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. • ::4 ■' ♦ - -I ■y ■ c.'f «.■**> Messenger.! absurd conversation EDITOR: M. P. DAVIS, New Bern, N. C. A monthly Baptist newspaper start- i ed in May, 1899, as the organ of the Atlantic Association: twice enlarged , and improved within a year; in Jan-j uary, 1902, its field was so extended as i to embrace the “Baptist Destituti m ' | of about twenty counties in Eastern | North Carolina, the territory lying | mainlj.'m the bounas of the Atlantic, j Neuse, Wilmington, and Tar River. Associations. Terms of Subscription; Single copies, each..25 cts. per year. 25 copies to one address. .$3 per year. 100 copies to one address.$10 per year Entered at New Bern, N. C., as tec- ond-class mail matter. AGENTS Emmet Whitehurst, Newbern, N. C. Miss Bessie Baul, Davis, N. 0. Miss May Gilmati. Ward’s Mill, N. C. Miss Be,“sic Heady, Swausboro, N. C. Miss Flossie Strother, Eureka, N. C. Miss Martlia Beaman, Speight’s Bridge, N. C. "A blue pencil mark here is to tell the subscriber that his subscription is past due and that all such are respect fully invited to send in at once or pay to the local agent. A red mark asks you to subscribe. “Man is immortal, until he has completed the work God has as signed him.” The trustees of the Atlantic In stitute, Morehead City, recently held a meeting in the law office of Simmons & Ward and elected the teachers for the incoming year. Our pastor at Morehead City, Bro. A. W. Setzer, was elect ed principal at a guaranteed sala ry. He was asked to give his en tire time to the school. Bro. Set zer has accepted. WV regret to lose Bro. Setzer as an active pas tor, but rejoice to know he has ac cepted a work so near the hearts of our people. Bro. Setzer has been principal for the two years past, and has managed the school with a wise hand, tho’ his pastoral duties called for a good portion of his time. We look for a marvel ous growth under the manage ment of Bro. Setzer. May the peo ple rally to his suj>port. A State Temperance Convention has been called to meet in Raleigh July 7th. This will be one of the greatest gatherings the State has ever had. Thousands of the very best people of our State will meet together to discuss the quickest way to save the children of our State from the curse of strong drink. The members of the last T^egislature who were Temperance men but , are beginning to see the hand-writing on the wall and are afraid. Some of them will be found among these thous ands, we .hope, fully repenting. It is desired tlrat every commu nity organize an Anti-Saloon League. If you have no saloons, to enforce the laws. If you have, to drive them out and keep them out. Do this and send delegates to Raleigh, July 7th. If you can’t do this, elect yourself a delegate and go. Reduced rates on all rail roads. * In an exchange, of a recent date, a so-called conversation be tween a “Primitive” Baptist min ister and one of the editors of said paper, was published. We do not put ourselves up as a defender of the Anti-Missionary Baptist min isters; for they are generally able to defend themselves. They gen erally know what they believe and why, and it is no easy matter to throw them off and close their mouths. But the writer of this so-called conversation puts words and thoughts into the mouth and brain of this minister, that an in telligent twelve year old child would be ashamed of. It is the most ridiculous and absurd con versation the writer has read in many days, and yet many of the readers of said paper will believe the conversation and doctrine put forth. I give below one question and answer: B. Don’t you think the thief on the cross was saved witbpiM, bap tism r D. Certainly, the thief on the cross, John the Baptist, Moses, Abraham, and thousands of others were saved without baptism, but they all died before C.hristian bap tism was instituted. To me this is Mormon doctrine. In fact, the conversation reminds me of a Mormon Elder, in some back-woods, teaching his doctrine. The plan of salvation has never changed. God cannot change. If He saved people before Christ in a different way to what He saves them now. He is a changeable God and cannot be trusted. But He is unchangeable, and Abel was saved just as we are to-daju The thief on the cross certainly did not die before Christ was baptized. From this article it seems that sorne_ man started Christian baptism af ter Christ died, for Christ died before the thief. The writer did not say by whom or when Christ ian baptism was instituted, but according to his answer, it was after Christ’s death. 1 suppose he meant that Christian baptism was instituted about seventy-five years ago in what is known now as West Virginia. My dear brother, let me tell you that the thief on the cross, Moses, Abraham, and the many others were saved just as we are to-day—by faith. They believed in the Christ that was promised— accepted the promise by faith. The thief accepted the Christ as the promised Savior. We are saved by faith in the Christ that has already come. We look back ward to Christ, they looked for ward to Christ. Not that bap tism saves, but Christ. Not that baptism aids Christ in saving souls; for, “we are saved by grace through faith and thal not of our selves, it is the gift of God.” “There is given no other name by which we can be saved.” A large number of young men and maidens have said farewell to books and faculty this week, and stand facing life’s stern realities. We hope that not a single one of them will be laggards in the race, but that all may realize their fondest hopes and dreams.-G. & C. ment, one year old, was a success. | There is a great need of a large endowment and a new building. W^ake Forest men are being felt in every part of North Carolina and in all honon’ible professions. The head of the Raleigh branch of the Medical department of the University, is a Vj’^ake Forest man. The head of tljje Pharmacy de partment of the University is‘a Wake Forest m an. Several of the Superior Court Judges are Wake Forest mei i- Many of the Solicitors of Nor'th Carolina are Wake Forest mei n Three of our Congressmen art- Wake Forest men. The finest 'lawyers, doctors, teachers, farmers; and preachers are Wake Forest i.,'aen. Who could be ashamed to ow R that he was a Wake Forest mail ? IS BAPTISM? A DOOR? T. P. Edwards, Wagersville, Ky. : “Is baptisnu a door into the church. If not, hOw is it essential to church mernb' ;j’ship?” The.indiinatioir which prompts the fixing upon some overt act as a procuring causes is a tendency to ecclesiasticism, to Catholicism and Discipleism. ■ Mr. Campbell and the Pope niake baptism a door, but Christ- never did. A man should be redeemed, be in the spiritual kingdom or spiritual church before he is baptized; he must be, say the Scriptures and Baptists; and he may be baptized when there is no local church to have a door, as in the case of Philip. No, brovJier, baptism is not a door, but ordy baptism (im mersion) an act imperative to the understanding, redeemed man, and its purpose is -o symbolize the redeemed man’s death with Christ to sin and his resurrection with Christ to life everlasting. Baptism is essential to church membership because it is one of the things Christ commanded of all who would follow Him. Un derstanding Baptists drop the overt act as a procuring cause as they would the vipers of Egypt.— Baptist Argus. >r=Jr=lr=tr=Jr. n il L Wasti ~ Kabrics ! Never lose their charm for women of taste, and we are really proud to be able to show so fine a collection of summer stuffs as the one to which we invite your attention this week. Patterns, colorings and qualities are a distinct advance over any previous showing we have ever made. Aristo Batiste in beautiful designs and colors, at 10c yd. Dainty Dotted Swiss in the most wanted colors and white 15c. Mercerized Silk Stripe Lawns at 19c. yd. Half Silk Organdy, a new fabric, at 30c yd. French Ginghams, and yard wide Madras at 10c yd. Danish Cloth in cream and light blue, at 15c yd. French Batiste in black for skirts, very light and fine, 15c yd. We are also showing a complete line of white goods, Pk’s, India Linon, Persian Lawns, Lace Stripe Lawns and Mercerized White Goods at very attractive prices. A PATTERN FOR YOUR DRESS FREE. We will furnish free of charge a McCall pattern with every dress bought from us costing $1.50 and over. BARFOOT BROS., 'r=Jc=lr- 43 POLLOCK STREET, -Jrz:zJn:::Un=J'r. NEW BERN, N. C. 1 J I NOTES AND COMMENTS. 1 Prof C. W. Wilson, ’9:3, Wake F'orest College, has been elected Superintendent of Scotland Neck Graded Schools. For the past two or three years Prof. \Vilson has been principal of the Rocky Mount Graded Schools. We con gratulate both. Prof Wilson and Scotland Neck. Commencement at Wake Forest College has just closed. Dr. Tay lor’s report, to the trustees, was the best in the history of the Col lege. There were enrolled 313 young men. The graduating class numbered . The law depart ment is still prosperous and grow ing—the best law school in North Carolina. The medical depart As time comes and goes, we are moving along on the great ship of time which makes its mighty and speedy tours over rough and smooth surveys, and it seems that w’e so seldom converse with one another concerning the trip we are making, and when we will reach our journey’s end. This should be a voyage which brings seriousness upon us, not withstanding we make a pleasant and delightful trip. If the business men in our church looked after their business like they do the business of the church, they would go into the hands of receivers in a short time. Are our brethren going to let this condition of things continue?— They are too indifferent to church work.—Baptist Bits. The debt on the Female Uni versity has been reduced to about $16,000. It ought to be wiped out, and we hope it will be before the leaves have turned to crimson and gold. The school is the pride of our people, and it is as near their hearts as Wake Forest College ever was.—C. and C. The census of 1900 tells a wm- fiil tale of ignorance in North Carolina. Out of every 100 peo ple over ten years old, 28 people can not read and write. Is it not time our people were aw'aking from their slumbers ? The follow'iug figures are taken from Government reports and the Census bulletin, showing the money we spend in a year and what for : Liquor, more than $1000,0000,000. Meat, $915,000,000. Iron and Steei, $6o0,00u.000. Sawed Lumber, $530,000,000. Tobaccoo, $525,000,000. Flour, $370,000,000. Public Education, $175,000,000. All Church Expenses, $150,000,000. Foreign Missions, $5,000,000. There were ten full graduates from the Baptist Female Univer sity, Raleigh, N. C., Dr. R. T. Vann, president. According to the Census of the U. S., almost every State in our Union has femele saloon keepers. The States with the largest num bers are: New York, 348; Ohio, 337, New Jersey, 208; Illinois, 196; Pennsylvania, 183; Califor nia, 129; Maryland, 126; all the others below 50. Even North Carolina has women saloon keep ers. What is to become of a peo ple who protects a “woman” in her diabolical life. All who vote for men who are in favor of such a business, aid in the protection of tliis great curse. Free Baptist: “A new law in Switzerland forbids all Sunday excursions. There are some clear and righteous thinkers in those Swiss mountains.” Lansing Burrows, Nashville, Tenn.: “We Baptists have a lot of blessed old maids who are doing the Lord’s work as freely, nobly and effectively as any of these women who dress so as to suggest tombstones.” North Carolina gave for For-| eign Missions, last year, through I the Board at Richmond, $15,541.-1 20. Georgia led all Southern, States with $33,658.06. The Bap-! tists of the Southern Convention | gave for Foreign Missions $218,- 512.62. There were 1790 baptisms by the Foreign Missionaries of the Southern Baptist Convention. Many of the counties are plan ning to have a four weeks Insti tute for teachers this Summer. Thousands of dollars have been thrown away on week (weak) In stitutes. Four weeks will tell for good. Two years ago, while the writer was Superintendent of Greene county, the schools co operated with Pitt county and held a four weeks Institute. It proved a wonderful success. Other counties are following. The four weeks Institute originated in the middle West. The First Baptist Church of Macon, Ga., gives $3,000 to erect a hospital at Hwang-Hien, China, to be used by Dr. T. W. Ayres, who is supported by the women of Georgia. Rev. A. L. Betts, of Warsaw, N. C., has been called to the pas torate of our church at Mt. Airy, and has accepted. Mt. Airy is one of the good mountain towns of North Carolina, and the church is composed of some of the best people of our State, but not devel oped to give and work as they ought. Bro. Betts has a great work before him, and this writer will follow him with a prayer, as Mt. Airy is near his childhood home. Rev. C. A. .lenkens, of Golds boro, has been called to the pasto rate of the First Baptist church, Gastonia, N. C. We are afraid Bro. Jenkens will accept. He has done a great work for the Baptists of Goldsboro, and has been the leader of the Temperance move ment which has permeated every part of Wayne county, and which points to a near day when Golds boro and Wayne county wull be free from the open saloon. Bro. J. E. King has recently held a good meeting at Woodville church. Six were baptized and three restored. Many of the breth ren thought it useless to try to re suscitate this church, but Bro. King thought otherwise, and with God’s help he has, and is doing a great work. Only eternity will reveal the good Bro. King is doing.
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