National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-04-16
FEMALE PREACHING.-WidOw


preacher in New York. and the New
York Conference, now in session, Is |
agitated over the question of allow
ING her 10 continue in the pastoral /
work. Ii is stated as an evidence /
of her service to the cause of relig- /
ion. that nearly two Thousand per-
SONS have been converted under her
miniStrations during the past year,
and she is represented us being very
eloquent. earnest and effective in
her pulpit services. The question
at issue is whether or not the Con
ference shall license women to
preach at all. Mrs. Van Coot is
said to be the only licensed female
preacher of any denomination in
New York.
SINGULAR CASE OF TRANCE.-An
English paper relates that about
five months ago Il girl about twelve
years of age. living near Whitehav-
en-, became Ill. and III short time
f"ll into lethargIc state, rescmb-
ling that of person III trance. In
this condition she remained for sew
cral weeks, but at length returned
to a state of consciousness, and, call
| inc upon her mother. related how
she had been i'll heaven aud seen
/ numerous angels and her brother,
who died some time ago. This
powcrot speech remained only for a
short time, and the girl relapscd in
/ to her former state or nearly s0.-
She lies in Il IetlIargic condition, but
when a question Is put to her she
manilcstS her power OF understand
ing it hy a slight moving of the
head. The only sustenance she has
taken for fully 10 weeks has been
the occasional moiStcning Of her
/ lips with Il little brandy and water
or tea. Within the last few days
! the girls limbs seem to have become
gradual more rigid, as though tore
telling no very distant dissolu,
ton.
BoOKLESS IloUsES.-We form
judgments of men from little things
about their houses, % which the
owner perhaps never think. Flow
crS about a rich mans house may
signify only that he has a goot
gardener, or that he has refine,
= ncighborS, and does what lie see
/ them do; but men alcuot accuStom
| cd to buy books unless they wan
| them. If. on visiting the dWtllin.
> of Il man OF slender means, we lin,
that he contents himself with cheal
| carpets and very plain furniture, i!
. order that he may purchase books
, he rises at once in our CSIecm.-
Books are not made for furniture
| but there is Iot!iing else that s.
, beautifully furnish a house. TIL
! plain,st row Of books is more sig
. nihcant Of refinement than the mos
a elabolatcly carved si0cboard.
Give us a house furnishes wit
books rather than furniture. BOtl
u if YOU can; but books. at amy rate
1t TO spend several days in friend
Is house and hunger for something t
" read, while Nou are treading O
costly carpets aud sit ing on luXul
Gus chairs, and sleeping upon dow
: as if one were blibil & your bod
u for the sake OF cheating your min;
I Books are the windows throug
which the soul looks ont. \ honS
without them, is like Il room withot
i, windows. No man has a right
-" bring up his children without su
7" rornding them with books, ii he III
= the means to buy tiem 1t Is WIol
- ~ to his family. Children learn
~ read by being in the prese ce
!" books. The love Of know led,
VI comes with reading and grows up,
~ it. And the love Of knowledge
- a Young mind is almost a Walra
!" against the inferior excitement
- passions and vice.
~ Let us pay these poor rich III
q" who live barrrnly in hooklcSS no,
= oS. Let us congratulate the pc
- that. in our day, books are so che;
- that q man may every year add
~ hundred volumes to his library, I
Ut tie price of what his tobacco ii
his beer would cost him. Amor
the earliest ambitions to he cNcil
~ in clerks, Workmen, .iomncNmc
I3t and indeed among all that arc STIR
Mt, olino il. no rnrr. nrliE. j. that
AT owning, and constantly adding to
Ter library Of good books. \ little
ne barry. grown larger every year
icy an honorable part of 4 young ma
''' History.
res 1t is Il mans duty to have boo
NJ \ library is not Il luxury, but {
'at OF the necessities of life.
e SNOW AT THE WHITE Mot
lef TAlNS.-Ile SHOW IN the VIII
''a Mountain region is AZ present de,
ere cr that it has been for many yea
The Portland Argus learns by Il
ter from the Glen House that |
l. only have all their fence diSappp
rut ed. but they have lost some Of I'll
Wo oulbnlldingS. one may step ont
asst the second story widows of
) it main hotel on the snow crust. Z
some oi,e story buildings are hur
entirely. In Tuckeimau'S IA,
pu' the SHOW is estimated to he tho
III and feet deep, and some graud St
yer arches are expected. which will
OF all through the coming season,
rec