The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-04

ENTHUSIASTICALLY FACTS-LIT-
ERARY NOTES-TARIFF TROUBLE
IN ENGLAND-WHAT WAR RE
CORDS TELL.
Before the great war crime as compared
with now was small in this blessed South
land. The criminal statistics show much
less crime in the South among the whites
than in the North prior to the great con-
f1ict between the two sections. Even
now there is in proportion to population
more crimes among Northern white peo-
pie than there is among Southern white
people. The North is great, fiourishing.
rich, and boastful of it's education But
somehow neither education nor riches pre-
vent crime, and of most diabolical kind
There is something else to live for than
to accumulate colossal fortunes and dwell
in palaces. There are better guides and
examples in morals and religion than are
found among the propagandists of notions
from the North. Make haste slowly is a
good rule if an ancient saw. Do nothing
that blinds while it intensifies fanaticism,
inflames passion and prejudice and leads
TO a swift, easy surrender of ancestral
of our forefathers. Many of the educated
people in the South are so blinded by the
glare of wealth, so consumed by the fever
of greed, so enamored of Northern civil
zation and Northern methods, that they
are for surrendering well-nigh everything
convictions of duty, reverence for the
Constitution, political opinions and con
victions, religious faiths, the grand old
name of Southron, and even the pro-
nunciation OF words that has prevailed
for century among the refined and truly
cultivated circles in our dear Southland
I happen to be informed as to one point:
/ know that the best educated men in
the South in the past pronounced like the
educated class in England-the profess
sions, the Established clergy, the men of
letters, the ablest, most scholarly lawyers.
We should be very careful in receiving in
novations AMI new customs. Let us keep
our eyes open wide, and move with eau
ton before making a complete surrender
in anything to the aggressive, boastful
North with its notions and methods and
ideas. Let us educate. but let us rely
upon ourselves. Prior to the great war
there was no section of the globe, there
were no people or nationality, that pos
sessed a more elevated, more admirable.
more perfect civilization, illustrated by
the noblest examples of manhood and the
purest and most refined types of man.
hood than were to be found in this reviled
South of ours.
Thirty-one per cent. of the insane are
produced by the drink habit. Large fac
tories, railroads, banks of the safer and
drinkers. The Bible is clear and en-
pbatic, for it declares so plainly that
a way-faring man though fool shall not
err therein as to the guilt and condemna-
tion of the drinker of liquors and other
things that debauch and blast the victim.
1t says emphatically-th Bible has it
written over its gates into the Holy City
No drunkard shall enter here
Old Fashioned Methodist Class Meet
ings are defunct now only in few God
adoring and serving churches in the
United States. But in England, the land
of Wesley. the faithful followers of the
great ecclesiastical statesman, scholar,
theologian and preacher, still hold these
wise, benefcent meetings. There are now
q 900 of Glass Meetings still held in Great
Britain by Wesleyans alone. There are
1.612 preachers who are class leaders.
which is contrary to genuine Wesleysim.
Wesley, himself vigorously opposed this,
but he and his doctrines and practices
and system are being forgotten by his
followers, particularly in the United
States, lin the South, and in North Caro-
lima. His example and teachings-like
the Bible doctrine of Christian Perfec-
tion-is spurned, repudiated, despised-
even ridiculed. In all North Carolina it
would be interesting to know how many
class meetings are held every Sunday,
and how many Methodist preachers teach
and enjoy the great doctrine oil Scrptural
Sanctification as expounded by our most
holy. consecrated men of. God among
Methodists-John and Charles Wesley,
Fletcher, Clarke, Richard Watson,
Joseph Benson, Thomas w. Summers,
Bishop Foster, DR.. Daniel Steele, and
many others. l read this in Prespyte-
rian weekly-the able Charlotte Stand
ard. 1t was clipping but good Fenelon
was a most picus Romaniss evidently
believer in the higher life: 1T is said of
Fenelon that he had such communion with
God his very face shone Lord Peter
borough, skeptic, was obliged to spend
the night with him at an inn. In the
he rushed away, saying: If
stay another night with that man I shall
be Christian in spite of myself Fene
Ions manner was full of grace, his voice
full Of love, and his face full of glory
Rev. DR.. J. r. Miller, Presbyterian, of
Philadelphia, in twenty-three years, has
written forty doctrinal books that average
a circulation of 100000 copies each. 1t
is so stated, and if true is really most re-
and eclipses all other religious
writer's. He is editor of the Presbyterian
Board of Publication in the North, and
is a most Industrious, pious and able
man. He is very much read and quoted
from.
Rev. DR.. A. C. Dixon, an eminent
Baptist minister, native of North Caro-
lima, brother of Thomas Dixon, Jr.,
the noted novelist, and in charge of an
important church in a city in the North,
has set an excellent example to the ac-
and tender-footed. He re-
fused emphatically to marry couple