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The Orphans’ Friend.
FRTDAY, .TUNE 8, 1883.
We have been interested in
the accounts of large amounts
contributed by various North
ern philanthrophists towards
the education of the negro
population of the bouth, and
we are profoundly grateful to
Almighty Grod that he has put
it into the hearts of these ser
vants of his to bestow their
possessions for such a charita
ble purpose. We would not
plpce a straw in the way of
true progress in any direction.
We are ready to endorse and
encourage that which is true
and good wherever found.
But we are greatly impressed
with the idea that the admin
istration of these funds is a
very delicate task, and that it
is not at all impossible for
them to be so managed and
dispensed that, with advanced
enlightenment, the objects of
such charity may not be actU'
ally forwarded in a useful ca
reer. Free education is not
an unmixed good. To bestow
learning upon a man without
adequate effort on his jiart is
not to educate him in the
highest and best sense. The
very effort he makes in secur
ing funds wherewith to ])ay
for his educational privileges
is an educating force not to
ho despised. If the idea should
bo engendered that the use of
an education is to place its
possessor above work, it would
bo a positive disadvantage to
that possessor.
We believe
there is danger at this point.
Let every one, whether wliite
or colored, be taught that the
true use of education is to
Diake us more efficient work
men ; to enable us to do more
work and better work.
Again, if the idea is fo*'-
tered that educational
privileges are due from the
State or from private charity
■' to the indigent: or, in other
words, that the poor can justly
claim an education out of the
purses of the rich, it would be
unfortunate. It savors of com-
, muiiisni. We believe there is
danger at this point, and that
wisdom is needed to counter-
act these tendencies.
Let industrial education be
prominent in all the institu
tions established for the free
education of our colored pop
ulation. Let them be taught
in all the industries of tlie
country, so that they may he
skilled in whatever depart
ment they may be called to
labor.
THE SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA.
We liave read in an ex-
change an elaborate program
of work to be done this sum
mer by the institution estab-
lislied in Tennessee last year
after the model of the famous
Chautauqua. Sunday School
Assembly. The place selected
for this purpose is Monteagle,
Grundy county, Tennessee.
It is on the top of Cumberland
mountain, over 2,000 feet
above the sea level, immedi
ately on a branch railroad that
connects at Cowan with the
Nasliville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis Railway. There is
to be a “Summer School,in
Avhidi will be taught English
! Language and Literature, He- j
brew and New Testam^Jiit
Greek, Natural History and
Geology,French andGeirmaa,
Elocution, Writing, Yocal and
Instrumental Music. There
is also a Normal Department.
Competent profes^sors have
been engaged to fill all these
departments. This school will
open July 2d and close Au«
gust 3d. It is to be frtse to
teachers in the public and pri
vate schools throughout all
the States.
The Monteagle Sunday
School Assembly will convene
July 17th, and close August
6th, Eminent workers have
been engaged to discuss sub
jects of interest and to conduct
the exercises of the Assembly
with reference to those sub
jects. We notice the names
of Bishop H. W. Warren, Dr.
C. H. Wiley, Dr. J. H. Vin-
, cent, Dr. C. B. Galloway, Dr.
J. H. Bryson, Eldor A. N. Gil-
beTl, Dr. E. Rondthaler, Dr.
R. A. Young, Gov. A H. Col
quitt, Dr. E. T. Winkler, Dr.
A. G. Haygood, Dr. T. J.
Dodd, and many others equal
ly eminent, in the list of
speakers, to whom have been
assigned special subjects.
Prof. R. M. McIntosh will
have charge of the Assembly
music.
This is an attempt to com-
bine the pleasures and exhila'
rating influences of a summer
vacation in the mountains
with intellectual and moral
improvement. When we con
sider the dissipations of vari'
ous kinds prevalent at the av
erage summer resort, and of
the multitudes who throng
these places, seeking relaxa
tion or health, and of the evil
influences to which they are
subjected, we congratulate the
public that we are to have in
this Monteagle enterprise
something of a better charac-
acter. Ample arrangements
have been made for the ac
commodation of visitors, and
reduced fare is promised by
the railroads.
'^^ew fleet of little steamers
penetrates a new snarl of
creeks and inlets, stirring up
a new sleepy neighborhood to
a life unknown before "
The Natural Advantages of this
Section, as Viewed by a
Massachusetts Man.
Dr. A. D. Mayo of Massa
chusetts who spent the months
of March and April at the
Sou li in tlie interest of edu-
,cation, has recently written
an interesting letter to The
Christian Register, Boston,
giving his impression of the
country . along the eastern
coast of North Carolina.
“The whole of this vast coun
try is waking into new indus
trial life Its resources are sim
ply marvelous Its sounds and
rivers swarm with flsh, and its
islands and shores throng with
game. It is a land of vines,
capable of producing light
native wines for the supply of
our whole Eastern population.
From April to June, it pours
forth a boundless supply of
early vegetables with the
small fruits, and, later, the
melons in astonishing abuns
dance. Then comes a crop of
cotton and corn, and in some
of the counties rice, with
boundless opportunity for
raising poultry and swine,and
moderate chance for an im
proved breed of cattle. * * *
The swamps have been drain
ed, whole counties brought
into an improved agricultural
condition, and a beginning of
varied manufacturing indus
try well made. ^Every year, a
LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.
Life is in a great degree
what we make it. And how
shall we succeed if we pass by
heedlessly, life’s precious pre
cious opportunities?-little op
portunities of doing good, lit
tle lessons that may at pres
ent seem unimportant, help,
materially to lay the founda
tion for a great and useful
life. Our facilities for exer
cising an influence over others
are so many and so great,
that it is difficult to conceive
how two persons may sit and
converse together without
erting a mutual influence, and
every man who critically ex
amines his intellectual and
moral state, will observe that
however short his interview
with another person may be,
it has had an effect upon him
And this influence is usually
exerted when we think little
about it; but we have prob
ably left impressions on some
minds which will never be
erased. And this influence
and constancy has often
great power; a single instance
of advice, reproof, caution or
encouragement, may decide
the question of a man’s res
pectability, usefulness and
happiness for a life-time.
How important, then that we
improve every opportunity
to make our life a blessing to
others.
plammaeTon^ theory .
The most remarkable of the
modern scientists, Camille
Flammarion, has been giving
a theory of the origin of gerol-
ites, which, altogether not
perhaps entirely new, is at
tracting attention. Every one
of these serolites, or uranoliLes
as they are also called, con
tains the same chemical con
stituents as the earth, but,
while this is'true, these con
stituents have never been
found in exactly the same ar
rangement as the stratified
earths on the* exterior surface
ot our planet. There is no
siliceous rock in an ^rolite
while the larger part of the
earth’s crust is composed of it.
This led to the conclusion that
if these bodies came from an
other planet that planet was
not a dead one like the moon,
but a young volcanic one,
like the earth before its shell
was formed. Flammarion sug'
gests that these serolites were
once a part of our earth- -
“perhaps’^ as the New Orleans
Times Democrat puts it “at
that epoch when order had be
gun to crystalize within the
chaos of fire, and the first thin
crust was being ,upheaved by
tremendous volcanic action—
perhaps even at a more recqnt
period. The American vol
canoes, now enfeebled or ex
tinct, might once have pos
sessed force enough to fling
masses far beyond the attrac
tion of the earth. Such pro
jectiles, unless caught by the
sun or other bodies, might in
obedience to irrefragable law,
play comet parts for a time,
describing enormous parabo^
las, and returning at each long
revolution to cross the terres
trial orbit. Unless it should
happen to meet the earth on
its first return, the aerolite
might travel for millions of
years before being finally ar
rested; and a uranolite dis
charged into space during the
upheaval of the Andes, might
fall back upon the world in
1883.”—Jour- and Obs.
D’lsraoli, when taunted as to
his being a Jew, replied: ‘“Oue-
half of the world worships a Jew
ess, the other lialf worships her
soil.” A. T. S.
Masonry has taught all na
tions to speak one language
by signs and symbols. She
glories in age, without the
least sign of dotage. She pre
sents herself to-day in all the
vigor of youth and with tfte
wisdom of manhood. She
moves like an angel of mercy
wherever suffering and want
are known. Her countenance
beams with the light of heav
enly charity. Her garments
are unstained, and her white
banner floats upon the breeze
of every clime, the admira
tion of the good and true of
every country. And while
she peacefully carries forward
her heaven-blessed work there
are those who, filled with envy
and hatred, would crush her
out of existence were it in
their power.
It was in 1851 that Louis
Kossuth visited our country.
While here he was made a
Ma.son by one of the old
Lodges of Cincinnati. In his
visits to the various parts of
the United States, occupying
about six months, he delivered
nearly three hundredspeeclies,
one hundred of which were
elaborate orations of his man
ner. While here, Daniel Web
ster expressed an opinion, “he
has the manner of a King; his
is a royal nature.” His ap'
pearance can never be for
gotten by those who saw him.
He was about five feet eight
inches in height, his frame
slight, his face expressive of a
penetrating intellect, long,
with a broad forehead, and
chin square but narrow. His
hair in front was thin, and
dark brown in color. His
beard was worn long but thin,
and displayed both taste and
neatness; moustache was long
and heavy. His eyes were
light blue, well set under a
full, arched brow, and large.
Complexion, pale. A melan
choly earnestness, refinement,
gentleness, manly force, and
an air of prompt, decisive ac
tion marked all his move
ments.
or the blending of personal
desire with social welfare.
Scientifically interpreted, tiie
crucifix is the exoresaion, in
hiiman figure, of self-surren
der in univeisality of sympa
thy. Because the attitude of
the form thoi’e outstretched is
the attitude of unlimited sub
missiveness and love* He
who is in that form or posture
is unarmed and helpless. He
has his breast open to receive
all, his arms spread to embrace
all. He commands not; he
threatens not. He assails no
one; he resists nothing. The
cross,then,in its intrinsic mean,
ing, denotes neitlier autliority
nor superstition, hut personal
surrender to universal laws
and power, that entire bar.-
mony wliich really represents
God.
When we liave that system
of realistic and cooperative
ethics, of which tlie example
given is a specimen, taken out
of the mere do'mains of the
Masonic Institution, and car
ried over into the kingly and
priestly domains as well,
absorbing wJiat is true in them,
while removing what is false,'
and everywliere applied to the
doings and dealings of society,
then we shall see the redemp
tion of the world. Because
the labor ■ f men will then be
regulated by justice, and their
happiness be perfected in sym
pathy. So mote it he! Let
us all say, So mote it be!
Notice the significance of
the cross in the industrial tra
ditions of the Masonic order.
In sharp opposition to the
ethics fashioned by the sym-
holistd of political sway and
to the ethics moulded by the
symbolism of priestly sjiecuN
lation, the ethics of Masonry
are shaped and animated by
the symbolism of human in
dustry founded on natural
science and reason. As to all
the emblems which this mor
ality employs, the meanings
inhere directly in the objects,
and are to be extracted tlience
by every untrammeled inteK
ligence. Here the true mean
ing of the cross is given by
geometry and duty. It is the
rudest outline of the form of
man, and it points in all the
six directions of the creation.
The bareness, accordingly,
suggests at once the total di
rections of space. Its head
points to the zenith; its foot to
the nadir; its back to the nortli;
its face to the south; its left
arm to the east; its right arm
to the west. Thus it explii^-
itly denotes universality. And
when the naked wood is
changed from cros.s to crucifix
by being loaded with the uni
versal weight of man, it ex
presses the surrender of iiidi
vidual will to universal law,
Committees on Orphan 4syiiim
Lily Valiev Lod^e, No. 252—.Tolui
R. Hill, William H. Uiddick, Eras-
tus E^'day.
Eureka Lodjfe, No. 283—G. A. J.
Sec’ile’* S. G. Patterson, Ciiarles W.
Alexander.
Fulton Lodge, No. 99—A.-Parker,
W.- W, Taylor, J. Samuel McCub-
bins.
Mount Energy Lodge, No. 140
Henry Haley, Joli ,i Knight, H. F.
Parrett.
H'ram Lodge, No. 40—George M.
Sinedes, Theodore Joseph, .Tolin
Nichols,
Evergreen Lofige, No. 303,—Tif,
Moirison, H. P. Harman, L. McN.
McDonald.
Fellowship Lodge, No. 84.—Jo
seph Parker, C. S. Powell, John T.
Cobb.
Wayne Lodge, No. 112.—E. A.
Wright, Augustus Edward, E, W,
Cox.
Cumberland Lodge, 364—Rev. A.,
R. J.'ittman,
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GRAND LEGTTJRER—Dr. 0.
D. Rice, Raleigh, N. C.
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Oysters and Ice Cream
Call and see what is in store, as we
cater to iir.st-class trade, and furnish
families, pic-nics and parties at short
notice with .all the delicacies of the
season. Soda water and ice cream will
be'specialties this season.
Sfi^Everything on the European P] an.
A few rooms to let.
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Fayetteville St., Raleigh, N. C.
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At 60 years of age, $12.50.
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