Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-14

there Is room for more. AT the four points OF
the compass the faithful watchman on the
walls of Zion have been calling the people to
holiness of heart and life with vim and
scriptnral force ulthrilling and grand. In
the n. E. Church this has been a year of
mammoth camp-meetings, and the Presby-
terians and Baptists are following suit and
wheeling their spiritual forces into lne-while
the most prominent theme at some of them
has been s'holness TO the Lord"
Bishop Simpson thinks if the Church Is
true to berself and to duty, there are boys,
now living, who will see the dawn of the mil
slenium. We are essentially religious peo-
pie, but the climax has not yet been reached.
When we get tothe mountain peaks of hOli-
ness we will find them all covered with glory
and resplendent with purity, like Sinais peak
when God appeared and talked with Moses
face 70 face. Let US be thankful it is no worse,
and with grateful hearts for past mercies, press
forward IN discharge of duty-heeding our
captain, seeking by every act to make our
country nobler, wiser, stronger, purer. Then
can we join in the Psalmist's Anthem-"Hap-l
py is that people whose God is the Lord"
There are some timld despondent croakers
who think society and the world are going
rapidly to pieces, and would almost have Us
believe that the joy and power of heaven and
the gospel are about exhausted. They tell Us \
drunkenness will drown the cities, fraud
swamp the government, free-loveisn whelm
the family institution and spiritualism turn US
crazy. That Is their picture But he that
sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. God rules
the nations yet. Away with such niiserables
Look toward the East and lol Scotland and
ireland and England are burning with the
fires of the Holy Ghost, kindled by the instru-
mentality of Moody and Sankey. Chicago is
on fire with a purifying fame, and soon all
the earth will be ablaze with the bonfires of
Christian victory. The submarine telegraph
will some grand morning. announce that
nation has been bern in day. We are only
just planning our batteries along the coasts of
China, Japan, India and Africa, and when
the Lord once opens fire along the line victp-
fies will be accomplished that will startle the
world, blanche the face of Beelzebub, and
throw all hell into CONSERVATION and uproar.
Christian men and women are busy by day
and by night, honey combing this worlds
sHellgate' of sin, and laying their magazines
of gospel power. Some day it will be fired
with electric sparks from the battery of
Heaven, and wonderfully oyerthrown, and
way made for the safe sailing of all gospel
ships. Our Christ is living, risen, conquer
ing Christ, and He will march on conquering
His foes till the shout goes up from a ransom
ed world, ''The kingdoms OF, this world have
Christ
Let us, this memorable November Both,
1876, give the fullest and purest thanks we
have to God for our creation, preservation, re-
demption and adoption. Let us call upon His
name and make known His deeds among, the
people, that their gratitude may be aroused,
their knowledge increased, their consciences
rendered, their souls saved, their prospects
frightened, and God abundantly glorifedl
''Oh, Holy Father! Just and true
Are all Thy works and words and ways,
And unto Thee alone are due
Thanksgiving and eternal praise.
Az children OF fhy gracious care
We veil the eye, we bend the knee,
With broken words of praise and prayer,
Father and God we come to Thee.
May the Lord give US His blessing, which
maketh rich and addeth no sorrow, and may
everything that hath breath praise the Lord
and all the people say amen, amen,-and amen!
WILLlAAl- KELLEY. on his re-.
turn from Louisiana, was interviewed
by the Philadelphia Press. We copy
one interesting statement, out of two
or three columns:
The sessiOns-oftbe Returning Board
were as open to scrutiny as the busi
ness of the Board and the limited time
at It's disposal would permit. The
Board invited visitors Representing each
party to designate FIVE of their number
to be present ut the meeting, examine
the returns, and take testimony. And
while it excluded the representative of
the newspapers, itallowed each COM
mittee TO bring its own phonographer,
and take down every word that was
uttered, so that each side might make
its own presentation of the facts dig
closed. l attended most of the mePt-
ings, and l conferred with many. wit
nesses from different parishes. l spoke
With native LOuSianians, white and
black, and with settlers from the North,
and others; read many proofs Of the
evidence presented to the Board, and
in addition to this l availed myself all
social Opportunities that offered consis-
tently with the performance Of ma
duty. Last Sunday I was one of
party o. twenty gentlemen, embracing
Republicans and Democrats from all
sections of the country, who visited
the magnificent sugar plantation of Mr..
Effingham Lawrence, situatet few
miles below New Orleans. 1t has a
magnificent orange grove extending
two miles along the Mississippi, and
there [pointing to small Dough with
thirteen splendid oranges clustered on
i'll is specimen of the fruit. Mr..
Lawrence was Calhoun secessionist,
and as such fought to take his State
out of the Union. He sustained the war
to the bitter end, and subsequently,
acting with the Democratic party, has
been returned by it to the Forty-third
Congress. In the course of some re-
marks addressed to his guests while
sitting around his hospitabIe table, he
said that no candid man could deny
that any fair election in Louisiana
would show Republican majority of
5000, and that there was indisputably
a Republican majority of 10000 in
Mississippi and 10000 in Alabama. He
also said that whenever the Democra-
tic party in the Gulf States could make
up its mind to truly accept the situa-
tiOn, and give the colored voters pomi-
nations for some of the respectable
offices in each parish, vote for them
fairly, and sustain them in the pre-
fOrmance of their duties when elected,
the color line would disappear and
good order prevail throughout; that
so long as the Democratic party should
continue to carry elections by BULLDOG
ing and other methods of intimida-
ti0n, disorder would prevail, and the
returns of elections would require re-
vision. In proof of the good feeling
manifested by the cOlored people, he
pointed to the fact that there was not
lock or fastening of any kind upon
his doors. Though Mr.. Lawrence emil
grated form the North thirty-five years
ago, he is not regarded as a carpet
bagger, and We accept his testimony as
that of an independent Southern gent
leman.
THE GROWTH OF A STATE,