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"7.. TgJg ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA . BAPTISTS DEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Volume 67. RALEIGH, N. 0., WEDNESDAY JULY 3 Number 5 . ii if A : -nr. :." i .-n - m. a a . w -rt. ' c v -':... .. i i i y j i i - jw, CROPS. , , . r What we do not know about farming 1 not be set forth in this piper, as we btve some other matter to be printed. w trust, therefore, mat our more intel ligent readers will not hold us responsi ble for any Ignorance that we fail ta dis pose in one brief editorial. . ,. .... , Secretary Johnson came back from a long trip and took a big seat under the juniper Tree. "I never saw such a pros pect," he exclaimed; "it Is a regular flood, oceans of water and seas of grass." And the thermometer of his hopes for State Missions ana we Century Move ment went 'way down. When we began to comfort him, he complacently bade us to wait until the next afternoon, when we should take a trip and see the floods. When the time came there were Johnson and Bay and Stringfleld and the writer. Little was said about the crop, though ttiAittwas no little looking out of the oar-windows. That evening after sup per, one of us saw a cloud earning up, and eighed "more rain, I did hope the spell was over." Turning to our host a farmer we made some such remark to him. ''Well, said he, I don't care if it does come. I would not like to see you brethren put out; but the rain is helping ua up here, mightily with the crops They are first-rate so far, and more rain won't hurt" Bro. Bay, who knew noth ing of the conversation of the day before, asked us in astonishment if we had not noticed the good condition of the crops as we came along. He had been sitting with Bro. Johnson and showing them to him. Bat we had been sitting with Bro. Stringfleld, and having great faith in Bro. Johnson's agricultural experience, had been pointing out their distressing condition to our Educational Secretary. Next day we read in the papers that the grain crop in Kansas was terribly re duced by drouth. Three days later the dispatch came "Plentiful rains, Kansas rill make 50,000,000 bushels of corn." From the reports we had thought that no amount of water could more than save the people from being killed by the heat One of the members of a family that 1 let their farm out to tenants pointed out one of the renters to us recently as the "sorriest in the lot He never has good crops. He doesn't care. He works only iu the cool of the day.- He is content to pick up the balance of his maintenance doing odd jobs here and there." Riding with him next day we asked him how his crop was getting on. "Fine, sir," he answered, "all laid by and doing fine. I get my work done early." Little terror had wind or rain or starvation for him. The other day we walked up a hill near Raleigh. On either hand as we went up were cotton patchep. On the left the cotton could hardly be diatiniraidhed from the grass. On the right, the grass had baen chopped out and the Oitton was growing. The lay of the laud, in view of the weather, was favorable to the cot ton on the left We have often thought that some men gi ve up too easily. But it was both pathetic and inspiring to see a father and two little hoys stand in the drizzing rain and on the soggy ground, In a brave fight against the grass with all against t hem. He may not make his crop, but his b ays have learned how to fitfht' The boy who cau take a hoe and faoe with good heart a great field in rank ffrass wilj win his battle3 when he: gets out into the world. . ' . That talk about "tickling, the 'earth with a hoe and it will laugh with a har-i yest' is not Bound, ; - said Philosopher Strings ldr Toja many famers and Stringfleld is a farmer by every reckon-" tog simply scratch the earth.". .VI know man near Raleigh," he said, "Bro. Up church, whose crop never fail, i He plows with a two horse plow, and goes down, in the earth. Then when rain comes the land will hold the water and the fertilizer. ; And when drouth comes, the deep-set roots are indifferent to the harsh ; sun." That sounds sensible. Everybody, who really does anything plows deep. Too many people simpl7 scratch their heads and think they are thinking. ' . It occurs to us that th income of a North Carolina farmer is not determined altogether by the condition of his crops. It is possible that he may get more money for a short crop this year than he might have gotten for a big one two years ago. The income on cotton is determined not by the condition of the crop in North Carolina; but by the price of cotton in the South. If there is a big crop in North Carolina and a big crop in the South, there will likely be low prices, and the farmer's income will not be so large. If the crop, is short in the South and short in North Carolina, the price will go up, and he may receive as much as he might have from a big crop. In view of rains in the East and dry weather in the West this may happen this year. But if the crop is short in the South and long in North Carolina, then the North Carolina farmer makes money. This re minds us of Stringfield's remark that "farming is more exciting than playing cards." Room for All Fit for All ; leant for All. A Baptist church ought to be in its membership representative or toe com munity in which it is located. If there are rich people there, some of them ought to have been converted and brought into the fellowship. If there are poor peo ple, they ought also to have a like place in the church. It would be a misfor tune, to fay the least, for a church to limit its efforts and facilities to any one clas in the community. For example, the preaching may be of a crude, illiter ate, emotional type that is repulsive to those who are educated and thoughtful. When such preaching is supplemented by a low grade school, a dull prayer meeting and by a social spirit in harmony with that preaching, only one result can follow. The church membership will be made up of the less intelligent, aggres sive end cultured class. On the other hand, if respect is paid to none but the fashionable, or the highly educated, the church is likely to become ah exclusive circle of the refined. The tendency all ways is to make the lines of church mem bership conform to the lines of purely social distinction. One of the blessed things about our religion is its demo cratic influence. It goes beyond the ad ventitious circumstances of wealth and of learning and finds vital bonds ot hu man brotherhood. We are all one in Christ Jesus. It smashes the petty fences which pride has built to cut our class off from the other classes. Ood introduces the poorest of His children into His fam ily on an equality with the most aristo cratic The Gospel is the great harmon iz ?r, the great leveler, the great agency of fraternity. Bat even aside from this thought of f quality, a church can not afford to be exclusive. The wealthy peo ple in its membership are its arm? for rt aching out to others who are rich but lost. Its poor-are its missionaries to the huts and hovels. To n gleet; any one of these claf es is not onlv to make a false dUtinctii n among our Father's children; but it is an abandonment of the avenue apprrach to part of the community. The Master f jund access t o all kinds and condition cf men. He c me to save the rich and the poor ana to make them all one. Central Biptist. All Christians Ought to be Perfectionists -the Right Way . TCirArv nhriftti&n ehould be a rerfeo- t onis in the sense that he is constantly mna onrnAatltr fctrivinfiT flfter DerfeC- tion. 'Nothing here written is deigned to give any a mf rt to the devil or to lazy, tlnggish Christians. - Bui let it be remtmbeted that one matk of perfection is humility. If-there were anywhere a perfect man on t ar h, he would oe the fa-t person to say, "1 am p-rfeci ," t lf any man were entirely sancifled,bis opm-; ion of himself would ; be tanctified along with his other thouguts ana ie Mings. TTa wnnM fiiAn Miv of hid Derfection as a good bishop did of 1 bia humility, when he was asked if he had any bumihty "None to speak off' N. Y. Observer. Educate 1 Educate II Educate!!! . BY MRS. V. L. PENDLETON. A gentleman of ; Greensboro wrote to me asking information about the night school taught for negroes in Our town. A gentleman went for me to Burwell Thornton's, the teacher's home; and as certained the following facts: He taught three months, vhad twenty pupils, from fifteen to seventy years of age. The old people learned fairly well. He charged forty cents a" month. Burwell Thornton was born and educated here, land has been teaching for a good many years. He was teaching the public school for col ored people at the same time that he was running the night school. He has the respect of the community. Gabriel Parker, our landscape garden er, an old man whom I have known for year, was one of the pupils. Seeing him passing my house, I called him and said : "Uncle Gabriel, did you learn much at your night school?" "I did not know a letter in the book. Madam, and now I can read right sharp, and I can write my name; would yon like to see me?" and stooping, he wrote with his'.finger in the sand in front of my gate, "Gabriel Par ker." It was perfectly legible and writ ten with capitals. He said that be was required to write every night and thought that be could write a letter, but had never tried to do so. He attended the school only two months. "How old are you?" I then asked, and he eaia that he would be sixty next Feb ruary. '.'Old Uncle Divy was in your class; how did he learn?" ' "He has not got the head that I have," and the old man chuckled and hit his grey, kinky locks; "he would go to nod ding as soon as he sot down to his lessin, and I got ahead of him." "To whom did you belong in the olden times?" "I was one of Mr. Whit Kearney's set and Miss Ret Parker (Mr. E.'s daughter) drawedme." Then he went on to say that he had had many opportunities to learn to read and write, but never cared to do so until last winter. When I quietly, remarked, "You wish to voe." He said, 'Tee, Madam, but it was principally because I felt the necessity in laying off flower beds, of knowing somethinar of figures ana writing; dui 1 mase mignty poor hand at figures," and he stooped again, and I was amused to see how awkwardly he made them, beginning at the bottom of the figure, but they were all right when finished. Uncle Davy told me that he was sixty one or sixty-two years old, but others say that he is seventy. He )vent to school soon after the close of the war, but gave it up and started last winter for the fan of tt, and would -certainly go. again next winter. A colored boy of fifteen, who works in a store during the day, told me that he learned a great deal at the night school, and was studying grammar, gt og raphy, arithmetic and history, and added, "Mr. Barwell Thornton is a splendid teacher." This is an object lesson very suggestive to the white race. My gocd frierd, Capt. John E. Dugger, shocked me very much soon after the close of the war between the States by eaymg in a public address: "You must educate your children, or the time will come when the negroes will own and ride in their carriages, and your sons wilL drive them ! ! I " God forbid that thi should ever be so, ; and yet in this town Man.neia 'mormon, a brother of the teacher spokn of, was Register of Deeds of the county for over twenty years, and at one time his assist ant was a wbite man of one of the best families in the land. (Lst me say here that the population of our ounty is 19, 151. of which 12,000 are negroef.) Then, the largest coach f hop is run by a negro, aEd white men are in bis em plovment. We must edocate, an1 it is tte masses that we murt reach. We must go out in the "highways and hedges," ana I wish our Legislature woull nact a law so we could "compel them to come in." Where the public eeh; ols can 1 not be supple mented, a neighbor can collect together a few of the children of lri less f rtunate neighbors, and teach them to read and write. Daring the winter, night ecbools could be established and muJi good ao complished. ( ' I believe in higher education, but if a go -a foundation is laid in the publio school, many a soul will be quickened with he it aspirations, with ' a yearning desire for a broader field of usefulness, and they will press onward, Bnd many a hand will be outstretched to help them reach the goal they have in view. !; I know a young man whose father ex pected to gHe him a colleg'ate education,' but5 the f a-her's health . failed, and he said jlYou know Texpected torend vou to college, bur it ii impostible.' ' "Yes, father," repied the brave boy, "but I will go," and he did go. The father died and his mother told me that her son's college expenses did cot' cost her: one cent. He borrowed the money, giving his individual note. He graduated with honor, and is now a professor in one of our best high echools, and is not yet twenty-one. He is an intelligent, earnest and dignified "gentleman; and not only his county,' but his State '.will yet be proud of him. ' ' Yes, thousand may go; and can go, if they will, to our colleges; but the hope cf the country is in the tens of thousands who will never enter college walls. : Then it behooves us, as Christian men and t women, to educate these tens of thousands, thus furnishing them with good tools wherewith can be wrought good work for "God, and home, and na tive land." -Warrenton, N. C. Shall We Lose Sight of These? BY REV. CHAS. A. G. THOMAS. The educational cry is in the papers and in the air t very where. No one wants r to see the interest in education abate,but there is great danger of pushing this matter so vigorously as to crowd State Mission work, and other interests in the background. . The greatest work on our hands at this time is the work put into the hands of Bro. Johnson. It is not second to that of the Female University. Bro. Johnson has a great work before him, his hands have been clogged with a debt and an increase of appropriations, and he must have the earnest and hearty cooperation of the brethren. The pastors and churches ought not to allow anything to come between them and the State Mission work " We are now in the cam paiam for State Missions. This period of the year has been the time in which we have always pushed this work, and I see no reason for side-tracking State Mis sions for any other object. The cam paign of State Missions is on, and it must be vigorously pushed in order to make ends meet at the Convention. The Cen tury Movement is important, but not more so than oulregular work. -There are many cans to our people at mis time, I have never known more 'calls at one time. Misfortune has swept over -many sections, and appeals to our sympathies have been persistently made. Our peo ple now need to think twice and inquire and investigate many times before giving to every appeal made by letter or through the papers. Every dollar given by our people to many of these objects takes that much from State Missions and other Conventional objects. Along with State Missions we find the Orphanage. These two are closer to our hearts than any other objects possibly. Never were the demands of the Orphanage greater, never were the expenses heavier. Never were there more children under our care, and never more applications coming in. Bro. Boone carries the heaviest burden of any man in the State; and he carries It nobly and faithfully. Bro. Averitt, the treas urer, has before him now the vision of an overdrawn account The Baptists ought not to ask the banks to furnish money to feed orphans, even though in terest is paid on it. The buildinra put up twelve years ago need repairing and enlarging. The urgent demand for water pystem and sewerage ts upon us. we can't wait! or any of these things with out peril to the interests of our children. State Missions and the Orphanage af 6 the pillars of our strength with the masses of our people. They are reached by these when others fail. . They bind us close to the people, and they reach more people than any other agencies. We can't afford for one moment to sav to them, "Stand aeide for awhile, we'll call you later." Not a day is to be lost in the campaign for State Missions and the work of the Of phsnage. Lot tte churches stir them selv sand the pastors cry aloud until the needs of these shall be supplied. Now is the time to strike don t wait for the iron lo get hot, but make it hot by con stant striking during the hot season, and let it not cool until the work is done: Then Bro. Johnson will report "no debt" "all missionaries paid." :il Then Bro. B )ona will eay, "Buildings enlarged;5 waterwork completerthildren comf ort ab'e and God glorified." ' To this work, brethren. Not a day should be lost, v -Thomasville, N .C. t. j , , Bis eed is the man who has found his woik. , Know thv work, and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster there is in the world the idle man.-Carlyle. . ' Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, or refuse to enjoy in' moderation what his Maker hag given.-Catlyle. . -h , v The Wisdom of Welldoing. ' BY REV. JOHN J, POTJQLASS. THE WAY OF THE WORLD.' , f . , .- , . -;.- i' ' It is almost an adage nowadays that he ' who works evil wins success. "And the names of those who act upon that idea might appropriately be termed "Legion." Throwing away principle as a garment too heavy for the race of riches, they 'compromise their manhood in the very beginning. According to the estimate of the world, they are put down in the commercial agencies and elsewhere as , successful. But are they I Is success to be measured by the size of a man's ba nk account or by the volume of praise that arises; like incense to a god, from the ' throats of the multitude ? . Let us see. TWO PICTURES OF LIFE. ' If you will follow closely the career of the worldly man through several years, -it will be very evident to you that what the world terms success is not, after all, success. It is not so even in the opinion of the man who is said to have achieved it. His life is vexed by a thousand per- . plexities that did not exist in his former -days.? All his wealth can not repurchase the quiet, peaceful days that have gone. Like Andrew Carnegie, he may be rest- v lees and unhappy, because he can not di- , gest his food. What success is it to be catalogued with. millionaires, or billion-, aires for that matter, when ; you are ' wretched with disease? How much is it worth to a man to be a political star when his glory can be eclipsed by a cloud of unpopularity at any time? - k ! The wicked man flourishes as a green . bay tree by the rivers of water, but he suddenly withers under the fierce heat of adversity, and that which he thought his very strength and safeguard sends the ; fire burning through the viens of his " fancied successful life. ' - , r 1 How many liquor dealers and gamblers and men of vice have been caught in the meshes of their own net and perished in -dishonor. They were successful yes of . gold and silver had much and yet these . men defeated themselves with that very weapon called success. There seems to : Lba aa unwritten decree of Divine justice that he who brings others to starvation, must himself starve, and he who lives by . robbery ncust be robbed. Ba that as it may; "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." . Dishonesty may array itself in the guise of an angel of light and give good prom ise of succegs, but little by little it will be , unmasked by the force of circumstances -and its own instability until the world. can view its hideous deformity no longer cloaked by fair appearance. , r , x ; But there is another picture of more , , cheerful coloring, expressive of wisdom. ' It is of one who starts out in the early ' morning, when the dew of manly vigor-f is fresh upon" his - life - to do righteously- and deal henestly with his fellows. He may not be rich in the gold of the mint nor reign as a prince among men, but he ' . is a millionaire in the uncorruptible gold of grace and a prince in possession of : heavenly honor that paeseth not away. ,, He indeed is the man of true success, for he has learned the secret of life- "Be hold the secret of the Lord is with them , that fear Him." A noble man, he, stands out with pure heart and clean hands and . lofty aspirations against the dark outlines . of surrounding evil to do His Master's bidding ; and to him there is nothing greater than to serve his kind. . -Wilson,. N. CLi ,. t , What the nan Who Knows Christ Can Do. ' A' generation ago materialism doml- nated-the thought of jstudent. 1 It fares r. very ill with men now. ; Five or ten"" years ago men- scarcely knew whether they knew or what they knew, r Men are not think ng so now. ? Underneath all that is supeificially t light and evil that perhaps we think to be the chief I symp tom of the life of ytung men nowr , there is the ? yearning for the voice of -certitude that shall speak to them. I bave never met the man that was not , willing to listen to the man w bo could sav. What I . tell you . I know, and the power of rare Chrietian servicewaits for 1 him walking in the use of that certain knowledge, which is the pioduct of the ; unfailing consciousness ever of the life of Jet u Christ in us and the presence of Jesus Chriet with us. "He who has," says Emerson, "alone can give," and he alone can speak on whom the soul has come down from . above. Let men once have felt the ; presence With them cf Christ, let them ; be evidently conscious themselves of the life .of Christ vnihii them, and this whole world is lifter b -for the words that they have to rj tr t it There is a resistless power ia tl V conscious of Christ that no r.r;?'t ( " : or of devil can : resist. Robert r. i at the Y: M. C. A. Julilco. . c
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