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U'4 4 it 1 4- .r j - , V , ... :i- r . I. )' it 3 - V :& a 5 V,. -fV- i;ir v- 'A 'i v. 1 - f. :. St" -' ft 1 AliEIGH, N. C, - MAY 11. 1S87. Rev .F.Ii. REID, : : : Editor. CORRESPONDING EDITORS: REV. W. S. BLACK, D. D. KEV. H. T. HUDSON, D. D. Subscription Kales Oaeyeai, ia advance, Sis months, in advance, Tfcree months, in advance, $2.00 1.00 50 To ministers and the widows of ministers at ku'J rates. Advertising rates furnished on application All the traveling and local ministers in ine Con ference are our authorized agents. Sen ! money by ChccH, P. O. -Money Order, or by Registered Letter, or hand to your pastor. The date opposite your name on tne yellow la-b-3l which we paste on your paper each week, is t to time when your subscription to the Advocate txpiree. Address all letters to REV. F. L. KEID, Kaleigh, N. C. That wonderfully enterprising newspaper man, Mr. Bonitz, editor of the Goldsboro Messenger, sent out a mammouth special issue of his paper last week. It is in good taste every way. The paper is excellent, the type fine, the press work well done, the i;write uns" of Goldsboro, Fayetteville, Raleigh and other places in the State are very fine, not too long and yet full enough the whole thing is a credit to Mr. Bonitz, and Mr. Bonitz is a credit to his town and to the State. It will be seen from the "Plan of Episcopal Visitation." which we pub lish on another page, that our Annual Conference will convene in Fayetteville, X. C, Nov. 30th, 1887, and that Bish op Joseph S. Key, of Georgia, will pre side. We will welcome Bishop Key to North Carolina with both hands and with all our heart. It is our good for tune to know him very pleasantly, and to know him well is to love him much. We hope to give our readers a sketch of him in our next issue. It is a matter of regret to us all that Rev. Dr. N. II. D. Wilson was sick last week and could not attend the meeting of the Hymn Book Committee hi Nashville. He is now better and hopes soon to be able to be out on his work again. He was right sick last week, but is now convalescent. The Nashville Advocate says : "It was a cause of much regret that Dr. N. II. D. "Wilson was prevented by sudden and severe sickness from attendhjgthe meeting of the Hymn-book Committee. His colleagues missed him much." We give on this page a fine cut of Trinity Church, (Methodist) Durham, N. C, and also cuts and sketches of Bishop Galloway. Rev. Dr. Black and Rev. W. S. Creasy. Our readers will be glad to see the face of our gifted young Bishop. He is the youngest Bishop among us. The readers of the Advocate will also be pleased to see the face of Dr. Black, with whoss name they have been familiar in the past. Trinity Church and the face of its tal ented pastor will also be objects of great interest to our readers. For these cuts and sketches, as stated last week, we are indebted to that excellent and enterprising journal, the Durham Plant. Some of the secular papers of the State are criticizing the statute enacted by the recent Legislature, which prohib its the advertisement of lotteries. These editors seem to be behind the times. North Carolina is only falling into line with other States in this mat ter, and the papers might as well recog nize the fact at once and be done with it. Thq law hi South Carolina forbids the adcc.tischieni of lotteries under a penalty, for each insertion, of 12 months in jail and 1.000 Hue, of the fine goes to State, l to county, and to inform er. We learn from a legal friend that advertising lotteries is made indictable hi nearly all the States, and we believe the r a lining of lotteries is forbidden in every State except Louisiana, and there a clause in the Constitution forbids all lotteries but one. and even that is pro hibited after lb Do 7 years hence. The U. S. Post Cilice prohibits letters ad dressed to a lottery to be carried in the mails. These swindles do infinite dam age and their day is passed. The Stat utes of the V. S. and of the different states show conclusively that the day of such swindles is not only over, but that newspapers shall not be allowed, for hire, to seduce innocent people into being swindled by them. Send in your renewal. liiM TRINITY Trinity Church, Durham, is one of the handsomest in the State. Its spire is a land mark. It is visible for many miles around. On the night of the great fire, November 15th, 1886, Mr. Aiken, of Dutch ville, standing at his house fourteen miles from Durham mm. plainly saw the spire by the light of the conflagration. Trin huilt in 1878, at a cost of 618,000, and was dedicated in 1879 by itv Church was 1 Rev. Dr. N. II. D. Wilson, its membership now numbers 410. It is now in the hands of the painters, who are repairing November. The ladies of the church cept the Memorial windows, with beautiful stained glass. The church is provided with two electric lights. 13ishop Gallov.ay. Bishop Cliarles B. Galloway was born in Kosciusko, Miss., Sept. 1st, 1849, and is now in his 38th year. He graduated from the LTniversit3T of Mississippi in June, 1868, and joined the Mississippi Conference of the M. E. Church,South, at Vicksburg, in December of the same 3rear. in ibbz, alter tne election oi Dr. Linus Parker to the Bishopric, Dr. Gal loway was elected editor of the New Or leans Christian A n.cate, which position he held until last Mar, when, at the General Conference at Richmond, he was elected to the high office he now holds. "As a preacher, he stands in the front rank. He is a worthy compeer of Bishop Wilson, and a worthy successor of the line of great pulpit orators that have in the past worn the mitre. He is an orator. His voice is sonorous, his figure is commanding, his eye is bright, his gesture is alwas forcible, and he preaches with ease and to the delight of all those who have the privilege of lis tening to his sermons. He is zealous, ardent, consecrated. His three sermons in Durham prove him to be a great preacher. His voice, his presence, his bold figures, his elo cpieut periods, and his powerful exhor tation, his sound argument, form a part of his equipment for his work. is always at work; whenever called upon he is ready, and no amount of fatiguing routine, or extraordinary demand seems to weary mm. it can be httuigly said O xii.ixi. ju;fx iriLii.y tti r.' - y.w c L ilio ma Bishop Galloway is an author as well as editor and preacher, and his book, "The Editor Bishop." a biography of Bishop Parker, lias made him a reputa tion. He is also the author of a little pamphlet called Handbook of. Prohibi tion,", which he prepared when he was chairman of the State Prohibition Ex ecutive Committee of Mississippi. Bish op Galloway left Monday after the ded ication for- his home, Brookhaven, M iss. whence, after a few days rest, he went to Nashville, Tenn.,. to the meetings of tho. College of Bishor-s. the Board, of MissioES, and the Book Committee. lie has left behind him, in the Old North State, many warm friends who will watch with pleasure his continuing career of usefulness, and ever be - ready to welcome him with open arms, when ever he comes this wav acram. FiA LiEIGH CHRISTIAN CHURCH the damage done to it by the fire of last will soon replace the present windows, ex - Kev W. S. 13 lack, I. l. William S. Black was born in South Carolina on the 30th dav of August, erii i x - ' joy and the ark of God moved forward. 1836, was educated at Cokesbury Iusti- it was a precious season. Pres'din i tute, S. C, and joined the South Caro- Elder Sharpe was to join the pastor, lina Conference in December, 1855, be- , Kev-11 r- Bumpass, on Monday eye ing then less than 20 years of age. In uin' and we exPect to et tidinSs of May, 1870, when that part of the State of North Carolina within the bounds of South Carolina Conference was trans- .wonderfully thrifty place. It has three ferred to the North Carolina Confer- cotton factories. At the head of "Ran ence, Dr. Black, who then held a pas- dlemau Factory" is M-. John II. Fer- 4. i , , c -, . ree, at the head of "Naomi" is Mr R toral charge in the transferred territory, . , L . , , ia-.u-i.xv. J' . P. Dicks, and at the head of "Powhat came over with the territory and has j an is Mr ,L E. - Walker. Any town ever since been a member of the North- in which three such big-brained and Carolina Conference. No one can tell, j large-hearted men live is bound to pros that he is not a native North Carolin- Per aml Srow' AU three them are iau, so full of zeal for the welfare of his adopted State has his life been. Octo ber 31st, 1878,whenRev. Dr. J. B. Bob- hHr.Sn1rlti1nT?nlr.H,hr.7,,;,,V), AJm.nf, Dr. Black became one of the purcha sers, and he and Rev. F. L. Reid con ducted the paper until Dec. 19th, 1884, when D' Black retired, leaving in sole control Mr. Reid. During these six years, 'although an editor ad beset with the troubles of an. editor, he continued the work of an itinerant, and every year went forth to his charge full of the same earnest desire to do good. Dr. Black has held some of the most, important and honorable positions that the church had to bestow. He has served the lar ger stations, and been Presiding Elder of the most extensive Districts,: and everywhere he has made firm, life-long friends. As a preacher,-a pastor, an executive -officer, he stands among' the first - in "the Conference, ne was, for several months last year, incapacitated for preaching by a stubborn throat trouble, wmcn nas only lately leit him. TTn Jo in lio trlrr.-v -f m o n1-rt-i1 1 prime oi me, ana nas ueiore mm many years of usefulness. .- - ADVOCATE, HAY Kcv. W. S. Creasy. Rev. W. S. Creasy, pastor of Trinity Church, is now in the second year oi his pastorate at. Durham. He is the son ofWra. O. and Sarah Creasy, and was born in Floyd county, Va., May - . t ii c .m,,- in. s, 1st, . - year of his age. He was married ov otn, louj, bo xaibo XiUitu j. oi-o-? Surry county, N. C, and joined the N. C. Conference, at Greensboro, in the winter of 187G. He is just eleven years old as a preacher, but during those years he has been an assiduous worker, and is not cow counted, among the ( young preachers, Dut ne stanus up ; among the old ones, both in usefulness J and devotion to duty. He has done good work for the church and for the Master he serves since he has been in Durham. The great revi vals that stirred Durham last fall were due to his constant, persistent effort, in season and out of season. Day after day and night after night he visited and prayed and preached, until Trinity ! Church was roused, then the influence spread, other churches caught the spir- ! it, and for weeks nearly the whole town 'was awakened. As a preacher he stands high. His people love him. j They speak well to and of him, and 'his work in Durham stamps him as ' an earnest, consistent Christian minis- ; ter. A Sunday at Randleman. For a right royal, good time among 1 royal people we would advise you to go to Randleman. We spent Sunday, May 1st, in that place, preaching at 11 a. m., and delivering a Sundav-school talk at 3 p. m. They fed us well, ! treated us well every way, and worked us well. And then on Mondav morn- i iug, in about 31 hours, we secured over a half hundred new cash subscribers to J the Advocate the best half day's i work ever done for the Advocate, or for any other paper so far as we know. After this statement you may be sure, ; if we had the space to give, we could fill ! a large place with j those clever people. adjectives about They are having a gracious revival. On Sunday ten of the most substantial young men of the place and nine young ladies came to the altar as penitents. The Spirit came down upon us all, cups i ran nver. f.lifi nennlc slirmfn.l nl grauu vicLuries ior ine Piaster Ironi that division of God's militant hosts. Randleman is a rapidly growing and Methodist laymen, and they have two Methodist churches in the place, one of them would adorn a city of large pre- 0,13 JJ1US. -L1 erree ana w aiKer going out into the ;ees nml leading them to the altar of prayer anrl instructing them in spiritual things with the same degree of earnestness that they throw into their business matters. It is no wonder they have such a hold upon the hearts, of the peo ple, and that God is blessing them .with temporal as well as spiritual prosperity- Rev. R. F. Bumpass, their pastor,has the love and implicit- confidence of all the people. He is spending his fourth year among them. The Pastor at Ran dleman is "the man of "the town." They look up to him with respect a- d Jove and confidence. Bra. Bumpass has gone in an-i out among them for nearly four years, and the impress of Ms .beautiful character is upon them. .Their faces brighten at his presence and pne can easily discern that to them he is indecij the "man of.God." . Socially, the visit to us . was , a charm. A night at Mr. and Mrs. Ferree's delighfful lionie, a splendid dining at Mr. 11 p". Dicks', an old school-mate, a night with Bro. Bumpass' clever family, and a dining at the sumptuous table.of Mr. and Mrs. J, E. Walker made una rnnnrl j tliU" na nospicaiury, tne I WtiUui V try ul wmcn win linger -lor msn (Tor tnr menu are under promise to p-a ncram. nnrl Rhn.ll nml wifi, ,.irr,c ,-,,. .opportunity 11, IS87. The International Lessons. Lesson for 3Iay 15th, 1887. THE CALL OF MOSES. Exod. 3: 112. Qoldcu Text." icill be thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt 5a." Ex. 4: 14. INTRODUCTORY. Every element of the providential plan for the deliverance of Israel is now complete, and the day for decisive'ac tion has at last arrived. Forty years of still deeper oppression have followed the first vain attempt of Moses to arouse his countrymen to resistance; but now their sufferings have thoroughly aliena ted them from Egypt, made them will ing to forsake the land of bondage, and disciplined them into strength"for the possession of theii inheritance, vfj Afar in ths Promised Land the iniquity of the Canaanites, too, has been mounting assin2 centuries, and j almost!fulhand the sword of a just judgment is being unsheathed. For forty years Moses has been leading the quiet life of a shepherd in Midian, until his impetuous spirit has been chastened into humility and dependence upon the Almighty. Pas turing his flock in the vales of the wil derness he has gained a knowledge of the region, destined to bs of inestima ble service during the years of wander ing. The hour has come, and the man is ready. As Moses leads his llock by the mountain destined soon to quake and to smoke with the sound of the law, he beholds a strange sight, a bush burn ing, yet unconsumed. He draws near, and hears a voice from the ilame'pro claiming the divine presence, andsum moning him to the work of liberating his people from Egyptian bondage and leading them into their promised inher itance. The experience of fortyyears has so transformed him who once 'was ready to smite down the oppressor that he hesitates, not from fear of man, but from a shrinking timidity and distrust of his own ability forfo great a task. He is reassured by the revelation of the divine Name and character, and onco more commanded to go back tojthe land of bondage, and, single-handed, 'under take the deliverance of Israel. Vincent, There is no doubt a very marked con trast between Moses in the court of Egypt, making his abode in a palace, and surrounded with all the splendors of royalty, and Moses, a humble hire ling shepherd, leading his flocks over the rough places of the desert, sleeping often in the open air, exposed to heat and cold, to weariness and watchings, and living upon the coarsest fare. But as we know that he voluntarily and de liberately made the exchange of one condition for the other, and as we know, too, the motives by which he had been governed in doing it, it would be no matter of surprise could we be assured, as was doubtless the fact, that he was as truly happy while thus traversing the rocky region of Midian, his tent his only shelter, as when treading the mar ble pavements of Egyptian halls, or re posing on couches of state with a crowd of menials prompt to do his pleasure. Busn : TH0UG3TS OX THE LESSON. BY PRES. J. II. CARLISLE, LL.D. A very few pages tell us all we know about forty jrears in life of Moses. the prime of the The long Red Sea, at its Northern end, sends out two narrow gulfs, one running Northeast, the other North west. Between these gulfs lies a trian gular country, in shape and size very mucn like South Carolina. Not far from the centre of "Sinai Peninsula." as. it is called, there is a remarkable group of mountains somewhat circular and about thirty miles across. In this mountain region and its vicinity Moses spent these forty years. All travelers are struck with the view presented from anyone of the peaks. We may here after notice the "central mi n,nof markable mountain, Sinai. For the present we give an extract from Geikic Which mav lio.ln ihn rno,ln,.o ' 1' -" i nuw o iu picture the scenes with which Moses must have been familiar : "But as a whole the Sinai mountains rank among the wildest regions. From a distance they rise, red and gray hi huge masses and peaks of porphyr 'and granite On all sides lie heaps ofdark asnes of burnt-out volcanic fires or of fragments of porphyry red as wax.- a.xs of rocKS with a green shimmer rise naked and threatening; uncouth, wild crags-tower steeply above mounds of black and.brown stones, which look as if they had been broken by the hnm mers of giants. The horizcS takes now foims with -every short advance, as one closed m valley rises abb.ve another sublimity of - the lanflsn. ::hQ "U1 G fiH. vs each new level IS iii?, "luuuiains rise" huge ca. s on tQ the next .plateau theV seem to,snrink.mto.tamenesS before the new giants .that encircle the way 'Vvw T a pamteiV said Ebers, 'and coul 1 i il lustrate, Dante's lnferno, I woipd have pitched my camp stool 1 ere and avb fi11r1 mv sketch hnrVL- f-i. 41 """" . ------- 7r-v iVi tuere . . 7 - viivi c r f TTr ha wanting in iha - nv " - o - limner qj- ji th fprri hlv. immeasurahlv sni im..u. ?e wild, unapproachably grand and awffi The influence of such a district o7 mind like that of Moses must hn been great. No region more favoraW to the attainments of a lofty conco tionof the Almighty conld have ho?" found. Nature, bv the want of watn and the poverty of vegetation, is int1 sely simple, presenting no variety tn dissipate and confuse the mind T grand, sublimely silent mountain' worl i around, with its bold, abrupt masses or granite, greenstone and porpliyry fiu the spirit with a solemn earnesitnes which the wide horizon from the ne-ii-and the wonderful purity of the air ten l to heighten. The wanderer looks down for example, from the top of jGUi Musa, the Mount of Moses, with shuddering horror into the abyss beW and round on the countless pinnacle and peaks, cliffs and precipices of niauv colored rocks, white and gray, suh,).,, rous yellow; blood red and ominou black, entirely bare of vegetation. Such a place was far more fitted than the narrowly hemmed in valley of th Nile, or than Palestine, to call forth great thoughts." The name of Moses' wife, Zippoinh "the little bird," suggests a touch of sentiment and poetry in these wild scenes. His lamily and his llocks filled up the time of the man so well prepare to manage great nations or empires Many commonplace years had prepared him for the uncommon incident oV the burning bush. In a narrow valley, not far from Mount Sinai stands to-day the Convent of St. Catharine. Dr. Durlru spent a few days there in 1813. Q says : "The most sacred place about the whole mountain, in the estimation of the works, is a chapel, behind the altar' covering the identical spot on which the burning bush flamed up before Mo ses. As it was hohy ground we haTto put off our shoes at the door of the chap el. It is adorned with rich lamp and other offerings of pious pilmims and the precise spot where the bu?h is re ported to have stood (a space of three feet by two) is covered with .-i'.vci plates." That may be the true spot, or it may be elsewhere. But sf,me place the monoton" of the shup.herdv life was suddenly interrupted. In some' important sense the power of Gud present in every bush and in evcrv flame. But here he was prcnf in n ., J ' , - "uuiierahii most unusual sense. It was not the bush or the flame that spoke to the pa triarchs. God appeared in visible shape. His personal existence was tints ;:r pressively taught. Now, after long si lence, He appears in a symbol. Mnse would not infer that the God of his fa. ther was in shape like a burning bush. He knew there must be something un common there, and a voice told him dis tinctly who was the mightv aaent. Many years after Moses invoked unoii the house of Joseph "the good will of Him who dwelt in the bush," that splen did, awful sight was no doubt deeply impressed on his memory and often came back to him in hours of loneliness or weakness. Reverence and humility were two leading lessons of th? hour. "Moses was afraid." All fear is not cowardly or depressing. But no words of terror sounded out from that strange thorn bush. That name was not sent to destroy. "I have surely seen the affliction of my people. "" ! know their sorrows." "I a:n ronw d..wn to deliver." The set time to favor the slaves of Egypt had come. It had been said to the proud Egyptian oppre-iors. "thus far, but no farther." Mii.-es i now called to leave his flocks. Eighty years of most unusual training arc- now to show their slow-ripening, piecious fruit. "I will send thee.' V'iio am I?" Somethiug like this s ill occurs in our day. The humble, contented labor er with his plough or his books hears the peremptory command, "I will send thee." Instinctively the answer is given, "Who am I ?" It is comforting to know that Moses went to the verge (or even beyond it) of proper humility in trying to decline. Better that spirit still than for a man to go too rapidly or to go in advance of the heavenly call. In every life there is a sea?ou"of prep aration for some work. The timo comes sooner or later to do it. Let the called one go ever so humbly and distrustful ly, but let him go ! The desert life of Moses did much to enrich the world. It is probable the book of Genesis was written then the oldest history in the world. The hands that bore the crook of the shep herd could wield the peu of the ready writer. Supposing the ninetieth Psalm to have been written by Moses, it too be longed to this period of his lif", it may be. The silence of the mountains by day and by night must have brought great images and impression to the thoughtful, patient man. We can im agine him looking reverently out upon the scenery around him, and taking his pen to write for the instruction of all the coming ages 'Lord, thou hat ben oni place in all generations. Before the mountains wen: l-th. Or ei and th 'fM Thou halst form. 0 li 1-) i WWbj i'-ven lroni everlasting to e v... Thou art God." Remembering the history of hi--pie, there is a touching "cniplia meaning in the prayer : "M.ik-.; u i L- h:d Xik'U &rcin according to the Ihivs wherein hast afflicted us, and the year.- wl: we have seen evil." Snartanuury, S. C. One-fifth of the whole pop-.Iati of England and Wales are in Mm 3' schools, there being 000,000 leachcr.5 and 5,200:OOO scholars. The Sunday-school should I 1 con- verting activity. ' The first grc the earnest and consecrated should' be to lead the pupil to ill li" aim 0; ter diCT oxer' iSC personal repentance, to God, and turn with the whole heart to Christ. Lvcy lesson of Scripture has points leaomg ju this end, and the teacher should v.'iitd) and prayerfully direct them.
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