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Newspaper Page TextINDEPENDEM.IK POLITICS AND DEV01ED TO NEWS, LITEBATI K> si IINCE. AND GENERAL PR0GRJ S8 | Terms: $2 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. AftlEftlCUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1884. rhe Sumter Repudl ca: '•n nk'tMl frw m\ u,.Su» uiut- hp »hwt, tlM) up to bp tnsrrtw «•' '» "wjtliiiwwt. until *rdfired .oat «nr Ad»nrtWiiM*nt» toocropj Hind plan*, wi kp charm'd u> pei emu* »W regulai Irate V.itiore ii. local column inanrted foi .« t.a_w Votica. r*w» id Hirer th.idata B B. Hlntes id Edgw F Hint* will tw a-* cisted to •tt.ar f.; ii pmcd*** of law. . Tha partner " ‘ to tbe ,pra<-tlce I hum- ettee Ina-iJ i Milo will b*co..n .edt PT-4HM itv Tbp ,*r ettopina.il l ingcmui bp no ante and distinct. T-* r will visit parties in t»w “*■— **-sited tn client without ~ srlal a 1 tour tiaclnru ^ SptM-l.il a mtion given l i ’ HOuLIS • unrneu at Lair. \ HKKlCUK, UA. 1 ntipe, EorHyth strwo* o Nations' Ban declOtf MMMONS. tu or m u m Lau-. in Hawkins* huliding, mutb aide .. ... A. WIRT. Physician aaj Surgeor Offers his professional -ervlcet to tie p M»pip of Aiu»..'.juh and rlcinltj Offlep *' Or. Kldrtdgp’s Drug Store At night cm be found at residence at the Taylor home "i Lamar street. s will receive prompt attention. trnihle h’» It- ma>28-tf 0. Y HO L0*AY, DentisT, Treats successfully all dtapnaepof tne Den irgans Fills teeth oy »u» unproved lod, and Inserts artificial teeth on the •I known to the profession "OFFICE over Davenport and * PATtNT , Re-issues a d Trade-Marks se ed and .Mother patent causes in the affecting bis body limb- and iUng ugly rnnutag nl*ers. He - tnd and sell having been cured b> the - «t speedy an * wonderful remedy ever before known, and any• Interested party may n-ed a Blo-d Potlfler will learn him that thre bottles of B. B. B. Paten; Uffl - and tzsnAJrsnst. “rEts3 IjkkTE, ud I mak. Nil I HAHMK IIVLE3S PATENT Is fcECUIt Ei) Information, a>tvtoe and special ret application. r'u.V. Vtent OOee." 1 J.T. STALLINGS, fancy groceries. FlaH AND OYSTf RS rgiuij..- — » .. t ED. STALLINGS will have charge of it..re, and will bo happy to fill, yon WILL P. HAKE, —DEALER nr— Staple! Fancy Groceries Fin* Wines ani Liquors, Cotton Avenue, \mfricus, Ga Has on hand allkinds of CANNED GOODS. CRACKERS, COFFEE. SUGAR, •LARD, TOBACCO, CIGARS. ETC will also have a nice BAR fixed up »*• good order for the benefit of those who love a store article of Liquor 1 will keep best M^JTriends, and public generally ppeetfnlly invited to i a trial. TmB.TBuLYBAEiBsUrSDmtUify. imiuEiiunaoD. OCCONEt CHE£ ANDTAR'HEEL smoking rr; TOBACCOS dr. di kev’s Painless Eye-Water. dJfSSjKaS&s^ moisted lldsf via tha w.wldf.H ® tt * J. A DI Xr.Y, Bristol, Tran CKrOND-HAND BOOKS. ^ 10.000 MrhmJ ar.,1 snu ’°- 000 ^bool and MlacelWneou* SSLS£02** priee; BbiOonery and z - T. StKe, 106 Centre 8t AugusU. Ga A REMARKABLE CURE! “#1^ w vmca 7 ™*®^ - Fonrth Ilav’s Pn^Mvllna* of tlui . . .. P**tl«,ex-G«»y. yWfttf ’lfturVhT.lliere. The lagnral. cerrxuoiiieH a ere began by •tlv, to the <.rK*oy of Brew. rN I.ubk Ite- t<-t to cases of '.l«eascd hugs. The benefit cbeerfullT n-eommiad It to ml) wIjo aro affllcUd LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR, MACON, GA. Frightful Catarrh* i*;m i*»of bonk. hit f.mr years I have been a filet -d trl i gl) • ffeu-ive. My bl.Mid became ■era!health a ii’petite i medi.-inea were used without lie. an the u-e of B h. B , and like magic — »eir m« tnd a eymidnm "inraswr Atlanta,«nd my un« living on ButV-r pa. iculaily to Ur. L. Ii. ElAZABhTH KNOTT. A LITTLE BOLD. Mr Z A Clark. Atlanta Oa.,in sj *»•»! It . . . wh’iton • as >prut in a fruitle-e effort adern of this paper, that the ■ V- amount -as -prnt in afr finding .elief from a terrible Blood Pols- ed bis appetite, healed all ulcers, reliev- bis kidneys, and added twenty-one nda t<> hit weight in thirty days. .. Two Druggists. Swing, pastot of i has of* ™ “Pnffm*ot D ^ in.: •*Tho questions invol- ^'® nlra ^ Church, recently preached up talr fiHibrret to.cieiy ly-i ottthe «hject, *• A Hopeless..Study, 1 •r ut il*»t there should b anm^omithfi text;: - > rsr- -.p /•. s That they should seek the Lord if haply they should feel after Him and , fi fl d Him.—;Acts xvii. 27.- * ‘ . u .. ^ . It.has not been'many -years since it W*ied" t}m Union,VoM«d..{"Tn"bf"r" fiTt7Ili' bought th.t iho tLnory of nalnr.l araa tlona affecting their welfare; these rvtCtpaiiilfiw ‘conErt^d. IbllM .nbmiliod to tha bnlldt. gr. WU«,n,u» door k^|»r, mi | h* tf)e*04vorD<rr, w became‘in WKtdrted Judges Jaokrtou, Blaut»nl.and- Hall., biine,' b.iUHe •%««;. Jd-lges Dr. U. H. Tuvkdri f ii« ti'iveruor Melivered the following .ugursi addn-HH, after Wh'cb the oath wifi *■ was a imiuis-ered by Chief -■Ice Ja*;kH*>u,*.l theSupi Gr.l irpo* jjttf, • o.idii-turbed put suit *ol hsppiuvsi The priueiples ate ho Muipl*, even an ler onr c omplex sy-iero wt Federal an "*taie auth Itity, that-they t al la the Culled rttati viiiong rhemnelven • C-pe.-lively .if Fed -rnanddu : es T.hei patriotic citizeuH i •eit policy fci'au*] —go-d government. Ah long as thu in the chief purpose of political partie* ■nr iustituti >uh will be sate. Experi ••nee will teach the people the best poli cy any patriotism will induce them to -idopt it. But the bannonioan and hqc- ceastul working of the system requires duties of adminiHtration.aa well as bear -qually the burdens of the common government. In this re-pect the co tion of Georgia with her sister St >f the South has long been anotnah While subject to all the but dens, tnd discharging all the duties of citi zens of the Union, our people have been denied equal participation _ the ad ministration, privileges and blessings of the government. The sectional bit terness which led to revolution and stripped them ot nearly everything save the ruins of their homes, their selt-respect and honor, and their devo- ouragement, ahwQf.^ biui»h from- (he reform of abuses,' reduction in **xpen f* lure, equality and uniformity in Ux» tion, upholding in practice ar well as in tatkm of power in the Federal govein- evolution was new and pure atheist m*M, th. borul of Mktion.l differ.uces ".*** luokeJ "pon will Horror by m..- •■-‘ , •' ministers and theologians. Tho harm done the world by Voltaire and the French Rationalists became iusignficant and animosities, and the turning of the attention of the entire people to qavs The reealt has not been ascertained and declared as provided iu the own*')* notion, but there'ii reason to believ« •hat the American people have deman* -Imi a change in tho policy of the goy erument, through a change of the a.) inhumation. Should our anticipations ••f-the result be reaiizbd, the entire, country will experience relief. It will be demonstrated that our system of gov erument not only affords the largest lib erty to the citizen, bat the largest and readiest and most effectual means -eveT d-vi-ed by human wisdom to comer the abnHes and restrain the encroaeh nieutH of power. It will teach the lesion that pnblir ffiuials are pu'dic servants, amenabl* ,fa e people from whom their power- u comparison-witn Uu« comiug moon derived. It will famish mankind that oar in-tituti-.us .-ill he perpetuated because the Americai. (•c-iple virtue. And what is of pe> - manent concern to Georgians it will be ■ignition of their equality in the 4 now men- of scieuca. Only seasons hava passed and now wo fino that eminent Presbyterian . clcrgj inci and professors are enponsiag and teach- ing alltho essential ideas of Darwin and Haxley. The President of Prince- ion College and also a Southern teacher A iru-a iav.iaffirrqed tiro probable truth tin ordiuary doctrine of evolatioA. -Thus the monster of a former age be comes the beauty of a succeeding day. This is not because of Pope’s notion that vice becomes charming when fa vored and long looked upon,-bat rath* r becau se it was a childish fancy that' •uade a monster- out of the first appear- -uceof the new idea. Fancy often oake giants wt of windmills and caval- ■y out of a fl.ick of sheep. ; It is probable that the * doctrine of olntion as held by Darwin at first,- and now by eminent Presbyterians, is false and that Union. And a word for the ndmirabl# temper displayed in their endeavors to maintain g.,od government. It will re lieve them from the menace of Federal interference in local affairs, demand o- •hem renewed Zeal and devotion m atetance to solve the great economic questions upon whieb depend th* pros perity of all sections of tha country And above all other considerations, it will be the acceptance of onr past priv ileges, that every right and privilege now guaranteed to the humblest ciri zen of the State will be respected an- maintained, and that whatever human —’ can acsomplish will be done DARWIN OF EXOLAND And McCohD oi our country are meet- in the valley of darkness rather than any mountain of light. Bqt be the truth wUere u uiay, one lesson of value- hi« meeting of evolution » people wb« have turned the uses of adversity int. lessons of self-improvement will b* equal to any rightful demand that car. be made upon them. This is the ardunas duty which wil> devolve upon *.11 who enact laws or'in terpret them or execute them, and upon the entire body of citizens. The re sponsibility of those who elect rulert, for the results of administration, i» scarcely less than that of tha public hat meeting teaches ns that both •leafing with an incomprehensible subject and have finally come to a place when* advance is impossible. The harmony -•f McCosh and Darwin is the harmony of ignorance more than of discovery. They meet not in victory but in despair. Let ns make a morning lesson of the huoght that there is no such a thing i» a solution of the universe upon oitber its material or spiritual side; that all can do is to mark the passing fact and draw our conclusion from the "tant phenomena. Not that we ... live a life of doubt, ready for atheism *r deism; but the life of faith we must live cannot be based upofi. any compre hension of the universe, bat it must be founded upon the landscape that Is visi- servanta to whom they entrust Zealous watchfulness and juaicinn criticism of * jfieial conduct by the pub lie at all times, and swift coni constitutional liberty, imposed or hearty approval, whenever merited, upon them, terms whichthreatened the will secure a faithful discharge of doty’ We hare been handling B- B B only a w month-., and taken pieasn e In saving Is superced-ng all tHber Blood Remedies. . -ells well, given oar customers entire sat- l-faction, and we cheerfnUy re-ommend it erenc** to any uttier Blood- Pa ificr. ASHr.K* Sl-KJKE, Druggists. Atlanta, Ga page Book of wonderful B. B. B. tes* mailed t»any address BL')Oi) BALM GO, Atlanta, Ga. fHE FIELDS ARE WHITE WITH COTTON. existenoe of society. Whatever tho purpose, its effect was to subject intel ligence and virtue and property to the rule of ignorance led by rapacity. There ) not wanting men who despaired ipublican freedom, and looked for relief to empire. The spirit of onr peopli emergency. . Impoverish*! aud malign- •*1. the otmost they conld do was to sc are their State governments from the !--ntrol of aliens, and to devote their -nergies to the restoration of matei and the rejustment of shat- MA D TIMES NEARLY OVER* . gluriom- harvest is at band, and pi Ity will —on prevalL Tbou-ands illirs wh-» have been wanting Plan-wand •rgao" forms -y l»ugyear-*will BUT THIS \ E vH. A;iUcfp * — clpiting tho demand, we have uHSLEDaMCarrglETMM&HR Immense stock of-SUPERB NS l RUMEN is FROM TEN LEADING M vKFHS, which we shall offer on our i-.ua! east Installment Terms. To accom- ii* state those who wish to boy now, and -•M their cotton until later, we make this .PEOI \ L OFFI AN BUT EBB. ASS PBICES. WITH 3 MOSTHS TIME During the months of Septem ber and October, 1884, ice will sett Pianos and Organs at over Lowest Rock Bottom Oath /Vices, requiring only $25 CASH DOW I ON A PIANO. $10 CASH DOWN 0'7 A OHO AN. A ml allowing three months time buy under this plan, and icable to complete payment the three months, will be given further s. by agre -ing to pay our regular Install it priori, and comply inf wth— r “ payooe ball the amount due at thee months, nr make a largo cash pay ment.*n equitable •rice for the instrument will arranged All will be treated falily, and changed pricestn teomdance with the time required for pur- :bace. Ai' purchasers under this Special of fer an required to sign our usual form as to their responsibility. Instruments will be sent on the usual flf .een days trial, « references are given. Sepl LUDDEN £ BATES SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE, ' "nvnnnnh, Ga.. Were the responsibility for wise ad ministration upon the executive alone. me to shrink from thr it would nuu| duties which I am now to assntnd The indulgence shown to my judgment and the . by all branches of the public prosperity and the rejostment of s rered social relation. No people of vge have been confronted with evils of •uch magnitude, and none, in so short i time, have ever accompli-bed as ranch to re-establish uncial order and pros perity Their present condition i* the reward of gigantic labors, wisely di rected and nobly tier formed. While confronting these appalling dangers and difficulties were embarrassed by tb< jealousy and hatred of the dominant i-olitieal party in the Union. Theft ha* the war between the States « •nded —that all the questions at iss n the struggle w«"n settled against i tnd we accepted the decision as final— that we were loyal to the Union and taithfnl to every duty of citizenship did not avail to restore ns to equality. Statutes were directed against ns, which wme inoperative elsewhere, and which seemed to cripple onr eff irts to restore the losses and heal the wonnds of war. It was asserted that we did not under stand onr condition, and what was best for all classes of our people. Pretexts were invented to keep alive sectional hate and distrust between the races, now living together In comparative .harmony. Persistent misrepresenta tion has retarded Immigration to this section, and has rendered capital timid in seeking the rich returns of Boat hern investment. It was nothing to these nnsernpulons partisans that the entire country shared ia the damage inflicted upon the proeperitv of the 8outb. Their sole purpose was to retain politi cal power. This has been need for purely partisan and personal ends. Taxation haa wrung hundreds of mil lions from the people beyond the neces sities of economics! government. These vast sums have been used to enrich the leaders and favored classes of the domi nant section, and to debanch the poli tics of the oonutry until the fear that the result of national elections will de pend upon the amount of money ex pended is fast destroying . confidence in the iastitatinns of the country. : Each successive election for President has swa.kened the hope that the 'era of miereiireeentati-'-n, sectional animosity and bad 1 government would .be ended. This hope has been so often disappoint ed that a people lees schooled in adver sity Jess breve in the pressure of danger, less true to thsrr n*n manhood and less loyal to American liberty' w..nld have despaired of the republic. Georgians can point with pride to the conduct of the State throughout there trials. .Forgetting the disappointment, w< have striven the more earnestly to per- - - ~ v- .i.. only increased my gratitude to tin- people for their confidence, bat em bolden me to hope for a continuance ol the same management and support. United effort alone by all citizens, ir public or in private station can seen®, under the favor of divine Providence the welfare o'the commonwealth. After the inangnretion ceremonies ■tb houses adjourned until Monday DAVID r. FOOTS. Troprletov. < X. X. SHOWN. FlLLMOBE BKOWS. Edgerton House, Opposite Passenger Depot, MACON, CEORCIA. E. Brown & Sra, Pr prie‘crs. Rates ft.00 Per Day. Thanksgiving Proclamation. Albaxt, N. Y., November 8.—Th- Mowing was issued tbie evening: •static or New York—A proolama on by Grover Cleveland Governor The people ofthe grate of New York should permit neither their ordinary occupations ar.d cares nor any unnsua cause of exc-tement to divert tbeii minds from a sober and hnmble ac knowledgment of their dependence or* Almighty God for all that contribute to their .happiness and contentment, for all that secures the greatness of onr proud commonwealth. In acoordance with Jong c mtinued custom, I herebv appoint and designate Thursday the 27ih day of November, 1884, to be n specially observed day of thanksgiving and praise. Let all the people of th State at that time forego their! u-na business and employments and, it their several places of worship giv. thanks to Almighty God for all tha> He has done for them. Let the cheer of family reunions be balanced by ten der remembrances of the love and watch heavenly Father, in the social gatherings of friends neighbors let hearty good will and lowahip be chastened by a onnte of the kindness and mercy of God. Done at the capital in Albany this u day of November, in .the yeir -of ar Lord 1884. [Signed] Gboveb Cleveland. Oovenmr. By Dahiel 8. Lauoxt. Private Secty A Bonanza the Politicians Lost Sight of., , While politicians everywhere _ . isrreling on Tne-day, October I4»h, IJU rL. 175.) n i ll —lU ii •_ feet our 6tat«: admini*tration by the enactment of and enforcement of ju«t and impartial laws, tAprevent violence. snppreks-disordiTren^jmnish crime, to -ovfde for the wi^ratin^RP all children, lighten the bpfob 1 by jndici-ns econorr^YMBA ghjd-c expend!- the 173d Grand Monthly Draw ing of The Lonirisna State L'-tterv came off. M. A. Danphin. New- Or leans, La., (to whom all Inquiries sh-nld he addressed). Ticket No 78 - 455 drew the first capital prize of $75.- 000, and it was sow in whole ticket to ell-known business man of the •cent . City, and paid in toE. B. Lhoste, of the Lonisianb Natinnsl Bank there. N«* 77 956 drew the second prize of $25 000. -old ia fifths at one dollar each—one-fifth each to Mr. H, Smith. Justice of the Peace and Win. M. Kennedy, planter, both of Green ville, Miss.; one-fifth to W. O. Briggs »f Chicago; another to E. 0. Bennett, re. to No. 210 Sedgwick St., Chicago;. Two- fifths ofthe third prize of $10,000— ticket No,47 254—was won by O. P-a.P-rttge, Wts. The fonrth prizes . . credit of' . _ material interest <>f th- j-ople to the tent of onr ' as *ed t> cans a».d t-> seunre r.. ev-rv citizen, with^nt di-tinrtion of -■-ce, color, or previous cnn liti-n, nil the right" and privileges’ to which he' • ntirled. The record of the State NO^ 39. dDNl'AY SERMON, LESS STUDY.. to alt theories alike. 1 Eternity A SEW CONTINENT. Or like tho great; plains of our W open once to the first actual sett] novelists makes hie character recogni: 2 «4y anJ street and ho'nie as liaving been once before occupied by a former body of himself the public reads .the bopk as though it might bo true. Ei- ward Beecher published a volume to ‘rove that we all once lived a former ife, and this is our second period of probation. Thus all this territory of thought lies open to any pioneer of daring nature. ' Darwinism w j n8 mQn f 4VQT it takes so far away from ns the first human being. The idea that „ sized man and woman were made oat of clay 6,000 years ago makes the fact of Th! J“ •ITSSfeuf ;, “ lL all iu children Th. mmd.hke th, bod 7 , di.likcs all to b. wi.e. npright, and happy. God ■ndden stoppme. and aliehtinm.- W. » , Bomething to bo tv,igh«i or moasl stoppings and a!ightings v We all wish onr rapid train to coma g-ntly to rest in the terminal station. In rail- vay parlance, the old t|ie-,ry ot A<fom aud Eve is too much like a M-.p —*— hy colliHiom ' The theory of e intermediate space with so many intel ligent middle links that we feel BETTSB SATISFIED search after the first man — t by materialist . — Christian When the materialist and devout Chris- their mental journeying*. hie in the life of man. note in advance the thoee times which subjected to tortnre and death for slight variations of opinions. L THOSE VARIATIONS must have been harmless, because in •>nr day the disciples of evolution down at the Christian communion along with those who hold that God d each epecies out of nothing, as _ ited in Genesis. When that pro fessor in a Presbyterian Theological Seminary delivered recently hit address Darwinism, after faking ns along jour ney.lets our halloon down in sott grass But we are lulled rkther than enlight ened. We still have on u*uil . facts: something making a clod iu: man and something making previously the clod. No wonder the New Prenby- tenant[harmonize their .prv*W of evolution and their preacher" of abso. lute recent creation, far they do agree perfectly ip their ignorance of the on* K^o'ereatnresand things. We may welcome both parries to our bench in the dark. If imagination can trans form the bench into a throneor a mount tain summit they are to be congratula* ted over such a creative fancy. For many years we have been en* renamed with this inquiry. How could beautiful forms of lire from man downward ever have come from the in- "aasare dnat? All have said: -How conld life come? How did. it begin? Did it begin in the present forms or _ h . M ‘‘P*! 8 ** through long modifica- Don- But in all these years there was an enigma nnasked: Whence mim all the material without life? What billions of tons of heavy substances! The earth alone is composed of 250 - OOOmm of cubic miles of material. Add to this quantity all the solid con tents of tho plants; added to that re- salt the mass of the son; and then the millions of fixed stars, and we are in the presence of a problem: Whence came all this inanimate substance! perplexing as "VUE PROBLEM 0» LIFE. we say the mattter is eternal, it never was created, we have harmed our definition of 8pint as being tb. eUrt- • ’ mg point of th» Qni.wM; if .ay flatter wasnotetenial oar minds ia bur- denea with tha idaa of so moch '' ' ‘ b.Wng bwa ’ inaa. but after conference concluded that the iddress was not at war with Ohristiani- From snch new reasonable! must infer the crime ofthoee ages which visited with death or imprisonment or exile departure" from chnreh notions not -ne-tenth _ as great as this one under lonsideratioD. We live in an age which brotherhood, and ev< nomination, those who follow Darwin id those who - follow the old theory; hat onr gladness makes ns seethe cruel- ity »f that past which persecuted men • ad women and even children for vary ing in opinion from some printed for mula of idea. How .much happiness kaown the harmlessness of variation! within religions thought, and ho- t • each other may be. two minds and hearts which cherish different theories if creation and widely differing theories >f God. All the discords of the chnreh have occurred among those who were indeed friends. Bitter enemies in the fifteen century would have been loving friends, in the nineteenth; and yet ire the modern divergencies greater ban tho*e for whieh thousands died in neat periods. But we must not permit • be follies andWrows of our ancestors to cloud the sky of ns all—their chil- iren; but rather we must enjoy to th< nil n period which can see the sob- -tanee ef things and distinguish it rerchanging drapery its political affairs bought: As md in arte and inventions the hnman ace has lost a large part of its pu ihle prosperity for age? and ages, ite religions department jt suffered * vajt multitude of■ gjeat and endless •orrows, and smce. no tears can help •hose dead generation*, we mast tarn *way and enjoy a period which can see > he same religions faith qnder theories old and new. Our chief thought to-day is that to the^anlvera and its Author, all vholly nnknowab e except a band of passing OBJECTS AND events; And in that in this band are universe and a God. Away from the zone of passing fact one theory is as good as another. Here we are all of ne good as another. Here we are all of a- standing in the midst of terms, no one of whieh *we can define—time, space, life, eternity, infidelity and God, and yet we are slow *o admit that pro gress toward'a definition it impossible. PhilnmnhfT* and rnai.nlmi;.:... _ Philosophers and metaphysicians turn repeatedly to discourse at least upon these topics, but we are not able to detect any progresa whatever along tnwn line* of thought. We are per fectly and hopelessly unable to think ' time when there was nothing -and ••f $6 000 Hseh were won bv Nos? 13. 388 and 54 631. sold in fifths at one dollar each, and scattered very pro- miwmonsly. North, Sontb, aed Went, to parties in Memphis. Ttdn.; Colom bia, Tenn; Philadelphia, Pa.; and New Yi*l city. Ac Ac Bat it will ever go on. and il y<m invest it may make vm. but will not hre.k bscontinued inlejtmttly ) can now be found i of a world where there was or shall no time. The terms “boundless, 1 timeless,” “without origin,” are. only the unintelligible sighs or groai ntter when onr- minds fail. In the great hidden surroundings of man .Pj’ like saying this vision is grander thin onr rods are worthy. It docs not ex plain God, bnt it contains Him. This inex’-apability of a Creator does not affect to the smallest degree tho fact of Bnch a mind, because matter is equally inexplicable, but lol it is here; space equally inexplicable, but lo ! we are i it 1 Tim* is as incomprehensible, but lo! we have ite houraand years. God is thns beyond onr grasp, but He tnay bo filling onrtimo and space with His presence. Whether He is in all atoms or aronnd all, oris Him self al) things, it matters not; here Hsis; the mind that arranged all things, the wis dom th# ordered causes and effects, tho presence that knows no absonce.the ured; God as a being wiiosq biography might be written is not here; bnt this im | lies nothing, for tho 'biography of man himself cannot be.* traced.. It id that visible band ^jhich we divide lo epochs, vpara and honrs uts.fino! he was which have nhores andfbe rimes that have beginnings and ends Here is the reign of law that bespeak i the law-giver. By law the earth tarns, be son shines, the rains fall, thngraa* gtows, the rivers run, the fire burns, the lightning flashes, the wind blows Man perceives the my raid of statute* written thns by A DIVINE HAND, And he utilizes many unvarying forces. He looks at himself and the empire of law reappears. His birth, his growth, his food, his education, bis labor, hi* arts, his enjoyments, bis laughter, bis ‘ ~ts. his love, his marriage, his death. fixed br statutes decreed some sit perior intelligence. He locks-out ii wonder noon the great pageant of I foi 2 , and ifdevont and grateful he fuel" at the scene is only too grand for snch a being, and that lo ask a review of all the eternal past were only a form of ingratitude or egotism. Man deals onlv in fragments of the universe; God alone deals with it all. Man haa never heard all of music; from fragments sweet indeed, and many, now sad as a requiem, now gay festal song, comes that delight of every land; man never sees all of beanty, bnt after looking upon a scene in nature oi in art he immediately feels conscious that elsewhere there must be thing! and forms of amazing loveliness, henoe. Socrates says, “What would be the bliss ot that sonl that should be per mitted to see the snprome beauty !’’ Man sees not all of the heavens, bnt the measureless cosmos rolls np to him one border; he eees a few jewels set in the azure; he names them Venae. Sa turn, Moon, Arctnrn, North Star, •f nothing. Thns wa! eit nation of being dissatisfied vith both answers to his inqniry, and t® do f" n . ot know which reply is the ess pleasing. Matter mast either hare **en eternal or been created. Man comes along with his proud intellectual powers, and is inclined to deny both methods of getting the material* ofthe universe. He does not like matter a* "rental, he does not like to have it ere ared out of nothing; be maintains con fidence tn his mental powers, and goes .•nw»>.t fi n ,j other deeps. - Darwinism is a simple So far __ .tody of f»cT", it in entitled totha respect we Show to any form of indus observation: bnt it solves mystery for u«; it leaves all the venera ble tnqumes of our race still resting he*v , U an ever ap *n the heart. ~ ongtn of lifo and of matter. PEBPLEXED And from the fact that moderns stand the hope where Plato stood, «howL .. l«KOe.. of th. debito. If TjnJ.Il b>. been able to find spontaneous life be would have had difficulty iu showing "poatanei.U" matter; he would have had o Inquire, whence came the insnimate kingdom and having the power to gen erate livng forms? He would have re ported no progress. Toward a solution of the nothing haa been accomplished. No. l , k* *W hope that future age. will determine any of- the vexed qoe*- ttons. As a law, long ages of nniformi- ty do not imp»y that uniformity will continue al ways. The motion ol earth around its axis has not varied the thousandth part of a second in two thousand years, but that offers no per fect assurance against changes iu the next twenty centuries. But the nni- formjty. of mental failure to grasp the problems of man comes from mental SftSSL m f Education clothes the miud with new powers indeed. It enables the man to look tnpre deeply into government, law, Hcteoce and. happiness, bnt we cannot conceive of any education that will un derstand how there can be a space that outside to it, and how there time when nothing tamed into sc—- thing. Upon these question! culture -it v , SecL Th ^ J|th fc. man • to grasp them any more than he was made to live without food or dwell under the water. His mind is inadequate to any THEORY Or THE UNIVERSE. The simple fact that he cannot accept of the eternity of matter End think of it as having been made from nothing shows that there is a limit to the perceptive powers of onr race. It is thought bjr many that man has been “ * million yeare. This is very probable or possible; for there has been e great amount of time beck of us, and why not be liberal In our allowance to man? bnt in all that time he has made progress towards learning bow endless * When we look upon this wide fielJ.of the actual we feel like FORGIVING NATURE. For all those outlying problems, and and hopCfed «f*U T • lETERNAL LIFE. Some Christians*contend: that &T s is no hope of a fniare life except that found re a miraculous revelation and the miraculous Christ, but this seems a rtcklM. .(Toeing of oil Hose word, wnttea within th. heart and with all tho expwienca «L«nr race. Chri,t catno not to destroy, hot to folfill. ■But it ia time to conclude these re mark*. We all have awaked in a world of rare nature. We hear great words, “infinity,”“eternity,” “endles s space,” ‘‘matter,.” “spirit,’’ “creation out of nothing," ‘'evolution.'* We know not what they mean. ’ If spate ends what is there beyond? if time began what was there before? Wo know not what they all mean; bnt looking • out cf .the window we see a. moving scene bf sub lime worth, day and night, earth .and sky, and the amazing pictures o> hu man life, and written over all and in all. the name of God. Into-this great river of life we must all cast ourselves. Wo must seek duty and love it, mental progress and lqve.it, happiness and loveit.._While wo are doing .this ,the ... .. “**“■**' uv.ug , ima unseen Hand will carry ns onward 'and forward. Christ will be a strong light for all hoars. Happy mortals if we ean front the full heart sing: LlRllt ' Amld Mcirclln e Tb ° 80 “a "*■ ■*" * 0 *«^roaodfOT , ^qrerags.nd torrent till And with tbe morn those angel- faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost Was there ever a more peaceful scene than this ? 'Under this tnmmrr sky tho young grass fairly spring*. Ia thie sunshine tho young lambs frolic. ■ In this perfect day every farmhouse .is a Pleiades, bnt there MILLION* Whieh do not paes across the path of man and which ♦d by hnman lipa. Thu* also deals with hnman fragments of the eternal past. Tbe race can count i historic years—six or ten thousand number. They are but a specimen of little world of peace and contentment—- evety bird tunes its voice in praise- each tree seems proud of the new dress which spring has given it.- i .<? 5 > One who has battled in-war—one who has been followed by 7 an implaca ble enemy—bo who seeks rest from the turmoils of life* wonld. surely select thie place as the spot on. which he would be safe from every danger. Ev erything speak* of security and peace. that strange essence into which < ties fall like snow flakes in the 1 Thus in his relations to tbe Deity n follows.this law or a part and mast s the divine manifestation without be holding the whole of the divine glory. As the universe turns towards the bu nco only a rich border of its si decked vestment, so tbe Author of tore is too vast to be comprehended by human sense. compelled, therefore, to read Darwin, the materialistic student, and the Christian disciples of evolution us being interesting inquirers amid tbe of onr day, but which add nothing to and take noth- •ng from tbe divine philosophy of kind: They are all on one platfoi any origin of things. They raa v ... both equally distant from the old lets of tbe cbnrcb, but the origin ol the matter and of life, tbe quality ot -idered as side by side in this DEPARTMENT OFTHOCORT. in America the wheat i" taller than the grass in ear Iswn, bnt I wellers in the planets, could they look do wn upon ns, all onr grains and grace" wonld be of one size. Thns onr scien- ista, natural and Christian, run up to ward eternity with different form of thought,bnt looked at from the heights bey vainly seek tbe are all or- .iresence of the boundless space: endless time, education and learning ahonld be capable of greater humility and joy. Such being the situation, we should not spend life over these hopeless prin ciples. If these obstacles In oar path want of learning, we might amend onr mitfortnae by seeking knowledge; it the obstacle was a want of mental industry, we conld enter upon a career of less e: ■; it the element of Jovo were wanting, we conld bnild np a new friendship for the studies, bnt the hin drance lies in the structure of the mind itself, for it was made for relations to only a part of the kingdom of God We may look away at times, bnt here is our arena ot evidence of a God, our arena of work, of duty, of pleasure, of worship and faith. Wo have indeed only a fragment of the universe, bnt it iff neb and adequate—so adequate that If we arethna shut np within nar row walls of time, perhaps death does not carry ns over the walls, bnt leaves GO BACK TO NOTHING. Our minds are indeed limited to a fet facts, bnt if yon will look into and over ward man not only offers him tim a home, and duties and pleasures rain, field, but is marked with a gion whichjias no full application in tfiis life. • This • sentiment is: one that carries men orit of the limited; walls of earth. Thns, as onr hnman ripain its soul a fragment of .music, fragment of the beantifal, a fragment of wisdom, and looke-ont upon a Vrrgment of the sky' so does it seem to he carry ing in its spirit a. fragment, of worship THE MIGHTY WRATH. See! A clnnld has suddenly crept into the clear blue sky. You have seen the same thing a hundred times in your life without giving it a thought. Yon wtmld pass it over now.- lot for a tri fling circumstance: The horse grazing in the meadow lifts her.head, sniff* tho a whinuey iq‘which you t. .». iru. direct a note of alarm. Tho bird* have ceased singing as. suddenly as if gun had been fired, tuuT th4 sheep slowly bunch them tel vetfittto a corner oi the field, as if the presence of ati en emy ha t been detected. Look. to the southwest. The little .•loud wh ch yon saw a moment ago has ucreased a hundred fold. Over head— o the north—to the east—tbe sky is if the same hazy bine, and tbe son •hines the same as before. But in the •onthwest there is something to awe tnd silence yon. The lead-colored cloud has grown “top bine-black, and ing and spreading, enter suddenly appear a cloud of a lighter shape. Watch it! There is ;<» thunder, bnt fiery tongues dart in of this clond. There in wind, yet you see its edges rent and brought.together again, Behind yon are the peaceful hillsides d valleys—orchards in blossom)— happy households—children laughing gltefnllv as they poll down ih- wild ’ en ofthe j ssaraine—the white-haired odfather and grandmother looking upon the perfect day with feelings •f gratitude. Hash! There come* a stillness in which even the note of a bine-bird would sound harshly. Not- A leaf quivers—not a sound of living thing reaches your ears. The horse stands facing the wrathful clond, head np and nostrils quivering, while the sheep pack themselves more closely, and bang their heads. You see tbe bird* darting here and there in alarm, and the low-sailing buzzards are lifting themselves until they are mere specs above your head. A moan from the skies—a shivering of the eaitb—a roar and a cra>h 1 For seconds yon saw the air full of di straction—you felt yourself a feather ' the claws of a tiger, yon grasped and straggled like a drowning m passed. Open your eyes to see the sun shine agajn. Straggle to your feet, braised and battered to gaze upon tho same scene of peace as met yonreyes five tninnte* since. Heavens! bnt what a transforma tion! An army of fiends oluld not have worked snch havoc in a week. Where are the . farmhouses? Swept from -their sites as if. they had been built of straw. Where are the bloom ing orchards*? A few uprooted trees and branchless tranks make answer. Where are the happy children—the strong-limbed men—the old and weak? Follow to -the northeast and yon will find their braired and lifeless bodies. It is sunshine agAio, bnt what mock ery! Fences, trees, houses, harries, sheds and orchards have been dashed to the earth and scattered for miles. The scythe of death have cut a swath hundred miles long and half a mile wide, maiming, braising, killing—aye! blistering the very sod of tho earth with its vengeful blade! And what ? Nothing—only that tho living will erme in and bury the dead —'he tears of the widow and fatherless ill be dried—the mighty wrath of Na- all hnman history yon will meet with a strange fact, that of religion and an ticipation of a continnal existence, .he fact of a worship. You will find the - , endless than the dnmb f*ct of church, hvmo, prayer and the brutes have made toward speech and interwoven history of Christ. Many the manufactures and sciences. If man details in many religimin are incidental cannot conceive of space as boundless. 0 r false, bnt the sentim he ought; to be abler to think of it as 1 a simple fact as is the sentiment of bead- having an end. There ought to bo ty or music. But this religions t*nii- »n.IlitoKh.eoold .ay on the ,obj«:t. mpnt bUbmb. ro.n I. 60 li„ 1 Bot.h.ro.lCTah Mat Wtb.tn.o-. a ay ,o aligtcr dw.roy, Tho. toao | gceoea will c mind was made for a certain purpose, does rot stand ent iff from tho future! *™c',*d«ta “ *'* r !wm rt “ • “ h ' i, 1 c « <*•!».«»**.< ya„t. j “The nyapeptic, Ito'upe.'’ „ .... .... Hl« isolation from hia onyio la Lopy-J “I am thirty-five years old “ write. human iotXJt ”! ft* (To f A ° 4 h “ ia «‘ f Mr. 0h«1«. Ii: Son.*., Pot- TKl. • 7 sncceastnl. oft so farms any full measurement cf nam Co X Y “and had suffered i^Voi.^r tstez » going from oao animal to anoth- nd that whtfn man’s body dies his jonrneys to some higher organiza- There ii’a hroad”haad dri ' •* difficult for this theory to an raw’is'aooomnH b “ d T*? v* my8ter7 ' Thas re"uHfoth^!£°wortir it cu“cS nu.‘ oe is aoeompluhing wonder*, der if the nmverae which roll* up to- will cure yon. nov5*wAwlm h jiifiifiTirA na fi 1 ) r i

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, November 14, 1884, Image 1