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®ur |hilpit.
THE SOUL.
Extract from a Sermon by Dr. Wm.
Davidson, D.D
Jki Will I What i- it? At what shall we value
it? (tod has given us no data from which,
nor rale by which, to estimate its value. But
He haa not left tis altogether without a witness.
From what He has done for it, and will do,
we can see something of the the price He fixed
on it.
When He created it, He formed it in His
own image. He made it not after the likeness
of angels that excel in strength, nor of any of
the thrones, or dominions, or powers of the
world On High—none of these, in His repute,
were fit to be the father of the human soul.
But Himself was the grand model after which
He fashioned it. His own ineffable essence
was the form alter which He created it; His
own marvelous attributes the form after which
He fashioned its attributes. Now consider
what it is for a being to he created, in essence
and excellencies, after the image of the Great
God—of Him who fills immensity and inhab
its eternity, who stretches out the north over
the empty place, and hangelh the earth upon
nothing ; whose glory no eye can nee ami live;
from the insupportable splendor of whose
Epiphany, when He shall come forth, the
Heavens and the earth shall dissipate into
smoke, shall vanish into nothing, shall flee
away and “no place shall be found for them.”
Consider, I say, what it is to he created in the
image of this great God, and remember that,
great as God is, infinitely great, past finding
out, still the hmnah stml, in its pristine lustre,
was the perfect picture, the daguerreotype
likeness of its great Maker. His own uncrea
ted excellencies were the mold in which He
formed and fashioned the attributes of the hu
man spirit, and the dye He used to stamp it
with.
But as if He had not yet given sufficient
emphasis t/j the testimony which He bore to
its value; as if He could never weary of
working for His last and dearest of the works
of His hand, see what a glorious world He
has built to accommodate it, in this, its first
and humblest state of being, for hut a day—a
great, green, goodly world, a world of hills
and valleys, and plains, of mountains and riv
ers, and floods, of minerals and vegetables and
animals; a vorld of singing birds and waving
fields, and lowing herds and nibbling flocks,
and verdant vales and babbling brooks, and
roaring, plunging waterfalls; a world of oil, of
olive, and honey, of figs and dates, and pome
granates; a world whose stones are iron, and
out of whose mountains one may dig brass,
where one may eat bread without scarceness,
and. not lack anything in it, and where the
outgoings Of the morning and the evening re
joice over us with an uninterrupted ami sem
piternal joy; and all this us the birthplace and
cradle Of the nascent soul, and just for a day;
all this munificence and splendor and beauty!
piled up, heap oo heap, as with the gorgeous
and prodigal hand of the Eternal, in order that
man might be accommodated for an hour, a
short hohr, as befits him who wears the high
image of his God.
AuU then look, too, at the casket which
He has formed to hold the jewel—these bodies
of ours, fearfully and wonderfully made. Look
at that knowledge of wise invention, whereby
He has formed and fitted together these vessels
and viscera and visicles, these sinews and
limbs, and ligaments, these muscles and tissues,
ind teigdons, these ganglions and glands and
granulations, these—but there is no exhaustion
to this argument; there can lie no utterance
/ven by human tongue, to the fullness of the
Vstimony which God has borne to the value of
lie soul? But why do we sneak of value set
upon the soul in its primeval and unfallen ex-
cellcnl'y;’ Look at the goodly price fixed on
it now, even in its ruin. It has fallen far and
foully from the high glories of its Eden home.
It is ;i>nlv the mere wreck of what it was, a
splendid temple fallen into utter decay. Hut
even in its fall, it is a great price at which He
estimates it. I cannot understand, and, there
fore, I cannot declare the value He fixes on it
even now. lam most entirely unable to com
prehend the length, and the breadth, and the
height, and the depth, of His love for it; but
I know that it is a love stronger than death,
that it is a jealousy crueller than the grave,
that the coals of it are coals of fire that hath a
most vehement flame; I do not know what tli's
love is, but 1 know that it is a fire of ardor,
which many waters cannot quench, nor the
floods drown ; that it far transcends the love
of a mother for the darling idol babe she dotes
on; and transcends the uncalculating, the all
confiding, and the wonderful love of woman
for the arm she leans on ; that earth has notli
ing equal or like it at all, that it is an infinite,
eternal and unchangeable love.
I do trot know, and I am sure I shall never
be able to know, how much He loves; but this
1 know, that he grudges not the choicest treas
ure in the Universe to save it. The Father
so loves it as to give His own, His only, His
well-beloved Son to 'humiliation and shame,
and pain and death, to deliver it; the Son so !
loves it that He is willing to breast and brave
the whole blunt and burden of Almighty
wrath, that it might be spared ; the llolv Spirit
so loves it that He is willing to take up His
abode in it, and put up with many a wrong,
and many a sore indignity, that He may save it
from sin and woe, and win it back again to holi
ness and God; the angels so love it, that thrill
after thrill of holy joy flashes, like the electrie
pulses, through ail their shining ranks, as the
news is born home in Heaven that another and
another soul is saved.
i
I cannot tell aright the worth of the soul, I
am not able to grapple with this great idea; it
is too high for me. But I know its value to
be each that all Heaven, on the one hand,
and all hell, on the other, are stirred ami ex
cited, and there is carrying on between them a
keen and deadly contest for who shall have the
prized possession. I know that the devil and
all his legions have been watching and work
ing and warring, by day and night, for these
six thousand years, that they may wrest it
away, everlastingly, from its "allegiance to its
God. 1 know that God the Father, and Christ
the Saviour, and the Holy Spirit, the Sancti
fier—the Triune Jehovoh Sabbaoth—does, from
His high Throne, make bear His arm of salva
tion ; that He musters His angels and mar
shals His cherubim, and yokes His chariots,
and bids them forth to watch over the heirs of
salvation, to defend them from the wiles of the
devil, to lead them in the good and right
way, to’ minister to their necessities, to console
them in their sorrows, to help them on in their
journeys to their heavenly home.
Said I not well that it is a goodly value at
which the soul is valued?
From the Southern (Miss.) Baptist.]
The Southern Convention aud the Centennial.
Bro. Grctsctt: I don’t know what action the dif
ferent District Associations have taken in rela
tion to securing at least a good if not full represen
tation in the next General Convention; nor do I
know whether, as a general thing, have they
taken any action at all; hut Ido know that it
is a question on which prompt, energetic, and
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
iiameSiate action ought to be taken. It is a
fact, too potent for us to ignore, that for years
there has been a falling off of interest in
the Southern Convention, among leading
brethren along the Northern border, and at the
same time there have been at least indications
of a disposition to encroach, by such slow, tut
certain inroads, upon the Southern Conven
tion, as to render its existence unnecessary,
and this, manifestly, with a view to consolida
tion with Northern organizations.
Now I, for one, would regard such a con
summation a calamity, for which I can con
ceive of nothing that would, or could, be an
adequate compensation ; and, yet, I greatly
fear there will be just such an attempt, at the
next meeting, at Richmond. In order to pre
vent the success of such an attempt, every As
sociation in the State, and in the South, ought
to be represented.
But to go from Mississippi to Bichmond,
will be an expensive matter —so expensive,
that few can meet it alone. Let every Asso
ciation, therefore, take immediate measures, in
the first place, to select at lead one good, reliable
man for the purpose, and then let every mem
ber of every church contribute to the raising
of a fund, to defray the traveling exjienses of
a delegate to the Convention ; and let a suita
ble man be selected in some central part of
each Association as treasurer, and hold such
funds at all times in readiness, when ailed for.
By this means the South can be well represent
ed, and in no other way that I can think of.
B. E. Melvin.
Select flltsccllami.
SABBATH DESECRATION.
A writer in the Bainbridge Democrat,
signing himself Bonos Moros mates the
following elegant protest against the
desecration of the Sabbath :
“ The moral sense of this community
has been outraged so long a time, that
our people have patiently submitted to
the apparently inevitable with the best
grace possible under the circumstances,
hoping that some means would be set
on foot to cure the godless tendency of
trade and traffic. But the time has
come for a determined protest against
the violation of the holy Sabbath.
According to mv understanding of
the law of the land, all works, except
deeds of charity and mercy, are inhib
ited, under penalty. Yet often during
the hours set apart for the solemn wor
ship of Almighty God, the hoarse
scream of the steam-whistle, and the
rolling of drays and trucks through the
streets may be heard, startling the quiet
worshippers, and confusing the sound
of prayer and praise in the sanctuary.
Added to this, we have borne the hoot
ing and yelling of the cattle-drovers,
until forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue. Is there no remedy for this
stato of things ? Is the thirst for mon
ey so potential that we are to be turned
into a community of Sabbath break
ers ? For one, I do most earnestly
protest against this desecration of
God’s holy day. But to continue the
subject, wearies indignation and fa
tigues contempt! Let the law on this
subject be put in operation.
ALWAYS.
Always the day with God begin,
The Father's smile seek first to win,
Confessed and pardoned every sin,
Always.
Thy hand within the Father's place,
Thy heart dependent on His grace,
Striving through all His love to trace,
Always.
The Saviour's love thy chief delight,
His cross before thee, day aud night.
His words thy solace and delight.
Always.
The Holy Spirit for thy guest.
Thy heart surrendered to his rest,
With His sweet peace forever blest.
Always.
For sorrow evet keep a tear,
Something for Christ to do or bear,
Quickened by love and holy fear,
Always.
Beyond time's baubles, froth and foam,
The eye fixed on the Master's home,
Watching aud working till He come,
Always.
F.nionrugenient for Winkers in Missions.
Anew Baptist church has just been
dedicated in Louisville, Kj. The mis
sion, which has resulted in a successful
church, was begun under the pastoral
supervision of Rev. Dr. Spalding, of
this city. A paper published in Louis
ville, speaking of the new enterprise,
has the following:
It commenced in a little store-room, 12 x 45
feet, with about twenty scholars and four teach
ers, and it was difficult to accommodate even
these. A few chairs were begged here, a few
benches there, some old singing books and
testaments were obtained from the home church
(the Walnut street Baptist church) and thus
the school commenced. By and by, a good
brother donated an organ, the same which we
have to-day.
This little room gradually filled until the
average attendance reached one hundred, and
many earnest pravers were now ottered that
the Lord would help the school to a better
place. Efforts were made at this time by
brother A. T. Spalding, then pastor of the
Walnut -treet church, to purchase a lot and
build a house for the school, but it was finally
decided not to he practicable at that period.
In November, 1871, the room on the southwest
corner of Jefferson and Eighteenth streets, over
, a shoe store, was secured, and the school re
moved to the new quarters.
Since the first effort of Bro. Spalding to
erect the house to meet the requirements of the
school, there has been a constant and persist
ent effort to attain the end which, thanks to
God, and some of our good brethren of the Wal
nut street and Broadway ehnrches, has been
reached to-day. To brother Spalding’s min
istry, under God, should be attributed much of
the credit of success. He, in April, 1871, or
ganized, in the Walnut street church, a
“ Young People’s Missionary Society” whose
work was to be “the promotion of the Saviour's
interest in tlnis city, devoting special atten
tion to that portion of the field in which we
already have a foothold,” viz: the Jefferson
street Mission.
In July, 18(2, this Society, by the permis
sion of the church, assumed the entire support
of the mission, paying its rent, buying papers,
patting in new seats, etc., and has continued its
support ever since.
Several attempts were made by the Society
to raise funds for building a house of worship,
but with no substantial promise of success, un
til April, 1874, when Dr. J. Lawrence Smith
and Sister sarah J. Smith, hi; wife, donated
a lot 60 by 200 feet on Magazine street, be
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, to be
used for the benefit of the mission. The lot
was encumbered with a lease, running eleven
years, and the way to make it available did not
at once appear; but the Society went to work
more earnestly, feeling that the Lord, having
thus manifestly begun His work, would not
leave it incomplete.
Subscriptions were solicited to the amount
of about SBOO. In March, 1875, a festival was
given, which yielded S6OO, and in the same
month an arrangement was completed for sell
ing the Magazine street lot to the Board of
Public Schools, for erecting a colored school
house. The net proceeds of this cash sale was
$1,701 30. In July the lot on the southwest
corner of Walnut and Twenty-second streets,
60 by 161 feet, was purchased tty the trustees
of the Walnut street church, for the sum of
$2,400, of which SBOO was paid cash, S9OO in
four mrfnths, and the remainder in two equal
annual payments, with six per cent, interest.
In August, 1875, the contract was given for
building a chapel, which is nowVeady for oc
cupancy. The cost of the house has been about
$1,700. Of this $1,400 has been raised,
leaving between S6OO and 700 yet to be secured,
to meet the deficiency and purchase such arti
cles of furniture, etc., as are essentially neces
sary for the school.
The Norse Legends. —The legends
of the Norse have a power and beauty
quite their own. There is a strength
and majesty in them that one hardly
finds in the graceful myth of the
Greeks, or the subtle fancies of Hindoo
mythology. A powerful and vigorous
imagination shines through them, with
a rugged beauty, born rather of force
than of delicacy. The wild, roving life
of the Viking, sword always in hand,
storms above and arouud, ami the rest
less, wandering sea surging beneath ; a
perpetual struggle of conflict and tem
pest developed a deep, stern poetry in
him, and touched his troubled life with
“ the light that never was on sea or
land.” The Norse had grand elements
of character* with all their rapacity
and cruelty. They stormed through
life, scorning ease and luxury, and lov
ing nothing so much as the surge of
of the sea and the fierce excitement of
battle. Sometimes one finds in these
legends and stories, a profound poetic
meaning expressed with the most per
fect beauty and grace. An old Norse
king sat in his great hall, one night,
when the tempest was roaring and
whirling without. The great fire threw
its glow far out into the dark recesses
of the hall, all the brighter for the
storm and darkness around. While
the king talked with his counsellors
before the (ire, a bird flew in and pass
ed over them, and out again at the
great open window. “ Such,”gsai(Lthe
king, “ is, the life of 'tnai ; out of tlyj
darkness into the light, and, then lost,
in the blackness and storm again.”
“Yes, sire,” answered an old courtier;
“but the bird has its nest beyond.” Could
a great truth be moie beautifully or
tenderly told f It has a pathos and
sweetness as delicate as any fancy born
under a Grecian or Italian skv.
THE POWER OF K.YIUI SIASM.
“ There was an old man I wanted to
see when I first went to Europe in
1867. I was told not to fail to go to
Edinburgh and see Dr. Duff at the As
sembly. I stayed in Edinburgh a week
to get a little of the old man’s fire. He
made an appeal for India. He pleaded
for an hour and a half for India, and at
the end of the hour and a half fainted
away. They took him up and carried
hint to the vestibule. he re
vived he said: ‘ I didn’t quite get
through ; let me go back and finish.’
They said ; ‘if you go back it will cost
you your life.’ ‘ Well,’ he said, ‘ I shall
die if I don’t.’ So they carried him
back. As they passed up the aisle the
people rose, and tears flowed down
every cheek at the sight of the old
veteran. He said to them: ‘Fathers
and mothers of Scotland, is it true that
you have no more sous to give to India ?
I have spent twenty-five years of my
life there, and I have come*back to die;
there is plenty of money in the bank,
but your sons are not willing to go. If
a call comes from the Queen to go there
in the army, they are ready. Is it come
to this, that the Lord calls for recruits
for His Kingdom and they will not go ?’
And turning to the Moderator, he said:
‘lf there is no one to go to India, I
will return to them, and will let them
know there is one old Scotchman that
can die for them if he can’t live for
them.’ My friends, that is what I call
enthusiasm.”— Moody, the Evangelist,
.
PIT TilV TRISMN THE LORD.
In one of oUr Eastern cities lived
soluo time ii poor wommx with ;i
number of children, who was so en
tirely destitute, that she had no fur
ther means of supplying herself or her
family with bread. To such a state of
inisei\ and destitution was she driven,
that she was oue Sabbath dav severely
tempted to take her own life. "She over
came the temptation sufficiently to at
tend divine worship in the house of
God. It so happened, providentially i
that the subject of the minister that I
afternoon, was the unfailing providence !
of God. It was a word in season, j
Every sentence of it reached the heart
of the poor, despairing woman. She
resolved still to put her trust in that
God who notices the sparrows and
numbers our hairs; and that verv after
noon, help came from au unexpected
quarter.
Her little girl attended the Sundav
school, and while reciting her lesson,
this particular Sunday, her teacher
noticed that her arm was badly burned.
Finding that it needed attention, and
learning from her where her mother
lived, she went to the house at the close
of the services. There she learned
their dreadful destitution, and was
looked upon indeed as an angel of
mercy, directly sent from God, while
she relieved their present necessities,
and promised to see them provided for
in future.
“ The birds without barn or storehouse are fed,
From them let us learn to trust for our bread;
His saints what is fitting shall ne’er he denied,
So long as ’tis written, ‘The Lord will provide.’ ’’
“ TILL UE COME. ”
Only a few more burdens must we carry,
In heat and toil, beneath the scorching sun ;
Only a little longer must we tarry,
Only a little longer, “till He come.”
Only a little more of life’B long journey,
Through the world’s desert, till the day is done,
Only a few more desert scenes of conflict,
Only a few more Marahs, “(ill He come."
Only a little longer, thinking gladly
Of the uprising of the brighter Him ;
Only a little longer, waiting sadly,
In the fast falling twilight, “tiU'He come.”
Only a few more billows wildly tossing.
Beating us backward from the longed-for shore;
Only a few more snares our pathway crossing.
Then all the trials of the day are o’er.
So let our eyes be on Him in His gladness
Seeking to serve Him in this day of grace,
W hile the thought cheers us in our constant
sadness,
Soon He will come to meet ns face to face.
ONE OF 3100Ilf’S ILLUSTRATIVE STORIES.
A few years ago, a young French
man came from Paris “to London, to
consult the celebrated physician, Dr.
Forbes Winslow; he was a nobleman
in France, and he had letters of intro
duction from the French Emperor, re
questing special attention to the study
of the case. They were afraid he was
going out of his mind, that his reason
was disturbed, and the Emperor want
ed the doctor to save him. The doc
tor examined him and found there was
something preying on his mind, and he
said to him :
“Have you lost any friend ; is that
what troubles you ?”
“No, sir,” be answered.
“Have you lost any wealth ; any pro
perty ?” • 1
“No, sir.”
“Have you lost any position in your
country ?”
“No, sir.”
A knowledge of his trouble being
necessary to proper treatment, the
doctor said :
“Be honest with rue and tell me
what troubles you.”
The young nobteman said there was
nothing, but finally, after much per
suasion and hesitation on his part, as
.if ha was ashamed to tell, he said
“My fathef was ah iufidol, my
grandfather was an infidel; and I was
brought up an infidel, but for the
past two years, one thought has
haunted me night and day—Eternitv
and bow shall I spend it.”'
“Ah,” said the doctor, “I can’t help
you,” and the young nobleman sprang
wildly to iiis feet, exclaiming: “Is
there uo help forme? Am I to be
haunted with this spectral thought
day after day, and night after night?”
And the doctor said, “No, you came to
the . wrong physician.” He was a
Christian doctor, and he told him of
Christ crucified, and he pointed him to
the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah ; he
told him how Christ was wounded for
our transgressions ; how he was bruised
for our iniquities, and the chastise
uient of our peace was laid upon Him.
He held him up as the sinner’s substi
tute, and now, said the doctor, “I
l was an infidel like yourself, but I
learned to believe in the Lord Jesus,
and found peace to my aching heart;
and now,” he said, “it is all Tight be’
vond the grave." And the young man
said : “Doctor, you don’t believe that,
do you ? You don’t believe that
Christ left his place at the right hand
of God, and came down to this world,
and suffered and died in the place of
sinners?’, “Yes,” said the doctor,
“and I got peace by believing ; and
now your reason won’t let vou believe
it.” J
They got down on their knees to
pray, and the doctor being a godlv,
praying man, poured out his heart in
supplication to God for the poor
French infidel, and on its conclusion,
he bid him good day, telling him to
call again. The young man visited
him daily, and they prayed together,
and finally, one day, a flood of light
burst upon‘his soul, and he went back
to Paris a child of God, healed of his
afflictions, and having no trouble
about the uncertainty of eternity. He
is in peace and harmony with the Sou
of God. ~
A Slight Exposure ix Bad Weather, when
the system is out of order, often brings on a
stubborn cold; the attending cough irritates
the Lungs, and if not properly treated, fre
quently develops a tendency to’ a tuberculous
condition. To avoid this danger those troubled
with colds should resort at ouce to Dr. Javne's
Expectorant, which soon loosens and eradicates
coughs, soothes and heals inflamed parts, and
removes all anxiety by setting the patient on
the way to good health ouce more.
To Ministers, Lawyers and Old Men,
TTI have a weak voice, subject to boarse-
Ili uess, and a throat often sore—if you have
I p weak lungs—if you have a weak‘back—if
A X yon arc troubled with constipation or piles,
or prolapsus uteri, or hernia—if continued speak
ing, (tinging, ndiug, or ip walking fatigues or ex
hausts you, vour abdomal muscles have relaxed,
and you,nyed upholding. ?If you will enclose to
me a threo cent stamp, the ettoctual remedv will
be pointed out. aud information how to obtain it
with or without money. Address
J R. GRAVES.
Editor ./?;' 1 Baptist, Memphis, Tenn,
Having Suffered I Compassionate the Suffering
augo-26t
A Sharp Retort.— A minister, who
was grea; Iv troubled to get his quar
terly installments of a very small sala
ry, at last said to one of the deacons,
“ I must have my money, for my family
are suffering for it.”
“ Money !” said the deacon ; “ I
thought you preached for souls !”
“ Souls !” said the minister; “we
can’t live on souls, and if we could, it
would take a thousand such souls as
yours to make a meal.”
Cljilirreits’ Corner.
“I WANT IT.”
“I want it.”
“You shan’t have it.”
“I want it, and I will have it.”
“I want it myself, and I am going
to keep it.”
That’s just the way the trouble be
gins. It is in a mild way at first, and
even tolerably pleasant; not scratch
ing, biting, nor pounding, nor tearing,
nor saying very ugly words, nor
doubling up of little fists.
“I want it,” has caused more quar
rels than almost anything'else in the
world. Often a quarrel has begun
with a very little want, almost as
small as a child’s doll. One side want
ed it as much as the other side did.
The question got to be which was the
strongest ? It generally turned out
that the strongest wanted it the most,
aud got it if it was worth having. If
what was wanted turned out not to be
worth having, the stronger one would
generally let the little one have it.
To fight for a holy principle is no
ble. To quarrel and snatch, and try 1
to get every good thing we see, that |
belongs to other people, is not lovely, j
If you want people to love you and j
treat you kindly, begin early to treat,
everybody else kindly.— Good Cheer.
THE TWO QUA YES.
“It’s only a little grave,” they said,
“Only just a child that’s dead.”
Aud so the? carelessly turned away
From the mound the spade had made that day.
All! they did not know how deep a shade
That little grave in our hiine had made.
I know that the coffin was narrow and small.
One yard would have served for an ample pall;
And one man in Lie arms could have borne away
The rosewood and its freight of clay.
But 1 know that darling hopes were hid
Beneath that little coffin-lid.
I know that a mother stood that day
With folded hands by that form of'clay;
I know that burning teai-s were hid
’Neath that drooping lash and aching lid ;
And 1 know her lip, and cheek, and brow,
Were almost as white as her baby’s now.
I know that some things were hid away,
The crimson frock, and wrappings gay,
The little sock, and the half-worn shoe,
The cap with its plumes and tassels blue :
Aud the empty crib, with its covers spread,
As 'Vturs- as the face of the sinless dead.
’Tis a little grave ; but oh ! have eare^
For world-wide hopes are buried there ;
And ye, perhaps, in coming years.
May see like her through blinding tears,
How much of light, how much of joy,
Is buried up with an only boy !
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BOOK and JOB PRINTING OFFICE and BOOK
BINDERY complete in all appointments.
11. That we turn out as good work in these
lines, as any house in the land, either North or
South, East or West.
111. That our prices will compare favorably
with any of them: and
IT. That friends of The Index and Baptist can
materially aid it by influencing Mercantile Rail
way. Professional and other friends, to send their
orders for anything in our line, to this office.
Such confidence shall not be abused.
Address JAS. P. HARRISON & CO..
Proprietors Franklin Steam Printing House
A Card from the Treasurer of Mercer
University.
Makers of Contribution Notes to Mercer Uni
versity, will confer a double favor by remitting
at the earliest possible day, interest and install
ments now dne, and past' dne. The Ti easurer
will then be able to do what he is expected to per
form, viz : pay promptly the salaries of the
Professors at Mercer and the Teachers in the
Mercer High School. His post-office is Wash
ington, Wilkes county, Georgia.
JOHN T. WINGFIELD,
sep23tf Treasurer of Mercer University.
Book Agents
and Good Salesmen
Are “COINING MONEY” with the famous
BIDA DESIGNS!
The French Edition of which sells for $165. aud
the Loudon Edition for S2OO. Our Popular Edi
tion ($5 50) containing over One Hundred full
page quarto plates, is the cheapest and most
elegant publication in America, and the BEST
TO SELL. Critics vie with caeli other in prais
ing it, and the masses buy it.
Agent in Charleston, S.’C.. reports 97 orders ;
one 111 Ninety-Six. S. C.. 106 ; one in Va.. 247 ;
another in Memphis. 200 orders taken in three
weeks. Full particulars free. Address J. B.
FORD A CO.. Publishers, 27 Park Place. New
York. nov2s'4t
A New Book by
JUST ready for canvassers. Now then is the
time to get territory. Don’t stop to experi
meat cm oilier books. Take oue you know will
sell. Prouipt action will give you choice of field,
anil gokleu returns. Get on the course at once
and you will win. Elegant outfits furnished for
one dollar. Send in your names and towns
vou want, or for circulars at once. Address P.
D. RANDALL A CO., Cincinnati. O.
oct2l-13t
An Outfit Free.
We want someone in every county to take or
ders and deliver goods for the old and original
C. O. D. House. Large cash wages. Splendid
chance m every neighborhood for the right per
son of either sex, old or young. Sample,
new lists, circulars, terms, etc., a complete out
fit sent free and post paid. Send for it at ouce,
aud make money at your homes. Address H. j]
HALL A Cos , 6 N. Howard sheet. Baltimore, ,
novt.lOt ’
MISCELLANEOUS
WEBERPIANOS
I WILL SELL FOR LESS MONEY and on
better terms than any other house. I mean
business. For proof, address the only ex
clusive Piano and Organ dealer in the South
G. P. GUILFORD,
Manufacturers’ Agent for the South,
oct2l No. 52 Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
PIANOS AM) MILAN'S.
Phillips, Crew & Freyer,
PROPRIETORS
Tie Great Mira Music House,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
THE LARGEST and most commodious Music
store in the South. Wholesale agents for
Win. Knabe A C’o.’s celebrated pianos.
< l>f<‘kcrln<r A: Son* world renowned pianos.
JDiiiiliam A Sou* best mediurii-pn-ed pianos.
Gorlin in Ac Oo’ ‘-Georgia’s Favorite.”
Peawe A: Co.9* best low-priced piano. *
Prices: 5275, *350, *4OO. *SOO, >6OO to SI,OOO.
Illustrated catalogue free oil application.
Sole agents for Mason & Hamlin, and George
A. Prince A Co.'s
Cabinet and Parlor Organs.
Prices : $55, SBO, SIOO, $125, $l5O to SSOO.
Granges and Sunday-schools furnished atjspe
cial rates. Send for Catalogue and terms.
Our instruments are'all warranted for five
year's. sept23-3m
(TATERS* CONCERTO PARLOR ORGANS
/flft ore the most beautiful in style
and perfect in toue ever made.
The CONCERTO BTOP is the
best ever placed iu any Or.
It is produced It/an ex-
£ l/tIt uin<.i ’■ imjT '.
ooLbii.”* I piTlITY Se qf
VOICING with (Trent volume c/ tone : suitable
far PARLOR or CHURCH.
WATERS* NEW SCALE PIANOS
f ire (treat power and a fine sincicß tone, lcf.'Anll
modern improvements, end arc tie BUST PI
ANOS MADE. These Orsr.us and Pianos arc
warrnnted/or six years. PRICES EXTREME
LY I.OW for cash or part cash atul balance in
monthly payments. Second-Hand instruments
at great bargains. Pianos and Oran ns to rent
until paid for ns per contract. AGENTS WAN
TED Speeinl indneements to the trnde. A lib
mil discount to Teachers. Ministers, Churches,Schools,
lodges,etc. ILLVST RA TED CAT A LOGUES MAILED.
HORACE WATERS & SONS
*Bl Broadway, New York. P, O. Box 3567,
nov2o.lv
NO MIDDLEMEN!
THE IMPROVED U. S.
Sewing Machine!
BS, A PERFECT WORKING FAMILY MACHINE
foiu 910.
We claim for this machine, Ist, simplicity com
bined with durability.
2d. It will not skip stitches, but is as sure as
the high priced machines.
3d. Its great simplicity makes it the cheapegt
machine iu the market that will do GOOD work.
4th. The parts are all made by machiaety, and
are therefore interchangeable.
sth. It makes less noise in running, and works
easier than anv machine in the market.
6th. Unlike allother cheap machines the needle
enters nearly perpendicular, thus preventing
the breaking of needles.
7th. It will work on any material, from the
thinest lawn to the thickest cloth.
Bth. It has no machinery under the table to
need oiling, all the working parts being on top
and in sight.
9th. It is a splendid Embroidering maehinq,
the peculiar construction of the needle allowing
the use of coarse silk for that purpose.
Send stamp for Circular.
FAIRCHILD A CO..
376 Bleecker street, Mew York City,
F.O. address. box47Ss. uovlS.ly
SAVES F'JEL!_SAVES LABOR!
gtiE
NATIONAL Ml ILK iLEANEIL
Carton Is or? of th worst cor. ’ -cto-s c f j,o nt
known, a (iepo.lt nr J. 35 .t an i:: ,„ n ,-tr.bel
C *tK!- ,T 1 - 5 :>e f' <> fuel.
Ibis 1 i-.beC.eaix ris made or.- • •.tee' rut,
remnant it of Its,-h a syrinx, and SrlitVa a .wr
fect circle sons to press against ;, ; s|.W ,f i), O
SJM ail die Carbon r.t.d scale without
toe slightest injury to the tub".
Ouu. stm ~1 to dean better, last tojircs nr ,,i n . nr i
fv jr.'rT v ,h £ ntarket. AdopnnUml j,, nse
circular;' *' 2 ' iVJ- lor fa!u ky dealers. Send for
THE CHALMERS SPENCE CO.,
Agents for the Foiled States,
Foot of East Or! 1 Xetv York.
Nor*.— Sau,;.,* can l- en r.‘. o'.': . * tl*l t&vtr.
nov2s.tf /
f| A AfVASSEES.rA^^/p 0 .";, 1 -^
| ■ AH HI z* <v,DTlnc * 7 ,,u tth our .uperh Home
V _ AM Picture* for Mason*. Odd-Fellows, Knight*
A B B l ®
AA II A M arg making double thev could anv ether way;
W plessanter. J. If ALE POWERS * CO*
. , . _ . * raiernlty* Find Art Pub*., Cincinnati, O*
- febl2 ~*y
T?P "PTr 1 To applicants, ray Wholesale and Bulb
-L lwiJiJ Catalogue!?. Four catalogues (the set) post
free, 20 cents. F. K. Phcexix, Bloomington
Nusery, IU, aug26-llt