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Volume 63. RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, 'MARCH 2, 1898. Number 3i. PUBLISHED WEEKLY " ' ' BT ,'i ,a , ;' EDWARDS & BROUGHTON. 4 '- RALEIGH, N. C. :' , Entered as seoond-class matter In the Post Office at Raleigh. Rcctlpta will be given In change of date on label 01 paper. If date ! not changed In two weeJu you will please notify ua. 1 r -. Chang of f1ddrs will be made when the old and ., also the new ad drew are given In full. If not ' changed In two weekj please notify na. Remittance should be sent by Reentered Letter . postal Money Order, or Express Order, payable - to the order of the Biblical Kxoobdkr. Obituaries, sixty words long, are Inserted free of charge. When they exceed this number, one , cent for each word should be paid In advance. THE AA1ERICAN--SPANISH SITUATION. .,No one may say at this writing whether there will be wax between the United States and Spain or not.. For ten days the metropolitan newspapers and a great others have boiled with war news. Throughout the nation there is great anxiety; and other nations are intensely interested. ' , Since the uprising in Cuba, jqow three years ago, there has-been no day that might notj lead to a break in the peaceful relations between the United States and Spain. From the beginning the situation has been'delicate and trying. - All things possible to avoid war-have been done. (President Cleveland withstood the popu lar clamor, and restrained Congress from precipitate action. Since President Mc Kinley came upon the scene, he has faith fully followed his predecessors example. In the meanwhile, Spain has utterly failed to effect peace in Cuba; the severe measures of Weyler and the "moderation of Blanco alike having met that same failure for which Campos was recalled. The insurgents have at least held their own. Though they have not succeeded in establishing more than a nominal gov ernment, they have maintained their po- sition in the field of conflict; and that, too, notwithstanding the loss of their ablest warriorMaceo-and in spite of very, limited resources. The, sympathy of the people of the United States for the insurgents has steadily increased. Strong and widespread in the beginning, it is now an intense conviction of the 'people of the United States that the Cuban cause is just, and that the soldiers of that cause deserve success, ; and that our nation should at least concedethem belligerent rights. . : For all that Spain has sought to main tain peace with our country, forall that two administrations of our; government have mcurred nolittle popular contume ly in the hope of maintaining peace with Spain, even at the risk of being unjust to the 'insurgents in Cubathere is now abroad an impression that the crisis is at hand and that it cannot pass without war. ' . mi i a a . ine tauure or Spain's lasi resorr, auto nomy for Cuba, is the main cause; along with which there are several of lesser consequence. ' 1 N n The terrible catastrophe of the Maine has given rise to great excitement. .Pend ing ,the investigation, rumor upon rumor of Spanish perfidy has been sent . forth, and it has been repeatedly asserted that the United States must declaure war. We do not believe that the Spanish govern ment is responsible' for the explosion which destroyed, the Maine, If it shall ibe proved that it was no -accident, even; .' then the likelihood will be that Spanish fanatics did the deed And this would not be in itself a ground for declaration of war.- Moreover, it is 'not concealed that the United States as a people are in sympathy with the cause of Cuba; it is undeniable that the DeLome letter and the Maine disaster, so quickly following, have incensed the people and strained the hard-drawn patience of the President and of Congress; but most of all the govern ment at Washington has waited for Spain to quell, the rebellion, giving her every advantage, until .therais:novirtuet-no' reason, and no how in TraticntTheTFTi suit of the investigation of ' the Maine disaster may be known lief ore this paper goes to press. It cannot give ground for a declaration of war, except (i ) it be clear that the Spanish government Li responsi ble for , the explosion, or, the investiga tion showing that Spanish fanatics were responsible, (2) the Spanish government decline to make due . amends. ; These both are remotely possible, but only re motely. In either of these,.cases the dec-, laration wculd be made -by the United States. But, should the United States recognize Cuba, Spain would declare war, if at an. ; .' "rr. , ( Thisis the situation as regards the two nations. , , . Spain is alreaidy prepared for war as best ehe can. Her credit has been strain-; ed to the utmost. She has a navy that does not compare at all badly with that of the United States. In a sea-war, she would bo no easy foe for a few months.' ,The United States 4s making prepara- uons lor itne worst; Most oi her war ships are at command. If needed, others can be purchased. : Her defences are be ing inspected : they are oy no means strong or thorough. Her soldiery is re ported in good condition. She has money and men, an 4 at the worst could outlast Spain. J. . The attitude of other nations would de pend upon the source and the cause of the declaration of -war. It is likely they would be inclined to be neutral, though Spain would not be without sympathy in Europe. , , f if the . United , states should recog nize Cuba, and Spain should declare war,' K the fighting would be in our waters, and very probably on our Southern coast. We do not believe that any but seaports would be seriously affected. Of course all commercial affairs would suffer, If the United States should be put to the necessity of declaring war because of Spain's complicity in the Maine disaster, or for any other cause, the fighting would take place in the Spanish waters, likely in part about Cuba and possibly off the Spanish coast. ... . ,, The Overcloak of Love. ? " BY PROF, A. T. ROBERTSON, D. D A very helpful and suggestive phrase occurs in Col. 3: 14 4,4 And over all these put on love.'"- Here love is presented as an overgarment put over the others. The figure of clothing is also in the pre ceding verses, " fut on therefore as God's elect, holy and beloved." It is worth ndting the list of graces which we are , urged to 44 put on." " A heart of compassion," Paul begins with. A ten der sympathetic heart is essential to the finer graces. "Kindness " is the expres sion to others of the feeling of tender sympathy. ''Humility" is the natural state of tne sympathetic, kindly nature. The conceited man is not kindly, but only patronizing. ' " Meekness ", is not weak ness, but the strength of reliance on God. Tameness and lameness are not "meek ness " 44 Meekness7' is the quiet reserve of dignified might. " Long-suffering " is possible to such quiet trust and dignity. One who is stayed on God can stand much from others for the Lord's sake. " For bearing one another V - because of the right attitude towards others and the proper estimate of oneself. The humility" of meekness "doesnot cast stones nor make railing accusations, v Freely for giving one another, - if anyone have a complaint against any, even as the Lord freely fprgave you, so also do ye?' For giveness js - hard r unless the , preceding Christlike virtues d,well in the heart. It is not hard for the sympathetic, kindly, humble,; meek, long-suffering, forbearing man to forgive, remembering what the Lord Jesus has done for him. ; ' And overall these put on love, which is the bond of perfectness."; These varied virtues need to be held together by the overgarment which serves as a 44 bond of perfectness " binding together and com-; pletingthe attire. This overgarment is M loye "j love in profusion, love in flow-; ing folds, love in richness and perfect' ness. An overcloak is of good service in cool weather. Put on this overcloak. J The next verse changes the" figure to that of the games. Contending emotions strive for the mastery in our hearts. In the midst of conflicting voices that clamor loud with in and roar, 44 let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts." ."VKuleTis here 4act as umpire.1! Let Christ's peace I wt atIffl'jaarihenTtw; ; t T etctingt teace speak the deciding word that shall still the tumult within and bring quiet. Christ's peace . then shall- rule in 'us all and over all those arrayed in the garments of grace and love, , - ' . Southern Baptist Theological Semi ' ' nary, Louisville, Ky, . Z Money and Missions. ' , , BY R. L. PAITON, . ' ' ' ' The evangelization of the earth's bil lion of unreached heathen has been re duced practically to a" matter of dollars and cents. For , fifty years the churches have prayed God to open: the nations for the "reception of the Gospel, and to raise up men and women to. carry it to them. To-day the doors to every nation are wide open. The fences are all down, and even the ground rail is taken away. , Also, hundreds of men and women, ready to go, are saying, ' Here am I v send me." These answered prayers Ue at the door of all our churches, and, for the most pairt, in vain t Why f Because we have robbed - God because we have not brought in the tithes and j offerings. Mai. 3; 8. God's people have enough money, op portunity and men, to tell the story of the cross m the ear of every heathen during the next twenty years. WhaJ a glonous .work I i Thank God that a poor sinner and f earthen vessel " like me can take part in it, -for when it is accom plished our blessed and long-looked for Lord will come. Matt. 24 (14- If we Bap tists in North Carolina -can't rise up and give more than an average of six cents a member to foreign missons, let us at once throw down the proud claim that we are the successors of the apostolic churches. They went forth and preached every where?! Mar. 1,6 : 20. x But we are croins: to do better. Too long we - have mocked our Lord and .pleased Satan by saying, Thy Kingdom come,"-and yet doing so little to make it come. A father-prayed God v to give bread and meat to the poor widow living near him. After the 44 amen, 'f his little boy asked him' for the smoke-house key to answer his nrayer. When Chicacro was burning down the students informed Dr. Northrop that they; were holding a prayer-meeting. He said they had better take buckets and go to work. That is what we want. :, not less praying, but more riving. Dr. WillmKham. you ask too little from .North Carolina Baptists. Conseauentlv our nreachers ask too little from their individual churches. We must have '; confidence in dur people. ; Our churches "will go on, some giving nothing Land others small sums, as long . as we do not ask them to do mor, and give them a chance. This church, for example, went on year after year giving $ io for foreign missions. Five years ago I asked themto go up at once to $100. This was. raised and laid in the' bank three months before the asso ciation, :wnereas -the -tenT dollars, given before, was never raised till the last mo ment and withla great struggle.1 So it is with Moravian Falls Church. - As brother Greene was about to leave there he said that they could give for all objects $60. I asked them to pledge .$100. We had preaching only once a month, and took up just thirteen collections for the year, which amounted in cash to $285. So it will be in all our churches, if the preach-, ers like Len. Broughton, J, L. White and R. VanDeventer. will set the mark high. Brother Bailey, ! will now mention sev-. eral instances of givingro foreign mis sions, praying the Spirit to use them in arousing North Carolina Baptists, to greaterisacrifices. 1. By different Christians. Robert Haldane, of Scotland, sold all his estates for $175,000, and established a mission in India. ... A hard-working man in Melbourne, Australia, heard two sermons on missions, and sent in the title deed to ninety-three and a half acres of landr worth $2,600 i In 3893, Dr. Gordon's church in Boston gave $20,000 to foreign missions, their home expenses being nearly $9,000, less than half. T. , A A widow in Cleveland, Ohio, bears the entire support of thirteen missionaries, and went in '. 1896 on a mission ; tour of the world, to increase, her. interest and see her workers. At Old Orchard, Maine, Augusts. 1896, a collection was taken for foreign mis sions amounting to $101,324. It included money, gold watches, gold rings, bicycles, and ten thousand shares of stock.' Read Ex. 35 for a similar, offering for the tab ernacle. ". ' ' ,' " ' :f- Rev; F. B. Meyer, tells of an Emglish- man whose income is $10,000. He lives on $1,000 and gives $9,000 to world-wide missions. Another, with the same in come, lives on $1,200 and gives $8,800 'Alse-of a" governess who makes yearly $500, frad gives $250, one half, to foreign' missions. , - 1 ' The Seventh Day Advent Church, at JfottleiCreekH Mich "has 1.450-members. -who aiei-king-TJeopie-wrtfrW incomo of $262. Recently, on 44 mission day,'! without' any sermon or begging; their offerings to missions amounted to $21; 000; 6n average of $15 per member. Willingham asks us for six cents each J Sarah Hosmer, Lowell, Mass., was a poor woruan living in an attic. She heard that $50 would educate a native preacher in a heathen land. , AVith her needle she earn ed 'this amount, six different timest so that, when she was carried to her grave, six; men whom she had educated were preaching Christ,. to the ; lost. ?-Surely, 44 she hath done what she could.? - Mark 14: 8. . The young people of Clarendon Street Baptist Church, 'Boston, have supported for several years a missionary in Africa. They have now sent two of their own number as missionaries to China, one be ing a. native of that country, and have become responsible for their support. . r i David Paton, of Scotland, gave his en tire fortune of one million to missions, and now li ves on a little yearly income he reserved to keep V him from coming to want. 'When he heard Dr. Pierson on missions'. in - 1890, he managed to squeeze out of his small income another $1,200. . 1 , Some time ago, in Toronto, Canada, the inother of one of the China inland missionaries entered the office of Mr. Frost, Secretary of that mission. ' After expressing her overflowing joy at having a daughter in China, she' said, 44 1 have brought to you, Mr. Frost, a little gift as a thanksgiving offering to the Lord for calling, my child to China,, and for the blessing that has come to me in conse quence. With these words Bhe handed him a check She was not richt and her appearance indicated that her gift might be $5 possibly, $15,4 but when she" left Mr. Frost found it to be a check for $550. Rev. D,M , Stearns, Gerrmaatown, Pa.v has a church of about 200 members, During the year 1896 they gave to for eign missions $4,000, or $20 per member, He keeps a large map of the world ever before their eyes, and teaches' them that personally they are debtors to the world Mr, Hamilton, a clerk in Glasgow, had an income of $350, and gave yearly $100, or nearly one-third. When a special call was made in 1887 for $100,000, he gave one-hundredth of it, or $1,000, whichwaj half 4-Vi-a cb-ftrtTTino rT nil hia lira "" - . half the Ravines of all his lifo. f v According to the Congregationalist, 120 of our colleges support as many mission- anes. - Last year Yale gave $1,200, Wei lesly $1,050, Oberlin $650. Cornell $500. and McGill University, in Canada gave f . j.ius iasc nan omy eu stuaents, au or whom have to earn a living but five : 2. By heathen con veils. v. , Mr. Lum Foon, a Chinese convert in California, lately gave : up a splendid business in San Francisco and went back to China as a self-supportinsr missionary. There he bought land and erected a fine chapel, with school, and prophets' Cham ber, all at his own expense.-. Scores have been saved. What an example to our Baptist business men to either go or send and support one. In the Island of Ceylon, a traveller no ticed, as he wanted througa their gar dens, every now and then a tree marked with a large i v. When asked why. their reply was, 4 Every tenth or marked tree is the Lord's." Lev. 27: 30. He also "noticed the housewife, as she cooked each meal, put a handful! of rice in a pot for each member or the family, and two handfulls in a pot near by. When asked why Bhe replied, 4 That is the Lord's rice pot, and I remember His cause as I cook each meal." Baptist women of North Carolina go and do likewise; and if you don t believe m toe u the doctrine, then foljpw.i uor.l6j 2. f:;:,,!iv';t-;-,;;,':vit,;; A" Chinese Sunday Scohof in Brooklyn. consisting of only thirty membersgave to missions $150, or $5 each. A Meth odist church of converted Chinamen in California do the same, give $5 per mem ber. Recently one on the Padfic ; coast handed Dr. Masters a small packagedi recting him to spend the amount in tret ting a nati ve to preach , the Gospel in China. The giver refused to reveal his name, but the package contained $100 in gold coin, and was nearly all the earthly possessions of this poor but happy China man. - v-. Still' another CMnamarr in California sold himself as a coolie In New Guinea for the sake of working among his coun trymen. Not money, but himself, which wasbetter, he gave to missions Before heIied he was the means of the conver sion of 200 of his. companions. In that day of rewards, how" he will shine as the stars forever. Dan.-12: 3.' What more shall I say f ; Time would fail to tell of the hundreds of men, wo men and even little children who have made sacrifices to spread the Gmpel sac rifices that shall never be made known until we ; stand before the great white throne. On that "happy day no one'will be sorry for what he gave to missions. "hut it will be seen then that , what we ga vexthat we win have f ore vexrand what we have" hoarded or kept we vhave lost forever - Oh, the power of : money just now J With it we can multiply our uso- fulness nlmost infinitely. " When dead one can yet be, potent, present, and im mortal in mission work, if, when alive he invested his money in this greatest cause. A The decisive hour in the battle of Wa- The English troops trenches waiting f or the onslaught of the French, As they lay there in silence, Wellington rode up and down the lines, saying over and over again, 44 Men, if you falter to-day, what will England gay ? " His words pierced their hearts, and when the command was. given; 4 '.Up and at them I " every soldier felt that the honor of England was in hi hands, and they became invincible. : j The command of our Captain has been given, 44 Go ye ! !' Brethren and Bisters, shall we falter t The doors are all open. Men are ready to go. -Wehave the money. Shall wahold it back shall we falter? If sowhat will Jesus say t " Where Did Sin Come From ? BY r. c. m'connell ' Sin is the transgression of the will of God. The will of God is the law of the- God's character and God's character is the standard of righteousness. Every violation of the will of God is rebelh'on. God created the angsls an order of intel-lectuaibeings;-Bubject to laws of life and growth of their own. " One as chief and others; with him, possibly instigated by this one, aspii-ed to a higher place than the will of their Lord had assigned them.. Either they were not content to be an gels, that is messengers, or else they were not satisfied' with the advancement they had received, and being 44 puffed up with pride " they fell into condemnation. I Tim.'3;6.'This.traiis!rression of God's will was rebellion, and was punished by banishment without redemption. Hell was prepared as the place of banishment for the devil and his angels. Matt. 25:41.. . It will be teeen that sin began in the misuse, or in abuse, of what was in itself smlesskand pure. The devil was in the truest sense a free agent, and in the freo exercise of his own will h trn.TifiP'TVKfipil the will of God. It was not wrong for i a nim to aspire io mgner Knowioaf-o ana service,' but that aspiration should have tkept him within the bounds of God's ap pointment, and awaited the natural de velopment and advancement assured in the Divine purpose. .. ll ,am i trying to write these thour-hto;. keeping free from the poetical embellish ments of Milton, and I trust the reader will make the same effort in . receiving them. Still I think tho great facts upon wxuen me " jraraaise Jaost is iounuea are substantially correct in that marvel ous epic. Once free from the restraints of obodi--: ence to the law of God, or in other words,, when the devil and his compatriots, indi cated their displeasure in the purpose of God concerning them, there was nothing left them but to set up a standard of life iui tuouucuDo, , uioimu uji tan tilt v jna'.i nAwV. T7.,V. Al. 1 1 4 nnto himself , and his own will becamo his law of right. And the natural growth of such a condition was then, and always will be, toward the bad. So these de mons have been growing more and more devilish ever since they rebelled against the standard of righteousness. f ' God banished these ill-disposed lcings fromi the association of the good, and consigned them to a country of thoir own, where misrule and all manner of evil and its attendant suffering must forever exist. That : they were banished without tlu? hope of redemption arises out of the fact they have never had a mediator. Indeed, there is slight inference that their trouble began over that very question. There is a shadow of a hint, at least, that the devil was displeased with the advancement of the Son and the honor that was done Him in Heaven. At any rate, these un happy creatures took upon themselves uieir , own responsiouny -ana reneijea against God's government, each for him self. So that it is not' possible that they should have- a mediator. They had no representation, in their fall, 'and therefore they cannot have representation in recla-. mation. If there should be rede mntion for them, it would require, a Saviour for each separate one of them. And, more over their, representation would be im- possible from the very fact that their sia seems to have had its origin in their tle termining to assort their own will as against the Will of the Lord. I do' not pretend that I have answered the Question which the caption raised. I have written somewhat about it, and, I think, suggested some things in connec tion with the subject that may f ' -1 clearer when we "inquire how f in into the world, which I will da next v Lynchburg, v a. -Any man can sinrr by tl;iy ; T whose heart has been t urn e l 1 cious haad or Jehovah cr. n : darkness. William II. Ta vl . A'cliild of God t.houl.1 1 :i itude for joy and 1 -r' : ' doxology for gratitu l ' i : 11. bimnreoa. . terloo had come. -were lying in the
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