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ff ;Y»«-1«’.-«S i« IssxsszzxzsigkszyävØ .tuo?*} H NUMBER 9 4 SERVICE BY LILL iK OBFY. The Master said to His aervaols: "the fiehk are gobies aod fair, Go truth' with your And gather the ' And th^ Stalwart a Up through the brightening morning, t A nobta and willing throng. And one stood watching them sndly, Frail and disabled waa ho. Half envious ot their mission, And burning with loyalty ; And the Master said to him kindly : “Be not so disconsolate : ’There may be someeasier work for thee But they alao serve Me who wait ” The day grew older and older, And no work to the watcher came ; And be said: “I will follow the reapers Although I am feeble and lame ; I am willing to be a gleaner Of the scattering grains they leave; I will do my best, and the Master will In pity my work receive.” He went; but soon by the way side btrengthitss and faint bo sank ; But a little spring in the grass he found Of which he eagerly drank ; And he iasbioned a rustic chalice, And offered it filled to all Mho passed that way through the heated day .And heeded his kindly call. And up through the dusky gloaming Came the.reapers one by one, Bearing their sheaves with gladness, For the harvest tinp was done; And the reapers were. n and weary, And the water so pure and cold, They hailed with joy, and gladly; drank. And blessed him a hundred fold. And then to the gate of the palace They carried their burdens up; Ar>d just at the last the cripple came. Bearing his humble cup; And high with the sheaves it was lifted! And the payment was the same, To the reapers and he who the water gave To the thir.-ty—in His name! —Methodist Christian Adv'>cate BRIEFS. The British extradition treaty was ^ratified by the Senate Tuesday of last sweek, .Up to date more than $20,000 have feeen subscribed to the Henry Gradv soonument fund. in a lecture in Fremont Temple. Boston, Monday night Rev. Jos Cook made an attack on Henry Grady's Hew South. The first through train on the C. F & Y. V R. R ran from Wilmington to Mt Airy last week a distance of 340 miles. The house commits e on territories decided to report a b 1 for the admin sion of Wyoming and Idaho as states of the Union. It is estimated tha' New Hampshire yearly receives $ 3,000,000 from her summer boarders, and that Maine receives $6,000,000. America is shipping annually 800,000 gallons of intoxicating liq uors to Africa. Massachusetts prohibitions have presented petitions to Congress asking that the traffic be .stopped. At Quinev, Florida, last Thursday 'a deputy U. 8. Marshal was enticed by so rue of his personal enemies into a lonely spot and foully murdered. A man named McFarland is susp cted of the crime. The house com mitt *e nvestigating Ohio ballot box forgeries adjourn d subject to the call of ibe chairman The case is practically’ closed and the witnesses, including ex Governor Foraker, have been d ecbaiged. The Duke *»f Orleans, the Bourbon pretender to the throne erf France, made his apoearance in Paris in face of the order for the exile of the Or leans princes. He wa-t Immediately arrested His defense was that he came to France to join the army. On Monday the State Supreme Court denied the motion in arrest of judgment made by the counsel for Cross and White, and the bank breakers will have to serve out their terms on the public roads of Wake county. W. puke, of Durham, it reported to have written to Prmident CMwe '1, of Trinity College, offering that mat; m much as Raleigh has *l^adj of fered, and also to endow it with *50.000. provided the College bo lo cat d »t Durham. This it equivalent to an offer of $85,000, SELECTED. " While the discus-ion of ftje rtibjedt of racer kgoing on the Afro Amer icanis putting in good work in school, church am! Jtttratore —Cttfmiaa Be DON'T GO IN DEBT: • « * £ i }fl 7fit Young men, avoid debt. It has made more drunkards, peopled more asylums, filled more jails aod ruined more lives than any other power on tbe brnad earth. ' It tempts, me" to steal; it goads1;them into lying; it entices them inti) th cept'on.’ It w the father of murderous thoughts; the b«Kin companion of treachery; the. traducer of character and the assassin of g'-od credit It destroys"conscience; it weakens courage; it demoralizes h rior ; it winks at trickery and etn braces rascality. It poisons the mind;; sears the conscience; embitters the heirt; rob* life .of its pleasures and fillfe it with gall. It nrives men from palaces to poverty; from sanity h> maduess; from hilarity to hofietess* ness ; from heaven to bell.—Christian Observer. HOPEFUL YET. The Messenger clearly recognises the good qualities of the Negroes. lt i*e iieves in them as the titmth’s beet laborers. It does not favor tb* African scheme or any other scheme that pro* .puses to remove the Negrocs s a whole. Distribution is belter than deportation. Any danger of race conflicts may be averted without a general exodns Let bad whiskey b - abandoned Lek bad politics be eliminated Let the Negroes regard the wmtes as not their political oivpersopal enemies. Let them cease toTwoWA the Republican, party as tneend-ait^Rd i^tli iu pol itics. Let them cease td rush into.quar rela because a drunken white man and 'a drauxen wiffegr© get «riu> a fight. L-t them cultivate a oolite, pleasent address, and not mistake Jib erty for license, and there will be n<> race troubles of any consequence any where. The Messenger menus welt and would by all proper means prevent rac contentions, antagonisms, conflicts and instead would have the races to wprk together in peace, aiming at sue ( case on tneir respective; lines. Wnit* men in the South work with 'Negroes. f.a the North there is a strike when this mixing takes place or a row — Wilmington Daily Messenger. OVBRDOING FOR CHILDREN. It is quite possible to do too much for , children, though some parent* do not i seem to think so. It is good for * chil i to do all he can for himself, to amuse himself, to wait on himself, and to perform such little offices for those A child who is the center of service who does little but receive kindness attention, gifts, is apt to become "all mouth his capacity for active char ities mid benevolences is hot de veloped, and he loses the ip-eater hies sednem of giving'. The very first requirement of our Lord is, ‘‘Deny thyself;” then,.‘‘Take up thy eras.’’ Children who are not taught the lesson of sell-denial and of cross bearing when young are •ikely to grow into selfish and exact ing men and women, unchristian men and women. j Even a sickly child heeds to learn to consider the welfare of those about him, to be tender of tin ir feelings, to deny himseii some things in the inter est ot others. The tendency in such cases is to lavish every thing on the patient, to deny him nothing, to re quire nothing from him The wise and judicious parent cahupt fail to see that symmetry and beaut? of ebarse ter needs to Ik cultivated as much in delicate children as in those that are robust This is in tbeir own interest not less than in the interest of those heio a suffering, unselfish child, and smooth the thorns from his path. indifference to the welfare of others, though in a sick and suffering child, dulls the edge of sympathy in thos that serve him die comfort and happiness of the par about him as he is well able to do i The manifestation of selfishness; of Ttr 8L0WWT RECOVERING.1, v „ 11 i' '1 ■"* -V *H fan sx**#snxa an gMtitud? i^qor Akt> ALL SYMPATHIZING FRIENDS. >>. B»6. Dancy. ■ . Jn order to allay the anxiety of ttfy m»hy sympathising iv*i uf reiinious creeds, ana many without any religiudir^prol&sibnf I h»^by hi prase ray profound gtattNUN to m? Heavenly* Father t-jon Hi* loa* iqgj respite, and jay {hopeful zeoujvegf; m H> Wt°re the m hundred, jfieu^ heijt in the District under the Itfad of ihej pasture’ wives, (as weH as thdte 'win Sti brief stay here enabled them tu uuiMfiti Uw splendid <luoati<Mh>ot my appreci.1u..n uf the geu*r»»u* »($?«:, which.prompted them, and my thank, itilpesa fur the so La ci upl and tfeipftir result i)f4il all • As i0M as for tuaoy Je'ters ut sympathy, .and prof leraof any needed aid; and fliTt-hf. assurance by letter^ and through tji£ urgent and tender solicitations of the *‘StAR,” that heaven has been, anifiS benmm> strongly petitioned ftr^iyt redoTefy. These assurances, supple, mailing the loving kindme# *>f»he Divine Being, would seem to prolong my stay—Gd grant it ! ‘ Fraternally, ! 1 -46. T. Jokes, - f; •"* *. ■.«* Bishop. MOORE8BURG, (lENN.) NOtES BY REV M. M. MORRIS. Dear Editor: Allow me a word in ©qyffper that,oue readers may know how we are getting along. This makes our thiyd year on this work. We have haul three protracted meetings.. The first one at Whitesburg we had !fi|.sj,?"«?rmraad at Bean station we had 2,conversions, Wp, ere in the midst of a revival Wve ’ had -three cdhYet date. My. work is doing- well, spirituayy and fit her wise 'Rev.' B> M. Gudger wtlkbe at Galbraith on the 8th and 9th of thie month to hold my second qaarteriy o^fiBg for thia conference year.* W« jtfojxfeto have a good'thne. I see by the blue. mark my subscrip tion is out,' p)easei* find enclosed ode dollar. Please send itfy paper on as l can’t do WitFoilt it.'* *' k- *■ Th3 Washington Pod recently quotes extensively from th&Meaaen ger’a recent able . editorial on th> fide lity of the colored people. I u th is connection I am reminded of several facts which are suggested by the state meat in (Senator Vance’s speech iD reply to Invalid to the effect* that North Carolina.;*#* one of tfe? most conservative of the slave holding (States. There wa* a wealthy gentle man from H His boro, Hon. Abeolora Tatumr whit was State Senator for eighteen years and a member of the Second Congress This gentleman owned many slaves, but was go much opposed (o the4 insti t til ion of slavery. that when be did be freed-bisslaves and left hmfi /landed property . to be equitably divided: among them. He lived, and died a bachelur, and is bur ied in an. old, graveyard, long disused, pear the oenter of the city of Haleigh. Over bis grave is an ancient looking granite monument erected to hia mem ory by the Legislature of North Cain lina, a roost tibtienal thing of a North Carolina.Legislature ta-do, vide the u marked graves of Nathaniel Macon, Chief J nation Henderson and scores of others This Mr. Tatum bad a brother in law who was also an abolitionist and who would have liberated his slaves also, but for the. - fact, that the' majority of them were hia wife’s dower, and she thought the property should descend to her children. A paper, the Ledger,4! think, was edited torn while at Oxford by wn-owtspo ken ah litionist. Mr ibtniei H Q«odloe, wko left N»>rth Carol tub fyr this city at the breaking out of the war Bee* se be though! the qirttion of slavery was the main one involved in tb* impend iu? struggle., MrvO<jodloe >»s reoog oiped here as n leading authority ,b the anti alayery people, .was made Chairman of the committee to pay the people of District of Columbia for their slaves, Pod the **ftie iofiaenoes caused him ib be made Martha! of President Lincoln’s inauguration His aDoiition record secured' lur ntm tne intimate friendship of Charles Hum ner, Thad Stevens and of Mr. Lincoln himself In spite of this Me. Goodins has always been Pn ardent North my jcertain know! edge aided severed North Gaioitnui m* - 4il '.-'V * .»*>■ ■ :&4«*rMWtm wibo made their *-scape (6h after . torfttHtes pwje "aec^eit^caij rlie ftiffcr coimt$« endorsing *df.a; ?how **? rn mi&t&D : •• I-* M • ._uL*ah"ri e were /hefcrwtbdsuMivU crated Watti#f ;|n^f Dr a^wy ?a6f^j& oa» of ooold w BY EV O express Dt idea 1 meet tHh'wiod of ehpBtleihe &r Editor : Permit a fen- w.jdssbouttbe 'This, i* an; id§a tbat.we » hearty rWfuion & dvery/antiile troai the youngest, arid fruta the Bijfefh t*» the -probationers, and (hat e^ejf^rie maf ' h san their eo-operation and terane to accomplish the desired end. It is a grand idea and one worthy jef accept ation arid a'lihcral support^ -Should we be so fortonale as to accomplish this design, we wou id « show to both present and unborn generations the 1 vo, pride, gratitude and honor-that we have for sainted Bishops **ho bav« been commanded to lay a^id<| |he robe of the Lcvite who miuisUgg nut side the vail, to put vert men ts of priests, to minister Ifdbre the altarand in thejhoiy oftseljes fore vet and forever. Let us give honor to is due, so as to reflect credtHNW* oar lives and works, young mi ne lional pride and unwavering tie termination to -reach the . acme-as heroes of our great connection,- Can’t we suggest some plait^thnt'^will meet the approval Bishops? It seems that if each conference would appoint or sot apart a committee on moi uirn-nt fundsnnd let that oonaqd* tee arrange tho plaa on which the fund is to be collected, and submit the plan to the annual conferences this year Thus we might agon he able to begin the work of erecting the monument very spun. ., ..}{ ,, < Aoiegdsn, V& A GRAND AND WORTHY MAN GONE .» DESERVED TRIBUTES TO HU MEMORY, BY REV. W. H. BEWBY. Dear Editor. Please allow me1 space nt our worthy columns to an nounce the death of Rev. W H. Pitts, oue of the oldest members ot the Vir ginia conference. , He was born at Western Branch township, Norfolk Co. Virginia, eighty one years ago. Two scores ef these years he spenSwoekiag mtbevineyard of the Lord Rev. W.' H. Pitts was superannuated about three years, yet with Christian fortitude, which be • possessed in a lii-h degree, he answer ed to the roll call at the last confer enco held in Elisa* eth City, N. €., Jan. 1890, with bis loving wife at bis side to cafe for him, whichsHedld with great delight. He said to some of the members that he would not meet them any more in a conference, Ab»ut tea days ago be was taken with the grippe, th-» prevailing epi demic Saturday February 8th at 7:45 ja. m., the messenger Death came. How solemn is life’s last hour. T^e journey is ended ; tbs - immortal can didate is on lift’s last shore. The jbiiter lief between him and the ! belter land; ahd from: thence he has :gone toreView at* the road along which he has> travelled Memory -re^ batches ad the pasi, and its I few; minmea boaceois to live the whole of IHfe agakp £ The soenbs long forgotten TV- 1 r 1 10th, 3 p. m. Hundred ; person* Were -, nveeeht. /.. Dr. was agisted ; by Rev#. -€5. Ef (Steward* W. K Cook, W. H. Newby,. yi R Davis and N. Williams Dr. Manly took for bis 'test fleb si,d<h -^‘?Fttr he looked for a city which has ‘ foundations, whose maker and boiIder Id- jQndf L ‘ The ]? Doctor first gave a shYjrt bwtevy of the life end labor# of *‘i,Ribefcf*»tta,’*s we all knew him in the Virginia annual conference. He s&owed tha.1 wav tocher eky of the Nving God. Iu this way we fed. Elder W. H-Pi*S"W sesvanfrantici p*ting a final rest—a* Secure building not made with- ‘bands. The whole of The impression made by the Doctor will hmg be remembeied. Rev. Stew ard followed bint in some few touching remark* that made our souls rejoice Near seven hundred friends viewed the Corpse for. the Itet‘time on passing , Mr. -Editor, the Msbodb, Odd Fel lews trad other institutions of which ■ be was an honored member, showed j their high appreciation and respect to iug to the Christians. his memory by beiug out in full force. A5OTHER . GONE —CHURCH NOTES. ' BY REV. J. A. JACKSON. Mir. Editor: I write to let your many readers know that we are yet. alive on Wilson chapel circuit and at work, We. have raised a new church einoft our conference. Mrs. J. A. Jackson who departed tbia life Janury the 5th, was a long bqfierer with consumption. For 23 a she lived a devoted and spotless brd taketh away ” My lues is her •iQUR NEW YORK LETTER fa i -M MC-li 1 ‘ “T! . j ( :r by^v waiters. tfr. Editor : si Allow me space to tell <>f the doing about New York. > . ;aii i.j.l-a ROOM. The Book Boom,- under.,the general ship of Bishop Thompson, grandly. There- has beep ;a debt di 1732 ngaiitat the Concern aiid in favor of-theM. EJ Concern fur tan:or more yean. One day last w*ek Bishop Thompson walked; into the office of Aiessrs. Hunt A Eaton, agents of the M. E. Book Concern, and said : “Gen 1 ttanen, here is one hundred and ten dollars which I will give you if you i wiMrgwe W a receipt in lull lor the amount we owe you/' The ptonosi lion was accepted and that debt is cancelled Through the settlement with the former agent two thousand hod two hundred dollars was wiped out. • * • . j Of the *3,980.44 of indebtedness reported at the General conference at jNew Berne, N C„ in 1888, only $28 remains unsettled The Bishop has bought plates for the new hymnals at p 6r«t of $200, printed three thousand copies, bound fifteen hundred copies oft he same at a cost of $744.79.. He lias also bad one thousand disciplines bound at a. cast of.,.$170 and. bought .Mean hundred and fifty of thft hand' somest bound hymn books ever placed upon the market. The conneotioD uvea him a debt of gratitude f^r such work. There has bcap pahfopthis •mount $66M*^ih^.Beok Room, with this immense new stuck up ha.i*d»oaJy in d^bt $826.42 Such has been the marvelous success of the Concern rii&e Bishop Thompson took f charge of it. He has loaned the Con 9etu. over $1 800 of which bos been paid him -$450 of this amount has heen paid by the Bishops alone £i*bpp Hood has stood nobly by BMbno Thompson in the work, hav isgnot ooly met'hU part of the $460, but turned in through private sales 4; hte district $26 in the tbe last 30 aw dull** a^d i • stock : on hand, MayGod ■ ' T EKVtV L I* WO*; : - t this un iting, 130 have accepted .Christ I and JJO have been admitted to the church. We expect to remodel our •church this season and - roake i the • handsomest Negro chureh. in thedand 1 Spiritually, flnapciaMy' and nurneri rally, pur chtffl;irVhr*aplljUiiid con di»i«n.r Oa Sunday nights the chtarcfc is pafctedf to the door. God is certain ly in Zion • • 1‘ ' t ' ' Mies Ju'ia Hall, the trusted and worthy clerk at the Book ro*m, is very 111. The Book Concern can hardly afford to l<so her. It is our earnesj prayer that she in a 3- recover Mrs .jhfephino Richardson infilling herplace very efficiently. t Th” New York c > ikrencoc-xpecL to lead in General Funds and “Old Zion” expects to take iha batioer'ffhe led off last year and exprets to do so again. Look out for seven hundred and odd dollars from my Presiding Elder's district. ■ v5 The Star is not forgotten and if the Editor will look in upon us at Youkers, during the second, week in May, we will make }rour heart and pocket b<M>k both glad. A REQUEST OF* THE CHURCH. BV AN EARNEST WOBJtBB. To the Bishops, ministers and mem; here of the A. M. E. Zion : I have under consideration the publication of a small hook of sacred poems called the Pilgrim’s Comforter. My object. oerictfl tale 'o brio the out whose the sacred dormkttt with ao b easts God has placed muse. 2'To preserve and band down to bur church and to posterity a precious legacy in sacred verse, of the thought and religious convictions of the think ere And workers of our church of the present age. 8 And as these poems are to be sacred, to make them form the necleus in thedira future of a Sunday School and church hymnal whichshall belt ) :a considerable extent peculiarly our own. For a? a distinct and-religidus body, we must certainly looa forward to the time when iu the hymn book we use shall be found as authors of the hymns we sing, some of the lead ing men and woipen of; our churcj I mort respectfu fly request therefore 1 That any mqtnber of our church, especially general officer, who' has any gift at verse making, will forward me any short sacred poams, be or she may now have on baud, or may here after feel deposed to write.« 2 That only. one side of the paper be Written upon. 3 That the date of the composition of each poem and the full name of the author be subscribed to each poem.. Some of the best poems sent us will be sent to the Stab for publication frorq, time to time prior to the pQbli cation of the book The range of thought which these sacred poems shall embrace may be as wide and extensive as the Gospel ;itself. When this little book of poems is published, each poem will have the full name of its author signed to it. Whatever proceeds may accrue from the sale of the book, after expen see have been deducted, will go to the widows* orphans’ and superauua^od ministers’fund. So that there will be no pecuniary gain to any individu al resulting from the sale of the .book It is to be hoped that this idea of bringing out the poetical 'talent of our churc’i may commend itself to all the mem era of our church, and that our request may meet with a generous response from our Bishops, general officers, ministers, school teachqra and the laity in general. I know very Well that some of our Bishops are too modest to offer, of th.ir own accord, apoom for publica tion, and yet it is hoped that they will sacrifice thiir own feelings in this case to . the general good oTtht church, and yield to our request, sc . that the cl lurch iit; the years to come may have some thought of theirs -V expressed irt sacred verse. ■■■■■■? And n;^ my„ dear brethre^/ let ua eeej what poelieal Valent there ia iu. i^ijr churoh. iiJcnusfe .there is a good., deal of talent of this sort -in our - church and let us put it in print. Homing this idea may meet with • general favor throughout the length, and breadth of our "church,' and* WjS-V , ing .the manuscripts will, begin to come at once tn me, I am your m >st humble c -laborer, - : B. F WIieeVer, :;: j V • V Siun^rville-,. - Box 373. V , ,KwJ. • SOME THQuSSsTHA'Y HAVE OCCUPIED THE‘MIND* OF ‘‘FELFOY ” Mr E4Hor:,, ’’ Permit* worker in the great ar Hoy of Zion Methodism to- humbly pre^ sent to the consideration of the fnhAy ' other workers composing the same ar my some thoughts which he has. nev er seeu publicly expressed, but which, he has no doubt others besides himself have pondered in their hearts E^ery true lover of Zion must desire her prosperity. That she is in a prosper, ous condition, her numerous members, . and the work she is accomplishing as a factor in the religious world, fully' attest. ^ But to be satisfied with past achieve ments, or contented with present con ditions, is a hindrance to future pro gress and continued prosperity. Therefore if anything car be said or*, done by any one, to stimulate the en ergies of ttje workers in Zion to great . t* iftw foe.hergooiUhife tJm .mmAJo?- - spoken,*1tt the act be done But who is able to do this ? Not the writer of this article ; the most he can do is to offer some suggestions, in the fond hope that he will not be considered presumptuous for eo doing. Having bpen born in Zion, and raised in her Sunday School, it is but natural that we should take an interest in in her wel fare, and desire that she«huld nut only hold her own, but that she shall, wield a greater influence for good in the future than she has ever done in the past. Ail honor to the noble Chris tian, men and women who labored so r assidiously in the post, and who by their labors made it possible for Zion to attain her present.eminent position. ■ But let us remember that each age has its own responsibilities—its own work to perform, and that it is the doty of the present generation to carry the flag of Zion to still greater heights ; and from the highest point we can possibly attain pass it on to the succeeding generations of men and women, whose hands are already outstretched to receive it and who are marching up some 500,000 strong from the Sunday schools of Zion all over this land. What, |heo, may the present workers in Zion—both ministerial and lay—do to advance the standard of Zion? To the writers mind, two things may be done which' will very materially assist in effecting this des i d e r a t u m. One *s, let the ministers throughout the connection study more earnestly to show themselves approved unto God, workmen that needeth n6t to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word , of truth ; the other is, let the church 63 or societies pay them larger salaries, that they may buy the literature necessary to each study. Every workman in every depart ment in life requires _ good fools to do good work.. If a man can do passably good work with poor tools, and with an insufficient number of them for all the purposes of bis work, he will do much better work jwitb tetter tools, ,Y aud with a sufficient quantity of them for his various purples.. TheJJible ’ is, of course, the great storehouse of the. Christian worker ; in it he must fiad maternris for use in the work in Which he is engaged But - it is one thing to have materials for work, and another thing to kn »w how to use tftem To assist him in this, there is a mass of literature,—historical, exegeticai and • homiletical—which has sprung out of the Bible, with which, in4lua.jEeading».;ihinking age, every Christian reader should oe sup plied* Besides whtch there are ' papers, such as the (N. Y ) Indepen dent. Reviews, {Pink & Wagnalia) Homiletics and (I do not mention his own ohurcb paper for of course every (Continued ou next page.)
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