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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 1880. VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 1. 11 TIio Bravest, liattlc. The bravest buttle tint over .vis fought! Shall I tell you where and when ? On the maps of the world vou will find it not; 'Twas fought by the mothers of men. Nay, not with cannon or b.Utlo shot, With sword or nobler pen : Nay, not with eloquent word or thought. From mouths of wonderfel men. But deep in a walled-up woman's heart? Of woman that would not yield. But bravely, silently, bore her part? Lo! there is that battle-field! No marshaling troop, no bivouac song; No banner to gleam and waVv*! . But O! these battles thai last so long? From babyhood to the grave ! <sr> What of Maine? As Maine is quoted by both parties, and made to do service in the interest of prohibition and anti-prohibition, we ! introduce an unimpeachable witness. Hear him. The venerable Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, whose name is the synonym of all thai is noble and wise, has recently exEre.-sed in the New York Observer is knowledge of theoperations of constitutional prohibition in Maine. He is an expert witness, and should be given entire credence. But he best speaks his own strong and discriminating words: "I am a Maine man ; and I know the State, north and south, east and west, and the 'experience of Maine' is before me and before the world. There is not a distillery nor an open, undisguised dram-shop in the State of Maine. What is there in this that should frighten Boston believers in total abstinence? The farms in Maine are generally free from mortgages, the houses are painted, shade trees are cultivated, the roads are good, the people are temperate, industrious aud happy. What is the matter with Maine? Oh there is drunkenness and rum-selling there still, and worse than ever. A big lie is made out of a very small " A -c ' ?'rUnro ia runi-sel-1 amounr oi uum. iu^iv ling as there is thieving in the cities. But it is driven into secret places. It is carried on by the vilest and basest of men and fallen woman. The grip of the law is noc tight enough yet to stop it entirely, but the Slate is saved. Nineteeu-twentieths are delivered from the curse. The curse creeps and wriggles and hisses in places foul and festering with all moral filthiness. But it should be remembered by all the advocates of the Maine law that it does not undertake to interdict drunkenness at home. You may be as drunk as you please at home, and, if you can keep from killing wife and children, and from other outrages, the Maine law does not concern itself about you. It proposes to stop the manufacture and sale of intoxicants in the State of Maine. That work it has done gloriously, though not to the satisfaction of certain conservative temperance men. They must be a curious set. They are probably in harmony with him who was, in favor of the law, but against its execution." ? Rolitrion nt Home. It is laughable to see one hunting high and low for his spectacles, which has only been shoved over his forehead. But it is not laughable to see x? tilPV O.'lll Christians nuiumg u? opportunities to honor God, while overlooking such opportunities as they carry with them wherever they go. A slovenly carpenter was once heard at a weekly prayer-meeting to pray I with great fervency for the spread of Christ's cause?a cause which he disgraced and hindered in his sphere every time he stood at his work-bench. "When he had finished his prayer, a hearty "Amen" came from a servant who put her mistress out of temper a hundred times a day by her carelessness. A clerk who'was there, who although he taugh a class in the mission school on Sunday was always late at his employer's store on week days, whispered "Amen," too, and meant it, so far as he knew himself. A lad3 hearer, as she listened, resolved to join the church missionary society, and ' Mnouacnnil. then went liome ami umnu hie fault with her cook. And others also felt warned to do something for Christ who never seemed to have thought that relijrion-like charity, begins at home. The mechanic who is {>o\verful in class-meeting and weak at lis trade is no credit to the cause he | professes. The servant who drops I tears feelingly at religious services, and drops dishes unfeelingly in the kitchen. I has her tenderness altogether too much on one side. And it is a pocr kind of religion which seeks opportunities to set others straight, but overlook its own crookedness. . . Accuracy. Accuracy enters into action as well as thought, and into speech. In action we are apt to call it thoroughness, because doing work accurately and nicely in every point, with nothing unfinished or untidy, necessarily involves thoroughness, however small or large the work may be. If we allow ourselves to be inaccurate in the minor details of actions? i. ,.r < l. r<.' >! It n 11 ir in or if we leave eim? u. from our sewing, or turn the corners different ways in hemming a square kerchief: spread the . cover on the table hastily without minding whether the corner hang even or not; go to a closet or drawer for pieces and thrust the bundles in with the expression, "1 will come and put them to rights by and by?are we not haunted by a feeling of sliiftlessness, of wishing to go back and begin over again?a feeling so much out of proportion to the actual carelessness that we are forced to confess that inaccuracy is not a trilling fault. The same conscience pricks us when, after telling a story in what we think an entertaining way for the edification of a friend, our small child says: "But, mamma, she diden't say that; she said so-and-so," and forthwith proceeds to take the point ofl' our tale by presenting it without the oHnmmwit with which we had en deavored to make it attractive. The child can be silenced l?y being told not to interrupt mamma when she is speakiug, but conscience does not so easily excuse us, and we feel again that there is something wrong. How, then, shall we set this wrong right? We find it comparatively easy to say to ourselves : "<>, I have a general idea of the matter, and when I have time I will think it out." It is not so easy to take a concrete portion of the general idea and think* it out carefully; and yet by so doing the smaller*thought becomes completely our own, ready for use in any emergency, while the general notion is so large and so very general that we actually never find time to think it out. and'thus it does not become our own at all. How much better is the love that is ready to die than the zeal that is ready to kill. Bemoaning- The Past. It is not unusual to meet people who are always bemoaning the past. There are many such who spend more energy in thinking what they ought to have done and chiding themselves for not having done it, than in thinking what thev ought to do and planning how to doit. Life is really too short for this sort of j tiling; there is too much to be achieved 111 the present and in the future to justify continuous dwelling 011 unimproved opportunities in the past. It is always in order and in time to turn over a new leaf to begin again, to make stepping-stones of the sins and errors and mistakes of the past, remembering them only so mucii ana so iou? jus w learn how to avoid and overcome them in the future. "O, if I could live my life over again," says one, "how differently I would act." But you can't live it over again. The only thing you can do is to live to-day as well a9 you can, to straighten your lines of action and see that they all point upward, away from the wrong, toward the right. Time spent in mere idle regret is worse than wasted. Even Job, that man "divulged through heaven to all the angels," refers to the "sins of his youth," and begs that they be remembered not against him. The atmosphere of regret is delibitating, enervating, asphyxiating. It should be avoided by us as we avoid malarial atmospheres and those saturated with infection. A great purpose will lift one out of. regrets, and failing a great purpose many smaller ones will accomplish the same end. In such a world as this there is always enough affirmative, positive good to be done to occupy all one's time and thought, all one's capacity of doing and willing. He Resigned at once. A village newspaper, giving an account of a lecture by a noted lecturer, said briefly and indefinitely that it was "a wonderful flow of language"?which seems to have been the idea of the hearers of a certain colored minister, mentioned by an exchange, whose gifts were ratlier superficial. ~ * * ? 1- 1 !- ? The length of the woras ue uunw ai his hearers was limited only by the amount of oxygen he could take into his lungs at one effort. This was all very well for a time, hut the Church did not seem to prosper, and by and by a change was decided upon and a committee of one was appointed to ask for the wordy minister's resignation. When the errand had been, stated, the preacher indignantly asked what the congregation expected for nothing. , 4Waal, now, doan yo, see, we duzzent expect"? "Isn's my character away up yati above procrastination ?" "No trouble'bout dat;but sail, yer isn't fur enuf eddicated to"? "Kaint I talk confidently enough ter suit de most rapashus?" "Dat's it, chile; dat's it; hold right on where y'ar now. Yo'kin talk and yo' kin taik, but yo' doan't pint out; vo' can argyfy an' yo' kin argyfy, but yo' doan't show wharein." The resignation was handed in directly.? Youths Companion. Occupation Gone. We could scarcely imagine a condi-J tion in which Paul would be more thoroughly out of place than as the pastor of a modern church, with all its appliances for cooking, feasting, social* and ethical culture, with its clubs, its lyceums, its provision for the flesh and sense. The spiritual succession of such a pastor as Paul could not readily blend with the spiritual shallows of our kitchen-parlor pastorates. The intense earnestness, the zeal that was considered beside itself, the gravity, the serious prayerfulness of his ministry, could hardly chime in with our fun-loving, entertainment-seeking piety. Our provisions for the flesh would be too gross for the spirituality I of the man who had been etherealv/.I ed by the visions of the third heavens. I The man who had to keep his body under by the most abject slavery and who had to beat it black and blue by the most self-dedying disciplinary processes would scarcely consider himself safe in our churches where there are so many things to pamper the body. Paul, the preacher, who spent ail his force in exhorting the young people to be sober would hardly look with complacency on all our devices to make character flippant. Religion ami dumikxk. It is possible to put into one's coming and going, into one's doing, a glow of reverence for God, and to make it evident iu every transaction that one is trying to be obedient to the divine will. Men may be strictly honest, true in speech and all that, and yet be wordly. How often one hears the remark that business is business. Very true. But business may be more than business; it may be a means of grace; it may be, and.ought to be, a school in which the soul crows in gratitude, in patience, in faith, in love, and in all the qualities through which a soul comes into fitness to fellowship, now and evermore, with the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a pitiable sight to see a mau hard and cold in his business life, as though this were a great section of his existence in which there is no possibility of cultivating religious principle and having the grace of God. It is a refreshing sight to see a man living in the world and doing with his niigth what his hand finds to do, and yet doing all in tnis spirit 01 ioyauy 10 the Master. "What sort of books and papers arc mothers putting into the hands of their little ones, and teachers into the hands of their pupils? Dare we take the responsibility of allowing these young minds to drink in some glowing account of war and the bravery of its'heroes and use no counteracting influence? We are molding, but what is the form we are shaping? A colonel once said : "I felt like taking down the swords from above my fireplace, and hiding them away forever, when iirst called upon to explain to my little girl what they meant and for what they were used." How many of us are keeping emblems of war in our houses, without any explanation to our children of their dreadful use? Letting them draw , their own conclusion that they must be something nice and for some good purpose, or father and mother would not care to keep them. The child is constantly seeing, constantly think; ing, constantly drawing conclusions. Are we directing it or forgetting it? Love without tenderness is unlovely. Lot us Have Pence, These are the words of (Jen. Graut, I written soon after he was nominated I for President of the United States in I 1S(>S. They are very good and beautiful [ words, and well worthy to be sincerely adopted by every man and woman in ! every state, city and town, and by every | church and at every liresiile in our vast; country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But how much wiser and better | it would have been for Gen. Grant and all the American people, North and South, to have said, years before > me war, m uruve (juuuaiu u;?; ?i>n unyielding perseverance, "Let up have ])eace," than to say it after the dreadful war was past and all of its awful agonies and willful wrongs beyond the power of prevention. Well, let us all say now, and teach our children to teach their children to say from generation to generation till the end of time, ' ' Let us 7tavepcace." The Centennial. There could be no such thing as a Centennial until Adam and Rve were a hundred years old. From that time centennials of many things may have commenced whether or not they were celebrated. We have no account of even a celebration of tbe first centenuial, that of Creation. Adam lived to see nine centennials and thirty years into the tenth. The fall of himself and wife, so soon after they were created, may have so associated the two things together in their minds that they could not think of their Eden home without thinking also of their fall and expulsion. So they may have passed their first and succeeding centennials duriug life as quietly and with as little thought of what they did one hundred years ago, two hundred, three hundred, and so on?as possible. As centuries have come and gone centennials have increased, and the celebration of centennial events of 1 linvn miilfi. more ur icss imjiuiutuvi/ ^ ?? plied. Tuesday April 30, 1SS9, was celebrated in New York City a* the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States. The celebration is represented as unparallelled in magnitude, magnificence and multitude. It is supposed by some that a million of persons were present on the occasion. Although the celebration was the greatest mixture of the people that has ever taken place at one time, yet it is doubtful whether there has been an increase of cement between the various sections of this wide and widening nation. The competition in display and the consequent disappointments, jealousies and envyings on the occasion may have been more than has yet appeared on the surface. The prominent and most imposing feature in the celebration was the military. Nothing can be great with some people without military demonstrations of some sort?if it be no more than to rattle trappings, beat a drum and shoot a cannon. But this was the way the powers and managers that be dpnided to have it. George Washing ton in his farewell address, September 17. 1796, said, "Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and a^e particularly hostile to- republican liberty." If that Centennial Ball and attendant debauch bad been left out of tbe programme, and every thing of a military feature and flavor had been superseded by plain dresses for men and women with a white flag for each State inscribed, On earth pr.acc, good will toward men, with the name of one of the States under each inscription, would it not have endeared the people of the different States more to one another, and consequently strengthened the union feeling in all hearts. According as the territory of the United States is enlarged and the population with immigration is increased, there must be a corresponding increase of unifying cement or the government will sooner or later drop to pieces. This should never be lost sight of when it is remembered that Immigration. Romanism, Free Education, Taxation, Popular elections, and the Negro are problems that must be solved by the Republic before another Centennial comes round. The Heroes of Apia. Washington, April 27.?Secretary Tracy to-day sent a long letter to Rear (Admiral Kimberly, commanding the United States naval forces on the Pacific station at Apia, Samoa. After reviewing at length the ofiicial reports and newspaper accounts of the disaster, and commending and praising the conduct of the United States officers, Secretary Tracy says: "In reply to your request and that of C'apt. Farquiiar for a court of inquiry, the department has to say that it deems such a court unnecessary. It is satisfied that the officers in command of the ships at Apia did their duty with courage, fidelity and sound judgment, and that they were zealously and loyally seconded by their subordinates ; that the hurricane which caused the destruction of the vessels and the loss of so many lives was one of those visitations of Providence, in the presence of uriiinh human efforts are of little avail; that the measures actually taken by yourself and the officers under you were all that wisdom and prudence could dictate, and that it was due to these measures that so large a proportion of the crews was saved, that the one step which might have averted the catastrophe, namely to have put to sea before the storm had developed, could only have been justified, in view of the grave responsibilities resting upon you at Samoa, by the certainty of overwhelming danger to your fleet, which could not then be foreseen; that you rightly decided to remain at your post, and that the department, even in the face of the terrible disaster which is involved, approves absolutely your decision, which basset an example to the navy that should never be forgotten. To convene a court of inquiry under these circumstances would seem to imply a doubt on the part of the department where no doubt exists, and instead of ordering tin itivncHtrnfinn it tenders to you and through you to the officers :iml men of your command, ifs sympathy for the ex]insure and hardships you have encountered, and its profound thanks for the fidelity with which you have performed your duties in a crisis of appalling danger." Divorces in the United Stales. Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, of the United Slates Labor Bureau, by direction of Congress, has had a thorough report prepared for each year from 18(57 to 18S6 of all divorces granted in the United States; giving the causes miivW/iv assigned and a comparison with similar divorce statistics in Europe. In the liyht of this report we may also be called a people of broken promises. The result is appalling if the figures a lib rd an accurate comparison. The aggregate of absolute divorces, in 1880, in all Europe, with the exception of Spain, was l!j,oO(t. In the United States, in the same year, there were 2"?,.5.'5") divorces. The increase in this land of broken promises appears more forcibly in a comparison of the number of divorces to the number of married couples. In 1870 there occurred one divorce to every 064 couples; in 1880 there was one to every 470 couples. The same fact appears in a comparison by decades. Erom 1877 to 1887 there were 200,594 divorces, as against 122,121 during the preceding ten years?an :.. ?.? ? /ml /.ah t ai? fn iHUJUttSU <J1 ViJ - J.HJ1 UCllUf W1, ivy envn what our laws and courts have drifted to in a period of twenty years, there were U0X7 divorces in an estimated population of 86,000,000 in 1807, while in 18S0 there were 2o,58o in an estimated population of 66,000,000.?M. Trueworthy, I). D., in Christian Worker. George Washington was inaugurated first president of the United States in New York during the session of the Methodist conference in that place, and liishop Ashbury suggested the propriety of a congratulatory address to the new president. The suggestion was warmly approved, and the two bishops, Francis Ashbury and Thomas Coke, were appointed to prepare and present the address. The address contained the following: "We have received the most grateful satisfaction from the humble and entire dependence on the great Governor of the universe which you have repcatly expressed, acknowledging Him the source of every blessing and particularly of the most excellent constitution of these States, which is at present tlie admiration of the world, and may in future become the great exemplar for imitation, and hence we enjoy a holy expectation that you will always prove a faithful and impartial patron of genuine vital religion, the grand end of our creation and present probationary existence. And we promise you our .fervent prayers to the throne of grace, that God Almighty may endue you witjh all the graces of His Holy Spirit, tiiat he may enable you to (111 your important nation to' his glory, the good ol 11 is church, the happiness and prosperity of the United States, and the welfare of mankind." Methodist Union in Japan.? Bishop Fowler, of the M. E. Church, and Bishop Wilson, of the M. E. Church, South, were in Japan at the same time. A meeting was held in which these (wo Bishops were present and steps were taken to form u Japanese Methodist Church. Bishop Fowler says: "It was unanimously agreed to appoint a committee of three ?one from the Methodist Episcopal Church, one from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and one from 1... / <.,,wwl? TVTn+hn/Uet Phurf1!! tllPSC I III? V/iUlUUtl 1UCVIJVMJ47V three to appoint, two natives from anywhere ; these five to constitute a Committee on Discipline. They were directed to form a Constitution, which should protcct the doctrines, the General Rules and the Episcopacy, and then adapt the system around these factors to the needs of Japan. The result of their work is to be submitted to the various missions, and then by them to the Boards at home and the General Conferences of the interested Churches." Most criminals are 3roung. It is seldom that a grave crime, provided it be the first, is committed after the age of 30. A careful statistician has proved that of the entire male population of England and Wales the largest proportion of criminals is found to be between the apes of 20 and 25. Five times as many crimes are committed in the five years between these limits as in the ten years between the ages of 50 and 60. Dividing the whole popuntion into proups of those from 10, years to 15, from 15 to 20, from 20 to 25, from 25 to 30, from 30 to 40, from 40 to 50, and from 50 to GO, it is found that from the age of 20 thetendency to crime decreases at each successive term 33 percent, in the case of women, and 25 per cent. 111 tne case 01 xut-u. Marshall Booth, in reviewing his forces at Chicago, said that within twelve years 1,000,000 men and w men have been rescucd from the slums and transformed into self-supporting, sober, Christian citizens by its work. He is prepared to establish at once 'n London ten more Rescue Homes, for 300 girls (which will enable the Army, by the help of God, to rescue at least another thousand a year), and also to establish ten food and shelter depots, six for women and children only, and four for men, with a capacity for 1,000 beds per night for women, and 500 for men and 200,000 meals per week, ov at the rate of 547,500 beds and 10,400,000 meals per annum. He appeals for $75,000 to meet the expense of fitting up and furnishing the suid twenty buildings. Our (irowui ana Mrengm. Our Hook Editor, Dr. \Y. P. Harri-j son, has carefully compiled the statistics of'our Church, together with the comparative increase during the past ecclesiastical year, and gives the figures in last week's Nashville Advocate. Number of traveling preachers, 4,084?increase, lo4; local preachers, 6,;>()!)?increase, 117 ; white members, 1,123,40s?increase, 32,753; colored members, 044?decrease, 105 ; Indian members, 4,5158? decrease, 2SS; total preachers and members, 1,140,05)3?net increase, 32,537; infant baptisms, 31,152 ?decrease, 1,581 ; adult baptisms, 53,303--decrease, 5,150; collected for Church Extension, $51,341.50?increase, ?4,278.08; for Conference Claimants. $116,713.03?increase, $14,501.47; for Foreign Missions, $225,852.16?in crease, $(>.207; for Domestic Missions, *104,473.31 ? increase, ?12,046.75; total for Foreign and Domestic Missions, 8330,325.47?total increase, $18,253.56. Stores for Oklahoma. In the freight yards at Kansas City, Missouri, were al?out thirty trains loaded with stores for the Oklahoma country. There were houses in sections, ready to be bolted together and entered for habitation sixty minutes after their delivery. There were completed stocks of every conceivable sort of merchandise, and with each car load of slock was packed away the building required to harbor it. In this manner drug stores, dry goods stores, boot and shoe stores, saloons and groceries have been provided. The opening of this Territory on the 22d iustant will be one of the most interesting 'facts in the history of this country. It will be the founding of a State almost in a day. Snubbings.?I had an opportunity to worship with my brethren. By the way, when I see our preachers breaking their necks over Dr. from New Yoi k, or Dr.? from Brooklyn, I am somewhat amused at the nonchalant way in which the said Doctors will pass them by when they come to the metropolis. "One of your Bishops. Merfomething. preached for us," said a John-Streeter. "A youug man from Nashville, named Tag, or Tag Something, was here not long ago." Alas for fame? The "Exoduster" wanted "McFerrin's Life," but they did not have it, and probably did not know the old man was dead. The true life of a soldier is not eeen in the display of military parade, but in the rags, the blood, and the misery of the battle. The swordgleaming in the sunlight presents a more pleasing picture than when dripping with the blood of man. The bayonets arrang ed in symmetrical form and burnished to look beautiful are made to pierce the image of God, and are only seen in their true light when in that operation. May God hasten the day when it will no longer be possible tor men to be perverted into fiends. Gems for Christ's Crown.?Men go far from home, to Brazil or South Africa, and toil in the mud and mire of the mines to dig up diamond stones, which, when cut and polished, they bring back, and sell to kings and princes for merely an earthly reward. Would you not, then, go far away, and assist to gather these geuis which when washed in the blood of Christ and cut and polished by the Holy Spirit, shall adorn the crown of Him who is King of kings, and flash back the glory of the living God ? Who shall reiwn ??Matthew Arnold says, "America holds the future." An American statesman, pointing westward, exclaimed, "Yonder is the East!" If America holds the future (and who doubts it), we say the West holds America. And who shall hold the West?Christ or Pope Pecci? Christianity or Leo XIII? This is the issue, and the issue is at our door. Not what the world says we may do, but what we know we ought to do. is the standard of duty for us in our daily conduct. Yet the conflict of conflicts ? % aii r rviStirl ia 111cjf nf (ViSa nAtrif TVio JII UUl 1"I"U iOJUOl All lUlO puiilit jl mjlks world says that we may do a great, many tilings that we know we ou?ht not to do. It is easier to follow the world's counsel than to adhere to our own convictions of right. But if we do right, we shall never have cause to regret it; whereas, if we fail to do right, we shall never be without a cause of regret for our failure. And God will approve our right doing, even though all the world should deem us foolish or over-particular. A good average of character is better than a lower level of character; but a good average of character is never reached by a man who is satisfied with a {rood average. Only the man who persistently strives to oeat a hiph level of conduct, will reach the plane of the average well-doer. An average is made by the balance between the slips and the successes. The slips will come of themselves. The successes are a result of effort. He who aims no higher than an average, will be sure to fall below it. Carry a pleasant, or at least a glacid countenance around with you. 'mere is nothing gained by going up and down the streets with a sour, wrinkled, clouded, vision. You appear to be aggravating your own misery; possibly you are making yourself miserable without real cause. Here is a dead loss of both reputation and character as regards yourself. Then, in relation to others, you are impairing your chances and your ability to be helpful and agreeable. Whoever thinks these matters unworthy of consideration has a very distorted view of life and duty Reading is one of the greatest consolations in life; it is the nurse of virtue ; the upholder in adversity; the prop of independence; the support of a just pride; the strengthener of elevated opinions; it is the shield against the tyranny of all the petty passions; it is tiie repeller of the fool's scoff and the knave's poison. What is worth doing at all is worth doing well. It is a little act to open or shut a door, but read this paragraph and you will see in that "little act" a * 1 * 4!-" nUftunrttor very large indication ui uuniaviv.. "Boys and girls will always show to strangers whether they are well bred and polite or not by the manner in which they open and shut the door. If they open it with a rush or if they neglect to shut it, or shut it carelessly or with a slam, they are not well-behaved or polite. You should always open and shut a door gently and carefully." "Manners," says Burke, "are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, bv a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and color to our lives. According: to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them." No human word can express the whole even of human love, or the burden of human sorrow. What then? Shall men be like the caged eagle that beats out its brains on the bars of its TT ?fho cage? All, no: ne van m? mw w.~ closet and apeak to God ; if he cannot express all his feelings there, there are groan ings which cannot lie uttered that God hears. God is felt after. There are, within the range of every one's life, processes of life which must he solitary; passages of duty which throw one absolutely upon his individual moral forces; and admit of 110 aid whatever from another. Alone we must stand sometimes ; and if our letter nature is not to shrink into weakness, we must take with us the thought which was the strength of Christ: "Yet lam not alone, because the Father is with me." The Pharisees were heavy on the assessments ; they tithed mint, anise and cummin. They stressed this to the omitting of the weightier things of the law. The race is not all dead. To do the little things with punctuality and care but keep them little and fill our hands and hearts with doing the great things is the part of wisdom. There are those who live in thisivorld, as though it was never to have an end ; and for the next, as though it was never to have a beginning. Ought not the following calculations to make us ashamed of ourselves? With the money spent on drink in Great Britain there could he maintained 600,000 missionaries at <?250 a year, 500,000 school masters at ?100, , 5,000 churches at ?2,000 5,000schools at ?800. It would give to the world 200,000,000 shilling Bibles, 500,000,000 tracts at lour shillings a hundred; would give 100,000 widows ?20 a year, and 200,000 poor i'arailies ?10 a year. Which do we value most?our glasses or our Bibles??Belfast V.'itnem. Mr. Leitch closed his meeting Sun- ( day night after preaching twenty-two days. At night the attendance was generally large and it increased to the close, the crowd Sunday night being the largest he had. About seveniyfive announced themselves as candidates for church membership dur.'ng the meeting. 40 were received into the Methodist Church Sunday, eight joined the Baptist and one the Presbyterian.? Carolina Spartan May 1. From time immemorial the practice of massage has been known to tne Fijians, from whom the Samoans first, and then the Tongans, learned the art. The process consists in rubbing and kneading the part, the operation being sometimes continued for hours. It, stimulates the circulation and relieves pain, and is commonly used in abdominal disease. The native doctors have great faith in massage, and it is always practiced by them.?London Medical Recorder. Under our present system of the electoral college 21,000,000 people can out vote 28,000,000. A comparison of the proportion of population for eacli electoral vote in the different States varies from 13,000 in Montana to 142,000 iu Pennsylvania. That is, in a choice for presidents, 13,000 men in Montana count just as much as 142,000 in Pennsylvania.?The Voice. It was recently decided in England, in a legal contest for the possession of a dead body, that the executors of a dead man's will have the right to the control of the corpse ; that, therefore, "a man can not lawfully dispose of his body by will, or any other instrument." The judge added: "This is a legal conclusion." Over at Philadelphia they have found the root of the tree under which William Penn made bin famous treaty with the Indians. This, we presume, is an important discovery, but we believe it would be a heap better for the good name of America if some vestige of the treaty or of even the spirit in which it was made, could be found. The great Eiffel tower at Paris has been completed. It is the highest structure ever reared by human hands, so far as known, being 1,178 feet high, or over twice as high as our great monument at Washington. The electric light at its summit will be visible forty miles. About nine-tenths of all the clay pipes manufactured in the United States are made in Brooklyn, N. Y., where three factories are located that turn out 15,000 gross annually. The clay comes from Woodbridge, N. J., on/i at the factory five dollars per ton. The Sunday morning inspection in the army and the navy, ana the Sunday evening dress parade, are to be abolished, it is said, by a special order from the president himself, as commander-in-chief of both branches of the military service. A chain of "dry towns" from Dristol, Tenne-see, to Roanoke City, Virginia, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, has just been completed by a prohibition triumph in Abingdon, Virginia. The article in the new Japanese Constitution guaranteeing freedom of religion reads thus : "Japanese subjects shall, within limits not prejudicial to peace and order, enjoy freedom of religious belief." The next house of Representatives will consist of 330 members, a quorum of which will be 166. At the outset the Republicans will have 169, or three more tnan a quorum. When a writer says a certain thing is "impossible to describe," and then uses a half column in its description, he doubtless means that nobody but himself could describe it. From November 1 to January 6 at fin feet were added to the heighth of Vesuvius, while the size of the base of the cone of eruption was proportionately increased. Dr. Bradford K. Pierce, for sixteen years the honored editor of Zioris Herald, died at his home in Newton Center, Mass., April 10th. A despatch from Liverpool states that 6000 emigrants embarked at that port in one day, nearly all of them being bound for America. Rev. N. M. Woods, D. D., has left this city to take charge of a cfiurch in Memphis, Tenn. The pious words of the weakest and most obscure Christian, are infinitely more precious than the choicest wisdom or the most learned philosopher, who is ignorant of "the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ." We fail to see that we are working out in our own lives the same problems which the men and women of the Bible worked out in theirs, that we are fighting the same battles as they fought, and with the same weapons. In the intercourse of social life it is by little acts of watchful kindness re" ciirring daily and hourly, and opporttr nities of doing kindness if sought, are forever startiftg up. It is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks,' that attec tut ion is won and preserved. Christ as the light of the worhl is, first, light to the intellect, a guide and teacher, embracing every shade and degree of truth in the pure white light of His truth. He is, second, warmth for the heart, full of sympathy and love. And third, He is the source of all spiritual life. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Life's evening will take its character from the day which has preceded it; and if we would close our career in religious hope, we must prepare for it by continuous religious habit. The martyrs to vice far exceeds the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number; so blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. Sorrow is not selfish ; but many persons are in sorrow entirely selfish. It makes them so important in their own eyes that they seem to have a claim upon all that people can do for them. Virtue consists in self-conquests. False Reports. We read in Exodus, Chapter xxiii v: v. 1, the following sentence: "Thou ' y~l shalt not spread a false report." My children, I cannot but again inar i press upon you the importance of our text: "Never spread a false report" Man owes it to his own self-esteem and character that he never utters a word g or states a fact of the veracity of which 'i yj? reality he does not possess ample proofs. It is with evil reports, whicn have no /I vj foundation, as it is with counterfeit money. Every one dislikes counterfeit V.' s^? ^oney, and yet it cannot be helped ' ? when now and then a false coin passes into our hands against our will. And similarly is it witn false reports. Every one dislikes them and yet we can- -Jg| not prevent them now and then, they each our ears and pass iuto our credu- -J-W( lows hearts. Be, therefore, very particular in vj wliut you may say aiiu uc even Uvi? V1. a particular in .yhat you ever write down. Think before your speak and without measuring your words and lay v ing them upon the scales, let them be ; liSa always the frank expression of your . ?.?|j sober and dear thoughts. And what- . ? ever you write down, read it over twice or three times before you send it :><M away. Then, I am sure, you will rot offend auy one, but doing what is right and acting like a man of judgment and -A feeling you will find friends and well- $|3 wishers everywhere. What a Girl Should Learn.rTo sew. To cook. To mend. B| To be gentle. To value time. ? > To dress neatly. To keep a secret. . 4^^'%' To be self reliant. To avoid idleness. , ; V To mind the baby. To darn stockings. To respect old age. -i'^l To make good bread. To keep a house tidy. To control her temper. To be above gossiping. -/vwj TV* molra o Vir?m?i hflnnV. To take care of the siefe. To humor a cross old man. -J To marry a man for his worth. To be light-hearted and fleet footed. Weall of usfancy when we meet troubles that they are greater troubles than ever were met before. It is merely because we know our own troubles better , \wj thai; we ever can know those of others. ; Why, if every atom is 10 make a cry about his misery, the world will not hold the clamour. That early discipline which makes 'u'vjm the prompt performance of duty a habit in childhood is, indeed, the quickest relief to parental anxieties, and the firmest foundation of rite.]' fortunes of one's children. Those persons who love the blessed ! cause of Peace, as Christianity req uires, in all sincerity will ever say, "If I for-v;*-^B get thee, O Peace! let my right hand forget her cunning:, and my tonguev^jra cleave to the roof of my moutK." The seeds of our punishment are ..\-jag sown when we commit sin; the putt-:, ishment itself is sure to come, sooner or later, as the inevitable harvest of . g our sowing. The slow, lazy breeds of fowls are '. ?< more likely to have scaly legs than the quick-moving fowls. Hence more care should be taken to prevent. Active birds, if confined and not exeroding, will pull feathers, but the habit is easily acquired from any one ,;?l of the flock by the other members thereof. ' To expect a young tree to produce abundance of fruit, before the branches '-#J| are come forth, and spread with strength to bear it, is not reasonable. ,? There is money in plum growing for <*| the man who is more wide-awake and industrious tban the curculio. Men often preach from the bouse- I tops, while the devil is crawhug in at ; fiWj the basemeut below. Most of the shadows that cross our V k path through life are caused by standing in our own light. A capital anecdote is told of a little fellow who, in turning over the leaves . of a scrap book, came across the wellknown picture of some chickens just - 7 ^ niif of thoir shell. Mv com nan ion e* amined the picture carefully", and then, ?? ,38 with a grave, sagacious look at me. slowly remarked: "They came out cos they was afraid of being boiled." fjs "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. As certainly as your Master's love is -V in you, his work will be upon you. He who can at all times, sacrifice ;"3j pleasure to duty, approaches sublimity. There is no use in trying to strike an ' ?jj average on honesty. The article mua ; vjffl be simon pure or it is spurious. When Christ came into the world peace was sung; and when he went -ifisaj out of the world, peace was bequeath- -f-A ed. It seems hard to be blamed for our , best doing; but the bearing of such blame as this is the real test of our characters. We shall never make progress in the knowledge of Christianity if we do jj| not prize it high above all other L- nntvlprlce. Every man is his own ancestor, and every ruan is his own heir. He de- v&S vises his own future, and be inherits his own past. ^,|3| Nothing sets so wide a mark between a vulgar and a noble soul as respect for jand reverential love of womankind. Miss Anna Muse, of Atlanta, Ga., is ! home from .Shanghai, China, where she is engaged in teaching. She is in the employ of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Miss Muse has been absent nearly seven years. Warsaw, N. C., was struck by a tornado May 2, and many houses were ./$ blown down. Other houses had windows broken by hail. The Presbyterian Church was ruined. Though mauy persons were injured none were -a killed. If the current word "trust" were dropped out of use and trick used in its place the common people would better understand what is meant. "The decoitfulness of sin" uses good words ! 1.:? ,.e ?..:i Ill speuiwug vi cvii iuui^oi Queen Victoria will attain the age of three score and ten on May 24. The State banquet in honor of the event will not be given until next day. She has been enjoying unusually good health lately. Does it. pay to have one citizen in the county jail because another sells him liquor? ' / ' StM&j v. y