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RECORD OF FRATERNITY.
Our ministers throughout.the entire South are hereby re
quested to report to us all cases where by invitation or con
sent of the ministers of the M. E. Church South, they have
preached in the pulpits of that Church.
Ministers of the M. E. Church South are always recog
nized and treated fraternally, and usually invited to preach,
when attending tho services of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
For the purpose of doing justly by the M. E. Church
South, we will acknowledge all favors and courtesies received
by our ministers through the whole South in this column.
let full credit be given for every favor received.
Response No. 2.
I have preached for the following ministers of
the M. E. Church South, by their request, viz.:
Rev. E. Q. Sharpe, Lincolnton.
Rev. Edwards, Bethlehem.
Rev. J. Gaunt, Gaston circuit, Shiloh.
Rev. Stamey, Shiloh Camp-meeting.
They were kind toward me, but politely said,
“Now, my brother, don’t you think that you are
on the wrong side of the Mason and Dixon line?”
Thomas Sharpe.
a a-ton and Cleveland ct., N. C. Con , Nov. 22, 1874.
We thank these brethren of the Southern Church for their
courtesy, but as the Methodist Episcopal Church does not
recognize Mason and Dixon’s line, we just as kindly assure
them that we (the editor, brother Sharpe and all of us) are
on the right side of that imaginary and obsolete boundary.
RENEW! RENEW! RENEW!
Every subscriber to the Methodist Advocate
should renew his subscription immediately for
1875. The paper is always stopped when the
time is out, unless the paper is ordered for
another year. See the preacher as soon as possi
ble and have the name sent on at once, so that
it can be put on the books for next year before
this year closes. Renew immediately.
CONFERENCE REPORTS.
[Brethren will please write the names of places and per
sons very plainly, and condense their reports as much as pos
sible, so that there may be room for all. Write often, but
prepare all articles for the Advocate with the utmost care,
and you will save the editor a great deal of trouble.]
FLORIDA.
Rev. S.Jackson, Lone Star andWrights
ville ct.:
I have two churches on the way. The one
at Lone Star is 2b by 46, and I hope to have
it done by conference.
GEORGIA.
Itev. J. F. Palmer, Dalton:
At the last session of the Georgia Confer
ence, Dalton was made a station, and though
we had nothing here at the time but a class
of thirteen members and probationers par
tially organized, yet I think the facts taken
together will justify the action of the Con
ference.
In point of territory, travel, and communica
tion with our work in general in North Geor
gia, it is certainly a place of much import
ance to us, and I can not see how we are to
succeed in this part of the State, as God will
require at our hands, without building up a
strong fortification of our beloved Zion here.
Again, there are many precious souls, yea
more, many families here who must be saved
through our Church, if saved at all ; they can
not, will not, be brought under the influences
of the other Churches. lam aware that, in
the minds of many ministers even, it has
been a question as to whether it is right, as
respects the white population, for us, as a
Church, to operate in many portions of the
South. But when we find these souls all
through the South whose blood will stain our
skirts in the judgment, unless we move and
save them, how can we longer doubt? “To
doubt” longer, “will be disloyalty, to fal
ter will be sin.”
But how are we to succeed in Dalton? As
the work presents itself at present, three
things are necessary to success, viz: Hard
work and a living faith on the part of preach
ers and people; the power and blessing of
God, and a house of worship. As to the
first, so far as I am personally involved as
pastor, I propose, if the Lord gives health
and strength, for the results of the labors of
the Conference year to tell the story. As to
my people, “systematized effort” is our motto.
I am enlisting every one upon whom we can
have any claim, from the least to the great
est. We are building from the ground up,
in other Words, we are building our congre
gation and Sunday-school out of that kind of
material that will be permanent, while at the
same time we have our part of the “come and
go” class, and although but three Sundays
of the Conference year have passed, the re
sults of systematic effort are being seen. But
“Paul may plant and Apollos water,” and
yet the effort be fruitless without the bless
ing of God. Are we having this? Verily,
we must be, when we compare the congrega
tion to which our beloved Bishop Haven
preached some few months ago to the one
assembled in the same place last Sabbath
evening at the closing service of our quar
terly meeting. We are having something
that is giving us favor in the eyes of the
people, something that is breaking down these
old walls of prejudice and hatred so long
erected against us, and making them tremble
to their very foundations. That something
commenced in the labors of the brethren at
the tabernacle meeting held here just be
fore Conference, when the town was alarmed
and enemies confounded at the shout of uew
born souls —then God spake and it was done.
Bless his holy name, he is stilljspeaking, and
we must say, “What great thiugs the Lord
hath done,” and is still doing “for us,”
whereof we are glad. The glory shall be his
evermore.
The work thus presented will show that
one of our pressing and immediate needs is a
house of worship—a home. Without this
we can not succeed half way as we shall with
it. Indeed, we can not contemplate the work
a permanent success without a house. There
are families and individuals here that will
be with us just as soon as they have the as
surance that we are here to stay; but are not
willing to until they have this assur
ance, as they are not willing to repeat {past
experience Jin coming to us, and then being
driven to find a home elsewhere. Brethren,
can we have this home for our people here?
I think the interests of the Church outside
the immediate town of Dalton demand that
we have a neat, substantial chapel here, as
well as the life of our Church in town de
pends upon it. We must have a chapel here,
worth at the very least, S2OOO. To do this,
we must have in some way, at least SIOOO,
from the Church Extension Fund. To this
all will agree when you know the facts in the
case, which I can not give here. Can we
have it, brethren? Let me entreat you as
one who loves our Zion, uot simply in her
local, but in all her general interests as well,
to take this matter into the most prayerful
consideration, that God may be honored and
permanent Jprosperity thus secured to the
Church.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Rev. Gr. W. Heninger :
I reached my new work on the 24th of Oc
tober. On Sabbath, the 25th, I preached to
a large congregation, and have been closely
engaged ever since. I have now been around
my work. I have heard a great deal said
about North Carolina; but 1 had no idea l
would find such a country as I have. It is
one of the best watered countries I ever saw,
and has the best roads I ever traveled. I
find some of the kindest people here that I
ever met anywhere. They appreciate preach
ing. It would do you good to see these good
old fathers and mothers at Church and hear
their hearty “amens.” Brethren, those of you
who think North Carolina is almost out of
the world, come and see us. We have some
as good Methodists in this country as you
ever saw. They are the Simon-pure and are
true to the cause. We are going on in this
country. The Baptist friends in the country
have a warm place in the hearts of the Meth
odist Church. They unlocked their doors
and invited us to preach in their churches.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Rev. Sheldon S. Lawton, Sumter :
I have just returned from the dedication
of Mount Zion Chapel. Rev. Andrews, pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church in this town,
preached the dedicatory sermon, instead of
Rev. Lowery, who was appointed for that
purpose; but from some mistake on the part
of the person that was to convey him to the
chapel, failed to be present. Rev. Andrews
announced his text from the 122d Psalm, and
treated it in a logical and powerful manner,
during which the whole congregation was
completely swayed and many hearts newly
dedicated to God.
THE LATEST NEWS.
PERSONAL.
Bishop Pierce, of the M. E. Church, has re
turned in good health from his work on the
Pacific .coast. While in California the Bishop
accepted an invition to preach in the M. E.
Church in Santa Barbara.
Rev. James Caughey, whose work as an evan
gelist is yet remembered gratefully by many,
lives in N ew Brunswick, N. J. He has a neat
home, but is in feeble health. He is a supernu
merary member of the New Jersey Conference.
The Republican Advocate says: “Rev. Mr.
Cravatli, field secretary of the American Mis
sionary Association, and Rev. E. A. Ware,
president of Atlanta University are making
preparations for a trip to Africa, to look over
the field, and to see if the time is opportune for
the Association to extend its old, or commence a
new work there.”
RELIGIOUS.
The next Semi-annual Meeting of the Bishops
of the Church will be held next Spring in Chi
cago.
During the last twelve months some thirty
Protestant Sunday-schools have been opened or
recommenced in France, making a total of 900
in that country.
The commissioners appointed by the last
General Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church, to confer with like commissioners of
other Methodistic bodies on the (question of
union, announce their readiness to open corres
pondence.
Another evidence of the growing opposition
in the Turkish Empire to the efforts of Chris
tian missionaries, is furnished in a cable dis
patch October 31, that the Governor of Syria
has been ordered to suppress all the Protestant
schools in his province.
SOUTHERN STATES.
Seventy-four.emigrants left Atlanta for Texas
on the 24th ult.
Anew post-office has been established at
Yantley, Choctaw county, Ala.
The iron for the Austin, Texas, street railway
has been shipped from St. Louis.
Col. L. P. Grant is Receiver of the Atlanta
and Richmond Air Line Road.
The present Louisiana sugar crop is said to be
the best since the ending of the war.
The execution of a man for murder, last week
in Chattanooga, was witnessed by about 4,000 per
sons.
Elliott, who recently resigned his seat in Con
gress, has been chosen Speaker of the House in
the South Carolina Legislature.
One hundred and thirteen miles of the Texas
Pacific road are built, and 1600 are to be built
in order to reach the Pacific coast.
All the official papers of the Methodist Epis
copal Church South have been raised to $2.50
per year, postage to be paid by the publishers.
The Alabama Legislature met the 16th inst.,
and elected Mr. Anderson, of Mobile, Speaker of
the House. The Democrats have 61 and the Re
publicans 36 members.
General Tilton having reached the head of
Oostanaula in the work of clearing out that
stream, is now returning and finishing the work
as he progresses down stream.
Many of the most prominent families of New
York are going to spend the Winter in Florida.
Besides Gov. Dix, the Home Journal mentions
the Roosevelts, the Astors, the Coopers and the
Balls.
Gov. Houston was inaugurated at Montgomery,
Ala., on the 23th ult. An immense concourse
of people were present to witness the inaugura
tion. United States flags were conspicuous in
the procession.
The North Carolina Legislature met the 16th
inst., and elected Colonel Armfield President of
the Senate and Lieutenant-Governor. John L.
Robinson was elected Speaker of the House,
which stands, 84 Democrats and 34 Republicans.
In response to a telegram from Tuscumbia,
Mayor Cobb, of Boston, has received numerous
contributions for the sufferers which will be for
warded at once. Numerous accounts of suffering
in the South and West have excited very gen
eral expressions of sympathy there.
Trains on the Alabama and Chattanooga rail
road have commenced to run through from
Chattanooga to Meridian, making close connec
tion with trains from the West. About two
hundred miles of its track are in “tip-top” order,
ready for the elegant new cars lately ordered.
The Athens Tennessee Post states that the par
ties engaged in surveying a route for a railroad
from the mouth of Iliwassee to connect with the
Rabun Gap line, report favorably as far as they
have progressed. The corps of engineers engaged
in the work are acting under government orders.
A heavy storm at Tuscumbia, Ala., on the
evening of the 22d ult., destroyed one-third of
the town killing twelve persons and injur
ing many others. Among the killed are Mrs.
Wm. Winston, mother-in-law of the late ex-
Gov., the wife and two children of Hon. J. B.
Moore, senator from this district, F. D. Hodg
kins, editor of the Chronicle, his wife and four
children. Among the buildings destroyed were
the Catholic church, the Female Institute re
cently finished, and many of the finest
residences, both of the flouring mills and
the most substantial brick dwellings in the town.
Many families are without homes. A bridge on
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, near
town, was destroyed. The eastern bound train
was precipitated into Spring creek; fortunately
no one was killed, but the engineer was severely
burned. The total loss is estimated at $500,000.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Architect Mulletl has resigned.
Vineland, N. J., sold this season $125,000
worth of grapes.
The population of California was increased
40,000 last year by immigration.
The United States raise annually nearly 150,-
000,000 bushels of potatoes, representing a money
value of $100,000,000 to the consumer.
The question of removing the capital from
Montpelier to some other place is to be under
discussion in the Vermont Legislature.
Illinois is represented at Washington by nine
teen Congressmen and two Senators, of the whole
of whom only four were born in the State.
Kullman, the-would-be murderer of Bismarck,
has been sentenced to imprisonment for fourteen
years, and ten years’ suspension of his civil
rights.
For the first time this season, November 18th,
the Mississppi River, above St. Paul, was frozen
for several feet in the channel, and floating ice
came down the river to St. Paul, Minn., in abund
ance. As yet no snow has come.
The States electing governors in 1875 are:
California, Connecticut, lowa, Kentucky, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
and Wisconsin—thirteen States. The first (New
Hampshire) election is in March.
The annual receipts of imported kid gloves at
the port of New York amount to 10,000,000 pairs,
which cost the merchant buyer about $10,000,-
000, and the consumer the enormous sum of over
$20,000,000. One New York house sells enough
gloves to make an average of $1(000 profit per
day.
A committee of the Christian Church of Illi
nois is selecting 50,000 acres of land along the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for
colonists of that religions denomination. The
purchase is made from a Church fund for the
purpose, and the lands will be resold to individ
ual members on long time, the profits to go to
the Church.
Normal-schools for female teachers are to be
established in Russia, in order to promote the
education of girls. The first school of this kind
will be opened at Wilna. The Government has
given fifteen thousand rubles on condition that
forty daughters of clergymen shall be instructed
gratuitously. The school will receive forty
other pupils, who have to pay tuition.
Some of Mr. Will Carelton’s unique “Farm
Ballads” have been introduced to London au
diences by an American reader, and it is related
that on a recent evening, after the entertainment,
the Duke of Hereford and Earl Stanley came to
him and begged a copy of “Over the Hill to the
Poorhouse,” and “that poem is now printed on
the programmes nightly at Egyptian Hall.”
On this the Tribune remarks with pride: “a
voice goes out from the wilds of Michigan to de
light the ear of the cultivated society of the Old
World.”
Remember, if you send the money with the
name, when you subscribe for 1875, you will save
yourself the expense of postage, twenty cents,
which is worth saving. Send along your name
and the cash or have your preacher do it, imme
diately.
METHODIST ADVOCATE: DECEMBER 2. 1874.
The Editor left on Saturday last, to spend
the Sabbath at the Knoxville District Con
ference, at New Market, Tenn., on his way to
meet with the Board of Education of the
Methodist Episcopal Church (of which he is
a member) in New York, this week.
TO THE PREACHERS.
We want it distinctly understood that we will
hold every preacher who is a member (or a sup
ply) of one of the Conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal Church responsible for all the period
icals or books they have ordered or may order in
the future. We will not charge any preacher
for any thing ordered through another preacher,
without we receive a written order to do so. We
have had trouble in making settlements for pe
riodicals and books ordered by one preacher and
charged to another. Hitchcock & Walden,
43—ts Agents.
PREMIUM.
A I.ist of Ihose Ministers who procure Sub
scribers to the Methodist Advocate.
Dr. Fuller: If you will give a full list of the
preachers and the number of subscribers each
one procures for the Methodist Advocate for
1875, so as to give each one credit for his work in
behalf of the paper, I will pay $lO to the minis
ister who forwards the first list of one hundred
names, with the money for the same, if received
by Hitchcock & Walden previous to Jan. 1,1875.
B. D. Holcomb.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 25,1874.
We have no objection to carrying out the
suggestion above, if we can thereby awaken
additional interest and help the cause.
Brethren, push on the canvass, and get ready
for the exhibit. —Ed. M. A.
PREMIUMS.
Another Layman Offering Premiums for the
Methodist Advocate.
A brother writes:
Messrs. Hitchcock & Walden, Atlanta, Ga.:
Gentlemen — For every club of fifty subscribers
to the Methodist Advocate, coming from the
same circuit or station, and accompanied with
the amount of subscription in cash, I will pay
$5, and you are hereby authorized to charge me
and credit the proper parties with the amount.
This offer is open until March 1, 1875; but par
ties receiving brother Holcomb’s premiums will
not be entitled to this offer also. Subscriber.
PREMIUMS.
#2.50 for Clubs of 23 or more.
Who will give $2.50 for each club of 25 sub
scribers to the Methodist Advocate?
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, arid
would like to have his name passed up to us, so
that we may be prepared to put his name on our
subscription-books. Sends 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.
fl@“The postage which the Book Agents,
Hitchcock k Walden, will have to pay on all
of their publications, next year, will reach
the large sum of twelve or perhaps FIFTEEN
thousand dollars. They ought to have a
very large increase in circulation of all their
periodicals, at least the Methodist Advocate.
B@fWe wish that subscribers in ordering the
Methodist Advocate changed from one post
office to another would not fail (as many do) to
give their former post-office, county and State.
It 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.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
A MA.N OF A THOUSAND.
A Consumptive Cured.—When death was
hourly expected from Consumption, all reme
dies having failed, accident led to a discovery
whereby Dr. H. James cured his only child with
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
at the Stomach, Inaction of the Bowels, and
Wasting of the Muscles. Address Craddock &
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NOTICES.
JB@“The traveling preachers of Dickson Dis
trict are requested to bring their Church records
to the District Conference, on the 16th day of
December, 1874. J. E. Cole, P. E.
®gy”The Nashville District Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will convene in
Gallatin, on the 16th of December, at 7J o’clock,
p.m. The opening sermon will be preached by
Rev. J. A. Lansing. The exercises of the Con
ference will continue on the 17th and 18th.
The members of the Conference are requested
to be present, as far as practicable, at the open
ing, on Wednesday night. J. Braden, P. E.
Savannah District Conference—Programme.
Faith —S. P. Huskins. Adoption —W. H.
Frances. Temperance—S. H. Hayes. The Best
Methods of Securing our Benevolent Collections
—E.Pinckney. Charity —G.Washington. Meth
odist Discipline—C. O. Fisher. Baptism, its
Subject and Mode —R. L. Black. Repentance—
Z. Butler. Local preachers will choose their
own subjects. The Conference will convene in
Asbury Church, Savannah, Thursday, Dec. 18th,
at 10 o’clock, a.m. The opening sermon will be
preached by Rev. J. H. Randall, Thursday night,
at 7£ o’clock. S. P. Husktns, P. E.
Atlanta Wholesale Market.
CHAMBER OP COMMERCE,
Saturday, November 28, 1874.
Gold, buying $1.08; selling sl.lO.
Cotton, low middling, 13§.
Cotton yarn $1.40; 4-4 brown sheeting 11c.;
I brown sheeting 9|c.; f brown sheeting 7^c.
Bulk Meats—Clear Hides 11 5 : clear rib sides 11 ij;
shoulders 12 Jc.
Lard—lsJ@l6c.
Coffee Rio 22a24c.; LaGuyra 26c; Java
36a38c.
Sugar—A 11; extra C Ilf; Demerara Ilf; yel
low lOall.
Molasses 40a45.
Candles 19c per lb.
Cheese —17£al8Jc per lb.
Grain. —Corn,whitesl.ooal.os. Wheat, white
$1.40a1.50; amber $1.35a1.45; red $1.35a1.40.
Barley $1.50 per bushel. Wheat bran $1.20a1.25
Grits $7.00 per bbl.
Flour —Superfine $5.25; extra $5.75; family
$6.25a56.50; fancy $7.50a7.75.
Corn meal sl.
Hay—Timothy $1.50a1.60; clover $1.00a1.25;
Tennessee $1.25.
Miscellaneous —Coal —car,3sa4o. Cement $3.35
a3.50. Nails $5 per keg. Field peas $1.25a51.35.
Bagging—2£ lbs. 15; 2f lbs. 15; 2 lbs. 14f. Gun
ny bagging 12. Cattle —3}as. Lime —40a50c.
METHODIST ADVOCATE.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1875.
OFFER TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
Inducements to Cash Subscribers.
The Publishers of the Methodist Advocate, in order to have this paper of our Church
more fully meet the wants of the Christian reader and the Christian household, enlarged
it and improved its appearance, one year ago. The Annual Conferences directly interested
in its circulation have, by formal action, indorsed these improvements, and also the edito
rial management. We are anxious to increase the number of subscribers to this paper,
which gives such general satisfaction to its present patrons, and haying carefully consid
ered what can be done at its present circulation, we take pleasure in making known our
plans for the new year. t
A CHEAP PAPER.
In view of the expense of publishing the Advocate, and the amount and variety of its
contents, our subscribers have had a cheap religious paper. We now propose that the
cost shall he still less to its patrons who pay cash. We offer no picture, or other premium
of uncertain value, but will send the paper post-paid through 1875, to all the subscribers
who pay the regular subscription price—two dollars in advance. Heretofore, all subscrib
ers have paid the postage, twenty cents per year, in addition to the subscription price,
making, together, $2.20. Those who now pay in advance will receive the paper, post-paid,
for $2, which is twenty cents less than it cost them last year, including what they paid for
postage.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
The Methodist Advocate will be sent to new subscribers from the date of receiving their
names at our office until January 1, 1876, for the price of one year's subscription , which
will give those who subscribe now nearly TWO MONTHS of the present year FREE.
The price of the paper will continue the same as last year—s 2. New subscribers, who
pay in advance , will not only receive the paper free during the rest of 1874, but also will
receive it, post-paid, through 1875. Cask payments enable us to purchase materials at the
lowest rates, and obviate the losses inseparable from a credit system, and hence make it
possible for us to offer the above substantial reduction in price to cash subscribers.
We give this timely notice , that all may avail themselves of the offer. Our aim is to secure
to those who pay iu advance the advantages of a cash system, and to let those who ask
credit share with us the disadvantages of a credit system.
When the cash does not accompany the order, the subscriber must pay to the pastor
who takes the subscription the price both of the paper and postage, for the year, which
will be $2.15. Pastors, in taking subscriptions and sending orders, will please bear this in
mind. Unless the cash accompany the order, fifteen cents will invariably be added to the
price of the paper to cover the postage.
A LIVE PAPER.
Compared with the denominational papers of the country, the Methodist Advocate is
second to none in the amount and variety of its contents, and the ability with which lead
ing and living questions are discussed iu its columns. It is devoted to a vigorous defense
of the faith and the constant promotion of experimental religion. It opposes Homan
Catholicism as a hierarchy antagonistic to spiritual Christianity and republican institutions,
and vigilantly notes and discusses its ambitious and aggressive movements in Europe aud
America. It is earnest in advocating the education of the masses and the maintenance
and improvement of our free common-school system; and it also favors the higher educa
tion of all classes. It devotes special attefition to Temperance, hut treats it as related to
religion and morality, rather than as an element in politics. Its foreign correspondence is
fresh and varied, comprising letters from important fields in the Old World, by contrib
utors whose positions enable them to collate the most reliable and valuable intelligence.
A LOYAL PAPER.
The Advocate is published by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is loyal to the
Doctrines, Polity, and the esprit du corps , which, under God, have made her successful in
her manifold mission. As occasion may require, it discusses, in harmony with Method
istic thought, the doctrines of the Bible, giving to each the position to which it is entitled.
It aids iu spreading Scriptural holiness, by maintaining the Wesleyan expression of the
Scriptural doctrine, and inciting all to the practical life, as well as the joyous experience.
It does not favor radical changes in our thoroughly tested polity, but will consider such
modifications as the progress of our work and changes in our condition may seem to de
mand, and here it will aim to discriminate between the system itself and the manner of its
administration. The present is no time to drift away from agencies, methods, and usages
which have given us success, just when others, impressed with their efficiency, seek to
adopt them. In these, as in all important and essential things, the Advocate will be loyal
to Methodism.
A LIBERAL PAPER.
The Advocate is denominational, but not sectarian in any narrow and bigoted sense.
It devotes ample space to Methodistic news, but also records the important movements of
other Churches; it gives prominence to the discussion of those questions which elicit most
interest among our own people, but does not fail in attention to all subjects of general in
terest to the Christian world; it not only strives to keep its readers in active sympathy
with the multiform and increasing work of Methodism, but gladly chronicles the successes
and growth of other evangelical denominations. It aims to cultivate a true catholicity,
which shall have its permaneut expression in relations of unqualified fraternity between
all evangelical Churches.
A RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPER.
In addition to what is named above, the Advocate devotes space to other departments
of news. A market report is prepared regularly and with great care, by a competent and
experienced person—one whose|position enables him to keep thoroughly posted in regard to
commercial matters. A summary of secular news is carefully prepared, furnishing those
who take only one paper with a general view of the important events which transpire at
home and abroad. Articles of special interest to the farmer and the housekeeper have
their place weekly. The family department comprises a miscellany in which both the
young folks and the old folks will find attractive and instructive reading. With all its
variety, the high religious tone of the paper is maintained. The claims of Sundayrscliool
workers are not overlooked.
AN ADVOCATE IN EACH FAMILY.
There are hundreds of Methodist homes within the conferences which patronize the
Methodist Advocate, not visited by any of the periodicals of our Church. The patrons of
this paper justly are proud of it as one of the publications of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. All who read it know, and none better than the pastors, that it is a benefit to
every family to which it comes, and that its increased circulation would strengthen every
enterprise of Methodism at home and abroad. Our offer makes the present a favorable
time to canvass for new subscribers. We request the pastors throughout the patronizing
territory of the Advocate, to present its claims to all their congregations, and urge its cir
culation, because of its value as a medium of religious thought and news, and because it
is the paper published especially for them under the direction of the Church. Let the
aim be to put a copy of this paper in every Methodist family.
CASH PAYMENTS AND NO POSTAGE.
The Methodist Advocate will be sent to new subscribers from the date of receiving
their names at our office till January 1,1876, for the price of one year’s subscription, cash
in advance, which will give those who subscribe now nearly two months of the present
year free. The price of the paper will continue the same as last year—s 2.
Hitherto the postage has been twenty cents a year, payable in advance quarterly by the
subscriber at the post-office where he received his paper. Under the new postal law, the
amount for postage will be about the same, but must be paid weekly by the publishers.
We will send the Methodist Advocate, post-paid, through 1875, to subscribers who pay
$2 in advance. This will furnish subscribers, who pay in advance, with the paper at
twenty cents less than it cost them last year, including what they paid for postage. This
proposition also embraces the free papers, pffered above, to new subscribers.
When the cash does not accompany the order, the subscriber must pay to the pastor
who takes the subscription the price both of the paper and postage, for the year, which
will be $2.15. ♦
Pastors, in taking subscriptions and sending orders, will please bear this in mind. Un
less the cash accompany the order, fifteen cents will invariably be added to the price of
the paper to cover the postage.
Cash payments, by enabling us to purchase materials at the lowest rates, and obviating
losses inseparable from a credit system, make it possible for us to offer the above sub
stantial reduction in price to cash subscribers, We give this timely notice, that all may
avail themselves of the reduction. Our aim is to secura to those who pay in advance the
advantages of a cash system, and to let those who ask credit share with us the disadvan
tages of a credit system.
CONFERENCE INDORSEMENT.
Never before has the Methodist Advocate received such hearty indorsement at the Con
ferences as during the past few weeks. Never before has the necessity for its support and
wide circulation been so deeply felt. Through the times of trouble and discouragement
it has gone forth week by week to cheer and strengthen the toilers in the vineyard. Many
preachers have been urged to greater diligence by its counsels, and numbers of members
have been led steadily forward by its words. It has successfully contradicted the falsb
statements of enemies and often carried forth the glad tidings of success and salvation,
when many supposed that the work was lagging, if not being disbanded. As the battle
flag of our column in the South, it has waved in the breeze the ensign of our hosts and
the promise of triumph. The Fall Conferences have indicated a disposition to do more
than heretofore in its circulation, because they see and feel the need of this helper in their
work, and in this they judge correctly. Every leader and steward certainly ought to take
the paper.
BEGIN THE CANVASS NOW.
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taking in their money for the labors of the year, and now, right now, is the best time to
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coming year. Get cash in advance wherever practicable, and if preachers have the paper
charged to theif account, the subscribers should pay as soon as possible, so that the pub
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we have a circulation of ten thousand.
Agents will bo allowed the usual commissions on all renewals, as well as for new sub
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