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EDITORIAL.
THE STATE FAIR.
Slate Fair, which occupied the
part of last week, was in some re
jects the most successful in the history
c: this very popular institution. Judi
cious advertising, low railroad rates, fair
weather, and, above all, wise and business-like
management, made the attend-
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that cf any previous year. It is thought !
at
xeast twenty thousand people jas
passe.
within the gates 011 Thursday.
The exhibits were greater in number j
and more excellent in character than ever
before. Of course, it would be impossi
ble for us in the limited space we have
to write in detail, of the many excellent
cisriavs. The agricultural exhibits, es-
peciaiiy, were nnc. jvo one wno went;ine wnue arcu anu wkcu his piaec un mc
carefully through the buildings, so taste- j flower-fringed platform which was used
fully decorated, can doubt that North j as a reviewing stand. Cheer after cheer
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Carolina is keeping up with the proces
sion of growing commonwealths. Messrs.
Battle, Pogue, Denson, and other officers
are to be commended.
We were glad to note the decreasing j
munber of fakir establishments. Some
were removed on Wednesday. We trust
Willi
every objectionable element will be
emoved from our State Fair, and that it
will
what it can and will be, one of
the most effective agencies in the promo
tion of the material interests of the Old
North State.
We regret that the idea still exists that
no public event is complete without a
series of dances. We feel that the State
is tc
he congratulated that the advertised
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Germans
" had no direct connection with
the fair, and took place away from the
crrj-.M'-'il
We are nroud to belong to that
large class of citizens who believe that
these "functions," aside from the moral
aspects, are decidedly undignified, and
always detract from the usefulness and
reputation of any honorable occasion.
THE SACRED DOMAIN OF THE HEART.
The richest domain of humanity
is
that which is embraced within the limit
of the heart. The heart is the test of j
manhood and womanhood. It is the
key
-stone in the arch of real greatness,
the ingredient which precipitates good or
evil, success or failure, and the artistic
hand that colors the panorama of expe
rience. 'The heart may be good or bad. It
may be a beautiful interior, with pris
matic rays of heaven falling through
sky-light and window ; or it may be a
CW dark charnel house. It may be an
cxquisite gem with radiance flashing
from every facet, or it may be an object
J'cid of grace and charm. It is the
Kln,:i of heart that makes the man or
jinan. In order to find the essential
11Kb it is not necessary to go to the
JOok of experience, but to the Book
hlch is our inspiration through the
LTHE NORTH
fleeting years. Hear the "sweet
of Tsrnel " oc .
singer
u tssciys iu mount nearer
the throne, saying, "Create within me a
clean heart, O God, and renew a right
spirit within me." Clean hearts are what
humanity needs, and God demands
hearts purged through Christ by the
agency of the Holy Spirit, and made
I something like that of the first man in
Eden.
A pure heart, a heart renewed in the
lmagC of God, is the bright fountain of
the true manhood of which Christ is the
model. A heart full of love to God and
man is a possession whose wealth cannot
equalled by that of olden kino-s and
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princes. The beauty of form fades away,
the brightness of the loveliest minds pales
into a dull phosphorescence, before the
overwhelming splendor of a heart aglow
with the "divine brightness. The laure
ate Tennyson has said :
"Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood. v
And America's brightest son has said:
"And when a strong brain is weighed
with a strong heart, it seems to me like
balancing a bubble against a wedge of
pure gold." God himself has said that
the cleansed heart is His own habitation.
We should spend much time in the
solemn and stately temple of the heart.
Here we find our sweetest inspirations
and behold our brightest visions. Here
we come in contact with God, and hear
tne secrets wincn eniignten ana enno-
ble humauitv. We should see to it that,
the anrels with outstretched wings
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cincts of the heart.
NOTHING NEW.
The hero of Manila had passed through
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rent the air as the carriages of the differ
ent magnates passed. Hero worship was
in the very air.
But here comes a division whose roll-
ing tread betokens the sailor. It is the
crew of the Olympia. They are the men
who were "behind the guns" on that
eventful Spring morning of last year
when the naval pride of Spain went down
in Asiatic waters under the guns of the
American fleet. Amid the awful concus
sions and the appalling shriek of shells,
they, silent and unnoticed, stood by the
guns which did their awful yet effective
work.
And now, m the montn ot mim Octo
ber, the thousands gather in the metropo-
lis to honor tne men wno, iar away num
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home, added new lustre to the prestige of
the American sailor.
There are cheers,
salvos of artillery and bursts of music for
the man of the epaulettes, but only si
lence for the man of the lanyard.
Why is it? you say. There is no use
of asking the question. It has been thus
from the time when man began looking
at the rising and setting of suns and the
rolling of seasons. It will be ever thus
until the eye of humanity shall be able
to realize that all worth is not clad in
tinsel, that all kings do not sit on tnrones,
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and that all heroes do not hear the
plaudits of the multitude. Then the mil
lennium will have come, and then the
men "behind the guns" in the great con
tests of right with wrong, not on ocean
wave, but on the silent plains of the soul
or the stern fields of human endeavor will
receive their meed of praise.
HE THAT TREADETH OUT THE CORN.
The Methodist household is beginning
to realize that the Conference year is
drawing to a close. To some of the
household the realization brings pain;
to others, a chastened joy.
The most solicitous and anxious ones
are found among the preachers. There are
some of these members of the itinerant
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RALEIGH, N. C, OCTOBER 25, 1S99.
ranks who are hoping against hope and
a hope that does not bring soundness to
slumber that the charge will pay up.
This solicitude and anxiety on their
part do not spring altogether from the
fear that the interests of Christ's king
dom may not be properly subserved, nor
from the desire to carry up a "clean
sheet," but from the very practical con
siderations of "meat and bread" for the
wife and children. The pieacher and
his family must live, and it is no sin for
him to think about his living in connec
tion with his preaching the gospel.
This gives us occasion to say a few
affectionate words to the laymen. We
wish to call your attention to these facts:
(1.) The preacher and his family must
be supported. (2.) That support must
come from the Church. (2.) In case of
non-support, he has not the privilege of j
your hired hand quitting. He waives
the right to select his field of labor.
When Providence places him at a post of
duty, he must stay there until Providence
calls him away. (4. The preacher is as
dependent upon you as is your horse. In
winding up the affairs of your church
for the year, remember these facts, and
remember also, that in sending your
preacher "paid up," you give a push to
the car of Zion, and bring a smile to the
faces of those ministering angels who
always watch over the servants of God.
In these closing days of the Conference
year, remember the preacher,
borer is worthy of his hire."
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THE GOSPEL IN PRISON CELLS.
The following letter was written by
the prisoners in a certain jail in this State
to the county paper :
Mr. Editor: Some
weeks ago
thare
was a Request made 5 all denominations
to visit the county Prison none has ad-
heard to the call Except 3 Baptist minis
ters, one of that number promest to call
again and has failed to do so. Would it
not be a good Idia for the people of
to Partartine congress a small appropria
tion for missionary work at the Jail.
Do thy self no harme. We are all
heare acts 16 chapter 28 vearce.
THE PRISONERS.
P S Mr. Editor if wee have miss spelt
Please correct.
There is in this letter a certain element
of humor which must irresistibly appeal
to the most humorous. Yet it is not our
purpose to dwell on the humor in this
letter nor to the unique if not correct,
spelling. We wish to call attention to
the emphasis which the letter places on
the obligation resting on ministers and
other Christian workers to give the gos
pel to the "spirits" in earthly prisons.
It must be remembered that Christ lav
ished his love on the thief as well as upon
Lazarus. Do you visit the inmates of the
jails? Christian worker, this question is
for you.
Course of Events.
1.
Since our last utterance on the Trans
vaal question, war has been precipated
between England and the Transvaal Re
public by the latter's ultimatum to the
effect that all British troops should be
removed by 5 o'clock on Wednesday, Octo
ber 12, and that a refusal would be taken
as a declaration of war. Of course the
demand was not complied with, and
England's reply to the ultimatum was
short, amounting practically to the de
claration that England could not pay
any attention to it.
II.
. The Transvaal government is consid
ered to have made a very wise move from
a strategic point in sending its ultima
tum. Tfee Transvaal could not assume
the responsibility of being theoretically
or practically the aggressor by openly
declaring war. Neither could the Trans
vaal afford to wait until England could
gather her fleets and her soldiers in
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South Africa. So the best movement
possible for steering between these two
difficulties was made in the sending of
the ultimatum. .
III.
The Boer is a natural fighter. In the
present war he is most powerfully aided
by three considerations : (1.) The mem
ory of the victory over the English at
Majuba hill in 1881, when the firing
of the Boers was so accurate and their
bravery was so marked. Naturally the
Boers think that what they did then
they can do again. As long as this con
fidence is held within proper bounds, it
will be a great advantage to them, since
confidence in self is a great force. Car
ried beyond its legitimate bounds, it is,
of course, just as great a disadvantage.
(2 The avowed justness of his cause
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x ne iioer is not SKepticai on tne ques
tion of the legitimacy of his claims in the
present contest. It is as plain to him as
the day that England is an insolent in
terloper. (3.) He believes that God is
on his side. The religious instinct of
the Boer is highly developed. God to
him is a God of battles, and is always on
his side. He will fight praying, and he
will make a dangerous antagonist.
IV.
The fighting has begun. Immediately
upon the receipt of England's reply to
the ultimatum Laing's Neck and In
gago Heights were occupied by-the Boers,
and about twelve thousand troops passed
the borders into Natal. About ten thou
sand Boers, under the noted Gen. Conje,
crossed immediately the western border
w7ith the design of attacking Mafeking,
in Cape Colon)7. Various rumors con
cerning a bloody battle at this place have
been published in the newspapers but
nothing certain is known. It is thought
that the British forces are in a dangerous
situation. ' By the time these words are
read by our readers, the details cf a bloody
battle may have been published. The
first blood of the war was spilled on last
Friday at Kraaipan Station, near Mafek-
ing. 1 ne uoers attacKea an armorea
train belonging to the English forces, and
fifteen English soldiers were killed. Sir
Redvers Bullers is to take charge of the
British forces. He is to have sole com
mand. He is thought to understand the
situation, and great confidence in his
ability to meet the demand is felt. He
left London last week for South Africa.
Gen. Joubert, who established his mili
tury reputation in 1881, has charge of
the Boer forces. He is not so radical as
President Kruger, and it would not sur
prise us to hear of his deposition at any
time.
THANKSGIVING FOR THE GREATNESS OF
LIFE.
Men are prone to thank God for those
prosperities of vine . and meadow and
shop and ship which make life easy and
comfortable; but they are rarely grateful
for those divine happenings which make
life difficult and great. Times and sea
sons for special thanksgiving are wise
and necessary; for men need not be re
minded of what they have received, and
they need to have provision made for the
soecial expression of their gratitude; but
the grateful man does not depend on days
and festivals for his thought of God's
goodness and care for him; these thoughts
are always with him, and the song of
thanksgiving is always in his heart.
Grace before meat is not an empty repe
tition of words; it is the phrase that
forms on the lips out of the fullness of
the heart. There are days so beautiful
in their harmony of season, temperature,
and light, that when they dawn and we
breathe the air of the radiant morning
we say instinctively, "It is good to live."
To be a part of the moving order of the
world on such a day seems to be a suffi
cient reason for existence; we do not care
to go behind the fact of life.
A man is especially and divinely for
tunate, not when his conditions are easy,
but when they evoke the very best that
is in him; when they provoke him to no
bleness and sting him into strength; when
they clear his vision, kindle his enthusi-
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asm, and inspire his will. The best mo
ments in a man's life are often the hard
est and the most perilous; but he thinks
no more of personal discomfort and c -posure
than a thousand other brave men
have thought of these things when the
hour of destiny had struck. When the
bugle rings across the field, the deadly
line of fire that must be crossed is for
gotten in the response to the duty which
beckons from the heights above. Happy
are they to whom life brings, not ease
and physical comfort, but great chances
of heroism, sacrifice, and service !
The great ages have never been com
fortable ages; they have demanded too
much and given too much. The comfort
able ages are those which neither urge a
man to leave his fireside nor offer great
rewards if he does so; the great ages are
those which will not let a man rest for
the multitude of choices of works and
perils they offer him. In easy, comforta
ble money-making times men grow cal
lous to suffering, dull of insight, sluggish
of soul ; in stirring, growing, stimulating
times they draw in great breaths of moun
tain air, they are afield with the sun, con
sumed with eagerness to lavish the gift of
life in one great outpouring of energy.
One who knows what to be grateful for
would thank God for Drake's chances to
die, sword in hand, facing his foes half a
world from home ; for Sidney's opportu
nity to pass on the cup of water to one
whose thirst had less to assuage it : for
Livingstone's noble home-coming, borne
in silence out of the heart of the. dark
continent on the shoulders of men who
could not measure his greatness, but who
reverenced his spirit.
For all sweet and pleasant passages in
the great story of life men may well
thank God ; for leisure and ease and
health and friends may God make us truly
and humbly grateful ; but our chief song
of thanksgiving must be always for our
kinship with him, with all that such di
vinity of greatness brings of peril, hard
ship, toil and sacrifice. The Outlook.
DOUBT ITS CAUEES AND CURE.
BY EDWARD LEK51I PELL. IX BIBLE READER.
A great
many attacks of doubt are
caused by attempting to think through
a great mystery of religion without due
preparation or without taking proper pre
cautions. When you were a boy you did
not like to feel that there was anything
another could do that you could not do..
That feeling led you sometimes into water
that was over your head because another
boy had gone before you ; and it caused
you to get lost in a swamp because some
other boy had successfully explored it.
And since you became a man you have
had much of the same, feeling with regard
to your brain. You do not like to admit
that what another has done with his
brain you may not safely do with yours.
Yet it is just as silly for a man to go be
yond his depth in his thinking without
due preparation or precaution as it is for
a boy to go beyond his depth in bathing
without due preparation or precaution.
Here is a young man who has undertaken
to think through some great doctrine of
our faith the doctrine of the resurrec
tion, or the trinity, or the atonement.
In a little while he is lost. In his con
fusion of mind he can believe nothing,,
he can accept nothing. What is the
trouble ?
Here is a boy who says:
to explore that swamp.
"I am going;
Others have
been through it, and I am going to see
for myself. And he plunges into the
thicket. He has made no preparation, he.
does not know what to expect. In a.
moment he is lost. That would not be a .
serious matter to a veteran swamp ex
plorer, for the reason that a man in a
swamp is lost all the while. But this boy
has not counted on the certainty of get
ting lost, or the strange appearance of
things, and by and by, when he comes to .
a place where the sunlight is shut out
and everything is strange about him, his
brain becomes confused and his heart
sinks within him. He begins to grope
wildly about. He is terrified lest he
should never get out. And on he floun
ders. By and by he may flounder out,,
or he may not. A veteran explorer de
cides to go through the swamp. He makes
every preparation. And then he plunges
in. The sun is soon out of sight, Imt
that does not disturb him. Every thin
appears strange, but he is prepared for it,
and he is not confused. He simply con
sults his compass and keeps on his way.
By and by he comes out safe and sound
and with the knowledge for which he
went. So it is n our mental excursions.