The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-09-01

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heir dinners which they had brought !
from their homes. It was a familiar and
scene to see them gathered IL
groups, chatting about the sermon, ex-
changing views with their neighbors. nd
drinking nothing stronger than the health
giving beverage of the Spring here. l.
a hot day-tyou remember how hot il
was last Sunday and how you sWeltered?)
these good people didn't seem Is
think it was too hot TO go to church. on
the day previous it was just as hot but
they didn't abandon their work. There is
a sermon IN this for folks who stay away
from church on hot Sundays.
After dinner and a little rest the church
bell rung again, and the church was
crowded again. Is any time of day SO hot
as $50 Of a Summer afternoon? How It
does pull at ones love of ease to go TO
church at that melting hour. But if these
good old (and some of them were young,
too, and good looking) Coyenanters We're
hot, they didn try to keep cool by stay
ing away from church. They were there
and ready for the gospel. They heard it,.
too, in a splendid, effective, and appro-
pirate sermon by Rev. John H. Hall,
Methodist pastor at Rockingham. 'Stir
up the gift of God that is within you,
was the text, and it was a sermon calcu-
lated to make lazy Christians fell like get
ting to work, no matter if the weather was
warm. He said there were too many men
sitting down waiting for the world to be
saved by prayer and faith without works.
God has given the gift; man must stir if
up by activity and useful effort. 1t was a
fine sermon with not a grain of predesti-
nation in it, but everybody liked it, the
disciples of Calvin as we'll as the Armeni-
ans and the strangers within the gates.
When the doxology was pronounced, and
the "good-byes" had been said, the farm
ers hitched up their horses, the mothers
gathered together their BARNS, and with
the consciousness of a Lords day well
spent, all returned to their homes, happier
for the proper observance of the Holy
Sabbath day.
From scenes like these old Scotia's grand
eur springs,
That makes her lov'd at home, reverb
abroad:
Princes and lords are but the breath OF
kings,
An honest mans the noblest work OF
Cod
And certes, in fair virtues heavily road
The cottage leaves the palace far be
What is a lording's pomp?-a cumbrous
load.
Disgusting oft the wretch of human kind
Studied in arts Of hell, in w~ickedness re
fn'd.'
This u~npretentious church, with a MON.
bership of Industrious, honorable and IN.
miles from splendid Pinehurst, where the
descendants Of the Puritans seldom trouble
to attend one service on Sunday. How
much better citizenship is this honest
yeomanry-"a peoples pride?"
1t IS q stimulus to patriotism and reli
gion to worship with such a congregation
and to see how they keep the faith in q
day OF skepticism and doubt. 1t is sucl
the power and the glory Of this old Com
monwealth. @
Speaking of the proper observance OF
the Sabbath, did you ever notice how no
tcWn ever observes Sunday so well after
a railroad begins to run Sunday trains ?
Never IN its history has a train been
run on the Asheboro and Aberdeen rail.
road, owned by the progressive Page
brothers. They have been importuned tc
run Sunday trains but their invariabIe
answer has been mo" During the bic
Baptist meeting here a few weeks age
parties IN Hamlet and other points wished
to run an excursion to the meeting.
Mr.. Henry A. Page, president of the
read, turned the application down and
SAID: " do not run trains over our
road on Sunday and do not wish Sun
day excursions to come to Jackson
Springs What is the result? Sunday J.
quiet here and those who come for rest
and quiet are not disturbed by Sunday
picnickers.
When the Southern Railway wished to
make arrangements with the Asheborc
and Aberdeen railroad to take their
through Pullman trains to Pinehurst their
plans provided for the running Of Sun
day trains. The management told Mr.
Finley to strike out the Sunday train
OF course, like all great lines, the South
ern wished to keep IN the Sunday trains
and insisted upon it. But the Pages SAID
no and no P%inehurst tourists coulC
reach that place or leave on Sunday owe
the Asheboro and Aberdeen road. That
practical exhibition of the command
Remember the Sabbath day to keep i
holy ]. D.
THE TOBACCO DISEASE.
Er. Kilgore's Bulletin Asks for Specimens Il
be Sent to the Station,