to the whole connection came forward and tender v cd his services to the Publishing Association if they wouid move the Book Concern to Philadel phia. This was at first opposed by some, but afterward agreed to by all. Brother Freese is a man who is pecuniarily above dependence. He therefore proffered to perform all the labor gratui tously for four years. To carry on the business on a much larger scale, and establish ageuoies in different parts of the country. He now has nine sub-agents, all of whom are laboring without any pecuniary reward. All their labor is performed gratuitously. This enables them to undersell the regular book sellers, and still make a handsome profit for the Book Concern. What is now need ing is a united effort on the part of our people to mako this thing succeed admirably. But still many of our members and even many Ministers seem to feel no interest in the matter. Surely such have never looked at the subject ijjjtits pro per light. Some ministers suppose tljhat if they sell books in their congregations and draw money from the pockets of their members, that it will diminish the offerings which would otherwise be tendered to them. This however is a very great mistake. The more books which we circulate among our people, and the more intelligent they become, the better they will support their minis ters. This thing has been fairly tested By almost all denominations. No reading intelligent congre gation will allow a-minister to labor among them for nought. They will pay him for his services, and reward him for his labors of love. 1 Let any minister try tbe experiment and then tell us if we are not right. We think every member of the Christian Church should by all means patronise their own Book Concern. A few reasons for this opinion >ve will give in a future number. w. b. w. The Graham Institute. Having shown in previous numbers of the Sun the great advantages of this institution, and its vast; importance to us as a denomination ; we trust all now see the necessity of a united effort to carry on the school to a successful end. Only let there be a long continued struggle on the part of its friends, a strong effort and a “ pull all together,” and the enterprise must succeed. But on the con trary, should sectional jealousies arise ana be cul tivated, to dust and destruction goes the whole enterprise. Should friends stand aloof and refuse to patronise it; it will gradually sicken and die. Should the board of Trustees continue as negli gent as formerly the entcrpiise will be crippled _ and murdered. Should the Principal display no more energy, perseverance and go-ahead *»tiveness than heretofore, it will stand forth a giant in ap pearance and name, but powerless in its influence. But we apprehend no such results. We are not yet prepared to write the word failure. We must rise above sectional and local j'ealousies if they ever existed. Every sectional and local feel ing should be sacrificed upon the altar of our no ble and glorious principles. Every friend of our cause should rush to the rescue and save the ship from the breakers power.' The Trustees must and will act. We know most of them, they are not the men to look back, onward is their watchword in other things. It must be so in this. And our good brother Holt, God bless thfe man, we learn is already like a sleeping Sampson aroused, and will devote all his powers of body and mind to bujld up the school. He designs we learn, spend ing his approaching vacation in canvassing his own Conference for the benefit of the school. Once fairly aroused, we predict for him a brilliant success. In the goodness of his nature he has allowed the enemies of the school to bandage his eyes and begin to throw the cord around his body. But now the spell is broken his influence will be exerted in the right cause. After all we shall soon find him “ right side up.” Brother Wra. H. Eley, who has suffered so se verely from an attack of rheumatism, as to pre vent his doing much for the school, is now gradu ally improving, and we hope that God in His Providence will so order things that he may soon be physically able to resume his labors. Should his health be restored, he will be an ornament to the Institution and a blessing to the whole Church. Elder J. A.. Turner has accepted the Agency **fe»r The School and has entored on his labors with an earnestness and ah energy which we hope will give success. He has recently passed through the Eastern Virginia Conference, and though his success has not equalled his wishes, yot-if- lie had allowed himself more time, and have mingled more with the people, much more would have been done. We hope he will not slacken his hand or abate his energy until he has traversed our whole denominational field, and entiroly relieved the Institute from debt. Then and not until then, shall we be willing to see him return to his origin al field of labor in the ministry. A few more thoughts and our pen shall cease for the present. We are not well acquainted with circumstances about Graham, but if sectarians in that section are unlike sectarians in other sec tions, our friends may keep a sharp look out, or their influence will be felt against the school. Sometimes it is more prudent to oppose a thing indirectly. We never mind an open candid foe, but a roundabout bush fightipg opponent, we al ways avoid. Not all of them who are connected with the sects will oppose us. Far from it. But there will always be found in every community, somo little soula who are envious and jealous and cultivate smelt feelings until they cannot see be ' ■ ~~f~~-- -.—; - yond their own mighty selves. We trustmo such are to be found in the upper county, but it would bo well to stand on our watch tower and be ready to receive their opposition when it comes. .Though may God grant it may never come. And now brethren, friends of the Graham In stitute. Lovers of education, advancement and improvement. Friends to our principles. Ad mirers t. Paul’s preceptor, Gamaliel, I arid sons of the renewed Hillel, a Jewish doctor I and philosopher, perhaps the most famous since j Moses. Thus he was one of thosri constituting the I line of prophets and rabbins, to whom the Jews | accord the act of transmitting their oral law or i traditions, from Moses down to the time of their j compilation, about A. J). 150. j He was a man divinely insipred-; being under theespecial influeuce and direction of the Most High, and living in earnest anticipation of the advent of the Messiah, because informed by an express communication from the Almighty, that he should not die until he had seen the Lord’s j Christ, or more strictlv anointed. And whep the j infant Jesus was carried into the temple to be of ! fered to the Lord, the Holy Spirit, abiding in the i s oul of Simeon, directed him to go therein also, j and witness that consolation of Israel, for which I he had long been waiting. How imposing ! bow jsolem must have been the scene which then took j place !—to see that venerable old man receiving ; into his arms that child which God had prepared j for the salvation of the world ; and then giving i utterance to the-deep emotions which filled his i heart! What devotions ! what faith ! he manifest j ed on that occasion ! It seemed to him as though j the last object of his life was accomplished, and | most grateful was he that the Lord had thus ful 1 filled his promise ; and with a willing, gladsome ! heart, he gave expression to that gratitude, in the | prayer, “Lord, now lettest thou thy servnnt de 1 part in peace ! ” I He gave his'blessing unto the parents, and spake unto Mary of the future career of her son, | and of the anguish of heart in reservation for I herself. The death of that holy, and divinely fa : vored man could hardly have been otherwise than ! happy and triumphant ! vedi. “The Worst of it.” “ Do you want to buy any berries to-day ?” said a little boy to me One afternoon. I looked at the little fellow and lie was very shabbily clothed, grey pantaloons very much patched, an old cotton I shirt, and miserable felt hat made up the whole I of his dress. His feet were bare and travel stain i ed. In both hands he held up a tin pail full of ripe land dewy raspberries, which were prettily peeping lout from amid the bright green leaves that lay | lightly over them. I I told him I would like some ; and taking the ! pail from him, I stepped into the house. He did not follow, but remained behind whistling to my j canaries, as they hung in their cage in the porch, j He seemed engrossed with my pretty pets, and | the berries seemed forgotten, j ’Why do yotf not come in and see if J measure I yoftr berries light?” said I ; how do you know | but what I may cheat you and take more than the | three quarts I have agreed upon ?” The boy | looked up archly at me and smiled. “ I am not afraid,” said he, “ for you would gel the worst of it | ma’am.” “ Get the worst of it ?” said I; “ what do you I mean ?” . • t ’ . “ Why, ma’am, I should only lose my ber t ios and you would be stealing ; don’t you’ think ! you would get the worst of it ?” What a lesson for us, dear children ? This poor little boy so tired and warm from picking' berries j all day in* the sun, trudging miles with heavy pail I of fruit, felt if he had lost them all he would not | be, so badly off as the one who would cheat him 1 I Little children, will you just think of this when you are tempted in any way to defraud a play mate ? Just think you get the worst of it, not the loser by the fraud. How often do we hear per sons express great pity when any oue had pro perty stolen from him. But he does not get the worst of it. Though a man lose all he has, and retains his integrity and honesty, ho is rich, com | pared with the man who has robbed him. Yes little children, if you disobey your parents . | —if you abuse your schoolmates—if your art H guifty_of1y trigftfTtealingTyqi’Tyct the toorst ofit ?5i I more than those whom you may deceive, or injure , j or disobey. The suffering may be theirs, but the sin is yours. God marks the sin : and though J the sinner may go awhile unpunished, still there is a great day of accounts when all these little sins I will appear in fearful array against you. Daily Morning Prayer-meeting. | —Amnion prayer-met'iingiaireld in the old South | Chapel, every morning from eight to nine A. M. ; It has now been in progress over two years, but has never seemed to attract any very general at j tention until this winter, when it has been repeat edly thronged. A most delightful state of reli Igious feeling is felt and cherished in these rneet iings. Business nicn-^rich and poor, gather here, | and pour out their hearts iti fervent prayer to God, j for the outpouring of liis spirit and the revival of j his work. These union praver-mcetings, without doubt have been among the most signal means, j under God, of tho great revival interest which has | been so extensively felt in Boston this past winter. | It is believed that one thousand persons have been [ converted to God, the present winter and spring, | in Boston. The meetiug is conducted by lay i members, although ministers are often present and take part. I am often present and take pait also, 0, how good it is to unite in the prayer-meeting with Christians of all denominations! “O Lord revive thy work,” For weeks past; the language of Apostolic times has been verified again—“And the Lord added unto the church daily, such as should he saved.” Herald. Intemperance. The following beautiful pa&age is extracted from the speech of Mr. Stevenson of Boston, in the Massachusetts Legislature, on the Liquor bill : "Portray the evils of intemperance 1 did I say ? He does not live that can tell the whole story of its woes. Exaggeration there is impossible Ther 4 fatigued fancy falters in its (light befor it comes up to the fact„ The mind's eye cannot take in the countless miseries of its motley train. No human art can put into thrt pitcure shades darker than the truth. Put into such a terrible picture every conceiva ble thing that is terrible or revolting; paint health in rnins, hope destroyed, affections crushed, pray er silenced—paint the chosen seats of maternal a devotion, all, all vacant; paint all the crimes of every statute and of every hue, from murders standing aghast over a grave, which it has no means to cover, down to the meanest deception still confident of success, paint home a desert, and shame a tyrant, and poverty, the leg itimate child of vice in this community and not its legitimate mother; paint the dark valley of the shadow of death peopled with living slaves ; paint a landscape with trees whose fruit is poison and whose shade is death, with mountain torrents tri butary to an opon ocean whose very waves are fire putin the most distant background, the vanishing vision of a blessed past and into the foreground the terrible certainty of accursed future. Paint prisons with doors* that open only in wards ; people the scene with men whose shatter ed forms are tenanted by tormented souls, with children upon whose lips no smile can ever play, and with women into whose cheeks furrows have been btirnj by tears wrung by anguish from brea king hearts. Paint such a picture, and when you are ready to show it, do not let in the rays of the Heavenly sun’; but illume it with the glares of the infernal fires, and still you will be bound to say that your picture falls short of the truth.” The Methodist Episcopal General Confer ence met at Boston on Monday afternoon, and the presiding officer, Bishop Janes, appointed the usual standing committees. ; A ballot was had I for Assistant Secretaries, which resulted in the | choice of the Rev. Messrs. Adams, Griffiths and Daily. A Committee of Revisal was ordered to bg^_app<5intsd, to take into consideration all applications for change in the discipline, to con sists of one from each Conference. Bishop Waugh then delivered a long and well pre dared address, from himself and Bishops Morris and Janes, in which the following paragraph oc curs : “ The address spoke strongly in favor of sup porting the itinerant principle of the church in the superintendencies, and in favor. of annual changes in the presidency of annual confer ferences as more likely to conduce !o a proper ad ministration of affairs. The episcopacy was one of the few general bonds yet left to the church, and every care should be taken to preserve it ; the progressive character of the present age had a tendency to induce the throwing aside or forget fulness of old established principles, or their ra ; dical change, and all should be done to prevent all unreasonable or undigested action of such a na | ture. ! High Prices.—At a public sale near this place on Thursday last, corn sold for $1,33 1-3 per bushel, and fodder brought $1,30 per hundred. Waclesborough Argus. The Maine Liquor Law has passed both branch I es of the Massachusetts Legislature. ncceipi5th year ol his age, RALEidn HARKET. Corrected Weekly for the Christian Sun, by II. B. Hayes 4- Son: COUNTRY PRODUCE. . Bacon 12 a 13 Beeswax H>. 15 a 20 Corn • 85 a 90 Flour ;:S4t3ffa 5:00 ; Fodder 100 a 120 '“ j Feathei's ‘ 33 a -10 I Flaxseed bush. *5 a 1.00, j Ilides green lb. ,, r 1 .. j- do. dry - 0 a 10 . itrd--- H 1-2 Leather, sole ' 20 a 25 i Meal 90 a 100 , Oil, linseed, gal. 1:20a 1:23 J Oats bushel 00 a 00 : Peas, bushel 80 I Tallow, lb. 8 a 10 i Tobacco, man. 15 a 25 Wheat, bush. 00 a 00 Wool, lb. 20 a 25 EATABLES. Beef, on the hoof 4 a 4 1-2 ! Butter 15 a 20 | Cheese, lb. a 121-2 ! Chickens, each 10 a 12 1-2 I Eggs 10 a 12 1-2 ; Lamb, per head a 1:00 1 Mutton do 1:00 a 1:25 | Pork, fresh, lb. (> a 7 MERCHANDISE. Bale Rope, lb. 0 a 00 -Bagging: heavy' 00 aOO Cotton yarn 18 a Coffees ' u a 121-8 'Candles, lb. 1’5 a 50 ‘ do Sperm 45 a 50 I Iron, Swedes_tsLia 0 . “ extra sizes G 1-2 a 7 “English. 4 1-2a5 -Lend, bar* ' S a to - Rime, bbl:' 3:00 a Molasses, gal. 35 a 40 Nails, lb. p 1-2 a l! Oil, lamp. gl. 1:00 a 1:75 do tanners 00 a 75 do light, yd. 00 a 00 Powder, blasting 4:00 do line 5:00 a 0:00 Rags, lb. 2a 2 1-2 Sugar, N. O. 8 a 9 do Porto Rico a 10 do St. Croix a 10 1-3 do Loaf a 121-3 do Crushed 11 a 12 1-2 Salt, gr. allum $3:40 a 2:50 “ Liverpool 3:00 a Tea, lb. 50 a 1:50 Twine, bagging lb 20 a 25 A CAMP-MEETING Will\commence at Pleasant Hill church Chatham 'county N- C., on the Friday before the last Sabbath is | August next. S. G. EVANS. Appointments for the E. V. Circuit for May. I Bethlehem, Nansemond county, Va., 3d Sunday. - Cypress, do. • do Wednesday after. Damascus, Gates county, N. C., Thursday do. Barrett’s, Southampton county, Va., 4th Sunday. Holy Neck, Nansemond county, do Tuesday after. Providence, Norfolk county, do Thursday do. Jerusalem, Thursday night. I Antioch, 5th Sunday. R. H. Holla no.