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The Methodist Advocate.
ATLANTA, GA., JULY 17, 1872.
~N. E. COBLEIGH, D.D., IX.D., Editor.
EDWARD A. COBLEIGH, Assistant.
It will be seen, by reference to the Notices in
this number of our paper, that Bishop Merrill,
at the solicitation of some of our ministers, has
changed the time of meeting of the Holston
Conference. Ministers please take notice, and
tell their friends of this change.
Rev. Arthur Edwards, editor of the North
western, reports that as yet he has no assistant
editor,and his own hands do all the work. If the
last three numbers of that paper are fair sam
ples of his ability to do alone, we might hope
that he would go on without any further as
sistance. It is good enough now. “Too many
cooks spoil the broth.”
There has been this year an unusually large
number of sun-strokes in some of our Northern
cities, and a much larger per cent, than usual
of fatal cases. It is said that the physicians
and the press of New York unite in declaring
that the use of intoxicating drinks has had
much to do in swelling the lists of mortality
from this cause. This fact, when poperly un
derstood, will be much more effective than a
lecture or sermon on total nhetinaiuia
\y e wish to call the attention of our readers—
and especially those indebted to the Book Con
cern, either for books or subscription to the
Advocate —to the notice of Hitchcock & Wal
den, which can be found in the Publishers’
Column. The General Conference took action
on the matter of outstanding accounts, and de
cided that they must be paid. There are thou
sands of dollars due the Concern, and unless
these debts are squared up soon, forbearance
will cease to be a virtue, and the Agents will
proceed to collect by law.
The General Conference of the African Meth
odist Episcopal Church, as the superior body,
assume to direct their bishops. They have
lixed their bishops’ salary at $2,000 each, and
require each of them to live in his district.
They also established a general Church fund
from which bishops and other officers are to be
paid. They would raise it on the dollar a mem
ber plan. The conviction is becoming general
that bishops are to be servants rather than
rulers of the Church.
The General Conference has made no pro
vision as yet in the Constitution of the Church
for lay representation, except in the General
Conference. The incorporation of the lay ele
ment into the annual conference awaits future
legislation. That it ought to be there, we have
steadfastly believed; that it ultimately will be
there, is our strong conviction. The laymen
ought now to be invited to come and counsel
with the ministers in the annual conferences,
so far as they can and will.
Though envy is not good, yet we are full of
it toward our brethren of the official quill.
They have room in their columns to “spread”
themselves; we can’t begin to do the like in
our little sheet. We see a thousand good things
every week that we would like to serve up for
our readers, but we can’t do it. We wanted to
say sweet things about all the editors and give
fine specimens of their cooking, but we had to
give it up. Between “crowded out” and “too
old” much of our June fruit was lost. Sic
transit gloria Mundi.
Proper education prevents crime. Few real
ize how much more economical it is for a State
to educate the children and thus prevent crime,
than to wait until after the perpetration and
then punish the criminal. According to care
ful estimates it costs, on an average, in the
United States, to arrest, convict, and punish in
the penitentiary, $1,200 for each person so
punished, while it would cost the State, on an
average, less than SSOO to give c-acli child a fair
education. Good schools are therefore the
hope of the nation. The true friend of the
State and of the individual is an advocate of
free sehols for all the people.
If we examine carefully the statistics of evan
gelical churches, we shall find as a general
rule, with possibly a few exceptions, that the
ratio of increase in membership is much less in
years of great political excitement, especially
in such universal excitements as attend a
presidential election. This is to be one of
those years. It becomes all true Christians,
and especially Christian ministers, to be unu
sually watchful and active in order to prevent
as much as possible any unhealthy reaction
against the spiritual interests of the Church.
How peculiarly pertinent now these words of
the Master, “Watch and pray, lest ye enter
into temptation. ”
liev. M. M. Parkliurst, of Chicago, pastor of
Grace Church, which was destroyed in the late
fire, has erected a worthy monument to his re
cently deceased and saintly wife. He has in
vested in her name two thousand dollars, one
thousand in the Garrett Biblical Institute, and
one thousand in the Ladies’ College at Evans
ton. The proceeds of each sum to be used to
as ist needy and worthy students in getting an
education, the one a young man, and the other
a young woman. As this is a perpetual fund,
scores and even hundreds of the talented and
deserving poor in the coming years may be
thus aided. How much better this than to in
vest a less or greater sum in monuments of
stone! ________
It seems to be held law in the case of literary
institutions that while they most need help, but
few are disposed to help them; but if they per
severe and heroically work themselves up to a
point where they can do tolerably well without
them, donations flow in from all sides. This
may be all right, but to the toiling pro
fessors with large debts hanging over them
and small pay long deferred, it seems rather
hard. Princeton College, of New Jersey, is
just now rejoicing in the blessedness of receiv
ing, as witness the following:
By the will of the late Mrs. Kilpatrick, of
New Brunswick, New Jersey, $26,000 was left
for raising the salaries of Professors. The
A1 uinni Association at Baltimore have promised
SIO,OOO more toward the same object; that of
New Jersey, from $5,000 to SB,OOO. There will
be $60,000 devoted to that purpose. H. J. Mar
quand, of New York, has given SIOO,OOO to be
used “as the Board of Trustees may direct for
the good of the College.” J. C. Green, of New
York, has given SIOO,OOO to endow a scientific
school. This makes, in all, $550,000 given by
Mr. Green to the College.
Some of our Southern colleges will rejoice
in like manner hereafter, if they ever do.
The Methodists of St. Louis, held, June 25th,
a preliminary meeting with a view of welcome
to Bishop Bowman. The following are among
the resolutions unanimously adopted:
That we have heard with the greatest satis
faction, that Bishop Thomas Bowman, who had
the priority of choice as he had of election to
the Episcopacy, has selected St. Louis as his
place of residence; and we hereby extend to
him a hearty, Metliodistic welcome, being fully
persuaded that by his culture, consecration and
blameless Christian example, he will greatly
aid our cause in this section of the work.
That the chairman of this meeting be re
quested to appoint a committee of three persons
whose duty it shall be to make suitable provis
ion for the residence of Bishop Bowman, and
said committee shall report this action to the
several quarterly conferences of this city.
That while we understand that it is not the
purpose of Bishop Bowman to move his family
here before the Autumnal months, we shall be
glad of a visit from him, extending over a Sab
bath,at his earliest convenience; and we hereby
extend to him an earnest invitation to make us
such a visit.
The Right Use of Praise.
In the Northwestern of July 10th is this
sensible editorial paragraph, which is wor
thy of thoughtful consideration:
Criticism often serves as a spur, but, as
Thomas Hughes says, a man never does
his best until you praise him. If you kick
a man he spends the first few subsequent
minutes in diligent search for a brick-bat,
rather than industrious efforts to amend.
When you praise him, he springs to work
instanter, and so that plan saves time as
well as temper. The Northwestern has not
received a single reproof —but showers of
kind words. Everybody, from chief to ap
prentice-printer, is thereby under grateful
bonds to do his level best. Kindly criti
cise—encouragingly praise—sensibly sub
scribe, and a future is assured to this jour
nal .
How many persons can thank the Lord
for kind, encouraging words? They ac
complish much more for good than harsh,
cutting, scolding criticism.
District Conferences.
The General Conference made provision
for the holding of District Conferences,
and gave ample directions concerning them.
It is left discretionary with each District
whether it shall hold such conferences or
not. If a majority of the quarterly con
ferences vote in favor of holding them, they
are obligatory; otherwise they are not
binding. The whole provision [for these
conferences will be found in the new Dis
cipline, which may be expected in a short
time.
There was strong opposition to the action
on this subject taken by the General Con
ference. The measure was carried after
considerable discussion by only a small
majority. We voted for the district con
ferences, believing they might be very ben
eficial in some portions of our work, espe
cially in the South. Our brethren of the
Church South have something similar, and
find it useful.
It will be well to give this new feature a
fair trial. If found to work well, it may
be continued ; if not well, it should be given
up. As the action of a district conference
would not be of binding force unless the
proper pi’eliminary steps had been taken, it
would be well for presiding elders not to
proceed to hold any such conferences until
they can guide their action according to
the provisions of the new Discipline.
Shall the Methodist Advocate be
Enlarged ?
The General Conference has put the
whole matter of enlarging and improving
our weekly papers mainly into the hands
of the Book Agents, or the publishers, as
may be seen by the following order:
That the size, the subscription price and the
amounts to be allowed to be expended by the
editors in each case, shall be left to the discre
tion or concurrence of the Book Committee, or
publishing committee; so that each paper shall
be made as near as practicable self-supporting,
and also so as to afford all needed facilities for
improvement to those papers whose incomes
will justify larger expenses.
Observe; they must be as nearly as
possible self-supporting. The Methodist
Advocate, like all the other weeklies,
comes under the same restrictions. Our
brethren will see at a glance, that however
much the Advocate needs enlargement,
that will depend almost entirely on the in
crease of the subscription-list. It is now
for the preachers, who are our only agents,
to say whether their paper shall be en
larged and improved, or remain in size
much as it has been. Knowing this fact,
we have taken the liberty of exhorting our
brethren to attend at once to the work of
getting new subscribers. We have but
little more than half space enough at pres
ent for the important and interesting mat
ter we wish to put every week into the
columns of the Advocate. In attending
to this work, brethren, you are not simply
gratifying the editor, but accommodating
yourselves, and promoting one of the vital
interests of our Church.
The Gods of India*
Those who desire to know what the Hin
doos worship may learn from the following
extract taken fmm Duff’s India:
Their sacred books teach that the worlds
above this earth are peopled with gods and
goddesses, demi-gods and genii, the sons and
grandsons, daughters and granddaughters of
Brahma and other superior deities. All the
superior gods have separate heavens for them
selves. The inferior deities dwell chiefly in the
heaven of Indra, the god of the firmament.
There they congregate to the number of three
THE METHODIST ADVOCATE. JULY 17. 1872.
hundred and thirty millions. The gods are di
vided and subdivided into classes or hierarchies,
which vary through every conceivable grada
tion of rank and power. They are of all col
ors; some black, some white, some red, some
blue, and so through all the blending shades of
the rainbow. They exhibit all sorts of shape,
size and figure : in forms wholly human or half
human, wholly brutal or variously compounded
like many-headed and many-bodied centaus,
with four, or ten, or a hundred, or a thousand
eyes, heads and arms.
They ride through the regions of space on all
sorts of etherialized animals: elephants, buffa
loes, lions, deer, sheep, goats, peacocks, vul
tures, geese, serpents, and rats. They hold
forth in their multitudinous arms all manner of
offensive and defensive weapons: thunderbolts,
scimetars,javelins, spears, clubs, bows, arrows,
shields, and shells! They discharge all possi
ble functions. There are gods of the heavens
above, and of the earth beneath, and of the re
gions under the earth; gods of wisdom and of
folly; gods of war and of peace; gods of good
and of evil; gods of pleasure, who delight to
shed around their votaries the fragrance of har
mony and joy; gods of cruelty and wrath,
whose thirst must be satiated with torrents of
blood, and whose ears must be regaled with
the shrieks and agonies of the expiring victims.
All the virtues and the vices of man, all the
allotments of life—beauty, jollity and sport,
the hopes and fears of youth, the felicities and
iufelicities of manhood, thwjoys and sorrows
of old age—all, all are placed under the pre
siding influence of superior powers.
Methodism and Common Schools.
Our bishops, in their quadrennial address,
called the attention of the General Confer
ence to the importance of sustaining that
feature of education known as “ Common
Schools.” That item of the address was
referred to the Committee on Education.
The following brief report of the commit
tee was adopted by the General Conference,
we believe, unanimously:
The Committee on Education, having care
fully considered that portion of the bishops’ ad
dress that relates to the common schools, would
report as follows:
Whereas, we have always, as a Church, ac
cepted the work of education as a duty enjoined
by our commission “to teach all nations;”
Whereas, the system of common schools is
an indispensable safeguard to republican insti
tutions; and,
Whereas, the combined and persistent as
saults of the Romanists and others endanger
the very existence of our common schools;
therefore,
Resolved, 1. That we will co-operate in every
effort which is fitted to make our common
schools more efficient and permanent.
2. That it is our firm conviction that, to divide
the common school funds among religious de
nominations for educational purposes is wrong
in principle, and hostile to our free institutions
and the cause of education.
3. That we will resist all means that may be
employed to exclude from the common schools
the Bible, which is the chart of our liberties,
and inspiration of our civilization.
It is worth something to every Methodist
preacher and Church member to know pre
cisely what the opinion of his Church is on
any important practical question. The
above discloses that opinion on common
schools—that is, a free school system to
which the children of the poor as well as of
the rich shall be admitted on the same con
ditions. The States that have been favored
with such a system until its full benefits
have been realized, will never consent to
give it up. It is only in States where its
advantages have nevfer been properly de
veloped that it encounters opposition.
Methodism stands pledged by the action of
its highest council, in all suitable ways, to
favor, encourage, defend and maintain the
common school system.
Why a Bishop in the South.
There is one reason why we should have
a bishop resident in the South which has
not yet been mentioned. Unfortunately
for the Church and for the country, the
South has not understood the North, and
consequently has not duly appreciated it.
No amount of descriptive writing or talk
ing can make them understand it. It re
quires not mere visiting, but residence by
the Southerner in the North, before he can
come to a realization of the true state of
the head and heart of the Northern peo
ple. At this distance, through the medium
of a partizan press, they see only the worst
side of Northern character. Distance
lends —if not enchantment—exaggeration
to the view. We know of no more prac
tical way of removing unfounded prejudices
and putting things in their true light than
by closer contact, nearer observation, and
better acquaintance with parties concerned.
The North feel that they are not, and can
not be rightly understood until they can be
seen and communed with at home and on
their own soil.
Now what is true of the North in rela
tion to the South, is equally true of the
South in relation to the North. The real
character of the Southern people is as much
misunderstood and unappreciated at the
North, as is that of the Northern people
at the South. This may not be deemed
complimentary to the boasted intelligence
of the North, but it is nevertheless true.
The Yankees are noted theorizers. When
they get anew fact they can not rest until
it is harmonized into some favorite theory
of their own. The trouble is, they do not
get all the facts before they frame their hy
potheses. Half truths are often worse than
lies. The fact is the whole truth, real truth,
just as it is in the head, heart, and life
of the South, can not be properly and fully
obtained except by living among them.
The North sees the wrong side of the
South, often the worst side, through the
descriptive media of visitors and hastily
traveled correspondents. They need to see
and know both sides, all sides, and under
stand fully the surrounding atmosphere.
These things the untraveled Northern
man can not appreciate, they are so differ
ent from the things with which he is famil
iar. If the exact facts are fully stated to
him, he will not believe them, will not give
them proper credence, because he does not
properly understand and comprehend them.
Not understanding the character of the
Southern people, they can not, of course,
understand the peculiar difficulties of the
work of our Church among them. Its im
portance will be as much underrated as its
difficulties. We want a bishop to live in
the South in order to thoroughly under
stand and fully appreciate the Southern
people—to know their good qualities as
well as their bad ones, and to know, as a
bishop needs to know, the merits, the im
portance and the real difficulties, as well as
advantages, attending our work in this
field. We want him to get that most im
portant knowledge which only residence
with the people and contact with the work
can give.
Residence in the Northwest, on the
Pacific coast, on the slopes of the Rocky
Mountains is not so important for under
standing the people there as it is in the
South. Nearly all the inhabitants of the
regions named are originally from the
North—are homogeneous with the North
and with the men who compose the boards
which manage the great Charities of the
Church. It is, therefore, not dimcut to
make the wants of those localities under
stood at New York or Philadelphia. But
who shall make the wants of the South
ern work fully understood and appreciated
at the same great centers of influence?
If our representatives go there and state
the case as they know it to be, their report
will be accepted with many grains of allow
ance. Not that they are formally disbe
lieved, but allowances will be made for ex
cited imagination, for undue local preju
dices, and possibly for personal self-inter
est. We do not say that any blame can
attach to good men who honestly make
these abatements. Now what we need is
the knowledge and the influence that one
of our grave and thoroughly impartial
bishops would carry into the councils of
our great benevolent societies in the North.
A bishop’s report would be deemed impar
tial, and would be accepted in full.
There is no point in the whole field of
Methodism where it is more important to
have the right man in the right place than
in the South. How can the bishops select
the right man unless they understand both
the man and the peculiarities of the work ?
The importance of this must be evident to
every intelligent and reflective mind. The
General Conference felt to some extent the
necessity. Hence they said one bishop
must reside in Atlanta. We want here
the aid and sympathy of some great throb
bing episcopal heart which can be easily
touched with the feelings of our infirmities,
and which from personal experience and
observation perceives well how to apply the
needed counsel and consolation. A bishop
thus informed and well qualified would not
unwittingly at any time, or in any place,
writing or speaking,misrepresent the South
ern people or our Southern work in any
important particular.
Spirit of the Press.
Dr. B. K. Pierce, on assuming the chair
editorial of Zion’s Herald , July 4th, among
other appropriate and excellent things says :
The wide circulation, and great ability and
power of the daily newspaper, render the task
of the conductor of the religious press more
difficult. The leading secular papers of the
country, and the few undenominational relig
ious sheets, have not only an able managing
editor each, but a large corps of well-trained
assistants connected with them whose pens
enjoy no rest, besides an almost unlimited num
ber of general writers and correspondents. To
assume a seat as a peer beside these powerful
tribunes, with such provisions as the limited
means of an ordinary circulation will afford, is
a work of some temerity. With how much
composure and acknowledged success our late
predecessor has borne himself in this position,
has been readily acknowledged by all his edito
rial confreres. Would that his editorial mantle,
now that he has assumed Episcopal robes,might
fall upon his successor!
A Methodist by inheritance, by deliberate
choice, by a Church membership of forty years,
and by a service in her pulpits of more than
thirty, the editor will doubtless instinctively
espouse and warmly advocate all her denom
inational interests, and stand at proper times in
defense of her doctrinal beliefs; but it is not
the habit of his mind or life to open unneces
sary controversies with his neighbors, holding
with equal sincerity different ecclesiastical and
doctrinal views. He prefers to urge a positive
faith, and that, as far as possible, in harmony
with those holding the great cardinal truths of
the Bible. It has long been his opinion that
the Gospel of Christ is its own best and most
effectual apology; and that the truth alone, as
it is in Jesus, will save the world. The unan
imity of the great body of believers in essential
points of faith, and the growing harmony in
the evangelical literature of the hour in prac
tical measures for the world’s redemption, are
among the most significant and encouraging
signs of the times. We proffer the right hand
of Christian fellowship to “all them that love
our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.”
Wc listened the other day to the opening dis
course of a young clergyman before his new
audience. There were differences of opinion as
to its intellectual merit, but all united in declar
ing its one striking virtue; it was short. We
abruptly close our formal salutation, to secure
at least this commendation upon our introduc
tion. The taste of the hour is quite decided in
this direction. Elaborate papers are now rele
gated to Monthlies, Quarterlies, and to volumes.
The secular and religious press are straining to
condense, and to express in the fewest and
most pregnant sentences, the ideas of the hour.
For the golden mean, as far as possible in this
respect, we shall strive. With a few extended
essays, when the subject requires them, we
shall hope to present a body of short, clear,
and interesting summaries of the thoughts and
facts of the hour, and the usual very rich and
instructive contributions of a list of writers at
tached to our paper, of which any periodical
and its readers may justly be proud.
The St. Louis Christian Advocate mani
fests a good spirit and, we think, right
views in the following paragraph:
It is, therefore, in our view, unfortunate
that the part of the report relating to church
property claims should not have acMHi
the proffer of fraternal
propositions appropriately go togSI
suggest, however, that this
provided for in the action to be takenwJß|
General Conference. It is a just view, like="
wise, that it may be assumed that the offer of
fraternity carries with it, in effect, a moral
pledge of settlement of such conflicting claims
as incident in the nature of brotherly sentiments
to such offer. In the interval of two years
before their fraternal messengers shall come
before our General Conference, there will be
opportunity to add to the force of such moral
pledge by exemplification of the principles of
equity and Christian charity in the official ad
ministration of their Church, and t)y the actual
settlement of disputes under the influence and
guidance of those principles. It will be remem
bered that in the episcopal correspondence in
1869 our bishops proposed to theirs to unite in
abatement of these conflicts over church prop
erty and other collisions. This may now be
done, and we shall look for deeds in confirma
tion of earnest protestation of brotherly kind
ness. Without entering into specifications, we
may noyv assume in general that new aggres
sions upon us will not be made, and that exist
ing injuries will be redressed, and negotiations
conducted in accordance with sentiments of
charity and rules of equity as becomes the pro
fession and proffer of fraternal intercourse and
Christian fellowship. We shall see what we
shall see.
A correspondent of the Pittsburg Advo
cate, Rev. R. A. Caruthers, in the extract
below, talks very plainly on the Bishop
question, yet he only fairly expresses what
is known to be a very deep and general
feeling. We do not think it will bo wise
for any bishop to trifle with that question :
That the General Conference has not con
trolled the bishops, in respect to the details of
their work, as well as the place of their resi
dence, is not to be attributed to the want of
power but of will. Legislation does not usually
nor properly outrun necessity. The bishops
have been slow to take advice, indeed, if we
read the past aright. The expressed wish of
the General Conference in regard to their resi
dences and consequent local influence, has been
ignored, and that disregard of advice has
prompted the enactmant of a law. The Gen
eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church has assumed to lay its hand authorita
tively upon the bishops. “Thus far shalt thou
go —and here,” etc, The ark is being touched;
where will the end be? The Methodist Episco
pal Church of to-day is not the Church of ten
weeks ago, nor will it ever be again the Church
of our fathers. “Revolutions never go back
ward.” The Episcopacy, in a sense it never
was before, is put upon its good behavior.
That distributing resolution has robbed the po
sition of half its glory. That it was felt to be
so is very evident from the effort made to dilute
it by adding to the Episcopal residences the
cities of Syracuse or Buffalo, Pittsburgh, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the little
country village of Odessa; and the promptness
with which it was met and the ring that at
tended the tabling of the resolution to amend
showed the General Conference to be terribly
in earnest. “A word to the wise is sufficient
a ready and complete compliance with the
wishes of the General Conference in the trifling
matter of residence may stave off more decided
action by that body having the same right to
dismiss as to accept.
The New York Methodist responds to
the above as follows :
No doubt any unreasonable delay of a bishop
to remove to his home would be condemned by
the Church. Mr. Caruthers seems to assume
that the bishops are not doing the very best
they can in the circumstances of their position.
We presume that they are; still, the sooner
they are settled, the better the Church will be
satisfied. The intention is that they shall iden
tify themselves, as far as possible, with the in
terests of the regions where their homes are
located.
Wito’is @»Mr.
Books.
Music Books. —Messrs. Hitchcock & Walden
advertise some very good |Sabbath-school
Hymn and Tune Books in this number of our
paper. Schools in want of these things should
not fail to address them, 64 Powell Block, At
lanta, Ga.
Wilderness and Mount, is a neat little
volume of religious poetry, by Mrs. Ellen T.
H. Harvey. It is well gotten up, printed on
good paper, large type, bound in cloth, and il
lustrated. Publisher, John Brent, No. 3 Corn
hill, Boston.
Studies in Poetry and Philosphy is the
title of another of Hurd & Houghton’s beauti
ful duodecimo publications recently issued at
New York. J. C. Sliairp, author of Culture
and Religion, must be thanked for this volume,
also. He discourses of Wadsworth, the man
and the poet; Samuel Taylor Coledridge; Rev.
John Keble; and The Moral Motive Power.
Those who delight in the study of poetry, phi
losophy, and a fine critical sense, will find much
interest and profit in studying this volume.
Spurgeon has published over a thousand
sermons. The ninth volume has recently been
issued by Sheldon & Cos., New York. This
contains twenty-eight sermons. These ser
mons have the same characteristics as his oth
ers. They are pointed, pungent, sensational,
full of Spurgeonisms—now intensely Calvin
istic in doctrine, now thoroughly Armenian in
spirit, according as his intellect or his heart is
most prominent. They seem designed for im
mediate effect, and to bring sinners at once to
Christ. Some may call this a fault. It is a
pity that all sermons are not more faulty at
this point.
Periodical*.
Peterson’s Ladies’ Magazine for August
comes to us, full of beautiful engravings and
reading matter for the home circle. This is an
excellent standard magazine. Published by
C. J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut-st., Philadelphia.
“ The Atlanta Medical and Surgical Jour
nal,” is a periodical of great value to the phy
sician or student, has a corps of able contri
butors, contains about sixty-live pages of read
ing, and is published by the Plantation Publish
ing Company, at $3.00 per annum, and well
worth the money.
The Ohio Farmer, one of the best agricul
tural papers in the country, is full of matter
not only interesting, but useful to the farmer—
things which it is absolutely necessary for him
to know. One of its greatest advantages, how
ever, is that it comes out weekly, instead of
monthly, so that, in the busy season, the farmer
can inform himself what to do, before the in
formation he seeks is out of date. George E.
Blakely, Publisher, Cleveland.
Bfnslc.
“Our Next President, Horace Greeley’s
March.” as played by Grafulla’s Seventh Regi
ment Band, comes to us from Horace Waters,
481 Broadway, New York. This is a pretty
ffece of piano music for the campaign, and
>ears on its face the picture of “Honest
Horace.”
From the Colleges.
has conferred the degree
y Bowman.
has conferred D. I). on
RevnpeterJMßßßtt, President of Marysvile
College, Tennessee.
Rev. E. Rowley, D.D., has been reelected
Piesident of De Pauw College, New Albany,
Indiana.
Westfield College, 111., has conferred D. D.
on Rev. David Edwards, Lexington, 111., and
Rev. T. De WittTalmadge, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rev. J. A. M’Cauley, D.D., of Washington
City, D. C., has been elected President of Dick
inson College.
President Merrick, of Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity, has presented his resignation, to take
effect June, 1873. He has already held that
office twelve years.
The Garrett Biblical Institute lost, by the Chi
cago fire, SIOO,OOO. Its catalogue contains the
names of one hundred and eighty-three stu
dents. Graduates this year, thirteen.
The Northwestern University, at Evanston,
111., has a property valued at $1,268,860, of
which $483,220 is productive capital. Receipts
last year, $29,000; expenses, $31,300.
The Smithsonian Institute, at Washington,
has been presented with the choice collection
of geological specimens heretofore kept by the
government in the land office. The gift is
worth over SIO,OOO.
The Baltimore Female College, at its last
commencement, conferred the degree of A.M.
on Miss M. E. Taneyhill, late teacher of Mental
Philosophy at Dickinson Seminary. The lady
is a daughter of one of our superannuated
preachers of Central Pennsylvania Conference.
Tho Indiana State University has conferred
the degree of D.D. on Rev. W. R. Goodwin,
LL.D. on Professor G. W. Hoss, of Kansas, on
Robert Dale Owen, of New Yfork city, on Hon.
J. S. Rollins, of Missouri, and on R. Young,
of Scotland.
Brown University has conferred D. D. on
Rev. Lyman Jewett, Missionary to India, LL.D.
on Rev. Ezekiel Robinson, President elect of
Brown University, Rt. Rev. Benj. Bosworth
Smith, Bishop of Kentucky, and Hon. Henry
Bowen Anthony, of Providence.
The Northwestern of last week says:
During the Commencement exercises at Northwestern
University, it was announced that President Haven had
just received a liberal offer of five thousand dollars per
annum from the University at Syracuse, N. Y., if he
would at once assume the presidency of that institution.
Dr. Haven immediately telegraphed that no educational
institution in America could induce him to leave the
Northwestern University.
Personal.
Edwin Booth, the great tragedian, is a regu
lar and punctual church-goer.
Gustave Dore, the famous artist of modern
days, visits this country next year for the_first
time.
Judge M’Cunu, lately impeached by the New
York Legislature, died of a broken heart the
other day.
Rev. li. T. Winkler, pastor of a Charles
ton Baptist Church, resigns his charge to go
to another field.
Miss Clara Louise Kellog, the American
prima dona, sang in Buckingham Palace re
cently.
T. W. Parsons, well known as an author, and
the husband of “ Fanny Fern,” is residing in
London.
Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, one of the most
popular Baptist preachers of England, visits
this country about the 20th of August.
Sophia, of Bavaria, mother of the Emperor
of Austria, Francis Joseph, and of the late
Maximilian, of Mexican notoriety, is dead.
General Sherman has been reelected Presi
dent of the Army of the Tennessee, which
meets next year in Toledo.
Bishop Pierce, of Georgia, is in his sixty
second year, yet his father is able to preach
two Sermons every Sabbath.
Dr. Calvin Cutler, author of Cutler’s Physi
ology, died recently at his home in Warren,
Mass., after an illness of only two hours.
George Francis Train recently said that he
believed himself “to be the most gigantic and
remarkable fraud the world had ever seen.”
Rev. W. H. Milburn, “the blind preacher,”
is in New Orleans. His sight is entirely lost,
but health excellent, and he preaches regularly.
Miss Sarah Colt, who died in Patterson, N. J.,
last month, at the ago of ninety years, is said
to have organized the first Sunday-school in
the United States.
Christine Nilsson is to marry M. August
Rowzau in July, 'fhey have been “loving” for
seventeen years, but have been engaged only
about twelve months.
Christine Nilsson, the sweet Swedish singer,
carries back to Europe, as the product of her
singing in America, the snug little sum of
$255,000. “Music hath more than charms.”
Gen. Easley, of South Carolina, once famous
as a Confederate officer, died in this city very
suddenly on the 11th inst. His remains were
escorted to the depot by the Freemasons.
Bishop Wiley left Cincinnati for Boston,
Monday, July 15th, with a view to arranging
for removal to that city as his future place of
residence.
Dr. Dashiell, having completed his!work as
President of Dickinson College, returned to
New York on Saturday morning, July 6th, and
immediately entered upon the duties of his
secretaryship at our Mission Rooms.
H. P. Watson, brother-in-law of the former
Secretary of War, and himself the Assistant
Secretary of War during the “ late unpleasant
ness,” was elected to the presidency of the
Erie.
Bishop Peck’s father and mother were tho
parents of five, and the grand-parents of ten
ministers. Fourteen of these belong to our
denomination, one to the Baptist Church, and
all are living.
Rev. Dr. Wild, formerly of the Canada Meth
odist Episcopal Church, and delegate from
there to our General Conference, takes the
Seventh Avenue Church, Brooklyn, recently
vacated by Bishop Andrews.
One of our correspondents, brother Cree, in
company with his fellow-commissioner, Brunot,
left Washington lately on an extended peace
expedition among the Indians along the North
ern Pacific Railroad.
Bond, the fellow who, unprovoked, assaulted
Rev. J. J. Thompson, in Cincinnati, recentlv,
has been locked up, in default of $3,000 bail.
The injured man has sufficiently recovered
from the effects of the blow received to appear
against him.
Mr. Bergli, the great “prevention-of-cruelty
to-animals-man,” of New York, is reported by
the Board of Health for keeping filthy tene
ment houses. In one of them a sewer has
leaked into the cellar for years. He had bet
ter practice prevention of cruelty to men here
after.
Mrs. M. L. Abbe, of Albany, New York, has
given two thousand dollars as a centennial do
nation toward the erection of the “ Livingston
Memorial Church,” in Maquon, Illinois, a vil
lage of considerable age and size, but without
any church edifice. So says the Christian In
telligencer.
Dr, T. L. Cuyler, now in Europe, writes to
the New York Evangelist , and says that “in all
addresses made in each of the religious bodies,
no name has called forth such universal ap
plause as the honored and beloved name of Dr.
Charles Hodge. His new volumes of system
atic theology are circulated widely, and a deep
desire is expressed on all sides that he should
soon visit Scotland. He is universally pro
nounced here the first of living theologians.’