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The Methodist Advocate.
ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 26, 1872.
N. E. COBLEIGH, D.D., LL.D., Editor.
EDWARD A. COBLEIGH, Assistant.
INTRODUCTORY.
Before taking his seat, the new editor
offers salutation to the readers of the Ad
vocate, and makes his most respectful bow.
The bow is twofold: first, respectfully to
the people whom it will be his duty to
serve, and second, submissively to the order
of the General Conference and to the provi
dence of God, which, without his seeking
or expectation, have assigned him to this
chair. There is usually grief at the part
ing of friends. An unexpected change of
editors, as in this case, brings its disap
pointments and regrets. We sympathize
with those who have sorrow on account of
changes which our coming has produced.
The kindness, the earnestness, the fidelity,
and the large-hearted sympathy manifested
by the retiring editor, through his whole
connection with the Advocate, have natu
rally and justly drawn to him hearts that
feel a sad loss in his removal. Such will
not be forward to give their sympathy to a
stranger. We come, therefore, with some
embarrassments to an office which has been
so long filled with service by one so able, so
true, so courageous, and so amiable as our
noble predecessor has proved himself to be.
All important work has its difficulties as—
well as its opportunities—a shady as well
as a sunny side. We have come to work—
to do our best to make the Advocate in
teresting and useful, worthy to enter as a
friendly guest into every Christian house
hold, especially every family connected
with our Church in the South. This is not
only our wish but our purpose.
Custom seems to require that on an in
troduction to his readers an editor should
indicate the general outlines of the policy
in accordance with which the paper shall
be conducted. We distinctly understand
that our mission as editor of a religious
newspaper should be peace and good-will
to all. We feel disposed to adopt, in its
fullest and broadest sense, this injunction
of the apostle : “If it be possible, as much
as lieth in you, live peaceably with all
men.” To our mind the functions of the
religious press are as sacred as those of
the pulpit. The range of legitimate topics
may be a little broader, and the manner
of handling them a little more varied and
free in the former than in the latter, but
both should be permeated and controlled
by the same spirit. The same end should
be sought by both, namely, the spreading
of Scriptural holiness and Christian civili
zation throughout the land. Whatever
promotes this object is a legitimate theme
for a religious newspaper. Whatever hin
ders this, and can be taken out of the way,
the press in all suitable ways should en
deavor to remove.
Ours is emphatically a Christian work,
and can be successfully accomplished only
when directed and inspired by a Christian
spirit. The means for accomplishing this
work are manifold. In their selection and
use is a constant liability to err in judg
ment. Only the Infinite Mind has perfect
wisdom. All editors are human, and some
are very human. Hence we are liable to
err in judgment. Error in judgment, how
ever, need not and should not draw after it
a disagreeable temper or an unchristian
spirit. The former can be easily forgiven—
the latter can not be quite so readily par
doned.
In promoting Christian work, between
us and other denominations, there can be
no real antagonism ; there should be none
manifested either in our efforts or in our
spirit. In non-essentials we may disagree ;
our methods may be diverse ; in the selec
tion and application of means to ends we
may seem the antipodes of each other,
while all may keep the “unity of the spirit
in the bonds of peace.” In this may be
discovered our policy toward other Chris
tian denominations. In this great and
glorious field—the South—our settled pur
pose is, so far as they will allow it, to labor
in peace and harmony with all other relig
ious bodies, so far as promoting the cause
of Christ is concerned. They will fight the
common enemy in their way ; we, in ours ;
but all in a Christian spirit—each ready to
rejoice in any success legitimately gained
by another.
The true Christian editor works for hu
manity ; for those most who most need
help. He ignores all unchristian distinc
tions. In his all-grasping charity he em
braces the poor as well as the rich, and the
rich as well as the poor. As he has op
portunity he seeks to do good unto all
men, especially to those who are of the
household of faith. The whole household
is meant, without distinction of race, color
or previous condition ; the little as well as
the great, the humble as well as the proud,
the weak as well as the strong, the children
as well as the youth, the adults, and the
aged. Food for the soul as well as for the
intellect should be duly furnished in suffi
cient quantity, quality, style and variety.
That is the kind of editor we most desire
to be. To prove such shall be our con
stant aim, though we may come far short
of our standard.
A newspaper should of course contain at
least in some measure the important news
of the day. There is much transpiring
around us. Thought is active. Through
innumerable facts principles are being de
veloped and established. A proper knowl
edge of these facts is necessary to keep up
the intellectual activity of the age. It is not
wise to confine the mind’s observation to a
narrow circle. It should observe, and
think, and feel broadly. The world is an
editor’s parish, and what of most import
ance is transpiring in the world, he should
present to his readers. A fair proportion
of the Advocate should be devoted to
news.
Every denomination should look outside
and beyond itself. There is danger of a
Church being too much filled with its own
ways—too much interested in Self-work.
One’s looking should not be confined to his
own things, but extended often to the
things of others. What other Churches
are doing, what they are thinking, and how
they are working and prospering, every in
telligent Christian so far as practicable
should understand. A well conducted
Christian newspaper should reflect this
kind of intelligence. There should be
room enough in it, and editorial force
enough on it to secure this. We should
neither neglect our own interests in observ
ing the interests of others, nor others’ in
too exclusive attention to our own.
The heart demands attention as well as
the brain. Neither should be neglected.
There is in the soul a spiritual as well as
an intellectual and a moral nature. Relig
ious newspapers so-called are often any
thing but religious. They too often have
not a single sweet morsel of food for the
religious nature. There is something for
the intellect, food for the prejudices and
passions, controversy, self-praise and de
traction of others, but not one word to
encourage that charity which seeketh not
her own, suffereth long and is kind, and
thinketh no evil. We hope to furnish in
every number of the Advocate some
healthful nourishment for the spiritually
hungry soul—something for heart-piety to
feed or feast upon. Until the Advocate
is enlarged we can not, of course, furnish
much of a variety in any department of
the paper.
The children must not be overlooked or
neglected. They are the hope of the
Church. Some suitable reading must be
furnished in every number for them. The
coming men and women of the next age
are among the children of to-day. The
religious press must have an eye upon
them.
All our promises must be of a general
character. The foregoing is only a very
indefinite outline of what we hope to ex
hibit in the columns of our weekly paper.
Time only can settle the questions of
detail.
On one point wo are fully settled. Of
fensive personalities must be excluded.
We can not consent to use them ourself,
nor suffer them to appear in our columns
in the communications of others. Not
only a decent morality but even a refined
Christian taste demands their exclusion.
Whatever other editors may see fit to al
low in their papers, to the best of our
ability we shall keep our paper free from
such indecencies. It is useless to say to
us there is in this a lack of spirit. It is
the lack of that spirit that tends to dis
grace and demoralization. If it be said
that the people desire such things, our re
ply is that the time has come when they
should be ashamed of that desire. We
should endeavor to call up in them the op
posite virtue to take the place of this vice.
We hope that our correspondents will not
compel us to reject otherwise valuable ar
ticles on account of such improprieties of
language.
We shall reserve many things to say
hereafter, as we have neither time nor
space to say them now.
N. E. Cobleigh.
Bishop Merrill, in his “Retiring Words,”
says: “The prospect is good for the future
enlargement and improvement of the West
ern Christian Advocate. Let all its friends
take the hint, and let it have such a push
for the front rank, that another year will
find it equal in size and quality to the very
largest and best in the land. The new ed
itor comes with a cheerful countenance,
and a heart beating with noble purposes.
I take pleasure in commending him to the
confidence and esteem of every friend of
the Western. God bless every family into
which the paper comes ! In a little while
the time for labor will end. May we all
be ready 1”
Laying up Treasures.— Rev. J. Aaron
Moore sends us the following names of
children in his Sunday-school, in Clinton,
Miss., who are deserving of mention for
committing to memory verses from the Bi
ble : Maria Johnson recited fifty verses on
two successive Sabbaths; Malla Sanders
did equally well; while Margaret Hudson,
Lizzie and Lemuel Adams each recited
twenty-five at one time. He reports the
Sunday-school as flourishing.
A man has a poor opinion of himself
who is not willing to seem what he is. *
No face has true beauty in it that does
not mirror the deeds of a noble soul.
What is not needed is dear at any price.
THE METHODIST ADVOCATE. JUNE 26, 1872.
COMMENCEMENT WEEK
AT
East Tennessee Wesleyan University,
ATHENS, TENN.
The past week has been greatly enjoyed
at Athens, Tenn., in attendance on the ex
aminations and Commencement exercises
of East Tennessee Wesleyan University.
From first to last, the exercises have been
highly creditable. If any of our freinds,
North or South, wish to know the charac
ter of our work in the South among the
whites, they should visit the school at
Athens, and inquire into the class of grad
uates—young men and women—who are
going out every year from this institution,
to take their places as leaders and workers
in this Southern field. The whole Church
is interested in the work done by this insti
tution. We hope soon to see the school
sufficiently endowed to place it above finan
cial embarrassments. It should at once
be made the central university for the
South, and nourished by every Conference.
We may need another such school very
soon in the Empire of Texas, and would
rejoice to see one there; at present we
should rally to East Tennessee Wesleyan
University, and make it our intellectual
center.
The examination began on Friday last,
in the Preparatory Department, Miss Mary
Mason, Principal. Miss Mason is a grad
uate the of class of 1871.
The examinations of the classes were
fair, critical, and thorough. The report
of the committee is highly creditable to
teacher and pupils, but not more than
they fully deserved.
The literary exercises of this depart
ment, on Friday night, more than satisfied
the expectations of patrons and friends.
To Miss Helen Bosworth, teacher of music,
too much praise can not be given for her
thoroughness of drill. The little folk and
larger ones acquitted themselves as profi
cients. To Master Myron Manker, who
gave us “Three Little Bugs in a Basket,”
to Master Hugh Taylor, whose declama
tion was por excellence , and to the “Doc
tor” Johnny Luter, especial mention is
due.
On Monday and Tuesday the College
classes were examined. The Secretary of
the Committee of Examination will furnish
you copy of report. The average of
classes, on a grade of which ten is perfect,
will reach nearly nine. This also speaks
well for the professors and the students.
Three of these professors were graduates
of the class of 1871, and have won addi
tional laurels in the work of this year.
The exercises on Monday and Tuesday
nights consisted of music, orations, decla
mations, and essays ; each department do
ing itself credit, and we confidently look
to the future to develop in the college so
cieties—the Athenian, Philomathean, and
Adelphian—all the strength of the older
universities.
The exercises of the graduating class
are given in the following
PROGRAMME:
MUSIC.
PRAYER.
MUSIC.
Oratio SalutatOkia-D. A. Boltou, Millwood.
MUSIC.
Oration— Liberty—3. M. Patterson, Athens.
music.
Oration— Leaders— M. M. Callen,Thorn Grove.
MUSIC.
Oration— Our Nation's Bondage—J). A. Bolton,
Millwood.
JMCOSIO
Oration— Workers— Alex. Presnell, Browns
boro.
MUSIC.
CONFERRING DEGREES.
MUSIC.
Valedictory Oration—A Glance Before us—
S. S. Curry, Chatata.
MUSIC.
benediction.
This class of graduates give five addi
tional alumni to East Tennessee Wesleyan
University, who will bring honor upon
their Alma Mater , and make their mark
in the world.
The first meeting of the alumni took
place last night. Prof. Edward Atlee de
livered the address. Subject: “Policy.”
He dealt earnest blows at corruption, and
gave a fair and careful resume of the wants
of the hour, being, in all fields of toil,
“true men.”
The pleasant episode of a wedding
closed the exercises. The groom a mem
ber of the class of 1872.
Mr. D. A. Bolton and Miss Lizzie
Hornsby, by Dr. N. E. Cobleigh, assisted
by Rev. J. W. Maun, presiding elder of
Athens District. The occasion was a very
pleasant one.
The trustees announced the degree of
D.D. conferred on Rev. N. G. Taylor, and
of LL.D. on Rev. Dr. N. E. Cobleigh.
Also the election as President of Rev.
James A. Dean, A.M., of Wesleyan Uni
versity, Mass.
The whole course of exercises was ex
ceedingly successful. **
Athens. Tenn., June 20,1872.
Report of Committee of Examination.
The committee appointed to examine the
classes in the East Tennessee Wesleyan
University at the close of the college year
1871-72 respectfully report:
1. The order observed by the students
in all their examinations, the respect shown
their teachers and the committee and the
effort made by them, under much embar
rassment, to do the best they could have
been highly gratifying to the examiners.
2. The teacher feels, naturally, a pro
found interest in the success of an examin
ation. Not his class alone, but himself is
to be, more or less, judged by the knowl
edge exhibited by his pupils. Considering
the natural feeling, the committee must
accord to these teachers the merit of un
usual fairness and justice. Notonly thecom
mittee alone, but the public, also were per
mitted to question the students on the sub
jects under consideration.
A criticism made by the committee last
term is thought worthy to be repeated :
The text books are too large—too much
is proposed to be studied. Important gen
eral principles are too often lost in the host
of minute and minor fapls thrust on the over
burdened memory. It is, however, due to
this institution to state that the criticism
above bears upon the ordinary course of
instruction in all our colleges, and compar
atively speaking, the examinations for this
term have shown less of this objection than
those of last term and we may say that
the examinations in this college have at no
time shown this feature above other similar
institutions.
The grade below has been carefully made
by all the examiners and will show with
fairness their judgment of the degree of
proficiency which each class has exhibited.
The examiners’ grade will usually fall
below the teachers’ grade if both are fairly
drawn. Because the pupil has usually ap
peared with little embarrassment before
his teacher and been accustomed to his
manner of asking questions. The pupil,
however, must remember that the world,
which he is preparing to be examined by,
will not ask its questions very obligingly
and will make little account of embarrass
ment. Thorough preparation is the only
guarantee against failure before examining
committees in or out of college.
Gradation.
Miss Mason’s Classes: Ist Geography 7.30;
2d Geography 9.; 3d Geography 10.; Ist
Arithmetic 8.40; 2d Arithmetics.; 4th Reader
7.60; sth Reader 7.90; English Grammar 8.95.
Miss Hauschild’s classes: English Grammar
8.75; English Composition 8.50; Rhetoric 9.15;
Botany 9.50; Geography 9.25.
Professor Atlee’s classes: Cicero’s Orations
8.75; Latin Reader 8.75; Tacitus 7.75; Horace
9.; Ist Latin 9.25 ; Analysis Civil Government
9.25; Virgil 9.20.
Professor Milburn’s Classes: Geometry 9.;
2d Arithmetic 9.50; Ist Arithmetic 8.75; 2d Al
gebra 9.; Higher Arithmetic 9.10; Ist Algebra
8.35; General Geometry 9-50; Physiology 8.75;
Astronomy 8.G5.
Professor Manker’s Classes: Greek Reader
8.; Anabasis 9.25; Ist Greek 9.10; Plato 8.50.
Dr. Cobleigh’s Classes: Evangelical Chris
tianity 9.60; Psychology 9.20; Logic 8.90; Ge
ology 9. J. W. Mann, Chairman.
P. C. Wilson, Secretary.
Credit. —The article in our paper of last
week, “The New Editor,” should have
been credited to the Daily Advocate.
No Name.— A letter received from
Whitesburg, Tenn., closes thus : “Send the
class-leader a number of your Church pa
per, that he may get up some subscribers
in the Church.” This request we would be
very glad to comply with, but it is quite
impossible, as the writer neither gave us
his name nor that of the class-leader.
We regret to learn that the family of our
brother C. O. Edwards, of the Cincinnati
Book Concern, has again been visited by
bereavement. Their youngest child, Cal
vin Kingsley, aged a little over one year,
died on Saturday, June Bth, at the family
residence, Hartwell, near Cincinnati.
Camp-Meeting.
A camp-meeting for Sandy Spring cir
cuit, of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
will be held on Thursday, August 15, 1872,
on the road between Ashton and Brighton,
Montgomery county, Maryland, under the
supervision of Rev. James Peck, presiding
elder, and Rev. R. P. Bell, preacher in
charge.
The first performance of the Jubilee festival
was a great success. The performance com
menced with the choral of Old Hundred, by
over sixteen thousand voices. Then followed
selections of beautiful operatic music, vocal
and instrumental. A great feature was the
performance of Verdi’s Anvil Chorus, sung by
various societies, accompanied by one hundred
anvils, organs, military bands, bells of the city
and cannou. The Star Spangled Banner was
sung with great effect. One day is allotted to
each nation represented.
Plan of Episcopal Visitation—lß72.
Conference. Place. Time. Bishop.
East Maine Orono June 12, 1872... Andrews.
Ger.&Switzerl’d..Zurlch “ 27, “ ...
Delaware Dover July 26,* “ ...Scott.
Colorado Georgetown “ 25,* “ ...Foßter.
Rocky Mountain. Salt Lake Ang. B,* “ ... “
Nevada Sierraville, Cal... “ 15,* “ ... “
North Ohio Mansfield “ 28, “ ...Simpson.
Cincinnati Eaton “ 28, “ ...Wiley.
Oregon Salem “ 29, “ ...Foster.
N. W. Indiana Thorntown Sopt. 4, “ ...Janes.
Detroit * East Saginaw “ 4, “ ...Ames.
Central Illinois....Geneseo *• 4, “ ...Bowman.
Indiana Mount Vernon.... “ 4, “ ...Andrews.
S. W. Gorman Quincy, 111 :. “ 4, “ ...Haven.
Cen. German Dayton, 0 “ 11, “ ...Simpson.
S. E. Indiana Edinburgh “ 11, “ ...Wiley.
Erie Akron, 0 “ 11, “ ...Peck.
Chicago German.. Chicago “ 18, “ ...Janes.
Michigan ..Jackson “ 18, “ ...Ames.
Illinois Decatur “ 18, “ ...Bowman.
California Santa Clara “ 18, “ ...Foster.
North-west lowa.Fort Dodge “ 18, “ ...Andrews.
West Wisconsin...W. Eu Claire “ 18, “ ...Haven.
Ohio Zanesville “ 26, “ ...Scott.
Central Ohio “ 26, “ ...Harris.
Upper lowa Vinton “ 25, “ ...Wiley.
Dos Moines Charlton “ 25, “ ...Andrews.
Minnesota Winona “ 25, “ ...Haven.
N. W. German Galena, 111 “ 25, “ ...Peck.
Tennessee Huntingdon “ 26,* “ ...Merrill.
Southern Illinois.Mouut Vernon.... Oct. 2, “ ...Bowman.
Western N. York.Olenn “ 9, “ ...Harris.
Central N. York..Wcedsport “ 9, “ ...Wiley.
Holston Cleveland, Tenn.. “ 9, “ ...Merrill.
lowa Oskaloosa “ 9, “ ...Andrews.
Wisconsin Fon du Lac " 9, “ ...Haven.
Rock River Rockford “ 9, “ ...Peck.
Georgia .. Atlanta “ 16, “ ...Merrill.
Alabama Rocky Hill 0. G... “ 30, “ ... ••
Note.—The supervision of the Missions of the Church has
been assigned to tile Bishops severally as follows, namely:
To Bishop Simpson—Missions in Mexico, New Mexico, and
Arizona.
To Bishop llAßßlß—Missions in India and Turkey.
To Bishop Foster—Missions In Western Europe.
To Bishop Wiley—Missions in China.
To Bishop Haven —Missions in Italy.
To Bishop Peck—Missions in South America.
To the Bishop who may reside in San Francisco—Missions
in Japan.
* Thursday.
The most necessary part of learning is
to be taught to divest our minds of preju
dice.
The antagonism between the flesh and
the Spirit is essential, irreconcilable, eter
nal.
Smiles are cheap as sunshine, and they
do their silent, healing work beautifully as
the sun does.
One standeth not as on a hill, beckoning
en to another to follow; but ye toil band
in hand, and carry each other’s burdens.
Rhetoric goes for little in the heavenly
court, but sincere groans have a kind of
omnipotence.
The lowest education that reaches self
control is better than the highest that neg
lects it.
Report of Committee on the State
of the Church.
No. —
Having reached the close of another
quadrennium in the history of the Church,
it is proper that we should review the past,
and note her conflicts, labors,and triumphs.
Taking a general view of her progress and
present condition, your Committee find
abundant reason for rejoicing and devout
thanksgiving to God for what he has done
for us, for our families, and for the world,
through the instrumentality of our beloved
Zion. Yet it is with no feeling of ostenta
tion that we record the great blessings
which he has so wondrously bestowed.
During the past four years great ad
vancement has been made in all the ma
terial elements of prosperity. The total
membership of the Church is at the pres
ent one million four hundred and thirty-six
thousand three hundred and ninety-seven,
an increase in the last four years of four
hundred and four thousand two hundred
and thirteen. Total value of churches and
parsonages, $64,698,704, an increase of
nearly one hundred per cent. Great suc
cess, also, has attended the Church in her
Missionary, Sunday-School, Educational,
and Publishing enterprises. No language
is adequate to express the gratitude due
to God for his wondrous grace.
Methodism, with her conferences and
mission stations, now encircles the globe.
We have but to look over this General
Conference, containing representatives
from every section of the earth, in order
to comprehend how vast the area over
which she has raised the standard of the
Cross. And still new doors are opening,
and new fields white for the harvest are
inviting the laborers. Truly her field is
the world, and our Church is now realizing,
in a measure at least, the great commission,
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the
Gospel to every creature.”
The thousands of our Zion rejoiced and
gave thanks to God when the sainted
Bishop Kingsley started on a missionary
tour around the world, and deeply mourned
when, after having nearly completed his
mission of love, he fell by the hand of
death on the borders of the Holy Land.
Since the last General Conference great
changes have taken place, furnishing in
creased facilities for extending the con
quests of the Redeemer’s Kingdom.'
The great Pacific Railroad has been com
pleted, uniting the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, affording a speedy passage
across our continent, and thence, by
the aid of steam, around the world. By
war and revolution the barriers hitherto
existing to the spread of pure Christianity
in Europe have been thrown down, and re
ligious toleration is now proclaimed.
Millions there are now waiting for the
bread of life.
Great success has attended our mission
ary enterprises at home and in foreign
fields. In the latter God has bountifully
smiled, giving victory to the Cross through
the faithful labors of our noble men and
women in the distant regions of idolatry
and moral night. The day now seems
dawning on the darkness which has
so long rested, like the shadow of death,
on eastern and southern Asia and Africa.
May God hasten the time when his truth,
like a sea of glory, shall spread from pole
to pole,.
Tha Woman’s Foreign Missionary So
ciety was organized in March, 1869, by
the ladies of our Church in Boston. This
society originated in the fact that in some
of the mission fields women only can ob
tain access to the women of those countries,
and that the condition of the latter is such
as to appeal in the strongest possible form
for the benign and elevating influence of
Christianity.
To the special and infinitely wise provi
dence of God we believe the Church is in
debted for the origin of this institution,
which we regard as destined to be an
agency of great power in spreading the
Gospel throughout India and China. Al
though its origin is so recent, it already
has five hundred auxiliaries, and nine mis
sionaries in the field. Its funds and re
sources are rapidly increasing. It emi
nently deserves the fostering care of the
whole Church.
We have as a Church abundant reason
to rejoice in the prosperity which God has
vouchsafed to our Southern work. It has
succeeded in the last four years beyond the
expectations of the most sanguine. There
are now ten conferences, and more than
300,000 members in those States of this
Union, from which, until the close of the
war, our Church was excluded. And still
the shout of victory comes welling up from
every section of that extensive and fruitful
field as the hosts of God’s Israel push for
ward the battle; for the “watchword” is
still Onward!
In the Sunday-school work there has
been, also, great advancement. Its or
ganization has been greatly improved, and
its methods of instruction have been sys
tematized and rendered more effective.
The future of this important department of
our work is full of the most cheering hope.
Our educational institutions, both theo
logical and literary, are prosperous, and are
gathering around them more liberal finan
cial support, and eliciting the deeper sym
pathies, and more earnest prayers of our
people.
All the other benevolent institutions of
our Church are well organized and well
managed, and are accomplishing the noble
purposes for which they were designed.
We would congratulate the Church upon
the successful introduction of laymen as
members of the General Conference, thus
giving them a voice in the supreme and
only legislative council of the Church.
The hearty sympathy with which they co
operate with the. clerical members portends
more intimate union between ministers and
laity, a greater development of her re
sources and a vast increase of strength,
and consequently of her success in spread
ing Scriptural holiness through the land.
Another significant fact should not pass
without notice, that in addition to the us
ual fraternal greetings and salutations
presented to this body from the different
members of the Methodist family in Eu
rope and America three large and influen
tial religious denominations —the Presby
terian, Congregationalist, and Baptist
Churches in the United States have sent
delegations for the first time in the history
of our Church to the General Conference,
bearing fraternal greetings and expressions
of cordial sympathy in the great work of
evangelizing the world. We hail these
tokens of friendship and brotherly love as
proofs of the real unity of God’s general
Church, and an indication of the near ap
proach of the latter-day glory and of the
universal reign of the Son of God !
But our rejoicing in the general prosper
ity of the Church is mingled with grief,
for she has been stricken and sadly be
reaved. Four of our beloved and honored
chief pastors have been called from labor
to reward. Other distinguished ministers
and laymen, great and good men whose
praise is in all the Churches, have been
taken from us, and their loss we deeply de
plore. Here we have tears mingled with
our smiles, sunshine with cloud. Great
calamities also, by fire and flood, have vis
ited some sections of our land, causing im
mense suffering and great loss of property
public and private.
In view of these mournful providences,
should we not as a Church and as individ
uals, humble ourselves under the mighty
hand of God, praying for divine grace to
enable us to be more diligent and earnest
workers in God’s vineyard, and that still
greater success may crown our efforts?
We record with pleasure the fact that
the same self-sacrificing spirit, earnest la
bor, and loving zeal which has character
ized the Methodist Church from its origin
still pervades her ministers, and the same
baptism of the Holy Spirit attends their
ministrations. We rejoice in view of past
triumphs, but we are beset with dangers
of various kinds. The great foe of God
and man is on the alert, and we should
take heed, lest while we think we stand we
should fall.
Let us remember that the crowning ex
cellence of all is, that “God is with us.”
D. Curry, Chairman.
C. Nutt, Secretary.
The following appeared in the Cincin
nati Times of June 13 :
Cincinnati Industrial Exposition of 1873.
A handsomely printed pamphlet of fifty
six pages, comprising the rules and pre
mium list for the Third Cincinnati Indus
trial Exposition, has just been issued.
This great enterprise has so rapidly de
veloped within the short space of three
years as to achieve a national importance,
and attract the attention of exhibitors and
visitors from every State of the Union. Last
year the Exposition had exhibitors from
twenty-nine States, and, during the month
it was open for inspection, 500,000 visitors
were in attendance. The premium list for
the coming exhibition has been largely ex
tended, including 666 medals to be awarded
for the first degree of merit. The five
buildings give seven acres of exhibiting
space,distributed into sixteen departments.
The Machinery Department will be run by
four first-class driving engines of 500 horse
power with nearly 700 feet of main shaft
ing. Many new features will be presented
in the Fine Art, Natural History, and
Horticultural Departments. The contribu
tions for.the former already promised, in
sure an unequaled collection ; the wall space
in the fire-proof building devoted to this
department is 1,140 running feet. The
conservatory of the Horticultural Depart
ment will be 140 by 150 feet, with roof and
sides of glass. The most liberal premiums
will be offered in this department, the list
showing that $4,000 will be devoted to this
purpose ; and the competition on the pre
miums for displays by States promises to
be very exciting.
This great enterprise is under the man
agement of fifteen commissioners,appointed
by the Board of Trade, Chamber of Com
merce, and Mechanics’ Institute.
Copies of the preminm list will be fur
nished on application to Secretary Cincin
nati Industrial Exposition.
New Postal Code.
Congress passed a bill reducing into one
act all the laws relative to the postal sys
tem. We note some of the more impor
tant changes in the postal arrangements
of the country made by the bill:
The most important is the authorization
of one-cent postal cards for correspondence
or for printed circulars similar to those
which were introduced into Great Britain
nearly two years ago, and are now in use
in nearly all European countries. The
style of the card was left to the discretion
of the Postmaster-General, who prefers the
open card, and will order that kind only to
be manufactured. The face of the card
will bear a one-cent stamp, and will be
provided with lines for the address, and the
back will be ruled for the letter. The price
of the card and stamp will be only one cent.
It will probably be three or four weeks be
fore they will be ready for sale, as the
plates for printing have yet to be prepared.
The law by which married women have
heretofore been inhibited from being post
masters is repealed.
Private individuals are allowed to place
boxes for their mail matter in any post
office, but the boxes so placed become the
property of the United States.
A change in the fees for money orders is
made. Formerly the fee was ten cents for
all sums of S2O or under. Now it is fixed
at five cents for $lO or under, and at ten
cents for sums from $lO to S2O.
_ Packages of clothing for non-commis
sioned officers or privates in the army or
navy may be sent at one cent an ounce.
The rate is now eight cents for four ounces.
The rate on packages of newspapers,
&c., (now two cents on four ounces,) is
fixed at one cent on two ounces. Books,
samples of ores and merchandise to be
charged double rates.
The Northioestern Advocate says:
Syracuse gave Bishop Peck a rousing wel
come wheu he went back to that city. Boston
Methodists had a meeting to welcome Bishop
Haven, and passed a resolution to the effect
that the removing of Bishop Haven from New
England would be a public calamity, and de
siring him to remain if he could possibly make
arrangements to do so.