The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20

| saints unon earth, for our direction
| 49, ;,nita+ion A work done in
| orr eight nv another directs us better
| in the practice of it; it is more ac-
| ceptable and of more powerful EN-
| cheney 10 reform us, than counsel ana
| admonition by words. me SAINTS
| are verify akin to us; they We're
| clothed with the same frail garment
| Of flesh, they had like passions
and were in the same contagious
world; yet they were holy and heaven
I ly in their affections and actions. 1hey
| lived in civil conversation with men
! and spiritual communion with Gou
| This takes away the pretence OF IN
| trinity, for we have the same word OF
grace, and the Spirit of grace, TO
| strengthen US" 1t will profit any in
genuous soul-a seeker after God, and
a believer in the Divine Son, TO read
| carefully what this excellent Christian
| teacher and profound Christian taught
as to the higher life, the Spiritual lie,
| the Holy life. He taught ESQ years
| ago what ministers and members in
| the churches need to know now. There
| is retrogression since Bates, Taylor,
Wesley and Edwards lived. There is
decay, and it is visible.
In this connection let me say that
the greatest theological authors in the
now very strong Methodist church
teach the New Testament doctrine OF
perfect love or holiness of life or
sanctification of the spirit. 1t is an
old and we'll understood doctrine and
teaching of Methodism all through the
past. The eminent Rev. Dr. Levi X.
Pierce, born in North Carolina, one of
the greatest preachers of Methodism in
the United States, taught the sound
doctrine with power and uniformity
In 1895 or 1894, L think ii was, the
Meth odist bishops i'm the Southern
General Conference, in their Address
to the Church, said of the great doc
trine so fundamental and that literally
pervadeS the New Testament: Let
the doctrine still be proclaimed and
the experience still be testified" That
very able Episcopate, equal to any body
of men of the same number in our
land. set forth in clear terms their
views of this primal. precious. often
opposed doctrine by Methodists and
other denominations in spite of it's
Biblical foundation:
ITO teach, practice, and promote
holiness of heart and life after the
standard of Gods law and. the exam
pie of Christ, is the work of the church.
Those to. whom is committed the care
of souls should not suffer their flock
to rest in a name to live without life,
in a form of goodness without the
power. in outward morality and relig-
ious training without the renewing of
the Holy Ghost. Not less earnestly
should they be warned against mis-
taking excited moods and loud profess
siore for nure and undefiled religion.
Sin in all it's manifold forms and de-
grees must be rebuked, and the beau
ty and joy of holiness and the rich
provisions and promises of the gospel
must be set forth. that preachers and
people may be able to comprehend
with all saints what is the breadth.
and to know the love of Christ, which
passeth knowledge that they might be
filled with all the fulness of God"
[ have found Rev. Charles Spur
geon's illustrations and Meditations"
the best, most practical, most inter-
esting, most varied and spiritually
prompting work ! ever read. 1t is in
deed a most admirable and profitable
work, and of the highest value. That
very great Baptist preacher conferred
positive blessing upon mankind in
preparing and giving it to the world
He was a Calvinist. 1 quote few
sentences from him, taken here and
there: I'VE must break every bond of
sin. and we must perfect holiness in
the fear of the Lord or we cannot
hope that the Son has made us free" "
myself? Art thou inclined to holiness or
to IeWdnesS 2" classification saves the
malefactor." THE renewed heat
shall see the perfection for which j.
pines, and the holy mind shall enjoy
the communion with God for which
it pants That great Puritan divine,
Thomas Manton, wrote two hundred
years ago: This desire after holi-
ness must be something to answer to
the desire excited.
The Railway Age" points out how
so many railroad accidents may be
avoided OF course some will happen
necessarily now and then, but in the
deluge of such accidents calamities
| may be prevented. Many accidents
occur because of open switches. The
writer says of such accidents:
"A simple semaphore attached to
a switch-stand by the simplest of
nterlocking mechanism, and placed a
matter of 1000 feet from the switch,
| is all that is necessary to do away
with most disasters of this sort. The
cost of the arrangement is Sc slight
and the proof that it is effective is so
tremendous that the human mind fails
to understand why such elementary
means of proved efficiency are ignored
| to so great an extent upon the rail
ways of this continent"
20 preserve lire ana property is
there not some very stringent legisla-
ton demanded? If there was a capa-
| bic railroad commission for all the
States appointed to supervise railway
| trains, much good might accrue there
from The writer copied from says
that there is almost complete i'm
| munity from injury of the British
travelling public. whose interests in
that matter are supervised and regu-
lated by the British Board of Trade
1t is precisely such occurrences as
took place at Sintaluta which, if it
ever happens will gradually bring
the American public to adopt the
British and insist that they must be
protected by some methods more eff
fective than those in existence today"
Surely the Congress should take ac-
tive steps in this most important mat
| ter OF protection in travelling on rail-
| roads, and some measure or plan
| should be adopted and enforced 1t
| is we'll known that in Great Britain
there are ten times less accidents on
railroads than in our own country,
numbers considered.
An ingenious machine has been
made that is reported IN the Scientific
| American" 1t will draw a profile of
q river bottom while making contin-
uous sOundngs of it's depths 1t is