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J . w ir v . H0 23 J THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. ESTABLISHED 1855 - BEY. FSSAIM: I.. I255, Editor siud lullisi!ier. ) RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1887. S9.00 PER ArXIMJJl Iayable in Advance For the Advocate. 3IolcriB Ev:isizrelisn Versus I!Y KEV. Li. L.. ASH. ti-. ,!T1v...Tnor:i1e, heart ct man 1.- a. nva u"i-.- now. and always has heen, opposed t God ; and while the suojectoi leiigiui is entirely too important to be discard! f! vet every expedient is resorted t in order to satisfy the conscience, with out truly repenting of sin, and implicit! ly trusting in Christ lor paiuoii unt there is a divinely attested c xpenenc of forgiveness. It is this opposition t the human heart to the moitmcatio nf self in the work ol repentf nee, an the absolute surrender of the soul to bl eonsciouslv saved by ihc grace 01 LxOd that leads men to use methods in rev vol work that cannot be anv thing bv objectionable to thoe who" are deep experienced in the things of God. men cannot of themselves produce t feelings 01 deep contrition tor sin, ai have without divine help, godly sorrov which worketh renentance unto salv tion. thev are disposed to make light feeling, and insist upon an intellectu acceptance of Christ, and to methods in revival work that leave 1 place for the Holy Ghost, either in r peutance or conversion, i nave several years seen that harm woui come to true evangelism from t' teaching of a repentance without s row, and a faith without trust; and intellectual acceptance of Christ, wit out any assurance from God that t! soul was accepted in Christ, and doned in- las sake. Keatly, it is a 1 ter of more importance to me, to 1 a divine assurance that Christ ace me, than it is to be satisfied in 1113 miud that I accept Christ. I may the assent ofmv mind to every trut the Bible, and yet have no conscL ness that God tor Christ s sake has doned and accepted me ; and un have this assurance I must be for in doubt as to whether I am forg or not. This is the point of differ! between modern evangelism, and teaching and experience of Method I have hcen deeply impressed this difference in hearing the experi of those who. as they express it, 1 accepted Christ ; if experience it be called. The' say much about a they have re-olved to do, and not about what God has done for tl It cannot be denied that the Chris experience of our day is becoming fused, and lamentably one-sided.- 1 where men can be induced to speal Christ at all, there is hardly auyt said about victory over sm, ana realization of a clean heart. While atonement as the ground of pard insisted on, it is divorced from scious pardon, and sanctification by Spirit. While we do not hold that 1 are in any sense saved by feeling, do contend that feeling is a cone tant of salvation. The man who feel the guilt of sin, and know wha heinous thing it is to be a sinner, would not feel joy at a consciousnes having his soul saved. 11 such a tl were possible, has a soul that is worth saving. I have written on this subject bef and I am more fullv satistied than e that a truly penitent believer is ! more worthy of a place in the elm of God. than large numbers who received as converts, who have no i of rep'iiitauce. A great deal of modern evangelism is nothing mj nrtr less than Campbellism. I heli that we have harped on believe, beliq neglected repentance, until much our so called evangelism is entnl without the element of divine po The baneful breath of Autinomiani and imputed righteousness is alr(j visible in the religious experiencf niinr ivlio r-ln ivn t r Afpf bnrlists 1 evil is no doubt increased by the he ogenous muddle of doctrines procllin ed bv the so-called unsectarian evaH lists, who visit the commercial cen're and hold meetings in our city chureue where they are sure to create a senst' thnsp wlirt rpallv love. find, ane ai on v! ana 1a rlrx u'Ji!it li(nr rnn t f 1161; LH.vi.vyu.o k 'J nv Tl uivu J l'l b, save their perishing fellow men. miscellaneous and popular reh310; songs put forth byr irresponsible5 Pe! snns. rmrf which are c.anorht. nn and iise , o L : - without discrimination bv our DetPP1 ifletil ment as a church. It has come to that very little is said about justi tion as wc understand it, and the ipr-f f? snnftifln firm is rnre.lv ftllnrl at Instead of clear cut doctHnfcil i-fioi-liiiKf wp Iiivp n snrf nf mm tiliibg studv of the word of God, frequ conducted by one of these evange who himselfisentirely unacquainted a systematic arangement of the S fnvps. nnd whose, teachings tend td count certain important doctrines! thjit are taught in some parts of the St1 JP" tures,and not alluded to in other pljr065' Of all the Christian denominations.! lHe Methodist Church will suffer 1110s these things. Our liberality make an easy prey to designing men ; a good religious actor will be apt to ceive our good earnest people, who God, and stand ready to give a hel hand to every one who claims to worker for the Master. What I 1 written on this subject is written vi out any ieeling ot unkindness lor man, but to call the attention o ministers and leading laymen 1 growing evil, in winch 1 iear n bn.rm In tVip plinrpli lips. T.pf i true to our doctrines and metbM trod has given us liis approbation. our success and sufficiency is of II Let us look to Him for help in evival work, and not to irresponsible, loving evangelists. 1 do not mean 03 tins to place myseu m opiioaiufi-i w 11 evangelists, but let us be sure what octrines will be tauirht in our nuliuts, lefore we turu any 11 an into them. As llders 111 the church 01 Ito. we must rive away all strange and erroneous octrines. There can be no permanent good to he church from anv thins but tho truth, aithfully preached, and fully believed. 'Errors in doctrine are connected witn alse conceptions of experience." Meth- bdism has achieved too much, to let hose who have no sympathy with her loctrines and experience, como to her hltars and stab her in her vitals. For the Advocate. Oiar Letter Frosu Gildcroy. MURDER EVANGELISTS. In less than one month six men have been murdered in Miss. This is a ter rific, record for one State in a time of profound peace. There seems to be a craving for human blood. What is the matter ? Has the Devil been loosed for a little season? One case, that of 11. D. Gambrell, Editor of Sword and Shield, a temperance paper, will attract attention from one end of the land to the other. Mr. Gambrell was a young man, bold and outspoken, and he was doing a great work in the cause of tem perance in this State. His slayer, J. S. Hamilton, was and is the leader of the opposition to prohibition in Miss. He had become notorious, if not infamous, as the lessee of the Penitentiary. His official record was not clean. Mr. Grambreil had commented sharply, but iustlv on the official character 01 Mr. Hamilton. This was the pretext for the assassination of young Gambrell. It seems to be a great pity to loose this young man at this luncture ot temper auce work in Miss., but I doubt not his death will be worth ten fold more to the cause than his life could have been valuable as that was. This whiskey element and power is not going to step down ana out only after much prayer, fasting, hard work and perhaps blood shed on the part of the friends of tem perance, God and humanity. JJut we have gone in for the whole war and the victory must be won at any and every cost. May God graciously speed the dar of freedom from this greatest curse ot the acre. I have been much pleased with Dr. Edwards' utterances ou evangelists and evangelistic work. There are evangel ists and evangelistic tramps. I have known at least two in this country who were so ill, rough and abusive as to be almost unendurable. They demand the most abject submission both of preach ers and people before they will consent to go to any place. They rule with a rod ot iron while there. They brow beat, abnse and ridicule the regular pastors while they stay. They forget that, but for the work of the pastors, their work would be impossible. Some of the baser sort clap their hands every time the pastor is whacked over the head with one of these evangelistic shelalahs. For my own part I am growing restive under this kind of treament in my own church by the un authorized evangelist of another church. I intend to say so, plainly and pointed ly. If they use my church they must at least be gentlemen, and treat the pastor as a gentleman. Severe and often unnecessary rebukes for any and every little disorder in a densely pack ed audience room is the stock in trade of some of these men. How or why the people endure it is a mystery tome. I know one evangelist, quite prominent just now, who seems to regard every little stir in the congregation as a per sonal offense to him. This gives him the appearance of being one of the first of egotists. These things would not b? endured a month if done by a pastor. Of late we have had in one of our towns, and in a Methodist Church too, an evangelist wTho is out with all the churches and in a row by himself. He is not a Universalist, or says he is not, nor a Hell lledemptionist, or says he is not, but a Itestorationist and thus teaches the final salvation of all men. This theory is honey to hard old sinners who have spent their lives in tho ser vice of the Devil. They will get into heaven anyhow, somehow. So they get in they don't care how. They are particularly oppposed to repentance and lives of purity and holiness. Xow, Mr. Editor, solemnly, no man who teaches this theory shall publish it from a Methodist pulpit while I am pastor of the church. Do you understand me ? I mean what I say. In some things our Methodist people and preachers have gone a step too far in the direc tion of liberty. Methodist preachers are ordained and sent out to preach Methodist doctrines and they ought to do that, or quit. Methodist Churches were built for the use and benefit of Methodist people and preaching, and not for Dick, Tom and Harry, or who ever might come along. The pastor who opens his church to preachers wTho ridicule our doctrines makes a great mistake. For one I'm not going to do this. If men want to attack Methodist doctrines they must do it outside of Methodist houses of worship. If the Trustees open the house to preachers and preaching of this kind in my charge I will arraign them before the Quarter ly Conference for a violation of the trust committed to them. In this mat ter, in some places, we are too slack twisted. Why, sir, some Methodists think a rich, ungodly sinner has a right to use the church for an infidel lecture because he gave money to build the! house. I le on such Methodism as this It is a sickly, worldly sentimentality, unbecoming the church of God. We are not in concord with Universalists, Ilelllledemptionists norllestorationists, because they oppose the plain sense of God's word and thev have no claims on our houses of worship to fulminate their views. This is not illiberal. It is not illiberal in ijoa to put an im passable gulf between heaven and hell. I am going to banish and drive away and keep out and hedge off all strange doctrine as far as in me lies, I'll stick to God and the Methodist Church and doctrine so Ion? as I live. If others have important doctrines to teach, let them build houses or rent halls. I'm not bound to furnish my own head. Yours, the stick to break GiLDEROY. For the Advocate. Some Things 60 Years Ago. THIS IS PERSONAL. I was then in my teens ; had not been long in the church ; lacked some thing of being a man : I had, however, mannish notions and aspirations. I desired and aimed to be a good man ; and availed myself of all opportunities of Gospel instruction and spiritual im provement. So, I attended preachins, class and prayer meetings, and Sunday- school. Thus I maintained consistency, and made spiritual progress. My care was to be a useful Christian, I now see better facilities for spiritual improve ment and extended usefulness than were enjoyed CO years ago. Greater will be our loss and condemnation if we fail to use them. OUR CHURCHES. I mean our houses of worship. They were of the plainest style. That was the Methodist idea plain, inexpersive houses to worship God in. Many of these were a dishonor to God and a dis grace to the people ; nor have the last of them even yet disappeared in some country neighborhoods. There was no such science known among us as church architecture. Even our city churches were very plain. In fa.ct, plainness was the chief feature. Very few of them were furnished with a belfry and bell. Where a bell was used it was perched not very high above the roof. A Meth odist Church with a spire would have been regarded as evidence of a degree of pride that would have placed the congre gation beyond the sympathies of com monMethodism.In all the bounds of the old Virginia Conference, as I now re collect, the only churches with belfry and bells were in Lynchburg, Xorfolk, Petersburg, llaleighandXewbern. Not even Richmond had a belfry and bell in either of the two Methodist Churches ; which by the way, were very plain un pretentious houses. There may per chance have been bells in some of the churches in smaller towns. As for the churches, they were plain, inexpensive buildings. In not a few cases they were necessarily so, because of lack of means. But in other cases they were so because of defective ideas of what the church. as God's house ought to be. It was thought that not more than $200 to $400 should be spent in building a church in the country ; of course more would be necessary in a city. I re member in those days you could find St. Matthew's, St. Mark's, St. Luke's and St. John's, but when you entered them they were mere shells of frame work and weatherboards, without the means of wrarmth or comfortable seats. Many of the churches were badly locat ed and not of easy access. I have seen Mount Zion in a valley between high hills, almost lost in dense forest ; and Mount Gerazim not very conspicuous. But better ideas now prevail ; conse quently the majority of our country churches are tasteful and comfortable. In our cities and towns I fear the ex tremes of rivalry are leading to extra vagance in putting up one or more very expensive churches ; concentrating too much church capital in one or two, to the neglect of sections and people who greally need the Gospel; sections and peoples who will hardly be reached by Gospel influences unless the word is preached to them by the Methodists. THE PREACHERS. Generally the preachers were not much of scholars ; but the people were not much learned. So the supply of learning and theologjr were about equal to the demand. The preaching sixty years ago, as I now recollect it, was a clear exhibition of the Gospel ; deliver ed in an earnest and impassioned man ner. Repentance toward God and faith in Christ wTas the burden. This was following the Pauline pattern. The expectation of immediate results seem ed always entertained. There was particular care to have the sermons strictly and mechanically systematic. This custom, has to a large extent, been abandoned in these years, but it had its advantages in the better enabling one whose mind was not disciplined by ed ucation to preserve in memory the leading points of sermons. The preach ing was educational, impressing as well as setting forth the leading doctrines of true evangelism. There was little of speculation and scarcely any show of science none at all in the modern sense. I said the preaching was edu cational. It was molding. The preach ers then, as they should always be, were able to say r Follow me as I fol low Christ. Paul said this : The wrongly quoted and misapplied text of the prophet " Like people, like priest" wrongly quoted "Like priest like people,-' hnds its lulnlment m the srod- "Ly example and holy teaching of the gospel minister. The prophet, by the way, thought the people fashioned the priest. I object in toto to applying that text to a Christian minister. There are no priests among Gospel preachers. There be those in sonae branches of the church who are so styled. But as it appertains to the priest to offer sacrifice it is a misnomer to call a preacher of the Gospel a priest,'seeing there remaineth, after the death l of Christ, " no more sacrifice for sin." AN AWAKENING. About sixty years ago the world seemed to awake to new life. The dis covery of the mighty force of steam several decades before, had given a new impetus to many industries; but the in vention of the locomotive engine, with the railway, seemed a new birth. Till then, as we might say, the world had been asleep for ages. The world was indeed slow. The generations succeed ing each other seemed content if the following could but equal the going of the na.it. To an exent, there was apathy in the church. But a mighty impulse was started, especially in the Methodist Church, favorable to the bet ter education of the children. The idea of a college education grew and spread. The Virginia Conference started the enterprise of building a College. It enlisted South Carolina and Georgia Kandolph Macon College was ihe out come. Soon Georgia determined to establish Emory at Oxford. I believe the Methodist Church is more indebted to Bishop Emory and Dr. Wilbur Fisk for its advanced position in the cause of higher Christian education than any others. Foremost among the leaders of the old Va. Conference was II. G. Leigh. His name as the founder of Randolph Macon College is perpetuat ed m a tablet erected to his memory m the College. Great progress has mark ed the history of Methodism in V a. and N. C. since 1827. In the fifty years of our life as a Conference we have adjust ed and readjusted our Conference ter ritory and boundary and compacted our operations, until we now are found in almost every neigborhood, embracing all classes of society. The number of 15,000 members and fifty-five preachers has increased to 82,000 members and over 200 preachers. Besides this ninety six members of Conference have died and gone to their heavenly home. If members have died in the same propor tion, then a great company has joined the " General Assembly and Church of the First Born in Heaven." It is not extravagant to estimate that at least 30,000 have finished their course and entered into joy. Who can conjecture what will be the state of our country and church by the year 1947? Where will this writer be, and where will be the reader of these lines ? Thos. S. Campbell,. Lexington, X. C, Mai 20th, 1887. For the Advocate. Our Washington Letter. (From our Regular Correspondent-) Nothing could be more significant of the fact that the war is over than some of the sights that may be seen in Wash ington to-day. Soldiers from Mississip pi and Minnesota, from Massachusetts and Texas, are walking around arm in aim, in a peaceful capture of the cit Twenty-five or even twenty years ago, no one would have dared to predict such a scene at the National Capital in 1887. Nothing more eloquently and im pressively marks the change which has been wrought 111 the relations of the sections or the progress which the country has made towards a permanent restoration of the Union, than the presehce here of thousands of the sons of veterans of both armies, from North and South, encamped under the same flag and engaged in fraternal competi tions for military honors. To most of the milita in camp under the Washington Monument now the civil war is only an unhappy tradition, and they emulate each other in their patriotic devotion to the Nation's flag. Their presence on the Potomac is truly auspicious and all of them share the title of guardians of the Nation. The ceremony of opening the camp on Monday last was brief, but is was performed reverently and with all due pomp. About noon the Washington Light ' Infantry, headed by a band, marched up and formed a hollows square around the flag staff. At the foot of it lay rollf dup the big flag ready to the breeze. Gen. Auger, the com mandant of the camp, accompanied by certain Generals, Colonels, Captains, and Chaplain Pyne then appeared. The Chaplain stepped into the open space and offered an appropriate pray er, at the conclusion of which the flag was hauled into position while the band played 44 The Star Spnngled Ban ner" and the troop3 saluted the colors. The Commandant then issued orders governing the camp and movements of the troops during the Drill. There is a different programe for each day of the Drill, though each day there are competitive drills by the in fantry, artillery and zouaves, and each day there is a dress parade at five o'clock in the afternoon. On Wednes day all Washington, apparently, was out of doors to see a brilliant street parade by the soldiery in full uniform, which made a tour of a small portion of the city after it had been reviewed by the President. The scene was a very brilliant one. The President, surround ed by the Governors of different States and yieir staffs, with many other prominent men, occupied a grand stand erected for the purpose m front of the White House on Pennsylvania avenue. The day was perfect for pageantry , the dis cipline and marching of many of the organizations very fine, and the uni forms showy and striking. There is a large crowd of visitors in the city and the camp affords so inter esting a sight to them as well as to the citizens, that the policemen have quite as much as they can do to control the curious surging mass of people which literally overrun the ground. Military discipline is in force, however, and as far as the soldiers are concerned, every thing moves in order. Still some of the lads thought it was more practical than funny, when, on Tuesday night they were required to do guard duty in the pouring rain. This reminds me that the principal event at the Drill ground on Tuesday was a terrific storm, which unroofed the grand stand, and filled the crowd with consternation, besides drenching it to the skin, and causing some serious accidents in the way of broken limbs. It was in the afternoon while the com petitive drills were in progress. Sud denly the sky grew dark and in a mo ment a cyclone developed .which blew a cloud of dust and sand in the direc tion of the grand stand until the Wash ington Monument itself was hardly visible. In a moment more there was a downpour of rain which was equally blinding. For a little while the scene that fol lowed was indescribable. The grand stand swayed like a reed in the terrible gale, and the crash and noise of the flying roof made the already panic stricken crowd feel sure that the stand was giving way under it. Several of the carriages waiting on the drive out side when the roof was carried off were smashed by flying planks and timbers, and others were saved by the horses taking fright and running away. Tele graph wires were torn from their bear ings, umbrellas were hoisted only to be wrecked, people seized chairs and held them over themselves in their ef forts to ward off a little of the pelting rain. , Women and children shrieked and fainted and fell and got trampled upon and the paraphernalia of the pyrotechnic theatre on the Drill ground was so injured that there could be no battle in fireworks that evening. Washington D. C. Forsrettin; Sorrow BY REV. J. R. MILLER, D. I). It is never wise to live in the past. There are uses to be made of our past which are helpful and which bring blessings. We should remember our past lost condition, to keep us humble and faithful. We should remember past failures and mistakes, that Ave may not repeat them. We should remember past mercies, that we may have confi dence in new needs or trials in the fu ture. We should remember past com forts, that there may be stars in our sky when night comes again. But while there are these true uses of mem ory we should guard against living in the past. We should draw our life's inspirations not from memory, but from hope ; not from vvhat is gone, but from what is yet to come. Forgetting the things which are behind we should reach forth into those things which are be fore. Take a single point at present : We should forget past sorrows. There are many people who live all the while in the shadows of their past griefs and losses. Yet nothing could be more un wholesome. What would we say of the man who should build a house for him self out of black stones and paint all the walls black and hang black curtains over the dark-stained windows, and xut black capets on every floor and festoon the chambers with funeral crape and have sad pictures on the walls and sad books on the shelves and should have no plants growing and no flowers bloom ing anr where about his home ? Yet that is the way some people live. They build houses for their souls like that. They have memories like sieves, that let all sweet and joyous things through and retain only the sad and bitter things. They forget every pleasant thing, but the painful events and occur rences they alwars remember. They can tell you troubles by the hour troubles they had many years ago.They keep their old wounds unhealed in their hearts. They have photographs of all their sorrows and calamities, and of all their lost joys, but none of their glad things do they keep in mind. The re sult is that living in these perpetual glooms and shadows all the brightness passes out of their lives and they even lose the power of seeing joyous and lovely things. The lesson is that we ought to let the dead past bury its dead, while we go on to new duties and seek new joj'S. We cannot get back what we have lost by weeping over the grave wheie it is buried. Besides, sadness does not give any blessing. It makes no heart softer, it brings oat no feature of Christ-likeness ; it only embitters our present joj-s and stunts the growth of all beautiful things in our souls. The graces of the heart are like flower plants ; they will not bloom in the darkness, but must have sunshine. I knew a mother who some years since lost by death a lovely daughter. The mother had been for a long time a consistent Christian ; but when her child died she refused to be comforted. Her pastor and other Christian friends sought by tender sympathy to draw her thoughts away from her grief, yet all to no purpose. She refused to see anything but her sorrow. She spent portions of nearly every day beside the g' ave where her dead was buried. She would listen to no words of consolation. She would not lift an eye towards the heaven into which her child had gone. She went back no more to the sanctuary where, in the days of her joy, she had so loved to worship, he shut out of her heart every conception of God's love and kindness, and thought of Him only as a powerful Being who had torn her sweet child away from her bosom. Thus dwelling in the darkness of her own unconsoiable grief, the joy of her religion left her. Hope's bright visions no longer cheered her: and her heart grew cold and sick with despair. She refused to quit her sorrow and to go on to new joys and towards the glory where all'earth's lost things wait. As illustrating the other way of deal ing with sorrow, I recall another moth er who lost a child, one of the rarest and sweetest children I have ever known. Never was a heart more thoroughly crushed than was the heart of this mother. But she did not sit down in the gloom and dwell there. She did not shut out the sunshine and thrust away the blessing of comfort. She recognized her Father's hand in the grief that had fallen so heavily uj on her She opened her heart to the immortal life, and thought of her preci ous child as with Christ. She remem bered, too, that she had duties to the living, and turned awaj from the grave where her little one slept in such safety, to minister to those who neede 1 I ei care and love. The result was that her life grew richer and more ber.ulilul beneath its baptism ol sorrow. Slit came from the deep shadow a lovelier Christian, and a who community shared the blessing which she had found in her sorrow. So every Christian should do. We should forget what we have suffered. The j 03" set before us should shine upon our souls as the sun shines through the dark clouds. We should cherish sacrcd and tenderly the memory of our Christian dead, but should think of them as in the home of the blessed, safely folded, waiting for us. Thus the bright hopes of glory should Jill us with tranquility and health' gladness as we move over the waves of trial. We should remember that the blessings which have gone away are not all that God has for us. This summer's flower: 'will all fade hy-and-bj when winter's cold breath smites them. We shall not be able to find one of them in the fields and gardens during the long, dreary ni'-nths. Yet we shall know all tho while that God has other flowers pre paring, just as fragrant and beautiful as those which have perished. Spring will come again and under its warm breath the earth will be covered once more with rich floral beauty as lovely as that which perished in the autumn. So jos that have faded from our homes and hearts are not the only joys ; God has others in store, just as rich and as fragrant as those wc have lost, and in due time he will give us these. Then in heaven he will bestow unspeakable joys, which never shall be taken away. We should, therefore, forget the sor rowful things of the past and reach forth for the J03S that wait on the earth, and to the eternal blessings that wait in heaven. In our darkest night we should look up and forget the dark ness as we gaze upon the bright stars. Charlotte Jlome-JJciiioci at. Opinions in ISi a-f. Gilderoy, in the Xew Orleans Advocate : "Most Annual Confeiences are all too ready to take airy thing under their wing that asks for protection. Some of them spread over this, that and the other local interest until the- most kill themselves spreading. "I have thought it might be well to take the grist mills and saw mi'ls under the patronage of the Conference. They could offer to grind and saw for the preachers at half price or at reduced rates. The patronage of a conference ought to mean something, ought to be worth something, but many of our Con ferences have patronized nothing but forgone failures.'' A Model Obituary : John Wesley, it is said, wrote the fol lowing as his brother Charles' obiutary it is a model, a stud. Strange that its brevity has never been imitated : Mr. Charles Wesley, who, after spending fourscore years with much sor row and pain.quietl' retired into Abra ham's bosom. He had no disease; but, after a gradual decay of some months. "The weary v.Ue s of life ft-".! "til! ut last." His least praise was his talent for poetry, although Dr. Watts did not scruple to say that single poem. Westl ing Jacob,' was worth all the verses he himself had written.' Nashville Adcocate : The man who 44 sours' because he did not get what he expected from his fellows thereby shows that;his life was not rightly centered. If you are that man, wrestle with God until you come out of this darkness into the sunshine of the Lord's face. Wilmington has sold 125,000 of her new five per cent, bonds at a fraction above par, to a man in Alexandria, Virginia.
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