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Sun. BY ATKINSON & LAWRENCE. IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY s IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY. $2.00 PER YEAR. ESTABLISHED 1844. ELOH COLLEGE, N. 0.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16,1900 VOLUME LIII: DUMBER 32 Tl^ Clpustiart $Ur\ PUBLISH ED WEEKLY. The Official Organ of the Southern Chris tian Convention. CARDINAL principles. I. The Lord Jaans la the only Head of the ohnroh. •1. The name Christian, to the exclusion of all part; and sectarian names. J. The Holy Bible, or the Scriptures of i he Old and Mew Testaments, sufficient rule of faith and practice. 4. Christian character, or vital piety, the utiiy test of fellowship or membership. Ji. The right of private Judgment, and the liberty of conscience, the privilege and duty of all. V . ' "^Phe present ruler The o( Chins has not a Empress- character . and a Dowager record as spotless ok CtiiNA. and . as clear as would be desired for a ruler of the “Celestial Empire.” Eate and fortune have dealt kindly with her on more occasions than one and playing with a high hand in doubtful issues she has won when others less favored and less bold and daring would have lost. She did not come to the dignity ol ruler by birth or by inheritance. The Emperor who died forty years ago left no son by his wife but did leave one by a concubine. That son being the heir to the throne his mother became Empress-Dowa ger. She still holds that high position and is the real ruler of China. But what ot her son? When he became old enough to reign in his own name he very suddenly and mysteriously died. nuu Buopivtuu io uvi that the Empress-Dowager-mo ther could, it she would, enlight en the world on that “mystery.” _ But she preterred ruling China to clearing up mysteries, even though that mystery had to do with the sudden death of her son and Chin «’s ruler. Her next step was to arrange a ne.w succession in favor of a little boy cousin of her departed son. She was absolute ruler again until that boy became of -age—as she is yet. On his be coming of age certain other “mysteries” were thought of, but, as the Outlook very perti nently remarks, “China had giown more civilized than on the previous occasion, hence she was obliged to execute a shrewd “stroke-of-state, as she did not dare to make away with the Em peror entirely. Taking advan tage of his pronounced opposi tion to her well-known anti-for eign views, and taking advant age of the universal reverence for age in China she actually imprisoned the Son of Heaven on the ground of unfilial action.” This imprisonment and the con - sequent humiliation thereof brought the Emperor to proper respect and to a very filial devo tion (?) to the Empres-Dowager, who is today the real ruler of China. Under this cap How Cars. tion the Satur Cheats the day Evening __ Undertaker. Post of August 4-has some very seasonable suggestions and ad vice: _ “The oldest doctor in England died in the present year. If he had lived a few days longer he would have reached a hundred years. "#The most interesting thing about his career was not any special work that he did, but the fact that he never prac ticed his profession because oi his delicate health. He was one of the many men who expected from early youth to die soon, but through care outlived every early associate. We see the same experience constantly. The thin, sickly looking,'appre hensive person, whom no insur ance company would accept on appearances, at any price, clings . on year after year and becomes a veteran, while the rosy citizen who can eat all day and drink all night and who has no fear of conseqences drons off Suddenly, and many in the large attend ance at the grave express won der that such a healthy man should die while others so plain ly marked for the cemetery are present at his funeral. “Nothing could better show the value of care in the business of living. We seem to know prac tically everything about disease nowadays, but as Benjamin Franklin remarked, 'Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.’~ The sick ly tellow cheats the years by taking care of himself, while the healjhy person has an early fun eral because he laughs at food and. fate. If the doctor who lived to be nearly a hundred could not practice his profession because he was too delicate, the average patient on whom the doctors do practice ought to pause a while and think. This is undoubtedly an age in which the human body is disorganized and weakened by too many medicines. It is a period of overeating, and a lot of judicious starvation would probably be about the best thing that could happen for the race. “With all the accumulated wisdom of the centuries few men have come to really appreciate the fact that pure air and plenty of it are more important than mere food. At the same time, of course, he need not slight bis food, and if he is sensible he will get the best that his purse can buy. Be careful, be cheerful, and be comfortable 1” “Joj and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor’s nose.” Several of the “The White states of the Man’s South have prac Bordkn”— tically eliminat and Duty. ed the ignorant negro vote from politics. North Carolina has ju*t recently passed a constitu tional amendment to that effect. Both Alabama and Virginia have called constitutional conventions with the same end in view. Whether this was the best for both races and for all parties concerned depends. The white man has yet a “burden” and a duty to perform. Take it that ttie negro has been eliminated from politics, from the right of 1 franchise, he has by no means been eliminated from citizen ship. Suffrage and citizenship are two distinct terms represent ing two distinct ideas. And to abolish the one does by no means eradicate the other. That the ignorant colored man no longer has the right to vote by no means indicates that he no longer has the right of citizen ship. If not a voter he is still a citizen. As such he should, and must 8till have the privileges, prerogatives and rights of citi ship. If as a voter he is de pendent, as a citizen he is an equal. As such he has, and should have, the same justice be fore the courts, the same consid eration at the hands of the legis lator, the same advantages edu cationally and morally that he has had in the past. The white man’s duty is to respect that cit izenship and strive in every way possible to enlighten and elevate it. ..» • - lo this connection are a tew facts worth bearing in mind. If the colored man has not proven himself worthy of |>o!itical suff rage he has''‘proven himself worthy of citizenship. Un provoked, he raises no disturb ance, engenders no race hatted, throws no bombu shells and en gages to no labor strikes, riots and what not. And if the bal lot has been unsafe and danger ous in his hands not upon him rest the only nor even the great er blame. Designing politicians and reckless demagogues who could so readily use him to fur ther their own selfish ends and aims are more to blame than he. During the civil war when the white men were at the front and their wives and children were at home the colored man showed himself a faithful servant, a law abiding citizen and, as a rule, a trustworthy' and reliable friend. And during all the agitation that has been going on about de priving him of his suffrage he has been quiet and orderly. Ob sei ve this from a North Caro lina Democratic daily : "It is gratifying to observe that whatever troubles have oc curred in the last days of the campaign have been between white men. That is right. The negroes have not been at all troublesome in this campaign and there is no occasion for any war upon them. We hope they will be let alone today aod here after." It is a fact worthy of note that during the election on August 2 in North Carolina the negro was quiet and orderly and that in only one county was there dis turbance and that was between white people. “Finally brethren,” we hope we shall hear no more of “white supremacy” and “negro domina tion" during these years. We have had enough. Let us as citizens and as men go into the discussion of better things and in the futurp deal with questions and issues that make for a bet ter state and a nobler citizen ship. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER. BY MISS VBRA PRITCHETTE. This is a progressive age ; an age of new and approved appli ances ; an age of steam, division of labor and skilled workman ship. Methods satisfactory to our forefathers will not suffice today. In every department of human activity there is progress and development. rne progressive ounaay school worker is seeking better things that he may keep abreast with the spirit of the age. It is to this noble body of men and women, who have conse crated themselves to the Sunday school work that we wish to give encouragement in an honest de sire for larger and better things. It is a great deal the Sunday school asks of people, to be pres ent the fifty-two Sundays in a year, to study, to labor, to en dure the cold of winter and the heat of summer, the snow and the rain, and fulfill the duties and obligations of a Sunday school class, and to deal with scholars who are olttimes uncon cerned and mischievous. It is a great deal the Sunday school demands, and there is no de partment of Christian activity which finds such an abundant answer to its call, for although it may be true that it is not easy tor us to get just the kind of teachers that we need, we do find a million and a halt of peo ple who are willing to consecrate themselves to this work, apd, if the churches of America were ransacked today, another million and a half ot people would doubtless be found who would equal these in consecration and devotion to the work. Some time ago Mr. v^nauncey DePew wa? called upon to give testimony before the committee of the New York legisla ure up on the methods of signalling employed on the line ot the New York Central railroad for the protection ot passenger’s lives. He gave a very ample and clear account of the plans that were employed, and then made this statement: “Gentlemen, you may have the very best system in the world, but in the fast analysis you come to a man, and more depends upon the man be hind the system than does upon the system- itself.” There is some one upon whom the suc cess of the Sunday school de pends, You may have the mosl elab rate place, you may have the loftiest conception, you may have the most mag nificent system, but the unit of power upon which it depends is the Sunday school teacher. Give us a good tea Cher and we shall have a good class, and a number of such teachers will make a good school. The first requisite of the Sun day school teacher is that there shall be a living soul behind the teaching; for it is a part of God’s plan that men shall reach men. Souls must come into contact with souls, it we are to have power and the result of power. Would it not be a» good plan it some one would devise for us a Sunday school phonograph? Why couldn’t we get some first class teacher to stand in front of the cylinder and teach into such a phonograph a Sunday school lesson, and have duplicates of it made for the numerous Sunday schools? With the addition of a big -horn and a boy to turn the crank, the phonograoh would be complete for teaching us the Sunday school lesson. The first Sunday it was placed before the Sunday school, perhaps there would be quite a number ot scholars eager to see it, and tor the time being -it might some what increase the curiosity of those who might attend the school. Doubtless there would be a number of small boys in school who wouid be ready to turn the handle, and perhaps there might be some preseut who would be eager to talk into the machiue and hear how their voices would sound. Could it be supposed that one single scholar m aH that school is go ing to be brought to a better life because the tin lips of a phono graph s:eak to him? The tact is, that which has power is the living personality and the char acter that goes with it. That is the first requisite. There must be a foundation upon which our teaching stands and that foundation is not so much what we have in our heads as what we have in our hearts. What we are teaches a great deal more than what we say, or as Emerson has put it, “How can I hear what you say, when what you are is thundering in my ears." There is another requisite: The Sunday school teacher in order to have the greatest effi ciency, should be an earnest Christian ot a teachable spirit, a Christian in the largest, the loftiest and most magnificent sense. Not merely one who ac cepts in a general way the Chris tian faith,one who regards the Bible as containing in some di vine way the message from on high, bul one whose own heart has been touched, who has pass ed from darkness into lignt, wno has himself seen the vision that he would impart to his Sunday school class. It is not by point ing our scholars upward to some height, it is not by urging them on, it is by standing on the mountain top with our own hearts aglow, and our own faces kindled with the inspiration, and leading them up to where we stand, that the Sunday school teacher shall have power. We must ourselves be the living real ization of what we want our Sunday school scholars to be, if our teaching is to influence them. May the time soon come when every Sunday school teacher in our land shall teach the lesson, not simply from a lesson quar terly but from the Bible itself,-: and when every Sunday school scholar shall study the lesson not merely from the lesson-leaf, but from the Book of all books. The quarterlies and leaflets are helps and should be utilized at home and in the, school; but when the lesson hour comes let no scholar fail to come into the Sunday school without an open Bible in his or her hand. There are ten million copies of the Bible printed per annum, which makes it pqssible to supply ev ery Sunday school scholar as well as every teacher, who needs to be a diligent student of the Bible. A teacher should not be an automatic talking machine, a person who likes to hear himself talk and talks more than he thinks. The automobile is alj right in its place But it should not be hitched to the tongue of the Sunday school teacher. The true teacher is the one who teaches his scholars because he loves them, yearns over them and seeks the best waystD reach the young hearts and bring them to Christ. You must love them if you want power over them. You can win them by love more teadily than by tl* amount you know. You t.m t win them by having in \ >ir heart that which-will tak<- I. 1 of them, remembering “It a..) man lack wisdom”—no, that is not correct—“If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not.” In a few words, the ideal Sunday school teacher is a person of practical common sense, conscientious in all things, kindly in disposition, consecrated to God, studious in habits, and one who has the full respect of the community at large. What do these workers get as a reward for their labor? They have their reward in an ever in creasing knowledge of the word which comes only to those who impart that word ; lor our best knowledge comes only through givibg what we know to others. They have their reward, too, in the strength of character, that development which comes from exercise, overcoming obstacles, the harder the difficulties the greater the benefit derived. The S. S. teacher has another re ward in the love of their schol ars and in their contact with them, but they will have great est reward of all when one day they shall be able to say, “Here am I, Lord, and those whom thou gavest me.” THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND. For the benefit of any who may be in doubt about what the Southern Christian Convention did in reference to the Twentieth Century movement, the follow ing extract from the report of the Committee on Schools and Colleges is published: i We recommend, 1. A call for a twentieth cen tury free will offering for educa tion to be known as the Twen tieth Century Fund of the Chris tian Church, South. 2. That the amount of the Twentieth Century Fund be a r. minimum of $20,000, end ap portioned among the conferences of this Convention as follows : Eastern Virginia, $7,500 Virginia Valley, 938 Eastern North Carolina, 3,437 Western North Carolina, 3",125 North Carolina & Virginia.4,063 Georgia & Alabama, 737 5j>20,000 lhe apportionment of each indi vidual church to be 12^ times the amount apportioned for the Elon College or Educational Fund. 3. That a Committee of three, appointed by this Convention shall have charge of all details of this work not provided for in this report. . 4. That each church take this offering by October 1, 1900, both in cash and subscriptions. One half of subscriptions to be paid by January 1, 1901, and the other half by May 1, 1901, and that all cash collections be for warded to J. A. Mills, Treas., Raleigh, N. C , and held subject to the order of the Trus tees of Elon College, who shall have complete disposal of .said fund in the liquidation of the ^college indebtedness. When said debt is fully dis charged the remainder of said Twentieth Century Fund, if any, may be spent as the Board ot Trustees of Elon College may direct. 5. 1 nat -pastors oe requesieu to have a Twentieth Century Rally for at le’ast one day by October 1, 1900, arranging pro gramme therefor including speaking it possible by some one other than the pastor. ■ W. S. Long, , R H. Peel, E L. Moffitt, J. O. Atkinson, Committee. According to recommenda tion No. 3 of the aboVe report W. C. Wicker, J. E. West and E. L. Moffitt were approinted a committee to have charge of all details cd the work. The chair man of the committee is to agi tate the subject, and to aid the pastors in any way possible. All pastors should arrange rally day as soon as possible and raise the apportionment for their churches. W. C. Wicker, Chair man 20th Century Fund. “THE MOST PRECIOUS BOOK.” The Bible is the most pre cious book in the world, not only in a religious sense, bpt also in a commercial one. Some of the prices brought by rare copies are stupendous and the aggre ..'u.. -' .-i gate value of all of these un doubtedly exceeds that of any other work ever sold. The high est price ever paid for ai printed book was $24^50 for a Latin Psalter printed by Faust & Schoeffer in 1457. The first book printed from movable type was what is known as the Maza rine Bible, by Gutenberg and Faust, which was issued August 14, 1456. Only two or three copies of this, the greatest treas ure of bibliography, are preserv ed, and one of them was sold at auction last year by the Earl of Ashburham to Bernhart Quar itch of London for $19,360, the second-highest price ever paid for a book. Lord Ashburnham paid $16,000 for it in 1892. James W. Ellsworth, formerly ol Chicago, paid $14,000 for a copy some years ago, which formerly belonged to the Earl ot Crawford. The copy in the British museum was bought in 1825 for $2,520. The Earl of Gosford paid $19,250 for his copy. The first Bible with a date yvas printed in August, 1462, by Faust and Schoeffer at Mayence, Germany, and but two copies are known. The one in the British museum was bought from the Duke of Sunderland in 1881 for $8,000. The other be longs to the Earl of Crawford, who paid $5,125 for it.—Wash ington Correspondent. GOD’S CENSUS. Most people complain that the census taker, who comes to all our doors armed with the authori ty of the nation, asks too man} questions. We dislike to tell our age, or Jwhether we live in a rented house; or object to some other of the inquiries which he is sent to make. But suppose there came a stronger messenger of even a higher power and took the census of our spiritual state! Suppose our consecration could be tested, our tempers put to proot, our words weighed, our gentleness and patience in hu man relations and our faith in God, measured and recorded ! The divine census of the world, which we call judgment, is we sometimes think^postponed. We sum it up as belonging to the distant future, under the title of the “Judgment Day”. But God’s judgments are no more postpon ed than His mercies. “No one has learned anything rightly,” wrote Ruskio, “until he knows that evry day is a day of judg ment-” We live in the presencs of God. He needs no messenger to go with book and pencil, to question and record. He takes account of all our spiritual attain ments and defeats, joyfully not ing all our overcomings, sorrow fully grieving over our defeats. That thought is happiness lor those who work with Him. It is a comfort to those who sorrow over sin—lor think how hard it would be for us to tell our heav enly Father of failures which He had not seen ! It is only a fear to those who are unloving and put God out of thought. 1 lie 3CUSUS cuumciaiui uiv,»v tore, is a suggestion of that intel ligent and ordered world in which God has given us our place and work. There are no neglected corners, or unknowp tacts, in God’s lull view of life. In the census-taking some are overlooked through carelessness or neglect. But God’s enumera tion of the world is complete and infallible. It goes beneath acts to motives. It acknowledges purposes of good which we have been unable to carry out. It is a Father’s loving oversight^of children, a Master’s reckoning with His servant, a Judge’s con siderations of *the thoughts and acts of men. It goes on, as th«« lives of men go on, this day and every day. Shall we not live and think as we would like to ap pear when the summing up of God’s observations shall be open to the inspection of the world ?— Endeavor World. A SAD PICTURE. i The exposure by the police ol ! a series of thefts by a band of lit tle bo s of Raleigh calls for seri ous and practical thought on the Christian people of the whole State. That little boys not ten years old have been able to prac tice for some time a system of thieving, which would call for the skill ot experienced criminals is a matter not only of wonder but ol horror. The same thing, we have no doubt, is being done in many of our towns. This form ol youthful iniquity is the result ot several things : (i) Lack ot parental care and oversight. Some parents seem to act with reference to their children as if there were no such thing as mor ality and religion. (2) Idleness. The old line, “For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do,” never contained more truth than at the present time. (3) Allowing children to run abroad both by day and night. Some parents do not know more than a few hours in the twenty four, where their boys and girls are. They carefully look after the horses, cows, and dogs, see- ■ ing that they are in their proper places. But many children x v allowed to run wild. (4 V ^ lessness in sending thj>' . .u to Church and S* _nool, and ignoring,*’- of proper companions; S*' These are some of the causes of youthful iniquity. In removing them there is a great work to be done by our Christian people. Missionary work for the boys and girls is one of the pressing needs of the day. When will the people ot our State see that the establishment of a reformatory is an absolute necessity? Surely they cannot remain blind much longer to the situation. The salvation ot our State is bound up in the sal vation of our boys and girls.— Raleigh Christian Advocate. A Visit to China's Baler. Frank G. Carpenter, who is now in the East, sends to the Satui'dafv^ Evening Post a long article about the Empress-Dow ager and China, his facts having been gathered only a few days before the present troubles broke out. Two years ago the Em press Dowager set aside all prec edents and received the foreign Legations at Pekin. One who was present told fl^|. Carpenter about it. Among other things she said: /‘Her Majesty was dressed in a pale yellow silk gown, beauti lully embroidered with floweis and dragons of the same color. She wore the head-dress com monly worn by elderly Chinese women, her hair being fastened at the back just below the crown, the front of the head and a part ol the forehead being concealed by a, silk band heavily embroid ered with pearls of large size. “I wa% struck with her Majes ty’s youthful appearance. She was sixty-tour, but she looked ten years younger. Her face was plump and free trom wrin kles. She had a high forehead, elongated perhaps by the custom of the Chinese ladies of pulling out the hairs at the edge of the forehead with -tweezers. She had a strong face and in youth must have been very pretty. During the audience she fre quently smiled, and I could see signs of that cruelty with whkh she has been charged. “Her majesty maae us wel come to the palace and to China. She said she was glad indeed to receive us as foreigners, and that we should be friendly with one another, for were we not all of one family? “The banquet was fine, being made up of many courses and consisting of both Chinese and foreign dishes. “After the banquet the Em press-Dowager again met infor mally with the ladies, drinking ’lea with each of them in turn, and in some cases throwing hef arms about one and embracing her. At this time she gave each lady a present of a beautiful gold ring set with a pearl as big as a marrowfat pea, three silk dresses from the royal looms and a set of two dozen combs. Throughout the audience she was exceptionally gracious, and her manners were as polite and affable and at the same time as dignified and ladylike as could be those of any empress of Europe. * - t ‘jjj
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