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i- '.lXV'''f ' II I I 111 I t?' J 1 1 1 J 111 M I S.-3 II i III mi jiiaiiii ii i 1 1 i 1 1 i 1 .f PUBLISHED AS THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. VOL. XXIV. RALEIGH, X. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1879. NO. 20. esaay. -o- 1 Ij I. I A S. S3 LACK, Vtiin -o- Sursckiptiox Hates. One year $2.00 in advance. Six months $1.00 in advance. O u li A G e n t s . llev. C. M. Fepper and Kev. J. F. Butt are our Traveling Agents, and all the clerical members of the North Carolina Conference are our Special Agents, to whom the paper is sent free of charge. To all other ministers the Advocate will be sent for $1.00 per an num, in advance. How to Remit. Send money by post office money order, check, or in a register ed letter. If sent otherwise it is at the sender's risk. Always give the name and post office ad dress of the person to whom the paper is addressed, or is to be addressed. Where changes are to he made give the office from which, and the one to which, the pa per is desired to be sent. Address all letters jyul packages to BLACK & 1IE11, lCaleisrlt, X. C. Tin-: editors are under special obligation to Bro. R. T. Gray for valuable services rendered by him in getting out this issue of the pa per in their absence. Correction. In the article of Fro. Brooks, near top of third col umn, for '-righteous civilization," read '-hightoned civilization." A NEwsi'ArKi; in this State says: "The chickens have ail left town. It is a matter of safety with them. The Methodist District Conference meets here next week." Funny, isn't it 'L and exeeedinedv novel t . . --;sS-- !P- R :,-; C !.r.:vnd Culbreth liave ' - - - - - i t each .-cut us a club of subscribers since the Xowberne District Con-! ferenee. Bro. Culbreth sent V2 and says be hopes to send 12 more soon. Such men mean something when they pass resolutions. Rev. T. II. PniTOiiAitD, D. D., pastor of Salisbury St. Baptist Church, has been elected President of Wake Forest College. The Board of Trustees have done the very best thing for their noble college in calling this popular di vine to the Presidency of it. I. Prit chard will carry to his now position decided culture,a pleasant address, fine knowledge of human nature, and untiring energy. We wish him abundant success in building up this cherished institu tion of his chuicb. THE DUTY The Fall sessions of our schools will soon begin and many a parent is now discussing with himself the question whether he can afford to send bus son or daughter back to the academy or college. The times are so hard, the price of cotton and oilier produce is so low, taxes are so high, and the expenses of his family are so great, it seems that he cannot see how the board and tuition of his son or daughter can be met any longer. The question is an important one and much de pends upon how it is determined more, perhaps, than the parent realizes. If he decides against the son or daughter's education, he will save one, two, or three hun dred dollars, which, if nothing takes it away, he will leave a few years hence to his child. But is it better for that child to have that money without an education, or an education without the money ? It Avill not do to postpone the matter of educating until vou are better able to bear its expense: twelve, or even six months, is a large slice to take out of the time that ought to be devoted to inform ing the growing brain and training the moral nature of a child. It is false and foolish economy that would cause a father to with hold the advantages of education from a child because of the expen se incurred; nay, it is injustice and cruelty for which punishment, in some form or other, will be meted out to the recreant father. Money spent in educating is not lost; it is simply changing the form of an investment from money into in creased intelligence, brighter re finement, higher culture and stron ger morality. As of a father, so of a State the first duty, as it is the best policy of government is to crush out the ignorance and enlighten the minds of its citizens. No taxation for educational purposes can be called hoavv and burdensome. Idleness, J 7 pauperism, contempt of lav.', and oilier crimes, the outgrowths and parasites of ignorance, flourish in proportion to the prevailing ig norance in a State. Intelligent men are ant to be good and law abiding citizens, while all forms of law are continually transgressed bv those whose sense iias bv moral never ocen uieenc; and mental culture. DISTRICT CONFERENCES. Editorial Correspondence. Nit in be r 3. Iii these days of sharp Rail Road competition, rapid transit is the great desideratum. AVe had this in our trip last week from Raleigh to Reidsville, the seat of the Greensboro District Conference for this year. Leaving Raleigh about 4 o'clock, P. M., on AVednes day, we had the pleasure of takings-upper at "The LaBarbe House" in Reidsville at 9 P. M. At Greens boro we were joined by several of (he brethren and had a delightful time with them to the end of the journey. The District Conference convened on Thursday the 10th inst. at 9:45 A. M., with Rev. M. L. AVood, P. E., in the chair, and Rev. J. R. Scroggs as Secretary, the Secretarv being assisted after wards by Rev. A. P. Tver. The attendance upon the Conference on the part of the ministers and laymen was good, better than usual heretofore. Only two ministers were absent: Rev. C. H. Phillips and Rev. M. C. Thomas. The presiding officer, Rev. M. L. AVood, certainly knows how to develope all the interests of the church on his District. Although suffering with his foot and ankle, yet he presided every day with ease, dignity and evident satisfac tion to the members and visitors in attendance upon the Confer ence. The reports from the va rious charges made by the preach ers, and in several instances sup plemented by laymen, were high ly gratifying. The District is in an excellent condition spiritually, financially and every otherwise. Although the last eight months have been noted for peculiar strin gency in monev matters, vet the preachers on the District are bet ter paid to date than thev were last vear at this time, or in anv previous vear for a longtime. And as is always sure to be the case, all the other interests are keeping apace with this improvement in financial matters. Rev. N. M. Jurney was present representing Trinity College with great satisfac tion. Drs. Jones and Craven de livered most excellent addresses on the subject of education, which will result in much good. These brethren are rendering valuable service to the cause of education and to the church bv attending the District Conferences and ad dressing the people. Let them go on in this aood work. The interests, of the Advocate were attended to carefullv. Everv preacher in the Conference report ed as to the number of copies ta ken on his charge and as to the estimation in which the paper is held by the people. Not one word of complaint was uttered and the Presiding Elder and the preachers assured us that they had not heard one -word of complaint against the paper during the present year. To sav that this was highlv rati fying to us, feebly expresses what wo feel. dorsimr Resolution .'cariir tending o ' - reeom i e Crave. paper, io-ncvl 1 I). K. Bru ;.. were unan the Confer o District, to ton ana in imousl ado ted bv ence. The Greensbo a man, is all riyht oa Advocate question. AVe had the pleasure of receiving a handsome list newals and new subscribe! oi re The nreaching during the Conference was of a highly profitable charac ter. As a result the community was stirred, souls were converted and there are strong indications of a gracious revival of religion at Reidsville. The Conference was evidently a blessing to the place. And what shall I say of the hospi tality of Reidsville ? Any man, who has ever been in Rockingham county, knows what Rockingham hospitality is. The people of Reidsville threw open their houses and entertained the Conference in charming stvle. Every one of us felt perfectly at home. It was our good fortune, at the special rer u e - s of the Landlord, to be a guest ax ''The LaBarbe House," and if we had a thousand friends to direct to a first-class hotel Ave should send them every one to the "LaBarbe House" at Reidsville, N. C. Gen tlemanly in his bearing, full of enercrv, kind and attentive, Ave term Air. La Barbe a Prince of Landlords. Bro. Sharpe is doing a good work and is making a fine success on the AVentworth circuit, ia the bounds of AAdiich Reidsville is situated. At ReidsTille they have a nice,new brick church and a noble people. It Avas an especial pbasure to us. to revisit the scenes of our child hood and boyhood, and, as Ave mingled with the nolle men and women who stood side by side with our now sainted father and mother in the conflicts of life and who had many a time fondled with us upon their laps; as we grasped their hands and saw the unbidden tear as it welled up in their eyes and as we received, in choked and broken utterances, assurances of affection, and interest, our heart was stirred with mingled emotions of joy and sadness, and many precious mem ories of the bvgone days came crowding in upon us, until, in im-" agination, we lived over those hap py days again. But we must not indulge these reflections. Grateful to the P. E., the P. C, our kind host, the breth ren of the ministry (and a noble band of them thev have on the Greensboro District) and to other friends for many undeserved cour tesies and kindnesses while there, we boarded the R. tfc D. R. R. train r the city oi Danvihe, A a., within the Stirling, busy limits of which place we pen these lines as we await our departure for Yancey ville, N. C, to attend the session of the Hillsboro District Confer ence. Persona! Mention . The brethren are rnoviny as will be seen from the fact that Rev. Dr. Charles IT. Malcolm, Secretarv of the American Peace Societv, and formerly a Baptist minister, has ioi nod the Eniscona.l ( Mmreh nnd th.,, l!eV. W. S. Tuckc, U v four It 1 T V i at Hopkinton, resigned on 1 ! lay, ClOsiiiLC ins iaoors i?ie baotist denomination lie will ioiii tlio Vim,, rMnnv.il ana tne new m. w . iJarnng, a successful and excellent Alethodist minister, stationed this vear at Cambria, Aliciiigan, has just re signed for the purpose of connect ing himself vTith the Congregation al body, and has accepted a call to the First church at Elkhart, Ind. Hampton Sidney College has conferred the degree of D. .1) upon the Rev. AVm. A. Wood, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in Statesville, and a graduate of Davidson College. The 12th annual convention of the Baltimore Conference Sunday-school society, M. E. Church, South, met at Lex ington, ATa., July S at 9 o'clock. President T. J. Magruder, of Balti more, called the body to order. A large number of delegates and vis itors were present from every por Ih j ti0n of the Conference. Re A. Young, D. D., of Nash .ville.Rov. A. W. AVilson, missionary secre tary of the Church, Soul, and others, addressed the convention. Rev. W. A. Dardeu was the Cilicient Secretary oi tne .Aewbern District Conference. He is a urominent lavman of that District. We learn that the Rev. A. P. Tver will soon have a new brick church at Union completed, AVhen finished it will be the finest church in the eoumrw There are some noble men at that point in and out of the church. ReA T. AV. Smith and family, of Louisburg Station, passed through the city last Aeek en route to Clin ton, Sampson county. They will spend a few Aveeks ATith relatives and friends in that hospitable com munity. AATe had the pleas ure of a brief call, a feAV days ago, from ReA D. R. Bruton, pastor of the Alethodist Episcopal Church, South, in Greensboro, NT. C. He is a rery . pleasant and genial gen tleman, and a neighbor of our old friend, Rer. J. L. Michaux, editor of the Central Protestant. AVe found he was Avell acquainted with many of our old friends in North Caro lina, from whom we were glad to hear. We trust he found his visit in our city agreeable. Method,'! Recorder. Rev. E. S. Greg ory, of the Episcopal church in A'irginia, was formerlv editor of ! tne Petersburg Luk.c and Appeal I anwas converted, it is state! while reading the proof sheets of notes of a sermon preached in that city by the late Bishop Marvin and reported for that paper. Hon, Henry AY. Blair, the new United States Senator from New Hampshire, is a layman in the Methodist Church. The salary of the Bishop of London is $50,000 a year, but we venture he is no happier than an itinerant Methodist preacher down on the Atlantic Coast, who fights miasma, mosquitoes and Satan, and gets a promise of two or three hundred dollars. Dr. T. O. Summers and Dr. A. AY Wilson with their families are summering at Abing don, A'a. Dean Stanlev ha.- j horriri0d English Churchmen bv j oiheiating at a weddina in a Nou- ! conformist church Pivf. Win. M. Fontaine has been elect- ed to the chair of Natural History and Botany in the University of Virginia, recently endowed by . AV. Corcoran, of Washington City. The following hoiiorarv degrees were conferred at the iatc i commencement of the Sou t Ik -it. I Diversity, at Greensboro', Ala. : The degree of LL. I), on Bishop J. C. Keener and on Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama; the degree of I). D. on Kev. John S. Moore jand Rev. Oliver R. Blue, of the ! Alabama ('onference; tlie lionorai v a :o'"e ( ,. M. on V nroe. Centeii- I v T recent Commencement oi uv v. oiieii'e, mo ue';:ve i IK I '. ! was confes-i'i."! on the blew c. w. C n!el'- I barter, OI tlie 1-oUJSi i en ci Sir ( leot :)'e Campbell, member of the Ene.ii.-h Parliament. who visited Raleigh among other Southern cities Avhile on his tour last Fall, has written - a A'eiw full and readable book, containing his observations of the people and in stitutions ot America, esueciallv of the South. The book is entitled "White and Black" as the princi pal object of his coming to Ameri ca was to study the relations exist ing between the Avhite and colored races of the Southern States. The Charlotte Observer says ihut Col. AValter L. Steele is" under promise not to rim- next term for Congress. We hope it is not true: if it is, Col. S. will, as far as he is concerned, keen hispro'rdsc. But to whom Avas the pmuiUe made ? And Avill the p - ph- die District be willing to w-coo : d,.e a irade in which they arc :iiing traded ? We opine ii:..t. lro. Rnbey and wile v" ; :noi mg it in the mountain " . ata .ga. H o or tne i c:-' men of the dtu d and valuable ed awav weel Col. Rnfus L. I'atter- i j : v i of le n , died. In tlie prune ;i menial nature, large Ot Of hearted and public-spirited, highiv j educated and of courtly and polish- j ed manners, he was an ornament ! to the State and his loss will be keenly felt by the community in Avhich he li'ed and for whose prosperity he had done so much. Rufus S. Bynum, son of B. F. Bynum of Stokes Co., and a nephew of Judge Bynum, recently died in Texas whither he removed some years ago. He had acquired, a good practice at the laAV and was rapidly attaining the distinction Avhich his talents merited. Though only 2S years of age and a resident of Texas only four or five years, he had gained the warm esteem and confidence of the people among whom he settled and was a Solicitor of the Court of his county.
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