The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-18
STRONG CALL To
. THE WORK IN ZION
More Men are Needed in
the Ministry.
SERMON BY DR.. MOORE
This Powerful Effort Stands Out Above
Every Event of the Day. The
Synod Consider Reports. En-
tertained at the ConserV-
atorY of Music.
atory of Music.
BY j. III. HENDERLITE.

time that "a widow of one of the sons
of the prophets cried unto Elisha,
the Man of God" the appeal of the
widow and orphan has been as the
voice of God to His people. "A Faith
er of the fatherless and a judge of
the widow is God" and so in a pc
culiar sense the orphans are His chill
dren and therefore the sacred wards
of the church. DR.. j. Rumple, presl-
dent of the Board of Regents of the
Barium Springs Orphanage, in pre-
senting his annual report of that IN
stitution called attention to the fact
that when the synod met last in Dur
ham, thirteen years ago, just after
submitting his report to that body,
he received a message informing him
that the orphanage had burned TO the
ground. Now it has an equipment in
buildings, etc, valued at $4,000. The
receipts for the pass year were $13,-
900. lee children We're cared for and
there was not q single death or Sc
rious illness Gods blessing is upon
such work.
The synod expects to take stren
uous measures 10 place the orphan
age on a somewhat more assured and
stable footing, and by securing the
support &C. ind- = iual Inmates as far
as possible, reIrder the income more
certain.
1t has been said that the Presby-
terian church has the words, Chris
tion Education engraved high uD
on it's gates in letters of light TeSter-
day mornings session was largely given
to that subject. Dr. Shearer read his
usual fine report. and DR.. Henry Louis
Smith, president of Davidson College,
made n stirring and luminous az
dress on the work and the needs of
that institution. DR.. Smith is always
needing something for Davidson. and
he usually gets it sooner or later
as is well shown by the constant and
very marked progress of his institu-
ton in material equipment He is
building up an unCOmmOn!y tine
school at Davidson which. view it as
you will, morally. intellectually ma
terially is an honor to the church
and to the State. Davidson gives an
impress and a tone to boys char
acter that are rare and invaluable
and may be easily described in the
splendid life-rccords of her alumni.
DR.. j. L. Bridges, president of the
College for Women at Charlotte, and
DR.. Vardell of Red Springs Seminary,
arc also to be seen at the Synod. The
name Of the last institution has been
changed we believe, to the Southern
College and Conservatory, or some
thing of the sort, but it is just as
fine school as ever, if not better
than ever spite of the change DR..
NarGell says so.
The addresses by DR.. Moment, of
Raleigh and DR.. Wells of the First
church, Wilmington, yesterday,
were perhaps the star features of the
Synod. DR. Moment spoke on the
j,ti Co l,n al
his best. For those who have heard
him that is enough TO say.
DR.. Morton IN his report on the
sabbath ahd quoted the saying of
distinguished statesman that Sabbath
desecration by any people is no less
than political insanity; and also Of
q European political economist to the
effect that with her attitude toward
the Sabbath France will go to ruin.
After remarking on the universal
recognition of the Sabbath, even to
be found according to the eminent
authority SayCe, among the ancient
I3ahylonians, and showing the neces-
sity of Sabbath observance to personal
and national welfare, DR.. Moment
proceeded IN a most graphic and pow
erful way to set forth the actual re-
suits of it's deSecration or nOn-Ob-
SerVancc. There was no mere phras-
ing or fancy word pictures in his ad
dress. 1t was q photograph, taken
from life. the personal observations
of traveller of wide experience who
had eyes TO sec, and the power to
express in a most vivid and con-
vincing manner the national folly and
suicide Of setting at naught holy
and beneficent enactment of the AL
mighty.
First he spoke of France. Sunday
is there the great market day; the
political day, when speeches are made
and elections held; the national holi-
day, devoted to frivolty, self-indul-
gence and pleasure seeking.
Today France is the most drunken
nation in the civilized world. Her
literature is the most immoral and de-
bauched French books intended to
be sold in England and America are
specially written and adapted. The
literature current in France itself
could not pass through our mails. tx
cept to some extent among the peas
aiatry that unhappy land knows moth
ing of home or of domestic ties in
their true sense Politically she is
conglomeration, neither a true re-
public nor a monarchy, and an
English writer has even declared that
in twenty wears she will have disap
peared from the horizon of national
life
Then the speaker referred to Ger
many. the house of the Reformation,
who exemplifies most strongly the
| Continental sabbath. Spiritually she