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THE STAR OF ZION. HEY. I. Moll. FARLEY, Managing Editor. Friday, - March 27,1885. NOTICE. *^0^:^*jtt***z+*J0n»*im*"*"a**- <>imm**.*»'***t*~'~»*** «,**••*« 11 eyM The following gentlemen compose |k« Editorial St£[fy&lof. Eiox: ^ _ • y;' Rev. A. L. 8cott~ Editor, Birming ham, Ala. J. McH. Farley, Managing Editor, Petersburg, Va. * •"" Associate Editors—J. A. Tyler, Charlctte, N. C. V: . Rev.J. W. Smith, Baltimore, Md. J. C. Dancey, Tarboro, N.; C. Rev. E. ft. Curi^/ Louisville, Ky. Rev. G. W. Clintotti Giirrespowding , Editor S.G. Conference. -1>: J. McH. FARLEY, Business Manager of the Star op Ziojt. Office, No. 108 Shore srteet, Petersburg, Virginia. NOTICE i n* We particularly call’the attention >f all out SubfccribeSrs to the fact that whenever they see two beo mabks opposite our paragraph relative to time, it is the last paper that will be mailed until the subscription is renewed. w VnfA t Nhte! ‘ Will Oiir inonev Movers please write our pi Minding orders, , J. MCH FARLEY, m M u to avoid toe great trouble we have in collecting orders on account of our name being written wrong? Please taker motice—don’t send us . T£N-CidNT STAMPS inpayment of subscription or other wise. We cfcnlt use them for money. Will take all thb ones and two cents I : stamps may rend. But please send . money orders or postal notes. SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON HELPS. At the last meeting of General Con ference of; the A. M. £L J5ion church, it was resolved to publish, Sunday School Lesson Papers,under the name and imprint of our own connection, • and by our own Board of Publication. They will consist of 1. The Teachers’ Journal, a pam phlet of 32 pages, intended for the use of superintendents and teachers Published monthly. Price 66 cents ft ftati ' 2. The . . International Leason Quarterly published in January, April, July and October, for the use of the larger scholars, containing all the lessons of the year. Price 12 cts. a year.-. 3. The Primary Leaves, publish ed monthly, for the use of the smaller scholars. Price 6 eents a year. ! 4 The Children's Guide, an il lustrated reading paper for young and old, publishedmonthly. Price, single single copy, 25-oents a year; in clubs of 5 or more^ at the rate of 15 cents a year. All these papers are under the edb tonal supervision of Bishop J. J. Moore, D. D. $ It is hoped that all our ministers and Sunday school superintendents will introduce these papers mto their Sundayschools. It will be much better for our connec tion that :we patronize our own publi cations and let our Board reap the profit, than to get them from other de nominations and let them reap the profit. Sample copies will be Sent tree to any poetoffice. AH orders should be sent to Bey. Jacob Thomas, 183 Bleeker street, N6w York, with the money in advance. When you order, state the number of copies you wSnt of each kind, thus: No. Copies. - - Teachers’ Journal, $ - - . Lessons Quarterly 3 • • - Primary Leaf $ - • - Childrens’ Guide $ • Total, I - Please findmonejr inclosed,! and send all to the address of Name, Postoffiee, Oounty, State, t> i • Wehhre discontinued a number ot IK't* fWWr . TIME Eastern Standard £*. . Lv Suffolk_ Ar Petersburg. Ar Lv Lyncbbnrg. Lv Roanoke...... Ar Big Springs... Ar Cbrlstiansburg. Ar Central. WE8TWARD +No. 1 «U0JP 8 26 P M 6 60PM 'i-.5 6 46 AM 6 40 “ 8 00AM 8 88 0 16 984 V. ♦No. 8 10 12 40 1260 2 8 6 6 46 6 42 8 18 868 9 88 9 69 60 “ !Tf Lr Central Ar Poc^potitas. M0 65 AM +2 46 PM Ar TTyUievtlle. Ar Marion. Ar Abingdon.. Ar Bristol_ 10^8 A M 11 64 V 12 60PM 1 20 “ 11 23 “ 12 21 “ 1*14 *» 1 45 nig fy+Dally, tDally except Sunday. CONNICTIONS. Lear* Norfolk. 10 00 a m ana 810 p m. Arrivr Blcbmond 150 and 6 65 p m. Leaye Richmond via It P railroad at 11 80 a m, dally connecting with No. 8 at Petersburt for all polnta on line of N. and W. R. S. and with No. karrlvlng at Norfolk 8 20 p m. - Leave Rtcbmonddally except Sandal via R ft 1 railroad at 8 20 a m, 8 80 and 6 0Q p m. arriving al Lynchburg at 2 40 and 1000 p m and 215 a m.t con necting with trains on*Western dlvlsi ,.. __Western division. • No. f has Pullman Sleeper Fblladelphlsto Chat taunago via Roanoke without change. No, 8 bat Pullman Sleeper froth Washington via B and O I R, Roanoke and Calera to New Orleans, wtthoni change, and from New fork to Atlanta via Harris Knmv anrt Vannaba tlME, Eastern Standard Lt Bristol..;... ** Abingdon... “Marlon...... “ Wythevllte.. “ Ppcabontus - Ar Central - - • EASTWARD ♦No. 2 6 15 PM 6 45 “ 7 63 “ 8 60 “ +4 16 P M +7 60 PM ♦No. 4 7 10 AM 7 41 “ 8 66 “ 10 11 “ tv Central - - - - - “ Christlnnsburg ....... “ Big Spring'..... Ar Roanoke - - - - Lv Roanoke - - - - “ Liberty Ar Lynchburg - -' Lv .Lynchburg - - Farmville - “ Burkevllle. Ar Petersburg. Ar Norfolk. 07 PM 81 PM 48 PM 46 P 48 AM 45 AM 00 AM 67 AM 81 AM 25 PM 40PM 80 PM SOP M 11 08 “ 11 88 “ 12 05 “ 12 40 PM 1 10 “ 2 18 “ M0 tNo. 14 7 10 AM 8 15 AM 10 10 AM _ *Dally. tDaily except Sunday. Now.-Preiibt train No. 8, leaving Lynchburg at 615 a. m.t. arriving Central at 3 25 p. in. and Freight train No 12, leaving Central at 5 80 a m and arriving Lynchburg at 8 26 p m trill bare a passen ger coach (attached for accommodation of passen **”* CONXTCTIONS. At Roanoke No. 4 connect with S V Railroad. Pullman Sleeper* to New York without change via 8. V. Railroad and Harrisburg, and to Washington without change via B and O railroad. ' No 2 connects with S Y B R, has Pullman Sleep era to Philadelphia via Harrisburg without cb&hge. At Lynchburg R. A A. B. R. leaves Lynchburg, daily except Sunday, at 8 10 a m, 8 15 and 9 40 p m arriving at BichmondlOOOa m, 8 15 p. m and 7 00 a m daily exoept Sunday. No. 2 makes connection via Petersburg for Rich mond, arriving at Richmond 1 60 p. ra7 dally el AJt_Norfolk No, 2 arrives 3 20 p. m, _ with'Bay Line steamer, leaving Nor folk dally escept Sunday for Baltimore at 6 (ft, and with Old Dominion for Nbw York on Monday; Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, and with NY Pand N railroad dally, leaving Norfolk at 6 p m. MEW RIVER PIVIBIOH. ■ RAsrwAtp \ bxcmtIpnDaY •[ WWTWABB 7 7 8 66 8 86 6 17 60S 5 66 5 88 pm Arr Lve Central New river Btayttde Rlpplemead Wenonah Narrows Adairs Oakville Lve m. 4 16 p m Lve Pocahontas Arr 10 56 11 22 12 00 p. m. 12 20 “ 12 89 “ 12 48 “ 12 68 “ 126 “ 2 46 All Inquiries as to rates, routes, A&, promptl7 answered, If you are going to travel, drop a letter or postal td ALLEN HULL, ir As JOSEPH H. SANDS, General Superintendent, Roanoke, Ya. AgenLRoanok^V™1 **ttUeDgtT &nd Travelling EMIGRATING WEST. Elizabethtown, N. C., | - March 18,1885. Mr. Editor ; . 'jjjk; ; HH It appears that quite a tide of emi gration has again bestirred our people, in the southern part of North Caro lina, along the Carolina Central Rail road, between Wilmington and Char lotte, several ear load® and companies numbering several hundreds, have left their sections, daring the winter: And yet they continue to leave for parts of Arkansas. The obvious reason for leaving these fbr the West is that they can not re ceive a just compensation here for their labor. The general prices paid here, for common labor, reign as fol lows, viz,, men per day, 50 to 60c.; women per day, 25 to 35c., and board themselves. And instead of receiving these small considerations in money, they are almost, invariably paid in corn, meal, bacon, or an order in trade upon apme neighboring merchant, It is almost a matter of impossibility for these poor creatures to receive a dollar in money for their labor. I have con versed with many relative to the ne cessity of paying .the 50 cents general tax, the pastor's salary, and money to build churches, Ac., who have related to-me thread story that they (men) have net bad |2 in cash for six months. ^ AfbaneM, they say, they have a promise cf better wace&and cadi ter services..j, ;I know of minieters pf the gospel who have told me that they have to receive their salaryfros»*heir churches in eem# meal, pees, and po tatoes, Ac, Yours ter God, <fec. Owlfirt L. W. SMi-m, “Every the Rev? Bible,” says eodore L^iiyler, “has some peculiar gloryabout it, but like the stars, one mountain differeth from I another in glory.” Ararat is the fisher ofmountams ; it smoked with & ofrtbe first; sacrifice ii jw&H^dy «'|r4tib|w^te th4 majestic death-bed from which the Lawgiver caught his earliest glimpse of two Canaan’s—-the one spread out in living green beneath him, the other unveiled above him in celestial glory. Sanai had its peculiar glory—terrible exceedingly ; Horeb, too, with its “Stall, sitiall vbice,” and Gilead, aro matic with'odorous balms, and Laba non, crowned with everlasting glaciers —the Alps of the Old Testament.— Each sacred mountain has a history •written on its tablets of stone, but not one 18' redolent with sweeter associa tions—no one utters a more impressive teaching—no one is more identified with - our precious Saviour, than the “mount called the Mount of Olives.” It was Christ’s favorite resort. He “oft-times resorted thither with his disciples.” As John was his favorite follower, the family ’of Lazarus His fiivnfito Virmaohnlrl (raliloo TTia fft’vnr. ite water, so Olivet was His favorite mountain. When he grew weary of the heat and dust, the uproar and tur moil of guilty Jerusalem, He bent His footsteps over the brook Kedron to the qiiie‘, sabbatic mount of Olivet. It always- gave Him cool asyluni.! It always spread its- grateful shel ters from noontide heats and evening dews. Olivet never closed its doors in the face of the gentle man of sorrows. Arid if Jesus Sought his Olivet tor re tirement from the world’s Babel jar ring sounds, for meditation and for prayer, shall not every Christian have his own Olivet’- too ? For the seques tered, rural Christian, we need not speak now, but With the dwellers in cities and towns, the painful lack in life is the lack of quiet, secluded thought and undisturbed .meditation. The farmer can have it as he follows his plow on the' hillside. If a devout man he is on'a perpetual Olivet.1 The village mechanic has hi^ long still hours, when the sunlight sleeps in the silent street^ or when the monotonous raindrops keepsteady time withhis thoughts on the roof of his shop. The mariner can be aloAe with Gdd in the night-watches. But in the bustling, bewildering, time-taxing, soul-devour-. ing city, where, alas! ban a man dwell apart ? Where can be escape theToar ind riot of business ? Where can he hide away ? Where find his Horeb, with its awful silences, or an Olivet, for prayerful communings with his own spirit ? From early morn till the hour of rest, he is in a Whirl. The world meets him at the breakfast ta ble in the columns of the morning paper. He is at once assaulted with telegrams and bulletins, with stock re ports and political manifestos. Care collars him as soon as he gets into the street. The man he encounters has some exciting intelligence, or - some perplexing proposal, wnen nereaenes his counting'room, his table is filled with letters demanding a £eply before the next mail closes. 'Then the day’s furnace of excitement begins to glow, and keeps at a white heat until the “banks shut,” the ^board adjourns,” the “stores” begin to thin out, and in the crowded omnibus, or rail car, the weary man of business trundles home ward- Then for the lets dinner, the evening newspaper, the evening call ers, the evening entertainments, and in some happy cases,the evening pray er service in the house of ^ God. Amid all the maelstrom of excitement,where is the quiet introspection 7 Where the solemn meditation ? Where the soul’s fellowship with Christ ? O for an Olivet / Even the Lord’s. Bay istOooftena day of outside occupation and taxing strain ujibhthe mind and body. Two regular cnurch servtce^-often a third —with intervening labots in the 6ab-; bath school, .and the prayer meeting, leave" but little tiink fo* reflection and heart stud*.EVery good thing has its attendant eyi&and the evil attend ant on the&inday arrangement of tbfppic, Ghri&ljfcns, in our dvill||te8,uBa privation „ ta^JW*nearly all .utres and fireside Bible read* ing. With such good people there is more preaching than thinking, more bean work.than, heart work, . They hear one hundred fold more than they natsftsMxa sacred excitements^ on, theJSabbath, add the Christian 'heart is all too sel don alone with QodJ $Q for ms Olivet / Can none be found ? Is it wholly impossible for our working Christians, (and we do not say that they ought to work an hour less),—is it possible t6 find time and place for religious med itation, Bible reading and inward communion ? No, it is not. A de vout man can make himself an Olivet He can, with a little trouble to him self, rise an hour earlier fora season o^ prayer and devotional reading. With 1 this blessed closet service he Can hem the whole day so tightly and stronly that it shall not ravel into frivolity, wordliness, and forgetfulness of God. As he rides or walks to his place of business, he can school himself to sa cred thoughts, or can snatch a few Words from a pocket volume of savory truth. At noonday he can run away for a few moments of silent prayer, even if he cannot reach “the business men’s prayer meeting/’ This was the usage of a merchant eminent for his piety and philanthropy-—he always had his midday season of devotion. If business interferred with his rule, then business had to give way not the wise rule. His Olivets of retirement made his face to shine with radiant godli ness when in the busy haunts of men. In secret he fed those fountain graces that flowed out in such beautiful streams of benificence and holy living. Never did mammon rob him of God ; never, even, did external religious du ties thrust aside the private devotions of the altar and the closet, nor did he hear more truth in the sanctuary than he digested in his heart, and wrought into his life, n.~ We cannot afford to dwell in. the most sumptuous. of earthly mansions* if we have no Olivet. If it be not a lone mountain, or a sequestered grove,' it,may be a quiet chamber, a shop, a store, an attic, or a corner q! the counting room. Peter found hi* Olivet on a, house-top in a commercial town, John found his on the cliff ol a sea-girt Patmos. David found his in* his chamber, while busy Babylon roared and raged on beneathhis open window. Elijah found his on Carmal, and Paul had one just as good in the cabin of a storm-tossed ship. Oui Olivet will be the spot where the sbul communes with God, beads at the mercy seat, studies its own wants and weaknesses, and gets new strength from fellowship with Christ. It may have a gethsemane of trial, at its foot) ij but its summit, like the mount nigh unto Jerusalem, will be the t point of ascension, from which the soul will go up to the heayenly .presence—chamber of the King of Kings* , Jakes Ed. Mason. Ithaca, N. "I 1 [For the Star of Zion. Dear Brethren It is the aim' of the East Alabama conference to lead the way this year in general tax. And in order to discharge our whole duty in this direction, the ministers and preachers having charge of cir cuits and stations,will have to com mence at once to raise and forward he general tax monthly as prescribed by an act of the last geneial confer ence. Now brethren, the general tax can and the general tax must be raised. Say,unto the pnethat fails to raise the general tax, It will be ill with hun,foi heboid the o* is now# the root of the tree. Therefore the ministers and preachers of the ference had better cpmply with the law,, and IJMse the general tax month V pad, forward the sam^ to me at J. W. Alstoek, -t-T LETTER FROM BLADEN. ULL, iJEXDEN, N. C., ) March 9, 1885. J Mr. Editor : .1 _ . J>. Dear sir—A few facts which are too important to escape the public notice of a school closing at Turnbull, in district number 10, on J. W.Davis’ work,-March £, 1885, commencing November 17, 1881, being a term of nearly four months, consisting of 52 students, W. H. Graham, principal. On Friday, at 9 o’clock, the last day’s session opened. The weather was very pleasant, and quite a num ber assembled to hear the exercises of the children. The principal knowing what to do conducted the exhibition in a very neat style. The exercises of the children seemed to give general satisfaction to the public. After all of the exercises was over a fine table was spread free to all that were pres ent, which also give general satisfac tion. ' After dinner the students marched to the sound of the drums, which were beat by Messrs. Hector Kamp and Jeffrey McKoy, Jr. Elder J. W. Davis delivered an able address which was heartily accepted by the audience. Quite a number of whites also attended the exhibition. Mr. Editor,we feel that we have got an able elder in our midst this year, and he is doing a great good on his Work. He has organized three L. H. and P M snmfit.ifwa sinr>fl ha has hfipn with us. *y Education is becoming of much im portance. Our school houses are pret ty well supplied this year, some with third grade, some second, and the re mainder part with first. Now let us take a retrospective view of the period between the year 1620 and 1865, being a term of 246 years, when' our foreparents were bound in the slavery chain, even wasn,t allowed to have a spelling book in their house, much less to be caught studying it; it was taken from them and burned. Peradventure, they "bowed down on their knees' in deep homage to God in the- darkness of the night—-perhaps always at midnight. And I imagine that they offered us up to God, and told him. Lord, we are bbuhd in ‘sla very, how* long wilt thou let us remain under this tyranic power of bur mas , ters, to be whipped; driven out in the cold rain and snow, whether we want ed to go or not; Lord, wilt thou re lease us? This aroused God, he re membered that he promised to give the trite believer what he asked for that was good, so he did. He said “Republican party, organize yourself, chose and elect Abraham Lincoln President,” so they did. Now you re member that God said through Abra ham all the nation should be blessed, and nOw we haVe an Abraham to free us. I imagine thkt God said, “Abra ham ttio RormWinnil nartv tins dnnp. its bMding, now you free my people/' Early in. the1 year 1861, the South rebelled, they naturally felt that God through Abraham, would free his peo ple/ therefore they rebelled. Abraham said, “Soldiers, rub up your muskets, the navy yard will furnish us with ammunition, I have a work to accom plish, slavery must be stopped. So they all arranged themselves and went to battle. After a war of four years, and the plains of Virginia being flood ed with blood, the war closed, the glad news reached the borders of Washing ton and continued progressing until it got within the capitol that Robert E. Lee had ceded to Grant, the Republi can party had triumphed; the negro suffering was over. I imagine there was a loud shout in that city. But did it only stop there, the angels in glory caught it, tuned their harpe, sung a new Song; that the Africans are free, Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. 4nd ^to-day we are free, reading our own books, preaching in our own churches, and teaching our! own schools. Some say our parents didn’t leave us any thing, but I deny it, they did. ** That prayer that our olcLmother and father made at the midnight hours has freed us and caused God’s smiles to be upon Jus, and that is the Veatest property we cam have. Then let us implore; 'V" <"•< God’s blessing upon us that we shall be able to read all books and become a ruling nation. Amen. Yours for heaven and Zion. W. H. Graham. Dudley, N. C.,) ' \ March 4, 1885. j Mr. Editor : The next premium of the Star for six months is to any one placing in its Columns the chapters in the Bible that has the largest and the smallest verse largest and shortest. As soon as this is answered correctly, I will forward the money to you and have you to send the Star for six months. Yours for the Star : S. B. Hunter. GRAND CENTENNIAL D ON A T I O N TO THE A. H. £. ZION CHURCH IN AMERICA. To the Ministers, Members and Friends of ; the A. M. E. Zion Chnrch: The Board of Bishops, at their session in Fayetteville, N. C., December 4th, 1884 unanimously adopted the plan here pro posed for the purpose of pushing forward to increased success the connectional enter jJHOCB VI UU1 univ VCU ZiXUU. Beloved Brethren, Sisters and Friends of the church; and members and iriendsof the Sabbath schools of the A. M. E. Zion church in America: God ini mercy, has spared us to see the one hundredth year of Episcopal Metho dism in America; and the eighty-eigth year of the existence of our own beloved Zion church: We owe for this unspeakable favor a deep debt of gratitude to heaven which we are unable fully to pay. Believing that you share with us in this feeling of greatfulness to God, and that we may all prove it by doing something more for His cause than we have done, we have thought it would meet your hearty approv al if we, your Bishops and servants in the church of God, should propose that we all unite in making a donation to our church in honor of this year. We therefore call on each member of our annual conferences and each member and friend of our churches, and each member .and friend of our Sunday schools to join with us in making a “Centennial Donation” —as follows: 25 cents or more from each member or Mend of an annual conference; 25 cents of more from each member and friend of every church or society; 10 cents or more from each member and Mend of each Sunday school—all of which is to con stitute a Fund to be called “The Centennial Fund”—to enable us to lift all our connec tional interests to a higher and more satis factory plane. These interests are far be hind, and although the General Conference was in doubt as to our ability to meet our ! demands by requiring fifty cents a year— one cent a week—yet it did not increase the • tax, fearing that it would be too great a j i burden on you. In view of this thought fulness and leniency on the part of the General conference, we think, hope and be lieve you will be all the more willing to make this voluntary donation, or free will . offering, to your church, and thus help it in its straggle. The moneys so raised shall be separate and distinct from the general fund, ana shall be sent by the secretaries o the annual conferences, the pastors o churches, and the superintendents of Sun day schools to the centennial steward ap pointed by the Board of Bishops, as it may be collected from time to time, conference donations by the secretary of the confer ence—church donations by the pastors of the churches, and Sunday school donations by superintendents of Sunday schools. The tiihe of making these donations shall be from December 9th, prox.r till Decernbei 9th, 1885. The centennial steward shall deposit in some substantial bank the mon eys thus received by him from time totimo in the name and subject to the order of the Board of Bishops- He shall keep an ac curate account of the name of the confer euce, uiiurcu auu ountuiy scuuui uum wrnui he receives donations, and the amount ol each, and his books shall be subject to the inspection ef the Board of Bishops at all times. With the view of stimulating these dif ferent departments of the church to earnest endeavor the Board of Bishops shall cause to be made three suitable banners—one to be givfen the conference, church and Sun day school respectively donating the high est sum of money in proportion to number of its membership. Iq addition to a time to be fixed by the Board of Bishops for the presentation of these banners, they shall cause them to be conspicuously displayed in 1he next ensu inggeneral conference of the church—to the end that all may see who are the suc cessful competitors, and do to them becom ing honor The moneys of this fund shall be divided into seven parts to be paid to them at the discretion of the Board of Bishops as need ed, two parts to the Zion Wesley Institute, three parts to be equally divided between theback dues of the acting bishops and the Book concern, one part to the Stab of Zion, and one part to he equally divided between the L. H.&F. M. S., and.the super- r annnnuated preachers. A presentation of the banners will be in seme prominent city or town some time daring the year 1886, the 90th,anni versary of Zion Methodism. The precise time and place will be designated hereafter hy order of the Board of Bishops. All donations should be sent to the Cen tennial Steward* Rev. I.C. Clinton, Lancas ter, S* C ET. Rev. J. J. MOORE, S, T. D. Rt. Rev. S. T. JONES, D. D. Rt. Rev. J. W. Hood, Rt. Rev. J. P. THOMPSON, Rt. REV. T. H. LOMAX, Bishops of the A. M. E, Zion Church in Amam.
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