^ - "‘jr ftr kjv,' iri*/.'AfV !Hf&M -; 1 1 .. ?<?wj 'f jfi* •1. ».•:*/ fri\ Srflo ( if-d tmoi (M rliiB'.n.i m m • l. A ' 1. The Ijord Je»u» is the only Head of the church. — '• 2. Tt»d name Christian, *n ttic oxchnion of all party and eoctarian names. suflMent ^te of faith and practice. 4. Christian character, or vital pletyv the only tb(t Pf fellowship or membcreWp. 5. TlnTrtji'hi bif" prifate judgment, nod the'liberty of conscience,thp privilege and Ctity of all. ■■ bhi 7.'! Ip >< v feoriTiHipan opens bis moil a little silver pitqhfoyk, the f?admiring constituent. . S. Carr gold over $5, 000 worth of4iirttier from his Od conteechee Farm last year. Col. Carr deserves success'—he gives a great deal of money for chari table-purposes. '' ' ■ V ' It is said that Russia vyjll goon adopt electricity as a means 01 warfare. No doubt it will prove to tie a great destructive force. We have been depending upon Mr. Edison to provide means for the protection of our coast lines. Mr. Gladstone has beep and is now doing sill in his power for the relief of the oppressed Ar menians* Civilized people of all nations should came together and stand up for, the right in all such .matters of vital import ance. > .'it, Three of the largest piano companies ih New York have gone into the hands of receivers. While music :is atiractiverto the ear, it seems that-it-did not at tract a sufficient amount of money to keep all the companies in operation. The -Southern and Cotton States Exposition has been pro nonticfed a success for the South. All the debts have been paid oft' in frill, and the South is better' known to^day: than ever before. We may nOw hope:for foreign capital to flow in. During the month of January Winston, shipped 1,600,417 lbs. ot manufactured tobacco. The Government realized therefrom $96,025 gross. Thjis means a large sum of money in some body's pocket, and a large amuunt out of the pockets of others. A party of western men have bought several thousand acres of. land in Mississippi, and will di vide it up into truck farms. It is their purpose to make a colo ny of western people. The old doctrine, “Go west,young man,” seems to be dying out. There is no place better suited for all con ditions of,, man than is this Southland of ours. Tfie Liberty Bell made a safe tour to and from Atlanta, and is now resting unmolested in its old stand. There was a large crowd to welcome it at the Guil ford battle ground on its return trip. We cherish the. name Lib erty Bell 5 we fought for inde pendence; we boast of our “lib erty,” and yet we are among the worst slaves (to habit) of any pppple living. Mr. Edison is again to the front. He has now invented a means by which he can separate the iron from the ore with mag netic force. The ore is blasted out and ground, and then it is let lull near several .magnetic poles.* which, check the iron, in its downward course and collect it upon the surface of the poles. Every few minutes~the charge is taken from the poles and the iron.taken*and put in its proper place. Jt is said that this inven lion is of great value to miners of-iron. fitly T-r-OT yt ,yr-yrg» -r r nr - North Carolina Labor ‘ show that tor the year Pcr? t -4" ' i -*P-™S }?, ' ilTOW..-^s are weekly, ily. Some of ...e far ahead of in the number ot : it seems that l.e cao get any I and as many . The Venezuelan boundary dispute has not yet been settled, biit it is though* that the matter is now getting in the right chan nel' for an amicable settlement. The Qjieen is in favor of arriv ing at a peaceable solution of the question. Great Britain will furnish any information it can as to the facts involved in the dis pute. Venezuela will send a representative to London to look into :the;- -matter and to open di rect negotiations for a complete and final settlement. f A bill has been presented in Congress to Appropriate money to several of the Roman Catholic charitable institutions, but we are glad to know that our people were wise enough to reject it. There were twenty-five members who were willing to vote for the bill and see our American insti tutions suffer and at the same time see onr pwn children, espe dially those of the poorer classes, drawn away from the true doc trine and placed under the Pope. The Catholics are carrying' on their destructive work too rapid idly now, and it behooves our citizens to suppress rather than encourage their movements. An .invention of Mr. Richard B. Paiton is being successfully managed by Mr. F. A. Ander son, a former citizen of Raleigh. They have substituted electrici ty for steam as a propelling power to boats. It is thought that by this means the Atlantic may be crossed in three days. What wonderful power of the Creator has been transmitted to nature. Nature’s storehouse is full of force and substances use ful to mair, and it remains for him to unlock the door and ap ply the contents. Nor should we fear that the supply will be exhausted, for experience shows that the more there is removed, rthe more there comes to view. The gold bugs are no doubt glad to know that the yield of gold is increasing. In one of our Western Stalest in 1892 $5,000,000 worth of gold was mined; in 1895 the yield was raised to $20,000,000. This is not alone true of some parts of the United States, but is is espe cially true of South Africa, South American colonies, Cana da and other places. It is said by some well posted and close calculating men that the annual yield.of gold will be between $200,000,000 and $250,000,000 within two or three years. Let the good work go on, and see that the gold is put to proper use. ... ' Tt . j i.,i 1 ■ "rri'/i,. ., u;gg The Advocate states that “1 n,100,000 people speak En glish, while only 75,260,000 speak German, and only 51,200, 000 speak French. Five times as many people speak the En glish language now as at the ! beginning of the century. The [English classics are everywhere studied, and the great wealth- of literature is in English. The Anglo-Saxon race sends more ! than one-half of all telegraphic | messages. Three-fifths of all the railroad tickets sold in the | world are used by the English speaking people. This rape npw possesses a third portion of the earth, and rules 400.000,000 of. its inhabitants." Notwithstand ing the fact that the English language is fast becoming the language of the nations, our peo ple do not endeavor to become as thorough as they should. Un til recently a thorough English scholar was hard to find. They are always in demand in our own institutions, as well as in foreign countries. .k ; “SOUL iykL*S.” BY REV. J.PRESSLEY BARRETT,P.D. I have in the last twenty-five years seen many persons, in cluding “No. i”, who had appa rently some ambition, or desire, to lead—to be . leaders of other people; and in a large per cent, of these individuals, they failed on the one point which is an ab solute necessity to make the most successful leader of men, viz.: Be good followers of Christ, for till we follow Him we are poorly qualified to lead oth ers. Ifyeu have any purpose to lead men, try your fitness by this standard of following Jesus closely in your own life. Do you see? j. The Ram’s Horn says: “Do busj ness for the Lord and there' will be no danger qf bankrupt cy.” True, but why is it so hard i for most of the business men qf our day to see it? Answer: Because they are blinded by self-interest. They think if they should do business tor the Lord they would not get their share. However, the opposite is true, for they would then get s larger and a better share than they now get. Do you dispute it? Better, not, unless you can prove the Ram’s Horn to be in the wrong, and that would be quite an undertaking for any ordinary map. Better try it, humbly and patiently , and see what the Lord will do about it in your case. We so easily excuse ourselves from following Paul as in Heb. 6: i, 2-r-we do not go onto the perfection of the blessed life that, is hid with Christ in God, be cause we say we do not know the way. Elijah P. Brown, the converted infidel, says: “In seeking Christ go as far as you know the way, and he will meet you.” I have no doubt that is a gem out of his own experience, and if so, it is only the deafer, for if that is true of an infidel, it must be equally true of others who seek Jesus. Beloved, try it, seek to find Jesus, and go as far on the way as you can learn it from the Spirit’s illuminations, and see if Jesus does not meet you. We do need more deep and lasting conviction as to religious truth. We need -to be fully con vinced of the truth that Jesus is the way* the truth and the life. It has been said that a strong be lief is a necessary foundation for good work. Really, if you want something done for the glory of God in the spiritual uplifting of our fallen humanity, you will do well to call on men who believe something, for when men do not believe, they most likely will not work, and ifilhey would, it could not, be worth much. Let the church concern itself quite as much about what men believe as about what they do—the one leads to the other. ( Do you wish to be a worker for the Lord? Are you willing to go into the vineyard in the early morning and labor on faithfully through the heat of the .day and do so simply on the promise of the M-aster to give you what ever is right? But do you say you do not know what to do? That is a poor excuse for one who really wishes to do —to work for the glory of God. The world is so full of opportu nity. The lazy man always says he cannot find work when he is ashamed to own that he is lazy, but the man who'is really anxious to work will be apt to find something to do sooner, or later, because he loves to work. So it is with us who work to lead souls to Jesus—if you really love it, you will find many opportune ities. Now, isn’t it so? It is said it is easier to be hap-1 py without riches than with them. Few, I suspect, believe it, except those who have tried both, and not ail of them. As a matter of fact, riches have no inherent happiness-giving powr er. Rather the opposite is true —tbey haye an rnhiprent happi ness-destroying pow|r, and upon many who have cursed with riches has this.^ower made war. Not all meMsuffer from the possession of wealth but many not only get no happiness from their wealth, but they get much of the restlessness of the flesh. It is easier and safer to make the journey of life seeking God and depending upon him for our happiness rather ' than upon riches. ;»; ;.',w —*-— How shall I spend my time? This question troubles some pec ple. It ought not,iff we have learned the way in the school of Christ. In His'school we learn to spend each day, so far as right and wrong are concerned, as if it we:e our last day on earth—spend it in such a way that if it should be bur last day On earth we would dot have re frets for what we had done. erhaps you may think this would be a difficult matter,but it is not, as to do so only requires that we do right, and we shall never regret doing what is truly right. Let right be the standard of every action on your part,and then through Christ, who makes our poor, but sincere, efforts to do God’s way, a complete suc cess, we shall meet the Lord in peace. Yes, do right and that will please God. Norfolk, Va. LEADERS. BY REV. J. T. KITCHEN. There have been leaders in ev ery enterprise, without which nothing could have been accom plished in the world. The world wants good leaders, it wants Christian leaders, it wants sate leaders, it Wants hottest leaders. Some of the leacLaks have been faithful and true in everything they undertook to do ; but some of them have been false, decep tive, ignorant, tyrannical and misleading. Many, very many, plans and institutions have failed on account of incompetent plan ners or leaders, thereby causing irreparable loss and ruin to the cause they represented. Every one who wants to be a leader— every one who tries to be a lead er, is not qualified for such an important and responsible posi tion, but it is very difficult to get such persons to see their incom petency as others see it. Judg ing from their thoughts and works their greatest inspiration has been to gain influence,to get praise and honor from a flatter ing world. Their retiriing prayers and waking thoughts were, ‘fLead me to the front and keep me there all the time until my terrestrial glory is ended and I grope in the dark night of death,” Some I have known who were selected, elected, and appointed by the people as lead ers : while others I have known to be self-appointed and self-act ing, taking every advantage and every and any by-way so as to get there, with a conscience ablaze with the lurid fire of guilt burning them all the time. Corrupt leaders are an abomi nation to any country, to any church, and to any community. Unless the grace of God sustains the leadership it will, in time, amount to nothing. The church needs God-sent Holy Ghost leaders. Yes, it needs more ol this kind and none of those who are working for self and selfish motives: Fine houses of worship may be built, eloquent preachers may preach in them,opulent and fashionable leaders may control them, but k will all amount to less than nothing unless the Spirit of God is with them and in them. Seek first God’s king dom, let righteousness dwell in the soul, then he who »s qualified may lead on to complete vic tory. There has never been but one thoroughly competent leader in the world. That was Jesus, who leads iu the right way. He has said more than once, “Follow Me.” If everyone who profess es Christianity can feel that “He leadeth me,” the following must be happy. I do not think we are happy unless Jesus is leading us. Missions. By DR. W. T. HERNDON, MIS. SEC. The Divine Law requires the effort of man combined with the power of Deity to procure both temporal and spiritual salvation Therefore, what man can do,God will never do; hence, the results of our lives depends upon our efforts. “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread” is the Divine injunction : and he who does not obey the injunction if left to himself will not obtain and does not deserve a living. It is equally true in spiritual sal vation : “for we are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.” This being true, our success in both temporal and spiritual life depends upon the amount of well-directed effort expended. For man has but to do .his part and the work is done —God always doing his part. The same law applies to church es and denominations, tor the church is only God’s organized force for bringing the world un to Himself; hence no church of denomination will - prosper, only in proportion to the amount ot well-directed missionary' effort it puts forth. The denominations that succeed are those engaged in intelligent missionary effort. This applies to the Christian church as well as to other de nominations, but we have been slow to comprehend it. Just a few years ago we commenced to do missionary work which has proven quite satisfactory. In tnai snort period pernaps grand er results have followed our ef forts in proportion to our num bers than that of any other de nomination. This has proven quite a stimulus to the church. In consequence of the necessity of extending our borders and performing the great work as signed us as a denomination a missionary association has re cently been established, the mo dus operandi and constitution of which has been published in the Sun and also in the Annuals. This is one of the most import ant enterprises connected with our work, and claims the atten tion and hearty support of the entire church. As Mission Sec retary I earnestly appeal to all, both ministers and laymen, to give it their hearty support. A list of those who have been ap-. pointed local agents has been announced in the Sun. I will be glad to give any information or answer any question I can. Elon College, N! C Nothing but praise is heard in official and Congressional circles for that portion of Queen Victo ria’s speech at the opening of the British Parliament, dealing with the Venezuelan trouble. Her language—“I have expressed sympathy with the desire to come to an equitable arrange ment, and I trust that further ne gotiations will lead to a satis factory settlement”—is confirm atory of assurances, official and otherwise, which have reached Washington of the desire of the British government to meet the government of the United States halfway in a peaceable settle ment of the trouble. Officials in Washington have never doubted that a peaceable settlement would be reached, notwithstand ing the efforts of a few men in this country and in England to make such a settlement impossi ble by indiscreet and foolish ut terances which aroused all of the latent prejudice in both English men and Americans. At a meeting of Christian En deavor Committee of ’96, in Washington, this week, the sub committee on Music reported a list of hymns to be used at the convention, and it is ordered that 4000 copies of a leaflet con taining the words and music of these hymns be printed. A vote of thanks was returned to Con gress, for its action in allowing the erection of tents on the White Lot during the convention. The subcommittee charged with get ting the railroad tickets extend ed reported progress and ex pressed hope of final success. Congress has passed a bill pro hibiting the sale of liquor in pool or billiard rooms in the District of Columbia. The Pulpit. THE PBOPEB IMPROVEMENT OF TIME. 7 BY REV. |AMES MAPLE, D. D. And that knowing the time, Hfet now it is high time to awake ont of sleep; for now Is onr salvation nearer than when we believed. Rom. 13:11. (CONCLUDED.] Most young men are reckless of time. They do not realize its j value, but the time comes when they do. They are like some men who have inherited money and spend it recklessly. They do not tealize its value until it is nearly all gone. Then they be gin to economize. They may save what they have left, but the bulk of the fortune is lost beyond redemption. This biings regret and sorrow. Thus many let the precious gems of time slip away as long as they think they have almost any number of them, but, when they find but few are left they awake to a realizing sense of their value ; and this some times brings a burning sense of remorse. A dying soldier ex pressed dissatisfaction with his past life, and fear for his future. He said, “I will not be so mean as to drink the devil’s wine all my life and offer the settlings to Jesus.” He often exclaimed, ‘•If I could only get back again to boyhood ! But such is a vain wish.” He died while express ing that wish. Wasting time is sintul, and few greater crimes are commit ted than this. The gifted Gato and other heathen philosophers held that man must give an ac count not only of his labors but also of his leisure. He must an swer not only for what he has done, but also for what he could but did not do. “God requireth that which is past.” Time is given to us to use for God, and to let it run to waste in idleness is just as sinful as to spend our money in carnal indulgences of our lower passions. Sooner or later men are-made to realize this. A young man of twenty five years, who had spent his life in the pursuit of “the pleasures of sin,” was brought under the redeeming influence of divine truth and the spirit of God ; and was happily converted. He re joiced in his redemption. Soon after this he was taken sick and died. A few days betore his death he was alone in his bed room, and his mother, who was in an adjoining room, heard him exclaim, “Lost! lost I” She was alarmed; went into his room fearing he had lost his hope,and asked him what he meant by saying “Lost.” He said, “Moth er, I have not lost my hope in Christ, but I was thinking of the years that I have lived in sin, doing nothing for him. They are lost. It was a sad thought to him. The things of this life are all good and valuable in their place. God intended them for our good, and we should carefully look af ter them- Not to provide for our own is worse than infidelity, but these things are temporal. They belong only to this life. We are destined to live forever, and our permanent interests be long to eternity. This is why Christ said, “Labour not for the meat which perishetfl, but for that meat which endureth to ev erlasting life, w'hich the Son of Man shall give unto you.” The things of time should be made subordinate to spiritual and eter nal (Matt. 6: 19-23). The things of time are objects of sense, and we are influenced directly by them; but spiritual and eternal things are objects of faith, and we are influenced by them through faith, wq. cannot see them with the natural eye as we do the things for which we live here. For this reason we are becoming absorbed in the business of this life, and lose sight of eternal things ; and are uninfluenced by them. In the scriptures this is represented as a state of sleep. When a man is asleep he is insensible to and uninfluenced by his surround ings. He lives as though they did not exist. This was the con dition of those to whom Paul was writing. They were uninfluenced by spiritual things and the sub lime prospect embraced iu the Christian's hope. Hence he says, “Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.” They had grown indif ferent too, and were uninfluenced by the things of eternity. Paul desired to waken them to a real ization ot the supreme import ance of these things. One rea son he urged upon them was that their salvation was nearer than, when they believed. Every step in life brought them nearer to a full realization of all the bless ings of “eternal salvation.” They were already saved from sin and its cruel slavery, but there were infinite blessings in reservation for them in heaven. A glorious inheritance awaited them there (i Pet. i: 3-5). There they should have spiritual bodies fash- / ioned like the glorious *borfy of / Christ (Phil. 3: 20,21). There / - we shall be fully transformed 4 into the image of Christ (1 John** ^ 3 : 1,2). There we shall be the' ' companions and equals of the holy angels (Matt. 22 : 24-30; Luke 20: 30-36). There they are free from all sorrow apd af fliction (Rev. 21:4). As the years roll away our physical being wears out. Our sight grows dim, our hearing dull, our step feeble, and our ca pacity to enjoy the physical blessings fails. Our animal life is not what it was to us in our earlier yeers, but our life of lov ing obedience to Christ grows richer, sweeter, broader, and grander. “The path of the just is as the shining light that shin eth more and more unto the per fect day.” “Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father.” “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that' have turned many to righteousness as I the stars for ever and ever.” The Youth’s Companion says : “In round numbers, 220,000 steerage passengers arrived at' the port of New York during the year 1895. 43,000 of these im migrants, oyer fourteen ydars of t age, were unable to read and; write. Furthermore, 120,000 had less than $30 each when they landed.” This is no good news for our good citizens,. especially When we consider the fact that most of this number are worthless, com paratively penniless and igno rant. Many of them are left to the charity of our citizens, many more are only re-enforcements to aid in carrying out depreda tions and crimes. If we could take those foreign into our bor ders and make of them good, loyal citizens, the fight against admitting them would not be so strong, but they seem to be care less and indifferent as to every thing else but themselves. They, as a rule, do not take any inter est in our institutions or in our industries. This indifference is strikingly illustrated in the St. Louis Chris tian Advocate. It says: “An illustration of the evils of immi gration and of the indiscriminate naturalization of ignorant for^ eigners was lately given in New York. The “subject” in ques tion jvas a mad who was on trial for eight weeks on a charge of incendiarism. He admitted un der oath that he did not know what the tariff' was ; that he had nevpr heard of the American Congress ; that he could not tell whether the United States was governed by a president or a king ; he did not know the name of the national capital. And this in spite of tfese fact that he had been a citizen of the United States for four years.” Such a man as this is not fit to be one of our citizens, and we are glad to know that the au thorities are becoming more strict in regard to naturalization. The applicant mnst now be able to read and write the English language, and to understand something of the Constitution of the United States. We hope the evil may soon be remedied to a great extent. Senator Quay’s name is to be presented for the Presidential nomination by the Pennsylvania delegation.