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¥ The C«4 STIA.V FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24,1980. SinT U'"W - D. fi. Dunbar i, +(•• • - ^ • Proprietor. Bw. J. Presslf Barrett — * |4itor. *dPS= *¥ OVB WU1KIPI.K. | ) „—The Lord jcje^Christ i» the onl| React of ttl Church. jf' ' / I.—The name Chtrttinn, to the delusion of •11 party, or sectarian names. —The Holy Bible, or the Scrinturee of the 0. and NawTretament a aufficieuT rule of faith and practice.; 4.—Christian character, or vi1 J Only lest of fellowship, or church 11 1 piety, the •tnbership. iyt.—The right of private Judgement and the lmerly i irly of coascieuce, the privilege and doty of ■m TUTE HVMN BOfeKS B Are ready for delivery.to purcha^ Kifit, Send in your orders at once.— fcb« ©omreittee has ordered only one, ^guaaj>.‘ copies printed. Prices: Bound iu'cloth 75 center In epripk led sheep 90 cents. Iu fine binding fl.25. When ordered'to be sent b.\ mail add 5 cenfs for postage. Karnes of churches or individuals put on books for 'JJ5 cents extra. Pastors are requested to act as agerfts. Address: j J. Pressley Barbktt, Publishing Agent, Suffolk, l^fTnrgJnount uOe^HS on Pn to tJpttN in the Ba9b po/a mere nee, and we eui'Jtly call ou those to sett/at once, ^Friends. •® oiouff. We hope that fiPtWiAted for the several ^jrk for the SUN will O' work. D. B. D." feasts/ t* care 1 '"0/; 1 r io Mj r^h.i ' J‘*wds, bn i £h selfish ^rfud in aaothei Ldinission” maj remedy tht iding foi reatly eu ing yeai-’f for Heaveu, ps „_iary Unions ork not oul.\ to keep tht own chnrch. (Before the Sun visits yon again tht of 1880 will be gone—forevei gone. Time’s most rapid wing it bearing us'ou to eternity. Let tat spend 1881, if we are permitted tc ached Tor the cougregatioi hristian Church Iasi by special invite Walker, the pastor much appreciated. beiug called egotistic } ^Editors of the Re Riehmotu read carefully headed “A Whom doei xj uliu Books now can take the time, room, to do so. Wt will make prompt n the money prompt ;euts sel scipies were first t Antioch. Now •ity in the raattei wcic l-ioi jy of tbe eaii\ ibout what Dr ke to tell him. Hie last ap Per the Su i to it and do iuiater, secre i who have et apartoOxt jodr laet col li the money to [Warer, Nor letter, A QUESTIONJ)F COURTESY. ttfHOM DOES THE CAP FIT! “Politeness costs ootbiog and prof its ranch,” says tbe adage. We think it may be as truly said: .Courtesy costs’ nothing and pay's well. Espe cially is this true among Christian people without regard to uaine or par ty. Conrtesy is the grand lubricator in the inaehinerv ot' the church of God on earth,/without 'which, the friction of strife and discord, is so great that it often well nigh ruinsthe church and bos doubtless resulted in the loss of/mauy precious souls.— Men, as if toping to make a convert frepi another denomination to^theii |own, often show a disregard for-the feelings and views of others by pub licly leaking a slur at some of the pe culiar views of those who differ from them. This is out of tbe question 1. Jiecause it shows no courtesy and tihne of the spirit of Christ in those jvho do it. 2. Becae.se it is oiteu done in a sacreligions way, iu fact it is nothing less than funning and tri fling with God’s works and plans iul saving a lost people—a world thai lies in sin and wickeduess. Such a] proceeding is an outrage ou Cbristi unity and a disgrace to those who d it. Do wo live in a glass house andj therefore ought not to throw stones We do uot believe—we hope we have not—we ever spoke lightly of iauy part of God’s plan or work in the redemption of uiau. May God help us never, never to do such a thing. We beseech those who are in the hab it of doing such a thing to quit it. The following paragraph written by UteBev. S. Ireueaus Prime, D.D., ol Uitilfeib^orlc Observer gives a clear idea of tbeeYil^to which we so sen ugij wwjvvii • 'v “One evening', in this city, at a| public meeting in a Baptist Church, 1 was iu the pulpit with ministers ot[ several diffeieut denominations,when one of them told a story the point ol ivlit^h was to make light ol the rit of baptism by immersion. The hud taste, the bad mauuers, the atrocity of the thing, shbcked me, and niusi nave been painful to every right minded person iu the house. And no •ne rite is more frequently made a matter of feeble witticism than the oaptism of infants by sprinkling aud the baptism of adults by immersion Whey a Baptist speaks of ‘-baby ■iprinkletH^or a Pedo-Baptist speaks of imtuersioBfilygas “dippers,” they [are both offenders' against Christian decorum. In like manner the Ament, of the Methodists and the forms jnmi vestments of GpiscopMtens are often male fun of by those ™o do not stop jftf reflect that, our peculiarities art the most sensitive places in our sys tem, aud whoever laughs at them wounds to the quick.” That is it. And we really thiuk the cap fits a good many. Pedo-Bap tints speak iu some light way of “ini mention.” Baptists then do the same of sprinkling and both parties are wrong—they seem to lose sight ol the laot that whether it is sprinkling or imuietsion it is baptism just the same, and therefore it is one of God’s ordi nances, bearing upon its face the iui press of divine appointment, and he who dares speak lightly of it, should remember Uzzah’s connection with be atk and wbat came of his unwise 'action. We rejoice that the Christian Church does not couuteuauce thi. evil iu au.v official way, but that ii does discourage engaging iu anything of the kind. It may be that some ot our people, inheriting as we all do the wean ness of liurnau nature,have been guilty of this bad practice. If so, we beg all such to set a watch by theii lips and never do sucb a thing again. It is a burning shame upon the life ol any Christian. We have no hope of convincing an houest man of the trutly of our posi tion upon any of the religions or ec clesiastical questions' of the day, by ridiculing those who differ from ns, and especially by wickedly making lun of any of the institutions of the church of God. May Cori help us as a people never to take part or engage iu nuy such shameful proceedings, and may He give those who do. a sense of siu aud shame in Ihr-ir folly that will bring them to repentance aud to a holy lile in Christ, when I hey will heartily es hew this detestable, hydra headed vil. District Meeting.—There will he a district meeting at Morrisville, Wake county, if. C., January 29 aud 30: 1. lhe meeting will he called to order at 10: 30 a. in., by W. G. Clem euts. 2. lteligious services thirty I.iuutes. 3. educational address by kv. W. W. Staley. 4. Dinner. 5. Lsions by liev. J. T. Ball. 6. Ke Jions Literature by Hon. J. M. Mo ng. All the churches ia the district will please send two delegates each. W. G. Clements. ”We received a communication from Kev. W. S. Long this week but too latfl-for Ibis issue of the- Sun. In our uext paper we will give the list ageuts^ijiyoiiHed to wyrtlf for the orth Carolina Confer ee could not get 8AININ6 A_ REWARD. Men are easily induced to under ake and do much when a reward is leld up before them. This is sadly rue of things that are evil as well as >f things tbjt are good. Men every where, under ordinary circumstances, ;raje a reward. The farmer with mxions solicitude con tits up agaifi ind again the pfcbable profitp of his ■arious crops that before harvest time io may see what the reward will be. Vt the end of the month the mer ihant adds column alter column of igures that he may see the reward oi he month's work, aud so it is of all ■lasses of workers in the world—they ire anxious to get the reward. They ove to labor for it aud then to make talculatious showing its value, &u. ill men are concerned about this natter in worldly thiugs. They seem o live for the reward of their labors, this is wise so far as this world’s foods are iu question. But there is mother reward ot a far. more valua >le character—it is the reward of Everlasting Life. We count up our ;rops, we add ujxour figures, and oth srwise greatly concern ourselves ibout the reward of this world, while re sadly, miserably, ueglect the re rani of the life that is to come. Would that this were true ouly oi vorldly men, bat alas! so many Jhristiaus, at least professors of the religion of tbe Lord Jesus Christ, show so much concern for tiie rewards »ud pleasures of this life that they limply turn loose their hope of a re rard iu Heaven. Alas, reader! SVbat shall it profit a man if he shall jain the whole world aud lose his jwn soul I Astonishing, surprising WBult 1 Yet hundreds aud thousands irho have gained this world have bond in the end, that, in so doing. :heir own poor souls had been lost in perdition, where there is weeping md wailing and guasbtng of teeth We beseech you, dear, reader, to stop, think, turn to Ood aud ali through your life, with faithful Abra ham have respect unto the recom pense of the reward of Eternal life. A VETERAN GONE. DEATH OF EEV. H. B. HATES. Another servant of God lias {{one home. Kev. Hknby B. Hayes fell asleep in the arms ofjtoe Angel of Death on the Dec... 14, 18$0.jiftci a painful and lingering ill uess of many mouths. For several years passed lie had not been active ly engaged in the miuistry because ol leeble health. Last March it was unr privilege to visit him at his home iti the city of lialeigh. We found him very leeble physically,but strong in faith, looking unto Jesus and peacefully awaiting his call to come up higher. Time and again he thought his end was uear, but not till Dec. 14, did the “bcatniau pale and dark” take him over the river of death. The lolloiviug letter brought us the news of this triumphant event: Kaleigh, N. O.,» Dec. 15, 1880. f Dear Bro. Burreti .-—Dear Bro. Hayes fell asleep iu Jesus yesterday atli: 30 a. in. He wits about seven ty-six years old aud had been a miu istenutbe Christian Church about titty-eight years. He was ouce Edi tor ot the Christian Sitn. llis death was a triumphant one. No; minister in the Christian CliurMi ever made greater sacrifices for the denom ination than (lid Bro. llaycs. His bu rial services were attended by Uev. W. J. Vv. Crowder of the M. E. Church, liev. i). E. Jones and myself. His funeral is to take place in future uy Kev. J. VV. Welkins. W. G. Clements. Bro. Hayes was a man of more than ordinary talent aud had spent about fifty years in tbe active ministry ol the Christian Church, the few remain ing years having been spent in afflic tion. We have not at our command the necessary data to give a fuii ac count of his life. He had made large sacrifices for the cause and much ot the success we have attained in the section of country surrounding Ku leigh is due to his etforts. He filled he pulpits, as pastor,'of many of out most promiueut churches in. North Jarolina aud was for some years Edi or of the Chuisjtan Sun. He .yielded a graceful pen and occasion ing wrote poetry, much of which was far superior to mnn.v poems which javw^ound a place in! books of esteu dve circulation. . 'ilie merit of bis joeins lay more in ibe piety of bis in of tii an in t lie poetic spirit*th:U irompted them. HiS Valors are cud cl and bis works 1'olfow him. Henry i, Hayes is no more on earth,—he laagoueto theglory laud to dwell lor ver with the Lord. In tho day of Inal accounts doubtless many of his .piritiial children will rise upauduall lim blessed. Sweet be his memory chile bis ashes sleep in the grave, .waiting the resurrection morning. Bro. Hayes leaves an aged and liuch afflicted wiftw who will in Idl irobability ere loagtfollow him to the ome in heaven. Mjay the Lord .gua liu her in her afflii&iou aud grief. We would be gli ho is prepared some brother do so would give [tended account of his HOW PEOPLE ESTIMATE RELI6I0N. We went to a protracted meeting. The people were at church iu great numbers. Many of them manifested much interest, in the services. They came to church, they listened to the preaching, they snug, they prayed, and they-talked to sinucr.s ol the doom ol^the wicked and of the glory of the hjome of God's saints. We concluded that these people world, blit that the harden of their cares was the salvation of souls. The protracted meeting closed. We re were Can Truly ed iu Uie protracted meeting f it bot Must we say, yes} these are tbe same bodies, uien and woiueu, but tbeir lives iaokniineh ot being the same. At ciiundi tbe, were spiritually-minded. At born they were trw/effy-miuded. Every tO it! utmost tension in gaining the good* of this world. '1 be great ambitiof seemed to be to sny : 1 am rich—1 will tear down my old barus anil build greater ones. Somebody ehJu took that view ofiile ouee, and Unit uigbt God required his soul, aud lie learned that in giriuiug this world fie bad truly lost bis own soul. maiiieu tu me community—ami wen among the people. VVe saw them at their liorues. Oh tbe contrast! Is it possible these are the people we saw at the church so earnestly eugag aeive seemed to he stretched But these people 1 oh what a pity I They are so changed. A week day appointment, the prayer meeting was almost entirely neglected. The peo ple jwmetoo busy. The next day there was a social entertainment a mile from the church. It was to be only a pleasant occasion. Many ot the church members were there not too busy then. Brother A. gave two hams and a half dozen chickens to the big political dinner. Iu a lew days a poor widow aud her depen dent-, fatherless children begged bread at his door, lie gave them a stale loaf—unfit «o eat and sent them off. A young laity, a member of the church, was callfiif on by a worldly S young man. She entertained well. She told him of the good time she had at the .tournament—of the* pleasure she -experienced. She said nothing of her Sunday school class. : him | She mentioned, however, the church services, and said that she did not | like the pastor very much—he was ■ so plain in reproving sin—iu tolling ij people of their duty, that it was uot 5 pleasant to her. , Soon she drifted ‘ from her subject and was again eu-j gaged in a worldly ebat. All tbisij was done on Sunday evening by aji young lady, a member of tbe church, and done too iu t|)e presence ot a* worldly young man. No doubt heij hypocritical conduct disgusted him,® and his serious thoughts of religion were a thing of the passt. If be nos more turns his face toward ziou,—if| he is lost,—oh young lady,your skirtsl may be red in the judgement with* the blood of his lost sonl. A rich! deacon was asked by his pastor toi give $10 for sending the gospel toj| the heathen. He said he was not able—he would give $5—be gave it.! In a few davs he was asked to coin; tribute $25 to establish a race track for horse racing, and lie gave it/— These cases show clearly how poor an insight the people generally have of tbeir relations to God—of their duty to one another, and truly bow they estimate religion with all its blessings and its priveleges tor man kind. Each case mentioned shows how poorly tbe people really appreci ate tbe church and its varions good works— how miserably Christians die regard the force of tbeir examlpes as uch over men of the world—how stingy people are to the Church and and how liberal they are toward worldly purposes. May God send us a reformation iu these matters aud ave the people thus affected. A GOOD SUGGESTION. Id the last issue of this paper, BroJ Walker called attention to tbe good example set by I?ro. Pierce of New’s Ferry, ia buying a baif dozen copies of tbe Declaration of Principles to distribute among bis neighbors that they might uo longer be iguoraut of tbe principles of the Church to which he belongs. No doubt a-great uianj of our readers are like Bio. Pierce— they have neighbors who ought to be informed what the real pnueiples of our church are. They have often heard our enemies tell what we are bnt they misrepresehted ips, and cou equeutly many of your neighbors to day look upon you as a sort of here tic—they regard your church us fill ed with error aud hardly worthy of so good a man as you are. This im pressiou was made by our enemies who sought to do os harm. It is now your privelege to correct this false impression by puttiug in the bauds of your nefgbbors a copy of our De duration pf Principles, and so set yourseW right. The gi)od of your church detnauds this at your hands, and yon ought to do it.; It will cost yow not more than 10 cents a copy ApplJ to Bro. Walker and be will TWO EVILS. horn it way concern : ndag Cooking. God hat said: ember the Sabbath day to keep !y.” Yet not only dp werdly e break this command, but it is n almost'every Sunday in very of the Christian families of our liiftry. They do it apparently r^itb gillie least trouble of conscience. f ie command read just the sppo tlof what it does, they coulrijhardly ore careless in keepiug tie Sab holy, Tbauk God there are e exceptions, some Christian fain, who think enough of a 'positivq maud of God to obey it) and have little cooking done on Sunday at isible. Truly we may take the ot t of the ditch ou Sunday, but the ble does not tell ns to put him in \ e ditqji ou Saturday that we may ve the privilege of takiug him out Sunday. Iu other words the B ite does not encourage us to neglect irepariug ou Saturday the necessary ood for the Sabbath. Bather the opposite is true. We are taught iu rod's word to lay up ou Saturday a efficiency for the Sabbath, that we nay keep it holy. There is nothing it this season ol the year that may lot be cooked on Saturday for the labbatb. In the summer a few hiugs will uot keep alter being cook id from Saturday till Sunday. Suclrl hiugs as are really uecessary of this! iharacter might be prepared on Sun lay, Be careful/bot to make too' nat^y tbiugs "uecessary. The Sab vas made lor mankind and not man or the Sabbath. True enough. But,1 when you have a big Sunday dinner,1 ton may be using and enjoying (we ruspect in a poor way, however) the. Sabbath, but what Of those w ho are] preparing that sumptuous dinner they are working haul as if it were! Monday, is that right? At this1 day it ts most generally the hard worked wife and mother who lias tins burden to carry, amt H its were uot tier, it would most! likely be a human being of spurt? sort,! ubo leitlly lias as much right to the! Sabbath as any one. Wo linpeoui| pastors will raise the sJiiuhaid of pie | ty so high that this lustier of bigf Su lid ay dinners will bfc regarded by all as a sill upon which God frowns. Let the cookiug be done oii'Sgturday and let us eat cold dhitiers on Sun day, and so give all the 'family a chance to attend services on Sunday, at any rate, to rest Iroin tho labors of the past week. This would bring ns two benefits! at least. First by having a sort otj cold lunch for Sunday dinner wet would not be likely to overcrowd our! stomachs by eating so much, which would be a good tiling for our health. Second, the religious privileges would be greater for all classes. This is the first evil to which we allude, while the 2, Sunday visiting is the compaion ol tue first. Many people destroy the sanctity and privileges of the Sabbath by yisitiug on that blessed day. .No doubt some who read this ft ill look at us as if they thought we were crazy wtieu we say that no Christian ought to make a'habit of visiting on the Sabbath. But we believe it is true. The Sabbath was never intended for cooking and visit ing, and we beseech onr readers who would show their colors as Christians, us friends of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun these evils. In a great meas ure, in the estimation of some at least, visiting ou Sunday makes cooking on Sunday necessary. But we want to see Christian people get to he braVe enough to put ou the table oul.v a cold luuch for their Suuday compauy. We ought to do it, we must do it, if we would show in a high standard of piety our friendship for Jesus. Do necessary tbiugs ou Sunday, but do uot do unnecessary tbiugs on that blessed day,—and Suuday cookiug and Suuday visiting are surely unuec essary tbiugs—let us shun them. A CANDID ^ADMISSION. WE BLUSH. Recently one of our most promi nent laymen said : “1 am compelled to admit from what I have seen (he denomination, as a people, are much more pious than my own peo ple of the Christian Church.’ — iThat this brother has had an oppor tunity of knowing we had no doubt, nor could we fur one moment call in' question his honesty in making the statement, nor yet any want of'love lor hisjOwu people. Theu we are forced to offer a few words to OUB PASTORS, and people gaugyally. - We are only too sensibly aware (tt-thftsad fact that as a people we have never yet reached the standard of piety which we must reach ere we can till our mission tju the world. Is this all f We fear not. flier* is a doubt that very many $f us have ever yet reached the stand aid of piety and faith iu Christ that we must reach ere We can be savetj— ere we can enter Heaven and enjoy its blessed reality. The standard ?f piety is entirely too low with us ,^11 We are .poor siuuers both by u alii re *m} by practice. By ^wtioeouriin# ell til it re many and grievous toj be borne ?e fear that many of ns whose names anil prominently on tbefchurch re ini, will lind when too lgte that our •tdeasion was a cold-hen ted worldly (Fair, based upon form ai d cereiuon.\ ltbout the true found tion of the iliristian’s hope—Jksu t Christ HE IttGHTKOOS. Brethren, Pastors, this is a sad bought to us, to know that God has indo us leaders of a people, a people ho need to be saved, and yet we avje gone along so carelessly that unpeople are dragging along iu the jufistiau lite, with little piety to com neud us to God. Are we not to ilamc t Will not our Master hold us esponsible for badly training these nSoplet Fearful responsibility!— vho is sufficient for these thiugs 1 iVho t Who! THE HOME MISSION WORK. This work in the Pastern Virginia Conference was begun a few year go by ltev. J. P. Barrett, and has leeu carried on from year to year uu il it has assumed a most encouraging hape. Hundreds of dollars have >eeu collected ami out of the amount ip to the present, most judicious ap M'opriatioiis have been made, and al ■eady fruits of this blessed work have >een seen in the establishment of new :1mrelies and in the strengthening of veak ones. > The plan upon which we are opera ;ing is a goorl one. Bonds have been given which read thns: On demand, I promise to pay to Alexander Savage, Treasure*? of thej EasterJK^ii'ginia Christian Confer :nceior lo hi5~sw«- i.‘Ssor in office, the urn of-dollars-cents, j oitli interest from date at the rateol i'i per centum per annum, provided hat the principal of thiV note shall >e non-collectable so long as the in erest is pVcmptly paid on or before he rtrst. day of Jfovember iu each ear; and also provided that this note hall be cancelled at the expiration of eu years or at the death of the uaker. Given under my baud aridoseal his-of-187 . Witness ^ ,.eal. > About ten thousand dollars! havel been pledged iu these bonds, the iu I iterest of which amounts yearly to sixl hundred dollars more or less. The iuterest only is collectable, provided tit is paid on or before the Brst of No jvember of each year, otherwise the rpriucqml aud iuterest may be both [collected. At the expiration of ten years or on the death of the maker the note is cancelled. At a meetiug of the committee appoiuted at Con ference to look after this work, the writer w.as requested to look after this work to collect this interest. And to those who have given these bonds i want to say, for the love which you have for the cause,—for the Christiau Church,—and for your own honor, pay the interest on your bond and pny it promptly. It is due the Brst of November, 1881, or before. Pay it now or when you have the amount. Make your church obligation the Brst obligation met in the new year and I pledge yon that the year will be a prospe rous on e spi ri tual ly au d tem por ally. I shall publish from time to time those who pay and also a list of de linquents which 1 hope will be small. Brethren, Sisters, let ns do a good thing for the Lord'and foronreburch. E. vy. Beale. CHRISTMAS IS COMING. Yes, tjbristmas is coming. .But when it comes it may bring, it will bring sadness to ten thousand times ten thcjusaud hearts. You are antici pating, dear reader, a merry Christ mas. May you enjoy such an one. But Oh, on what a slender thread bangs this mortal life. That thread may break, thy soul may be required of thee and all thy fond hopes may be blasted. Man appoints,but God disap points. Man proposes,but God dispos es. The 25th day day of December, al. though so near by,when it comes,may hud us not here. A fresh grave may be seen iu the old family burying ground aud that grave may be ours. This world may be exchanged for another, and Christmas day may hnd us around the Tbroue of God in heaven, or iu that place which is the home of the lost. Boast not ; thyself of tomorrow. Be ye also ready, foi in such an hour as ye think not the Sou of Man cometh. But thoughts like the above were not intended to be written when I began this article. wanted to write a line of solemn narniug tflntfy own pastoral charge, aud others, and praytthat they may be kept from the evils which prevail so alarmingly during these last days of the old year. Oh youug man keep away from the bar-room, the gaming table and every other place where rist and good people never go.— 'Oh young lady keep away from th ball room, aud engage in uo amm fment that yon could not conseieu tiously ask your mother, or youjynin lister, or your Saviour to Qo through theap uounajs .an hands and henHs, so that when e accounts hi* lo be rendered (as will have to I e rendered and per ip8 before thdphristmas of 1881,) e record mar l»e lair, und thy *onl • i gathered with the saints in glory, irents, be careful of your example, ispeuse witfi spice drams and egg }g and evetvthing else that will in dicate. Ijpould give you the sad istorj of irony who begun to be ruukardspheu children, and whose nreuts give tbem that which at the ist the Biide si.ys, bitetb like a ser ent aud stiuJeth like ail adder.— >eny yourselvis of these things, and lins save youichildren from the ru ious eBeets a dissipated life, and hopeless deith. U. W. B. 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