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THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS DEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE Volume 69, . RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1893. Number 9. . , , '. The Biblical Recorder IT PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDA OFFICE 5 tlS (up stairs) Fayette ville Street, Raleigh, N. O. Txbxs of BTOSCRnrnyr: Oae eppy, one year.. . . , ... .$ 2.00 One copy, six months . 1.00 Clot of ten (copy extra to sender) .......... 20.00 .Anonymous oomm u nications will always find their way to the waste basket. 'No exceptions. In sending letters of business, It is absolutely nec essary inat you give your poexomce aaaress in ruu. The date on the label of your paper Indicates when your subscription expires, and also serves as receipt tor your money. sipt : Obituaries, sixty words long, ars Inserted free of charge. When they exceed this length, one cent for each word must De paid in advance. 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Anson and Richmond Association, J W Wild man and L Johnson: Ashe and Alleghany, James Kiler; Atlanuyj H Jfidwards and J u Whltly; . Alexander, V w fool; ueulan, u A. Kominger Brier Creek, W A Myers; Brushy Mountain, R A Ppainhour ; Caldwell, JVM cCall ; Cedar Creek, i Q Flhher; Central, P A Dunn; Catawba River. Pamuel Huffman; Cape Fear and Columbus. E Vv Wooten snd Dr A W Kennon: Chowan, E F Ayd Jett; Eastern, L R Carroll and O P Meek; Elkin, J 8 Kilby ; Flat River, R H Marsh; Green River, C B Justice; King's Mountain, H FSchenck; Lib erty. James Smith; Little River, J A Campbell; Mecklenburg and Cabarrus, C Graham; Mt Zion, W C Tyree; Pilot Mountain, H A Brown : Raleigh," O L Stringfleld ; Robeson, E K Proctor, Jr: Sandy Creek, O T Edwards; South Fork. J Bridges; south Y satin. J a uoiman: btaniv. js v m. dings; South Atlantic, J M Long; Tar River, C M Cooke, R D Fleming and R I Vann; Three Forks. E F Jones: Union. A C Davis: West Chowan, J B Brewer; Yadkin, J G Burrus; Mont gomery, w si xSosticK ; is laden, w HAieekia BOARD OF EDUCATIOIT-LOCATED AT WAKB FORIST. , VT L PoteaV President; W R Gwaltney, Cor Becretary; W B Royal, D W Allen, E Brewer, J M Brewer, J B Carlyle, L Chapell, P A Dunn, W B Dunn, W H Edwards, P W Johnson, W C Lank- lord, I, k Mills, J a Powers. F M Purefoy. Wm Royal, C B Taylor, J F Lanneau, Elder John Mitcneii, it is Koyai, w J Ferreu, UrJU Fowler, , vv mxes and J u JUaske. BOARD Or M1KI8TKH8' RIUEF LOCATED AT DITRRAV. W A Albright, President; C A Woodson, Cor Secretary; W O Tyree, H A Reams, T E Cheek, J L Markham, T H Pritchard, F P Hobgood and W .TRUSTEES Or TH0MA8VILLE ORPHANAGE LO . - , ; ; . CATED AT THOMAS VILLE. wonn Mitchell, President; AO- McUanaway, Secretary; J C Scarborough, O Durham, W K Gwaltney, Thomas Carrick, F P Hobgood, Noah Bigg, E Frt, R D Fleming, J L Markham, T H Pritchard, W T Faircloth, J II Lassiter. A J Mon tague, H F Schenck, John Brewer and 'J D Bre vard, at TRUSTEES Or WAKES FOREST COLLEGE LOCATED AT WAKE FOREST. J M Heck, President; R E Royall, Secretary; C T Bailey, Noah Biggs, Q W Blount, John B BrewerH A Brown, MB Cobb, C M Cooke, W E Daniel, H O Dockery, P A Dunn, C Durham, W T Fall cloth. A R Foushee, N Y Gulley, W R Gwaltney, F P Hobgood, J N Holding, J D Huf ham,C J Hunter, U H Marsh, W JMcLendon,' John Mitchell, W H Mitchell, B S Moore, R R Overby. T H. Pritchard, E K Proctor, Jr, J B Richardson. J W F Rogers, O W Sanderlin, J C Scarborough, T E Skinner, J H Tucker, W G Upchurch, W W Vass. Tn seriousness of the situation intensifies day by day." At first it was a "rich man's panic," and gambling speculators were the only losers; next the banks began to fail; then the merchants and manufacturers were compelled to dismiss their employees, and dose their doors toJbonest and worthy labor; to-day the streets of our greater cities are filled with the murmur of the hungry multitude. New York has heard their cry, and seen their wild demonstrations as no city has since Paris heard it a century ago as its threatening roar rang out of the suburb of StAntoine. - . - ' . " In the same city on the same day, four yachts, costing over a million dollars each, ontended fo a cup worthy hundreds dol- are; on the same day, within hearing of pat murmur of the hungry multitude, men Xe're entering horses, which had cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars, to race for pur.ses, which, distributed among the people, ould have filled thousands of hungry jtaouths and relieved untold suffering; On m same day In Chicaeo. where 200.000 orthy and willing laborers art ' tramping streets in : vain quest of employment, Mt they may provide the necessaries of jue for starving wives and babes, a low spectacular theatre was so . popular thai tickets of admission were in demand at $3 each a week in advance a shame on a civ ilized century. . Such times and such condi tions do not take long to make communists out of patriots, anarchy out of government, chaos out of order. How cani nation hoDa-rT to prosper when the rich-man, the gambler, and the low pleasure-seeker continue spend large suras in vain, unprofitable, and ungodly enjoyments, while honest men cry for bread to feed their children f Could Almighty God sanction such conditions with prosperity t There is but one solution to the situation, and that is found in the simple faith, hope and charity of Jesus Christ. The whole order of human society must be founded on his injunctions before our nation can be said to be safe. We are not of communistic tendencies,' but we believe tnat unrist s words to the young rich man "sen an tnou nast and give to tne poor, are directly applicable to a certain extent in lueeo uuuuiuua umes. It strikes us that the machinery of gov ernment at Washington, proverbially slow and ponderous, if not always conservative, is slower and more ponderous than ever in this extraordinary session, when the maxim quoted by the President, " He gives twice who gives quicklyMs so forcibly appro priate. Not many days since it became ap parent that whatever bills one faction may introduce one of the others is going to use all its powers to delay and obstruct its en actment. There are a3 many plans as there are Congressmen, but none meet the appro val of a majority. One wants an amend' ment, and another expends his oratorical powers to strike out a provision. They have agreed on but one thing so far: to pay themselves mileage. The representatives should know that they were placed where they are to relieve the people, not to con sider tneir personal interests. Tnls is no time for dilly-dallying with personal and partisan interests. The country calls loudly lor jreiier, and must nave it. .. ''The mountain hath groaned and brought forth a mouse'' well expresses the result of the labors of the international tribunal, ap pointed some months since to settle the long disputed question of the relative rightsuf the United States and England to kill the seals which frrquentthe Pribylof Islands off the coast of Alaska, in the Bearing sea, After five months of seemingly interminable discussion, the tribunal has decided, first, that no s?al shall be taken by either nation within sixty miles of the Pribylof Islands, the home of the seals; second, pelagic seal ing is allowed outside the sixty mile limit from August 1st to May 1st: third, in no case can fire arms be used in taking seals; fourth, these agreements are to be observed in both the North Pacific Ocean and the Bdhring sea; fifth, the United States to pay a sum not yet agreed upon (it .is thought $2,000,000) to the Canadian sealing vessels which heretofore have been denied the right to take seals in Behring sea. The decision fails in two instances to ac complish the purpose for which the tribunal was constituted the preservation of the seals. No provision was made to prevent other nations, particularly Russia, from taking seals whenever they wanted them, as, under the terms of the decision, neither of the contending powers has authority to pre vent other nations entering the seas and taking seals at any time and by any means; second, it allows seal-taking in the month of August, which is the height of the breeding season, in which the female seajs are particularly helpless, and' when killed destroys her offspring. The decision! is far more favorable to Britain than To the Uni ted States; but we could have been con tent if it had insured the preservation of the seals. In another aspect the tribunal is a pleasing testimony to the progress of civili zation in the settlement of a dispute which would have thrown the interested countries nto war a hundred vears aero. ' As such the nations deserve credit, not the tribunal. A perusal of a large majority of our daily papers would lead one to believe that there s nothing else in this country but misery, poverty and oppression. It is not that bad' Comparatively, few are actually, suffering, and in many . Instances we have evidence that "gentle charity" has not yet deserted our land. A, metropolitan newspaper in stituted a system of free ice dispensaries sometime since through which many of the ortunate have shown their disposition to relieve suffering. By means of this system more than twelve thousand people are daily supplied with ice free of cost, which is a ' great blessing to me sick in me present humid weather. It is perhaps insignificant to the casual observer, but it shows that people still have kind hearts. Talks on Medicine No. 1.' FROM A RETIRED PHYSICIAN. " ' FAMILY MEDICINES, There is a good deal to be said in favor of 'ami y meaicines. - wany times properly families can do much in the way of driving off disease by the judicious use of many of the remedies which can be used with impunity without the aid of a physi cian. It must 'be borne in mind, however, that while family prescribing has its place it also has its dangers.- Perhaps it might be said wlttr safety that more lives nave been lost or endangered by over indulging in "family medicines" than have been saved by them. ; But this is not to be used as ar gument for the entire obliteration of the art of family prescribing, but rather to help the judgment of 'the prescriber to trust himself only when and where be is absolutely sure the remedies can do no fiarm, and when there is unusual delay in getting a physician, Now, then,' with this principal ever before the reader, can we talk to him about some things we have learned. . , We are prepared at least, we trust, to ao no naim. s , BULES TO OBSERVE. . There are besides the great principle an nounced at the beginning, certain special rules to be observed in dealing with the sick 1. See that the patient is sick. It is not everybody that whines that is sick. We have read many stories of men who, when called out to battle, would suddenly be stricken with some terrible ailment and call for med icine. But the day, of "battle sickness" has not' past. Although the smoke of the bloody days of 61 has cleared away, stil there are other battles .sometimes calling for the exhibition, of more nerve and genuine heroism the battles of life. Many are the struggles through wnich we are to pass in life and strong must be the nerve to fight them. And sometimes In these struggles, men and women suddenly succumb to "bit- tie sickness" and call for skilful manage' ment.' I remember being sent for on to treat such a case. It was something like tb'is Mr. A. had a veiy industrious wife. She movtd herself arid made everybody else move in proportion. Mr. A. however, was the laziest man I ever saw. It was said of him that he would sit any time and let the chickens roost upon his legs rather than ex pend a little force in driving them away. At any rate, he was exceedingly laxy. One hot summer day his wife wanted to go to her father s, and tne husband must go to carry the baby. ' It was too hot work. Tot 3 ing a baby in the hot sun through sand is no pleasant work, lint despite his pleadings, she would go. And knowing that such would not do, allow her to take the baby and he remain at noma in tne snide, lie decided to get sick; consequently a bad case of colic was hatched up. I was sent for and soon was upon the scene of suffering. I was young and inexperienced at that time- thought everybody wno grunted needed "physic. And so without much exam ination, I administered a heavy dose of powdered ipecac and to make a long story short, be tested the extreme muscu lar capacity of the lower end of his stomach for several days. Be sure your patient is sick before you give medicine. Many a mother has resorted to calomel, salts, oil and the like when there is no need for any thing. Sometimes a strong rebuke or a lit tle muscular exercise would be the remedy. Many a child has been ruined made a dys peptic for life or brought to an untimely grave by the recKiessness on tne part or their parents in giving medicine when none was needed. 2. Be sure you know what they need. Af ter you have ascertained as to whether or not your patient is in real neeaoi medicine, then the next step Is to find out what kind of medicine he needs. Much harm has been done by wrong diagnosis not only by the laity" but by the doctors themselves. People have a craly notion that certain drugs are needed anyhow, maxes no dinerence what is the matter, and hence when one of the family gets sick regardless of his symp toms, they pour in their pet drugs, such as calomel, salts, &o. Why, some mothers keep calomel all the time ana give it for all the ills of the flesn I AN AWFUL MISTAKE. To show how much harm is sometimes done by making this false diagnosis and basins treatment upon it. I was called one night so see a man In great haste. Arriving upon the premises, I was met by his wife, a doctor woman.'! ! She gave medicine to the neighborhood was a very wise woman, as she thought would not hesitate to hold an argument with Gross on Surgery or Bortho low on Practice. : She said, "O.'Doctor, he" Is dying I he is dying 1" O, no," said I, J VU MAW DVWVVI ..; t' : BVMAVVK 1 4,1 V BUI - ' What's the matter r said L ,, " it's his liver. his liver, doctor it's his liver. IVe given him salts and oil, Tutt's pills and calomel, and he is vomiting more bile than yon ever saw.' ' By this time I was in the house ; soon found my patient had agina pectoris, a deadly form of heart disease.' His stomach had been torn all to pieces, and with every effort at vomiting, he would scream as if death was near, O, what a pity she had not et him alone until the doctor arrived I So I conclude this . paper by making an earnest plea for proper diagnosis find out what kind of medicine your patient needs, he needs any at all. if not possible for you to do this, let him alone until you get the doctor present, or else content vourseK with using simply externals and harmless teas, which, while they may do no good in themselves, may do no harm ; and thus allow nature and your doctor to have a fair chance at curing a sick patient,' and not to have to bear the blame of your blunders by 1.-9 . - uuiug accusea oi ignorance in nis proiession, which is to the doctor h's "stock in trade." And no man who has not been there can give any estimate as to how these little things influence his success add thus his reputation.'. Information Given. 1 Editor Recorder ; Bra- Duibam asks in formation about Bro. Dickinson's statement about the Professors at the Seminary. I think I was at the Seminary with Bro, Dickinson, and at the time Prof. Hawes taught elocution in the Seminary, and think be was a Presbyterian, but had noth ing to do with teaching theology or anything pertaining to the Bible. 1, Perhaps if Brother LJicxinson s whole statement bad have been quowju, a wouiu nave Deen Deuer unaer stood and his remarks have caused no com ment I know not. how this may be, but xnow x myseu nave sunered irom garbled extracts from what I have said and giving to my remarks an entirely different meaning from what was intended. For instance, the quotation from Bro. Dickinson might leave the impression that a Presbyterian was teach ing theology in a Baptist seminary; when in fact he bad nothing to do with Bible doc trines, and perhaps not half the students knew the fact that he was a Presbyterian. as I heard incidentally myself. I found him a Christian gentleman, and that forbade him intruding any of his theological views upon tne ciasi in tne study of elocution. The propriety of thus selecting a" Presby terian even in this capacity I was fully sat isfied to leave with the able faculty. . Should any one misunderstand the quota tion, they need have no fears of Presbyte rian doctrines being taught at the Seminary, ' These are my impressisns about Professor Hawes being a Presbyterian, but I may be, as Bro. Dickinson may be, mistaken ; if so. 1 would gladly be correctly informed, and feel assured that Bro Dickinson would, and that he would not under any circumstances intentionally misrepresent euber institution. J. W. rOWELL , Mildred, Aug. 17, 1893. ' ' . " The Virginia Plan." Dear Recorder: In your las issue you say editorially that every now and then some brother with only a partial knowledge orthe facts, seems to think: it would be bet ter for the Baptists of this State to adopt the Virginia plan of work in State Missions." As I am the only brother who has pub licly advocated the "Virginia Plan," I desire to submit some facts for tne consideration of your readers, and I am perfectly willing for them jU'ju,dge whether have "only a partial knjwledge of the facts.'" -You quote an item from the Religious Herald, embracing a statement from the Corresponding Secretary of the General As sociation at the Dan River Association,' that "there bad. been no practical advance in State Missions in three years," and then you proseed to make a comparison with our nviA, A A iWlliU vaiviiuih lU v w ajjf um jrvu go back ten years in our history f Why not confine yourself to the same period of time! The reason is not far to seek tne same is true of North Carolina there has practically been no advance in state Missions since the year we met in Shelby. We are no better off tban our brethren in Virginia so far as ad vance is concerned, although there has been the stimulus of a large deficit and frantic appeals for money to pay 'our missiona ries" who had to go half of the next year before they received their money, while there was a surplus of 11,500 in the Vir ginia treasury. . - - But tne " Virginia nan" includes some thing more than State Missions. You say that the Virginia Plan requires four men to do what our Corresponding Secretary does in the State." Suppose we look at soma of the facts in the case:' 1. As to the number of Baptists in each State. North Carolina has 150,000 white Baptists, and in Virginia there are 00.000, a difference of 60,000 in favor of North Car olina. - - " v ' 2. As to the contributions to the four ob jects under our Corresponding Secretary, viz., Sunday-schools, State Missions, For eign Missions, and Home Missions, North Carolina gave for these four objects last year, Including profits on Supply ; Store, $33,861.23, while Virginia gave for these four objects, including profits on sale of books, $48,909.51, or f 15,135.28 more tban we. if we had given the same per member as they, we would have given $82,500 in place of $33,804.23, and we are abundantly able to do so. ; ' 8. As to the cost, of collecting and dis bursing this money, it cost the Virginia brethren with one CorresDondinir Secretary receiving a salary, not exceeding $3,000. ft cost us, with one paid Corresponding Secre- aiw Ia iIa 41ia MntA wrAir' K QAK Vfi a. In other words, Virginia paid out six per cent, of her income to carry on the work, and North Carolina paid oat for the same pur pose sixteen per cent, of her income. You say . that it took four men to do what our Corresponding Secretary did, but that is the very thing I ha.ve been pleading for put the Foreign Mission work of the State In the hands of the Vice President in the State, and the same of Home Missions as they tlo in Virginia. ; The beauty of their plan is the division of labor, and that was contemplated by the appointment of Vice-Presidents of the Home and Foreign Mission Board. Vir ginia paid out for Colportage work last year $6,000; we paid out $128. , " It needs no great wisdom to see the ad vantage of the "Virginia Plan" over ours. I have no axe to grind in this matter. I am not working to 'onst" our Corresponding Secretary. I believe in his efficiency, but I don't think we need a traveling Correspond ing Secretary in this State. I am sure that it would be better to have some one in the office simply and throw the responsibility of raising this fund upon the pastors, where it belongs. I believe that our Association has made as much advance in the last three years in proportion to their ability as any in the State, and the Corresponding Secre-iary-fca not been worth anything to us. - ' it maybe said that I am a new man In the State and ought, therefore, to keep quiet; but I could not stop ray mind from working because I happened to be born in Tennessee in place of North Carolina ; nei ther could I stop my conscience from work- , ing. If it is a mistake not to have been born in the old North State don't lay it to me I was not consulted as to where I should be born. ' - - - I If I was doing nothing to support the Con vention, then I- would have no right to speak," but I am serving a field that is giving five' times as much to tie cause es it did when I came to it, and not only that, but is giving more, in my julgment; in proportion to the taxable valuation of their property than any other field in the State; at least, I esi will ing to compare. I am not bragging on my self or field, but vindicating my , right to speak on ttia important question, although a new man in the State. With malice toward none, but love for all, I am yours in the work, . . M. P. Matheny. , Lincolnton, N. C . , From' Penelope, N. Q " Dear Recorder: Our cause appears to be advancing in this section of the State, - The. hard times financially seems to make the people realise that help must come from higher power than political parties or even the United States government' I am cow pastor of two churches that are commencing to build new houses of worship. In the. near vicinity are two more new homes just completed and the fifth and sixth in contemplation. I am serving a mission that would have built a bouse and taken permanent growth if the Board of Missions had seen clear to make an appro-' priation for a preacher for them. The meeting just closed at -Warlick's ChaDel was. in manv re snects. thn hctt mppt. ing I have ever conducted. The influence was so far-reaching that nearly every ser vice revealed surprises t'o ns, as the work of the Spirit was made manifest in leading so many old and middle-aged people to confess their sins and embrace Christ as a Saviour, : who before had always been indifferent. The' services continued through nine days and seven nights. Results thirty eight ' baptized, four restored : the church member ship fully united for future work in all de partments ; a new house before the end of the year, and a pastor called with a larcer salary than ever offered before in the church's history; They have been without a pastor for several months, and many troubles and great coldness were rapidly pushing them into do-nothingness. Will the brethren pray with us that this may become the banner church of all this section! Sincerely, , - ' C M. Mcbchison. , Penelope, Aug. 18, 1893. ", . r'y-;l -'V;. niiii,n ii V mam ' VV"', i''i'ri-:.:XX - Can't Go as a Missionary at Present. '. Dear Recorder: Some one has gotten the " idea from a resolution passed by the Mis sionary Society of the Second church, that I am going right off to China. The brother who wrote up the resolution did not intend to leave that impression. . He meant to say that when I got ready to go, that the Soci ety would then do what the resolution stated. Please state that 1 cannot go now. I have bad no intention of going right away. I ' wish I were ready logo. It is the desire of my life to be there and preach the gospel to , the heathen in their own language; and, with God's help,. I am going as soon as he opens the way for me. - But 1 do not think I shall be able to go under three or. four years. Yours in Christ, A. A. Butler. Durham, Aug. 17, 1893. ' ': ..I "i, i ''i. ,,,'.';,;' 'i';-';"- .,-,. ' To Sunday-School Superintendents and - Treasurers. Send in vour order for Sundav prhnol kt--v plies for the fourth quarter, early in r -tember.: Of course, you are goic tocr ' r from the Sunday-school Board of tto fJo-' - era Baptist Convention, our Tear J. Mease do not send bank ciccus if v possibly help it. They are net I present. Send by post -o-Ici ( note, registered letter, or ly I'.. Try to get yeur orders ia I die of the month. TLia v. : : ! you, too. Yours truly, . T. P. r T
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