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Uncle John’s Gift.
Uncle John and I had been to Wednes
day evening prayer-meeting together.
The minister was out of town. Two of
the deacons were absent. Only a few
brethren w r ere there, and these mostly
the quiet ones. The sisters, of course,
were all present, they usually are, but
being silent partners were not counted
among the active workers in the meeting.
Now, Uncle John never says any thing
in meeting, but to-night we w r ere so hard
up for somebody to occupy the time, that
Deacon Smith called on Brother Brow T n
(that is Uncle John) to pray. Brother
Brown, with a jump and a frightened
look, jerked out “Be excused.”
Walking home in the moonlight we got
to talking about it somehow, and I asked
Uncle John why he never said any thing
in prayer-meeting,
“Can’t, Thomas, can’t,” he said, “no
gift that way.”
“ Haven’t you one talent ?”
“No ; not one. Couldn’t say a word.
Wish I could. Wish I could do some
thing for God, but I’ve no talent.”
I wondered, but said no more. I won
dered, for Uncle John is one of the best
talkers I know of, full of quiet humor
that always makes his companions listen.
We passed a farm-house, and Uncle
John said, “I promised to go in here on
business a few moments.” There was
quite a collection of neighboring farmers
gathered for some business purposes.
Business over, they began talking of the
poor crops, the terrible drought and the
grasshoppers.
“Never saw any thing like it,” said one,
“ I didn’t get a quarter of a crop of hay.
Hay critters will all have to starve or be
killed afore Spring.”
“ Don’t see what we shall do for corn,”
said another. “The grasshoppers has
spiled mine, what the drought let grow.”
So each bemoaned his lot. Uncle John
was eloquent on the loss of oats, peas,
beans and barley, hay and potatoes.
Didn’t see what poor farmers were going
to do. It did seem a terrible thing to sit
and see the grasshoppers take the bread
out of the children’s mouths. For his
part, he was all discouraged, and couldn’t
help thinking it was too bad; and thus
Uncle John croaked the loudest and
longest of any, and seemed to find fault
with the dealings of his Maker.
As we walked homeward, I said, “Un
cle John, may I say a word or two?”
“Sartin, child,” he answered, “Sartin.
Just as many as you like. Out with it.”
“Well, it seems to me, Uncle John,
you have a pretty good gift at talking.”
“ Pooh, Thomas, I know what you
mean ; but meetin’s one thing, and neigh
bors is another. I can talk fast enough
there. I reckon folks think too fast
sometimes, but I can’t get at it in the
meeting-house.”
“But, Uncle John, it seems to me you
had a nice chance of speaking in meeting
at Farmer Jones.”
“How so ?”
“Didn’t you say coming down you
wished you could do something for the
Master? Seems to me this time of
scarcity and drought and trouble is a
good opportunity for God’s children to
speak a word for their Father. When
others are finding fault with Him, and
His way of doing, couldn’t His children
show that they love and trust Him, be
lieve He is doing just right, and knows
what is best for them ?”
“ Yes, yes, it does look so,” said Uncle
John.
“If others could see that you loved
and trusted God in spite of drought and
grasshoppers and no crops, wouldn’t it
be as good a speech as you could say for
him?”
“ True,‘Thomas, true. Looks asihough
God’s children ought to stand up for
Him. I suppose I should have spoken
if I had heard any one talking about my
earthly father so. I should have taken
his part. Yes, I guess I did lose a chance
of speaking in meeting there. Thank
you, Thomas, I’ll remember it, and try
to speak next time.”
If your old Uncle can’t speak in the
meeting-house, he’ll begin at the neigh
bors and the store and the street, and
such places. Perhaps there will be less
trouble then about the meeting-house.—
Congregationalism.
Mother’s Influence.
It requires no very extensive study of
biography to learn that it is of less conse
quence to any one what sort of father he
may have had, than what sort of mother.
It is indeed a popular impression that the
children of clever fathers are likely to ex
hibit the opposite quality. This I do not
believe, except in so far as it results from
the fact that men in public positions or im
mersed in business are apt to neglect the
oversight of their children. But it is a
noteworthy fact, eminent qualities in men
may almost always be traced to similar
qualities in their mothers. Knowledge, it
is true, is not hereditary, but training and
culture and high mental qualities are so,
and 1 believe that the transmission is chiefly
through the mother’s side. Further, it is
often to the girls rather than to the boys,
and it frequently happens that if a selection
were to be made as to the members of a
family most deserving of an elaborate and
costly education, the young women would
be chosen rather than the young men. But
leaving this physiological view, let us look
at the purely educational. Imagine an ed
ucated mother, training and moulding the
powers of her children, giving to them in
the years of infancy those gentle yet perma
nent tendencies which are of more account
in the formation of character than any sub-
sequent educational influences, selecting
for them the best instructors, encouraging
them in their difficulties, sympathizing with
them in their successes, able to take an in
telligent interest in their progress in liter
ature and science. How ennobling such an
influence, how fruitful of good results, how
certain to secure the warm and lasting
gratitude of those who have received its
benefits when they look back in future life
on the paths of wisdom along which they
have been led. What a contrast to this is
the position of an untaught mother —find-
ing her few superficial accomplishments of
no account in the work of life, unable
wisely to guide the rapidly-developing men
tal life of her own children, bringing them up
to repeat her own failures and errors, or
perhaps to despise her as ignorant of what
they must learn. Truly the art and pro
fession of a mother is the noblest and most
far-reaching of all, and who would worthily
discharge its duties must be content with
no mean preparation. —Principal Daioson ,
in “ Leisure Hour.”
Diseases of Spring.
Dr. Hall’s “ Health by Good-Living”
says :
It is an indisputable, physiological
truth, that if the instincts of nature were
yielded to in the Spring; were cherished
in her desire to take less and less food as
the weather grows warmer, as they are
yielded to in the Autumn in taking more,
a very large amount of the diseases of
Spring and Summer would be avoided.
The great practical lesson to be learned
in reference to the subject, a question of
health and disease—yes, in multitudes of
cases, a question of life and death—is
simply this : As the Winter passes and
the balmy spring-time comes on, do noth
ing to increase the appetite, eat no more
than is called for, do not be uneasy be
cause you have little or no relish for your
food; eat less and less every day. The
very best way to increase the pleasure of
eating is to change the quality of food;
use articles less carbonaceous, less warm
ing ; send from your table the pork and
bacon, and fat meats, oils, * and sugars,
and starches, and sago, and the rich pas
tries ; get hold of the early “greens,”
the spinach, the salads, the turnip-top,
the radish, the early berry, and the daily
fruit, and lean meats; pay increasing at
tention to the cleanliness of the skin;
be more in the air; sleep in better ven
tilated rooms ; let your windows be raised
high at night, and your inner doors be
left wide open.
Secure Good Church Lots.
“Near the soap-factory” too often lies
the lot which a strange, if not wicked,
economy selects as a site for erecting a
church. A correspondent of an exchange
gives a case in hand where a lot located
near such an establishment was purchased
for SSO, when one in a better position
would have cost SSOO. The church was
built thereon and a portion of the first
outlay saved. But no one will wonder if
the congregation will have trouble forever
hereafter in supporting even the cheap
Gospel which a cheap preacher will preach
to cheap people in such a cheap place. In
too many instances are churches located
near the soap-factory, that is, in out-of
the-way places, because ground can be
purchased, not more cheaply, but for less
money. Church-builders should go
straight for the center of towns or cities
or populations. The ground may cost
two, or five, or even ten times as much,
but it will take not many years to demon
strate the wisdom of the choice.—Relig
ious Telescope.
Remedy for Wounds.
Take a pan or shovel, with burning coals,
and sprinkle upon them common brown
sugar, and hold the wounded part in the
smoke. In a few minutes the pain will be
allayed, and recovery proceed rapidly. In
my own case a rusty nail had made a bad
wound in the bottom of my foot. The pain
and nervous irritation were severe. This
was all removed by holding it in the smoke
for fifteen minutes, and I was able to re
sume my reading in comfort. We have
often recommended it to others, with like
results. Last week one of my men had a
finger-nail torn out by a pair of ice-tongs.
It became very painful, as was to have been
expected. Held in sugar smoke for twenty
minutes, the pain ceased, and it promises
speedy recovery.
Said a minister once, when I gently
hinted to him that he had not preached
the Gospel that morning : “No,” said he,
“I did not mean to preach to sinners in
the morning, but I will preach to them
in the evening.” “Ah,” said I, “but
what if some of your congregation of the
morning should be in hell before even
ing ? ” — Spurgeon.
The religious journals in the United
States number about three hundred, with
a circulation of two and a half millions.
The Methodist Church prints one copy
to every one hundred and forty-four
members, the Baptist one to every two
hundred and thirty-seven, the Presby
terian one to every three hundred and
thirty-three.
Our trying to love an object is like
our trying to laugh when we are not
pleased; the more we try, the less we
shall succeed. The trying part of the
process implies it is a thing we do not
prefer.
We do not use apples enough in our
families. Baked sweet apples should be
on our tables every day. Some prefer
sour apples. We should use them in
tarts, pies, puddings, apple sauce, apple
butter, or in some way, every day. They
are more healthy than wheat and pork.
THE METHODIST ADVOCATE. MAY 1, 1872.
Hints to Preachers.
Do not get excited too soon. Do not
run away from your hearers. Engine
driving-wheels whirl fast on an icy track,
but when they draw any thing they go
slower. It takes a cold hammer to bend
a hot iron. Heat up the people, but
keep the hammer wet and cool.
Do not scold the people. Don’t abuse
the faithful souls who come to meeting
rainy days, because others are too lazy to
attend. Preach the best to the smallest
assemblies. Jesus preached to one wo
man at the well, and she got all Samaria
out to hear him the next time. Ventilate
your meeting-room. Sleeping in Church
is due to bad air oftener than to bad man
ners. Do not repeat sentences, saying,
“As I said before;” if you said it before,
say something else after. Do not end
sentences, passages of Scripture, or quo
tations with “and so forth;” say what
you mean and stop. Leave out all words
you can not define.
Stop preaching and talk to folks.
Come down from your stilted ways and
sacred tones, and become “as a little
child.” Tell stories; Jesus did, and the
common people heard him gladly. Re
late your experience; Paul did, and you
can hardly do better than he. —The Chris
tian.
A missionary to Japan, writes to the
Christian Intelligencer that on signing
their contract with Mr. Clark, son of Rev.
Dr. Clark, of Albany, who had been in
vited to come to Japan as a teacher, the
Government inserted a clause that he was
not to speak on religion. He indignantly
protested, and the Government at last
yielded the point. The officers in charge
congratulated him, saying, “You have
conquered. You have battered down
Japanese walls.” Professor Scott, of the
Yeddo College, finding that his clas3 uni
formly parsed the word “God” as a com
mon noun, thereby securing their own
gods from disrespect, finally told them that
“God” in English is a proper noun, and
if they wished him to teach them English
they must call it so. One intelligent lad
said at once, “That is because there is
but one God.” “Exactly so,” replied the
teacher, and the point was gained.
Scrap of History. —May 27, 1789,
Bishops Coke and Asbury called on Wash
ington, just after his inauguration as
President, and read to him the loyal and
congratulatory address of the New York
Conference. This was the first address
presented to the National Government
by any religious denomination. In his
noble Christian response, Washington
said in the closing paragraph: “I shall
always strive to prove a faithful and im
partial patron of genuine, vital religion.
I assure you in particular that I take in
the kindest part the promise you make of
presenting your prayers at the Throne of
Grace for me, and that I will ask the Di
vine benediction on yourselves and your
religious community.”
Grant’s Indian Policy.
Senator Morton very cleverly compares
Grant to William Penn in his treatment
of the Indians. And the comparison may
be extended further. No Englishman,
during his lifetime, was more maligned
and misunderstood than the honest Quaker
who settled Pennsylvania. But the purity
of his motives and the sincerity of his
character have been established beyond all
question, and so it will be with our Pres
ident. In the heat of political dispute,
demagogues take advantage of the excite
ment to poison the public mind, and even
honorable opponents are misled into utter
ances from which, in calmer moments, they
would shrink. The President is thus ex
posed to-day, but the very bitterness of the
malice which he excites must defeat its
object.
State Courts and Habeas Corpus.
Adjutant General Townsend lias had
published copies of the opinion of the Su
preme Court of the United States denying
the jurisdiction of State Courts to issue a
writ of habeas corpus for the discharge of
a person held under the authority, or claim,
or color of authority, of the United States
by an officer of that Government, when
that fact appears upon application for the
writ; or to continue proceedings under the
writ, when issued, after information in
this respect has been given in the return of
the writ by the -officer having the custody
of the prisoner.
These are sent to each army officer or
station in the shape of General Order Nc.
16, and to others interested.
Capital and Interest.
If one dollar be invested, and the interest
added to the principal annually , at the
rates named, we shall have the following
result as the accumulation of one hundred
years:
One Dollar, 100 years, at 1 per cent. s2}
do do 3 do 19J
do do 6 do 3044
do do 8 do 2.203
do 9 do 5,543
d° do 10 do 13,809
do do 12 do 84,675
d° do 15 do 1,174,505
d° do 18 do 15,145,007
do do 24 do 2,551,799,404
The Public Debt statement for the
month ending March 31, shows that the
total National debt, including interest,
amounts to $2,340,963,438.86.
The total cash in the Treasury is $l3O,
631,909.52.
The decrease of the public debt during
the past month, $15,481,968,64.
Decrease of debt from March 1, 1869,
to March 1, 1872, $299,649,762.03.
Three things ought to be cultivated
good books, good friends, and good humor,
the sunshine of the soul.
The Postal Telegraph*
Senator Ramey’s Telegraph Postal Bill
has been agreed to by the Senate Commit
tee on Post Roads, and will probably be
come a law.
The bill provides for the establishment
of telegraph stations at all the post-offices
in the United States. It gives the Post
master-General power to make all neces
sary regulations for the successful conduct
of the telegraph. Uniform charges are to
be made for equal distances in the trans
mission of messages, and pre-paid tele
grams will have the priority in transmis
sion. Telegrams will be pre-paid with
stamps, and the money-order system will
be connected with the telegraph. Special
contracts will be made with railroad com
panies and the press. Special dispatches
to newspapers will not exceed fifty cents for
every hundred words sent on any night,
and seventy-five cents by day for every five
hundred miles. A fourth Assistant Post
master-General is to be appointed as Gen
eral Superintendent of Telegraph.
The bill contemplates the incorporation
of a Postal Telegraph Company, and the
Postmaster-General is to contract with the
company for the transmission of Govern
ment messages and to regulate the rates
for Government business. The company
is also authorized to purchase the telegraph
lines of all companies now existing in the
Union at appraised valuation.
Mulching.
A sagacious fruit-grower mulches his
place heavily, and never removes it from
one year’s end to the other. His soil is
always cool and mellow, and his trees and
vines never suffer from heat; his fruit is
large, fair and delicious, and his produce
is extraordinary in quantity. For all
newly planted trees in the Spring of the
year, mulching is the only safe guarantee
of their success; without mulching many
will fail; with it not one should be lost.
The practice is also a saving of labor, and
if the mulch is applied two or three inches
deep it will keep down all weeds. Mulch
ing can also be used to retard the ripen
ing of fruit from three to five days. Upon
light, sandy soil, currants can not be
grown without it. Pears dropping from
the tree are safe from bruises. Toma
toes well mulched will double their pro
duce. We scarcely know of a single ob
jection to mulching, and in our experi
ence it has proved to be one of the most
economical and efficient aids to fruit cul
ture ever brought to the notice of the
public.
The Manchester (England) Chamber of
Commerce has passed a resolution calling
the attention of shippers and dealers in
cotton to the fact that the adulteration of
American cotton with sand has become of
late a serious grievance, and asking the co
operation of American Chambers of Com
merce in suppressing this system of fraud.
Don’t waste the soap suds, but apply it
to gardens, vines, bushes, evergreens, or
lawn. It is too valuable to be turned out
at the back door.
Consistency.
G. S. Page, contrasting Vineland, N. J.,
a city with “ No License,” with Chatham,
N. J., that had license, thus forcibly de
livers himself: “We saw not far away
from us, in our sister city, Vineland, that
they had successfully stopped the traffic,
and they did it in such an easy, business
like way. The men, as they attended to
the election, in addition to the regular
balloting tickets, had small tickets to drop
into a box close by, on which were in
scribed the words “ No License.”
We visited Vineland since. It is a
place containing ten thousand inhabitants,
grown to that extent in the limited period
of nine years. We traversed it day and
night, and no trace of the traffic could we
find. We talked upon the subject to the
leading men, and they informed us that it
had been prohibited from the institution
of the town, except in so slight a degree
that no one knew anything about it.
What was the result? We found in that
town sobriety and order. We also found
that, so far as taxation was concerned, it
was a perfect paradise.
We found the entire taxation for the
care of paupers, criminals and others, was
seventy-five dollars for the year;—this
was the salary of the City Marshal, and he
said to us,g“ I came from a town of ten
thousand inhabitants, where there were
forty dram-shops, and the annual taxation
was forty thousand dollars.” O, how
this truth came down to us! We came
home and circulated a petition through
our town, asking the Legislature to allow
us to submit our grievance to the decision
of the ballot-box, and it was granted.
Our election was held. We did not sit
down in the meantime, but earnestly
worked in company with those whom w’e
called to our aid, and showed up the in
justice of the traffic. On election day it
was a marvelous sight. Clergymen, of
every denomination, were at the polls and
canvassed the ballots as they came. The
best men in the community were working
from early morning until late at night, and
the prayers that were offered for the suc
cess of the object were many and fervent.
We know the drunkards, and as they
came, saw them drop into the box the bit
of paper saying, “close them, take the
temptation out of our way.” When the
votes were counted, there were one hun
dred and sixty-seven majority for “No
Lisense.” Oh! the cheers that rose on
that occasion. Then, if you had listened
to the earnest, thankful prayers that were
offered as the multitude poured forth with
one voice, “ Praise God from whom all
blessings flow.” Within seven months
seventeen of these*places were closed in
our neighborhood. 'The change was mar
velous. Let any one who had been in
Chatham prior to that time go there now,
and he will find upon the doors of these
establishments, “ For Sale.”
The New Temperance Law.
A great advance in the temperance cause
seems to have been made in those localities
which have given the wives and children of
inebriates the right to sue grog-sellers who
furnish such inebriates with intoxicating
drink. The Cleveland Herald prints a
paragraph going to show that the law works
admirably. “We see it stated, from the
prosecuting attorney of Noble county, 0.,”
says that paper, “that the prosecution of
grog-shop-keepers has closed every liquor
den in that county, and what prints an ex
clamation point at the end of that fact is
the astonishing x-esulting fact that not a
crime has been committed in that county
for 9ix months—a few misdemeanors being
the sum total of the criminal docket at the
last term of court in that county. There
never before has been an efficient law en
acted. Prohibition is an impossibility ; and
while the prosecution for liquor-selling was
merely a criminal action, informers could
not be found, and there was no personal
inducement to engage in the business of in
forming, while.there was great risk and
great sacrifice of time and money. Under
the present law there is a dollar-and-eent
remuneration to the party injured. There
is little difficulty in making out the case,
for the victim himself is compelled to tes
tify ; and there is no difficulty with jurors,
for inebriates themselves, if on a jury, un
der oath, would not hesitate to do their
duty, for they know how it is themselves.
The principle on which the law rests is right,
for it only recognizes the great moral rule
that a man should be held responsible for
his own acts.”
Temperance in the States.
With all the discouragements the friends
of the temperance cause among our neigh
bors have to encounter, we are glad to note
causes of thankfulness and hope. Governor
Washburne, of Massachusetts, who at best,
was regarded as doubtful, and against
whose eleotion a “third party” was organ
ized, has come out squarely in favor of
Prohibition in his message. Massachusetts’
noble son, Senator Wilson, is also hard at
work in Washington, with a few coadjutors,
who are like-minded in the effort to make
the Congressional Temperance Society a
mighty power for good at the national heart,
and feels greatly encouraged.
If we turn to Maine, the cradle and home
of the Prohibitory movement, we find that
it does not prove recreant to the principles
of the Maine Law. A State Convention
has just been held, over which the Governor
presided, where many of the ablest men
took part. And elsewhere, it is an encour
aging sign that the politicians, instead of
opposing the movement, wish to make capi
tal out'of it. We note with satisfaction
those tokens of revived interest in the good
cause, hoping that the wave of reform may
extend here, and that the advocates of tem
perance throughout the Dominion will take
fresh courage. — Ex.
The Wine Question. —If I burn my
finger in the fire, I do not hasten to the
Scriptures to seek chapter and verse for
bidding me to do such a thing. Neither,
if I can not find such chapter and verse,
do I feel myself compelled to go back
and roast my fingers. So, if I were a
missionary to China, looking through my
Bible and not finding a syllable on opium
eating or smoking, would my soul melt
within me at the thought that I could not
now speak a word against it? No; see
ing that giant evil stalking through the
land, I would feel called of God to smite
it with all my soul. And now intemper
ance is desolating our land. What eye
will read these words that has not looked
into the grave of some dear friend who
died of drink? And shall we look for
chapter and verse ? Are not the moans
of broken hearts, the agonizing prayers
of mothers, the despair of wives, and
the wails of starving little children, enough
for us?
Appropriate. —A Baltimore house ad
vertises “Atlas Whisky,” and illustrates
the advertisement with the print of a man
bent nearly double, with a world on his
shoulders. This is capital. In this
sense, all whisky i3 “Atlas” whisky. The
whisky-drinker is attempting to carry a
world of woe, care, sorrow, anguish and
remorse, and it is well to remind him of
it by presenting just such pictures as the
one in question. We don’t know what
induced a liquor-dealer to be so remark
ably honest as to print this picture along
with his advertisement; and we are
tempted to hope that one who shows so
much conscientiousness may soon be in
duced to abandon the traffic. —Christian
Index.
“Garden Island” is the name of a little
islet in Lake Ontario, near the city of
Kingston. The population is about a
thousand. Twenty years ago a law was
passed that no liquor should, on any pre
tense, he brought on the island. There
is not a pauper nor a politician among the
inhabitants, and not a case has come be
fore the magistrate for fifteen years.
Twenty-seven thousand Roman Catho
lics, representing one hundred and sev
enty-seven total abstinence organizations,
from eleven States and the District of
Columbia, convened at Baltimore on the
22d ult., for the purpose of forming a
National Temperance Union. The name
adopted is “The Catholic Total Absti
nence Union of America.”
By well authenticated statistics, Mr.
Barrows shows that in the United States
there are paid one hundred and twenty
nine millions of dollars more for intoxi
cating drinks than for flour, meal, cotton
and woolen goods, boots and shoes, books,
newspapers and other printed matter!
Conscience is a sleeping giant; we may
lull him into a longer or shorter slumber
but his starts are frightful, and terrible
is the hour when he wakes.
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Single copy, 20 cts.; per hundred, sls; per thousand, $l2O
Or, if in quantities, as follows:
Sunday-School Teacher,
SEE WHAT S3O WIBU BUY".
lO HALLOWED SO3SCIS, (320 pages, all favorites.)
100 IIA I.I,OWED III'MSS, (its companion.)
25 SlAdlStJ ANNUALS, 1870, (04 pages fresh
every year.) ■
25 SIJKGINU ANNUALS, 1871, (every soug now
and found nowhere else.)
Philip Phillips has obtained the right —by
a heavy expense—to select from all popular
sources the best Sunday-school songs pub
lished, for the purpose of embodying them in
one book—a tiling which has never been done
before; and all who have given it a careful ex
amination, unhesitatingly pronounce it the best
book for Sunday-schools and prayer meetings
extant, as it contains not only the recent popu
lar songs, such as “I love to tell the Story,”
“All to Christ,” “I’m safe within the Veil,”
“The Water of Life,” “Pilgrim’s Mission,”
“Over There,” etc., but all the real old "stand
bys” that we must ever continue to sing, and
which grow better by use.
Our better class of Sunday-school workers
are getting tired of so much new Sunday-school
music, which is becoming a burden to our
schools, and wc are gratified now to offer a
book containing only the true and tried spirit
ual songs, and at so low a price, as the New
Hallowed Songs, with its companion, Hallowed
Hymns, and its yearly supplement, Singing
Annuals.
Address Hitchcock & Walden,
Cincinnati, Chicago , and St. Louis,
Carlton & Lanahan,
805 Broadway , New York.
MUSIC BOOKS.
Hallowed Sonars, revised—
Single copy 75 cts
Per dozen qo
Per hundred 60 00
Hallowed Hymns—
Single copy 20 cts.
Per hundred 15 00
Dew-Drops. By T. C. O’Kane—
Single copy 35 eta.
Per dozen 3 60
Per hundred 30 00
Fresh Leaves. By T. C. O’Kane—
Single copy 35 c t s .
Per dozen 3 60
Per hundred 30 00
Singing Pilgrim—
Single oopy 60 cts.
Per dozen 5 qo
Per hundred..... 35 00
Huslcal Leaves—
Single copy 35 cts.
Per dozen 3
Per hundred so 00
Xcw Standard Singer-
Single copy etlcts.
Per dozen 6 00
Ter hundred 43 0()
For sale by HITCHCOCK & WALDEN, Atlanta, Oa.
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