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;'; .y” *’■■■■■ VOL XIV SALISBURY, N. C., THURSDAY JANUARY 23, 18% NUMBER 4 —■---: : •• —l* ■" .'.‘I ? •> ft j»i ALONE WITH THEE. H - l 1! | fe Alone with Thee, my God, my King In worship and in work atone-1;* A servant’s sacrifice I bring ^ And humbly bow before Thy throne Alone with Thee,, my Spirit guide Tny gracious comfort now impart With me in storm and calm abide, Direct my steps and cheer my heart Alone with Th*e. my Saviour friend, My spirit knows no dread, nor fear ■ Alone with Thee until life’s end, I then shall joy to feel Thee near. Let Death his sting and terror boast. And to the grave my flesh consign .; With Father, Son and Holy" Ghost, A lonely hour Shall ne’er be miaei Detroit, Mick. Dr. Jae. Hi Potti. BRIEFS. r Mr Gladstone has made another speech that is said to have been unusually iuteresting even far him Strenuous efforts are being made by the Republicans in Congress to secure the early admission of Idaho and Wyoming i Assistant Postmaster-Genra! Clark son, it isaaid, contemplates resigning Imposition to take -chargeof a daily newspaper in Chicago. Miss Carrie Burnham Kilgore -of / Philadelphia, has been admitted to practice before the United States Su prerae Court. This is the fourtn of Senator Blair has introduced btilv appropriating $50,000 »aeh for stat utes of Major- Genre! John H Starke at Manchester, N H., and Edwin M Stanton at Washington. * n The business men of Baltimore want ballot reform. They are moving in the matter and have prepared a bat lot reform bill which they wi£i present faHhe liangfan i f ii#sJsMWPtraj»tH»»ev U S Minister Ryan reports “I do not beleive there Is a city in America in which life and property are ■ mure secure, day or night, than in the city of Mexico.” bir rranos de Winton saysthat in spite of the scores of explorers who have been traversing Africa in ill di' rections, since Livingstone began his travels, the larger' portion of the many millions of natives have never seen a white man. The claims of various cities to the site of the l^dnmbds World's-Fair were presented before the congressional committee at Washington, duringrlast week. Mayor Grant headed the ivew York de1Sp?ttoifr~'Sflr"Xhaancey M. Depew was one of its speakers. Many Episcopalians are very much worked up over the fact that Philips Brooks is to take part in the install ation of Lyman Abbot as pastor of Plymotk (Jhurcn. They fear that in some way or other the doctrine of the apostolic succession will'get lost. Will the gentleman from Alabama kindly brash tbe cobwebs off his rhet otic and 'inform us, without unnecess ary paddling, what is the real cause of all this anguish? Is it the black man’s color that agitates the Senator, or is it his condition? fir ■ Some excitement is being caused by tbe continued negro exodus from North Carolina. Congressman H. P. Cheatham, the colored Representative from the Second District, has left Washington to stump against the movement. His district is said to have already lost several thousand votes, . , The Terror’s Understudy —The Terror—Ypu’re sister's beau, ain’t Too ? Tbe Beau (dude persuasion)—Why, yes Do you like me ? J “You bet l do. When papa /get* onto you, you’ll take some of his at tention from me It will be real jolly to see blm playing see-saw with you in the woodshed.”—Philadelphia In quirer,^ ’ ; Always keep an enemy in hand—a .brisk, hearty, active enemy. Tbe having oner ‘is prbilf that are somebody. Wishy-washy, empty worthless people never have, enemies Men who never move never ran a gainst anything; and' when a man ;*hl thoroughly dead and utterly J buried, no^wgever. runs agaihst him. To be run against if proof, of existence and position; run against something is woof of jno(Um:±-i)6 "Jfclii)i*i- F. i <jtin$ v3Mv-a>j-imaoss I ednv week, and elected A. MSSSnWw Becretanea./ .J. ,f. SELECTIONS. GLADSTONE AS AN ORATOR. , Apropos to the subset of tbeprvoe ding note, take the case of the Grand Ola Man. He has just celebrated hie eightieth oirthday Yet a fortnight before hr made one of the greatest of ja great series of great speeches He spohefor«thour,and a half in a dear, and ringing voice, with appar ently exhaustless energy. One of Our Loudon'Exchangee says of If: “when he rose tb hie full beiffht in a passhin ot indignation, bis hack was as straight as a guardsman's, bis Ace instinct with juvenile eagerness when he bent to his audience. In familiar talk his action was as easy and grace ftilvfe s lively boy's. England has had many miracles of genius, but nev er in all her previous history could sheproduoe an octogenarian orator like this.”—N. ¥. Christian Advocate. THE SOUL’S REST. The soul of man is too large to rest until It reMB in God, It has capacity for too wide an outlook to be shut in by juBt what the eye can see and the ear bear and -the hands handle. A quaint old write; compares the bun ger of the soul for God to hunger of the stomach for food. A hungry man most “be fed' with tint which u suited to th® HSedBTif hunger or the cee«i*g ; >ti If ft odutu} ties. Give the man music give.jbim. company, give him picture.'*, give him houses, give hiih hohiirs. f here'Will yet be no satis faction. But set before him good wholesome food and let him eat. and the craving he felt will soon be ap peasedv' So it is with the soul. The soul gets hungry and it goes out in sallies after its proper food. Give to the man who is soul hungry the am plest profits from trade and the largest credit at the banks, sad luxuries and soul be hungry "till. But give U this aw** -man God ; mk God, before hia hungry soul, and let him feed, on Him a* on the Bfead of Lite, and there will be satisfaction. - This fc the -way; we are marie, and it must be nearest only on Goi—Dr. JP. A, Nobfa* - TEMPTATION. Temptation is a necessity, and not only a necessity but a benefaction. If you were to instruct a man yon would have to put into him a certain percentage of temptation that*he might become fulljr developed. * We have too low an estimate of hu man nature when we imagine that it wil| respond on y to self-interest. It is rather that we have not faith enough in the truth, and have ~not learned the Secret of inspiring fioblfc motiVes and pure desire*. ’’ '• !* Simply weed a man so that he shall produce nothing evil, hut never plant him, so that he shall produce something good, sod what it he worth? If this he cultivation, the Desert of Sahara is the most cultivated spot on the globes—[Life Thought Some excitement is being caused by the continued Negro exodus from North Carolina. Congressman H P Cheatham* the colored Representative from the Second District* has left Washington to stump against the movement. His district is said to have already lost several thousand votes.—Ex. JOKING HIS INFLUENCE AWAY, PaOTOBft., MAY NEUTRALIZE AU, ?£***i? WW* 4t> good in,, many ways. Dishunepttd altng . #r,. impure convemtii n or want of reliability ip a preacher will gender bis exhortation and piayers of none effect. Few pas tors arc in dagger of falling into thaw view; but one may destroy bis ipfln* ejw$ by Wfwiw which is net *» seriously, offensive and obvionslv Wrong- Bishop , Dpucak, of the ^tbodwt Episcopal Churoh, South, said at one of kis Conference* recently: "I have a letter saying, ’We must have another pastorjopr i*#®?®® !?»i^ sm1* will comply is mm THE ABSTAINER’S CREED. I believe that the Demon of Strong Drink is the gigantic foe of God and man; that it mint nun alike for hap pi ness on earth and bleaaedneM in beiven; and that two thirds of all tin; pauperism, crime, and woe of earth may be traced to him as his progeny; that he was conceived of Satan, born of the depraved appetites of men and and inflicts only suffering upon bis victim; that under his rule reason is crucified, love dies, and conscience is buried; that man descends into a hell even upon earth, and has no resurec tion for his manhood nor redemption for biaeoalaved seal bat in the power of God; that no drunkard can enter into the kingdom of God or abide in His presence who shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the saving and keeping power of the Holy Ghost; that the whole catholic church should unite and overthrow this awful traffic in strong drink, and deliver humanity from the corse of the strong-drink; that the ou ly salvation for humanity is in uncom promising total abstinence for the indi vidua), progressive prohibition for the community, and, above all, the em brace of the Giapri of Christ whoalone can redeem body and soul from the ilavery of tin and thrill us with the power of life everlasting!—The Rev Arthur T. Pierson, D D. BRILLIANT JOURNALS FAY TRIBUTE TQ BRILLIANT SONS OF BRILLIANT MEN. Ws reproduce the following tri ipeetively, the former to John E Bow ea*i son of the great Editor ot the Inde pendent; and Walker Blaine, son of the great Statesman James G. Blaine. They both died young, but each had accomplished a great work and had risen to high places of distinction and preferment. Their lives show con* olnsively that young men can make themselves eminent by studp, indus try and perseverance. JQHN E. BOWEN, Ph D. “We tender our sincere sympathy to The /‘Independent,” its proprietor, and editors, in their great loss in the death of the offioe editor, John E. Bowen, Ph D. Mr. C. Bowen had •even sons, all men of ability and char acker. Perhaps none ot them who sur vive would think us invidious should we repeoaant the deceased, who was the fifth son, as the finest of them all He was scholary, devoted to his pro fiesdon, honest to a degree seldom surpassed, with an admirably bal anoed mind. He died within two days of the date fixed for his marriage to a young lady of Brooklyn, who was with him in his sickness and at the last. It is one of the instances that gives color Ip the line: “Death loves a shining mark.”—N. Y. Methodist Christian “Advocate.” WALKER BLAINE. The sudden death, of Mr. Walker Blaine removes from public life a young "*■" of marked talents and un gsual promise. Raised at an early kg* to* conspicuous and important post trader the Government , he had iisbhtrged its duties with rare indus atf and with entire acceptability, and teMwerof sail greater activity and mAuenee seemed to lie before him EbetiecKetayy of State and his fern ily will have the sympathy of the rhole country in the bitter affliction that has befitUeu them Mr. Blaine was a graduate of Yale College and a member of the Univer sity Club in this city, where he bad ■Mfiy, acquaintances He was a eon rpionous figure in Washington official ipd sociol circles for many years. In putward appearance he bore a strong resemblance to his distinguished fath nr. He had the large and expressive eye* the firomlneotnoee, firm chin and ft face. manner, too, he had a greai »good —______ _ ■* fiishnA* klge circle ol devoted friends, attracted to him bj all the qualities which go 1 toward making a young man popular and re aper ted. Had he lived be would have made 'ds mark, and fulfilled, in a high degree the sanguine expectations entertained by those wbo knew him beat—N. Y. “Tribune.” * if' THOUGHTS FOR THINKERS. He is below himself who is nptjhbove an injury —[Quarles No one can lay himself under obli gation to do i wrong thing. | Life is too short to be spent io^aind ing other people’s business. , > To be without friends is to find the world a wilderness.—[L*rJ Racon In the race of life it doesn’t take poverty very long to overtake lazi n*>ss. Revenge is only the pleasure! of a little, weak and narrow ^ rabid.— [Juvenal. Large charity doth never soil] But only wuiten, soft white hands —Lowell Understand that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. Receive (wealth or prosperity) without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.—[VI. Aurelius Antoniusj. Selfishness is that detestably vice which no one will forgive in outers, and no one is without himself— Beecher. Truth is stronger than, righteousness is stronger than effl, life is stonger than deaths—[Philips Brooks. ■ 'm no beginnings or imago, DMgv^r small, toys Plutarch, lected because ContifTtmii3e*" ruakef them great. Benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom, and unrequited obligation perpetual thralldom which is hateful -{Hobbs. •’.■/*' j Each day we used to take £ me for ward step, till we gain power to study nobler things.—Sophocles, Be moderate in your pleasures, that your relish for them may con tinue. Always to indulge our appe tites is to extinguish them. He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom and will find the flaw when he has forgotten its cause.—[Henry Ward Beecher. Many a flower is crushed beneath the feet of the wayfarer. Nature, rich and mexaustible, replaces them with usury. Imitate nature.— [Carmen 8ylvia. Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections will never find what he j seeks. We love ourselves with all our j faults, and we ought to love ouf fHeuds in like manner. If you were willing to be as pleas ant and as anxious to please m —your borne as you are in ihe comp any of. your height* <rs you would have the happiest home in the world. EPISCOPAL ADDRESS OP RT REV. 8. T. JONES, D D.,TO THE SOUT H C AROLINA CONFERENCE. , Brethren of the South Carolina Con ference . I congratulate yon on ourassem* bling in this,' the Metropolitan city of the Palmetto State. I hope I meet yon one and all in the enjoyment oi health and fine spirits, encouraged by a review of the labors of the past year and buoyant with hope for the-future, in the line of your calling. It gives me great pleasure to be able to enter upon the duties of presiding officer of joor body once more, after the afliict i n g dispensation o f Providence, through which I have passed since oar last meeting. Though feeble, I give thanks to the God and Father of all mercies that be still, bides my life above, and gives-me strength to per form, though in a degree fer more limited than I could desire, the duties of my calling. We are all under great obligation to Almighty God for the health and strength which permit us to meet here ; and I hope you all feel as I do, gratefel for his loving care and preservation. I trust our leporft* will indicate that ;isahave faithfully performed our duty and 1 that God has blessed our labors. I regret that I have not been able to visit the work more thoroughly, and inform myBelf as to its wante by personal observation. It was a sad disappointment to me that I was not permitted the pleasure of dedicating the half dozen or more new edifices which your industry had prepared for me last spring and summer; but a threatening malady in May while holding the Phila., and Baltimore conference made it necessary for me to abandon my trip South and seek the cooler climate in the East I hope.to be able to attend to whatever remains to be done in this particular; during the present fall and winter; It gives me pleasure to inform you that the other portion of the episcopal district is not only holding.its own, but is hopefully increasing in new church edifices, in general fund, and in intelligence and the successful management of church work. Pour new churches have been reared in the Allegheny conference, three in the Philadelphia & Baltimore conference; one of these a magnificent metropoli tan church in Washington, D. C., which will be dedidated on the first or seeond Sabbath in next month, with the most elevated steepleI have ever seen on any colored church. And I believe the.South Carolina conference has erected eight or ten within her bounds, within little more thank year; thus adding at least fifteen new and important church buildings to the Episcopal:district in that brief period. .'"This’ improvement in all depart* ments, during, thefbrced-ahaence of the fHshbp, through illness, save to a very limited extent, ta all the more credita and emphasizes the possibility of progress without incessant, protract* ing, and enervating episcopal travel; which saves to .the general fund a large amount ol needless travelling expenses to swell the pro rata of our connectiorial interests, and furnishes time to the bishops to contribute to our limited sum of church literature and other important interest. ' The last semi-annual meeting of your Bishops in Louisville, Ky., in September last, was not only an episcopal love feast, but was enter tained with such manifestations of appreciation on the part ofthepeo pie, as has no parallel in the history of that meeting since its inauguration; indeed all our gatherings since March last, whether mission hoard, committee on Book Concern or for any purpose have been. unusually cordial and harmonious ; and as a result prosperi ty attended our efforts nearly every where. The affairs of the Book Concern which in the course of their.adjnst ment created no little anxiety have been so amicably settled as to leave no sting of censure or discontent, with out hurt or harm to the church or any individual member thereof. It pro ceeds for the present under the man agement of the committee created by the general conference with a clerk as custodiap, with improved apartments, enlarged and well assorted stock and brilliant hopes of compensating results. The Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society which has already done a commendable work at home and abroad, and is destined to become a patent financial force in the further ance of our connectional interests, has carefully readjusted its affairs and thereby widened its field of operation, It is now made the duty of Vice Pres ident to visit their districts and in co operation with the pastors to organize Mite Societies, auxiliary to the parent society, and the imperative duty of pastors to give presidents all needed eo operation, thus bringing the whole female departments of the church in active and healthfol co-operation, with their sisters through the year, instead of leaving the entire work to the pastors during the year and to the conferences and .the congregations where they are held once a year. Our institutions of learning as ap pears from reports, is proceeding hopefully. I am glad to see that the Children’s Day contributions have been encouragingly increased during the current year. I trust that all present who have not done their whok duty in its interest wUl fulfill theii obligations before we separate. ^ * I desire to call special attention to the obligations imposed upon each pastor by the general conference in reference to African mission day which seems to have been overlooked. One collection is ordered to be taken in each church and Sunday school on a Sabbath in September, of which due notice must be given and the proceeds of said collection must be sent to the secretary of the Women’s Home and Foreign Miasionai7 Society, Mrs Maria E. Harris,' on or before the first Monday in October following, to be appropriated to the pay of female teachers of the A. M. E. Zion mission work in Airica. The object is to raise one or more dollars from each church and Sunday school to sustain that important interest. The mem bership of the church and, especially the children will be glad to respond to this call, if pastors will give them the cbauce and thus hola a light, however dim, to guide souls to Christ in that far off and benighted land Let no one stfnd in the way of this Christian effort. I omitted to remind you while calling your attention to the adjust ment of the affairs of the Book Con oern, that it was ordered that all outstanding accounts due the Concern, except aooounts of hymnals and re centfy ordered disciplines, be collected and paid forthwith and forwarded to Rev. Dr. Jacob Thomas, late agent fur services rendered It is expected therefore that all such accounts due by members of this body will be set tied and paid, during this session. .Ihope your commendable record aB to general fend fend so far from suffering any reversal may give evi dence of steady and* cheering improv ment, to the end that - at no distant day the accu oblation of back salaries will cease, and that wip ed out, anu re on the fund shalfwrittep their receipt in fell for all demands. And now with grateful hearts to Him whose servants we are. Let us proceed as best we may inthediacharge of the duties of the hour.; and,with a fixed purpose to devote our life to God’s cause. May peace aud harmony prevail. • . , a u rriii!au2i0j.Ais x ^liyjtuao. It would seem fitting to and proper, in view of the fact that we are so little known, and so shamefully misrepre sented in this portiop of the State that a brief account of the origin of the OburcH here represented should sup plement this address. I do not charge our white fellow citizens with misrepresenting us in our moral and religious efforts, for they seek to know v$ry little about our people in these or other commendable respects ; but glaringly take greeter interest in giving publicity to our discredit, than otherwise. Therefore they familiar ize themselves with the vices of our worst characters, rather than the vir tues of our better element But the colored people, as anomalous as it may seem, appear to take pleasure in misrepresenting us even in relation to our best endeavors. True to the old plantation sentiments that master John’s Negroes were the best clothed, best fed, the sleekest and were really the superior stock; aud that those of every other plantation were merely Negro shams. This vaunted feeling of superiority finds its false foolish and damaging echo in nearly all col ored organizations, religious and secu liar, and accounts for the segregation and discord which unfortuoatiy ex ists among us; instead of .union and harmony which should cement us in a common interest in all commendable enterprises, regardless of creed seotion or denominational distinctions. It is not so much the fault, a* it is the mis fortune of our people, that these bar monious, fraternal and mutually help fui conditions do not exist among us to a greater extent; but the fact that they do not and have not here in South Carolina, is the execute" for this brief explanation. The church repie, sented in this conference commenoed its separate existence as a colored Methodist society in New York in 1798, JmT , Its organizers and and were up to that time, members of John street Methodist church in that city, known as the mother church of the denomination in America. They organized the Zion and Anbury so cieties-in New York, and continued their relation to the patent church through white olden until 1820, when they finally withdrew in connection with other societies in Philadelphia and elsewhere. They organized a separate and independent connection of colored Methodists ; so that now it is in its 94th year as a church and 69th year as a connection. The late, distinguished Joshua R. Soule, bishop of the M. E. Church Sotfth, then a young preacher of the M. E. church was a warm advocate of the colored connection and voluntarily served as secretary of several of its early annual conferences. We have had twenty two episcopal officers, all were colored—eight of whom were Northern men and four teen Southerners. Our second bishop the most energetic of the older ones, was a Charlestonian. I have no doubt but that his satisfied spirit hov ers over this assemblage invisibly, but not less heartily congratulating him self and us on an event of which he never dreamed, the progress of an an nual conference of the church which he blessed with twenty four years of successful episcopal labor, held in the city of bis nativity; illumine 1 not on ly the golden rays of the same sun which startled his earliest vision over a century gone by, but also by the genial rays of the bright sun of free d >m for all. We now b»ve seven bishops, twenty three annual conferences, over two thousand travelling preachers and three hundred and twenty five thous and members scattered over twenty seven states, four territories, the Brit ish dominions and West Africa. The South Carolina conference embracing the state consists of about'seveoty five appointments, nearly nr quite two hun dred churches with about fifteen thous ■ad members under the supervision of four presiding elders, and was organ ize i in 1866. The feet that we have not augmented our forces here does not prove that we have been remiss in our calling, since there axe those whose spiritual need appeals for help out side of the large cities. uar central institution or learning, Livingstone College, at Salisbury^ N. C., is in a flourishing condition, with a largely increased number of students Lancaster High School in your own State is in hopeful progress and'tlei oonuectional schools in Ten nessee and Kentucky promise well. The central Book Concern in New Yorkas well as the sub-book rooms in the south and southwest bids fair to remunerate our toils. The Sunday School department at Montgomery, Ala , is making credita ble advancement. The Women’s Home and Foreign Mission Society has been inspired with new life and is destinedaccomplish yeoman work for the Master in that line. The su perintendent of African Mission wri.es encouragingly of the spiritual condi tion of Jus Held, and speaks cheerfully of the beneficial influence of the female teachers among the natives. God is with os, and the out look for, onr Zion was never more eaoouraging. ZIONS IMPORTANT APPOINT. MENT FOR MOBILE. Rev. F. A- Clinton was reappointed Presiding Elder i y the last Conference of A. M. E Z. Church to the Mobile district. Ha ls an 'affable gentleman, jovial and winning, and well known as one of Zion’s brightest. He was verry successful in bis work last year, and we welcome him and wish for him continued success. Rev. A. English, a quiet, unassum ing profound Christian gentleman, was reappointed to his district. Rev. E. Hunter, a calm and delib* erate Christian gentleman, was reap pointed to bis third year’s pastorate at i State Street Church. Rev. Hunter bravely and without oeten ation with stood the imminent perilous threaten ing* overhanging his church at the in cipiency of his pastoral charge and at present, peace and harmony prevails. Rev. Dr. A J Warner, the undaunt ed and beloved revivalist, was return ed to Zion Church, making his fourth consecutive year. Rev. Warner is much beloved by his people. Rev. H. R. Gains, a conscientious and forcible minister has returned for three consecutive years to the pasto rate ef Good Hope Church. The ap pointments ai>6 generally approved* If aftitos that the efficient Bfchop C. C. FNstty has brought about a reformation ahdZum’s interest advances,—Mobile “Adviser”. VW . .nsStea four* f ■
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