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Newspaper Page TextSUMTER REPUBLICAN. BY C. W. HANCOCK. YOL. 31. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1884. Store. CAPITAL PRIZE $150,COO- NO. 42. A REMARKABLE CURE! nby certify that tee oupcrvue tke Company, and in perton manage and control tk* Louisiana State Lottery Co. Incorporated In 1868 for 25 yean by the Legislature for Educational and Charitable purposes—with a capital of fi,000,000—to which a reserve fund of over 1350,000 has since been added. By an overwhelming popular vot. franchise was made a part of the present State Ucrttltutlon adopted December 2d, A.D., IMS Its (irand Slagle Namker Drawings will take place monthly, ft newer mala or pottponu. Look at the following distribu- 175lhGrand monthly Extraordinary "-emi-Annual Drawing, In the Academy of Kluslc, Wow Or- leans. Tuesday, December 10,1894. Under the personal supervision and man- «Gen.G. T BEAUREGARD of Louisiana and Gen. JUBAL A EARLY, of Virginia. CAPITAL PRIZE $150,000. Notice.—Tickets are Ten Dollars only. Halves, $5. Fifths $2. Tenths $1 list ok raizKs. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF *150.000 *150,000 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 50,000 50.000 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 20,000 . 10,000 20,1 - LARGE PRIZES OF 4 LARGK PRIZcS OF 20 PRIZES OF 20.000 E. J. ELDRIDGE Has moved into his Old Stand in the 5,000 200 40,000 100 60.000 50 50,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. ) \ pproximatiou Prizes of *200 *20,000 ) “ “ 100 10,000 ► *' *' 75 7,500 2,279 Prizes, amonnting to..„ *522,500 Application for rates U> clubs should be made only to the oTice of the Company in New Orleans. For further Information write clearly, giv ing full address. po«t*i. niitki Ex press Money Oorders, or New York Ex change in ordinary letters. Currency by Express (all sums of *5 and upwards at our expense) addressed M. A. DAUPHIN, »r M. A. DAUPHIN, 607 Seventh St., Wnahlngton. D.U Make P. O. Money Orders payable and address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, Bucklcn’s Arnica Salve. The best Salve In the world for Cuts. Bruises. Horai, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positive ly cures Piles, or no pay required. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, t money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.- For sale by Dr. E. J. Eldridge. oct29-ly Law Notice. From and after this date B. B. Hinton and Edgar F. Hinton will be associated to gether in th- practice of law. The partner ship will be confined to the practice !• Sum ter county. The practice In adjoining coun ties will be separate and distinct. The Junior member will visit parties In the county when desired — tra charge. Sped * nof cfalir collection o intkra given to the oct28tf B. P. HOLLIS, Attorney at Lxite, AMERICUS, GA. 9,5°®’ Fors 5’ th Street, ’n National Bank TO FILL PRESCRIPTIONS building. E. G. SIMMONS. Attorney at hair, AMEIUCUS GA., Office in Hawkins’ l Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon, Dr. D. P. HOLLOWAY, DentisT, - Georgia Americas. - - Treats successfully all diseases of the Den tal organs. Fills teeth o* me Improved method, and Inserts artificial teeth on th best material known to the profession. Br OFr.CE over Davenport and Son' marllt Drug Store. E. E. Brown. Fillmore Brown. Edgerton House, Opposite Passenger Depot, MACON, OEOROIA. E. E. Brown & Son. Proprislors. Rata fS.60 Per Da). INSURE WITH THE lOBTflU FIBEUSlilEE SOCIETY, OF ENGLAND. Assets $11,25,072. A: L, REES, Agent. WANTED. fm’wJiSVim ‘S' 11M S »B» Cane oct-lOtf. J.T. STALLINGS, DEALER IN CONFECTIONERIES. FRUITS, FANCY GROCERIES. FI8H AND OYSTERS. Cotton Avenue, Next Door to Grange Warehouse. BARLOW BLOCK And will be glad fo see 1 OLD CUSTOMERS. Hcstetter*s Stomach Bitters is a fine blood . .’E'Ym a mio ? al cathartic, and a superb anti-bilious specific. It rallies the falling sassttr ssra *»;£• s , sy»*riSe , S! 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Foretold by seer and Psalmist lyre, operation. We 1" fan untfl all other 1 at dm* storesTYvJ Bestorer. an * '* truly wnoderfnl; and after . IDW ^ I*®.** 11 * they were eatlrriy relieved of the trouble and thefa health fully restored^ U*Bj •t my family should eves be similarly d, if necesaary, travel amid »l v to jet this remedy. Withpret pleasure' I tZwftS STeSScf linle R^lL ex f? 1 i? t Breweei mootht tay wife has suffered fromweaktaats. **•*" reconnnendcd by serend bottles. andtSs?**’ oodertal. if^jf'rewlnin* Sr^tre.^1 is id ven in I860, 'llcar lungs. The beoeflt 5. Tffl5!5VMr.Si H? relath hSrftiilym»nini* ”d 'i'ftoii^llF^a^^re with pulmonary disease. LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR, MACON, GA. Fitters i 1 ^ tr “P lc ' 1 countries, where the bly affected by the ''combined InAneaS*^ diet and water, it U a very necetsa- COMPRISES FOUR PREPARATIONS. LI VER, HEART AND KIDNEY TONIC, For indigestion, Palpitation, etc., from torpid liver and Inactive kidneys' DIARRHOEA MIXTURE, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Ac., of chil dren and adults. BLOOD PURIFIER, F°r Scrofula, Goitre, Syphlles and .Skin Diseases from impure blood. BRAIN TONIC. common Convulsions and Ep- <§ne medicine will not cure all diseases, but the>e preparations will do exactly what is said of them. ufactured by Westmoreland, Gbif- ‘ - Jjy IA Co., Atlanta, Ga. t gists generally. nov28-w&sw-3m WILL l BARE, • —DEALER IN— Staple | Fancy Groceries Fine Wines and Liquors,' Cotton Avenue, Ajiericus, Ga. ~ hand alllrinds of CANNED GOODS. CRACKERS, COFFEE, SUGAR, LARD, TOBACCO, CIGARS, ETC. Will also have a nice BAR fixed w in aiso nave a nice dak fixed cp ia good order for the benefit of those who We - pure article of liquor. I will keep the — .. «-*- *- *-• srally are best. My friends, and public genoi spectfully invited — aug27m3, PATENTS Caveats, Re-issues and Trade-Marks se cured, and all other patent causes in the Patent Omw and before the Courts prompt ly and carefully attended Upon receipt of model or tletc) mal I make NO CHARGE UNLESS PATENT IS 8ECUB- **—6dvloe and special ref- Fine assortment of Brashes,Combs Toilet Articles, Perfumery, etc., at Dr. Eldridge’s Drag Store. What tenor shall the soul eons When the Almignty Judge shal To give decree of bliss or doom! The last tramp’s peal with wondrous round Throughout the sepulchres resound To gatker all the throne around. 1 alure and Death amazed will stand When that Innumerable band Shall rise to answer God’s command. Then shall the book of Heaven be brougby, naught, be wrought. No guilt shall unavenged remain. What then shall I, Ring of tremendous majesty. Who the redeemed dost rescue Save me, O Fount Piety ! Forget not, blessed Jesus, then. Forme Thodsharedst the lot ol men. Nor lose me to that day again. ' Thou all-wearily hast sought Me, by Thy Passion Thou hast brought; Let not such sacrifice prove naught. Avenj Judge, though just Thou be, -— „ f pardon grant to me Before that Day of Destiny. White like a guilty one I groan, White in my face my crime is shown, Spare, Oh my God, a suppliant one! Thou who from tin did Mary free, Who heardst the thief in agony— Thou, too, a hope hast given me. No prayer of mine can pardon earn. But Thou, by grace, the doom must turn, Lest in eternal fire 1 burn. Among Thy sheep grant me to stand, Removed from all the guilty band, own right hand. Established at Thine own r While on the damned Thy - Thy Judgements rest, In flames of hell their guilt confessed, Lord, call me home am mg the blest Humble and prostrate, Lord, 1 pray; Mv heart In ashes here I lay; Oh! save my soul in that greatday. _ -The Catholic World. —Amen! Amen! The Sunday School Work. KOCHTH QUARTERLY MEETING OK THE SUMTER COCHTT SUNDAY SCHOOL AS SOCIATION, HELD AT NEW HOPE CHUBCH ON SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 1884. [Published by request] Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle* I will not stop to offer an apology for any failure I may mate in meeting your expectations on this occasion, but acknowledging the responsibility rest ing upon every member of the church— upon every professor of religion—upon every lover of the Snnday-shool cause— I proceed at once, as best i can, to per form my part of the, work of to-day. And as I am not accustomed to pub lic speaking, and cannot rely upon my self to make an extemporaneous speech, I will present a few written reflections for yonr consideration and encourage ment. So much has been said and written upon the subject of Sunday- schools by the wisest and best men of the land, that it would be very great presumption on. my part to snppose that I could say anything new, and yet we need “precept upon precept, line np<yi line, here a little, and there a lit- Christian duty resting upon ns to be come teachers in the Sunday-school, "" 'tl>e ground of incompetency. If we i capable.of reading the Bible and of understanding its precepts, it is a duty we dare not shrink from to teach them faithfully to onr children, not only at home, but in the Sunday-school. With out «nch teaching the rising generation will be too ready to adopt the false principles now being inculcated by men who claim that they are only teaching science, but some of whom are teaching the doctrines of infidelity. It has been bnt a little while since a learned professor in a Theological 8em inary—a minister, too, of the Gospel—said in a speech, made in vin dication of his scientific theory: “I know the word of God is true, hnt I see nothing to borbid my belief that the body of man may not have been evolv ed from some lower animal, horrible as it may appear to aome 1” And this ia what he calls science! And I feel ■nre that some pf you are* ready to ex claim: “Lord deliver us and our chil dren from such a theory!” If you would fortify yonr children tie, to keep ns properly enlisted the moat important interests of life, and to aronse ns to greater efforts for the accomplishment of good. Next to the preaching of the Gospel there is no work so important as that of the Snnday-school—a work that has never been properly appreciated by a large portion of the chnrch—and w* meet here to-day to awaken,as far as we can, a deeper interest in the Sunday- school cause in this connty and this community. None of ns are sufficient ly alive to its magnitude and impor- None of ns seam to regard It... its true light as a means of training onr children np in the “nartara and admonition of the Lord.’’ Bnt some good man may ask, “Why not do this at home?” Ah! my brethren and friends, this is a question we wonld all do well to consider—thoughtfully and prayerfully consider. And right here I wish to say that the Snnday-school does not propose to assume any of the responsibilities of domestic training, ***** *~ ■ :J impressing up- bnt to aid and assist the minds and the hearts of children the pions lessons that have been tanght them around the fireside at home. If true that the hearts and minds of yonng children are mnch more suscep tible of religions impressions than old er persons—that we can labor for their salvation more hopefnlly than we can for those who have become hardened and rebellions—then we ought to re gard it as one of the hightestand most binding obligations resting upon ns, to ily see to it that onr children at tend the Snnday-school, bat that we attend it onrselves and there teach them earnestly and prayerfully the word of God, which alone can make them “wise unto salvation.” To show yon the importance of early religions training—and there L ter place for it than in the Bnnday- school-I quote irom two or three articles which I have recently read,giving the ob servation and experience of distinguish ed editors and ministers of the Gospel. ‘*Th« Indian* tV. ■The Indiana Baptist,” says "the Standard, has been looking up the proportion of early conversions in onr more prominent annals of Ohristian ex perience. It arrives at the conclusion that as a rale the more widely and per- — converted j a early oilanently useful life.” And then goes large number of eminent Christian en who were converted yonng. The Christian Index, too, says sub stantially the same thing, and going farther, says: “Frequent as early c versions have been in the past, we _ pect them to increase ia frequency irora g*neration to generation. More Intel- llgeat, more faithfml, more believing work among the yonng will mark the bee ot the fatnie, and God will crown It with His blessing nntil con versions we now account early will be regarded: as slow and late.” This is what the intelligent and Christian edi tor of the Index says, and he possibly had in his mind when he wrote it an incident jn the life of one of the most distinguished ministers of Baltimore, who did not believe in early eon ver sions, and when his own little daugh ter—about seven or eight years old, if I remember right—made application chnrch membership,he not only did not encourage her to join, bnt lor a time mused to receive her into the church. Finally, one day she approached him, and tenderly looking up in his face, said: “Father, do you not think I am capable of loving you?” “Yes, my d ®tl»Bg,” he replied, “of course I do.' “Then why not love my Saviour, who loved me so mnch as to die for me ?” This, he said, broke down all his oppo sition, and he baptized the little girl and reoeived her into the chnrch, and is to-day, I-suppose, if still alive, preaching the importance of early con versions,and that there is no better place to accomplish the work than in the Snnday-school. The editor of the Wesleyan Chris- tian Advocate in noticing what wac said in the Index on the subject says: The list given above (I did not quote the names) might be increased by near ly all the names on, the rolls of the North Georgia, the Sooth Georgia and the Florida Conference of the Metho dist Episcopal Chnrch. South. Most of the preachers in these Conferences were converted before their fifteenth year and not a few of them under ten 7«*f» of age, and jfojs qn to say: “We agree folly witnthe Index, that in the chnrch of the future conversions now accounted early, will then he regarded “■slowandlate.” The great object of Sunday-Schools is-ror onght to be—the conversion of the children who attend them, and when we teach them, as one of the eminent ministers, from whom I have quoted, suggests—“More intelligently, more faithfully and more believingly,” we may confidently expect the blessed results predicted of the future. I do not understand, nor do I wish to make the impression upon the minds of my audience, that this noted Dr. of divinity, when he said that “more i o at J 11 «g , “ t ” teaching in the Sunday- School is an essential element future success, intended to convey the idea that none bnt the more intellectual and cultivated can make successful teachers. One of the most faithful and efficient Snnday-school teachers I ever knew was a man of ordinary intellect, and with a limited education, and cannot excuse onrselves from the high j... .* . they might all well unite in tho words of the text and say: “He that cometh from above is above all.” First, Christ must be above all else our preaching. There are so many books on homiletics scattered through the country that all laymen, as well as all clergymen, have made np their minds what sermons onght to be. That sermon is most effectual which most pointedly puts forth Christ as the par don of all sin and the correction of all evil, individual, social, political, na tional. There is no reason why wc should ring the endless changes on a few phrases. There are those who think that if an -exhortation ot a dis course have frequent mention of justi fication, covenant of works and cove nant of grace, that therefore it muBt be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious cf a discourse which presents the same tiuth but under different phraseology. Now, I say there is noth- wuuiu lurmy yonr cmidren against such views, teach them faithfully at home and in the Snnday-school the 1 pure word of God. Teach them that it is written in the Bible with the pen of inspiration: “The Lord God formed of the dost of the gronnd, and breathed into his nostrils tho breath of life, and man became a living soul,” instead of being evolved from a monkey some other “lower animal,” as some of science wonld have them believe. I have endeavored in what I have already said to press upon yonr con sideration the importance of early re ligions training, and of early conver- only because the consciences tenderer and more easily of children impressed with religions truth, and * v -‘ consequently they can be led much successfully to the Saviour for salvation while yonng, than after they grow older, bnt for the additional, and not less important reason, as stated by one of the distinguished ministers from whom I quoted before, “That as a rale more widely and permanently useful converted in early life.” And I again affirm that the Snnday-school is one of the best instrumentalities for tho accomplishment of this work. I need not spend but little time in conclusion to convice yon that it is mnch more difficult to do this work after our children have grown up to manhood and have contracted a thous and evil habits that are constantly leading them down to rain. Some of yon, it may be, with sad hearts, can bear witness to its tiutb; and almost everything aronnd us and about us animate and inaminate—solemnly and impressively admonishes ns of the folly and the danger of potting off to a later day a matter oisnoh vital importance as tF® salvation of the sonl,proving, as has been truly said by one of the poets, jjjj 1 ,‘‘P rocraBtiMtion » the thief of We look out to day upon the stately old oaks of the forest, with their leaves sear and dying and their branches growing harder and harder as ths winter approaches, realizing that it wonld be a hopeless task to undertake to engraft upon them the cuttings of some other tree, expecting them to grow and produce fruit. It is almost as hopeless a work to attempt to plant within the souls of men who have passed the summer of life.withont yield ing to the influences ofthe Gospel, the seeds of eternal life, expecting them to spring np and bring forth the fruits of nghteosness. Bnt take a young and ten der twig in the spring timeand engraft it upon a vigorns branch of some other tnw. and if will .. i . .. . tree, and it will >oon Iwgin to bnd and blossom, and finally bring forth the frnit yon expactad. Tbns it will bo with onr work in tbo Snndny-Mbool. faithfully atriro to implant with- the hearts of onr children the princi- ploa of the Obriatian religion, we onr confidently expect to soo them spring np and produce an nbnndnnt barrest of good froit in this world, and world to come lile everlasting. THE HEALTH AND BEAUTY of children can be restored by givieg them Shnner'e Indian Vermifuge to kill the warms that darken their complexion, A CARD. nad Indiscretions of youth, nervous weak'. wm, early decay, loss of manhood, 11 1 i self-addressed e TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeWlTT TAL3IAGE. ABOVE ALL. He that cometh from above is above ail.- St John ill., The most ( history steps _ r .... The finger which, diamonded with light, pointed down to Him from the Bethlehem sky was only a ratification of the finger of prophecy, the finger of genealogy, the tiuger of chronology, the finger of events—all five fingers point- direction. Christ ertopping figure of all time. He is th< humana in all music, the graceful- lest line in all scnlptnre, the most qnisite mingling of lights and shades iu all painting.the acme of all climates, the dome of all cathedraled grandeur and the peroration of all splendid lan guage. The Greek alphabet is made njA>i twenty-four letters, and when Christ compared himself to the first letter and the last letter, the Alpha and the Omega, He appropriated to Himself all the splendors that you spell ont with these two letters the letters between them. Alpha and the Cmega, the beginning id the end, the first and tho la6t. Or, if you prefer the words of tho text, “above all.” What does it mean? It means, after you have piled up all Al pine and Himalayan altitudes, the glory of Christ wonld have to spread its wings and descend a thousand leagues to touch these monuments. Pelion, a high mountain of Thessaly, Ossa, high mountain, and Olympus, a high moan- tain;bnt mythology tells us when giants warred against tho gods they piled np these three mountains, and from the top of them proposed to scale the heav ens, bat the height was not great en ough, and there was a complete failure. And after all the giants—Isaiah and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants— Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic giants—cherubim and seraphim and archangel, celestial giants—have failed to climb to the top of Christ's glory, He made Paul sing in the dungeon,and under that grace St. John from deso late Patmos heard the blast of the apocalyptic trumpets. After all other candles have been snnffed ont, this is the light that gets brighter and bright er unto the perfect day, and after, under the hard hoofs of calamity,all the pools of worldly enjoyment have been tram pled into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from caps of granite lily-rimmed and vine covered, puts out the thirst of his soul. Again I remark: that Christ is above 1 in dying alleviation. I have not any sympathy with the morbidity abroad about our demise. The Em peror of Constantinople arranged that the word treasures that inherited from the Latin and the Greek and the Indy-Enropean, but we have a right to marshal it in religions discussion. Christ sets the example, His illustrations were from the grass, from the flowers, from the spittle, and the slave, and the barnyard fowl, and the crystals ot salt as well as from the as and the 6tars. I know that there is a great deal said onr day against words, as though they were nothing. They may be misused, bnt they have an imperial power. They are the bridge between sonl and sonl, between Almighty God and the human race. What did God write upon the tables of stone? Words. What did Christ ntter on Mount Oli vet? Words. Oat oi what did Christ strike the spark for the illumination of the universe? Out of words: “Let there bo light,” and light was. Of coarse, thought is the cargo and words are only the ship; bnt how would your cargo get on without the ship? What yon need, ray friends, in all yonr work, in yonr Sabbath-school class, in your reformatory institutions, and what we all need is to enlarge onr vocabulary when we come to speak about God and Christ or Heaven. We ride a few old words to death when there is such il limitable resource. Shakespeare em ployed 15.000 diilerent words for dra matic purposes. Milton employed 8,- 000 different words for poetic purpose, Rnfus Choate employed over 11,000 different words for legal purposes, bnt the most of us have less than a thou sand words that we can handle—less than five hundred—and that make ns stnpid. Then wo come to set forth the love of Christ we are going to take tenderest phraseology wherever we find it, and if it has never been used in that direction before, all the more shall we nse it. When we come to speak of the Christ, the Conqueror, we aro going to draw onr smiles from triumphal arch and oratorio and everything grand and stupendous. The French navy have eighteen ilrgs by which they give sig nal, bnt those eighteen ilagB they can pat into 66,000 different comlpnations. And I have to tell you that these stan dards of the cross may be lifted into combinations infinite and varieties ev erlasting. And let me say to these young men who come from the theolo gical seminaries into our services every Sabbath, and are after a while going to E reach Jesus Christ, you will have the irgest liberty and unlimited resources. You only have to present Christ in yonr own way. Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in the severest arguments ever penned, and John Banyan preached Christ in the sublimest allegory ever composed. Edward Payson, sick and exhausted, leaned np against the side the day of liis coronation the tnasion should come and consult him about the tombstone that, after awhile, he would need. And thero are men who are monomaniacal on the subject of departure from this life by doath.and the more they think of it the loss they — prepared to go. Thero is an un worthy of yon, not Saladin, the greatest conqueror of bis day, while dying and let ' the manner and the voice and the start ■ actor, overwhelmed his auditory. It would have been a different thing if Jonathan Edwards had tried to write and dream about Pilgrim's Progress to the Celestial City, or John Banyan had attempted an essay on the human will. Brighter than the light, fresher than the fountains, deeper than the seas are all these Gospel themes. Soug las no melody, flowers have no sweetness, sunset sky has no color compared with these glorious themes. These harvests oi grace spring up quicker than wo can sickle them, kindling pulpits with their fire, and producing revolutions with their power, lightning np dying beds with their glory, they are the sweetest thoughts for the poet, and they are the | head for the artist, and they are to the am bassador of the sky all enthusiasms. Complete pardon for direct guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghastliest agonv. Brightest hope for grimmost dcatm Grandest resmrection for darkest sepul chre. Oh, what a Gospel to preach. Christ over all iu it. His birth, His luffering, His miracles, His parables, lis sweat, His tears, His blood. His itonement, Ilis intercession—whatglo- ious themes! Do we exercise faith? Christ is its object. Do we have love? It fastens on Jesu6. Have we a.fond- _ for the church? It is because Christ died for it. Have we a hope of heaven? It 13 because Jesus went, ahead, tho herald and the forerunnet. The royal robe of Demetrius wa* so costly, so beautifal, that after he had put it off none ever dared put it on; bnt this robe of Chnst, richer than that, the poorest and the wanest and the worst may wear. “Where sin aboun ded, graco may much more abound. 1 “Oh, my sins, my sins,” said Martin Luther to StaupUzs, “my s The fact is that the brawny German student had found a Latin Bi ble that made him qnake, and nothing else did make him qnake, and when he fonnd how through Christ he was par doned and saved, he wrote to a friend, saying: “Come over and join us,great and awfnl sinners, saved by the grace of God. You seem to be only a slen der sinner and you don’t mnch extol the mercy of God, bnt we that have been such very awful sinners praise His grace the more now that wo have been redeemed.” Can it be that you desperately egotistical that you feel yourself in first-rate spiritual and that from the root of hair to top of toe you are careless and immaculate? What you need is a looking-glass, and here it is in the Bible. Poor and wretch ed and miserable and blind and naked from the crown of tho head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefy ing sores. No health in us. And then take the fact that Christ gathered up all the notes against us and paid them, and then offered ns the receipt. And how much we need Him in u sorrows. We are independent of ci cumstances if wo have His grace. Why, II. T> l • .i j ■ Christ is the chief theme of the celes- tical ascription, all tho thrones facing His throne, all the palms waved before His face, all the crowns down at His feet.Chernbim to cherubim,seraphim to seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed spirit shall recite the Saviour’s earthly sacrifice. Stand on some high hill of Heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the most glorious object wjll be Jesus. Myriads gazing on the scars of His suffering, in silence first, afterward^ dered that the tonic he had on'him be carried after his death on a spear at the head of his army, and that then the u j should stop and soldiers “Behold, all that is left of Sala din, the emperor and conqueror. Of all the States ho conquered, of all the wealth he accumulate, nothing did he retain but this shroud.” I have no lympathy with such behavior, or such ibsurd demonstration, or with much that we hear uttered in regard to depar ture from this life to the next. There is a common-sensical idea on this sub ject that you and I need to consider— that there are only two styles of dspar- A thousand feet under ground, by light of torch, toiling in the miners’ shaft, a ledge of rock may fall upon us — J — may die a miner’s death. Far ya, falling from the slippery ratlins we may die a sailor’s death. On mission of mercy in hospital amid broken bones and reeking leprosies and rag'ng fevers, we may die a philan thropist’s death. On the field of battle serving God and onr country, slugs throngb the heart, the guu carriages may roll over us, and wo may die a patriot’s death. But after all there are only two styles of departure. The death of the righteous and the death of the wicked, we all want to die tho for mer. God that when that hour comes you may be at home. You want the band of your kindred in yonr hand.— You want your children to surround you. You want the light on yonr pil low from eyes that have long reflected your love. You want the room still. You do not want any curious strangers standing around watching you. You want your kindred from afar to hear your last prayer. 1 thiuk that is the wish of all of us. But is that all? Can earthly friends hold us up when the billows of death come up to the '•irdle? Can human voice charm open i’s gate? Can human hand pi- thronghthe narrows of death into heaven’s harbor? Can any earthly friendship shield us from the arrows of death in tho hour when Satan shall practice upon us his infernal archery ? No, no, no, no! Alas ! poor soul, if that is all. Better die in the wilder- far from tree, shadow and from fountain, alone, vultures circling in ir waiting for our body—unknown _ in and to have no burial—if only Christ could say through the solitude. •<t - .i. ° r •„ ’ I will never leave thee, I will forsake thee.” From that pillow of stdne a ladder would soar Heavenward, angels. coming and going, and across the solitude and the barrenness wonld come the sweet notes of Heavenly minstrely. Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in the door of a heathen temple, said: ‘ Glory to thee, oh, God. 1 thousand aad with the just men made perfect, and we shall ascribe riches and honor and glory and majesty and do minion unto God and the Lamb.” Dr. Taylor,condemned to bnrn at the atake, on his way thither broke away from the guards-men and went bounding and leaping and jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for Him. Sir Charles Hare in his last mo ments had such rapturous vision he cried: “Upwards, upwards, upwards 1” And so great was the peace of one of Christ’s disciples that he put hia fingers npon the pulse on his wrist and coanted it and observed it, and so great was his placidity that after awhile he said: “Stopped,” and his life had ended here to begin in Heaven. 1 But grander than that was the testimony of the worn-ont first missionary, vhen in the Mamartine dungeon he cried: “I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand; I have fought the good fight, 1 have finished my coarse, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up foi mo a crown of righteousness which the Lord; the righteous Judge, will give that day, and not to me only but to all them that love His appearing*” Do you not see that Christ is above all alleviations ? Toward the' Hour of onr earthly residence we ipeeding. When I see the sunset I say: “One day less to live.” When I see the spring blossoms scatte*vd I say: “Another season gone forever.” When I close the Biblo on Sabbath night I say: “Another Sabbath de parted.” When I bury a friend I eayt “Another earthly attraction gone ior- ftYflf ’’ WKaf nimkl. .1 What nimble feet the years have! The roe-bucks and the light nings run not so fast. From decade to decade, from sky to sky, they go at a bound. There is a place for us wheth- marked or not, where you and I will sleep the last sleep, and the men are • ine last Bleep, and the men are living who will with solemn tread carry us to our resting place. Aye, it is known in Heaven whether our de parture will he a coronation or a ban ishment. Brighter than a banqueting hall through which the light feet of the dancers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the sepul chre through whose rifts the holy light of heaven streameth. God will watch yon. He will send His angels to guard your slumbering ground nntil at fihrjsf’n behest they shall roll away Christ’s the stone: So also Christ is above all in Heav- _ The Bible distinctly says that breaking forth into acclamation. The martyrs, all tho purer for the flame through which they passed, will say: “This is Jesus, for whom we died.” The apostles, all the happier for the shipwreck and the scurging through which they went, will say: “This ia the Jesus whom we preached at Corinth Cappadocia annd at Antioch Jerusalem.” Little children clad in white will 6ay: “This the Jesus who took us in His arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the world were too cold and loud, brought into this beautiful place.” The multitude of the bereft will say: “This *“ the Jesus who comforted us when ■ hearts broke.” Many who wand ered clear off from God ai.d plunged into vagabondism bnt were saved by grace, will say: “This is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost in the mountains and He brought us home. We were guilty, and He has made ns white as snow. Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled ” And then, after each one haB recited his peculiar de liverance and pecnliar mercies, recited them as by solo, all tho voices will me together into a great chorus which shall make the arches echo and re-echo with the eternal reverberation of glad- and peace and trinmph. Edward I. so anxious to go to the Holy Land that when he was ahont to expire he bequeathed $160,000 to have his heart, after his decease, taken to the Holy Land in Asi Minor, and hia request complied with. But there are hundreds to-day whose hearts are al ready in the Holy Land of Heaven. Where your treasures are,there are your hearts also. Quait John Banyan, of whom I spoke at the opening of the discourse, caught a climpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said, “And 1 heard in my dreams and lo ! the bells of the city rang again for joy, — J — they opened the gates to let in n I looked in after them, and lo ! the city shone like the sun and there vero streets of gold, and men walked in them, harps in their hands, to sing praises withal, and after that they shut np the gates, which, when I had seen, I wished myself among them.’* They are Not Sorry. There is one thing nobody ever re grets—that is, tho day they first adopt ed Parker’s Tonic as their regular fami ly medicine. Its range is so wide, and its good effects so sure, that nothing else, except good nursing, are needed ii a great majority of caseB. Buy, try it, and afterwards it will not require any praise from ns. l m . vouno men:—read this. Tp Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, jillch, offer to send their celebrated Elcb- tro-Voltaic Belt and other Electric At- fliances on trial for thirty days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debili ty, loos of vitality and manhood, and all kindred > roubles. Also for rheumatism. oration to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No risks tain- curred as thirty dap trial U allowed. Write rtrated pamphlet free Fine assortment of the best Wines, I knew what happiness was nntil I fonnd Christ.” What did dying Hannah I Moore say ? “To go to heaven, what ia that ?^ To go to Christ, who died that I might live. Oh, glorious grave. Oh, what a glorious thing it is to die. Oh, the love of Christ, the love of ^hrist.” What did Mr. Toplady, the I •t hymn-maker, say in his last . r ? “Who can measure the depth of the third4>eaven ? Oh, the sunshine that fills my sonl. I shall soon be gone, for surely no one can live in this world after 6uch glories as God has manifested to my soul.” What did the dying Janeway say ? *‘iily die as close my eyes, or tnrn my sleep. Before a few hours Dr. Eldridge’s Drag Store. We grind all onr'own Pepper, Spice, Ginger, etc^ and they are always freehand pore, at ~ ‘ * lagefo Drug Store. New York City. ir, the’ Lamps! Lamps ! Lamps ! Hanging, stand and other Lamps, fine and common at Dr. Eldridgete Drag Sfore. Teas! Teas!! Teas!!! Dr. Eldridge is the only man in town who has the Hino Tea for sale. He also keeps Segars! Segars! Negara! Best assortment of Segars at Dr. Eldridge’s Drag Store. Mount A full assortment of all sorts an ml forty kinds of Patent Medicines at Dr. Eldridge’s Drag Store.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, December 05, 1884, Image 1