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' TUB ORGAN OF TBE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS DEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Volume BB, RALEIGH,. N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1890. Number GO. ThoBiblioal-Rocordor,: : "'" ..i ,, .. Published every Wednesday. w . - OFFICE f " vl Corner HarfStt and Salisbury Sti. Raleigh, N, C. Tuns o 8vsscBim6iiiffJ$jS&l Ons copy, on year. ,.......,... ,......,,... 8.00 ...... all fti 1,00 Clubs of ten (copy eatra to tender). ..... ... . 20.00 Remittance! most be tent by-Registered. Letter,! Po4toffie Order, Postal, Note, Express or Draft, amble to the order Of the Publisher. - - . ObltaajrlM,' litty word! long, are tnaerted free of Agree "' When they exceed thli length, on cent tor each word moat be paid la Advance, ; . v . j. Words from Kentucky about North s Carolina Baptists, p. Let ft Kentucky i Baptist lay something about North- Carolina Bap' let Interest!. And drat, the Baptist Stat Convention at Henderson, What a eontraat 1848 and 13S9I- TbU foribe saw It in 1848, when it met at Rockford, Sorry county,' W. O. Few in numbers as to minister, bat they were riant.- Dodson. Meredith, then editor of the BisUCAL Recorder, prof. Brook; . Dr. Hooper then president of Wake. Forest College,, Mark May, a western man of great pulpit power, And a few other not Dow re membered, v That wa tUe apect of Bap; tist affairs as tbey appeared to an outsider, yet one that was deeply Interested in Bap-, tlst prosperity, and who then believed the ' Baptists to be-the greatest peopla in the worlds because bis mother and one of his brothers had recently been baptized by Bro. Robinson, pastor of old Stuart's Creek Baptist church. eiv4-H ln:m:,-n Forty one years pass away, and this scribe looks in again on a North Carolina Baptists SUte Convention- Bat t how ebangedl Now three hundred ministers, and probably as many more laymen, gath-' red in a great hall; no church-house large enough toxoid such an assemblage. And now we bear them reporting on missions about (50,000 raised annually for all mis aionary uses; twenty thousand additions - annually to the ' Baptist churches of the State; Wake Forest. College with an en-; dowmentof $200,000, with forty ministerial students, and about two hundred pupil in attendance, with a faculty unsurpassed io all our land, And at this very eetsioojtbey inaugurated a female college, an enterprise which bids fair to equal the male inetita tion at no distant day,, not to t peak of (be grand Orphanage i at Tbomasville under - Bro. MHlSr now -regarded-a bout-, tba best man in America for that kind of, work ; and last, but not least, tbe Biblical Rk GOBDKBrthe prime agent under God of alt this great growth and development, i ; Second. The pastors whose cbarehe we visited and learned to know and love. There is the quiet yet sensible and strong pastor VanDe venter, and bis nolle Render son people, who entertained as so Toy ally. And there U pastor Jlarda way, end his dear Oxford people, who know bow to appreci ate their able and ' self sacrificing pastor, and make a visiting brother feel at borne And there is the man of the true apostolic plrit, who would suffer martyrdom for what he believes end preaches, the scholar ly pastor of the First Baptist church at Durham, who bids fair to secure the loca tion of the proposed female college, one of the enterprising Durhamltee proposing to give 115,000, and others equally ; liberal; making a very liberal proposition to the ftoutuiittee on location.' And there Is pas tor Brown of Winston, who has Just cele brated with bis happy and prosperous peo ple the twelfth anniversary of his wonder fully successful pastorate. But time would fail me to speak of pastor Fant of Wades ooro. with his gem of a new meeting-house; the hospitable and noble brother Tuttle, the Charlotte pastor and the Greensboro pastor, all folly abreast of the day in every good word and work. What grand pastors have the Baptist churches of North Caro linal Kentucky may well looks to her 'laurels.' -;-i:?v:i;yti.';: gn Third, Visit and preaching in old Surry, forty sermons at Mt. Airy tO one of . the "vest and most intelligent and apprecia tive audiences In all my ministry in a dozen States. Would like to mention names, but then I would have to call the roll of the7 whole church and community. Then Dob " eon, the county seat of old Burry, a dozen or more sermons, and several additions by baptism of the beet citizens in the town, the little Baptist ohurch greatly strength- , ened and encouraged. , There are some of the beet and truest people in Dobson with whom it haB been toy privilege to meet. And tbeu the preachers, strong men,- the . sturdy and indefatigable worker, pastor O, O- Hay more; and the eloquent and power fa) preacher, unsurpassed in all the land in al palpit ability, Rev, J. H. Lewellen ; and others too tedious to mention; and all . that tmountainTcoantry lult and: running ; over with a noble and Intelligent Baptist, peopia with wonderful possibilities. We can but exclaim. What'-' bath. God Wrought!' Bnt no mora at. nronAnt ' , i , . uii s. F. T. ' , - AGIctlon is not always of the nature of chastUemsnt, It i sometimes for trial,abd to give a manifestation of the power of faith to eaiara wit, ratiencd the burden that is al4 upoa as. 22ev. 'A. Alexander D. D. ... i Short Sketches of Some, of 4he Bap ' tint' Pioneers of Eastern CarolinaNo 2i " ' Jeremiah Daraan -Dargan Is a name familiar to South Car-' ollna Baptists. Having been a missionary of the Sompter Union, a part of the Charles ton Association, I went up to the session of this Association, held with the High Hills ebnrob in the year I860. Of the great men whom I saw there, I stl 1 retain the names of J, L. .Reynolds, author, preacher and edocator A. M- Poiodexter, the prince of Agents; Samuel Fnrman, whose squat as a hymn-reader I have never beard ; E. T. Winkler, who afterwards made the greatest speech delivered before the Southern Bap tist Convention In Raleigh, and J. O. B. Dargan, one of the most loved and lovable men lot the, Palmetto State., 1 ?; Jeremiah JDargao was born, baptized and ordained to the gospel ministry in South Carolina, j He came to North Carolina and settled in Bertie eoanty sometime prior .to the organiza'ioo of Casbie Baptist church, whieb was organized, according to Bene- Oiot, in toe year i.. 'He is described ai a minister of remarka . ble piety, teal, tender heartedoess, and eS ; elency,1 generally weeping as he warmed and exhorted dying men to? flee the wrath to come. What a pity that it has become uominlsterlal to weep while we preach a living Savior to dying men I Christ wept over sinners. So qid Paul. Are we more manly than they t f ftn -S 'i "1 or at least fifteen years, and probably longer, Jeremiah Dargan preached the gos pel in this State-with wonderful success, Caabie, Wiceaccon, : Windsor, and Coleraln eburehes being a part of the : outcome of his ministerial labors. z He was much hln dered, during tbe last 'years of bis life, by some bodily afflictions, which kept him much at home. 1 : f Perhaps some of your 'readers do not know the powerful magnet that drew him7 tcrrNorthCarolinaritnsraa-Mbr Anne I Uoore, a lovely woman, who, after her con Version, ardently wished for .baptism,::. No Baptist preacher being near, she went to South Carolina In quest of one from whom she could receive the rite. : She met with Elder Dargan, who married her aad re turned with her to Bertie eoanty, N C, Doabtless be thought that a Jady who would take so long a Journey to obey her Savior was worthy the band and heart pf WbiIe'preaeblBfrofor :the Casbie Baptist church, he; jbad iHyat 'ft 91RR0W KSCAPX from death. ' A' afrs. Dawson desiring to Join tbaXJashie cbnrehT-Dargan being-inr feeblw health, requested eider John Tanner to baptizs ber Tanner' did: as requested, and thai incurred ' tbe displeasure of Mr. Dawson, her husband, who had threatened; to shoot any man that would baptize hia wife. ' The following Jane of the same year HTTT)S a " Dargan and Tanner were ascending the bank at Nor fleet's Ferry, on Roanoke river, Dawson shot the latter with a horseman's pistol, seventeen shot entering his thigh and one passing through it - The wounded man was taken to the house of Eiisha Williams of Scotland Neck, where he lay a long time in a critical condition, but finally recovered. Dargan. escaped the shooting by turning over the baptizing to Tanner. " . ; After long and ; painful affliction, and Eatient waiting for deliverance, Jeremiah targan departed this life, fall of hope, on the 25th of December 1786. . Lemuel Bark ett preached his funeral sermon (afterwards printed)-from Luke 2 29, 80 11 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to tby word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." Johh T, Albbittow, January 15th, 1890. - 4 Birmingham Briefs, , : , In the year 1873 stood ft single loveTy farm-bouse near Red Mountain in the most desolate and unpromising portion of Ala bama, to mark the preseuce of human be Jng4 But io the mouutam whioh skirted Jcjues's valley, lay hltidan, in the form of eihaustleea deposits of coal, iron and lime stone, undreamed of wealth, over which Enterprise has now waved her magic wand, and on that site of a single dwelling has sprung up the ' Magto Pity,". and instead of a scattering M settlement," there have crowded Into this . valley over 100,000 of population, rapidly making it the center of an iron' industry . eurpasising anything k in Pennsylvania, . j : , in the spring of "J880 the. AHce Furnace blew In," and began to make pig iron. Next spring Birmingham will have a mam moth show, to iliastrata and signalize her marvelous progress. . x, In tbe oity i proper are now over fifty thousand people. w Nearly half score of rail roads are centering here, and many more are Coming.: ' -?v f i In; the diatriot tbe center of the greatest iron' deposit in the .world are already in operation (with others building) twenty three smelting furnaces, with a daily out put of nearly 2,800 tons of irou.v These and the mine Bbopkt & . vpAyTOV 11,320,000 mouthly to labor eUone. vv.i:H -.The city was never Lulldiog so rapidly as now.KThe smoke of bet mighty industries hangs over ber like a pillar of . cloud by day, and her fimin? furnaces and gleam ing eoke ovens shine like ji pillar of fire by night. -: - TTT7t,T t , 1 "r Mr.., Carnegie, on his recent, trip here, prophesied that-withio Ken .years there would be ft million of people in this valley. Already an immense steel plant is going up. What are the Baptists dofog to plant their principles, and gain a footing here In this critical period? Oar breaohers seem to" real'is'the importance xf energy, and are working tirelessly, Some dozen Baptist chufches have already been established in the oity and suburbs, connected by street cars and dummy lines, 'and other will spring from several additional mission sta tlons already opened. Tbd condition of our churches is exceedingly ernonragfog. .. The First church Is now on quite a boom. Immense congregations gather to hear the eloqaent new pastor, Revi, W.' L. Pickard, D. D. This brother baa rejoiced the hearts of all bis. brethren by bis great success, and filled them with anxiety! for fear be will overdo bis strength, " f - -- The South Side church is greatly soffar ing for ft new ehurcb houses They have postponed the baiiding of? a boose to help needy and pressing objects. Within , the last year the minutes of tbe Association show thejr have- given- to the Howard Col lege, Jadaoir Institute, smd other objects of benevolence some nine thousand dollars.'1 They now worship in a rented barn of a structure which is utterly. Inadequate to their needs. k The South Highlands isf the popular res!-' denee part of tbe city,; sloA good ebureh bouse is ft growing necessity. , It would pay. the Baptists of the State o erect a opmmo dlous here at once. Pastor P. T. Hale has been - With"1 this-4 church fifteen montha When b took eharge its membership num.-: bered 17L,, Heha received iu that time by experience of grace and baptism, 62; by letter, &o.; 192 total 254; so that the pres ent membership Is about 400. It is beeom log one of tbe largest ehurcbes of the St ita." It has bought a most eligible lot. and will endeavor to put up the basement of its new building this spring:. . The seed of this reaping were, to a great extent, 'owed by their last pastor the famous and lamented Dr- J D.' D. Ranfroa i:irkX,rx The Second church is now lamenting the. resignation of Rev. 1L M. Wood who has been called to Bessemer,' a growing suburb of some 5 , 000 tnba. bttants; r ' Pastor James Hogaa of the- Third an nounces his resignation on account of fail ing health. ; i j Woodtawn, Avondate JTost Laku, Ely tonj"Gjseri Springe, Pratt Mines tad Ens ' iey City are all connected by street cars or dummy lines, and have thriving Baptist churches which are growing with the rapid; growtliiftJxeLcity-A half Ldpzmother missions are Debug pushed, which we hope some day to: sew ebwe&cMKw.'i;: -wit sft: We have no w-a-Bapt is t Pastors Confer ee ce of a dozen uiloifters. and an-organ called the Birmingham Baptist, edited by Pastor P. T. Hale, whioh Is doing ft good work. ' Pray for us. -' Birmingham Invites tbe Southern Bap tist Convention next year. - - w - Lyjus., . Birmingham, Ala,' Jan. 18 1800j . jJLQreenLemlChurvh.Z'.-. ,. Dear Bro. Bailey ; I have thought for some time I would, say something of the work at my two charges Green Level and Pleasant) Grove churches. For fear of crowding your columns, I will only speak of tbe former in this letter..' For nearly five years Rev. W. 8. Olive- served this church, than whom there are but few bet ter pastors or preachers, winning for him self everywhere the- love and confidence of his people; Last summer, on bis leaving for tbe Seminary, the church asked the writer to become its pastor. It is not ex pected that he will fill the plaoe of the for mer shepherd eepeoially while a student at AnllncA. Thft adm. 44 do not ' hava too many irons in the fire at once," is a true1 one, bnt I trust Green Level will not chill in this destitution, for within herself she carries a forging heat all the while. Her present pastor has never entered ber do main without feeling those throbs of sym pathy for biuiBelf and. the cause that Is such an Incentive to zealous work. - , We bave an evetgreen Sunday school of from one to two hundred attendants, well organized, and doing a work superior to that of -any Suoday-sohool I know in tbe country; Notwithstanding tbe present money panic, the ohurch has ho wrangle in arranging its fluaooes. 'J r" While this church, by reason of building expenses,' &a, did not satisfy, the demands of the Association last year on missions from apparent indications i think 4,Bx. B," will bave to withdraw his censure against it and Bend his Missionary to another field. Am trying to get ePcopy of the REfOKDKH in every family In my charges. It is a pas tor's true assistant and ought to illumine tbe bouses -jpf more than - two hundred thousand Baptists in this 8tate. -' j.,. J(.-. O.-W, BJCANCHARD' , Wake Forest N. 0..' Jan. U, 1890. . Church discipline must not beAexerclsed in a spirit of arrogance,' nor of dictation, nor of assumed superiority, much less of yindictlvenessj but 9lfFterual solicltationt of gentlenena and love,- Dr, JS. T. Iliscoxf , iCTExaniine onr premium list to be sees on the sixth page, sod taVe advantage of Its offers Winston and Waughtown, . Bro. Biley: I have entered npon my second , year as pastor of Broad Street ohurch, Winston, and at Waughtown. " I am very much encouraged in my work. We organized at Broad Street about one year ego with twenty members, v We have now forty three; and expect to receive oth ers soon. ' c v ' There is move brotherly love and fellow ship existing in this church than any one I ever served. It did my heart good- when tbe treasurer told me that, every memter had met their obligations, and paid, every cent pledged by them on last year's work. We have a Ladies' Aid Society in this ehuien, which has been, a great help to us. They have recently put in tbe ohurch a nice eight day calendar clock, also a beautiful vestibule lamp;1 and on the first Sunday in this year they presented the ehurcb with a very handsome eilver communion set. a? - I We have also a Bright Jewel Society that Is doing a noble work for missions, and ft young men's prayer-meeting . that ,. meets once a week,-'-" - -,14.' -r -.rvU" "v;4. The Waughtown church is also a noble band of brothers and sisters." They have struggled and made sacrifices to build them a new house of worship,, bat I am- glad to say they aren early out of debt now, and have One of the neatest churches of any village I know ot-A&Mi oiu, v They certainly know how to make ft poor pastor enjoy his Christmas. On Christmas eve they, sent us a; wstgon load B of good things, and we are not done feasting yet, ' and will not be done for some time to come. How it does encourage our hearts to be so kindly remembered by such people I May the Lord help his poor unworthy servaat' to be faithful to them." CT-r" ?? 2ri z z.-vt IT. PKBSJtLL it WmstonV jarL 14i 189Q.4 xk.yu-' Home in the vjleart for Christ, r If Jesus actually lives with you, other people will be sure toT discover the fact. When He went into the border of Tyre and Sidon, He "eould not be bid.! If yon travel through certain district in South: era France in lavender time you are sure to know that it is a lavender country by the sweet fragrance of the air., Christ is always self revealing. ' No genuine Christian wilt ever desire to coneeal Him; he could not, even- ix he would. Many, absurd things have been written about : secret, hopes.', etc;. but, , my. friends If nobody Jn this world, not even your most intimate friend, suspects that, you are a Christian, I do not believe that you. are one.. If there is any fire in a stove, a touch will show it. Here, then, is an infallible- test. Do-1- feel and recognize that Christ is in my heart, con trolling my conduct, quickening- my con science, and helping ma every day to resist evil, and do right! Then He is there;" but if no such internal evidence exist, then Christ has, never been there, or has srone fttaray,s , i ' it - 4 j- ' - J . For the question, whether the Master will always stay with us, depends largely, upon ourselves. Self-will, and pride may. drive Him oat, for He promises to dwell only with them who are of an humble and oontrite spirit. r Neglect may provoke Him to depart, aud so may a. persistent disobe dience to. His commandments. Dr. Mao laren beautifully remarks that "the sweet song birds and honey-bees are said always to desert a neighborhood before a pestilence breaks out in it." So the inevitably holy Saviour will not dwell with evil, and we may so poison the heart atmosphere with Indulged sin that He will not stay in It, Free agency does not cease after conver sion.: If Christ enters our heart through faith, Ue must be. kept there by faith. O what wondrous ooudescensiou that tbe Lord of glory will consent to occupy such a hut as my poor heart, ': yet He . is kindly saying to me: 44 Give me room in this,, th, heart, and I will give thee a place in my heaven." 'i .4:.''4". i'S - ;r. A practical thought not to be lost sight of Is that If Jesus dwells in our hearts we should be carrying Him with ua j 44 Let your light so shine before men," that they may recognize that Jesus is within you. Show your ChriBt like kindness to, people while they are living,; and do not take it out iu heaping flowers on their ooffloa. I have sometimes thought when 1 looked at some; posthumous displays, that if these poor,, . silent lips could speak they would wish that a .few more flowers of love bad sweetened their hard, weary lives f . Carry Christ. with you. to your uncon verted friends. . If you win their respect for yoa and gee a hold on them you can talk to them about their souls; tell them what Christy has done for you, and, as It were, add your knock to His knock at their heart's door. Reverently be it said, the Christ in: yoa will appeal to them through you. Just here - lies tbe only real power whioh any Christian has with the sinning and suffering around hlm.: As for such of my readers as have never had this glorious Son of God living in their hearts, it is, be cause' they 46 hot want Hiaul there. s He will be . in the way of your favorite sins.' Beware,. . my . friends 1. Christ, gives .last knocks, and if you bolt Him out of your heart He will shut you oat of His heaven. "-iJtv TCLCCuyUf B. r -. A sound discretion Is not so much indi cated : by never matin 3 a mistake as by never repeating it, Bovee, - Tho Work of the Ministry. " I want to say to young men that if yon enter the holy ministry with the rlgb ' f pit It, loving God and desiring ueefulnoff you will find the work .of the ministry always a satisfaction, often a Joy, end scuietloies a rapture. J Of course I exclude from these consolations those men who enter tbe min istry with haf a heartland who at tbe first opportunity ef cape through Wall street, or throURb tbe fortune of a rich wife. I alno exclude from these consclations those min isters who- smoke themselves to death, as hundreds of tbem do. I exclude also from these consolatioos those ministers who paFs their lives in complaining about tbe tins of tbel world, instead of putting both bands' forth to make that world better. . This Joy of which I f-peak comes to thop who fe? 1 called to tbe work of the Christian riiiiis try, and are glad of It. "? The minister of Christ in this way must toil thoroughly end continuously. ? If he would be able to ia struct tbe people, be must bave sorjuetLiD.? decided to say, and be able to say it in such a way that the people will unden-tend. There are in this day so many pamphlets, so many bookf, so many newspaper, to many lecturicg platforms, that. tLe great macs of people. arc accustomed to diecucs questlobsof literature and morals a od re ligion ; and I c- re- not - bow fine t ht vol c 9 may be, bow elaborate tbe rhetoric, or bow high-sounding tbe phrase, unless the rain , ister of Christ has something to eay, all the people know It, and tbey. know It rU-t away. Hence, he must be busy not only with tbe books in his library, but with the large book of everyday Christian experi ence and of worldly observation. He must , not only know what were the ske pt Icims ' of Hume, and Gibbon, and Voltaire, but be acquainted with the modern Infidelities that swarm in the street and drawing rocn. Besides that, his hand and heart must ever be open for Christian sympathy and belp. L There are tbe ' bereaved: to- be comforted. There are the dead to te buried. Tbers are the fallen to be lifted up with great en couragement.,. There are young men com ing to town, who need! Christian counsel. Plenty of work for voice, for hand, for pen. Besides that there are a thousand charities of the world and of the cburch.to which ha must, in the name of Christ, put forth bis. hands. Now, a man,-entering tbe ministry with the right spirit will fled perpetual exhilara tion And joy in the work. To stand before a company of immortal men and women .importuning them, tq.fca.ch belief and br;v. vior as shall lead them to high bappmets on earth and openf or tbem the grandeurs of eternity;: to enter the harvest-field where the grain is ripe and the sheaves are com ing toward their garner that is life lor tta body, that is inspiration for tbe mind, that is rapture for the soul; and if there s in all the world an Occupation or profession tha.t yields such mighty satisfaction, I bave never heard of it. -Dr. DeWitt Talmage. Old Ministers, Bro. Kingsbury, in the Wilmington lies'' senger, in commenting upon an article iu the BlBUCAli KKCORDKU in regard to some of the older ministers in the Baptist church of the State, has the following to sty con cerning two from Granville county: : The most philosophic tl, the most acute mind the Baptists have ever had in North Carolina, was a distinguished gentleman of Granville, Josiah Crudup. lie was a man of large wealth ;r was a man of high intel lect, analytical and metaphysical. He bad ft most impressive face, was scholarly, eta dlous, and a powerful reasoner, Ho never nccelved money for preaching, and there fore spoiled the congregations to whom be preached. They were not trained in giv ing, and instead of giving a tenth as Iu doty bound, they gave only a pittance, be lieving in one sense, in a free gospel one that cost no money.. Mr. Crudup was a very able man. Judge Davis, ot tbe ftu preme Court, once told us that he was the very ablest man be beard. When iu poli tics h was extraordinarily strong, served in the United States Congress, and was de feated for re election by a few votes some twenty by Willie P. Manga tn. Governor Swain told us that he heard Mr. Mantua more than once say that a big rain on t'a last day of tbe canvass elected bitn. I T-3 bad'epoken first, and a rain, prevent! I.rr. Crudup from replying to his speeeh, I r. Mangum was wont to laugh as he said t'. a reply from Crttdup would have ek e' I him. Gov. Swain said that the canvas - cited as much interest in the St te as r ' Qovernor's canvass had ever done. 1 told us this In 1843. Tbe ablest and most. cbartnU; I preaober we ever . beard in North C was the President of Wake Forest C." Dr.. W. M, Wingate.. He was a 1 lightful preacher, and very i when at bis best, lie always ; ; the Orossl ? The late Willi.! i I . : .' of Granville, bad tha repi one of the most gifted cf t' ) i Isters yet born iu this Ctat.. I derfully gifted E3 t v excess and f!l H was, peea!Iar. J and was sene---- a man of n u ':, h . liev. i t Dr:Po:.:!?i" . iaYi." '.:.!', -'
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