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VOL. XXVIII. .NO 29
THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH.
ESTABLISHED 1855
t J8fH hV Editors.
RALEIGH, N. 0., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1, 1883.
II. X. HUDSON, I. !., Cor.Editor
For the Advocate.
WHAT WILL WE 1)0 FOR THE INDIAN 1
'Mrs- Dr McCabe says : There are
none more acute y sensible of the apathy
of the Christian Chinch to their condition
than are the convened Indians. The
writer has heard their words of pathos, re
"rettins their friends who have died in the
years without the gospel. When the
pious Chippewa chief, Mi-ne-ge-shig,
i:ovn to the writer, returned from a visit
to our eastern cities two years ago his
brother chief, gathering around him, said :
Tell us what of all you saw was most
Wl nderful ?' After a long silence, Mi-ne-
.plied : "When 1 was in the great
i.i . i
nnt heard t ie srreat orjran anu
11--' o .
and sa d.
( irurcnes
:reat organ
1 1 . ,1 trIK.
,m the pale taces stooa up aim m u. xhc
. . 1 I 1.. i 1 .-.11 ilw
111 HIS iioiy icuijjic, icl cm in-
IS
,eep
religion
silence, I thought the pa e
400 years aii't did
it is late. That is
Now it
Lore
eartl
uces had this
o-ive it to us, and
tv,n mn4 wonderful thing I saw !
lute ! U is indeed noon !"
1 P.ishop Hare, of Dakota, writes : "For
nine years I have been working among the
imiiuns of Dakota, and I can truthfully
say that I have been rewarded by a noble
harvest. If the Church be indeed the other
self of our blessed Master, as I have tried
to show, then these poor children of na
ture have a claim on us which we dare not
refuse to consider. Men who are known
to you as wild, brutal savages, have been
brought in contact with me, and I tell you
to-day that the most remarkable thing I
have noticed in them is how much they are
like myself in nature and feeling. The
same human heai t beats under a white or
a red skin. And these people can be
civilized and are being civilized A chief
said to me not long since: "The Church
is a broom; it sweeps all the bad things
out whiskey, and falsehood, and agents.'
Indians 10-day are dying of a broken-heart.
They frequently come into my study and
sit for hours without speaking; and, at last
when questioned, they give vent to their
despair by saying : "Our people have no
future !" '
The United Presbyterian says : I he
story of the Indian is a sad one Pushed
back by the advancing settlements from
the richer to the poor land, wronged and
T..,tH hv the jrreedv Dioneers, what won
der if their savage nature resisted and re
taliated in honidmass'acres? Gospel work
has been eminently successful among
them, except as it has been nullified by the
wrong-doii.gs of the whites. The stories
of missionary labors among the Indians of
New England and Pennsylvania in the
colony times reads like a romance, and in
recent times such work has been rewarded
with abundant results." ArchdeaconKirby,
who has labored for twenty-seven years in
the Northern part of British America,says:
u 11 1800 the hist missionary to thelndians
of North America beyond Hudson's Bay,
padd ed up the Nelson river in a canoe.
With him was one little Indian boy. That
boy is still living, but now there is not a
hfathpn Tndian north of the 40th parallel
of latitude to the Arctic Sea, and west of
Hudson's Bay to the Pacific. In every
h.use and tent the Word of God is read
and reverenced. I don't mean that all
these people are model Christians. What
we are doing is to lift them up so that they
may take a place and a name among Chris
tian nations. ' The preceding extracts
from the "gospel in all lands," should
arouse us t greater exertions for the un
foitunate red man. The great success
which has attended Missionary labor
among these people should stimulate us to
do more for them The nations condemn
us for so long withholding the good news
of salvation from them : how can we an
swer for this delay at the judgment seat
in the last great day ?
Mrs. F. M. B.
I mien and majesty of a prince, and yet,
with the tenderness and affection of a fath
er in the midst of his family. The com
mon people loved him, for in the time of
their trouble they found him a sure friend
and a safe counselor, for when he was tried,
he did not fail them. Among the cultured
and wealthy, he was honored and reverenc
ed for his Christian integrity. "Whatso
ever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatso
ever things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are of good re
port; if there be any virtue, and if there be
any praise," he thought on these things,
and thinking on these things, his character
was fashioned after this heavenly mould,
for as a man thinkeih so is he. In the
Church of God, he was indeed a living
stone of strength and beauty. Heaven
was his high a:m. He purposed to gain a
princedom in the kingdom of God. While
on earth he transported his fortune, in
deeds of kindness, to heaven, and has
gone hither to enjoy it Holiness of life
and heart, was his abiding purpose as a
qualification for a home in the city of God.
His fellowship was with God. He looked
not at the things that are seen, but at the
things that aie not seen. He walked by
faith and in nothing was he disappointed.
He honored God, and he was honored as
God only can honor men. He grasped the
Church of Christ in his deepest affection,
and God remembered him in everlasting
love. God gave him the desire of his
heart even in the manner of his death. In
relating his experience in the social meet
ings of the Church, he would often say,
that if it were God's will, he would prefer
to cease to live, when he ceased to work
and it was so, for his life and his labors
ended together. Like Moses, whose
strength was not abated, and whose eye
was not dimmed, when he ascended
Mount Nebo's Summit, to meet the angel
charioteers, and ascend with them o the
Mount of God : so with this servant of God,
who had measured more than three score
years and ten in serving his generation by
the will of God. He sat at the gate to ad
minister justice and to give counsel, until
the setting sun threw its mellow light
across the bending sky, while the soft and
fleecy clowds,iii ample folds of purple and of
gold, bade the sweet good bye, to tne de
parting day, and threw their lengthening
shadows, tinted with the glory of depart
ing day, as a mantle of royalty upon the
shoulders of this servant of God, as he
withdrew from the active duties of the day,
to the peace and quiet of his home. A
fitting scene for the close of such a life.
After tea, he remained with the family,
until 9 o'clock, in his usual cheerful spirit.
He bade them good night, saying that he
would retire early, as he was suffering some
pains in his body. After mid-night he
awoke his wife,complaining of severe pains
in his shoulder and bodv. Dr. A. G. Carr,
His life was a grand success, and we con
fidently expect next year to witness, unveil
ed in the Campus of Trinity College, a
monument worthy to commemorate a suc
cess so complete, that of a self-made man,
a profound scholar, an eminent educator, a
great preacher, a noble philanthropist, a
great College President and founder.
The monument is to cost not less than
$3,000, and by instructions of the commit
tee all money subscribed to a:d in this
work should be forwarded at once to Rev.
C. C. Dodson, at Winston. N. C. Papers
friendly to the enterprise will please copy
this notice.
J. S. Carr, President,
C. C. DoDbON, Treasurer,
N. M. Jurnev, Secretary.
July 20th, 1883.
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THE IMPERILED SOUL.
One of the prominent features of the
missionary revival which is now permeat
ing our Church is the bringing out from
their lurking place the opposers of foreign
missions. We will not deal with the op
position from without How can we cure
this distemper within? The work is in
the hands of the pastors, to whom we must
look. Do you, dear brethren, regard the
Church member who refuses to contribute
to missions as in an unsaved condition ?
You probab'y return the question to the
writer. Our response is, when proper
light has been given, a persistent refusal is
clear that the party so refusing is not a
child of God If this be true, how many
Church-members have you, my brother
pastor, who are to day in peril ot their
souls ? Where proper light has not been
given whose is the peril ?
Let us help one another to a clear solu
tion of this question, by throwing upon it
the light of a few passages of Scripture.
The great commission need not be quoted
that is at this moment present in the mind
of every reader. Jesus says, "Love one
another as I have loved you." He loved
all. Again, he draws the line of distinc
tion between the sinner and the children
of God : "If ye do good to them which do
good to you, what thank have ye i tor sin
tianity he here means nominal Christians.
In the light of the figures can doubt be
aught but obstinacy? Can' failure to aid be
any thing other than ignorance or covet
ousness ? Are we not as pastors responsi
ble for the ignorance ? If it be covetous
ness, then read 1 Cor. vi. 10. "Nor thieves,
nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom
of Gcd."
Brother, are we not too rr adily satisfied
when the assessment on our charge is met?
Is there not to you and me a duty no less
imperative, the salvation of the souls com
mitted to us ? Has this duty been met un
til our Church-books show a missionary
contribution opposite each individual
name there recorded? Advocate of Missions.
no failures nor struggles that are not
matched by similar experience in the
breast of their leader; and in that knowl
edge they have a most unshaken basis for
trust in him, and far more for devotion to
the ideals toward which he so supremely
strives. Interior.
few
hours for a
n the only
ners do also even the skav??-
V3ut love
t 1
a great deal w nen
his son-in-law, was soon at his bed side.
Remedial agencies were applied, which in
due time, seemingly brought relief. Lift
ing his left arm, he remarked "it pains me
much. ' Then turning suddenly upon his
ridit side, he was heard to breath heavily
as if he was sleeping, but the physician
touching him, saw that he was dead. It
was the sleep that knows no awaken
ing, until the angel trump shall summons
oil nations to the bar of iudsrment. Thus
has ended a noble and useful lite. W hose
way was as the path of the just that shineth
more and more unto tne penect aay.
Durham, N. C
your enemies and do infcanclnd, hop
ing for nothing again; Aiti you. reward
shall be great, and ye shall be the chil-
Hrnn "t t r f HJrrhpct " tevts make
the menlamto love, under the divine proclamation is invested the triple sacred
mmH nnw fpwpr than the race. John ness ot day, place, ana suujeoi
MANLY MINISTERS.
The minister of all people should refuse
to be the creature of occasion or circum
stance. He should have the courage not
only of his convictions, but of his feelings
as well, and should carry his manliness out
of the pulpit into all the affairs of life. Not
infrequently the minister seems far strong
er in the pulpit than out of it. His voice
is firmer there, and his bearing loftier, and
his aim higher than it is seen to be on the
street and in the house. His manliness
seems to be professional, and the better
ranges of it reserved for stately occasions.
And then the world accuses him of using
the pulpit for a barricade. He is bolder
behind its protection than in the opener
and freer encounters of daily life.
Precisely at this point the minister meets
his sharpest temptation in the direction
of manly qualities. It is always perilous
to make great power absolute, even for an
hour. And there is danger to frankness
and fairness in the monopoly of address
which the pulpit secures to its occupant
twice every Sabbath. Not only has the
minister the entrenchment of his creed,
and a sympathetic audience inviting to
boldness Or autocracy even, but he is se
cure against challenge. If his opinion is
to be traversed it will be in another place,
and when further and deliberate opportuni
ty will be given for ieply. A political
speaker or a lawyer, must needs see the
angle and cultivate iair-
ness in debate, for he is liable 10 instant
challenge. The minister suffers the dis
advantage of freedom from such challenge,
and from the sacredness with which his
savs, "In this the children of God are
and subject matter.
Since, therefore, circumstances do not
marl the minister, how jealous he shou d
minifoct' on1 tKp ohiMrpn nf the rlr'vil
inic,rpr r1rtPh nnt ri crhtPonsnes is not be of his manhood, and how severely he
f r-A 0;ti,, utw invPtn nnt his should be his own guard and judge; how
brother We know that we have vigilant ot ms sincerity, MukUs, u
a ,itn ntn 1 ; fp n e wp tairness, and e very attrioute 01 maniy puunc
JclOU li Will ViWtAtlJ. UULW lil " I ' . j . . .1
love the brethren." He puts the question address, adu in um iuSu.,.?.l -
negatively in this strong light: "If any point mat tne mannoou w u,u,lc.s
man say, I love God, andhatetn his brotn- "ic "t. w
. yl ' xi- a pvhnrtpd to the courage of their speech
CI, 13 1 . . ....I- .. .
mpnt- henrp wp from him. that he who loveth to tnese otner quaimes.
Hi Vi lr AAW,
God love his brother also," This last text
clearly refers us back to the first text quot
ed, as Jesus loved us, in which every man
is my brother.
We may not say that this commandment
is fulfilled by an emotion w thin. "Here
by perceive we the love of God, because
hp laid down his life for us : and we ought
to lay down our lives for the brethren. But
whoso hath this world's go ds, and seetl-
his brother have need, and shutteth up the
Conventionalism of every phase is a
o-reat foe to mannood. And tne pu pu
would be the gainer in moral pouer u u
would be less hedged about by this and
that sacred fashion. Let it be so sacred
that there, if any where on earth, the peo
ple who look to it may find transparent
sincerity and absolute personal truthful
ness. It is not necessary to a minster i
spiritual power that his audience shall
themselves believe a l tne creea, out mat
M0XU3IENT TO DR. CRAVES.
For the Advocate.
V TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF COL. D.
C. I'ARRISH.
BY REV. T. A. BOONE.
Gran-
r r P;irrish was born in
ville county, N.C., May 28th, 1807, and
died in the town of Durham, July nth,
1883. r , .
He was converted at Moore's Chapel,
Granville county, in the Fall of 1841; and
married to Miss Ruth A.
Ward in 1842. Seven chi.dren were born
to them, six of whom are yet living, and
all of them recognized as exemplary and
influential Chr stians. In the midst of
these Christian famides, he spent the lat
ter years of his life, honored and loved by
his children and grand-children. A
hoarv head is a crown of glory if it be
fnnnn in the wav of righteousness, such a
crown rested up .n the head of this servant
of God for many years, shining with in
creasing strength to the eno of his mortal
life.
When the startling announcement was
made that Col. D. C. Parrish was dead, the
news was borne from lip to ip in softened
tones and with bated breath, until the en
tire town felt the thrill of grief and sorrow.
Every whe,re it was said, a good man has
gone. In the marts- of tiade, and on the
streets, men would gather and repeat their
sentiments of sorrow.
' lie moved among this people with the
(an appeal )
At the recent Commencement of Trinity
College, the Trustees and the Alumni As
sociation resolved to erect in its Campus a
monument to perpetuate the name and
memory of its founder and builder, the la
mented braxton Craven, D. D., L. L. D.,
and to this end a committee, representing
both the Association and the Trustees,
was appointed to issue an appeal to the
old students of the College and to the
friends general y of the illustrious Craven,
throughout this and other States, to aid in
the work. It is the desire of the Commit
tee to go heartily and at once to work and to
have Uie monument ready for unveiling at
the next annual Commencement, in June,
1884. They think they have but to offer
the thousands of those who were under the
tutorage of Dr. Craven and who love and
revere his memory an opportunity to con
tribute their votive offerings to so noble a
purpose, in order to meet a ready and
generous response; and they are alike con
fident that there are thousands of others
also who need only the opportunity to
show their appereciation of this great and
(rood man. who gave his life and labors to
rear and make complete a great institution
r,f iparninor and also died a nrrtvr to the
cause for which he had lived and labored.
To embalm his memory in the hearts of
all who knew him, he needs no monument
of marble or brass; to perpetuate his fame,
the errand and noble Institution he reared,
stands a' beacon light for all ages, but we
would rear a monument to show our admi
ration for a life so glorious'y directed
!y and so unselfishly spent, in the sacred
cause of education, and our unfeigned
gratitude for the blessings that his life has
conferred upon our people and our State.
will easi v forgive, or will lau to no
" J ' .
- 1 1 1 1 a. Mfn I r- v mnro
rice his Diunoers, uui uicmai i ,nwi.i
hest posturing hath not forgiveness, and is ut-
tpr v destructive ot spiritual power, insi,
J .... . . 1 r .
bowels of nis compassion from hihow they perceive he .does They wmforgw.
,WUpth the love of God in him ? Mv lit- wnat uicy may un.m
Hf hilrlrpn lpt ns not love in word, neith- they will easi y
pr in tongue, but in deed and truth. ' It
rannot be that this text finds its h
meaning iu uic uulchu yauwui y ivym -j - 1., r tr,,tu ,, 1ict
er, unlets the material uants be o. greater ta and all the VtZXt'
importance than the spiritual bread 01 v-simc, a.m u;aur
lup than thp word of God. be unconsidered.
ll . rr w Two things are necessary to inspire con
he wnoXes7ot airrnthnfiVn of Ms fideno- in the intenectua, I manhood f h
if A.,. u:u fp.j nrparher: First, that he beueve some-
Drotner is not niiuscu mc cynu ui vjuu, yt r- - , f . . ,
are you right to hold that all must help thing with a definite and y a"?'
through thf missionary channel ?" second, that he do not shu d o n the Jon-
B t mnurv and fresh attainment in
L.et US grappie Willi tnis-pracjutai aim - 7& , ;f th
. . . to rr . . . .V . r i-oi;rr5rtii knowledge. And it tnere
deeply-important issue in me ngnt 01 a 6-- u j
1 t t r r
"THIS IS Jl V MOTHER."
The following touching incident, relat
ed in the Burlingtcn Hawkeye illustrates
both the tenderness of ihe German heart
and the familiar lines of Coleridge :
"A mother is .1 mother still,
r.H iiOIH-.-l t iiiil JO IV'."
We were at a railroad junction one nicrht,
J O 7
says t.ie wnler, wu:tn:
train, in the waiting-room,
rocking-ch: ir, trying to ta k a brown-eyed
boy to sieep, who talks
he wants to keep awa' e.
Presently a freight train arrived, and a
beautiful little old woman came in, escort
ed by a great big German.
They talked in German, he giving her
evidently lots of information about the
route she was going, and telling her about
her tickets and her baggage-check, and
occasionlly patting her on the arm.
At first our United States baby, who did
not understand German, was tickled to
hear them talk, and he "snickered" at the
peculiar sound of the language that was
being spoken.
The great big man put his hand up to
the good old lady s cheek, and said some
thing encouraging, and a great big tear
came to her eye, and she looked as happy
as a queen.
The little brown eyes of the boy opened
pretty big, and his face sobered down from
its laugh, and he said,
"Papa, it is his mother!"
We knew it was, but how should a four-year-old
sleepy baby, that couldn't under
stand German, ted that the iady was the
big man's mother, and we asked him how
he knew, and he said,
"Oh, the big man was so kind to her."
The big man bustled out, we gave the
rocking-chair to the little old mother, and
presently the man came in with a baggage
man, and to him he spoke English. He
said, v i
"This is my mother, and she does net
speak English. Hhe is going to Iowa, and
I have got to go back on the next train
but I want you to attend to her bpggae
and see her on the right train, the rear car,
with a good seat near the center, and tell
the conductor she's my mother.
"And here is a dollar for you, and I will
do as much for your mother some time."
The baggage-man grasped the dollar
with one hand, grasping the bisf man's
tiand with the other, and looked at the lit
tle German with an expression that show
ed that he had a mother, too, and we al
most know the old lady was well treated.
Then we put the sleeping mmd-reader
on a bench and went out on the piattorm
and got acquainted with the big German.
He talked of horse-trading, buying and
selling, and everything that showed he was
a live business man, ready for any specula
tion, from buying a yearling colt to a crop
of hops or barley, and that his life was a
busy one, and at time full of hard work,
disappointment, hard roads.
But with all of this hurry and excitement
he was kind to his mother, and we loed
him just a little.
When, after a few minutes talk about
business, he said, "You must excuse me;
must go in the depot and see if my moth
er wants anything," we felt like taking his
fat, red hand and kissing it.
Oh ! the love of the mother is the same
in any language, and it is good in all langu
ages.
In the table of some things he does
And
not know, the frank
are
singie oroao line 01 iacts. in uie uiuic ui o ... , -etnhlish
fc ... . , , , 1 fofi-inn rt lo-nnMnrp will oniv esiaDiisn
uu . 1 Jsx.iKtf.iHTr will hp
August. 188.. the industry of the compiler I eiiect and aogmau.j u6
.11 nil Lyiuuu wa. luvb.. 1 . r .
. .. 0 1 .T- ' l 1 u rnnlPssinn Ot lPM
Lhurch and miss.onary statistics, puuusji- ...-r --- - ,;i nnctnrinjr for
a ; Mtcnnnnn, Xv,v for .ii,!v and trust in his leadership, while posturing ior
shows fifty Chuiches and societies in North sure to undermine it.
Of tV. e nnmhor mnr than tnrtv iidn""""' o J
:
Amenta. yl lm3 uumuu ".au . C rnnraap. hut it
nave committed themselves to the work of exa t tne bcuac - f other manlv
. . , .. - .!.. mi 1 mir hp at the expense ot otner maniy
missions; ana tne tew ;eeo e nurcii '.. .7 while the expressed conviction of
which have not yet done so are with one uahtoes, neandPa frank of con.
exception, preparing to do so at an early what is beyond that
day. In the light of this agreement of all the man,
the good and great of the age, how remote convic on gives confidence in logic.
Some attempts to
and decrees may
but it
is the probability that any one pastor or
member can be excused for declining co
operation ? Does not
this seem to indicate that we have not
spirit which was in Christ our Lord ? Add
to this agreement of Christendom, Joseph
Cook s recent condensed statement of re
sults in the history of the Church, and
there is surely enough to alarm every pas
tor lest the blood of the Church-members
who do not contribute to missions be re
quired at our hands
Joseph Cook said in substance : The
Manhood, whether among ministers or
A minv thincrc' hilt first
blindness such as otners mean a """7 " ' -
fhp I of all it means to De genuine -
some, it will appear in tne picuuuituw
of courage. They will be our reformers.
In others, in qualities ot fairness, prudence,
sincerity, humility, gentleness. But always
the man y man is the man who is thorough
ly himself. He never dramatizes. He
c - nort Hp nuts on no airs. He
is not wise in his own conceit. But it he
has the basis of an honest and truth loving
he wi 1 have power, it ne manes
m.cMkM. he does not exalt them into vir
tues. He is not ashamed of his heart. He
can confess weakness and error. But al
ways his inner self, with all struggles and
failures, comes to the surface; and all who
hear him and see him will know they have
first fifteen hundred ears of the. history of! nature,
Christianity it gained 100,000,000 con
verts; in the next three hundred years (af
ter the rise of Protestantism) it gained
100,000,000 more; in the last eighty-three
years (the age of missions) it has gained
210,000,000 more. By adherents to Chris-
PLEASUitESOF A KKLlfjlOUS LIFE.
Many of the good things of this world, of
which we have said, these same shall com
fort us, prove vexations to us; and we are
disappointed in that wherein we most
promised o rselves satisfaction. If we say
our bed shall comfort us, perhaps it is not
a bed to rest on, but a bed to toss on, as it
was to poor Job, when wearisome nights
were appointed to him. Nay, such strang
ers are we to real pleasure in the things of
this life, and so oft do we deceive ourselves
with that which is counterfeit, that we wish
to live to those days of life which we are
assured that we shall say, we have no plea
sure in them.
But the pleasures of religion are solid,
substantial pleasures,and not painted gold,
and not gilded over; these sons of pleasure
inherit substance. It is that of which the
foundation is firm, the superstructure
strong The consolations of God are
neither few nor small, while a vain and
foolish world cause their eyes to ty upon
that which is not. Wondly people pretend
to the joy they have not, but god y people
conceal the joy they have; like their
Master, meet to eat which the world knows
not of.
It is rational, not brutish. It is the
pleasure of the soul, not of sens ; it is the
peculiar p easure of a man, not that which
we have in common with the inferior
creatures. The pleasures of leligicn
are not those of the mere animal life, which
arise from the gratifications of the senses
of the body and its appetites; no,they affect
the soul, that part of us by which we are
allied to the world of spirits, that noble part
of us, and therefore are to be called the
! true pleasures of a man. Matthew Henry.