X THE CHRISTIAN SUN. i. IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY. .a. Volume XXXIII. SUFFOLK, YA.,; FRIDAY MANY 21, 1880. Number 21. ON THE DEATH OF REV. S. I. ELLIS. HY A FRIEND. I kuow he has gone to the land of the blessed, , And we should not weep and be sad. I know he hus gone where the weary do rest, And the mourner looks up-and is glad. He has gone to the laud whie Patriarchs dwell Where the ransomed in pafadiBe sing; Where the prophets of old, spd apostles do tell The love of our Saviour aid King. lie s gone where the tonguej of foul scandal is still F^om troubling; the wicked do cease : Where blood, war and earn ate no longer doth chill The hearts of the children of peace. He has gone ; his voice uow Pilate* us no more; He meets not his brethren below— His labors are ended on thisFinful shore, The fruit ot his labor dothiknow. He has gone buthispreachinginstructeth us still; Those warnings yet sound jin our ears. Oh 1 who can withstand thol* touching appeals, And sink in the night of despair ! He’s gone, but we weep not ah those without hope, And we pray that his ,;maft!e*r may fall Like thaj on Elisha; as Elijiii went up Inspiring some voting man With zeal. He has go«H*, and we bid our loved brother fare well, , Tn love nod friendship this tribute is given. We hope in that t'egion of pleasure to dwell, And meet utl the faithful in heaven. election^. HERE AND THERE. —As sins proceed they ever multi ply. Like figures iu arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that went before it. —The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and to the noblest society. —No mau can lift himself above the world unless he takes hold of some thing higher than the world ; he can not lift himself out of himself unless he grasps something higher than himself. , —Would you have the peace which Jesus gives! You will find it just where you find him, in that child-like spirit of faith that takes him, as your Saviour from sin ; and then seeks to live his life over again. —When Christ implants the well of living water in a man’s heart, it -■will have not merely a refreshing in fluence, but a cleansing and purifying effect. If there be none of tbe latter the absence of the living water may well be argued. —Do you wish to live without a trial I Then you wish to die but half a mau—at the best but half a man, Without trial you cannot guess at your own strength. Men do not learn to swim on a table. Tbey must go into deep watOc and buffet the surges. —If you long to bring forth all the fruit oltthe Spirit, strike your roots deep and wide in private prayer.— That fai^h and support, that strength and grace which you seek of God in secret, that they may be exercised in the hour of need, God will in that hour give you before men. “Did it ever strike you,” said one, “what grand men we ought to be, who have been praying so many, years t If prayer to 11s has been a re ality, if beside being petition it has been communiou with God, how near Him we ought to be by this time,and how like him we ought to have be come. Communion with Christ should make us Christlike.” —To consolidate and methodize, and complete what has been most successfully begun in former years— to turn theory into practice—to at tack with vigor the great task of life —to cast ont old evils, and by grace -to exhibit a holy character, these are the duties of him who is growing old. The whole prospect is deeply serious, though it need not be alarming. —To blaspheme against the Holy Spirit is not to utter mere ribald words of profane import. It is to outrage the Spirit by refusing it ad mission. It is to turn away God from the heart’s doors with contume lious rejection of his loving and sav ing approach. To be accepted is al God really asks from his children their childish, ignorant, and perverse denials aud aspersions'of bis majesty, with all other wickedness, he can for give, for his accepted presence will purge all away ; but He cannot bless with forgiveness the soul which per sists in an attitude of hostile aliena tion, for he cannot reach it with his healing, reconciling influences, wheth er in this world or another*? SIX ONE THINGS. A Sermon by Eev. D. L. Moody, PREACHED AT ST. LOUIS, FEBRUA RY 22D. I. One tiling thou Iackest.—II. One thing I know.—III. One thing is needful.— IV. One is jour Mas ter.—V. One tiling I do.—YI.— Not one thing hath failed. We have for our subject this after noon sis one things that it is very essential that every child of God should have. I. Ibe first is in the eighteenth chapter of (he gospel according to Luke, and the 'twenty-second verse : “ONE THING THOU LACKEST.” This young nobleman that came to Christ to inquire what he should do that he might inherit eternal life, was a lovely character. It is written that the Saviour Himself loved him. But he lacked one thing ; he lacked salva tion ; he lacked eternal life. It is very often said iu our meet ings by those coming to present their friends and relatives for prayers: “He is such a noble husband; he is such a noble father; ho is such a no ble young mail. He only tacks one 1 hing. Well, if he lacks that, it seems to me he lacks everything. All that a dc rd man lacks is one thing, | and that is life. He would be alive and walking around if It were not for I that one thing. All that a drunkard lacks from oeing a temperate man is just to give up his cups, but then it. is j a fearful thing to be lacking that one ! thing, and it mars his whom life. All that, a beggar lacks is one thing, and if he had wealth he would be a rich man, be would nut be a beggar. A loan may be a wealthy mail, he may bo an honorable citizen, he may be a cultured man, he may be a good husband, a kind, gentle, loving son and ail that, and yet it be lacks eter ual life it wouid be better that he had never been born than to die without salvation. Now let the question come home to day, do we lack that one thing—do we lack it T II. Now, the next one thing that I want to call your attention to, is that one thing that the blind maa knew, iu the ninth chapter of John: Whereas I was blind, now I see.” He says. “ONE THING I KNOW.” What was it T It was that “I was once blind and now I see.” He knew what lie had got; he knew his eyes were opened. There is as snrauce for yon. This mail had an experience. Ho had something to tell. “He answer ed and said, ‘a man that is called Je sus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, audsaid unto me, go to the pool of Siloam, and wash ; and I went and washed, and I received sight.’” He just told the simple story. You need not tell any more, just your experience. That is all the blind man did and be had a good tes timony. “Then said they unto Him, Whore is He ? He said, I know not.” He didn’t tell what he didn’t know He just told what lie did. Said be, “I don’t know where He is.” Now, I am afraid if he had been like some of us, be would have said ; “Now there is going to be trouble, and I will keep still and have noth ing to say. I have got my sight and that is enough. I will go off home aud.miud my owu business.” See what he says : “They say unto the bliud man again, what sayest thou of Him 1” He might have said, “I haven’t seen Him. I don’t know.' All I know is that He just put clay on my eyes and sent me to the pool of Siloam to wash, aud I got my sight 1 don’t know ; I haven’t made up uij mind yet.” He might have evaded the question. He might have dodg ed it. But he had took much cour age, for this man had got a blessing and be wasn’t going to conceal the truth. He just spoke out what his opiniou was, “He is a prophet.” But they said unto him, “Give God the praise; we know that this man is a sinner.” tney are going now to get bun to testify against Christ. "He answered and said, Whether Ho be a sinner or no, 1 know not; one thing I know, tifat, whereas I was blind, now I see." And all the philosophers of that day couldn’t beat him out of that. All the arguments they could bring forward, couldn’t make him .believe he hadn’t got his eyes open./ And when men try to tef^ ns that we haven’t been converted, that we haven’t a different experience from what we had before we found Christ, we cauuot help but laugh them right in the face. Don’t we kuow t Didn’t that man know that he had been feel ing his way around Jerusalem, that he was bliud, and was trying to feel his way for twenty odd years, and now he had his eyes open and walked right straight through the streets of Jerusalem without any one’s aid, any one’s helpT And so yon can call that assurance. That man was sure that ho had got his sight. And so we can be sure that we have got the eyes of our soul open, if we will. It is the privilege of each child of God to know that h^ has been born iuto the kingdom of ligh t. III. Well, the next one thing that is needful, is communion. The first thing is to be born of God ; the next thing is to know- it, and the third thing is to just be brought iu com munion with Him. Let me read : Jesus answered and said to Mar tha, “Martha, thou art careful and troubled a-bout many things; but ONE THING IS NEEDFUL; and Mary hath chosen the good part which shall not be taken from her.” Mary has chosen that better part. There was that one thing needful for Mary. It was to sit at the feet of Je sus aud to listen to him. Martha was busy doing something for Christ; hut Mary was sitring at His feel learning aud receiving something from Him. Now, there is not a thing that 1 can do to please the Master so much as to sit down and let Him talk wilh me. a There is nothing that will glorify Him as much as to he in communion with Him at least one hour a day ; and I don't believe any man or wo lmiu can be a healthy , growing Chris tian that dues not have secret com iuuuiou , With the Lord anu .Master. That is God’s college. You may go to all llie colleges in America; you may go to all tin theological semiua t ies, and still not learn this lesson : and I believe that is one reason win so many men stop in God’s work— they don’t go through God’s colleges; that is, they do not sit at Christ’s feet aud learn ot Him, who is meek and lowly of heart. Now, one drop of God’s power is worth more than all the power there is iu the world. It it not intellectual power; it is not the power of art or of culture that the Churches ueed so much to-day as it is the power of the Holy Ghost. That is what we want. We want the Ho ly Ghost power coming down upon the Church. We can’t get that com munion if we dou’t commune with Jesus Christ; if we dou’t sit at his feet and learn of Him as Mary did aud let Him talk to our souls. We can't get that power in the colleges aud schools. We can ouly get that iu God’s college. IV. ONE IS YOUR MASTER. That is the next thing. Now, we have been brought through fellow ship and through communion to sit at Christ’s feet, aud if this idea that He is our Master has taken lufl posses sion of ns, then we shall live to please Him aud uot to please the public. One is your Master. Is it the Lord or yourself! Is it God or is it pleas ure ! Is it God or is it business ! Is it the God of heaven or the God of wealth! Now, what is it ! We have only ono master. Now, a great many people bow down to the god of fashion', that is their god ; they worship fash ion ; fashion is their master. Others bow down to public opinion. “What will they say at the club-houses! What will they say in society ! What will they say iu the circles of busi ness, if I come out and identify my self with the soil ot God aud'witb the believers! What will they say!” Nevermind what they say. If you are to be a child of God you are to tramplo public opinion under your feet. Take care of your character; your reputation will take care of it self. Live for another world, uot for this. You can’t live for both worlds at the same time; aud if you want to he an out and out Christian aud fit to be used by God, keep your eye sin gle ; let it be for the glory of God, not for your own glory. V. Well, the next one thing is, “uow. . ONE THING I DO,” and I would like to give you right here two C’s—uousecratiou and con centration. I think that we Ameri cans need to be preached to on this very point—or these two points— consecration and concentration— There are so many professed Chris tians who are attempting to do so much ; they literally do nothing. If they only concentrate their lives up on some oue point, and direct all their energies and strength right to that point—just centralize their lives upon some oue thing to do, aud thor oughly do it, do it well—their lives will tell, and wheu they are dead and gone they will be missed. if I am a Sunday-school teacher, let me take a class and hold it. If 1 happen to be called out of town on business, let me write letters to those children; let me follow them np ; aud if they leave this city and go to an other city, let me follow them with letters, feeling that I must answer to God for that class; that I took that class to train them for God and eter nity ; that 1 am to do it thoroughly aud well. Then God will bless such labor, if you just keep it up and doit heartily for him. “This one thing I do.” The afflictions, the troubles and the perils that we encounter in this wil derness of life ought, to lift us higher and nearer to Christ, and not drive us away from Him. If we keep our eyes single on this one thing; ‘if we keep our eyes on Christ, looking to Him, Working for him, we shall not be disappointed or discouraged. VJ. Then the last one tliiug, is over there iu the last chapter of the Book of Joshua : Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord thy God spake concerning you.” NOT ONE THING HATH FAILED. This old man was going to his rest now, in the meadows of Hermon. His locks had turned gray. Foroue hun dred and ten years he had tried the God of the Hebrews, aud had ioiiud Him true. Where has &od ever broken one promise Ho has made! Man has broken his word. God has never broken His word These promises are true, my friends, aud whenever you come to the promises y ou may know that they are going to be fulfill ed. “Heaven and earth may pass away ; but God’s word shall not pass away ; not one jot, not one title offlis word shall tail. 1 Gt. Give your children something to read. COTTON CULTURE. R — The great desideratum with the cotton planter is to obtain the longest possible period for his harvest sea son ; consequently, during the fore f&rt of the summer his policy should be to push the crop, and obtain open bolls as early as they can possibly be produced. Fifteen days after planting, a light plow should be run close to the line of plants, cutting away the weeds and gr. ss and stirring the soil to a mode rate depth. Jioes siioiiid follow immediately after the plow, smoothing the ine qualities produced by the plow, and chopping out the plants,leaving them in small groups at points where the afterwards chosen stalks will be re quired to glow. The crop should receive its final tbiuuing in about two weeks of the chopping out. At this time the sec ond cultivation should be made, and this should be the most thorough cul tivation of any. The surplus plants should be pulled out by the hand and with great care not to displace the routs of the plants allowed to remain. A little fresh dirt should be drawn around the roots of the plants left for a stand, and the entire bed, as well as the middles between, should be made perfectly clean. The middles may be scraped over by a sweep, but the smoothing up and most of the performance must be wrought with the hoe. Oil good soil and with a favorable season the growth wiil be rapid after this going over, and the subsequent cultivation tliny be effected mainly with the plow. Plow deep when beddiug up in tj,e spring. At any other plowing breaks the plants and growth. Auythi growth curtails and hence should Jfot a few gains but little after the crop but my taught me to ground is stirred more rapidly will the heat of upon the roots more rapidly want for the cau be laid down times the er, as the the character of condition of the s iu the cottou field that the force may pass over the crop as rapidly as possible. Cottou is de cidedly a modest plant and will not struggle with weeds aud grass fsr a divisiou of the fertilizing properties of the soil. It will not grow unless kept perfectly clean, and the full en ergy of the soil kept eouceutrated up on it.—Mobile Register. roots of their retards season, ly avoided, hat cottou the plow its growth rvatiou lias t the more iri'aee, the letrated by beat acting U tue -v^v* what we No rule number of orked ov vary with n and the novemeuts be brisk,so Without a free use of whitewash no poultry-breeder can expect to keep bis fowls healthy for auy length of time ; and to a neglect of this can be attributed many of the the disappoint ments aud much of the loss expe rienced by amateurs, who do not real ize, until they have paid dearly for the experience, that cleanliness is one of the first principles of success in poultry-keeping, aud that lime iu dif ferent forms is an invaluable agent in promoting cleanliness iu poultry-hous es and among fowls. . Food and Drink for the Sick. —Be careful to have everything yon use very sweet aud clean, as the seuse of taste and smell are very sen sitive iu sickness. Never cook ar ticles for the sick over a smeke or blaze, as it will thus impart a smoky taste. When the mixture is thick, stir it to prevent burning. Be very careful in putting iu the seasouiug not to pnt iu too much, as it is easy, to add but uot to subtract. Wafers.—One pound of sift flonr, two tablespoonfuls of butte little salt, enough milk to make, dough ; rub the butter with the1 ed flour; wet with milk; roil “ cut into small round cakes, ^ those again into cakes as laidura tea plate and as thin as stoaf sec" paper. Lift carefully to a pan and bake quickly. well. U from - • • 1 "'«iock of Delicate Caxe.-Ts pound of bntter, one ponntLKV. one pound of flour, half a p-' milk or water, four egga.<; n !_ butter^and sugar to a t add tlie beaten eggs, the or water, mix thoroughlKICE. the butter into your pan, gar over the top aud bs _ ately in a moderate oven.'i . _ M 9 "3 of medi .s addre?i Pineapple MarmajMark* and grate; take equal #my7~n and fruit, cook slowly m priming , ic RTO.