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Southern Christian
MACON. GEORGIA. AUGUST 1. 1876.
ABSENCE.
The Editor, after seeing this issue of the
paper safely t > press, leaves the office, to be
absent for several weeks. Correspondents
will confer a great favor upon him by with
holding all contributions of a controversial
nature, or such, the publication of which
might be of doubtful propriety. In the ab
sence of this sort of friction, the machinery
will move smoothly and satisfactorily in his
absence, under the guidance of competent
hands.
EVIL SPEAKING.
It was a wholesome requirement of the
old Discipline that every pastor should an
nually read to his congregation Mr. Wesley’s
sermon on Evil Speaking. At the period of
our entrance into the ministry the observance
of the requirement was by no means general,
and since, it has been entirely dropped, as a
dead-letter, from the book. Why? we can
not say. It would be as great a mistake,
however, to conclude that the abatement of
the evil against which it was leveled had ob
viated the necessity for the sermon, as it
would be to ascribe the abandonment of the
custom of publicly reading it, wholly to the
complicity of preachers with the evil they
were enjoined to decry. Whatever the con
siderations which influenced the elimination
of this item from the specific duties of a
preacher, whether adrquate or not, we are
free to express our conviction that its resto
ration would be no step backward. Evil
Speaking was a grievous moral malady in
Mr. Wesley’s time, and his admirable ser
mon on the subject was as well adapted to
arrest it as any mere “moral suasion” treat
ment could be. It is a fearful evil now, and
was never more fatally successful in its dia
bolical work of blasting individual reputa
tions, embittering and dissolving the sweet
est and most sacred alliances, and embroil
ing families and communities in implacable
feuds. It permeates the whole fabric of so
ciety, and like a deadly Upas, blights and
withers whatever it touches with its blister
ing breath. One of the most deplorable
and appalling features of the social life of
the present day, is the recklessness with
which personal reputation is treated. Poli
ticians, by virtue of their position, are open
to all manner of crimination by adverse par
tisans, who never pause to ascertain whether
the allegations are true or false. The influ
ence and usefulness of ministers of the Gos
pel are often seriously impaired and some
times hopelessly ruined, by the reckless or
thoughtless repetition of slanders which,
though maliciously invented, it unrepeated
would have fallen still-born and harmless
upon society. Female character, the most
sacred and at the same time the most sensi
tive thing in the whole sphere of enlightened
society, is constantly imperilled, and ever
and anon ruinously besmirched by the con
temptible, yet wide-spread propensity to gos
sip—the most despicable if not the most de
structive form of “ evil speaking.” The
fact that a malicious motive is not always the
incitement to indulgence of this evil, does
not mitigate the damage inflicted, and fur
nishes small extenuation of the offense. He
who recklessly wields a deadly weapon, or
carelessly scatters a poisonous drug, by
which life is destroyed, is little less criminal
than the man who intentionally uses the one’
or the other with murderous purpose. So,
the man or woman, who with thoughtless in
dulgence of a propensity to talk, repeats the
slanderer’s scandal, is partieeps criminis as
to the wretched consequences that may en-
It is a humiliating confession, and yet it
must be made, that the evil deprecated in
this article is not confined to the vicious and
ungodly, but flourishes alarmingly among
Christian people. Without stopping to es
timate the magnitude of the wrong we do, it
may be, or imagining the grievousness of the
sin we commit, we throw open our ears to
every current scandal and aid iu its circula
tion. We speak evil of our spiritual guides,
of our brethren in the Lord, of our neigh
bors, and in the matter of bridling our
tongues are undistinguishable from the
graceless world. It is a great, a most la
mentable evil, and calls loudly for correc
tion. Lf St. Rani’s words have any meaning
wheu he says “Speak evil of no man,”
there is a fearful departure from Apostolic
teaching in the Church of the present day.
Notwithstanding the great advancement of
the Methodist pulpit since Mr. Wesley’s
day, we doubt very much whether anything
better can be produced on the subject than
his sermon on “ The Cure of Evil Speak
ing,” and we heartily recommend every one
of our readers, male and female, to read it
over thoughtfully and prayerfully. It closes
thus:
“ Oh that all you who bear the reproach
of Christ, who are in derision called Metho
dists, would set an example to the Christian
world, so called, at least in this oneinstance!
Put ye away evil-speaking, talebearing,
whispering : let none of them proceed out
of your mouth 1 See that you ‘ speak evil
of no man ;’ of the absent, nothing but good.
If ye must be distinguished, whether ye will
or no, let it be the distinguishing mark of a
Methodist • ‘ He censures no man behind his
back: by this fruit ye may know him.’ What
a blessed effect of this self-denial we should
quickly feel in our hearts 1 How would our
‘ peace flow as a river,’ when we ‘ fol
lowed peace with all men!’ How would the
love of God abound iu our own souls, while
we thus confirmed our love to our brethren 1
And what an effect would ii have on all that
were united together in the name of the
Lord Jesus! How would brotherly love
continually increase, when this grand hin
derance of it was removed 1 All the mem
bers of Christ’s mystical body would then
naturally care for each other. ‘lf one mem
ber suffered, all would suffer with it;’ ‘if
one was honored, all would rejoice with it;’
and every one would love his brother ‘ with
a pure heart fervently.’ Nor is this all: but
what au effect might this have, even on the
wild, unthinking world I How soon would
they descry in us, what they could not find
among all the thousands of their brethren,
and cry, (as Julian the apostate to his hea
then courtiers,) ‘See how these Christians
love one another!’ By this chiefly would
God convince the world, and prepare them
also for his kingdom; as we may easily
learn from those remarkable words in our
Lord’s last solemn prayer: ‘ I pray for them
who shall believe in me, that they may be
one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in
thee, —that the world may believe that thou
hast sent me.’ The Lo-d hasten the time 1
The Lord enable us thus to love one an
other, not only ‘ in word and in tongue, but
in deed and in truth,’ even as Christ hath
loved us!”
Wesleyan Female College. —We direct
attention to the advertisement of the Thirty
ninth Annual Session of this favorite institu
tion, which is to be found on our third page.
It will be seen that it is equipped with a full
and accomplished corps of instructors, and
will be fully prepared for continuing the high
standard of intellectual and moral training
which has secured for it such eminent and
enviable reputation as a desirable seat of
learning for young ladies. Let the capacious
building be crowded at the opening in Sep
tember.
TIIE SOUHERN REVIEW.
We have received the July number, which
presents the following attractive table of con
tents:
The Late William Sparrow, D. D.; Martin
versus Tappan; Native Races of the Pacific
Coast; Mind and Matter; Manners and Cus
toms of Europe; Java and the Javanese; The
Triangular Fight; Taxation of Church Prop
erty ; Thorvaldsen; A Distinction in Mental
Science; Notices of Books; Miscellany.
We have not had opportunity, as yet, to
more than sample this number; but have dip
ped into it sufficiently to stimulate an eager
appetite for the full meal which it promises.
The first article is a surpassingly charming
biographical brochure, and if those which
follow even approximate it in interest, the
reading will prove a rare treat. In his “Mis
cellany,” Dr. Bledsoe, puts the following
paragraph which we take pleasure in repro
ducing here:
TERMS Of COMMUNION.
We shall begin (the Lord willing), in the
next January number of this Review, a se
ries of ariicles on the subject,
designed especially to explode the Baptist
notion of close communion. Each number
of the Review for 1877 will contain one ar
ticle from our pen on this subject, to which
we havegiven no little reading and reflection.
Persons wishing to subscribe for the series
will please send in their names in time, tha'
is, by the first of October, in order that we
may know how many copies of the Review
to have published.
We commend the Review to our readers;
and would be glad to know that every preach
er and very many laymen are receiving it
regularly, reading it attentively, and eneour
aging the editors in their work by paying for it
promptly.
Colombia Female College. —We learn
from the forthcoming circular of this insti
tution, that Rev, W. D. Kirkland has been
elected to fill the chair of Mathematics, and
will enter upon the duties of the position at
the opening of the ensuing session. He is a
graduate of Wofford, thoroughly accom
plished in this department, and the College
authorities may well felicitate themselves
upon securing his services. Bro. Kirkland,
whose ministry now covers a period of six
years, was an eminently successful preacher
and pastor, until his health, during the pres
sent year, became so seriously impaired as
to necessitate a suspension of his ministerial
labors. We sincerely hope that, change of
employment may so recruit his health as to
enable him to resume, before a great while,
the regular work of the ministry, for which he
has the highest qualifications, and from which
he is sadly missed. The Interval between this
and the opening of the College exercises
will be spent by the Professor elect in at
tending religious meetings throughout the
State, in the interest of the institution, and
will be fruitful, we trust, in enlarging the
patronage.
Proper Names. —No small matter in our
editorial experience gives us more perplexi
ty than the effort to have proper names
printed correctly. We sometimes puzzle
long enough over one name, to correct two
or three galleys of proof, and at last, make
it out something else than the writer in
tended. We cannot too earnestly urge our
correspondents to write all proper names
with the utmost distinctness. It would be
well, especially with names occurring in
obituaries and Church notices, if the print
ed letters were imitated. This might give
you a little trouble, brother, but it would
save us a great deal, and would be a great
comfort in obviating the anxiety we always
feel when uncertain whether or not a name
is appearing as the writer intended it. Try
this plan.
Cuban Mission. —Rev. Chas. A Ful wood
adds to a business letter: “Brother Felipe
N. Cordova, en route for Vera Cruz, is tar
rying with us a few days. His heart is all
aflame with the love of Jesus. He preached
night before last to a full house. The ser
mon was excellent, and the impression good.
He is an agreeable speaker. The Spanish,
as spoken by him, is most euphonious—
beautiful. O that God would convert and
send forth more of his sort, to preach the
Gospel to the 50,000,000 souls who can be
reached only through the Spanish tongue!
Brother Cordova’s stopping with us is provi
dential, and I trust much good will result.
Our mission work goes forward hopefully.”
Rutherford College, N. C.—Bev.R. L.
Abernethy, who makes an appeal to the
children in another column of this paper,
thus speaks of the College in a private note:
“We have instructed 921 pupils free of
charges in the last twenty two years. We
now have a town at Rutherford C< liege of
some 100 families, and it is still growing.
The 600 acres of land given by Mr. Ruther
ford has been laid off in regular town-form,
and good buildings are going up all over the
land. We enrolled 244 students last year.
Our prospects for this year are flattering.
We open school again August 2, 1876.
Honorary. —Emory College at its last
Commencement, conferred the honorary title
of Doctor of Divinity upon our esteemed
confrere, Rev. J. B. Bobbitt of the Raleigh
Christian Advocate, and upon Rev. C. W.
Miller of Kentucky. Trinity College. N. C.,
conferred the same distinction upon our
honored frieud, and co-laborer of former
years, Rev. J. W. North. We trust these
worthy brethren may be able to bear their
burdens meekly and with patience.
Athens District Conference. —As the
time is short, the special attention of all in
terested is directed to the notice of the Pre
siding Elder.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
Bachei.der’s Popular Resorts, and How
to Reach Them. Tourists’ Edition. Pa
per Covers. 75 cts. Boston: J. B. Bach
eldor, 41-45 Franklin St.
Each succeeding edition adds to the at
tractiveness and popularity of this iudespen
sable cade mecurn of the intelligent tourist.
It contains a brief description of the lead
ing summer retreats to be found in the Uni
ted States, and the routes leading to them.
It is handsomely illustrated, and though not
intended as a Guide book, presents a vast
amount of such information as is usually
contained in hand-books of that class, while
it embodies features,as a Gazatteer of Pleas
ure-travel, not to be found elsewhere. It
ought to have a place in the satchel of every
summer tourist; and those who “ can't get
away” ought to read it, in order to smypa
thize intelligently with the enjoyments of
their more fortunate friends.
Methodist Quarterly Review. Nelson &
Phillips, 805 Broadway, New York. $2 50
a year.
The Methodist Quarterly Review for July
is at hand with articles a3 follows: “ Oba
diah,” by Rev. Dr. Horner of Pittsburgh ;
“ An Extraordinary Character,” by Rev.
Dr. A. Stephens of Switzerland ; “ The
Millennium and Second Advent,” Rev. Dr.
Barrows of Vermout; “Of the Peculiarities
of the Pastoral Epistles,” Rev. M. J. Cra
mer, U. S. Minister to Denmark ; “ Schop
enhauer and Pessimism,” Rev. Prof. J. P.
Lacroix of Ohio ; “ God in the World,”
Prof. A. Winchell. The editorial depart
ment is full, as usual, of excellent reading.
Christian Baptism : Its Subject and Mode.
By S. M. Merrill, D. D., Bishop of the M.
E. Church. Cincinnati: Hitchcock &
Walden.
This is a fresh contribution to the intermi
nable controversy which promises to last un
til all Christians have “passed over Jordan,”
and reach the land where they see eye to eye.
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
Bishop Merrill Ireats the subject in a popu
lar style, and with a degree of clearness and
force which is well calculated to confirm the
faith of those Methodists who are sometimes
made to waver by the blatant arrogance of
dogmatical and pretentious propagandists of
anti-Pedobaptist views. The book is con
stituted of nine Discourses, five of which
are devoted to Infant Baptism, and the re
maining ones to The Mode of Baptism.
The argument is perfectly satisfactory. The
Discourse based on Romans vi : 3-6, —that
vaunted stronghold of the immersionists, is
the best in the book, and well deserves to be
read by every one who has any doubts on the
subject. We hope thi3 new work on a very
old subject will be extensively circulated
among our people.
Crime and the Family. Bv the Hon. Sime
on Nash, Author of “Morality and the
State,” “Pleading and Practice under the
Codes ofOhio,”etc; 12mo, pp. 156.
Price $1.25. Sentby Mail, Post-paid on
Receipt of Price. R. Clark Cos., Cin
cinnati.
The field of discussion traversed by the
author in this volume, and the adaptedness
of the themes to the times in which we live,
can be better gathered from the titles of the
sixteen chapters it embraces, than from such
brief analysis as we could give it now. They
are as follows:
Introduction; Crime, Some of its Expla
nations ; Crime, Some of is Manifestations;
Crime, its True Source; The Child, the Sub
ject; The Family, the Medium; Parents, their
Position ; Government; Teaching, Spiritual
Culture; Teaching, Material Living; Teach
ing, Industry; Teaching Society; Teaching,
the Mode; The Wrong Way; The State, its
Duty; Conclusion.
The Story oe Charley Ross. By his
Father.
We have received from the publishers,
Messrs. John E. Potter & Cos., 617 Sansotu
st., Philadelphia, specimen sheets of the vol
ume with this title, which they now have in
press and will issue in a few weeks. This
subject is one upon which the public mind
has been fearfully exercised for more than
two years past, and the book promises to
be of thrilling interest throughout. It will
contain accurate portraits of little Charley
and his brother Walter, and of other chil
dren who, from time to time, have been mis
taken for the abducted one. Other inter
esting illustrations will also adorn the vol
ume. The dosign of the publication, be
sides meeting a popular demand for a full
and authentic account of this atrocious crime
against society, is to aid in procuring means
for the further prosecution of the still un
successful search for the lost child. We
await the publication with interest, and pre
dict for it a vast sale.
The New York Tribune has done the
country service by publishing in its conve
nient “ pamphlet extra” form the five prin
cipal orations delivered on the Centennial
Fourth of July, together with B .yard Tay
lor’s Ode read at the Philadelphia celebra
tion, and the shorter poems by Bryant, Whit
tier, and Holmes. The orations, all of
which are given in full, are those of Mr.
Evans at Philadelphia, the Rev. Dr. Storrs
at New .York, Charles Francis Adams at
Taunton, Mass., Henry Ward Beecher at
Peekskill, N. Y., and Mr. Robert C. Win
throp at Boston—a collection of great pres
ent and historic value, which it will be diffi
cult if not impossible ever to duplicate. No
other publication is offend, or likely to be,
in which all of the orations and poems con
tained in The Tribune Extra can be ob
tained ; and the price at which the pamphlet
is sold (twenty-five cents, postpaid), makes
it the privilege of every citizen to pro
vide hirtiself with a copy. A sheet edition
of the Extra, containing essentially the same
matter as the pamphlet (except that Mr.
Winthrop’s oration is only given in part),
together with a full account of the celebra
tions in New York and Philadelphia, is also
offered at ten cents per copy, postpaid.
OUR AUGUST MONTHLIES.
The conductors of these splendid period
icals are signalizing the Centennial by su
per-excellent specimens of their several
publications, and seem to vie with pach
other for the pre eminence in furnishing
their subscribers with the largest amount of
edification and enjoyment for tin ir money.
The Illustrated Magazines are radiant with
“Midsummer” beauties; and as will be
seen from the “Contents” given below, all
of them are exceptionally rich in literary
attractions:
Scribner's: Hide-and Seek Town ; Niag
ara ; Song ; A Bird Medley; The Bride of
the Rhine ; Rosenlied ; Philip Nolan’s
Friends—or, “Show Your Passports !”; An
Alpine Picture ; Gabriel Conroy ; On The
Iron Trail; A Song of the Future; That
Lass o’ Lowrie’s ; A Neighborly Call; The
Flood of Years ; The Living Mummy ;
Crawford’s Consistency; Hospes Civitatis ;
Topics of the Time; The Old Cabinet;
Home and Society ; Culture and Progress ;
The World’s Work ; Brie a Brae.
St. Nicholas: Jeannette and Jo; The
Bear at Appledore ; The Peterkins’ Picnic ;
Midsummer and the Poets; The Queen of
the Moles ; Little Snow drop; Seaside
Sketches; Windsor Castle; L'ttle Dame
Dot; Talks with Girls; Midsummer Frol
ics ; The Boy Emigrants ; The Fairy’s Won
der-box ; The House that Jack Built; Aunt
Kitty’s Little Spinners; Love’s Jesting;
Song of the Turtle and Flamingo ; Sam’s
Four Bits; Some Fish that Walk ; Some
Funny Summer Verses; For Very Little
Folks ; Jack-in-the-Pulpit; Old Sol and the
Thermometer ; Deaeon Green’s Report on
the Copies of the Declaration of Independ
ence ; Fourth of July Tablet ; Little House
keepers’ Page; The Letter-Box; The Rid
dle-Box.
Eclectic : The Course of Religious
Thought; Walther von der Vogelweide ;
Early Autumn on the Lower Yang-Tze;
Leigh Hunt and Lord Brougham ; Remarks
on Modern Warfare; Spring Songs ; Walk
ing Tours; Russian Village Communities;
Talma ; The Kalir at Home ; The Burden of
the Wind; Sketch of a Journey Across Af
rica; James Northcote, R. A.; Domestic
Service ; To a Young Lady on the Approach
of the Season. There are also additional
chapters of “ Her Dearest Foe,” and seven
or eight pages of editorial notes on litera
ture, science, and art.
The Galaxy: New York in the Conti
nental Congress; Reforming the World;
Madcap Violet,; A Gastronomical Dialogue;
Souvenirs of A Man of Letters ; German
Spas from A Non-Gambling Point of View ;
An After-Thought; Beauty and the Beast;
The Dutch Conquest of Holland ; Clubs
Club-Life Some New York Clubs ; To
Love, To Forget, and To Die; A Brand
from the Burning; King Cole and his Band ;
The Story of Creedmoor ; Drift-Wood ;
Scientific Miscellany ; Current Literature ;
Nebulie.
The Atlantic : The Arthuriad ; Shake
speare ; Jerusalem ; Isolation ; The Ameri
can ; The Division of School Funds for Re
ligious Purposes; Stella Speciosa ; Old Wo
man’s Gossip; The Bird in the Brain ; Chat
tanooga; Dickens and the Pickwick Papers;
August; From the Purple Island; Charac
teristics of the International Fair ; Recent
Literature ; Art; Music ; Education.
Ladies’ Repository : George Tabou,
King of the Friendly Islands ; Books in the
Olden Time : Consecration ; From Caen to
Rotterdam ; Moral Influence of Charlotte
Bronte’s Writings ; The News which Came
to Asher's ; A Sketch of Philosophy ;
Sounds of iny Childhood; Beyond the
Hills ; Soul Possibilities ; Ancient Mosaics
in the Churches of Rome ; A Song of Draeh
enfels ; Old and New Mackinaw; Prince Jon
and Philadelphia in 1761; Only Hannah;
Lines to a Robin; 'The Nameless Grave;
Green Lake, Colorado (with steel engraving);
Old Aunt Clara ; The Secret of Unworldli
ness. K.
Golden Hours : King George at Holly
rood ; A Short Chat about Money ; Capping
the Climax ; Trouble A. Bruin ; The F.irjn
of Pixie and Prog; Over the Border
Children’s Friend ; Persie Wynne : or, Skr
ery Litttle Helps ; Mother Marcey’s £c
ture ; Take Care ; Over the River ; Art of
Training; Owldom. t
Harper’s: Wellesley College; The Bat
tle of Long Island; A Sentimental Journey
to the Jordan ; On a Portrait, of the Author
of “ Rab and his Friends ;” Modern Dwel
lings : Their Construction, Decoration, and
Furniture; The Laurc-1 Bu ll: an Old-fash
ioned Love Story ; Ashes of Roses ; Ga th ;
Hymn to Freys; Saratoga Springs ; Rear
admiral William Branford Shubrick ; A
Woman-hater ; The Judge's Flirt'-,.ign ;
Daniel Deronda ; Editor’s Easy Ctt*£r :
Editor’s Literary Record, Scientific Record,
Historical Record, and Drawer. *4^
Lippincott’s : The Century ; Phantasma
goria ; Montenegro and its People ; Love in
Idleness; The Age of Knickkna ks ; Rais
ing the Siege at Chattanooga ; Letters from
South Africa; Cross Purposes ; On the
Eastern Shore; By the Water’s Edge ;
George Sand ; Our Monthly Gossip ; Liter
ature of the Day.
Blackwood’s —for July: A Womarsigrt&r:
In a Studio; John’s Hero; A Wauderers
Letter ; Lady Adelaide: A Study : The
Eastern Question ; The Autobiography of a
Joint Stock Company.
Ware’s Valley Monthly for July:
State and Moral Education; Rambles and
Ramblers Abroad ; Verona Branleigh’s
Lover; The Fire-Fly; An Advertisement;
My First and Last Lecture on Phrenology ;
The Land of Siniin ; The Good Samaritan ;
From Wakarusa to Appomattox : Second
Wife of Napoleon ; Just Twenty Years ;
Clara the Queen ; and well filled Editorial
Departments.
Litteli.’s Living Age.—The weekly rum
bers of this magazine come freighted with
the freshest and richest of the cream of trails-
Atlantic publications, and it is eminently
worthy of the high rank it has long held in
American magazine literature. Each num
ber contains sixty-four lai*ge p; ges, packed
full of the best current thought of the old
country. By itself it is cheap at SB.OO, but
combined with either of the $4 magazines at
$10.50 for the two, it is cheaper,
to have a very extensive circulation,
The Aldine. —The current number, be
sides much literary matter of a high order,
has the following illustrations : The Broken
Lyre ; Going to Church ; Peace; War ; At
the Cradle ; The Monk and the Countess ;
Down by the Mill ; A Catskill Brook ; De
serted.
Record of the Year. —The August num
ber is embellished with an elegant steel por
trait of Commodore Vanderbilt, and con
tains, besides a complete diary of esi(Tent,
events for the month which parses its
review, more than two hundred articles, all
interesting aud instructive. The conce|*tion
of the proprietors of this magazine, was a
happy one, and they are fully reabzing their
ideal. It is worthy of a very wide circula
tion.
Ten Cents mailed to Ludden & GRtes’
Soulhern Music House, Savannah, Ga.l will
bring in return a specimen copy of the South •
ekn Musical Journal, containing .rqnpyY. l. .
lar’s worth of Vocal and InstrumenialMusi
cal Reading Matter, such as musical people
can enjoy. The June number, just out, lias
the popular “ Artist’s Life Waltzes,” by
Strauss (price 75 cents), and Clarihel’s fa
vorite ballad “ Come Back to Erin,” (price
35 cents). Both of these choice piecesit,can
be had for Ten Cents, by addressing the pub
lishers. . M
DR. DUNCAN’S RESIGNATION.*
We take the following from the corres
pondence of the Texas Christian Ad.loc.ate :
The Virginia papers bring us the unwel
come information that the Rev, J. A Duncan,
D.D., has resigned the Presidency of Lan
dolph-Macon College. The cause of his re
signation—his impaired health intensifies
our regret. Twice within three years the
Doctor .has been quite ill from over work.
Although his health is now apparently re
stored, his medical advisers fully concur with
his own judgment that he should not rvject
his constitution to the risk of a total Jilf-ek
down by continuing to attempt the wof7; of
three or four men.
Dr. Duncan’s administration has beer, ex
ceptionally successful. Considering the suc
cess he has achieved and the disabilities uader
which he has labored, his administration has
been really a brilliant one. Perhaps no man
in the history of Sou'hern Methodist Colleges
has worked harder or better than Dr. Djrfcan
during his eight years’ presidency
oldest of our Church colleges. He w|a.n
with about forty-five students ; he closeJivith
over two hundred. He has furnished more
than the “tale of bricks,” and has made
his straw as he worked. His success has
been altogether remarkable. Few among us
have done so well—perhaps, none have done
better.
His success ha3 not surprised those who
knew him best. His qualifications for his
difficult task were of the highest character.
His physical endurance is far above the aver
age. He could tire out two or three ordinary
men. He could sleep well after a hard day’s
work. His recuperation after fatigs V-was
prompt. He has bsen a great traveler—
taking long and rapid journeys, speaking,
preaching, and rushing back to his lecture
rooms. And yet he seemed to he always
rested and fresh. He has just the teihper
and temperament for such work as he has
done. Our Church has developed few men
with such versatility of talent. Teacher, lec
turer, preacher, writer, managef-general—he
is at home everywhere, and a master every
where. He has large and varied resources,
and fully commands them. He has had
large capital, and he has worked it all.
If one man can make a college, Dr. Duncan
is the man. If he falis, others need not try.
He has not failed —he has succeeded remark
ably.
But, how stands the case now ? This
strong, active, gifted,, tireless, enthusiastic
worker, retires from the field of his toils and
his triumphs. Why? Because he must.
There is a limit even to his strength aud en
durance, and he has reached it. He drew
patronage, he organized a faculty, be has
sustained a noble college. No double has
had, in some departments; efficient helpers,
but Dr. Duncan, uiider the blessing oiffidaven,
has made Randolph-Macon what it is. He
was its inspiration and its life.
But one thing his friends and the friends
of the College have not done—they bare not
endowed the College. We have no disposi
tion to meddle in the affairs of our brethren
in Virginia, but Souihern Methodism has a
common interest in Randolph Macon. The
success of one of our colleges is to the ad
vantage of us all—the failure ofjjce is
the misfortune of all. We have, therefore,
heard of Dr Duncan’s retirement with great
concern. ,
One thing our Virginia brethren will par
don us for saying: The richer men have lost
a rare opportunity. When Dr. Duncan,
eight years ago, at the call of the Church
gave himself to the college, they should have
given it their money. And their self-denial
would have baen less than his has been.
Suppose they had given, as a perpetual en
dowment, only one hundred thousand dollars
to the college when they made him its Presi
dent? Far greater would have been his suc
cess. The doctor would be President of
Randolph Macon to day. This one hundred
thousand dollars would have furnished the
sinews of war. It would have iuspired such
confidence that twice as much more might
have been procured. The foundations of
the college would have been broad, deep, and
strong. Now, suppose our Virginia breth
ren can find a man who can work as Dr.
Duncan has worked? If they do not endow
their college, six or eight years will finish
the new President. Let them find Dr. Dun
can’s equal, if they can ; but they must en
dow the college. So must our brethren in
Georgia endow Emory College ; so must our
brethren in Missouri endow Central College ;
so must our brethren in Texas endow their
University ; and South Carolina must endow
Wofford College, and North Carolina, Trinity
College—and so as to the rest of them. We
can’t make colleges without men —first-class
men —as presidents and profe-sors ; and they
must work hard; work at the top of their
speed. But men without money cannot
make a college and keep it made. If South
ern Methodism proposes to do its proper
work in the matter of education, let the
Church colleges be endowed: It is indispen
sable, and the more so that each one of these
colleges has a large and growing list of bene
ficiary students. This sort of beneficiary
work should be done—must be done.
But we have no men fit to be presidents of
colleges to spare ; therefore, let us remem
ber that being president, general agent, can
vasser, and professor in three or four chairs,
exhausted as strong a mail as even James A.
Duncan. Wasting money is a foolish blun
der ; wasting men is an unpardonable stu
pidity. We must endow our colleges. We
can if we will.
Contsjjoabcntc.
A NOTE OF WARNING!
Mr. Editor: The present, political con
test, both National aud State, promises to
be the fiercest we have known for years. In
view of this fact, may not a word of warning
both to the ministry and membership of the
Church be timely ? There are but two par
ties, the Radical and the Democratic. The
former long in power, will move heaven and
earth to maintain its position ; the latter as
if in a death-struggle, will strive for the ascen
dency. These contestants for power and
place will seek to ally the Church with them;
and to accomplish it will lay their snares, and
influences purely political will be made to
surround her. In this emergency would it
not be well for religious people to be strictly
on their guard in their advocacy of their
partisan favorites, and in casting their votes
to remember —“Thou God see’st me?”
The Constitution of the United States de
clares, “That no religious test shall ever be
required as a qualification for any office or
public trust under the United States.” With
this doctrine I agree, but at the same time
am fully persuaded that Christian men in the
exercise of the elective franchise should look
well both to the moral and religious charac
ter of those who claim their suffrages, and
for this reason —“When the righteous are in
authority the people rejoice; but when the
wicked beareth rule the people mourn.”
If two or more candidates are before the
•people for their suffrages, of equal intellect
and statesmanship, yet differing widely in
their moral and religious characters; the one
deeply conscientious, having the fear of God
before his eyes, and consequently looking to
the moral and religious elevation of the peo
ple; the other, or others, immoral and irre
ligious, and this being their animus, as
“known and read of all me t,” I ask, how
can a good man vote for the latter without
becoming a party to the mourning, that like
the pall of death has so long settled on our
country? 1 have never reached the point,
and I hope I never will, when a convention
shall so far throttle my conscience as not to
reserve to myself the right to vote for the man,
all other-things being equal, who is a servant
of the Most High God.
A defeated candidate for gubernatorial
honors in Georgia once said to me —“My
opponent beat me, because he could walk a
chalk better than I.” Now this was fti my
judgment as it ought to be. When a candi
date for any office comes before the people
for their support, his character, political,
moral, and religious, becomes the property
of his constituents, and they should sift it,
as a man sifts wheat, or putting it in a mor
tar, pound it, as with a pestle. If this were
so, better men would fill the public positions
in the gift of the people.
Brethren, let all the ends we aim at be our
God’s, our country’s, and truth’s, and then
God, even our God, will bless us.
Candor.
A GOOD MEETING.
Mr. Editor ; We have just closed our first
revival meeting on the ciicuit. It was held
at a church called “Snow Springs.”—so call
ed, because there is a number of very excel
lent springs on the church ground, in- which
there is constantly boiling up a beautiful,
fine, white sand, which resembles snow very
much in appearance and feeling.
The time of holding this meeting had been
appointed two months. And the faithful
brethren and sisters, of whom we had quite
a number, had been doing just as the mem
bers of all Churches Ought to and
hoping, believing, and examining themselves
whether they were in the faith. They were
ready for a revival, and consequently we made
a good beginning. Though nothing very re
markable occurred during the seven days’
progress of the meeting, the congregation
constantly grew, and the interest steadily in
creased, from beginning to end.
My zealous colleague and myself were as
sisted in the meeting by brothers M. C. & W.
P. Jordan, who belong to our faithful, local
staff; also by brother R. Felder, of Houston.
Only nine persons have joined the Church,
as the fruits of the meeting, up to the pre
sent. But that is a goodly number, consid
ering that most of the people of that imme
diate community are members of the Church.
The Church has been greatly revived, the
blessed tide is still rising, and our constant
prayer is, “Turn again our captivity, O Lord,
as the streams in the south.” Thank God 1
the promise or prophecy is, “ They that sow
in tears shall reap in joy He that goeth
forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed,
shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him.”
J. W; Domingos.
Vienna, Ga., July 15; 1876.
Oglethorpe Circuit, North Georgia
Conference.— Rev. J. M. Potter writes,
July 13 : We have an old church iu this cir
cuit by the historic name of “ Mount Ver
non " It was once served by the Protestant
Methodists, in later times it passed into
t he charge of our Church, but had finally
been abandoned by all save three faithful
aud elect sisters. Some of its members had
gone home to heaven, others moved their
membership to other churches. This faith
ful trio still kept watch and ward over the
old church. They swept its aisles, brushed
its walls, and attended to its graveyard.
Their kindred and friends were buried there
—there they expected their own bodies to
await a glorious resuwection.
Last year, in connection with the local
brethren, I made a regular appointment at
this church for the benefit of these faithful
sisters, their families and the surrounding
community. It is true, the society was
small, but by faith we looked for large re
sults. This year, in company with Brothers
Wheeless and Brooks, Local Itinerants of
the Oglethorpe Circuit, I went from the Dis
trict meeting at Montezuma, to occupy iu
force this abandoned poirit, at the very out
set of our summer campaign against the
common enemy. Our very first, engagement
was a brilliant success. Victory perched
upon the banners of our Captain. The loud
anthems of praise rang out upon the air, and
the time-worn walls of this ancient strong
hold again re-echoed with the praises of the
living God. Twenty-nine accessions were
made to the Church, and it is highly proba
ble that there were many more conversions.
The Church itself was re-organized. At
every service the Spirit came down in mighty
power to convince, to convert, to heal, and
to save.
DO GOOD.
Dear Brethren : We are sometimes
driven by necessity to do things distasteful
to our worldly pride, prominent among
which is asking aid or pleading for “an
alms.” But our distaste is, or ought to be,
graduated by the importance of the object
we are endeavoring to promote. We do not
mind begging for missionary money, for our
superannuated preachers, or for the widows
and orphans of our brethren who have fallen
in the work. 1 once heard Dr. McFenin
say, “ I am not ashamed to beg for God’s
poor.” Bishop Pierce begs persistently and
successfully for Emory; Dr. Clark for the
Monumental Church; and others still for the
Vanderbilt, till the generous old Commo
dore gave $1,000,000, and lifted the pro
posed Univ'-rsiiy from a probable existence
to a substantial certainty. God bless the
old Commodore! May his example stir up
others to do likewise iu other things. I wish
our country had thousands of such men as
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
But I am not asking or expecting such
princely donations, and still I am begging
for an object equally as commendable, if not
as important. Then hear me.
Every traveling preacher needs, wants, and
ought to have, a home, and every circuit
ought to have a parsonage. But every cir
cuit is not able to build a parsonage, and
consequently a great many circuits have
none. Every member of our Church, and
every friend to Methodism, ought to feel
an interest, in securing homes —perma-ent
homes—for the pastors sent out year after
year.
Well, lam to the point at last. We want
a parsonage on the Brooksville Circuit. We
are poor, and without help—we are not able
to build it. And now, brethren and friends,
one and all, will you not send us a small
pittance of God’s bounty entrusted to you as
stewards? I shall not limit you in your
gifts of charity, but let each one give ac
cording as he purposeth in his heart., hoping
all will remember that “ God loves a cheer
ful giver,” and that the “ Liberal soul shall
be made fat.”
A word to my itinerant brethren. You do
not know where your lot may be cast in the
future. You may be sent to the Brooks
ville Circuit. If so, how comfortable it
would be to find a snug little home, well
furnished with the comforts and necessities
ol life, awaiting youl Well, send us a few
dollars, and cheer the heart of some other
brother who may come.
Col. T. S. Coogler will pay SIOO.OO, and
furnish orange scions to -make a grove on
the lot. If I can raise SI,OOO it will be
amply sufficient to build and furnish.
Friends and brethren, help, and God will
bless you. Direct to
Rev. J. D. Rogers,
care T. S. Coogler, Brooksville, Hernando
county, Fla.
July 5, 1876.
COMMENCEMENT MEMORIES.
Brother Kennedy : I was brought in
debt on Commencement Day by two of the
graduating class (their names I need not
mention), for the honorable mention they
made of my name as the patron of female
collegiate education. If in this they over
estimated my merit, they did not mistake my
heart. For it I did my best; and in its suc
cess, no one, 1 think, has ever given stronger
proof of supreme satisfaction than myself.
For thirty-six commencements I have done
my part in the sittings of the board, and on
the stage, and I think none will say they ever
saw in me the first symptom of weariness or
want of interest. On the contrary, they will
doubtless testify to my smiles of pleasure,
and not unfrequently, tears of joy, when
admiring mention was made of divine grace
and providence.
It had been intimated to me that my name
would he honorably mentioned during the
exi rcises of Commencement Day; and,
feeble as I v as, I had prepared in my mind
a grateful response— deriving it from Solo
mon’s beautiful words—“ A good name is
rather to be chosen than great riches ; and
loving favor rather than silver and gold.”
But by sudden sickness I lost the precious
anointing prepared for me, and my friends
lost my thank-offering for it. But this much
will remain to me—that if I shall die poor
in silver and gold, I shall die rich in a good
name and loving favor.
I thank you ladies —a prince might be
proud of such eulogies. Since then another
move to honor me has been made ; but I
cannot be bankrupted in gratitude.
L Pierce.
ORPHANS’ HOME, NORTH GEORGIA
CONFERENCE!
Mr. Editor: We are thankful to the bene
factors of the orphans for their many favors
in clothing, food, and other needed articles.
Societies, Sunday schools, and Churches,have
sent in freely of such things, so that the chil
dren are well clothed and fed. Mr. Winship,
of Atiauta, has the honor of giving the Home
anew syrup mill; Johnson, Woodruff & Cos.
more than half the price of an evaporator ;
and Mr. Thomas Moore, of Fulton, has given
bread and money.
While we have thus been helped, we have
been helping ourselves by trying to make a
crop. We have about fifty five acres in corn,
cotton, sweet and Irish potatoes, and sor
ghum. All looks promising to date. We
can “ dig,” and are not ashamed to “ beg.”
Please help us more. Send us some wheat
to sow, and a little to eat, too. Send in
money, or pay it over to some of the Trus
tees. We have no agent in the field to call
on you. Let me beg you not to compel the
Trustees to ask the Bishop to appoint one
for next year. What would pay an agent’s
salary would support the Home, with the
aid of the farm. Do not forget that “He
that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.”
J. L Lupo, Sup’t.
Decatur, Ga., July 22, 1876.
Wayne Mission, South Georgia Confer,
ence. —Rev. A. Clarke writes, June 20th:
“I have recently heid two very interesting
meetings which resulted in thirty-one acces
sions to the Church. At Raulersou’s the
service continued nine days, and there was
no abatement of interest up to the close.
Twenty-two members were received there,
and others will yet join. The meeting at
Brown’s only continued two days—nine join- I
ed. The feeling at both places is deep,
thorough, and genuine. I shall protract at
each place at my next appointment. Many
of the young members have gone to work
earnestly and faithfully. Prayer-meetings
have been inaugurated, the Churches are
alive, and we are looking for still more glo
rious seasons. I was most efficiently aided
at each of these meetings, part of the time,
by brothers Sarvis and Butler.
TO THE CHILDREN READERS OF THE
ADVOCATE.
My Dear Little Friends : I want each
of you who reads this letter or hears it read,
to enclose me ten cents in an envelop and
direct it to “Rev. R. L. Abernethy, Happy
Home, N. C.,” to aid me in building a Col
lege House iu which to educate free of charg
es, those poor children who have no Pa and
Ma to love and instruct them. When your
letter comes, I will take it to my room in
the college, lay it open before the Lord, and
pray Him to give you health, happiness,
and eternal life. I will then write your
name and the amount you send, in a book,
that others may read and see what you have
done. I need three thousand dollars to com
plete the house. If the dear little children
of the South will give me that money, the
next Legislature oT North Carolina shall in'
corporate their name in some way with the
college. This college has already given free
instruction to 921 poor children.
I shall expect letters from many of you.
You never saw me ; but dear Dr. Kennedy,
the good Editor of this paper, has seen me
and knows me. He will tell you if you ask
him, how long and hard Uncle Abernethy
has been teaching and working for the poor.
If you wish to send more than ten cents,
I will be glad to receive it. May God help
you to help us. Yours truly,
R. L. Abernethy.
EMORY COLLEGE.
COMMENCEMENT and outlook.
The commencement was a success. This
is the general verdict. Bishop Pierce, Dr.
Pierce, Dr. Wilson, did their best preaching.
Brother John W. Heidt’s address to the
Alumni gave pleasure—instruction—satis
faction. He won great honors and made his
old class-mates of 1859 proud to have been
on the same roll with him. Dr. Wilson’s
address, Wednesday, p in., before the So
cieties, on Modern Materialism, was an over
whelming refutation of infidelity aud an utter
confutation ot the infidels. It was masterly.
The young men did very well, and Dr. H. V.
M. Miller pleased and edified in his address
on the presentation of the gold medals to the
successful declaimers.
The church was crowded to almost suffo
cation. Measures have been inaugurated for
providing a structure ample and adequate by
next Commencement. By God’s blessing, it
will be ready. The plan will he expounded
in due time.
Professor Doggett, the accomplished pro
fessor in the Greek Department, haß resigned
on account of ill health and desire to study
abroad. He has gone to Europe. God’s
blessing go with him ! The title of his chair
now reads: “Chair of Greek and Hebrew.”
Mr. H. A. Scomp, now President of Warren
College, Bowling Green, Ky., was unani
mously elected to this chair. He is a great
acquisition to our corps of instructors. He
is in the prime of life—being about thirty
four years old. He has long made Greek a
specialty, both iu his studies and his teach
ing. Three years he spent abroad in the
great Universities of Europe. He is com
mended to us as a thorough Hebraist and as
a man skilled in modern languages. He has
telegraphed his acceptance. The Board made
anew departure—creating the chair of Vocal
Music. Professor R. M. Mclntosh, well
known as author and teacher in this depart
ment, was elected. He also accepts.
We are all thankful to God for our bright
ning prospects. The outlook is cheering.
Our friends everywhere are rallying. The
next term, as we have reason to know, will
bring us a large number of new students —
some from distant States.
The preachers are rendering us invaluable
aid by their kind words, judicious advice to pa
rents, and timely information. Nearly every
mail brings names and postoffices of persons
to whom we do well to send circulars. We
thank them, and exhort them to continue in
well doing. Atticus G. Haygooil
Emory College, Oxford, Ga., July 21,1876.
EMORY COLLEGE.
REPORT of visiting committee.
The recent Commencement at Emory Col
lege was an occasion of great, interest to all
who attended. The brightening prospects of
this time-honored institution prove to us that
Emory is destined to be in the future, as
she has been in the past, a great power in
the land, doing a noble work in the cause of
Southern Methodism. The College is in
better condition than it has been since the
war. The spacious new buildings are pret
ty and substantial, and the recitation rooms
cannot be surpassed for comfort and con
venience.
Judging from the examination-papers sub"
mitted to us, we feel no hesitation in saying
that the course of instruction is systematic
and thorough. No studert of Emory Col
lege has any excuse for failure to make de
cided progress in all the departments of a
liberal education.
The Faculty make every effort to maintain
a firm and just discipline, and to guide the
young men entrusted to their care, in the
pa'hs of virtue and religion. It seems to us
that a young man would be obliged to crush
out the best instincts of his own nature and
to sail against wind and tide, in order to pur
sue a course of vice, when surrounded by
such strong moral and religious restraints as
are thrown around the students at Oxford.
The Commencement exercises of 1876
were begun on Sunday, July 16th, by Bishop
Pierce who preached a forcible and eloquent
sermon, making a powerful appeal for the
religious training of the young. In the af
ternoon Dr. Lovick Pierce preached one of
his characteristic sermons; and at night the
congregation listened to an able discourse
from Rev. A. W. Wilson, of the Baltimore
Conference.
On Monday occurred the Sophomore prize
declamation. There was not a poor speak
er on the list, and Dr. H. V. M. Miller, who
in a hanpy effort presented the prizes to the
two successful contestants, pronounced the
declamation the best that he had ever heard
on a like occasion; and Dr. Miller was not
alone in this opinion.
The speeches Of the young men of the
Junior Class on Tuesday showed considera
ble ability, some of them being much above
the average. In the afternoon Rev. John
VY. Heidt of Oxford delivered an address
before the Alumni which was listened to with
marked attention and won the repeated ap
plause of the audience.
On Wednesday (Commencement day) the
church was crowded to its greatest capacity.
The Senior Exhibition was a fine one. The
speeches were excellent iu composition and
delivery, some of them being peculiarly
striking for the depth of thought displayed.
The Baccalaureate address of President
Haygood was able, and full of good advice to
the young men just about to euter upon the
active duties of life.
The annual address before the Few and
Phi Gamma Societies by Rev. Alpheus W.
Wilson of Washington city, was one of great
power and ability, being an admirable de
fence of Christianity against ma erialism.
On the whole, the receut Commencement
was one of the best that it has ever been our
privilege to attend. Iu our opinion there i 8
VOLUME XXXIX., NO. 31.
no institution better qualified to fit a 3 oung
man for a useful and happy life than Emory
College. We urge upon the Methodists of
Georgia and Florida to rally to the support
of this institution which has done so much
for the cause of education and religion. Her
graduates are scattered all over the land.
Among them are successful merchants and
farmers, professors of colleges, teachers of
academies and schools, distinguished law
yers, eminet statesmen, aud faithful minis
ters of Christ. At times her fortunes have
seemed to wane, but she has triumphed over
adversity and has come forth from her trials
with fresh strength and vigor. May God’s
richest blessings rest upon her, and may He
crown her with laurels, that shall never
fade 1
Signed by the Visiting Committee,
A. M. Wynn, Chairman, S. D. Clempnts,
P. E. Davant, C. E. Dowman, W. A. Bass,
A. J. Jarrell, J. T. Derry, Secretary.
Atlanta, July 25th, 1876.
“COMPLAINTS AND PRESIDING EL
DEKS”—REVIEWED.
Good Mrs. Glass, in her directions “How
to Cook a Hare,” insists, “ Jirst catch your
hare."
A. B. C. considers his caught; for has he
not the endorsement of a P. E. to the “ chief
method" of complaining against a preacher,
viz: “the button holing" a P. E. “andthe
ex parte statement," etc? Whereupon A. B.
C. proceeds to cook up P. E.’s in the most
artistic style, readily sympathizing wilh them
on being “ stabbed in the dark” themselves;
his sorrow being greatly alleviated, however,
by the fact it served them exactly right be
cause they first began it.
Now, Mr. Editor, I deny that the “ hare”
is caught at all. For, however correct the
deductions of A. B. C., the question is, are
they drawn from facts? Assertion is not
proof, and even such a declarat ion as alleged,
from a P. E., a few, or many months old,
must be taken cum grano sails, for is it not
possible other Presiding Elders may have as
high a “ sense of honor and propriety,” and
that such conduct is as “ repugnant ” to them
as to the aforesaid P. E., or any other Chris
tian man ?
Now, what is the nature of the complain
ing under consideration ? Is it not that the
man complained of hears it, and answers to
the face his accuser 1 How dare A. B. C.,
then, speak of him as a misrepresented and
vn represented preacher? The fact is, he
confounds the Bishop's cabinet with the Con
ference room, and I appeal to any knowiug
its secrets to declare if they ever knew any
such action occurring there. Would not any
P. E. attempting the role of a base slanderer
meet with a sufficient check to forever deter
him thereafter?
The infamous Venetian Council of Ten,
receiving anonymous charges through the
Lion’s mouth, or the venom-filled “ squat
toad at the ear of Eve,” but faintly portrays
the atrocious conduct Presiding Elders are
here charged with, and it. may well be said of
him, “ Physician, heal thyself.” I urge aud
insist, therefore, inasmuch as for years past
there has been “no Conference at which
some preacher has not felt that he was
‘ stabbed in the dark,’ ” that A. B. C. drop
his generalities aud disguise, and charge the
guilty individual, or individuals —thus giving
them a chance to reply —or himself forever
rest under the stigma of dark conspiracy and
wholesale midnight assassination. Y. Z.
LILLIE HARRISON.
Lillie Harrison was one of my pupils in
the Sunday-school of St. Paul’s Church,
Columbus, Ga. Of all whom it has been my
pleasure to teach, none have been more en
deared to me by loving ways; and. none have
ever given me greater joy, for she told me
in her own beautiful way that I “ did her
good.” All her letters to me breathe the
spirit of profound reverence for her Maker.
To be a perfect Christian was the object of
her most cherished desires. She told me
that it was only the fear of falling short of
this high standard that kept her from a pub
lic avowal of her love for Christ.
In a letter written last May, referring to a
time in Sabbath-school when her feelings
were deeply stirred, during prayer, she says :
“After I arose, my tears were gone, my heart
calm. It seemed to me that angel whispers
filled the air and breathed sweet messages
and assurances of God’s kindness and om
nipotent power; and I believe, dearest
teacher, that in a moment more I could
have been a repentant sinner at God's cross)
and among the true friends of a just and
loving Father.”
How much could I say of the tenderness
with which I recall her devotion to me and
my husband —her former pastor—and her lov
ing care of the sacred spot in the grave-yard
in which our little one sleeps, where lor our
sake she never let the flowers fade. My
heart aches with grief when I remember
that the dear hands that gathered the flowers
are cold in death.
I was often impressed with the belief that
Lillie’s sensibilities were too acute and her
imagination too strong to long consist with
mental sanity. She seemed to see in the
air about her the forms of angels ; she
seemed to hear their voices; she wrote of
them in her letters. In the world created by
her own imagination, and peopled by her
own fancy, she lived for hours together. It
is not wonderful that when she came back
from the laud of dreams, she found every
day life full of disappointments and sorrows;
and it is not wonderful that her morbidly
sensitive spirit magnified these until they
seemed unbearable. So long and so fully
did she yield herself to the control of her
brilliant but unbridled imaginings, that her
mind became at last
“ Like sweet bells jangled out of tune.”
Knowing her heart as I did, I can but feel
that the same Saviour who took little chil
dren in His arms and blessed them, must
have met this young and loving one, who
with a pleasant smile and voice, not know
ing what she did, plunged into the arms of
Death.
“ See 1 she stands like one bewildered i
Father, take her hand.”
To those who loved her best, her father,
mother, and foster-parents, who are so sore
ly stricken, I can only offer that sympathy
which bids me weep with them. C. B.
Santa Rosa.
MISSIONS, NORTH GEORGIA CONFER
ENCE.—RECEIVED FROM JULY 1 TO IS.
DOMESTIC.
Jasper et, $2 75
Cleaveland 0 35
Clayton 3 00
Eliiay 3„00
Dillas.. 5 50
Clarksville 6 40
$27 00
FOREIGN.
Greenville and Trinity sll 90
Forsyth sta 10 00
Dahlonega 25 55
Blairsville 3 CO
Upson ct .*".V 16 80
Dallas ct 5 50
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P. A. Heard.
Douglasville, North Georgia Confer
ence.—Rev. M. L. Underwood writes: We
have an interesting meeting in progress at
this place. There have been several conver
sions, several accessions, and a few nights
ago there were near seventy-five penitents at
the altar. Ihe Church is being revived,
and we are praying for a more abundant out
pouring of the Spirit. This is the eighth
day, and the meeting still continues.