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dumber 18.
poetry.
THE SONG OF THE MYSTIC.
Father Ryan, the author of this ex
quisite poem, is styled the Poet-Priest of
the South, and resides in Mobile, Ala.
I walk down the Valluy of Silence,
Down the. dim, voiceless valley alone.
And I hear not the sound oi a foots'ep
Around me, but God's and my own;
And the hush of my heart is as holy
As hovers where ange a have flown.
Long ago was I weary of voices
Whose music my soul could not win;
Long ag was I weary of noises
That fretted my soul wi h their din;
Long ago was I weary of pi ces
Where 1 met but the human nnd sin.
1 walked in the world wit- the worldlv.
Vet I cra.ed what the world never gave;
Aud I said, in the world esrh ideal
Tai". sliiuii lite a star on life's wave.
Is toned on the shores of the real.
And sleeps like a dream in the grave.
And still dt 1 1 piae fr the perfect.
And stdl fo md the false wi'h til true;
I ouht 'mid tlie h-iiii&n ot heaven.
And caught a mee glimpse of its blue;
And I siiied waen the clouds of the mortal
Veiled even that glimpse from my view.
An 1 1 toilel on h-'ar'.-'ired of the human.
And groaned 'mid the mass of men;
Till I Vuelt l-u' ago at an altar.
And hjar-i a volee ca:4 me. Since then
I walk down the Valley of Silence
Tiia; lies fa- beyo-d human ken.
Do y n ak wiat 1 found in the Valley V
'Ti; my trystng-place with the Divine:
. nd I fell at the feet of the Holy
And around me a voice -aid : "Be Hine !"
And then rose from the depihs if my soil
Au echo, "My heart shall be Thine."
Do yon i t lur Ilivi In the Valley
I w eep and I dream, and I pray ;
Sut iu? te-irs -ire as sweet as the dew-drops
That till on tue ro-es ia way:
Aud my pnter, ike a pert line from eenaer.
Ascended, to tiod night and day.
iu tte huh of the Valley f Silence
I hear all the tongs thit I sing;
Andtuema-ic floan down the dim Valley
Till each find- a w -rd lor a wing;
That to men like the doves ot the deluge
Ton message of peace t:iey may bring.
But far on the deep taero are billows
Ta -t na-.-er sd.11 b 9 ik ou tae beach.
And I htve heard songj in the s.lence
That mver shall fl-jat in o spe ch,
Acd I have had dreams in the Valley
Too lfy for language to reach.
And I have seen thoughts In the Valley
Ah, me '. how my bpiric was stirred !
Th y wear h;l veils on 'heir facer,
Their footsteps can scarcely be heard:
Tr.ey pas down the Valley like virgin,
To3 pare lor t.e touch oi a word.
lo you afc me the place ot this Valley,
To hearts that ar.- harrowed by care V
It licth a:ar between m uut ins.
And God aul 1IU augais ar.; tli.re;
And one is the dark mount ot sorrow,
Aud one brighi mount iln ol prayer.
o m m u n i c a t c D.
t"-r the Advocate.
TIAN EXPERIENCE.
( 1 1 1 ; 1 r
I.. N Vsll.
'Kniiwle.' aud wi-iom ir lrom being one;
lla-.e oiifutiuies no connection:
Knowledge dwells i heads repi:e with though'.B
of oaier men:
Wisdom is attentive to her own:
Kuovledge is proud that su uae learned so much:
Wis lorn is huu-ble that she '""'suu more."
- sometimes hear persons declaim
in.; auain-t experimental religion, as
thoiiirh there was really another and
li-tter kind. Hut. really, when we in
quire into tin.' matter we are shut up to
the experimental sort, or none.
In fact, everything that we know
iitust !." brought to the tet of cxper;
'.ice ia some way.
Those wh i ignore experience in
o'ience, w ould cut a pretty figure among
st ientist !
With regard to the science of the
soul, an attempt has been made to set
aside all experience, and from this idea
the system of Rational Psychology can
into existence. We may base a science
upon rea-on. and ignore experience, say
the advocates of rational Psychology.
Rut to our mind, every fact must ad
dress ,,nr consciousness in some way be
fore it becomes a fact: and it matters
not how it becomes a conscious truth, it
becomes a matter of experience, just so
far as we know by any infallible proofs
that it is true. It seems that there can
be no real knowledge, but must make
itself manifest to our experience.
Some things we know, by being
brought directly in contact with them,
and we receive our knowledge of them
through our senses; and others we know
bv having heard of them by such evi
dence as becomes perfectly satisfactory
to the mind. There are other things
that we know iiv pure reasoning, ror
instance, the astronomer knows by a
mathematical calculation, just , when
there will be a transit of venus, and
knows just exactly when to expect its
passage before the sun's disk. Now is
not this knowledge another kind of ex
perience ?
Rut christian experience is something
that is wholly mental. It is the soul
knowing and the soul being known; and
tills presents a difficult v thut does not
attend the investigations of other sub
iects. Rut it is aided in its efforts to
become acquainted with itself by the
Spirit and word of God.
If I ask what are the phenomena of
spiritual life, the answer is plain in the
word of God. "The fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, good
ness, faith." I have viv.y to analyze
my own experience carefully to ascer
tain whether I have these fruits or no.
Should I find I am destitute of love to
Go'l and man, that I have no jiry, that
my heart is a stranger to that peace
w4ieh alone can flow from a knowledge
of sins forgiven; which is not long suf
fering, and faithful in everything, 1
must conclude that 1 have not that ex
perience which alone is a sure test ot
spiritual lifn.
Should I icalize this sad truth, and
iu this state of mind rind these words ot
invitation and comfort, 'Come unto me
all ye that labor, and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest,' and I heard
this voice, and with a sad and desolate
heart 1 approach a throne of grace, and
while praying for pardon and peace, as
quick as the lightning flashes from hea
ven, 1 feel peace and joy in my soul.
while niv whole heart is melted with 1
love toward all men, can 1 doubt that I !
have a direct experience of pnidoii ?
It is often the case when our sins are
thus forgiven, and we are perfectly con
scious of a change, that we are not cer
tain what it is. When we have thus
felt the love id" God in our souls, we ask
"Is this religion?"
And the tempter who is always ready,
begins frequently to fill the mind with
doubts. If he can succeed in getting
us to cast away our confidence, then he
will soon destroy the work: but. if in
spite of his temptation we bring forth
the fruit of the Spirit, our path will
grow brighter and brighter until the
perfect day breaks upon our souls, and
all doubt of acceptance vanish away.
Iu order to attain this high degree of
experience, we must examine ourselves
closely, aud prove our own selves.
He who never closely analyzes his
own heart, will never be able to under
stand it.
You wiil sometimes hear those who
know nothing about experimental re
ligion crying it down. Now this is so
absurd, that if they would only reflect a
little, it seems to me they would be
ashamed. Suppose a doctor should di
liver a lecture on diseases, and procei d
to reason in this way: I know that no
one ever had sciatica: now 1 have ex
amined the sciatic nerve, and can see
nothing to cause such pain, and besides,
I have the same kind of a nerve, but I
never had any such feeling in it as you
sav von have: therefore there is no such
thiug.and it is all excitement and imag
ination ou your part.
Who would have any respect for such
a reasoiier, and for such reasoning ?
This is just the way with some persons
on the subject of christian experience.
But all that such arguments can prove
is that those who make them never had
the experience.
It is an indirect way of acknowledg
ing that they have never been converted.
For our part we thank God for christian
experiences. We love to see the poor
ami illiterate child of Gud happy in a
conscious knowledge of the forgiveness
of sins through our Lord Jesus Christ.
For the Ail voea te.
Mr.Eihtou: lam glad to mv ...
tion called in your editorial columns t the
General Rules. There are, however, some
thoughts in that line of discussion, that
I would be glad to see more fully de
veloped: viz., the different reasons tor
the different rules the different bases on
which thev rest or the conditions of
their inception, and necessity for their j
perietu.ition iu a thoroughly organized j
Church. 1 will also add, the ractica- j
bility anil appositeness of some, and the ;
impracticability of others. One prolific
source of difficulty we find in the ad
ministration of discipline is, a want of
proper classification of offenses.
It is true they are arranged under two
general heads embracing positive and
nagative duties; but there are several of
fenses embraced in one class, that, rest
on different bases are different in their
degrees of turpitude and iu their legiti
mate consequences. I suppose crimes
niav be arranged iu three classes. M.v-
m in se, malum I'ltouiiwrrM, and
mai.I'm iv fossKvi'EXTiA. xliese three
lasses appear in the reading of the
Bible. Our General Rules are constru
ed by people generally in the same way.
Here is where the error is committed,
which occasion much difficulty in the
government of the Church. In morals,
tae class maixm ritoHiitrrr.M can only be
e lforced by one who has control over the
conscience. In theology this is known
as a positive precept the reason for
the command not being given. No
Church has a right to control individu
al conscience by its mere pii ti m.
There arc many persons who look up
on the discipline iu this way it being
thejonly restraining power over their
conscience. They say they ought not to
do cert'tin things, not because they be
lieve them to be wrong, but because they
are prescribed by the Church. Any
crime that is clearly interdicted in the
word of God, whether there regarded
as MALI M IX SKor MAI.I'M I'ltOII I IIITI'M
is, in the discipline, m.vmwi is se. I
mean we must conceive of it as such.
Then there are other offenses that, by
just exegesis, are condemned in scrip
ture (if not positively so), and that arc
known to have an evil tendency.
- These we may call malum in consu-
Qt'EXTIA.
The second class should-be more defi
nitely defined to be, 1st. Such conduct
as has a natural and necessary tendency
to evil. 2nd. Such conduct as may, and
doeu, under certain circumstances, either
injure u or tie consciences of rftlKirs.
Now, while those oli'eusrns ruully be
long to dilf'rent classifications because
characterized by different degrees of
venalitv, tliev me all placed in the same
eitegorv in the General Rules; and, as
far as thev the General Rules, are eon
c -nied, subject to the same penalty. I
think the General Rules should he class
il under two heads: viz., mandatory
and advisory. I'nder the first should be
described those offenses. 1st, That are
expressly forbidden in the word of God.
'2nd, Those that by fair interpretation
of script ure and just implication are for
bidden. 3rd, Those that in their pro
cesses tend naturally and necessarily to
evil consequences. f
I'nder 1 he second such conduct as :
does not naturally and necessarily lead j
to deleterious results, but under certain j
circumstances are the occasion ol offense. I
There are some of the General Rules j from Prussia, and Gladstone to sound j every petty port or bay, sally llotil Lis of"
that certainly do not belong to the first j the note of alarm to England. canoes, .some seemingly friendly and
class, and can hardly be said to belong j A second point, is that the doctrines j some seemingly host He, tilled w iili war
to the second. For instance: "The j ((" persecution and intolerance are inker- 1 r'"ls '" ;l" 5 '"' 'errors of war paint, and
putting on of gold and costly apparel." ! ent in the popish system, and will as- I tl'fir artillery of bows ami arrows. They
l"n lerthe first division of the Hist class suredlv assert themselves wherever the ' an' '"stilc tribes, and soon turning their
should be placed not only the rules be-
ginning "Taking the nttine of G.mI iu
vain," "Profaning," etc., but every
violation of the decalogue. lTnder the
secud division of the first class should
be placed "Drunkenness "Fighting."
etc. r.uyii.g or selling goods," etc.
"The giving or taking things on usury
(provided it be so explained as to make
it intelligible. ) Fader the third of the
first class the following. " taking such
diversions,'" etc. "The singing those
songs," etc. The phraseology of the
last two should be changed.
I suppose
that no one takes any diversion simply
"in the name of Jesus." This as it
stands is too i'i'i:i tai It should be
taking such diversions as have a sinful
or evil tendency. I suppose theie arc
books and songs too that do not tend
directly to the knowledge or love of God,
that are neither evil in themselves nor
iu their tendency. It should be the
singing those songs, etc., which tend to
ungodliness. This would give both
rules a positive instead of" a negative
form.
Under the second general division
advisory should he placed Home of the
negative duties, some whole, others in
part, and all of the positive duties.
While it is true that some of the posi
tive duties are enjoined in the word of
God, yet their character is such that
they should be advisory so far as
Church discipline is concerned. I do not
writ- this, Mr. Editor, to be inveighing
against the discipline of the Church,
but to call attention to some imperfec
tions that ought to be improved by the
General Conference, Let the General
Rule
be properly classified, and, if ne-
cessarv, some of them changed without
fear of exciting the tear or ire of persons
who lived a hundred years ago, and who
constructed them for a class meeting and
not for a great Church like ours. Then
their meaning, reasonableness, practica
bility, and importance, will be obvious.
Let thenj be so distinct that members
who are censured foi one class of offences,
cannot complain of injustice and parti
ality on the gronnd that there are others
perhaps in high position who com
mit offences belonging to the same class
iu the General Rules; but w hich in the
very nature of tilings are different .and
are not so censured. Mr. Editor, please
give us, through the Advocate, the
philosophy of the t.ieneral Rules those
essential qualities that differentiate one
from another.
J . T. Baowei.l.
( ioldsboro, X. '.
For the Advocate.
PAPACY AND CIVIL LIBERTY.
It is a hopeful sign when we see pub
lic men, such as I l.,u. Wm. K. Glad
stone in England, and Secretary Thomp
son in America, beginning to study and
realize the bearings of popery upon
civil liberty. The latter has recently
issued a work, through the Harper Bros,
of New York, entitled, "The Papacy
and Civil Power' a volume of 750 pa
ges S vo. Every protestant and every
patriot should read his work. Accord
ing to the author papacy has increased
in 1 S years from two and a half to six
millions, with seven arch-bishoie, fifty
three bishops, six vicars apostolic,
priests by the myriad, monastic institu
tions by the hundreds, and four hundred
colleges. The calamities of the papists
in Europe, the expulsion of Jesuits from
Germany, centre their wishes anil forces
on the United St;ites. In. Massachu
setts one out. of every three souls is now
popish, and taking Xcw England as a
whole, one out of every four. Mr.
Thompson's work is- almost a church
history of the United States. It is
courteous in style, scholarly, ample and
elegant, though not. as brief and com
pact as it should Lave been to serve his
purpose. Three points are ably and
amply sustained by him.
One is that the equal liberty with
other churches of receiving and holding
property in mortmain by means of cor
porations, will be abused bv the papist
to secure for the P..pe temporalities, so
ample as virtually to replace those he
has lost in Italy and Germany. In
America church aiid state are independ
eit. Each church has a separate exis
tence. Our people and statesmtn are
unconscious nf t.ho pen", fTl known
in Knrope, of real estate to pass with
out restraint into mortmain. The pro
testant denominations hold property In
corporations, hut they are American
churches acting for America, and are
numerous, divided and rivals, and con
sequently mutual checks upon each oth
er. Not so with Catholicism.
Papal endowments are a virtual unit,
the titles being held by Rishops for the
Pope, and the hierarchy, a foreign body
and a foreign head, the foe of American
institutions and welfare. Thus the un
expected result of our supposed freedom
and equity is that the scattered endorse
met it of popery in this country really
constitute n "temporality of the j.apu-
ey," held and used against protcstnut-
ism and lihi-r' with precisely the same
irresponsibility to civil power that
caused Hisin.iik to expel the Jesuits
j p,,pe has power. He holds that popery !
is committed to the doctrine of punish-J
j ;Ue he exercise of private opinion with1
; t,e sword, imprisonment and the torch, j
! It is similarly found to assail the right !
! of secular self-government, whenever not j
; : i;lJ,al hands. Liberal and patriotic.
j ( .. ,,,; (U,V t,lis witll wmil.stI1CK!i :
j i,llt tMeil. j.Hests avow it, even to the
j ,.x..ess f histifvino- the Si.amsh hmm- :
sition. In this connection the author I
j shows how the toleration of protestants
j by Lord Baltimore in Man land was a
j necessity, and in practice of the cousti-
j tutimi which he drew up was tvrannous
; ly abused to persecute protestants.
The third point is that the new dog- j ",,li"t ":ive '"'' Alter tiring
ma of papal infallibilities will make the l:,t s,'v,',:l1 partridges which the old
Pope a universal despot. pointer had flushed for him without
Without cardinal or council, the ,,K'"' ,1"u "' ,lu' ,lo t,",',l
Pope is infallible in every point j,,.,-i "ay in apparent disgust, went home,
taining to faith or morals. For iu. i ai4 never could, be j.ersua.led to accom
stance, if the Congress and President of j r:,11-v t,ie siil",' l'l','s,", afterw ard.
the United States decide that the civil I
power must not be used to coerce pro
testants, the Pope has only to say that
this infringes on the church's right, and
annuls the decision. He is infallible in
so saying, and every Romanist is bound
on peril of damnation to obey the
'
ders of the Pope. This exposition of
1 1
the Pope's power has been held by such
an able and responsible papist as Car-
dinal Manning. J
We may possibly look for insurree- i
tion and the horrors of a religious war I
yet before the close of the nineteenth j
century, or at least before we are done j
with papacy in our land. Mr. Thomp
son did not notice the most ominous
feature of the danger. It is this, the '
j nfailing disposition of unscrupulous
demagogues to use popery for partisan j
purposes. This is our peril. It re- 1
ceives continual illustrations in the ;
yearly trafficings between political as- j
pirants and the hierarchy. They exact j
a fair price for their services, and drive
hard bargains; nut there are a plenty of j
men so selfish and criminal as to pay j
their price. It is well remembered yet j
in this t.oiintry, the famous compact be
tween Win. II. Seward a':l Bishop
Hughes, which made the former Gover
nor of New York, and gave him suffi
cient influence to bring on speedily the
" i r repress ible con H i ct . "
W.J. C.
Sampson County.
ATTACKS ON THE 131 RLE
A library made up of all the books
which have been written solely in de
fense of the Bible would be an imposing
spectacle. About a century and a half
ago the great Fabricus gave a Cata
i.oot K Baisoxxe, of all the books that
had been, directly or indirectly, evoked
by Christianity down to his time.
Though not exhaustive, some pages also
being occupied with other subjects, it
forms a quarto of more than seven
hundred pages. I apprehend that, by
this time, a similar work would extend
to at least three times the bulk,
Kqtially striking, in some respects,
would be the spectacle of all those
works which have been written more or
less against the book, in general confu"
tation of its claims or against some of
its principal facts and evidences. The
volumes thus written for the purpose of
correcting men's eccentric love and ven
eration for it eccentric on the hypo
thesis of its merely human origin
showing either that it is substantially
incredible, or like other books, a mix
ture of wisdom and folly, would form a
library of no inconsiderable bulk.
If all these books were placed in one
library, and this single one set on a ta
ble in the midst of it, and a stranger
were told that this book affirmed to be,
for the most part the work of a number
of unlearned and obscure men belonging
to a despised nation called the Jews
bad drawn upon it self, for its exposure,
confutation and destruction, this multi
tude of volumes, I imagine he would be
inclined to say, "Then I presume this
little book was annihilated long ago;
though how it could be needful to write
a thousandth part so much for any such
purpose T cannot comprehend. For if
the book be what these 'authors say,
surelv it should not be very difficult to
show it to be so, and if so, what wonder
ful madness to write all these volumes!"
TIow surprised lie would then lie to learn
that they were felt not to lie enough;
that similar works were multiplying
every clay, and never mure actively than
at the present time; and still to no pur
pose in disabusing mankind of this same
frenzy !
Rut the volume itself survives both
friends and foes. Without being able
to speak one word on its own behalf but
what it has already said; without any
power of explanation or rejoinder in de
precation of the attacks made upon it,
oi to assist those who defend it; it pas
ses alodg the ages, in majestic silence.
Impassive amidst all this tumult of eon-
; t'-yersy, in which it takes no part, it
T'rT"'4bc.likeel . to., some gre.-it ship
"' ''"Ji down a mighty river, like the
i Amazon or Orinoco, I he shores of which
inhnhitcd by various savage tribes, j
: From every little creek or inlet, from i
weapons against one another, assail each j
other with great fury and mutual loss, j
Meantime the noble vessel silemly
moves ou through the scene of con fusion,
without deigning to alter its course or
to tire a shot: perhaps here and there a ;
seaman casts a compassionate glance
from the lofty bulwarks, and wonders
at the hardihood of those who come to j
assail his leviathan. Ioi.i:i;'s Si i'kkiii - i
IAN OllUilN nf i'HK RllSLK. !
A gentleman, who w as a good shot,
lent a favorite pointer to a friend who
had not much to accuse himself of in the
slaughter of birds, however much he
IT is not darkness the Christian goes
to at death, for God is light. It is not
loneliness, for Christ is with him. It is
I not an unknown country, for Jesus is
! there: and there the vast company of the
I . . .
just made perfect, who shall be one with
i Mini in Hie fel lowsli ri anil ltlesseilness of
I i ,u , - ,
j heaven forever. Vriai le.t A i n'eif .
-
THE MAJESTY OF THE CREA-
TOR.
nv hf.v. .ut i'iii i; i. i oi k Haiti
"Great ia our God, anl of great power ''
The Lord is still His people' tr st:
Jehovah! He alone is gre-it;
Beneath Hidi empires sink In dust.
Ami prince ylehl their idle state.
-'.s'fflll.-i.
The Lord is great ! Oi every hand
Heaven rings with triumph nnd acclaim.
And earth, redeemed, in every laud
Exalts tlie universal Jfame.
On chords by the Creator strung.
The storm's rude hand an anthem play;
And the ;reen foresta throb with on.
A d tremble with spont ineons praise.
The rolling floods, and all that go
Through their lone depths, hoarse tribute bring:
And mountains, from their peaks ol snow,
Their awlui songs of thunder sing.
'Mid starry clusters of the skies.
Or brightening snns, or twilights dim,
Where'er we turn our wondering eyes
We something find to sptak of Him.
The simplest flower its magic :eels.
Where'er His quick ning lite is poured;
And every flaming orb reveals
The glory ol its sovereign Lord.
Starr King once made this conces
sion. While riiling in a stage coach
from Bangor to Oldtow n, iu company
with several clergymen of his own de
nomination, the conversation turned to
future punishment. He said, iu his
positive manner, "I don't believe society
could be held together without the doc
trine of a .future punishment. This re
strains men, and holds them hack from
the commission of many a crime." This
is an honest confession. Men must be
made to feel that they are to face the
consiiiuences of t heir conduct, and are
liable to be called, any hour, to stand
before iod and render an account for
the deeds done iu the body. Nothing
less than this truth, so often and so un
equivocally stated by Christ and
throughout the New Testament, will
hold men in clock. A revival and re
statement of Biblical doctrine of sin and
penalty, and a bold, kindly, earnest pre
sentation of it, would do more to clear
the business and social atmosphere than
all the legislation from now until dooms
day. Ye educate the intellect and let
the morals go. Our young men are
told, from pulpit and platform, press and
Or wiTKin.v, in bright shallow volumes
of science and speculation, "loll nave
nothing to fear" "There is no God.
You are only an evolution, soon to be
resolved back into dead protoplasm.
You are under a law of necessity, an
automation, and hence not responsible.
Will is only a form of mechanical force.
You will either be annihilated at death,
or restored, iu ease there should prove
to be a God, which is not at all likely."
What wonder is it that we have fallen
upon troublous times ! What wonder
business is ruined, and men have no con
fidence in each other! If you trust
your money in business or corporations,
von are robbed. If yon attempt to
keep it, it is stolen. Morality seems
steadily oozing more and more out of
K;ach generation, under this false and
ruinous teaching on the future responsi
bility of man to a just and holy God
It even taints the, Clmrchei, Zioxb
Tf f.rat n.
FIFTY YEARS.
Ziou's Hkhai.i' presents the following
brief but inspiring summary of the
achievements of Christianity among the
heathen during the last half century
and yet, all over our land there are pro
fessing Christians who are "opposed to
Foreign Missions," because, as they
say, "results prove that it is money
thrown away!"
Japan was sealed from the gospel
fifty one years ago. Dr. Morrison was
allowed to enter China, but as a servant
of the East India Company, and there
was no missionary besides. Jmlson and
his wife were prisoners
Rurniah, i
where there were only eighteen Chris-j
tian natives. In India even Heber was j
compelled to decline baptizing a native :
convert, lest he might "excite jealoiisly
of those whom it was desired to concil
iate." From India to Syria then
was ,
not a missionary of the cross; Turkey j
was without a missionary, and the Sul- !
tan had issued an anathema against all J
i
Christian books; two or three mission
aries were along the West (.'oast of Af
rica, and two or three more in the South:
Madagascar had scarcely been entered:
the Church Missionary Society was re-
joicing over its first convert in New because they growed," weren't made at
Zealand; and only the first fruits were all. J In t there is a higher and more ra
being slowly gathered in the South j tioiial philosophy than either, w hich
Seas. Outside of iuiana ami the West ' holds that the ideas of making and of
Indies there were not (5,000 Christians
in the whole heathen world.
What changes have been wrought iu
the last fifty years ! In China to day
there are thirty Christian (hurehes at
work, and the number of Christians is
increasing six-fold every ten years. Ja
pan welcomes every Christi'in teacher,
and proclaims the Sabbath as the week
ly festival. For every convert there
was then in Rurmah there are now a
thousand; there are o")0 churches, and
nine tenths of the work is done by na
tive missionaries. There are l!,;)00
missionary stations iu India, and nearly
2,000 of them manned by native labor
ers, while Christians are increasing by
more than a hundred thousand iu ten
years. There are scl f-support ing ( 'hris
tian congregations in Persia and on the
l!l;.i.k Sea; there are f, 01.10 communi
cants gathered into the mission Church-
es of Syria. Gambia, Sierra Leone and
Liberia have large Christian communi-
ties, aggressive upon the neighboring
heathen with the aggression of the gos
pel. There are -10,000 communicants
in the Churches of South Africa, and
4.),000 children in the schools. Moffat t
waited for years for a single conversion,
and he left behind him populations that
cultivate the habits of civilized life, and
read the Bible iu their own tongue.
There are 7,0M) Christians gathered
into the Churches of Madagascar; Poly
nesia is almost entirely Christian.
There are not less than ,000,000 con-
nected with the Christian settlements in j
heathen lands, where .,o00 missionaries
labor and all this has been accomplish
ed within fifty vears !
ARGL'T PARROTS.
1i:aion Gitr.i:x was talking about
parrots the other day. He said he once
knew a parrot that was not polite as
"Pipitv," the one mentioned iu a story
called 'Tower Mountain." The par
rot that he knew would swear whenev
er he opened his bill. It had been
taught bv sailors on hoard the ship iu
w hich it had come from South America.
When the deacon knew it, it belonged
to the widow of a very strict minister.
It had been brought to her by her neph
ew, a midshipman, as a Christmas
present. It was lucky for him, just
then the old lady was stone deaf.
She was very cross with the neighbors
when they told her what wicked words
the bird used. It was a great jn't, and
she would not believe anything bad
about it. But at last it swore at a visi
tor who was a bishop, and, soon after, it
was no more.
Since the Deacon told that story 1
have had a paragram about another par
rot ; one that lived in Edinburgh, Scot
land, five years ago. This one could
'augh, weep, sing songs, make a noise
like " Smacking the lips," and talk.
His talking was not merely by rote: he
would speak at the right times, and say
what was just right to be said then and
there. He spoke the words plainly,
bowed, nodded, shoke his head, winked,
rolled from side to side, or made other
motion suited to the sense of what he
was saying. His voice was full and
clear, and he could pitch it high or low,
and make it seem joyful or sad. Many
curious tales are told of him, but the
most remarkable thing about, him is
that he actually lived and really did
the things named.
That's what the paragrams says.
Stop let mo think a moment, May
be that parrot himself sent it? But no;
he wasn't smart enough for that; I re
member now, the signature was Cham
bers." "Jack-in-the Vidjt'd Ht.Xichola for
Jfarch
- - -
At a wedding recently, when the
clergyman asked the lady, "Wiltthou
have this man to be thy wedded hns-
band ?" the w ith a modesty which lent
her beauty an additional grace, replied:
"If you please,"
THREE VIEWS OF THE ORIGIN
OF SPECIES.
So is it, gentlemen, with many vexed
questions; so is it with the question of
origin J awie. There are three possi
ble views in regard to the origin of
species. The first asserts Divine agen
cy by mirariiloKs creation; and there
fore denies any j trocexit ; the second as
serts erolution n'ocexH, but denies Di
vine agency; the third asserts Divine
agency by evolution-process. So, also, are
there three corresponding views iu re
gard to the origin of the individual
of you, of me, of each of us. The first is
that of the little innocent, who thinks
that God made him as he (the little
innocent) makes diet-pies: the second i
tbat of the little hoodlum, who says,
" I wasn't made at all, I glowed:' the
third is the usual adult belief that we
are iiiaile nv a process ol evolution.
Ho you not observe, then, that in the
matter ot the origin of species many good
theologians and pietists are iu the posi-
lion of the little innocent? Thev think
that species wree made without iiaiural
process. On t he ot her hand, luosl evolu
tionists are iu the position of the little
hoodlum ; lor they think that species,
growing are not inconsistent with each
other that evolution docs not
destroy the concept ion of.or the belief iu,
an intelligent Creator ami Author of the
cosmos. The view s combines and recon
ciles the two preccediiig antagonistic
views and is therefore nunc comprehen
sive, inorcj rational, and more true. Itut
let us not fail to do justice let us not
overlook the fact that the most impor
tant and t he noblest ti nt lis are overlooked
only by the hoodlum and materialist .
I'ojiitldr St-ieice Jottiy for Jfin.
WHY SHOULD ANY
SWEAR?
MAN
I can conceive of no reason w hy he
should, but often reasons why he should
not .
It is mean. A man of high moral
standing would almost as soon steal a
sheep as to swear.
It is vulgar. Altogether too mean for
a decent man.
It is cowardly. Implying a tear ol' not
lacing believed or obeyed.
It is ungeiitlciuanl v. A gentleman,
according to Webs'er, is a genteel man,
well-bred, refined. Such a one w ill no
more swear than go into the street to
throw mud w ith a clodhopper.
It is indecent, olfensive to delicacy,
and extremely unfit. for human
It is foolishne:
Want of deeelicv
is want of good common sense.
It is abusive. To the mind which con
ceives the oath, to the tongue which ut
ters it and to the person at w hom it is
aimed.
it is venomous. iiowmg a man s
heart to be a nest of vipers, and ever y
time he swears one of them sticks out its
head.
Itis coiiiemptible. Forfeit ing the re
spect of all the wise and good.
Itis wicked. Violating the Divim
law aud provoking the displeasure o
Him who will not. hold him guiltless
who takes his name iu vain.
Every object ion urged is well taken,
vet we find so many of our leading men
lnuuiging in tne Useless liaiul. it noes
them no good they admit it, yet why wi
they continue iu the habit?
Alas! many men icarucl to swear
when they were boys, and now thev
have become liarileneil. Hear voting
reader, beware and swear not.
-4.
.lOSH BILLINGS ox i;i;lr.
I have finally cum to the conclusion
that lager beer as a beverage is not
intoxicating.
I have been lold by a tieriiiau wb
said lie had drunk it all nite long.
just to try the experiment, and wa
obliged to go home entirely sober in
the morning. I have seen this same
man drunk eighteen glasses, aud if lie
was drink iv was in ( iermau, and no
body could understand it.
It is proper emit!" t state thai thi
man kept a lager beer saloon, could
have no object in stating what was not
strictly thus.
I believe him to the full extent of
my ability. I never drank but tbret
glasses of lager in niv life, and that
made my bead out wist as tin if wa
bung on tins end of a string, but i wa
told that was ow ing to mv bile being
out of place: and I guess that it was so
for I never biled over wus than I did
when I got home that nite. Mv wife
thot I was goiu to die, and I win
afraid that I shouldn't, for it seemed
as tho even tiling I had ever eaten
in my life was coming to the
surface : and I believe that if my wife
hadn't pulled off my boots just as she
did. thev would have i-iun thundering
up too.
O. bow sick I ivii,! 11 years ago.
and I can taste it now.
I never bad so much experience in
so short a time.
If any man -bud tell me thai lager
beer was not intoxicating. I biid be-
j i;,.vt. tiim : but if his -houbl lell me
i that I wa-n't drn id. that nite but
i that my -lununick wa-; out ol order.
. I "hud a-d; him to state oei a
If I wan't drunk Unit nite, 1 bad
some ov tlie most natural simtttms
that a man ever had and kent
ober.
In the first place it was about SO
ods from where I drank the layer
beer to mi house, and I was jest over
two hours ou the road, anil a hole
busted through each one of my panta-
oon nee., aud didn't hay any hat.
ind tried to open the door by the
bell-pull and hicctiped awfully and
a w every thin" in the room trying to
;et round on tin: back side of me, and
itting down on a chair, I did not wait
longenoiigb for it to get exactly under
me when I wuz going round, and 1 set
town a little too soon and missed the
hair about twelve inches, and couldn't
get up soon enough to take the next
one that coni" along; and that ain't awl
my wifescd I wu.as drunk as abcest,
and. as I seil before.' I began to spin up
things freely.
If lager beer is not intoxicating it
used me most almighty mean, that I
know.
Still I hardly think that la.cr beer t.
intoxicating, fr I bay been told so;
ind I am probably the only man liv
ing who ever drunk env when his liv
er was not plumb.
I dont want to say anything against
i harmless temperance beverage, but
if ever 1 drink env more, it will be
with mi hands tied behind and mi
mouth pried open.
1 don't think lager bii-r is intoxi
cating, but if I remember rite, I
think it tasted to me like a glass of
soapsuds that a pickle had been put
tew soak in.
FI N AND FACT.
Every dove has a cote, and every
dog pants.
Can you tell me, Sor-r, wer-re Mis
tress Mur-r-phy lives?' 'which Mrs.
Murphy? 'The one who died las'
noight, Sor-r 1'
iod doth not read
Either man's work, or His ow n gilts:
w ho best
Rear his mild yoke, they serve Him best;
His state
Is kingly; thousands at His bidding
sliced.
And post o'er land and ocean without
rest,
I'liey also serve, who only stand idid
wait.
31 II too.
" Have von a Chaucer?" asked a
young lady, lokiug in at a hook-store.
The polite young clerk replied No, In:
never used it, but. there was a tobacco
nist's just two doors above.
A friend apologizing for another.
remarked, lie is very," reserved in his
manners. cry, was tno reply,
"so much so that they are rarely seen."
( 'hrist says if ye love Mo keep My
commandments." It would be well for
us to pay more attention to our voiiducl ,
and t he depth of our feelings by ourobc-
lience. l'ayxon.
Thou must learn my weary heart,
How to bear the weary part;
Thou must learn, through years of
That, after sunshine, comes the rain.
Rain and sunshine, shine and rain,
Thus is born the perfect grain:
Thus through joy and sorrpw's smart,
'oine at last the pure in heat.
Herein is the secret of the. Chris
tian faith. AH that it has, all that it,
offers, is laid up iu a person. We have
not merely deliverance, but a Deliverer;
not merely redemption, but a Redeemer,
ever saying, Receive Me I am the
way." Said M'Cheyne: "For one
look at yourself take ten lxks unto Je-
An individual suffering front dys
pepsia calls at a physician's house dur
:ng his consultation hour. The practi
tioner examines him aud declares: "1
see how it is; you need a great deal of
exercise, but perhaps your business
does not leave you time. What is your
occupation?" " I have been a letter
carrier for twenty-five years."
"What do yon think of my new
white sack, Leander?" asked Mrs. Spil
kins, complacently, the other evfiiing.
' White-sactually beautiful,-my dear,"
replied Spilkins, dogiug behind a chair
for protection.
( 'arlyle says,"The race of life has become
intense: the runners are treading upon
each other's heels: woe to him who stops
to tie his shoestrings." Just like Carlye,
as tpiaiut and true as himself. There
is a good deal of this shoe-string busi
ness done to-day. Young men all about
us allowing themselves to Ik: outstripped
iu the race, just because they will be
diverted from their purposes by little
things. Watching opportunities, seiz
ing upon small advantages, making
everything bend to au honest, high am
bition, even to the casting aside tin:
shoes w ith tin: troublesome "strings," is
what must insure success. The race in
intense, and if young men trill waste
their precious moments on trivialities,
trill "stop to tie their shoe-strings,"
why. they will be knocked over walk
ed hut, very likely, too, while others
press mi intake the prizes hih they
iriighl have secured.