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Monthly, ] Devoted to the Relief of Baptist De scilvt.iop,' in Eastern North Carolina. [25 Cents per Year. VOLUME FOUR. NEW BER:',;, N.V.C., JfNE, 1903. NUMBER TWO THE ATLANTIC UXIOX OTHER THTXaS. AXD hijls he has sent forth iiis voice to j ingly of our si i-, r,i The be I'eturned by some higher ele-! Association is to s;ongratulate(i The Atlantic Union convened with the church at Beaufort Fri day before the fifth Sunday in May. Beaufort is one of those old charming towns of our State where a person lingers long before he can say “good-bye,”—and espe cially is this true of Beaufort. Beaufort is situated on a little cape almost surrounded by water. Tbe large and beautiful shade trees and the breeze from the ■ ocean make a man feel like he is' in the land of the lotos eaters.' Let what 'come that may, he is | happy and contented. Duty may call him away, but he leaves his heart and memory behind. The writer has often wondered why the wandering Beaufortites never forget to tell strangers that they once lived in Beaufort and praise her in the highest; but now it is all plain to him, and he almost wdshes he had been born in a land of so much ease and com fort. The Baptists of Beaufort are not very numerous, but a nobler band cannot be found within our bounds. Under the wise manage ment and instruction of Pastor Butler the church is coming to the very front, and the day is not far distant when she will set an example of liberality that will put to shame some of our stronger churches. Beaufort entertained the U'nion grandly. The Union was a success in every sense of the word. We, of the Atlantic Association, have lost faith in our unions. We do not expect many present. We should be surprised should the brethren come prepared to per form their duties. Gan we expect a real live Union under such cir cumstances? If the speakers will make short and spicy speeches, the people will come and hear. Any kind of meetings can be killed by long, dry and thought less speeches. Have something to say, say it and quit. The speeches at our last Union were good, and but few too long. The next time the meeting is held at Beaufort the townspeople will attend better. They will ex pect something. Nearly all the pastors w^ere present and took part in the dis cussions. Not as many “lay brethren” were present as might and ought to have been. The Baptists of Eastern Caro lina do not want to take this great country for Christ and the Bap tists. If w'e do w'e have a poor way of showing it. We do not put any life in any of our gather ings. We are lifeless at church, we do no personal work, while souls are dying and going to hell on every hand. Are we true watchmen upon the walls ? The writer of these notes w'as born among the hills of the West, and from the top of a thousand vation. Over many a hill he has chased the billy goat, to halt from his pursuit far from home in a lonely valley between two almost mountains. In these valleys a thousand songsters were rending the air with their melodies ; the squirrels were “chirping” from the majestic oaks that adorn tlie hillsides; the wild turkey was not lonely in these regions; the quail was heard on every hand as he rended the air with his “bob- white,” while his mate, with a voice of love, would answer him from her hiding place. These were days of joy and happiness, and to his child heart it was a land of paradise. Now he is older and his horizon has broadened and be is now able to compare and judge, and his judgment is, that there is no. place in all the wmrld like Eastern Carolina. These eyes of his liave viewed the plains of Indiana, Illinois, Mis souri and Kansas, tire valley of the Father of Waters, the coal and iron fields of Tennessee and Ala bama, but nowhere has he found a land so charming or inviting or promising as Eastern Carolina. The time will soon come when it will dawn upon our people that God has placed them in the Eden of America, which is the Eden of the world, and they will awaken from their slumbers to the realiza tion of the opportunities all around them Tlieii we may ex pect the wmrld to be amazed at the progress made. The religious opjiortunities are as great as the industrial. A child neglected during the period of de velopment becomes a dwarf, and all the care and nurture cannot destroy the evil done or change the dwarf into a well-developed man. The East has been neg lected by we Baptists and the brethren of the West complain because no great work is being done. Seed sowing is the great est work of the farmer. The har vest can never come unless the seed is sown. Seed sowing must precede the harvest. It is plain that the harvest is coming and there will be a great reaping in due time if we faint not. If any thing was impressed upon the minds of the brethren at the Union it was that God’s hand is plainly seen in the work of the brethren. Let us bestir ourselves and hasten the reaping. The next Union meets with the church of Davis’ Shore. They will be greatly disappointed if all the pastors and many of the brethren are not present. X. because of the progress .dial has, been made. \I’e closed the sec ond year on the 6tb, btii atld 7th of May. Dr. C , S. Blackwell,- of Norfolk, Va., j reached the ser mon, and Mr. iO. E. Hilliard, of Scotland Neck, X. C., delivered the address. IF >th of these efforts were up to the high-water mark. I shall not do tl le gentlemen the injustice of atten opting a synopsis of what they sai The pupils ot the school acqi itipd themsel\T« well, and, accor ding to the gen eral verdict of tb ce^^.'who attended,' our closing exer'fiaeij Upre a com plete success. , We enrolled iiiexi, and examine,all the data in regard to our work in Hayana, Quba, and make- publication- as full as possible through our de nominational press. It was also ordered by the Boat'd that Dr. A. J. Diaz be noti fied- of the- meeting of the com mittee and invited to be present. F. G. McConkoij,, . Corresponding Secretary. cuHse u honk atni yie n.- • m>eb therein. Here is a standing duty for some layman. It is not a preacher’s business, 1,-Mnn’t be lieve, to act either as clerk or moderator so long as we have lay men- to do this lyork. I believe lay members ought to be put on to open the discussion of every,^ topic before the Ixidy. The word Union in our term means the bringing together pf both weak and strong,, learned Dear Bro. Gav^s :-I prom-[ ’^"’earned. The strong are m ised to give vou something about the weak to lie stiongei. . le our Mi.ssionary Institutes, but as|’Je«rned are to help tiie unlearned study about it I canuot think, of MTSSTOXA RX IXSTTTl TES. more than a nCl case I * gn en. Don’t defer you might forget it— ATLAXTTC IXSTITUTE C03I- MEXCEMEXT. Dear Brother Davis ;—It is presumed that the readers of The Messenger are interested in the 145 pupils, an than eighty per ,ent. over the en rollment of last vear. The school has a firmer hold upon the com munity than evi>r before, and we expect the enre Ument next year to exceed 200. Our catalogue is now in the han fj of the pruiter and will be reaU.y for distribution by the time thii,- is being read. If the reader of this has a son or daughter to er- ucate,- drop me a card and I will take pleasure in mailing a copy of the catalogue to the address writing write at once. Perhaps I should say in this connection that I have resigned my church in order to give my full time to Atlantic Institute. I did this not because I do not love the pastorate, but because I have realized the great importance of our school enterprise, and because the trustees urged upon me the necessity of my remaining at the head of the Institute as its Prin cipal. I have thought that for the present I could perform no higher service than that of guid ing in the affairs of Atlantic Insti tute. We have reached the position we now occupy not without great effort and many sacrifices. We must not be satisfied with present attainments. Not wdiile ignorance stalks about robbing our youth of the most there is in life can be rest upon our oars. May we not hope to have the sympathy and co-operation of every Baptist in the Association ? A. W. Setzer. DIAZ CASE. anything to give news note., IP V ■ n.’Y.’:,! ■ wifR fafopF 1 rmu'e j-Falling on second 'Sunday in May and on Saturday before. On Monday night after second Sunday he was w'ith us at the Second Church here. On Tuesday, day and night, we were at Mt. Nelson. These meetings were well attended, and we hope the instructions and information given will be of lasting good. It would do all of our churches good if we had more meetings of this kind. I. believe it is the duty of our stronger pastors to give some time to this kind of work each year. I have just returned from the Union meeting .at Ayden. The meeting was-very good, but not attended as well as it might have been by delegates. I am Yours truly, J. B. Jackson. Goldsboro, N. C. A LETTER FROM BROTHER TAILOR. career of Atlantic Institute. I am glad that I can speak encourag-1 to meet on the 12th day of July At a meeting of the Home Mis sion Board on May 29, a resolu tion was adopted inviting Dr. T. T. Eaton, President of the Ken tucky General Association, Dr. R. H. Marsh, President of the North Carolina Convention, and Mr. E. W. Stephens, President of the Missouri General Association, to unite with a committee selected from the Home Mission Board, consisting of Judge George Hill- yer. Dr. W. W. Landrum and Dr. E. L. Connalljq who are requested Dear Bro. Davis:—I am just home from the Union at Beaufort, which, I believe, everyone en joyed and was partially a success. Bro. J. E. King’s sermon on Sun day night w^as of interest and profit. “Christ is all, and in all,” was his text. The Union on the whole was of a high order. Brothers, these Unions could be made of great usefulness to our work in the Atlantic Association if we could get our laymen to at tend and take part. Until we get them to feel it is their Union, and their duty to go, the Unions wdll not do the cause of Christ the pro posed good. I believe it is against our Un ions for the strongest men to leave before the Union closes. If Sun day is a part of the Union, they ought to stay and impart their strength to us who are weak. If Sunday is not a part of the Un ion, then we can all go home Sat urday. I believe the laymen in the Church feel this way ; that they haven’t any special business in going, because the preachers will do all the speaking and all the work. Why do we have a clerk, when his minutes are thrown away and never read ? Let the Union authorize the clerk to pur- to be wiser. '-..Now'if we .fail to get oqr weak church'e.? repre sented, and only a few of our inreacher .gi. aild three 'or four Javmen, it pa. failed to oe a Uue Union as proposed by- the term Atlantic Union,, and the money" we spend in traveling had better be given to the Lord and we stay at home. Brothers, if we are going to have a Union, wh\' not have some system about it? Let every church send to the Union a letter stating how it is getting along spiritually and how progressing^ Then if it be so that her appointed representative cannot go, her let ter will ; and let tliese letters be read before the Union. This will not only put the laymen to work at home, but in the Union. I believe if this or some other such plan was adopted our Unions would take on new life and be- come a power in the Association, while as it is I can see but little good they are doing. Bro. Rich spoke mj’ sentiments when he said “if we wanted to make the Unions helpful we must not con sider time or convenience.” The next Union goes to Davis’ Shore. I \vant to see a large gathering from all over the Asso ciation. Go every one who can. Yours in Christ, J. R. Taylor. Do Saloons Help a Town ? At a mass meeting of the citi zens of Lebanon, Tenn., recently, the question of the financial effect of removing the saloons was care fully canvassed. At the time, Hon. Robinson AIcMillan, a prom- nent lawyer, declared that he had interviewed the merchants of the town, and that all classes of busi ness reported an increase in trade of from 25 to 47 1-2 per cent, since the saloons were abolished. Real estate has gained in value 20 per cent., and fifty more new houses are being built this year. The mayor had lieen seen, and had said that the cases tried before him had only lieen one-third as many as before the closing of the saloons. Facts are stuhlxirn things, as the saloonist, who declares that liquor selling makes trade for towns, is likely to discover. The Pernamhneo, Brazil, Bap tist clmrch has received 102 mem bers for baptism during the past year. This Clmrch is only a few years old, hut God is wonderfully blessing Bro. Solomon L. Gins- burg’s labors in this large city. O'
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