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Devoted to Religion. Itlornlltv, Tempera lire. literature, HtwiI and the «nppoi I of the Principle*, of tke C hrfittaiii Clinirh, Sontb “RELIfilON WITHOUT BIGOTRY. ZEAL WITHOUT FANATICISM. LIBERTY WITHOUT LICENTIOUSNESS.” VOLUME XIII, SUFFOLK, VA„ MARCH 6, 1857. DUMBER 46 TBE CHEUTTlN SmT* Published weekly by the Southern < Christian Association at aurroLK, va., f 1 50 per annum, in advance. W. B. WELLONS, Editor and Publisher. } Corresponding Editors EofroRiAi, Couarou..T. J. Kilby, 8. 8. l’arret.t, VV H. Boykin. ExboOtivb Committee. (I. Q. Walker, A. Muring, J.McCutly, It. II. Holland and A L. Flill. All communications most be ad drcsssd to W. D. Wellons, Suffolk, Va. Ollice of the “Su|»” in the Brick build ing, on Kilby Street, jearly opposite tue re sidence of the Editor: J. D. BROWN Printer. . j OKIG1NA L. TO MEMORY. By Lizzie. Memory wbat a gift th' a art 1 The richest bi on of Heaven, Without thy soul-cheering aid, Our hearts would olt be riven. 7'hofc many happy hours, That, such a short lime.last; Wjuld be gone torever, no power, But thee, to retain the past. Each moment of happiness, We may with thee recall, And realize with no less bint, Than When we viewed them all. If we owned not metnotv, It joys were all forgot,, How sad atirt'dreary, Would be our earthly lot. The friends that death hath taken, Across the stream of time, Would begone, but tnoucan awaken, The past scenes that are thine. Yes witli thy aid nrj retain them In spile of his s’ern hand. Thine image will be wiyJ^us wlien, We enter th$o*pirit land. „ We know thou art from Heaven A gift to mortals here, We hope, when life is riven, Thou wilt be ever near. Yes! should we reach fi'gh heaven, How happy we will be— -By contrasting then the present, W till ihe sorrows we oft sec. We know lhatihou will serve us, For the Scriptures speak in love, Of out who served not the God Ot lite and light above. Bat when.he lay in agony, in Hadet' drear abode, He wished to semi a messenger 1 o tell his li tends ot God. Nansemond Va I. 'net composed on a Mother presenting her beloved Boy with a Bible. Bv Kate Clare. A Mothers gift to iter darling boy, Remember well it is no idle toy ’lisa stur to guide thy erring soul, A'lien storm, und tempest around thee roll A beacon light to lead thee back, When far away from the narrow track. ’Twill prove to tliee a fountain of life To quench the tilt *«t of worldly strife, A stream that will p^r|M»r.nal How And till thy foul with heavenly glow, Remember oh ! my darling boy. Thy Mother's gilt is no idle toy. i Wien night assumes her sable robes Buttoned by stars of other globes, By thy taper this volume peruse Thoughtfully ot. it* precepts muse ; For think oh 1 think my precious boy, Thy Mother’s gift is no idle toy. Awake when Aurora’s oflont beams iSuftly through thy rasemeut gleams Bid sorrows loose tbee from tby bed, Ask Gods blessing upon thy head, For oh I remember dulling boy, Tby nether's gilt is no idle toy. Wliere’er thou 1 roamost, land or sea, Take this thy Mothers gift with thee A magnet that lead* to the haven of rest All who follow will sure be blest Remember this my precept boy, The Mother’s gift is no idle toy, 8mithfield Va. RELIGIOUS. MAKE TBE BEST OF EVERYTHING “We once knew a man whom neithei care or sorrow seemed to affect; who ai sixty had tba digestion and flow of spirits of twenty-one ; who had acquired a largt fortune apparently without any effoit who in abort, was the happiest of men, and the envy of all who knew hiin. ^Hou i» it,’ we said to him, “that you are st fortunate? What talisman secures to you “II tjiese advantages I’ He smiled aa b« answered, “I have no talisman unless it if to make the beet of everything. To make the best, of everything ! Like “key to a problem, the answer unlocked for us, at onae, the world of the greal mystery. Life is too short and happinesf too precious to consume the one or throw “way the other, in idle, unavailing regretf. Even if ill-lonune swells into a flood, and i threatens to undermine the very giound ; on which we stand, is it not wiser to strive to bridge, the torrent than to wait bewail ing our fate, till the waters swallow us^ i The weak and unstable succumb to des tiny, and are washed into oblivion, 'lire wise and brave acceptirg circumstances as they present themselves, plunge boldly, like Horatio of old, into the stream win the farther shore in safety, and earn im mortal guerdon and renown. Few men, if nny,ever succeeded in life who have not learned to make the best of everything ; and generally, their success is in exact proportion to the adherence tc the tule. Dues a debtor fail ? Every merchant knows that it is the best course, if the debtor is honest, to accept bis hist offer ml composition,' and not squandci money in useless litigation. Have you become insolvent yourself l The worm thing you can do is to give up to despair, and sav.it is folly, trying to redeem your self. Has a friend misjudged you or an enemy dime you secret harm ? Don’t loss precious moments in seuiimental grid over ingratitude, or passionate lb mats at youi wrong doer, but go to work ou the instant, to sham e your friend to disarm your foe. Had Asior, when lie was a poyr G. rmau emigrant, made up bis mind that the attempt to be a luidiunaie was ah surd, he might have died a beggar in the almshouse. Had Washington, when Cornwallis ptitsued liis way across New Jersey nub then thirty thousand troops, said it was hope ess to save America with his fragment of an army, his three thou sand tattered cOlitinelitais, we might all Lius day have been in slavery to Great Britain ; but lie said, * I*'the British cross the Dulewaie l will relire to the Alleglieh .-.lee, and if they are victorii us there 1 will riy to the wilderness beyond ; and ibis resolution never to ive up, but always to make llie best of everything, ied to the victvny ol Trenton and the freedom of the Rep blic. Wo are familiar with people who whine continually at late. To believe them nev er was lot so hai l as theirs ; yet those p#ho I-now their history will fell you that their life has been one long tale of upper ttitiUies disregarded, or uiisfui tunes oilier wise deserved. Perhaps they were l>oru poor. In tLis ease they hale the lioh, and have always haled them,, but without ever having emulated then prudence or i energy. Perhaps they have seen their rivals more hooted by accident, ltt this event they forget how many have been loss lucky than themselves ; so they aquae der their little, because, as they say they cannot save as much as others. Iiritaled at lile, thev gto>v old prematurely. D s satisfied with everything, they never per mit themselves to be happy. Because they are i.olboiu at the top ot the wheel of fortune, they refuse to take hold ot the spokes as the latter come arouud, but lie stubborn iu the dir. crying like spoiled children, neither doing anything them selves, nor permitting others to do it for them. Make the best of everything! At home, if wife or husband is cross, if servants are careless, if children ate irritating, don't fly into a passion lor that will lo no good but make the best of circumstances, fulfill, your duty, and wait for happier tunes. Abroad if things look unpromising, pre serve a stout heart, keep cool, and play your haDd to tho lest of your ability. Eveo if fate has the first move, which is not always the case,!you have the second ; and the game may still l>e yours, if you play skillfully and hopefully.” SLAVERY IN OUR SAVIOUR'S DAY ‘Abolition” being set down as the Chris tian’s mission iu this our day, and as a bout hifejtonly mission,—it becomes often necessary to recall the fact, that slavery of the worst sort existed in the Roman Empire, in oar Saviour’s day,—and that he nowhere preaohedi ‘Abolition,’ nor civil nor servile war,—but, on the contrary, ‘‘Servants obey our masters ’*• We do not mean to say our Saviour loved or defen ded slavery,—for we have no revelation or veason to Bay so,—and, perhaps, reasons to aay the very reverse,—but we do mean to •ay, Christianity in Ida day consisted in rendering to Cesar the thing* that were CasMi’*, and id letting civil and servile institution* alone. When Christ was on earth,—tie rebn kerl sin of all classes and kinds, and dared (o relnike the Jewish Priest in h's Temple, or titled Roman Gentile,— if they were guilty of sin ; but, while slavery era* all about him.—neither He nor hi> apostles ever preached an abol >tion serrfioti. The slavery Chiist saw daily — wan that under which a roaster could 'ell his slave, work him as many hours as he pleased, or put him to death. A Roman s!avo could not contract a marriage. Iliyi cohabitation wi'h a woman was contuhernium, anil no legal relation between him and children was recognized. A Homan slave could have no propeitv. A runaway slavecould not be lawfully received or I arboied to conceal him was fartum. The master was entitled to puisue him wherever lie pleased, and it was the duty of all author ities to give him aid in recovering the slave. A person became a slave by cap ture in war. A free woman, who cohabi ted with a slave, migut. be reduced to sla very. Toe immense nu n mr of prison ers taken in the constant wars of the Ro man Republic, and the increase of wealth and luxury in Cirri t’s day, augmented the number Of slaves to a. prodigious ox HHrt*—Vorv roaity Romans -possessed—HJ, 000 and 20,000 slaves. A freed man, under Augustus, who had lost much prop erty in the civil wars, left at his death 4110 slaves. The games of the Amphi theatre required nil immense number of slaves. The gladiators in Ilaly [Be'ore Christ, 73] rose under Spartacus, and were not defeated by the Romans, till 60.000 slaves were said to have fallen in battle, ■slave-dealers usually accompanied an army, and frequently after a gieat battle had been gsiued, many thousands were sold at ouce, at v«mv cheap rates. In tbs n !*t if this system of slavery was the Christian eia inaugurated. Christ pleached principles which subverted the atrocities ot Slavery,—as of every other system of government, or life,—but Abo litioniem was not his mission. Christian' m the Apostles day owned slaves, and considered it no crime to own them. What we mean to inter from these facts is,—that if slavery was the sin arid crime the Abolitionists of this day say it is,— Christ saw it in a worse point of view and never pfeached an Abolition sermon a gainst It,—never warred upon the gov ernrueiit that, recognized anil supported it, — but, on the contrary, taught jhedieuce to that government, ilia mission was to bring sinners to lepen'.ancc, not to concen (rate ali. men's minds upon the abolition of slavery, *nor to divide society, or a country, only upon that issue. If we cou.M only impress upon our abo lition Preachers of what they call “the Gospel,” the example of Christ when on earth, in the midst of Roman Slavery,— in itself indefensible^ because of its atroci ties,— we might, perhaps, make them use ful ill meliorating and Christianizing Afri can slavery in these United States. The early Christian writers, after Christ's day. inculcated the duty,— not ot Abolition but of acting toward slaves—as inasterr in their condition would be ac ed by, ami thus they did much t-iward promo vug the ultimate extinction of slavery* or in the end of merging slaves into the aa scripti glebae, or serfs of the Muld.lt Ages. If our Northern Abolitionist wouhl only reason with, instead of cursing out Southern countrymen, the righ;s and du ties of slaves, husband and wife, might hr I ’gaily established in rmr Southern States, divisions of familiel under executions might be done away with, and a system of education be iustWed.— but their riling and cursing for t weti'ryyws'nave only strengthened slavery in the United States, and drawn tighter the bonds ot die master owi the slave. Suppose, then om Abolition Theologian rhovild spend * month or two imstu lying up l’,° svst*>m of slavery Christ and his apOstles saw on earth, when they preached ‘Servants obey youi maste’s j*—and ‘render to Caesar tht things that are Caesar's.’—and when they returned fugitive slaves,—-astn the case o O cesiums. They have tried the cursing uow, for a quarter of a century, and it list i.one no good. Suppose, now. they fry the.Ch rwimn cteed of'‘Lore one anoth er,” "‘Do unto others as you would hare other*do unto you,” &e. Ac.,—end there i* no knowing hut they may thus conquer the world,—a* C brief did. Ntw York Express. To Preacher*.— I have' found the fol lowing rule* to te of much service to mv self, and respectfully surest to my b'eth ren in /fie ministry (he propriety of tes ting their'merita. 1. Resolve to he brief, a* this is an age of telegraphs and stenography. 2. Be pointed ; never preach all around vour text without hitting it. 3. State your] proposition* plainly, but do not gfop iorg to partieulatize. 4 Avoid long introduction* ; but plunge into your sermon like a swimmer nto cold Winter 5 Condense ; make sure that you have an idea, and then speak it right 'out, in the plainest, shortest possible terms. 6. Avoid a'l high flown language; quote ho Hebrew nor (iiet-k ; aim to be simply a j readier 7. Be honest enough to own that you do avail yourself of help from any source But in using help*, be sure yo never mak, siilts of them, wiieu your own legs are far better. 8. Expect the Faihei’a blessing* , you are his servant, and can do nothing with out it. 9. Stop wli^ti you are done. Among iheitttury rules given the preach «t, I have found it convenient to adiip' (he above, as being such a* were profitable to met And now, my brother, if they will do v«iu any good, you are w: Iconie to them Geo C. Bancroft. AN AFFECTING ILLUslUA I ION. Rev. Thomas A. Toiler, of Kettering, the cotemporary aiul fiiend of the celebrated Andrew Fuller, of the same place was one of the most effective preao'vers of his day' • Ofien,’ says Robert Hall, * have I seen a whole congregation melted under him like wax before the sun : my own ft eh tigs, on more than one occasion, have approach ed to an o^erpowe'ing agitation-’ III* power of HiUSirat'ng a subject was his distinguishing faculty. H s tllustrations were drawn from the most familiar scene, of his life ; amf after he became a father not unffeuuently from the incidents which attach to that lehuioif. The following, reported by a iriend who heaid thi5 discourse, is given as an example. Iiis,text was from Isaiah xsviii. 5 : "Let him take ' hold of my strength, that he may make ! peace with me.” ‘I think,’ said he, ‘I can convey the meaning of this passage, so that every *ne may understand it, by what took p|a,..e in my own family within these few days. One of my own chddrer had com mitted a fault for which L thought 'it my duty to chastbe him. -4 called him to me, explained to him the evil ♦ hat he had done, and told him lu.w grieved it was that I must punish him for it. lie heard tue. In silence, and, then dash* I imo my arms, and hurst into teat*. I could sooner have cut off my arm than have stunk him tor his fault ; he had taken hold of my strength and he had made peace with me.” 1 What could more strikingly exhibit the the case a* between the true penitent and Ins offended Maker ? God, as if ,with re luctance and g'ie has declared Ilia deter initiation to pumsh ; but sincere sotow for sin, wrought in the heait by the rev. elation of hi* inert v m Chrisi takes hold: of hiss: length, disarms him as it were of to- power to strike the bb>w, inclines him to forgive, and thus bring* about between him and til “ sinner a state of reconciles Hon and peace. 1 A Tio-st How >hii I tell whether I «m a r-al Christian ? He who can truly say ilia! lie seeks the favor of God »b ve every earilily good ; that he delights in his ser vice more than in anything else ; that to obey him here, and so enjoy his presence hereafter, is the prevailing desire of his tie-trt; that his chief sorrow is, that he I#*"* him no morn, and serves him no ■ belter. Such ft person needs no other ev idence thartH* heart is ohangeu, nud hi* sins forgivenx RURAL. MANURING IN HILL. The secret of success with the farmer, is to know how to procure and rpply manure On ti e fertile prairies of the Mississippi Valley, the planter need not trouble him self to supply food for hir. plants But in England it is far otherwise. Without ma nure, nothing good can be effected. We may plow and sow, but cannot resp. ITence the importance of thi. 'subject, in all its bearings, to the cultivator. * Of Applying manures, there are various modes. Farntei Old school says he wants tire manure directly underneath the plant: therefore, in planting corn and ^potatoes, lie manures in the hole. The theoty and practice of the new school goes against thi* mode. It advo cates an equal distribution, ovtr the whole surface, of all the nutrimeut iulended for the ctops. We had supposed this question virtually settled ; that all ‘ bock farmer*,’ at last, admitted the correctness ol the distribution | Connecticut valley, many, and wet believe [a large n ajority of the farmers, willcon | liwite in the old practice, arid these men are ready to give a reason for the faith that, is in them. TIaving but little manure, they must economise in the use of it. They cannot afh rd to spade it ovei the whole ground, they must manure for.the crop, and not for t.he land. 1. The plant needs artificial stimulus in the early part of the season. By placing (he mature in the hill, an impulse is giv cn, which will last through the Slide course. Not being convinced by these consid erations we will give our views o( the mat ter. In the gtowthof the (dipt, the roots keep pace with the stalk, when the fatter is mature, not an inch ofground withiu a distance equal to the height of the stalk, wi.l be void ot roots or fibers, si-nt out in pursuit of nourishment from the plant It there is nutriment within this range, it will Do taken up ami appropriated, and alt the purposes of the plant served as well cer tainly, as if the whole were concentrated at a point, answering exactly to the nadir of the tassel. When the seed first sends out-its radicle, its fibres absorb moisture from the sub stances wiib which they come in ccntaet If it is a shovelful of manure, they will revoi iu that for a time. But soon these porous fibres, these roo'less become roots and take on a woody structure, which liis, their to sustaiu the stalk with its burden. These roots or this portion of the roots no longer contain absotbent vessels; and moisture and nourishment must be obtain ed, if at all, from abroad. A Shanghai rooster would be somewhat discommoded by having hiajeed placed directly undo h s feet. Not le»s so would the plant be, which has not, Ike the fowl, the power ol | iucomo.ibn. Then to concentrate all the nutriment designed for tire development u* the plant about the roots, iti its infancy, seems to me much liks giving to a horse in Hie morning all the grain intended foi the day. Better let it bo administered as ! needed. Manured in the bill, the plant is unduly stimulated, during the first of the season. Consequently it lays out more work than it can perforin. When rearing time comes the s’recgth of the plant is exhausted, or what is equivalent toil. The absorbents have wandered into a region, where tin re is no nutriment, consequently stains are abundant but. ears are few. Futhermoie in manuring, regard should be had to the laud, to die future crops. Manuring for the crops alone is ruinous policy, impov - erishing alike to the soil and the til'er Tlie teamster who administers stimula ting drinks and a goad to his horse, may secure more labor for a few hours, hut many days of rest and good feeding will be required to make good what lie has Ou a piece of land that has recently come into my possession, which wasir. rye last season, and corn th# year before, the ' iDYlBlI*tM£fcT* NTot inconsistent with the chaiacterof th# paper, will he inserted as follows: Onesqwreof 14 lines 1st insertion *1,00 For each subsequent insertion 2.7 One square 6 months 6,00 One square 12 months 10,00 Two squares 6 months 11,00 Two squares 12 months 10,00 Each additional square ' 6,00 Business cards of 6 or 8 line* will be in erted for $5 per year. Those who advertise by the year, bare the privilege of changing the advertise ment two or three times a year. Advertise ments to be changed every week, will be inserted according to agreement, between the parties. place of Hie hill may bo pointed cut, s» easily as if the eotu were now-standing.—• Where the hills were, is grass, elsewhere none. Istbat^ood farmi-g 1 Much like ; 'ho policy of bun, Who fed his pt£ one day | and fasted him the next became be hkc-d a * -treak of fat, and a streak of lean.* In the nse of miners! fertilizers, It may he advisable, in some cases, to make ap* plication dbeeiiy to the roots of the plants, hut animal and vegetable manures and it is compos's T ibink, should be distribu ted over the whole ground, andevety far mer who once makes a fair trial of the spading process, will never again engage | iu mar.tirir g in the bole’ bis corn any more itbati bis fence posts. • - New England Farmer. Sawdust foh Orchakds.— A year last fall I hauled a load of old rotten sawdust and threw it around my yonng appletrees. —My neighbor over the way is one of those ••haracters who pica’s on the same ofd track drat his father and grandfather did, be lieves that they knew all, and more too.— My neighbor said if I put sawdust around my trees 1 would kill them. He said he put manure around some of his trees and killed them. I toid him I would risk it, “ any bow.” I put fresh stable manure around one row and sawdust around the next ^ around another row I pm leached ashes ; and the remainder of the orchard I manured with well-rotted barn-yard manure, and in the spring spr ad it will, and planted the ground with corn and potatoes. Tne result was, many trees grew very, luxuriantly, but thu iTees where the sawdust was grew the beat, the bark being smoother and the tre&s had a healthier appearance. I will alao stare that part of the orchard planted in po atoes grew greatly better than that • part planted to corn.—The soil was clay Ivum.—Farmer and Visitor. Yocsro Colts and Cattle.—Tha half ceding of young stock is one of the most mistaken and injudicious system ever pur -tied liy ill (in, besides being postivajy eiu iul. They should be provided with good tight, warm, dry sheds, facing the South, opening into yard*. They should be so ! fed, as toffee always-kept in good-growing condition.—so fed, as that the elements of bone, muscle tendons, and a moderate degree ol fat, are a'ways to be found in t! a quantity and quality of their food giveu tli* in. We do not advocate keeping them bke stall led animals—as fat as London Aldermen, but we do advocate the keep* ing them in good, thriving, growing con dition. 1 Planting Shade Tu£ks.— Nothing adds more to the comfort, as well as health o towns and cities, ilian shads tre • Thisf » is especially so in our southern climate. Now is the time to be abou-t it. If all our citizens will but determine that our >ide walks shall be shaded by trees plant ed iti front of their property, a few yea is will deni ins' rate that they have added tens of thousands of value to it, at a very tri d iig outlay of money an 1 time. MasCre.—Experiment shows that the «»ine amount of manure which has feeer^ covered nine incties deep with earth, «o that no evaporation can escape, will pro dime four bushels more wheat to the acre, than that which'lias lain exposed to the weather. Keeping manure covered, tb>n, when w'u a is a dollar and a ha f p -r bu-h e! m ill add six dollars to the value of the products of every acre of land growing wheat. " nr Butter is High.—Some body ao» counts for the high price of huimr as fol lows :—There is a fine pasture all irer the country now and the price of butter ought to be down to a shilling a pound Why isn't it ? Because the women and girls don't know how to make it. For twenty tears past the girls’butter-making eduea ijoi) has been sadly neglected. They can play the piano, but cannot churn ; can dance, but cannot skim milk : can talk a little French, but don’t know how lo work out buttermilk. The women who made the butter twenty yearn ago are passing away, and there are none to take their pla ces. ThiiPs why butter is high. A writer in the J'hila. North American | states that peisoua-may avoid ‘cold #!***■• i ping’ by placing one or two thicknesses “I i common newspapers between the coverlets ! of tbeir l ods. I
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