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' VOL XXXII. NO 3 THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. ESTABLISHED i6?5 KA LEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JAN, 19, 18 1 .o? 23 i:vts For the Advocate. Our Virginia Correspondence. BY ttKV. JOHN K. KIUVARDS, P. D. TIME VIA KS I The noiseless stream of time bears ns with the absolute certainty of desti ny. t- the ocean of eternity. Another year has been swallowed up in the Yortex of the irrevocable past that has already engulfed all the artificial divis ion of rime since the world began. An other year has been added to the history Of our race ; another year of church his tory has been added to the past ; an other year of our natioual history is Closed up; another year of our short lives is behind us. But there is no pause; no stopping station in our transitory ex istence where wi can rest and take a survey of the path over which we have travelled. What we call the p-etnf glides away like a bubble oa the rolling stream, orflies behiud us like the mile- tones oa ae. railway, even while we It is none before we can speak of it ma e our reckoning. The years go by. and we grow old so quietly that we are tartledwaen w wake up to the fact that fifty. sixty, seventy years have inter vened between what we call the present and the day that gaw us brith ! When life i young, and the dew of the morn ing is on us. we think it will be. a long time bjf'i-e the sun reaches the meridi 'an. Tne days, ami weeks, and months, and season? all seems longer in the morning of life than they do in the afternoon of the changeful day of our mortal existence. Alas for u ! With manv the sun does not reach the meri dian ; o:-. reaching it. the luminary drops down ' at noon." When once the meridian is passed, and tlw sun is oa the western slope, it goes do wfi very fast. The shadows grow long ; the dusk of the evening gathers on the hith er s zon. do of the hills that bound tne hori- The night eometh." A DAY AT A TIME. .rod gives us but a day at a time, ach day has its morning, noon, and night. A single day is a sort of minia ture life. Tho successive days, as they come and go, if properly improved and well spent 1 1 i will, in the end, round off a wen sot in iiii eiir iiie. IMS hub iiimusuiJiM ui i 1 - i 1 rill, , . ! - . 1 . . , I , , i- ,-v- life, as it i- thz true religion ot life, is . embodied : 'u; brie? sentence, "live a day at a tim 'Tabs no over auxi ous thought for to-morrow.- ' Suffici ent unto the day is the evil thereof.' r Each da brings its quota of dutias, burdens, and trials. Take these as they tome. To-day well spent is the best nremration for to-morrow. Most of the troubles ami anxieties ot every day life are borrowed from the future. It is not so much what we are burthened with to-day that makes us unhappy, anxious, and disquieted, as it is what we anticipate in the future. We stag ger and grow weary, and too often be come querulous and unhappy, by taking upon ourselves the solicitudes, and cares, and probable afflictions person al and domestic that lie somewhere iu the future, forgetful of the fact that the rave, of to morrow, may give us a peaceful seclusion from the apprehend ed evils, that till us with trouble and anxiety to-day. God. as has been said by some one, has mercifully distributed the burdens, duties, and cares of life, in three hundred and sixty-five parcels, and he gives us only one parcel or pack age at a time. This we can easily bear, and carry through the day. Let us cheerfully and heroically accept the burdens of to-day ; and then, altera night's repose and refreshment, tak the package of to-morrow, and go on, from day to day, till our Father God tells us to lie down in the grave, and rest from our labors forever. WE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE ON THE MORROW. We cannot penetrate the future. An impenetrable vail hangs in such close proximity to our eyes that we cannot SQ? an inch beyond the present moment. We are. day by day, hour by hour, mo men; by moment, 'hastening along a hid den para, shrouded in darkness, without any head light shining upon the way. The engineer on the railway has a drummoiid light, blazing on the front of the locomotive, which reveals the steel rail sufltckaitiy far ahead to disclose to him the gaping chasm occasioned by the sweeping away ot a bridge, or to see the obstruction thrown across the track by the storm, He sees the dang er in ihno i"r him to reverse his engine; an.!, the b the !: dea ! in tie We re or f , i er -ui km. v W .i ne1 be ; w ' ai : r :i ' v no ! . " tO Ui de, pi ; nii:g i! .and t: no' y mouern appliances to put oa uke-, and thus to save himself and cs ot'iiso passengers, from sud s traction. But we must drive on dark wit hout any device by which i: proteel ourselves, or our friends, ui: from (lie perils that endaiiL'- on the ;ath of lit-. ' 'e ! I o ! what a day may bring forth. r - rant of what a wait- u- he - :h'- !::! bie-uth. Yv may : a v a - -"a i ii; iii. ana yei ne ;y ,s pprehension of its men Th'1 !esou is : ' be ye a No in sucn an hour as ye think !. It :a:ga :n.i summon us U'CdHiii, i'.lid Sri:! il , ,;,! e; emit v. ii IS at eminently; I lie begin"- I U la e-iuH Year r Goa id."' ; a i f to ib -ik on these i up new purposes, to walk by faith ! a nv raith, not sight. ese N the condition of the Chris tian life. Muny of the hading doctrines ofth- Bible are addressed to our faith as opposed to sight. The future state heaven, hell, the resurrect ion a-.v ad dressed to our faith. We live by taith, as Christians, and we di by faith. But, enough on this line. AXOTItKIi iSlTFiJECT. Variety is the -'" of th reader knows im r--e. A i .; ie: ; er or other article in the coin a r.s of a weekly paper must have in i; someth ing of " variety'" to ensure Us o-smg read. Methodism, in its essentia! i"ia -tures, is the same as in the days Wesley in England, and as in the days of As bury and Coke i a America. Itii eraucy and General Superinteadency continue the same in theory, and prac tically the same, modified by the chang es which have taken place in our popu lation, in the multiplication, of pastoral charges wrought by Sunday-schoois. missionary enterprise, educational movements, as also by reason of the fact that our preachers now have fami lies, a thing that was comparatively rare in the earlier days of Methodism, iu this couutry. Formerly the class leader did the greater part of the paator fwork; and it is only in the last fifty years or less that our itinerant preach ers have even been called pastors. Par sonages have been built and furnished for he accommodation of the pastor; or, s he is still called in the Discipline. preache' iu chnrgf.'" There is such a thing as family and home connecting themselves with the itinerant preach er's life, in our day and time. In the da's of Asbmw. and even down to a la ter day, our Bishops felt at liberty, as they were fully empowered to do by the government of the church, to transfer a preaclur from one Conference to an other, even without consulting him on the subject. But the time is past in which any of our Jiishops. of the pres ent da", would think of taking up a preacher, with his family, and violently disrupt his ties to his Conference, aud transfer him across intervening States to another Conference, without conferring with the nreacher himself, and consulting with him, in a fatherly, friendly way, as to his convenience and willingness to be so transferred. It is fairly to be presumed that, in all the transfers made by our Bishops, in these later years more particularly of preachers with families, and bound by family and social ties, to their Con ferences respective! the preachers have, directly or indirectly, given the Bishops to understand that they were loyal Methodist preachers," as the phrase goes, and were willing to leave themselves in the hands of the Bishops, to be used as they might deem best for the good of the church, knowing of course, in advance, where the Bishops were going to send them. I state what I suppose to be facts, and do not pro nounce the slightest censure on the preachers consenting to be transferred, even it it were half way across the con tinent, on such conditions. Indeed, I think it would be not only unwise, but in many instances positively wrong, for the Bishops to make the transfers, or for the preachers to accept them on an' other conditions. It would, in my judg ment, be an impeachment of the wis dom, and a reflection on the humanity of the Bishops to suppose for a moment that any one of them would take up a preacher with his family and transfer him to another Conference, near, or re mote, no matter how good the appoint ment to which he assigned him; with out first satisfying himself that such transfer would be acquiesced in by the preacher so transferred. Where trans fers are desired by our preachers, from one Conference to another, on account of health, family relations, or other like considerations, the Bishops ought, un less overbalanced by counter consider ations, to grant such transfers, with the understanding, of course, that being transferred they are expected to accept such work as may be assigned to them after the transfer is granted, and not as a condition, in adcam-e, that a certain creamy station, or other desirable charge is offered as a premium for the transfer. Transfers ought not to turn on such pivot il points. The itinerancy is a grand thing righteously administered. So mote it be. Amen. LOCAL NOTES. In conformity to old Methodist usage the "Watch Night' service was ob served by the Methodist Churches in Danville, and also by the church in Xorth Danville. Mount Vernon aud Floyd Street united with the Main Street Church iu this service : and notwith standing the extreme inclemency of the weather the congregation was good. and the exercises pleasr-ut and profita ble. The week of prayer"' ordered by the Evangelical Alliance was also oh-' served by the churches in Danville all ! the churches uniting in these meetings ! for prayer and exhortation, which were ! he'd every afternoon, from 5 till C j o'clock. Tne meetings took the round j of the principal churches, and were con- j ducted by the pastors of the different denoini nal ions in tarn, it- wa- ia;h"-a a beautiful spectacle to ,pr the peon'e of all eiase- ana denominations turning ; iii!. in hr-j-e nunb.u-s. filling our; churches, and engaging with such spirit ami heart inc.- m these neiu i i ! t fi t meet- a' good n 1 i coin nana it v. Kev. A. C. Bledsoe. I). I)., has fully: entered on ids pastoral war; in Xarth ; 'an vine. 'present me congregation worships in (he fine lecture room of the church, the audience room being, as yet, i unfinished. Tho work, however. is pro gressing, as the weather and nihor . conditions will admit, and proba- j bly by May the house will be ready for j occupancy; and, when finished, it will' rank second only to Mount Vernon in Danville, and Park Place in Kichmond, in point of architectural design, finish, taste, comfort, aud convenience. The cluuva -;auds as a monument to Xorth iJ.iaville liberality and enterprise, aud aa oraa.ueut to this rapidly growing town. ("'. Ma. ()fiu 1887. For the Advocate. The Rambler- f:psi'i!i. i ' : . i. :.. i .,, tuuiij .. uiiv-au in uaucinir.' The roguish beauty looks up into your right revereued face so earnestly with tier innocent inquiring eyes. Will you give her an answer? Ah, no ! she does not want it, and if you did you would make her blush to the tips of her pink shell ears. And yet you will venture. You will talk to ner solemnly of mis-spent time and of the power of influ ence : you will discourse scientifically of late hours, and of low-neck dresses. and of midnight air; you will even ven ture to hint at the evil of social mix tures ; but you know when you have gone thus tar that you have notans a er ed her, and you do not dare to go farth er. And i-tne knows it too : what a de licious discovery she has made, Lhat even her minister could not present a serious objection to dancmg : 44 What harm is there in dancing?" Are you a Methodist ? Then you must excuse mo : i-' is not a proper question for a Methodist to ask of her pastor. Dancing may be as innocent as a baby's prattle, but when you became a Metho dist you made a solemn vow to all in tents and purposes not to dance, aud the question for you now is not, Is it wrong to dance ? but. Is it wrong to break my vow ? The church opened her arms wide to receive you, and she has caressed you, and cared for you, and carrie I '0u, and out of the "gratitude of your heart you go all tne day long sing ing : " O mother dear, Jems ilem;'' and now when night comes will you go over to the enemy and by violating your vows bring her into open contempt? It is a depraved child indeed who stabs his mother as she presses him to her no som. But here is a young man who has never joined the church: he is only an honest searcher after truth and he is willing to walk in it when he finds it. Surely lie has a right to ask the ques tion. Shall lie be answered? Shall the pastor whose duty it is to dispense the truth strive to elude the question with a few trifling arguments merely because the plaiL truth may be too harsh for polite ears ? Here are a few probes which may find something : Why do you dance ? 44 Be cause it gives us pleasure." Whence comes the pleasure ? From the music ? If you were compelled to sit still aud listen through seven mortal hours to the sweetest strains that ever were drawn from a violin, you would wish in your heart that al the violins in crea tion were in the bottom of the ocean. From the "poetry of motion?" If you had to trip and slip and slide over a greased floor all by yourself from ten o'clock till cock-crowing you would think the 44 poetry of motion"' was the invention of the biggest crack-brain out of the madhouse. Why don't young men enjoy dancing with their brothers ? Why do we not have dances for young ladies only? Why does the girl who waltzes with her brother get tired very soon and go home before midnight? Why is it impossible to break up a ball at ten o'clock1 Why is it that the ball opens with a square dance and after midnight, when all the old people have gone home, the quadrilles are struck out of the programme and there is nothing but waltzing"? Why is it that some young men occupy a social position in the ball-room which they are not allow ed to occupy elsewhere ? Why are not high-neck and long-sleeve dresses fash ionable at balls? Why may not a preacher dance ? Has God given us two sets of rules for living one for the clergy and one for the laity? Why shouldn't good Sister Dorcas, whom everybody believes to be a saint.dauce? Why is it that nearly all the greatest and best in the history of the church have publicly condemned dancing and not one truly great man can be quoted in favor of it? Why does one who has been dancing during the week feel speci ally uncomfortable at communion the following Sunday? Why does a dance in a village nip the religious revival in the bud? 44 But dancing is good exercise aud our girls da need exercise so bad. you know." That is a fact. There are no gh'N iii the world who need exercise so mae'u as thse - ciefy darlings. Poor mother with tho dear, lire;! hands. ho ha-ai'i eomnhihK'd for aant of ex.svNe ia five yeaes. gets up with the dawn, gives oit: breakfast, dresssc the babies, sweeps the house, makes up the beds. bak" a cake, and sends a cup of tea up up to Miss Sophia's room at 11 o'cIock; and by-a.nd-by when the dear darling comes down and begs mother for anoth er cup for that horrid headache, why, there is nothing on earth for her to do and she ready must go to the halt to night for a little exereNe. you know. 44 But there is a time to dance." That too is a fact. But you are the last man alive to dance according to Solomon I and the Scriptures. Get your fiddlers together and try it. Put the young men on one side and the young ladies, with long-neck dresses, on the other. If you are ready Brother Jonathan will raise the tune. Xow begin : ;sing praises unto the Lor :siag praises-.' LIo, there ! You youug men, keep on your own side. What's the matter ? Why don't you keep on ? Ah I 4 there is a time to dance.' and a time to be sincere. Uncle Moses Smiler has been writing again. Says he : 4' Xow there's Jerushy Daniels, as purty a gal as ever I seed ; I was talkiu to her tother day an she flew up an sed spiteful-like, yes, she had been dancin, an she'd do it agin, an the preecher, bed better say nuthiu to her, nuther, fur if he did she'd git mad an not sing any more in the quire. Thet beat my eyes. A gal jines the church an y ous the shephered where she's one ovtheleetle lambs ; an when you see her in danger ov bein chawed up by the wolves or skinnin herself on the rocks you go to her tender like to perfect her. Ho tray " sez she, turniu red. If yer say anything to me 111 git mad. Go way!'" U Mister Preacher, what an awful fix you'll be in if she gits mad and dont sing no more in the quire !" Edward L. Pell. For the Advocate. A IeMer Froisi 'Or. Sfos. My Dear Bko. Beid : I lake it that you want news and not reflections. Quite recently, it has been my good for ture to mix considerably with the churches in the Tennessee Conference. They seem to be doing well without any exception. At Clarksvillc, a town of about 5,000 inhabitants, an elegant house of worship has just been complet ed at a cost of a little over $40,000. The next thing is a fine new parsonage. It will soon be under way. At Murfrees boro, a similar enterprise is on foot. In the city of Xashville, the indications a re that the present year will witness the erection of three new churches. The first of these, Foster Street or McFer rin Chapel, is already well on the way to completion. It will cost 88,000 or $1O,a0. and will be the prettiest small church here or hereabouts. The Tulip Street folks expect to spend $50,000 or $60,000 dollars, and West End, near the Vanderbilt University, talk of $25,- 000? These facts all indicate progress. It is also to be noticed that there are many other tokens of increasing vigor in the style and type of our church life. Let us hail them all. We have had the great pleasure of listening to Dr. Philip Schatl. lie lectured before the University three times, once on the poetry of the Bible, once on the English language as the means for the conversion of the world, and once on Bible Lands. There is only one judgment about the lectures. They were scholarly, thoughtful, and instructive. In social inteicourse, Dr. SchatT is very agreeable. His German brogue does not detract from Ids utter ance. He has a keen relish for a good joke, and, like so many other men of profound and varied erudition, is geni ally modest. In personal appearance, he is noticeable. His height is about 5 ft. 10 inches. His head is covered with a heavy stock of perfectly white hair ; his eyes' are very bright, his mouth a little one-sided, and his whole face mild and benevolent. The boys will here after read his books with new interest. You have perhaps noticed that Dr. Rankin, pastor of the Centenary Church atChattanooga, Tenu.,has published five sermons in a pamphlet form on, 44 What I Saw in a Bar-room." They are, of course, designed to aid the current re formation on the subject of Temper ance. Dr. Rankin sees straight, and hits hard. He has gained a great rep utation for fearlessness in handling pop ular vices, aud deserves it. These sermons ought to have a wide circula tion. They are simple, strong, severe. I predict an extensive sale for them. Funny things sometimes happen in the pulpit. This is especially the case when the preacher is doing business on borrowed capitol. Let me tell a tale. Once upon a time, not one thousand miles from the city of Xashville, a Dis trict Conference was in session. On Thursday morning, a popular visiting brother was put up to preach. His text was: "Thus saith the Lord God of Israel. Let my people go." The ser mon, though not profound, was very clear and good to the use of edifying. Everybody got happy ; there was even some shouting .n the camp. Well, the visiting brother took his departure; and, on the next day, another one came along, and was also invited to hold forth. When he selected the same text, there was a general opening of eyes, and pricking up of ears. As he pro ceeded to lay down proposition after prohibition, tbo audience began to sea a and when ne woum a up witu tne s i;.),' a o' mention ana -.xuoi tut ioa' a i . - i - . i . . . . i was dhficult to keep down the merri ment. h 'ro. b.-.v!, But the story ooe.s not end j On the following Sunday i he first; ' above mentioned happened in a , vvu on the E. T. Va. & Ga. It. j I was again asked to preach. Of j ho aid not refuse, and of course ' 1 was : "Tims saith tin- Lord j Israel, Let my people go." One iter, a Cumberland Presbyterian ! II.. coui'-e. his tex ( .od of week 1: preaeaer passing that way followed him j ou precisely the same lines. The next J Summer, 1 was at a religious gathering ! about one hundred miles distant. Bv this time, the joke was in the air. Sever al of the preachers knew of it, and when the good brother of whom we have been chiefly speaking came in and was ap pointed to occupy the pulpit, the inquiry was pretty general, Will he bring out the children of Israel," and sure enough he did. I afterwards heard him reneat it in another State, and learned that it was a regular sugar-stick with him. In the meantime, at least two other preachers began to use it, and there might have arisen some serious dispute as to its ownership if it had not been found verb j tun. or nearly so, in an old number of the Ifo).nl?tir lierieic. I had almost forgotten it, when it was brought to my mind a few days ago by one of my students who had just heard it again from a metropolitan pulpit of another denomination. I now move that the text and sermon be granted "an indefinite leave of absence." We are all borrowers. More or less, our whole intellectual life comes from foreign sources. Absolute originality is one of the rarest of things. But that a preacher should appropriate bodily the discourse of another man, and even be proud of the reputation he makes in delivering it, passes comprehension. The University is just closing up its first twenty weeks of the current session. The intermediate examinations will begin next week. The indications are that we shall have a considerable in crease of students. E. E. Hoses. Xashrilh , Ten n. Jan.lQ'i, 1887 For the Advocate. A Cabisifi of Auecriote-i ami Il lustration. BY KEV. It. T. HUDSON, I. I). THE STOLKN SERMON. A president of a College, and a theo logical student were invited out in the country to dedicate a church. On Sat urday night, they slept in the same room. The president asked the young preacher to read to him his sermon. It was done. The old president, having a good memory, took it all in. When he went to enter the pulpit Sunday morning, (being a very fat, bulky man) he found the door small for entrance ; so a ladder had to be provided for him to climb over. In th way he entered the pulpit by climbing ov r. When he got in, he preached the young minister's sermon from beginning to end. In the evening, the young man was put up to preach. He began by making an apol ogy to the effect that lie had hastily ar ranged a few thoughts to meet the hour, that the sermon he had carefully pre pared and expected to preach, had been delivered by the brother who occupied the pulpit in the morning. Then glancing his eye at the old president, he slowly read the following text : 44 He that entereth not in by the door, but climbeth up some other way is both a thief and robber." A ripple of laughter ran over the congregation, and the face of the president turned red as a beet. 44 KETUKXIXO GOOD FOR EVIL." This is the glorious Spirit of the bless ed Gospel. It is the essence of true re ligion. The fallen nature of man is just the opposite of this. Ancient tribes overcome weak tribes and destroyed them just because they had the physical power to do it. Such military men as Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Cresar. and others, swept like cyclones of de struction over other nations, just be cause they had the military power to do so without any regard to the princi ples of right. They conquered by brute forces. The iron handed men ruled the world. But the benign spirit of the Gospel brought the power of winning love to bear upon the minds of men. The Gospel conies to open prison doors, to beat swords into reaping hooks and spears into pruning knives. This is the heavenly Spirit that turns a smiling face to scowling ones. It is a kind dis position beaming' on the hating one. It is calmness quieting violent turbulence. It is patience clothed in sweetness, dis arming the wrathful man of his evil in tentions. It is the lamb overcoming the lion. The law of the Gospel is the law of kindness. This law of returning good for evil is the king that conquers in the long ran. It is bound to win the day. It carries in its hand the omupotence of sweet compelhng love. 4 We love Him be cause He fird loct l us" is the grand principle that is to conquer the world. The following illustration will show that kindness overcomes where J'n-c fails : A dispute once arose between the Wind and the Sun, which was the stronger of tho two. and they agreed to put the point upon this issue, that whiche ver soonest made a traveller take oil' his cloak, should be accounted the more powerful. The Wind began, and blew with all his urght and main a blast, cold ai.d fierce a i'hraeian storm : but the stronger he blew tho j closer the traveller wrapped hi clonk ! around nan. aud the lighter he grasped it with his hands. Then broke out the hmi : witu nis n (acome oeums he uis- peied the vapor and the cold: the! traveller felt the genial warmth, and as the Sun shone brighter and brighter, he sat down, overcome with the heat, and cast his cloak on the ground. Thus the Sun was declared the con queror ; and it has ever been deemed that persuasion is better than force ; and that the sunshine of a kind and gentle manner will sooner lay open a poor man's heart than all the threaten ings and force of blustering authority. This law of returning good for evil ought, to be taught diligently in our families, which are (loci's school ami training ground. Teach your lit the girl to give apples to the girl that p--uted at her and called her by some ugly name. Teach your boy to return good to the boy that maltreated him. THE TOBACCO C1IEWEK CHAWED. James Axley was a pioneer Metho dist preacher in east Tennessee. He was a bold reprover of sin. a direct preacher, and quite eccentric in his manner. Hugh L. White, a noted public man in Tennessee, relates the following anecdote illustrating Axley's boldness in reproving misbehavior in 111 cnurcii. ivxiey arose on one oecassion and looking over the congregation, said, it was a painful duty to reprove, but it had to be done. He first reproved a man for going out during service and coming back-stamping the mud oil" his boots at the door. Then he reproved some girls for giggling, and someone else for sleep ing, audge White said he enjoyed it all hugely, and at the same time he was enjoying a good chew of tobacco and spitting the saliva on the floor in front of him. After Axiey had got through with the rest he turned to White, point ing his long bony linger at him, said : " Now, look at that dirty, nasty, tilthy tobacco chewer, sitting on the end of that front seat. See what he has been about ! Look at those puddles on the floor; a frog would not get into them ; think of the tails of the sister's dresses being dragged through that muck." The mortified .Fudge never chewed any more tobacco in Clmrch. It would be a good thing, if all the preachers should act tli" part of Axley when they see men soiling the floor of the church in the same way. It is a very filthy habit, yet how many, even of church members, follow the practice. FooiisKi ProN'staaif r'ai -s vsatf . A Itoman Catholic priest is reported to have said in a sermon, a few days ago, that 4 one 'bird of the number of students in Catholic convents in this country are of Protestant parentage." Whether this is true or not, we have no means of knowing; but that many Protestants are reckless enough to do this we do'know, rnd in not a few such cases their daughters become Koman Catholics. A long and very interesting account of the influences brought to bear upon a young lady of our acquaintance in fluences most subtle, and all the more dangerous because nothing offensive or aggressive was done was recently given to us by her as she was on the way for a visit to the institution from which she liad been graduated. We may some day print it. Some of the Boman Catholic schools are better than some Protestant schools, but upon the average Koman Catholic schools are less thorough and practical than those supported by Protectants, and, except m a lew cases of unusual strength of mind, or positiveness of con viction, they either produce an utter in difference to religion or develop a strong tendency to Bomanism. Probably the priest greatly exaggerat ed the numlier ; but it is large enough to justify an earnest caution against such folly. A . Y. Chri.st.itu Adcwate. Fcr the Advocate. lTnlcSicf. In human nature there can be noth ing blacker than unbelief. It impeach es God's wisdom, power, goodness, justice, mercy, truth and faithfulness. It liolds up the God of truth as unworthy of credit. It makes him a liar. It charges him with perjury. It derides all liis goodness and despises all his mercy. It makes light of the bloody sweat and dying agonies of hisde;u" son. It is a si a against lie law. against the Gospel -gainst the divine attributes, agab'a ne'.'e'fy person in the Godhead, against'tlie highest testimonies against our own best interests, against, the only way of life and salvation. ' i.t.r. An Indian's Answer. When I was ahoy, about twelve years old, a good man. and intimate ac quaintance of my father's, came to our house and spent the night, lie had been a surgeon in the Bevoud ionnry War. This good man had ba omc much in love with the principles of the Friends. He told us in the evening the following little story, whit h made an abiding and pleasant impre-ioa on my young mind : One day a white n:an. on meeting an Indian, asl-aal him. " Why don't you kill (he (Quakers s - we!! sis other people ? ' J lie lnaian answ- rea. Me no kill (pinker ; Jaa!:. r : kill me." Th re is a great hi.s: im portant meaning iu t! .:. : : of the Iiidbin, which the r; i Soldiers and ciiiiliH.il I'' a' ' ' '' world should consider and ht e iow begets love. Peace beg.a.s peace. . if. in . .; "J !''". Bepenting tears sire the joy '.. I and angels. Doves de'ight f ''.---the waters: and surely -e d'.- :a-i::L (who once descended in the iorm a,i dove; lakes great delight h. ;:a baa ,i repentance. Rknkw your subscription .
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