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Newspaper Page TextPROCLAMATION No. II JOHN R. SHAW, Forsyth Street, Americus, Ga., ISSUES THIS, HIS Fall Proclamation! Hereby Inviting Everybody, and more Particularly the Ladies, to call and see his illAND DISPLAY DP NEW DODDS!! V\ hich have recently been added to his Stock, WITH A LARGE LOT ON THE WAY I WHICH, WHEN RECIEVED, WILL MAKE HIS Variety Mel! Call at once and oblige, yours truly, JOHN R. SHAW, -DEALER IN DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS, Fancy Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Gaps, Umbrellas, CLOTHING ! ladies clo.a.:k:s, Bedsteads and Chairs, Boll Plate Jewelry, Tutt’s Lit er El's, Etc., Etc., FORSYTH STREET, • -I AMERICUS. GA Planters’ Warehouse! A GOOD CHANCE. One hundred acres good land for tale, f re C. W. FELDER, Proprietor, yxnt flwelBw borne yttn four root I-AMAR STREET, : : : : AMERICUS, GA. “ T I'^l'KCTTULLr ANNOUNCE TO MY FARMER CUSTOMERS, AMD TBE £ 'bnmiittkttmlkaanalM.tMUlbiMMUa'taial IU. Tnkv ui will L' lur, ,1 Uie coolns wwon, with uuwl fMlHtkw, to advene. the MM, of »I 'efficient laaniiteetliat satisfaction will be given. I will bar, an able eovpe of : MAJ. T. M. FURLOtr, a Given the planter, aada aatUfactloii as Seakna for the pall two msmn bj hi. ten 'Idling and roortesy. (Jujl-urtenl C. W. FELDER DAEBYS PROPHYLACTIC Z L M. A BotmImM i of Diphtheria yield Fwwdtiid SlckPer-1 SXAIX.POX prcTrnl- 1 FITllSa of Small | FyFMManm ^haralcMijMdj^riSrd.' | with ted. and w TMertSr! CImdm Use Teeth, Catarrh* r-J^cT^ad spangle skies, ere fancy pala_ , Can death destroy lore, are those heaven born ties. Forgotten in heaven by thee'. D “ Ito lapsOMfd forget In tliat land „f the Chilblains, Pllsi! <**>>««« ACxintaihrc* Vanderbilt University. Nashville, Tr nLKtaSssj^sffiyya deSCTKtnt it W both theoretical:,- and practically z&zrvjssnsfessE-* rs Fluid Is Hr rn si mended by •***"““ H - STSTHtN*, of GrorjU ; _ *5*. y ». D*n*s, D.D., Church ofth. 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My friends and the peblie are asked to patron- All produce left In niy care by * others, will receive prompt at- •rs, will receive prompt tention and sold at beat prices offered. J. L PRICE. Amxkicts. Ga., May 19, 1883. tf JOHN A. McKLROY, NOTARY PUBLIC, . AMERICUS, GA. my time to the making out of annual returns ts'sfzsnjgvsj^ui titles, etc., etc- Orders left at the stare ad Burkhatter A Hooks, the RtrcnucAS or Recorder otloes, will receive prompt atten tion. CHARGES REASONABLE. mayl3tf J. A. McELROY. oottou bome, Staten, bams, etc, aS’fSS aug33tf I* T. EDWARDS. With tl ay spirit! the tear and the sigh, juts of thee quickly may day star appears And points to thy heavenly borne. Mid the lovely bright scene where beautiful Like a rim of Eden the blest Thine ashes are laid but the spirits repose Is found where the weary find rest. At the loved hall of science the altar of' A pledge of remembrance was given, las, that the bonds that united us there Were destined so soon to be riven. Let thy dwelling be fouud in yon star- spangle skies. Where fancy paints visions to me, death dest— *— — “ bora ties. a luradise rest. blest, 1 spirit tliey loved upon O, say do the saints that In in Ne'er visit the land of their birth: As the meteor rises and dames through the air, And then disappears in the sky, So quickly alas, did thy genius so fair. Arise and then vanish on high, ut shall we regret that instead of thy brow, Bclng^crowned with earth's laurels that A bright starry diadem Circles it now, In beauty immortal arrayed. The mind which drank largely at learning'! deep spring, Drink now in the heavenly sea, lie fields where the saints with the cheru- bims sing. Display their bright glories to tliee. Lamar, Ga., August 29,1882. A BROKEN CHAIN. 1 great gray atone, very She sat w ^ close to the low, sobbing mneic of the waves, looking far out on old Ocean’s crested billows, her dimpled cheek rest- : og in one soft rosy palm, while a far way look beamed in her passionate, soul-thrilling eyes. Klise Snow had had her dream of love, but it had receded farther and still farthei away from her, until it had al- ost faded Irom tight. Three yeai* ago Gerald Boutelloliad cut the summer in the village of Cas- tleton, regaining his health, lost by a winter’s dissipation, and making love to and winning a heart that pure and confiding for association with such a man. It had been the same sweet, beguil- her sleep. It waa all like a troubled dream that she must awake from soon. e never rightly remembered how they reached the-shore and what hap pened after—how Gerald's wife waa lait] to rest by the old gray rock; they said it had been her with; nothing seemed real but Gerald at the old tryst-place by her side. She had come out to the rock to-uight for the first time since she had sat and listened to the signal-gun of the sink ing ship. As she sat reviewing as best she could the last four days, Gerald came and itood by her side, looking so pale and ing story told by the gray rock, the worthless promises, the same heartbreaking parting, that iliar to all, aud with many a sad expe- r one year innocent Elise looked for his coming with faithful trusting, waiting for a word from the absent one. He was ndt false, Elise thought, but dead. He wonld never return to her, bnt she canid go to him with the lingering dew of the first love-kiss fresh upon her lids. Did she regret the bright summer that id come and gone, leaving only an aching void? No, t»o; far from it. . Had Gerald Houtelle, with his irre sistible blonds beauty, never crossed her path the throne in her heart had been erected for naught; the crown-jewel, studded with devotion and faith, left to crumble away and form a mined and tenantless edifice. _ The foamy waves crept higher and higher, until they almost tonched the hem of her dainty muslin dress, while the spray dashed a shower of sparkling diamonds over the dark-haired maiden, still looking oul and dreaming of the future—not an earthly tntnre, bnt a bright hereafter far np and beyond the blue sky that seemed to dip its azure mantle in the duncing waves. A tiny white speck eangbt Elise's eye, and she watched it mechanically as it came nearer to the «lioro. Soon tho low, raournfal boom of _ signal-gun announced a ahip in distrees. _ In an instant the fearful storm of the night before occurred to her mind, and she knew full well that his ranst be 1 noble ship that had received its death- warrant from the old storm-king, and Elise, I have something to tell yon,” he said, sitting down by her side. " * re you willing to listen?" Yes,Gerald, I am willing to listen," she said, repeating his words in a low, caressing tone; "it is best that I should know how it all happened." ''Snowbird, let me begin three years limlessly drifting with the tide. By the time the second gnu had sounded its mournful call the beach was thronged with eager villagers, ready to do and dare to save the lives on’tht doomed snip. The boats were soon launched, man ned and ready to start—in fact, were pushing off wheu Elise sprang forward, begging to go with them. There was no danger, she argued, and she might possibly be of some as sistance. The slightest wish of little Snowbird, as the villagers called her, was an un questionable command to them, and she was permitted logo. The? soon reached the ship, and Elise was lifted on board, eager to do some thing to prove to all that they could not have gotten along wiibont her. Down in the cabin all was confusion, Each was anxious to be first to leave the sinking ship, and, since help bad come, all wanted to take some prized luggage, and in their eagerness thought it possible. I said "1 . Away to tbs extreme end of the cabin a little group attracted Elise’s atten- A beautiful lady, whose lair hair swept the floor, lay on n sofa, while a gentleman, clasping a wee toddli _ . „ _ J toddling one in bis anris, knelt with bowed head, careless of all around. Waa it instinct or tine womanly sympathy that caused Elise to turn from those self-reliant ones and offer her as sistance to the bowed fora before her? As the little one, who conld not fully understand its father’s trouble, caught sight of Elise, it stretched forth its dim pled hands, crying: Paps, lady torn an’ hall "I apa, lady tom an* help mamma." At the words of the child the gentle- . . It stood then horned and qniverel with fever- heat. She tried to steady her voice bnt "Gerald,who is it?—and is It death?’ 1 Ha wonld have given worlds, if it ware possible, if he conld have truth fully answered, "She is ay sister." bit with tboee honest, soul-searching eyes looking into his he oould not deny the Mother of his child, "She was my-wife; Snowbird, and now oar little one is "Oh GenldU* Elise said no more, bnt all the words J^ggkU^conUool^o Itepiovh. sttrpruc, ilmoat lelief, ~ yWl ^ ■ wpka , anajed them tel Tea in Hat , one coma not endure tne sight of that fair, cold beauty whom Gerald had called wife, although she were cold What cduld it mean? Had lmbeeq false? A low 'mourn of anguish told how bitter that thought wonld be. No, no; it conld not be! Circumstances had forced him to ry another. Hs could explain all, she knew. The woman's standard—faith—l_ to the rescue, and she put forth her hand, ehile'her low, sweet voice caused Gerald to look again. Gerald, it is over. May I help you alio 0 inquire what v Too well he knew the struggle that had swept like an overwhelming flood over that trembling soul, and left noth ing bnt pity and forgiveness. He conhl not understand; it did not sefa possible that anv'woman conld lave a man so unselfishly that after he had wrecked her life she could under the trying circmnstancee offer her assis- ce without a. word of reproach. Yes, Elise; yon may help me. Take my baby-girl, and Heaven will bless Bnt you mu 00m for all take the lady - there." Elise conld not say "yonr wife yet; the wound was too deep, the blow had come, Gerald. There the boat. We will shore and bnry her bean too She gave orders for the removal of the dead, with Gerald’* baby clasped 1, like one talking in ago, when I stood on this old stone holding yonr hand in mine and saying the word farewell. Heaven knows, I iutended no harm when I told mv love and won yonr trusting heart. It was like 'drifting with the tide,’ and it wonld have been like 'pulling against the stream’ to have fled from your coy, , presence when, in yonr innocence and trnst, yon conld not hide your love from me. I was but mortal, Elise, and failed to do my duty. I left yon with promise of a speedy return, when yon would be all the world to me. And how did I fulfill that promise? 1 will tell yon. Snowbird, although 1 hide my head in shame. I was engaged to be married when I won your love, bnt, Elise, I forgot it in yonr sweet, bewil dering love. I returned home and ful filled that engagement, trying to think that yon would prove as false as I. Even that wonld have been a consola- My bride loved me truly and tenderly, and in due time, after’ baby Maude came, I almost thought that love was fully returned. I filled her life; I made her hsppy at least, for which I thank Heaven now! We had been on the Continent a year, and ware return ing home np the Mediterranean, when onr ship was ennght in a fearful storm. In a sudden lurch of the ship my wife hnrled from my side, and her head coming in contact with something, I know not what, she was instantly killed. I kn*r nor cared' for nothing until I heard yonr voice calling me back to life and reality, and felt yonr hand clasped in mine. Snowbird, yon have heard my story. Now I am sway. Will yon keep my baby while I am away, and will yon try to forgive and forget the error of the past?" A wild thrill of joy ran like fire through her veins. He was only asking what was the de sire of her life to do, and she reached ont her hand blindly towards him. "Yea, Gerald, 1 will take little Maude, and care for her until yon come to claim yonr own. I have already for given yon, and I will try to forget." Gerald pressed those small hands veij close in his, and through reverence for the dea And respect for the living, he looked his caress and turned away. One year had passed, freighted with its joy and woe. To Elise it had been very eweet. Maude, with her baby ways, had crept in and filled the aching void that Gerald’s absence' had made, and to night, the anniversary of hit departure, she stands on the old gray rock clasp ing Macde’s dimpled hand in her 1, wait ing for—what? Through the low music of the waves came a voice—a vcioa that she had not beard for one year. It said, "Elise, I have come to claim my own. Ie it all mine, or only a part? Ia it to be hot a Cay ray of light,or one eternal day? Tell n*e, Snowbird, am I. asking too much?" "No,Gerald, all is yours,"said Elise, a glad smile lighting op her fail* face, "I have learned to forget.” Gerald elasped her in hie arms; he had that right now. And he knew and felt he was a batter men for paesing under the chastening rod, white Elise band love was jost d set after the gathering np of ;en chain. Mother! Mother!! Mother!!! Are yea dlstsrbad at sight sad bf«Vea year rest by a risk child ssfvrisg sad cry* ag with the excruciating pain of cutting eeth? If os- gs at ease sad get a bottle Mas. Winslow’s rootsino i It wiB depsad apsa it; thsr* ts a* wistaks abost U. There Is ast a aMthsr sa earth whs has ased it, vhe will set tell yea at ease that it will regulate the boweU.and give rvst to the ■ether, will relief sad health to tbs child, tperatiag like magic. It is perfectly safe a ass fa all eases, sad pleasant to the teste, and is the prescription of one of the oldest sad beat female physicians and nurses in ihe United States. Sold everywhere. 25 IT Dr. Moffett’s Tbetiiina (Teething Powders) Jlemorea and Prevail* the formation of Worm* in children. No remedy equals it. TABERNACLE SERMONS. ST REV. T. DitVITT TAUUGE OUTSIDERS. John x., 16: "Other sheep I have which 9 not of this fold.' There is no monopoly - « „ — religion. The grace of God is not a little property that we may fence off and have all to ouraelves. It is not a king’s park ai which we look through a barred gate way, wishing that we might go in auc see the deer and the atatnary, and pluck the flowers and fruits in the royal con servatory. No, it is the Father's orch ard, and everywhere thero are bars that we may let down and gates that we may swing open. In my boyhood, next to the country school honse there was orchard of apples owned by a very lame man, who, though there r pies in the place perpetually decaying, and by scores and scores of basbejg, never would allow any of ns to touch the Irnit. One day in the sinfulness of, a nature inherited from onr first par ents who were ruined by the tation, some of ns invaded that 1 ard, bnt soon retreated for the came after ns at a speed reckless oi mak- his lameness worse, and cried ont: ►ys, drop those apples or I’ll set the dog on yon.” Well, my friends, there Christian men who have the Church under severe guard. There is fruit iu this orchard for the whole world; but they have a rough and unsympathetic way of accostifig outsiders, as though they had no business here, though the Lord wants them to come all and take tho largest and ripest fruit on the prem ises. Have yon an idea that becanse yon were baptized at 13 months of age and because yon have all your life been under hallowed influences, that there fore yon have a right to one whole side of the Lord's table, spreading yourself ont aud taking np the entire room? 1 tell you no, you will have to haul in your elbows, for I shall place on either side of yon those whom yon De flected to Bit lh«l*- for 11 Oirn herd is going to find a great many of his sheep among those who are positive re jectors of Christianity. I do not know how you came to reject Christianity. It may have been through reading Renan’s Life of Jeans, or through the infidel talk of some yonng man in yonr pected to sit there; for, as Christ said to the Jews long ago, so He says to yon and tqme: "Othei sheep I have which a not of this fold." MacDonald, the Scotchman, has four five dozen Itetd of sheep. Some of them are browsing on the heather,some of them are lying down under the trees, some of them are in his yard. They are scattered around in eight or ten different places. Cameron, his neigh bor, comes over and says: "I see yon have thirty sheep; I have just counted them." "No," says MacDonald, "I have a great many more sheep than that Some are here and some are else where. They are spattered all around abont. I have four or five thousand in my flocks. "Other sheep have I which are not in this fold." So Christ says to us. Here is a knot of Christians, and there is a knot of Christians, bnt they make a small part of the flock. It may have been through the trickery of some professed Christian man who disgiiMea yen with religion. I do not ask yon how yon became so; but you frankly tell me that yon do re- ect it. Yon do not believe that Christ s a divine being althoogh you admit that he waa a very good man. Yon do believe that the Bible was inspired of God, although yon think that there are some very line things in it. Yan believe that the 8crintural descript ion of Eden fifty things that I believe that yon do Here is the Episcopal fold, the Metho dist fold, the Lutheran fold, the Con gregational fold, the Presbyterian fold, " ‘‘it and the Pedo-Baptist fold, , difference between these last two being the mode of sheep-washing; and 10 they are scattered all over; and we come with onr statistics and aay there are so many thousand of the Lord’s sheep. Bnt Christ responds: "No, no; yon have not seen more than one ont of a thousand of my flock. They are scattered all over the earth. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold,’ ” Christ in my text was prophe sying the conversation of the Gentiles with as much confidence as though they were already converted, and Hels, in the words of my text, prophesving the coming of a great mnltitnde of ont* aiders that yon never supposed would come in, saying to yon and saying to me: "Other sheep I have which are not of this flock." In the first plsce I remark that the e congregations where they n There ^ w rv nil Christians, and they completely finished, and they remind one of the skeleton leaves which by chemical preparation have had all the greenness and verdure taken off of them, and are left cold and white and delicate, nothing wanting bnt a glass case to hot over them. The minister of Christ has nothing to do with sneh Christians bnt to come ouoe a week and with ostrich feather dost off theaccnmnlation of the last six days, leaving them bright and crystalline as before. Bnt the other kind of a church is the armory with perpetual sound of dram and file, gath ering reernits for the Lord of hosts. We^ray^to every^apj>Heant: "Do yon armory and get equipped. Here is bath in which to bn cleansed. Hera are sandals to pot upon yonr feet. Hera is a helmet for yonr brow. Here is a breastplate for yonr heart. Here is a sword for yonr right arm, and yonder fefield. Qnil 1 the battle Quit yourselves like men." There are some who say, "I stopped going to ehnreh ten or twenty years ago." My brother, is it not strange that yon sbonld be the first man I sbonld talk to? I know all yoar ease. I know it very well. Yon have not been accustomed to com* into the honse of God, bnt I have a surprising an nouncement to make to yoa: Yon are going to become one'nl the Lord’s simp. '.'Ah," yon say, "it is impossible. Yon don't know how far I am from anything of that kind." "I know all about it. I have wandered all np and down the world, and I understand yonr ease. I have a still more'startling announce- BMnt to mak* to yon: Yon are not only going to become one of the Lord’s sheep, bnt yon will become one imme diately." People of God,pray for that man! I shall not break off so mock as a crumb for yon Christians in this ser mon, for I am going to give it all to the outsiders. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." Many years ago. when the Atlantie went to pieces on liar’s rock, and the peopla clambered up on the beach,there was a heroic minister of th* Gospel who aided in saving the wrecked. He did not ait down and take care of the men on the beach, wrapping them in flan nels and kindling a fire for them and seeing that they got plenty of food. He knew that there were others who wonld do that. He said, "Yonder are men and women freezing in the rigging of that wreck. Boys, lannch the boat/* And now I see the oar-blades bend uc dcr the strong pull; bnt before they reached the rigging a woman SrSiVt swag and no I have coafideaee ia preaching to save," and he cried oat, "Hold on five minntes longer and I will save you. Steady! steady! Give me your hand. Leap into the lifeboat. Thank God, he is saved!" So those who are safe on the shore of God’s mercy. I will not spend any time with them at all; bnt I see there are some who are freezing in the rigging and surrounded by perilous storms. Poll away, my lads. Let ns reach them! Alas, one washed off and gone! Thera is ^re to be saved. Let ns pnsh on) that one. Clntch the rQpe! Oh, dying man t clutch it as with a death grip. Steady, now, on the slippery places. Steady! There! Saved! saved! Just as I thought. For Christ has declared that there are some utill in the breakers who shall come ashore. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fnlit ” Plm',* go among other chnrches, bnt ii wide world; not sitting along Hohokns creek where eight or ten other persons are sitting with hook and line, bnt like the fishermen of Newfoundland, sailing off and dropping net away ontside forty or fifty miles from shore. Yes, there are non-chnrchgoes who will come in. They are at this moment beiog swept -Christian associations. ~ The’ir > will be heard in public prayer. ’ -««•- peace, their bed — They will die roundel by Christian sympathies, and be carried ont by devont men to be bur ied, and on their grave will be chiselled the words: "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints," Resurrection Day you will get up with the dear children yon have al ready buried and with your Christian parents who have already won the palm. And all that grand and glorious his-, tory begins now, "Other sheep l have which are not of this fold. I remark again, the Heavenly Shep- not believe. And yet yon are an ac commodating man. E/erybody that knows you says that of you. If I should ask yon to do a kindness for me, or if any one else should ask of yon a kindness, yon wonld do it. Now. I have a kindness to ask of yon. It is something that will cost yon nothing and will give me great delight. I want you by experiment to try the power of Christ’s religion. If I should come to you, and yon were very sick, and doc- had given you np, and said there no chance for yon, and I should take out a bottle and say: "Here is a medieine that will core yon; it has cured fifty'people, and it will cure yon." ild say, "I have no confidence .1 wonld say, "won’t yon take it to oblige me?’* “Well,” yon wonld to yon mod asking yon to W w, However often yoa may have spol against the Bible, or however much \ have caricatured religion, step ashore from that rocking and tnmnlta- oua sea. Yoa do not want yonr child ren to grow ap with yonr skepticism, i on cannot afford to dit in that mid- D igh. d. , k ? te., a, ymi . u Jao io not bran. «°Ttki.g y0B M |,„ in lorn—• father-, lore, a mother!) lor. a wife a lov»; a child-, lore. Then let me tell yon that God loves yon more than them-all. Yon will come in. The great heart of Christ aches to have yon come in, and Jeans at this very moment, whether yon sit or stand, looks into vour eyes and says: "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." Again I remark that the heavenly shepherd is going to find a great many sheep among those who have beenflt of eyil'habit. It makes me «n«d to Christian people give up a prodigal • Kho u ,\ There are those who though the grace of God were a chain of forty or fifty links, and after they had ran ont there was nothing to touch the depth of a very bad case. If they Vre hunting and got off the track of the deer I hey would look longer among the brakes and bnshes for the 104^game than they have been looking for that lost sonl. People tell os that if a man has delirium tremons twice he cannot be reclaimed; that after a woman has fallen from her integrity she cannot be restored. Tbs Bible has distinctly in timated that the Lord Almighty is ready to pardon four hundred aad nine- tv times; that is seventy times sevsn; there are tnsn before tie throne of God who have wallowed in every kind of sin; bnt saved by the grace of Jesas and washed in His blood, they stand there radiant now. There are those who plunged into the very lowest hell of Elm street. New York, who have for the tenth time been lifted np, and fin- ally, by the grace of God, they stand in heaves gloriously rescued by the promised to the chief of sinners, it to tell yoa that God loves to take hold of a very bad ease. When the Church casts yon off, and when the clnb-room casts yon off, and when so ciety casts yon off, and when business associates cast yon off. and when father CMt * you off. and when mother casts yon off. and when everybody casts yon ther e 1 »» w uieu mi than they find. About the only force some people have ia the force of habit. Let prayer be the key of the morning and bolt of the evening. The imagination of men is often the refnge of their prejudices. If you play|With a fool at home he will play ,with yon abroad, - It is a great point of wisdom to know how to estimate little things. Flattery is like false money; it im poverishes those who receive it. Shallow men believe in Iu?k; strong en believe in canse and effect. What I have been tanght.I have for gotten; what I know, Ihavegneysed. Every time yon avoid doing wrong yon increase yoar inclination to do right. The parson who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Tlie love of glory can only create a hero; the contempt of it creates a great Too much sensibility creates happi ness; too mnch insensibility creates crime. Modesty is to worth what shadows painting; she gives to it strength say, "if it’s any accommodation to yon. I’ll take it.” My friend, will yon be just as accommodating in matters of re ligion? There are some of von who have fonnd ont that this world a tisfy-yonr sonl. Yoa are like the Sabbath night To after the services were over: "I have tried this world and fonnd it an insaffi- cent portion. Tell m» of aomething better." Yoa have come to that. You are sick for the need of divine medica ment. Now, I come and tell yon ot a Physician who will cure you, who has cared hundreds and haadrads who were sick as you are. "Oh!” you say, confidence in him." But will yon not try him? . Accommodate me in Heavenly Shepherd will find many of t hi« matter; oblige me in this matter; his sheep amid the non-chnrchgoers. jost try hiss. I am very certain he will reply, "I have ^ rial confidence in him.bnt if yon ask me as a matter of aceommodatioa.introdace him." 601 do introduce him—^Christ, the Physician, who has eared more blind eyes, and healed more ghastly wonnds, and bound op more broken hearts than all tha doctors since the time of -Escnlapins. That divine Physician is here. Are yoa not ready to try him? Will yan not, as a para matter of experiment, try him and stats yonr case before him? Hold nothing back from Him. If yon cannot prey, if yon do not know how to pray any other way, say: "O Lord Jesus Christ, this is a starting thing for me to do. I know nothiog abont the formulas of religion. These Chris '’ people have been talkii it what ?Kn about what Thou canst do am ready to do whatever Tbon mandest ms to do- I am ready to take whatever ‘Thou commandest me to take. If there he any power in religion, as those people say, 1st ms have tbs advantage of it.” Will yon try that experiment? I do not at this point of my discourse say that there is anything ia religion.bat 1 simply say try it—try it. Do not take my counsel or th* counsel of any clergyman, if yoa despise clergymen. Perhaps we may he talk ing professionally, perhaps ws may be prejudiced in the matter; perhaps wa may be hypocritical in onr utterai perhaps wa may preach becanse w paid to preach; perhapa oar advice is not worth talking. Then take tha counsel of some vary respectable lay- l»«n .. U7:i John Milton, the poet; as Wil liam Wilbeforce, the statesman;** Tvawp Newton, the astronomer; as Robert Boyle, the . philosopher; metaphysician. They never preached pretended to preach, and yet polling u* of his telescopic, and another down his parliamentary scroll*and another his electrician's wire, they all declare th* adaptedness of Christ’s religion to th# wants aad trouble# of the world. If yoa.will not take the of ministerr of th* gospel then take tha eadatioas of high! 1 , skeptical and struck laymen. through with unrest, wonld yoa not ljks <0 have sons* of th* peace which broods over tho Christian’s: eoal? I know nil about yonr doubts. I have been through them all. I have gone through all the corrienlmn.' I have doubted whether there is a God; wheth er Christie God. I have doubted wheth er th^Bible was true. I have doubt ed the immortality of the sonl. I doubted my own existence. I doubted eveiything; and yet out of the of donbt I have We mnst. learn to submit with grace, to commit the follies which depend upon character. The mind is like a trank. Well packed it holds almost everything; if ill packed next to nothing. No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of honrly assistance. No evil propensity of the human heart la so powerful that it may not be snbdoed by discipline. astonishing how mnch easier it It is astonishing how mnch easier is to do evil than bear to be told of t ii we have done.. Thrift to time will -epay yon in af- life with a usury of profit beyond r most sanguine dreams. yonr most sanguine t More , evil truths are discovered by th* corruption of the heart than by tha penetration of the mind. Life to a yonng man is like a new acquaintance, of whom be growa dis gusted as he advances in yuan. There is nothing ia the nniverse that I fear, except that I may not know all my doty or may fall to do it. will I off, your first cry for help will bend the Eternal God dear down into the ditch of yonr suffering and shame. The Good Templars cannot save yon al though they are a grand institution. The Sons of Temperance cannot save yon, although they at* mighty for good. Signing th* temperance pledge cannot save yon, although I believe in it. Nothing but the grace of the Eternal God can save yon. and that will, if yon will throw yonrself on it. A man once said to me: "Unless God helps me I cannot be delivered. I have tried irything, sir, but now I have got ia 1 habit of prayer, and when I come a drinking saloon I pray that God' will take me safe past, and I pray an- am past. He does help me." For v man given to strong drink there scores of traps set, and when he out on business with his bill or goods on Broadway, or John street, he Fulton avenue, or Atlantic avenue, of will be in infinite peril, and no one bnt the everywhere present God can see that maa through. Oh, they talk about the catacombs of Nap!es,and th# catacombs of Rome, and the catacombs of Egypt, the burial places under the city, where the dust of a great mnltitnde lie, bnt I tell yoa Brooklyn baa its catacombs, and New York its catacombs, and Bos ton its catacombs, and Philadelphia its catacombs. They are the underground restaurants, fall of dead mem’s bones and all unc learn ness. Young man, yon know it. God help yon. There is no need of going in the art galery to see in skillful sculpture that wonderful representation of a man and his sons wound nronnd with serpents. There are families now wrapped in the martyrdom of faag and seals and vs- nom—a living Laocoon of ghastliness and horror. What are yon to do? I am not speaking into the air. I am talking to handrads of men who mast be saved by Christ’s Gospel or never saved at all. What are yon going to do? Do not pot yonr trust in erunld* of potassium, or in Jamaica ginger, or ia anything that apothecaries caa mix. Pat yoar trust only in the Eternal God aad ha will asm yon through. Some of von do not have temptations every day. Iris a periodic temptation that comes every six weeks or every three months, when it seems as if the powers of darkness kindle aronnd abont yonr tongneth# fine of th* pit. It is well enough at such a time, as some do, to seek medical counsel; bnt yonr first and most importunate cry mast be to God. If the fiends will drag yon to the •laughter, mak* them do it on yonr knee*. O God, now that tho paroxysm of thirst is comiag again upon that maa, help him 1 Fling hack into tho pit of hell the fiend that assaults his sonl* Oh. my heart ache* to see men go on io this fearful straggle without Christ. There are tboee whsse hands so trem ble from dissipation that they can hardly holds book, aad yet I have to tell you that they will yet preach the Gospel, aad on communion days cany around the consecrated bread, accepta ble to everybody becanse of their holy life and | their consecrated behavior. Tho Lord is goiag to save you. Yonr home has got to be rebuilt. Yonr physical health has got to be restored. Yonr worldly business has got to be raeoastrneted. The Church of God is going to rejoice over yonr discipleehip. "Other sharp I have which are not. of this fold." While I have hope for all prodigals, there are some people whom I giT» »p u b»t. I mm thorn vim ksn tw churchgoer, all thter lib. who han maintained outward morality, bat who. Dotwilhctaadiag tvoatr, tfiirtjr. forty imbpaadahtl»r<iiid&l>, a J "“* *™ n ** taw Uvely, onl y in thu can a nafar yielded their heart to Chriat. 1 • - - T Tbay are Qoapcl.hardened. A errmon haa no mom effect npon them than tha •oming of the moon npoa tha city pave- aaaat. Aa Chriat aaya:-Tha pabUaua nd harlot, will go iato tha kingdom of God before them." They han muted all tha importaaity of ditlna mercy and han (one daring these thirty through moat powerful earthqi religion, feeling, and they are away from God than oyer. After awhile they will lie down lick, nnd day ft will bo told that they are •J 11 ... Xo hope! Bat I torn to ont- aiders with a hope that thrills through ot to. ten, . m J tady and wnl. -Other .beep I existence! * i’ have J*''.r, not of thi. fold.” You hardened. You have read many sermons daring the last few years. As yon enter church everything is novel and all the wmeas are suggestive of yonr earlr days. How aweet the 'opening hymn sounds in yonr ears and how blesaed it is! Everything suggestive of heaven. Y on do not weep., bnt the shower is not far off* Yon sigh, andjon have noticed that there is alwavan.righ in the wind before the rain foils. There are those who would give anything if they conld find relief in tears. They aay: "Oh, mv wasted life! Oh, the bitter past! Oh the grave over which J have stnm- bled! Whither shan I fly? Alas for the future! . Everything is dark—so dark, so dark. God help me! God pity mo!" Thank tho Lord for that last ntteranee. Foil have begun to P™7-when a man begins this way and God steps iu and heats back the hounds of temptation to their kennel, abont the-1 and around i sonl pnts the covert of jij* pardoning mercy. Hark! I hear something fall. What waa that? It is the bare of the fenee aronnd tip sheepfold. The shep herd lets t^em down and the hunted •beep of (he mountains bound in, some of them their fleecetorn with the bram bles, some of them their feet lame with dogs, bnt hounding in. Thank God! "Other sheep I hard which are not of this fold." food fok thought. learning makes a man fit company for kimself. Not to hear conscience is the way to silenoe it Discreet wives have sometimes net- Wise men make more opportunities be receives nearest his heart. Tha darkness of death is liko the evening twilight; it make* all objects appear more lovely to the dying. If yon wish to appearwell in society, yon mnst consent to bo taught many things which you know already. A narrow-minded man can never pos se real and true generosity; be caa neve! go beyond mere benevolsaoe. Thera are maay vices which do not deprive ns of friends; there are many virtues which prevent onr having any. A feeble light in the pulpit is more ont of plow than in the pew. It is not position hot character that gives light. In love we grow acquainted becanse we are already attached; in friendship we most know each other before w* There never grow acqi ro things to ' nainted—tb* which ’ revenges of time and the injustices of onr fellow- Both erudition and agriculture ought to be enoonragnd by government; mfsetares will come themselves. H.**doth not know those things whieh are of use for him to know, is bnt an ignorant man, whatever he know besides. thies to onr enemies in misfortune— which we generally do, and are glad of tha chance. If, we cultivate bom* friendship with the assiduity that we give to those ont* ■ util lilac wall wUM .:.t J i richer and side, they will yield ns e ' irer returns. Bad habits are the thistles of the taut, and nan indulgence of tbm ia a aea (raw -kick will com forth a crop of rank weeds. To think properly one. mast think . , train of rea soning be conducted successively. Obstinacy and intolerance are the sorest proofs of ignorance, horizon is generally measured by Lis rlodge, and by his ’ capacity of are Ihe L man’s knowing. Thera never did, and never will, ran ger to the exerefe# of resolute aelf-de- > tJ * Personal! «To Men Only! The Voltaic Belt Co., Mauhall, Midi., Will send Dr. Drn’s Cellbrathd Electbc- Voltaic Belts axd Electric ArruAEcss on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with Nervous Debility lost Vitality and Manhood, —* 1 s thirty days’ trial is allnwod.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, September 15, 1882, Image 1