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It8 Press and Banner. Dy Ilujh Wilson awl H. T. Warillavr. i Wednesday., April 12, 1882.1 I >? , I I.I 1 I I The Republican Political Court. i Tho TtepuMii-nns arc tn'ahing good use! of the Unitcd States Conn in South Carolina for the Tuanu facta roof political cap-; Ital. Last weefc the -sh^rs of Ladd wee ?>p before Court, and wont through the mockery of a trial, v.Km tho Judge! virtually directed his ptmlzan jury to ac-qliit tho accused. Of course they made] short work of doing their master's hul<1ing, and the slayers went forth freemen. ^Vc presume the Judges on the Dcnch M ould uot deny that the majority of jurors were selected with special refer nee to their political liias, and for the express purpose of punishing political adversaties. If there is one thing that is ealcu- j lated to excite the hatred and ill-will ofj overv honest man in South Carolina to-) ward the Republican party, it is the! irrttnner in tvhich the so-called United! States Courts arc rnn by them to oppress' and Injure our people. Only a few years asro, by tacit under-' TStandrng some of our minor offenders j againstihe revenue laws received imnmJiitv from punishment on the score that Ave would not make examples of their thieves and other scoundrels who had plundered the State. Under this nr-! rangemetU the mountain illicit wills-j key distiller was not punished by the I United States, wnile the State of' ^South Carolina allowed former Governors, Senators, Representatives, and other i political leaders logo free of alleged in-J famous crimes. As soon as these Repub-' licans, who should now he in the penitentiary, are clear of the State law, the Uni-' ted States Court is made use of by the de-! signing Republicans at to Washington I Jwvrass and punish any of our citizens who > may have committed the least indiscre-j tion. Let us keep alive an undying i hatred and sworn opposition to such tyr-1 onnv as m now being practiced on us. I The Gov: nment at Washington seems to liave no better use for its Courts than to' employ them in the interest of the Ra<li-| cals to perpetuate Republican rule and aj despotism which is unbearable. The accounts of tho proceeding of thefConrtsJ s published by tho Xeta and Courier! will do its work. The blood of every de- j cent citizen in South Carolina will bei warmed up at the recitation of that mockery which claims to dispeusejustice, while showing its political bias at, every step. Although the offences of which the prisoners stand charged were committed j two years ago, they have been ready to j fnme to trial. Tho Political Court deferred tho trials to this time, and are! now in such a hurry to try the prisoners! from Richland that they cannot wait for the sitting of tho Court in Columbia, bat: must drag them off to Charleston. Thej . Political Mill needs to make convictions! in order to restore the thieving Republi- j ?ans to power in South Carolina. "The Uses nnd Abuses of Fiction. j This week we present our readers with j Ihe admirable essay on this subject, which was read before the Abbeville Literary I Club last Friday night by \V. A. Lee,! ICsq. There has been so much senseless abuse of novel reading from illiterate per*! sons who assume to teach uh better manners and purer morals.thata fair and intelligent review of the subjeet bv a care- { 4ul reader is really a contribution of value to the public. The man who dc liounces novels only proclaims the little- j ness of his own soul, and would excuse; his lack of enlarged thought, and his want of literary culture by pretending to | condemn all novels from conscientious.' acruples. Our very nature demands' works of fiction. The thirst for the in- j finite requires it, and the inconsistency; of thrusting aside all printed novels as dangerous will be recognized when the j pulpit itseK, while condemning the whole j field of fiction, will not uufrequently at-. tempt to satisfy this craving for a know-j ledge of the supernatural by creating iin-! aginative pictures themselves of the great judgment day. Others will indulge the most extravagant descriptions of the extreme felicity of the saved, while terrible torments of the lost are outlined with a particularity which would lead tho hearer to believe that the speaker had had a special revelation. Where is the consistency in all this? Tho secrets of the grave have not been revealed to us, norj have we been enabled to learn anything ' certainly of that undiscovered country "rom whose bourne no traveller has wver j "returned. All statements descriptive of th9 scenes, the joys, or the sorrows be- j ,'yond the grave, which are not found in the inspired word, are the merest fiction, i But it is not to be condemned merely be-; cause it is fiction. Fiction as often serves; a good purpose in enforcing a moral precept as in enlarging tho thoughts and the comprehensions of men. Wo would ?nly urge consistency* The Extra Session. Quite a number of our exchanges have j Expressed opinions relat'ru to the necessity or the objection to a call of an extra j *e?sion of .Mte Legislature to re-district i Ihc S'.'.ue. and good reasons have been } urged for and against it. For our own! no nnt imtMi convinced that it 4'Ull, HU U?<v ..?? ----would be well to assemble theLegisla-j ture at this time for that or any other pur-; pose. We have had quite enough of Leg- J -islation for a while. We take no part or parcel in the objee-1 tlon which has been raised on the score of expense. If we needed the extra session we would say have it. It is a poor State indeed that cannot afford to pay for: needed Legislation. We object to the ex -1 tra session because of the probable inju-1 rious effects which would follow. Does anybody doubt that the stock law, tho registration law, the proposed constitu- [ tional convention, with a myriad of oth er irritating questions, would be brought up for discussion on the first day of the j extra session? We fail to seo the groat necessity for a1 re-districting of the Slato at present. The Republicans will no doubt use every j 'effort to elect Congressmen in this State,! and it matters not whether they attempt in detail or "at large." We trust that Governor Hagood may deliver us from any more foolish Legisla-j tion between now and the time for hold- j ing the election. We hope that our city neighbor, the Charleston Acws and Courier, may give! # -both sides of this question a showing, j We cannot believe that a majority of our people desire to see our troubles multi piled, M?,r IIIU arj.->cuiuiiiig v... lure. ??? Tlio Rev. A. C. Stopp contributes an ar- j ticlb to the last week's Jkiptixl Courier, j from which the following is an extract. I For quiet humor, we believe this tohej equal to anything which the Carolina, Spartan contributed to the State House j Primer, and is not inferior to Mark1 Twain's most readable paragraph: Sometime* it is said politicians and of-1 Ifice-seeKers should not go to church, be-! cause they disturb public worship by! staving out of doors an<l keep a crowd! around them listening and laughi:ig at; their tales and electioneering anecdotes. They should hear the gospel preached, f??r1 they need its benefits, and they should ' jnake themselves examples of good con-1 <duct in the house of God. There are of- j Ten Koof>, true, nuuJMitiiuui are candidates for oftice, and it is a great I public blessing whenever one such is} elected. When we tind such hien, wej tind tluit their lives and characters have, been moulded and settled by the precious' f?rinciples of the Rible. They have im-. libed these principles directly or indirect-' ly from the pulpit; they may have drunk 1 them in at first through their mothers! and grand mothers, and thence through the Sunday schools, until their characters have beeii settled and grounded hi the' truth." County Chairman. The County Chairman is to be elected , jmxt Sale Day. Think of the matter and vote wiselj'. We need some one upon ; whom the whole party can harmonize. J We need no extreme partizan, but a fair1 and liberal man, who has the confidence i of all. Jt'DOE Cot11it an is at home, faking nj rest fiotn bis Judicial duties. i SOUTH CAROLINA PRESBYTERY. |l Interesting Synopsis of the Work of' that Body. Presbytery of South Carolina met at Ninety-Six. A|>ril 1SS2. Opened with o sermon by tlie retiring Moderator, liev. 1?. C. Ligou. ib'v. S. Ij. Morris was elected Moderator, Elder \V. A. Templeton, Temporary ClcrU, ICidcr J. J. Norton, Heading Clerk. Jlev. A. IS. Norris was deposed from the ministry, and indelinitely suspended from the sacrament of the Lord's supper, j Call of Kduelicld church for pastoral j services ot Kcv. .S. L. Morris created | quite a debate, hi.s present charge anxious to retain hhn and ISd^elield anxious to get him tin re. He threw himself upon Presbytery for advice, (alter the call had been placed in his hands.) and he was auviseu id go iu r.ugcHcra i>y a thirds vote. An adjourned meeting was appointed for < Jrcenwood Tuesday before the lifth Sabbath in this month, at o o'clock P. M., to hoar from Walhalla church on tlie dissolution of the pastoral relations. l'astoral relations oi' Rev. J. L. Brownlee and Williuiiislot), Midway and llonca j Path churches were dissolved, but Pres-1 bvtery postponed the consideration of hi.-vj dismissal until the adjourned meeting. Licentiate \V. (i. Neville having signi-j tied his acceptance of the call of Ninety- i Six and Cokesburv churches. He was ordained and installed pastor of Ninety-j Six church, and Saturday before the third i Sabbath in J uly appointed for the iMstal-1 lation services in the Cokesburv church.! Rev. II. C? Fennel accepted the call ofj I-ittle Mountain Church and the same day was appointed for his installation in this church. Rev. John MeLees and Klder J. R. Cunningham, were elected delegates to! the General Assembly to meet in Atlanta! in May. Rev. E. P. Davis and Elder L. \V. Perrin, alternates. Richland ciuirch in Oconee county was chosen as the place for the next meeting of Presbytery and Thursday before the third Sabbath in September as the time. Pastoral relation of Rev. T. C. Ligon and Mt. Hethel church was dissolved. The hearts and homes of the people of! Ninety-Six were opened to the delegates, j and in the future Ninety-Six will have the Presbytery when she wants it. dkleoatk. | The City Election?Thorough Work of the Columbia Democrats. [ Oilumbia Jicffister] The contes for tlio municipal control of the city of Columbia for the ensiling terra of two'vears terminated yesterday in the overwhelming defeat of Mr. Agiiew, the Independent candidate, l>y the Democratic nominee, Mr. John T. H licit, and the election <?f the entire ticket for Aldermen and School Commissioners. Mr. Agnew entered upon the cauvassn few weeks ago i with much earnestness, and managed liy | his boldness <>1 assertion and the vigor of j his onslaught upon tho Democracy to im-1 press upon many the idea that he con-: trolled an influence, which the voting: yesterday shows he never possessed. He . boasted that lie held the Republican col-j ored vole in the hollow of his hand, lodo | with it as he pleased, and that be would ; command tho vote of a large number of Democrats, whom he assumed to bo dis-' affected, and only waiting for a leader to ! direct their force*against their''wn party, j lie assumed to be the Moses who was to : lead them out of the bondage of the Dem- I nnratic, party through the wilderness of! Independentism into the promised land ; of Radicalism. The sequel shows that; Mr. Agnew was a mistaken man in all these calculations, for not asingle one has; been realized in the result of yesterday, j This example will bcawholosome lesson, if not to him at least to wise men who j mav be disposed to follow his example, j ami enter upon the bootless enterprise of, breaking down the Democracy of South Carolina. The white voto was cast in full and, polled almost solidly for the Democratic | nominees, and this was supplemented by i a considerable colored vote, w bile the In-! dependent candidate railed to draw to lusj support one-half of. tho registered votes; of the colored people, and a lamentably small number of whites. The Coward's Rifht to Shoot. [Greenville Xcxvt.) It will be noticed that by the testimony in the Ladd murder case it is shown and not disputed, thai Kane shot Ladd in the! left elbow with a rifle ball at very short! range. Durham testified that after re-i ceiving this wound Ladd rushed out with his gun raised in both hands. Ladd must have been a supernaturallv tough man. It is proved, and not disputed that all of Ladd's wounds were in the back and side. Durham and Kane both testify that when they fired at Ladd ho was facing j them. Ladd must have been a lightning i athlete, to turn on each occasion between the time of firing and the burying of the balls in his body. Mcsse, witness for defence, testifies that Durham and Kaneadvanced together. Durham, according to tho published report of his testimony, was at the opposite side of the house from Kane, and fired at Ladd as he was run fiotn the house by Kane on the other side. In his charge to the jury. Judge Bond says that any man who has a "reasonable ground to fear" that his life of per ??M1 1?? 111 UHU^tT, Villi Kill illiy Ullivr IlliUl { without waiting i'or any threatening wordj or act. llis failure to (Ietitle what "reasonable j^rouiid" is, leaves a tremendous opening for the escape of any murderer. The terms of the charge force the jury to judge not only of the evidence, but of the courage or timidity of the prisoner, and | to look into the mind of the killer at the timo of the killing. Without a definition of "rersonable grounds" the charge is bad law and would impel a jury to acquit whenever the accused can show only that the slaid person bore the character of' being dangerous. Under that charge the j evidence of Kane and Durham that I ..add i attempted toslmot them was unnecessary. All they had to do to securo accquittal was to prove that Ladd was an object of general tcrrror to them. Packing Juries. [Columbia Yroinan.] In conversation with a friend, a few evenings since, we remarked that it was a little rcttjnrkable, and somewhat mysterious to our i.;:nd, as to how United States Court jurors wv.-e drawn. He said that a new order of things .'>nd been i?troduced, and that no such i.'-'ric cs a "packed jury" <r>uld be obtained. The following, from the Greenville News, shows "how the old thing works" yet: "Queer coincidences occur sometimes. At the present term of the United States Court the United States Government is very anxious to convict certain Demo crane citizens ot the L nited .States of sun-! dry political crimes. In Greenville conn- j ty there are. say ">,500 white voters, of wliom 5,300 are Democrats and 200 are Radicals. "In the drawing of the jurors to try the Democratic citizens aforementioned none of the names of the 5,300 Democrats happened to be found, while of the 200 Radicals two were chosen-two whose political sentiment is a matter of general notoriety. With what charming coincidence it is that this two hundred should chance to have two representatives, while the lifty-three hundred chance to have none, just as jurors of the two hundred shado of politics happen to ho most wanted. "It is a very nice litilo lottery calculation for amateur mathematicians, and the result may be stated?53into2 goes twice, ami a wide margin over for another panel if needed." The Carolina Spartan Expresses the Sentiments of Abbeville Comity. For some time a certain paper, t',e ' Charleston Mercury had denoun001' j Governor Ilagood as a failure as to his; otllcial acts. Last week the bnliula . 1 rgutt j joined its forces to those of the Mercury j and now the Governor is receiving a bom-! bardment from the front and rear. In: former days he was good under fire of a! different sort, and those who know him; A..>l uiira f lin will nnt ovf??i rlnclr llic i head down when these straggling-missies! whistle around him. Spartanburg is about unanimous in the opinion that ilagood has made a most excellent Governor, and the county would like to show its j appreciation of his worth l>y nominating] him for the same olliee again. He has aj quiet, conservative, silent sort of way,' united with good common sense and | manhood that exactly suits our people.? j Carolina Spvrtan. c*> ? - Marriage of two Convicts. Greenville, April 5.?Richard Hates,! under sentence of death for arson, to bei executed <>n the 28th inst,, and Ann Good, I sentenced to two years* imprisonment at hard labor in tho* Penitentiary for grand I larceny, were married to-day at 5 P. M. I by Col. Edward Croft. The ceremony j took place in the cell of the jail wherein j are confined three others who with Bates! await the execution of tho death sentence | on the 2Sth iust., for the same crime.! Tlin njiir will remain together with tho i other prisoners in their cell through to- j night. To-morrow -the bride goes to the! Penitentiary to servo her term of impris-i onment, ami three weeks from that day th j groom goes to the gallows. Make Constables of t'ie Greenbnckers.1 We hear that Inis Col. Sam Wallingford, of Iowa or Dakota, who is roaming about tlie country making greenback speeches, aired his arguments at Good Hope one^ day last week, and made many converts., IJali! the greenback issue is a very dead one in South Carolina; and the men who take up with it at this stage of the game ' must lie pretty crazy for otlice. We suggest that every Trial Justice in our county appoint the leading green hacker in his neighborhood as his constable. In this way perhaps the back hone of the green-.' laick party in Edgefield many be broken !, ? Edf/efield Adva f iever* Attention Democrats I There will be a meeting ?i the County Democratic Club at Abbeville! Court House on salesday in May next, j The local clubs are requested to reor-: yanizf unit ele?*t delegates to said meeting. liy order of the President, Eugene B. Gaky, j 4t {Secretary, j The Uses and Ataes of Fiction.' WHAT TO READ AND HOW TO READ. Esssay Rend Defure the Abbeville Literary Club, April 7, 1S82, by Vi. A. Lee, Esq. The club met at th? residence of Mr. W Joel Smith, rrcsklent O. T. C'ulhoun In the chair. Mr. S. C. Cason, Secretary. After the transaction of the preliminary business, the ssny by Mr. I.te was tlven read as follows: "Pttidtef," nayr Lord I'fccnn, "rerve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Theli chief use for delight. Is In |>rl vatenesx and retiring; tor ornament Is in discourse, and forj ability Is In the judgment ami disposition ofj business;" and this, whilst true of all lenrn-i log. applies In its full breadth to that world ol j. imaginative literature, which the inspiration ui st'imix uhb ctuhi'u irum un: realms ui mc. unknown. NECESSITY FOR FICTION*. This "visible, diurnal sphere." tnnelhlc nnd i real?Wonderful us it is In its quiet beauty and strenge myst?rlousness, exhibited as well j iu the silent operations of nature, and the regular succession of events?"the trivial round, tbeeonunon task"?as well In the fury I of the tornado, and the march of the pestilence, as in I he issues which decide the fate of kings, and chanue the course of empires?presents too narrow a field for the range of human thought, and the exercise of human sympathy. TESTIMONY OK LORD UAC0N. T'noYi this point hear asialn the father of modern philosophy: " Because the acts or events of H ue history have not that magnitude which satlstieth the mind of man, poetry fHmith acts urvatcr and more heroical ; because true history propounded] thesuccesstsand issues of actions, not so aerceable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy fciirns them more Justin retribution, nnd more according to revealed providence: because his ory represented actions more ordinary, and less Interchanged. therefore poesy endoweth them with more rareness, and more unexpected ami alternative variations: so as it a ppea ret 11 that poetry scrveth and confcrrctb to magnanimity, morality, and delectation." TESTIMONY OF AN ENGLISH REVIEWER. Says an Kngllsh reviewer. "The cultivated man enjoys the hieliest poetry, simply because it do*s not deal with the mere truth of fact. He feels the want of other mental sustenance than this. ISooks of science or of history tell him. what Is; but poetry tells him of what ought to lie, or leads htm to think of what might be. He delights in it. He feels that In thus lifting his thoughts out commonplace, poetry docs hi in an immense service. It ennobles him. It widens his rnngeof vision, it deepens his sensibility, It stirs him with a vniMie thirst and lontrl tier after the unnttalnn ble. the grand and t he vast. Aid he knows that be hn* been refreshed and strengthened by the process, even when he Is least able to put into wo:ds, a single proposition, which his Judgment hns accepted." TESTIMONY OF ROBERTSON OF BRIGHTON. To the same effect are the words of Robertson of Brlshton. with regard to works of Action . "Head they will he, and rend they must be ; ami if we arc asked why works of Action are mutters of importance, the best reply which ha? been suggested Is, that, they eclnree the heart, enabling us to sympathize with the hearts of a laruer circle of the human race, than that into which our own experience admits us," and he Illustrate* the Influence of Pickens in depleting the scenes of ordinary life, In appealing to the sympathies of nil classes, and teaching those lessons of kindnessand mutual toleration which are ludependenl of class or consideration. IIOW WIDE THE INFLUENCE OF FICTION. If the literature of a country, he It* most cherished possession, and the immortal productions of Grecian, Roman. Medlreval. and Mcdern genius, our most, precious heritage, consider for a moment how large a part of thai literature Is made up of the creations of the Imagination?poetry anil prose?and how large an Influence It has exercised In mouldInn the thought and in controlling the destiny of the world. IM.CSTRIOI'S NAMES?POETS, DRAMATISTS, NOVELISTS. Here are to be ranked those matchless epics, which have been the wonder and admiration or the race; which have stirred the thought, refined the taste, and consoled the ircnius of scholars of all ages and nations? the JI lad and Odysy of Homer, the ./Kneld of Virgil, the Divine Comedy of Dante, the Paradise lxjst and Regained of Milton. Here are presented the pictured paces, the moving panorama of the dramatist ? the (iroek /Eschylus Sophocles and Euripides? the Roman En n I us. Plautus, and Terrence?the French Racine. Cornellle. and Mollere?our own Shakespeare, "prince of dramatists." Ben Johnson, Beaumon. and Fletcher?the prose fiction of MedbeVal and Mo.lern genius ?the "Arabian Nights," the "Decameron" of Boccaccio the "Don Quixote " ot Cervantes, the "< ill-Bias" ot LeRage. the "Robinson Cru soe" of Defoe, the "Gulliver" and "Tale of n Tub " of Swllt, the "Clarissa" of Richardson, the "Tom Jones" of Fieldlne, tho "Roderick Rnmlom of Smollett, the "Trlstam Shandy" of Sterne, the "Kvellna" of Miss Burney?or to oome to Inter days, the mutch less creations of the author of "Ivanhoe" nnd "Kenllworth" ot the "Absenteo" nnd "Patronage" of "Vanity Fair" nnd tho "Newcomes" of "I)nv|?l Copperfleld," nnd "Dombey & Son," of "Rienzi" and the "Caxton's," of "Vivian Grey" and -"Henrietta Temple." of "Alton Locke" and "H.vpntla," of "Middlemnrch" anu "Daniel Deronda," the best productions of the French Dumas nnif Victor Hugo ; of the German Richter, Goethe, Fr^ytag, Auerbacli: of our own Cooper, nnd Irving, and PauliVIng, and Poe, and Hawthorn, and Slinms. HOW NARROW TH<5 SPIRIT WHICH CAN OVERLOOK THE BEAUTIES OF ifATtTItE AND AltT. What narrow and contracted spirit Ib that which could go through this enchanted Innd, pro Ifioat every step with the fruits of para disc, nnd redolent of "Snbean odors from the spicy shores of Araby the blest."?go through It Irom "Dan to Beersheba," and pronounce it all barren? What dull utilitarian was that who upon readkg Paradise Lost and Insensible to the splendors of heaven and the horrorsof hell, could ask what does it prove? His own want of taste and Imagination, indubitably ! How narrow was the spirit of that vandal Caliph, who made a bonfire of the great Alexandrian library, with the silly remark that if Its nooks sustained the Koran they were useless but if they opposed it. they were pernicious. The poet Wordsworth writes with just scorn of lnc Insenmte soul who could "botanize upon his mother'sgrave;" and many there are who could walk fn the fields of nature Insensible to Its beauties; the sung of the bird, the purl of the brook, the breath of the flowers, the rustle of the leaf, and ihe moving panorama of sunlight and shadow. For such minds the Creator has lavished in vain from the storehouse of his trensures? planted In vain "the ro<.e of Sharon and the lily of the valley," and thrown upon every lanascape mose vaneu ntnuuo, which ?cic designed to minister to the best elements of our emotional nature?to elevate, to purify, and to ennoble. 8uch a woild, even more surpassingly lovely has the pen of genius created from the ma lerials, which the hnnd of nature has ecJiai ed around us?like the chef docwe of the Grecian artist, It has been thi' product of genius, where nature has bc?n made subsldlary to art, and the magi" conceptions of the Imagination have heMr-m bod led In the lovely forms of an world. Those glowing thoughts s.VU Immortal conceptions, first finding expression lu the heroic song, the stately 6ple, nnd moving draino, and afterwards In the brilliant pr<,Ao of romance, the enchanting style and breathing thoughts of the modern novelist. have furnished the germs of national developement, and formed the basis of much that is best and brightest In ancient and modem civilization. IMMORTAL IN ITS INFLUENCE. The choicest product ions of ancient art have crumbled in dust, but the poems of Ilomer and the worksof kindred genius, after discharging u ?ood office In stimulating the thought and moulding the character of their own contemporaries, have come down to us, notas mere antiques, but In the freshness of Immortal youth, to repeat the same work to other people and other times, and to fonti anew the basis of a broadercolture, and to furnish the Inspiring lite of a larger growth. NATURE OF ITS INFLUENCE. Who c an undervalue ? Certainly no schol ar, the priceless treasures, both prose and poetry, which form the Imaginative literature of the past ? They Indeed "serve for delight, for ornament, nnd for ability" They conscle in sickness, they minister delight in adversity?they retlne Ihe taste and lend wings tothe Imagination?they till the m'nd with lofty thoughts nnd glowing conceptions, making the soui superior to ttie Ills of life, and lurnlshing a propelling power, not a clog and a hindrance, to the practical duties, and earnest business of life. EXTENT OF FICTITIOUS LITERATURE PROOF OF ITS INFLUENCE. That works of the Imagination form so large a part of the literature of a people, and atloid scone for the exercise of Its highest genius, Is in itself proof conclusive, ns well of! their influence upon national ehuiacter, as of their claim to be the exponent of a people's civilization. "Give inc.'' says Fletcher of Saltorn, "the muklns: of the songs of a people, and I aire not who make its laws The Hume Is trucot nil Imaginative literalure ; the Mings of the heroic age; tlie legendary tales of gods and demigods ; the stories of enchanted castles, and errant knights, and necromantic arts; the stutily epic, the moving drama, the enchanting romance, the modern novel, j They all "come home to the business and bo- j sums" of our race, and minister to our In-! stinctive love of the marvelous, the great and j the new: they kindle the fancy of childhood, soothe the spirit of manhood, and afford I solace and consolation to the quiet enjoyments' of use. USES OK FICTION FOUNDED ON THE NECESSITIES OK OVK NATUKF.?INFLUENCE OF THE IMAGINATION. This is necessarily so, and Action has Its uses necessary usesfounded upon tbecontrolling necessities of our being. We are compos- j ite btlngs, made up not of reason and the un-1 dertstamliiig only, but of the imagination, the' desires and the feelings. Imagination fur-! nislies the great motive power, the mainspring of humaii activity, which propels thei cat ot human progress. Furnishing models j ol ideal excellence, the imagination makes us satisfied with our condition, and urges us to greater effort to Improve the happiness of ourselves and others It tills the mind with noble thoughts and inspires the effort to achievcall that Is dazzling in contemplation or heroic In action. Jt refines the taste, and j elevates the feelings, and inspires that love of i picturesque beauty. which throws a churm i upon all ihe cre-itions of nature and art. It Is the foundation of true sensibility, and putting us in the place of others, enables us to! realize, and hence to sympathise with, their! Joys and sorrows. It thus Illuminates the; path of life, and when properly directed, i gives a double zest to enjoyment and alle-, viates the pain of sorrow?lifts tlifi veil of the i future, and furnishes a soluce lor Iho ills of! the present. IMAGINATION VALUABLE IN EVERY DEPART-' MENT OF LEARNING. So Important a factor Is the Imagination In | every mental operation, that. Its exercise furnishes Invaluable aid In' every department of; learning?valuable to the historian, and to t the phllo-onher. as well hb to Hie poet and novelist?valuable as an aid to memory?val- j liable where distinct thought and vivid lm-j prcpslons are necessary to evoke u living,: moving scene from the dead past,and to in-1 rest the "dry bonis" of I he prophet's vision with lilVandorgaui/.ation?necessary to build up systems, and to unite the diyjccta membra - - ~ 11.? hnrnmiilniic Ul./l consistent whole. -Sir Win. Hamilton as-lnns to Aristotle an imagination akin to that of Homer. anil tor the same reason we may attritmtea larce share of the"vlslon and faculty divine" to Mahomet, to Calvin and toNapo-l leon, n? well as to Virgil, to Dant" and lo Ml!- i ton. Its eserclxc Is neccssnry lo all true! breadth and comprehension of thought; and i hence It Is to the lack of development In this faculty, that Hamilton attributes the Inferiority of the modems In the true appreciation of art. USK OK FICTION NOT CONFINED TO THE CULTURE OF THE IMAGINATION?MAS ASSUMED THE FUNCTIONS OF THE H1ST0KIAN. J It Is t hen In the culture of the Imagination, ! the taste and the emotions, as well as in the delight nil solace and agreeable relaxation that they furnish, that we find the chief u?es of lietitlous works. But the uses of Action are not confined to these, It has penetruK^j Ihe province of the historian and assuming t his functlons.has distanced IllsetJ'ortu?hasex- I plored regions ah Inaccessible as the head- wa- i tors of the Nile?has penetrated the border i land, where history Is lost In "the twilight of i futile''?hns weighed "the manners, laws and customs"of the ancient nations?discarding the stately march of events, the record of tpf- . uastles, baulei and sieges, has drawn Its j warp and woof from the materials of every ' day life?has plctuied man in hi* dally avoca- j thins; Ju the home, the workshop, the forum and the amphitheatre, it Is not to the pages oiHerrodolUs,H?dTIiucydldesthutwemusi go ' for the best delineation or Grtcian ife and manners, but to the tragedies of Sophocles and the comedies of Aristophanes?It Is not to I.lvys "pictured psire nor to the annals ofj Tacitus that we would look ibr a vivid picture | of um lent Rome, hut lo the satires of Horace! and Juvenal?we do not (to to the sober and | stately Clarendon for our knowledge of the I England of the Restoration, hut to -its comic 'ramatlsts; to Wycherly, VimbrMgli and Congreve? nor Is It to Roheitsoh and Hume that I wc owe our knowledge of the England of' QAnn and the Georges, but to poets, novelists and diainatists?to Pope und Cow- 1 per, and Goldsmith and Fleldlnc and .Smollett?to Muria Edg worth and to Walter Scott ?and where can we find truer pictures of , England as It is,than lu the pages of Dickens, ! Thackary and Hulwer. Says Macau lay, "Sir Walter Scott lias used those fragments of truth, which the historian has thrown scorn-, fully away, and has constructed out of their gleanings, works which considered even as histories are scarcely less valuable than, theirs." As ltls, we haveto look for the wars, and votes of the Puritans In Clarendon for:1 their phraseology In "Old Mortality;" for one | half of King James In Hume, and for the oth i er half in the "Fortunes of Nigel." FICTION HOLDS THE MIRKOK Ul* TO NATUItE. II "the proper study of mankind is man.*"! where can we find a better school, than in' those delightful fictions, which are designed' to hold the mirror up to mil ure,and to portray all the phases of the tragic and the comic?j; the play of the pa-slons,and the development | of character in those Infinite varieties ol clr-, cumstance and situation, which makeup the i materials of every duy life. THE ABUSES OF FICTION TWO-FOLD. j such are some 01 me uses oi unum, nu>? what are I tsabuses??they are two-fold: First: the reading of Improper books, and *ccond,i the reading of proper books In an Improper way. THE FIELD OF SELECTION* WIDE AND DIVERSIFIED. The field of selection Is wide and diversified, wider than the world Itself, with milk for babes, and strong meat for men. goodly fruits and noxious herbs, and brambles and thistles, the tree of life and the deadly upas; "aire, i vernal airs," and blasts from Tartarus; thingsfair and foul; good and cvll.goctd and evil mixed: fo that we need some Mentor to guide us arlglit, to teach us to weigh and consider, to compare and to discriminate, to select the good and reject the evil; and to choose that which shall best suit each age, sex and condition? tlie first eager longings of childhood, the maturer instincts of middle life, and the sober appreciation of nge?the dcilcatc taste3 and rellned fancy of womanhood, and the stronger appetites, and more disciplined; strength of manhood. AN EVIL LITERATURE. But there Is a literature which Is good for J neither man. woman nor child?a literature ; which ministers to the worst passions of our nature, and is the ready hand-maid of vice? tnat vice which Is "A monster of 60 frightful meln That to be hated, needs but to be neon. Yet seen too ofl, familiar with her face, Weflrst eudure, then pity, then embrace." There is a literature which Is evil and only evil?the literature of dime novels and policegazettes; a literature which introduces us to to the fellowship of bandits and cut-throats, and the depraved of both sexes?to the glided saloons of vice and the haunts of the outlaw and the debauchee?a llteraturo which finds a place in the novels of Itcynolds and Alnsworth; in the worst of Smollett and Bulwcr and Uulda and Braddon; In the worstof the French Sensational .School of Balzac and Sue. De Kock, Victor Hugo, "tieo. Sand" and Dumas. A LITERATURE OCCUPYING A PLANE ABOVE TIIE FOREGOING. There Is a literature occupying" a plane above this, as regards whatever Is directly evil and pernicious, but destitute of laste, destitute of iuveniion, with no powerofdenf ,.lmroi.ror. Inn mnlf Ing amends for all tills deficiency by the i ush of Die narrative, "the moving Incident* by tlood and lleld," hair-breadth escape*, and awful catastrophes, to stimulate a depraved taste, unu morbid appetite?an J leave 110 trace ol good behind. It the literature of mom of the newspaper serials?of third and fourth rule novelists, which servos not merely to kill time but to cieate a distaste for the better classes of fiction; the charming narratives and the choice dellneullonsuf nature and art, whi"h are to be found In the works ol Kd?eworth and Scott, of Dickens and Thnckary. Of such beware! CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, NECESSARILY IMAGINATIVE To begin with the beginning, what shall our children read 7 Shalll we contlue them to Sunduy-school books, which tell of those youtnful prodigies of virtue, who being too pure lor earth, like most of the "good, die yoU-.g," or to those secular primers which hold up the Immaculate youth of Cyrus and Washington to put to shame the short comings ol their degenerate successors ; and Intei*. lard each fable with virtuous precepts "to point a moral and adorn a tale." It has been made a question how Car imaginative literature Is the proper food for the youthful mind, the talcs of fairies and genii, of enchanted palaces and magic castles, and the old tales of the Nuisery. of "Beauty and the Jbeast," of "Clnderilla," of "Jack and the Beanstalk 'of "Jack the Giant Killer." of "St. Nicholas" the children's friend, the "Arabian Night" "Robinson Crusoe," "The Pll-rlm Progress," the talcs of Hans AnJcr?en and kindred stories. It Is a question which the practice of the world has longslncc decided; and with regard to which philosophy hmi sustained the dictates of common ssnse. VIEWS OF COLKRIDGE. Upon this point, hear Coleridge, one of the leaders of 'modern thought: He says, "my early reading ol fairy tales and about genii and the like, had habituated me to the vast: and I never retarded my senses In any way, au the criterion of my experience. I regulated all my words by conceptions, not by my sight even at that age. Ought children to be permitted to read stories, ana romances 01 giants, magicians and genii. I know all tliut has been said aealnsl it. but I have formed my faith In the affirmative. I know noolher way of giving the mlndaloveofthegrcatundthe whole. Those who have have been lea lo the same truth8, step by step, by the constant testimony of their senses, seem to want & sense which 11 possess. They contemplated nothing but parts, and all parts, are necessarily Utile, and the Universe to tliem is but a mass of little things. It is true ihe mind may become credulous andprone losuperstltlous fancies, by the, former method. But are not tho experlmejijf; alists (the practical men) credulous ey^Tt/> madness In believing any absmaJfTvrattaer than believe Ihe grandest trutl4rw- have not the testimony of their/: , * , ,n their favor. 1 have knowi^,. " t-nioually educated, as It is Myk'"i,--!nicy were marked by an almost TMroscopic acuteness, but when they 'e;ol; d at great things ulI became a blank, and they taw nothing and denied thai, anything could be seen, and uniformly -put tl.e negation of a power for the possession of a power, and called the want or Imagination, Judgment, und the never being moved to rupturo philosophy " IMAGINATION FIRST DEVELOPED. The reason is pluln, and consists in the fact, that in the progress of individuals, as of nations, the imagination Is first developed and niuRt be first cultivated. The child lives In an ideal world, confounding tho boundarlesof the real and the Imaginative and invests everything around him with the creations of his own fancy. It is well that it Is so. Time will come soon enough to dispel the Illusions ofhope, and dlssolvethe airy dreams of fancy. In the meantime let liiin enjoy himself. Let him follow the promptings of nature, and gratify the InstlncLs which are true because they are natural. Let him fill his mind with Images of the great the beautiful and the good, which lift him above tho solflshnessof the present and thecares of the future and which will remain, let time do Its work. Kttma aci?a Joy forever. But what works In the domain of fiction shall we provide for the gentler sex ? We have sought to exclude them from.the fierce pnnHlrtii ttf tho nrpmt nnH frnm tho rlnat nf the,foium, istix 11 wc nlso wlthod tlvem from that large section of literature, where ma*cuIlne thought lias taken It* coloring from the varied scenes of life, and given to cf^irseness and to grossncss, nnd to Indelicacy that prominence which they ossumeasthe characteristics of certain people and certain times? Shall we conflne tnern to congenial minds of their own sex?poets, dramatists und moralists?to Hemansand Aorton and Browning?Jounna Ballle?Radcllff'e, Edgeworth and I'orter?<Jliphanl, Murdock and "Georgo Elliott"?nnd to our own Hentz, and Harland and Evans?and other kindred spirits who have embellished the past und the present ot bnglish and American literature. The Held Is r wide one and umone these writers are names worthy to be classed among the firoudest. Few surpass Maria Edgeworlh In ler delineation of Irish scenes and Irish character, and In her representation of the many pha-os of English fashionable life? In the "Absentee" und "Castle Kackrent"?In "Patronage" and "Maneuvering" and she had still tills crowning glory, to Inspire the genius of .Scott, to do foi the hills and vales and streams and brooks of .Scotland, what ehc herself had done for the green fields, and thatched cottages of the Emerald Iule. THE FIRST NAMES IN LITERATURE. These writers have purity, grace, e:evntlon of sentiment and refinement of taste, but with one or two exceptions they lack that creative power, thut vigor and breadth of thought, that have given to Million, to Shakespeare, to Fielding, to Scott, to Dickens and to 1 hackary, uhelr first place among the Immortal names of English and American literature. SHAKESPEARE. ||Shakespcare first of dramatist*, and hJgb priest of nature, deserves the place which John Randolph asMgntd him, 011 the sAue shelf with the English Bible, and his influence upon our language and literature has been somewhat akin to lhal Immortal work. "Each change of many-colore'l life he drew, Exhausted worlds, aud then Imagined new." In spile of occasional grosBness, which was the characteristic of his age und people, Hiid which is but as a spot on the sun, where shull we find so glorious a display ot moving i lie as in uis muicmt'ss urn mm 7 nucn inunlle dlveislties of character?the statesman, warrior, lover, poet, philosopher, misanthrope, fool and Jester! who "strut their brief hour on the stage," and live In our Imaginations forever?whero such op'.ileitl lent store* of wit, humor und pathos?where such linages of beauty and sublimity, drawn from every field of nature, and every phuze of life, character and emotion, TRIBUTE OF MACAULAY TO SHAKESPEARE. Maeavlay attributes the excellence of the dramas of Shnke?peaie, and his contemporaries, to two peculiarities?the mixture of tragedy and comedy, and the length and extent 01 the action. The former Is necessary to furnish a true picture of the world, und thej hitter to enable the characters to show them-1 selves. "'In this respect the works of Shakespeare are miracles of art. In a pleco which mny be read aloud In three hours, we see a character unfold all Its recesses to us. We see It change with (he change of circumstances. The petulant youth rises Into thejjollticand warlike sovereign. The profuse and conrteous philanthropist, sours into a hater and scorner of hi" Kind. The tyrant is altered by the chastening of affliction Into a penxlve moralist. The vetern-general distinguished by cool-1 ness, sagacity and self-command, sinks under' a conflict between love strong as death und I........ ......ol no Ihu ......'I ho hm?n o,.,l! JCHIUUOJ tlUM AO UIU fe.lMV., HIV UIUTV nuu , loyal subject passes step by step, to the ex-' t rimes of human depravity. Oreatas ure the changes, narrow as is the compass within which they are exhibited, they shock us ok little as the gradual alterations of those familiar faces which we see every evening and every morning. Tie magical skill of the, poet resemble* thai of the Dervlse In the spectator, who condensed all the events ofj seven years, Into a single moment." EULOGY OF JEFKHY UPON SHAKESPEARE.! Jetlry Is alike ardent In hlsndmlratlon. He says: "lie alone, when the object requires It, can be always keen, worldly and practical i and yet, without changing his hanil, or slopping his course, scatters around him, as he goes, all sounds and shapes of sweetness, and 1 conjures up land scapes of I mo rial fragrance of freshness, and peoples them with spirits of 1 glorious aspect and attractive grace, and Is a thousand limes more lull of fancy and ima- ] gery, and splendor than those, who in the pursuit of such enchantment*, ha\e shrank 1 back from the delineation of character or 1 passion, und declined the discussion of ] human duties and care?. Mvre full ot wisdom j < inil ridicule and nvsncHy, thnn nil the moral- T sts nnd natlrUt* that ever existed, he ig more ? A'iiU, airy am' inventive, anil more pathetic, uid nan last ic, thnn nil the poem of all Hgeo ind regions of the world." what Authors to rrad. Rend thiit admirftble creation of Carvantes, Lhe renowned "Don Quixote," and his Squ'.re Jancho Punza, where humor and pathos uro *!!ke I.tended, und the ludlcrousness of iho subject nnd the extravagance ot ttie action fire redeemed by tbedlgnlty and elevation of the X sentiment. Read Uil-lflus," that admliable picture of life and manners, Read tlie"Tom Jones" of Fielding (once, a year perhaps, as it Ik said that Dr. Thoinweli advised,) read Fielding for ill# graphic delineation of KligIUh nature, and of English manners, a pnlnter or real life and an acute observor rrt' of the springs of human conduct, ami the ?i tdinzes of human character. Read the "Rode- , rick Random." of .Smollett, with its easy d flowing style, its broad humor, and Its lively 1 narrative, reflecting the virtues andvicrsof; the age?the "I'larlssa" of Richardson, ills' masterpiece, which can nevor lose its interest K as tongas sympathy with suffering maintains t its hold upon our nature?"Trlfltajn Shandy" c "with its dry humor and tender feeling?the : "Tale of a Tub,"?the "Vicar of Wakefleld"?, c Scott who lias appropriated the whole do- v innlii of Action and like nnomer smaKespearc f ha* formed a new world from the material* of, mingled learning and romance?Dickon*,!0 brilliant, genial, and entertaining, a painter 'I r>f life and manners In all its pl1a7.es; the.inost' < popular of humorists?Thackary, profound, vigorous and graphic theadinlrabeuellneator j ' r?r charactcr, (ho sworn enemy of shams? e Bulwof with his absorbing plots, his l?rl 11-! 0 lant narrative, his dramatic power, and that: mellow radiance which shines in the 'Caxtons' ] ^ In the"Variety of English Life,"and Kenolm ' j C'hlllintrly; the original and profound Klngrly i the brilliant Disraeli, the vigorous-Rend the soul-stirring Collins, the graceful Irving, the picturesque Cooper, the linoglnullve Po?, the quaint Hawthorne, the entertaining Slmms, Trollope and Blpck and Hardy and , many others whom the world will not willingly let die. x CHOOSE THE nEST. ( With such authors of genlns, taste and Im- * agination within our reach, shall we turn t away and feed on trash; upon books l hat have neither style, plot nor character? Shall we bo content even with writers of thw second- j class, when the bent authors aro accessible to > us and when we can make them t he dally ' companions or our thoughts, and tne guide f and solaco of our lives? tub Improper cse of fiction nut there Is an Improper uso 'of he bes! of t Actionswhlchmlnlsteronlyevlland unAtone I for the duties and the practical business of < life. The evil consists, In devoting too much I of our time to Action ; in making Itan absorbing object of thought, until we live in an Ideal i world, lose our rcusu mr wvciv-i iHiui?, , become unfitted for real life. 1 The evil Is two-fold?first the gradual weak- i etiing of our motive-power*, without any I compensation, lu the acquirement of virtuous i habits, and second the disgust which Is creat- < cd for I lie scenes of real life. As that acute ?>ri- I glnal and profound observer, Hlshon Butler, ( remarks, the springs of human action arise < from those passive Impressions, which tho i operation of our minds and the scenes of e.x- i ternul nature produce in us. nnd which he- i coming Impaired by use, and dally weakened I by repetition, would fall entirely to serve i their purpose, If they did not engender, en- < large and fix those habits of thought uud ac- I lion, which ultimately supply their placo. i Tho emotions of pity, of companion and i benevolence are most vivid and controlling i vhen called first Into exercise ; and If they i find their proper scope in active charity and i wide spread philanthropy.they make amends for their loss In fixed habits of virtue Ho that as tho emotion becomes weaker, the hiblts gather strength and the man perforins the i duties, und exercises tho charities of life by the promptings of a law as strong as nature Itseifc liut let us Indulge lu plcturesofflctillous distress: In that "luxury of woe" which the pen of fiction lias associated with Its best creations, and confine ourselves to sentiment nnd sympathy und emotion, and move, no finger to relieve the distress of our fellows, wc become callous and Indlllercnt and in tlmn alike destitute of sympathy and of practical benevolence. oun TASTES BECOSIE TOO REFINED. Another phase of the Fame evil Is, that the scenes of fiction are so surpasslvely fair, the characters so select, thesltuallousso romantic, with the absence of all that is gross and revolting, that our appetites become vltiuted, our tastes so refined and our sympathies sw narrow that we luicome disgusted with the scenes of rial life and become insensible to the culls upon our practical bcncvolencc. the True corrective is to use, not abuse thk gifts 3f fictitious literature. The only corrcctlon is to use, not abuse, the Rifts which lie before us; to mingle lighter with graver studies; reeratlon with study; contemplation with action?to use fiction as a solaco and recreation?uot as an end, but as it means of mental linpiovemcnt. And then we shall find it like all other literature, elevating and Inspiring?soothing care and alleviating sorrow---glvlnic new thlnes to hope,a broader scope to charity; a wldrr range to sympathy?furnishing a noble impulse lo discharge faithfully the duties which the Creator has set before us. REMARKS. * ' What the Different Members had to Say About the Essay and the Subject or which it Treated. When the reading of the Eessay had been finished, the Presldentof the Club, an Is usual on such occasions, addressed each member in turn,calling for an expressson of opinion on the subject under discussion. At such meetings there nre always quite a number who participate as listeners only, while others do not hesitate to "talk out In the meeting" Beginning on "the left, and In reply to the President, TROF. D. B. JOTINSOX RATI): One of our best American novelists Illustrates. In one of his characters, whom he allows to read only the Rlble and Phakcsppare. (he complete store of wisdom both divine and human to be found In these hook??their great Influence upon practical thought, the power to converse, and the ability to read hurr.an character. They may well be put upon the sameshelf. Ix>rd Macaulny uses the following Illustration to show that, history Is often and he says, improperly colored. b> the Imagination of the writer. He suy? that history Is the bordcr-lnnd between two hostile provinces?reason and imagination?and that like kiich a territory, at one time, It falls under one of the contending miwers and at uno'lier under the other. ife lias very correct Idea*, but he has not fifclnrr.in* "fo them. Philosophy can best be dlssepilnated throughout the masses ?nd.-rtiie garb of Action. If Lottl?had lived nt this time of.novels and literary trash I that he would have made tifje aphorism about books read. "Some books are to be bnrnt'd. lomc to he spurned, some to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested," MR. BURT BAID: I have listened with Interest and pleasure to the excellent essay of our friend, and concur In the views ho has so well expressed. Indeed he has put upon me a personal obligation by the force, beauty, and truthfulness with which he has expressed my own thoughts nnd sentiments. In the loneliness of a lire lib e mine, Action In Its largest sense brings companionship and begets sympathy. It nourishes whilst it cheers the mind?It warms the heart whilst It leeds the mind. I thank our friend again for his admirable essay. SIR. E. B. GARY SAID: It seems to me that we And the key to the subject In its very words "the tweand aftt/.teof Action." I think there Is not a dissenting voice when It is asserted that Action Is useful and that, its etTects are also harmful. Mncaulay In one of bis essays tellH us that poetry and works of Action flourish chiefly In th<} less enlightened periods of time. I account for this fact on tlie ground that countries In their Infancy, like the childhood of man, are pleased by what Is startling and highly-colored; we all know that books which pleased In childhood .ire thrown aside In more mature years. The object ot Action should be to delineate the principles of our nature, and to elevato our sentiment. The essayist has evlnccdan admiration for one author, the ben.uIlea of whose works I have never been able to discover. I allude to Dickens. I know that the critical world accords to him a high place In literuture, nev ertheless I am not one or dib miinircrs. Usaully I do not In discussing the subject compliment the essayist,' an It In looked upon a? a mere matler of form at this stifge of our proceedings, but If I did not speak of the essay ut this tlinc I would be untrue to the promptings of admiration. I was really sorry when the essiy ended und certainly think the essayist lias done ample Justice to ihe subject and edified us all. CAPT. J. T. PARKS SAID: That the best orators, the best writers, and the most successful preachers of the gospel, were readers of fiction ; that no man could attain the highest success In any of the learned professions who did not read novels; that the mind which did not read fle'lon was necessarily dwarfed. Nothing else could expand the mind us does novel-read lug. MR. L. XV. l'EKItlN, SAID: My expectation was alive when I enme, to | receive a great pleasure, and I have been fully compensated. The essayist has fully sustained his well earned reputation us an|entertalnlng writer. The essaj ??.? practical and i well suited to the genius and object of our i club?to cultivate a taste for pure and Impri vlng literature. He has laid down excellent rules and If followed will be of great practical good to us. i mr. j. tuller i/roy, said: I am much gratified that we have so grand an assortment of literature, of unmistakably i good character. The Imagination should most certaluly have full and frequent exercise for i Its own development iih well as to n>-slst In developing the other, and especially the moral faculties. The Dlble and Shakespeare liuvebeen coupled together as the l>c>t books in existence und I think the trouble with us is 1 the too little use of each of them. I am sure I that the ut-e of both would ureatly elevate i the tone of our people. I am fully In accord with the essayist that the reading of ihe low I vulgur dime novel 1s exceeding pernicious { ..n.l linnlH l.v rnimninalm ppnil Dftrtlculnr- ( iy by the young People know what they want to read. and this Is one reason why up ' has been said, Home books are hunded down from generation to genei atlon?each plaelng the stamp of approval upon them, they are good and only good. I am thankful that the essayist has presented so fine an array of good authors from whom wc may read bentflclally, and no man need be mistaken as to what Is proper to read. It Is a subject which demands our most careful and serious attention. The essay Is a most valuable pruducduction. After each member present had responded to the call of the President, a member moved that the Club hear Tram the President, when MB. O. T. CALHOUN, SAID: If th? Club will allow me to make a suggestion, I would suggest that the essay be published, It would be selfish In the members of the Club to keep so good a thing as the espay to themselves. It should be published; that all may be allowed the pleasure of reading It j For many reasons. I am a great bellev;r In fiction, but above all, because It encourages I me young 10 uuuiv ?u?? mi v. Lvery novel and play has Its hero, mid he Is '' a hem because bethinks and acts for himself, jt and although he is often persecuted by the,* society in which ho lives, yet In the end lie r Is allowed to niivd a glorious end, And be-1 * cause lie usually conquers, his example Ik un j * tncouragemeiit to those who wish to think ;S and act tor themselves. I * IN REPLY TO MK. GARY, .MR. LEE SAID.* j r Whilst agreeing lor the most part with the i r vlewsor Mr.Guiy, he was dl?po*i-d to dlfi'er , fiom the statement that fiction flourish!d i chiefly itt less enlightened ages. and cited the r poenisof Homer.Viigll. Dante, a id Milton, as j, showing the greatest etlorts of Hie imagina- r lion, combined with Ihe highest culture. 0 With regard to Dickens, lie referred to his r creative powers, and the stroi/g Influence n which be exercised on the populr.r mind, and (j excused ills apparent deeds on tlu< ground that his novels were written chiefly to ex- , pose social abuses?for Instance, "Nicholas i, Nlekleby' to expose the ineoti petencc and ? tyranny of a cltihs of school masters?"Oliver m lwist," the nefarious arts of the London n pickpockets?"Little Dorrit," the delays of u official routine, < Daster Sunday in Abbeville! ? j o ELEBRaTING THE RESURRECTION v OF THE SON OF MAN. d c 'he Religions Festival Which has been ? (lliiiorvfxl frnni tl?n Itnirlimlnir. nnd t is Celebrated in Ercrj Part of the Christian TVorid. ljxstSunday was a beautiful spring-like day lint brought nearly everybody out of doors,' ressed l? their newest and best apparel.! 'woof our churches ?tlio Presbyterian and | he Eaptlst?were closed because of the ab-1 ence of the pastors. In conscquence, the atendance at the Episcopal and Methodist liurches were greatly augmented. The Eplsopal Church had been handsomely decorated irlth flowers, mottoes,and evergreens, which urnlshed one more cvldenceof woman'stove nd devotion to Illm who died that we might: Ive. The sermons below, aro the full texts of he discourses delivered In honor of the two- J uld event which the Easter festival Is intcndd to coinmcmotate?the slaylngof the Lamb | f God, and Ills resurrection from the dead., )ur readers, we know, will thank us for ro-] iroduclng the sermons whleh were delivered ' AstSunday In Abbeville. At the Episcopal church. he Rev. Mr. Ifallam took the following vords for his text: "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above."? j ?ol. Ill: 1. And In the presenco of a large au- j llencc, he said: We celebrate to-day the greatest event that! las ever occurred In the history of time. IL | s 110 exaggeration to call It so: for It Is not. mlv marvellous bevond comparison In Its! ><vn nature; but upon thai event rest the * ilghest hopes of millions of human beings; < t Is the crowning feature of the purest and loblest fullh the world has ever known : It Is he cllinnx and the seal of that long aerie* of jrllllant events which make up the system >f revelation; and without It religion would jc but a phantasy, auddlvlne pardon adreatu, < I. But the resurrection of Christ Is very \|lfIcnlt of comprehension, If strictly speaking, Il ls coinprenenslltie at. all. Thai a man who ias been fettered by the power of death ( ihould raive himself out of the grave, Is a thing so far above^ihc natural thut human , reason Is well-nigh appalled at the mere idea , >f It. InsllucttVKiy the mind shrinks away , jecause It cuimot penetrate Into the secret , causes ol the resurrection, and view the ma- j ;hlnery by which It is ertected. And here , scepticism steps in with Its arrogant and , (weeping denial of the supernatural, and as jcrts that It Is au Impossibility. It assumes In eirect that the human mind is stored with i knowledge ofthe laws of the whole universe \if God.nuu that therefore an event beyond Lbe region of l(s own general calculations is a mere my the or au imposition. It asserts In ik vague \yay that a miracle of any kind Is contrary to experience, without venturing to detlne whether the experience of which It <pe?ksls unlversalorpartial. It recognizes t he universe as a universe of law, and proudly challenges the possibility of any occurrence which contravenes the laws of nature as they are known, lint the realm of the resurrection Is one Into which the science of the receptlal world has lolled to penetrate. The mysteries of humau life and Human death buvc never been laid bare to the human intellect. Life In Its essence Is a thlngas far beyond thecomprehenslon of man ^certainly us tho esse nee of any physical creullou. If I hold a lump of cluy in my hand and detlne It as a combination of atutns caused bv the laws of molecular action, I ha\e not descrlbea the ultimate nature of the clay, any more than X have accounted for the existence of the atoms or the origion of the mo.cculur law. And when sclence would say tliHt death In tho end of life, and that the clay within the grave Is past the power of amlnatlou, It only confesses that the problem of life Is not tully solved, and that so far as human probabilities go the dead can never rise to life a;alu. in other words b.eTore that wonderful 11 :e that (lows through the frame of a divine Savior human science strictly so called is us impotent as the grave itself. It stands then in the presence of a mystery it cannot pierce; In the presence of a power it cannot measure. Christendom is ready to admit that the resurrection Is contrary to the experience of the common horde, but not to the experience of u chosen few. It Is ready with expressions of the proroundest honor, to unite. In uroclalmlng the magnificent universe where the majesty of law Is supreme. But believing in the existence of an all-powerful Being whose will Is the law, and recounting the narrow limits which are set to tho power of human knowledge, Christendom loudly maintains that there may be laws of Intlnate superiority to those which are common to the observation of man, moving In a broader scope, and manifest through "rander phenomena, of which the earthly vision can catch but a brief and occasional glimpse. We de.il with the resurrection therefore as with a fact. We hold tliut whateverits meaning or whatever Its cause, it is not open to any ant<ecedent objection founded upon any preconceived ideus of what is possible according to the common laws of nature. We deal with It nsji fact as real as any other In tne history oi the world-a fact attested by the life-blood of twelve honest men, recorded in everyjwrlting Christian or unti-Christiuu as the conviction of hundreds who lived ut the period of the resurrection, and who bad every opportunity lo Bee. to talk with, and to handle the risen .Saviour. The testimony is ample und unimpeachable. But how shall wo Christians after so boldly proclaiming that we il ve In a universe of law, account for and regard such a seeming anomaly? Why, we account for It In the sublime truth, that the will of a Being of Infinite I ""ISnlnnl far fill rhlllffS We DUI the counter question to the faithless scientist, "Why should It tic deemed a thing incredible that God should raise the deal*'' We regard It as au event, which Is re:?ll* not anomalous, but which * constitutes the leading Instance of the working of the sublkucst law that has ever been revealed to the mind of num. And ihlsls the only solution of the mystery. This is the explanation of the palsying fear that fell upon the swiitlneid who paced before the doorway of the sepulchre. When the majestic form of the quickened Saviour rose from amid the grave-clothes, and Issued through the portals oi the tomb they were strlckcn to the ground In the most terrllleawc that ever seized upon a mortal being. They were brought face to face with tho supernatural; they were appalled with the sovereignty of luw. they were In of jtgvcioeiBfflf. that was only enuauStf by WMTsupreme greatness of that Divine Intelligence who was Its source and it* author. 2. But do you ask how It Is possible to repaid an Isolated fact the resurrection of a single PerHoD, as the evidence of the existence of a uul veis.il luw ? I answer first because It Is the Judgment of Christendom and the whole world 01 human thouuht that there are 110 anomalies in (Jod's universe ; and again because there Is un open allusion to the operation of a law of resurrection, as an established truth of revelation. In the language of our text: "If ye then be risen with Christ.1' r.vldcntly It js the Judgment of Inspiration, that there Is a virtue In that great event of the Hist Eustcr day, which Is extended throughout the whole realm of human life. Clearly it was in? inina 01 me apostie uuit tlio gruce ur tlie Person of the risen Christ shot through the dust of the myriads of human frames that slept In the ground, and entered the beings of the myriads that then trod the way of human life. He regards tbo power of the resurrection as the power of a new life. He regards the human race am so closely connected with Ihe Author and Monarch of all life, that that supernatural flume which burst forth with such surpassing splendor on the resurrection morn was kindled anew In every breast. He speaks of the l?npartatlon ol this resurrectiou life, as of a thing already done, us of a fact already accomplished, although It would be manliest In the fullness of its power In the blessed eternity of thejnst And If there Is ever a time when we are tempted to doubt the reality of the risen life?If there is ever a time when wo would be guilty of the folly of doubting the reality of the resurrection of Christ himself, we have the witness around us In the quickened moral faculties of the Christian world. We can point to the supernatural animus that Is the most striking result of tne Christian fulth, and hold it up as the most powerful of all the proofs of the truth or the resurrection. For there Ik no doubt that since the history of Christ haH dawned upon the world, there Is a higher tone of morals, and a more beautiful order of virtue displayed In human life. Nay, there Is a peculiar kind of moral thought and feeling and action alive to-day, which Is utterly unlike anything which flows from the natural disposition or culture of man. There isa dlvlneencrgy, whose manifestations are widespread tnroughout the area of human life. Tli-re Is: a power and a vitality essentially sulrllual in Its nature which molds the loveliest specimens of tlio human character the world has ever witnessed. It creates patience of the most heroic kind, under hardship and pain and sufl'crlng of mind of the sternest and most pitiless nature. U stills the throbbing! of the heart under the lash of the acutcXt! grief and anguish. It sooihes the wounded! spirit wlih a hope that Is immortal In thej midst of bereavement of the severest type. ! It has nerved the Christian martyr with the j l?o. In II,o mliliit ?r fllinnlllll.r persecutions. Anil lo others It lias given i birth to a fearlessness Id the face of death . that Is worthy only of an Immortal being, I und that Ik Justified only by the prospect of tin eternity of bliss, In a new and higher! sphere of life. It has bred the utmost gentle- j ncss, the broadest charity, the loftiest sweetness of temper, and Durity of heart. It has unlimited to works of piety that cast a lustre upon the name of man such as he had never earned before, and that fhine as the brightness of the firmament before the eyes of an iidmlrlng world. And how shall we account for the exists Slice of this typo of life? To what can we trace It? Certainly Independent of Christ it! Is a mvstery that cannot be sol ved, for never was it known apart from the religion which lie taught and established. The history of all j nai Ions lias shown that without the Christian [ raltli man Is essentially vicious. And the; only source of Hie supernatural life from | which It could reasonably spring, Is that fountain of glorious vitality which Is found ! In the Man self-raised from the power and Jomlnlon of Ihe grave. For there was the very triumph of life, There was the manifestation of a resource of liod-likc vitality, so boundless in Its extent,1 jo quenchless In Its warmth, that no limited (lower could ever overwhelm It; and even In the hour of his death, and amid the awful , tlooni of the grave, the divine Christ Was triumphing over the power of eternal death, ind lying in waiting for that approaching Lime when he should rise in the full majesty j jf Ills living might and hurl the prince of |, leath back again to the home of his own ;terDal darkness. I And if the source of the divine life In the | <oul of man is the person of the resurrected , Christ, what can its end be but the same glo- , rlous resurrection thai, was his? Whither |, loes It lead us? Where shall we Jlnd lisi :rownlng*development! Why. brethren, it vould be an abortion If It did not lead um to a ! ( uturo triumph over the grave. It would be | | ilsham and a delusion unless Its supernatural j, .endency were to place us with bodies fash-jt oned like unto his own most glorious body > ( n the sanctuary of Cod's eternal temple. It I, s true that in the early stages of Its progress ;, t may be quenched lorevor by the power of1 | iin, but the fruition ol the spiritual life of!,, nun Is the resurrection of the bixly from the t rrave, as It is the resurrection of lhe?oul from , ui 11; and when we revere the bodies of our ? leloved dead and bury them tenderly in the j ephiilehre, when we seek to preserve our f >wn flesli from the taint and defilement of t in.it is because we believe that In human , lesh as well as in human spirits there is a j ;erm ol supernatural lire with which we ,, *ere "quIckcned together with Christ," and ^ >y which we shall be made to share the glo- c ies of the life of (Jod In heaven. h 3. Dut brethren I tear that there is many a '. 'hrlstiun now, who though "risen with 'j ,'brlnt," stands like f.azarus at the door of i lis sepulchre bound hand and foot with grave- ^ lothes. I think the apostle feared this when t 10 ftrntlixl WllJl me counssians, u yv mrn , ip risen with 1 'iirlst, *eek those thinj/s which arc . hove." Ho points eagerly to the liict (hat the J Iscn life has brought uh up to u spiritual at- ,, uosphero, in which we must live as the "cliii- j, ren of the resurrection." We are brought y that life as it were intoa new world, where t here are duties as real and responsibilities iiflnitely greater tha*? those which lie before 0 h in the common relations of our earthly r Ife. Weare to "seek those things which arc | bove" wenre ever to keep the eye fastened () i>on tbo kcul of the osceuded Christ, aud L pelt to acquire the characteristic! of thatjye ngellcand divine life fur which wro are d<*-;th Incil In eierniiy. And oh! wlmt u hcope i* fa pened here for the development of the Chris*! m lan heart. There In no low staudard jrlven jn [? heie, such as Ih found Id (he ethics of the |4j rorld. In view of the hands of deatn which Kfi ilnd u?; in the shape of petty vices, ami in- w liferent piety, wo are to crave the divine a ommnud "Iihjko liini, nud let him go." We tli re to lay aside our faults, uud inend our im- yf terfectlons, and strive with earnest fidelity to I p0 uing ourselves up to the stnndiird of eternity, j m Ve arc to find 110 model unions our "kins-jpt oik or acquaintance," who shall be the full! m iiiasure of of our piety j but we arc to seek hr o Krow up to "the measure of the ttnttire of he fulness of Christ." We are to '-grew up (e mio Illm In all tlilug?." We who are risen In tli trder that we may ve?ln, must be forever led p, iy the powei of a holy ambition. We who b< vere made for eternity, und dtsilnod for com- \\ mnionshlp with <?od nna 11ih noiy ungcis m nust lorevcr be ilttlng oursclvts fur the high p, pheie 111 which we nre to move. The risen & ife "has manners, a temper a hearing, a line d tf coniluci.il code of honor peculiarly 118own! w iuiI Inasmuch as (lie grncn of God which ui ulngs It does not put force Into our wills, we fn ire taseek with personal energy, with patient oil, with warm Interest," those tilings which w ,re above. Possibly your vision of tiie mean- fe lie of those wordu Is dim. Piwslbly the n 'tilings above" have a vague and uncertain w brni which your mind cannot groxp. If so m 'then I beseech you, pray that the <>od of our |f l.ord Josus I'hrlst, the Father of Glory, may y ;ivo unto you the splrltof wisdom and revela- w Ion lu the knowledge of him ; the eyes of o our understanding being enlightened, that p e may know what Is the hope of your call- C| ng, and what the riches of the glory of his r, nbcrltance in the saints, and what is theex- w jeedlnggieatnessof Hlspower tous-ward who 8, lelievc, according to the working of his u liichty power, which He wrought 111 Christ h rvlicn he raised Him Iroru the dead. and set h Him at His own rlithi hand in the heavenly tl Maces. , And may God hhow you that the n (sen life claims as a |-art ol its own seif the b llnnest type of likeness to the character of o Christ; the perfect correspondence of tiie lile >n eaith with the features of tiie life of the (] edeemed In heaven. May God show you & .hat you have not risen as you are called to;tl rise, to know Christ In tiie full power of his e csurrection, until you have sought a prolong- * ?dand constant communion with God, fre- h jucnt met In the felt provence of God. rral h ;vork for God; and the final reward of the j\ onI In (he peaceaud happiness and blessing ?, )f God forever." o g At the Methodist Chnrcb. u Rev. Mr. Hurper, pastor of the Methodist! J.' :nnrch chose these words for his text: " "Come, see the place where the Lord lay."?! MaU.5W:0. Much was the Invitation which an angel ex-111 tended to the women who firm nought our 0 Lord s sepulchre on the morning of Ills res- JJ urrectlon. The Sabbath over, they had left as h uiiin as possible for the place of His Inter- v merit, intending to anoint ills body and coin- a pletethe husty obsequicsof the preceding FrI- " day. Sad, no doubt,. wur>s their reflections as, ullcntand unattended, they passed through the street of the still slumbering metropolis. They thought of that dear Form that had so \ lately parsed over fho-e same streets, on Ills s way to the Khan.e and anguish of the cross. They thought of Him as He paused to admit:- c Ister consolation to themselves and others e when. In the fulneSs of their grief, they "be-! t walled and lamouted him." They thought of t Him in his Inst agony, enduring not only the; t pangs of a cruel death, but the mockery of I the multitude, and, tar worse than all, the n hldlnjt of His Father's face. "It was yet , I dark," and there wa< neither wight nor sound j \ to disturb the deep reveile Into which they ' r bad fallen. Without the wall, their valt I quickened, and but a few steps brought them fl to the garden where they hud sat and watch- t ed the eve following the burial. Entering r quietly and reverently, they stole along lis r winding pathway, wondering If they would . # be able to remove the stone from the mouth ' c of the sepulenre. They had proceeded tint a t short distance when they weie startled by "a ! r great earthquake." j < Itecovoring from their trepidation, they'I pressed forward once more, and soon found : t themselves in the vicinity of the sepulchre, t To their surprise and cinVmrrosment'lt was 1 surrounded by Roman soldiers A single I glance, however, apprised them that some- l thing unusual was transpiring. In the dim I light of the breaking dawn the faces of the i guard looked weird and ghastly, and they 1 trembled as though smitten by some dr< ad ' palsy. A nearer approach disclosed the cau^e i of their alarm. The stone had tieen '"'led i away, and on It there s-iA :iu angel, "ma cmn- i tenanee like Uuhmlng, ami his raiment white 1 as flnow." Overcome wlih terror, the women, I like the guard,stood mule anil motion lew, i their gn/.e riveted on the mj Hieilous appurl- J t!on. For them, however, there wi?s a swift < relief. \Vlth a smile that told of the deepest ] iapture and shed the dl vines! prii'-e, ana In < tones Instinct with the tenderest lnvo, "tho I anuel ?nld unto them. Kcnr not ye: l?r I know I that ye seek .1. .us, which \va? crtn-illcd. He I is not here: for lie Is risen, as he said. Come, I see the placc where ihe I,ord lay." < Such was the consolation offered,such the i Invitation extended, by a member of the ce?. lesilul community on t hut memorable oeca- < kton. And, my brethren, that Invliuiion has I not lost Its meaning, nor that consolation Its i power, though more than eighteen centuries nave tied since it tell from those xeraph i lip.'1. To-day, what Is It but the bell*f ilt.it ] ' Christ died, yea, rather Is risen again," that i su-talns us under our multiplied affliction*, < and among the many Invitations that are over < sounding In our eurs, we know of none more I sweet, none more welcome, then that of our 1 test. "Come, fee the placo where the Lord I lav." Let us, then, turn aside this morning,and view the sepulchre of our Itlsen Lord. We may not he at>le to Journey thither per.-onal- I ly, ami even if we could we should find that 1 the hand of tune had been berore us, and obliterated every mark by which we mlylit ' identify the sacred locality, still. In imagination. we can gather around It; and for th? confirmation of our faith and the rekindling 1 of our hope consider theevidenceand the glorious results of the resurrection of our Lord. Consider, I. TUE BEAUTY OF HIS RESUItltECTIOJf. 1 I Imnnrlnnnn nf #hla nnnulflnrtlfInn W'llt ' appear from a single quotation from St. < Paul's cnlstle to the Corinthians. "if Christ j be not risen, then Is our preaching vain, and your faith Is also faith. 1 hen they also which lire fallen asleep In Christ aic perished.' What then are the evidences afforded us of tho reality of this Important mid wonderful event 1 ' We stand, in thoueht, surveying the sepul- 1 chreof our Lord. We enter and uaze around us, but discover no trace of Its former occu- ! pant save the linen which enshrouded Him, and the nankin which had been bound about,1 His gashed und gory brow. The Master Is 1 missing; and to our mute and sorrowful tip-peal the answer Is given. "He Is risen, as ho 1 said." Now the reality of our Lord's resurrection 1 Tmtft t* death. And Just here doubt would obtrudo: Ihe question. Did our Lord actually die? Wus ! he undouhtedlv deceased when deposited in the grave? Happily (here is sufficient evl-!' drncc to substantiate this important elrcuin-| J stance. As though anticipating such mlsylv. J Ins. tho four evangelists have carefully sec-ij corded the death of our Lord. St. .Matthew! Informs us that "he cried with a loud voice, 1 and yielded up the ghost." St. Mark alllrnis 1 that "he cried with a loud voice.ami gave r.p 1 the ghost." St Luke rvlates that "when Je- ' sua Tind cried w'th a loud voice, he said, l-'a- j ther, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And having said thus, he gave up the ghost." And St. John states that "he bowed his head, 11 and gave np the gnost." In their several nar-1' ratives they Inform us, moreover, that the' crucifixion was public; that vast multitudes J were present to witness the awful tragedy, I among whom were many who from evil mo-|< lives were deeply Interested In the death of j our Lord ; that the soldiers to whom His exe-;1 cution hud been committed "brake not his j lets"' as they did those of tho two thieves, in ' order to hasten the pangs of dissolution; tl>:it>' one of the band, however, to prevent any sub- < sequent suspicion attaching to His death, M "with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith j1 came there out blood and water;" and that Pilate, when solicited to deliver the body for interment, delayed doing so until he had 1 been assured by the otllcer on duty that our 1 Lord was actually dead. I According therefore to the concurrent trstl- 1 uiony of the four evangelists our Ix>rd was 1 pronounced dead by the civil authorities when delivered to Joseph for entombment. Admitting the fuel of bis death another ques- 1 tlon, however, instantly ovcurs. May not the 1 body have been surreptitiously removed during the Internal between his burial ami pro- 1 fessed resurrection? Happily the evangelists 1 are able to demonstrate Ihe exact opposite of 1 this. We learn that the enemies of our Lord, Is their anxiely to present any semblance of a resurrection, adopted a precaution which precluded the possibility or any tampering with 1 hissepulciue. Immediately alter his burial | they remembered that he had more than once predicted his resurrection. They had them- 1 selves heard him expllcity affirm, "destroy . this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." And quite likely the traitor apostle, is 1 one of his Interviews, had Informed them ol a 1 similar saying he had recently uttered In the < procnco of his disciples. To deieat any im- j position thut might be Intended they request- 1 ed Pilate to use his proconcular authority to 1 protect the sepulchre "until the third day." 1 '1 heir request was compiled with. Sixty J .iruied men were placed at their disposal. ' And with these tney went and secured the se- 1 pulehre, sealing it for additional security with 1 the Imperial seal- that seui to break which < Illegally was to Incur the penalty of death. I'l.n mio iuui tlillU rpflllnctl 111 tllCir OWn I ' hearts. And yci, notwithstaiinlng all their 1 cure, on Mie morning of the thirdday'the body 1 was discovered to be missing. Accepting as 1 trust worthy the statement of the evaugell-ts, ' we must see that it was absolutely Impossible J for the body to have been removed by human agency. The guard, Indeed, to account (or the ' disappearance of our Lord, circulated the sto- j1 r.v that "his dl-ciples eaincby night, and stole : < hlin away while they slept. Hut such palpa- 1 Lie inconsistency and falsehood appear upon j1 the face of tills story that the evangelists con-1' tent themselves by simply record I iig It, with- j * out any ellOrt to refute it. Weigh the facts, { my brethren. The guard consisted ol at lea?t: sixty men, Inured to warfare, and armed with ! 1 Javllln and spear. The disciples were few in: ' number, civilians,and thoroughly dishearten- j' ed by the death of their beloved Master. The 1 ' season was one in which the Moon shone11 brightly during the greater portion'of the!J night, thus rendering it impossible for any f one to approach the sepulchre unobserved, j J That- the >oldteis slept I* prepoKterous. It uas ' ' death to Koinun sentinem to be found asleep j < on duty. More plausible is the assertion of f the evaimellsU that they were bribed by the ; t rulers to propagate a ialseliood. No bribe in-i deed would have been suliiclent lo induce jc them to acknowledge such delinquency had ! J not their safety been previously assured. We ! I learn that such assurance had been given ' i tliein. Their story, however, contains its own !J' reputation. The soldleis were either awake 1 * ur asleep; If awake, where was their courage!' lo permit a few unarmed and timid peasants ^ P 10 remove me notiy r imu n amec-p, uu? v.mn. they to know that ihe disciples had removed ? It? Tlie absurd story appears to have been ? nbandoned as hastily as It was fabricated. >' When subequently Peter and John, and.short-1 " ly alter the whole college of apostles, were. 8 brought before the Jewish JSanhedrin, and censured for thcdoctrlne they proclaimed, the loldlers, report was never once alluded to, nor was a solitary witness produced,to disprove (heir assertion. Our liord s miraculous disappearance from J be place of ills entombment must therefore I H je conceded, .still, to coullrm our fuith, we: nay put the question. Was he seen mi veal- ? er His resurrection? Happily the evangelists | an satjsfy this enquiry also. We can merely .1 enumerate the various manifestations they re-1 rJ ord. Mary Magdalue was the first to whom 1 ? le showed him.-ell. A few moments later he I ^ ippenred to Salome and the other Mary as y hey were blistering to Jerusalem to couimulicate what tiiey had seen and heard, soon J; it'ter he appeared toSimo'i. no doubt nssur- J\ ng the recreant but now penitent apostle of ' its forgivness. The afternoon of the same ,t lay lie accompanied two of Ills dmciplesas far is lOtumaiis, where "lie was known of them h n breaking of bread " That night he appear- : 'd to leu of the apostles in an upper-chain-: >er at Jerusalem. A week later he was seen , I if them again, and with them on this ocea-; " ion was the doubting Thomas. Again heap-: >eured to seven of them by the margin of f' ilierias. Then "he was seen of above tlvej"' Hiiitlieil Orelliren ui once on n iiiu.-uiu in ialilee. "Alter thul, lie was seen of James;!, lieu of nil the apostles.'' Finally, having':} nel them at .Jerusalem, an<l authorized the : uiblicatioii oi his gospel throiighot the turn nils j. if the liahitable globe, "lie led them out as far , ,1 Betliamy, where he lilted up his hands, and | i leased thrill. And It came to pass, while he ilessed them, he was parted from them, and at ricd up into heaven." Surely, my nrethren, If the Joint testimony L f the evangelists may be received, these ap- L leiirauces are sutlieieiit to dispel any doubt d< hat may linger in our minds as to the verity w f our Lord's resurieetion. Hut here aques-jsn lou lutervenea, what proof bavo we of Uie 1 K raclty of these wrllera? bow know wo that P tlr narrative* nro not "cannlnily devised v bles?" And here, blessed be to Ood, we are w it loft to grope In the mazes (if uncertainty. ? i support of ihe truthfulness of the evangel- d W, wecaJ! attention to the wonderful con- t itency and intrinsic excellent-? of their ? rltlngs. They relate tho story of our l.ord In " manner so varhint an to make It clear that ri ey wrote Independently of each other, and n t *0 agreeing In tho lending fact*, and so f s!ly capable of reconcilement In those t Inute circumstances In which ?ome di*cre- b nicy at ilrsl sight appears, |that their testl- a ony In all Its parts curries with It theiilr of C >nesty and truth. Then, what purity dlstln- J ilshes their wrltincs and those also of their a I l'>w-witnesses. Take ihe Gospels, the Acts, f le Kplstles, and Is there aught therein that t mders U> vice, aught that lends to sully the r >nutyon to lower the nuthorlty of virtue? 'ould not earth be a very Eden were the * lorallty of the New Testament universally t radioed? For Impure dishonest men to. s impose such a book would bensgroat a mlra-|s eas any It record*. Consider what suffering* 1 ere endured by tho?e who published the res- r rectlon. What was there to tempt them to a rge nnd propagate a fnlehood? Was Sf?clal t uraclsm, wa* poverty, was Imprisonment, a as scourging, was death, nnd that In Its most <1 arful and ignominious form, so desirable I int they could cheerfully court It In behalf of fl hut they know to be a lie? Consider the re- t iarkable results which accompanied and fol- t iwcd the deliverance of their testimony, t fc speak not of miracles; how the lame t alked, Ihe dumb sang, and the dead lived, r raeles were silenced; Idols abolished; tem- t les rnzed; philosophies superseded; laws 1 tanged; a new era Introduced; and a new c ellgion enthroned In the affections of the a orld. In further proof of the fidelity of the <1 icred wrllers we have the existence of Chris- * anlty at the present hour. WhHt opposition ? as It not encountered ? What combination* c as It not overcome? The Jew hated It, and ne Roman derided It; but It hasoutllved the 1 ingnlflcent Temple of the one, nml hunir Its t rL'bt banner over the proud Cupltol of the I tlier. Ponnry cist It to the flames, nnd deem- I :lit dissolved in ashes; and lo, lo-d?y the ' end phrenix lives! Islam waved his dread I imiter, and thought to give its life-Mood to le breeze; but while the Mohammedan cresnt Is steadily declining, Christianity, like the i(r brilliancy nnd power. No weapon that , as been formed against her has prospered, ,galn and aiialn have her rampants been Rallied, but In vain. Founded upon the nick r age*. (ho rock of a Risen Redeemer, the Mtesor hell have not prevailed against hor. This mornlnir. then, as we stiind l>y the sepJcheof our I/>rd, pondering the "many Inillible proofs" before us, we feel certified that ( he is not here, hut risen, an he said." Yes. , the God of peace have brought iigaln from , liedead our Lord Jesus, that irreat shepherd j f the sheep." Angels have escorted Him to he skies. Tlie everlasting gates have swung pen at His touch. The empyrean has rung Ith hallelujahs In His pral-e. The Father as welcomed film to His side. Invested Him rlth all authority, eivon Him a name that is hove every name, and n kingdom that canot be destroyed. Consider, , II. TJIK RESULTS OF niS RESURRECTION. These are many and Infinitely Important. Vecan only dwell, however,on the mostconplcuon*. ir Christ Is risen, we mn?t perceive that His laims to Messlnhshlp are thereby authentl- i atfd. For ages the human racp had been led i o anticipate a Deliverer who should remedy he evils which oppressed It. and restore It to i he lout Image and felicity of God. Prophets lad portrayed the person of this Deliverer, unounced his advent, sketched the snccessve steps of his career, and filled the future ?lth the forth-puttlngs of his power. A lumber of types, too, had been given, each irenthlng some utterance respecting his clmricterand mission, and constituting a part of he complcx criteria hy which he mlcht hereifter be Identified. It Is obvious that In his use there was to be an Intermingling of sunhlne and shadow. The path to glory would conduct lilm through the valley of humlliaIon and distress He was to be despised and elected of men; forsajcen of God and afflicted; subjected to a mo?>t vlolontand lgnomlnous death. Still he wa? not to see corruplon; he wns to burst the barriers of the otnb, to divide thespoil with the strong; and o see of the travail of his soul and bo satis, led, Now Jesus Christ fulfilled each of these predictions. Am the crowning circumstance, mwever. it wits to His resurrection thut He ?ppealcd as furnishing decisive evidence of Fits claims to be the Messiah of the world, ro the Pharisees Ho had said, "An evil and idulterous generation seeketh after & sign; md there shall no sign be given to it. but the ?ijin of the prophet Jonas: for as Jonas was three days mid three nights In the whale's belly, so shall the.Son of man he three days \nd three nights in the heart of theearth." If Ills pretensions were unfounded, If He were i inly, as had been intimated, a deceiver of the t people, God would certainly refu?c to sanction such imposture by the fulfillment of so remarkable a prediction. As we have tifii, ] the prediction was fulfilled: and He, my brethren, whom we tilts morning have we-1 knowledged In our worship, ?as thus avouch-; ill to be the Hope of Israel and the Desire of' nil nations. If Christ Is risen, we must perceive,more-! over, that the sufficiency of His atonement is thereby establlnhed. Hln.tnterlng our world, j in tailed on man the maledictions of heaven's violated law. The f -anul alternative arose ol | securing a substitute who would expiate the J penalty, or else enduring a hell whose every pang would tie embittered by a thousand rec-1 Elections and the fuel of whose flame would be exhaustless and eternal. A surely was tound. In the counse'xof the Godhoad, the Sou. as Messiah, endued to assume this relation and to suffer In our stead. Of His priestly office and propitiatory projects early intimations were given. At first taint as the twl llsht that precr-des the dawn, iney gainer brightness us the yearn roll on, until at last every cloud Is lifted, and "the sun of righteousness arise* with healing In his wings." The Messiah should be "cut otr, but not for himself." He should "make reconciliation for iniquity, and bring in everlasting righteousness." He should be "wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our Iniquities: IhechaAtlsementofOur pence be upon hlm,nnd we with his stripes be healed " Publicly and privately, by Implication and by positive assertion, our Lord proclaimed himself the priest of t'rophecy. "The Son of man It-come t<? seek and to save that which was lost." "11 am the g<K)d shepherd; the good shepherd ' iflveth his Hie for the sheep." Intentiona'ly, j "he suffered, the Just for the unjust, thin he' might bring us toGod." He "died lorull, thai I they which live should not licnccror'ti live unto themselves,but unto hlin which died for i them aud rose attain." His resurrection, J therefore, In attesting his Messl ah *h In. attest* . moreover the validity of His sacerdotal service. It Is at oncc the proof and the pledge of the sufficiency of Hts sacrifice, theefllimry of His intercession. It Is a visible expression and embodiment of the Divine uccepuuic*; and approval thereof. It assures us that the way of life has been opened, that the streams of salvation now flow In their fulne**: that whosoever will may come and takeof the water of life freely. Thank God for the resurrccUopjcCjjswaiflrto*; 'trone up with a shout, the Lord with the jound of a trumpet." Vain would have be*tn His gospel without the accompanying seal of His resurrection. "If Christ be not raised, pour fallh is vain ; ye arc yet Irryourslns." His resurrection Is the anchor which alone jives security to His trenail ^freighted promise of eternal life. Thank God that we have It?"an anchor sure and steadfast, entering Into that within the veil.*' Yes, "the forerunner Is for us entered." "The Lord Is risen Inleed." Vainly the king of terrors waved his sceptre over the captain of our salvation, and In vain did the grave boast of Its mighty captive; as though He hail been only reposing In soft slumber He suddenly opened His ?yes and stood up; und Immediately the seal ind the great stone gave wtiy. and our saviour came forth, masterful aud vlctotlous, to proclaim "redemption through his blood, according to the rlcneH of hi* grace." If Christ is risen, we must preclve that our future resurrection Is thereby secured. Jesus Christ, In His redemptive capacity, superadded Adam as the federal head aud represcnta live of mankind. That Adam acted not exclusively for himself, but for the race ; Is the uuiform and unequivocal testimony of *crlpture. "By the offence of one Judgment come upon nil men to condemnation." "As by one man sin entered Into the world, and death by si it. so deatl parsed upon all men, lor that all have sinned." In his le.'nl relation lo posterity, Adam Is expressly denominated "the figure of him that was to come." Christ came, then a second Adam." He, too, is a public person He, loo, Is a covenant head. Alike In Uit relation they sustain, they widely differ, however, in theconsummatlon they uchleve. "As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience ol one shall many be made rluhteou*." 'As In Adum all die, even xo in Christ shall all be made alive." It I* In the latter particular that we are now more Immediately Interested. The death of Adam was the death of human nature; the resurrection of Christ Is the resurrection of the same. In a deeper sence than that of being Its sublime author is Christ "the resurrection and the lite." His resurrection Is, virtually the resurrection of the race. He Is now so lndlssolubly united to us by Identity of nature thui our resurrection as Inevitably follows as the putting forth of leaves the swelling or the kjiu unci the gushing forth ol waters, the opening of the Imprisoned fountain. "Marvel not at this: lor the hour is comlr.g In the which all that ire In the grave shall his voice, and shall joiue forih, they that have done good unto the resurrection of life : ami they that have Jone evil unto the resurrection of damnation." "The resurrection ol life"! Pre:ious assurance to Christian believers! \ balm for bereavement ; an invigorating cordial for coming death. The indent Greek, sitting solitary inhls home it Athens, bereaved of his children, might well ask the question, "shall I ever neet again tho cliildrer. of mv l:ive t" Or ilandliitf beside the grave, might well ask, Ograve, tell me tny secret": or, "O death, , inswer rue, what hast iljou done with the ' ton's and daughter's of my hmise, who gladli-ned my heart In the twilight hours t 1 see .he (lowers and birds returning with the ipring. hut no returning years bring back the MAiMiiHAu rtf mt? li.ifti't Poll ma oiMirat I ' tenth." Hut vuln the qustion ; the Dimming! j )f t lie cypress and the yew alone broke upon lis strained and eager e.ir ; a pall oflmpene- ' rable darkness hune over the horizon of his ' lopes; and nought arose beyond but then iiournl' 1 prospect of alisoluto and unending ' i lothlngnes*. Christ nlonc brings comfort to he troubled soul; Christ alone tllngs sun- i ight on the darkness of the tomb. Pblloso-11 >hy may indeed, in haleyon hours, predict a I esurreellon ; Christ alone can prove it,! 'hiiosophy may be bold enougn to guess it; I .'hrlst alone can guarantee it. "Now Is Christ ' Isen Iron) I lie dead, and become the first , rults of them that slept." We bid adieu for the presnt to the sppul- j dire of our Lord. May our visit Inspire us pith adoring wonder, gratitude and love. 1 )ear to us should be the spot where once re- . iosed our ttlsed Redeemer. Often should we , nurney theie In thought; often should we j land and meditate on the marvels It unfolds, t Is fragrant with the memory of a love that " msselh knowledge . It is steeped In the light la day thai shall know no end. It Is the irth place of faith and hope It is the foun- I din of enduring peace. It fs the earnest of the I iiillllment ol ihe promise made uuto the I ithers.f'O death, I will be thy plagues; O I rave, I will be thy dessruetlon. * "Vumeaee the placc where (he Lord lay." I At the Colt red Methodist Church. J The Rev. Mr. Hazel, pastor of the Colored lethodist Church, chose for his text these ords: "The Lord is risen Indeed," and < aid: ; Never was there a day of greater gladnos;[ tian that on which our Lord arose? never: u as there greater cause for Joy?for were not] hrist risen, our faith and hope would be in j . aln. and we should yet be In our sins, n-.eii Jesus Christ Wirx laid in the grave j reat was the triumph of his enemies and , reat was the dejection of his friends The. >riouioi <uh-1| ips niui nope, u nau neen ne |? ho should have redeem oil Israel, but now a lelr hopes a e buried in his grave. How ' ieat then niu>t have been their surprise and j leir Joy when Jesus a ruse and appeared un- .. )several of tiiem. Our text is an exelaina- 1 on expressive of ills passion. It. was made , y the leu apostles to two brethren who had ? Sen Clirl?t at Km ill a us, and liad Just return- "> J from tiienee to relate the Joyful news, but * [ fore they could well speak the apostles 18 11iiled them with this pienslnp sentence,!' file I.ord Is risen Itnleed. and hath appeared : > Simon." Theapostlesci'mmunlcated what I r ley had seen and heard, and how Jesus was . utile known to them in breaking of bread. | lessed and heavenly new s. Weil might they : II be eager to tell It. V THK 1'ltIMITIVK CHRISTIANS. It Is said, used to salute each other on the; ord'sday morning, with these words,"The | ord Is risen," and it Is a eusiom still in Lou- ] un, for the buys of the Christ's hospital,;] hen walking on the Kaster day to eh inch, to I ilute each oilier, and niy 'ihe Lord lsjJ Iscn." Ob, whutgloriouH tidings, We may] Irtro the words o(Sr.lnt In^kree point# of lew. mid conjide^HMft^M toBhingUiitfe Of 'ondcr and Joy. UMAiMKUha word a* xpi ?sslve or ihese WnlRrer%And7et we wooer that It shonltl appear MMfciderful to liom. Had not our I/ord oitttutm them ho liould rnlsc fi-om tne dcad,'4fn?*be not Mid destroy this temple and In tlinhs days I wilt iilse It uit." Had be not. said, tfeere should o sljrn bo given to this generation, but the l>:n cf too prophet J on a*, for axJooxx \ra% liree days and three hlghta io the whale* ally, ho shall the Hon of iuun.be' three dujrs tid three nights in the heart** the cujujUj :ould thedlselples forget these sayings T- WW ews remembered them, and therefore sealed nd watched tbe scpulchrp. But, O. U or men to fight against God. Bow.|nu lierelore was their surprise and a^oBU& uent, when first Informed of his resurrecdQH Mary Magdallne and other nlous womeir vere the ttrsr wlmesfe* of the fact. The* raw o Inform PeUr and John, who ran t&Alifl pot. Tnev saw the clothes, btit suw not J?u?. but Peter afterward saw him. He mad* ilmxelf known to tbe two disciples at CTir tin list, on the same day, bat they were mazed" ltd astonished and they expressed Itr^s tb? ext. "The Lord Is risen Indeed." ppear strange, but it Is true, tbe Joyful aaj' lid come, ana to demonstrate the facts, while bey were speaking, he appeared lo tbe midst >f them, and he not only showed them liil tands and his feet, but be ate and drank with hem. Oh. thanks be to God. We know that Ills grand truth comes to us, confirmed by nany infallible proofs, by tbe number of witi< HH-s. The angel confirmed Hand told Maqr hat Jesus was not here, but Hejq risen, a?T 11 the afternoon on ibe same day he JoTllW nmpany witb twoof his disciple*, walking to vlllnirntnvon ml ton frnm IprilKiilprn Th?V lid not know liim at first, but he brake bread ritli then), and opened their understanding md spake Peace. Tlien their hcarU were fluid with love and Joy,and gladness. And now, dear brethren, how are your learl* affected with this Important subject? lint yoo car) say with a loll aa-urance, "The .ord Is risen Indeed," I bless God that wo invc f>oinc living witnesses that can ray, 'The Ijord Is ri-eti indeed." then we can say. ike Job, "I know thnt my Redeemer llveth." The rising God forsakes the tomb; Up to hi* Father's courts he fltes. Chert Idc leglors guard him home, And shout him welcome to the akleftBARBERSHOP. 0 RICHARD OANTT. Is now prepared to do all work In his department In the beet nanner and at rta?oiiat>io charges. Monthly1 -axtomers Miavlntr, hair cutting and ahani? pooingSl per month. Rasora honed and pbl n t he best condition Tor '& cents each. Shop under the Prta and JJanntr office. March 15,1882, tf THE FOLLOWING GOODS -ATNewYorkCost TTi A n i T r v;j^C3JtdL 4 CLOAKS,BLANKETS,DOLMANS CANTON FLANNELS, HATS in all Styles Embroidered Flannel, Winter Prints, Novelties AT CUNNINGHAM & OTLM Jan. 25,1881, tf EST otioe. * TMIE whole of Mic line fcncc between Ablv vlllc iuhJ hdjcfleld will tio sold lo ill hlirbcst l>id<l<r at tile (ollowInK place*: While iiuil ni J. I* Ward's on Ai?ril 3 at 1 a. m. imllHn IIIII, at Mlllwny on April 3, at r. m. Koidenux, at Dorn's Mine,on April 3, at P. M Pari Ion claiming fence will bcrooulredt exhibit written contract with CorainlMlonei to tliat etlcct. W. It. McKINNEY. J T. BASKIN, JK., I County Commluionera. March 7. 1882. tf ~ H. G. SCUDDAY, Attorney and Counselor at Law, ANDERSON, S. OOFFERS lii" prof<>?Monnl *ervlce? to the fI I zona of Ab??t*vllie. rartlemlmlrtnK I cinsoH with littn? limy do n at ?icb nenlfl of itir Court for tlio County,or by letter utAi dfiHon r II. June 15. 1SS1. tf -AND Ha v k now in wore n eompicie line all kinds of GOODS. We call sp eitfl attention to onr largo stock Fancy an! Domestic Dry M Flannels, Woolens, Jeans, Gents Underwear CLOTHING, m i HATS AND CAPS. CUNNINGHAM & TEffiFLSTO Nov. 16, 1881, tf tuiamum a u u kiccitiiii > passenger department. Columbia, 8. C., March 29,18ft On nnd aftor Monday, March 6. 1882, F sengcr Trains will run as herewith lodlca upon tbls Road and Its branches. DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS. no. 62. up pas8enqkb. Leave Columbia A .15 90 p Leave Alston - 1 37 p Leave Newberry ... 2 37 p Leave Nlm ty-slx ? - 4 10 i Leave Hodges 5 08 p Leave Helton 8 28 p Arrive at Greenville 7 61 p no. 53. down pass e.n gee. Leave Greenville at 8 44 Leave Helton 10 11 s Leave Hodges ?11 30 J Leave Nlnety-.si.x_ 12 45 p Leave Newberry ? 1 58 p Leave Alston 3 03 p Arrive at Columbia ??' ? 4 08 r spaktanpcko, union and columbia ba boad. no. 52. UP pas8enqeb. I.cave Alston - 1 47 p Leave strotlier - 3 00 p [.cave Slielton ? 3 55 p Leave Santuc 6 01 p Leave Union .... 8 00 p Leave Jonesvlile 7 05 p Arrive Spartanburg R. & D. depot E 8 85 p so. 53. down passengrb. Leave Spartan bum It. <? I). depot H'O 50 a Leave Spartanburg S.U.&C.depot <*11 08 p Leave lonesvllle 12 03 p r.eave Union 12 37 p r 1 Crr n * vi ^ Leave Shelton ? 1 4.5 I Leave St rot her 2 13 f \rrlve at Alston 2 56 | J.ACKKNS KAILKOAD. Leave Newberry._ 2 50 \rriveat Laurens C. H (J 45 f Leave Ijmrens C. II .. 9 15 t Vrrlvc at New berry .. 1 00 J abukvii.le branch. Leave Ilod^es ?... S 12 f Vrrlvc at Abbeville 6 02 | ,eave Abbeville .....10 30 i Vrriveat Hodge* II 20 ( ILL'E KIDGE KAILKOAD AND ANDEK BRANCH. .cave Relton 6 32 ] -cave Anderson 7 09 .fiive l'endleton 7 52 ^cave Seneca O 8 58 | Vrrlve at Walhalla .. 9 23 .oave Walhalla 7 20 ,eaveSeneea D 8 08 i .eave Pendleton 8 <3 A'ave Anderson 9 24 Vrriveat Belton 10 00 CONNECTIONS. X, With South Carolina Railroad fi 'liarleston. With Wilmington,Coluinb'a iiignsta Knllroaii from VvllmliiKton and >oints North thereof. With Charlotte,* nubia and Augusta Railroad from Cbarl in<i all points North thereof. T* With Ashevillo nnd Snnrtanbunr F r.ii't for points In Western North CarollmBH (', Will) Atlanta nnd Charlotte Divt^H Mchmond it Danville Hail road frotu^H tolnts South and West, Kl L). With Atlanta and Charlotte Divl^H lirliinond A Danville Huilroad front Atli^H iti'l bi'yond. H K. With Atlanta and Charlotte Diri^H tichmond and Danville Huilroad fron^H mints South and West. S?E I\ With South Carolina HaiirondHS ,'harlwton. With Wilmington, ColuuihlaHH UtiMtsta Kail road for W llmlngton and KB son 11. With Charlotte, Columbia and HH us la Hallroud for Charlotte and ttie Nort^H (J. Wlttr Asheville and Spurtanburg onil from Hendersonville. H. Wlih Atlantaaixi Charlotte Plvl^H tichmond and Danville Hallroud from utU' and ticyond standard time mod is Washington. D^H rliich is fifteen minutes faster than Col^Kj n J. W. FRY, Superintendent. MB T. M. It. TALCOTT. Cicn. Mxiing^H A. roPK, General l'ascenger Agent. Bpb| BROWN'S Irou Tonic. A H April 3, 2t E. PAltKEim