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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1834, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. VOL. 18. For lvyspepsia, MlCostiveness, iK~3U&kilkil Headache, Chronic Diar y rhoea, Jaundice, Impurity of the Blood, Fever and caused by De rangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. BYMFTOM3 OF A DISEASED LIVER. Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels Snerally costive, sometimes alternating with lax; c head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation of leaving undone something which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complains of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled; feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent, and, although satisfied that exercise would oe bene ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms ai tend the disease, bilt cases have occurred when but few of them existed, yet examination after death has shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged. It should be used by all persons, old and young, whenever any of the above symptoms appear. Persons Traveling or Living In Un healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors* Dills will bo saved by always keeping the Regulator ' in the House! For, whatever the ailment may b:*, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never be out of place. Ihe remedy is harmless and docs not interfero with business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY YDGETjVBLE, And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor’s Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala. Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, of Ga., says; Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. “The only Thing that never fails to Relieve.”—l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never nave found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver. Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. % P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice I have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. only the Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark and Signature of J. H. ZHILIN & CO. FOR SALE BV ALL DRUGGISTS TUTT’S EXPECTORANT !■ composed of Herbal and Mucilaginous prod ucts, which permeate the substance of the Lungs, expectorates the acrid matter that collects in the Bronchial Tubes, and forms a soothing coaling, which relieves the ir ritation that causes the cough. It cleanses the lungs of all impurities, strengthens them when enfeebled by disease, invigor ates the circulation of the blood, and braces the ervou3 system. Slight colds often end in consumption. It is dangerous to neglect them. Apply the remedy promptly. A test of twent y yenrs warrants the assertior that noremedy laas ever been found that is ns prompt lnitseffectsnsTUTT’S EXPECTORANT. A single dose raises the phlegm, subdues inflammation, and its use speedily cures the most obstinate cough. A pleasant cordial, chil dren take it readily. For Croup it is Invaluable nnd should ho in every family. In 25c. and $1 Bottles. TUTT’S PILLS ACT DIRECTLYOW THE LIVEr! Cures Chilis and Fever, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Bilious Colic,Constipa~ tlon, Rheumatism, Files, Palpitation of the Heart, Dizziness, Torpid Liver, and Female Irregularities. .If you do not “feel very well,** a single pill stimulates the stomach, restores the appetite, imparts vigor to the system. A NOTED DEVBNE SAYS: Db. Tgtt :—Dcar Siri For ten years I hare been a martyr to Dy pepsia, Constipation and Piles. Last spring your pills were recommended tome; I used them (but with little faith). lam now a well man, havo good appetite, digestion perfect, regular stools, piles gone, and I haro gained forty pounds solid flesh. They arc worth their weight in gold. REV. R. L. SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky. />flicfe. 25 Murray St., New York. r DB. TI'TT’S MANUAL of reftil\ 1 Receipts FREE on application. J HOSTJI%s STOMACH _ A &itteß s Remember that stamina, vital energy, the life principal or whatever you may choose to oall the resistant power which battles against the causes of disease and death, is the grand safeguard of health. It is the garrison of the human fortress, and when it waxes weak, the true policy is to throw in reinforcements. In other words, when such an emergency occurs, commence a course of Hostetter's Bitters. For sale by Druggists and Dealers, to whom apply for Bosttetter’s Almanacs for 1883. Dr. 0. P. HOLLOWAY, DsntisT, 4rnrin* - Georgia Treats successfully all diseases of the Den tl organs. Fills teeth by the improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. OFFICE oyer Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt TO RENT. . TWO FINE PLANTATIONS. ALSO WJLES, CORN, FODDER, COTTON SEED and TOOLS on the farms. Apply at once io Mrs. E. BARLOW, oct2Btf orJNO. WINDSOR. From the Central Presbyterian. QltiKl— NOW. I.UOLA. Of a family of eight children, all except the two eldest died within six months, three within a week, and two were buried iu the same grave. Yes, all is quiet—now’—no laugh Or shout breaks on the ear, No carroled song or patt’ringfeet Tell of the loved ones near. ’Tis spring, and birds are on the trees, And bees upon the wing, Yet no glad voices echo there The minstrelsy of spring! And all is neat and tidy now, Without the aid of care, No little hands will disarrange, Or scatter playthings there; No broken toys or tangled strings Be left upon the floor; Nor little feet their impress leave Around the cottage door. There side by side uncalled for too Stand little stools and chairs. Uncumbered now by books or toys, Or aught that once was theirs. Tite morning comes, the evening goes, And still untouched they stand Not needed round the fireside, By one of that sweet band! The cradle too—in every home Almost a sacred tiling, Is useless now—no voice is heard A lullaby to sing. And there the little pillow lies, All smooth and fresh and round; Tlie curly head that rested there Is resting in the ground. And there within that sad, sad home, Where evening shadows fall, The mother sits with broken heart— The saddest tiling of all. With folded hands and drooping head And weary heart and eye, She listless dreams, nor marks the hours That drearily pass by: Dream on poor suff’rer, hush’d and still Is all within—without, Thy revery will not be disturbed By mirth or noisy shout; There is no need of watchfulness, No need of thrift or care, You have no little wounds to dress, No little griefs to share. No little stockings now to knit No little clothes to mend— No little sufl’rer o’er whose couch Tliy loving form may bend. Yes take again that little cloak And kiss it o’er and o er, The last you ever made for him The last lie ever wore. That brimless hat and little shoe All worn and stringless now, Might once have called a stern reproof, A frown upon thy brow: But now they are bedewed with tears, As holy things—are prized— Your eyes are ’neath that little hat, The wearer, in the skies. Weep not—tell me why weepestthou? They need no more thy care— For want and suffering cannot come Where thy sweet babies are. Those little feet ne’er weary now, There comes no ciy of pain; bay, would’st thou rob them of their rest, And call them back again? Oil woman of the bleeding heart, dome lift thy drooping eye; The Tree of Healing standeth near Tlie Stream of Life flows by. In God’s thy help—thy balm In Christ — Why murmur or repine? Tlie Heavenly shepherd keeps thy lambs, And they shall yet be thine! TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE THE CLOUDLESS MORNING. A morning without clouds.—ll Samuel, xxiii., 4. Pulpit and printing press for the most part in our day are busy iu dis cussirtg the condition ot the cities at this time; but would it not be health fully encouraging to all Christian workers and to all who are toiling to make the world better, if we should this morning for a little while look for ward to the time when our cities shall be revolutionized by the Gospel of the Son of-God, and all the darkness of sin, and trouble, and crime, and suffer ing shall be gone from the sky, and it shall be “a morning without clouds?” Every man lias pride in the city of his nativity or residence, if it be a city dis tinguished for any dignity or prowess. Cresar boasted of his native Rome, Vir gil of Mantua, Lycurgns of Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes ol Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsns. 1 should have suspicion of base-hearted ness in a man who had no especial in terest in the city of his birth or resi lience—no exhilaration at the evidence of its prosperity, or its artistic embel lishments, or its scientific ad vancement. I have noticed that a man never likes a city where he has not behaved well! Swartoutdid not like New York, nor did Parkman like Boston, and people who have a free ride in tho.prison can never like the city that furnishes the vehicle. When I find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove themselves the birthplace of Homer, I conclude right away that Homer be haved well. He liked thorn and they liked him. We must not war on laud able city pride, and with the idea of building ourselves up at any time try to pull others down. Boston must con tinue to point to its Faueuil Hall, and to its common, and to its superior ed ucational advantage. Philadelphia must oontinuo to point to its Independ ence Hall, and its Mint and its Girard College. If I should find a man com ing from any city having no pride in that city, that having been the place of his nativity, or now being the place of his residence, I would feel like ask ing him right away: “What mean thing have yon been doing there? what INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1882. outrageous thing have you been guilty of that you do not like the place?” New York is a goodly city. It is on both sides the river, the East River be ing only the main artery of its great throbbing life. We or our children will live to see three or four bridges spanning that river, and more and more as the years go by, we will be one; so when I say iu my sermon New York, I mean well on to two millions popula tion, and everything from Spuyten Duyvil Creek to Gowanus. That which helps one city will help the other; that which blasts one city will blast the other. Sin is a giant, and when it comes to the Hudson or the East River, it stops across it as easily as you step across a figure in a carpet. God’s an gel of blessing has two wings, and one wing hovers over that city and the other wing hovers over this city. In infancy our metropolis was put down by the banks of the Hudson. It was as feeble as Moses in the ark of bull rush es by Nile, and like Miriam, there our fathers stood and watched it. The royal spirit of American commerce came lown to bathe. She took it up in her arms and it waxed strong, and foreign ships brought silver and gold to its feet, and it has stretched itself up into a great metropolis, looking up to the mountains and off upon the sea, the mightiest energy in American civiliza tion. Every city is influenced by the character of the men who founded it. Romulus impressed his life upon Home. The Pilgrim fathers will never elax their grasp from New England. William Penn left a legacy of fair lealing and integrity to Philadelphia, ind you can now any day on the streets if that city see his customs, his nian aers, his morals, his hat, his wife’s lonnct and his meeting house. So the ilollanders founding New York left their impression on all the following generations. Grand old New York! What Rouchern thoroughfare was ever smitten with pestilence and our phy sicians did not throw themselves on the sacrifice? What foreign nation was ever struck with tamine and our ships did not put out laden with bread stuffs? What national struggle, and our citizens did not pouf their blood into the trenches? What street of Da mascus, or Beyrout, or Madras has not resounded with the step of our mission aries? What gallery of art, and our painters have not hung in it their pic tures? What department of science or literature, and our scholars have not made to it contributions? I need not talk to you of our public schools, where the children of the cordvvainor, and the me chanic, and the glassblovver sit side by side with the favored sons of mill ionaires and merchant princes. Nor need I tell you of the asylums for the insane on these islands, where those who cut themselves among the tombs come forth clothed and in their right mind. Nor need I tell you of the asy lums for the blind, and the deaf, and the dumb, and the orphans, the wid ows, the outcast, or of a thousand arm ed machinery streaming down from our great reservoirs the pure, bright, spark ling water, rushing through the aque ducts, and dashing out of the hydrants, and hissing in the steam engines, and tossing in the fountains, and shower out the conflagrations, and dripping from the baptismal fonts in our churches, and with silvery tono and golden sparkle and crystalline chime saying to the hundreds of thousands of our populations, in the words of Him who made it: “I will; be thou clean.” I thank God for the place of our resi dence, and while there are a thousand things that ought to be corrected, and many wrongs that ought to be over thrown, while I thank God for the past, I look forward this morning to a glo rious future. I think we ooght—and I take it for granted you are all in terested in this great work of evangel izing the cities and saving the world— we ought to toil with the sunlight in our faces. We are not fighting in a miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on the way to final victory. We are not following the rider on the black horse, leading ns down to death and darkness and doom, but the rider on the white horse, with the moon under bis feot and the stars of heaven for his tiara. Hail, conqueror, hail! I hear there are sorrows, and there are sins and there are sufferings all around about us; but in some bitter cold winter day, when we are threshing our arms around us to keep our thumbs from freezing, we think of the warm spring lay that will after a while come, or in the dark winter night we look up and wo see the northern lights, the windows of heaven illuminated by some great victory—-just so we look up from the night of suffering and sorrow and wretchedness in our cities, and we see a light streaming through from the other side, and we know wo are on the way to morning—more than that, on the way to “a morning without clouds.” 1 want you to understand, all you who are toiling for Christ, that the castles of sin are going to be captured. The victory for Christ in these great towns is going to be so complete that not a man on earth, or an angel in heaven, or a devil in hell will dispute it. How do I know? I know just as certainly as God lives and that there is holy truth. The old Bible is full of it. The nation is to be saved; of course, all the cities are to be saved. It makes a great difference with you and with me whether we are toiling on toward a de leat or toiling on toward a victory Now, in this mnnicipal elevation of which I speak, I have to remark there will be greater financial prosperity than our cities have ever seen.- Some peo ple seem to have a morbid idea of the' millennium, and they think when the better time comes to our cities and the world, people will give their time up to psalm singing and the relating of their religious experience. And as all social life will be purified, there will be no hilarity; and as all business will be purified, there will be no enterprise. There is no ground for such an absurd anticipation. In the time of which I speak, where now one for tune is made thero will be a hundred fortunes made. We all know business prosperity depends upon confidence be tween man and man. Now, when that time comes of which I speak, and all double-dealing, all dishonesty and ail fraud are gone out of commercial cir cles, thorough oonfideuce will be estab lished, and there will be better busi ness done, and larger fortunes gathered, and mightier successes achieved. The great business disasters of this country have coma from tlie work of godless speculators and infamous stock gam biers. The great foe to business iu New York and Brooklyn is crime. When the right shall have hurled back the wrong and shall have purified the commercial code, and shall have thun dered down fraudulent establishments, and shall have put into the hands of honest men the keys of business, bless ed time for the bargain makers. lam not talking an abstraction, I am not malttng a guess. I am telling you God’s eternal truth. In that day of which I speak taxes will be a mere nothing. Now our business men are taxed for everything. City taxes, county taxes, State taxes, stamp taxes, license taxes, manufacturing taxes— taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business men havo to make a small fortune every year to pay their taxes. What fastens on our great industries thisawful Gad? Crime, individual and official. We have to pay the board of the villains who are incarcerated ; u our prisons. Yfe have to take care of orphans of those who plunged into their graves through beastly indulgence. We have to support the municipal governments, which are vast and expensive just in proportion as the criminal proclivities aro vast and tremendous. We support the almshouses and police stations, and all the machinery of municipal govern ment? The tax payers. Ever since the morning of the Bth of November the politicians have been trying to ci pher out what was the cause of the revolution in American politics. Well, in some cities it meant one thing, per haps. and some States amother thing; but I tell yon what it meant all over: It meant that, the people of the United States are infuriate at the fact that the officers of the government and those who have the arrangement of these things, keep taxes up when they might go down—a hundred million dollars more than necessary taxed out of the hard-working population of this coun try. and stored up as a temptation to public officials The only way to keep the Congress of the United States from misappropriating $50,000,000 out of the national Treasury, is to have no surplus in the Treasury to steal. In this coming Congress the Republican party will have another opportunity .of putting down taxes, and if they do not put down taxes, the revolution in Massa chusetts and in New York this autumn will be only as a snowflake compared with the avalanche of popular indigna tion that shall comedown. And I tell you Republicans and you Democrats, that if you do not let down the taxes and let the people up, we will form a new party, anti-excessive taxation, an ti-rum, anti-monopoly, anti abomina tion, and you have been fattening on the public spoils and reckless of the public virtue shall not have so much as the wages of a street-sweeper. But in the glorious time of which I speak, grievous taxation will all havo ceased. There will be no need of supporting criminals; there will be no criminals. Virtue will have taken the place of vice. There will be no orphan asylums, for parents will be able to leave a com petency to their children. There will be no voting of large sums of moneys for some municipal improvement, which moneys, before they get to the improve ment, drop into the pockets of those who voted them. No Oyer and Ter miner kept up at a great expense to the people. No empanelling of juries to try theft, and ai Son, and murder, and slander, and blackmail. Better facto ries. Grander architecture. Finer equipage. Larger fortunes. Richer opulence. ‘A morning without clouds.’ In that better time, also, coming to these cities, the churches of Christ will be more numerous, and they will be larger, and they will be more devoted to the service of Jesus Christ, and they will accomplish greater influences for good. Now, it is often tliß case that churches are envious of each other, and denominations collide with each other, and even ministers of Christ sometimes fight the bond of brotherhood. But in the time of which I speak, while there will be just as many differences of opin ion as there are now, there will be no acerbity, no hypercriticism, noexclnsiv ness. In onr great cities the churches are not to-day large enough to hold more than a fourth of the population. The churches that are built, compari tively few of them are fully occupied. The average attendance of the churches in the United States to-dav is not 400. Now, in the glorious time of which I speak, there are going to ho vast churches, and they are going to Be all thronged with worshippers. O! what rousing songs they will sing! O! what earnest sermons they will preaoh! O! what fervent prayers they* will offer! Now, iff onr time, what is called a fash ionable chnrch is a place where a few people, having attended very carefully to their toilet, come and sit down— they do not want to be crowded, they like a whole seat to themselves—and then, if they have any time left from thinking of their store, and fiom ex amining the style of the hat in front of them, they sit and listen to a sermon warranted to hit no man’s sins, and listen to music which is rendered by a choir warranted to sing tunes that no body knows! And then, after an hour and a half of indolent yawning, they go home refreshed. Every man feels better after he has had a sleep! In many of the churches of Christ in our day, the music is simply a mockery. I have not a cultivated ear nor a cultivated voice, yet no man can do my singing for me. I have nothing to say against artistic music. The two or five dollars I pay to hear Miss Thursby or Miss Abbott, or any of the queens of song, is a good investment. But when the people assemble in religious convoca tion and the hymn is read, and the an gles of God step from their throne to catch the music on their wings, do not let us drive them away by our indiffer ence. I have preached in churches where vast sums of money were employ ed to keep up the music, and it. was as ex quisite as any heard on earth, but 1 thought at the same time, for all matters practical I would prefer the hearty, outbreaking song of a backwoods Methodist camp meeting. Let one of these starveling fancy songs sung in church get up be fore the throne of God, how would it look standing amid the great doxolo gies of the redeemed! Let the finest operatic air that ever went up from the church of Christ get many hours the start, it will be caught and passed by the hosanna of the Sabbath-schoolchil dren. I knew a church where the eh >ir did ali the singing save one Christian man, who, though perseverance of the saints, went right on, and afterward a committee was appointed to wait on him if he would not please to stop sing ing, as he bothered the choir. Let those refus to singe Who never knew our God; But children of the Heavenly King Should speak their joys abroad. “Praise ye the Lord; let everything with breath praise the uord.” In the glorious time coming in our cities and in the world, hosanna will meet hosan na, and hallelujah, hallelujah. In that time also of which I speak, all the haunts of iniquity and crime and squalor will be cleaned and will be illumined. How is it to be done? You say perhaps by one influence. Perhaps I say by another. 1 will tell you what is my idea, and I know I am right in it. The Gospel of the son of God is the only agency that will ever accom plish this. Mr. Ecsler, of England, had theory that if the natural forces of wind tide and sunshine and wave were rightly applied and rightly developed, it would make this whole earth a para dise. In a book of great genius, and which rushed from edition to edition, he said: “Fellow men, I promise to show the means of creating a paradise within ten years, where everything desirable for human life may be had by every man in superabundance without labor and without pay—where the whole face of nature shall be changed into the most beautiful farms, and man may live in the most magnificent palaces, in all imaginable refinements of luxury, and in the most delightful gardens—where he may accomplish without labor in one year more than hitherto could be done in thousands of years, and may level a continent, sink valleys, create lakes, drain lakes and swamps, and intersect the land everywhere with heautifnl canals and roads for transporting heavy loads of many thousand tons and for travelling a thousand miles in twenty four hours—may cover the ocean with floating islands movable in any desired direction, with immense power and celerity, in perfect security, and with all the comforts and luxuries bearing gar dens and palaces with thousands of families, and provided with rivulets of sweet water —may explore the interior of the globe and travel from pole to pole in a fortnight—provide himself with means yet unheaid of for increasing his knowledge of the world and so his in telligence; leading a life of continual happiness, of enjoyment yet unknown; free himself from all the evils that af flict mankind, except death, and even put dea' h far beyond the common period of human life, and finally render it less nfflicting. From the houses to be built will be afforded the most cultured views to be fancied. From the galleries, from the roof and from the turrets may be seen gardens as far as the eye can see, full of fruits and flowers, arranged in the most beautiful order, with walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphitheatres, terraces, foun tains, sculptured works, paintings, gon dolas, places of popular amusement to tire the eye and fancy. All this to be dons by urging the water, the wind and the sunshine to their full development.” He goes on and gives plates of the machinery by which the work is to be done, and he says he only needs at the start a company in which the shares shall be twenty dollars each, and a hun dred or two hundred thousand shall be raised just to make a specimen commu nity, and then, this being formed, the world will see its practicability, and very soon two or three million dollars can he obtained, and in ten years, the whole earth will be emparadised. The plan is not so preposterous as some I have heard of! Bat I will take no stock in that company! I do not believe it will ever be done in that way, by any mechanical force, or by any machinery that the human mind can put into play. It is to be done by the Gospel of the Son of God—the genuineness and finery of love, and grace and pardon and sal vation. That is to emparadise the na tions. Archimedes destroyed a fleet of ships coming np the harbor. You know how he did it? He lifted a great sun glass. history tells ns, and when the fleet of ships came up the harbor of Syracuse he brought to bear this sun glass and he converged the sun’s rays upon those ships. Now, the sails are wings of fire, the masts fall, the vessels sink. O, my friends, by the sun-glass of the gospel, converging the rays of the sun of righteousness upon the sins, the wickedness of the world, we will make them blaze and expire. In that day of which I speak, do you believe there will be any midnight ca rousals? Will there be any kicking off from marble steps of shivering mendi cants? Will there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed children? Will there be any blasphemers in the streets? Will there be any inebriates staggering past? No wine stores. No lager beer saloons. No distileries where they make the three X’s. No blood-shot eye. No bloated cheek. No instruments of ruin and destruction. No first-pounded forehead. The grandchildren of that woman who goes down the street, with a curse, stoned by the boys that follow her, will be the reformers and the phil anthropists and the Christian men and the honest merchants of New York and Brooklyn. Then, what municipal gov ernments, too, we will have in all the cities. Some cities are worse than oth ers, but in many of our cities you just walk down by the city halls and iook in at some of the rooms occupied by politicians and see to what a sensual, loathsome, ignorant, besotted crew city politics is often abandoned. Or they stand around the City Hall picking their teeth, waiting for some emolu ments of crumbs to fall to their feet— waiting all day long, and waiting all night long. Who are those wretched women taken up for drunkenness and carried up to the courts and put in prison, of course? What will you do with the grogshops that made them drunk? Nothing. Who are those prisoners in jail? One of them stole a pair of shoes. That boy stole a dol lar. This girl snatched a purse. All of them crimes damaging society less than S2O or S3O. But what will you do with the gamblers who last night robbed the young man of a thousand dollars? Nothing. What will be done with that one who breaks through and destroys the purity of a Christian home and with an adroitness and perfidy that beats the strategy of hell, flings a shrinking soul iuto a bottomless per dition? Nothing. What will you do with these who fleece that young man, getting him to purloin large sums of money from his employer—the young man who come to an officer of my church and told the story, and franti cally asked what he might do? Noth ing. Ah! we do well to punish small crimes, but I have sometimes thought it would be better in some of our cities if the officials would only turn out from the jail the petty criminals, tho little offenders, the ten-dollar desperadoes, and put i.i their places gome of the monsters of iniquity who drive their roan span through the streets so swift ly that honest men have to leap to get out of the way of being run over. O! the damnable schemes that professed Christian man will sometimes engage in until God puts the finger of his ret ributions into the collar of their robe of hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bot tom. But all these wrongs are going to be righted. I expect to live to see the day. I think I hear in the dis tance the rumbling of the King’s chari ot. Not always in the minority is the Church of God going to be; or are good men going to be. The streets are going to be filled with regenerated populations. Three hundred and sixty bells rang in Moscow when one prince was married; but when Righteousness and Peace kiss each other in all the earth, ten thousand times ten thousand hells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty enriched, hunger fed, crime purified,ignorance enlighten ed and all the cities saved! is not this a cause worth working in? O! you think sometimes it does not amount to much. You toil on in your different spheres, sometimes with great discouragement. People have no faith and say; “It does not amount to anything; you might as well quit that.” Why, when Moses stretched his handover the Red Sea, it did not seem to mean anything especial ly. People came OHt, I suppose, and said; “Ah!” Some of them found out what he wanted to do. He wantad the sea parted. It did not amountto anything, this stretching out of his had over the sea! But after a while the wind blew all night from the sast, and the waters were gathered into a glittering palisade on either side, and the billows reared as God pulled back on their crystal bits. Wheel into line. Oh! Israel, march, march! Pearls crash under feet Flying spray gathers into rainbow arch of victory for conquerors to march un der. Shout of hosts on the beach an swering; the shout of hosts amid sea. And when the last line of the Israelites reach the beach, the cymbals clap and the shields clang, and the waters rush over the pursuers, and the swift-linger ed winds on the white leys of the foam play the grand march Israel delivered, and the awful dirge of Egyptian over thown. So you and I go forth, and all the people God go forth, and they stretch their hand over the sea, the boil ing sea of crims and ain and wretohed ness. “It don’t amount to anything,” people say. Don’t it? 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