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Vol. xxxi. no is THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. ESTABLISHED 1855 uot and lullislier. , Jj - Fo. he Advocate. our CJilderoy betters. UK UEAKS SAM JONES. The two Sams Jones, and Small, had i t meeting in coiumous. oucn a r1 . . oa np.ver known before in frr nerhans. the meeting I Siier Jones held in Corinth last year. lx whole communty was stirred as by Vhtv cyclone. All classes ot citi 8 young and old, white and black, 'Taml poor, educated and uneducated, !t and finners, were stirred by the htv power of God. People from all D1r4 of the State nocked to the meeting Sde in pairs, by tens, huudreds and f iiiul. The preachers of our own : V-hmvliGs noured into the citv U'H v --jr. rI fi hear these evangelists. J.ne cnurcn were tilled, packed, crammed and lined at every service. Sam Small peached at our Church and Jones at Neither of them was in good preach- r trim, Both needed rest. The long Seat at Chicago had, evidently, been a treat tax upon them. Brother Jones verv deliberate in his delivery. He rami flat-footed, firmly, and talks to the people. He is not given to vocifer ation or violent gesticulation. His moderation in these particulars enables v-n to preach twice and thrice daily for .v iit a time. He depends more on the power of truth to win men to Christ L 011 vehemence of speech. I believe than cream once during the meet Jj. t He is a man 01 remnrwiuiB een Dseion, and he is uttlery indifferent to attitudes. Brother Jones' style is remarkably simple and clear. Children, Thev know exactly wnai ne i fciviug at. Even the slang worus auu phrases used by him seem to be strong in the setting he gives them. One preacher, a D.D., a cultivated man, the LcUptnfonenfoiu- Colleges, went to hear brother Jones declaring "the Holv Ghost did not inspire slang and Cod" will not bless slang." He left say iiT, I run up the wliite flag, I sur render.' When brother Jones wants tp he speaks as correctly, as accurately tfud far more forcibly than any man I tver heard. His power of condensation 4-of compacting a paragraph into a proverb, I never saw equaled by any jie. Some of his sayings are full of light and yet they pierce like an arrow and n-ip the heart and conscience like a Hce. une or tne nrstmeu iu mis oiaic, ahawver.a Christian, a self-poised man, himself an orator, went to hear Brother piles, determined not to be taken in the toils of enthusiam which had half qrazed other people, as he thought. But Brother Jones had not been speaking ten minutes when he turned baby like tie rest and gave vent to a torrent of tears. I don't know how it is, why it is. but some how Brother Jones gets in die of a man at once. There seems to be no eflbrt at word painting, nothing like Beautifully rounded periods, nothing ar tistic, and", yet, some of his pictures are absolutely "perfect. This is specially true of Ins illustrations. Brother Jones is hardly ever spoken ot as a great preacher",and yet he is a great preacher. His style is so simple, apparently so artless, so clear, so natural, and what fie says seems so perfectly true, just liat "you always thought, but never heard said before that the average earer fails to note the profound truths uttered by the preacher. He disclaimes jheology, but he is a theologian all the same, ""if he were not well read in the ology he could not preach as he does, fie knows his business. His lance is leveled against error in every form and he knows where the joints of the har ness are. His bullets go straight to the mark. They hit, hurt and kill too. Brother Jones is a Methodist and an irminian of the 44 most straitest sect" as is evident from his preaching.He deals iith the human side of Christ and re ligionsays he does not know much about the Divine side of these things. His picture of great D. D's sitting on &e bank of a creek fishing, year in and year out. with a fine limeric hook, and iflk line and silver tinned rod, was mirth Etovokiug. He asked, 44 Doctor, have ypu caught any fish ? No. but I've got some of' the finest bites you ever saw. Poor fellow," said Brother Jones, 44 he has mistaken a nibble for a bite or pos sibly the waves have been bobbing his c6rk"upand down." He urged these Doctors and all others to throw down .their hooks and lines and quit fishing on W Divine side and help to cast in the net on the other side of the ship where the fishes are. 44 Grab the net and let's pbll for the shore," he said with an fiinphasis niifl n notion that, moved everv hprt. It is clear water that appears td be Shnllrvw niirl mnrldvw'lffir tllflt f!T- ars to be deep. Many people, and sjme preachers, mistake mud for depth. 4 muddy preacher often gets credit for ofing very profound -when in fact he is JjjLv very profoundly muddy that's all. re is not an inch of mud or slush ang the line of one of Brother Jones' sii'mons. fllis texts are simple, plain, those Jf understood those that concern and salvation from sin. His ex peditions of the word are simple, Pf in and forceful. Brother Jones is uncommon man who has the good fttse to adapt his preaching to com- ju men, common people, and these him orlarllv. Without, twiner to - 0 j - j o - uate Brother Jones for imitation uld be contemptible we'allmiffht v to be more simple, more earnest, iPre personal, more direct in our leaching. We too often shoot above 16 hearts and clear over the heads of f$r people. We waste our ammunition on the empty air. We should aim low l i i i i 1 even wiieu our aims are nign as nign as the human soul and God and heaven. Man in his natural state is on a very low piano and we must not shoot above him. Brother Jones says some things and preaches against some sins in a plain way that gives offense to some people. I noticed, however, that those who were indulging in these forms of sin whined the most and were most concerned for absolute purity ot speech in the pulpit those most given to vulgarity were the readiest to call Brother Jones vulgar. Well, that is natural. As long as the preacher don't hit me I don't care how hard he hits A. and B. Brother Jones says : " It is the dog that's hit that howls." ' Well, I've thought this presentation of Brother Jones and his preaching might not be without profit to younger men in the ministry I do not aim to putT or blow Brother Jones, but I want to do good to men. I went to hear Brother Jones to study him, his methods, to see if I could make am' improvement in mv preaching. 1 think I can. I'll try try hard. Xours, GlLDEROY. For the Advocate. Letter From Ex-Gov. Sloideia. Dear Brother Reid : You are kind enough to send me a copy of your paper every week, free of charge, which I pe ruse with much interest. This is no doubt because I am a veteran Editor. I am one of your most faithful readers. Your correspondence is especially in structive and interesting. I first read your editorials, next the deaths, and then your communications. For a com paratively young Editor, you have ac quired the fortunate habit of saying much in little. You do not waste your words. You are direct, candid, always clear, and not unfrequently you utter eloquent thoughts and sentiments mingl-. ed with genuine, harmless humor. Two of your correspondents are my old and much loved friends. I refer to Rev. Dr. John E. Edwards and to Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems. I rhave known both these excellent and gifted men a long, long time ; Dr. Edwards when he was first on the Wake Circuit in 1837, and Dr. Deems, at the Conference in Raleigh, in 1840. I believe Dr. Edward's first Circuit was the Iredell Circuit. He went on horse back, as did Christopher Thomas, to Xewbern, and Mr. Doggett, afterwards Bishop, to Mattamuskeet from Rich mond, Va., and Leroy M. Lee to Plymouth, previously to this time, which was in 1835 ; and on his way, at Salisbury, he stopped with the then youthful, but now venerable John C. Palmer, of Raleigh. There was then but a handful of Methodists in Salisbury; now, their name is almost legion. Mr. Palmer came to Raleigh in 1840. I have heard Dr. Edwards refer to his great embarrassment on being required to preach for the first time before his Presiding Elder, Rev. Moses Brock. As the speaker of the House of Delegates of Virginia said on a memorable oc casion to George Washington, 44 his modesty alone was equal to his merit." Mr. Brock was stern in look and man ner, but had a kind heart, and of course he encourftged the timid young man. Who that now has the good fortune to hear Dr. Edwards, with his thorough command of language, his self-posses-siOn, and his rich, rapid and rippling style, imagines that he was ever timid or embarassed before an audience ? Dr. Deems appeared first in Raleigh, at a Conference, in 1840. The Rev. John Todd Brame was the stationed minister. On Suuday night he was called upon to lead in prayer. The Church was crowded. The young man was almost totally unknown. But such a prayer ! For simplicity, beauty of diction, and Divme unction and power the people present had never heard it equalled. The venerable Dr. Simmons J. Baker, who resided in the Western Ward, in the house now occupied by Mr. James D. Rojster, came forward and asked that the young man stay with him. At the close of the prayer, there was a buzz of inquiry all through the house as to who the stranger was. Your last paper, under the head of 44 Virginia Conference," contains a most interesting letter from Dr. Edwards. I am especially delighted with his beauti ful tribute to Spring. It has the ring of the old, old time, when he spoke and wrote with so fine a descriptive power. I remember well the character of his sermons more than forty years ago. His style was full of figures. His de livery was very rapid, even moie so than that of Col. Duncan Iv. McRae, who is still the most accomplished orator in North Carolina. I do know whether he wrote out his sermons or not, but it is probable he did, as he never wanted or waited for a word. I remember once he had to preach a sermon to the color ed people. The custom was to give them the Church every Sunday evening, and some one led the execises and preached to them. Dr. Edwards was troubled as to what his manner and style should be on the occasion, and he asked my opinion about it. I told him his language should be as simple as possible, as plain and as simple as the language of the New Testament. He adopted the suggestion, and talked to his congregation about forty minutes with great beauty and power. This showed his genius. It proved his readi ness as a speaker, for I know he had neither time nor opportunity to write RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY and commit to memory what he said. x no cmoreu people were deeply attach ed to him. Thev were then lp.d bv snp.h men as Handy Lockett, Roger Foster, Harry Smith, Sam Gales and Henry Hunter, .now all dead, and their spirits in Paradise, with that of " old George Smith," who was then the humblest and most consecrated Christian in Raleigh. The people of Raleigh would like to see Dr. Edwards once more, and hear him in the pulpit and on the platform. Will he come ? We understand he has been written to and asked to come some time during this month. W. W. H0LDEN. RaUegh, X. C, May 3rd, 1886. For the Advocate. Our Virginia Correspondence. BY REV. JOHN E. EDWARDS, D. D. THE GENERAL CONFERENCE. The General Conference will have convened and made a week's progress in its deliberations before this letter meets the eye of tke reader in the col umns of the Advocate. Along with the letter will probably appear an ac count of the organization on the 5th of May the appointment of the standing committees the presentaion of the Bishop's qurdrennial address, and oth er matters preliminary to the work of the Conference. In looking over the list of the families extending private hospitality to the delegates, clerical and lay, the some what singular feature is revealed, to one acquainted with Richmond, that not more than three or four families, in the city, outside of the Methodist Church, have opened their doors for the entertainment of the delegates during the Conference. This is, perhaps, to be accounted for on the ground that the custom has prevailed in Richmond for many years, for each denomination to entertain its delegates and visitors on the occasion of their great Assemblies, Associations, Councils, etc., without applying to other denominations for aid in the way of private entertainment. This too will account for the fact that so many of the delegates to the Gener al Conference are assigned to hotels and private boarding houses. Happily, all are provided for ; and, it is hoped general satisfaction will be given to the delegates and visitors. local option. The " no license" party met with an overwheling defeat at the elections held in Richmond, and in Lynchburg, on the 26th of April. Of course the liquor men, and those opposed to local option are jubilant over this triumph.But, the 44 no license"party are not discouraged. They say, 44 might is not right;" but, that 44 right is might," in the long run. The vote was precipitated in Richmond, and Lynchburg, by the liquor party. The friends of local option did not have time to organize and bring their full force to the polls. Withal, the negroes, to a very great extent, voted with the license party. The danger, just now, in Virginia is, that the question of local option will run into politics. This has been deprecated by the temperance party, and a strong protest was entered against it by the local option conven tion held in Lynchburg ; but, despite all these efforts, the trend is in that di rection. The securlar press, in the State ; especially in Richmond, Lynch burg, and Danville, with some honor able exceptions is very pronunced, not to say bitter, in the denunciation of the preachers for taking an active part in fovor of the local option movement. This form of opposition will do much to drive the question into politics. There is no help for it. Bar-room candidates will not be supported by the 44 no license" party. Independent candidates as temperance men, will be put in the field. That is the talk, at present. waiting. Just at this point in my letter I am somewhat at a loss for something to write about. But, it is the day on which I usually receive several Church papers, and I have but to wait an hour or two and I will be full to overflowing with the subjects of the hour. It is useless to write essays, for the weekly papers on moral questions, and on vex ed questions in theology. Living issues the questions of to-day, form the top ics that most interest the readers of a weekly religious paper. And just here let me return my thanks to the large number of the readers of the Raleigh Christian Advocate, who have written to me expressing their pleasure in the perusal of my rambling letters. Here and there, an old friend, almost forgotten the acquaintance of other vears, revives pleasant recollections of events connected with my early ministry, by a friendly letter. These little re minders sweeten the task of writing, and in some sort enable me to conjure up an imaginary personage to whom my letter is addressed: Indeed, it is a habit with me, in writing for the press, to have an imaginary personage, in my mind's eye, to whom my correspondence is addressed. This personage helps me by interrogations, and sometimes by challenging the correctness of what I write. PROMISCUOUS NOTES. Rev. L. L. Nash, from the Leasburg Circuit, N. C. Conference, has spent the greater part of the last two weeks in preaching for Dr. Starr, at Main St. Church, in Danville, in the exercises of a protracted meeting. Some considera ble measure of success has attended the meeting thus far, and Brother Nash has won tor himself the high esteem of the congregation bv his zeal and earnest ness in the proclamation of the gospel, and carries with him the thanks of the pastor for the valuable assistance ren dered in the labors of the meeting. The 44 Danville College for young ladies" is getting ready for the final examinations, and beginning the preparations for the Commencement exercises, now only four weeks distant. There will be but two full graduates the first to receive the honors of this young institution. The year has been successful. The catalogue will show an increase over any previous year. Proiessors J3Iackwell and Sharp, tne joint Jrrmcipais ot the College, are giving proof of their high qualifications lor the successful management of a Col lege for young ladies. The Commence ment promises to be an occasion of un usual interest, liie fieriau Society is getting up a programme of exercises for tneir annual celebration tnat gives promise oi rare intertainment. It so happens that the two Female Colleges in Danville will hold their Commence ment exercises at the same time, begin ning with the Annual Sermon on Sun day, 30th of May, and closing on Wed nesday night, June 2nd. The indica tions are that nearly all the preachers in the V a. Conference, first and last will pay a visit to Richmond during the session ot the General Conference. It seems that a general revival influence followed the visit of Moody and Sankey at Norfolk. All the Churches in the city, with a few exceptions, have shar ed in the refreshing and converting visi tations of the Holy Spirit, following the religious services conducted by those world-renowned evangelists. Large ad ditions have been made especially to the Methodist, Baptist and Presby terian Churches. At the present time Danville seems to be the focal point to which, a half dozen more or less o new railroad enterprises are converg ing ; or, from which, they are diverg mg. The excitement is, all the time at fever heat. The tobacco business wnicn is tne great leading interest o this thriving ilittle city on the Dan. is iust now very dull. Tabacco is low This, as a matter of course more than the agitation of the local option ques tion, is having a depressing effect upon the general business of the place. Our Churches are all in a healthful religious condition. The several prayer meetings in the city, inducted bv the "laity. are' better attended than anv meetings o the kind 1 have ever known. In addi tion to the regular weekly prayer meet ings, of the Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian Churches, there is held, every two weeks, a young men's union prayer meeting, which is largely attend ed. Danville, Va., May 1st, 1886. For the Advocate. Rminiscences of Chapel Hill. More Than Fifty Years Ago. BY REV. SOLOMON LEA. 1 nope it will not be regarded as im proper to give a brief sketch of the Faculty with incidents and anecdotes connected with them. First, then, Dr. Caldwell, the President of the College' claims our attention.During the time the writer was there, the Dr. was old and quite feeble, 3-et he was able to attend to his duties and was always punctual. In physique, he was of medium size, perfectly erect, clear complexion, bald head with a sprinkling of gray and white hairs, piercing eyes, large nose, promi nent eye-brows, lips firm and compress ed, indicating decision of character. In his palmy days he was doubtless a very handsome man, as he was fine looking in ins old age. JYientany ne was un questionably a strong man, and worthy of the position he occupied. As a teacher, he stuck close to the text books, seldom making remarks outside of the author. I never heard him de liver an extemporaneous or a written lecture, in the recitation room. In his government of the College, he was firm, absolute and I might say severe. The boys were afraid of him, and gave him a very ugly nick name 44 Bolus," con tracted as I suppose, from Diabolus, the devil. How, when and where he receiv ed this epithet I do not know ; but this I do know, the boj'S never called him by any other name among themselves. As a preacher he was clear, concise, logical, but wanting in pathos. He always used his manuscript. Many anecdotes were told about the Dr. We will sketch one or two. Some of the boys had formed a plot to pull his carriage some distance and hide it. The Dr. got wind of it some how and as soon as it was dark he secreted himself inside and there waited for de velopments. Here they came by the dozen, some pulling, others shoving and all for fun. Not a word was said by him who was secreted inside. He too enjoyed the fun of having a good ride. And now after tugging very hard for some half an hour or more, they agreed to stop and disperse when, to tneir sur prise and astonishment, the Dr. rose up and exclaimed aloud, 44 Gentlemen, you will please pull me back again." And at it they went with a vim. I never heard that the Dr. took any further no tice of it. Once a cousin of the writer who was noted for his fun and wit was parading one of the long passages in the College building making a good deal of noise, perhaps having taken a little too much of the 44 overjoyful." The Dr. by chance, or it may have been by design was walking along the same passage. 12, t88. It was dark, the Dr. caught him by the coat and at the same time my cousin seized the Dr. pulling him along to his il I 1 j1 x ?i room, no sooner did ne discover tnat it was Dr. Caldwell, than he made a low bow, remarking at the same time, Dr. I reallv thousrht vou were a nigger. " It was enough, it completely disarmed him. Nothing was ever done to the naughty boy. And now I hope I may be excus ed for telling a little incident connected with myself. It was a custom in Col lege for the students in the Senior class to deliver a speech during the session before graduation. Nullification was all the rage in the political world at that time. The writer too caught the fever. He wrote his speech in favor of nullification, and as he was afraid to show it to one of the Professors to be criticized,which was required, he hand ed it to one of the Tutors to be correct ed. This Tutor wa from the same county and a special friend of the youth ful nullifier. The Tutor looked over it and permitted it to pass. It was com mitted to memory. The time had ar rived for its delivery. The chapel was full of students and visitors, some from South Carolina, the hot-bed of nullifica tion. The Faculty were all present. The speeches were all delivered and listened to with attention, attended with no applause except the nullifica tion speech, which was greeted with loud applanse by the students ; upon which Dr. Caldwell immediately sprang to his feet, struck the floor several times with his cane with a vim, shaking his head violently, exclaiming at the same time, 44JNone of that, none ot that Down sat the crest fallen orator, trembling lest he should get a severe reprimand from the highly-offended Dr. Nothing, however, was ever said to him about it. I have now a most vivki recollection ot the whole scene, and see" how foolish it was to attempt to make a speech contrary to the rules o the College. The Power of Sacred Song. The story is told of a Grecian mother who saw her child on the brink of a pre cipice. To shout to it might only quick en its vagrant feet to wander closer to the edge, or startle it with fear, so as to cause it to tottle over. She lifted her melodious voice to a favorite hymn, and lured the little one back to her side. So many a sinner has been led to Christ. In the Moodv meetings at Dublin, a gentleman over seventy years of age fell on his knees weeping like a child, con fessing that he came there utterly indif ferent the evening before, but that he heard 4 "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by." 44 1 can not sleep. If not saved now I never shall be." In Philadel phia, Dr. Sheppard said that this song was the most eloquent sermon he ever heard. A prominent Chicago politici can, who was a victim of drink, going from bad to worse, chanced to hear this hymn. It was the arrow chosen of God. He became a Christian. An aged sinner in Scotland was awakened by the same and said, 44 It went through me like an electric shock." Another white-haired man of dissipated habits heard Sankey sing, 4Too late will be the cry, Jesus of Nazareth hath passed by," and was prostrated with fear and trembling. He, too, came to Jesus. A missionary going to establish a mission in South Africa stopped in a Zulu hut by the way, and the first thing I heard was 4 Hold the Fort' sung in the Rulu tongue." The preaching of song had preceded the missionary. In an English theater, during the Moody meetings, a humorist dared to ridicule the evangelists in a song and was hiss ed off the stage. In a Dublin theater one clown asked the other, 44 How d'ye feel?" 44 Rather Moody," said one; 44 Rather Sankeymonious," said the other. This was met with hisses, and the audience of theater-going people took np 4 Hold the Fort," and sung it with grand effect as a reproof. Even Satan rebukes sin sometimes. Lord Shaftesbury said that if the evangelists had done no more than to teach his countrymen that hymn, they had done an immeasurable good. Moody once told the tale of a ship wreck at the mouth of Cleveland har bor. The pilot saw but one light, the lower lights having gone out. The ves sel mistook the channel and crashed up on the rocks. Many a life was lost. P. P. Bliss took the hint and wrote the popular hymn and melody both, 44 Let the lower lights be burning." 44 Light in the darkness, sailor, day is at hand!" by the same, is the poetic version of a scene from real life where the rescued sailors said that their only alternative was to 44 Leave the old stranded wreck and pull for the shore. The burning of Chicago inspired this same song-writer to compose 44 Billow of Fire." The last melody he wrote was 44 Hold Fast till I Come," words by his wife, just before both of them were caught up in a bil low of fire iu the burning of the train at Ashtabula, December 29, 1876. The last words he sung in public before that tragedy were prefaced by, 44 1 don't know that I shall ever sing here again, but I want to sing, as the language of nry heart : " 'I know not the hour my Lord will come To take me away to his own dear home, But I know that his presence will lighten the gloom, And that will be glory for me .' " In the darkness of a December night, in the midst of a blinding snow-storm, the train plunged through a bridge seventv feet and burned up. When last seen before they reached that dath-trap, 88. OO PER AXyWJl laynlIe in Advance Mr. Bliss sat with his Bible and a pencil in his hand, composing a 113-mn or music. It was his sacrmantal hymn. Only God knows the melody of that un sung sonnet. Maggie Lindsay, a sweet Scotch lassie of seventeen, was converted at the Moody meetings, December, 31, 1873 and January 27, 1874, met her fate in a railway wreck, near Linlithgow. She was reading Sankey's hymn, and had the leaf turned down to the lines, t-IlV , ace um stands ajar." Little did she dream that she to enter "through its portals gleaming," one of the Kind's rinncrh having just received her weddin" o-nr- ment. The last hymns my dear class mate, Dr. Goodell. at St. T out 111 church the. mVhf fl.o closed his hps forever here below, were ulc ucavGuiy lana. He seemed full ot joy, yet little knowing that in a few hours he would be gladder vet. wi tli in the gates. Let us, therefore, make life a rehearsal of the songs of heaven. It will sweeten life's jovs and soften its pains and sanctify ur lips for the song of Moses and the Lamb. Prof. E. P. Thowing. For the Advocate. "When Shall It Be Done?" BY PROF. N. B. HENRY. In the Advocate of April 25th, Rev. D. II. Tuttle writes a very sensible ar-' tide on the k4 Ordination of our Min utes," and asks, When shall it be done?" If I may be permitted to ex cept the reference to the 44 ecclesiastical dude," I heartily concur in what Bro. Tuttle says, and would like to apply his query, 44Avhen shall it be done?" to the doing away with the examination in the case of those of our candidates for the ministry who are graduates. Why should not a diploma from any recogniz ed College in good standing, stand in lieu of the examination . on the literary course ? Then if he is a graduate of an accepted Theological school, why any examination on the Theological course? And if a graduate of both, why any ex amination at all ? Why not, instead of requiring such candidates to spend nearly all their time in preparing them selves to stand examinations on certain books, take their diplomas for the ex amination, and allow the young preach er to devote all his time .to 'his pastor ate, his sermons and general culture ? We have just such a preacher in charge of the Chapel Hill work. Not withstanding he is a graduate of the State University, and spent two years studying Theology at Vanderbilt, he must prepare to be examined upon 44 the books,"1' for no amount of knowl edge will do him any good unless he can 44 pass on the books." I know that when he ought to be studying his ser mons ; when he ought to be visiting the members of his flock and instructing them ; when he ought to be hunting up unsaved souls ; when he ought to be wrestling with God in prayer for an out pouring of His holy Spirit, he finds himself tied down with these books. He knows very well that a certain number will be given him from which lie will be expected to repeat the text and give the firstly, the secondly, the thirdly, etc., of the sermon which the number repre sents. I raise no objection to the fact that our preachers are required to complete a good course of study before they are admitted into full connection ; but I do contend that he who completes this course in a good College or Univer sity can do it at least as well as he who does it without assistance and while he is serving as pastor ; and that his work as an itinerant preacher ought not to be interfered with by requiring him to take the second time the same course 01 stud-. While our Conferences thus ignore the work of their own schools, how can the Church expect its members to lise to a proper appreciation of these schools ? The members certainly can not be censured for taking the same view of these Colleges the Church her self seems to take ; i. e. that the Col leges do not give sufficient culture. Chapel Hill, X. C, May 4th, 188G. flow Did Vou Like The Sermon ! Let us, if only for the sake of variety, change this trite commentary on our Sunday engagements. How did you enjoy the praj-ers ? How did the read ing of God's World affect you ? How much reality did 3-ou feel in confessing your sins ? How many of your sick, wear-, sorrowful and sinful friends did you remember on your knees? How much did your thoughts go with the hymns you sung? How much did you pra- that the servant of God might be blessed in his word, and that your own soul might be humbled and assured in the love of Christ ? And how far has the prayer been answered ? O, but you say, these are really private questions. Then put them to yourself, dear friend. In all charity believe that your broth er desires to hold only Christ's truth : but do make sure that you hold it your ' self, whether he holds it or not. This is the best undenominationalism in the j world Spur y eon. The Methadist Times, of London, Eng land, has an appreciative notice of Jones and Small, and of their work in Cincin nati and Chicago. Mr. Jones was not much known a year ago, and Mr. Small was an unconverted man. Now the fame of their evangelistic work is spreading around the world.
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