North Carolina Newspapers

Published Twice a Week. $1.00 A Yea THE GASTC ai— — ■ ■ __ ___ V. f. MA1SHALL, tdliw u4 Pwytito. DEVOTED TO THE PI0TECT10H 01 VOL. XXIII. wunAn s bio wuii BUI Aiy AUnini Um Woman’s Boms Mlssian Society. am Arp «a the AUuU CoartituUoo. Recently in Carterayille, the Woman's Home Mission Society of the North Georgia Confer ence met. Among those who made addresses was Bill Arp. His talk was interesting through out, and was by request from many reproduced in the Consti tution in lien of his regular letter. It follows in full. "If our youth is happily speut, out1 old age will be crowned with pleasant memories. How blessed are those children whose homes are happy, whose parents are kind ana loving, who are not cursed with wealth nor pinched with poverty. I believe that it is possible for parents to make the homes so attractive that even the boys would rather stay i here in their leisure hours than to seek the careless company of those about town whose homes are not happy. I don't know about David’s home, nor whst he did in his yohth, but his prayer was one of great anguish when he said, ‘Visit not upon me the iniquities of my youth.' "Bnt I was ruminating about the state and condition of Meth odism and missions in the long ago, when I was young ana most of yon were an unknown quantity. When I was in my teens and was just noticing the girl* and wondering what they were made for, the Methodiat church was the only chnrch in our town—and it had the only graveyard for I had to pass right by it eve nr night that I visited ray sweetheart1* home. 1 had a rival in her affections, and one dark night he saw a ghost and I got rid of him, though j was ac cused of being the ghost. Near there was the church and there were the people, but where was the bell and where wss the steeple for it bad neither. It was an old-fashioned unpaiuted building and had small glass windows of 8x10 glass, and two doors in front, which used to be a peculiarity of Methodist church es. It was said that one door was to take in the converts and the other to turn them out. The Baptist charches of that day htd but one door, for once they got in they never got out. This old church contained nearly all the religion that was in the town, ana at night was the trysting place for the old people who loved God and the young men and maidens who loved one another. Notice was given that meeting would begin at early candle light. Candles! that gave what Milton calls a dim religions light. Don't smile my young friends, for Shakespeare wrote by candle light and says, ‘How far the little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world/ Every body was familiar with the amen corner and bad reverence for those who occupied it. My wife and 1 still remember the low Sitteral omens of Brother nrphy, the snap-short amens of Brother Ivy, and the deep proanings of old Father Norton in the echo to pleading prayers of the preachers. Father Norton was a very close and stingy man, and on one occasion got to shouting ana clapping his hands and exclaimed, "Thank God for giving us a religion that never cost me 25 cents.’ And the preacher responded, ‘And may the Lord have mercy on your stingy soul.’ We remem ber, too, the good sister Jenkins, who always had three or four little children after her, besides one at the breast, and bow she always took them to church and spread them on the long front bench and took n biscuit and triad chicken to keep them quiet, and aJl the space between the front bench and the pulpit was their crawling ground, and when they wanted water she reached up to the pulpit and got it from the preacher’s pitcher. "By and by a new preacher came who determined to purge the church of its loose snd languid members. At his second service he had before him the membership and read oat the roll and remarked that some body had been adding to some of the names In pencil with such capital letters aa D. D., which he supposed stood for doctor of divinity, but learned later that It stood far dram drinker, and there were other letters. such as 8. K.. f" barkeeper and N T. far nigger trader, and H. R.. far horse racer, aud there was G., for gambleT and an F„ far Sddler. Me raised a big rumpus over all tuck aa these and declared they shoutd alt be turned out and they were. He reminded me of old Simon Peter Richardson who, while stationed here, went over to visit his old home oa the Pecdee, in South Carolina. When be returned I asked him if he had a rood time, and he said yes hehadsglorious time in his old church—the church he first joined end used to preach in. Ob, said be, we had u glorious revival, the beat I ever experienced. Did you take in many? said I. ‘Take to, take to; no my friend, we never took in nary one: but we turned seventeen oat, thank the Lord. Oh, it was a glorious re vival.’ CHCKCH WORK THAN AMD HOW "But 1 was ruminating about the difference between now and then in church work and mis sions and salaries aud church en vironments and the culture of preachers. There was old Fath er Donally, with his wooden leg, who always came to our camp meetings and attracted great crowds who came to hear him and scare the sinners and scarify the Christians and de nounce the fashions and follies of the day. I have not forgotten his rebuke to a gay young cou Swho behaved unseemly dur the sermon and the old man stopped and said, ‘If that young man over there with hair on his face and that young woman with a green bonnet on her head and the devil’s martingales around her neck and his stirrups on her cars don't stop their giggling while I am preaching God's message to sinners, 1 will pint ’em out to the congregation.’ oui wc iiiu i uumoer oi very great and notable preachers in those day*. George Pierce, the bishop, and old Lovic Pierce, bis father, and Judge Longstreet, the eloquent president of Emory college, and Dr. Means and Walker Glenn and old brother Parks used to attend our quar terly meetings and our revivals. They were all great aud good men and people came from far and near to bear them. No more eloquent and gifted divines have occupied the pulpits of Georgia from that day to this. " Btit mission work was totally unknown os an organised feature of church work. The first we ever heard of was introduced by some northern emissaries who came to this region to plant Christianity among the Indians. Two of them, whose names were Worchester and Butler, were suspects, and arrested by order of Governor Gilmer and placed in jail in Lawrenceville, where my father lived. It was believed that these men, who were Massachusetts yankees, were secretly trying to inflncnc the Indians to violate the treaty and not to sell their lands to Georgia; but this was never proven, and Governor Gilmer turned them out on condition that they would go back to New England, and they went. I remember the ex citement that pervaded our townspeople during the event. John Howard Payne, the author of 'Home Sweet Home,’ was another suspect. He. too, was arrested and sent to Milledgeville a prisoner, but was soon released and sent to Washington city with an escort. Two years ago I received a letter from an old woman in Texas, who said she was bon near Cartersville in 1831, while her father, who was a Methodist preacher, was teach ing an Indian mission school up the Etowah river at a place cal led Laughing Gal, which was the name of an Indian chief, j My old partner. Judge Under wood, knew him well, and said i he was a good Indian. He got his feminine name according to Indian custom, which was to name a new-born child for the first thing that the Indian doctor aaw from the door of the wig wam after the child waa born, and so when the doctor looked out and saw an Indian maiden laughing, the little baby boy had to be named Laughing Gal. Old man Harrison, who has been living here for aixty five yean, is familiar with the name and home of Laughing Gal. The Cherokee Indiana took kindly to this missionary wdrfc. John Ross and Major Ridge, who were half-breed*, be came converts, and Rosa’ son a preacher, and so did his grand son,. and 1 and my daughter, Mrs. Aubrey, beard him at Little Rock about twenty year* ago. CKAKGK WBOIJOMT >Y WOMEN'# woax. T '£Ut y0? “PI ««• I did not forget that the object of this conference waa home mission work, but eloquent men and cultured women who have preceded me nave faithfully covered that ground in every phase and have left for me nothing bat memories that are only kind to it. There is, how ever, no dividing line. Both foreign and domestic missions are founded in Christian charity and Christian progress. There was a time when there was no such organisation as home mission conference. When there was not a parsouagc in the State, and the itinerant preachers were sheltered in any house that was vacant and could be rented for a trifle—when their household goods were moved from place to place by a single team and the good wife and little children were mixed up with the load; when two or three hundred dol lars was considered a liberal allowance for a years support. But woman's work has wrought a wonderoua change over these conditions, and almost every town and village baa provided a comfortable home for the preacher’s family. The advance on this line has been rapid and it has been coutagious. Ten years ago there was not a preacher’s permanent domicile in CartersvUle, but now every church has a comfortable home attached. But let me say just here that there is yet room for improvement. A boose is not all of a home. It takes shade trees and flowers and fruits and green grass and vines to adorn and shade the veranda. Even a few pretty pictures and a mir ror would not come amiss, for such things cannot be ssfely moved. If nothing better can be supplied, you might put a painted motto over the mantel, "God Bless Our Temporary Home." Our Cartenvrlle Mcth odists nave mint a nice, com. f oft able honse. but 1 have to furnish Brother Yarbrough with Presbyterian strawberries, and he feeb constrained to pay tne back in Methodist tomatoes. I promise now to furnish every parsonage in town with straw berry and raspberry plants next fall if the good ladies will have them planted. I have noticed that the children of preachers are as fond of these things as other children, and their wives and daughters are as fond of flowers. Yes, my friends, mis sion work, whether foreign or domestic, is advancing all aloug the lines. Home missions are but a nursery for those wider Scldi that take in all mankind. The spirit of charity—love to God and love to man—is the foundation of all, and there is no boundary to that, no confer ence limits, no Mason snd Dixou lines. The good Samaritan did not stop to inquire where the sufferer lived. Charity b the only thing upon which all min. I kind agree. Pope says: •' ‘In faith sad creed the world will disagios, Bat all mankind unite in charity, .. 'lAml Wordsworth says: ‘The chanties that soothe sod heal and blesa Are scattered at the feet of man like Sowers.” MADAM DK STAXL AMD MISS STOICE "Charity is the essence of love and love is the fulfilling of the law. Charity like mercy it not strained, bat droppeth u the gentle dew from Heaven upon the earth beneath. It is twice blessed. ‘It blesseth him that doth receive.' Madam DeStael said, ‘The only bank account we will have in Heaven will be what we gave away in charity.* Some times we question the self**ori fice of missionary work in foreign lands; and the recent case of Mus Stone has staggered the faith of those who help unwillingly; bat the command of the Savior after His resurrection is ever before us: "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.’ Not long ago a lady said to me, ‘Well, if we cannot convert them, we can civilise them.’ The gospel of a clean shirt goes side by side with that of repentance. Wherever the mission ary has gone, his or her message has been addressed to the bead as well as to the heart. John Wesley said that cleanli ness was’ next thing to godliness. A clean body ana comfortable home is the beginning of religion. But neither the abduction of Mias Stone nor the personal sacrifices of thousands of others for a mo ment stops or impedes the work of the missionaries. It broadens as the yean roll on, uplifting the Uvaa of the ig norant and degraded in the dark places ofithe earth. The twenty millions contributed this last year to this cause proves that the God of greed and selfishness has not atsumed entire sway over this nation. These millions bring no return In wealth to the donors, nothing but the reward of duty performed. "Just think of it for smoment. Do yon know that wt have eigh teen thousand missionaries lathe foreign lands? In China, India, Bgypt and Cape Colony end three missionaries are rein forced by eighty thousand native preachers and teachers. They have churches in twenty three thousand towns end villages, with one and a half million com municant* and Christian commu nities of over four million peo ple. These missionaries have over tear million pupils under instruc tion. They have ninety-four uni versities, sad college stand some of them are world renowned and rank well with our own. The best endowed of these colleges are at Constantinople, Beirut, Pekin, Egypt and Cape Colony. Then there are over one thous and secondary schools ter train ing in the arts and industries, and also one hundred and twenty-two kindergarten schools. The most gratifying and significant fact is that more than one-third of all the pupils are girls. The col leges have over two thousand of them, and in the common schools they constitute more than half the number of pupils. Jnst think of it and rejoice, for it is a piti ful fact that for centuries in these benighted lands woman baa been under the ban, and young girls went slaves to man's domination, convenience and passion. What a beautiful picture she now has of the freedom and elevation of her sex. and it has all come through the work of missionaries, and is worth s million times more than It has ever cost. womak'm grkat work. " The freedom ud elevation of woman ia the moat glorious and heavenly work of toe past cen tury, and it still goes on. uot on ly in foreign lands, but here at borne. Woman is now at the bead of every charitable work, Who else ia educating our chil dren in the public schools? Who is foremost in the church, the Sabbath school, the Epworth League and the aid societies? Who is in almost exclusive charge of this conference? Fifty years ago she had no voice ia these things and they were considered beyond he* sphere, and St. Paul was quoted against her every time that she presumed to talk in meeting or speak very loud at home. The Savior did not so speak to the woman of Samaria, nor condemn the one the Jews wished to stone because it was Mosaic law. Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more’ was the most beautiful sermon on forgiveness that was ever preached. But the half cannot now be told yon in relation to our missionary work. Think of the 159 publish ing houses that last year sent out 10,800,000 volumes. Think of the 456 different tranalations of the Bible into foreign tongues. Think of the department of nied iciue that goes side by aide with the mission work in every land. We have now 379 hospitals and 783 dispensaries or drug stores, aod during last year 6,500,000 «•«* were treated. There are sixty-seven medical schools for nurses, with 650 pupils, male and female. There are 247 orphan ages and asylums, over 100 homes for lepers, thirty for the mute and blind aud 156 for the insane nn<4 .1.___•_• i. --—vpiuiu, a a ii not amazing, the extent of this work? Can we atop it? Can we impede it? Shall we neglect it? If it be of man it will come to naught, but if it be of God we cannot overthrow it, end if we or neglect it, it will be like fighting against God. " My Christian friends. I thank you for the privilege of making these farewell remarks. When your presiding officer wrote to me a kind letter, inviting me to participate in these exercises, I was surprised and pleased, for it was another tin of that growing fellowship which is now perva ding all Christain denomina tions. The bitterness of sec tarianism is passing away. I heard a gentleman say the other day; I am s Lutheran, and prefer that church .to any other, for I was raised np in it, but when I travel and find no Lu theran church in the town or villMT where the Sabbath catches me I always find a welcome end feel at home in any Christian church. Love to God and love to man coven til creeds and all forms of worship. ’ "That is the spirit of universal brotherhood. Love is stronger than creeds or country, es the love of women. David’s highest tribute to Jona than was that bis love was pass ing the love of a women. Ruth, the Moabites*. waa not ail Israelite, bnt she left Home and her native land to five with her husband’s mother because she loved her. How often do we see Methodist or Presbyterian women choosing their mates out side of their chsreh sad ioiuiag the church of their husband*. They do not stop to consult the creed, but change their church as willingly as they change their name and 1 have known them to do that two or three times Brother 8am Jones Is not ashamed to tell how he foam! his wife hi a Baptist duck pond, and I make no secret of telling bow I found mine in that same old Methodist chnrch I havudescribed to yon—not up in the Amen* corner among the saints, nor afar back among the tinners, but about midway where the angels congregate. Men do not enangv their churches to please their wives for they still maintain their rightful lordship M the head of the family. But tor love, a woman will chance not only her church but her same. The love of woman has so parallel. It extinguishes ail fear. The apostle* shmnkfrom danger and hid themselves, and onebetrayed and another denied his Lord and master, bat woman was last at His cross and earliest at His grave. . "Then we bid yon God-speed in your noble work, yon members of this mission. If Paul had respect for the Jews because unto them was committed the oracles of God, how much more Man we have respect for the Christian women of iMi i««<i who are planting those oracles at home and abroad.*' Coefl Ttitdia SlUic.l bon4n. In the death of Cecil Rhodes last week the human race aofleied the loti of one of those colossal figum that seem at a distance to be more than mere men. Perhaps Rhodes’ name is mom familiar to the reader as a very rick man. But to him his wealth was nothing, and in com parison with his other achieve ments the accumulation of mil lions of dollars was the least of his works. Beginning as a pomp hand in a mine in South Africa be came to control the gold and diamond mines of the country; and, being an English man, he had a desire to win South Africa for his native land. He was the master white man with his natives, >1i* master white man with all Englishmen, especially in Cape Colony, and Paul Kroger alone disputed bis absolute sway in all lower Africa He ’projected great railroads, organised colonies, formed governments, stretched the telegraph from Caira, in Egypt, to the Cape of Good Hope, and he gained for Eng land a larger control in the Dark Continent then she could have hoped to have without him, and likewise he brought more light into that land than any otner man. He died i ppointed in spirit by the delay in winning the Boer war. He had lived for the supremacy of England in Africa, he had freely spent mosey and life to this and. and the long war broke him down. His last days were spent in rest lessness of spirit and unhap piness, and he died mntttering —"So much to do, so little done." It is said that Mr. Rhodes was ■» —a quiet one. In modern history and in history that shall in Africa be made his giant figure will be long dominant. It is stated that he left moat of hia wealth for Brit ish Education. w - —. to find so --who speak in ad miring terms of ex-President Grover Cleveland,” said Mr. Nathan A. Harbin, of Baltimore, at the Raleigh. "I travel over a good bit of territory and where 1J?,1 he*r man eulogise him. This praise ia not confined to any paiticnlar party, but in cludes Republicans aa well as Democrats. In fact Mr. Cleve land’s popularity is far greater to-day than daring hit Incum bency of the White House, in those days abuse of him was common; nowadays it is rare to hear a .word spoken ha condem nation of hia official acts or private life. I don’t suppose h* will ever again be nominated for the Presidency, but if such a thing were to happen I believe he would certainly be elected WUI likely Pnfs Throafih Mae IMIi ' KociMtaa NfwRtrtM Baltimore dispatches daring last waak tall of a railroad that is to be built from the fields of the southwest Virginia to a con nection with th* Seaboard Air Line at Unoolaton. Morganton is deeply interested la these dis patches. It ia understood that the line ia to run through Mor gaatoa, and, in fact, the surveys running through this point hava already been finished sad the esti mate* made, except a gap of about fifteen mile* which present* no engineering difficulties. The mad named ia the one hi which George L. Carter end Samuel Hnnt are interested, and of which H is reported in some of the Balti more dispatches that George Biskrstone of Baltimore, is to be president. a We are continually adding to oar Noe of «t^tt*. Mlseea, and Children’s Headwear. A big let of CMIdreo*s Hots to arrive this wMk hi the EMBROIDERED LINEN SETS consisting of Belts, Cuffs, and Necktie. Newest thing out. CORSETS. We have a complete line of all the newest designs In MiMner corsets, Irani girdle to the tptrlal long. J. F. YEAGER, Ladlea* Furnishings a Specialty. Pianos and Organs tiiooooooooi^g • . * •r.'''1^ Pay Cashand Get Wholeaale Price. For 60 Days the Best Makes are Offered at Wholesale Prices for CASH. Stief Pianos are the only world renowned inatmment •old direct from factory to fmirhaar r I am Stief1* factory salesman and have somethin? to tell yon. Xiatent For BO days I will sell a piano or organ to any one at a ....Straight Wholeaale Price on a Cash ■— I handle three other makes of wood instruments which I can sell you lower tlmn the lowest. Also have on hand a lot of nice second-hand pianos and organs, received in exchange, which go from $15 to 9B5 I can’t see everybody—too insch territory. Bat write me and I’ll call on yon, and what’s more, will save you money. W. D. BARRINGER, SJ””1 Ch», M. Stkfl. GASTONIA. N. C. — ———. ||H| HORSES»MULES I : I l H 0 R I f S E S i' We etui have e flee let ef well brake Horace end Melee carefully se lected by oar Mr. Craig to salt the needs of ear castoarars. Contest once end Had last the animal yea went. BUGGIES! BUGGIES!! Oar trade cells for aore buggies end note new ones keep railing In. We srantkMi the Babcock end Anchor —none better of tbeir kind hat we have others* end can sell you e baggy* e good baggy, from $16.00 up. $ v Craig & Wilson. wnwmnMnceHisanHMHaHHBser^^v HAMMOCKS Wish yon would com* hi and see the Mason's aew hammocks. They will surely “catch you good." The aew weaves «Mf — •re unusually pretty, the colors sad suptrh stripiogs produce la some instances charming tapestry effects, while the materials and malting are all that coaid be desired. Price* Me up to >M>. THE NEW BOOKS ALSO ate hen with thair charming covers, pictures, and messages of in struction sad entertainment. Our counter*, too, are *Uoem whh the new April magashm. Pleas* drop hi and browse among tham to your heart's content. PASSE PARTOUT. Have yon learned? We hart the outfits and free book*' S?4 •»» cwrts per roll, eelata at » cents. The mount board la the deep tints and 'red. tone stock to seiect from. Mail and phoos orders solicited. MARSHALL'S BOOK STORE, On the Corner.