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OFFICIAL JQiJHItAy) F MONROE COU NT Y
TEKM.3 OF SDBSORIPTTON:
Per Agpui*, Gasi in Advance - $2 00
Six Months. “ " “ 100
UK- l.e'iston-d in the I‘ost OlH<-.* of 1 *r
v v tli. ‘la a- second class matter.
re>-diit M'imCiK A liv kktiskh has a
large Circulation in Monr< * . Kutts,
• .liisjn-r, and other ('utilities
K.tl t:\KRV KHItiA V MORNING.
HILLIARD
INSTITUTE!
SF’RUDTO- TEiRTVT
Pc .ax 12th January. Kndx 2>th June.
FALL TEEM
Beg Cl - t Augo-t End- 18tli Dedenitjer.
TANARUS 1 11o.s :
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--ril ltv the l’nn<\pnl iu <>ra!, <<tj:< t and kin
dr ri'.ir t-n ihti i
I*r>t. I* S. Wii.i.ikoiiAM will a.-si.t in
I/ iiu;nni;i M utheinat i<~, S -icnci**, &.<•.
< apt. IVindkk will hav--. iliarge of tin-
M ilitary I ti-purt mi nt mid In- :i--i-t'-d liv
otln-r ir-ntl'onjn ot profioi- ti'y (irmnimir
II 111 I lligli Sfl.ool b-*y i -nip- llitliiirft
/nitilutr Cu'irt No extra i-\pi-n-<: iin-ur
r** I b\ thi.- .-pli-ndid new feature in the
who.
X in 1 Mui-ie. CMlUtln-uli-f. and Drawing
w ill In- taught the little hoys.
IJi'ald in i'rivute Families .jS.OO mi 12.50
pet molrflt.
No eiange' in Text Honks. All Text
I! > •!, *ll i. i .uni i-rials free n He: Sprint' l erin.
S hoot building substantial!v repaired and
fnrinbod witii modern furniture, materi
n Ac., inid i j co ititirtab.e i:i every par
ticular.
t-.iiicr vnur boys on tin- tirat day of each
m salon.
F<-r full announcement# of the school,
convenient calendar for 1885,and further
iiiforiiinti'in, address
V. Iv ORR. Principal,"
Forsvth, Gil.
MON ROE
Fomalo College,
FOS3YTH, G-A.
Tiils I NSTFTi’TIox, favorably located in
M illilb* tie-irgia, is moving again upon its
high and important mission.
The dep-i! Iments of Literature. Music.
I >rawiipg and Painting arc supplied with
competent teachers, who are addressing
tln-mo-lves to the task of woman’s higher
• •■in it mu wit it cliieiem-v and comiclncss.
I hose in seareh ot a good siliaul, line
wlei-eie a efb-rts wi'l In- given to lit wo
man mental)v, s-'Ci.iPv ■ nnfl itfornnv to
meet tin- reijoiicmenls of life, arc resp.-ct
fnliy invited to consider the advantages
her.- atr -rded and to disetias the ipu-stioli of
pat rmiagc.
For particulars address
K. T. AS IU" 11Y, President.
•D. H. GREEN & CO.,
JS.’BA&A. LIP,
CLOCKS, GUNS,
PisLds, o#rirtg If \c)iink. Etc.
All kinds of light Repairing executed
promptly and faithfully. We give strict
attention to business, and ex poet to merit
patronage by good work. Also we keep on
hand it good stock of
CONFEOTIO NERIES, ST ATI ON ER Y
Tobacco and Cigars.
(■ive us a call in the post-otiice building.
Forsyth. (ia.
SUMS’ SORE CUBES
MOUTH WASH and DENTIFRICE
Tim** l j n*. \ S>r* Mouth, Sort?
Thr At, t'm.-uw*' * iho T*otts ami I'uriflus tb* ftroath ;
\;ao \ anl fpooiurnaurt .1 'y i ■jwlin? rifentitt*. Pr** i
! bv s>n< J I* AV K.ilniMws. Pntmt*. M.von,
ua. Fox bale by all a.nil clem lifts.
CENTRAL & SOUTHWESTERN!
SCHEDULES.
Bead down .Bead down
No H. From Savannah. Nn.Vi.
10:00 am I.y - Savannah..-I.v S: 45 pm i
and: 45 ]> in ar Vugusta Ar 5: ‘>o am :
(1:2o pin ar Macon ar S: 4-> am
11: 25 p m ar Atlanta ar 7: Wain j
■A oil ain ar Columbus...ar 12: 3d pm :
ar Kufaulu ar .k lti pm i
1: 15 pm ar Albany ar 12:20 pin !
ar-Millcdgcville-ar 10: 29 am |
ar Katonton—ar 12: .'lO pm
No IS From Aiumsta No 20 No 22
ft: 45 am lv Aug.-lv t): 00 pm
and .'lO pm ar Sav'ii ar 0: 30 am
0 J. 5 p m ar Macon
1!: 25 pin ar Atlanta
4: 82 in ar*..-Columbus
11: 15 p m ar Alba: v- „
N\> 54. From Macon No 52.
12:00 a ni Iv Macon Iv S: 05 am
0:5*0 ain ar Savanuah ar ,3: 50 pm
ar Augusta ar 3:45 pm
ar-. Milledgeville-ar 10 2Ham
ar—Katonton—ar 12:50 pm
No 1. From Macon Nod.
7'50 ain lv Macon Iv 7: 15 pm
3:16 pm nr Knfaula ar _
12:20 pm ar Albany ar 11:15pm
No 5 From Macon No 19
S 15 a ni lv Macon Iv 7:35 pm
12: :>3 p ni ar Columbus—ar 4: 25 am
No 1 From a aeon vo 51 no 5d
S;lsani lv Macon...lv 7 ;30 pm-.-d :57 am
12;25 pm ar Atlanta-ar 11 ;25pm~7 ;.'>o am
mo 28 From Fort vallej so 21
S ;d5 pm lv Fort valley lv 9 ;45 am
9 ;20 p in ar verrv ar 10 ;.'to ain
so 2 From Atlanta so 54 so 52
2 ;-NO pm lv- vtlanta-lv S; 10 pm...d :55am
0 ;50 pm ar-Macon—arl 1 ;45 am... 7 ;dsani
arKufaula ar d;lopni
1) ;15 pm ar Albany ar 12 :20pm
4 ;25 am ar columtius ar 12 ; C.pm
Milledgwiilo ar 10;29am
ar Katonton ar 12;30pm
ar Augusta ar 3 ;45piu
ar savannah ar 0;d0 am...3 ;3lpm
so 6 From eolumbus so 40
1 ; 00 p in lv ...columbus lv 9:5d pm
5 ;42 p in ar Macon ar 0 ;00 a m
11 ;lo4>m iU' -U’nuila -ar 12 ,20 pui
ar-.....Kufanla ar 4 :4fi nm i
11 ;15pin ar Albany ar 4 ;05 pm
sic; P :g c;.i ' c'.i ad nip!:; trains
between i k _- si . savan
nah and Atlanta, and mhcoii and Mont
gomery. I’ullman hotel sleeping cars lie
tivcen chi capo and .'AOksunvUie, rla., via
Cincinnati. withomVhange. ‘
Tire MiUedpeville and Katonton train
runs daily (extent Monday between uor
don and ra*o’U >n, n l dally ■ t siAi
iliiy between, 1 '.ntoisnu and j.ordon.
rrain no 2 1 >1 lily except Sunday.
Kufaula train connects at outhbect for
Fort oaines daily except -unday. perrv
accommo<htlioi: train between Ferry and
Fort valley, runs daily, except Sundays.
Albany and Blakely accommodation train
runs daily except Sunday, between Alba
ny and alakely.
At savannah with savannah. Florida A
western railway ; at Augusta with all lines
to north aud east; at Atlanta with Air
line and Kennesaw routes, to all |>oints
north, east and west. W.u. Kogkks,
G A Whitkuka.ii, Sup't
Gen l‘:;ss Ag't, Savannah.
THE MONROE ffcADYEETISEE.
VII].. XXX.
Out of the
Jaws of Death
Health Joy and Thanksgiving, Where
Death, Sorrow and the 0-rave
Were Expected.
P Kit II A I*B there has never occtir
red in tin*medical history of <ieor
gia, two more remarkable eases of
recovery from apparently hopeless
illnoss.*Lhaß the facts given below
disclose. The medical profession
generally, seoiit the proposition that
const!mption can be cured, and in
controverting thisoft repeated asser
tion of theirs, we beg leave to pre
sent the following true statemer <,
from some of the best citizens of this
state, and among the number that of
a physician who has enjoyed a large
practice in Georgia, for the last
twenty six years, i# a graduate of
medicine and whose skill is beyond
dispute, 'flic following is
Jfr. •/. O. Holloway h Statement.
“The first case in which I pre
scribed Brewej’ s Lung Restorer, was
that of Mr. John Pearson, who had
been troubled with a dreadful cough
for many months. He was finally
, Liken to his lied with what appeared
to he consumption in its worst form,
and his early death seemed inevit
able. Asa htst resort. I sent for a
bottle of the Lung Restorer and after
lie had a taken a few doses he seem
ed to revive, lie .continued to use
it tor some time and was finally re
stored to perfect health. So far as I
could discover, lie had consumption,
and the Lung Restorer saved his
life. 'All of iiis family that 1 knew,
died of pulmonary disease, except
his half brother. 1 was afterwards
called in consultation to sec Airs. 11.
F. Lletirndon. She seemed to be
rapidly' sinking from pulmonary
affection, her lungs were rapidly de
caying ami 1 thought she could not
possibly live over a month. The at
tending physician satisfied the fam
ily that nothing more could be done
for Alts. Ilearndon. [ then sugges
ted a trifci id'the Lung Restorer. A
bottle was procured and the patient
commenced taking it. I learn that
she began to improve immediately.
1 saw her two months afterwards
and she seemed in very good health.
I believe the Lung Restorer saved
her life. I have since used several
dozen of the medicine in my prac
tice. and ti few bottles in my family,
always with the most satisfactory
results. The JLiujjtL jle|Uorqr is the
oii'i\ ivitimi ~> Accv^n• w flia. t have
ever prescribed in my practice, al
though 1 have no prejudice against
them.” J)r. Holloway resides at
Barnesville, Ga.
The gentleman who outlined his
case below is a man considerably Ad
vanced in life, and is noted for his
sterling integrity. Ilis post office is
1 Yatesville, I pson Cos., Ga. The ibl
I lowing is
Mi\ John Pearson's Statement.
In the spring of ISK2 I wasattaek
ed with a very bad cough which
continued to grow worse until I'all.
when Lgot*u> wank that 1 could not
get about. 1 tried a great many
kinds of medicine but continued to
grow worse. 1 was notified that 1
had the consumption and would
probably die. Dr. Holloway finally
told me to try Brewer h Lung Re
storer, They sent to Ward's store
and got a bottle and 1 commenced
taking it right away. Alter taking
two or three doses, I began to im
prove. and by the time 1 had used
up one bottle, I was able to get on
my feet again. lam now in excel
lent health. lam confident that the
Lung Restorer saved my life and
mv neighbors are of the same opin
ion. It is the best lung remedy
ever made, in my opinion. Dr. 11.
promised me that lie would write to
the manufacturers and tell them of
the wonderful cure it made in my
ease.
Earlv in November, J.SSI, while
sewing on the machine, my wife
was taken with a severe pain in her
side, which was soon followed by
hemorrhages from her lungs and a
severe cough. Fever commenced,
she could neither eat or sleep, and in
a few weeks site was reduced to a
living skeleton. The attending phy
sician told me that he thought one
of her lungs was entirely gone. She
could not retain the most deli
cate nourishment on her stom
ach. I then agreed with Dr.
Sullivan, my family physician,
to call Dr. Holloway in consul
tat ion. They made a final exami
nation of the patient and pronounc
ed the ease hopeless. l)r. Holloway
then suggested the Brewer's Lung
Restorer as a last resort. 1 sent tor
a bottle and gave her a dose. 1
found that she could retain it on her
stomach and after about the third
dose. 1 began to notice some im
provement in her condition. I con-
tinued the medicine regularly, and
by the time she had taken two bot
tles. she was able to walk about the
house. She is now iu better health
than she has enjoyed for several
years. 1 baiieve the Lung Restorer
saved her life. We have a family of
six children, some of them grown.
Mr. Hoamdon - post o'-five is
Vatesvilfe. Epson Do.. Da. He is a
thoroughly rehaba; man. in every
pju'tiviular, >
W'c red rto the following mMI known
gihukuiiCti who have bau opportunity <>t'
-tviag the merits of Brewer's Lang Re-tor
-lor to-tecL Hob O G Sparks. Maeim (4a.
Hon Geo S OlMßtr. ox-mayor of Ala<-on Ga.
('apt A J White, ex-pres. C 11 It, Milner.
. Ga. JdoG Polhill. M D Macon. Ga. T
F Conn. M.v •■!:. Gu. A H Sohwaok>‘,
Charle-t , S ('. Col Tlm-J Burney. M
. n. Ga. Henry Wooten. Mwcon. Ga. Geo
P Woods. Hnwkin-viile, Ga. It M Mur
pliev. El.aville, Ga. Ms. lv:.le K Dorter.
Talbotton G:. AV B Dix. Atlanta. Ga.
LAMAR, RANKIN & LAMAR.
.'la on, Xtlauta and Albanv, Ga.
Fobs nil. jumoe oji.ntv, gkokiisTfriday morning, ait.il u. isss.
p|§
Absolutely Pure.
Tbi- powder never varies. A marvel of
purit \ . -trengtli iiin.l wliole.-om aiess. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot be sold in competition with the mul
titude of low test, short weight, alum or
phosphate powders. Sold oulf/ in cans.
Koyaf. Baking Powdku Cos., 100 Wall
sir-i-t. New York.
FRELTCII
WINE COCA!
STRENGTHENS&EXHILARATES
A Perfectly Reliable Ififfusible Stim
ulant and Tonic.
It sustains and refreshes, aids digestion
and assimilation, imparts new life and en
ergies to the worn and exhasted mind and
body, and excites every faculty of mind and
bodv to healthy and natural condition.
COCA !
is a wonderful invigorator of the genital
organs, and removes all mental and physi
cal exhaustion. The best known remedy for
sterility importency Antidote and substi
tute for the
MORPHINE AND OPIUM HABIT.
Tin* greatest blessing to all afflicted with
Nervous complaints, such as Sick Headache,
Neuralgia, Wakefulness, Loss of Memory,
Nervous Tremor. Loss of Appetite. Melan
choly, Blues, Etc, Etc.
FRENCH WINE COCA!
will vitalize.your blood and build you up
at once. Lawyers, Minister, Teachers, Or
ators. Vocalists, and all who use the voice,
will find in the Wine Coca, taken half an
hour previous to appearing before their
audiences, the most remarkable results.
One trial of.
WINE COCA
will establish its wonderful good effects,
call on your duruggi.-ts, or Dr. J. S. Pem
berton & Cos., and get on the wonderful
proertie-s -of tin Coca Plant, or Siu-rn
V,, .V- . >W--A rrs-Sr.. - *—■t
sale In Druggists. Wholesale bv
.1. s: PEMBERTON A CO..
Manufacturing Chemist and Drug and Oil
Brokers, 59 Broads* Atlanta, Ga.
/
For sale-by Alexaim . & Son and Ellison
& Smith, Forsyth, Ga. apr3
SHERIFFS SALE FOR MAY.
Will bo sold before the Courthouse'
door, on the first Tuesday in May
next, between the legal hours of sale,
the following property to-wit:
One hundred acres of land more
or less, known us part of the. li. 11.
Watson plantation and, which is
bounded on the north by Peter
McMiekle, east by land of Thomas
Dewberry, south by lands of Peter
McMiekle, and west by lands of R.
H. Watson Jr., trustee; and also two
hundred acres of land more or less,
known as the home-place of M. M.
Watson, and on which he now re
sides, lying west of the one hundred
acres of land above described. Lev
ied on as the property of R. 11. Wat
son Jr., trustee for M. M. Watson, to
satisfy a ri fa, issued from Monroe
Superior Dourt, in favor of LI. M.
Comer & Do., vs R. H. Watson Jr.,
trustee Ac; property pointed out in
said ll fa, and tenant m possession
notified.
Also, at the same time and place, will
be sold one house and lot in the town of
Forsyth, containing thirty by fifty feet of
land, more or dess, bounded north by
Owen Myriek, east bv a street running
from sand bottom to Pro-tor’s Hotel,
south by L. F. Greer and At. <4. Turner’s
property, west by Lewis Banks & Bro.
Levied on as the property of Henderson
Dumas to satisfy a tax ti- fa. for his tax
for ISS4. Lew made by G. W- Green,
L. C.
Also, at the same time and place, will
be sob! one house ami lot in the town of
Forsyth, containing one-half of an acre,
nv re or less, bounded north bv A. J'.
llammoml, east by a street, soiuh by
. b i F Goo drum, west by T. B. Cnhaniss.
Le vied on as the property of Jennie Ogle-,
tree to satisfy a tax ri. fa. for her tax for
ISS4. Levy made and returned to me by
<4. \V. Green, L. 0.
Also, at die same time and place, will
be sold twenty-five acres of land, more or
less, bounded on the north by a branch,
on ti e east by a public road leading from
the homestead of the defendant to Stew
ard's line, and on the south and west
by the lands of the Steward’s estate
rt; of D.E. M
to satisfy several tax ti. fas. in my hand
ler stale and county tax vs. 1). E. Willis,
transferred to J. <4. Ilittick. Levy made
and returned to me by (4. W. Green, L. (’
Also, at the same time and place, one
hundred acres of land lying in the sev-
enth district of Monroe county, bounded
north by Henry Cain, west and south by ,
Andrew iugr.un. east by R. Alanrv. Lev
ied on a> the property ui Giibv rt Jackson,
t" satisfy a tax ti. fa. for his tax for l-" 4.
Levy made nd returned to me by G. F.
Thompson, L. ('.
Also, at the same time and place, eight
acres of land, more of less, lying ; .
Thitd Distret of Monroe county, lamd
s of Mrs. ]
-outh by Starkey Hand, and others, west
by B. J. Non is. Levied on as the pru
jierty of John S. Knott. Agent, to satisfy
a tax ii. fa. for his tax for 1 ' v -4. Levy
made by G. F. Thompson. L. ('.
C. A. KING. Sheriff.
April 2, 18S5.
Gf.OBGI A—Moskoe Corntv— Where
as K. B. Ta lor. Adi *tr fB. H.
S\\ inn. > applied to for letters <>f
l)i-nfis-io- from - .id adini-ti-t— itio:, this i
to notify all person.- iiitere-t*sl to -how
cau-e. if anv. by the fir-t M >: Lay in Juno
m-vt. way -ai . letter- should not be granted.
Given under my band and official signa
ture'. Mitreh 4tit. I^Bs.
JOHN T. MH4INTY.
-be '.
lII’.OOKLYXJTKAOIEL
HOME AGAIN FROM THE WEST.
A Touching and Beautiful Sermon
Common Mother—The Tendernes;,
Love, and Forbearance of the
Creator of ths Creature.
if*
After an absence of two weeks,
(lilting which time he-spoke in sinne
thirteen cities of the west, l>r. TsJl
mage retunied to his pulpit in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle. -Before tle
sermon he expounded some sonsoilt
tory ]iassjtges ot scripture. T%e
opening by in n was:
i “Cmne. ve disconsolate, where’er von
guish, i
I Come to the mercy scat: fervently kneed
The subject ot the sermon wo-.
The mother of us all, aud the
was from I-aiait xvi., 3J: “As or*
whom liis mother eomfbrteth, hijk
I comfort you.” l>r. Talmage sSH
“The hible is a warm letter of r"y
feetion from a parent to a child, and
yet there are many who see chiefly
the severer passages. As there may,
be fifty or sixty nigiits of gentle do*
in one summer that will not eausy
as much remark as one hail storm ot
half tin hour, so there are those wtgjji
are more struck by those passages of
the hible .that announce the indig<
nation of trod than by those thatan->
nounce Ilis affection. 'There may
come to a household twenty or fifty!
letters of affection during the year)
and they will not make as much ex!
citement in that hottse its one sherf
iff s writ, and so there are peoplts
who are more attentive to those pas-l
sages which announce the wrath of
God than to those which announce
Ilis mercy and Ilis favor. God is a
lion, John says in the book of Reve
lation. God is a breaker. Mieah an
nounces in his prophecy. God is a|
rock, God is a king—but bear also
that God is Love. A father and his
child are walking out in the fields
on a summer s day,-and there comes
up a thunder storm, and there is a
flash of lightning that startles the
child,and the father says: “My dear,
that is God's eye.” There comes a
peal of thunder, and the father says :
••My dear, that is God’s voige.” But
the clouds go off the sky and the
storm is gone, and light floods the
heavens and floods the landscape,
and the father forgets to say : “That
is God's smile.” The text bends
with great gentleness and love over
all who are prostrate in sin and in
trouble. It lifts up with compassio- ,
It melts with tenderness. It breathes
upon us the hush of an eternal lulla
by. for it announces that God is our
mother. “As one whom his mother
comforteth, so will I eomfort you.”
I retnjirk in tI.J fW nhiA„
A mother's SIMPLICITY
of instruction. A father does not
know limv to tcacli a child the A, B,
C. Men are not skillful in the pri
mary department, but a mother has
so much patience that she will tell a
child for the hundreth time the dif
ference between F and G and 1 and
.1. Sometimes it is by blocks; some
times by the worsted-work ; some
times by tl slate ; sometimes by the
book. She thus teaches the child
jpul has no awkwardness of conde
scension in so doing. So God, our
mother, stoops down to our infantile
minds. Though we .are told a thing
a thousand times and we do not un
derstand it, our heavenly mother
goes on, line upon line, precept upon
precept, here a little and there a lit
tle. God has been teaching some of
us thirty years and some of us sixty
years one word of one syllable, and
we do not know it yet —f-a-i-t-h,
faith. When vve come to that word
we stumble, we halt, wo lose our
places, we pronounce it wrong. Still
(Tod s patience is not exhausted.
God, our mother, puts us in the
school of prosperity, and the letters
are in sunshine and we cannot spell
them. God puts us in the school of
adversity, and the letters arc black
and we cannot spell them. If God
were merely a King, he would pun
ish us: if he were simply a father,
he would whip us; but God is a
i mother, and so we are borne with
and helped all the way through.
A mother teaches her child chiefly
by pictures. It she wants to set
forth to her child the hideousness of
a quarrelsome spirit, instead of
giving a .ecture upon that subject.
she turns over a leaf and shows the
child two boys in a wrangle and
says: -Does not that look horrible?"
It she wants to teach her child ting,
awfulness of war, she turns over the
picture-book and si rows the war
charger, the headless trunks of
butchered men, the wild, agonizing,
bloodshot eye ot battle rolling under
lids of flame, and she says: -That is
war!" The child understands it-
In a great many books the best part
are the pictures, i’he style may be
insipid, the type poor, but a picture
always attracts a child's attention.
Now God. our mother, teaches us al
most everything by pictures. Is t!;e
divine goodness to be set forth?
llow docs God, our mother reach us?
Bv an autumnal picture. The barns
are full. The wheat stacks are
rounded. The cattle are chewing
: the cud lazily in the sun. The or
: c’nards are dropping the ripe pippins
into the lap of the farmer. The nat
ural world, that has been busy all
summer, seems now to be resting in
great abundance. We look at the
picture aud say : -Thou crow neat the
vear with Thy goodness, and Thy,
paths drop tktness.” Our family
comes ar "i!n! t’.e breakfast, table.:
It ii:u> beeiva .very eoki night, bull
the children are an bright, because*
they slept under thick coverlids, and
they are now in the warm blast of
tiie open register, and their apa
tites make luxuries out of the.plain
est fare, and we look at the picture
and say: "Bless the Lord, U, ‘my
soul!’’
God wishes to set forth the fact
that in the Judgment the good will
be divided from the wicked. How
is it done? By a picture, by a para-
ble —a fishing scene. A group of
hardy men long bearded, geared
tor standing to the waist in water;
sleeves rolled up. Long oar sun
gilt; boat battered as though it had
been a playmate of the storm. A
full net, thumping about with the
fish, which have just discovered their
captivity, the worthless moss-bun
kers. and the useful flounders all in
the same net. The fisherman puts
his hand down amid the squirming
fins, takes out the moss-bunkers and
throws them into the water, and
gathers the good fish into the pail.
So, says Christ, it shall be at the end
of the world. The bad He will cast
away and the good He will keep.
Another picture.
OOP, OCR MOTHER,
wanted to set forth the duty of
neighborly love, and it is done by a
■ icture. A heap of wounds on the
road to Jericho: a traveler has been
fighting a robber; the robber shtb
bed him and knocked him down ;
two ministers came along; they look
at the poor fellow, but do not help
him. A traveler comes along—a
Samaritan. He says “Whoa!” to
the beast he is riding, and dismounts.
He examines the wounds: be takes
out some wine and with it washes
the wounds, and then he takes some
| oil and puts that in to make the
| wounds stop smarting, and then he
j tears off a piece of his own garment
l for a bandage. Then ho helps the
I wounded man upon the beast and
j walks by the side, holding him on
until they come to a tavern. He
xsays to the lanlord: “Here is money
to pay the man’s board for two da vs;
take care ot him; if it costs any
thing more charge it. to me, and I
will pay it.” Picture: The Good
Samaritan; or, Who’s Your Neigh
bor?
f Hoes God. our mother, want to set
'forth what it foolish thing it is to go
y.tway from the right, and how glad
jdivine mercy is to take back the
[wanderer? How is it done? By a
[picture. A good father. Large
jfarm with fat sheep and oxen. Fine
Ihouse with exquisite wardrobe. Dis
contented boy. Goes away. Shar
pers fleece him. Feeds hogs. Gets
LjMimesick. Starts back. Sees an
pld man running. It is father? The
iKind, torn of the husks, gets a ring.
The foot, inflamed and bleeding, gets
i sandal. The bare shoulder, show
ing through the tatters, gate a robe,
'i'lte stomach, gnawing itself with'
hunger, gets a full platter smoking
villi meat. The father can not eat
Hr looking at the returned adven
; ’ ror. Tears running down the face
j'.td,they come to a smile—the night
with the morning. No
Doyre pouts and coined back,
promising to do better, (-rod knows
licit is enough for one day. ‘-And
thct began to be merry.” Picture
Prodigal Son returned from the
wilderness. • '
So God, our mother, toadies ns ev
erything by pictures. The sinner is
a lost sheep. Jesus is the bride
groom. The useless man is a barren
tig tree. The gospel is a great sup :
per.
SATAN, A SOWER OF TARES.
Truth, a mustard seed. That
which we could not have understood
in the abstract statement, God, our
mother, presents to us in this Bible
album of pictures, God-engraved. Is
not, the divine maternity ever thus
baching us?
I remark again that God has a
mother's favoritism. A father some
time shows a sort ot favoritism,
fa re is a boy—strong, well, of high
f-rehead and quick intellect. The
father says, “1 will take that boy in
to my firm yet,’’ or “1 will give him
the best possible education.” There
are instances where tor the cultiva
tion ot one boy, all the others have
been robbed. A sad favoritism ; but
that is not the mother’s favorite. I
will tell you her favorite. There is
a child who at two years of age had
a fall He has never got over it.
The- scarlet fever muffled his hear
ing. lie is not what he once was.
That child has caused his mother
more anxious nights than all the
other children. The last thing she
does when going out of the house is
to give a charge in regard to him.
The first thing on coming in is to
ask in regard to him. Why, the
children of the family all know that
lie is the favorite, and say: ‘-.Mother,
you let him do just as he pleases, and
y K ". give him a great many things
vAieb you do not give us. Hess
your favorite.” The mother smiles.
She knows it is so. So he ought to
be; for it there is any one in the
world who needs sympathy more
than another, it is an invalid child,
weary on the first mile of life’s jour
ney ; carrying an aching head, a
weak side, an irritated lung. So the
mother ought to make him a favor
ite God, our mother, has favorites.
••U horn tlie Lord loveth, he chaMcn
etl* : that is. one whom he especially
mves he chasteneth. God loves us
a! ; but i-there one weak and sick and
s<>re and wounded and sutfersing and
taint, that is the one who lies near
est and more perpetually on the
greit. loving heart of God. Why, it
never coughs hut our Mother, God,
hears it: it never stirs a weary limb
in the bed but our Mother, God.
kimvs it. There is no such a watch
eras God. The best nurse may be
overborne by fatigue and fall asleep
( iifthe chair, but God. our Mother,
after being up a year of nights with
a coffering child, never slumbers nor
MCtp.V
, 'Oh.” says one, “1 cannot under
-1 staid all that about affliction.” A
re die r of silver once explained it to
a Christian lady : “I put the silver in
the tire, and keep refining it and
trying it until I can see my face m
it, tud I then take it out.” Just so
it if that God keeps his children in
the furnace till the Divine image
majf be seen in them; then they are
taftn out ot the fire. “Well,” says
soie one. "if that is the way that
God treats It is favorites. I do not
| want to be a favorite.” There is a
I barren field on an autumn day just
wanting to be let alone. There is a
bang at the bars and a rattle of
wluffletrees and devices. The field
says : “What is the farmer going to
do with me now ?” The farmer puts
the plow iu the ground, shouts to
the horses, the coulter goes tearing
through the sod and the furrow
reaches from fence to fence. Next
day there is a bang at tire bars and
a rattle of whilflctrees again. Thefield
says: “I wonder what the farmer
is going to do next? The farmer
hitches the horses to the harrow
and it goes bounding and tearing
across the field. Next dav there is a
rattle at the bars again, and the field
says: “\N hat is the farmer going to
do next:” He walks heavily across
the field, scattering seed as he walks.
After a while a cloud comes, The
field says: “What, more trouble!”
It begins to rain. Alter a while the
wind changes to the northeast and it
begins to snow. Says the field: “Is
it not enough that I have been torn
and trampled upon and drowned?
M ust 1 now be snowed under?”
After a while spring comes.
OUT OF THE GATES OF THE SOUTH.
Warmth and gladness como with it.
A green scarf bandages the gash of
the wheat-field, and the July morn
ing drops a crown of gold on the
head of the grain. “Oh,” savs the
field, “now 1 know the use of the
plow, of the harrow, of the heavy
f'oot, of the shower and of the snow
storm. It is well enough to be trod
den and trampled and drowned and
snowed under, if in the end I can
yield such a glorious harvest.” “He
that goeth forth and weepeth, bear
ing precious seed, shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing
his sheaves with him.”
When 1 sec God especially busy
in troubling and trying a Christian I
know that out of that Christian s
character there is to come some es
pecial good. A quarry-man goes
down into the excavation and with
strong-handed machinery bores into
the rock. The rock says. “What
do you <lo that- for?” lie puts pow
der in; he lights a fuse. There is a
thundering crash. The rock says;
“Why, the whole mountain is going
to pieces.” The crowbar is plunged ;
the rock is dragged out. After
awhile it is thrown into the artist’s
studio. It says: “Well, now I have
got to a good, warm, comfortable
place at last.” But the sculptor
takes the chisel and mallet, and he
digs for the eyes and he cuts for the
mouth and he boros for
i>. .•■• !,-&* 1 -fvor the
rock says : “When will this torture
be ended?” A sheet is thrown over
it. It stands in darkness. After
awhile it is taken out. The covering
is removed. It stands in the sun
light in the presence often thousand
applauding people as they greet the
statue ot the poet or the prince or
the conqeror. “All!” . says the stone,
“now i understand it. lam a grout
deal better off now standing as a
statue of a conqueror than 1 would
have been down in the quarry.” So
God finds a man down in the quarry
of ignorance and sin. flow to get
him up? lie must he brd and
blasted and chiseled and scoured,
and stand sometimes in the darkness.
But after awhile the mantle of afflic
tion will fall off and his soul will be
greeted by the one hundred and for
ty -toni* thousand and the thousands
ot thousands as more than .conquer
or. Oh, my friends, God, our moth
er, is just as kind in our afflictions
as in our prosperities. Grid never
touches us but for. our good, if a
field clean and cultured is better off
than a barren field, if a stone that
lias become a statue is better off than
the marble in tlie qnarrv, then that
soul that God chastens may be his
favorite. Oh, the rocking of the soul
is not the rocking of an earthquake,
but the rocking of God’s cradle.
• As one whom bis mother comtorteth
so he will comfort you.” I have
been told that the pearl in an oyster
is merely the result of a wound or a
sickness mfflieted upon it, and I do
not know but that the brightest
gems of I£ea%*en will be found to
have Deen the wounds of earth kin
dled into the jeweled brightness of
eternal glory.
I remark that God has a mother's
| capacity for attending to little hurts,
j The father is shocked at the broken
bone of the child, or at the sickness
i that seis the cradle on fire with fever,
but it takes the mother to sympa
thize with all the little ailments and
little bruises of the child, if the
child have a splinter in the hand, it
| wants tlie mother to take it out and
■ not the father. Tlie father says,
! "Oh, that is nothing, hut the mother
! knows it is something and that a
I little hurt sometimes is a very great
hurt. So with God, our mother; all
our annoyances are important
enough to look at and sympathize
1 with. Nothing with Gad in some
! thing. There are no ciphers in
j God’s arithmetic. And if we were
j only good enough of sight we could
see as much through a microscope as
! through a telescope. Those things
J that may be impalpable and iufi
| nitesimal to us, may be pronounced
i and infinite to God. A mathemati
j cal point is defined as having nb
parts, no magnitude. It is so small
you cannot imagine it and yei a
mathematical point may be a start
ing-point for a grout eternity. God’s
surveyors carry a very long chain,
j A scale may be very delicate that
can weigh a grain, but(L-d-’s scale is
so delicate that he can weigh with it
1 that which is so small that a grain
lis a million times heavier. When
John Kitto,a poor boy on aback
street of Plymouth, cut his foot with
a piece of glass, God bound it up so
successfully that he became the
j great Christian geographer, and a
! commentator known among all na
tions. So every wound of the soul,
however insignificant. God is willing
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NUMBER 12.
■to hind up! As at the first erv of
the child, the mother rushes to kiss
the wound ; so God, our mother,
takes the smallest wound of the
heart and presses it to the lips of
divine sympathy. “As one whom
his mother comtbrtOtb, so will 1 oom
sort you.”
I remark farther, that God has a
mother’s.
PATIENCE FOR THE ERRINO.
If one docs wrong, first his associ
ates in life cast him otf; if he goes on
in the wrong way, his business part
ner eastshim off; ifhegoeson. his best
friends east him off-—iiis father easts
him off. But after ail others have
east him off, where does he go?
Who holds no grudge and forgives
the last time as well as the first?
Who sits by the murderer s counsel
all through the long trial? Who
tarries the longest at the windows ot
a culprit’s cell ? Who, when all oth
ers think ill of a man, keeps on
thinking well of him? It is his
mother. God bless her gray hairs,
if she be still alive; and bless her
grave, if she be gone? And bless
the rocking-chair in which she used
to sit, and bless the cradle that she
used to rock, and bless the Bible she
used to read. So God, our mother,
has patience for all the erring. After
everybody else has cast a man off.
God, our mother, comes to the res
cue. God leaps to take charge of a
bad case. After all the other doctors
have got through, the heavenly phy
sician comes in. Human sympathv
at such a time does not amount to
much. Even the sympathy of the
church, 1 am sorry to say, often
does not amount to much. I have
seen the most harsh and bitter
incut on tlje part of those who pro
fessed fakir in Gh4*t toward those
who were wavering and erring.
They tried on the wanderer sarcasm
and billingsgate and caricature, and
they tried tittle-tattle. There was
one thing they did not try, and that
was forgiveness. A soldier in Eng
land was brought by a sergeant to
the colonel. “What,” says the col
onel, “bringing the man here again !
We have tried everything with him. ’
“Oh, no,” saVs the sergeant, “there
is one thing you have not tried. 1
would like you to try that.” “What
is that?’ said the colonel. Said the
man, “Forgiveness.” The case had
not gone so far but that it might
take that turn, and so the colonel
said: “Well, yotiog man, you have
done so and so. What is your ex
cuse? “1 have no excuse, but lam
very sorry,” said the man. “We
have made up our minds to forgive
sn.y.^.qy.’sg
I. accost
eu tn that life was
reformed, and that was the starting
point for a positively Christian life.
O, church of God, quit your sarcasm
when a man falls! Quit your irony,
quit your tittle-tattle and try forgive
ness. God, your mother, tries it all
the time. A man’s sin may be like
a continent, but God's forgiveness is
like the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
bounding it on both sides.
The Bible often talks about God’s
hand. 1 wonder how it looks. You
remember distinctly how your moth
er's band looked though thirty years
ago it withered away. It was dif
ferent from your father’s hand.
When you had to be be chastised
you bad rather have mother punish
you than father. It did not hurt so
much, and father’s hand was differ
ent from mother’s, partly because it
had outdoor toil* and partly because
God intended it to be different.
Tne knuckles were more firmly set
and the palm was calloused. But
mother’s hand was more delicate.
There were blue veins running
through the back of it; though tlie
fingers some of them, were pricked
with a needle, the palm of it was
very soft. Was there ever a poul
tice like that to take pain out of a
wound ? So God’s band is a mother’s
hand. What it touches it heals. It
it smite you it does not hurt as if it
were another hand. Oh, you poor,
wandering soul in sin, it is not a
bailiffs hand that seizes you to-day.
It is not a hard hand. It is not an
unsympathetic hand. It is not a
cold hand. It is not an enemy’s
hand. .No, it is a gentle hand, a
loving hand, a sympathetic hand, a
soft hand, a mother’s hand. “As
one whom his mother comforteth so
will I comfort you.”
I want to say, finally, that God
has a mothers way of putting a
child to sleep. You know there is
no cradle song like a mother’s.
After tlie excitement of the evening
it is almost impossible to get the
child to sleep. It the rocking chaw
stop a moment the eyes are wide
open, but the mother’s patience and
the mother’s soothing mariner keep
on until, after a while, the angel of
slumber puts his wing over the pil
low. Well, my dear brothers and
sisters in Christ, the time will come
when we will be wanting to lie put
to sleep. The da}* of our life will be
done and the shadows of the night
of death will be gathering around
us. Then we want God to soothe
us, to hush us to sleep. Let the
music at our going not be the dirge
of the organ or the knell of the
cliurchtower or the drumming of a
“dead march,” but let it be the hush
of a mother’s lullaby. Oh, the cradle
of the grave will be soft with the pil
low of all the promises. When we
are being rocked into that last slum
ber I want this to be the cradle-song:
"As one whom a mother comforteth,
so will I comfort j*ou.
"Asleep in Jesus! Far from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
But thine is still a bleed sleep,
Frem which none ever wake to weep.’’
A Scotchman was dying. His
daughter Nellie sat by his bedside.
It was Sunday evoning. and tho bell
of the church was ringing, calling
the people to church. The good old
man, in his dying dream, thought
that he was on the way to church
as he used to be when he went in the
sleigh across the river : and as the
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evening bell struck up, in his dying
| dream lie thought it was the call to
church. He said ; “Hark, children,
the .bells are ringing: wo shall ho
late ; we must make the marc step
out quickly." He shivered, and then
said; “Pull the buffalo robe up
closer, my lass, it is cold crossing
the river: but we will soon be there,
Nellie; we will soon be there.” And
lie smiled and said, “Just then' now.”
No wonder he smiled. The old man
had got to church. Not the obi
country church, but the temple in the
skies. Just across the river, flow
comfortably did God hush that old
man to sleep! As one whom his
mother eomlortelh, so tied comfor
ted him.
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WHY COUNTRY LADS SUCCEED.
One great source of culture in the
Country are the evenings, and it is
not impossible that much of the suc
cess in life that has attended boys,
country born and bred, with limited
early opportunities, is largely due to
the fact that evenings were devoted
to intellectual culture. The isola
tion of a country home leads to this
far more than the homes in a citv,
where entertainments and amuse
ments of all kinds from the dime
museum to the opera, or from the
skating rink to a Lowell institute
lecture, attract the family to outside
festivities. In fact the quiet even
ing at home is almost unknown in
city life. Through all grades of so
ciety—through the circles of culture,
fashion, middle class or lower life—
runs this tendency to such evening
entertainment outside the home.
In tact, to an increasing number
of people, there is no home life, in
tho former acceptation of the term.
Hotel boat ding, apartment houses,
the living in flats and other “modem
conveniences,” have altogether su
perseded the houses of the past, and
social life undergoes a corresponding
change. It it is gaj r or, brighter and
fuller of pleasure, it lacks somewhat
of the seriousness of endeavor which
contributed to form an atmosphere
where aspiration if not inspiration,
held its sway and influenced growing
life. The men who have impressed
their power upon the age are not, as
a rule, those whose evening in boy
hood were devoted to the outside at
tractions ot city streets.
The above taken from tlio Amcri
cus Recorder, contains truths, which
we would bo glad, eould be iudoiihly
impressed on the minds of our bojs.
This anxiety Is begotten within us,
|Jffuny boy - j eir evenings
away ffom hom$ n fiPsnli]tleHH amuse
ments, the influence of many of
which is to a greater or less extent,
demoralizing. The boy's suscepti
bility to levity and his blindness to
the importance of storing his boy
hood mind with that imformation,
which will bo of great utility and
benefit to him in mature years, ac
counts to some extent, for this ten
dency.
Wo know that it is impossible, to
make a boy, while a boy, a man, be
cause the boys of the present day la
bor, (in the wrong direction) with all
the vim and energy of their souls to
be men, and they, generally, make a
most signal failure. But observation
and experience both teach us, that a
boy, aided by the a lvice, always ac
cessible to him, can so conduct, him
self, so shape his boy-hood course,
and so appropriate a proper propor
tion of his time, as to grow into a
true man, strong in usefulness, and
great in influence for good. The
evenings spent by the boys, in self
culture, around the family fireside,
under home restraint and proper
home influence, will aid largely in
accomplising this result. So in the
kindlest spirit and with sincerest
wish for their welfare, we advise all
boys,to spend their evening profita
bly at home, assuring them, that
spending the same in frequenting
public entertainments, and unprofi
table, not to say immoral, public
amusements is not only leading them
gradually into broader field of dissi
pation, but is wasting the bright
period of 1 ife.
Cayenne Pepper.
We have often heard pepper re
commended for some ills to which
flesh is heir, because of its medicinal
and health giving properties. It is
used more or less by a great man}*
people as a condiment.
Writing upon this subject W.
Matticn Williams in Popular Science
Monthly says: “Great relief and
temporary comfort are commonly
obtained by using it as a “dinner
pill.” If thus used only as a tempo
rary remedy for an acute and tem
porary or exceptional attack of indi
gestion, all is well, but the cayenne,
whether taken in pills or dusted over
tlie food, is one of tlie most cruel of
slow poisons, w hen taken habitually.
Thousands of poor wretches are
crawling miserably toward their
graves, the victims of tho multitude
of maladies of both mind and body
that are connected with chronic, in
curable dyspepsia, all brought about
by the habitual use of cayenne and
its condimental cousins.”
When* there is occasion for the
emplovraent of giant powder on the
farm, it is the part of wisdom to call
upon an experienced man to do tho
handling.