Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-02-12

man. and employed at the ships If the Va Il Tenn
Railroad Company, en- this CITY was before the
Mayor Yesterday. On the complaint of Daniel r
Farmer, who alleged that Kelly entered his dom
cil.in opposition to his plainly expressed wishes
aud after getting in, acted in a very unbecomng
manner to u member of his household. His Hon
or ordered the unmanncrly Kelly to give bail IN
the sum OF $780, TO he OF better behavior in the
future.
FREIGHT TRApE.--There were received Mt the
depot of the Va. & Tenn. K. r. yesterday, IL
loaded cars. consisting of S52 bushels Of Wheat );
l2l bbs. of Flour, "a, 900 pounds Miscellaneous
There we're IL loaded cars sent West the same
day.
ORAL Instruction FOR SEsvASrs-Hy FRIEND:
I did point you to the only remedy knew OF Tor
the moral degradation of the slave population;
you said pointed out the evil, but not the rene
dy-Read it again. wrote hurricdly, but think
commenced with African Oral Sunday Schools
and closed with it. | believe it to be the duty of
master aud mistress to teach their servants ms
believe it to he parents to teach their children
But how many habtually teach their servants?
If there be necessity for white Sunday schools,
hor much greater must there be one for u'dearnfd
ch,id,rn9 | asked. Draw all the opportunities in
your mind that the white person has for religious
instruction, and contrast it with what eolnrcl
pei sons have. The law has, as it werc Shut tie
the negros eye-we have only the ear to pour
light on their dark, sinful. supcrsttious minds 80
II we who have been taught from pra.tling in
fancy to our present age-with every AID and help,
find our hearts so sinful and i; hard Ia do what
il right--what must the negro, who has no reli9,-
ious principle. and hope. Has the negro sonl
God says he has. and he will require il at our
hands. Let us beware that it be not the mill
stone that shall sink us to He'll.
The only reasons prefer n Sunday school for
them is that we can approach greater number,
and that they will learn better. They are social,
cumulative, initiative, afectionate race, easily
moved-but careless and forgetfu. easily discour-
aged. Hence the necessity for patience, rersever-
ance and forbearance in teaching them. We cav
not expect a schusl Of this kind to succeed. unless
we get men and women of piety and intelligence.
and patience and perseverance, who feel conscien-
tiously that it is n moral duty to come forward.
and give their time, yea their talents to it, It's
no childs play to teach servants orally to interest
them 40 that they will come regularly, and not he
instructed in the words only, but that you make
the truths plain and illustrate it, as to strike their
minds and enlist their affections
l know it is a self-denying work. one that calls
for many sacrifices on our part But 90 we ex-
pect to get to Heaven on downy beds of case
Oh Christian why stand We idle, the penny will
not be rrs, unless work. DO we expect God
so work 169 hours for us, and we cannot work for
him one hour, yea two hours. Can we expect him
to bless us with new blessings, and continue the
old ones to us? He has said in James second, 2d
chapter, "What doth it profit. my brethren, though
n man say he hath faith, and have not works? can
faith save him?"
Even 80 faith. If it hath not works is dead,
being alone" "Thou believcst that there is one
God thou doest well the devils also believe, and
trembls. But wilt thou know, o vain man, that
faith without works is dead" For as the body
without the spirit is dead. so faith without works
is dead Also" Here is q work in which christians
of all names may join in (for it is equally obliga-
tory on one as another) either together or in their
separate churches. hope the time has come
when all will consider this long neglected duty to
servants, and that every 4rch will have its Sun
day school in the afternoof for it will be OF great
advantage to have more than one. You say you
have too many scholars for one Sunday school,
and too few teachers. Be not faint hearted. the
pious, energetic and able ministers of your town
will throw open their Sunday school rooms rs soon
as they think of this matter. Think You not that
those who watched by the serulchre of their Lord
last Sunday, and partook Of the holy emblems of
his DEATH and who felt they watched their
hearts burn within them. and the preciousnes of n
Saviors love, and the hope of immortality In llea-
ven-that they will neglect this work of the Lord
All they will fear that the Lord will refuse to
shut them in the Ark of Salvation, and that the
waters of his dispeasure will drown them. All
are not Mrs Jelebe's with you, give, give to China
missions, African missions, but think it wrong
to devote one hour a week to teach those who
live in their houses devote the labor of their lives
to their service. and on whom they are dependent
for the comforts of their homes. Don't believe
that it will do any good. Why are they more de-
based than the SAVAGE by intercourse with you,
that Gods almighty grace can't reach his arm
can't save them Is not the necro's soul rs pre-
cious in his sight as yours and mine. Will not
the cry of their lost soul, far worse than EGYPTIAN
bondage, come up before him? | am no fanatic,
believe it is lawful and right to hol slaves. and
am so much of an old fogie that believe in inn
picit obedience linsey dresses, white aprons and
handkcrchiefs for servants.
Some saw it is the only time have to be with
my family Which generally ends in taking II
pleasant walk with ncighhor. calling upon an
other talking the light. intellectual, moral polt
cal or social scandal of the day. But mhY IS Mts
t. only time they haceP Has god given them no
other day for their families. and the social and in
teectual interchange Of ideas? Are there not
six days in week Did not God write with his
own finger, the Seventh Day is the Sabbath Of the
I,r.l and must be holy unto Iim3 Christ said
1T is lawful to do we'll on the Sabbath day."
Matt xii r. Is it not well to devote one hour TO
the culture of our servants?
have had 80 many interruptions that can't
say that have answered all your questions. and
bava mt timo tn write ont the hest plan pursue