“RELIGION WITHOUT BIGOTRY, ZEAL WITHOUT FANATICISM, LIBERTY WITHOUT LICENTIOUSNESS.”
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SELECTIONS.
,, Tactual Succeulon or no Church.
BY RSV. 1. BAVENCORT BLACKWELL, A. M.
Io our first article we endeavored to show
that no form of church-government, binding
on all, was established by Ghrfat or bis
Apostles, or indeed by ttriy competent au
thority. The Episcopalian—a prominent
.paper of the P. E Church—rays, “In re
gard to the doctrine of Apostolic Succes
sion. aa well urf in regard to every other
teaching'On Yeligioui subjects, we cannot
tv insect to have tltiy other standard than the
Scriptures. ” W» fc«»<r appealed to Scrip
ture, and found there no distinct form of
jgiivernment for tbeCbristikn Church. We
meet no Unequivocal statement as to the
4i am her of orders in the ministry,' we >ficd
nothing explicit as to the prerogatives of
'•bos* different orders, nothing an to the
ode of setting apart or consecrating men
to the'Ministry, nothing as to tho grade of
officers who-shall consecrate or ordain. We
have appealed also to authority, and showD
the great lights of the'Gburcb of England,
and of the Protestant Churches -of the con
tinent taught, as Dr. Neaoder expresses it,
•that “neither Christ nor his Apostles have
'given any unchangeable law on the subject,”
t. e. of church polity. Hero we might
drop the subjcot, iforif the Master has not
designated some special form of govern
moot, it is simply presumption and pre
sumption -of tbe highest kind, to rq^d out
•of the church those who take Christ’s word
:as their law, whe strive to imbibe his spirit
and copy his example, and who “are gath
ered together in his name, “to read out of
the Church of Christ such earnest and de
trout people, solely because they differ from
us in the mero form of ecdeaiasticalorga-ri
ization This is to sit in the temple pro
claiming ourselves as God, perfecting what
ho has deft unfinished, excommunicating
those in whose midst Christ says, • 'there I
•am.” We might rest our case hare, but
as wo wish to examine quite thoroughly
this dogma of Episcopal Succession, we
we shall proceed to show:
2. Bishops and Eldors arc of the same
order in Scripture, and Elders exercised
ihe Function of ordaining in ihe Primitive
Church. The first part of our proposition
is admitted by the informed, still for the
benefit of those who have not examiued
the suljject we discuss it. In Acts xx, 17,
it is said, “And from Miletus he snr.t to
Ephesus, and called the Elders of the
Church.” When they came Paul ad
dressed them and said, v. 28. '‘Take heed
therefore unto yourselves, and to all the
Hock over which tbe Holy Ghost hath
made you overseers.” Tbe word translated
“overseers” is tlio Greek ‘Vpisoripons, ’ the
-very word from which “bishop,” in our
English version -Of the New Testament, is
taken wherever that term is found. Paul
then, as we are told, sent for the Elders,
the Pre-byters. of the t'huroh, and vet he
calls them Bishops. The same ministers
■who in verse JTfare called elders in 28th
verse said to be bishops, in Phillipians i,
1, St. Paul writes to the ‘.‘Saints'” with the
Bishops and Deacons.” Here by “Bishops”
lie must mean the Elders or Presbyters.
If njt, then Paul omitted the order of
.Elders which was found in all the churches,
and addressed the Deacons, an order inferior
to that flffvelder. If by the word • -bishops”
he meant that order which is not claimed
to be superioi to that of Presbyter, then
there must have been at least two Bishops
in the one city of Phillipi, and this does
not
agree with the diocesan plan of Epis
copaoy. Again, 1. Tim., 3d oh., Paul
gives the qualifications off a Bishop and
immediately after those of a deaeon omit
ting all mention of Elders. .Now as Elders
were distinctly ordered and appointed by
the Apostles (aide Acts xiv. 23 y Titus
i. 5 ;) and are by all admitted to have been
one of the orders in the Primitive Church.
this failure to name them by Pant is unac
countable except on the supposition that
hero too as in Acts, he meant Elder by the
term episcopon. Paul says to Titus, oh. i,
5 v. “For thisoauta left I thee in Oete.that
thou shonldsl, &o., aDd ordain elders in
every olty. If any be blameless, &o. For
a Bishop must be blameless, &o.” Here
the Apostle tells Titus, he left him to ordaiu
Eders, gives the qualifications for Elder:
“If any be blameless, &o,” and then im
mediately follows the reason,“For a Bishop
must be blameless, 4c.” What kind of
reasoning is this, if the terms bishop and
elder do not here apply to the same persons
How illogieal the reasoning should a Gov
ernor say to his officer, I have appointed
thee to place clerks in every oounty, if any
ha a good aoribe, for a legislator must be a
£Md scribe? Of jnst such reasoning i»
the Apostle guilty, unless with him Bish
ops and Elders are one and the same.
The testimony of the ancient ohurch on
this point is overwhelming. On Phil, i,:
1. Whitby says, “That the Greek and Latin
fathers do with one consent deolare that
the Apostle here, calls presbyters bishops.’
Hooker, vol. 2nd, 140 page, speaking o^
the ministers appointed, by the Apostle®
says, “These in their writings they term j
sometimes Prcabytera, sometimes Bishops.’’ ,
Again, “These persoos ecle-iaeticall being
termed ns then presbyters and bishops both
were alt subject tinto Paul, &o.” Clement
of Borne Wrote his epistles to the Corin
thians, A. T>.,'96. He complains Of that
church for degrading certain presbyters
from their bishopri'A," says, as given by
Dr. Stevens," the Aposfles appointed the
first froits of their labors to be bishops and
deacons,” and ©aborts 'tbe church to “let
the flock of Christ be in peace with tbc
dders that are set over it." Bolytarp |
wrote A D., 140, “to tho church of IfhiH- j
pi. He exhorts the Philiplans “to be/“W:
ject fy'tho Presbyters aDd deacons " He ■
was a disciple of St. John 8nd agrees with ;
Clerobnt and St. Paul in recognising ;
two Orders of ministry in the church- !
es. St. Paul recognizes Bishops and
Deacons in the church of Philippi,—
Phil, i, 1. while Polycarp mentions only
Presbyters and Deacons in the same church.
These strange omissions—the Apostles fail
ing to mention Elders. and Polycarp omit
ting Bishop from bis enumeration—onunot
be accounted for except oti the ground that
only two orders were found in this Church
and that the terms Bishop and Eldsr were
synonymous. We might greatly increase
these quotations from the fathers, but as the
Apostle* so manifestly use the words bishop
and elder, or .presbyter as synonymous and
as this is admitted by intelligent Episcopa
lians.v-we pursue this point no farther.
Tbetnvportant point to be argued here is,
not whether bishop and older are of the
same import in the Apostle's language, but
whether the Apostles established a perma
nent order in the cburoh superior to that of
presbyter and to which alone wat given the
right 'of ordination. This is the claim of
the high churob party. If it cannot be
shown that there are three orders in the min
istry essential to the church, add that to the
highest -of these orders is committed ex
clusively the prerogative of ordination, then
the claim of this party must fall. This
claim established is a sword keener than
Occam's razor, exscinding from the church
all nou-hipiscopaliaus. It is manifestly
not sufficient to show that the Apostles were
a superior order to that of the Presbyter.
It often occurs iu the administration of both
divine and human affairs, that the powers ;
delegated to on officer for the establishment j
of a dynasty are not continued after the gov
ernment is established Samuel was author
ed to anoint Saui king, then to remove
Saul, and anoint David in his stead, but
after the kingdom was established in the
family of David, God did not authorize
Samuel to transmit to successors that power
over kings down to the end of the Mosaio
economy. The authorities at Washington,
a few years ago, sent into this grand old
Commonwealth an officer ■clothed with all
legislative, executive and judicial authority
for the State, but surely it does not follow
that even after the State government is
fully established such an officer must he
continued through all time. For establish
ing and ordering the Christian Church, We
see the necessity for a class Of men such as
the Apostles, endowed with plenary wisdom
and power, but when the church is estab
lished and all the sacred epistles, the letters
of instruction-given, the same necessity no
longer exists. I appeal to all candid Chris
tians, If this claim is to be asserted, should
it not be dearly proved ? Is it Christian, is
it modest for a few of the clergy of the laud j
to obargo that the great majority are in
truders into the sacred office, uulcss they
can give authority for the charge? When
two hundred thousand Christians exscind
from the churoB and baud over to the wn
covenanted mercies of God, mercies of which
all are entirely ignorant, four or five millons,
as sincere and as pious as themselves, should
they not have explicit and ample reasons
for ao doing ? Let us then see IF there be
any Scriptural evidence that Christ or his
Apostles appointed a permanent order of
ministers in the churoh superior to that of.
Presbyter.
The declaration, “Lo, I am with yon
alwav, even onto the end of tbe world," is
advanced as evidence that Christ would per
petuate through #11 time tbe apostolio order,
but manifestly this text is notbiag to tbe
point. Tbo whole text is, ‘ Go ye there
fore, and teach all nations.baptizing them,”
&o , and “Lo, I^am with you. &e.” IIo
oaunot mean that he will be with them as
apostles, and solely because they arre apos
tles. He says again, “Where two or three
are gathered together in my name, there
am X in the midst of them.” Here he
promises that in all ages he will be with
any two or three assembled in bis name.
No reference is made to rank, er order, or
-form of government; the . Vision of
tbis promi-e is that the assembling be in
the Dame of Christ. “This ooming togeth
er in bis Bame.” say* tbe great Neander,
“alone renders the aesemhly well-pleasing
in his sight.” There is not an organization
of pious peoplb m the land, who have not
reason to believe that the Master is with
them when they assemble for his worship
If it were incongruous for Christ to be with
any other thaa an apostolic order of men.
tben done would thebe be relevancy in the
argument of our opponents. When the
Master, looking npon his Apostles as the
ropresentatirds, the beginning and germ of
bis Church, sends them 'forth to plant his
standard in all the World, saying “Lo, I
am with yea,1’—With yon as my Church,
and with all who, through yoa, shall be
lieve on my name—“even to the otd of the
world,” how hard pressed must be our
antagonists to claim this as proof that Christ
intended to perpetuate that peculiar order
cf officers. Ou what slender grounds arc
otrr brethren willing to impale vast multi
tudes gf devout men and women, who,
jlrfessod’With %he Master s presence, cast ctut
devils in his name ’/ The best interpreter
of Christ’s purpose in this matter are bis
ae^s. Did he continue men with apostolic
powers.irt his Church ? St. Peter required
for an Apostle, one who had seen and been
with the Cord, and could witness to his re
surrection —Acts i. ; 22. Paul, in de
fending bis apostleship, said, “Am not I ap
apostle V have I not seen Jesus Christ our
Lord T’ ttfid that after his resurrection,
and so could witness to that fact—1 Cor.
xv : 8. In establishing further his claim
he declares that like the Twelve, he received !
his commission directly from Christ.—Qpl,,,
i: 1. That as the “Spirit led them into
all the truth,” so he too received his know!
edge of the Gospel, “not of man, neither
was I taught it, but by the reveiati ,n of
Jesne Christ.”—Gal. i: 12. Aud again,
“I am become a fool in glorying ; ye have
compelled me : for in nothing am I behind
the very chiefest Apostles. Truly the signs
of an Apostle were wrought among you in
all patience, in signs and wonders and
mighty deeds.”—2 Cor. xii. 11, 12. As
Paul was not one of the original twelve, his
apostolic authority was often called in ques
tion, and we have seen how be vindicated
his office. The challenge the apostolic au
thority of those who now claim to be Apos
tles Can they sustain their claim by
apostolic arguments ? Will they say, we
have seen the Lord ? Will they say that
tb ey received their commission and their j
gospel not of man or by man, but of God, j
[ and by revelation : Can they point “to
signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,” as
evidence of their apostlesbipi If these
distinguished prelates have none of the
prerogatives of the Apostles, why claim to
be of the order of the Apostles? A few
besides Paul and tho Twelve are called
Apostles in the Scriptnres as Barnabas,
Sylvanns, Timothy, Epaphroditus, Andron
icus and -Junia, a female, bat none of these
were Apostles in the highest and peculiar
sense of that word ; none of them were en
dowed with full authority and permitted to
act independently of Paul and tha Twelve,
in establishing tho Church. “Apostle”
signifies “messenger,” “one sent,” and the
servants of the Cburnh were sometimes
called ApOstles in virtue of their office, and
not of their order. We fail, then, to find
in Scripture, or in the. Church of the pres
ent day, that Christ or his Apostles intend
ed to perpetuate an order of ministers su
perior to that of presbyter. The word
bishop in Paul’s letters avails nothing in
this argument, for intelligent Episcopalians
admit that New Testament bishops were
presbyters only.
Be on Good Terms with Your Schol
ars.—The relation between teacher aud pu
pil must be of a pleasant character. The
teacher must have power over his pupils.
But, to be effective, it must be a power that
operates by an appeal to the higher motives
a power that accomplishes its purposes by {
enlisting on its side the beat internal forces
of the soul. To educate a child in the
highest sense, we mast secure the consent
and co-operation of bis own convictions and
faculties. It is very difficult for a teacher
to instruct a child who regards him with
repugnance or dislike. In such a case the
mind braces itself against the influence
brought to bear upon it. There is an in
stinctive closing of every avenue into it A
cordiality of feeling between teaeber and
pupil is absolutely necessary. Without it,
the teacher’s way is obstructed by a con
stant resistance. With it, he finds himself
invited on and powerfully helped.— The
Illinois Teacher
Drones.—We are are satisfied that some
church members are hopeless—they are too
crooked, too soft, too lazy, or tdo stupid for
anything under the sun, hut to be worthless
drones in the church. They have not life
enough to bring theta to ohurch regularly,
or to the prayer meeting ' or Sunday School
at all, Sharp enough and <Juiok enough,
it may be, in worldly matters, but very
vagabonds in the church, actually eating
and living like beggars upon the industry
and charity of other people. Let each
church member ask himself the question.
Do I belong to this class V—Texas Baptist
and Herald.
It is better to perish with hunger than
to deprive the poor of the bread.
Do unto your neighbor as you would have
your neighbor do unto you.
T..ay Labor.
One of the principal differences between
the Cbnrches which are characterized by :
the power of godliness and those which ap- j
parently have only the form thereof, is to !
be found in the activity of the lay element, j
In the live, earnest, aggressive and sue- !
ceseful Churches, the laity ia active in its '
co-operation with the ministry. To extend
and increase this active -co-operation has
been for some time one of the most promi
nent questions before the Protestant world
In many Churches the question has receiv
ed a practical solution, but the difficulty of
enlisting the lay members in other Church- 1
os has kept this problem before ns to the
present. It was discussed at the meeting '
of the Evangelical Alliance held at Berlin,
in Prussia,- and in various ways it would
have come up at the meeting at New York, j
The question is daily becoming more prac
tical. The world is fully convinced of the !
duty of the membership to be actively en
gaged in the work of the Master. It re- :
quired some time to secure the general ac
ceptance of (his proposition. But that bat- i
tie is fought. There are no champions of I
the lost cause of lay inactivity left, but oh
every hand it is freely admitted that to ail
-iu their sphere it is said, “Ge work to-day !
in my vineyard/’
Having secured the acceptance of this
truth, tlie mode of discussion should be
changed. Hitherto the question has been
largely of a theoretical character. That lay
members should be actively engaged in
working for Christ has been the proposition
affirmed, but it now changes into the ques
tion, How shall the laity be most effectively
employed? Some ways are readily pointed
out-, and will at once snggeet themselves to
every mind. But we uecd to have other
doors of usefulness opened and pointed out
to the humblest Christian. This alone can
secure the efficient-co-operation ot, all. For
there are thousands who do not labor as
yet. and to whom avenues of usefulness
other than those which are most conspicu
ous must be opened. And here is a duty
for every pastor. His constant inquiry
should not so much be. How can I be most
successful iu my labors ? as, How can I
best employ every lay member in some ap
propriate work ? For the work must be
suited to the talents and powers of those
who are to perform it. There are those
who can be employed as leaders of meet
ings, and who can with profit speak to those
who assemble for worship, or to the un
converted who may be induced to assemble |
to hear the word. But it does not follow
that because it is a good way to employ
lay talent, therefore all lay members should j
•bo so employed. The time is pretty near
ly "pulsed in which men arc expected to
possess universal talents; and in the busi
ness world and the wbrld of labor we are
carrying out the principle of a divison of
labor. So we must do in the Church. We
must start out. With the idea that every op
portunity of effecting good imposes the Ob
ligation to use our talents for that end. But
then in assigning members to particular
work there must be more or les3 adaptation.
And this assignment to duty will prove the
means of redneiug to practice the theory
which the Church has accepted There are
a few Churches that are fully organised fop
work, in which every member has some
thing to do, hut the majority are not so or
ganized. It may need a good deal more
preach'.ug to work in all a willing mind
heartily to co-operate in person, but the
graat want now is organizers. Hence, we
commend these subjects specially to the
pasters of the Churches. Let them uot be
satisfied with simply teaching the duty of j
laboring for Christ, but let each one devise
ways and moans- in which to employ all the
lay talent in the Church. And he who is
most successful ia this particular will be
hiost successful ia every other respect, other
things hoing equal.
Home, says Roberson in his Sermons, is j
the place in all this world where hearts are
sure of each other. It is the place of con-!
fidence. It is place the where we tear off \
the magk of guarded and suspicious cold- '
ness which the world forces us to wear in j
self-defence, and where we pour out the !
unreserved communication of full and con- j
fiding hearts. It is where expressions of
tenderness gush out without any dread of I
ridicule. Let a man travel where he will,
home is the place to which ‘his heart un
travelled fondly turns,’ He is to double all
pleasure there. Ho is to divide all pain.
A happy home is the siugle spot of rest
which a man has upon this earth for the
cultivation of his noble sensibilities.
One ought- every day, says-Goethe, at
least to hear a little song, read a good poem
see a fine picture, and if it be possible, to
speak a few reasonable words.
CaaiuTT is never lost, but it maj be of
no service to those it is bestowed upon, yet
it ever does a work of boautv and graoe in
the heart of tho giver.
I An Hour wrtli Dr. iKwell Mason.
BY RRY. J. L. HARRIS.
The venerable -Hr. Lowell Mason, known
to all lovers of sacred mnsic, has a beauti
ful home at Orango. It is located on the
mountain-side,embowered beneath the shade
of s'ately trees, just in sight of his study
window a little brook goes singing and
dancing down its little pathway, notv leap
ing like a little Niagara over some artificial
Horse-Shoe Fall, then, after lingering
awhile in a fairy lake, hastening on its
journey. A fit place this to “strike the
harp, aucfwone fbo lyre!” No wonder that
our hearts have been charmed by the music
born under the inspiration that such Sur
roundings give.
It was nay privilege to visit Hr. Mason a
few days ago. He is now in his eightieth
year. Though somewhat feeble in body,he
is cheerful, and his tnind is apparently as
vigorous ever. After sitting a moment in
the parlor he said, “Come up into my
study. I have a nice place for such men as
you.” Bure enough it was. I at once
found myself surrounded by more than a
thousand volumes of inusio. and gazed upon
by more than a hundred of the old masters
j of the art, such as Beethoven, Haodel,
Pestalozzi, Mozart, and Mendelsshon, who
look down from the walls on all sides of the
room. He has nearly every note-book,
and every work on music which has ever
been published. Among them he showed
me Luther’s hymn and tune book, a huge
folio as large as the largest family Bible.
The print is very coarse, and the notes
about an inch in length. Books were not
j so cheap then as now, and it was intended
that it should be set upon a rack, where a
, dozen or more eocld sing from the same
bock.
But the one which interested me most is
a quaint looking volume called ‘‘Ainsworth’s
Book of Psalms.” It is the identical book
used by the Pilgrim Fathers in the church
at Levdeu before they embarked for Amer
ica/ the identical book which was used in
| their service on the “Mayflower/” -the
| identical book out of which they sung the
j first hymn when they landed on Plymouth
j Rock. As I held it in my hand I could
j not but feel for it a solemn veneration.
He related to me the clrcumataucea under
I which be composed that grand old mission
ary tune. ‘‘From Greenland’s Icy Moun
: tains,” which has doabtless been sung in
j almost every church in every land It was
I in the year 1818, He was then residiog
in Savannah, Ga. Many, no ^oubt, have
a supposition that this beautiful melody
must have cost its author days, if not weeks,
of study and labor. Not so, however.—
Tunes of this kind, such as seem born to
immortality, come not in' this way, but
rather from the warm breathing! of inspi
ration. Walking out one Sabbath
noon, he met a young lady friend, who said
to him “I have here some beautifijl words
to whioh I can find .no music. .Will yoa
not take them and write a tone for them 1”
He took the words home, sat down at his
piano, and, drinking in Iheir spirit, he be
gan to breathe forth those notes which have
thrilled the hearts of thousands, and in less
.than thirty minutes the tune was completed.
The words, he says, have a very similar
history. Bishop Ileber composed them
late one Saturday night,and they were sung ,
by the choir neit morning at a missionary
meeting in his father-in-law’s church.
The doctor’s musical talents began to de
velop themselves at an early age. He re
uvemberB distinctly sitting upon his father’s
knee, when he was loss than throe years old,
and singing correctly the tune of ‘ ‘Russia
which, by the way,, is rather a difficult
melody.
He has lately published a work on the
- ‘-‘ Festallozzian Method of Teaching Music,”
jvhich will doubtless have a wide circula
tion among music-teachers. Ho is now
preparing “A Treatise on Harmony,”
which he hopes, if his life is spared, to
publish within a y#&r. He says whatever
gifts he has have for many years been con
secrated to the service of the Master, and
as he draws nearer and nearer his journey’s
end, his faith in Christ becomes stronger
sod his hopes mOTe radiant. Good old
man; the prince of sacred song/ He has
served his generation well, nis songs
will be sung on earth Ioug after he has
| joined that loftier song with saints avoaud
|.the throne.
Scolding.—It is very easy to scold. It j
require* . De self-control, no patience, uo
oareful adaptation to the rights and feelings
of others. It is far more popular than any ;
other display of energy, and it is very con
venient, for the soldier’s weapons arc al
ways sritfastK-JC-^Jaaoh: -Dee** bay -look !
around” during the Sunday School session ?
Scold him. Does a girl whisper! Scold.
Does the librarian make some mistake or in
terruption '! Look daggers, or speak drawn
j swords. Snap at the other teachers
for talking too loud. By these means
Christian workers oao make themselves and
others as oomfortable as it is possible to be—
iu a hornet’s nest.—Christian at Work,
FARM AND GARDEN.
Renovating Poor Und.
For speedily improving the poor lands of
Soothside Virginia, there is nothing better
than the common field pea. It is a plant
that derives much of its snpport from the
air, and will therefore do well on poor soils.
It terminates with certainty and grows rap
idly, and two crops of it may be raised on
the same soil the satne year. A jadidious
management of'field j>ean and marl will
render fertile any soil where peas will grow ;
and land to poor too sprought a pea is fit for
no agricultural purpose. For improving
! land simply, 1 like it better than clover,
tThetniiwr less uncertainty-and less trouble
| about it, and it may be done in shorter
! time.
; Sow the first crop at the rate of one and j
! a half bushels to the acre, as snob as all!
' danger from frost is over, bay last of April. I
! As soon as the vines are pretty well in
bloom, (with a few youug peas on earliest1
vines,) turn all nnder, and sow down and
barrow in another bushel and a half to the
. acre. These will be ready to turn under,
if you so intend, iH Septetnber, when yon
can seed down to wheat if you like, or win
ter oats. Or if a late fall, and you arc
short of corn, yon ean give your porkers a
lift by turning them in to eat ofHhe peas
I would advise every farmer to plant at
least one field Tor his hogs After your
hogs have eaten off the peas, or while doing
so, if you design the land for corn or other
crops dext year haul on and spread from
one to three hundred bushels of marl to the
acre, according to the State of the land. If
the land is bare, with little or do vegetable
matter, less marl; if having pleBty of
bamus, more. I make no doubt that land
thus treated with peas and marl would be
just the thing for peanuts.
The Southern field pea is so useful in
several aspects that it appears not a little
strange that do greater use is made of it,
both as an improver of poor soils and as
loDg forage for stock. The vines thoroughly
cured make one -of the best best long feeds
known.
The best way to euro is to cut (not pull)
the vines, and let them wilt in the sun a
■ day cr two. Then make a rail pen and
. put a floor of rail ■ two or threa.reil* ftam
the ground ; now raise the sides four rails
I higher, Stid fill np with the vines; then
! another floor of rails, and four Tails to the I
side, and another layer of vines; then
another floor, and so on till you have it as 1
high as high as you wish. Now set two j
forks, ope on either side, lay on a ridge
pole, and make a roof of stalks to shed the
rain. The vines will cure nicely, and keep ;
sweet all the winter.
I trust that our farmers trill cot overlook
this important crop while they push peanuts,
tobacco, or cotton as the main chance, or
money crop.' Om* old iaods must be im
proved. You tpiy purchase fertilisers to
the fall extent ’nf your means; but unless
yon add humus or vegetable, matter td The
soil, there.caa be no permanofet impraveitent
of the land.
The pea offers us tbe readiest way ef
supplying that vegetable matter. Besides,
it is one of the cheapest feeds for our perk- j
era ; and we ate doubtful of the success of
that farming that does not produce its own *
provision at home. By all means plant j
peas With pleDty of peas, potatoes and
pigs, will come peace and prosperity.—B. \
IV. J., of Surry county, Vo., iii Rural \
Messenger.
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A Cue* *or Hog Cholera.—Reziu H.
Worthington, Sr., JBsq., of the Seoond dis
tr’ot of 'Baltimore county, sends to the
Towsoutown Journal the following prescrip
tion, which he states is a snre cure for bog
cholera. It is as follows :
Taketeh graVhs of c*roineI ancTteo grains |
of tartar emetic and make them into a pill
As soon as it is known that the bog is eioE
give the pill. If there is no change for
the better by next day, or within about
twenty-four hours, give another pill of the
same ingredients. Mr. Worthington in
forms us that ho has never known a second
dose of medicine fail to effect a perfect cure
and restore the hog to health. Mr. Worth
ington himselt has cured more than one
hundred hogs, which have been afflicted
with cholera, by this medicine.
To Cure Warts on Horses.—I had a
flue colt' that had about twenty large warts
on his breast, under bis belly aud in bis
cars. I was recommended to burn them
out with caustic or a hot iron,which I tried,
and found that both were slow add harba- j
rout. One day T picked up a small piece
of newspaper, and found the following
recipe: “Tocure warts on horses—Ecpial
■parts of spirits ofTtfrpetftrne and olive otf:
llub well every two or three days.” This
I tried, and it acted like a cjharui.
Selling by Weight.—Every consumer
1 of food in the land ought to unite in a
movement to compel by law the sale of veg
i etables, fruits, eggs, and nearly every
edible article now sold by measure, by
weight.
Take enough Sleep.
Said one of the oldest and most sdctfess
fnl farmers in the State : “I do sot care
to hare toy men get up before five or half
past five io the morning, and if they go to
bed early and can sleep soundly, th»y will
j do more work than, if they get up at four
i or half past four ” We do not believe in
I the eight, bonr law, hnt nevertheless* arc
I inclined to think that, as & general rule. wc‘
1 work too many hours ca the fsrt'i. To?
i best man we ever had to dig ditches,Seldom1
worked, when digging by the roe, more
than nine hours a day. And it is so in
chopping wood by the cord ; the men who
accomplished the most, work the fewest
hours. They bring all their brain and
! muscle into exercise, and make every bio Y
tell. A slow,, plodding Dutchman may
tarn a grindstone or a fanning mill better
than an energetic Yankee, but this kind of
work is now mostly done by horse power,
and the farmer needs, above ail else.a clear
head, with all his faculties of mind nnd
musole light and active, and under complete
control. Much, of course, depend? on tem -
perament ; but as a rule, Such men need
sound sleep and plenty of it. When a boy
on the farm, we were told that Napoleon
needed only fonr hours’ sleep, and the old1
nonsense of “five for a “man, six for a W0“
man, and seven for a fool,” was often quo
ted. Bat thS truth Is, that Napoleon w:tr
enabled, in a great measure, to accomplish
what be did from the faculty of sleeping
sonndly—of Bleeping when he slept and
working when he worked'. We have sat in
one of his favorite traveling carriages, and
it was so arranged that he could lio ao.fi;
at full length, and when maXhiSgthrough
through the country as eight horses, fre
quently changed, could carry him, he slept
soundly, and when he arrived at his desti
nation, was as fresh as if he had risen from
a bed of down. Lot farmer’s and especial
ly farmers’ boys, have plenty to eat, noth
ing to “drink” and all the sleep they cjb
take.—American Agriculturist.
Uspaikted fiousss.—As ws go about
the country we see many dwelling houses
that are left uupainted for soma reason.—■
There are those who defend this practice,
on the ground of economy, declaring that
®M» belter afford to near otopboard. or
to cover the whole outside of the bouse
anew, than to be at the expense once in
three or four years to paint. We are not
among the Dumber Who take this view,
and even if it was so, we should.mest surely
advise the paiutiDg for looks sake if noth
ing else. We would not always paint white
with green blinds, as many do. but would
select some neutral tin t that would harmo
nize well with the surroundings. We SlF
admire the virtue of neatness, and there is
nothing that give so good an appearance to
buildings as to give them a few coats of
paint.
■dPasrt fna* wn.t rebp jt Ywia —Dis
solve a teaspoonful of alum in a quart of
warm Water. When cold, stir in as much
flour as will give jt the consistency of thick
cream, being particular to beat up-all the
lumps. Stir in as much powdered rosin w5
will lie ou a dime, and throw in a half a
dozeo cloves to gives pleasant odor. Have
04 the fire a teacup of toiling water, post
the flour mixture into it, stirring well all
the time. In a very few minutes it will be
the consistency of mush- Pour,it into-an
earthern or china i’easel ; let jt cool; lay a
cover ou, and pat in a cool gl»ec. When
needed for use, take out a portion and soften
it uith warm water It is better than gum,
as it does not gloss tba paper, and can be
written on.—Journal of Applied Chemistry.
To Cleanse Musty Bakulls ok Casks —
IJut a quarter of a peck of unsiacreJ lime
in the bqngrhdle , of the barrel, iuto whiciii
pour a gallon or two of boiling #ater to
slack the,, lime, then put jo the bqpg and
shake the cask well, so that tjie .cpntcDts of
it will come in contact with all of ,the in
side. Let it stand a day or .two, after
which rinse out well with plenty of coin’
water. If the barrel or cask is still musty,
the same operation must be repeated, and
a strip of cloth, dipped into melted"brim*
stone and hung down in the bang-hole, set
fire to, and the bung lightly driyefTin.
Cleansing Blankets —-It is qfcite as
important to have blankets on odr beds
clean as to have the sheets pure and white,
i The foul emanation which they“absorb in
| time makes the bed anythiifir tmt sweet.
' The Boston Journal of Ckemistiy~g\ves the •
j following method of cleansing > blankets ■
| Put two large tablehpoonfhkr ofWfax: and'
a pint bowl of soap into a tub of cold water.
■ When dissolved, put in a pair of blankets,
‘■and let them Tetnehr' over
day rub and drain them out. and rinse thor
| oughly in- two waters, and hang them to
! dry. Do net wring them. j
| Liquid SaOce—Oae cup of sugar, and
one-third cup of butter, nibbed to afeream.
Then stir in the well-beaten white of one
egg. .Flavor with Dutmeg and lemon —
I .lust before bringing to the tablo, *dd o»«■ ■
| half cup of hpilingpvater . t
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