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.11 l. .'I •I ■siiikTww’i, . •Hai.Mu-'Cm.Xli.^UVJW^-C'.T.*’t •WA''3JKUr:i .•.‘'.■yBliU«.XJBL."1TJUB*R ^aifcjci" [KT ' n»t rcci-ivfiJ retit fy u« nt thii '>t}itT, Wlicii y ofaihlrcM. it inmtc'^iiV liiu' I') \v'ii'h tl'C piUKT .-11 ;in f!,.- ..h towl.L-ii iluDce wUli ml winlic 1 til:m lIlldciKtr) K1>1T0UL\L \OTKS. Thcve arc thousands suffer ing and actually starving in the distant land of China to day. We are asked to give of our means in this land of plenty to their needs. W' have much to say about their spiritual needs. We can not empbasiz' this too much Christ gave this life for the work and we arc command ed to carry this Gospel of good news and salvation t earth’s . remotest bounds But should not 'the physical needs be looked after? Thecc people are our brethreo, and we are letting them starve for food while we are living in luxury and plenty in America, Docs not their sufl’crlag move the hcu ta of our people? Can we by our negligence allow many people to perish and die? Will not their dead bod ies rise against the yicople of this laud and condemn them? Thev arc hungry nnd wenre noC’giving to them. Ho will it be with us in a coming day? Any one w'sliiog to help these needy ones con send to this cilice. If you wish to forward your means a little faster, you can send to Mr. Joseph G. Brown. IVcs. Cit.z.ns National Hank, KftVigh, N. C., or to The National Ked Cross of Ameri ca, at Washington, D. C. We sent $2.00 last week to Mr. Brown, sent from Grema- Icy church Greene county, through their pastor, Eld, L. T. Phillips. Arc there not many others who wish to lielp relieve these famishing thousands. Lny the matter upon your heart and think seriously over it nud act as the spirit directs. —o— lire. Austin of Blounts Creek writes that Ids little daughter euters the contest, cot so much to get a prize, but because he wants to see the paper build up and put into many homes where it does not go. We want to sec great ctVortb put forth by all our contestants nnd before the time runs out we hope to see several hundred new names added to the list. All who love the cause must love the paper. Not. because of the ability of any of Its craft but because It is our medium and means of commuulCAdon. Because through it much more (fiiclent and telling work may be done than through any other channel. We want to see all our peo ple interested from the diftcr- ent parts of the country. Wc hope tunny will yet enter the contest and thus help the cause. Let every one do their full duty, —0— Gnr Union Meetings have done and nre lining n good work in building up the waste places in the bounds of our connection. May this good work continue. Every church should be connected with some union meeting and through this medium a good work should be accomplished. The second union meeting district of the Central Con- ferenco ba'= been doing great woik for the school here It has dtclded to turn its funds to the school nnd surely it could not betngaged in n bett'-r work. Let the contributiotiH flow freely for this worthy enterprise. There is « union in the East that has done some excellent wci k, The ciiuichcs cf Oriental Btlhnven and N.-wbern will stand as worthy monuments to the efforts of the good brethren of the Eastern union. L'.'t all the unions take up special lines and see what may be done for a good cau.-ie. Every one who desires to see the good work go on should himself the ques tion, Am 1 doing my part in this great woik of making my denomination and the cause of Christ more power ful and a greater instrument for bringing the world to Christ? How much have I given for the support of our school at Aydon? What is ray church doing? Ami will ing to try to get students to attend this school the coming ear or at present? Our school should be dear to the hearts of all our people. We want to see an enrollment here the coming year douhl what we have ever i^cen. This may hi accomplished If we all do our full duty. A com petent faculty, and well fitted equipments will be presented in this moral and Christian community. If the Free Will Baptist cause lies deep in onr heaitsJetus show it by our speech, our acta, our coutri bntions and our patronage given the school. It is an in dividual matter with us all. What will we do? Sfiid good s!z?d check to Exura Dail at any time. --o— Are we really making the progress that w'C should as a denomination? If not what the cause of the nack- wardness? we recently saw this question in one of our churches: What would this church be If every member were to do as I do? The cure for all the backwardness that uow exists among churches and church member in an in dividual Qlfdir. If every min ister were as faithful as I am to meet hls appointments and do all he could for the cause, what would be the re sult? U every member were as true to pay hisducsiuonth- ly to the pastor as I am what would be the result? Would he get his pay or would he have to go empty handed? How about it Some no doubt come up very well bnt bow many turn a colil shoul dcr to their pastor. God help us to wake up and do our duty. If every member were to pay for Ids church paper as I pay for mine, what would be the rrsuli? Could it go or would it die? ITBUSOPINTBRBST. THOS. B. PKDEN, P. 1). nearer to them, would do the cause more benefit, so we bid them God speed and will help all we reasonably can, We have the paper of March, .14 before us and wc are exceed ingly well pleased with the able defense Bro. Wco 1 gives uur p(*sition. If wc under- stand astatemeut in the pa- p\.rarj«'bt, Eld. D. W. Gow who was flllicted with the ‘Old Orchard Beach’ Malaria, has recovered and taken bis old place in the ranks and is fighting valimuly for our grand histotic dcnoininatiou, ■iVc are having a glorious "Ilorac Coming” through ail the nation where w’c liave cbiirchiB but the West and Sjutb Wist are in the lead All, to make the return move, fully tlfcctive, should see to ic that they have a full dtJega. tlon in the (General Confer ence, in the bounds of the Midway Association, Geor gia, one year from the first Wednesday of next October Our General Conference has held all its sessions at the ConstitLition.'d lime and con- sideilngthe dilHcuUies, have been very well attended by properly elected dtlegatesand the proceedings very apt atd harmonious In the mean time give our benevolent so cieties ail the aid you can, (s. p;'cinlly the Foreign Mission, Home Mission and Education Gocleiies, Our General Baptist breth ren have c&u.bhsbed a mis sion on the Island of Guam in the raelfic Ocean and one minister is laboring there but we have not learned with what success All know this is a possession of the United States given us by the Spani ards, in part payment for our trouble in whipping them for their Inhuman treatment of the Cubans. All Associations that meet later than September, should appoint their dchgalea to the Genera! Conference the pres cut year or make an arrange ment to have it done by their Executive Committee, or in some other satisfactory man ner, next jear. It is of the greatest importance to have full delegation of careful conscientious brethren to de vise wise measures for our widely extended Zion. A fountain can not rise higher than its source. Many of our graded and common schools, we are glad that there are honorable except ions, are supplied with world ly Godless teachers who feel; no interest in the rnoral wel fare of their pupils, or of the community at large Such in structions are a detriment to the community nnd injury to the cause of education. Our schools should have in structors who think more of the virtuous elevation of Society than of their salaries and feel a deep interest in the moral religious and patriotic Icvntion of the children for the time being under their care. log that the diffusiott of sound leerning Is essential to the perpetuity of those blcfis- ings, have founded and en dowed a College at IlUlsdale. The trust^ cs may be changed with one exception, from any state, or country where Fr(c Will Baptists are found. The same is true of all the institu tions we named, two or three weeks ago. They belong to the D.-nomination, as such, and not to two. cr three states The MU'^^gan Daily gives Michigan, (t'.;2rlin, Wis consin, Indiana, Flinois, Cali- c as the ' jtions of this wili*- -md.s wno- .ibout In t .and es I The Free Will Baptist of the West and South-West have secured a page in the General lUptist Messenger, published at Owensville, Indiana, for a Free Will Bap tist Department and Elder f, Wood of Farmington, Missouri, for Editor. He is a thorough scholar and a sound Free Will Baptist and wc feel sure will do much for our cause through its columns. Our advice was to patronize our paper here, in Ayden, but they have thought this plan, on account of the paper being foroia and .JlUls seven principal n the west. We hr s-itisiy-our many have been asUitij a’iutions of leaC ^ .an pfclally abuut i' The murders, lens, la Carroll County, ginia, is one of tl>? fearful re suits of the use, manufacture, sale and illicit ’Jstilling of Alcoholic Liquor-’. It ought to so arouse the citlzms of that grand old State, that it will at once, pass a probibl tion law with such severe penalties, that this wicktd, Liquor Curse will be driven forever from its fair domain. WHAT IS CHRlS^UtMITV? Our life-long friend, Bro. James William Mauck, sends us the following extract from the act of the Michigan logla ture incorporating the Col lege over which he so ably presides, passed In lS5onnd never has been changed, or modified. The Denomination of Christians known ns Free Will Baptist, with other friends of education, gratefhl to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the prevalence of civil and re ligious liberty and intelligent piety in the land, nnd bcliev- Dear people of chetweutietb century, I think some of our good people have a verypecu liar idea about the meaning of Christianity. Some weeks ago 1 w'ns made to ask my 7'elf, If the people really had the true conception of the word, Christianity. If Web rter ia correct, to b2 a Chris tian is to be a firm believer in the doctrine of Christ and a follower of of all bis precepts, being of the pqme mind; for we read, ‘‘Except the mind that w'as in Christ Jesus be in us we are none of hii.” Task ed myself if Christ ever spoke harsh or roughly of anyone, or ever tried to discourage anyone. Then I let the Bible answer, and 1 find Christ to be a comforter to the sor*'ow ing, a lifter up of the fallen and a I'urdeti bcarer for the oppressed. 1 have never seen anywhere in the history of IHs life where he ever con demned anyone for his mis takes. The woman who was prostitute, who was brought to him, was not con demned by him. Instead, he shov^'ed to her and her accus ers his great sympathy for her by the advice begave,‘‘Go and sUi no more,” 1 have never seen were be or his apostles ever tritd to destroy anything he had labored so hard to establish; but all their efiorts were to uphold and defend it an'.id all of its oppressors. O.* exactly oppoislG to me that son'i of them think that the r -.rshestand most cruel won..) they, can say or write Qboi\,someone’s mistakes, i» the ' ;§I>;hest work of their religiou 'iood people, this does not mend the afi'ic tious of those poor mistaken persons, it only creates a feel ing of hatred in their hearts The mind of Christ was to get people to follow him, and if 1 have the right conception of a Christian, he has that mind of Christ and a burning desire to go out and get peo ple to follow them as they follow Christ. That was Paul’s desire and I think it is the same to-day with all per sons who are Christ like. Christ never built up at any time and then on account of other's wrongs endeavored to destroy it. If persons did not fly into a panslon and say al! maoder of bard things about them, but Instead, be prayed for them. But our people seem to think that is wrong They 11/into a hot passion and say everything that is hard and low, and they don’t stop at that; they season it highly w ith very hardaceusa tionn and slang expres.sione. Phis was not the mind o' Christ. In stead o' prayer and sympathy, our Christians of today give in return for a wrong or mis take hard cu's, so hard that it seems to me they areenougb to drive almost any human into G fierce anger; and really It V. ill except be has the mind of Christ in him. I ve’ily be lieve there have been driven ^ eStJi our ranks some very no b’e braius by this cruel meth od. By it several great splits have come about iu the church ami by It great ir flu eace has been destroyed and men’s lives have been blighted. I think, I ani sure, in fact 1 know some good useful min whose life and itllacnce has been entirely destroyed by the faultfinders who always see the little mistakes tb,at h'l neighbor or brother makes ^nd blows a very loud trum pet over it and makes moun tains out of mole hiiLs, and there me some who don’t ■stop at finding fault and say ing hard things, but go still further. As long as every g'-'cs tbolr way, so to f-peak, they work hard and pray oLea for the prosperiiy and development but when there is a cb.ange and they can’t control things as they desire they work just as hard to destroy those things which they have prayed to build, (hough it has always been 30 with the opposers of the right. lam very sorry that such is the case in onr ranks, nevertheless it is true, for there are some who have worked hard and prayed long and loud lor the development of our school and are now very busy enemies of ii; and I find that their iilluence is uch as the careless love to possess and advocate, for I have it to contend with very- ofteu. I don’t think that Christ ever displayed such a spirit. In the last Kssue of the Bap TIST the objections to the bis tory used in our school was referred to. I can’t sec how any fair mind can object to history. I would never have known where .'sprinkling first started if it bad not been told by Barnes’ history. From that history I learned where, by whom and upon whom sprinkling hod its beginning; bnt because history states rffltbese things it does not make oc'cai.'.- me believe that sprinkling is baptism and I don’t think it will make any fair mind br- lieveso. There bos bfen ob jections to the theology also I have for the past two months been carefully exam liung that book, and I am glad to say I cannot find onv- thiog in it that is not consist ent vs’ith the dcctrinc of the Bible as taught by the I-Vee Will Baptist. I find itagreat help to me to see things clear ly which heretofore I have only faintly understood. In other words, it gave me a better inslg’ac to the Bible doc trine than any other theology I have ever had the privilege to examine, and I can’t see how any one can find fault of it, without it is because of that spirit of wanting to tear down those things that we or they have tried to build. Is OKDER To THE Fuee Vi’ir.L B.h'tist Pith. Co., .Ayden, X. C. GENn.EiTE.NT-Pind enclosed $ for ^-hk-h you will send to my address the following S'. S. I.iteni- ture for the quarter r of.. S Dozen Senior Quarterlies, (>i COc. $ S Dozen Junior Quarterlies, rr/-50c. $ t [n n-l a Dozen Child’s Primer.-^, (a 30c. $ ffi Total, . State.. if it is I h tve always had a wrong cjncsplion I have alwoys thought that Chris tianity made men more sym pathetic towards wach other and to lay aside every t’ning that would hurt or efiead any ore. We know how we Iiate to have others speak ill of u3 or to try to destroy cur efforts for the cause, and if wc want others to speak well of ns and our (fiorts then let us do the .same for others Brethren, for bumauity’s, sake and for the cause f,f cur blessed Savior let tfcisbuii g and devouriug stop a.ud be known no more in cur ranks, and let us try to lead men and women to God, D -n’t ■‘ccminon or nrclean,” or un fit for an cff;rirg to God, if it 's permissible to the man. God ha-s given this world to His Son—its bnai-iess, its so ciety', its rccreafiors, its work, all its manifold and diversified activities. The whole cosmos is the eubj“ct of redemption. No Christian has any right to c >venant with the world, the flesh cr the devil for any division of the territory or the time. There is no chamber of the sou! at wbrc’a Jesus docs not knock.—Selected HAVIHG A Sl'ANDAnD. Many Christians fail atd drive them away by Eadeavor Societus words if such must be done ‘-'omo far short of the success let others do it. i'or God’s! ruight achieve Ir.cause sake, if you must find fault, P -t before them, find it in yourseif and not ia I ^ of xcelience some other. j reached with Goa’s, With hist wishes and prayers for all. As ever your humble servant tor the cause of Christ. J. P,.McCaskey SOLOMOb’S JHISrAKS. help and -vithin u defiolic limit of time. Ihe trouble with most of our good resolutioi a is their vagueness Toey have no de finiteness and no time limit; hence, they are as spineless - , as an angleworm. It was act the fact ot aa ..j Egyptian allmace which ru.a. oareelvcs, aad wc coagrat- edSoIomoa; >t was hia idea date oursHves iawardlv on a ofhlarehgicusl.feQa asepar-|good r,solatia, which al. ate thtag from bia fatuil v life. ‘ ^ rhls.s indicatcil in what he. ^ merely weakens instead of do as He desired, He did not this the spirit ofChrlstianity? said about the house for Pharaoh’s daughter. ‘‘And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the clty^ of David unto the house he had built for her, for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the hou.'-e of David, king of Israel, because the places arc holy, wheveunto the urk of Jehovah bath come.” The ark waa the symbol of the presence of God. Solooion separated his life in to two parts. From his life as a husband he (xcluded his re ligion. He barred and bolted one part of Ir.s life against God, under the excuse that was not holy enough f.or God’s presence'. Christians in all ages have been guilty of Solomon’s mis take. “We are willing,” says Kuskin, ‘ for Christ to o .-cupy the parlor and chief room, but we wish to keep a stool Id the kitchen upon which the devil may sit and lick the pots” The essence of Phari seeism was in separating the life into‘sacred’ and ‘secular.’ They scrupulously tithed mint, anise and cummin—that was sacred; but they neglect ed weightier matter.'i of law and judgment. Peter needed a special vision from heaven to convince him that nothing was “common or unclean.” The supremest wile ot the devil has ever be;n to per suade the Christian to build house for Pharaoh’s daughter—to leavesomething strengthens our character, as do all such resolutions that are not carried out But if wc had said, ‘T will, beginning tomorrow morn ing. and for at least one month, spend fifteen minutes lo prayer and meditation,” we should be much more like ly to carry out our resolve, and at the end of the month we should be ready to join the comrades of the Qalet Hour and perhaps make out- resolution efi.ctivc for the rest ot the year and the rest of-our lives as well—Francis. E. Clark, D D, losing- IheCompany of Christ. Teil me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tdl you the most likely pUce' tofindhioi. Have you lost Christ in the CiOsrt bv re straining pra5er Then it Is there you must seek and find Him Did you lose Cbiist by- sir? You w'ill find Hira in no other way but by giving up of the sin and set king by the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in which the lust doth dwtil. Did yon lose Christ bv neglecting'tht-Scrip turcs? You must find him in the Scriptures. It is a true proverb, “Look for a thing where you dropped it. It is there ” So look for Christ where you lose Him, for He has not gone away . . . With thine w'uole heart seek Him, and He will be found of thee, only give thyself thoroughly up to the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover Him in the life unconsecrated. To to thy joy and gladness-C the Christian there is nothing 1 H. Spurgeon.
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