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About Semi-weekly Sumter Republican. (Americus, Ga.) 1875-188? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1882)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. ( VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - - f4 00 Weedy, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in Advance.® All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising’ Rates i One Square first insertion, - - - - SI.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .50 P£“Ten Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above .regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. DON'T BUY Groceries BEFORE EXAMINING GLOYER&PERRYS LARGE STOCK! —AS THEY— WILL NOT BH UNDERSOLD ! On any article in their line, but propose to UNDERSELL! WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE FOR Georgia Seed, Rye ! COUNTEY MERCHANTS Will find that they can buy ot us Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot and Matches! ! For less money than they can order. GLOVER & PERRY, ssp9tf Americcs. Ga. OLD BUGG GOMES TO THE FRONT THIS SEASON WITH DRINKS, FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR TEN CENTS. OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND AT ALL TIMES. MEALS FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE AND AT ALL TIMES-DAY AND NIGHT. BILLIARDS 5c per game two games for 23cts— cash. POOL 2 'A CENTS PER CUE—ALL CASH. 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Having nothing else to do, I will devote my time to the making out of annual returns of administrators, guardians, etc., etc. I will also draw deeds to land, bonds for titles, etc;, etc; Orders left at the store of Burkhalter & Hooks, the Republican or Recorder offices, will receive prompt atten tion. CHARGES REASONABLE. mayl3tf J. A. McELROY. ~ TO RENT. , Dwelling House to rent on Lamar Street. 1 eiterms apply to may!2tf. Mrs. A.JSIMMONS Fresh Spice, Pepper, Ginger, Mace, Cloves Cinnamon and Nutmegs, ground and uu ground, at Dr. Eldridge's Drug Store INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMEEICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1882. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. BeWITT TALMAGE UNFAIRNESS. ‘‘With what measure ye mete, it shall he measured to you again.”—St. Matthew,vii.,2 In the greatest sermon ever preached —a sermon about fifteen minutes long, according to the ordinary rate of speech —a sermon on the Mount of Olives, the preacher sitting while He spake, ac cording to the ancient mode of oratory, the people were given to understand that the same yardstick that they em ployed upon others would be employed upon themselves. Measure others by a harsh rule and yon will be measured by a charitable rule. Give no mercy to others and no mercy will be given to you. “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” There is a great deal of unfairness in the criticism of human conduct. It was to smite that unfairness that Christ uttered the words of the text, aud my sermon will be a re-echo of the divine sentiment. In estimating the misbe haviors of others we must take into consideration the pressure ot circum stances. It is never right to do wrong, but there are degrees of culpability. When men misbehave or commit some atrocious wickedness, wo are disposed, indiscriminately, to tumble them all over the bank of condemnation. Suffer they ought, and suffer they must, but in difference of degree. In the first place, in estimating the misdoing of others, we must take into calculation the hereditory tendency. There is such a thing as good blood, and there is such a thing as bad blood. There are families that have had a moral twist in them for a hundred years back. They have not been careful to keep the family record in that regard. There have been escapades and maraud ings and scoundrelisms and moral de ficits all the way back, whether you call it kleptomania or pyromania or dipsomania, or whether it be in a mild er form and amount to no mania at all. The strong probability is that the pres ent criminal started life with nerve, muscle and bone contaminated. As some start life with a natural tendency to nobility and generality and kindness and truthfulness, there are others who start life with just theopposite tendency and they are born liars, or born mal contents, or born outlaws or born Bwin dlers. There is in England a school that is called the Princess Mary School. All the children in that school are the children of convicts. The school is supported by high patronage. I had the pleasure of being present at one of their anniversaries in 1879, presided over by the Earl of Kintore. By a wise law in England,after parents have com mitted a certain number of crimes, and thereby show themselves incompetent rightly to bring up their children, the little ones are taken from under perni cious influences and put in reformatory schools, where all gracious and kindly influences shall be brought upon them. Of course,the .experiment is young, and it has yet to be demonstrated how large a percentage of the children of convicts may be brought up to respectability and usefulness. But we all know that it is more difficult for children of bad parentage to do right than for children of good parentage. In this country we are taught by the Declaration of Amer ican Independence that all people are born equal. There never was a greater misrepresentation put in one sentence which implies that we are all born equal. You may as well say that flowers are born equal, or trees are born equal, or animals are born equal. Why does one horse cost SIOO and another horse cost $5,000? Why does one sheep cost $lO and another sheep cost $500? Difference in blood. We all are wise enough to recognize the differ ence of blood in horses, in cattle, in sheep, but we are not wise enough to make allowance for the difference in human blood. Now, I demand by the law of eternal fairness that you be more lenient in your criticism of those who were born wrong, in whose ancestral line there was a hangman’s knot, or who came from a tree the fruit of which for centuries has been gnarled and worm-eaten. Dr. Harris, a reformer, gave some marvellous statistics in his story of what he called “Margaret, the Mother of Criminals.” Ninety years ago she lived in a village in upper New York State. She was not only poor, but she wasvicious. She was not well provided for. There were no almshouses there. The public,however, somewhat looked after her, but chiefly scoffed at her and derided her and pushed her fur ther down in her crimes. That was ninety years ago. There have been 628 persons in that ancestrial line, 200 of them criminals. In one branch of that family there were twenty and nine of them have been in State prison, and nearly all of the others have turned out badly. It is estimated that that family cost the conutry and State SIOO,OOO, to say nothing of the property they de stroyed. Are you not willing, as sen sible people, to acknowledge that it is a fearful disaster to be born in such an ancestral line? Does it not make a great difference whether one descends from Margaret, the mother of criminals or from some mother in Israel? whether you are the son of Ahab or the son of Joshna? It is a very different thing to swim with the current from what it is to Bwim against the current, as some of you have, no doubt, found in your summer recreation. If aman find him self in an ancestrial current where there is goed blood flowing smoothly from generations to generations, it is not a "very great credit to him if he turn out good and honest and pure and upright and noble. He could hardly help it. But suppose he is born in an ancestrial line, where the influence have been bad and there has been a coming down over a moral declivity, if the man surrender to the influences he will go down under the overmastering gravitation unless some superhuman aid be afforded him. Now, such a person deserves not your excoriation but your pity. I)o not sit with the lip curled in scorn and with an assumed air ot angelic innocence looking down upon such moral precip itation. You had better get down on yonr knees and first pray Almighty God for the rescue, aud next thank the Lord that you have not been thrown under the wheels of that Juggernaut. In Great Britain and the United States, in every generation, there are tens of thou sands of persons who are fully develop ed criminals and incarcerated. I say in every generation. Then I suppose there are tens of thousands of persons not found in their criminality. In ad dition to them there are tens of thous ands of persons who, not positively be coming criminals, nevertheless have a criminal tendency. Anyone of all those thousands, by the grace of God, may become a Christian,and resist the ances trial influence and open anew chapter of behavior, but the vast majority of them will not, and it becomes all men, professional and unprofessional, minis ters of religion, judges of courts, phil anthropists and Christian workers, to recognize the fact that there are these Atlantic and Pacific surges of heredity evil rolling on through the centuries. I say, of course, a man can resist this tendency just as in the ancestrial line mentioned in the first chapter of Mat thew. Yon see in the same line in which there was a wicked Reheboam and desperate Manassas, there after ward came a pious Joseph and a glori ous Christ. But, my triends, you must recognize the fact that these influences go on from generation to generation. 1 am glad to know, however, that a river which has produced nothing but mias ma for a hundred miles may after a while turn the wheels of factories, and help support industrious and virtuous populations, and there are family lines which were poisoned that are a benedic tion now. At the last day it will be found out that there are men who have gone clear over into all forms of in iquity and plunged into utter abandon ment, who before they yielded to the first temptation resisted more evil than many a man who has been moral and upright all his life. I suppose you are all good men and women. There never were so many good people as there are now in the world. Of all the centuries this the best century, and of all the de cade, and of all the years this is the best year, and of all the months this is the best month, and of all the days this is the best day. We stand this mo ment at the apex of six thousand years of progress. It is easier now to raise a thousand dollars for a charitable object than it used to he to raise ten cents. The world is five hundred per cent, better now than it used to be. But sup posing now that in this age,when there are so many good people, you are the very best. Supposing all that, I will come down into this audience and I will select the very best man m it. 1 do not mean the man who would style himself the best, for he probably is a hypocrite; but I mean the man who before God is really the best. I will take you out from all your Christian surroundings. I will take you back to boyhood. I will put you in a depraved home. I will put you in a cradle of iniquity. Who is that bending over that cradle? An intoxicated mother. Who is that swearing in the next room? Your fa ther. The neighbors come in to talk and their jokes are unclean. There is not in the house a Bible or a moral treatise, but only a few scraps of an old pictorial. After a while you are old enough to get out of the cradle, and you are struck across the head for naughti ness, but never in any kindly manner reprimanded. After a while you are old enough to go abroad, and you are sent out with a basket to steal. If you come home without any spoils ycu are whipped until the blood comes. At fifteen years of age you go out to fight your own battles in this world, which seems.to care no more for you than for the dog that has died of a fit under the fence. You are kicked and enffed and buffeted. Some day, rallying your courage, you resent some wrong. A man say3: “Who are you? I know who you are. Your father had free lodging at Sing Sing. Your mother—she was up for drunkenness at the Tombs Court. Get out of my way, you low-lived wretch!” My brother, suppose that had been the history of your advent and the history of your earlier surroundings would you have been the Christian man you are this morning, seated in the honse of God? I tell you nay. You would have been a vagabond, an out law, a murderer on the scaffold atoning for your crime. All these considera tions ought to'make us merciful in onr dealings with the wandering and the lost. Again, I have to remark, that in onr estimate of the misdoing of the people who have fallen from' high respectabil ity and usefulness, we must take into consideration the conjunction of circum stances. In nine cases out of ten a man who goes astray does not intend any positive wrong. He has trust funds; He risks a part of those funds in invest ment; He says; “Now if I should lose that investment I have my own proper ty, five times as much, and if this in vestment should go wrong I could eas ily make it up; I could five times make it up.” With that wrong reasoning he goes on and makes the investment and it does not turn out quite as well as he expected, and he makes another investment, and, strange to say, at the same time all his other affairs get entan gled, and all his other resources fail, and his hands are tied. Now he wants to extricate himself. He goes a little further on in the wrong investment. He takes a plunge further ahead, for he want3 to save his wife and children, he wants to save his home, he wants to save his membership in the church. He takes one more plunge and all is lost. Some morning at if) o’clock the bank door is not opened, and there is a card ou the door, signed by an officer of the bank, indicating them is trouble, and the name of the defaulter or the defrauder heads the newspaper column, and hundreds of men say, “Good for him!” hundreds of other men say, “I’m glad it’s found out at last;” hundreds of other men say, “Just as I told you;” hundreds of other men say, “I couldn’t possibly have been tempted to do that; no conjunction of circumstances could ever have overthrown me,” and there is the sun. Your children’s mirth was once music to you. Now, it is deafen ing. Yousay, “Boy s,stop that racket!” You turn back from June to March. In the family and in the neighborhood your popularity is ninety-five per cent. off. The world says; “What is the matter with that disagreeable man? what a woebegone countenance! I can’t bear the sight of him.” You have got your pay at last—got your pay. You feel just as that man felt, that man for whom you had no mercy, and my text comes in with marvelous appositeness: “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again!” In the study of society I have come to this conclu sion, that the most of the people want to be good, but they do not exactly know how to make it out. They make enough good resolutions to lift them into angelhood. The vast majority of people who fall are the victims of cir cumstances; they are captured by am buscade. If their temptations should come out in a regiment and fight them in a fair field, they would go out in the strength and the triumph of David against Goliath. But they do not see the giant and they do not see the regi ment. Suppose temptation should come up to a man and say; “Here is alcohol; take three tablespoonsful of it a day un til you get dependent upon it; then, af ter that, take half a glass three times a day until you get dependent ypon that amount; then go on increasing the amount until you are saturated from morning until night, and from night until morning?” Do you suppose any man would become a drunkard in that way? Ah! no. Temptation comes and says: Take these bitters, take this ner vine, take this nightcan.” The vast majority of men and women who are destroyed by opium and by rum first take them as medicine. In making up your dish of criticism in regard to them take from the castor the crust of sweet oil and not the crust of Cayenne pepper. Be easy on them. Do you know how that physician, that lawyer, that jour nalist became tho victim of dissipation? Why, the physician was kept up night by night on professional duty. Life and death hovered in the balance. His nervous system was exhausted. There came a time of epidemic and whole families were prostrated, and his nervous strength was gone. He was all worn out in the service of the pub lic. Now, he must brace himself up. Now, he stimulates. The life of this mother, the life of this child, the life of this father, the life of this whole family, must be saved, and of all these families, must be saved, and he stimu lates, and he does it again aud again. You may criticise his judgment, but remember the process. It was not a selfish process by which he went down. It was magnificent generosity through which he fell. The attorney at the bar for weeks has been standing in a poorly ventilated court room listening to the testimony and contesting in the dry technicalities of the law, and now the time has come for him to wind tip, and he must plead for his life of his client, and his nervous sy stem is all gone. If he fail in that speech his client perishes. If he have eloquence enough in that hour his client is saved. He stimulates. He must keep up. He says, “I must keep up.” Having a practice, you see how he is enthralled. You may crit icise his judgment, but remember the process. Do not be hard. That jour nalist has had exhausting midnight work. He has had to report speeches and orations that kept him up till a very late hour. He has gone with much exposure working up some case of crime in company with a detective. He sits down at midnight to write out his notes from a memorandum scrawled on a pad under most unfavorable cir cumstances. His strength is gone. Fidelity to the public intelligence, fidelity to his own livelihood, demands that he keep up. He must keep np. He stimulates. Again and again he does that and he goes down. You may criticise his judgment in the mat ter, bnt have mercy. Remember the process. Do not be hard. My friends, this text will come to fulfilment in some cases in this world. The huntsman in Farinsteen was shot by some unknown person. Twenty years after, the son of the huntsman was in the same forest and he ac cidentally shot a man, and the man in dying said, “God is just; I shot your father just here twenty years ago.” A bishop said to Louis XI., of France: “Make an iron cage for all those who do not think as we do—an iron cage in which the captive can neither lie down nor stand straight np.” It was fashioned the awful instrument of punishment. After a while the bishop offended Louis XI. and for fourteen years he was in that cage, and could neither lie down nor stand up, Tit for tat. It is a poor rule that will not work both ways. “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” Robespierre sends innocent people to guillatine. Time passes on, and Robes pierre, by that very instrument, is de capitated, Maximinuß has the eyes of Christains put out. He dies with a disease of the eyes. Valens has Chris tians burned to death in escaping from their pursuers. He is buined to death in Bis own house. The Donatists threw the holy sacrament of Jesus Christ to the dogs They themselves were de voured by the dogs. “With what measure ye mete, it shall he measured to you again.” O, my friends, let us go home resolved to scold less and pray more. That which in the Bible is used as the symbol of all gracious influences is the dove, not the porcupine. We may so unskilfully manage the lifeboat that we shall run down those whom we want to rescue. The first preparation a superabundance of indignation, but no pity. The heavens full of lightning, but not one drop of dew. If God treat ed us as society treats that man, we would all have been in hell long ago! Wait for the alleviating circumstances. Perhaps he may have been the dupe of others. Before yon let all your hounds out from their kennel to maul or tear that man, find out if he has not been brought up in a commercial establish ment where there was a wrong system of ethics taught; find out whether that man has notan extravagant wife who is not satisfied with his honest earnings, and in the temptation to please her he has gone into that ruin into which enough men have fallen, and by the same temptation, to make a procession from New York Battery to Central Park. Perhaps some sudden sickness may have touched his brain, and his judgment may be unbalanced. He is wrong, he is awfully wrong, and he must be condemned, but there may be mitigating circumstances. Perhaps under the same temptation you might have fallen. The reason some men do not steal $200,000 is because they do not get a chance! Have rigTiteous in dignation if you must about that man’s conduct, but temper it with mercy. But you say, “I am sorry that the innocent should suffer.” Yes, lam too—sorry for the widows and orphans who lost their all by that defalcation. I am sorry also for the business men, the honest business men who have had their affairs all crippled by that defalcation. I am sorry for the venerable bank pres ident, in whom the credit of that bank was a matter of pride. Yes, lam sor ry also for that man who brought all the distress,sorry that he sacrificed body mind, soul, reputation, heaven, and went into tho blackness of darkness forever. You defiantly say, “I could not be tempted in that way.” 'Perhaps you may he tested after a while. God has a very good memory, and He some times seems to say, “This man feels so strong in his innate power and goodness he shall be tested; he is so full of bitter invective against that unfortunate, it shall be shown now whether he has the power to stand.” Fifteen years go by. The wheel of fortune turns several times, and you are iri a crisis that you never could have anticipated. Now, all the powers of darkness come around, and they chuckle and they chatter, and they say, “Aha! here is the old fel low who was so proud of his integrity and who bragged he couldn’t be over thrown by temptation, and was so up roarious in his demonstrations of indig nation at the defalcation fifteen years ago. Let us see.” God lets the man go. God, who had kept that man under His protecting care, lets the man go and try for him self the majesty of his integrity. God letting the man go, the powers of dark ness pounce upon him. I see you some day in your office in great excitement. One of two things you can do. Be honest and be pauperized, and have your children brought home from school, your family dethroned in social influ ence. The other thing is, you can step a little aside from that which is right, you can only just go half an inch out of the proper path, you can only take a little -risk and then you have all your finances fair and right. You have a larger property, you can leave a fortune for your children, and endow a college and build a public library in your na tive town. You halt and wait, and halt and wait until your lips get white. You decide to risk it. Only a few strokes of the pen now. But, oh! how your hand trembles, how dreadfully it trembles. The die is cast. By the strangest and most awful conjunction of circumstances anyone could have imagined you are prostrated. Bank- JjjKg’tcy, commercial annihilation, ex- V crime. Good men mourn and devils hold carnival, and yon 6ee your own name at the head of the newspaper column in a whole congress of excla mation points, and while you are read ing the anathema in the reportorial and editorial paragraph, it occurs to yon how much this story is like that of the defalcation fifteen years ago, and a clap of thunder shakos the window-sill,say ing, “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to yon again!” You look in another direction. There is nothing like an ebullition of temper to | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. put a man to disadvantage. You, a man with calm pulses and oxine diges tion and perfect health, cannot under stand how anybody should be capsized in temper by an infinitesimal annoy ance. Yon say, “I couldn’t be unbal anced in that way.” Perhaps you smile at a provocation that makes another man swear. You pride yourself on your imperturbability. Yon say with your manner, though you have too much good taste to say it with your words, “I have a great deal more sense than that man has, I have a great deal more equipose of temper than that man has. I never could make such a pro file exhibition of myself as that man has made.” My brother, you do not realize that that man was born with a keen, nervous organization, that for forty years he has been under a deplet ing process, that sickness and trouble have been helping undo what was left of original healthfulness, that much of his time it has been with him like filing’ saws, that his nerves have come to be merely a tangle of disorders, and that he is the most pitiable object on earth, who, though he is very sick, does not look sick and nobody sympathizes! Let me see. Did you not say that you could not be tempted to an ebullition of temper? Some September you came home from your summer watering place, and you have inside, away back in your liver or spleen, what we call in our day malaria, but what the old folks called chills and fever. Yon take quinine until your ears are first buzzing bee hives and then roaring Niagaras. You take roots and herbs, you take every thing. You get well. But the next day yon teel uncomfortable, and yon yawn, and yon stretch, and you shiver, and you consume, and you suffer. Vex ed more than you can tell, you cannot sleep, you cannot eat, you cannot bear to see anything that looks happy, you go out to kick the cat that is asleep in tor Christain uesfulness is warm hearted common sense, practical sym pathy for those whom we want to save. W hat headway will we make in the judgment, in the world if we have been hard on those who have gone astray? W hat headway will you and I make in the last great judgement when we must have mercy or perish? 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