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A J Mon ' tague, H F Schenck, John Brewer and J D Bre- . wd. - ' TST7STZS3 OF WAKE FOREST COLLEGER-LOCATED AT WAKB FOREST J M Heck, President; R E Royall, Becretary; C T Bailey. Noah Biggrs, O W Blount, John B Brewer. H A Brown, N B Cobbi C M Cooke, W E Daniel, H C Dockery, P A Dutni, C Durham, W T Fall cloth, A R Fouf.hee, NY Gulley, W R Gwaltney, F P Hobgood, J.N Holding, J D Huf- bam, O J Hunter, R II Mars'! . W J McLendon, lobn AUtchell, V 11 AlitcheU, Overby, T II Pritchard, E K Richardson, J W F Rogers, G Bcarborough, T E Skinner, J Upchurch, W W Vass. . a a Aioore, Proctor. Jr. J B XXT Q..1.ll T n. III Tucker, W G Webb the qnestion, What is the fund mental difference between the Republican and the Democratic partie, ' pat to the av; erage American citizen, e dare say ne would "be utterly at a lo for an answer. This is not surprising in 11 a' t lew of the fact mat not a few citizens v te according to their . - environments-sectl nalism; others .i for men not measures; ot ers in-the name of their father?; and stll' others for the money that may be paid (hem, or the office iu the distance; every oneiof whom are not worthy of their citizenship. ; A patriotio citizen votes according tApiia opinion of the platforms of the respecti parties, with due consideration of the vl q who represent - 1 i ... . - . . ' 1 i . I tuem. dui witnonL mrtntii reeara io eavirou- ,ments or inducements. $: I iis is ideal, but it can and should be mad av e real. . .' The age of the partie uestion, coupled with the marked cha- ;3 that have come over them, .necessitat' very the growth of "is ccantrv and the' Jtoiands"of another ion, has also i Th little to do with "3tjital differences, ew- 'ence. Theques 'Jt 8 Ses ' constitu fin( rticularly on the 4ble, and that ,15 633 shall have 'nn cm r- '.3 their fur Iui I.. U3 C3 the rea' tioa turns upon the' tionsl "-yM-wUlvU, t "onctruction cf tV.p' c'anca which s?js thai lower to proviJi lhe common de fence and general welfare of the United States." The Republicans viewed this as emnowerinsr Oonere&a to enact anv law which it may deem -necessary to the com mon aeience, or conducive to the general welfare. ; But further on in the Constitu tion, in addition to these general words, are certain clauses which set forth the especial powers of Congress. The Democratic states men held that the Implied powers of Con gress could be drawn only from the' express powers, and not tne general words referred to above. The former construction is gen eral and lax, the latter specific and strict. One cave very extensive ' and indefinite power to the National legislature, the other restricted National legislation and claimed certain powers for the States. This is the difference .; simply ; stated, though by no means would we have the reader to under stand this to be the difference to-day, or that ibe legislation of eitner party is con ducted on these constructions of the Consti tution, or that this difference is literally true in all instances; in fact we might name many in which both parties have acted di rectly contrary to their original construction of the Constitution. - ' ,.kt'i; ' Says Dr. Strong in "The New Era": "The workingmanof to-day may have, if yon please, twice as much as his grand father nad, but he knows, say, ten times as much and wants ten times as much ; hence his J! !'... .". .. .i :,.... uisconieni." This is in a degree true. To-day men are capable of more, know " more, and want more, than they have since men were. But we do not believe, nor do we believe that Dr. Strong intends to convey the idea that man'a wants increase in proportion with his knowledge. If such is the case, we are con signed, to a life of discontent; for as the years come and go progress is made in al most every department of human activity, and not the least in the means of communi cating knowledge. In fact such a theory would lead us to believe that each man will finally "want the earth. n Men's wants do increase with his knowledge to a certain ex tent, but there is a degree of knowledge wnicn broadens the healthy intellect, leads it to a deliberate view of human affairs, con vinces of inability and un worthiness, and content ensues.. But such is more often the exception than the rule. Avarice destroys the lives of hundreds of men each year.; Our business centers are crowded with men who throw away health, destroy conscience, kill themselves and others in a vain attempt to possess and enjoy more than they need.or can use. The time will come when such men must be restrained both for their own sake and for the protection of the less for tunate who lose their share of the world's eoods to the ranacitv of the stronar. ' Hu man law is powerless to restrain, and divine law is our only resort We believe with Dr. strong that the simple mandate of Je sus, ' Love thy neighbor as thyself," is the only remedy for discontent and " hard times." Men will always be unhappy and unfortunate, just as human capacities for labor and pleasure and natural opportunities vary. All may be well situated, but many will cry " hard times as lone as others seem to be happier than they. , In the preceding article, we have discuss ed a species of d iscontent that arises from dissatisfaction rather than actual need. It is unnecessary to . say ; that that , discontent which rises from the latter cause, while less general, is more dangerous, threatening and pitiable than that which finds its origin in dissatisfaction. The winter Is fast approach ing, and we are' told that it will fall upon thousands and thousands of unemployed, though worthy and willing, laborers in our greater cities. In the summer their neces sities were few, and they have been supplied by charity, but in winter the cost of living increases, thicker clothes are' needed, and shelter is necessary to life. Can charity supply all these I We know it will not; so it appears that there is great suffering ahead and increased danger to our govern ment. It is, indeed, a sad state of affairs when men cannot find work, and. though worthy, must suffer. To day men are beg ging for work, not bread, but actually for the privilege of executing God's law, "In the sweat of thy brow thou shalt'eat bread," and they esteem themselves fortunate if not turned away as beggarly tramps. No won der that discontent becomes anarchy in such conditions. It should not be said of any country or any age. which claims to be civilized, that men begged for work in vain. , Whose is the fault, is a question that is often asked, and meets with as many dif ferent answers. Some say f party, some tariff, others silver; but none know. And t strikes us that if each of us were to con sider many such evils, and especially this one of poverty, as ours to prevent and alle viate," that there would be fewer parties and ewer evils to lay at their feet. .x.::.-:-,.:. r:i . The unexpected turn in the political tide which landed Repeal safe in harbor, and left many fond hopes high and dry on the rocks of disappointment, was a surprise to the na tion. Every newspaper in the' land had an nounced that repeal could not possibly be effected unconditionally, and that a compro mise of some sort would surely result. In Jbis recent address at the State Fair, Senator Vance declared that anything but a compro thise was" impossible, and taking his word for it, with the additional assurance of the press that the requisite number of Senators had agreed in writing to a compromise, the Recorder set forth its views on the subject. But the tide unexpectedly turned, and left us, with many others, in the lurch. s The repeal,' as passed - by Congress, has pleased the North and sorely disappoints the south and west ; It was effected, we are told, in the name of harmony. There may re narmony in the senate, one severe t dia cord is rife in this part of the land. ' A sac rifice of principles in the name of anything is crime, i here is but one result that will bring harmony now,' and that is the pros peiity which the repealers have promised A majority, of the legislators favored uncon ditional repeal, and voted for it. None can take exceptions to .this as the legislators were elected by the people on certain plat forms. If the legislators betrayed their covenant with their constituents, the score will be finally settled whn they face the people for re election. We candidly believe that the majority of the Senate deemed un conditional repeal necessary to the general welfare, and are not Among those who think the country was sold to Wall street. Think. reader, what a crime that is to bring against the guardians of our . rights l The repeal bill promises that the coinage of silver shall be resumed. We shall see if faith is kept in this respect. The repealers claim th it this action will eventually result in bimetal ism, the hope of the South and West. It does not seem so to any one now, but time will telL We know that many of the Sena tors who Voted for repeal are in favor of sil ver money; we know that nine tenths of the citizens ot the South and West, and at least one-half of the North, are avowedly opposed to an absolute gold standard; and knowing this, we have good hope that the present legislation is only temporary, and may be changed in a moment to a more promising relation to silver coinage. But fewof us understand National finance; the subject ia clouded in mystery; but all of us can have the consolation of knowing that we were right or wrong, after a year has settled this one phase of the question. We can surely learn whether a cessation of sil ver coinaea is .conducive to, prosperity or not, and having learned this much, we will know in whom to place our .trust when this or any other question is brought up again. . The Higher Eduo&tion of Women and the Co- Education of the SexesNo, 1 ' - BY T. H. PBITCHABD, D. D. Dear Recorder propose by your favor to write several articles, in which I shalLen deavor to show first, the need of educating our women more highly, and the wisdom of educating the sexes together; and then I shall adduce the considerations which sat isfy me that the best Place for us to estab lish a school of higher learning for our girls is at Wake Forest, and in direct and organic connection with the College already in pros perous operation there. I do not suppose that a majority of the brethren will agree with, my conclusions at the first, but I believe them to be amenable to reason, and hope that a careful and un prejudiced examination of the facts in the case will affect a revolution in their views, such as has been wrought in my o wn. A few years ago, 1 regarded the co-educa tion of the sexes with exceeding disfavor: it seemed to me to be Unreasonable and con trary to the natural fitness of things. After a time such facts came to my knowledge as somewhat weakened my opposition, and' latterly, a still further investigation of the subject has satisfied my mind that this is the true theory of educationand that the very best results can be secured to both sexes by its adoption, I have no selfish end to sub serve. I am old enough ana ought to oe mature enough to form a just judgment in the premises, and as the matter is one of much practical importance and of pressing interest to the Baptist pnblio, just at this juncture, I beg a candid hearing at the hands of my brethren. In doing so, let me present, as an intro duction, a word as to the history of v thVhigheb; education or women.1 . Why it should have been so Is a profound mystery to me, but it is nevertheless a fact, that while liberal provision has been made by every State in the Union for the higher education of young men, no such advan tages of liberal culture have been provided by the states or by the Christian denomina tions of the country for young women. A hundred years ago the State of North Caro lina established by law an University for the training of our sons. She has never founded a school of like grade for our girls. and only a little more than a year ago did the State, in the erection and equipment of the Normal School at Greensboro, do any thing at all corresponding with the demands ofthecaae.. . . The whole movement for the higher edu cation of woman in this country reaches back only some thirty years when Matthew Vassar, after maturely considering how he could confer the greatest benefits on bis adopted country by the nee of bis larce es tate. built and endowed, near Poushkeepsie. 'N. y.rVassar College, the first institution iu this country, which afforded young wo men the eameud vantages of culture provided for voung men at Harvard, Yale, Brown, the Universities of Virginia and many other States. All honor to this man of Baptist faun, who was the first to conceive the idea. and the first to put it into practical opera tion in the founding of this noble school of learning, the pioneer and precursor of sev eral others since established of like dignity and character. , If I remember aright, Vas- sar was opened in 1805. Smith and Welles- ley followed afterwards in New England. and still later, about 1880, Bryn Mawr near Philadelphia was opened to the public. If I mistake not, thfsa are still the only four schools, in the whole of the United States, which supply for girls what may be called an university grade of education. TAN OUB WOMEN ATTAIN THIS HIGHEB ID0 " 1 CATION fS';' x v Let the wonderful rapidity with which the number of female students has increased within the past twenty-five years, and the multiplication of colleges for their accom modation, and the splendid record they have made in scholarship, answer this question. A few years ago, the best Greek scholar and the best mathematical scholar at Ann Arbor, were women; last June, at the Uni versity of Iowa, in the honor roll, made on the basis of scholarship, five out of the firt seven were women; iu 1886, at Cambridge University, England, the. finest scholar in modern languages was a young woman; at the same school, in 188 i, and 1887, the best scholars in moral science and the classics were women, and in 1890, at the famous University of Oxford, Miss Fawcett ranked above the best honor man in mathematics. I believe women to be the equals of men in natural endowments, though there are cer tainly differences in their mental and moral characteristics. These differences, however, do not seem to me to be so great as to jus tify the variant methods and degrees which haye prevailed in the training of the two sexes. While I am hardly prepared to say that there is no sex in education, I am per suaded that it would be better for our wo ' men if they were subjected, not only to a wider and more thorough mental training, but along the same lines that have been pre scribed for the education of their brothers. WHAT STATISTICS SHfW AS TO THE EFFECT ON THE HEALTH. 1 , From reports received by the Massachu sett's Bureau of Labor Statistics from twelve colleges, nine of which were co-educational, in 1885, the following conclusion was reach ed :" It ia sufficient to say that the female graduates of our colleges and universities as the result of their Studies do not show any marked difference in general health from that of an equal number of women engaged in other kinds of woik." In 1890 an inves tigation was instituted in England as to the history of the graduates of the four colleges connected with Oxford and Cambridge, and the report concludes .thus ; ' " There ia noth ing in a university education at all specially injurious to the constitution of women, or involving any greater strain than they can ordinarily beat without injury; women gen erally pass through it without its affecting their health one way or the other." Now I grant that the experiment has not been tried sufficiently long to furnish data entirely sat- 1 . iir . 1 A . m t isiacwry on ims poict, out so isr as we cave the results of investigation they are not such as to furnish any argument against the highest education of women. ' A Divine Oanon Applied to the Ordinance of Christian Baptism. PREACHED ON SUNDAY BT THE LATE EEV. A. W. PBICE IN THE LaUBINBURO CHUBCH BE-. . FORE THE BURNING OF THE BUILDING. .V;-V " Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven." Matt. 5 : 19. . - Concluded. Then, as another test of the correctness of the three respective words by which bap tizo is translated, that is the correct one which can take the place of the word " bap tize" everywhere it occurs and make sense every time. Now take the words sprinkle. pour, and immersion, and see which one stands the test, "in those days came John the Baptist preaching with the wilderness of Judea and saying, Repent ye, for the king dom of heaven is at hand. , Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, and were sprinkled or poured of him with Jor dan, confessing their sins."- This is the Pe dobaptist translation, according to their defi nition 'that baptism is an application of water to a person. Or take Romans 6 : 3, -"Know ye not that so many of us as were ' sprinkled into Jesus Christ were sprinkled into his death t 'Therefore we are buried with him by sprinkling Into death: that like as Christ, was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, evea m should we rise and walk in newness of Ufa." CoL 2 : 12" Buried with him in sprinlUn.7, wherein also ye are risen with him tarot?a the faith of the operation of God." Wtll have Conybeare and Ilow.a said of thc:3 two passages: "They ca-sct to ur.'crctocl unless it be borne in enna tiat tie primi tive baptism was by immersion." No c ' r conception than immersion will iva tL i any sense or signification. - In many passages the word fprl-,?.U tr pour, when substituted for the word I 7 does not make any sense at all. Cut ia c v ery passage you may substitute tL o , ; inwierse with perfect gocd sense and r ;1 ety. Which, then, is apt to be the vor t! . Master intended I the one that does vi I 2 , .. to the sense and connection of the or the one which in every casa f tt; ; v, uli both ! If there is any one poiDt ia thec'. f y which scholarship and common eens j Lm e settled, it is that the baptism command d by Christ, and submitted to by Christ, was immersion. Mr. Moody asked a tegro in Richmond, Va , " Why are all you colored people Baptists?'' And the old darky re plied, ".Cause we are all ignorant, boss, and can't splain away the Bible." To find anything in the Bible but imixiersioa re quires a great deal of "pplaining away." Now, then, if immersion is tLe rite, then they who change the form break the commandment.- Many good people ssy tbat tie quantity of water makes no difference, that a drop is as good as an ocean that a little drop of water may seal the fnlnesa of. di vine nrace in baotizins as well a9 a Finall Jriece of bread and the least tasting of wine n the Lord's supper. But, my friends, itu not wit 11 us a question of much water or little water, but purely a question of encetoa positive precept of Christ. And so far as the supper is concerned, the t wo Cases are not analogous. They both, are sub ject to the limitations which Christ the law giver has put upon them. Christ baa I ft it discretionary as to the amount of bre.vi rnd wine which we may take in the coram ur.iou so long as we eat not to gluttony ri 1 drink not to drunkenness, and so we obey the com mand, however small the amount we may, take of the elements. But were wo to change the wine for water and the bie.nl for meat, we would then break the command in about the same way that we break the com mand to be baptized by sulstiiutir.g an other rorin other than the one present a. 2: The command to he laptised is lrcJe.:i ' by changing the 'subjects, of baptism from' those prescribed in the Scriptures. In otter words by baptizing '.these' whom' the Lcrd. has not commanded to be baptized. " The mention of one is the exclusion cf ail others"' is a principle of common law which holds gocd here. Christ has commanded cxly f t liccers to be baptized, an 1 therefore ills ex eludes miconvirted adults and' uncun scions infants. The one , who is baptized in in fancy though the mode of his baptism were valid, has not obeyed the command to Is baptized. ' Obedience implies choice, bat how can that be an" act of obedience which ' was imposed in the rass.iver.ess and er. con sciousness of infancy t Pow, then, unbelieving adults and uncon scious infants areexclnded by the very terns Of the great commission from the ordir nc j of baptism. This is true of the comnis: ;ca as given by Matthew and Maik. Mati : put it, "Go ye therefore, and tcacaell ra tions, baptizing them in the raue cf ti. .3 Father, and of the Son, and of the J. .if Ghost : teaching them to observe allth;; 3 whatsoever I have commanded yo-j." 11.3 better rendering, according to tao t t thorities, is "Go ye, disciple all naiions, f,r.l when they are discipled, taptizo then." Then in Mark, "Go ye into all the v,cr!i and preach the gospel to every creature. IT 3 that believeth and is baptized ehalll3 r ;v '; and he that believeth not shall be C .r.nf J." Here belief must come before baptLn. Tie a how did the Apostles interpret the cor :rU- sion of their Lord? In strict accorro with the interpretation I have given it. Oa the day of Pentecost, when those who were "pricked in their heart" asked, "ilea r.ni brethren, what shal? we do I'' Tetcr r : 1 "1. 3, "JRepent and be baptized, every clo cf 31 u, in the name of Jesus Christ for tl )r sion of sins; and ye shall recciva tl 3 ! 'l ( f the Holy Ghost" And to encourr 3 tL 1, he continued, "For the prornLj is ta.t.- 3 1 and to your children, and to cl tfj.r even as many as the lxrd our Ood i I call." This promise says notLir cf ?! 3 "infant seed of believers," but sirs' iy t. r ? Of their posterity, as well as those w Lo v f rj afar off in point cf relationship whori t!.o Liord our God shall call. And tLe result v. ; that " as many as gladly received thoweri were baptized," which implies tht c'r those who gladly received th3 v, c. 1 v baptized. Infants can't f.hvdly r j , word. It does seem tLat if tL3 ' 3 . baptized infants, they wosld have 1 fi f record of it. n Acts 8: 12, it i3 !, ,4. t when they believed TLilip prca-'.'.ir t things concerning the kins-dou cf C. . the name cf Jeaus Christ, tL?7 t ' tized both men and women." 1ft' been any infant3 baptized, surely Lj: 2 place to mention it. It d' Trolly - men and women were bar.i-j-, l ; ; word about infant3. If they y: ', ; eluded infants with men f.nd. c -orldof controversy they v:c:' T " Christian c Larch. IT-tro; f Kilter of Acts taLc3 er: ci.l 1 that men and v. c: : 1 . cr? I not ono word cleat i ' But one cf th3 rrc ' ' 1 - prove icf :nt t " ' "BuHcr uttlo el to coma unto r- , f cf heaven." I'i! 3. ' Ire- t yt. tLo...J t " t
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