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AMERICUS, GEORGIA:; FRIDAY, SEPTEatBER 22, 1882. " / ■ ^
NO. ai.
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ccat. per, IMjgyach Inserqoa^i
Forsyth Street, - - Americus, Ga.,
ISSUES THIS, HIS
Fall Proclamation!
Hereby Inviting Everybody, and more Particularly
the Ladies, to call and see his
GRAND DISPLAY OF NEW GOODS
Which have recently been added to his Stock,
WITH A LARGE I.OT ON THE WAY!
WHICH, WHEN RECIEVED, WILL MAKE HIS
M Immense, 11
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First, to be a woman—then to love
With all a woman's heart.
Some creature who 'neath form dlv
SU11 hides the basest art
e fond hope, then find its end
In blackest night and bitter tears.
Go k*ow the Ups whose lightest touch
Brought dreams of heaven’s own bliss,
To meet tiie cold averted eyes
Where once but love-light shone,
To beg a crust for starving heart.
And like a dog he flung a stoue.
Go find the best of life and youth
In wrong and sorrow slip away.
To pass the night iu sad heart-throes,
In gloom our fairest day.
And Uius to drag through years and vei
Of grievous woe and blight.
No hand to guide the weary way.
No star of love or hope to light.
And still to love though faith to gone,
And to the autlior of this ruin clinj
Who walks tto e
l the
Ah! this I think the “saddest tiling.”
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• IV.
In the year 184- there lived in Mont-,
gornery a boot maker whom we shall
call Joe Waxwell, a man of some en
dowment, bat given to.periodical spells
of profligacy and when “fighting the
Tiger” as he termed his sprees, he
would quote poetry, raut dramatically,
■rsonate the deep Tragedian and
i* wit on any one who aspired to
poke fan at him. When the Tiger got
his last dime he went to work aud a
refined and intellectual man nevfr
adorned the hnrnble walks of life. Ilia
ijestic forehead 6cemed the dwelling
place of philosophy but the sparkle of
wit and hnmnr in his hlnish grey eyes
made him the opposite of Diogenes to
the beiiolucr. The pungency of h{<
feelings harried him at times into ex
essions of impudence and he set ai
fiance every human'concern.
In the same place there lived a roai
by the name of Tom Rntterwell, a tra
der and speculator, who aspired to move
in the best society. The expression of
liis countenance seemed to say “gi’
money” and he would brood on many
scheme to obtain it, nntil his face be-
ime haggard. He was a church mem
ber, paid his dues promptly which went
tar to strengthen the weak points in his
character. He was unscrupulous,
rapacious and seldom kept his word.
T ~ -'l not have admired his
_ and half pugnacious
quisiti ve dotvn cast look, lie certainly
did possess some good qualities bat he
■y seldom exercised them. Waxwell
said he had a secret groove in histongnt
which would let a lie slip out be
fore he was aware of it, He had made
b use of every hankrnpt law and
than'one assignment, who ever *
his receipt was doomed to pay his
He knew how to “do” np
administrator de bonus non, for he
would leave hut little grease
’cracklin.” Waxwell made him a pair
of fine hoots per order, and being but
dightly acquainted with him gave
credit for thirty days. During that
time he took an insolvent debtors oath.
Waxwell saw him passing his door
and kindly invited him in to the shop
for the purpose of trying a new boot
last which be had purchased ,foT he had
pair of boots to make just like his
and the old last had split in two.
’Certainly” said Rntterwell.he pull
ed off the right hoot and handed it to
the boot maker who proceeded
to drive in the last and fastened it with
ipike in the heel, and set it hack of
his bench. Then looking him blandly
the face said:
“It juBt lacks ten dollars of being tli
best fit I ever saw, have yon that much
money abont yon^“
VVhat do yon mean?” asked Rnt
terwell, “you know I’m broke and
haven’t get a dollar in the world.
Then you can’t get the boot! said
Waxwell.
go to tbe devil!” said Rnt
terwell in a rage.
I’d like to break a jug of salcati
i your head so that you could go to
heaven like a pnrilied scoundrel,”
plied the man of leather with a grin.
“Do yon attack my character, do yon
presume to insinuate that 11
gentleman!” shaking his fist in great
anger.
A ten dollar bill on the bank of
Montgomery, Cahawba.or Wetnmpka,
will redeem yonr boot and I will give
your character credit for that amount,
It will look bad to see you limping
home on one boot and one of yonr eyes
mourning, l'roduce
sell that boot to some honest one leged
nigger said Waxweli.
Here a tight ensued, a genuine old
In legitimate judicious speculation in Giain,
Provisions and Stocks on our perfected pUn.
K ids sure monthly profits to large and small
estors. Address, for full particulars,
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address the Dean of the American Medical
College, St. Lonis. Geo. O. Pitzer, M. ~
1110 Chambers Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Knnmore University High School.
H. A. STRODE (Math. Medalist U. V.),
Principal. Preparatory to University of Va.
Charges moderate. Session begins Sept. 7.
For particulars address Principal, Amherst,
Virginia.
ADVERTISERS!
1 for our Select List of Local Xewspn-
i, Geo. P. Rowell & Co.. 10 Spruce bt,
Planters’ Warehouse!
C. W. FELDER, PROPRIETOR.
Umar street,
AMERICUS, GA.
I HAVE RENTED THE
Sirrine Brick Building,
OH EAST SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE,
. AMERICUS, GA.,
fashioned Alabama bite, kick, knock
and googc began, and in two minutes
Rntterwell found himself doubled i
the street gutter with the shop
closed in his face.
The boot maker took further
geanee on him in lampoons, and a few
days thereafter the following was pasted
Who broke every vow and betray'd every
In a business like way he had courage to steal
And wormed round the truth with the tail
• of an eel.
Ills word and bis bond were worthless, Ala3l
As the worn out pedigree of a jackass,
On his knees in the church, or tbe arms of
wench
His devotional ardor would always retrench,
Crafty and cunning, deceitful and bland
He wenned himself in with the best of the
land,
A bankrupt in morals—a bankrupt In law
His small ’possum eyes cr— ’ —
they saw
On both sides of every ques. ,
An abortion of all that was honestand good
The devil himself in his slippery way
Had to lump him at last and take him
pay,
Ah ha! quoth the friend, his soul is so small
Through the crossbars of hell he can easily
... Wfittcn pit the Rktcclicax,
The;Fathers’ looking Glass; Or;
Intemperance from a Phy- \r
Biological Standpoint.' , j
Brandy, brandy, bane of,life, •'.' 1 ’.
Spring of tumult source of strife:
H our wives could half thy einses tell, o
Our wires would wisfe-the* safe in hell. ,
Such is nearly the,language of Horry,
when Marion’s men captured the topes
brandy keg and losi^he battle. I don’t
know that ladies eyfr curse, at, least I
never heard one give audable expression,
to a vulgar or profane thought; but J
think that if they knew of all the avil^
that flow from the ujie of alcohol in its
'aried forms, and understood the laws
‘ physiology, and^he science of the
-- Jl as well as the patriarch Jacob did
when he set np his striped poles with
their hideous stains and splotches at
hU cattle) drinking stalls, they would
be provoked when the door latch moved
t a late hour of the night to take the
-dvice of Job’s wife and corse a little,
and sink intoelerniftblivion rather (hah
feel the embrace of anabitnal drunkard.
From a physiological standpoint
o' cjearly that social reform, ; ~
habits and customs of society is im
portant factor iu the temperance move
ment. The laws governing, cause apd
effect obtain in the science of physiology
and of mind as well as in the natural
iences. An imperfect grain of wheat
cannot produce a healthy plant, nor can
iceberg give heat to a freezing body
• stand undiminished under the pene
ating rays of the buu in a torrid zone’.
Cause and effect is the result of a law
that pervades the universe of mind and
matter whether on earth or in heaven’
God so ordained it for a wise and be
nevolent purpose. A knowledge’of this
law directs man in all of his movements
through the varied departments of life
from the selection of the tiny mustard
seed np to the high and. responsible
privilege of choosing the wife of Iris
bosom. No woman with a knowledge
the perfect operation of this divine
law would ever choose as a companion
for life a man characterized by moral
deformity or mental imbecility, and yet
there is but a single remove in the legiti
mate result, whether the condition is
from natural causes or habitual drunken
iss. And here J. am impressed tc
sound the key note of alarm and enun
ciate the bible truth that the transcend-
goodness and wisdom of God arose
a climax when he ordained that a
perfect shoot should not spring from at
imperfect stock. “As wo sew so shall
reap.” If we sew to the whirlwind
shall reap the tornado. Physical
Imperfection produces its kind and men
tal and moral forces their kind. The
laws of canse and effect mast obtain
the justice and goodness of God sinks
from view and man is left upon the sea
of life without an incentive to virtue,’
morality or sobriety. But when we
kuow that the offspring is a mirror that
reflects the image of the aucester and
shows to the world the secret move
ments of tbe soil, even in the absence
of overt action the parent rises to the
highest effort of the human will io con
trol bis wants and keep his' passions
ithin due bounds. And here allow
to suggest that God has instituted
law for the government of men that
lot universal on earth and obtain in
iven. God himself is not exempt
from this wonderful law as was clearly
iplified in the advent and harmo-
} characteristics of Christ the Son
of God. Iu Christ we And the humili
ty, the tenderness, ami virtues of the
Virgin Mary, whilfi he inherited the
brightness of the father’s glory, aud tha
express image of his person. Oh, grand
and sublime truth of heaven! Thon
great incentive to parental virtues!
Thou protector of childhood from men
tal, moral and physical imperfection!
Why will not the mothers of future
generations not study the laws of mind
and the science of. - the soul? Why no*,
listen to the voice of nature and weigh
well the language of Christ: “He that
hath seen me hath seen the father,
and the father are one.” Mark here
the identity of the father and the
aud learn that as Christ is the mirror
through which the divine image aud the
glory of God is reflected and made
manifest to the world. So is posterity
true reflector of a mother’s virtues or
father’s sins. How natural then and
painful the cry*of anguish that rends
the chords of sympathy and love when
sinning father looks upon the face of
drunken son, bereft 6f honor, morals
and reason, struggling to brake the
well forged chains that binds him to a
drunkard’s fate. How appropriate the
language of David, whose thirst fof
power and dominion were inherited by
Absolum, and led him to dishonor and
death. “Oh, Absolum, my son, m;
i, would to God I had died for thee. 1
ur innocence and my guilt like Me-
Beth’s ghost ever rise up before me. Il
was I that engendered the love of do
minion that prepared the heart to con-
the disloyal-thought and nerved
rm to strike for p< wer. Through
my ignorance I forged the bonds of
iniquity. In embryo the mind and
heart were plastic, the laws of heredity
potent and the character was form
ed for evil.. i ’
Snch is a feeble illustration of the
force of habits and culture when under
the influence of the laws of heredity.
Every act and thought, whether sensual
or chaste, is indelibly stamped upon the
plastic mind and heart of posterity to be
reflected upon the world either to glo
rify or damn the ancestor both here and
hereafter. The fiat is gone forth that
the sins of the father shall he visited
upon the children, even to the thin! and
the fourth generation. The law is holy,
just and good, and is as unchangeable
God himself. Bacon
crawl
I’m>ick of my bargain, I know very we
That Tom will corrupt all the morals of
H.
Personal To Men Only!!
The Voltaic Belt Co., Maishall, Mich:,
will send Dr. DTK’s Celebrated Electjio-
Voltaic Belts axd Electric Appliances
on trial for thirty days to men (younr or old)
who are afflicted with Nervous Debility,
Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred
I UKSPEtTfdLLY ANNOUNCE TO MT FARMER CUSTOMERS, AND THE friends and others, will receive prompt
1‘Untera of this section generally, that I have again leased this Warehouse and will tentkra and sold best prices offered.
** 1‘n-pared the corn lag season, wltla unusual faculties, to advance the Interests of are
fMioiw. a long experience la the bnrinesa, aided by an earnest desire to ptaaae^M, J
u “nk, a in indent guarantee that satisfaction will be given. 1 will have a» able carp* ot
Assistants, chief among them,
MAJ. T. M.' FUBIXNV,
iSlSranScrfirtSS*****" “sL2mf $m * n
Which I will repair and have ready to store tq,* vitality and Manhood,
cotton la during the coming season. My tzoubles. cnarauteeinx speedy
friends and the public are asked to patron- d«toratorfheidtliand«ialrvteor. ‘Ad-
Ml produce left In my care by dr^M^ove N. B.—No risk Is incurred,
others, will receive prompt w-, ^ thU ^ da vs’ trial is allowed.
“How do You Manage,- said a lady* to
r friend, “to appear happy all the time? ’,
‘I always Jure Parker’s, Ginger Tonic haiF
Mrs. A.J3IMMONS
I always fee
TABERNACLE SERM0N&.*
B¥ REV. T. DftWVTT TALMAGE
THE POPULAR CHRIST.
if ■ <«vr
Unto him shall the gathering ot the people,
be.—Genesis xlix., 10.. ■, t , ^
Through a supernatural lens,
what I might call a prohescope, dying
Jacob looks down through the corridors
of the centuries until; he sees Christ
the centre of all popular attention
the greatest being in all the world, so
everywhere acknowledged. It was not
always so. _ The .world tried hard to
. Him dpwu and to pat him put. In
the y^r 1200, while excavating fqr an
tiquities fifty-three. miles, northeast pf
Rome, a copperplate; tfblq was found
containing ,the death warrant of the
Lord Jesus Christ, reading in thjs wise^
■ •7Z f.. ri i „
hat jshat the wotld wants to* o
siuafled" qf is ibat 'C hrist - 'will forgive
thb worst Krone?, the hardest sinner,the
oldrttfiinAeKthe m{*t inexcusable sin--
ner; To the * sia-pardoning Shiloh ,let
all the gathering of the people be..
But^lj remark again, the people will
-jR the, year 17 of, Ui* empire of Ti,
Seri us Cjusar.and on the 2othoCM»rch fc
I, Pontius Pilate. Governor ; qf th$
P'raHore, condemned Jesus of Nazareth
to die between t\yo thieves, Quintius
Cornelius to lead him forth to the place
of execution.”
That death warrant was signed by
several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi
Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi;
thirdly, by Rqphiel; fourthly, by Capet,
a private citizen. This capital punish
ment was executed according to law.
The name of the thiePc^ncified on the
light hand side of Christ was Dismas;
thename of t^e thief crucified on the
left hand side of Christ was Gestea.
Pontius Pilate, describing the tragedy,
says the whole world lighted icandlea
from noon until night. Thirty-three
years of maltreatment. They ascribed
His birth to bastardy and His death to
excruciation A wall of the city, built
about those times aqd. recently .exposed
by archeologists, shows a.caricature gi;
Jcsub Christ, evidencingAhe contempt
in which he was held by many in.liis
day—that caricature on the wall repre
senting a cross and a donkey nailed to
it, and nnder it the inscription: "This
is theChrist whom th« people worship.”
Bu* I rejoice that that day is gone by.
Onr Christ is coming ont from under
the world’s abuse. The most populai
name bn earth to-day ia the name ol
Christ. Where He has one friend
Christ has a thousand friends. The
scoffers have become the worshippers.
Of the twenty most celebrated infidels
in Great Britain in oar day, sixteen
have come back to Christ, trying to
undo the blatant mischief of their lire*
—sixteen out of the twenty. Every
man who writes a letter or signs & doc
ument, wittingly or unwittingly,honor*
Jesus Christ. We date everything as
B; O: or A. D.—B. C., before CbriBt;
A.D., anno Domini, in the year of oui
Lord. All the ages of history on th<
pivot of the upright beam ol tbe cross
of the Son of God, B. C.j A; D. I do
not care what you call Him—whether
Conqueror,-or King, or Morning Star,
or'San of Righteousness, or Balm of
Gilead, or Lebanon Cedar, or Brother,
or Priend, or take the name used in the
verse from which 1 take my text, and
call him Shiloh, which means His Son,
or the Trauquilator.or the Peacemaker,
Shiloh. I only want this morning to
tell you that “unto Him shall the gath
ering of the people be.’
In the first place, the people are gatli
ered a’ronnd Christ for pardon. N<
sensible man or healthfully ambitious
man is satisfied with his past life,
fool may think he is all right. A
sible man knows he is not. I do
care who the thoughtful man is,
review of his lifetime behavior before
God and man gives to him no especial
satisfaction. **Q!” he says, : “there
have been so many things 1 have don*
I ought not to have done, there have
been so many thing* ,1 have said I
ought never to have aaid, there. have
been so many things I have written I
ought never to.have.written* .there have
been so. many thing* I have thought I
ought never to have thought, I must
somehow get thing* readjusted, I must
heH.
Cold Cough, or Sore Throat,
ilil be stopped. Neglect frequently i
■alts ia an Incurable Lung disease or C*
sumption. Brown’s Bronchial Trenches i
certain to give relief hr-Aathma, Bronchil
Coughs, Catarrh; Censamtite i aid Thri-
Dlseases. For thirty years tha Troches have
been recommended by pnyaieiana, and Al
ways give perfect satisfaction. They are
not new or untried but having been tested by
wide and eonatant use for nearly an entire
generation, they hava attained - wellmerited
rank among the few staple remedies of the
are. Public speaker* and 8ingers use them
to clear and strengthen to Yoiee. Sold at
twenty-iv# eonU a box everywhere, novly
The love of display which result*
vulgar ostentation ia the result of sel
fishness, of a desire to excite th* envy
of others rather than the wish to share
benefits with them—an effort to appear
gnat without rtriving to be great ‘
reality. - - --- •» „ j ^
Wltat’s Saved- la Gained.
gather around Christ as a sympathizer.
Or wflll wafl^IJmptthy. Ihearpeo
pie talk ah though they were indepen
dent dCSL: .Non* ofus could live with
out sympathy. At.this season Of tnt
year we come home from ouVsummer phere sixteen months burning. Tycho
■bsenie. ’and ‘perhaps wfi leave a por- Brahe said he saw another world bnm-
somehow have the past reconstructed;
there are days, and months, and years
which cry ont against me in horrible
vociieration.”. Ah! any brother, Christ
adjusts the past by obliterating it. He
does not erase the record of oar misdo
ing-with a dash of ink from a register’s
pen, but lifting His right hand, crush
ed, red at the palm, He.-put it - against
His bleeding brow, and then against
His piercing aide, and with the crimson
accumnlation of all these wounds He
rubs out tbe accusatory, chapter. Ho
blots but our iniquities. .01 nevnr be
anxious about .the future; better be anx;
about the past. ,I :put it jiot
the end of my sermon; I put it *t the
front: Mercy and. pardon- through
Shiloh.thesinpardoning Christ. “Unto
Him shall the gathering oi the . people
bo.” “Ol” says some man, “I have
for forty years been as bad. as I could
be, aud’is there any mercy for me?”
Mercy for you. **0*” says somo one
heni; “I hail a grand anoestry, the htflf
iest of fathers ‘ ahfl the tendercst of
mothers, and for my perfidy there is
excuse. Do you think there is any
mercy for me?” Mercy for you. “But,”
says another man, “I fe*r I Jiave com
mitted what they call the unpardonable
sin, and the Bible .says if a man com
mit that sin he is neither to be forgiven
in this world nor tbe world to ijome.
Do yon think there is any .mercy , for
me?” The. fact that you have any!
solicitude about the matter at all proves
positively that von have not committed
the unpardonable sin, Mercy for you?
01 the grace of God .which hpngetli
salvation! _ T.be grace of QoiM Jjet us
take the surveyor’s chain and try to
measure God,’s mercy through. Jesus
Christ. Let’one surveyor take that
chain and go to the north, and another
surveyor take that chain and go to the.
south, and another serveyor take that
chain aud go to the east, and another
snryeyor take that chain and go to the
west, and then, make a repoit of the
square miles of that vast kingdom of
’a mantl* Atif van nrlTI tn
tion of v our family” a Way until the cool
weather is established, and how lonely,
the house seems nntil they afl get home.
Bat alas! woe for those who never
come home. Sometlthes .it seems as - if
it nlust be impossible. "What,'will
their feot'-tifevef hgain come over' the
threshold? Will they never again sit
with'ns at the table? ' Will they never
•gain kneel fwith ns at family prayer?
hhall' Wei.'never again look 1 into 'their
faddy* fates?” 1 Shall we new again on
earth' iaW' J 'dbiltisel with thim 1 fob our
Wcrkf'^AjasRmeXwho can sudd tinder
thes^fcnefsV' O!; Christ, Thon canst
do itWre for’ & bereft soul than dny one
else, •‘it'is'k^that stands beside us to
tell of the'Ve^flftfcclion. It is He that
lame 7 to : bi<f a^. : If is He 1 that came
o us and’breathes ifito us the kpirit of
submission until'we can look up from
the wreck^antfVAiWf o’Ar WrfgW«%< ex
pectations'anil'say: “Father, not my
will, but Thine be done.G .Oh.yewho
are bereft, }e angnish bitten, come into
thfa refuge 1 . 'Th* rfell of those who
CSmt? 'for rJlief to <?hrist is larger and
larger. Unto\tbi« Shiloh of omnipo
tent sympathy the githeriig '.of the
>eopfe shall v he.'< Oh,that Christ would
itaad-. by all these empty cradles and
ill those desolated homesteads and a^l
these broken* hearts, and persuade ns
it is well. Tho Worldjcaunot offer you
arty help at such a time. * Oppose the
hqdd comes and offers you money.
Von would rather live on a <;rust iq a
cellar and; have your departed loved
ones with you than Uyo inoflajqtUl sur
roundings and they away. Suppose
die world oflere you it*..honor? to con
sole; you. .What }*»|the, Presidencytq
Abraham Lincolu when little WiUje!
lies. dead in the White, House? Per-,
haps Uie world comes aud says; “Time
will Cure it *U-”;, Ah! there are griefs
that haveJrageil on for thirty years and
are raging yet. .And ye hundreds have
beeu comforted, ithousands have been
comforted, millions have been comfort
ed, and Christ has done the work. Oh!
what you want Js, sympathy. .The
world’s heqrt o£ sympathy beats very
irregularly. Plentysympathy when
not want it, and oRen'when w«
ippalling need,of it posympathy.
There ax# multitudes of .people, dying
for sympathy—i
sympathy ‘
in- their..-. .
tbeic financial losses, syiqpath/in their
physical ailments, sympathy in their
spiritual, anxieties, sympathy in tbe
time, of ..declining years—wide, deep,
high,.everlasting, adp> i gfl t y. fi l rm P» t ^y-
We must have it, and Christ gave it.
That is tbe cord with which He,is go
ing to draw all nations to Him.’! Al
the story of punishment a. man’s eye
flashes and his teeth set and. his fist,
clenches, and he prepares to do battle
even though it he against the heavens;
but what heart so hard but it. will .suc
cumb to tbe story of compassion. Even
a man’s sympathy is nleasant and help
ful. When we have been in some hoar
of weakness, to have a brawny m
stand beside us and promise.; to 6ee
through, what courage it, gives to »
heart and strength it gives to our arm.
Still mightier is a woman’s sympathy
Let him tell the story who, when all
hisfortaqea were gone and all the world
was against .him, came home and found
in that home a wife .who could write on
the top of the empty flour-barrel, “The
Lord will provide;” or write on the door
of the empty wardrobe, “Consider the
lllie* of the field; if God so clothed the
grass of the field, will He not clothe ns
and ours?’! Or let that young man tell
the story who has gone the whole round
of dissipation. The shadow of Black-
weU/s Island is upon him, and even his
father says, “Be off! never come home
againl” The young man finds still his
mother’s arm outstretched for him, and
how she will stand atthe wicket of the
prison, to whisper > consolation, or get
down on her knees before th* Governor
begging (or pardon, hoping.on for her
vagrant boy after all others are hope
less. Or let her tell the story who, Un
der. villainous allurement and impatient
of parental .restraint, has wandered off
from a. home of which she was the Idol
into the murky and. thunderous 'mM-
hf je hqly breast the woes of all who will
come to Him.' Oh! what a God, what
a Savior we have! Bot’in larger vision
see the nations in some kind of trouble
ever since th# world was detailed and
hailed uown fhe embankments. The
demon of sin came to' this world, but
other demons have gone through other
world*. The demon of conflagration,
the demon of volcanic disturbance, the
demon .of destruction. La Place says
La cm. world in the northern hemis-
C‘whapa.!He,may.. I should Bko to see
the scarred feet going np tho stairs of
a palace in‘which all the glories of tho
4IKambritar;d.the .Mabel Tagsli and
the St. Mark’s and the Winter Palace
are gathered. I should like to see the
world pay Christ in love for what it
did to fHni id maltreatment. lahonld
like to be one of the grooms, of th*
chargers, holding the stirrup il the
king: mounts. 0! what a glorious
time it’ would be on earth if Christ
wonld break through the heavens and
right here where -He has suffered and
died have this prophecy fulfilled. - “Un
to Him Shall tbe gathering of. the peo
ple be.” But. failing in that I bargain
to meet yon at the ponderous gate of
heaven on the day when our Lord
comes baok. - Garlands of all nations
on His brow—of tho bronzed nations
of the south an-1 the pallid nationa of
tho north—Europe, Asia, Africa, North
and South America, and tho, pther con
tinents that may arise meanthno from
the xcj^-to taltc the-places ef their-
sunken predecessors, arch of Trajan,
arch ofTiths, arch of Triumph-in the
Champs Elysees all too poor to wel-
Cama^his king of kings, and lord .of ,
lords, and conqueror of conquerors ?n
Hit- august arrival. Turn out-all;.
Heaven to meet Him. Hang all along,-
the root the flags of earthly ' dominion
whether decorated . with crescent, or -
star, or fcagle, or lion, or coronet. Hang
out Heaven’s, brigheat banner, with ita ,
one 6tar of Bethlehem and hlood-striped
of the cross. I hear the procession '
Hark! 'the tramp of the feet, the ’
rambling of the wheels, the clattering
of the hoofs, and the shout'of the riders.
Tc® thousand times ten thousand, and
thousands of thousands. Put up in
Heaven’s library, right beside the
completed volume of the world’s ruin, .
the completed volume of Shiloh’s tri-
„ . .. umpli. The old promise struggling
coming to America over the table-lands through the ages fulfilled at last: -
“Unto Him shall the gathering of the.
}«g-
in three hundred years fifteen hundred
worlds have disappeared. I do not see
why infidels find it so hard to believe
that two Worlds stopped in Joshua’s
time, when the kstronomera tell us that
fifteen hundred worlds have stopped.
Even tbe mooq is a world in nf
Stellar, lunar,, solar catastrophes
numerable.! Bnt it seems as if tho
most sorrows have been reserved for
!r world. By-one-toss of the world
Ticnooro, of-12,000 inhabitants only
twenty rtf*, people escaped. By,
shake of the world at Lisbon m
minutes 60,000 ^perished and 200,000
before the earth' stopped rocking. A'
mountain falls in Switzerland, burying
the railage of Goldau. A mountain
falls in Italy in the .night, when 2,000
people are asleep,and they never arouse.
By a convulsion of the earth Japan
broken off from China. By a convul
sion 1 of the earth tbe Caribbean islands
broken off from America. Three islands
near the mouth of the Ganges, with
OlO.OOO inhabitants—a great surge of
the sea breaks over them and 214,000
perish that day. Alas, alas for our
poor- world. It has beeu recently dis-.
covered that a whole continent has
6unk, a continent that connected Europe
ind America—part of the inhabitants
of that continent going to Europe, part
of Mexico, t up through the valleys ot
the Mjtfiissippi, and we are finding now
the remains of their mounds, and their
cities in Mexico, in Colorado and the
table lands of the West. It is a mat-
of demonstration that a whole con-
sut has gone down, the Azores off
coast of Spain on\y the highest
mountain, of that sunken continent.
I'lato describe^ .that continent, its
grandeur, the multitude of its inhabi
tants, its splendor and its awful de
struction, and the world thought it was
a romance, bnt archeologists have
fonnd ont it as history, and the Engi
lish and the German ami-the American
fleets have gone forth with archeolog
ists, and the Challanger and the Dol
phin and the Gazelle have dropped an
chor,- and in deep sea soundings they
have found the contour of that sunken
continent. Oh! there is trouble marked
on the rocks, on the sky, on the sea, on
the flora and the fauna. Astronomical
trouble, geological trouble,oceanic trou- -
ble, political trouble, -domestic trouble,
and standing in the presence of all those
stupendous devastations, I ask if I am
not right in saving that the great want
of this age and all the ages is divine
sympathy and omnipotent comfort, and
they are found hot in the Brahma of
the Hindoo or the Allah of the Moham
medan, bnt in the Christ onto whom
shall the gathering of the people be.
Other worlds nay fall, but this morn
ing 6tar will never be blotted from the
heavenB. The earth may qnake, but
this Rock of Ages will never be shaken
from its foundations. The same Christ
who fed the 5,000 will feed all the
world’s hunger;., £The same Christ who
Cured Bartimens will il In mine all blind-
The same Christ who made the
speak will put on every tongne a
hosanna. The same Christ who awoke
Lazarus from the sarcophagus will yet
rally all the, pious dead iu glorious re
surrection. “I know that my Redeem-
liveth,” and that “to him shall the
gathering of the people be.” Ah! my
friends, when Christ startB thoroughly
andquickly to lift this miserable wreck
of a sunken world.it will not take Him
long to lift it: I have thought that this
particular age in which we live may be'
given up to discoveries and inventions
by which through quick and instantan
eous communication all cities and all
communities and all lands will be
brought together, and then in another
period, perhaps, these inventions which
have been used for worldly pui
ill be brought out for Gospel invita
tion, and some great prophet of the
Lord will come aniL&natch the myste-
i, sublime and miraculous telephi
from the band ot commerce, and all
laads; and kingdom connected by a
wondrous wire, this prophet of the Lord
miy, through telephonic communica-
ion, in an instant announce to all na<
ions pardon and sympathy and life
through Jesus Christ, and then.pntting
the *Y° Q drous tube to tbe ear of the
Lord’s prophet, the response shall com«
back: “I believe in God,the Father, Al
mighty, maker of heaven and earth,
Jesus Christ, His only begot-
, . . Von and I may. not live to
see the day- I think those of us who
40 years of age can hardly ex
pect to see the day. 1 expect before
that time our bodies will be sound a-
ileep in the hammocks of the old Gos
pel ship as it goes sailing on. "
Christ will wake us up in time.to
the achievement. We who have sweat
the hot harvest field will be at the
door of the garner when the sheaves
come in. That work for which in this
world we toiled and wept and struggled
ourselves gqt shall not come
to consummation and we be oblivions
of the achievement- Wq will be al
people be.”
“While everlasting ages roll,
Eternal love shall feast their soul,
And. scenes of bliss forever new
Kiso In succession to their view.’’
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
I heard one say so, is half a lie.
lie that makes a good war has peace.
He who will not be counseled cannot
be helped.
I defy all fetters though they were
ade ot gold.
He that is born of a lien must scratch
living.
papers, filled with. the -story of a little
child? It wm because we are all one in
sympathy,and every parent sajd: “How
if it had Wn B my'.Lizzie?Tiow if it had
beqa my Mary? how if it had Been my
Maud? how if it .bad been my, child?—
. „ hov »f there had been one ufioccuplid
God’s inercjfc Ah! yon will hav# to pillow ia otp trundle-bed to-night? how
wait to all eternity for. the report of that iflittle one—^Sone of my. tone and
flesh pf my flesh—were fo-night carried
captive into* some 'den of vagabond J,-
never to come back to me? how if" it
bad been my Borrowdooking out of Hie
ripdow, watching 'and waiting—that
-"'iW worse thin dehth?” Then when
measurement. It cannot he measured.
Paul tried to climb the height of it,
and he went height over height, alti
tude above altitude, mountain above
mountain, then sank down in discour
agement and gave it up,’for he saw
Sierra r Nevadas beyond and Matther-
bqcqa.Jbey^np,, and wavinghand - mmj utamui RRNlivmm
back.tp.asiBjthe plain, he says; “Past everybody that Irtew who Id pray said' by the multitude as He sayr. '.»'She
finding oqt; .uo'searchahle,,that in all “Thank God!” Betause we areal! om, * * r ’
things he might have, the pre-emi- bound - by out grefT golden chain of
nnnPA ** y 0 u notice that nearly all the sympathy. Oh! yes,hut*I have to tell
i mentioned as pardoned-In the you this , morniag that if yon will ag-
night of abandonment, away from God,
and further away; until some.lime she
is tossed on the beach of that early
home a mere splinter of a wreck. ’ Who
will pity her now? Who will gather
these dishonored locks into her lap?
Who will wash off the blood from the
gashed forehead? Who will ’tell her of
that Christ who came to save the lost?
Who will put that dreary head upon the
c}esn white pillow’and watch by day
and watqh by night until the
voice of the sufferer becomes the Whfa'-
per, ’ and the whisper becomes only a
faint motion of the lips,, and tbe taint
raotioa of the lips is exchanged for a
silent .look, end the cut feet are still,
ami the weary eyes are still, and the
IVenzied heart ’iskrill, and-all is- still?
Who will hnve co'mpassion on her when
no others luvs compassion? Mother!
Mother!, * , .
^ Ob! there is something beantifnl
sympathy—in manly sympathy, wifely
sympathy, motherly sympathy; yea,ana
neighborly sympathy. Why was it
that oar aty was'aroused with - 'excite-
ment last'vrCek when A Kttle-child waa
kid-napped from .one of oar streets? dou. Ah!, yea, those who could only
Why were whole coinmn* of,the news- givea cnpfull of cold'waterin the name
lowed'to come' ont and shake hands
with the victors. We who fonght
the earlier battles will have just
much right-to rejoice as those who
reddened their feet jn the last Armaged-
ne that lies- down with dogs must
>e with fleas.
He who will venture nothing must
it get on horseback.
He that is afraid of leaves must not
me into the woods.
He who will stop every man’s mouth
tuuqt have a great deal of meal.
He that kills a man when he is drunk,
must be hanged when he is sober.
i often discontented with our
own condition. If we knew that of
others it might be different.
Many a man owes his success in life
to the hisses of his enemies instead of
the plandits of his friends.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency natur
ally proceed from inexperience of the
world and ignorance of mankind.
Adhere rigidly and nndoviatingly to
trnth; bnt while you express what is
ae, do so ia pleasing manner.
Good manners are the only oil with
which to keep, the complex machinery
of social life in good working order.
There is one quality which all men
have in common with the angels—
blessed opportunities of exercising
mercy.
Whatever discoveries ono may have
made in the domain of self-love, there
still remains much territory unexplored.
How few of us realize that as we rise
each morning aud commence our usual
avocations that we are one day nearer
ir final home.
True politeness is perfect ease and
freedom. It simply consists in treating
others' just as you would love to be
treated yourself.
Patience is good, but perseverance i*
better. While the former Btand* as a
stoic under difficulties, the latter whips
them out of the ring.
Deceit and falsehood, whatever con-,
veniences they may for a time promise
>r produce are, in the sum of Vile, ob-
itacles to happiness.
A man. cannot speak bat he judges
lien self. With his will, or against his
will, he draws his portrait to the eye
of others by every word.
Success is tho key-note of popular
praise. The voices that bail your tri
umph may be the very ones that dis
couraged you most when straggling.
A man’s fortune is frequently decid
ed by his first address. If pleasing,
others at once conclude he haa merit;
but if ungraceful, they decide against
Disorder in a drawing-room is vul-
_ ir; in an antiquary’s room, not. The
black battle Btain on a soldier’s face ia
not vnlgar, bnt the dirty face of a house
maid is.
The finer the nature, the more flaws
will it show through the clearness of it.
The best things are seldom seen in their
best form. This is not always the most
perfect which seems so.
To form a correct judgment concern
ing the tendency of any doctrine, we
should rather look at the fruit it bears
in the disciples than in the teacher.
For he only made it; they are made
b * lV
The poor ate only they who feel poor,
and poverty .consists in feeling poor.
Therich.-aswereckon them, and among
them, the very rich, in a true search
would be fonnd v^ry indig;
of a disciple, those who could only
serapsa hsudfull of lint fora wonnded
soldier,, those who could only adminis
ter to old *ge in its decrepitude, those
who could only coax t poor waif of the
street to go back home to her God,
tbore who could only lift a little child
in the’arms of'Christ, will have as
much right to take part in tha ovation
to the Lord Jesns Christ as a Chrysos-
they become easy we begin to take
it be special. It iaii
ableness and individnal application that
its, charms consist.
When we have practiced good actions
ak well as Christ’s. He the conqueror,
we shouting io His train. Christ the
victqt^will pick ont. the humblest of
His disciples in the crowd, and taming
half around on the white horse of vie-'
tory He shall point her ont for approval
did What'she could J’ Then putting
His hknd on the bead of- some man,
who by his industry make One talent do
the work often, He'Will say:
nonce.
sinners mentioned ‘ft* pardoned-IU thelyont. __ _ __
Bible were great Binners—David a great gregatc all neighborly, manly, wifely, hast been faithfnl over a few things, I
sinner, Panl a great sinner, Rahab a motheily sympathy, it will be found will make three ruler over ten cities.”,
great sinner. Magdalen a great sinner, only- a p'oor starving thing compared Two different theories about the ful-
the Prodigal Son a great sinner, • The with the sympathy of onr great Shiloh, I Ailment of this promise. There are
world easily understood bow Christ who has held in His lap the sorrows of] people here to-day who think Christ
mid pardon a half-and-half sinner, the ages, and who fa ready to nurse on I will come in person and sit on a throne.
liking to them, and when they please
ns we do them frequently. Form, then,
the habit of doing good.
The truly great consider first how
they are to gain the approbation of God,
and^ secondly, that of their own con •
science, having done this, they would
then willingly conciliate tbe good opin
ion of their fellow-men.
Never.put a false construction on a
man’s words; it is a sort of treachery
A sentence may sometimes be twisted
in many ways, and to accuse a man ol
saying what he never intended to say,,
fa a mean-way of taking advantage.