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B. B. &c E. F. Hinton, Attorneys at ham. i*rBftlce in State and Federal courts. XW Hawkins Bnlldlng Americas, Ga. B. P. HOLLIS, .tttorneu at Law* . AMEIU CL'S, UA. Office, Forsyth Stteet, in National Uaak 'uuildlngJlX dec2otf E. G. SIMMONS, Attorney at JLate^ AM ERIC US <JA., •Jltlee in Hawkins' building, Miutli side of ljuuar Stree t, in the old oltice of Fort A *iii»yf. | ; • • • J»n6tf B1H. WILKIN SON^ Attorney at ham. Ail ImMnesSentrusted tajhlm willr. R-ctedViil b« immediately remitted. Iterenta: J. VT.hkeUM A Co. OrriCTt—Lamar Street Peoples \a Hank Buildin*. feltfl J- M. R. Westbrook, M. D- Physician and Surgeon Amor louN,Gn. A Physician’s Testimony. I waa called to aee Vr. John I'eanon, m confined to hi; with what appwuMP eonaaiaptlon <4 the worst form. Am all of l family had died with that dread dhwwm loept LW hulMirotlierj, hi* death waircemi ffHfifiUHK&S fSSSSft j Another Rescue from Death. J. H II, F. 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UptmrmMiatofmodtlor ,ketch c/invention, f FEES MODERATE, and I make NO CHAROB UNLESS PATENT IS SECUR ED. Information, advice and aw-cisl ref- erence -ent on application. J.K. I.ITTIXL, VMhlH|IM,n. <1. Near U. S, Patent Office. Commission Merchant Representing some of the largest houses dealers in Corn, Floor, Meat, Spots and fu- *»• d *“!«pr *? an **»ese staples. He In vitee bis friends to call at hLs oftlce on Cot- -ricee received everyday. A 3SrB"W KB IS MSB. Mr. J. A. Wesson presents his patent loop for harness, which frees the hone either backward or forward at the pleasure of the driver. It is on exhibition at J. M. Ilarri Cotton Ave., Americas, Ua. FORSYTH, GA. s institution is fast ragalning Its for — . — "IwJejyjM mf and over the wh _ l, yet firm discipline. 'Hie result lias been a steady Increase of patron age and constant growth In public confidence and favor. The Spring session will begin Monday January 12th 1883. e In search of a good school. Rorenr It. T. ASCURT. Prealder W*. B. OhlVER, DRAPER Ofaj.M.*«rT|CT. U the cltlaena 0( Ami’r . ° d ,* d ^ 0< . nln * counties as a prac gg*5SBBf&WSBS TAX NOTICE. ***** *5S* Purpore ... receiving the Tax Returns of Sumter Coun ty for State and Ceunty on April 2nd, ms , roan be found at the Court Rouse every day entildoee of books unices abeeut mak mmkxmw-. - twrw , ifulntlBS n or y pu. rl »..» M* 5 " “l 1 hln T «* “ ‘"ny » iiueitlon l|° (tatruyer ■uwtly. and wuSpLotl'tolili t^^aia&'KffiKsas tlreuto'ot ktwISvtrttmMeifnl com' LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR, MACON, GA. TWrrs PILLS 25 YEaS^^OSeT" The Oreatot Medical Triumph of the Ago! _ _ 2X81KX2* 1 ® of a ~ TORPID LIVER. TABERNACLE SERMONS. B¥ REV. T. DeWITT TALHAGE The Queeu of Festivals. Death Is swallowed up In vletory.- orintitians' xvi, 54. About eighteen hundred and fiftjr- ie Easter mornings have wakened the earth. In France for three centuries the almanacs made the year begin at Easter, until Charles IX. mads the year begin at Janoary 1. In the Tow er of London there is a royal pay-roll of Edward I., on which there is an en try of eighteen pence 'or four hundred colored and pictured Easter eggs, with which the people sported. In Russia slaves were freed and alms were dis- _ ibnted on Easter. Ecclesiastical coun cils met at Pontus, at Gaul, at Rome, Achaia, to decide the particular day, j animated •ATION. especially adapted ctMroofrneUagMtoaMontaSttMMtfere* i I’ltih, tkui Ucmtoi te : r b^5r.fea&4SsBa TUTTS hair" dye. Gkat II.uk or IVuiraasa changed to a GLOMr^BLACKjhya^slngleappllcaUon^of ln.tantaneously) ho|./*T-y Urueglsti) or pent l>y c-xpres. on receipt or fl. Office, 44 Murray St., New York. HOSTETTI^ BlffERS The finest tonic for nervous people U Hostetler's Stomach Bitters, which insures perfect digestion and assimilation, and the active performance of their functions by “ * liver and bowels. 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Rlckm *nd after a controversy than gracious decided it, and through all Christendom in som the first Sunday after the full which happens upon or next after March 21 is filled with Easter rejoic ing. The royal court of the Sabbaths is made up of fifty-two. Fifty-one are prinoes in the royal household, bnt Easter in queen. She wears a richer diadem and Bwaya a more jewelled sceptre, find in her smile nations are irradiated. Unusually welcome this year because of the harsh winter and the late spring, she seems to step oat of the snowbank rather than the con servatory, and oat of the north instead of the south out of the arctic rather than the tropics, dismounting from the icy equinox; bnt welcome this queenly day, holding high up ia her right hand the wrenched-off bolt of Christ’s sepulchre, and holding high up in her left hand the key to all the cemeteries " Christendom. My text is as ejaculation. If is mo out of hallelujahs. Panl wrote right on in tis argument about the resurrection and observed al! the laws of logic; but when he came to write the words of the text his fingers and his pen and the parchment on which he Trote took he cried out. Death ia < *w»tt<ppg4'(fip in victory!” t is an excitin^ thing 'to see an army routed and flying. They ran each other down. They scatter everything valuable in the traok. Un wheeled ar tillery. Hoof of- horse on breast of wounded anddying - man. You have read of the French falling • hack from Sedan, or Napoleon's track of 60,000 corpses in the snowbanks of Russia, or the retreat of our own armies from Manassas, or of the five kings tum bling over the rocks of Bethoran with their armies while the hailstorms of heaven and the swords of Joshes' host struck them with their fury. I my text is a worse discomfiture. 1. seems that a black ■ giant proposed to conquer the earth. He gathered for his host all the aches and pains and maladies and cancers and distempers and epidemics of the ages. He march ed them down, drilling them in the northeast wind and amid the slash of tempests. He throw up barricades of grave mound. He pitched tent of char nel house. Some of the troops march ed with slow tread, commanded by con sumptions; some in donble-qnick, com manded by pneumonias. Some he *c by long besiegemeat of evil habit ■ome by one stroke of the .battle- of casualty. With bony hand he pounded at the doors of hospitals and sick rooms, and won all the victories in all the great battlefields of all the five continents. Forward march! the conqueror of eonqnerora, and all the generals and comssanders-in-chief, and all presidents and kings and snltaas and czars, drop under the feet of his war charger. But one Christmas night his antagonist wan bora. As most of ths plagues and steksMes and despo- xzzwBzEt out of the tame quarter. Power is given H* to nwaken all the fallen of all the centuries and of-aR lands, and marshal them against the black giant. Fields have already been won, hat the last day of the world’s existence will see the decisive battle. When Christ shall lend forth His two brigades, ths brigade of the risen dead and the bri gade of the celestial boat, the black giant will fall back, and the brigade from tbs riven sepulchres will take him from beneath and the brigade of descending immortals will take him from above, and death ehal! be swal lowed up in victory. The old hrag- gart that threatened the conquest and demolition of the planet has lost Ms took 1 sceptrv.hM lost his palace, has lost prestige, and the one rail the gates of ma catacomb and necropolis, on cenotaph and saroophagus. on the lonely cairn of the Arctic explorer, and on the cata falque of great cathedral, written in capitals of aaalea and calls lily, writ ten in musical cadenoe,written indoxol- logy of great assemblages, written on the sculptured door of the family vault, is “Victory.” Coronal word, embaanered word, apocalyptic word, chief word of triumphal areh'under which conquerors return; - J Victory! War shouted nt Bslaklava -and Blen heim; at Megeddo and Solflrinc^ at Marathon, where the Athenians back the Medes; af Posctisrs,i Charles Martel broke the rank* of the Saracens; at Salamis, where Themis- toclee, id the great sea-fight, confound- ed the Persians, and at the door *f the Eastern cavern of chiselled rock, where should raise the dead!’ 1 him back in the niche from which the celestial Conqueror had just emerged. Aha! when the jawa of the Eastern mausoleum took down the black giant “death was swallowed up in victory.” I proclaim the abolition of death. The old antagonist is driven back into my thology with all the lore abont Sty gian ferry and Charon with oar and boat. Melrose Abbey and Kenilworth Castle are no more than is the sepul chre. We shall have no more to do with death than we have with the cloak room at a Governor’s or Presi dent’s levee. We stop at snch cloak room and leave in charge of a servant our overcoat, our overshoes, our out ward apparel, that we may not he im peded in the brilliant ronnd of he draw ing-room. .Well, my friends when we go ont of this world we are going to a king’s banquet, and to a reoeption of monarchs, and at the door of the tomb we leave the cloak of flesh and the wrappings with which we meet the. storms of the world. At the close of our caithly reception, under the brash and broom of the porter, the cost or hat may be handed to us better than when we resigned it, and the cloak of hu manity will finally be returned to us improved and brightened and porified and glorified. You and I do not want bodies returned as they are now. i want to get rid of all their weak nesses, and all their susceptibilities to fatigue, and all their slowness of loco motion. They will be put through a chemistry of soil and heal and cold and chaging seasons out of which God will reconstruct them as much better than they are now as the body of the rosiest and healthiest child that bounds over the lawn at Prospect Park is bet ter than the richest patient in Bellevue Hospital. _ But as to our soul, we will cross right over, not waiting for obsequies, independent of obituary, every way better, with wider room and velocities beyond computation; the dul lest of ns into companionship with the very best spirits in their very best mood, in the very parlor ot the universe, the four walls furnished end panelled and pictured and glorified with all the splendors that the infinite God in all the ages has been able to invent. Vic tory! This view, or course, makes it of but little importance whether we are cremated or sepultured. If the Inter is dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If any prefer incinera tion let them have it without carica ture. The world may become so crowded that cremation may be uni versally adopted by law as well as by general consent. Many of the might iest and best spirits have gone through this process. Thousands and tens of thousands of God's chfldna have been cremated. P. P. Bliss and wife, the evangelistic singers, cremated by ac cident at Ashtabula bridge. John Rogers cremated by persecution, Lati mer and Ridley cremated at Oxford, Pothinus, and Blondina, a slave and Alexander, a physician, and their eom- rades. cremated at the order of Marcns Aurelias. At least a hundred thou sand of Christ's diidplet cremated, and there can be no ■ doubt about the resurrection of their bodies. If the world lasts as much longer as it has already been built, there perhaps may be no room for the large acreage set apart for resting places, bnt that time has not come. Plenty of room yet,and the race need not pass that bridge o! fire until it comes to It. The most of ds prefer the old way. But whether out of natural disintegration or cremation we shall get that luminous, bouyant, gladsome, transcendent, magnifioent, inexplicable structure called the re surrection body, you will have it,I will have it. I say to you to-day as Paul id to Agrippa: “Why should it he thought a thing incrediblt with you, that God shall raise the dead.” That far up cloud, higher than the hawk fliee, higher than the eagle flies, what is it made of? Drops of water from tho Hudson, other drops from the East river, other drope from a stagnant pool out on Newark flats. Up yonder there, embodied in a cloud and the sun kin- If God can make such a lus trous cloud out of water drops, many of them soiled and impure, and frtfhed from miles away, can lie not transport the fragments of a human body from the earth, and out of them build a ra diant body? Cannot God, who owns all the material out of which bones and muscle and flesh are mads, set them up again if they have fallen? If a manu facturer of telescopes drop a telescope on the floor and it breaks, can be not mend it again so you can tea through it? And if God drops the human eye into the dust, ths eye which he origin ally fashioned, can be not restore it? Aye, if the manufacturer of the tele scope, by a change of the glass and a change of focus, can make a better glass than that which waa originally constructed, and actually improve it, do you not think the fashioner of the hn«« . 7 . n. r juprov. it.iight.nd multiply the ham an eye by the thou sandfold additional forces of the resur rection eye? “Why should it bethought an incredible thing that God should raise the dead?” Things all around ue suggest it. Ont of what grew all these flowers? Out of the mold and «rth. Bemmctwl. RmmcUd. Th. radiut batttrflj-, whm did it com, from? The htawm cttwpil- ltr. Th, slbttros, th.t imitea th, tompMt with it, wing, whin did it AhukIm, ihcll. Near fergme. Francs, in , Coltic tomb,ns- dert block, wet. fotmd flowsr wed, tUt hod bwn buried 2,000 jmra. The explorer took th, flower Med ud plant 'dttd it sum up, it bloowd iu heliotrope and bluebell. Two thou- Mud pout ago buried, jet iMUnuctod. A traveller mj, iu . msmmj pitiu ■ad than 3,000 •uutuufK He brought them out,end ou tho 4th of Juno. 1844 ho planted them, and ia thirty daja they epraag up. Buried 3,000 yea re yet looumotod. "Why abould it bo thought u thing incredible -with you that God should raiae tho daodr- Where did atlthie tflk ooma from? the SSff^SSSSRtt: Greek missionary brought froaa China to Europe the pregwitere ef those worms that now supply the ellkmar- kete of many nations. Ths pageantry of bannered host and the luxurious ar- tieles of commercial emporium blazing out from the silk worm*. And who shall be surprised If out of this fnsig nificaat earthly lift our bodies into something worthy of the earning eternities. Put saver into diluted ni tre anJ it dissolves, another force reoi gamines. ‘‘Why should it bethought _ thing incredible with you that God , . .. - The insects have taken no food, they want™. They lie dormant and insensible, but soon the Sooth wind will blow the resurrection trumpet, and tho air and the earth will befall of them. Do yon not think that God can do as much for our bodies ee He does for the wasps and the spiders and the snails? This aorniagat 4:40' o’clock there was a xection. Out of the night the day. i few weeks there will be a resur rection in all our gardens. Why not dey a resurrection amid ell the graves? Ever and anon there are in stances of men and women entranced. A trance is death, followed by resurrec tion afur a lew days. Total suspen sion of mental power aad voluntary ac tion. Rer. William Tensest—a great evangelist of the last generation, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexanders man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms—Rev. William Tsnnent seemed to die. Hie spirit departed*. People came in day after day and said: “He is dead; he is dead.” Bnt the soul that fled returned, aid William Tsnnent lived to experiences of what be had seen while his soul was gone. It msy be found some time that what is called suspend ed animation or comatose state is brief death, giving the soul an excursion in to the next world, from which it comes back, a furlough of a few hours grant ed from the eonfiiet ot life to which it most return. Does not this waking up of men from trance, and this waking up of grains buried three thousand ▼ears ago, make it easier for you to believe that your body and mine, after the vacation of the grave, shall roues and rally, though there be three thous and yean between our last breath and the sounding of the archangelic ills! Physiologists tell ns while the most of our bodies are built with such wonderful economy that we can spare nothing, and the loss of a fin ger ia a hindrance, and theininryofa toe joint makes us lame, still that wa have two or three useless physical ap- parati, and no anatomist or physiolo gist has ever been able to tell what they are good for. They are no doubt the foundation of the resurrection body, worth nothing to ns ia thisVtate, or be indispensably valuable in the next state. The Jewish rabbis had only a hint of this suggestion when they said that in the human frame there waa a •mall bone which was to be the basis of the resurrection body. Perhaps that may have been a delu sion. But this thing ia certain, the Christian scientists of our day have found ont that there are two or three su perfluities of body that are something gloriously suggestive of another state. I called at my triend’s boose one sum- r dav. I found the yard all piled with rubbish of carpenter's and aon’a work. The door was off. The plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof was being lifted in cupola. All the pictures were gone aad the paper- hangers were doing their work. All the modem improvement! were being introduced into that dwelling. There was not n room ia the house that was fit to live ia at that time, although a month before whan I visited that bourn everything was so beautiful I could not have suggested an improvement. My friend had gone with kia family to the Holy Land, expecting to come hack at the end of six months, when the buiUiag was to be done. And oh, what was his joy when at the end of six months he returned and the old house was enlarged and improved and glorified. That is your body. It looks well now. All the rooms filled with L we ' could hardly make a suggestion. Bat after a while your soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you are gone the old house of your tabernacle will o* entirely reoon- structed from cellar to attie, every insole and bone aad tissue and ntery must he hauled over, and the old structure will be burnished and i adorned and raised aad cupalosd and enlarged, sod all the im provements of Heaven iatrodaoed, aad you wUl move into it on resurrection day. Now. we know that, if our earth ly house of this tabernacle were di solved, “we have a building of God, _ house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Oh, what a day when body and soul meet again ! They Hn very fond of eaeh other. Did your body ever have a pain and your soul not fe-echo it 1 Or changing the qi tion, did your soul ever have I trouble and your body not sympathuie with it ? growing wan and wenk under the depressing influence. Or.didyour soul ever have a gladness hot your body celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step. Sorely, God ■ever intended turn euch good friends to he vary long asperated. .And so when the world's lest. Easter i morning shall come, the eoul will deemud tty i®g: “Wheraiemy body fraud?the body will second saying “Wham is my soul?” ud the Lord ofthu resurrection will hong them together. anditwilLV n perfect soul inn ferfect body, fatro- doead by a perfect Christ into a perfect Leaven. Victory I Do yuo woodor that to-day we swathe this house with garlands? Do you wonder we cele brate it with the most consecrated voice song that wo fun invite, and with ■ deieest fingers on organ and comet, and with doxologies that boat these arches with the billows of sound as the am smites the basalt at Giant’s Cause way. Only the bad disapprove of tho imansetion. A cruel heathen warrior heard Mr. Moffat, the missionary, prsaeh about the resurrection, end he said to the missionary: “Will m father rise iu the last day?” “Yes,' said the missionary. «WU1 all th. dead in battle rise?”? raid the cruel -ptied gravee, they will be the abandoned sepulchres, with rough ground tossed on either side of them, and slabs will lie uneven on- tl hillroeks, and there will be fallen meats and cenotaphs, and then for the first you will appreciate the fullexbilv ration of the text, “Death is swallowed op in victory.” 6* Lo" 1 of Keith and Heaven. ESrSssz&ts? Hall the resurrection Thou. Th© Object of Prayer as Seen by the Light of Benson, Scrip ture and Experience, It is clearly seen by the light of reas on and revelation, why a vile and wick ed Pope, would sell an indulgence to sin for a price in gold, bnt I fail to see how God, the fonntsin of all good and tlw author of the religion of Christ.ean be in harmony with llis own nature, and for the mere asking, grant to mai the privilege to sin with impunity. Sin with its consequences, stand iu relation to each other as cause and ef fect, consequently tho Bible reader, to understand the object of prayer, musl make a distinction between the forgiv- ness of sin and that of punishment. By the light ot the Scriptures, we see no evidence that the object of the ad vent of Christ, was the exemption of from the consequences of crime it- “Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world.” We are told, that his pamo shall be called Jeans, for He ehall save His people from their sins, and from the same source, ws learn that God will by no means clear the guilty. To harmonize the above quotations, b are forced to assume that by prayer eu may be ptatified and their sior “ moved by leading them to a purer and yet the penalty of the violated remain, be its dnratiou and its nature what it may. Let ns illustrate this idea. The volcanic fires of Vesnvins may die ont, and lava cease to flow from its’ crater, while the effects of past eruptions may be seen in the seams and scars that mark and disfigure the mountain that once stood in nnnvalsd beauty and grandeur, chalenging the admiration of min. whil* chieftain. “Yea,” said the missionary. “Than,” said the warrior, “Ira ms hear ao_moro about the resurrection day. Thera m» be no resurrection, thora shall be no resurrection. I have ■lain thousands ia battle. Will they rise?” Ah, there will be more “ on that day than thora wax whoso crimes haveasver been of. But for all others, who Christ to be their life aad their nisut- motion, it will he a day of victc The thunders of the last day will the salve that greets you into hart The lightnings will be only the tore of triumphal procession marching do to escort, yoa home. The burning worlds flashing through immensity wifi he the rockets celebrating yeur corona tion on thrones where you will reign forever and forever and forever. Whm is death? What have we to do with death? As your reunited body and aoul awing off from this planet on that ltit day you will see deep gashes all i in every age of the world h i search of happiness and t__ misery, and I am forced to the eoncln- sion that nothing short of a false con ception of the object and nature of prey ■ er and its reputed power to save man from the result of crime, oould lead to life of criminal indulgence. This is s age of reason, and the Christian should he taugh. to know himself as a physical and intellectual being as well as a moral, and that the laws institut ed for his government as an organic and intellectual being are as impera tive as tint of a moral. He should be taught to know the consequences of the violation of the omiiTSu the other. From the violation of the organic and mental, come pain,deform ity, mental imbecility and death, from admiration of heights point ot the great first cause. So I conceive it to be with man be fore and after the regenerating influ ence of prayer. The fires of sensual ism that horned so fiercely in yonth, and those passions, that in the vigor of manhood, invited to crime, may no longer barn. The tempest may have ■wept over and defiled the noblest work of God, and the purifying influence of prayer, may have in its turn accom plished its work of lovo in purifying the soul, but the repulsive effects of the past still live in the memory ot man and stand recorded on the pages of history, and like an incabas, fastens itself upon the house-hold to the third and fourth generations. “The father hath eaten soar grapes, and the chil drens teeth are on edge.” The Chris tian house-hold msy be likened to the great body of humanity it it is oom- pact and fitly framed together, so that one member thereof cannot err without all of its members suffering the result. The erring member may have long since realized the redeeming power of prayer and may sleep in Christ, vet the dark and damning effects of his ■ins, whether it be the resnlt of a vio lation of the physical, mental or moral law, is by the undeviating laws ofonr being fastened opon the unoffending of the honse-hold. Tk.jn.MJ live apd writhe under the pangs that God, ia his wisdom, has ordained shall follow the violation of the law. This * i clearly conveyed by the paalm- the 99th. Psalm. “Thou for- giveth them, O Lord, and puniabeth their inventions.” There can be no deliverance then por emption from She- consequences of a violation of the laws of God, whether the sin be perpetuated by an individ ual membra of a family, by a city or a nation. The violation of the law of God once perpetuated the result like that of the sin of Sodom, fastens ever upon the locality, until it becomes i stench iu the nostrils of society. “Ca: any thug good oome out of Nazareth?' vibrates upon ths ear when the locality ia named. History, both sacred and profane, bears me ont ia assuming that the effects of sin, when ordained or per mitted by tho Chief Ruler of a nation, as in the case of the crucifixion of Chris; or the kidnapping and binding in slavery. Bias and women becomes historio and national in its effects. The house of Israel lost its nationality an,l now exists as a scattered and a peeled people, a hissing and a bye word among the nationa of the earth; while we as a people, lie bleediag and crashed. Not a Mar of hope shines upon the Ameri can continent. There ie no hope of a deliverance from the accursed evil. Its dark and damning tida of moral and national degeneracy rolls on gathering strength as it goes. The bouse of Is rael and the American Republic thomaolvee in sackcloth and ashes, their prayers may go up to God, hut his laws are eternal and unvarying in their operation. As Nations they have tinned and as nations they must suffer the penalty of a violated lew. It God le eternal and unvarying, so are the laws which he has ordained, aad the consequences of their violation must he coexisting therewith. And wherever, and so long as the laws are operative, there trill he the sting of Its violation. There ia no evading the force of the reasoning ia support of the truth of the doctrine herein advanced. Evidence of its correctness looms up from every page of the history of man, both an cient and modern. Every city has its unwritten history of its past brought to light in the character of the people of the present. The vulgarism aad profanity of the anoeetor* flow from the lips of our prattling babes as a sure in heritance transmitted to them through the unvarying laws of our being. The moral deformity and mental imbecility of the thoughtless inebriate fasten H- stff upon the brain aad heart of the un born child and characterizes his pro clivities and habits through Hie. -Tbs meontenance of the father attaches to the eon, and the mantle of the mother, whether soiled by the filth of moral imparity, or sprinkled with incense from the alter of virtue^ falls upon the the violation of the moral law, remorse, dishonor, shame and moral degeneracy. Spiritual death and pray er, was never intended as a power, by which man may violate either with im punity. God, in hie wisdom, ordained the result as an incentive to obedience and virtue. If God by virtue of tho sacrifice of Christ,provided a means by which man may sin with imparity, where is the moralizing power of the gospel? qut bo no f One more idea I would here advance against the assumption that prayer is * means of escape from the consequenc- of sin that has been committed. It i fact that the forgivness of punish- nt in the acceptation of the term as understood by the various branches of the Christian church, creates a necessi ty for the suspension of two or more lews for each sin that goes unpunished. By way of illustration, I that B. violates the moral law, “Thou shalt not kill.” Evidently for thia sin he is subject to its penalty be it what it may whether to be inflicted hare or iu the future, and yet for the same offence, ha is amsaiable to the laws of the state in which he livee and to the laws of socie- ty in which he moves. We have here a violation of three laws in a single act aad each law has a penalty attach ed thereto. Which then of the three does ht, or can he, by virtue of the death of Christ, escape? We know that the criminal law ofthe state tehee iti course, for we see that it has been executed, and B.^ has been punished , WP $2 I hautkanaaldifMiaMaf tWasa S i of b j tka older mMaWra of ao- and nfaronkU umpaikou between th. preaest and th. paat. I am reminded of lb. aatneeprr, wko claimed to k. tk. iortnaat. discover of akagt monater in tki.iu.kut mck kamklad. rekaa a krother ail np and down tha knia, deep gaakta all omer ahowed him that It waa nothing through the valleja, and Iltej will tie I bnt a tl j upon biaglaac and waa fear* fullj near him. Tha child ic hat tha mirror of the parent which reflects his tru image and eitabliaheahia account- ability for the organic, the mental and moral evils that exists in the child. Really, society of the present, is but a polished surface upon whieh every ac tion, word an 1 secret thought ofthe past is by virtue of the organic and in tellectual laws of our being indelibly photographed on mar to beautify or adorn the history of man. When we consider the fearful quence of the violation of the laws of God by the preseat generation, whieh must fall upon the society of the future and which must give direction to the actions, laws and institutions of future ages, we fail to find a single argument upon which to rest the hypothesis that God has ordained a means by whieh to evade the legitimate resnlt of a criminal do we see one motive to justify t nations in being so false to the best interest of society, as to ignore the dictates of reason and the voice of rev elation and live ia violation of the laws i realise the fact, that be has aped the penalty so wisely and justly attached to the social law. for his position in society is forever lost. Shame and dishonor and the frown of contempt rest upon him through life, and at death it passes down as a sure :_v._-a-—-ini— M( J jjj^ bear.' Your chill and mine realize the blessings that flow from our virtues [thee and groans under the scor pion stings that comes from our guilt. As hy the laws of physiology they in herit our own features, our form and mental peculiarities. So by tho wise and judicious laws of society, they foal the lash that is justly doe a parents crime. Here I am told that the salva tion from the penalty of the moral law was the object of tho advent of Christ, and not that of the criminal and the social laws ot the people. The crimi nal and social laws of a Christian na tion are founded upon the moral law of God, and the Christina whose life is each as will save him from the pen alty of the one, wtll exempt him from the other. Bnt it is well here to re- ■anrk, that wo sea by tha light of reve lation that wi are saved fxom4he con sequences of neither, by the offering of Christ, after the crime has bean com mitted, for Christ shall oome in the glory of his father with the holy an- gels, and shall reward every man ac cording to his works; and we are most clearly informed, in tha 20th chapter of Joha, aad in the 20th chapter of Revelations. “That in the Resurrection the dead shell come forth, they that have done good to the Tesurroedoa of life, and they that done evil to the re surrection of damnation.” If this he admitted then te » justly, we are forced to the ooecli that B. having done evil, will forth to the reennection of damnation at the last tramp and realise tho fact of his condemnation, in tho abasaee of that fall fruition of blue that ha might have obtained by living a higher Ufe. Hera I maybe met with the language of job, “What ie the Almighty that we should fear Urn. or what should we he profited if weahonld pray unto Him?” Seek a question is truly char acteristic of the ago ia whieh Job liv ed for their oode of morale was bnt a nose, bnt it is not in harmony with Christian piety. The question of Job fanpHoo that prayer is the pries effaced to God for an indulgenee la su.whOs God ordained it the pries of virtue, in tegrity, honor, wisdom and mental power. The virtues and moral exoel- 1—rise of tho Christian church are bat' rich jewels given ia exchange fox the effenag ef prayer at the altar of God. Keep Irfmhlng Young. This is the age of young men. Ottar tkisgi kting equal tWj ara ererjwkere preferred, Sar. jour jom, look,. It Mall position ud reonqr. Is your koir falling off—dry or httre- Woo? Presorts ond kosntify it ky ttoiog P,rktr*o Hob Balaaao. Not os oi>. ■<* « djfc^ore to work, okoo. karat Ism. aplSlm DESTROYED BY WORKS. CAN w, imagine a mom korrikW deotk: On.wing—pa.ing-pa.iag night ond day QBtii tko ritolo ore ooton away, flkrinat'i India, Tonmfnpwilldootroy pad eject tkoao dirgniting c roster., rom tko intMtinoo. Ask lorSkrinor’o ndisa Vennifng*. PIATPD1 PRANKS. pi**!? afternoon the elev» Bobolink boys surrounded and caught an enormous, shaggy, strong-smelling C oftk. reoteaba. geader.tnre»d loose iu Burdock's garden, nailed np tk. got., and tkra want kome aad jWtUaadtMrdrrsa liul.noMa.gaiart * ^aok windows to watch for coniag .Before kia goolakip kod a pent tkroe tninutoo ia tko garden, ko kid managed 2 k.a»,pall; od down tkoelotU Iho' SddSKS two lace collars,;! pair of uudersleeves, anda atnped stocking, belonging to Mrs. Bunfock, and was busily ennnd sampling one of Bardock's shirts.when *he servant girl came rushing out with basket of clothes to hang np. “The saints preserve us!” she ex claimed. coming to a «W1 halt, aad gazing open-mouthed at the goat, who was calmly munching away at the shirt. “Shew, shew, shew, there!”acreamad the mrl, setting down the basket, tak ing bra skirts in both hands, and ehak iug them violently towards the intru der. Then the goat who evidently consid ered her movements in the light of a challenge, suddenly dropped his wicked old bend, and darted at her with the force of as Erie looouotive; and just one minute later by the city hall cloek that girl had tumbled a back summer sault over the clothes basket, an? was crawling away on bra hands and. knees in search of a place to die, aaoompsnfed by the goat, who was butting bra on the bustle ground every third eeoond. It is likely he would have kept on butting h« for the next two weeks, if Mrs. Burdock, who had bean a witness of the unfortunate affair, had not armed herself with the family poker, and hur ried to the rescue. “Merciful goodness. Annie! do get up on your feetV’ahe exclaimed .aiming a blow at the beast's head, and miss ing it by a few of the shortest kind of inches. It was not repeated, owing to the goat suddenly rising up on his hind feet,waltzing towards her, and striking brain the small of the back, hard enough to loosen her finger nails, and destroy her faith in the blessed immor tality. When Mrs. Bardock returned to her consciousness,she crawled out from be hind the grindstone where she had been teased, aad made for the house; step ping only onos, when the goat tra, and butted her, head fii the grape arbor. Once inside the house, the door was locked, and the unfortunates sought tha solitude of their own rooms, and such comfort as they oould extract from rub bing and growling; while the goat wandered around the garden like Satan in the Book of Job, seeking what he might devour; and tha eleven Bobolink boys fairly hugged themselves with pleasure over the performance. Bj the time Bardock returned horns that evening, and learned all the partic ulars from his arnica-soaked wife, the goat had eaten nearly all the week'e waahing, half the grape-vine and one aide oat of the clothes-basket. “Why in thunder didn’t you put him oat, and not leave him there to destroy evraything?” he demanded angrily. “Because he wouldn’t go, and I was not going to stay thereto be killed; tkat's why,” answered his wife excited- fy- “Wouldn’t fiddlesticks!” he exclaim ed as be came into the garden, and caught of the shaggy and highly per fumed visitors. The goat bit off another mouthful of the basket, and regarded him with a mischievous twinkle of his eye. “You won’t go, hey?” exclaimed Burdock, trying to kick a hole ia the enemy's ribs. I’ll show you whetk—’ Ths sentence wae left unfinished, as the goat dropped his head just then on Burdock's shirt-bosom; and, before he eould reoorra his equilibrium, he had t times ia ee van fresh spots. first, into ■ down on his knees, and c mg around in a very undignified j nor, to the horror of the family aad the infinite glee ot the eleven young Bobo link’s next door. Look out he don't hurt you!” ■creamed Mrs Bardock as the goat sent him into a sand-pile. When Bardock had got his bald led out of the land, he was mud all over hie clothes, aad tried to catch the brute bv the horns, but desisted after lm had foot two front teeth and bees rolled la the mud. Don't make a living show of your- self before the neighbors!” advised hU in, pa, aad let Him be!” beg ged hie daughter. “Golly, dad, look out! he ie cornin' agin!”shouted his son eatkmffsstfealfy. Mr. Bardook waxed profane, and ■wore three story oaths in such rapid sueceseioo that hi* family held their breaths; and n pious old lady, lived ia a house ia the rear, shiu _ r her windows and seat out the cook for olioeman or a missionarv Run for it, dadrXJSd the son _ moment later, when the goat’s attention omed to be turned away. Bardook sprang to his foot, and fol lowed his offspring's suggestion. Hi b style, and the the hones seem- fragrant brute suddenly clapped on more steam,gained rapidly, and, darting between his legs, xowea ou ouspnng s sngi was legging it in superb m chances of hie reaching th ed excellent, when tha fix capsized Mm into the ash-box. His family dragged him inside, an ker candidate for robbing with arnica id a blessed heaven of rest. The beck of the house has been her metically sealed; aad Bardock now pro poses extending an invitation to the THE MIDGETS XARBIED. A ***** cuowd winzes na kcptuls of comrr xaom xxd iu. tqx rnraz. . Nmt YoMaApril 7.—Sid waa tin crush in front of the Church ofthe Ho- hrtta catnip. It tool tU tin. BNabica af th. bridal part j Ma mia- QtM to grt froai tba caaria^a door to tba Mrianctprioa room hlS. ooaajdor. Nobod j wan admitted to tba okaicb without a card. At-balt-paat tlnoa tba bridal pertj aiowlj antartd. Tbej:looted tfio'o groom's boat man. with Mies Lucie Adams, the tiny bridesmaid, leaning on kfean. The CountMagri, witk his •d next- The bride ~ dreseed as •fegxntly as she was on February 10,1803, whan dm walked amid a similar throng in Grace church to be married to General Tom Thumb. Her robust little form was eavoloMd in a lavender satin, brocaded in undut velvet. It had n court train na knit again as the bride. The front ite decked with lace, beaded with pearts! The neck waa low and the sleeves were Short. Cindemlla slippras of lavender •atm adorned her feet, which loosely fit a No. 6 infant shoe. The slippers * were buttoned over handsome lace A oomb that blazed with teck «f ss^vna at ter wriata aad lanmdw kid (Ion, that reached aearlj to ter atenSn eovored ter atepoly whit, haada aad •rate. The (lorea were of the ^e known as “foor-aad-a-half infants,” and they wrae made on a special block. In her left hand she earriMhrpiakLn trance rose that waa mash bigger than her bead. The Cooat Magri was ia evening dress. A big solitaire diamond irlt the bosom or Ue gloaej ekfat lamia- oaa and a gold-linked chain daarlod at ' tho waiatooat aa te walked, rca. SiS. H 2l23d h 2f!lE^ white satin. Rector M. F. Watkins steed amid the mass of Easter flowers at the ehaa- “I in flowing white surplice, smiling- awahing the party. William ighby^flwdgjp^ho i. execu tor of General Tom Thumb's estate under his will, took the hride'e in his own big, white gloved palm and gave her away to the Count. Miss Lucie Adams picked the tiny wedding ring from the pocket of her gown had the Count daintily fined £ w the " Va finger. Then he imprinted a on his bride's red tips, aad loll Recter Watkins, stooping away ovjn until it seemed to those in the beck pews tkat be touched the ground. Boo ed the little woman, too. The Count and Countess will go to Europe in May end eventually to Itily. Count Ma- -i’a present to his bride ia aa estate ia aly near Bologna. A Crushed Bore. > Onn West-bound Michigan Central train the other day were n delicate ap- young woman and an intelH- bind tte conplo rat tte maa-to te found on ererj train—wko woald' di. if not permitted to tear tte oooad of buowa roic. at ail Haw la all plaom. The jonng ladr bad a tronbftaoma conga, a fact walcb aeomad to hotter the talking machine behind ter great- l?-"At tact be leaned forward aad addmeod ter oeeort: "That gal'e gat a bad aoagb.-- -Erar trj catnip toa?" “She baaa't drank anjtbiag eiae for more than two hnndred non. Bte canghta Mrera cold ia Jeraaedoot ia 1888. I ted fiftj bamlaof catnip taa pot into tte baggago ear far ter o- between ten and Chicago." Poore. Lange?" 'No, buaione. Tkat'a parelj a baoien coagb, jon will aotioe, if .on watch bra cloralr.” . “Alan the draught n lectio strong from that window?” after a loagtr inse. “Ne, she has to have it. It takes 15,000 pounds of air to make her s respectable breath! We haves patent breath inenbator which the usee at home. It oovers 17,000 acres of val uable land; yen any eke was yew wife?” I didn't say anything of the ihe’e one of there new foshiou- ed tnfernal machines that I'm taking over to England to blow np the qnren. The only trouble is that I'm subject to fits, and when 1 get one of them I " break things up terribly!” “What brings them on te you?” “Talking! Why. it was raly yee- terdsy that 1 killed three men, • wo man and a pair of twins before I oould be got nudra control. I feel very queer about the head now- I—” “I reckon I’ll go fate the smokin' ear.” pU the bora, sidling out of the -ati “I don’t feel very well my sell!” “Don't hurra away!” shouted the young man, while a general titter ran through tha ear.—Zfeninrftfe Counter- Journal. "No. I Don't be afraid te pralra her lag. ud ter .kill ia Irebireii l).n’l fail to git. ter word, of ,p. probation wbeneror yoo can coaoeion- tiooalj approro. Haitian tire and coorteoaa to ter. 'feMtearM wtea yoa rater' poor , Don’t b. afraid to pcoire tte oral practice marfamsatkip off tte roof, ■“* “* Mgkt fire, proraieiag to faraiak a lira goat for a . target, aad a ail rer napkin ring aa tte firat prize. The Atlanta (kmetltutlon, la a long article relating to tte . B. of that eitj. rare: Tte Blood Burn Company attrtod one year ago with 1182.08, bat today tte bo are are cannot te hragkt foe I50.000.00i Tte demand ate tte ezti.fzolio.gir. oa io oaU tote witboata parallel, ae tte aetloa in prononaced wonderfnl. We ere glad to aaaooaeo th.t aggiorateoealready aecared ae ply. aad we tepasnr leaden wiUt ply tboMoolTMCt onto. It it Mid tote tte only aptody ud pocMaaaat blood poieoa nmady offend, ginag entire eatUfaction in all cam Man OMbottl. tea teem aa«L For Blood Dieaoaoe, Kidney TronbUa, Berofala. Catarrh, old Glcera aad Skin DioeaM,. try oao bottle of B. B.B. Ujyoarraterwtb. .neb tkot bte will bo proodofyoo. Be ao opright that ate will bo happy *• “rMg yoar children to hoaor yra ^Garayoor family .on. of yoor «t- Tell them of the amarine tbiass tet ten brighurad yra, dayVffi' Speak kindly to yoor ckildrea Pky **d tofk with item . fro..,. wan alter aoppor. latotort yooreelf ia yoar wUb-a ma- ptovmeat. teartod^ B. glad With ter wtea bte Don’t wait to tell tte world epoa mmblo tbat which will bo eo gntefhl Wterlonag heart to beer from yoor Jss^&TCr te. change.