West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-20

'~N - lfiSNpIt'A NiuiNl III Iilt
Southern States, and also that Of
other Churches since the war, show
the real sentiment of the Christian
North toward the South. The
Methodist Episcopal Church has
spent IN the Southern States near
ly 81 100000 since the war for edu-
catiohal purposes alone, besides
fully s3,000,000 in supporting min
listers and building churches. Mr..
Seney, in this latest gift to DR.. Hay
goods College, simply crystalizesin
a good shape the hearty Good bless
you" which the whole North feels
toward the whole South in its effort
to educate and save its masses"
No measure of preaching ability,
no methods of making the prayer
meetings interesting, will crowd
our services unless we ourselves
cherish the expectation that great
blessings are to be found there, and
so create in others a like expccta-
tion.-1he Presbyterian.
The new Second Baptist Church
at Harlem, N. Y, costing SOL, $50,
was dedicated on Sunday, Feb. 81
free Of debt.
To see multitudes of Christian
men and women waiting, waiting
for somebody else to do what they
could easily do, and ought to do
themselves, is one of the follies
that is often met with.-Ndshuilic
Christian Aduocdte.
The University of Virginia has
raised all but $4,000 of the sum
necessary to secure the McCor-
mick telescope and the observatory
offered by Mr.. Vanderbilt. To
meet the conditions Of the gift, this
$4,000 must be raised by April LIST.
Mr.. Seney's earlier gift of $4,000
to President Haygood for Emory
College has been generously supple
mented by others from the same
donor until his gifts to that insti-
tuition aggregate the sum of $50, 600.
Hon, Oliver Hoyt, Of this city,
long a well-known layman of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and
now under appointment as one of
our delegates to the Ecumenical
Methodist Council in London, last
week gave DR.. Clark $1,000 for the
Wesley Monumental Church at
Savannah, Ga. He had previously
given to DR.. Clark $4,000 for the
same purpose.-Nem York 1drocdte.
No condition is less promising
than that of a person in the church,
and believing himselfa Christian,
yet not acquainted with the true
Of renewing grace.
When the number of such increases,
the spiritual atmosphere becomes
sitting, and an apathy, as Of sleep
tending to death, paralyzes the
church. -New York Christian 1dUo-
cate.
Mr. Seney has had fault found
with the directions which he has
seen fit to give to some Of his con
tributions to objects Of benevolencc.
His motives have been questioned
in giving $4,000 to college in
the South under the patronage Of
the NJ. E. Church South. Nothing
could be more inappropriate, more
uncalled for, more unjust than this,
as it seems to US. The sensible,
modest and judicious manner that
has characterized the contributions
of Mr.. Seney should have shielded
him from all suspicious of improper
motives. For our own part we
were glad that his charity took a
Southern direction to the extent
that it did, and had it been more
than it was, it would
have been his own business and we
would have rejoiced in the good
fortune of the receivers. Such
of fraternity cannot
help, in the long run, stimulating
the feeling Of unity between the
North and South and favoring the
return of the much to be desired
sentiment of brotherhood between
the two Methodisms. These are
results for which every patriot
should labor and every Christian
most earnestly pray.-Pttsb,~g
Christian Ad1,ncnte.