THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST S-DEVOTED TO BIBLE RELIGION, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE,
f olume 67,
RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7, M)l.
Number 6
TALK WITH SUPERINTENDENT TOON
eaw Col. Toon the other day, and
i.ijI Vim innn (ha Unnanal
umber of good reports from the Teach-
Lt institutes in several sections of the
tate. A! one mere v ere eigui.7 leacu
!.'- iaanii , rt fVipm tTiArn cpnma n
avebeen unusual entnusiafm. "xe.,
wd the Superintendent, we are just get
r - t iL.t .
iDg tinder way duw , nuu uui a
food Btart has oeen maoe. . appreciate
L speaking and writing that has been
one; but the time has e me for more
irect work. Our, teachers, local com
litteemen and county superintendents
eed stimulating. These . institutes are
el ping very much at these points. Oar
ichors are especially in need of pra
I Seal instruction."
Ton have had the assistance lately of
ome teachers who are not employed in
tate institutitns, haven't you? ''Yes,
Ind they have done good work. I would
ke to see all the higher institutions
tending men out into this needy, field
Je will never reach the free school
chere unless we go to them.'
Another matter I have in mind," said
e Superintendent. "You have seen
e pictures of. eminent North Carolin
in Mr. Peeias book entitled Lives
f Distinguished North- Carolinians?
wdl, I have ngaged-to have ccp'es of
jheee made, to be sold for a low price. I
Ihink they will be a source of inspiration
any school room; and thy will be es
ally appropriate in the new free
chool libraries.".
A better idea than that has not lately
ime out in North Carolina. We wish
gements might be made to have
(bees pictures framed and put in every
chool-house. And then the Legislature
night require teachers tob examined on
he subject of North Carolina biography
rithaview to telling their pupils each
ear ahout these men Right here we
isy take occasion to'say that Ur. Peele's
rork is but half accomplished. He has
second book of North Carolina biogra
'by in vihich others than men eminent in
ublio life are treated of. We hope the
ale of the first bxk ril) call out the sec
nd. ' '
North Carolina is proud enough; she
las right to be proud. But many of her
jhildren, old and young, do not know
,nflt why they are proud.
Mr. Toon went on to say"! have an
other idea. Do you know where I &tn
eta picture of the battle of Moore's
teek or Kings Mountain cr of any other
ptorical event in our State! ' We con-
essed that we do not. 1 Well, we ought
jo have such pictures; and they ought to
f in our public schools."
That strikes us as a good idea, too. It
m l possible that our State Library or
:m i North Carolina Literary and Histori-
ai Association may induce Mr. Randall
r some other artist to create a series of
aintings to be put in the S ate Library.
t would be easy to have first-rate repro-
uctions made forlhe schools and the
pines of Nrth Carolina. 8urelT we
ould do no better thbff.
Changing the subject, what about those
wamp lands. Colonel t Aren't vou and
jto Governor in trouble abaut them f
i es, but I think we shall come out all
'Rht. You see. several tears asro . the
e save a Mr. Finch an option on all
republic larO except the tracts in three
ouaties-OiCX Jones and Richmond.
option was very loosely worded. Mr.
men may buy at fifty cents per acre
V part of the lands not less than a
ousand acres. For example, he may
u7 tract one acre wM and a thnnsand
'r five thousand or ten thousand Ion,
Splitting our tirnnflrhr- W hav
l?000 acres under this option. Some of
r wnd is valuable. The timber on some
f is worth many times fifty cents an
P. As I eaid, the option was given
years ago.: It would have expired
r ebl ry. But before the last admin
v atioa tired, it was renewed. Bo we
.prevented from considering it' J
lT, 8 040 1)6 released from it : 1 '
rn recently went to ee tbes
swamp lands. He learned that the lum
ber from them was being stolen whole
sale. The boundaries are not well de
fined, and, this makes it easy. He has
surveyors now at work.
The money derived from the swamp
land goes to the free schools. Taere has
been manifested a disposition to uee this
money (now in the T.easury about 1170,.
000) to make good the extra $100,000 ap
propriated by tbe General Aeoembly. But
this woftld be a wrong. The free schools
are entitled ai fnllv to thin hnnrtrM
. .NX. " f "
thousand oUars as the other institutions
are! to their appropriations. To deny
them and to repay them with their own
money would be a grave wrong. Col.
Toon agrees with us that a good thing to
do with the swamp land funds is to build
school houses. '
The Prerequisite to the Lord's Sapper.
BY REV. J. N. STALLINGS.
I use the definite article and the singu
lar in the phrase, "The Prerequisite."
advi'edlv. It may be at-ked: U there
only one prerequisite! I reply, Tnere
are SAveral ; yet ail others are included
in this one, vis, Chmcn membership.
We frequently hear the defenders of
restricted oommumoL say: It is not a
question of ''close communion," but of
"close baptism." I do not tbmk that
meets the caee it is, at best, an evasion
of tbe tue reason, viz, close church
membership, upon which ground a'one
can every argument airinbt restricted
communion be successfully met.
Let us see. Regeneration is a prei equi
site for the Sapper; so is baptism. Each
is a prerequisite for church membership;
bat both may exist witbout church
membership; while scripturaliy church
membership is necessary for participati n
in the SuppT This appears from the
fact tnat it is a church ordinance, and to
he orderly administered onlv as such. See
ActaiUl 42,and iOir x :23and83 Toat
the participant must ba a cburch mem
ber is clear; because he must e subject
to th discipline of the church. St I
Cor. s h chapter.
Now, that tbe cle bapti m argument
will not meet eve vca e is cbaly tbon
by an example. H-re is one of my on
knowledge: A gentleman maae a credi
ble profession, of faith in Jeaus Christ,
was accepted for , baptism by a Baptist
church, and baptized by tbe pastor, a
clear case of a valid baptism according
to the Scriptures, He afterwards with
drew from the Baptist church of which
he was a member and united with the
Presbyter ians and was excluded by the
Baptist cburch. . No one ever questioned
his conversion, for he led a pious, con
sistent life; no one ever doubted his
scriptural baptism; - yet he was never
(nor could be) invited, after his exclusion,
to the Supper in a Baptist church. Why
notf Simply because he was not a mem
ber of a Baptist church So church mem
bership is the prerequisite, including
every other qualification, no one being
entitled to participate unlees atthe time
in fellowship in some Baptist church.
Here is the order as given in Acts 2:41
and 42:
lr Conversion (repentance and faith).
2. Baptism (immersion).
3. Cburch membership '(added to the
church).""""""-'
4. Continuance in doctrine and fellow
ship (sound doctrine and church fellow
ship) - "
. 5. Breaking bread (the Supper)
6 Prayers (a pious life).
Tais order can not be reversed nor any
part omitted.
Salisbury, N. C
Using What We Have.
It U not what we have that blesses the
world; but its Jn. the way we use what
we have. Parents should teach their chil
dren that the gaininsr of wealth or power
for the mere seke of having it, if failure;
but to gain for use is success. Teacbers
should teach their students t bestudi
ous, but above all, teach them the abso
lute necessity of learning to use what
thev learn. ,
The servant who was intruptert with
five talents was not rewarded on. his
lord's return for having tbe five talents,
but for'uavingused tnem. He who craves
to be blessed, that he may be a blessing
breathes the most noble of prayers; and
be who strives to make a bleseing'of a
blessing Is the most noble of men.
, , A. R. FLOWER?.
: Rights are grand things, divine things,
in this world of God: but the way in
which we expound those right?. alaI
seems to me the very incarnation of self
fishnesl F. W. Robertson.
, Unfinished Lives. j
, ; . BY REV. VT. It.' CCLLOM.
: A few years sg it wee my privilege to
spend a night in a delightful country
heme in another county in North Caro
lina. An atmosphere of eubdued silence
made itself keenly felt by the time one
entered tbe house, and in a little while
the secret almost told itself without any
definite word. The grief-stricken father
and mother were in great bewilderment
as to why: "George" had been taken
from them just as he was entering a no
ble and splendid young manhood. Early
in the morning we walked out to the lit
tle cemetery hard by the house. Around
the newly-made grave . was a neat iron
fence, and at its head a modest stone of
pure white marble. . On the marble was
carved a lily just budding out into a
lovely flower; but, alasits blossom was
brokenand its head was fallen just where
it would be expected to give forth its
sweetest fragrance and its most charm
ing beauty. ; : '
: It is eay to see what it was meant to
suargest, but blinding tears had doubtless
caused those fond parents to misread
God's meaning. Toe scene has often
come back to me six. ce, and ha) as often
suggested the thought that there are no
unfinished lives in God's economy. In
stead of carving the lily with its blossom
broken and fallen, would it not be truer
to the facts as brought to light in the
gospel to carve the mere root, or at most
a small bit of the stalk and of the bud to
represent the life on this side the grave,
while the full maturity and strength and
beauty apptar only on . the other side.
Insteadof the grave's cutting us off from
service in the kingdom of 'God, some of
tbe last assurances in tbe Bible teem spe
cally designed to meet our hopes and as
p rations at this point. Speaking of
thotse who go into the "New Jerusalem,"
John says that "their works follow with
them," and that there "His servants will
serve Him."
Auuiber fide of this same subj 'ct has
be-u very suggestively treated by Henry
Drummond. He was making an evan
gelistic tour among the colleges of Aus
tralia, and soon after his arrival on that
island continent, his friend and tchool
mate, the Rev. John Ewiog, was smitten
with typhoid fever, and soon passed
away in the midst of great usefulness,
and with the prospects of immeasurable
good before nim. Drummond went to
nis friend and stood by bis side to tbe
end. ''He passed away," he says, "my
band in his, more gentl than a sleeping
chil 1 " At the memorial service over
this young herald of the cross. Drum
mond gave expression to the fellow ing:
"There are two ways in which awork
man regards bis work -as his ofn or as
his master's. If it is his own, then to
leave it in bis prime is a catastrophe, if
not a cruel and un fathomable wrong.
Bat if it is his master's, one looks not
backwards, but before, putting by tbe
well worn tcols witbout a sigh, end ex
pecting elsewhere better work to do.
Work is given men not only, nor
so much perhaps because the woild needs
it, bat because the workman nteds it.
Men make work, but work makes men.
An office is not a place for making
money, it. is a -place for. making men.
A workshop4 is not a place, for making
machinery, it is a place for making souls;
for fitting - in the virtues to one's life;
for turning out honest, modest, and
gor.d natured . men. So it is with the
woi k of the State or of the church. Tbis
is why it never hurries- because it is as
much forTthe worker as for the wcrk.
Fr Providence cares lees for "winning"
causes than that nvm, wt ether losing or
winning, should be treat and tru; cares
nothing that i forms should drag their
course frcm year to year bewilderingly,
but that men and naionp, in carrying
them out, shoull find their education,dis
cipline, unselfishness, and growth in
grace. Tnese lessons learned, the work
era may be retired not because the
cause is won, but because it is not won;
because He has other servants, some of
lesser tasks, some half employed or un
employed, whonHe must needs call into
the field. For one man to do too much
for the world is in one sense the wbole
world's loss. So it may be that God
withdraws His workers even when their
hands are fullest and their souls most
ripe, to fill the vacancies with still grow
ing men. and enrich many with the loss
of one. I do not propose this, even as an
explanation of the inexplicable phenome
non, which startles tbe church frcm time
to time, as one and another of it noblest
leaders are cut down in the fl wer of
their strength Bat when our thoughts
are heavy with questions of the mysterl
ous ways of God, it keep reison from
reeling frm its ttirone to see even a
glimpse of light." - 1 '
., The great question for us is as to
whether our service for God here is of
sufficient high order for H!m to trust us
with the higher service bereaittr.. "He
tbat is faithful in tbe least is faithful also
in mucb; aud Le that is unrighteous In
the leat is . unrighteous also in much.
If, therefore, je were not faithful in the
unrighteous matLmon, who will entrust
to you tbe true richest Atd if ye were
not faithful in tbat which is another's,
who will giVe to you your own!" . ' ,
: This U our lime of probation, our time
of testing. Blessed indeed is he who so
uses his present opportunities as to hear
from the Master's lips at last: "Thou
wast faithful over a little, 1 will tet thee
over much; enter into tbe joy of thy
Lord." Then shall such a cne realize
that his true life is just begun.
; . " We'll catch tha broke thread again,
. And finish what we here began ;
Heaven will the mysteries explain,
And then," oh then, we'll understand."
, Wake Forest, N. C.
Responsibility of Parents. ,
REV. EDWIN FORREST HALLKNBECK.
,Tbe parents are the architects of tbe
home. Others may have some part in
the building, but father and mother will
make the design. Their ambition, their
ideals, tbeir conduct largely determine
its charac er and shape its influence. To
the parents then belongs a tremendous
responsibility. It may not be disowned.
It can only be measured by the iesw s
which are at stake. It is not enough for
us to lay the precepts of God a way in our
own hearts. He commands us, raying:
Ye shall teach them to your children,
speaking of them when thou sittestin
the house, and when thou walkest by the
way, when thou, liest down, and when
thou riseth up
FiHt, yen must know Christ yourself.
The home wheie He hasJ no " place will
never fulfill its sacred mission. Its c quip
ment from the world's standpoint may
he complete, but if the Son rf God is
not there the most important item has
been overlooked. Without Him our homes
arenoteafe. I do not hesitate to say
that it is criminal for a father to keep
himself from tbe fellowship of Christ; he
is defrauding hn children -robbing them
of the most precious portion of their
heritige. For a mother: to lock God's
Son outide of her heart may be blocking
the path to heaven for those she loves.
Dedicate your child to G d. Then, once
the eumnder has been nude, believe
that your child is God's. Be sincere
about it ; lay your treasure, once for all,
upon tbe altar, thtn believe that love di
vine will overshadow it. We must prove
the sincerity of our offering. If tbe child
is God's, then to train it is a sacred trust.
Give your child the fellowship of your
bfctfrrself. ; Lock not the store ofjrwur
love asaint-t Em. Optn your hear t to
Hi love. Heavtn pity the children wbwe
fatber believes bis duty is ei ded when
he hai put coal in the cellar and clothing
in the wardrobe, and bie&d in the larder.
God pity, the home whose motner is so
occupied with novels and dinners and
dress that she has no care to take her
children into tbe fellowship of a love
which will touch the deepest springs of
their nature, and lead them to reach out
for the riest in life. . Pray for your child.
Not with the formal petitions of a listless
heart, but with the fervent prayer that
will not let God go. You owe your child
a godly example. Precept is good, but
practice is better. -The words of counsel
which you speak may drop out of his
memory, but your child, ill never be
able to get away from the grin of your
life. O friend, be careful how you live,
for down the path of life your child is
coming right in your tracks. If you are
a careless citizen, you may expect him
to be. If you are an inconsistent Chris
tian, you may expect him to he; or none
at all. If gold is your pod, you are train
fng him to worship at the same shrine.
The rule holds, "Like parent, like child."
O parents, give yourselves to this sacred
trust. Win your children for Christ.
Train them for noble ministries. - Write
the prect pts of God across their hearts.
Set them a pattern of holiness in tbe
homo. Tbere is no more exalted , work
than tbie it is the work of love.. ,
Governor Taft, of the Philippine Is
lands, in his addrers on July 4, stated
that of the twenty-peven provinces cr
gan zrf insurrection exists in only five.
This will require tbe continuance of mili
tary government in tbe five.- Sixteen
additional provinces ate reported witbout
insurrection but tbeee have not yet been
organize J , Four more provinces are not
ready for civil government. . With the
concentration of troops into larger gar
risons, the Governor said, ,the people
would be expected to assist in preserving
order. . There is an unexpended balance
in the treasury of 13,700,000, and the an
nual income of the government of the
Islands is now about $10 COO 000, The
military commanded was transferred to
General Chaffee July 4. Ex.
Wbercunto 5ball an Association of Dap
ttots be Likened?
by'judson kempton.,7
It mighibe compared variously, a Bap- ?
tist Association or Convention. It is like
unto a picnic, as to the ratts of travel,
and, apparently, with f ome of " the dele- -t
gates' the similitude does not end there,
though it should.
It is like a royal feast of good things
prepared for an assemblage of kings, and
tbe officers and committee men, appoint
ed the year before, are the king's but- :
lers, bakers and cooks, and they should
see to it that the dishes are prepared be
fore , the guests arrive. Let the oil be
well beaten, the wines be well refined, :
the dough well halted beforeband. Some
times these functionaries come, bringing .
their flour barrels and bread pans with
them. If they do so this year, the kings
should deal with them as Pharaoh dealt
with his baker in the days of Joeeph. -The
clerks of the churches are the market
men who supply the chief cook,the clerk '(
of the Association, with bis meats and
vegetables, and they ought to attend to
thtir business early so that he can be .
ready in good time with his stew, and
not keep the. dinner waiting. When .'
they have 'assembled, let the guests be
have themffilwa fepcnminelv an enfifita.
being arrayed in guests' garments the .
church credentialstaking modest places, .
eating what is set before tbem in the '
way of sermons, addresses and so on, '
asking no ill-timed 'questions for con- ;
science sake. , .
Aeain, should not an association com ,
pare with a parliamentt Rather should
if nni Via a nnrlnmcnt. id fur naita IrtcJ- t
, V W iw WW y ......... 1 V 1 V . ..ilj . uu. .
ness is .concerned t It should be really :
representative. Every church should
have 6ome members tbere. All staiittiea
available thould be at band. Represent
ative questions, such as are alive among1
the people, should be the ones to be pre
c ented, whatever tradition may prescribe, :
and they should be thoroughly discussed.
Then the resolutions, and the conclu
sions reachef- shall not at If at their
skeletons be preserved? I have walked
through the graveyards of minutes of .
AesociatLns and f;urd any number -of ,
slabs with tbe hgesd, "Adopted," paint-
ed thereon, but often , I could not find a
bone that a f dentist could use to "re-
store" tbe departed report.
- F.nftllv. lt rai4i tipiletrtLin cnun thn
idea tbat he is elected to do the busk ess,
of "the kingdom." a kit trdom more im- '
Eortant than tbe United States Army, a
usinesa more momentous than the
tariff. Let him come win "Year Book,"
minute book, note book and pen, pre- "
nared : to learn eaererlv. to ; think and
SDeakLJntellieentlv. andto do with all
his might. And, if he is a district secre
tary or something of that sort, let him .
not send a substitute after he has allowed ,
his name to be printed on the program. '
The program committee should carefully '
consult the program of the former year
and as carefully refrain from asking to
speak such brethren as had compelled -their
predecessors in office to rise before
the body with the humiliating announce-
ment that "the Rev. Dr. Bigman could
not be present" as they bad learned
when they went to the train to meet ,
him, but they bad found Brother Jack".
Atapmcn waiting on tne piatrorm, say
ing that he had been sent in Brother
Bigman's stead. "Brother Jack Atapinch -
will therefore aadrees us. 'win Baptist
Standard, Chicago.' .
College Men In Dullness.
- As a rule,- great corporations seek col' . .
lege men because, other things equal,
they will ultimately make better heads, .
better leaders; and this, notwithstanding
tbe fact of the general iinpreteion that
college men are not practical. The beads
of such institutions know very well tbat, 1
if a man is made, of , the right kind of
materia, a college education, although it
mav tfimnoraril v nrevent the develoo-
man to analyze wU and to grapp condi
tions verv auicklv. The greatest draw
back to the young graduate is that he is .
inn full nf t.hAnriAA. tun near Ha dinlnma.
to be of very good value; hut, after the "
rlrm nf hia fntnr crwfltnfwa hnn fsrfoA
a little, and he settles down to business,
he will adapt himself very speedily; and,
when he once maetos the details of a
bueinees, he will make rapid strides to
ward the top. He has learned in college
how to think, how to marshal his mental
forces; and, when be has learned th3
different phases of his bueine ea arid toT7
to apply bis knowledge, he will lo v.,
ttronger man than be would fcavo I . ;i
Without the higher education. C.:::
: Many lave puzzled thcrr" !v; r.v
the origin of evil; I ob:crv3 .t 1
evil, and that there is a vrry t
and wi h thij I hegia tzd -
Newton.