The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
NORTH CAROLINA QUAKERS.
Their High Per Cent of Intelligence Wealth and
Liberaty.
By C. p. Frazier, of Greensboro.

| to their views, and they began to mi
CRATE in the early part of the last cen
fury. They went to what was known as
the Free Soil States, and ever since have
welded wonderful power in the shaping
and moulding of public sentiment and
causing to be Incorporated in the organic
| law OF our nation many of its WIDE reach
ing and benificent enactments.
The Chases and Jays and Frankllns and
| Jeffersons and Greelys and Llncolns were
taught in their humble school. There IL
no other denomination OF Christian be-
| levers in the State with so high a per
| cent of intelligence or SO high an average
| of wealth, and yet on account OF thelr
| liberality of methods, they have been pit
! terly imposed upon by pretenders Gaining
| themselves Quakers and belonging 10 no
church at all. Many have taken the adj
| vantage of the proverblal good name OIL
the Quakers, and passed themselves on
before the world as such, IN order to
gain temporary advantage, to the hurt
! of the church.
| They believe that Abel Abraham and
Moses in Offering a lamb as a sacrifice,
merely pointed to Christ as the great
sacrifice to be made upon the cross, and
az his death no more lambs were to be
ofIered.l They believe the bread and wine
eaten at the passover merely typical and
| pointed to the eating and drinking to
which Christ referred when he said Eek
cept we eat of my flesh and drink of my
! blood we have no life" and that the ne
cessity of eating bread and drinking wine
as a religious rite, ended at Pentecost.
| They believe the water baptism OF John
sanctioned by Christ under the old dis
pensation and to continue until Pentacost,
was pointing to the baptism of the Holy
Ghost that was to come, and after his
coming, that water baptism would also
cease.
They believe war a POOR court OF jus
tice, since it does not appeal to reason
and to right, but to the accident of
force, generalshp and numbers-to the
longest sword and the biggest gun, and
| accoring to them you had as well throw
dice and save the cost of battlefields, in
| life, ruined homes and destruction.
| Taken all in all the Quakers are a
! great people, they may be a little Off
on some points, but the writer has never
heard one say that he has been made
worse by living with them. but on the
/ other hand, many will like Philip, of
Macedon, say they thank the Gods they
1 lived in country and at an age when they
could have the Quaker for an instructor
| for they could accept what they liked and
reject what seemed faulty.
From the South the Quaker has been
scattered, but for all that is gaining
ground in this State, in language and
! dress he does not differ from others. He
| is temperate and correct in his habits +;
| is a student of all schools; stands for
that which is broadest and most helpful
| to humanity; straightforward methods of
/ business and economy have made him a
financial and business leader wherever he
settles.
Guilford county is the great center of
strength in this State. 1t is the only
church in the South that has never
known a Mason's and Dixon's line, and
/ it is characteristic of their people that
| where ever the Stars and Stripes float to
| the breeze there the Quaker is at home,
whether it be in Maine, Massachusetts,
| Ohio, California, South Carolina or Texas.