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AN URGENT MESSAGE.
DR. TALMAGE’S WORDS OF COUNSEL
TO YOUNG MEN.
'ofnt, Ont the Dnnnrrn Which Await
I n wary Fret—Wnrn» iKninnt Drink*
li»k, GfimhllnK and I ntbrifty Hab
its—-Get Clone to God.
(Copyright. 1838. by American Press Asso
ciation.]
Washington, Dec. 18.—This arousing
»nd practical sermon by Dr. Talmage will
reach many hearts and be an especial in
spiration to those who are now starting la
life. His text is Zechariah 11, 4, “Run,
speak to this young man.’’
There was no snow on the beard of the
prophet of my text, and no crow’s feet had
left their mark near his eyes. Zechariah
was a young man, and in a day dream he
law and beard two angels talking about
the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem.
One of these angels desires that young
Zechariah should be well Informed about
the rebuilding of that city, its circumfer
ence and ths height of its walls, and he
says to the other angel, “Run, speak to
this young man.’’ Do not walk, but run,
for the message is urgent and imminent.
So every young man needs to have imme
diate advice about the dimensions, the
height and the circumference of that which
under God he is to build—namely, his own
character and destiny. No slow or laggard
pace will do. A little fartheron and coun
sel will be of no advantage. Swift footed
must be the practical and important sug
gestions, or they might as well never be
made at all. Run at the pace of five miles
the hour and speak to that young man.
Run, before this year of 1898 is ended.
Run, before this century is closed. Run,
before his character is inexorably decided
for two worlds, this world and the next.
How many of us have found out by long
and bitter experience things that we ought
to have been told before we were 25 years
of age! Now I propose to tell you some
things which If you will seriously and
prayerfully observe will make you master
of the situation in which you are now
placed and master of every situation in
which you ever will be placed. And in
order that my subject may be climacteric
I begin on the outside edge of that advice,
which will be more and more important
as the subject unfolds. •
Now, if you would be master of the situa
tion do not expend money before you get
it. How many young men irretrievably
mortgage their future because of resources
■ that are quite sure to be theirs. Have the
money either in your hand or in a safety
deposit or in a bank or in a United States
bond before you make purchases or go
into expensive enterprises or hitch a spank
ing team to a glittering turnout or con
tract for the building of a mansion on the
Potomac or the Hudson. Do not depend
on an inheritance from your father or un
cle. The old man may live on a good deal
longer than you expect, and the day of
your enforced payment may come before
the day of his decease. You cannot depend
upon rheumatism or heart failure or senil
ity to do its work. ' Longevity is so won
derfully improved that, you cannot depend
upon people dying when you think they
ought to. They live to he septuagenarians
or octogenarians or nonagenarians or even
centenarians, and meanwhile their heirs
go into bankruptcy, or, tempted to forgery
or misappropriation of trust funds or wa
tering of railroad or mining stock, go into
the penitentiary. Neither had you better
spread yourself out because of the 15 or 20
per cent you expect from an investment.
Most of the 15 or 20 per cent investments
are apt to pay nothing save the privilege
of being assessed to meet the obligations of
the company in the affairs of which you
get involved. Better get 3}2 per cent from
a government bond than be promised 15
per cent from a dividend which will never
be declared or paid only once or twice, so
as to tempt you deeper in before the grand
smash up and you receive, instead of a
payment of dividends, a letter from the
president and secretary of the company
saying they are very sorry.
Save a Little Money.
If you have to wait a year or five years
or ten years or most of your lifetime, then
you had better wait rather than spend
money you expect to get Then after you
get it do not spend it all. Never spend a
dollar until you have 50 cents that you do
not spend. In the government service in
this city how many splendid women who
are the daughters of men who spent all
they got and then sneaked out of life to
leave their daughters penniless, to be look
ed after by some kind senator or oMier
friend who might solicit for them a posi
tion on small salary, but enough to keep
them from starvation and the poorhouse!
Such men do not die; they abscond. I
cannot understand how such spendthrift
and reckless and improvident men dare at
their decease appear at the door of heaven
seeking admission when they have left
their families in the tophet. of want and
mendicancy. Such men do not deserve a
throne and a harp and a mansion, but an
everlasting poorhouse. From no disap
pointed or disgruntled state of mind do
I give this counsel, for life has been to me
a glad surprise, as it has been to most
people a disappointment. I expected noth
ing of advantage or opportunity, and so
everything has been to me a matter of
pleased amazement, but I have seen so
many men ruined for time and eternity
by going into expenditure, with nothing
to depend upon except anticipation, that if
I had power to put all warnings into one
clap of thunder I would with that star
tling vehemence say to all young men
what John Randolph said in yonder senate
chamber as he stretched his long finger out
toward some senatorial opponent and with
shrill voice cried out, “Gentlemen, pay as
you go I"
Do not say you have no chance, but re
member Isaac Newton, the greatest as
tronomer of his day, once peddling cab-
Inges in the street, and Martin Luther
singing on the public square for any pen
nies that he might pick up, and Jcbn
Bunyan mending kettles, and the late
Judge Bradley of the United States su
premocourt, who was the son of a char
coal burner, and Turner, the painter, who
was the son of a barber, and Lord Clive,
who saved India to England, shipped by
his father to Madras as a useless boy whom
he wanted to get rid of, and I’rideaux,
the world renoNvned scholar and theo
logian, scouring pots and pans to work his
way through college, and the mother of
the late William E. Dodge, the philan
thropist and magnificent man. keeping a
thread and needle store, and Peter Cooper,
who worked on small wages-in a glue fac
tory, living to give $500,000 for the found
ing of an institute that has already edu
cated thousands of the poor sons and
daughters of America, and Bowditch, the
scientist, beginning his useful learning
and affluent career by reading the books
that had been driven ashore from a ship
wreck at Salem. There is, young man, a
great financial or literary or moral or re
ligious success awaiting you if you only
know how to go up and take it. Then
take it or get ready to take it. The
mightier the opposition the grander the
triumph when you have conquered. There
is a flower in Siberia that blooms only
in January, the severest month of that
cold climate. It is a star shaped flower
and covered with glistening specks that
look like diamonds. A Russian took some
of the seeds of that flower to St. Peters
burg and planted them, and they grew,
and on the coldest day of January they
pushed back the snow and ice and burst
into full bloom. They called it the “snow
flower, ' and it makes me think of those
whom the world tries to freeze out and
snow under, but who in the strength of
God push through and up and out and
bloom in the hardest weather of the
world's cold treatment, starred and ra
diant with a beauty given only to those
who find life a struggle and turn it into a
victory.
Anger I» Unhealthy.
Again, if you would master the situa
tion, when angry do not utter a word or
write a letter, but before you speak a word
or write a word sing a verse of some
hymn in a tune arranged in minor key
and having no staccato passages. If very
angry, sing two verses. If in a positive
rage, sing three verses. First of all, the
unhealthiest thing on earth is to get mad.
It jangles the nerves, enlarges the spleen
and sets the heart into a wild thumping.
Many a man and many a woman has in
time of such mental and physical agita
tion dropped dead. Not only that, but it
makes enemies out of friends, and makes
enemies more virulent, and anger is par
tial or consummate suicide. Great attor
neys, understanding this, have often won
their cause by willfully throwing the op
posing counsel into a rage. There is one
man you must manage or one woman you
must control in order to please God and
make life a success and that is yourself.
There are drawbridges to every castle by
which you may keep out of your nature
foreign foes, but no man has a defense
against himself unless it be a divine de
fense. Out of the millions of the human
race there is only one person who can do
you permanent and everlasting harm, and
that is the being that walks under your
own hat and in your own shoes. The
hardest realm that you will ever have to
govern is the realm between your scalp
and heel. The most dangerous cargo a
ship can carry is dynamite, and the most
perilous thing in one’s nature is an ex
plosive temper. If your nature is hope
lessly irascible and tempestuous, then
dramatize placidity. If the ship is on fire
and yon cannot extinguish the flames, at
any rate keep down the hatches. When at
some injustice inflicted upon you or some
insult offered or some wrong done, the
best thing for you to say is to say nothing,
and the hest thing for you to write is to
write nothing. If the meanness done you
is unbearable, or you must express your
self or die, then I commend a plan that I
have once or twice successfully adopted.
Take a sheet of paper. Date it at your
home or office. Then put the wrongdoer’s
name at the head of the letter page, with
out any prefix of “colonel’’ or suffix of
•‘D. D.,’’ apd begin with no term of cour
tesy, but a hold and abrupt “sir.” Then
follow it witli a statement of the wrong
he has done you and of the indignation
you have felt. Put into it the strongest
terms of execration you can employ with
out being profane. Sign your name to
the red hot epistle. Fold it. Envelop it.
Direct it plainly to the man who has done
you wrong. Carry the letter a week or
two weeks, if need be, and then destroy it
In God’s name, destroy it!
I like what Abraham Lincoln said to
one of his cabinet officers. That cabinet
officer had been belied and misrepresented
until in a fury he wrote a letter of arraign
ment to his enemy and in tersest possible
phraseology told him what he thought of
him. The cabinet officer read it to Sir
Lincoln and asked him how he liked it.
Mr. Lincoln replied: “It is splendid for
sarcasm and scorn. I never heard any
thing more complete in that direction.
But do you think you can afford to send
it?’’ That calm and wise and Christian
interrogation of the president stopped the
letter, and it was never sent. Young man,
before you get far on in life, unless you
are to be an exception among men, you
will be wronged, you will be misinterpret
ed, you will be outraged. All your sense
of justice will be in conflagration. Let
me know how you meet that first great of
fense and I will tell you whether your life
is to be a triumph or a failure. You see,
equipoise at such a time means so many
things. It means self control. It means
a capacity to foresee results. It means a
confidence in your own integrity. Itmeans
a faith in the Lord God that he will see
you through.
Don’t Be Suspicions.
Again, if you would bo master of the
situation put the best interpretation on
the character and behavior of others. Do
not be looking for hypocrites in churches,
or thieving among domestic servants, or
swindlers among business men, or mal
feasance in office. There is much in life
to make men suspicious of others, and
when that characteristic of suspicion be
comes dominant a man has secured his
own unhappiness, and he has become an
offense in all circles, religious, commer
cial and political. The man who moves
for a committee of investigation is gener
ally a moral derelict. The man who goes
with his nostrils inflated, trying to discov
er something malodorous, is not a man,
but a sleuthhound. The world is full of
nice peopie, generous people, people who
are doing their best—good husbands, good
wives, good fathers, good mothers, good
officers of the law, good judges, good gov
ernors, good state and national legisla
tors, good rulers. Does some man growl
out, “That has not been my experience,
.and I think just the opposite?” Well, my
brother, I am sorry for your afflictive cir
cumstances, and that you had an unfor
tunate ancestry, and that you have kept
such bad company and had such discourag
tng environment. I notice that after a
man has been making a violent tirade
against his fellow men he is on his way
down, and if he live long enough he will
be asking you for a quarter of a dollar to
get a drink or a night’s lodging. Behave
yourself well, O young man, and you
will find life a pleasant, thing to live, and
(he world full of friends, and God’s bene
diction everywhere about you.
Avoid Gambling.
Again, if you would be master of the
situation, expect nothing from good luck
or haphazard or gaming adventures. In
this time, when it is estimated that gam
bling exchanges money to the amount of
about $80,000,000 a day, this remark may
be useful. There come times in many a
man's life when he hopes to get some
thing for which be does not give an
equivalent, and there are 50 kinds of
gambling. Stand aloof from all of them.
Understand that the gambling spirit is
a disease, and the more successful you are
the more certain you are to go right on to
your own ruin. Having made his thou
sands, why does not the gambler stop and
make a safe investment of what he hits
gained and spend the rest of his life in
quieter less hazardous style of occupation?
The reason is he cannot stop. Nothing
but death ever cures a confirmed gambler.
Dr. Keeley's gold cure rescues the drunk
ard, and there are antitobacco prepara-
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER sg 1898.
tions that will arrest the victim of nico
tine, and religion can save any one except
a gambler. The fact is he is irresponsible.
Having got the habit in him, he is no
more responsible for keeping on than a
man falling from the roof of a four story
hou«e can stop at the window of the sec
ond story. Here and there you may find
an instance where a gambler has been re- I
ported or reports himself as being convert
ed, but in that case the man was not fully
under the heel of the passion. The real
gambler is a through passenger to death
and perdition. The only use in referring
to him is in the way of prevention. He
began by taking chances on a bookcase or
a sewing machine at a. church fair and
ended by getting a few pennies for his last
valuable in a pawnbroker’s shop. The
only man who gambles successfully is the
man who loses so fearfully at the start
that he is disgusted and quits. Let, him
win at the start and win again, and it
means farewell to home and heaven. Most
merciless ol all habits!
Horace Walpole says that a man dropped
down at the door of a clubhouse in Lon
don and was carried tn, and the gamblers
began to bet whether he was dead or not,
and when It was proposed to bleed hint
for his recovery the gamblers objected
that it would affect the fairness of the bet.
What noble men they must have been!
But more and more ladies are becoming
gamblers. They bet at the races and have
prizes in social groups which are nothing
but the stakes of gambling. A good way
for a lady to get into the gamester's habit
is by beginning with “ progressive euchre. ”
That opens the door in a fashionable way.
In one of our great cities invitations were
sent out for such a meeting at the card ta
bles. The guests entered, and sat down
and began. After awhile the excitement
ran high, and the lady who was the host
ess fainted and fell under the table. The
guests arose, but some one said: “Don't
touch the bell! Let us finish the game.
Sbe would have done so herself and would
Wish us, if she spoke.” The game went
on for 30 minutes longer, and then a phy
sician was called. After examination of
the case it was found that the lady had
been dead 20 minutes. As the guests lift
their hands in surprise I exclaim in regard
to them, What delicate and refined and
angelic womAnhood!
Today, Not Tomorrow.
Again, if you would be master of the
situation, never adjourn until tomorrow
what you can do today. The difference
between happy and inspiring work and
wearying and exhausting and dispiriting
work is the difference between work be
hind you and work before you. But al
ways wait until you feel like it, wait un
til cirrcumstances are more propitious,
wait till next week or wait till next year,
and the probability is the work will be
only half done or never done at all. Post
ponement is the curse of a vast populatlpn.
After awhile all the things that ought to
have been done previously will rush in
upon you, and, it being too much for your
brain and nerves, you will be a fit subject
for paralysis or nervous prostration. How
many battles have been lost because the
general did not strike quick enough, and
the enemy had full time to gather
forcement! You intend some time to
write that important letter. You intend
some time to make that business call. You
intend some time to finish that book. You
'intend some time to preach that sermon
Where is some time? What is some time?
Does it walk or does it float about you?
Will it happen to come? No! Some time
is never. There are no stragglers in the
days and months and years. If one day
should refuse to keep step and become a
straggler, it would wreck the universe
Promptness! Up to time! Today! Now!
You Will get only what you win.
There are accidents, like the printer’s
mistake which caused Louis Napoleon to
be called “Napoleon III.” A Parisian
editor at the time that Louis Napoleon by
base strategy turned the republic into a
monarchy wrote in derision the word “Na
poleon,” followed by three exclamation
points. These exclamation points the
printer mistook for the letter “I” three
times written, and hence he was called
“Napoleon 111. ” But promotions by ac
cident are not to be depended on. Depend
on getting nothing except that which un
der God by your own industry and good
sense you achieve. That was a good maxim
of olden time, “Get thy spindle and dis
taff ready, and God will send thee flax.”
Especially do our young men need to get
ready, as within the past few months the
world has unfolded before them opportuni
ties such as we never dreamed would come
so soon. Putting aside the political ques
tion as to what ought to be done with
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, the
whole world for the first time is open, and
the question now is, what our young men
will do with the world. China, the richest
of all lands for metals and with 500,000,-
000 of people, is made our neighbor, and
the commerce of the United States is to be
quadrupled in the life of the present gen
eration, and what advantages commerce
advantages mechanism and art and lit
erature and the professions. The Ameri
can plow, the American hammer, the
American pen, the American printing
press, the American bargain counter, are
soon to have their opportunity in every is
land of the sea and every continent. Young
men! You need to be wiser, braver, bet
ter men than we have ever been to meet
the crisis.
Religion Necessary.
Again, if you would be master of the
situation, and I name it last because it ia
the most important, for you know that
which is last mentioned is apt to be best
remembered, I charge you get into your
heart and life, your conversation and your
manners, your body, mind and soul, the
Bear 6,000-year-old religion of the Bible.
Why so? Because the large majority of
people quit this life before 25 years of age,
and the possibility is that if you do not
take possession of this religion, and re
ligion does not take possession of you
while you are youqg, you will never come
into alliance. Mrs. McKinley, the mother
of our president, said to me at the White
House, “I am living on borrowed time, '
for lam over 80 years of age.” My reply
to her was the reply I make to you, “All
those who are over 25 years of age are liv
ing on borrowed time, since the majority
of people go out of the world before 25
years of age. ”
Heraclitus, according to Plato, said that
no man bathes twice in the same river. ■
But, suppose you live to be octogenarians, '
do you not see that postponement is an
awful waste of nerve and muscle and '
brain? What is the use of your pulling a
heavy load all your lite when you can have
two of the white horses that St. John saw
in heaven harnessed to your load? Sup
pose you have a great mill wheel to turn.
You can put that mill wheel where it will
be turned by a mill race of water one foot
deep, poured by a small brook, or you can
put it along the deep and swift St. Law
rence, which will roll through the mill
race tons of water every second of time.
Are you going to run your life by the
shallow’ drippings of earthly influence or
by the rolling rivers of omnipotentpvower?
Are you going to undertake the work of
life with nothing but your own brain or I
arm or with your own brain and arm |
backed up by ail the terrestrial anil all the
celestial forces of the Almighty? I make
as great an offer as was ever made by
man. I offer you God. He tells me to
make that point blank propositon. If yon
waflt them, you can have them on your
side for the earnest asking—omniscience,
omnipresence, omnipotence! Can you
huagine a greater contrast thana young
man undertaking life alone—life, with all
its confrontraents of temptation and ob
stacle —and a young man undertaking life
with every wing of angel and every thun
derbolt of heaven pledged for his defense
and advancement—the difference between
a young man alone and a young roan be
friended by the Maker and Upholder of
the universe? The battle of life is so se
vere that no young roan can afford to de
cline any help, and. the mightiest help te
God. One night in the year 1741 Count
Lessoek went to escort the Princes®. Eliza
beth of Russia to a throne which was then
unoccupied. She halted, she hesitated,
she wondered whether she- had better go
to the palace and mount the throne of all
the Russiae. Then Count Lessoek. drew
on a paper two sketches, the one-of herself
and the count in disgrace and on the scaf
fold and the other of herself os a throne
amid huzzaing subjects. When, she saw
plainly that she-must make a. ah o ice, she
chose the throne, I put before the young
men of Washington and the yonng men of
America the choice between overthrow
and enthronement. You map have what
you will. Will you be the slave of passion
and sin and. death or a conqueror em
palaced? The Spanish proverb was right
when it said, “The road of By and By
leads to the town of Never.”
Cet Cloaw- to- God.
More young men would take this ad
vantage which I speak of ts they did not
have the notion that religion puts one into
depressing process. They have heard, for
instance, the absurd preachment, “You.
ought to> live every day as though it were
your last.” Such a lachrymose man I
would sot want anywhere around me. On
the contrary, you ought to live as though
you were going to live a great while in
this world and to live forever in the next
world. There is no smell of varnish of
coffin lids in our genuine religion. Get in
right relation with God through Jesus
Christ, and you need not bother yourself
the rest of your life for two minutesabout
your death or about your funeral. Here is
a manly religion, one that will extirpate
from j?our nature all that ought to be ex
tirpated and irradiate it with every virtue
and make it glow with every anticipation.
Neither would I have you adopt that
other absurd preachment, that the things
of this world are of little importance as
compared with the next world. On the
contrary, you cannot sufficiently appreci
ate the importance of this world, for it de
cides your next world. You might as well,
despise a schoolhouse because it is not a
university. In the schoolhouse we prepare
for the university. If this world is of such
little importance, I do not think the first
born and the last born of heaven would
have spent 33 years down here to redeem
it.
Do not postpone to the fifties or even the
forties of your life that which you can be
and do in tho twenties or thirties. If you
do not amount to much before 40 years of
age’, you will never amount to much. Jef
ferson wrote the Declaration of American
Independence at 33 years of age. William
Pitt was prime minister of England at 24.
Raphael’s great paintings were all finished
before he was 37 years of age. Cortes was
31 when he overcame Mexico. Grotius
was attorney general at 24. Gustavus
Adolphus expired at 38. At 27 Calvin pub
lished his immortal “Institutes.” Alex
ander the Great died at 37, and lesser mon
get armed for tho chief good or evil of
their lives before they reach their midlife.
Start Right.
Young man, start right, and the only
way to start right is to put yourself into
companionship with the best friend a
young man ever had—Christ the Lord.
He will give you equipoise amid the rock
ing of life's uncertainties. He will sup
port you in day of loss. He will direct
you when you come to the forks of the
road and know not whioh road to take.
He will guide you in your home life, if
you are wise enough to have a home of
your own. If you live on to great pros
perity, he will show you how to manage a
fortune. If your earthly projects fail and
you are put in financial straits, he will see
to it that that is the best condition for
your soul, and the discipline and the hard
ship will make you more and more of a
man. If you live on to old age, he will
make the evening twilight as bright as
and perhaps brighter than was the morn
ing twilight, and when your work on
earth is done the gates of a better world
will open on expansions and enthrone
ments and felicities which St. John de
scribes sometimes as orchards, sometimes
as shaded streets and sometimes as a crys
talline river and sometimes as an orchestra
with mighty instruments, blown on by
lips cherubic or thrummed by fingers
seraphic, and inhabitants always tearless
and songful and resplendent, so that the
mightiest calamity of the universe is the
portion of that one who fails to enter it.
Young man, seek only elevating and
improving companionship. Do not let the
last scion of a noble family, a fellow with
a big name, but bad habits, for he drinks
and swears and is dissolute, take your
arm to walk down the street or spend an
evening with you, either at your room or
his room. Remember that sin is the most
expensive thing in God’s universe. I have
read that Sir Brasil, the knight, tired out
with the chase had a falcon on his wrist,
as they did in days of falconry, when with
hawks or falcons they went forth to bring
down partridges or grouse or pigeons,
and, being very thirsty, came to a stream
struggling from a rock, and, releasing the
falcon from his wrist, he took the bugle
which he carried, and, stopping the mouth
piece of his bugle with a tuft of moss, he
put this extemporized cup under the water
which came down drop by drop from the
rock until the cup was full and then lifted
it to drink, when the falcon he had re
leased with sudden swoop dashed the cup
from his hand. By the same process he
filled the cup again and was about to
drink when the falcon by another swoop
dashed down the cup. Enraged at this in
solence and violence of the bird, he cried,
“I will wring thy neck if thou doest that
again.” But/having filled the cup a third
time and trying to drink, a third time the I
falcon dashed it down. Then Sir Brasil
with his fist struck the bird, which flut
tered and looked lovingly and reproach
fully at him and dropped dead. Then Sir
Brasil, looking up to the top of the rock
whence dripped the water, saw a great
green serpent coiled fold above fold, the
venom from his mouth dropping into that '
from which Sir Brasil had filled his cup. ;
Then exclaimed the knight, “What a kind
thing it was fur the falcon to dash down
that poisoned cup, and what a sad thing
that I killed him. and What a narrow
escape I had!” So now there are no more I
certainly waters that refresh than waters :
that poison. This moment there are thou
sands of young men, unwittingly and not
knowing what they do, taking into their
bugle cup of earthly joy that which is
dc..dly because it drips from the jaws of
The Kind. You Have Always Bought, and which has beeu
in use for over 30 years, lias borne the signature of—
and lias been made under his per- *
Sonal supervision since its infancy. I
Allow no one to deceive you in this, j
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex- 1
periments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. -
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil. Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotie
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind.
Colie. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation,
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY STREET. NEW YORK CITY.
that old serpent, the'devil, and the dove
of Godis Spirit in kindly warning dashes
down the cup, but again it is filled and
again dashed down and again filled and
again dashed down. Why not turn away
and slake your thirst at the clear, bright,
perennial fountain that breaks from the
Rock of Ages, a fountain so wide and so
deep that all the inhabitants of earth and
all the armies of heaven may stoop down
and fill their chalices?
C A.STOHTA.
Bears the Tha Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature f jP* .//¥/?»
of
You Don’t Have to
Wait for your money when you get loans
from us. We have it always on hand.
GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man.
Equitable Building' and Loan Association,
Macon, Ga., 481 Third Street.
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565 Cherry st.
Phone 285—2 Calls.
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Price 50c. and $1; 8 boxes $5.
For quick, positive and lasting resu’ts in Sexual
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too Pills $2; by mail.
FREE —A*bottle of the famous Japanese Liver
Pellets will be given with a ft aox or more ol Mag
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FINANCIAL.
U. Y. MALLARY, K. N. JELKS,
President. Vi oe-President.
J. J. 0088, Cashier.
Commercial and Savings Bank,
MACON, GA.
General Banking Business Transacted.
$5.00 wil rent a box In our safety de
posit vault, an absolutely safe plan la
which to deposit jewelry, silverware and
securities of all kinds.
UNION SAVINGS BANK
AND TRUST COMPAN Y
MACON, GEORGIA.
Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent
J. W. Cabaniss, President; S. S. Dunlay,
Vice-President; C. M. Orr, Cashier.
Capital, $200,000. Surplus, $30,000.
Interest paid on deposits. Deposit your
savings and they will be increased by in
terest compounded semi-annually.
THE EXCHANGE BANK
of Macon, Ga.
Capital $500,000
Surplus 150,000
J. W. Cabanlss, President.
S. S. Dunlap, Vice-President
C. M. Orr, Cashier.
Li be tai to its customers, accommodating
to the public, and prudent in its manage
ment, this bask solicits deposits and ocher
business in its line.
* DIRECTORS.
J. W. Cabaniss, W. R. Rogers, R. E.
Park, H. J. Lamar, N. B. Corbin, S. S.
Dunlap, L. W. Hunt, Sam Meyer, W. A.
Doody, J. H. Williams, A. D. Schofield.
ESTABLISHED 1868.
R. H. PLANT. CHAS. D. HURT*
Cashier,
I. C. PLANT’S SON,
BANKER,
MACON, GA.
A general banking buslneee transacted
and all consistent certeciee cheerfully ex
tended to patrons. Certificates as <■»■■!< e
Issued bearing interest.
FIBST NATIONAL BANK
•f MACON, GA.
The sceeunta at banka, earperatloae.
firms and Individuals received ape* tha
atoat favorable terms eenaistoai with em
servatlve banking. A share at yaw boa*
Ums reaitotfully salleitod.
R. H. PLANT.
Preside*!.
George H. Plant, Vice-President.
W. W. Wrigley, Cashier.
Money
Always on Hand
Will loan in amounts of S2OO to
SIO,OOO on city or country proper
ty.
Call and see us.
We are headquarters.
Lowest rates.
The Georgia Loan and
Trust Co.
O. A. COLEMAN, G. M.
356 Second St.
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