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THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS-DEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENC1 Volume 89. RALEIGH, N, C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 81 893. 'Number 16. The Biblical Recorder. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY..' ; - OFFICE t 113 (up stairs) Fayetteville Street. Raleigh, H. 0, ; s. ,.TBM8 OF BtTB8CBIPTIOir! Oat copy, one year. : , I 2.00 One copy, .: J-K rilnDi 01 ten loopy extra to venunrj ,...., .. xv.uu . Anonymous communication! will always find their way to the waste basket. No exceptions. ' In lending letters of business, It Is abeolutely neo- issary that you give your postomce aoarees in ruu. The date on the label of your paper Indicates when your subscription expires, and also serres as receipt ror your money. ' ; 1 nhftnsrles. sixtr words lornr. are inserted free of charge. Wlwn they exceed this length, one cent (or each word snouia be paid in ad ranee. 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BOABD OF KDUCATIOW- LOCATED AT WAX -'h:- 'i'1 -V'-. FOEEST. ; wv: W L Poteat, President: W R. Gwaltney, Cor 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 C Fowler, is w tuxes and J u Ai&sKe. J ,v . ' - .1 , w . DURHAM. V W C Tyree, President W A Albright, Cor. Secretary; H A Reams, T E Cheek, J L Markham, T H Pritchard, F P Hobgood and W N Jones. ' TBU8TKX8 07 THOMASVTLLB OEPHANAQK LO- ' CATXD AT THOMASVILLK. ; John Mitchell, President: A G. McManaway, Secretary; J O Scarborough, C Durham, W R Gwaltney, Thomas Carrick, F P Hobgood, Noah Biggs, E Frot, R D Fleming, J L Markbani, T H Pritchard, W T Falrcloth, JlH Lasslter, A J Mon tague, H F Schenck, John Brewer and J D Bre- TBU8TEKS OF WAKX FOREST COLLKQS LOCATED AT WAKH FORXST. JM Heck, President; R E Royall, Becretary: C T Bailey, Noah Biggs, G W Blount, John B Brewer, H A Brown, SB Cobb, 0 M Cooke, W E Daniel, H 0 Dockery, P A Dunn, O Durham, W T Fall cloth. A R Foushee, ;N x Gulley, W R Gwaltney, F P Hobgood, J N Holding, J D Huf ham, O J Hunter, R H Marsh, W J McLendon, John MItcheU, W H MitcheU, E 8 Moore, R R Overby.T H Pritchard, E K Proctor, Jr, J B Richardson, JWF Rogers, G W Banderlln, J C Scarborough, T E Skinner, J H Tucker, W G Upchurch. W W Vass. , . - ', Of lats the people have awakened from a political and educational lethargy, during which their rights have been seriously en , croached upon. To-day their cry for light" and for knowledge can be heard over all the land. They feel that their power is slipping from them, and their attempts to regdn it are as the struggles of a drowning man. What was the cause of this sudden awaken ing may never be known; we hardly knew when it came, so gradual and gentle it was. But now how strong and blatant I ' And in many cases how blind and confused 1 We are glad that the citizens of this country have been aroused to an interest in political affairs.: Nothing could be a greater surety of our future welfare. But we fear they are iu manv cases over-shooting the mark. I Great revolutions seldom take place in a .J 1 .11. 1 i . V.o "OJT, ttUU IU WIS lllSlflUUt) WO UC1M3YO um the desired result will be attained only after years of endeavor. Education must precede success. The people must have knowledge before they can act wisely. We know that ten men read the newspapers to day where only one read them five years ago. This is one step. It will lead to concerted move ment, guided by wisdom, which will some day restore the farmer and the wage earner to their merited power. But they have a great deal to learn. They cannot learn too much, any more than the world can become too good; and the more they learn the bet ter mankind will be. Our system of gov ernment has many great deficiences to be remedied; and we sincerely believe that the lasting remedy Jiev not, primarily in 1 the ballot box, as many suppose, but in the faithful education of ourselves and our chil dren. We have often heard these truths and slept over them. . Let the people awake to the necessity of self culture, and let us make ourselves worthy of our free, institu tions, and strengthen and perpetuate them by intelligence of our ballot, (our secondary remedy),and the virtue of our motives. Then will we have the true Republic which God Almighty intended we should raise up as an example to .the nations of the world. WheiT 23,000,000 American people placed before the authorities their petition that the World's Fair might be closed on Sundays, and when the dallying of our courts render ed that petition powerless, the great body of the people showed that God's day should be preserved f whether by mandate of the law or not They placed themselves before the world as God fearing beings, and demon strated in no uncertain way that there was to them a law far more binding and far more just than could be formulated by earthly legislators. : It was a grand declaration of America for God and God's day, and a man ifestation of 'regard for his holy law above all other law. But in many cases it was only a manifestation. Our Sunday is far from being the day of rest and devotion that the Almighty intended it uhould be when he commanded us to ! remember the Sab bath day to keep it holy." How many Christians forget the Sabbath behind their morning papers) How many defile it by, contemplation of things temporal t The pe tition looked well, but there are thousands of other ways of breaking the Sabbath than having expositions on Sunday. If it was wrong for man to see the fair on God's day, surely it is wrong for him to read the world's carnival of crime and sin In the Sunday pa pers. If it breaks God's holy law to con template his wondrous blessings on Sunday, surely it is not preserving it when we in dulge in gossip and all sorts of conversation into which a thought of God never enters. The American people made a creditable ap pearance on paper, but how far from living tip to their petition are they in their homes 1 We have started right; now let us keep the Sabbath as holy as our great petition has lead the world to believe that we keep it. " Public office is a public trust" was the loud proclamation a few years ago of one who to day has converted the high trust re cently reposed in him into a medium of ex pressing personal will.; The President no longer voices the opinion of the people. He may be right in his bold stand; he may ktow far better than we. Still we prefer the will of the people as the law of the land rather the opinion of a few politicians, The President has too much power. Although his is an executive office, he has a great in fluence of the legislative department of gov ernment, which is directly contrary to the principles of a republican form of govern ment In the past few years these depart meats of government the executive and legislative -have become dangerously con fused, and the formerly separate and dis tinct provinces of each seem hopelessly con founded, i ' ;. ' The Governor of a State Is its executive officer, and inour State, and no doubt in a majority of the others, it does not require a particularly strong man to become Gover nor, or to execute the duties of that office. The executive of our commonwealth has little or no influence over legislation, arid we believe that to a certain extent this should be the case 'with the Chief Executive of the United States. Shameful to say the reason for the difference lies in the fact that governors have but little patronage to dis tribute t This is the main reason, but there are others. There was a time when well known leaders f among i men were chosen governors. To day it is anybody's office, and scarcely any significance attaches to the actions of its occupant. . It doesn't call for a leader now; all that is wanted is a man,' and the " machine " does the rest And who the man will be does not depend either on worth, ability or availability; it is sim ply a matter of chance. . Sometimes it is the man with the funds, but we are glad that our State, though seriously threatened in the Sast and the future, has not suffered this egradation. . Our people may well guard against such an event; for he who buys an office will as quickly sell it It was once the opinion that the office of Governor of North Carolina reauired a ereat man. To day his duties can be done by a phonograph, if we make an exception of the appointment of successors to deceased officers. , And a phonograph could equally well execute this duty if it had the power of recognizing its campaign friends who were needy. - ' There is a remarsabie ainerence oeiween the comparative influence of a Governor and a President, and we prefer the state of "in nocuous, desuetude" of the former to the open defiance of the latter. Between the . . is - mi - two, however, mere is a eoiaen mean, a no office of Governor should be elevated to a respectable position, and the patronage of. tha President should be limited to an ex tent that would, abolish .the occupation of the patronage-agent Congressmen and Sen ators, and destroy forever the power of po litical machines. The offices of Governor and President are executive only, and to that object they should always be confined; they are executors of the law, and not, in any case, law-makers. The Young Man in the World, or Wandering in Bin, 8EHM0N W7MBE& TWO, IK THK SERIES OF BEV. i L. 0. BROUGHTON ON "SCENES IN THE , LIFE OF. AN ANCIENT DUDE." "And not many days after the younger son fathered all together and took his Journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance in ri otous living," Luke 15 i 13. . In our last we left our young hers starting in life. The ship of youth and young man hood was going down. At present we take him stepping out upon life's proud ocean. We watch him as he wanders in sin. Unfortunately for poor, sin depraved man this life is so crowded with sin that go where you will and you are confronted with its tempting band. And man being by nature a creature, of sin, in his unregenerate state he cannot help engaging in its folly. Mould ed in a mould: which fits nothing but sin, he would not help it if he could. Regeneration, fortunately for him, breaks up and destroys this sin-mould-recasts it in the foundry of God's love and infinite mercy, so that it henceforth is suited to truth and righteous ness.1 ' ' Now with this unchanged heart and life, our young man of to night ventured out in life. " It was a very unwise and dangerous step to make, for upon life's sea there are so many breakers, so many storm clouds to en counter, that no one is safe who is not pre pared to fasten .his anchor beneath the im movable rock Christ Jesus. : ' Bat his launching was grand and glorious at least from the standpoint of the "good time hunters." Doubtless you have watched some proud ship jutt getting ready for a trip across the waters. You were impressed with her grandeur and bright promises. Her Egging was in handsome trim. Her tim bers are stout and strong. Her flag was flapping in the gentle summer breezes. Her tails were new and bright. Her keel has never experienced a single storm, Her cap tain struts with arrogant pride. O, how grandly, how proudly she1 splits the rolling waves and hurls them up on either side like mountain ranges in the far-off distance. But times are not always so hopeful She encounters a storm. Her strong timbers reel and crack. Her sails split in fragments. Her captain grows sick and heartless, and finally after a hard-fought night succeeds in pulling his vessel into an unfriendly shore, wrecked and ruined. ' This was our young prodigal It was all smiles that morning when he proudly stepp ed out from the old home and entered upon life for himself. ' The sky of hope was never so clear to him. The sun of promise never shone so brightly. He had his money with which he was going to have a good time. He had his freedom which he had sa long craved. To him this was a grand start, an envious beginning. Bat alas, alas 1 how sad the end I " Soon the storm of temptation and sin is raging. He is being swayed to and fro. Like the handsome rigging upon the proud vessel, his youthful expectations are split in tatters. The gaily-rigged boat of Belt-security and self -appreciation is shat tered into fragments of ruin, and he lies upon the shores of life wrecked and ruined forever. Now, young man, this was but the inev itable fruits of sin. Ton may go on in it for a time, but without a change this will be your doom. You are satisfied of this. Tour ob servation teaches you that it is true. And yet there are doubtless young men here to night who will go away and continue in its downward course and wake up finally when it is too late to a realization of its . con sequences. I wonder why this is true t Surely it cannot be that you are naturally so much depraved as not to desire to stop in this deadly , course. I do not believe boys are so mean as that May it not be due to the fact that you have failed to realize the na ture of sinf So in my discourse to you to night I shall try, if possible, to bring you to a realization of this thing in us we call sin. WHAT IS 8INT - " ' ' , . 1 God's Word gives us but one definition of sin : " Sin is the transgression of the law." The law of God is the life of the soul ; there-; fore sin is the destroyer of Boul-life. It is a cancer which eats up and destroys the soul's prospect for immortal glory, and wrecks and ruins life. This is' an awful charge and yet true First In its insdiousness. Dr. D. Hays Agnew, than whom there has not Jived upon this continent, in my judgment, a greater surgeon, says, in speaking of insidious dis eases ; "Of all the insidious diseases known to man, this we call cancer is the worst We never know how, when or where it is going to make its attack upon the body. Whether in some of the less hurtful ways, upon the surface, and submit for treatment, or whether in its ravaging thirst for human life, it will lay its dirty hand upon some in ternal organ and prove death." To those ho have had any experience along this line, hese words are recognized as the words of a wise man. The man who has in his blood the germ of cancer may never feel secure. Sooner or later it will assert itself Upon him. Bat not more insidious in its attack upon the physical man is the germ of cancer, than is the germ of fin to the spiritual man. - Be ginning as it does as but a small floating or ganism, so to speak, it courses itself through the various avenues of life in search for the proper time and place, and when it has found them it sends its dirty, slimy roots and rootlets into the vital principle of life, and soon claims its victim. , . . . PETER BEGBAAF, THE CONDEMNED CRIMINAL. 0, the lnsidiousness of sin! How it un dermines and destroys bright hopes and good prospects I How it steals the innocent babe from its mother's breast, leads him on through the years of his development, prom ising bright things, but in the end placing him upon the hangman's gallows 1 At present our city is ablaze over the trial and conviction of Peter Degraaf, the mur derer of Ellen Smith, so the jury said. He stands now behind the prison bars. The twenty-first day of October he must pay the penalty of his crime by swinging upon the scaffold. I need not go into the details of his life, it is too well known by you of Winston,- Suffice it for me to say that at one time he lay an innocent babe upon a loving mother's breast But he had the germ of sin in his breast ; it manifested itself in the form of a licentious character, and you know the sad results. Hear his words to his brother, as brought out upon the witness stand, "Let whiskey, bad women and pistols alone." O, young men of Winston I take warning. This is a mighty, enemy with which you are contending. - But you say, "It will never get me." O, no, certainly not Whoever thought that it would .master them t Did you ever know of one who expected it to be their ruinf "Never get me." - Ah 1 young man, you don't know your doom. I know it is all smilts now ; but listen : the day will not always be so bright.? The sky will not always be so clear. .The germ of sin will show itself and you its fruits must reap. Sampson, When he fondly lay his head in the lap of Delilah, never dreamed of its consequences. David, when he first looked upon the beautiful form of the wife of Uriah, never thought that it would lead on and on until he became an adulterer and a murderer; and yet David had much more power of resistance than you have to-night NO DANGER, NO DANGER. , Bat you say "No dinger, no danger in me." You are told about these things, but they make no impression upon you. There is "no danger" (?) to you. - Your bold self satisfaction and determination remind me of an incident whych occurred in a London the ater. A snake-charmer gave an exhibition. He had the stage decked with flowers and shrubbery till it resembled a flower garden. In this garden was a large anaconda snake, with which the performer would play as if it were a frolicsome, harmless kitten. He would appear on the Btage, and when the applause that greeted him had ceased, he would tell the people not to be uneasy, as the snake was tame, so that there was no danger in handling it At one of these exhi bitions the anaconda tried to entwine itself around Its keeper's body. With a mighty effort the keeper succeeded in unwinding the coils of the serpent and dashed it to the floor. Some of the spectators begged him to. ceaseimplored him not to fondle with the dangerous monster ; but he told them only to be quiet that there Was no danger, and that those weak-kneed, chicken-hearted people who were always afraid, should shut up or leave the building. At that point the snake raised its head again, though its tail . was motionless. The performer returned to it ; but as he did so, the huge monster suddenly began to entwine itself around the man's body. The performer again attempted to free himself, shouting, meanwhile, "Keep quiet, keep quiet, there is no danger no danger whatever 1" - But hardly had the words escaped his lips ere another sound was heard a loud, wild, hor rible cry of pain, succeeded by the noise of cracking bones and the weird death-rattle of the strangling victim of his own temerity. Oh t young men, go on if you- will in the enjoyment of the so-called pleasures of isin. You will feel its cold and merciless, coils some of these days fastening themselves around you. It will be too late, then, to throw off those evil habits which you havd been forming all through the passing years. Second. In its loathsomeness. Not only is sin like unto cancer in the insidious manner of its attack, ; but also in the exceeding loathsomeness of its nature. The pther day I visited a poor woman suffering with a fa cial cancer. What a pitiable sight to behold I I shall not attempt to describe it I would not if I could. I have too much regard for your sensitive nerves. In agony of pain she was awaiting her final summons. , I have also visited the great cancer hospital olNew York City, the greatest institution of its kind in the world, v Hundreds of poor suf ferers are there, and despite the great care taken with them, yet the strongest-nerved man, as he stands there and beholds them, will quiver and shake. Bat this thing in us we call sin is none the less loathsome in its nature than is this disease. Can you imag ine a sight more to be shunned than that of a young man who has been overcome by sin ful habits to the extent that he has lost his manhood and now lives in the gutters, in the dens of infamy or in the prisons ? " Don't go near him for the world" was said the other day by a good mother to her little boy who came in and told her of a young man who had staggered up the steps and was ask ing for a. piece of bread. What was the mat ter t Ah, the poor boy was loathsome. He had come out of a good home, had. a godly father and mother, had at one time a good prospect for life; but he had fell ia with a bad crowd and had contracted the habit of drink until now be was a walking devil Mothers are afraid to trust their chil dren in his presence while he eat a morsel of bread. SOCIAL ROTTENNESS. , And it makes no difference at all how well you carry yourself in what is known as so ciety. You may move in the very highest circles so called.) Your persons may be adorned with the most costly apparel.. In deed you may be the leader in all the so cial events in your sphere, yet with the germ of sin unatoned for by Christ, you are a man of putrefaction and decay. And all that Is needed to bring to light this tad fact ia time and opportunity. Only a few months ago a passenger-train with several passen gers down into a broad, deep stream cat west An investigation was held and t!.a cause was found to exist in the construction of the beam. . During its moulding a bit cf air by some means found its way into the center of the shaft, and a cavity was the re sult The outside looked well. No sign of a flaw was observed, but finally, when under the pressure of a heavy burden it asserted itself, the shaft gave away and the great bridge with a mighty crash came to the ground. So are hidden flaws in the beam of fife. That character, young man, may be put off upon the public as sound for a while. You may polish the outside. You may run upon family history and blood. But let me impress you with tfeis truth: all that you need to be a wreck ia the proper kind of op portunity. That faulty spot, that unpar doned sin in your heart, will assert itself sooner or later. O, young men of Winston, be wisX wait not for the test Flee from sin as you would flee from the deadliest py thon. . ITS DESTRUCTION TO LIFE. Third, s in is like the cancer in its destruc tion to soul Ue. Thus far we have been considering sin largely with reference to its blightening effects in this life. We have seen its insidiousness, its loathsomeness, and now we come to deal with the most impor tant point in our study its destruction to soul life. It would be bad enough if in ia its greed only touched this life bad enough if it only robbed us of oar bright prospects and our social position ; but it will not, it can not stop there. Like the insect that begins at the outside of the tree and is not content until he has penetrated the heart, or the panther, not content with simply mu tilating and destroying the body, but must, in his thirst for human blood, go deeper and cut cut the heart, the fountain cf . life, so is sin. It is not content with destroying life, but must go further and fasten it3 mighty, iron grasp upon the heart-center of life. and eat up and destroy its prospects for . immortal glory. V LOST I lost 11 O, that I could fire you with this thought to-night the final culmination of all sin, when it must end at last Will you listen to me tonight, unsaved men? Wanderer in sin, will you not stop in your heedless march, and let ring in your ears for a mo ment the significance' of this truth? 'Some years ago a man was benighted in a mining region. He lost his way. The darkness was dense, the dangers were thick. The next step might precipitate him down some awful shaft, some gloomy pit, and dash him bruised and shapeless upon its floor. lie knew his peril, and he stopped, stood still, and began to cry. " Lost 1 lost 1 i , lost III" A cottager; heard the sound, and, grasping a lantern, hurried forth to answer the cry, "Lostl lost!! lost 1 1 T The lost man t&vr in the distance the glimmer of his light : it came nearer until, as its rays flashed through the surrounding mist, he found that he stood upon the very verge of death itself I An other step would have plunged him down a tremendous shaft a crushed and mangled corpse 1 One step I one step 1 1 O, think of it! so close to death and eternity Young men, you are lost to night, wandering about in sin. O, for some divine light to come into our midst and shine away the mist and show you-the possible danger which lies out be fore you. Slop I stop! I See the awful pit cut of whose mouth comes the groans of c ony of the lost , souls of hell. Stop ia your wanderings lest another step will plur 3 you in despair. O, see the light which God t"'i given you through Jesus the son. Ccu3 unto him and be saved to-niht . r-J The Devil is not concerned about f : young man who is engaged in no poo J r e . even though he is not engaged ia n i work. The seed are sowing, the y "Z up in due time. His Satanic llaja '7 1 sure chance at the young man w Lo t seek the companionship cf foe 1 y : does not read good books, v. Lo t to add to the happiness cf cl1 cessful man, the happy r : does not serve ataa, u V ) : a positive and not a r -' ' v only does not do cert: ' i t' ' do certain others. To 1 to me, "Why, I C i tad." The quectici i , " anything really Inland.
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