The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1869 Page: 4 of 4
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K emember now thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth, while the Evil Davs Draw not nigli.
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F. JT. I?ntillo, Editor.
JEFFERSON:
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FRIDAY, OCT. 8, 1869.
Rev. R. W. Thompson will preach
his last sermon in this place fot' tho
present Conferenco year, next Sun-
dav.
Is tho Jimplecuto suspended, or
only offended ? It has not visited us
I'or two weeks. Come, gentlemen,
didn't yon say you were not,mad ?
That looks a little huffy.
A. J. Hamilton, candidate for Gov-
■eraor, is oxpected to speak here to-
morrow, according to previous an-
nouncement.
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Tho many friends of Rev. J. A.
Scruggs arc informed that he is with
Folgor &Co., 31,39, Magazine streot,
Now Orleans, where ho will be pleas-
ed to have them call on him when
they visit the city.
Tho Daily Times and Republican
made its appearance on Wednesday
morning. It is a folio, just half the
siee of the Weekly Times and Re-
publican, and possesses all the ele-
ments of vitality and success. Long
live Loughery.
Colonel J. C. Bayne, Editor of the
Greenville Herald, paid us a visit
this week on his way back from New
Orleans, whore he informs us ho did
a big business for his paper, goting
more advertising than ho wanted.
Well done for tho Herald.
Capt. J. W. Sims, of tho firm of
Vims, Norris & Co., has returned
from the city with a largo and splen-
did stock of dry goods, which they
uro now openiug. We are free to
say that the Captain has displayed
most excellent taste in his selections,
having regard to utility and beauty
combined.
Farmers should not be in a hurry
to sell their cotton at present prices,
if they aro not compelled to do so,
to meet outstanding engagements.
It will pay them as well to hold on
to it as any body. The best way to
checkmate Wall street and Manches-
ter or Lowell, is to bo independent,
and store your cotton at home, when
the prices are too low for a respect-
able profit.
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Texas Christian Adovcate—With
pride and pleasure we have marked
the enlargement of the Texas Chris-
tian Advocate, and its unfaltering
progress to success. Now is the
time for its friends to bestir them-
selves with renewed interest and en-
ergy. Ten thousand subscribers
would be only a moderate token of
appreciation of the means and labor
bestowed upon it.by Bros. John and
Veal.
igf!
What kind of an aunt is least ap-
preciated f A gallant.
Comi'i.imkn'Taiiv.—A short time ago
Coolebs presented his compliments to
Miss Julia, through the editor of the
Advocate, hoping, as he said, soon
to be able to say,
" And arc we yet alive,
And see each other's face ?"
Miss Julia replies:
" When chance or cruel business part?
us two,
What do our souls, I wonaer, do ?
Whilst sleep does our dull bodies tie,
Methlnkf. at home they should not stay,
Content with dreams, but boldly fly
Abroad, and meet each other half the
way.
44 Each day think on me, and each day I
shall
For thee make hours convivial,
By every wind that comes this wny,
Send me, at least, a sigh or two.
Such and so many I'll repay,
As shall themselves make winds to get
to yon."
Wo learn from tho Henderson
Times that that town is cursed with
a " Jocky Club," and that the races
will bo inaugurated with all their
dcmoralizing influences, immediately
after the Fair. It seems that no good
thing can bo Btarted, without its be-
ing made the occasion of evil, since
satan weut Up to worship with the
sons of God. As he afflicted Job's
body with sore boils, so these sports-
men, gamblers, affect the body poli-
tic with a worse malady.
The venerable Archdeacon of Mon-
treal, who is over sixty, has married
a young lady of seventeen.
An example of questionable pro-
priety for a preacher.
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The son of an ex-President of the
United States was recently admitted
to a charity ward in one of the Wash-
ington hospitals.
What does that signify? Hasn't
he as much right there as any other
poor boy ? Every free American
citizen has a right to charity or office,
these days, wherever he can get it.
So determined wero tho women's
righters yesterday to do nothing ac-
cording to the " man style," that
they insisted upon adopting their
resolutions Sarah-atini. — Cincinnati
Times.
If you really wish to know wheth-
er they tee-totally reject the " man-
style," Say-rye-at-'uni, and keep them
from snuff.
The New York Evening Express,
speaking of a production of John
Neil, of Portland, in the shape of
reminiscences, corroborating " Mrs.
Stowe's filthy story," says:
u And, of courso, they will soil.-—
So do Byron's poems, now. So does
the Byron book by tho Countess Guic-
cioli. So does everything brought
to mind by tho Atlantic Monthly's
intolerably nasty contribution to the
printed immorality of the period.—
Mrs. Stowc has started a learful av-
alanche of indecency and scandal.—
We hopo it will not crush her, as it
undoubtedly will much of the virtue
of the present generation."
It would doubtless be a great bless-
ing to the world, if it should crush her
—or at least crush out her fanaticism
and her malignant hatred of the bet-
ter portion of her raco—if the moral
atmosphere could be disinfected of
the taint of her corrupt teachings ;
or if, as the carcas in the wilderness,
she might waste her sweetness on the
desert air.
For the Home Advocate.
TOBACCO IX CHURCH.
AN ACROSTIC.
Tobacco in church I despise, as much as
a sermon of lies;
Of ornaments vilest on floors that can
be admitted in doors.
Bo careful of pools when you kneel or
duplicates soon you will feel ;
And uot to your credit, as saint; at best
'tis a counterfeit paint;
Consider th' oblation a libel, on God, on
the prayer-book and Bible.
Consider his temple defiling, insult Him
while on you He's smiling.
O quit this devotion to planks, when you
enter His house to give thanks;
Invoke not a curse on your soul, through
a process disgustingly foul;
No man can serve God and serve lust,
bend undermost one of them must.
Cold-hearted, with language lnton'd, In
a mouth where an Idol'a enthron'd.
High heaven's dlshonor'd thereby, and
angels rejoicing not—sigh.
Uncleanness! thy visits be few, in the
pulpit, the altar and pew;
Religion will flourish when lust is tramp-
led by men in the dust.
Consistence God's worship demands,
consistence that God understands;
Ilis house must bo spotless throughout,
as the lips and the heart are devout.
S. W.
A new city called llarelton is
growing up fast on the lakes near
Jefferson. Jefferson thereby is much
alarmed.—Houston Times.
Howell ton! Good Providence to
our friend and fellow citizen, Rev.
N. N. Howell, who is at present the
sole proprietor and occupant of the
new city.
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In the neighborhood of. Bright-
Star, on the line between Texas and
Arkansas, about.35 miles north-east
from this place, a protracted meet-
ing, conducted by Dr. Blanton, and
assisted by Rev. Y. L. McLomore
and Rev. Mr. Elliott, of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church, closed
last Tuesday night. Quite a num-
ber of conversions, and the organi-
zation of a Church with 39 members,
was the result.
The King of Denmark invented a
beet sugar mill, and derives $50,000
annually from his patent.
Is it anything remarkable for a
king to do a smart thing.
Fireside Culture.—Our American
homes have a great work to accom-
plish. No people, taken as a whole,
have such an attachment for home ;
none lay such an emphasis of gener-
ous pride and pleasure upon its ad-
vantages ; and hone indulge in such
an outlay of thought and money to
obtain the very maximum of its com-
forts and joys. The passion for home
is the chief strength of our civiliza-
tion. It is growing, too, but not
growing as wisely as it should ; for
we are neglecting that domestic pro-
vision for the nurture of intellect,
which, next to good morals, is the
surest sign of a substantial civiliza-
tion. In this respcct wc have degen*
erated. Our fathers read more,
thouht more, talked more about the
fireside than we do, and tfi2reby con-
tributed more to the real progress of
the age than we can boast of doing.
Recently, however, a signal change
has been exhibited. The demand for
homo leading has been increased,
and as respects tho class of publica-
tions designed to meet this specific
want, never did such an abundance
exhist. Fireside culture is evidently
increasing, and as this culture takes
deeper root and spreads more widely
around, We may safely calculate that
social fungi native or exotic, will be
starved out of our prolific soil.
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Public education ih Great Britain
is supported by an annual grant from
Parliament of $4,500,000. This sum,
added to tho amounts raised by local
assessment, and voluntary contribu-
tions, is applied to the education of
children in Great Britain, exclusive
of Ireland. By tho report of 1868,
there were 213G schools in Scotland;
13,442 in England and Wales, with
registered pupils over ten year3 of
ago to the number of 409,280.
MATHEMATICAL.
Why doetf minus multiplied by mi-
nus give plus'{
SANS DE SANS.
Grant gave the head waiter of the
Stetson House, a ten dollar bill, to
be equally distributed among forty-
five employes.
What was each one's share?
Ioannes sends an accurate and
scientific solution to " Mechanic's"
problem cf the band, which we pro-
pose to publish as soon as we can
get a cut for the diagram.
Another solution by G. II. S.f is at
fault, as he will discover when we
publish that of Ioannes.
m •
Country Girls.—Meta Victoria Ful-
ler, in a sisterly way, thus talks to
country girls :
The farmer's daughters are soon to
be the life as well as the pride of
this country—a glorious race of
women which no other land can show.
I seek not to flatter them ; for before
they can become this, they will have
to make an earnest effort of one or
two kinds. There are some who de-
preciate their condition ; they de-
mand more consideration than they
merit. A want of intelligence upon
all the subjects of the day and a re-
fined education is more excusable in
a country girl, in these days of many
books and newspapers.
Many girls are discouraged be
cause they cannot be sent away from
bome to boarding school ; but men
of superior mind and knowledge, of
this world, would rather have for
wives women well and properly ed-
ucated at bome. And this education
can be had whenever the desire is
not wanting. A taste for reading
does wonders ; and an earnest thirst
after knowledge is almost certain to
attain a sweet draught from the Pie-
rian springs. There is a farmer's
daughter in this very room in which
I am writing—a beautiful, retired
and intelligent woman—in whose
girlhood books were not so plenty as
now, and who obtained her educa-
tion under difficulties which would
have discouraged any but one who
had a true love for study.
THE BEST MEDICINE.
Take the open air,
The more you take the better;
Follow Nature's laws
To the very letter;
Let the doctors go
To the Bay of Biscay;
Let alone the gin.
The brandy and the whisky.
Freely exercise;
Keep your spirits cheerfal
Let no dread of sickness
Make you ever fearful.
Eat the simplest food;
Drink the pure cold water;
Then you will be well,
Or at least you ought to.
Rules eor Bible Reading.—For
the improvement of the understand-
ing.
Rule 1. Begin your Bible reading
with prayer for the Divine instruc-
tion.
2. Attend carefully to the narra-
tive.
3. Observe the doctrine.
4. Note every prediction, prom-
ise, together with times and institu-
tions, both civil and religious.
5. Attend to the types of Jesus
Christ.
6. Attend to the characters and
conduct of the principal persons, and
consider their excellences and de-
fects.
7. Consider the practical uses to
which the different texts may be ap-
plied.
8. Observe God's faithfnlness in
keeping His promises and fulfilling
Ilis prophecies.
9. Render thanks to God for the
light you recieve, and ask His bless-
ing to attend the endeavors you are
making to become wise.
Rev. S. G. Cotton, of Sulphur
Springs, honored us with a call yes-
terdav.
3IAKKIED,
September iith. 18(59. In tbe Methodist
Church, in Winchester, by the Rev. A.
T. Crawford, Dev. Willfani Witcher. of
the Tennessee Conference, to Miss Mary
J. CrUsruau, of Winchester, Tcnn.
Thursday, October 7, at the Baptist
Church in Jefierson, by Rev. (J. S. Mc
Cloud. Rev. D. S. Snodgrass toMis Eui-
ma Chew, all o( this city.
u Not lor the summer hour alone,
When skies resplendent shine,
And youth and pleasure till the throne.
Our hearts and hands we twine;
But tor those stern and wintry days
Of peril, pain, and fear,
When heaven,s wise discipline doth
make
This earthly journey drear."
We are greatly encouraged !
"I am the Door."—Iu a town iu
the north of Scotland, some boys
were in the habit of meeting togeth-
er for prayer. A little girl wan
passing and heard them sing. She
stopped to listen, and thinking it
was just an ordinary prayer meet-
ing, she felt anxious to get in. Put-
ting up her hand, she pulled the latch,
but the door would not open ; it waa
fastened inside. She became very
uneasy, and the thought arose in her
mind: "What if this were the door
of heaven, rnd me outside?" She
went home, but could not sleep.
Day after day she became more ami
more troubled at the thought of be-
ing shut out of heaven. She went
from one prayer meeting to another,
still finding no rest. At length, one-
day reading the tenth chapter of
John, she came to the words : " I
am the door." She paused and read
the verse again and again. Hero
was the very door she was seeking
and wide open too, and she entered
in and found peace.—Eclecttic Treas-
ury.
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Discovery op the Original Door-
JfENT for the Book of Genesis.—"This-
is startling news," says Mr. VVelford,
(in his last letter from London to the
Book Buyer of New York,) in giv-
ing an account of the remarkable
announcement just made by sir Hen-
ry Rawlinsow before the Royal Asiat-
ic Society. It is not merely that
this eminent Oriental scholar claims
to have discovered the original rec-
ord from which the Book of Gene-
sis was composed, but he illustrates-
his position by details of the most
striking kind. He himself says :
The progress now reached in the
collection and arrangement of the
Ninevah inscribed fragments made
it beyond a doubt that they would
be able to derive the whole of tho
history given in the Book of Gone-
sis from the times of Abraham, from
the original documents ; and it was
not too much to expect that almost
the same facts and descriptions
would be found in the Babylonian
documents as in the Bible. Ho
hoped very soon to have ready a pa-
per on the Garden of Eden (Paradise)
in which he would show that wa«
the natural name of Babylon. The
rivers bore the very same names,
and the Babylonian documents gave
an exact geographical account -of
Eden. The flood and the Tower of
Babel would be found to be most
amply illustrated iu the Babylonian
documents.
In Great Britain, to a population of
24,363,000 persons there are 36,200
ministers of all denominations, with
34,100 churches and chapels ; an or-
dained minister to every 673 of the
population, of whom not m6re than
350 can be expected to be present at
public worship at any one time. Tho
number of ministers connected with
evangelical churches in this country,
according to Schem's Ecclesiastical
Almanac, just published, is 43,600,
or one to 619 of the Protestant pop-
ulation, reckoned at 27,000,000. The
whole number of church members
reported is 6,064,976. Here is tho
garnered power for the world's evan-
gelization—to these two countries,
thus highly favored, is given, in
great measnre, the evangelization of
the heathen world ;—a world no
longer far away, as in tho days of
our fathers, but in the wonderful
providence of God, brought to ouv
very doors.—Protestant Churchivan.
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Patillo, F. J. The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1869, newspaper, October 8, 1869; Jefferson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235562/m1/4/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.