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"Vol. XX III.
Raleigh, N. C, Wednesday, March 27, 1878.
Number 12.
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F--r the AJTocttta.
tiik niAi.M.t i 1 1; district
division f tiii: confkrf.xce.
Dr. vi: 1 '! .::: our i-sun of thu
loin in-;, contains rt few queries from
" 1 ',!';:!! " to a-.. which we pro '-cis,
very hrietlv, to answer in order.
First: Delegate !.: "Does a lav
ui. in know wii.it he adirui- to he true?"
0,u -laiem- nt was. that .lining thu
session I 1'iir Dismct ' .t; reace in
I AiiiuM iat. t !i - uf.j;vi .ii v 1-.1. n was
. tVeeiv and iultv aioued. and after
" in i: n -e d --"lihei at ion. voted d.jwn lv a
;'if- V? verv htj:' majority, and further, that
i to-da on; liiiiie! i :u r p -itive'v op
. p. is,- 1 T the p! ijeei 'i divide. We
. we iiiuot he !ii;-;.;i-n i'i our
' .jiiiii-'!i i.i'.'tm- i-; i-iw ui; reas. .us: j
Fi:t. Ai "U'." l,!tri.-t ( .i'i!eveiii-e. the
V ku'.;e.-t T ':H- t ureal i;it-.vt -liidoat
: t.ii:rt. '. elerieal iiie!iii-er- only two
Ivo.-.-ue I puldiely. divi-i m. And it
-the;--- wen- a "ia'.e !a.i.-ia tavoriiii;' it.
lie !i ! i ep:e- iola-.-'l
A it ii ul':i w.- j-a:-ti.-iiat- 1 tV".-lv i:i
i'
h.-o;i .-r-:iti hi with tie- i,.-,.; hreii durine;!
li.in- ot int. -i ,nii-i;i. we d.o tmt leinem-!
Ver t" iiMve he;:, 1 a -inle Ifiym.'in ad
A.ieate '!:.visi-iii even m i-niivi-rvia-:!.
S,-,-.-M-iiv. Win-ii the v-.?e va taken!
n..:i i tie ie..!nti..:i.-pp.-sinc a division of
Oi: r ' ' inference a it ti-nv pxit-, n was
cai rii'-l allit"-: una uitn-a:! v.
Sec-.n-liv. Ielej;ate a-k. if a lnriro
uiaj-e'irv then ..pp. .sod dix isiou. does it
fo!!-o that thev -til! "It""1 ir'
' - We ,l!i-'0'-i ; lliii- people Ti.-Vef act
hn-tilv up 'U imp'Ttant They
alwavs d.-lii. -rat-- und n-li.-ct much upon
the ai'iiune "pro and c .n" l.etoiv ar-riviii-e;
a; ce.iclu-.iou-. an-i when thoy
.l.-ci-le it iexcoe-lit-e.lv difficult to
m.o-e them And further. " ! 'elevate"
i til.- ..tilv man w- klfW or haxe hewrd
..! wiio ;i:-'.i ..pp -ed and now favors di-vi-i.m.
Kv.-ty d. le .a'e ..f that district
fonferetice. who wi at our Annual
' oiiferelice. was e.pially decided and
more entt.u-ia-tic in hi- opposition then.
Than in Auu-t. and if any clerical
mcmse: ha- denee i we ar- not aware
l : ..f the fact, our know
t i tie' ctitrarv
4' Ta.-t mau -..fth-ui are m-ne earnest in
f their ,,ppo-iti .n !.--w than then. Th"
. m ,i,ey i.-;!-et nt.oi. it tic- tinu.-r they
. re in th-ir ci. i.-ri-m- ihat 'livi-f-n wnt
3'-op"rdi-e J. tho.li-m ii. this -ectioii. i
Thirdlv 11- a-ns: Have not the views j
-o; .-iti-.:i been met an-l fhr juincip-il
'..b-:.'.-i. s t.. divi-ii.n r.-m"v.-d by the
' - Tu.-m .rid .if the lb .St..,, Conference ?
-; We a.iswcr eiiiphaticnlly. nay eii!y.
J),. legate -ir.eiv remember- that the
..,;:,rl ,-,.-..!i!tioii" a- lie call- it. c.m
.... a willin-n--- to livi le only upon
,..,.i:,j,.,.. that the N. C. t.-rritorv te'-w
, ;,,-.i ice-t in i;..-i it the ll..'1-t..n and Vir-
j,;.-, i i- a. te.j to u-.
',.. Suti-.n never culd have been
.-irrie. 1 ii the Vii-e-inia territory had
b -en exclude 1. an-l even includine; this.
,,.. !-,-..iu!i--u would e.-rtaii.ly hae been
defeated had our ' nif-: ei.ce dele-ntio.,
l.ee-i full. lb- inii-t i-.-memiier that
prominent m,-iib-r- !' T i i - T Conference
-Hole -i V ..pj I to divi-iotl. U!X-e,l the
adofti-.u of this tiual resolution .ait ot
v,.-p. ct to the ii.- by lii-trict. aftinuine;
that th-v iia l no d-iubt but that it would
i.e killed a. ooi appi oaeho.e; Annual
( '.inference.
, ;iVs I,.- i- iniw illine; to admit
that a majority of ..ur Ii-triet Com'er-,.;-;-
w.-n- ..ppo-e-l to division, even
tf.-;.
Wtil if he was a iie-nibcr of that
t, wa- prc-.-nt durinir tin- di-cu-sion
,,f tie- sub;-et, witnes-ed the r..te. arid
i- uuwii'iine: to admit that n larire mn-
iol-itv were opposed to divi-ioli. then
!ar demon-tiation- ot !';,cts. in ov.-r-w
helming force, fail i" -a '!-!' him.
lie finally a-k-. "if !-'"'-- majority
w.-re ..pp..sed to dii-ioii and di-sntistied
with this final re-olut i,.u. why we did
not reeoii-ider."
He c.-itainK lltll-t have been absent
him-elf. whenthi- ote wa- taken, or he
would reiiiemher tli.i' we were correct in
-.our first article, when we -aid that
lii oiv deb-irate- not dreaming that the
subject woiiid be l,!-oue-ht uji aefaiii.
we-,e absent, and that it wa- pa-sed just
upon the eve of adjournment .
When thev a-eei t. -lined what had been
done, thev were much di-satisii.-d, but
li ! Hot have till! to collect their Seattle.-.
1 forces before adjourn nt.
O.i;- li-I iet Coiifereliee v. a- Com poSl-d
of represent at i e men. II ell of ilitelliirelicf;
an 1 when th"e aeie.l with -ueli empha--i-
in oppo-ition to this measure, they
11 . aouht exnri
t lie VV
i-l.es of tl
11 ise
w hum t hey i.-pies- nte.! .
And to-dav in tie- Charlotte District
tie-o- -Handy is "a very large majority"
opp..-ed to a division of the N. C Coii
feri ii'-e. We certainly cannot be mis
taken about this. . could, if it were
Iieeecs.irv, give name- of at least six to
on.- in our opinion .
W- think we know the views oi aJi
th- minister- in thi- district and have
conversed with our leading and mo-t 111
:':., -ntuil laymen in most parts of the
district, and we are assured we are
right. Deleg.it. is mistaken in the cmi
olicinsi..n anived at bv him. The truth
is the Chailotte Distriot is satisfied with
her 1 .,nre-.-t--.ii with thi? N. C C'oliicr-
1 nee. She not only dot- not seek a
eVlte.'C, hut i opposed to II ellflTlt'e, .IT id"
unwilling that a change should he made,
and ha des res that her wishes he
known to our approaching (ien'l Coti-
feieniv., nid it alter becoming fully ac-
.luaiiited with the fact in the cise the
ien'l '.inference should divide u
we
will strive to suhmit i heei fully. We
will certainly bo the last to refuse to
abide by her doeision. We shall labor
honestly and earnestly to harmonize
any dissat isfact ion that may tesult from
it.
Having t,o per-' , ;iet urind"
but being iiillueiic,";! whollv bv a desin;
to promote the intere-t of Methodism at
lai
we shall streneous!
y opp.
ise a 1 1 -
vision to the last, but if defeated by . er
tien'l ( "onfere ice. will join hands with
olir estesMiied Hro. "Ielei;ate" and -av
you have in our opinion acted verv
nnw i.-elv. but let there be no di -n-i-.n , .
let u- harmonize all differences and
trive to prom te the eeiieral " 1.
e conclude by repeatine our di-t ric! :
is "certainly opjiosed to division"
throiie;lioiit her bound-, in verv direc
tion, in her station- and cin uit-. relie.-t-inc
men and women as thev meditate
upon this important is-ue. hud them
selxcs uucotisi ioii-I -inline
'Tos'et her mav w-e sweetlv live
Togetlier may we die.
" ! each a starrv crown receie
And re li above theskv."
A I.AVM1N.
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1'or the Advocate.
A TIMi: OF WoNDIJoFS FoWl i;
IN :i;Ki:Xs;oi!0 FF.i;. Isys.
Then they that feared t!u- l.onl '
spake otten one to another: and the,
Lord hai keiicd." and sent His Holy
Spirit to w, rk nnVhtil v. Christian
were stimulated to ereater zeal and de
votion, the i nconvcrted were amu-ed,
and many of them led to .le-us. A
Trent chance was w roiiLrhl iu our -trcet-and
houses of bu-ine-s, a- well a- in the
church and it the tire-ide. The one
rrent theme v as. the woiidroii- work in
progress. The "eaeer. anxious throne;"
was seen hastening to the M. V.. Church.
Men of busin 'ss. w ho. previously could '
sea reel v spare an hour from their labor-. '
were now sp, ndine- several hours daily
in the deeply interest itiir m-i ices of the
sanctuary. I lie inrirm and aired coiiiiiie l
to their root! s. desired the visits and
pravers of Cod's people, while nu
merous i-.,jui -i-f. if praver were made for .
uncoi: .: r-! friends. And. j.i-;ii.n. tin-;
Lord! the pi a ver of laith wa- answere-i.
For three weeks the absorbiii" bilsi-ne-s
was ch irch-LToiiie; atnl -niil savin;:.
The crowd at the church was otten
irreatcr that could be accommodated at !
niuht. When penitents were invited to
the altar, Mixi.-u- friend- were hii-IK
eiiuatre-l in the coiie-i -;a! ion iersii.!.line '
all to improve the "dav o ernci-uis j-i-t.'itioii,"
riu 1 during tie- .lav. the wan-!
dcrers from Cod ,v-re sf,iiL:ht on the ;
streets. in their houses, or wln-re-ever
thev were I i be f mild.
The old. the middle aired, tin- yoireu, ;
and numb -rs of children, were the
subjects of convert iiiir racc. An active .
minister remarked that he did not think
there wrt- a per-oli iu Creetisbero imiiii-
plV-sed.
hat coul-i have awakened such a ;
e;r.-at inter 'st in our usually ipiiet. in
ilustrioiis tirtvn'.' ('ertainlv uothinirless
than the power of the Holy Chost. I'.y
wh.tt in-tr tmeiitality culd this have
been effect 'd. anioiur a people so highly ;
(.- -d with reli.trious and church priv-
ih-p.s? in l. who (1 ses "the weak
thine; of the world to confound th
mighty," iiad mercifully ree;ardcd the
pra vers of hi- jieoiile. for a mighty re-,
freshiuo-, and sent a naturally timid'
huinbe t.'uaker woman Mrs. Mary
to courageously lead the church '
oil to vict.-uw. And, as she moved "the
multitude at will." the ijuery ..ft arose:
"what i i" that produces -ncli an effect'.''
"It is not the eloquence of the woman,
not her literary attainments." What is
it. ltl the llotv lllliueme ema na 1 1 iil; ;
fr-'ln .a eo isecrated soul, filled with love;
to ( bid ai d all His creatures, making
her instructions, her prayers, her soue,-, :
and all In r was. attractive and beaut i- ;
tub
Mrs. .V 00 1 1 in
ver seems to dollbt of;
success anywhere, i' th
lurch will
work with her, and such is her example
and intluencc, that christians feel they
must be -uji and doing." 'The daily
experience meetings, held by this evan
gelistic laborer, are wonderfully effective
in leading out the church to speak and
work fm' Jesus. "First a battle, then
the victory," is her motto. The young
converts being encouraged to say, at
lea-t, "I h-vi; I'... Lord," soon lisp the
praises . f iod. And, as they "speak
one to ai other," Cd regards them.smils
are interested, and the work prospers.
Thu it still goes on in out
f 1 ... . ,,-eeks have passed, sine
midst,
daily
clings were suspended, and last night
in
,e,Le one to another,"' in our
as we
weekly
1
ira ver meet ing, a wave !' glory ;
. , i 1 1 i
veined o fiass
.1 -.. nasi! t liroevh the eliurcli, ami
lift us heavcnwar
be then.
'This speakin.g "olie to another," as
taught in the Scriptures, is a necessity.
Wesley saw and felt it, w hen he institu- J
ted class-meeting and love-feasts. 'The j
Messed Saviour dilligelitly led his class
of twelve, and as followers of His. we
must "speak often one to another," if
vce would perform our part -.t hastening
tVri the . .ad Millennial day,
It is joyfully added, that iut?rtiiij
services, blessed if (.!, wer also hftld iu
the Haptist and Presbyterian Churches,
j dining this gracious season, and tiji-
; ward-, of loo have been added to t.hu
churches. Manv others converted.
I Fa.xxv.
i TIIKTF.ST )F COXVKRSION.
F.vei V conversion must of 'ourse be
ii, -l.intaueous. There is a point, a sin
e!e instant, when the chanee takes place,
e.;id the man cease:- to be opposed to
find and heuins to be a Christian. Hut
we can vei v rnivlv detect the inoiiieiit at
v.-hieli the chillier iloes talj'e jdace.
Manv a man'is a Christian loiiu' be-
fore he knows it, and no doubt many a
i man thinks he is a 'hrist ian loiijr betore
lie is. 1 lure are many Minne pi el iin marv j
changes and movement- iea.line; towai.is i
i-oin ersioii, and then there are many j
t'loiiehts and feeline;.- resultine; from the i
new attituite ol t lie soul wlncli are eipiai
l siiiiileand indi-tiiiabie, and we very
ircoiientlv cannot decide which arc and
which are iioi consequents. We fa; to j
locate the point .1 cnnver-i.iii in exactly !
the riuhl place. ;
Von eo ,,ut into your orchard and J
notice t Ii" many bud upon the tree, j
After awhile you e-o aunin. and behold! j
the buds have become blossom. Ajjain, j
a- the se.-i,-oli a. ,-inccs. ynii flint the
boiiiihs loaded with ripe and luscious
fruit. I'.ut you cannot tell at what mo
ment t lie mm I'ucame a iilossom: you i
cannot name the exact time when the;
blossom ceased to be a blossom and be
came an apple. And if you were to car
ry out your easy-chair and sit in the
cool -hade of your orchard day after
.lav. you would be no wiser. And vet
these are external, visible chaiiires. jro
iiii; on in material things. Now is it to
be supposed that, w ith our want of
spiritual sciisit i eiie-s, we are able to in
vent a e;tu -v. o,- manufacture an instru
ment which will tiehtiv register and ac
curately determine the minute or the
hour or t he day when certain chaiiiics
take place in s,, intanu'ble and mysteri
ous a thiiiir as the human soul ?
iiy. then, should so much stress be
laid uiioii the time of conversion, or ra
ther upon the knowledee of the lili.e,
when it is extremely doubtful whether,
in the majority of instances, that time
can be possibly known. Neither is the
In, ui or manner of experience in conver
sion an affair of much nioineiil or r.. 1
much counted upon in our examinations
of' ourselves or others. The meat thimr
is that the change should have taken
place not when or how it occurred.
And yet many people emphasise this j
matter of ihe form of experience at con-i
wr-ion as it it were ot' more importance!
then the fact ol conversion itself. !
K idelitly bid ilea Is vi
lill'ereiitiv
men come
with iiilfereut persons. Soiie
int.. Christianity tin ..ugh rcit storms ""','' '"'J-"' nt I""!"'' ,!,m'
of emotion, tossed to and fro, and almost j l'!;,l''- 'I'liere used to loiter about
sw-alh.wcd up by the mighty billows of j th'' 1:nv courts of London a class ofshab
deep religious excitement: others glide I hy-geiitee persons, who for a small pay-
sweetly into the haven of Jod's love as ;
if sailing over summer seas. Saul of;
Tarsus is struck to the eaith mi the road j
to I f miascus. A great light shining i
sudden v, 'above i he brightness of the i
sun,' blinds him. Jesus, whom he is
persecuting, rebukes him; t hree da v of
darkness follow, in which lie can neil her
eat nor drink, s intense is the conflict ,r;"1(' perjury. Put the defendant's
in hi- soul, and then peace emues: while ! 'r,".v, " !'" !"ovi,led them, was held
the heart of Lvdia isgentlv 'oiii-ned' bv .l'-cuntable fop the defendant' appear-
1 . 1 1 1 1 1
.1 1 1 ,1 1 . .- - . . ance. wiieli legailv necessary,
the Lord in the midst of a (pilot praver: - .
n tin,, ' j In Fielding's -Life of Jonathan Wild.'
So, widely different are ( iod" method ;''-' thief-catcher, it is mentioned that
of dealing iv ith the souls of men. X,,r this worthy's aunt married an eminent
i it strange that it should be o. 1 1" at gentleman -who was famous for so frieml-
iiian grows up through bovd 1 and j '.v ;l disposition that he was bail for
youth alienated from (i,,d. giving full a hove a hundred persons in one year.
sw ing to his evil propensities, unfamiliar I ;1's" t1"' remarkable honor of
or only intellectually familiar with j walking in Westmiiiisler Hall with a
Christian idea- and Christ ian principles, ' stuavv is iiis siuu:." In tho-e days, and
loving lies and living them, resisting j later, w hen a law yer wanted the shadow
with bitter hatred every approach of
Coil, is it wonderful, when at length he ; ever he was told, he had only to go into
yields to the Divine Spirit, and iu the 1 Westminster Hall, into which the prin
brilliant light of truth is able to reeog- J cipnl courts of law opened, and any man
nise his own condition t hut. he should j walking there willing to act as bail or
be very greatly roused, that his soul j witness, eotihl be known at a glance by
should be shaken with strong emotion. a straw or t wo which protruded, very
tl,-it 1... .l.onl.i I. ,., tto- 1. -, sieion-il
1 - 1 .
1. . a' .,1. ..t..-t,i.
ty will not efface? Would it not ra- j
ther be wonderful if this Were not thei
case ? On the other hand if one has
b -'ii brought up in a Christian family
surrounded by active Christtati inllit
dices, to which he has in great part I
yielded: leading a virtuous and upright j representative of the press, (he repor
life: reverencing truth and conforming j tcr ? '
himself largely to the precepts learned
at his mother's knee; what would we
expect in this case, when the hour of
complete surrender comes, but just such
a iniet, peaceful opening of the licart as
that which the devout Lydia experiene-
ed in the rhilijijiiiie 1'r. isrucha ?
'There is a law of grace, as well as a
I law of nature, and if we could get at
' tl,.. f. els we should no doiibt be able to
j see the same universal and beautiful
ii 11 .1 . 1
Oh' it was eood to i "arinoiiy 111 an nics,. vaiyiug sju, ,,
"" j T,liaii..mena as that which we are learn- ' fr-'iu the port of Conmna, in the lu.rth
! . . .. . . i . w. 1... 1 1-. .. 1 :..
j u
mg to rccognise.morc and more .listmct-
the infinite variety of the material
world.
'The lest of t rue con version, then, is ' duty w as to note, mark. learn and in- ringing accents where seldom the jin
to be found, not in anv conformity 01 1 wardly digest whatever struck them as ,,(. .,ne dime again-! another is heard
want of conformity to some special ' w. lt hv of . ibservat imi : to communicate ; ,. .ialfof ChrWl' - cai:-c. I'lilil pro-
tbeoTi- ,.f e,,T,re. si.,r. , -s ,, erier.ee. ol ill
the ability to give the dale of such ex-
erienc, but simply in it-
idl.
fs uM,ii
the life jiml oluiractfr of the convert. If
there, it a growing sweetness and beauty,
j rt heartier devotion to what is true and
j godlike, a more will
'sonal preferences for
felv eonelude that there has been
i conversion, cvon if neither the time nor
the manner of the change can lie e.v
i ilaiued. And if there is no erowth in
I the direction of Christ-likeness if tho
old selfishness and the old worldliness are
;:s t-trouj; ever, then no matter how
woiiderttil or how exact to time and
place may be I he "experience" related,
we can hardly be sure true conversion
lias been effected. JV.eskytkimax.
What is l'no 1:1:1: '? AJkn ok S i haw
'I'm: Siloes Lous I " I I I-: I ; Tk.n
Tao-Kao l?i.l-oi!TKI;s Mils. M
Itoc.
Mlia.loS M KKNZII'.
Several 'Uestions as to the orie-in and
use of proverbs and phrases haviu.ir ac
cumulated on in v desk, I shall dispose
ol some .a them now.
j " hat is a proverb?" mav properly
! lead off. In ruiier's "Worthies" a
! proverb is defined as "much matter dc
j code j into few words." In the "Hiai v
! of Thomas Moore." under date of Octo-
ber. l.'iT, there is this entry : "Taikint;
of proverbs, after dinner. Lord John
; Kiis.-ell mcntiout
s own definition of
a proverb :
of many."
The wit of one, the w isdom
It ai.iears, however, that
ir .!.- int
finil ion.
pllblisli,-.
Macintosh had ivcii that de
nt:' before lr-o7, in one of his
works and that ,ik had tbund
it in "li-raeliV Curiosities of l.itera- :
tu re." The probable foundation is the ,
jiassae in I 'rrincis llacoii's works w hich
.-ays : "The genius, wit and spirit of a.
nation are discovered by their proverbs.'' :
A w riter iu " Notes and Oueries"decIarcs
that brevity is essential to a provei b ;
that liothiiie- but what is said in few .
W iids can be freiUently said by all. A ;
proverb mu.-t have a soul ofbrevifv, and
a body of notoriety. In "Hon (Quixote, ' t
mo-; of the shrewd, broad humor of
S im-ho I'an.a is exhibited in his verv ;
libera! ise of proverbs, w ith which the
-paiiisn language not merely alioiuel
but overflows.
" hai is meant by mn m. si uaw?
This, as well as the term "straw-hail.
arose from a practice which prevailed in
Iv.igiand for over hundred and lf.lv
years, and has imt long been discoiitin-
tied, haviii" been writ ten down, so lately
as ISUi, in "The Pickwick Papers," by
Chaile- Hickens. When there existed
the injustice and annoyance of arresting
a mail, on the oath of any one who
chose to swear that he owed him money,
j lucre arose a nrioii 01 juimng 111 nan lor
I appearance of the person so captured
. 1 1 . i -. - 1 1
lueiit ( say
f two or three dollars).
would become bail in each case, boldly
swearing, w bile t heir clol hing v as of t he
seediest and poorest order, that they
were possessed o freehold property to
; "" "'' ,1,:,n 'l"",''c the amount of tin
! 'I'd't . Of course it was known that the..
i creatures w ere peuni
iving by this
j .if bail,..r a witness who would swear what
1
i visibly- out of one of his dilaiiiilateii
- ' ,, ,
Kl.oes. Hence .arose the terms sti-aw-
hail," and "a man of straw." Persons
ot' this class were well known in Athens,
iwo thousand years ago. -'Truly did one
of Solomon's proverbs sav, " There is
nothing new under the sun."
"What is the earliest mention of that
I I here coiihl not have heen newspaper
; reporters liefore the sixteenth century,
! for there were 110 newspapers. Put re
! porting itself is of high anthpiity, for it
, is mentioned in "O Hallman s History
j f Ireland" that, in what are called the
j dark ages, one P.ille, a Milesian king of
j a portion of Spain, sent out an expedi-
j tioii, under command of his son, named
! f iollamb, to assist their old allies, t he
Phoenician, then much press... I hy nu-
I ,....v,.ns toes ( iolhlllll.'s Ih.et skilled
1 west 01 .-p,.ni, .....0..1 1.., .-vn.i, aim m
1 hi personal suit were twelve well-cd-
ueatcii young men, whose assigneu
freel V w ith each other, and to report
: whatever was worthy of nolio.
This
! Ik n.-.i-l to h;ivt' taken place iu the year
! ..i thu world "2tk)it. Report iu. ilureforo,
j is over 4;0i) years ..hi as ;i profession !
j Tin; speei;il correspondents of the pte-en;
g surrender of per- j newspapers may le regarded as the sU;
Christ's sake, wo ! eossors. a long way removed of the
j dozen of rcpoiti
Wii-1 aec
lecilupaicd I r,,-
lamb to Syria.
So much, for th.
a few out of manv
present,
, Uerists
in reply to
ow, for
uomu liiiTis oi my own relation.
Of course, I l1;nv ,.0;1(1 Sheridan's
'School for Scandal, "and also.of course,
thereby made the ac.piaintance of -our
mutual friend," the redoubtable Mrs.
1. l .1
.iiiloi'. iioiii wimia.
a some inextili-
cable me.'.uwr f for sli(. W;ls somewhat
atlvall-V ajt-,s. Level- e.oi.-i I,..! ,o.,l
never married, and
exiept hoiii j,,.,- Itirlaiion w ith Sir Lu-
(.'ills, O 1 riii-e'er. t1(, I.-ish I', nt n i,.,.!,,,.,.
tel. never was scandalously spoken ol ).!
must have descended oiii-owi, Mrs I '-i
- .... , - -
... i
t hiiigtou, ol liostoii I an enormous development of self-esteem.
L very playgoer know s i,,y curiously ' left a church in which he had failed to
Mrs. Malapiop prided herself mi her j be appointed an elder add drifted into
high-llovvii style of ciiiiv ei sat ion indeed one which took him up and placed him
he rat her boasted of :(. "derange incut I m that important office. His first ap
ot her epitaphs." h has been ipioted pearnnee in t he icnneral Assembly was
Ir iin her. over and over a train, :!iai she 'an era in his history, which sceius to in
used the now familiar declaration, to j dicate that the mistake of Providence
Miss Lyilia Laug'iiisii. her niece, that i and the church in his case were at last
"Comparisons ;m. odorous." It was to be corrected. He entered t hat augu-i
not unlikely, I confess, thai Mrs Mai- ! body with the evident impression that
I
aprop Mil. in have spoken thus; but i the eye of the world were on him, and
Sheridan, the drama! i-t , w ho had charge ! with a conscious dignity that would
of her. did Hot
permit liei to d so.
W hat ihe ancient lady did s:iv ( in " The
Hivals," Act IV. Scene '2) was:
"No caparisons, miss, jf y.,u ph ase.
'aparisous ilon't become a vomit; w o
man." i low. then, did t he iiiisiiotat ion arise?
'"',;";'"- "" ''""' a- well acp.a.nt- ,
e. witu Miakspea re.l.ccause ins own ta- !
ther had been an actor, mnua-'cr and a I mistakable titter from the grave A
dramatic lecturer. I'.ui Sheridan who ! senibly that he soon subsided. The
had a genius for borrowiiur, w hich iu- -Moasic cure was efl'ectual, and he has
sinuatei
itself
even mti
writ nig-
Sl
lernlan missed the
01 1 unit v of crib
bing a characteristic phrase from the
Hoard of A v on. In "Much Ad.. About
Nothing," Act III, Scene."). Verge- says
to Dogberry :
"Yes, I thank Cod. I am as honest
as any man liv ing li.i t is. an old man,
and no hoiicsier t hau ! : '
To whi'-h Hof benv. one ol the most
amusing, in Ids Moiid blundering, of all
j Shakspeare's comic character, answer:
1 " 'omparisotis are ordoious: r.u. b;. js,
neighbor Verges."
" j"'"
' 1 1 yf JjTf P. I ITLITTN HiLr.OOK
' (iF.IP.
cesses, one following the other, with a
A man once asked me if I ever tudi- sort of neutral moral character interven
ed Job; and he said t here w a- -omet hing ! ing, is to cm fuse and bewilder in un
remarkable aboiil Job; if you ge! the ing souls. Tin- Cospcl offers nothing
key to Job, you get the key to the whole less t,an all all sufliceiit Savior, and a
Pible. "How do you make that out ?" full redemption. "The law of t he Lord ;
I asked. "Well." he said. "I d iv id. ;s perfect. Convert ing t he soul." Let c-.li-Joh
into seven lie.-nls. i. Job uniried, version he magnified. Let .bsu- Chri-t
(iod pronounced him a perfect man. He be honored in the first offer and by the
is lam in ImIi-ii perlect lielore Ins ' hrst acceptance. He is aide to save to
trial. 2. Tiientri.il came -and adver- the uttermost by a word. Faith may
sity came to .lob; thai is the second Claim the complete cleansing, and faith
head. 1 rial came ju-i as it came to alone mav retain the grace in which he
Adam, and like Adam he fell. ii. Then ; lie vers grow into t he likeness and beau
ihe third head t iie w i-doiii of the w orld. ; t v of I heir adorable liedcenic! .
I he wisiiom ol the wieni came to trv
and soothe Job. .ui never heard such
wisdom: but thev made poor work of il.
Job could stand his scolding wife and
his complaining children. but he
couldn't stand the wisdom ol the world.
4. Thev couldn't siate anything about
.forgiveness, nvd that is what Job want
ed. .". Then Job cries- out, "O that
had a daysman betwixt me and (iod !'
That is ('hrist. (. Then (iod speaks,
I and Job learns his lesson; and llat he
comes down upon the dunghill. Ilehohl
1 am vile: what -hall I answer thee ? I
will lav luv hand upon my month." etc.
There is man come in to see his i.,-t and
1 ruined coiidii ion by the fall. 7. Job
; learns his lesson, and (iod now lilts him
iin. and that is the last. And Job's
j t.sl;tl)i w.(s tjrM
Why. man after he is restored is better
off than Adam wa- in Kdeu ! Adam
might have been in Kdeu ten thousand
years, and then the devil might have
come and taken away everything that
Adam had; but now "our life is hid
with-Christ in glory." Mid Satan can't
get at it. !
A man said once to me. "Did you
eve;-notice that (iod promised to give
Job double of every thing he had pos
sessed? And did you notice that he
didn't give him double children ? He
had ten, and Jo,', didn't give him i wenty.
gave him ten. (iod wouldn't admit
that .loo Iwel -, III- eiiilitren. -o lie
, , f i; ( n (i )v .
1 11 -1 tea in hea veil.
You
i hat have departed
hihlreii and
have lost
on before
shall meet
I'lii'iids. doi
I say that voti
lave oidv goiii
, l ( (i . ()i(iv
j j .
vou. ami nv ami in' vm
j L Moony,
,
-
lv.erv'Christiau niiist work a- well
as w or-
up
'flic duties of everv .lav
are greater than the i-n-cil ol anv
Hi-
cipliu-'. M 'ii can n it he religious, in a
(io-pcl sense, fiy mere assent to certain
formularies, m ,; l stoutly contending
f m' oainioiii. low ever -mud. The
liiisdo more Ihan their share. Talk i
, , , ( ,s mens resound
in
l',-s,oi i get fol w a 1 ii il.io
practice, and
uor.ls ripen into Works, the t liltrcfi ol
ChiNi " ''
have bin a
i nie to 1 1 Ve,
TUki siELF-COXCEUTKD UKL'M-ITLKIL
1 havH soinei ime.s lancied that Moses f
had in his mind a grim satisi'actoii to bo ;
o-sibl' e:ijove-l in the way of seeing the ,
self-conceit taken out of the grumblers of ;
his time, when he said,' Would that all the '.
Lord's servants wore prophets." There
are few churches in which there i- tmt nt i
least one individual who imagines he can ,
preach as well, if not a little better than
his pastor, and who thinks that if I'rov- '
idence ever made a mistake: it was :
wtion it am not ser nun in me ministry
! or at least make of him a ruling elder I
tllllS .rivitH' llim fill! Olilloltllllit V to:
di'plav his extraordinary abilities. 1
I I once 1.-new a 111:11, wdio leiviiio- some l
little talent that would have made him
! useful if be bad not been hurt helled with
have done credit to the Judge ol the
Supreme Court of the Fliited
States, if not to the (kueeli of Kllg
Iand. Hut he soon found that there
were men in that body who were even
his eipial in ability. His first speech,
on some matter which he had introdu
ced, was such an utter failure, and his
grand eloijuencc drew forth such an 1111-
not been heard from since. 'iioit F.eis- ,
opus, in' I '11 1 i. v ma. i n 1 V PlirsllV 1 KIM IN.
Fur falvation is an indivisible grace.
Salvation is a unit. When a soul be-
lieves, that soul is saved. " I lei it vc mi
.the Lord Jesus ( hrist and thou shall he
:ived." That is apostolic teaching.
To in; saved at adds to be wholly saved.
There is no fractional salvation, because
' no fractional soul ; nor anv double sal- ,
: vatioii, because no double soul. It is
i simply salvation. The experience is pos- '
; itive. It is an assurance, a complete
ness, a satisfaction, a rest iu Jesus' love.
; I .., M...L. -n.-t L, s... .;,...-,. 'i'.. ,,,!, ,
of full salvation as a something impar
ted by two separable and inevitable pro-
Piig'ot iv i an iiiieemlv distort ion of
the Christian character. Peligious triiu-
niing is almost eiii:illy objectionable.
There is a just medium b. tveeti these
extremes. 1 011 may juoperly cherish ,
deep and abiding attachment to the
Church of your choice, w ithout regard
ing it as 1 he exclusive way io heaven.
To vou it mav In; the best way, and
should he, therefore, highly prized; but
to another a different organization may
he more helpful,, and should for that
reason be chosen. The various methods
of Church order are well, because tlu-v
are suited to the diverse tastes, temper
aments and training of (Jod's people. 1
( (at of the variety select what suits v.ui
best: but when you have made your se
lection, stick to it. Do not tcmpmi.e,
trim or time-serve. He some one thing '
or another, and be it alway s. 'There
are too many people in all Churches
who plav fast and loose. 'Too liberal
and broad to be tied up to any one
Church, they float about in the open ea
between them all. a little of everything
bv turn, and nothing long. Such a
course can only result unfavorably both
for v. oi and others. It is ( mistaken
and false liberality which will demora
lize vour religious life. While aiming
to be unusually religious, it tend- to
level vour (on vict iotis, to debauch con
science, to destroy the poitiveiies of
vour religious sentiments. (Jenuine
pietv will not submit to any such demo
cratic balancing of views.
While this course cannot fail to de
preciate the type of your jiersonal piety,
it at the same time neutralizes your ef
forts to do good. A floating member
can never be influential in any Church.
i
, 1 ii-labors are all at a discount. 'To
speak effect ively to men, you must gel
j close to them and
ItecoMie mi.
s -1 1 1 pal h v w ith t hem. Zioxs II 1:1: v i.n
How did that man
his ,.
lion ?" asked an American of a French
man, indicating a gorgemiely decorated
but common-place person, at an even
ing reception at President McMahoii's
"Oh." replied the witty Parisian, "his
third decoration was given to him be
cause1 he already had two. his second be
cause lie had one, and hik tittl l-v:a.iic
he b.td tioiie- ;n all."
TF.MPKKANCK.
The temperance revival still ..oiiliuu
tis. L.'itgi- numbers are signing the
ilej!ge. I loiibth.-ss a large proportion
were temperance people betore, which
some mav ihink is an objection to the
whole movement, as, thev av, the iin
pressimi is made that all signers are re
loiineil men. So tar from making a iv
such claim, those most urgent in secur
ing' signatures do so in order lhatll e
larger impetus may be given to the
popular movement. It is estimated that
4..IWI( have idelitilied t hcinsel v es with
l.r. Iteynohls' work in Chicago bv sign
ing the pledge and wearing the red rib
bon. LaSaile, Dwight., Woodstock and
Tolmio in Illinois, Lima and Kliahelii
town, in New York, Fitchbtng. Koilis
tmi, Natick and Waliham. in Massa
chusetts. Sacramento on the Pacilic
cast, are recent additions in the list of
tow lis w hich have inaugurated the wo k
with hundreds of signatures, including
moderate drinkers, continued drinkers,
and 1 hose who never ia-te intoxicating
liipioi .
I he Wiing Men'. Christian Associa
tion, Chicago, devotes three i-M-liing-eacli
week to go-pi 1 temperance meet
ing. Instances might be cite l in l -li -iiilely
of those who have there found
the grace that enables them to break
with the fatal habit. There is one who
had sought fiaedoni from the appetite
from a phy-ican. who claimed ihat il
was, to a great extent, a physical dis
ease. The cure seemed radical, but in a
lew months he fell. He wandeiod one
night, partially intoxicated, into one of
these meetings, the Spirit of iod broke
his bonds, he went home. and. though
an Fpiscopalian. cast aside his pravor
I k and offered his lust heart fell peti
tions to the Sav ior w ho has sine.- kept
him.
Ir. I. '. Wright of Michigan, has
been laboring fm- several week- iu the
t-mpeiaiii e work, in A 1 knit ic. low a, and
the neighboring towns. Large clubs
have been organized in Atlantic, Stuart,
Avoci. Lewis. F.xira.
and Aniia.
Walnut.
The Chief of Police. Washington, D.
'., stated in a public meet ing the other
day, that within a lew weeks thirteen
saloons had been closed for lack of
patronage. A mass meeting was held
in the Capitol grounds last , nnil-i.v 'f-j
teniooll. heceu: scenes 1 ! fhc Soliale,
show the need of temperance work in the
Capital as well as outside.
scifvTTfk '.
it is tolerably well understood bv
American vegetable physiologist tha'
there is 110 essential .iilferencc be( Wei ll
ihe woo.K and folia I s stems of vegeta
tion. A stem is. indeed, conceded bv
ihein generally as being as much made
uji of niodilied leaf, as the inlloresc.-iiee is
i generally taught to be. Hence it is not
: surprising that stems s,,uld souieiimes
act as leaves, and at other times leaves
a. ! as stems. Sometimes h aves and
stems are so blended and 1 heir strut lure
moditie I t hat we cannot tell ci lainl v
! which to refer it to. Pine "needles" are
leaves (?) ol
hi.- character. 1 11 an
euphorlii'iceoiis genus ( Pliv Hani bus )
one can hardly sav whether fhert a re
separate leave- along a sle.111, or w he
ther, as the bram-hlits fall with t i 1 -
leaves, thev arc leallets on a pinnate
leaf. .Mr. Ii. J. Lynch has been discus
sing this in a recent issue of 1 he Li 11 mean
Society" proceedings. lb' lins that
these brauchlei- di-art iculate a- leave
do, and that there is a bud iu the axil
w here the branehlets fall from. I ti our
eoiiutrv I he deciduous cv pre-s and ;ir-bor-vii.'i-
disarticulate loan diets just a
PIlV llailthus is here described to do; but
it is not on record that buds formed iu
t hese axil-.
A It V!-Tl:l.l'.. The consul ot the
l iiited States of Columbia iu the De
partment of Loreto ( Peru) has written
from Yuriiiiaguas to President Prado.
informing him that in the woods adja
cent to the citv of Moyoliam ha there
exi-t- a t r. ' called bv (he natives 'I'amia-ca-pi
( rain-l i. e. ) which possesses smae
remarkable oua lit ies. It i- a tree about
' fifteen meters (a boti 1 fifty feet) high
wh.-u at 111:11 urity. and of about one
' ti 1 iu diameter at the ba-e. and lias
the propei tv nf absorbing an iiunic:i-e
ijuaiitity of humidity from the atmos
phere, which it concentrates atid -ub-seipicnllv
p.. .iii-s forth I1..111 its leave- and
branches in a j . -, I. 1 shower, and in
such abundance that in many c.-i-es the
'ground in its iieighb.iih-iod is converted
into a perfect bog. It possesses this
curious property iu its greatest degree in
slimmer, precisely when the rivers are at
I heir low, -1 and waler ino-l carce; and
the w riter of the letter propose that it
should be plaiticd ill I he liloie al io re
gions of Peru for the benefit of agricul
turists. 'This is not (he first lime that
the povwr of condensing moisture, and
throwing it off in drops like rain, has
been ascribe.! to plants in tropical re
gions. Humboldt says of th" Fdil-ie
Ai urn ( oi. v. si v i;n irvn) thai "it
literally distills water and launches tinv
drops in the form of a jel from ihe pi-n-j
at fhc eld of il in erdliei. t:f, hcj!t tliar.
t?d !,-:Hi-.-. A caii-frd and ing. lii .11 1 b
ntvr ss.i'i t.iinisl 1 het lri.m t. 11 to ri
hundred drop of water weft" thrown
every minute to a distance of an inch or
more." Prof. Scheie de Yere retu.irks,
in his "Won-l-is n(' N'egetat ion :"
" There can be 110 doid i tii.n a real
weeping-irec ( d '.1..- :v l-t 1 vi sa )was
sei'ti some years ago in mm ol the Canary
Islands, from the tutted foliage ol Which
water fell like copious rain."
THIFLL'S.
Said a college professor to a notorious
laggard, who was once, for a great won
der, promptly in his place at morning
prayers, ami at the appointed time, "1
have marked you, sir, as punctual this
morning. What is your excuse? S--irk,
sir, and couldn't sleep," was thercjplv.
Y011 can't have everything' you want in
this world. Life is like a blanket that
is loo shmt; if you pull it up over v. mr
nhoiihlers you uncover your feet, and if
your cover you feet your shoulders uiu-t
be bare. However, sonic cheerful (
pie manage to draw their feet up a little
and so pass a pleasant night.
"Ti nt h lies in 1 he l.o, ton of a vv , !!."
W e have often verified this by looking
down into a. well and seeing Truth'
holiest countenance in the smooth water.
Worn F.s'l Fll I'llKsS.
An Indiana man has died, leaving 11
collection of 1 1111,(1011 lnvtlcs. Yet then:
are men righ( here among us who will
not leave a collection of even a dozen
beetles when they die. I'm sliaine!
W 0111 's i;n Pkmsm.
"May they always live iu peace and
harmony," was the wav in which an
editor wound up a 1101 ice of the marriage
ol a couple of friends. And it came out
111 his paper the next morning : "May
they always live on peas and hominy."
ihtral and Jomcitic.
lt.lslNJ Po TA I'oFs.
During this Spring some hundreds ,,
dollars will he senl North for Irish P,i.
tatoes for seed, when by a little trouble
and care the potatoes can be saved here.
( ne acre of potat.ies w ill jiay ;ls well, if
not better, than five acres of corn, if
rightly . lit in. H our farmers will do
more garden fanning, they will tin. I it
more profitable than putting all their
I..11.! in corn and wheal. Hv doing this
they will become more -e'l' MiMalnig
and prosperous, which ih-v cannot be
f.ifii; ti (dec li.ivi- fo scn.f 01,, ,,,' ; ,'f.
State and pay high juici s for what the
can raise themselves. PI. ml in feel
lows and PJ to S inches apait. He
pea ted experiments at (he Pennsylvania
A ..-.-i.-iilt ui ,-t College di .approve tbc
idea that it is better to cut the potatoes
ii inn- days before planting. I ur own
experience for I or fi years, induces the
practice just before planting. Ferment
ed stable manure, well lired with a lit
tle acid phosphate and plenty of Well
lotted, but not leached, a-hes, is the
manure. A .juick maturing plant like
the Irish Potato, demands a highly
soluble manure, if the manuring i done
simultaneously with tne planting.
To MA K IO IIF.Ns LAY.
Put two or more iiirnls of water in a
keltic, and one large seed pepper 01 (wo
small ones, then put the Little over lb"
lire. Wh.-u the wat.r boils, slir iu
coarse Indian meal until oii have a
thick 111 ii-Ii . Let il cook an hour m- mi.
Feed hot. Horse radish chopped tine
and stirred into mush as prepared in the
above directions, and for result we are
getting from five to ten ggs jm-i- day;
W heleas, previous to feeiling, we had
no! had eggs for a long lime. We hear
a great deal of complaint from other
people about Hot gel ( ing egg-. To such
we would warmly rccoiinm-iid cooked
food, fed hot. Hoiled apple skins seas
oned with red pepper, or boiled potat.n'S,
seasoned with horse radish, are good f.,r
feed: much better tha 'I uncooked food.
Corn, when fed to the hens by it-,. If, ),;S
a tendency to fallen hens rather than of
producing the more profitable egg laving.
A spoonful of sulphur stirred with their
feed ..simially, will tid th, . ni of ver
min and tone up their system. It is
especially good for young- chickens or
turkeys. ( uf of a (lock of ten hai. died
last November we have lost but .me.
'They have been fed cooked feed mostly,
and are growing finely. Ouio Faiioi.
LIMFlTw C.APKS.
A w l iter in the S.n tiii.h. I'm 1 i n)
Joi iivAi. recommend lime . : i.-iii.dv
for gape.-. It is applied .1- follows;
Procure a pasteboard bos of ,-,nv mati
agea ble-siz". pi.o .: in 11 -. , v one oM.nier
or half inch deep of the lime fiu.-K-powdered,
I lu ll a many chicks as the
box will accommodate, placing on the
cover: shake well until .1 Jierlit cloud
of dust is raised: leave them in this at
mospheric from five to ten minutes at a
time. Ite.eat ibis day after day until
110 longer necessary. Chicks taken in
the lir-t stage will often tin. I one liming
sufficient. I he lime being breathed in,
settles along the windpipe act- a- a
solvent of the gajie-worm. Should the
lillli' .'.fleet I he eve, a little grease will
remedy thai. 'This simple ieiue.lv has
titter laded, and ill one case, where
paiii.s h.e! almost de-ji.iired of raising
t..lilii' bin'-, the applie.'ll ioll of the lime
a-' ui'.ill h.l- ...tired .l-: tilie brood,
Ml , ai-iiilid .