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educator. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, WADpELL & SMITH. T""/ \ KATES dr Sl BSCBUTIOS: One Year, ill advance.’ .... f-r.Oo Six Months, in .advance. - •- - - 1.00 Three Months.- in .aiWanee - - - 50 uEUuiars dkeartmext. (VNDI.TTEI) BV It. HARRIS To !Ik' 3linisters and nieinltera <>l the A. 31. AC. Ziou Cliureli. Dear Brethren: At «H> haOte adopted “Educator," pnbHsHed at ftyette vilie, X. C., by Waddell «!fc Smith, as our Organ, I hope you will ilo all iu your power to Increase its circulation. Thd’ ‘“Zion Church Advocate" has been aiijieudcj for several months, and the Bishops have decided to give it no further enconr agement. I think we liave scan the end of it. Do jour best to send AfSssrv. Waddell <fc Smi A 820 for 10 ‘i/airt;/' subscribers. .... ft » l I believe we can make this effort a success. Let us resolve to do it.; and it is done. I will publish my apjioiutmeuts auvi note my visitat-oiis} briefly in its columns. Anything: von w ish published- send to *Vof. 1 K. Harris. Write short letters, anil matter will not be crowded out. j Yours for this success of the j “Educator." , J. W. IIOOD. j Bishop 3d. Episcopal District, j Fayetteville N. C jatii flti:. itrToj it! not- Jfltul/s Alf -.oS OUiMI io. ! •If a- t t Mtrhrk fit frit ui-lt t ■>. X.t i •• :1;i 1 . i f™! uope’ •• - I - lir.l Ceiujti-.-k -* ■* j -- *»'*i Now M -Bride t'amilun - - so. X-« B-t!u l - !> !i ITmuan's 'fi-mpie. -- 11 1 li ID'tit di-~ l ‘liuf-s d'a-quotam, •• 12; ii Bill.- U’uiin-t 1:1 li r.i;/;d*-:h i.'ity i -- Temple. l'orqtii:n:in~ •• lurii Dali • IWVii * •* ITrli Bay Bpiiirh *■ •• Isrh ili-rlfort ** - ,Dth .Saint's t “tapet Chowan Co.; •• 20th Kdeiiton. l u** j. •• 24th olierrv S. Ilampt-u Co. Va. i •• 25th Ziou •- - I •• 2<>iU l’iiiey Grove 'Sussex “ ! 27th -Mt. ilii|y Surry Co. - ! To whom It iHayCoiteera \ Be it known that the Genera! Con-1 fi-ivm-c of the A. M. E. Z.ou Con i ta-et.oii, at its.mwiozt iu Charlotte.! X. (~ June, 1 B*2, took into consol- > elation the propriety of establish-’ ing schools for tin* allocation of our | people in the South,molselected for | said purpose Fayetteville N. C-, as; a proper place to locate a college fort said purpom nlUt • > ■ ... i The coiifereuee also elected the,: following as a Board 01, Managers to out the object; sao^ cqitlqfencc: j Bishop J. 1). Brooks Bresideut. . J. I*. Ilaiuer, YicePrest.. BLsitop S. 13. 'j'.uiiert, Tttvurer Dr. J, A- Thompson. Jacob Thomas. George Boidey. I'. A. Loo, Corrcs. Secy, i J. A. Jones, lice. Stc'y We therefore appeal Jo a gener- i oils (.’liristaiii pttblie ton #l-1 us ini tiiis praiseworthy ohvei-tt in cdu ■ eating and (jhrb-t.iau'jSt‘s our poor; down-trodden and oppressed race, and also to send out missionaries to teach and preach the .Gospel ol Christ ' cj'llK ill HUE UA'I SCHISM. . Extit i.w> MILK. FOU BAIjE-S" ami i “CHILDRENS BREAD:" (S. 15. .Si-bsiffeliu Author.) I- one of the roost simple, eomprelien- ‘ »ivi: tint best arranged IToteeht -in now* Jiitbltslied, anti well adopted for general ■ n-e Iu our Situ, lay At.-h‘e*! s . # Hisho|>Clin ' ton has p-Tv.-n if a careful i-xamiuatioii; in- soe.iks of it t oio. — ejt U tint hook lor. tin* tituestjust what we wapt. It is |wr excelient. •—ilc .eunmenifa it for general u-o a- wc could adopt no top hr lunik. 'll**- Books are printed in thr>y t ru.-. Ist Milk for Bu!*-, *uj< iuidrt-uV Bread with hints to Teaelters. Bottuil in, 1 loth. Price 4-> cents. 2ud childrens! iircad for f arge S*-i:ohu,- iruiitui iu , RoanL I'rw-fc 15 .cents* •h-l.Mbk f->rj Baitns, intiint classes ien.fld in r*a)»ir. I’rii c 5 ceui» p.-r cupy. fet.getjCf pr. doa. The Anthur Iriv lug jpvep us the [thru-, the ls>oks are mtlri at a,e*ut tie; ro-t of printing. They are itoV j,itlill. f heil atld for sale by the Board Os ruliHesfion of tile A. M. E. Zion Chnreh. and may he had in any t.smber bjr sending your orders to - . : Jacob Thou as. V 4 Unrve st. X. Y. mar ii The Educator. VOL. 1. Religious Department. Ministers and members of the A. M. E. Zion Church are specially in vited u> write tor this department. Write only on one side of the sheet, and sign your name to every letter. All letters for this part of the pa per should be addressed to It. Harris, Fayetteville, N. C. ■riio Simplil-itv ol it. Two mistakes beset people in re gard to the Christian life. One is, j that tl-ere is some great difficulty or ! mystery about the entrance upon it. > i The other is, that beyond the ett-! j trance there Is hardly any difficulty I ior danger. Now, the truer way of j S taking it is just the opposite. N oth- I ing in the world is simpler than lie | ginning the Christian life; but to . persevere in it demands ail the ve ; solution and patience and persistence ; we [Assess. Ii we look at it in the simplest | way, what is religion? It is only ; trying by God's help to do what ; ever is right. For a person who -has not been doing that, the way to i ~,-g nis perfectly simple. It is, to ! | give up and turn away from all will- 1 1 till wrong loin:;, and to look coil- . stantly for syr.ipatiiy ami help to that loving Gad whom Christ has langbt us t>< call cirr Father. It is to try to live in the spirit of Christ,— not only in purity and iunoeeiice. but iu active love toward all living ts-iiig;, an i in dependence on llu love of the Highest. To reach per- It-eL. -u in Ui : s lit - is a long, long task; bur to set one's face toward il, and make a ocamiihig in it, is a situ pie nr 44 e . Indeed, in a Cbrisila.i tain! y, ;t eonstaiiily happns that a chid makes - -me liegiuniag and growth in this lie Iroin its very enrhest years. Taere may c-nne a time ol conscious, del Aerate acceptance of a Christian purpose: but long before that tin; eh:! 1 has probably I reel- i .ainii.ialo i»c 2 ii'le and obedien ] ii 1 rriitfilul ail 1 heljcai. and to look . to God as its irieii-h It. is the not j a--a': tid light way that one shcul j thus grow up a Chris', niu. and tea'.] the liegiiiniug should be as far back [ and uncertain :vs the rime wheu the child began to talk. lit such a liie, there will naturally be some periods rapid growth, some critical times vvlien an important choice is made, — hut, as a whole, the growth in Ohris :yiau life rdiouid be a conirr 'll [irocess. I There are very many, how ever, who ; either never were started right, or , I have in some way grown into evil i ;or careless ways of life; and for, [ these there needs to be a radical j I change. But no person whose pro- I I sent life is inspi: e l by earnest, steady j | effort, in the right direction ought j ever to distress himself because, in i l looking back, he remembers no time | of iuteiise experience and conscious | i revolution iu himself We say this, | j knowing that there are persons who j go mourning because they fear they i f liave never had “a change of heart,”' when they ought to be rejoicing as , ■children of the Lord. Oi'oue thus; : distressed it may be asked: U hat! j ■ are yon clinging to some sinful in- j ' dulgenee that you are not willing to give np? “Xo, oh no!” Do you try day by day to overcome your faults? j | “Yes, I try, feTit I don't succeed very j welL” Is it your wish and effort to live for something more than your own happiness —to t.taae other poo- j pie happy, aud to help them? “-That is the life I want to live —I dare not say that Ido live it” Do you look to your Heavenly Father to help vou and have patience with you— do you put your hope and trust iu his infinite goodness? “I would if I thought I had the right.” Why, you have no right not to! Take to your self the comfort and joy of your son . ship. God asks nothing but that FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., JUKE 5, 1875. you will honestly try to do right, and trust his fatherly love, which is yours, whether you know it or not. But there is another class, and perhaps a much larger one, whose trouble comes from the other side. In every revival, especially, there are persons who, having, as they believe, entered on the Christian life, think that they are out of all difficulty, and that for them the essential thing is already done. Now, that is as if a I child that has just entered a primary I school should suppose that it had I got an education. It is as if a boy just bound apprentice to a mechanic [should think lie had obtained a live lihood for all his days. Beginning a Christian life is only beginning. There needs daily, hourly work to i. follow it, clear to the end of 1 fe. There is some religious teaching j that is liable to mislead men about | this. We read of Mr. Moody using this illustration: When in the old days a slave ran away he was in deadly peril so long as he was on A merican soil, but the very instant lie stepped across the Canada line, he was absolutely sale. So, said Mr. Moody, you may step in a moment from the kingdom of sin to the king dom of Christ and be secure. Now, that illustration seems to us likely to mislead. Practically, no man es capes front the bondage of sm in a fnument, or in a day, or in a year. He may set out to escape, he may turn squarely round and begin to forsake his evil habits, anil from the very first he may have a joyful sense that God is his helper. Btit lie is somewhat like the slave when he first sc* his fa-.-e toward tile North Star, with a thousand miles of travel before him, with difficulties anil dan gers enough to tax his every resource, in the New Testament the Christian i.fe is continually likened to the soldier's life. Its wol d is, “Be sober, he vigilant 1” “Put on the whole ar mor of God, that ye may be able to .--.-. and against the wiles of the devil.” ••Watch!” There is courage anil joy in evey tone of the Gospel, hut it is the courage of tiie resolute and laith- Itil soldier; it is tlie joy of pressing on and always on, into noble attain ment. If ever a man had a conver sion that was sudden and complete, it was Paul. But there is not the least hint in Paul’s words that he looked back to find in that experi ence bis assurance or his hope. He said tliat lie forgot those things that art behind, ami reached forth unto these things which are before. He had such a sense of the glorious ideal revealed in Christ, the splendid pos sibilities of divine manhood, that his whole soul went out in the aspiration to rise higher and into that life of closest union with God. And our | salvation from ignoble and slothful i content lies in getting some such I sense of what God calls us to. Religion is not an escape from , punishment. It is being good and i doing good. Any one who sees a ! chance to do right where he is tompt led to do wrong, or to give so much tas a cup of cold water to one who | needs it, may begin iu that very act to ; live a Christian life. He will never i reach the place to pause so long as Ihe is less good than his highest i thought of goodness, and so long ns | there is one creature that needs his {help.— Christian Union. (for the Educator.) [ Mr. Editor: I ask a space in your paper to say to the public that our campineeting I commenced May' the 13th inst. The j Lord met with us and 60 souls were ! as I think happily converted to God. ! I trust that all the brethren at their I different stations will unite together as the prayer of one man to push on the well begun work. A. Allison. Whitevillc N. C. May 25 1815. EPISCOPAL CORRESPONDENCE. Weldon, N. C. May 28th 1875. Awaiting the arrival of my com panion who joins me here, I will im prove the passing moments by mak ing up my notes for the “Educator.” The churches I have visited dur ing the last ten days, I found in quite a satisfactory condition. The church at Tarboro under Elder Howard’s eiiorgo is improving. They are preparing to add 20 ft. in length 15 feet in breadth to their house of worship, which is rendered necessary by the constantly increasing mem bers who delight to worship in Zion. The revival at Washington is closed for the present. Elder Smyer Is pushing forward the work on tlie t new church with commendabln cner j gy. Ti.e Plymouth Circuit, under Elder Cartwrights care has improved the most rapidly of any in the Ya. Conference. Five new churches have been erected on this circuit in two years; one at Wiiliamston, called Williams Chapel; one four miles from Wiiliamston, called Bethlehem one at Jamesville, one at Plymouth and one five miles from Plymouth called Macedonia. We had inter esting meetings at all these places also at St. Mark's. What the Civil UiuHTSjliWff^ HAS DONE FOR US. During the discussion which pro ceeded the passage of the above named bill, I neither wrote nor spoke publicly on the subject, A measure so just and holy, I felt assured could not need any effort of mine to secure its ultimate success. That ladies and gentlemen, because of their col or, should be compelled to ride in a car, scarcely less filthy than a hog pen, covered by the juice of tobacco, and the air impregnated with poison by tlie smoke from a dozen cigars and filthy pipes, is a greater wrong than I believe the American people capable of submitting to. Hence I felt sure the bill would pa s. Not that we particularly reed it in North Carolina, for I know of no Railroad or Steamboat Co. in this State that refused to sell a colored man a first class ticket. But there are parts of this land of the free and brave of compared with which, N. C. is a par adise. But I started to write of the effects of tlie bill. Those of our peo ple who have had occasion to travel down the Roanoke, across the sound and up the Chowan and Blank Rivers from Plymouth, by Edenton N. C, to Franklin Va., will remember that they have had to take accommoda tion but little better than that pro vided for horses and cattle, or else go into the saloon with the white pas sengers whose unpleasant look made one feel decidedly uncomfortable. Between those two alternatives, there was not much room tor choice. But since the passage of the Civil Rights bill all this has changed. The Steam er Chowan lias been somewhat re modeled. A splendid saloon lias been fitted up for the special accom modation of genteel colored passen gers, a fine carpet, fine chairs, heat ers, good berths, with sheets clean and sweet; in a word the whole ar rangement has the appearance of having been fitted up for people. It seems to recognize the fact that a black mau, is a man. I nseil to avoid this route whenever it was possible to do so, but my trip last night was decidedly pleasant. If any of our people want to take a pleasure trip, I should recommend, the route over the sound and the three rivers. No drunken, swearing chewing, smoking white man is al lowed to intrude upon you there. I would suggest to Boat Compa nies that if they would follow the example of the owners of the Cho wan, and provide genteel accommo dation for genteel colored passengers, white passengers would have but little room to complain of colored NO. 36 people’s Intrusions. We have so long been accustomed to having a social circle ourselves, that the mass prefer it, when other things arc eqnal. - J. W. Hood. CIiAKLOTTg. N. C., May 25th 1875. Dear Educator. Within the past week this place was the scene of an Imposing Cen tennial Cerebration, the 100th anni versary of the Mecklenburg Decla ration of Independence. A brief notice of its excrovscs may be accept able to your readers. The centennial was inaugurated on the 19lh at i 2. a. in. with the hoisting of the American flag. This took place at Independence Square, •the intersection ofTryou ami Trade Streets. On this spot was held the preliminary meeting at which a committee was appointed to draft resolutions befitting the occasion. Hero then, a hundred years from that time, amid the booming of can non, was raised the flag of our Un ion. The Mayor of the city then introduced to the assembled crowd, our Governor Curtis 11. Brogden. In a short but eloquent address Ilis Excellency exhorted his audience to cherish the principles which 100 years before had been affirmed up on that consecrated spot, and for which onr fathers fought and many . f them died to maintain. The New- Bcrn band played the -Mecklenburg Polka, composed by them for the centennial. At night many of the dwellings and stores were beautifully illumina ted, and the streets were alive with people coming from the various de pots of the city. At sunrise on the 20th, a salute of 100 guns was fired. Early in the forenoon the various military and fire companies, with other civic societies began to march to Independence Square, the place rendezvous, and to form in line of procession. At about half past ten o’clock the procession began to move. They marched through sev eral of the principal streets aud then out to the Fair Grounds. A grand display was made and one was re. minded of the reception of returning soldiers at the close of the war, when “Johnny came inarching home again.” At the Fair Grounds after prayer by Rev. Dr. A. \V. Miller of-the Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, Ex-Gov. Graham made a short in troductory address. This was lol lowed by the reading of the Mock- Declaration by Maj. Seaton Gales, of Raleigh. The oration for the Day was then delivered by Hon. John Kerr our State Geologist aud by Mr. John M. Bright, ol Tenn. The exercises concluded with a garnd dinner at which toasts were offered to the Union; to North Carolina; to Mecklenburg County; the 20th of May <!fcc., and appropriate responses made. At night there was a display of fireworks at the Square, and speech es were made by Judge Davidson, of Tenn., Ex-Gov. Walker of Va. j Gov. Chamberlain of S' C., and Ex- 1 Gov. Vance. Thus ended the great Centennial Celebration, an event long to be re membered by those who witnessed it. It is a significant fact that the colored people wore entirel ignored ! in the celebration, aud for that reason J tlie exercises will doubtless ho con- i sidcrcd faultless by those who claim this to be if white man’s couutry. I The colored man was not to be seen except as a spectator or a servant.' Our own Fire company though per haps the most efficient in the city when work is wanted, was quietly snubbed just in time for tho Cen tennial by a resolution adopted by the Board of Aldermen providing TIIE EDUCATOR Published every Saturday morning at $2 00 per year in advance. RATES OF ADVERTISING t One Square, one time, - - 9 1.00 “ “ one mouth, - - 2.00 “ “ six months, - S.OO “ “ one year, - - 12.00 Yearly contracts with large advertiser-, made oil very libural terms. that the Fire Department should consist exclusively of whites. I am told that a military company from another city desired to bring with them their band, composed of color ed men, but was informed that they could not do so. This shows whether our white “frieuds” regard us its part of tho body politic. I have no doubt tho 4th of July 1876 will witness a different course of procedure. Yours for the Right. C. li. Harris. (For the Educator.) An Kxliortation. Let us strive to do good and serv' the Lord. The Lord made us and lie has blest us. He gave Ilis only Son to die that we might be saved O, that men would think of thes-. solemn truths and the time that they liave for cursing and swearing that they would nse it in praying ami begging God to forgive them for what they have done in the past, and He will forgive them. Ask and it shall lie given, saith the Scriptures; if God had not forgiven us for our sins where would we have been to-day? We would have been howling among the angels of darkness where mercy hath no abiding; where the wrath of God is kindled night and day without ceasing. May the spirit o: God abide with us that we may amend ours walks and that whatso ever we do it may be done to the glory and honor of God. 11. L. Simmons. Eayetteville N. C. May 25,1875. Saved ox* Lost. ( Continued.) TIIE LOSS OP A CHILD. A friend of mine in Chicago took his children out one beautiful day iu the Summer. They were the chi’-., dren ot a large Sabbath school, ar. 1 they were to have a day in the coun try. There was a little boy on the platform of the railway station, and by some mistake he fell down unde: the wheels, aud a whole tiain passed over him. The train went back, ami the body was found so mangled tl. i the superintendent had to tako off his coat to tie up the mangled corps!-. He left it at tho station, and, taki:.- two of the teachers with him, went to the house of the parents. (The little boy was an only one.) V hen they got to the house one said to the other, “Yon go in.” “No I can't,” was the reply. The superintendent wanted the teachers to go because he thought the parents would blam him; but the teachers refused to g*-_ So the superintendent went in. I: > found the parents in thedining-roo, i at dinner. He called the father out, thinking that lie would tell the fail - er first, that he might break the news to the mother. Taking him in to another room lie said, “I have sad news to tell you; your little Jeiitnu ; lias got run over?” The father turi,. 1 deadly pale. “Is he dead?” he asked. “Yes, sir, ho is dead.” Then rh ■ father rushes into the dining-re and instead of breaking the nee- - gently to his wife, he eried out h e a mailman, “Dead, dead!” The moii - er said, “Who?” “Our little Jem mio.” Said tho young mau who told it me the next day, “I cannot t, ’1 you what I suffered when that moth er came rushing out to me and sal?.. ‘Where is my boy? Where are his remains? Take mo to them that I may see him.’ I told the mother that the body was so mangled that she could not identify it, and she i fainted away at my feet.” Said ha, : “Moody, I would not be the mossen- I ger of such tidings as that agein if I yon would give me all Chicago.” I There is not a mother or a father in this hall hut would say it is terrible to lose a beautiful child like that, to have it swept away so suddenly. Well, it is terrible; bnt, my friend, what is that in comparison with the loss ot a soul? (7b be continued.)
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