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About Semi-weekly Sumter Republican. (Americus, Ga.) 1875-188? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1882)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1554, ] By CHAS. W. HANCOCK^ VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Sf.mi-Weekly, One Your - - - ?-l 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 ISTTayable in advancejej All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed hy the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for eacli 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. One Square first insertion, - - - -?1.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .50 ISITTen Lises 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 lie 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. J. J. HANESLfcY’S MSTMMII iilffffiiffl. I would call the attention of farmers and all others wishing a good meal, to the fact that lam still running my RESTAURANT, Under the Barlow House, where 1 will serve you up a warm meal at any hour. Oysters, Fish and Game served in their season. I also keep a full line of CONFECTION'S !l! Fruits, Cigars and Tobacco ! Americas; Ga., Sept.2o, 1882. tf Drs. 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For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. THE PLACE TO TRADE I have on hand, the finest stock of urns aid cmraiii in the city. Ten big cases of toys, looking like young houses, in store, and more on the road, and by Christmas tlie finest stock of Toys will he in store that lias ever been shown in Americus. Cigars of tlie finest qualities from a nickle to ten cents—real Havana flavor. Confectioneries tlie sweet est and choicest. The fruits of the Tropics, the most luscious and the best. A good stock of Chewing Tobacco—golden leaved. ED. ANSLEY. j Americus, Ga., Sept. 20,1.882. tf TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. Bell ITT TALMAGE HOMESICKNESS. Luke xv., IS: ‘Twill arise and go to my father.” When a man is thoroughly hungry his energy is all gone, iic can toil neither with brain nor hand. Many an army has been defeated,not through lack of amunition, but for lack of bread. It was this that tamed the high spirit of tlie young man mentioned in my text, lie could have got along with a rough blanket fora covering, the night sky for a roof, and might have dropped his thirst in a puiblil well: But he must have something : i eat. Storm and exposure in length of time will wear out a man’s life, but hunger makes quick work. This young man must have something to eat within a few hours or die. The traveler in Asia Minor to-day will tell you that there are trees that bear long beans, or “carobs,” as they are sometimes called, or bushes as they are sometimes trans lated. These long beans are often eaten by the poorer population, but more of ten they are thrown to the swine that crunch them with great avidity. The young man in the text wants some of these beans or earobs, but lie cannot get them without stealing them. Seat ed amid tlie sjvine troughs, perfectly wretched, an idea flashes across him: “1 will go home. These are no clothes for a rich man’s son to wear. What business is this for a Jew—feeding swine? I can stand it no longer. [ will arise and go to my father.” Not waiting to patcli up Lis poor clothes,or improve his personal appearance, away lie flies. Homesickness gives him a fleet loot. See him, the youug man who had bee’n oil'a good while, now is on his homeward tramp. Are we, my friends, ready to follow him? Novelists have thrown around sin romance and fascination, but my text tears off the disguise. Notwithstanding all that l.oid Byron and George Sami have said, sin is a low, mean, contemptible busi ness, and tilling the troughs for the herd of iniquities that root and wallow in the soul is no occupation for men and women intended to bo sons and daugh ters of the Lord Almighty. Oil, the wisest tiling that that young man did was to resolve to go hack. His circum stances would never get any better there. He could not sew up the rags. He could not appease the hunger. Ilia business would never become any more respectable than it was. Go home,yon poor hoy. lam glad to see you get up with such good resolution, and the only safe step for us to take is in tho same direction. Satan iias a great many beards of iniquity, ami he says he will give us large wages if we will only watch them. Liar! Down with thee into the pit. “The wages of sin is death!” Batan covers iiis employes with rags; he pinches them with eternal hunger, and when they are weary of the business and try to get away, he chases them with all the bloodhounds of per dition. Oh, was it not a sensible thing for tliis young man, when he found himself in tlie destitution and suffering of that wilderness, to say, “I will arise and go to my father!” In the time of Mary the queen, amid the great persecutions, a persecutor came to tlie house of an old Jhristian woman and demanded what he called a heretic that was hidden in the house. The old Christian woman said: “Open that trunk and you will find him.” The persecutor opened the trunk and on top of some linen lay a looking-glass, and the persecutor looked in it and said: “Where is the heretic I am looking for?” and the old Christian woman said: “Don’t you see him in the glass?” As to-day we take up the glass of God’s word 1 would that instead of seeing the prodigal, we might see our own lost condition by reason of our sin and be so impressed with it that we should cry out mighty to the Lord for His mercy. I have, in tho first place, to remark that this resolution of the prodigal was made in a disgust at his present condi tion. If his employer had set him to tending flowers, or to training vines over the arbor, or to keeping an account of the pork market,or to overseeing the other laborers, that young man would have never gone home to his father’s house. If he had had salary enough to clothe himself even moderately; if he had had salary enough to get on ordi narily, he would have said: “I can get along without these splendid things. I can rough it just as a great many other young men have roughed it.” If he had had money in his pocket he never would have started home. He would have said: “What do I want of my father with fifty, a hundred, a thousand dollars in nry pocket? What do I want to go home for? I will never apologize to the old man. Besides that I have one-third of the property coming to mo any how. Besides if I went homo I know father would put me on tho limits, lie would not allow such going on in the old place as I like to indugo in. Come, my boys, fill high, and let’s drink again to the good time that’s coming!” Ah! it was his utter desti tution and pauperism; it was the fact that they begrudged him even the beans and the carobs. It was because he had come down to destitution boneath which there was no lower depth that he resolved to go to his father. Let me here say that no man ever starts for God until he is persuaded of his famine struck condition. People say to minis- ters: “Why do you stand and talk about tho lost state of man?” For the reason that unless men are persuaded of it they don’t want the Gospel. If I come into your house and you are well, and I talk about powerful medicines and physicians, you say: “That is nothing to me, I have no cough, no neuralgia, no rheumatism. Why do you talk to me about medicine?” But if I come into your house and you feel that you aro desperately sick, and un less you get help very soon you must die, as soon as I begin to talk about medicine or a doctor you say: “Bring me them quickly or I shalldie.” Now, if I can convince you that in your nat ural condition you are lost; that you are sick and diseased by reason of sin from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, then you are ready to hear me while I speak of Jesus Christ, the Great Physician, and of the balm that will heal all our wounds. And you say: “How arc you going to prove it?” Well, 1 could prove it by the assertion of men, or I could prove it by giving you God’s statement. Which shall it Ire? God’s statement, every man says. You shall have it. Jeremiah says: “ The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” Job: “Who is man that he should be clean and he which is born of a woman should be righteous?”—Job xv., xvi. “How much more abominable and filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like wa ter?” Go further and read. “There is none that doeth good; no, not one.” “As by one man sin entered into tlie world and death by sin, so death hath passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” By every possible smile the Bible sets forth tho truth that tve are guilty, and that there is no help for us so far as human medicament is concern ed. Sin is a red-hot plowshare that turned up Eden, and it has prostrated the whole earth with the exhaustion of death, and unless a man quits his sin and comes to God for salvation lie can not be saved. Prove it. I will prove it: “Except a man be born again hecan not sec the kingdom of God.” “There is but one name given among men whereby we can be saved, and that is the name of Jesus.” Do not some of yon begin to feel like that young man of tlie text, weary of your sins? Do you not feel like coming to tlie ward robe of i Mill's mercy and asking for a garment of pardoning love? Would you not like to sit down at tlie great banqueting table of God’s mercy? Are there not some hero who would like to be Christians? You cannot bo where you are down in your sin. Go home! go home! Make some stout resolution like the young man of my text. A mere whim, a mere indefinite longing, will not amount to anything. The young man of my text did not say-. “I will wait until the carivan comes along and I will get a ride. No!” with an emphasis that sounded through all the ages, he said: “1 will arise and go to my father!” 1 remark, further, that the resolution of the text was formed in sorrow at his past behavior; it was not a mere phy sical plight; it was sorrow at the thought that he had so badly' treated his father. Oh, it is a sad thing that a son, after having been watched over by a father and educated and cared for, should go away and break that father’s heart! “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.” That is Shakes pc re. “A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” That is tlie Bible. Oh, have wo not treated our Father badly? And such a Father! I Three times a day, with wonderful regularity, lie has fed yon. Through how many winters He has given you wood and coal! How careful He has been to see that you had apparel suited to the climate and changes of the sea sons! Who fed you this morning when you arose? Who has sheltered your household? Who has given you the love of your children? In whose keep ing are the departed loved ones of your heart? Who pours golden sunlight by day, and by night lights up the street lamps of Heaven? On whose earth do you walk? At whose fountains do y r ou drink? Whose eye hath pitied you? Whose hand hath helped you? Whose heart had compassion on you? Whose voice hath called you? Our Father, so lenient, so loving, so generous hath He been. Oh, we have all been cruel prodigals. We have chosen the wil derness to the loving arms of our Fath er. Have you no coniessions to make? Have you no sorrow to express? Have you no pardon to ask foi? Have you no resolution to make? Oh! if it had been a stranger it would not have been so wonderful that we turned away from Him. If He had maltreated us, if He had flagellated us unmercifully, if He had turned ns out of doors, if He had starved us, it would not have been strange if we turned our backs on such a Father. But no, He lias loved us, lie lias fondled us, He has caressed us all our life long. Are you sorry that you have offended? Is there in this au dience ono man frank enough to say: “Father, I have sinned?” If you do wrong to a friend you are willing to apologize. You say: “I am sorry I said that or did that.” Have you ever apologized to God? Can it be that ten thousand times ten thousand transgres sions of your life are all uncancelled? If it be so, may God have mercy upon your soul. J remark again that this resolution of the text was formed in a feeling of homesickness. I do not know how long the young man had been gone— how many weeks, how many years— from his father’s house, but I am very certain from the reading of the passage I that he was homesick. It is a very disagreeable feeling. You know what it is. You have been away off', and although you may have had plenty of friends around you, and all the circum stances were cheerful, you said within your soul: “I would give the world if I could be home,” Well, this young man of the text was homesick. lie wanted to walk around the old place again. He wanted to see if the house looked just as it used to look. Above all, he wanted to see his father and clasp him by the hand again. I think perhaps the thought may have flashed through his mind. “Perhaps father’s dead.” \ou know that many a prodi gal has come home after a long absence and has knocked at the door, and a stranger has come, and father is gone, and mother is gone, arid brothers and sisters are gone. The old homestead has passed into some other possession, and L think it was with all that anxie ty that tlie young man of the text says: “I will arise and go to my father, to find him if I can.” Are there not those here to-day who would like to go back to God? Would you not like to have Christ put his scarred hand upon you and press you to his heart and utter these melting words: “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” Oh, are there not those here who are homesick for God, homesick for heaven? 1 heard of a sailor boy who came back to see his parents, and he stayed a few days, and his mother importuned him not to go away again, and the night before ho went back to sea lie heard her praying in the next room. It made him harder than he was before. He went to sea. One hitter cold night he clambered up the ratlines; lie was out on perilous duty. The winds Tvere whistling around him in tho darkness, and lie heard some thing that first seemed like his moth er’s voice, and then seemed like that very prayer, and he trembled in the darkness, and charged himself with cowardice, and tried to-whistle off the feeling: but all the more it pressed through his >o:tl-—the very prayer he heard his mother utter in the next room. And there, amid the ship’s shrouds, he cried: “God he merciful to me, a sinner! Oh, it there be mercy for such a wretch as i am, help me! Lord, help me!” And 1 have thought while standing here that perhaps some prodi gal in tins audience might have coming into his soul the memory of father’s prayer or mother’s petition long ago uttered, and that prayer might press so mightily on your soul that you would this moment surrender yourself to the Lord who bought you. I remark again that this resolution of the text was immediately put into execution. The text says he arose and came to his father. The trouble is that nine hundred and ninetyriine out of the thousand of our resolutions never amount to any tiling. We do not carry them out. How many of ns have, scores of times, resolved upon a Christian life? And yet have not entered it. Here is a man who, twenty-five years ago, in the time of typhoid fever, said: “O, Lord let me get over this sickness and I will serve Thee all the rest of my life.” The lever departed; ho is well, in the house of God to-day, and yet he has never espoused the cause of Jesus. Here is a man who said; “If I can only live to see 1882, by that time I will get over the rush of business, and I will give my time to the Lord, and all the rest of my days shall he spent in His service;” and here we are, in 1882, and that man has not kept his vow. A resolution that I will become a Christain next year, or next month, or next week, or to-morrow, or ten o’clock to-night, is worth nothing. The young man of the text is one moment sitting down amid tho swine and the husks. Then he says; “I trill arise and go to my father,” and he starts the very in stant: as quick as that he is on his way. O! my dear friends, are there some of you to-day ready to start for heaven? Do you not want to start now? You feel your need of pardon. Why not seek it now? You feel that you need a title to heaven. Why not get it now? llow many have put it off? And there are some who say: “I must get my life changed first, and I must get better first, and then I will come.” All, my brother, you will get worse and worse until you come to Christ. No man ever made himself better. “Not the righteous; Sinners Jesus came to call.” “But,” say, you “put it off a little long er and I will come.” Ah! that is what one of olden time said: “Go thy way for this time, I will attend to it after a while.” Did he? No, he went away and perished. To he almost a Christ ian is to be no Christian at all. At Anagansette, Long Island, a vessel canto ashore and dashed itself to pieces in the breakers and tho men on the beach threw ropes and shot rockets, and tho ciew of the wrecked vessel got in a small boat and pulled toward the beach, and they came almost to the shore, but the rope snapped and they were swamped. There corpse the next day tossed upon the beach. They came within a stones throw of rescue and yet they perished. Oh, how many men thete are who come almost to the beach of heaven, within arm’s reach of pardon and peace and salvation, yet right there they are swamped forever. Do you know, my brother, that eterni ty is at stake in this matter? Y’ou would not risk SIOO on as poor securi ty as you have for your immortal soul. If you lend a man ijilOO you take a note for it. It you buy property you take a deed for it. If you build a house you get insurance on it. And yet for your everlasting inheritance | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. yon have no title, uo promise, no hope. Why will you starve in the desert when you might feast in your Father’s house? God wants you to come back; the angels wants you to come back; the Church of Christ wants you to come back. God, the infinitely love ly and patient One, leans from His throne to-day and stoops over with every possible entreaty and says: “Come now, and let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” And then God lilts his right hand and takes an affidavit, saying: “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of Him that dieth. Turn ye; turn ye; why will ye die?” I want to tell you of two prodigals— the one that came hack to his father’s house and the other that did not. In Richmond, \ a., there tvas a young man vho had every advantage in his father’s house of a Christain education, and he wandered away. He forgot his father’s counsel and his mother’s love—further and further ho wandered, until he was a prodigal. One night in one of the finest homes in Yirginia, while the family were sound asieep, at midnight there was a loud rapping at the door and the crying of children outside. Tho young man of the household rushed down, and opening tlie door, found that it was the wife and the children of his brother, the prodigal. The prodigal had come home to his own dwelling, and at some word of the wife that offended him he said: “Out of this house! Away with the children! I will dash their brains out!” And they fled through the darkness to their grand father’s house. The next morning the young man went out to see the prodi gal who had driven his own family away. lie found him pacing up and down in front of iiis house, and said to him: “What are you doing here? What is the matter with yon?” and the prodigal turned upon him and said: “What do you think of me?” “Why I think you aro my brother.” “No,” said he, “I am a brute. I turned them out in the storm Inst night. I am a brute.” And then he said: “O, brother, brother, do you think there is any cure iorme? Do you think I will ever get over these wanderings? Do you think I will ever stop tliis life of dissipation? I think there is only one thing, John, that will do it. ’’What is that?” said the brother. “O,” said tlie prodigal, “there is only just one thing that will do it,” drawing his finger across his throat. “I will, I will, before night comes. I can’t hear it longer. Oh, my brain!” Ho was the prodigal that never returned from evil ways. I will tell you of another. Two young men jit England were down to the sea-shore, expecting to embark. I hey could not bear the restraints of a kind father’s house. The fathe.l wrote down to Mr. Griffin, of Ports mouth, saying: “My twe sons are down in your city'. I wish you would per suade them to come back.” lie found the two boys, and persuaded one to go home. The other said: “I won’t go home.” “Then.” said Mr. Griffin, “I will get you a good place on a very respectable ship.” lie said: ‘ I won’t take it, I want to be a common sailor, and that will, plague father most, and what will break his heart will do me most good.” Some years passed along, and one day Mr. Griffin was seated in his study, when word came: “There is a man on ship-board in irons, awaiting execution, who wants to see you.” Air. Griffin did not recognize him. “Don’t you remember me? I am the young man you tried to per suade not to go to sea.” “Oh, yes,” said Air. Gridin. “I remember von.” “Well,” said he, “I committed tho crime of murder. lam going to die, and I thought I would ask you to pray for me before I died.” Air. Griffin, thinking of the dear old folks at home, and of the father, whose heart had long ago broken over that wayward son, said: “I will try to get you a pardon.” He rushed about by day and by night, from city to oity, to the proper authori ties, and sure enough he got the pardon. He moved the heart of the Judge by the terrible story of parental suffering, and he came in hot haste with the par don, and as he was coming on the ship he met the father, who had come down from the country. He had found out that his hoy was in trouble under a disguised name, and there Air. Griffin with the pardon met the father on the dock. They went on board, and the very moment that Air. Griffin handed tho pardon to that wayward son, at the same moment the father threw his aims around the wayward boy’s neck and kissed him, and the son confessed his crime and his wanderings, and said: “Father, forgive me if 1 have bioken your heart.’, And the father said: “I forgive you.” The chains were knocked off, and the boy went home free. To-day I come to you with a pardon—glorious pardon of the Gospel. I put it in your right hand, while at the same moment the Lord God Al mighty, your Father, breaks in upon the darkness of your soul and throws the arms of His compassion around your neck, and says: “I forgive you for all your wanderings,” and there is joy on earth and joy in heaven. Who will accept the Father’s embrace? Personal To Bleu Only! ! The Voltaic Belt Cos., Marshall, Midi., will send Ur. 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