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rni 1110 Christian O bun. BY ATKINSON & LAWRENCE. IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY. $2.00 PER YEAR. ESTABLISHED 1844. ELON COLLEGE. N. 0.. THURSDAY, JULY 19,1900. VOLUME LIII: NUMBER 28 Ctyiatiart SUr\ I'llHI.ISHKI) WKKKLY. flu. <Hilda Organ of the Houthern Chris tian Convention. CVRWNA.L PRINCIPLES. 1. The leird leans Is the only lleadofthe church. 1. The name Christian) to the exclusion > >11 party and sectarian names. I. The Holy Uible, or the Scriptures of lie Old and New Testaments, sufficient rule f faith and practice. af 4. (Jhrlstlau character, or vital piety, the ' nly test of fellowship or membership. ft. The right of prtvate judgment, aud the liberty of conscience, the privilege and ■itv of all. In many localities Baptists in Virginia just and the now, especially LicyJOR among our Baptist Question. brethren, there is much and serious discussion of the liquor question. The following from a Wash ington Correspondent gives facts in the case: The Baptist church in Virgin ia is a good deal stirred up over a recent effort to exclude Irom its membership all persons en gaged in the liquor business. The legislative association of the church last year adopted a resolution that any church which did not exclude them should it self be dropped lrom the associ ation. Several of the oldest Baptist churches of Richmond utterly ignored the resolution, even retaining liquor men among their officers. The mat ter will come up again at the next meeting of the association which takes place this week and a warm debate is expected. The discussion of the question promises to be one of the most notable in the history of the Baptist church in the South, and the outcome is awaited with gen eral interest and some appre hension. There is some specu lation as to the probable course of the s\ssociation, should the churches concerned decline to submit to its demands, as they are expected to do. A local up heaval is anticiated, on the other hand, among the congregations affected, should the mandate of the association be obeyed and attempt made to expel those member engaged in the liquor trade. We read with won Busv der ot great events, Norfolk Great sights, great cities far off yonder. We seldom stop to contem plate the great ones at our own doors. Most ol us are familiar with Norfolk, Va., as a thriving and rapidly growing city ; few of those best acquainted know the volume of business carried on in this most active of South ern seaports. It will be difficult to find a busier place in the United States than the Norfolk docks and harbor any afternoon at this season ot the year. * Hun dreds ot small sail boats carry ing from one hundred to four hun dred barrels and baskets of veg etables literally swarm in and about the harbor, reminding one, in their attempts to get along side the great coast-wise and ocean-going steamers, ol busy bees about the native hive in early summer. You cannot count or number them. I stood there the other day and saw be tween seventy-five and a hun dred of them empty their car goes of freshly gathered vege *9 tables into one single ship load ing lor the New York market. When this vessel was loaded l foupd she had on board 9,500 barrels ot Irish potatoes, and 5, 500 half-barrel crates ol beans, cucumbers, and barrel crates ol cabbage, making in all a cargo of 15,000 packages by this line alone for the New York market of one xorning. This says nothing of the great Boston and Providence and Philadelphia boats, besides what is shipped daily to all these points from Norlolk by rail. At this season from 40,000, to 60000 barrels and baskets of vegetables leave Norfolk for Northefn^mar kets every day. This vicitrtty pay not be the garden spot of, but it certainly is the garden spot lor, New York, Boston, Providence, and Philadelphia. And when you go through the truck fields in close proximity to Norfolk you do not wonder. The farms are great fertile, green, gardens on a grand scale. These make Norfolk the greatest ship ping port of trucks in the United Stales. The trucking trade shipping business alone is esti mated at $6,000,000 to $8,000, 000 annually. These are picked-up facts about one industry right here in our midst. Much more of equal interest and import could be told of other enterprises that go to make Norfolk the thriving pros perous city that it is, a great commercial center for the South, an open gateway to the North and to foreign countries. When I saw the Armours at Chicago killing and dressing nine hogs, five cows and tour sheep per minute ten hours a day three hundred days a year, 1 decided we were great meat eaters ; when I saw the six regu lar ocean liners and 1 know not how many coast-wise steamers loading forever and incessantly their hundreds of thousands, and millions, of bushels of wheat an nually at Newport News, I thought we were great bread ! eaters; when I saw going from 1 Norfolk alone 50,000 packages of vegetables daily I thought we were vegetable eaters; summing up, I think the next census will show that there are a great many of us and that we eat a great deal anyway—often more , than we ought. Thfre is a The Negro wonderful ten and Slavery, dency in human nature to make the boldest assertions and ad vance the “most knowing” opin ion about those subjects with which there is the least acquain tance. This tendency would afford a deal of amusement if it did not so often deal with sub jects that demand serious and sober consideration. A case in point now is a question from the N. Y. World relative to some utterances of the Rev. Henry Frank (whoever he may be) : “The Rev. Henry Frank, of the Metropolitan church, in the pre lude to his discourse in Carnegie Lyceum yesterday morning, de clared that the freeing ot the uegro was a lailure. He said : ‘His native sluggishness, the evidences of his gradual extinc tion since his enfranchisement, his imperceptible improvement since liberation, his startling lapse into barbarism—all must incline thinking people to con clude that- the freeing of the negro has proved a disastrous failure. A new system of volun tary and penal servitude should be instituted. A section of coun try should be set apart to which all negroes would be permitted to voluntarily migrate and there yield themselves as slaves to such persons as would agree to possess them, give them human • treatment and education.’ With little exception we have been living in the South all our days, but we have yet to find the Southern white man who declared “that the freeing of the negro was a failure,” that he had startliugly “relapsed into barbarism,” that “a new system of penal servitude should be in stituted” and that after migrat iog somewhere “they should yield themselves as slaves to such persons as would agree to possess them.” Nonsense, c& lumny and rubbish ! We can safely assure the Rev. Frank that he would have to go some where else than to the South to find men who would agree to “possess them.” The Southern white man does not want any more slaves. - He went out of that business thirty-five years ago. Some may think he went out reluctantly, but he went out all the same, and he went out to stay out. The Southern white man who knows mosf About him, who, by the way, is his best and truest friend and is most genu inely interested in his weltare, neither wants to possess the ne gro nor get rid of him. He is [Concluded on 4th P»<e.l Contributions BENEFITS DEBITED FROM THE MINIS TERM’S INSTITUTE. BY HKV. E. T. ISEI.KY. The Ministers’ Institute is a very important part of our work and promises much for us il properly attended by the minis ters. The last session was an improvement upon last year and each year new life and work will be added. Doctors, teach ers, editors and men of all pro fessions have their gatherings to exchange ideas, that they may accomplish the best results. In Conterencethe time is tak en up with business, but in the Institute we can study the Bible together, and having no other creed to follow we can exchange ideas as to the meaning of diffi cult passages, remembering that as ministers of Christ we should allow to»our brethren the same freedom of thought that we take ourselves. One new thing was introduc ed, a circulating library, which will be helplul to the ministers who are not able to buy all the books they need. I believe no amount was fixed, but each min ister was left to give as he felt able and willing to give. It there was a fixed sum I hope the com mittee will correct me. BY REV. N. G. NEWMAN. The rrq'iest has been made of me to state fvhat 1 got out of the recent session of the Minis ters’ Institute. Among many things the following may be noted: 1. The benefit of some labor and study. The Institute caused me to do work I would not otherwise have done. What is true in my case is, no doubt, true in^others, and this is one of the great benefits of the organi zation. Few things develop men more than the careful and thorough preparation of ad dresses for important occasions. The Christian church is just be ginning to develop its men. 2. Much valuable information from the papers read by the brethren, especially the one read by Rev. J. W. Weilons entitled, • My Recollection of Ante-Bel lum Prea« hers.” This informa tion ougt t to be preserved at any reasonable cost. 3. Inspiration from the ad dresses, deliberations and social intercourse of the brethren. I do not believe that twenty-five intelligent and consecrated min isters of the gospel can come to gether with holy purpose and deliberate for days without im parting a blessing wh'ch makes all wiser and better. As Homer says: “Tile wise new prudence from the wise acquire. Ami one braTO hero fan* ano'her’i fire ” BY REV. A. F. BAKBBE. Another blessed feast to my soul at the Ministers’ Institute. Oh, my brother, let us not forget the assembling of ourselves to gether annually. You will not know how much good you have done in this life until you re ceive your final reward. BY REV. J. W. PATTON. It is very evident that no two can see things just alike ; there fore, the interchange of views, in a Christian spirit, is valuable, to Bible students,as well as to any others. It stimulates to deeper searching after the truth. The Ministers’ Institute does this. The papers read at the Institute were fine. Much information was thereby given. Let every minister who is on the program lor the next Insti tute prepare his paper in time and if it be out of his power to attend, send it in. In this way all the suhj >cts on -the program may be intelligently discussed and not, as this time, passed over unnoticed. So far as I am concerned, I feel it was time and money well spent in attending the Ministers' Institute at Elon College. BY REV. T. B. DAWSON. In giving expression to my impression of the Ministers’ In stitute I would say, iu the main it was very helpful to me. I think some of the greatest benefits to be derived from it aie, the tendency to develops closer Christian unity, to learn more of each other and our plans of work, also the exchang ing of ideas relative to the great fundaments} doctrines as taught in the Word. But one of the most impressive things to my mind during the Institute was the visit of the pigeon. Not the bird of itself, of course, but other things asso ciated with it somehow made an impression I shall never forget. It carae just when the discussion about the great doctrine of sanc tification, now so ripe, was at its highest pitch, when some heads were busy with cold theory, in tellects trying to explain what the heart must Teel before it caD know all that is implied by the term sanctification—or the spirit filled life. It came when surely some hear s were seeking for truth and opeu to “the truth spoken in love, (Eph. 4: 15.) Its appearance was in harmony with the occasion—the dove on the chart, representing the Holy Spirit, symbolized by the dove at Christ’s baptism, on whicli occasion the Father publicly confessed the Christ as his be loved Son in whom he was well pleased. Now, the question in my mind was, with which side, or with what part, of this so fervent dis cussion is our Father pleased? For though invisible, to mortal vision, surely He was as rfeally present as the winged messen ger, to accept or reject all that was said as offerings. Am I a Cain or an AbeL “Enoch had the testimony that he pleased God.” See Heb 11 14—5. BY REV. T- W. HARRELL. The Christian Ministers Insti tute has been profitable to me in many particulars. i It caused me to do more work than I otherwise would have done. The subject assign ed called for study, thought, research,and prayer which have greatly benefited me. 2. It has brought me in touch with my brethren m the ministry as nothing else could have done, and demonstrated to me the ne cessity of our standing together in the great work of Christ. 3. It awakened a deep feeling of brotherly love, sympathy and interest in each brother ministert and his work. 4- An exchange ot ideas on the different topics lor discussion was very helpful, indeed. New thoughts were suggested,-clearer views of divine truths obtained and the fundamental doctrins of Christianity better understood. 5. It was a real spiritual feast to me, the presence and power lof the Spirit was manifest and we felt that we could return to our fields to do better work tor the Master. Beloved brethern there is great good in the Institute for us and the cause that we represent. Shall we have it or will we refuse to reeeive it by simply failing to attend? Let every minister make np his mind to be present at the next session, if possible. I am sure that none will regret the time and money expended. TWENTIETH CENTURY HOY EH ENT. “—"~ * BY C. D. WEST. It is such a rare thing for me to contribute to the reading mat ter iOl the Sun that it is with some embarrassment that I now ask space lor a few words. The subject I wish to discuss being one in which so many oi our people are interested and of such great importance to the educa tional blanch of our church, I feel that you will hear me. I want to give expression of my most hearty approval to the Twentieth Century Movement inaugurated at the recent session of the Southern Christian Con vention. I think nothing, barring the direct work of saving souls, has ever appealed to us as a de nomination, as this work should. I want to say a lew words to those one., thousand or more students who have gone from the walls ol Elon College ; that in stitution which made a record during the first decade of her existence not approached by any of her sister colleges in the South. 1 am numbered among that body of men aod women frenT* Eton College commonly known as “under-graduates.” This I consider my misfortune, but my zeal for this institution and anxiety that this movement be a success is not diminished by reason of this fact. While the pastors should be the leaders in this work, yet I know of no body of men who can do more in behalf of this call than those whp have gone out from Elon College. They should take a most active part in this work. They know what that institution has done ; they know full well what her needs are and that the success of Elon College means the placing of our denomination in a position which we do not now hold ; they know that we have made a most wonderful advancement during the ten years past, and they know that Elon College merits their most hearty support. It occurs to me that the re-union of the old students during the com mencement just closed was a most happy idea. I think being there and seeing how, through devotion to their work and per sonal sacrifice on the part of many connected directly with the management of the College, they have advanced her step by step to a most enviable position among the educational institu tions of the country, should ap peal to us most strongly. But the thing that seems to me would inspire noen to contribute to this cause wduid 1)6'“'"having seen what Elon College has done for those who have the honor to be on her rolls. At the re-union of this last commencement, and those of other years, you have seen the fruits of her work, in successful business and professional men. From the large number of an nouncements I have seen in the Sun of certain occurrences, I would conclude that some of those who once lived on the other side of the campus have at tained some degree of success. But I am off my subject. It seems to me that this work should appeal to the old stu dents as the needs of a parent to their children. I think that the students should make an or ganized effort in behalf of this work, and arouse in the locali ties in which they live that wave of enthusiasm much needed for the success of this work. I think that if this call is met, Elon College can be endowed by the Christian church. With the debt raised, we can apply the special conference assess ments for Elon College to an en dowment fund which in time will be of great value. We have no Rockefellers and our money must be raised by a united ef fort on the part of our denomin ation. I believe that Elon men can raise $5,000; the ladies have husbands from whom they ought to draft a large sum. 1 want to hear from some of the class to whom I have ap pealed. BIBLE STUDIES ON SANCTIFICA TION AND HOLINESS. REVIEWED BY REV. P. BAR RETT. D. D. This is a book of 228 pages, written by Rev. J D. MacGilli vary of Nova Scotia, and pub lished by the Fleming H. Revell Co., New ..York and Chicago, 111., retail price $1. I have read this book with peculiar interest, not that I agree with its author, for I Jdo not, but T admire an earnest worker, and I really think that Mr. MacGillivary is that. In his own words I will give the purpose of the book. He seeks to show from the Bible : 1. The place and importance of sanctification in the divine plan and government of the world. 2. The nature, relation and ground of sanctification and hol iness. 3. God’s method of sanc tification as unfolded in the Bible history of man and revelation.” He says he has found sanctifica 1 tiou fundamental in God’s plan and government ol the world. So tar so well. Mr. MacGilli vary believes in sanctification as mlly as any one I have read af ter, but his idea of sanctification is utterly at fault. In the first place, he is indefinite as to the idea, and in the second place, he has the wrong idea, at least as I see it. He holds that a man re ceives sanctification when he re ceives justification. That is his theory, but in discussing his the ory he yields his position, as for instance on page 198, he speaks of “full sonship.” This then must have been preceded by partial sonship, and all through the book t h e first and second stages of the work of grace are recognized, but all the while he holds to the idea that one work covers the question of salvation. He dwells muqh on the fact that sanctification, as he sees it, is a progressive work, and yet he speaks on page 18 of “a completed sanctification.” A completed thing which is pro gressive is a little odd. Occa sionally he strikes a thought which is in perfect harmony with what I understand in sanctifica tion. For instance on page 49 he says, in speaking of the gen eral tendency ot the times in re ligious circles, “We think more of doing than of surrendering.” That is to the point, and if for no other reason, I like the book because that is in it. It is so sadly true. He declares that this is the characteristic of pro testant Christianity,” and he is right in that. It the church needs to do anything today for itself, it is this: Get its heart set on being what God wants it to be, rather than doing what he wants us to do, for if we first be what he wants us to be, there will be no trouble to do what he wants us to do. This is a vital point. Again he strikes a clear note when he interprets sancti fication to be this: ‘‘Be for Me and be wholly for me; occupy just the place I have for you; discharge the duties of its rela tions believingly, reverently, and with all your heart. Do it for Me and in My way.” On page 54 he asks a question of a most practical kind. I wish every Christian would try to get a Biblical answer to it. It is this : “Does the gospel hold up be fore the world an ideal of char acter and conduct which it makes no provision for attaining, or do professing Christians indo lently shelve the ideal ^oij an other world’s attainment—-where it is hoped it may be reached by simply passing over the border line?” Ah, who will undertake to answer that question honestly and tairly? On page 57 he says: ‘-‘The lundamental idea then in sanctification is separation to the Lord of the sanctified for His own inviolable possession.” I could not put it more pointed ly. Certainly it is separation from sin to the service of God. But to have this separation it seems to me that one thing is necessary, viz.: The destruction of the carnal mind, and so far as I now recall the facts, tMr. Mac Gilliv^ry makes no reference; to the carnal mind in any shape. I infer from his position that he regards the carnal mind as de stroyed in justification, and yet as I see the facts there is noth ing to justify that conclusion, for most certainly Paul was a justi fied man when he wrote Ro mans ,7, but all through that chapter the carnal mind is a power, till he comes to the last two verses where he gets victo ry through Jesus Chirst. Then the Corinthian cfftfrch was in a justified state, and yet Paul tells them that they^vere carnal, and their carnality consisted in envy, strife and divisions, and such like. Again in writing to the church at Galatia he tells them that the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh, and these, he says, are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Now most certainly Paul had met and telt the power of the old carnal mind. I cannot see how Mr. MacGillivaiy escaped this point in the matter of sanc tification. It is the one point that it seems to me must have ttention, or we cannot have sanctification. Take his defini tion : “To sanctify is to separate to God.” Exactly, but when you separate to God, there must be first a separation irom some thing, in fact a separation from the carnal mind. Till we have been separated from that, how can we possibly be separated to God ? Paul lays especial stress on this point in Rom. 6:6, when he says: “Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him (for what purpose?-) that the body of sin might be destroyed, (destroyed for what?) that henceforth we shouljfaiep>t5..^epver''' sin.” Ah, whac is that! The old '^toe de stroyed that w^$|‘%/eep from serving sin, aof oe not de stroyed, the^wHSltnce is clear and just, t s>“,we may go on serving f&CIjppJow to bring to an end is the purjtose in the destruction of the carnal mind. As I now recall the facts, Mr. MacGilli vary nowhere touches this point in any definite way, taking it tor granted, doubtless, that the carnal mind was destroyed in justification, but this is undoubt edly a mistake, tor as I have shown above, Paul and the Cor inthians and the Gallatians all had trouble with the carnal mind alter their justification. Jesus, John tells us, came to de stroy the woiks of the devil, and I know of no work of the devil that is a greater hindrance to the cause of Christ in the indi vidual Christian, yea every where, than is the carnal mind. But I must stop before I have half done with the review of this most interesting book. Regret that I cannot endorse it fully. It has much that is good, but it is defective on the vital point, as I see it. PARDOS ASD WRACK. BY REV. D. E. MILLARD. It is frequently the case that persons who have been made conscious of “the exceeding sin fulness of sin” are impressed with }he feeling that God will not pardon such great trans gressors. Sometimes we see persons so overwhelmed with their sense of guilt that they are unable to comprehend the truth so clearly stated by the Apostle Paul, that “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” However great our sins may be we should bear in mind that Goifs love is infinite, and that while He cannot err and Consider an action which is wrong, and consequently in volves guilt, as right, He can forgive the repentant sinner and treat him as if he were innocent. Many who were guilty of the grossest sins have been pardon ed and made happy through re deeming grace. By his unmer ited goodness God torgives sin and pardons the repentant sin ner. Pardon saves lrom the guilt of sin and grace enables us to live a life of obedience. This deliv ers us from the feeling of con demnation, and gives us hope for the future. “Therefore be ing justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and re joice in hope of the glory of God.” WASHIMUON NOVELTIES. Garfield Memorial church of Washington has one of the most beautiful and sensible features of church work of any church in the country. A large room in the rear of the church is turned into , a nursery during church service, a number of baby-loving girls are in charge, and here mothers can leave their children while they enjoy the service. Washington has both a relig ii us barber, and restaurant keep The former lays all kinds er. ot religious literature about where customers idly read it while waiting for a shave or hair cut. The small eating house puisnes the same course, wi;h the old fashioned edition of mot toes about the wall. Both drop a little serious thought with a class seldom! reached through the church.—Washington Cor resgonclence *
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