The Colored tribune. (Savannah [Ga.]) 1875-1876, April 22, 1876, Image 1

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\ *2 You I. WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE; WITH CHARITY FOR ALL. No. 21 TOOMER. WHITE, PLEASANT A CO.,I C iTrrnn a v 4 pimi 99 1 j Price $1 00 H Year, Payable Quarterly In Publishers. j OAIURDAY, J\.rKIL ip IU. \ Advance. Single copies 5 Cta. 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 1 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 v' •%, w .*#•♦**» fun ►» v 4 Al tU 2i 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. v