TIIR EDUCATOR I'lßl-tSHSD EVERY SATURDAY, WADDELL Jk SMITH. RATES OK SUBSCRIPTION': One Year, in advance, .... |2.00 Nix Months, in advance. .... 1.00 rhrcc Months, in advance - - - 00 RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT. Gowvcnw bv It. HARRIS. To the Ministera ninl mcmbei'H ot the A M. E. Zion Church. Dear Drethren: A* we have adopted the I“Et>uCATOR,” published at Fayette ville. N. C., by Messrs. Waddell A Smith, as our Organ, I hope you will do all iu your power to increase its circulation. The '“Zion Chu r ch Advocate" has been suspended for several months, and the Bishops have decided to give it no further encour agement. I think we have seen the end of it. Do yonr best to soul Messrs. I Vsddell JSmi h s'2o for 10 yearly subscribers. I believe we can make this effort a success. • Let us resolve to do it, and it is done. I will publish my apjMiintmcnts and tioje my visitations briefly in its columns. Anything you wish published send to Prof. R. Harris. Write short letters, and ■natter will not be crowded out. Yours for the success of the “Educator.” J. W. HOOD, Bishop 3d. Episcopal District. Fayetteville X. C Jau. loth. 1875 Bisllol- Henna's AriH.aiXTJIF.STS 101 l Aran.— April 4th Manchester. - Mill Zion, Duplin Co. - 10th Elder Cliapel, - “ - llth Magnolia. “ “ - INth Elisabethtown lilad'nCo. - tth Brown's Creek ** - -21 s» Baker's Creek “ ” - 2*l Clarksville •' “ - 24th Milla rs Ilill “ ~ -2511 i (morning) tVilli." Creel, - - (uiglit I Fayetteville. To whom itmay Coucccn lie it known that the General Con ferenoe of the A. .M. E. Zon Con nraTi.an, at its session ill Cnariaalto N. C., June, 1872, took intaa cantsial rraii,au the praapriety of establish ing schools for the cl utsrtion of ant. people in Um South, and selected lot nilovii«nr on. Washington, N. C. April 14 1875. Dear Editor: The Revival is still progressing. Sixty-six sottlsr have been happily converted to God and seventy-five have been added to the Church. Wc are at work on tlte new Church. Brother lioht. S. Uieves, the preach er in charge on the District, also has a revival in progress on the District and several have been converted. A. B. Shyer. If we see a little boy with a cigar in his mouth, wo are almost sure wc shall sec him hovering round a grog shop or tavern bar. He will not lie contented with cold water. So, lit tle fellows, you are safe if you let smoking alone. (For the Educator.) Manchester, N. C. April Bth 1875. Mr. Editor: At this place we have succeeded in purchasing a lot on which to build a house for Divine Worship. The congregation have paid for it and received a good deed. The breth ren and sisters said, well might we cry aloud, spare not, and lift up their voices like a trumpet, for God his given them what they never expect ed to see in this place. The con gregation is very much interested now, about building a good church. They have paid for a part of the lumber, besides $25. for other be nevolent purposes and have now in the treasury 893.03. We want to swell this amount to S2OO, and then employ mechanics to build the church. We need help, and assistance from any one will he thankfully received and acknowledged. We have a society called “The Union Band, Sons and Daughters of Zion,” which meets once a month to pay in their dues. The sisters’ of this Band are $52. 35 cts stronger titan the brothers; we get new members at nearly every meeting. The offices are the follow ing: Males—Mr. Frederick Jackson, Pres. Mr. Thomas Lucas’ Vice. Mr. Lemuel Stinson, Trcas. Mr. George Elliott, Sec. Females—Mrs. Catharine Monroe, Pres. Miss Isabella Brinkley, Vice. Mrs. Laura Stinson, Tres. Miss Jane Lucas, Sec. A. M. Barrett, Asst. Sec. Our Sabbath school is still im proving. Yours for Zion. A. M. Barrett. (For the Educator.) (4 od’H Lave to Us. Was it not marvelous love that caused God to send Ills son to die tor us lost and undone sinners? Il is so wonderful, that we ought never to read of it or hear it read without being moved. Wc aro so famil.ar with it that oftett we sit idle and hear it told, and never give it a thought, ami yet our ltearla ought always to he touched at the remem brance of what our dear Savior has done tor ns. That God should stoop so low as to allow His son to come down to this wicked world at all, is a great wonder. It is so great, that I cannot with my dull understanding write much about it, but I have for the first time tried to write a tew lines for publication. Harriet Merrick. Fayetteville, April 16th. (For the Educator.) Dudley', N. C. April 16th 1875. I atn authorised by the Trustees of A. M. E. Zion Church here, to return thanks to the members and friends of Evans Chapel for tlte amount of 818.20, that was raised by Rev. 11. 11. Simmons, for our church when he was in Fayetteville George Washington Sec. of Trustees. Says Mr. Beecher: I know of no charm, no specific, which being ad ministered as a medicine will break out a revival of religion. My own experience has been that it is not best to seek to bring about revivals by any Bpccial means exoept so far aB they exist in ourselves. I see more good stuff wasted by longing for a revival than you could measure. If instead of wanting a revival, men wanted more of Christ themselves; if they had a clearer insight into their own worthlessness; if they were ; more profoundly humble; if they felt | more deeply and continuously what i a privilege it is to he allowed to do the poorest work, iu the poorest I place, with the poorest results even; if they had a sense ot divine sympa thy that made the name of Christ al most bring tears to their eyes all the time, then they would be in a condi tion to work for a revival. In short those who would work for a revival sltoufd forget the revieal and work for God in their own souls. If that deepening personal feeling is experi encedby another,and you and that pet son come together, and if a third and a fourth can bo drawn into it, then you will begin to have drops coming to gether, and you will very soon have so many drops that a current will start, and there will be your revival. The beginnings ought not to he so much in the increase of machinery —though that is not wrong, because machinery has a relation to building. Every revival begins in a deeper sense of God in some soul, and then in some souls. When two or more oonte together in that element a cur rent starts, and that in the begin ning of a revival. Extravnitauco. For the refinementsand tlte e’egatt cics and adornments of life, I cast my vote. While I was thinking over this subject, there was handed into tny house a basket of flowers, paradisiacal in their Tteauly. White calla with a green background of begonia; heliotropes nestling among geraniums; sepal, corolla, and per ianth showed the touch of GodVfin gers. In the snow of the in the fire-dye of the rose, in the English violet, I learned that GOD LOVES ADORNMENT. He might have made this earth so as to satisfy the gross demands of sense, but left it without adornment or at traction. Instead ot the variegated colors of the seasons, the earth might have worn a dress of unchanging dull brown. The trees might have put forth their fruit without the pro phecy of leaf or blossom. Niagara might have let down its waters iu gradual descent without thunder and winged spray. But no! Look out, on some Sommer morning, after a heavy night-dew, and see whether or not God loves jewels. Put a snow flake under a microscope, and see whether God does not love ex quisite architecture. He decreed that the breast-plate of the priest in olden time should have a w reath of gold, and the hem of his garment should be, worked into figures of pomegranate. When the world sleeps God blankets it with the bril liants of the night aky, and when it wakes he washes it in the burnished laver of the sunrise. But it is absolutely necessary that we DRAW A LINE between that which is the lawful use of bcantiful adornment and that ex travagance which is the source of so much crime, wretchedness, and abomination in our day. That is sinful extravagance when you go in to anything beyond your means. That which is right for one may be wrong for another. That which is lawful expense for a queen may be sinful outlay tor a duchess. That which may be economy for you with larger income may he squandering for me with smaller income. * * * There are families hardly able to pay their ront, and in debt to every merchant in the neighborhood, who sport apparel inapt for their circum stances, and run so near the Bhore that the first misfortune in business or the first besiegenient of sickness tosses them into pauperism. There are thousands of FAMILIES MOVING Irom neighborhood to neighborhood, staying long enough in each one to exhaust all their capacity to get trus ted. They move away because the druggists will give them no more medicine, and the butchers will af ford them no mote meat, and the bakers will give thorn uo more bread and the grocets will furnish them with no more sugar until they pay up. Then they suddenly find out that the neighborhood is unhealthy, and they hire a cart man, whom they never pay. to take them to a part of the city where all the druggists and butchers and bakers and grocers will be glad to see them come iu, and send to them the best rounds of beef and the best coffee, and the best of everything, until the slight suspicion comes into their brain that all the pay they will ever get from their customer is the honor of his society. There are about five thous and such thieves in Brooklyn. You see I call it by a plain name, because when a man buys a thing tnat he does not expect to pay for lIE is a thief. There are circumstances where men can not meet their obligations. It is as honest for some men to fail asitis for o’, her men to succeed. They do their best, and through the misfortunes of life they are thrown, and they cannot pay their debts. That is one thing; but ivheu yon go and purchase an article for which you know there is no probability of your ever making recompense, you are a villain! Why don’t you save the time of the merchant and the ex pense of an accountant for him? Why don’t you go down some day to his store, and when no one is looking, shoulder the ham and the spare-rib, and in modest silence take them along with you? That would be a lesset- crime; lor now you get not only the merchant's goods, bat you get his time, and yon rouse up his expectations. If you must steal, steal so it will be the least possible damage to the trader. ***** This wicked extravagance shown itself no more forcibly than. ON THE FUNERAL DAY. No one else seems willing to speak of it. There has been many a man who has died solvent, but has been insolvent before he got under gronnd One would think that the two debts most sacred would he debts to the physician and the undertaker, since they arc the last two professions are swindled more frequently than any other. A man dies in our neighbor ing city of New York. He has lived a fictitious life, moved amidst splen dor, and died leaving his family not a dollar: hut they, poor things! must keep up the same magnificence and so they resolve upon a great funeral. The obsequies shall be splendid! I give you no imaginary case. I give you the fuucral oi a man in up-town New York life, the facts authenticated, and in my pock et. The undertaker was not to blame; he only sold them what they asked for. The’ only blame was for those who bought when they knew they could not pay. Casket, covered with Lyons velvet. silver mouldings - - - st>so Heavy plated handles - - - - GO .Solid silver plate, engraved in Ro man letters - ------ 75 Ten linen scarfs - ------ 150 Floral decorations ----- 225 Music and ipinrtettc choir at the house 40 Twenty carriages, walking to the cemetery - - -- -- -- 140 Then fifteen other important ex penditures, amounting to - - 330 Ail tlte expenditures, added, being sl.N7(i for getting oue poor mortal to his last home I There are families that you know who, in the effort to meet the ridiculous, outrageous, and wick ed customs of society in regard to obsequies, have actually reduced themselves to penury. They put their last dollar in the ground. * * This widespread extravagance ac counts, also, for the POVERTY OF RELIGIOI'3 INSTITUTIONS. Men pay so much for show they ltave nothing for God and religion. We pay in this country twenty-two mil lions of dollars for the great benevo lent societies; but what arc twenty two millions of dollars compared TUB EDUCAT (> Published every Sahtrtiai' u»-iu at 13 00 per year in advance. KATES 05- iTHMTeiH,. ; -_ One Square, one time- - - <; “ “• one month. “ “• six tßooShs. “ “ one veto. - , , - Yearly eontmets with huge adwi made ou very liberal terms. with the ninety-five millions ft— e gars and tobacco, and the one ♦’ and tour hundred and eighty i millions for drink? How do ?o like the comparison? Great lavi-i ment for the world; great niggard 1 ness for God. * * * , My friends, let us set ourselves in. battle array against this God defy ing extravagance. Buy not tfc e things which arc frivolous, when yon may after a while he in lack of tht necessities. Buy not books jott wit never read, nor pictures you w never study. Put not a who. month's wages into one trink KF. EI« YCU R CREDIT 110- O. by seldom or never asking for any Pay. Starve not a whole year so- • to be able to afford one Belshazz carnival. Do not hny a coat of m. ny colors, and then in six months 1 out at the elbows. Do not pay t much for a muffler for the neek, ar be almost hare footed. Flour!* not, as some I know of, in elega: t hotels with drawing-room apa.' ments, and then vanish in the nig! ' not even your compliments for tln land lord. * * * In the great day of fire, we will have to give an account not only for how we made our money, hut fo llow we spent it. On this cold day when so many are suffering, and there is want before us and want be hind us and want on either aide of us, let us quit our waste. Men and women of God, I call upon you to set a Christian example.— Tahnage. The Methodists and Tobacco. —As a rule the leaders of the Meth odist Church are sound on the tobac co question. They have probably had a larger experience with sinner* who uge it thau other churches. At a recent conference in Illinois they passed the following: “ Resolved . That in view ot the fact of the great expensivenesa and filthiness of tobacco, and of the fia t that tobacco belongs to the same class of poisons and conduces t.> strong drink, we urge upon all onr laymen to abstain from its use; we recommend that all young men ad mitted to the conference at this iu> portant point in life to forego its n>.; and we suggest that the example of presiding elders using it is extreme ly hurtful.” The Alliance solemly records flit following- “Wc recall the story told recently of a planter who found that one of his colored men had been doing some large preaching on Sundays. Meeting him on Monday, he said, ‘Moses, I bear that you have been preaching with much sneces * ‘Yes, boss; sometimes de Lord jF> me great powah.’ Well, Moses, ' wish next Sunday yon won l preach against stealing. The boys are taking my chickens, ray sweet pototoes, and everything.’ ‘W boss, I dunno. There’S a ’vival now and dat might make a coldness in de raeutiu’.’ " I know somebody who always »:« pears miserable; and this is the v -.- she contrives to be so—thinking • - ways about herself, constantly «!>..• ing for that she has not; idling her time time; fretting and grumblin . I know somebody who is mnch ha; - pier; and this is the way she mt - trives to be so—thinking of other*: satisfied with what her Heavenly Father has judged best for her; working and thinking how she ca.i make others happy. My little “some body,” which kind of “somebody” are you? If you w ish to be always thirsty, he a drunkard; the oftener yon drink, the oftener you will want to. If yon think you are strong, he a drunk ard, and you will soou find youiself subdued by so powerful an enemy. If you would destroy your body, !• a drunkard, as drunkenness is the mother of disease. If you wish to ruin the soul, be a drunkard, tint you may he kept out of heaven.