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GOD IN NATURE, The Earth Was Created for Man and Man for the Glory of God. Fifth or »SerlM of Sermons lidnx || P || V ,, Reverend B. II.HnrrlN, I'MioroDhe Kirnl B„ tint Chnrcli, Columbus,«». Rev. E. H. Harris, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of this city, is preaching a series of sermons on “God in Nature >> He ■delivered the fifth of the series last Sun day night, and It was as follows: TEXT. The Lord stretchetli forth the heavens and Iayeth the foundation of the earth, ami fbrmetta the spirit of man within him.—Zecli. I2:t. There is a spirit in man.-Job, 32:8. The Lord God formed man ortho dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.-Genesis 8:7. ' 1 The spirit of man is in hlm.-l! Cor., 2:11. A spirit hath not flesh and bones. -■ Luke 2 4.3 1 ) That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit,-John 8:0. , The spirit of God beareth witness with our spirit.—Romans, 8:16. These pussages of Scripture will consti tute the Bible basis of the remarks I may make this eveniug. I think they will be found entirely consistent with, and con firmatory of, nature’s teachings, with ref erence to the ultimate object of all the physical facts and processes thus far con sidered. It is in this connection that they will be taken on this occasion. I have never seen a king, but I have seen a palace, erected by a king. Not merely an edifice constructed by the orders of a king; not a building designed by a hired architect and erected by mechanics, paid out of the royal treasury; but a structure designed by the king himself, and built with his own bauds. When Peter the Great ascended the Rus sian throne, he found his country without a navy. He rightly concluded that no na tion could be fully equipped and no gov ernment could be really strong without a naval armament. Up to the beginning of his reign, Russia had never been a mari time power, and there were no ship wrights in his empire. He immediately resolved to supply the deficiency, and with this view he left his government in charge of his ministry and proceeded, in disguise, to Holland, for the purpose of learning the art of ship-building in person. Thus, for a period, at Zaandum, and later, for a time, at Deptford, England, the czar of all the Russian worked at the trade of a ship wright and acquired a practical knowl edge of the business. Then, when he re turned to his throne, he knew how to sup ply the greatest want of his government without the risk of imposition, and how to direct the artisans he had imported with him. And thus he may be said to have built the Russian navy. But the palace-building king, of whom I have spoken, not only knew all about how the work should be done—he did it. And what a beautiful palace it was! Of marble and ivory and gold; perfect in de sign, in architecture and in construction. And the grounds which surrounded it! who can award them justice in description? "They bordered upon the sea—the sunlit ocean. They looked out upon the broad bosom of the swelling main, sparkling in the bright rays of the sun, as they streamed ■down from the cerulean sky, or surging up Into dark blue heaving billows, with snowy crests of tossing foam, under the impulse of the mighty winds. The comb ing breakers roared upon the reefs or thundered along the snow-white beaches of the sinuous shore, and placid waters slept in many a bight and bay. Vari- tinted, gorgeous clouds floated in the suu- set, or the ragged storm-rack dashed across the sky. In the background towered lofty mountains, lifting their snow-clad sum mits far up into the tenuous atmosphere, or shooting aloft at night the red beacon light from the sulphurous crater of the bellowing volcano. Then there were ro mantic glens and charming valleys and lovely plains and sparkling streams, cas cades and waterfalls, and crystal lakes and forests wide. There were meadows, glis tening with dew drops and gemmed with flowers; there were umbrageous groves, vocal with bird-notes and fragrant with the odors of “Araby the blest —and the perfumes oi Eden filled the balmy I an- There was beauty everywhere. In every quarter, too, outbuildings appeared adapt ed to every conceivable purpose of utility, convenience and luxury, the entire prem ises being inclosed by a massive wall that was a part of the foundation upon which everything rested. And it was all the personal handiwork of the king. But his masterpiece was the palace, in the raidst of the grounds, with its walls oi marble, its columns of ivory, and its capitals of gold. The apartments were finished m the costliest materials, ceiled in satin and perfumed woods, frescoed and tapestried ill the perfection of artistic be . aat >j l t ^ were mosaic floors, carved inches filled with statuary, and massive forms of luxu rious furniture, incomparable in loveh'iess of finish and adaptation of FP°M| things complete and perfect, liom tessci ated nave to fretted dome. . .. As I stood and rapturously Razed upon that magnificent structure. I.asked of one tiie name of the builder and his ob ect 1 he answer came: “The king hath » h Upon a nearer approach and a closer ex amination, I found that nothing had been omitted about the building or the^oundi to delight the senses of the royal h<- . The sweetest of perfumes bl JlV£rovided the senses of taste and touch we P with the means of ample gratification, g leries were arranged for musical avem eB aloncr which floated ravishing meioaioh. streamed'entrancing harmou es, jwelled I saw the ' all JMTLY ENQUIRER • SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 10. \m. i» endless variety----- - T saw &?m7C| r ‘‘What 6 wonderful love has the king for his son!” f rom a But, at that instant, up f° se ? he wal i clump of furze and bramble ^ m an aired. white-haired man. IIc his shinny hand a u"^ de h g n ^ a d long been which, as it appeared, he: ha^fong ^ endeavoring to tbe foundation upon wall and to loosen the loU ( : 'U V ‘' 0 ttei'- premises stood, low endeavoring to und . . wall and to which the entire P 1 "? 11 ?!?®®..^“tremulously ing to my side, and ^"P^lv whisper forward, he said, in a „ ^vision for the king bos made no food sustenance of his son. eh f.hp r>ahiC9. . i :.. “The I upply about the palace. nmhe object Then I said to my Heart. T1hem of the king is vain. No food- J hi8 , a . bor arfdmcpensef theTktng'wlffh. defeated u. MjjS tt, “y laying his Ion?, b0l it;„ri,dd man rasped shrinking arm, tiie palsied ol J ^ u out again, in a *}*& w^er there is no food! the enow There The son will never le K a X? P fi“ wa ll and he will die, and the build ng, the wa^ ^ the foundation of all you see win T?on ‘mv 1 infli T1 ”. lt uiil be tiroendl» gust and horre r Wus H,led with imd^ studied’’el^Vv^i r<J « on ‘«mplatcd facts tionaltst ^'"“^“ftly^fcrSflhira- istSf evirv ,.n?. no *V t ’*, th S broad material- Cliristt m evnP,« e ! .*u°* U(bll K, the so-called levin, tin ^I'dtonist. as well as the Hux- creed’ if h " ll,cls \ a, ‘ d tbfJ *nfidel of every been fiiivofl 0 u° n ? U8i ? tm to which we have nf.o.f V , b - v the teachings of nature doctr nes of 5 ' \ ,e „ mble ’ , nre eorr^t thS contra^ . ' U1 , lh ? se who teach to tiie r ra 1.,5- clearly and unqualifiedly false. And now, by the figurative review I have eiuio“ ci ple8 and oouclusions which evening m red to P resuIlt to you, til is viln ^ K 'i I b ! ve ““US' 1 ’! to meet the mate- ers’andohWt U ' e °," ly ,°" e of a11 tb e cavil- eefr a ed^U J enHon 8Wha haS " 0t alrcadyre ' n. TI '^ l !!^ ed . t :' l,ristia| U who claims to be ?^4 e ' 0 ? lon s , ot whatever degree or Jr,,! places restrictions upon the power imn.i' 1 ,'/ n w dei ,e’ ot scbool > has ever tor I 10 d '-‘ lst ’ of ov ®“ the malo- • ’ uehnowledges God as tho ab solute Creator of forms ns they at present, appear, while the evolutionist denies llis Pv *i ty n° ? r ? du , ce anything in perfection bj the first stroke of His hand. But deistie doctrines, if true, would defeat Ood at last by depriving Him of a purpose, which is manliest, and by arresting Him short of an object toward which all His conduct, points. They would convict Him of the most absurd folly and the most reckless cruelty. Taking for our guidance the patent and reasonably clear revelations of nature, as we have, oil former occasions, observed and studied them, there is no possible wav to avoid being led to the conclusion at which we have arrived, viz., that there are everywhere around us, to be perceived unmistakable evidences of intelligent de sign. It is not nebessary to prove this again, to-night. And this fact being es tablished, it necessarily follows that tin: the designer must have had a definite ob ject. It also follows that, the object of such a designer as we have discovered, in nature, must be reasonable, co-ordinate and not transient. An evanescent object would be out of all proportion with the character of the design which we have perceived. Why all the waste of labor and skill and means, in constructing the palace and fitting out the grounds, if the son and heir is to perish for want of food? The thought is monstrous and utterly un tenable. Nature awakens within us the conscious ness of immortality. This consciousness is universal. Study the annals of tiie hu man race; scan the records of history back to their very ibeginning; step thence into tiie path of tradition and trace it back un til lost in the hoary mists of antiquity; eve rywhere in the world, in all ages and among all tribes of men, you will find worship—worship of a Supreme Being or beings—of a God or gods. Why? It is the natural, innate belief in a future state, that suggests adoration—worship—of a supe rior being. All men believe in a God. Some have assumed to deny the fact, and, yielding to the morbid fancies of a diseased imagination a few have, doubtless, per suaded themselves that that they do not believe. “Tiie fool hath said in her heart ‘there is no God,’ ” says the Psalmist. Many men teach it and preach it, who do not, at heart believe it. Only “the fool,” the man whose mental faculties are defi cient, or impaired, can believe such a doc trine "in his heart;” the man who is com pos mentis never can. All sane human beings worship some deity; no beast has ever been known to manifest the slightest disposition toward sucli an act. Take the highest order of the brute creation—and the siraioe, the apes, arc not the highest—take that faith ful animal which is, at the same time, the most intelligent, of all and the nearest in sagacity, friendship and affection, to man, the Unite that will stay by his master to the last, and even lick the hand that slays him, and find, if you can, in all his history, a single act of real worship. The line of demarcation is drawn here, broad and unmistakable, between man and beast. An immortal principle abideth in the one; it is totally wanting in the other. The palace is the human body, the finer materials in its composition being illus trated by the marble, the ivory and the gold; the outer buildings, of grosser com position, arc the animals of lower grades; and the son of the king is tbe soul that dwells in the palace alone. The king, the builder, is the the God, the Father of the man, tiie Malter of the body, and the spir itual Progenitor of the soul. Has God be stowed so much care upon the body and its mundane surroundings, and yet made no provision for the soul? Is the tempo rary residence of the son worthy of more consideration than the future of the son himself? Is tiie son really to starve within the palace walls? to die, when they crumble? and is that to be really the end? This the ghastly teaching of the iconoclastic deist of the materialistic school, lifting his knobby head, with its hoary, matted hair, above the scraggy furze arc! brambles of aucient heresy,uuder whose cover he has long striven in vain with his dull, untempered tool of doctrine, to undermine the encircling wall of eter nal providence and break up the everlast ing foundation of consistency, upon which the entire premises are established. 3Can you conceive of such a God its his doctrine portrays? Give mo, in prefer ence, tiie doctrine s of mythologv-the be lief of the polytheist or the pantheist—the faith of the Persian fire-worshiper—of the Aztec in Mexico-give me the voudoo wor ship of the most degraded African, in his noisome jungles—give me anything, rather than make me believe in such a God. Nature is a potent teacher—nature has delineated tbe whole process of creation, ■den bv step, and nature indicates the pur pose and the object of it all. And now, hear agnin the Scriptural confirmation. “God formed mail ot the dust oi the ground”—the king built the palace— ‘ and breathed into (man’s) nostrils the breath of life, and (he) became a living soul —the king was the progenitor cf that one for whom the palace was constructed. . Ine spirit is within the man”—the son is the inmate of the palace. “A spirit batb jf 5‘ ,t flesh and bones”—the inmate is of differ ent material and distinct from the edifice, which is his temporary home. Natuie satisfies us that the Creator is intangible, invisible—therefore a spirit «we under stand tbe meaning ol the ter. . fbat Spirit, natural consciousness tells us, is the procreator of the separate entity that Swells within the marble wails. “That which is born of the spirit is rpnit, sayn tiie text;—the king who built the palace is father—the inmate is the son. “The spirit of God beareth witness with our sp'rit - tb <'“ knows his* 0 father and rcaUzei independence upon him. The pronipt- ° ^Nature 1 reaVhes* 'oii t * hey o n d death, and “the earnest expectation what^tlre vices and resorts ol bt '™“ g t a ii C e.s and de- gree ancfcharacter of intelligence and en- liB A h t e th£ ent point God comes to the re- lief of the human soul, and in the revela- j lions oi iiispirai ion, provides that which I may meet all needs, may supply all de- | mauds. The unnihilatli pint is grossly j wrong. The king has provided susten ance for his son. Fragrant odors may find j tree access to every apartment ofthepul- ! ace; the taste may he regaled with sweets ! aim in the sense of feeling there may be delight; tiie souudsof music may entrance and thrill; and heavenly orbs and clouds and lovely objects, oil laud and sea, may be photographed within and reproduced on sensitive canvas, inside the garnished walls;—but the king knows that his child uud heir can find no aliment in these. There is food provided for the inmate; else wore the king a monster. God has provided food for the soul and Ho has not neglected to provide safe transportation for the future removal and ample subsist ence for the future home. The object, then, ot all mundane crea tion is plain. All tilings else have been from nil eternity contrived and shaped for the benefit of the human soul. For its in ception, its incorporation, its aliment, de velopment and growth, and for its final attainment of glorious perfection in realms beyond the confines ot the world. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put to gether, and until tiie last few years wa-s supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catrrrli to be a consti tutional disease, and therefore requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney «V Co., Toledo, Ohio., is the only constitutional cure now on the market, it is taken in ternally in doses from 10 trops to a t.oa- spoonful. It. acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circular and testi monials. Address T. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. /Tft'Sold by Druggists, 75 cents dec5 seliu Advising a I’eilngOKUC. It was a South Boston schoolboy whose bad behaviour had led the master to de part from his accustomed rule and resort to flogging. The next day the boy “brought a note.” The master read it as follows: “Licking don’t do this boy no good—talk to him.” Peculiarities about the epistle led to inquiries; it turnd out to have been written by the boy.—Boston Traveler. Mimic Nerve Fond for the Nervous, SIcepIcKH and Montall) Overworked. It Is recommended by clergymen and en dorsed by eminent physicians. It contains no alcoholic or other stimu lant. It is not a drug. It is a food; not a medicine. It induces a good appetite. It insures sound, healthful sleep. It is perfectly harmless. How to Mind Their P’h. Persons who patronize papers should pay promptly, for the pecuniary prospects of the press possess a peculiar power In push ing forward public prosperity. If tiie printer is paid promptly, and has his pock et book kept plethoric by prompt paying patrons, he puts his pen to his paper in E eace: his paragraphs are more pointed, e paints his pictures of passing events in more pleasing colors, an the perusal of his paper is a pleasure to the people. Paste this bit of proverbial pbilosphy in some public place where all persons can percive it. You’ll find her smiling night and day, Although at times she is not gay. And should you wonder why you meet This constant smile, regard tier teeth. She only laughs those gems to show, Which SOZODONT maks white as snow. sat,se,tu,th&w The Sly Fox Will lie Unit Down. We recognize the fact that the repub lican fox in .1 sly one, and one of the long- gest-winded of the. red kind, yet. we have a thoroughbred on his trail who will run him down before the chickens crow for daybreak. For coughs, colds or any irritation of ihc throat, take Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. 25c. Salvation Oil, the great pain cure, is sold by druggists and dealers in medicines at 25c. deelbd&wlw A Klauiiuir Spirit. Cnnajoharie baa a spook shaped like a human being and ablaze with light, which prowls through tile streets at night. Prob ably looking for the man who fastened such a name on the village.—Philadelphia Call. iWCKLBN’S ARNICA SAI.VE. The best Salve in the world for Cuts, h. cures Piles, or no pay is required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per nox. For sale by Brannon & Carson. ie21 oeil&w Live Stork Item. A lawyer orator at an agricultural fair remarks that a cow without horns has an unfinished appearance. INFANTS^H^INVALIDS MARK, Mils] Tho only perfect substitute for Mother'* milk, invaluabio in Cholera Dnfantum ond Teething, a prp-Ui^ested ioocl for Dys- P npticSf Consumptives, Convalescents. =rfcct nutrient ia fell Wasting Diseases. Requires no cooking. Our Book, The Care and Feeding cf li.'ants, mailed free. DOLIBER. O OOD ALB tx CO.. Boston. MflBI* PENNYROYAL FILLS “CHICHESTER’S ENGLISH." The Original uml Only Menu ine. fiitf<- undalwa-N RelfohK B *ware of worth Ic*m fralutlom. Ii.-lisp.-'HiiV.'j'tfl LADIES. A*k your DrutfifUt l'*r “t'lilohenti*; V ErtffTl*.lf’an<t tal.o no other, or Jo. NAME PApWr. ' < 'hlfttieMtcr ChrmbHl €o.. SB IS Mudbon Squurc, i'hllada., !*•. ■(• every where. A.ik for *' 1 Pennyroval Pills* Take OPIUM Whinkey tired ui hom out pain. Book of par ticulars sent FREE. 66x WiiiUiUaU Stteeu IT r T 111 ) )i in 1 1A J] 1 jALiJj One Week Only! Grand Wind Up and Clearance Sale OF J^XjTu FINE WRAPS! WE HAVE LEFT. Note the Quality and Class of Goods We Will Sell THIS WEEIC. Choice of any Silk or Fur Lined Circular in the store for $12 50. Some of same cost us to import $35 00; none cost under $21 00 first cost, all finest grades. Choice of any Newmarket in store for $10 00. Some of same cost as high as $23 75 ; none cost, under $18 50, all finest grades. Choice of any Short Wrap in store for $7 50. Some of same are worth $15 (X). We have the newest styles and largest and best assortment in the cily. Dress Goods! Dress Goods! 95 Pieces 40-inch all-wool Tricos just received, all shades; will match any sample in town at $1 00; our price will he 52i cents a yard. Large invoices of fine Black Dress Goods at close prices for this week; also all kinds of nice novelties for the holidays. F^JLlLi NOT TO PRICE OTJIR, LADIES' AID GENTS' Also Boys’ and Misses’, We beat the town with hands down. This sale is positive, without limit or reserve, for this week only. Respectfully submilled by the Quid' Setters. OFT TOT 3 LIVE HOUSE, C. P. GRAY & CO. Opposite Rankin House. LARGEST BUSINESS CONNECTIONS SOUTH, COLUMBUS, AUGUSTA, SAVANNAH, NEW YORK. gam CAPITAL PRIZE, - $150,000 " Wc do hereby certify that we supervise the rnngoment for all the Monthly and i^uarttr^t Drawings of The bwisiana State lottery Oi m* pany, and in person manage and control tho Drawings themselves, and that the *atn« are «•* ducted with honesty, fairness, and in good fatk touHird all parties, and wc aufhttriee the Oompt wy (oiMiiiiMftioviem. We the undersigned Ranks and Rankers wiM pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State IaA* tenes which may l>c presented at our counters. J. II. OGUISIIV. I'roM. B.<«. NnUI Hank. J. W. It E MlKETII.Pr^N. Ntntr Kut'l H%. A. KAI.IIM IN. N.O. Xnt'l lUiMk U SPiraNTEB ATTRACTION! Over Half a Million Distributed Louisiana State Lottery Comp’y. Incorporated in 1M8 for 25 years by the Lcgista- ture lor Dklucntional and dharitahle purposee- with a cupltill of $1,000,000- to which a renerv* fund of over $550,000 mis since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote ita (VanohfM was made a part of the present State Constitu tion, adopted December 2d, A. D. 1870. The only Lottery ever voted on and tmdorsed by the people of any State. IT NEVER SCALES OR POSTPONES. If* (•riiiiul Single Number llrnwinf* (like plnrc ill out lily. 11 ml the Semi-An* mull llrnwiiitf* regularly every nU niOBitliH (June ami Deeeinher). A SPLIMMIt OITOKTINITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. FIRST GRAND DRAW ING. CLASS A. IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, January llth. IHH7 2O0th Monthly Drawing. Capital Prize, $150,000. 4KF‘Not.lce- Ticket* arc I'en Dollars only. Htlv**. $5. FillIih,$2. Tenths, $1. LIST OF PRIZES, 1 CArtTAL PRIZE OF flfiO.OOO $100,00* 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 60,000 60.00* 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 10,00* 2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000 90,00* 4 LARGE PRIZES OF 6,000 90,00* 20 PRIZES OF 1,000 90.0C* 60 PRIZES OF 600 96,00* 100 PRIZES OF 300 80,Of* 200 PRIZES OF 200 40,00* 600 PRIZES OF 100 60,00* 1,000 PRIZES OF 60 60,0C* APPOXIMATION PRIZES. 100 Approximation Prizes of $306 $90,00* 100 “ 200 10,Of* 100 " " 100 10,00* 2,170 Prizes, amounting to 1636.** Application for rates to clubs should be mad* only to the Office of the Company in New Orleans. For further information write clearly, giving full address. PONT A I. NOTKN, Exprenfe Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordl* nary letter. Currency by Express (at our ex* pense) addressed M. A. I)AYTPHIN 9 New Orlesn*. Ls. Or H. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, 19. €. Make P. 0. Money Orders payable ind at dress Registered Letters to NEWORI.KANN RATIONAL BANK, ' N«w Orleans, In. REM KM BE R SM WZJiSJI and Eurly, who are in charge of the drawing*, is a guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity, that the chances are all equal, and that noon# can possibly divine wlmt numbers will draw % Prize. All parties, therefore, advertising to guar antee Prizes in this Lottery, or holding out ang other impossible inducements.are swindlers, an* only aim to deceive and defraud the unwary. & co. Because of Urn had weather of Kridiiy and Saturday last, wo will repeal the Bargains th a I we offered on llioso days on Monday and Tuesday of the coining week. Monday, December 13th, we will offer all our Plain and Fancy Velvets, Velveteens and Plushes ; also Black crapes at cost. Tuesday, December 14t.h, we will again offer our Rib bons and Ornaments at cost. Ladies should not fail to call on those days, for it is now a known fact that when we advertise bargains we have I hem to offer. & CQi <3 has taken the Iet«J Itt the sales of ‘hat class <* ren'*- lies, and has give* almost universal ''lUafcik- murphy rmosj, ■ ans, T«* uf tho leading Me ■ f ti.; oildoin. A. L. SMITH. HW.AYER&SON ADVERTISING AGENTS BUtLXMNO PHILADELPHIA Cur. CbcKtniit and Eighth St*. Receive Advertisement* for thi* Paper. Offices For Rent! f IVKR C. A. Rudd & Co.: over H. F. Everelfc v . V * Stove Store; in Webster Building. JOHN BLACKMAB. Real Estate Agent, Columboa, Gv _. se wed&fri tf