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Volume RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16,1893; Number 7, The Biblical Recorder. . PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. s , . OFFICE ! US (up talw) Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, N, C, " Tebhb'ov BuBBcanrnoN: Oatoopy, one year...... f 2.00 0M00P7llmontlu ; 100 rinht of ton (oopy extra to eandfir) . .. . ...... 20.00 Anonymous communications will always find .ka.tr t to the waste basket. No exceptions. ; - In tending letters of business, It Is absolu tely neo tmnij that you give your postonloe address In full. The date on the label of your paper Indicates when your lubeoriptlon expires, and also nerve as . reoeipt for your money. ; , Obituaries, sixty words long, are lnnertod free of hre. When they exceed this length, one cent tor each word must w paid in advance. 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M T Norrk J B Boone, J B Martin, J 0 Caddell, P p Hobgood, J O Ellington, C J Hunter, C W Car ter, J M Holloman, TH Piitchard. - Anson and Richmond Association, J W Wild man and L Johnson: Ashe and Alleghany, James EUer; Atlantic, J H Ed wards and J C Whltly; Alexander. D W Pool; Beulah, G A Romiager; Brier Creek, W A Myers: Brushy Mountain, R A Spalnhour ; Caldwell, J V JJcCall; Cedar Creek, JGFiaher; Central, P A Dunn; Catawba River, Bamuel Huffman; Cape Fear and Columbus. E W Wooten and Dr A W Kennon; Chowan, E F Ayd lett; Eastern, L R Carroll and O P Meek; Elkln, J 8 Kilby ; Flat River, R H Marsh; Green River, C B Justice; King's Mountain, II FSchenck; Lib erty, James Smith; Little River , J A Campbell; Mecklenburg aod Cabarrus, C Ore ham; Mt Zion, 0 L StringfieM; Robeson. E K Proctor. Jr; Sandy Creek, O TEdwarts; South Forkr J - Bridges; South-Yadkin, J 8 ilolman ; Stanly, B F Ed dings; South Atlantic, J M Long: Tar River, C M Cooke, R D Fleming and RT Vann; Three Forks, E F Jones; Union, A C Davis; West ; Chowan, J B Brewer; Yadkin, J G Burros : Mont gomery, W M Bostick; Bladen, W S Meekln. BOABD OF IDUCATIOIt LOCATED AT WAKB roRxsr. W L Poteat, President: W R Gwaltney, Cor Secretary; W B Royal, D W Allen, E Brewer, J M Brewer, J B Cariyle, L ChapelL, P A Dunn, W B Dunn. W H Edwards, P W Johnson, W C Lank ford, L ft Mills, J B Powers F M Purefoy, Win Royal, C E Taylor, J F Lanneau, Elder John Mitchell, R E Royal, W J FerreU. Dr J C Fowler, EWSixesandJCMaske. BOARD Ot MINISTERS BELIEF -LOCATED AT f ' ' DURHAM. WA Albright, President; C A Woodson, Cor Secretary4, W C Tyree, II A Reams, T E Cheek, J L Mark ham. TH Pritchard. F P Hobeood and W a Jones. , TBCSTKXS 09 THOMAS VILLI ORPHANAGE LO . ,. CATXD AT THOMAS VILXK. '- John Mitchell, President: A O' McManaway, Secretary; J C Scarborough G Durham, W R Gwaltney, Thomas Carrlck, F P Hobgood, Noah Bigg, E Fmet. R D Fleming, J I Markbam, T H Pntchard, W T Faircloth, JH Lassiter. A J Mon tague, II F Schonck, John Brewer and J D Bre sVard..,;;;,;, :.j;,:,. ;. .. sf:fi- : , trustees or wake forest colx.eo s located AT WAKE FOREST. , 3 M Heck, President; R E Royall, Secretary; 0 T Bailey, Noah Biggs, G W Blount, John B Brewer. H A Rmm. N R fnhh 5 M Cooke. W E Daniel, H C Docker y, P A, Dunn, C Durham, W T Fab cloth, A R FousheS. N V Gulley, W R gwaltney, F P Hobgood, J N Holding, J V Mut ham, O J Hunter, R H Marsh W J McLendon, John MiteheUY W H Mitchell, BS 8 Moore, R R Overby, T H Pritchard, E K Proctor, Jr, J B 'uvumiuud. v rv r nosers, v Dtuiuci uu, w Fcarhnrviii trVi V V. fOrlnnar J TT Tiilrnr. W G tUpchurch.VW,VasB. ,: . um uuu , iracu irwij' uiauj oiuw men. Mirvco-lnrr rnr vant PTtfint of tfirrltOI V and formtog a small estimate of its inex iaustible resources, were Tisionary enough to suppose that this new western govern ment of ours might escape the many painful evils which had so sorely afflicted the na tions of the eastern hemisphere. ' Surely,: thought they, we can profit by the sad ex perience Of falling and fallen empires, and build a government whose highest end shall he the welfare of its citizens; surely this youngest and most premising of peoples wxmld be spared the discipline of poverty and misery. But sadly they have never re alized their dreams, ' We know now that it is not, and has not been, and the promise of the future U waiing.;; We are not howling calamity, but it cannoi be denied that our nation has endured and is enduring as much, if not more, than those by the fate of which we should have profited. '.There is some-, thing vitally wrong Bomewhere, ; We know that the' spirit of Christian - interest has not pervaded four legislative assemblies; we; know that many of our laws have been en- acted for other ends than those of liber 7. Equality and Fraternity;' and we be lieve that in l the neglect of 'these xnatters lay many of the causes of the present wide- spread discontent As we are situated now the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor; and the divergence increases with the years. God will never smile on a nation which neglects his laws, r We must- turn about. As long as our people look only to the laws of human existence with earthly eyes, the struggle for existence will be the same old struggle of the older civilizations. We must re-organize slowly on sounder principles, and there is no time like the present to begin. The duty of the hour is to bring man nearer to man, to Jbridge the widening gulf that divides the rich from the poor When man's sense of duty to his fellow-man is aroused and awakened, we may kexpect to see many of the present iniquitous Dwtbuca icpmueu wim legisiaiiou mat Hoaii voice the conscience of the people. Until such statues are enacted, until the security of our government rests on the brotherhood of its citizens, this will be a land of strife and hatred, corrupt politics and a favored and unfavored class.. This is, the work of the church. She alone can reveal to men tbe only true foundation of progress and prosperity an impregnable belief and hope in an allwise, loving and just. Father, and an unalterable love, respect, and compas sion for his children. The editor of the Richmond Christian Advocate seems unusually, and, in our opin ion, unduly aroused at the present prospect of the negro race, aided and abetted by Northerners, superseding the white race in America. We simply desire to re assure our brother that there is absolutely no dan ger. The whites have the advantage of centuries of civilization over the negroes, which the latter can never overcome. We want to have them educated; they are in disputably and -irrevocably citizens of the United States, and none will deny that they may inherit eternal life. Where there is one educational institution endowed for negroes, we can name ten that are better for whites, and if a negro gains the ascendency over a white by honest effort, we don't believe he should be blamed. But this is not by any means the case. The Advocate has fallen into the very common error of deducing general conclusions from specific instances. -That twenty negroes have become of . wealth and influence is no reason that the whole race is rivalling the white man's attainments that a few whites have fallen below the negro is not the negroe's fault, and is no reason why we should fear that such will be the fate of our sons; that sme few are high-beaded and insolent after acquiring an ordinary ed ucation, is no less than can be said of some young students of the white race, and is na reason why the rest of the race should be consigned to a life of poverty and intellec tual darkness; that the son of a dead min ister once honoring city pulpits is found as a servitor in the kitchen of a negro mag nate," is not the fault of the negro, but of the son who threw away good opportunities, and is no reason why the negro should be hindered in his efforts to secure a broader field of labor, and should not "arouse the conscience of the church." - Handicapped by centuries of utter darkness, the negro can never hope to more than keep within hearing distance of the quickening strides of the white man. We need have no fears. The race question has . been quietly resting of late, and we hope it may never become active again, but if it Bhould there is but one way to settle it, and that is by educa tion in negro schools. The more the negro knows, the better citizen he is, and the Greater are his advantages for serving God., 'he same is true of every human being. The discussion of the " Home Rule " bill in the English Parliament during the past three months has excited an almost univer sal interest in the country for the welfare of which' it was framed, as well as in the bill itself. The bill is' quite lengthy and ex haustive, but the substance of - it can be found in any of our. State constitutions, though the provisions for Irish legislations are considerably more restrictive. But the country itself presents a far more interest ing- study, From statistics compiled by James G. Blaine we gather the following : Ireland has a ' population of more than K,OO0,OOfr souls on an acreage not quite, equal to that of the State of Maine on this small territory she produced in one year 4,000,Q00 bushels Of wheat, .b,uou,ouu oi Darxey,- yu,- 000,000 of, oats, 110,000,000 of potatoes, 10 OOA fiftCl nf tnrnlnti and man tr!a .orrfiAtpr in weight than the best cotton crop of the United States; in the same year she pro duced 60,000,000 pounds of flax, 850,000,000 pounds of cabbages,1 ana 8,80o,oou tons or havi Moreover, in that year She fed within. her territory 4,000,000 head of cattle, 8,500, 000 of , sheep, . ooo,ouo norses ana zuu.uuu mules all in a country of less territory than Maine, a single State of our 48. How can poverty pervade a land so productive I : And yet it does; andthe reason js the , grasping oppression of English land-owners deprives the laborer of his reward. In rental to'Eng llsh .land owners, and in - taxes,' most of which go to England; these 5,000,000 people pay annually 115,000,000." 1 ' r f Our Board and the "Gospel Mission." a i' Numerous requests have come for infor mation in regard to the withdrawal of breth ren Crawford, Herring, Bostick and League from connection with the Foreign Mission Board. In response to these requests, the following statement has been prepared. It does not undertake, of course, to bring out att the facts contained in over a hundred letters and papers now on file. Indeed, the differences below indicated soon become com plicated with petsonal and pecuniary questions into which I am unwilling to enter. . One of the brethren withdrew infor mally, we hardly know when or how, two voluntarily tendered their resignations, and one was requested to resign. Sharp things have been said about tbe tyranny and lavish expenditures of the Board, but we trust to the common sense of the average Baptist not to be misled by statements that are ob viously extravagant, and in all controversies with our brethren we deem it better to en dure in silence rather than to retort un-. kindly. What I now write, may seem to lack the spice of personality. It will proba bly be unsatisfactory to the advocates of the Gospel Mission;" perhaps equally unsatis factory to the most ardent supporters of the Board. Extremists have a great advantage' in any public discussion they see only one side and can state that clearly and forcibly. But the interests of truth are better sub served by trying honestly to" look at both sides, and thus comparing schemes though both be faulty, in so far as they are human. ' There are, as it seems to me, two radical differences in principle and several resultant differences in policy, between tbe brethren above named and the Board. ' DIFFERENCES IS PBINCIPLE. . 1. Church Independence. They hold that a local church or group' of churches ought to select, appoint and sustain its own mission ary, and that he should be responsible and should report his woik only to the appoint ing body. We also believe in the' complete independence of tbe churches in all local matters, but claim that, according to the New Testament teaching, there should be fraternal co-operation between them in all matters of wider concern. Hence arise, Councils, Presbyteries, District and General Associations, and the Southern Baptist Con: vention. If the Convention, through its Board, should accept the ideas advanced in Dr. Crawford's tract entitled " Churches to the Front,'' it would simply commit suicide. Indeed, the good Doctor's ootnmon sense has saved him from a rigid application of his own theory and compelled him to give it up by saying "church, or group of churches.'' The group of churches, with a committee to represent them, differs in size but is pre-, cisely the same in principle es the Conven tion with its Board. Moreover, we believe that in the divine economy there Is a special provision made for "diversities of gifts,1? and that often it becomes the duty of a Church in one locality to sistain a man from another and distant place, one whom it has never seen and could not appoint. Herein lies tbe utility of a central board to select men. It is also obviously more economical. 2. Aim of Missions. On this there are two diverse views. One set of learned and very pious interpreters emphasize tbe work of evangelizing and proclaiming as a herald. They regard Matt. 24: 14 as prophetic of a time now near at hand, and propose to pre pare for the coming of the Lord by herald ing the gospel among the nations. They do not expect to gain many converts, but to evangelize the world in preparation for the millenium. These are the Premillenarians, and furnish not a few of the most zealous laborers for missions, including such men as Drs. Gordon and Pierson. Another set of expositors are chary about attempting exact interpretation of prophecy until it has been fulfilled, but stand firmly upon the plain terms of the Great Command (Matt. 28: 10, 20) and its practical exemplification in Acts and in the Epistles, in which preachy ing and teaching are regularly, combined. These labor to save souls, to train converts, to establish churches as centres of influence candle sticks In the midst of darkness. Now it seems to me that our brethren above named, without being fully committed, Jean strongly towards the former: theory, while we adhere rather to the latter, t This may explain in part the" paucity of apparent re sults in North China, for the rule is "ac cording to ybur faith be it unto you." , DIFFERENCES Ot TOUCT. i , , Out of these different views on matters of principle necessarily : arise differences in practice which I may mentiont """ T; i 1.: They claim the fullest personal liberty as servants of the Lord and of his churches (a) to do their own work in their own way,; which we fully and freely concede and have always conceded; (b) to remove from place to place or to return 1 to this country at pleasure, which we hold to be inconsistent with reasonable rules to which, they have personally subscribed,; and (c) to criticise publicly the 1 work" of our missionaries in other fields,1 which seems to us unbrotherly. On this last point, they maintain that the good of the cause and the interests of the troth mnst over ride all personal considera tions. We think differently... Let me illus trate our position by my own case as a mem ber of the Faculty. of Richmond College. ' I may sometimes see in the management of the institution or in the instruction of the classes what seems to me injurious and wrong. I, have a perfect right to talk of it kindly with my colleagues, or to ask the attention of the Board of Trustee?, but to ventilate my views in the newspapers or w!th students and pa trons, would, in my view, be good reason for tbe Trustees to sever my connection, on the ground that I was hacking at the tap root of the tree that supported me.' 1 1 " , 2. They are entirely opposed to the ap propriation of any mission money for schools. This Board has never gone so far in school wotk as some other denominations, nor so far as our brethren of the Missionary Union. -Our fundamental rule is in these words: "The oral communication of the gospel, the formation of churches, the train ing and ordination of a native ministry, the translation and circulation of the Scriptures, anckthe extension of missionary work by the aid of native laborers, supported, as far-as practicable,' by the natives themselves, shall be regarded as the chief business of our mis sionaries." (Art. ; I, Sec. 1); but it seems to us that schools for the instruction of prom ising young men and women in the doctrines of the Bible, and even for secular instruc tion of the children of converts from heath enism or Romanism are almost essential to the establishment of self supporting, self propagating churches. The girls In Mexico must either grow np without education, or get the semblance of it fn an atmosphere of superstition, or we must provide schools for them. -- The case is even worse in China and in Africa. If Christian and denominational Schools are needed in America, how much more In heathen lands T x ? The amount of money devoted to schools Is very much less than is" usually supposed. The schools in Shanghai are supported, as I am informed,, entirely .from, the private means of Mrs. XYates, 1 her. daughter and other missionaries. ; Dr. Graves' class in Canton is nothing more than a Bible class, meeting several hours every day, instead of one hour on Sunday, or a class in theology designed for the better Instruction of those who give promise ,cf usefulness in the churches. ' The appropriation asked for tbe seven schools in Canton this year is f 1,277. A large proportion of this comes to us spe cifically designated for that purpose.; Bro. Z. C Taylor, at Bahia, one of our most eco nomical and devoted missionaries, has been So much impressed with the dangers beset ting the children of -his church members that, when last in this country, he insisted upon taking back with him a young lady to establish a school for these children. The Madero Institute tn: Mextcarwaspurchased and is sustained by Contributions given for this specific purpose. '-The sum asked and appropriated for this year to its current ex penses is l,10O, nearly, if not quite, all of which comes to us so designated from Girls' Societies throughout the country. The f principal contribution to the support of the nstitute from mission funds is in the sal aries of three or four ladies who teach in the school and at the same: time do missionary work in connection with the church and in house-to-house visitation in the city of Sal tillo. The appropriation asked and given for schools in Africa this year is just $200. Sa it appears (and I iave carefully exam4 incd all the estimates) that the cost to our treasury, of the schools in mission stations, is just $3,577 a year, and that a largo pro-, portion of this we could not honestly appro priete to any other object;: s- ';-:;:.rV A:T"k-;'.;i ; 8 They hold that it is wrong to pay na tives for any religious work, .claiming that such payment subsidizes them and leads them to profess Christianity for the sake of gain. - It seems to us : that the troubles of which-they complain have existed in all countries and at all times since the days of Christ and his apostles, (Matt 7: 23; PhiL 8:18, 19) and that the proper way to avoid them is to observe the utmost care in the selection of native helpers. It is manifestly unfair to class Pagengouth, Paschetto, Fer raris, Bellondi, and others of our Italian evangelists, or some we could name In Mex ico, with the native assistants in China or Africa. But China also most eventually be converted, if at. all, by Chinese,::? America cannot spare preachers enough to reach her four hundred millions. . To hold that all na tives who are willing to preach have been subsidized, is not only-to distrust them, but' to distrust the grace of God. t i If we show utter want of confidence in converts from heathenism, they will hardly deserve confi dence. ? We hold, therefore, that self sus taining churches will be established earlier by giving such help as may be needed to men who seem most worthy and most con secrated and who give evidence of being called of God, and by gradually diminishing this help as the churches thus formed be come able to support their own .preachers. This is the plan pursued by ourJState Mis sioh Bdards. This is the plan which has already borne good frnit in and around Can ton, our oldest and in many respects most successful mission field, " --r'---' ! 4. Broy Herring, as I understand him, though I am unable to say that the other brethren agree, thinks that the missionaries sent out by a church or group of churches Should bff" allowed to endure hardships and even death,: when their supporters fall, to furnish means in due time. One of them argues, -" of coursethe money will come ; it is perfectly , natural, for the people know they are depending on God and on them for support," but Bro. Herring fears that some precious lives may have to be sacrificed in order to teach the churches at home this lesson. We hold that men whom . God has called to this great work, deserve such sup port as will enable them to do it most effec tively, that this support should be regularly furnished, .so .that they , may ; give, their strength to the work, and that, for this pur- pose, It is wiser to enlist a large number of churches, so that any deficiency cr failure In one quarter may be made up In another, " -p. -- t- -- uor. : 14., i nere is unquestionably more of romance, more of what is commonly call ed heroism, in the new plan than in the old,, but we believe that as V faith without works is aeaa," so a Dare trust m uoa without the use of means suggested by sound common sense, is fanaticism. The snores of the Dark Continent, north, west and east; are strewed with the wrecks of independent ef forts, and, for want of wisdom, more mis sionaries have' been buried in Africa than are now laboring there. The China Inland Mission is constantly held npas a model; its measure of success is largely due to the im mense personal magnetism of its founder, X . b!iL ill- 1. V 1. -11. 1 . sua even wiui mis u cas ueea pougea 10 es tablish a Council or Board of Control at ot 1. T1...I - - 11 : t $ piwuguai. raui was iuo jjnuto tii jureiga missionaries no man ever had a firmer trust In God, no man ever more wisely availed himself of all advantages. , ; 5. The brethren insist on the iconomy of wearing native dress, living in native houses, subsisting on native rood. - we say, very well, where it Can be done without iniurv to Inflnpncfl or to health. A Tha nlan works Rat-- isfnrtorilv in Ttftlv. fftiilv in .Tnnnn .'Rrazil- ftnil Matiati. bnt hnw wnnM it An amnnir thn. naaea aenizens or mua nuts in Ainca i W9W - UvCUwU HUM MAW. Ag W V-UIUO, C judge that; there are some sections of the vast empire in which It is wise to adopt partly or fully the native mode of living, others in which it would be unwise. On these matters each of our missionaries is al lowed the fullest liberty. Several of our moet honored brethren have tried the cheaper style of living and we gladly ac cepted, the relief to an. always burdened treasury, and then when they have found that their influence was weakened or their health, pndermined, we have cheerfully sup plied larger means." : V : Let ma say in passing that there seems to -be a very general impression that the Board, ate a great corporation, pays certa-n fixed salaries, which employees. have a right to draw whether they need it or not Such is pot at an tne case, we undertaaetfo inr nish a Comfortable support atd name $50 a month as a "general rule" with deviation,, more or lefcs, 'for good and fcufficient rea sons.?? A wise economy in the administra tion of mission funds is unquestionably a duty of the highest importance, but the sac rifice of health or life to save dollars is not wie economy, f . ', Pardon the length into which I have been betrayed. Much more tingles on the tip of my pen, but I must clos9i with a brief re sponse to one specific question about Bro. Bostick's statement " that 159 ner cent of all money, raiseu lur iureigu luissiuus vy ckjuiu ern Baptists (in 1890 91) was expended oth erwise than in sending out and sustaining- . ! 1 m I 1 1 C . t IIIIVWIIIIINrifM III! II1M 1 M TK'I.M IIV figures according to the requirements of his own theory There is a proverb that " noth ing Ismore' false than figures, unless it be Tunr u , i Bnniir w nn niiur urnrmivuuniiwv an - nis aninmeuc, i may mention mat me cai culation by. which he reaches this result, takes no account - whatever of designated funds; Bra Bostick ijo doubt thinks that money ought not toTe designated for Per- M 9 At A il . manent vvorx, or ior ccnoois, or ior support of native helpers. But as a matter of fact -25 to 30 per cent of all bur receipts are so designated, and we cannot honestly appro- : priate them except according to the instruc tions of the donors. Again, he excludes from the roll of missionaries all except those sent out from this country. In Paul's sec ond journey, he would have counted the apostle and possibly Silas, but not Timothy or Luke. . Such calculations are manifestly unfair, ; ,. , II. II. lUnais, Secretary ad interim. 1-4"' Hehemiab. s In an age when shingles rot,' and shoes are made of paper soles, and ground pease Becomes cruuuti cuuee. uu uyiiuu uurttuca aa wool, and naint is thinner than water. . and every tradesman and public officer, and religious institution needs a periodic over-; hauling, it is refreshing to read of a man systematically, scorned assistance from local croakers, compelled each mason to do his own anunot nis neignoors' wora, cave every laborer a sword and a trowel, feed 150 at Lis table each day; thought more of public duty i m :.. a - . . 1 . . than : of private "comfort, did away wim financial pawn brokers, abolished slavery without blood, refused any salary as gov ernor, compiled an accurate census of the people, Instituted a genuine worship ard reading of the law, ordained a revival with out evangelists and a general penitence v, 1!', out rant, provided an equitable systen c f representation, separated the peoj'a cn a basis of character, cleansed the terar lo x. H' care, forbade Sunday labor, interdicted sr.:': marriages as Solomon sanctioned, end r r vellously governed as many pcopb f ? f i State of New York contains without t of a party organ or machine. Ml "t iu', Ization any way rTM .Katch ,v i :i. jit is a good thin for Hi ) perity of the soul to I ) i .. places. - (' W i;f f 1 ! Don't forget that what be wrong. ,. i