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TOL. 32.
The Sumter . Republican.
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CAPITAL PRIZE, 173,000.j£9
Ticket* only «3. —
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
44 d# hereby certify that we supervise the
errmgements for all the Monthly and 8tmi-An
mal Drawingt of The Louisiana State Lottery
Company, and in person manage and control the
Drawings themselves, and that the same are
eondueleJ with honesty, fairness, and in good
faith toward all parties, and we authorise the
Company to use this certificate, with fae similes
sf our signatures attached, in its advertisements
I. N. MOTT,
Attorney at Late.
Americus, 6a,
Offers his professional services to a gener
ous pnblic. Office at corner of Jackson aLd
Lamar street over shoe store of By lander Sc
Arrington. Febl-lm
J. M. B. Westbrook, M. D-
Physician and Surgeon.
Amerlnus, Ga.
Office in Dr. Eldridge’s Drag Store. Res
idence on Church Street, next door to Wm.
B. P. HOLLIS,
Attorney at haw,
AMERICUS, OA.
Office, Forsyth Street n National Bank
building. dec20tf
E. G SIMMONS.
Attorney at Law,
AJ4EIUUU8 OA.,
Offlce in Hawkins* building, south side of
Dr. 3. A. FORT,
Physician and Surgeon,
Offers his professional services to the
people of Americus and vicinity. Offlce at
Dr. Eldridge’a Drug Store. At night can
be found at residence at the Taylor house,
on Lamar street.
Calls will receive prompt attention. «.
Or. D. P HOLLOWAY,
DentisT,
Americas. ... Georgia
Treats successfully all diseases of the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth d/ me Improved
method, and Inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
CM"OFFICE over Davenport and Son's
Drug Store. marllt
Law Notice.
From and after this date B. B. Hinton
and Edgar F. Hinton will be associated to
gether In the practice of law. The partner
ship will be confined to the practice In Sum
ter county. The practice in adjoining coun
ties will be separate and distinct. The
Junior member will visit parties In the
county when deeired by client without ex
tra charge. Special attention given to the
collection of claims. oct28tf
E. E. Browh. Fillmore Brown.
Edgerton House,
Opposite Passenger Depot,
MACON, OEOROIA.
E. E. Brown & Son, Proprietors.
Bala fs.00 Per Day.
PATENTS
Patent Offlee and before the Courts prompt
ly and carefully attended to.
FEES MODERATE, and I make NO
CHARGE UNLESS PATENT IS SECUR
ED. Information, advice and special ref
erence ant on application.
J.RS LrSTRLL, tVjfbt nylon,D. C.
Near U. S. Patent Offlce.
J.K.HATHIS Principal.
I will take charge of the above school on
Monday Jannaty 12th next. I have taught
for the people of Americus before, and
would respectfully ask a renewal of their
support.
Turks, Rates, Etc.
Primary Department per month 12.00
Intermediate, per month. ^..3.00
First Class, per month...............^..4.00
Tuition doe at the end of each Scholastic
J. E. MATHIS, Principal.
month.
Jan3-tf
FORSYTH, GA.
This institution Is fast rsgaining its lorn-
aa^jm M 5aa.g
result has been a * -
age and constant
and favor. The a
Monday January
Those in search of a good school, one
whose purpose Is to prepare woman for the
the Ugh aims and duties of life one whose
effort In tbs past have been successful in sup
plying valuable contribution to the society of
almost every southern state are respectfully
invited to eonslder the advantages and fn
tare prospects of Monroe. Foor Informs
tion apply to
l*n3tf
R. T. ASBUBY, President-
In.'-orporated in 1868 for 25 years by the
Legislature for Educational and Charitable
purposes—with a capital of f1,000,000-to
which a reserve fund of over 1550,000 has
since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote Its
was made a .part of the present
itate Crrfctltutlon adopted December 2d,
A.D., 111*
Tht only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed
ly the people of any State.
It never scales or'postpones.
rmnd Single Number Drawing*
will take place monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE. THIRD GRAND
CLASa c 1N THE ACAD
MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS.
TUESDAY, march 10, 1SS3—17Stb
Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, in Fifths in proportion.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE f75,000
1 25,000
2 PRIZES OP~f6000::‘™
“ •*' “— . 10,000
do
1000.......
...... 10,000
12,000
10,000
.. 10,000
10,000
50 25.000
9 Approximation Prizes of 1750—16,760
0 " “ 500 4,500
9 ’* “ 250. 2,250
1967 Prizes, amounting to 1265,500
illcation for rates to clubs should be
only to the offlce of the Company in
Orleans.
farther Information write clearly, giv
ing full address, postal notes Ex
press Money Orders, or New York Ex
change In ordinary letters. Currency by
“press (all sums of 15 and upwards at
r expense) addressed
M. A. DAUPHIN^
M. A. DAUPHIN,
007 Seventh Rt.,Wa»hla|ton, D.C
Make P. O. Money Orders payable and
address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
HOW SUCCESS SUCCEED
HALL’S
WOODEN
DRUG (STORE
SPAUGADS.
LIBERAL, FAIR, HONEST DEALING
John E.
HAS BEEN CRAMPED FOR ROOM A
LONG TIME AND IS NOW ENLAR
GING HIS STORE TO JUST DOU
BLE ITS FORMER SIZE. THIS
HAS BEEN CAUSED BY
INCREASING TRADE
WHICH DEMANDS
HEAVIER STOCK
OF
And All Sundries!
—TS S PEC IALLY-
And Planters Goods.
He has in store an Immense Stock of all the
Best Varieties of Seeds that he trill sell
Wholesale or Retail!
AS LOW AS ANY HOUSE IN THE
STATE. SOME RARE VARI
ETIES OF CHOICE SOUTH
ERN GROWN SEEDS ON
HAND THAT CANNOT .
BE FOUND ELSE
WHERE.
All goods in the dragline are now very
low as well as Seeds. Ty title cash will go
a long way. Call at the 6
~~ ATENTs.g$sasr
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1885.
Outof the Jaws of Death
s his case below "
Mr. John Pearson’s Statement:
In the Spring of 1887 I was attacked with a
very bad conch, which continued : to grow
Worse until Fall, when I (jot so weak that I
could not get about, I tried a great many
kinds.of medicine, but continued to grow
worse. I was notified that I hmi consumption,
and would probably die. Dr. Holloway finally
told me to try Brewer’s Long Restorer. They
sent to Ward's Store and got a bottle, and I
commenced taking it right away After taking
sas£RUsa^i&s?fsa s&s
pet on my feet again. I am now in excellent
health. I am confident that the Lung Restorer
saved my life, and my neighbors are of the
aame opinion. .It Is the best .Long Remedy
ever made. In my opinion. Dr. H. premised me
that be wonld write to the manufacturers and
tell them of the wonderful cure it made in czy
Statement of Mr.Benj.F.Hearndon:
Early in November. 1881, while sewing on the
machinery wife was taken with a severe pain
In her side, which was soon followed by hemor
rhages from her lungs and a severe conch.
Fever commenced, site could neither
sleep, and In a few weeks she was re'
living skeleton. The attending nhy
.jtatn
her stomach. I
rhages
Pever i
sleep, and
he thought
delicate nourishment
agreed with Dr. Salih,
to call Dr. Holloway
mado a final rxaminal
■ reduced
e the Lang Rest*.
... .learndon’s post-office la Yatcsvllle, Tn-
i County, Ga. lie is a thoroughly reliable
To the Editor of the Now York World.
_ You are the accredited representa
tive newspaper of the great democratic
party in the metropolis of America. It
is known how wide is your circulation,
how it is growing and how extensive is
your influence. Therefore I look to
wards it as a power that may be very
properly appealed to aid in favoring
genuine, democratic principles in a di
rection in which your correspondent and
the class with whom he is especially
allied are deeply interested.
In a few short weeks we are to have
a national democratic administration—
the first in twenty-four years. In 1860
the democratic party lost its hold upon
the people through its position - on is
sues in .which freedom and equality for
the black man were involved. Since
then much progress has been made
all sections of our land in favor of the
freedom and equality of men irrespec
tive of color. The democratic par
ty has enunciated sentiments in accord
therewith that are abreast with the
times. Is it not eminently fitting and
Holloway P ro P €r that a democratic party should
be found advocating the rights of hu
manity even if need be to the bitter
end? Happily, distrust is on the de
crease. May it be entirely banished.
An opportunity to destroy it is at hand.
What is so much needed is not nation
al legislation but the creation of
timent favorable to the spirit of legis
lation already had and that is within
the scope of that declarations already
made by the democratic party.
With due respect, I submit that it
seems to me eminently fitting that a
president, the nominee of the party
that lost place in 1860 under tho
cumstances it did, and that will .
into power under the circumstances „
will, may and should give potency to
the party’s present declarations on the
subject of freedom and equality for all
men by such formal and full expression
as to the same in tangible manners
shall at least tend to destroy a not
natural distrust in the minds of those
who have long suffered. It would be
gratefully regarded by them a
estof and a hoped for and of
taching policy; besides, it would
mand tho party to all who are liberally
disposed. Consider its influence, coi
ing from so eminent and so effective
quarter. Happily it would not antag
onize the significant, tho broad and
jnst policy adopted by the distinguish
ed party when be filled the chief execu
tive chair of the great empire state.
What I with respect ask you, Mr.
Editor, to do is to strengthen, as you
may, the incoming administration
taking so just, and may I not add
politic a stand, for good
strengthened even in good intentions
and eftorts by being made to feel that
they are supported by the good. The
late Charles Snmner would have had
Horace Greeley, the nominee of the
democratic party, made president in
. .. He told me repeatedly that, he
S T MO R E L A N D S fa Y ored „ hi3 election because he.
retain the roost
sf - - -•
my *5
lination of the patient,
— -ose hopeless. Dr. ** "
suggested the Brewer’s Lang Rt
b dose. I found that she^oald retain ffon her
stomach, and after about the third dose I began
to notice some improvement in her condition.
I continued the medicine regularly, and by tho
time she bad taken two bottles she was able to
walk about the house. She Ip. now in better
health than she has enjoyed for several years.
I believe the I J
' unty, <—
every particular.
LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR,
MACON, GA.
HOsm^
^ ITOMACH _
®ITTER s
the use of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters
aggard appearance of the countenance
.allown ess of dyspeptics are supplan
ted by a nealthier look, and as tho food is
assimulated. the body acquires substance.
Appetite isretored, and tho nervous system
generally.
i Dealers
W ORK FOR THE
y^ORLD t LARGE
DESIGNATED BY
COMPRISES FOUR PREPARATIONS.
Remarkable Care of Scrofula.
inveterate case of Scrofula—so that tli
has not been any sign of disease there since
"ivw^the scars where running sores once
Manufactured by Westmoreland, Grif-
ra & Co., Atlanta, Ga., and sold by drug-
nov28-w&sw-3n
THE FIELDS ARE WHITE
WITH COTTON. _
HARD TIMES NEARLY OVE •
A glorious harvest Is at hand, and pros
perity will soon prevail. Thousands of
families who have bpen wanting Pianos and
Organs for many long years will BUY THIS
YEAR. Anticipating the demand, wo have
DOUBLED ODR COSTflACTS tMAKIDS
nd laid in an immense stock of SUPERB
NSTRU HENTS FROM TEN LEADING
MAKERS, which wo shall offer on. our
usual easy Installment Terms. To accom-
who wish to buy now, ‘and
easy
to thc__
hold their cotton until later, we make this
SPECIAL OFFER TO PIANO AND OR
GAN BUYERS.
During the months of iieptemc.
ber and October, 1884, we will
seU Pianos and Organs at our
Lowest Bock Bottom Cash
Prices, requiring only
$25 CASH DOWN ON A PIANO.
$10 CASH DOWN ON A ORGAN.
And allowing three months time
on the balance. Without Interest
or advance of price. ~
Those who bay under this plan, and find
themselves unable to complete payment
after Urn three months, will be given further
time, by agreeing to pay our regular Install
ment prices, and complying with oar In-
stallmcnt Terms of payment. Should they
pay one half the amount due at thee months,
will be treated fairly, and charged prices in
accordance with the time required for pnr-
chace. All purchasers under this Special of
fer are "required to sign our usual form as to
their .respoosibUltpT^Instrument* will he
sent on the usual fifteen days trial, when
references are given. Septo.
LUDDEN ABATES
SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,
Savnnnnh, Go.,
able and good and because the whites
and tho blacks of tho south were to
dwell together, and they should—as
friends; that with a friend of freedom
and equality like him in the presiden
tial chair, placed there by the joint ef
forts of white and black men, of north
erners and sontherners, that end wonld
be greatly favored. The same broad,
humane and patriotic emotions prompt
ed him to offer his battle-flag resolu
tions. He desired to promote peace and
fraternal foelings between sections and
classes. In the same spirit I appeal to
day to you, Mr. Editor, and through
you to the Democratic party, and ask
them to accept the inevitable—to treat
and respect black men, like others, as
they shall merit. These parties are
tacitly committed to do so; all of them
admit that the colored man is, and of
right, free; that he is a citizen; that he
has a right to the pursuit of happiness;
that he should be educated; therefore,
and with the tenets and declarations of
our government in view, in the light
of justice and fair play, should he not
in all public, affairs he treated as an
equal and with respect in all respects
as he shall merit? TYill they not do
so? It will banish all motive for in
timidating policies; tho more lawful
policy of winning will have fuller
sway. The just policy will free the na
tion and its material interests from a
depressing restraint. Count on its ef
fect, not solely on black men in Ameri
ca, but on the efforts the world over of
struggling humanity to better itself,
tabafroo. It will chook tho opilit
growing on the other continent to use
desperate and appalling agencies to be
free.
Tho. intelligent sentiment of the
south is more favorably disposed to
wards the just policy I refer to than
may be supposed. The south is proud,
but may it not be won? The action
favorablo to equality for all men, of so
many democratic legislators 'and of so
many democratic governors in the
north, of so many national legislators,
members of tho democratic party, of so
many democratic judges, must have
great effect, and now the election of a
president, who is committed through
acts that speak louder than declara
tions, to freedom and equality before
the law for black and white, cannot
but strengthen the intelligent advanced
sentiment of the south in its disposi
tion to assert itself.
. Will yon, Mr. Editor, help the de
sired end, and serve a grateful, strug
gling and appreciative class? Our
weakness is an appeal. We come to
the strong. Wo feel in so doing we
are conceding neither onr rights nor
our .manhood. An American’s con
ception of freedom and equality com
prehends not simply to be free from
chattel slavery, but takes in all those
reasonable and manly aspirations con
nected with American citizenship that
straggle in the bre&6t of manly and
intelligent Americans. The colored
man is an Amerioan.
Geo. T. Dowsing.
Newport, February 7,1885.
Fortunes as Prizes Won and Paid
' For account of Thomas M. Thorn
ton, of Shelbyville, Ill,, there has been
collected $75,000 for the first capital
prizo in January Drawing of The
Louisiana State Lottery. Daniel Shutt
of Chicago a visitor at tho Exposition
was tho winner of one-fifth of tho sec
ond capital prizo of $25,000 in the
. , , same drawing, which also resulted in
I n I Bend six cents for postage 1 a ? e ff a »l prize eollcetcd for on account
1 PWIRA and receive free, a costly box of winner by W. Rolling, of the State
■ 81 kk bei P a!1 . National Bank, of New Orleans. The
rightaway thanahytitinffSae ginning’parties have all been paid in
i this world. Fortunes await the workers «*“* anL l should be verv happy abont
axe£ffimpi*‘‘ Aa ™Si&5!* .ft*™?. — *"<» c
Orleans
NO. 1.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
B¥ RET. T. DeWiTT TAL1UAGE.
Noontide of Life.
•'Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth.
where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon.”
—Soloman’s Song, l, vll. •
Inference is here made to tho habit
of shepherds in taking their flocks,
about 12 o’clock in the day, under the
shadow of trees or rocks and by cool
streams for repose. It is a noonday
scene,and typical of life at the meridian.
I have received abont one hundred let
ters of birthday greeting from all pro
fessions and occupations, and from all
parts of Christendom, reminding me
that I am 53 years of age. It is with
me the warmth and the light and the
vigor of a July noonday.
My discourse will speak of life at the
meridian. I will tell you how it seems
to mo now and how it seems to me when
I look backward and forward. The
prayer of the text is appropriate for me
to offer, and for many of you to offer.
‘•Tell me,0 thou whom my soul loveth,
’ 'here thou makest thy flock to rest at
noon.” Noonday privilege. Noonday
joy. Noonday reflection. Albert Barnes
after he had arrived in the seventies,
preached a memorable sermon about the
morning of life. To-day, I speak of
life at noontide. If yon ask me how
life seems to me now, I answer, “very
bright.” I have had sad days, dark
days, tumultuous days, but there is
now not one cloud on my 6ky. My
surroundings. Bait mo exactly. My
friends are kind and sympathetic and
indnlgent. Excepting your own, 1 have
the best family on earth! The world
is to me a most agreeable abode.
I have nothing against the weather,
for if it be cold I have stoat apparel,
and if it be hot I fly to the mountains,
and if it be stormy, as it is to-day, b
carry my own sunshine. I have no
indictment to present against anybody
or anything. Alter all the conflicts in ZVbk?\°fi 7^°?
which I have been engaged, there is not d , OW ? whlc M sha11 travel * and 11
being with whom 1 would not wil
lingly, aye, gladly, shake hands. It
seems to me that in some respects the
hilltop in the journey of life is the best
part of the journey. While in early
life we are climbing up tho steep hill
side, wo have worries and frets, and we
slip and we fall and we slide back, and
we run upon sharp antagonisms, and
all the professions and occupations have
drudgeries and severe rivalries at the
start. Wo are afraid that we will not
be properly appreciated. We toil on,
and we pant, and we struggle, and we
are out of breath, and sometimes we are
tempted to lie down in the bower- of
indulgence. In addition to these diffi
culties of climbing the hill of life, there
are those who rejoice in setting a man
back and trying to make a young man
cower down. “De Witt,” said a man
to mo as were walking the fields at the
time I was in the theological school,
“if you don’t change your stylo of
thought and expression, you will never
get a call to any church in Christendom
as long as you live.” “Well,” I re
plied, “if.I cannot preach tho Gospel
in America then I will go to heathen
lands and preach it.” And every young
man has had somebody to meet him as
he was climbing up and say to him,
“Don’t, don’t—you can’t, you can’t—
quit, quit!” Every young man has
twenty disheartenments where he has
one round word of good cheer. But
after we have climbed to the top of the
hill of life, then we have comparative
tranquility and repose: We begin to
look about us. We find that it is jnst
three miles from cradle to grave: Youth
the first mile, manhood the second mile,
old age the third mile. Standing on
the hilltop of the journey of life and in
the second mile, having come up one
side the hill, and before I go down the
other side, I want to tell you that life
to me is happiness, and much of the
time it has been to me a rapture, and
sometimes an ecstasy. I would bo the
worst ingrate on earth if 1 did not ac
knowledge the goodness of God and
tell you this morning that tho pro-
foundest emotion of my soul is one of
gratitude to God for His undeserved
mercy in that in the twenty-mae years
of my professional life I have missed
but one day of service through ill
health and that omission was twenty-
four years ago. Oh, how 'good God
has beeu to me while I have seen others
with a hundredfold more consecration
than I have had, who have staggered 0ven
upon hardens of pain, incapacitated for
work for which they were otherwise
equiped; and I must this day, rear a
monument to the—dfvina-goodness a3
did. one of old, and inscribe on it;
“Hitherto hath the-Lord helped me.”
This life has been to me, and is now, a
great happiness, and if the atheistic
theory should be true that annihilation
comes after death, and tho sepulchre,
instead of I I I | MM
simply a wayside inn where we rest for
a night, and in the morning fuHy in-
yigorated we start out on grander
journeyings amid brighter prospects—
I say,, if the sepulchre should be the
abolition of body and soul, I am never
theless glad that I live, and that I live
here, and that I live now. There has
been a great deal of wholesale slander
of this world. People abuse it, and
tho traveller on tho mountain curses
the chill, and tho voyager on the deep
corses the restlessness, and there are
those who say it is a mean, old despi
cable world,and from pole to pole it has
been calumniated, and if the world
should present a liberal suit for all
those who have slandered it, there
would not bo gold enongh in the moan-
tains to. pay the damages or places
enough iu the penitentiaries to hold the
ofienders. The people net only slan
der the world, but they slander it*
neighbors, and they belabor the sun,
now becanse it is too ardent, and now
becausa it is too distant; hut by expe
rience coming up the hill of life I havo
found out; when there is anything
wrong, the trouble is not with the sun,
or the moon, or the stars, or tho mete
orological conditions; the troublo is
with myself. J edging from the reports
that come from the astronomical ob
servatories, I believe that in all the
universe, excepting Heaven, this is the
most comfortable and convenient world
to live in. Some of these other worlds
sro ell water, others aro all rock,others
are all fire. Somo are swept with elec-
trio cyclones and others aro npheaved
by volcanoes that toss wholo continents
Chmlmers|was right^his Hieory' tlmt
other worlds are inhabited, I am sorry
bless us,and as blushing a i
as glorious a morning in
affchangel of sublimity and pomp
spreads his pinions over cloud and
mountain and sea, incubating a new
day! Before God Jaunched this ship
of a world from the dockyards of eter
nity He s6 splendidly fitted it up—the
cabins, tha masts, the wheel-house,the
decks—that though that world has
been beating on the rocks for many
years because of men’s poor pilotage,
it is magnificent still, and good men
aro trying to get the 6hip off the rocks,
and before long the wreckers with the
pnlleys and the tags will have com
pleted their work, and through all the
earth and all the heavens will be heard
the cry: “She floats, she floats!” Oh,
glad that though this world
ility is a dead failure, yet as a
hotel where we stop for a little while
in our traveling on toward a better
place, it is a very good world, a very
kind world, and I am glad that the
shepherd in so pleasant a place makes
his flocks to rest at noon.
But having.told you how life seems
me on the hilltop of the journey, yon
naturally want to know how it seems
to me when I look backward and when I
look forward. The first things trav
eller does after climbing up to tho top
of a mountain is to tako a long breath
and then look about and see what is all
around him. He sees in this direction
the winding road by which he came,
and out in that direction the winding
road which he shall go. And so stand
ing on the hilltop of life’s journey this
morning, I put my outspread hand to
my forehead so as to keep off the glare
of the noonday 6un and concentrate my
vision, and I look back on the winding
road on which I have travelled, and I
see far on down at the foot of that road
in the dim distance something small,
something insignificant, and it aibrates
and it tumbles and it rocks. I v
der what it is. I guess what it is. __
cradle. Theu I turn, and still keeping
my outspread hand to my forehead so
as to shade my eyes from the glare of
the noonday’s sun and to concentrate my
vision. I . look on the winding road
tho foot of the road something that
does not tremble, does not vibrate, does
not rock; and then near it is a bank of
the earth and I wonder what it is. Ahl
I see what it is. A grave! So stand
ing on the hilltop, having come up one
side of the hill, and before I go down
the other side you ask me two or three
questions,*and I tell you that I have
learned that nothing is accomplished
without hard work. Whether my
work has amounted to anything or not
I must leave to others to judge; but
during the past twenty-nine years I
have worked to my full capacity of en-
durancc, and if I have gone off to rest
it was only to qualify mo for hard work,
and all this against the full protest of
my nature, for I have sometimes felt
that I was naturally the laziest
that was ever boru. So I am alraid of
indolence, as any reformed inebriate
is afraid of the wine cup. And I
say to the multitude of young peo
ple here, to-day, and all starting in all
occupations and professions, nothing
is accomplished without work. A
parishioner asked a clergyman why
the congregation had filled up and why
the church was so prosperous above
what it had ever been leforo. “Well,”
said the clergyman, “I will tell you the
secret. I met a tragedian some time
ago and I said to him: ‘How is it you
get along so well in your profession?’
The tragedian replied: ‘The secret is,
I always do my best;when stormy days
come and the theatre is not more than
half or a iourth occupied, I always do
my best, and that has been the secret
of my getting on.’” And the clergy,
man reciting it said. “I have remem
bered that, and ever since then I have
always done my best,” and I say to
you, in whatever occupation or profes
sion God has put you, do your best,
whether the world appreciates it or
do your best, always do yeur best.
T1 ’ ' climbing up
I have learned also g
this steep hill of life that all evenfs
connected. The chain of li’e is made -
up of a great many links—largo links,
small links, silver links, iron links,
beautiful links, ugly links, mirthful
links, solemn links; but they are all
parts of one great chain of destiny.
Each minute is made up ot GO links,
aud each day is made up of 24 links and
each year is made up of 365 links; but
they are all parts of one endless chain
which plays and works through tho
hand of an all-governing God. No
stands alone. Sometimes
lery in the rear. Aye, we take the best
of these pictures from the gallery I
voq »ay; “^Chia is my
*x on~- will never have a day
off. Nothing is off. It seemed to
be. a very insignificant event when Ed
win Forrest, tho actor, entered one of
the street cars of Now York and wil
fully and spitefully stepped on the toes
of Charles O’Connor, the great lawyer,
but that started au antipathy which
ended not until Charles O’Connor had
risen in his legal wrath and spoiled
the actor’s social life forever. It seem
ed to be a matter of no importance
that Tamerlane had a chill one day,
but ho had planned the extermination
of nations, and that one chill decided
the destiny of a century. All events
connected with all other events. It
the middle of the last century a shoe
maker’s boy leaves at the roadside i
bundle of mended shoes in order that
he may study a flower of the field and
pick, up a moth and put it in the crown
of his hat and carry it home for
deliberate study of the construction of
the moth. Who has any interest in
that? You havo when I tell you that
was the dawn of the career of one who
translated the Holy, Scriptures into
thirty five varicas, and who became
the greatest Oriental linguists and
made the governments of the earth bow
before him—Wm. Carey. A straight
line'reached from that lad studyinj "
weed in the field to the eminent C
tian scholarship that decorated the
church and decorated the world. An
American clergyman-had a son, Adon-
eram of wonderful brightness, and the
father nsoi to pat the boy on the head
and say: “Adoniram, you will he a
groat man yet,” and the son was flat
tered and he studied very hard and be
came so familiar with the Latin that
they called him “Old Virgil Dug Up. 1
Bat one day the lad,came across a book
entitled Embassy to Ava, and it revo
lutionized his heart and his lile, and
one eventide, when the father was seat-
about him and
bright world-
man, tho fa-
been hero,
you. to
ed with his family
talking over the
hassy to Ava, and that it. had revolu
tionized him, and that he intended
8ponding his whole life in preaching
Jesus Christ to dark and cruel Bnrmah.
It seemed a matter of no importance
that that boy should pick up that
book, that small book, but it opened
the eyes of Adoniram Judson, the
story of whose missionary work some
one has said is eclipsed only by the
story of Paul the Apostle to the Gen
tiles. And so in vour life it is the in
significant thing that is the momen
tous, and that which only happens bo
is charged with temporal and eternal
destiny.. Your coming here this tnorn-
ing, which was not long premeditated,
and may seem to you accidental, is an
event which will mean moro to you
than any worldly event of the
last ten centuries, and which
will mean moro to you than the
final detraction of this world, because
it i» going to decide where.you will be
after all worlds are demolished, some
by collision and some by explosion,
some by fracture and some by hurri
cane, some by frost and some by con
flagration—all worlds destroyed except
two, and thoso rolling on, the one
throngh cycles and immensities of rap
ture, and the other through eycles and
immensities of pang—rolling up, roll
ing, rolling down, rolling down! Two
worlds—the one a charred and the oth
er an irradiate sphericity. Bnt if you
continna to ask me how the past seems
I answer it seems to me like three cr
four picture galleries, Dusseldorf, Lou
vre and Luxembourg, their corridors
inteijoining. Boyhood gallery, church
gallery, home gallery. Boyhood gal
lery in my memory. I close my eyis
and see them coasting the hillside aud
flying the- kite, and trundling the hoop,
gathering nuts the antumnal forests,
and then a little whil<* after bending in
anxious study over the lexicons and
the trigonometries. Where are those
comrades? Most of them gone. Some
aro in useful spheres on the earth. Some
died in raptnre, and a large many of
them perished in dissipation before
tb j rt y years of age. The wine cup
with its sharp edge cut the jugu!
vein of their soul. Poor fellows! Th.,
tried the world without God and the
world was two much for them. Splen
did fellows! Oh, what forehead they
had for brain and what muscle they
had for strength, and what gleam of
eye they had for genius, and what lov
ing letters they got from home.and how
they carried off the bonqnets on com
mencement day. Bat they made the
terrific mistake of thinking religion i
superfluity, and now they are not st
much canvas as sculpture, some, Lao-
coon struggling with snapped muscles
and eyes starting from the socket for
torture amid the crushing folds of
serpentine monstrosity, a reptile hor
ror, a Leocoon worse than that of the
ancients. Satan hat a fastidious ap
petite, and the vulgar souls be thrown
into a trough to fatten his swine, but
he says: “Bring to my golden path all
the fine nature; biing to my golden
plate all the clear intellects, and the
noble hearts bring them to me; my
knife will cut down through the lut-
ciousness; fill my chalice with the rich
est of their blood; pour it in until it ii
three-fourths fall; pour it iu until it
comes to the rim of the chalice; pour
it in until the blood bubbles over t"
rim. There that will do now. C
this infernal banquet of great s,ouls.-
Aha, Aha! let the common demons
have the vulgar souls, hut give me
who am the king of all diabolism the
jolliest and the gloddest and the grand
est of all this immortal sacrifice. Aha!
There is another gallery in my mind,
the church gallery, the people to whom
I have administered in the Gospel, and
who are gone now to the better conn-
try. Belleville gallery* Syracuse gal
lery. Philadelphia gallery. Brooklyn
gallery. Some of these figures in the
gallery have frames of hosanna and
hallelnjah. Sweet spirits, glorious
transported spirits, blessed spirits.—
Dying chi|dren with faces like that in
Raphael’s Madonna. Octogenarians
with patriarchal demeanor and a
look which makes me think that Eli
jahhaving safely arrived sent back his
flamingeqc.ipage to bring op another
passenger. Fair maidens on death
looking like a Iran-fignration. Young
in dying with anthem on the lip and
__sh of pearline portal iu the eye.—-
Then in rnv mind there is the home
picture gallery. Oh, those dear faces,
old faees and - yoaug faces, faces that
have lost nothing of their loveliness
by the recession of years, faces into
which we looked when weaxt on their
laps, faces that looks' up to ns when
they sat on om laps, faces that wept,
faces^that laughed, faces wrinkled with
old age, faces all aflush with juvenile
jocundity, faces that have disappeared,
faces gone.
But now you ask how the rest of the
journey appears to me? As I look
down now, having come np one side
and standing on the hilltop and bofore
I take the other journey, let me say to
yon, the road yet to be travelled seems
to me brighter than the one on which
I have journeyed. I would not want
to l«ve life over again as some'wish to.
If wo lived life over again we wonld do
no better than we havo done. Oar lives
have been lived over five hundred times
before. We saw five hundred people
make mistakes in life, and we went
right on and made the same mistakes.
Our life was not the first. There were
five hundred or a thousand people liv
ing before us. We did not profit by
theif example. We went right on and
broke down in the same place, and if
we did not do any better with those ex-,
periences before us do you think we
would do any better ii we lived life
over again? No. I should rather go
right on. If we tried life over jgain
we wonld repeat the same journey.
But says some one: “Don’t you know
there may be trials, hardships, sickness
and severe duties ahead? Oh, yes.
But if I am on a railroad journey of a
thousand miles and I have gone five
hundred of the miles, and daring these
five hundred miles I have found the
bridges safe, and the track solid, and
the conductors competent, and tho en
gineers wide awake, does not that give
me confidence for the other five hun
dred miles? God has seen me throngh
up to this time, and I am going to
trust him for the rest of <he journey. I
believe I have a through ticket, and al
though sometimes the track may turn
this way or the other way, and some
times we may bo plunged through tun
nels and sometimes we have a hot box
that detains the train, and sometimes
we may switch off upon a side track to
let somebody elpe pass, and sometimes
wo :n i v ■ r> t<- ! il ■ war. j •: - t
slow up. I believe we are going through
to the right place “
all my case in God’s hands, and I have
not any anxiety about tho future. I
do not feel foolhardy. I only trust. I
trout, I trust! And-for there are
those here of my own age—lot’mo say,
when we come to duties and trials and
hardships, Goi is going to see us
through. The late Willard Parker,
the eminent snrgeon, had a case of goi
tre hronght to him for treatment. Those
of you who have travelled in Switzer
land know of the awful swelling that
is saUed the goitre. The patient
brought to Dr. Parker was a million
aire many times over, and they wanted
the doctor to perform the surgery and
to warrant the safety of tho patient and
nis recovery, and they said they would
giFe him $1,000,000 if he would war
rant the undertaking. “Oh,” said
the doctor, “I cannot warrant anything,
bat I will do the best I can.” My
friend said to Dr. Parker, “How did
jou feel when you were abont to un
dertake that surgery?” “Well,” said
he, “my hand trembled dreadfully be
cause, you know, I am an old man
now, my hand trembled dredfully, bnt
just as soon as the instrument touched
the delicate place my nerves* were steel;
*nd without any exeitement I went
right throngh the successful operation,
and with no anxieties; as soon as I be
gan my hand was firm.” And wo
may have a great many anxieties about
what is to come in life, and we may
tremble about the great responsibility,
but when we come np to the right place
God will steady onr hand. He will
give us courage, and without any per-
turbation we will go right through.
All I want to know is that God has my
hand and is helping me on. And be
side that, notwithstanding all the bal
derdash of infidels and atheists and
freethinkers in our time, l am quite
certain, I am very certain, that right
beyond this life thrre is another life.
The three miles of this journey from
cradle to grave are not an inch longer
compared with that other life which
then will begin, and the picture gallery
ahead is brighter than the picture gal-
the rear, and on atepladder of amethyst
we go up and with loops of celestial
light we hang those pictures against
the burnished wall of heaven. Look,
look! There is. Ghrist Cuyp painted
Him for earthly galleries, and Correg-
gia and Tintoret and Benjamin West
and Dore painted Him for earthly gal
leries, but all those pictures are eclipsed
by this masterpiece of heaven. Christ!
Chnst! There is Paul, the hero of the
Sanhedrim, and of Agrippa’s court
room, and of M ars Hill, and of Nero’a
infamy, snaking his chained fist in the
very face of tceth-chattering royalty.
Here is Joshua, the fighter ot Betho-
ran and Gibson, the man that post
poned sundown. And here is Vashti,
the profligacy of the Persian court una
ble to remove her veil of modesty, or
read it, or lift it. And along the cor
ridors of this picturt gallery I find oth
er great heroes and heroines—David
with his harp, and Miriam with the
cymbils, and Zachariah with the
scroll, and St. John with the seven
vials, and the resurrection angel with
the trumpet. On, further in the cor
ridors, I see the faces of our loved ones,
the cough gone from tho throat, the
wanness gone from the cheek,the weari
ness gone from the limbs, the languor
gone from the eye. Let ns go np and
greev them. Let us go up and embrace
them. Let us go up and live with
them. We will! we will!
• From this hilltop of life I catch a
glimpse of thoso .hilltops where all
sorrow and sighing shall be done away!
Oh, that God would make that world
to us a reality. Faith in that world
helped old Dr. Tyng when he stood
by the casket of his dead son whose
arm had been torn off in the threshing
machine, death ensuing, and Dr. Tyng,
with infiuite composure preached the
funeral sermon of his own beloved son.
Faith in that world helped Martin
Luther without one tear to put away
iu death his favorite child. Faith in
that world helped the dying woman to
see on the sky the letter “W,” and
they asked her what she snpposed that
letter “W,” on the sky meant. “Oh,”
he said, “don’t yon know? “W,
•tands for “Welcome.” Ob, heaven!
swing open thy gates. Oh. heaven
roll upon ns. some of thine anthems.
Ob. heaven, flash upon ns the vision
of thy lustre. An old writer tells us'
of a ship coming from India to France.
Tho crew was madenp of Freuch sail
ors who had been long from home,
years gone away from their families,
and at the ship came along 'by the
coast of France the men became un
controllable, and they skipped *the deck
with glee, and they pointed to the
spires of the churches where they once
worshipped and to the hills where they
had played in boyhood. But, the
writer says, when the ship came into
the port, and these sailors saw fatter
and mother and wife and loved ones on
the wharf, and heard these loved ones
call them by their names, they sprang
ashore and rushed np the banks into
the city, and the captain had toget an
other crew to-bring the ship to her
moorings. So heayen, onr fatherland,
will after a while come so fully in
sight we can see its towers aud^e can
see its mansions and we can see its
hills, and as we go into port and onr
loved ones shall call from that shining
shore and speak onr names we will
spring to the beach, leaving this old
ship of a world to be managed' by an- •
other crew, onr rongh voyaging of tho
seas ended forever.
“Hocks and storms I’ll fear no more
When on that eternal shore,
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