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V- ST !.' -.! . Xf ; - An . lii P p I f ! Li . I J - i - ' It - lli i :. H r 3 f -n J WATGHiuAH. Established; 1832. I'uhiixhc I every Thursday by The .TCHMikN PUBLISHINU CO J. Ill MILLS, - - - Maiiaser: 3. ibsrriptiou, $1.00 a year, in advance Entreil at the postoffice at Siirv- N. C..-H3 J5ocotfd.'cliis matter. si lishcry, is. C, Nov. 1895 CtLVELANIUSM VS. CHRIS 6 i TIANITY. Kd. Kostlor Defends Him. self and His Position. continued from last week. I As a riule tbehurches to day irork tirder for fashion's fickle sake, for t!t app!aiHe of men, for the sake of custom, for the reusoa that thej want to lead in numbers and great nfss, than they do for the sal Nation, of the wprldfor .he lightning of i hiiuiiiQ ben-lens, and the helping oi j the oeedv, and the following of 1 the !. week "and lowly One. As an instance of this faci, note the treatment the I . in. .. i - - . churches accord rich and popular wembers with the treatment thev jire the poor and lowly Ones. Is this dhristiaiiity? It i churchism and nothing more. God pity the, weary Jpuls wnich expects much solace from sprue churches. Hit$h churches gire milltoiis to pay bishop v to build churches, to erect palatial parson ;lgesf arid thenturtis a deal ear to the j cr? the snd, last wail of sorrowing, : hungry humanity. Christianity j goas top poor man's hut robed in r humble garbs and barefooted often I imes apid gires away its last crumb l' to help him. -Christianity has no paid minsters to chat her virtues. Jer deed often die unmentioned by he clarions of , fame, bat Heaven ings with their echo. Wljy has the . church drifted from the rock. of truth drifted oh, so far, so very far, from jpodVstandard of right? Her ban - fiefs to-dav often trail in the mire of rseciuion, ponucii ana social, ana f.many things that custom makes u right ignores. ' I believe there will be many an linnet in Heaven that was called' an aufideA on earth," and many a dc fvii that was a so called preacher on Iirth, simply because of this loyalty to fal?e promise and custom, and not I jjto truthful principles. The church, i fin itsnuritv. its Driraeval concertion 1 - ' r holiness, is the grandest of all organ- lazitious for saving the world, but when it deserts its colors and links hands j with the devil o gain a flir ting glory, it becomes the most dam- j-Mable pf agencies. History is stored iwith many examples ot thes charac ter, arid the historian'' of truth who J-pens tjhe deeis of these days will tell a.8ad story of church degeneracy. ' Ah, de..r old churches of our fathers land mothers, get back to the true . ideal and stay there. Ah, fond mem- cry looks back to the alter at which r we used to worship in the bright days (of youth, when we. kuelt by mother's jeide aid had faith, in God and in tGods hurch! A battle is coming on a great battle is corning on and 1 1 can now hear the echos of the drum beats and the roar of the can uonading a it whispers through the I ear (A battle is now on between the I friends and fos of truth, betweeen IthOselwho have the manhood and I the womanhood to stand up, against fall false creeds an& those who . bow I down to false God's for the sake of temporal benefits. There never was a time when true heroes and heroi nes were in greater demand than they are to day.'The pulpit is calling, yes, sadlycalling, for voice turned to frail humanity's wants and duties calling for 'sympathy with human sorrows, with disappointed hopes. The.greatest burlesque pf the day would be to see a poor humbje man going to. these handsome mansion to fiud 'com fort from the words of some of tliese modern preachers arrayed in fiiielinens and faring sumptuous ly everr dav. And right here I do I hot refer to the4ittle preacheras of to day, those who do great work and j et't he small pay. Yes, the little preachers are nearerChristian preach ers, j High churchism exalts one mu and lowers another man upon tue .-hy pot hesis that political mng ,vuraps do. 'Th'Luf high churchism th si is ashamed Jet' a poor man, a'..,Au J of a clmst iiu, is as diaboli- ny doctrine Iugersoll ever prttglaiuttd, or Voltaire ever xalted, .or Kunsseur ever dreamed of. This ehurdusm that honors men for iit money in fluencef the prftenr tboi: i.l'Vrwy th?r '!'ar- .Li the blackest chunk of brimstone in helffar frorn the humble teachings of tie sweet, loving teacher of Gall l-e. This ehurchism is afraid to do pooc unless it is sanctioned by seme creed or pop ular fancy is only u thinkiug sym jwl, only a name rprestin'g n. nolh i igness. Whose fault is alt this? Where is a remeny? It is the-'peo ples fault for submitting to any thing but the truth. Christianity is truth. The remedy is for the peo-j pie to hy aside the'r precouceiyed prejudices, and to look at these tnat t-rsasthey are being educated; tc I iok at ppliticrl matters, from f emmon sense standpoint.! The rem edy is for men to fight the j wrongj no matter whether it resoundi tb rouge the pulpit or is imbedded ia; a thousaud human creeds. II hold that Weey. and Calvin and: Luther were wise men and good meu and gfceit men and worthy to be imi tated, but neithir th?y nor tjieif teachers, aide from the Christianity1 . . i ' - - 1 therein, is worth one ioto to m other than fromhe point of educa-f tion for everymn h is in )s .owii convic ijns of wh.t is riget ' and wrong, and your convic' ions may by worth more to humanity than any p f, Luther's or Wesley s or CalvinV Christianity does not teach th;it wp should thiukas they thought. I dare say "that am tjority of the pepp'? know very lit le about churcheS:knd cre very little about churches, i yet thes? people make humanity,' they are the world it is by them this age will be judged in the days to corpe--then, sirs, is it not time that the thiuking Qiristtanitv' pf ; the : world throws this high churchism to ! the dogs and joiu hands and hearts with all ageucies of jjood? ! The longerwe trust to a fal?e -theology the further we drift from; tile truth. The longer we teach j Stuff the further the great heart Pf (? hu manity seeking "for truth, wanders away. There is no attraction! . In shams. Gives the yorld the energy and money, and time and talents that are spent to strengthen church ism and put them to work iti behalf of humanity and Christianity,: and the results will be tenfold better. 1 1 think'I know something of the;; lui raau heart. I think I cau read few chapters in the book of human na ture, and as I do I am astonished t the way the world will admit to cer tain impositions. It is iliflBcult to start all kinds of revulutirins. And they are never started until persecu tion ceases to be a virtue, and ;theyhle U1iht either prevent or remdy, never start from the high-horn and tha title aristocrats, but they j start deep down in the hearts p i jowly minds, inspierd by angels of ; truth, and they, by touching kiodrfectjl ties and awakening quenched fires in other souls, spread on until the brotherhood of man seems the great est thing on earth. Truth I preached so as to touch the devineiu man nev er faiU to tin its point. We ; need a sympathizing Cluistianity ' tb-day. l'here is not a criminal, be; he : ever so depraved, but inivhose heart some where there is a tender spot, ah oasis of beauty-and love, a longing to do right. We need a Christianity that will find this iost germ of !jlov0 and bring it to light and save a soul. This high churchism cares morp for .tlie cloths a persbn wears and the size o his hank account than iti does fo his character or his destiny.' The pulpit and the press of this age don't near meet the require ments that true Christianity expects from this age. The world is I'crying for reformation in church fpthics. A writer in the New York 'Herald says: "The pulpits -talk of; brotherly kindness on Sunday morning, and the pews nod assent, but for six days ithe" week neither pulpit nor pew will go out of its way to lend a hand to the tempted or tc rescue Ij the de graded. People who are really good, tenderhearted, sympathetic, . will sit at ease in their comfortabale ; chairs, possibly sigh "Gob pity the poor this bitier night," thank the Lord that they are themselves warm and g6 to bed with an uudisturbediednscience. "Let ns find aff illustration. Here is ayoug girl in straitened circumstan ces. She'is'pracically aloue in the world, ar.d the world has already crushed the buoyancy and hopeful ness but of her heart. What is1 her life worth, either to herself or a'.y onelseP he a.ks tearfully; Who cartfs wheather she remains virtuous or beewnes vicious? See watches the more favored ones, who are evidently surrounded bv all that wealth can purchase, but not even I a ,look of pity or sympathy is bestowed on her. She is starving and there is. no fuel in the grate. How the .Heavens lower, how hr busom heaves j with anguish friendless, alone, helpless! WhaV shell she do? Shiver in ra-s - ii T 1i Y . 1. . : I d keep i.er sou! pure ? '' Go 1 n iingrv fin a. world a single crumb pf whose surplus would give her contentment ? If she parts with honor she can have plenty. The temptation to surren der grows stronger as the freezing cold deepens and at last, rather than perish for food, sheJmakes the des perate plunge. All is over for her form that moment. She is outcast, and recovery! is impossible. Women treat her with scorn and men' pass her by with ia lee. "But howjdoes God Almighty loik on that spectatle of ruin? And if the dear Christ were here,how would he bear Himsalf towards this trera 1 in gr precious soul, which would gladly have Jived in honesty, but wa driven to whng doings for, the sake of bread tojjat, . He would; take his whip of knotted rords and lash bth pulpit and pew. His ''VVoe nnt you. Scribes and Pharisees," would re spon through the air like thunder from Sinai. "HypocriW L who are robed in purple and tine linen, vln devise hovel pleasures in which U make their leisure time pass swiftly, but never giye a thought for tho c who are ia the pit and crying fo; succor. Were he to come UKn th earth once more; were he to lo k down from some towering height and see the misery below, wuld He tell theChurch that goes byHis nauK to draw the cords or creeds more tightly, to spend more timeiu defin ing the d iff -re nee between theNorth eru and Southern side of a theolog ical hair, or would he .bid us brush all creeds a side and do a irood days work to make the world what it ought to be? "Multiply the cal that wt hafe cited by ten thousand. Think of the numberless men and women who are tired and tempted beyoud human endurance who fal!s,not because cru el necessity dogs thur every step. Then think of a creed over which the righteous quarrel, and see the sorry spectacle of virtuous men, in different to ranmnt crime, iudging it more important to m ike us believe something about God than to do God's will by saving his children. "Religeon has no value what ever jf iris merely a speculation concern ing eternal verities The Church which talks of Chris but does nothing for him, is a false church from pulpit to door. The man whtv thinks himself a Christian becaure hesupports insti tutional religion, but feels no person al responsiblity for the evils which will not stand au even chance in Heaven with the infidel ft ho believes nothong but does what he can. "The righteousness of the hand is well enough in its way, but the righteousness of the heart is what God will demand of you. "The seventh Heaven is not for the man who subscribes to the Nic ine Creed, but for the man whether he has any creed or on, who 8) loves the Father that he has done some honest work for' him. Your religeous theory is not the material out of which to make a Jacab's ladder, but .your religious practices will serve the purpose so well that angels can descend it With God's prayers, and descend it with God,s blessings." Lugellow speaks thus along this line: 'Thank Gof? the theologian said, "The reign of vilence is dead, Or dying surely from the world. While Love triumphant reigns iustead, And iira brighter sky o'erhead. And most of all thank God for this: The war and waste of clashing creed And on one suffers loss, or bked For thoughts that niau call heresies." G. Ed. Ke-tleb, Concord, N. C. What constitutes a good Demo crat? I willl try and answer this question. In the first place, he must conceal all the rascality of the party. In the second place, he msst vote the straight ticket, it he is a free silver man vote for him. If he is a gold bug, vote for him. If it is the devil, vote for hor hira if it will ruin the country don't mind that; if you rare to be brought to hmkauptcy don't mind that, yote for him anyway. I believe the devil is at the head of the present Democratic party, which by the way has gone clear away from democracy and has sold put root and hrance to the money power. D ) not forget the importance of a a vote this fall, though it be cist at a state or county election. Hre the campaign of 1896 was begun really this fall, and the result will maseaially influence the politicians in'their action next year. Do not be deceived iu this matter. You will be told that local issues are only at stake, but vote your convictions and , for njen who will bet carrv out our ; principles. Say to the politicians as . , .J"' . . i bee behiud me Saliu!'' Ei. Retnrnis Pir sperity Evidedces of "returning prosperity" are p pping out all uroond thje Coun try, and while it isiru that I Dem's lrade Iteview says it i "waifciug," stitl it is coming, apd if the peopk vriLdj OUIJ1W ft.lt let) K It. Will possibly by slow freight. Just be patient. Have coi fidence. bee how prices are advancing get m Leather aiuj prices of shoes, have advanced 25 per cent, , while wheat: has "crawfished" the other w ay to 35 and 45 cents in the Mississippi Val ley, and is down to 2S to 30 on the Paci fic coast and i n the DakotaS. Lumljerand naiPs h ive majje a vig orous advance, while corn has re treated gone down to 11 and 12 cents in the great Corn growing re gions. Farming implement have ddvaneed while oats are sellmg at 8 cents a bushel. , and 10 Stoves and cutlery have gpne up, auy lut potato-s cannot be s d at price in sou;e of the great north wes tern t ites, and 4re a drug in j,ue m.ir Ket iu many others. Coal has advanced and about everything else that the farners have to buy, but horses an 1 mufefe wer never so low as they are to-jlay. Then think of "how prosperity not quite here yet, but coming surej is striking some hf ' the returning prosperity howler! f In Missouri alone sixteen banks have closed since Juiy 1. A Spring fieM the Green country -ban cbue of the oldest-in the state, wa Closed Oct. 10. Mosher & McDon;. ,6ne of the largest, loggn g firms in the State of Wi.shingt ui, wiiose rjf tery is worth $500,000, is in the hands of a receiver. Ij ; A wholesale tob:cco (jealer in Louisville skipped out tlje other day, leaving $-40,000 in debt behind him. He was said to be holiest but was overwhelmed, with prosper? I y. The Citizen's State Bankpf Oma ha, failed toopeu ite door Opt.! 11. It witTcapitalized at $50,000. In Business fail hits last werk 208 a gainst 231 for the same Week last year. ' j j j The Everett State B ink it Brown county, Kansas, was closi d jOct. 12. owing depositors $20,000. Gov. Mor rill's bank at Ili.iWatha go Caught iu the crash tor $,5000. I 1 TheStata Bank of Fjjt S-.ott, j I j Kansas was closed Oct. 14, !pn ac count as alleiied, the defaluaiiou of the cashier. j AlvinMaltby,a big lunibeij ealer of B;iy City, Mtch., has beta jfprced to the wall with liabilities aggregating 170,000. Alfred Mosher, .moth lArg" 1 in berman of Bay Cits, Mich.J jfailed a few days a with libilities pggreg.it in over $700,00Q. N .B. Falconer, of Omalja:, a retail dry goods merchant was elosed up Oct 14 with total liabilities that will reach $140,000. ; I H The business failnresforj the nine months of 1895 Expired were forty eight in excess of the number for the same period in 1S04. ! In the face of these unipistakable evidences how will anyone date say prosperity is not returning?! The old calamity howler"; ought to shut up,sit downand drik ingreat draughts of "confidence." -Coxey' s Dailv. H A Sample of Their Lyiiij Very, recently the hire ing gold It ovr the bug press ?ent telegrams j country to the iffct that; (he Mary land. Populist State convention had voted down a resolution favoring the fr e coinage of silver at tlje1 ratio of 16 to 1, It was a lying "jeport and was hatched out to bolster! bp the plutocratic and monopoly 5 1 cry tli at the Silver craze is dying Hit" Only last week, w hen t he Kt tonal rar- mars' Congress wa? in ses Hon in At- lauta, another report was that the farmers had "hit ! isent out rne r naru i i" &c. and that they -had votd down re solutions favoring free silver coin age. This was another ie. Read the resolution below onjlj see you don't ihiuk so. The plutocrats a. id goldbugs . cont rol th Hlgrph system and moat of the jarge daily papers. They send out these repoi to for the purpose of creatin ga false im p'ressiOn and as a rule th ey do not 2orrect them. The peop e will find . 6 out the truth, however. jYes they will. For there are spme paper thsit the plutocrats do no own and ! tliese pa the truth. i caui ot buv, and through pers tlie peple. will get a Hre is one of the1 resolutions adopted by the National Farneas' Congress at its, meeting ii I Atlanta. ''Resolve, That the Farmeas Nh- tion-1 Congress, is emp favor of t.te equal use of mid silver to;ti iis li one) lAtiiMiiy in itlr gold (f 4 it'tn-re :i t H"a j . vatue, ao'i at ?cct'i? t i j tavor. . . . ; Senator leffer on the 8h nation United States Senator. William A Peffer of Kansas, wife and daughter, are guests of the Oxford. The Sen ator greeted a post reporter with the unfailing courtesy, that marks his de meanor toward wery one, and talked frankly and at length adout the pol itics pt the nation. "What do you think, Senator, of 'he ou'look sis regards next year's precedential struggle?"' "It seems now that the contest would be carried on' in much tW same way and very much on the s-ime lins as the las one. It would semi that the Republicans hare a pretty sure thing of winning. The Uenlovrats appear to be going out ol business. They ae ail torn up, and have no grert leader to point the way to victory. j "I take it that the Republicans will elect both a President and House of Reriresenta i.es. Th n their tr ti'!es will begin. They will soon be in the same predicauiHiit of the present ad uiiuistrutious. A I. making up is sure to com ; it may be we w ll see a col lapse of both the old parties bclore 19J0. A great deal depends on the action of the incoming Congress. I think it q tite possible that legisla. tioU will be pas-ed withdrawing the greenbacks and treasury not 3 fram circulation and finding them in a bond issue. If such a policy is to be pursued the sooner will the voice of the people be heard. Iu a few years more the conflicting elemeuts in the old parties will sep arate ir all time. About 75 per cent of the Deuiocruti who believe iu iree silver and equal treatment of both metals will break away from their plutocratic gold standard coad jutors in the Est. About 25 per cent, of the Republicans will do the s.ime thing. The.eceders will go ov0r en masse to the IVpMists. It's easy! to ptedict wh.it will be the re sult. The Populists will come into control in every branch of the gov ernment, and it wilt be adiuinster d in the interests of the people, and not of the Shylocks and speculators." Wasiiitigttn Post. Are the ministers at the post of duty? G'd Siys to his prophets "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like, a trumpet an 1 show jiy people their transgression s." Are the preachers doing this? If so where are thry ? I believe preachers have contributed more to Mir present! financial difficulties than any other class of men, 1st by s tying nothing from the pulpit agiinst political corruption and 2nd by walking up to the ballot box mid voting wi h und for meu of the mot corrupt princi pals, men they could but kno.v, weve robbing the peop'e of their rights. If they did not know it they are too ignorant to preach and if they know of it and vote with at.d for them they are too corrupt to preach. Ti:: iJen of a minister preaching to the peo- plepn Sunday about the innocent and loving Nazarene, and in the wetk walk up to the ballot box and to with saloon men, ballot box stuffeis and robbers and rotten egg stint re, is sertainly beautiful consistency Are they afraid of their salaries be ing unpaid if they vote for truth, houety and honor? This must be it. They with the Democratic pr?ss are paid to keep the truth from the people. They made a great rw over Dr. Thompsons remarks at Cary. 1 Uiink Dr. H. Tittle su-tained Dr. rhompson. Let us stop this gab about the grand work the church is doing and come right to the pulpit to rebuild and let the pastors themseies quit sustainiug rogues in office s;d leave the corrupt element in which they move for filthy (ucrie sakae. Until they do this let them ay nothing of the saloon men and dis tillers whom they help into buines wTth their votes. I believe the church will receive a dew impetus and stair on a grand rapid uiarch to our glori ous millennial day. Untltheti piety must be on the down grade. . Whpn preachers accept nomina tions from the old parties, they rap idly decline in characters and morals. Wiili no' principles at stake and without the instincts of highminded business integrity, they drift Jo a low level very rapidly. Spoils is their only aim. They will do any thing to secure them. The Rev. Hoe ffer instance in Dark country iso ily n3ther evidence of hi f ict. Th' histoiy f nr--a,-h -r io rt I, I pr'y p litics is s b!ac'; one. 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