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6 JjJistellang. How to Succeed. NUMBER IX. If we do not succeed in the South, it will be mainly our own fault. 01 course, the disorganization of the en tire labor system has, and will retard our prosperity, but I have felt sure that not only the freedmen will work, but the whites also. Immediately after the late war, I began to build warehouses for the storage of cotton and merchandise. My friends thought 1 was doing a very unwise thing. They predicted that cotton could not be produced by white labor, and that the negroes would not work. I did not believe any such doctrine, and 1 have found that a dozen houses will not accommodate the cotton receipts of one Charleston firm. The statistics will show the crop of 1878 to be the largest ever made. The Southern States have a future that is beyond computation, embracing as they do an area of nearly one million of square miles, or more than six hundred mil lion of acres. The natural resources of the South are equal to those of any other portion of the globe, with a cli mate unsurpassed. Just one product of the soil (cotton), notwithstanding the low prices now prevailing, will yield the present year two hundred and fifty millions of dollars in gold, and the day is not far distant, when the production of cotton in the South ern States will amount to ten million bales, and our sons will live to see more cotton manufactured into yarns and cloth in the Southern States than is now consumed in North America. If our people will be self reliant and independent, they must not keep their corn cribs in Ohio, their smoke houses in Illinois, and hay stacks in Maine, or machine shops in Lowell. God has given us rich lands on which we can raise everything we eat, whether it be of animal or vegetable origin. If we cannot export hay, cheese, butter, pork, beef, flour and the like, yet it will be a matter of no small conscquenco to supply our home consumption. I trust the days are numbered when we are to look abroad for what we eat and wear. In our climate we can raise not only the necessaries of life, but also the luxuries. In the Southern portion the lemon, orange, sugar cane, rice, and the fa mous sea island cotton flourish, O/ur forests are inexhaustible, valuable not only lor the timber, but also for tar, pitch and turpentine. We have also a broad extent of territory valuable for upland cotton, grasses, and ce reals ; while our mineral resources, especially in coal and iron, startle the imagination. Our country in many sections abounds in gold, asbestos, mica, and other minerals. Another source of considerable wealth to the South has arisen from the discovery of immense beds of phosphate rock and fossil bone in South Carolina. These remarkable deposits, both on land and in the navigable streams, attracted the attention of geologists more than a century ago, but strange to say, their value was not known until after the close of the war. These immense deposits have added greatly to the commerce of South Carolina. Hundreds of cargoes are annually shipped from Charleston and Beaufort to foreign and domestic ports. The manufacture of commercial fertilizers from these rocks and fossils has added to the wealth and trade of Charleston. The capital now employed in mining phosphate rock and manufacturing fertilizers exceeds the whole banking capital of the State. Land which was considered almost worthless, has been brought to the highest state of pro ductiveness by the use of chemical fertilizers. It is possible that these fossil remains which have been found so important to the fertility and fruit fulness of the earth, were deposited on the banks and in the streams of the Ashley and Cooper rivers centu ries ago by chance? Let us rather believe that they were placed there by our Heavenly Father, whose love and providential care is ever over his children iu their time of greatest need. G. W. W. Charleston, S. C., Nov., 187S. Mr. Editor : Wonder what you will think of a “ change of schedule ” in the South Carolina Conference? More properly, perhaps, a change of time for its annual session. When I was admitted into the Conference it was held in February, and so continued for, I cannot now say, how many years. But at some period we began to move backward, and date by date receded to the coming date, Decem ber 11th. Suppose the middle of No vember be proposed as the time of our sessions hereafter ; does any one object ? “ 1 do!” “So do I !”—Hold, please, one at a time, and, as I have suggested the subject, won’t you allow SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. me to offer a few remarks ? Thank you. First, then, usually October and November, in our latitude, afford very pleasant weather, and towards the end of the latter or early in Decem ber, by the middle of the month at latest, begin our winter rains and snows, with high waters, roads mud dy and miry, when not roughness so lidified, and through or on all this our wives and children must bog or jolt along, exposed to rain—vvinter rain— and snow or sleet, and biting winds ; whereas, the Conference held about the middle of November would, gen erally, give us pleasant days and ways for traveling, and for holding the ses sion also. When we can avail our selves of railroads, there is some mit igation ; but even then there is dan ger to health in the sudden transmis sion in making changes from the warm car to the piercing cold with out ; and, besides, railroads run to but few of our parsonages and charges. Then, second : Is there any objection but this ? The date mentioned will militate seriously against our finan cial arrangements and movements. Is this true? On the part of preachers, stewards, and people generally, there is a propensity to postpone these mat ters to the very last in many instances, when money will be “ flush.” Cotton begins to move early in October, 1 believe, generally, so that by the mid dle of the month money is in circula tion ; and here are several weeks to make (what should be merely closing up) collections; and, indeed, is not money more in hand then, before there is time to pay it off, than mid way in December, after it has been applied to other than church claims r Besides, if the October and November period be too short a space, it will prompt and urge, nay, “ compel ” all concerned to discharge their duties at the proper time by commencing at the beginning, to hold on to the end, till the work is completed ; and for this beginning there will be an excel lent opportunity, by the earlier ses sion of the Conference affording space to begin the work of collection in the gleanings of the closing calendar year, combined with the opening of the coming calendar year, when there is always some money in circulation. It may be said that the Conference has nothing to do with this subject, the Bishops fix the the time. True, but the Conference can make known their judgment and desire, and then thu Bishops will take it into consider ation, and arrange as they deem best. Now, what think you ? 11. A. C. Walker. November, 1878. A Cheerless Grave. One of my saddest recollections is that of the funeral of a gentleman of wealth, culture, and high social posi tion, who had died suddenly from the effects of strong drink. An immense concourse of citizens from near and far assembled at the cemetery on that beautiful summer’s afternoon, to pay their last tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased. His body was encased in a silver-mounted cas ket, and this was strewn with the freshest of flowers. Slowly and ten derly his friends let the body down into the grave. A minister of the gospel stood with painful look at its head. Close by his side were the sor rowing relatives of the dead man. I wondered what the preacher would say. I know that he was very inti mate with the deceased, that he loved hir% tenderly as a brother. With tremulous voice and tearful eye, he simply paid a heart-tribute to the well known private and public virtues of his friend. Not a word was said with reference to his fitness for death, there was no allusion to a God, to the resurrection, to a heaven or a hell. If, instead of us, the cultured heathen of antiquity had been burying their dead, nothing more and nothing less need have been said. But could the preacher have said more ? Could he have done less ? As he left the cemetary he is said to have remarked to a friend : “ This has been the trial of my life. He was my friend, and I loved him as a brother. I wa3 obliged to say some thing. But what could I say ? O, it tore my heart-strings to stand over that grave and not mention the name of God, or allude to the glorious morn ing of the resurrection, or point to the bliss of Heaven.” It was an impressive funeral ser vice. Men almost held their breath as the dirt fell hollow upon the coffin. What does it all mean? they asked their beating hearts. No hymn of praise, no reading of Scripture, no allusion to the great hereafter ! Only the solemn, yes, awful words of the minister as he concluded his remarks; “ Farewell, my friend ; farewell, fare well.” I hope I may never attend another such a funeral. The grave is dark and gloomy euough even when illu minated by the light of the gospel. But when the very light of the gospel casts a dark shadow across its dismal depths, oh, who can stand it? Header, how shall we be buried ? Shall our friends meet around our graves and sing with exultant hearts the soul-inspiring songs of the resur rection ? Shall they leave the silent cemetery with a joyful hope of meet ing us in the better world? Or, shall our graves be as dark and cheer less as the one I have attempted to describe ? It is for us to decide. As we live, so we die. As we die, so shall we arise in the great day. U U. DeKay. My Dear Brother Weber: Years ago I used to hear the venerable and much loved Bishop Capers repeat, with great solemnity and emphasis, the hymn found on the 337th page of our hymn book, and numbered 460. It seemed to be a favorite with him, more on account of the doctrinal teaching it contained than the beauty and smooth ness of the versification. The first stanza runs thus; “Jesus, thy blood and righteousness, My beauty are ; my glorious dress, Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head.’’ Now, there are two points about which I wish to inquire. First: Do not these words teach the doctrine of “imputed righteousness” in a sense in which it is not held by the Method ist Church? With the “blood of Christ as an atoning sacrifice for sin, and his personal “ righteousness ” as a qualification for rendering it up to God acceptably, we are ail familiar; but in what sense of the word can we claim them as our “ beauty ,” and our “ glorious dress?" This phraseology sounds very much like the old anti nomian system of providing a cover ing for sin, whilst the filth and pol lution of it remain. Perhaps these words were intended as mere figures of speech, and were not desigued to convey doctrinal teaching. The only objection to that view is the reference to the day of judgment in both the first and second stanzas. “ Bold shall I stand in thy great day, For who aught to my charge shall lay ; Fully absolved, through these I am, From sin and fear,from guiltand shame.” The absolution, or justification ex pressed ’. sv> is not in the present time, as w * generally teach, but in the future. This is what a plain man can not understand, and about which he is now seeking light. The hymn is said to be translated by Mr. Wes ley, from the German of Count Zin zendorf. We are not sufficiently ac quainted with the doctrinal teachings of the Count to infer anything with regard to the hymn. Besides all this, the endorsement of the committee who prepared the hymn book, the General Conference which adopted it, and the frequent use of this particular hymn by that great and good man and thorough Methodist, Bishop Capers, have in creased the embarrassment of the writer as to its doctrinal teachings. This is true only of stanzas one and two. The rest of the hymn is as a sunbeam. Now, my dear brother, will you give us light, or refer us to some source where we can get it? So much for tiie doctrinal view of the case. Lately we have had occa sion to compare this hymn with the translation of it prepared for the use the Protestant EpiseopalChurch in the United States, under the supervision of Bishop Horatio Potter, and pub lished by authority, August 10th, A. I). 1868. It is there credited to Count Zinzendorf. But the hymn is a totally different one, with the exception of the first stanza. There is no mistaking the doctrinal teaching of the hymn in this collection. It is consistently Cal vinistio throughout. Consistency is said to be a jewel, but one, I fear, which our hymn does not possess. Our trouble just hero, however, is as to the authenticity of the hy T mn. Which translation is the correct one ? We believe it to be a common prac tice to alter tlio words of a popular song, so as to make it express the re ligious creed of those who use it. But is it fair to announce to the public that you are going to give a transla tion of a religious poem, and then make it express anything else but the real sentiments of the writer? In the present instance, I find a hymn in two co(lections of sacred songs, both ascribing the authorship to the same Christian*poet, and yet, with the ex ception Of the first stanza, totally dif ferent from each other. Please inform us, as tv the real sentiments of the author if possible, furnish us, in our p;., genuine translation of Count Zi-t,endorf’s hymn, beginning, “Jesus, thy blood and righteousness.” One thought more, and we have done. We have almost a perfect pic ture of Bishop Capers, before our mind’s eye, and can almost hear the tones of his voice as he used to read the following words: The holy, meek, unspotted Lamb, Who from the Father’s bosom came, Who died for ME, e’en me to atone, Now for my Lord and God I own. Lord, I believe were sinners more Than sands upon the ocean shore, Thou hast for ALL a ransom paid, For ALL a full atonement made*. Are these stanzas in Zinzendorf’s original hymn ? Tell me. I want to know. Senex. Mr. Editor : lam so pleased and interested with tho paragraphs of your correspondent, A. M., on “ Com mon Errors,” that I am constrained to ask permission to contribute a short article from a medical standpoint, in the hope of arresting a very com mon physiological error, which, I am confident, is tending to thin out our ministerial rauks, and place our preachers permanently on the inef fective list. I refer to the very com mon habit of suddenly cooling the vocal organs after they have become heated by the exercise of earnest speaking. This is done by many preachers by drinking cold water during their ser mon, especially as they approach the close. A short time ago, a zealous brother, nearing the close of a power ful and impetuous appeal, which was evidently 7 telling greatly upon the attentive congregation, paused a mo ment, and took a free draught of cold water. In a few minutes he was so hoarse that he could with great diffi culty make himself heard. Now, that brother is believed by many to be wealing himself out in his ardent zeal in the Master’s vineyard, while in truth he is simply violating an essen tial law of his being, and is beginning to suffer the consequences of his im prudence. Others bring on clergyman’s sore throat and similar distress by fanning themselves or exposing themselves to currents of cool air as soon as practi cable after preaching. If, instead of either of these prac tices, evory one would take his over coat or shawl into the pulpit in all sorts of weather, as the vigorous Bishop Early is said to have done, and put it round him as soon as he finishes his sermon, he would save himself much suffering, and prolong his usefulness in the Church. M. D. HOUSE & LOT IN COKESBUEY, r OFFER FOR SALE MY HOUSE AND LOT L iu the village of Cokesbury. The homo is two stories high and contains eight rooms, a base ment, dining room, with kitchen annexed, all in good repair. The lot contains 72 acres, part woodland. A good opportunity for any one hav ing children to educate. I will sell at a low price and on liberal terms. F. A. CONNOR, Oct 26-2 mo Cokesbury, S. C. PAUL S. FELDER, AGENT OF THE STATE GRANGE, ALSO, FACTOR AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, COMMERCIAL WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Septemberll-3 mo SCHOOL BOOKS! SCHOOL BOOKS! Attention, Teachers and Parents! rpHE FOLLOWING POPULAR SCHOOL BOOKS have been adopted for use in the Schools of South Carolina, for five years, as will be seen by the official letter from Superintendent Thompson, published below : State oe South Carolina, Office of State Superintendent of Education. Columbia, S, C., September 25,1878. Captain Robert E. Park, General Agent for Ivison, Hlnkeman, Taylor & Cos., Macon, Ga.: Dear Sir : It gives me pleasure to inform you that the State Board of South Carolina have adopted the following text books of your series for use in the public schools of this State for the ensuing five years, viz.: Swinton’s. Introductory. Exchange. Word Primer ... 13 09 Word Book or Spe’ler . . 15 11 Word Analysis ... 24 18 Primary U S History . . 4S 35 Condensed U. S. History . 75 55 Outlines of History . . 1.20 88 Robinson’s. Progressive Table Book .13 09 Progressive Primary Arithmetic 15 11 Progressive Intellectual Arith metic 24 18 Rudiments of Written Arithmetic 27 20 Progressive Practical Arithmetic 57 42 Progressive Higher Arithmetic 82 60 Webster’s. Primary Dictionary . . 45 Common School Dictionary . 67 High School Dictionary . 91 Academic Dictionary . . 1.55 Unabridged Dictionary, to clubs of six .... 9.00 Very respectfully, HUGH S. THOMPSON, State Superintendent of Education, S. C. These books can be obtained of Messrs. WALK ER, EVANS & COGSWELL, Charleston, or R. L. BRYAN, Columbia, Local Agents, at the above rates, for the space of ninety days. Our complete Introductory Catalogue, givi- g special prices to all of our publications, will be forwarded on application ROBERT E. PARK, General Agent, Oct 19-3 mo Macon Ga. NOV. 30, SAML. A. NELSON. LEWIS A. NELSON. BOOTS AND SHOES, At Greatly Reduced Prices. THE SUBSCRIBERS INFORM THEIR CUSTOM ERS and friends that they are now receiving their Fall Stock of BOOTS AND SHOES, Which has been selected with much care and at very low figures, an<i will be furnished at corresponding ly low rates. Thanking you for past patronage, we solicit your future orders, or a call from you in per son. Orders will have our careful and prompt at tention. SAML. A. NELSON & CO., 21 HAYNE STREET, OH A BLEST ON, S. C. September 14-3 mo CHARLESTON TEA POT SAMUEL H. WILSON & 880., PROPRIETORS. JpOR CHOICE TEAS, TRY THE TEA POT! Teas at 35, 40, 50, 60, 75, best SI.OO per Pound. FOR GOOD COFFEES, TRY THE TEA POT! Coffees at 15, 16, 18, and 20 Cents, Old Gov’t Ja va at 28 Cents per Pound. All Sugars retailed at Wholesale Prices. JESS* Send for Samples—-no charge. JZif* All goods delivered free to Charleston De pot, and no charge for packing. Particular attention to Country Orders. October 12-lyr G. W AIMAR, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in CHOICE DR XT OS Medicines, €gJS£> Chemicals, Surgical ||!| Instruments Perfumeries and Toilet Articles, Cor, King and Vanderhorst Streets, Nov. 2-3 mo CHARLESTON, 8. C. STEPHEN THOMAS, Jr., (Late Thomas & Lanneau,) No. 289 KING STREET, Opposite Masonic Temple, CHARLESTON, S. C., Dealer in WATCHES, JEWELRY SILVER AND PLATED WARE. Spectaclos, Eye Glasses and Fancy Goods. a.,u tJfuily * Cjiall crtfl.rvr- August 6-smo Largest & Most Complete Establishment South. GE)~S. HaCKER fi SON, Only Carolinians and Southern Men Manu facturing in the City. DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, MOULDING, BRACKETS, SCROLL And SAWED WORK of every description. Prices as Low as any House, North or South. August 13-ly C. BART. H. STEITZ. C. BART & CO., Importers and Wnolesale Dealers in FOREIGN & DOMESTIC FRUITS, NUTS, &c. NO9. 55, 57 and 59 Market Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. TROPICAL FRUIT A SPECIALTY. September 28-3 m aOOD BOARD, AT ONE DOLLAR PER DAY ! HURST HOUSE, 5G Wentworth Street, near King, Opposito Masonic Hall. CHARLESTON, S. C. LADIES TAKEN ALSO. October 5-3 mo JN. ROBSON, COMMISSION MERCHANT.- . Having an experience of twenty years, and confining himself strictly to his line of business, respectfully solicits consignments of COTTON. FLOUR, CORN, WHEAT, etc. Fertilizers.— this business has been in my Special Trade for over twenty years, and I have endeavored to furnish my Planting friends a Pure Article, and their continued patronage is my best endorsement. I am prepared to fill orders for all binds of Fertilizers, together with my Cotton and Corn Fertilizer and Compound Acid Phosphate. J. N. ROBSON, 68 East Bay. DUPONT’S GUNPOWDER.—AS AGENT FOR the State of this Old and Reliable Gunpowder I always have on hand a full Stock of Rifle, Sporting! Blasting and Mining Powder, in whole, half and quarter kegs; also, cases of one pound, and half pound canisteTS. J. N. ROBSON, 68 East Bay. Paper mills.—i have on hand all grades of News, Manilla and Wrapping Paper, which I offer on the most favorable terms. * J. N. ROBSON, 68 East Bay. Ludlow bagging.—the attention~of purchasers is invited to tin's favorite brand of Bagging. I offer a full stock of whole and half yard rolls, at market rates. J. N. ROBSOJ7, 68 East Bay. Balling twine.-i shall ijcep a full stock of Twine for Presses, Factors, etc., re ceived direct from the Factory, of the best quality and offered at the lowest market rates. * J. N. ROBSON, 68 East Bay. rPHOS. RITCHIE’S SONS’ FLORIDA ORCHARD _JL MARMALADE. As agent for the Manufactur ers, I offer to the Trade, in one pound jars, and five and ten pound pails, the above Marmalade, at lowest rates. J. N. ROBSON, 68 East Bay, Nov. 2-lmo Charleston, 8. C.^j