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■f: n . irasi mR '.t rk.'W0S :4»9.' esi:j ^ THE FREE WILL BAPTIST, J. M. Barfield, E. T. Phillips, Manager, Office Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Arden,N. C., as second class mail mattei'. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 11, 1901. Publisher's Announcement. All communications should be address ed to the FRi-E Wii.E Baptist Publishing Co., Ayden, N. 0. In case the paper is not leceired regular ly please notify us at this office. When orderinE a change of address, it is necessary to stale the place to which the pa{Kris now sent, as well as the one to which it is to he sent. In accordance with the general cus^c... and wishes of ahno.st all subscribers, sub scriptions are understood to be continu ous, cnless otherwise stated. The pajier will be stopped at any time, if the subscri ber so requests and remits theamount due for the time he has received it. The following statement of the legal re quirements may jiroperly be noticed in this connection. (l.| Any person who takes a paper regularly fromthepostolfice —whether directed to his name or anoth er's, or whether he has subscribed or not— • is responsible for the payment. (2.) If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages or the publisher may continue to send ft until payment is made, and collect the whole amount whether the paper has been taken fr the office or not. Let US trust God. The way seems dark, but it takes light to give a shadow. There is an abundance of light, let us not forget that. He who cares for the sparows will care lor his children Let us practice economy properly It is not economy to keep our children out of school if we can send them. This foolish mistake has often been made Give the best to the Lord and we will see that we want no 1 I EDITORIAL. I Some ot our churches have been sending dele^iates and contributions to our union meetings all the while. We hope that all will soon fall in line. These meetings have done our cause great and last ing good. The union meet ings have been a promoter of our Seminary. They have sent men into the fields to la bor. They have tended to strengthen the cord of union among the brethren. In some cases they have helped wor thy young men to prepare themseh’^es for the great har vest field of' souls. Let us nev'cr forget o»ir union meet ings. . . “Forget rot the assembling ofyourselvestogetber ’’ Bro. or sister, how can you stay away I'rom your quarterly meetings. If there is one thing in the world calculated to make aministerlooseheart and breakdown with discour agement it is carelesness and indifference on the part ol church members. Failing in this one particular is bad, had. Go there, be there. Go up to the Lord’s house. It will do you good. Tt will en courage your minister. It will show to the world that you love the church and care for the welfare of sinners as well. It you want to weaken the cause, stay away. Do not only gojvourself,getthose around you to attend. Let us get to-getlier and go up and possess the land. W,-mld our churches make 'theirallowanceforrunning expenses at the first of the year. Then we might with some grace ask outsiders at different periods during the year, to help us in other woi*- thy objects, that might come up. But usually it is about all many can do to get up a little amountfortbeminister. This is put off until it can hardly be raised and all other objects are ignored entirely until about the close of the year and cousequetly but little is done. How much better it would be to make up the church expenses at the quar terly meeting in January or early in the year. Then there would be room for other matters. How well pleasing to the Lord it will be if our people will meet in their respective churches. Praise God for a Christ to redeem the world and make up a present for some needy widow, some poor creature around you, or send some amount to help pay the debt off our Seminary. There are so many ways in which we may do well on that day, Try to make some sacrifice for him, who came into this sinful world and gave bis life ireely fur his enemies. We honor God by honoriog his cause. If you can not meet atthechnrch, dc> something to relieve some poor heavy heart and God will bless the effort. A cry is heard all over tlie land about short crops Corn is higher than it hat been at this season in many years. Provisions of all kind are high and wages are low. Many are at their wits end and seem to be over an.xious about their temporal welfare good thing. Why is it at church, that some brethren will hang around the church yard and not go in until the very last pinch? What does such ac tions as this show to the world? It looks like you do not want to engage in the service as long as you can reasonably keep out of it. The world is not asleep they have their eyes on the church member. Is it any wonder that many of the worldly people stay out of doors, when church members seem to prefer staying out as long as possible, and engaging in anything ;n preferance to go ing into the house and engag ing in the worship of God. He is a jealous God and onr ways are known unto him ■et the church members do better, and the world will do better. It would be well if all of our members would pay into the treasury of the church during the fall and winter months, according to their several abilities and have something to run the expen ses of the church on. during the year. All lovers of the work ought to make a des perate effort to pay in some thing of their means and their porportionate part to help defray the expenses. Tt is humiliating to the church to have to beg the world for help to get along. It is noth ing out of the way to give them a chance to do well in this way, but there ought to be such a readiness on the part of the brethren that we would not be almost forced to beg outsiders to help us pay what we ourselves ought to make up at once. But let us not give grudgingly and a stronger term would be. Let us not begrudge what we ought to pay cheertully. Let us do our duty in season. Let us obey ourdiscipline. other proceedings and would have no trouble in getiingthe minutes up. Sometimes on account of putting the mat ter off, they fail to appear at the proper time Our breth ren sometimes w ait one for another and the work is not done. No harm is intended, but it makes our work show up poorly to say that an obit uary is to aj-pear in the min. utes, when itdoesnot appear. We have looked for an obitu ary that was to appearinour Western minutes and at this late hour it hasjnstappeared. The minutes are compleied and it can not appear in this years minutes. We think as we said at first, it would be well for the committee while at the conference, all to-gether, to get them up. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. We greatly jted a good pi ano lor the i'-'5e pf students taking music iVssons. A part of the Theological Class, have r ommenced the study ofMnsHeim’s Church History We advance thestu- dents as rapidly as thorough- liess will adroi-t. Wm. T. Kendrick, of Mc- Calla, Ala. has a timely article in this issue on Sabbath School literature and the use of it in schools. These lesson helps are worth a great deal to the faithful student. These lessons are prepared by able scholars and are a great boom to Sabbath School students. In man3' pi these lessons we have brilliant flashes that throw much light upon the lesson in hand. The lessons are usually arranged in topics so that the average mind can at once see the purport of the whole lesson. Ail of this is around one central truth, the main mast of the entire lesson. Much biograplu' and side history is given and the dates when all the events oc- curied. Of course tbe Bible is the book ol all books and to study and learn it, should be our object or as much ot it as we can. and these lesson helps are a God send in that direction. The international lessons pu\, Luc whulc luuO lu one large school. Let us use them. Wf. will print quarter lies as soon as our people will make us able. Married at t wington, Ohio. Nov, 30. 190,I, Mr. James Grtgory and 'diss Daisy Pe- den. The bri'Ie is a niece of Prof. Thomas E. Peden of the Free Will Baptist Theo logical Seminrij’. The A. C. anniversary will be held in (^onneefion with Commencement exercises of the Seminary n June. A so ciety ought tp. be organized in every churci. having more than two vouiig members. Every churcli ought to keep the week of p ayer commen cing the first Sabbath in next mon th. It a minister can not be obtained, a protracted prayer meeting can be held that will be of great value to the membership'in thechurcb. Bro. David lasley of Ches hire, Ohio, takes a five dollar share in the pr’dication olthe Treatise. Agaod many other.s should do sc at cnce. We have a good oppor^^unity to get the work done well and cheap, but a lit.tle delay may cause us to loose it. No mon ey wanted until, at least, twenty sharesAre pledged. We again ask some one in each church w:?o is willing to do Christian work to circu CAPTURE OP MISS STONE, OPENING! ^*i--Chrisl:mas Goods!! Miss Ellen M. Stone has been a missionary in Bulgaria a number of years. She is a lady of fine education; win ning ways and is highly res peeled by all those who know her. In her work she traveled from village to vilage, with out any thought of danger, and her capture was very much of a surprise to her as well as to her friends and the authorities. Thecapturetook place among the mountains )f Bulgarie, and is thus des cribed Liy the husband of the native lady who was taken At the same time. His letter is dated at Salonica, Turkey’, Oct. 7, and was addressed to the Rev. Howard A. H Briggs, Jersey City, N. J. He says: “On Tuesday, the 1st, week ago, a large jiarty of us were traveling from Bonsko to Djumajo. On dur way we found ourselves surrounded by a band of men, about thir ty in number, all armed with the latest rifles. They deman ded our surrender and then made us climb up a thick for est, stopping here and there to examine the place. On Oeoeniloeir the ITtli I will open the LARGEST and BEST SELECTED STOCK OP CHKiSTMAS GOODS Ever Brought to Ayden, Fine Silver Ware, Finest China Ware, Toilet Artiefes, etc., also an endless Variety of TOYS for the little ones. IF you WANT FINE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, REMEMBER WE ARE HEADQUARTERS. Remember tbe date, Big Opening Dec. ITth. EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS. Very Respectfully, J. J. HINES. MY FIRST SERMON. BY A. O, CKOSSWHITE, If there is one thing in my early Christian life that is in delibly .stamped upon my j memory it is my first sermon. “After half an hour or more we were expected to sit dov/ii. Then they chose Miss Stone, an American missionary, and my wife, and, taking two of our horses, they went further in. while they kept us, the rest, till the next morning, so that we could not go and re port to the government. “fust at the time, before the taking of the ladies, we had to witness a most terrible thing. They had captured late n pledge aiid get as many ^ little be- as possible to agree to read the Bible Ibrodgli within the year 1902. There is no com munity in vv '^ich a goodly nunjber can seev'^red by a little eariies.; and cobsecra ted effort. SNAPSHOTS. BY vS. Z. SHARP. Wc think it would be well for the committees who are appointed to write obituar'es at the various conferences to get to-gether and do the work at the conference. The clerk could then have the manuscrip along with the 1. Those who carry tlie yoke of fashion, and then try to put on the yoke of Christ over it, complain that the latter is heavy. It is the one next to the neck that hurts, 2. It is as important to save a congregation astofs- tablish one. We have a mis sionary system to establish churches, but none to save them from decay. 3. The crying want of the churches at this time is effi cient and faithful elders and ministers. 4. We put the best soldiers where the battle is the hot test. Our city churches need the most lo3’aI and efficient pastors. 5. A mother inclined to wards the fashions has more influence over her daughters in directing them worldward than the minister has in direc ting them heavenward. G. A wedge of gold and a Babylonish garment In the camp of Israel defeated its army before Ai. How often is the army of the Lord de feated in a protracted meet- ing by some gold;-' 7. If some elders would care as well for their congrega tioDS as they do for their (arras, what a change it would make! There is nothing sweeter than the perfume which is dis tilled from the full blossomed flower of duty well performed. Stiid'»ntsin Arithmetic A1-, gebra and other mathemati cal Studies ape required ti' solve every problem, whether difficult or not, and a good manj’ original and selected examples We know several who did not do this when pursuing their studies and who are now paying the pen alty in bitter tlisappointment and failure. One occa&irjuall^’ w’rites from other states, “I would attend the Seiinnary but the expense ot g»-ing there and coming home is too great.” Students corung here and staying a yeai- without going home will roore than save their travelirj'; expenses in ac count of the cheaper rate of living here tbm at schools nearer their lu)me. It is bad policy for one living consider able distance away to go home often, afj it causes great loss of time -iji.d takes their attention fro;, 1 their studies As there ari- a considerable number in d’ffcrent parts of our country V,.ho are thirst ing for power to Lord it over God's heritaj^j” it becomes Free Will HafUst churches to stand by their ancient Bap- tistic and Scriptural princi pies and see to it that the rights and inijependenceofthe churches :ito maintained. Bunyari, H.ill, Spurgeon, Palmer, Ra^,dall, Wayland and Dunn, are the class of men indepchdent churches give to the Vorld. They in piety, labor, education and moral wcaltV.standfarabove those ordina* liy produced by Episcopal p-,d Ol'garchical svstems- ^ fore or after, wc don't know’, a Turk, and while they tied his hands back, they were beating him with the backs of their rif.es and fiMally, tak ing liis own knife. they stab bed him seven times, and he fell dead. “For a long time we had to wait and hear nothing. 0, the agony and the sleepless nights tliat we have spent waiting and watching with no answer! Finally we got a letter telling us that the reason of their capture was to get money. They de mand more than $100,000. It is a large sum, and itseems impossible to get it. I am confident that our friends in America will do all in their power. Pra\’ for us. When my wife gets free you shall have a long story of her experi ences. God grant her freedom. “I would have written sooner, but I have been in the hands of the goveimmcnt, being examined and cross-ex amined almost every day. Many people have suffered terribly on this account. Some have been beaten to death vvitli the hope that before they died they would tell where the missionaries arc*. The inhabitants all around the place where they were captured are in prison or have run away and deser ted their homes.—Gospel Mes senger. SAVED nrs LIFE. I wish to say that 1 feel I owe niy lifetoKodol Dyspepsia Cure,” writes H. C. Cliresteiison of Hav- field, Minn. “J'or three years I was troubled ^vith dyspejisia so that I could hold nothing on ray stomach. Many times I would be unable to retain a morsel of food. Finally I was confined to my bed. Doctors said I couldnot live. Iread one ofyour advertise ments on Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and thought it fit my case and commenced its use. I began to improve from the first bottle, Now I am cured and recommend it to all.” Digests your food. Cures all slomach troubles. .M. NI. Sauls, druggist. I was then under twenty-one 3’ears of age and had been a member ot the church less than two years. It was in the Oakland church, Blount Co., Tenn. !Mj father, Jesse Crosswhite, and Prof. S. Z. Sharp, who was then Normal Instructer in the Maryville College, were the elders of the church, and it seemed to me that I would rather have tried my initial sermon before any other two, picachers. in the United States. This memorable Lord’sDay was suspiciously bright, and everybody just tried them selves to see how full they could get the house on that particular occasion, or so it seemed to me. Whether by mutual agree ment or otherwise, it became my uneasy lot to between these two good men, and I became strangely conscious that I must either back squre down or by ray feeble effort convince'them and therevolv ing congregation that preach ers are “born not made.” When time came Bro. Sharp said, “Well, Bro. A. G.. you must preach to-day.” Hook ed around to father for sym pathy, but tbe solid look he gave me seemed to say, “Try IT.” I saw no way out of it but to preach out; but I tell you, people, preacning the Gospel is not making school speeches or Sunday-school talks; and for the first time in my life I thought of the apology of Moses, “I am slow olspeech.” A few weeks before I had heard a Presbyterian minis ter preach from Isa. 32: 2. I had recently been called to theministr.- and not know ing how soon I might be call ed upon to preach. I admired that text, carefully outlined his work mentally, and plac ed it in the “reserve fund” to be used when there was no possible way of getting out of it. Here now was that awful extremity and here is the text; “Andaman shall be as a hiding place from tie wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of agx'cac rock in a weary land Isa. 32: 2. 1 believe I have never used a longer text to the present day, but there were several good points in that, when 1 read \tiy text his first thought was, “Swamp ed, my boy.” In looking back over that eventful day’s work I am made to think how I waded through the air and +elt my blood rising to the boiling point with a mist above, underneath, and all around me concealing the facesofmy loving, sy'mpathiz- ing congregation, by whose prayers I was enabled to say a few things that day that I trust my dear heavenly’ Fath er has credited to my account from my first sermox. TO YOUNG MEN. it, and there is less danger of a wreck if a young minister man.—SeUcted. has a broad foundation. A sister who does her own thinking sends the following for publication: I say to myself, young man, before you take upon you the promises of life companion ship, let me ask yon if you can be a man amid all tbe trials of lif*. me say to you, before you take from her home that innocent, happy daughter, take a real good lookatyour- self and your weaknesses. .Ask yourself these questions. Can I be a man? Have I strength of cliaracter suffi cient for the duties t at I am now about to take upon me? Am I willing to make the nec essary sacrifice in orJtr that I may fulfill tbe lasting and solemn vows that my com panionship will demand of me? Can I be looked to for counsel and advice? Wifi I be a protector? Would 1 prove a blessing to a home? Have I enough good sound judgment to hold and guard the affections of the one with whom I enter life as a com panion? Sliould I be father, can my child look in its inno cence to me as a Christian ex ample? Have I in my life the qualifications that one in chargeofahome will demand? Am I able to bring myself up to that standard that my household will expect ofuie a? a Christian? .A.h, my dear young friend, think this over well and long enough to be come acfLuainted with your self, and, whoever you may be who read these lines, if you can, answer yes to these ques tions, by the help of God. Then perhaps you are ready for the realities of iifv. But if not, stand back. D jn’t take from I'.er [larental home that untarnished, inexpetkneed heart and hand. Learn to mtet life and ics possibilities with a manly heart. Learn toloak upward and ouward. Trust in Go J. L arn to be a , I Know On». Sure BomedT Father told me afterward torsnointinMacoii ■iia
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