remonstrated with her, and told her I went to the meeting, it would cost her her of these things moved her." She went " of the Lord," and felt anxious from that to the heights of Mount Zion. Her wish In a tent, near the altar, while the meetin gress, she was enabled triumphantly to with Christ. She arose from that spot, de Jesus, amidst a shining convoy of angels, of the sacramental host around her, who spirit and understanding also" sing—

"Sink down, ye separating hills,
Let sin and death remove,

'Tis love that drives my chariot whe
And death must yield to love."

This remarkable occurrence gave new li

Let us encourage camp meetings.

ing; and, doubtless, was the most effectual preaching that took place on that camp ground. If all were as much attached to camp meetings, as was the sister referred to, they could not fail to be powerful in their results for good.

Dear readers, much good has been accomplished to saints and sinners, to our own and other churches by camp meetings; and what has been done, can be done again. Therefore let us, preachers and people, wake up to this subject. "As a Church we need to be drawn into closer and stronger fellowship. We are getting too cold and ceremonious. We must have the fires of Christian fellowship replenished. Let us fly away to our annual feast of tabernacles, and look into each other's faces and press each other's hands. Let the rich and worldly come, the proud and those whose Christian affections have declined. And if there be any upon whom jealousy, or envy, or evil surmising, has begun to prey, let them come. It is time they looked upon other scenes, and came under better influences. Let them come from the tops of the mountains, and the hill-sides; from the fertile valley, and the sterile plain; from the farm and shop, the factory and the counter; from the lonely cot, and the city mansion; the poor and the rich; let them come up to the tented grove, let them bow down and worship together.'"

I sensibly felt my insufficiency for the work of the

not the only means to be employed. I to take the ground that "warning people

house with tears,' is a means that can 1 employed in accomplishing the great end viz. the conversion of souls. There are the way of pastoral work, and we find i mount them; and nothing but the grac enable us to enter promiscuously into the people, and "warn every man, and teach not neglecting the children-the way of s sowing seed thus, an abundant harvest is sixty, a hundred fold. By pursuing this proper spirit, the people are impressed w

our ministers care for our souls." may be but ordinary, yet it is efficien audience believes "our report, and the ar is revealed." And I hesitate not to say,

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Assailed by a dog.

pastor, even with ordinary preaching powers, will always have large congregations, and be a successful minister of the New Testament.

I feel inclined here to notice a day spent on this Circuit in this service. It was in a portion of our Circuit where the people had been unaccustomed to this order of things; but, in nearly every case, I was treated well by both saint and sinner. I did indeed meet with one family who declined to accept my prayers. I exhorted the family to seek the Lord, and invited them all to come to church. At another place where I visited that day, and the last I visited pastorally, I was somewhat alarmed by a large mastiff, who made a strong effort to bite me when I first went up to the house. A temporary quietus was put to him, however, by the interposition of one of the family. While I was seated in the family, and trying to urge them to become religious, he rallied, and made the second attempt to bite me, and was not far from accomplishing his purpose. He was again repulsed, and from the effort made I thought he was driven off the plantation. After awhile we went to prayer, and, losing sight of the dog and earthly things, I did ardently try to lead the minds of the members of the family to the cross, but, in such a moment as I thought not, again this ferocious animal rushed upon me with the fury of a lion or tiger, and his open red mouth came in close proximity with my throat. This was a

permitted to enter into the swine, and I d he had been permitted to enter into this

not wish the family to desert his service; a speaks of him as

my readers will not blame me for thinking who is capable of the most consummate m this dog as an instrument to rebut the feel I was making to snatch this family as a bra fire. And in holy indignation I said t Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lo chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee."

Our churches on the Circuit, with a ve tions, were small, and by no means sufficie to contain the people who from every quar hear the word. At Banning's, where we ha