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Christ is exactly the opposite; he said, “Give, and
it shall be given unto you in good measure, pressed
down, and running over.”
Anatomy contributes an illustration of this. The
heart is a muscular organ, and has to be fed like
all other muscles. It is known that the heart con
tains at one time or another all the blood for the
human body, but as a matter of fact the heart re
fuses to take up any of its contents until it has giv
en out all it has. After the blood has passed out
of the heart, a sufficient amount is returned to the
wall of the heart by means of a small blood vessel,
and from that it gets its nourishment and life.
What a great lesson of unselfish benevolence!
Suppose the heart should argue like many church
es: “We had better lay aside some for a rainy
day. We have all we can do at home. We do not
like the missionary methods. We will hold up our
contributions for a time ; and will do better after
awffiile. ’ *
If the heart should act upon this principle with
holding supply, because of any little trifles, it would
die.
Centrifugal and Centrepital Force.
Science tells us that there are two forces operat
ing which keep this old world steady. One is cen
tripetal which is a force received, and the other
centrifugal which is a force given off. Suppose
now for a moment that old mother earth should
adopt the policy of the average church and of our
selves for the most part. Suppose she should say,
“I will stop my centrifugal force; I will stop giving
off that I may receive more, what do you think
would happen? Why, in an instant the centri
petal force would smash this old world and grind it
into dust.
It is only when we give that we can expect to
receive. This is what is the matter with the church
today to a great extent. We do not know anything
about giving. We give a little, paltry, puny sum
and think we have done wonders. We have got to
come to the place where we regard the church with
its multiplied industries, all for humanity, the
biggest thing in the world. And we have got to
pour our money into it with our hearts and our
prayers. We have got to stop quibbling over pen
nies and dimes, and give of our substance until it
hurts. Then we can stand back and see God’s
power work and the cause of Christ flourish.
The Veterans in Gray.
On the morning of April 26th, the city of New
Orleans was in gala attire to welcome the hosts
of the Confederate Veterans which gathered there
in annual reunion. There is no city in the country
which understands better the requirements of hos
pitality than does New Orleans, and the annual Car
nival crowds which yearly visit the Crescent City
will testify to this fact. The Confederate Veterans,
too, who chose New Orleans only three years ago
as a meeting place, evidence their appreciation
by again selecting it as a place of reunion. The
honor was felt by the citizens of New Orleons, and
everything was done for the comfort, pleasure and
convenience of the survivors of the most notewor
thy struggle that our history records.
Three years ago the meeting place of the Veter
ans was not conveniently located, but this year a
temporary building was erected in the heart of the
city, and this vast auditorium was devoted to the
exclusive use of the United Confederate Veterans.
It was elaborately decorated and so comfortable in
all its appointments that it savored in no particular
of a temporary structure, though to the initiated it
represented.a great outlay of time and money.
The Convention was marked by one of the largest
attendances ever seen at an annual reunion, and
when it is remembered how fast the ranks of the
gray are thinning as the years go on, the numbers
seen at the reunion seem to mean that the sentiment
and the memory of the past lives anew with each
year that passs.
The Convention was addressed by the Command
er-in-Chief of the U. C. V., General Stephen D. Lee,
who replied to the address of welcome and also
spoke feelingly to his old comrades in arms. He
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paid a deserved tribute to the memory of General
Joseph Wheeler, and in that connection urged the
building of more Confederate monuments through
out the South. But in paying homage to the dead,
General Lee did not forget that there were still
living those who would rejoice at some evidence of
the thought of their old comrades. He said:
“Last of all, let us remember our less prosperous
comrades not fortunate even in their death, or in
their survival, to whom have been denied wealth
and good fortune; alas! too o'tm, even the bless
ing of health, without which all others avail but
little. If we can perhaps sweeten the bast years
of these old men, bring back, maybe, the light of
other days in their fading eyes, awake in their
hearts the great memories, they shall Hess us in re
ceiving, more than we in giving. Many of the
states, whom they so nobly served, have begun to
gather them in soldiers’ homes, institutions which
combine the beauty of charity with the grace of
gratitude. But there are many other old veterans
who will never be brought within such hospitable
walls, and who are left to our peisonal charge for
such sympathy and assistance as are honorable alike
to them and to us. Let each camp continue its
special care for this beneficent labor, and let us
see to it that true comradeship shall cease only
when the last old soldier has passed beyond human
power.”
The principal business transacted by the Conven
tion was that it was decided to recommend to the
different states that pensions be paid to slaves now
living who followed their masters to the war, and
also a resolution which declares in favor of setting
apart one day in the year by each camp of the or
ganization for the memorial services in behalf of
Confederate dead.
An incident of interest was the presentation to
General W. L. Cabell of a handsome gold medal by
the veterans of Arkansas as a token of their cordial
regard. General Lee pinned the medal on General
Cabell’s coat with a few eloquent words, and the
occasion was a pleasant feature of one of the busi
ness sessions.
The parade of the Veterans was marked by several
brilliant features, one of which was the massing
of over a thousand children at Lee Circle (one of
the points along the line of m°rch) to form a Con
federate flag, the little ones being dressed so that
the color design was exactly carried out.
One of the events of the Convention was the re
port of General Clement A. Evans on Confederate
History. General Evans spoke eloquently of the
danger of partisan histories, and urged that the
schools be given only unbiased accounts of the great
war between the states. He felt that Southern chil
dren should be treated fairly in this respect, and
believed that the schools would adopt as unbiased
history as it was possible to procure at this time.
His address was a most interesting and valuable
one, and was listened to with deepest attention. In
conclusion he said:
“If any should foolishly ask the old Confederate
soldier, when will your reunions cease, when will
you cease to bear your banner in public parade?
when will you to stir the world with the
strains of 1 Dixie?’ they will answer—answer with
out the slightest feeling of defiance—that they will
cease to hold reunions when they cease to live and
not until then. They will say that the revered flag
which is the ensign of their comradeship may be
folded when the last confederate warrior’s soul
has taken its fight, and not until then; and that the
strains of immortal 4 Dixie’ as a national air, to be
used in celebrating the great glory of our united
republic will thrill the hearts of our countrymen
forever. * * * Therefore let these historic Confed
erate men so order their lives in brotherly kind
ness, in fidelity to their honor, in allegiance to their
country and in the uprightness of all conduct that
there shall never come a stain upon the Confeder
ate name.”
Richmond, Va., was the place chosen for the
next reunion, and the invitation of the Virginia
veterans was most cordially given.
The Sons of Veterans, as is customary, also met
during the session of the U. C. V., and this organi-
zation, as well as that of the U. C. V., the United
D.iughteis and the Children of the Confederacy,
have lar.e representation in New Orleans.
Extracts From “Shadowing a Drunkard”
By C. A. RIDLEY.
Ihe drunkard .... shall come to poverty!”
And no matter what we may believe about it, and
regardless of our arguments and theories, the thing
still stands out as a fact that God knows what He
is talking about, and He declares that the drunkard
shall come to poverty.
1 he only argument ever raised either bv men or
devils against prohibition, is the appeal of hypo
crites for what they call “Personal Liberty.”
Liberty is not the liberty to do wrong unrebuked.
It is not to do as we wish, but as we ought. It is
not to follow the impulses of appetite, but to listen
to the dictates of reason.
The first dram may seem a little thing, but what
if we could pull aside the veil that hides the future
years and see the result of that first dram. Then
we should see that it was but the first gentle breeze
that swept over the waving wheat or cotton field
announcing the coming cyclone with its burning
sands, poisonous coils, and the roar of a thousand
devils.
\\ hatever it touches it consumes. No man can
be a. man long if he humors his appetite for it, or
yields Io its manifold temptations.
God has fixed a law that the intemperate man
must lace at each turn of the way. lie hrs decreed
that there is no real success for him, herais'' He
knew what was best lor all parties concerned.
Statesmen are dishonored, citizens disgraced, leg
islatures corrupted, and the heart-fires of the pa
triot smothered under its influence. Instead of
honor, and safety, and hope, and happiness, it
brings shame, and tenor, and despair, and misery.
Faith may be cast down but never destroyed.
Faith is as ETERNAL as Cod. I am on the side
of the cloud next Io the sun. The sun shines on
my back, and the black s in my face; yet on that
ebon cloud I see a radiant bow, which spans its
darkness and reveals its heavenly colors, the mer
cies of God to a fallen world.
Our asylums are its monuments, our almshouses
its’place of refuge, and our jails its detention wards.
It makes possible our penitentiary, and furnishes
men for almost every gallows.
’ A Sharp Rejoinder.
Some years ago Rev. E. Klumph, new of Elm,
Wayne county, Mich., while seated in a village store,
accosted a saloon-keeper with the r mark:
44 Come over to the church to-night and hear me
lecture on temperance.”
The reply was: 44 1 won’t; you said whisky-sell
ers were robbers.”
44 1 didn’t,” replied Mr. Klumph.
44 What did you say?”
“I said you were worse than robbers. I said
you took an innocent boy a’d sent him home a
maudlin fool. I said you took an intelligent man,
and sent a lunatic to the asylum. I said you took
a respected citizen, and sent a criminal to prison.
I said you took a kind father, and sent a fiend to
throw his family into the street. I said you took
a loving husband, and sent a demon to kick his
wife. I said you took the immortal soul and sent
it to hell. I said you were worse than a robber.”
Sharp and yet terribly true.—Exchange.
Reliable and unbiased reports from Warsaw show
conclusively that, though the flood of press dis
patches has ceased, the situation in Russian Poland
is growing worse daily. The present state of things
seem to surpass that which existed prior to the be
ginning of the revolution. Hardly a day passes
without a political minder, a robbery of government
alcohol stores or communal treasuries, and minor
acts of violence are such common occurrences that
they are passed over as mere incidents.
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