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GOD'S EVERLASTING LOVE.
A SERMON BY
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Ri v. 1. C. SOLOMON, I’asior Sih iii Makin Bai-iivi Ciiritt ii
MACOX, ( >COKG I A.
"I have loved thee with an everlasting I
love.” JiT. 31:3.
Love is the greatest possible agent, for
he betterment of this world. It is the
wrongest, sweetest element that enters
into the Christian's life. It is the sheet
anchor to the soul. The very bulwark
of his libelties in I'lirist Jesus. It is the
power of the cross. Tin 1 glory of God.
The crowning of immortality. It is the '
foundation on which we stand. There
ment w ith w hich w e build. Tin: capstone
of out joy ami our everlasting consola
tion.
Without love the beautiful world in
which we live would be a reigning pan
demonium. With perfect love it would
be a blooming paradise. It is the bless
ed tie that binds our hearts I.ere below.
It sweetens out labors: it soothes our
sorrows: it lightens out burdens; it
breaks off sin: it. lifts us from the slough
of despond; itlinks ustot'hrist; it gives
us rest etei nal.
Till. AXTK.II 11 1 Os won'- I.OVK.
Before man was ever fashioned by the
almighty hand: before the world was 1
brought into existence, before the stars |
sang their first hymn of praise in the I
morning, way back in the secret cham
bers of eternity, God loved his people.
There never w as a time when he did not
love his own.
An everlasting love! A love that had
no birth! A love that was ever present
with our gracious Heavenly Father! I
love this love because it is ancient. I
love old friends, old people, my old
mother, the more because site is old, the
old story, the old plan of salvation, the I
old truth of God that made me free.
New love doth wax and wane with the
moon, but the old love lives on. So hail
thou everlasting love! Thou didst smile
11 pan us in the cradle and walked with
us on through sin ami washed us in the
blood at Calvary!
THE < ONSTAXCY OF Gllfl's I.OVI .
As the needle points to the pole, so
God's love points to his people. As the
everlasting snows do rest like a white
crown upon the towering alps, so His
love doth fall upon His people to crown
them, to bless them, to remain with
them forever. The Lord has no tits and
starts, does not blow hot and cold, is not
forgetful and unmindful of his chosen
people. His loved ones may sin, may
forget God, may slight the Master, may
do despite to the Holy Spirit, but God
has promised never to forsake them nor
leave them alone. How unlike men is
God. Men are tickle, now loving, now
hating-burning to-day, freezing tomor
row. Like the thermometer rising and
falling w ith the climatic influences. But
our God is the same yesterday, to-day
and forever. Loves his people in storm
and sunshine, in prosperity, in adversity,
in t he palace, the hut, in health, in atllie
tion, everywhere and under all eireum
stanies.
< hir I io>l loi es on and loves ever.
I ike some mighty, rolling river,
.sweeping on in its majesty.
On and on through eternity
THE < OMFOItTS OF god's I.OVK.
lie has declared Ito be a very present
help in time of trouble. He has promis
ed to w ith hold no good thing from them
that fear him. He has promised to abide
with us. He has promised the Holy
Spirit, and has said that He would be
our Comforter. We have taken him at
his word. We have found him true. He
binds up the broken hearts. He wipes
away the bitter teas. He stills the raging
tem|*est in the soul. In the sick room
He is our precious cordial: in the cham
ber of death He is our support; at the
grave He is our solace, out everlasting
hope.
Beautiful sentiment of the poet “Earth
hath no sorrow which Heaven cannot
heal.'’ He heals our maladies, drives
back our woes and dropsan everlasting
peace in our hearts. <l, the wondrous
love of God! The indescribable comforts
of the Holy Spirit.
THE AI.MIGHTY HKI.P OF HIS I.OVK.
Possibly the greatest joy that springs
from the everlasting love of the Father
is in the almlghtiness of God's love. The
creature's love may be strong but it is
liable to be broken, or to w eaken, or to
waste. It does not always endure; it oft
times fails to help, or lift up, or lead out
the poor soul that is in trouble, begging
for sympathy, pleading for strength.
Man's love cannot bear uptliedespairing
soul, nor wash one stain aw ay, nor bind
up one heart that's broken and bleeding
from sin. Sympathy may cheer, tears
may conciliate, loving words may com
fort. but nothing short of the strong,
everlasting love of God can make the sin
ner a new creature in Christ Jesus. Not
only is lie made new—regenerated, but
he is kept by the power of God unto sal
vation. God's power to lift up the fallen
is God’s power in sustaining His child,
and immutable purpose in ultimately
taking him to glory. “Love is strong
as death" and w ho can break ids bands
assunder'.' Who may run away from
death ? “Love is of the Lord" and who
can rob tlie Father of Hi* nature, or
wrest from Him the sweetest element
<u attribute of His character ? “God is
love.” Who can change Him ? What
powers are there that can convert Him
into enmity ? Can any agency in earth,
in Heaven, or in hell conquer that love
or turn it aside from Ilia everlasting pur
pose of bringing every one of His child-
rcn home Let mountains ami rivers,
let earth sea and sky, let men and de
mons and angels cry an everlasting NG.
We cannot believe that He who rose con
qiierer over death, hell and the grave,
shall ever lose his loving grip on a single
sinner <>f His choice. Let him be rich
or poor, renowned or obscure, if God al
mighty sets His heart on him, though
the vety imps from the pit should rise
up to take him. yet shall he not be
taken: yet shall he be delivered from
this world's darkness, dungeons and
tears and ushered through the gates of
pearl, and crowned and saved through
the eternities that shall roll.
Blessed doctrine! Precious sympa
thies' Magnificent love! That saves to
the uttermost; saves forever evety sin
ner that comes to Jesus. No one so
guilty that may not be justified. No
heart so hard that may not bo broken:
no soul so miserable, so depraved that
may not be comforted, washed and
made whiter than snow.
Hear the shepherd, as his sweet as
suring words, he addresses his sheep “I
give unto them eternal lite, ami they
shall never perish, ueitlier. sliall any man
pluck them out of my hand."
"My Father which gave them to me is
greater than all, and no man is able to
pluck them out of my Father’s hand."
“I and my Father arc one."
But hear him as he speaks out in
words sweeter than the honey and the
honey comb, with a promise that might
thrill a world and till an angel's heart
with astonishment.
“ And as Moses lifted up the Serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the Son
of Man hi - lifted up; that whosoeve be
lieveth in him should not perish but
have everlasting life.”
Now know the very marrow of the
gospel. Feel again the mlgtitiost power
in religion. Hear the words as they
| tremble and burn and glow' upon the
: Master's immalculate lips. Know the
power of life in them. See the kind
lings of his everlasting love, as it burns
deeper and deeper into the sinner’s
heart bringing him a peace never to be
broken, and a joy full and glorious
Was ever there a love like that of the
Almighty, a love eternal, a love omnipo
tent “mighty to save?”
“For God so loved the world, 'that he
gave his only begotton son, that whoso
ever helievoth in him should not perish
but have everlasting life.”
Bid not our God sustain the Hebrew
children in the fiery furnace and keep
the very smell of lire from off their gar
ments? Was not Daniel safe in the
lion's den, and did not our God stop the
lion's mouths?
Was not that a wonderful and mighty
love, that patted the waters of the Bed
Sea and made them stand aside like
great columns of glass, till his chosen
people had all passed over dry-shod?
Weean know the mysteries and depths
ami power of a Father's abiding love?
He stands now at the grave of his very
dear friend. He is deeply moved. His
heart goes out to the lonely sleeper. He
weeps. He cries with a loud voice
“Lazarus come forth.” The grave can
no longer hold its victim. Lazarus
quits Hie bonds and bands of death. A
Saviour's love lias conquered. It is
stronger than death; it is stronger titan
the grave; it is mightier titan all: it
stands alone triumphant,
god's I.OVK IN EXTREMITIES.
That is great love, which when all
other love lias failed, comes just at the
last moment, comes when the soul is
despairing and man is sinking, comes
with oil of gladness and palms of vic
tory. Such a love falls dow n from heaven.
Such a love leaps out from the
Cross, it was manifest in the manger,
it shone out brilliantly nt Calvary. Who
was more desperately wicked than the
thief on the cross? Who so abandoned?
Who so irretrievably lost? There he
was right in the jaws of death, right at
tlie mouth of hell. See him as the
shadows of night, an awful night to his
; soul, are beginning to gather around
him. No help. No hope. Not a soli
tary rift in the clouds! Now dying but
in the anguish of his heart, in his tre
mendous last struggle, lie cries out
"liemember me" Listen! What is that?
'tis the voice of God himself dying on
the cross. O, the ineffable sweetness of
the sound, as it breaks in on the dying
thief! How the music of that promise
must have tin Hied his pool soul!
"This day thou shalt be with me in
Paradise," All heaven shouted in glad
ness, and a dying man did live. God
manifested in his love, “mighty to save
in a sinner's dying groans."
\t a royal dinner in England one day
the brother of the celebrated Boland
Hill met tin 1 good Lady Ann Erskin;
after the dinner had progressed some
time Mr. Hill dropped his knife and
folk, pushed back his plate and said
w ith a look of anguish on his face “1 am
lost.” To whlcli the royal 'Lady laugh
ingly replied, saying, “1 am glad of it."
Mr. Hill was astonished that she should
take pleasure in his wretchedness, and
mi expressed himself, whereupon the
queen quickly explained, declaring that
if he felt hlntaolf lost he was near the
kingdom of heaven.
0, that some poor sinner here this
morning might feel himself lost, ruined,
then might he fall into the strong loving
i arms of Christ and be saved.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY JANUARY 25,1894.
It is said that man's extremity is
God's opportunity. ;When the sinner
despairs, throws down his arms, yields
up his life, then is Divine help near at I
hand. Then may despair blossom into
hope, and a prospective hell turn into j
song and gladness and life everlasting. I
If there is a sinner in the house to-day, !
that feels himself a “wretch undone !
without his sovereign grace” helpless
and doomed, know that Jesus is your I
friend, died for yon, is now ready to save !
you. Then trust him and though thou
art hanging over hell this moment ready !
to drop, thou shalt be saved, saved I
already as thou art trusting. Then
know that our Father hath “loved thee :
witli everlasting love
And with the poet let thine own soul |
join in the sweet refrain:
‘‘Amazing grace, how sweet the sound!
That saved a wretch like me ;
I once was lost, hut now am found :
Was blind but now 1 see ’’
I.OVE THE ANTIDOTE TO FEAR.
Again to feel, to realize this everlast- I
ing love in the heart and in the life is .
not to lie afraid. It insures boldness.!
It fosters bravery. “There is no fear in
love.” Who is the bravest? It is tlie I
most loving. Who is it that is willing !
to dare and to die for truth and righte- [
ousness? Who is it that can face death |
with a smile, and look into the open .
grave with singing? it is he aiound I
whom the everlasting arms of Jehovah ,
are throw n. They lift you up in the ;
Hood, they snatch you out from the ,
flame, they support you when the thick :
shadows of a dying hour are gathering
about you. He is our loving pilot to!
carry us over the river. He is our royal !
host to welcome us at the beautiful i
gates. To embrace all these truths; to 1
feel Christ precious to one’s soul; to fall
flat on the promises of God, is to drive j
fear out of the heart. Thus leaning on I
his bosom, protected and fortified by the '
arms of the Almighty, we may, with
happy assurance, exclaim, “O! death
where is thy sting? O! grave where is
thy victory?”
Now the emboldened, happy soul may
cry out with Paul, “For me to die is
gain, but to live is Christ.”
I stood by the bedside of a dear old I
lady, :.nd when the end was near I asked !
“Are you afraid to die?” “No, no,”
she said, her face lightening up with a I
heavenly radiance, “No, the Saviour has \
always loved mo and cared for me—be
will not forsake me now.”
But says one, I have loved the Saviour
so short a time: but. never mind, God
says, “1 have loved you with an everlast
ing love.” But another will say, “I
have loved so little ami so imperfectly 1
am afraid.” Ah, thou trembling one, it
is not thy love for the Saviour that
saves thee, but it is the Saviour's love
for thee. Well might thou be afraid if ,
thy i..tle, faulty, flickering love was the
saving bond. So be not afraid if you
some times stumble, if troubles assail,
if tlie gloom thickens, if temptations
like an army press you, remember Jesus
Christ is your strength, mid your loving
refuge. Trust him implicitly and you
cannot fear.
"How firms foundation ye saints of the Lord
Is laid lor your faith in his excellent word.
What more ca n he say than to you he hath
said.
You who unto Jesus lor refuge have fled?”
"That soul w ho on Jesus hath leaned for re
pose
Will never, no never,desert to his foes.
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to
shake,
1 11 never, no never forsake,”
Child are you still afraid? Why are
you fearful? Come with me and let us
stand on the everlasting Gibralter of !
liis power, and rest under the matchless
dome of his love, and shall we be
moved?
Hear his wind—“ Who shall separate
us from the love of Christ? Shall tr|b«
illation or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or or peril, or i
sword?”
■As it is written, for .Ay sake \?e life [
killed all the day long; we are accounted
as sheep for tlie slaughter.”
“Nay in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him that loved
us.”
“Fur 1 am persuaded that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor princi- '
palities, not powers, nor things present. |
nor things to come, nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature shall be
able to separate us from the love of
God w hich is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
A poor woman lav dying, her pastor
asked how it was with her soul; said
she, “It is all dark, very dark.” “But,"
continued her pastor, “Have you no
hope?" “Yes,” said she, “for I left it '
till with Jesus long ago, and though 1 ■
do not know how or when the light will
break through, yet I love Jesus and
Jesus loves me, and he will take me 1
home." A sweet smile played over her
pale face and her weary soul on wings of i
love, fluttered out of darkness into I
eternal day.
So may every soul in Divine presence
lean hard on God, and w hen the clouds
have rolled away and the long night has
passed, the peaceful sunlight of his face
shall abide on von forever.
I —:
ASKED AND ANSWERED.
BV DR. C. K. W. DOBBS.
1. I attended a Catholic funeral
! to-day, and the priest scored protes
! tants for not praying their dead out
of purgatory. Still he says Catholics
| believe that the moment one dies,
that is judgment day for them.
How can you reconcile the two if
God’s judgments are sure? How do
learned Baptists generally believe
concerning the state of the dead till
the tinal judgment? Did Christ as
cend to the Father at his death?
2. How would you manage about
the children if the mother is a gin
3ere Baptist and the father a devout
Methodist? And should each at
tend their own church or go together,
alternating each Sunday ?
Please help me with your good
advice on the above subjects.
a. it.
1. Your questions bring up {the
whole subject of the Catholic teach
ing concerning purgatory. We have
been at some pains to investigate
this in the original sources of infor
mation. Protestants are ever in |
danger of forming their opinions
about Catholic doctrine from current
prejudices and caricatures. It is
well, therefore, on so important a
matter as this to consult Catholic
authorities themselves. This we
have sought to do.
What do they say as to purgatory?
First of all hear the eloquent French
Catholic apologist, Bossuet. Hero
is a volume of 248 pages from the
“Catholic publication society,” New
York. It is entitled an “Exposition
of the Doctrines of the Catholic
church.” On pages 136, 6, is this:
“When the faithful depart out of
this world, in a state of grace and
charity ; but yet, without having un
dergone those punishments, which,
as a debt, were due to the severity
of the divine justice,—in such case,
it is their fate, we believe, to endure
them in the life to come. It is hence,
that, at every period of Christian
antiquity, the Christian universe was
everywhere accustomed to offer up
prayers, and alms, and sacrifices, tor
the faithful who had died m the
peace and communion of the church;
—convinced that these acts of piety
were beneficial to their salvation.
This is all that the council of Trent
proposes to our belief, respecting
the souls that are detained in pur
gatory. It decides nothing concern
ing the nature of their punishments.
Upon this, and such like questions,
the holy Council prescribes the most
prudent reserve and circumspection 1
condemning those who pretend to
speculate on so awful and obscure a
subject.”
I have given’the entire chapter on
Purgatory, except the references.
Foot notes quote t e apocryphal
book, 2 Maccabees 12; 43-46, and
also 1 Cor. 3: 15; 1 Peter 3: 19, 20 ;
Matt. 12: 36. I quote also from the
“Shorter Catechism of the Catholic
religion,” which is generally in use
in Catholic parochial schools :
Question 103.—What do you call
this judgment ?
A.—The General Judgment, the
List Judgment, or the judgment of
the world.
104. —What shall happen after
the last judgment?
The good shall go to heaven, but
the wicked into hell.
105. —ls there any other than the
last judgment?
Yes, there is a particular judgment,
at which every man is judged at
once after his death.
106. —Where does the soul go af
ter the particular judgment?
To heaven, to hell, or to purgato
ry.
107. —What souls go to purgato
ry?
The souls of the just that arc not
quite cleansed, or that have ,yet to
atone for their sins.
108. —Will purgatory last after
the general judgment?
No, after the general judgment
there will be only heaven and hell.
In the “Dictionary of Doctrinal
and Historical Theology,” John
Henry Blunt, the eminent Episco
palian annotator, defends the prac
tice of praying for the dead, and
thus speaks about purgatory:
“The Roman Catholic doctrine is
thus stated by the Council of Trent.
‘There is a Purgatory, and the souls
there detained are helped by prayer,
and chiefly by the acceptable sacri
fice of the altar’—a statement ob
viously vague and indefinite * *
* but on referring to the cate
chism of the Council of Trent,
drawn up by order of the Fathers
there assembled, we find a clearer
and more exp’’ ’ " ‘There
i’*u purgatorial 115$ where the souls
of the righteous are purified by a
temporary punishment [ad definitum
tempus cruciate expiantur,] that en
trance may be given them into their
eternal home, where nothing that is
defiled can have a place.' ”
Thus the reader has before him
the official teaching of the Catholic
church, and can form his own opin
ion as to the harmony of such teach
ing with reason and holy scripture.
We find no authority for the doctrine
in either.
As to what “learned Baptists gen
erally, believe concerning the state
of the dead till the final judgment,”
probably enough has been said in
this department of the Index in
previous issues. The general belief,
as itjnay be gathered from their writ
ings, is that at death the soul goes
immediately to heaven or hell. As
to the harmony of this view with the
necessity and certainty of a future
general judgment, we have a decid
ed opinion, but this is not the time to
offer it.
Before Jesus died ho said to the
dying thief, “To-day’ thou shalt be
with me in paradise.” This settles
it that the soul of Jesus and the
soul of the thief went immediately
into the state or abode of the blessed
dead. The word of Jesus afterward
to Mary (John 20: 17) was simply
his assurance that be was not about
to finally leave the earth; she would
have yet other opportunity of behold
ing him; therefore there was no
need of her then so lovingly cling
ing to him. Rather should she at once
go on the errand he had given her.
His words may be thus paraphrased :
“Mary, do not now cling to my feet
in your loving devotion. Do not
suppose I am now to ascend to my
Father to be seen no more. 1 shall
be on earth yet many days, and you
will have other opportunities of l»e
--ing with me. Go at once and tell
my disciples I am risen.”
2. Our sister presents a difficult
problem in her second general ques
tion. Divided families arc to be
pitied. It is the duty of husband
and wife to be in the same church if
possible. Separations of this kind
are to be referred more frequently
to mere sectarian prejudices, than to
conscientious convictions based on
intelligent and honest study of, and
loyalty, to the word of God. Hus
band and wife owe it to their children
that they strive to reach unity of
opinion as to their church relations.
Let them honestly and prayerfully
read the Now Testament and follow
its guidance. They should, of course,
seek such other light as may belli
them to intelligently study the word.
We are persuaded that where this is
conscientiously done by both parties
they will soon be of one mind as to
the “one Lord, one faith, one bip
tism” of the gospel. In the case
supposed by our sister, where the
mother is a “sincere Baptist,” she is
doubtless able to give a reason for
the faith and order of her church,
and she cannot be loyal to her prin
ciples and her Lord by any com
promising course. Let her faithfully
teach her precious children all the
truth as it is in Jesus, ever remem
bering that he requires her to be
faithful to that truth. If her husband
is a sincere Christian, of course, he
desires to know the whole truth. He
owes it to his wife, his children, and
his Saviour, to candidly examine ttic
New Testament as the question of
his personal obedience to the law of
Christ. When that law is so clear,
and the duty so plain, he should not
allow his Methodist prejudices to
prevent him from following his Lord
in baptism and union with the church
of his wife’s intelligent and con
scientious convictions. Ask him to
study with you the blessed word,
and together pray that each of you
may be giiid«<l into all truth. It
would be well for the Baptist wife
to send to the American Baptist
Publication Society for Dr. Broadus’
excellent tract, “Immersion Essen
tial to Christian Baptism.” Ten
cents will procure it, and it is worth
ten times its cost. It is a fine thing
for an honest “devout Methodist” to
read.
Correspondents must patiently
bear with us. So many inquiries
have reached us the past month, that
the answers are somewhat behind,
Each shall receive attention in turn.
In the meantime let no one under
stand this statement to be a hint that
brethren and sisters are not cordially
invited to send any question which
it is desired to be answered in this
department of the Index. Write
me at Guthrie,O. T., or if more con
venient send to the Atlanta oflice.
The best medical authorities say
the proper way to treat catarrh is to
take a constitutional remedy like
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
For the Christian Index.
THE SET BACK AND MY BACK-SET.
Soon after my first article on
Eklektoi was printed, I received a
note—a pleasant surprise it was—
from Dr. Weston. I had made a
criticism on the Canterbury Revis
ion, but alluded to it as the “new
version.” Dr. W. simply asked if I
meant the “ Improved Bible Union
Yersion.” In my reply that I meant
the Canterbury, it seemed necessary
to offer ( though with no small de
gree of mortification) as excuse for
the vague term I had used, that I
had not seen the Improved Bible
Union Version. Forthwith there
came to me from Dr. W. a copy of
the work. 1 never was more sur
prised than when I found that the
point I had made, showing the ex
cellence of the Bible Union over the
Canterbury by rejecting the word
elect, seemed to be swept away.
That very word, for rejecting which
1 supposed the B. U. was worthy of
special praise, the Improved B. U.
had restored. This set-back of elect
is a real back-set to me.
There is, however, one good about
it, for I rejoice that it brings this
Improved B. U. Version, and Dr.
Weston’s connection with it, before
the readers of the Index. I read
every day some portion of the copy
sent me, and find much profit and
enjoyment in doing so. The book,
1 judge, is not expensive, being only
about half the size of the Bible
Union as first published, but the
print is of good size and very clear.
I knew how it was expected that
this improved B. U. would restore
the word baptize. This it does; and
probably this is judicious. In get
ting up the B. U. V. the principle
advocated, as I remember, was to
avoid the use of “transfers.” And
baptism was thought to be the most
pertinent case. But there are many
other cases where the application of
the rule was more needed : And yet
the old text remains. And there is
no telling how long it will take for
any permanent success in this line;
for however well the frog does leap
mg up in the day, there seems to be
no telling how far he will fall back
in the night. P. S. Whitman.
Toccoa, Ga., January 12, 1894.
N. B.—l notice that the proper
title is “Am. Bible Union Version.
Improved Edition.” It seems to me
every Baptist church should keep a
supply of these Testaments for its
members and others at the lowest
purchase price. P. S. W.
Apply to Am. Bap. Pub. Society,
66.1 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga.
They can be obtained at 40 cts. per
copy, post paid.
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Mr. F. L. Freyer—Mr Dear Sir:
The Kranich & Bach Piano you sold me ten years ago has proved a won
derful instrument. It is a marvel of durability and is to tn“ the “Sweetest
of all Pianos.” Since it was purchased it has never needed repairing, and
to-day is better in every respect than when new, for its tone—like that of a
fine violin—actually improves with age. The explanation of this is, that
it is a perfectly constructed instrument. Its lovely tones, full, resonant,
brilliant and liquid, have been a constant delight, and all who have touched
its keys have only words of praise. It is my conviction, that the Kranich
& Bach is the ne plus ultra of Pianos, and I feel I cannot recommend them
too highly to my friends. Respectfully, S. A. CLAY.
ATT AKITA
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MACLEAN, CURTIS & WALKER,
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LaFrance, Meteor, Marechai Neil Roses,
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Tube Roses, Sweet Peas, Poppies, Glad
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19 South Broad St., Atlanta. Ga.
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We sell this magnificent
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63 Peachtree St., Atlanta,
FREYER & BRADEY MUSIC CO.
Rome Railroad Co. of Georgia
In effect 9:00 a. tn.. Sunday, October 30, 1892
Kight is reserved to vary from this schedule
as circumstances may require.
Rome to Kingston—Passenger Ttrains Daily
Stations. No. I. ' Na 3. No. 5.
■ Lv. Rome 9 00am 2 15pm 7 loam
Second Avenue. 904 " :2 19 " 7 17“
Brick Yard! 910 “|2 25 " 723 “
Freemans 918 " | 233 “ 728 "
Dykes 923 238 " 732 "
Bass Ferry 929 “ 244 " 737 "
Eves 934 “ I 2 49 “ 743 "
Murcliisons 945 “ i 300 “ 751"
Wooleys 952 “ 307 " 754 "
Ar. KingstonJOOO " 315 “ 800 “
Atlantal 115 pm 625 “ 10 25 "
Chattanoogal 130 “ ! 600 "
Kingston to Rome—Passenger Trains Daily
Stations. No. 2. I No. 4. No. 6.
Lv. Chattanooga 750 am 120 pm
Atlanta. 810 " | 120 " 3 35p
Kingstonil 'SO “ | 405 " 600
Wooleys 1055 " I 4 11 “ 606
Murcliisons 10 59 “ i 417 “ 610
Eves 11 13 “ 426 " Ul7
Bass Ferrylllß “ 434 “ 623
Dykes 1123 “ 440 •' 628
Freemansill2B " I 445 “ 632
Brick Yard. It 35 “ 451 “ 637
Second Avenue. 1142 " 457 " I 643
Ar. Rome 1145 “ 500 " j 645
Nos. 1,2,3 and 4 trains run daily, making
| close connection at Kingston, Ga.,(both morn-
I ing and everting) with Western & Atlantic
i trainsgoing North to Chattanooga, Tenn., and
■ South to Atlanta. Ga.
Nos. 5 and 6 (Rome Express) will run daily
tietween Rome and Atlanta. Ga., except Sun
day, makingclose connection at Atlanta with
the Central's fast train. "Nancy Hanks,” for
Griffin, Macon and Savannah.
W. F. AYER, Superintendent.
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