The Christian Sun. ^ FRIDAT MORNING, NOVEMBER 3. 18*1. OtTR FRINCIPJjKL __. _ ^T.^^^*«44«r(rtThriKt is the only Head of Ihc Church. 2.—Tire name Ohrutiarx, to the exclusion of all ^aftv, or sectaries names. 3—The Holy Bible, or the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, a sufficient rale cf faith and practice. 4. —Christian character, or vital piety, the on ly test of fellowslrp. or church membership 5. —The rieht of private judgement and the lib erty of conscience, the privilege and duty of all. There will be no service in the Christian Church, in Suffolk, on next Sabbath, o^brr in the morning or iu the evening. i ne pastor is absent., in attendance at the Oca* ferenoe at Ferry Point, and all the minis ters are at Conference., consequently no supply could be procured. There will be Sabbath School as usual in the morning. Rkv. T). A. Long, of the Talley Vir * ginia Conference, preached last Sabbath in Suffolk, in the jnorning and at right, to full and attentive ooncregations. Our bro* j the* has many friends and admirers in Su!- < folk, and will always be welcomed on hie J visitp here, ! SUFFOLK COLLK9IATJ3 INSTITUTE, j The contract for the carpentry work of the principal building, ban been given to Messrs. Norfleet & Ingalls and will be pushed forward to completion as early as possible. The masonry has been given to Mr. Henry R. Pulley who has already com pleted the foundation. Mr. K W. Burgess has received the job of plastering. The painting has not yet been contracted for. | Tbe dwelling and boarding house of Mr.. King is now about ready for the painter’s brush. Other arrangements will receive early attention. . The purpose of the Board of Trustees, is to have all complete in time for the school .to open on the 1st of January nest. Again we say, let the hopes, sympathies and prayers of the whole church centre upon this proposed school, and let contri butions flow iu freely in aid o'f this enter prise of the church. Wb enjoyed a very pleasant season at tlio quarterly meeting at Cypress chapel last Saturday and Sunday The quarterly conference of the cbnroh watt well attended' and the business was promptly transacted Brother .T. T. Whitley preached for us on idia SStbwij^o ladies were received into tlie fellowship '*f ‘P" and the com naunion was tendering and goai The ohtireti in Conference made a judicioua tion of lay-delegates to the annual Confer ence. Brother Tirginius S. Kilby was chosen a Deacon of the church, in the place of Brother Edward C. Riddick, who from physical infirmity has become inactive — Brother Kilby was ordained on Sunday morning, and entered at once upon the duties of -his office. Brother Riddick after having officiated as a Deacon in that con gregation for twenty-five years, or more, retires with the confidence and esteem of the whole church, and their prayers that the latter days of his life may be his happiest Cypress chapel is posing on new strength .Norfolk and vicinity has been favored tbis week, with Interesting religious meet ings. Or. Wednesday last the Eastern Virginia Chriftian Conference, convened at’Kerry Point, and called together a large number of the members and fj ienda of the church from different portions of the State and from North Carolina. On Thursday evening the Methodist Protestant Conference -assembled at the Methodist Protester,roll- on_Cimrah atreet, Norfolk. Several prominent minis- ; of this denomination, from Maryland, arc in attendance. And on Thursday evening. Rev. A. B Earle, the celebrated revivalist from the Baptist church North, commenced a meet ing at. Salem Baptist church, two or three miles »frotn Norfolk, on Sewell’s Point road. - . These idteehing meetings, give var^tv and exTcite pur Norfolk people, and will pafe( the way for the 'meeting of the Virginia Conference " of the Methodist Episcopal Church -South , one of the largest bodies ■in the State, which is to assemble in Ports mouth, in a few weeks Tueoderick . B. Pryor, a son of Gen. Roger A. Pryor of New York, at a time of temporary mental aberration, walked over board, at one of tho ferries in Brooklyn recently and was drowned. Young Pryor was only twenty-two years of ago—-had graduated at Princeton with the Qrst honors of tpat renowned uistution and had been pursuing his studies for a year or two past in Eufope. An- overtaxed brain probably led to his sad sndr We read the annouoce ment of his sudden disappearance with ipuxiety and awaited his discovery with gainful emotions. We knew young Pryor, th y’eara,$go, when a- .fine bri^tjgwtte —nUEEtfcSoy ofTTzteen. JIo won cor highest admiration, and we. offer our sympathies, bumble as th'-y jt.ay be, to hie gifted father, j bis. excellent iSpoiher and bis venerable J grandfather, la abis their season of deepJ distress and grief \ Tagus has one hundreDsind seventy-nine dhcei-ls of the Friends . of'SCempemnoe M h» cast sess.io of the State Cobnoil will j ^ swemb’.e at Aas’jo the 2&th November. ‘ I X #• = TRIP TO CHARLOTTESVILLE. \Ve have recently been roneh on the wing, bat never were irT worse plight for j travelling, suffeiing as we bare been front a contusion, occasioned‘by a fall in passing through our irregular streets on a dark night. . ,,, J_1_ - On Monday,'the 23rd., wo left homo for Charlottesville. .. The failure Waaw con nection at Richmond, made it necessary for us to stop in .the city, until i Uesdav mor ning. when in oompany with a number of friends, we left for t'he place of the meeting of the State OounStf W-j arrived at Char lottesville at two oNsfeok, r at , and bur home was assigned ns, by the Committee nf Arrangements, with T'r R. W. Nelsou We enjoyed the afternoon and night session of t.be.Stati? Coun’ci,! mo oh, but our bruised limb became so swollen and painful, that we were not able again to meet with tbjibrethren. Divine Providence seemed however to have ordered-our arrangements, as we feli into the bands of on.9,of the kindost families in the place; where every thing was done that could be done for oar comfort, and Dr. Nelson, by his skill as a surgeon, was ena bled to relieve ua sufficiently so, that we started on our return home Thursday mor ning. We shall long remember to be grateful to the kind family whose hospitali ty we shared in Charlottesville. Reaching home on Friday evening, we f»lt quite refreshed and relieved. We could not mingle with the members of the State Council, as heretofore; but many of them called on us at bur r'oom.and s apSeia! meeting ' of the members of the •mprems Council present, for conatiltatioo, was beid in our room The session was iqg of the fullest and most profitable which we have ever held. About fourteen cler gymen, representing all the leading denote, matrons in the State, were present to par ticipate' id the business of the Council. ’ We always feel refreshed by the presence and in the society of the earnest workers in the Temperance cause—men whose hearts are moved by the principles of benevolence, and who longingly jlesire to do goud to ethers. We are often asked, vrby we devote so each attention to the Temperance work.— We invariably reply, that wo are oomtnan ied to be fruitful in good works, and Tem pi ranee ia a good work. Our work in the Temperance cause, makes us a better man. s better Christian, and enables ug to en jcy more of the life and power of religion. A gentleman approached us -at the State Council at Charlottesville and said, “You saved me, Sir, I beard you speak on the subject of Teuiperar.ee, i-.t Waynesboro’ aud *’"s>*ced to join the Order ^under your influence. ^ -ir^ckard. it has saved upe, 8cd I eamo here ju“t tv—■—„,.a ” We remarked to a brother, bat tiio to, timony received that evening, paid us for all the work'Tve bad ever dong in the Tem perance cause. We might fill a page of our paper with similar incidents. Our rcHgtoue enjoyment couies from doing good We live to do good to others, TKjs our chief delight our greatest pleasure—oarW^ligtpD Having been re-elected to an importao| position in the State Council, we buckle on our armor anew, and set curt afresh in our work of saving men from the curse of in temperance, gladdening the hearts of our wotneh and blearing the dear children of our country NORTH CAROLINA PUBLICATIONS. Horace Mann, once said in a little so oial circle, of which we were one, “I be lieve North Carolina never publishes a book ” .1 attempted g correction at.the time, and fel,t sensibly that the great .Teacher-of Massachusetts did injustice to the Old North State, and that his remark was a reflection, upon North Carolina. We have recently read a list of North Carolina, publications amounting to seventy in number, and yet we know of ■several publications not mentioned this list. It has long been the oustom 7 the citizens of other States to oast reproach upon North Carolina—reproach undeserved. We are not a North Carolinian by birth, but we ■have no sympathy with the oojrse pursued by too many. North Carolina is in many respects one of the first States in the Union, and at the close of the war, if she could have shaken off the horde of political leaches that fastened themselves upon her end have suoked out her very life blood, «be would now have been in the very front rank among her Southern sister*. North Carolina will yet assert her yrreatness. Remember what we say The f$ns at Temperanee, in South Oarn. Una, Louisiana and Florida are arranging to form an alliance with the Friends of Temper ance. The action of the National Division, recently held m Boston.in admitting oolorei men as equals in the Division room, will b*eak up the Order tu the South. *_ ^ Umvehsity Momtuly. - .1 he October oum her of this very valuable Magazine, devo ted to school interests mainly, is to hand Price one dollar, University Publishing j Company 155 and 157 Crosby street, New Fork. The Little Sower, for October received, ’his is one oj the neatest, prettiest, pcriod lsls of its character received at this office / ’rice one diilar W‘ W" Dowling, ‘ idiauapo'is. lad answers TO CORRESPONDENTS, j IJ A. C. of Pittsylvania county. Ya., enquires . "Did (be Noachio ri",)d cover Europe, Asia, Africa, and Aim rioa 1 Or in other w rda, the whole world f If the I flood covered the whole earth, would not the collection rf such a large variety of ani mals 83 probably lived iu remote putts the globe, e.s for instance, in the torrid and frigid lone*, and adapting them to a c.t mateaud Iff eireuaistau cea •*' ttnnaturtR t.. them, to say. u 'thing of the transpmutios •t suitable food Irom those' distant "region*,' -t quire a miracle superior to ;>uv „ttieu!iun*J in ttie Bible; t r equal t»i the resurrection ot the bodies of all the animals '-hat Noah might have taken into the su k t Again, we believe iti the universal ity of the deluge, or ruu the vtsk of having our belict in the _ inspiration of the Iloiy Scriptures ceiled in question ? ” Amswee,— 1 think we may justly doubt the universality of the flood without fearing tbe charge of, heresy being sustained against us. But if for this cause we may be eon sidered skeptical, we have very good com pany in skepticism, in the persons ot Bish op StiUingfleet, Dr. J. Pye Smith, Le Clerc, RoscmiiuHcr, ani others, who be lieve the Mosaic deluge to ha7e been par tial. With regard to the relative greatness of miracles, I ceeu say but little, that is re spectinfThe collection of weak and tender animals in very hot climates and muring them to the latitude of Ararat, or the rais ing of drowned bodice to life again after a long Bubmersior.. A miracle is a suspen sion of the laws of nature, or en act of God independent oi such laws, I do not- know that it is more difficult, fur the Almighty to suspend one law of nature than another, or that it is more burdensome for him to aof independent of nature than iu connection with it. If it required miracles to exhibit the wonderful phenomena connected with’ the deluge, and it doubtless did, look at it from any point we may, we need not be surprised at the most stupendous, as it is easy for Jehovah to execute iu any way be may desire any of his decrees But there ore many reasons for believing that tbe flood was not universal. To say nothing of tbe difficulty of collecting nod transporting many thuusauds of species ot birds, mammalia, reptiles, and insects fur thousands of miles, and fuod for their sub sisti^p;, the flood itself interposes obstacles which may stagger the most credulous. 1 ti order to submerge the world fully, one of two things ’is necessary, either to breakup the drusi of the earth si,(3 level he surface so that.the ueas poured down ou it io the form of rain or otherwise, might ouver it ; or to increase the present Volume of wato\ l Upon the earth at least eight times in order to cover ail the high mountains Now that the upper strata of the aarth has net been greatly disturbed during the j Many or the rooks try they are large ply composed require fur their >-Ugj£cation a period much longer than tiia ascrim-J to the existence of our raoe, aod a nfSabar of these recks have not been disturbed sinew, jthay have hardened Then for the sub Lmergerrca of the woful there must be an in I crease of water sufficient to rise at least five j miles atfove the ‘''.reseat so* level. From i wheitce did aTkthis water eome ? Was it a new creation ? And^what became of it after the flood?- Those are^questinr.s moetdiffi cult to answer. *\x It appears to roe very reasonable aod safe to believe that, the deluge was universal as 'o roan, but n t co as to other animals.^''Tt was in ponsequenoe of the sins of man that the.flood of waters was brought upon the earth that he might be destroyed. There was then no necessity for the flood to ex tend beyond the occasion of it. And it is reasonable to oonciuda that the human raoe, at that day., had notrspread very extensive ly over the globe, perhaps not beyond a comparatively limited portion of Western Asia. If the flood extended aver the terri tory occupied by our own, species it was quite sufficient for the purpose for which it was designed. I am therefore of opinion that tlie flood wan probably limited to that basin of country lying between thfl Medit terrahean, Red and Caspian.seas. J N. SR NOTICE. The North Caroline and Virginia Chris tian Conference, will bold its 46th Annual session, with the Church at Jit. Zion, Orange oounty, C., „commaDoiog on Friday, before the 3rd Sabbath in Novem ber, 1371. Delegates by Railroad, will be met at Mebaueville Station, on the Norte Carolina road, on Friday morning, and conveyed to the Chtlreh. ' — 13. W, Beale, Seo’y. Tan SxcretaRY of the Supreme Council Friend* of Temperance, has issued a char ter this week, for Payou Sara Council No 4, a' Bayou Sara,. La. -A State:;,€b«ist£'~ soon to be“6rganized in Louisiana,, Peterson's Monthly, full of good mu slo, for November, to hand. Three dollars per annum. J. L. Peters 50D Broadway, j New York. j The. State Council of North Carolina j Frieods of Temperance, will convene at) franMinton, oh the 8th of November.. A-j •rge and enthusiastio meeting is aaticipa- /; id. ‘ \ JSKWS FROM THK CIWKCHE9. Absence from our Sanctum. has proven- | led us* trom keeping up our column ot j news from the churches. Key. 0. A - Boon, writes-from PittsLoro, X C', on the l6?b .October; "i have, rr^trunencea & winding up idt ye ars labors ’sfith the churches ».*f'u.v charge l was ni '7,mn on the 14th and 15th, our quarterly meeting. Th% tn-ijicjy of the frUarTeriy con ft rente w&n pr.-mpfly transac ted nad the. c.>tt>C'.ur.i'm wr.s plea-ant. 1“ reached T'eth^i this morning and will en 1 Ci\LTe dilh I?X«o titter, in u protracted j mootiuv. I preached in the rntifldng and oujoVed the privilege, not having been | prescut at thia church and having the priv ilege • t’v.pit-g with rhe congregation in two years This house was one of niv tlrst preaching places. A r.t-w Image of worship is nearly completed We had a very interesting meeting to-day • Out* ag*d mail presented himself for prayer! and many others Vpere serious. We closed *u inter meting meeting at i Shallow Well on Monday Bros, Fowlej uud Hutch were with me •Bro. Fowler pre&etud on Sunday and Monday v.iili gieat power. I fee! greatly encouraged. i*r.d have made arrange!;to give my entire time to the work of the ministry next yr-ar. I e.‘iul one new sooner:b:r fo the Sua/’ Rev Alfred Iseley writing from Gutnpany Shops, N. 0-, on the 20th Octo* j ber says : “The churches of my Charge are, se far I know, in a healthy condition. Our pros pect for the future locks quite eucourag itigf” Key. J. W. Wellons, ^writing from Person county, N. 0., cu the FOth Octo ber, says : "I am on way to assist Rev S. Apple in a protracted meeting. The result of the meeting at Pope’s Chapel, was 23 con verts and 3& additions to the church, among them 11 heads of families.” He writes Spain from Caswell County, ; N. C., on the 16th ; “I roadbed Ml. Pleasant ir. Pittsylvania ! ecuuty Va on Wednesday after writing j last, aud find Bro. S. Apple is writing bu rn e. Wg .epent three^daytr* with this c. *n gregation. One convert and several pen itents at the altar. 1 am now at Lebanon. [ Bro. A. Apple is with me/' Writing from News Ferry Va., on the | 22nd he says . “Our dtps ting at Lebanon, closed to-day Twenty or rnoto persons were happily e.«-n* verted. were received into the ' fellowship of tty church, eight were b i « ti?ed, and the church received a general refreshing. I ai.i now on *ti»y v way to Pleasant 'Grove, in Halifax . county- where Bro. Apple and a-Tsoif are to bold a meeting.” - .LAY .PKKAilimU^-^-— When Jesus was about to leave the •world he gave his uiscipjes the great com niissb»r» : *'Go ye into nil the world, and preach the gospel to every creature ; he tiiat beHeveth and is baptiszed shall be saved;, ho that bdieveth not shall be damned.” 'Bbis language was certainly intended' for tlio direction of ^he Apostles an A. L. BAPTIST CllUliCif, .ROCKINGHAM ‘ COUNTY, VA. Dear Bfitmnsi: Wellons :-»Wc willstead jnu a few liuep ub''131 the dcliphtfu!1’Sab bath Sch. ol celebration and pic-nio it this place to.-day. Several "Sabbath Sho.fe were represented. The npeuing : e was iieliverod by the .'.'uperiuteud* of tl.v Vuliey Conference. M». Qt->. W. Shaver y/as the poift■ ".nil efficient marshal of tin day, and cue (.clod every thins in such a With- i>o CO •»; cOUfG JsQt>!EtI1Cii-)tl ^0 The tinging ‘‘3 l[’d by Masers. fe, him 'Weaver, and ii J Beery. Fbefch n;; j were questioned tnoweavtr. ,r s 1 i v by tinging, Mr I * a v I ,i as well as the aufw-ers .to Bible questions reflected great credit at) both pa pile and teachers We noticed several teachers present who had been very busily employed in the Scb j bath School work during the past year, and among them: Misses Dora M. Shaver, and D’Saiiic E. Maupiu. Also Messrs. Mason, J. N. Bowers, and Willia'm Messick.— | Quits a number of others were present, who ! love ami labor earnestly in the Sabbath t chohl work as teachers, -wbobe names -.we cauuot mention. The schools ail dined together in the grove sear by. The table which had been | prepared for the occasion was loaded with a profusion of the best edibles which the season affords. You k now these people have every thing which goes to rendet home an Eden, and life and ecstasy. During the intermission, same visited the ■ • tide spring,” which is near this place on the plantation of Mr. Jacob Myers, Tliit spring is strong enough to run a mill. It will fall every hour or two so low that you could not dip a cup full of water o.ut“ol it, acd then it will rise very rapidly, and its cool and delicious water will go rushing and roaring down the hill and mountain side, Messrs. Mason and Linoweaver delivered addresses in the afternoon. The exorcises clysed about 4 o’clock, P. si., and all wont away delighted. October 21st, 1871. D. A. L. j Tins Bible is the young man’s own book. | It denounces vice without feeding a dan gerous curiosity. It dignifies virtue, not us a means of getting on, but as success and happiness now ; und, best of ull, it gives the young man the one exclusive way in which vice is vanquished and virtue attain ed. It lifts up Christ. It invites to the | cross. It offers the new heart and the right spirit. It penetrates ihe disgui*ns of elegant sin, and exposes the sophistry of cultivated iniquity. It flashes its revealing ray upon, the opening aby^s’to which the tempter leads. It unmask* Me voluptuous angel of light and shows the rualioiousfiend. Iuto the scale against the “pleasures of sin for a season,” it throws the “poafte of 6 d.''’ and the “pleasures forevermore John Hall. __ , “Whatever the hnnd finnoth to dcr, do do it with thy might */’-that is, do it th&r oucfhly. I1’ he work is to be done so ft- to give Hfttisfao op., it must be done thor ugh!? Nothing n\u.f>' l o slurred over, nothing 1* ft ti chance. Your whole energy roust ho thrown into ir ; your th&ughta roust ho given to it ; your labor muP' oe given to it Never let work leave vour hao \i till you can in truth and honor say you hav** 4 -ofl ft>arr host, your wry he it. Th drought** be tc a hard virtue, but it pays. Sfkp us three dollar* und reij^e The ?ry for one year •J II V. A HI! Vi'ii .Si HUOIV GKIKBRA J ION AT IliOKORV GROVE .. ! Mr. Editor;-- As 1 Iiujw you ‘'!■ >%•<.•" Id receive cheeriug news from th- Sabbath School workers, I write to give you a brief sketoh of the proceedings at the Hickory Grove celebration. ’ / Tbit School is located about one mile trout \Viud»«r,—a ib'urishiog little village on the .Norfolk aud Petersburg Uuil Road, —urd trutnbrre about ninety-eight pupils. On Sunday evening. rho-SJIM. inUt., it »» ait- privilege,--b.v a special invitation,—to attend this celebration. The day was beau tiful., tio clouds darkened the* sky, and no rain/ell to spoil Ihtr Ud:rfs-**ytew^ates. ’ O tow p!ea8hti!ly the evening was spent! I believe all that were present enjoyed themselves eseeMiogly well, in hut a per son that,is disposed to eujoy himself at all. could not possibly we-r a "'long face" at' tllekory Grove. Two o’clock, auu the. exercise* began. Brother Wm. II Gay, the Superintendent,. then came forward, aud addressee! the au dience very appropriately alter which the Uttl-s boys and girls addressed the visitors in U very pleasant manner. Then several of the Teachers spoke in bebalf of the Sunday School cause, als" expressing a deep regret for having to part with theii pupils, until the bowling winds of Winter are gone. .Brother J. M. Gay, of the 9cbool at An tioch, was theu called for, to address too School. Brother Got* with timely remarks, responded to Ihe call; after Which Mr. Writer was called for, and introduced to the sell oo i -^jh ‘S he in g a stranger,—to speak ou tlu^ Sabaih School Laborer’s Reward. Brother Win. H. Gay. the Superinlen der.f, then, in a most tuucfciug uwa.ier bktie his school adieu Then, he with some of his o&cts uis tributed, first to the pupil*, and :lien to the visitors, a largo amount of candies, which had been prepared for the occasion.’ I would not close without mentioning the | singing by the choir, which was ieJ t v it J. Davis, E-ij They ylosed by singing [that r- infant hymn, d uraivueiiig, "Are:: j : Throne. Aunt. * popular vi ■»:. But iV'CV millI-itern *f the gospel ui il»t* ' * > ensoul iiim\ 1 • • ...e moral Cci_r*•. tlie boldnir- expose the tm-re .^puiar ! liens and iorrdiUeM «t ahV It is, l therefore w i:h f:v:n- •! '*gre$ ot gratification hb.ut we insert 'the following from the i "“it' v. v tz !.i-ai., j *’ of > 1 u.^b*■ ti j’rtrreet.iVl.- K. Church. :Y ;*hed, Sunday morning, 'il i ... • ••. i'al aud-c»ivtr‘* nfc serum.;, bnsed •*» Lh*.{ rex' rrmn the V. > Testament Scriptures, “ Whn is on the L -iY nde.^ Id the course of which lie denounced se vftreiy the j;anu*a of chance and gambling I practice^, which' were so comtuCn m» the I {/roupds 'during the t^ir week. Mr flail, j in vigorous iaugtlage, exposed-their perni* •cious character and .denicraiiaiog tendency, | and regretted tbut'they were permitted to I exist in a Christian community. Passing • from th< 3c imir.i ral and vicious temptations of youth, ?»lr. IInil proceeded to denounce wi*h similar carqestncss and severity the' different fashion able resorts and the pjace* of am untune nt fehiuh have iandy solicited the patronage of the public iu 'bisefty. He was especially merciless on the Theatre 0 unique, and on other such dissolute and iatieoen' •‘xWmtions. FTe said. moreover. that only a third class company had entertained the public at the Academy of Mu^ic: not such company as by its representation of the legit imate drama, might be supposed to enforce moral less 'us, and present before appreci ative auditories the attractiveness of virtues and the repulsiveuesa of vice. The inju rious influence of such places of resort on live habits and minds of youth were, elo quently depicted by the preacher, who said he was concerned to know that they were drawing away many to attend them regu larly H« boldly took grounds against them, and in the language of his text desired to Jr now who would come out on Lord’s «ide, and eschew stick vanities aud vices of the world.” REQUISITES IN 151HLE STUDY. Io tbe study of the Bible tie first requi site is faith. Tru*t this book. Do uot bo ever'trembling for it, still less ever cavilling at it. In it is found tbe blessed presence of Him whom., if yuu are a Christian, your soul loves above all things. lie who is ever sitting at the feet of Jesus, uitd learn ing will be listening more to his blessed words than to idle voices which float around. , The nett requisite ifi intelligence: “Be ye not unwise, but understanding what the vriil of tfcd Lord is ” The Greek language possesses great capacities for expressing tninnte differences, aud fathoming-prufour J depths thought. * Another* requisite is honest v.—a strait - forward, candid spirit. Handle not the word of Qoci deceitfully. Every fact is God’s fact, Rent to thee for th y good’. Feat it not. face it, give it its due influence. jlrrcsy Shorn unwelcome at first—3 visitor whose speech jars on-’hy pang' system-of • chertFinrd 'homifqii; \gAy-hnt if/thou wiTT \ ._.ftn ung^ crp i w ■/- .. _JTTm la.-r • quisite I nano i p# l'i-,. HVE.R1NG PKAYE| One ... suppose, lhci'.‘’‘ticali| there oould ever bn *ny difficult) in | or thiil there wculii be any u«e*i ul exboil** liot) tint to faint iti prayer. But the BitJ# abound* )U exhortation which prcsuppJW the danger of discouragement in Wo ere bid.again.au.4.»«»!•* 10 peraeter* >* ptnyciy.ua thuutfb. withotif tuio- cant*’ there was dan*rer we. aboold become die h*nrt<*iK'd and should. Experience j* 1***t there iajust tbif danger. Wo are continually losing ‘»ur hold on prayer, our interest in prayer, our faith in the power of prayer. We either cease to pray altogether, or we in&intftiri prayer by a curtain momentum o°rivv‘|| the habits of the past, rut-bur than from ^ny ) loving expectation of answer, er iiiiy vUi| I enjoyn cut of if, a* a preseut com:nuq|| with God. One obstacle to p-rayor is our mood We do not feel like praying. Sometime^ doubtless, tllia is to be yield'd to, and prayer is to be intei mitl-’d. Oft*-H t]i<| h'.-iy is wearied, the brain needs .sleep, am it ie a mistake to-deny it needed rest for lho| salt*1 05 maintaining what pr< ves to be a f«)rm a|>|»ray t r. D trt it is uot o 1 wayt* safe to vjdo U> the mood. Often we ^are Ao down And, especially. wbeuever rbe priverlefs mood g»owing on us, pray ti we Cm! day by vo u*ve need to do battle Another ce.iifin-u obJ; ; «o to prayer is overwork . A cert a m tfulfjess and quiet is the c-oudimii of the highest state of prayer. The old were M far right ; but when tliey imagined tlioy must retire from life ail :'t» ether. they wne wrong Never was a bu> er man then Jc.iin Cotist ; but he found time to go" apart among the uiountaius *for pra vi :’ I he hot prayer, it is somefurus said, is v. ik. I would "So-nor reverse this iip-Uiegm, and say.-— Thu b.est. work U pi aver. It solves many a ion, b a oil SeiejS^ - t new nndtt; plobii-m. settles m.ievaq us t ick ro life, of; times wo.ii'ltMful vigtir prove? invincible. The comtnone.vt obstacle to prayer, how ever, is tbit which .Hut is* it;t.imales—the di ;• v of God’s answer-. We grow disccu ragvd-.-. disheartened. We think He b s not answer.— will, wo 1 avo ho t l«» importune Him, we must, submit. S» vv« ta.- ^dhsouraffluent to - resignation, and abandon praser be lore »y** have n-esved a;;y reply- T1}i> is all wrong. We may a m>t heard,, or hearing, w We argue it is not, His right l«* importune | not t ! ! ids t out wo may importutio G'^i. Ho so. We are ik»i f. be repelled We are t. ■ evt i e. Delay ct do IT \QU ?ibK WtlV mg-;' v, i«y ''in-' uot p *’*ri\u - fbl it it -Q vvimC- j - try u<) o;-p ■ mi o ', f.v. try mo and .->»r* how great my want u'. |y is. J’erha.s. Iio* wishes to : r*v •L.'.oiit prayer, otten coo • | \ rs a wim; into •*. >-sii>c. j he argument womh Christ here adduces tor i:.ip.irtcnity ifi prjym is derived from a coimu-'l A judge wh* neither fears God m>r regards mau is of all men ..most , los». to moral e'.ji.'3!dorati..i)s* rinportu uit.y vanquishes him. Thg widow is uot discouraged by liis d'o ’ omou, bat eotrios again uud ag«ip..~' tIow much more should we come .LO-ijfod with confidence tlmt Ha will hear us The contrast ia heightened by ihe fact ihat the widow is . nothing to the judge ; while the praying Ohristiuu is ouo of God’s own fleet ehiklron. The ways that go on in world the uncheck < d are uot unwitnessed. G('d is not mocked, tie 9*vp-tH3 to delay : but He cotnos epeedi’.y : aud when He comes He will avenge Hia ov/ii. There are no unheard prayers, none that are not answered now or will be ia the *‘great day.” And yet thi-re is very little faith in the world; i-o little that Christ usks sadly whether, when He comes, llo shall find any faith left on the earth. Surely there ia but very little vital faith oven now.— III, Chr. Weekly. SOCIAL MEETINGS. Social meetings frequently lack fervor, feeling, life and warmth ; and*? Christians often query what, to do to awaken fresh in terest in *uch religious exercises. Prayer fur .»• • ded grace Various expedients are devised, special services are hell, evangelists arc called to labor, and every effort is made to stir the people up Sometimes the church is awakened, sometimes not ; emu# never wnlc# unless there is trouble in the church.; then they are.wide awake, hut soon rolapso again iti'o silence and into d« ;.th* The cause a It^ck of religsous interest in meetings is a lack redigious interest out of nocctinL'a- It is true, a meeting may be badly led and managed, and its freedom abridged and impaired; so that those who come, filled widi love and ’zeal, are hindered from, the enjoyment of spiritual worship by ihe presence of evil and the misdirection of '.inspirited m n ; but very frequently there i-s a deeper and more wide-spread trouble to ho remedied. The. difficulty is personal ; it is a secret general lack of spiritual life-power and blessing ; it is like the cause of rivers run | uihg low’in times of drouth ; not a diffi culty in the chaiuiel or in the water, but a drying up of the ten thousand little springs and brooks and rivulets, which gush and trickle among a thoir&alid distant hills. • “.Oh, the matchlesq . .v,»r of silenoe! “'v^ecs * art* words th?>r merntrate in thorn* selves the glory . ' -a lifetime ; but there \a a silence fb.e ■ more precious tlii • they. Speech rip :-h over the HUjtace of life, ! nt silence ivies' info ire d*qphs,. Airy t ‘U’H.jntifese bunnies up in the airy, pleas a,,rds. VVf.ik - .rrr.ws quaver out ^ {hei; - How being. and are not. When the he* . ih clelt to its core, there is no hpoceh .ix r; -angnago.*’ 1 nr. Southern Magazine, for Novem ber, in on our table. Thoroughly southern a,nO ably, edited. Murdock. Brown & Hill; 166 Baltimore street, Baltimore Md. Yearly ftuL-scriptioas. .%tif dMltrs^