METHODlSM.
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We take the following sentiment from q
| speech delivered before the Methodist Con-


vention. recently assembled at Louisville.
bT Mr A. b, Longstreet. of Georgia.
mo; We must part the sooner the bets
| ter.-Let US. with our new organiza atom
l.try TO get back to primitive Me!hodism.-
speak not of its externals, some of which
never legitimately belonged to it. but of its
| Inward graces. | speak of It's former zeal,
which glo we'd with equal ferver amidst tho
miasm OF the .owiand swamps and the
heaithtuI breezes of the noIntain, which
led the Methodist preacher to seek the LOST
sheep of the fold of Christ wherever they
wandered. | speak of that Methodism that
preached not only on stated days, and al
stated times. but which preached at alI
times and in all places-in the chapel, the
nut. The kitchen, the grove, the wilderness
TO fathers. mothers, husbands, wives, ,paTents,
children. masters. servants-which never
entered a house without word for the
Lord and never left it without praying
blessing upon (which planted the s.aa.
dard OF the cross on the spot which we
occupy ere the elk and The buffaio had
left (which pushed on its labors. at
times. until exhausted nature sunk under
:hem.


"Wheg thus speak OF Methodsm, les
me not Dc understood as claiming for our
sect all theEeIig!on that Is in The world.
Far from lt-there ia as pure religion in
the other churches as in ours.-L am no
sectarian. If possess one Christian viz
tue. il is love for ali that love and serve the
Lord Jesus Christ but confess 1 feel
kindIing emotion allied to the moral sub.
lime. ~nen l contemplate Methoiism per-
sonified in such men as our Molly, whose
funeral obsequies were performed by him,
SELF whose dirge was sounded by the wins
ter winds, whose winding sheet was the
snow drift and whose monument was the
sturdy oak Of the forest-found by the
woodsman. frozen on his knees and buried
in the attitude of prRer. Of myself will
not glory, of my chxch | will not glorys
but of such as these / might become fool
in glorying and all Christians would par.
don me, il not join me.-Yes, were TO in-
scribe on the Tree. the root of which was
his last pillar. THE CHRISTIANS
BEST MONUMENT. every Christian of
every church would cheerfulIy inscribe
rnicr il AMEN and AMEN. To this kind
of Methodism let US &c: back let it be
characteristic of the Southern church AMI
then, if they will, let The Northern church
take all the rest"