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AR OF ZION. REV. J.W. SMITH, D, D.% Editor. REV. G. L. BLACKWELL, A. M., D. D., Business Manager. Published every Thursday at Charlotte, N. C., ms. College HI. Entered at the Post Office at Charlotte as sec ond-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES: $1.00 per annum; six months, 60 cents; no three month’s subscrip tion. TO CORRESPONDENTS: To insure publica tion write with in* and extra carefulness on one side of the sheet only; do not abbreviate; avoid personalities; deal with live questions and give us items of church and race news; condense, so as to occupy a: column or a half column : do not, if tottibie, exceed 660 words. When writing about re vivals, anniversaries, dedications, donations, mar riages, receptions, death of church members, Easter or Children’s Day, and the like, write on postal cards. If you write long-winded articles, the Edi tor will “boil them down." Sind all articles for publication to the Editor; send all subscriptions; all changes and all business matter to the Manager. r STAFF CORRESPONDENTS. Mrs Bishop 0. O. Pettey, Editor ot Woman’s Column. Bev. G.W. Offley, D.D., Bev. E. G. Biddle, B. D., Bev. J. H. Anderson, Bev. J. E. Mason. D. D., Bev. W. H. Marshall, Bev. W. A. Blackwell, Bev.G.S. Adams,DD, Bev. E. D. W. Jones, A. B., Bev. E. H. Hill, Prof. B. A. Johnson, A. M., Bev. J. H. McMullen, Bev. T. A. Weathlngton, Prof.E.L. 1’hornton,A.M.,Rev.J .H. Manley, D.D., Prof.D.W.Parker,A.B., Bev. J.A.D.Blolce, A.M., Prof. W.F.Eonvellle, A.B, Bev. O. W. Winfield, D.D. H.O.Weeden,Esq., Prof. W.M.Provlnder,A.B. Rev. H. W. Smith, Bev. D. C. Covington. Thursday, March 25,1897. EDITORIAL. Ministers from far and near will attend the Bishop’s Meeting next week in Charlotte, N. 0. There will be big times. Editor Dancy delivered a bril liant address on “The Young Man as a Religious Influence” to the men’s meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at 4 p. m., last Sabbath in Washington, D. C. It IS foolishness for Corbett to be crying himself sick because Fitzsim mons won’t agree to give him the heart-ache again. Rev. Eddie Jones, of Louisville, Ky., will meet him. He is in that gentleman’s class. He is doing some tall fighting these days— with his mouth. Two pointed , articles, one from Rev. E, Geo. Biddle, B. D., the other from Rev. G. S. Adamp, D. D., crowded out this week, will appear later, as will several other communi cations of much importance. Breth ren, he patient; we shall give all a hearing. Bishop Hood’s appeal in this is sue, which will do good, rings Qut like the blast of a bugle at midnight The Bishop proposes to raise the en _ lire-assessment levied on his District by the General Conference and lead the other eight episcopal districts. He has thrown down the gauntlet and dares any one or all the bishops to take it up. Bishop Small, Biishop Walters, Revs. Biddle, Hill, Hazel, Adams, Jones, Strother, W. A. Blackwell, Profs. Fonvielle and Crockett and the Editor have been under the fire since General, Conference. Rev. J. J. Adams is catching it now. Boys, you must be careful how you talk these days, and you must go through Zion with a cat-like tread. The woods are . full of fellows with guns. V 1 ‘it Editor G'. L. Blackwell, of the Sundays-chool Department, has ar ranged an excellent Easter program for the Sabbath-schools. Each school will receive five copies free ; after that it will be a cent a copy. Let the schools send for them immediate ly and get to practicing. According to law every Sunday-school is to lift a collection on Easter for this Depart ment. Let the law be observed that day and $1,000 will be raised easily. Dr. Rives, of Newbern, N. C., writes that Rev. R. Alpnzo Scott, who recently had over 520 converts in lees than two weeks in Fayetteville, N. C., has stirred his city from center to circumference. Hundreds of persons have been and are being truly con verted to God. Our great church there can’t begin to hold the crowds of white agd black people who rush there nightly to hear him preach and ping. A revival wave is sweeping with such force over the city until Dr. Rives say he doesn’t know where it will. stop. Elder Scott is the Moody and Sankey of our race. The fearless E. Geo. Biddle is still getting it “in the neck.” We do not believe that friend Snowden could get a committee who would be willing to expel Brother Biddle from Zion linless he apologized for the views he expressed. Men of charac ter and intelligence, like Elder Bid dle, while having the courage of their convictions, will always revere the bishops. Public opinion, which is powerful, would be against us in this country' if a committee should even summon Brother Biddle to trial. It will not do any harm to discuss re spectfully, for healthy discussion is always beneficial. k ... ondej why the Star has the name of the General Secretary of the Church Extension and Missionary So< ieties of the A. M. E. Zion Church fro n the roll of general officers f Will yoi please explain, gentleman? See?” — The Missionary Herald. ] )r. Warner, we have not_dropped you name. The Manager desir ing to advertise the books in his De paitment has dropped for a few wei iks the Official Directory and Con fer tnce Roll. We are with you for rec >gnition; and it will be a disgrace if something isn’t done at the Bish op’ i Meeting next week to start you out on your mission. ' 1 Lev. John Riley, of Shirley, Ind., belonging to the denomination of Fri mds, and who has devoted years of £ tudy to a solution of astronomical caL ulations, created consternation Iasi Friday in Indiana by predicting the dissolution of the world in 1898. Th< members of his . denomination are sha ping their worldly affairs for the fins 1 leave-taking. Now is the time to uubscribe for the Stab of Zion. We shall send Rev. Ed. Jones out to wri;e a full account of the great eve it. and will run a supplement wit! l the Star having pictures of the stais falling, moon in blood, sun in dar mess, Beas giving up their dead, mountains skipping like lambs, etc. “’Yhoa, wee! Who was that that flun i that lost brick at Brer Ed. Jones, Louisville, Ky? We thought Jones won Id keep on running his mouth until he t rould hurt himself. Old Smith is a dan ly, and you can depend on him tak ing care of Zion’s interest.”—Birming ham (Ala.) Missionary Herald. Yes, it is the general opinion that “Brer Ed.” has too much mouth or gan ; and" our warming his jacket mee ts with general approbation throughout Zion. We can stand some slurs and toomfoolery; but when a man comes at us like he is, shoulder-shotten and has the blind staggers, with a view to injuring us, we ‘reach” for him. Men of back bon i who have suffered to make Zion whs t she is to-day will not submit to be trampled upon by youthful dicta tors who just joined the conference the other day. A Precocious Youth. Eddie Jones, after racking his small brains to find language low and sne< ring enough to express his wrath, unlimbers his chin in this issue and attacks us again in language full of putrid scurrility, debauched ruffian ism, rancorous jealousy, miserable pettiness and sinister viciousness. The hot shot that we poured into him the ether day for his uncalled-for as sault upon us, has so confused and ratt ed him until he is now acting on the old lawyer’s advice to the you lg lawyer: “When you have a bad case, abuse the opposing attor ney,” Jd is character oi article—personal and of the low comedy order—is not the kind that we usually allow in thess columns; and if it was a reply to a iy one else, we would throw it in the waste basket; indeed, if we had taken the advice of our friends here it would have gone there anyhow. We have cut out of it three or four insulting falsehoods steeped in mal ice. We did it for Mr. Jones’ own gooc ; for had we printed them we wou d have replied to him in a way that would have knocked him harder and higher than Fitzsimmons knocked Corl ett last week. It is well known that we did not attack Eddie first. We were discussing the new financial plan ; and instead of him answering us aB respectfully as Bishops Hood, Clinton and Small did, he jumped in to bully-rag, lecture and denounce us. We have no enmity in our heart against him. We like him, and will still be his friend if he will continue to n erit our respect. We just sim ply want to let Mr. J6nes know that whe i he makes a savage attack upon us ve will take the twist of his long coat tail. We do not care to take ad vantage of our position to use so pow erful an engine as the Star against him; and we will not, unless he mak es another dishonest attack upon us. If he does, after being fore warned, we will take the Star and crusi him. If he has any friends they had better take him aside now. Even a turtle knows it is wisdom to let go when it thunders. It is better to be a “joking relig ious editor” than a lying, hypocriti cal correspondent. As to whether the 1 Ihurch is pleased with us as edi tor, any one in Zion who is not a hide -bound, skin-flint dummy can an swei readily. We are not responsi ble J or his ignorance of the fact. We don’t propose to edit the Star and read it to him. The cogibundity of som< i men’s cogitations is as dense as the ' iimmerian darkness which once enveloped the waste places of this mundane sphere. ^Since Eddie has accused us of tampering with' his ar s' the one this week set up exactly as it iB written ; not to correct the following words which he misspelled: "canvas, travel, deity, judgment, road, sancti ty, reckless.” Many of his sentences are ungrammatical, badly punctuated and poorly constructed; and he uses “effecting” instead of "affect ing." We call attention -to these things because he has set himself up as a "high, classical critic" to reflect upon us as an editor. Now look at the clumsy heading of his article on the third page without our'assistance, and then at the elegant headings on the first page of the paper with our assistance, and judge who has a better knowledge of newspaper work. We did not beg but 'defied” him to tell how much general fund he raised his last year at our big church in Knoxville, Tenn. He has not told. Ahem! We know. He knows we know. He got his full salary and presents while there and $35 over. He took pains not to answer our oth er questions. He says we are an enemy to Livingstone College. We are such an enemy until we have per suaded scholars to go there and have; a brother-in-law fhere now. The fi nancial college books will show that we have every year since the enact ment of the Children’s Day law raised Children’s Day money for it; from $20 to $26 and more a year. We did this because we were in har mony with Prof. Fonvielle who sang “Long may she live.” Although he loves the college intensely, got some education there, is one of its trastees, and would walk through blood up to his chin to defend his "Alma Mater,” the same books will show that in all the circuits he has been riding and big churches he has been pas^oring, he hasn’t raised one cent of Children’s Day money for it. Some of the pro fessors at the College told us that when he had the opportunity to raise this money, he would not do so, be cause he had some bad feelings for the College ; and they said that now he could not raise said money for the college because he is in another edu cational district. Eddie ought to have got right up behind Prof. Fon vielle and sung “Soon may she die.” Lord, save our College from such lovers and defenders. Eddie says had we been made to ride circuits like he did. Why, young man, we couldn’t ride, because we had no mule, horse nor ox; |nor a train to run from the school to these circuits. We had to walk to our cir cuits. We suppose he thinks riding in a car is more tiresome than walk ing through mud and snow. Breth ren, don’t laugh, please. This walk ing and riding is too serious to laugh over. Eddie says we “worked, wrote, promised and hankered” after the Stae. Did he not do the same thing to get to Jacob-st. Tabernacle? We now make this announcement, and challenge a truthful contradiction that there was no “godly judgment" in his appointment to that church. He told a special friend of his that he wanted to make a reputation, and that he would like to begin it in Louisville at that church. His friend went to work in bis behalf among the officiary atfd members and made an impression: The bishop was then notified that he was wanted there. He was sent. He “worked, wrote, promised and hankered” after it; and h? got there with both feet. Now he has his lovely black eyes turned towards the Metropolitan church in St. Louis; Pittsburg, Philadelphia and New York. Although he has never built a coal-bin or wood-shed for the Church to put wood and coal in, yet by the time he gets around he thinks if will be 1904, the time that he is telling the ministers he desires to be elected a bishop. The secret of Eddie’s fight against us is he is afraid we might before him get the office once so ably filled by his papa. Eddie will never vote for us to be bishop. What a pity I We may never be a bishop, but we are a candidate for it all the same. We have been a candidate ever since we got religion, joined Ihe church and waB licensed to be an exhorter. We don’t see anything wrong with the office; and we are not going along with a hung-down head and a sol emn-look; nor are we going to shove a stove-pipe heaver on our head nor make our broad-clo th coat tail any longer to impress brethren to vote for us. It will probably benefit Eddie to open his Bible and read about Ha man and Mordecai. Although haughty Haman felt it to-be a great honor to be invited by Queen Esther to the feast, especially sinare no other man at the time was invited to keep the king’s company, ye» he became almost crazy with angfnr when lie him.” Esthei until lie retui presence of h a murderous lieart full of anger and envy, lie toll his “tale of woe,” boasted about wbat he bad done for the people, ubout his money and property, of liOw the king had pro moted and tile queen had honored him, and thon yelled out that he found no pleasure in them as long as Mordecai had a place in the king's gate and remiiined unhanged. “ Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecci, the Jew, sitting at the king's gati.” Esther 5:13. His wife and friends advised him to build a gallows fifty cubits high on which to hang Mordiscai next day. All Bi ble readers know the rest. They know that Mordecai was promoted by the king instead of hanged ; and that Haman was 1he first rascal to hang on his own gallows. Eddie* don’t act like Haman. Your time may come if you will drop your conceit, work hard for Zion, pray much, live close to the Lord, and don’t try to kill off your brother ministers to get their places. After having spent sixteen years in the itinerancy, work ing hard for the up-building of a de nomination in which we were born, we do not pro pose to be killed off by a snorty-nose young boy who has scarcely done anything for Zion. There is an arrangement between the two Editors and the Manager rel ative to visiting the conferences and soliciting subscriptions; and we re port and turn over every cent of sub scriptions to the Manager. The other statements of Eddie’s articles, which we do not care to answer, are as false as this. The columns of the Stab, what time we are editor, will always be open to bin to discuss questions; but not to further attack us nor any one else. When we think of his great love(?) for'ancl noble defense of our bishops and College now, and of it in the past, we slake our head and think of deceitful J oab who came up and stabbed Amatsa under the fifth rib while he smlingly inquired: "Art thou in healtl, my brother ? ” This discussion between us will now close with a Bong ontitlecT “Blest be the tie that binds’ by the College quar tette, Revs. A. A. Crooke, J. S. Cald well, W. H. Davenport and G. S. Adams ; with accompaniment on the organ by Prcf. W.„ F. Fonvielle to tbe tune of “K entucky." Estis to Quidam Amicus ad Zion ? ZION MIGHTY TIRED FEEDING FEL LOWS LIKE ADAMS. BY REV. WM. SUTTON. In the issue of the Star of Febru ary 25th, I roticed an article writ ten by Bev. J. J. Adams, headed ‘.‘Is not this true, etc ? ” I simply want to say to him, and to all concerned, that such art:cles do not help but harm our Church. Brother Adams, do you think that you are helping your Church bp indicting and bring ing her to the public ? You were at our last General Con ference. Why didn’t you say your little wee speech there? Why wait until now? You are sowing discord, brother. You know that it will be three years before our General Con ference will meet again. You know that the general public does not make laws for our Church. Then why go to the public ? I can’t see unless it is to arouse public sentiment against our beloved Zion. What are you after? Are you try ing to get up a spirit of rebellion among our members? I don’t be lieve that the laity of our Church would have said a word had you kept your tongue. They know that our General Conference only meets once in four years. Every rebellion that breaks out in our Church iB led by some preacher that failed to get all of his demands.. If you do not like the Methodist rule you ought to get out. The Presiding Eldership is in our Church to stay. Do you hear? Can you stop a storm with a fan? No! Neither can you changg the Presiding Eldership sys;em in our Church. Brother, you started to say one thing and ended by saying something else. The goes must have changed or confused your mind. You said that you agreed with the Editor, etc. Do not try to put our Editor in a had light. Dr. Smith did not say a word againjut the Pre siding Eldership or system in his edi torial on Our New Financial Plan. You do not agree. See? You said that the new fi lancial plan was good. The Editor does not think eo. You do not agree with him. See? Yon say that you are no coward. Bbt ua see. You wero at Mobile, and a del egate at that. Did yon say any one Presiding Elder ship in that conference? No. You preferred coming back home to teaoh / You say that the future of our gov ernment and expense is being strong ly discussed by the laity of the Church iq our local church meetings. Yes, I reckon so. Just as would be expected wher they have selfish and rebellious men as pastors to lead* and do the courting for them. Do you see? Come oat from behind that curtain, Mr. Peep-Eye. We see you. You said that the Presiding Eld ers were getting nearly $50,000 an nually. I doi bt you. Tell us where you got your figures. Do you know what my salary is? If so, please toll Do you know how mnch of it is paid to me?' Tell, if thou canst. If ye will not make known unto me the salary promise I, and the amount col. lected thereof, ye shall be counted ignorant as to the truth of those fig ures relative to what the Presiding Elders are getting annually. Now, sir, if we were getting $100,000 an nually, you don’t pay one cent of it. Then why go {.round with the belly ache? We are getting mighty tired feeding men i a our Church who do nothing in God’s world but go around land sow discord. Why do you not name the man who gets his money by extortion anc intimidation? You can’t find him on this side of Jove. You are a smart fellow, as supple as a cat or squirr sL You put saliva in all of our faces and then come around with sugar-coated pills. From the ring of the closing re marks of your letter you have some comrades. Please trot them out. We are very anxioas to learn something about this restlessness of which you speak. Sow leng have you been in Zion ? If you want all the money collected in yo ir church you had bet ter leave Zion. If you want me to, I can tell you where to go. It is these disloyal ministers who are failing to collect general fund. Our men are glad to see the Presiding Elder come down this way. You are trying to make the public believe that our bishops and presiding elders are rid ing over this esuntry in palace cars. This you know to be deception of the deepest dye. Est hie vos, Adams ? You can ride c n a palace car if you want to. Our Presiding Elders are too poor to rids on palace cars down here: Our men are speakitig out down here. They are loyal; they do not go to the General Conference and help make law? and then come back and teach our people to rebel against them. One spark can kindle a great fire, but who < an put it out ? If I were the Presiding Elder of the Pe tersburg District I would make Pe tersburg my headquarters. I am reading, as you. see, between the lines. You can read between my lines. Dico norine eros Zior’s amicus f Dear Dr. Smith : Please let this oome out just ss it is. Henderson, E. C. Bishop Hood’s Appeal. To the Presiding Elders and Ministers in charge of Ci lurches in the Central North Carolina Conference: Tour at tention is hereby called to the fact that in order to meet the assessment of the First Episcopal District, for the year ending June 1, 1897, it will be necessary to raise $600, which is the balance due from this conference. We have pledged the amount and you must redeem the pledge. The Steward informs me that several have made no report to him since conference. I i.eed not mention names; you know; and I can easily find out who is delinquent. Let every mango to work and make a good report on or' before the 1st W idnesday inJMay.so that the conference steward can report to the General Si.eward on the second Wednesday. Let each minister do the best he can, especially those who have done nothing. An average of $10 each will meet the demand. I may also remind the ministers in the New York and New England Confer ences that each will be expected to re port in full on the first day of the con ference, so that the money can reach the General Steward before the'3rd Wednes day in May. Let us meet our demand within the timo allowed for the first year’s report. Yours in gospel bonds, J. W. Hood, Presiding Bishop. He Sliuold Have It, Judge Albior W. -Tourgee is a can didate for Consul at Manchester, England. If e rer, not since the days of Lincoln, Sumner, Phillips, has the Negro had a more staunch friend than Judge Tt urgee; and it would be nothing less than paying an act of gratitude for him to receive from the Colored Press such endorsement as Mr. Fortune suggests. He has spent money, time an 1 talent, suffered os tracism and the like just for the stand taken in behalf of the poor and unfortunate. He it was who car ried \ try tl car r espec forgo Let dorse lent. > the highest court in this coun e fight against the Jim Crow stem. North Carolina papers ally should give such endorse for the Judge will not soon be ;en for his work in this “State, one and all give him our en J. P. Blackwell, The talking and writing men of Bethel are showing considerable ex citement over a publication of the American Economic Society, 66 Fifth Ave., New York City. The particu lar book is called, “ Race Traits and Tendencies of The American Negro.” This book contains seven chapters, six of which are given to a statistical and scientific discussion of population, vital statistics, anthropometry, race amalgamation, social conditions and tendencies and economic conditions and tendencies. The seventh chapter contains the author’s conclusions. Like each of the seventeen others who have written books on the Negro during the past two years, Mr. Hoff man concludes that the upward or downward course of mankind is fixed by race and heredity, and that the natural tendencies of the Negro are downward. The very existence of Bethel and Zion is a materialized protestation against the acceptance of any such conclusion upon merely the oretic grounds. Allen and Varick believed that the condition of the Negro was due to conditions of environment, and that the race was susceptible to the same forces that have elevated the whites. More than a century ago they started out to put the question to the test of actual ex periment. Bethel and Zion make it impossible for the world to accept any conclusion based on mere theory. Until the experiment being tried by these great bodies has failed, no truly scientific mind can come to a fixed opinion. The Negro must be subjected to the forces of religion, education, eco nomics and society before it can be said that he is not responsive to the influence of higher civilization. The Church brings home to the people vital truths concerning the personal, social and religious life. It directs its efforts to the basic condition of all progress, individual character. It is true that between the days of Allen and Varick and the present time there has been a lapse. What these noble men began has not been carried out ful ly/but there is now an awakening. Price Washington and Council have spoken, and their words live. Derrick, Grant, Pettey, Clinton lead on the host. Smith at the Stab and Johnpon at the Recorder are each wide-awake. The Stab is emancipated from the tram mels of narrow traditions, and the Recorder is fastbecoming free. Men of modern ideas are coming to the front in the pastorate, and the laity, the forces that make for progress, are being un chained. Another century will either find the Negro in complete harmony with American civilization, or else find him in a fixed condition of hope less inferiority. We must either t nter into American life and put our capa bility to respond to its influence to the test or else submit to our fate without making an effort to rise. The old-time religion is all right, but the old-time notions of religion are worn out. Well-poised men will not con temn Hoffman’s book, but will simply combat its conclusions by the stronger argument of demonstration. Hoff man’s opinion is the opinion of the world; and will be until we have actually demonstrated its error. If Dancy and young Arnett receive from President McKinley the recog nition due Bethel and Zion, hundreds of young men will come to see the influence of the Churches and will become more susceptible to control The highest recognition paid to the race should come to the representa tives of Bethel and Zion. We do not ask recognition because we are polit ical organizations, but we ask it be cause we are not political organiza tions. We must forge our way to places of influence and prominence and force the selfish leaders to submit to our control. The class of men who laugh the Church to scorn and yet fatten off of our people must be brought to their senses. It only requires a little diplomacy for as to be able to act together. Federal recognition is im portant to the Church to the extent that it will give us influence over the able and active young men who to day think they can get on without the Church. We need them and we must force them to us. The same policy should control us in all rela tions of life. We must, be aggressive. We must, for the sake of the race, we must control. No Negro should be able to defy the Church, scorn relig ion and traduce our efforts and yet succeed as a representative of the race. To permit Buch men to triumph over us is to confess weakness. Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Warren Howze and Miaa Lu jinda Hicklin were married February 21,1897, Eev. R. T. Tarry, officiat ing, The groom ia 90, the bride 60 rears of age. ■ >T' JLT PUT. BUT WORTH SHADING ALL THE SAKE. BY W. F. FONVIELLE. “ So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err,” “A spark is hut a molecule of mat t,»r, yet it may kindle the world.” ***** The critic who does not take t time to verify the accuracy'x>f quotations, bears considerable watch ing. ***** The Rev. Gregory Lincoln Black well, Artium Magister, Diviniiatis Doctor, Editor, Manager, etc., keeps smilingly quiet; but manages to saw wood at a pretty lively rate. There are some English sentences that would be beautiful did not their own weight cause them to fall to pieces. ****■•* Bishop Pettey never sat with gavel in hand and declared that any com parisons could be instituted between the memberships of Jno. 0. Dancy a ad Frederick Douglass. It were a screaming farce so to do. The Church is crowded, just as the world is, with “ humble” people. It is well, however, to not lose sight of the fact that Uriah Heap was humble —a very “ humble” character. His mother was “ humble,” likewise was bis father a very “ humble” personage and the whole Heap family. * * < * Had not Martin Luther stood for a principle, and contended singly and alone for a long time, there would have been no reformation. Had there been no John Wesley to stand out from the crowd, and advocate a new creed, there might have been no Meth odist Church. * jfc * * * While I cannot bring myself around to believe that Frederick Douglass was a Zion Methodist, I can truth fully say that I love my fellowman as I would that he should love me— a statement which some of the de fenders of Douglass cannot truthfully m ake. To hear some of them talk, one would believe that only a few young men, void of “common sense,” hold to the view that I do. But what are the facts? The Church is greatly divided 011 the question, from the very Bishops on the bench to my crowd, which likes “to show off.” If an aye and nay vote were taken, it would be a eight tc gaze upon the crowd on the shady side of the street. ***** The ’young men in the Church who are all the time “fighting and trying to disparage” somebody are simply following in the wake of their leaders in the Church. Pray, how many Gen eral Conferences have some of these leaders, that they did not “fight and try to disparage somebody?” Now they turn and spurn their own teach ing. * * * * * Some people refuse to be hero-wor shippers, fawners and bootlickers. It used to look real nice to some folks; but the nearer we approach the end of the glorious 19th century, the fur ther we get from these degrading things. It is written, “ Thou shalt ha ve no other gods before me.” ***** Every hour some victory is achieved, and at the close of each day’s labor the Christian religion has come nearer encircling the globe. ***** Sneers and flings have never been detrimental to a man who had God and the right with him. “Truth crushed to earth will rise again,” and “ The mills of the gods grind slow, but grind exceeding fine,” are two quotations which fit in beautifully here. < The for job If for it.. There * * Rev. Ral Metropolitan hau conducted a 12 day’s meeting in Dr. Rives’ church with great success. The audiences have been something immense, and the work done has been no ;hing less. Mr. Scott is, in many respects, a remarkable man. He pr<saohes, sings, composes and plays, and seelnB to possess all of the require ments needed in his peculiar work. It might he remarked in passing, however, that he modestly disclaims knowing some and some, more
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