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. THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH .CAROLINA BAPTISTS DEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Volume 89. -raleighn. c., Wednesday; july 19; 1893. Number O. The Biblical Recorder. PUBLISHED EVERY , WEDNESDAY. OFFICE; ilS (up stairs) Fayette villa Street, Raleigh, N. C. Thumb or Bubscbiption: Uaa copy, one year.. ............. ........... I 2.00 One copT.rix months. ....... ...........,,, LOO Clubs of ten (copy extra to sendar) ............ 20.00 Anonymous communications will always find their way to the waste basket. No exceptions. , In sending letters of business, it is absolutely nec seary that you give your poetofflee address in fulL The data on the label of your paper Indicates when your subscription expires, and also serves as a receipt for your money. Obituaries, sixty words long, are inserted free of charge. 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J H Alford, W H Holloway, J W Carter, C B Edward, T E Skinner, E McK Goodwin, J J Hall, W R Owaltney, N B Cobb, M T Norris, J B Boone, J B Martin, J C Caddell, F P Hobgood, J C Ellington, C i Hunter, C W Car ter, J M Holloman, TH Pi itchard. Anson and Richmond Association, J- w Wild man and L Johnson: Ashe and Alleghany, James Eller; Atlantic, J H Edwards and J C Whitly; Alexander. D W Pool; Beulah, C A Rominger; Brier Creek, W A Myers: Brushy Mountain, R A Spainhour; Caldwell, J V JdcCall; Cedar Creek, J O Fisher; Central, P' A Dunn; Catawba River, Samuel Huffman; Cape Fear and Columbus. E W Wooten and DrAW Kennon: Chowan, E F Ayd lett: Eastern, L R Carroll and O P Meeks; Elkin, J 8 Kilby; Flat River, RH Marsh: Green River, C B Justice; King's Mountain, H FScbenck; Lib erty, James Smith; Little River, J A Campbell; Mecklenburg atd Cabarrus, C Graham; Bit Zion, W C Tyree:Tilot Mountain, H A Brown ; Raleigh, O L Stringneld; Robeson, E K Proctor, Jr; Sandy Creek, O T Edwards; South Fork, J Bridges; Snnth Yadkin. J B Holman : Staniv. E F Ed dings; South Atlantic,. J M Long; Tar River, C MConka. U D Fleming: and R T Vano: Three Forks, E F Jones; .Union, A C Davis; West Chowan, J B Brewer; Yadkia, J G Burrus; Mont gomery, W M Boetick; Bladen, W S Meekin. BOARD Or KDCCATIOW- LOCATED AT WAKB ...-.i-,. rOREST. W L Potest, President; W R Owaltney, Cor Secretary; W B Royal, D W Allen, E Brewer, J M Brewer. J B Carlyle, L Chapell, P A Dunn, W B Dunn, V H Edwards, P W Johnson, W C Lank ford, L R Mills, J B Powers, F M Purefoy, Win Royal, C E Taylor, J F Lanneau, Elder John Mitchell, R E Royal, W J Ferrell. Dr J C Fowler, E W Sixes and J C Maske. BOARD Or MIKISTERS RILIEF- LOCATED AT - DURHAM. W A Albright, President; C A Woodson, Cor Secretary; W C Tyree, H A Reams, T E Cheek, J L Markham, T H Pritchard, F P Hobgood and W N Jones. , , , TRUSTEES OrTBOMA8TILLC ORPHANAGE-LOCATED AT THOMAS VILLB. John Mitchell, President; A G McManaway, Secretary; J C Scarborough, C Durham, W R Owaltney, Thomas Carries, F P Hobgood, Noah Biggs, E Front, K D Fleming, J L Markham, T H PrlfcchAt-d. W T Faireloth. JH Lassiter. A J Mon tague, H F Schenck, John Brewer and J D Bre vard. ... , v,;;;;;; , V, ,A j;v; :::: - A:, .: ., ; - TRUSTEES Or WAKE FOREST COLLEGE LOCATED AT WAKB FOREST. J M Heck, President; R E Royall, Secretary; G T Bailey, Noah Biggs, G W Blount, John B Brewer, H A Brown, N B Cobb, C M Cooke, W E Daniel, H C Dockery, P A Dunn, O Durham, W T Fail cloth. A R Foushee, N Y Gulley, W R Owaltney, F P Hobgood, J Holding, J D Huf ham, O J Hunter. K H Marsh, W J McLendon, John Mitchell, W H Mitchell, E S Moore, RR Overby, T H Pritchard, E K Proctor, Jr, J B Richardson, J W F Rogers, G W Sanderlin, J C Scarborough, T E Skinner, J H Tucker, W G Upchurchrw W Vass. VACATION I0B THE fASTOE. We have noticed with pleasure that with the approach of the warmer and more dan gerous summer months our churches in many localities have seen fit to give their pastors short vacations. ., . About this time each year we hear some one advance the proposition that inasmuch as the devil has never been "known to take a holiday the pastor should not be allowed to rest when the severe heat of summer makes it dangerou for him to preach and weakens him in his work. In our opinion, when the pastor has spent the year In faithful and zealous service, his people should be glad to allow him a brief period of rest and recrea tion in the sultry summer days. When the more agreeable "months come, he will be stronger in the battle for having rested, and if he has spent his time well he cannot but zealously and acceptably than ever. Health is an essential to the success of al most every undertaking and occupation, and a a . a . it 1 '1 a. Af-t 10 a minister a success it is most essential. Yet to-day there are more weakly and dys peptio pastors than.In any otheroccupation. This should ' be remedied. Your pastor's work .depends - in s great -degree -on - his health, and if he looks pale and worn, if he seems unusually tired and exhausted after a day's service, it is your duty to release htm from his work and allow him to recover his strength. . i , . - Bat you shonld not be without a pastor in the meantime. To-day there is plenty of willing material in our college boys, who must return to Wake Forest in September, that will most acceptably fill many vacan cies. Thus will all be benefited the pas tor, the church, and by no means least, tie deserving young student, whom you have helped and encouraged. Our ministerial students should never be forced to nsort to other occupations for want of a good field, and by this means he can find good, prac tical, congenial, spiritual employment dar ing vacation. THE GEARY LAWAN EXPLANATION. - It has come to be the popular fault of our times that judgment is reached and passed on everything without mature consideration. A law is passed, and is condemned before it is known what the law is. This can.be accounted for in many ways. People are naturally prone to prejudice, and the press of our country, through questionable mo tives, is given to leading the people by preju dice through misrepresentation of facts. And this was never more truly the case than with the Act of May, 1802, commonly known as the Geary Law. WHAT TBI LAW IS. The Geary Law was passed as much for the protection of our resident Chinese as for the protection of American citizens. By the Exclusion Bill of 1880 it was provided "that Chinese laborers who were then in the United States should be allowed to go and come of their own free will, and should be accorded all (he rights, privileges, fmm nitiesand exemptions which were accorded to (he citizens and subjects oj 'the most awr ed nations."' That the great object of the Geary Law was to enforce the above has never been known by the great number of opponents of the bill. But let us see. The law , of 1880 to exclude Chinese la borers from our shores promised protection as above stipulated to all Chinese who were in this country at the time of the enactment of the law, but guaranteed nothing to those who should be smuggled into our confines contrary to the law, Yet statistics showed that the Chinese continued to come irfj and it can be easily seen that to distinguish those who rightfully deserved protection from those who were unlawfully among us, some means must be devised. And the Geary Law is the result. If the Chinamen who were lawfully residents of the United States would comply with this law we are sure the government could easily afford them those rights and that protection which they de serve, and which was promised them in 1880. But with Chinese coming in each year unlawfully our government could sot distinguish the deserving from the unde serving. Therefore, among other things of lesser import, it was stipulated, first, that all Chinese who were here, and who desired the protection of our government, should register; certainly no more than is required of our citizens by a majority of our States; second, that he should have his picture taken; and third, that he should carry this picture along with a certificate of registra tion on his person. This was by no means degrading, onerous or unnecessary. From the resemblance which all Chinamen bear to one another, no other means of identify ing them than by photographs could be de vised. We had tried the description plan under the law of 1880, and found it grossly defective.' '"- ' ' " 1 t ,v Now if tne law had placed a tax on the Chinese, if we had made compliance with it difficult or burdensome, some of the out cries might be justifiable. Bat we asked them only to do no more than could be ex pected both for their protection and the welfare of the country The law provided that the officers should go to the Chinaman wherever he was and afford him every facil ity for compliance with the law without ex pense or burden to Mm. ' under tne old law tne uninese were sub- Ject to arrest at any time on the charge of laving come illegally into the country.1 This law assures him, under the seal of the government, a right to live among us in peace and immunity. He has only to show his picture and certificate to obtain the rights and privileges of the citizens of the most favored nations. The question of Chinese trade, of the con stitutionality of the bill, of cheap labor, and Slave labor, and many other questions, can-k not be brought into an intelligent discussion of this law; they were settled in the treaty of 1880. x This law had for its primary and only ; object the identity of those Chinese who were here according to law,. that we might distinguish them from those who were here contrary to law and who did notde serve our protection.- Its object was to dis tinguish the innocent from the guilty, that the privileges guaranteed to the innocent in 1880 might be given them. .Had the law of 1880 been observed, no l Geary law'! would have been formulated. ' I - . We believe in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, but we also believe that a nation's first duty is to enforce its laws for the "protection of its citizens, that they may enjoy the blessings of life, liberty and free institutions in their own country before all others. Talks About Law No. 13. ' " Vr: -A--,;"- ' t- i - - ' ' ' ,. ' , - i BY JUDGE BOBERT W. WINSTON. ' . ' LAWYERS. A quaint old friend used, to say to me that lawyers often got the reputation of being liars because the clients saw their own im age reflected in the lawyer's utterance. At th 8 time, there being no controversy as to whether a lawyer can be an honest man, we will consider the duty and the im portance of the office of an attorney-at-law. We s ly "office," because a lawyer is an officer of the court. He takes an oath as such and he obtains license to practice. One of the prime duties of a lawyer is to discourage strife and to encourage peace and good feeling. One client enfuriaUd and mulcted in costs because of wilfully bad ad vice will permanently injure the reputation and the earning xapacitySf the most suc cessful liwyer. Mr. Counsellor Pleydell, in dulging in the pastimes of High Jinks and receiving CoL Mannering and Dandie Din mont, the doughty Scotchman, was an honor to the- profession, albeit a trifle convivial. 'Now, you looby," said the liwyer, "say in two words what you've-got to say." I'Aweel, sir," said Dandie, not a whit dis concerted by the roughness of the reception, 'We're at the auld wark o the marches again, Jock 6 Dawston Cleugh and me. Ye see we march on the tap . o' Touthop rigg after we pass the ' Pomoragrains; f or : the Fomora grains ana iacKtspooi ana Jtsioody laws, they come in there and they belong to the Peel ; but after ye pass Pomoragrains at a muckle great saucer-headed, cutlugged stanethat they call Charlies Chuckie, there Dawston Cleugh and Charlies hope they march. Now, I say, the march rins on the tapo' the hill where the wind and water shears ; but Jock o' Dawston Cleugh again, he contravenes that, and ears that it hauds down by the auld drove-road that gaes awa by the Knot'o' the Gate ower to Keeldar ward -and that makes an unco difference." "And what difference does it make, friend P said Pleydell. " How many sheep willitfeedr . " Oa, no mony," said Dandie, scratching his head; "its lying high and exposed it may feed a hog, or aibjinstwa in a good year." "And for this grazing, which may be worth about five shillings a-year, you are willing to throw away a hundred pound or twof , - Na, sir, it's no for the value of the grass,'' replied Dinmont, "it's for justice." "My good friend," said Pleydell, "justice, like charity, should begin at home. Do you justice to your wife and family, and think no more about the matter." ,V ' Dinmont still lingered, twisting his hat in his hand "It's no for that, sir but I would like ill to be bragged wi' him; he threeps he'll bring a score o' witnesses and mair and I'm sure there's as mony will swear for me as for him, folk that lived a' their days upon the Charlies-hope, and wadna like to see the land lose its right" " Zounds, man, if it be a point of honor,'! said the lawyer, " why don't your landlords take it up!" "I dinna ken, sir" (scratching his head), " the lairds are unco neighborly, and Jock and me cannot get them to yoke thegither." "Confound you, why don't you take good cudgels and settle it P " Od, sir," answered the farmer, "we tried that three times already W6're baith ey good at singlestick, and it couldna weel e judged." Then take broad swords, as your fathers did before you," said the counsel learned in the law. . , . . "Aweel, sir, if ye think it wadna be again the law, it's a' ane to Dandie." "Hold! hold t" exclaimed Pleydell, "we shall 'have another Lord Soulis' mistake Prythee, man, comprehend me; I wish you to consider how very trifling and foolish a lawsuit you wish to engage in." . "Ay, sir," said Dandie, in a disappointed tone. So ye winna take on wi' me, I'm doubting?'' ' "Me! not I Go home, go home, take a pint and agree." ; Pleydell's success as a lawyer is not to be wondered at; nor are his descendants all dead yet; and many a Dandie Dinmont sur vives as our court calendar abundantly at?: tests. - -rVJ-' -;: sV: "'A'-A Says a great Judge : "There is no pro fession, after that of the sacred ministry, in which a high-toned morality is more imper atively necessary than that of the law." Nor is there any profession in which success and real worth are more often synonymous. No man can "rise " wi tho u t the confidence and good opinion of : the members of his own profession, " like the king's name on the field of battle, it Is a tower of strength; it is the title of legitimacy.":' , ; Perhaps people generally are disposed to look upon the profession '.of the law as one that does not tend to ennoble, because law yers espouse either side of any cause, de pending upon the mere question of which B'Ce first secures his service?, To simply call the roll of those men who have been fore most in human endeavor and whose names a e written highest in libeity's story will refute th) insinuation. Of Presidents of the United States all but four were lawyers, and up to 1843 eighty two of the peerages of -England, we are told, sprung from the law. A Henry exclaiming, "If that be treason, make the most of it"; a Mansfield almost divinely adjudicating that the air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe; a Marshall welding the Union to gether by declaring them to be an indestruc tible Union of indestructible States ; the great Commoner, defying the Throne, cheer ing the fainting cause of liberty, "If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign foe were on my soil, I would never lay down my arms no, never, never l 'f and Curran and Grattan and Plunket and a host of. Irish patriots, sounding thev depths of poverty and danger in behalf of oppressed innooency these are a few of the lawyers', title deeds to greatness. But if our inher itance is great, our responsibility is greater, 4? But there are weighty reasons why a law yer shall appear on either side of any civil cause and for the defendant in any criminal cause. The State has able counsel to pros ecute in criminal cases, and no man ought to undertake the prosecution except where the case is plain. t So ppose that Lawyer Jones were to refuse to appear for a prisoner in a case if he thought him guilty. Then su ppose - that all. the other lawyers were also to refuse, what would be the result! Why, practically, the lawyers would be the jury. Every man is entitled to a fair trial according to the law of the land. . , We once heard a slander of the good wife of a lawyer. A man was charged with bru tally murdering his wife. The lawyer was employed to defend, Going home that night, the lawyer's wife was quite surprised that her husband would represent such a brute. After much talk the lawyer said, "Well, my .dear, he has just paid me a thousand dollars and with part of the money I bought you a seal skin cloak, but as you object; I will re turn the fee and countermand the order for the cloak." She was touched and replied, " I believe I would say a word for the poor fellowF . . Considering the money expended in edu eating one for the practice of law, the cost of books, and a certain style which is re quired of all lawyers, they are the poorest paid class of our citizens. Poverty is one of their badges of distinction. He lived easy, he worked hard, he died poor," is the epitaph over most of their graves.; To some,: attaining judicial office, may Wolsey's pray er be not inapplicable : - . "May he . . . do justice, ' ' ' v For truth's sake and bis conscience; that his bones, "When be has run bis course, and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on bim ;;"fV: yirS'ftij i in 1 ' l - ...;- :SHH!-i'rk-V,i-:i: ' A riing at the Eingera. This is not a very pious looking caption I will admit Bat I want to second Brother Broughton's call for peace and at the same time give vent to a long pent-up desire to throw a few stones at those who are in that business. Allow me for this once to indulge in the very thing I condemn ; .let me grum ble at the grumblers. We are certainly far into the winter of our discontent; it is the day of-4he disgruntled, their heels are in the air. The social,: polit ical and religious atmospheres are all alike charged with the poison. Finding fault and suspecting something wrong have become the fashion. A brave majority of our cit izens never feel so well as when f fiad-i ins; fault with the men they have elected to make their laws. Recently there have' been a number or fires in my town, ana tne style now is to suspect very wisely and very darkly that every man whose house is burned set it on fire himself for the insurance. This form of infidelity, this lack of faith in men is working untold harm. k , Pandora must have 6pened her box again, and turned loose on the world another evil in the form of the modern cheap critic He IS the autocrat at all tables, who, with con sequential air and one wave of the hand, set tles all Questions from the Vatican -by way of London to - , the place where his throne is. In fact, he is pretty well recog nized as the puissant brave who rushes in where angels walk with careful tread. It does not require a teaspoon ful of brains and much less religion to find fault and interject a suspicion that there is something wrong. At bottom the man who is ever showing people their sorry condition without doing something to relieve them is mean. He has filled them with doubt and discontent and left nothing in place of faith and a mind at rest "- ,.-;j-.V:,,: I would give anything if I could go back to my childhood when I had a simple faith in the editors, preachers and the men who control affairs in general. Why in certain quarters I am afraid to express my appre ciation of a brother preacher lest I hear the 'Yes, but- -,n with the Iago like iiisi'Lu aUon that will poison my feelings of aj pn -ciMidnThe'disparagingremaiks'matit'' ly preachers about each other would lead oi to say, 'Turn the rascals out Of the peniten tiary and put the preachers and members of the Board ' in their place." Every department of our work has suffered from this small criticism with a fliDg In it. Every now and then you see a designing reference to the self-important college student-True, many conceited men come from the colleges. But why don't tfco critics, flinging email shot, say something of the fools who never went to college and yet pa rade themselves with disgusting conceit ? Why don't they " tote fair r Another gun of diminutive caliber will fire a shot of face tious smartness at the "Smart Alex from the Seminary." Why no shot for the VSmart Alex", who never went to the Seminary? Some of the brethren have grave fears that the young man who goes to the Seminary will fall into the awful Snare of imitating Dr. Broadus or some other member of the faculty; or that they will get into grooves and lose their originality. Imitation is al ways damaging, but why not be a little agi tated over the young men who stay at home, lest they imitate Elder Fogg. Moderator of Muddy Creek Association X Why cant any body see that if the man is of the sort that imitates and runs in grooves that it is only a question of who shall be his model for im itation, and what .grooves he shallrun in? Why does the man who didn't go to col lege feel it his duty to fling at the one who did go ; and why does the man who didn't go to the Seminary look so darkly wise and suggest that he better take a little " swamp theology'? as he did? And on the other hand, why does the man who has been to these insiitutions, indulge the same spirit toward those who have not ? It is so wholly wrong and mean that one feels that he has lowered himself to notice it . The campaign of Foreign Missions is only well begun, and a large part of our surplus energy is employed quarreling not discuss ingbut quarreling over " methods of nvs sions." ; Men stickle for; a plan while the heathen perish.' Like surgeons standing over a wounded man disputing about what color of bandage to use while his life blood runs away. The missionaries with novel plans fling stones at the brethren, and the breth ren fling them back, and away they go. If some of the men who have written and can vassed so much,; bed spent the time preach ing the gospel to the heathen, had sown more, seed and less .dragon's teeth, we be lieve there would be more theavesto garcer in on the great gathering day. , ; At pretty regular intervals, you see a mis sile intended for the Board of Missions and Sunday schools.; There are constant insin uations that there is something dark. They say they are V turning, on the light," but it is" more like turning on the spite. -Who can Wonder that secretaries are re signing! The wonder is, that more do cot resign. I have no doubt that there is some foundation for the complaints made. You can't account for so much noise without Some such supposition. . ' ; The charge is that there is too much boss ism. But each self appointed boss presumes to order the Board to give him an itemized statement above what the State Convention requires. Can't the brethren be quiet and keep on their clothes till the Convention meets and have it settled there I What we need is freer discussion on the Convention floor. That Is the place where the old and experienced should be heeded, and also where it is not a crime to be a young man. Let the majority decide these questions, and then let us forever after hold our peace. We need less of the " visiting brother's" oratory, and a better understanding of each other as brethren at work in North Carolina. . Who objects to light ! But let it, like the light of the sun, bring with its ray the warm and healing balm. " The Sun of righteous ness" has "healing in his wings." - . M. L. Kesler. Laurinburg, June 30, 1893. The Love of Christ. " There was kneeling one day in tho church a poor collier lad, some ten or twelve years of age. His hair ; was rough, hU clothes were torn and ragged; his feet wero bare, v His hands were clasped as in prayer; a sad,' wistful look was on his face. I knch by his side. I want to be good,' he said; VI want to belong to the Saviour, but I could trust him if only I could be sure that 1. 3 loves me.' "His had been a hard life in thewc:'!, poor heart; how shall I convince hin cf t' fact of the love of God ? I spoke to bin c I friends and playmates. 'Is there any c: you have ever known who,' if you I. :. 1 1 die, would be willing to die in your t 1 1 save you?' A moment's silence, an 1 V with a sweet smile he looked up and i - : ; believe my mother would.' "In that brief pause he had loci: 1 1 on life and measured a mother's 1 ) . haps there passed before his mind l' of her toil late at night to mend I ' ; ' " or earn to morrow's bread, fin J, t the reality of a mother's love, I " ; him it would be strong unto C ' ."Then see what Jesr.s 1 - , spoke to him of the t! : of the cru3ified. lie la:- hands, as he said: again, and trust Lim i "This was tLo vl won in that your 7 1 ns all." Cciia i: 1 C I 0
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