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CO. -.J HAS CLOSED JEETIIIG TO HOLD THE NEXT 6ES8ION IN THE CITY OF RALEIGH ON JULY It. ; IN THE CAUSE OF HEALTH Chairman of Board of Health Nam ' Ofllctra to Gather Statlttloa of Births and Deaths. MEETING LASTED EIGHT DAYS Mo Final Reading Taken At Naxt Meeting Several Proposed Ameno ment That Passed Second Roadlng Will Ba Finally Acted Upon. Raleigh. A apecdal trout Morehead City state that after session of eight days, the commission on consti tutional amendment adjourned to ment In Raleigh July 16 and take up all the measure which have passed their second reading. They are the following: Veto power for governor. A new system for taxation, allow ing classification of subjects of taxa tion, and separation of source of revenue. Allowing Intermediate appellate courts between supreme and superior court and enabling superior court Judge to ride smaller circuits. Preventing passage of certain local, special and private acts by legisla ture. Initiative and referendum. Increased pay for legislators. Allowing Bible reading in public schools. Striking out the word "Rebellion." Prohibiting formation of corpora tion by special act Taking away homestead from sin gle maa who has no member of his family dependent upon him. Allowing legislature to appropriate lines in recorder' courts to city schools. Compulsory school term of six months. Aboiiahing poll tax as precendent condition to voting and decreasing residence of electors from two to one year The commission saw that Its labors could not be completed within less than a week probably, and Judged that It would be better to have time for consideration before putting these measure upon their final pass age. . The work by the commission has been hard and eteady. Sessions were held daily all morning and evening until a late hour, while committee work was done In the afternoon. It expects to complete its labors in two or three days at the next session. It Is proposed by a member to of fer an amendment killing definitely the date for Inauguration of the governor. Raleigh. From July 1, , 1913, be tween 1,200 and 1,500 local o dicers In North Carotin will act as registrars In recording every birth and death In the state and the statistic relative thereto. For on and after that date the new health regulations make it oblig atory upon every chairman of county board of health and every mayor In town or cities to appoint these local offices whose duties will be to gather the so termed jrltal statistic rela tive to the life and death of North Carolina folk. These vital 'statistic from every township and city in North Carolina are to be filed monthly at the office of of the secretary of the state board of health. Thl tremendous army of health officers Interested In gathering these statistics minutely both as to birth and death rate must be actively COilFEREIICE BIOS RELIGIOUS MEETING. AT LAKE JUNALUSKA ENDS. GOOD WORK DONE. - LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE ...... ' Latest New of General Interact That H Been Collected From Many Town and Counties. . MISSIONARY SUBSCRIPTIONS A More Inspiring Sight Bishop Wilson Say He Ha Never Wltnased. The Conference Wa a Great 8uccs. Object of Meeting. at work not later than October Thl much margin to permitted in or der that the chairmen of the boards of health and'the mayors of the cities may have ample time to exercise dis cretion In making appointments of these local officers that are to gather the vital statistics. , However, at the present time a sixth of the area of North Carolina is en gaged In the collection of these gta tistlos and reporting to health head' quarters at Raleigh. This vital statistics collection Is an experiment in the state that promises much . to the ever-realizing force In North Carolina for better health It Is anticipated that these statistics will give a valuable key for a cam palgn against certain destructive dis eases and what the percentage of deaths are due to certain maladies. Then, too, each vicinity will furnish a tab on the death and birth rate, and the causes for an unduly large death rate can be Investigated with much more precision than heretofore with these vital statistics In hand. Eight N. C. Postmasters Confirmed. Eight North Carolina postmasters successfully passed through the fire of the senate executive session and were confirmed. Fights had been made on at least half a dozen of these, fight with which the people of the state have become familiar in the last few week. - The following were the successful ones who now await only their commissions: .Finley T. Croom, Burgaiw; Finley L. William son, Burlington; 8. P. Wilson, Fair mont; John V. Johnston, Farm ville; W. F. Flower, Fremont; Samuel V. Scott, Sanford; C. L. Harris, Thom asville, and O. K. Holding, Wake Forest. The president sent in the nomination of E. 3. Brltt to be post, master at Chadbourn. All Crop In Good Condition. At the state department of agricul ture the statement Is made that crop conditions are" very good throughout the state. Secretary' Ellas Carr of the department. Just back from exten slve travels through. Eastern Carolina, says Edgecombe county cotton suffer ed somewhat from lice resulting from the cold rain a few weeks ago. The crops in Pitt county, especially the Greenville section, are as. fine, he says, as they could well be. Also, on the road from "Tarboro .to Norfolk he saw very fine crops. BlackweH Granted Another Reprieve. Claude BlackwelL convicted in the August term, 1912, of Mecklenburg superior court of . manslaughter, and sentenced tA two years In the state penitentiary, was granted his second reprieve since the ; passing of sen tence, the governor granting respite until August l.; ! BlackweH was sen tenced to the state prison for the kill ing of Dr. Fred" Mlsenhelmer, of Char lotte, the cause leading up to the kill ing, was that while Indulging In a po ker game a' row ensued and Black ' well stabbed Mlsenhelmer to death. Dr. Rankin I Honored. Within the past few week four dis tinct national health agencies have honored Dr. W. S. Rankin, secretary of the North Carolina board of health and In recognition of his services In - the campaign for health In the state and country, have elected him to high office in their respective organi sations. At the recent meeting of the Conference' of State and Provincial " Boards of Health of North America. Dr. Rankin was elected, secretary treasurer tor a term of three years to succeed' Dr. H. M. Bracken. Hoey Assls'rmt District Attorney. - Attorney C 1 "ral HcReynolds told Senator Ot i t!.at he would ap point Clr ' 11. Koey, of Shelby, as slant rict attorney ; for the western a.-, trict of North Carolina. The appo! .-'merit will take effect In a few days, l:i fact Just i soon as the ln- wind up the st and put them in sor. Judge A. M. is the present as a understood tier at Mr. Hoey would L . .. : . - , .:.. North Carolina New Enterprise. The Southern Tailoring Company of Winston-Salem 1 a new concern to transact the business of buying and selling all kinds of wearing apparel for men, women and children, with a capital stock of $900, divided into nine shares. The names of the Incorpora tors are: A. Shapiro, Henry Harris and Monroe Robinson of Winston- Salem. The Waynesville Mutual Ben efit Burial Company, of Waynesville, Haywood county, was granted a char ter for the purpose of providing "by assessments, upon Its members, an amount sufficient to defray the costs and expense of a decent and appro priate funeral and Interment of such of its members, who shall, at the time of the death, be In good standing, with said company. Wrought Up Over New Auto Tax. Automobile dealers are very much wrought up over a feature of the new automobile tax in the revenue bill whereby It Is prescribed that no auto mobile can be sold In this state un less the manufacturers have previous ly paid an annual manufacturer's li cense tax of $500. State Treasurer Lacy rules that this must apply to second-hand machines taken as part payment for new. machines, -as well as to new machines sold first hand by dealers. The dealers Insist that a ruling of this sort would practically put them out of business, as there are numbers of the makes of machines In the hands of users wiho want to buy new machines. sold first-hand by deal ers, go In part payment. Governor Grants Pardon to Two. - The pardoning power was extended by Governor ' Craig to two avowed criminals, both serving a combined sentence of three years and six months. Mitch Lee, convicted at Aug ust term, 1912, Transylvania court, of housebreaking and sentenced to two years and six months on the roads, was granted pardon on the condition that he live the life of a law-abiding citizen in the future. Columbus Jones, of Edgecombe county, convicted In the March, 1913, term of court of the crime of seduction under promise of mar riage, and sent to the roads for a year, was pardoned with the provi sion that he live with wronged girl. Wholesale Grocers Association, Plans continue toward maturity for the great Southern Wholesale Gro cers' Association, which will meet in Charlotte on July 16, 17 and 18. From the office of the Greater Charlotte Club, which by the kindness of Secre tary Car ra way has been tendered the committee on arrangements, word comes that the program for the con vention is nearlng completion. One of the features of the convention will be the banquet tendered the whole salers at the Southern Manufacturers' Club. Waynesville. With an address by !h venerable Bishop A. W. Wilson, the second general missionary con ference of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, whloh had been in ses sion at Lake Junaluska for five day came to a close. The closing hours of the conference were featured by a remarkable outburst of enthusiasm. which added $20,600 more to the total of $115,000 subscribed. The grand total was pushed past th one hun dred and fifty thousand mark, when It wa announced that a lay worker of Mississippi had given 600 acre of land for the erection of an educational Institution for the colored race. The property Is valued at more than $10, 000. The total fund subscribed at this conference more than triple the record reached at New Orleans five years ago. Bishop J. McCoy preached a special sermon at the morning service. At the closing exercises Bishop Lamburt detailed the results of his personal efforts to establish mission stations in Africa, a comparatively ne w field of labor for the Southern M. E. church. The bishop, who pen etrated the heart of the Congo coun try during his travels, declared that the prospectsyfor successful mission ary efforts In Africa were unusually bright. Bishop Wilson delivered the clos ing address. He said that the Waynes ville conference had been successful to a marked degree In point of at tendance and results accomplished, bishop aroused great enthusiasm when he declared that the conference which Just closed had set a new record for missionary contributions. He had never witnessed a more inspiring sight, he said, than the generous re sponses made to appeal for funds when the sum of $115,00 was sub scribed In less than an hour. Revenue Collections Increasing. Raleigh. With the receipts total ling the large sum of $5,517,138.71, an Increase of over a million dollars, the United States revenue department for the Eastern district of North Caro lina ended it best year In the his tory of the department The recelptr of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912 were $4,377,000, the increase for the past fiscal year being $1,140,138.71. The department has been steadily in creasing Its collection for the past six months, especially since taking over the South Carolina district and the department for the western part of the state has fallen behind Collector Wheeler Martin's monthly showing. Delegation to Good Roads Meeting. Charlotte. Mayor Bland appointed the following Charlotte men to attend the annual convention of the North Carolina Good Roads Association to be held at the Wright Hotel in More head City on July 31 and August 1: Messrs .O. L. Barringer, Dr. B. J. Wltherspoon, C. B. Bryant; B. Rush Lee, J. A. Jones, Thomas Garibaldi, J. O. Walker, C. C. Williams, C. C. Cod dlngton and C. C. Hook. The circular letter announcing the convention Is sent out by Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, secretary of the association. Logging Train Wrecked.' Lumberton. A log train on the Raleigh & Charleston Railroad was wrecked three miles south of here re cently as the result of a trestle toe ing burned. The train was running backwards and on account of fog none of the crew discovered the burn ed trestle until the train was right on It. Nearly every car was piled in a heap. Several members of the crew were injured, but only one was hurt bad enough to be carried to the hospital. nt lias t!" f f the c Health Question In the State, The June Bulletin of the North Car olina Board of Health is devoted prin cipally to the presentation of advan tage that come from "whole time county health officers," the Insistence being that the health conditions of those counties employing efficient su perinendents of health for their whole time show very marked im provement and that the additional ex pense Is Justified many times over. Considerable space is devoted to the present status of medical knowledge as to typhoid fever. Mystery of Fires Solved. . The mystery of the series of fires at Mr. W. A. Murdock's In Cool Spring township, which has been the principal topic In the town and coun ty for days, has at last been solved. Harvey Murdoch, th 13-year-old , sou of Mr. and Mrs. Murdock confesses that he started all the fires. The con fesslon wa made to Sheriff Deaton. Deputy Insurance Commissioner Jor dan and the boy's father. The child described now he slipped away from home and started all of th fire. Brown Collector For Seven Years. States ville. If Col. A. D. Watt does not take charge of the office of collector of Internal revenue until the 15th of this month. Collector George Brown will have completed his eventh year In that office, he hav ing taken charge July 15th, J906. Dur ing that time Collector Brown has collected In Internal taxes for the gov ernment a total of $24,513,071.70, all of which has been deposited and ac counted for without the loss of a pen ny. Collector Brown has made a fine record In every respect Storm Do Much Damage.' Wilson. Besides the killing of Mrs. Baker by lightning and damage to many farmers by hall and wind, Mr. Wiley Webb, of Saratoga township, says he thinks $4,000 la a conserva tive estimate of the damage to his 10 .horse crop; that his tobacco crop will not yield $25 to the acre, and that much of his corn and cotton Is badly damaged. Says that ' neighboring farms were fbadly damaged, and that hall fell as large as hen eggs, and that the wind blew a hurricane and the rain came down In torrents. - Numerous Storms In Durham. Durham. The farmers of Durham county say that the storms of the past week have damaged young crops very much. Lightning has set fire to the barns of two farmers of th county, and Mr. TUley, of the Cole's Mill sec tion, lost all of his feed and some of his stock. D. 8. Mi:ier, of the north ern part of the county, suffered a loss of his barn and feed. ' A number of the farmers of the western part of the county have been pretty badly dam aged by the hall storm which follow ed on of the shower last week. : . Smlthfleld A sever electric storm passed over SmtthfUeld recently when lightning struck the stable of W. L. Bray and killed a fin mule. There was another mule on one side and cow. on ths other which were not hurt. Klnston, Every stream In this sec tion of the state Is swollen from the recent rain. ' The total precipitation wa over three Inches, and the river and creek are rising rapidly with th freshets from up state. Raleigh. Sheriff Sears sent depu- ties to search for ths murderer of James Glenn, a well-known white mar in Barton' Creek township. Accord lng to reports reaching here Glenn wa struck over the head with a shov el by Henry Evans, colored, who es caped. Salisbury. At Albemarle several day ago 8pencer Watklm, aged 21, agent for the Southern Express Com pany at that place, was electrocuted by a live wire. In some unaccountable way a semaphore at the depot became heavily charged and he was killed when he touched It. It required three ment to pull hit body from the wire. Asheville. Secretary D. Harris, of the Western North Carolina Fair As sociation -will go to Rutherfordton shortly to assist In the organization of a fair association for Rutherford ton county. Mayor J. P. Bean, of Rutherfordton,. was here several days ago and he extended an Invitation to Mr. Harris to visit Rutherfordton for the purpose. ML Olive. Up to the present time, about 30,000 barrel of Irish potatoes have been ehlpped to Northern mar kets from this point, with about 10,000 barrels still to be dug and shipped. This Is a much larger yield than has ever been raised in Mount Olive's ter ritory before, but the average price per barrel ha (been far from satisfac tory. Raleigh. The time wa up July 1 for receiving proposals from North Carolina towns for the location Of the State Home for wives and widows of Confederate veterans, for which there was a $10,000 appropriation of buildings and ' $5,000 annually for maintenance by the recent legislature. Some town Is expected to donate the site and possibly other aid In making the Institution creditable to the state. st.n.-? o o ooooooottt Raleigh. T. B. Parker, director of county farmers' institutes, returning from the western section of North Carolina where he has been for the past week in the Interest of the con ducting of institutes during the sum mer months, and where his immediate Interest was to aid other members of the state agricultural department in observing the work of the test farms, states that the fruit crop in western North Carolina is a failure. Jonesboro. The dewberry crop lr Lee county has been marketed and the returns have been good. From three acres owned by A. J. Sloan, of this place, he gathered 630 crates that netted $2.00 per crate above all ex penses of cultivating and getting on the market. This netted $333.53 per acre, or a total for the patch of $1,000.60, with about fifty crate left in the field for the hand after the market went down. Charlotte The Mecklenburg school authorities have recently had printed a Hat of those attraction at the next county fair which will be of interest to the children throughout the coun ty. The Hat includes the premiums and prizes offered in the various line; to be contested for by boys and girls throughout the county. The list In cludes all information necessary for competing for these many valuable prizes which are to be offered; Raleigh. Judging by the tone of the petition filed with the corpora tion commission through their attor ney L. H. Allred, of Smlthfleld, the whole town of Selma are up in arms in demanding that the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line Railways provide more adequate depot facilities at this railway Junction, where passengers from points south of Weldon, north of Fayettevllle and eastern points stop over between trains. Raleigh. Robert C. Strong, North Carolina supreme court reporter, an nounced recently that the Index of the 161st North Carolina report is in the hands of the printers anad that It Is anticipated that at an early date the reports will be in the possession of the legal profession over the state. Asheville. For the purpose; of en abling the department to put a stop to reckless driving and speeding, the police committee of the board of al dermen is contemplating tfie purchase of two motorcycles for the use of the plain , clothes men In running down violators of the speed and traffic laws. Asheville. The laying of the new Masonic temple and Scottish Rite ca thedral, which Is in the course of con struction at the corner of North Main and Wooding streets, marked an epoch in the history of Masonry in western North Carolina. Hickory. The Business of the Ca-ta-wfba Co-Operatlve Creamery Associ ation of this city, which was organ ized three years ago, has greatly in creased each year. The first year of its, organization the receipts were about $13,000. For the year ending June 1, 1913, the creamery's business was $51,935. - V States vllls. Mr. W. O., Kerry, of Grover, Cleveland county, has been elected principal of th Statesrille graded school, to succeed H. E. Cra ven, who resigned to become super intendent of the graded school at Franklinton. " , Winston-Salem. A storm of eyckm Ic proportion did damage estimated at $10,000 at the mill town of Mayo- dsn, Rockingham county recently GR IAU Tfinnps MrmwioNAL REPULSE SER1IS MilOL LESSON REPORT DE8PERATE FIGHTING IN PROGRE88 JU8T NORTH OF 60LONIKA. GREEKS ARE THREATENED (By K. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening Department, Ths Moody Bible Institute, Chleaao.) ' LESSON FOR JULY 13 i The Final Destiny of the Wicked Br REV. WILLIAM EVANS. D. D, A Special Dispatch to London Tolls of a Most Disgraceful Incident v at Belgrade. Other Place. Report of Fighting. at ..Vienna. Desperate fighting ha been In progress between Bulgarians and Servian several day near Velea (Kopritl), according to the Sofia cor respondent of the Neu Frele Press. He says the Bulgarian iCroopt ffe pulsed th Servian southern wing with heavy losses and expect to oc cupy Veles shortly. JXhs same correspondent telegraphs that a great battle extending over an area ot 50 miles 1 In progress north of Salonika, where 80,000 Greek are opposed to 100,000 Bulgarians. The result 1 expected to.be a deciding factor In the Greek and Bulgarian campaign. The strategy ot the Bulgarian com manders forced the Greek to aban don several fortified positions near Salonika, Langasa, Lake and Beshlk Lake. Salonikl. Greek troops captured from the Bulagralns the small town of LaHana on the railroad from Salonika to Serres. It Is considered the most Important position In the vicinity and the key to Serres, 20 mile northeastj Constantinople. The Ottoman gov ernment has not yet decided what ac tion it will take in view of the Bal kan situation but the opinion prevails here that Turkey will not allow the opportunity to escape of obtaining some material or moral heneflt from the clash. The tower on the cotton mill -was re -oved and blown about one hundred ',-irds falling on the cotton storag are h owe, the top of which wa aleo badly damaged. - London. A disgraceful incident marked the arrival at Belgrade of 1,384 Bulgarian prisoner of war, ac cording to a special ' dispatch from the Servian capital. The prisoners wefe marched through the street In the presence of immense crowds of Servians who closed in, cheering wildly at the rear ot wagons loaded with wounded lying three deep, many ot them apparently dying. Desecrate Flag, Apology Follows. Washington. Twp incidents in volvlng desecrations of national flags which marked celebrations are 'ex- D acted to form the subiect of com plaints to the state department, though so far noblng has -been heard from them. The affair at Winnipeg, Maanltoba, involving the trampling of an Amer ican flag at a British parade, prob ably cannot be made the -basis of an official protest because the interna tional law does not guarantee protec tion ot flag of a foreign country ex cept whore they are displayed over official buildings. In the Tucson, Ariz. Incident, however, where the flag over the Mexican consulate was torn down the state department will probabbly be obMged to request the local authoriie to make a proper apology and amend to the Mexican consul. Governor Mann' Denial. Richmond, Va. In a statement Gov ernor Mann strongly resented the published reports that he had advo cated a grand reunion of the armies of the North and the South in Rich mond In 1916 on the fiftieth anniver sary of the evacuation of the Confed erate capital. "There Is absolutely no foundation for the statement that I advocated such a reunion," said Gov ernor Mann. "The friendly gathering of America ti citizens who were sol dier in both armies on the field ot Gettysburg was a very different thing from the proposed celebration of the passing and fall of the Confederacy." MOSES PREPARES FOR H.S WORK. LESSON TEXT Ex. 1:11-21 GOLDEN TEXT "Blessed are the meek; for they shall Inherit ths earth." Matt. Meekness does not Imply any lack of aggressiveness; It does not imply a mildness of temper. Moses, ws Judge from a study of this chapter, was not as yet "meek above all men." In last week's lesson w considered the birth, salvation, nursing and train ing of Moses as child. vAfter Jochebed had nursed Moses (v. 9) he was re turned to Pharaoh' daaghter add "be came her son," thereby obtaining all the rlghtsj privileges and training of the Egyptlin court His Qualification. (1) He had a godly parentage and an early godly training. Do we appreciate the tre mendous advantage ot th child who la well born and well trained T True, en vironment I not all-sufficient but It 1 a great asset. The psalmist empha size thl when he exclaim "thou hast given me the heritage of them that tear thy name." Ps. 61:6. (2) Moses bad a knowledge of the condition. Born and nursed In a slave' home he knew of the oppres sion of Israel. Reared In Pharaoh's court, - he knew how the Egyptians feared these same Israelites (Ch. 1:9, 10). Moses saw (v. 11) the burdens borne by those of his own race. Heart of Sympathy, (3) Moses had a heart of sympathy (r. 11). Seeing an Egyptian task master evilly entreating a kinsman Moses' heart rebelled and at once he flew to his support and defence. Our Lord was "moved with compassion.' A like rlghteou Indignation impelled the Master to .drive the money changers from the temple and to de nounce the hypocritical Pharisees, Moses had not, however, learned self restraint, and that he should expres hi sympathy at the proper time and in the moat effective manner. (4) Moses was brave and zealous. t. 12. But he acted before God told him to act He "looked this way and that," but he did not look upward. It Is evident that Moses was doubtful as to the righteousness of his anger for when be was rebuked by the two Hebrews who fought each other, he "feared and said, surely this thing Is known," r. 11 In this he was cor rect (r. 16), for he Is driven from the court and the country. At this time he had zeal without a correct full knowledge. (6) Moses was educated. We hare already seen bow he was taught by his own mother and that he received the training of the Egyptians, Acts 7:22, Being brave and mighty In deed was not enough; hs was "mighty In word and deeds." Thus bs was prepared to stand before Pharaoh (not the father of his deliverer, but another Pharaoh, . 24), meet him on an equal tooting, and Intelligently combat his religion with that of Johovah. God does not et any premium upon Ignorance (Jas. 1:15) and the highest wisdom is to know God. Moses undoubtedly ex celled In the literature and the science of his time.- We ought never to forget this whenever his name is mentioned or when the books he wrote are under consideration. (6) Moses had assurance. True, he had not as yet received God's call (see Ch. 3) for particular work and his re liance upon force, his tit-for-tat policy was not God' method ot working de liverance. But Moses was obedient. and as he obeyed, God honored each step of his faith. It seems to us after reading Acta 7:22-29 and Heb. 11:23 26 that Moses had left Pharaoh's court before he slew the Egyptian. 1 Like Abraham before him, Mobbs was call ed upon to make a great choice. ' Serv ice, environment and the goal of life TEXT Rom. 8J-1 fe?s This Is prob ably th hardest of , all ths doc trine ot Christ ianity to be re ceived. If we ask the reason why, w receive vari ou answers. Bom would tll n that this doc trine 'Is unwel come to many be cause they feel themselves guilty, a n d t h I r con science tells them that unlet they to God this awful Others believe The Political Reward. . Washington. A hill to take part of the appointive power from the president and lodge it In a commis sion of three men will be introduced by Senator Works. It Is designed to prevent public offices from being used as political rewards and the chief ef fect would be to take from senator. representative ' and. ; party leaders their t present power of recommend ing candidates. The proposed com mission, appointed by each president at the opening of his term of office would recommend appointments. Independence Day Tragedies. New York. ' While the movement for safety and sanity in the celebra tion of the Fourth of July worked wonders In the reduction of the num- nor or victims despatches from a score of different points throughout - the country account for 41 person killed In a variety of other accidents incident to the outpouring of the holi day crowds. . Twenty-eight persona were drowned, Ave persona were kill ed In automobile accidents, five in a single train accident and two killed in aeronautic sports. 1 were involved in,. that choice. Read the classic language of Heb. 11:25, 26. Moses' Mistake. (7) Moses was meek, e..g., teach able. To us this was his greatest as set A man may be well born, well trained and know the need and the resources at his Command, but If he lack a teachable spirit he is doomed to failure. . Moses made a mistake when he slew the Egyptian.: At a later date when he had learned of God he undertook the same task and no dif ficulties daunted .him. The change from a prince's position at the court to one of an humble shepherd,' a des pised calling; was as essential as had been those 40 year at tne Egyptian schools. II. His error. Moses endeavored to work relief by the strength of his own arm,-a mistake many Christian work ers are constantly making. Our war fare is not with . carnal weapons. Moses had no warrant for killing the Egyptian.' He was not obeying any command other than that of impulse. The. life of Moae had been mlracu- repent and turn doom awaits them. that it 1 because the thought of fu ture punishment strikes terror to peo ple's hearts, and therefor this doo- trins Is repulsive to them. To others, ths thought of future anguish teems utterly Incompatible with the father ly love of God. Tet It is acknowledged to be a remarkable fact that both Jesus and John, who more' than any i ons else In the New Testament rep resent the element of love in their ' lives and teaching, speak most of the future anguish ot the wicked. 1. The wicked are said to "die in their slns." John 8:21 "Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die In your sins." The "death" spoken of here doe not mean cessation of existence any more than eternal life mean th beginning . of existence. Eternal life does not mean merely to- live forever, but to live in a state ot blessedness forever. Eternal life deal not so much with quantity a with quality of existence. Even In thl life death can co-exist with life: "But h that llveth in pleasure Is dead while she llveth" (1 Tim. 6:6); Eph. 3:L What men call life God call death. Rev. 21 :t de scribe what "death" means: "But ths fearful, and the unbelieving ... shall hay their part In the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which Is ths second death." I. The wicked are not annihilated. The texts most strongly urged as teaching the annihilation theory, M rightly Interpreted, will be seen to re fer to removal from oft the earth, and not to future retribution. Hers are the principal passagss: . ' Ps. 87:20 "But the wicked shall perish, and th enemle of th Lord hall be a the fat of lamb: they hall consume; Into amok they shall . consume away.". This psalm is writ ten for the encouragement of IaraeL and against her enemies and their . power on the earth. This earthly power shall be utterly broken, and be of no more account than the smoke ot a burnt sacrifice. The great truth taught hers is that the earth Is the Inheritance of th saints, and that the wicked shall have no part in it In speaking ot the "everlasting pun ishment" with which the wicked will be visited, as recorded In 8 Thess. 1:9, the annihllatlonlst would say that ref erence Is made to the "results or con sequences" of that punishment and ( not. to the punishment Itself. But the Scriptures stats that It Is ths "punish ment". Itself, and not -ths conse quences, that is everlasting. What need I there of a resurrec tion If the wicked are to be annihi lated at death, or why should they be , raised from the dead If only to be at once extinguished forever t Again, there is no such thing as "uncon scious" punishment You cannot pun ish anything that is unconscious. Can you punish a stone or a house T Pun ishment can take place-only wnere there is consciousness on the part of the one suffering. 8. The wicked are to be punished. This punishment Is eternal.' We read ' of "eternal" or "everlasting" punish ment, "everlasting" fire.' It is object ed that the word eternal" or "ever lasting" does not mean "forever." Thl may be true. But we are all willing to admit that when this word qualifies the condition of the righteous it means forever, without end, e, g the righteous shall go "into life eter nal" The sams word, however, quail- -flea the punishment ot th wicked, a, g., "these shall go away Into everlast ing punishment" Fairness demands that we make the joy of the righteous and the punishment of the wicked both qualified a they are by the aame word of the same duration. It there -Is any end to the reward of th righteous, there Is also to the penalty, ' ot th wicked. Th one last as long as the other. If "destruction" means annihilation, then there Is no need ot the word "eternal", to qualify it Fur ther the Scripture present the pun lously spared, nor had he been , Bhmwlt of th, wicked not only as ' Portland Nsd Wounded. . Atlanta, Ga James W, Johnson, a notorious criminal of many aliases. was probably fatally wounded by of ficers after he had '-wrecked the safe of the postofftce at Klrkwood, Ga an Atlanta suburb, and engaged in a revolver duel -with police brought to the scene by the noise of the explo sion. Johnson had succeeded In blowing only ths outer doors of the safe when the authorities arrived. He returned their fire until he feu with a bullet wound near ths h"rt ject to lavery Yet he did not know God' method nor wa it God's oppor tune lme to strike the blow tor deliv erance. It Is true that the sufferings of the Israelites Increased and that no one seemed to heed their cry. But God remembered. God beard their cry v. 84, and he "knew," 85, marg. It often seems today- that poor and the oppressed are overlooked, but God "remembers his covenant. Ps. 106 ; 8- 10. and his promises are surs of ful filment though they seem to be delay ed. Luke 1; 72-74. , III, His pilgrimage. Some one has suggested that Moses entered another school of patience which would cause him to exercise all ot his meekness when he married Zlpporah, Ch. 4:20-26. It Is true that his father-in-law was more generous and proved a- better friend than , his daughter, Ch. 18:13 27. Moses gave evidence that he rec ognized his pilgrim character in the names he gave to his sons, v. 22 and Ch. 18:3, 4. The Christian needs con stant'y to be reminded that he Is but a i " !;.a and a stra.rgr here below. "eternal" (or age-long), but as en during "for ever and ever," or "unto the age of the age (Rev. it:3; 20:10; 14:11, B, .). Here 1 a plo- xure of ages tumbling upon ages la eternal succession. , , V 2. "Fire." This I one of the most constant Image under which the torment and misery of the wicked 1 represented. Fire 1 a symbol of the divine Judg ment of wrath (Matt 6:22). In Mat thew S: 10 the godless are represented as a tree hewn down and cast into the fire; In 3:18 the chaff (godless) Is burned with unquenchable fire; in -13:42 the wicked are said to ba cast Into a furnacs of fire. ; it the f fire" spoken of here literal fire? It is an accepted law ot lan guage that a figure ot speech i less Intense than the reality. If "fire" 1 merely a figurative expression. It must stand for some great reality, and if the reality Is more Intense than the figure, what an awful thing the pun ishment symbolized by Ere ciupt t
The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.)
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July 11, 1913, edition 1
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