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1*Y ATKINSON & LAWRENCE. IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY. $2.00 PER YEAR. ESTABLISHED 1844. ELON COLLEGE, N. 0.. THURSDAY, JUNE 14,1900. VOLUME LIU: NUMB* 24 Tl^ C^ri$tiar{ SUr\ PUBLISH Kl> WKEKLY. The Official Organ of the Southern Chris tian Convention. . CARDINAL PRINCIPLES. t. The Lord Jesus Is the only Head of the chnrch. , * * * . a 2. The name Christian, to the exclusion of all party and sectarian names. :i. The Holy Bible, or the Scriptures of I he Old andjfew Testaments, sufficient rule of faith and practice. 4. Christian character, or vital piety, the only tes‘ of fellowship or membership. ft. The right of private judgment, and the liberty of conscience, the privilege and duty of all. Before we Salaries of can have good Public School schools in the Teachers. South we have a (ew very important lessons to learn, not the least of which is that a good teacher must be paid a fair sal ary for his work. Very few states in the South seem to know what it is worth to teach a pub lic school. Fact is, many teach in the public schools as a sort of side issue, or to fill in time till something better can be secured. These are in competition with those who would like to teac 1 as a business occupation or a life time vocation. As long as the cheapest and not the best teachers are sought, we may ex pect poor results in our public schools.The annual salary otmale teachers in the public schools in North Carolina is $82. That of female teachers per year is $76. This is, we believe,far be low that paid by any other State in the Union. The next lowest is South Carolina, which pays an average annual salary of $105 to males, $91 to females. Virgiuia pays to her public school teachers per year males, $195, females, $163. The fact is best seen by comparison. The annual salary paid to male teach ers in the public s< hools of Massachusetts is 15A times what it is in North Carolina. Massa chusetts pays $1279 to males and $478 to females. It seems that we have bid low in the South for our workmen in these fields. Is it any wonder that we have low work and poor returns? There is excitement The and trouble in China. Boxers Much blood shed seems inevitable.The “Boxers,” a society whose mem bers how reach about twelve millions, all of whom are anti Christian and aflti-toreign, have combined to drive all foreigners out of China. Nearly a hun dred Christians were massacred some time since at raotingiu, a city near Peking, and more re cently sixty native Christians, only torty miles lrom the capital, have been murdered. It is re ported that the withdrawal of all missionaries from the interior ot China has become imperative and that foreigners in many portions of China are in great danger. The worst phase ol the situation is that either the Chinese government is unable or unwilling to put down the moverpent of the “Boxers.” The situation is alarming and it is feared that there will be many lives lost belore peace and quiet are restored. The nations are rapidly landing troops in China to protect their merchants and their missionaries. The Chinese, in large measure, are an igno rant, non-progressive, bigoted set. They despise change, hate progress and detest foreigne?s of all ranks and nations. This .uprising of the “Boxers” is but the expression of this widely prevalent character and disposi tion. There seems to be no doubt that the Empress Dowa ger, the real power both on and behind the throne, is in secret sympathy, if not in avowed co operation with these “Boxers. China has some, for her, v ry difficult lessonr to learn, and we are of the opinion that the sooner she learns them the better. Whether she will learn them from Krupp guns, modern pro gress or the Christian religion remains to be seen. Never did sol Tuk Bi.uk diers fight mote ani> bravely and offer Thk Gray, their lives more willingly and free ly for what each believed to be a just and righteous cause, than did the soldiers from the North and the South in the terrible conflict of ’6i-’65. The winners and the losers in that conflict be queathed to their sons and de scendants an honor and a name of which all sections of our great country are, and may justly be, proud. But the war of ’6i-’65 is over. Those who fought in that war are proud of the record of friend and foe, self and antag omst. While the present gener ation keeps fresh and cherishes with pride the memory of those who wore the blue and those who wore the gray, it is evident on every hand that every vestige of ill will, sectional hatred and animosity is beiDg rapidly swept away. Time is healing the wound. Not theoretically, but in reality, all seditions are joined together in making ours the bravest, the grandest, the best country on earth. For the first time since the Civil War a meas ure recently passed the House to pay Confederate soldiers lor losses growing out of the war. It was a bill to pay Confederate soldiers who surrendered at Ap pomattox for the loss of horses and other personal effects, taken from them in violation of the terms of Lee’s capitulation to Grant,by which officers and men of Lee’s army were allowed to retain their baggage, side arms and horses. The bill originally carried $200,000, but the specific sum was stricken out and made indefinite, as more than the amount first named might be needed. Some days since a monument erected to the mem ory and heroism of the wearers of the blue and the gray'was unveiled on the Antietam battle field. There together old soldiers from both sides met and united in one ceremony to perpetuate in marble the memory of a hero ism and patriotism common to both. £!?-> One cannot help Tint Boers sympathizing and Liberty, with the Boers. They are a brave, patriotic and religious people. This century has not witnessed so brave a struggle against such overwhelming odds. It is a struggle o"l tens against hundreds, of hundreds against thousands. Yet, with their coun try invaded, their capital tak en, their strongholds in posses sion of the men they fight, with a courage and a grim despair DUru Olliy Ul nupcicaaucsa auu desperation. They are fighting for their liberty—the liberty which they prefer to life itself— the liberty which cannot be pur chased even with their lives. They die, but do not give up. “Yes,” says President Kruger, “it is true "that the British have acquired Pretoria. This, how ever, does not end the war. The burghers will never surrender so long as^five hundred armed men remain in the country. Our country is invaded, but it is not conquered. It is only now that the real struggle has begun. I fear that thefe will be much blood shed, but the fault is that ot the 4British Government.” Meanwhile the British Govern ment considers the war practic ally kended. The independence of the Boer Republics has gone —the last shreds of ff. The Orange Free State has been an nexed to the British Crown and its name changed to the Orange River Colony. Lord Salisbury, speaking for the Government recently, declared that “our only certainty of preventing a recur rence of this fearful war is to insure that never again shall such vast accumulations of arm aments occur, and that not a shred of the former indepen dence of the Republics shall re main." The English are not likely to impose oppressive and fOnre’nrfed n- 4th Contributions THE EASTERN N. C. CONFERENCE ANI> THE TWENTIETH CEN TURY FUND. HY REV. JAS. L. FOSTER, PRES. To the Brotherhood: «As your ofljcer I wish to say a tew words to all. What I may suggest I hope will be taken in the best spirit, and serve to stim ulate us to a more active and lull discharge of our duty to the conference and to the Twentieth Century Fund. Tne General Convention has apportioned to our conference $3>437- Some will say at once, "It can’t be raised.” But, breth ren, it can be raised! and if every Christian will do his part it will be raised. It is a necessity! $20,000 is a big necessity ! But $20,000 di vided into 1600 parts changes the tone of the statement greatly : it is $1.20 per Christian ; and every Christian can surely afford to give $1.20 as a thank offering for the blessings of the past 100 years. Many will give tens, others hundreds, and possibly a few will give a thousand dol lars each. So, just as soon as Rev. W. C. Wicker, the Chair man, gets his receipt books in the hands of che pastors,let every Christian and every friend of the Christian church take a receipt for not less than $1.20, and for as much more as God’s bless ings upon you merit. This is possibly the greatest opportunity we have had to give. You commit your offering to the Lotd, under the stewardship of the Trustees of Elon College, and He uses it for you. I be lieve that God can use $10, or $50, or a $100 so that while we sleep, or whil^^ve labor, our work continues. Let us come with liberal offer ings—heart-felt. Our church has been so favored the past 100 years. The Christian world now seeks close fellowship upon our beloved principles. Let the Convention lay $20, 000 at the Lord’s feet as an ex pression of gratitude for his lov ing kindness and tender mercies. I plead with the pastors in the Eastern N. C. Conference, I plead with the individual mem bers. Let us preach and work, from the pulpit and in the pew, till the $3,437, yea, more if pos sible, shall be placed in the Col leg* Treasury. Those who can give a $1000 will help many widows and or phans to fill the per capita amount, and those who give $100 or $10 will help the poor to average up, and what a blessing this will be. If we will all join heartily in this work it seems to me that God will bless us so richly that we cannot contain His liberality, but will overflow to the blessing of humanity, to the widening of our fields and strengthening of our faith and nourishing of our souls. May this opportunity so glad den our hearts that it will enlarge our gifts. Let us do with our might what our hands find to do. As your president, I will say that I heartily approve this twentieth century movement and hope that all will respond heartily. RICH FRUITS OF GOSPEL SEED SOWING. BY MISS VERA PRITGHETTE. Almost nineteen centures have passed since Christianity was es tablished in the, . world. Its Founder was rejected and put to death by His own people. It commenced among the humblest and poorest. It was the subject of contempt and scorn by the learned, the rich and the strong. Though. Christianity has had to confront the most malignant hate and has been persecuted with the most implacable fury, it has lived, spread, and today bids fair to subdue all nations. The conversion of Constan tine, a Roman emperor, to^Chris tianity, was one of the most im portant events in the history of ihe early church. Even through the dark ages the gleam of Christiro:ty wa« not extinguished. Many and great have been the changes since Martin Luther felt tKe in spiration of God in his soul, as he made his toilsome journey up the Sancta Scala at Rome, when the words of truth flashed through his soul, “The just shall live by faith” He was one man against the world; one man against the ablest ecclesias tical government that ever exist ed. But the good seed sown by his hand have borne abundant fruit, and the world rejoices in his life and work. So, too, the world has been revolutionized since John Wes ley invigorated Christendom by his word and experience and example. More and more is his influence felt as the years roil on. Also, through the noble efforts of such men as Edwards, Cham bers, Paley and Hall in the eighteenth century, the seeds of Christianity have become so deeply rooted it must at length be the universally accepted and prevalent religion of all man kind. The territorial extenson of Christianity today shows the fruits of such laborers. The missionary spirit has grown so much that no longer do the peo ple of God pray that the doors to heathen lands may be opened. Those doors have been taken from the hinges and an unob structed entrance is now found to every land. There are no “hermit nations.” The mighty power of God has swept away all obstructions and hindrances, and all are neighbors—India, China, Japan, Corea, Turkey, and a thousand islands of the sea, Spain, Italy, and Africa from Cape Bon to Cape of Good Hope, and Mexico, and all of South America witness the triumph of the gospel of Christ. In all of these the truth is freely explained and Christianity in all its purity is being established. The three great divisions ol Christianity now existing are the Protestant, the Roman Cath olic and the Greek. Statistics show us that in 1885 the number of nominal Christians was 460,000,000. What wonder ful harvests for the seed sowers 1 It is gratifying to know that the Protestant part of Christen dom embraces the ruling nations of the world. England, the Ger man Empire, and the United States, are Protestant nations, and it is true beyond all ques tion that they are the most pow erful nations now existing. Christianity is ever the pro moter of the higher torms of learning. The venerable col leges of Cambridge and Oxford and others of greater or less antiquity in Europe were found ed by Christian men, and nine ty-nine out of every hundred in stitutions that have been estab lished and organized within the last hundred and fifty years, within the limits of Christen aom, owe meir exisieuer to the faith, zeal and generosity of Christian men and women. At the same time Christianity builds hospitals for the sick, the aged, the infirm, for imbeciles, idiots and lunatics; it builds alms houses, houses of refuge, of reformation, and of correction, and takes special care of worn, wasted, weary souls and bodies. The wonderful discoveries of the scientific world, the grand inventions of modern times, are the product of Christian natious It is the Christian intellect that has brouget into subjection the power of steam and electricity. Christianity has much to do with the home life and personal welfare of the individual. There are mdre happy homes in Chris tian lands than in all non-Chris tian countries the world over. It is equally apparent that the condition of children in Chris tian homes is far preferable to that of heathen abodes. 1 One fact cannot be too often repeated—that the condition of i woman in Christian lands is tar more honorable than that she has ever occupied in the past, or that she now occupies in hea then lands. Woman owes every thing to the Bible and the gos pel. T*'"i<! Chrie'jnn'ly w’11 I I I 1 I on in the order of Divine Provi dence, blessiog and elevating mankind. It will lead in ever} reform and take a vital interest in every forward movement. The Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. T. U., and numerous other societies have yielded rich har vests tor good. Now let us one and all lend our influence towards sowing the gospel seeds. “Sow thy seed in the morning and in the evening withhold not thy hand.” It costs nothing to speak a few k i ii d i y wo. to drop a little speech of sympathy and encouragement here and there—words which the birds of the air may carry away, per haps, but will leave us none the poorer, deeds which will take root ancT spring forth into good ly fruit. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR THOUGHTS, “Ts must be boru again.” John 3:7. BY REV. R. H. HOLLAND. This change so mysterious to Nicodemus is the inevitable— to neglect it you lose heaven This joyful experience must come to you, or you cannot see the kingi om of God. “Ye must be born again.” .To be born again is to be ushered into a new life, to be created a new in Christ Jesus. To be absolved from the old life of sin, and to be introduced into a spiritual realm, having a new nature, a new heart and a new spirit. This divine and glorious change is self-evident, it is perceptible : we will know it and others will know it. It may come even as the still small voice to Elijah on Mt. Horeb, we will know it. We will “know we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.” And the trans formation will be so complete, the world, even, will “take knowledge of us that we have 7>een with Jesus and learned ol him.” No clerical rite, no bap tism but the Holy Ghost baptism can bring about this blessed change. It is the baptism from above—born of God—the only saving baptism, and it changes the whole man. I. This birth is the birth of new eyes. Everything looks more beautiful and lovely. We see God in everything around us. His wisdom and goodness is seen even in the tiniest flower and spear of grass. Our visions will be touched with heavenh light. Divine grace so dispels all intervening mist, nothing thai that God has made looks tame or monotonous. New born eyes can see like the man saw whose eyes Jesus opened. It \ye do not see men as trees walking, we will be transported and charmed with thg diversified beauty of the scenery around us. The carpet of green, the vangat ed hues and tints of the loveh flowers, the rivu ets, the hills, the waving fort sts, fill us with de 1 ght. With new-born eyes we can see as David saw, and ex claim with rapture, “The heav ens declare me giory oi croo, and the firmament showeth his handy work. Day unto da) uttereth speech, and night unt< uight showeth knowledge.” We shall see spiritual things as we never saw them before. Faith will enable us to see the beauty and sublimity of God’s plan of salvation. Things once mysterious are manifest and plain. We see like Paul, some thing of the measure of Christ’s love. How deplorably lost, dow saved. How blind, now seeing. We then can say like Da vid, “I waited patently for ih Lord, and hedwi&Ufled unto me and heard my cry. * He brought me up also out of an horrible pit out of the miry clay, and se’ my feet upon a rock, and estab lished my goi«g. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praises unto God.” 2. We have new-born ears. We hear as we never heard be fore. Our ears will be unstopp 1 ed, and ourunderstanding open |ed. Nature itself will bo. vocal with praise. There will be | music in the whispering winds, the distant water-tails, the sun shine and the rain. Our ears will be open to every message Gbd, whether ho speaks through nature, providence or grace. But the man in sin is deaf to the voice of God. David said, ‘‘I was a deaf man and heard not.” But with awakened ears, like good old Isaiah, we hear. “In that day,” the day of the change, “shall the deaf hear the word of the book”—the sweet gospel’s sound, and in the joy of his soul can sing : “Salva tion O, the joyful sound, ’tis pleasure to my ears.” To new-horn ears, there is melody in every service that hopiuia «jod. There ii :n the taithful, earnest minister’s voice, in the pathetic, fervent prayer of the devout saint, and especially in the exhilarating song that charms the ear and inspires the soul. Before we had new-born ears, we could sit in the congregation, in the hearing of the most earn est and impressive discourse, with stoic indifference. Our minds were so filled and ab sorbed with business cares and worldly thoughts. Now we give our thoughts to God and his cause, and can hear with rapt attention, and appreciative hearts from the beginning to the close of the sermon. Consecrated ears will hear the voice of God in every known duty. The child prophet, Sam uel in the house ot Eli.heard the voice of God in the dark watches of the night, answered the call ind delivered God’s message. Moses heard God’s call out of 'he burning bush, in the land of Midian, wht n a shepherd, and chose him as the leader and de liverer of his people. He ac cepted the arduous work, and made himself a name that will endure through all time. And when God wanted a messenger to speak to his people, Israel, and asked, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Isaiah quickly responded, “Here am-I; send me.” New-born ears wiil not be closed to the voice of mercy and the appeals tor help and relief or the needy and distressed. A benevolent heart will be reached through consecrated ears. God’s Holy Spirit, whom Christ promised to send as our guide, will reach us through our spiritual ears, as well as our hearts, and dictate to us every duty, and guide us into all truth. 3. We will have new-born tongues. Our tongues will then belong to God, and will be used to his glory. It will not be silent when God’s cause is suf fering for the need of defence. The Apostle Peter admonishes us to “be ready always' to give an answer to every man thai asketh you a reason of the hope that is within you with meekness and fear.” Be ready, not only in the prayer meeting, Sabbath school and Christian Endeavor meetings, but in our everyday life, among friends or enemies, Christians or infidels, saints or blasphemers. Our speech should betray us; our ianguage should be that ot a citizen of the heavenly world. We have no excuse for silence when Christ’s cause demands our words of edification and en couragement. Weakness and want ot education will not ex cuse us. The man born blind whom Christ restored to sight, -aid to the caviling, unbelieving Tews, who accused Christ as be ing a sinner, questioning the truth of the miracle, “whether he be a sinner I know not; but one thing I know that whereas once I was blind, now I see.” Though not able to compete with the learned Jews in argu ment, or overthrow their sophis try, and convince them of Chrit’s livinity and the truth of the miracle, the young man, in his simple way, could give his own experience, itnd declare his won derful change. We should “show our colors and stand up for Christ every where— especially where our Master is treated irreverently. Cike the good man on the train There was a wicked man in the same coach who had been drink ing freely, and was very bois terous, swearing at every word or two. All were silent but this profane man. The good man thought ■' a r : '"r.n f o not be sileDt on such occasions. The wicked man had shown his colors, had shown to what mas ter he belonged and whom he was serving, and he was not ashamed to do it. The good man thought Christians ought not to be ashamed to own their Master and let the world know whom they w'ere serving, And he commenced to sing a good old spiritual song, and several other Christians joined in (as there were sever,the coach) and the coach / - vith praise. This hushed * .rowned the boisterous ny jice. He was mad, and tf . and asked the good man ^ he meant. He told hirr ad been serving his ma ^ jw he was going to shc^ re he belonged, and wha? s? er he was serving. AnV* hister who was sitting near, arri had been silent, ex pressed satisfaction and said he never intended to be silent again under such a circumstance. 4'. vv nen Dorn again our pocK et books will be converted. The man was right who was preparing to be baptized. Near the water, a friend reminded him that he had not taken his pock et book from his pocket. “O,” he said, “let that stay; I want that baptized too.” Wanted soul, body and means all conse crated to God and his cause. This is the wav the true believer should feel. That all we have is God’s investment, to be drawn from whenever his cause re quires it. That our possessions are merely a loan, to be “used as not abusing” them—to bless humanity and to honor God. Give cheerfully, as God pros pers us, and not ‘ tighten our purse strings” against the cries of the poor and needy and the urgent pleadings for help to send the gospel to destitute fields and to the darkened lands of heathenism and idolatry. In deed our pocket books should be open to every call from God, for whatever purpose. We should honor God with our substance, knowing we are only stewards of what he has committed to our care, and that we shall have to give an ac count of our stewardship in the great day of final reckoning. Reader, how are you using your Lord's money?. “Give an ac count of your stewardship, or thou mayest no longer be a steward.” 5. When born again, our hearts especially must be con verted—changed. God has promised to give a “new heart and a new spirit.” To take away the stony heart, and give a heart of flesh, a ten der, sympathetic heart. The unregenerate heart is not only hard and stony but unclean and corrupt. Like leprous Naa man, all over defiled, or, as the prophet describes it, “like a cage of unclean birds.” This corrupt heart can only be changed by divine grace, re pentance, and faith in the Lord Jesu's Christ. The penitent,UW*. dened soul cries out for a clean, . changed heart. David felt the need of this, and .he burden of his soul was, “Create within me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” When we havei this clean heart and right spirit, all is right—our v\hole life is right. When the fountaiir is pure, the ^streams .that flow from it are pure. The physical heart is the fountain and sourqe of the physical life. I he blood from the heart hows through every vein and artery id the whole physical frame. If that blood is pure, the whole sys tem is in a healthy condition. So, if the heart is pure, a really con verted,changed heart,the thought and desire are pure, and a healthful Christian life is the re sult. And when the heart is born again the whole being is born again. We have new Oorn eyeS, new born ears, new born tongues and new born pocket books. And true happiness con sists in all these essentials. When all is surrendered to God, peace flows as a river through the soul, and we can be joyful Christians. We have the glor ious promise of the pure in heart. We shall see God’s lace in peace, and dwell in bis glorout eseuce f aevi r, ‘I .
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