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THE SE VII-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN,
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Charles F. Crisp,
Attorney at Law,
AMERICUS, GA.
dcc!6tf
B. P. HOLLIS
Attorney at J Law*
AMERICUS, GA.
Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank
building. dec2otf
E. G. SIMMONS,
Attorney at Law 9
AMERICUS GA.,
Office in Hawkins’ building, soutli side of
-Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort*
Simmons. janGtf
J. A. ANBLEY,
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 titles of
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
C ARD.
I offer my professional services again to the
good people of Amerffcus. After thirty years’
of medical service, I have found It difficult
to withdraw entirely. Office next door to
Dr. Eldridge’s drug store, on the Square
janl7tf It. C. BLACK, M. D.
DR. BACLEY’S
INDIAN VEGETABLE LITER AND
KIDNEY PILLS.
For sale by all Druggists in Americus.
Price 25 cents per box. jan26wly
Or. D.P. HOLLOWAY,
DentisT,
Americas. - - - Georgia
Treatssuccessfully ill diseasesof the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth by the Improved
and inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
tarOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s
Drug Store. marllt
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.
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THEJSUN nßgff
THE SUN’S first aim is to he truthful and
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history of the times in which we live. It
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pages), *1.20 per year; Weekly (8 pages),
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F
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vangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.
BYMPTOM3 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
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful seipatiori of leaving undone something
which ought to nave 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 De bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
of the above symptoms al tend the disease, but 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* Bills will bo saved
by always keeping the Regulator
_ > in tho House!
For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly
safe purgative, alterative and tonic can
never be out of place. The remedy is harmless
and does not interfere with business or
pleasure.
IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE,
And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or
Quinine, without any of the injurious after elfccts.
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 H. 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 fall* to
Relieve.*’ — l have used many remedies for Dyt-
Liver Affection and Debility, but never
have 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
ha* on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark
and Signature of J. 11. ZEILIN & CO.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
TUTTS
PILLS
A DISORDERED LIVER
IS THE BANE
of the present generation. It Is for the
Cure of this disease and its attendants,
fiICK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS. DYS
PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc., that
TBITS PILLS have gained a workf-wida
reputation. No Remedy haa ever been
discovered that acta so gfintly on the
digestive organa, giving them vigor to aa
■imilate food. Aa a natural result, the
nervous System is Braced, the Mubclb.
are Developed, and tho Body .Robust.
ClilUa and Fever,
B. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says.
My plantation Is In a malarial district. For
several years I could not make half a crop on
account of bilious diseases and chills. I was
nearly discouraged when I began tho use of
TUTT'S PILLS. The result wao marvelous:
my laborers soon became hearty and robust,
and I have had no further trouble.
They relieve tho engorged Liver, eleuus
Che Blood from poisonous humors, and
cause Che bowels to acC naturally, with
out which no one can feel well.
Try this remedy thirty, and you wf lljrata
a healthy Digestion, Vigorous Body. Pure
Blood, Strong Nerves, and a Sound Liver,
Price, 23Cents. Office, 39 Murray IL, N. T.
TUTT’S HAIR DYE.
Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy
Black by a single application of this Dyb. It
Imparts a natural color, and acts instantaneously.
Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt
of One Dollar.
Office, 8B Murray Street, New York.
(Dr. TUTTS MANUAL of Folwabfh'w
Information and Uoeful Mteeoiptm I
mill be mailed FUE on application* J
tfOSIETTEIft
*!TTER s
What the great restorative, Ilostetter’s
Stomach Bitters, will do, must be gathered
from what it has done. It lias effected rad
ical cures in thousands of cases of dyspep
sia, bilious disorders, intermittent fever,
nervous affectations, general debility, con
stipation, sick headache, mental despon
dency, and the peculiar complaints and dis
abilities to which the feeble are so subject.
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers
generally.
POUTZ’S
HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS
flows *sl <ttf Of COUO, Bor. or Lrsio Fe
ns. If Fonts'. Powder, are need in time.
Fontz's Powders will cure and prevent Ho© Cholera.
E°2K5 £ oW J derß will prevent Gapes ix Fowls.
Fount's Powders will increase the quantity of mflk
and crerun twenty per cent., and make tho butter Arm
and sweet.
Foutx's Powdera will cure or prevent almost kteby
Dwkabs to which Horses and Cottle are subject.
EH** • POWDKBS WILL GIVE SATIMTACTIWr.
Bold everywhere.
PAVID S. *oo*2. Proprietor,
\ PALPZXQ9 V MP,
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, §CIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1883.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY BEY. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
[The Sermon, 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 mouths. Price 30 cents, |1 per an
num],
HELPFULNESS.
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so
fulfil the law of Christ.”—-Galatians, vi, 2-
Evory man for himself. If there be
room for upon one more passenger in
the lifeboat, get in yourself. If there
be a burden to lift, you supervise while
others shoulder it. You be the digit
while others are the ciphers on the
right hand side—nothing in themselves
but augmenting you. In opposition to
that theory of selfishness; Paul ad
vances in my text the gospel theory;
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and
so fulfil the law of Christ.” Every
body has burdens. Sometimes they
come down upon the shoulders, some
times they come down upon the head,
sometimes they come down upon the
heart. Looking over this assembly
you all seem well and bright and easy;
but each one has a burden to lift, and
some of you have more than you can
lift. Paul proposes to split up these
burdens into fragments. You take
part of mine and I must take part of
yours, and each one will take part of
the other’s, and so we will fulfil the
law of Christ, Mrs. Appleton, of Bos
ton, the daughter of Daniel Webster,
was dying, after long illness. The
great lawyer, after pleading an impor
tant cause in the court room, on his
way home stopped at the house of his
daughter and went into her sick room.
She said to him, “Father why are you
out to-day in this cold weather without
an overcoat?” The great lawyer went
into the next room and was in a flood
of tears, saying, “Dying herself, yet
thinking only of me.” O, how much
more beautiful is care for others than
this everlasting taking care of our
selves - High up in the wall ot the
Temple of Balbec there are three stones,
each weighing eleven hundred tons.
They were lifted up by a style of ma
chinery that is now among the lost
arts. But in my text is the Gospel
machinery by which the vaster and the
heavier tonage of the world’s burden is
to be lilted from the crushed heart of
the human race.
What you and I most need to learn
is the spirit of helpfulness. Encour
age tho merchant. If he have a supe
rior style of goods, tell him so. If he
have with his clerks adorned the show
window and the shelves, compliment
his taste. If he have a good business
locality, if he have had great success,
if he have brilliant prospects for the
future, recognize all this. Be not afraid
that he will become arrogant and puff
ed up by your approval. Before night
some shop-going persons will come in
and tell him that his prices are exorbi
tant, and that his goods are of an in
ferior quality, and that his shop win
dow gave promise of far better things
than he found inside. Before the night
of the day in which you say encourag
ing words to that merchant there will
be some crank, male or female, who
will come into the store and depreciate
everything, and haul down enough
goods from the shelves to fit out a fam
ily for a whole winter, without buying
a cent’s worth. If tho merchant be a
grocer there will be someone before
night who will come into his establish
ment and tasts of this and taste of that
and taste of something else, in that
way stealing all the profits of anything
that he may purchase—buying three
apples while he is eating one orange.
Before the night of the day when you
approve that merchant he will have a
bad debt which he will have to erase,
a bad debt made by someone who has
moved away from the neighborhood
without giving any hint of the place of
destination. Before the night of the
day when you have uttered encourag
ing words to the merchant there will
be some woman who will return to his
store and say she has lost her purse,
she left it there in the store, she
brought it there, she did not take it
away, she knows it is there, leaving
you to make the delicate and compli
mentary inference that you prefer to
make. Before night that merchant
will hear tjiat some style of goods of
which he has a large supply is going
out of fashion, and there will be some
one who will come into the store and
pay a bill under protest, saying he has
paid it before but the receipt has been
lost. Now, encourage that merchant,
not fearing that he will become arro
gant or puffed up, for there w.ill be be
fore night enough unpleasant things
said to keep him from becoming apo
plectic with plethora of praise.
Encourage newspaper men. If you
knew how many annoyances they have,
if you understood that their most elab
orate article is sometimes flung out be
cause there is such great pressure on
the columns, and that an accurate re
port of a speech is expected, although
tho utterance be so indistinct the dis
course is one long stenographic guess,
and that the midnight which finds yon
asleep demands that they be awake,
and that they are sometimes ground
between the wheels of our great brain
manufacturers; sickened at the V>|i*u
approach of men who want complimen
tary newspaper notices, or who want
For Dyspepsia,
Costive ness,
l Sick Headache,
Chronic Diar
rhoea, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
f Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseases
caused by De-
newspaper retraction; one day sent to
report a burial, the next day to report
a pugilistic encounter; shifted from
place to place by sudden revolution,
which is liable to take place any day
in our great journalistic establishments,
precarious life becoming more and more
precarious—if you understood it, you
would be more sympathetic. Be affable
when you have not an axe to be sharp
ened on their grindstone. Discuss in
your mind what the nineteenth century
would be without the newspaper, and
give encouraging words to all who arc
engaged in this interest, from the chief
of editorial department down to the boy
that throws the morning or evening
newspaper inta your basement window.
Encourage merchants. They will
plumb the pipes, or they will kalso
mino the ceilings, or they will put
down the carpets, or they will grain the
door, or they will fashion the ward
robe. Be not among those who never
say anything to a mechanic except to
find fault, if he has done a job well,
tell him it is splendidly done. The
book is well bound, the door is well
grained, the chandelier is well swung,
the work is grandly accomplished. Be
not among those employers who never
say anything to their employes except
to swear at them and to find fault with
them. Do not be afraid you will make
that mechanic so puffed up and arro
gant he will never agaiu want to be
seen with working apron or in shirt
sleeves, for before the night comes of
that day when you praise and compli
ment that mechanic, there will be a
lawsuit brought against him because
he did not finish his work as soon as
he promised it, forgetful of the fact
that his wife has been sick and two of
his children have died of scarlet fever,
and he has had a felon the finger of the
right hand. Denounced, perhaps, be
cause the paint is so very faint in color,
not recoguizing the fact that the me
chanic himself has been cheated out of
the right ingredients and that he did
not find out the trouble in time, or
scolded at because he seems to have
lamed a horse by unskillful shoeing,
when the horse has for months become
spavined, or ringbone, or springhalt.
You feel you have the right to find
fault with a mechanic when ho does ill.
Do you ever praise a mechanic when
he does well?
Encourage the farmers. They come
into your stores, you meet them in the
city markets, you often associate with
them in the summer months. Office
seekers go through the land, and they
stand on political platforms, and they
tell the farmers the story about the in
dependent life of a farmer, giving flat
tery where they ought to give sympa
thy. Independent of what? I was
brought up on a farm; I worked on a
farm; I know all about it. I hardly
saw a city until I was grown, and I tell
you that there is no class of people in
this country who have it harder and
who more need your sympathy than
farmers. Independent ot what? Of
the curculio ‘hat stings the peach
trees? Of the rust in the wheat? Of
the long rain with the rye down? In
dependent of the grasshopper? of the
locust? of the army worm? of the
potato bug? Independent of the
drought that burns up the harvest?
Independent of the cow with the hollow
horn? or the sheep with the foot rot?
or the pet horse with a nail in his hoof?
Independent of the cold that freezes
out the winter grains? Independent of
the snowbank out cf which he must
shovel himself? Independent of the
cold weather when he stands threshing
bis numbed fingers around his body to
keep them from being frosted? Inde
pendent of the frozen ears and the fro
zen feet? Independent of what? Fancy
farmers who have made their fortunes
in the city and go out in the country
to build houses with all the modern
improvements and make farming a
luxury, may not need any solace; but
the yeomanry who get their living out
of the soil, and who in that way have
to clothe their families and educate
their children, and pay their taxes and
meet the interest on mortgage farms—
such men find a terrible struggle. I
demand that office seekers aro politi
cians fold up their gaseous and imbecile
speeches about the independent life of a
farmer and substitute some word of
comfort drawn from the fact that they
are free from city conventionalities and
city epidemics and city temptations.
My most vivid remembrance of boy
hood is of my father coming in on a
very hot day from the harvest field,
and seting himself on the door-sill be
cause he was too faint to get into the
house, the perspiration streaming from
forehead and from chin, and my mother
trying to resusciate him with a cup of
cold water which he was too faint to
hold to his own lips, while saying to
us: “Don’t be frightened; there’s noth
ing the matter; a little tired, that’s all,
a little tired.” Ever since that day,
when l hear people talking about the
independent life of a farmer, I see
through the sham. Farmers want not
your flatteries but your sympathies.
Encourage the doctors. You praise
the doctor when he brings you up from
an awful crisis of disease, but do you
praise the doctor when through skillful
treatment of the incipient stages ofdis-.
ease, he keeps you from sinking down
to the awful crisis? There is. a gieat
deal of cheap and heartless wit about
doctors, but I notice that the people
who get off that wit aro the first to
send for a doctor when there is any
thing the matter. There are those who
undertake to say in our day that doc
tors are really useless. One man has
written a book entitled Every Man His
Own Doctor. That author ought to
write one more book entitled Every
Man His Own Undertaker.” “O!”
says someone, “physicians in constant
presence of pain get hard-hearted.”
Do they? The most celebrated surgeon
of the last generation stood in a chemi
cal department of one of the New York
medical colleges, the student gathered
in the amphitheatre to see a very pain
ful operation on a little child. The
old surgeon said: “Gentlemen, excuse
me if I retire; these surgeons can do this
as well as I can, and as I get older it
gives me more and more distress to see
pain.” Physicians have so many
hardships, so many interruptions, so
many annoyances, I am glad they have
so many encouragements. All doors
open to them. They are .velcome to
mansion and to cot. Little children
shout when they see them coming
down the road, and the aged, recogniz
ing the step, look up and say: “Doctor,
is that you?” They stand between
our families and the grave, fighting
back the troops of disorder that come
up from their encampment by the cold
river. No one hears such thanks as
the doctor hears. They are eyes to the
blind; they are feet to the lame; their
path is strewn with the benedictions of
those whom they have befriended. One
day there was a dreadful foreboding in
our house. All hope was gone. The
doctor came four times that day. The
children put away their toys and all
walked on tip toe, and at the least
sound said “Hush!” How loudly the
clock did tick, and how the banister
creaked, though we tried to keep it so
still. That night he stayed all night.
He concentrated all his skill upon the
sufterer. At last the restlessness of
the sufferer subsided into a calm, sweet
slumber and the doctor looked up and
smiled and said: “The crisis is past.”
When, propped up with pillows, in the
easy chair she sat, and the south wind
tried to blow a rose leaf into the faded
cheek, and the children brought flowers
—the one, a red clover top; the other, a
violet from the lawn—to the lap of the
convalescent, and Bertha stood on a
high chair with a brush smoothing her
mother’s hair, and we were told in a
day or two she might ride out, joy came
back to onr house. And as we helped
the old country doctor into his gig, we
noticed not that the step was broken,
or the horse stiff in the knees, and we
all realized tor the first time in our life
what doctors were worth. Encourage
them.
Encourage the lawyers. They are
often cheated out of their fees, and so
often have to breathe the villainous
air of court rooms, and they so often
have to bear ponderous responsibility,
and they have to maintain against the
sharks in their profession the dignity of
that calling which was .honored by the
fact that the only man allowed to stand
on Mount Sinai beside the Lord was
Moses, the lawyer, and that the Bible
speaks of Christ as the advocate. En
courage lawyers in their profession of
transcendant importance—a profession
honored Dy having on the bench a
Chief Justice Story, and at the bar a
Rufus Choate.
Encourage the teachers in our public
schools—occupation arduous and poor
ly compensated. In all the cities, when
there comes a fit of economy on the
part of the officials, the first thing to
do is always to cut down teachers sal
aries. To take forty or fifty boys
whoso parents suppose them precocious
and keep the parents from finding out
their mistake; to take an empty head
and fill it; to meet the expectation of
parents who think their children at 15
years of age ought to be mathemati
cians and metaphysicians and rhetori
cians; to work successfully that great
stuffing machine, the modern school
system, is a very arduous work. En
courage them by the usefulness and
everlastingness and the magnitude of
their occupation, and when your chil
dren do well, compliment the instructqr,
praise the teacher, thank the educator.
Encourage all invalids by telling them
how many you have known with the
same ailments who got well, and not
by telling them of their smitten eye, or
asking them whether the color of their
cheek is ;eally hectic, or mentioning
cases in which that style of disease
ended fatally, or telling them how badly
they look. Cheerful words are more
soothing than chloral, more stimulating
than Cognac, more tonic than bitters.
Many an invalid has recovered through
the influence of cheerful surroundings.
Encourage ah starting in life by
yourself becoming reminiscent. Es
tablished merchants, by telling these
young merchants when you got your
first customer, and how you sat behind
the counter eating your luncheon, with
one eye on the door. Established law
yers, encourage young lawyers by tell
ing of the time when you broke down
in your first speech. Established min
isters of the gospel, encourage young
ministers by merciful examination of
theological candidates, not walking
around with a profundity and over
whelmingness of manner, as though
yon were one of the eternal decrees.
Doctors established, by telling young
doctors how you yourself once mistook
the measles for scarlatina. And if you
have nothing to say that is encourag
ing, O, man! put yonr teeth tightly
together and cover them with the cur
tain of yonr lip; compress yonr lips and
put your hand over your mouth and
keep still. A gentleman was passing
along, crossing a bridge in Germany,
and a lad came along with a cage of j
birdß for sale. The stranger said, “How
much for those birds and the cage?”
The price was announced, the purchase
was made and the first thing the stran
ger did was to open the door of the
cage and the birds flew oat into the
sunlight and the forest. Someone who
saw the purchase and the liberation
said, “What did you do that for?”
“Ah!” 6aid the stranger, “I was a cap
tive myself once, and I know how good
it is to be free.” O ! ye who remember
hardships in early life, but have come
beyond those hardships, sympathize
with those who are in the struggle.
Free yourself, help others to get free.
Gov. Alexander Stephens, dying a few
weeks ago, persisted in having business
matters brought to his bedside. There
was on the table a petition for the par
don of a distinguished criminal, the
petition signed by distinguished men.
There was also on that table a letter
from a poor woman in the penitentiary,
written and signed by herself alone.
Dying Alexander Stephens said, "You
th'nk that because I have been ill so
many times and got well, I shall get
well now; but you are mistaken. I will
not recover. Where is that letter by
that woman in the penitentiary? I
think she has suffered enough. As near
as I can tell she has no friends. Bring
me that paper that I may sign her par
don.” A gentleman standing by, think
ing this was too great a responsibility
for the sick man, said: “Governor,
you are very sick now; perhaps you had
better wait till to-morrow; you may
feel stronger and you may feel better.”
Then the eye of the old Governor flash
ed and he said; “I know what lam
about.” Putting his signature to that
pardon he wrote the last word he ever
wrote, for then the pen fell from his
pale and rheumatic and dying hand
forever. O, my soul! how beautiful
that the closing hours of life should be
spent in helping one who had no helper.
Encourage the troubled by thoughts
of release and reassociation. Encourage
the aged by thoughts of eternal juvene
cencc. Encourage the herdsman amid
the thoughts of sin to go back to the
banquet at the father’s homestead.
Give us tunes in the major key instead
of the minor. Give us “Coronation”
instead of “Naomi.” You have'seen
cars so arranged that one car going
down the hill rolled another car up the
hill. They nearly balanced each other.
And every man that finds life up hill
ought to be helped by those who have
passed the heights and are descending
to the vale. O ! let us bear each other’s
burdens.
it gentleman in England died leav
ing his fortune by will to two sons.
The son that stayed at home destroyed
the father’s will and pretended that the
brother who was absent was dead and
buried. The absent brother after a
while returned and claimed his part of
the property. Judges and jurors were
to be bribed to say that the returned
brother and son was no son at all, but
only an imposter. The trial came on.
Sir Matthew Hale, the pride of the
English court-room, and for twenty
years the pride of jurisprudence, heard
that that injustice was about to be
practiced. He put off his official robe
He put on the garb of a miller. He
went to the village where that trial
was to take place. He entered the
court-room, lie somehow got em
panelled as one of the jurors. The
bribes came around, and the man gave
ten pieces of gold to the other jurors,
but as this was only a poor miller the
briber gave to him only five pieces ot
gold. A verdict was brought in reject
ing the rights of the returned brother.
He was to have no share in the inher
itance. “Hold! my lord!” said the
miller; “hold! we are not all agreed on
this verdict. These other men have re
ceived ten pieces of gold in bribery, and
I have received only five.” Who are
you? Where do you come from 9” said
the judge on the bench. The response
was: “I am from Westminster Hall;
my name is Matthew Hale, Lord Chief
Justice of tho King’s Bench. Off ot
that place, thou villain!” And so the
injustice was balked, and so the young
man got his inheritance. It was all
for another that Sir Mattew Hale took
off his robe and put on the garb of a
miller. And so Uhrist took off His
robe royalty and put on the attire of
our hnmanity, and in that disguise He
won our eternal portion. Now are we
the sons of God. Joint heirs! We
went off from home, sure enough, bnt
we got back in time to receive our eter
nal inheritance. And if Christ bore
our burden, surely we can afford to
bear each other’s burden. Let ns pray.
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