The Kansas Methodist from Topeka, Kansas • 1

Society pf Estate Historic; istorieal IP Ik lit fl sin 2H DEVOTED TO THE CIIU11CH AND S. S. INTERESTS OF KANSAS METHODISM AND TO PROHIBITION. TOPEKA. KANSAS.

WEDNESDAY, Al'KIL 27, 1887. No. 7 Vol. XI. REV.

DAVID HECK. PUBLISHED EVErvYWEDNESDAYBY. A. N. SEE.

Number 112 East Seventh Street Toptka, Kansas PRICE, PER ANNUM The Methodist will be Rent to ministers for $1 '-ar. God we recalled tho inspired utterance "mark tho perfect man aud behold tho upright for the end of that man is ponce." Ho had a desire to recover, but said at different times, "It ij all right all right. When asked us to tho presence of the Saviour whom he had served he replied with a look ef doop satisfaction, "() yes, Ho will never leave mo. Think how many years ho has kept mo." Hearing rcferenco made to discourse of unusual power he had preached niu3 weeks before, which proved to be tho last time ho was preiuitted to att nd public service, he replied, "If that was a good sermon it was not of myself." Being asked as to any message for auy of tho family who might fail to reach his bedside he said, "I might say many things if I had strength to talk site of tho houso Mliere Peter "tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon tanner," drank of tho well and plucked a leaf from fig tree that grew in the yard. I ascended to tho top of the house, on stoue fteps on tho outside, and found much of the roof covered with orange peelings drying and will ultimately be made into liquor, for bad men te drink.

Baedeker snys: "The town of Yafa, or JafT.i, lies on the sea-coast nt tho foot of a rock 116 feet in height. Tho houses are built of Tuffstono. The streets are generally narrow und dusty, and after tho tdightest full of rain exceedingly dirty. Tho quay, which is badly paved, booomos a eond ef mud after rain, nnd woe te the foot-passenger, who, when picking his way along it encounters a troop of boast of burden." In coming up from the landing on a narrow way wo mot a train of camels and donkeys with goods for the ship nnd it wus with tho utmost dilliciilty wo could got past them. The old portion of Joppa is very much covered with houses and people.

'I ho streets are not only narrow, from fire to tea feet, but in many places, arched over and thus made to do double duty. Of course snlo-walks are not thought of. Marketing Entered as second class mutter in the Topeka Postoffice. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE ITINERANCY NO. 1.

"With saints enthroued on high. Thou doit thy Lord proclaim, And still to God salvation cry. Salvation to the Lamb!" Rev. David Beck was born in Stetten, in the kingdom of Wurttenberg, Germany, July 19th, 1810, and ended hie earthly life at Scandia, Kansas, on Jan. 20th I8S7, having just completed half the round of his 77th year.

His life being terminated by Bright's disease. In his 25th year he emigrated to America Bottling ia Pennsylvania, where iu 1K37 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Magdelene Matthews. In he removed to Hocking county, Ohio, aud in 1S50 camo with his family to Iowa, and from thence in 1883 to Kansas. On arriving at Onkaloosu, Iowa, nnlietion oanie and the wife of his youth was called to her heavenly home, leaving him with seven children, among strangers in a strange land. With tenderness and skill he cared for his motherless children, at the same time making a home on the frontier, also preaching with great fervency from time to time.

Three years later his second marriage occurred to Miss Jlary Jones. He was by birth a Lutheran, but on coming to America, having a clear and marked Christian ex but it is not necet-tary. Tell thoni I died all right." IIo desired tho family altar kept up during his sickness, and as long as his strength continued he gave direction, having its devotions led by different members of the family. On Sabbath, p. previous to his departure, he called the family Editor METHomsn-Several months ago, tho "Introductory" appeared in your columns, to what was intended by the writer as a series of articles, made under the above heading-But the "Great Iron Wheel of the Itinerancy," which Rev.

J. Graves, editor of the "Bajitist" in the city of Nashville, Tenn declared was "crushing the life eut of Methodist preachers," and -which caused 'Tarsou Brownlow," some years ago, to expose Graves as a grave fraud; thi3 great wheel, in its certain annual rounds, rolled me eut of the pleasant parsonage seems to last all day and every day. Tho out at Medicine Lodge, whore I began to write- and thms nut an end for a time, to all literary pursuits, Mr. Editor, there is, to my mind, something sol perience, he was at once attracted to a Methodist class meeting, and though having no knosvledge, as yet, of the English language, ho rose promptly in hia turn and with faae beaming with heavenly radiance, gave his speechless testimony by pointing upward. It was his first Methodist class meet.

emn in the annual review, which we, as Methodist rreachers, have to undergo. And this laying out our work for years, is well calculated to cause one to think of tbe limited time in which one has to work. about him for a season of devotion. His children, with one exception, were privileged to be present and minister to him to whom we owe, under God, an infinite debt of gratitude, and as he neared the river, to cheor him, led by the pastor and his wife, with holy songs he long had loved until he closed his eyes to mortal scenes aud his triuniphnut soul went away to be "forever with tho Lord." After mortal sight and speech had failed ho gave several significant nods of the head which were doubtless in response to angel beckonings and heavenly scenes that had opened to his glorified vision. The uuoral services were hold at the M.

E. Church in Scandia, conductod by tho pastor, Rev. G. W. Winterburn, assisted by Rev.

A. D. Beck-hart, and the remains laid away in the Belleville cemetery to await the resurrection the just. While all that ia mortal sleeps on Kansas soil, which has boon consecrated to the holy cause of liberty, we know that the immortal is attuned to nobler praise on heavenly heights, beyond the reach of pain and death. Ad while we sit under the shadow of an unspeakable beroavomrnt we have left to us the richest legacy possible to be-ftow the precious memory of a perfect example The work of this year is finished, and its records and memorials are laid aside.

We go up to that skirts or new portions of Joppa is hopeful, aud for an oriental city, beautiful. Whore wo stop, Howard House, haa a yard paved with beautiful shells from the 6iind in countless numbers, flower and vegetable garden, with beds of all imaginable shapes wallod in with cement and shells charming to behold. Then a lnrtre grove of orange trees nnd other trees, aud also a largo vegetable garden now doing good sorvioe. Also other liieo things combining to give this house the good nnme it do-sorves, kept by an adopted Amorioan eitizon. I might also state that in this garden is a large well, whore tho faithful annually walking round and round brings the water that causes tho flowers to bloom, the oranges to grow nnd the table to groan with plentv.

In looking north of the hotel a view of a cemetery is obtained whore are graves very old end Tory lew. Many parsons are laying round in it, some talking und some sleeping and some children playing. Homeless people make this place their homo before hey are really dead. People pass through it as a wayfare and donkeys are rode through, and browse in it. I ono place not far from the sen, in the midst of many graves, is ft well where mnch great gathering the annual conference where we, end our record, are subjected to the examination, and decision of brethren, who know from personal how to sympathize with us.

If we 3 stand the "fiery test," and the fair garlands do ing, aud though not having understood a word of what was spoken be discerned its spirit, and knew the God they worshipped was the God he served, and adored, and he cast his lot among the Methodists. He was soon afterward licensed to exhort, and a little later to preach, his vigorous mind having acquired good use of the English language. He was naturally of a retiring disposition, possessing great humility of spirit, yet an ardent defender of the faith; and through a ministry, in the local ranks, of more than fifty years he walked with unshaken confidence in God, and unabated zeal for His cause. With a strong physical constitution, a well-stored, and cultivated mind, a vigorous intellect, and unusual grasp and penetration of thought, not wither from our brows beneath keen, but be nevolent eye of fraternal criticism, we hear the friendly, but stern voice of the church saying, "go there or stay here!" And there is no appeal from the decisions of that Toice! I have often thought that it i3 fortunate for the church, and perhaps as much bo for her ministers, that there is no appeal. For even as tho matter now Btauds, and all these pervaded by a deep tenderness and there is often no little friction, growing out of a spotless life a holy character.

"Rest from thy labor, rest, Soul of the just set free! Blest be thy memory, and blest Thy bright example bo." jRNMfE Buck. religious experience, his word was with power; fixin the appointments Though not an old man whose experience dates back to the days of the and with his knowledge of the Scriptures and deep insight of divine things, which seemed almost in tuitive, he preaohed with jreat acceptability and Fathers, yet I can remember a period in the history of the, Itinerancy, when, if a Presiding Elder had "leaked" the sacred workings of the Bishep's cabinet so that the preachers would have had the opportunity to question their appointment, or had sought to reverse it by appealing to the Bishop, the same Presiding Elder would have had a fair chance to be remanded to the ranks. At least such were the regulations in the conn try and conference in which the writer was inaug success. In hia prayers he often seemed, as it were, to take hold of things invisible, and at times of special inspiration to stand face to face with God. So marked was this, that not unfrequently when strangers heard his voice for the first time in prayer they ashed the question "who was that man who prayed?" A few months before his death the writer was privileged to meet a friend of his early years whose testimony corroborates the above.

"Your father" she said, "was no ordinary man. His first utterance, when he rose to speak, convinced every ono ef this, and riveted the attention of every hearer." She had known him in the days of his rigor and strength, entertaining him at her home in Ohio while conducting revival services. He was a man of God; faithful in all the rela urated into the Methodist Itinerancy. You, Mr. Editor, as well as your readers, know how it is now, long before conference convenes, water is obtained, and many deep creases are worn in tho hard stone capping by the ropes in drawing up the water.

Each person bringing his ewn rope. I saw a girl sit down on ono edge of the well and reaching her feet across resting them on the opposite side and afterward let them dangle is tho well. Rash girl! Beyond the cemetery is a row of houses, and a wooden steam grist mill of but little value, and thee comes the white crested surf of the Mediterranean Sea. Jeppa is a growing place, nsd if she had a safe and decent landing for ships and was controlled by a government with a little park of wisdom Joppa would soon become a place of considerable importance. She now bus a pop-ulstion of 23,000 souls.

This includes a space of about one milo about the city. This is a strange place! hear tho braying of the donkey, the blesting of tho sheep aud calf, the noise of the people in the market, the roar ef the wares and a have all tho neisy A rabs to be our servants for the next thirty days. With my glass I see ranges of bills and mountains towards the so'ith and at and to-raerrow at 0 wo start for Jerusalem; and my letter would bo too long if I were to write about tho Garden of the Latin Monastry, tho Egyptian Colony, American German Colony, and other things about Joppa. But what means this great noise I look and see a crowd of mn nnd boys drawing dead hoie with ropes and also a erwd of women wrapped in white sheets. TO-DAY IT "CLEANSETH." men and places are freely discussed, as being the most desirable, and the best adapted to each ether and when the conference meets, the subject of probable appointments is the one great concern, until they are announced by the Bishop.

Then, it A DAYr AT JOITA. BY litV. Jons I). KNOX, Saturday evening, March 10th, a crowded steamer of the Lloyd left Pert Said for Joppa, in the Holy Land, and we disembarked the next morning at 7 o'clock. Our vessel anchored fully one mile out from the shoro, for this is ono of the worst harbors in any land.

Although there seemed to be but little or no wind, still he wares ran quite high, and some hearts failed them in thinking of taking a lauding boat which the waves tossed hither and thither. Many boats, manned by turks, with their peculiar drens, camo to take tbe passengers with their baggage, and when about from ten to fifteen got on each sid'ioi' iur steamer, tho roar of the men's utrong voices waa above tho roar of the waves. Tho Arabs have a noisy tongue. After my daughter got in tho boat a wave came and so lifted it up and toured it about that it was with difficulty tbe boatmen kept tho ladder from knocking some in the boat into the sea. Finally I got in and the brave boatmen plied the oars aad sometimes wo were on the top of the wave and sometimes in a trough of the sea.

One of our party got frightened ami rose, but a boatmai soon made him be seated. There were thirteen pawri-gers and boatmen eur luggage. When Hearing a ledge of rocks, placed in the sea some distance to break the violence of the waves and form a barber; in seemed Impossible for us to often happens that some disappointed brother, as suming that he knows better than all tho Presid tions of life "not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." As husband, father, iug Elders and the Eiwhep, where ho ough in have citizen, class-leader, Sunday school superintendent, preacher, frieud, he was loyal and true. The fjonc, makes open declaration of tbe fact, by refusing to go at all I am not now arguing against the change which a very few years have wrought in family altar, the reading of the word, the provis this particular, but design to state the fact merely, and, leave the inferences to be drawn by, and for ion of religions literature for his family, faithful attendance on all tho means of grace both public and private, a holy walk and conversation were each reader. But what about "eaudidating" by which we un fixed habits of his life.

With such an example, and the faithful instruction given it is not unlook-ed for that his eight children one of whom proceeded him to the better land should, with one derstaad, a Methodist congregation, consulting an Itinerant minister; and contracting with him, in regard to the coming advance of the Bishop's decision. It is of course, always implied that the exception, have been brought into an early Chris tian experience, and into the M. E. Church, all of whose usages and doctrines our father so zealous said "contract" is subject to tbe Bishop's authority and may be annulled, modified, or set aside. Yes ly loved and taught.

That the one exception, Ju's youngest l)orn, should come to a saving knowledge but every man who has had experience in a "Bishop's counsel," knows that such "cou tracts" are not Christ was often the subject of his thought and so easily disregarded, as some might suppose. prayers. strike the Darrow passage left for boats, but the brave and experienced boatmen watched their opportunity, captured a mighty wave and with twelve oan added to its power, were carried triumphantly through tho narrow and dangerous passage into quieter waters and soon our glad feet wpro in the streets of Joppa. The modern name of this place is "Yafa" or "Jaffa," but tho Scripture name is Joppa and with all Bib! readers is vividly connected with it the history of Jonah, who, when During my term of office as Presiding Elder, which covered a space of ten (10) rears, in a large He was Wesleyan in his views, and exemplified to a marked degree in his own life the power of conference. I never knew a case of the kind that did not involve matters of such serious importance, the doctrine and experience ef holiness, relating as to render the Iiishop and Lis counsel almost to this experience, and his desire that others might know this saving truth by personal experience, helpless that is, they could not ignore the said "But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Hon, cleinseth us from all sin," (I John "You perceive that it is written in tho present tense, us if to indicate continuance.

It will always be so with you, Christian. It was so yesterday; it was 'cleanseth' yesterday; it is 'cleanseth' to-day; it will be 'ch'anseth' to-morrow; it will be until you cress the rirer. Erery day you may come t- this fountain, for it Every hoar you may stand by its brim, fr it 1 think there is hero as well as justification. I am inclined to believe that this test has been too much limited in its interpretation, and that it signifies that the blood ef Jesus is eon-stastly operating upon tbe man who walks in tho light, so as to cleausa him from tho indwelling power of sin; and the Spirit ef God applies the dootrin) of the atonement to tho production of purity, till the soul becomes completely pure from sin. I desire to feel every day the constantly purifying effect of the sacrifice of my Lord and Master.

Look at the foot of tbe cms ind I am sure yei will feel that the precious 'i olean-e from all Bin." C. II. Spurgeon. continued to the last giving instructions daring minister and his relations to the prospective commanded to go to Ninevah and preach to that wicked city, fled to tLe city, HC2 years before Chrint was lorn in Bethlehem of Judea. Here "he found his la.st hours concerning the distribution of some literature.

He was a man of broad ami aggressive thought, and watched with interest the affairs of natiens, discerning the hand of God in every movement a ship going to Tar.sLish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from tho presence of the Lord." How very interesting, on this hdy Sunday ia Joppa it that advanced the cause of truth and righteousness. He was interested in every Measure that was for me to read the look of Jonah, after bar charge, without inflicting a more serious damage and loss to the chnrcb.than was likely to result from the recognition and sonfirmation of the conditional engagement! How easily and inevitably do each innovations gain because the common custom, hen once inaugurated, and the pre-eeijent is once established! Yes, Mr. Editor, precedent is everything almost. At any rate you can establish almost any custom, and make almost any departure from "old path," when once yon can quote an authorative Precedent! Beware therefore, ye lovers of "old Methodism," of the power and historical ferce of precedent. We shall probably reach gome of the incidents about which we began to unite, in our ext.

Caldwell, Kane. W. H. G. tended to lift the world toward God.

His contributions, bis labor, and his prayers were blended in a holy trio for the advancement of the ki ngdom ing stood on the sandy aud charming shell-strewn beach, having my feet wet with the waters as they came out from the sea, wave after ware, white crested, roarkg, roaring, as they hare been doing all these years God seperated the waters un to Christ, and made a bequest to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, also to the Parent Missionary Society. to seas. But the end came when a Prince ia Israel was to I also read with much interest Acts aad Get ready for tbe Methodist Episcopal Sunday Sunday Aseembly. epart, and as we betel his quiet, steady faith in visited the boose that tradition says occupies tie.