The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-28
DIR. BARNES AND THE SOUTH.

The following extract from a discourse
which Rev. Albert Barnes, D. D., of Phil
adelphia, delivered to his people on last
Thanksgiving day, is so truthful and so
timely that it deserves wide publicity, es.
peciaily in consideration of the source from
whence 1t comes:
81 hesitate not to say, on the whole, the
conduct of the South in the feelings evinced
on the termination of the conflict, has been
such as to demand the confidence of the
North and to secure the admiration of man
kind. The surrender of armed forces was
so complete and entire; the cessation OF
hostllities was so Immediate and universal ;
the acknowledgment that they had been
overcome was so prompt, frank and manly,
the readiness to return to the Union has been
so general and apparently so sincere the
recognition of the fact that slavery is extinct
forever has been so wisely admitted rs a
fact-vast as are the conquences involved
and as the change in their habits the read
mess to come under the arrangements for
collecting the revenue has been so prompt :;
the disposition to resume commercial inter
course with the great cities of the North has
been so marked: and the Willingness to come
into the great arrangements of the nation for
the perpetuating freedom was 50 general. that
we see in this, l think, the return of the feel
ings of the best days of the Republic. There
are exceptions Individually but there has
never been civil war closed where there was
less lingering animOsity, or more Willingness
to unite again under the same government
Can we forget, when we think of what is in
the Southern bosom still, that long cherished
opinions, feelings and customs do soon change
among the people Can we forget how
long after the wars of the roses and after
the civil wars that resulted in the establish
ment of the Commonwealth in England,
on the cessatiOns of the forms of war the
fec ings that had been engendered fingered
in the Dosoms OF Englishmen Can we for
gethow long after the Revolution, the Danish
ment of James, and the accession Of William
and Mary, love for the 'PretenCler' fingered
in the hearts of portion of that nation how
firm was TIE conviction that he was the
rightful heir of the Crown how strong the
hope that he would yet come to the throne
Shall we blame our Southern brethren if
some similar feelings linger in their bosoms ?"
A PRAYER For LANDLORDs.-The follow
ing prayer, says the Charleston Times. was
formerly used in the Primer or Book of
Private Devotions in the Reform Church
until the accession ofQueen Mary of England
We reproduce it now, in the hope that it
may be adopted once more in our churches
of all denominations at least until the first of
May:
1.-The earth is Thine o Lord. and that is
contained therein; notwithstanding Thou
hast given possession thereof to the children
OF men to pass over the time of their short
pilgrimage in this vale of tears. We hear
tily pray Thee to send the Holy Spirit in to
the hearts of those that possess the ground,
pastures and dwelling-places on the earth,
that they, remembering themselves to be Thy
tenants, may not rack and stretch out the
rents of their houses and lands, nor yet take
unreasonable fines and incomes after the
manner of covetous workings but so let
them out to Others that the inhabitants there
of may be able both to pay the rents, also
honestly live to nourish their family, and
to relieve the poor. Give them grace to
consider that they are but strangers and pill
grims in this world, having here dwell
ing place, but seeking one to come; that
they remembering the short continuance of
life, may be content with that which is suffi-
cient, and not join house to house. nor couple
land to land, to the impoverishment of others,
but so behave themselves in letting out their
tenements, lands, and pastures, that after this
life they may be received into everlasting
dwelling places, through Jesus Christ our
Lord"