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The Christian Sun. . FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1882. D. B. Dunbar,.Proprietor. Rev. Wm. T. Walker - - - - Editor. Ol'K FRINCIPL.KS. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only Head ot ti e Chnreh. 1.—The name Christian, to the exclusion of all parly, or sectarian names. ->.._The Holy Bible, or the Scriptuies of the Old and New Testament a sufficient rule of faith and practice. 4.—Christian character, or vital piety, the only test of fellowship; or church membership. B._The right of private judgement and the liberty of conscience, the privilege and duty of • 11. “THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL." An article oil this subject appeared in last week's issue of this paper l'rotn the pen of Rev. W. S. Loug, A. M., a professor iu the Graham Normal College and President of the General Christian Convention. That article we regard as both sensible aud time ly. In our opinion, than this, no subject of greater importance to tbe Christian Church will claim the at tention of the General Convention at its approaching session. It is true that we have schools— not strictly denominational, but con ducted by members of the Christian Church—at which our young people can acquire a good general education; but, in the South, we have no ‘‘theo logical school.” Iu the past the subject of ministe rial education has been woefully neg lected by us. Indeed,years ago there was on the part of many of our peo ple strong opposition to an educated ministry. These people have either died out or seen their error, aud there is consequently no longer auy such opposition amongst ns. The wonder is, not that this opposition has died out, but that it ever had an existence. The most stupid farmer never thinks of etnploj iug a miller to do his black smithing, nor does tbe miller ever think of employing a physician to repair his mill. In short, it is gen erally, if not universally, admitted that each profession requires a spe cial education. When we want iu structiou in military tactics we never think of going to a Quaker Sunday school to get it, nor when we want legal advice do we go to the chimney sweep. Upon the same principle, people will no longer go for religious instruction to those who know little or nothing of theology. Now,it is true that there are“theo logical schools” iu abundauoe conveni ent to us, but these schools are con ducted by members of other denomi nations, aud have for their object not only the education of men iu theolo gy, but also iu the peculiar work of the various organizations which they represent and whose interest they serve. Hence these schooTs do not meet our wants. On the contrary, just so far as their teachings tend to the upbuilding of denominational ism, just in so far do they work in opposition to us. mi. „ /11—:i. a pecular, work to do. Her mission is to publish the saviug truths of the Bible free from all denominational peculiarities; to exhibit that charity which is the bond of perfectness, the greatest of all the Christian graces; to banish from the Church of Christ that spirit of sectarianism aud into! erance which has doue, and is now doing, so much to destroy the peace aud harmony of the church, to ad vance the cause of infidelity, and in various other ways to hinder the progress of the Redeemer's Kingdom in the world. For this work her ministers need a special education. Bro. Long is right. “ Our preachers must be edu cated, and ice must educate them.” To do this we must have schools, or, at least, a school. We must have a “theological school.” We agree with Bro. L. in the opinion that one school will be quite sufficient to meet all our wants in this particular for the present at least. As tS where this school should be located, we need not be greatly con cerned just now. The first thing to be doue is to determine that we will have the school. The second thing is to raise the money ; aud then the question of location will be very easily settled. Bro. Long says we are able to es tablish such a school. We agree with him in this also, as we do, iu fact, in all that he says in his article on this subject. Ten years ago we were not able to do it, but ten years have wrought wonderful changes, isow we are able, and, we believe, have the will also. Brethreu, think over this matter, yes, pray over it, aud then give us your views through the Sun. Auy person who neglects to pro vide his family with good reading matter, has uo one but himself to blame if his children are misled and corrupted, aud bring shame and sor row upon bis head.—Lutheran Obser ver. : ANNUAL COLLECTIONS. February has been set apart by the Eastern Virginia Christian Con ference as the time for the annual collection for the bentit of young men preparing for the ministry. The min isters of this Conference are required to take np these collections and for ward the money to the acting Secre tary of the Conference. Some of our ministers have been neglecting these annual collections in the past in a shameful manner, and yet these same ministers make themselves quite con spicuous on certain occasions, and profess great devotion to the church. We do not want to give offense, but, reader, if yon are guilty we ine.au you. Upon the importance of this sub ject nothing ueeds be said. The day has passed when an illiterate man can gain a respectful hearing as a minister of the Gospel. Education and intelligence have become too common to admit of such a thing. Then the Church must have an edu cated ministry; and in order to have an educated ministry, she must have au educational fund. Then let these collections be takeu up; and let each member of the various congregations within the bouuds of the Eastern Vir giuia Conference contribute. We hope to hear a more satisfacto ry report from our Treasurer with reference to these collections at the next session of our Conference than we heard at our last session. Ministerial Education — Feb ruary. NEWS AND NOTES. —Rev. Z. A. Post informs us that the number of pupils at the Suffolk Collegiate Institute is increasing, and that the school is doing quite well. —We learn that the wife of Rev. M. B. Barrett has been quite sick for some time. The family have our sympathy. We hope that sister Bar rett may soon be fully restored to health. — Young man, do not fail to read the article that we publish in another column of this issue, from The South ern World,lieaded“To the Young Men of the South.” —The North Carolina Sunday school Association will meet iu the city of Raleigh on the 24th inst. Delegates from all sections of the State are invited to attend. The President of the International Suu day-Bchool Executive Committee will be present. —Oxford Asylum, Oxford, N. C.,is doing a noble work. —A census of the Sunday-schools in the Uuited States is now being takeu by the Government. —Rev. Dr. Deems, it is expected, will deliver the address at the next commencement at Wake Forest Col lege. —The Trustees of the University of North Carolina met in annual session iu the city of Raleigh on the 31st ult. The University is doiug well. —Our Northern brethren seem to be fully aroused on the subject of schools and colleges. —Will our good Bro. J. R. Barrett be kind enough to give the readers of the Sun dn occasional article from his pen. They would be thankful, doubtless, aud he might thus do much good. What say you,Bro. B. f —Rev. S. Apple promised us at the last session of the North Carolina and Virgiuia Conference to try to do bet' ter iu the future than he had done iu the past in the matter of writing for the Sun. If he has fulfilled that promise, his efforts have been crown ed with discouraging success. When we leceived hisaecouut of the Christ mas exercises of the Lebanon Sunday school, we congratulated ourselve*s on the prospect of a weekly or bi weekly communication from Bro. Ap ple, but we were'doomed to disap pointment. Come now, dear brother, call to mind what Solomon says about disappointment, aud then take pity on us. —Bro. George Young, principal of the Franklinton Literary and Theo logical Institute, informs us that that institution is doing well. —Dr. Pritchard dedicated a new Baptist church at Rocky Mount on the 5th Sunday in January. —It is said that eighty is the aver age attendance of the Sunday-schools throughout the United States. —Dr. Talmage is preaching a se ries of sermons upon the ten plagues of New York and Brooklyn. Tobacco received first attention. —The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon has ful ly recovered his health, and has re turned home. —Fortunate.—The Boston Uni versity last week came into possession of 82,000,000, bequeathed by Isaac Rich, of Boston. This University is a Methodist institution. The money was paid over in accordance with the will of Mr. Rich, ten years after his death. —The graves of the grand fathers of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilks Booth are in the same cemetery, in England. —During the last forty years 120 missionaries have succumbed to the climate influence of the West Coast of Africa. This sacrifice of human lil| has been rewarded, however, by over 30,000 conversions to Christi anity. —The Bishop of Rochester, Eng land, has since the beginning oi the year 3879 confirmed nearly 33,IKK) persons, of whom the number ol'fe males just doubles that of the males. — l)r. Rulfuer has resigned his po sition as Superintendent of l’ublic Instruction. —“He must be a Baptist is what people say in Sweedeu when a man refuses to drink' intoxicating liquors. —Religious Herald. ’ The Sweedeu Baptist lire not “Big Jug Baptist” then, it seems. —A Baptist paper has been started at Cape Town, South Africa. —A Beaufort, N. C., paper nomi nates Dr. E. A. Yates, of Usleigh, for Bishop of the M. E. Church, South. —A box of matches is a bad toy for childreu. A child in New York last Saturday a week succeeded in do ing damage to the amount of813,000 by playing with a box ot matches. Bather expensive toy,that. The Episcopalians of Yirgiuiaseem to have put on new activity. They are building quite a uuuiber ol new churches m different parts ol the State. —According to the Bombay Ga zelle some natives in Madras have commenced agitation for the dis es tablishment of the English State church in India. —The Rev Dr. Manning, of the old Soutji Church,of Boston, has been voted by that church an annual pen sion ol 84,000 lor the rest ol his life, work or no work. - Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, tlie widely known pastor of Ail Souls Unitarian Church, New Yoik city, died at Ins residence in that city, at 11 o'clock a. in. on Monday of last week. —The health of the Pope is im proving. — The Pope is gaining influence with the German Government, bis march is losing influence, and is. con sequently Icniiing to the Pope lor support. It. is now time that the German people should let him alone severely. —The Salvation Army in England propose to build a house of worship in the city of London, with a seating capacity of six or novel, thousand. They expect to have perpetual ser vice-day and night—carried on by relays of friends. — The persecution of the Jews n Russia continues. The Jews have suffered fearfully at the hands of tie Russians. It lsestimaled that 10.000 have been turned adrift, many ol whom aie maimed for life. Moie than a thousand of their buildings have been destroyed. —The progress of mission work in China and Japan is encouraging. —Missionary labor in South Amer ica is neither very abundant no suc cessful. —.Rev. VV. (j. (Jiemeuts is stil pushing the work of the Ualeigl Mission. See what he has to say it this issue. —Rev. J. T. Ball is doiug missior work in Western Carolina. He is operating in an important field. The natural resources of the section it which he is laboriug are second t( those of no other portion of the Stat< with which we are acquainted. We wish our brother abundant success in his work. — Bro. S. B. Klapp is pursuing his studies with assiduity at the Bing ham school, N. C. —.The editor of tlie Herald of Gos pel J.Uni ty, Rev. A^>*r“r£'o;in, says it the issue of that paper of Jau. 20 “Theciiculatiou of our Sunday-school literature is now eight time* greatei than it was when I came into this office, and every indication is thal the beginning of the next, quartei will more than double tins present circulation.” From this statement ii appears that our brethren North art moving forward at a wonderful pace A few years of such progress wil place i In-m in (hat position nnioiif the denominations by which they an surrounded to which their principle! jus'ly entitle them. ,We of the Soutl should catcli the spirit of work whicl seems to animate them. —The editor of t he Herald of Gospe Liberty talks sense as follows, whicl we commend to the careful cutisidera tion of our leaders : “Our Christian Church enterprise is a pioneer movement. There ii nothing in or about it loattract those whoso chiel concern, is to secure wealth and social position. Those men who seem to suppose themselves justified in leading our ranks and joining the sects, because they do not get the support they imagine is due them, may be in the right of the matter. For us to do so would he to prostitute our mauhood most shock ingly. We are compelled to believe that most of those who do so never bad any just appreciation of a cor dial sympathy with the Christian! movement. When oue came to the Muster and proposed to follow him whithersoever he should go, Jesus informed the young man that if lie thought of following from considera tions of ease and personal comfort that he was mistaken. ‘The foxes have holes and the birds of I he air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.’ Aud so we say, the sects have number, pow er, position and money, and if these are things for which the young man is looking he would better go directly to where they are to be found. Such a man can be of no possible use to a movement Iliac proposes to know nothing but Jesus Christ, and to know him only in the spirit of his crucifixion.’’ —“The Chinese Government is about to establish a college at Sliaug hai, whereof Rev. Young .1. Allen, of the Southern Methodist Mission, so long editor lor the Government of the Official Qazetto, is *o he the head. The college is to be modeled alter American aud English institutions.” —“The following will bear reprint ing. A man who had been drinking very freely at the bar, iu going out into the street fell iulo the gutter. A wag seeing him, ran into the public house aud said to the saloon keeper, Sir, your sign bus fallen down. He went out, and to bis astonishment beheld only the poor drunkard.” —“Spurgeon says that when you meet a mad-dog you should never argue with him, uulessyou are sure of your logic. It is better to get out of bisway; and if auy body calls you a coward you need not call him a fcol— everybody knows that.” —“The statistics of Uuitarianism iu this country. Just compiled, show a very rcmaikable state of things. The total number of churches is 344, and of these 253 are without pastors or stated supply. Fourteen clergy men died,during the past year, and only seven were ordained. The Uni tarians support one foreign mission ary, the Rev. Mr. Dale, at Calcutta, India.”—Presbytery. —“Among American cities the most Presbyterians are in Philadel phia,2G,340; next in New York, IS,155; then in Brooklyn^ 11,159. Chicago follows with 0,241, and is tlie Inst city that, lias more than o,u00 Pres byterians. The cities following it are, iu order, Newark, New Jersey, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Pittsburg, Rochester, Cleveland, Baltimore. —“The entire recipts of the Roman Catholic Association for the propaga t.ion of the faith from all parts of the world were only 81,204,005 in 1880. Of this amount Europe contributed $1,178,225. America gave less than $22,000, but received $130,435. Of the amount $184,780 was expended in Europe, $527,875 in Asia, $242,045 in Africa, $90,175 in Oceauiea. The expenses of the society for public", tions and management wer*. $39,305.” —“A New Yor1' paper remarks : ‘Mr. A.—ha» just died worth $10,000, 000. When be meets God lie will have two hard questions to answer, uamely ; First, how did you get that money ? Secondly, what did you do with it?’ And thirdly, how much treasure have you laid up in heaven!” —“Joseph Cook is advocating the formation of a society to afford tem i porary relief to monks and priests i leaving the Roman Church. It is bo i lieved that if this were done, such i cases as that of ex-Canou Campello would become common.” THE CHURCH. “Christ fontided one church, but no ■denomination.’ That is the way the Romanist talks, but it sounds strange I.V in the mouth ot a Protestant. The one church founded by Christ is spiritual and invisible.”—Exchange. The above is the argument in a nutshell in support of the sect sys tem “Christ founded one church, but no denomination’’ is not only the way the Romanist talks, but it is the way the New Testament talks as well. II by “oue church” the Testament means une thing and the Romanist another, that is the fault of the liomauist; the ijospel truth, however, remains the snme/ We fail to understand why it should sound strangely to hear a l’rotestant assert the unity of the church of Christ, unless the word I’rotestant shall be taken asauequiv 1 alent for the word sect. Christ’s church is visible wherever truth and goodness are manifest in the lives of tme men ; and it is the duty of the ' followers of Christ to organize for uo other purpose than to make visible the oue true church founded by Christ. If it is true —and we are quite willing to concede that it is— that one denomination (sect) would be dangerous to the liberties of the people, we cun not understand how it follows that a great many deuomi nations are to be desired. If one de uominatiou is so dangerous that it is necessary to bring up another to watch the first, thensdoes it uot fol low that it would be better to have none at all T We deny that Christ’s cbnrcb, visible and organized to any extent He proposed organization, or for any purpose that the needs of the work to be done by it require organization, is a despotism, or that it lias any tendency to despotism. On the con trary, it is the brotherhood of true souls, and is as much opposed to darkness. Roman ism may be a despotism, Methodism may lie a des potism ; but the church of Jesus Christ never was and never will be anything of the kind. But we may he reminded that we evade the issue. ‘‘This that you are speaking of is the invisible church of Christ.” Well, who said it was the iuvisible church of Christ! Did Christ or his apostles say it was, or did the sect makers and sect-apolo gists say it for them I If that broth erhood of spirit quickened souls con stitute the visibly church Is Homan ism that visible church f It claims to tie such. Is the Church of England, and their poor American cousins, the Protestant Episcopal Church, that visiole church! They claim to be. Mo. It is now too late to claim that any one of them is, or that all of them together constitute the visible church. The truth is, tins visible and invis ible church theory is an invention of much later date thau the gospel, and has no place in the Testament— Herald of Gospel Liberty. NEWS FROM THE FIELD. “Lift up your eyes, and look on the Field*: tor they are white, already to harvest."—St. John *.35. Lockville, Chatham county,N. C., Friday Jan. 27, 1882.—At 2 o’clock the Thu d District of the North Caro lina and Virginia Christian Coher ence was called to order by' the Superintendent, Kev. P. T. Klapp. The following ministers were pres ent: Revs. P. T. Klapp,^J. W. Hatch and J. D. Wicker. The churches were represented as follows: Damascus — no delegate. Bethel—no delegate. M'ew Elam—J. K. Gibson. Hank’s Chapel—W. S. Petty and L. U. Hatch. Antioch— no delegate. Lockville—W. S. Gun ter and Join] Barringer. Moore Union—A. C. Yarbrough and J. K. Yarbrough. Shallow Well — no delegate. Zion—Galvin Ledbetter and G- W. Ellington. Pleasant Bill (Chatham; — W. H. McFerson.— Poplar Branch—no delegate. A quorum was louod present, and Rev. P. T. Klapp was elected Presi dent and G. VV. Ellington, Secretary. • On motion Rev. O. Churchill and Bro. Milton Fitchett were invited to seats as honorary members. Rev. J. W. Hatch then preached from Acts 10 chap. 33 verse. ‘‘Is there any use of a Regular Prayer Meeting in the Church” was discussed by Bro. W. S. Petty, Kev. O. Churchill, VV. S Gunter, Milton Fitchett, J. D. Wick er and Rev. P. T. Klapp. The fol lowing resolution was offered by VV. S. Gunter, and adopted : Resolved, That each church com posing District Number 3 be earnest ly requested to hold a regular Drjj-er meeting at least once a \vep’K if pos sible, and that each pastor use his i',ti,uc,,ce 10 car,"J out this resolution. Religious Exercises by J. D. Wicker. Second Day. Prayer meeting of 30 minutes, conducted by Kev. P. T. Klapp. ‘‘Religious Literature” was theu discussed by Bros. J. D. Wicker, J. K Gibson, J. VV. Hatch, VV. S. Gun ter. VV. S. Petty, G. VV. Elliugtou nod others. •* uuucu uj . o, Gunter, and adopted. Resolved. Tliat we, the delegates assembled do most earnestly recoin mend that the Superintendents of all the Sabbath Schools connected with the Ghristiau Church of District No. 3, introduce and use in their schools the Little Worker, published byr Kev. J. P. Barrett, believing as we do that this is the one thiug needed for the success of our beloved Church. Afternoon Session. ‘•Why we ought to have the Chil dren’s Mission Baud” was discussed by Kev. J. D. Wicker, Kro. W. S. Gunter, Keys. O. Churchill and P. T. Klapp. “Education” was discussed by Bro. J. K. Gibson. “Home Missions,” by Bro. W. S. Gunter, Kev. J. I). Wicker, Bro. J.K. Gibson, Kev. J. W. Hatch audothers. lteligious exercises by W. S. Petty. Sunday. Suuday School Mass Meeting was called to order by the President. Responsive readings and singiug. Sunday School addresses, by W. S. Petty, J. W. Hatch and J. K. Gibson Preaching, by Kev. P. T. Klapp, from Numbers 33 chat), and a part of the 23 verse. “And be sure your sins will tind you out.” The meeting closed to meet with the church at Moore Uniou, Friday, April 28, 1882. Now, brethren, let us all be more prompt iu attending these District Meetings; as very much of our future prosperity as a denomination, de pends on these meetings. Ministers, you must be prompt, aud the laity will. Laity we must be prompt, and work for God’s cause. Let ministry and laity arouse to our duty and go forward iu the discharge of our duty, auil God will bless our labors. Kev. 1’. T. Klapp, President. G. W. Ellinoxon, Secretary. 1 have received from Beu Mathew's a member of the church at PleAsaut Hill, Johnson Co., $2.50 for the Kaleigh church; W. G. Clements. The postal system, the postal ser. vice of this country must be clean, must be kept clean and we must all understand that the swift retribu tions of the Uuited States Govern ment hover over every violation of the letter-box.—Rev. Rr. X. If. TV. J lalmaqe. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The Christianizing of this whole laud is the most patriotic work to which wo, as individuals or as churches, can giveonrselves. —Herald nnd Presbyter. One may be penitent, but there is a world of difference between mere regret and the ability to go back and correct our mistakes.— Christian Ad vocate. The happy authens of saints exalted very high in heaven were actually started on the earth iu the experi ence or very humble but faithful Christians.—Christian at Work. Meu that are higher in constitution nnd nature are bouud to be higher iu righteousness; and the obligation grows stronger the higher up they go.— Christian Union. The skeptic is positive, dogmatic ; the Christian must speak with no less positiveness, unless he would have the world question the genu ineness of his belief.—Examiner and Chronicle. The only effective “ethical culture’ is at the feet of Jesus, and the best school is the church.— Christian Hitel ligencer. It is this effort to tickle the ears of the hearers with ‘‘snap” which has made the pews so intolerant of that heart-searching, spiritual preaching which characterized the healthier epochs of the church.—Central Pres byterian. To grow iu grace without using the moans of grace is impossible. — lieligious Herald. That life is all for the best which is all spent in Christ service aud ends iu heaven.—Interior. Criminal courts ought to be closed against the classes who are educated in the crimes it is their mission to punish and prevent.— Presbyterian. He who respects his work so high ly, and does it so reverently, that he cares little what the world tbiuks of it, is the man about whom the world comes at last to thiuk a great deal.— Christian Union. He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled. To do good to men is the great work ot iile; to make them true Christians the greatest good we enu do them.—Dr. J. IF. Alexander. If you hate your enemies you will contract such a vicious habit of rniud as will by degiees break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent fo you. ■ The newest heresy may be the fashion of the hoar, but the old gos pel is the only food that satisfies the hunger of the people year in and year out.—Examiner. There is such a thing as negative goodness, and it is commendable. That goodness which God commands and commends is positive, foicelul, helpful.—Baptist lieflector. Is there a community on earth where, even for two generations, men have tested natural religion or athe ism to the improvement in any form of its social life t — Zion's Jlerald. What symposium can Christ have with Belial, the Light of the World with a blindness so owlish that it hates the light and hoots in triumph over its own darkness.—Christian Intelligencer. It is a fact worthy of note that the greatest heroes this country has ever produced were men who uot only ruled well, but served faithfully.— Presbyter and Herald. It is accordant neither with com mou sense nor the Bible, with human consciousness nor human experience, to say that nothing remains for the sinner to do.—Zion's Advocate. PENCLINGS BY THE WAY. No. 2. Me. Editor.—Last Sabbath was the regular meeting day at Barrett’s, in Southampton Co., and being in that neighborhood, I concluded to attend. The day was beautiful over head. I reached the church in due time. The con gregation was large. Kev. M. B. Barrett is in charge of this church, and has Jteen for nearly 19 years in succession. He filled his pulpit last Sabbath, preat'bing in bis own peculiar stjle. From what I could learn, he has -a strong hold upon the affections of his people; and yet with all his influence and eloquence the re is a class qf persons there that he cannot control. I no ticed quite a number that remained out doors dr .ring the entire service, notwithstau ding they had been invit ed into the house by one of the dea cons. I as’aed myself the question:! What do s’ jcb persons go to church forf If thf >y go to church and cannot1 go in aud sit quietly (luring the ser vice (provided there isrooin)tbey had better not go at all, they had better stay at home. Such persous aro a nuisance at the house or Qod. To go to church on Sunday aud stuy out in the yard aud talk, nud sometimes disturb the worship, is a practice that is disgusting iu the eyes of men and abomiuuble in the sight of God. If this should meet the eye of any one that has ever been guilty of this cunteiuptable practice, I hope, my friend,you will begin to reflect ou the ugliness of your couduct, and iu the future try to do better. Members of the church sometimes remain out talkiug until the minister commences the service before they come iu. Such a course is decidedly wrong, and no member of the church ought to be guilty of such conduct. Every one should go to church when able to do so, aud when there should act in a becoming mauner, as sensi ble, well bred, reflued people Should act. 1 know that the young people sometimes act thoughtlessly, and no baim is intended; but they should think on the impropriety of their course, and ame'ud their doings. Tbavkller. Jan. 24th, 1882. TO THE YOUNG MEN OF THE SOUTH. The editor of the Southern World ilesiriug to stimulate the young meu of the South to a deeper interest in and a more practical knowledge of agricultural pursuits, offers the fol lowing premiums, open to any young niau uuder sixteen years of age, in any of the Southern States : For the best half acre in corn, oats, potatoes peas, oane or cotton, cultivated by the contestant, a chest of tools, worth 20.00; for the secoud best a chest of tools valued at $10.00; tor the third best a chest of tools valued at $5.00. If contestants so elect, the premiums will be paid in gold, iu lieu of the loots. Those desirous of contesting for the premiums must send 'in their names to the editor of the Southern World on or before March 20th for registra tion. Contestants will be ;equiied to give a concise statement of the character of the so’.\ and seed, mode of culture, amount and kind of fertilisers (if any) •’.sed, cost'of cultivating and yield, and send per express, charges paid, one peck of corn, oats, potatoes or peas ; five stalks of cane and sample of cotton, not less than five pouuds, all properly labelled with producer’s uaiue, county aud State, for exhibi tion at the office of the Southern World. Contestants will be required to have their laud accurately measured and the yield properly certified to by neighbors before the clerk of any county court, and sent to the editor of this paper for filing. The reports from the several con testants will be submitted to Hon. Thos. Hardeman, President of the State Agricultural Society of Geor gia ; Hon. J. T. Henderson, Commis sioner of Agriculture of Georgia Hon. A. H. Colquitt, Governor o. Georgia: Hon. N. Speer, Stal'd Treasurer of Georgia ; Hon. J. E. Brown, U. S. Seuator ; and Hou. 1). Wyatt Aiken, M. C., from South Carolina, who will make jtbe awards. lieports must be sent iu by Novem ber 15. The co-operation of county and State Agricultural organizations are earnestly invoked to accomplish the beueiicia! result sought to be brought about by the offer of these premiums. Will our brethren of the Press give currency to our proposition by pub lishing it iu their columns f—Southern World. THE RALEIGH CHURCH. The Bible teaches us when we de sire anything, to ask for it. We have the promise, *‘Ask a:ul ye shall re ceive.” Therefore, 1 earnestly request all the brethren and sisters who are interested in the successor the above named church, to join me in prayer, on Monday the 20th of February, that God may put it into the hearts of the people to give liberally to this w#rk. [ want earnest prayer that day for this very thing. Please don’t forget it. I believe in special prayer. I shall look for some one to send iu a huge film in answer to prayer. W. G. Clements. BETHLEHEM. On the second Sunday in this mouth 1 shall be at Bethlehem in the interest of Missions, and I hope that the members of that church will con tribute as liberally towards this en terprise as the other churches .that I have visited have done. The local agent will please make all collection* possible before that time, and be ready to report to me on that day. B. A. Ricks, Home Mission Sec’ty. Religion is not dn ornament, a condimeut, a luxury with whioh we can easily dispense; it is the true bread of life. i
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