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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, 1 By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. ( VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly. One Year - - -|4 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in Advance.® All advertisements eminating from public o (Bees will be charged for iri 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. One Square first insertion, - - - -?1.00 Each subsequent inse rtion, - - - - 50 J3F*Ten Links 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 to occupy fixed places wil be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for teD cent per line each insertion. ———OP—— Charles F. Crisp, mlitorneif ai Law* AMERICUS, GA. decl6tf B. P. HOJ-LIS *1 HorneV at Law* AMERICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf E. G SIMMONS, •lllorneo at Law* AMERICUS GA., Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort& Simmons. jan6tf J. A. ANSLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’ Clothing Store, Americus, Ga. After a brief respite I return again to the practice of law. As in the past it will be my earnest purpose to represent my clients faithfully and look to their interests. The commercial practice will receive close atten tion and remittances promptly made. The Equity practice, and cases involving titlesof land and real estate are my favorites. Will practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia, the Supreme Court and the United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf DR. BAC LEY'S” INDIAN VEGETABLE LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS, For sale by all Druggists in Americus. Price 25 cents per box. jan2Bwly CARD. I offer my professional services again to the good people of Americus. After thirty years’ of medical service, I have found It difficult to withdraw entirely. Office next door to Dr. KldTidge’s drugstore, on the Square janl7tf R. C. BLACK, M. D. M.H. O’DANIEL. M.D. Americus, Ga. Office and Residence, No. 21 Barlow House. All calls promptly attended, day or night. Calls left at Eldridge’s Drug Store. fel)7-3m' Dr, J. F. Stapleton Offers his professional services to the people of Americus and surrounding couutry. 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POUTZ, Proprietor, BALTIMORE. M. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1883. VOV.’YB.X. HEART YEARNING!). My darling, if beneath the sea, With all its waves beneath its head, I lay, and thou should’stspeak to me, I think that I should quit tire dead And come to thee. Could my lone spirit lost in space, Hear one fond sigh thy lips had given, I’d fly to earth for thy embrace, Nor grieve for a relinquished heaven. Hold buttliy hand, thy loving hand, To me across the dark abyss. And let me see thee waiting stand, And back should I return to this, From even the better lajd. Give me the beatings of thy heart; Give me the kisses of thy lips, And let life’s common joys depart, The sun go down in dark eclipse. My dearest, earth nor cruel sea, Nor even the boundless realms of space, Could separate my soul from thee, Or win me from thy fond embraee, Did’st thou hut wish for me.. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGK [The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks, 48 Bible House, New York. A number containing 26 Sermons is issued every three months. Price 30 cents, ?1 per an num], MENDING THE BIBLE. If any man shall take away from the words of the hook of this prophecy, God shall take aw ay his part out of the hook of life, and out of the holy city.—Revelation xxii. 19. Inspiration foresaw that the time would come when there would be bur glarious attempts to purloinpoitions of the Bible, and one man would break in here and another man would break in there; and my text comes out with as tounding emphasis and declares that the gates of heaven will clang shut against the entrance of all those who so maltreat the Bible. “God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city.” Y'ou see it is a very risky business, this changing of the holy Sciptures. A pulpit in New York has recently set forth the idea that the Scriptures ought to be expurgated, that portions of them are unfit to be read, and the inspiration of much of the Bible has been denied. Among other striking statements are these: The Book of Genesis is a tradition of creation, a successive lawyer of tradi tions thought out centuries before. Moses’ mistakes about creation were the mistakes of his age. That there are many systems of theology in the New Testament. That Paul had all the notions of the rabbinical school of his time. That Job winds up his epi logue in genuine fairy-tale style. That Revelation is a long array of misshapen progeny in the apocalyptic writing, tracing themselves back to Daniel. That Revelation comes to a madman, or leaves him mad. That what he calls the abominable lewdness of somethings in the Old Testament is not fit to be read. That it is an abominable misuse of the Bible to suppose the prophecies really foretell future events. That the Book Daniel is not in the right place. That Solomon’s Songs are not in the light place; and he seems to applaud the idea of someone who said that the Book of Solomon’s Songs ought not to be in anyone’s hands under 30 years of age. He intimates he does not believe that Sampson slew a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass. That the whole Bible has been improperly chop ped up into chapters and verses. He does not believe the beginning of the Bible, and he does not believe the close of it, nor anything between as ful ly inspired of God, and he thinks the Book ought to be expurgated, and there arethose who re-echothe same sentiment. In other words, it is Thomas Paine and Robert Ingersoll in gown and bands. But they have more excuse, because they openly and above board declare their infidelity, while that man stands in a Christian pulpit assaulting the Bible —the pulpit of an honored denom ination in which Bishop Mcllvaine and Archbishop Leighton and the venera ble Stephen H. Tyng were chief apos tles. Now, I believe in the largest lib erty of discussion, and there are halls and opera houses and acadamies of music where the Bible and Christianity may be assaulted without any interrup tion: but when a minister of the Gos pel surrenders the faith of any denomi nation, his first plain, honest duty is to getoutofit. What would you think of the clerk in a drygoods store or a factory or a banking house who should go to criticising the books of the firm and denouncing the behavior of the firm, still taking the salary of that firm and tbe support of that firm, and doing all his denunciation of the books of tho firm under its cover? Certainly a minister of the Gospe 1 ought to be as honest with his denomi nation as a drygoods clerk is honest with his employers. The heinousness of finding fault with the Bible at this time by a Christian minister is most evident. In our day the Bible is as sailed by scurrility, by misrepresenta tion, by infidel scientists, by all the vice of earth and all the venom of per dition, and at this particnlar time min isters of religion fall into line of criti cism of the word of God. Why, it makes me think of a ship in a Septem ber equinox, the waves dashing to tkw top of the smoke-stack, and the hatches fastened down, and many prophesying the foundering pf the steamer, and at that time some of the crew with axes and saws go down into the hold of the ship, and they try to saw off some of the planks and pry out some of the tim bers because the timber did not come from the right forest! It does not seem to me a commendable business for the crew to be helping the winds and storms outside with their axes and saws inside. Now this old Gospel ship, what with the roaring of earth and hell around the stem and stern, and mutiny on deck, is having a rough voyage; but I have no ticed that not one of the timbers has started, and the captain says he will see it through; and I have noticed that keelson and counter timber knee are built out of Lebanon cedar, and she is going to weather the gale, hut no cred it to those who make mutiny on deck. When I see ministers of religion in this particular day finding fault with the Scriptures, it make me think of a fore tress terrificallybombarded, and the men on the ramparts, instead of swabbing out and loading the guns and helping fetch up the ammunition from the mag azine, are trying with crowbars to pry out from the wall certain blocks of stone because they did not come from the right quarry. O! men on the ram parts, better fight back and fight down the common enemy instead cd trying to make breaches in the wall. While I oppose this expurgation of the Scriptures, I shall give you my reasons for such opposition. “What!” say some of the theological evolution ists whose brains have been addled by too long brooding over them by Darwin and Spencer, “You don’t now really believe all the story of the Garden of Eden, do you? Yes, as much as I be lieve there were roses in my garden last summer. “But,” say they, “you don’t really believe that the sun and moon stood still?” Yes, and if 1 bad strength enough to create a sun and moon I could make them stand still, or cause the refraction of the sun’s rays so they would appear so to do.” “But,” they say, “you don’t really believe that the whale swallowed Jonah?” l r es, and if, I were strong enough to make a whale, I could have made very easy ingress for the refracto ry prophet, leaving to evolution to eject him if he wore an unworthy tenant! “But,” say they, “you don’t really be lieve that the water was turned into wine?” Yes, just as easily as wine now is often turned into water with an admixture of strychnine an logwood! “But,” say they “you don’t really be lieve that Samson slew a thousand with the jawbone of and ass?” Yres, and I think that the man who in this day assaults the Bible is wielding the same weapon! There is nothing in the Bible that staggers me. There are many things I do not understand, I do not pretend to understand, never shall in this world understand. But that would be a very poor God who could be fully understood by the human. That would be a very small Infinite that could be measured by the finite. You must not expect to weigh the thunderbolts of omnipotence in an apothecary’s balances. Starting with the idea that God can do anythiug, and that He was present at the begin ing, and that He is present now, there is nothing in the Holly Scriptures to arouse skepticism in my heart. Here I stand, a fossil of the ages, dug up from the tertiary formation, fallen off the shelf of an antiquarian, a man in the latter part of the nineteenth century, believing in a whole Bible from lid to lid! I am opposed to this expurgation of the Scriptures, in the first place, be cause the Bible in its present shape has been so miraculously preserved. Fif teen hundred years after Herodotus wrote his history there was only one manuscript copy of it. Twelve hun dred years Plato wrote his book there was only one manuscript copy of it- God was so carefnl to have us have the Bible in just the right shape that we have fifty manuscript copies of the New Testament a thousand years old, and m any of them fifteen hundred years old. This book handed down from the time of Christ, or just after the time of Christ, by the hand of such men as Origen in the second century and Ter tullian in the third century —men of different ages who„died for their princi ples. The three best copies of the New Testament in manuscript are in the possession of the three great churches— the Protestant Church of England, the Greek Church of St. Petersburg and the Romish Church of Italy. It is a plain matter of history that Tischen dorf went to a convent in the peninsula of Sinai, and was by ropes lifted over the wall into the convent, that being the only mode of admission; and that he saw there in the waste basket for kindling the fires a manuscript of the Holy Scriptures. That night he copied many of the pages of that Bible, but it was not until fifteen years had passed of earnest entreaty, and prayer, and coaxing, and purchase on his part that that copy of the Holy Scriptures was pnt into the hands of the Emperor of Russia—that one copy so marvellously protected. Do you not know that the catalogue of the books of the Old and New Testaments as we have it, is the same catalogue that has been coming on down through the ages? Thirty nine books of the Old Testament thou sands of years ago. Thirty-nine now. Twenty-seven books of the New Testa ment sixteen hundred years ago. Twenty-seven books of the New Testa ment now.’ Mareion, for wickedness, was turned ont of the church in the second century, and in his assault on the Bible and Christi anity he incidentally gives a cata logue of the books of tho Bible—that catalogue corresponding exactly with ours—testimony given by the enemy of Christianity. The catalogue now just like the catalogue then, Assaulted, and spit on, and torn to pieces, and burned, yet adhering. The book to day, in three hundred languages, con fronting four-fifths of the human race in their own tongue. Three hundred mil lion copies of it in existence. Does not that look as if this Book had been divinely protected, as if God had guard ed it all through the centuries? Is it not an argument plain enough to every bonest man and every honest woman, that a book divinely protected and in this shape is in the very shape that God wants it? It pleases God and it ought to please us. The epidemics which have swept thousands of other books into the sepulchre of forgetful ness, have only brightened the fame of this. There is not one book out of a thousand that lives five years. Any publisher will tell you that. There will not be more than one book out of fifty thousand that will live a century; yet here is a Book, much of it 1,600 years old, much of it 4,000 years old, with more rebound and resilence and strength in it than when the Book was first put upon parchment or papyrus. This Book saw the cradle of all other books, and it will see their graves. Would you not think that an old book like this, some of it forty centuries old, would come along hobbling with age and crutches? Instead of that, more potent than any other book oi the time. More copies of it printed in the last ten years than of any other book—Walter Scott’s Waverly Novels, Macaulay’s History of England, Disraeli’s Endym ion and all the popular books of the day having no such sales in the last ten years as this old book. Do you know what a struggle a book has in order to get through one century or two centuries? A lot of books during a fire in a seraglio of Constantinople were thrown into the street. A man with out any education picked up one of those books, read it, and did not see the value of it. A scholar looked over his shoulder and saw it was the first and second decades of Livy, and he offered the man a large reward if he would bring the books to his study; but in the excitement of the fire the two parted, and the first and second decades of Livy were forever lost. Pliny wrote twenty books of history; all lost. The most of Meander’s writings lost. Of one hundred and thirty comedies of Plautus, all gone but twenty. Eurip ides wrote a hundred dramas; all gone but nineteen. Eschylns wrote a hun dred dramas; all gone but seven. Yar ro wrote the laborious biographies of seven hundred Romans; not a fragment left. Quintilian wrote his favorite book on the corruption of eloquence; all lost. Thirty books of Tacitus lost. Dion Cassius wrote eighty books; only twenty remain. Berosius’ history all lost. Nearly all the old books are mummified and are lying in the toombs of the old libraries, and perhaps once in twenty years some man comes along and picks up one of them and blows the dust off, and opens it and finds it the book he does not want. But this old book, much of it forty centuries old, stands to-day more discussed than any other book, and it challenges the admi ration of all the good, and the spite, and the venom, and the animosity, and the hypercriticism of earth and hell. I appeal to your common sense of a book so divinely guarded and protected in its present shape must not be in just the way that God wants it to come to us,and if it pleases God, ought it not to please us? Not only have all the attempts to detract from the book failed, but all the attempts to add to it. Many at tempts were made to add the apocry phal books to the Old Testament. The Council of Trent, the Synod of Jerusa lem, the Bishops of Hippo, all decided that the apocryphal books must be ad ded to the Old Testament. “They must stay in,” said those learned men; but they stayed out. There is not an intelligent Christian man that to-day will put the Book of Maccabeus or the Book of Judith beside the Book of Isa iah or Romans. Then a great many said we must have books added to the New Testament, and there were epistles and gospels and apocalypses written and added to the New Testament, but they have all fallen out. You cannot add anything. You cannot subtract anything. Divinely protected Book in the present shape. Let no man dare to lay his hands with the intention of de tracting from the Book or (fasting out any of these holy pages. Besides that, I am opposed to this expurgation of the Scriptures, because if the attempt were successful it would be the annihilation of the Bible. In fidel geologists would say, “Out with the Book of Genesis;” infidel astrono mers would say, “Out with the Book of Joshua;” people who do not believe in the atoning sacrifice would say, “Out with the Book of “Leviticus;” people who do not believe in the mira cles would say, “Ont with all these wonderful stories in the Old and New Testaments;” some would say, “Out with the Book of Revelation;” and others say, “Out with the entire Pen tateuch,” and the work would go on until there would not be enough of the Bible left to be worth as much as last year’s almanac. The expurgation of Scriptures means their annihilation. And lam also opposed to this pro posed expurgation of the Scriptures, for the fact that in proportion as people become self-sacrificing and good and holy aud consecrated they like the Book as it is I have yet to find a man or a woman distinguished for self-sac rifice, for consecration to God, for holi ness of life, who wants the Bible changed. Many of us have inherited family Bibles. Those Bibles were in use twenty, forty, fifty, perhaps a hun dred years in the generations. This afternoon, when yon go home take down those family Bibles, and find out if there are any chapters which have been erased bv lead pencil or pen, and if in any margins you can find the •vords, “This chapter is not fit to read.” There has been plenty of opportunity during the last half century privately to expurgate the Bible. Do you know any case of such expurgation? Did not your grandfather give it to your father, and did not your father give it to you? Besides that, I am opposed to the expurgation sf the Scriptures, because the so-called indelicacies and cruelties of tbe Bible have demonstrated no evil result. A cruel book will produce cruelty—an unclean book will produce uncleanness. Fetch me a victim. Ont of all Christendom, and out of all tbe ages, fetch me a victim whose heart has been hardened to cruelty, or whose life has been made impure by this Book. Show me one. One of the best families I ever knew of. for thirty or forty years, morning and evening, had all the members gathered together, and the servants of the household and the strangers that happened to he within the gates—twice a day, without leaving out a chapter or a verse, they read this holy Book, morning by morn ing, night by night. Not only the older children, but the little child who could just spell her way through the verse while her mother helped her. The father beginning and reading one verse, and then all the members of the family in turn reading a verse. The father maintained his integrity, the mother maintained her integrity, the sons grew up and entered professions and commercial life, honoring every sphere in the life in which they lived, and the daughters went into families where Christ was honored, and all that was good and pure and righteous reigned perpetually. For thirty years that family endured the Scriptures. Not one of them ruined by it. Now, it you will tell me of a family where the Bible has been read twice a day for thirty years, and the children have been brought up in that habit, and the father went to ruin and the mother went to ruin, and the sons and daughters were destroyed by it—if you will tell me of one such incident, I will throw away Bible, or I will doubt your verac ity. I tell you if a man is shocked with what he calls the indelicacies of the Word of God, he is prurient in his taste and imagination. If a man can not read the book of Solomon’s Song without impure suggestion, he is either in his heart or in his life a libertine. The Old Testament description of wickedness, uncleanness of all sorts, is purposely and righteously a disgusting account, instead of the Byronic and the Parisian vernacular which makes sin attractive instead of appalling. When those old prophets point you to a laza retto, you understand it is a lazaret to. When a man, having begun to do right, falls back into wickedness and gives up bis integrity, the Bible does not say he was overcome by the fasci nations of the festal board, or that he surrendered to convivialities, or that he became a little fast in his habits. I will tell you what the Bible says: “The dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” No gil ding of iniquity. No garlands on a death’s-head. No pounding away with a silver mallet at iniquity, when it needs an iron sledge-hammer. I can ea sily understand how people brooding over the description of uncleanness in the Bible may get morbid in mind un til they are as full of it as tbe wings and the beak and the nostril and the claw of a buzzard are full of the odors of a carcass, but what is wanted is not that the Bible be disinfected, but that yon, tho critic, have your heart and mind washed with carbolic acid! I tell you, at this point of my dicourse, that a man who does not like this Book, and who is critical as to its contents, and who is shocked and outraged with its description, has never been soundly converted. The laying on of the hands of Presbytery or Episcopacy does not change a man’s heart, and men some times get into the pulpit, as well as in to the pew, never having been changed radically by the sovereign grace of God. Get your heart right and the Bi ble will be right. The trouble is, men’s natures are not brought into harmony with the word of God, Ahlmy friends, expurgaation of the heart is what is wanted. You cannot make me believe that the Scriptures, which this moment lie on the table of tho purest and the best men and women of the age, and which were the dying solace of your kindred passed into the skies, have in them a taint which the strongest mi croscope of honest criticism could make visible. If men are uncontrollable in their indignation when the integrity of wife or child is assailed, and judges and jurors as far as possible excuse vi olence under such provocation, what ought to be the overwhelming and long resounding thunders of condemnation for any man who will stand in a Christian pulpit and assail the more than virgin purity of inspiration, the well beloved daughter of God? Expur gate the Bible! You might as well go to the old picture galleries in Dresden and in Venice and in Rome antTexpur gate the old paintings. Perhaps you could find a foot of Michael Angelo’s I FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 40. Last Judgraent that might be improv ed. Perhaps you could throw more expression into Raphael’s Mononda. Perhaps you conid put more pathos in to Rubens’ Descent from the Cross. Perhaps you could change the crest of the waves in Turner’s Slave Ship. Perhaps you might go into the old galleries of sculpture and change the forms and the posture of the statues of Phidiss and Praxiteles. Such an icon oclast would very soon find himself in the penitentiary. But it is worse van dalism when a man proposes to re fashion these masterpieces of inspira tion and to remodel the moral giants of this gallery of God. Now, let ns divide off. Let those people who do not believe the Bible, and who are critical of this and that part of it, go clear over to the other side. Let them stand behind the devil’s guns. There can be no compromise between Infidelity and Christianity. Give us the out-and-out oppesition of Infidelity rather than the work of these hybrid theologians, these mongrel ec clesiactics, these half-and-halfevolwed pulpiters who believe the Bible and do not believe it, who accept the miracles and do not accept them, who believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures and do not beiieve in tbe inspiration of the Scriptures—trimming their belief on one side to suit the skepticism of the world, trimming tbeir belief on the other side to suit the pride of their own heart, and feeling that in order to dem onstrate their courage thev must, make the Bible a target and shoot at God. There is one thing that encourages me very much, and that is, that the Lord made out to manage the universe be fore they were born, and will probably be able to make out to manage the uni verse a little while after they are dead. While I demand that the antagonists of and tbe critics of the Bible go clear over where they belong,-on the devil’s side, I ask that all the friends of this good Book come out openly and aboveboard in behalf of it; that Book, which was the best inheritance you ever received from your ancestry, and which will l>e the best legacy you will leave to your children when v n I i.i them good-by as you cross the t. n \ . . the golden city. Young men, do not be ashamed of your Bible There is not a virtue commands, there i not a sorrow but it comforts, rhere is not a good law on the statue book of any country but it is founded on the-e Ten Commandments. There are no braver, grander people in ail the earth than the heroes and the heroines which it biographizes. Long life ihe Rile —King of Books! Hands ■ ff. w. h t pe. critics of this Kohinoor am iu ci v. jewels. Last Tuesday noon I was stamen as I saw on tbe bulletin the announcement of Gustave Dore’s departure. “Is it possible that that hand has forgotten its cunning?” “Of ail the works of that great artist there is nothing so im pressive as Dore’s illustrated Bible. What scene of Abrahantic faith or Edenic beauty, of dominion Davidic or Solomonic, of miracle or parable, of na tivity, or of crucifiction, or of last judg ment, but tbe thought leaped from the great brain to the skillful pencil, and from the skillful pencil to the canvas immortal. The Louvre, the Luxem bourg, the National Gallery of London compressed within two volumes of Dore’s illustrated Bible. 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