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TRUE ELoQuENcE.--We do moi remember ha- wing met with passage Of the same length, so full o true feeling, thrilling pathos, and graphlc poHer' | as the following extract from speech delivered oy Mir. A. B. L0ngsireet of Georgia, before the Me thodlst Convention al Louisville. The reader Is transported, insolunarly, to the gloomy but s"bime scene, where ihe sede,oted pioneer ol holy cause falls beneath the weight of his perilous enterpi | The vast west is filled with romantic incidents oi these holy men, leaving behind them ihe comforts and security Of civilization, and meeting the dangers and sacrifices of forest life. To their credit be II said, the zeaious Mtthodsts are found the first among tho,e who break the stiffness oi the western wids, and push the blessings of civilization and rrilginn.

 Rut will il be believed that the orator, whose eo- quruce is able To arouse the deepest s.mlalhies oi i.e heart, is ako the author of the "Georg'a See es'' justly popular ae record ot the richest laullttr-stirring himurl IL furnishes hut another 1 instance oi the versatility of ;he human mind IL IS, we think, Thomas Hood, the prince of testers, who

 is described as suffering keenly from pecunary and p'w-icai causes; and yet, his published jokes and runceits never to flag in spirit. laman blaa' clari, he author of ihc niInitable, "Mrs Caude's leciures, is also said 10 have been severe suffer | CT from many causes In both instances, the natu- ra bent ol il. alnd had full sway at intervals But here, in our own land, we have striking instance of man, who can, at one moment, dash of win ms pen ihe comic skett hes o passing scenes, and. Al ihe ne xl, rise in egious assembly, convoked for the most solemn and yHal objects. and chPin' with his paihos and his eloquence, the hearts oi "A | listening crowd. Such is the variety oi ieeHg evo- ked by the peculiar excitement of surrounding cir- culns anct s.--l Richmond Enquirer -.i.a | "No, we must part, and the sooner the betier.- Lei Us, with our new organization, try to gel oack to primitive Meihodism. speak mol ui Its exter- nals, some of which never eglinaiely belonged 10 il, bu of lts inward graces. l speak o its or'ner zea which glowed with equal lerynr ah,dtt te mi asm of the Vuland swamps and ihe heallh"' pfeeE of the mountain. winch led ihe Methodist preach seek the lost sheep of the fold o Christ whlth- ersoever they wandered. l speak of that Methodisnl that preached only stated days, and al stated times, hut which preached al all times and in all paces-in the ohape, the hur, the kitchen, the grove, the wderness-to fathers, mothers, wives, husbands, parents, children, masters, servanis- which never entered n house without word for the Lord, and never left it without praying blessing upon it-which planted the standard of the cross on ,he spot which we occupy the elk and the buffalo had left it-whch pushed on its labors, at tunes, until exhausted nHtlre sunk under tleH.

 "When thus speak of Methodsm, let me not be understood claiming for our sect all the religion that is in the world. Far from i-Ihere is as pure religion in the other churches in ours. l an no seoiarian. IT possess one christian virtue, h Is love for all that love and serve ille Lord Iesue Christ; but confess feel kiDdling emotion, ai- he'd to the moral sublime, when contemplate Me- thodem personifed in such men as our Molly, whose lnners obsequies were performed by himself, whose dirge sounded by lhe winter wlnds, whose wind- ing sheet was ile snow drift, and whose Wonunent was ,he sturdy oak of the foresl-found by the woodsman, frozen on his knees and buried n the at t,tude of prayer Ol myselfl will not glory, of my church w,I not g'ory, but of such us these nigh become a fool in gorying. and all christians would pardon me, if mol join me. Yes, were l 10 nscribe on the uee, the root of which his last pillow, The shrisfidn's best monumenf, every christian ni every church would cfeerfuy lnscribe under it Amen and amen. To this k,nd of Methodism let us gel back let ii be the characteristic of the sooi'ei n church, and then, they wil let the northern church

 take all inc rest" tI-