CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
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BUY LAND.
Prof. Price thinks the host place
for the Negro to fully develop his
manhood is here in the South. We
have often expressed the same opinion,
yet there is plenty room in the west
and a plenty of surplus labor here to
spare. To all who want to go we say
go, and to those who stay we say buy
land.
Our city has organized nearly a
dozen factories of one kind and an
other within the last two or three
months. Hundreds of operatives are
expected to be employed in these fac
tories but no one thinks of seeing a
black operative. Where arc all these
people coming from ? Some of them
will come from the country and many
a farm will be deprived of its laborers.
There has been too much leaving the
country and coming to town by the
colored people. Who is to make cot
ton for these factories and the corn and
vegetables to be canned and the pota
toes and cabbage to feed them while
they spin ?
We advise the colored people,
especially of this section to go in the
country and buy land and become the
farmers of this country. Stop this
way of cropping on shares, the land
owner getting all the shares and put
ting you in debt at the end of the
year. Farming is nice work and
healthy, but we admit it is not en
couraging when one works all the
year and makes a good crop and is
told that he is still behind. It is
enough to discourage any one.
We say to our people buy lend. If
you can’t buy it near town, go far
from town and buy. If you can’t buy
in this county, go to the next, and
the next, till you find land to buy.
If necessary, go till you cross the
Mississippi, and if you can’t buy in
Arkansas or Texas, keep going till you
get to the plains of the great territo
ries and the golden grain fields of
California. To be a people, wo must
own land, and while we arc not dis
couraged and disposed to complain of
the progress made since our emanci
pation, we insist that the desire for
owning land must increase among us,
and we must in the next twenty-five
years possess five times as much land
as we own now. Where it is said
that the Negro voters of Georgia own
on an average eight acres to the voter,
they must in the next quarter of a
century own the forty acres and the
mule.
Land is cheap in North Carolina,
and every poor man ought to own
enough to make his family support.
We see people around this city paying
04 to 06 per acre a year rent, when in
so manyplacas land can be bought for
the same or less. Who would uot
rather buy than rent for the same ?
We say again, buy and till your own
land. Work for wages—-living wages
—till you can make start on buying a
small piece of land. Huy five or ten
acres at first, and improve it. Buy
land aud be men.
FAYETTEVILLE NOTES.
On the night of the 10th inst., be
tween one and two o'clock, several
were aroused from their slumbers by
a heavy rain-fall, accompanied with
loud peals of thunder, while lightning
flashed around us now and then.
The protracted meetings arc going
on at Kvan’s Chapel, (Zion). Sever
al penitents seeking pardon of their
sins, aud some have already proclaim
ed pardon.
Dr. Hood is spending some time
with us now, and we fear when he
leaves this time it will be some time
before he returns.
Several of our young men and
women arc out teaching.
Miss Laura A. Hall a graduate of
tho class of ’*7 of the Normal depart
ment, left last Thursday morning for
Halifax, to engage in teaching. We
wish her much success.
The Sabbath School of Kvan’s
Chapel is progressing rapidly, the
teachers are putting forth their best
efforts for its advancement. Bible
questions are continually brought be
fore the school for several reasons.
Ist. To draw out the thinking facul
ties, and to learn somewhat of tho
knowledge we obtain from our instruc
tors.
On the Ist Sabbath of this month
an effort was made by tho Pastor of
Evan’s Chapel, (Rev. J. M. Hill) to
raise money for the purchase of a
bell., from which a good sum was col
lected, and before many months we
too will have a bell second to none.
Several of our old citizens have
died since our last writing, among
which were Mrs. Lottie Blackman,
who died on the 4th of this month.
She lived to be quite ageable. Her
last moments were spent in close com
munion with her Maker.
On the 12th inst., Mr. William
Ashe, Sr., departed this life after sev
eral weeks illness. He, too, died in
full triumph of faith. Ho was buried
by the Odd Fellows of which he was a
member.
MARRIED
Perry—Brown. —On Wednesday
evening of tho Bth inst., Miss Katie
Perry was united in holy bonds of
matrimony to Mr. P. 11. Brown at
the residence of Mrs. Grace Culbreths,
ltev. Eli Walker officiating. Miss
Perry is a lady of fine culture and by
her amiable way won many friends.
Mr. Brown is a teacher of the Pres
byterian school and a graduate of
Biddle University. His stay with us
has been but a few months consequent
ly we can say but little of him. We
trust as he has consented to take one
of our fair girls and remain in our
town that he may meet with success.
And may blessings which the world
cannot bestow, ever come upon them.
The students of the Normal school
were to organize a literary society last
Friday evening. We have not learned
definitely about it.
Miss Augusta McLean is out teach
ing. Her school will close soon, and
the many friends will welcome her
home again.
Miss Lina Cox, of Charleston, S.
C., is spending some time with rela
tives and friends here.
Home ! home! sweet home! Is
there any place within tho limits of
this broad continent better than thee?
Echo responds back, No !
The Editor by some means failed to
supply the readers the news of his
city. We would say in connection
to it while wo arc interested in the
columns of his paper, we would like
to hear tho nows of the city occasion
ally. If you are asleep, please wake
up. We never sleep much in Cumber
land, and as Mecklenburg is a city
stirring place, let, u.s poor ■•Cumber
landers” hear from her. Ma nv. j
February 14th.
For the Messenger.
Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 11, 1888.
Mr. Editor: —The subject and merit
of Christian reputation, and especially
that of the ministry is a matter upon
which too little estimate is put. Chris
tian people seem to forget the fact,
that the standing of the ministry
should give tone and character to the
congregations served There is an
old maxim in which there is more
truth than poetry: “Like priest like
people.” The ministry necessarily
shapes the moral standard of the peo
ple and therefore the members should
look after and endeavor to protect the
morals of their ecclesiastical repre
sent:! lives. We are too ready to
catch up any thing that old Miss Gos
sip may feel disposed to start, (how
ever absurd) aud herald it through the
j community, aud when society stagna
j ted with the odium of degrading ru
mors, these very good brothers ? and
friends? will unite in vilifying their
| clergymen and putting them down ns
: the worst creatures that exist on the
face of the earth. Listen: Did you
hear the news? No: What is it?
Why they say the minister —: What
1 about it! do tell me nil about it, you
1 know me, I would not mention it for
worlds. Well they say:— do you
think it true? I expect, because Well,
Well ! Well !! Did you ever. Then
to magnify inconsistency, these good t
talkers and ready tattlers, will turn i
out in full mass to hear this worst of i
all men preach, tear their own clothes, <
overturn scats, and break the chin of 1
every one in reach of them. Oh, so '
happy !) We think the better, yea, 1
the only proper way to act under such i
circumstances would be first, (if pos- 1
sible) exorcise confidence in the virtue 1
and Christian integrity of the minister, i
and then when Hainan prepares the 1
gallows for faithful Mordccui simply :
and only because he is faithful, you i
cannot be so easily employed and :
mislead as King Ahasuerus was in
giving orders to execute the diaboli
cal designs of those who are con
stantly seeking the death of God’s
messengers. We know by experi
ence, and frequently quake at the cir
cumstances by which Joseph was sur
rounded in Potiphar’s house, for
which cause he was cast into prison,
and remained a prisoner for more than
two years.
Judge Lynch is establishing a pre
cedent among us that threatened the
very foundation of human existence.
Christianity is the light and salt of
modern civilization, and the ministry
is an indispensiblc element in the
continuation of the liberty, peace and
prosperity now enjoyed by the Chris
tian world. Destroy the ministry
and the fabric falls at once (for it
hath pleased the Lord through tho
foolishness of preaching to save them
that believe.) Where, as the lynch
ing of men,/putting them to death
without a hearing before the law, the
same injustice is being practiced in
the Church of God. At the bare
mention of some wicked, unprincipled
persons, a whole Christian communi
ty turns out unmasked, aud without
judge or jury, condemns and put to
death (in many instances) poor, inno
cent men who are perfectly clear of
all for which they have to die at the
hands of those in whose salvatiou
they were God’s appointed instru
mentality.
Every church has a code of laws by
which every difference should ho ad
justed, and all law-breakers are pun
ishable. A nfinister might do wrong,
but if he is deposed unlawfully, those
that thus attempt to punish him are
fully as bad as he. Now when un
favorable rumors are circulated on
your ministers, why don’t you exer
cise a little prudence, or suppress
your anxiety to shed blood until some
research, or weighing of the report
can be had? Then if the rumors be
true, “rebuke publicly.” Your Bible
commands you not to receive an accu
sation against an Elder only out of
the mouth of two witnesses.—l Tim.
v: ID. And yet a most damaging lie
can start up without the ghost of a
shadow of foundation, unreasonable
in all of its bearing, and you can
see our best and most enlightened
members of society slipping the news
along down the line with the
hope that it may strike him like an
avalanche and break him to pieces, if
possible, that you may enjoy his
funeral even while he is yet alive ?j
It seems to us that the ministry would
rather, and that it would be more
honor to the Church of God, to have
rigid examination and thorough in
vestigation, and be stopped, if guilty,
than to undergo a flood-tide of gos
sip in which there is no truth.
Well, the ministry must be pro
tected. If the church don’t do it, it
must be done. Shall the ministry
take up arms, shoot, cut and slaugh
ter, as other men do for their charac
ter's sake? The Bible hath said,
“all that a man hath will lie give for
j liis life.” So far as the mere exis
tence of man is concerned, the drunk
ard, or those of worse characters, (if
there can be any worse, ) is of very
trivial consequence. But the amount
of good the minister is to do for the
| people depends entirely on his reputa
tion. His reputation held up by the
I church, crystalizcd with a pure Chris
tian character is the power of God
junto salvation to all believers.—!
I Therefore, when you damage the
reputation of the ministry you crucify
j the Lord Jesus afresh, and retard the
advancement of His kingdom iu the
world. Let the ministry have your
support, when they are right, and the
law when they are wrong. See to it
that whatever is said about them is
true before you act. Which one of
j the two is tho most responsible, the
I one that makes the lie, or they who
spread it and give crodenoe through-1
out tho community ? There are two j
classes of liars, viz : First and see- j
ond. The first is ho that makes, and
tho second they who carry into effect.
I don’t know which is the worst.
However, God hath said, “Ali. liars
shall havo their part in the lake that
burneth with fire and brimstone.” ,
Everything done in a community has
a witness of some kind—let the proof
be had before death and judgment, in
any case. We hope this lynching of,
Christian reputation will soon come to
an end. Yours, for tho right.
R. S. Rives.
WISE WORDS.
A man’s part is to hear misfortune*
rightly.
It is the can<c ami not the death that
makes the martyr.
liorrowiug is the canker and tho deatli
of every man’s estate.
Trusting to luck is only another name
for trusting to laziness.
Tlie tiling which we do uot mean to
say is frequently the thing which is said.
It is not enough to study life, one
must live it if one would lie truly an
artist.
Envy is the sunshine of another’s life,
making tho shadow of our own seem
deeper.
It is better to ho discarded without
ceremony than being endured with
patience.
Every man is in some sort a failure to
himself. No one ever reaches the height
to which he aspires.
No man over got rid of a lie by telling
it; it is sure to i onic home sooner or
later to hobnob with its author.
When I caution you against becoming
a miser, I do not therefore advise you to
become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Some things after ail eomc to the poor
that can’t get in at tiro doors of tire rich,
whose money somehow blocks up tire en
trance way.
Time is the greatest of tyrants and ex
tortioners. As wo go toward age ho
taxes our health, our limbs, our faculties,
our strength and our features.
Where there is abuse, there ought to
be clamor: because it is lieiter to have
our slumbers broken by the tire-bell than
to perish nmol Hast cs in our bed.
They say that the truth is not to bo
spoken at all times, which is the equiva
lent of saying that truth is an invalid,
who can only take the air in a close car
riage with a gentleman in ablack coat on
tlie box.
Shakespeare’s Kisses.
Shakespeare lias give i th • worl I some
•emarkable kis-e.. In 'Tain.ng of the
Shrew” I’etrueii o takes the bride about
:he neck an 1 kisses her lips
With such a clamorous snmek.
riuit nt tic parting all th > chureh did echo.
in “Rieharii the Third" we are pre
sented with the following:
lii.-.r tipi ws.e iour tv 1 n***s nna st«lk,
tad, in toe summer t nuty, kissed each
other.
Anthony and Cleopatra “kiss away
lingdomsand provinces.”
in “Cymbeline” re e.em c is made to
:he aversion which fathers have to see
dieir daughters ki-sed by au unfavored
suitor:
Ere 1 eo,; l
Hive him that pa: ting kiss which I ha-1 set
betwixt two eiiaira ii words, conns* in my
futile r.
And, lire the tyrannous hr ut'iiug of tin
North.
Shakes ad our b ids from a ' i
lie { .-.i.t Stir.
Sikh Sohli rs.
Tlierc are about tea regiments of Sikh
soldiers in the rii i-a arm .and they are
admitted to be some of the i.est en in
the serviic. .Must of tinmi tm l live le.
ten in lies, and ha c very finephy< que.
They aiegreat \v:e tiers.ahdw-niol cu ny
a “mill" w.tli the Ue- em *‘bru ser-."
The ikh u relief in ver lon es tlie c hell
until he has thrown h a adversary air.y
on his bii k. t'nlseth* o-e... 5, they
are gnat rum (linkers; but. unlike the
j British ccnqucin , they vone-ii h can tell
when they lac had enough. ,nr ng
the visit-o llit I ri rt n t.al -to ml ,
he selected two nntivco cars as personal
attendants. The one was an A!_ hut aud
the other a Sikh, thus a now lodging
both the bravery and loyalty of these twe
•sues. —Ac ' id i f ■ muYm*.
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six months on Monday, April 9,1588.
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to do much for those who are seek ins
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iluring the summer Thorough drills
given daily in all the branches re
quired to be taught in the Public
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practical questions given weekly.
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