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THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.
ESTABLISHED 1855
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RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24, 188.
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lx tiik United Statks there are
S.pno.OdO persons over ten years of aire
can neither read nor write, and of
those 2.00.(M() are voters, and eannot
read the tiekets they vote.
Tin-' 1 1 ATit okIIox. Horatio Si;y-,!OI-i;
ivniovos from among us a great
good man. One in whom his polit
ical "opponents could find no want of
the highest integrity.
Ti r 1: Tknnksskk Statk Uoakd of
Health shows that it cost that State in
actual money, for the care of small-pox
utients. during the past five years
i 141. 'dr..
Ix Tin: amount of spirits consum
ed per capita the United States holds
the eleventh rank, and in the consump
tion of malt lienors tRe third rank, the
.emparison being made with the chief
, xiutries of Europe.
A Mktiioiust Local Pkkaciikh.
Mr. Joseph Arch. M. 1., received from
I.;, adherents a thousand dollars more
than the amount of his election expens
es, and promptly sent the money back.
That was in Great Brittian.
Twd i:x-Phi:siii:nts. Kutherford B.
Hayes and Chester A. Arthur, are alive.
avA two Vice-rresidents. Hannibal
Hamlin and William A. Wheeler. Only
three candidates of the great parties
-urvie -Samuel .1. Tilden. .John C.
Fremont, and -James G. Blaine.
IT IS CHKKIIIXO TO KKAD that in
L nvell. Mass.. the mill owners advanc
ed the wanes of their emjd.ys when
there v. as "no strike threatened, and
when there were no specially favorable
circumstances in the state of trade. It
was done simply a- a matter of justice.
G KN". IlAXCOOK'S LAST APPKAKANCK
p. public was when, under the orders of
the Secretarv ot
f War. he directed the
aati'-na! ceremonies attendant upon
ie:i. Grant'
funeral, and commanded
thr
United States military and naval
, 1
"lVes taii.ng pari lueieiu.
lU v. Sam Jonks has had a success
ful time in Cincinnati. All classes have
in 111 attracted and moved by him. and
lt at uo..d. no doubt, has been accom
plished. At a farewell meeting held last
Sunday, the report comes by telegraph
that - 40.000 persons tried to get to
hear sam -lones and Sam Small.
A PROHIBITION PETITION WAS ill-t-hi.
.dl iiJio ihr Xoh' York Senatejast
I sr. from the South Brooklyn Wo-1
man's Temperance Society, by Senator
, ; U'.ath. Mr. Worth, in presenting it.
( t-X'k the trouble of remarking that he
1 had " no sympathy with the Prohibition
! in- vi meat": and therefore desired that
'.1 hould ho referred to the Committee
-a iiie :u;ces." It reached the right
: '!iunitt-e.
; '.i.aostoxk is xot only a irreat
1 maa. hut he is a good man. In a recent
' address li. tore the students of Yale Col-
i Ihv. T. L. Cuyler said : "With
' aiv own i-yes I have seen Mr. (Gladstone
; kneel by the side of a common street
sweeper and pray for the salvation of
I hi- s"u!. I know of no grander sight
than the Premier of England and the
4 hiding stat 'sman of the world kneelinir
j hy the ide of a common street sweeper
I u; l pouring forth Ins eloquent appeal
f ! God in b. half of liis humble brother."
Forth' Adocate.
on: ;iij)i:kov ri;t's.
lri':i2J'r :iml Pastors IS 11 rk
!i':ii :j J5:is;iiii I lead antl
) lie;;-: 2i-ZjJOii.
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I Ves. yes. it is nice work going round
I irni house to house pastoral visiting.
I It is heavy work and hard work too. and
! sometime unpleasant work. How many
I nh's of sorrow are poured into a pastor's
i 'ir. The heart aches of the people are
I "pencil to him. Some family fusses and
j a - iuhborhoo I broils are detailed and re-
failed, and the pastor's services, in the
j way of settlement, are in demand. Xow
j -Old then he has to fix up matters for
husband and wife who have failed to
;eTi f. and frequently about nothing or
j next to nothing. A dissipated son or
I 'iddy daughter f some good arents are
I I" he he.nted i and talked to. A hus-
I '-and is iroing to th Devil and a good
wi!- is heart broken and she comes to
f'ie nastor lor svamathv and heln. The
j must ltd! !'.'!ii of their sorrows
1 '.e;.- powrty. their distress. The rich
'"''ii pile their pains on the pastor's
! irt. lie must go to see the sick, the
I si;!,. th- lyimr. and must bury the
j dea I. Widow s eo iie to him for com
j '":f. for euuel. Orphans . appeal to
I ii 'n for aid. Tires who are backslidden
I !:-i- to lc look"d alter. Iftheydonot
I '"''lit lo.- the pastor. th? pastor must
1 'i nt for them often still-hunt. .Mourn
; si-rki;;- Cinisf. come for guidance.
! N:nuers mu f be warm'd. The pastor
; iiust f it ery good cause and push
.f along--;, m si:;gle-hand'l and alone.
I He )!Ulst afti :,l rommittees for this and
j dim. hold prayer meetings and take a
-en, ral oversi-ht of all the work of the
1 "UM-ii. rny. lie needs to "be as wise
I a a seritent and :is inUs ;w :i lovi
I needs to be a man of one work, par-
" marly when In- has to do the work of
or five men. A pastor has no time
'"idle away. He has enough to do to
k'" P him always employed and usefullv
' mployed at that. Some of our young
,11"fi. and some not so young, do not re
hz? the magnitude of a pastor's work.
u hen well do no kind of work tells
'tter than a pastor's work. The
'mi-en
grows. --grows stronir in mem
'HTS fOl.l t.-...w, nu r-
'i-vid,p. The membership is built up
, """ hi hi. let, j ne nuance
bulit up in knowledge, in zeal. in piety
and in working power. Zion strength
ens her stakes and enlarges her borders
! on all sides under an ellicieut nartorate
under an in"Hicient pastor everything
goes down. Wliat a mighty work de
volves upon th ' pastor. h preacher, the
shepherd of the tlock. We need pastors.
Xot pastors vs. pivaeh.'rs. nor preach
ers vs. pastors : but preaching pastors
and pastoratimr preachers. Most of our
preachers have developed more in
preaching than in pastoral work. So
far as the work they art' sent to do is
concerned they are one-sided men. just
half men. They do part of the work
well. The other part is poorly done, or
not done at all. The Churches and
charges that have a man who is all
preacher say. "Send us a pastor next
war": and thoso that have a man who
is all pastor say. "Send us a better
preacher." The horse traders talk
about a "combination horse" a horse
good for anything good for the saddle,
and good for harness. That is. really,
what the Church wants, a " combina
tion man." good in the pulpit and good
in the pastorate.
A preacher can be both preacher and
pastor if he tries. We ought to try.
must try. if we are going to do the work
before us. Let the young men make a
note of this and begin now.l" say this as a
Presiding Elder whoso business it is to
look into these things.
The Bishop often asks. Bre
what is the matter in this ease
thr en
You
all say he is a
good pastor."
" Xow what is
line preacher." or "a
as the case may be.
the matter y" " Well.
Bishop. he is a tine preacher.but he is notis not a political par ty," That is so.
pastor, or lie is a good pastor. iMtner
w ay he is just half of what he ought to
be. Xow if any preacher who reads
this i just one or the other, why then
let him try to be both in one, and he
will get olf of the "gum log" list right
away. It would surprise some people,
some preachers even, to see what line
preachers go down on th' " log" list in
some of our Conferences. Mu c in'-n J'nil
its lixt'ns iini I'.snxti ft ix. Mark w hat
I sav. This is the point where we need
development. Ioth must go together
belore we meet hilly the demands ol the
work we have to do.
Jiut to change the subject : Brother
L. S. liurkhead sent me a Pamphlet
written by lumseit, " On tne mode ot
Baptism." It is a good thing, on one
subject and strong at that. I was in a
hurry and started to skim over it. but I
couldn't. I had to go slow and take it.
j all from cover to cover. I had none over
all that ground many times, after many
and in many ways. I knew every crook
and turn of the argument long ago; but
brother Burkhead put the matter in a
new and striking light. This held me.
I commend the book coommend it to
pastors and to all who are troubled over
the mode of baptism. If this book,
prayerfully read, doesn't bring relief,
why then, the case is hopeless. It is
tno'le on the brain, and may be given
up.
Is'nt it wonderful how some people
magnify the mere mode or manner as
part and parcel of the thing itself?
Preaching was commanded, specially,
specifically, positively. We are told
w hat to preach, where to preach and to
whom we must preach : but the mode
or manner of preaching is not defined or
even intimated. Just a we magnify the
mode or manner of doing any religious
thing, just to that extent do we minify
the thing done, only in so far as the
mode or manner is essential to the
thing.
We are commanded to pray, but the
posture is not essential to prayer. Some
few people go Avild on the mode or man
ner of prayer, and some on the mode or
manner of preaching. Some men go to
seed, or take the dry rot. on modes and
manners, of doing things where modes
and manners have nothing in the world
to do with the things done. Modes and
manners were left out of the Xe w Tes
terment by Christ and his Apostles.
The things done or fob; done were mag
nified by our I-ord and his Apostles.
But this old war will continue, doubt
less, for ages yet to come. Are these
wars entirely fruitless and bootless?
After all may not some good come out
of them? May they not stimulate in
vestigation along some lines that other
wise might be neglected? May not the
hand ot God be over them if not in
them? When these questions pass
away, may not others spring up, lead
ing to thought and investigation along
other lines? Is it best, is it desireable
that we be one people, in one Church,
one ecclesiastical organization ? I trow
not. For one I do not deplore the ex
istence of other Churches, other denomi
nations. In the highest and best sense
we arc one made one in Christ by one
spirit. This kind of unity is real. strong,
abiding. Any other kind would be
tlimey. unreal weak, of short duration.
I've never yet seen any two men in any
given Church who agreed on every point
of doctrine. I've seen many men in
widely dilliering Churches who agreed
perfectly in matters pertaining to ex
periences. They were of one heart, but
not of one head. Truly Christian men
and women in any and all of the Church
es, orthodox and unorthodox, are of one
heart, one mind, but their heads differ
always have differed always will (In
fer, while men are men.
What blessed seasons I have had with
truly pious Baptists. Presbyterians.
Episcopalians. Boman Catholics. Camp
bellifes and one or two Universalists.
I've seen good people who knew God
and were holy in heart and life in all of
these Churches and some real religi
ous men and women I've seen who were
not in any Church, but out in the world,
unbaptized and unenrolled. A head,
trouble, head entanglement, kept them
out. Their hearts were fixed on God,
but their heads could not fix 011 a
Church. This class, few in number,
perhaps, are always in trouble. They
have more trouble than any member of
any Church. They are troubled over
the same questions that trouble people
in the Churches. They stay out to keep
out of trouble, but the trouble comes, all
the same. Head Unity is not attain
able, is not desirable. It is impractica
ble and impossible among men in this
nie. uiu Jirotner Koger was a precious
man of God. He was a South Carolini
an, a Methodist and a Democrat. He
could not agree w ith any man who did
not agree, with him in religion and in
politics. It was a sad misfortune in his
opinion not to have been born in South
Carolina. Brother Koger was a zealous
man. and a great hand to respond In
prayer. Once at a Camp Meeting in
the midst of great exciptment a Brother
Jones was called on to lead in prayer.
Brother Koger not knowing who was
leading began to respond heartily. Some
one near him whispered. " BrotherKog
er that is Brother Jones prayin." In
stantly, and in a loud tone, the old man
said. " Lord I take it back. Jones is a
Whig."
Both of them were good men mighty
men of God. Both were Methodists,
both from South Carolian : but they dif
fered in politics. Roger's name is as
ointment poured forth in all the region
of country where he lived.
Is it desireable. is it best for the.
country, for all to be of one political
party? Is it practicable or possible?
"But, "says one somewhere. "theChurch
But you let the Church, any one of the
Churches, be dominant in this country,
in any country, and see how soon it will
arrogate to itself all power in both
Church and State. This has been done
in more countries than one.
But enough.
GlLDEROY.
For the Advocate.
Our I,ttci' From Nashville.
(' Sjxrr'ttl i'jrt':xiult tit .)
Xashvile has had a visit from Moody
and Sankey and a snow-fall of 22 inches
since my last letter. The Evangelists
warmed up the Churches, and the snow
cooled and covered up everything of a
material nature in the city. A " big
meeting" and a big snow do not usually
hamonize. but in this case women as
well as men trudged through the deep
snow to the Frist Presbyterian Church,
and filled it twice a day. And they
were well repaid for the effort it cost
them to get out. for Mr. Moody put
some Bible truth into their minds in a
way that will make them stick. What
is the secret of his power? Genius some
body will say. That is not it. He has
no genius, except the genius for putting
a thing with directness in words that go
to the mark in a straight line. But that
is genius'after all. Back of that is the
intense earnestness that produces direct
ness. Back of that earnestness is the
power of the Holy Spirit. That is my
estimate of Moody. If he has genius, it
is the sort of genius that is within the
reach, in some degree, of every true
minister of the Gospel. Comparisons
are attempted between Moody and
"Sam" Jones, but they are without
point. You can't analyze ''Sam"
Jones that matchless compound of au
dacity and tact, fire and pen. He has
the combined fearor of the Georgia
Scenes, and of the Dit Ira'. He will,
make a sinner laugh until he is
oil his guard, and the he'll catch him
with the gospel lasso and hold him. He
is on his rounds, and you will be likely
to see him in the land of Hezekiah Lee
and Peter Doub. And when the Xorth
Carolinians meet the irrepressible
" Sam" they will like him. for the Geor
gians and Xorth Carolinians are near
akin.
The discussion of our Foreign Mission
work, involving that of the Episcopacy,
sprung by Chancellor Garland's recent
article in the Xisltrill' Advocate, has al
ready raised quite a breeze. The result
Avill be lei me prohesy that there will
be an adjustment of matters to meet the
wants of our expanding mission-fields
without any impingement upon our
General Superintendency. Our Epis-
1 eopacy. as it is. is nexible enough to
meet all the necessities of the Church.
General Conference gossip, is of
course, prevalent at Connectional head
quarters. How many new Bishops, and
who will be chosen, are questions asked
but the man who can answer them has
not spoken. The names of several first
class men are mentioned, but no signs
of concentration of Methodist opinion on
the subject are visibleThe Book Agency
is a matter of vital interest. Will Dr.
McFerrin retire ? and if so. who is to
take that important trust ? This writer
cannot answer either question. Mat
ters will soon develop, however. Twelve
weeks will bring us to the General Con
ference and that will answer all these
questions.
The politicians are marshaling their
forces for th1 State election to be held
this year. It is more than probable
that some of the whisky candidates will
run against a snag without insurance
the name of which snag is Prohibition.
The winter congregations at the vari
ous Churches in this city have been un
usually good. On Sundays most of the
Methodist Churches are comfortably
filled at both morning and evening ser
vices. Either the appointments in the
Xash villeDistrict for this year are peculi
arly good fits, or there is increased
earnestness in religious matters upon
the part of the people perhaps both.
Nakhvtlj.k.
For the Advocate.
Proliibition Vs. Jlili License.
HY REV. K. A. YATES, D. D.
3ln. Editor : A writer in the Century
Maizine makes the following state
ment :
"If the experiment of a high license
law, enforced by the vigilance and ener
gy of all the Temperance Societies,
could be tried in any one State, I believe
the result would be a more salutary and
satisfactory limitation of the amount of
crime and poverty caused by the liquor
traffic than has been attained by any
system of legislation heretofore adopted
in the United States."
Xow. this is only the oft-repeated ex
pression of a fundamental fallacy. The
reason that " Temperance Societies" do
not enforce the suppression of the crimes
and poverty resulting from the liquor
tratiic by means of a " high license law,"
is beeause they cannot do a thing which
is impossible in itself. tiren.se. or
indeed, any license, is not only, not the.
remvdy, but it is no remedy. An effort
to lessen the crimes of the liquor traffic
by license is a leyaliziA perntis.sion to rii-c!
Law cannot regulate crime. It can de
nounce and decree the death of crime,
but not regulate it. Can the civil law
lieen.-.e and regulate burglary, or steal
ing? Can it license murder? Yes. it
does, every time it grants license to a
bar-room ! What- a monstrous solecism
in tne philosophy of law !
Strange it is. too. that sensible writers
should fix upon the very worst form of
this fallacy, and offer it as the panacea
for our ills. Law license is bad enough,
but hiylt licen.se is a more wide-sweeping
evil. If the philosophy of high license
contains any element of truth, it is
found iu its heiyht. The the question is,
how hiyh ? Anything short of an at
titude that defies the whiskey-seller and
drinker to stagger over its summit must
necessarily be a failure. Its height
must be such as to prohibit, or its evils
are increased in the ratio of its height. 1
shall make this plain :
First, high license has a tendency to
make the rice respectable. The idea is
to make the money-cost of license so
high ihat only the more wealthy, refin
ed and cultured (?) whiskey-sellers can
afford to put up an establishment. Very
well. what is the result? Why. the
plac fumade doubly attractive. It is
ire t!v that onlv the n?ore refined
and temperate drinkers will patronize
such places. But that is a false pre
sumption. The keeper must make his
money back, and more. There are line
curtains, fine pictures, flowers, elegant
lounges, pianos, a splendidly dressed fe
male at the musical instrument, and
even-thing is attractive, especially for
young men. They wouldn't think hardly
of going to a doggery, but they will go
to this, and others with them, and oth
ers, until the monopoly which the keep
er has seemed by being able to pay the
price, results in an extensive and at
tractive establishment that makes more
drunkards than a dozen grogshops.
The philosophy of this is easily under
stood. It is well known that vice is al
ways more dangerous when it puts on
the semblance of virtue. Imitation is
the premium which vice pays to virtue,
in order that the fangs of vice may be
hidden. " Xo swearing in here." I
here the keeper say. " You must not
fall upon those lounges in that way : if
ox can't behave you must go out."
And so. to keep the place respectable
after he has taken the poor wretch's
money and filled him with whiskey, he
sends him home to curse and abuse his
poor wife and children.
Secondly, this leads me to say that
high license increases the crime and
poverty in the home of the drinker.
Who pays for the increased price of the
drinks that results from the increased
price of the license. Does it come out
of the seller ? Xot by any means. The
man that drinks pays for the high li
cense. Does the increase of price pre
vent his drinking ? Xo one who under
stands the subject will pretend that it 1
does. What then? Why the "high
license" means just that much more
kept from the poor wife, and children at
home just that much taken from
the wretched father's wages to buy
whiskej-. while tha shoeless, ragged and
hungry children mourn and beg about
the streets, tempted to lie and steal.
Thirdly.license only puts a mollifying
plaster upon the conscince of the whis
key-seller. I have enough faith 111 hu
manity to believe that many a man who
keeps a bar-room would stop it. u the
law did not tell him he might do it, and
take his money for it. The bar-keeper
says. " I'm not lawless. I pay for my
business. I douT want to see men
drunk, and their wives and children
suffer ; but I don't tell them to get
drunk. The law says my business is
legitmatc." And so the better public
seiitment is antagonized by the whiskey-seller's
conscience, because the law
makes his business lawful by .special act.
What a monstrous solecism in morals !
The truth is that all license to sell
whiskey as a beverage is an evil and an
absurdity. If it is a moral wrong to sell
intoxicating liquor, then it cannot be
licensed by law. If any one says it is
not an evil, we are not arguing with
him. We are speaking 01 what nine
tenths of every community acknowledge
to be a fact. Then the remedy is :
1st. Take away all license to sell in
toxicating liquor, and let every man sell
it that wants to do so. Public senti
ment will never be sufficiently powerful
to put down the evil until the public eye
and conscience sees and feels the tre
mendous evil as it is. Let the sanction
of law b" taken from it. Let it be depri -
(ed of respectability. Let every line
saioon be reduced, as it would be, to tne
level of the alley-doggery. Let the
drinking, instead of being confined to a
few attractive places, (for it would not
be increased in quantity) be distributed
around to smoky fish-sheds and dog
kennel hovels, to old rickety, one-story
corner buildings and side-walk show
windows, until wives and mothers and
sisters, as they walk the streets, see the
gate hoisted at their feet that leads to
hell, and see poor women crying and
children starving along its broad way.
Then, I say, and not till then, will
the public conscience make public senti
ment strong enough to rise up and
strangle the monster !
2nd. This will bring about the resul
tant remedy, which is Prohibition ! This
does not mean that by keeping a man
by law from selling whiskey, Ave make
Win heart morally riyht. Xot at all. It
only means that we keep him from mak
ing somebody else's heart wrouy ! So
far as his own moral evil is concerned
we darn up the wickedness at its foun
tain, and keep the means out of his
hands for burdening the community
with paupers and criminals. Prohibi
tion is the only reined-, and public senti
ment must be"made to enforce it.
For the Advocate.
Our ev York .Letter.
BY NOSCO.
Xew York is profoundly affected by
the death of Gen. Hancock, which was
announced yesterday morning. One by
one the heroes of the War and of His
tory drop off. Only a few are left to re
mind us of the past. The majority is
on the other side. Gen. Hancock's
character and record are worth- of all
admiration and of emulation. The
stainless soldier, the benevolent civili
an, the admired of his countrymen, has
cone to his reward.
For several years Key. Dr. Deems,
pastor of the "Church of the Stranger,"
has been known by his friends to have
in preparation a Avork on k Evolution."
Several days ago the book Avas given to
the million from the press of John W.
Lovell Co.. 10 Vesey St., X. Y.. under
the title of a Scotch Verdict.
This title. Avhich seems odd at first, is
happily justified by the folloAving para
graph taken from the opening chapter :
" American juiies render in each case
Avhich involves a felom- a verdict of
Guilty or Xot Guilty. There must be
many cases submitted to juries in Avhich
they cannot decide that the accused is
4 Guilty.' and yet his innocence has not
been so established as that they can
pronounce him "Xot Guilty."
Scotch juries, in such a case, save the
accused, Avhile they aA-oid indorsing his
character by bringing in a verdict Avhich
is a judgment made up, not upon the ac
cused, but upon the allegations contain
ed in the. indictment, and that verdict
is Xot Proven.'
From this it will be seen that Dr.
Deems approaches the interesting theme
of Evolution from a hcav position. He
does not endorse the character of the
accused ; nor does he offer a single ar
gument in refutation of the doctrine. He
simply takes up the claims of Evolution,
and then sIioavs by the testimony of its
best friends that the case is Xot I'mren.
The method is original ; the style terse
and epigrammatic ; the spirit that of
honest inquiry rather than of dogma
tism. The author does not appear in
the character of theologian, nor that of
scientist : he is for the nonce, the fore-
j man of a jury Avhich has listened to the
evidence put forth 111 behalf of Involu
tion and uoav brings in the Scotch ver
dict, Xot Proren.
We venture the opinion that feAV
readers of this striking and entertain
ing little volume will fail to acquiesce
in the verdict rendered.
Let no one imagine, however, that
Dr. Deems has joined the ci v of that
zealous, but ignorant class of religious
leaders avIio have always opposed Evo
lution on account of it supposed conflict
Avith BeA-elation. His argument is
purely scientfic. He distinctly an
nounces that "There is no relgious
reason for its acceptance or rejection."
p. 12. It is Avorth something to listen
to a man avIio can keep his temper, his
bias, his enthusiasm in perfect ab v
ance while he sits down and coolly dis
sects his antagonist. There, is no par
oxism : no calling of hard names ; no
personality: no assumption of either
knoAvledie or unwarranted premise : no
theory, and therefore no attempt to
bolster up any. The argument is purely
destructive. Dr. Deems has no system
to down the throats of his reader ; only
an appeal to his common sense not to
strain out the gnat of " conflict" when
there is a whole caravan of camels in
the mere scientific aspect of Evolution.
One of the most original chapters in
this book is the one on "Buijdtia.j
Jesus, and Evolution." j
" While the greatest geniuses are j
rare." says the author, "so that one j
might say that there have been not j
more than a score Avho have so touched
the highest water-mark of poAver as tdj
leave there the traces Avhichall succeed-;
ing generations should read as theirs :
there hat e been those tAventy, and evo- j
lution has no place for their existence. !
Genius has neAer been evohed.
But beyond the highest of these there
is a phenomenon in Humanity Avhich
any theory of the universe must account
for before 'it can be accepted. It is the
appeareance. in the human race, of
Jesus of Nazareth, a person Avho was
not a 'Junius. Xow this is not a ques-
tion of theology or religion, in this dis
cussion. From His name let all such
thoughts be separated. But a cosmic
theory must have room for every phe
nomenal thing and person, and science
must provide a place fcr Jesus as for
Laura Bridgeman A theory
which can take no account of such phe
nomena in human history as Buddha
and Jesus may be true, bat it can not be
accepted as proved. That is the ca-e.
with evolution."
While Ave are consider. t-g the Avork 01
Dr. Deems let us turn to another sul)
ject. The folloiiur notice appeared iu .1
recent number of the Mcovwd C,, ..' ?
Adrocate ;
"The impression in :he South that
Dr. Deems. "Church of :he Strangers. '7
Avas largely supported ty the Arander
bilts iserronoous. XeiU.e- Mrs. Cornelius
nor William II. left it r.nything. Dr.
Deems Church has a constituency of its
OAvn abundantly abb to ; ;aryits current
expenses. The Avonder is Avho Avill suc
ceed the popular pastor. Dr. Deems'
church is -'down town," on a. by-street,
a block from Broadway'-, is a small edi
fice for Xcav York : is fairly filled Avith
a congregation largely composed of
southerners, literateurs, artists, etc He
preaches to brains and taste. He is
.evangelical and unos! nidations. As
President of the In-diPde of Christian
Philosphy" and editor of its organ,
Chrisinn Thotoyld. has done a greater
work than is reeognbsed in behalf of
orthodox religion. Dr. Deems is true
to his antecedents in every respect, and
ranks Avith the fbren.ost divines of Xew
York."
As Dr. Deems held high social and
scholastic position in the South it i
natural that Sbutherueiv Khould seek his
Church Avhen they come to Xcav York,
but he is so cosmopolitan and his ser
mons are so utterly free from all politi
cal allusions that he is acceptable to all
parties. He is a comparatively poor
man. although he might have used his
position to accumulate u great fortune,
lie has turned hundreds of thousands of
dollars into channels of beneficence. His
Church is not small, even for Xew York.
There are few Protestant Churches hi
the city that seat so mr.uy people. It is
very harmoniously proportioned and
this, Avith the fact that it has been con
founded Avith the " Little Church round
the Corner." may havfj produced the
impression that it is 1.0.'. very large.
Feb. 13A-. 1SSt.
TJao L.iiiieuc . Taicae.
BY REV. IK. CIIAKLIIS F. 1)1 I '.Ms.
All men seem more or less moved t
desire to be known among their fellow
men, and every man of intellect and
sensibility has dreamed of posthumous
fame.
After all. how little it Is !
The names of Plato and Socrates arc
heard among men. and c an-ely one in a
thousand knoAVs Avhetlvr these men liv
ed a thousand years ago, or three thou
sand ; whether they Avcre Greeks, ..
Komans. or Jcavs. Xot one iu a thou
sand avIio has heard these names could
report a single si i ntent e thai the one
had Avritten or the other had spoken.
A man ligures largely iu the publi;
alfairs. To me he has been much. Per
haps, in boyhood I rc:vd a book which
he wrote, full of theught and learning,
ever since I read eeiy thing he has
Avritten. II1 has seemed to me a won
drous man. and. perhaps, felt that my
hightest ambition wouid hegratilied to
have heen that man's equal. To-day
he dies : tomorrow I opcn the morning
papers and find twenty live line devot
ed to his memory. That looks like the
end of nature.
A municipal politician ;ohbed the city,
was captured, made an escape, has been
caught. Xow. ahom the man moi-;
Avords have been printed than are. con
tained in the Bible', the Koran. tl;i
Avorks of Plato and Cicero all together.
A history written of Ihese times for
the readers of a century hence may con
tain a score or two of words of him;
two hundred years hence there will prob
ably be no need to mention him.
Another discount to faun- is made by
examining a cyclopedia. A living man
would haA'e a half a column, perhaps, a
Avhole column in the ?irt edition : four
teen years after, he is reduced to ten
lines ; from the next edition he Avill di.
appear. as many written in the iijt edi
tion are omitted in the second.
Regard for one's reputation is simply
decent: but the desire, to he, known may
become a morbidity of so fierce a nature.
that it may run into a raving madness.
God knoAvs all and tei'M all thai i. ed be
told. The man that doer-t a memorable
thing will hav' it published throughout,
the Avhole spiritual world, even if ii
never be gazetted on earth. " Lei your
light shine." said the Mast r. Well, if
you have no light there is nothing to let
shine. If you have any light it gives
just so muedi luminousn ss and ih more.
You eannot wave your torch much
higher than your head, nor make the
sheen of a candle' travel as far over tic
sea as the light from the great lamp in
the lighthouse sent out by i any rellee
tors. Have light. Let it shine in the world.
But Avhen you have done even more than
any other man has done, in a thousand
years your name may fx; Miuply a word
on Avhich men will hang their oavu
dreams and aspirations, ft will hi; noth
ing to you. -Men and MOun-n are gal
ling themselvers for petty social distinc
tions of which there will be no remem
brance a quarter of a century hence.
How- little is human fame and h v
great is the approval of the Lord ! " Tf
anv man serve Me, him a111 My Father
honor."
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