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rklk „ r rear two dolla as-payable in £-«._ in dwnee two dollars je/a.s for the first and 25 cts . , uent insertion courtorders r than these rates a lib ... who advertise by the year ,-.,,,- „.,,,. be post paid j^tchesof north carolina r , jl wheeler who it is known , , ,.,,.;_! norlh carolina book has -- ~ _ . i following bil of evolutionary matter which transpired in this ,-; j we believe it never appear ,,._ ftnd like hundreds of similar ■gentleman's possession and go to make up his book is full of ls showing the spirit and temper of '*' tt..re gratified with auothe peep into . ,_, week and wilboul hesitation re " j very person who desires lo be in j io ihe history of north cam ... b c0py ol ilns work when it jiia tu ■" ' ■tne colonel lias a tree illus ibe countie — showing when they :. and from what couniies each this of itself will be worth the cosl .. whole hook / . h ,!> able samuel ashe esq presi a honorable members oj coun salisbury assembled remonstrance of juhn dunn ie last day of july in the year one even hundred and sixty five your ' . mi in consequence of a premeditated ... combination previously entered into un kennon adlia osbourn samuel & others this associate caused your . | ml lo be taken inlo custody by a num i ; persons who wen first illegal y i ..'...'•• foi lhal purpose and by force , led from his own house in salisbu ..,.. house ol mathew lock esq where ,. . . . i ;. : many hours in the nighl as cner under asperous pretext that some gen from sm . carolina were desirous of , ._ him — thai alter some lime a body of .-;.,.; men arrived from llu couniies of ;, and mecklenburg lo whom your re nstrant was delivered over m custody who inverrd him to mecklenburg i being pre .... hat the commitlee ol ihat countv were irons to examine him with regard to some i rs which should l by ihem enquired into i .■notwithstanding the importunities & li lations ol several gentlemen from li ;■members ol ihe commitlee and the council of safety who offered themselves security _. to be bound in any sum lor my ince lhe nexl day before ilie commitlee salisbury notwithstanding j was forced lhe same night lo charlotte where we the nexl da and having petitioned to n i bearing before the committee ol that , i u li 1 1 li wa likewise refused and an arm . i about sixty horsemen were ordered \ im to camden from ihence lo ihe in south carolina a inence to s town where your remonstrant hath lained a prisoner for upwards of twelve h contrary lo i'i principal o justice ■. .. nit & contrary lo certain resolves ol b-ii-iierii cungress & in direct violation ol h hls am privileges which americans h . with iteai britain lor ai this lime hi remonstrant now piays thai you would b lo hims ll and family who have sol h . ■t s j v on account ol ihis unwarrantable uv treatment enquire inlo the same — ui.iii-iiaui being desirous lo acquit him b those false and groundless charges laid hi!.1 liin previous lo any oath being lender h imu — in onler lo - ttisfy your honours and h world l'h.it he is not in any wist guilty of bit matters as have been falsely suggested or i_"'i ..',_. i:ii>i mn by winch he hopes lo ap h iu t different light than w hat has been rep i'h-i ".' him aud for a further confirmation i - innocence your remonstrant is ready i u g lo be interrogated lo answer on i lhe honourable board ihinks it neces h & youi remonstrant will pray juhn dunn h h pursuant to your request of me i have b ip the fallowing slate of matters and ■- is they are with regard lo my person be ■" i upon in my own province & seul pri fl charles town together v\iih mr ben b booth where i now am and have been i ve months wanting a few days b me lime aboul lhe las of ugusl or begin h september in lhe year 1774 and pievi h."ilic meeting or assembling ol anv con b i commitlee in any of lhe soulbern pro h or their having entered into any panic i 1 solves with regard to the general laws h fii-an liberties so far as al that lime i b i knowledge off a certain william b . e coles then magistrate came lo me at ■yard in salisbury where i ihen was look b uv.r iine hands who were there at work buie about making of bricks — mr booth c b present mi coles pulled oul ol bis b ■■" i northern new-paper where printed 1 b i collect and among other ihings he read bj resolves or protests entered into by the wk ' i new oik and declaring llieii m-aji ■: ii lo lhe measures ihen carrying on by ■al boston c_c in opposition lo ibe : parliament touching the tea ! acts — thai as soon as lie had r se resolves he seem'd to approve of hj " ')' much and ihen said he though il ve ity and becoming the people of our i especi illy crown officers lo enter into r • ■*•' resolves or resolves similar to those l '"':' prevailed on mr booth lo draw up i that nature ; that in a lew days h ' " _ al mr cole hou in salisbury mr i ed a paper containing a declera b legiance fidelity and obedience to h ."- y and submission to the british acts ni.tneut iu general c-c that this paper b ' ut to that published at new yoik it b fl'by mi coles mr waller lind was magistrate ami myself and b ne by mr lindsay mr booth and r ** 1 believe one person more mr booth i ept lhe paper aud it was ihen concluded ; to offer it to anv other person to h ; neither have i been privy to its being h r no iiy thereol by any other per 5 i,..i 1 1 > i have | mad anv inquiry il b .""''' '-'"'■','-' t'tcrwards 1 being at k,ir':"!rg c<,u'1 [ had 1,'ar»',<1 '■•••-< mr av b some means procured a copy of mr the carolina watchman j j 13runer * > " keep a check ttpox all vo.r editor 6f proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this axd libert vis safe < gen i harrison ( volume viii number 7 salisbury n c thursday june 19 1851 robinson a schoolmaster in salisbury who had j copied il fair from the original rough draft i was also lold that mr avery had read it to the whole presbyterian congregation at their meet in at mecklenburg i being asked at that court by some persons who sbow'd me a copy given 1 presume by mr avery whether or no i knew any thing nl it lo which question 1 answered in the affirmative — in september or october following and on a day when a genenil muster vfa held iu salisbury some ol tin inhabitants iu salisbury _. adja cent neighborhoods tunned themselves into a committee and amongst other matters then deliberated and considered upon the above paper or copy and alier some lime it was as 1 had been informed voted seditious libel ous and inflamilory c i heard no more of the matter from thai time until the last of july following which was almost a year during which lime many committees _: councils ot safely e committees ot intelligence sat in salis bury where 1 lived 1 was never examined or : brought to any account before ihem neither had j i lo this day been asked lo associate with them nor join in their deliberations neilher have i i ever seen any sociation paper nor do i believe they had any until i procured one since my j confinement in charles town which i enclos ! ed to them as a presiddenl to adopt another by it suitable lo lhe genius of the back inhabitants of n carolina — 1 recollect that at a time when lhe people were met at tbe cuurt house iu or der to choose new different committees and a council of safety my assistance was asked for by some gentleman i attended and lold 1 could not act myself in any public capacity from mere principal __ mailer of conscience have at di vers nines and on many occasions before then : taken the several oaths ol government as also ; being then the sworn and acting attorney for ; the crown in rowan county court as also a notary pubiic in the province but ihat i was ready at any lime to assist them iu choosing of fit member for committees and proper persons to ull.nd as delegates lo serve in general con gress _. assist them with my advice or oppin 1 ion upon any special occasion wuh which they i seem'd well satisfied and accordingly i did — which gave great umbrage to a certain person ihen present he having missed being elected himself owing as he imagined to my tault and j wondered what righl 1 had lo interlere in the matier and swore as i afterwards was told if i ' ever came there i should be kicked out of doors j 1 then desisted irom concurning myself turiher eilber on the one side or the other on monday being the last day of july or the 1 t first day of august 1775 being just recovering oul ol a lit ol sickness and al my own house in salisbury it being llie day before the silting of ilie court as also the meeting ofthe commit i tee tor the county i being busy preparing my papers relative lo the crown as well as civil business — a number of armed persons entered j into my house t after having seized upon my person 1 was forced away to lewis golfers house in salisbury and iu a few minutes 1 saw mr booth conducted in the same manner lo the same house — shortly afterwards william ken non attorney at law and adiai osbourn enter ed the room c hey being asked by several gentlemen merchants and others the chief ot whom weie members of the town committee \ and council ol safely — why we were restrain ed from our liberty for wiiai reason or by what authority or whose order we were taken into custody kennon and osbourn seem'd to sig ti if v h was the desire of some gentleman from the southard and who were then waiting at mr locks about live miles from town in order to examine us with regard to our polilical senti ments with regard lo american laws ol liberty __<-. and that we would be detained but a few minutes before we should be set at large in or der lo return home — those gentlemen replyed and lold them ihat they looked upon it that they were the only proper judges ol our conduct on those occasions and i ley only had the best righl to examine into ihose affairs as nothing could be transacted by us to the prejudice ol the common laws but ihey of course must have their notice thereof aud reflected very much on the arbitrary conduct of those busy aud inter medling men and looked upon an insult offered to them and prohibition ot that liberty which americans in general were then contending lor with great britain nolwithstand every argument which could be offered irom reason and common justice by messrs troy chambers nesbit beard lit lie members of the council of safety and doctor anthony we were sent off under a guard ol men whom a lew minutes before then hose two consipirators had had out into the woods lliey caused them lo be first sworn lo secrecy aud fidelity as the men themselves lold us afterwards and ihen ordered them to lake us inlo sale custody — thus were we ex posed and drove lo mr locks ihat evening as telons — when we arrived there i saw no gen tleman from the southward or elsewhere but here we were kept under strung guard until aboul 11 oclock al night at which lime those gentlemen above mentioned who went with us to learn the event of such treatment grew im patient and proposed entering themselves se curity in any sum ol money whatever so far as their respective estates were worth tor our ap pearance before our own commitlee lhe next day who were ihen to meet at salisbury ac cording io appointmenl and it any such matter which as ihey could lav lo our charge be fairly and impartially enquired into but all to no pin pose in the mean lime mr avery mr w il lis who was kennons1 brother iu law and a negro fellow were ent off above the road leading to mecklenburg aud in some lime returned with near thirty or loriy armed men from meek len burg and tryon counties who were engag ed in the same manner persuant an unjust scheme and plan adopted by the said kennon osbourn polk and others a few days before that about two oclock in the morning we were forced away from mr locks escorted by this guard lo mecklenburg court house where we arrived in the evening of the next day the said kennon and osbourn having signified that the mecklenburg commitlee would examine inlo those affairs we made application to mr polk 1 to call upon lhe members of thai committee ; many of whom were then in town — and lhal j ! we were ready to answer lo any charge that any one could accuse us with and would give them any reasonable satisfaction with regard lo our conduct which ihey in reason could ex pect or desire to which request he seem'd lo have some thoughts of complying — but instead thereof lhe next morning he at the head of i about sixty horsemen all armed signified to us j lhal we were to be sent to camden jail in south carolina and accoiding we were forced lo comply — from camden we were sent to lhe i congress and from thence lo charles town without a shift of any kind of apparel nor a j shilling in our pockets to buy us the least ne j cessary of life and previous lo any examination j trial or convention or any legal or just charge but such as those cruel and unjust persecutors ; pleased to suggest in order to juslifie their con , duct having violated of principal honour jus lice and humanity and even one of the estab j lished maxims and rules of lhe general con j gress before that time made and directed lo be i observed throughout lhe whole continent — and now heie we still remain prisoners in exile | from the enjoyment and society of our wiles ! children and lamilies who have suffered real ! [ distress and hardships on many occasions con , trary to every principal of humanity and chris tian virlue and without any just cause whatev er unless it be lo gralifie the malice and envy ol wicked artful and designing persons who j in order lo gratify their own ambition and car j ry their pernicious and wicked designs into ex , ecutioii would sacrifice their own honour and : lhe repose of heir innocent neighbours and happiness of their families lo answer their per nicious views — it has been proposed lo us sev eral months ago by the gentlemen of this place that we would release those men and indemni j ty them from all actions or causes of actions arrising to us — on account of our suffering we should be released and permitted to go home lo ; our families — as to myself i answered and told them that i was ready and willing to release and indemnity every person belonging lo any con ; gress commitlee or council ofsatety or any per son who had been invested to act in any wise by any authority of the people — but those who had \ treated me with cruelty and barbarity in an ar bitrary and unjustlifiable manner i could not in justice to myself family and fellow subjects for give — having suffered near twelve months false imprisonment and was also indebted near one hundred pounds procl money to physicians who attended my son who was sent hither wiih a certificate by the gentleman of salisbury in order lo show the falsity of the charge laid against me he being sick of a violent fever for some weeks — exclusive of his board and at tendance and keeping his horse — as also an other debt owing from myself to lhe doctor who attended myself when taken with the yel low janders and a fever and now cannot com mand a shilling to pay off those just debts south carolina john dunn attorney at law j late of salisbury town in no carolina per j sonallv appeared before me the subscriber one ol the justices assigned to keep the peace for j the district ol charles town and being first j sworn upon the holy evangelists of almighty ! god depoueth thai the accusation wherewith ! lm stands charged by william kennon and adlia osbourn sam'l spencer and others of | and concerning his being inimical to american liberties and of his holding of correspondence ; with gov martin of n carolina and other go i vernmenl officers and acting and doing other i matters and things to the prejudice of the peo pie of n carolina in particular and america in general is false and without foundation and further declareth on his oath aforesaid lhal he has not at any time heretofore directly or indirect ly wrote anv lelter or letters to gov'nor mar tin or any crown oilicer or through any per : son whatever of or concerning the present dis putes between greal britain and the american colonies neither was he privy to any letters being wrote or sent by other persons on that account neither did he ever write dictate or cause any peiilion remonstrance plan or scheme either for himself or other person or persons nor has he at any lime been privy to any combination or meeting of any number of people whatever in order to oppose or frustrate lhe views or designs of the americans neilher has he at any time aided or assisted in any ol the above schemes nor has he ever heen soli cited by any person or more on that head but once which he then positively refused that of drawing what was called a petition and would not and further that lies never exhibited nor read to others nor even so much as carried about him a certain paper called a protest nor wrote or caused to be wrote any copies thereof nor tendered such to be signed by others nei lher has he at any lime set his name to any other paper remonstrant or petition other than lhe paper mentioned in lhe foregoing state of facts mentioned in this paper — but whatever his private oppinion ol sentiments may be with re raid lo those matters he has not aided at any lime directly or indirectly by any act of his or others deeds to the prejudice of the common laws sworn c subscribed to before me this 27lh day july 177g we see lhal a democrat calls upon calvin graves esq in the last milton chronicle lode dare himseifa candidate for congress in that district in opposition to mr venable and sug gests thai the union men whigs and demo crats ofthe district force him to run or elect him even without his consent so it seems that a portion ofthe democracy of thai district cannot support mr venable disapproving of his course on thf compromise and his declarations to use his influence to have them repealed raleigh star horrible affair the asheville news says thai on the 29th ult an old man 72 years old john plemmons about six miles from that place knocked his daughter in the head with a bludgeon crushing , her skull in several places and then cut his | throat with a razor both were alive but il was thought that neither would recover this deed i is supposed to have been committed under ihe ■effects of a partial insanity scriptural plan of benevolence by rev sam'l harris chapter iv superior efficiency of systematic benevo lence in providing funds for benevo lent enterprises system always promotes efficiency — what would become of a man _ worldly business if he managed it without system never executing a plan or making an in vestment till solicited and abandoning la bor to the control of impulse or conveni ence ? and can he hope for any bettpr results from a like disregard of system as a steward of god from such lack of order what but embarrassment and fail ure can result to the enterprises of benev olence ? and what shall we say of those professors of christ's religion who show so thorough an understanding of the ne cessity of system in worldly business so utter a neglect of it in their contributions to benevolence who are full of fore thought antl anxious calculation to real ize the utmost of worldly acquisition ; de liberate and farsighted in planning cau tious in executing ly nx-eyed to discern an opportunity of gain exact to the last frac tion in their accounts but heedless and planless in all they do for charity ve rily " the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light but the children of light show no lack of that wisdom til they come to use property for the benefit of others than themselves systematic benevolence will usually dispose the giver lo increase his contribu tions if a man gives without system he will commonly give too little under the hallowed influences of the closet let him estimate the claims of the world lying in wickedness and the means of benevolence with which god has blessed him ; let him ponder what amount of charity would be acceptable to god and is demanded by the love of christ ; and it will be strange if he is not convinced that he ought to in crease his donations it is more convenient to set apart money for charity in frequent instalments he who neglects to provide lor his charities until the call for them is made may find it inconvenient or impossible to raise at the time the one dollar or the hundred dollars or whatever sum it is his duty to give but had he set apart a proportion from his earnings as they were received he would not be incommoded by giving the sum required persons even in the most moderate circumstances adopting the practice of systematic benevolence are often surprised at the amount tbey can give without serious inconvenience system will enlarge the amount of mo ney expended in beneficence by being a bar rier against the temptations of selfishness many a man means to answer the calls of charity but does not weekly or monthly set apart a specific sum as sacred to the lord hence when he sees some tempt ing article of luxury having by him un appropriated the money which should have been the lord's he buys it ; when some tempting though perhaps hazard ous investment presents having the mo ney by him unappropriated he invests it thus through lack ol system many sums in the purses even of the benevolent are turned aside from the lord's treasury — self interest has the advantage in being beforehand and having constant access to our hearts systematic charity helps to put the interest of christ's cause on an equal footing sys'em prevents yielding to second thoughts and withholding a purposed char ity many a man under the influence ol a charity sermon or of the teachings of conscience or of the sight ol distress pur poses in his heart to give a certain a mount as the subject first strikes his un biased judgment such an amount seems not too large or the urgency of the case and his own means but selfishness steps in and argues the point ; it presents to the man his various wants and pretty soon convinces him that the purposed sum is quite too much ; then forgetting paul's injunction every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give he gives little or nothing but let a man have a fixed plan in accordance with which he consecrates a fixed proportion to the lord as regularly as he meets his notes when they fall due or pays the expenses of his family and the matter is settled here is a breastwork by god's grace im pregnable against all the pleading of self ishness system increases the contributions by making it more pleasant to give when a man has no system of charity every call to give is unprovided for ; if he comply he must give from._money which he was ! expecting to spend otherwise ; it is so much taken from what he had reckoned bis own ; it seems so much dead loss — i hence every donation chafes him he is tempted to mak it as small as possible ; giving comes to be surrounded in his mind with unpleasant associations he often ' looks back with regret when he gives ! any thing that he gave so nuch ; and . the call of charity becomes repulsive — i but when he systemizes his charities and ■at stated times sets apart to benevolence i a sum proportioned to his income he no j longer reckons that consecrated motley j as his own or depends on it for the sup ; ply of any want when the call of char i ity is heard he is not obliged to take from i what he had rockoned his own but from ■what was already consecrated to the lord | he can give both largely and cheerfully i and with no drawback irom the blessed ! ness of doing good system removes mam common causes of selfishness tor withholding more than is meet i have lately given to another j cause ;" ** i give as much as convenient ;" i '■i have so many expenses 1 give as j much as others system increases the amount of chari ties by forming habits of benevolence — from earliest life habits of gaining and using money for sell have been strength ening and these consolidated habits have | never been overcome even in the } church tbe covetous use of property is too i generally the habit the benevolent use of i it only an occasional act and it is but i dimly apprehended that the gospel re quires it to be otherwise hence tbe gifts of the church are exceedingly stinted to remedy this evil it is necessary to make the beneficent use of property the habit of the christian's life and thus turn ! to the advantage of christ's cause that law of habit which has been all against it to do this there must be systematic be nevolence it were the extreme of folly to think of subduing these consolidated habits by desultory efforts — to send up now and then a platoon of light troops against these most massive and well-ap pointed fortifications of selfishness w e i must approach them by well-concerted ! persevering siege till ihey fall into our ; hands and the guns are turned against the foe mere occasional unsystematized do ! nations scarcely make a perceptible im ! pression in subduing selfish and forming i benevolent habits but when beneficence i is systemized the habit of doing good is | formed it moulds the whole life it be comes second nature and shows in all its ] results efficacious vigor these considerations show the duty of christian parents to train their children to i the habit of systematically making a be nevolent use of money one of the greatest difficulties in the way of obtaining an increase of unds is found in another influence of this same law of habit of those who contribute . regularly to particular causes and thus : have made an approach to system a large portion are in the habit of giving from year to year about the same sum the same twenty five cents the same dollar or five dollars stands from year to year against their names the wants of benevolent enterprises increase the property of lhe giver increases but the contribution is stereotyped the attempt to increase this amount breaks up their settled habits ol thought and action they have never thought that perhaps christ requires a re vision of their whole plan of benevolence the adoption of the divine plan of fre quent and proportionate appropriations would remove this difficulty it must be added hat systematic benev olence may be expected by god's blessing to increase the giver s means of usefulness but this thought will be reserved for a more extended examination in another chapter in these various ways the scriptural svstem increases the funds of benevolence were it universally adopted by the church es nothing but the experiment would show how immense would be the resulting in crease without expense of collecting agencies thousands in the churches who now give nothing would begin to give and a permanent and growing increase would be realized at once from those who have given occasionally then would the channels of benevolence be like the river of god which is full of water and the waters of life issuing from the sanctu ary with their healing power would flow i as the prophet saw in vision ever swell ing to the ends of the earth the following facts confirm life argu ment of this chapter in 1811 rev dr baird received in two payments thirty eight dollars for some benevolent cause from one ofthe poor disciples of jesus in acknowledging which he says the donor of it commenced giving in a strict ly systematic manner the tenth part of all tbe money which he earned from the time ot his conversion and through god's bless ing he has been enabled to give sums from lime to time to many if not all the great enterprises for building up the kingdom of our lord varying from five to twenty-five dollars there is a farmer in one of the retired mountain towns ol massachusetts who began business on his farm in 1818 being six hundred dollars in debt he began with the determination to pay the debt in six years in equal installments and to give all his net income if any remained above those instalments the income ofthe first year however was expended in purchas ing stock and other nece.s.ijes for his farm in the six next years tie paid oft the debt and having abandoned the in tention of ever being any richer he has ever since given his entiic income after supporting his family and thoroughly edu cating his six children during all this period he has lived with the strictest econ omy and every thing pertaining to his house table dress and eijuippage has been in the most simple style : and though he has twice been a member of the state senate he conscientiously retains this sim plicity in his mode of life tiie farm is rocky and remote from the village and his whole property real and personal would not exceed in value three thousand dollars et some times he has been enabled to give from s'joo to 8300 a year let it be further considered in this con nection that some feasible plan of enlarg i aw the funds of bt tu roll tu'e musl be adop ted in order to realize the hopes of the churches irom their missionary enterpris es this is apparent from the*diliiculty of sustaining these enterprises on their present scale this deficiency is not ow ing to a want ol means in the church — there is money in profusion for railroads manufactories any enterprise which pro mises a return to self but where is tbe money for the lord ? " the great current of christian property is as yet undiverted from its worldly channel the scanty rills of charity which at present water the srarden ofthe lord and the ingenuity and eiiort employed lo bring them there com pared with the almost undiminished tide ol selfish expenditure which slill holds on its original course remind one of the slen der rivulets which the inhabitants of tbe east raise from a river by mechanical lorce to water their thirsty gardens the mighty current meanwhile without exhi biting any sensible diminution of its wa ters sweeping on in its ample and an cient bed the aggregate of ifts from its mem bers to the church was probably larger in the times of its greatest corruption than now when it was believed that salva tion might be bought by charity wealth from the poor and the rich was lavished on churches and monasteries but as in the advance of the reformation charities with this motive have ceased the church es have failed adequately to bring in the gifts of gratitude and love in their stead it should make the ears of him that bear eth it to tingle that in this boasted age of progress thi nineteenth century less is probably bestowed iti charity by the pro testant churches to spread the true gospel through the world than was given in the darkest ages to heap up the treasures of the church oi rome — that the love of christ constrains to less valuable giltsthan the arts and deceptions of a corrupt priest hood but the church is aiming at the conver sion of thf irorl 1 it is plain as sunlight that lhe world cannot be supplied with the means of grace without an immense enlargement of these operations it was this contrast between the greatness ofthe enterprise which christarhs profess to prosecute and the littleness ol the means which ihey devote to it that wrung from the golly abel the exclamation respecting our missionary work '" j l the great god could despise his creatures it would be despicable in his sight there must be some wav devised of realizing such en largement if tbe wot id is to be converted nor is the expectation (', realizing in vain tbescriptural system of benevolence gen erally adopted woul 1 re zf it without embarrassment to tiie church let it also be considered that when god by his providenct proclaims " behold i have set before vou an open doo " he openeth an 1 no man shuttetb then if his church will enter no obstacles ur op position can prevent her triumph but it his people will not enter presently the door is shut and he shuttetb and no man openeth ages may pass before in the revolving cycles of his providence he will open it again and when thus shuf the costliest labors of his church are la bors where god is not one day god opens canaan to the israelites and urges them to so up assuring them that the anaks and the cities walled and great shall not retard them they will not go next day they are all eagerness to go but the door is shut ; lhe pillar of cloud moves not — thev go up only lo perish before their foes all historv demonstrates this prin ciple — demonstrates that as we must fol : low god's movements in the circleing sea sons would we nap in harvest ; so in the enterprises of benevolence we must not fall behind the workingsol bis providence
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1851-06-19 |
Month | 06 |
Day | 19 |
Year | 1851 |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 7 |
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Creator | J. J. Bruner Editor and Proprietor |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | J. J. Bruner |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The Thursday, June 19, 1851 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601468787 |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1851-06-19 |
Month | 06 |
Day | 19 |
Year | 1851 |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 7 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was 4936578 Bytes |
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Creator | J. J. Bruner Editor and Proprietor |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | J. J. Bruner |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The Thursday, June 19, 1851 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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FullText | rklk „ r rear two dolla as-payable in £-«._ in dwnee two dollars je/a.s for the first and 25 cts . , uent insertion courtorders r than these rates a lib ... who advertise by the year ,-.,,,- „.,,,. be post paid j^tchesof north carolina r , jl wheeler who it is known , , ,.,,.;_! norlh carolina book has -- ~ _ . i following bil of evolutionary matter which transpired in this ,-; j we believe it never appear ,,._ ftnd like hundreds of similar ■gentleman's possession and go to make up his book is full of ls showing the spirit and temper of '*' tt..re gratified with auothe peep into . ,_, week and wilboul hesitation re " j very person who desires lo be in j io ihe history of north cam ... b c0py ol ilns work when it jiia tu ■" ' ■tne colonel lias a tree illus ibe countie — showing when they :. and from what couniies each this of itself will be worth the cosl .. whole hook / . h ,!> able samuel ashe esq presi a honorable members oj coun salisbury assembled remonstrance of juhn dunn ie last day of july in the year one even hundred and sixty five your ' . mi in consequence of a premeditated ... combination previously entered into un kennon adlia osbourn samuel & others this associate caused your . | ml lo be taken inlo custody by a num i ; persons who wen first illegal y i ..'...'•• foi lhal purpose and by force , led from his own house in salisbu ..,.. house ol mathew lock esq where ,. . . . i ;. : many hours in the nighl as cner under asperous pretext that some gen from sm . carolina were desirous of , ._ him — thai alter some lime a body of .-;.,.; men arrived from llu couniies of ;, and mecklenburg lo whom your re nstrant was delivered over m custody who inverrd him to mecklenburg i being pre .... hat the commitlee ol ihat countv were irons to examine him with regard to some i rs which should l by ihem enquired into i .■notwithstanding the importunities & li lations ol several gentlemen from li ;■members ol ihe commitlee and the council of safety who offered themselves security _. to be bound in any sum lor my ince lhe nexl day before ilie commitlee salisbury notwithstanding j was forced lhe same night lo charlotte where we the nexl da and having petitioned to n i bearing before the committee ol that , i u li 1 1 li wa likewise refused and an arm . i about sixty horsemen were ordered \ im to camden from ihence lo ihe in south carolina a inence to s town where your remonstrant hath lained a prisoner for upwards of twelve h contrary lo i'i principal o justice ■. .. nit & contrary lo certain resolves ol b-ii-iierii cungress & in direct violation ol h hls am privileges which americans h . with iteai britain lor ai this lime hi remonstrant now piays thai you would b lo hims ll and family who have sol h . ■t s j v on account ol ihis unwarrantable uv treatment enquire inlo the same — ui.iii-iiaui being desirous lo acquit him b those false and groundless charges laid hi!.1 liin previous lo any oath being lender h imu — in onler lo - ttisfy your honours and h world l'h.it he is not in any wist guilty of bit matters as have been falsely suggested or i_"'i ..',_. i:ii>i mn by winch he hopes lo ap h iu t different light than w hat has been rep i'h-i ".' him aud for a further confirmation i - innocence your remonstrant is ready i u g lo be interrogated lo answer on i lhe honourable board ihinks it neces h & youi remonstrant will pray juhn dunn h h pursuant to your request of me i have b ip the fallowing slate of matters and ■- is they are with regard lo my person be ■" i upon in my own province & seul pri fl charles town together v\iih mr ben b booth where i now am and have been i ve months wanting a few days b me lime aboul lhe las of ugusl or begin h september in lhe year 1774 and pievi h."ilic meeting or assembling ol anv con b i commitlee in any of lhe soulbern pro h or their having entered into any panic i 1 solves with regard to the general laws h fii-an liberties so far as al that lime i b i knowledge off a certain william b . e coles then magistrate came lo me at ■yard in salisbury where i ihen was look b uv.r iine hands who were there at work buie about making of bricks — mr booth c b present mi coles pulled oul ol bis b ■■" i northern new-paper where printed 1 b i collect and among other ihings he read bj resolves or protests entered into by the wk ' i new oik and declaring llieii m-aji ■: ii lo lhe measures ihen carrying on by ■al boston c_c in opposition lo ibe : parliament touching the tea ! acts — thai as soon as lie had r se resolves he seem'd to approve of hj " ')' much and ihen said he though il ve ity and becoming the people of our i especi illy crown officers lo enter into r • ■*•' resolves or resolves similar to those l '"':' prevailed on mr booth lo draw up i that nature ; that in a lew days h ' " _ al mr cole hou in salisbury mr i ed a paper containing a declera b legiance fidelity and obedience to h ."- y and submission to the british acts ni.tneut iu general c-c that this paper b ' ut to that published at new yoik it b fl'by mi coles mr waller lind was magistrate ami myself and b ne by mr lindsay mr booth and r ** 1 believe one person more mr booth i ept lhe paper aud it was ihen concluded ; to offer it to anv other person to h ; neither have i been privy to its being h r no iiy thereol by any other per 5 i,..i 1 1 > i have | mad anv inquiry il b .""''' '-'"'■','-' t'tcrwards 1 being at k,ir':"!rg c<,u'1 [ had 1,'ar»',<1 '■•••-< mr av b some means procured a copy of mr the carolina watchman j j 13runer * > " keep a check ttpox all vo.r editor 6f proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this axd libert vis safe < gen i harrison ( volume viii number 7 salisbury n c thursday june 19 1851 robinson a schoolmaster in salisbury who had j copied il fair from the original rough draft i was also lold that mr avery had read it to the whole presbyterian congregation at their meet in at mecklenburg i being asked at that court by some persons who sbow'd me a copy given 1 presume by mr avery whether or no i knew any thing nl it lo which question 1 answered in the affirmative — in september or october following and on a day when a genenil muster vfa held iu salisbury some ol tin inhabitants iu salisbury _. adja cent neighborhoods tunned themselves into a committee and amongst other matters then deliberated and considered upon the above paper or copy and alier some lime it was as 1 had been informed voted seditious libel ous and inflamilory c i heard no more of the matter from thai time until the last of july following which was almost a year during which lime many committees _: councils ot safely e committees ot intelligence sat in salis bury where 1 lived 1 was never examined or : brought to any account before ihem neither had j i lo this day been asked lo associate with them nor join in their deliberations neilher have i i ever seen any sociation paper nor do i believe they had any until i procured one since my j confinement in charles town which i enclos ! ed to them as a presiddenl to adopt another by it suitable lo lhe genius of the back inhabitants of n carolina — 1 recollect that at a time when lhe people were met at tbe cuurt house iu or der to choose new different committees and a council of safety my assistance was asked for by some gentleman i attended and lold 1 could not act myself in any public capacity from mere principal __ mailer of conscience have at di vers nines and on many occasions before then : taken the several oaths ol government as also ; being then the sworn and acting attorney for ; the crown in rowan county court as also a notary pubiic in the province but ihat i was ready at any lime to assist them iu choosing of fit member for committees and proper persons to ull.nd as delegates lo serve in general con gress _. assist them with my advice or oppin 1 ion upon any special occasion wuh which they i seem'd well satisfied and accordingly i did — which gave great umbrage to a certain person ihen present he having missed being elected himself owing as he imagined to my tault and j wondered what righl 1 had lo interlere in the matier and swore as i afterwards was told if i ' ever came there i should be kicked out of doors j 1 then desisted irom concurning myself turiher eilber on the one side or the other on monday being the last day of july or the 1 t first day of august 1775 being just recovering oul ol a lit ol sickness and al my own house in salisbury it being llie day before the silting of ilie court as also the meeting ofthe commit i tee tor the county i being busy preparing my papers relative lo the crown as well as civil business — a number of armed persons entered j into my house t after having seized upon my person 1 was forced away to lewis golfers house in salisbury and iu a few minutes 1 saw mr booth conducted in the same manner lo the same house — shortly afterwards william ken non attorney at law and adiai osbourn enter ed the room c hey being asked by several gentlemen merchants and others the chief ot whom weie members of the town committee \ and council ol safely — why we were restrain ed from our liberty for wiiai reason or by what authority or whose order we were taken into custody kennon and osbourn seem'd to sig ti if v h was the desire of some gentleman from the southard and who were then waiting at mr locks about live miles from town in order to examine us with regard to our polilical senti ments with regard lo american laws ol liberty __<-. and that we would be detained but a few minutes before we should be set at large in or der lo return home — those gentlemen replyed and lold them ihat they looked upon it that they were the only proper judges ol our conduct on those occasions and i ley only had the best righl to examine into ihose affairs as nothing could be transacted by us to the prejudice ol the common laws but ihey of course must have their notice thereof aud reflected very much on the arbitrary conduct of those busy aud inter medling men and looked upon an insult offered to them and prohibition ot that liberty which americans in general were then contending lor with great britain nolwithstand every argument which could be offered irom reason and common justice by messrs troy chambers nesbit beard lit lie members of the council of safety and doctor anthony we were sent off under a guard ol men whom a lew minutes before then hose two consipirators had had out into the woods lliey caused them lo be first sworn lo secrecy aud fidelity as the men themselves lold us afterwards and ihen ordered them to lake us inlo sale custody — thus were we ex posed and drove lo mr locks ihat evening as telons — when we arrived there i saw no gen tleman from the southward or elsewhere but here we were kept under strung guard until aboul 11 oclock al night at which lime those gentlemen above mentioned who went with us to learn the event of such treatment grew im patient and proposed entering themselves se curity in any sum ol money whatever so far as their respective estates were worth tor our ap pearance before our own commitlee lhe next day who were ihen to meet at salisbury ac cording io appointmenl and it any such matter which as ihey could lav lo our charge be fairly and impartially enquired into but all to no pin pose in the mean lime mr avery mr w il lis who was kennons1 brother iu law and a negro fellow were ent off above the road leading to mecklenburg aud in some lime returned with near thirty or loriy armed men from meek len burg and tryon counties who were engag ed in the same manner persuant an unjust scheme and plan adopted by the said kennon osbourn polk and others a few days before that about two oclock in the morning we were forced away from mr locks escorted by this guard lo mecklenburg court house where we arrived in the evening of the next day the said kennon and osbourn having signified that the mecklenburg commitlee would examine inlo those affairs we made application to mr polk 1 to call upon lhe members of thai committee ; many of whom were then in town — and lhal j ! we were ready to answer lo any charge that any one could accuse us with and would give them any reasonable satisfaction with regard lo our conduct which ihey in reason could ex pect or desire to which request he seem'd lo have some thoughts of complying — but instead thereof lhe next morning he at the head of i about sixty horsemen all armed signified to us j lhal we were to be sent to camden jail in south carolina and accoiding we were forced lo comply — from camden we were sent to lhe i congress and from thence lo charles town without a shift of any kind of apparel nor a j shilling in our pockets to buy us the least ne j cessary of life and previous lo any examination j trial or convention or any legal or just charge but such as those cruel and unjust persecutors ; pleased to suggest in order to juslifie their con , duct having violated of principal honour jus lice and humanity and even one of the estab j lished maxims and rules of lhe general con j gress before that time made and directed lo be i observed throughout lhe whole continent — and now heie we still remain prisoners in exile | from the enjoyment and society of our wiles ! children and lamilies who have suffered real ! [ distress and hardships on many occasions con , trary to every principal of humanity and chris tian virlue and without any just cause whatev er unless it be lo gralifie the malice and envy ol wicked artful and designing persons who j in order lo gratify their own ambition and car j ry their pernicious and wicked designs into ex , ecutioii would sacrifice their own honour and : lhe repose of heir innocent neighbours and happiness of their families lo answer their per nicious views — it has been proposed lo us sev eral months ago by the gentlemen of this place that we would release those men and indemni j ty them from all actions or causes of actions arrising to us — on account of our suffering we should be released and permitted to go home lo ; our families — as to myself i answered and told them that i was ready and willing to release and indemnity every person belonging lo any con ; gress commitlee or council ofsatety or any per son who had been invested to act in any wise by any authority of the people — but those who had \ treated me with cruelty and barbarity in an ar bitrary and unjustlifiable manner i could not in justice to myself family and fellow subjects for give — having suffered near twelve months false imprisonment and was also indebted near one hundred pounds procl money to physicians who attended my son who was sent hither wiih a certificate by the gentleman of salisbury in order lo show the falsity of the charge laid against me he being sick of a violent fever for some weeks — exclusive of his board and at tendance and keeping his horse — as also an other debt owing from myself to lhe doctor who attended myself when taken with the yel low janders and a fever and now cannot com mand a shilling to pay off those just debts south carolina john dunn attorney at law j late of salisbury town in no carolina per j sonallv appeared before me the subscriber one ol the justices assigned to keep the peace for j the district ol charles town and being first j sworn upon the holy evangelists of almighty ! god depoueth thai the accusation wherewith ! lm stands charged by william kennon and adlia osbourn sam'l spencer and others of | and concerning his being inimical to american liberties and of his holding of correspondence ; with gov martin of n carolina and other go i vernmenl officers and acting and doing other i matters and things to the prejudice of the peo pie of n carolina in particular and america in general is false and without foundation and further declareth on his oath aforesaid lhal he has not at any time heretofore directly or indirect ly wrote anv lelter or letters to gov'nor mar tin or any crown oilicer or through any per : son whatever of or concerning the present dis putes between greal britain and the american colonies neither was he privy to any letters being wrote or sent by other persons on that account neither did he ever write dictate or cause any peiilion remonstrance plan or scheme either for himself or other person or persons nor has he at any lime been privy to any combination or meeting of any number of people whatever in order to oppose or frustrate lhe views or designs of the americans neilher has he at any time aided or assisted in any ol the above schemes nor has he ever heen soli cited by any person or more on that head but once which he then positively refused that of drawing what was called a petition and would not and further that lies never exhibited nor read to others nor even so much as carried about him a certain paper called a protest nor wrote or caused to be wrote any copies thereof nor tendered such to be signed by others nei lher has he at any lime set his name to any other paper remonstrant or petition other than lhe paper mentioned in lhe foregoing state of facts mentioned in this paper — but whatever his private oppinion ol sentiments may be with re raid lo those matters he has not aided at any lime directly or indirectly by any act of his or others deeds to the prejudice of the common laws sworn c subscribed to before me this 27lh day july 177g we see lhal a democrat calls upon calvin graves esq in the last milton chronicle lode dare himseifa candidate for congress in that district in opposition to mr venable and sug gests thai the union men whigs and demo crats ofthe district force him to run or elect him even without his consent so it seems that a portion ofthe democracy of thai district cannot support mr venable disapproving of his course on thf compromise and his declarations to use his influence to have them repealed raleigh star horrible affair the asheville news says thai on the 29th ult an old man 72 years old john plemmons about six miles from that place knocked his daughter in the head with a bludgeon crushing , her skull in several places and then cut his | throat with a razor both were alive but il was thought that neither would recover this deed i is supposed to have been committed under ihe ■effects of a partial insanity scriptural plan of benevolence by rev sam'l harris chapter iv superior efficiency of systematic benevo lence in providing funds for benevo lent enterprises system always promotes efficiency — what would become of a man _ worldly business if he managed it without system never executing a plan or making an in vestment till solicited and abandoning la bor to the control of impulse or conveni ence ? and can he hope for any bettpr results from a like disregard of system as a steward of god from such lack of order what but embarrassment and fail ure can result to the enterprises of benev olence ? and what shall we say of those professors of christ's religion who show so thorough an understanding of the ne cessity of system in worldly business so utter a neglect of it in their contributions to benevolence who are full of fore thought antl anxious calculation to real ize the utmost of worldly acquisition ; de liberate and farsighted in planning cau tious in executing ly nx-eyed to discern an opportunity of gain exact to the last frac tion in their accounts but heedless and planless in all they do for charity ve rily " the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light but the children of light show no lack of that wisdom til they come to use property for the benefit of others than themselves systematic benevolence will usually dispose the giver lo increase his contribu tions if a man gives without system he will commonly give too little under the hallowed influences of the closet let him estimate the claims of the world lying in wickedness and the means of benevolence with which god has blessed him ; let him ponder what amount of charity would be acceptable to god and is demanded by the love of christ ; and it will be strange if he is not convinced that he ought to in crease his donations it is more convenient to set apart money for charity in frequent instalments he who neglects to provide lor his charities until the call for them is made may find it inconvenient or impossible to raise at the time the one dollar or the hundred dollars or whatever sum it is his duty to give but had he set apart a proportion from his earnings as they were received he would not be incommoded by giving the sum required persons even in the most moderate circumstances adopting the practice of systematic benevolence are often surprised at the amount tbey can give without serious inconvenience system will enlarge the amount of mo ney expended in beneficence by being a bar rier against the temptations of selfishness many a man means to answer the calls of charity but does not weekly or monthly set apart a specific sum as sacred to the lord hence when he sees some tempt ing article of luxury having by him un appropriated the money which should have been the lord's he buys it ; when some tempting though perhaps hazard ous investment presents having the mo ney by him unappropriated he invests it thus through lack ol system many sums in the purses even of the benevolent are turned aside from the lord's treasury — self interest has the advantage in being beforehand and having constant access to our hearts systematic charity helps to put the interest of christ's cause on an equal footing sys'em prevents yielding to second thoughts and withholding a purposed char ity many a man under the influence ol a charity sermon or of the teachings of conscience or of the sight ol distress pur poses in his heart to give a certain a mount as the subject first strikes his un biased judgment such an amount seems not too large or the urgency of the case and his own means but selfishness steps in and argues the point ; it presents to the man his various wants and pretty soon convinces him that the purposed sum is quite too much ; then forgetting paul's injunction every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give he gives little or nothing but let a man have a fixed plan in accordance with which he consecrates a fixed proportion to the lord as regularly as he meets his notes when they fall due or pays the expenses of his family and the matter is settled here is a breastwork by god's grace im pregnable against all the pleading of self ishness system increases the contributions by making it more pleasant to give when a man has no system of charity every call to give is unprovided for ; if he comply he must give from._money which he was ! expecting to spend otherwise ; it is so much taken from what he had reckoned bis own ; it seems so much dead loss — i hence every donation chafes him he is tempted to mak it as small as possible ; giving comes to be surrounded in his mind with unpleasant associations he often ' looks back with regret when he gives ! any thing that he gave so nuch ; and . the call of charity becomes repulsive — i but when he systemizes his charities and ■at stated times sets apart to benevolence i a sum proportioned to his income he no j longer reckons that consecrated motley j as his own or depends on it for the sup ; ply of any want when the call of char i ity is heard he is not obliged to take from i what he had rockoned his own but from ■what was already consecrated to the lord | he can give both largely and cheerfully i and with no drawback irom the blessed ! ness of doing good system removes mam common causes of selfishness tor withholding more than is meet i have lately given to another j cause ;" ** i give as much as convenient ;" i '■i have so many expenses 1 give as j much as others system increases the amount of chari ties by forming habits of benevolence — from earliest life habits of gaining and using money for sell have been strength ening and these consolidated habits have | never been overcome even in the } church tbe covetous use of property is too i generally the habit the benevolent use of i it only an occasional act and it is but i dimly apprehended that the gospel re quires it to be otherwise hence tbe gifts of the church are exceedingly stinted to remedy this evil it is necessary to make the beneficent use of property the habit of the christian's life and thus turn ! to the advantage of christ's cause that law of habit which has been all against it to do this there must be systematic be nevolence it were the extreme of folly to think of subduing these consolidated habits by desultory efforts — to send up now and then a platoon of light troops against these most massive and well-ap pointed fortifications of selfishness w e i must approach them by well-concerted ! persevering siege till ihey fall into our ; hands and the guns are turned against the foe mere occasional unsystematized do ! nations scarcely make a perceptible im ! pression in subduing selfish and forming i benevolent habits but when beneficence i is systemized the habit of doing good is | formed it moulds the whole life it be comes second nature and shows in all its ] results efficacious vigor these considerations show the duty of christian parents to train their children to i the habit of systematically making a be nevolent use of money one of the greatest difficulties in the way of obtaining an increase of unds is found in another influence of this same law of habit of those who contribute . regularly to particular causes and thus : have made an approach to system a large portion are in the habit of giving from year to year about the same sum the same twenty five cents the same dollar or five dollars stands from year to year against their names the wants of benevolent enterprises increase the property of lhe giver increases but the contribution is stereotyped the attempt to increase this amount breaks up their settled habits ol thought and action they have never thought that perhaps christ requires a re vision of their whole plan of benevolence the adoption of the divine plan of fre quent and proportionate appropriations would remove this difficulty it must be added hat systematic benev olence may be expected by god's blessing to increase the giver s means of usefulness but this thought will be reserved for a more extended examination in another chapter in these various ways the scriptural svstem increases the funds of benevolence were it universally adopted by the church es nothing but the experiment would show how immense would be the resulting in crease without expense of collecting agencies thousands in the churches who now give nothing would begin to give and a permanent and growing increase would be realized at once from those who have given occasionally then would the channels of benevolence be like the river of god which is full of water and the waters of life issuing from the sanctu ary with their healing power would flow i as the prophet saw in vision ever swell ing to the ends of the earth the following facts confirm life argu ment of this chapter in 1811 rev dr baird received in two payments thirty eight dollars for some benevolent cause from one ofthe poor disciples of jesus in acknowledging which he says the donor of it commenced giving in a strict ly systematic manner the tenth part of all tbe money which he earned from the time ot his conversion and through god's bless ing he has been enabled to give sums from lime to time to many if not all the great enterprises for building up the kingdom of our lord varying from five to twenty-five dollars there is a farmer in one of the retired mountain towns ol massachusetts who began business on his farm in 1818 being six hundred dollars in debt he began with the determination to pay the debt in six years in equal installments and to give all his net income if any remained above those instalments the income ofthe first year however was expended in purchas ing stock and other nece.s.ijes for his farm in the six next years tie paid oft the debt and having abandoned the in tention of ever being any richer he has ever since given his entiic income after supporting his family and thoroughly edu cating his six children during all this period he has lived with the strictest econ omy and every thing pertaining to his house table dress and eijuippage has been in the most simple style : and though he has twice been a member of the state senate he conscientiously retains this sim plicity in his mode of life tiie farm is rocky and remote from the village and his whole property real and personal would not exceed in value three thousand dollars et some times he has been enabled to give from s'joo to 8300 a year let it be further considered in this con nection that some feasible plan of enlarg i aw the funds of bt tu roll tu'e musl be adop ted in order to realize the hopes of the churches irom their missionary enterpris es this is apparent from the*diliiculty of sustaining these enterprises on their present scale this deficiency is not ow ing to a want ol means in the church — there is money in profusion for railroads manufactories any enterprise which pro mises a return to self but where is tbe money for the lord ? " the great current of christian property is as yet undiverted from its worldly channel the scanty rills of charity which at present water the srarden ofthe lord and the ingenuity and eiiort employed lo bring them there com pared with the almost undiminished tide ol selfish expenditure which slill holds on its original course remind one of the slen der rivulets which the inhabitants of tbe east raise from a river by mechanical lorce to water their thirsty gardens the mighty current meanwhile without exhi biting any sensible diminution of its wa ters sweeping on in its ample and an cient bed the aggregate of ifts from its mem bers to the church was probably larger in the times of its greatest corruption than now when it was believed that salva tion might be bought by charity wealth from the poor and the rich was lavished on churches and monasteries but as in the advance of the reformation charities with this motive have ceased the church es have failed adequately to bring in the gifts of gratitude and love in their stead it should make the ears of him that bear eth it to tingle that in this boasted age of progress thi nineteenth century less is probably bestowed iti charity by the pro testant churches to spread the true gospel through the world than was given in the darkest ages to heap up the treasures of the church oi rome — that the love of christ constrains to less valuable giltsthan the arts and deceptions of a corrupt priest hood but the church is aiming at the conver sion of thf irorl 1 it is plain as sunlight that lhe world cannot be supplied with the means of grace without an immense enlargement of these operations it was this contrast between the greatness ofthe enterprise which christarhs profess to prosecute and the littleness ol the means which ihey devote to it that wrung from the golly abel the exclamation respecting our missionary work '" j l the great god could despise his creatures it would be despicable in his sight there must be some wav devised of realizing such en largement if tbe wot id is to be converted nor is the expectation (', realizing in vain tbescriptural system of benevolence gen erally adopted woul 1 re zf it without embarrassment to tiie church let it also be considered that when god by his providenct proclaims " behold i have set before vou an open doo " he openeth an 1 no man shuttetb then if his church will enter no obstacles ur op position can prevent her triumph but it his people will not enter presently the door is shut and he shuttetb and no man openeth ages may pass before in the revolving cycles of his providence he will open it again and when thus shuf the costliest labors of his church are la bors where god is not one day god opens canaan to the israelites and urges them to so up assuring them that the anaks and the cities walled and great shall not retard them they will not go next day they are all eagerness to go but the door is shut ; lhe pillar of cloud moves not — thev go up only lo perish before their foes all historv demonstrates this prin ciple — demonstrates that as we must fol : low god's movements in the circleing sea sons would we nap in harvest ; so in the enterprises of benevolence we must not fall behind the workingsol bis providence |