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Atkinson IN ESSENTIALS - UNITV. IN NON-ESSENTlALS—LIBERTY. IN ALL THINGS—CHARITY, By J. O. $1.50 The Year Established 1844. ELOX COLLEGE, N.€., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1904. Volume LVI. No. 34. < ■ . iru I. The [.nnl^Hs the only lloml of tli” •Oban h. 3. Tho nnsno Ohrlsfcnin. to tho exclusion of Kit jia.'t;/ tin J sectarian names, Tlie Molv Ulble. or tho Scriptures of «h« Old :tml Now Tcstlmente, sutlclent rule ot frtll.il arid practice. 4. Chi*!st>iSn olrirartrr, or vital piety, the only tost of fellowship or membership. STTIjc rl^hB of private Judgement, and the liberty of oonsclcnoe, tho privilege and duty of all. Current Comment. The A^e of Chivalry Yet. A few weeks since the patrons of an intended postoffice in Mis sissippi sent, a request to the Postmaster General that the office be named Yardaman for the Governor of that State. The Postmaster General, upon con sideration, refused the request, .giving' the office another name, because the Governor had in a former- day written an editorial, “vile and indecent,” that re flected upon the good name of Presi dent Roosevelt’s .mother. Governor Vardanian was called upon to explain and in his letter of denial uses words and epithets which are unwort by of any gentleman, much less a man occupying the high station of Governor. For this unmanly and discourteous speech Varda nian is repudiated by the press north find south. Brethren, you may say hard and grievous tilings about the opposite party from your own, and score the men who oppose you with all the powers of tongue and pen at your command; but there is one thing the American citizen will not allow; and that is for you to reflect upon the good name of a woman. That is the dead line. The age of chivalry is not altogether passed yet. Man’s esteem for woman hood is not gone. And who dares in malice or hatred to fling at the fair name of woman must certainly suffer in our day and time. Every true American citi zen will repudiate with scorn the man who so far forgets himself, even in the heat of political com bat, as to reflect upon our mothers, wives and sisters. When proper regard for womanhood is lost, all hope of a nation’s safety is gone. Of the scores of papers that come to our desk we have not seen an utterance that ex cuses or apologizes for Varda nian’s unmanly and discourteous and cowardly words.. Our coun try repudiates the man who knowingly reflects upon our noble womanhood. This is well. An Inexcusable Crime. Two negroes were taken by a mob at Statesboro, Ga., Aug. 1 16th, and after their clothing was saturated with kerosene oil they were tied to a stake, fagots were piled about them and they were burned to death. The burn ing was in broad open day iimb dthd the leaders of the mob are not trying to conceal their identi ty. The negroes had been tried and foundguilty of participating in the wilful murder and burning of a man, vvil'e and three cliil jdren. One of* the negroes con f ■sed to the crime. The crime of which the negroes were guilty was a dastardly and deplorable one; but tills in no wise excuses the other crime by which these men were mobbed and burned. The guilty parties were in the clutches of the law. The Court had spoken. Justice was to bo speedily meted out. The men had been condemned to hang. No one could doubt but that at an early date these crimi nals would pay the penalty of their bloody crime. Yet, in spite of this, for a mob to step in, over power the officers of the law, take the law into its own hands and, in a maddened frenzy, commit a deed at which barbarism itself might well stand amazed, is a crime wholly unworthy of civil ization, disgraceful to the men who perpetrated it and, on all grounds, absolutely inexcusable. Mob law is always deplorab’e and every where to be condemned as dangerous, immoral and vi cious; but in this instance es pecially, where the law had spoken and the penalty was to be speedily paid, there seems not the remotestexcusefor, nor justi fication of, this awful crime of burning a fellow-man at the stake. May God have mercy upon the offenders mid 'speedily bring us to a better dtrytfSif S braver citizenship than this. A Sorry Spectacle. The venerable divine, Bishop Potter of New York, raised a veritable storm of criticism for his conduct two weeks since in dedicating a saloon with prayer, making an address at the for mal opening, and closing the exercises with the singing of the Doxology. It was a most unusual procedure to say the least of it abdht which there has been much severe comment, and much of it justly we think. But the hardest blow for the Bishop, as \t appears to' us, is from the" whiskey dealers themselves. . At a meeting of the Barten ders Union at Reading, Pa., August 15, a resolution was in troduced to make Bishop Pot ter an honorary member. The president favored the resolu tion as a fitting recognition of Bishop Potter’s sympathy with and interest in the whiskey traf fic as shown by his dedication of of the Subway Taver^_New York. > The resolution caused a lively discussion in which as reported “some opinions not complimen tary to the reverend gentleman were expressed by the mem bers.” But the majority ‘‘be lieved he had desecrated his of flee by his participation in the Tavern affairs,” and so killed the resolution. There is a spectacle for you. A bishop rejected by bartenders because he had desecrated his office! The bar keeper respects the man who stands up and openly fights him; but disdains, as he ought, the man who tries to compromise with and coddle him. The Liquor Dealers. The North Carolina Liquor Dealers Association recently met at (Jreerisbpro, and by resolu t on, decided Ito fling down the gaunt, let to .tap temperance forces in the State, and to enter the po litical arena*Boldly, and votqjfor no man for it®' office who in any ( wise was opiMised to the open saloon and wlidd favor any leg lslation iuiui|falto their business interests. Manor men every where are tocalled upon “to co-operate with this association in electing to tfte/ieaeral Assem bly only yi,c!i‘j|fr»ons as are not pledged to, ®|ie Anti-Saloon Leigue, but xwo ate favorable to a general licfeie system for the manufacture aid sale of liquor in North Carolina.-’ They re solved farther, these liquor deal ers, in session assembled did, that they would only favor for county commissioners : men who would grant license, upon petition, to retail liquor dealers, and further that they would support no can didate for Congress whogwas not opposed to theJJepburn DollivCr bill now pend i^gfeefore Congress. So brethren and friends, we at least know wh^t t he whiskey men in this State intend to, do. To' overthrow, if they possibly can, all existing temperance legisla tion and to prevent any other restrictive mefffuiv. VVe know where'the stands, We know his attitude, purpose and determinatio%' M large cam paign fund rafted am: tisedfsO reports say, in far the) i »g their aims, and if possible, in electing their candidates. Let not the friends of sober ness, temperance, good govern ment and justice tie idle, nor found wanting. Elections are coming on. Nominating con ventions are meeting now; pri maries are being held. See to it that men who favor temperance and are unalterably and forever opposed to the open saloon are chosen to office. The liquor dealers have spoken out in no uncertain tone ; now let those who oppose them Bpeak and speak too in unmeasured tones. On The Wing. NO. 3 “ What in to Matter With the Church Members up There?” Before leaving Abigail last week I visited several members of the denomination in the city. Almost invariably when I found one who had not moved his or her mem bership to ths church at Abigail, and mentioned the matter of the work in the city, I would hear the remark—1 ‘ What is the matter with the members of the church up there?” My silent answer was always—“You know better than I do.” Yet I question if they really know. I believe they think they know but are mistaken. Most of them seemed to think that the members of our church there in the city did not take enough interest in the work. The fact is the leading members of the church there were once members in the country and after moving to A bigail had their memberships transferred for JJtlie sake of our cause there. If these others would \ do the name tiling they would help to answer their own ques tion, “What is the matter with the members of the church up there?” The matter is, they have had a long hard pull and other members of the denomination living in thecity stand with hands off so far as fully idenbfvfrm 1 ” * / \ themselves with the work is coil i carried. If all these members ofj the denomination living n the city would 'follow the example o: those who have moved their men - berships and then get to work, as they think others should do, the question would be answered and the problem solved. That of itself, however, seems to be a problerh. Those who have fully identified themselves with the work did so for the good of the denomination, and were under no more obligation to do so than these others. Let all the mem bers of our denomination living in the city follow their example and the result will be greater ac tivity with all, larger congrega tions, better collections, more outsiders coming into the church aiid new life in all the depart ments of the work. They would love none the less the dear old church yard in the country, or the friend buried there, just be cause they were doing more for the cause of Christ and had caus ed their name to be transferred from* one book to another. The fact is, as I see it, the church at Abigail will never receive the at tention and support from. out* aulersTt merits until *t?ie Christ tians in the city identify them selves with it. The very people criticised are the ones who need most to be followed in example. THE WOMAN I MET ON THE TRAIN. As our train stopped at Abi gail, Mrs.-, a prominent member of the Christian Church at --, came on. I was slightly acquainted with her, but knew her husband very well, so I sought a conversation with heir, which 1 enjoyed for half an hour until I reached nfy station at Turnabout. I had heard very much of her pastor and his work so I made inquiry about him. ,She paid a little tribute to his piety, but was unspairing in her criticism on his work.' As she was a woman of prominence in the church, I thought her opin ion was worth very much, so my estimate of the man was very greatly affected. We finally drift ed into a conversation about the College and the Christian Sun. 1 had recently read some flatter ing comments from University Presidents concerning the work our college was doing, etc., and thought 1 knew the Sun. This lady, however, told me that she could not afford to send her nephew to our college, and for the Christian Sun, she could not afford to read that when she had access every week to such publi cations as Saturday Evening Post, The Outlook, World's Work, Success, etc. I am chang ing my estimate of both her pas tor and college and also of her church paper, since I left her and have reflected. 1 believe her criticisms were cruel and unjust and that she is doing her church a positive injury. The last incident on this jour ney worth note is something 3een here at the depot while wait ing- for the train. Two rather good looking women are sitting over across the street on a porch, dipping snuff. One occasionally looks out over her glasses as if watching to see if any one is near. They have been gossiping for the past half hour and have talked ugly things about eight families, or individuals, since l have been here. I have not taken any advantage but canid not keep from hearing most of all they have said. 1 am sure they are genuine, meddlesome folks who are calculated to keep a community in an uproar. A snuff-dipping, gossiping, meddle some woman! Whew! I'lcose deliver us! A. CnosER Croaking. Mt. Nebo, Aug. 18,’0-1. Camp Meeting. Sunday, Aug. 7th, closed the seventh annual camp meeting a.t Wakefield, Ya. It was one of the best meetings yet held. Rev. G. A. McLaughlin of Chicago, as sisted Rev. Jno. M. Uakey of Danville, Va., were at their best * vvhile with us. Brother McLaugh lin is a man of great intellectual ability and spiritual power, a wonderful e.^ppunder of the Scrip ture. Brother Oukey is also a blessed man of God, add his mes sages gets hold of the hearts of people.' There was a number of other ministers and Christian wottep who' reiMered valuable servaca * we had a number of good singers, and the music was excellent. Your humble writer lead the host in song, with MisS Lucy Presson at the organ. • ! Every phase of the meeting was a decided success, and the largest crowds in:-attendance since the beginning of the camp-meetingt Thetabernacle seats about 1,000 and on the closing day there were nearly enough people to twice fill the auditorium. God wonderfully set his seal upon the messages in sermon and song. The Holy Ghost was mani festly present, in convicting of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Many pressed their way to the altar to make their peace with God. We do not know the numl ber, but believe there were sisdy, or more. To our God we ascribe al praise. Otho M. Cockes, Elberon, Va. An Appeal. Our friends who have sub scribed to the Greensboro Chris tian church building are urged that the payment of same is very much needed. Our local members have paid liberally, every one of them. Now our bills are past due, being carried by friends who endorsed for us at the bank. One or two of our best supporters are almost em barrassed by this load. Will you brighten it by paying some subscription which is small? Ob ligations were made on the face of these pledges. Let us fin ish and get ready for other - work. Please do. Building Committee Greensboro Christian church. , 'By R. S. Petty, Treasurer.
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