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L. XXXII. NO 19 THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. ESTABLISHED it .5 M v. r:A3fK 1.. xn:it, . For the Advocate. ;,,no distill TEiouglsts 011 iic:U Subjects.. Tin: TKIXITY. -V v., is an age of spiritual pride, p, ; .-mall calibre are arrogating to -!i0.i- 'vos respon-ible position of VvVt i of thought, ami are immodest .. ;-. give their peuriie productions i', h':.;h sounding title of ' Progressive T! ' -'''s on Great Subjects." Such is d-0 ti'.h-- f a pamphlet that came to the t, : '.rough the mails recently. The uiih-'i' claims to be the pastor of the Cr !hr list Church at San Jose. Cali vrah. 'l think the Rev. A. I), Uetts luvl r:'V'n- read this pamphlet, when he !v'.'. ?;at short notice of the meanest rV-- 1 -e ever read. I was not prepos- ' v the titlc'Progressive Thought on (iivat Subjects," for I had learned th.u heretics generally arrogate to vt the lionor of being the great thhikors of tlie age, and that those who ulheiv 10 the faith once delivered to r'r'e viints. are intellectually a feeble iV-'.k. Were it not for the fact that a c..;t::h'. publishing company of Phila ;;. 'a ending out to all the minis , . . .-very denomination, both young '.. these heretical publications. . ; ,.', there is danger of many per . ig hurt by this poison, and KV:xh iv;r:n coining to those who are '-'ar wih the argument by ,vvp -' errors have been refuted a rV.r-: times, I would not notice 'actions. But there seem- to ;,e a .-' -'fa mania in some quarters, .ar.','.i:: .vachers.to be considered great thir.k and to be abreast of the age. ilea... . few plain words on thi sub :.: t. 1 a plain man. who loves God, V: i t: truth, may not be amiss. Tii ' lr: thing attacked by thec :viva',.-d '?) thinkers is the doctrine of Tvl.hiv. Their statement of tho vl,v:vh.-- 1 Vslander upon the faith of rth- 'x Christians. We will statu ':: , -'rlne. and then give the proof :;;,,;t . V.ch this statement is made. Taer . are three (:i.ihicfy but not - ; persons in the Godhead, of . ao -:f - 'nce, power and Eternity, the Fat:. "-v. the Son. and the Holy Ghost. ;.;d : Father is the fountain of the D-ji: . :n -i the whole Divine nature is c'mtai:'.h:nt-v--.l Irom the Father to tho S-m. a:i : from both to the Spirit, yet so as that 1 '-:o Father and the Son are not . ;: -r separable from the Pi vinir . -it do still exist in it, and are ''na.tely united to it. So that, ha ;h - ity of these three distinct, but hisc-i arable persons, we have one God. TkeVv .-id person in the Trinity is the F.-f-ra.. I Sou of God, who took upon nii!i.--h-our nature, and became man. ana made au atonement for our race. That the above statement is true, we mut depend entirely upon revelation prove ; and it is the honest opinion .I ke writer, who flatters himself e::ou.;h to say that he has read the vari-v opinions of those who claim to be advanced thinkers, without prejudice, that there is sufficient proof to establish this hut. the Trinity of Godhead, be yoii'l :avki, in ill honest minds, who are ;:ot :. ::.!t:-d with intellectual pride, and ire more ready to make to themselves au iaieilectual God, than they are to -,rhu. the God of the Bible. Tkt; proof from Scripture that there are three persons in the Godhead, is, 1. That, while God is declared to be one, yet IF 3 ro veals Himself to us as a plural ualty. m to speak. The first name of rev aled in the Bible, is a plural uau:- A Li-:r:r ; and to connect in the -aav -iaau ar manner as in His name, i-lurahty "with unity, it is the nomina tive to a singular verb. Wears ohl : .- Hebrew critics, that the literal tea : : is, " la the beginning .!o-l cv.?at :he heaven and the earth." Ai.. ' mighty one, another name of '- h ; - i:s plural Ar.i:r, the mighty i- -. : tlie Greek, Au is rendered Tin- j . -ii I A Mm is rendered Tjikoi. A , : : ,, potent one, lias the plural, A;:i; the potent ones. Adoxim, - th- ): : form of A do.v , a governor. " If I 'At.oxiM) Master, where is :ay 'Mai. 1 : Oh) Other plural ''i of speech occur when only the tvuo is spohon of. A; 1 forsaid, Let us make man in '.urht.upo. .liter our likeness." (Gen. 1:2 :. So God created man in Ills '"'a h:: : ; . An 1 the Lord God said 'ho i! 'o is become like one of us." A y-vz'- .:! .!. !er of texts might be quoted v.'h: a there are two or three persons i'r'v-; of. never more than three. (2) hi t! Saw Testament, we have the Trim ' v r n ca'cd as clearly as words au : press any uiea Baptizing uioin n. the name of the Fofha: and ot the S ;;, an,i uf tlQ Holy Ghost." "The -i-aee of our Lord Jesus Christ, the lovo of Hod. and the communion of the Holy Ghost';' with others in which the i i :t ,:., and three only, are thus t.oh.j e:..; of equal trust and honor, and f;ff-ialiy the fountain and source of grace and heardietion. for there are three that bear record in heuv-n. the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost." (I. John 5 : 7.) This hassa-e has been disputed, and Trinita rians have not contended for its genuine ness ; yet there is far more reason to accept it, than to reject it from the sacred cannon. This is the opinion of a pkiiu man, not, withstanding it is iminated from the revised version. j'Ut it is universally agreed among Orthodox divines that the proof of the ftinity is overwhelming without this Icxt being genuine, and I believe the ejection to it was raised by those who opposed the doctrine. Furthermore, I jelieve our late translators of the Scriptures were far more biased by the opinions of these advanced (?) thinkers than the church is aware of. 1 believe that this unitarian, or Beecherism heresy, is far more general than most people think. 1 can only glance at the arguments in a news pa per article, but by doing this I hope to stir up the minds ot our young ministers, and oth ers, to a review of these fundamental doctrines of our holy religion. I am especially anxious to divert the atten tion of those who have been so wonder fully helped by reading lieecher's works, from these vagaries. to the solemn, sub stantial thoughts, of such minds as Richard Watson, and that class of thinkers. In m- next I will state some argu ments on the Atonement, and notice some advanced thought on that sub ject. Piedmont. For the Advogate. Our Washington Letter. (From our Regular Correspondent.) Wa ishington is dull, terribly dull just all the newspaper correspondents now, an tne newsnaner corresnon think. Seeond-Tfirni o-nssin lm lrmt died out, and tho complicating situa tions to which it gave rise have been worked for all they were worth. Spring is here with such accessories as sun shades, buttonhole bouquets, sfrawber- ... .1 -i -i,. , enuois. sireei narpists ami tne wo- man with the hand organ and the baby, but societv is comparatively ouiet. n cauuigs are sun m voirue, out tne gay world was pretty well exhausted with the winter's rout and does not re vert to its occupation with its ante Lentcu ;-:est. ut April's torpor in Washington will be more than compensated for by activity in ISIay. Eveiwbod3r is talking about the National Drill, and prepara tions are being carried forward as rapidly as possible. General Augur, who has been appointed commandant of the camp, is in appearance command ing, and the embodiment of soldierly qualities. lie wears side whiskers and eye-glasses and is altogether a very fine looking oliieer. He lives with his fami ly in au old fashioned brick house in Georgetown, and is on the retired list of the Army, for which he remarked that he was glad, because lie would have leisure to attend to his new duties, while if he were in active service he could not have accepted the position. IJut the Drill is not the only event billed for May, Society always Hocks to the Jocky Club races, and they will come off next week. Then Forepaugh's circus is coming, Patti is coming, the National Association of Hotel-Keepers is coming, there are to be reunions of one kind and another, and the unveiling of the Garfield statue and the meeting of the Army cf the Cumberland will al so take early in the month of flowers. It looked last week, before President Cleveland's views and wishes concern ing a second term had been reported, as if nothing on earth could prevent his renomination. Now that the manifes tation of alleged coyness and indiffer ence concerning that possibility is al leged of him, it looks as if his renomi nation could not be prevented by any thing on the earth beneath or in the heavens above. Above all things else the human heart desires the inaccessi ble, and if Mr. Cleveland should see fit to say definitely that he did not wish to be President for a second term, there would be a general clamor for him, coming even from those who are now his political enemies. The Interestate Commerce Commis sion has been wrestling with the long and short haul across the continent. All the transcontinental railways have ap plied for the suspension of the short haul clause, and have put forth as good if not better reasons why it should be done than those that were given and proved sufficient in the case of the Southern railways. It looks as if the Commission will have to servo all alike, although it is a court authorized to de cide different ways for each railroad. It can suspend in one case and refuse to do so in a precisely similar one. While our law-makers are away, con veniences and improvements at the Capitol which they voted money for are gradually being made. Two new elevators are to be put in place one at tho Senate end and one at tho House end of the building. There will then be fair: elevators in the Capitol one at each of the four corners, which will add greatly to the convenience of visi tors as well as legislators. The con tract for constructing the two new ones was yesterday awarded to a Chicago Company, at $0,345. The amount ap propriated by Congress for the whole work was $27,000. The landscape architect of the Na tional Capital recently made the grave mistake of setting out evergreen trees on the new marble terrace around the north and west fronts of the Capitol building. The Dome has long been criticised as looking too large, or out of proportion to the rest of the structure, and the terrace was planned and built for the purpose of increasing the ap parent height of the building. Of course these trees break the ar chitectural continuity and destroy ab surdly the very illusion of height which the terrace is intended to create. In stead of seeming the base of the Capitol facade the terrace now looks like a waff around the Capitol, with trees planted on the lawn inside. The trees can be seen from a distance over the parapet of the terrace and the effect is that of an enclosed garden, from every standpoint. H is also argued by art critics that the vertical lines of the trees (they are RALEIGH, N. 0., WEDNESDAY, MAY Irish yews) are incongruous with the I Horizontal imc m the classical architec ture of the Capitol, and the architect has decided to remove them. Paragraphs have been going the rounds of the papers relative to Mr. Cleveland's impaired health. I have seen the President often during the past two years, but have never known him to look as well as he does now. His face has neither the haggard weari ness of his earlier days in the White House, nor the redness of ln.fer w hen its color was frennor.tK- mravi to President Arthur's face. President Cleveland's complexion is clear, his eyes are bright, and his ensemble that of a man in good health and heart. Some Washingtom newspaper reporters are in bad repute at theW hitellouse just now. At the President's reception in the Fast Room recently, while he was shaking hands with about'three hun dred people, mostly visitors in the city, who had come to the White House to see the President among the other sights, a group of these rreritlemen took a position behind tho Chief Executive and laughed and commented upon the persons as they filed by in line. The criticisms were audible, and the Presi dent was so much annoyed by the dis courtesy shown the strangers that he turned more than once and looked re provingly at the offenders. These tri-weekly receptions to the public are for tho most part attended by strangers, as above remarked, who could not be expected to be as familiar with White House receptions as are the representatives of the press who make a business of attending them. Sometimes callers are a little awkward and rather comical scenes occur, but this is the first time the President " has ever taken occasion to complain to the ushers of downright ill-breeding on the part of the newspaper men. Wash inn en , D, C. For the Advocate. A 'I'riiD Aroissscl Tlie World. (From oar Special Correspondent.) KAN1)Y,A R;OLil AX1) DEVIL WOKSIIIP. Colombo is connected with the inland city of Kandy y 75 miles of railroad. This is the largest cit3r of tho Central Province, 1,700 feet higher than Colom bo, and is about the center of the island. Ceylon is about the chape of a mango or pear, with au area of 25,400 square mile.?. Its greatest length is 271 miles, and greatest breadth 137, with a double border of golden sands and low lying tropical jungles, farms and forests. This border of lusty luxuriance is a huge tangled tyrrany of vegetation. In every nook and corner where water lodges or sunrays fall you see palms, fruits, ferns and flowers struggling furi ously tolive,blossomand bear;in which man is in danger from the very plants that feed and shade him. Outside of this green flat border is the golden sand beach ; and within it the land rises in to mountains, elevated plains and pla teaux towards the center. Kandy sits like a solitaire on this elevated center within a circle of emerald hills. An inseparable concomitant of Brit ish possession and rule is a good road. Before the capture of Kandy in 1815 it was only approached by narrow jungle paths, like some of the interior places of China. Now we approach this old capital by a well ballasted and well constructed railroad. Wherever they construct such roads they seem to build w w - y to stay : some of iron, even to telegraph poles and cross-ties. These ties are small iron bars expanding at the ends into inverted clips or bowls, to prevent them from sinking into the road bed. On the backs of these bowls are square notches in which tho rails are wedged very securely. There is now in the island 173 miles of railroad, 2.200 mih.s of good common road and 1G7 miles of canal. The view from the cars as they wind up the terraced sides of the mountains approaching Kandy is one of the most beautiful we have ever seen. The water from the mountain springs is caught and retained in stone tanks to irrigate the rice fields rising in green terraces up the mountain sides from the circular nooks and valleys below, interspersed with the dark groves of Palmyra palms, bananas and cocoanut trees," with here and there wild jagged rocks projecting from the cliffs under the soft golden light of the setting sun was a picture which has increased our sympathy and contributions to the blind, iligher up the mountain, as tho locomotive puffed around sharp curves, under projecting rocks, the wdiite blooms of the coffee fields burst into view, with the green clumps of tea plantations in the background. Kandy has a population of 22,000, only about 75 miles from the sea coast on every side, and 1,700 above the humid air which bathes the jungles and forests of the coast, it is one of tho most delightful climates in the world. The temperature varies but little through the year, and 44 Decembers are as pleasant as May." Having within four hours emerged from the steam bath of the coast forests, as our car riage dashed along the streets there was "That nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street, Congratulate each other as they meet." The Victoria Hotel was full, and we found in a private hotel called the Family Residence, kept by a Mrs. Whitfield of England the best enter tainment yet received in the Old World, for. which we paid only four rupees a day. A Mohammedan and a Buddhist were my -waiters, who anticipated and supplied all my wants with such noise less amiable ease that we very cheer fully added another rupee to the daily expense, which left a smile on their faces as broad as the difference between ot.r three religions. The two central objects of interest to piigrims and tourists are the old palace of the Kings of Kandy with its elabor ately carved wood columns, in which the courts are now held and an old temple, unlike anything we have seen in architecture. It is at the corner of two principal streets, with a circular li brary built in the angle. On the bal cony of this library the Kandian Kings once exhibited themselves to the peo ple and gazed out on the spectacular processions of the festal anniversaries. Within this old library and temple is a wealth of rubies, sapphires, cat's eyes, emeralds and other precious stones, suggestive of the palmy clays of Mogut. magnificence. The bindings of the old sacred books of Buddhism are richly set with these stones, also much of the furniture ot the temple. We at tended an evening service amid the glare of torches, ear-splitting and soul- rending music of clanging cymbals, screaming horns and deafening drums. x.s wTe passed along the jewelled depart ments of the barbaric snleiulor of form er dars, the rapacious priests and per sistent beggars presented a scene both tantalizing and incongruous. But there was a counterbalancing feature of the service which was in delightful contrast to the dirty offerings and horrible odors of burnt incense in the temples of China. The only manifestaiion of any thing like devoutness of spirit was by the women, who silently approached the various idols with waiters filled with tlie fragrant blooms of the frauigipani, champak, iron wood and hebiscus. After spreading these before tlie vari ous deities and offering with clasped hands their silent pikers, they one by one retire to their homes leaving the ar at the end of the hour in all the tSmple and court freighted with a grate ful perfume rising far above the heads of all their dead, dumb idols. In the sanctum sanctorum behind silver doors and under many gold and silver bells, richly jeweled, they keep the r;;OSt sacred of their relics : A piece of n'cry one and a quarter of an inch long which they claim is a real tooth of the Great Buddha. Edwin Arnold has re centl' visited India again and Ceylon. These priests showed us with much satisfaction a leaf which he brought them from the sacred Peepul tree at Auddha Gya. He stands almost as high in their estimation as he does in his own. When Lord Clive returned from his brilliant career of conquest in India, Voltaire was very much in clined to write a history of India. Lord Macaulay writing about forty years ago in the Edinburgh Review, said : 4 Had Voltaire's plan been carried into execution he would have produced a book containing much lively and pic turesque narrative, many just and hu man sentiments poignantly expressed, many grotesque blunders, many sneers at the Mosaic chronology, much scand al about the Catholic missioniries, and much sublime philanthropy stolen from the New Testament and put into the mouths of virtuous and philosophic Brahmins." The latter part of this prophec" has been fulfilled in Edwin Arnold. He has given in his 41 Light oiAsia" the philanthropy stolen from the New Testament and put into the mouths of virtuous and philosophic Buddhists. It is really nauseating at this late day to see a man like Arnold trying to whitewash and resuscitate such a putrefying incubus as Buddhism has been upon Asia. It was originally atheistic ; beginning as a moral reform with God left out. A protest against the caste of Brahmanism it has de generated into the most hideous shade of metempsychosis and idolarty. Their primal doctrine of Niryana is worse than the philosophic pantheism of Spinoza. When driven to its last log ical sequence it is nothing more nor less than annihilation ; tlie soul in a tortuous round of transmigration until a final exit from conscious, personal being. The drives in the evening around the cliffs, summits and water falls overlook ing the city are inimitable in beauty. Just below his harem one of the kings built a massive wall across the valley and turned the rice fields above into a broad deep lake which mirrored the beauties of his harem and crimson flow ers of the leafless cotton silk trees on its shores. It now reflects the flowery terraces and picturesque homes of many Europeans up the sides of surrounding mountains. The Governor's home near the King's palace, is tlie finest and most imposing on the Island. About four miles out is the Botanical garden of Peradeniga, a paradise for botanists, where the tropical fruits and flora of the world can be studied and enjoyed. The Cinchona, Mahogany, Upas, India Pubber, Nutraeg and Ebony may be seen at a single glance. In full "view of the city is Mount Bahira on which the Devil worshippers through the ages offered their sacrifices of human lives.- Among the last offer ed were two little girls who were al wa3rs selected for their beauty. Late in the evening of the anniversary the crowd of Devil worshippers proceeded to the top of this mountain, tied the girls to stakes on the opposite sides of the summit ; then after their diabolic ! dances and ceremonies would leave 11., 1887. them up there for the Devil to get dur ing the night. One morning when they all rushed up the mountain to find the girls dead as they had always been in former years litterally frightened to death the very foundation of their laith was shaken when they found one of the girls alive. In the midst of their bewilderment the little girl smiled and said : " I knew the Devil could not kill me, I prayed to Jesus, and I knew He was creater than all the Devils." She had been taught by the missionaries of Him who drove a legion of Devils out of the man of God and into the swine and sea. This was about the last of their sacrifice of human beings. Tlie British government prohibits it. Our Ceylon Consul, William Morey, Esy., contributed much to our enjo' mentofthe 4i most beautiful island of all the seas." But even in such a clime as this, the 44 silver strands among the gold" are marking the ears of his long sojourn. W. B. PAL3IOKE. For the Advocate. Bro. . i. Ssssatli nncl TEie THK DEAD ORATOR. Mr. Beecher is as dead as Oliver Cromwell, and his being dead does not at all change the character of his life. With him personally, morally, I have nothing to do, my old friend, Chief Jus tice Bleckley, believed him an innocent man, many on the ground believed him a guilty one. I am an Agnostic, I can best hope. I was not sour, I was not gloomy, I was not revengeful. Mr. Beecher was not au Evangelical, no more than Frederick Maurice I am, I am no Cal vinist ; I am an Evangelical, or I would not be a Methodist. I did not say Mr. Beecher had denied the beauti ful manhood of Jesus Christ, not so nor that he had disclaimed a belief in his Divinity, but that he had done more to discredit his Savior JiooJ, as Orthodoxy teaches, and as I believe the Bible teache s if , than any man, not excepting Ingersol. Ingersol assailed Mosoj, Ingersol assails immortality, Mr. Beecher did neither. He. simply pre sented the "Unitarian view of salvation, by following the example of Jesus. 1 said his views of the humanity of Christ were not beyoudChauucy, nor of future retribution below those of Chafin and I might have added, nor of human de pravity below that of Pclagius. I liked Mr. Beecher, so I did Stuart Mill. So I do Prof. Huxley. So I do Herbert Spencer, but I cannot claim them to be Christian men, nor Chris tian teachers, nor say they are Charla tans or Scoundrels. My old neighbor, Father Bazin, was a good Catholic and I was fond of him, but it could not af fect my verdict after he was gone. I am hot cynical, but I cannot always go with the crowd. Mr. Beecher was lauded throughout our land without qualfication and the young men of bright minds might have naturally drawn the conclusion that Beecherism wras all, if any man knows what that is, save thatjit repuidatesCalvinism. conver sion and hell, and substitutes Beecher ism developemeut and a life of everlast ing beauty after a life of shame for Weslcyanism and what is called Ortho doxy. The Rambler rambles beautifully and I like him none tlie less for his sturdy blows. Whatever I am, I am no dogmatist, and let a man but move in that sphere in which an honest man can move, and I have no quarrel with him. Mr. Beecher was a Congregation alist techincally at one time and after years of fretting in his toils, I think he withdrew. He did not claim to be an Evngoiical and did the cause of vital Godliness, in wj ojnnion, more harm than any man in his day. I sar vital goali )tcss and do not mean the sentimental morality of Rosseau, which he did not assail, nor the regard for the humanity of Jesus, which Chatuicy had, and Bel lows had, nor the eternal hope which Tennyson had. That somehow good will be the final goal of ill. He did not fight vital godliness, it was only need ful to ignore it, and set up another Sstem; this he did. I wrote my article deliberately and without passion. I read wdiat my old friend Dr. Hajpgood wrote. I read what the Independent wrote. I read what Buckley wrote audi said of Mr. Beecher dead, what I would have said of him alive ; that he was a great brain ed, great hearted, loveable man with fine tastes, warm affections, and tender emotions, but without settled convic tions. This I think is true, and this I say without bitterness. He did more to conquer the South than any man, or any hundred men, but I did not remem ber that. He fearfully maligned us, and falsely in days gone by, but I did not remember that; but he took a pul pit given him because he teas not a So cianian, Pelagian or a Universalist, and used it to make odious the doctrines he had promised to defend and I re member that. G. G. Smith. 0' The acquisition of learning without study is like the acquisition of wealth without labor. It is as necessary for the mechanic to study out his problem when it comes to him to be studed as it is for him t finish his task by his handicraft. Scientific American. Payable in Advance Fcr the Advocate. Driiiimsotid 05S lKsi!Boi"l;sSi!y. BY REV. EDWARD I,. TELL. It has been three years and more since our preachers began to rend and to piaise and to appropriate Henry Drummond's ''Natural Law m tho Spiritual World," and we are still read ing it and praising it and congratulat ing ourselves that avc can get another sermon or two out of it. During all this time I have met but one man who even hinted that he had any fault to find with it. It has done so much for us we doa't care to entertain a suspi cion about it; it has been suchaf irh ful friend in helping us over hard places, and such a serviceable compan ion in sermonizing, wc feel that it would be ungrateful in us to pick a flaw anywhere. But there are several pages in Drummond winch, need to be stamp ed with the skull and cross-bones of ihs laudanum bottle ; and there are many others which might be safely toned down by a sprinkling of interrogation points around the margin. In the chapter on Eternal Lif.?, Mr. Drummond tells the reader thai it will not affect the doctrine of immortality to accept the verdict of science against the future existence of the mind and bod', 44 for the fact of immortality re.-U for us on a different basis." This V vU may be briefly stated thus : lie that hath life hath the Sen ; conversely, ho that hath the Son hath life." The Son forms liis spirit within' us and thb , h it. hath life, e. it corresponds with, knars Christ which h the exact ch:f A tion of eternal life given by Chvkl him self. Nothing is to exist'in tlie fat ere but this Christ-spirit. Our immortality is thus made to depend upon Chri.-t be ing formed in us that is to say it is conditional, not inherent. The" man who is without Christ lacks the condi tion of immortality and (hercfic has no future existence. The Chi: Ihui can never die for he has that within him which will eternally ewrrj?po,'.d with an eternal Christ; the sinner must cease to exist for there is nothing within him that corresponds with anj thiug in the hereafter. There may be a hell, but nobody will havo a chance to go there, except a glorified spirit and he is not going there ! Science is the handmaid of le'i.i'cn. not the mistress. As long as she, keeps in our service and is hand3r to run er rands and throwr stones out of the way we will keep her in our employ anil give her tho praise she deserves ; but we are not going to hang on to the t ;:d of her skirts and shut both eyes and let her pull us where she will. Here is the trouble with most of these retoneikTi) of science and religion : the' fall in love with the pretty handmaid and rahe her to a position for which she was not in tended and in which she only succeeds in disgracing herself. Our immortality does not depend up on Christ being formed in us. A man cannot become so brutish that he will die a brute. There is something in our make-up besides brain and brawn something that is to live either in heaven or hell. Our spirit joined to Christ receives wings rises heaven ward : without Christ it sinks like load to hell. Opi nlosis l;s lit ivi. Bisiiop J. C. Keener, of Xac Orha,:'-: : 44 The folly of carrying water on two shoulders at the same time is transpar ent to every one except to the one who attempts it. To be squarely what we are is iiood common sense as well as religion." licv. J)r. .. JinvMey uf Xtir ',,;. ; 4 A sermon, both short and good is perfect, and needs no apology. A sh. :.., poor sermon has an apo'ogy for ;ts poorness in its brevity. A long, good sermon has an apobgy for its length iu its goodness. But a long, poor sermon admits of no apology, and the attempt to make one makes it lf th longer and poorer. Therefore proceed to business without apology."' Iiev. Dr. 71". II. 7Vc , 'fC'corjia : 44 On the maxim that if jou touch a pot you will get our haud.s smutt, wo have refrained fi m any notice of Bishop Fowler's ext.u ordmary letter to tlie New York 67.. ;'. lian Advofi.dc. in which he gloats over warstories. Most people up North." as well as down South, know Bi.shop Fowler." I'cc. L'r. Lt fieri f Virfuna : 4i What shall be done to get our lit erature to the unfortunate children and wives of stingy Methodist men ? Via pity the families. Their neighbors ought to loan the A Uocatc to them. Reading a borrowed p:-ipcr may kindle a desire to subscribe. You must pour water down a dry pump to get it "catii"' and start an upward stream." Bishop C. B. Gallov:a, of Mississippi: 44 A very few Colleges will amply meet the necessities of the whole con nection. And their location should be determind by geographical, commercial and connectional interests, and not by Conference boundaries. The ambition of each Annual Conference to have a college has been rebuked by a chapter of history that is little less than tragedy. It is the hapless Niobe of Methodism a monumental grief and warning."