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BY E. B. MUKKAY & CO. ANDEKSON, S. C, THUKSDAY MOENING, JUNE 3, 1886. VOLUME XXL- -NG TeJ??h^'?owmn, J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. - - Already letters of enquiry are comiog to ?3 as to the exact time for holding the Teachers' institute. Next week we hope to be able to publish dates. the Carolina Teacher comes to us this ? month in a new dress. Its contents are varied and instructive; if you have not subscribed for it, by all means take it at once. The copy b ifore us contains an interesting and well-written account of the meeting of our Teachers' Association by Miss Nora Hubbard, the accomplish? ed correspondent from Anderson. Mr. J. B. Watkins writes us' that the Honea Path School will have no regular closing exercises. A pic nie will take the place and two or three speeches will be delivered. We are glad to know that many of the pupils that had to stop school in consequence of the measles have returned to their posts and are doing good work. Mr. Watkins has the hearty co-operation of his patrons?he is fortunate. It gives us pleasure to announce that Miss McCants finds it possible, at last, to consent to be numbered among the in? structors for our Ter.chers' Institute. In consequence of her health, Miss McCants declined to do Institute work this Sum? mer, but now finds that she will be able to work in at lef.st one County. Those of our teacherb whose good fortune it was to meet her last summer will be glad to learn this. 11 the next issue, we hope to be able to ani.ounce the time for hold? ing the Institute. The following note explains itsen: To the School CoiAmmioner of Anderson County: The following resolution adopted by the State Board of Examiners at its meeting on the 5th inst. is published for your information and guidance: Resolved, That the times fer holding County examinations be changed from January and July as at present to the first Friday in April and October, or to such other days in those months as the State Superintendent Education, in his discretion, may direct. In consequence of this action by the State Board, no Connty examinations will be held in July next. Tou are hereby authorized to continue in force until October all certificates and licenses which expire in July. Very respectfully, A. COWABD, State Superintendent Education. TEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF EICHMOND. No inconsiderable part of oar recent stay in' Bichmond was given to a close and patient inspection of the manage* ment and working of her public schools. For much of the information we derived we are indebted to Profs. Fox and Pen dleton, principals respectively of the City High School and the Central public .school/" To them are we especially in? debted for that degree of patience they manifested and courteous attention shown us while, they answered our per? haps too numerous questions. But we meant business?we went to learn?and frankly asked these gentlemen to pardon what might appear to them to be idle ' curiosity, but what was in truth an earn? est desire to learn something of the school life and policy of the historic old city on the James. We propose from time to time, through the Teachers' Col? umn and in the school rooms of Ander? son County, to give our teachers the benefit of the impressions made upon our mind while witnessing the regular routine work of the Bichmond schools. To one thoroughly interested in the cause of education and charged with the super? vision of the schools in a rural district, a visit to the well-regulated and strongly manned schools of any city is either fearfully discouraging or wonderfully stimulating. Let us pause here long enough to confess that we came home more hopeful, than ever before of the ultimate success of the schools in Ander? son County. The cities have plenty money, the apparent sine qua non, the 'lubricating juice," as a distinguished colored divine recently said in address? ing an audience of white people?they have money?but they have no purer air, no stronger constitutions, no finer brains than mark the rural districts all over this sunny land. Let our people once feel the need, the imperitive demand for cul? ture as our brethren in the cities feel it, and what a revolution we wonld witness in the matter of preparing our children for the duties and responsibilities and the final issues of life! Our teachers are just as clear-headed, just as earnest, just as sincere, just as determined as the teachers in the cities?what they need is light; facilities for drawing on the expe? rience of others. This light must come through the Teachers' Institute. To hear of how a thing may be done is one thing; to Bee it done is another. As we witness the workings of successful schools, we are more and more convinced of the genuine wisdom and correctness of the policy we have adopted and pro? pose to carry out: teach our teachers how to teach, and then expect fruitful and valuable results. Teaching is a science, teaching is a profession, and he who would climb to the topmost round of the ladder, he who would win, must first himself be taught, must sit at the fee.t of those who have succeeded. Outside of the attractions of the Cen? tral public school of Bichmond, the fact that it occupied the White House of the Southern Confederacy made it doubly interesting to us. The spacious halls that almost a quarter of a century ago echoed to the tread of the Chief Magis? trate of the proud but shoitlived Repub? lic are now alive with the music of children's voices, who read of her glory as a thing of the past and soon to be forgotten nmid the hurry and bustle of another generation. Some of our readers will remember, doubtless, that little Joe Davis, the sou of the honored ['resident, lost his life by falling from the back portico of thi? building. A visit to Ilm different rooms of this historic building was suggestive of sad thoughts even to one who was too young to know it cr appreciate it when occupied by the Pres? ident of the lost Confederacy. But enough. From necessity, our return trip brought us through the city of Columbia, S. C, Finding we had four or five hours to spend in the city, we naturally found our way to the Graded Schools. We wonld not be invidious; suffice it to say that the city on the Congaree has a right I to be proud of her Graded Schools. We I have never spent four hours more pleas? antly in any school, nor do we think the time could have been spent more profit? ably. The Columbia Graded Schools are certainly models for neatness, precision and thoroughness. Every cog in the wheels fits its place, and there was no screaking of disjointed machinery. It is worthy of note, however, that the perfect I precision of the movements of the school machinery did not submerge the individ? uality of the pupils. Here, we think, is the danger to be guarded in the very large schools in the cities. In these schools, every pupil is studied as a text? book and the parts of the machinery adjusted to his peculiar characteristics. Prof. Johnson, the Superintendent, is energetic and progressive, and has our thanks for many kindnesses. More about the schools in detail hereafter. ?i????^? Fifty Tears Ago. The Winter apparel of boys even fifty years ago would be an interesting subject. We lack the pen of General Olliver to do it justice. The change from those days to the present is something wonderful. Indiarubber boots and shoes were not then invented; great coats were among rare things; boys' clothes were generally made over from dad's dress coat; trowsers were cut down and traveled through successive boys and finally cut up to patch and piece other clothes. Boy tailors were unheard of. Seamstresses passed from honse to house and fixed over the boys clothes, cut down and made over, etc. If a boy had a grand? mother, he could count, perhaps, on a pair of woolen mits; otherwise he went with? out. To purchase such things was little thought of. In the house no furnaces) few stoves, bed rooms as cold and colder than barns now-a-days; warming-pans for beds at night in constant use, as the bed clothes were like two cakes of ice. Washing was done by first- breaking through the ice found in the pitcher over night. All cooking was done by wood fires, and better done than that of the present day, in spite of our modern improvements. All that can be said of the boy of half a century ago is that the fittest lived. No wonder that consumption claimed its thousands and tens of thousands, both old and young. The wonder to us of to-day is how any one ever lived through the winters of those days ; and yet the boys, in my opinion, had a better time, had more real enjoyment than is the case with the boys of to-day. Toys, sleds, skates, balls and marbles were costly and rare. Tbe boys saved their pennies for a whole year to be able to buy a sled or a pair of skates.. Christmas presents were unknown. New Year, perhaps, brought around something, and then, most gener? ally, a something useful rather than playful. To-day boys no longer treasure their things. They get them for the asking, without effort on their own part, and they are consequently held in light esteem. This has engendered careless? ness, dependence and want of forethought in our boys. The future seems all cut out for them. They have only to sail along the placid stream of life, and when trials and financial disaster come, as they do to most all of human kind sooner or later in life, there is less manliness and tenacity of purpose?in fact, less integri? ty? than formerly. When I went to Charles W. Green's school in Jamaica Plains, I bad six cents a week pocket money, on condition I would put three cents each week in the bank. There was no room here for extravagant expendi? ture, and my parents did not intend there should be, but I got more out of my three cents than boys do to day out of three dollars?that is, of real satisfac? tion. The subject is an endless one in all its bearings, and no less interesting than of advantage as displaying the trials and hardships of our fathers. Puzzled Negro Farm Hands. In many of the Southern States the negro farm hands work on what is known as the share system. The land owner furnishes tbe land, mules and farm im? plements and advances the supplies. At the end of the crop seasons the laborer usually gets one-third of the product of corn cotton, &c. A farmer in Sunflower county, Mississippi, in recontracting the firs tof tbe present year with bis laborers forthe year 1886, found several of them who were unwilling to remain with him for one-third of what they produced. "How much more do you want?" in? quired the farmer. "We want a forf; dat's what Mr. Mitchell's gwine to gib his hand's dis yearh." The farmer laughed, and, called to his wife, asked her to bring out a couple of apple pies she had just baked. When the pies were produced he cut one of them into three equal parts and the other into four, aod invited the darkes to help themselves, each to a piece. It is need? less to say that the pie that bad been cut into three pieces was the one first attack? ed. "Now," said the farmer, pointing to the thirds, "that is what I propose to give you, and that," pointing to the fourths, "is what you say Mr. Mitchell is going to give you ; which had you rath? er have ?" * The darkeys opened their eyes and stared at one another, when the spokes? man exclaimed : "Well! dat pie business do prove dal a free is bigger'n a fo\ Wbar dat con? tract, Marse Rob ?" Tho contract was produced and the last otiu of thern signied it. ? A Hibernian Senator, speaking on tho subject of preventing suicide, said : "The only way 1 can ?ueeivo of stopping the business is to make it a capital offense punishable with death."?N. Y. Herald. A BUNDLE OF 1'ARADOXES. A Sermon Preached by Rev. Chas. Manly, D. D., at Belton, S. C, April 18, 1886, and Published by Request of the Con * grogatlon. [Reported by James D. Campbell.] Text?Philippians, II, 12-13: "Work out your own salvation with fear and trem? bling. For it is God which workoth in yon both to will and to do of His good pleas? ure." There are many paradoxes; that is, apparent contradictions in the Word of God, just a3 there are many paradoxes iu Christian experience. Of a great many persons it is true, that instead of recognizing that the con? tradiction is simply an apparent one, and that there is, after all, a harmony, some see one side of truth, and others see the other; and because each one is holding to his own side, they sometimes become opposed to one another, and hence some of the most striking and painful contro? versies which have arisen in the Chris? tian world. Like the story that is told of two knights in ancient narrative: They met each other, and looking upon the same shield, one said that the shield was gold ; the other, coming from the opposite direction, said : "No, it is silver." And so they quarreled in regard to whether the shield was gold or silver, and fought; and each having mortally wounded the other, as both fell down before it each so fell that be saw the side from which his antagonist came. He that had come up from the side that presented the golden appearance fell far enough on the other side to see that it looked like silver; while the one that came up on the side that presented the silvery appearance, so fell that he saw that the shield on the other side looked like gold. What then ? They were both right and they were both wrong. In truth, the shield was both gold and silver, and if each had had just a little patience and a little kindness, and had thought that there was possibly the blending of two things Into one, the difficulty and strife so painful might have been avoided. And no doubt, my' brethren, that has been true in the Chris? tian world. There have been discussions that have gone on through the ages? discussions about great principles of doc? trine?and when these discussions have ended, neither party has thoroughly con? vinced the other; and what is the reason ? The probability is that neither one has given the whole truth, and each one has looked simply at one side of it and has emphasized that, while the other has emphasized the other side and has held to that; when, in truth, if there had been a little more patience and a little more earnestness, they might have come upon common ground and found that the apparently opposite truths neverthe? less reached up and blended into one, and became harmonious and united. Brethren, the Bible as you find it is a very vexatious book to people that love to make systems. It says some things sometimes that knock their systems all to pieces. In making systems of theol? ogy, we must treat the words of the Bible just as, for purposes of science, we treat the facts that we find in the world about us. What would you thiuk of a man who presents a theory on some subjects, and tries to make all the facts in the uni? verse fit bis theory, instead of gathering together all tbe facts and deducing from those facts his theories ? We would say that man is foolish. So we must take the words of the Bible?the declaration of God's blessed Book?in order to see truths in their proper proportion and relations; and if we can't see clear around the whole subject at one view, let us see each side as it is presented and hold on to it and believe that perhaps, besides the truth presented to our view, there may be on the opposite side some truths as great as that which we grasp and hold. Let me illustrate what I mean. You ask me do I believe in -the doctrine of Predestination; that is, that God has from eternity chosen some men to eternal life, and that He has predestinated them to be confirmed to the image of His Son? You ask me if I believe that ? I say: "Certainly, unquestionably ; with all my heart, and with all my soul, I believe it." Why ? Because God's Word says so. It Bays just that very thing, and it is not worth while to undertake to explain away those strong, simple and straight? forward statements. To do so is not right; it is not sensible; it is not honest, j Very well. Now, you ask me do I believe that a man is responsible for his own belief, for his carrying on the work of his salvation in conformity to God's will. I say: "Yes, unquestionably I do. Certainly I believe that." Why? Because the Bi? ble says so ; because the Bible puts both those things down, and just as truly as it says that we are predestined to be con? formed to the image of God's Son, so truly does it say, "ye are not willing to come unto me that ye may .have life," thus showing man's responsibility for not being saved. As certainly as it says: "According as He hath chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world, not because it was foreseen that we would be holy or would believe, but (hat we should be holy and without blame before Him, ii jve," it declares also : "As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in tbe death of him that dieth. Turn ye, turn ye; for why will ye die?" One man stands up and says he be? lieves in predestination. Well; don't you believe in man's free agency ? Why not ask him that? Another says that he believes in a man's being responsible for his choices and actions in this world. Very well. And don't you believe in God's predestinating and in His sover? eign and divine agency? Don't you be? lieve that? Brethren, there is nothing plainer to people that read the Bible than that both these things are there. What are we go? ing to do about them ? Why it seems to me that wo should take God's blessed Word in all it* simplicity, in all its en? tirety and receive from it the light of God. And if there are some things that we cannot comprehend, some things that do not exactly coincide with the system of philosophy or metaphysics which we hold, wo. s:iy thai our systems of philos? ophy or metaphysics or theology are? what? False? No, T would not say I that; but that they are imperfect; that we have not grasped all truth ; we have not gotten it all in. And so let us be wise by being humble. You know Paul is one of that class of men that is continually writing this sort of thing?paradoxes. All his writings are full of them, and tbe reason is that his writings are so truthful. You say man is mortal? Yes, he is mortal. But man is immortal, is he not? He is. Well, how are you going to blend those two into one statement? -You can't do jt in words. I defy you to make use of one single word that shall blend the propositions that man is at once mor? tal and immortal; and yet that is true. Man is mortal. Every day tbe graves that are opening underneath our feet, the vacant places in our homes, are con? tinually reminding us that man is mortal. And man is immortal; the grave is not the goal of this life. "Dust thou art, to dust returneth," was not spoken of the soul. We feel in ourselves the very throbbings and power of an immortal life, and there are some?whatever may be said of others?that we cannot believe have ceased to exist. There are some tbat have left this world whose spirits are such that we feel that they are im? mortal; and God's Word comes right along and establishes and secures to us the .conviction of their immortality. Well, there is a paradox. What are you going to do about it? I am going to be? lieve it; I am going to believe that I am mortal; I am going to believe that I am immortal. We have three paradoxes in the short passage of Scripture tbat constitutes the text: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God tbat worketh in you both to will and to work. The first "work" in this translation is not the same as the second. The first "work" is "accomplish," "complete"? "complete your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God that work? eth in you both to will and to work." Those two words, both to will and to loork, tell why God works in us. He works in you for these two purposes? both to will and to work. The first "work" here iB translated from the same word as one in the sixth chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians, 13th verse: "Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all." "Having done all" is the very word which is translated in the text, toork out your salvation. You see, therefore, what it means; it refers to the carrying through, the accomplishing of that which is begun. I see the margin renders it "having overcome all," and we might change the rendering of the words, if we chose, and say: "Carry through complete to perfection your own salva? tion with fear and trembling; for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to work." I wish this morning to call your atten? tion to these three paradoxes, that out of them we may get instruction that may be ot service to us. In the first place, how? ever, I remark this: That when the Apostle wrote these words, he had a practical pnrpose in view. He was not discoursing to a class in theoigy or on some principle of metaphysics. He was talking to those Philippian men and wo? men?writing a letter to the men and women who in that town were the hum? ble followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, that they might be as shining lights "in the midst of a crooked and perverse gen? eration." These were humble Christians that never dabbled in philosophy, meta? physics or subjects of that sort, and to them Paul gives these declarations of high glorious principles, along with the preceding plain declarations of the great? ness of our Lord. Why ? Because he had practical application to make out of these words. Some people say it does not make any difference what you believe, if your life is right. That is nonsense. It does make a difference; your life is not going to be right, if your faith is not right. There are some things in regard to which, to be sure, your faith in some particulars is not going to affect your life; in other particulars it will. I may have certain views in regard to politics that need not effect my relations to my neighbors. I may have certain views in regard to med cine without their effecting my social re? lations. But if I should persuade myself that there is no difference between qui? nine and morphine, and that if I give a person five grains of quinine or five grains of morphine, the result will be the same, will my believing that theory keep the poor creature to whom I give the morphine from sleeping the sleep of death ? It will not. It is necessary for us to receive the whole round of truth, and now I wish to call your attention to the truths as pre? sented in these paradoses. This is the first paradox: That the Christian has his salvation accomplished and yet he is to work it out. Those who read the Bible cannot fail to see that there is a sense in which salvation is presented to us as complete or finished, It is offered to us?offered as a gift from God, and it is to be taken just as a man takes the gift of an inheritance that is presented to him. There can be no question in the world in reference to this, yet we see it is just as plainly and dis? tinctly said: "Work out your own salva? tion," and it is not somebody else's salva? tion, but your own; that which lies nearest to you?; iat which concerns you most completely?"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." I wish to say this, brethren, before I go any further: Notice that it is Chris? tians that are addressed, to whom Paul says: "My beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence," and to whom he speaks in the first chapter: "I thank my God for your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now; Being confident of this very thing that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." This was not what Paul said to those who hadn't spiritual union with Christ; but it was his language to Christ's people When men who had broil awakened In ia?nsifi <?l Ii < ir r infill Htm, jfked him, "\YJi,'?l ??si'!''! '?<??: do l<? be saved?" Paul said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved." He said just what Christ said when people came to Him and asked, "What must we do that we may work the works of God ?" He told them: "This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent. (John VI, 29). Let us also, my brethren, bear In mind that the word salvation is unquestionably used in the Scriptures in several differ? ent senses. Sometimes it is used in a wide, comprehensive sense, including the dawnings of light in the soul, until it stands in all its glory and fulness at God's right hand. Then again it is looked at as referring to the cleansing of the soul from the guilt of sin by the atoning sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. In that sense salvation is com? plete, it is finished ; for not all the pow? ers in the universe can add one jot or tittle to the merit of our Savior's atoning sacrifice. Salvation, therefore, in that sense is regarded as complete, for it is the righteousnesss of Jesus Christ that becomes the ground of our acceptance in the sight of God, and is the cause of our salvation. Again, salvation is said to be present. That is past of which I have just spoken. It is past, the debt is paid, the sacrifice has been offered, Christ will never come again to make a sacrifice for human sin ; it is done for all ages and nothing can add to it or diminish from it. But sal? vation is present. Salvation is present inasmuch as our activities and energies are turning to Christ through God's grace. In that sense we are being saved, and that was the sort of people that Luke says were brought into the Church, (Acts ir: 47.) Those tbat were being saved the Lord added to the Church daily. So it comes to this, viz: That in the daily practice of obedience, in the daily crucifixion of the flesh with its affections and lusts, in the daily struggle for higher attainments, in all that con? stitutes true Christian excellence, we are to make fully our own what we have received through faith in Jesus Christ. Again, there is a sense in which salva? tion is future. Oh! who can tell of what it is to be spotless?free from sin ! Oh! who can tell what it is to be safe within the fold, with no danger around you I to feel that no trouble is ever to come again, no bead is ever to ache any? more, no eye is ever to shed more tears, no heart is ever to throb with pain, dis? tress, affliction, anxiety or care! Breth? ren, that is all future. Do you not Bee that salvation is a great and glorious and comprehensive blessing? It is to be a living power, for it is a living faith Through Christ it is to bo accomplished, it is to be wrought out, it is to be carried forward by all the energy and earnest? ness of our whole being and our whole nature. Regarding this same thing, the Apostle Peter says: Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure. If people see paradoxes in my theo? logy, my defence is, the Bible says these things; and I stand upon it and rejoice in its declaration of great, glorious and blessed truths. Tbe second paradox is this: That God works all in us and that we ourselves must work. Brethren, nothing can be more clear than what the Apostle Paul says: That God worketh in you for two things. What are they ? Tho first is.to will, the second to work. He attributes that en? tirely to God. It is God that worketh in you ; He communicates His energy, and that energy establishes a connection be? tween our will and our power to act. What is paralysis? Did you ever see anybody paralyzed ? Paralysis is simply the sundering of that subtle connection between the will of the living man and the power to act. Did you ever see any one paralyzed whose mind was perfectly clear and who actually could not raise his arms? What is the matter? He is paralyzed you say and mean that though he has exercise of bis will, of his mind, of his power of thought and volition, yet the connection between the will and act is broken, and be cannot act. No metaphysician can tell you any more than that. The Bible says, God works in us to will. That is certainly plain. Some of you may suppose that one of these sides of truth must be false. Why cannot both be true? I believe that both are true, and, therefore, hold to them. God works in us to will and then He wills in us to do. We live by virtue of God's being in us, and our doing, our energy, our action is God's. Yet, my brethren, human agency and human re? sponsibility are just as fully asserted when you work a work though it is God that worketh in you both to will and do work. What can be more clear?distinct than this ? There can be no contradic? tion in these statements. Each is strong? ly supported. My consciousuess teaches me that I am a responsible being. Why there is not a boy or girl in this house that is old enough to understand what I am talking about, that does not feel that they do theii own thinking and willing. We are conscious, and our consciousness is the ground of knowledge which the Creator has implanted within us, which cannot be taken away from us, which no system of philosophy can de? stroy. For our consciousness and our reason, we are indebted to a Being who is omnipresent, omnipotent. This Being is a spirit, not limited by space and time like we are, but represented to us in all our activities. If God may be seen in every plant and flower, in every stream of water, in every floating cloud, and in every breeze that blows, much more as a spirit may He be seen in the recesses of our spiritual na? tures as tho base of every energy, and the source of every activity. My brethren, do you not think that sometimes, as I said in the beginning of this sermon, some people i;rasp one-half of these truths, and ignore the other half entirely ? Does their view always include the truth, the whole truth, .\nd nothing but the (ruth? Why, instead of thero being anything contradictory in this paradox, the two sides are just liko two tall pillars that rise up before us, side by side, and that lose themselves in tho skicfi above, where we tun (old they imp porl an oil Ii il.nl. i.-hi upon i hem both. Wo can not sec it; our eye-? cannot look that far. Just as sometimes wo see water, which falls on one side of a roof, flow into one set of streams, and that which falls upon the other side into another set. There is said to be such a place on top of the Rocky Mountains where the water that falls is divided simply by the roof of a house. Falling on one side, the waters flow down through stream after stream into the Atlantic. Those that fall on the other side flow down through many miles and at last discharge them? selves into the Pacific Ocean. They have gone in different directions, but they have gone into the ocean and when you come to sail from one of those oceans to the other, whero will you find the di? viding line? It is all one and the same great and glorious mass of water tossing and heaving in the hollow of the Al? mighty's hand. Suppose I were to put a little drop of this water in my hand, it would give me no trouble to hold it there. This world tbat seems to us so great is just like a drop of water held in the Almighty's hand. It is all one. So brethren these truths sometimes seem to us full of con? tradictions, but at last they lose them? selves in the immensity of God's knowl? edge and therefore, when the Apostle was discussing one of these subjects, he says: "Oh the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judg? ments and His ways past finding out." (Rom. xi: 33) As well might a little boy standing on the border of the sea, picking up shells and pebbles there, think that he can comprehend the wide ocean and grasp it in his hand, as we should suppose that we could compre? hend all the wisdom of God in one view. The third paradox is this : Tbat the Christian has his salvation secured, yet be has reason for fear and trembling. I dont see how anything can be more secure than the salvation of the people that have faith in the Son of God. You may, if you choose, make any expres? sion, as to the security of a Christian's salvation, and I will venture to match it by passage after passage in the Word of God. "Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish. Neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. My Father which gave them me is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck them out of my | Father's baud. Your life is hid with j Christ in God." Is not that simple? Is not that secure ? "lam persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which i3 in Christ Jesus our Lord.'' Now can anything be more impressive, more assuring than these declarations? And yet the same word says: "Let us, therefore, fear lest a promise being left us of entering into rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." That same Word says: "I keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest after I have preached to others, I should myself be a castaway." Brethren, there they are. Two truths ?two glorious truths, but we are not going to quarrel over them. One set of people say, "I believe that a truly converted man can never perish." Another man says on the other side, "I believe that any man, no matter if be has been converted, can finally lose faith and at last sink into perdition." What about that ? Now brethren?men among us, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of H? good pleasure. Some people seem to think that in Christ's will there is something of a hard and repulsive nature, that it brings a great difficulty upon them, that it is a sort of disease. Is it so ? 0, man of God, woman of God, children of my Master, servants of my heavenly Saviour do you not love to do his will? It may be hard sometimes, but would not you rather do it ? You children that love your parents you sometimes do some? things that are very hard, you make hard sacrifices, but oh ! how you love to do those things for them ! So it is that God worketh in us to will and to do of His good pleasure. Brethren, let these truths be received in ail their fullness, in all their entirety, and God grant that they may take hold of you ; that they may give yon faith in your whole being, and giving you faith you may receive full power to work, to sustain your cause in tho midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Paul knew that what he wsb saying was going to strengthen those Philippans and make them earnest and faithful, devoted, gra? cious and happy Christians. No namley pamley trust in mere human will was his. Do let us get down to the rock. Let us get on something that we can stand upon?the God that worketh in us, the God whose power and grace will carry us through. I have no hope of being saved except in that God that worketh in me, whose sovereign grace and abounding meruy sinks down into my poor soul. No hope except through the power of God that worketh in mo both to will and to do. What we want is to get on this rock and stand there?to raise ourselves by faith upon the eternal rock of our Father in Heaven. I must not close this discourse without answering a question that some of you suppose I have overlooked all along. I have said that this Epistle was addressed to Christians, and was intended to be a source of strengthening power to them. That is so. But you ask: What is a man that is not a Christian to do? Why he is to believe?to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom all salvation is? in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and faith. My brethren, faith is the yielding of the entire person to Christ, as having ' made atonement for our sin and as pos I sessing in Himself the source of all spiritual life. He 13 to believe in order j to receive salvation past, present, future. Christianity, as distinct from other Myleui:-, consiiils not only of obedience to God's ?vill :ir?l 1.1.0. jtilfovring of Hid ex? ample, but it h a union with Him. By 1 conformity to His will we becomo one with Him. The will of Christ to which we must conform, may seem in the early stages of our lifelong development, stern and inexorable, yet it will become sweet and tender. The more it is obeyed, the easier becomes the will of that God that worketh in us to will and 'to do of His good pleasure. Paul said that he lived by virtue of the Holy Spirit that dwells within us?by faith in the Son of God who gave Himself for us. Believe there? fore, accept Christ, receive Him breast to breast, soul to soul. Poor, guilty, de? filed one, receive Him as tbe source of everlasting life and righteousness and peace. Who Shonld Speak First? When meeting a lady with whom he is only moderately acquainted, a gentle? man must act like a well-drilled soldier, who, expectant and ready, waits for the word of command before 7arying his posture or action. Under ordinary cir? cumstances, except in cases of great in? timacy, he must not presume to salute a lady until she is pleased to recognize him. She must have the privilege of picking her acquaintances in public and of rejecting those whom she desires to reject; otherwise some vulgar fellow might plausibly claim her acquaintance, and such a liberty might lead to disagree ble situations. This regulation, fhough, is far from being a slur on man It is merely giving a judicious preference to the character and condtion of woman. In order to make a chance encounter au assertion of mascu? line inferiority, the man would have to sa? lute first, just as the soldier of a lower rank first salutes his superior, or as a ser? vant first acknowledges the presence of his master. No, it shows that between friends, man and woman, there is social equality, though for various reasons, and with the usual deference to tbe fairer sex, custom gives the greater consideration to woman. When a man sees a woman of his ac? quaintance approaching, he must pre? serve his outward stolidity, no matter how intense an emotion happens to excite his heart. His arms should maintain their usual gentle swing at the sides, but he may quietly arrange the arm with which tbe hat is to be lifted, if it chances to be encumbered in any way, so that it shall be ready to perform tbe expected salute with the elegance of freedom and com? posure. Then, for this is permitted, he may cast a modest and hopeful glance at his approaching friend, as an indication of his interest in their friendly relation J and a submissive appeal for her recog? nition, and upon the first wave of her head, or even eyebrows, as it sometimes happens, he indulges in the proper incli? nation of his person and elevation of his hat, not with the suddenness of and elec? trical discharge, but with a dignity becoming all friendly manifestations in public. Sometimes, alas! the coveted signal for saluting may not be given, even when justly due. This may be on account of near sign tedness, or possibly on account of a feminine modesty so excessive as to amount almost to ill breeding. If so, it must be endured without visible disap? pointment, and without thought of future retaliation in kind That can under no circumstances be thought of. And for this reason woman cannot be too careful to observe all the obligations which are incurred by those who have a wide circle of acquaintances. A Remarkable aud Sad Romance. I Tbe story of a true woman's Bad ro? mance is contained in the following com? munication from Nora Springs, Iowa, to the Chicago Herald: Having read in the Herald the ac? count of the remarkable instance of George Washington Monk living twenty three yeaij with a bullet in the brain, I give you an instance in some respects still more remarkable. On tbe 17th of September, 1861, the third Iowa infan? try, then commanded by Lieutenant Col? onel John Scott, was on the march from Cameron, Mo., to re-en force Colonel Mulligan, * ho was surrounded at Lex? ington, Mo., when they encountered a largely superior force at Blue Mills Landing, on the Missouri river, and had a wicked little tight lasting an hour and a half. Second Lieutenant Ole Ander? son, of Company D, received a rifle bul? let in the forehead just above and to the left of his eye, which entered the brain, and he was supposed to be dead for some time, but when about to bury him some signs of life were seen and he was taken to a field hospital, kindly cared for, and now after more than twenty-four years is still living and apparently in excellent health, but his mind seems almost gone. He cannot converse intelligently on any subject unless you refer to something that occurred previous to the battle. Then his face will light up ; its express? ion changes entirely. His mind seems clear, but as soon as tbe subject is changed to incidents of to-day the old dazed expression comes back. Lieuten? ant Anderson requires a constant attend? ant, which he finds in bis devoted wife, to whom he was married since his wound was received. The young people were engaged to be married when tbe war broke out, but when he came home a helpless invalid her friends told her she was free and ought not to take to hus? band a man in his condition, but her an? swer was like the true woman she is: "My place is by bis side," aud after a short time they were married. They now have a pleasant little home, and the ample pension received from the govern? ment makes them independent. ? "I tell you how it is with me, Mrs. Blodgett," said the dressy neighbor. "When I go to church and get all stirred up over what a desperate wicked set we are, I feel vexed and put out to think what a shame it was that Eve didn't mind her own business and not bring such heaps of trouble upon us; but when I put on a new dress that fits me so nice I can't find a particle of fault with it, and a hat that makes every woman I moot fi-i'l a t though site hadn't a friend in tho Uimi I iiwn up that f tad down? right glad she was fond of fruit, and I can't help it."? Chicago Tribune. ARP'S WEEKLY BUDGET. Another Letter from tho Tar XTccl State? Adonis. Constitution. Everything is lovely All nature is dressed in living green and adorned with flowers. She has banged her hair with blossoms and fringed her pantalettes [ and clustered her swelling bosom. It is I a full and gorgeous costume, not too short above nor too long below, but modest and bridal and lovely. Nq decollette nor line of demarcation, such as Miss Cleve? land and other women are writing about and trying to explain. I never read about this decollette business, these low neck party dresses, but the word decoy seems to fit right well, for they are made to decoy somebody and set a suare. It is a poor, pitiful business when ladies have to take a measure for tbe line of modesty and discuss in the newspapers where modesty ends and immodesty begins* But then these fashionable folks have got nothing else to do, I reckon. North Carolina is excited now and there is fire all along the line. Prohibi? tion is tbe question, and you can hear of it wherever you go. A hundred times have I been asked how it works in Geor? gia. I met Governor Colquitt on the train. He was just from Washington and was going to Ealeigh to speak on prohibition, and from there to Durham. Raleigh was excited, and so was Durham and Goldsboro, for the friends of temper? ance have become bold and aggressive. Everywhere I think they will be defeated in all these places, but they will rally and fight again until they do succeed. Public opinion is gradually drifting that way, and sooner or later whisky must go. It may be that wine will come in as a substitute over here, and it will be a hap py compromise if it does. Domestic wine is the best thing to fight whisky with in North Carolina, for this whole country is planting vineyards. Acres upon acres may be seen from tbe cars all along tbe railroads, especially tbe Ral? eigh and Gaston railroad. You are hard? ly ever out of sight of a vineyard. Most of these grapes are grown to sell and ship, but there are thousands of gallons of wine being made, pure wine, and it is found to be more profitable than anything else. I visited Captain Garrett's vine? yard near EnSeld, and was amazed at its extent. Just think of ninety acres in Scuppernong grapes, all arbored over, and as you stand on an elevation and look down it seems one luxuriant carpet of living green. Captain Garrett makes 50,000 gallons of wine every season, and sells it in New York for a net price of one dollar a gallon. Besides this he has twenty acres in other grapes that are made iuto sherry and champagne. The process does not seem to be complicated or difficult, and anybody can succeed i1* they are reasonably intelligent and watchful. This was a model farm I visi? ted, for while grapes and wine were tbe main thing there there was a splendid farm in a high state of cultivation and a number of silo pits that Captain G. says is the salvation of his farm. There was a fine herd of Jersey cattle and a dairy, and above all there was an elegant re? finement in the household and a welcome hospitality that makes one feel like he was living again in tbe days of the old planters and patriarchs whose beautiful homes adorned the hills and the groves of the South some thirty years ago. The diversified agriculture and horticulture of Eastern North Carolina is bringing their people to tbe front very rapidly. It is not all cotton now, nor is it all turpen tine, as it used to be. Why, even the small fruits are realizing a handsome return for their cultivation, and you will see at every station on the Coast line large stacks of strawberry crates awaiting the express train for the Northern mar? kets. Tobacco is now a leading product and every town has its warehouses and auction houses that buy and sell and store tbe weed. The town of Durham has now 5,000 inhabitants, aud the majority are in the tobacco business. I visited the immense establishments of Duke & Sons and Carr & Co., and was bewildered at the extent of their business. There is now in Durham ten million pounds of leaf tobacco awaiting manufacture, and it comes in every day by the train load from all the surrounding country. The tobacco manufacturers of Durham pay to the railroads over one million dollars 1 a year for incoming freights. They have over 2,000 operatives, more than half of whom are girls. I saw five hundred girls in one factory. They were all setting at little desks making cigarettes, and they were singing one of Sankey's songs when we entered. Cotton factory girls look pale and measley, for they have to stand up all day, and the poor things do get tired, awful tired, and they look careworn and weary. They can't sing for the sound of the machinery; but these girls looked rosy and neat, and were as merry as larks. The doctors say that tbe tobacco business is the healthiest business in the world, and that these girls are never sick. They all work by the piece, and many of them make two dollars every day. Most of them make one dollar and fifty cents, and even the little tiny chaps make from seventy-five cents to a dollar. The girls can beat tbe boys at this business, for tbeir fingers are more delicate aud nim? ble. They make 750,000 cigarettes in one day in the Duke factory. Just think of it! Nearly a million ! And all to be burned up into smoke and ashes. I cas? ually inquired where all these cigarettes and all this smoking tobacco went to, and tbe general manager handed me a lot of bills of lading tbat bad been shipped that morning. They were to Hamburg, Honolula, Singapore, Madras, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Montreal, Aukland and Sourabay. They have a large trade in China and Asia and India and Arabia. Durham and Duke tobacco are now known all over the world, and tbeir pro prietory have to enlarge their products every year in order to supply the de? mand. Tobacco is very low now because of the over production of last year and the Durham manufactory have bought very largely at very low figures. I was shown a pile of 1/)0,000 pounds that cost only 21 cents a pound, but it was very common indeed. Novertbeless, it is worked up and flavored with a little Now England rum and sells very well. Then I visited a amall factory of SleesprrogirWHWBg ron, where they make a speciaMlHH very fine smoking tobacco, tbe c*? the South, that they say is the ?fiesTH the world. They have to pay -L.gdWB price for the leaf that in put 'toHH tobacco. Durham \ "Welli^jflrafi tobacco all over Durham^? its atmosphere and breathe rH factories are cutting it up intaH with machinery that drives the dt^^H into the air and the wind wafts it all JH town. But. it is not at all unpleaaJB and they say that one can breathe it unofl he does not care to chew it. It is like the old, fat and greasy cooks, who in the' old times hardly ever ate anything stfC] just kept fat and slick from tbe odors of smoking and frying meats. Before I forget it let me tell you that there is buried in the churchyard af Tarboro a colonel of a Georgia regiment: ?what regiment I do not know, but the colonel's name was Mercer. He' was' killed near there and his grave has somf cannon balls around it, and his mfl pencilled on a board. Governor ColjjB told me that he knew his father weinB that this man was when a young r^M sent to West Point, and was a vefjB and brave officer. If any of his kK desire to know more about him theyH write to Mr. David Fender, at TarH I am now on the borders of the Dflfl| swamp, that horror of my childW where I supposed were hidden bear?SI panthers and crocodiles and anaceffl and was lighted up with Jack o'larJH They say it is peaceable now and ^BB Bill.? Stealing Huntsman's Invention J A little more than 100 year? ago H manufacture of steel may be said to bjH had a beginning in England. jHH that time there was living in SheSSH England, a man by the name of Hajjfl man. He was a watch and clock m&ljH and he had so much trouble in eattjjH steel that would answer for sprfi determined to make steel him^? H experimented for a long timB HB and after many failures bo JwjsW process that produced a supt^Jj of steel. The best steel to beobtaiflBj at that time was made by the Hindcfl and it cost in England about $50,00?H ton ; but Huntsman's steel conlcLheJW for $500 a ton. As he found a re^fl market for all the steel he could wfifl hedetermined to keep his in ventioa seH and no one was allowed to enter hlnjlfif except his workmen, and they were sfl to secrecy. But other iron and ifl makers were determined to find outflH he produced the quality of steel he H and this is how they accomplisheu^B? last: One dark and bitter cold wag night a wretched-looking hegger^M ed at the rjoor of Huntsman's workfl asked shelter from the storm tbaH raging without. The workmen, piflj the supposed beggar, gave him perm? to come in and find warmth and sflH near one of the furnaces. In a S9 while the drowsy beggar fell asle? at least seemed to do so, but bene? torn and shabby hat, his half-shB watched with eager intent everyB ment made by the men about thefl es, and as the chaJigTng^?f-, tjjjflB H pots, heatingHEhe furnaces^H H pouring the steel into ingots wr*fl several hours to accomplish, itjfl necessary to add that the forgj gar slept long and as it seemJB in the corner where be layjj out afterward that the appajfl H ing beggar was a wcll-to^M H living near by, and thefl I began the erection of larg^BI similar to Huntsman's was good eviTM that he was a poor sleeper but a [9 watcher. Embalmed by the Soll. M Human bodies buried in 11 H countries are often turned to son^^H by the lime-water which oenetrat^j graves. In other soils there are 2jB B which sometimes so cnibaloafl ? dead as to preserve form B?|Hj?lH unchanged. Many such cfl H record. Robert Burns' bedfl raj terred in 1815, to be renorl 1 tomb. To the surprise of ^'8 9 features were found to be as 9 H burial. IctP^B The case of John Hamden,HHJ English patriot and leader, wffl prising. His body was disjffl Lord Nugent, two hundw4^B burial, but fornr-and featureH H unchanged as if the corpse tiadH been laid in the grave. B When General Washington's* taken up at Mt. Vernon, t^ befl sarcophagus and removed to^M nent tomb, his face was foundS state of perfect preservation^! In all these cases, ho tvever,? of decay had gone on intermJH arrested at the surface. ABSMHii exposure to the air the bod JH and all resemblance to life p|B Youth'it Companion, Expected Her to Hel] Sales U a country cbarac well. He tries to earn "tinkers around" at odd j and whatever he can works a good deal painful drawl that is that state of natural his ilk call "born tired." t $ mend a fence the other natrons in the surburba; he belongs with a pe< about him. He had necktie of blue Japanese honest face was covered grin all the time that b his orders. "You seem happy, S Blank, with some curios finished about the fen "Ya-as," drawled been a gittin' married "Married? You? V alive, what on earth have f done that for ? You can't self as it is!" "Wull," said Silas, "I H support myself, 'n' I think if? if she can't help some."? ? Positive colored^ wedding.