THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS DEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
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Starving by tens of thousands when the
United States was feeding them," what
must be the condition of the Cuban re-
. concentradoa now t The Spaniards will
do them no good; the Americans cannot.
'The cup of Cuba's woe is surely full.
Would to God the . United States had
taken its present stand Jtwo years ago.
As it is, they are doing-their best; they
are unavoidably intensifying the evil they
seek to remove, r There is no other way.
In a short time, let us hope, it will be
possible to land and to distribute supplies
to these people. And so hoping le t us be
prepare! It is becoming that every citi
zen of blessed, free America make an
offering for suffering Cuba. If it shall be
done now the' succoring .hand of peace
will enter the island with the battleships
and the soldiers. We are not boastful
.. . when we say that the need of the Cubans
.appeals especially '"to the Baptists. Have
they not adopted the Pearl of the Antilles
for their own t Has not the progress of
the Baptist cause in Cuba in recent years
brought joy to our hearts f Mony and
food given to these people in the name of
Christ will" be the best spent of all the
mission money Baptists ever gave.
It is the law of the land that the State
troops are subject to call to arms for only
' two purposes, namely, to suppress rebel
lion or repel invasion. This being so, it
' is eminently unjust and mean to cast as
persion upon those members of the State
Guard, officially called the National
Guard, who . have declined to volunteer
into the regular army; A member of a
company of our State Guard is under
hut little more obligation to volunteer
into the regular 'army than is any other
citizen, not so much as the newspaper
writers who sought to humiliate them.
North Carolina will have no trouble in
rasing her . quota of soldiers. . , If we are
not very much mistaken she has more of
; her sons in. the navy and more in the
army now than any other State of the old
"South; and there are many others ready
and willing, whb do not belong to any
State company. Where it is possible we
believe it will be the part of wisdom to
enlist these rather than any more of the
regular State Guard,, a goodly portion of
the latter having already volunteered.
The reason is obvious. North Carolina
has troubles of her own. We never know
when some clash betweeri.a rowdy white
man and a pompous negro will bring on
insurrection. " , . ' ' " i.
: The equanimity with which the people
have accepted the state of war js rather
remarkable, "There are, of course, those
who glory in it, the same who would de
Jour a yellow journal's report of a pugil
istic contest or watch the base ball bulle
tins; but the people in general, as we see
themcannot be said to be more than in
terested. Volunteers are not many, and
they are, with some exceptions, young
men of adventurous spirit. . The truth is,
yery few feel the call of their country;
There can be no doubt that the American
people will march to battle when it ap
pears needful, jbut their attitude attorea
ut rather goes to show that there is no
great number of citizens who are by birth'
or predilection war-like. The reasoning
that there is no call for larger sacrifice as
yet is probably good. No man knows.
Sut, from' all appearances" one must be
lieve that the decisive work will be done
by sea, and that if soldiers shall be needed
it will not bo in great numbers or for a
?ng time. It is really possible that Spam
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may be brought to terms without a bat
tle by land, and that Cuba may be occu
pied by our regular army. On the other
hand it is just as possible that the war
will not come to an end this year, and
that 150,000 soldiers will be needed.
They who db not fight must pay. War
is the most costly expedient that we know
of. Fifty million, dollars were swallowed
up in preparation. If actual fighting does
not multiply that figure by twenty, we
may all be thankful. There isno block
ado of America, hut the price of bread is
rising steadily. ' In Congress the two par
ties are divided upon the question of ways
and means to raise money for war. One
party desires a tariff, a tax on beer and
tobacco and coffee and sugar and tea and
other'articles in which the p eople indulge,
but which they might do without. The
other pa? ty thinks its sees another oppor
tunity to put into effect a tax on incomes.
It probably argues since some of our
millionaires are offering to raise regi
ments, loan the government money, pay
their employees while on the field of bat
tle, and Wall Street is actually talking of
sending a small army from its offices,
that our wealthy fellow-citizens have sud
denly become too patriotic to resist an in
come tax on the ground of its unconsti
tutionality. This is a mistake. The plain
people must furnish the soldiers and sail
ors, the guns and the ships, the blood and
the pensions. An income tax would be
resisted. "We saw nine troops of cavalry
take the cars the other day. There were
some beautiful, richly attired young
women smiling and waving handker
chiefs; but those whose eyes floated in
tears, whose hearts were sad, were in the
"best clothes" of the poor, and there were
twenty of them to one of the others. And
so with civilians; war, pinches the poor
first, last and all the time. Nevertheless,
it is the wealthy who dread war, who
were three week's ago charged with sell
ing the country's honor for; war because
they did all they could to avoid the breach
of peace; and it was the poor who de
manded war; and it 13 the poor in Cuba
for whom the war is being waged. It is
a just war, a righteous cause, and honor
to all both rich and poor who contribute
to it.
Another Chapter in a Missionary Hero's
Ufe.
Dr. Tichenor held "the Convention in
rapt attention while reciting a bit of un
written history about Cuba. As he pro
ceeded interest deepened, men and wo
men sat with teacdimmed eyes looking
toward the veteran soldier of the cross as
with trembling lips and streaming eyes
he told of his hopes for Cuba and con
cluded by exclaiming, "Cuba is coming to
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, she is
quickly coming, the day-dawn of her re
demption, thank God, js at handand
when the Spanish shackles fall from her,
we, the Baptists of the South, must enter
every village, every hamlet and every
town, until all her children shall rejoice
with unspeakable joy at the glad news of
salvation."
The story that the doctor told will bear
repeating.
"Two years ago," said he, "after Gen
eral Campos had failed to put down the:
insurrection, Weyler was appointed to
take his place as Captain-General of Cuba.
1 received a letter from Diaz just before
Weyler's arrival, asking me to come to
Cuba. I could not understand why he
wanted me, as no trouble had been re
ported. I went to Cuba, however, and
the day after I arrived Diaz carried me
into a room, shut the door, pulled his
chair close up to mine and informed me
. that he had been offered the position of
commander in chief of the insurgent
forces in the province of Havana, and that
he had accepted the position. like a
thunderbolt this announcement fell upon
my ears. - " , .
; " My first . thought was what was to
becomeof our interests in Cuba if Diaz
went : into the insurgent army; The
priests tadalreadydeclared that the Bap
tist church was a hot-bed of rebellion
When I sat looking at Diaz my mind ran
back over the years to the time when
some of 'my brethren, myself among the
number, had done just as he was doing.
Then ; I thought of the tyranny of the
civil ecclesiastical powers in C uba that
.were ready to crush out the Baptist faith,
la told br Secretary I. T. Tichenor to thei
Georgia Baptist State Convention, fieported in
Christian Index,
N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1898.
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and I could not blame DiaU for what he
was about to do.. I told him when he
went into the army he must not leave his
preachers in Cuba. , We could not explain
the situation to them, but I showed Diaz
how they would 4surely ; be imprisoned if
he went into the army. Well, we called
the preachers; together and ; told them
Weyler was coining. It was reported that
he was a man guilty of deeds that would
bring the blush of shame to the face of
any man, civilized or savage. I urged the
preachers to leave the island at the first
hint of danger. I told the Board of what
I had done, but I dared not tell them
about Diaz. An incautious word might
be dropped that would be caughtup by
some Spanish spy, and in an incredibly
short, space of time the news would be
flashed to Havana and Diaz would be in
jail. I told the Board about advising the
preachers to leave,- and Dr. McDonald
said, 4 What's Diaz going to do f 1 My
reply was, You are enough of an Irish
rebel to know what Diaz is going to do.'
I dared not tell McDonald,; true-hearted
man as he is, I have never told this in
cident before. It is a bit of unwritten his
tory. ( I had a great burden on my heart.
It haunted me night and day, and I never
breathed free until the last preacher was
out of Havana. I was beginning to feel
easy when one bright afternoon as I was
sitting on my porch a telegraph messen
ger handed me a dispatch. - It caused my
heart to sink, although' it contained but
three words: 4 Diaz in jail.' I knew he
was guilty of violating the Spanish law.
I knew not how he had committed him
self. Before this I had sent full informa
tion to the State Department about the
condition of our work in Cuba.; I did not
want to wait until a crisis had come to
try to explain, when time was precious.
So the information was all with the State
Department at -Washington, I tele
graphed to the State Department, to Cleve
land, to Congressman Black, to Hoke
Smith, and others. I received a dispatch
saying that Diaz would probably be re
leased, but I knew the Spaniards too well
to place any dependence upon them in a
case like this. . The Spanish will not tell
the truth in a case like this. The
smile at you as they thrust a dagger into
your heart. As mild mannered men as
ever cut a throat or sunk a ship. (Sub
dued applause.) I got a telegram from
Diaz saying he was in great danger. He
was to be tried'" by a military court, and
that meant almost certain death. His
wife had been to see htm at the jail. She
had slipped the dispatch out. It had been
given to Porta, one of the deacons in the
church there. Porta was to carry the dis
patch over to Key West. Buenos, one of
our brethren, had just come in from San
Miguel, where a fire had burned up every
thing. He was anxious to i leave the
island. He was going on the Olivette.
Porta got in the carriage with him and
rode by a circuitous route to the wharf.
The police had learned that Porta had the
dispatch. He had given It to Bu6nos.
Porta was watched by the police. Just
before the Olivette left, he made as if he
wanted to go out to the ship. The police
stopped him and said, 'Where is that dis
patch ?' He denied having it, and just
then the Olivette moved out and turned
her prow toward the land of freedom.
Buenos stood in the stern of the vessel
and waived his handkerchief. Porta
pointed to him, and said, That man on
the Olivette has the dispatch.'
" Buenos went to Key West with no
money. The dispatch cost, forty cents a
word. Buenos landed in Key West about
dark. The telegram had to go up to New
York and "come down to Atlanta. I re
ceived that telegram about eight o'clock.
By ten o'clock the dispatch was in Wash
ington, with a request to protect Diaz, an
American citizen. The next morning
Diaz was released." z- v ;
Merited Commendation.
Dr. C, E. Taylor, Wake Forest, N. C,
Dear Sir : Unwilling that merited com
mendation should, be unbestowed, I am
constrained to write you this letter.
i The recent visit of -ithe Wake Forest
Base-Ball Team to this city has done more
in the interest of manly, clean and high
grade college athletics than any occasion
since my connection with the Mercer
University. The universal verdict, both
in our college and community and the
city of Macon, is, that your team, in clean
ness of speech, mastery of temper, man
liness of deportment, practical morality,
gentlemahliness, and all-around ball
playing, is superior to any that has yet
visited us. Your institution can but be
benefited by a tour of such gentlemen.
While they lost the game with us, they
have gained that which is vastly superior
to a base-ball victory the respect and
admiration of all our people. I heartily
congratulate you on their account
Very respectf ullyyours, 1
Geo. .W.: Macon, '
. J Prof, of Biology, Mercer Univ.
: Macon, GaM April 12, 1898. '
. Are All Heathen Lost?
BY REV. T. Q.' WOOD.
I ask for an expression of views on the
above subject fromthe editor of the Re
corder and bur more thoughtful breth
ren. My desire is not to lrsson interest
in the subject of missions, Wade respon
sibility, or. provoke controversy $ but to
get back to J3criotural thinking and ex-
Eression concerning the lost state of the
eathen world.
Iam led to ask this question just now,
because there is appearing in the Recor
der a series of articles by a distinguifched
pastor-evangelist, in the first of which
the f oBowing language is used ;
i'To argue that to-live up to what light
they have will insure their acceptance of
the Lord is a sort of compound of con
science and rationalism, which, if follow
ed to its legitimate conclusion, will blot
out God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son,
and the Bible as the accepted Word of
God. " There is but one condition of sal
vation set forth in the Scriptures, ' Be
lieve, on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved. Every where it is taught,
Believe or die.' Paul says, There is
none other name given whereby we must
be saved.' To argue, therefore, that liv
ing up to the best light one has will save,
is not only to blot out Christ and His
atonement, butlo, establish a salvation
entirely of works which we know cannot
be. No I not the heathen are lost with
out the Gospel, or ; God's Word is not
true, then God Himself is a fake."
Is this the Scripture view! Do Baptists
hold thai of the countless millions who
have died in heathen lands since, the birth
of Christ, everyone who had not faith in
Jesus as his personal Saviour is eternally
lost ? That they never heard of Christ,
and therefore could not believe on Him,
is evident. What then ? v Are they con
demned for unbelief f I think not. 1
No one believes the heathen as a whole
live up to " the light they have," any
more than do North Carolinians or Geor
gians, but if, here and there, one of them
does, is he lost f This is the point or in
quiry. My own belief is, the Scriptures
expressly assert the saltation 01 all who,
according to their light, have done what
they could. ' . . ,
; Three degrees of light are revealed to
the children of men:
1. The Light of Nature. That the Gen
tiles have, and by that they shall : be
judged. "The heavens declare the glory
of God." etc. Ps. 19 : 1 and 2. V For
when the Gentiles, which have not the
law, do by iature the things contained
in the law, these, having not the law, are
a law unto themselves which shew the
work of the law written in then hearts,
their conscience also bearing witness, anc
their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or
else excusing one another." Rom. 2
14,15.
Dr. Broadus, in his comment on the
Saviour's expression " It shall be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon," etc.
(Matt. 11 : 22), says, "There is here brought
out the great truth that men s lot in the
F World to come will have degrees propor
tioned to their advantages in this world.
This truth throws some rays of light
athwart the dark, sad question of : the
fate of the heathen. The heathen will
not be condemned for rejecting Jesus if
they had no opportunity to know Him;
but only for disregarding their own con
science, the light of external nature, and
any trua religious Ideas which may in
whatsoever way have reached them."
2. The Light of the Law. That the
Jews had, and by that they shall be
judged. - As many as nave sinned in
the law, shall be judged by the" law."
3. The Light of the Gospel. 1 And ac
cording: to that, those that enjoy theGos
pel shall be judged. Go ye into all the
world and preach the Gospel to every
creature." " He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved ; but he that be
lieveth not shall be damned.".
God's fixed rule of judgment from the
beginning to the end of revelation seems
clearly outlined in the following Scrip
tures: Gen. 4: 7, "If thou doest well shalt
.thou not be accepted ? And if thou doest
not well, sin lies at the door." Acts 10 :
34,-35: " God is no respecter of persons;
but in every nation he that feareth Him(
and worketh righteousness, is accepted
with Him." Rom. 2: 6: ".Who will ren
der to every man according to his deeds. "
Heb. 11: 6: "He that cometh to God
must believe that He is. and that He is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek
Him." Now, in the light of this rule of
judgment, read carefully what Paul says
in Romans 2: 0 to 12,and -u-i,t is evident
that ajl those who diligently seek God
will be rewarded, whether before Christ
or after His coming, whether -knowing
Him or not . knowing Him, Nor is the,
inclusion of the latter inconsistent with
the, doctrine that salvation is through
Christ alone. For His atonement, pro
ordained from the first,; is retrospective
as well as prospective in its effects, and
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as far reaching as was the original trans
gression.
In this sense how true that-1 there is
no other name , under heaven iriven
amonz men whereby we must be saved ' ' !
To Jesus Christ, the Saviour, be all the
glory, both now and evermore. Amen
and amen I To make it mean that all
those who have not personal knowledge
of and faith in Him as the Saviour,
though they longed to know and could
not, are lost, is to read into it what Peter
(not Paul, as the iwnter under review
has it) never taught, and restricts the
efficiency of the atonement to hearers of
the Uospel "in this dispensation only.
Yes, light is revealed and men are lost.
Not alonev for rejecting Christ, but be
cause light is come into the world, and
men love darkness rather than light.
Does this manifold revelation of God
in His willingness to save unto the utter
most entitle llim to be regarded as a
"fake"! ,
Because we cannotcipher out, with our
little slate and pencil, the problem of the
Trinity, and the mystery of the Atone
ment, are we justified in declaring
God's .Word untrue f It should rather
constrain us to cry but with Paul, "O the
uepiu iu ujo ricues voia oi me wisuom
and knowledge of God I how unsearch
able are His judgments and His w ays
past finding out!"
( Bellcross. '
Misplacing Responsibility.
BY REV, W. C. TYEEE.
' Personal, moral responsibility is a seri
ous, mysterious and solemn thing. It is
the only real and effectual restraint to
human conduct.;; To this every effort for
reform must appeal, and upon this de
pends all hope of preventing crime or re
claiming criminals. Surely no greater or
sadder calamity can befall a man than to
have this sense of responsibility weaken
ed or destroyed. When this happens,
God loses his grip on the man. The an
chor chain of his soul is broken, and he is
left like a vessel at the mercy of the
waVfs. "
I believe certain influences or processes
are now, operating which tend to weaken
this sense of "individual responsibility
about certain evils, by making men think
that others are responsible and therefore to
bo blamed for their conduct. I refer first
to the sin of drunkenness. : We all know
the saloon-keeper is engaged in a wicked
business. The Word of God so denounces
it. We all believe the saloon helps to in
crease the number and hastens the ruin
of drunkards by putting temptation be-;
fore men. I certainly sympathize with
the irrpiit ma inrirv of Christians who loner
for the time when there will be no sa
loons in our country. I rejoice in the
rapid growth of public sentiment against
the wicked, cruel and destructive traffic.
I believe the leavening influence of the
Gospel and sad lessons of experience will
eventually cause the saloon business to be
universally regarded disgraceful and
criminal. But while the saloon keeper
has his own fearful responsibility in re
gard to the "prevalence of this national
sin and curse, the greatest respomibility
rests always on the drunkard himself. It
seems to me that this primary responsi
bility and sin of the drunkard is now ig
nored or but little emphasized. ' I believe
this is a serious and fatal defect in the
present methods to promote temperance
reform. Whenever and wherever intem
perance is discussed or considered, whether
in newspapers, sermons or lectures, it is
generally the saloon-keeper, the law
maker,:; or the voter, whose sin is de
nounced.; V So seldom do we read or hear
from the advocates of temperance much
about the guilt of theJhian who drinks.
Responsibility is put far away from the
'drunkard It is solemnly declared and
repeatedly, that the saloon-keeper is to
be blamed for -his sin, and the law maker
is "responsible for ; the saloon-keeper, and
the voter ia responsible for the law-maker.
In this way the conscience of the drunk
ard is pacified. 1 and his sense of guilt
almost removed, by distributing his sin
among the many thousand voters of his
State. As great as is the sin of drunken
ness, when divided up among so many,
the part of each is not great enough to
produce repentance or remorse r any
where.' The law of heredity is also ma-!
use of to remove the pressure on tho
drunkard's conscience. It is his dirxi
pated father or grandfather who i3 ia
sponsible for his sinful habit.
; . Such teaching again fails to prodico re
pentance or remorse, for the p:":;.'
are already in their graves. 1 1 ILv :
Bin of ; all parties who are coir ' 1
any way with this great evil 1
faithfully and solemnly point 1 t
rebuked; but lam Sure tint v. - ' ,
drunkard himself thov.1 11 -emnly
denounced.- In OgV? :
just as guilty as if ..there w-? 7.
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