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6 THE BELAYED MILLENNIUM ; MORAL RETROGRESSION OF THE 1 CHILDREN OF MEN. The Saying of the Popular Preachers, that the World is Growing Better, Shown to be Vain. < Millennium signifies one thousand years. This is a period of time that our Savior will reign with his glo rified saints somewhere before he delivers up his mediatorial kingdom, that the Father may become all in all. Now, any careful Bible reader can ascertain for himself that this reign will be after the first resurrec tion, which is the resurrection of the righteous. The resurrection of the wicked will occur one thousand years after, which is the second res urrection. Rev. 20 : 4 : “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judg ment was given unto them; and I saw the souls of them that were be headed for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God, and which had uot worshiped the beast, neither his image” (those are not aiding in any of his works, the word’s fair in cluded) ; “neither had received his mark upon the foreheads, or in their hands” (our legislative bodies, cor porations and professional men tax ing the suffering millions, and would tax the air if they had power, are the ones that had this mark) ; “and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” Now, surely any man that has any sense at all can see that this living ami reigning with Christ a thousand ye;ws by these good people was after they had been beheaded and dead. Is any one so blind as not to see? I reckon the next, or sth verse, will surely settle it: “But the rest of the dead live not again until the thous and years are finished. This is the first resurrection” —the resurrection of the righteous dead who had been St. John had been car ried through the mighty scenes until the end or first resurrection, hence he uses the perfect tense. This first resurrection (i • hess. 16 : 17), “For the Lord descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archange, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. “Then we which are alive and re main shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” Now’, my paid brethren, who all your time search the scriptures while 1 am at the plow-handles, what haye - you been doing all your lives, that you are yet one thousand years be hind? This thousand years, relating to the period when old mother earth shall be resting preparatory to her ' final burning, is not in scripture save in Revelations, xx. During this thousand years’ rest of mother earth, the wicked dead and those' sinners who are killed by the brightness of his coming will remain asleep in and on the earth till the thousand years are finished, then they shall be resurrected; this the second resurrection. Tney shall then appear before God and be judged; receive their sentence »nd be east into a lak« nre and brim wt.— ~ <uiu burned up; this is the second death. The resurrected righteous, and those who are alive and remain after, rise up to meet Him in the clouds and are changed in the twin kle of an eye, and shall for the first time put on immortaity, will be taken by him to heaven, there to spend this thousand years in celebrating the gr eat marriage supper or feast, and in taking the great* bridal tour of Christ and his redeemed church, or the bridegroom and bride. Where, then, is a reign of right eousness in this world to be found? I am sure it is not in the Bible. But let us examine some more scriptures: Mat. 7 : 13, 14 : “Enter ye in at the strait gate*; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that lead-, eth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat ; because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” No, how absurd it is for |men to imagine that our Savior’s word will of a sudden be changed and all the w orld be saved or condemned. Such an idea is a. libel on the word of sacred truth. But these temporal millennium preachers declare that the world is growing better; they say that the spread of the gospel is dispelling darkness and ignorance, and that we are easing into this glorious reign of righteousness. Now, just let us calmly and in an unprejudiced spirit examine just w hat will be the moral condition of the world in the last days : • “This know T , also, that in the last perilous times shall come. 2. a H shall be lovers of their own ou covetous, boasters, proud, Mriers, disobedient to parents, tul and unholy. 3. Without . .flection, truce-breakers, false n y incontinent, fierce, despisers h ir that are good. 4. Traitors, th'igh-minded, lovers of pleas cc re than lovers of God. 5. Y a form of godliness, but de .. e power thereof, 6. I-or of 'are they which creep into k’ n d lead captive silly wom-n, vith sms, led away' with, 7. Ever learning and peie to come to the knowledge • II Tim. iii ,; e a spusibl hying to- X. .-> can’t see W-vUhie , foi i PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1 catalogue of crime prevails just at this time to a greater extent than at any previous time in the history of the world? I will just say that the world would be in a fine condition for this temporal millinnium I God pity th# world. 12. Yea, all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. • It does seem to me that any one who wanted to understand at all may know that we are living in the last days spoken of by the apostle, and this list of crimes is now in full force. Now, just take up the newspapers of the day and we find the reports are perfectly heart-sickening. See one man oppressing another ; lawyers cannot wait for a man to die to have the plans laid to get his property; hear the boast that they are the only class that are competent to make and execute the laws; hear them say if this farmer and labor ers’ movement is not checked the government will be run into social ism ; see the pride that permates our females; they are bowing at the shrine of dress, fine equipments, etc.; hear the loud-swelling oaths and the contempt with which God’s name is treated." Surely at no time in the history of our race have children been so disobedient to parents and teachers. This is noticeable every where. So the dark list of crimes arising from unnatural affections. If any one is brave enough to defend the cause of justice and right, and protect the oppressed, the newspa pers of the country at once set up false accusations enough against him to blacken the character of an angel, if believed. The cities, to a great extent, are filled with bawdy and lewd houses. Members of our national Congress hire wicked men to delude and de coy the fair young daughters of poor families to them that they may plunge them into shame and ever lasting disgrace in order to satiate their hellish, lewd passions. If a good man happens to get into a position where he can and does stand by the right, see how he is and his name cast out as evil. Hear the execrations of the parti san press and the legal profession and the wicked politicians upon Hon. Thomas E. Watson and h>s eight colleagues ’ Hear a little hot-headed lawyer, of Cumming, asking Con gressman Wmu to resign for daring to turn from evil! Traitors 1 Take, for example, the case of Moses and Living! ton, after the laboring men of their respective districts had forced them to the front, on certain promises of’ reform, and sent them to Congress. Now see them, in the face of all those prom ises, leaving their posts of duty and coming back to Georgia try to bring heaven and earth together in the en deavor to drive back the Dien who elected them, and betray them into the very power kom which these laboring men cut loose. Nay, the same against which they had organised Ur plunging them into financial ruin. Then talk about Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold 1 In the b’Aze of reformatory light tlfat is now dawning upon us, the two first ae by far the greater traitors. Hear the heady, penny-wise law yers, the court rings, rhe town and city preachers calling the leaders of the reform movement fools, and de nouncing the people as anarchists, paternalists and socialists, for no other reason than that they are edu cating tiiemoelves in order to take their government and affairs out of their (the leady classes) hands and manage Meir own business. See these classes sitting at ease in vourt houses, in the sacre,d stand and filling the high positions, reveling in pleasure, forgetting that there is a just God that will soon mete out justice to all alike; and then answer whether St. was reviewing the crimes of our (the last) days. Hear our preachers, while they sit in silence while the agents of the dragon (devil) are trying to seduce the people and get them to make an Image of the Beast, by helping to build up this image by contributing to the hellish World’s Fair. I re peat, hear them demanding that the Christian Sabbath be observed (this of itself is right), while they never raise their voice against this trick of Satan with respect to sins of infinite ly greater magnitude. Here we have the form of “Godli ness, and denying the power where of” with a vengeance. They never say one word against the vicious efforts (in many cases successful) made to rob the people for this wick ed purpose. They never sound the note of alarm against this conglom eration of murderers, robbers, gam blers, swindlers, whoremongers, adul terers, fornicaters, women Jaden with sin, and all other classes that are do ing the work of . the Beast. No; never once do they denounce the iniquitous leaders who are getting up this great revival of the cause of the Beast and the devil. 1 heard a Methodist presiding elder, a little over a year ago, preach that the world was easing gradually into this thousand years’ reign of righteousness. What a full verifica tion of the verse, “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the Guth.” God save and deliver j a sin cursed world from such error— i an error that originated in the dark ness and superstition caused by the mist that enshrouded the scriptures and the teaching of the Beast. Evil men are waxing worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. Tet our preachers say the world is grow ing better. God pity the best, if these things are better. The advo cates of a temporal millennium all say that the time is near at hand, and one of them has gone so far as to say that this is the year of grace. If his calculation h right, J pray the Lord to deliver us from the year of curse or time of trouble. In Mat thew, 13th chapter, our Savior tells us the parable of the wheat and the tares. He says the harvest is the end of the world. The enemy that sowed the tares is the devil. The reapers are the angels. Verse 30 : “Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the har vest I will say to the reapers, gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to birn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” Can not any one see that the good and bad are to remain until the end of the world ? When then is the world’s conversion ? No room for it in this sin cursed world. But these fellows say, stxp and read Numbers 14:21: “But truly as I live, all the earth shall be lilhd with the knowledge of the glory <f the Lord.” Isaiah 11:9 says the eime. Now, they say this proves a temporal mil lennium. I guess not. Try to un derstand a little better. This glori ous event will be fulfilled in an earth renewed. Now let us retd II Peter 3:10-13, inclusive, “But the day of the Lord will come as a feief in the night; in the which th* heavens shall pass away with a gjeat noise, and the elements-shall me® with fer vent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burn ed up. Seeing then that all things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be, in all holy conversation and godliness, Look ing for and has'Mning unto the com ing of the day of God, whetein the heavens being on fire shall Ibe dis solved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.” Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth right eousness. After this old sin cursed earth has been burned up, and a new one springs up from its ashes ; then this renewed earth shall be filled with the kdowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters that cover the sea. But be assured, my breth ren,' that no such state will exist until after that fiery day of the Lord. Oh I the beauties of God’s word. How His truths harmonize when un derstood. But you use Psalms the 2:8 against me. I know that they read thus: “Ask of me, and I Shall give thee the heathen for their, in heritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Please read the next verse. It does not say 1 that the heathen aze given to Christ as objects of salvation to reign a thousand years in righteousness on this earth. No,sir; they are given for quite Thou shaft break them with a rod of iron ; thou shalt dash them' in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Npt much in this to indicate the world’s conversion. It is more like Daniel 2:44, where the stone is to smite the image on the feet, and scatter it to the wind. Isaiah 66:8 asks ‘a question, “Shall a nation be born at once ?” This chapter certainly leads us to infer that such will be the case. And it also teaches that wholesale birth will be at the first resurrection, when the earth is made to bring forth all the righteous dead in one day. It has no reference to the spiritual birth (or conversion) of a nation in a day, which has never happened and never will. A per cent of every city and na tion accept Christ, while the many go on in sin. Matt. 24 : 14 is used by temporal millennium advocates to set up this vain theory. This scripture does not say the gospel is preached to convert all nations, but for a witness to all nations. And then shall the end come. Not a thousand years after. But they use some ocher scripture. (Isa. 2:1, 2,3, 4.) Examine this more closely, my friends, and you will find that this is the saying of many people and not the saying of the Lord. Truly, many are now saying this just at this time, but using it as the Lord’s syings is a fond delusion of Satan, and is damning thousands. Mich. 4:1, 2,3, 4 and 5 is parallel with this, but is quoted as the say ings of many nations. Now turn to Joel 3, and read from the Sth to the 21st verse, and see what'the saying of the Lord is, and you will find that the sayings of many people, and many nations on this sub ject differ as widely from the sayings of the Lord as heaven and hell differ. ‘ Now let us look at the facts. Preachers of every denomination are preaching that the world is growing better. They tell us that we are on the very eve of a reign of righteous ness ; that the world is being rapidly converted. I assert the reverse is precisely true. Capital all over the world is arrayed against labor. The nations of the earth are arming as never before. All over the eastern world standing armies are being in creased and equipped. The ingenuity of man is devising powerful ships of war with heavy armor, and m turn, others are inventing powerful guns to penetrate that armor. The na tions are on a war footing, and almost hourly looking for an outbreak. In the midst of this the cry of “peace and safety” is sounding from the pulpit of our land, and is lolling thousands to sleep when the watch man should be arousing them to the unpending danger. The gospel has been preached near nineteen hundred years. Christ and his apostles, with all their power, did not convert all that heard. Luther, Wesley, and all the reformers that ever arose, failed to convert the world. Can we ex pect, in these evil days, when the love of many is waxing cold; when the church and the ministry are grow ing more formal and ease-loving; when the line of demarkation between the church and the world is almost obliterated ? Is there not a great deal more danger of the world converting the church than the church convert ing the world ? Now let us see how it is. I refer to Appleton’s new Geography. There are 1,400,000,000 inhabitants on the earth; 835,000,000 are heathens; 170,000,000 are Moha nedans; 210,- 000,000 Catholics; 65,000,000 are Greeks ; 103,000,000 Christians, and 18,000,000 professing Christians, and many of these have noi got any more religion than they need. My God I what a picture. Oh, how sad, that many are crying peace and safety, in view of such facts. But scripture informs us that: “ When they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction com eth upon them and they shall not escape.” My friends, the hellish World’s Fair is near. God help us to be wise and prepare for what is so near upon us.. (Il Peter 3:13) : “Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth where in dwelleth righteousness.” God grant that we may have part in the first resurrection, that we may spend the bridal tour of a thousand years in heaven. Then that we may have a rich inheritance in the earth re newed J. D. Dobbs. Save : i ■ B® p BOTANIC nOJi BLOOD BALM THE GREAT REMEDY - FOR ALL BLOQO AND SKIN DISEASES - Has been thoroughly tested by em inent physicians and the people for 40 years, and never fails to euro quickly and permanently SCROFULA, ULCERS, ECZEMA, RHEUMATISM, PIMPLES, eruptions, and all manner of EATING, SPREADING and RUNNING BOHES. Invariably cures the most loathsome blood diseases if directions are fol lowed. ' Price $1 per bottle, 6 bottles for ?o. hor Kile by druggists. seht free WONDERFUL* CURES. BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga O. H. NIXON, T. S DANFORTH. NIXON & DANFORTS, COTTON FACTORS. Nos. 3 and 4 Warren Block, AUGUSTA, - - GEORGIA. Personal and Undivided At tention given to the Weighing and Selling of Cotton. Liberal Cash Advances made on Con signments. THOMAS MURRAY, LIVERY AND SA.ILE STABLES. 740 Ellis Street, Augusta, Ga. Mules and Horses for Sale at LOWEST PRICES. All Stock Guaranteed as Represented. Having Received my Fall and Winter Stock, ' » I am now ready to supply my People’s party friends with any thing usually found in a gen eral mixed stock, comprising BOOTS, SIWES, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SUGARS, COFFEES Flour, Meal aud everything wanted* in a family. I will guarantee to save’ any purchaser ten per cent in Boots and Shoes against any house in town except People’s party stores. JULE C. WATSON, Thomson, Georgia. FOR SALE; A GOOD FARM OF THREE HUN dred acres, on the fork of the public roads. A large Gin House, good Gmi and Press, good Engines, Boiler and Saw-mil, a small Store-house and Dwelling and one Tenant House. Six miles from Ma rietta, on Dallas road. Apply to. ASA DARBY, Octavia, Cobb County, < i m LONE STR GIMENEB PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT WACO, TEXAS. PBtCE, 50 CENTS A TEAK. Besides printing a large amount of use ful matter about'gardening, it will con tain much information about Texas, es pecially to those who are thinking of coming West to better their fortunes. Send ua your subscription, or better still, make up a club among your neigh bors. Address W. T. CHRISTOPHER. Waco, Texas. KENTUCKY MULES & HORSES, FOR SALE AT 738 Ellis St., Augusta, Ga. F.H. DUNNINGTON, THOMSON, GA., Nov. 28,1892 » To my Friends and Former Customers: Having bought the Ira Brinkley stock of goods, I am prepared to show you a nice line of General Merchandise, which I will sell very cheap. Shoes a specialty. S. F. MORRIS, Main st. PEOPLE’S PARTY STORE Keeps constantly on hand a full line of FAMILY GROCERIES and PLANTATION SUPPLIES. DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, NOTIONS, BOOTS and SHOES. Also a full line of WINDOW SHADES, CURTAINS, POLES, Etc. We carry a full line of GLASS and CHINA WARE, and would be pleased to have yon call and- examine prices and qualify before you buy. Our motto is: “ Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.” G. H. IRVING & CO., THOMSON, GEORGIA. ~MULES MULES!! I will have a car-load of Kentucky Mules at Thomson, Ga., by the first of January. Will meet prices anywhere. I invite friends in McDuffie and adjoining counties to call and examine before buying else where. E. W. HAWES. ADKINS HOUSE, Nothwcst Cor. Bread and Campbell Streets, Augusta, Georgia. Centrally Located. Five Minutes Ride on Electric Cars from Depot. Will be pleased to have friends from the country. TERMS, $1.50 Per Day. A. J. ADKINS, Proprietor. SOMEWHAT LIVELY! Trade in the Shoe line isjabout all MULHERIN, RICE & CO., of Augusta, can attend to, but the livelier the better. They are “ Not too modest, not too bold to stir things up in the commercial world. They believe in letting the public know they have BARGAINS for the people. Their lines of BOCTS. SHOES, HATS AND TRUNKS Were never equaled in Augusta. They please all who see them, and are selling at ASTONISHINGLY LOW PRICES. Remember the place. MULHERIN, RICE & CO., 623 and 913 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. . THERE IS A WIDE DIFFERENCE between a Piano that is not right in any one essential and one that is right in all respects, particularly in tone, touch and durability. Viewed apart you may not notice the difference. Buy the one lacking in essentials, and compare it with and then the difference will be apparent. The strange thing about it is this: You are sure to be asked'nearly as much for the cheaper as for the better piano. This seems incrediblo. It is true. Why? THE JOO CHURCH COMPANY, onsrcusrjsrjLTi, ohio. - - ~~ -IL""-—J- GEO. R. LOMBARD & . uU ‘ ° t_ Fnnndrv Machins Boilfir engines, 4to 75 horse power. tUU AND CIN WORKS liC l BOILERS. 6 to 150 horse power. AND GIN WORKS. ■■■& ■ GETS 1-mI LLS, §l6 to S4B. FEED MILLS, SSO to $ LU>. ‘ ■' Roller Gins. ■ Furnace Grates, AiiriiQTA ■ Cane Mills. Kettles, Evaporators, Auuu»i R,,i,icSsfc a & Stacks, Fronts. Building Castes, Grates, Stacks, etc., Bolts. Shafting. Pul’eys, Hangers, Belting, Packing, Injectors, J<?t Pumps, Piping, Valves, [sizes. . Ftitings, Saws, Bar Iron, all XkAll kinds of Machinery Work, new, and Re b V pairs promptly attended to, - '■■■■■ - ■ - ' Write us before you buy and get our prices, t T, W. RIVERS, JAMES STAPLETON, Formerly of Rivers & Arrington. Os T. D. Stapleton & Co., Spre ad, Ga RIVERS & STAPLETON, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Supplies, Tobacco, Cigars, Eto 745 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA Will be pleased to have our friends and the public generally call on us. We sell everything in the Grocery line at LOWEST CASH PRICES We handle all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE on commission, and wil be pleased to serve our friends. WHEN IN THOMSON, GO TO H. A. BURNSIDE'S, WHERE YOU CAN BUY ANYTHING YOU WANT. Best Shoe Stock in Town. Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats and Notions. Also a Select Stock of Groceries. The Best Tobacco for the Least Money. In fact, a dollar gets a hundred cents’ worth every time. Come and see. We will be glad to show you our stock. H- A- BURNSIDE, THOMSON, GLORQIA . the Freig 14 Vi To introduce my business into every Southern home, I make the following very liberal offer : I will pay the freight on every bill of goods amounting to twenty-rive dollars or more (except to Texas and the Pacific slope). I have th© biggeit line of Goods in the South, and. • my factories are running day and night to furnish goods for the thousands of customers scattered all over this sunny land: Heavj' Carpets 1 yard wide, 25 yards.. $lO 'X? Elegant Parlor Suits, upholstered in Plush - ■ - - - - - JU tv Laige Bed-room Suits, ten pieces - 22 00 Elegant Platform Rockers, - - g‘J Eight-day Clock with alarm, ash or oak, Z No. 7 Flat top Stove, with cooking uten sils, - - - - - x - - 13 1,000 Window shades, seven feet long, on Spring Rollers, with good fringe, all colors, each. - - . - ~ ~ 'Ji Cornice Poles, with Trimmings complete, • 2» Read rhe following unheard of otter: 1 Ash Bed-room Suit, ten pieces, - 85 09 1 Plush Parlor Suit, oak frames - - 35 0G 25 yards Parlor Carpet. - - - 1 . 25 vards Mai ting fur Bed-room, - - b~B 1 Parlor Rug, - - - - - - SCO 1 Bed-room Rug, - - - - - ~y* 3 Cornice Poles for Parlor. - - <» 3 pairs Lace Curtains for Parlor, - 750 (Chains, Pinsand Houks free). 2 Shacks for Bed-room, - - - 100 1 Decorated Tin slop set, 3 pieces, - IyO 1 China Chamber Set, 9 pieces, - - 3ov The above outfit for Parlor and Bed room amounts to sll3, and you cannot buv the goods in an ordinary retail store for less than $125 to $l5O. I will pack and deliver this fine outfit to any freight depot (except to Texas and the Pacific) slope) for SIOO cash with the order. The Goods are ail first-class, and iny profit on them is 5 per cent. References. —Georgia Railroad Bank, Mayor of Augusta, Bradstreet’s or Dun’s Commercial Agency. Address L. L, PADGET, 805 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. J® ’ Send for Catalogue. The Duties of Mau, addressed to Work ingmen, by Joseph Mazzini. Reprint ed ; 12m0., paper, 14'3 pp., 15 cents. New York, London and Toronto. Funk & Wagnails Company. W’ith theadvanceof democratic thought the name of Joseph Mazzini, the Italian patriot and revolutionist, grows brighter and larger. H ; s was one of the strongest and sweetest spirits that have ever blessed our century by their presence and coun sel. While Mazzini was an ardent pat riot and advocate of struggling national ities, he also believed most emphatically in the unity of mankind, and hence he is a moral teacher for all men. All his writings are permeated by an unwaver ing faith in the people and a profound religious spirit. The most characteristic and important of his utterances are to be found r in bis essay, “ The Duties of Man,”’ now reprinted by the Funk and W ignalls company, and from which hundreds of valuable quotations may be called and used to advantage by the writer, speaker, student and all others interested in that i vital topic of the times, the ethics of I labor.