CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
SATURDAY, - OCf. 29, 1887.
OUR CHURCHES.
St. Michael's (P. E.) Churoh, Mint St.
Services ftl 10 a. m. and Bp. m. Sunday
school at 4p. m. Kov. P. P. Alston, pas
tor.
M. E. Church, Graham Street. Ser
vices at 8 p. in. and 8 p. m. Sunday
school at 10 a. m. Rev. E. M. Collett,
pastor.
hirst Baptist Church, South Church St.
Services at 11 a. in., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m.
Sunday-school at 1 p. m. Rev. A. A.
Powell, pastor.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, East Second
It. Services at 11 a. m., 3p. m. and Bp.
n. Sunday-school at 1 p. in. Rev. /..
lAUUHTON, pastor.
Presbyterian Church, corner Seventh
and College Sts. Services at 3 p. m. and
Bp. ill. Suuday-sehool at 10 a. in. Rev.
It. P WrcitE, pastor.
Clint on Chapel, (A. M. E. Mint St.
Services at 11 a. in., 3 p. in. and 8 p. in.
Sunday-school at Ip. m. Rev. M. Slade,
pastor.
utile Rock, (A. iM. E. V..) E St. Ser
viecs at 11 a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. m.
Rev. IVii. Johnson, pastor.
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Rev. P. J. Holmes, P. O. box 73,
Rockingham, N. C., is the Supreme
Governor of the Universal Brother
hood of North Carolina.
If you would keep up with times, you
should take this paper, read it, write
for it, and help make a good history
for your race.
The Sick List.
Mrs. Mattie Weddington was taken
very sick last Saturday. She is now
much improved. Mrs.’ Malissa Hen
derson was taken quite ill Monday
night and suffered much. She is im
proving. Mrs. Robert Hayse has
about fully recovered from her spell
of sickness of two or three weeks ago.
The rain and mud was too much for
the fair in Raleigh this week. Many
people went to Raleigh but failed to
get out to the grounds. The exhibits
were good, though not so large in the
Floral Hall as formerly. The pro
ducts of the farm and garden were the
best and fullest for several years. Ca-'
barrus county took the lead in stock
and productions of the farm. Raleigh
was all rain and mud, lienee no pleas
ure.
H. B. Kennedy is still over on
South Graham street selling groceries,
fruits, notions, etc., as cheap as any
store in the city, lie is not seen up
town very much because he is kept so
busy waiting on his customers. lie
dout know what it is to he idle. Why
before his trade built up, he spent his \
few idle moments painting sceneries,
battles, etc. He is a fine artist.
Specimens of his work hangs all over
his store. Call and nee him.
The Synod will convene in the 7th
street Presbyterian Church next Wed
nesday. Among all the Presbyterian
ministers, we expect to meet Rev. 1). J. ,
Sanders, and one feature of his husi- ,
lie-- will he to look after the interest
of his paper. We always sympathise
with the newspaper man, and hope
Brother Sanders will have every old
subscriber renew and get as many
new ones. Wc expect to get a few
also.
The Charlotte District Conference
awarded prizes to|the two ministers rais
ing the full amount of general fund first,
ltcv. J. W. Thomas of Biddle got the
first prize, and Rev. R. H. Htitt of
Grace Church the second. This is
hut another evidence that these yong
men are loved by their people nnd
that they intend to stay in the front
rank of all good w orks.
Mrs. Nanie Smith and Mrs. lamina
Thomas arrived home from Atlanta
last Friday night. They will remain
home some time.
Mr. R. E. Grier left for Leonard
Medical school in Raleigh, last Mon
day night.
Rev, Wm. Johnson had a grand
rally at Little Rock last Sunday.
Prizes were given to persons contribu
ting the largest sums.
Messrs W. H. Houser, W. W. Smith
and W. 11. Freeman were at home on a
visit from Ellenboro this week.
Miss Nora Tyler loft for Ridgeway
S. C. on Thursday to teach.
Miss Josie Eady is now in Augusta
attending school. She left home about
two weeks ago.
The easiest and best shavE we have
had in a long time was given us just
before starting to the fair, at John
Henderson's shop near the old"market.
Dr. J. C. Price is not only a suc
cessful preacher, lecturer and presi
dent of a college, but we believe he
raises tiie finest turnips of any man in
Rowan county.
Dr. Wm. J. Simmoifs, president of
the University of Kentucky, president
of the colored press convention and
District Secretary of the Baptist of the'
Southern States, spent last Sunday and
Monday in this city with Rev. Z. Hau
ghton. He preached on Sunday and
lectured Monday night.
They do say that Prof. J. C. Pries,
D. D.,is traveling around the country
picking out from among the best edu
cated, most experienced and best suit
ed men and women in the country
and settling them down as teachers at
Livingstone College.
Gentlemen attending the Synod and
desiring a clean and easy shave, will
do well to call on Mr. Jno. S. Hen
derson, No. 226 East Trade street,
near the railroad crossing.
The Secretary of Grace Church read
to the congregation last Sunday, the
report made at the last quarterly meet
ing. The Church roll shows fifty-six
names and seven hundred and seven
dollars and eighty-one cents (§707.-
81,) collected .since the first of Feb
ruary. If there is any Church in the
Conference that can make as good a
showing according to membership we
would like to hear from it.
Public debts are paid by poor men
as well as rich; and men of business
knowledge say it is easier to pay 5
per cent interest on bonds than to pay
9 per cent interest on the present debt.
Rev. P.P. Alston has returned from
Baltimore where lie has been in coun
cil with the brethren of his church.
Mr. Alston has succeeded in doing
much good work in this city, which
will in after years show itself in the
mental and moral make-up of the
young people.
Hon. W. P. Mabson left us last
Friday after spending several days in
our city in the interest of California
emigration. He made a very good
impreasion on the people up here and
it is thought many will go.
Please stop borrowing your neigh
bor’s paper and subscribe for it your
self. Don’t you get shame and don’t
you think they get tired of your read
ing at their expense so long 7
Rev. It. 11. Stitt'will fill his pulpit,
at Grace Church on tomorrow. Spec
ial effirts will he made to take a good
collection. The public iscordialiy in
vited to come out aud every member
the Church is requested to he out on
time with a liberal offering.
Our editorial space is given up this
week to Rev. Murphy’s article and the
Statesvill District report. We attend
ed the fair and “Nancy” asks to he
excused, so our readers will not have
much local matter this week.
The State fair of South, Carolina,
will be held in Columbia week after
next. The county fair of Cumberland
county, will he held in Fayetteville
the same time.
Mrs. Kizzic Ranks, one of the oldest
citizens of our suburban village,
Greenville, died about 3 o’clock Wed
nesday and her daughter, Mrs. Louisa
Bates died about 3 o’clock Thursday
morning. Both were buried Thurs
day afternoon Mrs. Banks was about
88 years old. Both were members of
the Presbyterian Church.
Misses Rebecca and Ella Cautcy have
both returned to Scotia Seminary leav
, ing their mother very lonesome. Mrs.
J, E. King, Misses Mary Johnson aud
' Demctra Grier arc among the other
| ladies there from this city.
View of tile Scripture Ethnology
of Men and Races.
By Rev. 11, M. Murphy,
PAPER—NO. TWO.
According to the plainest account of
Scripture, the whole human family
was one in three distinct periods of its
history, hovered around the same
social altar, lived under the same roof,
worshipped or dispraised thesamc God.
Pint, in the family of Adain and
Eve, second, in the Ark with Noah,
third, at the tower of Babel or “City
of Confusion.”
This view is not taken to show we
endorse social intercourse, for there
has been too much of that already,
especially in the past. (Wait for the
future.) Many names, “jests” and
ideas have been given respecting the
original parentage of the dark or Afri
can race. In the absence of any other
viuw, these names have become deeply
impressed upon the minds of many, as
being true. And why may not such
be, while they serve' the purpose of
scoffers and those who speak in this j
manner, when no one will attempt to I
contradict or refute such erroneous!
opinions ? Os course wo do not put I
but very little faith in such misnames,
or these would be interpreters of Scrip
ture and history, yet they have become
so deeply feted with a tinge of stigma
and scandal in the absence of cstab- j
lished truth in this late .age, we cannot
hut riddle them as they should be.
Cain ’ Oh, Moses ! Holy Cain
went out from the presence of the
Lord, found a monkey, an ape, a
chainpauzec, or an orang-outang, and
of him, by this mammalacious quad
ruped were horn all the races from
whom sprang the million different
tribes of Africa, and such men as the
writer, Douglas, Bruce, Langston,
Price, Taylor, Revels and thousands
of others who were onee slaves in the
bull pens'of glorious America, to
work out a reasonable compensation
tor divine Justice and tho penalty of a
righteous retribution put upon Coin.
If such was the case. I would God all
courts follow the precedence. The
mark put upon Cain was a badge of
protection; for in that early age, par
ticular regards wore entertained as to
the honor of tho sovereign to whom
travellers belonged, and from what
country they had come.
These marks were sure signs of
protection and no one dared to harm
the bearer while he claimed to belong
to some God,
Egyptian slaves often obtain their
freedom by going to the temple and
taking upon them the mark of the
gods. The mark spoken of as having
been received by Cain, was not a flesh
mark after tho manner of Jewish and
Roman slaves, but some peculiar name
or title he was commanded to wear on
some part of his body, or head cover- j
ing, for such was, and is to this day a
custom among tho Jews and other I
eastern nations. The kind of mark
Cain received is not given in the
Scripture, but tho purpose for which
it was set upon him is plainly stated,
namely: As an evidence of protection j
from God. The mark was not to be
continually used, because it did not
belong to any part of the scheme in
volving tho salvation of the race.
It was not our aim to speak after
this manner, hut we arc satisfied a lit
tle more light should bo thrown upon
the sudject than has been.
And lines any *,i, o- vn-ve ,i...
penalty designated by such mark,
was met by the enslavement of ail
Cain’s posterity’? Preposterous!
, You remember that the mark was in
tended to make everybody keep his
hands off of Cain, tho highest mark of
absolute freedom. Surely Cain would
not go and give himself up as a slave
and consign all his posterity to per
petual servile bondage; no. That
would ho altogether contrary to the
purpose intended by setting the mark
upon him. “Whoso sheddeth man’s
blood, by man shall his blood ho shed;
for in the image of God made He
man,” are the words of divine writ.
If slavery ami bondage would have
met the penalty of homecido, such a
rule would have been adopted by the
Jews, or given them, thus taking
awav from all human courts the power
to order capital punishment for the
i crime of murder. But, such was not
the ease which you will plainly see by
I reading the account given by Hebrew
j servitude. Then again, bow could it
he that the mark set upon Cain was
an indication of servitude to the dc
secudauts of Japheth. Since begin
ning this article a copy of the work
entitled,“Bible Companion” has been
bought by the writer, in which the
people with whom Cain associated in
his exile are said to have borne no
family connection with the descendants
of Adam; that tho Mongolian and
black races were not represented or
destroyed during the 'flood; that Adam
was a typical man and it is not known
how much he inay have surpassed the
rest of mankind in culture. A greater
mistake wars never committed by a
sane man, in adopting such a view.
The peculiar physical traits, manners
and customs of all eastern nations,
show conclusively that there was but
very little spreading of the race over
tho earth until after the flood. Even
the son whom Cain begat by that
“mysterious wife,” and the city which
he built are named and plainly men
tioned in tlie Bible. Tho connecting
links in the history of the race are not
lost sight of until after the dispersion
from Babel, and then not finally.
“Who was Cain’s wife?” Oh, I
wish Cain was here to tell us. Well,
I wonder shall we have to wait till the
Day” before wc can find out
who was this mysterious female in
Nod. I guess so. But let us look at
the history and examine the circum
stances. How long Adam remained
in Eden after ho was created, I know
not; but it is certain that he remained
some considerable time. Tho custom
of offering sacrifices was immediately
instituted. They were offered by
Adam many years before Cain and
Abel were born. Now it is remem
bered, young men in the earlier fami
lies of mankind were not accustomed
to leave the household of their birth
as soon as now, or at this age. Even
no special notice is given of many of
tho patriarchs until they were several
hundred years of age. Admitting
this to be (rue, and that no one was
permitted to offer sacrifices till he was
thirty years old at least, it is very
reasonable to suppose that Cain and
Abel were not “hoys” but aged men,
full grown, who knew all about the
spirit of emulation and praise, and
hence the murder of the one by the
other. Also, Cain and Abel were not
the only sons born unto Adam till this
time, for previous to this period, and
especially before Seth, daughters were
born in his family, and the number of
the human race had reached no less
than three hundred souls, or even
more than that number. Are you
certain that Cain and Abel were the
first of Adaui and Eve’s household ?
I)o you not see as plain as the light of
day can make it, that a marriage be
tween Adam and Eve had taken place
before they were driven from the Gar
den, and Adam had pronounced the
relations that should exist between
man and wife, namely: “That a man
shall leave father and mother aud
eleave unto his wife.” Why this
injunction, if there were no father
and mother, how could the woman’s
sorrow bo multiplied if she did not
know what sorrow was? It certaiuly
means additional sorrow to what she
had felt in bringing forth her offspring.
T n again, we notice that it is said,
the serpent was more subtile than any
other beast of the field; certainly im
plying that fields, pastures, gardens,
etc., were blooming all around, and
tiiis was where Cain and Abel were
w iivh- vhv. land war riotn. Ttrwr
where was the other portion of the
family? I tell you, it is as plain as
day, they were in the field working
for bread, and this field may have
been included in the Garden boundary;
for it takes no small lot of ground to
cover four broad rivers.
Having proved beyond
doubt that all mankind has a well
defined beginning, and tho dark por
tion of history respecting Cain’s “wife”
and descendants will not he such an
enigma, before we have finished. We
hid you adieu.
TO BE CONTINUED.
We notice a lengthy and compli
mentary notice of the State Normal
School at Fayetteville in tho daily
paper of that town. It speaks very
highly of Prof. Smith.
Well if you don’t like this paper,
just don’t tako it, don’t read it and its
content* will hardly bother you. It
cant pleaso everybody aud don’t pro
| pose lo try.
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