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II r. $2.00 PER ANNUM. THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. REV. F. L. REID, Editor. ESTABLISHED 1855. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1889. VOL. XXXIY., NO. 5. 1 'J 1 ' " For the Advocate. Our Georgia Correspondence. BY KEY. G. G. SMITH. :-:A happy new year to ray many readers, and my many friends in the Old North State ! I give to all a real Georgia greeting. Once the Widow Bedott had an enterview with Tim Crane, the Deacon. The ' good Deacon was necessarily silent, and the Widow as they parted said, very warmly : 4 'I have been might ily pleased to hear you, talk Mr. Crane," So, I who have done all the talking to your readers for these few years past, have been delighted with these interviews. The Editor says I must begin again, and gently . hints that he would be glad for me to be more regular in my letters. Well, 1 hope 1 will be, and as the ' new year is the time for making good resolves, and promises, I will begin by promising to do better. On the South Carlina Coast there is a dish called "Hopping John." It is mad e of peas, rice, bacon, and in season of tomatoes. It is highly sometimes seasoned with red pep per, and is a savory dish. 3ly let ters are somewhat of this kind, a lit tle of this, and a little of that, with now and then a little of the peppery. I am afraid my few Northern read ers will say that in my life of Bishop Pierce, I put in too much Cayenne. They are decidedly of the opinion that their bye gones should abide, but our bye gones should be buried; let the dead past bury its dead, mi less it should be aNorthern past, then let the dead past live torever. Bisn ou Pierce was a Southerner of the Southerners. He never was recon structed. He believed the war was an an iniquity, while it was goin on. and he believed it to the end. He said some very hard things about our Northern foes, and he never took them back. He forgave, but he never justified. He was recon ciled to the North, but he was never satisfied it was right. In writing his life this thing appeared on the sur lace: could l as an nonest man re fuse to bring it out? I could have - refused to have written the hpok pt -yrrrir v vrinm xiid vrxite it, i was v obliged to tell the sfcory just as it j was. l ne tjamornia JLavocate i E. C.) says, and others this side of the line, sometimes say also: " ought to have suppressed.'''' A sup pression of the truth is a falsehood and a biographer who flatters is no - worse than a biographer who con ceals an essential fact. If Dr. Crooks, who is writing the life of Bishop Simpson, should make it ap pear that this great diplomat was not Mr. Lincoln's close counsellor, and not the most powerful ecclesias tic of the Civil, war, he Will not tell the truth, and when his book ap pears, you will find that he brings lt.out clear as day. But there is pepper in that war sermon as sure as you live. More splendid diction, more mafinigcent declamation, more -fearless utterance, was not in all these stirring days, but in the fire Of the most burning day, he turned not aside, nor did he allow the Con ferences to turn aside when they were in session from their main and only duty to work for souls. Speak ing of the book I ought to say here that T.J. Gattis and Son of Dur ham are General Agents of the book and will send it to any of your read ers who wish a copy, or appoint agents in any part of North Caro lina. My visit to Newbern was very short, but very interesting. I had heard so much of this Old City on the Sound, and was not loath to take the long journey to this home of my Ancestors. In the early part of the -18th century, Louis XIV ravaged the Patituats and drove 20,000 Ger mans to ocher lands. Queen Anne found herself with more Tentons than she could very well provide for, i and she was anxious to get them off her hands, and so she sent some to Pennsylvania, and some to North Carolina, with the Swiss Ba rou Graff enreid, and among these came my Ancestors, and here they 'lived, and in Onslow below my grandfather Howard was born and my great grandfather Hall, ran his farm, and in these very cypress swamps his negroes made shingles, for the Newbern market. I much enjoyed the quaint old city. I had but little time to see anybody, but the brethern of the Conference room, but the warm hospitality of the people and preachers made my stay delightful. How few of your readers have ever seen the North Carolina Conference and how few of them realize what it is. It is the largest Methodist Conference in the United States I think. It covers more ground, has more members, .demands greater sacrifices, presents a grater variety of features than any other in the old States of the connection. Take a preacher born in Hyde and send him to Burke, or a preacher brought up on the Yad tkin, and put him on the lower Cape Fear. Let the man who has drank from the bubbling springs about Mt. lAiry, drink from the cypress tanks of Eastern shore. Let the boy who spent his youth, under the shadows of the Blue Ridge, be sent his first fyear to the Islands, on the sound, and I can concieve no greater sur- prise. It is remarkable that body, can hold however harmony. so large a with such I was very much impressed with certain characteristics, or what ap peared to me to be such amoni? your preachers, and in your work. The large number of good circuits, the sturdiness and manliness of the preachers, the democracy of the body. When I see some men of small cir cuits, with small salaries, who in other Conferences I find in the chief places, and when I see some of your leading places, taking without ques tion or complaint, the old and faith ful veterans, who in some other Con ference I have seen forced to give place to the smart boys, just from College, I think the North Carolina Conference has kept herself to the true idea of the itinerancy. But it is a dangerous matter to talk of living men. If you rebuke they will grow angry, and if you please you are likely to flatter. I saw but one door which I felt ought to be watched. It was laying two much stress on the building of fine churches,and giving a handsome support to the preach er. Whenever a good place is the one in which they "praise the preach ers sermons, and give him things," and do no more, then I fear danger. This however is not the danger in North Carolina alone, nor greater there than elsewhere. The grand devotion of some of your preachers to duty, and the cheerfulness with which they take the hardest work, and the poorest pay, !is a beautiful illustration of the fact that the danger of which I have spoken, al though it may exist, has but little power. There were more clerical coats at Newbern, than-anywhere I have been, (Jurney did not wear one.) The clerical coat is attended sometimes by the clerical tone, and clerical air, and the clerical preten sion, and we become too profession al. I don't want everybody to wear a business suit like I do, nor do I object to the clergyman's coat, but the old shad belly was at last Meth odistic; and nobody could accuse one of seeking to ifiLtate the Apostoli cally ordained Church Priest, but "de-gustibus non dispufnndumest." I enjoyed my visit very much and was sorry I could not prolong it. I have been much on the wing. After leaving you I spent a few days at Winnsboro, with my South Caro lina brethren. Like yourselves they are greatly exercised about a College, about Wofford, as you are about Trinity. Whether as denominations we can hold our own against State Colleges, which not only receive sup port from the State, but charge no tuition, is a question. Sometimes I will show mine opinion as to the course to be taken. My South Caro lina brethren were, as always, kind, and I had a pleasant visit to them. 1 hen home for a night, and then my own Conference to the Gulf shores at Mobile and New Orleans, and my Conference campaign end ed. Conferences are much alike every where, but each one has its individ ual feature, and its strong points. We do not see the best of the preach ers at these sessions. The semi se cular character of our work, the new adjustments necessary, and the conflict of opinions resulting perhaps in the too great abandon of social life, the abhorrence of cant,and the heroic disposition to conceal our conflicts and trials, make us appear a more wordly, jolly set, than we really are, and make us seem more ambi tious and self-seeking than the facts justify. Perhaps my intercourse with our preachers has been more extensive than that of any man now in the connection except a Bishop, or one who like, Dr. Kelley and Dr. Young,had been lonsr a connectional officer, and I avow my faith, that a truer, nobler, more consecrated set of men than the Methodist preach ers, are not in the wide world, Edi tors included. For the Advocate. Reply to Rev. Dr. IS. A. Yatrs. Mr. Editor : You may say to Rev. E. A. Yates, D. D., that the extract from the Nashville Advocate, so severely criticised by him, was ex cerpted from a letter to one of the Advocates by Gilderoy. The con nection in the letter gave pertinency and point to this extract. I have no disposition to "shoot at the Bishops, Elders,'' or any one else; and I've no disposition to "crack my whip" over anybody, or to "drive1' anything. If I am not mistaken the Bible is laid down in the course of study, among other books of theology, and I have thought it would be well for preachers to be well up in the word of God, even if they were a lit tle dull on Watson, Wesler and Fletcher. I have known a few preachers in my life who could quote Wesley and Watson more accurately and more readily.than they could repeat the Scriptures. The word of God is, I am glad to say, "magnified" in the course of study, but more than once, I have seen it almost wholly left out of the examinations at Conference. It seems to have been taken for granted by the committee than preachers put the Bible first in their studies; and yet young men may be come so absorbed in other books that they will neglect "the Book." In was younger myself. The I made Master the Scriptures," and I only meant to reiterate his words. Anyway I shall still insist that a profound acquaintance with God's holy word is the very best furnish ing a preacher can have. I would out the Bible first, and all the other 3ooks second. They are only side isdits to shine on the holy book. will say further, that in matters of repartee, Irish wit and sharp sayings 1 yield the palim to no man, but 1 re serve these things for social life, where the tone and manner will make them a matter of humor and pleasantry. Tone and manner can not be transferred to the written or printed page. I desire to add that am not well enough up in Latin to translate Dr. Yates' quotations in this article. If they had been quo tations from the Bible I could have verified them in a moment or two, but as it is, thev are all Latin to me. I am sure that I can establish 'the importance of studying the Bible, by Scripture more strongly and more easily than Dr. Yates can prove m the same wav, the importance of Watson, Wesley and Tigert's Logic, with his "conceptualisms" thrown in. I consider the Bible the best and most important book for a preacher; and now if Dr. Yates thinks Wesley, Watson and Tigert better or more important books, w e will at once join issue and discuss the question. What say you, Doctor ? Yours, Gilderoy For the Advocate. Our Ijetter From Baltimore. BY DR. STEPHEN B. WEEKS. Mr. Editor : I have been reading recently a book just issued by Funk and W agnails, entitled : "lne Pres idential campaign of 1896 : a Scrap Book Chronicle, by an Editor of that Period." This book has a strange fascination about it to say the least. It is addressed to a student of Yale and is dated 1925. The author says in his letter of dedication that chief and foremost among the averted daggers, which have threatened the Republic, he places that ?ne in with the combined forces of social ism, anarchy and atheism. This is the tripple alliance against which the best people of the land are call ed to fight. From our point of view the book is necessarily of a prophetic nature, and is made up of clippings from newspapers of the day. The parties are national and labor. The national party represents the best elements of all now existing parties. There is no longer democrat, repub lican, or prohibitionist. There is no North, no South, no East, no West. There is one people, and that people in its grandeur is united against the combined forces of labor, and when the term labor is used, it is not in the sense of honest, industrious, law abiding, Sabbath-loving, liquor-hating, God-fearing labor, but under this name are united the foreign elements in our State. The Irish and Germans lead on the hosts of non-Americans against the bulwarks of the liberty, union, peaceand pros perity of our people. The book opens with a quotation from the New York Times, of May 20th, 1S9C, which in giving a resume of the political outlook, says : "The ebb tide of anti-American arrogance, ig norance, and fanaticism has already set in, promising ere long to sweep away with it all the flimsy imported fabric of anarchy and atheism, and to make way for a return to those pure principles and honored tradi tions bequeathed us by our forefath ers, the founders of the Republic." In the campaign of 1892 the nation alist candidates had been chosen only by the votes of four labor elec tors, who had in the mean time experienced a changeof opinion. In 189G the nationist ticket is led by Charles FrancisAdams,of Mass., and and Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, their supporters are all the name implies. The contest is long and bitter, but the struggle is ended by the success of the nationalist cause, and the vol ume closes with a final warning to the American people to remember that "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." The author is unknown, a pre vious volume of his, "The Battle of Bietigheim,"is creating much inter est in Europe, and has been confis cated on the Austrian frontier. It is written in the battle of Dr. King Style, and will call attention to the defenseless condition of our coasts. Sunset Cox says, it is a marvel of ra tional ratiocination. Both volumes are published by Funk and Wag nalls, 18 and 20 Astor Place, New York, and may be had for 50 cents each. The "Campaign of 1896," has a pleasing style, has all the circum stantial minuteness and accuracy of Dean Swift, or DeFoe, and at times makes us believe that the peiiod represented has already passed. The predictions in this book, may not be fulfilled in 1896. The country may not then be entirely ripe for the struggle. Some political economists say that the time is "not yet," but come it will, and there are not a few who will welcome its coming; for the forces of the enemy are forming, and must be overcome, or what mean those schools in Chicago, where children are taught to hate law and order, and to defy, and defame deed, when I that mistake said, "Search the government that has succored and sheltered their homeless parents, and where they are taught to can onize as saints and martyrs murder el's, who have perished by the hang man's halter. There is another side too, and this is of more interest to us of the South. It is the era of good feeling predicted, no North, no South, a time of honesty and justice a return to the earlier days. Bri bery and whiskey, the bloody shirt, and the negro are the ruling ele ments in politics of to-day. Decent and upright men are too often driven from the field in disgust and the government given up to a kakisto cracy. This should not be. It is the duty of every man to take part in politics, by word, by deed and pen. He must frown down all that smacks of dishonesty. He must work for the good of the whole peo ple. He must be national. When the better class of men, persons who now consider themselves above the political arena, will come down a lit tle, and do their duty, then we need not fear to meet all the forces of the offscourings of Europe for the right will prevail. ENGLISH AT TIIE JOHNS HOPKINS. It is somewhat remarkable that every new student entering the Johns Hopkins University the past year and making .English his maior study, six in number, is a Southern man, and iurtnermore every man m the University putting his principal work on English is from the South. This is an exceedingly good sign. It is time we were waking up to the fact that there are modern languages besides French and German, and ancient ones besides Latin and Greek. We need more English in our public and graded schools. We should find more of our practical grammar in literature and not con fine ourselves even in the lower classes to the dry grind of excerpts in the shape of "sentences for pars ing." Our University has made rapid strides in the line of Englis since 1S85, and I am glad to know that the Colleges are all following suit. The J. H. U. is especially adapted to tne needs ot our men in thyfcouth. We have had more of liter fry training, here the philologi cal side is emphasized, the two then supplement each other. All of your readers may not know that it was a Methodist preacher, and a graduate of the University of North Carolina who was one of the first to urge the importance of and the first to teach Gothic and Anglo-Saxon in the South. Edward l Jromgoole Sims nas tnis non or. ie was oorn m Virginia in 1805, graduated at our University in 1824 and was for sever al years thereafter a professor in LaGrange College, Ala. In 1831 he joined the Tennesee Conference and after traveling two years was elect ed to the chair of ancient languages in Kanuoipn iuacon. m l&so ne went to Europe and studied for two years in the Univeristy of Halle devoting himself mainly to Gothic and Anglo-Saxon. On his return in 1839 he was tranf erred to the chair of English and began his work, but having no suitable text books in Anglo-Saxon for his classes, he taught them by lessons on the black board, at the same time using the English classics for texts and de livering lectures on Anglo-Saxon as the basis of the English language, lie was called to the Univeristy of Alabama in 1842 and was engaged in the preparation of a series of text books in Anglo-Saxon when cut off by an untimely death in 1846. THE GRAVE OF POE. The grave of a great man is al ways an interesting spot. We stand there in awe and reverence, respect for his genius covers up what faults he may have had. Then.if ever, we allow the good that he nas done to live after him. There, or never, the evil is interred with his bones. Ed gar Allan Poe lies buried in the yard of the Westminister Presby terian Church, corner Fayette and Green streets. He was at first buri ed in the rear of the church, near the grave of his grandfather, Gen. David Poe, but some eight years since he was put in this more con spicuous place. The remains of his wife, Miss Virginia Clem, who was also his cousin, were brought from New York, and with those of her mother now rest under the same sod. The monument was erected by sub scription at the time of the reinter ment, is some eight feet high and .quadrangular in shape. The plinth is of granite, the shaft has on one side the poet's head carved in low relief, and his name. On the opposite is the simple inscription: "Edgar Al lan Poe, born January 20th, 1809, died October 7th, 1849." His works are his own best monument. The Haven speaks more eloquently than the words of a panagyric, and places him in the fore-front of American poets. He has been more grossly slandered, perhaps, than any poet of the century. These charges can generally be traced to Griswold, the author of "Poets and Poetry of America." Most of his allegations have been disproved by men like N. P. Willis, the poet, and George R. Graham, the prietor of Graham's Magazine, with both of whom Poe worked, "and other charges resting solely on the testimony of an implac able enemy and proved liar may be considered as perverted facts and baseless assumptions." The physi cian who attended him in his last fatal illness died only about a month ago. He always stoutly denied that Poe died in a fit of delirium tremens, and always admired and defended the character of a man to whom time will perhaps do justice at last. Johns Ilopkins University, 3Id. For the Advocate. Letter From Rev. P. L. Groome. Having placed my family at Pleas ant Garden with friends of other years to board, where the children can go to school, to one of the best teachers in N. C, Prof. Fentress, who graduated at Trinity College in 1887, I went over to Trinity to see Professors Armstrong and Price, who had spent some years abroad, for such kindly suggestions and ad vice as they might make, and much to my delight and profit, President Crowell placed a very valuable book in my hands that will serve me in making observations on the condi tions of things in Europe. I spent the night with Key. C. 31. Pepper's family, who gave me my start in the ministry, but who, now superannuated, is keeping a boarding house, and by the way a first-class one and near the College. I had the .good fortune to meet Rev. Rufus King, who had been to Palestine, and gave me several valu able hints. Bishop Granbery also very kindly gave me a letter commending me to the confi dence of church people wherever I may go, with the assurance that I should have his prayers in my be half, all of which I most cordially appreciate, with the desire that all my brethren in the N. C. Confer ence will also remember me at a throne of grace. Dr. Young wrote me a few days ago to go first to Egypt and Palestine as the "mer cury would soon be too high for comfort there." I never did like mercury and am purposing to fol low his advice. Farewells said at home, with a small valise as our only traveling companion, I turned my face toward the North. I noticed in passing through Greensboro a great deal of work going on putting in sewerage pipes, they have just put in waterworks, and built a new Railroad to Madison, and will soon have one of the finest bank build ings in the State. Her good people are worthy, and we rejoice in her prosperity. The last familiar faces I saw were those of the gifted Byrd and his young wife, who got off the train as I got on. By way of Jiichmond you reach Washington at 11 a. m., leaving Greensboro at 8 40 p. m. Our engine killed a very fine cow just before reaching the city of Washington we stopped and all went back to look at her except the ladles and children. In Washington I called first at the State Department for my passport, which now costs only &1.00; after which, it being Wednesday, and 31 r. Cleveland's day for receiving visi tors, I called at the White House with about one hundred others to be introduced to the President. It is an informal affair, the President stands in a doorway leading out of the East room,and visitors come up to him, say "howdye do 3Ir. Presi dent and pass out. It is simple and does a little good and no harm. I then went down to the Capitol hoping to get letters of introduction to repre sentative Americans and gentleman abroad from our Senators, but call ing of ayes and nays prevented my seeing Senator Vance, while very important business in N. C. craved the presence of Senator Ransom. I admire the public buildings of Washington enough to write a whole letter about them, but many of the readers of the Advocate have al ready seen them, and others have written them up in better style than I am able to do. In all the travel I hope to make, I do not expect to see any one build ing more magnificent than the Capi tol ot the United States, nor any city more beautiful thn Washing- . t -j n t i ton witn its nne omiumgs aiiu parks. Being detained in the White House until 2 p. m., I missed the train and had to wait till four, but the loss of time was more than com pensated by the acquaintance of a Mr. 3Iiller,' of New York, son of a Presbyterian clergyman. He says in their church they have the Y. P. C. E., i. e. the Young People s Chris tian Endeavor, and that it works admirably. It is the same thing about which I wrote an article in Nov. I formed one of the same at 3It. Tabor on the Granville circuit, with 24 members. It gives each something to do. We are all very fast learning the fact that, to take stock in anything or expend labor, prayer or thought to further a cause, identifies us with that enterprise as we cannot otherwise be. 3Iay be I shall try to inaugurate such a work in our Conference when I return. I reached Jersy City at 11 : 35 p. m. Wednesday and New York next morning at 9 o'clock. I have now been here two days. I stopped at thelnternational Hotel, park row, op posite Post Office first, but as our Steamer leaves tomorrow morning at G., I came down to the Palace Hotel only one square from the pier. m 3Iy first care was to put my cash in me nancisoi .uessrs. Brown Bros., whose letters of credit are honored all over the world where there is a Bank. But they required that I be identified, but Dr. Deems was the only man who knew me in the city. I purposed calling on him for letters of introduction, advice, etc., etc. I found him not. But sometimes when things can't be done one way they can another, so I succeeded by the other. The next thing was to deter mine on which Steamer to go as I wished to make the 3Iediterranean as early as possible. The Cunard and Inman both send vessels to-morrow to Liverpool, also the Red Star Line to Antwerp. But I chose the Gascoyne of the French Line to Havre and bought through ticket to Genoa, with privilege to stop over in Paris, etc. This is the largest and finest boat in the harbor. Capacity 7,000 tons. I chose this also be cause I thou -dm I might nick up a little French on the way. I presume 1 need not dwell on this city much, everything is done on a magnificent scale. Many of the buildings are from 7 to 10 stories high, and high pitched rooms at that. A. T. Stewart's old property occupies a whole square, and is built of stoiw, as are hun dreds of others. Tne Brooklyn Bridge is 1 1-4 miles between gates, about 80 feet wide and 90 feet high, and would hold altogether 50,1)00 people. They ha ve four lines of ele vated steam railways capable Df carrying 200 passengers at a trip; they go about every GO or 70 seconds during the morning and sometimes the cars are full morning and late in the afternoon. They stop every C or 8 blocks, t take passengers on and off. I visited the Cooper Institute. This is a magnificent brown stone build ing opposite the Bible House, 8th Street and Bowery. Here is a free riding-room 100 feet wide,200 long, (lam guessing) with a dozen copies each of two or three hundred news papers, and thousands of volumes of books, tables with chairs and desks for standing are plentifully provid ed for the comfort of the thousands who come here yearly and read and obtain the knowledge they are too poor to buy elsewhere. About 150 were in when I called. Free lectures are given also. Paintings and stat uary are on free exhibition. I felt a thrill of admiration for the benefi cent founder when I departed. I saw the statue of the Father of his country in Wall Street at the treas ury building where he took the oath of office as the 1st President of the United States. I visited the Stock Exchange where men are made pau pers and millionaires by telegraph, and although I have attended many scores of revivals of religion, I have never witnessed such antics as I saw cut there, men yell and scream much, I imagimyislndians celebrate a victory won, but others have writ ten up all this. i noticed a very few colored people in New York, not over a dozen or twenty perhaps. Too cold or too something for Sambo up here. Another thing, 1 have seen less smoking on Broadway than one would in a town of a thousand in habitants, perhaps in N. C. I have seen less than a dozen boys with cigarettes this I thought remarka ble and very creditable. The habit may be to smoke at home, I don't know, only I have not seen it to any extent hardly. I am now aboard and will start in a few'minuets. "The sails r.re spread aii'l fair the North wind blows, As glad to waft him from his native home." Yours truly, Jan. ldth, 1S39. P. L. Gkooml. liaise It. After a whole day of earnest con ference with othera equally anxious with myself, followed by an almost sleepless night, I said at our break fast table a few mornings since: "How can we pay 20,000 of appro priations when we have but 810,000 in money?" Our fifteen-year-old boy promptly answered: "Raise the other $10,000." And this must be done if the ap propriations of last April are all paid soon, We gave warning last Summer, and have been pressing our plea in every way we could ever since, and yet we lack near ten. thousand dol lars of enough to meet these cases, not one of which ought to be defer red. And it can be raised if with one heart and purpose our preachers will everywhere go at once to work and send to their Conference Treasurers, not to me, every possible dollar on the present year's assessment. A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, will bring us through. In the name of the 3Iaster and for His cause let it be done. David 3Iortox, Sec. Z,ouisviUe, Alj., Jan. 19,'A, '89. Do not be afraid to be exceedingly ambitious, but see to it that your ambition is consecrated to its very roots. Con grey ationalist.