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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
ni<l purpaase Fayetteville, X. C., a
a pratper place to locate a catllege taai
said purpaase.
Tire conference also eleattcal the
faallowing persons as a lloaral ol
Managers to carry out tlte object
coulatnudated by said cantforence:
Bishop J. D. Braaoks President.
J. I*. Hamer, l'tee Pres't.
Bnhop S. D. Talbert, Treasurer
Dr. J. A- Thompson.
Jacob Thomas.
George Bosley.
I*. A. Lee, Gorres. Sec'y.
J. A. Jones, liec. Sec'y
We therefore appeal to a gener
ous Christain public to aial us in
this praiseworthy object, in edu
cating an<l christianising our poor
Jaawn-trodalcn and oppresseal race,
awl also to send out missionaries to
teach ami preach the Gospel ol
Christ
rjJIIK BIBI.E CATECHISM.
Kxtiti.ki*
"MILK FOR BABES”
and
“CHILDREN'S BREAD:”
(S. B. SchciffHin Author.)
U one of the most simple, comprehett
‘ive awl first arranged Calecliistn now
puhlNhed. anal well aaloptasl for general
use In amr Suitably Schools. Bishop Clin
tow ha< given M "a can-fill extiininatiou
hr • ;eaks of It thus:—-It is the fiook for
the times; just wliat we want It is par
en-elleot. —lie commends It for general
use as we could adopt no lietter Itook.
drew Books are printed iu three
hums. Ist Milk foe Babes and Children's
Bread with hints to Teachers. Boitml 111
* loth. Price 25 cents. 2nd Children’s
Bread fair latrge Scholars. Itotind ill
Bow*. Price 15 cents. 3rd Milk for
Katies. Infant classes bounal iu Paper.
Trie 5 reals par asipv, ** a-ents pr. uox.
The Autliaar having given us the plates
the books are sola! at about the cost aif
printing. They are now published anal
bar sale by the Board of Publication of
the A. M. K. Zion (liureli. and may la
had In any number by seualing votir
order* to
Jacob Thomas.
H Grove at. N. Y.
_Jsgr*
Zion Hymn Book*, 80 cents each
Zion litoaMines, 60 cents each.
For sale by K. Harris,
FaycUaville X. C.
The Educator.
VOL. 1. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., APRIL 24, 1875. NO. 30
Rellgiona Department.
Ministers and members of the A.
M. E. Zion Church are specially in
vited to write tor this department.
Write only on one side of the
sheet, anal sign your name to every
letter.
All letters for this part of the pa
per should be addressed to
It. Harris, Fayetteville, N. C.
Preaching.
Every Christian should preach.
All are not gifted with eloquent
tongues, but, all may speak a word
for Jesus, when opportunity offers,
and, if spoken in faith, it will not be in
vain.
But the best preaching of all, is
living a godly life, exercising faith in
Christ and bringing forth the fruits
of the Spirit in meekness, temper
ance, patience, brotherly kindness
and charity.
Xo one can contradict or gainsay
such sermons, and some of these we
may preach daily-
Let us try, brethren, and then oth
ers, seeing our practice, may say,
“There goes one who preaches
Christ.”
‘•But refuse profane and old wives’
fables, and exercise tltysell rather uc
to godliness.”—l Tint, iv, 7.
llow does this apply to those who
listen to old women’s tales about
‘•conjuring”, ‘‘witchcraft,” “signs’
and the like?
“Bui even the hairs of your head
are all numbered.” Matt, x, 30.
If God has such care of his chil
dren as to know tlte number of hairs
in each head, should we he afraid ot
any body “putting a spell” on us?
Will He not. protect us front alley il,
if wc 1 1 list Him? “O ye ot little
faith!”
St. Paul was one of the greatest
preachers the world lias ever known
since Christ. Was ho an ignorant
man? By no means, lit! was learn
ed in all the wisdom of his lime and
in the lull maturity of his mental
powers when he was called to
preach. And that's the kind of men
lie wants now.
“Go preach my gospel - ’ lie says.
But how can a matt preach it it he
cannot read and understand it?
“Search the Scriptures," says Jesus.
To search means to examine careful
ly. Can we do this without educa
tion? .
Kevivula.
Bev. Sheridan Andrews writts
from Wilson, X. C. that lie is en
gaged in the greatest revival ever
known in that place- Old, gray-hair
ed men and women are coming to
Christ.
Seventeen have found peace and
fifty more at the altar.
Revival in Goldsboro is still going
on. In Wilmington they have had
thirty converts, and meetings now
stopped.
In Washington the good work
still goes on. Read Elder Stnyer’s
letter below.
(For tlte Educator.)
Zion >lovii«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.