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The I Oth Georgia At Knoxville
BY D. I. WALDEN.
>ft* th* battle of Chickamauga the
Tenth Georgia regiment occupied the
trenches in front of Chattanooga for a
few weeks, exposed alternately to cold
rains from the clouds and hot shelling
from the Yankee batteries, which ren
; dered our stay very uncomfortable, and
* some of us. who had loot our blankets on
the way from Virginia, suffered severely
for want of bedding. From there we took
, passage on freight cars to East Tennessee
•nd after short stope at Loudon, Sweet
water and some other places we finally
confronted Bumsides' army at Knoxville.
Wo remained there two or three weeks
and had some exciting encounters with
the Yankees
A DOUBLE REPULSION.
We had one Mttle tilt with them in
which both parties of combatants were
routed and all fled frantically from each
other in opposite directions. One after
noon a detachment from our regiment
crossed the river below town on a ferry -
’ boat to reconnoitre on the hills opposite
’ the town. The expedition was command
ed by Captain A. J. Mcßride, of our com
pany. who was afterward promoted to
colonel. Our company, in command of
Lieutenant Fuller, started up a very tail,
steep hill or mountain that overlooked the
town. and. on account of the unevenness
of the ground and the density of the
. woods through which we had to pass, we
marched up tn single file. L e.. we were
strung out in a single line one behind
another and all following in the trail of
the file leader, who was in front. When
we got within about 3» yards of the tap
we were saluted by some unseen parties
on the hill above us with a volley of
mlnie balls that whistled so fearfully
close to our ears as they passed down the
hill parallel with the line of our heads
as to leave no doubt of the sincerity of
the Implied threat. We all darted instant
ly behind the most convenient trees,
without waiting for orders to do so. and
the movement was made with such sud
denness and haste that several hats were
left behind. , •
For some reason our commander didn t
aee fit to accept the challenge by return
ing the fire. but. after a few minutes' de
liberation. ordered us to retreat and we
• obeyed promptly and. vigorously, dashing
down the hill in the wildest confusion,
some of us stumbling and falling head
long down the steep descent as we went.
Next day the entire party, tn command
of Captain Mcßride, ascended that hill
again and on this occasion, our advance
was not opposed. We learned from some
of the inhabitants that during our flight,
on the preceding day. the Yankees were
fleeing similarly in the other direction.
A MIDNIGT ATTACK.
On the night before the battle of Knox
ville the Tenth Georgia regiment was se
lected to make the preliminary advance,
to drive tn the pickets, during the night.
It was considerably after our usual bed
time when we formed in line preparatory
to starting. We were kept standing for
a considerable time, while the details of
the movement were being perfected, and
during the long, weary moments, some
of us were haunted by the most dreadful
forebodings I had hitherto made some
slight pretensions to bravery but on this
occasion my courage failed me entirely.
The air was cold, and the chilliness
brought upon us great nervous depres
sion The night was dark and the dark
ness seemed to very greatly increase the
frightfulness of the terrible outlook. I
had always been Inclined to a supersti
tious fear of venturing into strange places
in the dark. We had never beep over the
ground over which we were to pass, and
as it had been held by the enemy. our way
was probably beset with pitfalls and in
fernal machines that threatened our de
straction. And It seemed that we would
be at a disadvantage on account of the
fact the Yankees could hear our approach
while we. by reason of the darkness,
would be ignorant of their whereabouts
and they could strike us down before we
could prepare to offer any resistance.
When we got ready to move we de
. ployed as skirmishers, at Intervals of
about five gteps apart, and marched slow
ly and continuously to the front. We bad
been cautioned to proceed as noislessly
.as possible, but the coughing, sneezing,
•tumbling and the breaking of saiall
wooden sticks under our feet made a con
siderable racket in spite of our efforts to
•void being overheard. 'When we got
'-within about forty yards of the pickets
they discovered us, fired and fled, but
most of their shots were aimed entirely
too high to be dangerous to us. as was
shown by the direction of the flashes from
their guns and so our casualties were
few In number and slight in degree. After
waking some of their men. whom they
had left asleep and sending them back
as prisoners, we advanced one or two
hundred yards, transformed ourselves
. from skirmishers into X picket line and
■pent the remainder of the night shiver-
Ing on the frozen ground and suffering
agonies beyond the power of language
to express.
We had carried but little of anything
to wrap ourselves tn. the bullets from the
.enemy's lines whistled over us too thick
ly to adimlt of our standing on our feet,
fluid to have kindled a fire would have
drawn the concentrated firing of the whole
line so we had no other alternative but
to wait and suffer. Soon after daybreak
our line of battle started forward to
storm the fort and after a desperate on
slaught upon it. the gallant little army.
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which was commanded by General Long
street, was driven back, leaving many of
their number *mon| ths killed and wound
ed.
The Yankees had their position so well
fortified and the apprtiaches to it so com
pletely blockaded with obstructions,
that our little band of assailants found it
absolutely impregnable. After the battle
some Yankee officers appeared in our
front with a flag of truce. They were met
by Captain Mcßride and one or two oth
er officers to whom they presented a re
quest from General Burnsides to be al
lowed to care for somo wounded men who
had fallen between the lines. The request
was granted and the wants of the wound
ed were attended to. We returned to camp
and busied ourselves during the remainder
of the day than attempt to thaw out from
our bodies some of the chilliness that fro
zen beds had inflicted. On the following
morning we left Knoxville and went still
further up the valley in the direction of
the Virginia line. We were subjected to
another severe chilling that morning.
When we got to the Clinch river we were
required to plunge in and wade across
where the water for a considerable dis
tance was up to our waists and the weath
er was still freezing cold. It looked to. us
like the authorities were determined we
should keep cool in one sense at least. V e
had skirmishing, almost constantly, with
Yankee cavalry on the way, but it was
generally at long range and little damage
was done. We finally stopped at Russell
ville and went into temporary winter
quarters. Some’of our experiences at that
place will probably be the subject of an
other chapter.
It Is best to prevent attacks of disease,
particularly winter epidemics, by keeping
the blood find the system In a healthy
condition. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is just the
medicine required. *•*
COL. CUMMINGS’ REPRIMAND
PERVERTED INTO A JOKE
Editor of The Journal: I don't suppose
there is any old soldier who enjoys read
ing the "Close Calls” written by the old
veterans more than I do. I have been
asked often why I did not write up some
of my close calls. I usually answered by
saying I had so many that I couldn i de
cide which one was of the greateat dignity
and should rank first. I have decided,
however, to give one which happened be
fore we were ever called Into an engage
ment with the enemy.
I was a member of Company I, in that
famous Tenth Georgia regiment. Lieu
tenant Colonel Alfred Cumming was our
drill officer awd a fine one. too. We were
in summer quarters, in 1861 at Williams
burg, Va., where we did a lot of drilling.
On one occasion Colonel Cumming was
drilling us in battalion drill and my posi
tion (that of second sergeant), placed me
as left guide of my company. The com
mand was "Column to the front, forward,
march, full distance." This "full dis
tance" meant that the left guide should
see that he kept far enough in rear of the
guide in his front that the company could,
if ordered, left Into line, wheel and find
apace enough for his company.
I suppose I was not hotlcing as atten
tively as I should have been, and got up
within about 80 feet of the guide of the
company in front. Colonel Cumming saw
this, gave the command to halt, dis
mounted. came up to where I was. and
proceeded to give me a severe, but justly
merited reprimand. He then called to
Captain Wootten and said: "Captain,
can’t you put here as left guide a better
man than Sergeant Tidwell?" Captain
Wootten. in trying to remedy the matter
callqd Corporal Schell and he supplied my
place during the remainder of the drill.
When the time was up and we were
dismissed for the evening, the boys began
guying me and perverted Colonel Cum
mings’ command, saying he asked Cap
tain Wooten "if he could not put a better
looking man in my place.”
Now. I always did flatter myaelf that I
was a good looking boy, and the boys saw
that the perversion stung me severely.
They even wrote home to my sweetheart
telling her In their own way what Colonel
Cumming had said about my not being
as good looking as Bill Schell.
I don't write with the intention or desire
of distracting anything from Corporal
Schell's good looks, or otherwise, for he
was fine looking and one of my best
friends, even up to his death, which oc
curred about 18 months ago; but the thing
tuat hurt me was the boys writing to
Lixxie, that Colonel Cuffiming wanted to
know if there was not a better looking
man for left guide than I was.
Now, you may talk about your close
calls, but this one hurt me worse than
any one I had during the war. for I was
fortunate enough not to get much more
than a scratch curing the four years'
struggle.
But this thing stuck to me clear through
the war and up to the day I was captured,
which was on the 6th of April, before Lee
surrendered on the 9th.
Eight thousand of us were captured at
the same time and went into prison on
the morning of April 15. after the assas
sination of Lincoln on the night of the
14th.
Now if any of you boys had any closer
calls than the one I have related or got
any worse hurt or whipped than I did, I
would like to hear from you.
So. if any of you old rebs want to com
municate with me just write a letter, put
it in an envelope and address.
W. R- TIDWELL,
McDonough, Ga.
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After the Earthquake.
McClure's Magazine.
How powerfully the Imagination may be
stimulated by a story told in dots and dashes
to illustrated by an episode of the Charleston
earthquake. At the moment of the final
shock, every wire connecting Charleston with
the outside world was Instantly "lost.” And
as no other tidings could be had from the
doomed city, it was as If in an Instant it had
been swept from the face of the earth. And
for many hours Charleston remained literally
dead to the world.
The next morning, before the average cltlaen
had time to collect his wits, the telegraph
people had started out gangs of linemen to
get the wires in working order. Operators in
the principal offices within a radius of several
hundred miles were set to calling “C. N.”
For a long time there was no response; but at
tost, on the wire which I had in charge, a
slight answering signal was felt rather than
beard—faint and flickering, like the first sign
of returning life. From that moment my
watch was. if possible,* more diligent. For an
hour or more I called. "adjusted.” and used
every effort to revive the feeble pulse. 1
could fancy myself working desperately to re
suscitate a half-drowned man. Again I felt
the nickering signal, and then once more all
signs of life faded away. Finally, as the wires
were gradually cleared of debris, the current
began to strengthen, and then came the an
swering "I—i! C N"—weak and unsteady, but
Still sufflctently plain to be made out. To me
It sounded like a voice from the tomb, and I
shouted aloud the tidings that Charleston was
still tn existence. Quickly the sounder was
surrounded by a throng of excited telegraph
ers. The Morse was broken and unsteady at
first. Then the current grew stronger—the
patient was growing better--and for a long
time we listened to the labored clicking, until
at last the worst was known. And at the end
of the recital a great sigh went out from the
hearts of all of us. as If literally In our pres
ence a long buried city had been exhumed.
Thfl Proposed Salary Grab.
Mr. Eddy's proposition that no congressman
earn $5,000 a year casta little credit upon legis
lative work. If the men sent to formulate the
laws do not earn this salary there should be
revision of the rolls. To the plea that life in
Washington is expensive the simple answer Is
that the people do not wend representatives
there to live In luxury. The move to a higher
congressional salary is opposed to a simplicity
In American life tn a place where there should
be the moat simplicity.
Thought It Not So Unlucky After All.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"I -once proposed to a girl bn Friday."
"Didn't you know that was unlucky?”
"Unlucky? Not rnucli. She refused m<”
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1902.
fudges Falligant, Clark and Jackson,
. Charlie Hill, Durand and The Journal
BY REV. SAM P. JONES.
I HAVE noticed with profound sor
row the lamented death of ray
friend. Judge Falligant, of Savan
nah. I but mingle my sorrow with
thousands of others over his untime
ly taking away. Judge Falligant
was a great man, his heart
would have made him great with
out his head, and yet he was a
man of great intellectual force, a mag
nificent lawyer and would have been
a peerless judge but for the great big
heart that was In him. There was
never moral turpitude traceable to his
official life or his personal life so far
as 1 have ever known. No mother was
ever more tender and sympathetic
than Judge t alllgant. He rejoiced
with those who rejoiced, he wept with
those who wept. He could not have
lived it better if his daily prayer had
been:
"Teach me to feel another’s woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show.
That mercy show to me."
In the principles of law he was
well versed, in the practice of law a
splendid advocate, on the bench if he
had less heart he would have been
all that we could ask. He had wis
dom and mercy, and justice at his
hands was perhaps tempered too
much for the good of society, for he
was seldom severe enough in the pen
alties inflicted upon law-breakers, but
I attribute this alone.to the tender,
sympathetic, motherly heart that
poured its sympathies like the gush of
a river towards every human being
alive.
How much like Judge Richard Clark
was he. Judge Clark was one of the
most lovable, splendid, royal men who
ever graced the bench in Georgia. I
associate them in my mind together,
and then as I think of these two men I
think of Judge James Jackson, one of
the purest, cleanest, kindliest men I
ever knew. He perhaps was better
balanced than either Judge Clark or
Falligant. He had all the heart that
either of them, and perhaps had more
of the stern essence of justice in his
make-up. Everybody loves men like
Judges Jackson, Clark, and Falligant.
Many tears were shed and much real
sympathy was expressed at the bier
of all these, and I would here and now
mingle my tears of sympathy over the
demise of my friend. Judge Falligant,
and pick the rarest flower within my
reach and lay it upon his grave.
In speaking of Judge Clark I think
of Charley Hill, his solicitor-general.
Charley well-nigh run Judge Clark’s
court. Sometimes it seemed that Char
ley was the engineer and Judge Clark
the conductor. And Charley went
around the corner with lightning
speed. Charley Hill is the most inim
itable. Incomparable, irresistible, pros
ecuting attorney I have ever known.
I don’t know what else Charley is good
for. for he has been solicitor-general
ever since I knew him, but a man that
can prosecute criminals like he can 1
take it for granted l?e is good for al
most anything you want him for. His
tribute to Judge Clark was a master
ful piece, worthy of his father, Ben
jamin H. 'Hill, in his palmiest days.
Charley Hill is as incorruptible as the
noble judge he worked with and under
Congressmen and Their Districts.
BY F. H. RICHARSON.
THE recent election in the sev- .
enth district of New York to
fill a vacancy in the house of
representatives resulted in the
defeat of Mr. Perry Belmont,
the Democratic nominee, and the elec
tion of his Republican opponent. Mr.
Belmont's candidacy was opposed bit
terly on several grounds, one of which
was that he uid not reside in the dis
trict he aspired to represent. He was
■ characterized by the newspapers and
speakers who antagonized to him as
the “carpet-bag" candidate.
This cry certainly had Jts effect, but
it is hard to see the reason.
Mr. Belmont served with distinction
in congress for three consecutive terms
in “the eighties” and was for two
years chairman of the foreign affairs
committee of the house.
At no time during his congressional
career was his home in the district
which honored him with three elec
tions. and everybody knew when he
was nominated for this last race
his residence was outside of the district
in which he was to run. But every
thing is considered fair in politics and
Mr. Belmont's opponents made a
mighty hullabaloo over the fact that
he lived and voted in one district and
was seeking election in another.
There is no law requiring a repre
sentative to be a citizen of the district
/from which he is elected, and New
York has often disregarded the custom
of taking congressmen from their owq
districts.
Sunset Cox served twenty years in
the house of representatives and never
for a day did he reside in the district
he represented. Abram S. Hewitt had
a similar experience, and it would re
quire more fingers than any normal
man has on both hands to number the
New York congressmen who have been
non-residents of their districts.
Horace Greeley, while a citizen of
Westchester county, ran for congress
in a Tammany district taking in “The
Bowery," and came very near being
elected.
New York does not furnish all the
instances in which constituencies have
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A farmer with his out of door work
might have reason to expect more than
the average of good health If he would
use proper food and have it well cooked,
but many of them, tn middle age, suffer
torments from dyspepsia, and following
that a weakened nervous system.
To show the value of a change tn food
we quote from a letter written by L. Flag
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"I have spent a very considerable
amount of money in trying to cure my
stomach trouble with medicines, and have
changed climate several times. About two
years ago 1 was taken worse. My heart
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thin and discouraged. Finally I changed
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have stuck to Grape-Nuts for a year and
a half and gradually the old troubles
have disappeared.
I have made splendid progress in health
and strength, sleep well and can now do
a good day’s work for a man of 50 years.
"I know that Grape-Nuts caused the
change, and although I am now able to
use other food as I like, still I stick to
Grape-Nuts because I know how it nour
ished me. and besides, wife and I both
like the food.
“She says nothing has helped her ner
vous system like Grape-Nuts. We buy
the food by the case and are very enthu
siastic in regard to it.”'
It is plain that nervous, worn out peo
ple can be brought back to health by us
ing Grape-Nuts. •’
was. You can’t buy him nor bribe him
nor scare him. He will do his duty
and when Charley Hill does his duty
as prosecuting attorney woe be unto
the fellow he is doing his duty against
in the criminal court. Charley is fine
in handling a witness, and when it
comes to handling the twelve, "good
bye John."
Charley got hold of a witness one
time in his court who swore reck
lessly. He swore like a dog a-trotting,
and when Charley was making his
speech before the jury he said: “Gen
tlemen of the jury, didn’t Jim, that
negro over there, swear? He is a mon
umental swearer, he swore all sorts of
lies. Gentlemen of the jury. I believe
that if you put Jim up in an old ash
hopper and pour water on him he
would drip all day.” If ever I do
any devilment I am going to move out
of Atlanta and the Stone Mountain
circuit to do it. I don’t want Charley
to get hold of me.
While the prospect for the new de
pot, or statlbn, in Atlanta seems
brighter (and it looks now like we will
have a new station there), I wonder
what will become of Henry Durand?
If Henry can do'so well in his present
quarters I would like to see him in a
first-class depot dining room, like
Nashville, Tenn., or Indianapolis, Ind.,
or Columbus, O. I would like to see
Henry have a chance to spread himself
as the boy said he told the hen to do
when he set her on 500 eggs. I some
times wish the legislature had includ
ed in the depot bill a clause to the ef
fect that dead or alive Henry Durand
must be and appear in the dining room
when it is finished.
, I spent last Saturday in Atlanta. I
kept walking over the viaduct and
wondered each time why some fellow
had not thought of that a thousand
years ago. The new business houses
going up, the magnificent bridge and
crossing, everything about it is win
some and plausible. Really Atlanta can
do things up in first class shape in
spite of all her wars and tumors of
wars.
I also note with pleasure the growth
and broadening Influence of The Jour
nal. She grows with leaps and bounds,
and is a better paper today than in any
day of her history. No evening paper
I know of anywhere is comparable to
The Journal, yet The Journal is doing
* all this without the idea or thought of
competition stirring it on to making
It better than a competitor. I
know of no evening paper in a city of a
hundred thousand people that has half
the circulation or a tithe of its ‘influ
ence and power. Go it, gentlemen.
Yours truly, SAM P. JONES.
P. S.—l note that Mayor Mims has
been sick. What is the matter with
Joel Atkinson, is he poorly too? I hope
they will soon be well and strong for
I love to see the fur fly when I am not
furnishing any of the fur. Yours truly,
S. P. J.
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gone outside the timlts. v of their dis
tricts to find V Congressman. Ben
Butler was once sent to congress from
a district in which he had never re
sided.
Mr. Richard Guenther, now consul
general of the United States at Frank
fort, was a member of congress twen
ty years ago, but at that time he Hv?d
in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and was the
member for the Waukesha district, in
quite a different part of the state.
Many other instances of this kind
could be mentioned. But the district
lines are usually regarded as impassa
ble. Certainly no non-resident candi
date for edngress could be elected in
Georgia, and there are comparatively
few states in which this pride of lo
cality does not prevail quite as ar
bitrarily as tn Georgia.
When Benjamin Tl. Hill became a
candidate for congress in the Ninth
district of Georgia in 1875 his home
and his law office were in Atlanta,
and had been here for several years,
and this fact was industriously used
against him. But It turned out that Mr.
Hill’s legal residence was still in Ath
ens, and the people of the Ninth dis
trict claimed him as their own. At
lanta claimed hitfi, too. In fact, the
whole state of Georgia claimed him.
Ben Hill was too large a man to be
appropriated by one district, or even
by one state.
The framers of the constitution
were wise in making no requirement
that a member of congress must re
side in the district for which he is
elected.
If one district has a man of con
spicuous ability and qualifications for
congressional service and declines to
call upon him for it, or rejects him
When he offers himself as a candidate,
why sould not an adjoining district,
or a district a hundred miles away,
elect him, provided it be in the same
state?
We have all seen some districts con
spicuously rich in congressional tim
ber and other districts in the same
state very meagerly supplied in that
line.
Would it not be far better for these
poverty stricken districts and for the
country if in such cases district lines
were ignored in the selection of repre
sentatives?
Will not common sense and sound
business considerations finally bring
about a reform in this matter?
If the biggest Democrat in a state
happens to reside in a district that is
hopelessly Republican, why shouldn’t
some Democratic dictrict elect him?
They do these things better in Great
Britain than we do as a rule.
A British statesman of exceptionally
fine qualifications need not worry about
the locality of his residence. A seat in
parliament is usually at his command.
When the electors of Bristol went back
on Burke a dozen other boroughs stood
ready and eager to take him up.
Gladstone lived in Wales, and during
the greater part of his illustrious ca
reer in parliament was a member for
far off Scotch Midlothian.
There are scores of members of the
present parliament who reside in one
borough and represent another, and
It has been so in every parliament for
generations past.
While there is nothing in our law,
provided a state has more than one
district, to restrict a congressional
constituency to its own territory when
it comes to choose a congressman, the
great majority of the constituencies
themselves have established a cast
iron rule on the subject which often
deprives them of opportunities that
they could use to great advantage.
Nothing that Is said here is intend
ed to apply to the recent election in
the Seventh congressional district of
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Sermon
It is a wonderful fact that the influences
that contribute to the growth and ef
fectiveness of the Christian church, and
make visible her unfolding destiny are
silent in their operation. No trumpet
notes proclaim their presence, or blazoned
banners publish the object of their mis
sion. As gentle as the step of an angel
they enter the realm of moral conscious
ness and send over the cords of deathless
spirits the music lof redemptions, song
aad the power of the world to come.
They often flow out of elementary con
ditions unseen in their inception, and
voiceless in their first manifestation.
Back of all the splendid triumphs of the
militant church and the glory that has
crowned her altar are felt the presence
of influences that have touched human
hearts and largely effected human des
tiny.
The world has awakened to see behind
the external vestments of the church the
movement of mighty forces that are urg
ing humanity onward to loftier ideals, and
to higher planes of service. These influ
ences are the attesting witnesses of the
covenant of human redemption, and the
constant pledge of the divinity of the
cause they represent. In the storm cen
ter of these influences the Sunday school
is located. It receives through the word
and the spirit of consecrated teachers
the first Impressions of divine life, and by
the unerring law of assimilation they be
come an antecedent element of the forces
that mould character and brighten the
glory of human destiny.
We are In the morning light of a new
century. It is an age of wonderful prep
aration and expectancy and overhung
with grand possibilities.
The fathers and mothers who laid the
foundations of our churches Will soon pass
away, “One by one, they are crossing
over.” The fortunes of the militant
church must soon pass into the hands of
our children. It Is our duty to see that
they are properly equipped for the re
sponsible trust.
The Sunday school, under the manage
ment of those who know the value of its
presence as a factor in the evangelism
of the world is destined to take high rank
in that system of religious instruction
that must form the antecedent condition
of that stalwart Christian manhood and
womanhood of the doming church. With
each passing year, the Sunday school
takes deeper hold on human hearts, fit is
the antecedent of the grandest consequent
of the ages. Enfolded in its fellowship of
the service, are found consecrated men
and women whose hearts throb with the
pulse-beats of the thrones, around them
are circling an army of more than thir
teen million pupils—outnumbering the con
gregated armies of all the nations of
earth.
Such an army will soon engirdle the
world with Christian temples, and fill all
minds with a knowledge of a better life.
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SThe Influence of the Sunday School
On the Church and Civilisation.
BY REV. P. Tw L. QUEEN, z
OF JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
SCHOOL ON THE CHURCH AND CIV
ILIZATION.”
At the threshold of the investigation of
this question we enter a realm unvisited
by ordinary thought, we are to deal with
intangible forces—forces that mould char
acter and read the scaffoldings of human
destiny. The influence Os individuals as
well as that of organized bodies enters
the mind and soul of others along chan
nels of living thought. It is one of the
invisible agents of spirit force, and with
all the widening horizon of knowledge
and accumulated experience we must die,
and wait the enfranchisement of nobler
powers in a better world to understand
the mystery of its touch. But we know
that influences come into our lives and
effects us for weal or woe. Enshrined
in each Individual heart are the hidden
treasures of this mighty force, "No man
llveth to himself,” Every life lifted up
in the scale of moral excellence is a tro
phy to the all conquering power of well
directed influence.
"Every soul we have led to the foot of the
cross,
Every lamb we have brought to the fold,
£hall be kept as bright jewels our crowns
• to adorn
In that beautiful city of gold.”
The Sunday school is a reservoir of
moral influence, the'birthplace of heaven
ly hopes, the cradle scene of the better
life. The most beautiful words in the
English language have been woven into
sentences expressive of the relation it
sustains to the church. By sbme it is
called the nursery of the church, by oth
ers the church at work—beautiful expres
sions of tender relations. But above and
beyond all this, it is a shrine of holy in
fluence. It is a radiating point whence go
out the gentle ministry of thougnt,
aflame with the light emitted from the in
spired word. A fountain whose waves of
influence beat against your gate. That
such a citadel of moral power, occupying
the background of Christian effort, can
fail to exert an influence for good to the
church of the living Redeemer is beyond
the range of reasonable conclusion.
Amid the unfolding splendors of the
coming church the influence of the Sun
day school will be seen in the divine illu
mination of its membership.
The apostolic churches were largely in
fluenced by the emotional element of the
Christian religion, stirred to action by the
visible manifestations of the Holy Spirit.
The Scriptures were written in the He
brew and Greek language, but few copies
in existence, expensive and but few were
able to read. The sublime doctrines con
tained in the old and new Testament
Scriptures were proclaimed by men divine
ly inspired. But’we are heirs to a better
inheritance. The Bible is being enthroned
in the hearts of all nations. It has been
translated into the language of all the
lisping tongues of mortals. Its life-giving
words send a stream of consolation into
the heart of the widowed mother as she
kneels with her fatherless children at
evening prayer. It is the heaven-born in
spiration of the pulpit—the pilgrim's sign
board that points to a better country.
This book is the text book of the 13,-
000,000 pupils enrolled in the Sunday
schools of the world. Its lofty counsels
are thus hallowing the well springs of
Christian knowledge leading sould up in
to higher regions of thought and to a
broader vision of life's capabilities.
From this army thousands are entering
each year into the higher service of the
church life. The occasion of this trained
element to the church must brighten the
glory and Intensify its power. No church
can live long and maintain its organized
force without the helpful influence of the
Sunday school. It is her reserve force,
and the ministering angel of her extend
ing power.
In a brief reach of twenty years the
church will be largely represented by men
and women of trained minds, trained in
the Sunaay schools, reaching forward by
the impressive influence of living thought
into higher regions of action and to a
broader knowledge of humanity’s endless
destiny. I
The influence of the Sunday school will
be felt in the church by intensifying
THE GRACE OF GIVING TO THE
LORD’S CAUSE.
The pupils in our Sunday schools are
being trained to give to the Lord’s cause
and when they enter the church this will
not be left behind. There are many with
ered souls in our churches today be
cause thtey have neglected to put some
thing intb the treasury of the Lord. They
may. have, legal church fellowship, but
they have never crossed the threshold
that admits one into that higher and pur
er realm of Christian fellowship. This
realm is presided over by the conscious
presence of our elder brother, the living
Redeemer. All rituals and forms are Ig
nored.
The joys of this blessed estate flow
out of the intercommur~oa of kindred
souls blessed wltn a co—»piousness that
they have borne each other’s burdens,
and so fulfilled the law of Christ. Some
of our churches record their ability to
give by the number of male members in
the church. Do they mean to rob their
wives apd daughters of the grace of giv
ing? But the influence of the Sunday
school will correct this. Oh, the power
of the church when the boys and girls
of our Sunday schools enter its gates
trained to give.
CIVILIZATION WILL FEEL THE IN
FLUENCE OF THE SUNDAY .
SCHOOL.
Civilization, to be enduring and a fac
tor in carrying forward the great pur
pose of God in human destiny, must be
grounded and rooted in the lofty pre
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and New Testament scriptures. This
wonderful book, composed of sixty-six
books, contains the only account we have
of man’s origin and destiny. It is the
seed bed of all history—the only mention
we have of some ruined empires and dis-
mantled thrones. It tells us of the first
organization of human society into fam
ilies, kingdoms and governments, maq’s
relation to God and to his fellow
mhn, together with all the amenities of
life are taught here as nowhere-" else.
This book is the great lesson book in
our Sunday schools. Its pure morality
must leave its impress upon the minds
and character of men and women, whe
are to be the trustees—the guardian an
gels of the liberty*and the civilization
of the century.
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