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THE S T A H D & R D. Tin i-:.-iay, - Decunber 4, 1890 " t liter fHRjM oriin paper kver had as 'IRCVi.ATIOJr IS THE tOlVlV. r,)VX AND COUNTY. Thjke's Chiel Amanq ye Takin Notes nCF;- He'll Frent Them. ,.,! ii tlK2(illi. Mr. W. T. Fiher, of No. 11, was niav: i.' 1. by lu'v. V. C. Schaefft-r, to Mi Maggie P. Felkcr, of New iorr . C. The bridal couple ar- r.vi' In iv r lulav night, and to the hapiW fnV:"! arty t Ik Maudard joins many in extending best wishes for -l.ir.ri bit'. . S. 'rm.v. I i.rMhiv niaht the rorest II ill jl,;li,ulit ehurch w as packed almost t(, i; u most capacity to hear a ser ;,,!. i y lv- Walter S. Creasy, of )Vi!ii;in.-ton. Mr. Creasy is reniem tT, ,l lu re with nothing but the w;irii.it love, hiving labored here as pajcr f the Methodist church for four y II i s. r non was full of good sense, of lien's tenderness, and was spiced many appropriate illustrations. fix .-j taker showed that he had not hii aiiv of his vouthful vigor. yt.ry 4imlininlary. lftter from a New York gentle man to Mr. J. W. Cannon, has this to -.v about Col. Jim W. Long's CH! ivi'eiml though ycr.r kindness 'iinconl '-M.dapl mutHiiiing sl the I el .; em;ui;i wig ii'-m .1.1. iaju, .! w'iaIi I see you ha vi. arked for my " If he continues m uitt in that strain in the future, , ! Ms fair to outrival New York's iin L'hauncey IKpew. I imagine t Ii.it the good "people of Concord are awiiiting with breathless interest the ip lanmee of the next card from the learr.eA sentlvtnan." hi-k-ii anil Turnip. M Aunt Sarah Hartsell is a willow woman, who lives about thive hundred yards from the Ca harms liii', oer n Union county. Sin- lel:eves in raising her own sup j io and so directs her employees. This yar she made over nine hun ii n d t-ushels of corn, and of course !i;:.l a big shucking. One hundred hands went down to help shuck out tlie corn, anil ?he had a big supper I'lvj.ared We tan form an idea of what the .r.'li i- whs by telling what was left than an v ot her way. After the one hundred ate thtir supper there still remained on the table and in 1 on the table and in the ..? V't i:f'rv 'rater cnstatds, or.e wash f'.ill of turnips, one wash-pot fuli i'f chicken and dumplings, and Kirs i if beef and possum and pork H Leave I's. l he Mniulara rerets that Kev. J-.c II. 1'nge is to leave us. Ac- i-ui-'liug to the discipline of the Met h i-!it church a minister cannot re lu.iiii more than four vears at one I . i: t. but seldom does the l'ishot 1 -rn.it hi in to remain more than two -ai. It hard to give up Mr, i'ac, and this is tlu sentiment of tin- tnw., regard l-s of chnn-b n la tiu!i. As a geutletii in, ho ).-i:.t eu-i-Iletit ; as a man. is puiv ;.i.d j'riiialy; an at b.i ., he is thor o iii, and as a pimciier, he is us ".'1 aan v of them and better than a hL There is ot.e bright spot in in this desert of disappointment: lie's not going far ( tatesville). That tn him and most excellent family the richest of everything may fall, ii the wish of all of ns. W h j I lie Train Wm Delajul. tturday night the train was lale, na ! the straiige part of it was noth ing could be heard from it. It was th- little shoo-fly train and it was lvji.irted. as having left Ilariisbug "n time aid in giod condition. At !a-t the men at the depot began to li 'v- f-iirs that a wreck had occurred sun! ttlieii they heard frotn it the wiii Id lu ar ?. tale of woe and a loss 'f human life. Several boys started '!m n tin- railroad on foot. Wheu th- had gone about three miles they nwt the train coming on to Concord. A rod about the engine hnd got hrnki'ti and ptrnched through the b"i'e:-. t'uts letting all the water es- ai . All that could be don" as to l!ar down, the fast mail. I'. was !!"!' j-d and hooked onto the broken tiaiu and pushed into the station here, i'he cars and engine were side tracked and the passengers all trot on the fast train and went on. No one was hurt, and the only dam age was the broken parts of the en gine. m Jiiniix-it from the Dummy. Saturday night a negro went to the depot and bought a ticket for I'tirhsm. In the bustle jabout there I'- b erime bewildered, and when the lit ers hallowed "this way for the dummy line," he thought they said, "ihis'wav for the Durham line," and li" climbed on the dummy. When they were aboat half way np town he u-ked a porter when the train vniiM get to Durham. He was told that the train did not go to Durham, hut only run up town. This scared the ii'gro out of his wits, and he jiiinjeJ off while the dummy ws thundering along at the ra'eof forty miles au hour. lie whirled around like a top, and his valise rolled lown the hill about fifty yards. When he awoke it was morning, and he only had a faint recollection of the events of the past night. In 'xaminiig his pockets, he found a lailroiid ticket to Durham. Every thing wag recalled and he went to the de.iot where he was sure to get on the right train, if be was la beled "this s.de np with care," he uill arrive all o. k.. otherwise he may not. i . Concord firrait. Mt. Olivet n it Sunday at 11 a. m., and at Mt Carmjl at 2:30 p. m. SHORT LOCALS. They are gone ! The preachers are. Quail are said to be very pntiful and fat. i.i I 1 i n i il B rigiit iiuru iu mil ourselves back into line so much company. - Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cook have returned from a visit to the country. Don't yout thiuk the Standard has given good reports of the confer ence ? M. P. Stone left Tuesday evening for a stav of some time at Iieids ville. In our big car, a whisper for your receipt is a never dying cluster of harmonies. Miss Lucy Richmond came home last night from a visit to friends at Davidson College. Will Hall, a popular conductor on the C. C, is visiting friends and relatives in the city. It is becoming fashionable now to carry a newly purchased watch in the outsiile coat pocket. Mrs. Haltom who has been visit ing at Mr. (ieorge Brown's, returned to her home in Salisbury. Mrs. L. E. Campbell, who has been visiting at Mayor lioger's,- has re turned to her home in Charlotte. The Standard is especially thank. ful that no rain occurred during Conference; reasons most obvious. F. V. Snell, who has been doing some work at High Point, has re turned, looking as stout and hearty as ever. . Wavne county is the first to settle with the State Tieasurer. Governor Fowle ought to seed the county a chroma Col. Jas. W. Long's card on the political situation has been mtch admired; it was "read and studied with care. The Kailroad Investigating Cotr mittee is in session in tue city of Raleigh, preparing its report for the Legislature. Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Archey re turned Friday night from an ex tended bridal trip. We welcome them back. It is just wonderful to think of the marriages that have taken place and those which are to take place this winter. The corn crop this year has been good, and never before were the people blessed with such an abund ant cotton crop. Many gentlemen and ladies, of other towos, came down to Concoid to spend Thanksgiving. They know where to have a nice time. We learn of a great deal of typhoid fever down about Pioneer Mills. A real old-time cold snap is needed to knock the fever in the head.- A letter written on September 23 in Wilmington, to Mr. C. Y. Wads worth, reached here November 2'J. This is mail -ervices, with a vim. Sheriff Props t killed three pigs yesterday, twelve months old, and rhey made him 1018 pounds of pork. The sheriff will live in high life now. Col. John IX. Webster, the hand some, taVnted and princely bachelor editor of the Keidsville Weekly, sp.?nt Sunday in attendance upon Conference Just read the land notices, and other notic., in the Standard. Some of them may be of special interet to yon and save yju a great iieu i oi irouoie, 1 1 - I . Vl Yorke & Wadsworth have gotten in ! oat load of rope. If they in tend to hang anything, we hop the operation will be conhned to the ap pearance of hard times. Mr. W. S. Ilornbuckle, of Green field, Tenn., is visiting his bro'her, J. P. Ilornbuckle. Mr. Ilornbuckle has been absent from North Carolina for thirty seven years. Miss Isabella Montgomery, who has been on a visit to her parents here, returned to Greensboro rcmale College Tuesday evening. She took first honors theie for the fir.t quar ter. Lost A ten dollar bill, somewhere in Concord on Monday evening between four o'clock and six o'clock p. in. The finder will be liberally rewarded by returning the etfme to this office. Now commence to. fool the chil dren, about Santa Clans. Make them believe that he conies down chimneys, through stove pipes and "scratches under." better have that love expended on a visible subject The reports of heavy porkers have 'eaun to come in now. Mr. II. Jl Pdickwelder ki.b-d to Berkshire pig, thirteen months old, which weighed 387 pounds ench. Talk about this not being a hog country Some one of the officials of the Southern Express Company is m town. AVe did not heir his name. His business hee was to make monthly settlement with the local aent and to attend tootner matters we suppose Concord is in a healthy locality, and the people here ought to enjoy as good health ft3 they, would any where else, but right here, brethren if something is not soon done for its sanitary condition, it will wet a bad name abroad. The old frame building on the Reed block are being torn avj and handsome brick store-houses will take their places. That is the way to make things look like improve ment. That end of towu is build ing up fast now, We wers -pleased to see on the streets our former county-man and friend, Mr. Lafayette Pharr, of Wilkesboro. Mr. Pharr once lived on his farm near Rocky River, but removed to Wilkesboro to enjoy the pure rountaiu whins. Nearly all the preachers have gone back to their places ot work, anu things around town wear a dull kok. However, Concord was glad to entertain the first session of the W. N. C. Conference, and the mem bera all expressed themselves as being highly pleased with Concord's generous hospitality and t'.ie o'.ty in general. Lost, a lady's silver watch, be tween here and the Stanly county line on the S'okes ferry public road. Tl. 1 li . i A 1 , i i xuv wuiuu uas r gom piarea, twistca link chain, with a letter J on it. The finder will be liberally rewardeu by leaving same at Cannons & Fetzer's. dec31w During all the past few busy days hair grew all the same. Johnnie Fink, the tonsonal artist, was seen Saturday sitting high with a little book in hand. "Well, how stands it ?' "Since Wednesday morning 1 have scraped 473 faces, sheared 102 heads, washed seven cranium? and beautified thirteen beards." Fink kept a boy busy carrying off wool. Kindness and good wishes, when practiced" upon maukind, make life worth livng, To the party who sent the Standard man a beautiful pair of beautiful slippers beautifully ornamented with beautiful gold braid in beautiful designs, without nnie of donor, we return thanks with an overflowing heart. Summer shoes giving way, and numerous un ceremonious corns from early piety; render the gift a most acceptable one. Challenge. To the State, the South, or the hole Union: We challenge anv town of 4500 inhabitants to show such a record a3 Concord has. No bar rooms ; m Ivor's office occasion ally oreiud to prevent rust from eating up the hinges ; one policeman, who would perish it he didn t have nother source or income ; ana a runkeu man on theEtreet is a rarity, , monstrocity. Take the case, Dur lam Globe. Can't Help It. The Progressive Farmer hag this to say about a brother and us : "Col. Fairbrother, of the Durham Globe, and Lieutenant Cook, of the Concord Standard, are both engaged in doing the funny act on their papers. If they are not the funniest journalists in the Slate, they at least expend more strength in that direction than most of them." Colonel Fairbrother is "funny" because he has a brainy wife and can't help it; we are funny because we haven t one, and wh n the stand ard si ts tickled it laughs. But the title, "Lieutenant," was secured by our brave and trying service in the Cabarrus Black Boys military com pany, when it was called out to go to Lexington during the riot fake. We marched to orders one day and two nghts. Rather Than Have Ilia A;e Divvlowed He Preferred Ieath. Something a little curious hap pened at Brown Bro's livery stables this morning, and the curious part of it was not all, for it is not with out a deep significance. Dr. Griffin, a veterinary surgeon, had a horse with the toothache to treat m the country, but not being very well up on horse dentistry or toothologv, he came to town to consult Dr. H. C. Herring on the matter. To lie sure that the doctors understood each other, Dr. Griffin took Dr. Herring to the stables ut d had a horse of doubtful age led out, and then pro ceeded to explain what too'h it was that hurt his horse in the country. Just now the horse began to fear that something might be disclosed wnich would be to his life-long in jury and debar him from the high social positions which he might cn j y. He began trembling, he sank to the ground, his sides ceased to expand and contract with breath, his pulse refused to beat, and his body became cold and clammy in death The horse would rather die thau to have his age told. This teaches a lesson which we cannot bring before the public- too forcibly or too quickly, without all its significance, and it applies to bachelors as well as to maids. The awful horror at having the age told is not only experienced by women over twenty-one years of age, but it causes bachelors, and even the brute creation, to suffer as well, and almost as intensely. To our old friends we say, beware how you show your teeth, if any ye have, for it would be bet ter for you, in thete da s of Borrow mid tribulation, that a millstone be tied about your neck and cast into the sea than to have your age told Our Weekly Jnst read our weekly Standard this week and see if you dou't think it is a numnier, ana got a bigger move on it thau any paper ever pub lished in Concord. We Bend a daily mner along containing the confer ence news which we -could not get into our recular weekly columns, Such enterprise is what makes the Standard what it is, and if our fiionda will stick to us we intend to eive them a rirst-class weekly news paper that will be a credit to any nart or tne country, xtis we Know thpv will do their frequent expres sions of appreciation proves that ana tne r&pifi way in wuicu our uu pcrirtions are increasing proves very clearly that the Standard is soon to outstrip everything m tms section. When you want the news full, quick and accurate, remember that yqu can get it in the Standard, which will visit your fireside once a week for the exceeding low price of one dollar per year. Brother, We Thank Von, Sincerely. After the publication of the Con ference appointments, the Charlotte Chronicle (always gives creditor its clippings, which elements all others" don't possess,) kindly says : "The above wa3 copied from the Concord Taily Standard, whose re ports of the Conference have not ouly been very full, accurate and interestingly written, but was a credit as much to. the town of Con cord as to the enterprise, ability, and capacity of the Standard and its ac complished editor, J. P. Cook." . Lint of Advertised Letters At Concord, Cabarrus county, N.. C, for the week ending December 1, 1890: LADIES. Allerson, Mrs. 31 Goforth, Miss II A Alexander. Misa N Prathcv, Miss E E Ferguson, Miss E J GENTLEMEN. Affardin, Ira Chambers, Rev Henry Aldred. Samuel Faggart, John Almond, Jethro Goforth, Wm Borrow. Wm S Latham, BR Mary ft. Dusejtbeby, P, Mf THEY ARE MARRIED. Mr. Harry Fryllng and Silas Minnie Dove. Ou the 26th. a lnrge party ot in vited friends and relations gathered at the elegant country home of Mr. Jacob Dove to witness the marriage ceremony of Mr. II. W. Fryling, of Weatherly, Pa., to Mies Minnie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dove. The ceremony was performed, at 12:45 a. m., by Key. Wright G. Campbell, of St. James' Lutheran church. The table, 4aden with a large variety, delicately and handsomely spread, and Sj lendidly prepared, was a beauty among beauties. The bridal gifts were handsome and numerous : Silver tea service, W. M. Worrell ; silver spoons, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Corl ; gold sugar sif ter, Jno. D. Bost ; silver vase, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Brown ; china vase, J. C. Fink ; pair vases, Ella Walter; china butter dish, Jas. P. Cook; French mirror, Miss My r tie Brown ; silver tea spoons, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell; vases, T. J. and Miss Annie White; carving knife and fork, Mr. and Nrs. N. F. York; silver sugar spoon, Jno. Keed ; set of desert plates, Dr. and Mrs. Young ; fruit plates, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bingham. The happy couple left on the evening train, for Elizabeth City, N. C. They carried with them the best wishes of many friends and relatives. The Standard wishes them the richest of heaven's bless ings. They Turned Over the Keys. On Monday the official terms ef Wm. Propst, as sheriff, and John A. Cline, as treasurer, came o an end. Their official terms began bright, 6erene and without a strug gle ; they close without a blotch, a shadow or a speck upon their re cords. Wm. Propst has made a sheriff in its truest sense honest, business like, obliging, prompt and faithful. This is his record in a nnt shell. Though not in the field and not so liciting a baltot, he received a very handsome and complimentary vote from his friends who desired to throw flowers around his exit from public life. Though not sheriff, he's yet tax collector for the taxes. Billy 1 roi St. you have done well, and ev ery' ody says so. . onn A. Lane has been counting the co Jtity's money for quite a while ; he co inted it right, too. He receiv ed it with grace and a smile ; he paid it out, on proper vouchers, in an ete gant and handsome manner. His accounts and books were regularly examined, and his mouey was count ed every three months, when every thing waa found intact. John Lime, you made a good and efficient tress- nmr nun thur U u liriorhr f7nthfr in your high hat, always nigh up. The people like you, and they wish you well. Tha Standard "liken ter forgot' the retiring cotton weigher ; but that is all right. He has glory encugh. He weighed cotton properly, was sufficiently amused and electioneered against himself and got his man elected. Well done ! This thing of "step ping do vu and out" happens at least once in the life time of every official. The w Officer. The new sheriff and county treas urer have gone on duty, and every thing will move along in the best of condition. L. Jl. Morrison, the newly elected sheriff, looks perfectly natural in the sheriff s othce ad seems to be at home and in the best of humor while dealing with the p ople by whom he has been chosen to serve. Mr. li. Will Johnston is the new jailor, and it is safe to say that those who have been enclosed iu prison cells will never catch their new keeper napping. Mark M. Morrison, popularly known throughout the county, and in fact wherever he has ever been, as 3 M s, is the deputy sheriff now. In his boyhood days Mark spent several years in" the wild West, and was a success in everything he un dertook. But Mark loved his native old Old North Carolina and returned to live with his old associates. He is a man of commanding appearance, and no offender of the law will escape being brought, before a tri bunal of justice if the right papers are placed in .i M s hands. Mr. John A. Sims is too well known for us to say anyth'ng about his business qualifications. The people of Cabarrus county have en trusted him with their money, and that speaks better for him than any thing we can say. Fearing that by it some one might become mistaken in the man, we will not attempt to describe him. The county s books will always be in good condition and while they are iu Mr. Sims hands the accounts will always balance off right. Edgar F. White, the newly elected cotton weigher, has taken the scales in charge and the c tton will be weighed to the satisfaction of both bufer and seller. He looks just like he knew what he was there for when he moves about the office with I113 natural business turn. . They are all goed, stra?ght-for ward men and the ounty. made a good selection. Tax Not lee. The taxes have been placed in my hands for collection, and I am anxious to finish up the business. I will be found at the court house in the irrand iury room. The taxes for 1890 and all previous years must now be paid. Hoping that you will-come for ward and settle at once, I am, Respectfully, Dec. 3, 1890. Wm. Propst. Grange Meeting. i : 1 1 C tt- xpe next regular meming vt. an. Pleasant Grange will meet at SfT John's Hall ou the first Saturday in December at 1 p, m. . Election of officers and other important busir . r ii li 1 ,i.-: J npes. A IUU aiieuaancw ueoncu. By order of the Worthy Master. Sixth Day. BIST BODT BCRILT ENGAGED WITH CONFERENCE KATTCEN. Dr. Yates Herman Or4alae EMors and Deaeoaa Reports Bea.4 Th "Conference Orgmm" Blatter Decided, e. LUTHERAN CHURCH. The following is the sermon of Dr. fates at the Lutheran church. Sunday morning: We will take as the basis of our remarks thi3 morning, I Peter, 5:7: "Lasting all your care upon him, for he careth for you." .the condition of probation, or trial, testing, proving, is necessarily a condition of suffering. The ides of proving or testing necessarily car ries along with it the idea of diffi culty, obstacle and therefore pain. The care spoken of in the text is painful anxiety that the soul feels under this trial process, under the burden that it inflicts, and the higher the subject of the test, the severer the ordeal of proving ; so that only fire can purify gold, and if we would personify gold endowed with intel ligence, it would be apt to ask a question of the one that applied the test as to the why and wherefore of it, of the pain inflicted by the meth ods and processes of trial. The Apojtle Peter, in another place, says that "the trial of your faith, thongh it be tried by fire, being much more precious than gold that perishetb, may be found to honor and peace and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ;" and in another place I believe the same Apostle speaks in this wise : do not consider the fiery trial which is to try yon as a strange thing that has happened unto you, for this trial is common to your brethren ; that is the substance of it. Now, a necessary corellary to this is that if the soul was left to iUelf iu this trial, it would necessarily go down, it would never be able to bear the processes of the methods, and the results would re disastrous. And this philosophy will apply to the human soul that it must have some external object' capable of .bearing the care of this contest, "casting all your care upon Him, for he careth for you. Every man himself, if he rises to high attainment in manhood, in womanhood, must be a burden bearer, must take on himself or her self the care of othen ; but these cares of your own and others would accumulate to the destruction of the soul, hence philosophically there must be externally to the eoul a cap able object to sustain these cares, and he who rises highest in the dir ection of the model which Christ has presented to us in His home life and character, is the greatest burden bearer, and other things being equal, is the strongest man in Christ Jesus, as Jesus'Christ Himself was the per fect man, the model, the burden bearer. It is said that Madame De Stael once asked Napoleon whom he thought the greatest woman in the empire; hts reply was, "she who Has trained the mosfc'men for the army.-" The teachings of Jesus lead to the conclusion that she is the greatest woman who has trained the most human souls for God, niadj the most men and women by Divine grace into the image of Jesus, and has made it possible for men and women raised under this iufiuence to- move the world in the direction of abetter life and towards God and Heaven.- A great general was asked on one occa sion whom he thought the greatest man in the world. He replied that that man was greatest who could com pel the most men ta serve him. Jesus Christ said that that man was greatest who served the most people; he reversed exactly the philosophy of this great general. Then the question would arise, if we are to cast our care upon him, how can we get the benefit of the care ? In the trial process the care is necessary to develop the spiritual forces of the soul, as exercise is to develop the ' muscles of the black smith's arm, or as the severe study of the text book is to develop the fibre of the brain and train and ed ucate tjie man ; but if we are invited to take this care and remit of the process, and cast it on Christ, then how.shall we get the benefit of it? The reply is that we are not to cast or make an effort to cast the trouble and the difficulties of this life upon Christ, but only the care of it While we feel the pain, the furnace heat of the fire, while we endure the wearing and corroding anxiety of it, we are to do it with joy and pleasure and with a smile upon our face, while we take the care of it and that which would tend to destroy the soul, and lay that upon Christ with the assurance that he will bear it for nr. The trial process, therefore, develops the spiritual muscle, so to speak, while there is nothing destroying in the process, because the anxiety, the care, is laid, upon Jesus, so tint the Christian can Bing, as n other can, " 'Twas grace that taught mr heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved ; How precious did that grace appear The hour I fii st believed." Strengthened, made perfect by the process which is necessary, and eav8 by laying our burdens upon him, putting all otfr care there with the assurance that he careth for us. This is very difficult to believe that He careth for us. l very eri ously doubt whether one can believe this unles3 he has communed with God in secret and has been able to comprehend God as a father tmless. ne has divested himself of the effort to look at God as He is displayed in large things and in that alone, unless he has schooled himself in communion with God to understand and to believe that God knows no difference as to l&rgenoss np.r small ness and that there is nothing large nor small with God ; looking at God as the Eternal and Omnipresent and All Wise Creator and Preserver of the universe, and that one thing is just as large as another to God. When we come to think about this and read in the Word of God that he careth for you, for me, small as I am : what am I compared with an archangel, compared with the sun, with those planets that move about it iu their orbits ? I look at the sun in his largenes?, in his brightness, in his glory, and I say, "of course God will care for that; he made it and furnished it with fuel ; it has got to be guided, it would rush upon the spheres, it would crush the worlds, it rould bring chaos and confusion into the material universe if God did not keep his fiugr r upon it and send it along his path. But as for me care for me, a little one ? We must school ourselves to recollect thut Gcd cares for little as well as great, that He takes care of the sparrow, that not a sparrow falls from the withered limb and perishes upon the snow of winter that God did not hear its last chirp, and see it when it fell, and stay by it at its funeral and nnt it in its grave.. He made the fly, colored its wing and made its eyes sparkle; an angel could not make a sparrow, and an archangel could not make a worm. When the worm draws itself np in its dying agony, God is there, lays its little head upon a pebble, covers it from the burning rays of the sun with a leaf and lets it die in peace. "Not a sparrow falleth to the ground without the knowledge of your Heavenly Father, and are we not more valuable than many sparrows: Thank God! Yes, He careth for you. That it is personal to every indid vidua. He not only careth for man in the aggregate, but He careth for you. It is a statement not for tne world to cast its care upon aim. I doubt very much whether there is any other scripture that contains' the element of truth as compactly as this doea that is necessary for the human heart to have, to bear, to un derstand ; there are statements that are grander as to the constitution of law and the operations of law, the nature of God and His existence, but in respect to the great revelation of His salvation I doubt very much whether there is a single passage of Scripture that combines so much of this saving power and this joy-giving power as the text, "casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you."- You not the aggregate of mankind, not the world; that is true, but I do not want to lose my self in the mass of mankind. When I come to feed at God's table, I don't want the world to eat for me, I want to eat myself. These doubts thatrun along through the public mind, would it not have been better for Lod, if ie bad wanted me to understand it, if He had sent out of the sky a flashing meteor, that had attached to it a scroll with my name to it, saying he careth for you ? Would it not have been better if he had some made arrangement for me to find under the surface of the earth a block of marble polished, and with my name written on it, " he careth for you ?" Row would I know but somebody else had my name somewhere in the ages of the world when that marble was put there Mow could 1 ten but that the meteor with the scroll would have the name of some one else? And I want to suggest that special difficulty in the way of dis closing anything of the sort Why has not God made this thing plainer ? Why, my brother, when we take into consideration the necessities of the human soul, for instance, when I feel that I am weary and heavy laden, when I long after the infinite, when I stand out beneath the dome of heaven in the night time and look up at the stars as the work of the Almighty, they seem to say tome thing to "me of the infinite. When I call them and ask them "what a e you and where is God ? I long after God ; will you tell me of him ?" they are forever silent In beauty and never return a word. When the meteor goes across the heaven the same is true, it is forever still. And I ask it of the hills, Moh, where is God ? Where is that after which my soul longs? I am weary and heavy laden." Kna they, too, are still. Here we see a man in Palestine, raising the dead, healing the sick, seeking and -pardoning the sinner, and we see the mother's eye light up with joy as he raises her child from the dead. I see the poor cripple as he bounds off home to tell his wife and children that the Lord Jesus has healed him of his lameness ; then that the same Jesus stands and says, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ;" and my soul says, "that is what I have been asking of the stars, of the hills, of the sea." ThaJ is what my soul wants, and I come to His invitation, and He says, "cast your care upon Me, for I care for you." There is a response in my heart that says, "that is what I want ; oh, my God, I come I 1 come ! That son in the family that is & prodigal, that is dissipated and every father knows what that is son who is restive under family re straint, nnder the parental govern ment, or that son wj.o is weak-mind ed, oh, how the father cares for that boy ! I am very sure that the fath er's and mothers heart takes more care of the idiot child than of. 'the others, and when it dies, there may be some little satisfaction on the part of the father that it has gone from its trouble, yet the mother's heart is as much pained when that child dies as if one. of her best children had died she has oared fcr it most when it needed her most - . " See her in the morning leaving the dining room, with a waiter on her band, and the daintiest morsel from the table on that plate, and a little vase sitting:. on the. corner, of the waiter with some flowers in it, and steps softly out of the dining, room with a smile on h r face. . Where is she going ? - .Up -stairs in that corner room her little, boy is lying .there, a cripple; he has not walked, he can scarcely bear . hjmself . upon his crotch. She had rather carry that waiter up stair to that child than to eat her breakfast ; she careth for him most when he needs it most We encourage ourselves also that he cares for us here and hereafter. He has prepared a mansion for us in the bright Heaven, where Jesus and the angels are. Oh, what a city, what a mansion, what a home ! And he has carel for us enough for that What a happy set of children we ought to be. Oh, shall we ever doubt it any more ? Shall we carry the sins and sorrows any more when we remember that he has borne them, that he wants us to tell him all ; whatever there is good or bad in us. lell him all our wicked motives and ask him to destroy them, and burn up the dross of -base desire and make us pure. Tell him tha , casting.our burdens upon biin, knowing that he has not only cared for us here, but hereafter, and pre pared a mansion for us with many picture galleries,' with the delightful pictures of our good acts, of our earnest prayers, of our cares, of everything that has lifted us up to God, and made us in the world strong and able for the nnhfting of man kind, for the helpfulness of the world ; he has done all that in the mansions that he prepared for us; "a city that hath foundations, whose maker and builder is Uod. Oh, what a city is that, where they neither marry nor are given in mar riage, a city where there are no tears, a city where the beautiful services is never read mthe ceme tery, a city where the painful pro cession never winds around the cor ner of the streets, a city where the inhabitants never say, 1 am sick, where they never grow old. He hath cared for us to prepare a city, the food of which is the food that grows upon the tree of life, and the water of which is of the river that makes glad the Heaven of the good, a city the walls of which are balvation, and the gate3 of which are praise, a city tne joy of which is the presence of God and the smile of the Lamb ; that city which he has cared for us enough to build and make ready for our coming. Cast all your care upon him, for he careth for you. PRESB YTERI Atf CHURCH. Rev. Dr. W. W. Bays preached at 11 a. m. His text was as follows : "For there is one God" First Tim othy, second chapter, fifth verse; "The fool hath said, in his heart, there is no God" xiv Psalm, first Trse. Dr. Jjays is a wondertui speaker, and yesterday he held his audience spell-bound for about one hour. His imaginative powers are exceptionally fine, and his descrip tion is seldom ever surpa Bed. Dr. Bays dwelt on the goodness of God, who was so watchful over his crea tures here below that he did not even allow a hair on their heads to go without being numbered, or a sparrow to fall to the ground with out being noticed. He pictured the lost soul forever fleeing away from its God, wandering aim lessly through the regions of the damned, beating its wings against the ebon darkless of hell, miserable and wretched to be away from God and yet more wretched still to be in his presence. When he concluded his sermon, and the congregation sung "All hail the power of Jesus' name,' there were many moist eyes, and the people went home greatly benefitted by the able sermon. At 3. p. m., Eev. Dr. G. C. Smith, of Georgia, preached to the children. He interested not only the children, but the packed house as well. His sermon was highly interesting, with wit and humor and at other times striking a note of pathos, which broughc tears to many eyes. At 7 p. m., the Eev. W. H. Moore preached. Mr. Msore's sermon was highly entertaining and, emphasized the fact that every man should be satisfied with the position in life allotted to him, ana whatever he had to do to do with all his might He proved convincingly that there is a ereat work for every ene to do, and the important point is to do that work well and then the world will move along level and smoothly with . i .i J ' everyming weu uone anu, oi course, everybody happy. METHODIST CHURCH. After preaching a powerful ser mon, the Bishop ordained the fol lowing deacons: Sam Turrentine, H. U Atkins, J. C. Troy; A. L. Co burn, G. A. Page, F. A. Vine, C. M. Carpenter and u. . Carver. At the evening session the follow ing were ordained elders: M. T. Steele, Z. Tans, u. Jf. Tate, U T. Cordell, P. F. Marr and J. B. Tarle ton. Services were held at the Forest Hill church, and at the Reformed and Baptist churches. MONDAY MORNING.' - Opening services this morning conducted by Kev. T. A. 5oone. The Minutes read, corrected and adopted. . v Secretary read communication from 'Secretary Exeeu'tiye Committed Ecumenical Conference,"req'uestipg names of delegates "and assessments to be sent in at an early day. Question Twentieth resumed "Are ail preacners oiameiessr Greensboro District E LStamey. T H Pegram, M C Field, F L Town send, R P Troy, L W Crawford, E W.- Callahan,- W C Norman, . J A Bowles, J T) Arnold,: S E Adams. - lit Airy District H F Wiley. E J Pusey. J E-Gay. J'M Downunv R M Uojle, . V Stateaviile Pjstrict J C Hartfeell, J p Ensland, C-.-M Gen try, C C jirotners. J a Xie, x tr rsonner, vv H Moore; J C RoweF-H Wood, J M. Lmmley. T JUailey. KU Uarrett, ZRush. - -. Report of the. Committee on Con ference. Claimants . anl r uncis read and adopted. n . s , w Twentieth question resumed. :' Shelby District- S If Davis. 11 S Webb. H T Hudson. J T Finlayson, M D Giles. M H Hoyle, A M Lowe, in o Koeeravu u lunue, o w Diry der, J JtBrookes.- - ' , ' CtwrlottaDistrict-T S Ellington, n Dui..:nnrir.iiii;inti Pin... raway, T-iL liiplet tcAE, Wiley, R T M Stevenson. A.PXEyer. Salisbury District W li CJrissom, EL Groome, H M Blair, W 8 Hales, ! D Bllifl. T W OnfhnV V. A Vrlr " J H Page, T W Smith, L E Staceyl . jjj. oluilu, i u xvenn. - - Trinity District E HDavis, M V Sherrill, G B Perry, J T Craven, J a iieitman, w M tfag by, W C Wil son, M W Boyles, I C Thomas, J E Woosley, J R Scroggs. Asheville District R F Bryant J T Stover, W B Lida, J B Caper, J H Weaver, JamesAtkins, R H Moore, E L Terrill, IV M Bowling, J i Brookes. Franklin District-J O Shelley, J Wigeins, H W Bays, W H Leith, T P Salyer, D H Coman, HB Bailey, n a uarnett. Moved and seconded that the mo tion regarding the establishment of a conference organ which was pend ing when conference adjourned Sat urday be resumed. Major Robbins introduced a sub stitute, the substance of which was to commend all these papers to the people, to recommend that every Methodist family take one, if not all of them, and resolved that all offi o.'al matters of the conference should be furnished impartially to each paper. For an hour the pros and cons of the amendment were discussed. Be low we give the leading points made by the speakers : Major Robbins: I want to recall every word which I have uttered on last Saturday morning which seemed to impugn anybody's motives. It would be impossible for me to desire to offend any Methodist preacher. If there is a sacred memory I cherish it is the memory of the Methodist preacher that came around the fire side when I was a little boy. Some thing was said about my not being willing to submit to the majority. I hope to win my cause, but if I do not, I shall submit to the majority. Disappointments do us about as much good as success ; they are all part of the discipline which fits us for the sky. Something was said about my being a politician ; I have not run for an office in many years. If you mean by a politician a man takes an interest in public affairs, why then I think every patriotic citizen ought to do that but the only office in the world I hold, and the proudest I eer did hold, is that of Sunday school superintendent . Here are three newspapers ; I do assure you that if you sit down on two Western N. C. newspapers today and adopt the org-n of another con ference, a great many people will say they have assigned usan inferior position; you must guard against that The ruin of this United States has been the ruthless action of the majority regardless of the feelings of the minority ; that is the reason this country is not as fraternal as it should be because the rule of the majority is exercised sometimes a little unkindly and inconsiderately. What I have said is not for myself ; I have no interest in these papers. God bless Bro. Reid and the "Advo cate" that he runs ; he will get more subscribers in W. N. C. and be bet ter supported than if we take his paper for an organ. (Applause.) Dr. Reid: As to personal mat ters, I accept most gladly Bro. Rob bins's statement that he recalls any thing like a personal reflection on myself or anybody else. As this conference knows I have been a man of peace, and for fear that if a majority should vote down this substitute there should still be dis cord, I stand ready to sacrifice any interest that I may have, and say that I will accept, so far as I am personally concerned, his proposi tion. (Applause.) - Mr. J. J. Renn : The substitute asks us to adopt no organ, but to recommend three papers. The edi tors will not be appointed by the Bishop and will not be endorsed by a formal vote, and they will be respon sible to nobody in heaven or earth for what i i published in their papers. It is stated that this will prevent sectional strife. If I understand, there is already Bectional strife, and the question is how to stop it; if we have three organs we are divided into three tribes and the strife will go on ; that is the negative side and on that ground I am opposed to the adoption of this substitute. Mr. J. F. Austin : I would say that so far as the W. N. C. Metho dist is concerned, nothing shall appear in the columns of that paper that shall be offensive to any brother believing otherwise on this question. Mr. Jas. Wilson, of Stateaviile Advocate: If the substitute passes, I accept it in perfectly good faith and expect to stind by it in the true spirit Major Robbins here asks leave to withdraw the. third whereas in his amendment &s it might not be clearly understood. Withdrawn. Rev. P. J. Carraway: Several little insinuations have been cast out here and there that I was an Eastern man and my' opinions ought not to . be respected so much on that account? I want to assure Maj. Robbins and every other member of the W. N. C. Conference, that if any man thinks that personal favoritism or -financial considerations could indace me to lay aside the opinions formed in this old head, he is the worst mistaken man that ever lived. I do not believe that you are going to take the wiser course here this morning. I believe that our confer ence had better establish one organ than to have three ; I am an organ mau and believe that it is the best; for the church. For the sake of tha Redeemer, let us have peace and net strife ; let us start out with amity; arid love for every man. 'Ue'v.' R. S. Webb: Let us have manhood, enough to select one of these papers. You, Bishop-, some times appoint us to places where wo do not wish to go, because you think we are thexme for that place, and that is the' feeling I have for the Raleigh "Christian Advocate." Let us - Belect one paper, and when yon select it by a majority vote let us stand by it and put it into the hands of every Methodist in North Caro lina. L... Rev. W. CV Norman : I hore that the -friends of the Raleigh "Chris tian 'Ad vocateT will vote for this substitute. Bro.n. Reid : tneana just ' (Continued on Second