THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS DEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Volume 63. PUBLISHED WEEKLY bt , EDWARDS & BROUQHTON, . , RALEIGH. N, C. dm tared as MOond-lam matter In the Port Office RaeelDte will be given In change of date on label 01 neper. ' If data Is not changed In two weeks you will pleaw notify ns. k.-na of dddress will be made when the old and also tbe new addresa are given In full. If not changed In two weeks please notify us. ; Remittances should be sent by Registered Letter Postal Money Order, or Expie Order, payable to the order of the Biblical Recorder. -; obituaries, sixty words long, are Inserted free of charge. When they exceed this number, one " cent for each word should be paid In advance. 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 RALEIGH, 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. -i,.,.,.. , ",. f" , ,....-. ' "T; 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 Number 43. 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. COKTIM'ID ON i n r : j :'

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