THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS-DEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Volume B9.
RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1893,
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It is a. very prevalent belief that those
'ongressmen who are in favor of the " Wil-
loa Repeal Bill" are opposed to free silver
oinage, and there appear good reasons for
his error, for it is an error, when one reads
he speeches of the Congressmen and the
press comments thereon. Yet, we believe
f the question were pat directly to each of
he members; not ten per cent, of them
WamIjUJIaaIaMA . A Mvly) .4.MJlrtJ ' flit. i
.iiuuiu ucuaio lut a guiu Btauuaiu. Alio
umerence in me auuaae 01 inose memDers
who were elected on the same platform, and
Vho heretofore have always been known to
work togelher nnder the same "banner, . is
PansJprl "htr fWdir (liffpronro nf ftninlnn nn in
r low the free coinage of silver on a parity
ith gold may be attained. This difference
f opinion as to methods of procedure has
laced a Democratic President In a Repub-
can attitude, has estranged him from the
arty that elected him, and at the present
ime threatens the annihilation of that party,'
o heartily endorsed by the great body of
he people last November." What" will be
Ione cannot be predicted, but ''we feel no
esitancy in saying that the party in power
ad better unite for the common end free
jilver on a parity with gold else, it will
lever gain another victory. It does seem
us that a difference in methods should not
iuse such a great waste of time. ' A de-
Jed majority is obviously and confessedly
in favor of free silver coinage on a parity
with gold, and yet the disagreement as to
means of attaining that end is so great that
no favorable measure can be effected. We
are glad that the country has shown that It
was above legislation in this instance in re
covering its wonted steadiness as it has in
the last few weeks; if it hadn't been able to
recover from the panic without the aid of
legislation, we do not know, nor do we care
to imagine, where our business interests
would be by this time. Let Congress act.
Let it move, even if the motion is to ad
G.eovib Cleveland will probably be the
last President for many years to come to be
re elected. The evils of a second adminis
tration have been strikingly demonstrated
since his late inauguration. His numerous
arbitrary acts in the past few months can
not be accounted for by asserting that he
has always been a man of great indepen
dence of spirit, of individual power, of un
daunted convictions, &c. We will give him
credit for these qualities; but there is a dif
ferencea remarkable difference in the
actions of Cleveland the inexperienced
President, and the President to-day. It is
natural -no more than could be expected of
an ambitious mortal; and most of u are of
that nature. In his first administration
Cleveland was desirous of securing a second
election, and he acted accordingly. Never
was a President more careful not to offend
his adherents. He chose a cabinet that was
representative, and which strengthened him
in various States; he distributed his patron
age in a manner that showed his apprecia
tion of doubtful localities. He catered to
the party that elected him, whenever possi
ble; and, though defeated once for the Presi
dency, he gained two renominations, and
was finally restored to power. Now mark
the difference : He has surrounded himself
with a personal cabinet, regard having been
aid neither to power, party, nor popu
arity. He has given posts of honor to men
of the opposing party, and is very slow in
reinstating his adherents. He opposes the
South and West on the financial question,
and appears in favor of a gold standard,
without suggesting that his ultimate aim is
free silver on a parity with gold, though his
friends claim that as his policy. He insults
the voters of the West by his efforts to post
pone the enforcement of the "Geary Act,"
and he antagonizes the South by opposing
action in the Federal Election matter. Here
tofore he has always catered to these sec
tions, and his present attitude toward them
has astounded his party. Purely there is a
difference between Cleveland, the candidate
for re election, , whose every , aim was to
E lease democracy, and Cleveland re-elected,
is political ambition satiated, who longs
for fame as the " man above his party," too
great for the age in which he lived. It is
all very Well; we like to see a man above
his party it is an ideal state but it grieves
us to see a President above the party
promises on which he was elected, without
explanation or apparent excuse.
The discovery, settlement, and conse
quent growth of this country, has had a
greater influence on the civilized world than
any other event, or series of events, since
the Christian era. Old systems have been
rehabilitated and reformed, monarchies
have been limited and abolished, and the
whole world breathes a freer atmosphere es
direct results of our unprecedented progress
and the enormous growth of our institu
tions. Not the least of the great changes
that have been effected is that of our con
templation of the Future, rather than the
Past. Four hundred years ago, with the
revival of learning, all intelligence was di
rected to retrospection upon the Greek and
Roman civilizations, until Europe almost
forgot that there was a future for human
society. Everything was contemplated in
the classical after-glow reflected from the
departing brilliancy of Rome and Greece.
To-day we have turned from antiquity, and
are gazing vainly into the future. Never
before has a single generation seen a great
nation spring into being, or a whole conti
nent rise from comparative barbarism to our
present hopeful level. ; No wonder that a
people wno nave witnessed and taken part
n this remarkable result should strain their
eyes forward and breathlessly ask, What
next f" Prediction is the hobby of the age.
A newspaper is not popular unless it pre
dicts political events, y And yet it Is all vain.
we make a grave mistake in . encouraging
prophecy, for the simple reason that one
man can predict as well as another, and none
have certain knowledge. It were far better
to learn the facts, and construct ; your own
future, and pay no regard to V prophetic
newspapers, in nine cases out or ten they
fail of their predictions, and yet their read
ers continue to read and believe them. We
should study the present, and leave the fu
ture to another generation. To live in the
future tense Is as deprecable as to live in the
East; neither can be productive of good, and
oth warp the capabilities of the present ,
'Talks About LawNo. 17. ."
BY. JUDGE R. W. WINSTON.
CRIMINAL THESPAS8. .
Every trespass on land is not a crime, of
course. We have civil trespasses, and we
nave criminal trespasses.
It is the boast of the law that it gives a
remedy for every wrong. So if a man eoes
on another's land and tramples his grass, or
injures crops or fruit even by accident, he
may do sued ana damages recovered.
It is not of this kind of trespass that we
propose to write at present; out of such
trespasses as are violations of the statute
law oi tne Btate, to wit, criminal trespass.
Of these there are two kinds .' First, wilful
trespass, and second, forcible trespass.
The difference between them is this : Wil
ful trespass is committed without force and
in tne absence of the owner of the land gen
erally. Forcible trespass is high-handed and
occurs despite the owner's presenceand,
against rus tor bidding. Tne latter is, nence;
of course, the eraver of the two offences.
Let us consider wilful trespass for a mo
ment A man has a body of land, on which
he forbids any one hunting. , Now, if some
sportsman goes on the land after being thus
forbidden to kill game, or for any other pur
pose, he is guilty of wilful trespass. Simply
posting the land would not give the party
notice unless he saw the poster.
Bear in mind that one is answerable for
all actual damage he does on the land, notice
or no notice. But to tlx him with crime, he
must have notice to keep off. This offence
is the creature of statute. It did not exist
at common law, and by this we mean for
such a length of time that the memory of
man runnetn not to tne contrary.
Our court g have said that it was' enacted
into law to protect land owners against
squatters and careless persons. It has no
application to a person who goes on the land
in good faith under a claim of right Nor
can it be used to try the title to land. It
will be seen that it is a very useful little
statute in its place. , It tends to preserve the
peace. If a man does not wish another ever
to put foot on his premises again, and so no
tifies him, and that other even presses the
naked soil with his foot thereafter without
license from the owner, he is acting in the
teeth of this law. ' So much for wilful tres"
pass.
4owaooutiorcioie trespass, iiisinemgn
handed invasion of the property of another,
he being present forbidding. And a thing
to be borne in mind is that title is not drawn
into question. Indeed, a man may be, and
often is, convicted for forcible trespass not
only on land to which he has title, but on
land which he has the legal right then to
occupy. How is this!' ,
Suppose that a land-owner rents his land
VT . 1, a, M III- L . Ti I .t . 9 V
for mvi to a tenant, tne tenant to give up J
tne land ueo. l, The nrst of Decem
ber, 1803, comes. Landlord goes to " land
and demands possession : tenant will not get
out; Landlord forcibly puts him and his in
the big road. This is forcible trespass.
Title is not drawn into question. On this
head the only question is, who is in the
actual possession of the land! Do not let
us get the matter confused. The landlord
has his legal remedy, short, simple and in
expensive. Let him complain to the nearest
justice of the peace, and the justice will
have an officer remove the tenant.
If the party in possession is a bare tres
passer, a squatter, one who did not right
fully enter into possession, he may be re
moved from the land with force. But this
is the only instance in which a man can take
the law into his own hands' and remove an
other from his land. For example: if, while
a man were absent from home temporarily,
some person were to take possession of his
residence or land, when the rightful owner
came back, he could use such force as was
necessary to remove the intruder.
It will now appear why the landlord could
not remove his last year's tenant by force.
Because the tenant entered, the land right
fully under a contract And if the taw per
mitted men who dispute about the title to
land to remove each other therefrom, there
would be no end to strife. For every man
thinks he is right in respect of his real estate
holdings. Some years ago a rowdy fellow
came along the public road and, when in
front of a dwelling, began, to curse and cre
ate disorder. The owner of the dwelling
Ordered the man to go away, , To this the
reply came that he would not, as he had as
much right to the road as anybody. He was
tried and convicted for forcible trespass.
The court said that he had as much right to
the public road as any one, so long as he be
haved himself; but that; for the purpose of
this trial, the land owner was in' possession
of the road fronting his land. '
From all the authorities on this subject, it
is safe to conclude that force ought not toj
vo usbu w yui auotner ou tuiy lanu unless
that other is a mere intruder, n If he Is there
by contract, written or unwritten, he cannot
be forcibly ejected, even after his right to
remain has ended under said contract. This
is a very wholesome law. If It were other
wise, discord and confusion would ' ensue.
Because each man would seek to right his
own fancied or real wrong. ; , t ; , m . ,
It often happens that those are the best
people whose characters have been the most
injured by . slanderers, as we usually find
that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds
have been constantly picking at. Selected, ;
Borne Items from North China.
' Dear Bro. Bailey .'During April and
May, after my wife was well enough for me
to leave home, I went to seven or eight dif
ferent villages from ten to thirty miles dis
tant from Tung Chow, and spent some days
at each, visiting many other villages from
these centers, and preaching on the streets,
in the inns, on the farms, by the roadside,
or anywhere that I could find or make an
opportunity. - I think I see a decided in
crease of interest, even in the two years
that I have been 'engaging in this kind of
work. ; I feel that the reaping time is com
ing on when the seeds sown here for thirty
years so wn in tears," amid the most dis
couraging circumstances will bring forth
abundant fruit to God's glory, ' Many of the
sowers will already have gone to their re
ward perhaps: none who have done much
scattering of the Beeds will remain to seethe
ripened sheaves gathered in on earth, but
the sowers and reapers shall enter together
with joy into the everlasting kingdom on
high, and ascribe all the praise and honor
unto him " who hath loved us and given
himself for ns." . 4 n -s ' n
In , all the places which I visited this
spring I found willing hearers, and some
whom I believe to be near the kingdom of
God. It was a real joy to talk to such about
the only Saviour from sin, even when great
effort was required to try to clear the mind
of radically wrong notions. I fell into con
versation one day with an old country far
mer seventy six years old who seemed really
to be working for salvation. He had a dis
tinct realization of his sinfulness, and that
to have it forgiven required some kind of
good deeds. So he was . constantly engaged
in fixing up bad places in the road near the
village, expecting thus to gain favor with
the gods. There is no public arrangement
in this part of China to repair roads, and he
who voluntarily does it is counted a "hying
haoti," (a performer of good deeds.) ' I tried
with all my powers to show this poor old
man that all this could never benefit his
soul, and that Jesus could and would save
him if be would but trust him and him only.
This idea of gaining favor with the gods by
such deeds is very common here so com
mon that very many think that the object
of all our work here as . missionaries is to
gain merit personally with the gods. . But
few can see any other meaning in any of our
charities than this; While at this same vil
lage, where I met this old man, I was going
one day to another village a mile away and
was overtaken by a bright boy of thirteen.
He said, "Where are you going!' I re
plied, "To that village yonder. 'r What
are you going for!" "To tell tie people
about the true God and the Saviour of the
world." I said, "Where are you going!''
I am going to that village also." , " What
for !' " To buy some eggs." Then we
chatted along for the mile. Everywhere
we go we find many people, especially school
boys, who are anxious to receive our books.
I had been led from many things I had seen,
and from conversations with experienced
Chinese Christians, to fear that these books
given away were often not read, but simply
taken to make fun of us, or to carry home
to use for scrubbing rags, or to make shoe
soles. Sol had decided not to give away
books in this promiscuous way. At this
village swarms of boys came begging for
books, and I refused to , give them, . but
agreed to sell them at a nominal price. I
sold a dozen or more to these boys, and I
found that this boy had bought one. " He
said, " Teacher, this idea of selling your
books to us is a good one. Formerly the
missionaries gave them to us freely, and we
put no value on them not even on the
character. Now when we pay for them we
value them, take them - home, or to the
school room, and read them, and our teach
ers examine them." I put him down as a
reasoner. - ' s '
A very respectable old teacher in the same
village invited me into his school house for
a talk, and has Insisted on my going in once
since, as I was just passing through.
At another village, where Dr. Crawford
and I were together, several were much in
terested. I felt specially drawn s towards
one man of sixty-five, who said to us, V I
am just the same as In hell Is there any
way to escape !" i On our last night we had
a room full of men and boys. : I suggested
that Dr, Crawford; now seventy-one, would
perhaps meet them no more till at the judg
ment barof God, where they must render
account for all the truth he had preached to
them. This touched the old man, Dr. 0.,'
and he took the hymn, " I am a pilgrim and
stranger," &c, which has been translated
into Chinese, and enlarged eloquently on its
thought 'for -nearly an hour. The people
listened with apparent intense interest
The other workers here and at Hwaughlm
and Pingtn were equally encouraged in their
work in tne villages during the spring, we
all confidently believe that the next few
years will certainly see many souls gathered
in from this field that for. years has not
yielded much visible result" ; ; t '
Jt is very not here now Hotter man any
other summer since I came to China, but
we are all pretty well, t I was at Pingtu the
first of July, and found the Leagues and our
sister Fannie Knight well and happy. They
may all come here for awnue during this
month and September. ,
Dr. J. B. Hartvell will Derhaos be in
Hwauehlm next week. In the early spring,
and till the news came from the Conven
tlonj it seemed likely to us here that the
Board would give up Shantung Province,
and so we felt that if they gave it up we
should not Now that the Board is sending
other workers here, the Cra fords, Leagues'
and ourselves will probably go further west
as soon as airangements, can be made. We ,
are not -yet apprised of the Board's plans.
The Convention reports intimate that the
old stations will be left by them to ns and
they aeek new ones, but the workers here cf
both parties do not think this will be done.
Oar B. L M. workers will perhaps be com
pelled to stop here or at Pingtu for sorre
time to come before we can rent and repair
houses. , This is some times a very difficult ,
thing to do in a new place in China, . The
center of our operations will perhaps be
some cities lying about sixty miles south
west of Pingtu, in' o which no foreigner has
yet gone to live. There is a considerable ,
region there comparatively untouched by
mfcslonarywork, ..This is still an unsettled
matter. We are crying unto the Lord for
his guidance as we settle these important Si
questions. ' Wherever we go and whoever ,
shall take up the work- here, we; shall pray
for God's richest blessings to abide upon,
this field so long and so faithfully worked. k
s I trust , that it goes well with the dear
brethren in the Old North State, and that -you,
Bro. Bailey, are fully recovered from
your long attack. The blessings of the Lord .
abide upon all the brethren and sisters.
Fraternally, 1 G. P. Bostick.'
Chefoo, China, Aug. 2, 1893. ' -
The Eeligioui Condition of the People of Brazil.
Dear Recorder: In my last letter I prom- ;
ised to speak of the religious condition of the
Brazilian l people, - but even mention of the
thought gives me pain. "Like priest, like,
people" is an adage which contains a great'
deal of truth so far as Brazil is concerned.
Without any exception, the Catholic priests
of this country are the most corrupt set of
men that I have ever seen. Purity of char
acter among them is utterly unknown, while
honesty and integrity is little taken into ac
count. A few days ago I heard a priest
conversing with one of our young native
Christian workers. During the conversation ;
the priest said that he did not believe in the :
BibUv-that he himself had as much right to
make a Bible as did the Apostles, that he
did not believe Christ was the Saviour of the
world, but nothing more than a man. Upon;
being asked what he did believe,' he replied'
that he hardly knew what he believed, and
thaUbe doubted very much the existence of
a God. ' We asked him if be did not claim '
to be a priest of God and a believer in God's
religion. ' His reply was, " My only religion
is nnney and good eating." This same man
is considered the best and most learned and
consecrated priest in the whole State of
Minas. He is a fair specimen of the religious
teachers of the Brazilian people. No won-,
der that the neonle are wicked and sen; uona '
rinfidehv The majority of them have no re
ligion, f; They, bel. eve nothing, r No moral
restraint is placed upon their passions, but
but they yield to every form of lost and sin.
Were I to refer to the crimes openly commit
ted and tolerated here every day, it would
render this paper unfit for publication. . But
even in the midst of all this sin there are a
few who seem to be sincere and observe with -apparently
great solemnity all the rites and
formality of the Catholic church. : To day
is the feast of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Go to any of the churches here in the city
and you will see them thronged with people
of all classes. They entjer the church, kiss
the image of Mary, make their contribu
tions, and then go out to loin the feasting"
crowds. ' . All the stores and shops are closed
to day in honor of the holy Virgin. As one
sees the crowds doing homage to the image,
he cannot help from feeling that this is out
right idolatry. - ' w . v, t
The Sabbath is not observed as a holy day.
Balls, theatres, circuses and pleasure-trips
occupy the whole day. Shooting matches, ,
horse-races and gambling are engaged in by
the men and boys. On every street corner 1
there are stands from which thousands of
lottery tickets are sold dally. The marks of
crime can be seen on every hand. The av
erage Brazilian's ambition is to get money at
any risk, and the majority of them will make
almost any sacrifice to attain' this end. ,
- a But after all I believe that laziness is one
of the greatest sins of this people. " Nobody
seems to be in a hurry. ' Procrastinatidu-Dn
the part of those apparently concerned is the
.greatest discouraging feature to the mls-
Biuuarjr. duv m uxo iacq ui tii wiia biu nun
opposition we have reason to be encouraged.
In our little church here there are some of
the brightest Christians I have ever seen.
They prove to me what the gospel of Christ
Is able to do. The blood of Jesus can even
wash away the sins of the poor Brazilian. '
The gospel is the only hope of this country
and of the whole continent Of South Amer
ica.: nThe many political revolutions and
social .upheavals of these South American
countries can be traced to the corrupt char
acter of the people. v The gospel must be
preached to these millions, .The tyrannical
and cruel chains of sin must be broken and
liberty given to these captives. . Oh ! how
my heart is burdened for the salvation cf
these souls ' about' mei; Polluted llomaa
Catholicism is rapidly decaying and the para
gospel of Christ is slowly but surely taLi. :
its place,. Time will be require ! f r V
change to take place, and the work ti
for many years to come will bo pi. r
seed-sowing., But this is a t 1 i ;
which to sow the seed with the 1.:; f
the harvest will come bye ani 1 7.
' ,.. v, ; , Samuel J. 1
rM Rio Janeiro, Aug. 15, 1SC3.
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