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Sombtimi since it was announced that a company of Waldenees had emigrated from Southern Europe to Burke county la this State. ? i4 While our contemporaries have geu- erally remarked upon this movement as sig nificantly complimentary to our State, we have seen but little written concerning the past history of these people, or their peculiar religious beliefs and practices. This is not due to a lack' of history on the subject, for we find that they have a history that is at once voluminous, worthy and interesting. The Waldenses made their first appearance as a sect ; of reformers in 1 160, and "were most numerous in' the Swiss' canton of Yaud. Their ' leader was one Peter Valdo, a rich merchant, who being zealous for :f the ad vancement of true piety and Christian knowl- edge had employed a ' priest to translate the gospels from Latin into French, in order that he might read and interpret them as they were. At once he perceived that the religion which was then taught, by the Ro man church differed In many most essential Points from that which Chriat and the apos tles had inculcated. Struck with the glaring contradiction between the doctrines of the Miffs and the truths of the gospels, he abandoned his Vocation, distributed his wealth among the poor, and became a pub lic teacher, instructing his . people in the true doctrines and precepts of Christianity as he understood them. He was 'undoubt edly sincere in ail his efforts, and through Out the most vicrorons ODoosition and inhu man cruelty of the Catholics maintained with his followers a purity and simplicity of religion, a spotless innocence of life, a noble con tern pt of riches and ; honors, that not only overcame the efforts of Rome, but in creased the number of his followers daily,, To-day tneir life is mucn the same as it was in the days of Peter Valdo. ; They despise ine j iorms or ecclesiastical government; as practiced by icome. They hold that an Christians have equal power-as ambassa dors of God. and that preachers should pro cure a subsistence ; by the swork of t their hands. Their rules of life are founded on the sermon on the mount, and It is said that manyjof them live strictly according to these rules Anciently they denied the obligation of infant baptism, but at the present day they are doubtful on that point, some rejecting water baptism entirely. However that may be, they compose a sect that is worthy of our State, and which should be welcomed for the noble history that they have main tained through hundreds of years of the cruelest persecution. ( y ' : Last Miy the President instructed the Secretary of Treasury to break the gold re serve of $100,000,000 to pay the obligations of the government. It was the first time such a course had been pursued since the institution of the fund. Immediately the newspapers began the cry that the United States was financially unsound. : Firms be gan to fail, the people began to hold on to their earnings as they had never before. A general' distrust, prevailed. Our nation stood in daily expectancy of a general crash; And the papers cried that the lessening of the gold reserve was the cause of it alL To day the fund has been restored several weeks, and has a good surplus besides, and Still the situation is not improved; The cry of the newspapers, which their readen were bo eager to believe, was false. The break - of the gold reserve was a result and not a cause of the present crisis, as was shown when it was restored. The causes of the present trouble might be traced to a hun dred origins, apd ninety nine of them would be wrong. Our papers should not be so quick to form an opinion, and the people should not be so eager to believe the papers; for papers are but the representatives of ed itors, who are mortal, and therefore imper fect and liable to error. , He who ties him self to one paper, and, forms his opinions ac cording to its' editorials, shows a weak mind, a lack of self reliance, and a tendency to a slavery of thought and opinion, which, if widely cultivated, would make America a nation of demagogues, and her people no better than the unwilling subjects of des pots. It Is a far better policy to learn the facts from reliable sources, and then form your own opinions. . The destructive wars that have infested South America and hindered the progress of her people during the last quarter of a cen tury,' are striking testimony to the wisdom of the maxim, " In union there is strength and more than this, perhaps, an evidence that a republican form of government is not by any means conducive to prosperity; and still more significant is the result of their policy: of almost unlimited States rights. For the past few years South America has been a continent of petty republics; blest to a large extent with an abundance of natural resources the equal of our own. . Yet dur ing these years it has been a continent of incessant internal wars, of retrogressive, rather than progressive tendencies. - It is true that our "Southern sister "was not set-; tied by a people.who equalled the English and the French in industry or perseverance; it is true that Rome has largely hindered her Er ogress; but from the fact that otherwise er settlers have enjoyed equal advantages, and that her aborigines Were by far the su periors of the North American Indians, we should expect her republics to take a higher stand among nations. Rome couldn't have prevented the formation or destroyed the fu ture crandeur of our government if she had had the power at the beginning. Oar people were possessed of that unity: of interest and that hatred of despotism which insured our future. v And in that lies the secret of. the backwardness of the South American re publics. They are all small, and Individ ually have but little interest in one another; Their States rebel on the least provocation. They are always looking for new leader, deposing one administration,' inaugurating another in continual revolution in a vain effort to secure a prosperity which is destroy ed by these very movements. Were South America divided into two great republics it wonld not be many years before Rome would be relegated ; to the background, re bellion would cease, and a prosperity, born of a unity of interest, smile on the land, whose tteoDle are now torn asunder by war, dismantled of their rights, and all but de stroyed by their own folly. ,.;,rmT. ft,. Herri.,, " ... Wear 'Recorder .'Suffer tna to write some things about our " gospel mission at this Stage or its development.!,: Dr, Harris' citr cular letter published in your columns is sufficient occasion. I . have refrained from Writing, not caring to enter, into contro versy; but now that it seems to-be abating; and men are coming to discuss the question on its merit, as ur. xiarris has done, lean afford to do so. I am glad Dr. Harris writes in sucn a way as to establish confidence in the Foreign Mission Board and its wort - am only sorry that in doine so, he reflected at all o the ."gospel mission.'.' ".And yet I bq'jw uum my uwu experience mat it is difficult to advocate onelside without reflect- ir g oa the other. Butthese departments of Foreign Mission work are consistent, and we shall see it when the principles in each are understood." Let ns not be alarmed about the difference of opinion as to funff this great work snail be done. we shall nave the de sired concord not by covering up these dif ferences, nor by trying to make believe they do not exist, but by knowing! and apprecia ting them. True union is based on a knowl edge of the facts and principles and a satis faction therewith. Organic, union without union in spirit is not real and is. therefore not efficient. :'V'.; " ' 4t;Vo i Now, the principles every one of them found in the New Testament underlying our movement are worthy of consideration and respect ; they are quite sufficient not only to take us through the opposition naturally arising when a change is to be made, but to sustain us and bring us to glorious success when the opposition nas ceased. These prin ciples may be seen in the object of the mis sion, is seen in our printed prospectus, viz. ; (1) To preach the gospel;. (2) Accepting from the churches (directly) a support; (3) While wearing the Chinese dress and living in the Chinese houses. I In this prospectus these propositions are elaborated and ex- Slained. I will be glad to furnish any one , esiring it with a copy.) ,' H: ; Without discussing them, I may indicate the following principles found therein that of adaptation: to the people here who sup port us by reduction of expense; to the Chi faese, not only by reduction of salary to a simple living, but by wearing the drees and living in their bouses, r Paul expresses this in his saying " All things to all men.'? Also, the principle of building up Christ's spirit ual kingdom by spiritual -rowans,' such as preaching the gospel, carrying out in its broadest sense, too, the command given in Mark 16; 15, and Matt. 28: 19, 20. And again, we honor the local church as the di vinely appointed institution for giving the gospel to the world by establishing direct responsibility between it and the missionary. 1 . Dr. Harris fears we of this mission lean to some peculiar doctrines as to the millennium advocated by Drs. Gordon and Pierson. r I reckon it is because they favor the church movement, and Dr. Gordon has been known to speak favorably of our gospel mission No, we are fully in line with the Baptists of the South. There is nothing peculiar about what we regard as the "aim of missions." It is our aim to preach the gospel to the heathen and (using his own language), " to labor to save souls, to train converts, to es tablish churches as centres of influence candlesticks in the midst of darkness." , ., vuuua iuib j$wk uo lucn wat no aio kuij($ to run over the country simply proclaiming the good news. It is our definite purpose to string a line of mission stations from Shan tung in Nerth China to Szchuen in West 1 , a i . i . . 1 . . VAiuH, noping w duuq up witnessing, seu- supporting churches at all these stations. We do believe that giving the S. gospel of the kingdom as a witness to all nations" is preparatory to the Master's coming, and that coming we wish to hasten. . . -Yes, we are modeling our mission , after the China Inland Mission in some respects; we try to be like them in adapting ourselves to the natives and in appealing to the lib erality of the people at nome by our self denial. We also humbly hope by honoring God with more direct dependence upon him to be characterized by their faith and spir. ituality. Rut that mission is Interdenomi national, while ours is Baptist. If we suc ceedand succeed we will- we will vindicate Baptist principles as nothing has done since the days of the Apostles. : Yes, they have their board of directors (equal to bishops) and their "manager"; but we cannot, and be consistent with our Baptist principles. Now, confining ourselves strictly to the work the Master said do, we may do It with the means he . prescribed and through the organization he gave us. We shall not even have to depend on a gfreat personage like Hudson Taylor. Making the Lord our Mas- Uter in reality, each one of us has just as much right to claim the Lord's support in what be tells us to do as ever Hudson Taylor had. We shall each be on equal footing, as Bap tist preachers should be, and one cannot assume any. controLover another; as ..every one is entirely independent of the rest, re ceiving his support straight from his church or churches. We shall co-operate as. Baptist preachers do here of course. If Christ can not keep a Baptist preacher straight and constram by his love to work, nobody need We and our movement have been said to IsA'' ABvwtss9y 4A' a!1 ' Wrvn -A a tkatinsAalf.ni ventlons and organization generally, i wish do not want to forsake the assembling of ourselves together In associations and con ventions. I do think if we could liberate these meetings from some of the so called business by letting it devolve upon'! the churches and pastors, these meetings might serve a better purpose in stimulating zeal and deepening spirituality. : No ; we are not opposed to boards where boards are needed. We iare orthodox here,' too, for J Baptists have them as a mere expedient : they are not held to be an essential part of onr organ ization. To do the work our Southern Bap tist Convention has in the foreign fields, a board is needful, a down-right necessity ; schools are run and there must be somebody to direct; the ; work; property is owned, churches and houses are built, and this re quires a board with a general fund to dis burse. . And I want to say that this Foreign Mission Board of ours is: the best board ! fever saw. But the ' gdspel mission " has no general fund ; each man's money Is raised for him and sent to him; we have no secular work, build no houses and own no property, hence we of our mission (not ; speaking at all of other foreign mission work) do not peed a board. And a board is not in this case, and for many reasons, an expedient. In , order to , keep from seeming to break ranks, and to be fully in line with the work Of the Convention,' and to avail ourselves of the same medium of communication, we sought at the very first to get this depart ment incorporated in the Board's work. An other attempt was made at the instigation of some pastors at the last Convention, when we went so far as to offer to pay our part of the Board's expense thus: offering to, pay for 'machinery upon which we do not de ( pend. .. We, failed in this attempt, and it' may be best now in the beginning for us to work it entirely apart from the Board, for it Will emphasize the directness which we are trying to establish between the church and the missionary. , -: . t ' On the other hand, like Dr. Harris, some think to have a committee through which a f'group of churches " .may act is to have a board,; only. on a smaller scale. Now, it does seem to me the difference is real and ought read'dy to be seen. We have no ob jection to such a committee, or even a cen tral committee, (we may have one as the work enlarges), if that committee is not vested with responsibility is only a medium. Now, the churches of : the South have dele gated the whole responsibility to the Board. We are in . favor of oo operation (co opera tion versus outside organization.) -In every cooperative company every party in it shares) in the responsibility. So ; in: this f group of churches" each church-becomes responsible for a certain part it is precisely the same relation the pastor sustains to his churches. . But that. $1,700 interest on bor rowed money reported at the last Southern Baptist Convention shows - plainly the churches do not share in the responsibility. .Now, the lamentation all along nas been "the churches do not feel the "responsi bility.", , The v do not and will not fed it until it is theirs, neither do the pastors gen erally; they feel that the salvation, of the heathen devolves upon the Board and its agents. Alas, so many of them are content to let things go on as they are, whether the heathen are saved or not. on the principle that the easiest way is the best way.. By the way, 1 nave observed that in many in stances when they say, I am in favor of the ' old way,' " it is not that they love the work through the Board more, but that they love : it all - less. It seems to me when churches come to be able and willing to un dertake their own foreign mission work our Board ought to hail it with pleasure; they can then transfer to these churches not only some of the financial burden under, which the Board is groaning, but also the care and responsibility, fc Think, too; how i this re sponsibility will vitalize the churches. Dr. Harris thinks for the Board to yield up this responsibility would be for: the Board to commit suicide. v Well, what is true of the Board is true of the churches. May hot this lack of responsibility, then, account for the lifelessness of churches in thiswark ! Now the Board cannot turn over this responsi bility to the churches unless the churches are willing to assume it Bui where they are willing they ought to' take it as a God send, especially as the churches then do mono that this is true cannot be doubted. Now, the aim of all Boards State Boards, Home Boards, and all is to help churches until (hey come to be able to do their , own work, and then they turn the work and the responsibility over, to them. This , is the goal, and the sooner they arrive at it the better. That some have been feeling this to be true of foreign mission work, witness the BiBUCiX; Rkcobdeb, May 23d, 1888. In commenting'on a letter in which Dr, Yates said his forty years experience led him to believe we should never convert the heathen world through a central board; because the missionaries were too far removed from their constituents, the editor says : " Such a course would double our contributions to for eign missions. It is not strange that the minds of so many of our brethren have been turned in this direction. It is a most sensi ble and business like view-, to. take. The tendency is in this direction, and the time may soon come when many of our district associations and some of our leading churches Will have their own missionaries in foreign lands, &ud when their treasurers! shall pay their .salaries direct from tym" .iiyi::' i 1 Now. thfi indtaAtinnfl urtt thai " that t.!mn has come, and as fast as the workers, called to go to China, rise up in the name of the Lord and say to the churches, " Here am I. send , me,? they are going to send them.) jnow, why should some or the brethren, as in the Biblical Recorder last week, out of their love for ns, wish we could come back to woriVunder the Board as we used to -Work; when we will do the same work as missionaries, and when the churches that . will be required to support us in this direct way didn't use to pay to the Board one twenty-fifth part of what we cost the Board. I have been afraid they wished to produce -doubt as to our sticking to this undertaking. ' No, with the success that has crowned pur '. efforts so . soon, with every token' of God's favor, with a deepening of spirituality as well as liberality on the part of the churches . that go into it, we have no occasion to turn back. v We Jove the principles we have f spoused as we love our life, and we would ' give up the one as quickly as we would give ' up the other. By the way, Dr. Harris has an idea, that I think some lives must be sac- rificed. Why, I have no idea that churches , that have spirituality and life enough to un-' dertake this support of a missionary will let him suffer they go at with a determination , , that forbids failure. Dr. Harris probably came to this conclusion because he heard, me say, when insisting that the responsibil ity of the Churches be actual andlhe depen- ' dence be entire, " if he starve, let him starve." But' the man who said, "Let jus tice be, done if the heavens fall," didn't mean to express any fears about the heavens falling. No; all this talk about sacrificing the lives of missionaries Is notcalled for. , Again, others have asked, " Why do you kick against the BoArdt Didn't you have a goocf place, and didn't they ;treat you reil t' : lam not kicking agqinst the Board. ' Is a "good place " and to be)' treated well " all we want f God forbid I while the churches are doing comparatively nothing, and the heathen dying and going to hell; while' the command of our Master is not fulfilled. Loyalty to boards and conventions is good, ' but let us talk more of loyalty to Christ and obey his command and give the gospel to,; the heathen in every lawful way. t I I hope to conclude next week with a few ; words showing that our "Gospel Mission " ' Is designed to do a special work in a special '. field, and does not conflict with other work. : ? , . , , D. W. Herring, . j Long Creeki N. C,' Aug. 27, 1893. j f ' 1 Difficulties in Christian Bervics. Every young Christian feels that he ought . to be doing something for Christ. But he . soon finds Hons in his path. Perhaps it is his own timidity, or lack of education which ' Stands in his sray. ; Or it may be that hia associations are unfavorable, i Or he may really not know what to do in the way of -religious work. He may have too high an ' ideal of the efforts he desires to make. He ' may be discouraged by failures in his first ' efforts, or by the indifference , and ingrati tude of those for whom, he is toiling. He inay be disheartened by the rebuffs and . sneers of those that are older; -: One or more bf these difficulties usually meet the young ' disciple, and not infrequently paralyze his early tas!. By--r-'::''i; u ;:: But the young Christian must remember that' some Of the noblest workers in the r church of Christ have had first to overcome their own timidity, and the hindrances aris- ing from their surroundings. They should 1 remember, too, that if they will only walk in the path of duty, God will show, them how they may be useful. ; It is a great mis- ' take to suppose that we can serve Christ only by speaking in meetings. A holy, life Is the best sermon that can be preached, and, the invitation of others to the meetings is . often more effective than glowing exhorta-' tions.) Nor should we ' be discouraged by ' failures. , The greatest men in all ranks of : life have at first met with failures, and have , gradually risen; to their preeminence - by, . learning useful ' lessons from their failures. . We need not be discouraged because those for whom we toil seem indifferent, or prove ungrateful. Ample rewards will come after a while. I Then, too,' we ought not to allow ( , the opposition or sneert of others to prevent ' us from doing our duty. If we thus act, our -life here will be worth the living, and will glow forever at . God's right hand. Our 4 Young People. ' , , , . , ' I ": . Eeprovfaig Church Disturbers. '". ,V;,'-p& , , - J"- y I A clergyman was annoyed by people talk ' log and giggling. - He paused, looked at the disturbers and said ; Kr-iM v;,; :'" j " I am always afraid to reprove those who I , misbehave, for reason : Some years since, as I was preaching, a young man who sat be- fore me was constantly laughing, talking , and making uncouth grimaces. . I paused -( and, administered a severe rebuke.. After , , the close of service, a gentleman sajd to me: ' f Sir, you have made a great mistake : that , young man was an idiot1! Since then. I have always been afraid to reprove, those who misbehave themselves) in chapel, lest I should repeat that mistake and reprove an-, other idiot" During the rest of the so .vice there was good order. JEs. t , ; ; : lmhsuk 3" ' ' r. .' mtr------? j .It makes my heart sick to hear trctl.rc". say with boasting glee, that they have I -1 a revival in their church, by turnir-; c i thirty or forty members. It sim; I j r ? that they have turned their bacLa t 1 1 " or forty souls, r and . left then t- -their sins. , Of courso, thcro r- but it seems to me thpy f 1 1 ? eaken until our mcst c u : ( proved unavailing. be overtaken in a fault, ya - ' itual restore such aa f." ; ' meekness, consLIcrir -r tl; i be tempted." Pr. 1,L .