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I Mti it Tib to 5 s EASTERN ;w -vls av j : vy -u x. 11. slVt 1 r.-- -r , ! ' Onward and tjptipard . jj VOL.V. EDENTON, N. C, THU&l3Y, JAY 17, 1900. NO. 49. TA ... i V .... ....7,.v. . 'i 'A"?y . Tr- 1 rH&V-g- r- , ill ill 10 Populist Leader Waxes That Doesn't Catch BUTLER'S GLARING INCONSISTENCY. He Tries to Draw the Democrats Into a Joint Discission on an Issue the Populist State Convention Positively Refused to Make. A Withering Rebuke. Chairman Simmons wrote a letter to Chairman Butler yesterday that shows that the Democrats have no in tention of letting the RepuhUcaii populist machine change the Issue of this campaign. The issue is White Supremacy vs. negro rule. The Republicans know that upon this issue they can make no headway because nine-tenths of the members of their party are negroes. : They have therefore arranged with the Populist leaders to act as the cat's paw to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for them. In consideration of Re publican support of Senator Butler, the Populist machine has agreed to take the lead and try to get up a hot fight between white men, and thereby let the Republicans restore negro rule and then vote for Butler for tiie Sen ate. To the accomplishment of this secret fusion, .by which the Populists get Butler and the Republicans get negro rule, Butler addressed the fol lowing letter a day or two ago to r. Simmons, Democratic Chairman: Raleigh, N. C, April 20, 1900. Hon. F. M. Simmons, Chairman of the Democratic State Executive Commit tee, Raleigh, N. C: Sir: The candidates of the People's Party for Governor, and the candi dates for other State offices, and the candidate of the People's Party for United States Senator, desire a joint discussion with the candidates of the Democratic party for said positions respectively, in order that the voters of the State, who must, in next Au gust, cast their ballots in approval or disapproval of the proposed Constitu tional Amendment, the Election Law, and other issues in the State may hear the facts and arguments that can be presented by both sides, and render their verdict accordingly. If your committee and the candidates of your party will agree to such joint discus sion, I will be glad to confer with you at once, with a view to arranging a series of appointments to begin imme diately after the close of the list of appointments for your candidates ai ready' announced, extending to and including May 8th, 1900. Very respectfully, (Signed.) MARION BUTLER. Chairman People's Party State Execu tive Committee. To this letter Mr. the following reply: Raleigh, N. C. Hon. Marion Butler, Simmons made April 21, 1900. Chairman Peo- pie's Party State Executive Commit tee, sisigh. North Carolina: Sir: I received this morning your tter of the 20th inst, in which you suggest a joint debate between he candidates of the Democratic party for State offices, and the candidates of the People's Party for like posi tions. ' The question to be presented to the people for their approval in Aur.ust, and around which all other questions center, is the adoption of the Consti tutional Amendment. The People's Party in its late State convention while urging objections to the amend ment, declared concerning it, "we do not make it a party question," ajid expressly said that it "must.be deter mined by the judgment and consci ence of each individual voter." In your letter you ask for a joint debate upon the amendment, thereby dib closing a purpose on the part of th-s organization of your party to commit your party to a position which it has expressly refused to take in its State convention. This attempt to raise an issue not made by your convention is manifestly the result of a secret un derstanding with the Republican par ty and in line with the action of your party organization since 1894, which has been employed to foster schemgs of co-operation with the Republican party and to prevent the individual voter of the People's party from par cipitating in the naming of candidates or dictating its policy. It ds a matter of common knowledge in North Caro lina that there is a perfect under standing between the leaders and the Federal office-holding element of the Peoples party and the Republican party, and in pursuance of this under standing they have secured the nomi nation of a State ticket and asked for a joint debate in order to divide and divert the attention of the white peo while their Republican allies are engaged in their schemes of attempting-,to again fasten negro rule on tao State. Later on, by these same tac tics, the People's Party will undoubt edly be led into fusion with the Re publican party upon the legislative, coUnty and Congressional tickets in all counties, and districts where it is thought that fusion will do any good towards the defeat of the amendment and tle perpetuation of negro suf frage in North Carolina. Under these circumstances it is im possible to consider the organization of the Peoples party as now constituted and controlled in North Carolina, as having an existence separate end in dependent from that of the Republi can party. Until the organization of the Peoples party in this State proves its right to be treated as a political entity, separate and distinct from the Republican party, by refusing to fuse .with that party upon State, county, legislative and Congressional candi dates, the Democratic party cannot consider your proposition. Concerning .- suggestion contain 111 BUI Foxy and Sets a Trap the Democrats. ed in your letter as to a joint debate betweea you and the Democratic can didates for the Senate, you are in formed that the Democratic party has no "candidate for the Senate ivnd that it des not propose to discuss or con sider the Senatorial question until af ter the question of whether- North Carolina is to be governed by the white man or by the negro has been settled in the August election. From that paramount and all-absorbing question the Democratic party does not propose to be diverted, either by Sen atorial contest, sham tickets, or cun ningly devised schemes to "play poli tics." Yours truly, F. M. SIMMONS, Chairman Democratic State Ex. Com. That's the way to treat decoy ducks! - This is the Way It Works. State Journal (Republican). The Western voter has not the re motest idea of Eastern conditions. The former can not understand why there is such intense hatred of Republican ism in the East and why the white people are all Democrats. In a number of counties the negro vote outnumbers the white vote and in all the counties east of Raleigh and nearly all east of Charlotte the negro is in the majority if the white vote di vides. It is natural with the negro or any other race of people to seek office and its emoluments, and if the white people divide the negro at once takes charge of affairs. Go bac'k twenty years and there was a large per cent, of white Republicans in all the East ern counties. In some instances they outnumbered the white Democrats, but the negro outnumbered the white Re publicans. This enabled the negro to run conventions, control nominations and by this means he was soon in con trol of nearly all Eastern counties while some good white Republicans and somegood negroes were put in of fice, bad white men and the ignorant negro were running party machinery aivd in the saddle. This state of af fairs scon drove the bulk of the white Republicans into the Democratic party. They had to go there for self-preservation. However much they disliked Democracy, they preferred it to ignor ant negro rule. Now this state of affairs confronts us in the East. In many of the coun ties, with honest elections, that is, with a free negro ballot, he controls the counties and in some instances the Ju dicial and Congressional districts, and in all of the counties he would control if the white people divide. The negro never fails to take ad vantage of his opportunity; the past and present is proof of this fact. They go to Congress, they have been solici tors, they go to the legislative halls, they hold county and minor offices,. They swarm like bees after positions, county, State and Federal. They de mand it; they claim they do the vot ing and are entitled to them. They run Republican conventions. We speak not from hearsay but from actu al observation. This state of affairs prevents the white people dividing and considering any other question but the negro; thereby the interest of the State suffers. We ask our white people of the West, white Republicans, should the negro be allowed to control, and with pres ent conditions and a free ballot can he be prevented? Should the wealth, wealth-producing and industrial class and business interests of this section be held under ignorant negro domina tion? Consult your own conscience and white manhood and imagine your self in like conditions and then cast your vote. But some say it will not disfranchise all the negroes. No; it will not disfranchise the intelligent and better element of the negro race, and should not they cast their votes intelligently as much so as any white man? But it disfranchises the ignor ant ones wiho should be disfranchised, and to disfranchise this class, which is very large in the East, would so much diminish their votes that it would remove all danger. One thing certain, it would make it less danger ous than at present and if we can not do all that should be done let us make what improvement we can. But there are some who say it is wrong in prin ciple to disfranchise the negro. Would this be so if it improves the conditions of the country? Is the principle right that gives the nefro an opportunity to outvote and control the white man? If so, the principle is as black as the negro and the man who advocates it is as black as the principle. Remove this cancer from thepolitical body iu the East and you free thewhite man in political thought and action,. and then the Eastern white man will divide along political lines. The Crisis is On, Settle It. State Journal (Republican). There is no disguising the fact as to negroes holding office in the East; they hold almost every kind of official posi tion by election and appointment, and he was so aggressive in this respect under fusion rule that it drove almost all Populists "back to the Democratic party In the last campaign. You can't hmold ihim back when Republicanism is successful in the State or Eastern oounuties; he can't be advised or cou troled and we have been carrying this load each campaign for yearn. It is a fact that can not be denied and must be admitted there is too much truth in what is said about the East. For the last three years we have been located so as to observe these facts. We do not say these things to injure Repub licanism, but for its benefit. ,Let Re publicans, and especially Western Re publicans, seize the opportunity now presented. Vote for the amendment, and make the above conditions inrpos- eible. POPULISTS AND THE AMENDMENT. Tke Intelligent Element of the Party Will Fator It's Adoption. Charlotte Observer. I, as a Populist, have heard some very flimsy excuses given by some very able men for not supporting me constitutional amendment. Some ciaini that it was gotten up by the classes, not so much to get rtd of the ignorant negro vote, as to eliminate the poor white voter; that it is the intention of the classes to wrench the government out of the hands of the masses and put it in the hands of the classes. Now, there is not a white voter in the State that can be led to believe sue!, if he will stop to think for a moment. The fifth section confers no favors upon the rich that it doesn't confer upon the poor white man. In fact, it is the fifth section that makes it easier than ever before for the classes to vote. It says, as plain as can fce said, that no lineal descendant of any such person shall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in tbis State, by reason of his failure to possess the educational qualification prescribed tin section four. That is, any one v ho could vote before 1867, or his descen dant, can vote regardless of their poli tical convictions, as it makes it obli gatory upon the registrar to place their names on the registration books, and once there they have the guaran tee of the constitution to their right to vote, something tney never had be fore in this State. Now, as a Populist, I want to see such an amendment to the constitu tion. If it had been in the constitu tion in 1892 many of our Populists would not have been disfranchised at the polls, as we were, and as to the classes wanting to get rid of the negro, that is all nonsense. The negro hf.3 always voted with the classes against the masses. His vote has always been on the side of high tariff,' trusts and monopolies, or, in other wo'rds, he has voted with the classes against the masses. The classes have no desire to see the negro deprived of his vqe. Bat the classes are net running this cam paign. The great mass of white vot ers, regardless of party, are working for the success of he amendment, is all know that the adoption of the amendment means better politi'-s, purer and freer from 'abuse. Some say, "Just adopt the amendment and the next step will be to get a property qualification of at least five hundred dollars worth of property, whiiih would enable the classes to drive the last nail in liberty's coffin." Now, we know that will never be. Just think for a moment of the large number of teachers, preachers and professional men that don't own anything more than their salaries. Some fit the most learned and brainiest of men in our State don't own the house they live in. Deprive these men, who mould public opinion and keep going the great en gine of intellectual progress! No, never in this State. No one? but an enemy of the amendment could' start such rumors. Of course there are some Democrats who oppose the amendment, but I notice they are as usual, the men that could cry negro the loudest at our Populists in the past campaigns. As a citizen of this State I believe it is to the best interest of the whole people that the ignorant negro vote be eliminated even for his own good. It would be much better for the negro if he had no voice in the elections, as his obstinancy in elections creates an en mity between him and the white man. When he is. up for some offense at court he many times fails to get the justice he deserves, where if he did not come in 'conflict with the wnites he would get better treatment at the hands of the whites; and again, the ignorant negro is used by designing politicians for what they can get out of him. He is boss-ridden, has no opinion of his own, and does not ex press one or vote in opposition to the wishes of his leaders. If he does, he is ostracised by his race as an outcast and loses his racial standing, which is more to him than gold. In other words, he is invariably found opposing any man or measure that is got up by the Democrats, it makes no difference how much it might promote his wel fare, or the industries of his State. He need only to be told that it is a Demo cratic measure and he is no longer for r'. r,r -r; noxious a measure is, n it is gotten up by his party, he is found supporting it even ifit is against his interest as a laborer and consumer. So we see that prejudice is the weapon that he goes tothe ballot box with. For, a genera tion he has voted, arid invariably he has been found as a race contending against reason and right. He is voted by bosses who are in every voting pre cinct. To illustrate, I met a colored man the other day. He said to me: "They say that they is goin' to stop us niggers from voting. I don't care if they do. I has voted two times, and I haint got nawthing to show for hit yit. In fact, I doesn't know who I'se voted' for or what I voted for.' So this mam was nothing more than a piece of machinery in the hands of an other. He had no opinion of his own or principle to defend. This is only one instance out of thousands that any man can find throughout the South if he will take the trouble to in form himself. Why would not intelli gent men want the vote of such a class eliminated? None but office seekers could wish to see the property of the people jeopardized' by such a voter. I, as a Populist, have always accused our Democratic friends of not being consistent in their speeches, when they advocated the elimination of the negro vote, and said that they did not want the negro out of politics, as he was their only slogan to use to keep the ignorant whites in line. Now they have shown to us that they meant what they said'. Let us, as Populists, be consistent with them and vote for the amendment, as many times have we said if it was not for this cry of negro we, as Populists, would have some showing. Let us Populists be found ever ready to join hands with any party that offers something for the good of our country. ' C, &IBSON. WHITES A IE JUX WHT. The Results of Wtt'te 5kpHSwacy in Loi'l " . .. ia& v ij! "There are twce asny negro. in fhy town, Le -Coj-l&uisiana, white men, but at lplion-aut "tja 180 rotes cast 178 TCe- essf ty v,nr; Thus spoke Mn Hardy, Hl Louisiana, who ds vifeitilrhls cmiswu? Mr. H. B. Hardy, ill" thtt city. , t.; Hardy is a natiV iof . JSbrthamptSu J county, N. C, but -fcaa den living to Louisiana for twenO'yems or sa He has prospered in t,e fer Southern home but his heartvlurti!l)ack W tjMSement. In sall bedroom a single pi scenes of his boyho aifii he is cd& teinplatiing returnii j td l this SJttye one of these days. Spiking of tge political conditions ji Slis-ana,. H rv tered suddenly the air, or the wan(vM Hardy said: : Ui-wasjso Overpowering that the 'p'.; "We have had no tnrible in .L(juVBbn recoiled and could not cross (& ana since 1876. Thtt Wthe year oVtro0m, either to open the window such violence and 4 ngw men wjo , t ft gaff out, until the door ifc not since forgotten.iW,h'ts-we r eid - Vt - . race. troubles and afcgroffice-h&dir th Care of canaries. ,. in other States. we,hY'jlown woiil "In the Scaring for canary birdV' ing about it in pur:.Satfe'' since j. tliieays a womn who has made a spec ; t memorable yearj Ffc; -tegroesr vfct study of biriis and their diseases i K With 11R TVlPV df HOl &re tO -. Vt-a famnna C a V.;A An. ttAn 1 'iLic ana do whites not try. Tfcy kWow that t jTiallovn, thenwto hang in a draught; ij . d intend to coatrol, and thWnever hani!the cag'e out of dot 'ii wisely accept accept the COUOltOn or JVniX- government, turning iar. te mpratura should not be allowed U to other matters though they; ; fc u f &n bfow' Bilty-five degrees in in a large majority J 'Place room whera the bird is kept, anc i is never the slightest f?lion impct --- , -,' , tics. They never a&t the' poty1??7 'COTe"ng.shoilld b bnt on election dav .WRrSr as tlSUJ. . J th whitA mPn w,il 'onnnt SHor celery tdfts should be fed to .tfa- to or,H c-v hA.- v nf TnW through the form ongoing to the- el h JVeisily proc-able an excellent sub tion?' and they act opoii that ndpa Jtnte in found by planting German "The Constitutional Intendment eVTblack rape eed in a pot. The cai y cently adopted in Iuis&fla gifs tn is extremelfond of the little places ballot to every natie-bfTit white. rriAalth'at soon iapring- up. Oranges, -a in the State who l-eistwhotter can read and write or :sit but no gro can vote unfes 1Sj ownsi $S)iabnndnceii Hempseed is objectyj'-i-T worth of proper t;: g ?3p. react atirable, as lt Aends to fa write. In North CtttApfr,-; I endej"- stand, that you fiayeiscopied j amendment except ha't yon have out xne property qifiuuvuuu. bpeainng 01 tne nvi. izgx out rgi -. -r 000 negro voters-In ,New'r-Orleang o-ii 1,300 can now vot tnde?Ithe nev c- ntMr H,ci,c. '.'.Wr.ryrtinTif I groes who can vote 33smaller ttanT tj inus marKea nave a great aeai or the citv of New Ori-ediiasrVln fact lhslAnd bone.nd consequently are J k- negroes do not car . anvthing atmt voting, said Mr. HNray.r J "The big fights -with U9, continue.! J Mr. Hardy, "are An thfr inTlnaaries. fifSJ ter the nominations 3ar nade, tb& eC-J tion is a matter 0. rfosipse. a at w ei tively for nis nopmaiY &onuure3 1. 10 -yj ,r -v t- - vote is pretty full tions are made, the bitterest aags nave not ngnts in gmss ie& -"aiextravaganfion account 01 the IKf as there are usual y vswrctl aiteii proportion: bone. The breast; j dates, the friends of ach woeLs ! J BneaD in nflSe aDd can be bought. 2 becau almost alwAysje iom;nMcko;e tll6top sido Jof e roun Asjed e. to the AnitLotfonalityV' VT "f er- Therel the grandfather iajis-Mr HatdrJ . , , ,T Mi vtr,- I'&nd the col'd lomt useful for Monda-. been no discussion. kboit it acd litiation or Riiffc-eSKUn, f litifatKH looking to contestnfU&.The befe.kke ashiu.3 done at home. Fo a want, white rule. anHntedd to harj and nnhnrtv se.ridnslr? otit?hSes the -Kv3 constitutional regulation :if suffr&gF-l News and ObservefC s - tU' I . ' r t . -t The Messenger zm , Intellignli0 knows of many Popahtaan this 6cSl- ty who have already. B&fBtfied theSr;it-1 tention of voting for $ifr?.amendmi&u A and it believes 1ha ottrp the e, tion all of them, (AeeptMome tenf$- fifteen, who are pfatwasffc' RepuU cans, wiii do so -WiipBboro Ms The Populist letierv who ',ys criticizing the con?Hftue;ional am ment, were particiTtar tov decia? 2-1 their platform, ' WJ tg- NOT IvUDj IT A PARTY QUfeeSTJ kn5v existence of the ntfnint cf UKh our Wadesboro cewteic porary sfet4si .They were forced pt"that lelAfa; tion in the platfor'l trfe rant fjiti file of the party, bne-i the cuntviik- xx1B x j ' - v "ja t t't "t S3l i . : 1 miii hsfi h 11 n cin wrin. m k. 1 1 1 tn. ijRirrn their falsehoods, ineyrdid .box :dj.iv make the constil utfpnat ato$nftmng oj Dartv uuestiom Dec iiuse- they .new u L-l u l woujd cost them t ie Vy W ; of jmis-f o j oca in thrsjeups of boiling water -hq-their white men V pastern ottfc f til it is transparent. Pat in saltto Carolina to mane eppajtior tcr fi- amendment a test iJf p&rty fe.rt Mn order not to drive ff th besfrclHfao their voters they wre, joareflij t m phasize this fact' Jaewfee rations: u 1 fj . It 1. Tt. "must be c etermlned' v dt h judgment and eoi Jcieju'qi &ch(n dividual voter.? ' ?' ' ? I 2. ""We do not nJdke pattyi qlfss - 3n 'fi H tion." -i 94 4' - -I uru-uoueu egg yoiiss rno.d 3. "The question's a3te Jaxty'J "tt(ia powder stir in two tablespe 'U Here are three iSeclaiaifoiia tthatu-j fhls of to olted butter, a saltspoonfef pfj put in to hold the honest ptibulst5 j salt, a specfe of cayenne, and, lasj2f,i who believe in Wt4te ,gkprficy, mtUe juice .f half a lemon. Sprvi.dj it is now the phr5seVButlei-; A.-eii this over $ke eggs, then surrofvd Thompson, Garret Peae, I'land "h them w'ith ' stiff tomato sauce. Seei rest of the FuBtot tatsrwfro holf ST,at ForcemeFor Fish. One-half it r., Fteiearal 3obs- titl;iCl srumbs, two ounces beef suet fi&y Wnite Supremacy Popts iflto Ktlch(Jp d m tables ooufuIa pax- to vote against tie aijfendnieiH. J&wl..'-i aliu -, , . F 21"' these pap-suckers jsan it'Sln gn J"7opped; half-teaspool son and other cootie he Ppult ,J Balt das ? cayenne and grate of who believe moreen Vcipia jhan rnT-' ' i1 beaten rjfy. office are going tcT.vote & reW'ven iTafA! UP W &sha make saucef y "nigger question" irbm.r politics, to.j Puttirg onfecup of milk and half-gjp they know that ltTunibe aone, cnly-byi"of water mgpan; add one ealtspooiil the passage of . thtsnieidment T'lei -J" 8alfc. a d?h of pepper; thicken vtith . know, also, that Jtutl and jbp , Aftd onetablespbonful of flour. Qarnrfin opposed to the limeUeSaient because jnsb; .-with sled lemon and cress. they depend upon ttie s6id negio Vote 5 Fig Wili Baked Milk Wash i for their election. . , Tho hnssM didn't dartn iTnia. 'Mio j didn t das'to imAbtheT tad stander night. Place them4)n "a patty tstion." Tfythe fire W: the same water and s4. to leave lt-e th jigjc-rfantu tendgr; then lift them , out :?id amendment were forced to lettve Ito "the jil ment and conscieite ofeach ;1ndi T v I 7 J , At x ""-4boir the Ijquor to a sirup. Kjfr voter," but (BAA : ltf frn JwfclI1MlIlt otfBTlg&I used wilf depg the PomiUs i,?67,tte1frUpon-thetfiterf the cook; one-lf& ke very Populutt A&he Stme wrttn-'Rv m IL- x i. j f ual on make very Populutt against the amendment; jiecessary adjunct- it!) they will falOn .ttfe attunA - News and Obaerwr- T.'-4 1 ' HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. n r- : U Important Point in Ventilation. V I a signmcjant nint m oenait or t s use of lamp' is found in the fact' t , jn florists' greenhouses they are VLts&k jexclusivelyr- Gas is deadly to pla ;fcy Jife, while jjnrning kerosene is a i.t Where one is boarding and must sle ,p in the same-room in which one sss during the evening, a lamp should L h "0A1aV.1a V.A MAA3 rTlltA AAWA nT A 1iaB44' good for thejrfamily sitting-room angi for the room's in which, children' aa: studying. sLtt experiment inyolixj tarily tried Jy a mother recently det'U onsiyated the effect of the ordint j; lllLlLUlUHLlllf7 SHM UU LI1H air OI B.I1 H1)HF.,V was left burning unnoticed, for' fctf honx or mo, the door and wind being shut.. When the room was tSU eithar in- Kfimmev nr winter T i e, excepting a small "ft'r . it. Lettuce, water ct-Al f r veil tlyili When these are 'Sat' Saples and spflt figs are good occasio. i- oily. Orra6i must be supplied ftn and thus spoil its song. If feed p proper food.kept in clean cages fit $1 given sheltet from draughts, disea'ie rarely ma&es its appearance Markinsr For the Family Firstly, llon't be tempted by vl iy ilow - pnces.iior as a rule the icnvis J travaga-nt. ;ffWhen buying mut,-a. j cnuuse ine.eg. 1 win cost a gu deal in thpjirst place, but then a member hof small an amount of ble there is iU it. The shoulder 'd neck, though both good, -are vv ie 2 lf boned, ,tuffed and rolled it Ol jmaKe. - a qgiicious ana mespente dish-.- ' If yon half e a family to provide &r; J dinner, whfn much cooking is un$e- arable in those houses where somof change rib' of beef may be Iir? They should be boned and roV 4d' carefully, the bones being 'used r soup. f j ' dish uftef nl for a family is a h'&i '- x 11. '-i . i - -1 -i up tue sjeaK ana prepare u as or a pie; themake the crus,t ot ttlae ounces of cijepped suet, half a po jjjd of flour, orie;teaspoonful baking pjt.iv- -T- - v..- . -T Y. - - J . Ml Vl aer, one &gg ana sumcient miis.-v.to make the igjxture just slack, enojh to pour. T?p.t into a quick oveh ijrjfll the crust ;ps well rjsen and ,tj")n keep it a moderate heat till cooker ; PonndedSpinach leaves give .a 'C?Q geen coIorio soup. Parsley or iye green leaveof celffry put in soup.f'ff,jlf serve instead of spinach. "Wash: j g ton Star. Recipes. 1 - - Sugar C&Jkies One cupful of su; dr. four ouncegjof butter, two-thirds Ll& baking-powder thoroughly mixed three cupf tgs offlour. Aif d 4 vu enpit rh - 1. - - to roirout Before cuttiD 2 s ift the doughs lightly with granuTjd 'suar '; xruit .rajftaing uook a cud of t i- taste and half a cup of sugar. W-V?n 1 the. mixtures cold add two orani S, f one banauaTnd the half of a medii&A- sized pineapple and cut into d4e. Seiwe witbisw'eetened whipped cre, V .PnftWferra a nh- -MtiM- French toai-t of five slices of bra, eSSa-on- Mvo ready 7 of two hard-boiled egg a sauce to.(4e J6gs'-carefu; cover with warm wtTer T.i.J xj -ux -ni xi ; f fed ioieveral hours and eteC in the earns water. Dr.TALMGE SERMON The great divines eloquent BnbjeelC Keliglona Creeds 4. Flea For the Doing Away VFitli the Dogmatics and For the Snbstitntins of a Creed Jboanded on Faith in Christ. " tCopyright lituo.l Washington, D. C At a time when tba Id aiscussJon of creeds is being vigorously and somewhat bitterly revived this dis course of Dr. Talmnge has a special In terest. The text is John xi., 44, "Loose kim and let him go." My Bible is, at the place of this textt Written all over with lead pencil marks made at Bethany on the ruins of the house f Mary and Martha and Lazarus. We dis mounted from our horses on the way up from Jordan to, the Dead Sea. Bethany Was the summer evening retreat of Jesus. After spending tho day in the hot city of Jerusalem He would come oat there almost very evening to the house of His three friends. I think the occupants of that house were orphans, for the father and mother are not mentioned. Bat the son and two daughters must have inherited property, for it must have been, judging from what I saw of the foundations and the size of the rooms, an opulent home. Lazarus, the brother, was now at the head of the household, and his sisters depended on him and were proud of him, for he wa9 very popular, and e-verybody liked him, and these girls were splendid girts Martha a first rate housekeeper and Mary a spir ltuelle, sbmewhat dreamy, but affectionate, and as good a girl as could be found in all Palestine. But one day Lazarus got sick. The sisters were in consternation. Father . gone and mother gone, they feel very ner vous lest tney losetnelr brother also. Dis ease did its (juick work. How the girls hung over his pillow! Not much sleep about that house no sleep at all. From tbe characteristics otherwise de veloped I judge that Martha prepared the medicines and made tempting dishes of food for the poor appetite of the sufferer, but Mary prayed and sobbed. Worse and worse gets Lazarus until the doctor an nounces that he can do no more. The shriek that went np from that household when the last breath had been drawn and the two sisters were being led by sym pathizers into the adjoining room all those of us can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. Brit why was not Jesus there, as He so often had been? Far away in the country districts, preaching, healing other sick, how unfortunate that this omni potent doctor bud not been at that do mestic crisis in Bethany'. When at last Jesus arrived in B-ethany," Lazarus had been buried four days, and dissolution had taken place. In that climate the breath less body disintegrates more rapidly than ih ours. If immediately after decease the body had been awakened into life, unbe lievers might hofve said ho was only in a comatose state or in a sort of trance and by some-vigorous manipulation or power ful stimulant vitality had been renewed. No! Four days dead. At tUe door of Wie sepulcher is a ?rowd of people, but the three most memorable are Jesus, wuo was tho family friend, and the two bereft sisters. We went into the traditional tomb one December day, and it is deep down and dark, and with torches we explored it. We found it all quiet that afternoon of our visit, bat the day spoken of in the Bible there was present an ex cited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do? He orders the door of the grave re moved, and then He begins to descend the steps, Mary aucl Marthu close after Him and the crowd after them. Deeper down into the shadows and deeper! The hot tears ot Jesus roll over His cheeks and plash upon the backs cf His hands. Were ever so many sorrows compressed into so small a space as in that group pressing on down after Christ, all the time bemoaning that He had not,come before? Now all the whispering and all the cry ing and all tbe sounds of shuffling feet are stopped. It is the silence of expectancy. Death has. conquered, but now the van quisher of death confronted the scene. Amid the awful hush of the tomb the fa miliar name which Cbrist had often had upon His lips in the hospitalities of the vil lage home came back to His tongue, and with a pathos and an almightiness of which the resurrectiou of the last day shall only be an echo He cries, "Lazarus.come forth!" The eye9 of the slumberer open, and.- he rises and conres to the foot of the steps and witi great difficulty begins to ascend, for the cerements of the tomb are yet on him, and his feet are fast, and his hands are fast, and the impediments to all his move ments are so great that Jesus commands: "Take off these cerements!' Remove these hindrances! Unfasten these graveclothes! Loose him and let him go!" Oh, I am so glad that after the Lord raised Lazarus He went on and commanded the loosening of the cords that bound his feet, so that he could walk, and the break lug off of the cerement that 'hound his hands, so that he could stretch out his" arms in salutation, and the tearing off of the bandage from around his jaws, so that he could speak. What, would resurrected life have been to Lazarus if he had not been freed from all those cripplemects of his body? I am glad that Christ com manded his complete emancipation, say ing, "Loose him and let him go." The unfortunate thing now is that so many Christians are only half liberated. They have been raised from tho death and burial of sin into spiritual life, but tliey yet have the graveclothes on them. They are like Lazarus, hobbling up the stairs of 'the tomb bound hand and toot, and the object of this sermon is to help free their body and free their soul, and I shall try to obey the Master's command that comes to me find comes to every minister of re ligion, "Loose him and let him go." Many are bound baud and foot by re ligious creeds. Let no man misinterpret me as antagonizing creeds. I have eight or ten of them a creed about religion, a creed about art, a creed nbout social life, a creed about government, and so od. A creed is something that a man believes, whether it be written or unwritten. The Presbyterian Church is now- agitated about its creed. Somo good men in it are for keeping it because it was framed from the belief of John Calvin. Other good men in it want revision. I am with' neither party. Instead of revision I want substi tution. I was sorry to have the question disturbed at all. Tho creed did not hinder us from offering the pardon and the com fort of the Gospel to all men, and the West minster Confession has not interfered with me one minute. But now that the electric lights have been turned'on the imperfec tions of that creed and everything that man fashions is imperfect let us put the old creed respectfully aside and get a brand new-one. It is impossible that people who lived hundreds of yeare ago should fashion an appropriate creed for our times. John Calvin was a great and good man, but he died 336 years ago. I con Id call the names of twenty living Presbyterian ministers of religion who could make a better creed than John Calvin. The nineteenth century ' ought not to be called to sit at the feet of the sixteenth. "But," you say, "it Is the same oldJSible, and John Calvin had that as well as th present student of the Scriptures.'' Yes; ' so it is the same old sun in the heavens, but in our time it has gone to making daguerreotypes arid 'photographs. It is the same old water, but in our century it .has gone to running steam engines. It is ,he same old electricity, bnt in our time it jhas become a lightning footed errand boy. JSo if is the old Bible, but -new applications, new uses, new interpretations. You must iremember that daring the last 300 years jwords have changed their meaning, and some of them now mean more and some less. , , I do not think that John Calvin believed, s some say Le did, in the damnation of in fants, although some of the recent hot dis putes would seem to imply that there ) such a thing as the damnation of iManta. A man who believes in tbe damnation or infants himself deserves to lose heaven. I do not think any good man could admit such a possibility. What Christ will do with all the babies in the next world I con clude from what He did with the babies in Palestine when He hugged them and kissed them. When some of you grown people go out. of this world, your doubtful destiny will ba an embarrassment to ministers officiating at your obsequies, who will have to bu cautious so as not to hurt surviving friends. But when the darling children go there are no "ifs" or "huts" or guesses. We must remember that good John Cal vin was a logician and a metaphysician and by the proclivities of his nature put some things in an unfortunate way. Logio has its use, and metaphysics has its use, bnt they are not good at making creeds. What a time we have had with thd dogmatics, the apologetics and the her meneutics! The defect in some ol the creeds Is that they try to tell us all about the decrees of God. How, the only human being that was ever competent to handle that subject was Paul, and -he would not have been competent had he not been in. spirod. I believe in the sovereignty of God,' and I believe in man's free agency, but noi one can harmonize the two. It is not necessary that we harmonize them. Evejy sermon that I have ever heard that attempted such harmonization was to me as clear as a London fog, as clear as mud. My brother of the nineteenth cec tury, my brother of the sixteenth century, give us Paul's statement and leave out your own. Better one etapter of Paul on that sub ject than all ot Calvin's institutes, able and honest and mighty as they are. Do not try to measure either the throne of God or the tbuDderbolts of God with your little steel pen. What do jon know about the deerees! You cannot pry open tho door of God' eternal counsels. You cannot explain thai mysteries of God's government now, much; less the mysteries of His government fry hundred quintillion ye ars ago. ""X "v But now that the old creeds have been put under public scrutiny something radi cal must be done. Some would split them, some would carve them, some would elon gate them, some would abbreviate them. At the present moment in the present shape they are a hindrance. Lazarus la alive, but hampered with the old grave-i clothes. If you want one glorious church,' free and unincumbered, take oil the cere ments ot oltl ecclesiastical vocabulary. Loose her, r.nd let her go! Again, my text has good advice concern ing any Christian hampered and bothered and bound by fear of his own dissolution. To such the book rolers when it speaks oi those who through fear, of death were nil their lifetime subject to bondage. The most of us, even if we have the Christian hope, are cowards about death. , Backed up by the teachings of your Bible, just look through the telescope some bright night and see how many worlds there are and reflect that all you have seen, com pared with the number of worlds in exist ence, are less than the flngfiraof your right hand as compared with all the fingers of; the human race. How foolish, then, for us! to think that ours is the only world fit for U3 to stay in. One of our first realizations in getting out of this worid, I think, will be that in this world we were very much pent up and Lad cramped apartments and were kept on the limits. The most, even ot our small world, is watery and the water days to the human race, '"Don't come here or you will drown." A few thousand feet up the at mosphere is uuinhabil able, and the at modphyre says to me human race, "Dou't come up here or ycra cannot breathe." A tew inilos down tilts ea-ili is a urnaoe o fire, and the fire s;;ys, "floj't come here or you will burn." The caverns of the mount ains are full of poisonous gases, and the gases say, "Don't come here or you will be asphyxiated." And pneumonias and pleurisies ana con sumptions and apoplexies go across this earth in flocks, in droves, iu herds, and it is a world of equinoxes and cyclones and graves. Yet we are under the delusion that it is the only place fit to 9tay in. We want to sticti to tho wet plank in midocean while the great ship, the City of God, of the Celestial lino, goes sailing past and would glaJiy ta'ke us up iu a lifeboat. My Christian friends, let me tear off -your de 8pondoncies and irierhts about dissolution. My Lord commands me regarding you, saying, "Loose him, and fet him go." Heaven is ninety-live per cent, better than this world, a thousand per cent, bet ter, a million per cent, better. Take the gladdest, brightest, most jubilant days you ever had on earth and compress them all into one hour, and that hour would be a requiem, a fast day, a gloom, a horror, as compared with the poorest hour they have had in heaven since the first tower was built or its first gates swung or its first song caroled. "Oh," you say, "that may be true, but I am so afraid of crossing over from this world to the next, and I fear the snapping of the cord between soul and body." Well, all the surgeons and physicians and sci entists declare that there is no pang at the parting ot the body and fcfc.il, and all the restlessness at the cioslug hour of lifo i3 involuntary and no distress at all. "But," you say, "L fear to go because the future is so full of mystery." Well, I will tell you how to treat the mysteries. The mysteries have ceased bothering me, for I do as the judges of you E courts often do. They hear all the . arguments in the case, and they say, "I will tako theso papers and give you my decision next week." Ho I have heard ail the arguments in regard to the 'next world, and seme things are uncertain and full of mystery, and so I fold up the papers and reserve until the next world my decision about them. I can there study all the mysteries to better advantage, for the light will be better and my faculties stronger, and I will ask the Christian philosophers, who have had all the advantages of heaven for -centuries, to help me, and I may be per mitted myself humbly to ask tho Lord, and I think thire will be only one mystery left; that will be how one so unworthy as myself got into such an enraptured place. i The only part of the journey I made years ago to Palestine that I really dread ed was the landing at Joppa. That is the port of entrance for the Holy Land", and thero are many rocks, and in rough weath er people cannot lan'd at all. The boats taking the people from tho steamer to tbe docks mast run between reefs that looked to me to be about fifty feet apart, and one misstroke of an oarsman or an unexpected wave has sometimes been fatal, and hundreds have perished along tbose reefs. Besides that, as we left Port Said the evening before, an old,' trav eler said: "The wind is just right to give you a rough landing at Joppa; indeed I think you will not be able to land at all." The fact was that when our Mediterranean steamer dropped anchor near Joppa and we put out for shore in the small boat, the water was as still as though it Lad been sound asleep a hundred years, and we lauded as easily as I entered this pulpit. Well, your fears have pictured for you an appalling arrival at the end of your voyage ot life, and they say that the seas wil-l run j high and that the breakers will swallow you up, or that if you reach Canaan at all it will be a very rough landing. The very opposite will be true if yon have the eternal Go for your portion. Your disembarkation for the promised land will be as smooth as was ours at Palestine. Christ will meet you far oat at sea and pilot yon into complete safety, and you will land with a hosanna on one side of you and a halleluiah on the other. "Land ahead!" Its fruits are waving O'er the hill of fadeless green And the living waters laving Shores where heavenly forms are seen. Bocks and storms I'll fear no more When on that eternal shore. Drop the anchor, furl the salll I am safe within the veill ST
Eastern Courier (Edenton, N.C.)
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