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The Methodist Advocate.
ATLANTA, GA„ FEBRUARY 7, 1872.
E. Cl. FULLER, D. D., Editor.
HIM £. W. COFFIN, AHiltut
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A. Websim, D.D., (a. Car. Conference,) Orangeburg, S. C.
Rov Wm. G. Matton. (N. Oar. Conference,) Jamestown, N.C.
Rev! James Mitchell, (Virginia Conference,) Leesburg, Va.
Rev. C. O. Kisheb, (WashingtonConference,) Baltimore,Md.
K. £. Cobleioh, D.D., (Hoiston Conference,) Athens, Tenn.
Rev. J. Braden, A.M., (Tenn. Conference,) NasbviUe, Tenn.
Rev. A. S. Lasts, (Alabama Conference,) Huntsville, Ala. - <
Rev. James Lynch, (Miss. Conference,) Jackson, Miss.
L. 0. Matlaoe, D.D., (Louisiana Con.,) New Orleans, La.
Rev. G. W. Honey, (Texas Conference.) Austin, Texas.
“The Colored Citizen.”
The St. Louis Advocate gives a column
and a half of editorial philosophizing
upon this topic. It concludes thus:
We mast be reasonable in oar conduct
toward the negroes. We are glad to know
that there is among our readers already a
good disposition toward them. Take them
for all in all, they have borne their aston
ishing change unexpectedly well. Thanks
for this, under God, principally to the
good mistresses who cared for their souls,
and next, to the Methodist preachers who
labored in their ministry. But for these,
some of the States would have undergone
the fate of San Domingo, and a return
WAVE OF FIRE WOULD HAVE SWEPT THE
blacks to destruction. If wretched car
pet-baggers from the North had let them
alone, had the pitiful policy of the con
querors left the white mind of the South
free to control them, we should have little
to complain of in them, but the accidents
of their ignorance of affairs. As it is, for
the most part, they have done far better
than could have been expected. The heart
of the South recognizes this conduct. But,
unhappily, leaders have been sent to them,
clothed with the prestige of political au
thority, and worse, recommended by the
office of Christian ministers, who have
fooled them by false promises, excited
them by absurd social expectations, intoxi
cated them by ridiculous flatteries, and
bribed them into demoralizing mercenary
relations. The consequences are most se
rious, not to say alarming, and must be
counteracted if we can counteract them.
The Southern people must not withdraw
from the negroes. They must not surrender
them to that rascally guidance. We must
compete for tlieir confidence by exhibiting
expectation of permanent POLITICAL
friendship with them. They must be made
SOUTHERN in their sympathies. Above
all, they must be taught to love our
SOUTHERN CHRISTIANITY. They
must hear it from our lips, but especially
see it in our lives and conversation. They
must see that we have no resentment, no
bitterness toward them. We must protect
them from wrong, not permitting them to
look elsewhere for protectors. We must
condescend to reason with them, we must
instruct them, we must convert them to
Ood. Now, the preacher can not do all or
much of this. Our people must do it. Our
good women must gather their Sunday
schools and sewing schools again. Kindly
intercourse must be re-established, as in
the olden time. The negro for generations
to come will be dependent upon the whites.
There is no help for him but in the bigger
brain of the superior race. He knows and
feels it every day; but he regards the
Southern man as inimical to him. He has
been sedulously taught to do so. He must
be won back to Ins natural protector by
words and deeds of kindness. We must
not look back, if we would escape petrifac
tion in the vapors of its calamity. We
have to do in the present for the future.
We must deal with the negro as he is, not
as we think he ought to be. It has pleased
God that the relation of master and slave
should cease. It was a relation that re
quired more piety, more self-denial , more
devotion to God than the South, as a whole,
had to give it. Shall we be equal to the
new relation, or shall it, too, end in calam
ity? This is a question, of all others, to
be pondered by the cool heads and warm
hearts of the South, and may Ood help!
Amen! And first of all the heart
should be made as soft as the head. In
nothing do “Southern” writers generally
appear more ridiculous than in attempt
ing to reason upon the character and des
tiny of the colored race. They “under
stand the negro,” they are his “natural
protectors,” according to their estimation,
but in truth their philosophy is simply
foolishness.
First, the colored people want pay for
labor. Where employers will not give
this, or where local courts will not pro
tect the rights of the laborer, the Gene
ral Government should do so. Thousands
of colored people now crowd around the
cities, poor, ragged, and in destitution,
who would go into the country at once,
and work for moderate wages, cultivate
land on shares, or buy it on time,' and in
a few years pay for it, and make them
selves homes, and provide all they need
for comfort and happiness, if opportuni
ties to do so were given.
Second. They should have privileges
for education and religious worship, with
out interference or dictation from their
old masters.
Third. They should be allowed to ex
ercise all of the rights of American citi
zens without fear of the ICu-Klux.
In short, give the colored people a
chance to take care of themselves, and
they will do it, and not be a tax upon
any, to any extent, for any purpose. They
would support themselves, their schools,
and their Churches well at this time, but
for the oppression and knavery from which
they have suffered since the war. All
that the “citizen negro” needs or asks is
a fair chance to make an honest living.
Give him this and he will take care of
himself.
Anything in the papers of the Church
South about the colored people, but abuse
of them, is encouraging. Bating the
usual slurs upon Northern people and its
political and sectional bias, we are glad
to see the above in the St. Louis Advo
cate. One can not well avoid the reflec
tion, however, that if the colored people
are as bad as some make them out to be
their former teachers, those “good mis
tresses who cared for their souls” and
those “Methodist preachers who labored
in their ministry” were very inefficient in
this work. If the “wretched carpet
baggers from the North had let them
alone,” the Ku-Klux would have had an
easy time in keeping them under the lead
of the politicians. These “carpet-bag
gers” have taught them to read, think
and act for themselves like intelligent be
ings, and free citizens of this country,
hence this Ku-Klux wail of the St. Louis
Advocate. “Permanent POLITICAL
friendship with them” is important to po
litical tricksters and demagogues, and no
others. Why then does this religious
paper step forth as the champion of those
who are seeking to use them as tools and
dupes.
“Above all , they must be taught to love
our Southern [Ku-Klux] Christianity.”
That is a bitter pill. They will have to
be “taught” if they ever “love” this
“Southern Christianity,” which has so
abounded in auction blocks, cowhides,
paddles, white men’s children by slave
women and Ku-Klux diabolism! From
such “Southern Christianity” “Good
Lord deliver us!” Pre-eminently we
suppose this “Southern Christianity” is
not the Church of God, or the Methodist
Episcopal Church of God, but the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South of God!
Is this geographical term intended to in
dicate the climate of the locality of this
“Southern Christianity?” Is it warm
there ?
A Specimen.
The papers of the Church South are
just now greatly exercised over the South
ern work of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Take as a specimen the St.
Louis Advocate of January 24th.
First it contains an article copied from
the Richmond Advocate , from the pen of
one Mr. Frank Hinton, in reply to Dr.
Curry’s late papers. This Mr. Hinton
claims to have been long a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church and to
have filled nearly every office in it. We
venture nothing in supposing that he is
undoubtedly one of those easily wooled
putty-heads who has long been a pro
slavery, negro-hating, anti-war poli
tician, exceedingly anxious to get into
“Southern societyor, one who is ready
to sell his principles, himself and his
Maker all in a lump for thirty pieces of
silver or less whenever occasion offers.
He labors through a column and a quar
ter of twaddle in which he represents Dr.
Curry as “dependent for information
upon broken-down politicians and effete
ministers, soured by disappointment
and failure, who, to cover up their ill
success have sent back false reports of
the land.” How does this tally with Dr.
Matlack’s article in the Quarterly?
What of Judge Bond and the evidence
before the United States Court.
Again he says:
Most emphatically we do not want the Meth
odist Episcopal Church to send its ministers
down here for the purpose of cultivating a re
ligious field already occupied by a people of
our ovyn faith. We feel that the strife among
brethren of the same household should cease.
We rejoice in bearing testimony to the un
wearied zeal, the self-sacrificing devotion, and
pure Christian life of those ministers of the M.
E. Church South, with whom we have become
acquainted. In Winter and Summer, through
sunshine and storm, in poverty and discourage
ment sufficient to appall the most hopeful, these
men are to-day going forth to build up the
waste places of Zion by preaching a pure Gos
pel.
That is a discovery! Has Me. Hin
ton been out in the “waste places?”
There are multiplied thousands of whites
throughout the South, destitute of relig
ious care or privileges, in whose behalf
the Church South has made no effort.
But Mr. Hinton shows himself a falsifier
as well as a simpleton by representing the
Missionary Society as “supporting North
ern preachers at from SI,OOO to $3,000
a head to minister to a couple of dozen
of colored people” in Virginia. If he
is not a down-right ignoramus he ought
to know that the Virginia Conference has
entirely a white membership, and that the
Washington Conference, including Vir
ginia, has a membership of over 25,000.
At least the editors of the Richmond Ad
vocate and the St. Louis Advocate knew
these facts when publishing the stuff of
this cat’s-paw Hinton. He also recom
mends that our missionary money be
given to the Church South, and asks Dr.
Curry to advocate this measure! No
doubt he would favor the payment of the
rebel war debt and also compensation for
slaves of rebels by the Government.
Second, the same number contains
flings about a “huge pile of greenbacks,”
(by the way we never saw a preacher of
the Church South unwilling to take them,)
a‘-wire-puller” and “office seeker” in
the South Carolina Conference from a
THE METHODIST ADVOCATE. FEBRUARY 7, 1872.
correspondent “Perdix,” from that State.
Third, we observe the editorial on the
“Negro Citizen,” referred to in another
column.
Next is a nameless editorial of a col
umn and a quarter, evidently from Balti
more, in which our work is called a “gross
sham” of “draft-drawing missionaries.”
It says:
They know that they would no more dare to
march tlieir corps of Southern missionaries
through Broadway than Falstaff would march
his recruits through Coventry. Not that there
are not good men among them, but because the
goodness would exhibit a mortifying want of
torattis, and the brains a frightful want of good
ness, while all together would be a spectacle
not edifying in the way of missionary collec
tions. A procession, withal, headed by ‘‘prop
erty agents” (and college thieves might be re
garded as an indirect attempt to get sympathy
for Tweed.
As to “brains” we have only to say
that if the Church South has no better
supply of this article for its pulpit than
it has for its press it has nothing to boast
of in that line. The end of the conflict
will indicate on which side is the heft of
brains. As to goodness, none of our
missionaries have sold their children in
the market, nor do any of them belong
to the Ku-Klux Klan. As to “college
thieves,” the writer of the above knows
perfectly well that the buildings of the
East Tennessee Wesleyan University, to
which only he can refer, were purchased
by us in as fair business transaction as
ever occurred among men, and that the
Church South holds from us school prop
erty deeded to the Methodist Episcopal
Church. It must be a weak cause which
requires the substitution of inuendo and
falsehood for argument. In conclusion
we have this:
Particularly as Methodists we ought to study
the decline and fall of Northern Methodism in
order to see how to prevent the same mistakes
and avoid the same consequences.
Ugh!
Then follows a column of editorial and
reprint from the Golden Age , of burlesque
upon Dr. Haven.
Number six in this category is editorial
from the Richmond Advocate in which
occur these lines:
If we were conversing with Northern Meth
odist brethren at their homes on this question,
we would say to them plainly and frankly, that
if they desire to secure good feeling between all
sections of this country, they must cease to pro
mote unpleasant, unprofitable, and indeed most
hurtful social collisions by sending men among
us who plant their batteries and open tire on us
wherever they can secure a rod of ground. It
is not in human nature, especially it is not in
Southern human nature, and we think not in
Northern, to feel no risings of opposition when
a man comes into a quiet community and be
gins to stir up all the elements of strife, to de
nounce other people as deceivers and disloyal,
haters of the Government, and pretending
obedience while they are eagerly waiting for
an opportunity to rush into another grand re
bellion.
We have but two words on the above.
They are, first, our Northern preachers
have done no such thing as is here charged,
and, second, we say of the members and
preachers of the Church South, “by their
fruits ye shall know them.”
Seventh, and lastly comes a clipping
from the venerable and learned Dr. Sum
mers, an Englishman by birth, and, what
he is,from choice, in the official organ, the
Nashville Advocate , on “ Non-Inter
course.” He says:
We are astonished at the verdancy of some men
who wonder why we still have no intercourse with
Northern Methodist preachers who are laboring in the
South. There are thousands of good Methodists in
the North with whom we could maintain fellowship ;
but we wonder at the weakness of any one who knows
any thing about the questions in controversy between
us and the North, who could imagine for a moment
that we would give any encouragemen t to men whose
avowed object is the disintegration ana absorption of our
Connection, and who hold much of our property in the
South to enable them to carry out their nefarious un
dertaking. What would sensible men say if we were
to occupy their pulpits and invite them to occupy
ours? Would they not look down upon us with de
served contempt? Would they not consider us lack
ing in principle, and regardless of the claims of truth
and righteousness? There must be a great deal of
fumigation done by “our Northern brethren” before
we can have fellowship with them. While the slan
ders of such men as Cobleigh & Cos. are indorsed by the
leaders of the Northern Methodist Church we can give
neither thein nor their emissaries among us any coun
tenance. They have done immense mischief among
our colored people, and are doing it still—few of the
white people have any use for them. Indeed, they
have no call for this field, and they are abusing the
confidence of their own people when they beg money
out of them for missionary purposes, and then squan
der it on these miserable factors of mischief —better throw
it into the sea.
All of this we find in the St. Louis
Advocate , of January 24th, and give it as
a specimen of the fairness, learning, tal
ent and piety, of the “brains” and “good
ness” of journalism in the M. E. Church
South. And yet some people wonder
why we have any controversy in our col
umns with that Church. We admit as
little of it as circumstances will allow and
do justice to the Church and to the truth.
Were our paper twice as large as it is,
and printed in small type, it would not
contain room enough in which to defend
our cause against all of the falsehoods
and misrepresentations which we see and
hear.
It is rather hard to say this time—
“still we believe in fraternity”—but we
are able to keep our position on record.
Let it be understood, however, that we
have no sympathy with Ku-Klux “Chris
tians” or religious slangwhangers.
One object sought by the press of the
Church South is probably to so effectually
disgust, in advance, the General Confer
ence to meet in May next that it will not
appoint fraternal messengers to the Gen
eral Conference of the Church South. The
press of that Church is evidently afraid of
fraternal recognition. To prevent it is an
important object. If our General Confer
ence should refuse to appoint such mes
sengers after the correspondence which
has taken place between the bishops, and
after the visitation of Bishop Janes and
Dr. Harris to Memphis, in May last,
this failure on our part would be counted
a great victory on theirs. They would
then say to the people of the South that
the “Northern” Methodists refuse to
recognize us as a Church, that we are
their enemies and the enemies of the
country, with a little show of candor. Let
us not be caught in this trap. Friend
ship between Christians is right and can
be opposed only by mistaken or bad peo
ple. Whatever may be said by designing
parties against the Methodist Episcopal
Church the General Conference of that
body must stand upon the broad principle
of love to God and man. Its position
must be both true to itself and magnani
mous toward others. The appointment
of fraternal messengers to the Church
South can do us no harm however nu
merous such articles as those referred to
may become. These articles can do the
Church South no good.
Atlanta Free Schools. —One of the
most hopeful indications of future im
provement in our State is the enthusi
asm attending the opening of free schools
in our city. Three school-houses, con
taining eight rooms each, accommodating
fifty pupils in a room, or twelve hundred
in all, have been built at a cost of thirty
thousand dollars. By many these were
thought to be ample, more than sufficient
to *aeet the requirements of the people.
But, just before opening the schools, a
registration was made of those who de
sired to attend them. At every school
house there was a rush, and over two
thousand applicants were registered. It
has been found that so many advanced
scholars have applied that it is necessary
to open two high schools—one for boys
and one for girls. These have been pro
vided for, and still about six hundred
more have applied than can be admitted
to the present buildings. Additional
rooms must be furnished at once.
The public-school system was inaugu
rated with appropriate and interesting
exercises last week.
The opening of these schools indicates
what may be done in the South in popu
lar education. The people want schools,
free schools, public schools, for the edu
cation of all, and, in town and country,
if the leading citizens will favor free
schools as they have done in Atlanta,
their success is guaranteed in advance.
The opposition to the schools of our
Church, and of governmental action in
behalf of the cause, arises from sheer
prejudice and hatred of the North. The
people want schools, and would gladly
accept educational advantages from any
if not taught to oppose those from cer
tain quarters by “ leading minds.” The
old fogies still suppose that the great aim
of our schools is to gain political influ
ence and to strengthen a particular party.
The idea of education for its intrinsic
worth is as yet apprehended by but few.
But the public mind is growing in the
right direction.
These schools are all for the whites.
The colored schools in the city also
passed, under the same administration,
on the first instant. Equal provisions
are to be made for them, so that all of
the' people of this city, without respect
to color, will have an opportunity to edu
cate their children. The only rivalry
between these schools will be in hard
study and rapidity of advancement.
Here is a chance for the colored people
to show their capabilities. Let them
stand on their good behavior, work in
harmony with this movement, and show
that they are worthy of these privileges.
We trust that the time for taxing colored
people for the education of the whites
without a corresponding return is passed.
Asa matter of fact, the least that can be
said at this time is that, in this State,
ten dollars have been raised from the
colored people for the education of
the whites, to one dollar raised by tax
from the whites to educate the colored.
We have kept an eye upon this matter.
There are some interesting items in con
nection with it. During the last year,-
under the State law requiring equal priv
ileges for both classes, there have been
one thousand five hundred and seventy
five white public schools in the State,
supported by tax, to two hundred and
eighty colored, to say nothing of the
character of the latter.
Atlanta ha® done itself a credit and a
favor by this educational enterprise. A
like sum of money could not have been
expended in any other way so much to
the social and pecuniary advantage of the
people of this city.
Philip Phillips gave one of his de
lightful evenings of sacred song in Loyd
Street Church on Wednesday night last.
He used on the occasion one of Smith’s
American organs, which, in our judg
ment, is unsurpassed, if equalled by any
other reed instrument. This one had
marvellous softness of tone and fulness
of volume. The entertainment was greatly
enjoyed by an appreciative audience,
and we doubt not that all felt moved by
the power of song to deeper piety and
greater effort for Christ. The remarks
of Mr. Phillips on Church music were
exceedingly happy.
Gone North. —Rev. J. H. Knowles,
of this city, has been called North by
Dr. Rust to spend a few weeks in the
interest of the Clark Theological Semi
nary, under the direction of the Freed
men’s Aid Society. His relation as pas
tor of Loyd Street Church is not dis
solved, but the pulpit is to be supplied
by Dr. Barrows and others during his ab
sence. We commend him cordially to
the friends in the North, and hope that
his calls will receive such liberal re
sponses that he can soon return to his
work in Atlanta.
Golden Hours , the young folks’ favor
ite, for February, spreads an attractive
table for the mental appetites of its
patrons.
Clark Theological Seminary.
In order to secure, without delay, the
requisite funds, the Board of Directors
of the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church request Rev.
J. H. Knowles, pastor of Loyd Street
Church, Atlanta, Ga., to present the de
mands of the Clark Theological Semi
nary. He goes North for this purpose.
He can be absent from his Church
but a few weeks. He desires in this
time, by earnest appeals in public and in
private, to raise the whole amount re
quired. He enters upon this work with
a deep sense of its magnitude. We trust
every one will respond by contributions,
however small they may be —at least, by
proffering sympathy for the cause. What
is so closely identified with the salvation
of redeemed souls? Nearly two millions
of colored people in the South are to-day
largely dependent upon our Church for
the Gospel. Seven years ago they were
in slavery—without instruction, without
the intelligent agencies of the Church.
To-day they are citizens; flock around
the standard of “ Old Methodism ” ; de
mand our services; adopt our system of
Sunday-School work, and invite us into
new territory unoccupied by any Chris
tian organization. Behold what God
hath wrought! About six hundred col
ored preachers have been raised up in
our Southern Methodism within six years,
and are now regularly employed by our
Church. Over two hundred were or
dained by our Bishops in 1871. More
than one thousand colored local preachers
are identified with us. We have reason
to believe that God is calling hundreds of
colored youth to His ministry, and asks
the Church to open the door for them.
Never, in the history of the Christian
Church, has there been among any other
people such a genuine and universal
prompting to the sacred calling. For
the Church to regard these deep convic
tions with indifference or contempt is to
incur guilt. But these young men need
immediate instruction. Who must give
this? The Church. No other calls, at
home or abroad, are more imperative.
They stretch forth their hands, implor
ing us to teach them the elements of
Christian doctrine. Their yearning de
sires cannot be expressed, but are man
ifested in the flashing eye, the broken
prayer. How can we resist such ap
peals? Romanism is stealthily moving
through the South. It will require im
mediate and united action on the part
of the Church to baffle her insidious
designs. Her missionaries are to be
educated men. We cannot meet the
foe with ignorance and mere religious
enthusiasm.
Rev. J. H. Knowles is fresh from the
field. He wituesses daily the aspira
tions of the colored people to rise so
cially and religiously. His words are
spoked from deepest convictions. Let
us hear him. Now, when the Holy
Spirit moves so many colored youth to
preach the Word, let us testify our love
for Christ’s cause by gifts, sympathy
and prayer. For fifty dollars a room
in our new building can be furnished,
and the individual or Church will have
the privilege of naming it. All sums,
unless otherwise ordered, will be ac
knowledged in our Church papers.
DR, CHASE’S RECIPES; or,lnformation for
Every Body: An Invaluable Collection of
about Eight Hundred Practical Recipes, for
Merchants, Grocers, Physicians, Druggists,
Tanners, Shoe Makers, Harness Makers,
Painters, Jewelers, Blacksmiths, Tinners.
Gunsmiths, Farriers, Barbers, Bakers,Dyers,
Renovaters,Farmers, and Families generally.
To which have been added, A Rational Treat
ment of Pleurisy, Inflammatory Diseases,
and also for General Female Debility and Ir
regularities—all arranged in their appropriate
departments. By A. W. Chase, M.D.
Such is the title of a valuable book on
sale by Hitchcock & Walden, Atlanta, at
$1.25. The merchants and grocers’ de
partment contains articles on baking
powders, butter, eggs, fruit, jellies, inks,
vinegar, etc.; also, recipes for making
ice cream, lemonade, soda water, Byrups
and domestic wines. For these wines we
have no use—never have, and never
would keep them about the house. They
are useless, a temptation to the thought
less, and a social nuisance which yearly
leads scores to ruin. If these items were
tom out of the book it would be an im
provement. The medical department
contains much valuable information use
ful to every family, while the tanners’
harness-makers’, painters’, blacksmiths’,
tinners’, gunsmiths’, jewelers’, farriers’,
cabinet-makers’, barbers’, toilet and mis
cellaneous departments should be in every
household.
As long as people continue to eat, good
cooking is important to health and do
mestic happiness. The science of cook
ing is but little understood, and the art
is neglected still more if possible. This
department of Dr. Chase’s book is by no
means the least, but may be the most im
portant of all. It is a book for the mil
lions, full of good sense on domestic
affairs.
Old and New has a Washington num
ber for February. There is no fear of
bringing the life and character of Wash
ington too often before the public. The
articles in this number are varied and
able.
It is reported that the estate of the
late Isaac Rich, of Boston, amounting to
over a million and a half of dollars, is
given to lound a Methodist University in
Boston.
The widow of the late Bishop Clark
contributes the second thousand dollars
to the Clark Theological Seminary.
Virginia Conference-
To the Stewards of the Va. Conference:
Dear Brethren: Suffer a word from
your correspondent on a matter of great
importance to the cause and work of
God in our State :
Conference is at hand. Have you
supported your minister in his efforts to
meet the general collections on your sev
eral charges? But, chiefly, have you
paid your minister all you promised to
pay him? Please remember the moral
obligation you are under to do this. God
will bless you in proportion to your devo
tion to His cause, kingdom and servants.
The work is not theirs. It is God’s
work. They are but His servants. The
Conference will, no doubt, call for a stew
ard’s report. Will you not aid your
minister to make a good one ? Do not
ask any of them to balance the account
with you by the surrender of their claim,
or the report that it has been paid by
their contributing that balance to the
steward’s fuud. This will not be just to
the minister, and will have a bad influence
on the moral tone of your charge in fu
ture years. In truth, these ministers
cannot afford to give you that balance.
If our income from chartered, or other
funds, was worth anything, a report of
full receipts would cut off their claim for
deficiency. Let us be just to each other.
For your encouragement, let me say the
people of the Hoiston Conference, the
best in the South, with a membership of
23,549, paid their ministers out of their
quurterage collections, on an average,
about $143.42; or, in other words, to
seventy-three of their ministers, who re
ported their receipts, they paid $10,470.
The Virginia Conference has about one
fourth the membership of the former,
5,844 being our returns last year. If we
take the collections of the Hoiston as a
basis, aim-fourth of their collections
would be $2,617.50. Now I feel confi
dent we can do better than that if we
will try. Please try.
James Mitchell.
East Tennessee Wesleyan University.
This Institution closed its ninth term,
under its present President, Rev. N. E.
Cobleigh, D.D., Wednesday, 24th ult.
There were one hundred and twenty-five
students in attendance. The examina
tion of the classes was very critical and
thorough ou the part of the teachers and
examining committee, and eminently sat
isfactory to the friends and visitors pres
ent. The examination continued four
days. The classes, respectively, stood
higher on the graduated scale of scholar
ship than the corresponding classes at the
close of the session last June. The stu
dents gave evidence of studious applica
tion to, and marked proficiency in their
studies, and that they had been under
the care of most faithful and competent
teachers.
The Faculty, prescribed course of
study, government and general advan
tages of this Institution will compare
favorably with the oldest literary institu
tions in the South. Its locality and sur
roundings are of a very favorable and
desirable character, and its support and
success should lie near the heart of ev
ery lover of learning throughout this
broad land.
The Spring session opened this morn
ing with cheering prospects.
J. W. Mann.
Athens, Tenn., Feb. 1, 1872.
Holston Conference Apportionment.
At a meeting in the city of Knoxville, of the
presiding elders and Conference Board of
Church Extension, for the Holston Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church, the following
apportionment was agreed upon, with a resolu
tion to raise the entire amount:
Whole amount assessed to the Conference by
the Parent Boards, for Missionary, $2,000;
Church Extension $500; apportioned to the
districts as follows:
Mitflioaury. Ch. Exton.
Knoxville District $379 20 $ 94 80
Morristown District 279 70 69 92
Jonesboro District 400 10 100 00
Ashville District 213 80 53 45
Athens District 372 00 93 00
Chattanooga District 258 30 64 57
Hiawassee District 87 40 21 85
57 20 14 30
To defray expenses of delegates to General
Conference, whole amount to the Conference,
S2OO, apportioned as follows:
Knoxville District, $35; Morristown District,
$25; Jonesboro District, S3O; Ashville District,
sls; Athens District, SSO: Chattanooga Dis
trict, $35; Hiawassee District, $10; Holston
District, $lO.
The above apportionment was made per cap
ita, and the presiding elders requested to make
the apportionments in their several districts as
soon as possible.
J. F. Spence, Secretary.
Knoxville, January 24, 1872.
[Notice.]
CLARK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
ATLANTA,
Will commence its First Term on Wednesday,
February 14th, at 9 o’clock, a.m., and close
June 20th, All who are studying for the Chris
tian ministry, and can bring suitable recom
mendations, will be received. Tuition free.
One dollar Incidental expenses per term.
Board fpr a limited number can be had in the
institution at sll per month. Also, board can
be had in private families, and rooms for self
boarding. It will be greatly to the advantage
of all who .enter, to begin with the term,whether
they remain a long or short timo. Let applica
tions be made early, In person or by letter, to
L. D. BARROWS, Atlanta.
For the Truttret.
The Ladies' Repository for February
is out in good time. Beautifully printed
on fine white paper, with two charming
steel engravings, no magazine published
in this country presents a more attractive
appearance, while its literary merit should
make-it a favorite in all our families.
The Russian government has authorized the
Jews io build a synagogue in St.'Petersburg,
a privilege never before granted them. This is
a very significant and important concession.