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JOHN WESLEY AND HIS WORKS.
On the first day of April, 1777,
John Wesley laid the foundation
stone of the City Road Chapel, Lon
don. In doing so he said, “ This
stone will bo seen no more by any
human eye, but will remain there
till the earth and the works thereof
are burnt up.” Whether this will
be so or not we shall not attempt to
divine, but the chapel itself was
nearly consumed by fire last Sab
bath. Most of the monuments have
been saved, and we doubt not that
whether the old foundation stone be
laid bare or not, anew and more
imposing chapel will bo built, for
tho Wosloyans have already raised
what they call a thanksgiving fund
of two hundred thousand pounds
for different objects, and in all prob
ability this will be one of them.
But the City Road Chapel was not
the original chapel winch John Wes
ley built, although a very general
improssion prevails that it is so, and
although his body lbs in the church
yard in front of it. Tho first place
of worship was erected in 1740 on a
site in Moorfields, then a swampy
suburb of London, and not far from
the site of the City lioad Chapel.
Silas Todd, as quoted in a note to
Southey’s life of Wesley, “ describes
it as a ruinous place with an old
pantile covering, a few rough deal
boards put together to constitute a
temporary pulpit, and several other
decayed timbers which composed
the whole structure.” It had been
a foundry for cannon during the
civil wars and after the restoration,
but John Wesley got a lease of it,
and it sheltered him and his con
gregation for eight and thirty years.
When he was in London John Wes
ley preached at 5 o’clock in the morn
ing to accommodate working people
going to their early work. Here also
John Wesley’s body was buried thir
teen years after the chapel was
opened. Southey calls it the crad
dle of Methodism. The new chapel
in the City Road shows later Wes
ley’s body was carried to the chapel
and lay there in a kind of state,
“ dressed in his clerical habit,” says
Southey, “ with gown, cassock, and
band, the old clerical cap on his
head, a Bible in one hard and a
white handkerchief in the other.”
Such was tho rush to see him as he
lay there with a placid smile on the
worn ana venerable face, that for
fear of accidents his funeral was
hastened, and took place between
five and six in the morning. The
growth of Methodism in London in
forty years had been considerable,but
bv this time it had taken root in
r
the provinces, in Scotland, and in
America; and the growth has been
something wonderful. In London
itself the old congregation in the
Moorfields foundry has grown into
a hundred and sixty congregations
and as many chapels, and the Con
ference in Great Britain has 1,887
ministers and nearly half a million
of members. The United States,
however, is tho country in which
Methodism has flourished most.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in
the Morth has 11,308 ministers and
more than a million and a half
of members, and in the South has
almost double the numbers both of
ministers and members in Great
Britain. John Wesley lived to see
in these kingdoms only about three
hundred itinerants and a thousand
local preachers, and eighty thou
sand persons in the societies under
his care. This was in 1791. The
Wesleyan Methodist Calendar for
1880, which has just been published,
gives some very striking statistics
of Wesleyan Methodism all over tho
world. Wesley founded not only
the old Wesleyan body in the United
Kingdom, over which the Confer
ence he established still rules; but
he established all the Methodist bod
ies of the United States. He or
dained and sent out in 1784 Dr.
Coke, the first Bishop of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, which is
now one of the largest religious
bodies on the American continent.
Including all the organizations which
have from time to time split off
from the parent bodies, but which
still retain the spirit and much of
the organization of original Method
ism, the Calendar claims that there
are in all moi3 than thirty thou
sand ministers, and more than four
and a half millions of subscribing
members in the various Methodist
communities. Now that the lay ele
ment is represented in the Confer
ence, the permanent extension of
Wesleyanism may be said to be se
cured.
BUT WHAT AM I ?
Kind friends found a hapless lit
tle creature, with a feeblo, fluttering
heart and pulsation, and only able
to make a faint cry, but with the
nourishment drawn from and by
the gentle and careful nursing of a
loving mother, size, strength, and
action increased, until, after 3 r ears
of patient watching and training
have been spent to aid and set me
up to live as one of the great fam
ily of mankind.
While this body was growing to
maturity there was a mind connect
ed with it that bears all the intel
lectual or rational faculty of man,
through which all the powers of
understanding, of conception, of
judgment, and of reason must enter
to direct and elevate man to the
high position given to him by the
Creator, to “have dominion over the
the fish of the sea, and over the
fowls of tho air, and upon every
living thing that raoveth upon the
earth,” his fellov T -men alone excepted
for the Lord himself to rule or con
trol. Here is a great work for all,
but have we succeeded in it? if so,
how far? Its dimensions extend
from east to west, from north to
south, from the surface to the cen
ter, and from earth to heaven. What
a field to cultivate, and get food and
nourishment from!
These things are ail here as woll
as life, but did they come at my bid
ding or the call of any man ? They
were all made and given to man by
the same Creator that gives life with
all its necessary attendants, these
being a part. Well has the Lord
asked of man, “Where wast thou
when I laid the foundations of the
earth? declare if thou hast under
standing, who laid the measures
thereof, if thou knowest? or who
has stretched the line upon it?
whereupon are the foundations
thereof fastened? or who laid the
corner-stone thereof, when the
morning stars sang together, and
all the sons of God shouted for
joy?” (Job xxxviii. 4, also chap
ters xxxix., xl. ? and xli.) “Who
hath wisdom in the inward parts?
or who hath given understanding to
the heart ? ” What have I made or
brought into the world ? If I am
filled with science, it is only facts
that I have observed, marked, and
brought to the attention of others.
It is my attention and not my pow
ers that deserve praise. Applied
science is but bringing into use such
matter and things as was given us
from tho beginning. Yet it deserves
praise for attending to duty. But
there is nothing to boast of in this.
There is a marked difference be
tween creating and applying. I
cannot create, but I can apply what
has been created to what it was in
tended. Therefore, I can act under
tho Creator and bring praise to him
by acting under and with bis dis
cretion. Although I can pursue
any line of business, even to success,
without giving the Creator the
praise with my fyeart or lips, yet
when the great “ Light ” reveals
all things as they are, it will then
be clearly seen by all that it was
only by the rules be had given that
this success had been obtained.
“The soul of the diligent shall be
made fat,” is one of the rules of the
great Author, by which success is
secured. What will be accom
plished without diligence ? Another
indispensable rule is to do right.
Eight can never be made a wrong,
nor change places with it. This
rule renders to every one his due.
To tho Lord that which belongs to
him, and to his fellow-man what
belongs to him. .It leads to a life of
CARTERSVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1880.
righteousness and a haven of eter
nal joy and peace. It leads forward
in duty, whether it be humble or
high. O, how closely we should
study this rule ! and with equal dili
gence use it. There is no multi
plied number of wrongs that can
make one right. It may be an
earthly privilege, granted bylaw, to
do wrong, but it never is granted
by right. Wrong leads to vexation,
trouble, sorrow, and eternal banish
ment into lonely darkness, where
nothing of the joys of this life are
to be found, for there is no light
there, and nothing grows without
light, nor can one meet with an
other to converse or play. But
right enters into the very heaven of
eternal light, where the congrega
tion is “innumerable,” where the
“pure river of water of life, clear as
crystal, proceeding out of the
throne of God and of the Lamb,”
and there, too, is the “ tree of life,
which bore twelve manner of fruits
. . . and the leaves of the tree
were for the healing of the nations.”
And I am but a servant to use
either the rule to do right or the
one to do wrong. Lord help us to
do right. Jasper.
ARK TIIE CHILDREN HOME.
Each day, when the glow of sunset
Fades in the western sky,
And the wee ones, tired of playing,
Go tripping lightly by,
I steal away from my husband,
Asleep in his easy chair,
And watch from the open doorway
Their faces fresh and fair.
Alone in the dear old homestead,
That once was full of life,
Ringing with girlish laughter,
Echoing boyish strife,
We two are waiting together,
And oft, as the shadows come,
With tremendous voice he calls me,
“It is night! Are the children home?'’
“ Yes, love,” I answered him gently,
“ They’re all home long ago,”
And I sing my quivering tremble,
A song so soft and low,
TUI the old man drops in slumber,
With his head upon his hand,
And I tell to myself the number
At home in a better land.
Home, where never a sorrow
Shall dim their eyes with tears,
Where the smile of God is on them,
Through all the summer years;
I know, yet my arms are empty,
That fondly folded seven,
And the mother heart within me
Is almost starved for Heaven.
Sometimes, in the dusk of evening,
I only shut my eyes,
And the children are all about me,
A vision from the skies ;
The babes whose dimpled fingers
Lost the way to my breast
And the beautiful ones, the angels,
Passed to the world of the blest.
A breath, and the vision is lifted
Away on wings of light,
And again we two are together,
All alone in the night;
They tell me his mind is failing,
But I smile at idle fears—
He is only back with the children,
In the dear and peaceful years.
And still ns the summer sunset
And the wee ones, tired of playing,
Go trooping home to rest,
My husband calls me from his corner;
“ Say, love ! have the children come ?”
And I answer, with eyes uplifted,
“ Yes, dear! they are all at home !”
EITECTS OF HABIT.
Somebody has said that we are
creatures of education. This, no
doubt, is true in some respects, but
I am inclined to the opinion that
what is often claimed to be educa
tion is, in fact, only habit. You,
doubtless, have heard it said that a
dog may be educated to do almost
anything. It certainly is true that,
after killing a great deal of time,
and the exercise of much patience,
we may learn a dog, and also some
other animals, to do many things
that would seem to emanate from
the mind. But when we remember
that all brutes are devoid of that
immortal principle given by the
Creator only to man, called mind,
we can readily see how absurd it is
to say that the dog, or any other
animal, can be educated. It is only
those beings endowed with mind or
Intellect, that are susceptible of be
ing educated.
’-hat the animal acquires is only
by the force of habit. Education
pre-supposes intellect; habit is ac
quired by the frequent repetition of
a thing. After the habit is formed
of doing a thing it is often repeated
without thinking. Persons addicted
to profanity or slang often make
use of words that they have no
recollection of using. They are
used without thought on account ©f
their frequent use ; so it is with al
most all habits. This makes it
highly important that, if we have
habits at all, they be good ones.
Habits are of two kinds—good
and bad. There is no neutrality in
habits any more than in the princi
ples of morality—they are either
good or bad. Unfortunately for us,
bad habits are much more easily
contracted than good ones, conse
quently they are much more nu
merous, and do a great deal more
harm in tho world than the good
ones do good. As the effect is al
ways the product of the cause, of
course good is the result of good
habits, and evil is the product of
bad ones. So, as a matter of course,
when a person contracts good hab
its he must become better than he
was, because he does that which is
good, and when bad habits are con
tracted the individual grows worse,
because he does that which is
wrong.
This is a subject of much more
importance than strikes us at first
thought. Habits are generally
formed in our youthful days. How
important, then, that the young
mind be early stored with tho
truths of the Bible, for if this bo
done, the dangor of contracting
bad habits is very nearly over
come. The injunction of Scripturo
is, “Remember now thy Creator in
the days of thy youth, while the
evil days come not, nor the years
draw nigh, when thou shalt say,
I have no pleasure in them.” All
who remember and obey this di
vino injunction will be well forti
fied against the contraction of hab
its which tend to evil.
Rev. J. H. Wilson in Cumberland Presbyte
rian.
REVISION OF THE BIBLE.
The English company of scholars
now engaged in revising the Bible,
have been in correspondence with
the Arrierican company, and we
have now reason to believe that
both are agreed. With our usual
caution, little has been said about
the alterations and modifications
which have been made, but our
American couins have not been so
reticent. Hr. Schaff has not only
indicated but stated very clearly
how the case now stands, and we
feel assured that it will be a great
relief to the lovers of our fine old
London language to find that the
texts will not be essentially
changed. But there will be changes,
and Hr. Schaff says these are at once
conservative and radical—conserva
tive in as far as it is not proposed to
offer anew version of the Bible,
but rather to rejuvenate the English
Scriptures, bringing up the version
to the present state of biblical
learning and the English language,
conservative also in preseving the
idioms, the same vocabulary, and
the same associations by which the
present version has become endeared
to English readers. Yet it will be
radical so far that the plan con
templates every impediment possi
ble, more particularly thus:
1. A restitution of the original
text. The textus receptus comes
from the mediaeval MSS. when bib
lical criticism had not been per
fected rs now. New MSS. have
been found, old ones revised, and
the uncial instead of the cursive
text is employed.
2. Typographical errors are to be
corrected. For example, “strain at
a gnat” will read “strain out a
gnat.”
3. Errors of translation are to be
corrected. These are seen in tho
use of tenses, the definite article,
participles, and in other words.
4. It will be attempted to estab
lish consistency. Now a Greek
word, for example, is rendered in a
dozen different ways. The early
translators worked in independent
companies, and also tried to bring
out the fulness of the English
tongue, forgetting the loyalty duo to
the original and to English idium.
We shall attempt, also, to remove
decayed words, substituting baggage
for “carriage,” and anticipate for
“prevent,” etc.
5. Italicising is to be revised.
“The whole of man ” is better than
“the whole duty of man.”
C. The present chapters are to be
retained, but prose is to be printed
as prose and poetry as poetry.
7. Auxiliary helps are to be given,
as suggested by Ushers Chronology,
in chapter headings.
The work will be printed at the
University Press, England. The
New Testament is to be issued next
year, not waiting for the Old.
“It may be said,” says the doctor,
“that this union of European and
American scholars of various de
nominations has been marked by
delightful harmony of spirit, all of
them bent on the single purpose to
give to the Church the nearest
equivalent in English to the original
and inspired word of God.”
Christian Women.
Fontaine inquired of Chateaubri
and whj’-, among the race of the
Jews, tho women wore more beauti
ful than the men. Asa peet and a
Christian, Chateaubriand made an
swer. The Jewess has escaped the
malediction with which their fa
thers, husbands, and sons have been
struck. We find no Jewess mingled
with the crowd of priests and per
sons who insulted the Son of Man,
pierced him, crowned him with
thorns, making him to undergo the
ignominy and suffering of the cross.
The women of Judea believed in
the Saviour, loved him, and followed
him, assisting him with their means,
and solacing him in his woes. A
woman of Bethany poured the pre
cious ointment on his head, which
she carried in an alabaster vase;
the sinner poured performed oils
upon his feet, and wiped them with
with her hair. Christ, on his part,
lavished pity and mercy upon the
Jews. He raised tho son of the
widow of Nain, and the brother of
Martha. He cured the mother of
Simon and the woman who touched
the hem of his robe. For the Sa
maritan he was a source of living
water, a compassionate judge to the
adulteress. The daughters of Jeru
salem wept over him; tho holy wo
men followed him to Calvary;
brought balms and aromatics, and,
weeping, sought him at the grave,
Mulier, quid ploras?
His first appearance after his res
urrection was to Magdalene; she
knew him not, but he called her by
name. At the sound of that voice
her eyes were opened, and she re
plied, “My Master!" The reflec
tions of such beautiful truths will
ever stamp the brow of the Jewess.
To-day, a woman without Chris
tianity is a blot on the fairest crea
tion of beauty; her influence a bane,
her life a failure. She hath no ob
stacles in her way compared to that
olden time, for in many a heart,
given over to sin, lurks a feeling of
respect for a consistent Christian
woman. Like the memory of a
man’s mother, it is seldom, if ever,
dethroned.— Watchman.
Love and Loyalty.
It is no hard statute of a law
book, no commandment graven in
stone, that we are to obey, but love
and loyalty tracing the footsteps of
Jesus, and saying, with Mr. Stead
fast, in “Pilgrim’s Progress,” “Wher
ever I have found the print of his
shoe there have I desired to set my
foot also.” If we rightly under
stand , ail this we shall not be
troubled with the charges of legal
ism and ascetism which men some
times throw out against the gospel.
The}" say, “You preach that we
must abstain from this amusement
and from that amusement —from
play-going, and daneing, and cards
—and thus 3 t ou seek to put a yoke
on men, and bind heav3 T burdens on
us.” don’t preach any such
thing. Christianity has nothing to
do with prohibiting the pleasures
and emploj’ments of worldly men.
It did not come into the world to
make laws for tho worldl3 T -minded.
What it does sa3 r is this : It shows
you Christ denying all sin and
unrighteousness, living a life of ab
stinence from all hurtful or ques
tionable emplo3’ments, choosing
poverty, and loneliness, and self-de
nial, that he might make man3 T
rich; and it ea3’s to you, “How if
3 t ou would like to follow such a life,
accept it. But you are free. You
will not be compelled, like Simon,
the C3’rene, to bear Christ’s cross
unwillingl3 r . You choose. So be
sure, he sa3 T s, that 3*ou cannot be
his disciple unless bear his
cross. But you can decline to be
his disciple, if 3 T ou wish. The gos
pel docs not impose Christ’s 3 T oke
on an3’ unwilling neck. — Dr. A. J.
Gordon.
The President of the California State
Vinicultural Society has reported 60,000
acres covered with vineyards, numbering
45,000,000 vines, and representing, with the
land, a capital of $30,000,000.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
Southern Cotton-Seert 051 Factories.
New Orleans Times.
The cotton-seed oil factories are reapings
golden harvest. Their manufactures have
advanced very largely in price, while they
pay no more for the raw material. It would
be difficult to overestimate the value of
an industry to the city. Large numbers of
men are employed, and the available capi
tal of the community is sttadiiy increased.
There is no wealth more solid than that
acquired by manufacturing communities.
Whoever erects an oil mill must imbibe the
conviction that he sees in practical opera
tion the prime principle of national, as
well as individual, prosperity—economy.
It is but a few years since cotton-seed
throughout the South was allowed to go to
waste. Now there is no Southern product
which is more thoroughly utilized. It adds
several millions to the value of our foreign
exports and enriches our planters in pro
portion. Rich joint stock companies have
grown up, which wield their
large capital for the benefit of the city,
while subserving their own ends. If the
South wishes to enjoy solid and durable
prosperity, Southern staples must he util
ized as cotton-seed now is. No country
ever grew rich in the production of raw
material alone, but a country which both
produces and manufactures will always
have things its own way. There are many
articles which can be manufactured here
just as well as cotton-seed ; and it is hardly
necessary *o add, there is more profit in
that kind of industry than in perpetually
“saving the country ” at the polls.
While the above may be in a manner
true, we consider that the advantage thus
gained is greatly overbalanced by the loss
of a cheap and powerful fertilizer. If all
the surplus cotton-seed that are annually
manufactured into soil were placed upon
our worn-out uplands, the yield of cotton
and corn would be increased two-fold, and
many a sterile tract of land now considered
almost worthless could in this way be ren
dered rich and productive. Yet, still the
sale of cotton-seed to the oil factories an
nually increases, and every year the lands
of the South grow poorer. The short-sighted
negro tenant excuses himself with the fal
lacy that it does not pay him to manure
another man’s land, and the land-owner,
with equal stupidity, refuses to buy the
seed for fertilizing purposes. The oil facto
ries are good enough in their way, but we
are forced to believe that their increasing
consumption of the surplus crop of cotton
seed is detrimental to the better interests of
the country.
Disease in Sewers. —ln every house
there is of refuse material a large amount.
On washing-day many gallons, often bar
rels, of water in which clothing has been
washed, and containing the filth that the
skin has thrown off during the week, must
be disposed of. All through the week more
or less dishwater and dirty water from vari
ous sources accumulates. Asa rule it is
thrown into a drain which is, perhaps, only
covered with a board, and carries but a few
feet away, when it soaks into the soil or
spreads out on the ground and evaporates
into the air. If the soli is pervious it may
leak into it and some of it eventually find
its way into the well. In the course of a
short time these slops fill the soil full, a
sort of fermentation takes place, and as the
air is more or less excluded, most poisonous
gasses are generated. It is now positively
known that many diseases have their origin
in breathing these gasses. It does not
follow that they always cause disease, be
cause the germs may not always be present,
but they frequently do. Diptheria, that
scourge of both city and country, has been
traced time and again in the city to sewer
gas passing into the house, In the country,
where less attention is given to the cause of
disease, the drain for slops is not always
recognized as the source of diptheria, but
in very many cases it has been proved to be
so beyond the slightest doubt.
Winter on the Farm. —Farmers gener
ally cut their year’s supply of firewood in
winter. Cut down old trees that have
passed their prime and are taking up land,
giving nothing in return. Lop off' all dead
branches and cut down the husk from about
the fences and coiners of pastures. Look
over the tools that will soon he needed for
spring work, and mend the brokon ones.
If time hangs heavy on your hands, give
more attention to the fowls, and so make
them profitable. If chickens are warmly
housed, regularly supplied with water in
the middle of the day, and have at least
one meal of cooked food per day, ihe hens
will lay even in winter. By this time all
the surplus roosters should have been killed
off. They should have been separated from
tlie pullets since they arrived at maturity.
Fowls need variety in their food in winter.
Keep a large pot in the kitchen. In this
put potato parings, cabbage-leaves, celery
tops, and all sorts of refuse. Cook every
night and feed warm in the morning. The
result from a flock of twenty hens and pul
lets will be from seven to nine eggs daily
all through the winter.
The light natural color of dried fruit,
produced by the new processes and sold at
fancy prices, is made by an infusion of sub
phur. We can but think this 11 fair locks
is had at the expense of natural aroma
Some one who claims to be the inventor of
this process is giving Isew York fruit driers
trouble, claiming some kind of a patent.
The principle cannot be patented, as,laws
upon that subject are too well understood.
Ashes or saltpetre if applied in time w**
hold the onion maggot in check.