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is the vale.
Who climlied up too high.
He hath the heavier fall—
The path iuto the vale
Ih safest path of all.
Not always in the sun
\c Snd the heavenly road ;
There’a many a crooked path
That leadeth straight to God,
The snowdrop in the shade
Hath still the purest white;
The sweetest bird that sings,
Sings loudest in the night;
And in the sunny spring
Full many a flower will blow
Thai had not blossomed now,
But for the winter snow.
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POETRY AS AN MUTATOR.
• BY JESSE CLEMENT.
Matty nations owe very much to
poetry as a civilizer. It was a mighty
agent in that direction in the early
stages of their literary history. One
reason why this is so is, that the early
form of poetry is usually the ballad,
and the ballad usually embodies some
grains of history—something which
tends to instruct the mind as well as
move the heart. Indeed, originally,
the ballad was strictly narrative, and
often embodied all the leading facts in
regard to daring and heroic deeds,which
the people had the means of possessing.
Minstrels were secular missionaries in
England, Scotland and some other
countries at a certain period. That
was the primary end of their vocation,
according to the derivation of the word ;
for some writer, perhaps Max Muller,
says in substance, that as minstrelsy
and ministry are derived from the same
root, a minstrel is a secular minister.
Before books were known, except in
manuscript, ballad-singers went from
town to town, wafting historical trea
sures on the wings of song. They
were the pioneer school-masters, scat
tering their leaves of knowledge—the
forerunners, if not the heralds, of the
clergy. Minstrels served also a patri
otic turn. They quickened the mem
ory in regard to the heroic deeds of
the forefathers, and kept the love of
country warm in the heart. At one
period they were a part of the outlit
of a baron’s castle. A Norman could
hardly bo regarded as a nobleman un
less he kept a ballad-singer. Though
these barons usually gave their min
strels a stipulated sum, they were al
lowed to visit monasteries and perform
in order to swell their exchequer. As
long as they kept themselves “unspot
ted from the world as long as they
were high-toned educators and pure
amusement-makers, these singers and
harpers were popular, and had great
freedom. Their very profession, how
ever, had the tendency to draw the
rabble in their wake; and us associa
tion leads, in the end, to assiinulation,
these wandering minstrels became at
length, sadly mixed up with rows and
riots. They sauk so low, after a long
time, that their vocation became dis
graceful, and, by the aid of the clergy,
was finally brought to an end.
All honor to tho early ballad-umbers
—Euglish, Scotch, Scandinavian, Ten
tonic—who gathered up the loose
threads of mythological and veritable
history, and wove them into songs
which, for generations, helped to lessen
tho mental nakedness of the people.
If ballads are the cradle hymns of a
nation, and aid in its intellectual de
velopment, other kinds of poetry are
also helpful in the same direction,
though not to the same extent. Songs
are almost omnipotent in their influ
ence on the passions and in molding
character. There is striking truth in
the remark addressed to Fletcher, of
Saltouu, Scotland, by a friend of his :
“ If a man were permitted to make all
the ballads, he need not care who
should make the laws of a nation.”
“ Lillibullero,” a song published during
the reign of the Stuarts, and sung by
civilians and soldiers all over England,
is said to have dethroned those kings.
The epics of a nation, in its child
hood especially, are partial educators.
They feed the mind, but are not, like
the ballad, daily food. They are re
served for certain occasions—great
feast days. They are the roasted oxen
to which the masses are invited, now
and then, and over which they hold
their literary jubilees. This is as true
of the old German and Spanish epics,
the Norse Eddas and Sagas, as of the
grand master pieces of Grecian poetic
art- The epic poems, strictly national,
are usually the grandest embodiment
of legendary and historical adventures,
and quicken thought and stir the patri
otic heart as few other things can.
Poetry of nearly all kinds, in past
time, has been an educator, ana is
to-day. Its mission is no less to in
struct the mind than to seften and re
fine the feelings and purify the heart.
It is the great refiner, and that is a
noble pait of one’s education. Its
mission is grand— next to that of the
Divine Refiner. It cannot purge away
all dross, but it can lend a helping hand.
It cannot take the soul to Heaven, but
it can lift it from the quagmires, and
keep it circling on aspiring wings.
—Carefulness is always to be kept
up, if a man is out of pain ; but mirth,
to a prudent man, should always be
accidental. It should naturally urise
out of the occasion, and the occasion
seldom laid for it.
—The Bible is a window in this
prison of hope, through which we look
into eternity.
THE PASTOR’S .SUPPORT.
How to raise the pastor’s salary is a
question often discussed in our small
er, and even in our larger churches.
Too frequently, when the day for pay
ment comes, there is no money in the
treasurer’s hands. In some cases the
salary is advanced by the treasurer
himself, or by a few friends of the
pastor. We know of a deficiency in the
salary of a pastor in this State, which
was paid not long ago by the money
borrowed by a few brethren at 12 per
cent. But in many cases the pastor is
.left unpaid, with the simple announce
ment that the treasury is empty. A
wrong is thus done both to the pastor
and to the church. The pastor is at
least for the time deprived of his an
ticipated income. It may be that he
is placed in a position which he ought
never to be compelled to occupy; that of
a man who is unable to pay his just
debts. Likewise the church suffers.
The pastor cannot escape the thought
that his people are not dealing rightly
with him. If in debthe keenly feels
his inability to {my his debts, knows
that in the community his inflence as a
Christian teacher is affected by his un
happy position. And when he goes
into his pulp t it is with a flood of
thoughts which he too often vainly en
deavors to banish from the place. One
pastor’s effort in this direction has
found its way into the public journals.
Finding himself out of money by the
failure of his people to pay him his
salary, he borrowed a dollar of a dea
con just as he entered his pulpit one
Sunday. At the close of the service
he returned the dollar, and when the
deacon said, “My dear pastor, what
does this mean ?” the pastor replied,
“Deacon, it is bad enough to be with
out money at any time, but it is still
worse when I am trying to preach.”
The fact is that if any church would
have its pastor’s best work it should
never let a financial cloud settle down
upon him. Ho cannot but feel its
chilling influence. The church will
feel it also.
But what shall be done ? How shall
the pastor’s salary be raised ? We be
liever that in this matter, as in all
others, the churches should have ever
in mind the gospel rule. It is sur
prising, after all that has been said
showing how easy it is to support a
pastor by weekly offerings, that so tew
of the churches, and especially those
that in years past have had so much
dificulty ;u raising their pastor’s salury,
should refuse to gi\e this rule at least
a trial. The following is an illustra
tion of what may be raised by contrib
uting even a small sum each week, that
which has been laid upon tho first day
of tho week for this purpose:
100 members [.ay 05 per week S2OO a year
100 “ ■< io “ “ 520 “
ZOO “ •< 25 “ • 2000
T 5 “ “ no 11 “ moo “
50 “ “ 1.00 “ 2704 “
25 “ “ 3.00 “ “ 3000 “
Let these figures be studied, and we
believe a lesson will be learned con
cerning raising the pastor’s salary
which will be of advantage to pastor
and people. — Zipn’s Advacate.
EDITORIAL WORK.
BY KEV. E. I>. TENNY.
Dr. Johnson once remarked that he
never took up a newspaper but he found
in it some information he would not wil
lingly have missed. A good newspaper
not only reflects the outer life of the
world as in a mirror, but the inner life.
It is like a net which gathers both the
bad and the good ; and it is impossible
to overestimate the power for good of
one who sits in the editorial chair,
judging so wisely that the influence
going forth from the printing house is
beneficent as the silent light of the
morning.
Evil is likely to haste to hide itself,
and all fair graces rejoice, under the
illuminating power of a strong, intel
ligent, sanctified newspaper press. The
weight and force of good work in
the editorial office is, in some respects,
greater than that of the same amount
of talent used viva voce.
Appeals to the conscience and to the
Divine authority are not the less effec
tive because printed. The eye and
voice and personal presence of the
pieacher have no influence in the edi
torial work ; but there is, on the other
hand, a vast influence connected with
the impersonality and the searching
vision and the fitting words of an un
known writer.
The best newspaper writing carries
the common mind, because it is the ex
pression of the common mind. No
persons in the world have so good a
chance to know what the world thinks
as editors, who make it their special
business to find out public opiniou, and
to give shape to it by expressing it in a
form modified by their personal judg
ment. Readers are apt to think that
the say-so of a well informed, sharp
minded editor is really the expression
of untold thousands of men. And so
it is. The personality of an editor is
unconsciously wrought upon and mod
ified by public opinion, and what he
may say is really the voice of a great
multitude.
It is commonly said that Luther and
all the great leaders of the world have
owed their leadership to their power
in giving expression to the wants of the
commonality. When half of Europe
felt the need of a reformation, and
were ready to follow any strong leader,
Luther came readily to be the foremost
man in Europe. The great poet or or
ator or writer is he who says what all
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
men are thinking about, but which few
can express as well as he. The good
editor is he who leads public opinion,
and such a man is easily credited with
having the wisdom of many men.
That man who habitually prayed for
himself and his wife, his son John and
his wife, “us four and no more,” would
have been singularly out of place in an
editorial sanctum, where breadth of
sympathy is the prime consideration.
It is a good discipline to be obliged to
look at everything through the eyes of
thousands of readers. Whatever is
inserted must have its place, because
the wants of the many will be met -by
it.
There are, perhaps, one or two points
in which the pastor may well take pat
tern from the newspaper man. The
aptness and timeliness of an article is
the test. So the great question for the
preacher is, whether any given sermon
is a snug fit, or whether it is suifled to
the time —January or July. Again,
the iteration in the teachings of a good
editor is suggestive. To make a good
point, to fasten it in the minds of many
readers, it must be presented, line upon
line, in various ways —recurring to it
and insisting upon it againhnd again.
It is like advertising; men read and
forget it, read again and remember it,
read again and buy the goods. One
sermon is not apt to settle any moral
question for all time. The woman who
forgot all the texts, and could not re
call one of the “heads” of the sermon,
said that her mind was made better
for the preaching—just as the wool she
was washing was made whiter by pour
ing the water through the sieve. Min
isters make elaborate “divisions” in a
sermon, but there are many in the con
gregation who know no difference be
tween what was said under the firstly
or seventhly. To most of them it is—
to use the illustration of a man of
homely farmer-like good sense, on
homiletical questions—like shoving a
board into a bin of potatoes to divide
them ; we merely have potatoes this
side and potatoes that side. But most
of the people do not care which bin
they take them out of, if the potatoes
are good. The great secret is to give
them enough—little and often and hot
—as John Allen used to feed the lambs.
Daniel Webster once said that we
owe moie of our information to con
versation than to books. Perhaps the
newspaper is as good as the tongue.
It is, however, a matter to be contend
ed against—all the bad stuff that is
printed—like tongues under bad con
trol, or moved by vicious minds. Said
a Bible agent the other day, “Many are
caught in the condition of Zaccheus,
and cannot get at Jesus, on account of
the press.” Newspaper reading keeps
men from reading the Bible. It is on
this account that the religious paper is
to be made more and more a power in
the land, helping every household, as a
good pastor visiting each family once
a week. Jtfferson did not rely on
speech-making, but on conversation
with public men, to carry his points in
governmental affairs. And it is cer
tain that editorial talks, if we take
enough of them, and if they are good
enough, will be more useful to the
cause of Christ than some very able
sermons.
centeemal poetry.
Spring again has sprung,
Alu the mocking bird is out,
Aud the April air has lining,
Tho busy bumble bee about,
And the black snake crawls,
Over the Bprouting grass.
And the sturdy fanner bawls.
For mustard aud Lettuce satis.
Gone up tbe spout.
CMIS RESET.
Great truths are greatly won. Not found by
cbauce,
Nor wat ted on the breath of summer-dream;
But grasped iii the great struggle of the soul,
Hard buffeting with adverse wind and stream.
Wiong from the troubled spirit, in bard hours
Of weakness, solitude, perchance of pain,
Truth springs hke harvest from a well plowed
field :
And the soul feels it has not wept in vain.
—Your disposition will be suitable
to tbat which you most frequently
tbink on ; for tbe soul is, as it were,
tinged with the color and complexion
of its own thoughts.
Some characters are like some
bodies in chemistry—very good, per
haps, in thtmselves, yet fly off and re
fuse the least conjunction with each
other.
—Of all the riches that we hug, of
all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry
no more out of this world than out of
a dream.
—The great distinction between t h
religion revealed in the Gospel and all
other religions known to the world is
that it comes as precious balm to the
broken-hearted.
Headache, languor aud melancholy, generally
spring from a disordered stomach, oostivenesß,
or a torpid liver. Each may readily be removed
by Dr. D. Jayne’s Sanative Pills, a few dosee of
whiob will be found to stimulate the liver and
stomach to healthy action, remove all bilious
ness, and produce regular evacuations of the
bowels.
A Livf.k Disordered tor Fifteen Years. —For
fifteen years I was a great sufferer from a disor
dered liver, during which time I tried many of
the beet physicians in the country, and almost
all the patent noßtrume recommended, all to no
effect, until I used Simmons’ Liver Regulator ;
and from the time I used it to this day, which is
now several years, I have been comparatively a
sound man, having Buffered very Uttle since at
any time from the effects of my old disease.
Consequently, I heartily recommend its use to
the afflicted of liver disease.
Maj. A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.
In the United States there are 69,871
Sunday-schools, with 753,000 teachers,
and 5,790,683 scholars.
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Simmons’ Liverjßegulator, or Medicine, is emi
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We are the first to offor First-Class Bewing Mar
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WILL BUY A
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unprecedented low price of TWENTY FIVE
DOLLARS. This may seem strange, but every
body ought to know that we can afford to do it,
because we do not employ an army of canvass
ers, middlemen and persuaders, but sell for Cash
only, direct to tire people, and content ourselves
with a reasonable profit. Do not buy without
being fully posted, and do not let anybody hum
bug you into buying at the exhorbitant price of
st!o or $75, when you can get the best for $25, but
send for our descriptive circulars and samples of
Bewing. Address
McLEAN A BENOR MACHINE CO,
223 N. Eight St., Philadelphia.
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10,000 pounds Sulphate of Ammonia,
1,000 pounds Nitrate of Soda,
I,o<lo pounds Muriate of Potash,
500 bushels German Millet,
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200 bushels Blue Grass,
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Manufactured near King* ton,* Bartow
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Equal to the best Imported Portland Cement.
Send for Circular. Try this before
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Refers by permission to Mr. A J. West, Presi
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used, and he has used it for all purposes since.
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been, using it for two years on piers of bridges
and culverts on their railroads, pronouncing it
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Refers to Mr. T. J. Stone, Superintendent
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Refers to Messrs. Smith, Sou A Bro. and Mr.
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Refers to Major Berry, of Rome, who has used
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Refers to Mr. T. C. Douglas, Superintendent
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prised it does not take the place of mineral
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Refers to Dr. St. Julian Rovenel, of Charles
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cement. Address
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OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.
A ND Atlanta, Ga., are offering and sell
ing the Best Fire and Burglar Proof Safes
made, and warranted as such, for less price than
ever before offered, as the times are hard and
“ stamps” are scarce. They will sell a Herring,
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Parties wishing a first-class Safe will do well to
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Cos. are the
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in the Safe business. One of their branches is
located at No. 51 Dread street, Atlanta, where
they always keep a large stock of their goods.
Demember that you can buy second-hand Safe a
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One thing is sure, Rankers begin to feel
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