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DEPOT, NATH'L JACOBI 9 Market Street,. TIT TVilmingt0a:3i." C. ri ill m ilCll i r h Or - r ' i r tzl z 1 '. t 1 . . . . - Vif J .4 rT-tfYOf Agricultural Implements, EoglisJi, and American Cattery, Iron, bteeJMailSj Guns, Pistols, Ammunition, telf ; We would respectfully call the a&eaunn e rhniftsale buvers to our full amlcoxa? olete assortment, embracing all and every 1 ! Spscriction of Goods in the Trade, audio i ? thd superior advantages we can offer flonrl having the agency oi Bey era oi me oesi leading Factories, ' , v - Always on hand Sole and Harness r .thor TTin and Calf Skins. f . " ; : Paints, Oils, Glass, Sash, Dtjorajanal Blinds, ec, a -: v t please call and examine, before purcha sing, the stock at . NATTTL JACOBTS Hardwaro Depot, Bep5-ly 9 Market Street J. A. BONITZ, Editor and Proprittor. I V i5 Tcr w WsciTlt U Principle Bigbt is Eight-nYoterday. To-day, To-morrow. Forrrer." PmVlislied Seni-Weckly ni Weekly. VOL. 9. GOLDBORO, N. C,, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1873. NO. 51. ' H. MOORE, M. D. in Vie Cobb Bwlding.'l DR. W. H. MOORE, having removed his office to the Cobb building, can be con sulted at all times when not professionally absent. - apr4-tjani MT. DORTCII & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, GOLDSBORO, 2T. C, c. counties of John Bton, Wayne, Nash, Greene, Lenoir and Wilson; the Supreme Court and the U. b. Courts. Nojrfh CafdlinXC3iii3tiaii Advocate to instract th people "JVijnora and disseminalerHrtelrri&s (aCeXlU-4 gencc among tbe masse- . jan2-lm U. T. E. UNDERWOOD, Has rocpntl y located in GOLDSUORO, N. C. II-WIRIY EDITION. - - - i 1; EDUOATIONAL. An Essay Read Before the North Carolina Baptist Ed ucational Convention in Rai 'eigh, February 12th, 1873, by Rev. Needham B. Cobb. tfbf thoAmeriein Baptists As early as the jear 1814 (the same year that Jadson was comrais- sioc siofta the "North Carolina Baptist Socie ty for Domes'Uq jjidSForeigrtj jnis sions" was organized.' In thex Jear 1823, itj .had ten , aliary socjetjes in difierent partsol the State; nd ouroVered ? atnongs" its 'nnmbers such' men Vs Rooert T. Daniel; Josiah Cradup, W. P. Biddle, La ther RicejJohnPurefoy andThomas Crocker, with many distinguished men, who 'were not Baptists, but THE FIRST GENERAL MEETING A story is told of an eastern King of the Baptists of the State was who determined to build a maernifl- held in Greenville, Pitt county, in s . -I i r O 1 And solicits the patronage oitne people om HndSi-ated to bis February 1829. This "General Golusboro ana surrounain country. 1" ,r . Calls promptly attended to Residence on James st., near Episcopal Church. Oltiee at Drug Store. Jan. 20, lS73-3mt D R. TIIOS. A. WOODLEY, LATE OF KINSTON, K God. He was determined that all Meeting ot uorresponaence," as it the work and the glory thereof was called, was merged the follow should be his own. He therefore ing year, (March 24th, 1830) into ordered that no one should assist in the iog notr, to say nothing about their two Female Colleges now in opera tion, and. the one they are., rebuild ing iu Greensboro, it .will, he .as hard to'ccmVlnce them; da'theB ap. tion of education may be worse in North Carolina, than it has been in forty years. The educational sta tistics of the State, as compiled by the Superintendent ot Public In our people do not take the Recorder. nearly half of them could not read it if they took it; and yet, these constitute the Tcry class we propose to reach. But we neeti toe Recorder to stimulite to action these who can read. Every pas- been for the last 40 years. 8CIIOOL8 IN X. C. ' J ir 3 tor fthntilrl iV t.;- ' j . 1U a sec that it has a wide cirmlt!rn mnn state where only i:i,858 polls were his members. draomfcUioV The academies art esen- Llal adjancts, or rather .prtflxes to the .work of the College. The Kone cannot" do its legitimat work without th aid . of the other. At tbe fonnUio tnnnllea water for tke rills, and riTuleta, and rir ers and seas, and these again topply - thronjru tbe cloud the waters tot the fountain, to the College tappllei jteacheri for the academies, and high school,' ar & pr irate schools, y and ieminarie. and these in turn supply students for-tbe College. Step the fountain and jou stop the rircrs, blot out the rirera and -your fountain will go dry. The same -argument that applies to the endowment of academies applies with equal, yea with stronger force to the endowment of tbe college. I only wish that we could raise $300,000 or $400,000 instead 1 f 1100,000 for that purpose. Then we might provide free tuition not only to young minis era of the Gospel, but to all applicants competent to enter the cotle- tists. that education among them. "is in a worse condition than it lias Just think of i0i.7ftf) voters i mrz. lii.il i iiuv m w 1 1 1 mm m a . z . a a. "vtc niLuiaiion nmoDg giaie classes DOioiooe ucnominauon. It IS, Of itself, one of our but of all denomination thrttiKrhnut. thm returned in 1871, being unable to most ralnaMe educators, and oar cheap- Stste, and an average of $5 each, from Then there' is thdold Moraviaul " ",uc' uu i'u au-, lu,u', most ciacient ail the 80,000 white Baptist in the State ..-- . . ' r s t- i;-ia M . a i r r . .i i ujfTi - tai a 1 1 w :.Aa. r i Sot Ril i With ititeeirerolL", uwy y uesigmng uemrp - " .uhuwwmi una euuca- would do it. 1 - . . I tlAnAl nffmr!sn: iV " At lin.-n'n.,Uff Vn a TCnisnonjil I o01?' BO may wisn to elevate . -- i- re iqou- . r"i'V") r 1 4 -w- . 1 m I bcUopiatltaieign.tnei'resDyierian i " . direcilr, .through tho himself into office at their expense. "ds whom U cannrfl reach CIcePt ia- School at Charlotte "Ualcitrh nk hSa,n ' that' h '-240,000 ZTT'' read it. oiaiesvuie anu vioiusooro-,ine iiUiB . : ; 1 canvassing. ern School in Gnbarxus,the Friends' write constitute one out of every 2nd. EstablUh and DOGS JUSID CUILOarN. Professor Mclrtr thinks there are not lesa than 200,000 dogs in the State. He count nearly one to erery . five inhabit. .1 aata.4Bat pot theta down to 1IS,000 or 1 I 9 1 . . High School at New Garden, and mrccand-a-nall whites, (OS.SM to Schools m cr, Churcb, and in erj T K"n ". J " the Baptist Schools at Raleigh, 39.2?5) aniJ 145 to 2u of d-Mtut. neighborhood. SKTO the 't' " " "f "P1 ""fto Murfreesboro, founded in 1847, and ' blaci-over the age of twenty- attendance of every Baptist i, , he Son- ." . X." Lonisbnrg, all affording infraction t'JT " K"- 3 MOO o tots C DWd. thi, tnfl.. )tnl,tr.nrnnr 5t,. . Kemeraber also that byfignring In n0 other "J can we so read ilj reach , , , ' " " " ., to the daagutcrs ot our state, and a ? . tho a.ln! niir. - . number by eleven, as tbe Baptists constl- large number of preparatory schools 0Q thcse ub,cs Toa ascertain that J'1" a ,B.' 4 tute one-elerenth of the entire popui.. for boys, such as Indian iLge, "Mid to every four-and- "SS1 "f h. State, and you ha,, thcos. Currituck: Revnoldson. in Gates : one-nflh between the ages of six , , . . of mamUinkig the dogs in Baptists iam- v- 0,U4V I 0ffer3 hi3 Professional Services to the citizens of Goldsboro, N. C.,and surround ing country. Oilicc, at xresent, at Barham's Hotel, wlit.re all orders may be left. August 22d, 1872. lm QOMMERCIAL HOTEL, G0LDSL0R0, N. C. Tlii? is one of the best conducted Hotels ia the State, (new and established since the its erection but those who were em ployed and paid by himself, under penalty of death. The edifice was completed and the King's name car ved in prominent characters above the entrance. The following day ho assembled his courtiers and re paired to the spot,to show them, in XORTIl CAROLINA BAPTIST STATE CON VENTION when Elder P. W. Dowd was elect ed PresideRt, Elder John Arm strong Corresponding Secretary, R. S. Blount Recording Secretary, and H.Austin Treasurer. Its "prima ry opjects" were declared to be "the Selma, in Johnston ; East Bend, in Yadkin ; Buck Horn, in Hertford ; Warsaw, in Duplin ; Mills River, the pride of his heart, the great education 0f y0ung men called of work he had completed lor msvoa. GodtQ the ministry . the employ- late lire.) At this House you will find the To his astonished gaze there ap- tY,orif nf m;GG;nn!vi-iAa in t.h St.atf L- IT I- ....11,. f. .11 I I ' Wiping Rooms, a well furnished Parlor Pearcd bGforc himnot his oxvn and a co-operation with the Bap and accommodations for Ladies. Polite and attentive servants. jalStf JAS. W.MORRIS rravrietor WALTEU CLACK. 3. M. MULLEN. i LARK & MULLEN, A TT 0 R NE TS AT LAW, HALIFAX, N. C. and in the Federal Courts. ? "Collections made in all parts of North tist General Convention ot the United States in the promotion of missions in general." Two years later, in Augusta, 1832, the Conven tion met at Reaves' Chapel, in Chat. ham county, and unanimously re solved to "purchase a farm and Carolina. marl4-ly Kerosene Oil, Glue & Spirit Casks. QA HBLS KEROSENE, OU 200 Bbls Glue, 400 Spirit Casks, F. W. KERCHNER, found living near the temple who an swered to the name and was brought name, but the name of some, un known woman written in glittering characters in the very place, where his own was carved the evening be- UAKh as jMULlihiJN, fore, gome unseeri hand had oblit- ...... erated the one and inscribed the other! The King was enraged. He Practice in all the Courts of Halifax, Mar- snmmonfi(i his subjects and demand-- Ljt .t, .i:;... o,rto tin, Northampton and Edgecombe counties. . . " . n . .; puup uwicr picnuimai j .nccu.. In the Supreme Court of North Carolina ed that search be made ior me mis- f the est ablishment of a BaDtist creantwho had dared disobey his Literarv Institution on the manual imperial edict. A poor widow was habor principle. A. committee was appointed to raise two thousaud dollars for tbe purchase of the before him. in answer to liis MajM firm - -nr Kamnpl Wait was se esty's question, as to what she had lected ag Aent Gf the "Wake For done to help forward the building, Lef jnountr,n ftx, vaora I '7U XUOWIVUV1VU, UISU TWMm ago he was canvassing the State to raise $2,000 to establish a manna labor school for the Baptists. That ZLnf Bhls. Baltimore Pork. " manual labor school, known as 0JJ 50 Bbls. Early Rose Potatoes, her one talent unseen. No eye of r nU r,Altaot -fnaf,tna TOOf ;nm operation Feb. 1st, 1834, with 25 students. In 1840, only 34 years aero. Wake Forest Institute became 300 Bales N.C and N. Y. Hay, seen hands had honored her, because Wake For09t College, with power 25 Snts ehean Harness. t i? .i : t 3 & ' r .11. ivr 0 " ' p.- sneuiUHKiriiuruuu. 1, 0 . sent out into the world four voun- i. 4. 1 i, " 0 WOiKtouiuctuuusutyiBiupiotutuc armed jlh diplomag all of honor 01 our oa ana iving, in mis wm nfiftfnl minicte nf J too uoab wuru lr hi in, el r, aud not deocul u xo.w, wiiuo oiuy 0110 wime emm upon anotiur Tor his knowledge ol to every fivc-and-a-third, was foundldivinc teachings. Let all the -rrown in Transvlvania: Homer's, in Gran- in a soIlonl of any kiud public or Church uicmbi-rs attend the Sunday vill-. Yat.a An.idP.mv. in riiMham. private. School, and the illiterate brother will Mt. Olive, in Duplin, and a number If 'on can look at the ri :t..: t i anunotseethe necessitv fo ing our people upon the subject of 7J w"luwwl a S711 roaQ- " j , .t is high time for us to aba idon the idea, education, you can do no more than . , e , , ine ,uea T , J , . 4l , . that Sunday Schools are intended only lean. Remember again, that the fnr 0i.:Mr n n. iL . . ... . Ior children. 44 Gather the people to- t"' ""'Sulu " gttner, men, women anJ children, and niccuiuc pupuiuuiou 01 me ouue, tne stranger that is within thv cates over ten years of age. It is but that they may hear, and that thry mar fair then that they should claim learn, aud fear tLe Lord your God, and one-eighth of the illiteracy over observe to do all the words of this law." ten years of age. One-eighth ot "1,01-1 397,690, (the number ot illiterates river ton vparc nf .nrp n 1Q Til i? a i :n T?-t ... I . - ' ' ' uuaiuu 3. 111 zibuuvint;, l etter b. hi n -n ncn a , ai.j v..t. i. t c i 1 1 Then ask yourselves, it the Baptists Henderson, Locust Hill, of Uhat- . . , rrk .. , ' , . , have in their ranks 50,000 persons ham, and perhaps other classical , . , , , ' r , , -r . who cannot read and write, ought schools controlled by Episcopa- . . , , , .. , J v r they not to be waked up thorough- ilillb. h.. 1. j a . 1 . . iy waKeu up 10 uie imporiance 01 ilies for oae year $33,4 SO, enough to em ploy a Baptist teacher at every one of the ninety court houses in the State at a salary of $927 22. The cost of public instruction In North trol of Baptist teachers. Turner's School in Shelby, Hor ner's School of Oxford, gingham's, ot Alamance, Hughes' of Orange, Rankin's, of Lenoir, and a number of other schools presided over by Presbyterians. ' The Cape Fear Academy, of Wil mington, Morrelle s in the same place, Wetmore's, in Lincolnton, For Bale by Jftn 20 27, 28 and 29 North Water St., she said, "I did but give a wisp of V liLUUIglUli, J.H. J. . , 1 ., . 1 Straw lu tue uuiocs iuai, uicw vuo stones." She had done what she could. She had been taithful with her one talent unseen. No eye of man had seen her work, nor mind of man estimated it as important, stilly unseen eves had seen her, and un- In Store and to Arrive ! Bbls. Baltimore Pork, 50 Bbls. Early Rose Potatoes, 125 " Flour, all grades, i0 Kegs Leaf Lard, 10 Tubs Goshen Butter, 150 Bushels Water Mill Meal, CO 44 Spring Seed Oats, Troy's, of Greensboro, Ruflin Badger, of Chatham, Arrington's, of Rocky Mount, Rutherford Col lege, ot Burke, and other schools controlled by the Mothodists. Clapp's School at Newton, and others controlled by the Lutherans and German Reformed, not to men tion a large number of other private schools in all portions ot the State, end some Seminaries' that are strict ly non-denominational, and draw their teachers as well as patrons education ? They, above all other denominations, need an educated membership. With a strictly dem ocratic form of government, ac knowledging the independen iy ot the churches, without canons of councils, edicts of popes, authority of priests or decisions of Assem blies to direct their faith or prac tice, relying upon the Scriptures, and the Scriptures alone, as a suffi cient rule ot taith and practice, and instructing each one to search the fVrrr oil nnAminntiAne orirtVn O. C . ' Scriptures for himself, it i Clevoland female Seminary,Wilson Also Bulk Meats, Colfee, Syrup, fec. B. M. PK1VETT & CO. A FIHST-CL.ASS Photograph Gallery IN GOLDSUORO, 1. C. year of our Lord 1873. Let others foe QoSpeif and one of whomis now drive the teams, and quarry the honored President of the North rocks, and carve the pilasters, and Carolina Baptist State Convention. lay the eorner stone, and rear the Toeyme Conyention that laid ED. X SMALL Can be found at his Gallery, ou West-Cen tre St., thoroughly prepared to meet the walls and trescp the ceiling, and -j- rn i r -1 -t t . let it be mine in this intelligent T , V,T . . T gathering to give but a wisp of straw Landscapes, Buildings, vMachinery, Im- r plements,Eng5nes,&c, Photographed with to the horses that draw the stones. neatness and dispatch. A distinguished ex-Governor of Ye-who live or do business in respecta- 0 . We quarters, have a Photograph of the same the State has been quoted as saying and let the world know you are living. tliat tne m.eseut condition of educa- a janl-tf I. B. Grainqkb President. C. M Stedman. Vice President S. D. Wallace Cashier. Isaac Bates Assistant Cashier. BAKK OF EW HANOVER, Capital & Surplus - $225,000 Autnorized Capital - $1,000,000 DIRECTORS: tion in North Carolina is worse than it has been the lest forty years. This may be true in a sence. But forty years in this progressive age is a very long time. It carries us back to the year 1832, when -manyt would! think we were passing through the dark age's bfouc'history. N. C. FOETY YJ3ABS AGO. D R Murchison, of Williams & Murch ison. .. Geo R French, of Geo R French A Son. II Toilers, of Adrian & Vollers. J W Ulnson, of Sprunt & llinson. C M Stodman, of Wright & Sted man. Jas A Leak, ofWad-esboro. M Weddell, of Tar boro, N C. E B Borden, of Goldsboro, N C. I B Grainger, President GOLDSBORO BRANCH. E. 15. BORDEN, R. P. HOWELL, President. Cashier. DIRECTORS : E B Borden, W T Faircloth, W F Kornegay, A J Ualloway, Herman VV eil. TARBORO BRANCH. M. WEDDELL, J. D. CTJMMING, President. Cashier. 1 directors : James M Redmond, Fred Phillips, W. G. J-ewis, Mathew Weddell. . Issues Certificates of Deposit bearing interest. Is authorized by Charter to receive on de- pobii moneys held in trust by Executors, administrators, Guardians, &c.,&c, &c. &ell8,Chetks nn Npw YrvrVr na!limnri Shila4elphh, Norfolk,- Columbia, Charles ton, Richmond, Petersburg and all the tities nd towns in North Carolina. Buys and sells Checks in sums to suit on Mreat Britain, Ireland, Germany, France c ..'.' , ' ? ' i Buyg and sells Gold, Silver, Bank Bills 0ndi. Stocka. &c. J ic. ... Strict attention eiven to the orden unH 'quests of .our country frienda by mai) or the foundation for a college, took steps to establish a Baptist paper in the State, which resulted in the publication of a- twenty-four page monthly, by Elder T. Mepditly called "The Interpreter." " ' v In 1835, only 38 years ago, this was changed 4n,o .a weekly and called "The biblical 'Recorder"' which now visits its thousands ot readers from Dai e to Cherokee. Surely education among the Bap tists is not in a worse condition than it was 40 years ago. May not our wonderful progresa in numbers be atfribtitied nrgleftt-tneasu'res, to Forty years ago there was not a the increased interest that has been single railroad iu thetState and not a taken in the : subjeQtlof ; .education, single railroad company incorporate and especially in ministerial i ndu ed. Forty years ago Chapel HUlhadir cation ? been in existence only thirty seven In 18-tienja8ures ifWia.iCilL years. It had started . its career in auguratcd to establish a Baptist 1795 with one professorand one tu- Institute, and start a Baptist paper, tor. The frofessor, Kev. .uavid we numbered less than 19, U0J com- Kerr, a Presbyterian minister, soon J municants, or one to every thirty- resigned and went to practicing law i nine inhabitants: No wXP. number The Tutor, Ramucl A. Holmes, be- more than one, to every eleven of came Professor of Languages, and J the entire populati on. Mr. Charles 'Wt Harris was elected How is it with other denominat Professor of Mathematics and Pres- tions during the last-40 years? The ident. In cne year he resigaed his Presbyterians in North Carolina, presidency and professorship to pra- particularly in the "West, were the ctice law, and Dr. Joseph Caldwell, j pioneers of education ; still their another Presbyterian minister, sue- own denominational collese, at ceeded to the professorship of mathe Davidson, was not chartered . til matics in 1798 and to the presidency the year 1838. 35 years ao, ana in 1809. Seven young men were their denominational organ, the graduated in 1798, and up to the! North CarjpliiiC Iresbjteriati, has year 1832 four hundred and seventy- just entered upon the I6th year o six were sent out with diplomas its existence. from this institution J The Methodist College, at Trlni- But then ve had no Wae Forest;? ty, is much younger 'than either norDavidson, nor Trinity College, Davidson or tVake Forest, and We had no Biblical Recorder; nor; with 160 names in their catalogue, r) North Carolina Presby teri&n, nor ' and rjiorG thsca 10O' students aUeml- Collegiate Institute, Raleigh Male Academy and others of a like char acter. Surely if education he in a worse condition than it has been for forty years, it is not owing to a want of schools. Bransen's North Carolina Directory, for 1782, re ports 358 of these, averaging about 4 to a county. Let us also re member that forty year9 ago wo were not only without denomina tional colleges but we, had only one public institution of"learriTng en joying State patronage. The State was not districted tor s very unusual obligations to give to every one of their members an opportnnity of tudying and investigating for him self, which opportunity he cannot enjoy without the advantages of ed ucation. -If it be a stigma upon our State that one-half of her population over the age of ten are unable to read and write, will it not be a greater stigma upon us as Baptists if we permit nearly one-half of our entire membership to remain in ignorance of letters ? How can we justly claim that our people are cruided in common school purposes till 1839. th.:rfa:th aml Dractice bv the word The institution for the Deaf and f Q , .f , one.half of them Dumb was. not iD90?poratp nutilL unable to rcaa that word ? 1847, and foo years We" bad . . a , . , . f. t wft Rjin i ' i v r . y . a f a I eiapsea Deiore me acioi aww-i- . . North Caroiina are far behind bly was passed incorporating the lme other denomination9 in the gener Insane' Asylum at; Raleigh. Jews al intelligence of our member. W were then prohibited from holding hare a College at Wake Forest, which office, anc preachers were not per-1 in thoroughness of instruction and de- mitted to sit as members of the velopnaent of manly character, x ao noi Len-isiature. Srrrelv.when we look believe U a whit .behind the UhiTeraity at our railroadindSur1 colleges, of the SUtc lU palmiest days before . , . ' ttne war. uui our utuuuw vui wi- ourscnoois. our religious new-u- . ?!v-:a.r. .t.;- lege are not patronized by our own peo our daily dapers, 'our lines, our improved houses of wor-Lg5 CnurCBCc and a membership of 15,- ship, and our growing list?,of eda-Ug jjave nearly or quite as maiy stu caiea ministers, we may uc pai uwu-1 dents at Lmviuson us wc .ac n oivc ed for thinking we have niade some Forest, with our more than 100,000 progress in ednoation within the communicants, or 9,000 more than 1 hey j j . . i . -., , . ,...4. flAnAAArnn. may oe saia mu w ins v,wv v wui . startling statistics. number &re membrs and that Btit then when we loojc at the naTC students at the Shaw fiflnsns retnm fnr itn. and fi?ure lintitnt at Italeieh. True: but the op those columns and find that out se figures " el that he is classed with the little Carlina' l0f tbC J "r eding Var for Vrons- childreD stay away hat 'tb' 72 was $153,193 97 The cost lor arotis- J J ofmainUining the dog. of the State that year was nearly six times as. much. Surely we ought to be willing to pay as much for the public instructien of our children as we do for the support of our dogs. THE CRISIS. A great moral and intellectual crisis is upon us. Something must be done and done speedily tu arouse our people Our Sunday Schools should be our best from their death-like slumbers. A. dis- schools, and no Christian community tinguished speaker of our own denomin can do without them and prosper. The ation recently remarked in FajetUville Bible should be the text-book for all the that whenever a great moral revolution classes, and no other books are needed, was to be wrought in a world's history. except as help to a proper understand -1 when grard enterprises lor the good of mankind were to be inaugurated, the Baptists, generally unnoticed and un known, were somehow or other thrust forward and made prominent in the pro vidence of God. This seems to bare bevn the case in all ages of Church his tory. A prominent Baptist, John Wlck liffe, was 44 the Morning Star of the Re formation." Another Baptist, William Tyndale, gave his life for the translation an J circulation of tbe Scriptures. Ano ther Baptist, William Carey, left Eng land an humble shoemaker, and became the Apostle of India, and the father of her civilization. A delicate Baptist wo man from Virginia whose son was edu cated at our own Wake Forest, was the firpt female Missionary to China. And now, with a zeal that is christ-like, we find our brethren in India, in China, in Africa, in Italy, in Germany, in Sweden, in Holland, in Spain and in Mexico, luting up their voices in behalf of reli gious liberty and the right of every one to read and interpret God's word for Irmselt With a brotherly lore leaping over the bloody chasm ef war, our breth ren of the North and South have not only clasped hands, but embraced each ing and explanation of the Bible. 3rd. Encourage common schools. We arc impelled to this by patriotism and self interest as well as by Christianity. In a government like ours, where every male citizen is invested with the right of suffrage, and may aspire to the dignity of a ruler, every citizen should have the advantage of an education. It is need less for us to discuss now the question propounded by President Willing at the last National Baptist Educational Con vention in Philade'phia, viz: " Which is safer, civil progress under the direction of the educated few, or civil progress under the direction of the 'popularly educated masses? " If we make any civil progress at all, it must be under the control of the masses, for the masses are ourvottrsand our rulers. It is natural for them to select officers from amoair themselves. The " Like people, like priestf ' of Ho sea or "As with tho people, so with the priest, as with the servant, so with the master" of Isiah, is true in politics as well a3 in religion. . Under the reijrn of popular suffrage even our Presidents must be tanners, tailors, rail-splitters and th as christians. The cause of Sun- coon hunters. Tbe masses elect, and da y schools and of education has bound iucy an going 10 eieci irom me masses. thcm t .c,ther in conventions, and bound i, mcreiore, we arc to nave educated thc;D together in work and in love, 'residents, Congressmen, Legislators, Shall we in North Carolina be unmlcd- Governors and Judges, we must educate Iul Qf oar duty! Shall we, when a great the masses. If we are to retain in our crj8 e the present is upon us,befor Slate our educated and liberal minded -mtfal of our denominational history and ministers, we roust have in our churches pr0Te ourselves unworthy sons of our educated and liberal-minded members. n.:af ,n,tnrt t 'tta. brethren. We But the masses are not provided with mugt u,t ourselves into the breach. We the means for obtaining a good educa - mU3t meet our obligations Idee men sad tion, and the State as well as the church- like Baptists, and If we do this God will cs should provide for their education crrant ug fcucb gaccCM as will" redound because the State sutlers by their ignor- t to our eood the clorr of HU ance. m iience tne necessity lor public schools. But, as these public schools cannot teach Christianity without viola ting the genius and spirit of a purely free government, and intellectual with out moral or religious, training only in creases one's capacity for vice, we need the religious training of the Sunday School to supplement and enhance, to moralize and christianize the instruction imparted in the public school. 4 th. Endow our academies. We need this to put them upon a permanent basis to sapply them with maps and OWN GREAT KlUI. 1 .' ' w- . charts, with philosophical apparatus and I V. . i..n 1 Vfl.l W.ftl TOO " III . - - - n .VP ill V1XO . cici vaa rsm v .... , ,. . . whieh arc very essential, but too costly for private enterprises. Our academies should be endowed also to cheapen tai of an adult population of about half a million, we hate 95,839 whites and 144,84G colored inhabitants, making in all 140,605 porsons over twenty-one years of age who cannot read and write, when, we sum up the children's columns and ascer- tain that we have in t? a is State 168,- 000 children, 182,690 "white,' 85, 239 colored and 369 1:ndian,and only 58,000 of all these, less than 1 to ever'v '41 are poinr to onblio and private- Schools, oar heart! , sickens within ,ns, and welieginv to think that, afWIsinl'tbkt' distinguished Statesman was. ngfct. Tlte eoodi- Presbyterians have also their Biddle In stitute at Charlotte for tbe education of their celored ministers also. It is p!ain that something should be done done br the Baptistr-and done speedily by the Baptists; toMmprore'the "present condition of education amdng'ns. WHAT IS THAT SOUETHINQ T . . . i - 1st. Create a )pHbiit sentiment among our people in fa voir oCgeneral education This can. beT done, ifnly-bf a thorough canvass ot Tery.cnurcarawwfc , n. uivb of the living, ninkterjie heard ineyery uPAnf-KiLtKB.w There can be no necessity, at this late" day for the press to speak In commendatory terms of this re markable medicine. In order to promote its sale; for it Is a medcine that is known and appreciated the wide world through.. Whenever we speak of the Pain-Killer,. as in the present instance, we do so in bebalf of the afflicted, rather than, with the view of advancing the interests of its proprietors. For various diseases, such as rheumatism, cholera, cholera-morbui, burns, sprains, bruises, and so on to the end of the catalogue, we are convinced that there is no remedy before the people equal to Davis' Vegetable "Pala-Killer," and we know that thousands npon thou- tion and place it within the means of a Sinds entrtala lbe same belief. Certain ly, we cannot refer to Jhe history of any medicine which equals that of the Pain- Killer. It was introduced in 1840, and from that time to this its sale, both at home and abroad, has constantly, and rapid'y increased, and we rejoice at tbe high reputation it has achieved, becau-se this reputation shows that is has been the means of relieving a vast amount oi human suffering. We hope the present large class ot our population from whem come our most promising pupils. We cannot trust to individual enterprise to build and furnish such institntions for us. V Few of our teachers have the means with which to doit; and, if they kad, it is unfair to require them to invest their individual capital, as well as labor in an-uncertain euterprise for the benefit of a whole community. They must be supported by asseciatea capital, or, as f DetU, Vegetable " Pain- 1 Dr. Barna Soars says, " by a body of n -n lonff lire to enjoy tho pros- public -spirited and influential men, vol-l perity which they have so fairly won! village and hamlet, in every Church andjuntariiy associate ior mis purpo. .m,' Sunday. BclladJilroUsaiii4o uaeaojce". AAB musfc . riiJLrrU thft imritira ecessitv for 4 of union for. enlisting men in the enter- UioMn stock of goods to be .found In town- prise so strong) permaneaU and Teli-j Is at John IL Powell's. Don t fail to go able as that which unites a chrUtiaa 1 there before buying t setting forth the imperative necessity for an educated Church membership as well &i an educated minis try. Thousands of
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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