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Our Boards for 1892 '93.
BOARD OF MISSIONS AKD SCSDAY-eCHOOLS
1 t nr inn a t vkivTrm
' J C Scarborough, Chairman; C Durham, Cor
, Secretary; N B Broughton, W H Face, O M Al
len, C T Bailey, T H Bi iggs, J M Heck, J N Hold--,
ing, W N Jones. J D Boushall, W Banderlin. R
R Overby, J M Brougbton, J D Hufbam, J C
Blrdsong. A L FerraU, L 0 Longee, W O Up
church, T W blake. J H Alford, W rf nolloway,
JW Carter, C B Edwards, T E Bkinner, E McK
Goodwin, J J Hall, W R Gwaltney, N B Cobb, M
T Norris, J B Boone, J B Martin, J C Caddell, F
P Hobgond, J O Ellington, C J Hunter, C W Car
ter, J M Holloman, T II Yi Itchard.
s; Anson biiu .ruuuiuuiiu .tusjuuiauuu, i uu
. man and L Johnson. Ashe and Alleghany, James
EUerj Atlantic, J II Edwards and J C Whitly;
Alexander, D W Fool; Deulah, C A Romlnper;
Brier Creek, W A Myers : Brushy Mountain, R A
Rpafnhour; Caldwell, J V XcCall; Cedar Creek,
JO Fisher; Central, P A Dunn; Catawba River,
' Samuel Huffman; Cape Fear and Columbus. E W
" Wooten and Dr A W Kennon; Chowan, E P Ayd
lett; Eastern, L R Carroll ami O P Meeks; Elkin,
J B 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 Gm-bam; Mt Zion,
W C TyreePxlot Mountain, H A Brown ; Raleigh,
O L Stringfleld ; Robeson, E K Proctor, Jr ; Sandy
, Creek, O T Edwards; South Fork. J Bridges;
- South Yadkin, J B Hnlman; Stanly, E F Ed
dings; South Atlantic, J M Long; Tar River, C
M Cooke, R D Fleming and R T Vann; Three
Forks, E F Jones; Union, A C Davis; West
J Ubowatt, J Brewer; xacum, J u rsnrrus; jnont-
, gomery, w ju. jjosuck; jjiaaen, w xueeian.
' BOARD OF. EDUCATION LOCATED AT WAKE
FOREST,
' W L Poteat, President: W R Gwaltney, Cor
i Secretary; 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
ford, L R Mills, J B Powers, F M Purefoy, Wm
Royal, C E Taylor, J F Lannean, Elder John
Mitchell, R E Royal, W J Ferrell. Dr J U Fowler,
E W Sixes and J C Maske.
BOARD OF MlfflSTXRS' RELIEF LOCATED AT
, DURHAM.
W A Albright, President; C A Woodson, Cor
: Secretary; W C Tyres, II A Reams, T E Cheek, J
L Markham, T H Pritchard, P P Hobgood and W
N Jones. '
TRUSTEES OF THOMASVILLK ORPHANAGE LO
CATES AT THOMAS V1LLE.
, John Mitchell, President; A G McManaway,
Secretary; J C ScarborougVC Durham. W R
Gwaltney, Thomas Carrick, F P HobgoodNoah
- Pritchard, W T Faircloth, JR Lassiter, A J Moo
: tague, H F Schenck, John Brewer and J D Bre
vard. ,
TB0STEK3 OF WAKE FOREST COLLEO B LOCATED
AT WAKE FOREST.
J M IIeckfc President; R E Royall, Secretary;
C 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, C Durham, W
T Fail cloth, A R Foushee, N Y Gulley, W R
Gwaltney, F P Hobgood, J N Holding, J D Huf
ham, C J Hunter, R H Marsh, W JMcLendon,
John Mitchell. W H Mitchell, E 8 Moore, R R
Overby, T H Pritchard, E K Proctor, Jr, J B
Wchardson, J W F Rogers, G W Sanderlln, J O
Scarborough, T E Skinner, J H Tucker, W G
Upchurch, W W Vass. "i
' DmtiNQ the present session of Congress
the newspapers throughout the land have
; taken occasion to remind our. representa
tives that this is no time for partisan tac
tics: President Cleveland devoted a para-
, graph to . that declaration in his message;
and it is said no Congressman has addressed
the House on the subject of finance without
calling attention to the same fact. It strikes
Since the Constitution was established there
has never been a time when partisan tactics
were beneficial to the country, , Congress
was instituted to work in harmony and unity
of interest for the people who must obey its
. mandates. It was not made to be placed in
the hands of partisans who use it, not to
serve the people, but to keep their party in
J tower. The enactments which ft sends
orfflh. should always be for the country's
welfare, and not the ' party V Though a
representative should see certain defeat in
case he- advocated a measure which he
deemed wise and beneficial to the country at
large; he should support it as if it were
wnrth n hundred thousand rotes to him. ) A
-representative's personal interest, or his
arty'a interest, are of but little weight
n the 'scales against the common good.
Above all, a representative snouia aanere
to the promises that he has made and
' the provisions which he has defended on
the campaign. ' In this he ' may not al-
ways be wise, but be is sure to be obeying
the wishes of the people who elected him
and acting honestly with his constituents;
and in case of failure of his measures to
bring those advantages which he has prom
ised, and the people have accepted, there are
none to blame save those who elected him. .
The day of platforms that are made, not to
become statutes, but, to fool the people, and
the day of the demagogue who makes prom
ises and accepts platforms to obtain office,
is fast coming to an end, and we may well
thank Qod for it.
i -.', !SH i.i ii, , , , . f , '
Within the past few months three well
equipped expeditions, one from the United
States, one from England, and another from
Germany, have Bet forth toward the arctic
regions with the alleged purpose of adding
to our knowledge of the region adjacent to
the North Pole. They claim to make the
expeditions in Jhe name of Science, and
neither the fearful sacrifices and terrible
suffering which the parties must necessarily
undergo, nor the fate of former arctic explo
rers, can deter their efforts in that almighty
name. Science has become the great bug
bear of the latter days of the nineteenth j
century, but we believe that in no instance i
has it been imposed upon more than In these
arctic expeditions. Nothing can possibly
result that is commensurate with the risk of
human lives and the outlay of money that
such expeditions involve. We have long
since given up the hope of a new route
around the globe in that direction, and none
are so foolish as to dream of finding an in
habitable country in that latitude. No ob
ject that is worthy of consideration by ra
tional beings confront them. They are risk
ing human lives simply to gain what little
notoriety foolish people may accord them,
with the addition of the money that may
revert to their pocket-books as the result of
lectures on their explorations, which in no
way can be of valuo to, the people of this prao-
tical age. Yet such is the composition of
our country that fools and wise men alike can
always obtain' honor,' glory and a compe
tence from others of the same class, if they
but demonstrate their superior qualifications
to the title.
A distinguished writer recently declared
that the history of the English House of
Lords showed that it had never failed to
pass or repeal a law which the English peo
ple had demanded through their represen
tatives in the House of Commons. And in
view of the fact that within the last quarter
of a century the English people have been
by no means modest in their demands, it
seems that the Lords-might be easily dis
posed of. At mo9t they have only succeed
ed in delaying for a yt ar or two every wise
measure that has confronted them. As an
instance of thta, we have the present Home
Rule bill, which has recently passed the
Commons by a fair majority. It is now re
ferred to the Lord, who, in all probability,
will delay its final enactment for some
months, perhaps years. But in the end it
will become a law just as it passed the Com
mons. The Lords can only delay its passage
until the people become clamorous in their
demands, and then through fear that their
useless occupation may be abolished by the
will of the people, they will bow their au
gust heads and sanction the bill. There
was a time when it was claimed that the
Lords represented the royal will, but in this
day the royal will is not consulted in Eng
land, except in regard to the support of the
family of the Queen. England has grad
ually followed America and France until to
day her royalty are no more than figure
heads, dependent for their existence on the
love of their people for old forms and cus
toms. England may never become a re
public in name, but she can already boast
of a representative government that is
equally representative with that of the
"greatest republio of modern times."
The wonderful progress which agricul
tural science has made in our educational
institutions within the past decade is a
striking testimony to the growing utilita
rianism of the - age. : It is not generally
known, but it is a fact that we have in each
State in the Union one or more institutions
which instruct their students in agricultural
science. Each of these schools is aided by
the government from a great fund created
to encourage such instruotion-r-an evidence
that our law-makers are not altogether blind
to the fact that our prosperity depends on
the agricultural class. ; While the govern-,
ment encourages the pursuit of study in
agricultural science as most practical and
useful, the pursuit of the classics is ignored
as utterly useless, and is left to those who
have the means and the time to pursue
them. The good results of the agricultural
colleges can hardly be over estimated. The
farmer cannot know too much, and while
he$nay through long experience learn 'Mots
that are not in the pooka" about his occu
pation, there are great advantages that will
accrue from thoroughly systematizing his
work. It is pleasing to contrast the Euro
pean system that extorts millions of taxes
from the Deonle to make soldiers of the
?-oung 'men, with ours, which is to send
orth ' thousands of bread-winners without
the least taxation of our people. . . ; f
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. Talks About lawNo. .18. f . "
- BY JUDGE B. W. WINSTON. ; J
, INTICINa 8ERVANTS. .
The peace and good feeling of a neighbor
hood is of ten disturbed . because one neigh
bor charges another with interfering with
his laborers. . , ' f
In some places, when a servant is dis
charged, he cannot get employment else
where without showing a certificate from
the late employer. This rule applies in
thickly-settled neighborhoods and in cities
generally. - " ,
With us in the country, we have to, do the
best we can and rely on neighborly conduct.
The ladies often say that if the men would
take the matter of domestic servants in
hand and would form a society agreeing to
pay good wages to good servants and not to
employ such as steal extensively and are in
different, this perplexing problem would be
solved. But I fear not. Good domestic ser
vice, like most good things in this life, is a
growth. The new order of things has not
yet had time to develop. .
The statute protects us, however, against
interference with our servants.
First, if any person? shall entice, persuade
and procure any servant to unlawfully leave
his employer ; or
Second, if any ., person shall knowingly
and unlawfully harbor and detain from the
service of his employer any servant who
shall unlawfully leave the service of his em
ployer, in either case the person so offend-'
ing may be fined one hundred dollars, or im
prisoned six months in jail. . f
In Person county about the year 1870, two
neighbors, Haskins and Boyster by names,
went to law because Haskins charged Boys
ter with interfering with his servants, and
before the suit ended, they say that it cost
the defendant nearly his entire estate.
A year or two ago a Norfolk firm had an
agent who went ta Goldsboro and hired
many of the servants of a rival machine fac
tory, saying, at the time, that he intended
to break the Goldsboro factory up. ' r
Our court said, "The mischief which the
enactment was intended to remedy was the
interference of others , with the servants,
who had thus agreed to serve, by offering
them inducements to depart, or with knowl
edge that they had so departed in disregard
of their contract obligations, by receiving
such with their service."
In 1889, in Lenoir county, one Moses An
derson was indicted for persuading Lloyd
Anderson to leave the, services of his em
ployer. The employer swore that he had
paid Lloyd for several months' labor in ad
vance, which he did not get. But Moses con
tended that Lloyd was his son, that he did
not agree to the contract of hiring, and that
Lloyd was under age. Oat court said that,
under these circumstances, Moses was not
guilty. .
In Perquimans county, in 1893, one Dan
iel, the servant, was indicted for unlawfully
leaving the service of his employer. It will
be observed that there was no enticing or
persuading in the case; Daniel simply left
nis employer in an unlawful manner, Our
court said that Daniel was not guilty under
the statute. . -
Since that time the Legislature have had
under advisement the passage of an act to
make it a misdemeanor for any servant to
unlawfully and wilfully leave the service of
his employer. Such a law exists in States
to the south of us. I have beard. . If our la
bor is often poor and provoking, let us take
courage when we read of Russian anar
chists and foreign Nihilists, and let us be pa
tient and abiding, not quick to fly to dan
gers we know not of.
., Some Protracted Meetings.
Have just closed with each of the follow
ing churches a five-day special effort with
the following visible results : '
Providence, Dr. R. R. Overby, pastor;
fifteen added. At Pleasant Grove, same pas
tor ; fourteen added. At Shiloh, Rev. P. S.
C. Davis, pastor ; thirty-six added. At Sa
lem, sixteen added. At Sawyer's Creek, Dr.
Overby, pastor ; thirty added, f
. At some of these meetings, besides the
astors, the following brethren in the min
stry rendered very effeotive aid by preach
ing, exhortation and personal work: Har
rell, Williams,' Wood, ' Woodson, J Burfoot
and Ferebee.. - ,
Thus the Lord has added to the saved over
a hundred souls and strengthened Baptist
lines not a little. , -
s Calvin S. Blacewell,
Elizabeth City,' N. O. - , ' '
,.,,,;.',' Jl 1 "?tf"
Good News. "
Dear Recorder:-' All our jchurches are re
vi vaHI. TTardlv nns of thorn hava failed in
the county. There seems to be a general
outpouring of God's blessed Spirit , Many
are coming into the fold of God. Backslid
den churches are being warmed up. ;
Our high-school at Hiawassee opened on
Aug. 28th, 1893, with a prosperous indica
tion for the year. . ; .
May our schools grow and churches en
large until their power shall be felt and hon
ored in every nook and corner of this fair
fair land. Yours for Christ, ;
', (V; , , ; H Cy STANDRIDGE,
Hiawassee, Ga. . , r-, i t i
i ,i . ' ''ij' " t Si' 1 1
Influence others by upright conduct
I f ' ' Talks on HeroineNo, '2. a y 1
' , FUOM A RETIRED PHYSICIAN, . ' , I
- NURSINQ JHB, SICK.- '. "
' Perhaps one of the most important duties
rendered the sick is by the nurse.. It is not
everybody who can nurse,. Nursing is an
art which very few people have ever mas
tered. So much has this been realized, that
much attention now is being given in our
medical institutions and universities to train
ing the nureeas well as the doctor. But
there are very few of us who can get such
training, and hence we must do the best we
can under the circumstances. '- ' -.
A nurse should be one who is endowed
with natural-born common sense and who
has great sympathy for the suffering whether
man or toast one who can ' feel something
of the aches and pains of the suffering. There
is no estimating the amount of actual pain
and sorrow such a person cin help tear away.
But the nurse must not be one who is so
sympathetic as that he or she is given. to
"whines.". "Whiners" are not sympa
thizers in any sense. . Usually those persons
i who do most whining along any line are the
hardest-hearted of, God's creation.
Don't, then, confound these two terms
sympathizers and whiners. The form of sym-,
pathy wh'ch is needed is that which partakes
of gentleness, carefulness, -tendernes and
watchfulness There is no end to the amou nt
of trouble given doctors by im proper nursi n
He makes a proper diagnosis ana builds up
a treatment and leaves all in the hands of
what we may regard as a competent nurse.
Bat when he is gone, she, either because of
her carelessness or because of her wisdom
which is in most cases the wildest form of
imagination, leaves off, his directions and
sometimes substitutes semething else.' . The
const quence is, as a matter of course, the
Satient grows worse, and the doctor is
lamed. Let the nurse know his or her
place. They are simply nurses. To them
should be entrusted the care of the room
keep it clean, well aired, and in it a bunch tf
flowers (provided they are changed every
day: never let them remain in a room
long). The nurse must prepare the food,
see its effect upon the patient, so as to in
form the physician when he comes. And in
fact a nursa must have the oversight when
the doctor is away. And in a family when
one or more is sick, always- select some one
person to benurse." What's every bodyV
business is nobody's business is true of nurs
ing the sick as well as in anything else. .
, , - FBI ENDS AND CALLERS. ,v ' '
- In this connection, also, it is well to put in
a word concerning those who are the friends
.of the sick and who call occasionally to ex
press their great regrets and kind words of
sympathy with a friend or neighbor. Per
haps I would not vary far from the truth if
I would say that this is the physician's big
gest "nuisance." And not only so, but the
greatest source of disturbance to the patient.
Of course, everybody likes company when
it is needed, or when it comes for the mo
tive of doing good. But the great bulk bf
sick-visiting is nothing more than a duty,
rendered in the interest of the various forms
of " nosing societies.". There is no telling
what will become of those eager ears if it
were not for an occasional misfortune in the
community. One-half of the callers upon the
sick come for nothing but to get a bump of
curiosity gratified, &nd the other half con
tains only about ten per cent who know
how to behave themselves when they call.
I recall a case of a young man who had been
in bed for three months with typhoid fever.
Of course he was by this time in great pros
tration. Any little excitement will tend to
give him heart failure and death. A friend
called one . day. He was one who should
have known better. He had not been in long i
before he related a very sad 6tory of a poor
boy who lived in the community who was ,
sitting up in - bed just recuperating from. ;
fever, and suddenly nis heart failed, and he
fell over dead ! And then to make the story
complete, he said to the patient, "You'd bet- ;
ter be careful, or vou may co likewise." i
, Well, it is useless to say that such a caller as
this ought to be locked up until he learns
some sense, and yet their name is legion.
One thing leaving this part of my present
paper, is concerning an almost universal
error committed by callers. t How are you
to day t" Have you ever been sick ? , If so,
you .don't need to have me talk about it., ;
"How are you?" that means that about
twenty times per day you must relate the
same old 'story of how you feel." It is an
noying and damaging to the sick. Don't do
it Ask somebody else about it ,
PREACHERS IN THE SICK ROOM.
We" might devote a whole conversation
to this subject, butl will just suggest meekly
that our preachers many times are the clum
siest folks in a sick room to be found any
where. In the first place, they are ignorant
as to propriety and the fitness of things.
Indiscriminately they walk into a sick cham
ber and begin talking about V the certainty
of death"; when if there is a thing the av
erage sick man don't want to Etear, it is that
thing. Usually also the preacher thinks it
will oe a crime upon his dignifiel calling to
wear any kind of an expression other than
that which is indicative of the most profound:
solemnity. He drolls out his words, tells
the number of sick in the - town and how
many deaths have occurred. Or it may be
that instead of his being this kind of a man,
he is boisterous, tells heavy yarns, talks
about politics, &c. , These are the extremes,
but they fit too many of. our preachers to
day. I believe there are thousands of in
stands in whlh even the be-st trained
preachers along this line had best not talk
about death or even offer an audible prayer.
Ask the physician's advice, - Talk with the
family ; find out what would best interest
him and occasionally drop in a .word about
his spiritual condition. But as my time for
conversation is limited, I must stop along -
iuih une. remaps as some iuiure uay we
will talk upon "The Preacher in the Sick
R06m." " " -
- ! PATENT MEDICINES. " -
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In closing this conversation with you, I
want to impress upon you something of the
nature of the "patent medicine business."
It is an enormous business and in most cases
an enormous fraud. Don't understand me
to say that there are not some good patent
medicines good for some things. But take
them as a whole, they are mere money-traps. .
Just think of the enormity' of the pill busi
ness in this country a thousand and one
pills which differ largely in name, and , in
that, alone. The fact is the pill . craze is
about the biggest craze of the age. , I shall
not forget sitting in a drug store one day,
and a lady walked in. She had an awful
was stout and strong looking.' The young,
polite druggist, with his hair roached up in
front and looking wise, stepped up and said.
"What do you wish, madam?" "I wish,"
said she, "to see some of your liver pills." .
He pulled down a box saying, " Here is Dr.
Tutt's celebrated liver pill," &c. " No, sir,
it don't act on my liver any more." "Well,
here is the Indian Root pill," &c " No, sir, '
it never acted at all on my liver." And so
he continued until he had shown her all he
had upon the shelf, but she could not be
suitea. . jjixe Aiexanaer, sue cad conquered
the pill-world, and turned away sorrowing,
because there was none else to conquer. The
fact was her trouble was in her mind and
not her liver, but she was ready to be
"gulped" by. any traveling quack. Such
cases as these feed the bread-pill quacks of
our country. If medicine is anything, it is
a science. Get you a good physician to pre
scribe for yon, follow his advice, place your
trust in him, and if there is any hope for
yon,-, in the majority of cases you will be
helped. Let alone patent nostrums, if the
newspapers do puff them remember they
get good pay for that.
we win taig next upon some oi toe com
mon diseases and their treatment.
Vj Something for Nothing. .
When a man obtains money, or goods, or
anything else of value, promising to pay at
some future time, when he knows that he
will not be able to pay ; or when be makes '
laise statements concerning nis acuity or
willingness to paj, this may be called "ob
taining money or goods , under false pre
tence." And the law can take hold of the
man and force him to pay or suffer punish
ment' " - , . .
There are hundreds, yea, thousands of
persons, whose names are registered on
church-books, who do this every year ; nay, .
we go farther and say that a large propor
tion of these persons make accounts which
they know they will not pay. But the law;
does not reach them, not because they are
not guilty, but because they are not prose
cnted. The larger proportion of indebted
ness thus incurred arise from transactions
with preachers, teachers and printers. There
are hundreds of thousands of dollars due at
this hour from church members to members
.of these three classes in North Carolina.
Covetousness is a far more wide-spread
sin among the Churches than drunkenness,
horrible as the latter is.
Bro. Elias Dodson used to say that a man's
pocket-book should always be baptized along .
with its owner. .'.
f, , By this sin the preacher loses confidence
in his members and lives on short rations ;
the teacher works for nothing and finds him
self ; and the printer well, I don't know
how in the world he lives. ' "
w ' ' v 1 - v t " V? ' Zebedee.
s Piny Grove ChuroL
Dear JRecorder:Oa Saturday. Aur. 12th,
1893, I began a meeting at the Piny Grove
Baptist church of which I am pastor. The
meeting lasted twelve days. Much interest
was manifested, and we had a glorious re
vival of religion, which resulted in a general
awakening and in twenty-eight professions
of faith in Christ On the 23d ins t, thirteen
of the twenty eight professing conversion
united with the church and were buried with
Christ in baptism in the sparkling waters of
the old Yadkin river. , t
Denominational lines were, not drawn in
this meeting, and all worked to the same
end, the salvation of souls. To God be all
the glory. Yours for the Master,
? " . i " John II. Nelson.
. Patterson, Aug. 29, 1893. ,
Happiness is a sunbeam which Jr. n 7 pr
tnrough a thousand bosoms witbcvt I
a particle of its original ray; cay, vl : i
strikes on a kindred heart, like tld c
ed light on a jnirror.it reSccts il
double brightness. , Hapr-Isc i -
feet till it is shared. ibrf-r.
The true Christian, Hie t' f
a blessing by his lfcht