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life —•—~-— IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY s IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY RALEISH, V. 0.. THURSDAY, JURE 16,1896. VOLUME LI: HUMBER 26. ■ E V;: ■ *;vs* - 1 fcl- ■ -• i4* ■ the ChrUtUn Church (Sooth). CARDINAL PRINCIPLES. 1. The Lord Jecu ie the only Heed of the ohuroh. 1 The name Christian, to the exeluaion of ell party end eecterien namea. t. The Holy BlUe, or the Scriptures of the Old tod New Teatamento, rafflclent rule oldeMh tad practice. 4. Christian character, or vital piety, the only teet of fellowtfaip or membership. 6. The right of private Judgment, end the Hberty of eontolenee, the privilege end duty of Ml. Reflections. A number of employers in North Carolina whose employ ees have entered the army have expressed their intention of con-, tinuing their pay during their absence, and also of looking at* ter dependent members of their, family who are left at home. That is about as patriotic at go-' ing to war. Such men are an honor to any State or country. Another fact in connection with our national existence is both curious and interesting, and that is this: Although essentially un warlike and at all times owin'-' taining but a small army and ei ther no navy at all or one of very meager proportions, when com pelled to fight we not only have been always victorious, but also we have taught our older and more experienced neighbors many of the most important les sons connected with naval war fare. From the United States was learned the lesson of the value of priyateering—as an auxiliary to the movements of the regular naval force; we demonstrated the paramount importance of good gunnery even against superior weight of metal, and that "the man behind the gun” was, after all, the main factor in a naval engagement; then, too, we prov ed the superiority of our ship builders by producing the finest types of mips afloat. The first steam frigate on the navy list of any nation flew the stars and stripes; the Monitor rev olutiomzed all existing na val theories as to offense and defense, at once rendered ob solete the type of man-of-war then constituting the fight ing strength off foreign fleets. It woutfl be strange indeed if it should be the destiny of our na tion to solve for the world the as yet unsolved problems in naval warfare consequent upon the use of steel ships and of modern guns and armor, and to determine the practical utility and destructive power of the deadly torpedo un der all possible conditions, in fleet contests or in single ship combats.—“The Navy of the United States,” by Henry W. - Raymond, in The Chautauquan for June. in the May Ladies’ Home Journal, Edward W. Bok notes that “the college year now near iog its close has a significant im portance in the fact that during It the higher education of the young woman has shown a strong domestic trend. This has been true of nearly all the impor tant women's colleges through out the land. It is true that the field has only been entered. But the beginning has been made, and the domestic course has proven, in every instance heard from, the most popular innova tion of recent years. * * There is only one true solution of the servant-girl problem, and it must be shared, part and part each, by the servant and mistress. Be fore we can have intelligent ser vice in our homes we must have domestic training schools. Just as we have manual training schools. Here and there in our country these schools are springing up, and they will multiply fast when their necessity and results are better understood and seen. Well equipped training schools wiH an art and a profession. * * But while the servant is under going her domestic training.it is equally necessary that the mis* tress should become better ac quainted with the domestic arts so that she may intelligently di rect, where the other intelligent ly works. These two must goj together: the one without the other is not enough. If the girl of to-day expects, when she is a wife, that her servant shall do her work in a competent man-! ner, she. as the mistress, must be competent to direct. She must, herself understand the work she asks her maid to do.” In view o« the probability of our soldiers or sailors invading and bolding Cubs or tbe Philip * g^nce at what coudi vould exist under martial w, as shown by instructions to r~ first place it should be un* | derstood that the mere presence -' a hostile army proclaims mar * ***• whether or not any pub • 'u££t“I > entire legislative and s power to the com of the invading force, some other person shall appointed by him or his gov ernment, Every inhabitant of the country occupiedj'his person and effects, is subject to the ex ecution of the military admmisr trator’s laws. Consuls to the country or State under sub jection are included, since they are not recognized as diplomatic agents. The func tions of ambassadors, minis ters or other diplomatic rep resentatives accredited by neu ters to the dethroned gov ^.cesse. but the conquer ing power usually recognises thse agentsas temporarily ac credited to itself. What meas ures shall be adopted lor the gov ernment ol the country occupied are determined by the military commander, who uses such means as he deems necessary to conserve the interests of his own country regardless of their effect upon others. However.it is car dinal principle of martial law as administered hy the United States that non-combatantsshall not be disturbed in the pursuit of their every-day avocations unless absolutely necessary. Martial taw disclaims all cruelty and bad faith conceramgxonopacta effect ed during the war, and does not countenance extortions or oth er transactions for private gain or revenge. On the contrary, offenses of this kind are to be se verely punished, especially if committed by officers. Martial law affects chiefly the policing of the territory where it exists and the collection of the public reve nues and taxes, whether imposed by the expelled government or the invader. Under martial law, administered by the United States in Cuba or the Philip pines, officers and the necessary force of clerks! acting under the orders of the American contend er, would take possession of the custom houses and municipal tax departments and collect all - the money due under the old regime and whatever might be levied by the military commander. All civil and pe nal laws may continue un der martial law it the military commander so elects. But he may abolish the courts and have offenders tried by court martial. Such crimes as may not come under the jurisdiction conferred by statute or court martial will be dealt with by military com missions. While the safety and welfare of non-combatants is to be considered at all times, when the commander of a beseiged city expels the inhabitants of this class in order to economize the food for those who are fight log, the besiegers are justified by the law of war in driving them back in order to hasten the capitulation by famine. Every commissioned officer in the Unit* ed States army and navy is pro vided with a compendium ol circulars, orders, etc., in which all the rules ot tfnartail law are set forth clearly, and each officer is supposed to De thorougiy post ed thereon—Post, r-. Contributions. •**+**0^+0***t*imi0*0***0+0^*0*0^^h0a0+^***1*** . TIE UR KORS ABUHDAHT—IT8 HUB. BY V. D. DAVID (TAMIL EVANGKL BST), OF INDIA. (Concluded from Lwt Deoe.1 V. It is a ViCToraous Life. —“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to tri umph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savior of his knowl edge by us in every place.” 2 Cor. a: 14. ... What is victory? Victory means victory. Victoiy does not mean getting down in the dumps, as Americans say “get ting blue”. Paul testifies he was always triumphant; that is the outcome of this abundaot life. Always triumphant, not only two, three or four hours, but the whole day—always. I would like you to understand this al ways. Never bring an excase. Always victorious. There are many temptations; but that does not alter the feet: Many trials, many sorrows, plenty ot tribula tions, but in spite ot all that, a Christian who possesses this abundant life, can always say “He leadeth me triumphant”— trouble or no trouble, sorrow or no sorrow, money or no money, situation or no situation, good bed or poor bed, feather bed or wooden bed, bed or no bed, tea with milk or without milk, tea with sugar or no sugar, whether things go well or do not go well, whether be gets fed at the right time or does not get fed, lunch or no lundi. This is the life which Paul means he Always led in triumph. . It is all very weH to praise and thank when your pocket is full, but it is quite a different thing to praise him when you have got an empty podtet and meet with many disappointments ; when all seems dark and gloomy, no mon ey coming in, and everything is against you. At such a time you ought to be enabled to say, “The Lord leadeth me in triumph, hal lelujah !” That is called a vic torious life. How do you like that? Gan you praise the Lord for everything ? If you have not got this life, how soon you get worried ! A little thing upsets you, the least temptatioD knocks you clean over. If this ‘is the case, I am sure you have not got this life. When you possess this life more abundant, you will see this is true daily in your life. VI. It is a Rejoicing and Glorifying Life. — “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believiDg, ye rejoice With joy unspeakable and full of glory.” i Peter i: 8. “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own ? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God, in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” i Cor. 6: 19, 20. This life fills a Christian life with sunshine all the time in and out. Many are Christians, but are not rejoicing Christians. You may rejoice in certain things, but you do not rejoice in all things. Rejoicing means, “Joy unspeakable and lull of glory.” That is what. Paul meant. You may see these in your daily life. When a tempta tion comes, you are taken up by H, and you do not rejoice. You cannot say like James, “Count it all joy.” Many are very much troubled when temptation comes; they want always to be free from temptation. You can never be free from temptation in this life when such things happen. Join with James and count it all joy. You can’t do that unless you possess this life. When people speak ill ol you and say nasty things about you, you don’t say anything against it, but do you not suffer in your heart a great deal? la that called rejoicing? You say nothing agaifftt it; you bear it; hut you don’t glory in it. You take it very smoothly, but you have such a sad face. You sit in the corner. You don’t re taliate, but you are troubled in heart. You think of what he said of you; you- blame him in your heart, but you don’t rejoice in it. Bearing: is one thing, but rejoicing in tribulations is quite another thing.' * “And not only so, but we glo ry in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh pa tience.” Rom. s: 3. Again, when people do harm to you, and cause you great loss, or do all the evil that they can to you, you may bear it, but you are not rejoicing in it. * “Great is my boldness of speech toward* you,great js my glorify ing of you: I am filled with comfort,■‘l am exceeding joyful in all our tribulations.” 2 Cor. 7: 4. Do you understand what I mean? As a Christian, you bear all things, suffer, say noth ing, but you have great trouble in your heart. You do not want to be very small in the sight of others. You don’t want to be treated like that. You are care ful about your reputation. You are not at all in position to re joice over those annoying things. That shows you have not got this life more abondant. When a man or woman possess this life, come what may,—people may call them mad, fanatic, hate them, and sayl many things against them,—-(Hill they will bear it, and not only bear it, but they will rejoice * in it. That is 'called a rejoicing life—the out ; come of this abundant life. They not only bear, bnt rejoice and love them in return. No wrin kles on your face. You will say hallelujah inside alw.ays and hallelujah out side as well, when he lead eth you. Glory be to God, this is a rejoicing life. That is what Paul meant when he said, “Joyful is all tribulations.” VII. It is a Trusting-or Easy Life.—“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of- me 5 for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matt. 11: 29» 3®* Many Christians find that their Christian life is not easy at all. •They find it very trying. They do not understand the meaning of this verse in their lives at all. Their lives seem to be a life of fighting and watching, a life of great conflict, a life ot great un easiness. This is not the abun dant life. They think this should be the experience of a Christian all the days of his life, nbt know ing this is a wonderfully easy life. Yes, there is watching watching what? Is it watching the devil or temptation? No, no, but watching God as ^ dog watches his master’s face,—as a servant watches his master’s voice and face. “Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes ot a maiden nnto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he hath mercy upon us.” Ps. 123: 2. Is this Christian ute not fight ing? Yes, fighting. What is fighting? It is fighting “the good fight of faith.” t Tim. 6: 12. If Christ’s life is not an easy life, it is not worth having. It was very easy to sib and s£rve the devil, why should it be hard to serve God ? The old life was easy, why should the new life be hard ? Friend, do not think that all Christians’ lives must neces sarily be very hard, though it seems to be so in many cases. The reason is because many have not taken Christ’s yoke as yet, and they are burdened with the Pharisee’s yoke. “But we be lieve that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.” Acts 15:11. He says,my yoke is easy, my burden light. He is true, so his yoke must be easy and his burden must be light. Your yoke may be h£Fd, your burden may be heavy, then it is not Christ’s yoke. Many who do not know Christ’s yoke, teach other people that the Christian life is a very hard one. If your life is a hard one, you have the wrong yoke, or you have his yoke on the Wrong side. The wrong yoke means trying, making resolu tions, trying to serve with the en ergy of the flesh. This is not Christ’s yoke, and I am not sur prised that you find it very hard to serve Christ. His yoke is easy, that is, his will. He never says anything hard. Whatever he says unto you to do, he backs up with his power to you to do it. All the apostles found his yoke to be very easy after Pentecost, —not before Pentecost, not be fore receiving this wonderful life, but only after receiving it. Service of God was made easy for them; and nothing was as duty but all as privilege. Even when they were stoned and beat en they were happy for being counted worthy to suffer such things. This life stops all do, do, do; try, try, try ; and in their stead puts trust, trust, trust; and rest, rest, rest. Oh, what a glo rious, easy life. I do admire this life. For eleven years I was in the life making resolutions, and fighting the battle with my own strength, and was sadly disap pointed. Oh, what a marvelous change it brought in my soul when I found this life more abun dant. Why do you find this life to be hard ?—Because you work, and you have not yet found the Worker, Himself. When the Worker does His work, you will not find it hard. Who is the worker? Himsklf. “Now may the God of peace make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working, in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever.” Amen.” Heb. 13: 20, 21. “Whereunto I also labor, stri ving according, to his working, which worketh in me mightily.” Col. 1: 2.9. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Phil. 2:13. Carefully read these and you wilPsee who the Worker is. He is working. It is God working in you. As much as he works inside, so far will it work out side. He is the, worker who works in you. You are only to work out what is worked in you. Paul said: “Whereunlo I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i: 29. How can you work out, it there is nothing worked in? Hundreds try to pump out while there is nothing to pump up. Obtain the life more abundant, and then you will find this life a more natural life, an easy life, because the su pernatural power Himself who worketh in you. make3 all natu ral. I would not care to have this life if it was not a natural life. Before my conversion my life was natural whep I served the devil: why should it now be a hard life to serve God? A hard lite does not come trom Christ. Glory be to God 1 I wish all Christians would see the beauty ot this life. That is why many people backslide, because they have not found this life. Many are under the yoke of Moses, do, do, do, and many others are un der the yoke of the Pharisees, must, must, must; they have not found His power and the beauti ful and glorious word done, done, done. Hallelujah! Ifyouhave not this life, you -may be sure that you have not the life more abundant. If he moves your hand, you move; if he moves your feet, you move.. He speaks through you simply; you are passive , and he is active. Ev erything is done by him in you and through you. Are these marks yours? Is this your life? If not, please do possess this life. .Lose no time. At all cost, go in for this life be fore it is too late. Without this life the Christian life is not worth living. When you possess this life, you shall enjoy heaven below here, and God shall surely be glorified in you and through you. Amen. It is estimated that American tourists who travel through Eu rope each year spend about $100,000,000. Owing tc the pret ty general feeling of hostility on the part of foreign countries to ward America just now, this amount- of capital will most like ly remain at home this year. A good memory is one that can wisely forget.—Exchange. Send in your renewal for Sun. REPRESSIVE CRITICISM. FROM THE ARMORY. There are many persons whose activities iare plainly negative. They hinder, but they do not help; they keep men from go ing wrong, but they do not aid them in going right; they criti cise and repress, but they do not educate, encourage, or improve. Sometimes this principle of action is operative in the “schools of the prophets.” A young man starts out full of generous enthu siasm and youthful fervor, long ing to do something for God and for a lost world. Straightway the wise men begin to criticise and repress his action. With their critical pruning knife they remove this branch and that bough ; they lop off one shoot after another, until at length there is not a limb left to bear fruit. The tree is as straight as a bean pole and about as produc tive. After a few years of this kind of treatment the young Timothy is tamed and quieted down, and he becomes a pattern of proprie ty. He has got rid of errors, of his eloquence, of his individuali ty, of his energy, of his fervor, and of his power. He is cool as a cucumber, correct as the mul tiplication table, orderly as a mummy, and faultless to a fault. He is then sent forth with his compeers, with thoughts, ideas, words, tones, and gestures all formed and fashioned after the regular pattern. They have been through the mill, and are turned out as smooth as bobbins, all of a size, and so near alike that one could hardly distinguish them. But they have no life, no energy, none of that exuberant vitality which marks the “trees of the Lord” that “are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon, which hq hath planted.” Ps. 104: 16. Instead of such trees, with spreading boughs flinging their shadows far and wide, we have men hewed, squared, sawed, planed, fashioned, and varnish ed, with their little dry-as-dust essays and sermons, made by cutting and clipping and borrow ing and stealingmen who are faultless in diction, graceful in action, and immaculate in dress, under whose ministry peo ple neither laugh nor cry, neither repent ot sin or grow in grace and in knowledge of God. By successful man agement such men may keep on the side of strength and wealth, and may prove a social success, but they can never be counted upon as men mighty .through God, and never will be remembered as winners of souls and workers in the Master’s cause. It sometimes happens that in a class of students there is some one whose irrepressible buoyan cy of spirit disregards both criti cism and proprieties and thus retains a physical and moral vigor which, when concentrated and modified by the grace of God, is fruitful in all good and gracious works; but in a very large proportion of the cases it is a serious question whether this policy does not work disaster to many that are subject to its pro cesses. Not all the professed preachers can preach ; or if they do preach, can get people to hear them ; and while the fields are white and ready^for the harvest, souls afe perishing on every hand. Thwe are hundreds and thous ands of ministers who are not greatly deficient in knowledge, culture or education, who yet turn aside to other pursuits be cause they do not succeed in the ministry. And, often this is be cause they have in their hearts no burning flame of love to God and man, because they lack, not ooly the quickening of the divine power, but also those native en ergies which they once possess ed, but which have been smooth ed and smothered through criticism, and dwarfed and par alyzed by well-meant but ill timed repression, and by a self consciousness and caution which never allows them to throw their whole souls into the work and service of the Lord. Education is development, it is the bringing out of what is in a man ; and while due regard must be had for all the proprieties, we most remember that most of the aggressive, earnest work of this world is done by men whose fer vent love and earnest zeal sets at naught many of the rules and canons of an exquisite taste, and appeals to the common people who, though ignorant and dis qualified to judge concerning the nicety of words and the sub tleties of controversies, yet rec ognize worth and appreciate ear nestness and genuineness, and need to be brought to personal allegiance to Christ by the ear nest and loving invitation and persuasion of men who are zeal ous for God, and who are burn ing as well as shining lights. WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN 1 BY IAN MACLAREN, IN THE OUTLOOK. Christ did not come to cramp any one’s manhood ; he came to broaden it. He did not come to destroy our manhood ; he came to fulfill it. A thoroughgoing Christian is a man with a strong er reason, kinder heart, firmer will, and richer imagination than his fellows—one who has attain ed to his height in Christ. A bigot or a prig or a weakling is a half developed Christian, one not yet arrived at full age. What ought a Christian to read ? Every book which feeds the intellect. Where ought h^ to go? Every place where the moral atmosphere is pure and bracing. What ought h£ to do? Everything that will make char acter. Religion is not negative, a giving up of this or that, but positive, a getting and possess ing. If a man will be content with nothing but the best thought, best work, best friends, best environment, he need not trouble about avoiding the worst. The good drives out the bad. There are two ways of lighting a dark room : one is to attack the darkness with candles ; the other is to open the shutters and let in the light. When light comes, darkness goes. There are two ways of forming character: one is to conquer our sins, the other is to cultivate the opposite vir tues. The latter plan is the sur est—the virtue replaces the sin. Christianity is not a drill; it is life, full, free, radiant and rejoic ing. What a young man should do is not to vex himself about his imperfections, but to fix his mind on the bright image of Perfec tion ; not to weary his soul with rules, but to live with Christ as one liveth with a friend. There is one way to complete manhood, and that is fellowship with Jesus Christ. A WISE PRESCRIPTION. FROM THE CHRISTIAN. The New York Observer says : “Had we papal authority, we would prescribe' for all our theo logical seminaries and pulpits a four years’ course in the spiritu al resources of the Bible. We are getting wearied by the de structive work that is being done under the name of literary criti cism. It practically takes the life out of the Word of God. Four solid years of Bible study would assure a grand ending for the nineteenth century and tinge with gold the whole of the twen tieth.” What we study is vastly more important than where we study, and though great established in stitutions, with lacge endow ments and learned instructors, may afford great advantages, yet in them often men study the words of men rather than the words of God. No amount of human learning can supply the place of that divine wisdom which comes from the Word of God, “which liveth and abideth forever.” No matter what we studyvsH we neglect God s Word the man of God will never “be perfect, thoroughly furnished un to all good works.” He may know Greek, but he will not know God ; he may understand Hebrew, but will lack the Holy Ghost, and his life and ministry will be a failure ; while some un taught and ignorant yet honest and sincere student of the Bible will accomplish work for the Master and win souls to shine in the kingdom of God,
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