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DEVOTED TO RELIGION, LITERATURE, COMMERCE,
[CULTURE AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
IX.
BAINBRIDGE; GEORGIA,
MORNING, APRIL 17, 1869.
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On Finance—0. J. Mannerlyo, M. C.
Smith, A. H. Colquitt, W. A. Graham,
D. Kaurbo,' J. C. Rutherford, K.
McKenon, J. Taylor and K. Powell. _
A coromnnication from the ltajitifit
Cburch tendering their house of worship
to this Church during tho meeting,, was
read and referred to an appropriate
time for action.
It was then resolved that the morn
ing sessions of the meeting te opened
at 0 o’clock A. M., aad close at 11
o’clock A. M.—that the afteruoo* Ma
rions convene at 3 o clock P. M-> ttnd
close at 5.
The preliminaries being arranged,
the Bishop called for reports from the
Pastors, of their several charges which
were made in their order.
The meeting then adjourned to meet
at 3 P. M..
AFtitBNOON SESSION
Convened at 3 P. M., and was opened
with religious service* by Rev. Cape!
Kaiford. . r<:
By permission of the presiding officer,
Rev. J. O. At Cook of Cutlibert, repre
sented the interests of the new cburch
in Ciiliibei t, asking sueli aid’as could
he afforded.
Rev. F. A. Btaiicb, of the Florida
. TO THE JCSMdBY OF
ALFRED €>. BOWKH-
“Happy are' tliey who’ die in yontb, when
their renown is around them.”— Otrian.
Afaithful soldier of the 18th Georgia Battel -
ien, (Savannah Volunteer Guards), beloved by
officers and eomrades, be fell in the battle of
Sains’ Creek, near Farmvitle, Vn., on the Gth of
April, 1865, in dtfense df a waning, but righ-
teons cause; a-pnre, willing oSerifig—cheerfully,
gallantly giving his heart’s blood in defense of
loved ones of home, a loved South and its sacred
altars, on the altar of bleeding and prostrate
Liqerty The glorious defenders of Saragossa f
the heroes of Thermopylae’, and Marathon, with
the immortal legions of the Soothe bn Cross,
w|it stand side by hide in the temple .of 11
and their honoTednames will be echoed mi.™
the corridors of Time, Us martyrs-,for all that is
noble, just and grand.
Rest thee, Soldier, silent sleeping,
Not again the battle shout—-
Or the weary watch-fire keeping!
Shall arouse thee, or the root
Of vanquished foemcn.
Heath forever claims the flower,
Fairest, beautiful, the braTe—
Affection’s bloom the fleeting hour
Speeds away, the silent grave
Holds the trea-ured dust.
Rest thee, warrior, hbbly dying
Foremost in the bloody fight!
Gallant, fearless. Brave, defying
For this loyed of borne, forJtigbt,
In a hqly cause. «
WariS tmatpet Bitot rwoueding
Civ All net rnniA fbn hfifO flfilld !
Ordinaries, Administrators.
Guardians, &c.
i.r..tnfnrf. slue* the twr, tho following arc the
r-.r notices of Ordinaries to-xo nu Pain IN
120 Conference, also represented the inter
ests of the literary institutidns within
1 I>;ljV Notice* «•**•*•••
l»avH' Notices
of Lands, *c.. pr. sqr. of ten Hu
r Days' Notices
(Sfonth** Notices....
• Notices of sales pr. «qr.
jieuFv ’ Sales.—For these sales, f
4 00
5 00
... 600
s.. 7 00
.... in oo
.... 2 00
every flfa
rt> Sales, per square, $5.00.
Intiurie* are charged for the s^mo as other
titiiibridge District Meeting.
The l>ainbriiljre District Meeting, XI.
Chinch, South, convened in the
ctiiodist Chmcli, Bainhri'lge, Ga, 9
Co k A. M., April lil, 1809. Bishop
T. Pierce in the Chair. The meet-
’ iv .s opemM with religious services
ihe Bishop.
I’. v. A. J. licaii appointed Secretary,
W. A. Cr.ih.mi, Ass’t Secretary.
M’iMBEKS I'llE-ENT.
!{■;»•. G. C. Ciarkt*. I’residing Elder,
hr in Tho'iiiitide Station.—Rev. J.
Austin M. C. Smith, Rev. \V. T.
.In . Jus ii.i Taylor, L. G. Bry.tn aiid
It. Rohisoa.
>lial.ridge S alion.—KeVi A. J.
vi. J.C, Itudierford, J. I 1 ) Dickiii"
, M. P. HoyI.
11 ‘ecusa, Circuit. -Rev. W. M. D.
ltd, Joseph llall, M. 0. Herring. G.
Mannerly n, S. S. Dixoitj Noel
ev, W. 1’oweP, J. II, Pullen and
W. N. Avrieit.
Spring Hill Circuit.—Uev. J. T.
asworth, \Y. 11 .Hayes, S. XI. Ches-
, and K Bowel’,
the bounds of this- District, to wit:
Fletcher Institute and Bainbridge Fe
male College.
The regular business was then re
sumed
The Bishop made a number of point
ed and appropriate remarks in reference
to the necessity and importance of
church meetings—and of the importance
of reviving Love Feasts. And gave his
reasons for believing Methodism the
best system for perpetuating Scriptural
Christianity in this country.
Notices were given, flint the tioilfer-
ence adjourned with the Benediction.
The second day session was occupied
with routine bus'ness.
At til j close of this day’s session, the
Secretary a*k>;d the Bishop and Dr. ;
Myers to give ns the best plans for
holding church meetings, which they
did to the edification stfid enrouiagetnent
of the mcetihjf.
Dr. Myers then called attention
to Bn ike’s Weekly, the Sunday-School
Visitor aud other church literature.
Notices were given, and the Confer
ence adjiiefned with the Benediction.
The third day was merely occupied
with the ordinary course of business
until tbe afternoon.
A resolution by Rev. M. C. Smith iii
reference to the time of holding tire
next Session, and laid on the table, was
taken tip, and Thomasville selected As
j the pi
Shalt not rouse the hero dead !
Not the chaige so gallant eonnding
Where Abe Southern CruStr bps lad:
Tbe patriot brave.
Comrade, rest, noW"wbere waving
Battle banners flashed the .breeze
. All is hushed, save zepyrs laving.
Sighing ’mid tbe flowers, trees,
, For the martyred dead:
Comrade—hearts still mourn, are aching ;
Still With tears bede# thy tomb—
In the ‘Wales ef bH«s” ftWiktrigi
For thb Soldier's honored plume
Wear -the Chriitian-’s crown.
Fame’s flaming pillar, unborn ages
Shall record the Southern dead—
To futune millions, Histry’s pages
Pointing where her legions bled
'Neath her battle-crosS.
Loving hearts shall bless the hours
In- communion -'rdnnd thy tomb 1
For the brave the fairest flowers
Shall be ohorisbed, sweetly bloom
Nourished by, our tears.
T. R. W.
Bainbridge, Ga:, April 12, I860.
Unbeliever* take advantage of this , saving efficacy, unless perpetuated i practicable. The rice can be worked
concession,
attd deelarc.tfmt prayer is; by actual importations of new ones.—
useless and vain.
They feel therefore a#*r naobHga-
if religion
1 will be eon-
t pv condi-
I -tiieriiforo
anse the
>/beUer nor
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angnage of
at preffit
[For the Argus.] ^
Exposition Fourlli Petition of
tire Dord’s Prayer.
GIVE US THIS DAT OUB DAILY B3EAD.
.ace for holding the next annual
amilVi Circuit.—ltov. W.S. Baker, tso«sioh- '
| The Conference then suspended bns-r
l iness to have an address from Rev. E.
U. Myers upon the several financial
interests of the Church, which he en
forced with great earnestness and
ability.
The several committees made tlieir
reports, which were canvassed and
adopted.
The following was offered by AV. A,
Graham :
Hesolved, That the thanks of this
District Meeting are hereby tendered to
the citizens of Bainbridge for the
kind and generous hospitality extended
The generally received opinion of this
petition iB, that it has a two-fold mean
ing. daily supplies of food for the body
! and daily snpplies of grill# for the spir
it-. To the first I must object. It may
seem strange for me to object to seem
ingly so plain a declaration. I do it
however from, to my mind, sufficient
reasons. First objection:
The design of prayer is to teach hu
mility and must, from its very nature,
be universal in its application.
It is a settled fact, food for the body
ls not a daily grow th* Spring, Summer
and Autuiiin coiistitnte the period of
growth aud gathering into barns. When
all these provisions for the year are
housed, can the spirit in a man feel a
necessity to prayer for his daily bread ?
Can the man wjio lives off of the market,
whom God hits blessed in tiiS past-
giving him means sufficient to supply all
his wants, already in hand, for’which,
as a good man, he has already, returned-
.. ? - -Ti • r-ai -v
1 Gee and James Arhne.
klockonec. Mission. Rev. Blillc
C. Harris, Edward McMillan,
organ Circuit.—Rev. 0. E. Brown
Perry ami C. Bradbury.
Colquitt Circnil.—Rev. D. C. Sun
aiiil T. Rowell.
Spring Creek Mission.—Rev W< XL
usseil and J. G. Jones
I unity and Blakely Circuit—Rev. G.
■ i*. Anthony, and Drury Rambo.
Fort Gaines Station—Rev. B.- J;
aid win aud W. A. Graham,
Grooversville Circuit—Rev. J. W.
alley, Rev. C. Rsiford, I. G. Jordan,
eniieth McKenon and W. A. Pugh.
Uev. G. C. Clarke tnoveJ that all the
mbers of this Church, be invited to
fUcipatien in all the interests of the
se-.mjr except voting—which was
fried.
The Bishop then called for the ap-
v!n aient of the following committees:
Education—A. II. Colquitt, J.
Austin, J. G. Rutherford, C. J.
ibinerlyn and \V. A. Graham.
On State of the Cburch—R-v. C.
' lfonl ’ 1“ C. Bryan, J. P. Dickinson,
^enh Hall, W, E. Hays, James Ar-
C. Bradbury, D. Rambo, W. A.
fatu.n, W. A. Pugl. and S. M.
Lester.
Sabbath Scbools--J. C. Rmber-
rd ’ Xoel Gdny, R e v. M. C. Smith.
11- Gee, T. J. Perry, Rev. D. C.
A. E. ArmficlJ, Uev. B. J.
J- G. Jordan, M. P. Hoyl and
J», ,U binson.
'- n Lliurdi Literature—Rev. XI. C.
mith » Rev. C. E. Brown, L. O. Brv uv,'
' er - W. M. D. Bond aid -Rev. W. S.
laker.
I "*‘ l ClmrcL ExtcnsToiV—Rev. G. C.
* rk «i Rev. J. \V. Talley, D. Rambo,
"• Dee, W. E. nays, W. T. Taylor,
R- Colq iitt, J. G. Jones, llev. P. C.
M. C. Herring, Rev; J. T.
>u<] s* s. Diion.
thanks,—feel a spirit -of dependence de
manding of him to ask for his daily
bread ? I answer without hesitation,
he cannot. Do parents expect their
children to ask for those thingsqrrepari
ed for and set before them ? *1 say they
do not God is our Father. Father of
all men. -He created all men. All are re-
ljant upon him.fdr food, wicked as well
as good. The Obligations of Fathet are
npon him to provide for all. His sun
rises and shines upon the hb just as well
JiS the just. His raifa falls alike upon
the field of the unjast as well as the just.
If food is produced by the providential
blessing of snn and raiir, and this with
out distinction falls npon all alike, yon
6an readily perceive, they cbtne, asked,
to us, and that we hereby assure them ’ or unasked, upon the unthankful,
that, we shall carry to our homes the
most grateful remembrance of their
abundant kindness, and of our pleas
ant stay in their beautiful city.
Resolved, By Rev. M. C; Smith, that
we liercby tender our gratitude to ti»i)
Baptist and Presbyterian rhurches of
this city for the privilege of using theif
houses of worship npon the Sabbath.
Also, That we hereby express onr
warmest thanks to the Superintendent
and Board of XIanagers of the Atlantic
and Gulf Railroad, for transporting
Delegates over the road at half fare.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
published in the city papers.
The meeting was peaceful, harmoni
ous, and profitable. And we trust its
benefits will accrne to this community
for a long-while to come.
A. J. Desk, Secretary.
Bainbridge, April 6th, 1869.
iarri*
well as the thankful, and because of this
I am compelled to object to that inter
pretation: which makes one pray, or ask
for that, I will get anyhow, and in just
as rich profusion, as if I was to’ ask lot
it Second objection:
It gives nndue importance to food.
Out Savionr in same discourse says,
“Take no thought for your life, what
ye shall eat or whai ye shall drink; nor
yet for your body, what ye shall put on.
Is not the life more than meat, and the
body than raiment ? Bebold the fowls
of the air, etc.; consider the lilies of the
field etc.” All fed and Clothed by God.
“Seek first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness and all these shall be .add
ed unto you.” All these* meaning food
and clothing. I do earnestly object in
giving food so great prominence as is
given to it by those who declare it one
of the petitions m the Lord’s prayer.
Xlofe especially do I object when Christ
gays food is an adjunct of religion, in-
seperably connected with it. All these
shall be added; to add, means to become
cart of inheritance or secular Benefits of
inst., resulted m tne election oi vue ^ tbon AweU
publican State ticket The Gorttoor’e f BbJtbdfeL*
majority is three ttoosand. The e^n- j th'e samesignification
gressional delegaHon is divided. Th j ^ it . H e, in seeking,
Legislature is Repnblican. Ltc • Psalmist, in trnstin K aiul doing
The 1 as teat nows from Cuba ia advrees ( gooA. ^ ^
to tbe aueee* of the rcbelUtm- ‘ Tbird ob r tlOT J
tions to Oofitem
Is r necessary uft dll,
ferred upon ‘hankie:
tions that deify
feel nhconcBMWn
best and purest m<
oftenpy fed tl
cases, not^Q
tiin
plausible conclnsfon is svoilN into
by denying, with me, its meaning daily
food at all. Fourth objection:
It conflicts with the greatest scopes
and design's of the petition.
The term bread is symbolic. It is often
so iised in the Scripture. In Deut. xvi, 3;
2 Cliron. xviii, 26; called bread of aiflie-
tion. Psalms xxx, 5; bread of tears;
Prov. ix, 17, bread eaten in secret is
sweet; ’xx, 17, bread of deceit is sweet;
xxxi, 27, bread of idleness; Isaiah xxx,
20, bread of adversity. I have referred to
these .Scripture s that the reader may see
for hinpself it is often used symbolically.
With .Scripture on my side, I unhesitat-
ingly'ft3sert that bread in the petition is
a symbolic word and used alone to rep
resent its symbolic meaning. With
these objections stated, I now proceed
to giVexvliat I deem its true meaning.
First. I assert that bread in the peti
tion symbolizes Christ. 1
In support of this . interpretation I
cite you to the very words-of Christ
himself. John vi, 32 aud 33: “Then
Jesus said unto them verily, verily, I
say utito you Moses gave yon not that
bread from heaven; but my Father
giVeth yon the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which cometh
down from hettVdii and giveth life unto
the world;’’ verse 48, “I am that bread
of life;” 5i;*“I am the living bread
which came down from Leaven; if any
man eat of this bread, he shall live for
ever: and the bread that I will give is
my flesh, which I -will give for the life
of tlie world;” 63, “It is the spirit that
quiokeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing;
the words that I speak unto you they
are spirit and they ore life.” There is
not a more significant word, or one the
meaning of which .so.k&lljt^^eribes-the
real character of Christ in his sacrificial
offering as the term bread. Actual bread
i3 the life of the world, or that by which
life is perpetuated. Break the staff of
bread, and a nation beeomes weak, and
unless early assistance is rendered, must
die. Christ is the life, spiritual life of
the world; no spiritiutl lifeontof Christ.
“Iu Adam all died, in Christ all are
made alive ” Being purchased from
under the law of works in tvbich they
severally existed and severally died; and
now alive iiiider grace.
In the sacrament, bread is used to
denote Christ. The body’of our Lord
Jesus Christ which was broken for you;
take, eat, <£c
Christ in his tethptatidn uses this
iahgnage: “Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word,”Lie. doctrine,
“which ^proceedeth out of; the mduth of
God.’’ Bread as food is rejected, though
hungry, spiritual bread supplying its
-place—feeding sonl and body. - Admit
ting that bread in the petitioi? means
what Christ says of himseif, it forever
couftries that false idea that there is no
Christ in the Lord’s ptiiyer. The peti
tion, thus interpreted; honors Christ,
reveals him to the world as a daily ne
cessity, and .shows the universality of
the atonement. If God is thouniversol
Father-—all saying our Father which art.
in heaven—asking him to give ns onr
daily bread, L e. impart to ns the bene
fits of tbe atonement, Clearly show, that
Christ is the Savionr of aft Men; and
those who shall ask shall receive.
Second. This interpretation folly ac
cords with Scriptntal meaning of prayer;
teaches Dependenee^-Hnmility and is
■freed from objections stated.
No man, an actnal sinner, can or will
receive pardon for bis sin? without asking
for it. There must be, on the part of the
offender, the knowledge of sin, and his
nndone and wretched condition, unless
God, in answer to^his prayer, bestows on
him the benefits of the atonement —
Christ, the bread which came down
from heaven, most be relied on. The
Bodi; by a strong act of faith, mast ap
propriate all to itself and feel that Christ
died to bestow the gifts of pardon and
sanctification upon Jill who ask. The
infidel or unbeliever cannot say he is fed
like the spiritual child of God: for he
has no peace; ho assurance of God s be
ing reconciled; no strong, well grotinded
hope of a glorious add happy hereafter.
The ChilAof God who livea in the enjoy
ment of daily association and-participa
tion of the blessed bread which came
down from heaven, says, “we know, if
the earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved, wis have a building of God, a
house not made with bands eternally in
thebeavens.”
Thns, prayer-is made honorable. To
be sure of heaven-we %rast receive onr
daily bread. Tdnr good crops ten yearn
ago do not preclude the necessity of
want to-day.
When the believer thus lives, each day’s
food perpetuating the day’s blessings
proceeding, i Religion becomes truly a-
chain, each day making a distinct, per
fect lin^, and when .life is finished, the
last link perfected, presents a beautiful
chain of benefits and blessijjgS, conferr
ed apd enjoyed. , Yopr being to-day
aeeiptedj and sinning to-morrow, yon-
hqfye no work, good work done in the.
past, entitling yen to pardon; no L you
xe tp fomo as a Sinner asking f orpar-
n; thus confessing, foot'
dence and hope of pardon rests npon
Christ. The prayer of the Pharisee, “I
thank tbee. Father* that I am not as
other men, extortioners, unjust” dc.,
never justified him; but he who smote
on his breast, not daring so much as to
lookup, saying Lord'have mtercy on me,
a sinner, went away justified. Christ
informs us of one who, by pleading cer
tain acts done in the past endeavored to
gain admittance into heaven. Here are
his words: “Lord, have we not cast out
devils in thy name, and done many
wonderful works in thy name?” Does
he obtain hie request ? Christ answers:
“Depart from me, ye workers of iniqui
ty..- I never knew yon,” i. e. as a faith
ful; devoted follower. •'
[COKCDUDED ON THIKD PAG®.]
with the'cotton, and wdlTpa^well;
I am no w engaged planting, rice in
my cotton fields, and in adjacent bot
toms, and hope to make it available
in . destroying^ the £,caterpiller and
yielding a handsome profit.
Yonrs in haste.
Green manures far Poor Lands.
Perhaps nothing in the whole pro
[Written for tbe Bainbridge Argus]
The Cotton Caterpillar
Deab Argus :—Agreeable to re
quest and promise, I now give you
a brief article on the Caterpiller, and
the means of preventing or destroy
ing it.
■The cotton caterpiller is one stage”
of the progeny of a miller, which is
a native of those more Southern re
gions where the cotton plant lives
and grows perpetually.; the only food
on which it subsists ia the cotton
plant. It dies on any other. So say
the best authorities. It is like mi-
e aUeniion ornnoseTnterestea, as
tiie fjuestfgn of preserving or increas
ing the lertiliiy of the soil.
It is"not so difficult to make worn
ont'and^barren • land produce good
crops, as one would suppose [from a
hasty View of innumerable failures to
be seen all around. If thej^needfiil
properties to^grow crops are not in
the soil it is in vain to sow, and
plant, without first-putting them
there ; orjif they are there, but lock» J
up, without firat makins’; 41 ’^ necessa-
r^conditioiia td please |them, find
givekhew. vitality. Every observing
farmer knows that it is far easier to
produce grass f than- wheat, and a
Common ram ark- 'among farmers is
“if I- can rhise a crop of clover I am
sure l canJraise wheat.” One of the
means of raising is tb’ get it to pro
duce clover, and plow it clown when
in fall bloom. But clover ediitains a
large percentage of potash, and in
soils already. abundantly supplied
with this, such as slat© and shale
lands, it is better„to>ix the clover
with other grasses.
Farmers know that an old sod
field farmed in corn, yields the largest
crops, aud that'the best crops of
wheat are raised from it... Why?
yet fainish; droop and die»
hieesrase the vegetable matter Is hot
m an available condition to promote
its growth. As ft fA impossible for
every- farmer to get stable thaimre in
sufficient quantity to enrich his land,
he must get the green vegetable ma
nure supplied by nature. It iB the
principle sonree of manure on the
earth, and as such it must be applied
by the farmer if -hjB^vptdd; secure his
own greatest advaueement By
green ponuie* is, of course, meant
getable manures plowed down.
Observing-fanners are well aware
that 1 green manures fructify the soil,
and lhat it pays best to plow down
ciover mixed grasses, oats, buck
wheat and sowed com- They, should
mot fear to lose a crop of hay, or miss
a crop of oats, or rye, Duckwheat b®
so doing, for the sacrifice *5°**
wifi enable them 4 ' -«**»** a doz ;
en crw” with profit Evepr year
green crops should be flowed down;
in the absence of abundance of barn
yard manure! It wiil keep the
fertility of the soil, as nothing
else will, and enriches him who does
it as well as his land—experimental
Farm Journal ■!
The Souttiern M«*lto«ilst Pwli-
iisbing H««se
TO tub lxitt and Freacheks, - VUAvat*
ISO AND LOCAL, OF IBS X X.
SOUTH.
gratory birds and migratory people,
so far as a disposition to trayel North
is concerned, as Suminer approaches.
This It dofes just as the cotton plant
matured In more northern latituiies
Hence, wc always hear of it South
of us bdfofe its appearance in our
immediate section; and like the n “ wssar y for its growth ancl perfect
_ i li’-vAn rw/TVinn/l
Wandering jew it invariably ap
proaches gradually. And it contin
ues to' travel North until the first
frosts of Autumn destroy the army
for the season. It is exceedingly
tender to cold ; and it is evident that
they who suppose that the Sggs win
ter here in the cotton stalk are mis
taken in the kind of worm. The
grass caterpiller and the cotton cat
erpiller much resemble each other, in
appearanee. The former, ho*ever, is
hardier, and may winter here.
This miller is a rapid flyer. In
size and in color it resembles the
candle moth.. It may be seen in the
cottonrpatch about sundown. It lays
its eggs on the tinder Bideof the leaf,
where they may be found by close
scrutiny. The eggs, hatch in a few
days, and the minute caterpiller be-
■gins immediately to eat the plattt,
nor dees-it .desist nighfc or day until
it lias reached its growth. It now
winds itself up into-a eoceoon
in a very short time it comes forth a
miller again*
As preventi ves various means have
It
The field has been" left lying until
different kinds of grasses have grown
up each one gathering different wib-
sianers from the atmosphere, and
carrying them down into the soil
through the roots, and enriching
it. Hence when a crop of corn er
Wheat is planted all the substances
been provided
development "'have
for its use.: !
By the application of 1 ime on such
soil the decomposition of fibrtius
matter.in the soil:is hastened, and
tliey are converted .into plant food.
If too much is .applied, a heavy
growth of straw is produced, and it
will- grow so rank as to lodge and
yield very little grain. By using
a smaller quantity of lime, so as to
make a healthy growth of straw, the
heads will fill weU and the grain ma
ture^ for it.is found that when the
straw does not make an overgrowth
the head fills perfectly. The object
to' be sought is to know what ele
ments are needed in the'soil, and in
what cdnditionfe, to produce the croj>
we wish to grow. There is nd dpubt
that if we should give to the soil all
. the constituents of the, each year, we
could always count with- reasonable
and certainty on a large yield* Were
the constituent elements of wheat in-
exhaustibio in- the soil, wo-might sow
and reap, year after year, without
diminution in the yield or quality.
easily ex-
iS
not long until we can raise no crop
at all.
Wljeat contains lime, soda and
chlorine. Soda and chlorine make
We have received letters from sever
al persons, -both in the ministry aad_
membership of the Chnrch, expreswng
a wish to aid us in 1 the liquidation
the remaining . Hibilities that' exist
against the Publishing Houti^ with (
the reqrtest that we to modify 9
ty Dollar Prdjmsitibn, as to giye- every
metiibbr bf the Clitti’ch itii opportunity
to lend a helping hand, and thus re- !s
lieye tbe House by the first of July!
It is certainly desirable--t©' accom
plish this object, and After so touch Im*.
been already effected, no one cisii hesi— .
tatc to believe that a united effort «a
tbs part of ! the Church will entirely re- .
Here ns frdto all embarrassrueht by the
lime spec
tified.
been used with partial success. _ ^ contrary tboy are
is.well known that all ; n3 ® ct - eat ^i baQgted , and , unless supplied, it
bfrds are exceedingly fond of the _ > . I W A «an raise n<
cotton caterpiller, and it has often
been noted that where these birds
were abundant the catferpiller failed
ti^do much damage. And as these
birds are also very fond of rice; it
fojfiows that where rice is
common salt. The sowing ot com-
grown mon salt on wheat fields janat be
plentifully the bifds will be attracted advantijgeous. ^ ‘ m^e H
thither, and the restilt will be the, strengthen the Rast
destruction bf ^^rpi^r. Nen^ | ^ ^ W
plantin^of rice^in pitches or rows j riant growth which cracks open east-
planting {he . ^ having the juices to coze emt and
ii planed—saj'everyTwmitieth row | e'seape. The action of the hot .tin
—wRJ result benefieiaHy in inviting | and moisture upon this madify pno-
the rice bird and other birds, which ' duces rust. Especially .is this the
^ J -• of tLe —
will exterminate this enemy
cotton planter.
This is probably the best plan, and
now is the tiriie to a::t upon it.
case with wheat grown in low soil
where the dampness is great.;,.
The never failing quantity of plant-
food Soaring in the atmosphere is
I have titoe lb mention only one j ever available for promoting the
Other plan, and that is the use of {growth and development of plants.
, m »ii lights within short distances of j In this availability there is a marked
each other over the field. A small j difference between that in the air
candle is the best, and should be and the vegetable nutriment locked
made by first dipping the wick in j up, in the soil. The atmosphere ia
spirits of turpentine before moulding, sure to
This will prevent its being.blown out
by the wind. These candles should
be lighted as soon.as it becomes dark
and the miller begins to fly. This
plan will destnoy many.
Still tbe first plan is not only the
All blessings lose their bestj bat it is the cheapest and gWj
whenever the-tender leaves open
their pores tti take in the xtonrisb-
ments it furnishes. It builds np the
stem and developes the various parts
of the plant Not so with ibq roots
of the plant It may send forth its
799il$t3 in every direction, seeking
We have made a Carefitl cikulittion;
and submit tbe following proposititinS
to the Church, which, if accepted be 1
tween this date and the firtl of .Vufy,
trill entirely relieve us. We earnestly
ask thrir acceptance; ? .!i ; ■
100 persons to purchase each |6*
worth of our publication*. .
100 persons to purchase each
worth of our publications. '' ”
130 persona to purchass h«n wr ,
worth of out publications.
200 persofflF-to purchase '‘each $86
w arth ftfpur. ppb|icatiou*. --1
230, petfwns to purchase 4a& 1*8^
worth of our publications.
' 300 persona to purchase eaeh J 't4f
worth of onr pnbllcatioirf. r
500 pereot* each to purchase $1*
worth of bur publicatioM. •) - y
1,000 person* each to purphaac $1$
‘ ’ ‘
worth" of our publications.
5,000 persons each to purchase ffl
worth of our publication*.
6,000 person* to purcheae W
worth of our publleations.
10,000 pewons to purchase each
worth 6f our publicaliona.
Oar hretli ren who may accept any of
•the above propositions, will please aead
tlieir order* at oncej aecoinpanted with
the money.
In many instances, entire Churches
will accept either, of the two last-named
proposition*, by purchasing Hytoa-
b:-oks for their tdhgregatioii, and li
braries for their minister; and bv this
means take 50 or 1.00 shares in the $1
or $2 proposition,
Snnday-sthool* al*o replenish their
libraries, hr pnnAaae new ones; by ac
cepting any of tb* above propositions,
and at-same time render u* the aid we
need.
Members of tHe Ghnrcli er other* mar
also on these terms procure private li
braries.
We submit (bese propositiona tb*»'
every member of tbeChuroh may have
the orivileee of couUibttting their aid
the privileg* of coutiibuting
to this object. .
Persons who Write to us will pled**
state which proposition they aeeept, and
ioarish. growing plants [whether they are mimstert or la|n?*o,
and with, which Conference they are
identified.
Books *8t»t by mail to any address eu
receipt of retail price. -
Catalogues sent free ef charge ea *p*
plication.
A. Hi RxDTeaD, Agcntj
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