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YOL. XXIII. NO. 2. The Cartersville Express. Established Twenty Years. RATES AND TERMS. SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year $1 50 One copy six months 90 One copy three months 50 Payments invariably in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rates of One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion Address, S. A. CUNNINGHAM. 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.