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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, ( VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Yehr - - - 5100 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 tSTTAYABLE IN ADVANCE All advertisements eminating from public dices will be charged lor in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly o£ 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: Kates. One Square first insertion, - - - - SI.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 Lines of Minion, type solid con slitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. 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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 tiie United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf O A RD. 1 offer my professional services again to the good people of Americas. After thirty years’ of medical service, 1 have found it difficult to withdraw entirely. Office next door to Or. Eldridge’s drugstore, outlie Square janl7tf K. C. BLACK, M. D. Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon, Offers his professional services to the people of Americas and vicinity, lias an experience of fifteen years. Office at Dr. E. J. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can be found at residence on Eurlow’s lawn. Calls will receive prompt attention. may26-tf DtT 0. HOLLOWAY^ DewtisT, Americas. - - - Georgia Treatssuecessfully all diseasesof the Den tal organs. 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Subscription: Daily (4 pages), by mail, 55c. a month, or 8tt.50 a year; Sunday (8 pages), 81.20 per year; Weekly (8 pages). 81 per year. I. \V. ENGLAND, Publisher, niayS-lm New York City. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1883. “The Woods that Bring the Sunset Near.” The wind from out west is blowing, The homeward-wandring cows are lowing; Dark grow the pine woods, dark and drear- The woods that bring the sunset near. When o’er wide seas the sun declines, Far off its fading glory shines; Far off, sublime, and full of fear— The pine woods bring the sunset near. This house that looks to east, to west, This, dear one, is our home, our rest; Yonder the stormy sea, and here The woods that bring the sunset near. —Richard W. Gilder, in the Century. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAttE [The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks, 48 Bible House, New Y'ork. A number containing 2ti Sermons is issued every three months. Price 30 cents, $1 per an num). SPICE IN RELIGION. Of spices great abundance; neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.—2 Chronicles, ix., !). What is that building out yonder glittering in the sun? Have yon not heard? It is the house of the cedar of Lebanon. Solomon, the King, has just brought to it his bride, a princess of Egypt. You see the pillars of the portico and the tower glittering with one thousand shields fastened on the outside of the tower, five hundred of the shields manufactured at Solomon’s order and five hundred shields won in battle by his father, David. See how many blaze in the sun. Solomon comes up the ivory stairs of his throne be tween lions in statuary, and sits on the back of the golden lion, the face of the bronzed beast turned toward the people. Solomon’s family is so large and he has so many attendants that tho caterer has to provide one hundred sheep per day, and throe oxen, besides the birds and the venison. The officers were very important officers, who had to gather the straw and the barley for the horses, for I hear 4,000 horses neigh ing and pawing in the royal stables. Tradition says that Solomon was an early riser and that he always rode out at daybreak; and, when clothed in whitejapparel and drawn by the swift est horses of the realm, and followed by mounted archers in purple, as the cavalcade dashed through the streets of Jerusalem, it must have been a spec tacle worth getting up at five o’clock in the morning to look at. Solomon was not like many of the kings of our day—crowned imbecility-—but all the splendor of his palace and of his reti nue was eclipsed by his intellectual power. Why, he seemed to know al most everything. He was the first great naturalist that the world ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted the bysaltic walk, and apes chatted among the trees, and the deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums of foreign fish, and there were aviaries of foreign birds; and these birds, tradi tion says, were so well tamed that Sol omon could walk from one end of the city to tho other under the shadow of their wings as they hovered and flitted about him. Moreover, he had a great reputation for enigmas, and riddles and conundrums, which he propounded and which he answered. He and his neigh bor, King Huram, would sit by the hour and propound enigmas and ask riddles, and when one failed to answer he had to pay for it in money. The Solomonic navy visited all the nations of the known world, and of course the sailors, when they got into those foreign ports, talked over these wonderful enig mas and riddles and conundrums which Solomon propounded, and the news got clear down to Queen Baucas of Abys sinia, and curiosity was aroused in re gard to him, and she said: “I’ll test that man, and I’ll send some puzzles for him to answer, and I’ll send some conundrums for him to solve.” And so she sent up among other things a diamond with so small a hole in it that it could not be penetrated by a needle, and she asked Solomon to thread that diamond; and tradition says he took a small worm and placed it at the open ing in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the diamond. Then she sent a goblet to Solomon, saying: “Fill this with some water that poured not from the sky nor rushed up from the deep.” And Solomon put a slave on the back of a horse and galloped lum around and around and around the park until the horse was exhausted, and from the perspiration he filled the goblet. She sent also to Solomon five hundred boys in girls’ dress and five hundred girls in boys’ dress, to see whether he would be cheated bv the description. Solomon watched, and when he saw them wash their faces, by tho manner in which they applied the waterto their faces he found out the cheat. When Queen Baucus had her curiosity excited to the last degree, she said: “I’ll go up and sec lor myself.” Here come the caval cade—horses and dromedaries, chariots and charioteers, flying ensign and blaz ing symbols, and a great procession. The air is saturated with the perfume. She brings cinnamon and cassia, and frankincense anl myrrh, and all the sweet spices of the earth. As the pro cession comes up to the gate the armed guard inhale the perfume. Queen Baucus alights in an atmosphere be- witched with the aroma. As the drom edaries arc driven up to the storehouse of the King, and the bundles of cam phor are unloaded, and tho sacks of cinnamon and the boxes of spices are opened, the purveyor of the King’s palace discovers what 1 this morning announced in my text: “Of spices great abundance: neither was there any such spices as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.” Now, all this leads me to say that Solomon was a type of Christ, and that the Queen of Sheba was a type of the genuine truth-seeker. But I go farther this morning, and tell you that the sweet spices "“that she brought to the King are a type of the holy spicery of onr Christian religion. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicalities and of chronological tables and of dry statistics. It is a collection of spices. It is cassia, it is frankincense, it is spikenard, it is the rippling of cool fountains, it is the opening of opaline gates, it is all sweet spices. Would God that Queen Baucus would drive her spice-laden drome daries through our holy religion. There are a great many people to whom life is insipid; it is a monotone. They get so tired of this treadmill way of living. Here are men who have been climbing, walking, bargaining, gain ing, losing, talking, explaining twenty years, thirty years, forty years, fifty years, seventy years. Oh, the horri ble monotony, some of you say, I will tell you what is the matter: You need your religion spiced up with enliven ment. You are seated at a feast in which the cook has forgotten to season the food. Oh, if, when you have your losses, there should flash through your soul the idea of heavenly gain. Oh, if, when you are betrayed of the world, you could realize the unfailing friend ship of Jesus Christ. Oh, if, when busiuess is dull, you could see flitting in and out of your office and shop and factory and banking house ministering angels of God, your life instead of be ing a stupid monotone would boa glo rious inspiration, penduluming between calm satisfaction and high rapture. Nobodj’ doubts your religion. You are a Christian.' But you have an in sipid sort ol religion. You want it spiced up—more enlivenment. You want the Queen of Sheba to drive her spice laden carivan through your re ligion. How women can keep house year after year with no religion is to me a mystery. This perpetual plan ning for the meals, this mending of garments that soon 3gain will be rent, this scattering of the dust which soon again will settle, this deploring of breakages and this supervising ot tardy subordinates, and this working day in and day out, and yeai in and year out, until the hair silvers and the shoulders stoop and the spectacles fall from the eye and the grave breaks open under the thill sole of the shoe—it is an aw ful monotony. But suppose Christ comes into your nursery, into your drawing-room, into your parlor, into your kitchen and take possession of the whole house. Then womanly duties are cheerful and happy duties. Then Martha quits Martha and sits at the feet of Christ. Then Deborah is witeie she can help Lapidoth and Hannah where she can make a coat for young Samuel, and Miriam can watch her brother, and Rachael is glad she can help her father water the stock, and the widow of Sarepta is glad that the cruse of oil is all the time being replen ished. Oh, woman having in your pantry a whole nest of boxes filled with condiments, why do you not put into your heart and your head the spicery of our holy religion? Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled; but one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Yes, I go further, my friends, and say that much of the religion of this day is an insipid religion. There is not anything piquant or enlivening in it. Men and women go humming psalm tunes in a minor key and culturing melancholy, and call tiiat religion, and there is iti their worship more sadness than rapture. It ought not to be so. Emancipated from sin and death and hell, and on their way to a magnificent heaven, they trudge on as though they were going to an everlasting Botany Bay. All the infidel book written from the time of Voltaire to Herbert Spencer have not done Christianity so much harm as lugubrtous Christians. Their religion does not seem to agree with them. It gets in the wind-pipe and is to them strangulation rather than exhilaration. Ah, my friends, yon need to have your religion brightened up. You want some of the condi ments of this religion put into your experience. “Then let our songs abound, And every tear be dry; We’re marching through Emanuel's ground To fairer world on high.” Come out of that cave and sit in the light ofthe sun of righteousness. Away with your odes to melancholy and Har vey’s Meditations Among the Tombs. Yes, my friends, we need more of spice and enlivenment in the discharge of onr duty as teachers in pulpits, in Sabbath schools, in prayer meetings and everywhere where we have a word to say for Christ. Do you wonder that the world is so far from being convert ed, when there is so little vivacity in pew and pulpit? We need fewer rhe torical elaborations, and fewer sesque pedalian words, and when we want to speak of shadows do not say adumbra tion, and when we want to speak of a stitch in the side, do not say lumbago. Let us talk to the people in plain ver nacular and present this Gospel in lan guage they can understand, this Gos- pel which proposes to make all men honest and happy and victorious and free. In other words, in our religious teaching we want more cinnamon and less gristle. Yes, we want more of the spice of this holy religion in our Christian work. When you go among the hovels of the poor do not begin to dis course to them about their wretched condition, about the hunger of their looks and the hardness of their lot. They know it a great deal better than yon can tell them. Tell them of some thing better. Tell them how the Lord is going to come for the rescue of His children. Rouse up their stolidity with a merry laugh,and after yon have given them the bread and the medicine and the clothing, give them also the spice of this Christian encouragement. There are two ways of going into destitution. One way is going in with a manner which seems to say: “Well, I don’t know how you stand it in this miser able neighborhood, it makes me sick; there is a bundle of clothes, you poor, miserable wretch—make the best it.” Better not go into such a place unless you have with you the spice of the holy religion of Jesus Christ. All the charity yon give with your hand will be outdone by the gloom of your countenance or the incapacity of your heart. Another way of going into the houses of destitution is by one’s manner practically saying: “The bless ed Lord sent mo to you; Christ Him self was poor, and He is in sympathy with all poor; I come not only to give you something, but I expect to get your prayer.” With such a gift as that there is a fragrance like spikenard that came to the feet of Christ, arid all the hovels of that alley will breathe the fragrance of this holy spice of the Christian religion. Yes, we want more ot this spice and enlivenment in church music. How many churches there are discussing whether they had better have choir or precentor, whether they had better have bass violin, or organ, or cornet. I say, take that which will give tho most [inspiring music. Nine out of ten people in church do not sing, atul the tenth who does sing sings so softly nobody knows it. German chorals in the great German cathedrals overpower the music in I’rotestant churches in America, and yet Germany has not received anything at the hand of Christ compared with what America has received; and shall the acclaim o? Berlin be louder than the acclaim of our American cities? Wake up, all churches of Jesus Christ, from Bangor to Sail Francisco and across Christen dom! Soft music and exquisite music have their places, but never can take the place of great congregational har monies. St John gave his idea of .vhat ought to be its reesonance and its power when he listened to the temple services ot Heaven and said: “I heard a great voice as the voice of a great multitude, as the voice of many waters, as the voice of mighty tliundevings.” Hallelujah! for the Lord God omni potent reignetli. People have told me they sometimes hear the music of this church out on Fulton street. I wish it might have an additional momentum and power which would make them hear it half-way down to the ferry. Oh, for fifty times more volume of holy sound than has ever arisen amid these arches. I promise more spiritual prosperity to that man, to that woman, who will sing the praises of God, and sing them with enough earnestness to lei people know they are singing. A sermon can be answered, an exhortation can be scof fed at, but the five thousand voiced ut terance ol Christian praise is irresista ble. Oh, that Queen Baucus of Aby sinia would drive her spice laden cara vans through all our church music. Now, tny friends, I want to impress upon yon the fact that religion is per fume, is sweetness. “Ah!” says some one, “I never thought it that; 1 rather considered it something repulsive; it seemed to me malodorms; I didn’t want any of that religion, or if 1 had any of it 1 would want just enough of it to get through with.” Why, my brother, it is redolence now, and it is redolence forever. Just put that re ligion on the stand beside the sick pil low. Ah! how it sweetens the hitter cup, What a glow it casts on the gloom of the turned lattice. What a balm for the aching side. What a soft bandage for the temple stung with pain. Samuel Rutherford in tortures of body shouted the praises of God. Richard Baxter, with greater and more wonderful complications of diseases than any man ever suffered, wrote at tho same time his wonderful book call ed The Saint’s Everlasting Rest. This light struck Bunyan’s dungeon, the ! light of tho shining gate of the shining city. Anu this religion is the best of all medicines. It is good for the rheu matism, it is good for the neuralgia, it is good for the heart disease, it is good for consumption, it is a good catholicon for all disorders. This will help heal all sorrows. Why were you so sad ! this morning when you came to the house of God? Oh, there is a burden on yonr soul that for years has not been lifted. Sometimes you feel like saying with Lord Macauly: “If I had a whole month of such days as 1 have spent, I would like to get down into the narrow crib of my grave like a weary factory child.” And sometimes in the sorrow ol your life you have said: “Oh, how sweet must be the 1 dust of tho valley to the lips of a weary 1 soul. Oh, if I could only have my f last slumber and pull over me the cov | erlct of the green grass and of violets. Amidst the silence of this audience this morning there are hundreds of breaking (hearts. A widowed soul with a little child moved to the far West because she heard that the wages were larger there. Arriving at the West the moth er sickened and died. The overseer of the poor came, took her body, put it in a box, put the box in a wagou, and trotted off briskly toward the cemetery. The little child, the only child, came out on the street, bareheaded, barefoot ed, and ran after that wagon, crying until her voice was heard all through the street, “Bring back my mother! bring back my mother!” And it is said the people of the villiage sobbed aloud in grief and sympathy. It seem ed a peculiar scene, but there are hun dreds of you chasing tin dead! Now, is there no peace? Has God turned us out on a desert *o die? Are we mock ed in our griefs? Is there no comfort? Is there no fountain where this thirst of soul can be healed? There is Res urrection and rennion. “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any moie, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” There is the sweetness of consolation. There is tho halm of Christian hope. There are the sweet spices of our holy religion. Someone wondered why an old German Chris tian philosopher was always so happy and contented notwithstanding his hardships were very great and his loss es wonderful. Some ons said, “I’d find out the secret of that old Chris tian philosopher’s happiness; I cannot see how he should be so happy, when so many misfortunes are around him.” So this man secreted himself in the house of the old Christian philosopher and he gave this testimony: He said the old philosopher went to his room in the evening, took a chair by the stand, opened the Bible and read chapter after chapter, and hour after hour, until his face was all aglow with good news from heaven. After a while the clock struck twelve at night. The old phil osopher closed his Bible and arose ami said: “Blessed Lord, we are on the same old terms yet. Good night, good night!” The secret was out. Com munion with God, peace of Christ, consolation of the Holy Ghost. These are the things that make the soul happy. Well, brethren, all this is promised you heie. 1 cannot tell you w'nat will yet come and the revelation that may be made of this holy religion. Some of you have read ofthe Taj Ma hal of India, perhaps the most won derful building ever constructed, it took twenty thousand men twenty years to build it. It cost sixteen million dollars to build it, that representing five times, at least, of that amount of money here. Its walls were of marble. They were inlaid with cornelian from Bagdad, turquoise from Thibot, jasper from Persia, and precious stones from all lands. A traveller says that it is an enchanted castle of burnished silver. The walls are two hundred and forty feet high, and from that height there starts a cupola or dome thirty more feet. That dome lias the most wonder ful echo in all the world, and every day that echo is tested by travellers who stand far beneath with liar;), ot trum pet, or flute. The sound strikes above, and then it comes down music like that ot angels. The building is sur rounded by a garden of tamarind, and yams, and palm trees, and floral beau ties, from the whole earth ransacked for that purpose. But all that is only the tomb of a dead empress. It is nothing compared with the grandeurs that God hath builded for your immor tal spirit. Oh, the blessed home of the righteous. Oh, the foundations ol gold. Oh, 'he arches of victory, the capstones of praise, the dome echoing and re-echoing with the hallelujahs of all the ages. There is a garden around about it, the garden of God, and the springing fountains are tlie bottled tears of the church in the wilderness, and the crimson of the flowers is the deep hue caught np from early martyi doms, and the fragrance is the players of all the saints, and tho aroma puts into nothingness the spikenard and the cinnamon, and the cassia, and the fran kincense which Queen Baucus of Abys sinia flung to the feet of Solomon. “When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls And pearly gates behold; Thy boulevards with salvation strong, And streets ot shining gold?” Through obduracy of heart and re jection of Christ, who makes that sal vation possible, shall any of us fail of that spectacle? I fear, 1 fear. The queen of tho south shall rise up against this generation in judgment and con demn it. She came from uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon is here. God grant that by practical experience we may find relig ions ways to be ways of pleasantness —a perfume now, a perfume forever. Of spices there was great abundance; neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. New Bloomfield, Miss., Jan. 2, 1880. —I wish to say to you that I have been suffering for the last five years with severe itching all over. I have heard of Hop Bitters and have tried it. I have used up four bottles, and it has done me more good than all the doctors and medicines that they could use on or with me. I am old and poor but feel to bless you for such a relief by your medicine and from torment of the doctor’s. I have had fifteen doctors at me. One gave me seven ounces of solution of arse nic; another took four quarts of blood from me. All they cordtijLfclLwas that it was skin-ttktkDess. Now, after these four bottles of your medicine, my skin is well, clean and smooth as ever. Henry Knochi:. | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 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