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The Christian Sun By J. O. Atkinson. IN ESSENTIALS—UNITY. IN NON-ESSENTIALS—LIBERTY. IN ALL THINGS—CHARITY. $1.50 The Year. d T,vm. No. 29. - Established 1&44. ELON COLLEGE. N. C, WEDNESDAY. JULY 23, 1906. Editorial Comment. Obedience and the Negro. ! In his inimitbale address be fore the Press Association of North Carolina and Virginiant Chase City last week Polk Miller averted to a fact that is of inter est. Before the war negro child ren were not taught to obey their own mothers and fathers, but the white master and mis tress. As a boy he had himself flogged many a colored youth while the mother of the youth encouraged and urged him to do so. The colored children were held far more in authority by the young white masters than by the mothers and fathers themselves. When the war came on it struck down the source of this authority and to this day the negro had not learned the fundamental law's of of obedience. That v'hich. is a rule, he ’ sees now as a symbol ■of authority and forcing obedi is a policeman’s billy. There is ground tor some study here. How many colored parents to this day have learn ed to manage their household affairs with law and order; how many colored youths do you (know who hold their father’s .and their mother’s word as law and obey the bibicial eommand ■“Honor thy father and thy mother.’?? How many negro child.en do you know who obey their father and their mother?1 Very few we fear. Obedience is usually sadly and lamentablely lacking in the home of the cob ored man. And the larger per cent of the colored boys and girls now com ing to maturity have never known what it was to obey a higher authority than their own appetites, lusts, likes and dis likes. Will UQt this truth ex plain a great many events, transpiring around about us? Obedience is the fundamental law of this universe. The planets above us, the earth about jus and the seas beneath us were uilded and are held in har mounious relationship only by this fundamental and eternal law of obedience. It was the first lawjgiven to trembling Chaos, the first command ut tered in Eden and the foremost, truth announced from Sinai. Somewhere, somehow, that which would know the law and do right and maintain exis tence must learn the eternal les son of obedience. If the negro child is not taught respect for authority jn its home if his ^parental life is to count for nothing, if his early obedi ence in|childhood is to leave no place nor favor with him pray it»ll us what is to be expected of ihiin when he comes to maturity i but to be a law breaker and an ,offender against society and the I State? To our thinking Polk AHller was striking deep in his off ] hand and .side wise remark. It , partook of .the | solarplexus nu rture we are'thinking. Russian Infamy. 11t is indeed impospiblAfpr ottf i meager minds to grasp prevail ing Russian conditions—the mental and moral stunts being done there. As was reported, Admiral Rojestvinskv, com manding the Russian fleet against Admiral Togo in the battle of the Sea of Japan, was court-martialed, but admitting that he was at the time mentally dazed and incompetent,' he was dismissed after a sharp trial. Now report comes that the commission, appointed by the Riisssian government to examine into the surrender of Port Arthur, recommend that the brave and heroic defender, Gen eral Stoessel, in command of the Fort when it capitulated, be sentenced to death, and that Lieut. Gen. Fock, who command ed a Siberan division be con demned to twenty years impris onment at hard labor—in the galleys—and that Gen. Reuss be expelled from the army and Ad miral Alexieff, former viceroy in the far East be reprimanded. Thus Russia seemingly at tempts, before the world, to throw the blame of her defeat upon a few of her generals who commanded at the front. It is a disgraceful spectacle and shows more clearly, possibly, than any other one thing, to what low depths of infamy and barbarity this once great nation has fallen. -x A Kindly Man With a Win ning Eye. One of the strangest and most remarkable political situations that we have observed has been the recent popular outburst of expression that William Jen nings Bryan be nominated two years hence as a candidate for the presidency. The strangeness of the situation lies in the fact that the day of the nominating convention is yet two years off, the proposed candidate has made the fight twice and was overwhelmingly defeated both times, and the leading isstie which he championed has passed out completely and become a back number. Still the man re mains prominent and men of all parties and opinions are won dering at the present strange situation. On this topic we are attracted to a very readable and sugges tive article from the Church Standard as follows: “One of the curious things of the current time is the sponta neous and widespread revival of $ call for the nomination of Mr, Bryatl as the Beinbefatic candi date for the office of president of the United States, _ The conserv ative wing of the party, which could have elected him on former occasions, but preferred to de feat him, is now almost as clam orous in his favor as the other wing by which he has hitherto been supported. As a political matter, this does not concern us, but as a psychological phe nomenon it is decidedly curious. Years ago when a conserative Democrat front Mr. Bryan’s own state was asked the reason for his popularity, he replied: ‘Bryan has an eye that wins good will. No one can meet his faze and not feel kindly towards im, no matter how wrong he believes Bryan’s views to be. He’s a kindly man and he wins kind feeling; that’s the secret of it. Part of the secret it very likely was; it is probably part of the secret of the fact that Mr. Bryan has no personal enemies, and so it goes a good way to explain the sudden outburst of a call for his nomination. To say, as some say, that Mr. Bryan has shifted his ground is nonesense; it is the ground that has shifted. The silver question is dead be yond the hope of resurrection, but all the other questions re maining, with some shifting of the ground even in regard to them.” A New Kind of Exposition. From of old it has been en joined that if you would know the news at home you must go abroad to learn it. Here is an instance in which the saying makes good. Under the caption given above we find the best summary we have yet seen of the distinct plans and purposes of the Jamestown Exposition given in The Christian Endeavor World of Boston, issue of July 19. If we have caught the idea of the Jamestown correctly the following exhibits it: “The World’s Fair which is to be held next year to commemo rate the three-hundredth anni versary of the landing j},t James town, Va , will be vastly differ ent from any exposition hereto fore held in this country. In the first place, it will not be at Jamestown, the village founded | by the first settlers, but at Nor folk, forty miles farther down the river, though there will be side-trips to the site of the old village. In the second place, it will not be on land, but on the waters and shore of Hampton Roads. It will be, is part, a great naVdl pdgCdlit. The Unit ed States will assign to the in ternational manoevres all the naval vessels that can be spared from Service. An entire fleet of British vessels is expected, in cluding the huge battleship Dreadnaught. It is confidently hoped that Japan will send a fleet composed of the ships that fought the Russians so success fully, and other nations will doubtless be represented by squadrons. A third departure from the conventional type of exposition will be the emphasis put upon historical and educational, rather than upon the industrial values. Not the big material things, but the old things and the intellectual things, will be exploited, and the events that have made history. States are being asked to come and show what they are doing along edu cational and scientific lines, rather than make industrial dis plays as they did at Chicago and St. Louis. The State his torical society of each State will probably make an exhibit; and some of the most noted author ities in educational and scientific endeavor will be secured to de velop this unique idea. One reason for not having the exposition on Jamestown Is land is the unhealthfulness of the filace, for whites, during the atter part of the summer; but a wharf has been built to accom modate the daily excursions that will be run there. Other near-by points of inter est are: Fortress Monroe, origi nally a palisaded fort of the set tlers, afterwards one of the best known battle-grounds of the Civil War; Old Point Comfort, the first harbor the settlers en tered after crossing the Atlantic; and Newport News, the site of the great ship-building plant, lo cated where the men from James town, disheartened by their dis asters, in the act of abandoning the settlement first sighted Lord Delaware’s ships bringing relief. Within a few hours ride are more than a score of battle grounds of the Civil War. One of the most gratifying tilings about this exposition is that the quarter-of-a-million dollar appropriation made by Congress was coupled with the provision that it shall be closed on Su Kip The Sons of Minsters. We printed in these columns last summer an editorial in defens of ministers sons {against the aspersion that, as a rule, they do not turn out as well as the sons of other men. We then maintained that many in the ac tive ministry of our Church are the sons of ministers; that in some instances most, if not all, the sons ^of the minister had chosen his lifework, citing as ex amples the Scudders, iDemarests it^d Searles, and not 'confining ourselves to anyone denomina tion, but taking a wider survey, gave a long list of the sons of ministers who had honored their fathers as well as themselves by achieving distinction in other professions and calljr.^, We wWh new to refer in sup port of our positioii to ah arti= cle by the' Eight Rev. Bishop Weldon on ‘-The Children of the Clergy,” published in the Nine teenth Century. The Bishop de sired to come “a just conslusion by ascertaining the sum total of the contribution, whether intel lectual, or ethical, or spiritual, which the clergy of Great Brit ain have, since the Reformation, made, in the persons of their children, to the treasury of na tional life.” In order to this he examined the parentage of every person whose name occurs in the Dictionary of National Bio graphy, confining himself to the centuries succeeding the Refor mation. As a result he declares that “it is safe to assert not only that the clerical profession has sent out an immense number of chil dren who ‘served God both in Church and State’ with success and distinction, but that no other profession has sent out so many children equally success full and equally distinguished.” The Bishop marked the names of those whom he deemed “worthy of remembrance for 1 some service performed in reli- ! gion or politics or literature or science or art or commerce or philanthropy or warfare or some other aspects of the var ious life of the nation.” Of such names he found one thousand two hundred and seventy who - V'v . were the childly ;vmen or ministers. taktfip no ac count of those v ho were grand children of clergymen or more remote descendants. Of the children of lawyers there were 510, and of doctors, 350. The sons of clergymen wha became clergymen were 350. He further asserts that “the superiority which the clergy en 303’, in respect to their children to the other professions, lies be yond dispute. * * * The super-/ ioritv has been not of numbers only but of degree. From cleri cal homes have sprung more dis tinguished, and a larger num ber of distinguished sons, than from the homes of secular pro fession. No single source has contributed so much to the learning and energy and honor of Great Britain as clerical homes. The ‘sons of the manse’ have long since won a repute which has become proverbial in Scotland. Not less distinguish ed or devoted have been the children who have sprung from the sectaries and vicarages of England.” If data were obtained on this subject it would undoubtedly be found that America need not fear comparison with Great Bri tain.—Christian Intelligencer. Flying Around The Capital. A remarkable aeronautic feat took place at Washington, D. C. a few days ago. An aeronaut, in a machine which an observe? describes as looking like a gi gantic bologna sausage, with the framework of a dory, made a circuit of the city. Ascending from Luna Park, he steered for the Washington Monument, a distance of about four miles, and after landing there for a few min utes, rose to the height of the monument, 555 feetj sailed around it. and then iiew over into the zear of White House grounds. Tnen he started the machine again, taking an easterly course over the Treasury Department, and following the line of Penn sylvania Avenue at an altitude of about 300 feet. He maintained this height until he reached the Capitol, around the great dome of which the balloonsailed beauti fully and easily. Another landing was made at the east fornt of the Capitol and then the aeronaut sail h d away for Luna Park. As the air ship made its graceful flight, Government business was prac tically suspended. Senators and Representatives hurried from their chamber to see it. Members )f the Army General St ff eager y watched its movements, and :he roofs of the Department Build ngs were crowded with clerks in :erested in the strange spectacle. Crowds of ordinary citizms stop ped in their errands in streets to ^aze to the skies, as the novel lirship sailed around the city, iescending and ascending at the will of the aeronaut. Would that ill whose attention was that day Irawn to this flight through the lir might seek the fulfilment of :hat promise of heavenly flight :hat ismade to all those who wait ipon God; They that wait upon :he Lord, shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run ind not be weary; they shall walk ind not faint—Isaith 40: 31.— Christian Herald.
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