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Sun BY HURLEY & MOFFI IT. IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY; IN NOtf-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY. $2.00 PER YEAR. ESTABLISHED 1844 RALEIGH. If. C., THURSDAY, BAR H 7. 1895. VOLUME XLVIII: NUMBER 10 Tl^ Christian $Ui'( Tlie Organ of the Oemtnil Convention the Christian Church (South) CARDINAL PRINCIPLES. 1. The T.oril Jesus is thl only Jfritd of the church. * ■ •J. The name Christian, to the exclusion Of till party und aeetariiin names. S. The Holy Bildc. or the Scriptures of Ur*Old and New Testaments, sufficient rule of faith and practice. •*. Christian character, or vital piety, the oh tv test, of f.-llowMlIp or ihenthership. q 5. The riifiit of prirul.' Judgment, ,*nd the liberty of conscience, the privilege and duty of all. Editorial letat:, The conference between the S uithern Railway and its em ployes has been concluded, •and both parties are satisfied. This is much better than a strike. Ti e Mardi Gras in New Or leans last week was an occasion of great festivity ; and thousands were the visitors who helped our greatest of Southern cuies in her merry-making. . The Southern Passenger and Steamship Association began its boycott of the Sea-board Air Line, March ist. The Seaboard says it is able to stand tie boy cott ; and a big railroad war is imminent. There is a inn . cnent on foot in Cuba to secure her independence of the Spanish powers. She tinds herself sorely oppressed by her mistress, and no doubt, in i^f| near future she will throw ‘oft the yoke. .Since our editorial last week on ‘public libraries,’ we notice that “Massachusetts has more free public libraries than all the United States outside”—ancL Massachusetts has more ot the higher aesthetic arid intellectual life “than all the U ited States outside.” Several days ago the Senate refused to grant a loan of $10, 006 to the State Monumental As sociation ; but last week, by a vote ot 21 to 20, they decided to make a staight-out appropriation of the $10,000. The bill has not yet come up in the House, and we caiTTBaizzafcfTiTpropKecy. A new criminal court has been created in this .State, in cluding the counties of Bun combe, Henderson, Haywood, and Madison. For this court, the Legislature has elected FI. G. Ewart, of Henderson, Judge, and Robt. S. McCall, Solicitor. It is known as the Ashville Dis trict criminal court, The county Government Bill which we gave to our readers some time ago, passed the Se nate last 'week, after being so amended as to give the minority a voice in county affairs. The amendment was made and ac cepted in the interest mainly bt the eastern counties, where the negroes had the majority ol vot ers. A bill has passed the Legisla ture allowing women to serve as notaries public. Also one to make three women trustees ot the Goldsboro Graded School. We regret to see such a tenden cy as this on the part ot our law-makers. It is - too ajuch of an approach to bringing-women into politics—and that certainly don't want. There wrill be a total eclipse of the moon Sunday night, -March 10, which will bevisible throughout the Onited States. The eclipse will begin about 8 p. m. and end a little alter 1 a. m. This is -something that happens so seldom that it al ways attracts attention. Nearly everybody knows it, is caused bv the earth’s being close enough t) tin- moon to cast its shadow over t, when ‘the earth is between t ie Sun and the% moon ; and yet there are a few who look on in silent awe \vhile “the monster s.vallo.v its dainty morsel." Mr. Bland and his “silver" colleagues say that the “silver question” will he Jthe only issue in the next campaign. , They say they will support no candidate who does not stand squaiely on the “silver platform.” What next? A novel adver tising scheme has been invented. It is a tricycle with broad rub ber builds on the wheels; and on these bands - are large letters in relief. Two rollers connect ed with a tank of ink run over the wheels and ink them. Tubes are arranged to blow away the dust in front of the wheels, and as the tricycle runs it prints the advertisement on. the pavement. February the 22nd ail America united in doing honor to the memory of him vv'iose_ sterling character and uncompromising patriotism led us out from under the bonds of British oppression. It is well for us thus to honor the lives of those who have served their fellowmen. It holds up to the world- noble examples, worthy of the imitation of all who aspire to do good. It is a no ticeable fact-—and one greatly to be commended—that, in our present—d^v celebrations of the lives of great men, we study the fundamental elements that go to make up character, rather than any special act of bravery, 01 brilliancy or beneficence. , Hold up high ideals to the puhjjc, and some of the public will reach af ter them. The marriage ot Miss Anna Gould, daughter of the late Jay Gould, to Count de Castellane, of France, is over the stipulation being the settlement of $2,000,000 on the Count. Another victim to the ‘titular craze.’ The Count, it seems has a good, clean record to back him ; but it it proves a happy marriage, it will be an excep tion to the rule. Foreign noble men have had a lucrative ‘trade’ in rich American girls—swap ping empty titles for millions of dollars—and they have a mono poly of the business. A New York pastor recently preached a sermon on this subject, and said, in the, course of his remarks, that he expected soon to see a regular "stock exchange” established for the purpose of dealing out rich American gjrls to foreign bidders with titles. And it now looks very much that way. Re duce the sacred marriage vows to a mere business transaction, and it’s no marriage at all. The following statistics from the New York World, clearly show that the farmer’s condition in our country is not so hope less as a great man}' people would make believe it is. In fact, there is no; class of people in America nearer out of debt and more independent than the farmer. He lives at home and boards at the same place. The World says: “There are about 4,750,000 farm families in the Country. Only about 900.000 ol them have any mortgages at all. And these mortgages, as clearly appears, represent for the most part energy and thrift rather thah impoverishment. They are mortgages given for deferred payments in purchasing land or for capital borrowed to enlarge operations. Less than 3 per cent of all the mortgages repre sent borrowing for expenses or because of poverty. The rest represents .profitable business enterprise. “This mortgage indebtedness lies almost wholly north of the Potomac and Ohio line. “The report shows that 34.08 per cent of all the farmers are renters of their laud. This of course includes the large num ber oftsmall negro farmers of the South who hire fields on the old plantations. Even includ ing this great army of renters in the list, 47.32 per cent of all the farmers own their land free of all debt, and only 18.60 per cent are carrying mortgages, most of them, as we have said, represent ing enlarged operations and tes tifving to thrift and enterprise rather than to poverty and hop lessncss.” From Our Contributors, THAT MOONSHINE DIVrtliLEBT BY PROF. HERBERT SCHOLZ, A. B. One of the seven wonders of the world is, how a man with sense enough to do wrong can harbor the idea that he is able to violate the law of the land in this enlightened age and not be caught. Recently, one of these block-heads was . runijing a blockade distillery in an oid kitchen hard by the public road. One day while he was.busi ly engaged in making the bright and sparking stuff which turns men’s heads dizzy, makes tire funny man still funnier, the quarrelsome man still more quarrelsome, and the brutal man still more like a bear, the rev enue officers drove up to his door, took him and his machin ery and hauled them off to jail to await the judgment of the court. It is quite bud enough for a man to make it his business to manufacture whiskey when he has the license to do it, but when lie goes further and breaks the law and manufactures it on the sly to escape the revenue, he has reached almost the lowest round in the ladder of degrada tion. A man who will distill whiskey by moonshine will murder his fellow man. To prove this assertion we have but to re vert to, the case which happened a short time ago in the mountain fastnesses of Carolina. One young man reported some of his neighbors to the authorities for their mean work in the moon shine, and because of this act his mother turned her back on him and his neighbors took him and hanged him to a tree. De liberately murdered him for ex posing their wrong doings ! Yes, the man who will violate the law to manufacture, whiskey would rob the widow and the orphan, invade the sanctity of the home, and institute a reign of anarchy in ins community. The moonshine distiller is a dishonest old sinner. There are some sinners who are honest. That is, they will pay their debts, remain true to. their friends, and work to promote peace and pro gress in their community. What sinning they do is done openly, so that all the world can see j them. lint the moonshine dis-] tiHerv sinner dishonors even the sinners’ profession by sinning on the sly. He will go to church 1 and pass himself off for a saint. He will make good people be lieve he is a man of good moral character, but while he is doing that, the few trusted accomplices . whom he allows to visit his i place of business will be passing the poisonous stuff out through the community to those who are weak enough to buy from them. He is most thoroughly versed in the Judas Iscariot art, and kisses his Master on yne cheek while delivering hi pi'at the same time over to his enemies. The chief motive which prompts a man to stoop to such a low occupation is the love of money. That same love has led many a man to perdition and will lead many another. When the Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil, we had better believe it. That Book of books-has yet to be found un true in its statements. Whiskey produces more crime than any other one agency, but back be hind whiskey is the agency which brings whiskey into exis tence. That agency is the love of money. Were it not for the money to be gotten out of the business there are few men who would be willing to have the ban of good people laid on them just for the sake of making strong drink. It would be a blessed good thing if all those who flourish for a season in this illegitimate business could be brought by the power of the gospel to quit their nefarious work. Civil laws may detect and punish, but only a change of heart can totally eradicate evil from the minds of men. >VnEN it is time to stop pk.vy 1HH. HV KEV. J. P. BARRETT, D. XT. There is a time to pray and there is a time to move, as you may see by reading Exod. 14 : 15. Moses had been crying uu to the Lord and the Lord saw it. was time for action, so He said tp Moses : “Wherefore cri est thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.” Notice the order o' proceedings: Prayer came first and then they moved for ward. Most of us invert Moses' mistake and try to go forward before we have truly prayed to God. If the Lord should speak to us as He did to Moses, He would doubtless change the order because we have reversed Lhe action. He would say: Why are you moving forward before you have cried unto mer Many of us are satisfied with so little crying unto God—and the result is we go forward without His blessings, and our work rests upon aii arm of flesh in stead of upon the mighty arm of the Lord. One thing I think is brought out in the text: In the Lord's service, it is not all praying, and it is not all going forward in mere action. It is clearly a fact that faithful pray er should precede work ; and it is just as clear that faithful work should follow prayer. For in stance : If a man greatly de sires the prosperity ol the Sun day school, he should earnestly pray for the blessings of God upon it and all the efforts put forth in its behalf, and then as he rises from his prayer, his best efforts for the prosperity of the Sunday school should be put forth. So it should be of our praying and our efforts for any other department of work in the Lord’s vineyard. It is nc< all praying and it is not all work— both must fully and truly ertter into our service. SUFFERING FOlt THE CAUSE OF CHRIST. BY G. W. TICKLE. The real meat and drink ol the true Christian is to do the will of God. It is his rising thought in the morning, nor does it depart from him during the nay. If he finds the way closed against doing what is in his heart to do, he does not, therefore, sit with hands folded m idleness. •‘Whatsoever thy hands find to do, do with all thv might,’ is the injunction, and it may be that God will leave us something to invent to trv our fiiith. When a farmer hires a man to labor for him he expects to find employment for him and set him to vVork ; but a faithful man will find employment on his own ac cord at such times as his employ er has found none for him. So it is with the true’servant ot Christ: he is not his own, but his time, his talents are God’s, and for God he feels that he must work. There are multitudes ol Christians who feel just so, and it is right. But how few seem to make any calculations on suf fering for him. Jeremiah said : “For tlry sake I have suffered re buke.” David said : “For thy sake have 1 borne reproach.” And the Apostle Paul said : “I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge ot Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss ot all things.” Among the early Christians the leading thought seems' to have been, shall we be able to suffer for Christ ? And the stress of the apostles' writings appears to be not so much on the labor ing, as on the suffeiing for him. And he remarks to the Philip pians, “Unto you it is given in behalf of Christ, not only to be lieve on him but also to suffer for his sake.” The apostles themselves “re joiced that they were counted worthv to suffer shame for his name.” We glory in tribula tions. Our Saviour, as it to comfort his followers and cheer them . in view of' what awaited them, said: “Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and speak all man ner of evil against you falsely for my narre sake; rejpice and be exceeding glad, for so they persecuted the prophets which were before you.” “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated yoij.” “Be cause ye are not of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” The leading Scriptural idea in the life of the Christian is suffer ing for Christ, yet is it not a fact that very few seem to think that this has anything to do with Christianity ? On the contrary, if a Christian man withstands the world, the flesh, and the wicked one, re fuses to compromise with sin and sinners, it lie lilts iiis voiie like a trumpet against sin, and in consequence brings down the denunciation^ of ungodly men, will not professors of religion join in and persecute him too:' calling him injudicious, or irn pn d nt, or censorious, or right eous overmuch, or reproach him for injuring his influence, just as if a smooth-tongued, say-nothing, do-nothing man, whom the 'world tears not, and even the devil takes no account of, had an}'in fluence ! It seems to be forgot ten entirely that the Christians, whom the devil most tears, and who stir him from his lair, are those who exert the most influ ence for Christ. Those who are too timid or cowardly to brave persecution for Christ have but a very mea gre idea of what true love for Christ is. - The shirking thief who, when the battle is joined, runs, woytid as soon see the flag of his coun try trampled upon as not ; but he who fought for it, "bled tor it, faced death for it, let all beware how they trail it in the dust be fore him ! He knows what it is to love it, and his love is exactly in proportion to his suffering for it. So it is with the true Christian. Mis heart is melted with the love his Savior bore, in suffering that he might be saved. And he en lists in the services of Christ— not from duty, hut from sincere love; hence there can be no trials, no sufferings, no torture that could be applied by toriner friends, but that should have the effect to draw his heart closer in love for the Savior, while he who enlisted from duty alone. might, under the pressure of suffering, convince himselt that it was. his. duty to leave. It is a blessed thought that it we suffer with Christ, we shall also reign with him. "Sti let tlie world oust oil! my nieno. \iul vilt* a m«\ if iliey will. If H» c mtVss in\ I. >rd !)«• sluing. 1 purpose to in* vil-r Mill. ( untfiit. w hilt* 1 »»> all if'icn. That dfsiis i" foivver mint* Floii < ’t'l lt*'_p\ what wm/i.sn.’. he to vm vs a (’ll klSTl AN £BY REV. J. !'. BARRETT, 1>. 1'. 1895 is rapidly passingjuvay. I wish every Christian would | seriously ask himselt or herselt | this question: In a spiritual sense,What is the year 1^05 t°s be to me ." Is it to be a year ot cold-hearted service, ot indiffer ence, of backsliding* irom God, of idleness in the Lord's vine yard, of many “ups and downs” in sin, ot mere professions and formalities in religion :, or shall the year 1895 be marked in your personal history as a year ot faithful heart-life for God? Shall it be a year of faith, ot believ i ing, of true seeking after God land 11 is righteousness." Shall lit be a year of prayer—>f Jacob i like wrestling till the dawning j of the morning ot blessing." j Shall it be a year Of watching in the King's servicer What is j your answer." Relore you an I swer. reflect that w hatever else | this year may be to you, it may j be the year of your death. I beg you to-prepare for meeting your God in peace. i “A righteous man regardeth 1 the life of his beast: but the j tender mercies ot the wicked | are cruel.” 1 lore is one ot the ; Proverbs that many men some times forget, lie who is cruel to nis toiling dumb brut.es lacks an important element ot Chris tianitv-Wie hasn't much ot “the milk of human kindness ’ in his life. The Pulpit SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIUHT BY REV. JAMES MAPLE, D. D. For now we see through a "‘las- darkly; but then face to face.—II Cor. 13: 12. We do not see nor fully under stand all our environment. This is true of our physical, social, in tellectual and spiritual surround ings. We see the outer form, and something of the inner na ture wl material objects around us; but there are mysteries wrapped up in them that we do noiaand cannot see. There are but few things in nature that our eyes are large enough to see. We see Only in part; our eye sight is dimmed, and we see through a glass darkly. We see and know something of man’s intellectual nature, but there are mysteries in it that w • cannot solve. Ever and anon there are developments ot intel lectual powers that astonish and bewilder us. Now we “know in part.” We see and experience something of the communion and fellowship ot souls, and its up lifting power ; hut who can un der stand it? We are environed by spiritual influences, and real ize something of their refining and elevating power; but we know very little of their nature and method of operation. •‘The wind hloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but, canst not tell whence it cometh. and whither it goeth : so is every one that is horn of the Spirit.” We feel influences operating on our minds and hearts, lifting us up, and draw ing us nearer to God; hut we cannot understand the philoso phy of this experience. All these things are ships passing in the night. We know they are passing, and feel their influences as they pass; but we do not know all that is on board. Some times they are, as it were, only a shadow to us. They loom up out of the shadow, pass by, and disappear in the darkness; but their influence remains, whether we are conscious 01 u oi nui. There are ships that pass us in tlie night of our unseeing. What we see in our environ ments depends largely upon our mental, moral and spiritual state.. The groundling sees in the beau tiful Girth a rich place to plant corn and fatten swine. The J materialist sees nothing but mat-, ter. The mechanic se.es a grand j place for machines and ships. The metaphysician sees only ideas. The poet sees a world of beauty, and hears a melody of music. To the artist it is a grand panorama of beautiful pictures painted by the Divine Artist. To see what is pure, beautiful and good in nature and lite we must be pure and spiritual our selves. “The natural man re ceived! not the things ot the Spirit of God : for they are fool ishness unto him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” The pure, believing, trusting soul sees the hand ot God, and the benevo lence of his providential govern ment in all things in nature and providence. Trouble is a ship that passes in the night. The man ot the world who is seeking for happi ness in the objects of earthly am bition, dreads the coming ot this ship, and to him it is laden with sorrow- and anguish of soul. Mvsterv upon mystery is twined around every letter that spells the word trouble. Whence it comes and how it comes are questions we are not able .to answer. Across the path of this ship there are, however, streams ot light from God’s lighthouse, which sav, “It will be right at last, tor all things work together tor good to them that love God. Otten what seems to the unenlightened mind a misfortune is a rich blessing in disguise—a ship that passes in the night. One ot the little annoyances that daily adds to the burden ot lite, and makes manv things ot beauty fall tar short of being a joy forever, is I the ever present dust. It finds I its way into every apartment ot our homes, and assails our choic est treasures. It often threatens health and life. We think that our world would be more beauti ful and healthy if we could only banish this pestilent intruder. Then we would have a new world indeed, but not so beauti ful and healthy as the one we live in now. Science teaches us,how much we owe to this dust. It pays for all its inroads upon our pleasures. It gives us the beau tiful azure ot the skies, the soft ening of the sunlight, the lovely blending of the light and shade ; and that our eyes are not blinded by sudden changes from over powering glare to total blackness is owing to the presence of this dust in the atmosphere". It dif tuses the light in places that would otherwise be dark, and is the cause of our consciousness of the brightness all about us in the air. It is the ship that pass es in the night. Thus it is with the petty troubles and distrac tions of life that cause us so much worry. They are necessary in the nature of things to transfig ure life and reflect into every nook and corner of life the riches of divine love that environs us at all times. The hidden life is a ship that passes in the night, and is some times laden with the richest bless ings. The tired mother at home toiling for the good of her child and praying for his salvation, may be unknown to the world ; but the bov reared under her-re fining and elevating influence may become a power for good, in the world. What do we know of the parents of Timothy, who taught him in all the wis dom of the Scriptures, so that Paul could say to him, “From a child thou hhst known the Holy Scriptures.” Who knows even the name of the minister under whom Charles Haddon Spur geon was converted? He was a ship that passed in the night. All that we know of him is, the boy Spurgeon went into his church burdened with conscious guilt, and seeking deliverance. He heard him point out the way of life, and his instructions led him to Christ. He comes out of the darkness of' the past. We see him for a moment as he passes, and he disappears in the gloom ; but what a blessing he gave to the world in leading young Spurgeon to the Saviour. | Continued.] questions Dear Reader :—Do you be lieve in the existence of a God who holds the .power and domin ion over earth, heaven and hell ? at whose command the winds and the sett obey ? at whose com mand the devil is to he chained? Do yon believe in God so good and so loving, that has provided so inanv great and grand bless-, ings for his children, and.that he would ever dare to give them a law under which they cannot make a living? Did not Christ define all the commandments before him.making all so plain that the waytaring man. though a tool,need not err therein r I wonder, when 1 meditate upon the great love and power of so good a God, that while he is blessing our grandest institu tions at the closing of their ses sions that they return thanks by reveling and dancing. Is this keening the law of God? It it is 1 do not understand it. So if« our leaders lead us astray by casting the wrong tefiection of the light tliev hold in their power, then who is responsible if our preachers go forth preaching Christ, his love and power to save, when they really believe in their hearts that they cannot make a living and keep the com mandments of God..' Should theyv not give up and seek some other occupation.' If any friend have it upon his heqrt to answer these questions 1 will gladly re ceive any instruction, if Jt is in. accordance with the Bible. Mary E. Barbee. Postmaster General Bissell has resigned, and Hon. Wm. L. Wilson, of West Virginia will succeed him. Mr. Wilson has a strong friend in President Cleveland, and the President will be glad to have him in his ' Cabinet. *■»
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