RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18, 1893
The Christian Advocate.
Raleigh, N. C, Wednesday. Oct. 18, '93.
REV. F. L. REID, D. D., Editors
REV. D. ATKINS, D. D f ta,lors-
JOHN W. JENKINS, Jr., Asst. Editor.
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THE KING'S BUSINESS.
This is the significant and euphoni
ous title of a book of over 500 pages
containing the proceedings and re
ports of the Seventh Annual Conven
tion of Christian Workers in the
United States and Canada, which
convened in Tremont Temple, Bos
ton, Nov. 10-1G, 1892. The eighth
convention will convene in Atlanta,
Ga., Nov. 9-15, 1893. It is not our
purpose to review the book, but rath
er to give our readers some idea of
this movement which has attained
unto such proportions, with a view of
quickening and directing the conse
crated activity of those within the
Methodist fold. We believe greatly
in the church and do not endorse any
outside movement so as to detract
from the church, but the members of
the church and our church confer
ences can sometimes learn from oth
ers, even those who follow not with
us, and we rejoice in whatever is
done to save and lift up the lowly,
wherever or by whomsoever. The
first work of these Christian workers
reported is the
BOWERY MISSION.
This is a part of New York where
debauchery and crime abound.
Twelve years ago Some Christian
men went into this sin cursed quarter
and began' mission work. The work
is exclusively among men, almost en
tirely young men, though there are
heads of families who'are rescued.
J. W. Child, giving an account of
this work, said : "Intemperance is
the great evil we have to contend
with, because nine out of ten who
come to us are slaves of drink. We
speak little of special sins, but en
deavor to impress upon them the fact
that sin is at the bottom of all their
troubles, and sin must be taken out
of their hearts. There has scarcely
been a night that some soul has not
been converted. Sometimes we see
twenty-five kneeling and calling on
God for mercy." They have a Home,
and are planning some sort of work
to give the saved.
THE CIIULSTIAN HOMESTEAD MISSION
is in Buffalo, N. Y. It has been in
operation three years and is under the
direction of seven men of different de-
nominations. The work is on Canal
Street, which is said to have as much
vice and wickedness as can be found
in the same space in any part of the
world. A Sister of Clmrity is never
seen there. The priest said the rea
son was that the place is abandoned.
In the district seventy per cent, of the
business houses are illegitimate.
There are 18 saloons. In this be
nighted field Christian workers have
gone and planted a mission. They
have held 36G evening gospel meet
ings with an attendance of nineteen
thousand, two hundred and sixteen,
principally men, though women are
welcomed. One thousand, seven
hundred and seventy-nine have re
quested prayers that they might have
strength to lead a Christian life. The
mental and moral degradation of the
women there is beyond description.
Some success has attended this work.
These are samples. Many other
special missions reported: the Bethes
da Mission, the Central Gospel Mis
sion, the Central Lodging House As
sociation, Clark Street Mission, and
Boston Christian Work.
T1UNITY COLLEGE.
Trinity College is beautifully sit
uated. It has ample grounds sus
ceptible of great beauty. Its build
ings, the Main building, the College
Inn, the Technological Building, and
the professors' residences are all beau
tifully designed and thoroughly
adapted to their uses. It is, indeed,
a fine plant for college work, and,
added to from time to time according
to the growing demands of the col
lege, will one day measure up to the
requirements of full university work.
North Carolina Methodists with a
spark of local and denominational
pride, must teel a glow of enthusiasm
as they look upon the elegant mate
rial equipments.
THE FACULTY.
Who are they? ltev. John F.
Crowell, A. B., (Yale University) is
the president and professor of Social
Science and Educational History.
He v. W. II. Pegram, A. B., A.M.,
(Trinity College, N. C.,) professor of
Chemistry, Geology and Astronomy.
Rev. L. W. Crawford, A. B., (Uni
versity of Va.,) Professor of Theolo
gy. B. C. Hinde, A. B., (Central Col- !
lege, Mo., Fellow of Clark Universi
ty) Professor of Physics.
R. L. Flowers (U. S. Naval Acad
emy) Professor of Pure and Applied
Mathematics.
Prof. John L. Weber, A. B., (Wof
ford College) Professor of English
Language and Literature.
John S. Bassett (Trinity and Johns
Hopkins) Professor of History.
B. B. Nicholson, (Trinity and Uni
versity of Va.,) Professor of Political
Science and Law.
W. D. Cranford (Trinity and Yale
University,) Professor of Mental and
Moral Science.
Rev. A. H. Merritt, (Wesleyan
University,) Professor of Latin and
German.
Ilev. Oiin Boggess, of Kentucky,
(Vanderbilt and Drew,) Professor of
Greek and French.
Jerome Dowd, (Trinity College,)
Instructor in Economics and Mercan
tile Sciences.
E. T. Bynum, (Trinity and Johns
Hopkins,) Instructor in History.
Hon. A. C. Avery, Associate Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina, Dean of Law Department.
These fourteen men are well equip
ped, each one a specialist in his de
partment, are the instructors of
Methodisiyouth in higher education
in North Carolina. We set forth
their names because these names
should be familiar to all our young
men and boys, and household words
in every Methodist home. They are
Christian men of a high order, and
will exert a powerful influence for
good. They are for the most part
young, each with a bright future. It
is a pleasure to meet them and wit
ness their excellent methods of in
struction. We may say Trinity has passed the
line of peradventure. She has al
ready taken high rank. But let not
the Methodists of our State think
there is no further need of exertion.
There is need of much. First of all
the Methodists must give $100,000 as
an endowment. We all know great
institutions must have money. There
is need of a wTell equipped Gymnas
ium, of many hundreds of dollars
worth of apparatus, a new library
building, machinery for industrial
work and study in Technology, of
which there is so much demand.
Two or three more professors are a
pressing necessity. Surely with such
a great institution in our midst and
within our grasp we will rise up and
endow: Harmony, progress, hard
and efficient work prevail, and this
will be we hope the best year of its
history. There are about 165 stu
dents now in college; others are ex
pected. Let the Methodists roll up
the number to 200 this term, and ev
erybody rally to Trinity College.
COUNTRY 1,1 FE.
Dr. Strong speaks of what every
observing person must have noticed,
the tide of population flowing from
the country into the cities. The
change during a hundred years is in
dicated as follows : 1790, in the city
3.25 per cent., in the country 9G.G5
percent. 1890, in the city 29.12 per
cent., country 70.88 percent. During
the last ten years the rural population
increased only 14 percent., while the
city increased Gl per cent. During
these years the rural districts of the
New England States suffered a loss
of 200,000 population. As many as
400 empty houses were found in a
single county in New York. The
same is true to a less extent in the
South and throughout the country.
Dr. Strong mentions some of the dire
results : Roads deteriorate, property
depreciates, churches and schools lose
support and weaken, a change of pop
ulation from native to foreign is often
effected. The increasing isolation
causes a degeneracy of character.
The question is a serious one. Dr.
Strong calls it a problem. The chief
cause doubtless lies in the social ele
ments of our nature. People love so
ciety and the advantages which it
brings, better schools, better church
es, more entertainment, a more inter
esting life. One solution is the fcoun
try village a number of families
congregated in a village, but retain
ing their farms in convenient dis
tances and operating them. They
can thus have a good school, good
church, good social conditions, &c,
and all the advantage of country life.
Such a condition with improved
methods of farming, better roads and
better literary advantages, would
make country life delightful. As it
is there are many charms. With good
roads, plenty of paint, well kept
groves and lawns, and every high
way an avenue of beautiful trees, and
the country in a high state of culti
vation, what greater charm hath
thecitv? r
LIFTING THE I.OWJ,Y.
The remark was made in our hear
ing that the negroes in a certain town
are being educated better than the
poorer white people. To what ex
tent such mav be the case we know
not. Certainly in many places in the
South the negroes are far better pro
vided for than the poor whites, so far
as educational advantages go. They
have a number of well equipped and
well endowed schools and colleges,
the gift of Northern friends and sym
pathizers. Their best facilities are
designed for the poor. It is not so
with the whites. We have the insti
tutions, but the very poor cannot
reach them except by efforts far too
heroic to be expected of many.
There is often lack of aspiration.
There is need of a gospel of uplift be
ing preached by home missionaries in
the homes of the lowly. Here is a
field opjen to us. Why do we not en
ter? We are glad our suggestions
about an industrial school met some
response, but we must not content
ourselves with good intentions and
utterances. Will not the conferences
in our State take some steps in this
direction? Could not the good wom
en of our church organize in the
Home Mission work, and establish at
least two schools where tuition would
be practically free, and board reduceel
to its minimum, and where those
practical and industrial home duties
might be taught and practiced?
If North Carolina women should
take this work upon their hearts and
into their hands it will be done.
Kentucky women are building a
school; our women can. The time
has come, the church can no longer
neglect this with impunity. Let the
women undertake it. Let the confer
ences sanction, and all help.
TENNESSEE METHODISM.
We are occasionally asked in all se
riousness by friends at a distance
whether it is really true that Tennes
see Methodism has degenerated as
much as certain recent discussions
would seem to imply. That such a
question should be raised, is painful;
but, as it has been raised, it must be
answered. Speaking deliberately, and
with the best knowledge of the facts
that we can command, we declare with
the utmost positiveness that the Meth
odism of this section, all assertions or
intimations to the contrary notwith
standing, is in as sound and healthy a
condition as it ever was, and does not
suffer from comparison with the rest
of the church. The preachers are in
dustrious, earnest and religious. We
do notknow a man among them who
is indifferent to his own work, or care
less as to the character of the people to
whom he ministers; and the laymen
are, in the main, upright and God
fearing men. If this statement lacks
anything of perfect plainness, it is be
cause of our incapacity to be more ex
plicit. Christian Advocate.
What is true of Tennessee Method
ism is doubtless true of our connec
tion. It would be easy to find in
every State cases of undeveloped
Christianity among our members,
but the rank and file are true and
faithful. What is most needed is an
enlargement of intelligent activity;
and in this we are growing.
METHODS OF EARNEST WORK.
A scheme of house to house visiting
for the purpose of ascertaining who
attends church and who does not, and
to induce the non church goers to at
tend, has been inaugurated in Leeds,
England, under the direction of Rev.
Hugh Price Hughes and W. T. Stead.
We call attention to it as an example
worthy of imitation in this latitude
and longitude. Mr. Stead makes an
extensive statement of a very great
truth when he says every minister
should, as a preparation for his work,
serve a while in the local police force.
The Methodist Recorder rightly says :
1 'Preachers and people must know
the whole of the problem which they
are called upon to solve, and this they
cannot do unless they study the social
conditions of the masses as carefully
as Sir John Lubbock studies the hab
its of wasps and bees. Preachers
must read in their libraries but study
in the streets."
A DIFFERENT WAY.
Some of the sermons that savor of
the map and the cyclopedia are re
called by a recent incident in the
Youth's Companion :
"Fine sermon, wasn't it?" asked
one of Farmer Peters's boarelers, re
ferring to a scholarly discourse with
which the Meadowville meeting
house congregation had been favored
that morning by a city clergyman.
"Mebbe," returned Farmer Pe
ters. - '
"Why," persisteel the boarder;
"that man knows more about the Bi
ble, he has made a deeper study of
Biblical history and geography than
almost any other minister in this
country."
"Has he now?" inquired Farmer
Peters, mildly. "Well, then, I reck
on the trouble must've been with
me. You see I'd calculated I sh'd
hear somethin' about the way to
heaven, an' I only learned the way
from Jerusalem to Jericho."
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Dr. Abemethy says "our school is
very flourishing and students are still
coming in."
We call attention to the advertise
ment of The Epworth Book, for sale
by Rev. T. J. Gattis. Any one de
siring this book can get it by sending
to Rev. T. J. Gatti3, Durham, N. C.
We desire to make the Advocate
helpful to all our schools, and gladly
publish reports from all of them. We
hope the brethren in charge of these
institutions will see the importance of
keeping them before the public These
lights of ours must not be put under a
bushel, but on a candlestick.
Winter is almost upon us. Among
the poor its chilly blasts carry want
and suffering. On account of the
hard times many have been unable to
provide for the needs of the season in
food and clothing. Here is the great
need of Christian work. Carry relief
to the sick and suffering "In His
Name."
A subscriber in Florida says : "Al
low me to thank you for that articlelh
the Advocate on Exercising Discip
line. I fear the old ship of Methodism
is drifting. I know members who
have not been inside the church for
years except on special occasions. I
believe one of the principal causes is
laxity of discipline." Abide with the
old ship, brother, and do all in your
power to revive the drooping life of
those about you. Zeal and spiritual
power are contagious.
In the South Carolina . dis
pensaries no liquors are sold to be
drunk on the premises, no liquor is
sold to minors or to intoxicated per
sons, and no liquor is sold after six
o'clock in the evening. As a conse
quence there has been a marked de
crease in drunkenness in South Caro
lina since the law has been in opera
tion, and the owners of the groggeries,
who had hoped soon to resume their
business, are in despair leaving the
State. Whatever else may be said of
Gov. Tillman, no man can deny that
he has the courage of his convictions
and the strength to enforce the laws of
which he has been the originator.
New Jersey seems to be the State
especially marked by the gamblers and
oppressors of the people for their own.
There is not a more prosperous state
from a material point of view, in the
Union; it has good roads, numbers of
large and busy towns, and an indus
trious population. Unfortunately, its
State Legislature has been engaged in
chartering trusts and bogus land com
panies for several years, but at its last
session it went a step further and open
ly licensed horse-racing and gambling.
The race tracks at Guttenberg and
Gloucester are not considered respect
able tracks by horse-racers themselves,
and it is understood that racing on
these tracks is not for amusement
even, but simply for gambling. These
are the gambling grounds of New York
toughs and the favorite resort of that
great city's "lower five." When will
the people of New Jersey refuse to be
governed by the money of New York
horse-racers and saloon-keepers, and to
be the pleasure-ground for the scum of
the great metropolis ?
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSONS.
Lesson for Oct. 29th, 1893.
xbstinence for the Sake of
Others.
1. Cor, 8: 1-13.
Golden Text We then that are
strong ought to bear the infirmities of
the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Rom. 15: 1.
HISTORICAL CONNECTION.
Corinth was in Greece near the isth
mus which connects Achaia with the
rest of Greece. It was a flourishing
and large citjr. Paul reached it on his
second missionary journey about A. D.
52. It was the fourth church founded
in Europe, the others being Philippi,
Thessalonica and Berea in order. It
was wealthy, and wickedness abound
ed. Paul went from Corinth to Ephe
sus from which place he wrote this
'Epistle, about A. D. 57.
The founding of the church in Cor
inth is reported in Acts 18. The work
in Ephesus about the time this Epis
tle was written in Acts 19. The church
in Corinth was a small body in a very
large city. The Epistle was written in.
reply to a letter received from Corinth,
and the report of some of the brethren
who visited Ephesus.
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
1 v. "Now as touching things of
fered unto idols, we know that we all
have knowledge," etc.
Some Christians had eaten meat
offered to idols, others had complained
at this, and the question was sent to
Paul for decision. He seems to quote
the answer of the accused, who seems
to have replied to his accusers that an
idol is nothing and food is not injured
by being offered. We Christians
know this and we should not notice
such things.
A principle is involved. Paul dis
cusses it. He says true we all have
knowledge, but knowledge puffeth up,
and even our knowledge may cause us
to offend some brother. Our business
is not to go to the last limit of our
privileges, seeing how close to the line
we can go without transgressing, but
rather to edify, to build up the church
in love and in all grace. For this
charity is necessary. To love God is
much more essential than mere knowl
edge of these things. Knowledge was
a deep insight into the nature of
things; knowledge unsanctified is a
great foe to the gospel.
4 v. "As concerning therefore the
eating of those things offered in sacri
fice to idols," etc.
The idol is nothing, only a piece of
senseless wood or metal. It has no
personality, nor have the things it
represents. It was all in the imagina
tion. For some man therefore to say
this is offered to idols, will not affect
these things, and if a Christian who
by his knowledge has a contempt for
all these things finds good food thus,
why should he not eat it? It will
not be idolatry for him. So thought
these Corinthians, and such was the
abstract truth.
5, 6 vs. These verses state the doc
trine respecting idolatry. There are
things in nature called gods by the
heathen, as the sunthe stars, fire,
ocean, winds, beasts, reptiles, etc.
This was the case in all heathen
countries. There was tbj God idea,
and every mystery was in some way
connected with a god. All this on ac
count of their ignorance. The same
thing in substance appears in modern
times, and even to some extent among
Christian people who lack knowledge
in the fear and regard for signs, a
superstitious reverence for things
purely the creatures of imagination,
shaping conduct with reference to such
things, and thereby dethroning the
one true God. To th
is but one object of fear and ! tbere
the true God who made all tVerence.
upholds all things. lngs m
7v. "Howbeit there Is Uot1n
man that knowledge." eveiy
The Corinthians had said
have knowledge." pnili all
He savs everv i. es
says every man has
Knowledge. Borne recent
not
that
not yet fully instructed, nrp
conv
erts.
or less under the influence ftf ?0re
, . . Thesis
idolatries, or would be easily influ
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ced
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joug nabit of
some young Christians will fi f l
difficult to break from the idea th?
idol is something, andif thevP
will be idolatry for them, if L ' u
you eat, they will lose eonSden!
you and be led rather into their 7
habits by your example.
8v. "But meat eonimeudeth
not." ll
This verse contains another ph
their questions upon which the?
sire apostolic decision. It miti
been in quotation marks r!... ave
takes up this question
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i
does not
God.
affect our standing n
9 v. The principle is admitted but
a caution is expressed, and here li
the heart of this subject, "take heed
lest by any means this liberty of your
become a stumbling block "to them
that are weak." It is the duty of th
strong to help the weak. If we love
the church, we will deny ourselves for
others' sake, that we may edify the
body. We must even yield our liber
ties for the sake of others. This pria.
ciple has abundant illustration con
stantly. 10 v. This is the argument on the
principle just stated, and it explains
how evil will come of the strong using
such liberties as would hurt the
weak.
11 v. This verse states the sad con
sequences, the apostasy of thy weak
brother.
12 v. Sinning against the weak,
the new converts, is sinning against
Christ. By this process of reasoning
eating meats offered to idols becomes
a sin even to the strong, those who
have knowledge.
18 v. The line of action is indicated
in this verse. What Paul says for him
self, he says for all, 'and declares this
as the true salvation. The Christian
acting on the high plane of brotherly
love must deny himself even of things
in themselves innocent, for the sake of
those who are not instructed, and
w hose conscience would be hurt by
this act. Brotherly love and the edi
fication of one another is the great law
Lore presented in this form. r
Good books for a Sunday-school
teacher: One of the best commen
taries is Whedon's.Another equally as
good and a little fresher is the Cam
bridge Bible. This is excellent. Canny
bare and Howson's Life of St. Paul is
very good. Geikie's Hours with i the
Bible, Stalker's Life of Paul and hi.
-Life of Christ, are all good.
Books and Periodicals.
Our publishing house has published
the noted controversy between Bishop
Galloway and the late Hon. Jefferson
Davis, on Prohibition.
Messrs. W. A. Wilde & Co., Boston,
have just issued "Peloubet's -Select
Notes" for 1894. It is Dr. reloubefs
20th annual commentary on the Inter
national Sunday-school Lesson?, and.
like its predecessors, presents the Scrip
ture truths in an attractive, compre
hensive, and convincing manner, from
both spiritual and practical stand
points. Of all the college magazines tnat
come to this office, we give precedence
to the JTorth Carolina Uaiccrsiiy M3
azine. It is on a higher plane than
the average college publication and i
really interesting to the general re
The October number contains agow
sketch of Salem Female Academy,
good papers by Prof. Towers and V
Battle, a rather clever story W&a
dergraduate, and a good poem by j
Stockard. The departments are
sustained.
Blue and Gray, "the patriotic Amer
ican magazine," comes this m
well filled. The series of Great A
ican Industries is this month on
Exportation of Cattle." Gen. How
King writes his "Recollections oi
Times," Henry Clay Fairman
of the United Confederate en
and a soldier writes of his ex"
"With Farragut on the m3
The departments are well sU& ' t
and the magazine shows imp0
over former issues.
Frank Leslie's Popular
November has arrived and i - tJ
usual standard. "Electricity u
Date," and "Police, America
-it. i .jii kVi nroven'lCi"
roreigii, win i -- i
ioi
while the issue contains sev
poems, and a half-dozen JeaI.
stories. "The Aim ot the
ten" and the "Chautauqua i jue
receive attention fronetteution to
writers.- People who pa ai veral
the Drama are proj1"1" are go0,
articles. The illustration ( "
especially the colore" . u
the half-tones in W-cu
Date."