Christian Life Notes on Missions and Faith
A long column surveys global missions and domestic church efforts. It cites India China and Africa missionary totals, notes Bethlehem as Christian, reports Congo trade progress and Tokyo newspaper counts, plus local church growth in Minnesota and Montreal. It ends with moral exhortations on debt, motive, and active faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Congo Besn
Great Britain
Cause of Missions
Corea
Seoul
Jerusalem
British Guiana
Acconda
India
Turkey
Conference Bishop on debts and love in the South
Bishop Lane presiding at a Southern colored M E Church conference declares debt discipline before appointments, notes a debtor must pay before work, and warns that dying with debts unpaid leads to hell. He extols love as a sunlit force forgiving faults and binding the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Bishop Lane
Plain Truths on Proselyting and Grace in Faith
A short editorial piece railes against proselyting as church theft and contrasts agitated and stagnant churches. It cites Jesus calming waters and warns that death's trap awaits the sinner. The text argues grace is universal and questions the value of sour grace, urging prayer and fasting for deliverance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Family Prayer
Jesus
All Turned Pops in Johnston County
A Kenly correspondent reports a Johnston county Republican meeting in O’Neal township to select delegates for the Smithfield County Convention. The turnout included a crowd. when asked for input, the response was that everyone had become Populists, leading the former chairman to adopt Populist garb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenly
N. C
O'Neal Township
Johnston County
Smithfield
Subscriptions and Renewals for The Progressive Farmer
Letters from readers across North Carolina praise the paper as essential reform coverage. Citizens from Caswell to Rowan renew subscriptions, with many sending multiple copies and praising the Alliance and new reforms. The list includes names from Mecklenburg to Warren counties and beyond, thanking the editor for steadfast principle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Guffy
Rowan County
Guffy
J. P. Sossaman
Mecklenburg County
Geo. B. Frick
P.P. Mull
Burke County
County
County Alliance
Seaborn
Durham
Chatham County
Reform
L McDaniel
Cumberland County
Goldbug
R L. Brown
Geo
E Boggs
Haywood County
H Srickland
Cumberland
J. E. Griffin
J.B Barnes
Bigecombe
C. B. Thompson
Robeson
W. E Taylor
Hertford
R B. Lineberry
Chatham
W.D. Bunch
Bertie
J. L Bruett
Cleveland
Thos. B. Fieming
Warren
J. J. Alexander
J. W. Best
Iredell
P. W. Riamsour
Lincoln
J. A. Stewart
Rowan
E. M. Gupton
Franklin
Information Wanted About Old Soldier Anderson Wilson
Mr Jonas Wilson of Merry Oaks North Carolina seeks to learn which regiment his father Anderson Wilson of Harnett county served in during the late war or the name of the colonel he served under. If any old soldier knows, please write a postal card to Mr Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonas Wilson
Merry Oaks
N. C
Anderson Wilson
Harnett County
Wilson
Warning Against Lightning Rod Swindlers in Nashville NC
A Nashville North Carolina reader warns farmers to avoid traveling lightning rod agents. The letter claims the rods are faulty and overpriced, calling the cheats ghelpers and urging the public to beware. The writer asks for publication to protect other citizens from fraud and loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Barings
Teacher and pupil debate origin of dollar sign
A classroom exchange links the dollar mark to pillars of church and society and a crooked line for how money was obtained. Tommy asks his father for the story, eliciting a cautionary moral about symbols and wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Paw
Alliance Weekly boosts reform drive and prices list
Local readers outline support for reform and Butler's politics while offering farming goods and services. The notice promotes Alliance Weekly restoration to Hillsboro, lists prices for apples, peas, buggy wagons, potato plants, wheat bran, and copper sulfate, and urges memberships and orders before June 1.
Premiums Offered For Early Raleigh Crops and Produce
The Wire Fence Man of Asianrs, Gaane sells the best and cheapest fen with Mr J A Higgs offering Wake County farmers premiums this summer. One dollar rewards for first cotton bloom, first ripe watermelon, and first basket of ripe peaches sold in Raleigh. Ten dollars for the first bale of new cotton. Premiums payable at C A Sherwood & Co Raleigh. From John Sherman's Letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UNI
J. A. Higgs
Wake County
Raleigh
C. A. Sherwood & Co
Henry to Speak on More Money or the People Against Plutocracy
Hon W R Henry will deliver a speech in Statesville on Tuesday May 19 at 12 o clock noon. The talk titled More Money or the People Against Plutocracy discusses major political issues of the day as W B Gipson chairs the Iredell County People's Party Executive Committee urging attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Statesville
W. B. Gipson
Chm
People’s Party
Iredell Co
Wake County Alliance Rates Lectures for Township Outreach
At an April Wake County Alliance meeting the county executive committee was ordered to arrange at least one Alliance lecture per township by June 1, 1896. Rev. P. H. Maszey will speak in multiple townships including Barton Creek Oak Grove Houses Creek Cedar Fork White Oak Buck Horn Middle Creek Swift Creek Panther Branch Caryge Matthews Raleigh, with two sessions at Raleigh unless noted otherwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wake County Alliance
A. and M. College
Alliance
P. H. Maszey
State Alliance
Barton Creek
Oak Grove
Houses Creek
Cedar Fork
White Oak
Buck Horn
Middle Creek
Swift Creek
Panther Bra
Caryga Sc
Brasnfield
Gulleys
Schoo
Morrisville
Green Levi
Apex
New Hill
Miserats
Massey
Hollands
Carr
O Grove Ac’d “ A. & College
County Alliance
Bro. Massey
Progressive Farmer
Wake Co. Alliance
J. J. Penny
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Christian Life Column
Rev
D. H. Tuttle
Freign Lands
China
Congo
Stanley Pool
Tokio
Japan
Brazil
South America
Antonio
Southern Domestic Mission Board
Mary E Lease
Kansas
Church of the Disciples of Christ
Jefferson Davis
Gilbert
Minnesota
Montreal
Quebec
J. C. Thompson
Dean Farrar
Washington, D. C
American University of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Northwest
British Columbia
Chicago
City, Home and Foreign Missions
Church of God
Ozareth
Sal
T. Y. Chandler
Caswell County
T. E MecCaskey
Martin ’County
P. J. Leonard
Davidson County
Nashville, N. C
Halifax
Littleton
Marion Butler
G. L. Barnes
David
Goliah
North Carolina
J. A. Crawford
Gould, N. C
W. F. Pritchard
Elizabeth City
University Station
Alliance Weekly
Hillsboro
Order
Major McKinley
United States
John Sherman
Ttsburgh
Jemnati
Parnestock Anchor
Eckstein
Atlantic Bradley Brooklyn Jewett Ulster Union Southern Shtsman Collier Messourt
ROD Seal Southern John T. Lewis & Bros
Compacey —Melytan
Salem Cornell Kentucky
New York
Salem
Mass
Louisville
National Leap Co
National Lead CO
Broadway
Mai
R. Henry
William A. Guthlin
Branson’s Agricultural Almanac
Levi Branson
Pul Ralei
Bliss Gh
Ner
Edison
Bobbitt Drug Company
R Jeizh
Asa
Jas
H. Ennis
the Sheriffs of
Harrison House
A.e
E.M. Harrison
Smith, Faison & Co
Smith. Faison & CO
Raleigh, N. C
Winship Machine Ga
Atlanta, Ga
N. C. Baptist Almanac
Express
O. D
N. B. Cobb
Raleigh, N. OC
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