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VOLUME THREE.
NEAV BERN, N. C., JANUARY, 1903.
NUMBER NINE.
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Rev. A. W. Setzer, Morehead City.
Our work here has been going
steadily on. The Bible Study
class has been re-organized with
Prof. W. IT. Gale as leader. A
change has taken place in our Sun
day School since our last commun
ication. Bro. L. L. Leary for
four years our faithful and effi-
are praying for a
great meeting.
Our Sunday School children
gave a nice Christmas entertain
ment, Friday night of Christmas
week. Santa Claus gave each S.
S. student a^ box of candy and an
orange. All seemed to enjoy
themselves very much.
My people, soon after our arri
val, gave us a nice pounding and
they have kept it up almost contin
uous ever since. The*many Christ
mas presents received by my fam-
mui ycais uui la ui.ui ...a
cient Superintendent, resigned i
n -n f TTT Tx 1 1 i 1 i with us and be a strmuius to great-
and Prof. W. II. Cale was elected
in his stead. A Teacher’s meet
ADDRESS
THE ATLANTIC MESSENGER,
Weiv Bern, N. C.
ing has been set on foot for the
especial purpose of taking a course
ill teaching. This movement
promises to be of untold value in
O'Ur Sunday School work.
The Spring term of Atlantic In
stitute will begin on the twelfth
of January. The total enrollment
during the fall term was one hun
dred and twenty-one. There will
be a number to enter for the spring
term. There are a number of i
Bajitist parents who will read this
that ought to put their children in
school in this institution. I will
take pleasure in answering any
question that the brethren may
wish to ask regarding the school,
board, etc.
OUR ASSOCIATINAL SCHOOOL.
God knows what we do not; this
is our consolation. We know not
what God knows; this is our hope.
DO YOU BELIEVE THESE PROPSI-
TIONS?
(1) If drink prospers in my
towm, it must be supported by
church members.
■ (2) The church should be the
strictest of all temperance organi
zations, and the strongest pledge
to abstain from all intoxicating
drinks should be the covenant that
Christians have made and the obli
gations they have assumed.
(3) Any church member who
needlessly uses intoxicating li
quors and by so doing fosters this
cliabolical traffic and spits in the
face of decency and insults the
church of the living God should
speedily make confession and
change his ways, or be promptly
excluded.
(4) Every Christian who re
spects himself loves his family,
toils for the peace of his commun
ity,' and worships God according
to the dictates of his conscience,
should unite in the expulsion of
this horrid demon from our so
ciety.
(5) "Every man, woman and
child, saint and sinner wdio is
wedded to the interests of man
kind, should, heart, soul, mind and
body, espouse the cause of sobriety
and enlist in the armies of temper-
I would call attention to the
resolution ])assed at our last As
sociation asking the Churches to
take ii]i a collection as early as
possible for the ‘‘Atlantic Insti
tute.” Bemember brethren that
this is our School and it should
be the wish of every Baptist in the
Atlantic Association to make it
second to no Associational school
in our State and to do this we
nmst be personally interested—in
other words v.'e must take stock in
it—and therefore Ave desire every
Baptist in our Association to con
tribute to this Avorthy institution.
Please don’t defer this; but take
up a collection at your earliest op
portunity and send the money to
brother L. L. Leary, Treasurer at
Morehead City, hi. C. Pastors
can help us by talking up and
brin,ging this matter before their
churches and strive to have .every
member make a contribution. The
Sunday Schools are generally loy
al to our Institution and they too
should ■ haA=-e an opportunity to
lielp' in this Avork.
Bret]ire?i urge this matter
please.
J. C. WrtlTTY,
Chmn. Board Trustees.
er seiwice.
AVould it. not be Avise for our
churches to begin noAV and pray
for a great ingatl\ering this year ?
We have been pleading and Avork-
ing for our peoide to consecrate
their pocket books to God and may
Ave not pray and Avork for a great
revival in our churches this year.
I am afraid Ave do not trust God
enough. Llay Ave lose sight of
self and look to Christ as All and
in All. If Ave Avill do this lie Avill
pour out His Spirit upon us in
great poAver.
THE NEEDS OF THE ROBERSON-
VILLE BAPTIST CHURCH.
PobersoiiAulle is a toAAm of about
five hundred inhabitants, located
in Martin county, on the Ply
mouth branch of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad, about t.Aventy
miles from Tarboro, Greenville
and Washington, and about tAvelve
miles from Williamston. The
toAA'ii has someAvhat. been on a
boom for the last tAvo years. Sev
eral neAv brick stores have been
erected, a bank opened, a brick ho
tel built at a cost of $5,000; a
large tAA’o-story academy has just
been erected, in Avliich a good
school is running Avith a corps of
three teachers and six grades, in-
chiding the high schqol course :
also a music department.
been no Baptist preaching at all
in the toAvn of Robersonville.
Under the appointment, of the
Executive Board of the Tar River
Association and of the StateBoard
of Missions, I took up the Avork;
but could only give Sunday after
noon and Aveek night services.
Ea.rly in the Spring Ave began to
plan for a. church building. We
secured a most excellent corner lot
on Railroad street. About the
middle of AAigust Ave laid the
foundation of the Robersonville
Ba.])tist house of Avorship. On the
3rcl Sunday in September Ave held
shoAving
them the AVord of God
that oru* skirts maybe clean ? Uay!
L say it is our duty to condemn
sin in every garb’. Six da.ys shalt
thoir labor and do all thy work;
but the neAv Theology is to. Avork
until Saturday noon, sleep or loaf
until the stores are closed then do
the shopping Sunday morning.
They say the Sabbath Avas made
for man and not man for the Sab
bath. Right is the best policy for
all people in all things. Let us
do right.
God charged Israel to let the
land rest every seventh year and
our first service in the neAv church, j because they disobeyed Him, he
The folloAving Aveek Ave organized j alloAved XeljAichadnezza to con-
the Robersonville Baptist church i quer Jerusalem and capture her.
Avitli nine members. AVe liaA^e just ’ people and keep them until the
got the house shut in Avith floor,
AvindoAVS, doors and peAvs, so Ave
can hold service.
The property as it is, including
the lot, is valued at $925.00. AVe
OAve on the property $525.00. It
A\fill take $300.bo more to com-
jAlete and furnish the building.
Vve have about $200.00 of out
standing ]Aledges.
Brethren and sisters of the great
Baptist host of Aortli Carolina,
and our Southland, you sec our
condition. This is the Lord’s
cause and yoAi are the Lord’s ]Aeo-
ple, and the Lord has intrusted
you Avith His money. Help us
AA"e have a good tobacco market
Avith three AvarehoAises and a fine
corps of buyers. The commercial
receipts last year, including the
sales of tobacco, amounted to about
$400,000. Robersonville is a lead
ing toAvn in Martin county, Avhich
Avas recognized as the banner to-
NE\Y BERN-TABARNACLE.
Rev. M. P. Davis, Nexv Bern.
Hear Bro. Moore : The Avork
at the Tabernacle is still going on.
though sloAv, I have ahvays been
ance.
A man’s integrity may stand in
the way of his success in small
matters; his lack of integrity will
stand in his way for success in
great matters.-Exchange.
This paper aspires to be a well
doer rather than a money-maher.
But to keep alive and do its best
work, its finances must not be over
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tauffht that a a'reat AVork could not
O A...
be accomplished in a day, and I
hope and pray a great Avork is be
ing done by our little band of true
and faithful brethren. AA^e liav^e
the promises of God and upon
these Ave stand and Avork and pray.
Our Sunday School and congre
gations are some larger than Avhen
Ave first bega.n to work Avith the
brethren. AA^e are asking and
AAmrking for all AA’hom the Lord has
for us.
Our thanksgiving offering for
the Thoniasville Orphanage Avas
aboAit twelve dollars.
The first Sunday in January—
the first Sunday of the neAV year—
Ave remember the heathen by giv
ing of our means to send the gos
pel of our Lord Jesus Christ to
bacco county of the State last year.
Christianity, I am sorry to say,
is someAvhat, at a Ioav ebb in this
toAvn, there being only Iavo small
churches,one Methodist Avith about
tAventy-five members, and a Disci
ples Church Avith about the same
number. The Anti-hlission Bap
tist is the leading religious senti
ment Avhich largely predominates
in Martin, Pitt, Edgecombe, Hali
fax, AVashington and Beaiifort
counties. They oppose Sunday-
schools, protracted meetings and
missions Avith all their might.
Therefore the Missionary Bap
tists are Aveak, both numerically
and financially. AA^e have b\it one
or tiAvo real strong churches in all
the territory embraced in the above
named counties. This region is
recognized as the great destitution
of Eastern Horth Carolina.
The people are Avell bred and
intelligent, and AA’hen converted to
our faith, make loyal Baptists,
many of Avhom are very liberal.
A A^ery small per cent, of thq.peo
ple are members of any church,
only about one oirt of every ten
of the AAdrites. AA^e often find fam
ilies of eight and ten in number,
Avith groAvn children, and not. a
single church member among
them. A large number of our
baptisms is from- neAV families that
have no Baptists in them. Up to
last UoA'ember (1901) there had
as the Lord has prospered you
in this our strus,'gle for His cause.
As you see below, this appeal
is approved by the Executive Com
mittee of our Association, also by
the Secretary of the State Board
of Missions and Sunday School.
Money sent to the undersigned
Avill be duly acknowledged in the
Biblical Recorder.
JAS. W. ROSE,
Missionary.
Plymouth, H. C., Oct 1st, 1902.
AAA heartily approAu of the
above.
HOAH BIGGS,
Ch’m. of Ex. Com. Tar RUer As
sociation.
LIAHA^GSTOLT JOHXSOH,
Cor. Sec. Baptist State Conven
tion.
THE PAMLICO FIELD.
Rev. J. R. Taylor, Bayboro.
Dear Bro. Moore :—AA^e have
just started on the Avork of a Hoav
Year (1903). It is our intention
to do more in faith "and faithful
ness this year than ever, and to
render our best service to God.
The Avrongs of (1902) can not be
recalled, but Ave can use them as
stepping stones in climbing high
er. AA^e have much before us to
do, and so much that needs to be
done.
AVe have some Avrongs that must
be righted. At some points in
our county there are more goods
sold on Sunday than on Monday.
This is Avrong and should lie stop
ped. The merchants do Avrong in
a threefold AAuy. Eirst, he violates
the laAv of our God—Exodus 20:
10.
Second: He helps the man Avho
does the buying to violate the laAV
of God. Third: He show-s to the
Avorld that he does not care for
God or His Avord or the Chris
tian’s feelings. Therefore, he
ought to be shunned before he
draAvs the honest man from hon
esty.
The man Avho plays around un
til Sunday to do his shopping is
no better than the Avorst outlaAV
Ave can think of. Pie not only
breaks the national laAv, but the
law of God delivered to Moses on
land had rested the seventh year.
From history Ave learn that God’s
laAvs must be obeyed.
AA^c are troubled Avith drunken
ness in some parts of our field.
It seems to me if the toAvn author
ities and the Christian men and
women in these communities
Avould put their foot on his neck
they could shake him out. But
Ave tread so lightly on the deAul’s
head he only laughs at our Aveak
kneed Christians.
It is wrong to make Avine, and
it is tAvo-fold Avrong tO' adulterate
it so as to make people: drunk.
Church members liiaking Avine to
damn their OAvn children and their
neighbours too. A^our lot is Avith
the angels of darkness. The drunk
ard has a beginning place. It is
at mother’s table often in the glass
of syllabub.
The Charlotte Obseiwer of Hov.
13, says a good text can be furnish
ed for temperance preachers at the
city jail “seeing a. large.goods box,
almost filled Avith bottles, flasks
and ticklers. Cliief-of-police
Scott explained that they Avere
captured from parties locked up
for various crimes from drunken
men to burglary. I can tell you
another thing said he, nine-tenths
of the parties, male and female,
arrested for violation of laAv by
my men, have either a bottle of
Avhiskey or the odor of it on them,
nearly all of them have a pistol or
a razor or some form of deadly
Aveapon, but generally speaking a
pistol and razor.” These boys be
long to some dear mother and fath
er. IIoAV are you training those
at your knee ? You say my boy
Avill never do so and so; this moth
er might have said the same. Let
us keep the Sabbath Holy and
crush the monster drink from ev
ery closet and make the closet the
hoAise of secret prayer.
All my appointments have been
filled Avith usual interest. AVe
spent quite a pleasant Xmas and
noAV doAvn to Avork. Grace and
mercy be Avith you all. Amen.
—Unfermented wine for com
munion purposes may be had of
the American Baptist Publication
Society, of Philadelphia. 25 cts.
per pint; 50 cts. per quart; ship
ped best in cases of half dozen
pint bottles. Express or freight
extra.
—The only individual commu
nion set we know of in the Atlan
tic Association was secured some
months ago by our Bayboro
church. Rev. J. R. Taylor, pastor.
Sinai. Shall Ave as Christians al-
loAV just such to go on without
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