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The Orphans' Friend. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1883. TEACHING. Among the most useful of the callings open to our young men and women is the pro fession of teaching. It 1 too little been looked upon as a profession; too few have re garded it as desirable for a life work, and sought it such. It has suffered detri ment, and its duties have fre quently been inefficiently per formed because the teacher was such only temporarily. We would not think of en trusting the health of a child in the hands of a quack; we demand that our physicians be trained for their work. Neither would we employ an attorney, that we believe to be unlearned in his profession. Yet we tolerate and encour'^ agt! the practice of teaching as a mere convenience, till something more profitable or more congenial is offered. Empiricism and inefficiency are the natural results of such a s} stem. The idea has been engendered and fostered that any one who has studied the text books is competent to teach school. The truth is, it involves dutie" at once diffi cult and delicate to e greatjde- gree. To meet its require^ ments properly, demands earnest attention, study and effort continually. There is no greater want in the educa tional system than teachers., those who, from the love of it, demote themselves to this work as a profession, not as a convenience. GOD MADE THE'fAMILI. It may be said, and with as much of truth as is generally to be found in a paradox, that man made state, lut that God made the family. Of the last clause, at all events, there can be no denial—God made the family. It is the unit ol society; the sum of the homes is society itself. According to the state of the homes of a town, or of a coun try, is the state of the place, and the state of the nation. 1 do not think that I err in noticin.ga decided diminuation of respect and reverence in side the walls of homes, with in the limits of the half centu ry to which my observation is restricted. I believe that an independence of act and speech, of conduct and man ner, is now claimed, and now conceded between parents and children, whether sons or daughters, which would not have been dreamed of in the earlier years of this century. .—“The mystery of law lessness doth already work^’ in the midst of us here, while' we are, perhaps, deploring the state of society abroad, and thanking God that we ate not as other nations ai e. If we would keep in any sense at the head of the nations, as the country of free institu tions, of willing loyalty, of strong family ties,above all,of a pure and enlightened faith, we must look to our homes. We must see that the relationship, —the primary, the aboriginal relationship--of parents and children is exercised with all authority and with all obe- clience,-.-Z>eaw Vaughan. There is intense sig;'ilicance in the extract printed above. The primary lesson of each human lite is obedience—sub mission to proper authority. This is a rebellious race. It is in a state of insubordination Our well-l:eing depends upon our rescue from this and our wil'ing subjection to law. Hu- niBii beings must trained io thi.-i subjection ; the family is the 1 lace to train them. It is divinely instituted, and at least one of its purposes, is to aff 'rdjust this training to each individual. Let a child be disobedient to his parents with impunity and he will proba bly be disobedient to the laws 1 f the State and the laws of God. This involves ruin,mor al and eternal. On the con trary, if he be trained to hab its of obedience in the family there is good hope that he will have such regard to the au thority of law as to secure his well-being by obedience to it. A preacher has no more right to kiss a woman, who happens to be a member of his church, than any other masculine acquaintance has. —Biblical Recorder. Judas kissed his Lord to be tray Mm, and since that time kissing among men has been usu ally avoided. But Jacob kissed Rachel at the well, and the fash ion still prevails. The trouble is to know exactly where to draw the line. Dr. Poindexter and l>r. Walters used to kiss the daughters of their particular friends, and say, “I love you for your father’s sake.” Pastors ought to be both prudent and affectionate when visiting their flocks. Does any one say that B'shop P^ndlon should have re fused the kisses of the children, when he' had driven home the poor widow’s cow f Sick peo ple often feel neglected, and are sometimes very much comforted by any manifestation of affec tion. We all remember One who, with the prospect of a cruel death before him, seemed to be comforted because his feet were kissed, even by a woman that 3 a sinner, J. H. M. Dr. Isaac Simpson, of Winns* boro, S. 0., was attacked by mask- eii men and severely punishefl. He had an orphan North OaroUna jirl, only 14 years old, living with him and he ruined her. He has left for parts unknown.— Wilming ton Star. Yes, about;six years ago he came to the Orphan Asylum to adopt a daughter and took a nice little girl about eight years old. Afterwards I saw the girl and her adopted mother in Charlotte. They seemed to love each other very tenderly, and there was every prospect of a happy life. Now the Devil, in the shape of lust, has blasted all. lu spite of all my care in locating or phans (of which so many complain) several cases of this kind have occurred. One girl was ruined and sent away by the sou of the lady who had made motherly promises. She brought suit, but the lawyer compromised for a hundred dollars, and took fifty for his fee. The other fi;ty was taken by the widow in whose house she was confined, and the poor girl was left with nothing but a baby. J. H. m: Beautiful eyes are those that show Beautiful thoughts that burn be low ; Beautiful lips are those whose words Leap from the heart like songs of birds; Beautilul hands, are those that do Work that is earnest, and brave, and true, Moment by moment, the whole day through. THE SECRET OF TRUE HAPPI NESS. What is happiness? Can you tell me, children? “Well,” says noisy Ben Borden, “I was happy, I tell you, last holiday, a deal hap- j)iev than I am now, when I 1 ia\ e to go to school. I went fishing and riding and swim ruing and sailing, and it was just splendid. Now it’s all books and study from morn ing till night. I am getting almost tired of it already. I would like holiday time all the year round.” “I am most happy,” says gentle Annie “when I am helping mamma, I like my school ever so much. We have a nice teacher, and there are^some very pleasant girls there. We have real good times together. But I think I am the happiest, the deepest- down kind of happiness, you know, when I am helping mamma. It seems to make hes so glad.” Annie comes nearer it than Ben. No doubt Ben had a grand, good time, and found his sport very enjoyable. But Annie’s happiness goes deeper and lasts longer. Is there any better kind of happiness than Annie’s even? “I feel very happy,” says sweet M-iry Minton, “when I think I love Jesus and that He loves me.^’ That is all she says; but you can see in her daily con • duct how happy she is. She goes singing about her work; she is lively in her play; she tries to help her mother all she can; and if you watch her, you cfn see that she has real deep happiness coming from something within. Now, children, it is just where Mary finds it that we all must find it. Ben’s hap piness is a good kind, so far as it goes. I like boys and girls too, to enjoy themselves at their sports. But this kind of happiness does not go very far. Annie’s happiness goes farther, because it^s a deeper and better kind. It is a kind of happiness that don’t stop, as Ben^s does, when the play is over. Annie carries the satisfaction of being helpful to her mother with her even when she is engaged in other duties, or is at her play, and it helps to make her happy. But Mi ry has found out the secret of true happiness. She loves Christ, and knows that Christ loves her. So she carries her happiness with her wherever she goes and into whatever she does. Are there not many of the dear children who read this who want to find the true secret of happi ness? I hope that there are. It is to love Jesus with all your heart. Anthony Trollope, just before he laid down his pen never to take it up again, wrote these words,which will appear in his last novel: “Amusement is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. Love gives itself and is not bought; but all true love is founded on esteem.’ When such distinguished men as the late President Martin Van Buien, Geo. Badger, late Secretary of the Navy; Gov Edward Stanley,' of California; Gov. Iredell, of North Carolina; Sena tors Talmage, of New York; Preston, of South Carolina; Hendeison, of Mis sissippi; Hon. Beverly Tucker, of Vir ginia ; Bishop Green, of Ihssissippi, Freeman, of Texas; Gen. Me Comb, of Georgia; W. H. Appleton, of New York; Rev. Dr. F. L. Hawks, of New York, and a host of other such men give strong certiticates of the value of a medicine, it must have intrinsic worth. All this is true of BECKWITH’S AN TI-DYSPEPTIC PILLS, and to-day they are as good as they were when tliose certificates were "written. Ed. R. Beck'with, Sole Proprietor, Petersburg, Va. Folks are more sociable in sum. mer time than in any other period of the year. In this sort of weath er it is impossible to turn a cold shoulder upon anybody. “There’s a world where all are equal Wo are hurrv ing towards it fast; We shall meet upon the level there, When the gates of death are past. Wo shall stand before the Orient, And our Master will be there— To try the blocks we offer By His own unerring square. Let us meet upon the level, then, While laboring patient here; Let us meet and let us labor, Though the labor be severe. Already in the western sky The signs bid os prepare To gather up our working-tools, And part upon the square. Hands round, ye faithful Masons, Form the bright fraternal chain; We part upon the square below, To meet in Heaven again; Wliat words of precious meaning, These words masonic are: We meet upon the level, And part upon the square.” THE LECTURES. In too many instances our lodges are so crowded with work, that they scarce ever find time to lecture. The candidate is hurried through the degrees with all speed, and,in many cases, important explanations left out, and at last he is informed that there is a lecture connected .with the degree, to which he is titled, and which, alas! in too many instances, this “con venient season” never comes. The candidate is, therefore, imperfectly instructed in his duties, his 0. B.’s, and in the real sesrets of the Order; A continuance in this prac tice of omitting the lectures belonging to the degrees, in time begets rustiness in the lecturer. This rustiness is a serious evil. In . such a lodge nothing can be done unless there is work. Members ex cuse themselves from attend ing the meeting when there is no work, because they are getting so rusty in the lectures that it is no use to attempt them. This practice, then, of at tempting so much work that it cannot be properly finished, by filling our ranks with half-instructed members, se riously endangers the perpe tuity of the institution, and, by a continuance of the prac tice, we may be certain that, ere long, there will be little left of Mr sonry except the name, and perhaps, not even so much as that. ***** Previous to about the year 1720, when a person was ini tiated, passed, or raised, the secrets were communicated to him, and the explanations giv en him in such language as the Master could command ft the time. But about this time, as an assistance to masters of lodges, Drs. Anderson and Desaguliers, two eminent Ma sons, compiled or arranged the information necessary to be given to candidates into the form of questions and answers, still proserv** iug the name that had been previously applied to the usual instruction of the Mas ter—that of “Lectures. ’ So favorably were these received, that the Grand Lodge of England adopted the form, and ordered them to be given in the lodges. In the year 1732, the lec tures of Audersoa and Desag uliers were revised by Martin Clare, who added a brief allu sion to the human sense and the theological ladder. A few years later, Thomas Dunkerly, who was consider ed the most intelligent Mason of his day, extended and im proved the lectures, and, among other things,gave to the theological ladder its three most important rounds. These continued to be used until 1763, when Rev. Wm- Hutchinson gave them an im proved form. Hutchinson explained the three lights by “the three great stages of Ma sonry: the knowledge and worship of the God of nature in the purity of Eden; the ser vice under the masonic law when divested of idolatry; and the Christian revelation. But most especially our lights are typical of the Holy Trinity.” Again, in 1772, these lec tures were revised and im proved by Preston, whose system was the standard in England until the union of 1813, when Dr. Hemming es. tablished the system now generally practised in the English lodges. The preston lectures were early introduced into this country, and were consider ably modified-by T. S. Webb, whose system has been the basis of all those taught siuce his day in the lodges of the United States. ***** But the lectures,as a whole, are not landmarks of the Or der. They are the simple text of Masonry—“a course of instruction in which the cer emonies, traditions, and mor al instructions appertaining to the degree are set forth, while the extended illustra tions which are given to them by an intelligent master or lecturer—and which he can only derive from a careful study of scripture, ot his tory, and of the publish ed works of learned masonic writers—constitutes the com mentary, without which the simple text is comparatively barren and uninteresting.’’ These commentaries are the philosophy of Masonr}^ with out a knowledge of which no brother can claim our techni cal title of “a bright Mason.’’ While, therefore, the intel ligent Mason will give the text in the language prescrib ed for him by his Grand Lodge, he will not feel him self rigidly confined to this alone, in imparting instructions to hivS less informed brethren. The ritual contains but a small part of the “body of Masonry,’’ and most certainly a very small quota of its his-’ tory and phllosoph}^; and the Mason whose only knowledge of the institution audits doc- tiines has been derived from this source, can hardly lay claim to an intelligent knowl edge of Freemasonry. —Mmer- ican Freemason, Coiniiiitt4ieson Oi'|»liaii Asylum Lily Valley Lodge, No. 252—John K. Hill, William IL Riddick, Eras* tu3 Baudey. Eureka Lodge, No. 283—G. A. J, Secliler, S. G. Patterson, Charles W. Alexander. Fulton Lodge, No. 99—A Parker, '■ f. W, Taylor, J. Samuel McCub- bins. Mount Energy Lodge, No. 140— Henry Hale3% Job i Knight, H. F. Parrett. Hiram Lodge, No. 40—George M. Smedes, Theodore Joseph, John Nichols. Evergreen Lodge,' No. 303—M, Morrison, 11. P. Harman, L. McN. McDonald. Fellowship Loilge, No. 84.—Jo seph Parker, C. S. Powell, John T. Cobb. Wayne Lodge, No. 112.—E. Ai Wright, Augustus Kdward, E, vV Cox. Cumberlaud Lodge, 864—Rev. A R. i'ittman, Salem Lodge, N >. ‘289—J. W; Hunter, C. A. (-'ogle, Ohas. Hauser. Cobarie Lodge, No. 379—A. J. Butler, J. 1), 0. Oulbreth and R. W. l-ioward. , Wiusfcou Lodge, No. 167—J. Q. A. Bari'am, W. H. rdider, E. B. Whitsell. GRAND LECTURER—Dr. 0. D. Rice, Raleigh, N. C. THE NEW LAND FOR SALE. A CHANCE FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO GROW FINE TOBACCO. Over 600 acres ol Beaver Dam Fine Tobacco land for sale. As good us there is. It lies in one body and will be sold all together, or cut izp Into si;.all tracts to suit purchasers. Is sit- u.ated in Brassfields Township, Gran ville county, N. C., two and a half miles south-west of Wilton. Has a large portion of original growth on it, is well timbered, and has a large body of bottom land. There are upon the premises a two story dwelling, containing four com fortable rooms, four flue curing tobac co barns, with other necessary out buildings. Only part of the purchase money will be wanted in cash, for the rest two or three years will be given. Apply to W.R.WALTERS, or S.H.CANNADY, 12-6t. Wilton, N. C. JONESBORO HIGH SCHOOL, Jonesboro, Moore Co., N. C. The next Session of this School will begin July 30th, 1883. For circulars or information apply to Prof. William C. Doub, a. M. 8-6t Principal. Wheeler & Wilson SEWme MACHINE With Straight Needle aud Improved Bobbin, is, beyond all doubt, the Most Perfect and Sat isfactory Sewing Machine in the WORLD. S®“Sold oneasytei-ms. Agentsan Dealers wanted. Address WHEELER & WIT.SON; M’P’G CO., Raleigh, N. C. Farming Implements. EDWARDS&ROGERS GENERAL iartalriits OXFORD, N. C. Will supply Flue Iron or Tobacco Flues prepared, ready for use, at LOW RATES. We keep on hand a’ well selected stock of HARDWARE of every doSj cription, embracing CROCKERY AND GLASS-WARE,^ COOKING AND HEATING STOYTHIS, POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY. WOODEN AND WILLOW-WAR Guns and Pistols, Cartridges, Ammunition AND SPORTING GOODS. We invite attention to our stock of mmm MicHim OILS, NEEDLES 4ND ATTACHMENTS.. We also carry a heavy stock of Paints Oils, BRUSHES AND VARNISHES.
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