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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. GNTABL.INHEO IN ISM, Bv CM AS. W. HANCOCK. VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - - |4 00 Webly, One Year - - - - - 2.00 BTTayablb in advance.® All advertisements eminating from public Sees will be churned for tu accordance with an act passed try the late Oeneral Assembly of Georgia—7o cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and SR cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered ono hundred words, each figure and iuitial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. ') h • cash must accompany the copy of each Advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. AtlvetrtiHiut' Bates. One Square first insertion, - - - - f I.B# Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 £U*Ten Lines of Uinion, 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 tooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion Charles F. Crisp, •It tor new at L,aw , AMKKICUS, GA. decl6tf B. P HOLLIS, •attorney at Law* AMKKICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf eTg~s7mmons~ •attorney at Msaw, AMERICUS GA., Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort& S utmons. janOtf -J. A. A\NI EY, ATTORNEY AT LAW ANI> SOLII ITOR.IN EQriTY, Office on Public SqtiAitE, Over Gyles’ Clothing Store, Amekicus. Ga. After a brief res|>ite 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 dose atten tion and remittances promptly made. The Equity practice, and cases involvingtitlesof land and real estate art- my favorites. Will practice in the Courtsnf Southwest Georgia, the Supreme Court and the United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf DR. BACLEY’S INDIAN VEGETABLE LIVER AND KIDNEV PILLS. For sale by all Druggists in Americus. Price 25 cent 9 per box. jan26wly "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. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square jan!7tf K. C. BLACK, M. D. Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician and Surgson, Offers his professional services to the people of Americus and vicinity. Office at Dr. Eldiidge’s Drug Store. At night can be found at residence on Furlow’s lawn. Calls will receive prompt attention. may26-tf Or. O. P. HOLLOWAY, DhntisT, A tner’ena - - Georgia Treatssuccessfully all diseasesof the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the Improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt J. B. C. Smith & Sons, MAMS AID BUILDERS, Americus, Ga We are prepared to do any bind of work in the carpenter line at short notice and on reasonable terms. Having had years of ex perience in the business, we feel competent to give satisfaction. All orders for con tracts for building will receive prompt at tention. Jobbing promptly attended to. may26-3m Commercial Bar. This well-established house will be kept in the same first-class style that has always characterized it. The Choicest Liquor and Cigars. Milwaukee, Budweiser and Aurora Beer, contantly on hand, and all the best brands ol line Brandies, Wines. Ac.- Good Billiard Tallies for the accommodation of customers. may9tf JOHN W. COTNEY, Clerk. Commercial Hotel. G M HAY, Proprietor. This popular House is quite new and handsomely furnished with new furniture, bedding and ail other ar icles. It is in the centre of the business portion of the city, convenient to depot, the banks, warehouses &c , and enjoys a fine reputation, second to none, among its permanent and transient guests, on account of the excellence of it cuisine. Table Boarders Accommodated on Reasonable Terms. may9-tf G. M. HAY, Proprietor. GEORGE ANDREWS. HIT IIU SHOE MAKES, At bis shop in the rear of J. Waxelbaum A Co.’s store, adjoining the Hvery stables, on Lamar St., invites the public to give him their work. He can make and repair all work at short notice. Is sotier and always on hand to await on customers. Work guaranteed to be honest and good. aprl4-tf Rev. Father Wilds’ EXPERIENCE. The Rev. Z. P. Wilds* well-known city missionary in New York, and brother of the late eminent Judge Wilds, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, writes as follows: “ 78 E. tetk St., yew York. May 18,1882. Messrs. J. C. Ayer & Cos.. Gentlemen : Last winter I was troubled with a most uncomfortable itching humor affecting more especially my limbs, which itched so intolerably at night, and burned so intense ly, that I could scarcely bear any clothing over them. I was also a sufferer from a serere catarrh and catarrhal cough; my appetite was poor, and my system a good deal run down. Knowing the value of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, by observation of many other cases, and from personal use in former years, l began taking it for the above-named disorders. My appetite im proved almost from the first dose. After a short time the fever and itching were allayed, and all signs of irritation of the skin disappeared. I\lv catarrh and cough were also cured by the same means, and my general health greatly improved, until it is now excellent. 1 feel a hundred per cent stronger, and I attribute these results to the use of the sarsaparilla, which I recommend with all confidence as the best.blood medicine ever devised. I took it in small doses three times a dav, and used, in all, less than two bottles. 1 plaoo these facts at your service, hoping their publication may do good. Yours respectfully, Z. I*. Wilds.” The above instance is but one of the many constantly coming to our notice, which prove the perfect adaptability of Ayer’s Sarsa parilla to the cure of all diseases arising from impure or impoverished blood, and a weakened vitality. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla cleanses, enriches, and strengthens the blood, stimulates the action of the stomach and bowels, and thereby enables the system to resist and overcome the attacks of all Scrofu lous Diseases, Eruptions of the Skin, Rheu matism, Catarrh , General Debility, and all disorders resulting from poor or corrupted blood and a low state of the system. prepared by Dp. J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists; price fl, six bottles for $5. Medicine cure Constipation, Indigestion, Headache, and all Bilious Disorders. Hold everywhere. Always reliable. No time should he lost if the stomach, liver and bowels arc affected, to adopt the snre remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Diseases of the organs named beget others far more serious, and a delay is therefore hazardous. Dyspepsia, liver complaint, chills and fever, early rheumatic twinges, kidtfy weakness, bring serious bodily trouble if trifled with. Lose no time in using effective and safe medicine. For sale by ail Druggists and Dealers generally. POUTZ’S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS No Horse will die of Colic, Pots or Lung Fe yxr, if Fontz’s Powders are used in time. Foutz’s Powders will core and prevent Hoo Cholera. Fontz’s Powders will prevent Gapes in Fowls. routz’s Powders will increase the quantity of milk and cream twenty per cent., and make the butter firm and sweet. Foatz’s Powders will curs or prevent almost every Disease to which Horses and Cattle are subject. Foutz’s Powders will give Satisfaction. Bold everywhere. DAVID E. FOUTZ, Proprietor, BALTIMORE, MD. AYER’S Ague Cure IS WARRANTED to cure all cases of ma larial disease, such as Fever ami Ague, Inter mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Com plaint. In case of failure, after due trial dealers are authorized, by our circular of July Ist, 1882, to refund the money. Dr. J. C. Ayer&Co., Lowell. Mass. Sold by all Druggists. ELAM JOHNSON, JOHN W. M’PHERSON, STEVE K. JOHNSON, JAMES B. WILBANKS. Ei AM JOHNSON, SON & CO., WHOLESALE imCMMEICHIITS —DKALEUS IN— OB A 001.) AND CIGARS. FOREIGN and DOMES TIC FRUITS, Veg etables and Melons in Season. BUT TER, CHICKENS and EGGS, SWEET and IRISH Potatoes, ''onaignm.nt. and order* Nolielted. 12 Decatur and 13 Line Sts., P. O. Box 515. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. mayßtf DIVORCES— No publicity; residents of Deseition, Non-Support. Advice and applications for stamps. W. H. LEE, Att’y, 239 B’way, N. Y. ADVERTISERS By addressing eo p. itowi’i.i. A-<o., 10 Spruce St., New York, can learn the ex act cost of any proposed line of ADVER TISING in American Newspapers. WIOO page Pamphlet, 25c. july4_ Corn Starch, Arrow Root, Imperial Grauum, Tapioca, Sago. Dr. Eld ridge's Drug Ston. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1883. • YOY/VWY. THE OLD MAIN’S OATH. Get out your ink, 'Squire, paper and pen— Get them out quick for I’m just from the den— Just from the hell that ruined my life. Beggared my children, and killed my wife. Write it down quick and accordin’ to law, So there will be not a break nor a Saw. Pledges I’ve given, but they will net sti k; Get out your ink and write it down, quick. Say that he kicked me, to-night, from his | door— Kicked me, as often he’s kicked me before, Tellin’ me then to go home to my shed, i Where my poor children were crying .for I bread. Place that in capitals, as large as you can, For that was the hardest kick from the man Who had been robbin’ me until he had got Every last dime for the miserablo sot. Start, then another clause, ’Squire, and tell How I first wandered away to this hell. Weil you remember me, ’Squire, the time When l thought drinking a horrible crime When my good angel was a part of my soul Ere 1 first cast her away for the bowl; How she so tender a flower to stay Long, with a drunkard, soon withered away. Place that in capitals, ’Squire and let Just a few tear drops each capital wet; For these eyes, blood-shot, have long ceased to shed Tears for the livin’, or tears for the dead. Start thero another clause, ’Squire, and say How I threw home, friends and kindred away; How 1 first neared, then stood on the brink, Pleadln’ and cursin’ and cryin’ for drink; How friends would rescue me, but to return Back to that hell that in me still would burn, Until my ruin was finished—complete, Makiu’ me lower than hogs on the street. Write it all down, and I’ll sign it and swear By my sweet angel, so Heavenly fair; By my true God, whom I’ve often cursed to scorn; By my poor ohildren, I’ve left so forlorn; By my dear mother, who died at my birth; By all that’s in Heaven or hereupon earth, I will bo true to my oath and my God Until they bury me under the sod. —G. W. Clark in Miami Helmet. SirtV&VT Qs . TABERNACLE SERMONS. BV REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE 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], *** ' UPSIDE DOWN. “These that have turned the world up side down have come hither also.” —Acts xvii., 6. T-here is a wild,bellowing mob around the house of Jason, in Thessalonica. What has the man done so greatly to offend the people? He has been enter taining Panl and his comrades. The mob surrounded the house and cry: “Bring oat those turbulent preachers! They are interfering with our business! They are ruining our religion! They are actually turning the world upside down!” The charge was true, for there is nothing that so interferes with ■in, there is nothing ao ruinous to every form of established iniquity, there is nothing that has such tendency to turn the world-upside down, as onrglorionß Christianity. Tho fact is, that the world now is wrong side np, and it needs to be turned up side down, in order that it may be right side up. The time was when men wrote books entitling them, “Apologies for Christ ianity.” I hope that day has passed. We want no more apologies for Chris tianity. Let the apologies be on the part of those who do not believe in our religion. We do not mean to make any compromise in the matter. We do not wish to hide the fact that Christianity is revolutionary and that its tendency is to turn the world upside down. Our religion has often been misrepresented as a principle of tears and madness and fastidiousness; afraid of crossing people’s prejudices; afraid of making somebody mad; with silken gloves lifting the people up from the church pew into glory, as though they were Bohemian glass, so very delicate that with one touch it may be demol ished forever. Men speak of religion as though it were a refined imbecility; as though it were a spiritual chloroform that the people were to take until the sharp-cutting of life were over. The Bible, so far from this, represents tbs religion of Christ as robust and brawny —ransacking and upsetttng 10,000 things that now seem to be settled on firm foundations. I hear some man say: “I thought religion was peace.” That is the final result. A man’s arm is out of place. Two men come and, with great effort, pnt it back to the socket. It goes back with groat pain. Then it gets well. Our world is hor ribly disordered and out of joint. It must come uuder an omnipotent sur gery, beneath which there will be pain and angufih before there can come per fect health and quiet. I proclaim therefore, in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ, revolution! THE RELIGION OF THE BIBLE will make a revolution in the family. Those things that are wrong in the family circle will be overthrown by it, while justice and harmony witl take the place. The husband will be the head of the household only when be is tit to be. I kuow a man who spends all the money he makes in drink, as well as all the money that his wife makes; do you tell ate that he is the head of that household? If the wife have more nobility,more courage, more consistency, more of all that is right, shall have this supremacy. You say that the Bible ays that the wife is to be subject to the husband. I know it. But that is • husband, not a masculine caricature. There is no human or divine law that makes a woman sub ordinate to a man unworthy of her. When Christianity sotnes into a do mestic circle it gives the domiuancy to tha|onc who is the most worthy ot it. As religion comes in at the front door, mirth and laughter will not go out of the back door. It will not hopple the children’s feet. John will laugh jost as loud, and George will jump higher than he ever did before. It will steal from the little ones neither ball, nor bat, nor hoop, nor kite. It will estab lish a family altar. Angels will hover over it. Ladders of light will reach down to it. The glory of heaven will stream upon it. The books of remem brance will reeord it, and tides of ever lasting blessedness will flow from it. Not such a family altar as you may have seen, where the prayer is long, and a long chapter is read with tedious explanation, and the exercise keeps on until the children’s knees are sore and their backs ache and their patience is lost and for the seventh time they have counted all the rungs in the chair; bui I mean a family altar such as you may have seen in your father’s house. You may have wandered far off in the paths of sin and darkness, bnt you have forgotten that family altar where father and. mother knelt, importuning God for your soul. That is a memory that a man never gets over. There will be a hearty, joyful family altar in every domestic circle. You will not have to go far to find Hannah rearing her Samuel for the temple, or a grand mother Lois instructing her young Timothy in the knowledge of Christ, or Mary and Martha and Lazarus gath ered in fraternal and sisterly affection, or a table at which Jesus sits, as at that of Zacheus, or a home in which Jesus dwells, as in the house of Simon, the tanner. The religion of Jesns Christ coming into the domestic circle will overthrow all jealousies, all jang lings, and peace and order and holiness will take possession of home. Christianity will produce a revolu tion in commercial circles. Find me fifty merchants and you find that they have fifty standards of what is light and wrong. You say to someone about a merchant, “Is he honest'?’’ “Oh, yes,” the man says, “he is honest, but he grinds the faces of the clerks. He is honest, but he exaggerates the value of his goods. He is honest, but he loans money on bond andJ|mortgage with the understanding that the mort gage can lie quiet fot ten years, but as soon as he gets the mortgage he records it and begins a foreclosure suit, and the Sheriff’s writ comes down and the day of sale arrives, and away goes a homestead and the croditor buys it in at half price.” Honest! when he loaned the money he. knew that he would get the homestead at half price. Honest! but he goes to the insurance office to get a policy on his life and tells the doctor that he is well, when he knows that for ten years he lias had but one lung. Honest! though he sells property by the map, forgetting to tell the purchaser that the ground is all under water. But it is generous of him to do that, for he throws the water into the bargain. Ah, my friends, there is but one standard of the everlastingly right and the everlastingly wrong, aad that is the Bible, and when that prin ciple shall get its pry uuder our com mercial houses, 1 believe that one-half of them will go over. The ruin will begin at one end of the street, and it will be crash! crash! crash! all the way down to the docks. What is the matter? Has there been an unaccount able panic? This is the secret: the Lord God has set up his throne of judgment in the exchange. He has summoned the righteous am? the wicked to come before him. What was 1837? A day of judgment. What was 1857? A day of judgment, What was 1863? A day of judgment. Do you thiuk that God is going to wait until he has burned the world up before he rights these wrongs? I tell you nay. Every day is a day of judgment. The fraud ulent man piles up his gains, bond above bond, United States security above United States security, emolu ment above emolument, until his prop erty has become a great pyramid, and as be stands looking at it, he thinks it can never be destroyed, bnt the Lord God has come, and with his little fin ger pushes it all over. You build a house, and you put in a rotten beam. A mechanic standing by says: “It will never do to pnt that beam in; it will ruin your whole build ing.” But you put it in. The house is completed. Soon it begins to rock. Yon call in the mechanic and ask: “What is the matter with this door? What is the matter with this wall? Everything seems to be giving out.” Says the mechanic: “You put a rotten beam into that structure, and the whole thing has got to come down.” Here is an estate that seems to be all right now It has been building a great many years. But fifteen years ago there was a dishonest transaction in that commercial house. THAT ONE DISHONEST TRANSACTION will keep on working ruin in the whole structure, until down the estate will come in wreck and ruin about the pos sessors ears—one dishonest • dol lar in the estate demolishing all his. possessions. I have seen it again and again and again and so have you.— Here is your money safe. The manu facturer and yourself only know how it can be opened. Yin have the key. Yon tonch the lock and the ponderous* door swings back. Let me tell you that however firmly bolted and barred your monsy safe may be yon cannot keep God out.. He will come some day into your counting room and he will demand “Where did that note of hand come from?” How do yon ac count for this security? Where did you get that mortgage from? What does this mean? If it is all right, God will say; Well done good and faithful servant, Be prosperous in this world. Be happy in the world to come. If it is all wrong he will say: Depart ye cursed, be miserable for your iuiquties in this life and then go down and spend your eternity with thieves and horse jockeys and pickpockets. Y’ou have an old photograph of the signs of your street. Why havo those signs nearly all changed within the last twenty years? Does the passing away of a generation account for it? Oh, no. Does the fact there are hundreds of honeßt men who go down every year account for it? Oh, no. This is the secret. The Lord God has been walk ing through Wall street, Broadway, Water street, Fulton Street and At lantic street, and he has been adjust ing things according to the princi ples of eternal rectitude. The time will come when through the revolu tionary power of this gospel a false hood, instead of being called exagger ation or evasion, will be branded a lie, and stealings that now sometimes go under the head of percentages, com mission and bonuses, will be put in the catalogue of State prison offenses. Society will be turned inside out and upside down, and ransacked of God’s truth until business dishonesties shall come to an end and all double dealing, and God will overturn, and overturn and overturn; and commercial men in all circles will throw up their hands, crying out, “These that have turned the world upside down aro come hith er.” The religion of Jesus Christ will produce a revolution in our churches. The non-committal; do nothing poliev of th Church of God will give way to a spirit of bravest conquest. Piety in this day. SEEMS TO ME TO BE SALTED DOWN just so as to keep. It seems as if the church were chiefly anxious to take care of itself; and if we hear of want and squafi>r and heathenism outside wessat“y t “ What a pity;” and we put our hands in our pockets and we feel around for a two-cent piece and with a great flourish we pnt it upon the plate and are amazed that the world is not converted in six weeks. Suppose there was a great war and there were 80<*,- 000 soldiers, but all of those soldiers, excepting ten men, were in their tents or scouring their muskets or cooking rations. You would say, “of course defeat must come in that case.” It is worse than that in the church. Mill ions ot the professed soldiers of Jesus Christ ar cooking rations or asleep in their tents, while only one man here and there goes out to do battle for the Lord. “But,” says someone, we are establishing a great many missions and I think they will save the masses.” No; they will not. Five hundred thou sand of them will not do it. They are doing a magnificent work, but every mission chapel is a coufession of the disease aud weakness of the church. It is making a dividing line between the classes. It is saying to the rich and the well-conditioned: “If you can pay your pew rents, come to the main au dience room.” It is saying to the poor man: “Your coat is too bad and your sh es are not good enough. If you want to get into heaven you will have to go by way of the mission chap el.” The mission chapel has become a kitchen where the clihrch does its sloppy work. Hundreds and thous ands of churches in this country —gor- geously built and supported —that even ou bright and sunshiny days are not half full of worshippers, and yet they are building mission chapels because of some expressed or implied regula tion the great masses of the people are kept out of the main audience room. Now, I say that any place of worship which is appropriate for one class is appropriate for all classes. Let the rich and the poor meet together, the Lord the maker of them all. Mind you. I say that mission chapels are a necessity, the way churches are now conducted, but may God speed the time when they shall cease to be a ne cessity. God will rise up and break down the gates of the churches that havo kept back the masses, and woe he to those who stand in the way!— They will be t.ampled under foot by the vast population making a stam pede for heaven. I saw in some paper an account of a church in Boston in which it is said there were A GREAT MANY PLAIN PEOPLE. The next week the trustees of that church came out in the paper and said it was not so at all; they were “elegant people and high conditioned people that went there.” Then I langh very loudly. Those people, I said are afraid of the sickly sentimentality of the ■churches. Now my ambition is not to preach to you so much. You have good things in this life. Whatever may be your future destiny, jou have had a pleasant time here. But those dying populations of which I speak, by reason of their want and suffering, whatever may be their future destiny, are in perdition now; and if there be any comfort in Christ’s gOßpel, for God’s sake, give it to them! Revolution! The pride of the church must come down. The exclusiveness of the church must comedown! The financial boasting of the church must come down! If monetary success wer •he chief idea in church, then I say 1 that the present mode of conducting finances is the best. If it is to see how many dollars you can gain, then the present rnodo is the best. But il it is the saving of souls from sin and death aud bringing the mighty popu lation of our cities to the knowledge ot God, then I cry revolution! It is com ing fast. I feel it iu the air. I hear the rumbling of an earthquake that shall shake down in one terrific crash the arrogance of our modern Christian ity. The talk is whether Protestant churches or Roman Catholic churches are coming out ahead. I tell you, Pro testants, tho truth plainly; that until your churches are as free as are the Roman Catholic cathedrals they will beat you. Iu their cathedrals the mill ionaire aud the beggar kneel side by side, and uutil that time comes in out churches we canuot expect the favor ot God for perinaueut spiritual prosperi ty. It may be that before the church learns its duty to the masses God will scourge it and will come with the whip of omnipotent indignation and drive out the money changers. It may he that there is to be a great day of upsetting before that time shall come. If it must come, O Lord God, let it Cvine now! In that future day of THE RECONSTRUCTED CHURCH OF CIIRIsT the church building will be the most ct eerful of all buildings. Instead oi the light of the sun strained through painted glass until an intelligent andi tory looks green, blue, yellow aud cop per-colored, we will have no such things. The pure atmosphere of heav en-will-sweep out the fetid atmosphere that has been kept in many of out churches boxed up from Sunday to Sunday. The day of which I speak will be a day of great revivals. There will be such a time as there was in the parish of Shotts, where 500 soul were born to God in one day; such times as were seen in this country when Edwards gave alarm, when Tennent preached and Whitefield thundered, and Edward Payson prayed; such times as some of you remember in 1857 when tho voice of prayer and praise tvas heard in theater and warehouse and blacksmith shop and factory and engine-house, and the auctioneer’s cry of “a half and a half and a hall” wa drowned out by the adjoining prayer meeting,in which the people cried out: “Men an ! brethren, what shall we did” In those days nf which I am speak ing the services of the Church of God will be mo-e spirited, the ministers ot Christ instead of being anxious about whether they shall lose their place in the notes, will get on fire with the theme and pour THE WVINtJ TRUTH OF GOD upon an aroused auditory, crying oui to til* righteouH, “It shall he weli with you,” and to the wicked, “Woe, ii shall be ill with you!” Iu those day the singing will be different from what it is now. The music will weep and wail and chant and triumph. Peopb then will not be afraid to open the!> mouths when they sing. The man withacrackid voice will risk it on Wyndham and Ortonville and Old Hundred. Grandfather will find the place for his grandchildren in the hymn-hook or the little child will hi spectacles for the grandfather. Hosann i will meet hosanua and together go climbing to the throne, and the angel will hear and God will listen and the gates of heaven will hoist and it wiil be as when two seas meet, the wave id earthly song mingling with the snrg ing anthems of the free. May God let me live to see that day. Let there be no power in disease or accident or wavt of the sea to disappoint tny expecta tions. Let all other sight fail my eyes rather than that I should miss that vis ion. Let all other sounds fail my ears, rather than that I should fail to heat that sound. I waut to stand on the mountain top to catch the first ray ol the dawn, and with flying feet bring the news to this people. And oh, whet, we hear the clattering hoofs that bring on the King’s chariot, may we all be ready with arches sprung and with hand on the rope of the bell that is to sound the victory, and with wreaths all twisted for the way, and when Jestis dismounts, let it be amidst the httzzah. huzzah! of a world redeemed. Where and when shall that revolt tion begin? Here and now, in your heart and mine, sin must go down. Our pride must go down. Our worldliness must go down that Christ may come up. Revolution! “Except a man be born again he can not see the kingdom of God.” Why not let the revolution be gin? Not next Sabbath, but now. Not to-morrow, when you go out into commercial circles, but now. Archias, the magistiate of Thebes, was sit ting with many mighty men drinking wine. A messenger came in bringing him a letter, informing him of a con spiracy against his life and warning him to flee. Archias took the letter, but, instead of opening it, put it into his pocket, and said to the messenger who brought it: “Business to-morrow.” The next day he died. Before he open ed the letter the government was cap tured. When he read the letter it was too late. I put into the hand of every man and woman here a message of life. It says: “To-day, if ye will hear His voice; harden not your hearts.” Do not put away the message and sav: “This business to-morrow.” This night thy soul may be required of thee. Physicians use Shriner’s In dian Vermifuge in their practice and pronounce it a first class article. A trial will convince the most skeptical of its intrinsic merit. *OUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 86. A CURIOUS SERMON. (The following old sermon is said to have been actually preached many vears since iu the parish church of Barston, Norfolk. It was printed in /Vie British Magazine, for November, 1750. Most of the names mentioned now stand in the parish registers, and the family’ names still exist in the neighborhood:) “Fight the good fight.”—l Tim. vi. 12. Beloved, wa are met together to sol emuize the fuueral of Mr. Proctor. Ills father’s name was Mr. Thomas Proctor. He lived some time at Burs un Hall, iu Norfolk, and was high constable ol Diss hundred. This man’s name was Mr. Robert Proctor; and his wile’s was Mrs. Bnxtou, late wife of Mr. Matthew Buxton. She came from tlelsdoii Hall, beyond Norwich. He was a good husband, and she a good housewife; and they two made money; she brought a thousand pounds with ner for her portion. But now, beloved, I shall make it clear by demoustative arguments, first, he was a good man, ami that in several respects. He was a loving man to his neighbors, acharitable man to the pool, a favorable man iu his tithes, and a good landlord to his tenants. There -its one, Mr. Spurgen, can tell how great a sum he forgave him on his death oed; it was fourscore pounds. Now, oeioved, was tint this a good man, aud a man of God, think you? atnf his wife a good woman? and she comes fr-mi Helsdon Hall, beyond Norwich. This is the first argument. Secondly, to prove this man to be a good man; in the time of his sickness, which was long and tedious, lie seut for Mr. Cole to pray for him. He was uot a self ended man, to be prayed for himself only; no, beloved, he desired Mr. Cole to pray for all his neighbors aud acquaintances; for Mr. Buxton’s worship, and Mrs. Buxton, and for Mr. Buxton’s children against it should please God to send him anv; and to Mr Cole’s prayers he devoutly said "Amen.” Now, beloved, was this not a good man, and a man of God, think you? and his wife a good woman? and -lie came from Helsdop Hall, beyond Norwich. This is the second argument. Thirdly, I come to a clear demon strative argument to prove this to be a good man. There was one Thomas Proctor a very poor beggar boy; ho came into this country on a dun cow; it was a dun cow. Well, this poor boy came a begging to this good man’s door. He did not do as some would have done, give him a small alms and send him away, or chide him, ami make him a pass and send him into his own country; no, beloved, he took him into his own house, and afterwards bound mu apprentice to a gun-smith. Alter his time was out, he took him home again, and married him to a kinswo man of liis wife’s—Mrs. Christian Rohertsnn—there she sits; and to her his good man gave a considerable jointure. By her he had tliiee daugh ters; and this good man took home the eldest, brought her up to woman’s es tate, and married her to a very honora ble gentleman, Mr. Buxton, there he sits. Now, beloved was not this a toad man, and a man of God, think von? and his wife a good woman? and she came from Helsdon Hall, beyond Norwich. Beloved, you may remember some time since. I preached at the funeral of Mrs. Proctor; at which time 1 troubled V*u with many of her transcendent\ir ’ues; hut your memories tuay fail you, therefore! shall now remind you of me or two of them. Tne first is, she was as good a knit ter as any in the county of Norfolk.— When her husband and family were in bed and asleep, she would get a cush ion clap herself down by the fire and -it. and knit, but, beloved, be assured she was no prodigal woman, but a spar ing woman; for to spare candle, she would stir tip the fiiewith her knitting oinx, and by that light would sit and knit, and make as good work as many others by daylight. Beloved, I have a nair of stockings on mv legs that were knit in the same manner, and they are the best stockings that I ever wore in my life. Secondly. She was the best maker of toast in drink that ever I eat in my life, and they were brown toasts, too. When I used to go in a morning, she would ask me to eat a toast, which I was always very willing to do, for she had such an artificial way of toasting it, by no means slack, nor burning— besides, she had such a pretty way of getting nutmeg and dipping it in the heer; and such a piece of rare cheese, that I must say that they were the best toasts that ever I eat in my life. Well, beloved, the days are short, and many of you have a long way to go; T must, therefore, conclude. —Odds and Ends. Washington, D. C., May loth, 1880. Gentlemen —Having been a sufferer for a long time from nervous prostra tion and general debility, I was ad vised to try Hop Bitters, I have ta ken one bottle, and I have been rap idly getting better ever since, and I think it the best medicine I ever used. I am now gaining strength and appetite, which was all gone, and I was ill despair until I tried your Bitters. lam now well, able to go about and do my own work. Be fore taking it I was completely pros trated. 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