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understands they did in Chattanooga, on Sunday
of our Conference there. I was present and wit
nessed that behavior. I was not able to deter
mine whether there was any thing of that kind
intended on the part of those that left or not.
The services were long, and were likely to be
extended. I was disposed, any way, to put a
favorable construction on the fact that some left
just at that time; but if they left because a col
ored minister came up to be ordained by the side
of some white ministers, I presume that they
left behind them a large number of as well be
haved, intelligent, decent and pious people as
they themselves were. By the way, I noticed
no colored persons present on that occasion ex
cept tlie colored minister referred to, and the
sexton of the church—the latter being generally
as much mixed up with the white people as the
former. On the afternoon of the same day I was
at the colored church where all were colored
except a few white preachers who were present
to deliver addresses to the audience, so that even
at our conferences the policy is for the races to
worship separately. All that is said by inde
pendent writers, even in our “Church papers,”
is not taken as law and Gospel among us. I
presume brother A. would hesitate to take all he
sees in his Church papers as “the announced
policy and principles of the present M. E.
Church” South.
Morristown, Jena., October 24, 1874.
Mean Men.
It is supposed that after the sub
scribers of the Methodist Advocate read
the above heading, they will have the
curiosity to know what will be said about
this branch of the human family. A
mean man is one who w'ill subscribe for
a Church paper and read it weekly all
through the year of subscription and
not pay his preacher, who ordered it,
and who, likely, is a poor circuit rider,
and who toils and labors year after year
in his ministerial duties, enduring much
long suffering, and receiving but a meager
support for himself and family. This
mean man lets the poor preacher pay for
his paper, but don’t deny himself of the
luxury of his old clay pipe or his favor
ite plug of tobacco. We hope the shoe
will not lit any of the readers of the
Methodist Advocate. No intimation is
made that any of the subscribers of this
paper belong to the class referred to.
They can answer that question better
than we can. While writing, we would
advise any of the patrons of the Meth
odist Advocate who have not had the
chance to pay their pastor for their
paper, to do so as soon as possible, as it
will make him glad and save him from
loss, lie has to pay for the paper
whether the subscriber pays him or not.
Some preachers only remain at a town
or on a circuit one year. They have to
hurry to Conference at times when likely
twenty subscribers have failed to pay for
their paper. Any such would delight
their former preacher if they would only
find out where he is and send him the
money. Subscribers who pay for their
paper will likely smile when they read
this article. If there are any that don’t
pay for the paper, they will probably
look sour after reading it.
A Sufferer.
1 was for a long while pestering with this
idea, that I must have some extraordinary
vision or remarkable revelation, or singular
experience, and have something to tell, such
as I had heard good people tell of; but when
the glad tidings were made plain to me by the
Holy "Spirit' I was as if I had received anew
revelation. “Look unto me and be saved,
all the ends of the earth,” sounded like a
new song in my ears. My heart leaped for
joy at the news. Christ was nailed to the
cross, and I was to look at him and be saved.
Just as the serpent of brass was lifted on the
pole, and whosoever looked was healed of the
serpent’s bite, so was there for me eternal, life
and blessedness in looking to Jesus on the
tree. Why did I not understand that before?
Ah, why? Why do not some of you under
stand it? I pray God the Holy Spirit may
make you see it this morning, and Christ
himself to be had for the asking. Surely
this truth should comfort the most despond
ing.—Spurgeon.
The pleasantest surprise we can receive is a
surprise visit from God. To be suddenly
made conscious, while at some work of love,
that the great God and Father is with you,
looking at what you have done or thought,
and giving his smile and approval, is some
thing more blessed and precious than words
can describe. But I imagine some.one say
ing, “We ought to have God with us all the
time.” And so we ought. That is, have his
spirit ever present with us, and working in
us: but that will only increase our need of
going to him at times in prayer and supplica
tion, and the satisfaction, the joy, the peace
of God’s coming to us, especially and wholly
to us, as a Friend and loving Father. — Em
ma Bailey.
The religious improvement needed on the
part of the member is secured when the pas
tor is “esteemed highly for his works’ sake;”
when liis ministrations are faithfully waited
upon, and when every means which the con
gregation affords are used and turned to ac
count. Absenteeism is a very bad ism , both
as to individual and congregational progress.
The strength and efficiency of congregations
and the Church at large would be twofold
more than it is if it could be rooted out, and
every member would be faithfully at his post
in all the services of the pastor and exercises
of the congregation.
Grace, to live from day to day an increas
ingly Christian life, without being' inordin
ately anxions about the morrow; faith in
Christ as the only and all-sufficient Savior for
us, and more success in imitating the exam
ple of Him who is Lord and Master, are, and
must be, the great aim of every Christian,
and, if reached and realized, wiil prepare
him equally for death and life.— Economist.
The opening of public reading rooms on
Sunday, which two years ago was instituted
as the shortest and surest way to keep young
men out of saloons, has been pronounced a
failure by the Directors of the New York
Mercantile Library. They have tested the
plan for two years, and carefully watched the
results. Two years’ trial has shown that less
than one per cent, of the Sunday readers were
of the class which it was intended to serve.
Nine-tenths were middle-aged and elderly
gentlemen. The experiment is said also to
nave failed in Baltimore and Boston.
A single fruit-dealer in Chicago reported
one day last week receipts of eighty-two full
car-loads, or twelve thousand two hundred
and seventy barrels of apples, while his re
ported sales for a single day were six thou
sand nine hundred barrels. Chicago is the
greatest fruit market in the world.
Sewing machines are opposed in China on
the score that they cheapen labor. Several
tailors in Hongkong who tried to introduce
them were mobbed. In America, Chinese
cheap labor is derided, and in China Ameri
can cheap labor by machinery is forcibly re
pudiated. -
Bishop Simpson recently, beautifully, and
truthfully said: Christianity lifts off the vail
from woman’s face. In proportion to the
amount of Christianity in any country will be
the woman’s position—she rises or falls with
Jesus,
MM
The Influence.—-“ The year before last the
charge reported sl2, last year $55; we expect
SIOO this year, and we shall have it. A lit
tle system is all that is necessary. This mis
sionary collection has had a blessed spiritual
influence on our Sunday-school.”
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
Southern Christian Advocate.]
There is a vast and critical work to be
done in behalf of the young converts who,
dhring the past few months, have been added
to the Church. To their edification and in
struction, the labors of the pulpit should be
specially directed; while the utmost possible
pastoral attention should be bestowed upon
them. One faithful personal interview, de
voted to instruction and encouragement, is
often worth more in confirming a young
Christian in the new life upon which he has
entered, than a dozen sermons. Let the
preachers then see their young members,
talk with them alone, find out their peculiar
difficulties, and remove them if possible, in
struct them in the practical duties of the pro
fession they have made, and urge upon them
the necessity of unvarying punctuality in the
performance of these duties in order to a
steady growth in grace. Inculate the im
portance of habitual prayer, systematic study
of the Scriptures, Christian liberality toward
all the claims of the Church. “As the twig
is bent, the tree’s inclined,” illustrates
forcibly the importance of a right start in the
Christian life. Many a gnarled and ill-shaped
professor shows, in the deformities of his
character, the defect of his early religious
training. Urge then, upon these young con
verts, the formation of such habits now, as
will develop a complete and symmetrical
Christian manhood.
Zion's Herald .]
The real Christian never reaches the point
where the ardent prayer of the apostle, of
fered in behalf of the Ephesian believers, will
not be appropriate. lie may know the love
of God that passeth knowledge; he maybe
filled with God; he maybe filled with the
fullness of God; and still his constant, earn
est prayer is to he filled with all the fullness
of God. Such a soul may truly be said to be
panting after God. It is an experience known
and felt by Christians in all ages. Enoch
knew what it was, and God took him to
heaven to give him what he desired, after an
earthly companionship of many years. The
Psalmist felt it in his soul, and so deep and
fervent was it that he could only compare
himself to a hunted deer fleeing from his
pursurers, and almost perishiug for lack of
the cooling and refreshing draught from the
water brooks.
Blessed thought, that no soul thus longs
for God in vain. In the best time, whether
it be sooner or later, there will come to the
heart such a revelation of God as shall banish
every other presence, and the whole bodily
temple will be irradiated with surpassing
glory; then.
Western Christian Advocate -1
Men rarely accomplish more than they in
tend. The unaimed arrow, sent from a bow
drawn by a thoughtless or careless arm, sel
dom hits the mark. The ball which pene
trates the bull’s-eye in a target is discharged
from a rifle which is held by a man whose in
tensified look and steady hand proclaim that
his will is set on winning the prize. It is
even so in spiritual work. When a Church
regards its Sunday-school as a part of its
machinery simply, and when to have it a
good, orderly, interesting school is the highest
aim of pastor and teachers, there will be lit
tle spiritual fruit. What is not sought will
not be found. But when a Church looks at
its orderly, well-instructed school as am in
strument for bringing the children within
reach of its influence; when its prayer-meet
ings bear witness that it really travails in
birth for the present salvation of its chil
dren ; when its pastor sets his heart on having
the little ones become lambs of the flock of
Christ; when officers and teachers aim, with
the intensity of marksmen, at the same ob
ject, then children are morally sure to feel
the power of God, and be saved. When his
Church thus “suffers the little children” to
go to Christ, his loving spirit gives the gra
cious aid by which they are regenerated and
admitted into the happy and glorious “king
dom of heaven.”
Methodist Recorder.]
It is a privilege of the child of God to en
joy continually His presence and smile; but
how few live up to it!
“Is any secret thing with thee?” What a
probing question! It struck down with
forceful argument from the unsanctified lips
of one of Job’s false friends. It followed up
the question, “Are the consolations of God
small with thee?” with a suspicion of vindic
tiveness in its tone, but no doubt served a
purpose of grace to the afflicted one in occa
sioning self-examination; for even from the
sin of others God makes His children reap a
reflex benefit. That which is meant to be
their ruin becomes their salvation in His
reckoning; and every weapon wrenched
from the hands of Malice by the steady,
strong grasp of Innocence, shall send its
power into His arms for their strength
ening.
But an enemy’s question does not always
find so satisfactory an answer as in the case
of this servant of God. Many whose “conso
lations” are “small” might find “secret”
things in their lives that would explain their
lack of peace. In the night of their neglect
or heedlessness, an enemy came and sowed
the seeds of some evil in their natures, which
now is absorbing the pleasure—forces and
turning their days into seasons of languish
ing. It was so insidiously done, and the
seeds grew so imperceptibly, that no evil was
suspected till the nightshade of an uplifted
gloom fell over the life, and joy had died be
neath it. These secret things need prayerful
attention. There is no holiday in the Chris
tian’s experience when his sentinel-soul is off
duty—he must watch ever, always!
Hartford Courant .]
I tell you, men and women, the fact that
in these neglected and deserted towns there
lives such a man and a family about him,
where God and his law and his name and his
day are reverenced and proclaimed by deed
as well as by word, is what we may count on
as our chief hope for the future. The
Church rising in the village, its spire out
topping the highest trees, its horse-sheds and
vestibules knitting the men and women into
neighborly kindness, its pulpit the last strong
hold of piety—why, that very building is a
protest, and an eloquent one, against sin.
Men who have no higher interest than the
value of their property are not worldly-wise,
even, if they do not see that for a holy man
to speak within those walls, and go to and
fro under those trees, and knit together all
that is law-abiding, moral, and grand in that
town, is the highest of all needs to ensure
order and prosperity. And if that man is not
dull; if he has a soul and is not afraid to let
it out; if he has a mind and is not afraid to
use it; if he be even awkward and ill-clothed,
yet good, true, pure, man-loving, and God
fearing—there is a place for him.
Consider the boon that one educated minis
ter is to a rural town, even from a lower side
than I have hinted at. See what an ad
vantage that, in a place from which the
streams of young life are constantly flowing
city-ward, there is a man of education, who
can watch over the schools, inaugurate
lectures, buy and lend books, awake an in
terest in good newspapers, foster the local
history, and be the living center of those in
terests which are patriotic and educational.
Then look at that side which was hinted at a
few moments ago, the strength which such a
man’s presence gives to law and order; the
rebuke which his very life is constantly giv
ing to profanity and brawling and drunken
ness and impurity! Think how such a man
naturally fosters quiet, the care of roads, the
keeping up of neatness and beauty in build
ings, the general good husbandry of the town.
And if, as is often the case, he be fond of
tilling the ground, what an aid his knowledge
of books can be to him in receiving the best
ideas of the age, and in giving hints as to im
proved varieties of fruits and grains. None
quicker than he to seize the recorded ex
periences of able cultivators, and to bring
them into immediate use. And these advan
tages all aside from the immediate work of his
life, the bringing of the Gospel to bear upon
the lives of men.
B®*We wish that-subscribers in ordering the
Methodist Advocate changed from one post
office to another would not fail (as many do) to
five their former post-office, county and State.
t makes us a great deal of useless work and oc
cupies time which could be used to better ad
vantage. Please bear this in mind, kind friends,
and you will greatly oblige all concerned.
Hitchcock & Walden.
METHODIST ADVOCATE: NOVEMBER 11, 18f4.
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
We are reminded by the changing seasons
that it is time to pause in our daily vocations,
and offer thanks to Almighty God for the
mercies and abundance of the year which is
drawing to a close. The blessings of free
government continue to be vouchsafed to us;
the earth has responded to the labor of the
husbandman; the land has been free from
pestilence; internal order is being main
tained, and peace with other powers has pre
vailed. It is fitting that at stated periods we
should cease from our accustomed pursuits
and from the turmoil of our daily lives, and
unite in thankfulness for the blessings of the
past and in the cultivation of kindly feelings
toward each other; therefore, recognizing
these considerations, I, Ulysses S. Grant,
President of the United States, do recom
mend all citizens to assemble in their respec
tive places of worship on Thursday, the
twenty-sixth day of November next, and ex
press their thanks for the mercy and favor of
the Almighty God, and laying aside all
political contentions, and all secular occupa
tions, to observe such a day as a day of rest,
thanksgiving and praise. In witness whereof
I have herewith set my hand, and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed. Done
at the City of Washington this the twenty
seventh day of October, in the year 1874,
and of the Independence of the United States
the ninety-ninth. U. S. Grant.
By the President: Hamilton Fish, Sec
retary of State.
Such a death-scene as that of Dr. Eddy’s
is the most unanswerable apology for re
vealed religion that can be made. No argu
ment or discourse can compare with it. His
heart had not become weaned from active
life by long sickness, nor were his bodily or
mental powers weakened by protracted pain
and confinement. In the very prime of his
maturity, eager to work, loving his vocation,
full of enthusiasm, surrounded by the sweet
est and most tender earthly relations, even
surprised at the announcement of approach
ing death, and arguing against its probability,
he yielded cheerfully to the inevitable fact,
and then, calmly settling his affairs, placed
himself and his family upon the revealed
promises of an unseen Savior, and is filled
with indescribable peace and joy. He bids
his loving and weeping circle individually
farewell, with an apostolical benediction,
comforting them with the Gospel that sus
tained him; he catches visions of the coming
glory as he advances into the valley and
shadow of death; he talks of what he sees
and feels, with his friends by his bedside, as
if he were walking by the sea-shore, or look
ing upon some charming landscape; he calls
for a triumphant song as the gate opens, and
dies with a shout upon his lip.
Can the most advanced students of science
hope for a calmer or sweeter exit from life
than this? — Zion's Herald.
Charlie Ross, the kidnapped Philadelphia
child of four years, has not been discovered.
The kidnapping took place July Ist, while he
and an older brother of six years were play
ing on the sidewalk in that part of Phila
delphia known as Germantown. Within a
short time, the father of the child has be
come insane, and the mother is in the last
stages of decline, superinduced by the terri
ble suspense and sorrow connected with the
loss of her child. It is believed that neither
parent can long survive.
Chicago statistics show that 30,000,000
bushels of corn have been shipped eastward
through Chicago alone since the beginning
of the year. This vast amount, as well as
that which has gone by other routes and to
other markets, has netted the farmers of
lowa and Illinois probably thirty cents a
bushel, and, on the something over 200,000,-
000 bushels of corn raised in the two States,
has probably given them from $6,000,000 to
$8,000,000 more profit than usual on the corn
sold within the last seven dr eight months.
They claim in Chicago to have the most ex
tensive buyer and packer of green apples that
the world can show. His name is David
HenniDg, and his purchases aggregate 100,-
000 barrels of apples per year. He ships to
all parts of the United States. He has agents
at all points in Michigan where the best fruit,
is grown; they grade the apples, pack them
properly and ship to their principal. These
shipments sometimes amount to 7,000 barrels
in a single day. Mr. Henning uses a capital
of SIOO,OOO in his business.
The granite soldier that is to surmonnt the
national monument at the battle ground of
Antietam has been completed, and is the
largest figure in seupture out of Egypt. He
weighs over thirty tons, and is twenty-one
and a half feet high. The gun he holds is.
eighteen feet long, and his shoe three feet in
length. The face is clean shaved, except a.
heavy mustache, and is that of a resolute
man.
The only alapaca factory in the United
States has recently been established at James
town, N. Y. The machinery alone cost a
quarter of a million. Some sixty thousand
yards per day are being turned out,and the de
mand is said to exceed the supply.
The colored people are working in the right
direction in the way of securing teachers and
ministers. The Y. M. C. A. have just sent
Rev. John Watts to the Central Tennessee
College. We hope he may be successful and
return to spend many years of usefulness
among his people.— Chattanooga Commercial.
The lot for the new public school-house in
North Knoxville has been selected, on Mor
gan street, near Park, and the work of laying
the brick has commenced. The City Council
appropriated $5,000 for the lot and building.
A large and growing demand has spruug
up in Japan for our boots and shoes, which
are supplied through the San Francisco
merchants.
JUDGMENT OF MUSICIANS.
Theodore Thomas, the distinguished founder
and conductor of the famous Thomas’ Orches
tra, New York, ought to know as well as any one
the opinions entertained by musicians respecting
musical instruments. He declares that they
generally agree with him in regarding the Mason
& Hamlin Cabinet Organs as much the best in
struments of this class in the world. It is not,
therefore, surprising that they are now largely
exported to Europe, commanding higher prices
there than the instruments of their best makers.
45—ltG
If there is a presiding elder, traveling or local
preacher, class-leader, Sunday-school superin
tendent, district steward or member of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, in any of our Conferences
in the Southern States, who does not take the
Methodist Advocate, we sincerely pity him, and
would like to have his name passed up to us, so
that we may be prepared to put his name on our
subscription-books. Send $2 with the order, and
write his name, post-office, county and State very
plainly, so that he may get the paper and make
himself useful.
The Agents ask for “One Thousand More.”
Brethren, will you work for your own paper, and
help make it self-supporting ? Can you afford to
let the membership of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the South remain in ignorance of what
is being done in their own Church throughout
the South and the world ? At great expense, the
Methodist Advocate is published for your ben
efit. Swell the lists. Let us have 5,000 as soon
as possible, and after that we shall still call for
one thousand more. Please send on the names.
If the Secretaries of the Holston, Tennessee
and Alabama Conferences, Methodist Episcopal
Church, will forward to Hitchcock & W&lden,
Atlanta, Ga., a copy of their Minutes, by mail,
prepaid, they will remit the cost and be greatly
obliged for the favor.
We promised our readers a cut of “The Georgia
Plow.” By reference to our advertising columns
they will find it, without much trouble. 45—ltG
JJ@P\Friends, please send on the names rapidly,
for the Methodist Advocate.
The Elections.
The Associated Press dispatches from
Washington South, dated Nov., sth, contains
the following returns:
Alabama gives 6,000 to 10,000 majority for
the democratic state ticket. Certainly five
and possibly seven democratic Congressmen
and a democratic legislature have been
elected.
Arizona Territory.—Stephens, independ
ent, was elected delegate to Congress.
Arkansas. —Clean democratic delegation to
Congress.
Florida. —Full republican delegation.
Georgia. —Clean democratic.
Illinois.—lndications point to the election
of the republican state ticket by a decreased
majority. The previous dispatches regarding
the congressional delegation confirm the
doubtful districts. Still the doubtful count
by the congressional districts give the demo
crats 10 or 12 majority on the popular vote.
Kansas. —The republican state ticket has
5,000 majority against 32,000 two years ag9.
Kentucky.—Clean democratic delegation.
Maryland. —Clean democratic delegation.
Massachusetts. The democrats elect a
governor by 7,000 majority. The republicans
elect the balance of the state ticket, one
seats three democrats and one independent in
Congress. The legislature is strongly anti
prohibition. , .
Michican.—The democrats have a large
representation, probably a majority on joint
ballot. The congressional delegation will
probably stand five republicans and four
democrats. Both parties claim the governor.
Minnesota.—Returns from the remote parts
more favorable to the republicans.
Missouri—The ticket very long.
Nevada. —Bradley, democrat, was re-elected
governor; Sharon, republican, will probably
come to the senate on account of the state
senators holding over.
New Jersey.—The democrats have eleven
majority on joint ballot, securing senator,
Congressional delegation, five democrats and
two republicans.
New York. —The democrats have a ma
jority on joint ballot, securing their senator.
Pennsylvania.—The democrats have a ma
jority of one on joint ballot, securing senator.
Congressional delegation—democrats sixteen,
republicans eleven.
South Carolina.—The governorship is
doubtful. Macky, fusion, and Small, colored,
elected to Congress.
Virginia.—Full conservative and demo
cratic delegation, except Stowell in the fourth
district.
Wisconsin.—The republicans have a ma
jority on joint ballot, which may give us Car
penter again. The democrats have two, and
claim another Congressman. The republican
majority in the State is 6,000.
Delaware. —The radical spirit finds incar
nation in only one State senator, who holds
over.
The Tribune’s summary gives nine States
—Delaware, Maryland, Michican, Minnesota,
Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee
and Virginia—which will elect democratic
United States senators; five of these are now
represented by republicans. In five others—
Louisiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsyl
vania and Wisconsin —the Legislature is;
either doubtful or has in it Independent
democrats, which will be likely to secure the
election of anti-administration candidates.
The present returns indicate that the demo
crats will have a majority of between fifty and
sixty in the next House of Representatives.
A barrel with only one stave is now manu
factured. A steamed log is rotated against a
knife of equal length with itself, and a con
tinuous stave or sheet of wood is cut from it.
The sheet is cut into proper lengths, these
are slit at each end in several places, and the
ends reduced so as to fit the heads-and make
the proper swell or bulge in the circumfer
ence. Hoops are fitted as usual, and a much
stronger barrel than the ordinary one is pro
duced.
MARRIED.
On the evening of November stli, at the resi
dence of the bride’s father, J. P. Walker, of
Henry county, Ga., and Susan E. Brown, by Rev.
J. W. Lee, assisted by Rev. J. Spilman.
Also, at the same time and place, J. F. Ellis,
of Henry county, Ga., and Mary F. Brown, by
Rev. J. Spilman, assisted by Rev. J. W. Lee.
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A Consumptive Cured. —Wlien death was
hourly expected from Consumption, all reme
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a preparation of Cannabis Indica. He now gives
this recipe free on receipt of two stamps to pay
expenses. There is not a single symptom of
consumption that it does not dissipate—Night
Sweats, Irritation of the Nerves, Difficult Ex
pectoration, Sharp Pains in the Lungs, Nausea
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NOTICES.
Hochinghnm District "Virginia. Con.
Fourth Round.
Craig, November 21 and 22.
Fincastle, November 28 and 29, Wesley Chapel.
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Respectfully ask attention to the following
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Which will commend themselves to the
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