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MLTK VALLKV.
:ue in the midst of the fabu
of California. The Sacra
.vY unrolling before us a
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lous fruits
meuto
panorama i v;i-l w neat uuui, uitiuuu?
vineyards, chimps of oaks and long lines
of eucaiypuis. With a large pear in
one hamfaud the other tilled with grapes
wo exclaim m the language oi'Sheoa:
The half had never been told." Tf
the dream of Joaquin Miller can ever
be realized in the irrigation of this val
ley its fame will eelip.se the records of
the Nile.
Our next astonishment is the magni
tude and g.-eat pulse throb of the Solano
at Veueiia said to be the largest
ferry-boat in the world, over the San
Pablo bay. Vv ith four engines, burning
coal oil, carrying numbers of loaded
trains and 1 eomotives at a time, with
& capacity, seemingly unlimited.
Tae bewildering din of the hotel run
ners a lid hack drivers at San Francisco
renewed memories of a painful predica
ment during our first voyage from a
humble country home in boyhood. With
the Mm
uai-k vi ii
total
of
e ar t hi y possessions
an old Cumberland mountain
trunk, which had uoateu uown imou-n
teveral "-reiterations, we landed in St.
Louis. Tiit; Old City of Philadelphia'"
had scareeiiy touched port when a dozen
porters were pulling at that trunk, and
as many more seizing hold of the owner.
For many days it was an unexplained
mystery "how so many passengers walk
ed" oil' that steamer unmolested when a
boy was the central object of a score of
hotel pirates. Now the problem is a
very simple one. We only remain
dumb and press straight forward, we run
the gauntlet with all ease. At the foot
of Market Street we step into a cable
car which soon halts at the door of the
Palace Hotel, our home, headquarters
during our stay on the Golden Shore.
Our first detour is up the Santa Rosa
and Russian river valley. Like most of
the aile3-s ot this state it holds a sur
prise of beauty and fecundity : After
yisitiug almost every 1100k and corner
of these United States none has afford
ed so many agreeable disappointments
as California. It is one of the few
countries which. as Emerson would say,
44 conies up 1 the brag." In this valley
we lino many Missouriaus, designated
here by the name of 44 Pikers." Dur
ing th imigration of I84G so many
tame from Pike county as to give this
name to the State.
At Santa Rosa the Southern Metho
dists have a prospeious college, the au
tumn term of which opens propitiously.
Passing the little city of Patalnma we
were charmed with its musical name ;
thinking it must have some such beau
: tiful significance as Minnehaha or
Shenandoah. We turned to a serious
looking man and asked the origin and
etymology of the name. lie answered
gravely that 44 the first settler and own
er of the land was Pat Looney and Pata
luma is only an abreviation or corrup
tion of his name." Thus, with one
stroke of an Irish shelalah,all the poetry
was gone.
At Cloverdaie we take stage for the
Geysers. Here we meet a friend and
admirer of the author a 4 4 California
Sketches. "lie thinks the natural history
ef the advocate and the sketch, s sound
much less apocryphal to one who reads
West of the Sierras. We passed the old
home of the genial author in San Fran
cisco, where time is weaving a beauti
ful veil over the red brick front. Prob
abilities are often much enhanced by a
fciteht change of angle in the stand-point
of " hearing or seeing. Yesterday an
English preacher puzzled me in describ
ing" Mr. Spurgeon on Palm Sanday
o-otng into his pulpit with palm leaves
111 his hands and a crown on his head.
Then atter preaching came down head
over heels. This seemed a very improb
able utterance, yet every church-going
Christian witnesses a similar feat al
most every Sunday in the year.
One hundred miles north of San Fran
cisco at an elevation of 2,000 feet in the
coast range we reach the geysers, smok
ing like a mountain of slacking lime.
Here nature prodigally puffs her medi
cated steam from a hundred vents or
safety valves, iron, coperas, salts and
toda boil, snout and sputter a great
natural laboratory of mineral munifi
cence,
region
The nomenclature of this
is very suggestive. The ap-
proaeh is up Pluton river, through Sul
phur can o;;. After scalding a hand in
the Devil's Tea Kettle, and a slippery
nassage through the Devil's Machine
shop,' we pass his inkstand, pulpit, arm
chair, and postoilice. Then following
the river Styk through the Devil's can
vnn : concluding our investigations with
" steam bath, amid the thick clouds of
sAilnhurous vapor arising from the boil
inir pools, vividly impressed with the
possible proximity of hades.
In the early morning, seated with the
driver on a four-horse stage, we go
dashing across the mountain to the
head of Nappa valley. With the, horses
in a sweeping gallop on many of the
sharp curves, high on the mountain
side, ii was much like traveling in a
balloon. Arriving at Calistoga for bite
dinner, we iivd ourselves in an ideal
- Swis.-; town, lied roofed houses, villas
and nurseries nestling against the
mountain sides. The rushing streams,
the f.iuua an 1 flora. A few glaciers
sliding down the canyons would make
the picture-complete.
At St. Helena, a Raptist convention
t was dispersing, many of the delegates
coming aboard of the train. Among
tbe number was the veteran old knight, j
Dr. O. C. Whaler, a walking and talk-I
inn encyclopedia of
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passed, are too many v:ts
vinevards. for the p'op'---
1 i . we
wineries am!
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soon conic uit oh the unn Jitgn groit.
However, the day wil1, tloubi'ess, eme
when thee grapes wil! be turned is. to
raisons. imd feed th'; world instead ot
drowning it. There is too much money
in makiii.r and sellinir for the greed of
gain to relinquish it without a great 1
struggle.
Our next excursion was via. the
Southern Pacific, down through the ex
tended wheat fields and wind mills of
the San Joauuin Valley to Rereuda,
thence by branch road to its terminu.
Raymond, where the inevitable six
horse stage confronts us, with sixty
miles of fatigue and dust between us
and the. Yosemite Valley. It is difficult
for an eastern person to realize or im
agine the depths of the dust, when rains
are six mouths apart. The low massive
bunch oaks, the open spaces, the ab
sence of undergrowth, the meadow like
apearance of those foot-hills and moun
tains, and the dry, wild flowers, all
seem familiar at first sight to those con
versant with the pen pictures of Joaquin
Miller.
The first settlers of this country must
have been a pretty wild set, judging
from the wild oats now growing over
Mountains, dale and plain. Doctor
Milburn used to say sententiously that
ki he who sows wild oats must reap
wild oats-" Rut many here are reap
ing without sowing. This is the prin
cipal hay baled and shipped as a valu
able commodity.
Our first impression of the Yosemite
was somewhat disappointing, for we were
weary and surrounded by the chatter of
thirteen human tongues. To appreci
ate a wonder like this, you must get
away from human chatter without and
hush the world within you. Then, with
the inner ear of the soul wide open, God
may be heard to speak. Like Niagara
Falls and the MammothCave.it requires
a little time to grow up to a capacity to
appreciate. These three are the trinity
of American wonders. The one a roar
ing emphasis of God's omnipotence soft
eued by his perpetual bow of peace
which glorifies its cliffs. The cave is
as silent as the grave, but eloquent as
the Psalmist, every crystal proclaiming:
The hand that made me is divine" !
In this valley we walk in a temple ten
miles long and a mile wide with perpendi
cular granite cliffs many thousand feet,
upholding a canopy of blue, studded
with waterfalls and festooned with frag
ments of rainbows. The pine cones,
the crags, the winds, the waterfalls
pouring an eolian chant through all the
hours of night in such a temple sleep
ing ! After midnight we arose, dressed
and walked alone amid the awful grau
deur. The first thought was that the
granite ledges of all the mountains had
come to resurrection and were pale and
dumb before the Lord. The towers,
the domes, the spires, the battlements,
the arches, the white clouds of solid
granite surging up into the air and come
to 4i everlasting anchor till the moun
tains shall be moved." You hear the
winds intoning in choral galleries a
mile above your head, and the crash of
water as 01 cataracts m the skr. You
trample upon broad shadows that have
fallen thousands of feet down " like the
cast-off garments of descending hight."
Just after the dawn we reached a little
church built by the State Sunda3-school
Association of California. Resting on
the front steps we sat and gazed up to
the moon resting like a great Soltaire
on Sentinel Dome. The Pleiades were
hanging like a coronet of diamonds up
on the brow of El Capitan. The great
Dipper swinging down as if reaching for
the waters of Mirror lake. The wind
was blowing loops in the Bridal Veil
Falls forming, as it were, a sort of lace
ladder for Angelic feet, ascending and
decending from earth beneath to their
home on high.
As we sat there upon the steps of the
little chapel, wondering how an unpeni
tent soul could ever thoughtfully meet
its God in such a place, the clarion voice
of fowls for miles began to herald the
dawn of day. What a sermon they
were preaching on the denial of Peter,
and when memory and conscience sud
denly reverted to our owTn denials in
sins of omission and half hearted ser
vice, we suddenly burst into a flood of
tears. Lifting our eyes to the spire of
the little church pointing so calmly in
to the blue heavens we ott'ored a pray
er of thanksgiving for His church, for
His long suffering, His loving kindness,
and tender mercies" to the sons of men.
In the light of the early gloaming the
following lines wTe read on the church
door :
' The hills of God support the skies;
To God let adoration rise,
Let hills and He.ivenly Host
Pr-iise Fa! her. Son and Hiy Ghost.'
With this befitting doxology we con
cluded our morning walk and worship.
Arriving at the hotel we found the i
Scocth landlady, Mrs. Leidig, busy j
cooking the deer and trout which were
sporting the day before-'in the moun
tains a. id Mercer river. This is the
most unpretentious hotel in the valley,
and wre were somewhat surprised to find
the names of General Grant and his
party on the register. Rut when we
sat down to the table the mystery was
all explained. This energetic woman,
whose nine children were born and
reared in this valle is probably the
best cook on the western slope. Bet
ter t-oiiVi. or a better meal we have
rarely enjoyed outside of the old Mc
Can v I Ions.' in Jefferson City. Mo.
W. R. Palmoke.
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For the Advocate.
Our o-esrgia Correspondence.
nv hi: v. o. a. smiths
So you have me down for another
year. In my last I said : whether I
write for you next year depends -on
you." and without further consultation,
but with perfect assurance you say I
will continue to write ; and .so irdl.
My Georgia Correspondence is a mis
nomer, it it is to be about Georgia, for
much of it never touches Georgia at all.
TWO NEW GEORGIA BOOKS
however, and one by a Georgian, though
not hailing from Georgia, have engaged
me.
CALIFORNIA GOLD FIELD SCENES,
by Rev. R. W. Bigham is a unique
book, by a unique man. Forty-two
years ago he began to travel in the
Georgia Conference, and 30 years ago
he went to California, and there he
spent years among scenes which will
appear 110 more. He was a young fel
low then of warm feelings, and bright
fancies and he was among the mines
and mountains. The Californiau now
is as common place as a Georgian. He
rides on railroads, and stays at Hotels,
and reads damp morning papers, and
goes to churches, and meets elegant
ladies, and sees bright children ; but in
those days, he met rough bearded men
and saw picks and shovels, and revol
vers and gleaming bowie-knives and
grizzlv bears, and if Bigham had told
what he saw and felt, and let himself
be the hero of his own story, he would
have given us a chariming book. He
has chosen to tell a series of wierd
stories belonging to these wierd days.
They are his, told as he tells things,
and few wdll read the book without ab
sorbing interest. I glanced through it
first in manuscript, I have looked
through it in print. It is not one story,
but a series of stories. The scenes of
California life are real, and as such
make the book a real study. It is pub
lished by the Xashaville House at one
dollar.
ELIJAH VINDICATED,
by Dr. J. A. Clark is a new book highly
commended by the book Editor, and by
those who have carefully read it. Bi.
Clark is one of 44 Niladmirari" order
of scholars, and is rather loath himself
to commend what comes from other
pens, and we might expect wdien a man
like this turns his attention to
authorship, that he would be exceeding
ly careful as to how he does his work,
and so he has been. He could scarcely
do more in going over the field, which
so many have reaped, than to present
in a different way what they have pre
sented, but he has, he has
opened up a new mine. He has found
out that the intrepid Elijah did noi flee
from Ahab. I have not had time to ex
amine this vindication, but I have found
time to see that there is some very
charming writing in the pages, and
knowing "the Doctor's erudition, I have
no hesitancy in sa3ung it is a knowing
book, and those who are interested in
one of the most remarkable periods in
the world's history, and 111 one of the
most remarkable men who ever lived,
will find very pleasant and profitable
reading in Dr. Clarks Vindication of
Elijah.
The Publishing House used to send
me, ever and anon, a book to notice. It
does not do that now and the copy of
the
HIGH CHURCHMAN DISARMED
I bought, but soon after I sold it, so I
merely glanced into it. Dr. Harrison
is a born book lover and is as fond of
controversy as achild is of a red ribbon.
After he settled with the Baptists he
turned his attention to the High Church
men. He bought all the books on that
subject from Jeremy Taylor to Richard
Abbey that he could find in America :
then he went to England and he has
given the subject a thorough investiga
tion. He writes with a ready pen, and
has given in short space the results of
very long and careful study. He thinks
he has disarmed the the High Church
man. The High Churchman never had
anything, but a Quaker cannon, a make
believe gun, and he has got that 3et,
but the Doctor has shown how he
would have spiked a real gun, if it had
been around. I was much pleased with
the book, and advise your readers to get
it ; not to argue out of it, with men who
know ho v to argue, but to show silly
school girls ; and j'oung sprigs from
Swanee,how little they know about their
own churches. ' As to ours I would be
ashamed to acknowledge that I knew as
litt e of Chinese Tauisin, as the average
High Churchman knows of Methodism.
To think that a man claiming to be in
formed enough to write a review
article called Frances Asbury. Jso,
and hides from his own pitiful ignorance
under th? Carol of an Anglo Catholic
priest of Xew Eagland.
The High Churchman is pleasant
reading, and suits your latitude.
TRINITY COLLEGE.
I am distressed about 3-our College."
Is it possible that 80,000 Methodists in
Xorth Carolina cannot endow a Col
lege ? That the Baptists, the Catholics,
the Presbyterians can, and they cannot.
Is it possible for you to do without it V
What is the answer? The present plan
may do, will do, must do, a while, but
it will only do for a while.
Dr. Jones cannot come. The South
Carolina brethren rebelled, and he st'-iys
on a District. So you have no Presi
dent. I know a young Georgian who
can take Trinity College and make it a'
success, and he is no D.I). nor S.S Agent
either, out he would do it by helping
you to fill its halls, and endow it. First
yon :imt lave students. There is some
bosh, about the want of manhood in
taking free tuition, ami being helped to
to an education. Was not John Wes
ley educated on a scholarship, and sup
ported for years on a fellowship'? Are
not all our preachers' sons educated
without charge, and where is there a
mai-Iier race? We must give free tui
tion, sometimes free boardTor the young
man must go uneducated. The halls
must be tilled, and they cannot be filled
with paying students. Then the profes
sors must be paid, and they cannot be
paid from fees, nor can thev long be
paid by collections. The free lists must
be enlarged and as soon as possible all
fees abolished and an income must be
provided from some other source, but
how ? r or the time being until the en
dowment is secured a general assess
ment should be made upon the church
of such amount as the defects in fees
amounts to; but an ellort should be
made to abolish all fees, the following
proposition should be made to the
church :
That if it will raise $100,000 in tsn
years, all fees except for matriculation,
etc., all tuition fees shall be abolished.
If it shall raise 45000 this year they
shall be reduced 5 per cent, if $10,000,
10 per cent, and so on. Say the iorth
Carolina Conference moved by the in
centive of jree hittum to all should oiler
to each congregation a chance to con"
tribute, with the assurance that every
dollar paid shou;d be invested for en
dowment and credited to the free tin
tion fund. It would take about as much
as we raise for our Conference collec
tion, to bring in $10,000. With the
assurance that every time one gives he
gets nearer the goal, can wre not through
the Conference preachers raise the sum
for 10 years. Cannot 80,000 members
give $10,000. 12Vceuts each for ten
years, when they know that at the end
01 this time, all will have access to Col
tege halls for free, instruction. We
have to come to it. The State is not
going back. We cannot stay where we
ar. There may be those not connect
ed in any way with 1 he church who may
be required to pay tuition fees, but let
the church raise enough to free the
church from the burden.
Tlrs is the true secret of the success
of Emory and Mer. er. Emory gives
free tuition to every preacher's son. 2.
To every one preparing for the ministry.
3.To 80 boys from X.Georgia, SouthGa.,
and Florida sent by the Quarterly Con
ferences. 4. To every one who is un
able to pay. Trinity must do the same.
To charge, as some Colleges do, half
rates is to charge more than the stu
dent can pay. The fees must go.
This letter is long enough, but I have
other thoughts on Conference Colleges
which I will give you next time. y
For the Advocate!
A Calanct of Anecdotes Ii.
lustrations.
BY REV. II. T. HUDSON, D. D.
PRACTICING RELIGION.
Rev. Dr. Deems is accustomed to re
late some feeling incident before the
first hymn in his church on Sunday
morning. On one occasion, he related
the following : A Christian man one
day said to a friend, 44 Under whose
preaching were you converted ?" 44 No
body's" wras the answer, " it was under
my Aunt's pxacticiny." He then made
an earnest appeal to his audience to
have such religion as has converting
power in it.
ZEAL WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE.
Panl speaks of certain persons having
a zeal of God, but not according to
knowledge. There is a. kind of zeal,
that converts the truth of the Bible in
to denominational doctrine. Rev. E.
P. Thwing gives the following instance:
There was a certain preacher, who
in the habit of preaching impromptu on
the first verse that met his eye, open
ing the Bible on one Sunday his eye fell
on the verse :
i;Tlie voice of the turtle s'nl! be heard
in the land."
He said : 44 On first sight one would
think there was not much in this text ;
but on a little consideration you will see
a great deal in it. You have seen the
turtles sunning themselves on logs in
the millpond. They have got no voice,
so it must be the sJ.-Iti,r sound, made
when they plunge off of the log into the
water. For "The voice of the turtle
shall be heard in the land." Hence we
conclude :
1. That immersion is meant by the
voice of the turtle.
2. That immersion will become uni
versal." These are two sweeping conclusions
based upon the tumbling of a JtardtJicll
animal from a log into a millpond. A
man of such denominational zeal can
find immersion anywhere.
HEROIC TREATMENT.
An experience of 4 Camp-meeting
John Allen" with a penitent rumseller. ;
in the early days of his ministry, illus- '
trates the necessity of heroic treatment j
in certain cases. j
At one of his meetings, among those '
who came forward f.-r praers was a j
man with red face and rum in his j
breath. This man had a little rumshop
and was his own best customer. Not !
making any profession of religiou at the 1
meeting. Mr. Allen followed him home
and expostulated with him about sell- j
ing rum. The man said he could not
afford to stop because he would lose
what rum he had on hand.
Finally,' the preacher agreed to buy
him out if he would then and there seek
the Lord. The agreement was made.
As they knelt down, Allen turned the
faucet and set the rum to running. The
penitent cied out :
44 It is wasting, it's wasting."
" Let it waste," said the preacher.
44 It aint measured," said the man.
44 Guess at it and be sure to guess
enough," said the preacher.
Then Allen kicked the barrel out of
doors, and took a hatchet and split the
thing open. The battle was won and
the man became temperate and religi
ous. Some of the members said after
ward, they thought Bro. Allen came to
preach the Gospel, and not to kick out
rum-barrels. " Y0.7 rai itof ; f the (7i.s I
in till joii kick the rum o;," said Allen.
His head was level on that point.
For the Advocate.
Abb Interesting Letter.
MATTERS HERE AND THERE.
The Conference, and Christmas holi
days are over, and the pastors are set
tled in their homes for the new year.
After three weeks of delightful rest with
my family, I take up the new year's
work with faith in God, and an earnest
desire to make this year the most useful
of my ministerial life. As a Conference
we have much to encourage us. The
past 3ear was fruitful in revivals, and
the largest net gain was made ot any
former year in our histoiy. Reports
made at Reidsville showed a general re
vision of church lists, and an unusually
severe pruning of the vines, yet we have
a clear gain of more than five thousand
members. The appearance of the min
utes will, probably, show that the Wash
ington District made the best report it
has made in twenty jears. We toiled
hard, and all the year, for that result ;
but, we forget the toil, in the joy of suc
cess, and gird ourselves afi'esh for other
battles, and we trust for grander tri
umphs. 44 In the name of our God we
have set up our banners," and we will
follow his conquering footsteps.
The revivals of iast Summer and Fall
have left their hallowed influences on
the hearts of both preachers and people.
Our last Conference seemed to me more
spiritual than anyfor some years. The
preachers brought the holy fire from
their stations and circuits, and made
the intercourse with each other a de
light. Glory to God for the unifying in
fluences of the Holy Spirit !
The Advocate is still our Confer
ence Organ, and has pleased its congre
gation so well with the tunes it has
played, that it will continue to hold its
place in the affections of preachers and
people. Some master hands have been
on its key boards of late, and the church
has been charmed with the music they
have made. Long life and greater pros
perity to you, friend of my childhood,
and companion of my later years !
The interests of Trinity College were,
in some respects, the most important
had under consideration at our late ses
sion ; but providential circumstances
seemed to thwart the general desire for
enlightened judgment, and deliberate
action, by the Conference. It wras well,
therefore, that the Conference commit
ted the devising of a plan for endow
ment to the Trustees. Only business
men are capable of such work, and the
more of business talent thejr can enlist
in the formation of the plan, the more
likely will it be to succeed. I must be
lieve there are among the eighty-three
thousand members in our Conference
jurisdiction, at least one thousand, who
can give the College $100.00 and not
miss what they have given. Have we
not one hundred who could give $1,0' 0
and not sacrifice any of their personal
interests in so doing? What, then is to
prevent the endowment of the Colleg"?
Nothing, but a crude plan, which will
be inoperative because of its crudeness,
or charging those with the collection of
the monies, whose whole time is pre-oc-cupied
with other necessary interests of
the church. An endowment is a neces-
sit', if the Institution continue to run,
and this necessity is more apparent to
some who have been charged with the
collection of assessments lately made,
than to any others. A large part of our
membership are not capable of appreci
ating the benefits of the College to the
general interests of the church, and the
collections ordered are. among the
masses of our people, the most unpopu
lar of all we have to take. Indeed, if
the P. E.s had not been charged with
that collection it would have been a
sadder failure than it has proved : and
in many cases, it has taken bread out
of the mouths of poorly paid pastors,
who, if the quarterly collections could
have been taken for them, would have
received many times more than was
given.
The experience of the last two years
manifests clearly enough, I take it that,
if an endowment is secured, it must
come from the fi.ir rather than the many,
and we might as well look that fact in
the face.
Our Foreign and Domestic Mission
ary collections are in plain words a
Only thirteen cents per
missions, puts us down.
close to the fool of the list, amoour ihi
churches of Christ that aiv doing
anything to evangelize the heath
en world. We have been flittering
ourselves, as a church, that we wevr
doing more than any other; but, the
fact is, we are doing less than almost
any other. I. for one. am glad ihe Cen
tennial is gone. and its boastings with it.
May be we shall in calm survey unlearn
some of the foolish conceits then form
ed. Fifty cents per member will quad
ruple our contributions for this cause,
and nothing but a want of interest in
the salvation ot men by the church, or
a lamentable disregard of ministerial
obligation by the preachers can long -keep
the figures below that sum. Our
trouble is that, probably, three fourth
of our membership never give anything
to this cause so near the heart f our
blessed Lord. With the Divine bless
ing we must do better for our mission
lields. If the pastors do not all the
resolutions passed at the late Confer
ence to die at the birth as they so olteii
do we shall make a better showing
this year than we have yet done,
W. II. Mooke.
For the Advocate.
I5oy at oBIt'
a request to their parents.
At the boarding schools in Xortk
Carolina there are many bos and young
men whose names are on the roll oi
church members at their homes. Froia
the strange neglect of parents, pastors,
and teachers, no token of their connec
tion with the people of God is sent with
them when they leave for school, or
mailed to them or the new pastor after
wards. The natural consequence of
this is easily imagined. As they are
not known by their new acquaintances
to be professors of religion, they are apt
to feel less careful about their conduct.
They are to a deplorable extent with
out the sustaining and protecting inllu
ence that is involved in recognizeJ
union with Christians. They are in
special danger of holding themselves
aloof from all active religious exercises,
and of being overlooked by those who
might otherwise give them spiritual
counsel and encouragement.
They are not likely to take interest
and join in religious work of any kind,
and consequently lose the benefit of
Christian activity, and fail to do the
good to otheis that they ought to do.
That they often lorfeit their religiou.1
character is by no means astonishing.
As their divine' appointed guides and
instructors virtually inculcate the idea
that religion is a matter of such little
impertance that no particular attention
need be paid to it, it is reasonable that
they should follow the example ol com
parative indifference or neglect. Now,
I mos, earnestly exhort the parents oi
such students to give prompt and faith
ful care to this duty. If there be a
church of the student's denomination at
or near the school lie attends, urge him
to a formal uniting with that church at
once, even if it be probable that he will
remain there but one session. If there
be no such church convenient, then
communicate the fact of his church re
lations to the officers of the school. Let
his pastor make inquiry and urge the
observance of the plain duty in the case.
If the preparatory teacher is worthy of
his place and occupation, he, too, will
be concerned about his old pupil's spiri
tual as well as intellects! culture and
make emphatic mention of highest in
terests and obligations, in the letter of
introduction and recommendation.
Another important consideration is
the obligation on parents to show some
generous regard for tho-e churches and
pastors that devote their time and
means to efforts to train and save the
souls of their children that are away
from home. They ought to teach those
children to do their part in supporting
the ministry and all things of necessary
to the usefulness and success of the
church. Such teaching, if obeyed will
do the children good, at once and on
through life ; and it will bo an enlarge
ment of the parents' service to the
cause of Christ. It will be a direct aid
to the churches so befriended. It will
encourage and otherwise help the min
ister in his work for those children and
for others. Most anxiously do we appeal
to those who patronize the University
to respond faithfully and promptly to
the suggestion of these duties. It h
simply a shame that so many parents
and o-uardians have so carelessly over
looked such momentous obligations.
Hereafter let them send the certih
cntes of Lhe church-membership of their
boys to the pastor at Chapel Hill ; and
let them impress upon those Ijov.s to
identify themselves loyally with their
church here and to help to support it.
Though I have not mentioned the
case of girls at boarding-schools. I beg
that all that I have written shall lie ap
plied to them. also, as far as they b ar
like relation to the duties and privi!'
considered.
A. W. Maw.i m.
Dec. 2'.th, 180.
The best th'ng to give to your cnenn
is forgiveness; to your opponent, toh 1
auce; to a friend, your heart: to youi
children, a good example ; to a father,
deference ; to your mother, conduct that
will make her proud of you ; to yur-eif.
respect ; to all men. char'ty.
Renew your subscription.
Ninni'c to Us.
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