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IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY
IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY
BALEIGH, H, 0* THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1896
VOLUME XLIX: NUMBER 8
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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. ... '
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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.
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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.
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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.