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Mother’s iiove and Prayer.
BY W. P. RIVERS.
When far from home and loved one* there,
i<ad mem’ry drop* a tear,
One name upon my heart I bear—
It is my mother dear;
One dove-like thought broods o’er my breast,
White-winged consoles my care.
With notes of peace from Home's sweet nest—
My Mother’t Love and Prayer.
My Mary-wlfe.my Wlllle-boy—
My Pearl oi Infant-ray,
Are roses Fancy’s hands employ.
To deck Love’s throne each day;
My Father’s nameofsceptered power
My Heart enthrone* ,< a fear
-11 itoh ! the eufoH ! Yt; trt
is Mother's work to revi-
Jk-meetings amo'
A brother’s nanj- he following '
A Sister’s ne’ elegates to til'
Embalmed 1 sj> Sikes, J lle ’
And shai.'. a |t. (
Two Bs.ry-huds are iv g || near.
In death they still are lair—
But not one bloom of thought so dear
As Mother’s Line and Prayer.
All loves are stars upon my night.
My Mother’s Is my moon.
In her sweat smiles my clouds are bright.
Till Hope brings back my noon ;
With braver hearts I lace the world,
Whatever looks It wear—
With Virtue's banner still unfurled,
For Mother’s Love and Prayer.
Her hoary hairs, and age-bent form,
Her fond and last embrace,
Her farewell kiss of love still warm,
Her pallid lips and lace—
All— all are clinging to my heart,
Like withered lilies fair,
But ne’er the fragrance shall depart—
Os Mother's Love and Prayer.
My Heart still sees her age-dimmed eye—
Still there the parting tear.
Her benediction in the sigh
“ God bless my son” —l hear ;
And oh ! that blessing she would bring—
Her sou of pious care,
Shall oft return on golden wing,
For Mother's Love and Prayer.
Oh ! sad farewells of Earth and Time !
Sad Echoes of the Past!
Sad minor-notes of changeful rhyme—
While life's brief nymn shall last!
Bat still with constant heart and pure.
Life’s changes will I bear,
-*- JPer-grTefa of abseaoe And a cure—
In Mother’s Love and Prayer.
God seud thee. Mother, blessing! down—
That Grace t lion wouldst Impart;
His Love's Aureole be thy crown.
His Peace-dove keep thy heart !
His Augels guide thee day and night,
With Spirit hands upbear—
Till thou ascend to mansions bright,'
By steps of Love and Prayer.
Celestial Joys shall compensate,
For Earth’s farewells and sighs—
In Faith and Patience let us wait.
For greetings in the skies :
Though long aud sally severed lure,
The common woe we’ll share—
“ God bless my son”—shall be my cheer,
“God bless thee’’—be my Prayer.
Do not Blame Me.
LINES nV TUB LATK AIRS SARAH E. EVANS.
I’ve beeu thinking of iny faults, till iny heart Is
like to break,
How very maay are the f >ei, how few the friea'ls
I make :
Aud yet. withlu my hi Idea heart, sincere Ejec
tion Ilea,
Tj.ua priceless gift of human love, t wall know how
to prize.
Yet often tho-ie I love the most, have not one
thought for me.
When looking up for kindly smiles, ludlfl'erence
I see |
Aui then the pleasant words, that rose upon my
lips, have died,
Leaving mo mournfully to crush, my sorrow and
my pride.
I strive that I may not offend, I chock each care
less word,
And seek to kesp from other’s ears, dark tales my
own have heard:
I would not, by a thought, add to another’s grlaf,
Yet often I have given pain, where I would bring
relief.
And sometimes when my changeful mood brings
feelings wild and gay,
When In my eagerness I cease to guard whate’er
J say,
A word, that in itself was naught, is made to seem
unkind.
Bright thoughts are changed for evil ones, and
tears for smiles I find.
I’m lonely, very lonely now, my heart is throb
bing fast,
And tears are gathering in my eyes, for follies
that are past;
Yet know 1 that by suffering the spirit is made
pure,
So I would calmly bear the pain God wills I
should endure.
Contributions.
The Adaptability of Christianity.
BY REV. E. J. MEYNARDIE.
It is proper to inquire whether the
Christian religion is adapted to man in
whatever sphere of life he may move;
and whether his positiou does not de
mand that lie should enjoy and pro
fess that religion. Christianity embodies
those original and subtime principles
whioh'are taught’ln the Gospel, aud which
constitute the fouudation of our science,
literature, legislation, philosophy, and
social and political institutions. It is the
opinion of well informed Naturalists, that
it is by the introduction of a superior
ethnical element iuto a country, that tbe
civilization of that country—he the char
acter of that civilization what it may—is
accomplished most successfully ; aud that
such civilization cannot depart from the
peculiarities of the predominant race, as
in the instances furnished by the history
of the Franks and Gauls, the Romans
and Britons, and the Normaus and Sax
ons. History shows plainly that the
great element of civilization which alone
reuders permanent the institutions, liber
ties aud prosperity of a country is—Chris
tianity. The civilizations of ancient and
modern times exhibit great imperfection
aud inadequacy, in the accomplishment
of tbe ends o; man’s creation, wherever
this element does not constitute the leaveu
Which permeates the mass of society.
Admitting the fact that great progress
was made in science, iu art, iu literature
and in civil government by tbe nations of
antiquity; and conceding to all pagan
and half civilized moderns, what they
way be entitled to in these respects, stilt,
what is the character of their social habits
and of their morals? The best govern
ment they ever had could not be other
than a pure despotism, to prevent disin
tegration and ruin, where the binding
forces of Christianity did uot bring all
the national elements of liberty and hap
piuess to the exalted standard of the New
Testament. The fundamental principles
of a pure Christianity, constitute tbe
fountain of living waters, whose streams
impart health, vigor and beauty to tbe in
tellectual, the moral, the political and so
cial world, and which are destined to
course through every land and enrich and
fructify every soil 1 When fallen and de
based humanity, applying to every sys
tem of ethics invented by tbe fertile
genius of mau, has failed utterly to fix
upon a plan commensurate with all the
demauds of the race, it may safely turn
to that which is developed in the Chris
tian system. This unfolds to view the
grand and sublime ideas of the divine
existence —tbe providence of God—the
personal character and mission of Christ
to earth —special divine influence—the
Church of God—the common brother
hood of man—the day of sacred rest—the
millennium—the resurrection of tbe dead
—the last judgmeut aud the heavenly
world. These are ideas which have not
only the power to absorb tbe thoughts of
man. but even to oontrol his destiny and
tbs destiny of .empires and dynasties.
Santiimi Christian Admatf.
Irrefragable as are the evidencies of the
divine origin and power of our holy reli
gion, and as much as it has done for man,
there have been found, iwtwithstanding,
those who have enlisted head and heart
and bands, in opposition to its progress.
This is a sad commentary upon the de
pravity and presumption of mau ; and it
will always be so, whilst siu exists. To
contemn that which is true and good, is
the legitimate work of the devil and bis
emissaries. Instead of detracting from,
Christianity has added lustre to, the char
acter of the most distinguished of our
race, whose great and sanctified genius
will continue to blaze in undying splen
dor. when evanescent scintillations of in
lidel minds have paled and vauished for
ever ! “The great Newton, after expound
ing the laws of the material universe,
closed the labors of his life in expound
ing the chronology of the Book of God.
And how many, in every age—the mas
ters of art aud eloquence, the laurel
crowned princes of science and literature
have come like him to tills book, that
they might learn their last lessons of ce
lestial wisdom at the feet of Jesus? New
ton laid not his dying head on his Prin
ipia, but on hi-Bible ; Cowper, notou his
Cask, hut on his Testament; Hall, not on
£is fame, but on his humble hope; Michael
Angelo, notou that pencil which alone
copied with the Judgment, but on that
grace which for him stripped the Judg
ment of its terrors; Coleridge, not on his
limitless genius, but on the mercy of God.
Often must the wanderer, amid dark for
ests, iay his head upon a rude log, while
above it is the abyss of the stars. Thus
the weary, heavy-laden dying Christian,
in the close of a life devoted to God, leans
upon the rugged and narrow cross, but
looks up the while to the beaming canopy
of immortal life—to those things which
are above.’’
To say nothing of the absolute necessi
ty of embracing the Christian religion in
order that the will of God might be done
in human salvation, we must admit that,
any station, calling or pursuit in life,
which, by its very nature, precludes the
practicability of enjoyment in that reli
gion, is dishonorable, immoral, degrad
ing, and should be avoided. Shall the
moral virtues be bartered for silver and
gold, or immolated upon the vain altar of
inexorable Fashion aud sensual Pleasure?
The most honorable stations in civil
society, so far from rendering those who
occupy them incapable of a due apprecia
tion of the Christian religion muy be ma
terially improved by its hallowing influ
ence, whilst those who are fortunate
enough to All these places, may enjoy the
exalted privilege of preparation for that
inevitable event in human life, the de
parture of the soul for eternity, and for
the investiture of higher honors there!
Indeed, ones peculiar interests are pro
moted by the embraesmeut of Christiani
ty, in its vital, practical operations upon
heart and life; his personal respectability
is enhanced aud his soul saved by it. It
may be recommended unhesitatingly, be
cause of its wonderful adaptation to every
age and every pursuit. Be your intellec
tual endowments what they may; it is
matter oi small importance what may be
your natural dispositions of heart, your
circumstances in life, or your peculiar be
setments and future prospects, there is in
the religion of Christ a world of light aud
love and joy, which its divine author de
signed for your happiness. It is your
only safeguard in temptation; your
strong-hold in peril; the “Rock of Ages’’
cleft for you, amid the fiercest storms of
earth ami hell!
“ The sou I hat on J>sus still leans lor repose;
He will not, he will not desert to his toes;
That soul, though ail hell should endeavor to
shake.
He wl 1 never, no never, no NfcVKK lor3ake."
A Remarkable Dream and Its Effect.
There is a great mystery in dreams.
Solomon says, “Adream cometli through
the multitude of business;’’ Upham,
“They are our mental states, and opera
tions while we are asleep, and have an iu
timate relationship with our waking
thoughts, aud are often caused by our
sensations.” These philosophers seem to
agree, as to the cause, or origin of dreams ;
but the philosophy of dreams, is uot the
subject of our inquiry in this paper. I
simply propose to relate the substance of
a very remarkable dream that occured in
nry own history.
I was at school, in the classic village of
Oxford, at the time, aud the questions of
a call to the ministry, and the ministry
itself, had long, and most intensely excit
ed my mind, until they became all-absorb
ing. In Oris pertuhed state of mind, at
the usual hours of retiring, I entered my
little plainly furnished room, to invoke
"tired Nature’s sweefe resiorer, balmy
sleep,” aud soon I was in “the land of
dreams,” and dreamed this dream, “ whicli
was uot ad a dream.”
I dreamed that I was in my native city,
always to me one of surpassing beauty
aud loveliness, sitting by the side of that
fond mother, who Hist gave me being,
aud theu, like Samuel's, consecrated me
to God in early childhood, baptizing me
with her prayers aud tears. I was alone,
for though our household had been large,
consisting of eight children, the changes
incident to life, had reduced it to my
mother aud son. The husband and sire
had long ceased to live, and was quietly
sleepiug, side by side, with two of his
sweet babes, iu ttie cemetery, awaiting the
blast of that trump that shall wake the
sleeping dead.
Other members of the family had mar
ried, and moved toother partsof the State,
aud the oldest hud settled iu a city, in the
far West. We had been long separated,
aud were recounting with mournful plea
sure, the many chauges that had come
over our once happy family circle. Many
were the inquiries made, aud the answers
given, as tne names of the different
members of the family were called. Fi
nally, the name of a much loved daugh
ter and sister was mentioned, then resid
ing in Savaunah, and we agreed that a
visit to tier would be both pleasaut and
profitable. Preliminaries being settled,
on a beautiful May morning, amid tbe
perfume of sweet flowers, and the singing
of birds, we proceed to embark on a river
boat. Having arrived at tbe wiiarf, I left
my mother staudiug on the Dank, and
moving rapidly along the gang-way to se
cure our passage, met a burly Jew who,
without a word, precipitated me head
long into the river, aud I was carried at
once, by the suction of the boat, to its
keel. In a moment, it seamed the boat
was inverted, forming an arcli over me,
the area of which, was filled with a mel
low light, such as the setting sun frequent
ly throws on tree-top aud mouutaiu, I was
submerged—ail but the head; my mental
powers were in full force aud there was
a total absence of all pain, only that I
was bound to the place, as by fetters of
iron. While in this condition, my mind
was greatly excited as to what would be
the result, and farther from the fact, that
iu casting my eye around, I found that I
was aloue. It wa< uot long, however, be
fore one approached that 1 thought was
an angel, though iu human shape. It
appeared to be a female of the most ex
quisitely sy metrical form and loveliest face
1 had ever seen. She had wings instead
of arms, aud they, and her whole body,
were covered with a long, soft, silky,
down, which was white as the driven
snow. Her manner was kind aud gentle,
as she said, “that through which you are
now passing is death, aud you will soon
be summoned into the presence of the
great God ”
Having given this intelligence, Bhe van
ished, leaving me to ponder her words,
which thrilled my heart to its profoand
est depths. It seemed a very short time
when she reappeared, and said, "Come,
we must now go, at the same time telling
me to lay firm hold on her wings near
the body, on doing which we shot direct
ly upward through the boat, and were
borne higher and higher, until terrestial
things quite vanished from vision, and
then on and ou we went, with more than
lightning speed, through the etherial blue,
until suddenly we reached a place, bright
er far than my eyes had ever beheld. In
the centre there was a mansive throne,
purer aud whiter than Pariau marble, un
supported by pillar or foundation, and
sitting on that throne, in grandeur and
awfully overwhelming majesty, was a
being that the angel told me was "The
Judge of quick aud dead.” A moment
more, and I was in His presence. He
than addressed me—calling my name,
saying:—"You are now to be put on your
trial, and that trial has reference to tbe
final doom of your soul.” My very soul
quivered.—“l knew thee! I know thy
works; I know thy motives; and while
thou hast in the main, served me, and
served me better than many of my more
favored creatures, yet in regard to preach
ing my gospel, tbou hast been recreant.
I laid the impression deeply and broadly
in thy mind, that this was thy appropri
ate field ; and called thee often and loud
ly, but this impression was ignored, these
calls thou didst unkindly aud persistent
ly refuse to obey; and now thy probation
is ended, and thy doom at band. And
though I do not find it iu my heart to
damn thee, yet feel thou well assured, that
because of thy refusal to do thy duty,
thy joy will never be so full and com
plete, and thy honor and digDity so great
as they would have been hadst tbou hark
ened unto my voice.” At this moment I
awoke, trembling as a reed shaken by a
fierce wind, or as Belshazzar, when he saw
the mysterious hand-writing over against
the wall; and found it but a dream. Bleep
now departed from my eyes, aud slumber
from my eyelids, as I thought of the
dream and its interpretation and longed
for some Joseph or Daniel to say, "This
is the dream, and I will tell thee the in
terpretation thereof.”
It was long before “the stealing god of
sleep crept again in slumber o’er my wea
ry eyes,” but ou doing so, the dream was
repeated with like effect until thrice dur
ing that memorable night I passed
through the ordeal of this fearful night
vision.
I do not propose to interpret the dream,
nor say as to whether it was occasioned by
the same mental agony I had so long ex
perienced, or whether it was of God.
This however, I did know, that I had of
ten felt that it was my duty to preach,
aud so oft shook off the conviction, steel
ing my heart against it. That I was born
to die; must die; that there is a judg
ment after death, and to that judgment I
must go; that I must meet tbe “Judge of
quick and dead,” and if so, it was truest
wisdom iu me to enter at once, and fully,
ou the work, invoking the ble<siug of
God, that I might do it well and wisely,
aud have it said in tbe end; "Well done
good aud faithful servant enter thou iuto
the joy of thy Lord.” Magnolia.
The Bev. Robert J. Boyd, M. D.
Doctor Robert J. Boyd, of the South
Carolina Conference, M. E. Chu.cb,
South, was boru in Chester District, South
Carolina, November 514th, 1805.
His early life was marked by the rigid
religious training so general in the Pres
byterian Church at this time. His par
euts were members of that Church, and
this caused him ti*entertain through life
a peculiar regard for it, as tiie Church of
his fathers. care for the children,
the diligence with which they were
taught the principles of religion and the
creed of their Church, was a feature in its
practice which attracted his special notice
and commendation. His own experience
convinced him of the good results crown
ing such instruction.
Doctor Boyd was awakened in early
life, and at once thought of connecting
himself with the denomination under
whose ministry he had grown up. This
purpose was changed when he came to
understand the doctrines of the different
churches. After his awakening, a Bap
tist friend advised him to act deliberately
in his choice, and gave him to read a hook
containing the creeds of all Churches.
When in the course of his renling he
came to the doctrines of the Methodists,
such was the force of prejudice, that he
concluded it was useless to read them.
A second thought, however, induced him
to see what they were. As he read, he
discovered with surprise that these doc
trines were not only different from his
preconceived notions about them, but that
they accorded perfectly with his own
views of Scripture truth, aud when he
had finished the book he felt that the
Methodist faith was his. This turn iu
his views was so different from his formar
notions, so opposed to the wishes of hi.
family, and so unexpected to himself that
he made it a matter of much prayer and
thought before coming to a decision. At
length, as ttie of mature delibera
tion aud earnest supplication for Diviue
guidance, the decision was reached, aud
he joined the Methodist Church, having
heard but oue Methodist preacher previ
ous to this act; an act he always regarded
as the result of the direction of the Holy
Spirit upon his heart aud mind.
He had not yet experienced conversion.
The writer, and many of the readers of
this article, remembers how forcibly he
urged the young to join the Church not
waiting for conversion, referring them to
his own experience as an illustration of
the wisdom of such a course. After his
uuiou with the church, he embraced eve
ry opportunity to secure the prayers of
Christians and to manifest his own deep
concern about salvatiou. In deep dis
tress, he passed through the set vices of a
camp-meeting without realizing the bles
siug sought. On iiia way home, his mind
became more deeply than ever impressed
with tbe necessity of the new birth. Iu
an agony of spirit he broke out in song,
giving utterauce to his anguish in the
words of the hymn commencing,
“ Jesus my all to Leaven Is gone.”
Before the last stanza was sung, his ago
ny ceased, his burden was removed, he
felt his sins forgiveu. lustead of prayer,
his soug was praise. He shouted aloud
the praise of God. From that moment
through a long life of devotion to God, he
never doubted his conversion. The light
which then arose upon his path never
went out, but shined brighter aud bright
er unto the perfect day. Iu love-feast—a
place most precious to his heart —he de
lighted to bear this testimony to the grace
of God ; and often he thrilled the heart’s
of God’s people by the simple story of his
Christian life, thus begun, and sustained
by the grace which had begotten him un
to a lively hope of the resurrection by
Je9us Christ.
About this time, he was impressed with
the couviction that he was called to preach
the gospel, as au itinerant Methodist
preacher. He was however involved to
some extent, having made over his prop
erty to his widowed mother and maideD
sister, and yet graduated as a physician;
so he became satisfied as to his inability
to enter the itinerancy aud gave himself
heartily to tbe practice of medicine. He
received license as a local preacher from
the Quarterly Conference of the Orauge
burg Circuit, January 4th. 1830. His li
cense was signed by Wm. Capers, presid
ing eider.
His practice as a physician became
large and remunerative. He became
medical and spiritual adviser to his pa
tients, and succeeded beyond his most
sanguine hopes.
On the i7th June. 1830, he was married
to Mi-s Rachel Pooser, of Orangeburg
District, who lived to cheer aud comfort
him, and share with him the toils and
privations of the itinerant life, through
nearly forty years ; and still lives to cher
ish the memory af her departed compan
ion. The Church will remember her at
the throne of the heavenly grace, and
God will be her husband.
So soon a9 his practice had rendered
him independent, pecuniarily, Dr. Boyd
felt that his duty was to enter the itiner
ancy. Yielding to his conviction, he was
first employed by the sainted Capers, then
superintendent of missions in the Con
ference, as a missionary on the mission
work adjaceut to Walterboro; residing iu
WaKerboro. Afterwards, feeiiug that he
might be more useful in other work, he
asked to be removed, aud in 1839, lie was
sent to Marion circuit. He had previous
ly been ordained deacon and elder. His
firet ordination was at Charleston, South
Carolina, February 19th, 1834. by Bishop
Emery ; and the latter at the same place,
February 14th, 1836, by Bishop Andrew.
In 1840 and 1841, he traveled the Black
Swamp circuit; iu 1842, the Cokesbury
circuit; the next four years he was on the
Charleston District. In 1847 and 1848, he
traveled the Orangeburg circuit; iu 1849
the Barnwell circuit; in 1850 and 1851,
the Union circuit; in 1852 and 1853, the
Cokesbury circuit; in 1854, tbe Laurens
circuit ; the succeeding four years he Was
? residing elder of the Cokesbury District.
n 1859, he was stationed at Camden ; in
1860, at Georgetown ; and the next four
years he was presiding elder of theColum
bia District. In 1865 and 1866, he was sta
tioned at Marion, South Carolina. The
Conference met at this place that year,
and Doctor Boyd was appointed presiding
elder of tbe Marion District. In tbe dis
charge of the duties of his office ou this
District, he finished his long life of use
fulness as a minister, oeaaing at once to
work and live.
PUBLISHED BY J. W. BURKE & CO., FOR THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH.
Macoli, Ga., Friday, October 15, 1869.
During the spriugof this year —1869
his friends saw with painful anxiety that
his strength was giving way. He persist
ed in his work, entering upon his third
round of Quarterly Conferences, and meet
ing his appointments when able to do no
more than ride in his buggy, and preach
with great difficulty on Sunday. At last
he could go no more, and after suffering
for a few weeks, in great agony, the
wheels of life stood still, "the plteher was
broken at the fountain;” and he passed
away in a moment to his reward. He
died at the District Parsonage in Marion,
on the 3d September, 1869, nearly 64 years
old.
His whole system gave way at once. A
complication of diseases prostrated body
and mind. Yet be was interested to tbe
last in the great work to which he bad
given his life. Some time his mind wan
dered and his speech was incoherent, but
he would gather himself again ; and con
verse freely upon all that pertained to his
work and the interest of his family. On
the 3d Sept., indeed, for a few days previ
ous to his death he suffered very greatly.
About half-past 10 o’clock at night, he
had risen from his bed and stood with the
arm of his wife around him, when he
sank to the floor, and in a moment life
was extinct.
On Sabbath, the usual sacramental Sun
day in the Methodist Church at Marion,
an immense throng, white and colored,
attended his funeral services. The other
Churches of the place were closed out of
respect to the one whom all loved ; and
the sad faces about his grave told how
much he was valued. His funeral servi
ces were as nearly in accordance witli his
own views of this solemn occasion as cir
cumstances would permit. The Impres
sive service of our ritual, a song of tri
umpn over the fallen hero, a few words
expressive of our loss, and we committed
him “dust to dust, ashes to ashes,” till the
resurrection wake him to immortality.
“ Servant of God well-done!
Best from thy loved employ:
The battle fought—the victory won,
Enter thy mother's Joy!”
Through his long ministerial life, Doctor
Boyd held every position of honor and
trust in the gift of bis brethren. In all,
he bore himself with that dignity and
simplici.y which most adorn the Chris
tian character. Whether as a missionary
to the uegoes, or pastor, or presiding elder,
or delegate to the Geueral Conference, he
always met the responsibilities of the oc
casion calmly aud courageously, aud al
ways proved himself equal to his work.
His humility ebone all the more bright
ly from his elevated positiou among bis
brethren. He did not seem to know the
weight of his influence, and tbe great
force of his well- poised intellect. He was,
in this grace of the Christian character, a
li tie child. He could not bear the sem
blance of flattery, or any act that seemed
to press the claims of the mau instead of
the minister. Iu his own manner, the
man was lost in the work, the embassa
dor forgotten iu tbe contemplation of the
claims of the PriDCe, his Master.
Hi* dislike for the appearance of flatte
ry, did not reuder him insensible to the
tokeus of affectionate regard manifested
toward him by his people and his breth
ren in the ministry. He loved, as all
rightly balanced minds iove, the approval
of the good and the wise among his breth
ren. He valued the affection of his peo
ple. He was warm in his own feeliugs,
streug in his attachments, and those who
depended upon him for counsel aud help
found him a valued friend, steady and
true as the needle to the pole.
In zeal he was worthy of emulation.
The love of Christ constrained him He
was fervent iu spirit. This fervor found
expression in a readiness to work for his
Master ut all limes, in the enduring of
seif denial aud exposure to hardship, and
even danger to meet his appoiutmeuts:
aod, more cleurly to the musses, in ear
nest. pressing exhortations from the pul
pit, and prayers that did indeed ascend
as incense before God. Who did not love
to hear Doctor Boyd in pruyei-meetings?
The fire of iove, the holy zeal of tbe pro
phet of God, shoue out so brightly, where
two or three were assembled iu Christ’s
name!
Perhaps the most clearly marked fea
in the character of this servant of God,
was his lofty trust iu God. Through
clouds and sunshine, in prosperity or
adversity, though he might uot be able to
see how such a result could follow, he
never doubted that it would he well. "Ail
things work together for good to those
that love God,” was more than au an
nouncement of God’s word ; to him it was
the expression of a sentiment inwrought
with every feeling of his soul. He would
trust God, though He should slay him.
With this confidence in his own heart, it
is not a strange thing that he inspired
confidence iu others. During the darkest
periods of our history as a people, when
the Doctor was pastor of Marion etatiou,
the people came to church to be lifted out
of their gloom aud dispondency, by his
cheering words and hopeful DCariug. This
faith iu God never failed him, while rea
son remained undisturbed. As his body
sank under the throes of pain which he
suffered, he sometimes grew dispondent—
never as to his own spiritual state —but he
would Bhake off his fears as ease and rest
allowed the mind to regain its composure,
and stilt trust iu God.
Second only to this trait was his adher
ence to priueiple. Daniel was his type of
Christian manhood, as far as the trait of
character was concerned. He could make
no compromise of duty for any gaiu, or
for any fear of danger. Daniel, praying
three times a day with his window open
towards Jerusalem, though watched by
his enemies, and notwithstanding the
King’s desire to the contrary, was an ex
hibition of moral oourage which delight
ed his heart, and illustrated his own stea
dy adherence to the right, as he receiv
ed it.
The duties of the pastorate and the pul
pit were alike recognized, and each found
a place in his work. Faithful as a pastor,
he was studious as a preacher, and car
ried “beaten oil” into the santuary. The
result of his activity in reading and study
was seen in hi 9 enlarged views of church
and polity, and his conservative course in
all that pertaiued to the work of the
Church in our couutry.
A great man has fallen. Thus all our
fathers are passing away. Let the church
be awakened to prayer by the death of
her ministers, aud restie with God for an
increase of laborers, to take the places of
the fallen. God grant that the mautle of
the fallen prophet may rest ou some Eli
sha, who shall lake his place in tbe min
isterial host. G. H. YY’ells.
Marion, iS. C., Sept. 2 4th, 1869.
Conscience.—Brethren, you all possess
that mysterious uower called conscience,
and iis testimony is always ou the side of
truth aud righteousness. In tbe great
conflict with sin aud unbelief, conscience
is ever on the Lord’s side, notwithstand
ing the vain attempts that are made to si
lence it. Hence we meet with the troub
led conscience, and tbe accusing con
science, and the guilty conscience; tbe
conscience which cau render the most gay
aud attractive scenes miserable aud un
bearable, and the conscience which dis„
turbs the bed of down, aod adds so many
terrors to the approach of death. Thus
conscience ia that spirit in man which is
as the candle of the Lord and which
searcheth “the thoughts and intents of
the heart.” Beware, then, of trifling with
conscience. Listeu to its still small voice ;
obey its dictates. It wili give you its
cheering approval as you bumble your
selves for ail your sins, aud seek that re
pentance that needetb not to be repented
of. It will speak peace to you, as you be
lieve in the Lord Jesus Christ, and lake
up your cross to follow him. It will ever
smile upou you as you seek to walk in the
paths of righteousness, and to keep the
commandments and ordinances of God
blameless.— Nivens.
Not to be "Let Alone.”—Ruskin
correctly observes that “tbe notion of dis
cipline and interference lies at the root of
all human progress and power ; that the
Met alone’ principle is, in all things that
man has to do with, the principle of death;
it is ruin, certain and total, if he lets his
land alone—if he lets his own soul aloDe.
His whole life, on the contrary, must, if
it is a healthy life, be continually one of
plowing aud pruning; and therefore it is
only iu the concession of Borne principle
of restraint and interference in national
action that we can hope to find tbe secret
of protection against national degrada
ion.”
- Ipadrme anil ©fptrinitt.
They also whicli Pierced Him.”
BT AXXIK B. C. KKRNK.
Not I, lily Lord, not I!
How could I pierce, with cruel dart
Os angry thought, of ha-d and haughty ory
Os pride, that broken heart?
Bay not ’twas I.
.Sow could I these poor eyes
l kat thorn-crowned brow.
It, with most keen and sp.d surprise,
A look should say, “ ’Twas thou?”
Could I arise
From pang like that, and straight
.{teach out, tear-blind with shame, and cling
To that dear, wounded Hand, and wait
The healing it can bring.
To hear, “ Too late,”
Fall sadly down to mo,
From Upnoncesmitten dumb with pain ?
“To > late! Earth's sorrowing ones to thee,
How long, have called In vain.
And wearily.
“ With hart unhealed, their feet
Stlli tread the toilsome way, wherein
• No cooling brook, nor blossom sweet,
"MSor summer's bird Is seen.
The heart to greet.
win thy thought to those
hose gardens no glad flowers bear,
t gently broke one clinging rose
From thine, so lull, so mir.
But one white rose!
“ Thy bosom filled with woe!
No room tor any sorer heart
To lean and hide Its tears, ah, no!
Thou, sullen, sat’st apart.
And wonld’st not know
“ The voice that tenderly
Breathed ever at. thy side, ’Tie I,
Sweet soul! Do bat rise up to see!
’l'ls thy Iterd’s hand doth lie,
In love, on thee !
, “ Then did’st Ihou pierce me. Then
8111 l closer press the cruel crown
Upon my brow, and wound again
She hand thou dashedst down
In thy wild pain.”
S ’Twas I. my Lord ; too late
I weep! But when I trembling come,
Y And timid, touch the sblnlng gate,
And one sweet Presence—one—
Kneeling, I wait;
There let these eyes on Thine
Bat rest, while tears wash white aud fre9
Hrorn every hurt and crimson line,
The hand that saveth me!
Aly Jesus. mine!
From the Baltimore Episcopal Alelhodist.
The Sufficiency cf Christ’s Grace
■Oi BY BISBOP WIGHTMAN.
"My grace is sufficient for thee ; for my
strength is made perfect in weakness ”
These are the words of the ascended and
glorified Jesus : words spokeu to his faith
ful servaut, St Paul, on an occasion mem
orable in the history of that eminent
man. They are an answer to solemn and
repeated prayer made by the Apostle to
his Master; and while they are the war
rant for our prayers, they show at the
same time the unbroken uuity aud identi
ty of Christ’s personality.
To St. Paul there had been vouchsafed,
years before, a very remarkable vision and
revelation ; a divine communication ad
dressed to the perception, and also to the
inuer spirit. Tbe scene of this manifes
tation was Paradise, the third heavens,
the abode of the God man. Here he
beard “unspeakable words which it is not
lawful for man to utter.” They were in
leuded to instruct and encourage tlie Apos
tle alone. It is useless to conjecture of
what kind they were. Lei us only mark
the profound truth, that a spirit out of the
body may see and hear, preserve its con
sciousness, hold its faculties in full play,
receive impressions, and have institutious
bright as tbe light of heaven, aud far be
yond the capacities of a spirit in the body.
The extraordinary power of such high
revelations, put upon this great Apostle,
his humility. And now,
lest he should be led to think too highly
of thimself, and iu order to prevent undue
self exaltation, there was given him "a
thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan
to buffet him.” What was the precise
nature of this mysterious and humiliating
infirmity, is left very much to conjecture.
It has been supposed that the expression
refers to spiritual solicitations of Satan,
blasphemous thought, and the like.—
Many of the aucieDt commentators inter
pret it as opposition from his adversaries,
or someone of them in particular. Oth
ers think that some grievous bodily pain
is meant —headache, nervous disorder,
weakness of tbe eyes, and thellke. What
ever may have been the character of this
thorn in the flesh—this keen, penetrating
cause of suffering—it was a form of suffer
ing which brought home to him bis in
firmity ; imposed a salutary burdeu upou
his spirit; was well fitted to hide pride
from mau ; aud to prevent the Apostle’s
undue self-exaltatiau, his glorying on ac
count of the celesti&l manifestations vouch
safed him.
This painful and humiliating suffering.
St. Paul found it hard to bear. Schooled
as he had been, in extraordinary tribula
tions, distresses, cures; acquainted well
with perils, strifes, prisons; with weari
ness, painfulness, watchings; accustomed
to hunger aud thirst, cold and nakedness ;
here was a pressure under which even his
heroic spirit quailed. “I besought the
Lord thrice that it might depart from
me.” He carries his ease to "the Shep
herd and Bishop of souls;” to Him who
had gone through the agony of Gethse
mane aud the hitter death of the cross.
He besought the Lord. How much of en
treaty aud earnestness does the word sug
gest! "Thrice." Hi.d not his first prayer
been heard? And if so, whence the ne
cessity of repeated prayer? Let us mark
this case, and ponder the important lesson
it teaches. “God’s ways are not as our
ways; neither are his thoughts as our
thoughts.” Why, indeed, has he ordained
prayer at all? If it be, as doubtless it is,
a salutary exercise of our faith and sub
mission, so ought it to be an exerciseof our
patience. In the way of earnest suppli
cation, but still patiently “waiting for the
Lord,” we must pray aud nut faint.
An answer is at length given to his im
portunate, persevering prayers. Paul,
who had takeu lessons in the third heav
ens, had a lesson to learn on earth, in res
pect to that wisdom aud humble patience
which finds it better to have suffering
sanctified to us than to have it re
moved. This answer of the Lord is, as
Beugel expresses it, "benignia aima repul
aa, 1 ’ a most tender repulse, of the urgent
solicitation that the salutary rod ot dis
cipline should be removed. He had asked
for one thing ; the answer is quite another
thing. Not that which his faithful, suf
fering servant so earnestly desired, did
the Lord grant, but that which was ade
quale to the occasion, and which was best
for the sufferer. In tbeauswer given him
by Christ, not a word is said about the
thorn in the flesh. Far better than the
removal of the thorn was the grace to bear
it.
“My grace is sufficient for thee; for my
streugth is made perfect in weakness.”
"My Grace;”—this is the tone and style
of Him to whom all power in heaven and
earth is given ; who holds the keys of
death and of hell. In these word3 of
Christ are blended power unlimited, love
without soundings or shore. There is a
fullness inexhaustible in tbeir meaning
It is as though the Lord had said—“. E
nough for thee that thou hast my favor,
loving-kiudness, compassiou : thou art in
my keeping; my care shall protect aud
sustain thee; on my supporting atm thou
shalt lean ; and mighty is that right arm
which shall bear thee safe through life
and through death For my strength is
made perfect in weakness.” This graoe
of L'hrist comes into objective mani esta
tion, and in form of influence, operates
energetically in thespbereof man’s weak
ness. Emphatically in the weakness
which becomes manifest in the Lee of
sore trial and sharp suffering. Nay, it is
made perfect, in weakness. In Christ
this streugth is absolutely perfect; but as
imparted to man to meet his necessities,
it is made perfect, brought to its consum
mation, aud shows its complete energy,
as equal and more than equal, to the em
ergency of the weakness. The more sig
nally does this victorious power exhibit its
perfection, in proportion to man’s extremi
ty. Where our lack of strength is most
manifest, there the suitableness, adequacy,
and majesty of “the power that worketh
in us,” become most couspicuous. “As
Christ himself,” says Stier, “reached the
It is finished in the strength of God,
through uttermost weakness upon the
cross—and remembers this now speaking
from heaven —so through the continual
energy of his strength in bis servants a
victorious perfection is wrought out, in I
the same way of suffering and subjection
in weakness. And if it be Satan, or his
angel, who causes the weakness aud trib
ulation, Christ’s power is victorious over
him iu all who receive Christ’s grace, and
retain it in faith ; that is, who count that
grace sufficient, trust in it absolutely aud
humbly, aud wait confidently for its full
demonstration of its power.”
The result in the Apostle’s case, of Buf
fering not removed but sanctified—of
infirmity testing the sufficiency of Christ’s
grace—of uttermost weakness triumphing
In the very perfection of strength, furnish
es a grand lesson to us. This result was
cot merely patience which hears without
a murmur the burdens laid upon tbespirit;
not merely submission to God’s good will,
though the conquest of self is one of the
noblest of victories ; it reached to joy aud
glorying in bis infirmities, that the power
of mind which exulted in all forms of
tribulation, iu all extremes of weakness
which only made more manifest in him
the sufficiency of Christ’s grace, the per
fection of Christ’s power to sustain, to
cheer, to bring good out of evil; to train
in the path of abnegation aud uuder the
burdens of sorrow, the spirit of the Cbiis
tian for its ultimate destiny in immortali
ty. Aud iu all this he is for us a pattern.
Iu his election as an Apostle ; iu his
special endowments for his office; in
supernatural gifts and manifestations, this
eminent servaut of Christ stands apart.
But iu his infirmities, sufferings, despon
dency, lie is our fellow. Here are claims
kindred with him. Have we trials? Bo
had he. And if a diviue grace and strength
were offered him, then why should we
despair? All! to have the power of
Ctirist to rest upou us ; to have his light
pierce and irritate our deepest darkness;
to have the blessed experience which the
grace-sustained endurance of sore trial
aloue furnishes—the dross consumed, the
gold refined; to kuow that God is true
aod faithful, and his promises to be relied
ou in all outward conditions; to have the
refreshment of bis love sited abroad in
our hearts by the Holy Ghost, a solace
wide as auxiety, deeper than the sorrows
of life, outflying the pinions of fear, sup
plying the emptinessof want, daring with
the victorious majesty of Christ’s strength
the very darts of death ; this is to have
the Apostle’s grace ; far better, shall we
say, than the Apostle’s gifts.
Such is affliction sanctified. Without
Christ, "the sorrow of the world worketh
death.” To consider ourselves rich and
increased in goods and in need of noth
ing, when, iu reality, we Mre all emptiness
within ; and then to iiave the sorrow of
the world turned loose upou us! Toim
agiue fondly that we are firmly rooted,
and to find our mistake when the beat
and storm come suddenly ! There is the
man of the world. Irreligion is no shield
ugaiust mislortuue. A dark day comes
upon him. Borne crushing disappoint
ment iu love, iu business, in ambition,
sweepsover him. The world liesaghastly
ruin at bis feet. What now, are his re
sources when the paroxysms of agony
shake his pious spirit aud crumble his
heart into ashes? Alas! what is getting
to be more common in such cases, than
suicide. Remorse and shame put an end
to his humiliation, iu self murder. Be
cause mau’s moral and spiritual capabili
ties are boundless, thecrushiugof earthly
idols, tbe disappointment of bis hopes, is
to him so tragic. With no grace and
strength iu Christ, tbe Divine mau, as his
resource, his woe is sublimely, terribly
insatiable inconsolable ; and life becomes
a dark, wild, sobbing tragedy—a ruin how
magnificently terrible!
From tbe Richmond Christian Advocate.
Take Heed to tbe Flock.
The revivals that have blessed our
churches durlngtbls year will briugheavy
responsibilities upon our ministers and
older mem tiers. Hundreds ot young per
sons of both sexes have been brought in
the fold, who will need the most careful
training to make them valuable members.
Tbe revival meeting, with its dally ex
citements, will soon pass away, ami the
young converts be left to their own reflec
tions aud the assaults of Satan. This is
the period in whicli they will need the
special attention of more experienced
Christians. The young believer is ex
posed to many, aud to him in his timidi
ty and inexperience, very severe trials.
He may resist them, and fight his way
througU doubts aud fears aud fiery temp
tations to a strong aud victorious faith,
but tiie chances are against him unless he
has the best help from the church of which
he is a member.
Other denominations may be able to
train up very good and useful Christians
by their peculiar methods, but In our
Church we can only succeed in making
earnest and useful members by employing
tiie means peculiar to our economy.
Among the foremost of these we name
the class meeting. The value of this so
cial meeting to Methodism cud not he
overestimated. In earlier times it was
the training school for class leaders, ex
holders and preachers. Os tbe older
preachers among us we may say, almost
without ail exception, that their first step
toward the ministry was taken in the class
room.
It is a significant fact, to which we
would call the attention of our more
thoughtful members, that in the days
wheuallouryoung members were brought
into the class-room as soon as they joined
the Church, the candidates for the minis
try were five, nay, ten fold more than we
now have at our Annual Conferences.
The reasou for this Is at hand. The young
men were brought under tiie eye of an
experienced leader, who very soon dis
covered what peculiar talents they pos
sessed for the work of the Church. By
him they were tenderly led out to exercise
themselves iu the class room and In prayer
meeting, and very soon they begau to feel
the movings of the Holy Spirit toward
the work of the ministry, or the leader
ship, or the work of exhorting, or the
Sunday school work, or toward whatever
department they seemed hest adapted to
serve in.
The young convert looked forward with
deep interest to the day or night of his
class meeting. It was to him a spiritual
least. To the cheering words of the elder
brethren he listened eagerly ; and though
he might have come in with a heavy heart,
oppressed with doubts and fears, he usual
ly went out with a relieved and joyous
spirit.
Methodism never had, and never caD
have, a better sobool for traiuiug lier
members than theclass meeting. Besides
contributing to give a yearly supply of
mioisters to fill up our wasted ranks, it
keeps ui> the standard of piety in the
Church." After all that has been so flip
pantly said against class meetings, no
spiritually minded person will deny that
such meetiugs have been of very great
benefit to himself. Everything iu a well
conducted class meeting tends to develop
and strengthen faith and love. The sing
ing; the prayers, short and hearty; tiie
inward searchings; the comparing expe
riences; the earnest, pointed, affeetiouate
and well adapted advice of a pious leader
-all contribute to make these little social
gatherings a feast of fat things to the
believing soul.
And not only to the believer. It wa«
the custom to take the penitents to the
class meeting, and often, amid the rejoic
ings of tiie brethren and sisters, the bur
dened seeker found rest ami peace.. To all
•mch there was ever afterward no place
like the class room. It was a place where
tiie Lord commanded his blessing, and
where the soul rejoiced with joy unspeak
able and full of glory.
There was great power in those happy
days in a well conducted class meeting,
and there will be power iu them again if
our people will go to work in good earnest
to restore them.
Since class meetings fell into general
disuse, we have been able to find nothing
to supply tbeir place. We want them
restored with all their love and fervor aud
fire. A well attended, lively class meeting
held once a week is a centre of po*-er in a
Church; and the more of them we estab
lish the more life and power we shall
have.
The general complaint is that a great
many of our converts soon fall away ; the
reason is that we neglect to watch over
and train them. There is perhaps no
young men’s prayer meeting for them to
go to ; there is no class to assign them to ;
there is no special oversight of these ten
der iambs by the shepherd or his assis
tants. The preacher goes off for weeks
together, and there is no goodly leader to
meet and enoourage the converts in hie
absenco. We have many other means of
training our young members, and they
are ail good, but we call special attention
to tbe class meeting, because we believe
that many in tbe Church are convinced
that we have lost ground spiritually by
allowing it to fall iuto decay; and being
so convinced, we tru9t that they are wil
ling and indeed auxious to return to tbe
old paths of Methodism. We differ with
some highly respected brethren ou this
subject. We believe class meetings cau
be restored vety generally In all our
churches. If the preachers will take hold
of the matter in earnest, aud by preaching
and talking on tile subject create an inter
est in these meetings among tbe members,
a great aud happy change will be the
result. There are many excellent and
wholehearted Methodists who will gladly
join their ministers in an effort to restore
class meetings. We are not writing at
random; we know whereof we affirm,
for we have been among the churches,
and we know that our people are waking
up on this subject. The tendency to for
malism, which is very great, must he ar
rested ; and they see that what arrested it
iu the days of Wesley will he equally
powerful to arrest it now. More inward
spiritual power we must have. It is an
absolute necessity. The Church cannot
meet the demands of this age without it.
How shall we secure it ? By living nearer
to God, by more frequent and more earn
est praying, by greater selfdenial for
Christ’s sake, by watching over each oth
er in iove, by more direct and heart search
preaching, by punctual attendance on all
tiie means of grace by whicli our hearts
may he brought iu immediate con tact with
tbe truth.
Let us discard nothing from Methodism
that lias spiritual poweriu it. Thesystem
may be modified to adapt it to the alter
ed couditions of society, but we should
never consent to lose from it any feature
that bears the stamp of divine approval.
This stamp Iras been upon the class meet
ing in all the history of Methodism.
Borne say to hold to the class system
makes us peculiar and exclusive. We
reply, God’s people must be a peculiar
people; they are so called by himself.
They must also be exclusive in the sense
of keeping the world out of their hearts
while they keep themselves iu the world.
The social privileges of the class meeting
are designed exclusively for believers and
for penitents who desire to be saved—not
for tbe members of other churches—not
for tiie thoughtless and worldly.
We cannot but hope that oui ministers
will give their attention to this matter.
It is surely worthy of notice. Let us
make the class room a place for Christian
reunion in tiie sense of the prophet when
he said, they that feared the Lord spake
from one to another. Bpake to each other
about what? Why, about his gracious
dealings with theirsouls ; about theirowu
trials and hopes and fears iu His service,
and the blessed fruits of a holy life and
the assurance of eternal life. Surely such
a place should be attractive to the child of
God. He is there among his father’s
children, and they are talking as members
of the same family.
Brethren, are class meetings almost or
quite dead among you ? Try and revive
them. It can lie done with a little patience
and selfdeuial. Talk with some of the
older members, male a.d female, on the
subject; make an appointment for a class
meeting, aud pray fora blessing on your
effort. Then come together in the spirit
of faith and love; let the hymn be suita
ble, the prayers brief out fervent, a id
the speaking earnestand to the point, and
you may rest assured that when you go
out of the room you will bless God for
having attended. Our members do really
need such a season of letirement from the
busy and harrassing work of life. They
may here wait upou the Lord aud renew
their strength,
Tiie attendance may be small at first,
but tbe numbers will grow. Make tbe
members feel that in slaying away they
are really suffering loss. Aud it wiil uot
do to be discouraged in the work. Keep
a good heart; eo to tiie place at the time ap
pointed and begin ; if there are but twoor
three, you have enough to claim tiie bless
ing. Boon you will see an increase in the
attendance, aud the privilege of the class
meeting will beappreciated in the church.
Who wiil join in the work of restoring
to tiie Methodist Church the blessed class
meeting? From many we may trust the
response will be, "I will.”
From the New Orleans Christian Advocate.
Supply and Demand.
Not of cotton, hut of preachers. Our
standpoint may not he the best to judge
of the relation there is between the pul
pits of the Boutli aud the men there are
on hand to fill them. But it is evident
that the war has driven a considerable
number of valuable ministers from the
itineranoy to various local employments,
who liave uot reappeared since the peace.
They are still struggling with the debts
and financial complications whicli that
event superinduced. Tiie same trouble
which drove men out of the pulpit kept
young men from entering it; so that the
usual supply was cut off during tiie years
of actual war aud those which immedia
tely succeeded. Tiie poverty of the peo
ple was or seemed to be so deep as to put
the maintenance of churches out of the
question. The result of all which is that
now, when our crops promise an abun
dant support for this vital iuterest, there
is a scarcity of men fitted for the work of
preaching.
We may at least speak for Louisiana.
A great change has come over her so far
as ability to support preachers Is cou
cerned. Circuits which last year would
or could do nothing in the way of sup
port, are this year asking earnestly for a
preacher. We know of some single ap
pointments on such works which now of
fer to maintain a man. Our Bishops
would do well to note this. We want
several transfers for both the sugar and
the cotton regions of this Conference. We
hear of no young men whoare coming up.
They have beeu driven to the farm and
tbe counting room, until thezeal for God’s
work has been chilled in them.
A dearth of preachers is a calamity as
great as auy we have yet suffered. Every
support which cau resist those influences
which are viciously at work breaking
down society is now doubly important,
and should tie strengthened. We used to
think tiie judiciary oue of the great bul
warks of the country; nut it is so no
longer, If we may oredit the testimony ot
those who seek justice at the courts.
With the disregard of the Constitution
there seems to he a general giving way
among all classes of public men. If we
would flud honest men we mustsearoh
for them among those who ask for no of
flee or favor from ihe government or the
State. Wherever the “salt” of this peo
ple is, it is surely not in office. In this
state of affairs we canuot spare one
church, oue Sabbath-scuooi or one minis
ter —no person who either reads or teach
es or obeys the Ten Commandments. Our
own btdief is, that as a class no uien have
done more to uphold the laws of bouesty,
of purity, aud of obedience to God and
man, tiiau the itinerant Methodist miuis
try. They have been present at the lay
ing of the foundations of society all
through the South and West, aud they
have ever placed the Bible at the bottom
of the structure. They are still the un
flinching advocates of the truth as it is in
Jesuit. No class of men have been freer
from extravagances of theory or action,
or truer as patriots to tiie fortunes of the
people among whom they were bred aud
boru. No class of men havedone so much
work at so slight a cost as they. After a
century of labor they show no fortunes
amassed or incorporations that threaten
the welfare of the community by the
weight and power of their accumulations.
Without vows of poverty, they encoun
ter the world literally as their Master did
oefoie them, seeking not the goods but
the souls of men.
Every oue who wishes well to hl9 coun
try cannol, therefore, look with indiffer
ence upon any falling off in the supply ni
these godly servants of Christ. Much
more do we, who believe that by them, to
a very great degree, is tiie kingdom ot
Christ to be advanced, look most earnest
ly in the direction of the revival meetings
now progressing for a fresh supply oi
young men who snail be called to tile
work of the ministry. It should be a
specific object kept in view by all who
partake of thoae glorious outpourings ot
the Spirit to pray that the Lord would
send forth more laborera into His vine
yard.
E. H. MYERS, D. D., EDITOR
Whole dumber 1773
Missouri Conference Appointin nts.
St Chahi.ks Dist —Andrew Monroe,
P E; Bt Charles and Point Grove Station,
W M Leftwich, P M Pinckard, supernu
merary; Cottlevillect, RG Loving; Wenlz
ville ct, C Doggett; Wright City ct P L>
Vandeventer; Jonesburg ct, J S Alien;
New Florence ct, J Button; Ashley ct,
George Smith; Louisiana and Prairieviile
st, W A Tarwater;C'iarksville and I'aynes
villest, T BKing; Auburn ct, A Spencer;
Montgomery City ct, H H Craig; Port
land ct, G Penn.
Fayette District— W A Mayhew, P
E; Fayette ct, B F Johnson, II P Bond;
Glasgow st, T J Gooch; Howard ct, J W
Pinckard; Roacheportct, DH Root; Stur
geon ct, G W Rich; Columbia st, M B
Chapman; Centralia ct, W M Button, T
DeMoss, supernumerary; Mexico Station,
H A Bourland; Fulton ct, W W Jones, A
Albright, supernumerary; New Bloom
field ct, B L Woody; Ashland ct, W Bar
tor; F X Forster, Principal of Classical
Seminary, Fayette; C W Pritchett, Prin
cipal of Pritchett Institute, Glasgow.
Hannibal Dist—B H Speueer, PE;
Hannibal st, W G Miller; Hydesburg ct,
R W T Holliday; Palmyra st, J W Cun
ningham; Lagrange ct, E Carlisle; Monti
cello ct, A P Linn; Alexandria ct, Thomp
son Penn, J Penn, supernumerary; Wil
liamstowu ct, G Tanquary; New Ark ct,
GW Hilias; Shelby ville ct, W W McMur
ry; Sharpsburg ct, W F Bell; Florida ct,
H W James; Santa Fe mis, C W Collett;
Marshall Mcllheny, Principal Palmyra
Seminary; J W Atkisson, Principal Shel
by High School.
Macon Dist —W Toole, P E; Macon
City st, J I) Vincil; BlootniugUm ct, W
M Wood; Bucklin mis, M Richardson;
La Plata mis, D C Blackwell; Memphis
ct, W P Caples; Edina mis, E Buck; Clar
ence Mission, L Rush; Paris mis, W War
ren; Middle Grove mis, J It Taylor;
Huntsville mis, J P Nolan.
Chillicothe Dist— W Penn, P E;
Chillicothe st, W M Newland; Chilli
cothe ct, A Keirgan; R H Jordau, super*
uumerary; Millville ct, J W Jordan;
Richmond st, D C O’Howell; Miles’ Point
ct, D Penny; Carrollton ct, R A Austin;
Brunswick ct, Tyson Dines; Keytesville
ct, L Alexander H Brown, supernumera
ry; Linneus ct, W Perkins; Milan ct, K B
Harden; Liueville ct, W F Thrasher;
Spring Hill ct, J Y Blakey; S J Huft'aker,
President of Richmond College.
Plattsburg Dist—B W Cope, PE;
Plattsburg ct, D R Shackleford; Liberty
ct, J Bird, G H Newton, supernumerary;
Camden ct, D F Boue; Hay ties ville ct, W
P Wilsou; Lathrop e;is, J Metcalf; Breck
enridge ct, W L Blackwell; Gallaiio st, C
Babcock; Pattonsburg ct, KH G Keerau;
Albany ct, J A Heider; Cameron, mis, J
B Jewell; Stewnrtsville, mis, C \V Band
ford.
Bt. Joseph District—W E Dockery,
P E; St. Joseph Slation, C I Vanderveu
ter; Rusbvillect, J M Stokes; New Mar
ket ct, J C C Davis, T Hurst, supernume
rary; Platte City ct. J Devlin; Wes
ton 8 ation, J H Pritchett; Leaven
worth Miss., Eugene It Hendrix; Leaven
worth ct, Joseph King; Wyandotte Miss.,
W Barnett; Wyandotte ct, Thus (’. D iwiis;
Agent for Central College, W M Rush; YV
H Lewis, President Weslon College.
Savannah District— J F Shores, P
E; Savanuah ct, J A Mumpowder; Mary
ville ct, H A DaVis; Forest Cily ct, 8 \V
Atterbury; Ruck port ct, J B Ranker; Ne
braska City Station, J 8 Smith; Rock
Bluff Miss., A V Bailey; Atchison Sra
tiou, H W Curran; Holton Miss., J Mo-
Eweu; Irviug Miss., G Warren and E J
Stanley; Okaloosa ct, VV A Hanna
Montana District— L B Btatler, PE;
Helena, Virginia City, Gallaiin Vultey,
Gallatin City, Diamond City, Deer Lindge,
Willow Creek, all to be supplied; Henry
Frazee, transferred to Memphis Confer
ence.
D M Procter, transferred to Trinity
Conference.
Adouijali Williams, transferred to Bt.
Louis Confereuce and appointed |(o I‘aola
Circuit.
Geo. Bright, transferred to St. Louis
Conference aud appointed to Indepen
dence Circuit.
Mis-ouri (Colored) District, to be sup
plied by Moses White, as P. E.
From the Richmond Christian Advocate.
Western Virginia Conference.
The Western Virginia Conference con
vened in Point Pleasant, on the 15tli of
September, and closed the 22d, after a loi g
and laborious session Tiie Confereuce
was well represented by the clerical and
lay members. Much business was transac
ted ; some of which was perplexing in its
character. The session, however, was re
garded harmonious from the beginning
to tiie final close—abating occasional little
breezes, such as are common in delibera
tive b dies. By reason of personal afflic
tions Bishop Kavanaugh failed to ulleud.
Rev. S. K. Vaught was duly elected
Chairman, accordiug to the disciplinary
provisions in such cases, who presided,
we believe, to the general satisfaction of
the body.
Rev. 6. K. Vaught and S. T. Mallory
were elected delegatesio the next Getter i
Conference, aud Rev. 8. H. Mullan, ve>
serve. Brother Ireland and Dr.
McCullough, lay delegates ; aud Dr. J. L.
Carr, reserve.
Tiie next Annual session is to convene
in Catlettshurg, Ky. The preachers were
stationed according to the following list
of
APPOINTMENTS.
Manninqton Dist— W Kennedy, PE;
Marion, T M Williams; Monongalia, J D
Holstead; Greene, W P Chambers; Mid
dlebourue and New Martinsville, E Ken
dall; Phillippi and Buchannou, J H
Burns; Bt. George, J W Lambert; Bever
ly, R L R Upton.
Clarksburg Dist— B HMu Han, PE;
Clarksburg, T 8 Wade; Weston and Mil
ford, J A Crowder; Jacksonville, J K
Hedges; Braxton, J 8 Pullin; Webster, J
Philips; Glennville, J S Jenkins; Cal
houn, G W Young; Birch Mission, A U
Ellison, a supply.
Parkersburg Dist— B K Vaught, P
E; Parkersburg, F B Carroll; Little Kana
wha, J E Williamson; R&veuswood, J M
Lauck; Hpencer, W Douutain; Ripley,
W 8 May; Point Pleasant, 8 T Mallory.
Charleston Dist—W Briscoe. P E;
Charleston Circuit, W G Miller; 8 ssou
viile, W C Lead); Brownstown and Ce
dar Grove; J T Johnson, Newport and Lo
gan, G W Garrettson, a supply; Fayetie
ville and Raleigh, R C Wiseman; Fayetie
Circuit, 8 Black; Coal’s Meoth, W F
Claugbton, R Bias, supernumerary.
Guydandottb Dist— U Fox, P E; Guy
danvotte and Barboursville J U Crooks;
Wayne, 8 F Burgess, B Spurlock, su|>er
numerary; Paintsvill, J Maitin; Louisa,
W Hhearer; Catlettsburg and Ashland, J
G Conner; Big Sandy, H Moore; Greeu
upsburg aud Liberty, N 8 Williams;
Grayson, C F Crooks.
Border Dist— J C Tinsley, P E; Mor
gan aud Caves of Carter, H Crawford, a
supply; Kinney miss, N T Burchett, a
supply; Bufflcgton and Quincy, J Farmer,
a supply; Lick Run, 8 P Cummins, su
uumerary.
A New Trick. —Adexterous confidence
man has been at work in this city and lias
victimized several of the Principals of our
schools. His role of roguery is as follows :
He proposes to place a brother or sister at
school and wishes to pay in advance He
offers to pay with drafts of other parties
or banks which are for an amount larger
than the tuition fee. The amount in
change Is his profit in the transaoiion.
We need not say, of course, that the drafts
are forgeries or otherwise spurious. He
pos’s himself thoroughly concerning the
acquaintanceship aud other peculiar his
tory of the intended victim, ami is oitier
wise furnished for a successful imposition.
He is described to us as about thirty five
years of age, small stature, thin visage,
dark complexion, sprightly oountenauce,
iron gray hair, and withal a fluent tongue.
Pass him around, and if you can, pick
him up.— St. Louis Advocate.
Live in the Sight of God —This is
what heaven will be—the eternal pres
ence of God. Do nothing you will not
like God to see. Bay nothing you would
□ot like him to hear. Write nothiug you
would not like him to read. Go to no
place where you would Dot like God to
find you. Bead no books of which you
would not like God to say, “Bhow it me.”
Never spend your time In such a way you
would not like God to say, “What art
thou doing?”
Satan, as a Master is bad; his work
i muoh worse; his wages worst of all.