.j.Vt September 12, 1018
This is the deepest sort of criminal-
HALEIGH CHRISTIAN AbvOCATE
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ity.
1 to get back to the elemental truth
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vliioh the
Psalmist set to the music of his harp.
1 nw"h out under the open heavens and
Uw lived i'1UL''
pd with nature's God; and this truth was
in in u"
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lt;e. , thereof; the world, and they that
. .en therein." Many of us do not grasp this
aWe f Goii-j5 ownership so clearly today. We
elf.villed, anu uns wics uu it mu uc-
s4f-lossession. We like to claim our
We are prone to ask whose busi-
ue st
are fur
impendence.
- is it if we wish to go a certain way, or make
' t,in ue of our powers. If it proves un
are not we the sufferers; and, if it proves
'easing and desirable, have we not the right to
t enjoyment? So we argue in our blindness,
and sometimes fancy that the Point is proved.
But what is there about us that we originated of
ourselves? Have we strength in our strong right
r l0 tin the soil and extract from mother
earth the riches that are stored in her fertility?
Whence came that strength? Have we intelli
gence and skill to gather. about us wealth and
comfort? Who endowed us with that intelli
gence? Who determined that we should have
powers beyond those of the beast of the field, or
the fowl of the air? Did we originate these
things for ourselves? Truth compels us to look
up to God and say: "It is Thou that made us,
and not we ourselves?"
No, there is not an emotion that stirs the soul
with joy or with pain that we can claim to have
begotten of ourselves. We sweep back in Imag
ination very easily to the time when self did not
exist. Memory has only a few years over which
to roam and gather up its treasures. Within
the range of this memory are perhaps father and
mother, and about them gather the most sacred
things that memory holds; and back of these are
c;lier fathers and mothers, and on back of tiios
still others. But it is no difficult thing to get.
back to the point where there were no fathers
and mothers back in the dim unknown. Whence
came the first man? This is the inevitable ques
tion, and the only satisfying answer that has
ever come to the human heart is God. He has
fashioned us according to His own will, and de
termined the bounds of our privileges and possi
bles. It is to the credit of His infinite good
tfcss that Ha created us in His own image, that
He endowed ua with God-like powers and made
t possible for us to be partakers of His joy. We
have no assurance that the angels have this high
privilege, if they do, it has not been revealed
t0 us. Thero was something about the creation
m redeniption of man that they "desired to
took into," and could not. Just what it was we
Uo not know; but there is evidence in the in
Splred ord that in man God reached the climax
ot His creative work. He has put within us
JWers of soul that can scale the heights where
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means
unmixed and triumphant life. What this
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Have You Enlisted for College ?
e L! n0t aDolSize for the large space that
iave given n .
eral 1 1S question for the past sev-
and "e feel crucial time Jllst 110 w'
hch,, that We can render our young people,
induce n ' lh State' no better service than to
every 0 ng People to take, advantage of
ny for the best possible training
to meet the issues that must b mot now ,i
the immediate future, it seems t0 us that no
thoughtful man can be indifferent to the manner
in which the world's life will shape itself within
the next five years. While the world is in flux
is the time to set its currents to moving in tin
right direction. When once, these currents
gather momentum in a determined direction, it
will be too late then to fashion the future. ' Ii
will have been already fashioned. We r0 in
the. midst of the time thai, must give character
to the future for at least many years to com.'.
What will that character be?
The answer to this question must not be lefi
to chance. The current of the world's life mus;
not be allowed to drift as it will the drift al
ways moves to a lower level. God has given to
us intelligence and conscience, and these divine
-gifts are for use; but their highest, use calls for
training and cultur-3. This training and culture,
too, must be of the right sort. We do not de
sire the "kuitur" of German rationalism that has
thrown the world into this seething caldron that
is trying men's souls today. Hut this cannot be
offset by ignorance and undeveloped powers.
This throws a tremendous responsibility upon
the school and the college at this crisis. It is
for them so to train the youth that is thrown
wilhin their walls that righteousness and justicj
and lovo shall bo the dominating elements of
their character. Our institutions cannot do this
without taking Christ, into co-partnership with
them in a very real sense. The Christian reli
gion must be the foundation upon which the new
world s'ructurc shall be built, and those who are
to do the building most- especially those who
are to bo leaders in this building must be
brought, to know Christ in the most intimate and
experimental way. Tho school into whose hands
l he youth are turned at this critical time have
an important part to perfoim in this work, and
it cannot be too insistently demanded that thoy
enihione Christ in their life and teaching.
We have been writing particularly with refer
ence to our young men, but tho need for the
Christian training of our young women is none
the less imperative. The necessities of the battle
front have thrown the men somewhat forward
at this time, but the call for cultured and trained
Clicristian young women was never so impera
tive as it is now. Woman's part in giving lone,
and character to the life oL tho rising generation
is a most important one. Even in the very thick
of the light in these stormy times of war, she is
finding a necessary place to fill, and that place
.is growing larger all the time. She will con
tinue to mak ethe home, and the home will con
tinue to determine the type of life that, we will
find in every field of human activity; but ner
work is no longer by any means confined to the
home. She is making her way into practically
every field of endeavor in which men engage,
Lnd her elliclency is not one whit behind them.
Liu:, all this calls upon her to qualify herself for
the larger tasks that she is assuming.
Xow is the time, therefore, of all times to
crowd our colleges both for men and for women
with eager students. The world needs a genera
tion of trained and consecrated workers in this
crucial period when the world's life is in a state
of flux. It is needed that the future may be
made secure against the forces of evil, and that
our Christ shall be the centre of the forces that,
fashion it anew.
The Church is the one divine institution in
this world. She is the Lamb's b.ide, and He
watches over her with a peculiar jealousy. And
yet this bride has a large human element in
and she sometimes dirts too mucn wun me
number of times in history she has
gone aside from her central purpose and become
soiled with the garments of the flesh. She has
her
world
flirted with political power, and in doing so has
been temporarily shorn of her spiritual strength,
i-'ue has .sometimes sought to use the powers ot
the world, and it has not infrequently happened
in such cases that the powers of the world have
used her. It seems to us that thero is a multi
tude of things trying to use the Church today.
Th y clothe themse.ves with plaisib.e reasons
in appealing for her influence, and sometimes
they grow brazen enough to atiirm that they ar
the chief thing tor which the Church should
concern herself, if he would maintain her hold
upon the people. In all of this there is muc.i
Peril, and there is only one safety. Tne Cnurch
must never cease to put the supreme emphasis
upon the one thing of saving men from sin and
hill. Whenever, other issues are allowed to
cloud this one, then the Church is in imminent
peril.
Advocate Stock-Washington District
Kev. C. L. Read, presiding dder of tho Wash
ington District, wishes us to announce that. th.
following charges on his district have paid in
full the amount apportioned them for the pur
chase of the Advocate stock:
Wilson, Farmville, Rocky Mt. First Church,
Kocky Mt. Marvin, Stantonsburg, Kim City,
1! thel, Fremont, Swan Quarter Circuit, (credit
of 12.00). The total amount in date plM.fiu.
We shall be glad to add to this list as rapidly as
the money is sent in and reported to us.
Mostly Personal.
liev. L. L. Smith asks us to announce that his
postoilice. is Timberlake, N. C, instead of Kouge
li) out as formerly.
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Mrs. J. J I. McCoy, wife of Hishop J. II. Mc
Coy, lecently underwent an operation for appen
dicitis. At last report she was doing well.
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Kev. W. A. Stanbury, pastor of our Church at
Wilson, held a special service for the young peo
ple of his congregation on the morning of Sep
t mber Sth.
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Rev. R. C. Deainan, D. D., of Lumberron, has
been visiting in New Bern recently. His son,
Mr. J. Southgato Beaman, of Henderson, accom
panied him.
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Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Royall and little son,
Richard, who have been spending somo time in
the mountains, have returned to Sanford, where
Brother Royall is pastor of our Church.
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From the Coaster wo learn that Rev. J. C.
Wooten, presiding elder of tho Durham District,
and Bev. W. C. Martin, pastor at West Durham,
Kpent two days in Morehead City last week.
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The National Committee on the Churches and
the Moral Aims of the War are planning a speak
ing tour of the country this fall. They will be
assisted in this campaign by Chaplain Daniel
Couve who comes as a representative of the
French Protestant Committee of Paris.
Rev. J. W. lloyle, Jr., who has had charge of
the work at Lodge Street and at Barefoot's
Chapel, has been drafted into the army. He left,
on August 8, and has been stationed at Camp
Wadsworth. lie has been ordered overseas, and
his address is at this time unknown. Tho Wil
son Methodist.
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A special from Oxford to the Greensboro
Daily News of August 3 0th says: "The revival
services in the Oxford Methodist Church for the
past ten days have been well attended. Rev. R.
M. Courtney, of Hickory, is assisting Rev. It. 11,
Willis, and he has preached somo strong ser
mons.!' H II H
In its issue of August Sth the New York Chris
tian Advocate noted the fact that the various in
stitutions of higher learning for men under the
control of the Methodist Episcopal Church had
10,775 representatives in the army and navy of
the United States. The list of institutions was
not complete and the number is, of course, con
stantly increasing.