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GATHER THE WAYSIDE FLOWERS.
O cherish the human flowers
That are scattered along the way,
And help them turn their faces
To the light of the brighter day!
O help them to seek the sunshine
That gleams o’er the path of right,
Till the shadows hat lie about them
Shall change to a gio ious 1 ght.
O many there are that are fading
•On the great highway of life !
Fading, drooping and dying
’Mid ceaseless toil and strife.
But there’s never a little flower,
Be it e’er so humble and small,
By our heavenly Fa her forgotten;
He tenderly loveth them all.
O ye who would serve God tr ily,
And hear the words “Well done! ”
Stretch forth ihyhand to his children,
And gather them one by one,
Into the beautiful sunshine,
Out of the shallow of sin;
With a hand that is gen'le and loving,
Tenderly gather them in.
O then will the blessings of angels
Be wafted to thee from above,
The light of their presence will guide thee
In thy beautiful mansion of love.
And for the kind words thou hast spoken
To the suffering children of God,
A crown of bright flowers immortal,
My brother, will be thy reward !
•CAN THE PLANTER HONESTLY
WITHHOLD HIS COTTON
FRO VI MARKET I
We answer this question, yes! if the
cotton is his, clear of liens or obligations.
In such a state of things, he has the per
f ct right t < store it in his cutton hous •, or
to burn it.
But if it is bis exclusively, and he owes
his factors for advances t • make the crop,
and storekeepers for the means of living
during the year, the cotton is not bis to
speculate on the market. Il is his, in com
mon with others, who furnished him ad
vance!# and supplies to ba paid ns soon
as the season enabled him to send cot
ton to market. Excepting, with this dis
tinct understanding, be would not have
ob'.aned the advances and credit by which
he has made his crop and lived through the
year. If he had told his factor or grocer:
I do not intend to eend any cotton 1 may
make to market, unless I judge for myself
I can get the best price of the season, ami
will keep it to January or February, as my
interest shall appear to require, he might
have planted no crop, and got no shop
credit. Clearly he should fulfill the faith
implied, and carry out the just expeditions
of those with whom he does business. Do
this, and do it speedily, as good faith re
quires.
Any sensible man must see that the fac
tor and shop men are nd in the condition
they were when they credited the planter.
Circumstances beyond their control have
surrounded them with unexpected embar
rassment and distress. It certainly is a
strong appeal to every conscientious man,
th <t the necessities of those to whom he is
indebted correfqtond with his own obliga
tions of honesty and honor, to put forth
the means in his possession for their relief.
So dangerous Is the condition of things that
It is not cert dn even if the planter will
gain by delay. Or supposin' he should
gain two or three ceuta a pound on his
Cotton by its rightful retention, that it will
be his interest to do so. The price of cot
ton is uncertain and affected by many
things. Planting will not end with the
close of the year. It is to continue during
the next; and if by his retent ion of his
cotton be Injures or cripples the factors
and bankers—how will he plant the next
crept Both may decline any further deal
ings with him ; and refuse assisting one,
who neither public calamities or any re
gard to a common interest, has induced to
any other policy than that of self. C arac
tcr is credit, and credit is means. We beg
leave to submit to all who owe debts and
can pay. the call of honesty to pay them.
This is duty ; and we would further submit
that in such a time M tills it may be also
our duty not to become speculators in co -
lon, which but few ever prosper at, but
to push forward our resources ami res ue
the Southern couu ry from a wide partici
pation in t' e disastrous toas-s of the North.
—New Orleans Picayune.
(tod baa not waited for us to love Him;
la-fore all time, • efore we were* endowed
with life, Hr thought of u*» and thought of
doing us good. What He mediated in eter
nity He b*» performed in time. Ills best fi
ceut hand has bv-m.w d rv-.ry v ui ty .-f
bkaaingn upon us; neither our unfaithful
ness mw our ingratitude h a dried up th
fountain of Hi* gomiarm to us or arrest >1
th- -tream '*f Hl* bounty. - Fenrton.
THE NORCROSS ADVANCE.
BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO.
SHALL WE MEET AGAIN ?
The following is said to be one of the
most brilliant articles written by the la
mented George D. Prenti e: “Ihe fiat of
nature is inexorable. There is no appeal
for relief from the great law which dooms
us to dust. We florish and fade as the
leaves of the forest, and flowers that bloom
and wither in a day, have no frailer hold
upon life than the mightiest monarch that
ever shook the earth with his footsteps.
Generations of men will appear and disap
pear as the grass, and the multitude that
throng the world to-day, will disappear as
the footsteps on the simre. Mi n seldom
think of the great event of death until the
shadow falls across their own pathway
hiding from their eyes the faces of loved
ones whose loving smile was the sunlight of
their existence. Death is the antagonist of
life, and the cold thought of the tomb is
the skeleton of all feats. We do not waut
to go through the dark valley, although its
dark passage may lead to paradise; we do
not want to lie down in the damp grave,
even with princes for bed fellows. In the
beautiful drama of lon, the hope of Im
mortality, so eloquently uttered by the
death-devoted Greek, fin. Is deep response
in every thoughtful soul. When about to
yield his young existence as a sacrifice to
fate, h s Clemantha asks if they should
meet again, to which he replies: ‘I have
asked that dreadful question of the hills
that look eternal—of the clear streams that
flow forever—of the stare among whose
fields of azure my raised spirit has walked
in glory. All were dumb; but as I gaze
upon thy living face, I fe 1 that there is
something in the love that mantles through
its beauty that cannot wholly perish. We
shall meet again, Clemantha.’”
PLAIN WORDS.
A writer in the New Orleans Picayune
warns the Southern people that Europe, if
need be, can do without cotton for several
years, and run her mills on half or quarter
time. This writer declares that “ neither
American cotton nor American grain, or
other provisions will force the precious
metals from Europe back to the United
States, but in lieu thereof millions of United
States securities would be sent back to re
alize, for whatever they might bring, and
these securities held abroad, by some writers
are estimated to be about 12,000,000,000.
What, then, will become of all our domes
tic securities ? When will there be a mar
ket for anything ? Real estate with us in
the South has already become a drug; the
public impositions, the taxes, the never
ending sheriffs sal s, staring out in all the
public papers arc a sufficient testimony that
whatever circulating money there may be
set in motion, the fiat is gone forth that an
Immense calamitous financial revolution
will inexorably complete the grand social
upheaval which was introduced by the
Northern section into the Southern States.
No other result can arise from this reaction
of one sectional subversion of long founded
staial institutes, upon the conditions of
society in the other sections of our Union.
Ai.d it is this feeling, this instinct, which
drives the masses to cling to saving the
medium, being well aware that * hen the
higher classes tumble down, there must
even be greater danger for the lower masses
or strata of society. Hence the hoarding
of greenbacks, hence the running upon the
savings banks; and those feelings of terror,
when healing the cracking of the social
fabric in every direction, cannot be driven
away in telling them foreign nations must
buy our cotton, our produce for gold or
money; for natura ly tuey answer: Green
backs will do us, if only you keep the walls
from falling ujx>n us and our families. ”
“There lies the awful inner danger of
our Union.”
JEFFERSON’S TEN RULES.
Jefferson's ten rules are good. They are
so short and concise, and embody so much
of value that it would be well if they were
clipped out and put where we could see
them often. They read as follows:
Never put off till to-mo row what you
can de to-day.
Never troub'e another for what you can
do yourself.
Never spend your money before you
have it.
Never buy what you do not want because
it is cheap.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and
cold.
We eeld m repent of having eaten too
little.
Nothing is troublesome that we do wil
lingly.
How much pain the evils have cost us
that have never happened.
Take things always by ths smooth handle.
When angry, count ten before you speak;
if very angry, count a hundred.
Emiiit Kixds or Womkx.—The obsti
nate woman gi ts to sea in a bandbox.
The path nt woman roasts an ox with a
burning glass. The curious woman would
like to turn a rainbow ovri to see what
there was on the other side. The vulgar
woman is a spider attempting to spin silk.
, Ihe cautious woman w ites promises on a
slate. Ti»e envious woman kills ber*df in
I endeavoring to lace tighter than her neigh
’ bore. The extravagant woman burns a wax
eaodl -in looking fir a lucifer milch. Ihe
happy *oman dux! in a deaf and dumb
asylum years ago.
“Who made the lieautiful hills about
here ! ’ asked a New England teacher of a
little g rl w!h> bad recently tx-gua to ait tend
hia«ch>»oL “I don't know,” was the reply;
"iwr family only moved into town last
MILTON MALONE.
A SAD WARNING TO YOUTH.
Milton Malone is not a bad man
because he has bad instincts, for
the natural impulses of the man
are good. He is not a bad man
because the circumstances of his
birth and education were calcula
ted to make him familiar with
crime, lor his parents were people
in good circumstances, moving in
good society, ai d the future of
their son was as bright and prom
ising, so far as social advantages
wer; concerned; as that of any
young man in the State to-day.
Alilton Malone did not rush into
crime, urged by the instincts of
hunger, or the preservation of life,
but with his eyes opened, he pre
pared himself for the career of a
criminal, and the grave of a mur
derer. Os course he did not have
these things in his mind, or long
since he would have halted and
turned back to the paths of manly
virtue. We speak this knowing
there are hundreds of young men
in this State whose hands are as
yet clean of blood, but whose ac
tions are the very ones that led
young Malone into his present
awful condition. It is cowardly to
carry concealed weapons in a land
under the control of law, for every
time a pistol or a knife is strapped
on, the loss of a life is contempla
ted ; but when a man thus secret
ly and habitually armed, goes de
liberately into the rum mills of
the land and becomes intoxica
ted, he is guilty of crime, though
he commits it not, for he is ready
to murder without motive. Young
men who habitually carry arms,
as a rule, habitually drink, and
they are the persons who defend
their course by the belief that
they “have to sow their wild oats”
and “enjoy themselves while
young.” This sowing cf wild
oats means dissipation. This, hav
ing a good time, means the fre
quenting of brothels from which
purity and decency have fled,
and where vice and infamy have
gathered. It means doing that
which Ihe young man, with swag
gering vulgarity, is willing to
boast about to his dissolute
friends, but the knowledge of
which would bow Ihe head of his
mother and bring shame to his sis
tor’s (hecks. 1 here are young
men sowing their wild oatsnow,
as wick .id as Milton Malone, and
who will only be saved from his
fate by a return to the path of
duty and right, or a sinking amid
the breakers that have swallow
ed up the wrecks of so many lives.
It saddens our heart to think
of this young man's fate, and to
picture the aged parents who,
with bowed heads and heavy
hearts contemplate what their
boy is, and what he might have
been, and yet there are scores of
parents saved this anguish and
humilation only by the sheerest
accident, not bj’ the pure lives of
their sons. Would it not be well
for our young men to consider
this lesson, and with all their in
fluence to keep themselves and
their companions on the broad
highway of manly purity and hon
or, that gives the certainty of a
better life here, and the promise
of a happier life to come? We
wish from our souls there was not
a gallows in the whole land, and
that capital punishment were ob
solete as burning at the stake, but
with equal earnestness we wish
there were no concealed arms
carried, no men sowing wild oats
on the road to ruin, no young men
whose hands and thoughts are not
honestly employed. Surely the
way of the transgressor is hard
Colu mb us En q u irer.
A Sunday school teacher was
explaining the omnipresence of
the Deity to his scholars, and
ended by telling them that he was
everywhere. Whereupon a red
headed boy asked : ‘‘ls He in my
pocket ?’’ The teacher replied
that the question was rather pro
lane but hu would answer‘‘Yes,
he was everywhere. I’ve got you
there, said the boy; “I ain't got
no pocket.”
Very Deaf. —The most appall
ing case of deafness that we came
across outside of an asylum was
that of an old lady who lives just
across the street from the navy
yard. The other day they fired a
salute of twenty-one guns. The
old lady was observed to start and
listen w hen the last gun was fired,
and then <l»c exclaimed. “Come
NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1873.
•‘THINK. IT NOT STRANGE.”
If you serve God, you will of
fend the Devil. If you sail up
stream you Ynust stem the current.
If you are chosen out of the world,
the world will hate you. If you
are honest, you cannot have the
friendship of rogues. If you are
sincere, hypocrites will not fancy
you. If you are lukewarm and
sleepy, you may get along very
quietly in the world ; but if you
are earnest for God, at war with
all sin, and trying to win souls
to Christ, you may expect the
Devil like a roaring lion, with all
his whelps and pups baying at
your heels. If he can tempt you
into sin, or frighten you from
duty, he will do that; and if not,
he will send his horde of yelping
hell-hounds on your track, with
lies, slanders, insults and abuse.
What then? Keep right along.
Do not stop, that is what Satan is
after. Keep at the work. Dou
ble the watches and double shot
the guns. Pour in God's truth,
like an avalanche. You fight for
God, and God will fight for you.
Do not borrow the Devil’s wea
pons. Leave alone all his fiery
darts, bitter words, railing accusa
tions, and all the machineiy which
he uses to destroy the children of
God. You cannot use these—yon
would be no match for the Devil,
fighting with his weapons. Do
not study Satan’s tactics, nor the
lessons in hell’s fencing school.—
Outwit the Devil by telling God’s
truth. Walk so straight that the
crooked serpent cannot follow you.
Fortify every weak place where
Satan tries you. Hold np the
shield of faith against his darts.
Take the sword of the Spirit and
cut with it right and left. Live so
near God that you will be out of
the Devil’s reach; and walk so
uprightly before men that no one
will believe the lies that are told
about you.
Wat er will find its level, Froth
will float, mud will sink, and the
real character of a servant of
God will stand the test. No one
can kill you but yourself; keep
self right, and eL e will be
provided for.
“Think it not strange.” Do not
be surprised, disconcerted, dis
turbed, nor hindered. Keep near
the mercy-seat, and walk where
the pillar of fire and cloud shall
lead. Canaan is before you,Egypt
is behind—make haste and you
shall out-strip your foes, and enter
the home of rest at last.— The
Christian.
LIQUOR SELLING.
A German proverb says: “ A
man who takes soup with the dev
il needs a long spoon. And this
is especially true of those engaged
in the occupations which thrive
upon the ruin of their fellow men.
They dream of prosperity, and
count up their present gains, but
eventually find that their soup
spoon was too short, am., while
they get the soup, the devil get.
them. Almost every liquor shop
and distillery in the land can fur
nish instances which will demon
strate this Dr. Dio Lewis relates
the following: “A large whisky
distiller in central New York ha 1
three sons, who assisted their fa
ther in his nefarious business.—
None but God will ever know the
misery of which that distillery
was the source. The distiller and
his sons were among the victims.
The father threw himself into a
well in a fit of delirium tremens.
The oldest son, during an attack,
imagined his tongue a snake,
drew it out, bit it off, and bled to
death. The next son, while suff
ering this horrible frenzy, threw
himself into the well which receiv
ed his father. The last one of the
four, while driving a wagon load
of whisky to his place in the
country, pitched off his seat, was
run over by the wagon and killed.
I attended the funeral.” The man
who enters into such an occupa
tion as this takes an awful risk.
The Bankrupt Law in Danger.
The Wheeling Intelligencer says:
It is stated that a very general
opposition in the West, particuar
| ly among lawyers and the larger
creditor class, to the present bank
rupt act, and that a considerable
portion of the Western members
will favor the absolute and uncon
ditional repeal of this act. It i
urged against the act that it has
! outlived its usefulness, that it now
serves mainly as an instrument of
fraud for designing persons, and
is a source of extravagant fees fnr
‘ in annv of office holder-.
“THE JERUSALEM FRIENDS.”
This sect arose some fifteen or
twenty years ago in Wurtemburg,
South Germany, under the leader
ship of Dr. Christian Hoffman, a
brother of the Court Preacher to
the Emperor of Germany. Dr.
Hoffman is a decided scholar, a
man of great resolution and per
severance', a stern critic of men
and institutions. He looks upon
our present Christianity as very
shallow, and its aims as very low
and unworthy the Christian name.
He regards Jerusalem as the
Christ-chosen seat and center of
the church, and the building of
Ezekiel’s Temple as the greatest
enterprise that Christian piety
can undertake, that until the tem
ple is built Christianity will con
tinue to be fragmentary and pow
erless, but the edifice once com
pleted, will be the grand rallying
point for the faithful of every
sect, and the necessary prepara
tion for the return of Christ.
The Jew is regarded as outcast
and accursed of God, never again
to have part or lot in the work,
except as a few may be incident
ally converted. There is to be fib
re-gathering of the children ol
Abraham. It is the Christian who
must restore the land of Israel and
give to it its promised pre emi
nence. A scholar by the name of
Paulus has been a great helper to
Dr. Hoffman; and he has publish
ed a commentary on the Reve
lation of John, which sets forth
quiet clearly their pecular views
of doctrine and interpretation.
They hold all the main doctrines
of the Reformed church, but lay
particular stress upon their no
tions of prophecy. Like Baxter
and the author of “Armageddon,”
and our countryman, Dr. Seiss,
they expected the personal anti-
Christ in Napoleon HI, and I
know not whether they necessari
ly had to change their opinion,
since the fall of Napoleon proved
a blessing to this sect, for after
his fall at Sedan, the Sultan oi
Turkey presented the emperor ol
Germany, for the benefit of this
sect, the greater part of Mt. Car
mel with the adjoining plains—
the valley of Ktston on the east,
and the plain of Sharon on the
west.
Dr, Hoffman's idea is coloniza
tion from his community, and
eight years ago they started a
colony at Haifa, at the foot of
Mt. Carmel, which has-been grad
ually increased. The colony is
composed of steady,sterling Chr.s
tian men and women. The land
was carefully surveyed, and the
site for the colony made with cau
tion, and thus far the enterprise
has proved a success. The colo
nists have gone to Palestine with
the idea of making it their home,
and they expect to build houses
and to till the soil with improved
implements. In the meanwhile
communities have been forming
in this country. The one at Ro
chester. New York, was not very
successful; its organ, Zeichen der
Zeit (Signs of the Times,) awa
kened, however, interest in other
quarters, and a community was
started at Schenectady,New York,
under the leadership of Pastor
Schwilk, a man of good’education,
warm heart and unflinching zeal.
He publishes the Reichs-Posaune
(the Trumpet of the Kingdom,) a
weekly paper, and has sent out at
least one colony to Syria.
This colony on Carmel con j
trasts most favorably with the ’
one sent out ten years ago to
Jessa from Maine, which proved
such a failure. These Carmel col
onists have gone out under the
most favorable auspices and are
quite independent of Turkish
authority. Whether they will
ever be the builders of Ezekiel's
Temple is doubtful,yet they will |
be able to put to the proof the I
real capacity ol the soil —a proof ,
eminently desirable -and to show j
to those interested that it is sim- ]
ply the need of a paternal gov- j
eminent, giving security to prop
erty and encouragement to labor
which is wanted io make Israel
again (he glory of all lands.” The
early and latter rains are there;
the dew and the sunshine, ihe
soil begging only for thorough
culture to prove its readiness.to
repay with blessincs the toil of
the husbandman. Cannel (liter
ally “the garden of God”) may
become again worthy ol its name
through this scheme, which has
piety lor its motive and loyalty
for iU patron. We think it can
not fail to work out both moral
an 1 in.iteriai good for the inter
ests of Palestine, and while we
disavow sympythy with them as a
sect, we wish them success as
Christian* and colonists.* J*.
/; r. 'f, i; > r fi,f.
VOL. 1.-80. 19.
•UN LUCK Y COMPLIM ENTS.
The worst blunder in what was
intended for a pretty speech that
1 ever heard of, was perpetrated
in modern times by a dignitary of
the church, who was asked to mar
ry a young couple in a country
place where he happened to be
staying, and was also called upon
to propose the health of the bride
and bridegroom at the subsequent
breaklast. “To sum up all our
good wishes for the happy pair
which we have seen united this
morning, ” he said in conclusion,
“we cannot, lam sure, do better
than express a desire that the re
sult of their union may prove
strictly analogous to that of the
parents of the fair bride.” Where
upon the “fair bride’’ w'ent into
hysterics; the bridegroom’s eyes
flashed daggers ; the bridesmaids
coloured and looked down ; the
master of the house blew his nose
violently. He who caused all this
commotion sat down and held bis
peace, wondering at the effect of
his innocent compliment to the
host and hostess; He soon, how
ever, found some one to enlighten
him. “She is not their daughter
at all,” his informer explained,
“but a niece who came to live
with them when her own father
and mother were divorced 1” —
Cassell's Magazine.
CURIOUS THINGS.
A lady with a four hundred dol
lar shawl on her back which was
bought by her husband) swearing
tha« she will have her rights. In
the meantime the husband is out
at the elbows, and the good lady
keeps seven servants.
A young man who squandered
an estate at the gambling house
and brothel, going into the pulpit
to recruit his fortune-
Younggentlemen who can’t pay
their board driving a horse and
gig on the swell road every Sun
day.
A friend'to the people drinking
iced champagne and eating wood
cock, while this workmen cannot
receive their hard-earned gains.
If you cannot be a great river,
bearing great vessels of blessings
to the world, you can be a lit. le
spring by the wayside of life, sing
ing merrily all day and night,
and giving a cup of cold water to
every weary, thirsty being that
passes by.
A young lady, recently married
to a farmer, one day visited the
cow houses, when she thus intero
gated her milk maid: “By-the-by,
Mary, which one of the cows is it
that gives the butter-milk ?”
A conceited young parson once
said: This morning I preached to
a congregation of donkeys.’ ‘1 i
thought so,’ retorted the lady,’ I
‘when you called them your be
loved brethren.’
A country girl, coining from a
morning walk, was told she look
ed as fresh as a daisy kissed by
the dew, to which she innocently
replied. “You've got my name
right—Daisy: but his in.’t Dew.”
A gentleman in Indiana being
asked why he didn't marry and
settld down, feelingly replied that
he thought more seriously of be
ing divorced and settling up.
A fashion reporter writes:
“Dresses are not to be worn any
longer this Summer.” That
would do for warm weather, but
how about the late cold snap?
“Do you want to buy a sewing
machine ?” asked an agent of a
farmer. “No,” was the reply,’ “1
alway sow my wheat out of a
bucket.”
A Western girl after giving her
lover a hearty smack, exclaimed.
•Dog my c?ts if you hain’t been
taking a little old rye, old hoss.”
There are four tribes of Indians
remaining in Delaware, and the
aggregate number of the four is
only 16 persons.
Don't loaf about the streets and
depend on the Lord for your daily
bread. He is not running a
bakery.
Barnum wants to get a night
mare to exhibit in his museum —
also a leg of the multiplication
table.
Lidies traveling across the
plains carry their hair in their
pockets to avoid being scalped.
The sting of a bee cirries con
viction with it—it make- a man a
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CHRISTIAN UNION,
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNDSDAY
At Norcross, Georgia,
BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO.
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TERMS:
One copy one year $ j 00
One copy six months 1 00
One copy three months so
To clubs of five one year 8 50
To clubs of ten one year 13 00
To Ministers of the gospel half price.
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THE ADVANCE
Is designed to promote all the great
interests of our readers especially, and of
our country and race generally.
To do that we promise to give them each
week the most important news, both
Foreign and Domestic ; the Market Re
ports and Atlanta Prices Current; the
Legal Sales of Gwinnett and a few other
counties,etc., and such Literary,Scientific,
Educational, Political, Agricultural and
Religious reading matter as we may from
time to time think most interesting and
profitable.
In Politics the ADVANCE will be
independent; but it will not be partisan,
nor do injustice to any party, oi indi
vidual, knowingly. And, as we hon
estly believe, that; the first and chief care
of all Christians should be to defend our
holy religion against the wiles of Satan—
his hosts aud tneir arms, we will discharge
this sacred duty, as best we can, under
the guidance of Him who is able to direct
and keep us in the way of truth.
We will also studiously avoid giving
cause of ofiense to any professed Christian
on account of difference of opinion, and
will not, through this medium, attempt to
build up any one branch of the Church
more than others, nor to injure any one of
them.
OUR PLATFORM.
We believe that there is a per
sonal God—who created and over
rules all things—that Jesus Christ
is His Son and our Savior, and that
the Holy Ghost is His messenger
and our instructor.
That the Bible was written by
inspiration of God —is true —and
the only safe foundation for
Christian faith and practice.
That the soul is immortal—that
there will be a resurrection of the
dead and fina l judgment, and that
the punishment of the unre
deemed will be eternal.
And will insist, that all who
agree in these fundamental propo
sitions,and seek salvation through
Christ, constitute his Church, and
should all unite and co-operate
with Him, and each other, in the
sacred work of redemption, as an
affectionate family of brothers
and sisters.
James P. Simmons,
J. U. Vincent.
John lIf.AT-.
