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Crtristi6uq Sun. EMMETT L. MOFFITT. Editor and Proprietor. Rev. M. L. mjRLEY.'.Travelina Agt. RM— ■■till-— —o—.oooorrww TBM9 or 8U»*e*IPTIO«, Ons Tear .«. Mx Month* , Three Month* *2.00 1.00 BO JVAabscrtption* lire payable strictly in o&roooe. Utnor ABVWWTISIllW. 1 wk * “ • ■ 4 “ a • “ • “ i* “ l In 75 »1 2s 1 is 200 ns 4 00 4 00 1000 a in *1 is 2 00 200 *oo 600 «.so • 00 1000 * In *2 00 toe 400 BOO ISO 1000 IB Of, 2000 Veol J<eol •4 00 6 SO • TS 800 1200 1000 20 00 86 00 led 8B0O 11 00 18 00 15 00 20 00 25 00 86 00 •5 00 *12 00 ts on 20 00 25 00 80 00 86 00 65 00 ieeoo Transient advertisements mast be paid far In advance Aceoont* rendered quar terly for all advertisements by the year. Local advertisement* to be Inserted a* Madina matter, rill be charged tor at the rate of 161 _) cents per line. Marriage and death notices of eighty words and under free. All over eighty words trill be charged for at the rata of om eant par word. Count your words and sene eash with manuscript. MW-Correspondent* are responsible for Me views expressed by them. Anouywoat articles will receive no attention. All moaey should be remitted by register ad letter, poet-offloa order, draft or oheck. Addrass all communications and 1 ©tiers b THK CH R18TIAM SUM, KIoj i_olleje,-'l. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1899 ‘ To be loyal and loving is th« earnest aicn of all Christ's dis ciples. _ Ton’ are proving yenr faith by your works, whetber you know it ar not. God deserves yowr first anr beat labors. Do yon give Hin any at all. ™Do not pnt off doing ^hristiar services until you become unabh to do anything else. Christ offers you life eternal: satan can give only death. Whicl gift will you accept? If your life last week was noi aatistactory to you, how do you think it suited God’s views. * ■■■ — He who thinks that he is a wholly independent being might be benefitted by reading the 121 Psalm. You may be a moral mat), bu you can never be a saved man until you take Christ as your Savior. God is always on the side o1 the righteous. You had bettei be careful as to where you takt your stand. Do not hunt for temptation.1 le$t in your seeking .you forg^e that you alone are unable to Overcome them. The more you do for Christ the mote will you want to do If you don’t believe it try and find out the truth. Deal with man honestly be* cause it is right and not because you are afraid he would find it out ahould you act otherwise. The word of God does us most good when we receive it with faith and love, treasure it up iD our hearts, and practice it in our fives. You may not be an Ordained minister, but you can teach the ■tbry of the cross and in many ways lead sinners into the light •f the gospel. If. you want to get farther from satan make rapid strides towards Christ. They cannot both he reached by travelling in •do direction. Jesus always manifested an accommodating spirit, and it is our duty to follow His example. Our neighbors would like us bet ter if we were more Christ like. We should humbly and pa tiently bear the evil consequen ces ol wrong doing, for we have the light before us and it is our fault if we do not use it to our advantage. “The Lord of Hosts is the King of glory.” Are you a sub ject of this king? If not you will sooner or later feel the tyranical hand pressing hard upon you. He is the only King that is perfect and all powerful in His dealings with men. It you are Mt serving Him now, comet at once and become a citizen in fitia kingdom HAY* 10L BEACH tl) THE LIMIT 11 In two or three editorials re cently we have endeavored to get our people to thinking over what they and the members ot the Christian church at large have been doing tor the church and for the cause of Christ dur ing the past, with the hope that we all might, after an honest re flection, see that we can and ought to do a great deal more than we have already done. We have called attention to an unde niable historical fact that it is almost always at the close of old centuries and the beginning of the new that the epochal periods in church and in state have come, with the hope that we pf the Christian church might real ise the comparatively little that we have done during the past century, and that we might gird ourselves now for such a master eflort in behalf of the church and the c ausi of Christ which we represent as shall make the next two or three years epochal for us in the highest and richest sense. Two weeks ago we sug gested a plan for the inaugura tion and raising, during the next three years, of a “Twentieth Century Fund” of $18,000, in addition to our regular contribu tions, for Elon College and Home Missions. As we stated, this would be only $6,600 a year, or lorty cents a member. We again ask, can we not do it? J»s there a single church that cannot do it? Other denominations are calling for this much, some of >f them for a good deal more, and they seem to be encouraged in the effort. It is true we are aot as large as some other de nominations, but this fact does aot excuse us from doing our proportionate part. Other churches have already settled upon their plans, and are at work. Can we afford to be behind? We read a large number of church papers, and almost even week we see something about this preparation for a tweotieih century revival. That our read ers may see something of what in being said and done, we give in full an editorial from last w ee k’s Christian Advocate (Greensboro) under the .caption. “Our Twentieth Century Fund.” The editor says: “The churches are coming to believe that it we are to receive great things from God we musi undertake great things for him. Prompted by this belief, and also by a deep sense ol our gratitude to our God who has so high ly favored ns as a chuTch, and a realization of our continu ed dependence upon him tor future success, the larger bodies of Methodists have resolved to make the beginning of the new century memorable through all time for large benefactions to His cause in the earth. “The Wesleyan Methodist Conference of England, with a membership of 500,000, has de termined to raise $5,950,000 or about ten dollars per member. The President of their Confer ence, Rev. Hugh Price Huglies, is wisely leading the movement, and it is Said that one-fifth of the amount is already secured id pledges. The Canadian Metho dists, with a membership of 280, 000, propose to raise $1,000,000 or abont four dollars-a member. Our brethren of the Methodist Episcopal church, with 3,000,000 members, have resolved to raise $20,000,000, or about seven dol lars a member. They have organized for the work and un der the leadership of a large and influential committee are now arranging plans for the cam paign. Bishop Fowler, voicing the sentiment of -many of these leaders, is pleading that hand in hand with this effort go one to win two million souls to Christ. He pithily says: -JL WU UJWUUU LUUVCI 19 <tUU twenty million dollars! This is the call. Like an electric engine, it can run either end forward.. With the converts the money will come. With the money the converts will come.'j ‘Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat hi mine house, and prove me now here with, saith the Lord of Hosts, it I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be [ room enough to receive it.’ (Mai. 3:I°) “Southern Methodism is asked to contribute a million and a half dollars, or about one dollar per member for educational purpos es. This is a proportionately small and yet a great undertak ing. But all must remember that we are a great and prosper ous people. Our schools and colleges need the money. Our people have it and can spare it, without any great sacrifice or in couveuieuce, and in duing it we will accomplish a long needed work and we think receive a fresh baptism of power. Let North Carolina-Methodism gird herself and lead the hosts. We need nothing so much as a great sweeping revival of religion. We have now a million and a halt of members, with possibly four million of souls under our influence. Our people have vjsi wealth and other resources. Our churches are num. rous, and many are elegant buildings; and we nave a large numDer ol schools and colleges. We have an ancestry of which we ought to be proud, and a history of which we need not be ashamed.’ We have no tight, as a church, to be worldly or narrow, or little or stingy. 4 We ought to be tht wise men from the East, and bring royal gifts and lay them at the feet of our dear Lord, and expect in return a great outpoui ing of the Spirit and ingathering of souls.” Brethren, are we going to do anything along this line? It so, what? and when are we going 10 begin? We have talked wan a number of leading men per sonally who say, “they favor un dertaking something of the kind.” “that we ought to do it,” •‘that we must become more ac timely engaged in our work for the church and for Christ,” etc., etc. But, brethren, when? If we are going to make arfy special effort, n*hy not begin now? What do we hope to gain by de lay? At least, if you tavor it, why not say so, and make your suggestions through Thb Sun? Certainly no harm can grow out rtf'It •*'"* •: Again let us examine ourselves, and see if we have reached the limit in the amount of work that we feel we,ought to do and in the amount of money that we feel that we ought to give for the advancement of Christ’s king dom here in the world. “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is ’day :' the night cometh,when no man can work.” “What doth it profit, my breth ren, though a man say he hath faith.and have not works?” “He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.” Interesting Notes. —Miss M 'lie Clendenin, of Graham, visited at Prof. New man's last Sunday. We are glad to learn that Rev L. Lt Lassiter has started off well with his Valiev wprk. —Prot. E. L. Moffitt went down to Raleigh last Tuesday to visit friends and take a look at.the Legislature. —Rev. J. W. Harrell preached to a large congregation at Beth any Christian church last Sun day.—Suffolk Herald. —We regret to learn that Mrs. Connelly is to leave Elon and return to her old home at Con nelly Springs, N. C. —Mr. Elijah Moffitt, of Ashe boro, N. C., spent Saturday night and Sunday with his broth ers and sisters here. —Rev. W. S. Long, D. D. preached a sermon in the Col lege Chapel last Sunday morn ing that was very much enjoyed by all who heard him. —Revs. P. T. Klapp, W. G. Clements, T. H. Elder and H. W. Elder have our thanks for some new subscribers and re newals from their fields last week. —Our new Sunday school song book, Crowning Day No. 3, is selling rapidly. It is one of the best Sunday school books published. It you wish them you had better order early; —The sermon on the first page of Thb Su?t this week should be credited to the “Pres byterian Standard,” and not "Responsive Standard,” as the printer and proof reader made us say. —Rev. I. W. Johnsoo deliver ed a good sermon to a large con gregation at the Christian church last Sunday morning. The ser vices at night were also well at tended.—Holland Cor. Suffolk Herald. —The annuals are out, and we presume that- most of the churches have received them by this time. We were necessarily delayed a little in getting them out on account ot some disap pointments connected with the work, and because of the size of the book. It contains 150 pages, the largest ever issued. —Rev. L. 1. Cox returned home from his appointment at SrhitijM'OQd right sick last week. We trust that he may soon be entirely^ restored to health and strength. He has suffered a great deal. —Our eight or nine ibches of snow last Saturday and Sundav shut us off from outside travel, but locally everything was alive and moving. Rev. P. T. Klapp "deserves the thanks of the citi zens for clearing the walks wit! his snow plow. It was a very thoughtful act on hii part. —Rev. H. H. Butler preached an excellent sermon at this place yesterday to a large congrega tion. Miss Liz«ie Tucker, of Suffolk, sang a beautiful solo, which was highly complimented4 She has won a host of fnends in this neighborhood.—Cypress Cor. Suffolk Herald. —Felons may be cured by an application of rock salt and tur pentioe. Dry common rock salt in the oven, then pound it fine, and mix with it an equal amoum of tnrpentioe. Put it in a linen rag and wrap around the felon As it dries, put on more, and if followed up, the felon will be killed in twenty-four hours.—Ex. —Mr. J. N. H. Clendenin has resigned his position as a sales man with the Oneida Store Co., to take effect February ist, and has accepted a position with -the Alamance Division of the Peo pie’s Mutual Benevolent Asso ciation. He will call on the peo ple an4 solicit insurance for the above named Association-—Ala mance Gleaner. - —Rev. J. W. Holt was at Elon a short while last Monday, and handed usanother new subscriber and some renewals to The Sun. which we very much appreciate He was in his way to Hine’s Chapel where he goes to unite in marriage Miss Jessie-— -and Mr. --. He will remain over to fill his reg ular appointment at Hines’ m \ Sunday. -‘-Rev. W. S. Long and the editor of The Sun went to Ral eigh this week to appear before a committee of Legislators urg ing that no reduction be made in the corporate limits of Elon Col the Whiskey men will succeed in getting our corporation cut down, but they have put us to a good deal of unnecessary trouble ; and we suggest that our people mark them well, that you may know them hereafter. —Rev. M. L. Hurley came home last Saturday from a tour of the Eastern North Carolina Conference in the interest of The Christian Sun, and left yesterday for Eastern Virginia on a similar mission. He ex pects to make a thorough can vass of the Eastern Virginia con ference before leaving it, and we trust that the brethren mSy meet him promptly and cordially, and assist him in getting The Sun into every home represented in that conference. Correspondence. lege, fears that Hob Cellege Kotos. Prof. Atkinson was in Raleigh last Monday night in the interest of education. On Tuesday he , visited the House of Representa tives and pronounced it the finest looking body he ever saw as sembled to make laws for the state of North Carolina.' The Representative from Alamance. W. N. Carroll, is highly spoken of by other legislators. They say he is there to do what is right. Prof, and Mrs. Lawrence spent one night last week in Raleigh. While there they took advantage of the opportunity of hearing SousA’s band. Rev. M. L. Hurley came; home Saturday and will leave Wednes day fof eastern Virginia. Mr. Hur'ey is traveling agent for the Christian Sun. Any act of kindness shown him will be ap preciated by. his many friends here and elsewhere. Mr. Albert Pritchard,ol Chapel Hill, after spending several days here with relatives and friends, has returned home. Miss Mollie Clendenin, of Graham, spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. J. U, New man. Mr. W. A. Harper, ’99, made the best lecture Sunday on the Sunday School Chart that has been given by a student during the present session. In speak ing of the gift of eternal life Mr. Harper said, “when we have ob tained it, we should wear a joy iul countenance and let ethers know we are in possession ol this gift.” Dr. Long’s sermon Sunday morning was plain and simple, but one of the most logical and practical discourses macTe to the student body this session. '~iT~ Miss Maud Gay and her broth er Floyd, are again In school. We gladly welcome them back. Students returning from east ernVa,after the holidays,brought with them enoueh GHppe to dis tribute among the entire student »ody. Dr. York is about the busiest man in town. Lights nav be seen in the drug store at night long after the usual hour. The petition to cut down the corporate limits of Elon College I has been sent to Raleigh and will be presented tothe legislatn' this week. The whiskey «‘l went, after canvassing- a C'*"d portion of the country have re vived some two hundred signa tures. We have been i.itornied hat a large per cent of these names do not represent the bet •*»r element in Alamance county. The counter petition is very sat isfactory and we are -willing to leave the matter in the hands ol the present General Assembly. C. E. Newman. Fro* Ret. W. G. Cleaents. MATTHEW T. TATES, D. D. I have just read the story of Yates, the Missionary as pre pared by Charles £. Taylor, President of Wake Forest Col lege. I always read the biog raphical sketches of great men with much interest; but none have thrilled me with more joy nor given me greater inspiration ot right purposes than the one which I have just read. I don’t see how any man or woman could read it without being made better. Every young man and every young lady in North Caro lina ought to read it. - Notwith standing the proof-reader did not do his work too well, and the press work is not first class, v, no library is complete with <iit it. < .. . I feel like reading it has made me a better man, and will make me a better preacher. It seems to me that he lacked nothing that was good in quality, and possessed nothing that was wrong. If North Carolina ever produced a greater man, I would like for some one to give me his name. But his wife was as great a woman as he was a man. Let every body read theiipok I am no agent for it, whatever, but believe the world will be made better by the study of its pages. , Selma, N. C. By mutual agreement Bro. J. L. Foster and I are keeping up a monthly appointment at Selma. I have preached there three times since conference. Bro. Foster will go next time. The appointment is the fourth Sun day night in each month. I am well pleased with the work thus far. The people are kind and give good attention to the word. There are in the town some six or seven members of the Christ ian church. They are much in terested in the work. The Methodist kindly let us use their house of worship, Martha’s Chapel gives $3.00, and Mt. Hermon $1.00 to help rebuild the house of worship at Hayes Chapel whichwas blown down last May. Wit! not other churches take collections and send us a free will offering? We want to commence rebuilding in a few days—but. Ah 1 We need money, who will help us? Will not these churches which have not already done so, take a col lection soon and give us the pro ceeds to aid thjs cyclone stricken church ? Barkley Latter.' But little of special interest has taken place in my field since my last letter. In consequence of inclement weather, sickness and other unfavorable conditions congregations have been a little smaller for the past few weeks than usual. Last Sunday even ing however it was very good. Bi other Tickle^nd some of the good people from ^Providence came in Sunday evening to ser vice. We would love to have them come often. Last Satur day Mr. C. W. Bryant, who had been suffering for some weeks of typhoid-pneumonia passed over the river and we trust now “rests under the shades of the tree.” He was a great sufferer and received good medical and other attention. His funeral ser vices were conducted from our church here Sunday afternoon by the pastor. He leaves a wife, mother and two children. May the Lord sf all maroie* greatly bless them in their lonely sor rows. Then on the 25th inst., Mr*. Anna Paul died On Virginia St. after eight months of great suff ering. She leavea a husband, five children, brother and sister. Her funeral services were con ducted from the residence yes terday by the writer. Enter tainment was made in the Nor folk Cemetery. The Lord bless and comfort them and finally lead them all to himself in the glory land. 1 have just been thinking of the great need of a Missionary lor Eastern Va. There are now 'everal points at wnich promis ing Missions could be establish d if we only had the men to^ -end and the money to support them. Newport-Newa, Ports mouth, South-Norfolk are all in viting fields now for the Christ ians. Shall we occupy or shall we not? If we could only send to these points a strong man fully imbued with the principles of the Christian church and thoroughly identified with her interests and institutions we could soon have a good church at each of the points I have men tioned. To occupy these points now I fully believe would mean to greatly add to our cause, but to neglect them will mean a loss of some valuable material we al ready have. The field has been given in and we have accepted our commission, now shall we hold and cultivate the field or shall we surrender it to others? We had almost as well surrender our commission as to surrender our field and refuse the oppor tunity offered. Churches at these points mentioned would be of incalculable influence to our cause in the Southern Conven tion. It is conceded I believe, thatNorfolk, and adjacent towns, is to be the Metropolis of the South. It is already a great commercial centre and the most influential centre in many re spects in the South. If the Con ference of the Convention could furnish a missionary or two to look atter these points either alone or in connection with the local pastors it would be a splen did step and one of the best in vestments that we could possibly make along the line of mission ary work. A population from many parts of the earth constant ly pours in here and the stream is constantly swelling. We need money and men that are true to the church ; men who had rather serve the Lord in the Ministry of the Christian church on a small salary than in any other church on a large salary. 1 do not mean to even hint that our preachers should not be support ed liberally and even better than they are—I believe yon see the point I make without an effort to explain.; A preacher who would let a matter of salary turn him away from his denomination is one of too shalloyr convictions to be of force among men. Please don’t call me a bigot, but I tell you I am very denominational. M. W. Btm.BR. From Alabama. Dear Bro. Moffitt I will write some news from this con ference, as I chance to gather it. Church work tor the winter months has been dull. The weather has been disagreeable to a great extent. I think all of our churches have secured pastors and we are in for a year’s work. Some of our ministers are overworked, while others are idle the most of the time. I learn that the church at Ira Nett has the material on the ground for their church house. It cost them somewhere near 384 dollars. They will have a handsome church when finished. This little band of workers has had a hard strhggle, but they are faithful, and faithfulness will be rewarded. Bro. T. H. Elder is their faithful shepherd for this year, and we wish for him a most successful year's work. I learn that Rev. B. F. Young, who was licensed at our last con ference, has made a flattering start in his high calling. May the good Lord guide this dear young brother into fields of great usefulness. Many young men enter into the ministry with the idea of be ing satisfied with doing but very little in this high calling, Young men, raise your ideal high and by the grace of God climb to it. Lay aside your embarassment and, with courage and grit soar high in your profession. Bro. W. F. Price has been spending some time in our midst. Fie has attended some of our :hurch services to the delight of nany, Bro. Price is a good, whole-souled man—-a true Chris ian gentleman. I am building a church at Oak Grove, where I organized in last August. We are building a nice frame house. The house will be aa feet bv 5°. 12 feet betwee“ joints. We have the outside work done all but painting. We began the work the a6thday of December. The community haa been very faithful in helping ua in the work. Ur. J. W. Moring. of Milledge, Ga.. kindly aept ua $to.oo to aid in our work. With that exception the church and community has done the remain der. We have only fifteen mem bers, but they mean business and 6y God’s help they will succeed. God willing, I will go to Mtl lidgeville the 5th Sunday in this month to fill an appointment. My work is in very good con dition. I am giving my life to the church, for Christ’s sake. Our church here is lamentably weak. Though many severe conflicts has our beloved brother hood been called to face. Many a hard battle has been fought and seemingly lost. Yet I turn and look forward, and hope be fore 1 go down with gray hairs to the grave, I shall see many a glorious victory won for Christ by the earnest, faithful and en domoible host that compose the Christian church. I hope we may yet be permitted to shout victoiy tor our beloved cause. Fraternally, H. W.Eu>*r. Phoenix City, Ala. The Ceatroyersy Closes. Dr. Barrett in hia closing ar tide peems to attempt to leave the itppression that the contro versy has been over a church having three rolls. Thus he draws public attention from the main part of the discussion to a minor issue. He further states that the writer has failed to sub stantiate himself in a single vital point of the controversy, and seeks to cover his failure with a “flood of personal abuse.” These are the conditions under which Dr. Barrett closes his part of the controversy. Every statement made through out the entire controversy that Dr. Barrett has seen fit to deny, has been substantiated, and the writer has at hand information to sustain him in others which he has made. As to the “personal abuse” in the article of January the and, a part of it was borrowed from Dr. Bartett’s article of December the 8th. The sarcasm was sug gested by that and other articles from the pen of Dr. Barrett. The writer did refer to him as an extremist, but he had heard Dr. Barrett spoken of as such for many years, and was not aware that truth was "personal abuse.” - The writer never sought a controversy with Dr. Barrett. ‘•Goliath”, with full armor, de fied “Dayid”, who had at his command a sling and a few pebbles. In the course of the struggle “David” secured the use of a few of “Goliath’s" weapons. In accordance with the rules of debate no duty devolved upon the writer, in regard to that part of the controversy referring to the church rolls, other than to prove that such a report was cur rent. Dr? Barrett and others have proven that such a state ment was before the public, for the writer has never given to the readers of the Sun, the confer ence nor the* local church. He never felt it his duty to do such, as the statement was not made on his own authority.. Dr. Bar rett writes that the statement is applicable to his conference. Others have given the church. There are other churches in which the doctrine of sanctifica tion has taken precedence of everything else that the state ment is as applicapable to as the one applying it to themselves. Since there are those who with to hold the , Writer responsible, not simply for the appearance ot the statement in the Sun, but for such a report-bring circulated at all, he has deemed it proper to fortify himsell.against the carnal weapons that have been hurled thick and fast, even though thev | were in the hands of those who had long since desisted from their use. Some ot the informs* tion that the writer has at hand will be given to the public in the next issue o! the Sun. It would be given here,were not this simp, ly a reply to Dr. Barrett’s final article. As the writer‘ would not prove ' the facts,” Dr. Barrett proceeded to clear up (?) matters. In the Sun of Dec. the 8th, it is false, because the writer did not tell him what church he referred to. Again, in the Sun of Dec. the *«nd he declares ff false if the
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