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Newspaper Page Textfhe Sumter Republican. IN POLITICS \ND DEVOTED TO NEWB. LITERATURE SCIENCE. AND GENERAL PROGRESS ) Terms: S2 A ybab in advance. AMERICUS, GEOKGIA7FRIDA¥, AT&tfc£i$l884. ~ titate aeqnare.. . All advertisements not contracted for w be charged above rates. ? * * '» Advertisements not specifying tha length if tima for which they are to bo Inserted will be continued until ordered out and ’ charged for accordingly. . Advertfoementatooccui If unheeding all aorrow. Forgetting the llaah. out trail Across tbe br Tbe green slopes of tbe summit's eljsUo Before the glad Canaan ho fain** When my heart with tumultuous. throbing Bssssgsr 1 ? A sober, sepulchral procession Wo make ao w* Journey along, mui«lit«l fpc «y onlrrimrtm. A funeral dirge for our oopf. rbere are wlllowa above as low hendingj That areep with us on our woe; « grown sick of believing i non than a doubt, i Thera are hearts with their hangar pathetic That walk la the Valley of Tears; Tbere ara souls, in their sadness, ascetic. That linger and grlere through the years. There are loves that eeme silently hither To seek for some treason of ooot. And that wouro, as a bairn for its Blither, Iho wonderful lore that. Is loot There are many who wait and who wa&der Within the dim valley with me, ■ f c And who yearn for the mountain tope yep* der The sunlight and gladness to see; Bsta > sJmg«s:Mo 9 k is their faoss. And strangers Jhey look Into mins: Andes strangers we group for the pieces Where Benight and gladness may shin For who walks In the valley so lonely Goes there in his sorrow alone; And who gives friendly greeting gives only For bread to the hungry a stone. They may touch us whose yesterday’s ten sed living supreme; ' ~ refuses surrender, was only a dream, an far up the mountains of being; The mist of the morning below 1“ Ibelr beauty shut out from my seeing The valley where soon I moat go: B ^ 1 b £ > , w ' thoo * h *» Wag May shine with a gladness that eheoreT That I soon shall be wearily groping My way In the Valley of Teara. oumay smile on the summit of gladness Who never hare wept at the*r bare;: ut in time with the garment of sadness . Too closely wlU cover your face; And unknown of the many who wander Unknown, as they are unknown, ou shall grot* from the radiance yonder, Acroes the dark valley, alone. ‘ Amid pitiful sobbing and sighing. Where willows and cypresses bend; Y<K k£al waIk wher * ® shadows a Arises not a Ugn of Urn end; know, by the twilight unbr When morn on the mountain appears You have come, without warning or t At length to the Valley of Teara. SEALED UNTO HIM. •Ton at.. Sanly.tiw u ni M.nao. A ^*“ STS-^pJ priat. Be made a last appeal to mk god. now prostrate girl. Some PM of the party, driser than the rest pfrhep*. Reckoned her siisatly to tom- l»ly. with their heraes ruing in tlpir KW* their bauds. Others did the : seme. Whether the mormon missionary impr*vu«lifcisM!*f; Wiputotjfttod yc- m*. or MJowsd the prescribed forms. wporisat to say. BnvWfod hw heck soon to wW all .rteodlvnit- tag,.«speMfo)ly r .»iWit ae before. : /Th» girl r < W uud a bit * arely. iSTORT OF TOE EARLY OATS,OF MORMONISM, By JOAQUIN MILLER. TopyrtghUd by C. H. Miller, 1$84. l*ruticd in this paper by tpecialar- rangementtcith the author. The Book of Mormon is of prodigi ous aizs and unexampled silliness. One marvels that any one ever had the per. ■istence to writedown its endless round of repetitions of biblical words and phrases. Professing to give, in the style and language of the Bible, the history of the Tribes from the time of tbeir disaffection till they possessed America and became the monod-baild- ers, it is simply intolerable as of artistic work. Yet as it wi in all mining-camps, where in thp snowy fastnesses ws often had nothing else to read, it tbits fell to my lot to read it throngh not uafreqnently. From title-page to colophon there is not one lofty or inspired or inspiring thought, like those filling the volume it affecte. to follow. A dreary, wagry book it ia. And yet it answers the Mormon’s purpose in this: that where excuse for his actions he cannot find a the real Book, he can sorely find it in the forged one. After this huge man with th* book and the deep hollow ayes had exhorted and preached and read for hours and honrs, halting now and then, as {he read, devonring the whole camp and al* that circle about him with his huagr ayes, the girl drawn evenaearaet of All. and right under his ayes and right by the side of her ignorant and fanatical executioners, he calmly and with san est exhortation begged to baptise his listeners in tbs faith of the Latter-Day Saints. No one answered oe moved. Jinny a long breath waa drawn, many a deep aigh was smothered, bat no one spoke. The missionary, aa ho now announced himself, looked straight and hard -and earnestly at the girl. She lifted * weary black eyes to bis once more, and tried hard to read if there was any help or any hope eh* did not speak. to the bank, drank them. Th. o»a irw, cop- A gents for Atlanta PE02UCZ a* d COTTON SX0H4H.B Also agents for tbe best Meat, Grain Flour. Sugar Coffee and Mola aes BOUSES IN TI1E UNITED ST.r E*. Have always on hand a full line of Satn- K s and will give >ou as low flgurrs as any vellngmsnon the road They will sell y..u the STANDARD COTTON I’HESS, Menu- grtwred^Mendian. Mbs the lw»tIn use. friends, Jlav the "K^loG^m rsaie. Tatties planting as much r r- »<* f *atennrllons will please 1 It be known to us. marlMm. THECOMPLETE HOME. CRT ■either sex. ■*m.w^eissss^ssi rt»olutely sure. At once add rofs Tun* A Lrt * marMy, Laurel Mills Manufacturing Company. to exchange for good bonel teens tweeds exchange our cloth to farm- -»— -ts and me rebants on favora- tenns. and will give you better value for ir wool than joe can get by selling for 10 rOITSDS WASHED WOOL, $ yards Doeskin Jeans. 10 yards School Boy Jeans. We give 10M yards Tweeds. We give UK yards plain or Chock Unsays. 10 room* wool nr th* dot, J We give Cgarda Doeskin Jeans. We give $ yards School Boy Jeans. We give »M yards Tweeds. We give 10 yards plain or Check Llnseys. We will manufacture your wool Into leans for MK cents per yard, tweeds 13K, SamjeTiiK. We pay freight on all w£l Send for circular sad samples, and SSk“5S2» , S r T Lsoit Mills VapufeehuJwj R06WXLL,COBBCO* T *ITY,GA Co., Augusta, Maine. fnl of water, came back and began ... read and exhort and explain and en deavor to proselyte once more. so this strange man kept on till* the day was spent. No one had spoken save himsolf: No one had tasted food. Borne of ahm. children bad slept, their heads in tbeir weary mother’s lsps, as they sat ia circle and listened, and listened ia si lence. that long, long dey. under the vsst bine sky, by tbe dark and deso late lake of death. And aow mark! When that man ss done reading and the sun waa go ing down, there wag not a weary and overcome man or woman there.who was not awed or terrified or fascinated into* some sort of half balitH Again the ma#roae op and pleat for converts to his singular faith.-*, stretched his hands over the darksai lake as the son went down; be lifu_ his long arms to the mountains of anpw .. sns s SflM much that was noble in man and sab-' lime in nature. Bis lipe were dry; his eyes were deep and hollow and wild, bat be kept on till tbe sun had falleh behind the steep hiU that, roee in ainsravT She put eat her two bands helpless- r, sad be led her te the water. The TABERNACLE SERMONS. SI SET. T.-WW1TT T1UUCE. THE GO-BETWEEN. and one Mediator, . “For there Is one God, an_ between God and men, the man Christ Js- Words of an old minister to a young theological student. Paul to Timothy. The old than waa afflicted with diseas- •dlsyw*. xThecpsia was so sharp and. stinging that'me describes it as . 4< a thorn ia the flesh/’ and ha ao excites the sympathies of his friends that i he says on one occasion that - they would have plucked out their eyes and given to him in substitute for his poor •JM. Btit though th, •port,', pifji- teal eyesight was so poor, he had grand spiritual vision,! and he, saw Jesus Christ, as no man on earth ever saw siva and asouk-liks fact. Hs ptopped Aim. Christ was to him the work of still a moareat and prayed. ^ ill psrfcaioe- Alcytree is the wmsof oyer to ope of 1he bloody men th a bride? ,Keep her fer himself? not thw,last. There waa not a.shad- ->w of iatereat in her ia any oi>e «f tha *~i **— '■ ' hat.nras- ,-«ew naw. strange, ■««*>.•*ei»d this was ia the dim twilight thy _ darkening Jake of-death! Sfyeebirds flew into eamp from the hUin. . It.wM a strange thing, and the first t»m».in a thousand ysars, that man had corns to pitch; tent in tbeir resting-place. The moon, round-fsqsd and full, mad out of heaven and looked straight down, dose..dptpn, $alm,and pitying. Uka the sorraiwfal fn^e pf a un at prayer. Surely in » scene like this, ;M », at last, after all this aaffsrvgrjthM^ God-^fbe would be saved; aavndfia body and In mind; saved in all>r pUr- ky. and psaos of mind, and lore,^and symimthv, and sad msmorise pf* her dear dead who lay buried oat ^yonder, ia the lake ia chains. The horsemen stood waiting ordars. They had not tasted food or water all that time they waited there in the grass. These poor, deluded men be* lieved tbsv were listening to the voice of God. They were men who epald not read their names. Never had Ms- hornet such blind, faithful, devoted following ns these bloody men here waiting to do the work i f death. lit ga notable that all false religions, *11 - religions .save the one religion ,ef Christ, have had their .ooraer-atotoa kid and cemented dpwa in blood. They have hosw batlt np by igmoranee and maiQjjuMd in impurity. The giant missionary cam* forward j the bank, tsadisr the g‘ * hand. He was avidsntly weak, but.he was as full of mad asal for his work as before. He sgaia ap- pssled for proselytes. No ons.catne forwird. Then his furrowed 1 brow grew dark and revengeful. He beckoned tor his followers to got wady. In a moment more they 1»ere ready to spring into the saddle. lathe mean tiito he had motioned to oar par- ty to lay in a keg of - water, —^ ~ the resting cattle, yokojhem the bill on oar journey to the west. Oar party obeyed this last injnactioa with alacrity. They could hardly con- otal -tbeir pleasure. Yet a night’s psrsistsnt travel and a day’s drfadlnl anxiety following on its heels are hard ly calculated to charge any one with a -nperabnndanoe of spirits. In n little time the aittie ore ia line under the yoke and stand- fog with nose lifted to the hill before them. The horsemen held tightly to their homes, one foot in the stirrup. The poor horses pawed the ground in impatience to reach tbe water that gurgled and talked on as it glided to the sea ia the ITO-Iaoed moon. f apron mb* kfirfod from ittle way up the stream, and to spits of all their tranquility the area • startled a : little, and foil to jerk- tha brightest star at the plciadcs, and k;is supposed to be at the oentre of the great are 'la which onr son and the planets mpse. Jesus Christ to Paul was the brightest star, and the centre star, Alcyone of his spiritual astrono my. In my text Paul calls Christ an arbitrator. For some reason heaven and earth swung apart. They were once folly accordant. Paradise was only a colonization of the oelestial. The trees on the banks of the riyer transplantation from a kigbtr garden. Earth was a long. It was the smell of bleed scene of mnrder on this name little stream only a_fow rods away. The metnory of it was not, a pleasant one to these men. Thu volvto: Wto* eloquent entirely. (They annoyed old.nnuioDtrj •Iw.-vho.itiU at tk«r.lrt4i^g»prl , ,kMd,rtllliop. me neawr etoh moment. This seem ed to hasten matters. Taming htt 1 retry, wepjy eyes to Urn . girl, j2d is* ining his head a liUe for bar answer, he aduid her if she believed. . TlfRkiheeitaled, looked up, dropped her darfcr sad _eyas, looked np again, •nd again tried to answer. The. sntpease was terrible. Every ie leaned forward. The very store up. in . heavsn stoppsd their merry twinkle. The moon leaped low and Urge, and lookert-with a patient, sym pathizing face down laio. her sister’s foce noon earth. Tbe man was eager* ed at Iter, hesitation. He eakil her again and savagely. At last the l whkrored„«Xes." . r Whitt was onr hon . calmly, almost bitterly, aaawer: “yhen God he praised! You shall djara^bePatth, my wife. And so ws shall meet again.” NYb»t! Xuye&Kol'erevwrt It never fails that on the second Tnee- day of each m*uth the Grand Drawing oftbe Louisiana State Lottery L oocn» with regularity T And unimpeached hpn- purt|es[large fortunes Wenuel. Port PsL. drew one piece. the whole, third capital pfizeot ^- . .-1 information desired if ap-. plied to. Shriner’s Indian vermifuge is strict* NO. 8. b *^£Sj»”K.SS^‘S esat per lion each Insertion. Integrity i< .bjolotely necosurr f«r mrbitimtori. And bn i, Obriit'i qMlific.ti°n of inCegrit,. AllHan, crMdtbrnumM,''Holy, holy, holy! ' Onnl.nt .poilsmeo, great authority, make them crnel, but all the wealth and all the power of Heaven did not epoil Christ. On tbe other hand, all human hatred pat Him under the microscope of bypcrcriticism. Thera was not a minute of His life that the detectives were not aftsr him. They saw where He went and when He went. It was tbe business of hundreds of men to find oat something bad in Christ. Not one evil word, not one evil action could they report. All tbe charges were unsubstantiated. False witness es blushed and staggered and fell un der the weight of their lies. Purer than the lilies which illustrated His Sprmon. Cleaner than the Galilean wave which licked His feet. • Brighter than tbe star that pointed down to His manger. Fairer than tbe Heavens from which He came, - He had an integrity which particularly qualified Him for the work of a negotiator. - You also reetenize the fact that in order to encoessfal diplomacy between alienated parties, the go-between must be characterized by wisdom, tact and delicacy. You sometimes have seen a very good man go in and try to settle a dispute, and he has blundered in the matter, he has made a dreadful failure, and if there were ten degrees of vio lence before, after his work there were a hundred degrees of violence between the parties. Thera mnst be wisdom, I*®* and dslicaoy for a mediator. I do w not think I put it too strongly when I echo of heaven. Bat in the ear- say my father never attempted to settle a dispute hot he settled it. I remem ber how he would bring the two an tagonists to our house, and I would hear conversation in an adjoining hour of eternity our progenitor mched np his hand and unbooked the chain that bonnd the celestial and the temetial, and forthwith wo are all adrift. For this high treason onr prog enitor, a high treason in which at some time we all sympathized, there mast severe punishment unless there ne plan projected different from anything that banian brain ever dream ed of. How is it possible for a God who hates sia with snch withering, all-ooaspming and everlasting fury, to be. brought into amity with onr recre ant and sinful world? It will never be done except throngh negotiation. Yon and I have known persons who had a difference seeminglj irreconcila ble, yet after awhile they shook hands. We have read in history of nations that were in divergence seemingly beyond all adjustment, and yet they signed a contract. And I wonder if there ia not aoHMthing that nan bridge over the difference between the Creator and the created, between the immaculate and tha sinful, ‘oetween eternity and time, between earth and Heaven? Hear, nil ye spaoes of earth and all ye armies of Heaven. Where is the one who will step forth able and willing to effect this negotiation? In vain ws look among the heroic and gallant of earth. They havq stnrdy bearts, bat are not brave aaangh for this. In vain we look among all the thrones of the angels. Not one oftbe angels is willing to be dethroned for this negotiation. Where < is the relief to corns from? We want a champion. Heaven and earth both want champions if the matter is to be ttled. David and Goliath went forth ohampions. Goliath said:. ’’Come to me, and I will give thy flesh onto the fowls of the air,” and David ai 'Thou comsat to me with sword, and with a spear, and with shield; bnt I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the Annies of Israel, whom thou bast de fied, and I will take thine head fiom i.” Bat who shall be onr charapi- in this great difference between Heaven mod earth? Jesna C hrist stops forth and be says: “I will nadertaki that work at which all the nniverse ii silent , and abashed.” And He lays one hand on the earth and He lays the about to annihilate each other. Then there wonld be a quiet, and then I wonld hear my father’s voice in pray er, and then tbe door wonld open and o contestants wonld walk oat arm. Hs had wisdom, and he had tact, and ho had delicacy. Be hold in Christ all these attribntea. Wisdom! why He knew all of God and He knew all of man. From the high est summet of tha divine attribntea clear down to the lowest depths of hu man depravity, He had explored every thing. He knew what God wonld hare. He knew what men wanted. From the pretence of the throne. He knew its glory. Coming into the pres ence of our shipwreck, He knew its ghastliness. Face to face with Jeho vah, He was not withered with the glance, and plunged into the depths of •nr woe, He was not corrupted with the abomination. Solomon was wise settling the controversy between the two women aboot the child; but hereii wiser than Solomon, who makes i nring earth and heaven embrace each other. Moses waa wise in giving the law; but here ia a greater than Moses, who by one act fulfils all its reqalre- Oh, the wisdom of this arbi trator. Has He the tact pbeofmnsic celestial, tor between God-aud men, mi Christ Jesna.” It is my delightfnl work this tag to show yon bow beautifully Christ ia qualified for the work of arbitra- ■rent. Yon know very well that if tiro be at variance, the third party oomtag ia renst ha on good terms with both the partita. If yon and I are at variant*, and a third party comes in to-fitttlathaLdiffioaUy, and he is my h&Ugoaiat, I will reject him. If he be toot antagonist yon will reject him. Tha third party ooreing in for the work of mediation mnst be on good term* with both of ns. Behold Christ’s qualifications. God looks at Hire and aaya. ‘‘My son.” We look at Him and any, ‘'elder brother.” He will look alter God’s rights, for He has fil ial affection. He will be sympathetic with ne, for Ho ie bone ol onr bone had flesh of onr flesh. Heaven oan trust Him with its holiness, its jus its,attributes, and knows that He bring all the armies of the universe for help if it be aeoesaary to keep glory nnsallied; while oa tbe other hand, we katwr that between meager aid cross He will never forget onr interests i if need be to stop ths swift rolling of dastrncti0n,.will throw Hia own on the bloody track. The cross- bsam of the tree of crucifixion wai nailed to ths Bpright beam at the cen tie. God’s justice starts at one end of that croeshnaaa. and advances toward thsumatre. Onr necessity starts from thaothersad of that crossbeam and adyaocpetOFArd <h# centre, and they bath meet in the heart of the Son of God. .He basin His nature the God tide, the man aide. 01 wonderful con junction. Historians scoff at Loots ft email suras rhilippe;bscansahe was so merciful, ■» tha first hut it was tha grand characteristic of .been sold hfo Batpre*and b# is to me oae of the ' , most loveable characters of history. He always felt, when for son he could consistently pardon that he had gained a victorv, and one morning he edd: “I gained seven men last night.” In other words, be had ...... col- fonad it possible to pardon seven men [oe and Fire Ina. for their crimes. How many onr Lord ikee. No 6.998 has gained I am not enough mstbema- . ^ ticta* to calculate. Yon had better Ask the ten thousand times ten thous and and theone hnndredand forty-four thousand. Perhaps thsy can tell. 8o wonderfully qualified for diplomacy between God and man is Christ .Tesus. On good terms wiih both parties. And yon kuot^alsd, that in order successful intervention between ti strange parties the mediator must be Xu., characterised by integrity. Hoet of ns remember *ban Napoleon called a congress of nations, and some of tbe _ . monarchs came to the congress, other W* the whole neighborhood, aop- a Indian vermifuge Is strict- governments Mint their prime ministers pose the eternal happiness of onfof the ibis ' compound, formulated and other governments flatly refused to parties is involved, then you feel the Firw tile—’ Why? ■ Because they looked nwMt dnimiMrtMM upon Napoleon aa ah imperial villain, trator. lias lie tbe tact necessary? Ask the fishermen to whom He preach ed about the Gospel net: ask the farm ers to whom He talked abonttbe sower who went forth to sow; ask the manly housekeeper to whom He talked about the yeast that leavened the whole lump. And had He tbe delicacy? Ask the sicknesses on which he put His healing hand; ask' the fair-browed child whom He kissed on the forehead; ask the man who hastily unwrapped the abroad from his resuscitated daugh ter. Never before wae there, never since has there been, snch wisdom, snch tact, snch delicacy for the glorious work of negotiation. Yon recognise also the fact that ii order to successful diplomacy there must be perseverance and determine- amid all obstacles. If yon have tried it, yon have found the toughest thing to do is t dispute. Yon go to one of the parties you makes proposition.. He says: iver, never!” \ on go to the other party and yon propose a reconciliation. He says: “I will die first.” You give up the attempt. But a man with Christian perseverance and determina tion comes, and he keeps at it day af ter day, week after week and month after month, nntil he effects it. O! how ranch determination was necessa- and how ranch perseverance to bridge over the difference between these two parties, God and man. God made a law; man pat both feet on it. God established a government; man seceded from it. God planted a garden; man uprooted it. God sowed flowers and frnits; man sowed nettles and night shade. God said, “Build righteous cities;” they built Sodom. God said: “Elevate righteous rulers;*-’ they eleva ted Ahab. God warned and man de fied. For 6,000 years man bas fought God, resisted God, despised God, at tempted to drive him oft the throne of tbe universe. God looks down from heaven and he seas hundreds of mil lions of pointed and sinful people. Os the aide of this controversy between God and man was everything that wa right; on the other side, everythin; that was wrong. Now, do yon thin 1 that a few teara, a few drops of blood will put ont this conflagration which sin has kindled? Is there some Grace Darling with a boat strong enough to stand this storm and save a drowning race? Ia thsre enough timber in thi two pieces of the cross to make a bridgi for this awfnl gnlf between God and man? Christ stopped not at the diffi culty. All others had declined tbe service. He was not the one to see the race planged into the vortex and make no effort for the rescue. He looked in to t!<e face of heaven and He says, “Lat tbe terror fly.” All the thunder bolts of omnipotent wrath struck Him. He faced tbe human race and said, “I am now ready to reoeive the shock of all earthly hatred,” aad all tbe roogb hands of earthly brigandage smote Hun on the heart. The Lamb of Heaven clutched bv the catamount of Hell. O! He stopped for nothing. He persever ed to the end. “One mediator between God and man, the nQ Christ Jesus.” Yon also recognize that in order to successful diplomacy, it is necessary that the party coming in as an arbi trator fssl the importance of the work. Yon go to a man and yon ask that he be reconciled to an antagonist. I* says, no. Yon go to the other man tbe controversy. .Ha says, no. Yon give it up and any: “Well. it doesn’ make much difference anyhow.” Du suppose thousands of dollars are invol ved in the controversy. Suppose the itwoqjfi be , rad earnest ^ nwfnl thing to have the human i_„ perish. To show that He appreciated the importance of the work yon have bat to see him push through storm and darkneaa and mobocracy and mountain desolation and imperial anathema, con tending with the human race all armed against Him, not to destroy it bnt to save it. To be buffeted for five or ten years-perhaps Borne of yon know what „ that is. But Christ’s whole life on earth waa one of being buffeted. The firat chapter of his life, Herod’s scanty Party trying to mprder the babe. The last chapter of Ilia life, the Homan hammer.striking the nail through the palm. Oh! what a journey of mediation, begun with a manger and ending with across. Was there ever such a self- sacrificing arbitrator? Governor Sher man of Iowa, a few days ago, showed me at Des Moines, a gold medal, that had been struck in honor of Kate .Shel- ly, the girl of fifteen, who at midnight sped over the broken bridgo nntil she got to the telegraph office and announc ed that tbe bridge wia down, and saved the midnight express, train. A beauti ful medal; an obverse and reverse side. On one side, a representation of the girl on the broken bridge; on the otljrr side a representation of the gratitude of the State of Iowa. The Governor said She will be here in a few days, and in behalf of the Legislature of the State I will make this presentation.” Very beantifnl, very appropriate. Bnt O] my sonl, tell me in what mint of earth or heaven shall that medal be struck which shall on one aide represent coming to save a ruined world, the other side represent the gratitude of a universe at the glorious achievement. Some men have gone in humiliation and shame that they might afterwards come to elevation; but hete {■'Christ coming down that others might rise; here is the gathering np the thorns into the brow, that others may wear a flowering amaranth; here ia the drinking of gall, that others may take the elixir. O, what a mediator! The star of olden times ran across the Ileav- at the nativity and hang above the Saviour’s head, but onr world will af- while be the star that will inn s the Heavens and hang beneath the Saviour’s feet. Christ came in the world’s back door, that wo might enter Heaven’s front gate. Now you see there is a tremendous question coming out of this, and that is, are you willing to aocept tbe arbitration? You have seen many a mediation fail because, while tbe mediator in the case was faithful party accepted tha mediation, the other was stubborn and declined. Christ comes in to mediate. God to-day declares Himself willing to accept the mediation. Yon are the other party. Will you accept, or will you decline? If you decline, then the war will go on and the weaket will go uuder. You all realize, my friends, that this t argument is reasonable and right, and - all that is asked of yon is that in the depths of S tar sonl you accept tbe arbitration. yon decline it, then all the thrones of Heaven will cry ont for your condem nation- Then you decree hostility against ths God that made yon. There ia no alternative. Then the question is, who is tbe stronger, you or the Lord Almighty? After awhile the armistice will cease, and then eternal ages will jar with the conflict. Choose yonr own weapons. Wrap yourself in what armor you will, throw up what fortress# you will; but woe unto him tl at. etriveth with his Maker, I am tarille-1 this morning through, body, mind and sonl, at the riches offered you in this arbi tration. If I owned a bank and threw yon a bnnch of keys and told yon to go and help yourself, it wou'd be called beneficence, a generosity positively reckless. But a grander offering is made to you; A whole cluster of the keys of God’s mercy and of God’s storeliou-e I throw you. Do you want pardon? Here is a key to unlock the door. Do yon want consolation in your trouble? lift* to unlock the door. Do you want all the treasures of Ileavrn? Herr is a key to unlock tho door. 0!»rar Lord Jesus! what au offer for my non!, and for the souls of all these people. A jeweller in France resolved that he wonld make the richest necklace that the world had ever seen, and he rent forth his agents into all the earth, and they came back with the most precious gems theycould find. He put 800 dia monds in one necklace and in nino rows, the diamonds in crowns and crosses and lines. Oa oue bright day ,l^uis XVI flung this brilliant circle nro'ind the neck of Mario Antoinette: Bnt that diamond necklace was stolen; it taken apart, it is loot forever. Babbington Macanlav writes .-f it Thomas Carlyle writes of it. It lm- been the wonderment of history, that diamond necklace. But T have t» n il yon to-day that the necklace which this Gospel proposes to throw over yon to day can never be taken apart, can never be stolen, can never be lost. Wear it and you wear it forever. The dia monds of it are tbe frozen tears of the Son of God. The deep red carnelian is the congealed sweat of Gelhsejnai.e. The woman who wearsit i<* a qmeir The mad who wears it an emi-en-r. Brighter and brighter will, the, gems glow and flash nntil in the day when Christ shall make np Ilia jewels. When all nations are strung together in love and brightness, that will a br tin- diamond necklace of th* wcil-l. HUMOKOUS. Powder is like money. It’s nr/fuf hard to hold after it begins to go. - “I fear no'man!” lie said. And about that time his wife came along and led him off by the ear. When yon see a counterfeit coin on the sidewalk, pick it up. Yon arc lia ble to arrest if you try to pass it. ’ An Illinois girl’s heart is located on the right side, and all the medical fa culty of the region are puzzled shot t it. “Yes, Augustus, I love you; now y< n most go and tee father.” “No, dovie, not ye., that is father than I want, to goat present.” After a man has slipped down ou a piece of orange ekin; if be can talk, you will speedily learn whether he is a pro fane man or not. ». > It ie not every woman who can travel all over the country on a della.-;: I ut the woman whose picture is • a tiat coin manages to do it. An exchange epeaks'of “the leading band of the country.”. It is a bra-* band, and it may be first-clas*; bnt the hat-band is generally at the bead. “Yee,” eaid the boy, “I might just aa well be at the head of my class as not. Bat I don’t mind being at the foot, and the other boye do. so I s*crifice#iy-

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, April 11, 1884, Image 1