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S K A ft y-V in - IP nOrt FORTY-NINTH YEAR. ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. NUMBER 51. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1904. Raleigh Christian Advocate. ORGAN OF THE North Carolina Conference, M. E. Church, South. Published Weekly at No. 106 W. Martin Street. THOnAS N. IVEY, Editor. Subscription Rates. One year, 81.50; six months, 75 cents. Preachers of the North Carolina Conference who act as agents receive the paper free of charge. All other preachers, and widows of preachers, 81.00 a year. Business. Watch the label. It shows the date up to which the subscription has been paid. Change in label serves as a receipt. Regular receipt will be sent when re quested. When the address Is ordered changed, both old and new address must be given. Address all letters, and make all checks and money orders payable, to the Raleigh Advocate Co. Manuscripts. All matter for publication to be returned to the writer must be accompanied by proper postage. Matter for the Editor and matter for the printer must not be on the same sheet. Obituaries must not contain over 150 words, nor contain poetry. One cent a word will be charged for all obituary matter over 150 words. Advertising. The Raleigh Christian Advocate is a tine advertising medium. Rates will be promptly furnished on application. THE WORLD AS WE SEE IT ii'lidge Cook decided at the Durham County Su perior Court that only in four counties of the State can the place of the delivery of whiskey be accounted the place of sale. This decision, of course, highly pleased the anti-temperance people, who know that as long as the jug traffic can be carried on, no temperance law can be wholly ef fective. "Last week at the Wake Superior Court, Judge Brown decided that the law which, accord ing to Judge Cook, applies only to four counties of the State, applies to the whole State. This, of course, brings joy to the temperance forces. But the end is not yet. The Supreme Court must pass on the matter. The decision of the Supreme Court will be awaited with keen and al most painful interest. When we have an effective anti-jug law we will have the instrument with which to rout the last regiment of the enemy. On last Tuesday night we sat in the Hall of Representatives in the Capitol at Raleigh. Above the speaker's desk were fastened the banners of the Lost Cause. One was battle-torn and age stained. The band played the old tunes which forty years ago thrilled the hearts of Southern people, whether watching by lonely hearthstones or engaging in the tumult of battle. Captain Samuel A. Ashe limned on the mental canvas of his audience the outlines of that great Chieftain, General Robert Edward Lee, whose birthday was being observed all over the South. The battle-' flags, the Confederate veterans present, the music, the pathetic periods of the gifted speaker, the hymn sung and the poem rendered so touchingly by Mrs. F. A. Olds, made us sad. But our deepest sadness wa3 caused by the reflection that the audi ence was so small. Pit and gallery should have been crowded with the men and women of the capital city desirous of showing annual respect to the great chieftain of the South. We cannot afford to allow the temple in which his memory is enshrined to become dusty and deserted. The finest test of individual or nation is the remembrance of its dead. Sheriff Page, of Wake County, is represented as saying that he is the man who first proclaimed the fact that people are slower to pay their taxes in prosperous years than in bad ones. This popular sheriff is only making public a principle in civic affairs which has been recognized in ec clesiastical affairs ever since there arose that "murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews" the time when people began to pay church "quarterage," as it is called in Methodist nomen clature. Ever since the days of boyhood we have heard preachers say that the hardest years mean the best collections. The explanation given by Sheriff Page is the right one. "In the hard years people are very particular to pay first the debts which they are morally and legally bound to pay systematically. But in plenteous years they feel that they have the money to pay when they please, and arc in no hurry about it, as they will have no trouble in paying." There may be much or little truth in the oft repeated proclamations of Mr. Bryan's political invalidism, but one fact is certain: the Ne braskan's purpose to have his own way in tonguing and grooving the planks in the platform of his party is strong and lusty. His late Europe an trip seems to have cleared from his mind any cobwebs of indecision that may have gathered in the corners during the nearly four years of his editorial experience, for he came back to deliver a few days ago at Lincoln, Nebraska, a banquet speech in which he clearly outlined his purpose to adhere strictly to the principles of 1896 and j!)00, and frown upon all those who do not agree with him. Mr. Bryan is at least consistent. But some types of consistency are not always excellent if wo may believe in the doctrine of Mr. Emerson, who, when he had advanced a certain opinion, and was told that this opinion contradicted the one he had advanced a few days before, replied: "Cer tainly; three days have elapsed since then." Mr. Bryan evidently does not believe in this kind of consistency. We undertake, as a layman, to say that his part in the great drama to be played be fore the Ides of November will be picturesquely and intensely dramatic. Rev. II. K. Carroll, LL D., was in charge of the Government Census of Churches in 1890. Since that time he has compiled annually the sta tistics of the religious bodies in the United States. He is a statistical exnert and the figures given by him may be regarded as reliable. The net gain of all denominations in 1903, ac cording to Dr. Carroll, were 2,340 ministers, 2, 647 churches, and 482,459 communicants. The net gain in membership for 1902 was greater by 72,955 than that of 1903. This is perhaps explain ed by the fact the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 reported abnormal gains. The net gain in ministers and churche for 1903, was greater than that of 1902. The Roman Catholic Church stands first in gain in membership 166,010. It must be re membered that the Roman Catholic Church counts all baptized persons, whether adults or infants. The African Methodist Episcopal Church stands next 56,646. The Southern Baptist Church comes next with a gain of 40,000. The Disciples of Christ stand next 28,421. The Methodist Episcopal Church is fifth ,with a gain of 20,967. The Meth odist Episcopal Church, South, stands sixth, hav ing had a net gain of 20,119. The gains of Methodists of all names were 112, 946, about twenty-three per cent of the grand to tal. The gains of the Baptists of all names were 61,146; those of all bodies of Lutherans, 35,567; those of all Presbyterian bodies, 26,506; those of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 15,209. Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, in his in augural address on January 19, made some state ments pertaining to the education of the negro which we consider untrue and unfortunate. Ac cording to the Associated Prcs3 he declared that education is a curse to the negro, and urged an amendment to the State Constitution that will place the distribution of the common school fund solely within the power of the Legislature, which means of course, that the amount now ap portioned to the colored schools shall be consider ably reduced. Governor Aycock, in his admirable speech, de livered lately in Baltimore, said that one of the greatest dangers which we confront is the danger of not being just to the negro. He did not say that we are unjust to the negro, but that there is danger of falling into this attitude. We can not but think that Governor Aycock had in mind the policy which has been so openly outlined by Governor Vardaman in his inaugural addres. We are not denying the truth of some of the statements of Governor Vardaman. The educa tion which the negro ha? received in many sections has been very disappointing to many who desire the progress of the races. But this does not mean that the education of the negro is and must be a failure. Education is a postivc term and a positive thing, and cannot vary in its intent and content. It has never hurt anything. It can never hurt anything. It is the same under all con dition, in all times, places, and races. The method of education is sometimes wrong, and, when so, can lead only to bad results. Wo believe that tthe negro in many cases has been wrongly educated. Hence his so-called education makes him a vagabond and a criminal. Instead of proclaiming that the education of the negro is a failure, let us rather look in the face the fact that the methods of his education have made him a failure. Let us re form the methods and we will then reform him. Let us not fall into the folly of making a financial discrimination between the white man and the negro that will rob the latter of a complete chance to avail himself of that which forms an integral part of real righteousness education. One who intimately knew the late B. M. Tut tle, father of Rev. D. II. Tuttle, thus writes: "He was ready. Left all worldly affairs in good condi tion. Had 'set his house in order temporally as well as spiritually. Was a member of the church sixty-two years and filled manv years in the ca pacity of Sunday-school superintendent, trustee, and steward." We knew this good man from boy hood, and it is pleasant to realize that the fore going truthful words but imperfectly outline the grandeur of his character.
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