ANOTHER MINISTER FALLEN. The Herald of Gospel Liberty comes to us this week in mourning. One of its Editors, Elder Elijah Shaw is no more. He breathed his last in the bosom of his family, at Fall River Mass., May the 5th, 1851, at the age of 58 years. His dis ease was chills and fever, which had been con tracted while on a Western tour. ■/ We learn from the Herald that he had been a Minister of the Gospel for 40 years. He has been considered for many years a strong man of the East—an able defender of the Christian Con nexion. And as Bi o. Pike remarks, “ He has done the work of seventy years in forty ” Brother P. Further states ; “ That as an Editor he has served his brethren for more- than 18 years. “His ability for that department has been fully tested, and the general confidence which has ever been confided to him, ha* maria him ona «f our most popular wrkfers. No man among us, has exerted such a wide-spread influence in the editorial department.” But he now rest from his labors and his works do follow him. In the “ Herald and Messenger ” for May 1st, Elder David Millard says in answer to a question propounded to him by J. Burlingame, that he sees no objection to students of the African race being admitted to Antioch College; and further says that he believes if the subject had come up for decision in the Marion Convention, it would have been decided in the affirmative. These statements have come upon us with as much astonishment as any of our brethren. We doubt not that Elder Millard and one or two oth ers might have been .found in the Convention who would favor such a proposition ; but we feel very sure such a question propounded to the Conven tion would have been frowned down, and treated with contempt. If such would not have been the course pursued by the Cpnvention, then we have never been more mi*t AH that he wanted, was he a Christian ? he said, no per son ever asked of him to what denomination lie belonged. [Reader can you believe this Northern teacher said so ?] So he by being everything and nothing, what be ought to* be, got "access to the peoples pocket, and has sloped back to the North.” Who we asked is this Northern teacher ? Who can tell us ; Q. A. Ward has not. And who is Q. ; A. Ward ? Is he one of Bro. V’s croakers, that hag put his chaps above the water and seeing no one near, ventures, to croak a little. The above statement of Q. A. W^ywhich we extract from the “ Primitive Baptist,” islhtended, we have no doubt, to slander one of the most pious, and talented ministers of the Christian Connexion, or we should not have noticed it at all. More anon if Q. A. Ward will tell us the name of the Northern Teacher. Come let us have it. We pledge ourselves not to throw a stone un til you can croak it out. We have received a specimen Number of the Weekly Message, a religious newspaper to be pub lished in the town of Grcensborough N. C. by the Rev. Sidney D. Bumpass of the Methodist Church. It is a neat quarto sheet, and will be issued week ly at one dollar per annum. From the appear ance of the present number as an earnest of the future, we have no doubt it will be ably conduc ted, and well subserve to advance the interests of that branch of the Church of Christ to which the Editor belongs. He has our best wishes f<^r its prosperity and usefulness. We are unable now, to furnish all the back numbers of the current volume of the Sun. If however, some of our kind friends, who are not keeping a file, would return to us some few of numbers 1 and 2 find 0, we could furnish some twenty new subscribers with all the back num bers. Who will be so kind as to do it ? You enn send them by mail. I We would inform our friends and brethren, that, | Elder John P. Lemay of Mississippi still has some j 200 or more of Hymn Books (“The Christian i Companion ”) yet unsold. They are in possession of his Bro. Thomas J. Lemay of this city. He is very anxious to sell them ; and in order to do so, he has concluded to put them down to the price' which he paid for their binding, i. e., fifteen cents apiece. We do hope that Elder Lemay’s old friends and brethren in this State and Va., will at once buy up the whole of them,and send him the pay, as he stands much in need of it. Who will heed the request of ah aged minister—one whose best days have been spent in preaching the glad tidings of salvation to hundreds and thous ands in thislsectioh oT country. Elder Walter lectured in Suffolk on the evening of the 9th inst. to a crowded house, on the subject Tftmnerance. to the general satisfaction of the Suffolk Division ; but not so satisfactory to dram 1 drinkers and rum sellers. He preached on the Saturday and Sunday fol lowing with power and eloquence at Bethlehem. He is in fine health and spirits. W. B. W. | m , a _ We have received from Bro. Brush of the city of New York,’ an address written by Elder G. K. I Godfrey of California to the Suffolk Street < hurch of that city, which we design publishing in our next issue. It will, we have no doubt, be quite iateresting to. our .readers, *—•— Thk.Siuiut of the Age, This neat and valu able paper in the Temperance cause comes to us this week in an entire new dress. It is and de serves to be liberally patronized. We trust it will continue to do much in banishing from our land, j otre-of the greatest curses of the age. Flder B. Seever’s address will be Bealville, Penn., until the 20th July. For the Christian Sun. “ A TWILIGHT WALK AMONG THE FLOWERS,” ' B¥ a. b./fheeMan. Oh! nature’s Scenes, their lovliness, Tends to enhance our earthly bliss. How much we love to visit this, Much favored spot of earth ; Thy wreaths of roses vet are bright, Though viewed by pale and calm twilight, How pleasant to the musing sight, Of one, of heavenly birth. How pleasant ’tis while here we rove, ’Mid flowery scenes of earthly love, ; To cast one anxious thought above, ! To Him who made the flowers; With those around his throne to share 1 Unearthly bliss, while ever) care, i Is banished as we bow in prayer, This lovely twilight hour. ! To extricate and free the mind, I Which seems so much to earth inclined, When bowing down at duty’s shrine, j Is difficult to do; But when the conflict once is o’er, How cheerfully we can adore, Through grace, that frees us overmore, From all our earthly woe. There is no gay or vivid show, Can such delight or bliss bestow, On grov’ling mortals here below,. As secret prayers impart; _ ■■ We oft from bustling scenes, repair, To silent shades and bow us there, And offer up our ardent prayer, To soothe a troubled heart. ’Tis prayer that gives us quick release, From trials that deprive of peace, The mind which vainly seeks its ease, But is by conflict riven ; ’Tis prayer that give us true delight, ’Tis prayer that makes our burthen light, By faith it is, and not by sight,— •— We tread the path to Heaven. N. 0. RAIL ROAD. The Directory rtf the North Carolina Rail Road convened in this city, onjdotiday last, and ■'con tinued in session until Thursday—ail the Directors present, with the exception of Gen. W. C. Means of Cabarrus Full and elaborate reports from the Chief Engineer and his Assistants, were received. The unusual quantity _ of woik done by the Engi neers, and the accuracy and skill with which they Were enabled to lay before the board the various and numerous lines of survey, and estimates of the several sections, entitle them to all praise. Scarce ly has a work of such magnitude in this country ever been executed with such satisfaction, efficiency and dispatch. Their report, plats and maps show that the work has been in proper hands. Two hundred and twenty three miles of Rail Rond most thoroughly surveyed and located in less than six months, at a cost of less than $25,000, all expenses of every description, told and paid! ! The Directors have located the Road from one end to the other, starting from or near Goldsboro’ on the Son tern Route by Raleigh, by Graham, Greensboro’ Jamestown, Lexington, Salisbury, Concord to Charlotte. They have ordered the President and Chief Engineer to put the whole Road under contract before the 9th of July. A reasonable time allowed to commence the work. Notice of the whole, and more detailed account of the proceedings, however, will appear in the published repot t of their proceedings. — ^ Raleigh Register. A Live Minister. We were somewhat amused with a typographical error which recently fell un der our eye in reading a proof sheet. The com positor had his types to assert that a certain good brother was constituted a live member of a benev olent association, by the payment of a certain sum. Of course, -we marked the error for cor rection, but we could not help cherishing the wish that the statement might bo found true as it previously stood.- The making of life members may be well enough ; but there is vastly » more need of increase of live members in all churches and associations. AMUSEMENT AND PRAYER. Mary Ann was a beautyful girl, eighteen or nineteen years of age, of an esteemed and intelli gent family. Though acknowledging religion, she believed, with some of its more worldly pro fessors, that it was right to indulge ip fashionable amusement. She was very fond of balls and dances. In the time of a revival, when her young friends were become pious, she was urged by her family physician to dedicate her soul to Christ. “How can I think” said she “of becoming pious when, in doing so I shall debar myself of the pri vilege of attending balls. Our minister says dan cing is wrong. If the Rev . Mr. —was our pastor, I think I would venture to be pious, for he allows this innocent amusement.” “It was in vain that I tried,” says the physician,“to cdnvince her of this delusion, and solemnly reminded her that she would yet see the difference betwen a life of amusement and a life of prayer. She listened respectfully, and- not without a tear, but clung still to her favorite amusement.” Erelong the physician was summoned to her typhus fever.attudetP^o the stat^ of her sou] ; but she told him, she was'too weak then to converse with him ; yet she fequested an interest in his prayers. After an absence of several hours, he returned, and found her on the brink of dissolution. We quote her physician’s words for the remainder of the story : “The patient had fallen into a state of stupor, so fearfully ominous of the fatal termination of the typhus fever. The tongue and lips were cov ered with a dark tenacious fur, the speech was scarcely intelligible, and the eyes were partially closed. A sort of low murmuring or moaning was Ipjard from her halfopened lips. Y'et, when called bv* name, she would open her eyes and seem to recognize those' around her. ■ She continued in this condition for several hours, during! which period she occasion!)’ uttered the most heart touching and unearthly groans I ever heard from a mortal being. They distressed me—they distressed us all. . “ At last, putting my mouth to her ear, 1 said 1 ‘ Mary Ann. do tell me what means these un- ; earthly groans which we hear from you ? What is the matter, my child? If it is'tn your power to tell me, do, 1 beseech you.” \And never shall I forget the reply. She opened her once beati ful-eyes, slowly raised her pale and attenuated hand, and fixed on me a look that made my very soul ache—such was its solemn intensity—she said, with an audibleness o her voice that utterly astonished us all: “Doctor, Doctor, there is a dd ference between a life of amusement and a life of prayer. O! it is hard to die without an interest in Christ.” IiELlfelOUS GAMBLING FOR MUSIC? In a certain village of our acquaintance, a cer tain Baptist society, which has outgrown a reed 1 organ, and not having the filthy lucre handy to I get a large pipe organ, resorted to the following means to raise the wind. The society had a tea ‘party. It also had a post-office—a grab-bag aud j a ring-cake. We do not find fault with this society' for get | ting up a supper, and selling the tickets at such a ! price as the parties agree upon. The society have j a right perhaps, to sell the provisions and privi leges it furnishes. TheP. 0. we object to as having a viciating influence on the minds of the letter-writers and | letter receivers. The grab-bag, and ring-cake, we regard games of chace—as much so as rolling nine pins —play ing cards or wheel of fortune. The cake was to be cut into over 40 pieces. In one of these pieces was a ring. Each purchaser paid 12.1-2 cents for his chance. One was supposed to have as good a chance as the other, i. e, one chance in forty of winning his ring. This is a game of chance. Some few yeare ago the same society had its feelings much hurt by a certain tavern keeper in the place, because he kepIjei bowling-ally and the young men rolled for tUrde cents a chance ! Now this society gets up a game of chance, and calls upon these young men to come in and play a chnce game ; and, so far as we can see, the only difference between the ball-alley aud the cake is, the price of one^vvas three cts. and the other twelve and a half cents ! And all this for an organ 1 This we call religions gambling." 0. J. W. Herald of Gqspcl Liberty. The Futjtr£ Wives of England. My pretty little dears :—You are no tuore fit for matrimony than a pullet is to look after a family of fouiteen chickens. The truth is, my dear girls, you want, generally, speaking, more liberty and dess fash ionable restraint; more kitchen and less parlor: more leg exercise and less sofa ; more milking .puddings and less piano; more frankness and less mock-mod esty; more- breakfast and less bustle. I like the buxom, bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, fullbreasted, bouncing lass, who can darn stockings, make her own frocks, mend trousers, command a regiment of pots and kettles; milk the cows, feed the pigs, chop wood, and shoot a wild duck as well as the Duchess of Marlborough or the Queen of Spain ; and be a lady withal in the drawing-room. But as for your fining, moping, screwed-up, wasp was ted, putty faced, music-murdering, novel devouring daughters of fashion and idleness, with your con sumption-sold shoes, silk stockings and calico shirts you won’t do for the future wives of England.— [Mrs. Ellis’s Lectures, addressed to Young La dies, in Punch. Suggestions on dress. Dress is intended for -warmth, comfortand decency ; not for gaudy show, nor to excite vanity anil pride. Be careful, then, never to sacrifice health, decency and comfort, to a love of finery. Bestow but a small portion of your time, money or thoughts, upon dress ; there are thiugs of far greater moment which demand the larger part. Always have something better to recommend you than the garments that cover your person, if these are your chief recommen dations, it is a proof that occupy the principal place in your heart ; iu other words, that you are a vain, frivolous character. The Clergyman and tub Sceptic. "If we are to live after death, why don’t we have some certain knowledge of it;” said a sceptic to a cler gyman. Why didn’t you have some'knowledge of this world before you came into it was the reply. GIRLS Have you a father, have you a mother ? Do you love them ? Girls, do you know the value of your mother if you have not lost her ? No body loves you, nobody will love you as she does: Do not be ungrateful for that love: do not repay it with coldness, or a curse of coldness will rest uponvfou which you1 can never shake off. Unloved and unloving you will live and die, if you do not love and honor your father and mother. One thing, call neither‘old man’ or‘old wo man., It is quite a habit in the country for young people to name their parets thus. This is rude, impudent and undutiful. And aged person is an old man or an old woman. There should be something peculiar in the word that designates parents. The tone of voice in which they are addressed should be affectionate and respectful. A short, surely answer from a child to a parent falls very harshly on the ear of any person who has any idea of filial duty. Be sure girls, that you each win for yourselves the name of a duti ful daughter. It is so easy to win, that no ope goo'tf oaugFiier"tlian a good wife or mother. A child’s duties are mubh more easily performed than a parent’s ; so that she who is a good daugh ter may fail to be a good wife or mother ; but she who fails in this first, most simple relation need never hope to fill another well. Be sure, then, that you are a good daughter. It is the best preparation for every other station, and will be its own reward. The secret you dare not tell her is a dangerous secret and one that will be likely to bring you sorrow. The hours you spend with her will nod bring you regret; and you should neverTeel disappointed or out of humor, for not being permitted to go to some place to which you wish to go. You should love her so well that it would not be felt a punishment to give up the gay est party to remain with heiv Nothing is more beautiful than to see a girl take off her things, and sit smilingly down with her mother, because she wished it. Go and kiss mother, as you used to do when a child, and never grow too large or wise to be a child at her side. From the Gospel Herald. ANTIOCH COLLEGE. Bro. Williamson : you know I told you some time ago I expected to strike on a rich vein for the Antioch college, by and bye, well I found it the other day in Clark county. Sister Jane Cory subscribed sixteen hundred and fifty dollars, thir teen hundred and fify in land, in Hardin county, and three scholarships. That is easting Jenny Lind clear into the shade, according to her means and prospects ; this is only one act of - benevolence among many that she has bestowed in vaiious channels. Very many in eternity will rise up and call her blessed. Sister Jane stands the highest on our books. Bro. E. W. Devore, in Brown county, stand on our books next, he signed 509 for the College, : and took five scholarships. Bro. Merryfield, of i Mass., offers the same. Now my brethren of the : Buckeye stock, are you willing to btand on a par 1 with Massachusetts '? No ! no it will not do,‘■you 1 must beat the world. I wonder if among.alLi.he : tribes of Israel, Sister Jane is going to carry oil | the palm, and have her name stand first on the j College register. I hope, at least, I shall find one ; two thousand dollar man. Now Bro. Buckeyes I tell yog what it is, we must do three things. 1st Beat any State $20,000. 2nd. Some brother must stand the highest on the College register, i 3d. Some one of our sisters must stand the high est among the sisterhood. J. PHILIPS. —From the Herald of Gospel Liberty. Boston, April 28th, 1851, Bro Carte^r : Yesterday morning, (April 27) we assembled at the usual place, of 1 baptism, where. 10 happy believers were buried with Christ bv baptism, and are, I trust, to walk in newness of life. Tlie ftiorning was pleasant, the sea calm, and the occasion altogether one of interest and encouragement. These together with some oth ers will, the coming Sabbath, receive the right hand of fellowship. On the whole as a church and congregation, I hope we are advancing, al ; though the nmny removals by-death, of some of ; our most active brethren and others moving out of town have thinned away our numbers and bow ed our spirits in deep affliction. Especially has the late death of our beloved brother Royal P. Parry, overwhelmed with us the deepest sorrow. Yet we desire to say, ‘the will of the Lord be | done.’ O ! ‘he was a gobdjnan—full of faith and the Holy Ghost. ” I was accustomed todean on him, as on an own brother. But suddenly hp paused, sickened and died, and ‘ was not, for God took him.’ “ Dearest brother, thou hast left us, ---AtnHhy loss wedeepTy feel, But ’tisGod that has bereft ns.. * . • 1^*,. Pie can ail our sorrows heal.'' , /. E. EDMUNDS. Tue Signs of Intemperance. 1. When you calculate one set times, days, and places for drink ing. 2. When, one particular place excites the thought of drinking more thah any'’other place. 3. When the presence of any particular in dividual quickens • your appetite 4. When the desire of strong drink returns-]at pirtiCular hours or periods. 5. When you drink in secret, because you are unwilling others should knbwit. 6. When you are ready to make an apology for drink • ing. 7. WhejKyou are willing for a physician to say it is best for you to take a little. 8. When a temperance lecture, or a hint in a sermon that -all in the-congregation are not right, worries or iiritates you. 9. When your father, or mother, or wife, or sister, being to feel attxions about you. 10. When drinkitig men and rumsellers begin to claim you on their side. No Trifle. A Birningham engraver.has en graved the Lord’s prayer on a piece of gold so small that a common pin head covers it. It is read without diffculty by the aid of a magnifying glass. It is intended for the World’s Fair. Query. If the publisher of a newspaper, gives a premium of 20 per cent to his agents for every new subscriber obtained by them: what per cent age should the Agents pay the .publishers for dis continuances of old subscriber ordered by said Agents ? The free people of color, in Cambridge, Md. have formed a Colonization Society, and resolved in public meeting that it is for their advantage to emigrate to Liberia. RELIGIOUS REVIVALS, Quite an excitement on the subject of Religion has existed for some weeks past in some of the ehurdhes in Newbern. It commenced in the Christian Church, but has lately been more pre valent in the Methodist Episcopal Church. A number, mostly young persons, have professed conversion in both churches, and each, as well as the Presbyterian Church, has received a number of additions to its number of members. The revival although it has considerably abated, still continues to some extent, particularly in the Methodist Church. Newbemiun. Prom 'he Gospel Herald. Bro. Williamson: We _had a good revival mear Sparta. It commenced in January, and pro gressed slowly but surely. There was not much noise,—but solemn, deep, and penetrating earn estness. Not many young people came out in a religious profession ; but the most were heads of families. Fifteen joined the Church in Sparta and four joined the church at Mt. Liberty. Five ed next Sunday. The Ministers with us in this revival were Elder J. Roush, H. Westbrook, II. Beardshear, and W. Liirscott. We expect a number more to join soon. Pray for us, that the Lord may carry on his good-begun work. WM. II. ASHLY. Sparta, Moir&wco. 0.,°April 8th, 1851. Receipts for (lie Sun. Vol. 7. T. McGarah, 70 cts. Vol. 8. Eld. Jesse Ilowel, §1 for Willis Wilson. Eider M. B. Barrett,t J. E. Brush, (we paid 40 cts. postage on the com munication which contained this $1.) Elder W. B. Wellons, $2 for John Strickland and Mrs. Mary . West.man, E. W. Owen 30 cents, R. H. Holland, $3 for Albert K. Rawls, Tli¥ra|as Smith, and Miss Mary L. Jones. Elder W. B.^Wellons, $3 for J. H. Daughtery, Jackson Brinkley and John Cope land. Elder J. A. Turner $0 for self, Elder J. T. Petty, John Trollinger, Harrison Harbour, Moody Smith and John a Mason. Thomas H. Briggs, Jubilee Smith, $1 30 cts, f or T. McGarah 30 cts |8. Cantrell. $1. Elder A. Iseley, $1 for Peter 1 Clapp. Thomas Barton, E. Watson $2, Elder B. Seever, $1 for Geo. Summers. Receipts on the late I). W. Kerrs Account. Miss Ann Holloway §2, Edwin W. Beale. ‘ J. A. TURNER, Agent. LETTERS RECEIVED, From Elder B. Seever, Dr. J. Nicholson, C. II. Plummer, Wm. L.-a, Elder Mills Barrett, R. H. Holland, Elder VV. B.. Wellons, E.Jer J. A. Tur ner, Eider J. P. Lemay, Thomas Rollins, Rev. Peter Howel, JuJjilee Smith. RALEIGH MARKET. Bacoii Butter Cotton yarn Corn Coffee Eggs i fc'lour ! Fodder r Feathery j Iron' Swedes : • “ extra sizes “ English 35: 10 a 11 20 a 25 10 a 80 a 13 a 15 8 a 10 25 a 5:50 90 a 100 -35 a 40 5 3-4 a 6 1-2 a i 4 1-2 a 5 -I cs Leather, HAVE just received about.900 copies of the above J work, which 1 shall distribute among our Agents at my next shipments; and in the mean .' time, I should he pleased to receive orders from any and all who mav wish to obtain it. Having read aud examined the work my self, I can most cordially recommend it to our friends It contains not only the sayings and doings of the above ; named EUlers, but a great many interesting and practi , cal facts relative to the rise and progress of the Chris i tian Church in the West, It should be read bj’ every young man, because of the excellent expmplesset them by the early pioneers of the Church, whose histories are "here given ; aud it should be read by every middle aged and "old man io stimulate them to continued effort and perseverance, even under the most trying circumstances. As they were faithful and obtained an eternal inheritance, so by lollowiog their example, may others be and obtain a like reward. The work is quite handsomely bound in 12 mo. size, [ containing 301 pages, and will be.sold at $9 per dozen, or $1 per single copy. . •. j Orders nury be given or sent to Elders Wellons or Is ! ley; or send directly to me, and the books will be sent I without any additional charge to either Bro. Wellons or I Bro. Is ley, where other books are being sent. I hope ! that our Southern Christian friends will each and all procure a copy of this most interesting book, and read it 1 carefully. J. R. FREESE. O '* Brok A*tiU. Philadelphia, May 1851 9—tf.