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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03
A BLOW STRUCK AT OUR CLERGY.
The Herald, of last week, strikes
the following blow at our clergy

A Blow STRUCK AT OUR CLERGY
The Herald, of last week, strikes
the following blow at u clergy:
"Fourteen Temperance Societies, on
the Washingtonisn plan, have been or.
gsnized in Noble. The number Of
members, FIVE hundred. The work has
been done by q young Presbyterian
minister less than twenty-five years o.
age. How much more commendable
and how much more acceptable to his
Master is the work of this young de
yotee. than that ministerial slang
whanging which arrays neighbor a
gainst neighbor | just what is needed
here is such a noble, disinterested,
jealous man as Rev. Rutter. With all
reverence 10 Lord, give this com
munity a Rutter in the person ofsome
of our own beloved ministers"
Here IN McCoAnelsville, we have
clergymen that .have taken the
most advanced position on the
Temperance question. In fact, as a
body, they have avowe6 themselves
to be Prohlbitionists, and, conse-
quently, have time and again, en-
deavored to impress upon all pro-
Tossing Christians the Importance
of decided stand against the Lii
quor Traffic. In doing so. they
have not been choice In their Ian
guage in jenouncing the Traffic
and the Inconsistency of those
church members that encourage it
by their "daily walk and CONVERSE
ton" This course has aroused the
Ire of the Liquor Vendors, and their
friends, and, as a result, these irate
individuals, who think it all right
to deal out slow poison to a COM
munlty, stigmatire the clergy as
"arraying neighbor against neigh
Dor" &c., and is seems that the
Herald, in Its hot haste to cater TO
the whisky elements, has caught up
the cry and is making 1t familiar IN
every household.
While Rev. Rutter is dong a
good and commendable work In No
bic county, and while we are glad
to hear it and hope he will contin-
ne it, yet we doubt very much whe-
Their he bias done half as much with
in the past year as either of several
Of our clergymen have to further
the cause Of Temperance. If the
clergy of Ohio, as a body, would
but take the position that four or
Eve of our olergymen have taken
on the Liquor Traffic, it would not
be long before the drunkard max
ing business would cease in the
State, and lntsmperancs become
one of the things of the past.
The reason for the Herald rot be-
ing able to see any virtue in the
efforts of our clergymen relative to
Temperance matters Is apparent to
all. Our clergyman believe in legal
sussion as we'll as moral suasion,
and they believe that the legal sua-
sion ahcnld be applied to the foun-
tain from which the evil flows
This does not suit the Herald be-
cause it Is the organ of the party
that holds the manufacture and
sale of alcoholic spirits Is a bever-
age to be one of tho indispensable
resources Uf the country. But, we
are of the opinion that our clergy
can stand it to be called "slang-
whangers" by the Herald if the
Herald \ stand it 10 do SO.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

THE Eclectic Magazine for March,
Is received. 1t is full of matters of
interest, as usual. E. R. Pelton,
publisher, 1O8 Fulton street, New
York City.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

He has constantly on hand q good assert.
me mt ofFine and stogie Roots, of his own
manufacture, which be is offering at the
lowest CASH rates. Give him a call at his
establishment on Northwest corner of Pub.
lie square, McConnelsY;lls, Ohio.
Sept. 16, ISTo-Iy.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

TWELVE additions have already
been made to the Methodist
Church, of this place, during the
present revival that is being con-
Quoted under the charge of Rev.
Will T. Robins.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03
NOTICE.

Congress has passed : law granting
Pensions to surviving enlisted and
drafted men, including Militia and
Volunteers. who served Sixty Days
IN the War of 1872, and to the surviv-
ing widows of such soldiers.
Those who know themselves entitled
to receive the benefit of the Act, will
do veil to call upon the undersigned,
who has in his possession the proof to
enable many of the old soldiers for
their widows) of this ,ounty TO procure
pensions. 9is terms are reasonable.
JAS. N. GAYLORD,
F~sbl7,'7I. McConnelEville, o.
p. S.-Suryiying widows who were
married to soldiers, &c. before the Path
of December, 1914, r only entitled to
Persions under this Act.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03
HoOfand's German BitCer3
Mooaand,s Comm Tonic
Will CURE EvERY Gaze o.
Marasmus, or wasting Away
OF the BODY.

WILL CURE EVERY Gaze OF
Marasmus. or wasting Away
OF the BODY.
Remember that Hoofand's GermanRema-
dies are the melieines you re9sirs to purify
tie Blood, ercits the torpid Liver 70 healthy
action, and 10 enable you 10 pass safsly thro'
any hardship OF ezposars. DIR. HOOP
LANDS PODOPHYLLIN, or SUBJ
siitute for Mercury PILL, Two Pills 3 dose.
The most Po.rerfd. YET Innocent, Tsgst16ls &C.
HaTtis Enoion. II Is not Unnecessary to take a
handful Ofthese pills 10 produee The desired
effect two of them act quickly and power
fully, cleansing the Liver. Stomach 1 Bow
els Of all impurities. The principal ingred-
lent is P~odophyllin, eT the alcoholic extract
oCXsndrake, which is by many times more
powerful, acting and searching than the
Mandrake itself. Its peculiar action is upon
the Liver, cleaning It speedily from all OBJ
structions, with all the power ofmereuTJ,
yet free from the injurious results STAINED
to the use of that mineral. For all diseases
in which the use Of a eathartic is indicated5
these pills will give entire satisfaction in ev-
cry case. They never fail ! In case of Liver
complaint, dyspepsia and extreme c~oEtive.
mesa, DR.. Hoohand's German Bitters or Tonic
should be used j connection with the Pills.
The tonic effect of the Bitters or Tonic builds
up the system. The Bittsrs or Tonic purifss
the blood, strengthens the nerves, regulates
the Liver, and gives strength, energy ard
vigor. Keep yeur bowels active with ths
pills, and tore up the system with Bitters or
Tonic, and no disease can retain its hold, or
ever assail you. Reeollect that it, Hoofandis
German Remediestha are SO universally US
ed and highly Recommended: and do not al
low the Druggist to induce you to take any
thing else that he may say is just as good,
because he makes a larger profit on it,
These remedies viii be sent by express to
any locality upon application to the Prinei-
pal Office, at the German mediciRs Store,
6Sl Arch street, Philadeiphis.
CHS. u. EVANS, Proprietor, formerly c.
N, Jackson 4 Co.
These Remedies are for sale BY Druggists,
Storekeepers, and medicine dealers every
where. FEB. II, 1871.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

STEPHEN r. HILL started on a
Western tour on Monday last
VIII be absent from four to SIX
weeks.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

JANIS Z. JorEs has been chosen
q member of the Town Council to
fill the vacancy oocasioned by R. L,
Norris moving outside the Corpor.
alton.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

REy. C. W. CoURTRIGHr tells us that
he will begin services preparatory to
Communion ON Sabbath, the 18th inst,
at the Cross Roads Presbyterian
Church, ON Friday, the 10th, at IL, A.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

TIE Tableaux Entertainment, by
the Ladies of the Baptist church,
VIII BE continued this evening, at
She2ard's Hall, with an entire
change ct programme. The re-
ceipts last evening summed up near
ninety dollars.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

COCHRAN, BoZMAE i Co. are err
ecting a two-storr warehouse, So by
% feet, near the foot of Main st.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

Hon. W. 2. SPRAeUE ssarted or
his return trip to Washington yes
teFday.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03
HIGHLANDS PODOPHYLLIANPILL

JNN AHSy W 6tceNSo~
Blood Purifiers
Known TO the Medical world and eradicate
diseases arising from impure blood, debility
o. the digestive organs, or diseased Liver,
in a shorter time than AM other known re-
medies.
The whole Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania speak for
thsse R~etseedies.
WHO WOULD ASK FOR MORE DIG
NlFIED AND STRONGER rESTI-
MONY?
Hon. George W. Foodrara, formerly CRicf
Justes Of the Supreme Court Of Pennsyi-
vania, at present Member Congress from
PSnHsyhGnia, tcTites
PHmADEIPHIA, March Is, 1867.
] 61d HocAaDd's German Bjitsrs is a COOL
tonic, useful in diseases Of the digestive or
gans, and Of great bensftin cases Of iibili-
ty and want ofnervoas action il the system.
Yours, truly, g. ". WOODWARD.
Hon. James Thompson, CziG Justice cfAs
Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, April %, 1867.
/ consider Hoefand's German Bitters 8
valuable medicine in case OF attacks ofin-
digestion or dyspepsia. l can earthly this
from my experience OF il. Yours, truly,
JAMES THOMPSON.
Hon. George &harstroOd, Ju5tiee of hs ST.
prsns Court Of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, June l, 1868.
I have found BY experience that Hoof-
lands German Ditters is q very good tonic,
relieving dyspeptic symptoms almos: di-
rectly. GEORGE SHARSWO0D.
Hon Vim. f. Rogers, Mayor Of the City Of
Buffalo, Ne1 York:
BUFFALO, june %, 1880.
Ibave used HoofGnd's German Bitters &
Tonic in my family during the past year,
ard can recommend them as an excellent to-
mic, imparting tone and vigo- 10 the system.
Their use has been productive Of decided be-
%neicial effects. VIM. F, ROGERS.
Hon. James NJ. Wood, Er.Mayor Of VIZ
Transport, Pa:
l take great pleasure in Recommending
Hooda1ds German Tonic to any one who
may be afflicted with dyspepsia 1 had the
dyspepsia so badly it was impossible to keep
any food on my stomach, and so / became
so weak as not TO be able to walk halfamir.
Two bottles Of the Tonic effected aperfect
cure. JAMES NJ. WOOD.
REMEMBER THAT
HoOfand's German BftCer3
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03
ART l.
w. &. TRESIZE

W. e. TRESlZE
asks the public to call and examine his
specimen Photographs, Ferrotypes, Am
brotypes, Gems, &C., kc., which eanno be
sun passed anywhere. He has perfectedaI AZ
engagements Whereby any one can be &C
comodated with the finest of Oil Paintings
and pictures of India Ink Work. Rooms
over BOOne's saddler Shop, in ]. C. Stones
Building, Center Street, M'ConnelsVille,
Ohio.
Arrii 23s1y.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03
GIVEN UPi

That JOHN RYAN is the BEST
COBBLER ever in McCONNELS-
WILLIE.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03
HIGHLANDS GERMAN BTTTERs,

ROoaand's German Tonic,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

MCoNNELSVILLE
March 8, 1871.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-03-03

Win
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-09-06
RESIGNATION

Oh Father Not my viii, SO apt to run
Counter to what is best,-but Thine be done
Thy measure, Lord, not mine. is ever best;
So much Of suffering, aud so much Of rest.
Thou puttest to my frettul lips the cup
OF grief and pain, and bidst me drink it up
But shrinking from the mixture, l alas
So faithless cry, 20 Father, let it pass ~
Not as the chat that rises in his face,
Beneath the sturdy thresher's strokes apace,
But as the beaten grain that lies so still,
Would be passive meath Thy gracious will.
What pleaseth Thee may irksome seem to me;
What pleaseth me may not seem best to Thee;
Lord, bend me,-make me so submissive here,
That Thine and mine shall but one viii appear
AS leans a child upon his mothers breast
His meanings hushed-his throbbing heart at res
So would nestle closely, Lord to thee,
With child-hke trust and true humility.
The aearer approach Thy ehastGiug aasld,
Lifting the rod my ill-deserts demand,
More lightly fall its strokes Thy end secured,
Thy scourges need no longer be endured.
Counter TO what is best my viii doth run;
Not mine then, Father, bat let Thine be done
Lutheran Observer
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ing" "Ah! but he drew the picture of my
heart exactly. God help me to go up to
such noble life as he pictured" 81 see
that Mr.. L. has drawn out Judge W. and
Squire o. skeptics, if not atheists. Won
der if they are coming to the church, or the
church going to them" This is an average
of the drawing mans work for the year.
Vain are the hopes of those, who would
make the success of the Christian ministry
depend on human machinery. The truth OF
the Gospel preached in faithful simplicity,
with the accompanying power of the Holy
Ghost, is the only sure pledge of success for
the minister of Christ. The word of God,
with His blessing, is more than all popular
drawing.
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Drawing

Popular demands on the ministry are taken
of, in an article written for the Indepen-
dent, by Rev. E. P. Powell; from which, we
make the following extract:
"We want man that can draw"
"Draw what?"
why, a congregation, to be sure.
"How many?"
"Oh good full house every Sunday
We want man that can draw the upper
class, too; for the church has run down, and
must have more means. B. drew the poor
and children, and some of the more godly
kind but now we must have a man that can
draw the rich and rent the pews. And then
we want the pews kept filed, People have
habit of staying at home good deal"
To draw five hundred human beings every
Sunday out of bed, through their morning
routine of dressing and to church, is no easy
pull, especially with SO much of the world
on their backs.
Very well; now let us begin to draw
Did you ever think why every one not Spe-
cially "caled" to draw is called clay
mani" Well, if you search them out about
nine o'clock Sunday morning you will easily
understand the appropriateness of the title.
The minister is now supposed to draw like a
magnet. He is the attraction that hurries
these people out of bed, through hasty
breakfast and protracted dressing. Do his
best, and he cannot draw them within two
or three hours as early as business or pleas
ure. But the drawing begins to show its
effect about the middle of the forenoon, and
is protracted quite through the opening ser
vices and well into the sermon. 1t amounts
to about one person out of FIVE who ought
TO be in church.
The man who draws and the lay people
being now face to face, it becomes his next
duty to draw them up out of their worldli-
ness, carelessness, feshliness, into higher
and fairer life. If it needed strong points
to get his audience, it needs powerful love
and devotion to save them. Their business
in general is not to aid him in saving others,
but to be saved themselves. And when
they retire, after he has tugged at every
heartstriDg he can discover, you will hear
81 was not drawn much to that discourse.
He always seems SO anxious that he annOys
me" "He might have drawn out that sec
ond division, very much to the advantage
of his sermon" ooh! what beautiful
sermon I think he's charming minister
1 see he draws great many young people. "
eyes, they say he draws WELL" "Im in
clined to believe, my dear, that Mr.. L. draws
too much on his Imagination. He was hard
ly sound in his view of depravity, this morn
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home! That every member of the Presby-
terian Church knows, reveres, and prays
earnestly for every missionary now in heather
lands
But the reflex influence upon your OWn
hearts! Have you thought of Aats When
you know mops aboutsmissions, you will GER
tainly feel more interest in the great cause,
will pray more for its success, will giue more
and more freely! And will not y0ur hearts
be warmed and cheered while thus giving
and praying?
How important, then, to have this informa7
ton How precious the privilege of further
ing SO pure and holy cause! How un-
speakable the honor IS. Presbyterian.
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Iglous experience, and appearing TO otherS,
follow his example. 1t seems that he is a
gentleman of fortune who had spent A
years of his life in snipe shooting and sal
mon fshing-was then awakened and con-
verted, aud has spent the succeeding 10
years in trying to win souls to the same sal
vation in which he rejoiCes. His voice is
not distinct, he is given to repetition, there
was little food for thought in what he said; :;
yet there he stood, speaking in deadly earn
estness, speaking what he had felt and be-
Iieved, and more than 1000 persons sat
drinking in his words, the Hall all the time
50 atifingly hot that was almost sick, and
was compelled to leave after his sermon.
1 walked one square down the High Street,
past the Victoria Hall, or the Assembly Hall
of the Church of Scotland, past st. Johns
Church where DR.. Guthrie and DR.. Hammer
preached for so many years as collegiate
pastors; now both are laid aside from the
ministry by failing health. At the corner of
the square street preacher had taken his
stand upon a stone, and was announcing his
text as l passed, "Come see the place where
the Lord lay" Not more than dozen peo-
pie were listening, but he continued to lift
up his voice in the street and to cry aloud.
A few yards from him, through the open
door of St. Giles, saw minister standing
in the very spot where John Knox used to
pray and preach. But his audience was not
the Scottish mobiles and the leaders of the
congregation. 1t was little company Of
the weak and poor and lowly of this world
After sermon they sang two long Psalms, the
preacher prayed long comprehensive" "
prayer, enunciated in the broadest Scotch
dialect; but it was the old liturgical prayer
of the Kirk, full of power and scriptural ex-
preston; and then the Sabbath services
were over for the day in Edinburgh.
AS walked home musing on all that l
had heard and seen this day, l passed over
the "Mound" which bridges the great ravine
dividing the Old town from the New. And
1 stood for few moments enraptured by the
rich panorama that lay bathed in the golden
haze of the setting sun, and resting in the
universal Sabbatic stiffness. Right behind
me on the Mound were the classic Grecian
temples consecrated to the Fine Arts, on the
left the spires and massive walls of the Free
Church Seminary, then Allan Ramsay's
garden, and then the old Castle hill and
walls, grim, defiant, hoary with age, yet gar
nished almost to the battlements with the
green ivy and the trees upspringing from the
cliffs Of the precipitous rock; while on the
right stretched the stately architecture Of
Princess Street, and the statue of Allan
Ramsay, and the lofty monumental temple
20 Sir WalterScolt, And down beneath,
feet, half hidden by the dark leaved trees,
runs the deep valley, winding in its emerald
beauty between the past and the present,
and losing itself among the evening mists
that rose up between me and the sun setting,
where dwet kindred and friends and the
church Of my love- w. U. M.
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son that serveth him" Here we have the
appreciation and promise of the king of
kings" Let us then ow-Christian, as
heirs of glory, talk more together of our
eternal inheritance, of the "crown Of Life
awaiting US in the beforehand" Truly
shall we be strengthened and cheered our
selves, and show to those with whom we min
Gle, that we have "been with Jesus and
learned of Him." NJ. L, A.
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EDD1Es.-Standing on the shore of river
you may notice that the waters near you are
refuent; and judging by them, you may con-
clude that the whole stream is flowing back
ward. But cast your eye over the broad,
rushing current, and you soon see that it is
sweeping onward in the right direction, and
that even the eddying waters are drawn into
it, and borne to their grand destiny. A
narrow view of your Christian life, the con-
temptation of single aspect or feature of it,
may lead you to fear that it is arrested, or
actually on the retrograde. But look it all
over, take in its purposes, its beliefs, its aspi'
rations, its conflicts, its condolences, its re-
solves, and to your joy you may find that
its course is steadily toward heaven.
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Russian Proverbs.


The Scotch and the Spaniards have hith-
erto divided the credit of possessing the
largest stock of proverbial wisdom; but were
the literature of Russia more widely known,
she might prove formidable rival to the
lard Of the .as.9eal or 20 that of oranges.
We give few specimens, which, on account
of their pointed terseness, their quaint,
homely vigor, and dry, SanchO Panza satire,
scarcely need the aid of rhyme to recon-
mead them. They are, indeed, more fully
than words can express, the faithful mirror
of the shrewd, simple, dOgged, humorous
Russian mind, ever yelling its natural keen.
ness under mask of habitual and impenetra-
Bile stolidity.
Every fox praises his own tail"
"Go after two wolves and you will not
even catch one"
GA good beginning is half the work.
"Trust in God, but do not stumble your
self"
"With God, even across the sea; without
him, not even to the threshold"
ga debt is adorned by payment.
"Roguery is the last of trades. "
"Never take crooked path while you
can see straight one
"Fear not the threats of the great, but
rather the tears of the poor"
"Ask pig to dinner, and he will put his
feet on the table"
"Disease comes in by hundred.weights
and goes out by ounces"
Every little frog is great in his own
bog"
IAN old friend is worth two new ones"
"Be praised not for your ancestors, but
for your virtues.
"When fish are rare, even crab is a
fish"
GA fathers blessing cannot be drowned
in water, nor consumed by fire"
GA mothers prayer will draw up from
the depths of the sea-"
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COULD NOT "ENLARGE. An old Scotch
lady was told that her minister used notes.
She disbeieved it. Said one, eco into the
gallery and see !" She did so, and saw the
written sermon. After the luckless preacher
had concluded his reading on the last page,
he said, "Bdt / will not enlarge" The old
woman cried out from her lofty position,
"Ye Gamma ye Gamma, for yer papers give
oot !"
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JONES, says the Boston Journal, who
wears his pocket-book on the left, not only
does not let his right hand know what his
left hand doeth, but he goes further-he
does not let his left hand do anything for
fear his right hand might know it.
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l SEE there is no such way to have large
harvest as to have a large heart. The free
giving of the branches of our present estate
to God is the readiest means to have the
roots increased for the future.--Fuller.
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My CRoss.-I will take up my cross, l
will love my cross, I will bear my cross, l
will embrace my cross, yet will not adore
my cross. All knees should bow in reverence
to my SaviourS name, never in idolatry to
his IMAGE.
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SOME EMPLoYMENTs may be better than
others, but there is no employment SO bad
as the having none at ALL The mind will
contract rust, and an unftness for every
thing, and man must either fill up his time
with good or at least innocent business, or it
will run to the worst of waste-to sin and
vice.
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HINT TO PREACHERs.-A heated iron
though blunt will pierce its way, even where
asharperinstrumen if cold cannot penetrate
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A SOUL may go to Christ, though with
trembling heart, and may truly receive
Christ, though with trembling hand.
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If YOU would not fall into sin, do not sit
by the door of temptation.
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PROVE YOUR CONVERSION and then you
need not doubt your election.