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Repulican State Convention,
MAY 3d. 1876.
A State Convention of the Republi
cans of Georgia will be held in the City
o! Atlanta, on Wednesday the third dty
ol May nex ( , at 12 o’clock, noon for
the election of D.deg tes to ihe It pub
lican NitionalConvention at Cincinnati,
on the 14t;i day ot June next, and tor
such other business as properly devolves
r.pon it, including the ucimnaiiou of a
Republican candid ite-for Governor o»
Georgia and ihe nomination ot a Re
publican Electoral Ticket. The con
vention will consist of Delegates from
each eoiin'y iu the State, equal to twice
the number of Representatives trorn
the respective Counties in the House of
Representatives iu the Geueral Assem
bly.
Iu calling meetings tor the electiou of
Delegates, the Committees of (he several"
counties, are urged to iuvite all Repub
lican voters and all other voters, with
out regard to past political differences
or previous party affiliations, who are
opposed to reviving sectional issues,
and promote friendly feeling and per
manent harmony throughout the coun
try by maintaining and enforcing all
the constitutional rights of ev,‘ry citizen,
iucludiug the full and free exercise of
the right of suffrage without intimida
tion and without iraud; who are iu favor
of a thorough and complete exposure of
the recent heavy losses sustaiued by the
people ot Georgia from tbs State Treasu
ry ; who tire iu tavor of the prosecution
and punishment of all official dishonesty,
and ot an eeouomical adminis:ration ot
the Government by bones*, taithful,
and capable officers; who are iu fivor ol
making such reforms in government as
experience majf from time to dine sug
gest; who are opposed to impairing the
credit of the State or the uation by
depreciating or repudiating just obli
gations, amt in tavor ot sustaining in
every way financial honor; who hold
that the common-school system is the
uursery of American liberty, uud should
be maintained absolntly tree from sec
tarian cantrol; who believe that, for
the promotion of these ends, the direc
tion of the Slate aud National Go\ern-
ments should be confided to those who
adhere to the principles of 1776, and
support them as incorporated iu the
National Constitution and laws, and in
the prsent C institution of Georgia; and
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who are in favor of recoguiziug aud
strengthening the fundamental princi
ples of National Unity and persoual
liberty in \|iis Centennial Anniversary
of ihe birth of the Republic.
HENRY P. FARROW,
Chairman,
JOHN L. CONLEY.
Secre'ary,
Republican State Cen. Committee.
Atlanta, Ga., April 3d, 1876.
Short sketch of a Sermon Preached In the
Tabernacle, Sunday April fHth, 1S7U.
By Rev. Dr. H. M. Turner.
[Reported by a Lady.]
Psalms, 2nd and 4th. “He that sit-
tetb in the heavens, shall liugh, the
Lord shall have them iu derision.”
Mr. Scott aifys in his learned exposi
tion of tLos Psalm that it might betaken
from David’s advaucemeut to the throne.
And his expectation ot triumphing over
ihe opposition to his authority, both of
disaffected Isre.alites aud the surroun
ding nations. The full Account of wh'ch
will be fouud in 2nd Samuel, aud second
chapter. But it is throughout an
"evidence prophecy of Christ aud is re
peatedly quoted in the Now Testament
Scriptures, where it is ascribed to Da
vid, though his name is not always
prefixed to it. The design ol the Hebrew
poet appears to have been the delinea
tion, by prophetic instrumentality ot
the mighty opposition that would be
giveu to the Messiah aud Ins kiligdotn.
One would bad expected that such in
finite blessings as were the result from
tbs comiug of Christ iuto the world
would be uuniversally welcome I and
embraced. But how reverse! Never were
the notions of any sect ot philosphers or
schemers however absurd and devilish,
more opposed than God’s simple plan
of saving mankind, never were the
powers of auy potentate or Grant
opposed with more violence, than the
doctrine aud government ol (Jurist,
Surely the gospel is the boon ot heaven
and the baue of evil, otherwise hell
would have hardly been so rampant.
The adversiries of Christ however,
were not ouly to be priuces aud people,
court aud country, not the groat and
mighty only, but the mob, the heathen,
aud the rabble, were to joiu the groat
chorus, aud wago a crusade against the
very principles on which their elevation
and ultimate salvation were suspended.
As the Philistines and their Lords,
Saul and his courtiers, the disaffected
party and its ring leaders opposed
David’s comiug to the crown; so Herod
and Pilate, Gentiles and Jews devils 1
and hob-gobliugs, did their utmost
against Christ and his plan of saving
ttu world. Their opposition has ever
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bceu spiteful! and malicious. The ene
mies ol truth have set themselves, their
faces, their hearts, as flint adamant
against the Lord an 1 his Anointed, iu
detiauce of reason, conscience, and all
the terrors of his vengeance. But in the
lauguage ot the Psalmist they were
imagining a vain thing, for when a mau
so far forge's, his absolute wor hlessness
as to lay an embirgo upon the doings of
his maker he not only imagines vainly,
but liei* dancing at the music of follv.
Aud lie that sittctli in the heavens shall
laugh; and hold them in evorlastiug
conitempt.
Men hive been trying to stay the
hand ot God for ages upon ages, bnt
wlmt have they done but made them
selves ridiculous in this lite, and the
subjects of everlasting death in the
world to come. Ii is said the people of
the obi world laughed at Noah when he
was Building the ark. but the flood
came ami the angry billows swillowed
them up. The people ot Sodom and
Gormorruh defied God and relnsed to
leave the city at the bidding ot Lot, but
heaven’s blazing fagots consumed them.
Pbaronh relnsed to release the children
of Isreal at the 1ml of God. bnt the black
winged augel of death slew the first
born iu every house, and he and his
host perished iu the Red Sea. Goliab,
ol Gath, defied the armies of the living
God, but little David hurled a missile
at his dead and he fell iuto the jaws of
death, aud the beardless youth took his
own sword and severed that head from
bis body. Herod the great tried to kill
the infant Jesus, but in less than a hun
dred years both he and his entire family
were extinct. Herod Agrippa put St.
James to death, aud the angel of God
smote him and the worms ate him up.
Judas betrayed our Lord, aud he died
by his own hands the most shameful of
aii deaths. Auinias the High Priest per-
! seemed St. Paul and instantly ordered
the by-standers to smite him on the
mouth, but iu a short time he was put
to death by his own sou. The bloody
Nero put Peter aud Paul to death with
many other Christians, hut four years
afterwards he sought his own life. Aud
thus we might proceed to uotioe the
persecutors of Lmher, the followers of
Jesus in England, Frauce, Irelaud and
the world over, where the enemies of
God and the church have battled against
tlie standard of Emanuel ; and we would
find the same fearful results attending
them. How unreasonable and hopeless
are those who oppose Him that sitteth in
the heavens, aud has them in derisiou.
God sits as oue easy aud at rest out of
the reach of all their impotent menaess
aud wicked attempts. Secure iu the fall
accomplishments of liis purposes and
designs vanquishing his foes, aud driv
ing them as dust before the tornado.
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