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1 .J ' SSS- r XXXM.-N0 39 iHE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. ESTABLISHED 1855 I IT- . ell a- " " " . , j-tor RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2n S2.00 PER Ail 11 Payable in Alai!ce IV r the Advocate. iH'KSTIOX. V. r v - X 1' , .:n ,,,.-.i ,,, v ,UCSUOU Mill i-iJViKGO lias mvn ;i uone 01 many generations and to come. Men will ..,vti aiUUIit'U ui-iw una "ii;u H is ilitlicult, if not iio line holiness, to set it ' 1 .i,.-.f will ennvpv pvn. tlv i ea 10 ,..-.,;! it) i.'L A. 1 v.-J 1 1 WO Can "e?" - toJUt tM in the spirit of love ni everv mind. About uanv other things. as It is - 1- .ll'.iUlt I vet" -TPortant lor each one to be QxU'Ct holiness in the fear vi t. 1,0 fouml trying to define i:1,t'Ci 'flam noc greatly mis- ,:t I'l ':;;v 'oral by k 1 , ,if t.ur ditterences aoour, , UIL Ol OUI TOW I IK 'l '. T,' 1 J. :Ut ot our umerences auoui .i"h;." The view any given (.:.:- 01 uiu U'Aiimt; ui cv- !u.!:ues, is, nearly always, hir. conception of original lhhis on tne uoctrme 01 (things. I have a very dear friend, near me now, who, 1 finnlv believe, has been made " perfect in love." who likes that term and rises it, but he can not endure the words Chri.-r.iau per fection" as applied to this estate, the birth-right of every child of God. When talking with him on this subject I use his terms becauss I know where his trouble is. I hayj some other friends, just as pure an l good hs they know how to be, who call i' question un soundness on the doctnue of holiness because I do not invariably use their terms, which they call, " the King's speech."' So you see how one is beset on this question. I want to be holy, to be sanctified to be made perfect in love, so perfect in love that I will allow margin enough for the peculiarities, predjudices and doctrinal training of my brother in the Lord. Yours, Gilderoy. man 1 aVl'l nUIlUUi lifpiilMl,) H ear him express himself on and I .'lit' Vl -Tit Ut lUH.il HUll, vi a his view of holiness as soon ' Lhu uctlne original sin. It is ;, V io consider this question as ro!atod to this controversy. I ( cl- v:i a: lo to agree with seme o'xc ov the subject of holiness :.'J. u' . not agree on the doctrine t'"-v - " . X v . . ;.UIi:;-;r. depravity, uur uiiiereuce on C";.L-ili'n irrows out of our dillereuce ;"' ; :lar! We look at the thing :'. .;a:'v :i:it stand points we see it r.hi, ,;';;!'er?nt medium. Each of irv ana;:: this blessed state and :!! disagree a? to how we came to it. The f'aaie diii'erence is fount! to a iLe iloctrine and experience of ::d.e:a;;oa aim ior precisely ine same fo:n- vniimflii n."wi the lvx:uc view ot Original Sin and , i it j Ai & " :a-uv a:v:tits noui to me Arraramu iewo: that Mibject. This looks like a ira-iiciion in terms, but, in a gener- . . ni ? j i . av. it is true, ims accounts large- .;;i,t wholly, for the diil'erences roE: .Methodists, and among Presbj- ::a:; an 1 other Lalvmists, on the noiine; s. I was brought up a r.r i ..aivinists anu toiueu a caivinis- .Chuih,and I held to the Calvinistic of original sin for many jears ::..rl.-aicred the Methodist ministry. ;.va- every correllated question louli those glasses. I could not ;!p it. All that while Wesley and ier Arminian writers on holiness e;nea to me to be in a muddle on that :cst;ou. - Their doctrin of holiness, Christian perfection, contradicted y vittw of original sin. Thanks to t. Bledsoe, as soon as I got the Cal cific idea of original sin out of my :a:n. Mr. Wesley's plain account be- ime j.iamer than it was before. The s:u;;oa wf.s in my own mind. I was y:ug to mix two unmixable things. I :i many good men now who are try--? to do the same impossible thing. laeterm nerfect love?' was sweet, :i sensible to me while I was yet in -s toils of Calvinism. 1 could not un '"Haud the terms "holiness, sancti- -'u ana periection" as used in ret Kie to any state attainable bv man -U:.;IP. Trt mv TYirwl 4 t-i o r woo -ml in sin and was brought forth utility 'was guilty of having a i'-av-i'l nature as long as he was in ittsh; hence, I could not see or -Haiid how he could be holy while ;--:;-::!- He had to die to get rid of .-ladto get out of the flesh to my - -a was inbred iu the flesh. I could ; .sef. Il0w a man could carry a :n his person a certain amount ureu sia and at the same time love u IdiCetly or have nerfer. love perfect in love. There is no laugh at me about this, for it ; u serious matter with me. It siJce ..lays, weeks, months and Years ':;:f"u' thought and prayer. I find ";;.v 1'ei'iOns now. m.mv nfnnr Aret.li- Kople and some of our Metho ;; rreachers. who are laboring over "ro.).em just as I did. They want :v. lhe truth about sanctification. !f ' are hindered by dimness ol - on tae doctrine of Original Sin. r7(';sire to provoke controversy 1 write in this article ; and, ,,. 'a.:t t? say some things which, will st:r up some good people. 1 licld to the Calvinistic V11Ul 2u I saw acorrespond Cx l0r t5ie 'second blessing" to, ;;;i-a work similar true and the I. (Ii VPWllPl'otinn X -nr 1 1 ' V 1 It 11 W 11 t j 1 W J ; a fact with regard to the : !:v own mind. It may not 't the operations of other oppose no one will contro ';i:;t with regard to myself, -'ftne wlio is particularly ;; ivocacy of the "second ';: r( ry of sanctification I : want to know where he (-r:ginal Sin. I then know ; to u?G and how to use them rtocdless controversy. '' Jnean one thing to one another thing to another believe it is impossible -"'tiiocliH doctrine of Sancti- ' !ly man's head as long as :; Calvinistic theory of . lie y!; tue blessing, as many do, ,:VU peakof it in Calvinistic ;VVIelhodht' ?ntl Scriptur j ''-11 Calvinistic colormsr. !,.; V;''1. cf this war over holi ad. only a war or words. '"tLjvcrsy of terms and not of For the Advocate. I5o. JarieiE :tsil I5ro. Ssuilt.. It would be ditlicult for me to express the Ligh esteem iu which I hold the Kev. A. J. Jarrell, President of the Georgia Holiness Association, and the alfection with which I regard him. I regret, therefore, that any-thing I have said has at all wounded him. I knew his own views and I did not refer to him, but I was really of the opinion that the Georgia Holiness Association, held the views held by the .National Holiness Association to which I refer red. I knew Bro. Inskipand Dr. Wat son had been to Georgia by invitation, that the National Holiness Association had held a camp meeting in Augusta, that Bro. Dodge sold, and higly" com mended Dr. Watson's books, and Bro. Wood's Perfect Love" was a stand ard : 1 knew that the views of these endorsed writers and not the individual opinions of certain men were the mat ters objected to by opposers. I am glad Bro. Jarrell states, what I knew as far as he is concerned, that he has no sympathy with the views I opposed. 1. He believes conversion is a radical change affecting and wounding, if not entirely destroying natal depravity and securing power to live a sinless life, he has no sympathy with the new teach ing that when converted, we are merely brought back to our infantile state. 2. That we begin to grow as soon as we are converted, and every st -p brings us nearer to entire deadness to sin. 3. That only after entire self-renunciation, we are sanctified entirely. 4. That while we must tell of our Sanctification it should be done with care and in great humility. 5. That this high experience is very uncommon. Against these views I suppose no one will demur. They are clearly those of Mr. Wesley. To all who teach them I stretch out the right hand of fellowship, but I still hold to it, and stand ready to prove by extract after extract, that the views I speak of as not Wesleyan, are presented in the books I referred to. These books are " Wood's Perfect Love," "Watson's Holiness Manual," "Watson's Whitellobes" and I do not deny the correctness of these positions, I dimply deny that they are Wesleyan, and as I remarked before they are extra Wesleyan rather than J?.7-Wesleyan. I do not myself claim to be Wesleyan in all my views on this subject and certainly do not propose to reflect on one who differs in opinion lrom the great founder of our church. I think it better to acknowledge an honest differ ence, than to try and find points of agreement, where they are not to be found. My deep love fcr my brethren of the Holiness Association is not based on their agreement with me in all points, nor affected by it, and I assure Bro. Jarrell that I am trying to destroy the works of the devil and as I believe they are trying to do the same, I am helping them as best I can, but I do not think it is the best way to help to refuse to acknowledge that the shorter way is not the way taught by Mr. Wesley, in my opinion. G. G. S3IITH. P. S. As Bro. Jarrell siates that these views alluded to are not held by any members of the Association, I must retract my statement and ac knowledge my mistake. I have been in honest error. ii. G. Smith. For the Advocate. L,ctf 4i- From Ulf . Airy. Peak Bro. Keid : I am just return ing from Mt. Airy, whither I went with Bishop and Mrs. Key last Thursday. We got off the C. F. & V. V. It. B. at Dalton, but one can goon 8 miles farth er by this line, within 12 miles of Mt. Airy. We found brother Hurley- the P. C, and Bro. Willis.the P. L, in the midst of a protracted meeting that had been going on since Sunday the llth;the services increased in interest until last Sunday night when the first penitents came forward, we attended the last ser vice Monday night, three or four had professed conversion and 20 or 25 peni tents were at the altar.They expect Bro. Stanley to come when the Bishop leaves next Thursday. The house is packed at every service, I need not say- the people are carried away with our Bish op, lie includes nothing less than the entire town and community in his pray ers aid expectations for Christ. I found them to be a reading people and bought readily of my books. I sold many copies of McTyeire's History of Methodism, "Gorman Bound the World in .84," "Gilderoy," "Aid and Guide," " Christian's Secret of a Happy Life," "Possibilities of Grace." and "God's Method With Man." " Love En throned," '-Bibles," etc., etc. There is a demand created for books on Holi ness wherever Bishop Key roes. He is doing the preachers and church gener-J 1 1 i - -ir ' uuy very great service in waKing us up on this subject. I do not conjecture this, 1 nu reiy repeat w,hat many preachers and more than one P. E. has said to me, as well as the testimony of my own observation and experience. Xot a few will have cause to thank God forever for sending him and his good wife to the Old North State. Bro. Hurley is in great favor with the people of all de nominations, and of course is succeed ing well. Bro. Willis, as every where else in his District, so here gave me sympathy and help otherwise. We have been with Bro. Willis at many points on his District and gladly record that all the interests of the church are cared for faithfully, and that he is a popular P. E., but as it takes him two days fair weather to reach home from some points, he must certainly be over work ed. I would love to write you about this growing town nestled up in the mountains, its brilliant aspirations and prospects, their hospitality-, the renewal of old acquaintanceships and forma tion of new, but I am writing on a running train, and I suppose your type-setter will want no more such copy. The Advocate is growing in favor more and more. May its shadow never grow less. P. L. Groom e. For the Advocate. Our W:ishatigtoii Leftcs. (From our Special '.'orrespondent.) It is well that the eyes of the nation are now directed ou Philadelphia, where are assembling the chief men of the country to testify anew their admi ration of and devotion to the cardinal principles of American liberty, as embodied in that Constitution, which the old world apostle of republicanism, Gladstone, pronounces the " most per fect work of man at a single stroke" of which time has proved the almost in spired wisdom and patriotism of its far seeing founders, who builded wiser than they knew. As the Centennial of the Declaration of Independence put our people to pondering on the spirit and teaching of our charter of liberty-, so will the celebration of the Constitution al Centennial invest with new interest, and induce them to studiously analyze the principles of the Constitution of the United States. There is much speculation as to the success of Ex-Assistant Secretary of State Porter ; though nothing is known, it is considered probable that the new official, as did his predecessor, wTill hail from the South. Mr. Bayard, it is said, claims the right to name his Assistant, owing to their intimate official and per sonal relations being also mindful of his unpleasant experience with his last associate, with whom he had no friend ly parting. The Surveyor General of Arizona re ports extensive land grants, engineer ed by the railroads in the interest of their own stockholders, and other speculators, and involving an area of 80x100 miles of land in that Territory. These valuable lands will doubtless be reclaimed by the Government and opened to entry for bona fide settlers. The chief of the forestry division of the Agricultural Department, after a careful survey-, estimates that the for ests owned by the Government repre sent a capital of $280,000,000, and that the annual loss thereon by fire is $8,000, 000. To avert this loss, the Surveyor proposes that the Government make accurate surveys of the wooded area, and withdraw it from sale or pre-emption, and that experienced foresters be employed to protect this property from burning, as well as from the destructive inroads of timber depredators. These suggestions seem practical and worthy of serious consideration by Confress. The Commissioners have not yet completed the revision of the Civil Services rules, upon which they have been engaged quite a while, in the ef fort to adjust them to existing circum stances in the several departments. It is not improbable that the age limit a feature that has provoked most criticism will be modified in such a manner as to remove all the objections that have been urged against it. It has been arranged that cleiks in the departments who desire to do so, can go home to vote, provided the time then lost is deducted from their annual-leave, or if none is due them, leave, without pay, will be granted a few days. This rule applies to members of all parties. The sixth weekly opening of bids for the sale of four and a half percent bonds to the Government, took place ou the 14th inst. Acting Secretary Thomp son officiated, the amount offered -being five millions, of which over four millions were accepted. The annual report of the Commis sioner of Pensions shows that at the close of the last fiscal year there were i ' J. -AUO,UU (CllOlUlAEIi) UU Lilt, t-J, having been added during the year on original certificates the largest mim beiTon record in a single year. The average annual amount of each pension was $130.10. In closing his report, the Commissioner makes several sugges tions and recommendations. The next statue to grace the Capi tal's great collection of noble works of art, will be the amonument to the most patriotic of Frenchmen Lafayette. Congress has appropriated $45,000 for the purpose, and the contracts have been very appropriately awarded to French artists. The design is for a square tapering pedestial of marble or granite, surmounted with a heroic figu: e of Lafayette, and the base of the statue is to have the statuettes of four French men who were prominent in the war of the Arnerican Revolution. For the Advocate. A '.S'rsp Arciutcl TErc World. (From our Regular Correspondent.) FROM JERUSALEM DOWN TO JERICHO. We have always fe't that there was something incongruous in our Savior's triumphal entry7 to Jerusalem on a don key; but once in Palestine, there is nothing more natural. Along the greasy stones in the paths and pave ments about Jerusalem it is very haz ardous to ride any other animal. He takes the place of street cars, 'bus, her dic and carriage. They seldom ever slip or fall, and move almost as softly as a cat. For long journeys theyaie too small, hence our dragoman has provided horses for our thirty days tour. Our party is not remarkable for equestrianship, several are novices in the saddle, and much more at home ou a theological hobby than astride of an Arabian steed. The best saddles are on the worst horses, so in making our selections, the law of compensation helped us somewhat. The present writer ws late reaching the field and found " Ilobson's choice" in the form of a bol tailed, high-headed, spectacular iron gray-, whose trot suggested the days of the inquisition. We have a very definite idea of the distance of our journeying horizontally, but as to how far we traveled vertically, is beyond the computation of mathematicians. There is a learned Presbyterian D. D. who mounts a horse for the first time, who gazes with a sort of envious anxiety at the Methodist itinerants as they go careering over hill and dale. A New England Congregationalist mounts a ferocious dark bay, whose meanness and unmitigated masculinity gives him the name of Ishmael. His heel is against every other horse. Our move ment ddbf-n the rugged ravine towards Jericho was quiet until Ishmael made a squealing lunge at the horse of a young lady from Boston. The fair rider turn ed a sort of double somersault back ward and piled up by the road like a beautiful boquet of flowers. The first ten miles of the way is very dreary and tenantless. The rarity of flocks or tillage suggests the uncertain ty and by wrhat frail tenure property is held so near the Bedouins. The rocks are singularly tilted in short scollops or waves, made by side pressure ; evidenc ing iron in the reigion where 11 the good Samaritan" found the wounded victim who "fell among thieves." There is an old Khan near this spot called the house of the " lied Earth." Here we took our mid-day lunch. Leaving this we soon reached the wild, deep chasm on our left, 800 feet wide at the top. Far below us, and veiled by its dark shadows, we could hear the murmuring waters of the brook Cherith, whose cessation drove Elijah to Zarap hath. A more befitting resort for a refuge could scarcely be found. A nar row path, at a giddy height, winds along its cliffs and curves to a Greek convent, four miles up the gorge. We crossed this clear and rapidly flowing brook at a point where it leaves the abysmal shadows and flows out into the valley of Achan. To the left and north of this valley is Elisha's spring, the bit ter waters of which he healed with a cruise of salt. This spring doubtless supplied much of the water to ancient Jericho, the site of which is on an ele vation just back of it. The water is now kept clear of the descending and rolling debris by a semi-circular wall, built probably out of stones which roll ed down from the city wall at the sound ing of the rams' horns. Heaps of ruin is now the only vestige. Mount Quar antania lifts its head in the rear to such an enormous height that the Savior in the temptation could have seen a vast sweep around Him. From old Jericho we look.outona plain of 40,000 acres that once teemed with palms, figs, olives, vineyards and fields of grain ; now it is a w-ilderness of neglect, but just as capable of vast fruitage as in the olden days, il there was only a government to protect it. Far away to the east is modern Jericho, built on the site of ancient Gilgal.This, doubtless, is the Jericho of the New Testament, where the eyes of Herod were closed in death, and the blind eyes of Bartimeus were opened to light and to life eternal. Near this village we see our tents pitched for the first time, over which the Hags of England, Amer ica and Holland are flying. These in dicate the nations represented in our party. To reach the tents we were much impeded byr thorn-bushes and trees, supposed by some, to be the same growth cut of which the Savior's crown was made. There is a thorn growing over Judea, on a much lower and more bunchy shrub, which is more suscepti ble of being woven into such a crown. Here also grow the " apples of Sodom," but we failed to see them. Our camp is about as comfortable as a hotel, and much more inviting than very many in which we have sojourned. To a soldier of the " Lost Cause," (ac customed to sleep with " stars for tapers tall," with leaves and a blanket for a bed, and a saddle for a pillow.) these tents are sumptuous. Somewhat bewil dered in the morning, on light metallic bedsteads, soft mattrasses, Turkish car pets, and with so much oriental gorge ousness in the walls and canopy above, that we awake to wonder if it :s not "The Turk lying dreaming in his tent." There are "flexible chairs, a toilet table, pitcher, wash-bowl, clean white towels and polished boots await ing you. A bell soon rings, calling us from our various lodgings on the peri phery of the camp to a long dining tent in the centre. Here we find a hot breakfast rivaling the best efforts of Delmonico. Tea, coffee, chocolate, beefsteak, mutton chops, fried chicken, various vegetables, oranges, lemons and nuts. The evening meal is the re gular European table d' hote, where even wine can be obtained, if desired. But this is the dark shadow in our feast; and the darkest spot in this shadow is a Scotch Presbyterian clergyman whose name is not Timothy, and with " noth ing the matter with his stomach," who pains his fellow-pilgrims by drinking like a heathen. This he does on the flimsy pretext that he is " afraid of the waters of Palestine." Beyond the Jordan fleecy fragments of white clouds were hanging above the horizon, assuming strange shapes and reminding us of the ascending Elijah and his descending mantle ; also of that one whom Elijah found where the genius of Scotland found Burns at the plow. There were the mountains of Moab, made enchanting by the early glow and lustre of the morning and the attenuat ed fairy-scarf of distance. Out of these misty mountains issued the chosen xeo ple ol God, more than 3,000 years ago. On yonder summit stood Moses when his spirit was taken to the God who gave it, and his body was buried by the angels, "By Nebo's lonely mountain, - On that side Jordan's wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, There lies a lonely grave; And no man knows that sepulchre, And no man saw it e'er, For the lingers ot Gd upturned the sod, And laid the dead man there, That was the grandest funeral, That ever passed on earth. Yet no man beard the trampling, Nor saw the train go forth. Noiselessly, as the sunlight, Comes back, when night is done, And crimton streak on ocean's cheek, Grows into the great sun. So without sound of music, Or voice of them that wept, Silently down,from the mountain's crown, The great procession swept. Perchance the bald old eagle, On grey Beth-Peor's lieighi, Out of his lonely ey rie, Looked on this wondrous sight Perchance the lion, stalking, Still shuns the hallowed spot, For beast and bird have seen and heard, That which man knoweth not. And had he not high Lonor? The hillside for a pall, To lie in state, while angels wait, And stars for tapers tall. And the tall rock pines.like tossiDg plumes Over his bier to wave, And God's own hand, in that lonaly land. To lay him in the grave. In that strange grave without a name, Whence his uncoflined clay, Shall break again Ob,wondrous thought ! Before the judgment day. And stand with glory wrapt around, On the hills he never trod, And speak of the strife that won our life. With the incarnate Son of God. O ! lonely- grave in Moab's land, O! dark Beth Peor'shill! Speak to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still. God has his mysteries of grace, Ways that we cannot tell ; He hides them deep, like the hidden sleep, Of Him He loved so well." Our first encampment is on the spot where the Israelites first pitched their tents west of the Jordan. Here they set up twelve stones taken from the Jordan. Here they celebrate their first passover in the Promised Land. Here " the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land." Here the rite ot circumci sion was performed on those born in the wilderness; " and the Lord said un to Joshua, this day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from oft' you. Wherefore, the name of the place is called Gilgal," which means rolling. Here probably was the permanent head quarters or residence of Joshua. Hhere he saw the vision of a man over against him writh his sword draw-n in his hand, and Joshua w-ent to him and said : "Art thou for us or for our adversaries ? And he said, nay, but as Captain of the host of the Lord am I now- come," and here Saul was made king, lliha, the present name of the modern Jericho, is consider ed one of the most filthy spots in the Holy- Land ; part of the town consist ing of a mere heap of rubbish, iuto which the inhabitants seem to have burrowed holes. Some consider the place so degraded by the most loath some of iniquities as to merit the doom of Sodom and Gomorrah. However, wc were agreeably disappointed in the "distant" view which "lends some enchantment." A few- modern painted houses, with the impenetrable green hedge of cactus, overshadows and veils the more repugnant features. The houses are said to be full of vermin, and the people are thieves to a man. With such a prospect for both gains and los ses we decline entering this village but " pass by on the other side." During our ride of two hours over the level plain towards the fords of the Jor dan, a distinguished American divine discovers that he has lost a false tooth. Ho it in some, doubt as to whether it wras left at his room in Jerusalem or ' whether he swallowed it ; and he is suf fering a sort of gnawing pain, at least of anxiety. About halfway from Gilgal to the Jordan, we pass the valley of Achor, where Achan and his family were ston ed with stones and burned with fire. " Wherefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor,' which means trouble. In this man, and after wards with Ananias, the Lord gives us startling object lessons of the horrors of cupidity and covetusness. We have been a little skeptical formerly in regard to the three sets of banks to the Jor dan ; thinking they existed possibly, more in the imaginations of biased polemics than in this valley of reality. Hence we are surprised when we ride down such marked and decided embank ments at least a half mile outside of the third or inner bank through which tne waters of the Jordan are now flowing. A stream not only sacred to the Jew with his "Moses and the Prophets," and the Christian with the memories of his Master's baptism, and the out cast Ishmaelite, bathing his wandering bloody feet in it since the days of llagar, but also to the Mohammedan far away on the plains of Indhi. He, like the Christian in the far away gorges of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the Jew iu every part of the globe, often wanders either in fancy or memory along these triple banks of the Jordan. W. B. Palmouv:. Points for lrerio3:irs. (New Ycmk Christian Advocate.) We have seen a young minister who, within three months, went to the ses sion of his Conference expecting to be appointed to a certain place, lie was disappointed, and sent elsewhere. He had no prejudice against the place lo which he was sent, but he thought it was less suitable to his personal needs and his work than the other. How ever, being a conscientious, God-fearing man, whose primary object is to do wood, he went without murmuring. From the first until now one of the most gracious awakenings which has occur red in his ministry has followed his labors. The Church has been greatly qickened. No extra meetings tech nically7 so called have been held, but the regular services have been contant ly deepening channels of spiritual life, while nearly fifty have already been brought to a knowledge of the truth. It is often, as in the foregoing case, that the providence of God manifests itself through arrangements made by men no less than through the appar ently blind forces of nature. The late Ileman Bangs was once appointed to a church where two-thirds of the mem bers wished another man and did not wish him. His text on the occasion of his first sermon was, " I seek not yours, but you," and the spirit of God descend ed upon the people, and a career of suc cess unsurpassed in his long life follow ed. We had the narrative from his own lips, and it has frequently been parallel. When the church and the minister have but one object, and that the glory of God. " the gates of hell cannot prevail against" them. A minister bought a piece of proper ty. The real estate agent he employed brought a suit for his commissson $40. When the case came to trial the minis ter testified that he asked the agent what he would charge for his service, and he replied. "Nothing. All I ask is that you pray for me." The minister then swore that from that time till the trial he had daily prayed for the agent. The Court decided that this was an equivalent. In point of fact, if the agent said he would make no charge, he had no right to do so subsequently. We knew a physician who refused to take the compensation pressed upon him by a Methodist minister, who after ward spoke well of the Physician on the ground of his courtesy to a minister of another denomination. After the physician had derived all the benefit he could from that, when the minister came to leave the place he called on him and presented a bill. Ministers will do well to refuse to allow any business to be transacted for them without insisting upon paying for it in the currency of the country, unless the persons who transact the business are members of their own church, or are personal friends, and unless the transaction is understood by others be sides themselves. To accept gift3 from friends is one thing, and is right. Also in some churches the people have not money enough to support the pastor, and it is understood that they give food, clothing, wood, etc., to supplementcon fessedly insufficient .cash payments. But to allow persons to transact busi ness for which a regular charge is made without insisting upon their receiving the compensation until it is obvious that they wont take it, is beneath the dignity of true manhood unless the per son is in a condition to receive charity without loss of dignity. The prayers mentioned above as an equivalent for business are probably as useless as they certainly appear to liave been in this case. If you want knowledge1, you must toil for it, if food, you must toil for it, and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indo lence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one. lhmldn.