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VOLUME XLIX: NUMBER 35
Christian SUi\
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The Organ of the General Convention
the Christian Church (South).
CARDINAL PRINCIPLES.
I, Thu Cord Jesus is the only Head of the
church.
a. The name Christian, to the exclusion
of all party and sectarian names.
8. Tho Holy Bible, or the Scriptures of
the Old and New Testaments, sufficient rule
of faith and practice.
4. Christian character, or vital piety, the
only test of fellowship or membership.
ft. The right of private judgment, and
the liberty of conscience, the privilege and
duty of all.
Prof. Andree, who started to
the North Pole in a balloon is
now in Norway, He has decid
ed not to attempt the journey
this year.
At a convention assembled at
Saratoga, N. Y., on the 20th
ult.. Congressman Frank S.
Black, ol Troy, was nominated
as the Republican candidate for
Governor of New York.
Secretary Hoke Smith has
tendered his resignation, it tak
ing effect Sept. 1st. Ex-Gover
nor Francis, of Missouri, has
succeeded Mr. Smith, Mr.
Smith will again resume the ac
tive management of his paper,
the Atlanta Journal.
New Zealand proposes to es
tablish a pension fund for per
sons who have reached the age
of sixty-five. The amount to be
V. paid to each pensioner is to be
two and a half dollars per week,
and the money is to be raised by
a tax upon amusements.
For some reason there have
been persons in the West who
circulate false predictions of tor
nadoes and hurricanes, thus pro
ducing a panic among the peo
ple. The citizens will endeavor
to have those mischievous per
sons punished for misdemeanor,
if found out.
An eminent scientist in Wash
inglt<fn saystTSat hypnotism pro
duces disease of the most impor
tant part of the brain ; placing
the mind and will both under the
control of another. It man is to
have power over another it
should be by reasoning, and not
by resorting to hypnotism.
Iron and steel rods are now
made by heating the metal until
it becomes plastic, and then forc
ing it through dies of the size
desired. It is claimed that rods
made by this method are strong
er than those which are rolled
out. Even small wires can be
made by the same process.
The highest average speed
ever made by horseless carriages
was eighteen miles an hour. In
a race from P$iris to Bordeaux
and return, a distance of 744
miles, the winner made an aver
age of about fifteen miles an
h iur. Improvements are contin
-ually being made, but the horse
is still on the road.
The Armenian Patriarch at
Constantinople, refusing to en
dorse the action of the Turkish
Government and throwing the
blame on the Armenians in the
recent massacres, was requested
to resign his posi ion. He has
sent in his resignation, and now
the Armenians are without an
ecclesiastical leader.
As yet there have not been as
favorable reports from the differ
ent astrononomers as was expect
ed from their observations of the
eclipse of the sun. In many
places where the stations were
located the weather was unfa
vorable, clouds being numerous
in the heavens. But some ot
them say that a few excellent
photographs were taken, from
which they hope to learn some
thing new. Other stations have
not been heard from ; so we can
not tell what will be the result ot
the investigation.
The dispute between Brazil,
and Great Britain over the own I
ership of the island of Trinidad
has been settled by arbitration.
Portugal was named as arbitra
tor ; and after careful examina
tion into the matter the question
was decide^in tavor of Brazil.
Alter all, the best and quickest
way to settle international dis
putes is by means of arbitration.
Lieut. Peary’s party alter leav,
ing Sydney went to Turuavick
Labrador, where they made sev
eral scientiffic investigations and
started again on their journey
toward the North Pole. The
members report having seer,
many ice bergs on the way ; and
no doubt they will have some
trouble belore they get much
further north.
Mr. Bryan, Democratic candi
date for President, writes that he
will make two speeches in North
Carolina about the middle ol
September at places to be deter
mined by the Campaign Com
mittee. He will also make seve
ral platform speeches on his way
through the State. From North
Carolina he will go to Virginia,
and speak several times in that
State.
Judge Cole, of the District
Court at Washington, D. C.,
thinks that there should be great
er restrictions on foreign immi
grants. He has recently ruled
that no person can be natural
ized who can not read the En
glish language; and he has ac
cordingly refused to grant pa
pers to various persons who
could not come up to the re
quirements.
About twelve years ago a law
was enacted in North Carolina
prohibiting the carrying of ex
press on Sunday except such ar
ticles as are perishable. An ef
fort is being made to enforce the
law ; and Sunday the 23rd ult.
was the first time that the law
has been observed. The attor
neys for the Southern Express
Co. are fighting the injunction,
claiming that they have a right
to carry any kind of express on
Sunday.
At a ponference ij^Indianapo
lis^in whjch all but twelve ot the
States w ere represented, it was
decided to call a new convention
at the above-named place Sept.
2nd, to Irame a platform and
make nominations expressing
the views of “sound money”
Democrats The call is tor a
conveniion of the National Dem
ocratic Party of the United
States. Some think that Mr.
Hill will attend and take part in
the convention ; but the majority
seem to think that he will sup
port the nomines of the Chicago
Convention.
Li Hung Chang left England
Saturday, August 22nd by
steamer St. Louis, and arrived
in New York last week. He
will be the guest oi the State,
and will occupy the State apart
ments at the Waldorf Hotel.
Major- General Thomas H. Rei
ger, commanding the; Depart
ment of the East, United States
Army, will represent the Presi
dent, who could not be present
at the arrival ot Li Hung Chang.
During his stay here he will vis
it Grant’s tomb, the Military
Academy at West Point, Niaga
ra Falls, Philadelphia, Washing
ton, and other places of interest
to the visitor.
The fJorth Carolina State
Fair will be held in Raleigh, N.
C., Oct. 19-24. A special object
this year will be to secure and
exhibit the products of the State
on a larger scale than ever be
fore attempted, and to make the
exhibit a great object lesson tor
the people. The purpose is to
have such products displayed in
competition for prizes, as well
as otherwise. Such competition
broadens the market for the pro
ducer, gives an impetus to trade
through the exhibition of trade’s
possibilities, and tends to the
growth in excellence of every
thing involved in the contest.
Write for Premium List to John
Nichols, Secretary, Raleigh, N.
Carolina.
From Du Contributors.
UPON THE ALERT.
BY PROF. HERBERT SCHOLZ, A. M.
Watchfulness is one of the vir
tues commended to us by the
Bible. The watchful man usu
ally succeeds. Our eyes were
given us in order that we might
see. He that hath eyes and
seeth not, doth not get much
benefit from having eyes. It is
a man’$ duty to use to the best
advantage all five of the senses
with which nature has endowed
him. If he fail to use his eyes
he must necessarily fail to be
watchful; and this failure to be
watchful will cause him to come
far short of success. Christ said
to his disciples, “Watch ye,
therefore: for ye know not when
the master of the house cometh,
at even, or at midnight, or at the
cock-crowing, or in the morning:
lest coming suddenly, he find
you sleeping. And what I say
unto you, I say unto all,.‘Watch.’
Blessed are those servants, whom
the lord when he cometh shall
find watching: verily I say unto
you, that he shall gird himself
and make them to sit down to
meat, and will come forth and
serve them. And if he come in
the second watch, or in the third
watch, and find them so, blessed
are those servants.” The apos
tle Paul in his letter to the Thes
salonians writes, “Therefore, let
us not sleep, as do others, but let
us watch and be sober.” And
in his second letter to timothy
he writes, “But watch thou in
all things.” In Revelations John
writes, “Be watchful, and
strengthen the things which re
main, that are ready to die.
Blesse.d is he that watcheth, and
keepeth his garments, lest he
walk naked, and they see his
shame.”
All these quotations have ref
erence to the spiritual life.
Watchfulness is actually neces
sary to spiritual growth and spir
itual progress. And what is ne
cessary to progress and success
in the spiritual life, is also neces
sary to progress and success in
the worldly life. If a man wants
to be a successful merchant, he
must keep a strict watch over all
his affairs. He must keep up
with ’‘the market news ; he must
be on the look-out for customers ;
.he must see to it that his clerks
do their duty ; he must watch his
debtors and see to it that they
do not fleece him ; he must watch
his own debts and see to it that
his creditors don’t close him out.
Likewise if a man wants to be a
successtul lawyer, or doctor, or
teacher, or preacher, he must be
continually upon the alert.
There are adversaries on every
hand at all times, ready to
pounce upon every individual.
These adversaries may not al
ways be visible. They frequent
ly lurk around and keep them
selves out of sight, and are the
more dangerous lor so doing.
The man who would be success
ful must be on the look-out for
them, and keephimself in readi
ness to fight them. Our adver
saries may not always be human
beings. They may sometimes
consist of influence and environ
ments and the passions smoul
dering in one’s heart. From a
spiritual standpoint we can’t
make any headway without con
tinuing in a state of watchful
ness. There are so many things
arising to upset our equanimity
and throw us out of humor that
we must guard ourselves as
strongly as the knights in the
days of chivalry guarded their
castles, if we expect to keep our
selves right. It was the custom
in the palmy days of Judea to
place a watchman on the tower
to make observations of every
thing that was going on in the
surrounding country, and to re
port when he saw any enemy
advancing against the city. Ev
ery person ought to regard him
self a watchman and his own
home and business and religion
a city over which it is his duty to
watch in order that its safety
may be preserved.
For all, life’s battles strength
may be had from God.
THE MEW ERA.
BY J. D. GRAY, A.M., LltT-D.
The vibratory movement* of
public opinion are apparent in
politics, in education, and in re
ligion as well as in social and
industrial life. Fads and fash
ions are prevalent everywhere.
In the politico-industrial world,
note the irrepressible conflict be
tween the producing class and
the monied corporations to whose
pools, combines, and trusts have
been opposed the Grange move
ment, the Greenback party and
Populism. And now the silver
advocates are making a wonder
ful stir. Certainly not in parti
san politics, but in industrial di
versification must we look for
the remedy. When the factory
and field are brought close to
gether, and the cotton mill ad
joins the plantation, the wasted
energy of strife will be convert
ed into the motion of real prog
ress.
The pendulum of power has
swung rapidly lrom one political
party to another in the last de
cade. The old parties have
been invaded and to a great de
giee .rejuvenated. New men
with better ideas are appearing
upon the stage of action ; the old
politicians, with their treachery
and selfishness, are being rele
gated to private life. Men of
positive opinions are now the
fads and fashions, so to speak.
“Behold all things are new.”
A wave of reform in Brooklyn
has swept out the McGarrys and
O’Toole’s ; and New York is in a
measure washed—that great me
tropolis where the Roman Cath
olics pay ten per cent of the tax
es and hold ninety per cent of
the offices.
The last few months have seen
a remarkable revival of patriotic
societies which have contributed
much to the rising sentiment
that America must be for Amer
icans.
To the student of internation
al affairs the moves and counter
moves of the European powers
seem like the . mid antics ot
school boys in their squabbles.
What will be the^outcome of all
these national thrusts and par
ries? Doubtless a terrible inter
national conflict, or else an in
ternational court of arbitration
Toward the latter the onward
sweep of progress seems to move.
Science is being made the hand
maiden of war, which will be so
terrible and costly a thing that a
nation must be rash indeed to
wantonly provoke it. Our great
est soldiers favor arbitration ;
and both England and the Unit
ed States are en record in favor
of it. Honest diplomacy is the
gu’ding star of the closing years
of the century. In the realm of
applied science almost every tick
of the pendulum records the rev
elation of some startling secret
or nevv application of her m_\ ste
rious Ibid s.
In the social world progress is
recorded also. Constitutional
law is exalted ; pugilism is out
lawed and disgraced ; the gam
bling dens and the lottery pits
are no longer regarded as neces
sary evils; temperance is steadi
ly strengthening ; Congress has
refused to appropriate public
funds for sectarian schools. Two
more strokes of the world’s time
piece we wish to hear hetore the
dawn of the new century—the
wise restriction of undesirable
immigration, and Armenia
avenged.
Only one great danger now
gives forebodings, the transfor
mation of God’s lloly Day, the
Christian Sabbath, into a foreign
holiday. Believing as we do
that God rules over the destiny
of nations, it devolves upon us to
seek his favor and help in this
trying hour. He will save us
from so great a .•■in ; but it will
not do for church members to
engage in the pleasures of street
car riding, carriage riding, bicy
cling, and buying the luxuries
and dainties upon the Lord’s
da}T.
Prof. Herbert Scholz’s article
on the evils which menace the
Sabbath is timely, and should be
read with new interest.
Our citizens last spring set out
for reform, and succeeded in
electing an excise board not sub
[UONCLUDED ON THIRD PAGE.]
The Pulpit.
WHY WE BUILD CHURCHES AND
PREACH THE GOSPEL.
BY REV. JAMES MAPLE, D. D.
[CONTINUED.]
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the
gospel to every creature.”—Mark 1ft: 15.
An interesting story of the
young emperor of Russia comes
from St. Petersburg. It appears
that there exists among the aris
tocratic officers of the army a
rather strict idea of what an offi
cer may do in the way of min
gling with the common people,
and what he must not do. There
is no absolute code of regula
tions on the subject, but the re
strictions are as definite as laws.
One day a young officer found
himself in the dilemma of being
obliged either to be late on duty
or take a street car, either ot
which was an offence. He took
the street car, but several officers
saw him alight, and they report
ed seeing him. He was speed
ily taken to task for disgracing
his uniform, and after a few days
of persecution he was urged to
resign his commission, as he
could never wipe out the dis
grace. The young officer was
poor, his family would be dis
tressed by his losing his position,
and he would be practically
ruined by yielding. He had a
friend in the War Department to
whom he communicated his situ
ation, and by him the affair was
brought before the Czar. Nich
olas was very indignant when he
heard of it. Calling an adjutant
to accompany him, he started
out, walked a short distance, and
boarded a street car on which he
rode to the barracks to which
.the persecuted officer belonged.
He alighted in full view of a
group of officers, who reverently
saluted him. Since that time
there has been peace in the offi
cers’ quarters of the regiment,
and the young officer has had no
further trouble. As the Czar
thought it no humiliation to use
the common conveyance, it could
be no humiliation for his officer
to do so.
Thus the King cf kings and
the Lord of lords left his throne
in Heaven, “humbled himself’
in assuming “the form ol a ser
vant and being made in the like
ness of meif ’ to get near to us
and show his sympath) with and
love for the humblest child of
poverty.
There is another fact that con
fronts every member of the hu
man race, and awakens serious
thought and anxious inquiry.
Our time in this world is short,
and we must die. “It is appoint
ed unto man once to die.” “He
cometh forth like a flower, and
is cut down : he fleeth also as a
shadow, and continueth not.”
This fact raises two questions of
unutterable interest to us, and
men in all ages have been seek
ing a satisfactory answer to
them.
j. Does death end all with usr
Do we cease to be when we drop
out of this life? Is there no fu
ture tor us?. Must we perish
with our bodies? Where shall
we tind an answer that will scat
ter the clouds that hang over the
grave, and tell us what God has
in reservation for us beyond the
shadows of death? We go to
the great religions of the earth
for an answer, but we only get
some crude materialistic ideas—
nothing that is elevating and in
spiring. We look down into
the darkness and loneliness ot
the grave, and in unutterable
agony of soul cry,as 1 heard the
W'eeping mother, “Speak to me,
my boy. O! my precious boy,
speak to me!” Inti no voice
broke the deep silence. We lis
ten to the soil whispers oi the
morning breeze and the evening
zephyrs ; but no message comes
to us from the realm of darkness.
We look up to the beautiful stars
as they float in seas of azure,
and cry, “O tell us what awaits
us beyond this life !” They heed
not our tears, and roll on in si
lence. There is only one who
can break the silence of the
tomb, and bring peace and hope.
He has answered, and his words
come ringing down through the
centuries, scattering the dark
ness of the grave, and bringing
life and immortality to light.
“I am the resurrection, and
the life ; he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall
he live: And whosoever liveth
affd beiieveth in me shall never
die.”
“Because I live, ye shall live
also.” The grave is not the end
of our being. We shall live on
through the endless ages of eter
nity. Death may claim this
body, but it cannot claim me.
My friends may bury it, but they
cannot bury me. This sublime
assurance meets a deep con
scious need of our nature, for we
long for immortality and eternal
life. The thought of annihila
tion is appalling, and we turn
from it in horror; but we are not
left in the darkness of despair.
Christ has given us the assur
ance of an endless life. The
night of death is followed by the
opening beauties of an endless
day.
2. If we are to live forever
what will that future be to us?
This question comes home to ev
ery soul with peculiar torce, for
all are personally interested.
Our future will be determined by
what we are in ourselves. The
Lord said, “Say ye to the righ
teous, that it shall be well with
him : for they shall eat the fruit
of their doings. Woe unto the
wicked ! It shall be ill with him :
for the reward of his hands shall
be given him.” This law ob
tains not only' in time, but also in
eternity. “He that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life:
and he that believeth not the
Son shall not see life ; but the
wraih of God abideth on him.”
A dark gloom hangs over the
luture of the wicked, aud we turn
away' from it as the Saviour did
from the awful doom of the He
brew nation, in tears. We feel
as the prophet did when he ex
claimed in the fullness of his
soul,
Oh that my' head were waters,
and mine eyes a fountain of
lears, that I might weep day' and
night for the slain of the daugh
ter of my people !
The blessings that God has iu.
reservation for his children are
clearly revealed, and inspiring.
Christ said,
This is the will c
sent me, that every
seeth the Sou, and 1
him, may' have everlasting life :
and I will raise him up at the
last day. And Jesus answering
said unto them, The children of
this world marry, and are given
in marriage: But they which
^hall be accounted worthy to ob
1 tain that world, and the resur
rection from the dead, neither
marry', nor are given in mar
riage : Neither can they' die any
more, for they are equal to the
angels ; and are the children of
God, being t^e children of the
resurrection. Then shall the
righteous' shine forth as the sun
in the kingdom of their Father.
In view of these statements
made by Christ, Paul could say,
The first man is of the earth,
earthy : the second man is the
Lord from heaven. As is the
earthy, such are they' also that
ne pJPrch
ieveth on
are earthy : and as is tne neaven
ly, such are they also that are
heavenly And as we have borne
the image ot the earthy, we shall
also bear the image of the heav
enly. Now this 1 say, brethren,
that flesh and blood cannot inher
it the kingdom of God , neither
doth corruption inherit incorrdp
tion. Behold, I shew you a
mystery; We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed, In a
moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorrupti
ble, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, anil this mortal
must put on immortality. So
when this corruptible shall have
put on incorruplion, and this
mortal shall have put on immor
tality, than shall be brought to
pass the saying that is written,
Death is swallowed up in victo
ry
The scriptural emblems of
Heaven are beautiful, and give
us comforting andj elevating
ideas of it. It i^ set forth
through these ^yhihols as em
bracing everything that we cher
ish as most dear and longed for.
It is painted in colors that glow
upon the canvass. Gold paves
its streets, and its walls are of
jasper. Earth has no such city,
and the oceans no such pearls as
form its gates. No winter strips
its trees; no thunders shake its
serene and cloudless sky; no /
storms sweep its glassy sea.
Through the scriptural emblem
of a paradise we behold a coun
try clothed in more than Eden’s
beauty, resting in Eden’s peace,
and no serpent creeping in to
steal away its sweet happiness.
It is a city of God, without sin
or sorrow or graves ; whose walls
are salvation, and whose gates
are praise: A better country :
the meeting place of all who are
redeemed unto God from among
men, and who with holy angels
worship him in sinless happiness.
A. temple bright with the divine
glory, and filled with the divine
presence. The Father’s house
of many mansions prepared for
all the faithful followers of
Christ.
Such is the heaven, and such
is the glorious destiny the Bible
reveals to man. No where else
do vve finii such elevated and
ennobling views of human desti
ny. Here we learn the infinite
value and peerless grandeur of
the gospel of Christ.
In the other nine great relig
ions of the earth there are some
beautiful truths and wise sayings,
but they are so mixed up with
errors and groveling absurdities
that there is no elevating and re
forming power in them, and we
are lelt in uncertainty and doubt
on the most vital of all questions
—God, duty, and destiny. They
have lelt the nations in darkness
and in the most debasing corrup
tion.
i he history 01 the world con
firms the language of Christ in
his prayer to his Father, “This
is life eternal, that they might
know thee the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou
hast sent.”
In the newest science, and the
earliest yearnings of the human
race, the individual remains in
his simple majesty with rights
which no one can usurp, an ori
gin for which nature gives no
explanation, and a future tor
which nature can give no proph
ecy.
We need a gospel that can
give us an abiding assurance of
immortality and eternal happi
ness. This nature and the un
christian systems of religion can
not give us.
Where the}’ leave man is il
lustrated in a sad incident that
occurred the other day in the
Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Ga.,
when Stark Rahman, of Calcut
ta, India, died far away. from
home and friends. He was a
Mohammedan of unusual intelli
gence, and his last words were
pathetic. He said : “Science is
great, like God. I am nobody
—a stranger in a strange land.
What is man after death but a
shell? The being is gone; the
clay is left. I care not what be
comes of m° after the breath is
gone. My body may help
science. I want you to give it
to the colleges.” On a table by
his bed was a copy of Tennyson
in which the following lines were
underscored and at-the bottom of
the page, marked in his peculiar
hand, was the single word -Al
lah ?’
“Oh, lei me trust that something good
Will be the tiual goal of ill.
To pangs of nature, sins of will,
IVfeels of doubt, and taint of blood.”
How sad. Christianity comes
as an angel of light, bringing
peace to the troubled mind,com
fort to the hardened heart,
strength to the weak, and hope
to the dying. Its achievements
have been marvellous, and (or
nearlv nineteen centuries it has
satisfied the spiritual aspirations
of the most enlighted people on
earth. It assures us that atter
death man is not “a shell.” In
death he leaves the shell, and is
equal unto the angels in Heaven,
for this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality. So
when this corruptible shall have
put on incorruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immor
I tality, then shall be brought to
pass the saying that is written,
Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is thy sting? O
grave, where is thy victory ?