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Vol. XX III.
Raleigh, 1ST. C, Wednesday,' Sept. 18th, 1878.
Number 36.
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the evanoelist.
r I'lie -Howtn striking poom wan transUtAtl for
" the N Vim Wurl'.l from tint rrmit;h ttf 34- Kr.mcoiF
Xv--l
W:iIk-!i will. IVtor, ChriKt iti fuotstoH ft
At tin hour wiiou aoomide'e Imruing ray down
:- -a i'l-ar.
; W!"-:i tuy lifh'M at a iiumii oahiu's U.or,
A,l:-rit-r s iioft' iu tir uiouruin clad,
V Wf -. t tUrt;iioia HeaU'J, Bilout, sail,
T1-' tr riiat -.et tbm kpt Uur IHs uiMiin,
t ffc-r i hil l to r&tllo iimi hjr lUx. 1o iiu;
yfc, Mt'r Jim! Hi- uieiul e-julil b-.h, udhv.i!..
I.A. l-'" w;ti i.iar u,tu Uie head,
t3 j' 'o liiuui-iiiug s'taa r tkuro
'. Saul, '-"A tm;iii, I th: vase of milk slioulil bar
Un-.kt :t (I .'.ull'ir in t'. liuiiilft m-ar;
" Bn. i Hoak u:dI bt-ut wiili uimiy a year;
JI'T ' iliu a UuH.-a:i.l paevs yet t
Be -ii :iiti, ;im1, will. out help, I nurely kuou
It i'.:: t fi J ut; taU r;rn :Tt I'eo."
1-! v.!is:: ru. .-Till a urJ haf 1 sin.
"Wi::"t. i p.:i.- bt-r .Ijad' laid ati.lo,
An i i -J ib . rai!( wb?r.' tUo or;.'nau crleil.
To - ui :hv::ir, :i;ii (lie btar wtut.
JW.ir-:.-. 'tis Aoil o be tenevuloi:t,"
Sal t tVf'f, "Our sin- "i -i(n-io that wim.au "IhiwimI,
la - .v.a ;!tu-i :i -r -f::l-J ailtl litr abHle
P: : u.' t!.aii' c-viaitr tn flint su-bt jioru.it;
Tb ic;-.r sou.', one v.O-iM h v-c fuU'l, itu Joul-t,
To !.! iji-? lead upt-u the way."
Tt L- i-i iua U- aii'wcr nnfu l'oter, 2?ay.
Tt l-i:t:or, wiicii tLe pt'.r as-ils Ue p'urtr,
Wj'i '--,-! Uff a-t, her rcwr4 Aed4i'c htr.
fit a- tit At i-ul vvi.Iy did iu tUdt."
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fli tc Ln:aff, rtrt.'"e'-l ih iiltie uite,
Bt I'-jtJr, I tboy j;at tlivu uue.
W; r. a V, :t- Lor ! U j.ivt-u tbi prj-jf
Of- -ill ca..e b-. k b-r bintiMo nuf.
Sfc- .: a, n-jr : n- . li it Fi'i.-u.i the ded bad doue.
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Fur tiio AiWoeiito.
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t v Si-li.n;! 'ni: .iilinii, ).cli
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J)ri) . 1 -i: -i ! i'- truth !- ci-.i jicrnti.iu of
J3a. : -.- ."ili "tin-r thriistianx," "you
are ii:l jwin; 'iiiit-t b'i::uii-e you
dfrt : ! i i list dv,'' 'm l oilier sucli-lik"
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of tin- j.i-M-iit itif.-! It u-ouM in- kniLrli-abl-,
ui-n: it nut tin-t i(i-!'i..t of a ii. -ally
ti; i'i. s tli.it coiititiu t'i jMi-:oii tlii
fitrenii of liiu ii-: th.'tt oulit to niiiko
gla! tin- ci'v of 'n.'l. Wiiiit '-vi!
sCoo'-i i i..-iiilv ariL- Iroin tin- "i'.o-oii.-ra-
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tioii" i' rlii ;-ti;.tis, u:.li,.s t in y 1', that,
bef - : ho '-.-..-i jM-iatina" i i n h-l, the
:"B.M ti-t-" in.-uit otlii-r ".li-iioiiiiit:itio;is
of i.r'-ti.-tii!," - ti'lliim thi-iii ih'-y arc
not t-.i'.i'.vitf 1 hri-t lii-is-.il,: they have
j.not !'.a.- M-.-.!i.!-, an4 thus litu-rly
Jloo'i?i' tut with liir;li-'hiii'i.-hi--Jii he
low -t.ii!-,. J'.ut this ; their own fault;
and If i- 1 j iu: It tiiii.- to in' .'i-hiliiK'il of
it.l K. A. V.ni.
f - J "lit of th" J',, .;,,. r mcatiS tll.'lt
yoa -li.i!! take him with all his iiiliitui
ties .a ! liiuit.itioi..-., ami niaki: tin- l;st
of Iiiiii, au-l you. Jt means that you
'thai! i: ii-i-m him, lo the 1 -st you can
forhiiu, -hili- In: is with you, very
i highly in lov.j for his work's sake and
that ihi- esii.M-m .-lia';l exhibit itself not
only by making line provision for hi.v
temj i.t i! -iij ji.ii t, hut also in all the of
fice ot 'Inisii.-in ft ii-mlsliiji, ;inil In-arty
C0-0j'i-i ilion with him iu tiis work ami
laboi lor the hmeh. A'asli;i!!'i Ad
vocate. i
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In ' li.it siiiji li.-.vi' th-,n--iti'M' mim-
ij of jii-ojilv hi.i-n wreekeii .' Court-
For the .Vilvoeate.
lt-o. I'.ointtrr: I have lvn on a tour
aniotiL; t.he eliiuehi-s "ln'teii vol ing to ;ul
va nee tin- lo-ileemer's K iniloiii. liav
iiiif my work aul my limiie anion-; the
enlti at--.l ami n-lined riu i.siian n-oili
of Iiouisluiri;- 1 1 i year, I was iuviteil
hy I'm. .Mel, coil to ;ismm him in hi
wo! k on the X.-imi eiieuit. Ami froin
I he great extent of his work, ami the
v.eai with uhieh he jiroseeutes it, ami
teeliiiir moveil to do so, ! aeeejitt-d his in
it;ition.
At i'hajie! Sjiiin;sthe meeting eoti
iiiiiieil !l days. About oil eonversii ms,
12 hajitizeil, am! Is aeeosMi.ns to the
ehureh.
.t Noith l!ethlehelil t he nu-etilil;' i-nli-t
fniit-l (i ihiv.s; S eoiiversions, l b.in
ti.el, iiceessioiis. The ehureh great
ly lili'ssetl. young nn-n's j.rayer
meeting organi.ei!.
sjient one night at the parsonage in
Nashville. Was very kiin'lv am! hos
pitably entertained. J'reaehed at night
to a small congregation. A very rainy
evening. They are -inatiging to eoiu
plete their ehureh. Jt will be very nice
when finished. The next dav we im-t
an ;ii -pointuicul to baptize and reeei-.e
Citudil.ites into the church twenty
were hai ti.ed and twenty n-eei.ed.
That .light we spent at Toisnoj. an.i
j i reached l'-" li-i. Swindell, wlio ;!
eonduiii.ig ;i iiiceiing ;tt th;it point.
!:. I io-s able to i- pies-.-i:t at the
se: vice, but is stii! very feeble. He is
eheet ft-.l. an i hope.- to be able to resume
wmk i:i tb.Hit three '.uvU.
Sunday, Sept. l-t, we were at Mt.
Zi.e-. on Niis'i eiieuit. ! lieg.-ni th'-set'-.
iee bv bapt i.ing and iecei ing into
the ehureh an old gentleman Sf years
of age the most advanced au'c at which
I have ever kimwii a person to be con
certed. Alter pleaching to a huge eo-.i-giegati.-n,
the sacrament was adminis
tered to a large membership. We
vent in the ai'tel Uooii to Home's church
and 1'ito. '.cod preached to a huge
co'igiegatioii, (lla. 0t his awakening set-nio-.is.
Penitents were invited ami
many came. 1 labored with him there
for two days, and left him iu the midst
ol' a gi acioits meet ing. Alter It! days
work in tie- pulpit and altar, 1 reached
home la-t night, feeling better than
when I began. While 1 was with hint,
I admini-i'-ivd the sacrament of the
Lord's S-.ij.per to three congregation:
bapti.ed thirty-eight persons, ami re
ceived Ibriv-five into the church. Willi
tite divine blessing, Jlro. McLeod is do
ing." vrood work. I was glad t- be
with hi. ii. to ;'id him iu hi.- work, and
to learn from him some good les-nus in
itinerant work. 1 was only absent Irom
mv charge one Sabbath, on which day
mv pulpit wa- lilled in the evening. 1
hope to -.live you a en,,.) account limii
f.ouisbui -j, f mil. an
uing ;i -cries ol meetings.
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Yours t nil ,
Tm.s. V. Smiiii.
l.-mi-bur:;, N. '., Sept. ."lh. 17.
I -l .U SOX A I..
l'.i-lio. McTyciie p;i-sed thioiieh
I.oiiisviile oil Tuesday Ci runic, for ':it
lettsburg, Ky., the seal of the West
Virginia ( 'oiifereiiee, at which he will
preside in the piacu of I'.ishop Fierce,
who is not aide to be present.
Kishop Doggett preached the opening
sermon on last Sunday morning at the
Yalideibilt Fni versity, and left Nash
ville on Monday night for Missouri, lie
was in good health.
A letter from IJishop Fierce, dated
August :;uth, advises us that his health
is improving, and that he expects to be
present at the Kentucky and Louisville
( 'ouierenees.
If the providence .if (bid goes betore,
it i- eoually true that it follows after
Some must live and some must die.
Some will increase and some w ill de
crease, this i- just like life. Sonic
miiii-t'-i- and circuit.- will be disap
pointed, while others will be thank ful
thev ever were brought together. Some
will go where they did not want to go,
am! be very thankful that they were ever
sent. It is not impossible that both cir
cuits and ministers may think moie
highly of themselves than they ought to
think, and the providential check and
humbling is occasionally good lor us all.
Ministers and circuits are bound to do
the be.-.t for themselves consistently with
mutual rights, and provided it is done
in a Christian spirit. Iut the thing
done being done, what follows ? Make
the best of it. Do not get soured. Do
not make people miserable by ceaseless
Coinpl.'iiuts. Fut a cheerful courage on,
and in the hold's work let the Lord be
glorified whatever may become of your
own will and way. There is nothing
more detestable in a ( 'liristian, be he
minister or layman, than everlasting
"nimblintr and discontent when the
thing done cannot lie undone. Wcsley
ait Methodist Jlecordtr
A little hoy whose sprained wrist had
been bathed ill whiskey, surprised his
mother by a-king "if papa had a sprain
ed throat."
The First Presbyterian ( Munch of
Cincinnati h.-is Just eelebra-:d i s semi
centennial with great i -joicbigs. Twenty-four
of the original 'V-i'i who formed
tac Church in !-!Mvere at this festival.
TliUSTlNCi IN H101IKS.
I u the tenth chapter of Mark this
record is made:
'And .lesus looked round about, and
saith unto his disciples, How hardly
shall they that have riches enter the
kingdom of Cod? And the disciples
were astonished at His words, lint Je
sus answereth again, and saith unto
them, "Children, how hard is it for them
that trust in riches to enter the kingdom
of Cod ! It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle, than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of
Cod."
The words of Jesus, like the words
of all other teachers, must be read in the
liebt of eommon-.sen.se; without that,
they are always liable to be perverted.
The p.iss-ig-e which we have just copied
is one that has been the subject of such
perversion. Jt is quoted and re-ipioted
as if leveled against the possession of
large amounts of material wealth. .Now
surely Jesus did not (each that it w;is
wrong to possess wealth, for the life
which lie taught I (is disciples to lead is
such a life as will naturally make ibem
capilaii-ts. The cultivation of the in
teUect ai.d of the heart, the employ
ment oi the brains and the hands, use
ful and intelligent activ ty these things
arc necessary to the Christ -an life, and
these things ordinarily result in the ac
cumulation of material wealth iu larger
or smaller amounts.
Nor is the absence of material wealth,
capital, if you choo-e to call it so a
tiling to be denounced unless it be the
product oi idleness, wastefulness and
bail habits. A man may lay up for
iiiiiiselt va.-t amounts of wealth because
he has deliberately come to ti-o convic
tion that that money would better be
put aside lor some good object than he
appropriated to his own persona uses.
In such a case the man's object is hero
ic. The difficulty in entering the king
iloiu is not iu having great possessions,
or in l.icking them. It is, as the Croat
Teacher 1 1 imsclf explains, in trusting in
riches. "How hard it is for them that
.trust, in riches to cuter into the kingdom
of Cod." Having riches, or trusting in
riches, are t wo very iliil'crent things.
There are a thousand poor men who
trust iu riches to one rich man who
trusts in riches. Let no poor man think
that he is free from this great disability
just because he is poor. Does he not
trust in riches ? Then what mean those
dream with which his sice) is tilled:
dreams of caverns piled with gold,
dreams of such wealth as no Aladdin's
lamp ever w as able to discover? What
means that thought perpetually running
through his waking hours ? "If I only
had ten thou-am! dollars"; or, "If J
only had a hundred thousand dollars";
or "Jf i only had a million dollars."
As ii the possession of any one of these
amounts would make him independent,
supply t lie desires of his soul, and se
cure the destiny of his future. Is not
j a man w ho has thoughts like these a
j man who trust, iu riches ?
i W'hateM-i it is on which we depend
i to make us independent of our ft.Ilow
i men and of Cod, to supply our present
I wants ;im! secure our future, that is the
thing in w hich wo trust. It is impor
i taut that the poor should look at this.
'1 hey hear ministeis read this passage
i Irom the pulpit with great complacency
jand feel -is though it could tmt have
; lelcie'n-e to them. A poor man wasting
1 hi.- eii.:ig:.:s ijiid snuggling with all his
i might to accumulate . i iiiiii fortune, is
la man who may more tiusi in riches
jtiian ids neighbor worth a million su
iting at a short distance from him, and
sitting I here iu the sure conviction that
millions upon millions cannot satisfy his
soul, and cannot .secure hu future. In
sm h a case a- this the poor man trusts
in riches and the rich man distrusts
them. The rich man's chance of sal
vatioti may be bolter than the poor
ma ii's.
Ne ertlieless, while this is true, it
behooves the rich man to eon,,ider care
fully, while riches increase, that he
does not set his heart upon them. No
man can enter the kingdom of heaven
who does not expi-ct that that kingdom
is to supply his present and secure his
future. He is not to trust in riche.,; he
is) not to lely upon poverty.
lhe deceitfulness ol nehes is a Bibli
cal proverb. Men ara deceived while
they are seeking w ealth o.n-t they are
deceived bv wealth wticn they secure it.
It brings many things that are neces
sary ami many that are agreeable, but
the things the soul most wants can nei
ther come nor go with material wealth.
lxV.v. Dit. Jliaois, in Frank Leslie's
Sunday Magazine for tctober.
Tin: CALL TO (JET HEADY.
We have a young friend, good-heart
ed and green, who feels that lie is called
to preach. He is as untrained as a
Mustang colt; he docs not know whether
Isaiah or Malachi come lirst. In fact
he kuows next to nothing. True he has
words, and they How freely. But he
can't expound a simple text; he don't
know what "context" is; he don't know
how to use a concordance. Neverthe
less, he wants to preach right away; he
can't wait; he thinks that "souls are
perishing while he waits." We tell
him frankly that "some souls w ill likely
perish through his not waiting." We
are trying to persuade him that his first
call is to "get ready to preach." Hut
he seems determined to preach without
getting ready. We have known an im
patient boy tackle a big tree with a
very dull axe because he w as too lazy to
use the grindstone. And he never got
his tree down; but be bruised it badly.
Wesleyan Advocate.
Prince Napoleon had a narrow escape
while attending an agricultural exhibi
tion ?n Sweden. In company with the
Kintr he was examining some machine
ry and hail approached close to an engine,
w hich unexpectedly was set in motion,
and some parts of the engine caught the
clothes of the Prince, who would un
doubtedly have been drawn into the
wheels if tho King had not with great
presence of mind instantly himself stop
ped the engine. As it was the l'rinoa
had his clothes torn to pieces.
PERSONALITY OF COD.
The following extract from one of Jo
seph Cook's lectures is peculiarly clear,
compact, and forcible:
"Conscience teaches that Cod is a
person. The organic instincts of the
soul all poii-t to a Being possessing per
sonality, and to whom we owe obliga
tion. But it is said that reason, strict
ly interrogated, will not permit us to as
sert that Cod is a person; that an Infi
nite Person is a contradiction in terms;
that we cannot call Cod a person with
out limiting Him; and that to limit Him
is to deny His infinity and absolute
ness. "Iu the present state of the discuss
ions concerning Conscience, it therefore
becomes of the utmost importance to
show that reason as well as Conscience
teaches that Cod is a person. For the
purposes of such proof it, is highly ad
visable to separate the whole topic of
Theism into three parts, namely, the
demonstration that the cause of the u-ii-vers:
possesses (1) intelligence; (-)
unity; and (H) infinity,
"While we are considering intelli
gence as cause, I leave out that view eu
tireh ,t.he imjuiry as to its infinity, (.'an
we demonstrate that there exists iu the
uni crse an intelligence not ourselves ?
After demonstrating that the cause
which stands before the present universe
has intelligence and infinity, we must
:mk w hether it has unity. After having
proved the intelligence and the uniiy,
we must treat the infinity as a wholly
dilferviit thing.
"The universe exhibits thought.
There cannot h: thought without a
thinker. Tho cause of the universe,
therefore, is a thinker; and a tl " .or is
a per-on. I bit the universe exhibits, so
far as human observation extends, per
fect unity of thought. 'ra nation is
the same everywhere, and so are light,
heat, and the other natuial forces. 'Jhe
universe, therefore, is one Thinker, and
lmt One; that is, One Personal Intelli
gence: and but ne.
"The universe has light in it; and the
laws of light are the same here and at
the furtherest point visible to the tele
scope. Light moves in straight lines
here ami in straight lines there. Cra vi
tal ion is the same thing here and yon
der. The universe exhibits not only a
plan, but a uniform plan; itexhibits not
only thought, but harmonious thought.
It is a thing, but it is a thought; and it
is not merely a thought, it is one thought,
interiorly self consistent and not a fagot
of self contradictions. The thought is
one: the thinker therefore is one."
"ONLY 1"I?AYEIS."
This was the response of a sexton
standing at the door of the church to a
passci-by, who asked what was going
on within. It was on a week-day, and
probably there w;is not, much demand
for the official's presence about the door,
as strangers could easily seat themselves
in any of the pews likely to be vacant.
One wonders why he should have been
there instead of taking test for body and
soul within, while uniting iu the service.
Tt is to be (eared that, like his superiors
iu office, he had felt too much the force
of tho tendency in poor human nature
to be satislied with being an assistant to
the religion and devotion of others.
"Only Prayers." Like the sexton,
there are very many w ho show that they
have a very moderate appreciat ion uf
the duty and privilege of meeting to
gether for i iiis put p,si. 'j'he exposition
of tin-won! ami earnest exhortation to
duty is a most important part of public
service: but there an: occasions when
the minister finds it expedient and even
necessary to dispense with those. Be
sides the warm season, there are other
tiim-s when (or some cause ho feels that
he cannot speak to the people to their
edification. Why should he or tho con
gregation look with little interest upon
the Morning or Evening Prayer exclu
sively "Only i 'l ayers" indeed. Why,
in what a condition arc we spiritually
it we do not find it good to join oven
with ;i few in listening to Cod's word
read; in repeating the Psalms of David,
and in offering up our thanksgivings
ami our prayers for ourselves and lor all
the world in those consecrated forms.
We ought not to despise the worship,
which iu Christian assemblies and else
whore ;s offered to Cod in other ways;
but Christian have reason to reflect
with saUsiaetinii on the amount of intel
ligent and earnest piety, which in our
own and other lands has been sustained
and nurtured by the habitual use of ex
ercises ol prayer, ami it is unworthy of
them to neglect the open door of the
sanctuary, whether at the seaside or the
mountain resort, or at their own homes
because "it is only prayers." South
ern Churchman.
LESS SENTiTiKNTALlTY.
It is the chief business of the pulpit
not to be gilding Christianity or paint
ing it in beautiful colors, but to turn
men front unrighteousness to right
eousness, ami to present every man
who hears the Cospe! perfect before
(oil iu the great day. 'Che ttggressi ve
church must lirst of all be a . saved, ii
regenerated church. What religion
does to men. is not the decisive test of
its reality and worth lmt of its uliility
to compter the world. What we must
insist, on is that repentance when pro
fessed shall prove lo have boon repent
ance; that conversions shall be found
genuine ; that a profession of regenera
tion shall be accounted a fraud, unless
it brings men into obedience to ( 'hrist,
and destroys the dominion of the man
of sin ; that a sauctilicatioii that does
not sanctify that does not make its
professors humble, teachable, patienf.
loving, gentle, observant of till Chris
tian and moral obligations, holy, neigh
borly, and brot herly, is not saoeliliea
tion ill all lutl an olfeiisive and harm
ful sham.
We care not how much people may
feel, or think they feel, how deep and
strong their emot ions may be, or seem
to be, bow ecstatic their joys arc. ap
parently, nor how strong is their tes
timony concerning their communion
with Cod ; if grace docs not triumph
in the life, then it does not reign in the
heart, and all their profession is hol
low, empty a mere self-delusion or a
blasphemous mockery. Wvxvrit
('hrial ian , 1 ( encafv.
The Westminster Confession of
Faith and Catechism have been trans
lated in.o Chinese, and are now in pro
cess of rev'sion.
"I'EMEMBEli LOT'S WJFF.
BY FRANK HOIK.
Lot's wife perished. Hilt she did not
perish in 'S.odom. She had all the ex
perience that was given to her husband
and daughters, she entertained the
angels, assisted in the llight from the
city, and escaped the fiery storm which
came upon -the fated cities of the ulain,
yet after all this she perished, amt that
too, by judgment of the Almighty.
And while the cities were blotted out,
; id their situation fo changed as to be
recognizable, the pillar ot salt stood out
"or many long years afterward to show
to passers by the fate of one who, hav
' ig all the outward experience of a saved
one, yet v executed by the fiat of the
Ahiugb'.t? -s su.re'y as were the cities
from w:K . lei.:.! lie.;.
Why did she perish '.' Simply be
cause her heart ironed back towards the
things w aic-h wore condemned of Cud.
She wa- separated from them in person,
but her heart, was with then), and her
longing look toward-' them revealed if.
Is it possible that one can perish mi. side
of Sodom ? Lot's w ife did. And may
not her experience be that of too many
1 at the present dav? They h:teleft
world, and have come out with the pil
grims who are Hoeing from ilu- wrath to
come, but at the same time there is in
their hearts a fooling desire for the
things they h:i"c!' it. Tiiev w ,.-n i. ! tain
return to the friend.- and com .-anions,
!he wealth and vanity ot world ! sin
iron; which their company has been
separate d.
Can any one pcri-h among the com
pany of tho-.- w ho have come out from
perishing o!-e!. w ho iiai tieii iYt.u
tin- "w n-.ih to coliii-; "Iii-memocr
(.ol".-. Wife." ! uoviii and re -ji..!!;
all that lhe angel "ave to any one iu
the i oiup uiy. vet she perished. Ami
so ii may be with many in the last dav.
-, 'hen the world ivielve- the fate of
Sodom ami ' lotuorraii. Some ihat
have left Sodom w ill perish w iiii Sod
om. The world is Sodom. The liil-
! grim eoiup;, j.y Is separated f!i;-n-trioii,
out there is ..lunger that some ot iuat
ll -eiiig hand will perish. Perhaps not
by lire, but as Lot's wife did. lint bv
; t he judgment of the Almighty. Who
; will he of that number. ItHilt: !iun
! .' .
DO YOF LIVE liiCHT-'
As a member of the Chinch, one
should thoughtfully consider the above
question. Ami living right? Do 1
do in' duty and meet my obligations as
a Christ ian, and as I promised to do
when 1 stood before the altar of the
Church? Such o-iestions oiiuht. at
least to cause you to pause
think.
Do you ever lead your Jiihle "?
and
Do
you iVeijiv-iLt your eloset ! i ih" purpose
of secret prayer ? Do you ever talk of
religion at home around your fireside,
or with your liiemis ? Do you have
players wich your wife and children ':
Ho your children and fi iends know Ihat
you are trying to he religious and get to
heaven? I o you set a good example
before your neighbors by going' to
ehureh, keeping the Sabbath, and living
a Christian ? Do you govern your
temper, test rain your passions, and con
trol your tongue.? Is your conduct
such that you are not ashamed to own
that you arr a member of the (Inueh
anywhere? As a husband, do voti en
courage your uii" to lio godly ? As a
wife, do you do all in your power to
help your husband to work out bis sal
vation ? As pan-tits, are you training
up your children iu the 'nurture and
admonition of the Lord?" As children,
do you love and honor your parents ?
Finally, ;o- a Christian, do you rebuke
sin, discoUiage wickedness, ami do ail
in yoin power to promote the welfare of
your feliow-men, and glorify Cod?
And tin you shun the very appearance of
evil ? If you can answer ail those ipies
tions in the affirmative, it will be well
with you; but if not, O humble you i self
before Cod, seek his pardoning love, re
form your life, and live in the future for
(bid and for heaven. Jf you live right,
you w ill die right. May Cod help us
all to live right! Monthly Monitor.
I MM ENS F, ANTIQUITY.
The accuracy of scientific conclusions
.-is to t.lm i' Vti;it. a ti t loll! t.v of man has i-e-
ceived i serious shattering, in respect to
the discoveries alleged to have been
inaue in the lamous Sjiixhaiu ' ave, De
vonshire, England. Jt was asserted by
son i .-eienf ! ii i' men. thai the reina ins
and the tools found in this cave proved
beyond ipiestiou that man was on the
earth anterior to the. existence of t he
Cave be'-r. But a later and mom thor
ough examination of the cave discoveries,
now placed iu tho Christy Museum, has
been made, and tho report presented to
the Yictoria Institute by N. Wbiteley,
honorary secretary of the Royal Institu
tion of Cornwall. Among the blunders
as to the facts, Mr. Whitcley notices :
(1) naturalists now generally conclude
that the .skeleton found in the cave does
not belong to the ancient cave bear, but
to the modern brown bear; ('2) that the
tool said to be found was not close to
the boar's leg, but twelve feet from it,
nn. I further t.hat the tool o.-imiot lu-
fouud in the museum; (8) that cases
i : ... - i- i.. nr. .a 1.
anil copies oi a cty pel icct iioil kiikc,
which were sold widely over England
as a copy of one from the cave, were
reallv copies of one found in Ireland;
(4) that pictures? of tools, showing a
chipping on the edges, and alluded to by
scientific men as due to human hands,
are, in fact, counterfeit, for the chipping
can not be found on the Hints, nor iu thu
original photograph of them; (5) that
the "scraper tool" and the "rod of ivo
ry" are not in the original list, nor to be
found in the museum: and finally, (t)
that the "flint tools" in the cave are
precisely like those which 'abound on
Windmill Hill, above the cave, and
which arc conceded to be formations by
tho action of natural causes, and not
human implements at all. Sonic of
those may have been washed into the
cave, and hence the "evidences" turn
out to be a scries of scientific mistakes
nut to say blunders. Sir Charles Lyell,
who used the remains of the lb ixhain
Cave among his evidences in his "An
tiquity of Man," has in a late edition
tpiietly dropped these "proofs" as of no
special hel j to his argument on that sub
ject. S. World.
THE DA UK I!I VER. j
The following address of Mr. Staiul
fast, as he stood at the "River" anil
talked to his companions, Irom whom
lie was about to be separated, was calleil
by Unfits Choate "t he mosL iiiollilluoiii
and eloipiont talk that, was ever put toj
gether in the English language." ij
will be found at the close of the socotiiS
art of Bunyan'ti Pilgrim's Progrossj
We give it in the ipiaint style of th
lirst edition:
"This River has been a terror to nianyj.
yea the thoughts of it also have often
frighted me. But now niethinks I stand
easier, my Foot is fixed upon that, upoii
which the Feet of the Priests that har
the Ark of the Covenant stood, while
Israel went over this Jordan. The
Waters indeed are to the Palate Bitter
and to the Stomack cold; yet tlx!
thoughts of what 1 am going to, and ol
the Conduct that waits for me on the
other side, dot h lie as a glow ing Coal atj
my Hear: . " )
"I see myself now at the end of myi
Journey, my toilsome Days are ended)
I am going now to see tfvtt Head thatf
w as iiuwiiiul with Thorns, .and tluif
Face that was spit upon, lor me. i
"i have formerly lived by Hearsay,:
and Faith, but now I go where 1 shall;
ii'.-.: by sight, nnd shall be with him, inj
whose Company I delight myself.
T have loved to hear my Lord spo-;
ken of. and wherever I have scon the
print of his Shoe in the Earth, there I
have coveted to sot my Foot loo. ;
"His mime has boon to me as a 6Vy-
t !lof. yc'i, .sweeter than all Perfumes.;
His nice to mo has been most sweety
ami Hi- 'oltnti liiiiieo, I ha e more de-i
sired than they that have most d i:t-
the Light of tlie Sun. His Word 1 di.j
use to gather for my Food, and for An j
tiloies against my J'aiutings. He has
held me. .mnl I have kepi me Iron-, minc
inmuities: yea, my -tops hath hesdongih--;
ciied in his Way." i
And Biinynu add.-: "Now while lu!
was thus id Discourse, his countenance
ctiiingcd, his stron if men bowed under;
him, and after he had said, ToAe me)
for f am come auto ltec. he ceased to
be seen of them. Hut t.'lorious it was,
to see how the open Region was tilled
with Horses and Chariots, w ith Truiii;
peters and Pipers, with Singers, and
Players oil stringed lusli uments, to wel
come the Pilgrims as they went up, and
followed one another iu at the beautiful
Oate of the City." j
-4....
CHURCH Ml IS 1C A NCI EN T AND
MODERN,
Luther's hymns created no greater
sensation than did the Moody ami San
key hymn-book. Probably no othef
hymn ever had so groat a popularity as!
"Hold the Fort," while the "Ninety ami
Nine" and "I need Thee every Hour"
were no less universally snug. "The
Sweet Singer," as Mr. Sankcy is called,
has been ipiite as famous as the eloouent
and talented Mr. Moody; so that Lu
ther's t homy, that tlieojogy ami music
should lie joined iu closest union, has!
been fully realized iu our ow n gener:i-:
tioti. No grander music over rose to
heaven than swelled from the throats of
the singing thousands w ho crowded to
hear these rem..i kable men. That
hymns ami sacred songs still have power,
to touch au-l piickeu the soul into re
pentant humility, has been a musical
miracle repeated again ami again dining
the late groat revival period.
For aic not songs, after all, but a
higher kind of speech the soul's truest
language? And what grander form of
utterance can man command than that
which bursts from his heart and over
flows from his lips into strains of noble
rapture and melodious beauty ? In no
higher service can music be employed
than in echoing to heaven the joy of the
sinner saved, the hope of the pardoned,
the bliss of the ransomed.
This special kind of worship, this
singing of" t lie heart's deepest feelings, is
one of the things that can never be done
acceptably by proxy. A paid choir, of
no matter how great excellence in the
points of perfect voices and finished mu
sical ability, can never make a man
feel what a simple hymn snug by a
worshiping company of Christians can.
The heart, tho soul, must speak them
selves of the glory of Cod, and sing
with their own throats and tongues the
piaises of His goodness; or else the he.tit
but half responds and the soul but halt
ing'y ascends to the heights of grateful
rapture music enables us to touch. in
fract from Article hi Mrs A. J. Mel
fi''k, in Frank Leslie' a Sunday Maa-
:tnc fur October.
'What is a man profited, if ho uleili gain the whole
world, and lose his own soul V or what sh ill a man
give lu exchange for his soul ?" Matt. Hi: 2'i.
Profited! the loss is incalculable!
Other losses may be retrieved, the loss
of health or the loss of wealth: the
bankrupt may redeem his lost money
the diseased and bedridden patient
may have the glow of convalescence (,u
his w.'iu cheek again but once thc-oW
is lost it is oAJr .' !
AVhat. would thousands now beyond
reach of hope and grace and mercy
give for a few of those golden moments
which many are guiltily trilling with,
or still more guiltily abusing? Spirit
mil voyager ! see to it that the endless
futurity which is yur heritage be not
strewn thus with the wreck of an im
mortal soul ! ami that you do not find,
when it is too late, that you are railed
to exchange a misspent time for an un
done eternity ! Co! on your bonded
knees make the calculation of that in
finite loss, ami accompany it w ith the
prayer ''So lunch me to number- uttf
days, that 1 m"if ejijii hiij heart imo
iri.s(iii.''
"Use the golden moments well!
Life is vvasling
Death is ha-ting
Death consigns to heaven or hell!"
"The worst unbelief ol the present
day is not the unbelief or the infidel
w ho rejects the Bible, but the unbelief
of the Christian who accepts it and is
too lazy to read it; and allows it to lie
dust-covered on the shelf, neither
knowing nor caring what it contains.
If he knew what it contains he would
show his knowledge ; and if he cared,
his J5ible would not be neglected as it
is. The unbelief of the rebellious
world is sad, but how much more sad
is the unbelief of those who neglect the
message which tc'.ls of their Father's
love, which reveals to them a Saviour's
irrni-p'1
?'"v"
A CONN 1NCINC A RO FMENT.
The following argument for total
abstinence is from the lips of England's
groat statesman, John Itright:
"To drink deeply to bo drunk is a
sin; this is not denied. At what poin
does the taking of strong drink become
a sin? The slate iu which the hotly is
when not exci.ed by intoxicating drink
is its proper ami natural state; drunken
ness is the state farthest removed from
it. The state ol drunkenness is the
state of sin; at what stage does it be
come si si ? We suppose a man per
fectly sober who has not tasted anything
that can intoxicate; one glass excites
him, and to some extent disturbs tin
state of sobriety, and so far destroys it;
another glass excites him still more; a
third fires his eye, loosens his tongue,
and inflames his passions; a fourth in
creases all t his; a fifth makes him fool
ish and partially insane, a sixth makes
him savage; a seventh or an eighth
makes him stupid, a senseless, degra
ded man; his reason is quenched, his
faculties are for a time destroyed. Eve
ry noble, generous, and holy principle
within him withers, and the image ol
Cod is polluted and defiled. This is
sin awful sin; for 'drunknrtis shail not
inherit, the kingdom of Cod.' Hut
when docs the sin begin? at the lirst
glass, at the lirst step toward complete
intoxication, or at the sixth, or seveut .,
or eighth ! is not every step from the
natural slate of the system toward the
state of stupid intoxication an advance
in sin, and a yielding to the uuwcariud
tempter of the soul ?"
A ilLNDRCD YKARS At.O
( ue hundred years ago not a pound
of coal, not a cubic foot of illuminating
gas. had been burned iu this country.
No iron stoves wore used, ami no contrivance-
for economi.iug heat, were
employed until 1 r. Franklin invented the
iioii -framed fire-place which still boars
his name. All the cooking and w arm
ing in tow n and country wore done by
the n'd of fire kindled iu the brick oven on
the hearth. Pino knots or tallow can
dles furnished the light of the long win
ter night, and voided floors supplied the
place of rugs and carpets. The water
list-i for household pui poses w as drawn
from deep wells by the croaking 'sweep.'
No form of pump was used in this coun
try, so far as we can learn until after the
Commencement of the present century.
There wore no friction matches iu those
early days, by the aid of w hich a lire
could he easily kindled ; and if the fire
"went out" upon the hearth over night,
and the tinder was damp, so that the
spark would not catch, the alternative
remained of wading through the snow a
mile or so to borrow a brand of a neigh
bor. Only one room iu any house was
warm unless some of the family won- ill ;
in all the rest the temperature was at ze
ro man' nights in the winter. The men
and women undressed and went to their
bods in a temperature colder than that of
our modern barns and wood sheds, and
they never complained.
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What is the ''obedience of the faith"'
but it life, of :ie(ive service for (od and
humanity? What, practically,! love to
(iod, but a doing of what will please
and honor him? What is a working nut
of out salvation but the blossoming out
f hope's aspiration into earnest work
for heaven ? What is the work of fait b.
I ho labor of love, and tin- patience of
!nqie but an oliodieiil life? What issiich
a life but. a seri of good works, seeing
which men willl yloriJ'y (Iod ? The sun
is made for ,-hiniug, and salt for con
serving. ( 'lii-isliansaro made for .active,
ea riiest obedience to ( iod. .1 list a Cod's
work for man is always helpful to man,
so is man's work for Cud : but another
way (iod has of blessing mail. This
obedience i not tickle, or periodical,
rendered to-day and refused to-morrow
yielded w hen convenient, and withheld
w hen not convenient ; observed when
observance is popular and sale, but de
clined when dangers threaten and times
change ; but an obedience fixed a the
north star, steady as needle to the pole
and as llower to t lurstin. The inflexible
principle is, duty rather than pleasure,
ease, safety, or even life itsel f. To such
a Christian, the voice of conscience i
(tod's voice. Its demands are ini itera
tive, lie (hires not refuse them. The
Riblo, all through, by the plainest pre
cepts, teaches the vital iniportaiVe of
obedience. In paradise and at Sinai, it.
is enjoined. Ebal and (ieriiin echo and
re-echo its blessings and cursings. "To
oifi-y is better than sacrifice." Obedi
ence is tin: staple theme with Isaiahuud
Jeremiah. Passing ovefjinto the new
dispensation. " grace and apostleship"
are to bring ail nations unto " the obe
dience of faith ;" an obedience born of
faith and so perfect that every thought
is subjected to the obedience of Christ
who is 'the author of eternal salvation'
to all that obov Him. Western.
DRESS IN Clll RCM.
The " ntjelixt enters an earne-l ami
needed protest again! the loo preva
lent ostentation of dress at our church
service :
"Nowhere, we are ashamed to -ay, is
the had taste of ostentation in dress
more eonspicioiis than here. It seems
as if, with many, Sunday is the grand
occasion for display, and the church
the place for self exhibition. In no
other country have wc seen so much
show and tinsel in the churches as in
some of our own cities. In Mil rope
not only in England, but on the conti
nent Mich display i rigidly forbid
den, not by law, but by the recognized
canons of good taste. Nothing is a
more certain mark of low breeding,
than this kind of ostentation iu a place
of worship. It is only the 'new rich,'
w hat we should call "the 'shoddy,' that
trv to exhibit themselves in the house
of'tiod. But as that das is larger in
this country than anywhere else, we
have more of these wretched exhibi
tions." l'raver i,in the highest concept iou of
it, a state rather than an act. A full
fruition of its benefits depends on a con
tinuity of il influences. Reduce it to
two isolated experiments daily, and
separate those by long blank hours iu
w hich the oiil has no glimpse of ( iod
for it refreshment, and ho v can prat or
he other than it toil and often a drudg
ery ? I'hcli.i.
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AND
"More, things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore
lot thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me, night and
day.
For what are men bettor than sheep or
goilts
That nourish
brain,
I f, know ing (
a blind life within the
od, they lift not hands of
prayer.
Roth for themselves and
those who call
them friend !
For so the whole round world is every
way
Round by gold chains about the feet of
Cod."
Tennyson.
'1. Prayer is the ascent of the soul.
Cod must be eyed and the soul employ
ed. "Fp with your hearts;" was an
ciently used as a call to devotion (Ilen-
'")
8. We should act with as much en
ergy as if we expected everything from
ourselves; and we should pray with as
mueli earnestness as if we expected ev
erything from Cod (Fuller).
1. The perseverance iu prayer which
the Saviour commands on this occasion,
must be well distinguished Irom the
"praying without ceasing" of which
Paul speaks (1 Thess. f: 17). The lat
ter is a continual prayerfiilness and liv
ing of the soul in connection with (iod,
even when it has nothing definite to on
tieat. The former, on the other hand,
is persevering prayer for something
which one does not immediately receive,
but as to which, nevertheless, we may
expect that (iod will give it to us iu
His own time and way (Luke l: 1-S).
( Van Oo-tcr.ec. )
r. Christians often have little faith iu
prayer as a power iu real life. Any uu
pervertcd mind will conceive of the
Scriptural idea of prayer as that one of
the most downright, sturdy realities iu
the universe. It has, and (iod lias de
termined that it should have, a positive
and an appreciable influence in directing
the course of a human life. 1 1 is, and
iod has purposed that it should be, a
link of connection between the human
mind and the divine mind, by which,
through His infinite condescension, wc
may actually move His will. It is, and
Cud has decreed that it should bo, a
power as distinct, as real, as natural,
and as uniform, as the power of gravita
tion, or of light, or of electricity. A
man may use it as trustingly, and a
soberly, as he would use either of those
( Phelps).
Ii. The prayer is always hoard. We
lead in the glorious old Creek poet of
prayers w hich, before they reached the
portals of heaven, were scattered by the
winds; and indeed there are some pray
ers so deeply opposed to the will of (iod,
so utterly alien to the true interests of
men, that, nothing could happen bettor
for lis than that (iod should refuse,
nothing more terrible than that He
should grant them iu anger. So that,
if we pray for any earthly blessing, we
must pray for il solely "if it be (toil's
will," "if it be for our highest good;"
lmt for all the best, things we limy pray
w ii bout misgi ving.wit'iotit reservation,
certain that ifwea.nkCod will grant
litem. No ma ti ever yet a-ked lobe, as
tin- day pas hy,Jmore and more noble,
and sweet and pure, and hoavoiily
ni i ii I -I I ; no iiinu ever yet prayed Ihat
the evil spiritsof hatred, and pride, and
pas-ion ami w orhllinoss, might he ral
out of hi soul without his petition be
ing granted, and granted to the letter.
Ami with nil other gifts (iod then gives
us His own self beside lie makes us
know llim, and love llim, and live in
1 1 int. "Thou hat written well of me,'
said the Vision to the great (earlier of
Aqiiiuum ; " What reward dost Ihou
desire ?" "Xwi alinm nixi It; Itumiiic
none other that thyself. Lord!'' was
the meek and rapt reply (Furrar).
FREAKS OF THE CONNECTICUT
TORN AIM .
Some curious incidents are related to
show the character of the moving col
umn of wind. Somi after it started it
appears to have hounded over, as it
were, one house, and again on the hill
to have bounded over two houses. That
the water in the lake was bodily lifted
is shown by the mud on houses a mile
away mud which was taken from the
bottom of the hike. Captain Mix's
theory is that the two storms, one from
the north west and the other from the
south-west, met at an obtus- angle, ami
that the direction of the tornado was not
the resultant of the two lines, but that
one was the heavier storm and prevailed
over the other.
A cow had her horns knocked or
blown off. Fifty-two chickens were ta
ken from one- place, and they hr .-e not
been heard of. Two hogs, each weigh
ing JoO pounds, were carried a quarter
of a mill! and not hurt.
These facts show the. force of the tor
nado: A wooden splinter was driven
through a lead water-pipe; a shingle
was driven through four and a half inch
es of wood; some of the houses had holes
through them as if pieces of wood had
been shot through them endwise.
Upon the lake was only one person,
Daniel Reilly, in a boat. Stricken by
fear, he hurried to the shore, but the
commotion of the waters cast him and
his boat sixty feet high and dry beyond
thf b ach, and, receding, left him bruis
ed and battered and suffering from a
shock whose effects may never leave
him. New JIaoen Palladium.
If there had not been such a thing as
goodness, 1 should long ago have given
up all hope of earthly good. If not
such a thing as grace, 1 should long ago
have given up the hojic of heaven. But
goodness, grace, the merits of Christ for
nothing, have been ami forever must lie
the rock on which wc perishing souls
must rest. Rutlverford.
The Michigan Advocate gives the
reasons why Conference cannot receive
all young men seeking admission, be
cause "we have now no young men who
will remain single for a period, anil
thus make for themselves a place." It
says candidates are wanted to break;
"new ground.'
ILLFSTRATIYE TRl'THS
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