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THE ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE M. E, CHURCH, SOUTH- ; 3
REV. F. L. REID, Editor
ESTABLISHED 1855.
RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7, 189!.
VOL. XXXVI., NO. 1.
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POETRY.
Over ami over sixain,
No matter which way 1 turn.
I always fml in tin- hook ( f Hie
Some loson I liae t loani.
I must take my turn at the mill,
I must griiid out 1 1 i gohh'n grain,
I must work at my tak with a roolute
will
Over and over again.
We cannot measuie the need
Of even the thrift How er,
Nor cheek the How of the golden sands
That run tlnough a single hour;
But the morning d w s must fall,
And the sun and the summer rain
Must do their part, and perform it all
Over and ov. r again.
Over and over aga'n
The brook through the meadow llows,
And over and over again
The ponderous mill-wheel goes.
Once doing will not suffice,
Though doing be n t in vain ;
And a bU-ssing failing us once or twice
May come f we try again.
The path that has once been trod
Is never so rough to the feet,
And the lesson we nee have learned
Is never so hard to repeat.
Though sorrowi ul tears must fall,
And the heart to its depths be driven
With storm and tempest, we need them all
To render us meet for heaven.
Joxtphinr Pollard.
lOMMUNICATIONS.
For the Advocate.
Correspondence.
Our Virginia,
BY REV. JOHN E. EDWARDS, D. D.
The beginning of a new year is
fruitful of practical suggestions. "We
have lived to little purpose if we have
learned not something from trie ex
perience and observation of a current
year. The seasons have come and
gone in their turn. God's promise
has not failed since the rainbow
spanned the retiring skirts of the
lust i .dond of the Noahian Floorl :
"Seed time and harvest, and cold
and heat, and summer and wintev,
and day and night," in the steady
march of time, have come and gone.
We have had harvests, more or less
abundant. We have had food to eat
and raiment to put on. A measure
of health has been meted out to us.
If bodily afflictions have befallen us
they have been tempered with God's
loving kindness. If reverses of
temporal fortune have overtaken us,
they have been light in comparison
with what they might have been. If
death has robbed us of some of the
cherished objects of our affection,
we have occasion to thank God that
we have noi 033a bereft of all that
we love. D.trk days may have
come, but sunshine has shimmered
through the clouds. We may look
back upon our misfortunes, "through
the prism of a tear." The Bow of
Hope bends in beauty on the cloud
as it drifts away. "Hope thou in
God, for I shall yet praise him, who
is the health of my countenance."
"Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life."
The experience of the past has in it
the pledge and the prophecy of God's
tender mercy and loving kindness to
the end of life's pilgrimage.
" 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus
far,
And grace will lead me home."
Longfellow's Psalm of Life has
its suggestions, bat, better still,
Joseph Addison's inimitably beauti
ful hymn, beginning;
"When all thy mercies O, my God,
My rising soul surveys"
Let us take hope and courage
from the past, and 'girding up the
loins of our mind,' let us start out
on the new year, invigorated and
strengthened by the lessons gather
ed from the past. God's immutabil
ity and fidelity fully warrant us in
trusting in him for the future. But,
superadded, we have his fatherly
kindness to inspire us with hope and
confidence. "Like as a father pit
ieth his children, so the Lord pit
ieth them that fear him;" and, as if
this were not enough, we have the
addendum; "for he knoweth our
frame, he remembereth that we are
dust." He therefore does not ex
pect impossibilities of us. Take
heart, halting, hesitating, timid and
distrustful Christian. God knows
your infirmities, and constitutional
weaknesses. He is not a hard mast
er, "gathering where he has not
strewed." If he has given you but
one talent he does not expect the im
provement of ttro at your hands.
Then, for your further encourage
ment, as you look hesitatingly to the
untried future, think of G ds preci
ous promises: "I will strengthen
thee," to bear burdens and to en
dure hardness; and as if that were
not enough, he adds; "yea, I will
help thee," and even more than
that; "I will uphold thee." The Bi
ble contains a treasure of promises,
from which we may, at every turn
of life, under every trial of life,
even to the end of life, confidently
believe that the "goodness and
mercy" that have hitherto attended
us will attend us to our journey's
end. We should not be discouraged
because of our weaknesses and in
firmities. Elijah was a man of like
passions as ourselves. Even after
God had answered him by fire, and
sent rain in answer to his prayers,
he became weak and timid, and lied
for his life at the threat of Jezebel to
murder him outright. How could
he doubt the protection of that God
who hid given him such signal vic
tory at Carmel ? And yet he ran in
hot haste from Jezreal to Beersheba
to escape the vengeance of the ex
asperated queen; an I then he went
a day's journey into the wilderness
and lay down under a juniper tree,
and, in sheer exhaustion wished to
die. God knows our frame; he re
membereth we are dust. Cheer up,
cheer up, doubting and distrustful
saint. Your fervent, earnest, and
oft repeated prayers will prove "ef
fectual," notwithstanding your
weaknesses and infirmities.
In the forecast of life, as we now
look ahead at the beginning of a
new year, we see the trials, burd
ens, and anticipated conflicts and
duties of life grouped together, and
forget, for the nonce, that . hey are
to be distributed through three hun
dred and sixty-five days. Let us
learn to live a uay a,t a time. 1 uis
. . 1 a a m 1
IS tilc.SoCret Oi 'LaUoaug Hie S UUtles
comparatively easy. Take no anxi
ous and distressing thought for to
morrow. "Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof." Don't climb
the mountains that lie before you
till you get to them. There, take
them in detail, as they come one at
a time. We suffer more in the an
ticipation of life's trials than in
their realization. "You know not
what shall be on to morrow;" why
then worry yourself with that which
may never come? A day at a time.
This is the God-given secret of a
happy Christian life.
The foregoing homily has been
suggested by the beginning of a new
year. It may prove profitable to
some one. "It is better farther on."
If, in no other respect, certainly in
this, that each successive day car
ries us nearer the end of our jour
ney. "While in this body pent,
Absent from heaven I roam ;
Yet nightly pitch iny moving tent
A day's march nearer home."
Our preachers in the Virginia
Conference are getting settled down
to their work. Happily, most of
them got to their homes before the
severity of the winter set in. We
have had a super-abundance of
snow in the Piedmont region of Vir
ginia. Along the line of the Blue
Ridge the snow lay to the depth of
thirty-five inches, and in sections,
even to a greater aeptn. A more
recent fall of snow, over a wide ex
tent of country, covered the ground
from eight to twelve to fifteen inch
es in depth. The Sunday-school
festivals, during the Christmas holi
days, were greatly abridged in en
loyment by tne cola ana snowy
weather. We sympathized with
the little ones. Just now there
seems to be a check to the "booms"
in real estate. Speculators are hope
ful for the future. We shall see.
"All men have not faith." But, in
any event, "we shall see what we
shall see." There are enough of
lots "staked off" in the cities on
paper,in Virginia, to furnish a free
hold for nearly every family in the
State. Happily the "booms," how
ever they may terminate, have
brought a large amount of Northern
and foreign capital into the "Old
Dominion." Beuna Vista, and per
haps other cities, so called, is an as
sured success.
Lynchburg Va.
iii
Fur the Advocate.
Our Icaf Mutes.
r.Y REV. Z A DOCK PA IMS.
I know that we have older and
abler men than myself to suggest
methods that would facilitate and
hasten the complete Christianizatiou
of the world; but, having for year
closely observed our almost utter
lect of the Deaf Mutes of ou;
land, aad having seen nothing writ
ten concerning their salvation, I
am constrained to call attention ti
this deplorable fact.
Men and women write about
ForeignMissions;and depict in vivid
language the moral degradation oi
the Pagan world, and the millions
of poor wretches that sink annually
into a Christless grave. This is',
right, and every line that falls from
their pen, demands the profoundest
consideration of every man or wo
man through whose breast the milk
of human kindness flows, and into
whose heart the love of God has
been shed.
Men and women wiite also about
Domestic Missions; and paint in
glowing colors the poverty and ig
norance of our people, in certain
sections of our country, who are al
most secluded from the Irietimof
the gospel and civilization; and urge
the necessity and duty of sending '
them the gospel. This is right, and j
should arrest the serious attention j
of every Christian. And I thank j
God that our people are doing more j
for-Domestic and Foreign Missi ns j
than ever before. j
But all this does not exonerate us J
from preaching the Gospel to the j
unfortunate Deaf Mutes. !
I do not know how many we have i
within the bounds of the W. 1ST. j
Conference. We have 10 or 12 on
the Lilesville circuit. There are 133 j
charges in the Conference. Say they !
average 4 to each charge, and doubt- y
less they will, we have over
the Conference.
1 . -
tx great uany 01 tneso
educated, and prepared
for the
some of
secular business of life;
them, but verv few bek
church, and none that I know ever
attend Sunday-school. Judging
from their attendance cn public
worship ocx my charge, I suppose
about one tenth attend church on
the t abbath day; and they being
unable to hear, derive no benefit.
Just think of it! Over 500 souls
right among us every day, totally
neglected, so far as the pulpit is con
cerned. Now, that these persons are enti
tled to the Gospel, is evident from
God's word: "Go ye into all the world
and preach the Gospel to every crea
ture." According to this passage, we
are under just as much obligation to
preach the Gospel to them as any
one else. Hence the question is:
How can we do this most effectually ?
Certainly not through their pa
rents. For some have no parents;
some have wicked parents; and oth
ers have very ignorant parents; and
not only so, but to say that parental
instruction is sufficient for them, is
to say that it is sufficient for all.
Consequently, we would do away
with preaching, and Suaday school
instruction altogether. It cannot
be done through our regular circuit
and station preachers, because they
are not acquainted with the Deaf
Mutes' language, neither is the
Deaf Mute familiar with their langu
age. They just as well be preach
ing to Chinamen as Deaf Mutes, for
neither would understand them.
Hence, the only way to reach them,
is the way we reach all others of a
different language. For, while their
language is the same as ours, their
expression of it is entirely different.
When we want to send the Gospel
to China, we educate a man in the
Chinese language, and so, when we
want to send the Gospel to a Deaf
Mute, we must educate a preacher
in the Deaf Mutes' language, or his
expression of ours.
Numbers of these Deaf Mutes are
worth property, and would be per
fectly willing to help support a
preacher who could preach in their
own language. A great many of
them have parents who would gladly
help support a preacher to preach
to their children.
And so, I think that all we need is
some one to look after this matter;
have a suitable person appointed to
this work; and if he cannot get his
50m
r
support from the Deaf Mutes, then
support him as a Missionary out of
the Domestic Mission Fund. If this
were done, we should not find then,
as we do now, whole families of these
I unfortunate children of Adam, out
! of the church; out of the Sunday
! school; and almost ignorant o: God.
! Then when we shall have taken the
! world for Christ, and all nations
' shuil acknowledge Jesus Christ to
j be Lord to the glory of God the
j Father, there will be no Deaf Mutes
I in our own country, in our own
i homes, and around our own fire
j sides, as there are now, to rise up
I and say : We have not even so much
! as been taught whether there be
any (jurist.- Ana wnen we stand
before the awful bar of God to give
an account of our stewardship here
below, the lost spirits of these per-
sons will not rise up to condemn us,
and send us to hell; but having had
their tongues loo sed, their ears un
stopped, and their robes made white
in the blood of the Lamb, shall to
gether with us, phalanx after phal
anx, sweep through the gates into
the city of God, to hear and sing the
song of the Redeemed forever.
For the Advocate.
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I !l - i 111 !ii ll:il(r
liters,
AND THE POOR WHITE GIRLS OF N. C.
On the morning of Jan. 13th, 188G,
a little company of ten women met
at the residence of Mrs. Frank Bot
tome, of New York City, and de
termined to organize themselves in
to a sisterhood of service, hoping by
this closer union to increase their
usefulness many fold. The new order
named itself The King's Daughters,
(Psa. 45) and cno.se for their badge a
ribbon of the royal color worn with,
or without the Maltese Cross; for
their motto:
Lo k up, not down,
Look forward, not backward,
Look rut ;nd not in,
L-.H'd a baud ;
ma lot- tneir walcnwtau,
La iiis
Name."
The King's Daughters are re
sponsible only to the King for their
choice of a field of labor, hence in all
details relating to work, there is
largest liberty, the object being to
unite women willing, or eager to do
the Master's work in a way to se
cure to each, the sympathy and co
operation of all, and to induce all to
widen the circle of helpfulness by
drawing into it constantly more and
more hands to work for humanity,
and more and more hearts to love
the King.
Such in brief, is the origin and
object of the Order known as The
King's Daughters, gathered from
Leaflet No. 1. It has grown so
rapidly as now to girdle the globe.
It is so elastic that Christians of all
denominations may band together
under its colors and do any work in
His name, for humanity in general,
or in particular. The smallest ser
vice, a cup of cold water, or the
largest giving yourself and your all
to help the Redeemer, is equally as
acceptable. This is the sesame: In
His Name, that has opened the
hearts of the daughters of all our
people to the influences of the Holy
Spirit, and united them in this
order of consecrated service.
The first Circle formed in North
Carolina was The West End Circle
of Greensboro, and that historic
town has now six Circles. Wilming
ton, Fayetteville, Raleigh, Chapel
Hill, Hillsboro, Graham, Greenville,
Salisbury, Concord and Murphy
have each, one or more Circles.
Therd may be other towns in which
Circles exist that have not reported.
Last May these Circles met by
delegation, in Greensboro, formed a
state organization ana electea a
State Secretary. Among the vari
ous subjects of interest and work
that came up for consideration, the
helpless condition of the poor white
girls of the State elicited much
svmoathv. An earnest and able
talk in their behalf, was made by
Mrs. M. M. Hobbs, of Guilford Col
lege, whose position as wife of the
Pres. of that School had made her
familiar with the needs of this class
of ffirls. Following tnis was a
motion that a Committee be appoint-
ted to draft and present to the next
Legislature of North Carolina, a
petition asking for an appropriation
of 20,000 for the establishment of
an Industrial School for their speci-
al and exclusive use. This motion
was carried unanimously, and the
Committee appointed by the State
Secretary, Mrs. Ilobbs chairman.
The petition will soon be in circula
tion, j
We appeal to the law-makers of
North Carblina to help her daugh
ters; we jippeai to the electors of
these
lav1 -makers
to give their
names and influence to this object;
we appeal jto the wives, mothers and
sisters whp sit in comfortable homes
guarded bjy strong irms, and shelter
ed by loving heatts, to lend their
sympathy! and 4id to an effort
which seeks to enable less fortunate
women wj'ho are compelled to be
"bread-winners," to equip them
selves to earn honest and honorable
livelihoods. ;
For ev'ry class North Carolina
has provided by legislation, except
her daughters. TiielTniversity is for
her sons-'-likewise the Agricultural
and Mechanical School, but unless
her daughters be blind, or deaf and
dumb, or criminals, she says: "I
take no interest in you; live as you
can; be good or bad, high or low;
learned or ignorant; I care not."
And thisj is The Old North State.
We seek no office at the hands of
politicians, we ask no seat in your
Legislative Halls; we desire not ac
cess to the ballot box; but we beg
for the yomen of North Carolina
the privilege and the opportunity of
learning! those trades and occupa
tions by which they may support
themselves decently and comfor
tably. ;
In bejhalf of The King's Daugh
ters of ijs orth Carolina, and In His
Name, Vhom we serve.
Mary E. Carter, State Sec.
For the Advocate.
1
From Franklin to Salisbury.
Dr. Keid: Ai Franklin for two
i years av'e were sandwiched between
LUC iilOiitiUiiUo.
. J t-
a o mils
closed jabout us their solemnity
melted j into friendliness, their awe
dissolved into a sense of nearness.
We grtlw familiar, became friends,
then fo)lowedthe delightful sense of
being confidential.
1
Of old re had written
The wiud, the wave, the sunset glow
Be the flole lis:'ner of thy woe,
but ouir new companions silently
drew fiom us, alike, the ills, the
joys, repressed the bad, encouraged
the g kd and, like nature's great
workshop wasted nothing, but trans
muted! modified, made over all we
gave only to fling it lavishly upon us
in a thousand helpful lessons of pa
tiences We blinibed thei r heights, drank
the vij;w of the great hills still be
yond and above, whose distant peaks
shaded from clear yellow light into
soft volet shadows at their feet, be
low us the hills appeared as unde-
finable erne raid-green islands moved
in spalce, while in and out the breath
of a siaower ble w in caressing fond
ness. ! It all brought to the mind a
succession of waves, one above the
otheri giving exquisite glimpses of
slanti!ng sunbeams hidden in their
rocks' as if the blue and scarlet and
purple of the hangings of the taber
nacle; ha 1 cast their shadows there.
Likie Peter of old we said : "Lord,
it is good for us to be here."
We dwelt in the tabernacle al
ready made, and were hedged about
by a happy, contented people, whose
love and kindness packed our hearts
with dear rememberances of, and
abiding love for them.
But we have come down to dwell
in the broad sunny valleys whose
faces! beam with all the comfort
which comes from the "joy and suc
cess of eventful living."
These Salisbury Methodist's have
welcomed us with the ring of the
gold. Can any one enjoy and ap
preciate more fully a genuine home
welcome than an itinerant aEdhis
family? God stores up these sweet
welcomes for his servants. Are
they not the compensations for our
hurried, tearful leave-taking of
those of whom we have grown fond?
They shoot up under our feet like
daises, their perfume has in it
strength.
The parsonage is ablaze with com
fort. We are at anchor for the year.
Not idly anchored we pray. The
ship in dock may rust itself away,
the fine polish of the tempered steel,
from unuse,may upon itself corrode.
The work looms up heavily, its
responsibility overshadow us.
God will take care of the success,
to us belong endeavor and struggle.
But we have love and faith, they
send their rays of light athwart our
ways.
In the splendor of life's noonday,
they can shine above the brightness
of the sun.
Mrs. W. II. Leitii.
Salisbury, jV". C.
For the Advocate.
The Best "Monument" to Per
petuate the Memory of
Kf-v. J. T. Harris.
Y REV. W. P. WILLIAMS.
Dear Bro. Reid: The relatives of
the late Rev. J. T. Harris will doubt
less erect a Marble Monument to his
memory, but I think he is entitled
to a "Monument" more durable than
marble, and believe that he has
enough friends in N. C. to rect' at
Trinity College, a
"j. T. HARRIS SCHOLARSHIP,"
which will be a living, intellectual,
spiritual and perpetual "Monu
ment," that will continue to 'thrive,'
when all cold marble shafts are
"blended in common dust!"
A "J. T. Harris Scholarship" in
Trinity College, wmld perpetuate
itself, not only through time, but
eternity also. This grand idea was
suggested by Bro. Tuttle several
months ago, in memory of Bro.
Stanley, but too late; as the "Mar
ble shaft" had been provided for.
I am not a member of either
Conference, but am one of the many
friends of Bro. Harris and of Trinity
College, and would like to hear from
others.
Davidson. College, X. C, Dec. '90.
The above suggestion stands of
itself. A sum of $1,000 would bring
interest enough to rrake an annual
scholarship of from 00 to 100.
Why could n )t a few friends under
take this and thereby encourage
young men to higher attainments in
Christian learning? Nothing could
more fittingly express the aspira
tions and doings of our late brother
than this scholarship: in the pro
motion of knowledge he was a
leader; it was his custom to keep
some one worthy student at College
each year. Such a scholarship
would go a great way toward perpet
uating his example by helping afc
College the student who should
from year to year become the bene
ficiary of this fund. Year by year
the world would continue to get the
benefit of this noble example of
Brother Harris.
The catalogue of the College would
contain notice each year of this
scholarship with the name of the
beneficiaries.
The brethren of Durham District,
which was the last served by Bro
ther Harris, could do nothing nobier
than to establish a scholarship of
any amount in honor of their heroic
leader and guide. If S1V000 could
not be raised, perhaps &500 could, or
even less. The College will wel
come any amount and will open sub
scriptions for that; purpose from any
one, to the "Rev. J. T. Harris
Scholarship."
Joun F. Crowell.
Do Your Best.
"When I was a little boy," said a
gentleman one day to a friend with
whom he was talking, "I paid a
visit to my grandfather. He was
an aged man, and wore a black vel
vet cap, and knee-breeches with
large silver buckles at the knees.
When I went to say good-by to him
he took me between his knees, kind
ly, and then laying his hand on my
head, he said : 'My dear boy, I have
only one thing to say to you; will
you try to remember it?' I looked
him in the face and said, 'I will,
grandpa.' 'Well,' said he, 'it is this:
Whatever you have to do, always
do the best you can? This was my
grandfather's legacy to me. It was
worth more than thousands of gold
and silver. I never forgot his words,
and have always tried to act upon
them." Exchange.
Our duty to God is measured by
our ability.