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Newspaper Page TexttechftJDBil an act pasMd by toe !»t GeMt^AMgnblj of Georgia—75 cents per hundred wetdafor «• ach of the dm four insertions, andMeents (oread) subsequent Insertion. .fractional i irh of oh hundred are considered out hundred words;each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted at a word. The cash mud accompany thiemgy << Established in 1854 i —. : : -—■—— —-- « : ■ , »> BYC.W. HANCOCK. \ INDBPEHDEHT IN POLITICS AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE SCIENCE. AMD GENERAL PROGRESS Terms: $2 A tear in advance VOL. 31. AMEBICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1885. NO. .51. Alladrt be charged ahore rates. Adrertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be Inserted Adrertisements to occupy fixed places wll be charged 25 per cent above regular rates Notices in local column Inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. -r. B. P HOLLIS, .litorneu at Imvo% ANIEUICUS, OA. Office, Forsyth Street, ’n National Bank hniuin<r- deeaotf BuoUsn'e arnica Salve. The test Salve In the world for Cuts Uruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Kheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Bands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positive ly cures Piles, or no pay required. It I* guaranteed to give perfect saU '“*— **' money refunded. Price J3 cenl For sale by Dr. E. J. Eldridg?. ocCKHy E. G. SIMMONS. .ittornev at Law, AMEIUOUS OA.. Office in Hawkins* building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort A Simmons. JanStf Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon. Offers his professional services people of Americas and vicinity. Office at Dr. Eldridge's Drug Store. At night can be found at residence at the Taylor house, 1 Lamar street. s will receive prompt attention. i)r. 0. P HOLLOWAY, DentisT, Georgia AmericuR. - - Trestssuccessfully all diseases ofthe Den method, and Inserts artificial teeth on best material known to the profession. r Davenport and Son’i Law Notice. 1 and after this date B. B. Hinton A REMARKABLE CURE! PHYSICIAJS AID SDRGEOKS DECIDED TO DSE TEE KHIFE. My wife and daughter artt, uticlAtiimln*r tf ■e of to«Il of tit. Two of the bowl ss&s£ 183,1 iyiKSSSUtSf travel an-und the world "f: iiZ3S?35j£ bo< t k^and'Tl^e’rriStta wonacrrnl. hue now experteno-* no dUBcalty In breathing her appetllTIs »«1. and abe li "nSJfttTSlnttaw^a 1 * m co °’ ‘!W* WHITED SEE JEtll” MBS. MAJAT D. JALXS. Of glittering gems of Nor splendid utcrary k Nor yrocks that 11— If these shall hide his glorious fat If these his lore conceal, O take the gilded charmsaway. Let Christ his lore reveaL Him whose life .*» us was gives; Who toned and suffered, wept and died ~e might lire in heaven. 'Tls Jesus we would see. Jesus, the brightest, fairest One, 'I^SfefeSrWv&ulhrfat Let us behold again! behold again! And bis own maleMnw charm ravealed who insisted that a veritable devil took possession of him and had dominion over him. Noticing my per plexity this strange man continued: lam an Assytian Jew. Twenty years ago. an agent far P. T. Barnum came through Assyria in his search for curiosities, and, having taken a fancy me, engaged me to wait on him. I me to America with him. He had s sent to school, and I, being quick and having a retentive memory, soon learned the American language. For ten years I have been traveling over tbs United States on lecturing toors. my subject being “Assyria and the Assyrians." Yon see that 1 speak English fluently, though I sometimes get my prepositions mixed up. “Five years ago I had my first at tack. That is five years ago to-day. The devil first visited me and took That thrills our souls with Joy: Lnd his own matchless charm rng Set forth his charms, tell of hie power. ’Tls this all hearts will n A mystic cham Is in his name. Mightier titan spell; Tbeflirtlling story of his love We would see Jesus Christ, the Lord; O, never may we say, As loving, weeping Mary said, •‘They’ve taken my Lord away 1” risistihle influence to be Left to myself or condition would be entirely and absolutely astatic. Gov erned and directed by him I roam amidst all classes and conditions of and there do my mischief and my V L It tL. a :i „ cheerfully n-commend It to all who arc afflicted With pnlmocarv diieaae. V«.iy nc? fully, LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR, MACON, GA. ml Edgar F. Hinton will be associated t •hip will be confined to the practice i* Sum ter county. The practice in art Joining coun- ”1 be separate and distinct. Tbe r member will visit parties 'In the county when desired by client without t tra charge. Special attention given t ‘ collection of claims. o This school located four miles, east of Anierieu\ will be open on Monday next the l;i;h Inst, for the reception of pupils both Itoys and girls. J. G. SHOCKLEY, Principal- janlStf Wew Davis Wheel. Americds, Ga., l)cc. This is to certify that I nave set tested ono 48 inch I Putnam (Ohio) Sunjlg+l, tested ono 48 inch Davis Improved Turbin Water Wheel, under C'A foot head attached to one pair 48 inch rocks, on average grinds 15 bushels first-lass meal per hour. Such results I never knew before, either by water wheel or steam engine. From tests side by side with one other wheel, using a little more water than the Davis wheel, yet the Davis wheel grinds four bushels to the oth er wheel's one. The power of the Davis wheel is so great and steady In its motion that the meal ground by it does not heat, but Is cool and smooth and ground as fine as de sired by all customers. 1 would not have any other wheel, save tho Davis wheel. I find it all he claims, for It, and in some res pects more. First, the cheapest, easiest set In operation and kept in order. Works outside of water-house making it accessible " times—great In power and by far the One day several weeks agol saw on the Jefferson ferryboat a man who ut ‘ &£* I am prepared to bore wells In the very •cst order and guarantee water. Will also lean out caved wells at moderate prices.— •nply to me at Amerlcus. .anlStf W. J. SPEER. It Is the very wheel needed, and cheerfully recomi rs. It 1st! practically, all 1 or his wheel. to giva the Davis wheel 1885. J.E.SATHIS, Pr|nclp»l. 1 will take charge of tlie above school on iday January 12th next. I have taught for the people of Ai would n " ■ * would respectfully ask a aenewal of their vinced before investing In other Respectfully, L. N. HUDSON, TO THE*PUBLIC. result as above stated Here re- S-JW-UBarkar- w—1 ,_ike county Ga.— Catalogue gives many similar references from reliahle^partics. For Prices, Terms, JAMES A, DAVIS, E. E. Brown’s Hotel, Macon Ga, Agencies, addi 1 n termed late, per month-... First class, per month... ultiondur -***-- * Tuition due at the end of each Scholastic J. E. MATHIS. Principal. MONROE FEMALE COLLEGE FOltNYTU, OA. This institution Is fust ragalning or prestige and popularity. 'Tho policy has In-en to place the best teaching talent at the head of each department and over the whole to extend a kino, yet firm discipline. The result has been a steady increase of patron age and constant growth in public confidence and favor. Tbe Spring session will begin Monday January 12th 1885. Those in search erf a good school, whose purpose is to prepare woman for the the high aims and duties of life one whose eiTortin tbe past have been successful in sup plying valuable contribution to the society of almost every southern state are respectfully invited to roorfiler the advantages and fu ture prospects of Monroe. Foor informa tionupply * Jan3tf R. T. ASBUItr, President* PATENTS Caveats, Re-issues aad Trade-Marks cured, and all ether patent causes in Patent Office and before the Courts prompt ly and carefahjr attended to. ^^powrw«y<^»>i<>drr»r im-enhgw. J taMWv /Ve* STaanJr. 0 *’ ° n< * FEES MODERATE, and I make NO CHARGE UNLESS PATENT IS SECUR ED. Information, advice and special erenee ent on application. J.u, urriXL, w«.r ‘ — Near U. 8, Patent Office. Fillmore Brows. Edgerton House, Opposite Passenger Depot, MACON, QEORQIA. S. E. Brown t Son, fnprlaton. Hates £2.00 Per Day. DR. CARUSES. Xj. &d IB. DipCberia, Sprains, Bruises. Contracted trreryMse. And have many certificates the best people in Upeou and Taylor 1 (tted&uni rgsawssTaJsSS aston.Ga., to whom all orders should a all orders should bead- by Dr. E. J. EJdrfilge.^^' ing in, or trying any other wheel. If there beany doubting Thomas's imefen this, the Davis wheel, proving tbe ' ned for it, I only ask ol you t for yourselves, and be then roughly 0 caught as long as he as tall and algnsler and ae ga pine tree. Hu piercing black and and bead-like eyaa were ^et filoee to gether under beetling, bushy eyebrows. His nose was long, thin and aquiline. His chin was peaked and acuminate. Close, heavy, wiry hair covered his ovoid head like a thickly woven thatch. A neatly-fitting suit of black broad cloth clothed his attenuated form. I, wondered at the time mho W •». Mr imagination raa riot; a thousand lations were born, reared and ly slaughtered. As fast as I conclusion a glance of his eyes or 1 unstudied motion of his small, though long and sinewy hiuids, or slender, sinuona body, changed me to another. I went through .the whole list —“Preacher, lawyer, merchant, doctor, bagman, barber,Xhiff." Most assuredly he w*a neither oftheee. I half angry with myself for taking 1 an interest In a stranger, and was altogethsr pleased and relieved * ’ lost sight of him as be went into the hotel. Tbe following night a tele- »wky fogs wrapped the entire re- phonic nt^g.hnmJm.T.h.Od, n , t “. r .. d " k ”!"i I went with all-epeed, and on TUTFS P§LL& TORPID BOWELS, DISORDERED LIVER, and MALARIA. From tbeaa sources arise tbrea-foortbs of being ushered into a room saw this man who had so strangely interested me •tietched on the bed, aeemingly almost articulo mortis. Besotting to heroic treatment, I soon had the satia£acucm of perceiving him gradually grow stronger. 1 left him, after leaving directions with an attendant, and did not call again ontil the following morning. 1 then found him sitting in a chair. I noticed that the curious glitter had gone out of his eyes, and that his features had undergone some is indicate their axMtsnce: Jjmmm mt App«Ut«, Bowel, CMUn, acLe, fullntii after eating, mollifying change; be waa the. man 1 had seen on the boat, hot seem ed to have lost a force or an attribute, which made him m^kedly^&£kwP “Good morning, doctor,?' said he; ntlwUrer. AsaUmnMdlciae mrl fbU have no equal. Tiietr action 00 the tdnejs and Skin la alao proront; removing II lmparitice Uiroueh these three •• tear- «1 a vIj:orou, body. TITTOPILLS last seizure was mnch more, severe tfai •ei/.pre was.n any I have heretofore h^d.** ’ t&e’qatara t ‘ ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA. M I have bad Dyspepaia, with Constipa- tloa.two jaaraasil have tried ten dlgieieut kinds of pills, and TCTTS are the first that bare done me any good. They have cleaned me out nicely. My appetite Is aplendld, food digests readily, and I now *—’ —— * fori like a nei toUwtTTwkera.aaa. dffiw^liSwySWN- TUTTS HAIR DYE. Gray Haim os Wuisnas changed In stantly toaULuMT llucx by a single ap- plieatlon of tills IITX. 80M by Druggist*, or sent by express on receipt of • 1. Office, 44 Murray Street, hsw York. TUTTI MAXOAL OF USEFUL RECEIPTS FRIL POUTZ’S MORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS BAI.TIMl.UX.* KOSIIFEr’x ■ uAgtstter*s Stomach Bitters is tba article " net>ura^es healthful ar, ? safe, and in Utln tho hearty en- of every class of | •i&vsvs Bi.i.i.’&xiotsa. TAKEN BY A DEVIL. tv OP AWBiS JEW 1US \TO^W» DILL, Akn RELATE*, WHAT XIMD OP A PLACK IT REALLY JB—A HELL OP A**OMTPt AX» CTTER SATIETY. dspecu- nthlau* I know that it is the devil who takes possession of me, because when I look at a person when I am hardened by the presence of this horrible devil, this infernal inenbus, and wish that person to do or think in a certain man ner, the person does it. I am all the more convinced that it Is an evil spf * that actuates me, because I never v any good, bat always that which detestable and bad. I whisper into the of the virtuous wife horrible sug gestions of unholy and licentious love* and immediately she abandons home, children and friends and follows the primrose path to destruction, I tempt the gnardian of other people’s money, and immediately he breaks through the probity of an nprght Christian life and falls to tbe level of a common theft. I inoculate the lover with jealous thoughts, and be immediately deter mines to mnrder his. sweetheart. Oh! it is bitter, exceedingly bitter, this cnorse of mine. How often have I pray ed the just, the powerful, the omnipo tent Holer of the universe to strike me dead. Ay! I have even tried to find that bonrne from whence no traveler .ever returns through my own instru mentality, bnt all in vain; all in vain. I>nring his last visit the devil took me to hell with him. Yes, I—even I— have looked on lost sonls in torment. I have descended into hell itself. I have penetrated tbe mysterious hereaf ter, and have looked on the woe and misery of those condemned to dwell eternally in peditii So speaking he shuddered convul sively and paused to wipe the cold inreat from his agitated features. “I have been taught," he continued, ‘to believe that bell was an intensely oold and dismal place; that the sun never shone there; that various vapor What 1 ?” I inquired, form or hysterical ?” Neither," said he. guess from now till never hit the correct diagnosis. Ton smile incredulously and say in heart. “Hew u only another cr . hypochondriac/ Still more will yon smile when I tell von that aonjetime* I am possessed of a devil, and that it is his incarceration in my unwilling body that brings on throe alarming convulsions, which almost lenaxate I soul and body. Yet aneh la the troth. Beelzebub himself, the very kfoj; of Sbeol sometimes takes ay. poor ' as a dwelling place.” The man spoke calmly and dispas sionately. There was no wandering look, no incoherent commingling of senseless words and phrases, which would point to a diseased coodftron of the brain. 'Of course," said I, “you mean by the word devil to designate some agony which yon suffer?" “No, indeed," he replied, what I say. I mean literally and am- governa me entirely. Yon mar say that I am insane at times, but when 2 solemnly declare to yon that I am folly conscious of my every action, aad of the absolute quality of toe absolute quality of my own per sonal individually and the individuali ty of the devil that pueassee ma,yop will aay that I am not Insane. An man, whan he Cancjro,hnM»tftp be tba devil or God or Ohrist, or, in fact, any other thing than himself. Invariably fails to rooognixe hie own personal identity, hat is entirely wrapped np in hie imaginary pereonificatUQ of -the devil, dwty or things whose personal he I had to adaut that this argument was unanswerable. A long aoquaiat- Igl patients suffering from some ■utement !□ th, me to. lath, olden time Ohrist had cast out devils, bnt all reasonable, . •enrible pa km. a«4 teGna th, moa for word "devil” Is only used In a.figure- A®*! tire sense. By the power of the word snd divinity he cored epilepts, ridding them of thor so-called devils. Convulsive movements of al] kinds ere looked upon by the ancients with horror. A cough or hicooagh always called forth a prayer to Jupiter from the superstitutioua Roman or Greek. To utter a prayer when a person saeaaaa is common almost the world over. Evea here in America yon rarely hear a Gar- :e »the presence of others of himself head-long into the golden dost nationality without each and of the stieet. Ah, me! Ah, me! a wo of them ottering - * * ** . „ fervent "Goa bless you.” Here, however, was fnl hell was this. 1 So saying, and weeping bitterly, he arose from his chair and cast himself face downward on the bed. And sol left him. The following day I heard that he had left town. Yesterday, while glancing over a Cincinnati paper, I saw tbe following telegraphic spec- ‘‘Jacksosvillx, Fla., December 2. —The celebrated Assyrian lecturer, Abon Uidhnr, died here to-night. He was taken suddenly ill in his room,snd died before medical aid conld be sum moned." I have not Commented upon this an’s strange story. I have written the tale just as I had it from his lips. The Germans have their dopfelgauger. i-laeca, the the Norwegians their , Scotch their doaj>!e life, and the Hin doos their yak der mnr. Whet hed the poor Assyria?) Jew? Has he ionnd, the nieban or niryahna he so earnestly prayed for? J. W., Jew. NEVER HESITATE TO GIVE Skriner’s Indian Vermifuge when vonr children show the first symtoms ot worms. You cannot afford to trifle with worms, they work in earnest and The Printer Boy. About the year 1725 an American boy some nineteen years old found him self in London, where he was under the necessity of earning his bread. He was not like many young men in these days, who wander around seeking work, and who are “willing to do any thing" because they know how to do nothing; bnt he had learned how to do tmething, and knew just where to go • find something to do; so he went ‘traight to a printing-office, and in quired if be could get employment. " you from?" inquired the Where foreman. America," was the answer. Ah," said the foreman, “from ' ‘ lad from America seeking America! ployment as a printer. Well, do you really understand the art of print- g? Can you set type?" The young man stepped to one of the cases and in a brief space set up the following passage from the first chapter of John : Nathaniel said unto him, can there my good thing come ont of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, come and see." It was done so quickly, so accurate ly, aud administered a delicate reproof appropriate and powerful, that it at gave him influence and standing • 11 in Oi. nfflo. tl. —1 .1:1: with all in the office. He worked dili gently at his trade, refused to dnnk beer and strong drink, saved his money, returned to America, became a printer, publisher, author, Postmaster-General, member of Congress, signer of tbe Declaration of Independence, ambas sador to royal courts, and finally died Philadelphia, April 17,1790, at the age of eighty-four, fall of years and that horrible reptiles, loathsome and terrible insects, poisonons, dank and stinking weeds and hushes, made tho place altogether repugnant. I had been aught to believe tnat the devil fed his Ives on some such hell-broth as tho tho play of'Macbeth* made honors; and thi _ hundred and fiftjr counties, towns and villages in America, named after that same printer boy, Benjamin Franklin, the author of “Poor Richard’s Alma- ”—The Little Christian. aptives< •Fillet of a fenny snake la tbe caldma boU and bake; Eve of newt and toe of frog. Wool of bat and tongne of. dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s stl lizard's leg and owlet's wing,’ ’’ and that he gave thrm no rest 'from rerly morn till dewy eve,* driving them polling them to perform nan- _ tasks. How different from all ireconceived notions bell really is! iVben I first arrived in hell 1 tbonght I had gained paradise, for no concei blq heaven could bi more beautiful ho sight than hell. Far away on 1 1 iry aide a magnificent city lay before ind around me. Glittering in the aya of a ann who forever •sits high in lie meridian tower,' as Milton so hap pily expresses it, millions upon mil lions of dwellings . reare.l their lofty roofs heavenward. Thousands The most beautiful mnsie sounded for ever, most harmonious and pleasing to tho ear. Beautifhl and exquisite flow ers bloomed on every side, while trees bearing the most luscious and delirious fruits lined the broad pavements. Grand equipages, drawn by transcen- dently beautiful horses, waited the wishes aad convenience of any one. Women, more perfect in voluptuous and graceful forma than are the fabled boons of a Mohammedan’s paradise, walked the streets and sang in tbe groves. Delicate and dainty viands steamed on the table# set beneath the . 'bile wines, ’fit nectar of the gods,* flowed from a thousand foun tains. Amid all this beauty and plen ty the damned wandered dismally, dis oonsolatsly and wofnlly. Surrounded passed them all by, bitterly lamenting, like Dido, their untimely and unhappy fate. Surrounded by every earthly attribute, which pleased and gratified tverv earthly sense, they seemed tc see them not. Or if they’did see them, their woe and sorrow waa only the ■ora augmented. An overpowering loagiag for the joys of a holy and of them. Theioys of earth had palled striven daring life to obtain only that wMeh was pleasant to the carnal sense. and now that they deadthny to dwell for ever and amidst the gross aad sensual pleasures they had. ao blindly followed while liv ing. Mv God bisk* this picture from me. Will I ever forget their ft. or other of lnnacy or isMHiilj ma. Will I ever forget their mourn* .pelled me to aay that his deduction fhl wailiags, their resaonefal reerimi true in every particular. I could nations? Just God, if I must live, 5 tell—a me a nepenthe, the which will o mo a Lethean draught! I saw soul of one whom'I had known on earth approached bysHB beautiful than tongue ci man for whom man had given an other bliss. To waste nis whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.” And I saw this damned soul spam her from him with bitter curses and revil ing*. I saw one who had been a drunk ard fill a glass to tho brim with delici ous wine, snd then throw it to the ground ere it had touched his lips. 1 saw on who had wasted his ali en hones mount one ot these plutoniac steeds and while in fall gallop cast John, and the Gospel of Matthew, and the Gospel of Luke. There is jnat as certainly a Gospel of Moses, a Gospel of Daniel and a Gospel of Jeremiah. In other words, Christ is as certainly in the Old Testament as in the New. after one hae departed we want to get ideaofjuitbow he looked, we gath- up all the photographs. Borne taken from one side of the face, others from the other side ot the face, some the fall face; some the fall length portrait', and then from all these pictures we recall to onr mind just how the departed one .looked. And I want all the pietnvee of the evangelists and all the pictures kill. of the prophets to bring before ae the image of .Jesus Christ. 1 want to know just how He looked, and the more pie- tnres I .have of Him the better I shall understand. When the Isiaelities were on their march through the wil derness they earned their church with them. They had what they called'a tabernacle, a pitched tent* It was very costly and very beautiful. The framework waa made ont of forty* ' Memorable Item In I.sconces of a Event. The pleasure seekers who are flock ing to New Orleans to the great Expo sition, make it a point to invest in the world renowned Louisiana 8tate Lot tery, aud examine the integrity and correctness of the distribution under Generals G. T. Beauregard, of La.,and Jnbal A. Early, of Va. The nextf the 177th) Grand Monthly Drawing will occur at noon, Feb. 10th, of which M A. Danphin, New Orleaas, La., will give any information. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BF BE?. T. DeWlTT TAUfAGE. Goupel Looklng-Olaas. ‘.AndHemade the laverof brass, the foot of it of brass, of tbe looklag-glaases of assembling,”—Exodus xxxvll.8. the women We often hear about the Gospel of. tight boards of acacia wood set in sock- of silver. The curtains of the build- „ were of pnrple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and they were hung in anistio loop-. The candlestick had a shaft and branches and bowls of gold, and there were lamps of gold; and tongs of gold, add snuffers of gold, and rings of gold, until tbe skeptic of our time asks where they got all those precious metals. It is not my busi ness to provide the metals. 1 only tell you that they were there. It I come into yonr household and I see a great many besntifnl articles of adornment, it is impertinent for me to say, Where did you get this, and where did you get that, or where did you get the oth- *r thing? I have the pleasure of look ing at them and that is enongh. And when 1 come into this great parlor of n.A __j 8om# thiQgg | God and there cannot understand, and I do not know where this came from or that from, it is enongh for me to be parlor and look aronnd and see what God put there. There is one thing in this ancient tabernacle that especially attracts my attention, and that is the laver. It was a great basin filled with water and the water went down through •pouts and passed away,and tbe priests came and washed their hands and their fret as this water came, down through the sponts and passed away, and the laver was made out of the looking- glasses of the women who had frequent ed the tabernacle or who had made that contribution to the furniture. The looking-glasses were not made ont of glass, bnt of brass of a superior quali ty, polished and burnished until jnst as soon as a priest looked into the side priest looked into the side bf the laver he saw his every feature or any spot of defilement that may have been on his countenance; so thxt thi* laver of looking-glasses spoken of in my text had two purposes; the first, to show those who came np the defilement upon themselves, and, secondly, to of- 1 for than a place where they could get rid pf it. And a9 everything in the cient tabernacle was typical of some thing in the Gospel of the 8on of God, or at any rate, suggestive of it, I take this laver of looking-glasses in my as all snggsstive of this Gospel An Art Well Wqrth Acquiring [ llta# Munson Comn in Harper’s Weakly ] The cure of sleeplessness depends upon the cause; bow various the ounces are we have seen. I will not enumerate the devices for procuring slumber in the ordinal ily healthy;they are very numer ous, bnt none of them have any general application. One counsel may be given, for it is not hackneyed;it it) this: Learn to sleep in the daytiiho.'-Tlne art is one which everybody has not acquired. People there are—I know such people —who are wire enongh to eat when they are hungry, bnt who have nevei attained that higher reach of wisdom, sleep when they are sleepy. Bnt occasions come to all of us when w< need to be able to simp in the daytim« Have you failed to get yonr needed sleep, whether because of work or watching, sorrow or pleasure? Then repose iu the daytime is the restorative needed. There is great virtue in naps —even in short ones—and the art of napping in the daytime, if yon have not learned it already,is one to be learn ed without further delay. It may re quire a little practice, but nature is on the side of the learner. And lastly, here is a bit of philoso- 1 f ._» • lntion. Ok happy day, happy day, When Jesus washed my sms away. This is the only mirror, the bur- shed side of this laver is the only mirror, that shows yon jnst as you are. Some mirrors flatter the featnree aad they make yon look better than yon are. Some mirrors distort the features, and they make yon look worse than 1. This mirror, this mirror of God's word, shows yon jnst as yon are. There priests wonla come in, and jast phy, written by a wise man and _ physician. Dr. Frank Hamilton. Let me hope that at least one of my read ers, if only one, will be wise enough to profit _ by ita wiadom:_ “Gloomy every side by tbe thousand and one thonghte prevent sleep. The poor andJ Tor 4 *^ dried dnt: “Porfce 'did with phatically that the rlrnil oonpep iftto hit luxuries that, made life pleasant, they unfortunate magnify and increase their fy**>paad l •hall be elean," Martin body, and for the time being mien and **-— **— --*“*—*■ * * r-au misfortunes by too much thinking. “Blessed be he who invented 'sleep’' bnt thrice blessed be the man wn< shall invent a core for thinking." Loved by Ladies. Ladies love delicate and delirious perfumes. In Parker’s Hair Balsam they not only satisfy this taste, but have an article whkh arrests falling hair.removes dandruff,rest ores the orig- upon them. TWirs was the hell of inal color snd imparts a beautiful gloss, absolute and attar satiety. They had softnaae and Ufa. Dots not soil the is to be found in the fact that tbe preaching of oar day ia ao apt to per suade a man that ha is almost right anyhow, ho only needs a little firing np, he only needs a few touches ol di vine grace and then ha will be all right; oaly a little out of order. Only a little repair necessary to onr nature, instead of the broad, deep Ulk which 'Baxter andPaysonand Wesley and George Whitefield thundered in the ears of a race trembling on the verge of instant and eternal disaster. Ah! my friends, if there is any troth plainly set forth - this book, it is that w# have thor- igfily gone astray, and that we are it by nature almost right, but alto gether wrong. “The heart i> deceitful above all things and desperately wick- -* 1 ” Some ot ns have been in Hamp- Court and we remember .that room where all th- four walls are covered with mirrors; and it does not make any difference which way yon look you sea yourself. And when a man onoa fully steps inside the precinct ol the Gospel he sees himself on all sides, every feature of moral deformity, every spot of moral taint. The whole head is sick snd the whole heart is faint. I do not care what your, ancestry was, your ancestry was no better than my ancestry. But all generations have felt thie touch of sin. Have yon not realised it? I will tell yon why. Yon have never look into the looking-glass, yon have never seen the mirror. Bnt eaye some one, “What is the use of displaying onr defects to ns if we can not get rid of them?" None. Yon say, “What is the use of showing me that 1 am a sinner if I cannot be any thing but a sinner?" No nse. I can not imagine anything meaner than for a physician to oome into a sick room to tell the patient how baa he looks, snd to discourse upon his affliction and enlarge npoc tbe fact that hie care ia hopeless and then go out with hi* hands behind his back snd whistUng. There never has been a case like that. No physician would bo so hardhearted as that. If you cannot cure a disease yon certainly will not make the mat ter worse by discoursing upon it, and 1 am the last man to stand here and Ulk abont the ein of my heart and the sin of yonr heart unless there is a can tor it. There is no are for the polish ed side of this laver, no use for the burnished looking-glass if there is no place lor me to wash and be clean. Yow you notice that this laver of looking-glasses spoken of in my text was filled with fresh watar every morn ing- The servants of the tabernacle took buckets and they filled them with watar, and they brought this water and poured it into the laver; and that is a type of this Gospel of Jesns Christ, which is a fresh Gospel—fresh every year, every day, every hour, every mo ment. It is not a stagnant pool ol accumulated corruption; it is living water breaking from the rock. Chris tiana often make the mistake of being satisfied with old experiences. Why, ~iv brother and sister, I do not Uan who. by am twitch of tb. mil 8?' 25 °° ,OT * '•*•»« in tha £"‘2*“*?.P*nlm book ia yoar band aad tha Bible oa yonr lap; not ao easy to be a Christian when telling a merchant yon can get better goods** lees pneeat another store until be lets you have the goods cheaper than he has anv capacity to roll them, or he is going to hart himself when he does sell, for there are more lies told before the counter than behind the counter, ten toons. Christ will have yon all. or He will have none of yon. His grace must reach to the very extremities of onr moral nature. Suppose you have waited or purehased a whole house and the former owner come to you with the keys, There are twelve rooms in the house and hegives you six of the keys. Yon say, “Where are the otherkeys ?" “Oh, ’ he says, “yon can’t have them. Thus is a ioom on jhe second floor yon ranH have aad tifcfeie artom on the third floor and a room on the fourth floor you can’t have and there is a dark C s in the attic yon can’t have, bnt are the keys for the others." Yon say, “I purchased tbe whole house and 1 w»at all the keye or I don’t want *07 ®«them." He was a man who came to God, and lie gives part of his nature and says: “you may go to this and go to that, but there is something I can’t r vc up, there is a room in my nature can t surrender; and this I want to keep and that 1 want to keep. You can have half of the keys of my soul, but not all.” Then Christ will not have anv. He will have everything from cellar to attic—all of the keys of yonr affections, all yonr hopes, all yonr ambitions all yonr heart, all yonr life, J?'* . wiU not Uke on * ke 7* The grace of God mast touch the extremities, the very extremities of our moral nature. The priests, when they came to this i.». 1 i_: 1 what yonr 4 years ago. $o"uo tees were ten, fifteen a fresh Gospel Gospel. -.Giro Wlal sisfii should come, and 1 conld prove to the government that ten ysars ago I ~ was loyal, would that be any excase for my not taking the oath of allegiance? The government would not ask me what 1 was ten years ago, bnt “what are yon now?" And I do aak yon whether yon were loyal to Jesns Christ ten or five years, or one year ago. Are you loyal now? Are yon fighting un der the standard of Emanuel? ypna soldier of Jeans Christ, now! W*s in a great storm on the Atlantic and the captain said: “We mnst go down," and the crew said there was no hope, and all tbegassengers expected to perish. Then I thought of home, and then I naked myself, “How abJut my life insnranoe? If I am swept off now as soon as they confronted the bnrn»h' ed, polished aide of this looking-glass this metal ont of which the laver was made, tie saw where there was any pol lution upon his countenance, where - , , . there was any spot that needed to be 7°® haT ® th ® »“P«rtinenoe cleaned off. And jnst as soon as we oome in and look at thie mirrow of the Gospel ,of Jesns Christ we see onraelves jnst as we are. “All have sinned and come short of the glory of Gad.” That is our shoeing. “All we, like sheep, have gone astray," That ia another showing. “From the crown of the bead to thq sole of the foot there is no health in us." That is another show ing. 8ome people call these defects imperfections or eccentricities, or erra tic behavior, or wild oats, or high liv ing; bnt this Book Call* them filth, transgression, the abominable thing that God hates. Paul got one glance St that mirjor, that'polished mirror, and he cried outi “Ol£ wretched man that !• am, who shall deliver me?” David caught one glimpse of that mir tor and oried ditt “Pnrge md with Lather got oau* glimpse of that mirror and he cried oat to Blatfpily: “Oh. my etas, my ime/my ems!” Mind yon, I am not talking about bad hab* 1, is n Don't live a single hour of yonr life without doing exactly what is to be done in it, and going straight through it from beginning to end. Work, play, study, whatever it ia, take hold at ones snd finish it op squarely and cleanly. Then do the next thing, withont let ting any momenta drop between. It is wonderful to see how many hoars those prompt people contrive to make in a day. It. is as if they picked np the momenta that the drawfors lost. And if yon find yourself where you have so many things pressing you that yon hardly know.how to begin, let tne tell yon a secret; take hold of the first one that comes-to hand, and yon will find the rest all fall into file and follow after likes company of well-drilled soldiers. A man was once asked how he “accomplished so much in his life." “My father told me," was the reply, “when I had any thing to do, to go and do it.” There ia the secret.— Selected. We do not need ady Bible to per suade us that blaephemy fat wrong, 01 impure life ia wrong, ! or evil speaking it wrong. I am now talking ef the heart, the evil heart; tbe fountain of bad thoughts, of bad words, of bad actions. Haro is ingratitude, for instance—in* gratitude. ' If yon handfira glass of water, 1 ent “Thankyon." If I hand yon a glass ol water/ yoo say “Thank you." But here w» have been 1 taking ten thousand mSfties frbtn the hand of God—oufhuMer fed,onr thirst slaked, and we . have had shelter and home, and ten thou send blessings and ad tares, and yet I do not State a thing that yon will not believe whetf l say that there are people in' tkiehoase this morning S4‘ years of age who have will my family be cared for?" and then I thought to myeclt, “Yes, 1 paid np the premiums on the life insurance,” and I was content. Bnt how if the insurance had ran out? The trouble is that n great many are depending up on old insurances against the damage of ein and old insurance against tbe damage of the great fntnre—old insur ances that have ran ont. Suppose that yon allowed the fire insurance on yonr house to expire yesterday, and to-dav yonr house shonld be consumed, would 1 yon have the impertinenoe to go to morrow morning and demand the amount of tbe policy? No. if yon did they would say: “You have no bnsinest here, yon have no right to ask that, yon lot the inrarance expire on Saturday: this is Monday." Oh, follower of Jesus, do net depend npon insurance, ten, or twenty, or forty yean old, as I know some of yon are depend ing npon them. Yon want the policy paid np up by the blood and the teen of of the Son of God. Suppose I were of life and I wanted my friends abont me, and I wanted to know how some old friend stood to ward ms, would I go to the* drawer and take ont some old yellow letters and see what he said to me fifteen or twenty yeera ego ? No. I would take tie letter which was stamped at the postoffice the day before yesterday—the letter that came fresh from his heart, jnat arrived thie morning perhaps would take that letter. And it is your old communication with Jesns Christ that ought to give yon consola tion; it is the present communication, now 1 “Oh,” yon any, “I have been to that layer of looking-glasses spoken of in the text and I have washed." Have yon been to this laver oflooking- glasses spoken of in the text to-day ? Am yon standing beside it now ? Bat I notice im regard to this laver thanked God for Hiv goodness. And, hete Is pride of heart. Obi Wall have felt it, the pride that will not submit to God. Pride wantaita own way. I will not quarrel with tha thelogiaae abont terms. I do not care whether yon calf it total depravity, or whether gOtB yon call ft something else. This evil nature wo got from onr 1 parents and it from their parents, and it iwnfrom generation to t nature abnoxious to God before conversion, and after conversion there is not oae in any of ns except that which the grace of God pirated and fostered and keeps. It seems to me that the reason there are compara tively was not optional, it was imperative.' Here the priests came into the taber nacle. Snppose, now, one of them shonld say: “I washed before I came ' from home; there’s no nse of my wash ing in this laver." God eaye: “You wash in this laver or die." Bnt sup pose the priest had said: “Why there are other lavers just ns bright ns that from which this water was taken and I might wash there just as well. Why wash in the water of this laver ?’’ God says: “Wash there or die." Not op tional, imperative. Typical of the Gospel which says: Wash all in the fountain open for sin and uncleaness. or perish.” We have no choioe. But ■ays someone: “Couldn’t God have provided other wftje of salvation?” Fifty of them, perhaps. I do not think that God • exhausted all His wisdom—-^ when He laid out this plan of salvation. Perhaps He might have provided fifty laver of looking-glasses washed their hands and washed their feet. notice also, in regard plans of salvation. He provided only one. You say: “Might not a whole line of ships sail from-earth to heaven?” Yes, but there is only one gbing. Are there are other trees as lnxnrisnt as the trees of Calvary ? Yea, more, for that one had neither bad nor blossoms, and it was stripped and barked. But the ono path to heaven ia under tbe bare atm of that stripped tree. Not op tional. bnt imperative. You have a treasure* in one hand, and yon put be hind your back, and yon say, “Now, which hand will yon take ?” Tbe child blindly choose. God docs not say that way to us. He stretches out both hands and they are open and he eaye: “Now, you may have your ehoieo; there is ono hand are pardon, peaoe, life, heaven. Do you not see them ? There ip the other hand are punishment, sor row, woe. Do you not see them 2^ Choose ye, choose ye." “He thnthxj lieveth and is baptised shall be earaQr and he that believeth not shall he aamaad V’ Oh, I do not know a man caa torn* his back upon the glories which God offers him. Just before a rosny^ washed there. X 6nnday night service I stopped to see a dying woman, and after I had talked- with her and prayed with her, I took my watch and eaidt "It ia twenty- five minutes past seven and I must leave you now; 1 mast get to the church.” And I must get to the church." And I said, for I knew 1 would never see her again alive, I would see her again alive, I said: “Have you any message to send to the chnrch to-night ?” Her face was very illum inated and she said. “Yes, I have; tell them all I wish they were as happy as I am." Oh, I wish I could coax this whole audience to come ap to the Inver. * If I sec a beautiful picture I want every body to see It. I, am so constituted when on Thanksgiving Day I ait at my table, and my family are aUaround.me, and we have unusual provirion on ' tbe table, I am apt to aay: “I wish all tha poor of -Brooklyn were here." Oh, a would like to get to heaven myself, aa8 I would like to takf'ali these people with me^ I would like to enter tbongh the shining gates washed in the blood i of.the UmJtoaadtben I*would like .to ^ say, “Here they come, hereby come, here they come!" I cannot at the clbre of a sermon L op i n to,talk .about the love of Christ. You talk abont ■*-. mountain; it is higher than that. Yon talk about tlio sea: it is deeper than this laver spoken of in the it a very laver. I know it from the fact so many washed there. J know it from the fact that Solomon, when he duplicated that laver of the tabernacle in the temple which he built, built it on a large scale. And that means pardon for all and mercy for all —a great, wide Gospel. Tbe Bible does not say there is pardon for small sias, bat it says positively there is par don for great sins. If a sin be only •intly bued, it does not especially sa> here is pardon for faintly hued trans gression, but if it be glaring “red like crimson it shall be as wool. ’ I say thit is not to pat a premietn up on crime bnt to encourage that man who thinks there is no mercy becaus.- he is so great a sinner. Paul was a murderer. Did he not stand at the ftssasaition of 8tephen? and he took part in that crime and yet Paul be came the most illnstrions man in the Christian chnrch. And if Christ be at the right hand of God, I think Paul will be at the right hand f Christ. Oh, how bad he how good he became. The dying thiel was as bad as bad could le. and yet h4 wai saved. Oh, God loves to' tftb bold of a bad cate. The are a thous and bridges in this country over small orooksand small streams. Yon do not know the architects, do yon? But you know who built the Brooklyn Bridge. hands and their feet. Tbe water down through the spouts from tbe basin, and they carefully and complete ly washed their hands and their feet, typical of the fact that this Gospel is to roach to the very^extremities ot, a The greater the span the mightier tbe genius and greater the glory. Oh, to pardon this sinner who has not gone very far astray, and this man who bat- committed only a comparatively few transgressions—It is not go great a glory in divine grace, but to span an ocean of inquiry, that requires n Gm) of infinite mercy and power and grace, and the greater tbe gulf that is (-pann ed, the greater the glory of the archi tect and the engineer. *• Where sin tbounded grace shall much more ibound.” OL, let all the peuitentia- ies come to this laver and wash off heir crimes. Let all the almhonset- come to this laver and wash off all their poverties. Let all the graveyards come np and wash off their death. And if there be in this boose to-day a soul so sick and worn ont in sin he cannot come to the laver, yon take that by the hand and I will take him by the feet *nd we will carry him to this Bcthesda of tbe Gospel and plunge him in—this great, wide laver of pardon and peace and salvation. Oh, it is a very laver, and this door ol mercy is so very wide. It seems to tne the round earth, if yon could ones grasp, if yon could »nce clutch it, this round earth conld be bowled into it. And all yon have to-day, get the advanta ges of this grace! Comedown ont of your pride. Queen Caroline wanted to see her offended husband, George IV, crowned in Westminister Abbey; bnt she had no ticket of admission—she could not get. in. Then she went to another gate of Westminister Ab bey and was refused admission, and than she got in her splendid equipage and rode home in wrath and indigna tion. Yon cannot come into tbe king dom of onr God in yonr pomp and pre tension. Yon will never get into the coronation unless you come afoot, less you come on yon# knees, member the Syrophrenidan woman.— She had a daughter with convulsive sickness and she came to Christ, and Christ, just to rally her courage to test her faith, said; “It ia not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs’*—for yon know the Jews considered the Gentiles doge times—as moeh as to say: “ give this great blessing that belong* to the Jews to yon a Gentile, and not to the doge." Bnt the Syrophocaician woman said: “Yea, Lord, yet tbe dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. I don’t pretend to be anyone, I am a poor Gentile dog, but even dog* have privileges and when tbe door is ajar, and through tbe cracks of tbe table some of the crumbs have fallen, down, don’t the dogs come and take the crumbs? 1 don’t < that. A painter in his dream had a vision of tho transfiguration of Christ, and it awoke him, and as he awoke he seized his pencil and said: “Let mo paint this now and die." Ob, I have tn tho glories of Chri and tho wonders of the cross nntill I have felt I should Its willing to do any- thing almost if 1 could only sketch them for the world. Well might yon paint that scene and die. And yet ived hii there are those here 1 Christ comes with His fee tears and His brow crimson with blood, and He lies down on Calvary. I mis- Christ. lie did not even lie down. He stood up when te died. He stood, up whtn he died. He stood, that foot ipiked, that arm spiked, that arm piked. Outstretched ns though moral nature. Hero is a man who says: “I will fence off piut of my heart, and it elmll he E garden fell of flower* and'J fruita of Chrietain character, and all tha mst shall be thsdsvil’s common! “ Yon cannot do it. It is all garden ■one. You tall me about a man, that ha is a gor d Christian except in poli tics. I deny your statement. If hie religion wiU not taka him ia parity through the antamnaleleetion, that re ligion is worth nothing in May, Jane or Jaly. Yon say that a man is a L good man; hb is a Christian; he is fnl; but he overroaches in a bargain. I deny yonr statement. It it is an pervading religion, if it touches a at all at one point of his nature, it will pervade hie entire nature. It is quite easy to be a Christian, or seams to be, on Sabbath, surrounded by kindly in finances; feet, oh Master, I win juiit crawl at Thy feet." Christ conld not stand it. He said: “Woman, yonr daughter is well, yon start for home and yon will meet her." And she started. She felt twenty years ybnnger. She had , ■■girted home and the daughter met her, and the mother broke down every. time she- tried to tell the story, and it was a comming ling of tears. There the daughter was roseate and gleeful, and you wonder whether the core stood, whether it held out. Oh, yes, it held out; for ‘ best medical journal ever written, road. “She was made whole from that hour." Do not come with the pride of Queen Caroline—come with the humil s not t tcbetl >1 ■Id, and yet I ed by it. They gay: “What all that to me ? What tra ? What is that blood ? I don’ re anything about it. Lord Jean- they will not take Three down, the; 11 rot help Thee doam. The soldier me an<l took Thee down. With thei arms they lowered Tlieo into the ^oml< They will not help Thee down Lord Jesus. Just look at them this morn- il perhaps they will change their I saw one hanging on a In agony and blood, . Who put fib languid Oh. 25>d n * lie seeamd to charge me with lib death, Tbongh not a word He spoke: v K Oh, brother, sister, come up to the' laver this morning, the laver of the * Gospel. Oh, a I dieted soul, bathe off yonr wonnds, and tick one. > como up and cool your hot temples. Pardon tor all yonr sin. Comfort for ' all yonr troubles. Tbe dark cloud that hung thundering over Sinai, floated above Calvary and burst into a shower of tho Saviour** tears. If yoh hare any trouble, come to God. He will make you Hi* darling. He will make you His favorites. We connot in our households have favorites, bnt if you have a favorite mother—mother, if you. have a favorite 1 know which one it is; it is the sick one, the crippled one, tho one that coughs all night, the weary one, the jranone, that is your favorite. And God seams to have his favorites, and they are the weak and the worn and the sick and the weary. Jnst come np to him to-day and he will put bin arms aronnd yon, and he will kiss yonr cheek, and he will say as he hushes you with tho divine lnbbaby: “As one whom his mother comforteth so well I coinfort you." Come up to the laver thie morning. Do not cry. At Kingston, London, I saw a picture of the battle field of Waterloo years after the battle had passed and the grass had grown all over tha scarred places, and tbe artist—for it was a masterpiece—the artist had represented a dismounted cannon and then a lamb which had wandered up from tbe pasture field, soand asleep in the mouth of the cannon. Ob, what a sn ; taro it was to me, and I I away that tha War betw< the sonl is ended, and rigl battery of the land that once > with fiery death, 1 the Lamb of God sin of the world. I found in 11

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, February 06, 1885, Image 1