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Ehtabmsiiko 184-4. ELON COLLEGE, N. C., JANUARY 24, 190G. Voi.u.mk LVIH. No 4 address The Christian Sun, Ku>x ColiLKOK, N. C. The Official Organ of the Southern Christian Convention. CARDIN A L PRINCJ PLES 1. The Lord Jesus is the only Head of the Church. 2. The name Christian, to the exclu sion of nil jinny and sectarian names. 8. The Holy Bible, or the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, suili cient rule of faith and practice. 4. Christian character, or vital piety, “the only test of fellowship or church membership. 6. The right of private judgment, and the liberty of conscience, the privilege and duty of all. EDITORIAL COMMENT. Farm Facts and Figures. Year by year farm life becomes more profitable and pleasant in the United States. More profitable for two reasons: first, because farmers are becoming more intelligent and apply more skill and method to the management of their farms; second ly, more machinery and labor-sav ing devices are being used. More pleasant for two reasons: city con veniences, daily mails, betttr schools, improved highways, are being developed rapidly in farming communities, and, secondly, the labor of the farm is not so irksome as. formerly. xi mere is un^ iijc neci, imp pier and, in every regard, better than that of the farm we have never found it. 5E°r honesty, in tegrity and, in fact,'the stout aud stable virtues, you will go to the farm, not to the forum nor to the market place to find them. But to the facts and figures, which are usually dull, but which in this instauce are so stupendous, and agreeable they must prove of iutorest to every one. During tUe year 1905 the great staple crops of our country were valued at the inconceivable sum six billion dollars. Secretary of • Agriculture Wilson reports that the year’s corn crop was worth $1,216, 000,003; milk and butter, $66-% 003,000; hay, $605,000,000;cotton, $575,000,000; wheat, $525,000, 000; eggs, $520,000,000; tobacco, $52,000,000, and so on. “Every sunset during the past five years,” says Secretary Wilson, “has regis tered an increase of $3,400,000 in the value ot the fartns of the coun try.” Verily the farmer—^every aver age farmer—is growing richer aud richer year by year, if statistics are true, whether he admits it or not. And herein is our nation blessed and is glad. For when the farmer prospers the whole country pros pers for his is the basal work and wealth of our whole national aud economic fabric. Women Wage Earners. Complaint is often heard, es pecially in towns and cities, that women are crowding men from many positions formerly held by men only. The compluint is >not without foundation in fact: but the last census reveals a situation in this regard not generally known. The cstimute is that a third of the women, not including house-wives on the farm, earn their own living. The per cent, has largely increased in the last decade and is still on the increase. In the Woman’s Home Com panion for February we notice some queer, not to say startling revela tions from tbe last United States census reports. Look at these odd professions in which women are engaging for a living: Stock raisers and drovers, 1,947. Of wood choppers there art 113. Civil engineers and surveyors, 84 Watchmen and policemen (the cen sus should say watchwomen and policewomen but the new terms are not in vogue yet) 879. Boatmen and sailors, 154. Blacksmiths 19G. Railway brakemen 31. Conductors 7. Plumbers 126. Fishermen and oyster men 1,805. Miners gnd quarry men 1,370. Authors and scientists 2,616. Guides, trappers, hunters and scouts 1,320. Haek drivers 42. Masons 167. In tact there is scarcely a calling now, in our country, in which women are not competing with men. As elerks in dry goods stores, stenographers, and book keepers, women are (Riv ing the men to the wall andMaking possession. As to what effect all this is to have upon woman’s strength, and man’s regard for her, is a problem of the future to which the present offers no solution. A Notable Benefactor. A few years ago people laughed at the Salvation Army and their carryings on on street corners more than they do today. And for good reason the scorn has grown less and less. The Salvation Army has proven its ability to live by doing a deal of good work. It has reached a class and done a work that no other organization ever has. The fruits of its labors have been seen and today the world recog nizes in its founder and chief spirit, General Booth, of London, who is still living, a real and genuiue philanthropist. That the people of Englaud have confidence in him, and in his work, was proven by the recent announce ment that a half milliou dollars have been given him, by popular subscription with which to carry out his colonization scheme. With this money, General Booth is to take the very poor from the city, carry them to the country and fur nish them a farm on which to make a living. The purchase price of the farm is to be repaid by the purchaser in twenty-five install ments. This is what Prof. Pea body ot Harvard once said was taking the mud of the city to put on farm lands of the country in or der to increase the productions thereof. Gcueral Booth is to plant his colonies not only in Englaud, but in other lands as well. Wuo knows but this is the be ginning of a great movement to help transplant the very poor— the submerged tenth—of the cities to the country where an honest liv iug at honest labor can be had? The time is ripe for such a move ment, for it is known of all men that tlie very poor of onr day, thej hopeless and the helpless poor, are j not in the country, but in the citv.' ’ I People can make some shift and! get some sort of living in the country. In the city it is differ ent. There great poverty does its deadly work, and, cold, hunger and starvation claim many a victim. If Get). Booth has solved the problem of saving the city’s very poor, the world will name him one of its greatest benefactors. Canned Goods and Cold Stor age. So many charges have been brought against canned goods and cold storage of late that the Department of Agriculture entered into an experiment to prove these diarges true or false. A number mf government clerks have offered themselves to be experimented upon, as compensation for which no board is charged them. “Nothing that has not been in storage for at least a year is fed to the experi ment squad. The food is pre pared by a cook who has passed die civil service examination, and lie makes it as attractive as possi ble.’* The men have been living on this canned and storage food now for eight or ten weeks and so tar have shown no bad results. Whether it is increasing or de creasing their flesh is not yet given. inis is wnac may oe caueu a vital experiment with living fact. The young men at least are to be applauded for offering their stom achs as test tubes to try an experi ment, which could not be tried in any other way. Digging Bibla Gold. Bro. Editor: With your kind permission to use a bit of space in the Sun-coI umns, now an 1 then, I will t^y to suggest to as many of your readers as care to vyork with me, a series ot word-studies, in an effort at ^ DIGKIIN BIBLE GOLD, for the enrichment of the heart thought of believers. I may ac complish not much, but if I can get a few to joiu me in the effort, I shall be repaid. The desile is to make it possible to feed the heart on some treasures that are now hidden, not to the scholarly, but to the average readtr, without a little help. I will avoid needlessly in troducing any controversial ques tion, my purpose being to enrich the heart, rather than distract and disturb the mind over mere techni calities in grammatical construction. Let us begin in a good place. Turn to Luke 11:8: “I say unto yoiij though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity lie will rise and give him as many as he needeth.” The heart value of the emphasis in this verse is wrapped up in that word, importunity! The English gives us only a'hiut at its intensity. A free translation of the Greek word ‘hanaideia’ which is translated in the Authorized and Revised Versions, importunity, gives the full significance of the thought, and that would substitute for the word ! importunity, the word shameless ness. Importunity simply means the urgency of a demand, or the pressing of a plea, but the word shamelessness in this connection brings out the real thought of the original. $o earnest you can not shame him into quitting his plea. Then it would read: “Though he will not rise and give him because he is bis friend, yet because of the daring shamelessness of his begging, lie will arise and give him as many as he needeth.” The difference is just that be tween two beggars: One would like to have, and because of this fact, presses his claim modestly, even timidly: while the other one stung and urged lay a burning sense of his great need, presses his plea for help with a shameless dur iug, and gets help. He was shame less in his begging to the extent that he plainly showed he would not be put off—he must have help. While in polite society that would seem to indicate a lack of modesty as doubtless it does, but keen want is not acquainted with ‘modesty; and suffering under the pain of its lack, it must have. And this is the fig ure under which our Father reveals to us his idea of a ueedy and a huugry soul coming to Him for help—-that is His idea of praying. A good commentary on this idea as wrapped up ip that word shame lessness may ue iuuuu m wie in stance of the widow who, because she would give the judge no rest in her begging, was answered by the judge that he might not be further troubled by her. See Luke 18:1-8. Be careful not to associate the purpose of this judge in answering tilts widow, with that of God in answering the plea of His children. The point He wishes to press upon us,' as His children, in that he would have us come to Him with I the earnestness which characterized the importunity of these two indi viduals. It is as the violent tak ing the kingdom by force—the force of earnestness. Bee Matt. 11:12. Let us in prayer cultivate such earnestness. Gold Digger. Sunday School Lesson tor Sunday, January 28. The Baptism of Jesus.—Mark 1:4-11. __ The various rites of the Church established by Christ are iutended to set forth in striking form the evil of siu, and to typify the work of the Saviour who puts away all -in. The lesson today teaches of the establishment of the ordinance of baptism and that Jesns himself re ceived this miuistry. The baptism of Jesus is recorded by three of the Gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, while John himself through modesty fails to record in full this particular eveut. John, the Baptist, who adminis tered this was the forerunner of Christ. His custom was to go about clad in coarse raiineut, sub sisting on locusts and wild honey from the wilderness. His work was calling upon people everywhere to repent and be baptized for the kingdom of heaven was at hand. There went to hear him nniuh rs from Judea and Jerusalem. Tiny were assembled by the river Jor dan, at a swifr, narrow, yet ford able place where John was preach ing and baptizing with water, and at the same time saying there should soon appear one mightii r than himself, the latches of whose shoes he is unworthy to loose. Suddenly there appeared in the midst of the company the person of Jesus, requesting that the rite be administered unto him. John at first refused to administer this ordi nance, deeming himself unworthy and the candidate free from sin, the washing away of which the rite is emblematic. Jesus insisted and as an example for us, received the ad ministered ordinance. While this act was being per formed the Spirit in the form of a dove descended and alighted upon Jesus attended by a voice from heaven which uttered the approval of God and attested to Christ’s di vinity. Now, John’s baptism was that of water, while the baptism which Christ administered was that of tl« Holy Ghost. Water baptism is an ordinance of the Church which by an outward application of water is typified by the blessings of the Gospel. Water is life giving. Without water life could not exist, and also has a cleansing and purifying effect. So the Gospel gives life to those dead in trespasses and sin, and purifies the defiled. Since Christ received this rite he teaches l>y example that it is a duty we owe to observe this ordioance. This should be observed in a simple aud honest inanuer. Ia humility it needs be deemed a means to those who receive it of bringing them under renewed ob ligation to God and of placing them in closer relationship to the Re deemer. G. W. T. Kentucky—“Daughter of the East, Mother of the West”—the state of Boone and Clay aud Lin coln, is getting ready for a great home-coming festival centering in Louisville, June 13-17. 1906. The Kentuckian is one of the most vig orous aud attractive of American types, aud the home-fire which ever burns in bis breast, however far he wanders from the hearthstone, will leap to light at this call.—X. Y Christian Advocate. It would seem that the people of France are over-stepping the hounds of their ancient aristocracy in matters of rulers. M. Falliers, whom they elected president last week it the sou of a magistrate’s clerk and grandson of a blacksmith. If the dead can know, that iseuotigh to grieve the soul of king Louis XIV for the next six million years. So the world comes more and more to enquires not where a mau comes from, hut what can he do after he gets here. When you want^o keep a secret confide it to hal f »■ dozen friends. They’ll keep it—going the rounds. —Ex.
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