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A A A Ft i S3 l Mi v Mm ww M m VOL. XXXII. NO :o THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. ESTABLISHED ;355 RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 137. AS. CO PKR in ( t auce jf1'' ' f&j mi ts WW gp 3Iy Mother's Songs. Of all the songs from sweetest voices. In voting days, or of okl, That's made my inmost soul re'oice, Ilowe-er oft they're told, .Are those sweet songs 1113' mother sung . While at the home fireside, When all the world seem'd blithe and young And joy was at our side. O, I have wandered far away In sunny lands of song, And I have heard the ministrelsy nlay Tiiat thrill'd the listening throng; ' Tho' sweet the charm when beauty sings, And sweet the uiinistrelie, There is uo charm, that memory brings Like those old songs to me. "Oft in the clear, calm starry night, lnosiir the leafy trees, Or on the weird lone mountain height, And in the gentle breeze, Or on the rough, wil 1 stormy sea, When all all is dark and drear, "The dear old songs will come to me Sweet is the strange enchanting spell That lures all thought away, To warm fireside or wood' dell, Where we were wont to play, About my boyhooa's happy home Gial memories fondly cling; And oft the sweet old songs will come, My mother used to sing. .Through many years of joyous life - I reach the sere and old, ; Kow all the battle and the strife, Toe tierce sun and the cold, Are o'er tor me, and calm I wait To he a- the "joy bells' ring; For I shall hear t Heaven's gate Mv angel mother sing- For the Advocate. Our Lt'Her From OOclcroy. Rev. C. G. Rankin of Chattanooga, Tenn.. sent me his pamphlet 4' Two Nights in a Bar Room," with a request . that I read it and commend it it I could. ' :I have read it verv carefully and with 1 - I - "5 fit ,1 T . .-. great pleasure aim pioui, aim x now commend it most heartily. It is a ter rific handling of the whiskey traffic from nearlv everv stand noint. I do mJ J not know of any small book that is Iv. Hill LCtl lJ 1.1C4.LI II11C one. The facts are crowded into small - spac e, and they come red hot from the ' ".."brain and heart of the writer. They Ti ive all the warmth and glow of spoken words indeed they were spoken. This gives a freshness and power to this book that, otherwise, it would not have. Those who are engaged in temperance ; n-iwl- 1 1 ! fin1 tliii littlo ivi ivii-vli1 pf f VI IT 111 1111L1 11UO I ' l Ll -J iiiiiiiii:'U I great help. It can be read in two hours, ; or by snatches of time, at odd moments, such only as working people have. It will do good. Send for it. Circulate it. Sow it down kneedeep. It is exactly suited to these times. By the way, the temperance and pro hibition agitation, so prevalent all over 1; the country now, has done much to wards toning up the moral sentiment of our people on this question. Many ' moderate drinkers have ceased entirely and many drunkards have reformed. If this good work goes on for some years, the inducement to manufacture and sell spirits will not be as great as it now is, or has been in the pa.3t. As long as there is a demand for strong drink there t will be a supply, unless the strong arm of the law interferes with the making and selling of this poison. The people ! are rapidly getting ripe for prohibition ; and they will see that the law is en- - forced, "it will come to this sooner or later. The two great political parties -. in this country will have to do one of two things : tone up on this question, or i. uo under. There is no other alternative. , The people make the parties they have . ; no existence whatever apart from the people. A political party is good or bad just as the people who compose it .i are good or bad. It is never worse or better than the controlling majority :i in the party. Some people talk about the dear old Democratic party as if it . i were an entity, a thing separate and distinct from the people who compose ' it. This is a silly myth a notion , ; without foundation. Whenever a raa - jority of the people will to have prohi- hition the thing will be done, party or ( no party. If one or both political par ties m this country were to come up , dead some morning, why, the people ' would still be here and things would move right straight along like' nothing had happened. I have no narticle of . . dread myself about the death of this, i that, or the other party. A thing that is not a thing can't die and that's an end on it. I Jut to change the subject again. I ee that the papers are discussing trans--: fers pretty freely of late. It is gener ; ally agreed that the Bishops have the I power to transfer preachers from one Conference to another just as they i .hang;.: them, from one circuit, or sta j tion to another. In some instances "l there i- correspondence between some -; preach , and some cit y charge in which I a contract is made. or fairly understood, that tin preacher is to ask for a trans I ler and the stewards pledge him so 1 mucu money. rlhe Bishop is asked to ! ratify this contract with his official I j't'al. 1 have known some cases of this ? kind. The Bishop may not know of the contract previously made. The Bishop is made to "plav second tid dler" in some, of these games. He becomes a mere limirchcad to eontirm f agreements between chargers and preachers. If I am not mistaken in my diagnosis of the case, this is the main trouble in this trans ler question. Now and then a transfer arises to explain that his transfer was not by a previous agreement, but took him wholly by surprise. I don't believ , for one, that our Bishops would knowingly give of ficial sanction to this mongrel growth in the body of our Methodism. One class of preachers take their appoint ments from the Bishop as from the Lord, while another class take theirs from the Bishop as per an agreement with official Boards. Some charges take whoever is sent while others con tract for the man they waut. If this obtains in our church, why, then, our Methodism will be a wheel within a wheel, sure enough. In many instan ces, perhaps, in the large majority, in the case of transfers, there has been no agreement or contract made. It is, doubtless, unjust alike to both preacher and charge to think or say this. A case where this does occur excites fear in our people lest the itinerancy, in its simplicity, be destroyed. The mass of our people are shy of a preacher who has made a contract before hand ; and the great body of our preachers are equally shy of a charge that employs a preacher by contract. Some men think more highly ol themselves than they ought to think and this is just as true otsome places as of some men. Indeed, some places want a man from some larger place. This looks large, like we were on an upward trend. There is not much of this. In some instances, as soon as a preacher gets to what is regarded the top of the pot in his Con ference he must transfer to another Conference where the top of the pot is higher, or supposed to be higher. It must be remembered that there has al ways been more or less jealously be tween town folks and country folks, and between larger and smaller towns, and this may, in part, account for this transfer question. I have noticed that the controversy has looked in the direc tion of transfers to fill city changes. There may be a tinge of jealousy in some of these complaints. One thing has impressed me. It is this : Wheth er transfers have been made by previ ous contract, as some assert, or as the needs of the work require, as they ought to be, they have, as a general nOe, turned out wonderfully well. I am more and more conviuced that our Bishops understand the men and the work pretty well. I will not, there lore, volunteer any advice to our chief pastors in this communication. Yours, Gilderoy. Starkcitle, Mis., Feb. 21s, 1887. For the Advocate. A 'frip A rou 11 l The World. (From our Special '.'oi respondent.) LIFE IN JAPAN. The most constantly recurring theme to a tourist in Japan is the marvel of muscle and speed constantly before him, drawing his kuruma or jinkekisha. He is one of the best natured creatures in the world, aud moves into your affec tions much more rapidly than a horse ; though he walks or runs only on his hind legs. Occasionally he smiles back at you and semi-occasionally laughs outright at your mistakes in trying to speak his language. With some bag gage my traveling weight was 200 pounds from Nikko back to Utsononaya. Two men of small stature picked up the twenty-five miles and " threw them away" in three hours and forty minutes, averaging about 7 miles an hour. Another feature of this people, as prominent as it is repugnant, is the custom of blacking the teeth and shav ing the eyebrows of married women. This monstrosity in style we account for only on the supposition that the Japanese benedict, like Abraham in Egypt, is afraid everybody will fall in love with his wife. When the teeth are black and the eyebrows are shaved the husband ceatainly has no grounds for jealousy or fear, except it be of blind men. When a daughter marries who is an only child the husband generally takes her name. An only daughter and an only son, or one only child, is never al lowed to marry another only child one of the family names would thus cease. Aside from transmitting the family names, this custom impressed me very favorably. It is a master stroke of social economy. Only chil dren are generally the worst spoiled creatures on earth, and if two of them should collide in matrimony there would be no living in the same neigh borhood with them. Captain Miller, of our navy, and Rev. Henry Loomis, of the American Bible Society, were our chaperons on a picnic excursion to the old city of Kamakura, twenty miles from Yokohoma. The old temple containing shields, helmets and swords of Orotomo and the great outdoor bronze image of Buddha, are the only remnants of this city of G00, 000 who lived and labored in this valley fronting the sea. In front of the old te;::ple the tree is still standing under the shadow" of vvhich Sanatomo was assassinated in the olden days. It is called Icho by the natives and is sacred both in Japan and China. I cut a cane from it as a linger-im- snccimen of the carboniferous age. From the double appearance of the leaf its botanical name is Yiuko-Biloba, and is both exogenous and endog nous. The English scientists call it Salisburia adentia folia, in honor of Lord Salis bury. Silence now broods like a " gentle spint" where a half million struggled live centuries ago. The last vestage of the temple that once stood in splendor over the great image is gone. But Dia Butsa, the prince of idols, still stands in perfect preservation, a splendid mon ument to the genius of the unknown builder. It is Buddha in perfect re pose, sitting like tailors and like the Japanese generally do, with their feet aud lower limbs folded up under them. The work is so perfect as to conceal all outward signs of its having been built in sections. Its height is 46 feet, cir cumference 97 feet 2 inches, length of face 8 feet 5 inches, from ear to ear 17 feet 9 inches, length of eye 3 feet 11 inches, of e3ebrow 5 feet, of ear 6 feet 6 inches, of nose 3 feet 9 inches, from knee to knee 35 feet, circumference of thumb 3 feet. When this religion was in its glory this great bronze idol was only a part of the furniture of a great temple, now the interior of the image itself answers all the needs of a temple, accommodating all the worshippers in the neighborhood. I wish some Van derbilt would buy it and place it in Central park beside that other granite monument of a religion that is dead. In our passage from Yokohoma to Kobe our ship was suddenly halted on a rough sea to secure the people from a sinking vessel, whose cargo had all been thrown overboard. Another hour and they would have all been drowned. When our lifeboat reached them their vessel was almost filled with water. Only one woman on board, and for the time she was evidently in command, the men having lost their wits and self possession. When this brave woman, with a heroic smile of triumph and gratitude, climbed the rope ladder on to the deck of our ship, we felt like cheer ing her as another Joan of Arc. With out woman's influence for good in the home and church there would be but little saved from the wreck of this old world. May the day soon come when all nations shall recognize her place and power, when her means of prepar ation and education shall be commen surate with her brother. OUR MISSIONARIES. When comfortably quartered at the, Hiogo hotel, in Kobe, we started out to find our friends of the Southern Metho dist Mission recently opened in Japan. Vei'3' soon we met on the street our whilom friend, Doctor Walter Lambuth. He had no knowledge of our presence or intended visit to the East, but recog nized us at once, the footprints and ravages of ten 3-ears to the contrary notwithstanding. Time, eye-glasses and whiskers, add a studious and classical expression to his genial face. We were all soon seated around the supper table of his father. Rev. '. W. Lambuth. one of the veteran missionaries of the East. At first we were unfavorabty impress ed with the economy of opening the Japanese mission with this father and son, who are so fluent and forceful in the Chinese language. But tere is much greater sympathy and similarity in the Japanese, Corean and Chinese lifterature than we had supposed. The ordinary Corean or Japanese cannot speak the Chinese mandarins or the classical Chinese, neither can the pro vincial Chinaman speak it. The ordinary man of one province in China cannot speak the colloquial dialect of another province. But all of them can read the Chinese character. A ship-wrecked Chinaman from each province, a Corean and a Japanese might drift ashore 011 a single island, not one could understand the speech of a single one of the others, but they could every one comn-umicate with all the rest in the Chinese written char actei. The Chinese character aud literature were introduced in Japan 800 years ago, and is now more or less familiar to every educated man. Doctor Walter Lambuth had only been ten da7s in Japan and we were surprised at his rapidity in acquiring the use of their tongue. The Japanese, too, are so very eager to learn the English language that a missionary can do good work who only speaks the English. They have no alphabet, only a syllabaiy. We think it possible that in the distant future English will be the language of the empire. Their eager ness to acquire it affords a golden op portunity to give them the truths of Christianit'. If the church will do her whole duty the empire can be Chris tianized in 25 3-ears. Then with a Christian nation of thirty-eight millions on the eastern threshhcld of China, the combined armies of the Lord can meet in the final campaign of the church in the conquest of the ki Middle Kingdom" with its hundreds of millions. From Kobs we had an interesting excursion to the city of Otsee, on the shore of lake Biwa, likeGanevaon lake Leman. With a similar civilization around it this lake, environed with gardens and snow covered mountains hi the background, will be a worthy rival of the far famed Geneva. Out side the city near the lake shore they took great x)rule in showing the Dai Matsu great pine, a low tree measuring six feet through the body while the top is 180 feet in diameter. One limb we measured is 100 feet long and only six inches in diameter throughout. The limbs are supported by artificial props. Xative engineers are opening a canal tunnel through the mountains tor steam navigation between this lake and the cities of Kioto, Osaca and Kobe. THE OLD CAPITAL. Kioto, the old capital, we found a very interesting city. Surrounded b' mountains it is not. only more picture sque but much more susceptible of de fense or fortifications than the present capita: of Tokio. Here is the old pal ace where the emperor for so many years was virtuall3r a prisoner like the pope at Rome in the Vatican. The re lative potenc3' of the emperor and shogun is indicated by the very broad moats and massive walls around the palace at Tokio and the narrow moats and insignificant walls here. Here we spent Sunday. In the morn ing we listened to a sermon in English. When the preacher read his text. " There shall be no more sea," he had the undivided attention of that part of the audience whose recent experience on the Pacific had so enhanced their appreciation of this feature of heaven. In the afternoon we listened toaver3r graceful and earnest preacher as he ad dressed a large audience of students in their native tongue. He was the Rev. Joseph Neeshimer, whose eventful life deserves a much more extended notice than I can here give. Possibl3 we may give it hereafer. The American Board or Congrega tional church is laying broad founda tions here for future conquests. Their superstructure is already mi;;g in strength and beauty. Their church and college buildings are of the most approved patterns of modern architec ture, ci'3'staliziug in red brick and granite. Like the Canadian Methodists they are sending their very best men to this empire; The most unique and unaccountable institution we have ever seen is a modern and magnificent Buddhist col lege here in Kioto. The president, whose name is Akamatsu, went to England and studied three 3Tears under Max Muhler. The bible with man3T English :and American text Books is used. The college building indicates much wealth and is a model of con venience, comfort and elegance. With the dymamite contained in the text books they are using, it is only a ques tion of time when their Buddhism shall be blown into nonenti, for some of the most intelligent native christians were formerly priests of this order. Their religion in Japan is doomed, aud the time is not distant when their tem ples will onby be mausoleums for the fossils and antiquties of a day that is W. B. Palmore. Kioto Japan. For the Advocate. Our LtCttcr From ruslava3lc. Mr. Editor : The cause of the peo ple against the liquor traffic continues to make steady and satisfactory pro gress in Tennessee. Both Houses of the Legislature, now in session in this city, have agreed to the prohibition amendment to the State Constitution iu order that it may go to the people for ratification or rejection. The elec tion will most probably be set for next fall, and your correspondent does not think he is over sanguine when lie pre dicts an overwhelming victory for the prohibitionists, if they will but turn out and vote their convictions. The pro ceedings of the State Temperance Al liance, which met in Nashville last week, give promise of an organized, ac tive campaign. Ths meeting was by fir the most notable ever held in con nection with the cause of temperance in this State. The attendance was large, the character of the delega tes rep resentative, and the enthusiasm un bounded. The Southern Methodist was more strongly represented than aii3' other denomination. This was owing to two facts : first that our church is decidedly the strongest numerical in the State, and second that none is more zealous. The second section of the Il3mn Book Committee provided for by the last General Conference, consisting of Dr. O. P. Fitzgerald, Dr. W. F. Tillett, and Dr. C. W. Carter, held a meeting here last week. They spent several days in laborious session. The Com mittee worked with great harmony. When the several sections shall have reported their work and the Committee of the whole reviewed their work, the result will doubtless be a hymn book meeting the wants and expectations of the Church. The meeting of the Board of Bishops this Spring,and the announcement of the plan of Episcopal Visitation are looked forward to with interest. Of course, the plan is 3et to be determined upon. If Bishop Duncan should go to the Pacific Coast. I will claim only to be a good guesser. It is now almost a certainty that Bishop Hargrove will make his resi dence at Chattanooga. The rapid growth of that important Southern cit3T, the development of Southern Methodism there, its advantages as a railroad center for an itinerant Bishop, and the fact that the Northern Metho dist Church is making it the base of its operations for the whole South, furnish grounds for the conclusion that the location of this active Bishop and man of affairs at this point would be judicious. The new missionaries admitted at the recent called meeting of the Execu tive Committee of the Woman's Board of Missions, Misses Roberts, Gordon and Hughes, aud Mrs. Campbell are women of unusual piet3r, culture and force of character. The3' made a most favorable impression upon those Nash ville Methodists who met them during their short stay in this city. The pra3'- ers of the church that the Lord of the harvest might send f.i'th more laborers has been signally answered. Let the church sustain the Missionaries that God has called. The Commencement exercises of the Medical Department of Vanderbilt University take place to-night. An other large class will be graduated. This prospersous department of our Universit3' is fortunate in having in its faculty such men as Drs. Menees and Maddui. who are not only distinguish ed for medical science, but zealous Christians, who give tone to the insti tiou with which they are connected. An interesting occasion a f -w even ings since was the commencement 01 the Meharry Medical College, the first colored school of medicine ever estab lished. This Nashville Institution has for the past few 3-ears been turning out full-fledged negro doctors. The " rab bit's foot," voodooing," and " cunjur ing" have had their day. Mr. Barnard, from the Observatory at Vanderbilt University, co ainues to discover new comet, having quite recently added two inure to his list. He is winning not rnzes alone, but a na tional and a European reputation. I am happy to report Nashville local Methodism in a flourishing condition. Dr. Bar bee, at McKendree, is holding .-pecial service. The iceut meeting at Carroll Street resulted in quite a number of accessions and conversions. Dr. Leftwich at West End is vigorous ly pushing the church enterprise. A lively aggressive spirit characterizes the work of the church in all parts of the cit3r. The ' boom" which has been gener al throughout the South during the past few mouths is here. Its latest manifestation is an unusual, and, as I believe, an unhealtlu'-, activity m the real estate market. While it is perhaps not so obviousty demoralizing as the mania of stock speculation which im mediate preceded it, the wholesale purchase of land for purely speculative purposes cannot fail to injure business and will almost certainly be followed by a hurtful reaction. Men engaged in this speculation show the same signs of feverish excitement which mark the stock gambler,and from what I am told the methods of the real estate shark, are not much better ethically C3nsider ed than those of his brother of the stock pit. Some men are borrowing money to speculate in suburban lots, general' with the expectation of being able to sell quickly at a good profit, while oth ers are probably drawing 11101103' from their business, or withholding it from their creditors for the same purpose. The danger in such a state of things is evident. We are having remarkably mild weather, indicating an earty, not to sa3T, premature spring. The trees are budding, and this fertile blue grass counti"3' is alread3 beginning to put on its vernal robes. The Supreme Court of Tennessee has jnst confirmed the death smtence against Ben Brown, who was convicted of the murder of another negro about a 3-ear ago. The possibilities of crime in the midst of an enlightened communit3 are wonderfully exemplified in this case. The dismembered bod3r was found buried in a tanyard in this cit3 The head, which was missing, was finalhr found iu a bee-hive on the premises of one of the gang concerned in the murder. Verih'. fact is stranger than fiction. Nashville. Xashcitle, Feb. 23 l, 1S87. For the Advocate. Some Personal Reminiscence. BY REV. THOS. S. CAMPHELL. OVER HALF A CENTURY. Fifty-two 3ears ago I attended the Virginia Conference which met at L3Tnchburg, Feb. 11th, 1835. It was the time for me to be admitted to the order of Elders, I must needs pass an examination on my Theological and Ecclesiastical studies that ni3r fitness might be asceitained. I had made dili gent preparation, as far as 1113' circuit duties would allow. At home I spent two or three weeks in special review. The day before Conference met I was with the committee. My examination being satisfactory, I was elected to the order of Elders and ordained by Bishop Emoiy, who presided at the Confer ence. OF BISHOP EMORY. I remark ; his home was at or near Baltimore. He came on horseback, using two horses ; one to cany him, the other, his baggage. He was on his way during the two intense cold da3's the coldest ever known in the annals of our country, during the centuiy. He came very near freezing. He was a man of small statue and light avordu poise not over 120 pounds. He had a large and well developed head ; a most benignant and intelligent countenance. He possessed the courtly manners of a cultivated gentleman. Presiding in the Conference, he was as gentle as a wo man ; as firm as solid granite. He manifested executive ability I have seldom seen equaled ; and I may sa3' of unsurpassed pulpit abilit3r. He preach ed on Sunday from Isa. CO : 22. The theme was the development and exten sion of Messiah's kiugdom, with the agencies emplo3'ed and success assured. It made a profound impression especi ally on the preachers. It wa a real benediction to the Conference and the church. How sad was his death ! Aft er a short service in the Episcopacy, he came to his death by a casualty ; be ing thrown from his carriage and fatally injured. Going to Conference. THE PREACHERS were exposed in the black hill country to veiy great suflering, and risk, in such weather. The month of February, 1835. did not afford me pleasant day. It began severely cold aud closed With snow ten or twelve inches deep. All travelled on horseback; and thc3' were not accustomed to stop when duty call- ed them to move. Our Conference was interesting, harmonious, and strength ening to the bonds of brotherly-kindness. Then, as now, our Conferences wereoccasions of renewed consecration, perhaps in a greater degree. It was hard work everywhere, aud stinted sup port alwa3's. No eas3' places, nor fat salaries. CONFERENCE CLOSED, On a dismal day ; the rain was pour ing, so that our departure was dek ed. I was read out for Person circuit ; was muchf pleased. A healthful, pleasant country; a four weeks circuit willi about sixteen preaching places. But there was a brother B. the same I rode with from Raleigh to Germautown, who was assigned to Pittsylvania. He was a married man. I was single. It was understood that Pittsylvania was not so likely to make a married preach er comfortable and support him, as was Person. He sought me and earnestly besought me to change with him, to which I assented provided the Bishop would make the change, waiting 0:1 the Bishop, after hearing the case he made the change. I was getting, as I knew, the worst of the bargain. Person was light work, as compared with the other; a three weeks appointment with nine teen preahing places. Besides PITTSYLVANIA, had only been formed two years before, out of Bannister, Franklin and Smith's River circuits. It was served in 1833 by Peter Doub ; in 1834 by D. B. Nicholson and 11. Alspaugh. Owing to sickness and other circumstances that operated the previous year to depress the work the circuit needed special promptness and care. I therefore re solved on bringing up the work. I left my father's Feb. 2lth to reach my first appointment 70 miles distant the ensu ing Sunday, March 1.; I was'overtaken by the storm which brought the 10 or 12 inch snow before mentioned, but after riding ten miles that bright March day I reached the church ; found no person, rode round the house, and went away to find the preacher's home ; a comfor table place and warm rece, tion. It was uecessaiy to travel round and pub lish 1113' arrival and appointments. MY PRESIDING ELDER was Rev. J. McAdeu, a sweet spirited, kind and considerate officer ; a very popular preacher ; a pure hearted Chris tian. He 3ret lives; in possession of mental and physical vigor; perhaps the oldest preacher in the church. He joined the Conf rence 1814. He is a native of Caswell, N. C, where he was born August 15th, 17'.5. He was con vinced on his first visit that thn work as planned was too heavy for me. lie adopted measures to obtain a helper and change the circuit to lour weeks. WHAT I WAS DOING. Without regard to weather, I was meeting all my appointments, riding long distances and preaching nearly every day. On the 10th of May over taxed powers succumbed. I was pros trated I13 severe illness ; from which I slowly recovered; for neatly two months I was unable to preach. Mean while DR. WILLIAM CARTER, who had been a local preacher several years, came to 1113" help ; he having been emplo3ed by 1113' P. E. He took my place and filled my appointments 'til I was able to work. The circuit was arranged for both of us as soon as I was able to work ; but I undertook it before I ought. I remember having once fainted in the pulpit after a ride of ten miles on a hot day just as I was opening the services. It was more than a year before I fully recovered ; while I wear the marks of that sickness to this day. I felt that I was VERY FORTUNATE in my assistant. He was intelligent, pious, and zealous. His father, Col. Jeduthan Carter, lived near the center of the circuit ; was Recording Steward ; and, indeed, the principal layman of the circuit, competent and faithful. Dr. C. and family lived at his father's : there he and I met once in two weeks, lie was indeed a holy, good man. He left a lucrative practice, for he was a successful pli3Tsician, and served Pitts3'l vania as helper on a single man's pa3 At the end of the 3-ear he was taken on trial in the Conference and continued till death. lie died at Durham, the home of his daughter, May 4th, 1885. Our work was to some extentsuccess ful. We closed the 3-ear with the cir cuit in good condition. The reports at Conference showed increase in member ship and improvement in finances. This was to me a 3-ear of peculiar trials and hardships in several regards, as well ts abundant labors. The discipline I passed through, by the grace ofGod, developed in me some of the Christian graces more fully than ever before. As from my present standpoint I review my labor on Pittsylvania circuit, I feel that the Providence which gave me that field was both wise and kind. Lexington, Feb. 20th, 1887.
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