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j&jutjjern Christian Rotate.
MACON, GEORGIA, MAY 22, 1877.
NOT TO MYSELF
A motto which well deserves to be in
scribed upon the fly-leaf of every Christian’s
Bible as an expressive epitome of the blessed
teachings of the book, and to constitute the
leading petition of his daily cry to God tor
help. One of the very highest achievements
of regenerating grace is the conquest in the
soul of its inborn selfishness, and until this
complete victory is achieved, there is no
safety in parley or truce. No other fruit
of his lapse from original purity lingers
longer in the heart of man, or retires more
slowly and sullenly before the advancing su
premacy of the mind that was in Him who,
emptied of self, came not to be ministered
unto but to minister. But this conquest
must be effected, this decisive victory must
be won. Nay, mor§ ; the thorough cruci
fixion of self —not its temporary or occa
sional check—is indispensable to such a life
of righteousness as will challenge Divine
approval here, and reap an eternal reward
hereafter. It is only when self capitulates
unconditionally, and even every thought is
brought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ, that the Divine will supplants our
own, and we can adopt the triumphant boast
of the Apostle, “ I am crucified with Christ;
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me; and the life that I now live in
the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of
God, who loved me, and gave himself for
me.” Toward this exalted plane of religious
life should every professing Christian aim,
and just in proportion to his approximation
to it is his happiness and usefulness promo
ted. Self sinks and perishes just in the
measure that the secret life of God is devel
oped in the soul; and, of course, the more
Christlike we become, the less we live to our
selves, and the more uniformly and conspic
uously do our lives illustrate that, as it was
by an act of self-surrender that we entered
upon the divine life, so it is by daily self
sacrifice that we grow up into Christ our
living head in ail things.
The Christian who thinks only of his own
spiritual welfare, will soon cease to care for
that. He whose sole aspiration and effort is
to secure heaven for himself, is fatally want
ing in the first principles of genuine religion
and must ruinously fail of his unwarranted
expectations. To seek for the enjoyment of
the mere emotional exhilaration which we
sometimes miscall “ a blessing”—and which
seems to comprehend the whole length and
breadth of religion in the conception of many
who call themselves Christians—is to cher
ish a ruinous delusion, and to defraud our
selves of the real “blessings” which would
subdue our selfishness, conform us to the
likeness of Christ, and quicken our tread
along the foot-prints of our divine examplar.
To gain heaven we must be Christ like, and
to become like Christ we must be purged of
self, and learn obedience to the command :
Look not every man on his own things but
every man also on the things of others. Let
the reader reflect upon the damage the Church
s suffering in all its departments from the
dominance of self over genuine
principles of action in the lives of its mem
bers ; let him look narrowly into his own
heart and honestly upon bis own life, and as
the inspection discloses how little he is gov
erned by the spirit of Christ, by love for the
brethren, and by self-sacrificing zeal for the
salvation of sinners, let him auswer to his
own conscience, whether he does hot need to
pray and strive to be delivered from the do
minion of self.
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A Gracious Visitation.— First Street
Church of this city, under the pastorship of
Rev. Walker Lewis, is enjoying a most pre
cious season of refreshing from the presence
of the Lord. Very manifest indications of
unusual spiritual influence for a month or
two preceding, prompted the pastor to ap
point special services for every afternoon and
evening. These services have been in pro
gress now for two weeks, and have been
attended by most gracious results. A work
of grace of remarkable depth and power has
been developed, and there is no indication
that it has even neared its culmination. The
crowded congregations are profoundly seri
ous and attentive, the altar is thronged with
penitents whenever the invitation is extend
ed, and during the greater part of the meet
ing there have been conversions at every ser
vice. We will give more definitely tjie re
suits of the meeting, in conversions and
accessions to the Church, at some future
time.
The Prize Claimed.— lt will be remem
bered that a short time since, “S. W. C.,
of Fort Meade, Florida, promised a prize to
the first one of the children of the M. E.
Church, South, who would furnish the name
of a preacher of any rank who is in the faith
ful discharge of pastoral duty to the children
of bis charge, as that duty is defined in the
Discipline. In response to this proposition,
little Emma J. Means, of Concord, N. C.,
sends the name of Rev. A. D. Betts, of the
North Carolina Conference, and the truth
fulness and justice of her decision is attested
by the certificates of her father and mother.
For the credibility of the witnesses, the edi
tor of the Advocate endorses. So “S.
W. C.” will have to forward his “best
book, outside of the Bible.” We will
send him the letter, that he may redeem his
pledge.
Rev. J. F. England—We are gratified
to learn that this brother’s health has im
proved sufficiently to warrant his re-entrance
upon the regular work of the ministry,
which he hopes to do at the next Confer
ence. In the meantime, he would be glad
to be employed in either of the upper dis
tricts of the South Carolina Conference.
Should eitherof the Presiding Elders in that
quarter of the Conference need a supply
for the remainder of the year, it might be
well to correspond with brother England at
Happy Home, N. C.
Bereavement. —We are pained to learn
that Mrs. Harriet Isabella Harwell, wife of
Rev. R. J. Harwell, of the North Georgia
Conference, died in Newton county on the
12th of May. We are not in possession of
any of the-particulars of the sad event, but
hope that a suitable obituary will be fur
nished us at an early day. Brother Har
well’s brethren and numerous friends will
not fail deeply to sympathize with him in
[this great sorrow, and to commend him in
Itheir prayers to Him who alone can comfort
En such an extremity.
K Minutes —We are indebted, as we decide
Bom the formerly familiar handwriting of
Ke address, to Rev. F. A. Mood, D. D.,
S' a copy of the printed Minutes of the
■rty-seventh annual session of the Texas
which was held at Huntsville,
Nov. 20, Dec. 5, 1870. It furnishes
transcript from the Journal of
and elaborate statistical ta-
Our old friend will please accept our
thanks for his thoughtful kindness.
Sudden Death. —A note from Rev. .T. R.
Parker informs us that Rev. Joshua Brad
ford, a local elder in the Lawreuceville Cir
cuit, North Georgia Conference, died very
suddenly at his home near Lawrenceville on
Sunday, May 13.
THE CARE OF YOUNG CONVERTS.
We substitute for an article of our own,
the following timely and judicious observa
tions on this important subject from the Cen
tral Christian Advocate. Without institut
ing any comparison with other communions,
we are persuaded that lack of earnest,
thoughtful, and prayerful attention, to those
who are brought into our fold during revival
seasons, is a capital fault of our ministry and
membership. Not a few who, a year ago,
entered hopefully upon the Christian life, and
ran well for a season, have halted and turned
back, for want of proper encouragement
and instruction, and are to-day, perhaps,
farther from God and less accessible to
spiritual approaches than they were before
entering upon this short lived struggle.
“Good meetings” are being conducted at
various points within our borders, and many
will be gathered into the Church during the
ensuing summer and fall. But the real
spiritual benefit resulting to them will be
questionable, if they are simply to be re
ceived, and then abandoned to straggle alone
in their inexperience with the powerful sinis
ter influences wnich beset every soul in its
efforts to do right and to please God. To
conserve and make real the ostensible fruits
of our numerous revivals, we must give
greater attention to the culture and training
of the young converts who are brought under
our care, and for whose growth and estab
lishment in the faith we are largely respon
sible to God. We would, as we have fre
quently done before, urge this duty upon our
pastors and people; and we commend to
their thoughtfnl consideration the reflections
which we copy below :
“It must be evident to any one that he
cannot deal at all proficiently with such per
sons [young converts] in large and promis
cuous classes. One’s success will greatly
depend on his personal knowledge of each
individual and the circumstances under which
they were previous to conversion. Some it
will be found were very correct in their every
day life, but their conscience had long re
mained untouched with the sense of personal
guilt and the need of a renewed moral na
ture. These it will be found need to be
taught to look upon religion as a fife ofspirit
ual enjoyment as well as duty. Others, and
these are ofteu the largest class, are the chil
dren of professedly religious parents; yet
whatever early moral training and religious
instruction they have received, it has failed
to make any serious impression on their
character or manner of life. In many in
stances they have not seen any real beauty
or spirituality in the religious life with which
They have been associated. It has been
presented to them entirely as a system of re
straints and arbitrary interference with the
naural development of a vigorous and un
sanctified life. Such persons often, when
they come to their majority, if no earlier op
portunity offers, break away from parental
and moral restraint, and rush into a wild
and frivolous life which often becomes some
thing worse than mere vanity. This class
need to be put to active Church labor of the
more spiritual kind, that they may find out
the blessedness of Christian work; other
wise they will want to introduce their old
worldly pleasures into Church life. A few
will be found so naturally diffident that they
need to he encouraged as witnessesfor Christ.
But the trial of one’s faith and patience is
sometimes to be found in over confident and
bold young disciples, who think themselves
called on to teach the Church and possibly
the pastor. They need to be repressed ten
derly, for it is not safe to presume that they
can not be made of service to the Church.
We shall find probably a small, intelligent
class of doubters, honest at heart and anxious
,to find rest for, their souls. r !shese demand
more charity and patience than is usually
accorded them.
“Now if the pastor and those who feel the
obligation of helping him in this most impor
tant and often most laborious part of his
duties, expect to succeed, there is need both
of wisdomand an abundance of patient labor.
To work wisely, prayer and sound sense are
the first requisites. A really devout heart
seeking to do good rarely fails to do so. It
finds ready acces to other hearts, for simple
love of souls is the highest intelligence for
the care of souls. This explains why some
persons are so useful in this kind of labor.
One’s personal experience and an intimate
acquaintance with Scripture, are the most
fruitful sources of knowledge for what we call
pastoral work. And we ought to teach the
ixexperienced by our own example that by
far the larger part of the difficulties of inex
perienee find their solution in fervent prayer
God is near them, but they have not learned
to apprehend him. Worship, that is the pub
lic worship of the sanctuary, is hardly less
than a burden until they find its spiritual
meaning—the real communion of the soul
with God. Above all, it is wise to keep steadi
ly fixed in the mind of young Christians that
holiness and righteousness go hand in hand,
and can not be separated. To overcome
wrong impulses and appetites, and to sue
cessfully resist all temptation to evil, direct
them to seek a deeper work of grace, greater
elevation of soul, and a closer fellowship
with Christ; and then to attain holiness,
that while faith reaches out to Christ for it,
faith itself must be supported by righteous
living. All this demands great labor, watch
fulness, personal association, and in some
measure the assurance that one’s labor is
not in vain.
“ And it must be said for the encourage
ment of those who have not had experience,
that it may become the most satisfying of all
labor. Its effect on one’s own spiritual wel
fare is not nncertun. The world is fall of
examples of doubts being solved and the heart
filled with heavenly joy in this work. It
widens the broadest experience, and quick
ens one’s faculties, throwing its influence
over the whole life. It is the source of the
purest and most enduring associations and
friendships. The soul cherishes with a
strange delight the memory of its early ex
periences in the divine life, and never for
gets the touch of the hand that led it through
new and unknown paths.
“ Whatever obligation one may feel to
work for God, it is increased when one’s in
vitation and pleading to turn to God has
been accepted and the convinced soul turns
to those who have long known Christ, for
better instruction. We can not thrust these
out to find their own way and be guiltless if
they stumble and fall. To no Church do
such responsibilities attach more certainly
than the Methodist. We are a missionary
Church, continually gaining converts who
have not had careful religious training. We
must accept the trust of pastoral work as
cheerfully as that of preaching the gospel,
and prosecute it as faithfully. And in so
far as we have failed in the past, in this re
spect, must we prove ourselves the more
faithful in the future.
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TAKING UP A REPROACH.
A few weeks ago a certain Northern
Methodist Conference was throwing itself
into tragic attitudes over the murder of a
cotered preacher of the M. E Church in
South Caroliua. The Conference passed re
solutions and delivered its mind with much
emphasis. Editors wrote their views and
the Southern barbarians were held up to the
world's scorn. We received a personal let
ter on the subject. Their indignation fatigued
itself in the contemplation of the case.
But it turns out that the colored preacher
is not dead. He was not “ shot to death
before his church door,” or even shot at. A
leading white preacher of the M. E. Church
writes, over his own name, to the New York
Christian Advocate , assuring all men that he
has seen the man who was reported dead—
“ shot to death” —has been with him.
.The,Editor this segment phould
“ stop the report.” ■ It seems to us that it
should have this result. But our doubts
should be pardoned. Experience has taught
us to be doubtful in such things. Those who
have facility in inventing stories of outrage
have facility in keeping them going. We
make no charge against individuals. But
somebody or somebodies have the sin of this
shameless slander on South Carolina to an
swer for. Somebody made this slander out
of the whole cloth. “ Shot to death,” Bays
one. “He is alive—l have seen him,” says
another,
It is a bad state of things when people
have “ itching ears” to hear bad things of
their neighbors. Editors should, to state the
case mildly, be more careful in publishing
“reports.” It is better to examine into the
truthfulness of a report before than after
publishing it. It is wiser ; it is also juster.
And even newspapers should be just. The
Bible has some very plain words about the
siu of “ taking up a reproach against” our
neighbor.
Bat, until some editors we could name are
changed “ in the spirit of their mind,” this
bad business of publishing false and slander
ous thiugs will go on. It has been going on
a long time. To publish one week that an
innocent man is “shot to death” and the
next week to say, “ O it is a mistake—he is
alive,” is not to leave parties where they
were before the slander was started. An
actual damage has been done. The second
paper will never catch up with the first.
There are thousands who will die with the
belief that this colored preacher was “ shot
to death.” The correction never covers as
much space as the mistake.
A Romish woman once “confessed” to
her priest that she had slandered her neigh
bor. He gave her some thistle down and
bade her scatter it about the fields and come
again in a year. She came at the appointed
time. “Now,” said the lather-confessor,
“ go, gather all the thistle seeds that have
sprung from the down you have scattered
abroad.” “ I cannot, father.” “Neither
can you undo the evils of your scattered
slanders.”
We commend this parable to those breth
ren who hear with such facility all evil re
ports concerning Southern people. It might
be better, next time, to inquire whether a
man, reported as “ shot to death,” is not still
alive aud unshot-at and unharmed. H.
Oxford.
BEGINNING WITH BITTERS.
Our knowledge of “ bitters” is very limit
ed. We refer to commercial, drug-store
bitters, not to the marvellously concocted
compounds the old folks used to prepare “in
the spring of the year.” They tell of two ex
perts who were once called to taste and test
a tun of wine. They were men of skill and
discrimination. Each detected a slight for
eign taste. One said it was old iron ; the
other old leather. When the wine was drawn
off, lo 1 an old key with a leathern string.
But the old-fashioned home-made bitters
would have stumped them. The old-time
bitters were reckoned as alterative and tonic.
They were believed to be appetizers—proba
bly by virtue of the increased love of strong
drink that followed their use. Whether the
old-fashioned bitters did much good we are
not informed. This much may be said for
them—they were very hitter and spoiled the
whisky much more effectually than modern
bitters do.
Whatever their use, they furnished a hint
that has been made the most of. Scienre
is more deft than old housewifery, and
the world now has large opportunity of
choice in the selection of its bitters. The
chemists, so we are informed, have learned
how to take, for the most part, the bitter
out of bitters. This, perhaps, grows out
of their respect lor the whisky—the chief
ingredient, as the learned in such things tell
us, in commercial bitters.
The Bitters trade seems to be a largfc and
growing business. It is certainly mucn ad
vertised. Advertising costs money—partic
ularly editorial “puffs” and “ local notifies.”
Wearetold that these last are
paid for “in kind.” We will not affirip on
this point, as our testimony is not direct,
only “hearsay” and “circumstantial.” This
advertising is quite promiscuous as well as
extensive. Advertising ingenuity nowhere
appears to better advantage. The “Bitters
people” are sometimes artists —iiidulgjhg_m
varied decorations, more or less ijfny.
Very often the advertisement is introduced
with a touching story that brings you to the
weeping point just as the last line is reached.
Then you do not weep. What one does in
such a case depends. Anon we have classi
cal allusions and literary flourishes, quota
tions from “the masters,” “old saws and
modern instances” for introduction to adver
tisements of bitters. Many a sparkling epi
gram has found itself in strange company
with bitters. There is no great fastidious
ness as to the vehicle. The side of an old
house; a broad plank on a fence; a bold
rock; a country newspaper ; a great daily,
or even a Christian Advocate will answer.
And the bottled bitters, they are everywhere.
In splendid drug stores in the city, flashing
with many colored lights ; in X roads coun
try stores ; on the same shelf with spirits of
turpentine, vermituge, vermin-eradicators.
castor oil, and other useful articles. We are
told that even grog-shops condescend to sell
bitters.
There must be millions of buyers; else
there were not thousands of
suppose there must be many millions,* con
suraers ; else there were not so many buy
ers. The people do not, we suppose, buy
bitters simply to encourage business. Be
nevolence haß not yet reached this point
among us. This brings us to a very serious
aspect of our subject; we are a nation of in
valids. How portentous a fact is this!
Millions of our people require tonics, altera
tives, appetizers, restoratives. What is to
become of us 7 Or is this whole “ Bitters
business,” for the most part a wretched sham
—as full of hypocrisy as the picture-covered
bottles are full of whisky? The question,
stated briefly, is this: Whether men buy bit
ters for the bitters in the whisky, or the whis
ky in the bitters? Our judgment accepts the
second alternative.
Have we not a frightful danger corked up
in these pretty bottles? And the danger is
largely in the respectability of the “Bitters
trade.” Church members may ask for
“Plantation Bitters” with impunity..
We suppose that some bitters sometimes
do some But we believe thatr-all bit
ters very often do a great deal of harm. The
worst case of delirium tremens —with its
blue devil accompaniments—we ever saw,
came oat of “ Hostetter’s Bitters.” And
now our mind rests upon a bright, boy who
is running down grade with head long speed,
who began with bitters, whose death
poison was concealed by a patriotic name.
Oxford. • H.
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SAMUEL BENEDICT-ONCE MORE.
Mr. Editor; No doubt you and your
readers are convinced that “the gaii%jS ffot
worth the caudle.” Well, it is not*/ but if
“the true inwardness” of “Samuel Bene
dict, Rector of St. John’s Church, Savan
nah,” is not plainly seen in the Noses His
torical and Biographical, it has beenMevel
oped in the progress of this controversy, un
til no candid, discerning reader, has fkiled to
see it.
Look upon him: he says in his la st com
munication, “ I have always avowed myself
a High Churchman. An Apostolic iaucces-
Bion in the sacred ministry, perpetuated by
Bishops only—the highest of its three or
ders —is a principle with me.” Look upon
him again: in his first letter printed; by you
February 20th, he says, “I would make all
Christians one if I could." (Lafit italic
mine). “ I have ever openly maintained
the Apostles’ Creed, and the threefold or
der of the early Church as the ONLY possi
ble ground of unity I” (Italics and excla
mation mark mine.) “This is a principle
with me, and I adhere to it.” That is, in
his opinion—in the opinion of an avowed
High Churchman—the Protestant Episcopal
Church is in possession of “the threefold
order of the early Church,” having “ a sa
cred ministry, perpetuated by Bishops only
—the highest of its three orders;” (italics
mine,) and it is “a principle" with him—
indeed, he would all Christians one if
he could —“ upon the only possible ground
of unity”—namely, perversion to the? Protes
tant Episcopal Church 1 I Look again : “ I
distrust the revival system." He means the
Methodist plan of protracted revival ser
vices, such as he shunned and criticised in
the spring of 1867. But he says it was not
criticism—“ merely conversation on these
topics”—that is, on this topic—the revival
then in progress at M. And he rejoices to
know that “ some of your [our] own com
munion share my [his] distrust of the revi
val system”—as he is pleased to term it —“as
it has been too often worked in the last half
century.” Why did he not make a clean
breast of it and say that he distrusted any
“ revival system ” beginning with the day of
Pentecost, that makes men to confess that in
“ Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth
anything, nor uncircumcision, but anew
creature.” (Gal. vi: 15) —that makes three
fold orders, and the figment of Apostolic
succession, and mere rites anil ceremonies,
and fast days and feast days, and candle
burning, and incense, and genuflexions, noth
ing in comparison with “ serving God in the
Spirit.” The “system” he endorses, and
that if he “ could " he “ would ” bring his
“mauy Methodist friends ” aud “all Chris
tians” to adopt, is one that commands away
from race courses, theatres, card-tables, and
ball-rooms for forty days in the year the
elect of the Lord, and enjoins the daily fast
and the daily assembly whilst these forty
i‘ sacred ” days are coming and going—a
system inaugurated by carnivals and revelry,
and which, having accomplished its purpose,
sends the liberated Christian multitude back
to fashionable frivolities and carnal indul
gences uninterrupted by revival systems—
or seasons —solemn assemblies, Church re
buke or warning, unrestrained by Church
discipline for the remaining 325 days of the
year. He believes in Lent, but not in Meth
odist revivals —and he “ would make all
Christians one ” with him in this opinion if
he “ could.” Your readers see plainly what
he means by “genuine revivals.” He does
not mean such revivals as he studiously
avoids—and, dear man, “ converses on,”
but does not criticise —merely “distrusls”—
such revivals as separated perhaps a hun
dred souls unto God in a village of a thou
sand inhabitants—such a “revival system”
he distrusts, and “converses” with Metho
dist pastors upon —but does not criticise nor
antagonise. 01 how sincere must be his
admiration for the man John Wesley, who,
beginning upon his father’s tombstone at Ep
worth, after he was expelled from the pul
pit so long occupied by that reverend father,
by those who distrusted all revival preach
ing and “system” that was irregular ac
cording to the High Church notions —who
was largely instrumental in a revival of reli
gion that reached and blessed not only lords
and ladies, but colliers aud the most igno
rant, wretched, and debased of Great Bri-
tain !—the fi res of which revival have not
burned for the last “fifty years,” but for
nearly a century aud a half, and will burn to
the consumption of siu long after the “ dis
trusting” rector of St. John’s Church, Sa
vannah, is forgotten.
Bat Wesleyan would crave your indul
gence whilst he begs you to look again upon
Samuel Benedict, as he presents himself in
your columns. In his last communication
he says: “Dr. Seabury had been consecra
ted Bishop of Connecticut in November,
weeks after_Dr. Coke's “ ordina
tion.” (Quotation marks Samuel Benedict’s
—he is not to be entrapped into an admis
sion that Mr. Wesley ordained Dr. Coke.)
He says, “Rev. Charles Wesley, April, 1785,
writes”:—how lovingly and reliantly he [
leans upon Charles Wesley whilst he at
tempts to confuse and pervert facts of Meth
odist history—“ I had the happiness to con
verse with that truly Apostolical man. He”
(Dr. Seabury, then Bishop Seabury, who
had to get Scotch Bishops to ordain him—
for not an English High Church prelate
would touch him with his “sacred ” hands,
although he was a minister of the Church of
England)—“He told me he looked upon the
Me'hodists in America as sound members
of the Church [of England] and was ready
to ordain any of their preachers whom he
should find duly qualified.” This, mark
vou. was in April, 1785. On December 25,
1784, a Conference had assembled at Balli
more and sanctioned aud authorized by Mr.
Wesley, had “totally disentangled them
selves from the English hierarchy,” and
“ having full liberty simply to follow the
Scriptures and the primitive Church ”
blessed liberation from the traditions and
commandments of men, that had to some
degree fettered the nohle life and soul of
J hn Wesley I —they proceeded—that is 60
traveling Methodist preachers (all of the 83
who could attend) -to organize the Metho
dist Episcopal Church of America. Dr.
Coke ordained Mr. Asbury Bishop, and then
and there endorsed his own ordination to
that office by Mr. Wesley. And yet, this
friend of Methodism, for the gratification of
his “ many Methodist friends,” adds to his
attempt to proselyte Methodists by means of
Notes Historical and Biographical, this let
ter of Charles Wesley’s conveying the in
sulting sact —insulting to every true Metho
dist of the present day—that Uishop Seabu
ry, after Mr. Wesley authorized and advised
the constitution of an American Methodist
Church and ordained a Bishop for that
Church, and after it was constituted with en
tire independency of the English or the
Scotch or the American “hierarchy,” de
clared to Charles Wesley “that he looked
upon the Methodists in America as sound
members of the Church,” (Episcopal
Church,) and adds insult to insult by quo
ting these words from poor, time-Berving,
Bishop-ridden Charles Wesley : “ His ordi
nation” (this Scotch ordained Bishop’s or
diuation) “ would be indeed genuine, valid,
and Episcopal. But what are your poor
Methodists now?” And then Samuel Bene
dict goes out of his way to quote these in
sulting words respecting the Presbyterians :
“ Only anew sect of Presbyterians.”
Now, Mr. Editor, such strictures as these
become necessary ; and such attempts to
proselyte as Notes Historical and Biograph
ical are made, because there are successors
to the views of Charles Wesley and Bishop
Seabury to be found in the High Church
party of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
the present day. If Samuel Benedict is not
one of them, then he has not given us the
truth respecting his “ principles ” and ani
mus in his communications to the Advocate
nor in Notes Historical and Biographical.
- The f—lt is Ms if he is misunderstood—ant]
the fault will remain his so long as he de
lights to array before his readers such letters
as Dr. Coke’s to Bishop White and Charles
Wesley’s of April, 1785. One fact is worth
a thousand protestations. Straws ever show
how the wind blows. A proselyter may be
cunning, and must be if he succeeds, but
that he is a proselyter is apparent to any one
who has the patience to consider his work.
Such principles, such opinions, as Mr.
Benedict declares to be life-long with him—
aud the six and a half pages of Mr. Wesley’s
history, opinions, and actions, that he ar
ranges so skilfully to convince his own people
and ours that we have no Church organiza
tion but what Mr. John Wesley deplored the
existence of; and no ordinations to the min
istry but what Dr. Coke and Charles Wesley
repudiated or despised— make a proselyter,
array him inevitably against the Scriptural
and Divine order of the Methodist Church,
and impel him to the conclusion that Meth
, odism, with her millions of communicants
and tens of millions of adherents, is at best
a religious mob or multitude, to be convinced
of this fact, and to be taken into The
Church —-as a recent letter from Savannah
intimates is being done there, this A. D.
1877.
“A Savannah Methodist” may pay “a
high tribute lo Dr. Benedict’s Christian and
ministerial character, and speak in warmest
commendation of his devoted and catholic
spirited course during the recent epidemic,
and of the hold which it secured him upon
the admiration aud affection of the entire
community—Methodists along with the rest”
—nevertheless, his Notes and his announced
“principles,” and the character and tone of
his communications, convince Wesleyan that
nothing less than the grace of God can re
strain such a man from proselyting. Wes
leyan speaks with perfect candor when he
declares that if there were no other proof
that Samuel Benedict is at heart and in in
tention a proselyter of Methodists, his per
sistent refusal to openly and ingenuously
say “ I unqualifiedly declare that to benefit
our own communicants was my only motive
in printing Mr. Wesley's sermon with Notes
appended ; that I had no desire nor inten
tion to proselyte Methodists by its prepara
tion and publication,” will convict him of
having been caught upon the point of Wes
leyan’s pen, in the very act.
“A Savannah Methodist” and his sympa
thisers may, with Esop’s rustic, nurse this
viper, i. e., “ Notes Historical and Bio
graphical of John Wesley,” in his bosom—
but, if it does not sting him, it will be dem
onstrated for the first time since the world
began that cause does not produce effect.
If Samuel Benedict did not prepare this
tract to hurt Methodism and to help High
Churchism to do its silent, yet artful and
successful work, whilst he condescendingly
smiled from his lofty position upon Charles
Wesley’s “ poor American Methodists,”
then Wesleyan confesses that he is incapa
ble of discernment.
Wesleyan deplores the necessity of this
controversy. He would, as far as possible,
be at peace with all men. But there are
things more to be deprecated than contro
versy. No man can assail or pervert Meth
odist doctrine, history, or polity, without
his protest, and Wesleyan will not be de
terred from this by friends or foes.
But lastly. The great Samuel Benedict is
so accustomed to swallow little Methodist
fish, that with great self-sufficiency and com
placency he gulps Wesleyan down. Hear
him: “ I make short work of Wesleyan’s
attempt to prove me a perverter of fact.”
What a whale! Now, Mr. Editor, Wesleyan
makes no pretensions to greatness nor to
goodness—he is neither saintly nor learned
—he has no such powers or parts as Samuel
Benedict believes himself to possess, and
fortunately his cause does not need them—
hence, he will make “shorter work” of
this proselyter’s attempt to defend his per
version of facts, than he has done. Wes
leyan will simply permit your readers to de
cide between his exposures, aud Samuel
Benedict's defence.
Wesleyan had no agency in the temerity
or vanity, or desire to proselyte, that
prompted “ Rev. Samuel Benedict, Rector
of St. John’s Church, Savannah,” to append
his name to the Notes Historical and Bio
graphicsl. Having elected to do so, he has
no right to complain tha Uhis name appears
odiously in connection with his offensive act.
The strictures would have been written had
Nemo been the soubriquet chosen, instead
of Samuel Benedict. Wesleyan.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA. _____
Mr. Editor: Although there seems to be
a general impression that Atlanta is made up
largely of foreigners and Northern men, a
visitor will soon become convinced that this
is not the case, if he remains long enough to
become intimate with the people. He will
find that the preponderating influence among
the leading men, as well as the common
people, is Georgian. In fact, by reference
to the last census of the United States, he
will find that ninety per cent, of the inhabi
tants are natives of Georgia—more than is
estimated of any other city in the State.
The fact has a religious significance. The
people of Atlanta are a church going people.
The two dominant denominations of the
State are the leading denominations here,
and have kept up with the population of the
city by adding church to church, and revival
to revival, until a gracious evangelical
influence pervades the congregations, which
is not common to most city churches. I
must affirm, also, as a fact, which to me is
quite apparent, that I have seen no city where
there seem to be so many working men in
the cause of Sabbath-schools, and Temper
ance and Young Men’s Christian Associa
tions. The energy which has given to At
lanta such a preponderance over other cities
in mercantile and business activity, seems to
have been imparted lorelig’ous circles, and
the effect is telling notably on the moral and
religious tone of the whole community.
The Sunday parades at the Barracks is,
I fear, having a bad effect on all who visit
them, and will have a tendency to neutralize
much of the good that has been done in the
city, particularly for the rising generation.
From the crowds that I see passing through
Whitehall street on Sunday afternoons, I
am satisfied that many even of the respecta
ble classes countenance this innovation ou
the morals and habits of American society.
I am well satisfied that such a pageant on
God’s holy day is not only a violation of
His commandment but has a demoralizing
influence on the crowds who attend, in many
other ways. Here will, I fear, be laid the
foundation of many a bankrupt character ;
for no man can reverence God who has no
respect for his Sabbath. I trust that if the
military authorities continue these displays,
the Christian parents of Atlanta will at
least protect their own households from such
baneful influences.
Trinity Church presents a striking con
trast to most of our Methodist churches,
North and South, in its architectural beauty,
and its modern adaptation to the comfort of
the preacher as well as his hearers. The
gallery for the choir, ala Plymouth, is be
hind the desk, which is intended, I sup
pose, to keep the pastor and leader in close
connection. It also aids congregational sing
ing. The interior of the church is not gor
geous, but elegant. The exterior, with its
Gothic pinnacles and towering steeple, pre
sents a striking contrast to the plain barn
like structures in which our fathers wor
shipped. Awhile mast of the pews are said
to be rented, a stranger would hardly find it
out, as the ushers seem to possess the right
to convey visitors to any vacant seat in the
house until all are occupied. This obviates,
perhaps, the greatest evil resulting from the
pew system, viz : the shutting out the masses
from the gospel, and the freezing up the min
istry by presenting to them a select few,
scattered over a large surface, instead jf those
compact masses that have so electrified the
Boanerges of our Methodist pulpits.
But, how about the money spent in these
splendid edifices 1 Might not all of this
waste have been saved and given to the
poor? It will do for Catholics and high
minded Protestant denominations, but not
lor Methodism, which is the gospel to the
poor. So we have been taught, but is there
not another side to this question? Should not
Methodism be the gospel to the rich as well
as the poor? Is not the soul of a rich man
worth as much as that of a poor man ? and
may not his influence and his means be worth
a great deal more to the Cburch, to the cause
of God, aud to the poor in heathen lands ?
If we cater to the prejudices of the poor,
may we not cater also to the prejudices of
the rich? A man used to affluence does not
feel comfortable in a hovel any more than a
pauper does in a palace. We must, then,
adapt ourselves to the circumstances of both,
so tar as we can without compromising the
teachings of the gospel, and ttius acting upon
the Pauline principle, “ Be all things to all
men, that by all means we may savb some.
The pastor of Trinity Chur h (Rev. Dr.
Evans) gives us almost the same gospel ser
mons that he would give us iu a country
meeting-house or under a bush-arbor. He
manifests the same zeal that characierized
his early ministry—using great plainness of
speech, enforced by a forcible, earnest style,
and a gospel logic which must convince his
hearers whether they yield or no. His con
gregations are well sustained, and I prog
nosticate a successful year for the venerable
pastor. In addition to his regular pastoral
labors, which are very heavy, he has been
holding daily prayer-meetings (or several
weeks, which, 1 trust, will culminate in a
gracious revival.
Bishop Falloms, of the Reformed Episco
pal Church, has been preaching and lectur
ing in Atlanta, for several weeks, to admi
ring crowds. The leading denominations,
except the Episcopal, have all received him
with open arms—very naturally they would
suspect him of “ disintegration and absorb
tion.” I heard him one evening in Trini
ty on the unique text, “ The other disciple
whom Jesus loved,” in which he give us a
fine delineation of John the apostle of love
as contrasted with Paul the apostle of logic.
He took occasion to give a very eloquent
tribute to the great hymnist of Methodism,
quoting several of the most impassioned
verses of his “ Wrestling Jacob,” bearing on
the theme of love, premising it with the
statement of Dean Stanley (which he said
had been seconded by many of the leading
literary minds of the age), that this was the
grandest hymn that had ever been written.
To what ex tent the eloquent Bishop suc
ceeded in introducing bis peculiar Cburch
views in this city, I know not, but I learn
that the Reformed Episcopal Church is ma
king considerable headway in the Northern
cities, notwithstanding the deathof its found
er before it had been well established as a
distinctive denomination of Christians. I
am free to confess great sympathy for the
movement, as it will have a tendency to
drive back the waves of Ritualism from the
Mother Church and cause it to become more
liberal to the Evangelical Churches of its
own communion as well as possibly to other
Protestants. Already we see the beginning
of the end in certain liberal resolutions pass
ed at the two laßt State Conventions, as well
as in the Bishop’s address, in which the sym
pathy for Romanism aud its teachings is de
nounced, and the shortening of their cum
brous morning service recommended. There
is a great fight now going on between Evan
gelicalism and Ritualism in all the Christian
Churches (for none of them are exempt),
the end of which, I trust, will bring the
advent of the latter day of glory, when not
in Jerusalem or Rome alone shall be deemt and
the place for men to worship, hut in every
place the whole united Church of God “ shall
worship the Father in spiritand in truth.”
Atlanta, Ga. E. M. P.
GRAHAM, SOUTH CAROLINA CONFER
ENCE,
Mr. Editor : I have no special revival to
report, but we feel profoundly greatful to the
giver of all good, thnttbe stagnant period of
the last few months, with its tantalizing
tedium, has been broken by tbe dawn of the
day for which we have prayed and waited
with longing solicitude for wearisome years.
The times in which we have lived have im
posed a heavy tax upon the patience and
forbearance of onr people; and considering
the wide spread damage to the various in
terests of society, both secular and religious
—amounting in not a few instances to disas
ter —and in view of the dangers attending
great trial, our preservation has been more
remarkable than any individual instances
of defect ion or apOfcacy among professors of
religion. There is certainly no valid excuse
for any failure of fidelity on the part of any
Christian; but in the presence of our sur
roundings we rejoice that we have not only
remained intact as to organization and effi
cient working trim, but we are on rising
ground, with cheering prospects of regain
ing our former ardor —the old time esprit du
corps, in the “ kingdom aud patience of
Jesus Christ.” Such is the case, I am happy
to report, ou my work. We have recently
held a pleasant and profitable meeting at
Bithel. We have just closed a most pre
c ous meeting at Salem, where ths Head of
the Church was present to convert and re
fresh. Our congregations were good, and
attention to the word preached excellent.
There is a marked improvement in our
prayer-meetings. Sunday-schools that had
been chilled by the severities of the winter,
have been revived under promising auspi
ces. Having taken the lead in the use of
the Uniform Lessons on the Orangeburg
District, we still use them in all of our
schools. We could wish for a more general
circulation of our books and periodicals;
and we propose to all of our brethren every
where to address ourselves more earnestly
than usual to the great work of selling
books and soliciting subscriptions to our pa
pers, as a sine qua - non in the culture and
development of our people and plans. The
Church is not inattentive to the claimß of
benevolence. I think our contributions to
the Publishing House compare creditably
with others, though short of what I desired.
Our people are by no means unmindful of
their duty to their pastor and his family in
providing for their temporal wants —occa
sionally furnishing a relishable episode in
the way of substantial and delicacies as a
free-will off ring—called in some places on
account of the manner of the bestowment.
pounding— a very pleasant affair. Such au
occasion was made the sequel of a most
delightful prayermeeting a few evenings ago
by the good people of Graham and vicinity.
Af.er a refreshing shower of grace at the
chtrch, the ladies, vnd a few young men>
led by J. S. S. and Dr. TANARUS., without any
preintimation of their kind intent, adjourned
to the porsonags, where we were made the
recipients of hams, coffee, sugar, rice, flour,
etc , that served to impress us more pro
foundly with the goodness of a community
which we had already learned to appreciate
for their Christian kindness. With the hope
that|my brethren may fare similarly, and with
gratitude to God aud kind friends we move
bn in our “loved employ.”
A. J. Cauthen.
Graham, S. C.
RECEIPTS FOR DOMESTIC MISSIONS
SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE TO MAY 12.
George S. Johnston $ 33 00
J E. Rorie 20 00
Thos. K. Leonard 21 55
Robt. W. Dixon 35 00
Samuel W. Stubbs 22 00
Wm. C. Lovett 20 00
E. J. Burch 15 00
R M. Booth 19 00
W. F Roberts 18 16
John M. Potter 7 80
W. M. C. Conley 15 50
R. L Wiggins 21 20
W. Lane 13 50
G. G. N. MacDonell 135 00
R. F. Esans 10 00
J. Giles 16 00
B. F. Breedlove (Bethany S. S.) 120 00
R. B. Lester 15 00
K. J Rentz 44 00
J. O. A. Cook 65 00
F. A. Branch,
Treas. Do. Miss. So. Ga. Cons.
IMPORTANT STATEMENT OF THE
KOOK COMMITTEE CONCERN I NO THE UUW.ISH
INIi HOUSE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH, SOUTH.
Tne undersigned, having for the past four
years held the important position of Book
Committee, have been generally conversant
with the conduct of the Publishing House
during that time. They have seen the
efforts by which the Agent brought the
House safely through those unusually
disastrous commercial years, 1874 —5,
and have fully sympathized with the
troubles wi'h whioh the House is now en
vironed. They are also conversant with the
present necessities of the House, and are
convinced that the Address of the Bishops,
made last December, presents the true con
dition ofits affairs. They also cannot too
highly commend the plan of relief then pro
posed, and believe that when the amount
named, of sixty thousand dollars, shall have
been raised, and the amouut of seven per
cent, bonds shall have been disposed of, as
set forth in that paper, the Publishing House
will be secured to the Church.
More than a third part of this sum has
been already collected, and has given the
House great relief, though but a third of the
circuits and stations have as yet been heard
from ; if now the remaining two-thirds will
respond favorably, we think the whole sum
nee,ded can be realized. To accomplish this,
we most respectfully ask the Bishops to call
the atten’ion of the ministry and laity and
friends of our Church to the importance of
instant and constant effort in this direction,
both at the District-meetings, the coming
Annual Conferences, and in such other
methods as they in their godly judgment
may deem best.
In conclusion, they are far from supposing
that those parties who have already con
tributed have done all that they intend to
do in this direction. The sums in some in
stances received from large and wealthy
Societies have indicated the fear that what
was given would probably be ingulfed in the
general business without yielding any per
ceptible relief to the indebtedness of the
House. We can in this connection assure
those who have given, and those who may
hereafter respond to this call, that their gifts
have been and will be sacredly applied to
the liquidating the present obligations of the
House. D. Weaver,
T. Anderson,
Thos. D. Fite.
W. H. Morgan.
I have served on the Book Committee for
three years last past, and heartily concur in
the above statement. Robt. A. Young.
The College of Bishops are pleased to hear
of the success of the the Appeal made in
December last for the relief of our Publish
ing House, and, in re-ponse to the Book
Committee, they will use their influence,
VOLUME XL., NO. 21.
personally and collectively, to induce all our
Churches aud societies to cooperate prompt
ly and heartily in the furtherance of this
w °rk. R Pbine,
G. F. Pierce,
11. H. Kavanaugh,
W. M. WIGHTMAN,
D. S. Dogoett, '
* H. N. McTyeire,
J. C. Keener.
Nashville, Venn., May 8, 1877.
Hiissionarg.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
MISSIONS.
The annual meeting of the Board of Mis
sions, Methodist Episcopal Churchy- South,
took place on the 4th of May, and continued
in session Saturday and Monday. We had
an interesting, important, aud profitable oc
casion. The meeting was cheered by the
presence of all the Bishops, except Bishop
Marvin, who is on his great Eastern tour.
We had also the presence of Dr. Burkhead,
of North Carolina, and Dr. Winfield, of Lit
tle Rock. Dr. Potter, of Georgia, was also
in the city, but we regret to say that he was
taken suddenly sick, and was not able to
meet the Board. We rejoice that he has
been restored to a comfortable state of
health.
The collections for Foreign Missions for
the past eleven months reached about $69,-
000—the full amount to be reported June 1,
1877, which is the beginning of our fiscal
year.
The Board appropriated for the year en
suing—that is. from June 1, 1877, to June 1,
1878, $78,662.
This was divided as follows:
1. China SIO,OOO
Conditioned on sending two mission
aries to China 4,250
2. City of Mexico $3 381
Thisisto bedoubledprovided a suit
able Superintendent be sent out... 6,762
3. Border IHstrict. West Texas
Conference, Mexican Work. For
General Work 6 900
For church-building 1 000
4 Indian Mission 10,000
SSOO of this amount is to be applied
to aid in buildinga church a> Mus
kogee, Creek Nation, and $75 to
aid repairing Sehon Chapel, Cher
okee Nation.
5. German Mission Conference 6,000
6. Baltimore and Virginia German
Mission 250
This is in addition to SSOO au'horiz
ed at the May meeting. 1876. The
appropriation begins March, 1877
7. Western Conference. General
Work 2,500
Wyandotte Church 400
8. Denver. Colarado portion of the
work 3,000
Os which SSOO is to be applied to
paying church debt, at Pueblo.
Montana portion, conditioned as the
Bishop understands 3,800
9. Pacific, in aid of completing
churches, and paying debts on
those involved:
Wood bridge 200
Fresno 250
Stockton 800
Yuba City ... 250
Chico 800
Elmira 250
Merced 260
These appropriations ere made in
view of the unparalleled drought
now prevailing in many portions
of California
10. Columbia. General Work 3,000
To Albany Church 300
To Junction City Church 500
11. Los Angeles. General Work... 3,000
To Prescott Church, Arizona ...... 300
To Gsuda'upe Church, Cal 500
12. Florida 3,500
13. Brazil 1,850
Conditioned on sending an addition
al missionary 1,750
14 Echota Indian Mission, Holston
Conference 600
16. Three Mexican Students at Van
"derbilt - -a*
lfi. Mexican Harder Work , tor new
ly employed preachers from June
1, 1877, till the meeting of the
next West Texas Conference .• 820
17. Additional traveling expenses of
Bishop Marvin in his Eastern
tour 500
18. Secretary's Salary 3,000
19. For traveling expenses, print
ing, and contingencies 2 000
Total $78,662
This sum is divided and assessed as fol
lows:
ASSESSMENTS KOR FOREIGN MISSIONS, MADE AT
THE MAY MEETING, 1877.
Baltimore Conference $5,625
Virginia Conference 6,220
Western Virginia Conference 1,040
North Carolina Conference 6,830
South Carolina Conference 2,910
North Georgia Conference 5,620
South Georgia Conference 4.160
Florida Conference 830
Alabama Conference 4,730
North Alabama Conference 3,750
Louisiana Conference 3,330
Mississippi Conference 3,540
North Mississippi Conference 3 540
Memphis Conference 5,000
Holston Conference 2,900
Tennessee Conference 6,860
Kentucky Conference 4 160
Louisville Conference 6,000
Denver Conference 208
St. Louis Conference 2,280
South west Missouri Conference 2,280
Missouri Conference 4,370
Western Conference 416
Little Rock Conference 2,500
Arkansas Conference .-.. 1,250
White River Conference 1,250
Indian Mission Conference 104
Texas Conference 1,800
North Texas Conference 1,870
Bast Texas Conference 1,460
North west Texas Conference 1,730
West Texas Conference 1,040
Columbia Conference 208
Los Angeles Conference 104
Pacific Conference 625
Illinois Conference 1,040
German Mission Conference 420
SIOO,OOO
CHURCHES.
The Board adopted the following resolu
tions:
Resolved, That in all cases the money
appropriated by the Board shall be condition
ed on satisfactory information that the title
of the property is secure, and that the pay
ment of the appropriation made by the Board
will relieve the properly of all incumbrances
of debt up to the point of occupancy. The
drafts for the appropriations to Churches are
to be drawn by the Secretary, when the
above conditions are complied with.
Resolved, That the money must, in every
case, be used for the specific purpose to
which it has beeu appropriated, and not, as
in the case of Brother Mayes, of the Colum
bia Conference, to the purchase of other
property, though the speculation may seem
to be a good one.
DEATH OF THE REV. W. H. FLEMING. D. D.
The following minute was placed on re
cord on the journal of the Board :
It is with profound regret that the Board
of Missions has learned our honored friend
and brother, the Rev. W. H. Fleming, D.
D., of the South Carolina Conference, and a
representative of that Conference on the
Board, has recently this life. In
his death the cause lost a
able, and
Board a highly valfflß
thcefore
~ ... I. That : h'JH
t'JH
Flt-tni ig s ile.it .if PPg ... *
and a ropy lie tun ijK, <*■
the ittiiuh id on;
The Rev. it (’. |j|
rd A-socia r V. . -Wt
James \V. .M£l|g
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