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Looking backward upon
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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
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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.;
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