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The Methodist Advocate.
ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 2^870.
E. Q,. FULLER, D. D., Editor.
00BBESP0ND1NG EDITORS s
A. Webstbb, D. D., (S. Car. Conference,) Orangeburg, S. C.
Rev. Wm. G. Matton. (N. Car. Conference,) Lincolnton, N. C
Rev. James Mitchell, (Virginia Conference.) Leesburg, Va.
Rev. C. 0. Fisher, (Washington Conference,) Baltimore, Md.
r. E. Cobleioh, D. D., (Holston Conference,) Athens, Term.
Rev. J. Braden, A. M., (Tenn. Conference,) Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. A. S. Larin, (Alabama Conference,) Huntsville, Ala.
Rev. James Lynch, (Miss. Conference,) Jackson, Miss,
Rev. L. C. Matlack, (Louisiana Con.,) New Orleans, La.
Rev. G. W. Honey, (Texas Conference,) Austin, Texas.
Volume Three.
Begin the Canvass Now.
The second volume of
TEE METHODIST ADVOCATE
will soon close. The third volume will
commence with the first of January, 1871.
All of our preachers should commence
their canvass for subscribers at once.
New subscribers for 1871 will be entered
as soon as received, and no charge
macro ~ v >t;..
Year’s. Send for specimen copies, carry
them in the pocket, show them every
where, and let the people know how im
portant it is for them to become ac
quainted with the movements of the
Churches and the nations. These are
marvelous times. All must have the
paper. The editor now being relieved
from the care of a district, will devote
his whole time to the paper, and make it
better than ever before.
Crops are good, and money more
plenty. Subscribe now, and pay the
cash, or, if the cotton is not sold, have
the preacher order the paper, and pay
the money to him in days. Don’t
fail to have the paper ordered imme
diately.
Old subscribers should renew now. Do
not wait till New-Year’s. Have the
preacher send on the names at once.
The preachers should remember the
promises made at Conference. Now is
the time to give us ten thousand sub
scribers for next year. They can be had,
and the preachers can get them. That
would enable us to pay our heavy ex
penses, and begin to return to the treas
ury of the Church the money used in
starting this great enterprise. Begin
now. Canvass thoroughly, and the ten
thousand can be had.
Never put money in a letter. Send
the money by post-office money-order, by
express, or pay it to the presiding elder.
Address Hitchcock & Walden, Atlanta,
Ga. _____
Annual Meeting of the General
Committee of Church Extension. —The
General Committee of Church Extension
will meet in the Rooms of the Society,
No. 1018 Arch-st., Philadelphia, Thurs
day, November 17th, at nine o’clock, A. m.
The editor of this paper represents the
Sixth District on this Board, and will be
glad to hear representations of the work
from presiding elders and others. The
district includes Alabama, Georgia, llol
ston, Kentucky, Lexington, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas Con
ferences.
The Local Preachers’ National
Convention met for its third annual ses
sion in Union Church, Philadelphia, Oc
tober 15th, and continued in session four
days, including the Sabbath. The Some
Journal says: “ Throughout, the meeting
“was characterized by simplicity, fervor,
“ and Christian harmony, and will be re
membered as an occasion of primitive
“power, and great mutual enjoyment.”
Statistics of Alabama Conference.
—The Secretary furnishes us the follow
ing summary: Members, 11,842; deaths,
114; probationers, 1,791; local preach
ers, 188; baptisms—adults, 805; chil
dren, 744—1,549; churches, 107; proba
ble value, $24,125; collected for Missions,
$172; Sunday-schools, 89; S. S. scholars,
3,753. A handsome increase in all items.
Illness.— We regret to learn from
Rev. W. B. Crichlow that Rev. J. Thomp
son, presiding elder of West Tennessee
District, Tennessee Conference, has been
quite sick for ten days past. He is im
proving, however, slowly. This fact ex
plains his absence from his appointments.
Brother C. adds: “Let the whole Church
“join in prayer for his speedy recovery!
National Camp-Meetings. —The Com
mittee have decided to hold two National
Camp-Meetings next year —one at Round
Lake, N. Y., and the other at Urbanna, 0.
We hope that large numbers of our
preachers and people in the South will
attend at least one of these meetings.
Pentecostal Meetings are becoming
frequent in the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the East. They are often
attended with marked displays of Divine
power in the conversion of sinners and
sanctification of believers.
The Bishops. —Bishop Janes, after
closing the Rock River Conference, re
turned to his home in New York, Oct. 22d.
Bishop Simpson closed the Genesee
Conference, at Warsaw, Oct. 18th, and
immediately left for Girard, Penn., where
he was engaged to dedicate anew church
on the following day. He hoped to re
turn, after the dedication to his home in
Philadelphia. Mrs. Simpson, who jour
neyed with the Bishop to Europe, has not
yet returned. Bishop Ames has re
turned from the Pacific coast. He left
San Francisco Sept. 26th, in company
with Dr. M. C. Briggs, transferred to
the Cincinnati Conference, and reached
Albia, the seat of the lowa Conference,
in time to open the session of that body,
Sept. 28th. The Bishop was in good
health, notwithstanding his extended and
exceeding busy tour. His visit gave great
satisfaction to the Pacific conferences.
Bishop Clark closed his tour in the
North-West in much improved health, and
has returned to his home in Cincinnati.
Binimn Sftfttt. l#ffc Alokomo few tio
residence, in Odessa, Del., October 18th,
in fine health and spirits, evidently hav
ing enjoyed his visit to the South.
None of the bishops have more than a
few days’ rest. The annual meetings of
the Missionary and Church Extension
boards now demand their attention, and
the Winter conferences will soon com
mence.
Premium Cheese. —By the politeness
of J. J. Toon, Esq., of the Franklin Print
ing House, Broad-street, we are permitted
to practically test the excellent qualities
of the cheese that took the premium at
the State Fair. The cheese is from
Roseneath Dairy Farm, (Bell Buckle P. 0.)
Bedford county, Tennessee, and was made
August 17,1870. Roseneath Farm is sit
uated in the richest blue grass portion of
Bedford county, and is fully competent to
sustain, in the best style, during the en
tire year, from 450 to 500 cattle. From
80 to 100 lbs. of cheese per day were
made during 1869; but the full capacity
of the machinery and fixtures is from 250
to 300 pounds per day. It has been
fully and satisfactorily demonstrated that
as good cheese can be manufactured in the
South as in any other section, and that
there is sufficient enterprise and skill here
to carry forward such an industrial pursuit.
Williams, Langston & Crane keep the
products of Roseneath for sale. Mr.
Toon also took a premium on butter, and
was equally successful in the exhibitions
from his Printing House, the daily printed
upon his press taking a premium.
Holston Conference, Northern Church.
—“ From the Statistical Secretary %ve have the
following items: Members, 20,229, being a
small increase.” — Methodist Advocate.
Not quite such a flourish of trumpets as usual
from that quarter. The Tennessee Conference
shows a decrease of over 500, while the Hol
s'on has “ a smaH increase,” Swallowing up
the Southern Church, ! He then adds:
“The Church at Jonesboro and one other,
perhaps more, have been returned to the
Church, South.”
Returned! Ah, indeed! When you cduld
hold them no longer by force. It doubtless
went against the “grain,” but there was no
remedy; they must be “returned.”
The above is from the Christian Ob
server and is a fair specimen of its fra
ternity. The statistics of Tennesse Con
ference show a decrease, because several
charges were not reported; there was an
encouraging increase in fact. The Ob
server knows that our papers, conferences
and churches wish to settle all property
questions fairly, honorably, and that pa
per knows that the Church South holds
many of our churches in Maryland and
Virginia, and refuses to give them up
only at the end of a lawsuit. We believe
that our people have won every case that
has been put into court. *
Write Briefly. —Every week ive are
sorely perplexed to get into the columns of
The Methodist Advocate all that is im
portant to appear in them. Scarcely a
week passes without something having
been crowded out. The whole South is
our field, and all must have a hearing,
and if all write briefly, very briefly —
briefly as they possibly can —they will
help us greatly, and be sure to see their
articles inserted early. We are glad to
hear from every preacher, in every Con
ference, but we exhort, Write briefly.
Missionary Board. —The Missionary
Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church
meets in the new building, in New York,
on the 10th of November. Presiding
elders who have not represented their
work should do so at once, to Rev. W. C.
Daily, of Cleveland, Tenn., member of
the Board for the Southern Conferences.
Hoffman. —Rev. H. O. Hoffman, has
been transferred from the Tennessee to
the Illinois Conference, and stationed in
Decatur. Our friends there will find in
him a fine preacher, an excellent pastor,
and a Christian gentleman. We con
gratulate them.
Clark University, Atlanta.— This
school was re-opened this week.
THE METHODIST ADVOCATE. NOVEMBER 2, 1870.
After Conference.
The Fall conferences have been held,
and all of the preachers, we trust, are on
their new fields of labor. We have heard
from several who have commenced the
new year in earnest. Some have gone
around their circuits since Conference.
That looks like work, like securing suc
cess in advance. The year well begun is
prophetic of prosperity. Neglect imme
diately after Conference is double neg
lect. The people are always anxious to
see the new preacher, and if he goes di
rectly from the Conference-room to his
charge, and spends the first Sunday or
two on his new field, becomes acquainted
Avith a portion (at least) of his charge,
and shows an interest in it, this fact goes
far toward prepossessing all in his favor.
Who, having hired a hand, would like to
see him coming along at 9 or 10 o’clock,
to do a day's work? Neither does a
church Avant the preacher to come tar
dily to his labor, as if he cared little for
it, for himself, or for his Master. How
many revivals can be held between the
time of Conference and cold weather, if the
preachers are promptly at their posts!
The finances of the circuits need look
ing after at once. Now, while crops are
being gathered, is the best time of the
whole year to lay in supplies, and if the
preachers are in their places, caring for
the flocks, the steAvards and people gener
ally can be prompted to aid the preachers
in getting a start for the year. Many
churches need repairs before Winter sets
in. Noav is the time to attend to them.
Netv churches are to be built, and much
of the Avork of preparation can be done
before cold weather. October, November
and December are the best months in the
year to circulate the periodicals of the
Church. Half of this Avork usually goes
undone, because it is deferred till too late
in the season. If all our preachers
Avould attend earnestly to this work dur
ing these months, they Avould give us ten
thousand subscribers by the first of Jan
uary next, and many for other journals
of the Church. Will they do it? One
month—October—is already gone; but
tAvo remain. How many will present the
periodical interests of the Church faith
fully to all of their people, in public and
private, on these tAvo rounds on their cir
cuits. The Fall and Winter, when cotton
is selling, is the proper time to take the
principal collections of the Church. The
collections for Missionary and Church Ex-'
tension purposes should be taken early,
and the money forwarded, so that it can
be had when most needed. Now, while
there is money in the country, is also the
time to buy Sunday-school books for next
Summer’s use, so that schools closed dur
ing the Winter can open early in the
Spring Avith good libraries. Commence
now. Not a day should be lost by a
preacher who expects to do any thing
this year for God and the Church. One
reason why preachers receive so little
support is because some waste so much
of the year before trying to do any thing
on their circuits. He who lays around
home half of the year discourages the
Church and defeats his own efforts, and
deserves no pay. We neAmr ask a Church
to pay a preacher for doing nothing.
Those Avho are early and late on their
charges, doing the best they can, earn a
support, and the people will generally
divide with them such as they haA r e.
A word to the stewards. If your
preacher is on hand, and now doing his
best for you, see that you—as steAvards—
do your best to aid him in temporal
things. The laborer is worthy of his
hire; while he who will not Avork shall
not eat.
The Flag. —He who has no country is
a vagabond, at the mercy of every vil
lain. Oppressed, he has no redress;
wronged, he has no protection. Whoso
ever will, may abuse or slay him without
fear of punishment. He who does not
love his country deserves none of its fa
vors. The flag is the emblem or repre
sentative of a nation, a country, and he
who honors not his nation’s flag is a trai
tor, and will be likely to rebel whenever
circumstances favor rebellion. During
the war, General Dix was asked what
should be done in case rebels should at
tempt to pull down the flag. He replied,
“If any one attempts to pull down the
“American flag, shoot him on the spot.”
No truer sentiment nor more correct prin
ciple has been inculcated during our na
tional troubles. Any man who would
lower the national flag through malice is
a traitor to the country, and deserves
death. The American flag ought to float
from ten thousand flag-staffs in the South
ern States on all great public occasions.
Dishonor to the flag should be visited with
severe penalties.
W rite Briefly. —Editorials, communi
cations, and revival notices crowded out.
The State Fair.
We resume our notes from last Aveek:
Os manufactured articles, useful and
ornamental, from a steam engine to a gold
watch, the exhibition was fine. We can
not enumerate the tenth part of what we
saw. In leather, boots, shoes and har
ness, all were well represented. Cloths,
cotton and woolen, of Georgia manufac
ture, good specimens were exhibited. The
Concord Woolen Mills and the Phoenix
and Eagle Cotton Mills’ goods were
worthy of special notice. Clothing, quilts,
table, bed and piano spreads, were in pro
fusion, and some of superior quality.
Needle-work appeared in variety,
and of rare excellence. SeAving machines
were plenty and attracted general atten
tion. The display of silver ware Avas good
but not so strong competition as there
ought to have been. Knabe’s pianos
were the only musical instruments on ex
hibition. Cooking stoves, washers, Avring
ers, and churns occupied important places.
Huoatia & Hope, exhibited superb en
amelled fire grates the best article of the
kind manufactured, also fine willow ware,
rattan chairs and various other household
utensils. A little excellent furniture was
to be seen. A business desk of ash was
much admired.
Steam engines, saws, mills for grinding
grain and bones, smutters, a shingle mill,
printing presses, sorghum mills and evap
orators at work, “pitch pine and turpen
tine” making, etc., were in such profu
sion that a whole day might have been
well spent in their examination. A splen
did steam fire-engine was on exhibition.
Farming implements, such as plows, har
rows, reapers, planters, threshers, etc.,
were in good supply, and of superior
quality. It made a progressive man feel
at home to get among them. Echols of
this city, exhibited the largest variety.
It did one’s eyes good to see several real
farm-wagons, nicely finished and painted,
standing side by side. Hay and cotton
presses, gins, cotton planters, and a cotton
chopper, indicated that free labor and
brains are taking to cotton growing.
It is not too much to say that superior
buggies and carriages of their several
classes were never put upon a Fair Ground.
Those from Kimball’s Manufactory, Bos
ton, take the lead. Others from Hart
ford, Ct. are very fine, while Georgia
made made a good showing. Several col
lections of minerals were shown though
not in quantities to indicate the great
mineral wealth of Georgia. In the de
partment of fine arts there Avere pieces of
real and rare excellence. Mrs. J. E.
Bryant exhibited several oil paintings,
one, the Voyage of Life, is beautiful, de
serving a first premium. Miss Sonowski.
a Prussian lady, noAV teaching in Athens,
Ga., exhibited oil paintings of great
merit. Several portraits from the pencil
of Maier of Atlanta, were excellent.
Wax-work of fruit and flowers, hair and
feather work of several sorts, were beau
tiful—some exceedingly so. In this de
partment we observed several pieces of
Mrs. Oldfield and her pupils’ that wen
much admired, particularly two crayolithic
landscapes. Photographs, large and small,
plain and colored, from several galleries,
were worthy of attention. If North Geor
gia is not noAV, it is to boa fine grazing
country. Durhams, a feAV Devons, Alder
neys, and Brahmins were on exhibition.
Ave observed some fine specimens of each
Sheep and hogs were not numerous but
those which we saw were good. The
poultry department Avas highly creditable,
ducks, geese, chickens, pigeons and tur
keys, large and fat, filled the numerous
coops.
The noblest of domestic animals, the
horse, claimed a large share of attention.
In harness and under the saddle, the ex
nibition merited high praise. There Avas
altogether too much trial of speed, hoAv
ever, to suit our vieAvs of propriety.
More attention should be given to stock
for the plow and Avagon rather than to
fast trotters. Agricultural Fairs should
not degenerate into mere races. The
gambling attendant upon races, is terribly
demoralizing; and the less running at
Fairs the better for the morals of the peo
ple, if not for the purse of the Society.
We close as Ave began, by saying that the
State Fair has been a decided success and
Avill tend greatly to stimulate the activi
ties and develop the resources of the State.
American Board of Foreign Mis
sions.
The annual meeting of the American
Board of Foreign Missions was held in
Brooklyn recently, and was one of re
markable interest. There were not less
than five thousand delegates and friends
from abroad. About fifty returned mis
sionaries, and their families, added great
interest to the occasion. A tinge of sad
ness pervaded the entire convention, by
reason of the withdrawal of the new
School Presbyterians from the Board.
This Avithdrawal was not the result of any
disaffection, but only the legitimate result
of the union of the NeAV and Old School
Presbyterians in one body. The Ncav
York Advocate, from Avhich avo take the
foregoing facts, says;
Representatives were also present from the
Micronesian Islands in the South Pacific, live
thousand miles beyond San Francisco. In these
far-off Islands, where they receive the mail but
once in the year,where the missionary’s wife was
the only white woman, glowing accounts were
o-iven of the saving power of the Gospel ot
Christ. But the interest in these reports cul
minated in the representation of the work in the
Sandwich Islands. The Rev. Mr. Coan, Avho
with his wife had labored thirty-five years
among this people, spoke with reference to this
mission. There were none lower or viler than
these heathen at the beginning of his mission
ary labors among them —addicted, as they
were, even to cannibalism —although the way
had been somewhat prepared by missionary
effort for the fifteen preceding years. He gave
a simple, but wonderful, account of the great
revival in these Islands. lie himseli after care
ful and repeated examinations, having baptized
seventeen hundred converts in one day. As lie
expressed it, the tears upon that occasion were
as plentiful as the water used in baptism. He
received into the Christian Church in all twelve
thousand, lacking forty; and the converts re
main. There is no State where a larger pro
portion of the population read and write.
Schools, enterprise, civilization in its highest
set»e©. have here toiioweil in tin* wake of mis
sionary Christianity. The Islands are now
Christianized. The proportion of the popula
tion who are church members is larger than in
the United States or Great Britain. The
churches are supplied with native pastors, and
are self-sustaining. And the Sandwich Islands
are now dropped from the list of missions of
the American Board, simply because the work is
done.
Merited Commendation.
With pleasure we transfer to our col
umns from the Brunswick (Ga.) Appeal,
the following deserved commendations of
the brothers Kimball. It is but just to
say in addition, that H. 1., E. N. and J.
C. Kimball, now all of Atlanta, and their
families, have for years been active, in
fluential and greatly esteemed members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. No
one could bring attestations of personal
worth more highly to be esteemed than
those of H. I. Kimball from mutual per
sonal friends including in the number
some of the leading ministers and laymen
of Chicago, Governor Evans of Colorado,
and Bishops of our Church, to the editor
of this paper, unsought by either party.
No more estimable Christian families, or
efficient Christian laborers, are to be found
in Georgia or elsewhere, than these have
been for years past. We count it a mark
of special providential goodness that has
placed these pillars of the church in this
city. They are fully identified with us,
and with the Divine blessing will prove of
as much moral as they are of commercial
value to their adopted State. The Ap
peal says:
Among the new comers attracted to Atlanta
by its promise of future prosperity, and the
field it would afford their almost superhuman
energy and towering but honest ambition —
not only to amass wealth and secure fame, but
to accomplish great good in attaining these—
were two brotners of quiet habits and retiring,
modest deportment. They were unobtrusive,
comparatively strangers, without noticeable
qualities. They located in a small room on the
second floor of a building on cue of the most
public streets, commenced business, and laid
the foundation of a reputation now unequalled
in the .south, and probably not surpassed in the
Union, for energy, industry, business sagacity
and integrity, and uninterrupted success.
These two persons were H. I. Kimball, and
nis brother, E. N. Kimball, co-proprietors and
managers for the South of the world-renowned
gorgeous Palace Sleeping Coaches of Pullman,
Kimball and Ramsay.
Encouraged and emboldened by well-merited
success, and seizing “the prompt occasion” af
forded by the sale of the unfinished opera
iiouse building, they at once entered upon a
career of startling enterprise which has made
the name of 11. 1. Kimball a household word in
i lie South, and given a Union wide fame. When
the purchase was made in May, 18tiS, there was
nothing but the unsightly bare walls, which,
nowever, were most substantially built, three
stories high. A contract made during ihe Sum
mer to have the building changed and subdi
vided into apartments suitable for the accom
modation of every department of the State
Government, and ready for occupancy the en
duing January was more than complied with.
Scarcely had it been made known that he had
concluded a liberal contract for preparing in
magnificent style the Grounds for, and conduct
ing the State Fair, the present Fall, before the
additional announcement was made that he had
nought the site of the Old Atlanta Hotel, and
would proceed at once to erect the greatest and
grandest hotel south of the Potomac, and have
it ready for guests during the Fair. The an
louucement was startling and almost incredi
ble even to Atlanta. But the promise iias
BEEN MADE GOol>.
These great undertakings—the complete out
iitting, in the most substantial and beautiful
manner of the Fair Grounds, and the eonstruc
tion of an elegantly finished and faultlessly
furnished Hotel, 210 feet front, IGS feet deep, 6
-tories high, containing 350 rooms, and of ca
pacity for accommodating 1.000 guests, in less
than seven months’ time, have been successfully
accomplished, and the 11. 1. Kimball House
stands, to-day, a splendid monument to the
brilliant conception and grand constructive ge
nius and combinations, no less than to the un
paralleled and untiring energy of him Avhose
name it deservedly bears.
It is a gratification to know that a gentleman
combining such a rare intellectual grasp and
tremendous business energy and power, with
such daring enterprise and comprehensive pub
lic spirit, is intimately identified with the Bruns
wick and Albany Railway —an enterprise
n aught with interests of such momentous im
portance to our city.
It has been suggested that while the financial
head will continue in New York, a majority of
the Board of Directors, or its Executive por
tion, will be in Georgia, and that of this State
Road 11. I. Kimball, Esq., will be the President.
As this road is regarded as a part, or a contin
uationof the Grand Southern Pacific, destined
to unite the tAvo oceans on the 32d Parallel, it
is not improbable that Mr. Kimball may be in
vited to become the head of that. In that event
“ the hour and the man” will have met, and the
speedy and successful accomplishment of that
grand enterprise may be regarded as assured.
Thanksgiving. —Read the President’s
proclamation, in another column. We
hope that suitable services will be held in
all of our churches.
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
Natchez Dist., Mississippi Cons.—Moses
Adams.— Our third quarterly meeting for Fa
yette, held August llth-12th, Avas a glorious
meeting. Brother Hurt had been engaged in
a powerful work. A large number had been
converted, thirty-five had joined the Church du
ring the last quarter, the Sabhatli-school had
increased from ninety-three to one hundred and
tAventy-five scholars, he had gathered in two
new societies, forty-eight members. in one, and
twenty-five in the other. A good minister, Rev.
Bird Jeffers, from the Baptist Church, has joined
us here. We raised SI4G in cash, and 500 on
subscription for our church buildings in Fay
ette. Ten dollars were handed the pastor du
ring the meeting, also a fine suit of clothes Avas
presented to him by Sister M. Holt and a num
ber of other sisters. From Fayette Ave went to
Natchez, here we preached on Sunday. We
have no doubt of the success of our work in
Natchez if AA r e can have some aid from the
Church Extension Society.
From Natchez we went to Brookhaven.
Brother Barney reports large accessions at
Monticello, at Meadville forty-eight had joined
the Church. At this place they had bought a
brick building for a church, 30x45 feet, two
story, standing on a lot of one acre, for four
hundred dollars. In the north part of Frank
lin county and in the western part of Lincoln
county Ave have two large societies, two hund
red members, Rev. A. J. Thomas, who came
to us from the Church South this year, has
charge of them. At Crystal Springs Ave found
Rev. Sumpter Doby and members hard at Avork
preparing for the camp-meeting, Avhich began
September Ist continuing eleven days. Instead
of building bush arbors, these people built a
room 100 feet square of plank, and built their
tents of plank. The people left their corn and
cotton to come to the meeting, Ave had sixty con
versions and ninety-three joined the Church.
Rev. Isom Burrill, an excellent young man
from the Church South joined us here, he has
charge of part of brother Doby’s work. The
Sabbath-schools on this Avork are flourishing.
,<ohn Bell, an exhorter, died September stli, he
was superintendent of the Sabbath-schools on
this work, he died, happy in Jesus.
At Greenwood we found that brother John
Wesley Dunn had been having a poAverful
work, he has built a church in Greenwood
worth together Avith the lot S2OOO, they have
a good Sabbath-school, numbering about sev
enty five scholars. Three ministers have come
to us here Avith their congregations from the
Church South. We had about GOO present at
our meeting, 12 joined the Church, forty-one
dollars were raised for the preacher.
At M’Nutt Ave found brother Harris’ Avork
quite encouraging. On the 27th I preached at
Jones’ Chapel. After the sermon Ave called for
mourners to come to the altar when it seemed
as if every sinner on the ground came forward.
We raised $535, on subscription to build a
church here.
At Winona Ave had a good quarterly meeting.
Five joined the Church, here Ave have a good
Sunday-School and excellent day school taught
by Miss A. Neal. The brethren are at work
on our new church here, it is to he 30x50 feet,
two stories, the lower story for a school.
Thus ended our third round of quartely meet
ings. The Lord has been with us and Avonder
fully blest our labors.
Cabarrus, Stanley and Meeklinburgii
CT., N. C. Con.-—W. G. Matton.— The Metho
dist Episcopal Church at Mount Mitchell, Ca
barrus county, was dedicated September 17-18,
with appropriate exercies. On Saturday the
Sunday-school numbering one hundred and
eleven scholars (with a number of visitors
from neighboring schools) marched from their
school room to the new church, headed by a
neat banner. The services at the church con
sisted of brief stirring addresses and singing by
the school under the. leadership of brother Cook,
after which a bountiful dinner was discussed by
preachers, scholars and friends, this being a
very successful feature in the exercises. In the
evening the meeting was continued, marked
interest being manifested. Off Sunday , the iSttfU
the congregation was overflowing and deepiy
interested, Rev. Win. Rawlings preached an
excellent and impressive sermon from I Kings
8:59. The dedicating service was performed
by the presiding elder assisted by Rev. J. A.
Huggins and S. A . Roper. A lecture on the
Methodist Episcopal Church was delivered bv
Rev. VV. G. Matton at 3p. m. At night two
penitents were at the altar, one of whom was
converted. On Monday night the Lord gave
us a Pentecostal shower, some twenty penitents
(mostlyyoung persons, members of the Sunday
school) were at the altar weeping and agonizing
for pardon, when a blessed wave of salvation
swept o'er us; and almost simultaneously seven
souls were converted and rejoiced in* anew
found Savior. It was a gracious season, long
to be remembered. On Tuesday morning a
meeting for counsel and encouragement of the
young converts was held, at which two peni
tents, also, presented themselves. At night
the work was renewed, and some ten precious
souls were happily converted to God. Truly
the Lord God of our fathers was with us, and
sanctified the edifice by his manifested power—
To him be all the praise! The building is 30x45
neatly and substantially built, ceiled inside, and
comfortably seated. The pulpit and altar rail
are of black walnut finished in good style.
The pastor. Rev. S. A. Roper has been pros
pered this year, and reports 100 additions to the
membership.
Wesley Chapel, Baton Rouge, La. Con.—
S. M. Small. —We held a basket meeting in the
Church in this place recently. Sabbath servi
ces commenced with a lecture on the 32d
Psalm, by the pastor in charge, Rev. S. M.
Small, followed by a prayer meeting, after
which preaching begun, and with short inter
missions, was kept up throughout the entire
day. The power of God was manifested in the
conversion of one precious soul, and the re
claiming of two backsliders. Fifteen mourners
came forward for prayers. The Church was
much revived; sufficient interest was evinced
to encourage us in continuing the meeting
during the week.
Chestnut Creek Ct., Ala. Con.— ll. W.
Lawi.ey. —Our fourth quarterly meeting was
held at Big Rocky Mount on the 17th and 18th
ult. Brother Parker was with us, and preached
Saturday and Sunday. Brother J. W. Jones
was also with us —They left Sunday evening,
and I continued the meeting until Thursday
night with great success. Twenty-two professed
faith in Christ: twenty-three joined the Church.
This is anew work, organized in August last.
The entire membership of the Church is thirty
two. My work is in a growing condition.
National Thanksgiving Procla
mation of the President.
H7tereas, It behooves a people sensible of
their dependence on the Almighty publicly
and collectively to acknowledge their gratitude
for His favors and mercies, and humbly to be
seech for their continuance; and ichereas , the
people of the United States, during the year
now about to end, have special cause to be
thankful for general prosperity, abundant, har
vests, exemption from pestilence, from loreign
war and civil strife:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Ulysses
S. Grant, President of the United States, con
curring in similar recommendations from Chief-
Magistrates of States, do hereby recommend to
all citizens to meet in their respective places of
worship on Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of
November next, there to give thanks for the
bounty of God during the year about to close,
and to supplicate for its continuance hereafter.
In witness hereof I have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Lone at the city of Washington, tills twenty
first day of October, in the year of our Lord *
one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and
of the Independence of the United States the
ninety-fifth.
(Signed) U. S. Grant.
By the President:
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.