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OXFORD, N. C., JUNE 22, 1883.
(VOL. IX. NO. 5,
EAT / HE EE FILLED.
“And they did all pat and were Ailed.”
Eat and he filled^ no scant is ligre;
Welcome, brave Knights, to ample
cheer!
The hand Divine hsfith bleat our
bread, •;
Freely partake—for you’tis spread!
Eat and he filled, come thii kly now,
‘‘Xiie more the merrier,” we vow !
bis day to us is blest and i right—
Praise God for ^ this ^ost .goodly
sight!
Eat a/nd be filled, let merry jest
Betray tbejpy of every gue^t^ •
Let rairtji .Abound' ’and lightsome
song
Our gl ;d feativities pro'ong.'
Eat and he filled, may He who fed
Ten thoHjsand with the fish aud
bread,
Enlarge ouir ,Knightly c-t-oro..to feed
Earth’s stamng millions in ■ their
nee 1.
—Masonic Beiaieio.
OMFS HERITAGE,
BY ANNAH KOBINSON WATSON.
‘I'll make ydu sorry for
that, sirV^e il I do;i’t’
‘Comemnd do it now, then,
I’m re^y^but you know well
enoug^I did ript mean to
step oh ypur book.’
‘Boys, boys, what is wrong;
what unkind, angry words,
Harry.’
‘Well, niotheivonly look at
my new Scrap-book, two
pages just finished, and now
rained by.^ack^? oiuddy boot,
its too provoking.’
‘Mother,', l^in -very,sorry,’
interrujited Jack.r ;‘but you
see the rootn' is‘aark, with
only the firelight, and I did
not notice the book on the
floor.’
‘It seems you never,notice
anything,’ added Harry, still
cross and angry.
‘Mother, when Jack \or any
other boy treats me so I just
hate him, I'want to strike
right away,only you say we
mustn’t ’
‘I am v^y; ,ver|^l sorry,
my son, to know that even
for a moment you harbor
such sinful thoughts.’
‘Well, mother, I just can’t
help it, there’s n/;i use trying.’
‘I quite t agree with you,
there is no use trying so long
as you rely upon your own
strength,but G-od is our refuge
and strength^ against our sins
and temptal^qp as well as in
our sorrows; with his help you
surely could overcome this,
your most grievous fault,
Will you be better able to
control an evil, unreasoning
temper when it has grown
with your ; grow.fh and
strengthened with indulgence?
Let me tell you of .a b(i»-y who
said just as you dOt w.l>(^n;a^*
gry, ‘I cannot help it,’and al
lowed his temper . tpib^eicoine
his master. The story ds suc^
a sad one it pains , m,e^e.Yen
yet to dwell upoit it, andjhas
always seemed tO|Q'W^essing
to be told nty . bov, buy the
remembiance”' ol 'WlH -Ashton
may aid you.. .TIm is a
true one. '
‘We were feiends,' h@ and I,
at the vijla^e #hppl, good
friends, though' I was two
years older. He was bright
and quick at his ies^pn's, and
pleasant and lovable.v so long
as not angry,' but the most
unreasoning,' ungovernable
creature when bis tenaper was
aroused I . have eyer known.
He was generous and selfish
by fits and starts, indolent and
industrous as his inclinations
led him, but quick-tempered
and passionate always. Of
course I do not mean that his
temper had been always so
unruly, that is never possi
ble; it had increased with his
years,and through neglect had
gone quite beyond his power
of control. Sometimes I beg
ged him, ‘Oh, Will, be more
patient with the little ones,’
for he was very harsh with
them and easily angered; snd
often after some outburst of
passion, be would exclaim,
petulantly‘ ‘Oh, I can’t help
it, there’s no use trying.’
‘There came one year to
the school a little stranger.
Bonnie Thruston; he was the
child of a widow whose home
was twenty miles away and
Bonnie was to live with a
neigh! or of ours aud attend
school. He was* quiet aud
gentle, small for his years and
from the first was ridiculed
by the other boys, but most
especially by Will Ashton,
who, though a year older than
Bonnie, resorted to the wick
ed practice of teasing and ag
gravating liiiUv One day Will
was more annoyed than usual
and there was a scuffle be
tween the two in which Bon
nie, by some chance, tripped
him. It was a hard fall and
hurt Will, who sprang up
vowing vengeance.
‘Fll teach you to try that
again!’ he said fiercely. ‘I’ll
be thrown by a baby, wont I;
you dare not meet me in the
hollow beyond the village;
see the coward.’
‘I will not take a dare!’
Bonnie answered promptly.
‘Come on boys,^ called Ned
Staunton, ‘let’s see fair play.’
‘It was late in the after
noon ^nd school had just been
dismissed, but the boys were
not allowed to remain on the
grounds and six or seven of
them hurried off to a beautiful
place just beyond the village,
where we frequently went on
pic-nic,excursions in the sum
mer. Here thpre was some
parleying after the fashion of
boy!-',then suddenly .Will cried
out: ‘Well, let’s give him a
chance to escape; I will stand
here; I will not touch him un
less he crosses that path; he
need not do it unless he
chooses, if he does, we fight.’
‘But suddenly Will drew
from his pocket a pis.tol; ‘now
let’s see if he will take a dare!
watch for the white feather.’
‘There was an exidamatiou
from the other boys, but be
fore any one could speak Bon
nie sprang across the path; a
shot rang through the valley;
a wild cry went up from the
knot of boys; Bonnie had fal
len. A jet of blood spurted
out from his side, dyeing the
beautiful golden crocuses
which grew where he lay.
‘Oh, Will! Will! you have
killed him!’ cried Ned Staun*
ton; ‘run, Ernest,- get Doctor
Wells quickly, his heart is
still beating.’
‘It was almost dark when
the doctor dashed up and
springing from his horse knelt
by the poor boy. Will was
there too, his face pr.^ssod
against the wet grass, his
hands clinched.
‘Ob, Doctor, save him, save
him, I did not mean to shoot,
only to ft-i«hten him.’
‘A few nioments there was
silence, then very sternly the
doctor answered, ‘He is dy
ing-
“A hush, solemn .and terri
ble had fallen upon the group,
a silence in which each heard
his own heart beat,- and each
seemed to keep time with the
slow, unsteady throb of that
other from which the life was
surely ebbing.
‘Suddenly one of my little
brothers rushed through the
gate crying wildly, “Oh, sis
ter, Bonnie Thruston has been
shot! he is dying! he is dying.’
‘I was sitting on the front
gallery in the twilight and
sprang up quickly when the
frightened voice fell upon my
ear. ‘Where, Ernest? How?’
’ ‘They are bringing him
now,’ he gasped.
‘Not waiting for more I
hurried away .With him, not
really understanding anything
about it, but thinking some
one might be needed.
‘The moon was just rising
and the village street looked
white and ghastly in the clear
light; soon I .’’saw flpproach-
ing, down the empty, silent
road, a dark o’bjeict. Oh, I
can never forget the sight up
on which the moon shone that
night. A rough board upon
which lay the poor murdered
boy, supported by six of his
awe-stricken schoolmates; and
walking behind, with the phy*
sician, Will Ashton. His
head was bowed, his arms
hanging listlessly, his eyes
bent upon the ground; I could
not speak for horror, but turn
ing and walking silently by
his side laid my hand upon
his. For one moment his
face was lifted to mine, and I
pray God never again to look
upon such a countenance;
white, livid, the eyes blood
shot, the lips colorless, and
the cheeks so blanched that
they seemed suddenly to have
grovyn sunken and hollow.
‘We followed those who
bore the corpse to the house
where Bonnie had been liv
ing, and later when he was
dressed and laid upon a couch,
I went in and brushed the
Jjrown silken cqrls, arranged
the little white tie^t bis throat
and smoothed into a natural
position the small delicate fin
gers. Will knelt there the
whole of that terrible night,
he c(?uld not be persuaded
away and nothing could com-
fort him nothing lessen his
pain.
‘I was wild with a’lgerl’ he
said, again and again, ‘that,
was my sin, I did not mean to
hurt him, indeed I did not.’
‘Had Will learned to con
trol his temper, haff he been
more gentle and forbearing
this fearful crime would not
have been committed; had he
not in jest pointed the deadly
weapon, worn in disobedience
to his father’s command^ Bon
nie might yet be alive.
‘The dead boy was carried
to his mother the next day.
Will went off with his father,
and I have never known his
fate, but do you suppose he
could-have led a happy life?
“Ah, Harry, learn in time
that your deadliest enemy is
this sinful temper, that it may
wreck your happiness here
and hereafter, and that only
by the aid of the Holy Spirit
can it be overcome. Take
for your verse this week,
‘Put on, therefore, as the elect
of God, kindness, liumbleuess
of mind, meekness, long suf
fering, and let the peace of
God rule injyour heart.’ And
when it seems hardest to con
quer, remember the words,
‘The Lord is the strength of
my life.’
lostea I of dying, the Jewish
body shows increasing -vitality.
They cannot be stamped out,
nor swallowed up. They pass
from country to country, to be
come practically masters wher
ever they go. They get the
land in Germany .and in Hunga-
ryjand grow rich in Russia; they
are the great bankers in London
and Paris and the centres of Eu
ropean commerce. In ten (re
cent) years the Rothschilds furn
ished «500,000,000 in bans to
England, Austria, Prussia,
Prance, Russia, and Brazil. Bar
on Lionel de Rothschild com
pelled the British Parliament,
after a struggle of some years,
to admit him to take a seat in
the House of Commons without
taking the oath bn the faith of
a Christian.’ They increase fas
ter than the Christiana—in the
ratio of 6.5 to 3.8. Only 89 Jews
die in the 100,090 to 143 Chris •
tians. In Prussia it is shown by
statistics that out of 10,000 Jews
1,132 are directors in banks
against 509 Christians out of lo,-
000. Thirty per cent, of the
sons of Jews are in the High
Schools of Berlin, and Jews edit
or control the majorityof theQer-
man newspapers. In New Fork
they have a synagogue costing
over $1,000,000, and every Amer
ican city has one or more syna
gogues—controlled by the legis
lative code of the man ilfosea.
During the late Confederate
war, it is stated, that “all the
gold in the Confereracy was in
the hands of the Jews and their
agents,” Their hospitals and
alms-houses are said to be the
finest in the world.
Despite the prejudices against
them, in Germany, and especial
ly in France, they have forced
their way to leading positions on
the bench, at the bar, in medi
cine, in letters, in the universi
ties. Three of the most notable
men of our day have been Jews
—or have Je-wish blood—Dis
raeli, Gambetta, and Judah P.
Benjamin.
APPLES AS FOOD.
An exchange states the bene
fits of apples to be as follows;
“A raw, mellow apple is digested
in an hour and a half, while boil
ed cabbage requires five hours.
The most healthy dessert that can
be placed on a table is a baked
apple. If eaten frequently at
breakfast with coarjje bread and
butter, without meat or flesh of
any kind, it has an admirable ef
fect upon the general system,
often removing con8tipation,cof-
recting acidities and cooling off
febrile conditio)]8 more effectual
ly than the most approved med
icines. If families could be in
duced to substitute them for
pies, cakes and sweetmeats, with
which their children are fre
quently stufl'ed, there would be
a dimunition in the total sum of
doctors bills in a single year suf
ficient to lay in a stock of this
delicious fruit for the whole sea-
soQ'’s use.”
MANKIND’S MISTAKES.
It is a mistake to labor
when you are not in a fit
condition to do so.
To think that the more a
a personeats the healthier and
stronger he will become.
To go to bed at midnight
and rise at daysbreak and im--
agine that every hour taken
from sleep is anhour gained.
To imagine that if a little
work or exercise is good, vio-*
lent or prolonged exercise is
better.
To conclude that the small
est room iu the .house is large
enough to sleep in.
To eat 5r;s it you only had
a minute to finish the meal in,
or to eat without an appetite,
or continue after it has been
satisfied, merely to satisfy tlie
taste.
To believe that children can
do as much work as grown
people, and that the more
hours they study the more
they learn.
To imagine that whatever
remedy causes one to feel im
mediately better (as alcoholic
stimulants) is good for the
system, without regard to the
after effects.
To take off proper cloth
ing out of season, simply be
cause you have become heat'
ed.
To sleep exposed to a di
rect draft in any season.
To think that any nostrum
or patent medici' e is a spe
cific for all the diseases flesh
is heir to.- -Index.
PREACHING. EDITING, AND
FARMING.
The saying of Horace Gree
ley, that he had never met a
man who did not think him
self competent to run a farm
or newspaper, in how many
other things he might have
failed, is well known. It be
gins to look as if every one
now thinks himself fully pre
pared to preach the-gospel,
judging from the advice heap
ed upon clergymen from all
quarters, and by all sects of
people, concerning the sub
jects upon winch t ey should
preach and the topics they
should pass by. And it is
note worthy that the ones most
ready to give direction to min
isters are those who know
very little about the gospel,
and upon whom its effects, to
say the least, are not apparent.
Dr. Chalmers arraigned intem
perance in the following wtjrds :
“Before God and man, before
the Church, the world, I impeach
intemperance. I charge it with
the murder of innumerable souls.
I charge it as the cause of al
most all the ignorance and pov
erty, and almost all the irreli-
gion that disgrace and afflict the
land. I do in my conscience be
lieve that these intoxicating
stimulants have sunk into perdi
tion more men and women than
found a grave in the deluge
which swept over the highest
hilltops, engulfing the world, of
which eight were saved. As
compared with other vices, it
may be said of this, ‘Saul hath
slam bis thousands, but this Da
vid his tens of thousands.’ ”
In the first 1,500 years of the
history of Christianity [referring
to four large colored cliarts on
the wall] it gained 100,000,000
of adherents; in the next 300
years 100,000,000 more; but in
the last 100 years it has gained
210,000,000 more. Please make
these facts vivid. Here is a stafl’.
Let it represent the course of
Christian history. Let my hand
represent 500 years. I measure
oft' 500, 1,000, 1,500 years. In
that length of time how many
adherents did Christianity gain?
One hundi'ed million. 1 add
three finger-breadths more. In
that length of time how many
adherents did Christianity gain?
One hundred million. In the
300 years succeeding the Refor
mation Christianity gained as
many adherents as iu the 1,500
years preceding; but I now add
a single finger’s-breadth to rep
resent one century. Huvv many
adherents has Christianity gain
ed in that length of time? Two
hundred and ten millions more.
Such has been the marvelous
growth of the Christian nations
in our century, that in the last
83 years Christianity has gained
more adherents than in the pre
vious eighteen centuries. These
are facts of colossal significance,
and they cannot be dwelt on too
graphically or too often. By ad
herents of Christianity I mean
nominal Christians—that is, all
who are not pagans, Mohammed
ans, or Jews. At the present
rate of progress, it is supposed
that there will be 1,200,000,000
of nominal Christiads in the
world in the year 2ooo.—Jos. Cook
When a great citizen of Flor
ence lay dying of the plague, de
serted by bis courtiers, abandon
ed by his friends and bis own
family, he appealed to a crowd
under the window for some ofliee
of charity. “No,^’said one, “you
are not rich enough to buy us.
We will not give life for gold.”
But up started a youngman and
rushed through the crowd, ex
claiming, “I will come in to you
not for mouej but for gratitude;
for I am one of those you saved
from the death-block.’’ That is
the language of true Christian
love, It says to Christ, “I will
come to thee not for thy great
name, not for reward, not for
praise, but because I am one thou
hast saved from death
THE NEW BOYLE ROCHE.
Mr. Kenny, M. P-, is one
of the most muddled modern
manufacturers of mixed meta
phors. A short time ago lie
spoke of Mr. Erringlon as ‘an
understrapper; a mere politi
cal fly who is acting the
part of a snake in the grass,
a back stair assassin of the
people.’ It is to be hoped
that the ghost of Sir Boyle
Roche will not,inspired by en
vy, disturb Mr. Kenny’s slum^
bers.
Mr. Isham Bridglor(3,-Warrenton, N.
C., says : “I had the dropsy and was
benefited by using Brown’s Iron Bit
ters.”
The most influential paper
in Japan, edited by a native
Buddhist, nevertheless had
the frankness to say. in a re
cent editorial on ‘the Jesus
way,’ as Christianity'' is called
in that land: ‘See what bless
ings this religion confers!
Open the map of the world
and look at tlie nations of the
earth.* There is not a Bud
dhist nation among them th^^t
knows what liberty is. The
weakest and most insignifi
cant Christian countries liave
more liberty than the most
powerful Buddhist countries,
is it not time for Japan to ad
vance?^’