PER ANNUM. $2.C0 THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. REV. F. L. REID, Editor. gsTABLISHED 1855, RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26, 1887. VOL. XXXIL, NO. 43. For the Ahvocatf. , orgia Correspondence. Our r.Y i:kv smith. , 1 , you are taking good care r;"hoM Kev. Vou will tiiulhim 7 ,rl-.Vr of the situation at Con 1 ,!'. Hro. Bumpass seems to be .'.I'l of sorts because Dr. Ed ii!in, Mr. Wesley was not bv valnVu consistent with himself Sca'he'siH'ke on the suWej of M ju perfection, and the Dr. is 1 LvV'hmt at Bro. Bumpass inti-Vr'M-'tliat the Doctor had misread v Vc-lev and slandered him. iMv- Mr. Wesley never dreamed rhit l'e AV;IS infallible, and never luiKil anv one for (littering-with ' ,.r,wt his preachers, and the list;,rv of the exercises through n-l'vli' he passed on this line is a Jyir interesting chapter in History. s;r,!v ;! a matter of fact it should i.'.'UVi at. It does not at all alter, ', itr'ivi the truth of any dogma ... tar as to give his right of 1-,,,'iiit'!! n one side or the other. I 'f I ,-an sav with some positive vli:;t Mr. Wesley believed, and f-i.iiik v, la ii his views are clearly hi out. it will be seen that Bro. i';-,-is a far from believing all f i Hr. Edwards, and yet ".' o:i'.a!iv both agree with him. ;ri.T.!.Y FOR rilKAt'ltKKS. .iiu matter of fact like this ;-. -,-uled, and I am a little hu-threii each getting on . Me of the shield, and g ene another with mistakes, are right. Weley found himself as a i:Loot student of Theology ; K --.!! sere f almost unmixed A i o oe 11 r- od elturcli- l: hate a dissenter, and a tand by tlie chureh vie despised, and Sectors v good companions for i ouiivs. lie read -Jeremy iielv Living. It aroused v.v: read Wm. haws "Serious !o Life." lie and Char- 1 l he dxtv miles to 3Ir. ; !!. and had an intervievv" austere, mystical legalist. i i!ioi(e.vu viii; n. li:;:-;: in Perfection, with all his Lv.u. and it was this doctrine which .;:Vv iife to the Holy Club, but he i.i-cA-d this inward" holiness, and ;..i i'.;a.v:i!-(i correctness of lite, so : iLa io salvation, were to be se-Uu-'i forks. Self-denial the :-:v;it ;!. its, Methodism, seperation the world, this was the way to :iu- that Holiness without which ham can see the Lord. For seven Mr. Weslev believed and r l ',,:,:! s-x.xjd Christian Perfec y works. Justification came Saiii.-tificatinn, and it was by hi sI works. Then he met babk-r. then he learned the Lor: ! . wynf faith and then he changed his 'itv; on Regeneration mid riyht '': tin ,:dsfd,e ins been in fide, ''"''' '.- !,!., nl tiis fittfi'fiversi. Mr. Wc-J-.y been supposed by aiy t; hold the same views of IJe--jriit-nitiou held by Calvinists, by b.is'.-.i'.uiiaus and by many 3Ielho l;"o. I eiituie to say not one con- r..vi...l j- i ,i iM.ni, as v. e c(tuiiL nun, uihi 'v..-t!y. 1 think in five hundred, K'iK'k-s the height Mr. Wesley be-v-d j ii-t after his conversion that ;ii atiaiiic-u wiio was eoii- 1,1" "t-gan to in-each as fully as : - tlie Count that the "man v.'as justiiied by faith I'y.s saved i :ii i ' si,, llil-if'd It lid UUtirili-d, :"-'! Hiii fuiuul that he must low ;': views of Christian Perfection, :V tlii- statement that it was : iii ;iU believers. He then ar ;tt tho eiiclusioii that there p twt, states of Christian HIV, in ,'v;1' -iu,dly sincere Christians 'iu. V'rnd and divided the ...j.:!l!;ai family into two parts. I .viuistian and the Pertect .;'uuiK The Christian was the '.t .(;,(!, he vas pardoned, he ;Z h-ly changed; he had the of the Spirit, he had do over all sin inward and out-.v!- ''lit he had inclination toward . (i"ii:g, which often troubled I ' !l! .(-vi( lei iced an impure heart. , luflieation of these inclinations iiristian Perfer-tiVm. Toward ;:J-!!j from his conversion, and f-r a i - -!" nearer to it, and he jf l:;';ilv reached it before death. ill I . 1,4-1 r i t :xl. til,),' u.l;Jl he often preached tAventy . j'1 1, ,,rpt mentioning the doc Wfv , i 1 1,10 01)-v elninge in his li5s (,hl opinion was as to 'lu :i! hi'mment, I le had sup M v. W(,rks, before pardon ;,i,l.;y'ii:!it.n of acceptance; he ;;U;,;;',''!' ;'l pardon before Sanctifi , ;t!id said that Sanctitication i.iMi; 1;'itn. In the advocacy of I, '. iSOHiliio- if .-..;,-... 4- 1,,. -,,-..1,1 ;. llltefield did not no-roe with ii !,ll,rut CIarles, his brother, 'tv. 1M::L years a most ardent it, and it was at this Kill . j -.-- Ji v hum ."-'- I ;''Hi!(l f. ''I.. I it. LifLilli-lif if rin1 eau find no satisfactfry ! til; (ii.iinrni I fliinV lw. it dyit did not tien cml Mis letter to .John Smith .''"V- It ,lline 'ears aftel lllis n iv'- (leelares he had not -vi,:;' '.' Perhaps Ir. Wes-- v ;" an the instantaneous- nes of this perfecting work,liave 1 een more misunderstood than any of his views, lie did believe it n'iiuhe aircn in an instant, and we w'ere to look for it, but it was given to self denying,patient waiting lie Imd not the remotest dream of ones claiming it,by naked faith of his own volition", and when men began to profess it, merely because tin y ttnjlit they had believed, he was verv (direful in his enquiries. Occasionalv for twenty-three years, he had preach ed on the subject, and about 171 what he had taught as possible, was now declared by many to be certain for they had attained, the state of .mre love, lie was delighted. His lypothesis was after all correct. He lad interpreted the book aright. He was not anxious to discredit the wit nesses, one may be sure. Xaturally affectionate and trustful and unsus nicous he rejoiced in these profess ions, but Charles, whose fervor was greatly cooled, was not credulous. He did not believe these, platings as he called them,and he wrote his short hymns, against them: at last things got to such a height in London, that John himself had to lay a hand on Thomas Maxrield, and Bey Briggs. The Holiness Hand became angered with Mr. Wesley and left the So ciety, ami then lie sent out his Plain Account, Ins last utterance on this subject. It isuseless for one to deny that Mr. Wesley taught: 1. That there is a v state of grace subsequent to conversion, that is called Christian Perfection. 2. That it may be attained by faith, at any time when it shall please God io give us this faith. It is useless again, to deny that Mr. Wesley taught that External Practical Holiness, dominion over sin, constant joy and peace, was not dependent upon this grace. 2. That the grace of entire sancti tication was very rare. . That wheirposses.-ed, it should be professed with great caution. The GeorgiaHolinessAssoeiation has rejected all his teaching on this sub ject,except thcPlain Account as they understand it, and by that they s-iouM be judged. i hope this exhibit of Mr. Wesley's views will have some nmuence m bringing about a chartitable judg ment from brethren toward each other. He was in doubt himself. He and Charles differed, so did he and -Joseph Pensori (see his letters) and he allowed in all kindness these diiioreiiee.-'. After thirty yea v:' ex perience as a pastor my trouble has been, not that brethren do not reach Pcrfevtioi's heiyi)i that they are not fully converted.and do not live as converted people should. If I could get them well justified there would be little trouble on the other line. Tlie want of perfect agreement with Mr. Wesley's views may cause a search into the Piblc and Christian Experience, and the question shall be settled there. There is no doubt of the fact that the present Holiness movement in the church is modern, as much so as the Woman's Mis sionary Movement. It .began about twenty years ago in the formation of tlie National Aossociation, oi which Pev. 1. S. Inskip was President, but there is as little doubt that the views presented by Pev. J. T. Crane and Pev. J. IL Baxter, and accepted by many of our church, are modern too, that they are new, does not prove them false. On one point we are all agreed. That is, Ave ought to be, and we may be holy, and that none of us have reached the top. We, I think.can all accept this statement. 1. That there is a state of grace in which we can have conscious peace with God, and constant dominion over sin. That this -state is reached by Entire Consecration and faith ih Jesus Christ. Pro. Jarrell has received a promi nence he has not sought for, and is perhaps misunderstood. That I difr fer with him, he knows, but how he feels to those who do, will appear from the private letter f take the liberty to publish. LaGkaxok, Ga., SKL'T. IOtu, 'st. j Pkaii (iKoiigk : I n -ached home from the Tabernacle at C ville, Fri day night and found yours. Glad to get it, as I always am. Glad you liked that sermon. My only ground of con sent to Pope Callaway's request for pub lication was that it touched a. matter of gravest moment and of universal ap plication. And I tried to touch it in such a way that men and even children could see and understand. The letter in IJaleioii Christian Advocate, I almost felt con strained to write, to keen tnc read ers of that paper fromtln dug we held such views. 1 know you charged them on others, but as there was some discus sion then pending in that paper, its readers could hardly have helped sup 1 losing we held t thei n too. I never I icard them'uttered, except conce in Georgia, or in tlie South, did it then, I instantly 1 (egged him never to express them again. Xo matter what lie himself believed, to reach onlv H esieyan ineoiogv. j atve never 'heard a word since f rom .h.i mid never heard a word at any time from any other person. We make nam paccouhl o,u- soil- un man standard. We agreed years ago bv spontaneous consent to hunt our whole battle within the lids of thai book. , . ., , , , , Thanks for voiir sweet spirited leitei. Put you need not fear that you have hurt my feelings, Don't tlunk oi it a moment. Pray much lor me L hardly feel like J am measuring up to my duty. I know I am not and it pains me. Xever forget me". All well and send lv jOR For the Advocatk. A Letter From Kx-Gov. If olden. I see by your issue of the 12th in stant that you have a new outfit for your paper. The former sheet was presentable and good looking, but tliis one is compact, clear, business like, and very handsome in its typo graphical execution. Persons who write for the press like to have their productions in clear plain type, on a white sheet, without friars or ma cWe. And they are pleased too with typographical accuracy, that is, that every word in the paper should be critically correct. In these respects the Advocate is what it ought to be. T say this as an old Printer. I print ed a paper for twenty-five years, and the bayetteville Observer was older than my paper, and I do not hesitate to say that in typographical work they were uniformly the best look ing- papers, and tlie most correctly printed in the State. I read all my proof, locals, advertisements, and marriages and deaths, besides the political matter and the selections. And this every Kditor should do who expects to have a correct paper. 1 have been reading your paper for a number of years, and I can truly say it is nearly entirely clear of errors or mistakes. I can see that you have lirst-class printers, which shows itself in tlie location of the articles, in the use of the rules separating the articles, in the manner in which' the advertisements are displayed, and in the general contour of the sheet, which results from its make-up. Your printers are ail fine young men, very industrious and sober, and devoted to the interest of their employer. And you, my dear brother, ought to be very grateful, as I know you are, for the good Providences which have alw ays been over you. Your friends have the happiness to believe that you were cut out exactly for your place. You preach every week in print to not less than thirty-five thousand souls. You preach old fashioned, ilat-footed, unadulterated Methodism, or Christianity, to your readers, and you observe closely the teachings of the Master, which were followed in the teachings and labors of such men as AVesley, Fletcher and bitfield, bo on, iny byotiioT, xi yoai- noble iife y !: lor the eternal iife of others. God will abundantly reward you, and men and women who love the Lord will sustain you. lie-member always that you preach the Gospel, which is love. And that love "envieth not, vauneth not its elf, is not puffed up, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, hopeth all things, endureth all things." Love hath for its essence and model the Lord Jesus Christ, who freely gave himself for others. I suppose there are now in this State about eight or ten religious papers, and some ninety secular pa pars. Secular is defined as "per taining to this present world," or as " woridly-niindedness." So we have the religious papers,and the worldly minded papers. Doubtless they all do good in their way. I have no purpose to assail any of them. Some of the worldly-minded papers possess a good moral tone, and all of them are more or less the advocates and defenders of what are called good morals. IUit nearly all of them, I believe, defend and commend danc ing, theaters, and operas. They are the devotees of what they call "pleas ure." I observe that my young friend and brother, Daniels, of the Daleigh Chronicle, is inclined to ap prove the course of Miss Abbott, m Xashvilie, in her reply to Dr. Cand ler, who had pointedly characterized theater-going and actors and operas in a recent sermon, she being pres ent. Dr. Candler simply performed his duty as a man of God. The pul pit and a few religious papers, with the exception now and then of a se cular paper like the Wilmington Star, are all that raise their voices against this increasing iniquity. I wish the pulpit in this city, and every where. Avouid be more pointed than' ifc is in its warnings against this worldly-mindedness. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." How much of this fruit is found in operas, or theatres? The Master says that where our treasure is there our hearts will be also. I imagine Miss Abbott cried and spoke with disap pointment and indignation at the prospect tnai tne sermon oi jm. Candler would diminish the profits of her opera. All the world loves money, and covetousness is on the mercase,and I do not suppose this ac complished and cultured lady is an exception to the rule. The two cities of Nashville and Chattanooga have acted consistently with their charac ter. One applauded her warmly in the house of God, and the other made her a present. No doubt many backslidden Christians joined in these honors to Miss Abbott. One of the best women whoever lived was Miss Hannah More, of Bristol, England. We quote from a book printed in 1851, entitled "Hannah More, or Life in Hall and Cottage, by Mrs. Helen C. Knight." Miss Hannah More was the friend of the great actor, Garrick, of Dr. Samuel Johnson, the greatest man then living in England ; of Edmond mirke, Mr Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Wilberforce, and many other per sons of distinction. When a young lady she wrote dramas for Garrick, attended the theatre, and shone in the best London society. Dut her biographer states that afterwards, on the death of Garrick, " her views of theatical amusements has already become modified by an increasing observation of their effects, and a few years later she came to regard them dangerous to morals, and hostile to Christian virtue." But are not good plays harmless, nay, improving? was asked in her day. Her reply was as follows : Are not then good plays harmless, nay, improving? fThere will still remain, even in tragedies," she replies, " otherwise the most unexceptionable, provided they are sufficiently impassioned to produce a powerful effect on the feelings, and have spirit enough to deserve to oecome popular, an essential, radical defect. What I insist on is, that there almost inevitably runs through the whole web of the tragic drama, a ) imminent thread of false jn-ineiile. It is generally the leading object of the poet to erect a standard of honor, in direct opposition tojthe standard of Christianity. "World ly honor is tlie very soul, and spirit, and life-giving principle of the drama. It is her moral and political law. Fear and shame are the capital crimes in her code. Love, jealousy, hatred, ambi tion, pride, revenge, 'are too often ele vated into tlie rank of splendid virtues, and form a" dazzling system of worldly morality in divert emit radiation to the spirit of Christianity. Tlie fruits if the spirit and the fruits of the stage, of the parallel were followed up. would exhibit as pointed a contrast as human imagi nation could conceive." But may not the stage become so purified as to render it at least harm less and unojectionable ? Miss More answers as follows : " What the sfcigc might be under an other and an imaginary state of things, it is not very easy for 'us to know, and therefore, not very important to in quire. Nor is it the soundest logic to argce on the possible goodness of a thing, which, in the present circum stances of society, is doing positive evil, from the imagined good' that thing might be conjectured to produce in a supposed state f unattainable improve ment ; for unfortunately nothing can bed :ae until not only the stage itself has undergone complete purification, but mitil tiie audience shall be purified also. We must first suppose a state of sor.i'pjr m w). :-li !jc-titor3 vrill lie (iis)' ,.V1 to relish aii that is pure, ami to reprobate all that is corrupt, before the system of pure and uncorrupt thea tre can be adopted witli any reasonable hope of success ; there must always be a harmony between the taste of the spectator and the nature of the spec tacle, in order to produce pleasure, for people go to a play not to be instructed, but to be amused." Ve would point the latter to those principles laid down to AVesley by his mother : "Whatever weakens your rea son, impairs the tenderness of your con. science, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things, in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing if sin to you", however innocent it may be in itseif." But I will not trespass further by extracts, which might be greatly multiplied. I would put these opin ions and sentiments about the stage, from this illustrious Christian wo man, now in glory, in opposition to Miss Abbott, and the thousands of writers now-a-days who defend this iniquity of the opera. It is hardly necessary to say these things to Methodists. The mind and the heart of the Methodist Church are fixed against operas and theatres. I neglected in the first part of this letter to refer to the head of your paper. Tt is new, and very hand some. And your correspondents, and their Avri tings are very valuable, and add greatly to your paper. I have not space to enumerate them, but I read them all with pleasure and with profit. Especially the let ters of my dear old friend and broth er, the Kev. Dr. John E. Edwards. I feel that a great light will go out when his light shall cease to he seen in the window of your sheet. May the Lord bless him as he grows in wisdom and years, and raise up men just like him, to serve the Church, when he is gone. Yours in the Lord, AY. AY. 1 Ioldex. llideiyh, Ar. C, Oct. 20th, '87. For the Advocatk. A Card. Dr. .John E. Edwards asserts that he can " quote 3Ir. AVesley to prove any phase of the subject" i. e. any phase of the doctrine of Christian Perfection. T demand the quota tions, and the redemption of his lledge. 1 ie is to give the quotations from AVesley1 s works. Not from Tyerman, or any other author. The Bev. 1L E. Bumpass asked if Dr. Edward's statement was not a slander on Mr. AVesley, and was called a smart, and impertinent young man. He may regard me with the same charity for demanding a redemption of his pledge. But the church will look with eagerness for the quotations, and hold Dr. Ed wa rd s a s 1 ound to produce them . I presume this demand upon the Doc tor k is about as clear as mud." L. L. Nash. Leasburq, Oct. lSth, '87. Opinions in Brief. Monroe Enquirer and Express : It appears from the results of the late elections in Michigan, Texas and Tennessee, that the local option method is the safest for success to the great and righteous cause of pro hibition. Itu.skin : "In all tilings throughout the world, the men wlio look for the crooked will see the crooked, and the men who look for the straight will see the straight." Christian Standard : Soft words : and hard arguments are always safest and best. Let us agree where we can ; disagree only where Ave must. Let the kind words and pleasing behavior be conspicu ously illustrated by us, no matter how it may be received by those with whom we deal. Southern Christian Advocate : All the criminals of the State are not inside tlie Penitentiary walls, and it may be doubted whether the worst ones are there. Many an ac complished rascal goes imwhipped of justice, and some of them may sit on cushioned pews in our most ele gant houses of worship. For the Advocatk. Tlie Rambler. The I Gambler laid aside his pen in the spring and settled down to the prosy business of raising a church debt. It was prosy. Disgusted at such a choice all the goddesses of in spiration skipped his acquaintance and left him m the midst of peach blossoms and pretty warblers, and sunlit show ers, and crimson-cheeked mornings, with a heart as impervi ous as a- superannuated mile-stone; and the other day when he tried to conciliate the tickle beauties they tossed their heads and turned up their noses and passed by on the other side.: Baising church debts is a good business for a man who wants to feel lonesome. Now that the Bambler is ready to return to his trade he is grieved to discover that his hand lias lost its little cunning and that his tongue cleaves to the roof of his nmuth. 3Ien who scribble are rarely men of action, and men of action do not usu ally keep enough unexpended en ergy in stock to run a pen. AVe are still looking for the man who can raise a church debt and has enough energy left to pay for the trouble of earning it. That is after he has set aside the regulation amount to be expended in talking about his crosses. AVe are exhorted to "quench not the spirit," and we obey the injunc tion when the spirit is a bad' one. After all, are we really bearing a cross, or are we only cross ourselves V Says my irritable neighbor (one's neighbor may not be far off), when I lie down at night and say I have had a dozen crosses, the painful con sciousness crosses one that I, my self, have been the Grossest one of them all. "A dozen crosses!" AVe pro nounce the-: Avords without a shud der. How beautiful is our resigna tion! How calm we arc, how per fectly undisturbed as we solemnly declare that a dozen times a day we taste of all the horrors of the cruci fixion! The baby is fretful; the cook latcjthe bucket in the welljcom pany coming to dine and it is wash day'; the gate left open and the pigs in 'the garden; things gone wrong at the store ; things wrong at home ; things wrong everywhere ; these are crosses These are our crown of thorns, our stripes, the tearing of cruel nails through our hands and feet, the earthquake and darkness of our Calvary ! In the name of all the silent sufferers, whose pale faces reflect the sun while eating the bread of affliction and whose inner peace is not disturbed by the stale ness of the crust, let us hear no more talk about our crosses. " No cross no crown." The cross is put in one end of the scales, the crown in the other to balance, you say. That is why people who think the crown a very small thing bear such little crosses ; they don't want to tip the scales. But the cross and the crown have no business in the scales. God did not put them there ; he does not want a man to bear a cross for thb sake of a crown. He will not pay you to love him. You do not appreciate the love of your child who is affectionate for the sake of the property you are going to leave him. The faithful child loves his father, not his father's property, and vet he knows the property will be his by-and-by. A e are to love God for His own sake, but we know we will inherit the crown. The word "crown" has lost its significance as completely as the word "cross." Pious gossips have talked about crowns of gold until the world has come to believe that the saints are expecting a coronation day when all the hidden wealth of Cali fornia and the precious stones of Brazil and Asia will be exhausted in supplying dazzling head ornaments for the newly-made kings of heaven. An unreverential sinner is not too reverential to ask : If everybody in heaven is to have one of these crowns what will they be worth a dozen ? But He who, in this life, covers us with "loving kindness and tender mercies" will not in the world to come put his children off with a glit tering trifle. It will be "ciWnof righteousness," "a crown of rejoic ing," "a crown of life," and' my crown will not bedenreciatedjan iota if millions receive the same inheri tance. E. L. Pell. For the Advocate. The Necessity of Confession. BY REV. J. C. ROWE. The necessity of confession as an element of religion cannot be denied. Christ says " Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven." Matt. 10: :; To make this confession does not require that we should at all times, if at all, make a full tabular state ment of the points of our faith. Neither is this duty fully performed when we "make our huinble confes sion to Almighty God, meekly kneel ing upon our knees," just he Tore re ceiving the Lord's Supper. It is all right to receive the sacrament but we must confess Christ afterwards and in other ways. Peter received the sacrament from the 1 an ids of Christ and in the same night, with the taste of tlie sacramental bread and wine in his mouth, denied Christ and swore falsely. Let us not imitate his sinful eond'm-t. Con fession of Christ involves an ac knowledgement of the truth of his claims and relation to ;alv;i t ioii. He Avas the son of Cod. When Ave acknowledge his Divine Sonship AA'e rhe above Soeinianism ; nd Ari anism. He was also a man of sor roAvs and acquainted with grief.. He hath borne our griefs and sorrows, lie Avas Avounded for our transgres sions. He Avas bruised for our iniq uities. The chastisement of our peace Avas upon Him and with His stri ies avo arc neaieu. in: is our iator between us and God. Ho c mi atonement for our sins. . his is the only name gicn un heaven Avhercby Ave must b3 1 11 c meV J1UU Aim. der saA'ed. AVe look for and receive par don by faith in Him. The-e points of faith in Him raise us above Deism. In our confession of Christ Ave culti vate both the habit and spirit of prayer, but our prayers arc all offer ed through Him as our high priest interceding for us in heaven. This confession of Christ is not made by formal statement. But it is most clearly made by a daily life of obedi ence to His commandments. "Let your light shine." "Confess your faults one to anoth er" is the command oi the Apostle James. When a man ha wronged his brother, either by Avord or ac tion, he ought to make confession of that Avrong and ask forgiveness of the injured one. We so often, through envy or misjudgment, do in justice to others. AY hen this is done we ought to confess our error and mistake. This is the only a. ay to re move the tarnish from our own char acters. It is hard to live an active life and not experience collisions of plans and interests. Thee collis sions generate hard thoughts, un kind Avords and, too often, sinful ac tions. And instead of fretting over evil-does, either real or imaginary, avc ought kindly to tell others of their faults, and' confess our oAvn. "An honest confession is good for the soul." Honest christian confes sion is also good for society. ANOTHER FEATURE. Sometimes persons are troubled Avith special temptation. They have not and do not trespass on the rights of others. But they are under the galling yoke of some sin or appetite. It is profitable for such persons to select one or more persons of sound judgement and ripe experience in re ligion and confess their troubles to them. By so doing they AviJl often find the remedy they need in the ad vice giA cn them. The man or avo man who would betray the confi dence so reposed in them is not Avor thv of the name of christian. There is many a poor, weak man battlin rr a era in st the difficulties of his sur roundings with some hidden trouble like a deep-rooted cancer in the heart, eating the joy out of his life. A"e ought to consult each other free ly and candidly. AVe Avouid impart strenght to others and receive strength ourselves. There are some things in which avc must bear our oavii burdens; but there are many times Avhen avc ought to "bear one another's burdens" and so fulfill the laA' of Christ. Albemarle, A". C. For the Ahvoc.vik. A Pertinent Inquiry. How can a farmer have just enough money to pay hU cotton choppers in the Spring and his cot ton pickers in the Fall, and have none for his church till later? A. D. Betts.