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THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH.
REV. F. L. REID. Editor
ESTABLISHED 1855.
RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22, 1890.
VOL. XXXV.. NO. 2.
POETRY.
A Living- Faith.
I iivo, and yet not I alone,
For He
Who is the Christ doth find His throne
In me.
And I hall live because He lives ;
Xo end
Shall come to all the joys He gives
nis friend.
Ami here and there it matters not,
I say;
Joys here, l)li-s there; a glorious lot
For aye.
So then with patience let me run
Till I
shall hear the welcome words, "Well done,"
On high.
yew York Christian Advonilr.
COMMUNICATIONS.
For the Advocate.
Letter From Japan.
BY REV. W. A. WILSON.
The fourth session of the Japan
Mission cjnvened the 3rd of Sept.
and closed on the 8th, Bishop Wil
son presiding. The General Confer
ence had made provisions for the
Mission to be erected into anAnnual
Conference, but the Bishop thought
it best to continue the mission for
two years.
The session was a very pleasant
one, and the reports were encourag
ing in every respect. During the year
seven missionaries have been sent
out by the Board. Work has been
found for ail, ami still there are de
mands upon us for more mission
aries, and it is found, by taking ex
tensive fields,the force we have can- j
not occupy, as they should, die points
already opened, much less the points
where effective work might be done, j
Those of the mission who were
engaged in schools have had a most j
i-uccesf ni j'ear, and those who were
on the held were blessed abund
antly. The pi ins for the coming
year have been enlarged and the
brethren have gone to the work
with hopeful hearts trusting in the '
same God, who has blessed us hith
erto. The reports of the work in
the Theological School at Kwansei-goku-in
are encouraging to all who
know how important such a school
will VjeXo our general work, as it
affords training for our Christian
young men who are preparing for
the ministry. Miss Gaines' Girls
School, located at Hiroshima, has
been quite successful, and as the
new buildings have been erected
and are ready for this year, it will no
d ,ubt be greater than before. Un
der serious difficulties, Mrs. J. W.
Lambuth has had a very prosperous
girls' school at Kobe, doing most of
the teaching herself. For the com
ing year this school has been better
provided with teachers: Miss Kate
Harlan being made Principal, and
Miss Bice Bible worker, in connec
tion with the school. The reports
of the ladies of the mission were in
teresting and showed bow impor
tant woman's work is in this mis
sion. Miss Strider and Mrs. Dukes
made a good report of their Sunday
School, and Bib'e work at Matsuy
arna. Mrs. Wainwright's report
showed how well she had worked at
Oita, where no foreign lady had ever
been, much less resided, till she and
Dr. YVaitiwright went to that place
two years ago.
The re ports of the ladies who had
engage 1 in Sunday-school work were
very encouraging. I wish to men
tion some of the touching incidents
in Mrs. Newton's report. Her work
has been in one of the villages near
Kobe. She had great encourage
ment in her work and this incited
the Buddhist priests to oppose her
work and they effected their designs
by influencing the villagers to re
fuse to rent a house. Her children
tnn tinned to follow her, and as she
v'as driven from house to house, she
succeeded in getting a shed and
patting matting on the ground, she
p-: up her work, and the numbers
and interest increased all the time.
Mrs. Newton told them of our
common Heavenly Father, and the
homo he has prepared for the faith
ful, the little waifs and outcasts
would ask these questions: "When
shall I see Jesus?" 44 When
shall I go to heaven?" These chil
dren have gotten some knowledge
of the Bible from Mrs. Newton's
teaching and are so impressed with
tQe character of Christ that his
name will always be a charm to i
them. During the vacation months
the Theological students, helped
by the native Missionary Society,
have been laboring in various parts
of our mission and they made en
couraging reports of their labors.
We may hope to be aided greatly by
these young men as they receive
Theological training.
The cry of all is that we need re
inforcements, and we hope that the
number for whom provisions were
made will soon be on the field.
Yornaguchi is to be supplied and
can't be worked, even visited, until
some one comes from home.
Mrs. J. W. Lambuth in her report
insisted that we could employ
twenty-four women, and any one
wdio knows the needs of the work
here would not question the wis
dom of sending out that nuaiber at
once. There are nine large towns
and cities where we have work al
ready opened, and the services of
lady Missionaries is imperative in
these places in order that the work
among the women may succeed. If
men had the tact to labor effectively
among Japanese women, the preju
dices among Japanese against such
work would have a bad effect on his
work among men.
Miss Gaines has long needed a
music teacher in her school, and as
the school is on such a good basis
the need is much greater than ever
before. At Oita, where my work is
to be for this year, the people are very
anxious for a girls' school, and as we
have no one, an opportunity for a
ni)st excellent work must go un
noticed, and my work will be badly
crippled, as I shall be limited in my
work to men, or nearly so.
My field of labor lies on the South
west boundary of our mission, about
three hundred miles from Kobe, and
is the most destitute part of the
whole empire, and there is the most
bitter opposition to Christianity. I
suppose there will be no other Jt'ro
testant Missionary in this whole
province of more than one million of
souls, and there will be no other
woik done among these people than
an occasional visit by some one of
the missionaries of the English
Church. Surely this is a time for us
to pray the Lord of the harvest to
send forth more laborers into his
vineyard. In this province there is
very little work done by the natives,
so those helping the Lord against
the mighty are few and the diffi
culty of not knowing the language
with many other obstacles seem to
indicate that we could do but little.
I h ive a good interpreter, and am
trusting in God, and not in my own
strength, and willingly leave the
results with Him. God has carried
on the work here under just such
difficulties until there are thousands
of Christians in this land. We be
lieve that God is going to triumph
in this land, "and that right early."
Oh, that the chuich at home would
see that we need more laborers and
see that such as are needed were
sent to our help.
Oita, Japan, Sept. dth, 1S00.
For the Advocate.
Who Shall Muzzle the Ox?
Dear Bro. 11 eid : It may be that
your answer in the Advocate of Sept.
2nd was not the proper one. I have
been so busy for thirty-live years, try
ing to do the duties of a Methodist
preacher, that I have not had time to
inquire how far others came short. I
have never allowed laymen to talk to
me about the failings of other pastors.
I had taken for granted that all our
preachers were industrious and faith
ful. The question lately put to you
indicates that somebody thinks some
one is not faithful. A prominent
Methodist, whom I have -known and
loved for nearly forty years, writes me
a very serious letter on the subject."
He says your "answer is not proper,
lie says : "The preacher agrees to do
a certain work, and if he fails to do
the work or meet his obligation he
should not be paid for it."
Paul, says (I. Cor. 9. 14.) -"Even so
hath the Lord ordained that they which
preach the gospel should live of the
gospel." The same apostle says (2nd
Thess. 3: 10.) "If any would not work,
neither should he eat." He quotes
from Moses : "Thou shalt not muzzle
the mouth of the ox that treadeth out
the corn." But I'm sure Paul would
promptly muzzle any fat, stubborn ox
that refused to tread out the corn. The
question seems to be. Who shall "muz
zle" the fellow?
I understood the Editor to advise the
stewards to pay the unfaithful preach
er, and complain to the Elder. How
would that correct the evil? The
Bishop would send him to another
charge to neglect his work and be paid.
To leave the matter of salary to tfie
likes and dislikes of individual mem
bers would not be well, for some are
always hunting for an excuse to neg
lect their duty. People objected to
Jolm the Baptist on one ground, and
to Jesu3 on just the opposite.
Let the stewards meet such a case in
a manly way. The Discipline requires
them to tell their preacher what they
think wrong in him. Let them do
this in their official capacity as a body.
If he does not mind his ways, let the
stewards, in the fear of God, pay him
for what work he has done, and then
send up to the Annual Conference an .
official request for the arrest of his
character under Question 20.
A. D. Betts.
(We give Bro. Betts the privilege
of expressing his views in opposi
tion to ours. It may be that his
plan is the better one, but we think
it better first to pay the preacher
what has been agreed upon and
then enter complaints against him,
if he has not done his duty. Let the
stewards fulfill their part of the con
tract, and then they can with more
consistency charge the preacher
with a failure to fulfill his part of it.
If ne fails in his part of tne contract
and they in theirs, they are both in
the same boat. It is certainly not
the duty of the stewards "to muzzle
the ox." Ed.
For the Advocate.
A Word From Weaverville.
BR REV. J. A. REAGAN, M. D.
Mr. Editor: I like the spirit and
matter of Dr. CrowelFs articles in
the Advocate, and Methodist. They
are instructive, sensible, and should
be read and thoroughly digested by
all. That article in the Methodist
on "Better go it alone," should be
well studied by young men seeking
an education, their parents and
friends. A young man destitute of
energy will do no good, while young,
or iu afterlife. Give me a young man
full of energy and self reliance let
him have pure religion, and the
world, and the church will hear
from him in years to come; but when
a young man feels that if he gets
out of money his parents and friends
will supply his wants, so that he
can smoke cigarettes, read novels,
spend his time with the young
ladies, and, as he has it, have a good
time. I do not care how much talent
he may have it will remain latent
he will never set the world a
fire unless he pores kerosene oil on
it and applies a match. The good
he will do can be expressed by the
right hand figure iu the number ten.
While reading the Doctor's articles,
and thanking over the big state of
North Carolina, with her large j
Methodist population, the idea sug
gested itself to mc: Why not make
New Trinity, a great North Caro- j
lina, Methodist University for the
whole state, and adjoining states ?
And let us have colleges, where they
are needed for the benefit of those
who can not attend the University,
besides colleges are feeders of Uni
versities. Vanderbilt is a great,
and good school, but there are hun
dreds who would take a University
education that can not go to Nash
ville. Durham is a growing town,
and will soon be a city. We have
many wealthy men there, and else
where in the State, and adjoining
States, that would contribute to an
enterprise of this kind. One Uni
versity is not enough for the grow
ing SouthernMethodists States see
this, in au educational sense, and
establish, or are arranging to estab
lish Universities in every State.
Let us have a grand Methodist Uni
verity in the Old North State. We
need it, and there are willing hearts,'
with means that would gladly help
in this grand work. Old Trinity
could remain where she is, as that
section needs a school, as does the
good people, West of the Blue Ridge,
need Weaverville.
. By the way, Weaverville opens
with brighter prospects than she has
ever had. Young men from differ
ent parts are here, while families
are renting houses, and moving in
to educate their children. In fact
every house and cabin is now full,
and several are building there have
been some twelve or fourteen lots
recently sold for building purposes.
There is no need of pressing, quar
relling, or using unfair means to get
students to a particular school. Let
all do good work, true work, just
such work as the church requires,
and such as will be appoved of God,
and all will have as much as they
can do. "Let brotherly love con
tinue." Work for God, and the
rising generation. Prepare the
young men and women of the church
to take the place of the old as they
are called home. May God help us
a a church to do our whole duty in
this noble work.
I fear the church is not working
the young as they might. When I
was converted and joined the church,
the firt class meeting I attended
they called on me to pray. It scared
me badly, but I have Jnever shrunk
from any cross, no matter how
heavy. All the young of that day
were put to work early after conver
sion. The best time to break a
horse is while he is young tha best
time to shape a tree is while it is a
small sprout the time to make a
good working Christian is while he
is full of early love. Let him be
come well established in a do
nothing state or habit, and you cau
never make a worker out of him.
Let us have a grand Methodist
University to train young men to
work. Let us have colleges to edu
cate them in all the branches neces
sary to be taught in college, and let
us have prayer and class meetings j
to Keep tne nre Durning in me neart,
and Methodism will then be what it
ought in our grand old State.
For the Advocate.
Our Washington Letter.
'(From our jugular Correspondent.')
"Despise not small things," has
been ringing in my head ever since
I heard a story of how a drunken
tramp was reformed by the thought
i d kindness of a dear little girl.
The story vvas told at a child's
. empera-ijce meeting, and believing
ivto be woiiuy of repeating I pre
sent a synopsis of it: Two little
girls playing in a park discovered a
drunken man asleep. One of them
said : "Oh, dear, the hot sun is shin
ing right in the poor man's face,"
and taking her dainty little handker
chief she carefully spread it over
the swollen and sodden features of
the sleeping drunkard. An hour
later the man awoke and putting
his hand to his face discovered the
child's handkerchief, which he
spread out on his lap and wondered
where it came from, and whether
he could get a drink in exchange for
it. Suddenly the tears arose in his
swollen eyes. He had noted a name
in one corner, Nelly Blank. Once
he had had a happy little girl named
Nelly, but that was years ago, be
fore the rum fiend had owned him.
After a long struggle with the emo
tions aroused by the name of the
owner of the handkerchief, the man
jumped to his feet determined to
again assert his manhood and defy
the liquor demon. Placing the
handkerchief in his bosom he start
ed in search of work. After trying in
many places and being refused on
account of his dissipated appearance
he found himself in a large store
arguring with the porter to let him
see the proprietor. That gentleman
happened to overhear a part of the
conversation and being struck by
earnestness of the tramp's voice he
invited him into his private office.
The tramp took advantage of the
opportunity, told the story of his
determination to reform and produc
ed the child's handkerchief as an
evidence of his good faith. As the
merchant took the handkerchief and
observed the name thereon hfs hand
shook and he turned away his head
to wipe the moisture from his eyes.
After engaging the tramp to work
for him and giving him a small
amount of money to provide for his
immediate necessities the merchant
said he would like to carry the hand
kerchief home, and promised to re
turn it the next morning. Can't
you guess the rest? Nelly Blank
wTas the merchant's little daughter,
and that handkerchief is to-day the
most highly prized souvenir in the
possession of that reformed drunk
ard, who has for some years been a
member of the great mercantile firm
of Blank & Co.
Two hours after my last letter
was mailed the President vetoed the
bill prohibiting pool selling in this
District because of its excepting the
grounds of the Washington Jockey j
Club from its provisions. Mr. liar- j
rison thinks this form of gambling j
should be prohibited everywhere. I
agree with him, but judging from
past experience it will be extremely
difficult to get a bill through Con
gress to do it.
The Rev. Charles W. Baldwin,
who has given the subject a most
careful study, says the people of
Washington spend more than 6000,
000 a year for liquors, which is at
the rate of about $20,000 for each
working day.
A new Temperance organization
to be known as "The Total Absti
nence; Union of the District of Co
lumbia" has been organized. It is
non-partisan and non-sectarian and
starts out with a membership of
about; fifty.
The growth of Temperance in
Washington is practically illustrat
ed by the Gospel Temperance So
ciety which this week celebrated its
ninth'anniversary. It now has more
than six hundred members.
The silver anniversary of die
Order of Good Tem piers which oc
curs November 25th, is to be enthu
siastically celebrated here. The
Grand Lodge has appointed a com
mittee to arrange a programme
covering several days, and it is con
fidently expected that Dr. Oranhy
atekha, of Toronto, Canada, who is
the official head of the order in
America, will be present. It is cer
tain that the Grand Lodges of Vir
ginia and Maryland will take part
in the exercises. The Good Tem
plars have reason to be proud of the
record made by the order during its
twenty five years cf existence.
The sixteenth annual session of
the Catholic Young Men's National
Union is now being held here. There
are three hundred delegates present,
representing the united States and
Canada. Cardinal Gibbons,- Bishop
Kearje, and other dignataries of the
Catholic Church are here.
Mrs. Flora Adams Darling is to
organize the National Society of the
Daughters of the-Revolution nxt
Saturday. All ladies are eligible to
membership whose forefathers aided
in any manner the American cause
during the Revolutionary War.
Washington, I). V.
For the Advocate.
Correspondence.
Virginia
BY REV. JOHN E. EDWARDS, D. D.
HIGHLY COLORED RHETORIC
My attention was arrested by an
editorial in the Raleigh Advocate,
of Oct. 8th. under the head of "Col
ored Rhetoric in Canada." The
question arose in my mind, can it
be that we are never to have an end
of this highly "colored rhetoric?"
Are we in all time to come, to have
these mendacious utterances from
the press and the pulpit; from Bish
ops and other clergy, from genera
tion to generation, repeating
traditional lies? Is there
to
be no end of it? The edi
torial comment on the passage,
quoted from the fraternal address
of the negro representative at the
late Canada Conference, places the
speaker in an attitude that is very
equivocal, to say the least of it. He
deals in rabid, lying abolition rhe
toric;that has become stale by repe
tition. The vile calumniator is either
very ignorant, or he is a malicious
falsifier of the facts of history. Hap
pily, the inflated rhet orican was in
the presence of the Canada Metho
dists, and not before the General
Conference of the northern branch
of the Methodist Church in the
United States, where his bombast
would have been applauded to the
echo. The Canada Methodists knew
that it was fiction, not fact he was
uttering. This representative of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church
on the occasion referred to, drew on
his imagination lor his facts. The
Editor, in his comment, is felicitous
in suggesting an amendment to, or
a substitute for the passage quoted.
The colored representative, before
the Canada Methodists, might have
said, with more of truth and com
mon honesty that he wTas born of
parents, recently cannibals; that he
was indebted to negro slavery for
the position he holds, as the repre
sentative of his race in this country;
that the church of which he boasts
had never ex.isted, but for slavery,
and that his race owed a debt to the
white missionaries who labored
among the slaves of the South that
could never be repaid. No, the
blind, bigoted slanderer was not
honest enough to state the facts in
the case. And this is all that Xuutt-
em Mtthoditts are to get to say
nothing of other denominations for
the long years of patient, self-denying
iaboi bestowed on the negroes
of the South during the days of
slavery ! Who started the slaves on
the path of moral and religious im
provement? Not Northern fa
natics, and "blood and thundtr"
abolitionists: No! It was the white
missionaries who labored with the
slaves on the rice and cotton planta
tions of the Soutu. The Methodists
alone had gathered more than 200,
000 of them into church fellowship
before the close of the war; and up
to 1850, and even later, in some pas
toral charges, the negroes worshiped
in the same houses, communed at
the same chancel, and were presided
over by the same pastor that had
charge of the white membership.
More thantli.it, in a considerable
number of the pastoral charges in
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and
Louisiana, especially in the towns
and cities the colored membership
was largely in excess of the whites.
When 1 left the Newbern Station
in 1842, there were more than twice
as many colored members than there
were of white members. So in Nor
folk, Va., in 1810-00, in the old
Cumberland Street charge, there
were two or three colored members to
one white. I held their Leader's
Meeting!-, gave them the commun
ion, and had pastoral oversight of
them. This usage prevailed to a
much greater extent iu South Caro
lina, Georgia and other Southern
States in slave times. In the Louisi
ana Conference, as late as 1815, there
were more slaves in church mem
bership th-iii white members. And
vet this boiibastic
negro
ranter,
representing the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, would have his
hearers to believe that despite the
cruelty,- "lash," - "bloodhounds," -"superstition,"
"ignorance," "ab
ject slavery," his race had risen by
their own efforts, hi4 church had
risen to its present gigantic propor
tions. The labors of such men as
Bishops Capers, Andrews, and
Wightman, in the earlier years of
their ministry, and the graves of
our white missionaries now plough
ed over and forgotten in all the
Southern States, and the faithful
labors of white pastors who preach
ed to the negroes regularly, for
years and years, bear testimony to the
falsity of the blatant representative
of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, in his speech before the
Canada Methodists. Slaves, by the
hundred thousand, will rise in the
judgment to testify against the ar
rogance, ingratitude, and misiepre
se? nation of the representative, and
the like of him, who utterly ignore
i the labors bestowed on the slaves of
the South, before such ingrates were
born.
The slaves, in chuich member
ship with the whites, were attached
to their pastors. Many, very many
of them were patterns of piety; and
had it not been for the intermeddl
ing of Northern preachers ai d poli
ticians they would have remained in
pleasant fraternal relations with
the Methodist Episcopal Chuich,
South. Only a handful, com para
tively, adhered to the Colored Meth
odist Episcopal Church, in Ameri
ca, which holds an affiliated rela
tion to the Southern Me hodist
Church. They have been decoyed
off from us by misrepresentation;
and yet many of them know that
the very best friends they ever had
the friends that had done more for
them, in the way of religious in
struction than any others, were the
Methodist preachers, who preached
to them, prayed with them, baptized
their children, buried their dead.
Such vile slanderers, and boastful
braggarts as the representative,
fraternal messenger to the Canada
General Conference would try to
make it appear that, since slavery
was abolished, the negroes by their
native grandeur of character had
risen to the dignity and influence of
the church he represents. Accord
ing to his viewr, the negro by his "in
dependent sponteneity," as Dr. Ros
ser would say, has proken off his
ignorance, superstition, and debase
ment, and assumed his high position
in the scale of being.
Lynchburg, Va. Oct. Wth, '90.
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