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What will You Wear?
BY EMILY J. BUGBEE.
O, woman! with thy thought intent,
Thy little span of life all spent
In vanities of outer dress,
In all the utter weariness
Os changeful style and fashion gay,
That with a season pass away;
What will you wear, when by and by,
You lay your silk and purple by,
Your gold and jewels cast aside.
With every sign of worldly pride.
Your empty hands so pale and chill,
Upon your bosom folded still?
A simple robe of spotless white,
No gold or diamond flashing bright,
No powdered hair, or painted face.
No costly garniture of lace,
A simple flower to fade away
Amid the darkness where you lay.
What garments will your spirits wear,
When standing in his presence there,
Whose keen eye knoweth well his own,
And sitting on his righteous throne.
Shall turn inquiringly to see,
If stainless thy soul garments be?
If thou hast followed fashion's glare,
With all its circumstance of care.
And wrought with busy hands to hold
Thy place ’mid worshipers of gold;
With fever in thy heart and brain.
Hast struggled wildly to attain
Position by thy gorgeous dress,
Without regard to comeliness;
Then how amid the white robec’ throng
Canst ever lift thy triumph song?
O, woman! born for higher goal,
Scorn not thy heritage of soul,
Thy priceless dower of loving heart,
For rags of fashion in the mart;
But turn to pleasant, home-like ways,
To thought of prayer, and voice of praise
Upon thine age so impest-tossed,
So full of gain, so much of loss,
Unfold a quiet, loveful life.
And heal the bitter waves of strife;
Let not the crown from off thy brow,
Fall blackened in the tumult now,
But take the heaven-appointed right,
To shine as stars upon the night,
And build through gentle ways again,
The peace of home so madly slain.
Ministerial Qualifications.
REV. E. DAVIES.
It has pleased God to call some men to
fill the ministerial office. Aaron was taken
from among the children of Israel to min
ister unto the Lord in the priest’s office,
“and no man taketli this honor to himself
but he that is called of God as was Aaron.”
These heaven-ordained men are made able
ministers of ttife New Testament by the
sufficiency of Gpd, 11. Cor. iii. 5, 6. They
are called: “Ambassadors for Christ,”
“Ministers for Christ,” “Stewards of tie
mysteries of God,” “Defenders of the faith.”
Now it is natural to suppose that God
in his holy word would give these minis
ters instruction as to the character of men
they are required to be, and the nature ol
the work they are to perform. We purpose
to examine at this time mainly the former
part of these instructions. First, What
ministers should be.
1. They should be pure. “Be ye clean
that bear the vessels of the Lord.” They
must “hold the mysteries of faith in a pure
conscience.” They are to be filled with
the Holy Ghost; their powers and propen
sities all permeated with the divine pres
ence ; and this purity must pertain to body
as well as to soul; for they are to be strong,
robust. Hence they must be temperate,
continent, having control over their pas
sions and evil affections. Titus i. 8. How
essential is this in their delicate pastoral
duties.
2. They should be humble: “Serving
the Lord with all humility of mind.”
3. They should be patient. Yea, they
are to approve themselves the ministers of
God in much patience ; 11. Cor. vi. 4. The
servant of the Lord must not strive, but
be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, pa
tient,” especially under injuries. How
many things there are to try the patience
of the minister, and how indispensable
that he be a patient man.
4. They are required to be irrepreheusi
ble, unblamable, above reproach, so judi
cious and circumspect, that even their ene
mies shall have no evil to say of them.
This is not only desirable but essential;
I. Tim. iii. 2.
5. They must be willing, holding them
selves in readiness. “Here am I, send
me, anywhere, to any people.” They are to
take the oversight of the church, not by
constraint, but willingly, voluntarily* This
is the only acceptable service.
6. They must be disinterested. Paul
could say, “I seek not yours, but you,”
“nor of "men sought we glory—praise,
honor, esteem —neither of you, nor yet of
others, when we might have been burden
some as the apostles of Christ.” Excel
lent grace, may all possess it.
7. “They are to be impartial. “I charge
thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the elect angels, that thou observe
these things without preferring one before
another, doing nothing by partiality.” How
often the minister is tempted to care for
one and neglect another, to visit the rich
and neglect the poor. But how solemn the
charge before God and the Lord Jesus
Christ, to do nothing by partiality.
8. They must be gentle, placid, mild,
affectionate, even as a nurse cherisheth her
children. So were the apostles among
their people. Ministers must be “gentle
to all meu, even toward their enemies, and
those that oppose themselves ; I. Thes. ii. 7.
9. They must be devoted to their work.
Paul could say, “None of these things
I move me, neither count I my life dear unto
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myself, so I might finish my course with
joy, and the ministry that I have received
of the Lord Jesus. And again, according
to my earnest expectation and my hope,
that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but
that with all boldness, as always, so now
also, Christ shall be magnified in my body
whether it be by life or by death.”
10. They must be self-denying, ready to
tread in the steps of him who though he
was rich, for our sakes became poor, that
we through his poverty might be rich,”
who, though possessing all things, yet “he
had not where to lay his head.”
11. They must be of a sound mind; so
ber minded, sedate, modest. How excel
lent ! how becoming !
12. They must be given to hospitality ;
kindness to strangers.
13. They are to be so full of knowledge,
and the power to communicate, that they
will be “apt to teach ;” skillful in teaching.
14. They must give attention to reading,
to exhortation, to doctrine, and meditate
upon these things, and give themselves
wholly to them, that their mental profiting
may appear unto all. A minister without
study is like a well without water, or a
garden without fruit. A just portion of
his time must be given to close, persistent
study. How can lie teach if he does not
take time by study to learn ?
15. They must be strict in ruling their
own houses : “One that ruleth well his own
house, having his children in subjection,
with all gravity, ruling their children and
their own houses well; for if a man know
not how to rule his own house how shall he
rule the church of God ?”
IG. They must be ensamples for the
flock : “Be thou an example to the believ
ers, in word, in conversation, in charity,
in spirit, in faith, in purity.” “Neither as
Lords over God’s heritage, but as ensam
ples to the flock.”
If all these qualifications are required of
the Gospel minister, then,
1. We may all exclaim, “Who is suffi
cient for these things?” Let us ever be
mindful that our sufficiency is of God. Still
we must use ail possible means.
2. Then let the people pray for, pity,
love, encourage, and strengthen these men
of God.
“’T is not a cause of small import,
A pastor's care demands.
But what might fill an angel’s heart.
And filled a Savior’s hands.”
An Evening with the Missionaries.
Emerson College is situated on G,. street,
in Hie western suburbs of the city of M.
This magnificent structure, with its capa
cious and well ventilated apartments for
teaching, and accommodations for teachers,
with portico supported by massive pillars,
and shaded front, forms a pleasant and in
viting retreat for th*e student. Here it
was that I spent the pleasant hours of a
Saturday evening with the missionaries,
forgetting for the moment that I had ever
been a soldier; and so pleasant was the
interview that the hours passed away al
most unnoticed. Eight o’clock came and
all dispersed. I returned to my quarters,
only regretting that I should have to meet
again my burden from which I had been
so relieved by the scenes of Emerson Col
lege and its Christian associates. These
missionaries, nine in number, have left
their quiet and pleasant homes in the East
at their Master’s call, and come to the sunny
South, to labor in his vineyard. Mr. K.,
with his companion and seven ladies of
much refinement, and excellent religious
attainments, have been laboring here during
the school year with unswerving zeal, in
behalf of the African race, and to instill
into their hearts the best of all gifts, “the
wisdom that is from above.” It is really
wonderful how fast these people learn.
Some of them have advanced under the in
struction of these excellent ladies, so far
as to be able to assist in teaching. For
this purpose they are selected from the nor
mal class, by the superintendent. Brother
K. and his corps of teachers are worthy
of high commendations. Their services
rendered to these people will ever reflect
great honor.
It is due to some of the ladies that we
credit them with two years incessant labor
at this place, and yet they express no ar
dent desire to quit the field, even for the
summer vacation, and in all probability
will remain at their post during the same.
Credit is also due to the students for their
manifest appreciation of the services ren
dered them by these missionaries.
Brother K., with part of his corps, will
be off’ for the North by the first of July,
to spend the vacation. All wish them a
safe and pleasant journey, and a happy
time among their friends at home. They
carry with them honors due<and the best
of all, and crowning honor, is, the rich
blessings of their heavenly Father. We
think that no one else could fill their place
here.
It is well known to the Christian world
that the missionaries have met with great
success in the South for the last four years.
It is only hoped that their work of love
will be continued, and that more be added to
their number of laborers. Can we have
them? Are there not young men and wo
men in the North to whom money is no ob
ject, who would willingly devote their time
and talents to this blessed work of educa
ting this once oppressed and down-trodden
people? Not only do these call for our
aid, but there are thousands of white chil
dren in equal need of instruction.
F.O., U.S.A.
$1 only for Six Months!
Orphans’ Home, St. Mary’s Parish,
Louisiana.
Last evening there came to the Orphans’
Home on the banks of Bayou Tesche, a
visitor, which we greeted warmly. It was
no less a visitor than the Methodist Ad
vocate, published in Atlanta, whose ap
pearance is always welcomed at the Home.
u L’homme propose et Eieu dispose .” So
instead of being in the hot and unhealthy
city of New Orleans, in the Normal School,
I find myself comfortably settled as Prin
cipal of school in Orphans’ Home, in a
so beautiful it is called the “Eden
of Louisiana.”
Perhaps a short account of this institu
tion would not be uninteresting to your
readers.
It was formerly located in New Orleans,
and was commenced on a small scale. A
few destitute colored children were gath
ered in from the streets by the Catholics ;
afterward it fell into the hands of the
Methodists. It was at first supported by
contributions, with some assistance from
the government. The necessity was then
felt by those interested that it should be
made a permanent institution, and it was
decided, if possible, to purchase a farm
and make it self-supporting. Steps were
then taken to raise money to purchase a
farm. A gentleman in France offered to
donate ten thousand dollars if twenty thou
sand could be raised. Dr. Newman then
traveled North and raised the twenty thou
sand.
The plantation, consisting of seventeen
hundred acres, was then purchased, and a
brick buildiug erected, and this year the
Legislature of the State of Louisiana has
made an appropriation of fifteen thousand
dollars, a part of which is being expended
for repairs on the place.
The children were moved here in the
spring.
The institution, as I said is designed as
a self-supporting one, but will not be this
year, as there has been so much to do in
getting settled.
We have no society outside of the insti
tution, as the same bitter feeling is here
that prevails through the South. But we
do not miss it for our duties and cares are
so numerous. Besides these, we have a
pleasant family circle of our own. Major
Badenhausen,our Superintendent, and wife,
are genial Christian people who have the
interest of the orphans at heart. Mrs.
Roberts, the Matron, and Mrs. Lester, the
Aspirant Matron, are the right woiqen in
the rrgrrt praie.
We have nearly a hundred children in
this establishment, whose ages range from
one to seventeen. Last week we lost one
of our little boys—a very patient sufferer.
We gathered in the school-rodm, listened
to an address by our Superintendent, prayed
and sang, and followed bis body to the
grave, under the grand old trees, on the.
banks of the Tesche, and there we sang,
“Shall we gather at the river?”
It was singularly appropriate; there w'e
were gathered on the banks of an earthly
river, consigning our little brother to his
last resting place. It was fitting that we
should look forward to the great gathering
by that “river clear as crystal, and pro
ceeding from the throne of God. God
grant that we may gather there.
We have here a great field for usefulness.
These little orphans make a loud call upon
our sympathies.
We teach five hours each day, and out
of school the children are employed in do
ing the work of the house and farm.
Each evening we gather in the school
room and listen to the reading of Scrip
tures, and prayer with singing. On the
Sabbath we have a very interesting Sab
bath school. Some of the children from
adjoining plantations participate in the
exercises.
Our Home is indeed a home for the chil
dren, and they all seem happy. While 1
am writing I hear their sweet voices sing
ing,
“I’m climbing up Zion’s Hill.”
Pray for us, that we be the means
of leading the little ones committed to our
care into the pleasant paths of righteous
ness. S. A. Smith.
Taking our Bearings.
How do we stand with respect to the
Church South? We were once of the same
church, but the South separated from us.
History does not permit us to doubt this.
They conceived it “necessary to unite in a
distinct ecclesiastical organization.” It
was not a mutual separation, although ef
forts were made by provisional arrange
ments, in case of a separation, “to meet
the emergency *with Christian kindness,
and the strictest equity.” The South left
us ; it was a great secession. Having left
us, they proposed fraternization, sending
to us one whose name and character was
held by us in the greatest veneration. We
did decline that fraternization. How hol
low it would have been, pending our great
law suit, and the fierce struggles that at
once sprang up along the border, can easily
be perceived. How inconsistent it would
have been on both sides, is as clear as noon
day. If fraternization had been possible,
the separation was unpardonable. To have
yielded it at that moment would have em
barrassed the legal issues that had been
raised. We declined the offer, but we
treated Dr. Pierce with distinguished cour
tesy. We prefer not now to allude to all
the details in this respect, although we
| think they would appear to our advantage.
But they are personal, and we waive them.
So matters stood when- the surges of war
broke down all partition lines, and made
it possible for us to preach the Gospel in
the South without putting on a reluctant
and tight-fitting gown of tar and feathers,
or bands of hemp. We entered by the
avenue cleft for us by the sword ; for our
divine commission did not allow us to ex
cept this sunny part of our own country.
The war ceased. The fugitive pastors re
turned. The ecclesiastical struggle began.
At this time there is, indeed, at all times,
there has been a drawing of pure souls in
the South toward union. We were of one
faith, and there was now no longer a rea
son for separate existence. The blacks
everywhere hailed “the old John Wesley
Church.” An unparalleled prosperity was
ours in the South. It became necessary
for our Southern brethren to’roll back this
tide. Nothing was more effective than to
tell the people they were the friends of
union and we not, pointing to the rejection
of the proposals of Dr. Pierce, in 1848, as
proof of the affirmation. The case was
prima facie against us, and the Southern
mind was not disposed to investigate the
details. It was not easy to make the mat
ter assume to them its true aspect, and, to
say the least, it was an embarrassment in
our work at the South.
Within the past few months, all over the
South, there was a call for the reunion of
the divided church. Reasons, patriotic
and spiritual, seemed to put on anew ur
gency in demanding it of both parties. At
the South it could readily be said that the
initiative must come from the North. If
there had been an absence of cordiality on
our part, if we had made no response, we
would have been put at still greater disad
vantage in the South. It would have seemed
to sincere ones in the South as if our bish
ops, or some one, should have stepped out
with a kindly word. The absence of formal
authority in the premises would not have
been sufficient to have excused our utter
silence. Silence would have been the mis
take, if not the sin of the hour. Fresh
battalions of difficulties would have sprung
from their ambush upon our dear suffering
brethren in Southern fields.
But our bishops resolved to meet the
emergency. They sent to St. Louis an
olive branch, borne by one whom the South
themselves had assisted to elect to his high
office, for whom they profess a special re
who has siqctL been
against the late rebellion. The kTndwords
and the invitation to union were the har
monious expression of all. No reference
was made by this deputation to any of our
wrongs or difficulties. They proceeded
upon the principle of burying the past, and
going to the very limit of possibility, they
opened the way for union.
But how was this kindly approach met?
By a recital of the past, by raising issues
that can never be settled between us, but
must be buried and forgotten if we are ever
to be one. We re-affirm the discourtesy
of the response. It. ill became great and
noble Christian minds. But more than
this, although the matter is referred to the
General Conference of the Church South,
yet it is with such declarations and the
raising of such barriers as at once banish
from the Northern heart any expectation
of happy results. The whole thing is com
plete, and we must only push on to do our
work as best we can.
The effect of this in the South will be
to change the disadvantage to Southern
shoulders. It will now be seen who is
most anxious for union, and who it is who
is cherishing the bitterness and animosities
that should be dead beyond the power of
reviviscenoe. Hollow pretensions of love
and kindness will disappear before the
patent facts connected with this St. Louis
deputation. We gain immensely at the
South, and lose nothing at the North.
The views of the New York Advocate will
not extensively prevail, and if they should,
they will be inert as to mischief. The
hand has been out-reached and refused.
There will be a general feeling of satisfac
tion that the offer was made. We all know
it was made in terms worthy of our great
church. We are not humiliated by having
been lectured and sent away, and the South
is welcome to all it will gain by doing so.
As we take our bearings, then, we are
better off than before. The onus rests
upon the South. Whatever is henceforth
done to initiate union must be done by
them. In the meantime the whole world
is before us, let us do our best to take it
for Christ, South and North, East and
West. The day of Methodistic unity tar
ries, but it will surely come. —[Northwest-
ern Christian Advocate.
Romanism Again.
It appears that in my recent letter to the
Advocate on “Romanism Exposed,” I ap
prehended the true position and intent of
the Romish Church, which discovery has
terrified the politico Romish organ printed
in Augusta, and to counteract the discov
ery, it sets up a miserable whine about
Know-nothingism, and popular sympathy
for the “down trodden South.”
Roman Catholic priests anathematize
and defy Protestants and Protestant Chris
tianity ; Protestants accept the challenge
and expose Catholicism. What then ? Rome
cries out, “persecution ! persecution !!”
and dodging behind the “down trodden
South,” makes long speeches and writes
several columns on the “lost cause,” the
“Confederate dead,” etc. All this is sand
for Southern eyes and sauce for Southern
HEY. E. a FULLER, Editor.
palates, to blind and please the “down
trodden South,” while Popery advances to
the accomplishment of its vile and artful
purpose to get possession of this great
country. Rome cares no more for the
South than for the North. She looks at
both through the same eye, and has but
one object in view with regard to both, that
is, their submission to Romish supremacy.
Popery in the South is sugar-coating its
deadly poison with pretensions of great
sympathy for the “rebelsPopery in the
North ministers the same infection by com
placently submitting to to the “best govern
ment in the world,” while Popery North and
South,East and West, teach that the Pope is
Universal King ; that he is “prince over all
kingdoms and nations ; that he has power
to pluck up, destroy, scatter, ruin, plant,
and build, and that every human creature
should be obedient to him,” and she fur
ther swears “to persecute and combat, to
the last extremity, heretics, schismatics,
and all who will not pay the Sovereign
Pontiff’ all the obedience which he shall re
quire.”
And this is the charity which the Roman
Catholic Church “ever teaches and prac
tices,” and which the editor of the above
named paper professes to exercise toward
me. The Lord deliver me from such
charity !
Thanks to the influence of Protestant
Christianity, the editor leaves me to my
conscience and my God. This would be
incomprehensible to a Roman Catholic.
He would understand better a priestly de
cree consigning him for foi'ty-eight hours,
kneeling on his bare knees, to a thin wafer
and cold water. But I apprehend its
meaning, as I have both a conscience and
a God. Had my offense however been
committed in Rome or where Popery gov
erns, my personal liberty, if not my head,
would pay the penalty.
Not long since a little Presbyterian boy
attended in the afternoon with his grand
mother, who is a Catholic, the exhibitions
of her church. At the tea-table, the art
less little fellow delivered himself as fol
lows: “Mamma, I loves grandmother’s
church better than 1 do yours, because, at
her church they do so circus like.” Here
is one reason of my opposition to Protest
ant Christians attending the Romish Church.
I do not believe in going to circuses, race
courses, gambling saloons, etc.; and as
the ceremonies of this so called church are
“so circus-like,” I counsel all who serve
the Lord Jesus in
tU rrvi’iTffifffifiS Tb -
tention to the Romish editor’s disgusting
review of my letter. Just allow me to say,
in conclusion,that I do believe Roman Cath
olics, especially Roman Catholic priests,
intend to be —assuredly will be—faithful
to their firm and characteristic purpose,
that is universal poliiicai supremacy. The
genius of their religion is undisputed
Power ; and they will use any means, and
adapt themselves to any circumstances, to
succeed, and if successful, they will “pros
ecute and combat, to the last extremity,
heretics and schismatics,” by which they
mean all who do not believe with them.
Therefore I have not the slightest confidence
in their professed kindly feeling and regard
for me, your paper, or anybody or anything
that is not Roman Catholic. 1 tell you,
sir, I am afraid of Catholicism in power;
for I believe if it ever gets the ascendency
in this country, it will cost our children
something to worship God according to
the teachings of their fathers and the dic
tates of their consciences. And therefore,
I believe that Methodists, Baptists, Pres
byterians, Episcopalians and all Protest
ants of every name and everywhere through
out these United States, through the press,
secular and religious, from the pulpit, at
the school, in the social circle, around the
fireside, amid business life —everywhere
and at all times, ought to combine against
and unitedly oppose it, not with fire and
sword (which this editor pretends to think
I threatened him with, because his church
has always used such means,) but with argu
ments drawn from the Bible, and by fidelity
to Christianity and Protestant interests.
The Protestant who reads Roman Cath
olic productions, who hears Romish priests,
and patronizes Romish enterprises and in
stitutions is erecting the dungeon to incar
cerate ; is driving the stake and kindling
the fire to burn; is sharpening the sword
to pierce the heart of his own son and son’s
son. Let Protestants everywhere touch
not, taste not, and handle not the unclean
thing —for it is insinuating and seductive ;
but let them by word, deed, and spirit, by
faith, prayer, and holy living, expose, put
down, and wipe out —if God is willing for
a great evil to be utterly extinguished be
fore time shall end—this master-piece of
sin and Satan. 1 interpret the future in
the light of the bloody past. Let the peo
ple of the South beware. —[G. H. Pattillo
in Southern Christian'Advocate.
A correspondent of an exchange says he
keeps the bugs away from his melon, squash,
and cucumber vines in this wise: “Take
sticks four inches long and half an inch in
diameter —pine is the best; wrap one inch
of one end in a piece of cotton or linen;
dip this in turpentine and stick one or two
in each hill, leaving only the wrapped part
above ground.”
The best gardeners look out for the tur
nip fly about as soon as they sow their tur
nip seed. They use lime, tobacco dust, or
soot mixed with road dust or leached ashes,
which they scatter over the turnip beds,
morning and evening, for the first week
after sowing the seed.
NO. 26.