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cr -t. p. ORGAN OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE, M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. ESTABLISHED IN "55. RALEIGH, N. C, OCTOBER 11, 1899. RALEIGH CHRISTIAN .JVOCATE. Or2an of the North Carolina uonference. " jvi;i,isHKD Weekly at Raleigh, N. C. , s second-class matter in the post-office at Raleigh. Entered a? fc CtTn. IVEY, IX D., . . . Editor. tj S M. WATSON, Business Manager. ib 111-11 V- . 1 V 1 1V). 1 ULi 1 l HU. KJ-Tt T - i . I TEMRS OF SUBSCRIPTION, iw Ypar. - $1-50. 1 Six Months, - .75 Cash in Advance. VJ minivers of the gospel and wives of deceased Treacher?, 51-00- ? 11 travelling preachers in the North Carolina Conference, as authorized agents, will receive the f.per Watc ;h the label. It shows the date up to which vC."r ?' seription has been paid. Change in label ;e:ves a? a receipt. When address is ordered changed, both old and Ee-.v r..l''ress nmt be given. Tj, ending money, be sure to state whether it is 0-;ii or new subscription. ,jtire55 all letters and make all checks and monev , - .vable to the RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. EDITORIAL. AWAY. say. and I will not say, - dead he is just away ! ovy smile and a wave of the hand, andered into an unknown land. v dreaming: bow very fair iiu-t he. since he lingers there. OUR ORPHANAGE AND PREACHERS HOME On a plateau northwest of Raleigh, sufficiently remote to lose the roar and rush of the city and to wear the glory of flower and forest, is the site of the "Or phanage and Preachers' Home" of the North Carolina Conference. Forty acres, it is, of cleared and of wooded land, the gift of the City of Raleigh whose delight is to build for humanity and the years. I pray W hen one stands on this sacred ground and locks at the green hills billowing far to the North and West and then turns will rise in the east, just so surely will the enterprise appeal to human hearts that will have not only the desire but the ability to give. Its promoters have looked to Providence so far, and He has not failed them. He will doubtless speak to some one who reads these lines and move them to give the necessary eight hundred dollars. 1 To this end we You see another picture. It is the face of him to whom, more than anyone else, we are indebted for the success of the enter- egorical statement of the fact that there eastward and sees the capital city almost J prise Rev. J. W. Jenkins. In his de under him, he is compelled to feel that ; dining years he has built for himself a surely no lovelier site could be found ; monument prouder than any in West from the land of Ottalay to Ocracoke. I minster Abbev or Greenwood. He has ; Boy lan Street extended far enough would ! had this matter in his heart for vears. be the eastern boundary of the Orphan- j He felt that at the last Conference the age grounds. Devereaux extended West j time had come for him to speak. He would be the southern boundary. The; spoke earnestly, eloquently. His plans '.: Win V" 0 you. who the wildest yearn ': old-time step and the glad return .k ': iiim faring on. as dear , I..vo of There as the love of Here: 1 and gentle, as he was brave n the- sweetest love of his life he crave. - f W.J " 1 iikij.3; 'o simple tbinirs where the violets grew Blue as the eves they were likened to. Thv tuurlies of his hands have strayed As ivvorently s bi51 hp5 have prayed; i the little chirred brown thrush that harshlv ar to him as the mocking-bird: pit iet h as much as a man in pain honev-bee wet with rain. TY-1 17 IITI" BUILDING. ;im still as the same, I say dead he is just away ! Wit it -Ji1mS 1 T- ! lOlHU Until. iV.i.viiAMY is by no means practically .dished in Utah. It is said that a rich old country road leading through Brook-! commended themselves to the judgment lyn is the western boundary. The Capt. j of the Conference. Yet there was not a B. P.Williamson farm is the northern j man in that Conference, unless it were Bro. boundary. The forestry is varied, there Jenkins himself, who thought that, before being the dogwood, hickory, maple, pine, anoi her annual session, practical work land oak of the red, white, and post va- j would be begun on the buildings. God hath j nety. The contemplated buildings are: First, ! a central buHding to be large, handsome, I ! ,. .t . i commodious, two or tnree stones j high ; the first story for dining room, cook laundry, storage room, etc. ; the j is a God. The fact is so patent that it's statement would be superfluous and weakening. However, there is hardly a Bible writer who does not make men tion in some way of a personal Devil. With the exception of God, he is more constantly referred to than any other character in the Bible. There can be urged against his exist ence no argument that cannot be urged with equal force against the existence of God. You say, "I have never seen him." Neither have you seen God. You have never seen life as a concrete entity. You have seen its visible manifestation. Yrou say that you cannot reconcile the exist ence of Satan with the love and mercy of God. There are many things which you cannot reconcile, but which you must accept. You cannot reconcile the fact that heat warms with the fact that there is intense heat in the centre of a block of ice. Human nature and the Devil are still great mysteries. We cannot look into our hearts with out finding traces of the Satanic pres ence. His imprint is left on every page of life. Riding upon the winds, walking on eartrfand wave, storming every citadel of life, burrowing into the heart, taint ing thought and feeling, dogging our foot steps, he is the one implacable enemy of God and man. A wider recognition of his existence, a more faithful warning in the pulpit against his wiles, and a more practical treatment of him as a living personality, would be of great advantage to the cause i of righteousness. papers had much to say of the event at the time it occurred. He also says that the stuffed mammoth is on exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution at Washing ton. It transpires that the Smithsonian man is threatening to sue the Magazine for entailing on him a great annoyance in the shape of explanations to the hundreds who come to see the newly killed mam moth by saying that it is not in the In stitution. The truth of the matter is, the whole story was a fake. It was so ingenuously written, and wore such an air of veri similitude that the writer succeeded in deceiving almost the "very elect" in the reading fraternity. This illustrates the power of the press, A little story kindles a big fire. The voice of type goes out to the ends of the earth. It is the manifestation of a tendency which is essentially modern, and should be checked that of covering fancy so completely with the clothing of truth that the deception is not apparent. When this is done, a vitiating element creeps in. When the braying donkey is clothed with the lion's skin, the eternal fitness of things demand that the ears stick out. THE BOER AND THE BRITON. A CORRECTION. room a r.ne oi that the . -. - . , 1 T - nliOTNAl c-1l rAA!lC i can have two wives provided he pay c . . one hunared dollars. It is said ' & ; c i i ii1 each to lodge from twentv-five to thirty ; poor man is fined three hunared i & - . . - ! children, with a teacher. Thirdly, a nice j - ! Sunerintendent's home and Infirmary. The ; Fourthly, two Industrial buildings. central building will be located near the j centre of the grove. The Home will be j located to the South, just across the street Nothing is so utterly, hopelessly lost Ss "lost time." It makes me unhappy Vr.en I look back and see how much time I i hive vn;;fpd Imw irmrh T miodit have v- ;t t wi w ,W,w1 1 from Brooklyn, with the Superintendent's is the longest hour. Helen how short ilhnt Jackson. Zaxgwill, the Jewish author, is one the best writers of English we know He has latelv contributed to a lead 'HkT Deriodirnl an arf-irde nn Zionism, a movement which is attracting great at tention. He says that there are only five pos sibilities for the Jews : (i) National regen eration; (2) religious regeneration; (3) dis appearance (4) extermination. He makes prominent the fact that it is not the pur pose of the Jews to make Palestine the great central home for the scattered nations. hy laymen and preachers continue to report in an apologetic way the coll ision of children, we cannot under hand. The habit is a sad commentary cn our ability to apprehend not only ritual but ordinary truth. A little thought will convince any fair, intelli gent mind that the conversion of a child meatls wore for the church and for the rid than does the conversion of an adult. en why, in a weary, deprecatory spirit 'lny a few children converted." i e lact makes the angels shout for joy. why should we sigh? May the 0 y Spirit enlighten us ! home and the Infirmary building between it and the Orphanage. Here is wanted a j main building two stories high, to cost j five thousand dollars. There are wanted j also two double cottages to domicile the j widows who have children and would j like to keep house. These buildings are . r At;a vallc nf first wrought great tilings through His ser to have stone foundations, wails 01 nrst-, & t class brick, and roof of slate. Some time ago we received the follow ing letter: Editor Christian Advocate : Sev eral weeks ago I published in the Ral eigh Christian Advocate a late edi torial paragraph in TJie Christian Advo cate containing the statement that Gen eral Funston is a native of North Caro lina. The statement has made a con siderable stir in this State, some claiming that the party in question was born in Ohio ; others that he was born in Vir ginia. I have given you as an authority, stating that vou very rarely make a mis take on such questions. I would be very j When the sailors of the Olympia, Ad- glad if you would give me your author-! miral Dewey's flag-ship, went on shore ity tor your statement. I . J. Ivey. Editor of Raleigh (N. C.) Christian j Advocate. The situation in South Africa is very serious. It is evident that the Boers, under the leadership of stern old Paul Kruger, has no idea of acceding to the demands of Great Britain. WThat we know of this great government does not lead us to suppose that it will modify its exactions as stated by Chamberlain. The Transvaal will not suffer for lack of aid from Orange Free State. The Boer forces are estimated all the way from 20,000 to 100,000 men. The latest dispatches say that the Boers have crossed into Natal, and that the British forces have been re inforced with troops from India. The situation is not so grave as to preclude any possibility of the peaceable settle ment of the matter. It is to be hoped that the Christian sentiment of the na tions will solve the trouble without bloodshed. As we had taken the item on which Rev. J. W. JENKINS. vant. To his judgment, energy, and en- K;wifn erected at once. andilum vvc 1AiU' vy X uuiiui"i ' whose cut is pr esented on this page, is j he may live to enjoy the sight of little u Cfrtr;c Wall. The first storv is orphans and tne neroic uenenciane 01 , . m .AxT rnnivt lohora-' the Conference in the Home for which he for reception room, study room, iaDora-, 11 ,.1 .,,0 rwriAt- hall ! has done so much. torv. and bath rooms, with wide nan . all well heated with wood or coal. The j second story is to have two large rooms, w rell ventilated, for the children's bed rooms, and a bed room and a reception room for the teacher. Tnere are to oe piazzas on all sides. The work is to be first-class. The building was designed by Messrs. Rose and Barrett, Architects, Raleigh, N C and will be a beauty, as the de sign indicates. The whole thing is ar tistic yet homelike. The whole build in will cost about three thousand dol lars Twenty-two hundred dollars of this amount are now ready Eight hun dred more are necessary. This amount will come. The Orphanage enterprise appeals to God, and as surely as the sun OUR GREAT ADVERSARY. The thought of God is one around which the greatest thoughts are clustered. We cannot think, speak, and think too much about God. Yet it is to be feared that there is a tendency on the part of the present'generation to lose sight of the existence of the great antagonist of God. We think, speak, and write too little of Satan. Of the real existence -of Satan there can be no reasonable doubt in the minds of those who sincerely and intel ligently read the Bible. There is. no categorical statement of the fact that there is a Devil. Neither is there a cat- at Trieste, they demeaned themselves as gentlemen, showing no signs of that bacchanalian spirit so commonly ascribed to sailors all over the world. This fact mi r note wns based from a dailv naner. we L . .. .. ' r r 7 i hems to exnlain tne wondertui victorv in wrote at once to General Funston him-' . , , f ui self, and a short time since received this ' reply : Headquarters of First Brigade, Second Division, Eighth Army Corps, San Fer nando, P. I., July S, 1S99. Editor New York Christian Ad vocate : In reply to your letter of re cent date I have the honor to inform you that I was born in New Castle, O. My mother's family is from North Carolina, and the Virginia family is related to my family. Frederick Funston, Brigadier General U. S. Volunteers, Com manding. Nczv York) Christian Advocate. I Manila harbor. A set of drunken roughs can never do anything great. We dedicate to God many things which wre do not use for his glory. When this is the case, the dedication is spurious. As the Raleigh Christian Advo cate has been quoted as authority for the statement that General Funston was born in North Carolina, we publish the above, taken from the (N. Y.) Christian Advocate, in the way of explanation and vindication. When we find out that what we have written, whether on our authority or that of others, is not accurate, we seize the first opportunity to correct the mis take. After all, Dr. Buckley was not far wTrong, as the family of General Fun ston's mother was from North Carolina. PLAYING WITH THE TRUTH. A writer in the October McClure's Magazine writes a thrilling account of the killing of a mammoth, the last of its species, in the wilds of Alaska last year. He creates the impression that the news- Christ's Example. It is not only since His divine form has arisen before my soul that I have learned to know the true condition of man. Formerly, by comparing myself with what was small, I appeared great in my own eyes ; but since I have com pared myself with Him, how insignifi cant have I become. When we hear a man whom we feel to be truthful and humble speaking great things of himself, it has a humiliating effect upon us. And when the Saviour utters such wrords as "I do always those things that please Him" and I believe it to be in very truth that He utters this I then become conscious of what man, who is created in the image of God, ought to be. When I see how, in all things, He sought not His own glory, but that of His heavenly Father, I am ashamed of my ambition ; when I see how He came not to be min istered unto, but to minister, I am ashamed of my pride; when I see how He took the cup which his Father gave Him, and drank it, I am ashamed of my my disobedience: when I see how He bore the contradiction of sinners Jagainst Himself, and when He was reviled, re viled not again, I am ashamed of my im patience and my passion. Nothing has so subduing and humiliating an influence upon me as my Saviour's example. Tho-luck.
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