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Mothers Taught by Their Children,

Only think of how many ways your
children teach you. Are they not just
so many Bible pictures to you, if you
would heed them? When your first child
was brought to you and laid in your bo-
som, stirring ia you that strange deep
mothers love, which made you love your
child because it was your child, though
it had no love for you, nor any power of
knowing you, did it not teach you some
thing of the love of God to you? And
when you felt it would be cruel, if your
child didn't grow to love you in return,
was it not the voice of your God, plead
ing with you, my child, give Me thine
hearth" And when your children come
and say their little prayer and hymn at
your knee, is it not to remind you that
just such hymn of praise, just such a
faithful prayer, your life ought to be,
said at your great Fathers knee? And
when your little Mary has been naughty,
as she comes up to you with her fearful
face, and says, "Me sorry, me be a good
girl now" and you catch her up and
give her kiss, is not that to bring home
to you the words, eff we confess our
sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse US from all un
righteousness" And when your chill
dren grieve you by their disObedience
and wilfulness, and your heart aches at
it, is it not as if a voice sounded in your
ears, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of
your God?" Must it not make you feel
something of what our going on in sin
and worldliness must be to our Saviour's
hearth And if as sinful men and women
We are shut out from Eden, yet in the
child that laughs and sings in our
home, our Eden is ever being born
anew, and before our tear-dimmed eyes
is manifestly set forth the joy which God
has reserved in heaven for those who are
converted and become as little children
in Christ, for "the gifts of God are with
out repentance.
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Synod of Georgia.

Atlanta-J. S. Wilson, Atlanta, Ga.
Auousta-C. ". Lane. Greensboro ia.
n. A. Pratt, Roswell, Ga.
Fyorida-W J. Mccormick. Gainesville, Flor.
Macon-w. A. Hall, Columbus GA.
!Souannah-D. II. Porter, Savannah, Ga.
Synod of Memphis.
Msmpiis~D. II. Cummins, Covington, Tenn.
North Mississippi-E. NJ. Richardson, Grens'
da, Miss.
Tuscumbia-W. H. Mitchell, Florence, Ala
Western District
Synod of Mississippi
Central Mississippi
Lonisiana-J. +. C. Doremus, d. D., New Or
leans, La.
Mssissippi-R. Price, Port Gibson, Miss
New Orleons-R. Q. Mallard, New Orleans.
Red Rirer-J. F. Ford, Shreveport La.
TomJeckbee-
Synod of Nashville.
Holston-J. D. Tadlock Bristol. Tenn.
Knorviue-- james Park, Knoxville Tenn.
Nashviue-D. O. Davies, GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
North Alabama-W. E. Caldwell, Elkton, Tenn.
Synod of North Carolina.
Concord-G. Wilson McPha, Davidson Col
lege. N. G.
FdyetteuiUe-H Mclean. Shoe Heel, n. c.
Orange-E Hines, Sassafras Fork, n. e.
Synod of South Carolina.
Bethel-William Banks. Lakewood, S. c.
Charleston-W. E. Boggs Columbia, s. c.
Harmony-Donald Mcqueen, Sumter, S. c..
South Cdrolina-D. Mcneil Turner, Abbeville,
S. Carolina
Synod of Texas.
Brazos-W. C. Somerville, Houston, Texas
Central Texas.
Eastern Texas
Western Texas. F. Martin, San Antonio, Tex.
Synod of Virginia.
abingdon.
East Hanorer Presbytery-E. H. Rutherford,
Petersburg, Va.
Greenbrier-M. D. Dunlap, Academy, Va.
Lerington-C. S. NJ. See, Fishersville, Va.
Montgomery-T. l.. Preston, Salem, Va.
Pdtdpsco-J. A. Lefevre, Baltimore, Md.
Rappahannock- W. Pugh. Warrenton, Va.
Roanoke-J II. Davis, Charlotte c. e., Va.
Vest Hanorer-B NJ. Smith, d. D., Hampden
Sidney, Va.
Winchester-L F. Wilson, Hedgesville, W. Va.
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Conversion of Children.

How early should we expect the con
version of our children? Just as early
as we begin to labor and pray in earnest
for it. The heather mother takes her
babe to the idol temple, and teaches it to
clasp its little hands before its forehead
in the attitude of prayer long before it
can utter a word. As soon as it can walk
it is taught to gather few flowers or
fruits, or put little rice upon banana
leaf, and lay them upon the altar before
the idol god. As soon as it can utter
the names of its parents, so soon it is
taught to offer up its petitions before the
images. Who ever saw heather child
that could speak, and not pray Chris
tan mothers, why is it that so many
children grow up in this enlightened land
without learning to pray? WHY'S it that
when called upon to address a supphca-
ton to Him who made and sustains them.
they so often blush and wish to be ex-
eused? Is not our God worthy of hon.
age? Is not our God able to hear and
answer prayer?
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afnras.
Do Not Tell Your Mother.

A party of school girls were whisper
ing together in one corner of the school
room, and as another of their number
came in they exclaimed;
20, Jane, do come here! We have a
secret to tell you; but you must promise
not to. tell it to anybody for the world. "
"WeD," said Jane, "then cannot
hear it, for I nerer listen to anything that
1 cannot tell my mother"
What a noble GIRL and how much
happier she must be than those who
hide things from their mother, and do
things they would blush to have known.
Girls, how many of you do as Jane
did?
1 heard of a good man once who said,
"Inever did anything that I sOas ashamed
to tell my mother
1t is great thing to be able to say
that, and l am afraid that there are
very few boys nowadays who can say
1t. Can you, my young reader! Ii
you cannot, will you not make up your
mind to live so after this that you Cal
say it?
Tell your mother everything, children
and never do or say anything that yOr
would be ashamed to have her know
Young Pilgrim.
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INSTITUTIONS AND OFFICERS
OF THE
Church in the United States.

CLERKS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, D. D., Stated Cter".
Augusta, Georgia.
Virginia.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF sUsTENTAT1oN.
Rev. j. Leighton Wilson, D. D., Secretary
Columbia, South Carolina.
Rev. Prof. James Woodrow, Treasurer, Co.
lumbia, South Carolina
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Rev. J. Leighton Wilson, d. D., Secretary,
Columbia, South Carolina.
Rev. Prof. James Woodrow, Treasurer. Co
lumbia, South Carolina.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION.
Rev. E. Thompson Baird, D. D., Secretary,
Richmond, Virginia.
c. Gennet, ESQ.,, Treasurer, Richmond, Va.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION.
Rev. E. Thompson Baird, D. D., Secretary,
Richmond, Virginia.
c. Gennet, Esq. Treasurer Richmond. Va.
TRUSTEES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Thomas C. Perrin, President.
Joseph 81. Wilson Vice President.
Jesse Lindsay, Secretary and Treasurer.
FOR ONE YEAR.
Hon. Thomas C.. Perrin, Abbeville, S. G.
Joseph II. Wilson. Charlotte, N. e.
Jesse Fl. Lindsay, Greensboro N. G.
James Hemphill, Chester. S. c.
Rev. George Howe, d. D., Columbia, S. c.
FOR TWO YEARS.
Robert Adger, Charleston, S. G.
Hon. j. A. Inglis, Cheraw, S. c.
j. A. Ansley, Augusta, Ga.
John Whiting, Montgomery, Ala.
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, d. d., New Orleans, La.
FOR THREE YEARS.
j. Hartman Brown, Baltimore, Md.
T. j. Kirkpatrick, Lynchburg, Va.
D. W. Kennedy, GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
John Handy, Canton, Miss.
Rev. Samuel Mckinney, d. D., Austin, Texas.
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Care of Winter Apples.

People who have many winter apples
usually sustain heavy losses by the pre-
mature decay of the fruit, simply because
they do not manage right with it. Fall
apples may often be kept till winter with
proper care. All kinds of fruit impart
moisture constantly, until the skin has
become more or less shrivelled The fruit
should be enyeloped in some dry and
porous substance that will quickly absorb
all moisture. For this purpose winter
apples may be packed in well-dried saw
dust. The saw-dust from hard wood is
better than pine, and sound and clean
Eastwood or maple would be the incest.
However packed, apples should be care,
fully picked when they are dry, without
the slightest bruise, having remained on
the trees as long as there is no danger
from frost. In packing IN saw-dust they
are put in one at time in compact lay
ers, with an inch of saw-dust at the bot
tom and sufficient upon each layer to
cover them, the whole being gently shaken
down occasionally as the filling goes on.
The advantage is. that the saw-dust keeps
the apples from contact with each other,
excludes the air, and absorbs any mois-
ture which may come from within or
without. This plan is adapted to family
use for extreme late keeping, rather than
for general marketing purposes, though
it would be equally useful for the latter
where saw-dust could be obtained
and prepared in sufficient quantities.
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How to Make Mother Happy.

"Why, mother, how bright and cheer
full you look tonight What has hap
pened?''
81 feel very happy, my dear, because
my little boy has really tried to be good
all day. Once when his sister Katie
leased him and he spoke quick and cross
to her, he turned around moment after,
of his own accord, and said he was wrong,
and asked her to forgive him. L believe,
l should grow young and never look tired
or unhappy again, if, every day, my lit
tie boy and girl were as thoughtful, un-
selfish and loving as they have been to-
day"
Here's grand secret for you, little
one. And now that you know how to
make mother happy, may you keep her
face always full of sunshine.
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Wonderfully Productive.

A new variety of oats, called Norway oats
has been introduced INFO the country, which,
being larger, heavier, and more prolific than
common, is claimed as a valuable addition to
its grain resources, particularly as the oat crop
has for long time been failing. A single
oat exceedingly large and plump, was found
in package of peas sent out in 1864 by the
Department of Agriculture, 1t was planted
in garden for experiment, and the first year
produced 2,7S5 grains. The next year the
produce of these seeds amounted to over three
bushels, aud they have increased till now,
when there are several thousand bushels
From 81 grains, 253, 4S7 have been produced;
one pint produced five bushels and from one
oat "a stalks sprung up. From small patches
sown there has been grown at the rate of 759
bushels an acre, while the usual average is
about 100 bushels
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CENTRAL PRESB T E r [ A n .

SUNDAY WEATHER.-The following,
from the Boston Recorder, may be com
mended to the attention of all Sunday
invalids:
There is mystery about this effect
of the weather on piety. Sabbath heat
seems hotter, Sabbath cold seems colder,
and Sabbath rain wetter than that Of
any other day. For the same measure
of heat, or cold, or rain on week day
will not keep one from his usual business.
We used to have Thoman's Almanac,
calculated and adapted to different lati-
tudes; and now we have the Christian
Almanac of the Tract Society. full of
good things on the weather, and piety and
cody work. But we need yet ano Their.
We need Sabbath Almanac, calculated
for all our churches, that will show by
its weather scale when it will be safe for
a vigorous Christian, week and sickly
Christian, and common Christian, to
expose himself on the Sabbath by going
to the house of God. Such an almanac
would enable pastors and superintendent
of Sabbath schools to know whom they
could depend on in church, Sabbath school
and prayer meeting. have recently
been examining microscopic views of the
different snow fakes, a hundred or so of
them. 1 would suggest to our curious
sauans an examination of Sabbath snow,
to see if it has a peculiar sharp and in
furious crystal.
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Ansbamdrp.
Varieties of Fruits.

Fruit growers often make mistakes in at
tempting to secure too large variety. 1t is
much more profitable and satisfactory to Gull
tivate well few choice fruits of each sort,
than large number imperfectly. 1t can
easily be ascertained from experience and OBJ
servation what kinds are best adapted to any
particular soil and climate. For moderate
sized place, where fruit is not grown extern
sively for market but mainly for home con-
sumption it is easy to select varieties which
will furnish fresh fruit for the table every day
in the year. From three to five kinds. each,
of our well established favorites of the various
sorts of fruit, will secure this end. Indeed, if
we were engaged in raising fruits for market,
we should prefer to conine ourselves to as few
varieties as practicable, leaving it for amateur
fruit growers, and rich gentlemen farmers to
experiment with the new varieties which are
constantly added to our stock of fruits.
HOrticultuiS
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The Eternal Word.
HER FRIEND.

No fragment of an army ever survived
so many battles as the Bible; no citadel
ever withstood so many seiges; no rock
was ever battered by so many hurricanes
and so swept by storms. And yet it
stands. 1t has seen the rise and down.
fall of Daniels four empires. Assyria
bequeaths few mutilated figures to the
riches of our National Museum. Media
and Persia, like Babylon which they con-
quered, have been weighed in the bal
ance and long ago found wanting
Greece family survives in its historic
fame: "Tis living Greece no more;'
and the iron Rome of the Caesars is held
in precarious occupation by feeble
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Bought with a Price.

A man of wealth, who was stranger
to the religion of the cross and its ordi-
nances, and disregarded the Sabbath,
was wont to use that holy day in any
way that his inclinations suggested. On
one Sabbath as he was strolling abroad
and congratulating himself on his pros
porous worldly condition, he thus said
within himself:-What a happy man l
am! have an ample fortune, an affec-
tionate wife, and every thing to make
me comfortable; and what is more, am
indebted to no one for it; | have made
my fortune myself; it is all my own
Just then a sudden shower came. and
being near a meeting house he went in
for shelter and took seat near the door
1t was just before the sermon. When
the minister arose he announced the text,
I've are not your own; for ye are bought
with price,. "What can this mean?'
said the worldly rich man to himself;
"this is a strange doctrine, but it don t
apply to me. | am my own, and all |
have is my own"
The minister clearly set forth our de-
pendence on God for all that we possess,
and our accountability to him. He dwelt
upon the great truth that the precious
blood of an Almighty Saviour was the
price of our redemption, and that we are
not to think we can purchase salvation
by our own merits. We are to receive
the Saviour in love and trust, as our only
hope. And we are also to remember
that every blessing we have is from God.
We are only stewards, and must render
account to God at last. The rich world
ling was deeply impressed by the SER
mon; he realized how self-suficient and
prayerless and ungrateful he had been
how indifferent to the requirements of
God. He repented of his sins and sought
and found the durable riches "the
pearl of great price
How irrational it is to love the gifts
more than the Giverl The blessings of
mortal life are granted to us to serve our
convenience and to supply our wants in
our brief probation. If we would render
account of our stewardship at last with
joy, we must love the Oliver more than
the gifts.
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What Conversation Should Be.

1. 1t should be truthful. "Let your
words be, Yea, yea, Nay, nay; for what
soever is more than this cometh of evil. :"
The meaning of our Lord is that our
words should be truthful. They should
not be used at random; nor elevate con-
lecture into the place OF authority; nor
honor suspicion as equal to fact; nor
hint lie; nor cover prevarication; nor
seem to sound as though they meant one
thing, when really they may or do mean
another. Yea should mean yea, and nay
shout mean nay. This requires thorough
honesty of purpose and integrity of mo-
tive, which scorn to dissemble, and which
do utterly repudiate the cunning of the
hypocrite and the recklessness of idle
mischief makers. 1t would be hard to
expect of any mortal man that he should
be perfect in understanding and faultless
in judgment respecting every natter
But the demands of truthfulness are alb
solute.
2. Conversation must be courteous.-
The world despises and abhors an assas
sin, who steals silently into the presence
of his victim and despoils him of life.
But how many take advantage of unsus-
pecting intercourse to plunge the dagger
of malicious tongue into the heart of
a neighbor, or even, it may be, of a
friend Ncedlessly or wantonly to wound
the feelings of another, is crime. 1t
springs from hatred, and has in it the
essence of murder Therefore it is en-
joined upon Christians that they be
courteous. Differ as they must in opin-
ions, and frequently in seeming interest,
yet rudenessis no ally for any good cause.
1t is said that bees gathered upon the
lips of Plato, because his words were as
honey.
3. But the best and most comprehen-
sive rule to govern conversation, is the
golden rule The respect and delicacy
of honorable regards which we solicit
from others, we should be ever intent
upon showing to others. They who are
self-respecting are ever careful to respect
others; and that forbearance which they
claim as their right, they should also
practice. If they would fix themselves
in the habit of never saying worse things
of their friends in their absence than
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Central 4resbptfrlan,
Richmond, Va, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 1858
Two Kinds of Cant.

Il do hate cant, that's a fact, ;" said Smith,
As, returning home from labor,
He talked of conference meeting with Brown,
His fellow-workman and neighbor.
''Just what do you mean?' said Brown, his hand
On the arm of the other laying;
'Why, what we hear in the lecture-room,
When brethren are speaking and praying;
always asks for hearing ear;
begs for holy holiness;
C comes on the Bonded knees of his soul,
Coufessing the church's GOODNESS;
d deplores his deadness" - Enough, friend
Smith,
There's truth in all you are saying;
But what are you doing to bring about
change in this style of praying"
81 doing pray what would you have me do?
Don't you know, without my repeating,
never speak in public way?
Of course l can't pray in meeting"
'sYou can't friend Smith,-did hear Alright?
1t may be the Master in Heaven
Finds your sort of cant more offensive to Him,
And harder to be forgiven"
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PUBLICATION.

Synod Of Alabama.
South Alabdma-Dr. J. Fl. Rice, Mobile, Ala.
East Alabama-J. X. Hazen, Prattsville, Ala.
Tuscaloosa-C NJ. Hutton, Pleasant Ridge, Ala.
Synod of Arkansas.
Arkansas-S. w. Davies. Augusta, Ark.
Ouachita-E. McNair, Pine Bluff, Ark.
Indian--E. Hotchkin, Doaksville c. Nation.
Synod of Georgia
Augusta-Wlliam Finn, Milledgeville, Ga.
Cherokee-Dr. n. A. Pratt. Roswell. Ga.
Eoridd-W. J. Mccormick, Gainesville, Flor.
Macon.
Sarannah-D. 81. Porter, Savannah, GA.
Synod of Memphis.
Chickasap-J. H. Gaillard Coonewa, Miss.
Memphis-Geo. A. Russell, Somerville, Tenn.
North Mississippi-E. NJ. Richardson, Grens'
da, Miss.
Tuscumbid.
Western istrict-William Cameron, Jackson,
Tenn.
Synod of Mississippi.
Central Mississippi. Hunter, Jackson, Miss.
Louisiana. E. c. Doremus, New Orleans, La
Mississippi-R. Price, Port Gibson, Miss.
New Orleans.
Red River. F. Ford, Shreveport, La.
Tombeckbee-A. II. Barley, Charlottesville,
Miss.
Synod Of Nashville.
Holston-S. B. Campbell, Leesburg, Tenn
Knorrile-T. H. McCallie Chattanooga, Tenn.
NashriUe-J. W. Neil, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Synod of North Carolina
Concord-E. II. Harding, Concord, n. c.
FdyetteriLe-D. rairley, Manchester, Z.
Ordnge--J. II. Smith, Greensboro N. c.
Synod of South Carolina.
s. Cdrolina-A. A. Porter, Spartanburg, :. &.
Charleston-W. Il. Adams, Charleston. ). G.
Bethel-James H. Sage, Lewisville, S. G.
Harmony.--D. +. Frerson.
Synod of Texas.
Brazos-W. C. Somerville, Houston, Texas.
Central Texas.
Eastern Texas.
Western Texas.
Synod of Virginia.
Abingdon-J. n. Naff, Dublin Depot, Va.
E. Hanocer hresbytery-W. A. Campbell, Pow
hatan c. e., Va.
Greenbrier.
Lerington-F H. Bowman. Mt. Sidney, Va.
Montgomery-Dr. j. ID. Mitchell. Lynchburg, Va.
Patapsco-J. A. Lefevre, Baltimore Md.
Rappahannock - James L. Leftwich, Alexan-
dria, Va.
RoanOke-J. B. Shearer, Black Walnut, Va.
Vest Hanorer-E. Woods, Charlottesville, Va.
Winchester-M. W. Woodwork, Burlington,
West Va.
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they would properly say in their presence,
they should then do simply toward others
what they would that others should do
unto them.
With all their care and prudence and
discretion, the best men will often be be-
trayed into the use of bitter, or hasty,
or peevish, or false words. They should.
therefore, pray daily that the Lord
would set watch at the door of their
lips, that they sin not with their tongues,
and that their conversation be as becom-
eth the gospel.-Christian Treasury.