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6 THE WEEKLY ADVERTISER FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1899- CONFEBENCE APPOINTMENTS. GUARD YOUR TEMPER THE METHODISTS 8 or 9 o'clock. Close the evening by writing a bitter letter expsesslng your Take from the desk or pigeonhole the papers In the case to refresh your mind with your enemy's goods on the child's arm, package after gine of a goods train, charging It repackage, and some one said, "That peatedly, and keeping up the contest child is being overloaded, and so much for nearly an hour.

The engine was ought not to be put upon her," when reversed in the hope that the beast the child responded, "Father knows would quit the field and allow the train how much I can carry." And God, ouri to proceed; but as soon as there was meanness. Then lie down and wait for the the day, and It will DB. TALMAGE "BECOMMENDS EEPBEierON t)F WBATH. ALABAMA. CONFERENCE "WAS HELD IN MOBILE.

Father, will not allow too much inv any attempt to renew the lournev the come before sloep comes or your slep position on his children. In the day of eternity it will be found you had not will be worried quiescence and, if you take the precaution to lie flat on your A Sweet Disposition Adds Much to tho Jov of Livinsr Don't Waste one annoyance too many, not one exasperation too many, not one outrage too manx. Your Heavenly Father knows how much you can carry. Again, we ought not to allow the passage of the sunset hour before the dis Health Behearsing Wrongs and Scheming Revenge. I missal of all our affronts, because we may associate the subllmest action of back, a frightful nightmare.

Why not put a bound to your animosity? Why let your foes rome into the sanctities of your dormitory; Why let those slanders who have already torn your reputation to pieces or Injured your business bend over your midnight plllcw and drive from you one of the greatest blessings that God can offer sweet, refreshing all invigorating sleep? Why not fence out your enemies by the golden bars of the sunset? Why not stand behind the 1 ject of several short addresses l.y members of the Conference, and Bishop Candler also took occnuion to make a few complimentary remarks. A genewl reparc ooveeing the' field of school and college work of the then read. The report was quite lengthy, Dut contained no statistical information. The main point taken was that every assistance should be given the church schools and colleges, as these Institutions sent out annually an educated and spiritual force far In excess of the classes sent out by other agencies. So much time was taken uo in thi reading of general reports it was decided to send all other reports to the committees without being read.

The subjects having come up, Bishop Candler took oojision to make some strong and pointed remarks against the seating of a Mormon In the House of Representatives. He said that no polygamist would be admitted among the national law-makers; that is, none knowrt to be polygamists, would be admitted. He expressed in severe tones and earnest language hid convictions that Mormonism was of the same school as all the other many frauds and fallacies arrayed against the true word of God. Some of these endeavored to add to and others sought to detract from the word, but none could advance beyond the standard of every line of God's word. the soul with the subllmest spectacle in nature.

It is a most delightsome thing to have our personal experiences allied with certain subjects. There is a tree or river bank where God first answered your prayer. You will never pass that place or think of that place barricade of evening cloud and say to Bishop Candler Beads the Assignments for Next Year. Mobile. Dec.

11. (Special.) The following are the appointments made by Bishop Candler at the Methodist Conference this afternoon: Mobile District. Will Cox, Presiding Elder. Government Street Church, Mobile, W. P.

Dickinson. St. Francis Street Church, Mobile, W. P. Hurt.

Broad Street Church, Mobile, St. C. Calhoun. Oakdale Mission, T. A.

White. Spring Hill Avenue, James J. 'Glenn. Mobile Circuit, J. C.

Jcfhnson. Daphne Circuit, J. A. Garday. Whistler Circuit, W.

D. Heath. Mt. Vernon, to be supplied. Cltronelle, H.

S. Ellison. Bladen Springs, T. D. Albright.

Falrford, J. W. Hlnson. Suggsville, T. P.

FIncher. Jackson, C. W. Gavin. Grove Hill, W.

D. Taylor. Qreensboro District. J. L.

Peterson, Presiding Elder. Greensboro, C. Chilton. Greensboro Circuit, E. M.

Turner. Newberne, R. H. Lewis. Marlon, H.

Trawick. Marion Circuit. J. W. Klllough.

Havana, C. B. Pilley. Greene. J.

D. Kersh. (Jainesvllle, J. M. Patton.

Eutaw, B. F. Marshall. Livingston, F. A.

Rodgers. Brewersvllle, W. F. Arnold. Pelham, E.

G. Price. Butler, W. F. Ellison.

Choctaw, Slaughter. Southern University, S. M. Hosmer. them.

"Thus far and no farther." Many a man and many a woman Is having the health of body as well as the health of soul eaten away by a malevolent spirit. I have In time of religious awakening had persons night after night come into the inquiry room and get no peace of soul. After awhile I have bluntly asked" them, "Is there (Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1899.) Washington, Dec. 10. In this discourse Dr.

Talmage placates the world's revenges and recommends more of the saccharine and less of ihe sour In human disposition; text, Epheslans iv, 26, "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath." What a pillow, embroidered of all colors, hath the dying day! The cradle of clouds from which the sun rises Is beautiful enough, but it is surpassed by the ma.iy colored mausoleum in which at evening It is buried. Sunset among the mountains! It almost takes one's breath away to recall the scene. The long shadows stretching over the plain make the glory of the departing light on the tiptop crags and struck aslant through the foliage the more conspicuous. Saffron and gold, pitple and crimson commingled. All the' castlas of cloud in conflagration.

Burning Moseows on the sky. Hanging gardens of roses at their deepest blush. Banners of vapor, red as if from carnage, in the battle of the elements. The hunter among the Adlrondacks and the Swiss Bishop Candler of Georgia Presided Interesting Beports from the Districts Appointments for Next Ye. 0 Mobile, Dec.

6. (Special.) Bishop Candler opened the session by Bong and prayer, and with an able and Interesting address on the Scriptural lesson. The Bishop spoke at some length, and his remarks were received with deep attention by the assembly. A large number of ladles were present, who appeared to be as highly interested in the doings of the Conference as did the members. The secretaries who acted at the Greensboro Conference last year were elected to serve at this conference.

They are: James M. Mason, secretary, W. P. Dlckerson, A. E.

Barrett, L. A. Dannell.y, C. H. Motley and W.

f-Fontaine, assistant secretaries. The roll was called by Secretary Mason, and it was found that nearly every member of the Conference was present, although among those absent were some of the most familiar of the old faces. The following presiding elders re-norted: W. M. Cox, District of Mobile- R.

Heavy, District of Eufaula; J. Cummlng District of Union Springs; J. S. Peavy, District of Greensboro; P. Roberts, District of Mariana; T.

P. Mangum. District of Selma: J. M. Mason.

District of Montgomery; J. S. Frazer, District of Pen-Bacola; A. J. Cousins.

District of Prat-vlllfi These reports embraced all tne Departments of church work, and are ir, mnpr.il wav. No statistics not some one against whom you have a hatred that you are not willing to without thinking of the glorious communion. There was some gate or some room or some garden wall where you were affianced with the companion who has been your chief Joy in life, lou never speak of that place but with a smile. Some of you have pleasant memories connected with the evening star, or the moon in its first quarter, or with the sunrise, because you saw it just as you were arriving at harbor after a tempestuous voyage. Forever and forever, hearer, associate the sunset with your magnanimous, out and out, unlimited renunciation of all hatreds and forgiveness (Of all foes.

I admit it Is the most difficult of all graces to practice, and at the start you may make a co nplete failure, but keep on in the attempt to practice it. Si akpsnpare wrote ten nlavs before he elephant returned to the encounter and resumed Its obstructive tactics. The driver was afraid to charge the brute, lest the train, should be thrown off the metals; and the contest might have gone on much longer had not the elephant backed up on the track and settled its fore feet firmly between the rails, endeavored to shove the train backward with Its hind quarters. The driver took advantage of the opportunity and put on steam, gradually forcing the beast off the line. In this maneuver one of the wheels of the engine went over the hind legs of the animal, which was put out of its misery by the guard of a following passenger train.

This is not the first time that the engine in question has encountered an elephant on the line. Just about five years ago, while it was drawing a passenger train on a dark night through the heavy tropical forest, a sudden shock was felt, and the train came to a standstill. The engine and tender were thrown off the metals and half way down the embankment, though, fortunately, they -did riot drag the ca-riages after them. When the driver, who had been pitched off, went back to ascertain the cause of the accident, he saw a large bull elephant at the bottom of the embankment on the other side of the line. It died a few minutes after the collision from the violent shock and loss of blood, its off fore leg having been shattered and a piece of the trunk torn off.

Beyond the fright arid the shock caused by the sudden stopping of the train, which, luckily, was traveling at only fifteen miles an hour, no injury resulted to any of the passengers. In the same month of the same year a similar accident occurred, on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway in India. On a pitch-dark night a mail train was running at the rate of twenty-seven miles an hour through very thick Jungle which was known to hold wild elephants. The driver felt an obstruction, and attempted to reverse, but the engine left the metals, dragging with it a brake van, the carriage of the locomotive superintendent, and some other carriages, but without causing injury to any of the passengers or officials. give up? After a little confusion they have slightly whispered, "Yes." Then I have said, "You will never find peace Third Day Session.

Mobile, Dec. 8. (Special.) At 9 o'clock this morning the Methodist Episcopal Conference met with Bislr-op Candler In the chair. Religious exercises were conducted by Rev. J.

W. Reinhart. Judge ZeU Gaston, lay del -gate from Union Springs district, and Rev. R. O.

Slmpsci of Prattvllle dlstrijt were reported present. The lecal preachers elected Jeacons were Dow P. Slaughter, Montgomery reached "Hamlet," and seventeen plays. villager amjng the Alps know what is Montevallo School, F. M.

Peterson. Selma District. T. F. Mangum, Presiding Elder.

Church Street Church, Selma, J. O. before he reached "Merchant of Venice," and twenty-eight plays before he reached "Macbaith." And gardually you will come from the easier graces to the most difficult. Besides that, it is not a matter of personal determination so much as the laying hold of the almighty arm of God, who will help us to do anything we ought to do. Remember that in all personal controversies the one least to blame will have to take the first step at pacification if it is ever effected.

The contest between Aeschines and Aristippus resounds through history, but Aristippus, who las least to blame, went to Aesehines and said. district, and Louis T. Reynolds, i'ensa-cola district. Local preachers elected elders: J. D.

Stalllngs, Eufaula district; Thomas L. L. Gilbert, Archibald Vaughan and Henry B. Register, Mariana district. Superannuarles, L.

F. Dowdell, S. A. P.llley. These were supernumerated: A.

H. Mitchell, J. S. Peavy. G.

F. Fisher, W. H. Morris, M. M.

Graham. R. Similie, B. D. Gavle.

D. D. Reeves. A. A.

Easley, wltn God as long as you retain that virulence," Forgive Your Enemies. A boy in Sparta, having stolen a fox kept him under his coat, and, though the fox was gnawing his vitals, he submitted to It rather than expose his mislead. Many a man with a smiling face hag under his Jacket an animosity that is gnawing away the strength of his body and the Integrity of his soul. Better get rid of that hidden fox as soon as possible. There are hundreds of domestic circles where that which most Is needed is the spirit of forgiveness.

Brothers apart, and sisters apart, and parents and children apart. Solomon says a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Are tfiere not enough sacred memories of your childhood to bring you together? The rabbins recount how that Nebuchadnezzar's son had such a spite against his father that after he was dead he had his father burned to as.hes and then put the ashes into four sacks and tied them to four eagles's necks which flew away in opposite directions. And there are now domestic antipathies that seem forever to have scattered all parental memories to the four winds of heaven. Thomas Carlyle, In his biography of Frederick the Great, says the old king was told ty the confessor he must be at peace with his enemies if he wanted to enter heaven.

Then he said to his wife, the are given, but in the reports o. preachers this will be obtained, the general tenor of these reports Indicated spiritual and material progress, the net a sunset among the mountains. After a storm at sea the rolling grandeur into which the sun goes down to bathe at nightfall is something to make weird and splendid dreams out of for a lifetime. Alexander Smith in his poem compares the sunset to "the barren beach of hell," but this wonderful spectacle of nature makes me think of the burnished wall of heaven. Paul In prison, writing my text, remembers some of the gorgeous sunsets among the mountains of Asia Minor and how he had often seen the owers of Damascus blaze in the close of the oriental days, and he flashes aut that memory In the text when he says, "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath." Sublime ali suggestive duty for people then and people now! Forgiveness before sundown! He who never feels the throb of indignation is imbecile.

He who can walk among the Injustices of the world inflicted upon himself and others without flush of cheek or flash of eye or agitation of results showing a marKeu aun.i- h.iv-h contributions tor th of the ministry, and col At first it was thought that the acci lections for the conference and conven tional interests. Thr. following suoerannuated preacn- prs were present and as their names worp fallen, and as is customary, made tnur-Mnir addresses. The scene pre- oipd thpsp old crev-haired veter ans of Methodism, as they recount the "Shall we not agree to be friends before we make ourselves the laughing stock of the whole country?" And Aeschinee said, "Thou art a far better man than for I began the quarrel, but thou hast been the first In healing the breach." And they were always friends afterward. So let the ene of you that is least to blame take the first step toward reconciliation.

The one most in the wrong will never take it. Practice Forgiveness. Oh, it makes one feel splendid to be able by God's help to practice unlimited forgiveness. It Improves one's body and soul. My brother, it wHi dent had been brought about by cattle straying on the line, but the officials soon found a dead elephant.

Apparently the animal had been crossing the line just as the train came up, and had been struck by the engine and hurled down the bank. The agent of the company sent home one of the tusks to be put in the board room aa a memorial of the occurrence. These instances of a train being thrown off the line through collision with an elephant show that, while such accidents are pretty sure to be "bad for the elephant," they are also attended with considerable danger to rolling stock, and even to human life. The latter consideration completes the analogy we have already drawn. THE ZULU BIBLE.

nature is either in sympathy with deeds of days gone by, 1 a veiy touching one. Rev. W. I. Powers is, next to Dr.

A. H. Mitchell, the oldest member of the conference now living and following him in seniority is Rev. J. W.

Shnrps Roth Dr. Powers and Dr. wrong or semi-idiotic. When Ananias the high priest, ordered the constables queen, "Write to your brother after I am dead that I forgive him." Roloff, the confeasor, said, "Her majesty had better write him immediately." "No," said the king, "after 1 am dead; that of the courtroom to smite Paul on the mouth. Paul fired up and said, "God Shores made touching references to the shall smite thee, thou whited wall." make you meaf re three or four more In the sentence immediately before my text Paul commands the Ephc-sians, "Be ye angry and sin not." It all depends on what you are mad at Andrew.

Water Street Church, Selma, R. W. Greene. Summerfield. E.

M. Turner. Centervllle, J. BA Nelson. Uniontown, W.

S. Wade. Faunsdale, Williams. Demcpolls, J. H.

James. Dayton, J. B. Tate. Orvllle, S.

W. Roberts. Arlington, B. E. Feagin.

Magnolia, L. Albright. Sweetwater, C. S. Tally.

Lower Peachtree, George Fountaine. Thomasville, E. L. Loveless Coffeeville, D. S.

Lindsey. Editor Alabama Christian Advocate, H. Urquhart. Prattville District. A.

J. Cousins, Presiding Elder. Prattville, J. W. Rush.

Robinson Springs, W. Rinehart. Wetumnka, A. L. Andrews.

Clanton and Verbena, G. M. Sellers. Fort Deposit, W. Wild.

Lowndesboro, A. Hood. Pleasant Hill, S. W. Williams.

Pine Apple, E. E. Cowan. Jemison, J. E.

Ellison. Autaugaville, G. K. Williams. Plantersville, W.

B. Dennis. Randolph, B. L. Moore.

Camden, C. P. Atkinson. Bells Landing, J. F.

Price. Student in Vanderbilt University, A. C. Bowen. Montgomery District.

J. M. Mason. Presiding Eider. Court Street Church, A.

J. Lamar. Dexter Avenue Chtirch, Charles R. Rush. Clayton Street Church, M.

M. Holt. South Hull Street Church, E. L. Crawford.

Wes: End, E. C. May. Tuskegee Station, J. E.

McCann. Tuskegee Cncult, D. B. Dlsmukes; substitute, Dowdell. Warrior Stand, H.

C. Threadgill. Crawford, J. W. Hamner.

Salem, W. B. Segrest. Opelika. McGeheo.

Auburn. J. K. Spain. Loachapoka, H.

M. Glllis. Sardis, supplied by H. I. Dupree.

Tallassee. J. M. Shafner. Pleasant Grove, J.

O. Woble. Harmony, I. W. Chalker.

Montgomery District High School, J. E. Northcutt, principal. Chaplain in United States Navv. W.

Kinches around the chest and improve yfcur respiration so that you can take a deeper and longer breath. It improves the countenance by scattering and how long the feeling lasts whether J. W. Solomon, S. H.

Cox, W. A. D. Standley, B. L.

Selman, W. I. Powers, J. D. Wright, J.

W. Shores, J. K. Powell and G. G.

Ellis. The committee which tried the case of Dr. Lindsay reported unanimously, finding him not guilty. A number of preachers were called and their characters were passed upon. Dr.

John Massey, President of the A. C. F. College; Dr. S.

M. Hosmer of the Southern University; Revs. Carpenter and Barr of the Mississippi Conference; Rev. H. H.

Shell of the Palmetto Street Baptist Church, and Dr. J. J. Tigert, book editor of the Quarterly Review, were introduced to the conference. Dr.

Tigert addressed the conference in the interest of The Review. The following were admitted into full connection: J. W. Rheinhart, J. E.

Northcutt, I. W. Chalkers, C. A. Williams and A.

C. Smith. Traveling preacher elected deacon: A. C. Smith.

The report to the Conference of the Board of Education was read by C. A. Rush. The consideration of the report was made the order of the day for 10 o'clock tomorrow. The report showed all the colleges under the supervision of the conference to be in good condition, many improvements having been made during the past year.

A larger appropriation was asked for the coming year. J. M. Mason tendered his resignation as a member of the Board of Church Extension. F.

M. Peterson resigned as treasurer. O. C. McGhee was elected President.

W. S. Wade was elected in place of J. P. Roberts.

J. P. Sanders was elected treasurer. L. P.

Latham was elected in place of Mr. Mason. At 1 o'clock the conference adjourned till 9 o'clock tomorrow' with benediction by J. W. Shores.

the gloom and makes you somewhat anger is right or wrong. Life is full of exasperations. Saul after David, Succoth after Gideoo, Korah after will be safer. So he let the sun of his earthly existence go down upon his wrath. Again, we ought not to allow the sun to set before forgiveness takes place, because we might not live to see another day.

And what if we should be ushered into the presence of our Maker with a grudge upon our soul? The majority of people depart this life In the night. Between 11 o'clock and 3 o'clock a. there is something in the atmosphere which relaxes the grip which the body has on the soul, and most people enter the next world through the shadows of this world. Perhaps God may have ar Moses, the Pasquins after Augustus, the Pharisees after Christ and every like God himself. He ie omnipotent, and we cannot copy that.

He is independent of all the universe, and we cannot copy that. He is creative, and we cannot copy that. He is omnipresent, and we cannot copy that. But he forgives with a broad sweep all faults, one has had his pursuers, and we are swindled or belied or misrepresents or persecuted or in some way wronged and the danger is that healthful indignation shall become baleful spite and all neglects, and all insults, and all wrongdoings, and in that.we may copy htm with mighty success. Go harness that sublime action of your soul to the and thnt our feelings settle down into Book a Factor in South African Affairs.

Dr. John Fox, In Leslie's Weekly. The Zulu Bible, published by the American Bible Society, is a factor in South African affairs larger and more influential than many more conspicuous in international politics. Whatever happens in the Transvaal, It will not cease to do its silent work. On the west coast of Africa.

Bible translation has been proceeding for half a century, and the sheets of the Benga Bible, Intelligible not only to that tribe, but to a cluster of rude tribes dwelling on that far-off coast, have been passing through the press of the society in New York, and, when finished, sent on their voyage to the Guam and Corisco Mission. Though numerically less, not less Interesting is the circulation of the Bible among our own aborigines. Only lately a grateful Tetter came in acknowledgment of a consignment of Bibles for us among the full-blooded Choctaws, who number 12,000 Choctaw and Cherokee, Mohawk arid Dakota, Arrawack and OJlbwa, Seneca a prolonged lutpouring of temper displeasing to God and ruinous to ourselves, and hence the important in junction of the text, "Let not the sun sunset the hour when the gate of heaven opens to let the day pass Into eternities and some of the glories es-eame this way through the brief opening. We talk about the Italian sunsets, and sunset amid the Apennines, and sunset amid the Cordilleras, but I will tell you how you may see a grander sunset tffen any mere lover of nature ever behelcPthat is, by flinging go down upon your wrath." Why that limitation to one's anger? Why that period of flaming vapor set to punctuate a flaming disposition? What has the sunset got to do with one's resentful emotions? Was it a haphazard sentiment written by Paul wilfiout special significance? No. no.

I think of five reasons why we should not let the sun set hetpre our temper. Away With Feuds. First, because twelve hours is long into it all your hatreds and animosities, and let the chariots of fire roll over them, and the spearmen of fire stab them, and the beach of fire cos The Fourth Day Devoted to Hearing Keport of Preachai'3. Mobile. Dec.

9. (Special.) The entire sume them, and the billows of fire over whelm them. enuugn to De cross about any wrong Again, we should not let the sun gb day of the fourth day's session ot tne Mpthndist Conference was devoted to down on our wrath, beoause it is of luuii-icu upon us. coining is so exhausting to physical heaith or mental G. Isaacs.

Conference Secretary of Education, A. L. Andrews. Eufaula District. little importance what the wortd says hearing the reports of the preachers manv of which were very encouraging faculty as a protracted indulgence of showing ereat advances along all lines.

ill hunlor. It racks the nervous system. It hurts the digestion. It heats of you or does to you when you have the affluent God of the sunset as your provider and defender. People talk as the general tenor of the reports being J.

R. Peavy, Presiding Elder. First Eufaula, H. D. Moore.

that the work of the church had gone forward both in spiritual and material though it were a fixed spectacle of nature and always the same. But no one lines, with good sums raised for the past in their addresses, and were followed in like manner by Revs. D. J. (Wright and B.

D. Gayle. The following superannuated preachers were not prese.it when their names were called and their characters were passed: A. H. Mitchell, C.

F. Fisher, M. M. Graham, A. A.

Easley, S. H. Cox, D. C. Standley, G.

F. Ellis, A S. Peavy, W. H. Morris, R.

Smilie.T). D. Reeves, J. W. Solomon, W.

A. MoCarty, B. L. Selman, D. J.

Wright, J. K. Powell, J. S. Williams.

Rev. I. F. Bilbro has, by reason of severe illness, been superannuated, but he reported that he was ready to work another year. 'His friends are delighted to see him so vigorous.

Announcements were then made regarding the various monies and their disposition, belonging to the various interests of the Conference and church. The following preachers were then called upon by Bishop Candler for their reports, and their characters were passed: In the Mobile District, there were Revs. W. P. Dickinson, W.

P. Hurt, L. C. Calhoun, T. A.

White, who has been supplying the pulpit at the Spring Hill Avenue mission, and who made his report; J. A. Seale, W. D. Heath.

W. Q. Vreeland. H. S.

Ellison, J. J. W. Henson, J. A.

Gorday, T. P. FIncher, C. W. Gavin and E.

E. Cowan. In the District of Greensboro -Revs. J. W.

Mathison, S. W. Roberts. H. Trawick, T.

D. Allbright, C. L. Chilton, C. B.

Pilley. J. D. Kersh, W. Bancroft, B.

F. Marshall, F. A. Rogers, W. F.

Arnold. E. G. Price, W. T.

Ellison and T. M. Peterson. Applicants for the admission to the travelling connection were elected on trial as follows; Mobile District, Eugene W. Coleman of Isney; Union Springs District.

Henry W. Chambers of Oakey Streak. William R. Bicker-staff of Union Springs and Thomas J. Jones of Union Springs; Montgomery District.

Dow P. Slaughter of Montgomery. The following were advanced to the class of the second year: Walter B. Parrent of Greenville, Louis T. Reynolds of Garland.

S. W. Williams of Jemteon and James D. Stalllngs of Alston. The following candidates for election to a full membership to the conference were admitted: James D.

Rinehardt of Elmore Charles A. Williams of Magnolia, John E. Northoutt of NotasuJga, Isaac W. Chalker of Buyck, and Alonzo C. Smith of Grand Kidge, Fla.

Dr. P. H. Whisner, Secretary of the Board of Church Extension, then pie-sented that branch of church work. The board was not in debt at the present time, said the speaker, notwithstanding the fact that a number of assessments in many conferences had not been paid.

He stated that the board had assisted in the building of about one-third of the churches now in existence and said furthermore that many societies or congregations represented in the convention are without houses of worship at this time. Dr. Whisner embraced in i3 rcrrarks a detailed Statement of the work being done or already completed in Texas and other conferences ml covered the rescuing ever saw two sunsets alike, and if the twentieth century educational fund. The nieht session was devoted to a mis world has existed 6,000 years there have been about 2,190,000 sunsets, each sionary rally, and notwithstanding the of them as distinct from all the other pictures in the gallery of the sky as Titian's "Last Supper," Ruben's "Descent From the Raphael's "Transfiguration" and Michael An-gelo's "Last Judgment" are distinct from each thr. If that God of such and Muskokee What a polyglot undertaking it is to reach all these! Yet they are reached In one way and Sometimes there come back marvelous tales of their interest in the book that is brought to them.

A Cree Indian and his son, fishing in the Northwest in the winter time some years ago, traveling on snow-shoes across the snow-covered plains, carried what they called "the Book of Heaven" In their pack, and found, when they reached a hunting ground 110 miles distant from the fishery, that the book had been left behind. One of them went back on his track, and walked in four days 2gb miles through the wild forest to regain his treasure. Old Ministers. Ian Maclaren in The Ladles' Home Journal. Short of immorality and unbelief, one cannot Imagine a greater hindrance to the energy of the church than a large proportion of aged and infirm ministers in active duty.

For this will mean obsolete theology, the neglect of the young. Isolation from the spirit of the day, and endless wrangling. Nothing would more certainly re-enforce the energy of the church than the compulsory retirement upon satisfactory terms of every minister above the age of 60. For this would mean not only a reserve of good men upon whom the church could depend in emergencies, but a perpetual tide of fresh thought. At present congregations have a grievance against old ministers who think they are young, and old ministers have a grievance against congregations Who do not respect age.

and between the two arise many scandals and breaches of the peace. When the church is as well managed as a first-rate business concern, then this standing feud will be healed, and no one will be so much respected and loved in the Chrustian church, as the faithful minister who has served her in the fullness of his strength, adfl now in the days of his well-earned rest enriches her with his counsel." ranged it in that way so as to make the contrast the more glorious. I have seen sunshiny days in this world that must have been almost like the ladi-ance of heaven. But as most people leave the earth between sundown and sunrise they quit this world at its dankest, and heaven, always bright, will be the brighter for that contrast. Out of darkness into irradiation.

Burden of Old Grudges. Shall we then leap over the roseate bank of sunset into the favorite hunting ground of disease and death, carrying our animosities with us? Who would want to confront his God, against whom we have all done meaner things than anybody has even done against us, carrying old grudges? How can we expect his forgiveness for the greater when we are not willing to forgive others for the less? Napoleon was encouraged to undertake the crossing of the Alps because Charlemagne had previously crossed them. And all this rugged path of forgiveness bears the bleeding footsteps of him who conquered through suffering, and we ought to be willing to follow. On the night of our departure from this life into the next our one plea will have to be for mercy, and It will have to he offered in the presence of Him who has said, "If you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Heavenly Father forgive your trespasses." What a sorry plight if we stand there hat-ina- this one. and hating that one, an-i wishing that one a damage, and wishing some one else a calamity, and we ourselves needing forgiveness for 10 -000 obliquities of heart and life.

When our last hour comes, we want it to find us all right. Hardly anything affects) me so much in the uncovering of Pompeii as the accounts of the soldier who, after the city had for many centuries been covered with the ashes and scoriae of Vesuvius, was found standing in his place on guard, hand on spear and helmet on head. Others fled at the awful submergement, but the explorer, 1,700 years after, found the body of that brave fellow In right position. And it will be a grand thing If, when our last moment comes, we are found in right position toward God, on guard and unafrightened by the descending ashes from the mountain of death. I do not supopse that I am anv more of a coward than most peon'e, but I declare to you that I would not dare to sleep tonight if there were anv being in all the earth with whom I would not gladly shake hands, lest during the night hours my spirit dismissed to other realms, I should, because of my ui.forgiving spirit, be denied divine forgiveness.

"But." says some woman, "there is a infUnte resources that he can put on the wall 08 the sky eaoh evening more than the Louvre and Luxembourg gal leries all in one is my God and your bad weather, was well attended ana much good accomplished for the missionary interest. Fifth Day. Mobile. Dec. 11.

(Special.) The Ala-baira Conference held its sixth session today. The session was opened with prayer and song by Rev. I. F. Bilbro.

The conference at once proceeded to the report of the Board of Education. The paragraph relating to the recommendation to raise the educational assessment from $3,000 to $10,000 created an upheaval. The discussion was heated and prolonged. Much time was consumed during the debate, which was finally ended by Dr. Mason, who made a resolution fixing the assessment at which assessment was carried, it being a compromise measure.

The question of distributing the fund to the schools and colleges in the conference was refined to a special committee of three. On motion, the report of the Board of Education was then accepted as a whole. Rev. A. H.

Moore was elected a member of the Board of Examination to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. J-. O. Keener. At this time a request was made for a short adjournment of the conference in order that the Preachers' Aid Society might hold an annual election.

The adjournment was taken and the the blood in brain and heart until the whole body is first overheated and then depressed. Besides that, it sours the disposition one aside from his legitimate work, expends energies that ought 4o be better employed and does us more harm than it does our antagonist. Paul gives us a good, wide allowance of time for legitimate denunciation, from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock, but says there!" Watch the descending orb of day, and when it reaches the horizon take a reef in your disposition. Unloose your collar and cool off Change the subject to something delightfully pleasant. Unroll your tight fist and shake hands with same one.

Bank up the fires at the cerfew bell. Drive the growling dog of enmity back to Its kennel. The hours of this morning will pass by. and the afternoon will arrive, and the sun will begin to set, and, I beg you, on Its blazing hearth throw all your feuds, invectives and satires. Other things be'ing equal, the man who preserves good temper will come out ahead.

An old writer says that the celebrated John Henderson of Bristol, England, was at a dinner party where political excitement ran high and the debate got angry, and while Henderson wag speaking his opponent, unable to answer his argument, dashed a glass of wine in his face, when the speaker deliberately wiped the liquid from his face and said: "This, sir, is a digression. Now, if you please, for the main argument." While worldly philosophy could help but very few to such equipoise of spirit the grace of God could help man to such a triumph. "Impossible." yau say. "I would have either left the table in anger or have knooked the man down." But I have come to believe that nothing is impossible if God help. Aye, you will not postpone till sundown forgiveness of enemies if you can realize that their behavior toward you may be put into the catalogue of the "all things" that "work together for good to those that love God." I have had multitudes of friends, but I have found In my own experience that God so arranged it that the greatest opportunities of usefulness that have been opened before me were opened by enemies.

So you may harness your antagonists to your best interests and compel them to draw you on to better election proceeded. The announcement God, our provider and protestor, what is the use of our worrying about any human antagonism? If we are misinterpreted, the God of the many colored sunset can put the right color on our action. If all the garniture of the western heavens at eventide is but the upholstery of one of the windows of our future home, what small business for us to be chasing enemies! Let not this Sabbath sun go down upon your wrath. Mohammed said, "The sword Is "the key of neaven and hell." But, my hearers, in the last day we will find just the opposite of that to be true, and that the sword never unlocks heaven, and that he who heals wounds Is greater than he who makes them, and that on the same ring are two kevs God's forgiveness of us and our forgiveness of enemies and these two keys unlock paradise. And now I wish for all of you a beautiful sunset to your earthly existence.

With some of you it has been a long day of trouble, and with others of you it will be far from calm. When the sun rose at 6 o'clock, it was the morning of youth, and a fair day was phophesied, but by the time the noonday or middle life had come and the clock of -your earthly existence had struck 12 cloud racks gathered and tempest bellowed In the track of tempest. But as the evening of old age approaches I pray God the skies may brighten and the clouds be piled up Into pillars as of celestial temples to which you go or move as with mounted cohorts come to take you home. And as you sink out of sight below the horizon may there be a radiance of Christian example lingering long after you are gone, and on the heavens be written in letters of sapphire, and on the waters in letter of opal, and on the hills in letters of emerald, "Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall' be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." So shall the sunset of earth become the sunrise of heaven. was made that President J.

W. Rush did not desire re-election, and the name Washington Street Church, Eufaula W. B. Parrent. Eufaula Circuit, L.

W. Powell. Vilula. W. A.

McCann. Seale and Hurtsboro, I. F. BUbro. Girard.

J. M. 3ollie. Midway, C. A.

Cornell. Ozark. L. H. S.

Clayton. W. Bancroft. Louisville, Caleb Bat.es. Asbury, W.

P. Connerly. Daleville, N. A. Gillis.

Abbeville, R. A. Moody. Texasville, J. D.

Stalllngs. Perote, R. 4.. Foster. Echo, E.

W. Roberts. Marianna District. J. P.

Roberts, Presiding Elder. Marianna Station, R. Hamer. Marianna Circuit, supplied by T. L.

L. Gilbert. Greenwood, A. B. Brown.

Ochessee, A. C. Smith. Wewahitchka, J. I.

Weathcrby. Orange Hill, W. D. Owens. Freeport, to be supplied by W.

A. Price. Westville, T. E. Batlow.

Gordon, J. S. F. Stephens. Chipley.

J. R. McGlaun. Pondtowh. P.

M. Guthrie. Geneva, J. P. Hamilton.

Coffee Springs, supplied by Henry B. Register. Elba. J. F.

Daily. Enterprise, G. W. Jones. Newton, G.

N. Wlnslett. Big Creek. O. J.

Goodman. Dothai, H. H. McNeil. Columbia, D.

G. Dlsmukes. Conference Secretary Mission, J. M. Dannelly.

Union Springs District. J. B. Cumming, Presiding Elder. Union Springs, T.

Y. Abernathy. Troy, H. T. Johnson; S.

A. Pilley, su pern merary Brundidge, L. P. Lathram. Shady Grove, W.

J. Price. LaPine, A. L. Sellers.

Pine Level, J. A. Stripling. Mt. Hilliard, J.

A. Seale. Mt. Meigs, W. S.

Street. Greenville Station, A. J. Brlggs. Greenville Circuit, G.

Jones. Rutledge, R. J. Ross. Oakey Streak to Welsh, supplied by H.

W. Chambers. Andalusia, R. C. Williams.

Florala, supplied by J. P. Daughtry. Alabama Methodist Orphanage, T. H.

Jones, agent. Pensacola District. J. S. Frazer, Presiding Elder.

Pensacola Station, J. M. Dannelly. Pensacola City Mission, W. I.

Vreeland. Pensacola Circuit, C. H. Motley. Milton and Bagdad, J.

Bancroft. Powellton. A. H. Moore.

Santa Rosa, D. J. Partzog. Bay Mtnette and Pollard, A. Dowling.

May Creek, to be supplied. Brewton, B. C. Glenn. Stockton, AV.

T. Rencher. Castleberry, J. O. Lawrence.

Monroeville, J. L. Grace. Evergreen, E. A.

Dannelly. Garland. L. T. Reynolds, i Georglana, J.

P. SanderB. Forest Home. O. Sepulga, J.

S. Moore. River Ridge. A. C.

Smith. Pensacola District High School, J. M. Glenn, Principal. A Sister-in-law's Failings.

From "Rural Life," by Caroline Gearey. One day, when I went to visit some old; people I had made friends with, I found an elderly man sitting in their cottage in an attitude of grief, his face buried in his hands. The old lady introduced him as her brother, who had lately lost his wife. "Was your sister-in-law a very sweet character?" I asked, when the grief-stricken widower had taken fils departure; "your brother seemed to be greatly mourning bis loss." "Sweet!" replied the old lady. "Lor' bless yer, no, mem.

Why, she warn't niver no sort o' wife from the very fust. I can remember her; a great big gal as alius wanted her own way, and wouldn't niver do nothlnk to please nobody. Not a pusson. If I may say so, as I ever tuk to. Yer know, mem," she added, "I always do say that yer can put up with yer own flesh and blood, same as yer can with yer own arms and legs not that my legs are good for much now, being as stiff as two postes; but when It comes to them as ain't no flesh and blood relations, it do come 'ard, it do, to have to put up with their falHn's." The Ballet at Taiml.

Blackwood. A young girl endowed with no special beauty of feature, but possessing an air and a hint of deviltry that would have rendered attractive one much less favored, bounded into the centre of the room nd began to dance in the circumscribed space between the lamps. It amased us to find in the untutored oerformanee of horrid creature that has so injured me that rather than make up with her I would die first." Well, sister, you mav take your choice, for one or the other it will be your complete pardon of her or God's eternal banishment of yo. "But," says some man, "that fellow who cheated me out of those goods, or damaged my business credit, or started that He about me In the newspapers, or by his perfidy broke up my domestic happiness, forgive him I cannot, forgive him I will not." Well, brother, take your choice. You will never be at peace with God till you are at peac with man.

Feeling as you now do, you would not get so near the harbor of heaven as to see the lightship. Better leave that man with the God who said: "Vengeance is mine. I will repay." You may say: "I will make him sweat for that yet. I will make work and higher character. SunDose.

instead of waiting until 32 minutes after 4 this evening, when the sun will set, you transact this -glorious work of forgiveness at meridian. Don't Nurse Wrath. Again, we ought not to let the sun go down on our wrath, because we will of Dr. B. C.

Glenn having been put in omination, his election was made unanimous. The other officers of the society were re-elected as follows: J. W. Shores, Vice-President; E. M.

Turner, Secretary, and T. F. Mangum, Treasurer. The joint Board of Finance reported receipts amounting to $8,144.34. The contributions for the foreign missions amounted to $11,471.50, and tor domestic missions, $3,835.29.

The amount paid bv the conference for the support of the bishops was $1,601.46. The board of church extension through the Secretary, W. P. Hurt, reported donating to different churches, fourteen in number, the total amount of $1,600. The Sunday School Board report showed the following assessments for the coming year: For foreign missions, for domestic missions, $5,000.

The joint board of finance assessed the Conference for the coming year $10,500 for the support of the old preachers and the widows and orphans of preachers. The Sunday School donations for the year amounted to $8,305.52. The Committee on Bible Cause reported through its Chairman, Rev. I. F.

Bilbro. The Conference will give the Bible cause the sum of $202.06 during the coming year to assist in its work. The report of the committee on books and periodicals spoke very highly of the Nashville Christian Advocate, and also endorsed the Alabama Christian Advocate. The Conference then took up the fixing of a place for the next year's session. Ozark was put In nomination and Greenville followed.

On the vote, Ozark received the majority and the selection was made of fallen women. A Baltimore woman who died quile recently, bequeathed a handsome and costly home to be devoted to the rescuing of fallen women. Deacons in the class of the third year, were advanced to the class of the fourth year as follows: Charles H. Motlev of Faunsdale, W. A.

Prince of Per.sacola. Raleigh W. Greene of Belma. and E. W.

Roberts of Dothan. The roll of the class of the fourth year was then called and the following made their reports, but as none of them had been before the committee appointed to examine them for advancement, they were ordered continued in the class of the fourth year: B. F. Marshall of Eutaw, R. J.

Ross of Rut-ledge, J. T. TeathPrby of Wewahitchle, J. A. Gorday of Daphne, and A.

C. Bowen of Vanderbilt Uniterslty, Temi. J. F. Price of Tinela did not pass before the committee and is also continued in the class of the fourth year.

Second Day Session. Mobile, Dec. 7. (Special.) The second day's session of the Alabama Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, convened at 9 o'clock this morning at the Government Street Mfthodlst Church, being opened with prayer by Rev.

J. D. Wright of Pine-Flat. The Secretary read a communication from the Paine and Lane Institute, which educates colored per-ssns for the ministry. This institute is aided by the Conference i nd is conducted undr the auspices of the Methodist Church.

The communication was a general report of the work at the Institute during the past year and showed a state of affairs which satis-fled all the members of the Conference. The great progress made by the Institute of late years was ihe sub sleep better if we are at peace with everybody. Insomnia Is getting to be this little South Sea Islander a grass and him sauirm. I mean to pursue him to one of the most prevalent of disorders. ELEPHANT AND ENGINE.

the death." But you are damaging verve rarely equated behind tne rootngrrs in the civilized world. That her dance How few people retire at 10 o'clock at night and sleep clear through to in the morning! To relieve this disorder was original the interest displayed by the native assembly assured us. Indeed, It seemed an Improvisation of the moment. all narcotics and sedatives and mor yourself more than you damage him, and you are making heaven for your own soul an impossibility. If he wl'l not be reconciled to you, be reconciled to him.

In five or six hours It will be sundown. The dahlias will bloom phine and chloral and bromide of pot assium ana cocaine and intoxicants are After some preliminary steps in tome to the singing, "Cutty Bark" as we christen id her, for a reason too obvious to require explanation became bolder, ana, making the Captain her bleotlve, danced at him. Encouraged by our applause, her aban used, but nothing Is more Important than a quiet spirit if we would win against the western sky. Somewhere between this and that take a shovel don increased, until In a moment of ex somnolence. How is a man going to sleep when he is in mind pursuing an enemy? With what nervous twitch he will start out of a dream! That and bury the olc quarrel at least six feet deep.

"Let not the sun go down upon your wrath." Pats of the Beast Which Tried to Push a Locomotive Backward. London Standard. It is not only in South Africa, and by statesmen who ought to know better, that the march of civilization is opposed and obstancy pitted against progress. The elephant has many human qualities and, if the story that comes to us from Perak, one of the Straits Settlements, be well founded, occasionally shares with politicians hardly less intelligent their prejudice against the spirit of the age. It appears that a big tusker, which had long been an object of pursuit to the sportsmen of that remote district, wandered on to the railway line tried conclusions with the en- treme audacity sne aavancea close ana snatching up the gold-laced uniform cap which lay on the mat at his leet, clapped It on her own Head, and, thus arrayed.

new plan of cornering his foe will ke2p Renounce Hatreds. But," you say, "I have more-than I mm wme awaite wnne tne clock strikes executed a rapid pas seul. Then, over 11, 1Z, 1, Z. I give you an unfailing prescription for wakefulness: Spend the evening hours rehearsing vour come with suaaen shyness, she threw the cap down before him, and, darting out of the circle, concealed herself behind can bear. Too much is put upon me.

and am not to blame If I anfome-What revengeful and unrelenting. Then I think of the little child at the moving of some goods from a store. The father was putting some rolls of wrongs and the best way of avenging the singers. Courage is one thing and bravado is them. Hold a convention of friends on this subject In your parlor or office at Advice to an actor: Whon the whistle another.

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