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1 ifli ORPHANS’ FRIEND. WcNSaicMJsiy, l>C€eiiJbeB‘ 26, lH7Tf. ' This numher closes the third volume of the Or phans’ Friend. It also closes the subscriptions of many of our readers. If they will promptly renew, we shah, be grateful; and more grateful still, if they will send other names with their own. The friends of the orphan work might easily double our circulation and help a good cause, if they could spare the time, and take a little trouble. HOW TO PKOMOTE AMD TO PKEVENT liEVIVAES. As the “ revival season is now over,” and camp-meetings and protracted meetings are generally in winter quarters, we wish to give the prominent men and lead ers of the different denominations a small Cliristmas cud to chew. We liave nothing to say to those who preacli from their lofty plateaux of piety and lift up their converts by their own peculiar machinery. We allude to those revivals in which the preachers call men to repentance and to “fruits meet for repentance, while a merciful God bestows his sovereign grace. Let us tell how a revival did not occur. The church was rich, pious and intel ligent. The pastor was a man of fervent prayer and “ of good re port” among all classes. The evangelist was a man of unusual gifts and graces. He was solemn, eloquent and very impressive. The ungodly came out freely to hear him, and were delighted with his sermons. The meeting lasted many days ; but not a soul was converted. Even the regu lar collections were omitted, for fear of diverting attention from the work before the congregation. It was time to touch a tender cord, but the pocket was too ten^ der to be touched. What the people needed was the opening of the fountains of the great deep of their hearts. If the pastor had stirred their deepest emotions by filling their souls with symirathy for some object of benevolence, and instead of omitting the usual collection had raised a thousand dollars, wo verily believe the hearts of his people would have been melted with love. Repent ance towards God and love for the brethren would have made a pure religion spread like some uncontrolled contagion. Yes, the Pharisees lived on these high planes of piety, and they live there still. John the Baptist told them to come down to their proper place at the foot of tlie class of sinners, and to “ Biing forth therefore fruits meet for re pentance.” When people “ honor the Lord with their substance,” He usually blesses their souls and grants the” desires of their hearts. But we attended another meeting. The Presiding Elder, in his open ing prayer, offered a special peti tion that all the people might be moved to liberal contributions to wards the claims of the cause which the pastor intended to pre sent. The collection was taken, and it was remarkably liberal. Hany tears were even dropped w-ith the money as it fell into the treasuiy. Then and there a won derful work of grace commenced ; many valuable members were added, and new life was imparted to the church. When people are too. good to do good, their situa tion is extremely dangerous. Wo close with two rules: 1. To prevent revivals, present selfish motives for being religious, and avoid collections for benevo lent objects. 2. To promote revivals, preach repentance, with “ fruits meet for repentance,” and faith in God’s sovereign mere}’ a.nd grace, never once forgetting that “ Faith with out works is dead.” EXPEAM.ATIOM. 1. In the OupHANs’ Fkiexd of week before last some I’emarks on the Grand Lodge, and what was intended as a private note in re gard to Mr. Jfoore’s election to the Stewardship of the TAinatic Asylum, were consolidattd in o one article. I mpposed that all would see that the types tvere tangle!. It now seems that the article made incorrect impressions, and it is necessarj^ to request our readers to disregard it entirely. 2. The election of Superintend ent of the Orphan Asylum was held, not after the election of other officers, as was expected, but after the Installation and just before the Grand Lodge was so unnxpectedh’ closed. I happened to be attending to other business at the time, and had no opportu nity to accept or decline ;■ but 1 promptly notified the Grand Master in writing that I did not accept the office. 3. I am nevertheless here, do ing the best I can for the orphans, until my' successor shall be ready' to enter upon his duties. And 1 am willing to give the Grand Muster ample time to make a ju- dicous selection. 4. I am as deeply' concerned for the welfare of the orphans as I ever was. I am as grateful to all the good people of our State, for their kind and continued con tributions, as a poor sinner can be ; but having carried a burden of toil and anxiety' for five years without any vacation, I need a season of rest, and feel that I ought to take it. 5. I should deeply deplore the condition of my country, if I sup posed that the progress of the or phan work was dependent on any' one man. Sy'mpathy' for the or phans, and a desire to relieve their distresses and mitigate their sor rows, are embedded in the hearts of our people, and will continue to be illustrated m their sponta neous donations. Wise and good men will not resist the combined appeals of religion, humanity and political economy'. J. H. Mills. Portsmoutli fools are not all dead, for tliej- Inave liad a poodle-dog funeral, witli a rosewood casket, satin-lined, with a silver i>late, and two coaches full of mouruing iriends.—Central Protestant. And this reminds us of what we saw in Greensboro: a lady, accompanied by a poodle and a husband boarded the train. A gentleman gave her two seats. She took one for h erself and put her poodle in the other—^her hus band, poor fellow, had no seat, and had to stand around generally, because he was nobody’s dog. Mrs. Walker’s four-year-old child died suddenly recently at 4-1 Oak street. It was taken sick soon after having eaten some green and blue-colored candy.—Church Union. Feed your children on victuals and do not stuff them with paint or trash. NOTES ON CEKKENT EVEN’B'S. —The Central Protestant believes that “prohibition” saves lifty thousand dollars a year in Greensboro and that the people drink less than one twen tieth of the liquors formerly consumed. —The ^Vih■on Advance ojiens its eighth volume with an illustrated sto ry. Energy and euteri)rise merit suc- ee.ss. —The Yirginia Legislature has a member whose voiee is called the “ frog-horn.” Carry him down on Pasquotank. Some frogs near Cam den Court House e'.ni outsiiig some choirs we have heard. Let our Virgin ia Legislator catch some of their tunes. —Itissaid thatMr. Gray, Hr. White, Mr. Brown, Mr. Green and .Mr. Scar let met Kev. Mr. Black on his arrival in Baleigli. —On Dec. 20, a defective engine in a candy factory in Vew York e.xplo- ded and killed and wounded one hun dred and tifty boys and girls. The Friend of Temi>erance makes the folowing asseitioas : “Now, if ail the liquor ilrinking members of the Baptist Church would asree to drink no more for a year, but give their grog money to Wake Forest, its endowment would be secured before brother Ilufliam could get home. Gireen.sboro Female College is in debt and the Methodist Conference keeps its agents in the field year after year begging money to pay off its indebtedness. Ilo.r nmch easier it woule be to pay tliisiudebtedenssbyour plan! The money spent for liciuor by whiskey drink ing Methodists in North Carolina, annually, Would, if handed over to Dr. Cuninggini not only lift the debt of tbe college but en dow it handsomely, besides, and leave enough in hand to build a fifty thousand dollar Met- rotiolitan Church hero in Raleigh. And if wine di inking Episcopalians would give all the money which tliey spend for drink aiinualiy, toward the eoinpletion of their Mor- gautou school enterprise, how tpiioh would a work be aceoinplished which now lags Tor the want of funds.” Brother Whitaker ought to be a- shamed of Mmself, accu.-sing the Bap tists of drinking liquor enough to eadow a college, the Metlu d.sts of drinking enough to pay a debt of $50, 000, aiidliavea surplus for a Metropol itan Cliiircli, and the Eiiiscopalians of drinking wine enough to found a school at Morganton! We don’t believe it. Baptists love water, Methodists li v s pies aad cliiekeus, Episcopiilians are death on turkey; but Ghristiaii people spend hundreds of tiious.inds of dollars as “grog money,” well, we can not believe it. Tbe negro, who, for a crime which blights the life of a girl of fourteen, was hanged at Baltimore the other lay, said just before death, “I am going to my Lord in the hope of eternal glory, to walk ill the gilded paths of Jerusalem to heaven. 1 shall soon go home to God. For myself I feel proud this evening, for 1 go to meet my Lord. 1 fully forgive all mankind for whatever wrongs tliey have done me. I will meet you all ill glory. I did what they say I did. My colors are nailed to the mast head of .lesiis.” Then they strung him iqi, and the iioor girl nt fourteen doesn’t know whether or not she will be so liajipy as to meet the darkey in heaven. —Ex. A thief was once iiardoned on the ci'O.ss : lie confessed his gtiill and prayed with humility and deep contrition: but this negro, instead lamenting his crime, bold ly announces that he pardons others and says : “ I feel proud this evening; for I go to meet my Lord.” Not a saint from righteous Abel down to the holy apostles ever died with such a boast upon his lips. We have liad enough of glory-hallelujah on the gallows. It is time to stop making niartV’rs out of murderers. The Troy (X. Y.) Times says: A twelve-year-old son of Stephen Monk, residing in tlie Bowery, at Cohoes, wliile eating a freslily boiled egg, sud denly jiauseil as bis eyes fell on a shi- g'nlar plienomeiion. This was seoiniiig- ly a hair crnled up and encircled by a .yellow gauzy siibstauce, wliicli was embedded in the white of the egg. The substance was removed and placed under a microscope, when what seemed to the naked eye to be a hair, proved to be a well-develoiied young snake, a])parently of the garter species, and with the young-reptile was whatseemed to be tlie larva) of others. Eggs should be “ hard boiled” so that the snakes and larvse may be thoioughlv killed and cooked. B. AY. Burgess claims the honor of pulling down the IJ. S. Flag in New Orleans for which Gen. Butler hanged Mr. Mumford. COE. POEK. AYe saw him last fall on the Fair Grounds exhibiting tlie, di versified products of our State. Some of those enormous beets and potatoes were sent to tlie or phans and fed them for matu days. He also had near him two articles at whicli ive gazed with admiration and delight. Tlie- were raised on his own fariii. A few days ago wo saw ■hi., again at his office. Shelves t'.i contain the product.s of ever- county. AA^hat to plant and where to plant it. Samples of seeds and where to get them. This Oom- mission is just what the State has so long needed. But he also finds time to attend fairs and make speeches. Here is an extract from his address at Fayetteville : “Fathers, a word to you: Educate your boys and girls, and while you liolisli their minds, infuse into them tliose laudable aspirations wliieii will lift tliem to a liigher iilane of useful ness, ami tiiat will give us, among tlie industrial classes, a nobler type of woinaniiood and manhood. Teach tliem tliat to di.splay tlicir persons in line elotlies and toggery,-wliile the ciiam- bers of tlieir immortal minds are hung with tlie dusty coiiwebs of ignorance, is but mocking tlie design of tlieir Cre ator, and tliat in this age of learning and progress tliey -will bo accounted as but “ a sounding i)rass or a tinkling cymbal,” and in your eflbrts to raise lip your boy in tlie way lie should go, it would pei'liajis be -well to rcmeniber the advice of Josli Billings, to “be sure to go tliat way once in a wliile yourself.” Teacli liiin to love the farm by progressive systems of eulture and maiiageinent. Teacli liim that wliile financial dis aster may, in one liour, sweep away the accumulated fortunes of a lifetime, that ids generous land is never buiik- rnpt:—that in momentary wrecks, bonds, stocks and liills of o-xcliaiige may become suddenly wortliless, bid the garnered liai'x'est is always a sure and a ready friend. Tell liim tliat tlie proud niilli inaire of y esterday-, siir roimded by ail tlie lu.vuries that weaitli could liestow may, to-morrow, envy in ids inmost lieart tlie liuiiible posses sious of the obscure, imt Inqipy farmer. Avoid, 1 beseecli you, the coimnoii and g-i-a\'e error of foreing your sou into a vocation or profession for wliieli lie is as ill-suited iiy training ns lie s by taste and iiiciinatioii. Do you fancy tliat lie would gain distiiictioii in ti e protession of tlie law ? Look, if you please, at that able-bodied young man wlio, tliougli strugg-liiig- assiduously for years, has perhaps not yet attained a liigher point in his iirofessioii tiiaii tlie elucidation of a case of iiog-steai- ing bofoie a cros-.ouls inagistiate. Do you imagiue tliat lie would succeed ill pliysic? Look, if you plcu.-e. ;d that othe ■ young man,-ah >se medic 1 skill during tlie long, patient years oi “ iiuisterly inactivity ” has iio er been so severely tested as in Ids fruitless endeavor to make a satisfactory diag nosis of ids own (hqiloraiiie ca..c. Would you siiliject idm to tlic liazard.- of mercantile life * Look at tuat utlici young- mail whose e.xperience in com- niercial life was limited, perliaps, to tlie piirclnise of a box of paper collars or a iiotile of pomade, lint wlio, cow- anlly shrinking from lioiioratile. iiuiii- ly liibor, abaiidoned the fiii-m to east ids mite on the precarious wave of trade and tratlle to be swallowed up, leaving him penniless, to weep over ids folly. Young man, are you looking with longing- eyes to some fancied El Dora do be.yomt tlie borders of your State? Let me tell yon, “ there is no place like liome.” Stand liy your native State and strive in tlie exercise of a lofty patriotism to adi aiiee lier moral, social and material interests, tliat slie may attain to tliat degree of power and greatness tliat would adorn her dear old name with an enduring coronal of ricliest blessings, liesolve that, by industry, sobriety, virtue and integrity you will attain to tliat position in tlie world tliat will be an lionor to your name and an ornaiiieiit to your voca tion. Clierisli a Idgli-toued l eiieration and ail exalted regard for tlie dignity and cliaracter of woman. Cultivate tliat manliness tliat would scorn to be “liauglity to the liumble or luinible to tlie luuiglity.” Be a man wortliy of tlie glorious name of a Carolinian,'and of the proud lineage of your Aiiglo- Saxon lilood. our Ixdovcd Soutlilaiul your gentle rule is uudisfiuted—your tiat is omnip otent—and tliat you sway the sceptre of absolute, social dominion. Continue to wield it with that true Soutliern maidenly modesty for wliicli you liave ever been distliiguislied and ciiaraetcr- ized. Elevate, as yon and you alone can do, the aims and asiiirations of tlie young- men of tlie land, by frowuiiig dowii dissipation, idleness and vice, and liy inviting llicni witli your smiles lip to a liiglier, iiiirer and nobler spliere of uclion. Occaiiyiiig- tiiis iiigli emi- i;,;-.ii-c in (lie ■ctfections and e.sieeiu of (lie -cen Ilf viiiu- Wiaie, if you will con- liiiue tadl.fii to the feai-fully-saci-ed cliarge coniiiiitled to your keeping- by an all wise I’rovideiice, tlie storiii- swept harp ot the eomiiig centuries will but swell in grander strains the giant antlicin of praise to Carolina’s maids and motliei-s. A B.lEY’ii SOEIEOQIIY. I am here. And if this is what thev call the world, I don’t think much of it. It’s a very flan nelly world, and smells of paregoric awfully. It’s a dreadful light world, too, and makes me blink, I tell you. And I don’t know what to do with my hands; I think I’ll dig my fists in my eyes. No, I won’t. I’ll scrabble at the corner of ray blanket and chew it up, and then I’ll holler; whatever happens. I’ll holler. And tlie more paregoric they give me, the louder i’ll \ ell. That old nurse puts the spoon in tlie corner ot my inimtli sidewise like, and keeps lasting niv milk herself all the while. She spilt snuff in it last night, iinrl. tvheu 1 hollered, trot- t 1 me. That came of being a two days’ old baby. There’s a pin sticking i:; me now, and if I say a word about it, I’ll iie trotted 'If feu ; and I would rather have catnip tea. I’ll tell you who I m I found out to-day. I heard loiks say, “ Husii ! don’t wake up Lineiine’s baby;” and I suppose that iiretty wliiu-laced woman over o 1 the pillow is Eaieliiie. No, 1 was mistaken; fora chap was in here just now, and wanted to see Bob’s baby ; and looked at mo and said, "1 was a fiiniiv lit tle toad, arid looked just like Bob.” lie smelt of cigars. I wonder who else I belong to? Yes, there’s another o le—tiiat’s “ Gamma.” It was Gamma’s babt', so it was.” 1 declare, I do not know who I belong to; liut I’ll holler and maybe I’ll find out. There comes Snuffy with catnip tea. I’m go ing to sleep. 1 wonder why my hands won’t go where I want tiieiii to ? Refinemen'i'.—R e fi nement is no. fasti UHisiicss. Ii is n q luxury. It n- iinthiiig- of tins kind. It is far re.! lived ii-,,ai excess or waste. A pi..is.,.i WHO is truly refined will not squanaer or needlessly con sume any'tiiing. Refinement, on tlie cimirary, is allied to simplic ity, and a judicious and tasteful empioyaiciii of the means of the good and uappiuess which it has at command. It seeks to divest itself of stiperfliiities, and aspires coritinually to the utmost possible purity. Refinement leads to per sonal cleanliness and elegant neatness, good taste and simplic ity in dress. All “ loudness” or flasliiness is repugnant to its spir it. In its home and surroundings, the same cliasteness and natural grace are maintained. “Let all liie ends thou aiiiiest at, Be thy Couuti-y’s, thy God’s and 'Truth's.” Ladies, one of tlio proudest tributes to Soutliern inaiibood and Sontlierii liouor, is our Just boast that licre in A little girl wlio liad great kindness of lieart for all tlie animal creation, saw a lien preparing to gatlier lier cliickens under lier wings, and sliout- ed earnestly, “ Oli, don’t .sit down on .tliose beiuitiinl little birds, you great ugly rooster!” “All 1 John,” said a sympathi zing friend to a man who was just too late to catch the train, “ you did not run quite fast enough.’’ “ Yes, I did,” said John “ I ran fast enough, but I did not start soon enough.”
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