(Central pres [inter ian. Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 13.1871. Selected for the Central Presbyterian. Goethe's Refutation of Deism. TRANSUITED BY DR. 8CBATF. What were a God who only from without Upon his finger whirled the world about? ’Tis his within itself to move the creature; N'ature in him to warm, himself in nature; So that what in him lives and moves and is, Shall ever feel some living breath of his.” Better. Better to weave in the web of life A bright and golden filling, And to do God’s will with a ready heart, And hands that are swift and willing, Than to snap the minute delicate threads Of our curious life asunder, And then blame heaven for the tangled ends, And sit and grieve and wonder. itouschold \.o _ Gar Father. a^eut the children *r:ed to >iv Httle voice say; ut a! Tail the string up She looked up, and saw a string, •which, on being pulled, lifted a latch; and •he opened the door upon two little, half naked children. all alone. A erv cold and pitiful they looked. Do you take care of yourselves, little ones?” asked the good woman. “God takes care of us,” said the oldest. “And are you not very cold? No fire on a day like this!” Oh When we are very cold, we creep under the quilt, and I put my arm3 round Tommy, and Tommy puts his arms round me, and we say, ‘Now I lay me;’ then we get warm,” said the little girl. “And what have you to eat, pray?” When granny comes home, she fetches us something. Granny says God has got enough. Granny calls us God’s sparrows and we say ‘Our Father’ and ‘daily bread’ every day. God is our Father.” Tears came in the good woman's eyes. She had a mistrusting spirit herself; but these two little “sparrows,” perched in that cold upper chamber, taught her a sweet les son of faith and trust she never will forget. Children's Friend. Going to Jesus. Nearly three years ago, a noble steamer was sinking with hundreds of persons on board. Only one boat load was saved. As a man was leaping into the tossing boat, a girl who could not be taken into the boat, and who knew that she would soon be swal lowed up in the deep, deep sea, handed him a note saying, “Give this to my mother!” The man was saved. The girl^jyith hun dreds of other persons, was drowned. The mother got the note. What do you think the little girl had written in it? Here are her words: “Dear mother! you must not grieve for me. I am going to Jesus.” Dear girl! What faith and courage she must have had to write that note! She was going to Jesus through the stormy waves of the angry sea, yet she was not afraid. That is the kind of faith you need, my reader. Well, Jesus will give it you if you ask him, for he says, Come unto me. I will give you rest.” It makes dying easy to know that we are going to the bright home which Jesus has gone to make very beautiful. Let us get ready for that bright home by loving Jesus. The Dusty Room. A young girl was sweeping a room one day, when she went to the window shade and hastily drew it down. It makes the room so dusty,” she said, “to have the sunshine coming in!” The atoms of dust which shone golden in the sunbeams were unseen in the dimmer light. The untaught girl imagined it was the sunshine which made the dust. Now, many persons imagine themselves very good people. One poor old man, who had lived all his life without a thought of love to God, said he was all ready to die. “He didn’t owe any man a cent.” If the Spirit of God should shine brightly into such a heart, how do you suppose it would look? It would show them sins enough to crush them! This light of the Spirit is like the sunshine 7t r i* i wha*. ..i he r» Wh* we begin to feel un happy about our sins, let U3 never try to put away the feeling. Don’t let us put down the curtain,* and fancy there is no duot. It is the Holy Spirit’s voice in our hearts. He is showing us ourselves; and better still, he will show us the true way of happiness. The Way it was Done. We know of a lady who teaches a class of ten in the Sabbath School, and who has her scholars tenderly attached to her. They are all children of German parents, none of them church members. Her method is to visit them once a quarter at their homes, and once or twice a year ask them to see her. On a recent Saturday afternoon the whole class spent two hours with the teacher at her own home, a simple little table of sandwiches, fruit and cake being set for them. A3 they bade her good evening, each received a small J volume attractively bound and illustrated. Only Jesus. I love to feel the Sabbath coming, but cannot bear to awake and find it gone. But yet Jesus is my every-day Sabbath, and in him I find happiness and peace all the week, and all the year, when I am kept abiding, j This is all I want, never to wander more or eipect any good fr m any thing or any body, but look for all in Jesus, in whom I now find hca.en begun.—Buth Bryan. The Snow-Prayer. A little girl went out to play one day in the fresh new snow, and when she caino in she said: “Mamma, I couldn’t help praying when IJ was out at play.” “What did you pray, my dear?” “I prayed the snow-prayer, mamma, that I learned once in Sunday School: ‘Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.’” What a beautiful prayer! And here is a sweet promise to go with it: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.” And what can wash them white—clean from every stain of sin? The Bible answers: “They have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Adorning Light. Academies as Christian Schools. Our academies must be distinctly and em phatically Christian schools. Says Dr. Ar nold, of Rugby, “We need schools that are not only founded on religion, but schools that are religious.” The great doctrines of ngeiioa! faith must underlie them and uer Christian. Let this be understood there be no reserve, no concealment here.— The best culture for the intellect will be fur nished, but the moral and spiritual nature will not be neglected. The aim will be to lay the foundations of Christian scholarship, and to send forth pupils either to college or to the activities of business, consecrated to Christ. If there are parents or guardians who do not wish to subject those under their charge to such influences, there is no con I straint. Other schools are open to them.— But sending them to an academy whose char acter and aims are known, they will have no reason to complain. Here, after all, is our strong, and in itself sufficient argument for academies. We could safely rest our appeal, to Christian minds, here. Christianity in any proper sense cannot be taught in our public schools. There must be silence on the most momentous themes. Our children are coming forward in a most perilous age. Unbelief has a boldness, and subtlety, and persistency, and plausibility such as we were stangers to in our youth. It claims to have the advanced thought, the genius, the science, the culture of the age on its side. Its professors and advocates look down with contempt, or with affected pity, on those who are still in the bondage of old beliefs. But in our public schools no caution may be ut tered against the errors, the skepticism, and the downright infidelity now so prevalent in all our communities. The teacher may be a thoroughly Christian man, but his lips are sealed. In this fact, we repeat, is a suffi cient argument for academies. We need learning, true scholarship. The Church needs it. The nation needs it. Every in terest dear to humanity needs it. But it is sanctified learning. Christian scholarship, that is needed.—Dr. Damson in the Xational Baptist. “Now Squirm, Old Natur.” A stingy Christian was listening to a charity sermon. He was nearly deaf, and was accustomed to sit facing the congrega tion, right under the pulpit, with his ear trumpet directed upwards toward the preach er. The sermon moved him considerably. At one time he said to himself: “I’ll give ten dollars;” again he said, “I’ll give fif teen.” At the close of the appeal he was very much moved, and thought he would give fifty dollars. Now, the boxes were passed. As they moved along his charity began to ooze out. He came down from fifty to twenty, to ten, to five, to zero. He concluded that he would not give anything. “Yet,” he said, “this won’t do—I am in a bad fix. My L _ r 1, AA»/k*i t>kn n Vk a m +Vtin miAotmvt \Jk UVUIVH Uiaj vv >jwvwwvmi This covetousness will be my ruin.” The boxes were getting nearer and near er. The crisis was upon him. What should he do The box was now under his chin— all the congregation were looking. He had been holding his pocket book in his hand during the soliloquy, which was half audible, though iu his deafness he did not know that ho vas heard. In tho agony of the final moment, he took his pocket-book and laid it in the box, saying to himself as he did it— “Now squirm, old natur This was victory beyond any that Alexan der ever won—a victory over himself. Here is a key to the problem of covetousness.— Old natur’ must go under. It will take great giving to ~ut stinginess down. A few ex I pcrioit if.' ot puiru'g iu the who.o pocket •u u- by and by, get the heart into the charity box, and then the cure is reached. All honor to the deaf old gentleman. He did a magnificent thing for himself, and gave an example worth imitating, besides pointing a paragraph for the students of human na ture. Pride Must Fall.—When Napoleon was about to invade Russia, a person who had endeavored to dissuade him from his pur pose, finding he could not prevail, quoted to him the proverb, “Man proposes, but God disposes,” to which he indignantly replied, “I dispose as well as propose.” A Christian lady, hearing the impious boast, remarked, “I set that down as the turning point of Napoleon’s fortunes.” God will not suffer a creature thus with impunity to usurp his prerogative.” It happened, as the lady predicted, Napo leon’s invasion of Russia was the commence ment of his fall. Good Temper#, with most people/depen dent upon good health, good health upon good digestion, good digestion upon wholesome, well prepared food, eaten in peace and pleas antness. A person of sensitive physique may be nursed into settled hypochondria by living in close rooms, where the sweet fresh air and sunshine are determinedly shut out, and the foul air as determinedly shut in.— Mm Muloch. Sayings of DeaD Swift. The following aphoristical extracts from the writings of the original and inimitable wit, Dean Swift, are but specimens of the richness of the gems that may be gathered in that Golconda of literary wealth: We have just enough of religion to make us hate, not enough to make us love one an other. How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning? Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of diseases. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue. When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. C»mplaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devo tion. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. The reason why so few marriages are hap py is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions ho had contracted in the former 1 a writ** k.novr how to behave him uiitt nUrU i .0 »v. wv. aider in old books wuat he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments. Whatever the poets pictured, it is plain that they give immortality to none but them selves; it is Homer and Virgil we revere and admire, not Achilles or iEneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, per sons, and events we read, and we little re gard the authors. Bad Effects of Boarding House Life. Live together and alone, if you have to go into the desert for it, and feed on herbs!— Abhor Sodom and Gomorrah—or boarding houses! Men sometimes speak of the meagre and pinched fare. Men sometimes speak of the inconveniences, ihese are not worthy of notice. It is not these. It is that men learn self-indulgence there. Men learn there not to be householders. And all the various discipline, all that ministration of care, all that drill of contrivance, all that drill of cultivation, all that social independence, all that subtle atmosphere, indescribable and unanalyzable, which belong to the solitary household, they miss. No man and woman can make‘husband and wife, father and mother, and house holders on the pattern of their fathers, who begin and continue their married life in this hot-bed style of existence. And yet, they are now unwilling to take a house that they can afford; and they cannot afford to take the house that they fain would live in, be cause furniture is so dear, and virtue is cheap; because society requires a certain amount of appearance, you know; because it would not do to go into the outskirts of the town! A log cabin is better for young married people than the Fifth Avenue hotel would be if they had the whole for nothing! What you get for nothing is the least valuable of anything. What you earn is all value.— Under these influences, the whole of life is written in the wrqig key. ^Ien having started on the wrong principle they do not get over it. They are perpetually tempted to over live by their very affections. If there is anything that an honorable and sensitive man’s nature feels and cannot stand, it is the silent comparison, by the world, of the way she did live, and the way in which she did live. How does this.drive men into dis honesty? How does it drive them out of bold willingness to live according to their circumstances? How does it teach them to live for other people’s eyes, and not for their own actual needs? How does it teach them to be more subject to vanity than love?— Such life is hollow! Ostentation takes the place of sincerity. And so, ere long, a man is educated to be a rogue, and steals. Good Health as an Element of Success. It i3 no exaggeration to say that health is a large ingredient in what the world calls talent. A man without it may be a giant in 11 1 1 1 1 Ml 1 T J P intellect, out ms ueeua wm ue me ueeua "i a dwarf. On the contrary, let him have a quick circulation, a good digestion, the bulk, thews, and sinews of a man, and the alacrity, the unthinking confidence inspired by these, and, though having but a thimbleful of brains, he will either blunder upon success or set failure at defiance. It is true, especially in this country, that the number of contours in every community—of men in whom heroic intellects are allied with bodily constitution as tough as horses—is small; that, in gene ral, a man has reason to think himself well off’ in the lottery *of life if he draws the prize of a healthy stomach with a mind, or the prize of a healthy stomach without a mind, or the prize of a fine intellect with a crazy stomach. But of the two, a weak mind in a herculean frame i3 better than a giant mind in a crazy constitution. A pound of energy with an ounce of talent will achieve greater results than a pound of talent with an ounce of energy. The first requisite to success m life is to be a good animal. In any of the learned professions, a vigorous constitution is equal to at least fifty per cent, more brains. Wit, judgment, imagina tion, eloquence, all the qualities of the mind, attain thereby a force and splendor which they could never attain without it. But in tellect in a weakly body is “like gold in a spent swimmer’s pocket.” A mechanic may have tools of the sharpest edge and highest polish; but what are these without a vigor ous arm and hand? Of what use is it that your mind has become a vast granary of knowledge, if you have not strength to turn the key Reading the Bible.—I will answer for it, the longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into the spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of Christ.—Romaine. Sacrifice.—Whatsoever is dearest to us is our Isaac. Happy are we if we can offer it to God. They shall never rest with Abra ham who cannot sacrifice with Abraham. Hope is the sweetest friend that ever kept a distressed soul company; it beguiles the tediousness of the way—all the miseries of onr pilgrimage. It is impossible to calculate what a mo mentum would be given to the work of God, were all his people “holy, harmless and un defiled.” Travelling Thoughts. 1. Eat regularly thrice a day, and never between meals. 2. Take with you one-third more money than you calculate on spending. 3. Take small bills, rather than large, to avoid having bad money passed on you in change. 4. Aim to be at your place of starting at least ten minutes before the time, and grow merry and wise at the contemplation of the splutterings and mishaps of those who come in at the last minute, and half a minute later. 5. See that your baggage is on the con veyance before you are yourself. 6. Remember that you make your char acter as you go along, by the quiet courtesy of your manners. 7. Only boors are boisterous. 8. Do not let the servants excel you in patience and politeness. 9. “Please” should commence every re quest, and “Thanks” end every service done. 10. A lady is always gentle; a gentleman always composed. 11. Never argue on any subject, if there is more than one present besides yourself. 12. Never fail to se^ ..hat person down as ignorant or low bred, who by word, or look, or gesture, disparages .woman, a clergy man. Pt’de v th day. —Hall. tt J6 S U t U Important to Cotton Planters. We are authorized by Mr. A. Bestwick, of Richmond, Fort Bend county, Texas, to state that he has discovered a certain remedy for the dreaded cotton worm or caterpillar. This remedy is simple, easily procured and applied, and is as follows: Take the Jamestown or stramonium weed when full grown and in bloom, chop off five stalks, leaves and bolls, fill a vessel two ft, tk trnn/l tltna nrnnirflf 1 an fill with water and boil slowly from one to two hours, after which add a small quantity of lime to clarify; then sprinkle the growing cotton with this preparation, using a small watering-pot or syringe, and it will kill the worm as soon as applied. If done in time it will destroy the egg or germ, and so poi son the leaves that the worm will not after wards eat them. The abdve.jremedy was discovered last fall, but too late to save the crops, but it was tried and proved effectual on patches of cot ton, on several plantations in Fort Bend.— We have seen the certificates, given by the owners of these plantations, stating that the remedy proved eutirely successful in each case. These facts are made public now by Mr. Bestwick, so that planters can save or culti vate a good supply of the Jamestown weed, and when the time comes, have no trouble or expense in making the application and van quishing a most relentless enemy. ‘‘Fore warned is forearmed.”—Galveston Neivs. How to Make a Place Prosperous. There can hardly be a greater sign of prosperity in a community than a disposi tion to help one another, to lift a little when a neighbor’s wheel gets stuck in the mud. I knew cf a place where a man’s barn, with all his winter stores of grain and hay .was consumed Kj.he night. Immediately all the menTo7ike country side mustered and hauled up timbers for a new barn, and then a big raising came off. After that the sound of twenty or more hammers was heard until the whole was shingled and sided.— But their deed of kindness was not done yet; one and another offered to take a head or two of his stock and winter them for him, thus greatly reducing his loss, and assuring his heart of the more durable riches of brotherly love and neighborly good will.— No one can compute in money the value of one such example of noble liberality in a community, especially in its influence upon the young. Where this spirit prevails there is sure to bo progress, even if all improvements are in their infancy. People will like to come and settle in place which bears such a good name. Now, if you de sire to see your place a growing, popular one, do what you can to show yourself a good neighbor, especially to those who need a little extra help. If a man starts a tin shop or a black smith’s shop in your place, don’t harness up and drive off five miles to buy your pans and get juUi uuAoeo otiuu, juou uttauoc jvu uuvo been in the habit of doing it. Patronize the new-comer, when you want anything done in his line. Speak encouragingly to him. and well of him to your neighbors. Little words of approval or censure go a long way, and when once you have spoken them, you cannot call them back. Help the sick, especially if they are poor, for poverty and illness are indeed a heavy burden. Perform all acts of loving charity which fall day by day in your path, remem bering who it is that has said, “Ye shall in nowise lose your reward.”—Country Gentle man. A Steam Ditcher. A steam ditching-machine recently exhib ited at Wolverhampton, England, is stated to be capable c4 digging a ditch two feet deep, at the rat: of about one mile an hour. The following itFY'gen?^! statement of its construction: A strong frame is supported on four wheels, the front and smaller pair being provided with steerage gear, arid the two hind wheels mounted on a cranked axle, having a segment by which it can be turned. A wire rope leads from the hauling engine around a sheave at the front of the ditcher and back to the hind wheel of the engine, thus securing a double purchase. Beneath the main frame of the ditcher is attached, by three strong colters, a large scoop, resem bling in form a right hand and a left hand plow joined back to back. In digging, the two outside colters and the share cut the sides and bottom of the ditch, and the mass of earth, split by the central colter, is brought to the surface and thrown at some distance from the margins of the cutting. The* lift ing of the scoop is thus brought about: The sheave over which the hauling rope passes, at the froi%of the ditcher, communicates by clutch with1 a small winding-drum operating a chain which passes over the segment on the hind axle and wheels, and throws the scoop upward. Sassafras oil.—In Richmond, Va., a firm of colored persons has for two years manu factured sa6safras-oil on a large scale. The root is puVchased at the factory at the rate of 30 cents per hundred pounds, and 40, 000 pounds are used per week, producing 2 per cent., or 800 pounds of unrectified oil. Since this establishment commenced opera tions, other factories of like description have been started in Virginia. Sassafras-oil is used for scenting toilet soaps, flavoring to bacco, •JJ-EW PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. W. G. R. FRAYSER has opened a new aud splendid PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, IN STEARN’S BUILDING. No. 1011 Main street, immediately opposite the post office, to which he invites the attention ol his friends and the public generally. The Gallery is fitted up in the most handsome style, and supplied with the instruments of the new est and most improved patterns, including DALLMEYER’S NEW PATENT PORTRAIT LENS. Having himself been in the business since 1852, (latterly with Messrs. C. R. Rees A Co.,) and i horoughly understanding it in all its depart meats, he feels satisfied that with the aid of the competent artists which he has in his employment, entire satis faction will be given to his pa'rons. Photographs will be taken in every style known to the art, and finished in the neatest and best style. Orders for Like-Size Pictures executed upon canvas, finished in Oil Colors, India Ink, Crayon or Water Colors. Also Rembrandt’s and Medallion Cards-Devisite. W. G. R. FRAYSER, au 9—tf 1011 Main street. CANFIELD, BROTHER CO., No. 229 Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md. Desires to call attention to their large stock of WALTHAM WATCHES. These Watches have a reputation fully established, and are sold at a less profit than any competing Watches in the market. We also keep a full stock of Enzlish and Swiss Watches at moderate prices for quality. Tiiam/'iuty. Rich Jewelry, Sterlings Silver ft arc, Triple Silver-Plated Ware, Forks, Spoons. Knives, Clocks. Bronzes, Vases, Opera Glasses, Fans and Fine Fancy Goods. Orders have prompt attention. Medalp and Badges for Schools and Colleges. Premiums for Agricultural Fairs. r\n 1 ft-1 v J^ISON’S TOBACCO ANTIDOTE. Read the following for RISON'S TOBACCO AN TIDOTE from a regular physician: “I certify that I commenced using Rison’s To bacco Antidote January 1st, 1869. and after using six or eight boxes, in the course of about three months, all desire for tobacco was eradicated, after being an inveterate tobacco chewer and smoker for about twenty years. W. B. LEARY, M. D. Dumfrey's, Va., August 11, 1871.” oc 4—tf JTw. 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With grateful thanks for the very liberal patron age extended to us heretofore, we respectfully soli cit a continuance. KELLOGG A GIBSON, ja 18—tf No. 1207 Main St., Eagle Square. CALL AND SEE THE LATEST STYLES OF RICH JEWELRY and SILVER WARE, now opening at NOWLAN A CO.’S. New Setts, Pins and Ear-drops, Enameled Bands, Hatikerchief Hold ers, Bosom and Sleeve Buttons, and superb Silver ware, for bridal presents, Pitchers, Spoons, Forks, Goblets, Ac., Ac corner of Main and Tenth Sts. TH03. NOWLAK. ROBT. E. MACOMBER. NOWLAN CO., Corner Main and Tenth Streets, above Post Office, Richmond, Va. Diamonds, Fine Watches, Jewelry and Silverware. ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS. Special attention given to the Repairs of Fine Watches and Jewelry HAIR JEWELRY made to order, oc 13—3m THE EARNEST WORKER. In the Sabbath School and in the Family. Is a weekly journal for Sabbath School teachers and Christian parents, published by the Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1011 Main St., Richmond, Va. 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