The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-13

send pessimist TO do s!un work, but /
always one who has great faith in, hope |
for, and love Of humanity. But at this
point we are confronted with the quest
ion-Who is willing to do the work
And in thought we go back six thous-
and wears to the man who asked, Am
my brothers keeper" Am res
ponsible for his condition? Some try
to dodge this responsibility by closing
their eyes and ears to all reports OF dis
tress, destitution, crime, and misery,
and say they don't know OF it and don't
want to be distressed with hearing
about it. Moreover they don't even
want to worship with paupers or even
TO mix with them, and if Lazarus hap
pens to stop minute at the gate they
send out word for him to move on as
soon as possible.
These same people who see others
doing this work for the submerged
grant their good intentions in the mat
ter. but think them lacking in refine
ment and delicacy OF feeling. Beecher
I, Il, tol-
our fellow-men is not Gods refinement.
If YOU have received, it is that you
NAV give out Around Lake Titicaca,
7 am told, are dozen smaller lakes
which rise or fall with the waters OF the
larger lakes. Fill Titlcaca and you fill
the rest You have been filled full OF
Christ in order that you may fill this
city with Christ.
Some writer has forcefully said,
"Wheneyer people have taken up the
Bible and allowed their minds to be
thoroughly imbued with it's teachings
thev have come forth strong with the
spirit Of reform and equalization" II
is certainly from the gospel that the
movement for the emancipation OF the
lower classes has come. When in 1872
a committee from the different demon
nations met together and formed the
national and afterwards the information
al system of Sunday-School Lessons
they builded better than they knew
for it so quickened and stimulated Bl
BILE study that at the present time We
suppose the Bible is more widely ant
Systematically studied than ever before
and as the scales are thus removed from
our eyes we begin to see the darkness
around us, and what necessarily follow
but an effort to dispel this darkness
So we agitate through the school-room
the platform, the printing press, ant
the pulpit. Robert Peele's definition o
agitation was the marshalling OF th
conscience of the nation to mould 1t
laws. Our own apostle of social purity
DR.. Parkhurst, has revised and impro>
ed this definition and says that agltf
ton should mean the marshalllng c
the conscience of great munlclpallt
to enforce it's laws. And those OF I
who love and admire him know how b
is doing it. We believe with him
turning on the searcn light in all tn
dark places, and though the air ma
; ana will be polluted for time, pur'
. and more wholesome atmosphere Wi
y follow.
: Which is true charity, that whlt
conceals wrong and lets it grow wor
daily, or that which tears off the ban
age and applies the surgeons knife
social purity? "There is no impro
ing the future without disturbing Il
nresent," but the trouble is to get pc
pie willing to be disturbed. The sar
conservatism is here to-day that "
present at the beginning OF the Chrl
ian era, and many would rather die
a whited sepulchre and be lost than
have the pure gospel search-light tul
ed on. which shall uproot and destr
their easy going, backsliding, dow
grade tendencies.
=. We have said so much about the {
pOsure Of sin and the use OF the law
a fear We shall he misunderstood. Z
ob greatest hope is IN the moral and sl
itual realm, and these forces should