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THE FLOWERS COLLECTION J. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY A COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA CON FERENCE, M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. RUFUS T.

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The True Church. Debt and Expenses of Great Britain and the Unitod States. (Original. the stream of time, and planted in another soil to be watered I the billows of eternity. I charge you think of this, old apje, because God's mercy has been so all concerned to u.

matters into ja state more consistent with the teachings of the Bible, and in keeping with the faith of our common Christianity. For the X. C. Christian Advocate. Holinr ss Saiiclmcation Wholly.

The Doctrine of the Bible not only, ty then to impart knowieage let tnei but the doctuixe specially adap- he misapprehension, it becomes duty to ted to the xixeteextii cextciiy. give right apprehension; let there be opposition, then it becomes duty to cry I am aware there exist in the minds aloud and spare not. Did not the proof some. men. too.

versed in the things I phets do this Did not the apostles The Methodist journal, the Christian Advocate, says, The Churchman has its own meaning for the phrase, Church of Christ. Now we deny this utterly. It is a false and sinister imputation. We have no meaning for it but that of Holy Scripture, and as the Church of Christ was taught it by the apostles themselves, they and the'r immediate patriotic successors, acting under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, organized that society which was instituted by our Blessed Lord, to be the depository of Divine truth, and the channel of Divine grace. And it was to he ONE.

There was, as St. Paul emphatically declares, to be no schism in the hotly." Very well said, Brother Churchman. We Methodists, Moravians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, all hold to the good doctrine that it should be one' and we all recognize each other as one, in the best catliotic sense, having really less irritating dissensions than your own internal parties are sustaining at this hour. We are one spiritual body of the Lord Jesus, and as you are numerically but an insignificant item among us, why not renounce your practical schism" and join us? You and the fallen Church of Home alone stand aloof from the common unity. It is aa unfortunate companionship, Brother Churchman, not to say more of it.

True religion i spiritual, the true Church is spiritual, and the only practicable catholicity must be spiritual this all the Christian world Etymology cf Lady. Col. Benton maintains, with characteristic pertinacity, lils statemcrt that the word 'lady is no where usc! in the Scriptures. This statement, says the New York Tost, so far as the original is concerned, is literally true there being no word in the original of the scriptures that has any signification corresponding with that of the word as at prescpt received. The word says the Christian Teacher, 'is an abbreviation cf the Saxon Laffday, which signifies Breadgivcr.

Tie mis tress of a manor, at time when affluent families resided constantly at their country mansions, was accustomed, once a week or oftener, to flit tribute among the poor a certain quantity of bread. She bestowed the bocn with her own hand, and made the heart of the needy glad, by the soft words and gentle amenities which accompanied her benevolence. The widow ml the orphan 4 rose up and called her blessed' the destitute and the aflli recounted her praises all classe of the poor embalmed her in their affections as the Laffbiy the givr of bread and dispenser of comfort a sort of ministering angel in a world of sorro There arc ninny in our own community, in this time of destitution, who are proving themselves worthy of a title, which has in modern tiires been indiscriminately applied tothe generou and selfiih of the softer sex. of the Bible, and deeply taught in ex perimental godliness, objections against a general, strenuous effort in preaching the doctrine. I know that some, whose counsel ordinarily we do well to listen to, say this is not the time for a special propagation of the tenet of entire sanc-tification.

These brethren say that there is not enough of light on the subject in the public mind that the ap-pieheiiolon of trie masses in re fere net' to sanctifieation is too indistinct and hazy to favor a very positive and pungent setting forth, of the doctrine just now. Now, we know that there is a time to every thing under the sun, and reason to be noted arid regarded in everv but after all this, after yielding to these brethren all they urge in the way of this objection, we still apprehend there is apparent among us a false delicacy on this subject. Why do we speak of this era in the annals of the gospel as an era too morally benighted or too intellectually obtuse for the decisive and distinctive preaching of holiness to the people Why, would it be diverging cither from the precept or the examples siren us in the Bible i but you and the Romanists maintain. You is much more effectual than the threat-are in a deplorable schism, an 1 should make ening of a great oe, should the fault haste to escape it. And then the absurd be renewed.

Would it bring clown upon us the re-i grace. Men err, however, as to tne bukes of the past in any form, or from modus operandi, laid down by the plan any quarter (unless it were to incur of truth by which its highest attam-the manifest displeasure of an unenvia-1 ments and richest behests are reached, hie indifferentism, which tells us by i It has been both the order of the Bible everv lineament of its ice-look of ex- and its inspired expounders, to place pression, -'I was made to free the hearts first in prominence the fact to be real-of men, not to ivann them I was made ized, and then mark out the way of faith to discover, to reason, to think; I be- in its gradations and processes leading lieve in law, and order, and progrcs-! sion I believe the world was not made in a day and all must come and go in a mans lifetime, and we might meet 7 3 this and srlorv in its I think not I think not in the are of the Jew-! ish economy not in the apostolic era of the church not in the later davs of i Wesley and Whitfield; not in thousands The following judicious rules for the government of a family cannot be to familiar to heads of families. Let every parent read them often and practise them faithfully, and the next generation of men and women will be a glorious improvement upon the present One. 1. From your children's earliest infancy, yeu must incalculate the necessity of instant obedience.

2. Unite firmness with gentleness. Let your children always understand that you mean exactly what you say. 3. Neyer promise them any thing, unless you are sure that you can give them what you promise.

4. If you tell your child to do something, show him how to do it, and sec that it is done. 5. Always punish your children for wilfully disobeying you, but never pun ish in hnger. 6.

Never let them see that they can vex you, or make you lose your self-command. 7. If they give way to petulance and temper, wait till ihey are calm, and then gently reason with them on the impropriety of their conduct. 8. Remember that a little present punishment, when the occasion arises, 9.

Never give your children anything because they cry for it i0 0n no account a'now thcrn to J0 forbidden. under the like circumstances, at another. 11. Teach them that the only sure and easy way to appear good, is to be good. 12.

Accustom them to make their little recitals with perfect truth. 13. Never allow of tale-bearing. S. S.

Visitor. Sabbath Breaking. A eftrrespondent, writing to us, from Minnesota, relates the following incidents "Early last spring, a young man belonging to the Romish chnrch, thoul-dercd his gun one Sabbath morning and started to mass. The lady of the house where he was boarding, herself a catholic, advised him to leave hist gun at home, but he persisted in taking it, saying he would return along the river ana thoat some ducks. Un arriving: at the church, he concealed his gun In a box after mass he went to get it, and taking it by the muzzle, the hammer of the lock caught on the edge of the box, causing the gun to go off, and lodging its contents in his side.

The priest hurried to him and performed some of the rites of the church, but the unfortunate man could not speak he died in a few minutes. "Another occurrence, equally melan-cholly, took place in the vicinity of Lit tie Falls, a fewmonths since: Two men started out to spend the hours of sacred rest in sport. Ihey hid not proceeded far when they surprised a flock of partridges among some thick unberbrush, one of the men was in the act of parting the I rushwith the breech of his gun, when it accidentally went off, killing him almost instantly. Other accidents have happened where limbs have been, mutilated, or persons narrowly escaped with their lives still there seems to be little or no abatement of this crime people seem to shut their eyes to all warning and rush madly and wildly on to certain rum. jlv.

Li. uiavocate. A Timely Caution. The Conferences are just over, and the preachers sent to new places arc now making the acquaintance of the people to whom they are to minister for another year. In connection with this fact there are thoughts that may be of service.

The people should take it for granted that, in that providence which, Methodists believe, controls all these thing, the right man has been sent to tdem. In this matter, as in all others, tbey should walk by faith, not by sight." Hew little we are able to judge of the suitableness of appointments by mere outward appearance Many a preacher, in whom we have felt disappointed, has been the instrument of a great revival of the conversion of our friends ond children of the building up of the church while it is often true that the man whom we wished to have, and whose promise at beginning was most encouraging, has had but little success. And the preacher shouM have the same faith. He should take it for granted that he is sent to the right place. A preacher complaining ef his appointment is in a poor condition for the commencement of his work.

He does poor work, and makes a poor impression upon others. The people should neither do nor say anything to discourage tae new preacher. And the preacher should not be ai; all discouraged, if any such things should be said, or done for they nearly always come from those whose judgment and piety are not such as to make their decisional of very fearful import. The people have got their preachers, and the preachers have got their people and it is both piety and policy to make the very best wossiblo use of each other, by uniting heartily together in promoting the work of God. Texas Christian Advocate.

The public debt of Great Britain is 3 1 the annual amount required for the support of the government $300,000,000. Whilst railroads in the United States per mile in England they cost 114,000 per nfib, but then the road is as superior to the United States roads as the pric. The public debt of the United States amounts to and the annual amount required for the support of government to 04,000,000. The public debt of the several States amounts to 000. This certainly is, at first blush, a very captivating contrast, but, with a Southern conx-xi agree that it is ihe indueem'efit to an exceedingly insidious idea, and proceeds upon the false assumption that the governments of Great Britain and the United States are proper subjects of comparison, whereas they are two distinct political existencies.

In England, as our contemporary justly observes, government is the pack horse for everything it is made to do not alone what is proper to be done by the government of the United States, but what is to be done by the several States themselves, and many subordinate municipal corpora tions; it bears, therefore, the indebtedness that has accumulated, not alone in its office of military and diplomatic agent for the people of Great Britain in foreign intercourse, but the farther indebtedness which has accrued from its performance of the offices undertaken here by States and counties. In addition to this it bears the charge, by way of interest, upon an indebtness accumulated through the exigencies of a history ten times as extended as our own, and it may be, therefore, that it has a larger debt and a heavier burthen of annual taxation by many times, without affording ground for the assumptions, either that the Government of the United States can be indefinitely projected upon its present plan without incurring the difficulties of a similar m-debtedn ess, or that the people of the United States are not, and will net be subjected to equal burthens in the way of taxation. In addition to this, when we take into view the increase of the expenses of our Federal government from in 1830, to 60,000,000 in 1856, and calculate what those expenses must be if in the same ratio, it is not difficult to foresee that they must ere long transcend all ordinary sources of public revenne. The immense domain of public land, with the sales of which our treasury is now gorged to repletion, will pass from the possession of the government; the stream of foreign immigration, whoso want of foreign goods has helped to swell our revenue, will gradually diminish and the life blood of the treasury be sucked away by those vast schemes of public plunder which are even now causing it to bleed at every pore. Then, we shall be on the highway to a debt as heavy as that of Great Britain, and that, before we have arrived at the tenth of her period of national existence, or can show a thousandth part of the value of the consideration for which she has expended her money.

It should be remembered that while the government of the United States is branching out into enormous expenditures, and may ultimately transcend its revenue from imports, and therefore be compelled to come down upon the people in some other form, the people are supporting still heavier taxation in their support of judicial and executive officers, their public buildings and pub rl Villc Hi. rectly upon the Crown. Dispatch. Kuch vs. Little.

The Pretestant Churchman, of New York, in discussing the merits of some proposed scheme which would need a large expenditure to carry it out, thus hits at a fault of the times very prevalent in all denominations "Like the hereditary remnant of a great family, we have had a pride which must have great things always with small means to pay for them. Bishop Sanderson say the great curse of his time was "beggared gentility." Not a village congregation with us, of a hundred people, can be satisfied unless they have a church that they have no means to pay for. And generally the poorer they are, the more imperious are their demands for foreign aid to gratify the mere vanity of their local competition and strife. Hence, churches are everywhere in discouragements and quarrels, and ministers everywhere are striving. The Carthaginian experiment is the popular one of the day, altering only its subjective application.

And instead of as much land as a bull's hide will covef, it i3 as large a church as a minister's skin will pay for. And then the problem is put to the experiment, and he is sent forth to work it out. The same principle has been applied to our efforts for literary and theological institutions. We attempt great things, and we expect great things. But, unfortunately, we do not do the great things." of instances since those days And now; Bro.

IIeflix: Though man still per-I ask, can you meet with a case more jn wickedness and sin, as if there unfavorable in its every' aspect and cir-! no power to prevent him, yet he is oniRstance, morally and intellectually, not suffered thus to act without occasion-f religious enlightenment than pre- ally being reminded that soon he will s-uts itself in Jewish history Are we have to hy aside those shackles of mor-at all more degraded, more benighted, i tality, while Lis spirit will take its rapid more untaught, more obtuse in moral i A'St into the presence of that Leing wno perceptions than thev, the Jews? How is of Pur P'cs tlmn behold iqmty, 'V i or pass by the uorepented sin without its greatly difterent the state of the case bti nocecL Al am pcr.suadcd that is, and altogether against the objection ther ig notnin better suited to impress too, is palpable; and yet we find that i this soomn truth upon our minds, than to one of the earliest annunciations made witness the departure of some around us to this people by Jehovah, was that of to tha spirit land. A few days ago I was Be ye holy, for I the Lord your God, called on to perforin the burial ceremony am holy an annunciation at once over Mr. J. D. a youth of about fif-positive and distinctive, both in the teen years, who was suddenly seized with matter and manner of its declarations.

I an apoplectic fit and expired in a few That this injunction was enforced too hurs. He was not known to speak after i i. i. he wa3 takeu and as be was not a pro- under circumstances -the most impres- WJS o1 i ir 1 fessor of region, eternity, only, will reveal sive, and even appalling to the masses rpi thll I his condition. On last lnursuay the loth of that peculiar nation; that God so far hed the funeral of Mr.

Da-from giving it a single declaration, then vid Ay 1rlvcmanj a young man of twenty-let it remain in the books of the law, w0 an(j wj.0 oniy a few weeks before he there to be read and appreciated, may- died, which was about the first of Deceni- great toward, aad because you may, even now refuru to God and live, and at last have an abundant entrance administered unto you, into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. G. WESLEY HEPTINSTALL. Onslow, January 17, 1857. Idfrtinn 4 From the Aslievillo Xews.

My Father. Editor You will please publish the following in memory of my father, Enoch Swaim. Only a little over a year acjo was called upon to give a sketch on the occasion of the death of my mother, and now my tatnr is gone I lie was born April 3d, 1782, and died October 25th, 1856, consequently had passed his 74th year whjn he died. How sad the thought, that my pircnts are dead Falhn Jfoflirr what endearing names And what fond rwllec tions are called up in reflecting upon tho example and admonition of pious parent-; My father was born and raised up in Guilford county, N. C.

lie wns married about the year 1807, and shortly after removed to Buncombe county, N. 0 where he lived a citizen for abovo 40 years. lie was long and intimately known by many of the old and prominent citizens of this county; an! ninny of them still live to testify to the stability of his character, both as a ci-izen and as a christian. lie was brought up under Presbyterian influence, where the Calvinistij doefrine of election and reprobation was taught. I have often heard him relate his exps-i riencc with regard to his conviction and conversion.

When he was a young man he was often deeply and pungently convicted of sin, but ree-'iving the doctrine which he had been taught to believe, he had come to the conclusion, from his own feelinus, that he was one of the reprobate, and therefore his ease was hopeless. On one occasion he attended a camp-raeeting where this doctrine was explained. The character of the cln and reprobate was distinctly described by the minister. He said he beheld himself fully depicted as reprobate, an 1 feeling that there no hope for him, and that he would be more miserably in the company of gxd people, he resolved to go home. But it wis announced that at the next service a Methodist minister would preach he was an old man.

2sot being acquainted with the doctrine? of Methodism, he concluded to stay and hear him he preached preached a full and free salvation to all who would accept it upm the terms of the gospel, and proved most fully and scrip-tuially the fullness of the atonement, and the frea agency of man in embracing its benefits. Said hs, Ci if- this doctrine be true, there is a chance for me, I will seek; I will exercise my free moral agency in efforts to save my soul He went to work in good earnest, and sonn after was happily converted. "And now," he said, 1 shall ever have reason to tbank God that I ever heard the doctrine of free salvation. Aud I have no doubt he will praise God to all eternity for a free salvation. The substance of this experience he has often related in the class room and love-feast, and no doubt many of his old acquaintance well remembered it.

lie was a member and exLortcr in the Methodist Episcopal Church for about 50 years and during a great portion of this time he filled the important post of class-leader. He loved the house of God, and especially the clas room. lie loved his Bible, and was a man of prayer. The family altar was not neglected by him and the benefits of family prayer will, we doubt not, tell upou his family in years to come. For some years before his death, he had been in feeble herdth, and seemed to be gradually sinking away.

He still grew more and more feeble till the last, but was able to walk about and talk till nearly the last hour, lie du triumphantly tnum phea through Jesus His body is buried in the tomb, but his spirit lives with God. What a glorious thought, that this body shall be resurrected soul and body reunited to live in immortality and eternal life. We bury our friends in the tomb who has not lost a friend We can shed our tear and make our moan over their departed regains, but we cannot watch them there. Not even a father, a mother, a child, is permitted to stand a sentinel there it is too lonely a place. But thank God there is a sentinel Were we permitted to look with spiritual eyes upon invisible objects, we might see a tall angel-like form bending over their graves and watching their dust.

And that sentinel is the angel of the hope of the resurrection. We are all swiftly tending to that night which is to be succeeded but by on ni day but our consolation is, that the morn cf that day shall break upon the world never to be succeeded by night. It is one of the mosf glorious, heart cheering doctrines of the gospel, though death has conquered our friends, and is destined soon to conquer us, that Jesus has conquered death So that we can triumphantly say in the language of St. Paul, Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." M. P.

SWAIM. Ashcville, N. Jan. 5th, 1S57. A Pair ofTheji.

We noticed on the streets last night, near Lafayette Square a man and woman, evidently husband and wife, going along, arm in arm, with that zig zag movement which betokens spiritualism, in more or less quantities. Said he: Hie walk steady, why don't'ye Said she An its yersilf hie that hie throubles me with hie yer pushin walk shteady All this was, reel-j too had. N. O. Pic.

Let there be ignorance, it becomes du- .1 11 1 1 1 do this? Did not the reformers ao this 't Did not Wesley and many others do this And what of it? Why the very least of it was, that the world knew there had been prophets in Israel, and God was true, though every man were found a liar. Are we alway to keep still? Why, these brethren remind me of the ten spies who brought up an evil report of the land There are the sons of Ar.ab over there And what next? Whv, let us wander about here awhile in the wilderness mavha-i thev will die after a little, and then we will go by. But not now they don't understand us now they will imagine that we intend evil against them, if we advance so hastily, and a multitude of difficulties will rise up, as numerous as the spirit of Hordes, to shut' out success. Some one, a man of faith, doubtless, thinks the world ought, to be evangelized within the cycle of the nineteenth century. One thing is sensibly true that is to say, no man can limit the operations of the Spirit, nor calculate the effects possible to be produced the influences and agencies ot gospel means ana gospel to the tact, the mark ot tne gospel prize, Here, had we space, would we push this idea farther, and show doing so, how facts sustain us in this position which in part we have done.

Respectfully, For the X. C. Christian Advocate. Uncertainty of Life. ber, seemed to be in the enjoyment of as good health as shared by mau in this vale of tears.

He was once a member of the M. E. Church, but for some cause totally unknown to me, his name was taken from the class-bock, after which he became conformed to the things of this world not enjoying the comfortable presence of the spirit ot hi-; Maker. Jut notwithstanding his connection w.th the visible church Was UlSCOUtlli Ut'U, JUL lie cauiuiicu sutu good degree of morality, as to cause his parents to express a hope that he had departed to be in a hotter land. 1 did not learn with any certainty what the disease was with which he suffered; but from what I did learn I was led to believe it was such as would have caused him much unltappiness and pain even if he could have recovered so as to have been of service to his ajilieted parents.

But mourning for the j'oung is not the only source of our grief. The aged pass away as well as they. To-day I preached the funeral of Mrs. Mary Ana Henderson, aged forty-two, who was the beloved consort of Lemuel Henderson, a strict member of the Methodist Church. Mrs.

II. was not a member of the Church, but a few days before her death she gave an unquestionable testimony that her sins were forgiven and ber name registered in the Lamb's book of life. She became so very happy a day or iwo before she died, and in whic state she remained until she did die, as to seem perfectly wrapped in the glorious of a blissful immortality. So eutirely did Christ possess her soul, that she could not but pray that He would take her from these low grounds of sorrow, and permit her to join the heavenly choir in ascribing praise to the Lamb for sinners slain." if in this life we can be made to rejoice in anticipating the future lot of the christian may we not safely affirm that perfect is that felicity which is realized by the dead who die in the Lord." If we could only persuade those who are now in nature darKness, to lay asiue tneir follv and behold the beauties in Christian ity" how much more worthy the came of man would the rising generation be. I submit this to you, little children, because, before you wiil have spent many years in wiekedr.ess,and the paths of vice, you may be summoned to stand before the face of anangry God.

I bid you attend to this, young men, because the youthful flower that 'is now blooming on your cheek, may soon be plucked from beside unity you propose absurd because imprac ticable and founded upon fables what docs it amount to It is a unity, not of cbari- ty of sentiment, but of external relations or ceciesmstieism, aud that hicrar-chal. This incessant piating about the virtue of the "imposi'ion of hands," and the importance of showing (which none of you can) an unbroken external succession through all the ecclesiastical reprobates of Rome and the barbarous ages; the attribution of ridiculous importance to ecclesiastical or ritual formulas this, Brother Churchman, is the mumbling of religious idiocy the true Church, as well as the age, would laugh at it, were it not so grave a caricature. With such pretensions only for you, one of the most insignificant, numerically and morally, of the denominations of the land, to strut among our temples, consigning all the rest of us to the 11 uncovenanted mercies of God," and screaming, We are the temple of God and ye are schismatics, without an altar, without sacraments, and without a priesthood this, Brother Churchman, is supremely ridiculous it is more, it is a demonstration that, whatever may be said of others, you have not the first sentiment necessary as the basis of catholic unity charity itself. Chris. AJvrcuo- A Fashionable Sermon.

The Knickerbocker Magazine furnishes the following burlesque on the dandied preaching of the day. It is a skeleton of a fashionable sermon Text. And he killed the fatted Calf." Introduction. Not necessary to say much about the prodigal Son, for nearly every wealthy family has a specimen of its own, and needs no enlightment on the subject. Divide the subject into five heads 1st.

Speak of the calf, and inform your hearers how a calf should be fattened. Give him all the milk of two cows, except a tin cup full now and then for the baby. Here you can make some learned remarks about the milky way, the belt of Jupiter, and Lord Ross's telescope. 2d. He killed the fatted calf, but not only the Scriptures, but Josephus and the Fathers are profoundly silent on the question 7iow he killed it.

As this was more than a thousand years before the invention ef gunpowder firearms, the presumption is that the old man didn't shoot the critter, but pitched into him with a club for clubs are very ancient institutions. 3d. Explain why the old gentleman, instead cf a calf, didn't kill a shote make a one-horse barbecue and have a real time of it. 4th. Inform your hearers what the wrord calf means, when used in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Choctaw or Lockjaw.

5th. Dwell pathetically upon the melancholy degenerancy of the present age, evinced by the fact that fathers, now-a-days, instead of treating a runaway son to a "fatted calf," are pretty apt to treat him to a "hasty plate of soup," made from the calf's maternal progenitor. Conclusion Throw a little geology talk learnedly about grapeivake' and "transition conglomerate." Wind up the discourse with a most eloquent, affecting appeal to the conscience of your hearers on Durham breed of cattle. "Go in Peace." Go in peace si rene dismission, To the sinner's heart made known, When he pours, in deep contrition, Prayer before the eternal throne. Go in peace!" thy sins forgiven Christ hath pardoned, set thee free, Every galling fetter riven Go in peace and liberty.

Saviour! breathe this benedictioa O'er my spirit while I pray Let me feel, 'midst sin's conviction, Christ has washed my sins away. Frozen to Death. Wa learn that a man by the name of Absalom Smith, residing in this county, but a short distance from Raleigh, was found to be frozen to death one morning last week. The Seed must Die. Tlie eeod must di 'f fire the com appear.

Out of the ground i'i blade and fruitful ears: Low those cars by Mikl cJj; lain Ere thou canst treasure up the go len grain. Tim prjiin in crushed he fare tt. Lread And the bread bruke ere life tjiaau he content to di, to 1 laid I iw, And to be crushed, and to bo b'Aen If thou upon God' trible may I bread, Lifo-givin food, to souls an hungered. Thkncii. jfar tjjt (Cjjilbrni.

Keep Your Teinptr. 'I never can keep any cried Emma, almost stamping with vexation. Somebody always take my things, and loses them. 'I She bad m'islaid of her sewing implements. There is one remarked 'that I think you might keep if yuu wuuM ir v.

'I should like tokeep eren one answered Emma. 'Well, then, my resumed mamma, 'keep your temper if you will only do that, perhaps you find it easy to keep other things. I dare fay, now, if you had employed your in searching for tho missir.g artich's, tou might have found them before this time but you have not ever looked fo-them. You have only got a passion a bail way of spending time and you have accused somebody, and very unjustly, too, of taking iway your things and losing them. Keep your temper, my dear and whoa you hav.j mislaid any article, keep ycur temper and search for it.

Ycra had better keep your temper, if you loe all the litth property you possess. Getting into i passion iH-vor brings any thins to light except a distorted face, and by losing your temper you become of tw sins you get into a passion, and accuse somebody of being the caue. So, my dear, I repeat, keep your temper." Emma subdue 1 ber ill-humor, searched for the articles she had lost, and found them ia her work-bag. Why, mamma, here they said Emma: 'I might have been sewing all this time if I had kept my The Lambs of Jeics. Suffer little children to cone unto n.e, and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God.

Luke xriii. 10. He shall feed his flock like a fhep herd: he shall gather the lambs his arm, and carry them in Lis bosom. Isa. zl.

11. For he that hath mercy en them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. Isa. xlix. 10.

I am tho good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. John x. 14. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. Ps.

xxiii. 1. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he lcadeth ma beside tho still waters. Ps. xxiii.

2. I lore them that love me and those that seek me early shall find me. Rrov. viii. 17.

The lambs of Jesus who are they But children that believe and pray That keep God's law and ask bis grace, And seek a heavenly dwe Jing-placo? The lambs of Jesus thej are meek The words of pcaco and troth they speak; To all God's creatures ihey are kind, And, like their Lood, of mind. The lambs of Jeans oh fhat we Might of that blessed number be 1 Lord take us early to t'iy love, nd cad us to the foldabove. some priest of secluded and retir- ed relations, incorporated the precept in the system of ordinances and interlaced it in all the routine of private and public worship, whether by priest or people that in a word, the mind of the masses were distinctly taught that GoD IS HOLY and that, therefore, the people should be holy. And if we come down to the morning of the gospel acclaim, when for the first time the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness broke up on our world, if Ave go out upon the mount and hearken to the lesson which the Teacher himself there hands to us, we shall learn that the first great principle to be attained, through faith in Him, is that of purity. lie opens to us His mission a3 it once was opened hy the shadows and types of it, amid the thunders of Sinai, to another people, right upon this principle.

lie goes on and interweaves inany other instruc-tions, but none disproves, none supersedes this one. Go to the Master along with the Scribe, and ask at his hands the first commandment," listen thus to the reply it is but the rccapitula tion of a truth long, long since promul-ged to a nation Hear, Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord," kc. And certainly we do not disclaim both the precepts and example oi. Christ; certainly we do not intend to say, either, that sorrounding us circumstances do not a.Tord as favorable opportunities for the inculcation of His precepts as did those of a far more unenlightened age. But turn the case in another direction, and take up the objection and look at it from its own stand-point of view and nw we say that we get one of the strongest arguments against it right here.

If, indeed, the minds of the masses are nnacoustomed to a contemplation of the doctrine, then let it become our business to accustom them to that contemplation. If there is a defect in the perceptions of our people in reference to this truth, then let those engaged render possible better perceptions of truth. And it also appears that in proportion to the great general defect here should thero be, on the other hand, a ke proportioned effort on the part of I.