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The Christian Index.
Vol. 57- -No 27.
Table of Contents.
First Pack.—Alabama Department; Poverty
and Riches; Trimmers—Erasmus; A Tem
perance City: Alabama News; Florida De
partment ; Weekly News and Laconics;
Lovely I Tove y!
Second Page—Correspondence: Reho
beth Sunday school; Southern Female Col
lege; Cui Bono?—by E. B. Teague; Letter
from the Indian Territory; The Suhday
school.
Third Page—Our Pulpit; The Satisfactions
of old age—by Rev J. H. DeVotie.
Fourth Page—Editorials : Bidden and For
bidden—The Three Commandments; Sim
ply Amazing ; A Good Start for Georgia;
Three Good Bills; Exploit Number Two;
Minutes of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion—Correction Corrected ; Elberton, Fall
ing Creek etc. — C. M. 1 ; Times ol Meet
ing ot Georgia Baptist Association, 1579;
Georgia Baptist News.
Fifth Paoß.—A Law that Should be Itepeal
' ed • General Meeting ; Secular Editorials ;
News Paragraphs; Our Portrait Gadery—
Why Delayed ; A Fine Tribute to Georgia;
Our Accounts; Georgia News.
Sixth Page—Advertisements.
Seventh Page—Farmers' Index: Farm
Work; Cotton Seed Oil; State Agricultural
Department; When to Water Horses, etc.
Eighth Page.—Special Notice; New Adver
tlsements, etc.
Alabama Department.
BY SAMUEL HENDERSON.
POVERTY AND RICHES.
It is curious to observe how the ex
tremes ol vicious poverty and unsanc
tified riches meet in the production of
crime. It is no wonder after observ
ing this coincidence between these ex
tremes, that a godly man anciently
prayed, “Give me neither poverty nor
riches.” It would be interesting to
watch the career of the two men, as
the one would rise above, and the |
other would sink below that “golden '
mean,” that is, what would gratify all
rational desires, for which Agur pray
ed, and note the history of each in the
ascending and descending scale. Per
haps the result would be, in any fair
estimate of the sum of iniquity which
would gather around each career, that
it would present another problem
which only the light of eternity could
solve. Each step, either upward or
downward, would encounter its temp
tations, and these temptations would
thicken at every succeeding step. So
that if some “Boswell” were detailed
to dog the heels of each through his
whoWcpurse of life—thj; pne into the
squalid huts of ’ self-inflicted, vicious
poverty, and the other into the pala
tial M>pdes of riotous wealth —and
should Wiass the quantum of iniquity
which his life would furnish, and throw
each mass into the scales of even
handed justice, perhaps we should find
about as nearly an equipoise as ever
was made by two pound weights bal
ancing each other.
The philosophy of the matter ap
pears to be this: In the one case —the
prosperous man—where the greed of
gain becomes the ruling passion—the
all-absorbing presiding purpose of life,
that pursues wealth as an end instead
of as a means ; in that case, we say,
there are no expedients to which the
man will not resort, short Os what
would incarcerate him in prison, (and
even this is not sufficient at times to
deter,) in order to compass his ends.
All the restraints of morality and reli
gion combined are but as so many cob
webs which he brushes away with
the nonchalance of one who would
kick a swine from his pathway. He
is, as the Bible affirms, an idolater. In
the other case —the nonproficient in
his worldly affairs —where vice is the
source and growing poverty is the re
sult, then it is easy to see how these
very vices nourish the very desires
which their indulgence prevents him
from gratifying. 80 that the lower
he descends, the more overmas
tering become those passions, appe
tites and lusts, the indulgence of
which has destroyed the means of
satisfying. This precipitates him into
a career of crime—thieving, highway
robbery, anything that will afford the
means to satiate his desires ; and thus
he procures an ignominious end in a
jail, a penitentiary, or on the gibbet.
We have been led into this train of
thought by observing a very animated
and acrimonious style of crimination
and recrimination now going on be
tween some newspapers in the two sec
tions of our common country that
were a few years back in a state of war
with each other. That war resulted
in the impoverishment of the South and
the enrichment of the North. Indeed,
we may say, that the very degree of
our impoverishment was about the de
gree of the increase of their riches.
It was as if by some sudden upheaval,
the whole wealth of the South was sud
denly lifted from us and poured into
their laps. Thus each section found
itself just in that condition in which,
on the broadest scale, the problem of
wealth and the problem of poverty was
to be worked out—the number the
character, and degree of crimes which
each would entail upon a common
country. Now if each section from
the time the contest ended, had been
animated by “that charity that suffer
eth long and is kind,” had tendered to
each other any proper application of
SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
of Alabama.
the golden rule, as the one was grap
pling with the monster poverty, the
other with the monster wealth, that
would have been just what a Chistian
people ought to have done. But the
reverse of this has been true. The
Northern people, from their proud em
inence inspired by the prestige of suc
cess, by their unbounded wealth, and
by an assumption of superior moral as
well as intellectual power, have taunt
ed us in the day of our adversity with
indolence, vice and crime. We in our 1
turn, have stood off in cold indifference,
and pointed with grim satisfaction, to
that avenging spirit, sometimes called
; “retributive justice,” that lurks in am
; bush, and that sooner or later will smite
the haughty spirit to the ground,despoil
ing him of his ill-gotton gains, and incit- !
ing to those colossal crimes that wealth !
only can produce. And this mutual
recrimination is now about in its last
agonies, and has assumed the ridicu
| lons attitude of two school-boy bullies
who, after pounding each other to ex
haustion, can only make wry faces at
each other. We never had any stomach
for so ignoble a work. We have ob
served with pain the out-breakings of
crime in both sections. We have sym
pathy with the good men North and
South in their honest efforts to sup
press a tide of iniquity, (that per
haps was a necessary ’ incident to the
war,) and which, there afe well as here,
had outgrown the capacity of law to
control, though now it is subsiding, we
trust,there and here. We would pour oil
: upon these troubled waters, instead of
■ parading the crimes of each section in
| the newspapers of opposite sides, and
! leave the scenting up of such garbage
to those who have the instincts for
such work.
But if “the rich and the poor meet
together” as a common source of in
iquity—vicious poverty and unsancti
fied wealth are alike destructive of
moral excellence and productive of
crime—we may joyfully say on the
other hand, that sanctified poverty and
consecrated wealth are often the sources
of the highest types of piety that the
church militant ever gives to the
church triumphant. In the one case,
the embarrassment, the privations, the
■ labor tuid toil, which murk the career
are remanded
erty’s Vale,” develop those iffcwSftaaes
of piety, those masculine virtues, that
symetrical combination of Christian
excellences, which constitute, in great
part, the real spiritual power of the
churches of the saints. For it is under
these conditions that “patience has her
perfect work,” and that the disciple
reaches that maturity in which it can
be said, that he is “perfect and entire,
wanting nothing.” In the other case
—we mean consecrated wealth—every
one must see what vast opportunities
of usefulness it affords—the 1 relief of
the poor, the maintenance of the cause
of Christ in all its departments, the
opportunity of securing that highest
; blessedness, “it is more blessed to give
I than to receive.” Let the reader
turn to Luke 16 : 1-14, and read that
parable in the right spirit, and we are
mistaken if he does not see, as one
has expressed it, how "the Son of God
has redeemed money as he has retjqem
-1 ed man,” thus entitling the parable, so
! as to express, “the Gospel of Money.”
For the church of Christ needs no less
its “Davids” and its “Gaiuses,” than its
“ Mephihosheths ” and “Lazaruses.”
They each fill their places in that
grand spiritual structure which is des
tined to be the master-piece of God’s
handiwork, “not having spot or
wrinkle, or any such thing.” To con
stitute any, even the humblest part of
that temple, will be honor enough for
the poorest saint that ever bathed his
path to heaven with penitential tears
—honor enough for the richest “Gaius”
who ever “prospered even as his soul
prospered.”
•
Os all men in the world, your “trim
mer” is least to be envied. He has no
, convictions. He wears his principles
like a man wear- an outer garment, to
,be doffed or assumed as the exigency
demands. He has taken his station
just at that point between all parties,
whether political, religious, or what
j not, where the filth and scum of each
jof these parties meet and mingle the
most nauseous cup ever commended to
the lips of one whom nobody will trust.
When he turns up in religious circles,
he adopts a set of platitudes for his
faith to which nobody particularly ob
jects, and parades them before the
world as the grand catholicon for the
sectarianism of Christianity. They
will abate all our Theological acrimo
ny! While with one party, you will
see him “cheek by jowl” with the most
orthodox of that creed. Anon, you
will see him turn up with another,
.practicing the like deception. He is
the “chameleon” of his tribe, who al
ways takes his coloring from his last
surroundings. You can convert bun
to any thing, and he will stay convert
ed—until the next influence captures
Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, July 17, 1879.
him. He is the “Bat” in the fabled
battle between the beasts and the birds.
W hen you think you have bound him
with hooks of steel to one set of princi
ples, ere you are aware, his wiry na
ture leaps from the imprisonment, and
you see him wearing another set that
[ fits him as well. You pause and won
der what new phase of faith- and prac
tice he will next take on.
Perhaps the most melancholy in
stance of this character that history
I has recorded for several hundred years,
is the case of the learned and gifted
Erasmus, of whom contemporaneous
Catholic authors affirm, that “he (Eras
mus) laid the eggs, and Luther hatch
ed the chickens.” He exposed the
abominations of Popery, and pointed
out the way to a pure spiritual Chris
' tianity, but never repudiated the one
nor walked in the path of the other.
He was in the zenith of his popularity.'
and influence when Luther appeared,
and much assistance was expected from
him by the Reformers. But he never
broke with the papal court. Success
ively the apologist of Julius 11, Leo X, '
and Adrian his schoolfellow, he main
tained to the end a nominal connec- :
tion with that corrupt church. Court
ed and patronized by the Protestant
powers, and at great labor and expense
in bringing out several editions of the
New Testament in Greek, that consti
tuted such a factor in the Reformation,
he never ventured beyond the limits of
his chosen middle-ground. Sensitive,
timid, and always a sufferer from dis
ease, he was, so far as such a man
could cherish affection, the friend of
eaeh and the enemy of neither. If he
wrote against Luther on “Free Will,”
it was to please his schoolmate, Adrian,
who occupied the papal throne, and in
terms “rather upholding the opinion
opposed than destroying it.” The
truth is, that his equivocal position had
accustomed him so long to the double- ■
entendre in his utterances, that he
knew not how else to express himself.
Hence, when the popular outbreak oc
curred at Basle where he resided, and
the rabble the iconoclasts demolished
wood, stone and metal images of the
saints, he oahnly looked bn and said,
“All this liappened in the midst of such
laughter as to astonish me that the
Miints worked nq .miracle* r they_ t whv'*
had formerly performed sucE* great
ones for trifling offenses.” This may
either express the deepest irony of a
sagacious skeptic, or the pious wail of
an image worshipper. This character
he maintained to the very last; for a
few days before his death, his friends
having come to see him, he said smi
lingly, “Ah, well! where are your rent
garments, where the ashes with which
you are going to cover your heads?”
Leaving us to construe it as a travesty
on a useless ceremonial, or a pious
warning to them to prepare for his
"funeral.
The truth is, learning the most pro
found, and genius the most imperial,
never can redeem the time-server from
the scorn of the thoughtful. It is no
wonder that Luther called Erasmus “a
serpent,” and Catholics denounced him
as “a soldier of Pilate—the dragon,” etc.
Such men may live in history, but
they live only to point a moral. They
live only to show that genius and learn
ing combined can never compass their
highest results unless regulated by a
purpose worthy of such endowments.
After the death of Erasmus, the
..Catholics expurgated his works of what
was offensive to them, and published
them as evidences that he was “a true
j son of the Church,” while the Protes
tants clung to his conceptions in their
favor to show that “our rock was not
as their rock, our enemies themselves
being judges.” That he aided mate
rially in the revival of learning in his
age, is conceded by all parties. His
contributions in this respect have linked
his name to the "immortality of genius.”
And, as to the rest, his Theological
vacillations, one ceases to wonder at
the Catholic author when denouncing
his exposures of the abominations of
popery, he said, "it were better if he
had never been born!” a sly way of
intimating to the Inquisition, coming
from such a source, that it was about
time to burn the learned heretic.
A TEMPERANCE CITY.
We venture to say, without the fear
of successful contradiction, that Ma
con, on Sunday last, was the most
temperate city in the United States.
I Not a place where “the rosy” is dis
pensed could be found with “gates
ajar,” but the fines which had been
placed on the dealers served to keep
the locks well turned and the doors
closely shut.
The enforcement of the Sunday
laws in regard to vending spirits will
be followed by a decided improvement
of the moral tone of the city. Nearly
all the worst crimes committed in this
city in the past two years can be traced
to Sunday drinking. We are glad to
see the authorities have taken the
measure so vigorously in hand.— Tele
graph.
ALABAMA NEWS.
—A Sunday-school has been organ
ized at Canoe Creek, Etowah county.
—The dwelling of W. B. Finny, in
Bullock county, was burned last week.
—A new postoftice has been estab
lished at Coketon, called Pratt Mines.
—Rev. R. B. McAlpine will remove
from Uniontown to McKinley, Texas.
. —The dwelling of George Davis, in
Fayette county, was recently burned.
I -—On 4 acres of land, Maj. Harrall of
KfiJladega, made 148 bushels of wheat.
—Married,in Philadelphia, 25th ult.,
JMr. E. W. Johnson, formerly of Selma,
Bud Miss Lola Reynolds.
.1 -*-The Selma, Rome and Dalton offi
|ers gave their employees a free excur
lion to Shelby Springs, Tuesday.
—Mr. Jas. Mullen, at his garden near
’ telma, has been picking strawberries
pazularly since the 4th of April.
t—There have been 100,120 bales of
cotton shipped from Selma this season.
—J. B. Knox, Talladega, has been
admitted to practice at the supreme
court bar.
-—H. C. Reynolds presented the
Montevallo Baptist Sunday-school with
100 volumes of books.
—There were 30 accessions to the
Methodist church at Union Springs
during the late protracted meeting.
-—“Never saw better prospects for a
flue crop at this season of the year,” is
what they say in Hale.
—-Win. G. Hutchison has been ad
mitted to the supreme court bar.
—A protracted meeting is in progress
at the Cumberland Presbyterian church,
Athens.
—Alfred H. Baily, formerly of Tus
kegee, is president of a college at Pales
tine, Texas.
’ —More houses are wanted at Lin
den.
• —Crops around Linden are promis
ing.
i —Clayton is talking of a cotton fac
tor; •
•-The crops around Eutaw are gen
eiaiiy promising.
1 VTbe Talladega gas works were
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fthetby Iron Works company have
brought about 30 laborers from Ohio.
—A young physician can secure a
good practice at Oak Grove, Perry co.
—There is the best yield of wheat
in Madison county ever known.
—W. W. Wadsworth is putting up a
large saw mill in Montgomery.
—Mr. R. Ehrmann, of Montevallo, is
on a visit to Germany.
—Lebanon has one doctor, two mer
chants, and one preacher.
—Enough money has been sub
scribed in Ashland to build an Episco
pal church.
—David Newton died a few days
ago in Geneva, aged 106 years.
—A pauper died a few days ago in
the Tallapoosa poor house in the 107th
year of his age.
—There are 400 inmates in the State
Insane Asylum at Tuskaloosa.
—Messrs. J. H. Fitts and L. E.
Douglass have started a project to put
up a cotton factory at Tuskaloosa. It
is to run one hundred looms and make
plain and checked goods.
—Mr. Levi Roden, an old and highly
respected citizen of Green county, died
at his residence in Springfield beat on
the 25th ult. * •
—Sixty thousand young shad were
recently deposited by a Government
agent in W iliis creek, in this State, and
forty thousand in the Warrior river.
—The crops of Green, says the
Whig and Observer, are generally prom- |
i»ing.
Florida Department.
W. N. CHAUDOIN, Corresponding Editor and Agent j
WEEKLYNEWS AND LACONICS-
Consecration—A Layman’s Opin
ion.—Brother Sparkman, a good work
ing brother, in referring to the success
of a minister in Florida, says: “The
secret of brother H.’s success lies in
his entire consecration to the work,
and if our ministers were all more
wholly given to their calling, they
would not only be more successful in
winning souls to Christ, but they would
have less cause of complaint for lack of
support. We want a consecrated min
istry as well as a consecrated church.
Ministers, as well as churches, should
reinember that, even so hath the Lord
ordained, that they that preach the gos
pel, shall live of the gospel.”
Union Meeting of the third Dis
trict of the Florida Association, was
held at Harmony church, Madison
county, March 29th and 80th. Dr.
i A. C. McCants, Moderator, and Brother
i W. W. Campbell, Clerk. Various
questions were discussed. “Is it ecript
ural to allow churches (meeting
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
of Tennbssee.
houses) used for common business of
the country,” was decided negatively.
“Is it not better for Baptist churches
not to grant letters at all to members.”
The decision was, “This Union recom
mend that the churches do away with
granting letters,and instead, to require
certificate to be applied for by. the
clerk of the church, to which they
apply. Also recommend that the same
subject go before the Association.” “Is
baptism essential to salvation ?” was
discussed but not answered. “Can we
scripturally require members to attend
church meetings on Saturday ?” Dis
cussed, but not answered. “When is
the time for a revival in our churches ?”
The Union decided, “that a revival in
our churches should bq at all times.”
“What is our duty in regard to asso
eiational missions,” was well answered
thus, “To sustain them to the best of
our ability,” and taking a collection of
$8.85. The next Union at Olive
Branch Church, Jefferson county,—
when ?
Explanation.—The minutes of the
Union, from which the above is con
densed did not reach me till June, at
which date more than is culled above
would be of no general interest.
Church Letters.—For some time
I have intended to say, rather write,
something about church letters or cer
tificates. By the way, the decision of
the Union of Florida Association, as
it suggests the subject, will be a good
text. The difference between what we
do now and what the Union proposes
to adopt, is to our mind, about the same
as the difference between tweedle-dwm
and dweedle-dre. Church letters are |
certificates of good standing to mem
bers proposing to change or transfer
their membership. That is all. A
letter does not put the member out of
the church that gives it. The letter <
contradicts that, for it says plainly,
“dismissed from us when joined to an-' (
other of the same faith and order.” i
When joined, and of course not till 1
then, but is still in the church giving
the letter, and amenable to it, and the ‘
name should not be erased, but the
party held to the same account as if
the certificate had never been given.
And how long ? Why, till the church
is notified that the person is received
another, another orgwawa- j
tion of any kino but “of the same ,
faith and order.” If, while a member
holds a letter or certificate of recom
mendation, he goes and joins another
sect or denomination, the church giv
ing that letter should at once show
their control over that member, by ex
cluding him, as soon as they hear of
it. What then is to be gained by the i
plan proposed by the U nion of Florida
Association ? Ndhiing, surely. A
member with a letter can be looked
after just as well as one without a
letter.
In our city churches, town, village
and in some localities, most of the
churches in the country append to the
letter or certificate another blank cer
tificate, to be filled up and returned as
soon as the letter is received. When
that is received, the clerk of the
church giving the letter erase-' that
name, and not before. A year or two
ago, three members joined the church
at J.—of which I was a member—from
the church at Griffin, twenty miles off, i
and each letter had attached a blank
certificate which our clerk filled up
with the proper names and dates
and returned to the clerk at Griffin.
| Now this is plain and easy, and if acted
out by the churches, every member
who has called for a letter will be I
counted. The plan now very com non I
is to erase the name and take no cog-I
nizance of that member, and if the
certificate is unlimited and not used for
years, why that member is uncounted,
I unknown for that length of time.
I As a rule, letters should be limited, i
to six or twelve months, and if at the |
' expiration of that time the certifi- j
j cate has not been used, it is out of I
j date, and the party must apply again, j
But I leave the subject now, suggest-1
ing again that a letter does not put one I
out of the church, and the church
should act upon what they say in the
letter.
A Prized Letter.—Dear Uncle
Shad : I have read in the Index that
you loved little children, and wished
them to write to you, so you must not
get mad with me for writing. lam
!my Ma’s baby. We want you to come
and preach here at our church. I go
to Sabbath-school. I hope I will learn
about Jesus. I read he loved Ifttle
children. Ma has given me two dimes,
and I will send it to you so you can
send it where it will do good.
Jennie Williams.
May Sth, 1879.
The writing, and use of capitals, as
well as the expressions, show that Jen
nie is a very little girl. I never saw
her, but I love the child. God bless
her and make her a comfort to her pa
rents and a useful Christian. Let me
beg parents to read the Index to their
children, and encourage them to read
it. What little girl or boy will write
next?
Whole No. 2377
Which H?—A minister preaching
recently from 3 Jno., Bv., and having
shown that the truth needed helpers,
said "every one of us is a helper or
hinderer.” Reader, it is true. Which
are jou! Fearful to be a hinderer!
Glorious to be a helper of the truth!
Yet Alive.—“ls alive?”
was asked of a minister, once. “He is
alive,'and able to grumble,” was the
answer. Was that remark or answer
just? Then what a sad comment on
that minister. Let preachers try to
avoid a reputation for grumbling.
Revival News.—Missionary Hughes
recently visited Fort Ogden, in Mana
tee county, and preached several days,
“which resulted in great good to the
church and- community. A deep re
ligious interest was awakened, and nine
additions by baptism.” Eld. Crump
ton baptized four at Elizabeth and
Ebenezer last meeting. At a meeting
in Waldo, conducted for some ten days
by Elders King and Weeks, five were
baptized and four received by letter and
restoration. W. N. C.
LOVELY ! LOVELY !I
Such was the exclamation, oft repeated, of
Brother F. M. Weeks, a native of Columbia
county, Florida, who died April 11th, 1879. .
He was “in the spirit,” so to speak, for two
weeks previous to his death, and talked
freely to Ills wife about his prospects, and
had views of the “beautiful river” and the
“Lamb’s wife” that he said were indescriba
ble, and often, often said “Lovely, lovely!’’
And once said, “O, I shall rest there.” He
spoke of a “beautiful ship, laden with innu
merable, heavenly creatures, who beckoned
to him, and would come so near he could
almost discover who they were. They beck
oned him, but there was one who said, not
yet.” These were not the fancies of a man
drugged with opiates, but the calm, quiet
sayings of a rational man, not for an hour,
but for a fortnight. He knew all the family
to the last, and just a little before his death,
called his wife to him and said, “I am going
to leave you now, good bye ” Seeing her
grief, he said, “For your sake I am willing
to stand it, (hi- sufferings, perhaps/but it is
appointed unto man once to die, and my
time has come. Bring the children and let
me bid them good bye, before I go.” The
mother carried the children, beginning with
the oldest. He talked to eaqh one, request
ing them to be good children and obey their
mother. When the babe was presented,
that has never been well, he said “Farewell
little sick baby. You will soon follow me."
“ / we<y, Lovely,” may be said of thß'de-
I as a man, and uu,;?. ft. HA 'VrackT
i wee wvely He was a lover of mankind. He
was a lover of peace, truth, honesty, mercy,
and justice. He was a lover of his country.
Such being bis character, he was loved,
trusted, honored, by his fellow citizens.
With emphasis it may be said, F. M. Weeks
was a gentleman. Lovely man.
“Lovely! Lovely!” I conld think of no
words more appropriate to use, in speaking
of our departed brother as a Christian. In
I the privacy of the family, in the Sunday
school, in the prayer meeting, in church
meeting, in difficulties among brethren, in >
associations or conventions, in society, in 1
business, or in public life, his Christianity
was lovely. He was neither morose nor
frivolous. His brethren loved him, wher
ever known. He was soon honored, after
uniting with the church, by “being put in
trust” with the Deacon’s office, and at his
death was the Moderator of his Association,
probably the largest and strongest in the
State. At his death, there was every pros
pect of his entering the ministry. The
Baptists of Florida have hardly sustained
such loss in two men, as in lhe death of the
saintly Tomkies, of the ministry, in 1878,
and the lovely Weeks, of the laity, in the
present vear. The death of Brother Weeks
is a bereavement to society, to his family, to
his denomination. Lovely Christian.
Lovely! Lovely! was the death at the
close of such a lovely and loving life. Like
Enoch, he walked with God, he pleased
God, and when his Father said, “child, come
home,” he obeyed sweetly, cheerfully say ng,
lovely, lovely. More lovely than the most
beautiful sunset is such a calm, peaceful,
fearless death as that of Deacon Weeks.
God grant to bless to the good of his many
friends, saved or unsaved, who read this, the
account of bis peaceful exit from time to
eternity.
Lovely ! Lovely! These words were, in
some measure prophecy. The prophecy
has been fulfilled. They were antici
patory, were prospective. The anticipation
l is a reality. The prospect is present frui
tion. Lovely was the prospect, but how.
much now the enjoyment of the heavenly
' world ! No more looking through a glass
darkly, no more mist to obscure the vision of ■
that lovely home. Dear one, thou knowest
no more pain, sorrow, disappointment or
| death. Thine existence is lovely.
Thou dwellest in a mansion now, “a house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
Thine abiding place, thy home, is lovely in
magnificence and durability. Thou art “with
Jesus,” dear brother, and angels and the
“spirits of the just made jierfect” are thy
companions. Lovely are thine associations.
Again, dear one, we hope to meet thee, never
to part, as we so often aid here, and not to
meet with sunken cheeks and suffering
bodies, nor sinful hearts. Lovely meeting
of loving children of a loving father, in a
lovely home.
“Joyful, Joyful will the meeting be,
When from sin our hearts are pure and free;
And we shall gather, Savior, with thee,
In our eternal home?'
W. N. C.
Workingmen.
Before you begin your heavy spring work
after a winter of relaxation, your system
needs cleansing and strengthening to prevent
an attack of ague, billious or spring fever, or
some other spring sickness that will unfit
you for a season’s work. You will save
time, much sickness and great expense if
you will use one bottle of Hop Bitters in
yourfamily this month. Don’t wait. See
othereolumn.