The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-28

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Al We" MS unselfish devotion alO the
Die services to his country, anu ra- Giving
same time, provide, the means ~. o.s,harn
better and broader instruction % oou LIVE
youth, It viii prove of the nlshe3
in these days
1t speaks we'll for the patriotism =. ...-,
country when a Northern o 1870 {
newspaper voluntarily pays sucn a = Demo
rous tribute as this to a Southein
crat.
OUR RELIGIOUS CoNTBA1Poha-
Not altogether evil is the frost L ne
has stolen some fair things away ne las
left some blessings behind. He mas peen
a friend far more
WHENCE COMES than an enemy. i tt
THE FROST has taken lhe ilte
out OF a great mui-
titude of b:dde, ,,a-,,e and destroyed the
power of disease and death in a thousand
hiding places. Jack Frost VINO hiieu so
many flowers, has slain that Tnlcn M .,a
seeking the life Of men, and naaue ele
world better place to live III. ;,
by the breath of God frost Is sisvn,
said Job. What an observanl olu u"S s.Iea-
!n-tents he was; and thousaiiu ti,ils-'
more wise and devout than many n, ,, e..
observers! Job was the head OF al the
worlds meteorologists and Wealhet-"!se
seers, and he saw nothing apart from .iie
Maker and Ruler of all. he Sept uiluei
Eastern skies, on Arabian pasture 1anos'
and the frost in the morning was TO mn
1.-The breath of God" Whatever frost
comes to us, in the ,whitened head, in the
falling flowers Of prosperity, IN me talllnS
life OF old years, we are wise ana sale and
tranquil when we remember IN trust, NY
the breath of God frost is given. -Cellia1
Presbyterian.
Mr.. Wilson's life is full Of instruction
for bright and ambitious young men. lie
was man OF scholarly tastes and apti-
tudes, and he found
A TRIBUTE TO that these, so lar
WIN. L. WILSON. + 7 m interfering
with or uniting
him for usefulness in political LIE, We're
eminently useful to him. The so-called
small vices" which SO many regard as
we'll nigh indispensable 10 public men,
never entered into his life. He was al
ways and everywhere studlous, cultl-
waited, Christian gentleman. Nor did ne
fall into the error, all too common among
distinguished men, that multiplied public
engagements set him free from practical
participation in Christian work. He was
a devout Baptist, unobtrusive, but thor
tor, Rev. T. A. Hall, declares that he was
an invaluable member Of the little church
at Lexington, and contributed IN many I'M
portant ways to the joy and strength OF
both church and pastor.
And so in his death there has gone out
from among us a distinguished man.
whose long, valuable and varied public
services We're not marred or soiled by any
unworthy act; a Christian who remained
sturdily loyal in the midst of innumerable
temptations; man Of high ideals, who did
not lose them or suffer them 20 be broken
in the stress of party strife. Religious
Herald.
The most prominent and forceful fea-
ture Of the Convention. from beginning to
end, was emphatically the spiritual fea-
ture; no man, no
SPIRITUALITY OF matter how abso-
THE lutte a Stranger he
BROTHERHOOD might De. would
have found It nee
essary for a moment, at any stage Of the
proceedings, TO ask why these men were
here The reason was on the surface at
every service, at every business meeting,
at every incidental gathering; they were
here for the interests OF the Kingdom of
God and His Christ; they were here con
sultng as to the upbuilding Of the Mas
deepening and intensifying the spiritual
life in the individual soul; and every man
present doubtless, felt that it was good
for him TO have been there.-Southern
Churchman.
Men canvass the census OF American
Methodism and the achievements of its
itinerant preachers, who were direct from
the plowshare, the
THE METHODIST anvil, the fishing
CIRCUIT RIDERS. boat. with aug
nenting surprise.
These evangelists were, in the main, self
taught. Scarcely one had enjoyed the adj
vantage of an academy. The task set
them was the winning of a people without
religious instruction and made doubly bad
by long war. A historian reports the
influential class as nfidels and the mass
infected with the plague of atheism. A
bishop of the disestablished church, sorry
at best, then a wreck records that nearly
every man, who had even tincture Of
liberal education was an unbeliever and
hostile to Christianity.
In a single century the Methodist circuit
riders surpassed the apostles upon whose
heads the divine flame had parted into
tongues of fire. The rude mob of our new
republic hooted and beat the messengers
of God. The magistrates seized them and
punished these heralds of Gods glad It'd
ings.
What was their strategy and what the
weapons of their warfare? Outside of the
divine agency, let us make, answer that
it was their sincerity. The labor was so
excessive, the pay SO scant, the opposition
so violent, that only the men who, counted
not their lives dear unto themselves en-
listed. 1t could not be otherwise than that
the utterance of such men would carry
the dynaMicS Of honest heartS.-ChriStian
Advocate.
AFTERMATH.