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♦.6 the fi_ __ 70 BLUE MARKS opposite i relative to time, it is the at will uc ir -iiled until the |is renewed 1? bribers are requested to re , Post OIBce Money Order 1‘Letter. r CONTRIBUTORS. Zion will be glad to re Sen communications from ie' country on subjects of t and giving items of news, iod however, the editor is not responsible expressed by correspon all cases the real name of ist accompany bis comrnun lis is desired not for publi ara guarantee of good faith, articles for publication should with ben on one side of the 7, in as plain a hand as possible t the editor reserves the right ich matter as his judgment nine is improper for publics £e publication, articles ssedin decent ml abuse, and in has credit accorded to [blished in the ict of IJoith lation of 204, [ the American rantce the ac ting accorded $100 to the 5lly assails it.— 9, 1896. , Men: Bishops Are Peeking for. ainj^to the annual address Hops before the conferences ^invariably calling for -to build up tbe church, dders in writing to tbe snd iis a good man to -v^aht point.*’ Notice ■that the call is always for SB; not men only who can , good sermon and appear well, sn who are full of courage ; men do not gp wild over a victory, too much discouraged over a gOfKe \bisbops and presiding cribe\ this characteristic as ‘back-bone.” They mean, E men who can face difficulty Je soldiers, and even die, if they o are not en who desire me real 8 condi iIce “fat” the most nt preachePs of the sister church Bsirec^ to join ip in 1882, and ote to I Bishop uOnes and said thinking of a at prace have ig to Zion ; for me ? ” ed was the Bi|p)p with the "of thfft “big-I-am”^ellow-vtliat fused to answer it. Ddgjpt he a ring, cryii^khaby, always hang ground the bishop for ^Jplaces; take what, he gives ^wu, trusi 1, win the people and %ake it fat. will then feel better and the ?, because of your ability and |Will be glad to recigjjtize you >km<% siding elders linisters who len who never Itges in better igd them; men £ver tear down re working for imore than for jen who are aur churches, id making suc le bishops alEIng papers,” srvel that hiahppsjand are calling for good lurch at large wants No other kind are of i. great cry is for faith io are* just thirsting to make some aacri ion of our race; metf tiable longing to lay iven, aad not so i more a vary their trust and mpti .tion. The devil am in the shape of the pted the preach the nial ? That ;ood once when nother’s” sweet y elded to the temp his c< edition his heart is Caching 1 rim. He may suc ied in giving his people where he goes an intellectual entertainment, tickle their-vanity and gain their ap probation /or a ti ne, but any man of the world who ha s passed through a course of mental training could do the same thing. A man without re ligion can preach after that fashion. The church does rot need such a man. A pulpit is mucl better off without anybody in it fian to have such a man. When a 1 trrong thing is once taught it takes d ouble the time and double the effort to again unteach that “wrong thing” and win ike soul for Christ that i i would have taken to teach the re: d truth in the first place. It rs an iwful sin to deceive an uninformed, £ n unwary heart. It is a fearful thing to make a man be lieve lie is saved when he is not. Preachers who yield to a tempta tion to change church relations for the sake of a little more salary, al most without (xception preach a somewhat spurio is gospel. By some means they have measurably lost their hold on Gid, lost grace, become vain, and then their efforts become windy and finally their doctrine spu rious. They ha re gone down step by step. They are all head and no heait. It is an awful d sease for a preacher to get the disease known as the “big head; ” and there is no cure for that disease that we know of except to go to the great Ph ysician and get a big heart. It is the big heart the church needs to-day. Such a man has the spirit of the Master in him, and is not after fat place: i and human glory, but after souls and the Divine glory. He wants to wCrk in that part of the vineyard where he is most needed. He seeks out the lean places and turns them info fat ones. Like the good angels, be rejoices more over “one sinner” that repenteth than over ninety anc nine just persons who need no repentance. May the Lord God send us a whole army of such men, and “let he people say amen. ' “Pray ye theiefore the Lord of the harvest that h< will send forth labor ers into his harvest.” But we wou d not be understood by anything we h ive said that a minister should not be veil paid for his work. By no means If a pastor does his whole duty to the utmost of his abili ty he should ilso be paid well; and we have noticed that when a pastor does his work well, he seldom fails to get paid well. A congregation that gets properly fed from the pul pit generally : eed their preacher cor respondingly in return. The prin ciple of “reciprocity” will be found to work just :is well between pastor and people as between nations in their commercial intercourse. When one man does his luty it inspires another man to do his. A man who would sponge his p/eaching from year to year would also sponge his bread. He is both too azy to make his living and too lazy .0 be a Christian. Re ligion pays it i own debts. But a genuine preacher is also a steady, well-poised man. He is not tossed about by every little breeze that blows, >y “every wind of. doc trine.” Some men do well enough on a smooth sea, but they are worth nothing in s storm. They are like" the ship whose mast is heavier than its hull, having a constant tendency to turn up-side-down. Such men do not have bal last enough to keep them from tumbling over. They do very well on dreat-parade, but they are of no account i a time of battle. A man who will desert his friends in time of need and danger is worse than no mar. at all. He is less than nothing, if such a thought is conceivable. But for depending on him some better man would have been chosen for his post. Was it right in our Lord's most critical hour for Judas to betray him ? That old b< trayer’s progeny are not all dead y st. Here and there ;we still find a Judas. But the men needed in the work of God are me a who are honest, upright, truthful, steady as the stars, faithful steadfast, unmovable, trail). . :*4' i, knowing that a ju«t man and p holy, and ob bhn; and when he heard him, tmany things, and heard him " Mark 6:20. Belike John, afld £ou Will be repeoted hnd influen tial. . McKinley is Sound on the Mon ey Question. Last week the- Notification Com mittee went to Canton, Ohio, and in formed Major McKinley that the St. Louis National Republican conven tion, had nominated him for Presi dent. It was nothews to him, for he had been notified beforehand by tele grams, newspapers and the neighbors that live in his town. So thoroughly informed was he until he had a lun cheon in ther badk yard under the tent for the committee when they ar rived. McKinley is going to be the next President. His nomination was a victory for the people. He was not an accident or an expediency man taken up on the ancient plea of avail ability, but the logical candidate of the hour and the direct representa tive of the popular will. He is in deed a man of the people, something after the manner of Lincoln in homely simplicity of character, warm-hearted, generous and kind; and by these qualities long ago won the love of the masses. He is a man of ability, cour age and honor, and typical of the best element in the American character. His name is indissolubly connected with the protective policy of the country, which gives him the support of the manufacturer and farmer. Reading his response to the com mittee one can see that there is no uncertainty regarding the kind of a dqllar that he wants. The political enemy tried to throw the country into doubt concerning his financial views. The most astute of newspaper corres pondents, the wariest of politicians and the most brilliant of editors have for weeks laid traps to catch him off his guard and betray him into some utterance indicative of the currency thoughts which were concealed be hind a great expanse of forehead. No Andalusian bull was ever more sorely baited by picadores and banderilleros in the arena as a means Ji inciting him to ferocity than was the Ohio Napoleon, in the expectation of wringing from him some specific dec laration. But every effort, however ingenious, failed to extract the de sired knowledge. The colossal sphinx looking out upon the Egyptian des ert could not have been more uncom municative. All thrusts, no matter how bitter, left McKinley unrespon He is as sound as a gold dollar on the money question; so sound until the Mugwumps, the Democratic press and hll other liars who were quick to call him a straddler on this question are hanging their heads in shame. The deliverances of the Delphic and othef ancient oracles are obscure and incomprehensible compared with the lucidity of McKinley’s profound ob servation. He says he wants a dol lar that is as good all over the world as the dollar of any other nation. This is what all honest people want. Let us use his exact words:—“The American dollar ought to be one that would be current at its full face value ip any and every commercial center of the globe.” This single im pressive epigram, clear to the hum blest citizen and to the greatest finan cier, unanswerable as it is, is enthusi astically applauded by the business men of the country and will cause thousands of Democrats to walk over into the Republican ranks. McKin ley believes in honest money to liqui date honest debts. He will have a sweeping victory in November. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Phillips, Garrison, ler Lyman and her Ward Beecher and In the death of the above remark able woman the Afro-American race has lost one of its best and tried friends. Believing in the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, and that humanity, though it differs features arfd lan _r_ lamily, stirred by other Abolitionists whose teachings she believed were as much right in 1860 as in 1860, she decided to take a hand in helping to destroy this tyr annical slavery which was not only a dark stain on the name of'America, but a gigantic crime of the age. Her father's tout^fg and rousing cermons At “Floeoy look* and dark complexion _ Cannot forfeit nature's claim; Skins may differ, bat affeotlor Dwells in black and white the same.” The enaotmentof the Fugitive Slave Law which oreated intense exoite ment throughout this country, gave her the opportunity to launch upon the Amerioan public that famous book, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin. ’ That book, so full of pathetic narratives of an oppressed race, and later on dra matized and placed on the Btage, soon enlisted the sympathies of England end America, and did more to bring about the abolition of slavery than all the speeches and writing} of the Abolitionists. Mrs. Stowe was the author of several works, but “Uncle Tom’s Cabin'1 will outlive them alt— will live as long as time stands—and the name of Harriet Beech »r Stowe will be held in loving remembrance as long as a son or daugbte:* of Ham walks the streets of earth o: heaven. Read aud Act at Once, it -CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION BY THE WESTERN NORTH CARO LINA CONFERENCE. The committee of arrangements have held the brethren of 'lie West ern North Carolina conference in suspense for some time respecting the great Centennial Celebration that is to be held at Statesville, N. C. This was occasioned from the fact that it wa3 found that the good people of Statesville could not take cire of the people in July according to our first appointment., so we had tc negotiate for another date. They hr.ve agreed to take care of the conference and visitors in September There fore, the Celebration will begin at Statesville, Tuesday, September 15th, and continue until Sunday the 20th. An elaborate program tor the oc casion has been carefully prepared by the committee and they are looking for ward to have the grandestcelebration of any conference in the cofinection. All the pastors: are urged to have their individual church celebrations before that time, i Centennial jmnoh carls already prepared will be furnished each pas tor in the Western North Carolina conference free of charge by which to collect money for the Centennial fund. Let every pastor send to the Publica tion House at Charlotte and Manager Blackwell will forward the cards at once. These cards are fu -nished free only to ministers in this conference by special arrangements. Otherwise they are cent a piece. Each pas tor can also secure one or two pro grams by sending to the Publication House. Let each pastor begin now and see which one can excel. A prize awaits the one reporting and paying the largest amount according to member ship. Do your best to get every mem ber and friend of the A. M. E. Zion church to pay as much ai $1.00. A fine souvenir of James Varick, our first Bishop, will be given each one who pays as much as one dollar. All of which we most respectfully submit. T. II. Lomax, Bishop. G'. L. Blackwell, Ch’m’n, F. H. Noble, (Secretary, M. V. Marabi.e, Treasurer, P. A. McCorkle, Pastor. Personals. Miss Mary A. Lynch, of Salisbury, is Secretary of the W, C.- T1 U. No. 2 of the State of North Carolina, which meets in Salisbury neSt Wednesday, July 16. .1 Rev. G. C. Clemen!., of Second Creek oircuit, is confined to his bed at his home in Mocksville. We wish for him a speedy recovery. Elder Clement is one of oui very bright young men. * * * Just as we go to press we learn that Rev. J. H. Manley, of Pensaco la, the sweet singer in Zion, is hav ing a glorious camp-meeting. Five have been happily converted and thirty are at the altar for prayers. May the Lord prosper the good work. The new Soldiers Memorial Church at Salisbury is practically completed. The new seats and pul pit costing over $850 have been put in and next Sunday, Rev. Collins and his good pepple will enter it with a great shout. They hope to raise $300 on this occasion. This church was. begun by President Gder, ’way back On graduating from the Allston Grammar school in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday June 29, Mi-.s ere and a fine drd^Krer did the work as a favor and oeRdes presented her with a white silk pair of gloves and another lady a white fan and a pair of gold bracelets. Bnt none ex celled the willing hands and hearts of the Skinner family with whom she boarded, whose favors have been un limited. A GREAT INSTITUTION. AH INTERESTING INTERVIEW WITH THE LATE JUDGE DILLARD. Ninety Per Cent, of the Kecly Gradu ates Remain Cured—A Good Work Highly Com mended. [Frpm Webster’s Weekly.] The commencement season is in fnil swing. Our edncational institutions. are closing up the year’s work. Their graduates are preparing for the pros ecution of their studies in higher sohools or will step into the realities of life to test the knowledge that they have acquired. It sounds a little odd to call the closing exercises of a school its "commencement,” but in the sense in which it is used it is very appro priate. The best training that a school can give is but a commencement-^- the laying of the foundation. Tho aim of education is to fit its possessor for the practical duties of life. £Y&e value of education should be gfffi^ed by' this standard. Theory does well enough in its place, but we subscribe heartily to the old axiom that an ounce of fact is Worth a pound of the article we first mentioned. Let us hope that the graduates of all our educational institutions have been taught that education is not the end, but only the means to an end—that end the development of mind, soul and body. It is not in the school room that education is completed, but in the struggle that succeeds it. There is an institution at Greensboro that has almost a perpetual "com mencement.” Its graduates outnumber those of any school in the Stato for the same length of time. Thero is no spouting oratory, no learned essays, no beating of drums at its commence ments. Tho work goes on steadily from week to week, find month to mouth. Without disparaging the work of our schools and colleges, let ns say that there is hardly any com parison between the work they ore do iug and that which is being done by the institution we have referred to. Their material is Entirely different. One has bright, hopeful boys and girls to mould and train. It is a joy to watch the young mind bad and blossom and a privilege to assist its growth. The other, for the greater part, has the victims of a cruel appe tite that has blighted hopo and quenched ambition, to restore to health. One is a work of cultivation and the other a work of healing. But the schools do not do their work any more thoroughly than does the insti tute for the treatment of inebriety. The boys and girls hardly see life in brighter hues when receiving their di plomas than the graduates of the Kee ly Institute as they turn their faces homeward, conscious that their old enemy has no more dominion over them. | It is our good fortune to know many of its graduates. We have witnessed many happy "commencements”—the beginning of life over again. Some of the State’s brightest men, who are im portant factornn advancing the State’s interest along various linos, owe their deliverance from the bondage of drink to Dr. Keeley’s wonderful discovery. Tlmy are lawyers, merchants, farmers, physicians, manufacturers—we will not attempt to enumerate them. Ask them what they think of the work done by the Keeley Institute and you will hear an endorsement that any institution might envy. ! No institution in this State has been more highly endorsed and encouraged by our most Eminent citizens. Such men as Bev. Dr. Yates, Judge Avery,' Maj. JGuthrie, Col. J. S. Carr, Bev. Dr. Carraway, Bev. Egbert Smith, and others are enthusiastic in their commendation of the work and have encouraged parties in need of the treat ment to take it. Tho death of Greens boro’s eminent citizen, Judge John H. Dillard, a few weeks ago, removed one of the Institute’s strongest friends. It always gave him pleasure to com mend the Work. The following inter view that a representative of tho Weekly had with him a littls over three years ago is os true and timely now as when originally published: Q. Do you live in Greensboro? A. Yes, sir. Q. Is there a Keeley Institute there? • A. Yes, sir. Q. Is it liberally patronized? A. It has been very liberally pat ronized. The patronage fell off some j about the time of the election, but it is increasing again. Q. Hare you seen much of the pa tients at the Institute? A. I have, I may say, a great deal. Q. What do you think of the treat ment? A. Scientifically, I know nothing about it, but from what I see and hear I feel assured that it takes away the appetite for liquor—acquired or in herited—and thus puts it in the power of a party to lead a sober life if he will, but with liability and power to cultivate a taste for it again and re lapse into his former habits. If a man has any pride of race or ancestry there is no reason why he should not live sober the balance of his life. 1 Q. Would you advise your friends to patronize the Institnte? ! A. I would most assuredly. Any one makes a serious mistake to let any A. X am deem of oertainty, tion and information ■ay that 90 per oent.' remain aober. Q. Do yon think the ehnrohea and everyone interested in real temperance ought to try to extend ite patronage? with any my observa ild lead me to ite graduates A. I do moit assurAjUv,' Mr. Web in li ■ter, sinoe in my opinion liquor ia the greatest enemy of mankind. Q. Is the institution safe hands? A. I think so. ItsPresident, Col. Osborne strikes me as .being a gentle man of real character and refinement the physician in charge in fully the equal of the occasion, And so far as I know, meets all the requirements of the Institute. Q. What do you think of its manage ment, etc? A. Sofar as I know or have heard, it is clean and first-class in every re spect, and its reputation has never been touched by the breath of Bcnndal. Judge Dillard formed his opinion of the merits of the Institute from perso nal investigation. Ail will concede that he never jumped at conclusions. His rule was to go slow, to debate a matter thoroughly in bis mind before putting himself on record. He was intensely practical and conld not be carried away .by sentiment. This is the test that the institute invites, The Keely Institute at Greensboro has been in successful operation since the 20th day of Ootober, 1891, daring which time it has received and treated a large number of patients for the, liquor, opium and tobacco habrts, and also quite a number have been treated by it for nervous exhaustion amount ing altogether to more than 1,600 per sons. Considerable money has been spent in refitting the building, and the general equipment of the Institute is now the best it has ever been. The old management continues and is likely to do so indefinitely, for it can not be improved upon. The record of cures is about 90 per cent, of the whole number treated, we think. As Eev. Egbert Smith has well said, one chanco oat of ten wonld be worth taking, bnt the Institute gives nine oat of ten. Sick people have invested hundreds of dollars in patent medicines that never effected a permanent care, yet some are disposed to grbwl because an occa sional Keeloy graduate goes back to his cups. It cannot_be_ repeated too often that the Institute cures all "craving for liquor, either hereditary or acquired, bnt it does not profess to work mira cles. AH that Dr. Keelly guarantees to do is to pnt the victim back where he started, with his system clear of the poison. If he chooses to cultivate the habit again, he does it at hisown peril. We say without hesitation that anyone addicted to the liquor or morphine habits can be cared permanently at the Institute if they want to. And wo would advise all such to take the treat ment without delay. Resolutions of the Ministers Union of * Washington, I). C. The undersigned have read with the greatest admiration and with sincerest gratitude the dissentient judgment of the Hon. Judge Harlan, in the ease before the Supreme Court of the ‘Separate Car-System for'Colo red persons,” by the Legislature of Louisiana. We recognize at once the impro priety of our approach to the inem bers of this august tribunal with ani madversions upon their judicial acts. At the same time we trust, that we in, no wise trench upon ‘‘the proprieties” in expressing our deep convictions concerning their decisions; especially when those decisions seem a violation of right, of justice and Christian equi ty: and First of all we feel it a duty to pro test against both the Louisiana statute and the sanction of it by the Supreme Court; (1) as an injustice; (2) as a violation of personal rights; (3) as a thrust at the legal equality guaran teed by tbe Declaration of Indepen 1 ence and the 15th Amendment. Second: we deprecate this judgment of the Supreme Court because it is the sanction, by the highest tribunal of the nation, of a stigma, of an igno miny; of a purposed degradation; of an act of contempt upon millions of unoffending citizens, but, above all, because it is a gross assault upon tbe spirit and tbe letter of that divine law of Holy Scripture—the common law of moral being—in this land, which forbids contempt, or injury, or despite, or offences against the lowly and the poor. •Third: While we deplore this in sistence of inhuman caste, by a great court, in this Christian land, we repose in confident assurance upon that Snpernal law whose “seat is in the bosom of God,” to bring this wrong to ultimate failure. We are just as sure that this caste can no more stand in this nation than that its hateful prototype in pagan Iudia can stand. We are certain that, while indeed it is injurious to the black race in Louisiana and through out the Republic, its mostly deadly influence will fall upon its unjust promoters. For it is the immutable law of Providence, that no people can purposely injure others, without do ing terrible and deadly wrong to MANAGER’S COLUMN. btiman rights an almost identical with impartial justice. We congratulate ourselves, think the whole nation has ongratulation, for the lofty effort of this eminent^Jiistfce up human law io the plaia> Divine; to carry the current of cal ly legislation into the grooves of i nal right, and td bring the justice man into the fulhst accord with.ti everlasting justice which springs the throne of God. We regret the retrain is bid our personal appM Hon. Judge Harlan, and which vent our presenting him our ferret congratulations I and our \v;m thanks. Alex. Crvmmei.l, Cb’m’nJ * Fra if cis J. Grimke, Sterling H. Brown, H. S. W. Doyle, Sec., Committee in behalf of the "Colorecl Ministers’ Unioii,” Washington, D. WRONG SIDE OUTWARD.' * This old puerile expression, better remembered as “ ’rongside out’ards,” is not without meaning very oftqn; indeed, it is very significent when plied to what I had-iQ say last wcjj in this column under the caption "A Little Private Talk.” Since last issue reached the subscribers sev^ eral brethren have written and ex pressed tq me their astonish ment at the present condition of af-' fairs respecting our publication inter ests. It is pet haps timely for me to say I have not turned the wroug side out?, but knowing the pecuniary em barrassment that will in a short while strike the STAR of Zion and other pe riodicals, I thought it best to^efc' church know how things 8**ed wl they were handed over to me. I iun not trying to put the blame cn any one for this condition of affairs, but certainly if suspension takes place it will not be the fault of the present manager. During the month of June, I man aged’. to pay, our printers in New York $200.00 on the $852 ; $15, on old indebtedness on the Star, and $180.00 for help in, the printing; of fice. Up to date there is not one/ penny due on current expenses. But the bulk of this money came out the Sunday-school department, aiJ since the rush for literature for tT present quarter is over there will b^ dearth of money, and then what aha do form the latter part of Julyuntil i middle of September? To be able to stem the tide creditably let me ask each pastor to endeavor to send in his subscription up to the sitting of his conference, if he has not done so, and in addition thereto to get up a club of ten at $1.00 each and so help the Star. I thank Rev. II. W. Smith, Dr. J. H. Manley, and the New England, New York, Philadelphia and Bal timore, Ohio and the Central and Western Ne# York Conferences for subscriptions and donations. E li- ’ tor Smith did well at his conference —the Philadelphia anti Baltimore. Also my thanks are due to Rev. F. H. Hill, of New England, Rev. E. Geo. Biddle, of NewYork, assisted by Eld er J. S. Caldwell; Bishop Walters and j others at the Central and Western ! New York, and Rev. T. II. Tipton, of Ohio, for Special efforts put forth for the Star. These brethren ^lso in form me that the Bishops of the re spective conferences were equally as interested and saw that every min ister who expected an appointment subscribed for the Star. I would not dread the, future so much were it not for “these bonds” (mortgages and other deb: s),and if th| general church wants me to establis its Publication House firmly an] present it faultless before-the bar the next General Conference, then t^ department will expect every man do his duty. Please send all subscription mon^ all donations, all money for sale paper. Quarterly Review, and money for advertisements, for notic for special mention of individual ] ters and s.ll money for ev< you wish from the Publication to the General Manager. No Review will be sent until comes into the bauds Nothing but strict bu make these perk
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