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r Established in 1555. IUEIGH CHRISTIAN ADYOCATE. Organ of the North Carolina Conference. HLISHKD WEEKI.Y AT RALEIGH, X. C. a? second-class matter in the post-office at Raleigh. r. x IVEY, D. D., . . . Editor. WATSON, Business Manager. TEMRS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year, - SI.50. 1 Six Months, -Cash in Advance. .75 .ministers of the gospel and wives of deceased i A" -.-.L-.f- 'I eis, $i.oo. travelling preachers in the North Carolina Coherence, as authorized agents, will receive the ' v.'.teii the label, it shows the date up to which I ,:r subscription has been paid. Change in label j tree. as a receipt. :u-n address is ordered changed, both old and .vldress must be given. sending money, be sure to state whether it is 1,1 or new subscription. ,iress all letters and make all cheeks and monev r wivable to the RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. r.ew EDITORIAL THE CROWNING GRACE. is a proud animal, and pride, per-i his ube setting sin. t shnn d ! . . ' oe classed among ms innrmities. classed : demands more serious consideration ' than it receives. ,1. - -1.-4- , :.1 1 : io u:e Scenic cxicia uuu piitic ib a sin me w oru oi vxOd we iearu tiie name, is liumility a Christian grace. The hu-; attributes, and purposes of God. We can miiity of Christ was one of the founda- j learn them nowhere else. So the spec tion stones of salvation. Humility in tacle of latter-dav theologians throwing i ! necessary ingredient in the make-up of j success, For, unless we stand with an- covered head in the presence of our un-1 dertakings, acknowledging the necessity ' of extra force, failure will win the day. far as our observation goes, inert is an alarming absence of hu-j :v in the presence of God in n ture. It seems to us that when God is ! manifesting most clearly and grandly : i Hi "lorv in phvsical nature, man most! energetically essavs to "play the fool." i At times, when the very soul should : hold its breath in His presence on the mountain top, the wave-lashed shore, or j amid tne whirling storm, many men j women fling away humility and j make themselves ridiculous. As Moses, , when he saw the flaming bush, was told j to pull off his shoes, as the ground on j which he stood was holv, so, when man id heard rrjc n goes out where God is seen, an ana ielt in nature, he should exercise a 4... - .441 nrnnpr l-.nmilifxr fnr he id stnrHncr in the! - - ---y A UUUlltlL I. 1 ll-W Iwm - i nM(.ft t nA vu iiic,V ! I'lv-D'il'C Ui LUC UVlliy VJUU. lin. whirli rnmpc wltli Hip ypnhvr. the tink-! r 1 . .11 -1- -1 tj- hnjr rivulet, or the boiling tide is His voice. The beauty which tints the cow slip, or which rests on the bosom of the mountain tarn, is but the shining of His face, while the moaning storm and the heaving earthquake are but the echo of 7 T r c ' 1, J Gods dispensations furnish man an oc-1 casion for the exercise of humility. Pride j .,,-il f . mi 1 f -11t. iin un fortune will make misfortune hu- mihty with misfortune will make tor- tune. " TVi,10 tfrvr rltmrtion. atid a haughty spirit before a fall." " By humility and the fear of the Lord are "ches and honor and life." There are many counterparts of Saul. Men, who at unattended by any unusual degree ; Prosperity, live close to God, but whop beanie prosperous and forget God. Some are humble until misfortune overtakes them. Then humility abdi cates the throne in favor of a bitter, cen sorious pride. How much better it would ;je for them to say, "Lord, I humbly bow before tl-.ir A;r-r.4.: tmcfinfr litrr v.ispcilALUJll, lliioniij in thy loving wisdom." It th ose who compose the church of 0 hid only in their hearts and lives AOSLiC& was Uiic Ui LUC iUiL.CS uiULiawciv 1CVC1UL1UU aim UOSlLllli tlieir new ! ::i;vle tlieir preaching powerful, and ; faith on the doctrines that have come to helped to drive the car of Zion from : us through the same derided and ban Asia Minor into Europe. The Christian : ished revelation, arouses within us a kind element of to-day, shorn of humility, of indignation. Dr. Briggs and his would undoubtedly be shorn of its power. kind are preaching that we have a new Even humility in a worldly sense is a ; Bible. They say that reason has thrown ORGAN OF THE NORTH humble themselves in the sight of God instead of offering- incense on the altar of self, the watchmen in the streets of Zion would cry out that the morn- irirr nnno.1,t1. 1 1 , jjiuctcncin. r numintv among . i i i i muuKina, Dasea unon a proper con- jpnuu m unu ana wnat man is, and ! whn and wl,of 1 1 t, ' , who and what God is, and the nature of sm and righteousness would hush sobs, j idry tears, dull swords, dismount guns,! r i 1 . lower standards, banish strife, enthrone Peace and send the rich currents of mil lennial life through the veins of Church and State. Let us all place the statue of ; the poor publican in the vestibule of our ! hearts, and read so often and so praver-1 full v the ouaint and sweet old storv of I the Prodigal that we will read it into our very lives. STEALING THE TRUTH. IT is very poptuar these days to deny ! dogmaticallv the written revelation nf i . . . i j God and to sneak learnedlv of the nbinJward God and 011 bebalf of 111311 to Per" and purposes of God as affecting life and one which is to come. It i this true that there is imnbmferl wirhin b i man mind an idea of God, and in all hu-! . vvi . 1 1 U . i ... wfclilt n-uuuit 111 lilt- direction ot aivmitv. Hut it is to v fori us to expect to learn anvthino- definitelv ! of God outside the written revelation, j T.. 4-1. ITT 1 r -! ! I ' X O ' t off the covering in these latter days, and that the Word of God is for the first time ! t J 01 the: understood in these nineteenth century. latter davs Moses made a "mis- j take", after all. The prophets were fail-! ures, the apostles beat the air, and it j was reserved for such ,a rr;c- ! o J Savage, and others to present to the world ; the true photograph of God and decipher His letter-book. j The fact of a divine revelation through Jesus Christ is the keystone in the arch ! of all true faith. When we leave it out of our social and theological structures, a pile of ruins will be all that will be left. THANKSGIVING DAYA SUGGESTION. The President has proclaimed that j Thursday, the 30th day of November, lslia11 be a da" of thanksgiving. It should i be filled with praise to God for his geu- ! eral and special blessings. We have no '11 1A doubt that our readers will spend it m a manner indicating a desire to worship 41 ; God and not to minister to self rjUU AUU . We suggest to tne Methodists 111 the North Carolina Conference that they make Thursday, the 30th day of Novem ber a "red letter" day for our Or- phanage and Preachers' Home, trustees have requested Rev. J. The W. con- and Jenkins to ask that all of our Je . on that dav 'I 1 .1 1 nfWinrr in make a liberal thanksgiving olfenng in T , ff W1 nlf nf the Orphanage. L,et the oner- " " ' roi". Make the service warm, linSs De liUC entertaining, instructive, stimulating, ele vating and inspiring; tell the people what the Orphanage is, what it means', how far it has progressed, how much I farther it will go, how many demands it what a grand work it will ' , Qn the Hol U(J, luuiv ' j x 7 - -.' :iii crit nnd the results will De surprib- incrlv Uatifving. Brother, begin at once 1-mtion for Thanksgiving Day. God angels, and hundreds of homeless ones are waiting for the outcome. nf contentment is worth a pound of feverish speculation m Confer ence future. man nntnre an meHnot lo;nr; fl,a!iuidiuc wiiai uni worm woum soon CAROLINA CONFERENCE, M. RALEIGH, N. C, NOVEMBER 1, 1899. THE PASTOR IN CIVIC LIFE. ROBERT STUART M ARTHUR. It is the solemn duty and the exalted .inp n Tp?ik PhriQl- Tine c a nrnci f. ; J , , J " " rr , tion to which churchmen of all schools win ive a , a a3sem B h tion fmmediatelv arises, What is the Gos - pel? To this question different and some - .A-,,- -11 i. ,J 11 itu iv. -wt vlo Will UV. (.1VA.11, To , ,, t,- 4.1 ls the chiet eminent m preaching the rw-ri r.;,ir i, i . Lrospei simply the conversion ot an elect few niiH their fe nnH rlv tr.nd.h.n tn ttm , tc J urA and so truer, conception of the ournose of I the Gospel among men ? Was not Bun-1 conception of his Christian, as a ! and made a straight line for the Celestial j man vv ho. rem trnm ik mtn pnvirnnniMit ' X A r i . rM so tar an tm-Christian view ot Chris-i tianitv? i That Christians are left on the earth, i and not taken immediately to Heaven, clearly shows that thev have duties to- on rnp pnrr h ( lnr ! orri in K4ic s matchless prayer, distinctlv pravs to the l V A i V V-A V.-A v. 1 vy A 1A1 A i lo Pnther that Wi fnllnrc: c1nbl f 1 f.bi tb ii,i Kf ti,ot ,.idies. They hold up their hands in holy .ti-.v tt VJ v I L Ul iji IU. U 1 1 L tllClt Lilt should be kept from the evil. . ; .Ut ' . 1 1 1J , . , , become if all God's children were at once taken to Heaven, They are the light of 4.1, 11 ,1 , i 1 , 1 ,i the world: that light must shine in the darkest corners. Thev are the salt ot the earth ; that salt must be put in the same barrel with the world's tilings to preserve them from decay. wr. tnM ht wb.n tb. wor nf Terence, the Roman comic poet : N kV A V- V. A A VllVV 1 A A Vw. t A k. A A . VI ,.' V A iT a man and r pptn nnt unrr rnnminn n nwn t-t iiiutl A A X V, X A A A A V fc. AA A A A V,V ill 1 li V 1 1 C Vy 111U11 tbtr. tbob tlmnHprcnfannlnnc. Thev evoke applause still when spoken ! to almost any audience. They are a ! touch of nature, which shows that all the world in its deep heart still possesses kin-: ship. Shall the- Gospel be narrower in; our conception than was this noble senti- j Is there any sphere of life which -'A the Gospel was not intended to reach, , iiMrtpn and pnnnhl Tq it nr.t intended to humanize and in some degree to divinize all the relations of life? Did not Jesus Umst tirst give the wond the : conception ot a religion WlllCll Wa1 1 1 ii i i 1 equany neeueo oy, ifri,-i fT r,A JA au; r,a Qf men? Municipal governments assuredlv need the alleviations which religion can give It is sometimes said that we ought tc . ii i.: ...i.:i. i: bring quite certai li prion into 1L1L..-3 iiilvj iciigiuu , win. it io , -- ?5 . . o - . ! aav a stronger n that we ought to put re- j na no cnoicc in uic mauci. auu wucn ,i ,onut 0f the w politics. While we repudiate ! it comes up out oi the grave witn its re-1 nnih:no. the Old World conception of the relations j newed and multiplied life, there is no act between Church and State, we still earn- j of will or effort on its part. With this ex estlv affirm that each owes solemn duties j ceptiou the law of life through death, to the. other. The man who thinks he is which Christ pointed out, was identical so devoted to the other world that he can-! for "himself and for the corn of wheat. not do his political duty in this world, is never likely to see another world half as o-ood as this world. There mav be times ; ff()od' when it is a Christian's dutv to neglect a week-dav service of his church, that he may serve his country and his God by attending a primary or polling-booth ""The thingswhich are Ccesar's" have their place in the thought and effort in true religionists, as truly as the "things that are God's." Between these two, rightly considered, there is not, and there cannot be, anv op- at alP What ricrht have men to lay! claim 'to the advantages of good govern- " " rient when thev will not take the tron - Wp' tn renter" or havino- registered, to vote ? Such men do not deserve good (mvprnnipnt: and were it not that the in - position. Shall we allow the worst ele-; corn. Again, i nave neara an sucn state ments in the, community to vote early I ments as to the millenial age of vegetable a ffon rin'l rhriQtifln mn vote nnt ! p-emis called in question as impossible, on nocent have to suffer with the guilty, one j But of this we can have no doubt ; as could with great complacency see such j long as the grain of wheat lies m the men obliged to live under a bad city gov-! hand of the mummy, or elsewhere, intact, ernment. I unspoiled and undying, "it abideth alone," Many' feel that when citizens fail j whether it be for a twelve month, or for through mere indifference for several con- j a millenium. If it is ever increase, or secutive years to exercise the rights of ! do anything in the world, if it is ever to citizenship at the ballot-box, they ought ! multiply and be anything more than it for a time to be deprived of that right, j now is, it must go down m the ground It miht be well to tax the right of suf-'and be despoiled. It must rot and die! fracreln such way that only by exercis-1 I have sometimes playfully thought to iuAhat rio-ht would the tax be remitted. ! myself that when we dig in the earth in It Is simply shameful that so many of ! the spring-time to make their little graves the so-called citizens often entirely neg- j for the seed corn and the lily bulb and lect the duty of citizenship at the ballot-j plant them out of sight m the dark and box. It is humiliating beyond descrip-1 dismal ground, we ought to get up a fun tion that often dishonesty robs those who eral procession and play the dead march do cat a ballot of the intended results of j and carry black plumes and wear crape their exercise of their sovereignty. In j and shed tears over the spot. It is so bad monarchical countries those who slew to bury anybody to shut up anything m E. CHURCH, SOUTH. kings were called regicides. In the American Republic those who make false counts of ballots strike at American sov- ! ereigntv. They are the regicides under of government. They ought our form to be punished with the utmost vigor of i the exercise of their kingly functions of i :f.- i e . . : .crtnip, and so are guilty of political ! SU1Clfd e' "g Vv fi PUnf Y the ! CS an? reoukfd by e pulpits . ' mj x. aiicic ib no quaere 01 unman uuty 10 '11,1 1 , (VI, i i ( i which the pulpit can afford to be mdif- , , . , . ierent. Its sphere is limitless, and its m- i n r ., , , , , , ' , . ! Auence, if possible, should be ubiquitous. We ought not to separate widely between ?i,r, PietI a,n d. ou5 Patritism- e lerew 1 sairmst, j erusaiem stood lor tne "obiest aspirations of re ngi on, as well as & 1 We to m eliminated God from : current events, and also from municipal '1 M ri T r-, f - I .- T r I -t-T OIVC d HO T CI T M "VM Df it T" T chili, naiivjjiai aiiau. v l iia v v l iivj ciii 11 l vi i God as having direct relation to national r, . . &, , , r j x , janairs in tne uays oi Aioses arm josnua, and David and Solomon, and Isaiah and Micah, but we have relegated Him to re mote times and distant lands. Many Christians are practically guilty i ! pS1, CUJ" exeuib- 1 v!- I lJuaH "leir lllUlliClCUec LU Ull puutcU . , p , . ' LIS. A 11C V UUiiiL lctlllCi LU UlLlSll of their shameful neglect of their solemn T V ' Ii V , : iCvL UU t SUlilCLlllllii lUWdlU LUllllllt; L1113 . P A, & , , . &, 1 CY ?f,the western hemisphere, i and tne hud of thfe world; ! ovf J to he contr oi. the .os ! If vV orFanlzatlon m political history, ! Probably tnere is no more teral, venal, -m . ana political orcrp.mzation even amoiif I nations not yet emerged from heathenism i j o - tT 1 t" 4 j "I aiis.1 utii uui ism. a lie viiiiuiic3l v ciin.1 iii- ' Capacity 01 Olir lllUlllCipal rille has J011 reProach on Americanism, on Republicanism, on civilization, and even 011 humanity.-. - o" THE SUCCESS OF FAILURE. : Christ once crew a parallel between his 4 4 -4.14.4 - 4 4 4 4 4 4i j own aeatli and tlie cleatli ot a com ot wheat. At another time he made are- i mark which clearly indicates a dissimi lar itv between his death and that of the natural seed corn, "I lay down my life ' 1 1 " f- I mi". ' it orvoit-l ; ' iot t(M.-nv ; Llllll. X 111CI Li-lfvl- U atlJll. A 11C1 j.7Wtl to lav it down and I nave nower to take it againJ His death was to be his own ! choice and voluntary act, as much so as though not accomplished by the hand of -,-mL-t t m-n i t I 1 i. . I , --. 1 ',1,1 PI to ; Aor so, nowever, witn me corn oi wneat. ' V (!t"ll II ?r)t-S II1UJ LiiC i'llJ Hill HI lilt. H i ; TTi is. .4., , i 4. j: .4. ' t . I . l!- ---L-4l-. - 1 I - j It is a question as to how long a time j the germ of life can be retained in a grain j of wheat or other seed corn. We have all ! heard the story of the Egyptian wheat and the lily bulb which were said to have been 'folded up in the hand of the mummy and j laid away in the dried atmosphere of the j tombs for a thousand years and which, j upon being brought out to the light and ! placed under proper conditions of earth I and air- and moisture, have grown and I produced u after its kind," with all the ! youthfulness of first and second year seed 1. . -1 , . . , r ' the ground that tne particles ot matter would disintegrate with time and the lseed germ would ot necessity become oe - ; vitalized. Of course this is a question of j tact to be determined by experiment and j not by theory, New Series. Vol. 1, No. 37. a tomb where it must be subject to cor ruption and to death. But, someone reminds me, this is the way of nature. Our flower beds are not graveyards, nor our corn fields burial places. If we are to have a garden of flowers or a harvest of wheat, the seed corn and the lily bulbs must go down in to the ground and die. Therefore, instead of weeping when we plant our garden and fields, we will throw away our emblems of mourning. We will stop our funeral dirges, and we will lift up our shouts of gladness and carry bright banners, and we will rejoice and be glad because of the multiplied beauty and largeness of life that is to come at the harvest. Yes, and why not have the same confi dence of hope and faith at our own burial and at the burial of our Christian friends, and at the failure of any of our plans and expectations? Christ applies the same principle to himself and" to the seed corn. He teaches us that the same law of life through death, and of success through apparent failure, runs through all the spheres of our moral and spiritual ac tivities. The way of life is 'the way of death. The way of success and high achievement in any line, is the way of struggle, of effort and of waste. All this is true for the individual, f; institutions, and for society at large. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the the Church. The dying, decaying leaves of the forests are the mulching and feed ing of the growing trees. The toil and sacrifice and courageous defeat of one generation is the advancement and up building of the next. Douglass P. Put nam, D. D., in Evangelist, PUBLIC READINGS OF THE SCRIPTURES. Sunday Scliool Magazine. Iilton said there were no songs com- i parable to the Songs of Zion. It is just as true that there is no reading compara ble to the Word of God. It is the most inspiring, the most suggestive, the most thrilling, the most convicting, the most comforting, the most enlarging, and in every way the most charming book that men read. The public reading of it is of the utmost importance. We rejoice that one of the lessons of this month is of that subject There is great need of it. The Bible is the great battle-ground of the day. It is being attacked on the one hand by indifference, and on the other by fiery criticism. The issue is not doubtful. It will come out with new wreaths of triumph. Indeed, it has to- hold on the life and the orld than ever before, contribute so much to its early and complete enthronement as the right use of the Book itself. In that most interesting account which Nehemiah gives of the reading of the Scriptures by Ezra there are several points which are particularly impressive. The only mention of a pulpit in the Bible is when the reading stand which Ezra occupied is so called. The first function of the pulpit was, therefore, to assist the people in hearing the Word of the Lord. It was a place from which the Word of God was dispensed not dis pensed with as is now too often the case. The only true pulpit power, that which enters the consciences of men and abides to make them better and greater, is that which proceeds from God's Word. It has always been a noticeable fact that the closer the adherence ot the i 1 .. , 4i a r ".i 1. preacner 10 uie pure wuiu uuu is, ic greater and more permanent is the effect. 1 in studying me icdumg cvduj-cusisui luc race, we have seen that those who made the Word of the Lord the chief and al most only instrument of instruction and illustration have done work which re mained as a permanent heritage of the church. Such work has taken on organi zation and has become reproductive. On the other hand, those who have used the Scripture largely as a pretext and have utilized large natural endowments of ora tory, wit, sarcasm, learning, and various personal gifts of influence, have been more like passing meteors than fixed stars. When Ezra read the law, those present to hear were "the men and the women, and those that could understand" that is, with the grown people came also the chil dren who were mature enough to under stand the Word which was read. " And all the people answered Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands; and they bowed their heads, and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground." l.-' ItL llWVi'i'w - - H m .1 IS j 'i
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