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1 WMwl Number 26 -- ' I " ' "n if - II KD WEEKLY it. - eDWARD$;& BROUQHftON .... ...vl RALEIGH. N. C : vtatered m asoood-elajw matter to IbaVoat . ..i. Kubicrlettons USD si year, payable n ad Vnco: and Sl.00.for months Clnb uranti sending- ten or more copy. free. .mea may order an extra stceipts will be tiveu la etil fe of date oh label 01 in two weeks yoa -tTilTpleaee notify ns. Ch joae orflddre W1U be rade when tbe old and also tbe new addrees are grrwn In full. If not . banged tn two weeks please notify na Pittance ahonld btraent by Registered letter , tHietAl Money Ordef, or Kxpie-a Order, payable to the oraer or ute uihuuai niwKUKH. tuorks lty worda long, are inserted free of ItUUV' wneo mer excrea vnis nanaDer, one fcecb word ahoald b paid In adTanoe. s wot for Looking backward upon a (all-year, one ' can not bat be impressed HoW ttl with tbe greftlSajnount of news' tharwas published as newand the very small somber of reallyVmportani events. Probably the readerf a daily paper goes through ten coiuitingSbf news a day; an editor often goes 'throu&b ten times that amount. But at the endotUhe year when all is said and done how much is there left of it T Take 1897, for insta? In politics, nationally, a new administr tion came into office, a new Congress en acted a protective tariff law; and the eity of Greater New York entered upon its career. In North Carolina a new new Oenerat Assembly brought all sorts of condemnation opou itself All else that has been published as political news is likely ephemeral. In respect of Ed a cation, the failure of the popular election with reference to Local Taxation and a widening and deepening interest in edu cation in academies and colleges, is about all there is to be of permanent record. In the nation we suppose there has been that same upward trend in Education that has kept its hopeful way so long. In respect of Religion, there has been the usual ac tivity, but nothing distinguishing. Of In ternational affairs the Turko Grecian war, the outbreak of indignation towards the Turkish Sultan's Armenian policy and the failure of the powers to check him; the Cuban war prolonged, the death of Maceo, Weyler.'s failure and return; the assassination of Premier Canovas and the fall of the Spanish ministry at a criti cal moment; the progress of the Russian railway across. Asia; the steady rise of Japan to prominence, and the retrogres ton 01 i.nina; me rain establish a permanent ,i:.w - "'"JA t." r tional Arbitration between England and the United States; the famine and plague . in India; the Queen's great Jubilee in Ingland; these are all or nearly all of ue matters or importance that have been brought before the public eye. The tour of Nansen, the explorer, and his book, "Farthest North", might be mentioned; also the mad migration of adventurers to ue Klondike region of Alaska; the rise in the price of wheat and the fall in the price of cotton, the outbreak of the yel low fever in the South, roigbt.be put on the record to be remembered. Notwith standing the making' of many books, the only prominent events in the lite rary world are the revelation of Kjp ung as a poet and the spread of the fame of the Pole Sienkiewicz, novelist, the suc cess of Dr. Mitchell's Historical 'Ameri- ean Revolution) novel, ."Hugh Wynne, uaser-; tne prominence of Christianity it r a' m a . . as a mout - in literature: ana tne vic- wry of Romance over Realism. Father Time has used his scythe relentlessly, but of men upon whom the whole world goked there have been but few deaths.; Probably Henry George was the most prominent figure that passed from the ge in 1807., The year was unusually entful ; and yet its record can be 9mmed up in a thousand, words. ' Read-1 "gihe papers, we think there is a mighty 'f'ng on in the worldj nt when we come to count it up, we see what a small space ism God' great plan. It would re juire a microscope of infinite power to ttiscern a difference- between the world iMQ nn,ry l8t 1807, aind of January 1st, J3, notwithstanding (that every man,, jomau and child arid every living thing w Ranged for good or ill .; Progress ninsth.ave been'nfade; a step inust have en taken 'towards that one far off di pe event ; and good must have been jrought: "For God is in his Heaven, all's fell with thoworld." - v," rTTBLIS A Collection of Verse. REVIEW BY J. W. BAILEY. ' Books come from the Dublisbera bv jusand; but the range of Letters is mte limited. Udou reading-the "bodk numberat of the big n would think that Literature is reXrfta,r5 bat K Wltn me in any LirectioC&vror eTry home in which t-ceived and read, I will shoWlvou tWi?111" never come into poss hon bi base of other than school fitoks. Trtte ofosjeneral re, in respect ofj all propor- or foetrytftfacts tion worse, here notion mac mere is noibing in and that poets are to bftWetly pub- hcly ridiculed,' 'and W&ed be times. This is the fanlt of lave taken themselves for poe of the people they never oiunuer wunout reason. a Now bonks are more than f ment, if tbe mind is more than t If it is important to. eat plentifull iar- uijr uu wiseiy, n is more im read plentifully, heartily and ? to if it is necessarv tn rloth th j - decency's sake, how much more mind! bo if Literature is not pop is to oe deplored. And he u: n i arve uib ikiiuwujhu van qui a ier or a better thing than to strive to cultivate an appetite and a erature. Of all Literature, Poetry is the nectar. Of all that is 6eauiful, Poetry is the soul: 01 merely ine voice; iorvt'oetrv.is, vtol the a t , vv . . . rds, but the . soul iniAhe wedi The betVx)f Poetry has-nTet found words to expre itself, TbeporjuJar prejudice againstKaetry has oWne about by reason of as falseWiiotioo.f what Poetry is as that of poetjw . It M not measured lines, ( though metre'tK.ood and helpful and beautiful; nor isSsu measured . rhyming lines, which expessgood sense.' The sublimest poe trypsin tht Bibeon your ta ble there, the bsok of Jobe. or, if you like, the "Psalms, off David, orSlhe book of Ruth, or the visions of Iraah. The highest feeliigs of which moiAl8'are capable mustneeds be Poetry; anoKit is as impossible torrxpress these feelings ihun- poetio forms as for a reverent being approach (lod in the language of .th street. J ' '. 'So, therefore, he. who despises Poetry does himselT great barm. In the little volume by Professor SJcdd known te man readers bf this paper as head of the department of Engush in Ws Fqrest College--w,e have not found a polm tbat does not appeal tons as gen uineJUffne does not speak inN the tones of grejyf ness or if he has failed to icatch the pVwular notion which are not for any one tofAy'so soon he has surely struck some- of the Wddest and U ndf rest1 and sweetear chords of life,' and they have re sponded as to a familiar spirit. wv cor instance, let us take the poem e4fghth tSace of this paper ''The rjfbelWow at one stroke he, draws the of tontlUlflult.hrit ou forget the rhyme and word forms; you see the picture and your heart moves in sympathy. Ibat is Poetry. Of course it is Truth, the thought of many an injured heart wor thily clothed. And that is Poetry. We selected this because it was appropriate to the Home Circle, by no means for its superiority. For in many respects others of these verses excel this one. In description, for instance, you may seek far to find a rarer painting of an old-time scene, which some still cherish, which all dream they have known a picture wrought in the poet's mind by music, in the wondrous alchemy of which these long-gone scenes will live for all generations: Then far away the music seemed to die, Like voices on the wind.-On -well-known hills I watch the rammer sunset's glory fail: The weary teams with swinging traces pass. Their -ears pricked to the s wind of opening doors, While loudlv sinning troop tne negroes home, TAnd from the well curb dusky maidens go With dripping burdens poked upon their beads. Lights twins: ie tnrouea me cauin wbub oeiow, Where sound of shuffling feet will soon be heard. And laughter, high above the banjo's twang. But it were unjust to the author to dwell upon-' the less serious, though enchanting passages, at me hvb V the noems in which he expresses weir fancies, heart-longings, those aapiratioayt and blind trropings of the soul, whic men know but cannot tell, or hissongsof Life, its mysteries and burden of Love and of Death. - .J ' - r In the Ballad of Otte inil," the lover all fearful that his sweet-heart's Indian father, who has other plans, will cheat him of hia heart's desire, awaits the de cisive moment in ibeir tryating place: ;i v: it In tremnloas haste he stri ves to wake . bh dying fire's, uncertain glow; 1 From "Cliff and Scaur," by Benjamin Bledd. G P. Pntnam's 8on, tbe KnwMrbockjfr press: New York and London. Price, L25,--,c- y a And mocking shapes on the darknMarilTngs, , ; Which swiftlysilently OM antTgo, And horror more hideous make. ' Vainly tbe light he urges higher: .,, . The shadow-phantoms scaSt retire, ' And enmlT exoectant wait Or. vengeful, direr forms tliey take And vampire wings above him shake, Like the gathering vnljuref of fatr ' It is a pity that we mist omit a single line of he poem, "In the Valley of the Shadow," but we can only snatch a sen tence or two from each verse: . 4 There wan no Hirht! And yet I felt that height on height. Shut in the dead black vast. Weary I migh t not rest rlor pause With desolation's miirhtv law - Gaping beh Indandla -hr -t fuuuu my noca ussirange cdiii oreain; wept, and murmured. " JJetter Death!' Nor beard my voice lo tht mute air i A picture of despair; fofesee the light: .piffow cafrprn where tjllawn had been i raBmemberkf the fiigi iSht, MawgabtharsMnfer e' hi been tronSk Wtos were WVHt bed U.nan and fhve; w btiitifltM r new-ntad irxave " beaVjIlLcenHe wlBnf 1 breath. lifetos, Which nfu call d-ath." oeM lhat will- move lomw:: t ie a moth joeigor: ; wfm vrt r V" I K . t u Andstsetc' bird' fall; thfr' pall But does He h$gj. Nor heeds the little real! aloud ad tprWim, the .. . ... , if) I. work till "thronl abel eye9vsee'm And m v fingers are rarged and numW fiSlulLait...' eUifaO vi j iw ureaa, my Dsbe can- ay I have but love, for mv breast I. dr' ' . as a stoTrert .uA W?,rW part hut noJ8 sorrowful is the soliloquy of one who loved and lost: How vain are all things else; where low W not is all their brightness gone with two dark eyes? ' And all their swwtnes with one little month? . Which even now is pressed to his seared lirs -A moment since warm on a-.cotou's cheek. But let us not leave off wtk th a Jr.i ful; for though many of the verses are cueai in me low note of giief or long t. there is sunshine in the Httl hneX innv mere is sunshine in the Httl knoir IT ?k. - ''... . : . . tierces poem jiight and pretty, and cneeri Why, RKe, when wandering clouds The sanXpr a moment conceal. . u vr me sunKKnt of tnine eves . Wirf a sbadeNjf sadness steal? For. see, how tbeNandscaDO brightens. ab me snanows eawrara nv; ftAnd the sunshine; swiWy pursuing uuti racing memiy oy . Fresher the s-reen of Jane ,Fot the quickening momenlSM sha3e; Aim vriKu;er, km, are inrae eyes For the sadqess that it made. ' It is to be noted that in this work? 18 rxo suggestion of the lamp and study'; Professor Sledd's inspiration is ev mentiy mature round about him. and Lifi that hw ho lived.1 Prof.-Sledd's style is remarkably easy. considering the large meaning in most of hisexpre8sion9. In description sographic, one would expect ruggedness, or perhaps vagueness, but there is neither; only a suotiety tnat .Dids one read again and again, ana aiways pays one in tne com of its realm for doing so. His lines are, indeed, marble like in finish,, in refinement, and in purity. Herein is recompense of re-reading ten times. Whether he plays upon some soulf ul in strunient,' or draws the picture in the mind's eye, or touches the silvery strings of the lyre of love, or sends forth to God a prayer from life's deeps, there is ever that same genuineness, refinement, deli cacy and simplicity which mark the artist. The book is worthily printed. The au thor is tb be coneiatulated noon his nnb lishers, the Putnam's. If any reader de sires the book, it may be had from the Baptist liookstore, Raleigh, N. C, at though the publishers' price is The Mother's Charge. BT ARCHDEACON T. W. FABRAB. "Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I wiirgive thee thy wages. Ex. The speaker was an Egyptian prin cess, the daughter of Pharaoh, and she The fitful, warerinir laht arxtnrlnmi oAVMik i n vim uttered tne words Over ap infant divinely beautiful, the son of a Hebrew woman whom she knew not. The womjun, its mother, took the child to the hritof her husband, and there many a time did the princess come to gaze on jts beauty, or send for it to the palace of the king, her father But nbt-for longonly a few fleeting years during infancy and early boyhood, won ltLxhe child be entrpsted to these, its wn parents. Very soon the lad in his glorious promise would be te-. moved to the palace of Pharaoh, so awful ''. ...v .?..-. i 1 .. - : r7 hi the -eyes of roe vast multitude, so rich in the spoils" of wars. Tear after year, as boy and youth anojnan, -h would, b trained in all 'the wisdom: of th Egyp tians; year after yeafe would pace through the Egyptian temple among the priests, through-long averiuescrrf sculp tured obelisks; year after year n would ease with wondering eves on tbs bin and crimson walls adorned with the storv Isis'and Osiris, and of judgment death. They thought they should make him a great "warrior and a. great prince among them; but it was all in vain. - ne clung to the memories of bis childhood, trained) by his mother in the traditions! of -4iiATTatnd bBmrtBg."?6veh' Ton ' the 7 L sluggish waters of. tbe Nile, a feeling of love and re verence for that great Uhaidee, Abraham, the father of the faithfnl and the father, of the race, and listening to the story pi that heroic boy who hs left to all thi ' ages an ideal in the words: How shall I do this great' wickedness and sin against God V .Tbe sympathies of that heroic foundling have ever been lifiker. not with Egyptian .ssagniflcetce, but with Hebrew servitude; not wjtb the clashing cymbals of the oppressor, but with the sorrowful sigh of the oppressed His' mother had taken ttk&t child and nursed him, not for Pharaoh, but for God. When be grew op-to be a man, all the long years of luxury and supposi tions of princedom slippjed off from him and left him with the one desire to be re cognised, not as a son of Pharaoh's daugh ter, bat as a ehampion(of , the oppressed. So had these few years of early education done their worVon the heart of Moses. , Nor is this bv any menns an exceptional experience. Maryelously plastic in child nood is the soul of man. - He may be ex posed to the arrow of light' that scatters the darkness Ground him, or to the flam- g uarts of wiccedness that rankle in 4 wonpdtd'' conscience of the ; world. bout a good mothers care Uenry . "rmnv nMme a miseraoie Drinee: 1 ' 4 - or ed with a mother wise ano. ten ; but bleN dtr Louies SI-Ho many a good and "a " " it to my mottferl anything in life, Infant BsptlimW. WHV 8APTI8T8 OPPOSI BY J." H. RnjHABDP "fianctify the Lord God In ybar hearter and be reauy iiwitiweitd answer wjerery pianinn asketh you a reaioof the hope that la in y,u It was needful for me towrlte nnto yonvsn4 exhort yoa tbat ye enouid earnestiv contend ipr the faith which was once delivered onto tb saints."-J odeA ?. .Hi-v'---V A PrincipUr taught Bibte for aU ptopUt Jand tinut, namely, ' Tht Word Ood u a perjeet ruu or raun ana rraciwi," xiere is the proof: "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet,; ana a light unto my . patn." r. il&:l05'Tu-any. man speak, let him as the oracles of Uod,,l Pet. 4:11. '"We have also a more sdre word of prophecy; wb.ereuntoye i d(LJf filLthat tare need, as unto a light, etc., 4 fet. ltNL-rHile that hath my commandments, and waepetb them, be it is that loveth me."-ohn 14:21. A BAlo'ntith, that none -can deny Baptism sfan Ordinance of Ood ap pointed as anprdinance for vhhstlan churches, preaebfed and practiced by John the Baptist -Math;Nt5 8 and John J sanctioned, adoptedand appointed by Christ. Math. 3:13-15; obn 3:22; Matn. 23:19.20, and observed byHthe Apostles, Acts 2:41. Hence the Ordinance of I3&D- tism must be directed and governed by His Word. Then to the sacred oracles of thetMble let us go for our guidance in the use ort- In lovetoalUandfaithfnlnesslo our DM New KTesUmenfor the baptism of in- vine head let ns write. . . N.. '.-: ;'-:-;. ..'-':.;:.',; II. INPAKT BAPTIMM KOT TAVOHT IK TH BIBLE. (1) There is not a single MmpU of prtcepl tot it in the whole Scriptures. If so, it has never been pointed oat by Its advocates. Today, as in the past, we call for such! ' PEDOBAPTIST AROUM CNT8 AK8WERKD. But let ns bear and consider some of their arguments. . (2) " What about the Jlto .household baptisms in tbe New Testament!" Let us examine. Of Cornelituf in Acts 10:2, it Is said, " A devout man, and one that feared Ood ttith all hit Kowe." I a ver 33, "now are we an nere present w near ail things," etc. All feared, all could ' hear, hence no infants. In Acts 10:31, it' is recorded of the jailer. that he "rejoiced. bnlioving in God with all his house. All telieved--infants can't1 believe. Of Sle, phaim, it is said in lCor. 10:15, "They have addicted themselves to the ministry of, the saints." ' Infants cannot minister to the saints." : Acta 18:8 says: "And Crit- pwt believed on the Lord with all his jbouse," Here again tbe whole house believed. In the case of Lydia, men cts 0014, es away rrocoL she war, hnn-l dredsor miles away rronjL ner n her hdme en- gaged in active business, iv' sellerNf burple," and! in "my house"i-ailof wbidhi p'tecludes the idea of infants, nnconscions babes, in her henoehold. . It is- norinfe-l qn'nt that Baptist ministers bapiixi 'whole households. In mv own limilec wdr)t .1 have bapOzed over one oojinv h6nkeholds. . K , -K3, What aboirt Jesus sttying, "Sntfer ittle children to come unto me 'and for- 'til . IV . .1.-. neuj not, etc. t oee.ioe context in 19:13; Mark lQ:13and Luke 18:15. Flrsttbey were brought to Jesus that he should h V eh t Jiisr&sds-on tbem"? -that -touch them" t and V pray.! Second! hat did Jesus do.'to themt " Took themupvin hisarms, and put his hands upon tbeos" "'Jaid his hands on ' them," nd ' blelJbem N6thing ' about baptising thenIfHQ, then Simon baptiidd QUriPt, Lnke W v (I) What ajont promisesncts 2:39 T Read it; jForthe, pro misers, unto you, and toour children, and to aHJthat are afar off.' even at many at (ht LoraSmr Ood' thaU call? The promise is unto ai aivvua iuiiwi. uj'i.n uu mchiuvb, v.jbo shall UliffM. SeWillustrati ve paaeagef Acts 10 45; 11:15 18: 14;27; 15:3, 8," H, and Eph. 2:13,17. Nothing about . baptism of water mb thisvpromise.: ' ' fathers snBtaliiinfanWptr8nt.w . Whb ; were these early fathers I When did they ! live t What of their learning t. Were they inspired t Did"' they live with and learn of) esus and his Apostles! 8up poseAey did advocate it t ; Where did (Bey get it f From. superstitious ideas cf I salvation of infants, and .theidea of , tioned invA " baptismal regeneration," with the idea . 6f engrafting JndaisnVupon! Christ's s . churches 1 ..The last idea obtained in even . " the Apostles' day among '."rvftaia men - - -which earns fromuda." ;See Aots " , T j I5:J,2,6,lL24; 1 Cor. limeSfc&W ' Jesins nad towam agAtnsneft in VLiXST' 9:1 17, atfa 7Mark 7:3, .S'wtth Eph. 2:14,15. - , " : -J . Please'read; what .chleiermacber, a . Pedobaptist and a prince of.modern Oer- man theology, " sayr CUograatieal f he- ology vol. 2, page 138), ,?'AU th traoeev of infant baptism which are Relieved to be met with in the: New Teof anient must be imported info it, 0 wing'tb' Stft lack of . i . . l r . : i j: jm d evmjioaro clhe on ginal i n s tit n tion of baptism could, hive - arisen . and estab lished itself so' extensively ..n i v n. 1 , a . e. s. for its iff!ro d uction I namelyj ''-J HA 1 (a) Desire to number those dying be fore oorapbting instractioni as Caeechn ' menu among the": dying In the Lord. v, . ' (b) Psire on the part;f parents to' v place membera of the 'church ; under the strongest obligations . toother ' children. r is (cj Desire , to' (fstabiishra roader line of atinetion between -.'Christati children andlhbse dt Jews and Jjethen. t (6) Bat,' says pr' Brooks "forty nine fiftieths of the'Cbristians to-day bold and , practi se : i nf a ,n t.a Djjlab-r. iu errvri . iir ,uiir , tvi , us aam, uvw many of the Jews iu Christ's and Apostles' '. day followed Jesus 1 How: many of the world to day believe in Christ f Do ma jorities make right f ; :.rt. - - - "' (7) pedobaptist Concessions. -Luther says (Infant Baptism, Part 2, page 8), "It -cannot be proved by tbe Scriptures that . infant baptism was instituted, by Christ, or begun by the first Christians after the . Apostles" .:..'..'' '-v-1'-.; :' J ,. - Calvin (IristitntesorReligibiuDrfe etc., says: " It is nowhere expressly men tioned by the evangelists that any child -was by the Apostles-baptised Bishop Burnett (Exposition of 39 Arti cles, Article 18, 1643), writesj Theire is a anAa niMhAAtAr rta tvi 1 tW ' r wan tn t ha ilr. Woods of Andover (Ltature on r3CtEferir&ra- t iithiVH-- Infant Baptism ,bage, l Baysi It is a plain cfcso that there is no xpwsa pre- h cent 'respecting infant baptism in our Sacred WriiSags. v,TheprOof, thep, that it isa dicine imttvtion must be made out in some other wavy.M - " . Prof. 8tewart (BtUical Repository 1833. ' page 385), - " Commands, or plSiu and certain examples in NeVTestamcnt rel; tive to it (infant baptisoariflnd iot.w Moses A. Bledaoa eaysr NWe lind no infant baptism in the Mew TWaient.M Neander (Planting and Traini, page 101) i ''U is in the highest degryotVia- ble that tho practice ofvinfaac bapo.; n ra unknown - to1 the Apostolus as-f-X Lgain, in hli Ch. Ills.,, vol. -l;'page 311, he says: "Baptism was at first adiniun- teredonlv to adults. We have all n . for not deriving, infajit baptiv f i ; A tAiiftliA t naf if ii tintl -,' - A I J"'OlVl IV a wotajMaJLWMt Thus the great scholars an.s . t-Jetndents eustaiu odr view.; (TO BS CONTJNUklJ?) rMor than half h Chrl t;:;a w, 1m mention, the Greek church i; i"