- a realized fact. ...i.-e ha- been trying for the last geri t.i account for the universe with 1. 4. it .i -!.ie the immortality oi 1 -.-.ii tie moral responsibility ot ...w 1 pro to i '.raw lrom I t t it-.-lf the material for all my ar- thl- morning. The tendencies (.: m o-1 familial with multiply - Vour tendency ctnd mine is i vf.lH.e our habits. ow it is con -.:,'.e- to mv mind, and it is to yours, t a iurt!i may become so holy that he ii! .V. h. r -in w ith every l"ilse and oi, ,,f his nature. Fvil shall become :.i:n a moral impo-sihiiity. That is s . i .'.:.,! sword. The habit of the n-n.iiT, ,r inav liecoine so ii.tv-i into. . . C 1 ll..! fit S .. ... ,.;.ri.f n,l ih.o-e to do it mavhe- C .in" v) innio-tible: tendencieB tov '..nir mav become so strong that all I: r) -....!;.. -;tl.iii the heart mav lose i'- power of resistance. 1 am talking Vow of deliberate sin of -in against Ii -hr: in other word-, of i'i which you iu l I commit who have been brought Vn under Christian influences and Christian -ocietv. If I were to f-peak of th.-t: who live in the slums of life 1 hou!d be compelled to use another kind f eigtiment. Their life is overlaid on In., -ide of evil. Iii vour ca-e and mine !-.. undoing i- alwavs deliberate. J MK I IIAMIlKK oF lloltltolls. i N. t-.l... the nevt step, ( an : tliat displacenn'lit ever become perma ;' aeiit ? This is entering upon the chain ;be r of honors. 1 should like to close tin- door and bolt it so fast that no man ; can cro-s the threshold. Hut it exists even when we iirnore it. If it is there ; let us throw the door wide open and en ter. I went to apply Mr. Dai win's law to the on." re--of the human soul. It is this : That unused powers become ex tllK t. and that as the result ot it a new species is loruicl. The ostrich, for m stance, once had w ings and could 11 v. It . failed to use its wings because it dh covered it could run with sufficient . speed from jiresent danger. The const qui-nee is that the legs of tin- ostrich hve streiiethened tlieuiselves while the wimrs have "laduallv tlecreas ed their proportions, until, at the pre sent moment, these wings are almo i rodimentary and practically useless ff We are tohl that the giraffe was once a short necked animal. During long ages ' of fV'-f" drought and vrhen all the nrs UEV. J. H. I! )HHITT, ). !., Knrron am. PiTiu.tsiiF.it. Vol. XXIII. ol the Kiiiidy plain was consumed, the j Meeting." on Monday morning, and giratht tel on the hrnnehes of the trees j heard an elaborate essay in defense of and was comjielled to obtain his subsis- I Methodist Church policy, intended, ns I tcnee in that way or not at all. The j thought, to neutralize and attack from lorces in his physical org;nizat ion adapt- 1 without i well as forestall some schemes ed themselves to the new circumstances . from within. The comments pro and uniler which lie was led, and so he con were brief but spirited. 1 was in stretched higher and higher, and nature j troduccd and in vited to address tin; meet thus concentrated its energies to enable i"g. hut declined, as I did not think it him to reach, ui til the short necked ani- j proper to interject remarks irrelevant to mal bei Htne the long necked girntfe. Mr. ' the programme of the occasion. The Darwin says, "give me time enough and i number of ministers present a hundred, I will produce a new species; give me ; 1 suppose indicates the strength of the lime enough and I will produce anv Church in this great citv. species. ?" Now, brethren, applv the law My enjoyment was greatly marred by and do it ridigly. When the umil loves ja cold, w hich inllamed and irritated my the right and looks into the face of onI. throat distressingly. The house, the that soul's teiii'enev toward wrong is ' churches, and the oliices, are nil heated permanently unsatisfied and decreases in by a furnace, and the air is hot and dry its aptitude toward wrong. iive me i an unnatural temperature find when time and it shall be obliterated utteriv. you go out, the keen, icy. cutting wind. We shall have a new kind of beine. a i strikes into the marrow. The. alterna very archangel, utterlv unable to com- linn is extreme and violent, and accounts mit sin. Is it not. mv brethren, on the for the prevalence of pulmonary and v'. her liand, conceivable that the soul ' pneumonic complaints among Northern lnsy ' the w rong and deliberate! v people. The w inter, all agreed, had prefer it until the moral appreciation de- been unusaliy miii'i, but any and every creases and lose- its mora inllueiice al together ? AT. lleniUl. LKTTKli FKOM 1TlSI() I'lKIJCK. ?du. KniToit : A brief account ofa Northern trii. will make ( bv vour per mission ) an item for the columns of vour paper. Twenty three year-; ago I went to Newark. N. .1., to aid in the dedication of St. Paul's M. K. Church. For rea sons, ecclesiastic and social, the brethren determined to celebrate the tircnty fifth anniversary fri l the foiindal ion of the tnuliling. I was. invitei! take part in the services o be present I 1 the occasion. : Having a desire to go North again, as the invitation wa cordial and urgent. I consented to go. I am not much for that kind of fraternity that is meiely formal that coming through treaty-negotiation only eoinprises the work of : diplomats but I give my heart and : hand to that which is spontaneous. : Christian, the oitgrowth of Methodist ' affinities. So I went, and had a good . ti'r-j Church service-, in social lite, and in my general intercourse with the people. I was domiciled, by arrangement, with Mr. anil Mrs. Martin aiul found with ; them a pleasant home. Jntelliet ;,,. j polite without ceremony, J felt easy at the table the fireside evcrywhen all ! the time. It is not every clever family that lias learned the art of making a guest comfortable. Many over do till thev oppress and worry you. My New ark home was a gem. I met Pd-hop Simpson again heaid him preach, and was delighted. lie is ' a strong man, clear in thought, simple ; in expression, an 1 earnest in manner.. ndeed, his style is so easy, so transpar ent, that a profound thought (ami lie abounds in them), unless you pause to examine it, will i ass as commonplace. Fie has the depth .f the philosopher and the pathos of the orator in remarkable ombiiiatioti. I found Dr. Va I, the pas-tor, to be a enial brother, lie has energy, and ; act; knows how t work, and put others a if, thev know not how. Juiet gentle, but fioi of administrative ability. Per- njis, he i-the most active man in his 1 ,,uly Christian Motives. On this occa harire. and vet he has the men and the simi he did not succeed very well, but I 1 1 i...i.mili. - :.. I t.. ......I 1... 1 1... it ill evlr it i.nt women so assigneo, .mo so ..i..-,,.,., . employed, that lie seems to stand still, j Not so. His eve is on all and his hand t, 1 ...;,....,..l. 1 in all. lie organises aim suj.,-i ..... .... . I did not hear him .reach, but his con- 1 short talks in church, in- i getie note and concluded to leave lor .... il. i i . .. dicated his capaci .. Happy the hurcl. di a man to go in and out before '. . . 1 them. A wise, spiritual, cotisecraten nan, lit "the angel of the "hurch." I saw some thir.gs in Northern Medio- distil to ad c. In their love-ieasis t,i t,e next evening, ami so iceiuig no there is more freedom from constraint j Letter, I turned my face steadily homc than with us. It is a family-meeting j ward. My friend carried me around to all is free; they are not afraid ot each WM, various objects of interest, clr.efly other. Their speeches are not stereotyp- ; I'airmount Park, and the Centennial (., thev say something make a point; ' grounds. The papers of" 1S70 made every thev are short ; ml fresh. Again: I think the members are activt more identified with the Church more ready to serve than mi- people. The Church j v,.vv pleasant. I am glad 1 had the op bclongs to them a id they belong to the ; j,ortunity to go and mingle with the Church. But, as with us, there are many things to deplore. The rule on class- a dean letter. I he nistitu- ..cLlllg tion itself fares i o better North than South. With its status, legislation has had-nothing to do. The causes ..fits decline lie back of all (Jcncral Confer ence action. Family prayer is greatly neglected. The wocial means of grace fare very much as among ourselves. Methodism is alike in its faults as in its virtues, might, Heaven Both se-tions ol the I hurch mi"ht, and oughi tube better. -'a f revive an 1 reform and restore us all, ami give us t ie signs aim i..c of the years of ti e right hand of the Most High. 1 spent a few days with my friend, Dr. Deems.'in New York. To him and his family I:"" indebted for no little kindness" I caiuiot canonize him, as Fa ul did "Cains mine host," but ii 1 were Paul, 1 w. uhl. I was rejoiced to see with mvown eyes, and to hear on till sides, that the lector is doing a good and great work. "The Church of the Strangers" is an institution of power a providential instrumentality. On invitation of Bishop Harris and Dr. Vail, I attended "the Pre:i hers' i .i .... ! day while 1 wa- there would have been called cold in Middle tieorgia. At anv rate, i was so disordered bv a cold, and ; its effects, as to be unfit for the pulpit j or society. So, declining several invi ! taiioiis to preach, I went, in the morn ing, to hear Mr. Ueecher. The text wa. j Fxodu- xx : 4. The discourse was pro I found deeply interesting. His maimer 1 is natural, unaffected: style largely col ioijuial, with now and t lion an intense ' oratorical paragraph. He is not fastidi ous, nor even careful, in his grammar or proim neiat ion. but rushes along under the impulse of lii mental actum and content to make hiin- i . emotional nature, ... , . 11 ll uoei si ooi i. .i llll.tt impression was I hat he dio imt li.'ei a- tree as is common with him. He lacked what we Metho dists call "liberty,'' yet such is the mail- power and art and resources that he never permits the hearer's interest to Mag. 1 w as more struck with his pray ers than his sermon. The composition was more elevated, the sentences better constructed, his language beautiful perl.a,.s a liitle too ornate for a chastened taste. They w ere reverent, humble, and singularly appropriate to his subject ami the occasion. 1 w ill not say they were models, but there was not one common place, no stereot viied expression, and vet simple ami felicitous in Scripture quota tions. Mr. 1. docs not seem to me to have an original, creative mind: but he has the power of fresh, crisp expression, which makes old thoughts seem Hew. The menial soil is rich, ami a seed rhought droppeil in, the fecundity is marvelous. I ought to say the church is a jiluin one and of immense capacity, and as always was full. At night I went to hear Talinage, but w as w ofully disappointed. The luorn iii"; and evening were both devoted to rai.-inu' tnoiiev to pay a heavy church debt. Mr. Kimball the great "Church debt lifter" ooeppied the hour. Accord ing to reports his success is wonderful, but why is hard P say. lie does not seem to have any special aptitude for the business no extra gifts no magnetism of presence, voice or manner. i nere is j .... . no element of power, but earnestness and ; tenacity. 1 take him to he a religious man. and rejecting all claptrap, he urges .j.i'i.m - i.i .momi ......... ..... .......... On Monday 1 bail been invited to atl- dress the Preachers .Meeting, ami wouiii 1 , .1..,,,, hut I --k so unwell with u.n i- .i..... . ... ( cough and cold, that I wrote an apolo- . home. J was noiinu oy cugage...e.o .o j stop a day in Philadelphia with my out i . - . ,- 1 I i -U..1...... 1 lventucKy n icnu, ne . . , .'i.ii.n . -- j wished also to spend a day with l.ishop I Simpson, but he would not beat home , body familiar with these, and so 1 forego a ,l(.s,-i iption. , Bating "y indisposition, the visit was , "liurt-li ami people. W hatever may De J tnu. ,,f fraternity as a great Church qucs- tioii mv reception was cordial, and my intercour-e with the preachers and people courteous and kind. The spirit of Christ is the spirit of unity, and the less we legislate and diplomatize, the better for the interests of peace and harmony Reunion under one jurisdiction would bring up ouest ions, pregnant with pas sion and strife. More of the mind of Christ anions us all, North and South, ' - . i j i,nllg s as close together as the mis- , K(1I c,f Methodism demands. February 1. -. F. Fiekce. Southern Christian Advocate. Dr. Drinkliouse, of the Mzthodist Protestant, wants all the non-Episcopal Methodists to unite and form one ( 'hurch, and sees no reason whv thev should not do so. Nor do we. Semi $4. to this office and get a copy each of Bishop Marvin's two great works "To the Fast by way ol tin West," and his lectures on the "Frror of the Fapney." Reiiew yonr subscription to the Ar- vn:MTn, Fii-o er annum. Tlio Faitli once delivered to tlie .Saints. published in tltc ntcvc.stjs of Raleigh, N. C, Wednesday, March 13, 5 o m m u n i c a t c I). For the Advocate." Mit. Kin-roil Dear Sir: It was our pleasure to attend a festival given ly the ladies of the Methodist Church, un der the auspices of the Young Ladies' Aid Society, in this town, on Wednes day evening last; ami we have never ex perienced a moro enjoyable festive sea son. From early candle-light until the "wee snia' hours o' the morn," the spa cious hall was crowded with the vou'li, beauty, hilarity and afiltiencc of this generous ami hospitable old town. jvid the dimes glistened ami jingled a -rfraet-ivelyas they passed promiscuously from hand to hand in exchange for the lus cious "good things" that were spread profusely upon the large number of stands and tables which "stood hitlu'r and yon in the market place.' In ad dition to this immense collation pre pared to refresh the inner man, there was a least of beauty and grace to ap pease the longings of a hungry soul namely : The representation of the "Christian iraecs," impersonated by a g lly iiuuiber of the beautiful young ladies, of whom the Methodist Church in this place has many. it is a noticeable fact that a festival given by the ladies of the M. H. Church is attended by an astonishing degree of success; ami on this occasion, notwith standing the distressingly dull times, and the extremely low price at which the numerous articles were disposed of, the Society realized a net profit of about I'M). This money will he appropriated to enlarging anil otherwise improving the Methodist S. S. room (or house.) which, owing to the excessive increase in the membership ofihe school, is at present entirely too small to acconno- j date all who attend. This school is much larger now than it has been for many years, ami has a membership cUal in numbers to any of the schools of other denominations. The pastor of the church, Rev. Mr. Crawford, mani fests great interest anil pride in the cause, and to his enthusiasm ami the coinliineil eltorts ot the officers may lie ittributed oursuccess. This school has. also, a missionary society, which con tributes yearly a large sum to the mis sionary fund. This year it expects to lars. He I ore closing this letter, Ave purpose saying a good word for the Ladies Aid Society; and it may suit right at this juncture: This society is composed of the young (unmarried) ladies of the church, who have banded themselves to gether for the purpose of devising ways and means to provide for the poor of the church to supply destitute families with the comforts of life, and to clothe and educate the children. Their efforts in this direction, have been faithfully and judiciously applied, and many of the poorest and most illiterate children of this community have been blessed by their labors. Cod speed the ladies in their good work ! Considerable credit is duo the ladies . 1 1 . 1 i in r.y .ii i. o . . ..ii.-.ii which they played in procuring the large variety of edibles, ami for the taste apparent in the decoration of the hall; and all w ho had the pleasure of attending this one will never lose siirht of the fact that the ulies tif the Methodist Church are ex- .i .... i i r . pert in t lie management oi cniircii les tivals. both to the satisfaction of the patrons and the fastidious Treasu rer. I'AltTlfll'AST. Favctteville, X. C, Feb. SJd, 178. For the Advocate Dk. Bohhitt: In viewing the state of human nature, we are oft' given to ac cept effect without ever once thinking of cause thus it is many, oh! very many, poor miserable human beings are cast aside, no attention from their fellow be ings ami their names never mentioned except to descry ami bemean them and heap abuse, where a little forbearance, one patronizing look, would make them think they nre not the despised and de crepit! creatures they think they are. It you only can get a man to think; yes, think soberly and soundly, I care not how mean he may have been, there will be a change for the better, ami if only one person of high respectability deigns to look compassionately upon him, he may be won back to virtue and confi dence. Simply love toward each other ean work great changes ami has wrought greater changes in morality than all the lectures of I'd centuries. It is a. good thing, anil a blessing upon weak hu manity, to have the opportunity of hear ing orally or reading after these great and wise men but one good Samaritan was greater in tlio eyes of the Mighty Creat, than all of the eloquent praying Fharisees combined. I.1MPI.. A good man, who had peculiar ways of expressing himself, was return ing from church one summer Sunday, when he met a iroilless neighbor driving home a cart loaded with hay. "There ! there !" lie suddenly called out, "Tt's broke ! You've run right over it !" "Run over what "?" gasped the neighbor, stopping his team in alarm. "The Sabbath. You've run over God's Fourth Commandment, and broken it all to pieces," gUtljodi - sm in ilortb Carolina. WHAT TO Do WITH IMMORAL I HOW TO MAKE CLAK8-MEKT-NFWSl'Ai'EUs. ! IXG8 POPULAR. I he secular press has shown great in- In our Church constitution tin; office teresi in the discussion of hell. We do j of leader is next in importance to that of not wish to be unjust or um hariiable. j minister. A prominent Congregationa- et it is impossible to be blind to some ' list recently said publicly concerning us things, especially when they are ihrnst ! words to this effect : "Yon are more sue under one's very eyes, and a great noise J cessful in bringing souls into the king is made to attract one's attention. The j dom of Uod; we take better cure of them men who write head-lines for the dailies j when they are in." Is it so? Not if have fairly outdone themselves. The j our leaders do their work efficiently. The compositors have used capitals and ex- i subsequent history of the religious life of emulation points ouite lavishly. Nor has the "interviewer" show n himself be- j ns imagine upon the kind of leaders un hinil hand. And he has found victims, j der whose care they are placed in the great ami small, -a iiiing ami reluctant, i early stages of their Christian career, coy and shy, wise and otherw ise. Un- Water will not rise above the level of its fortunately, s,mi,' of the interviewed j source, nor will the experience of a class have made themselves ridiculous. It is j rise much higher than the experience of not very safe to talk theology off-hand j its leader. I f lie glows, they will hum; to a reporter who, to say the least of it, j if ,,. is frigid, they will freeze. Let me is as much interested in making a j say a preliminary word or two ns to the neiisation as in conserving orthodoxy. ipialitieations ,,f a class-leader. They The abandon w ith w hich some oi nn very few ami simple, tliese secular editors l!ii,g themselves in-; Spirituality. He must be fervent, to theological discussions is almost it- ' not formal Km- ;is snn.lv 1 reonter freshine-. Some of them even venture upon "exegesis." They give their ver sions of New Testament Creek, and write up theology as if they knew what they were about. h is noteworthy that the newspaper interest in theology is guaged by what they supposed to be the heterodoxy of the theologians. If thev could only find sonic ranting idiot in the pulpit who would deny the inspiration of the Rible or the binding force of the "Ten Commandments!.' What a treas ure he would be to be sure. Thev would print his sermons double-leaded, with capitals, italics and exclamation. It would he amusing if it were not tient before coming to a conclusion, so sad to observe the tlmirish of trumpets I must the spiritual healer compare spir and rams-horns w ith w hich they intro- j itual things with spiritaul, ami ask wis diiee some red-hot egotist, living to be ' dom from him who has promised to give the center of sensation, who revamps j liberally ami without upbraiding, some old folly fought down and out a ! Sympathy. He must avoid harsh thousand years ago. They tell us of j ness, too. fjonls arc not scolded or "new views'" that were old, that were ! frightened into a holier life. Let him be dead, that were buried, that were for-1 faithful, by all means. But fidelity is not gotten long before newspapers were in- ; rudeness, nor reproof necessarily unkind, vented. Put we are not blaming the "Brethren, if a man he overtaken in a average secular new-paper for ignorance 1 fault, ye which are spiritual restore such in things spiritual ami ecclesiastical. j an one in the spirit of meekness; con It is useless and hopeless. Their pin- j sitlering thyself lest thou also be tempt -deuce we may question; their audacity jed." These are wholesome vvyrds, and "We hjve'observcd two very suspicious j Tttielligent Acquaintance with the indications in the current newspaper j Word of God "Let my lieart be treatment ( we cannot say discussion) of j sound in thy statutes, that I be not the subject of hell. j ashamed," was the psalmist's prayer, In the lirst place, they seem to appre- j and leaders cannot do better than echo it ciate the views precisely as they under- on behalf of their members. To this take to do aw ay with hell. The views j end there must be a fairly intelligent seem to rank about as follow s: Best, no j knowledge of the Bible. He may know hell; second class, a temporary and tol- j little about current literature, but the crable hell: worst of all, hell. class-leader must base his instructions In the second place, we have observed i and counsels on the "Word of Cod. iV. with deep regret that many of the news- iKiners have been excccdinu'lv light, airy, '. superficial, irreveiT.it in their allusions to the subject. Some of them have been silly and sinful enough to joke about it. This is as contemptible as it is wicked, Soine one says: "Only a fool will speak lightly of death." What are we to think' of men who speak lightly of h,, o But men have done this who claim to be opinion-makers who tell us that the .1 .i... rin newspaper is me very guannaii oi uoei- ty and conservator of virtue. But talking to them writing to them 1 .1 Tl t. .......1,- lloes little l;ooii. i neie 1- om; ieuii-.i i. It is efficacious. Ooo.l people will have to apply it. When a newspaper persists iMieiiline-the awful verities of religion - .- when it trifles with sin, when it jests about eternal punishment, when it gar nishes its columns with the garbage ot bar-room anecdotes, when it introduces vulgarity, obscenity, profanity what should a good man -do? A man who, as the responsible head of a family, fears God and seeks to order his house in the way of righteousness? What should be lone? Stop the paper. Soiue of these irreverent and godless newspaper men may sav this is iutolera- ance. Very well: intolerance in this . t case is a virtue. e tlo not wish to see the press muzzled. That would be in- sutferahle tyranny. But no law human ov diviin binds a man to receive into his family circle a newspaper that en - deavors to make sin appear less hideous, tu.1101. 11 or hell less tearlul. mgnt to prim . 1 o he sure. Our claim is that the 1 litis sure tian subscriber has a right to say (when they abuse their rights) "stop my pa per." Many of the papers that circu late in our midst do vastly more harm than good. If l hey cannot be reformed, they should be put down by the law ful ami righteous method that every man can help to ''ly- Simply sa v, "Mop my paper." JJr. Hay good, in St Louis Adoucate - - ... lf you live in ihe neglect (if secret prayer. ou neglect all the worship of (iod : for he that prays only w hen be prays with others would not pray at all were it not that, the eyes of others were upon him : yea. be that would not prav vlmr none but (iod sees liim manifestly does not pray at all. J. Ki waiiks. The rude man is contented if he but sees something going on; the man of more refinement must he made to feel: the man entirely refined desires to re fleet. Otrfhe, HKVT H?. 18T8. ! our converts depends more than most of must havean artist 'seye, and a musician an ear for harmony, an architect manual skill, an engineer constructive genius, as I surely as a lawyer must possess forensic and a doctor medical instincts, so surely must a spiritual guide have spiritual life and tastes. F.zekiel was "in the Spirit" when he unit-kened the dead hones into a living army. We have placed this qualification first as being the sine rjita ?lon of theoflicc of class-leader. Judgment. He must avoid rashness in dealing with the intricate mazes of human experience. As the physician completes most carefully his diagnosis, and elicits all the symptoms ofhispa- ! Y. Advocate. : PA R AC R A PUS FOR PRFACHFRS. ' One Sunday morning, when I was a i lad, I keard an excellent minister offer j he prayer that day "intellectual ! repose." and 1 am inclined to think that very many of the people silently said i amen. It may be different in America; ; but with us there are many congregations .that seem to nave lost me nann oi car- ... . .1 .1 t ...i li in. r tl.iu..i'ili.ifitliiiiil.ii 1115 -i "o.. ........... (storm; or a cataract, or a shipwreck; ; move thein to tears by a touching story ..f liniii-m hi. 11-1-1 .11-- o-iv-i lA-tn.rw to vntir t ........... ..... , n . . fc. j fancy, and carry the people far away into quiet glens, where the bright waters i murmur softly over their rocky bed, where the foxglove blossoms, where the bee hums among the wild thyme, and the gorgeous dragon fly hovers over the fern, ami they think you one of "the finest preachers in the country, though j they are 110 wiser when the sermon ends than when it began. God forbid that I should deprecate the music of graceful speech, or the beanty ami pomp of an imaginative eloquence! But for a na- j t ion's life, corn-fields and rich pastures 1 are more precious than the romantic j beauty of lonely lakes or the stern sub- ' ,- r . 1 ... - : 1. - 1 j imuty 01 me mountain men rise anoic them; and that preaching is barren ami j worthless which has no other object than j to excite transient emotion, to gratify j the fancy. Dr. Dale . ...... ( ' here is another thing of infinite 1111- port a nee to ji divinity student. I niean a spirit of praytr. 1 am convinced that I nothing in the whole 'hristian religion is so difficult, and so rarely attained, as j a praving heart. Without this, you j are as weak as weakness itself. With I it, von are irresistible. 1 tell you, be fore the millennium comes the Church will have to turn over a new leaf, ami have to take a new lesson on the subject of prayer. When 1 think how almost certain you are to lose what of the pray ing spirit you ever had, ami come out ot the seminary very wise, but very tlry, and go about your work without unction and life and spirituality, I amjdistresscd, and could 1 raise my voice with suth cient strength, you would hear me cry, "leware ! lav down your books and prav !" l'retruont seasons of secret p raver are wholly indispensable to the keeping up of an intercourse with (iod. President Finney. If you want to be miserable, look within ; if you want to be distracted, look around; if you want to happy : look up to Christ. P.ovn, HUDSON, ( .iMiii.M.iN,i Khitoii. Number JO. A CRFAT FVIL. The toe of American social life is in the tendency to luxury and effeminacy among the well-to-do young women of our American cities and large tow ns. They do not realize how this dreadful mania for expensive pleasures, and a life of alternate idleness and amusement, is destroying their health, abolishing true marriage, feeding the flame of gloss sensuality and intemperance among young men, and saddening the hopes of the best parents in the land. Some of them will never know it in ibis world. But most of them have 110 real purpose to waste their lives in this wretched way. And it is a high crime in moth ers, teachers, ministers of religion and the public press to pander to this insan ity. Thousands of good-hearted voiiinr girls arc sacrificed every year when a little wise and loving guidance could save them. But we feel that (lew should be told that unless thev change this life they will pass away like the (lowers of .June, and a more hanlv and resolute class occupy their places. American society will shed every class or trillers, male or female, that does not do its work, as the forests shetl their withered leaves. Let them awake from their dream of social i-i-dulgenees; learn to live out of doors; to build up their h. alth; to cultivate more simple taste in dress, and more moderation in pleasure; study ootiiestic economy: study social skill and fact; lit themselves for the noblest positions ever yet offered to their sex, and learn tl at woman is the soul of American life, not the tinse on its garment; Uiiiocrsa lint Quarterly ANCESTRY OF THE PEN. The earliest mode of writing was on bricks, tiles, oyster shells, stones, ivory, bark and leaves of trees; and from the latter the term, "leaves ofa book," is probably derived. Oopper and brass plates were vry early in use: and a bill of foefimcnt on copjier was Home year since discovered in India, bearing dale 100 years J 5. C. Leather was also used as well as wooden tablets. Then the papyrus cnine into vogue, ami about the eighth j. i. . -.' . , . . parchment. Paper, however, is of great antiquity, especially among the 'liinese; but the first paper mill in Knglainl was built in lftSO by a ierman. at Hartford, in Kent. Neverthless, it was nearly a century ami a half namely, 171:$ be fore Thomas Watkins, a stationer, brought paper making to anything like perfection. The first approach to a pen was the stylus, a kind of iron bodkin; but the Hoiuatis forbade its use on account of its fretpient ami even fatal use in (puarrels, then it was made of bone. Subsequent ly, reeds pointed and split, like pens of the present day, were used. to Tin: point. John Stuart Mill advised all who would prove the Divine existence, to ad here, to the argument from design. Even Matthew Arnold says that all he can say against the argument from design is, that he has had no experience in world- building. "We know from experience that men make watches, and bees make honey-combs. We tlo not know from experience that a ('reator of all things makes ears ami hmls. (iioa ami the I'.ible, .. Ml', Il:$.) What if Itid Cloud had been brought to the Centen nial or to Washington ? had seen the dome of our Capitol and the marvels of the Centennial ? lied Cloud would have said, if he had followed Matthew Arnold, "I have had experience in building wigwams. I know that every wigwam must have been built by some man, but I never had experience in building railroads 1 tlo not know but that it was fished out of the sen. 1 have never had any experience in mil king spinning jennies. 1 have had 110 experience in factories and weaving machines and these marvels. 1 think this loom was evolved !" SCIKNCK. The outer satellite of Mars, like the planet itself, is red. Melbourne astronomers have not yet .succeeded i:i obtaining an observa tion of the moons of Mars. A simple method of filtering the air of an apartment is a fibrous woven fabric, strengthened by brass w ire, ap plied to window s and ventilators. It is suggested that the contrivance might also be of service on railway cars to ex clude dust. A Russian traveler reports that tin occurs and has been worked in at least two localities in Khorassen, where it is now thought the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians obtained much of the tin for their bronze work. Hitherto the only sources assigned for it have been Cornw all and the straits of Malacca. The iiniicrineability of gla-s is shown by an experiment of Quincke, who found a pressure uf 40 to 120 nt mo.spheres to he incapable of forcing a percept ilile. ijunntity of carbonic acid or ghc (Christian ptavocatc. Ofkrk Con. Dawsox & IlAnoKrr St. RATES OF ADVF.RTISlXti: Space. t Wkkk.. 1 Mum 8 lions ; 6 Muxi. '1 Te 1 Square, 1 Square. H Square 4 Squares, 5 Col'mD S CoI'iud 1 Column I I 00 2 00 3 00 00, 5 00 9 001 is 00: . $.100 0 00 : 7 00 9 00 l i .- SO Kir, 3 001 f T on i t no 1 $20 n 1. 1 1 iv 30 00 tn 00 lit 00 V 00 I U0 0J ' 60 0.1 1 73 00 i 30 IKi 1 4A 00 3Sl: .SO Oil 60 0(1 ' 75 00 76 00 140 00 140 01' ?!K 00 Advartiasuianta will ba changed 4nce retj three montua without additional obarga. For every oth er changa there will be an extra charge of twenty centi an Inch. Twenty. Are per cent, ta sddeit to the above rat for apeelal ooUcea In the Local cul umn Tttmi, ranh tn atWanre, nnleaa otherwlee xretxl upon. The aboro rate are cheaper than thoe of any other papn in the Month ol the aame character and circulation. 1 i . . U. I 1 1 L .! hydrogen gas through a glass naU, 1.5 millimetres in thickness, during a period or fifteen years. A lamp has recently been inentetl in which carbon bi sulphide may be burned with safety. The dangerous oil is used by first saturating pumice with it, and then burning it in a stream of nitrogen gas. The light thus obtained is said to be more powerful than that obtained by any other artificial means. Its chief use will probably be in supplying light for signals and photographing. PLKASANTHIK8. Hector. "N'ow, my little mini, tell me why you ami your mother tlo not come to m v Church as you used to do?" Hoy. "Cos we goes to meet in. Our landlord's the shepherd, mid he'll raise mother's rent if we goes to vour shop." What is your chief consolation in lite ?" asked a pastor of a young lmlj in his I'lible-class. The y.'umj ldy blushed and hesitated, but said: "1 don't like to tell you his name, but 1 have 110 objection to tell you where he lives." Nellie has a four year old sister Mary, who cnmplaitv to her mamma that her "button-shoes" were "hurting." "Why, Mattie, you've put them on the wrong feet." Puzzled ami ready to cry, she made answer: "What'll 1 do, mnin ma? They are nil the feet I've got!" A Christian mother was lately reading the story of Jonah to her little ones, ami when she rend the tenth vcrtto of the second chapter, "And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the tlry land," litllu threo-ycar-old exclaimed, " , mamma, and it didn't have any medicine cither!" A little girl who hud often heard her mother speak of l.cr father, who was somewhat bald, as ocing a self made mini, asked her one day, if her lather whs a self-madi; man, why ho didn't put more hair ou his bend. A rich, but parsimonious old gen tleman, 011 being taken to tusk for hi uiichiiritableness, mud ; True, I don't give much ; but if you only know how it hurt me when 1 giv:j anything, you How is it that you have never kindled a llamc in any man's heart?" a.ked a rich lady of her poi tionlesd niece. I suppose, aunt, it is because I'm not a good match," meekly replied the poor niece. Whilea country parson was preach ing, the chief of hU pnrishioners,sitting near thcjpulpit, was fast asleep; where upon he said, " Now, beloved friends, I am in a great strait ;for if I speak too softly those at the further end of tht; church cannot bear me, anil if I talk too loud I shall wake the chief man in the parish."' They tell the story that the little daughter of the Democratic candidate for a local office in Saratoga county, X. Y., was told to run ami tell her aunt that " Mr. Young has got tho nomination." and the little one cried out: " i) mamma, do (lay over dio of it I'"' " Mrs. Sprigs, will you be helped to a small piece of tin; nnkcy'r"' Yes, in v dear Mr. Wilkin-, I will." " What part would you prefer, my dear Mrs. Sprigs " I will have a couple of the :..gs a couple of iho Icirs, kohio vl the breast, the side bone, some tillinir. and a few dumplings I feel very un well to-dav. 7 A(i IlIcrLTTKAL HINTS. A gootl lubricator for wooden axles is mailt! of six parts of clean tallow and two parts of fine suiot th plumbago. Another is made of rive parts of tallow, five parts of soapstone, onv part plum bago, ami nine parts rosin oil; the tal low and the oil are heated and mixed, after which the soapstone ami plumba go are added. You ."in . feed and trouble by getting rid of your poorest stock now. This is particularly true of sln-cp. (Jet rid of the miserable scrawny ones that you know will not w inter over, or if they tlo will be worth nothing when the. spring comes. Better knock them in the head ami sell the pelt than to feed them all winter for nothing. It pays to keep good stock, but ptxtr stock never. Tho London Mis-ionary Society has removed the headquarters of the Pact nan branch of ita Neie Guinea mis sion to ilirray'a Island. This remov al was rendered necessary by the wi hdrawal of the government estab lishment from Somerset Murray's Is land was chosen as convenient for ihe opening of a mission in the southeast peninsula or ihe adjacent island, as a healthy place for the retirement of siok misMonaries and becanse of the friendliness of the people. Fifty women of the Essex district, Mas sachusetta, petition the Legislatnre of that, State to do away with the marriage ofireniony. The petition calls Moses ft foreign barbarian, I