RELICION WITHOUT 111 WITHOUT OUT BIGOTRY. UCENTIOUSNfsff WL'ifr Vol. XXVI. SUFFOLK, VA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1873. ISTo. 48. TIIK SUN I ta tli* Interest of nr.i.iotoa nni) Mo ot. Uri'khai. and Local News, nnd to advocacy of tlie prlnolplea of the (Jams ♦fin emmeH. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. I I'd, » TRItMH: ... so Kof *1* niOWK. i 25 REV. W. B ~\V ELL0N8, EbITOR AMD pROPaiMTOa. OrrtcB on Kii.hy Street. Money went I*1 unregistered letter*, must bent be rl#K of tlie eender. The Hafoai way to tend money I* *>y » Odlce money order; a regis tered Tetter, or » draft on none Bunk, business hosee!■ dullhtk or Norfolk. POE T IIY. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO 00 ? O What ere you going to do, brother’ Sat, whst yr.e von going to do ? Vob b»»e thought uf some usefnl labor, Bat what ie the end in view t Vou are fresh from the home of your boyhood, And just in the bloom of ybuth? • (Have you tasted the sparkling water Tlmt floWs from the fnunt of truth ? is your heart in the Saviour's keeping ? Remember, he died fur you ! Vhrjp. whai are you going to do, brother 7 Srpy, what are you going to do 7 X) what are you going to do, brother ? The morning of youth is past,; The vigor and streugih of manhood, My brother, are yours at lust. Yog are rising in worldly prospects, And prospered in worldly things-r A duty to those less favured The smile of yoar fortune bungs ; Go, prove that your heart is grateful— The Lord lias work lor you ! Then what are you goiug to do, brother? Say, what are you going to do 7 O what are you going to do, brother 7 Your sun at its noon is high ; It shines in meridian splendor, And rides through the cloudless sky. You arc holding a high position Of honor, of trust and fame— Are you wailing to give the glory And praise to your Sa'dour's name ? The regions that sit ill darkness Are stretching their hands to you ; Then what are you going to do, brother 7 Say, what are yon going to do 7 0 what are you goiner to do, brother 7 ; The twilight approaches now— Already your locks are silvered, And winter is on your brow. Your talent your time, your riches, To Jesus, vour Master, give ; Then ask if the world around you, Is the lietler because you lir e. You are nearing the brink of Jordan, But still there is work for you : Then whatara you going to do, brother? May, what are you goiog to do 7 — Selected. SELECTIONS-_ _ ORGANIC UNITY. “We feel the importance of unity. We do .not see how this is to be af fected without some approach to or ganic union. But whether one can see how or not, the union will one day take place.” We read this in the Churehman of last week ; and we take it at the text to some thoughtson the subject of unity. A great deal has been said lately in regard to this mat ter. The greatest exhibition of Chris tian unity, that the world has ever seen, might well stir the minds of meii in regard to it, set them to think ing, to speaking, to writing in regard to its importance. Even those not sympathising with the mode in which this demonstration was made, were strangely moved by it; some to ex press their regrets that they could not take part in it; others to point out what they regarded as its defects and failures. A great deal has been said, too, especially by those dissenting classes, of tho difference between “unity” and “organic unity.’’ The passage quoted above seems to hint at this distinction. “Organic unity” is the desideratum of Pere Ify acinthe. Tho Old Catholics, we be lieve, make it one of their points of desirable attainment. What, let me aslf, as distinct: from unity, or as over and above unity', is organic unity ?— Are these brethren asking for a real! ty or a phantom t Or is it a tertimn quid, something that does not amount to uniformity, but goes beyoml unity. Organic unity, then, is not unifor mity. There have been parliamen tary and ecclesiastical acts of unifor mity. But their very existence was a confession of diversity, aud their operation was to increase it. Unifor mity may be attainable for a com pan j, perhaps for a regiment or a brigade, but for a large army it is out of the question. The artillery and sappers, and miners, and calvary are just as necessary as the infantry. So you may have it in a few neighboring par ishes, but it cannot be gotten, and gever has been gotten, in any large clesiastical body. It is not in^he |rch of England, not in the Epis [ Church in this country, not in pk Clinrch, not in the Church It was not in the Church 1st cei)turyj nor in that of j centuries 'in tervening from [until the present. Unifor . no Church Catholie, *, e. the Tof the world, with its hetero geneous population, and civil organ isms and institutions need not be seri ously contemplated as a rational pro ability. | Is, then, organic unity, a unity of gislation, a unity which brings all tho Church organisms of the world under some central executive or legis lative power ? Some such idea seems to be floating before the minds of cer tain Christian writers and workers of the preseut time. To their minds a General Council would be the pana cea, the cure all of the difficulties and diversities of Christendom. “If we could have a General Council, a real General Council.” If we could. But, then, think of the difficulties. The effort to get such a council would in volve more of these than would- the getting rid of our diversities iu some other way. Who would compose this council! Those who have most hope from this agency, would answer tho successional Episcopate of the world. But this would exclude the Episcopa lians of Denmark and others of doubt ful pedigree, Mefhodists, and perhaps Swedes and Moravians, non-Episcopal Protestants, not less than seven tenths of the working capacity of living Christendom, and leave unrepresented the Laity, the Deacons, and Presby ters of the most undoubted Episcopal Churches. Are we of the Episcopal Church, prepared to go into such a scheme o( unity,with all power of leg islafion lodged in the Episcopate, and these our Anglican and American Bishops voting in a hopeless minority by the side of the Roman and Greek Episcopate. And if we could not agree to this, how could we hope for such agreement from non-Episcopa lians I The real difficulty in all these eases, is to get the material of the right kind, and with the right spirit. But the state of things which would evolve such a council would leave nothing for the council to do. It would be organic unity, an accom plished fact, not one to be worked or striven for. If, moreover, it had this right kind of material, >'t would in clude a representation of all the or ganizations of Christendom, and of all the orders and and classes of every such organization. But this, it is admitted, is hardly, for the present,anticipated: and while a beautiful exhibition of Christian unity, would soon be found an 1111 wieldy machine for anything like real legislation. The diverse conditions of different portions of Christendom, diversities physical, social, and intel lectual are so great that probably one of the first things agreed upon, would be the establishment- or recognition of the existing necessity of independent centres of church legislation, and church action. The maxims “divide and conquer,” “decide so as to live af feotionately and comfortably,” would be recognized, even by a perfectly harmonious Christendom. And, this brings to view, the other idea of organic unity, entertained by certain classes: the unity not of per fect uniformity, not of legislative cen tralism, but of communion, that, of mutual recognition and communica tion by the different bodies of Chris tendom. It is to he said, with shame and sorrow, that, am dug Protestants, the bad pre-eminence of refusing to do this, pertains to us in our legisla tion, and in the feelings and actiou perhaps of a majority of our people. The various euphemisms, by which the word church is witheld from the non-Episcopal Protestant Churches ot the world, in the language of our several Canons, would be amusing if it were not so so. How different from the language of the revisers of the Prayer Book t How different from the English Reformers and their sue cessors of tlie first three generations! What a humiliating fact, that out of so many delegates, to the Alliance, from so many different bodies, only those who were there from our Church were blamed by the members of their own communion 1 That the effort should have been made to prove that Episcopalians, if consistent, are out of sympathy with any such move ment! “It was not an enemy that did-this.” Could an enemy have done or said anything worse f The Bap tists consistently would unchurch all others. But, by a happy inconsisten cy they leap out of this unchurching theory, in their Collective relations with other Christian bodies, recognize these bodies as churches, aud act with them, - ^But^oULttiasr thm #sule^Jthe TtiTul oT unity thus desired cduldThard ly be called ecclesiastically organic.— It would, indeed, be most desirable, and will probably be the first, if not the only attainable mode, in which the Churches of the world will come into communication with each other. It will never be known so long as auy of these bodies insists on its outward peculiarity being adopted by aU the others. “Do you think,” was the in quiry of a Lutheran Clergyman, to an Episcopalian, “do yon think they will all be Episcopalians in the Millenium 1” “I have hardly settled that point to my complete satisfaction,” was the re ply. “Well, if you have not, I have. I am sure the.? will all he Lutherans.” “Ifthe.y would be Episcopal Lutherans, through the Swedish Line, very well,” would be the reply of many among us, at the present time. Now all this sort of thing must be gotten rid of. It gpnders, not only to the bondage of exclusiveness, but to that of Sec tarianism. It is the only quintescence of the spirit of sect, too often calling itself Catholic. And it will drive asunder, instead of bringing together the fragments oif.Christendom. It, is only as men agree to differ, when they are really different, that there can be any reasonable hope of their becoming alike. The frank recognition of the difference, and of the right to differ, places things upon a truthful basis. And, where there is truth, real truth, love is not far distant. But there is another kind of organ ic unity. And that all followers of the Lord Jesus already possess,if they could be made to recognize and real ize it. In the days of our Lord His contemporaries were looking for the kingdom of God, no doubt expecting it, and full of theories, as we are about organic unity, as to its charac ter and mode of manifestation. And, just then, the Master told them, that it was among them. It was among them, and they had not seen it, or had any suspicion of its presence. Is it not so now t We are looking for “one of the days of the Son of Man.” May we not be aware of it. We want organic unity. Yes, but the unity of what kind of au organism, outward and material, or inward and spiritual! The former the Church and the world have recognized and striven for.— Would it not be well to recognize the reality of the latter, and make that the object of definite aspiration ?— This organic unity of the spiritual body, is only actualized, and it is fully actualized in the presence anil the operation of certain spiritual princi ples. Where those principles are common, the individuals holding them, and swayed by them, constitute this organism. To introduce any oth er element, anything outward and material, as a necessary component to this unity, is to produce confusion. It is to mistake the organic unity of one kind of organism for that of another, to mix and confound the principles and essential elements of the one, with those of the other. And the result is about as satisfactory, or rather is as full of confusion as would he the effort to solve a problem in morals by a demonstration in phys ics, or an experiment in chemistry. So, then, we have found, and we have, and Christ’s real people cannot be deprived of it, wljat we have been looking for; the organic unity of a spiritual organism. Blessed was its exhibition, though only for so brief a period. It was a great stride towards Heaven with many a man, who was permitted to eujoy it. And it was no less a stride, in the direction of our Protestant Christendom, to the only form possible of outward organic uni ty, that which will bring all real Christian bodies, of whatever forms and with whatever future moditica tions, into the union of joyful ,ac knowledgement, and loving communi cation.—<7. *» Southern Churchman. A LITTLE PRAYER-MEETING. It was a time of coldness in the church in the thriving village of M.— There was'no want of interest in de bating and literary societies and “so ciables,” all profitable aud vory com mendable in themselves. Ho lack of zeal was displayed among the young people in getting up fairs for the ben efit of the church and Sunday School, and the new and commodious house of worship was well filled on the Sab bath with attentive listeners. Indeed, oiie who looked only at the external appearance of things would have pro nounced the church in a very prosper ous condition. But there was a bur den weighing heavily upon the min ister’s heam-'j He felt that a spirit of worldliness had gained such possession of the minds of his hearers, that so far as expecting any good results from his preaching was concerned, he might as woll preach to the empty slips. He felt as though he was alone iu his effort to save sinners, and he was be coming very much disheartened.- One evening he returned from the weekly prayer-meeting more than usually de preseed. He had met there the faith faithful few whom lie was always sure to see: the white haired deacons, some of the wives and mothers, and two or three young persons. But where were Hie enterprising business men who were among the members of his church, and the throng of yoiuCiff people who wonld be such a power in the church if converted to Christ?— His heart sank as-he thought of them rapidly drifting down the stream of time, devoted to present enjoyment, i thoughtless unconcerned about their | souls, and their grow ing powers all | devoted tc the world. Op the same evening, in one of the I cheerful parlors of the village, sat a j young girl engaged in deep thought. | Delia \V. was the only child of weal I thy and indulgent parents. And al though she scarcely knew a wish that was not gratified by them, her natur ally generous and sunny disposition had not been spoiled. She remained unselfish and warm hearted, anil was a geueral favorite in the circle of young people in which sbe moved,and of which her beauty aud sprightly ways fitted her to be the leader. Two years before she had made a profes sion of religion, but fond of pleasure and influenced by the gay throng about her, she had grown very cold. On this evening she had been enter raining some young menus who came to call upon her, and now they had gone, she seemed troubled, and sad, “I ought to have gone to pra.ver ; meeting to-night,” she said aloud. ‘‘I am afraid I am losing all liiy religion and am no better than those who do not profess any.” A remark dropped by the young man who had called,had 'aroused her from her lethargy and set her to thinking. “lie lias reason to think lightly of religion when he sees my unfaithfulness,” she added with a sigh. She remained for some time in deep thought, and then sinking upon her knees she acknowledged her siu, pleading for forgiveness, and arose with a new purpose in her heart. The next day several of her young friends received a little note inviting them to come to her house to attend a little prayermeeting on the following evening. She did not venture to speculate about the manner in which the invitations would he received, but tried to leave the result to God. When the time drew near for the meeting, she arranged the room so as to make it look as cheerful as possible. The lamps were shadefTY^j)** to pre vent a glare of light, and ’The centre table furnished with a Bible and some tune-books which she had obtained for the occasion. By and by two or three came in and quietly took their seats, and then others, till the little circle was almost complete. Delia took her seat at the piano and played “Sweet hour of prayer,” and all joined her in singing it. The voices on the different parts blended well, and the music sounded very sweet. Then she read a chapter from the Bible, and kneeled down and prayed. With a trembling voice she confessed her past coldness,and pleat’ed for strength to commence a new Christian life. All felt that every word came from the heart, and as she closed her prayer, a gentle hush rested upon the little group. Then she read a little tract, a tender, earnest appeal to all to seek the Saviour at once. Then they sang “Come to Jesus just now,” and after appointing the meeting for the next week at the same time and place, she dismissed rueni. Two or three young girls lingered to press her hand and say good-night, and Delia felt that the first meeting was not n failure. The interest in creased from week to week in the little prayer-meeting, till many were anxious about their souls, and pray ers of rejoicing were heard from some of those who had been the most thoughtless. The minister wept tears of joy as on one beautiful spring Sab bath morning fifteen youug people stood up together to profess Christ before men. But the work did not stop there. The members of the church were led to humble confession of their past coldness and neglect,and to pray earnestly lor a revival of reh giou among them, aud before the^ close of the year, fifty were added to ti£v !n.pe tb^ never returned to their former, cold and lifeless condition.—Congregation alist. Divine wisdom, intending to de tab) ns some timo on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of life to come; for if our slight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast ?—Mme. dt »Stael, M JUYENILE. BE THANKFUL. “I don’t want any supper,” said Kate. “Nothing but bread and milk, cake and berries. Just the same every night.” “Would yon like to takeawalkt” asked mamma, not noticing Kate’s re marks. “Yes, mamma.” Kate was pleased so long as their walk led t hrough pleasant streets, but when they came to narrow, dirty ones, where the houses were old and poor; she wanted to go home. “Please, mamma, don’t go any farther.” “We will go into the corner house,” said mamma. Some rough looking door steps, {lit hold ey went So could men were sittin, Kate felt afraid, of mamma’s haii up tottering hot and close sea rely breath On a straw dow, lay a you. and thin, a she were dead. Hearing footsteps, sheopened her eyes. Mamma uncovered her basket, and gave the girl a drink of milk, and placed the bread, and cake, and ber ries, beside her. Kate’s eyes filled with tears, as she saw the girl eagerly eat her supper. Not a mouthful had she tasted since early morning. Her poor mother had been away all day working, and now came home wishing she had something for her sick child. When she found* her so well eared for, she could hot thank mamma ami Kate enough. The sup per seemed a feast to them. “If we can keep a roof over our heads,” said she, “and get a crust to eat, we are thankful.” Kate never forgot these words. Let us all learn the same lesson, and cease complaining aud fault finding. If we have a home and food to eat, let us thank God, for many wander the stieets homeless and hungry,-4c’/u7<|’« Paper. SHE TOOK OUT THE “ IF.” A little girl was awakened to an xiety about lier soul at a meeting where the story of the leper was told. One day a poor leper came to Jesus aud worshipped him, saying, “Lord, if thou wilt, thou eanst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean; and immediately his lep rosy was cleansed.” Well, this dear little girl, who was anxious, said: “I noticed that there was an Hf’ in what the man said, but there was no ‘if’ in what Jesus said ; so I went home and took out the 'if’ by my granny’s fireside, and I knelt down and 1 said, “Lord Jesus, thou eanst, thou wilt make-me clean; I give myself to thee.’” My beloved little reader, have you thus come to Jesusf And it' not yet, will you come now 1 Oh! do come to him ! lie can, he will make yon clean —yes, whiter than snow. You are a sinner, and sin is a far than leprosy. Xot away but the blood Come to him this “behold, now is the behold, now is the Seeds of Truth. THERE’S ALWAYS A .young man studying law, ster: “Mr. Cession of law is there are more ed; do you for me f” “There is was ingenious. Inign great ••Th-i^^^^MPngh up First i amt well njH^^Rs, lawyers, &e., always find fden^Wi room, plen ty of work, and good pay, Whatever calling you choose, and it matters lit j-‘ oue,.. -resolve *'' srnrv = but don’t try, to'jump there by a single leap, or you nmy^Wl disabled. Bather begin at the bottom of the ladder, and patient ly step up on each round. Diligence iu business during the si* working days, as well as rest from 4 op the Sabbath. ,k the truth. FARM AND GARDEN. FATTENING HOGS. This is a work, we presume, enga ging the attention of all farmers at the present time, anrl to make the largest yield of pork and manure from «liens with the least expenditure' sod and labor in attention to feed 'and suppPKjng the hogs with ma terial for manure, is the question.— [ We need scarcely remind the farmer that time lost r.ow is not easily re gained in cold weather, since then much of the feed which would now lie stored up in fat, is then used by the animals to withstand the cold. Experiments prove that it will pay to grind the coru into hominy or meal; under some circumstances, it will pay to steam or cook the feed, and we be lieve thero is great economy in mixed feed, changing occasionally from raw corn to copked feed, corn meal, tur nips, cabbage leaves, potatoes, peas, and any vegetables hogs will eat.— Frequent feeding, a little at a time, a good supply at night, daily supply of woods mould and straw to keep the pens dry and hogs comfortable and warm, fresh water three times daily, watchful care of the appetite, and while giving an abnndanoe of corn in some form, aiding distention and di gestion by some of the materials above recommended, we believe to be true economy7. Suppose we feed tur nips, cabbage leaves and corn meal boiled together, morning and midday, the mess slightly salted. Clean out the troughs at night and feed shelled coru in cold weather, giving the hogs a good bed in the sleeping corner and throwing woods mould over the ma nure corner. It is easier for ns to use the corn-sheller than to make the hogs take it from the cob, and we want them to sleep and eat all they can of the most nourishing and digestible substances possible, with little labor and exercise, and while cooked feed may and will aid us much on the score of economy and the productions of fat, solid raw corn appears to exert a just influence over the firmness and solidity of the bacon and lard. In the expense of fattening must be rec koned the treatment they have re ceived during the summer, sm^e a skeleton razor back root-digger will even at present prices of corn con sume more when fed on it alone in a careless way, than his pork will bring in market. It is very convenient and saves much labor to have thp pump and boiling kettle set in masonry very near the fattening pen, and while our Northern farmers who live on pork and beans may prefer to cook all their hog feed, we who are fond of bacon haius and cabbage—hams j that are firm and solid, that will not see saw hot or cold under the knilfe like the slop-fed and distillery hams—must continue to feed some raw corn daily to our pork the hist month of their existence.—Rural Messenger. GORGED STOMACHS IN-HORSES. Gorged stomachs, or acute indiges tion, is a disease which every year de stroys a great many valuable horses. It consists either in distension of the pmach from food or from gas gener by the fermentation of its undi :ed contents. is very serious disorder often re Iroi" 'rjftng food in large quan ‘i ■‘•nd o^%0tiS£snbjbcting the nl^roard qj> \ .work, Th ttrs jaf^^Tard oj IV jf work. This is y coiamoi/thing among fafBS®#^ ■s, A. journey of fifteen or tweu miles lias to be performed; the r; through kiudness, gives an a quantity of fool; the stomach the bowels are overloaded ; the torse begins his journey full of spirit, and, after traveling a few miles, he becomes dull and sluggish aud sweats freely; he is polled up, and, after standing for a few mounts, shows signs of abdominal pains by cringiug the body and attempting to lie down. The flanks ere sliglitly swollen. In a few moments he seems easier, and is driven on, now and then showing signs of pain ; possibly he reaches his destination, and is taken out of har ness, when he may exhibit very alar niii^a-^Waptoms. cause fFNci.’.ivig heavily when the stomach has been weakened through enervating exer cise or long fasting, In road horses that are highly fed on oats aud hay, it is occasionally brought on by giving a quantity of green clover oi tares immediately af ter performing a fast journey.—Cana da Farmer, ■W'W |1 l IF -IW. fta ^hrislian jjum A D VERTISEMIENT^ , A. Dvi r TI8EN 15TS Hot fHGpni«lM«nl#Ufe iftf character of the paper, will be inserted »f th4 following rates : One aquire of ten lines firstwertIon. $1 o4 For each subsequent Insertion.. .... . 6<f One wqnare thi ee months. , . ■ - 6;O0 One square six months. . QQ One square twelve months. ^5 so ADVCKtisera changing we^kh, mustfcak# a special agreement. Yearly adv mi sen wmp,i(j / monthly, or quarterly In advance. Transfectfe!*' vertlaementa to be paid for on Insertion. J01* WORK. Book and Job Pkintino of every kliAS d0n4 at our Job Office in the best style and on moder ate tern. s. TRAIN,NS HORSES TO RE SAFE. It is easy to train a horse not to Inf, dangerous. It is easy, but it reqniresi patience and good sense in the train,1 er, and good sense in the colt, too.-) Some, colts are natural fools, and carl never have Sense trained into them j It is not at all difficult to-train a young ] horse so that he "ill be gentle at quiet under almost any cirenmstani and if something unusual should rify him, he would run to his mas J sooner than run away from him. horse properly trained will oh™ look to the rider or driver in ti fright for protection ; and inst. kicking and tearing everythi pieces, when scared, he will, w! sees you standing by him, and' your hand on his head or rein, his trust in you, and regard yo. J his only hope in time of dang This was often illustrated^ the war. All who served vary or artillery force bav«j frightened a horse was his rider tumbled from the mattered not how lond the the guns roared in battle^ great me contusion m trie , deadly strife:—tlie horse se' conscious of danger until It,, without a rider/or an attendant moment the rider’s hold wrs rij the steed found himself separr the one he was trained t his protestor, that momeTtasj furiously wild, and won. neigh and run in every di"! teutimes pressing into the front rank, seeming ti fort by rubbing his sides • legs of the riders of other j Every farmer who rais^ a little care could make' with the saddle and 1* backs or under their teach them to hold bar, a down bill grade, lj hips against it. A hq way would not bq ten breast strap give break, and let the him. Educated horses wil able and bring a really serviceable on the market, cities. Those tha ish are generally dangerous at til never been hitc'j rners can raise i by giving some tiug them l'or tl horses are used (1 AsnE-S,—All far mem' tlieir interest to have the i ry, and gum, that, is down est turned into ashes. ThiJ season of the year to bur wood, especially where the i been cut down. You can more and at the save time « ashes than in the winter an Every 300 bushels of ashes, j and kept dry until the the equivalent of auy to^ guano. Ashes cannot ou well drained laud, a them in the drill - post them. On sufficient quun£ rotting to my this plant all nropsj that is are qfl at $lj make i efit of easily from the an imlnsfl to consider^ usintteb as them unt.y«s 4S' boor a uay ■fatly improve*

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