J Monthly] Devoted to tlu: RelieJ' of Baptist Destitution in EasterndNorth Carolina. [25 Cents Per Year. VOLUME B'lVE. MOREHEAD CITY, N. C., MAY, 1906. NUMBER TWELVE. Wlnss of a Dove. At sunset, when the rosy light was (lying E'ar down the pathway of the West, I saw a lovely dove in .silence flying, ■ To be at rest. “Pilgrim of air,” I cried, “could I but borrow The wandering wings, thy freedom blest, And find mv rest.” But when the dusk a filmy veil was weav ing. Back came the dove to seek her ne.st In the fore,st, where her mate was griev ing- - There was true rest. HI. NOT THE .SIN OF YOUR NEIGHBORS. Sometimes sinners say that they have worse neighbors than any body else. That their com panions are such that they can not live a Christian life. This is a suggestion from the father of lies He is trying to keep you from seeing how mean you are and'is just trying to get you to blame some one else with your own meanness. Flowirfg Striams. BY PASTOR \VILI.I.-i M i2UNSFO>TD, ASHEVILLF. N. C. The beloved Join is our infor mant, that one day the same be ing the last day of 9. great feast, Jesus stood and crieo. How often does the -vTords of Jesus rise cry. the race, while fences and ditches are leaped at a bound, until the poor animal so hotly pursued reaches the coveted place, and leaps into the water, and is .->afe from its pursuers If when pn sued by the hounds of sin I fly t* Je.sus as one who ^ thirsts foi him, I shall find pro to the importance of a jteciion and security. Hj%love is jdeep enough, his grace bfoad e- Peace, heart of mine! no longer sigh to wander; I/)se not thy life in fruitless quest. There are^'no happy. Islands over yonder; Come home and rest. —Henry 'Van Dyke. . The Foiljf of Going to Hell. BY J. M. PAGE. “In the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.”—Prov. 5:23, It takes a mighty big fool to go to hell Not that a maip. may not successfully drive a mc%ey-mak-, ing business, or rise high on the wings of political fame, or be one of the wisest of earth from a worldly, point of view and then go to hell. But this world is a preparatory school for the. great college of eternity, and he who neglects to prepare for that col lege before enteritlg' is: ihe great est of fools. Here is a boy who goes to school from 6 to 18 and and spends all his time in pleas ure and idleness. He aosolutely ignores his studies. At i8 he goes to college to enter and when the examination is put ip he cannot even read the questions to sayhiothiqg of answering them, ivuuiu you uut piq--oaucc niuj a fool ? vSo it will be with those who come .to the judgment hav ing spent their lives in pleasure seeking and have neglected the preparation for heaven. I wish to show you that if you are lost it will be the greatne.ss of your own folly that sends you down to the pit of eternal woe. I. NOT the SIN OF ADAM. The sins of Adam carries no one to hell except Adam. “As in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” When Adam sinned the world passed before God as condemned. When Christ died upon the cross the w'orld passed back before God as redeemed. Each person stays there until he comes to the age of accountability and by his own sin passes back under condemna tion. Should a person from the moment of hisaccomitability com mit absolutely no sin he would be saved, but “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” We inherit the sinful nature from Adam, but do not inherit the sin itself. Children of con- .sumptives inherit a weakened constitution which is more suscep tible to the disease than those of healthful parents, but they do not inherit the disease itself. II. NOT THE SIN OF YOUR PARENTS 1 admit that the law of heredity is a powerful law and that chil dren inherit tendencies toward certain sins from their parents. The sins of'the fathers are visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations. There are hundreds of parents in North Carolina who are lead ing their children to hell. Yes, parents have a powerful influ ence over their children. They may lead them, but they cannot drive them to destruction. What ever may be the influence ot your home if your soul is lost it will be the greatness of your own folly that drags you down. IV. NOT THE ARBITRARY WILL OF GOD. “As I live saith the Lord, I would not that any should perish, but that all should come to me and live.” God wants to save every sinner, but he cannot do it honoiabh unless that sinner will' repent.and accept the Christ as his redeemer. God cannot do a dishonorable act, therefore God cannot save save an untepentant sinner. His ab.solute allegiance to righteonsiiess stands above his merciful desire tp save sinners. I have doubt that the governor of North Carolina would be glad to pardon every prisoner in the state, but there is a law of righC eonsness that stands above this desire.’ If, in this world of cor rupted judgment that law of jus tice is recognized by sinful man how much more must it be rec5g- tiized in a world of righteousness by a righteous God? The right eous sentiment in North Carolina has incorporated into our code of laws the law handed down on Siatiai, “Thou shalt not kill,” and attached to it the 'same pen alty, “Life for life.” Now if you commit murder in cold blood tVno or WUat la l When the disciples approached him at the dose of his. talk with the woman at the well of Sychar, and'Sppke to him about eating, his I'eply, “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me,” was equivalent to a cry. When sur rounded by the multitude, he .up braided the citic" of Bethsaida and Chorazin ant nen commend ed the Father f Gospel to the s “Com.. unto ine . and I will give yi|h this day of the IS his voice and crid revealing the iple, he cried. you to execution ? Is it not the greatness of }’Our own folly? There is a well known force in nature called the law of gravita tion. This law is absolutely nec essary. Without it we could not live on the earth. We would be flying about through space and as apt to locate on some other planet as on the earth. But sup pose that you defy this law. You are on top of a five-story building. You know that gravitation says that if you jump off you will be broken to pieces. But, you say I am a free man and I will do as I please, .so off you leap. Who is to blame for your death? The God who made the law of gravi tation? The man who built the house ? Or is it you in the great ness of your own tolly. O, sinner, search down deep into your own soul and see if you do not find something there that answers to this text and says, “Yes, indeed, it is the greatness of my own folly that is leading me astray.” You go out in the darkness of night and yon say no one sees me now, I can commit my sin here. Where is God ? Can He not see in the darkness as well as in the light?. But sup pose that you close the eyes of God and blindfold all the angels and draw down about you the thick curtains of darkness still there is an accuser at hand—your conscience. You cannot get away from this accuser neither in time nor eternity. Many have com mitted suicide under the delusion that they could get away from the remorse of a guilty consciance. There is only one place where their conscience can be purified and satisfied and that is at the the cross. If your find that in the greatness of your folly you are going astray fly to Jesus and he will free you from the guilt and consequence of sin and “If the Son makes you free ye shall be free indeed.” Southport, N. C. .1 ye that labor rest.” And on „st he lifted up • “If any man thirst let him c6nie‘ and drink, and out of''his inner life shall flow rivers .of li'ving water.” He cried,.“I am u river.” Mr. F.- B. iMyers in the Homiletic Re^ vieW'Says,'here is the sfiggestion of humility. The liv-dr takes the lowest place-, ■ finds the lowest ground, and settle.s in pools that the aged and infirm and children and cattle uiayydiink. So Jesus finds the lowest-pl ice in your life, and all that yop have to do is to Stop, drink and prss on, transmit ting whatever oi blessings you may have receive to another. He says that tin river is “effort less. ’ “No striq gliiig, nor puf fing, noi panling. w”>rk for but half vhe day. accoirijjshed We plan our Af night it is We are noiigh, to shield and save me. 2. Coming. In Nicodemus we find one, not only thirsting but coming, not as S^d the Cen- hard. We have made great ef fort. How unlike that river, of whose waters we are invited to drink that we may become a flowing river, without that effort and friction that tires and breaks down. “The river is constant,” The river flows right on through all the changes of weather and sea son. My home is on its banks. I wake in the night and can hear the murmur of its waters going by, and so on from day to day, from year’s end to year’s end. “The river grows broader and deeper as 't flows.” Is there any thing mor; pleasing than to look upon gray hairs that tell of a life that has grown stronger and richer and deeper as it flowed, reaching its highest point of grace and beauty and fiillne.ss as it reaches its end, passing out into eternity’s great sea a model of completeness, just as the river reaches its climax when it reaches its end, and gives its waters into some great and boundless ocean? The river gives life as it flows. The cattle come down from the hills to drink of its waters. The wild creatures of the forest, every living tiling finis life i'l r.s wa ters. “Mine,” he declares, “.ire ri vers.” 1 am just as n.uch a part of the great scheme to redeem this world as Christ was. He is the river ot whicli I must drink, and I am the river of w.iich this world must drink. This river life is conditioned on four things. I. Thirsting. If any man thirst. Jesus has no life-giving riches to impart to the individual who does not thiis 't him. The psalmist explY ,edit\ enbesaid: “As the liea-. 1 anti‘■h --r the water brook so pante h my soul after thee.’ ’ You may hai'e seen the hounds in full cry after the tired, panting deer. Its course points straight to the river, and now we watch turion that his servant might be be healed, not as Jairus, who pleaded for his daughter, but as one who ■'.vould in some myster ious way, have the paters of that river start in his own life a new river channel through which the love of God„and the grace of God might flow out upon the lives of other.®. 3. Drinking. If any man thirst let him come and drink. There must be tha thirsting and the coming, and drinking. Some have thirsted and have come, and yet would not drink. The young ruler did this. , Our old acquaint ances are doing this now. Loved ones in our homes, who eat at our tables, and sit with us in the house of God, have seemingly taken the first two steps but will not take the third. 4. Flowing. My first drink of him who says; “I am the river,” puts wethin me the well of life, but it is the drinking from day to day that causes the well to run over and the stream to flow out and as God’s flowing river, I look into your face and, find that which I have looked into my own and found; for there I read pointment. Your Christian life has not been what you looked for and expected, but a sort of weary drag, and time and again you have felt like giving up the whole busi ness. draught was You drank once and that doubtless sufficient for salvation. But of that river you have drunk so seldom since that therein I find the secret of your failure. Your life does not flow.—Biblical Recorder. hundred re gems were What is Home? Recently a Loudon magazine sent out 1,000 inquiries on the question, “What is Home?” In selecting the classes to respond to the question it was particular to see that every one was repre sented. The poorest and the richest were given an equal op portunity to express their senti ment. Out of eight plies received, seven selected as follows: Home—A world of strife shut out, a world of love shut in. Home—The place where the small are great and great are small. Horae—The father’s kingdom, the mother’s world, and the child’s paradise. Home—The place where we grumble the most and are treated the best. Home—The center of our af fection, round which our heart’s best wishes twine. Home—-The place where our stomachs get three square meals daily and our hearts a thousand. Home—The only place on earth where the faults and fail ings of humanity are hidden un der the sweet mantle of charity. —Nashville Christian Advocate. ure worthy of such a master.” “But do it for niy sake—for mv sake,” vias the response. Tue student went to his task, anc. li ter many months of labor he re turned to the master and .-aid., “Come and see.” When tue cur tain fell, the greatest pictuii- of the age was befive them, “ I'he Last Supper,” of Leonardo da 'Vinci. “Paint Me a Picture,” says the Divine Master to every Chriitian worker in this community. Do not say that you cannot, 'or His aid is promised you. Paint me a picture of consecrated service; do It for My sake. And in the com ing time, when we walk the cor ridors of the iumi' rtal, percl ance we shall see on its jasper walls our pictures of consecrated ef forts, which sliall be to the h-mor of that name which is fo ever best, because it .®hall have been “for His sake.”—Selected. Bringing Heaven and Heme Together. Home is the best interpreter of heaven. Home is no.t a place or a state, but a fellowship. It is not the wall of a house that makes a home, for many who are housed well enough are yet home less, having none of the joys of mutual kindness and help which bind men and women in the life of the home. Nor is home an. interna] condition of feeling, but a fellowship which takes us out of outselves and our feelings, and makes ns feel with and for others. So heaven is the perfect fellow- ship of those whojhave learned, to, forget self in the joys of others. And, as home finds its centre in tlie one who most perfectly ex emplifies the love which is in hfe' —ia bic ji()ine-aia'x.nig mother—so heaven finds its cen tre in him whose life was the perfect exemplificetion of. the spirit of sacrifice, its charter. Sunder the life of man from his, “That where I am there ye may be also,” either in this world 01 the next and you leave it to the contention and strife which con stitute the misery of our human condition. With Jesus Christ as its centre, heaven becomes intel ligible as the eternal fellowship of joy and peace.—Selected. Coin of the Heart. Every Man a Painter. “Paint me a picture,” said great master to his lavorite pupil. “Paint me a picture?’ said the student; “I cannot paint a pict- Some men and women are as uneasy under a debt of gratitude, as under a money ohliqatiou. They seem to keep a debit and credit account of all kindnesses done them that the sun may not go down upon a benefit unre turned. Far more tactful is it to make immediate payment in thanks alone and await a favora ble opportunity to return the courtesy. “Kind w’ords are fairy gold’’ and the coin of the heart. It is well to keep a supply of this cur rency on hand. A haket ot fresh peas from neighbor’s garden may be sent back later in the form of a plate of fresh cookies, and a fa vor received thus unostentatiously balance with a favor be. towed, but the first payment should be in coin of the heart: sometimes it is the only return that can ever be made. In the manner of saying “thank you” lies its value. Thanks should be dear through understanding and emphatic through sincerity; radiant, but never effusive. A child truly pleased gives recom pense by his quick", indrawn breath and appreebative “O!” As to the thanks should be .said, so should they be received: never with a brusque, “Don’t mention it,” but as royal payment for fa vor rendered.—The Congrega- tionalist. VP"

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