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VOL. C, NO. 24. trouble in, my friends, that people j culato just how many letters will do not understand the etides of go- be Bent to the Dead Letter Oflice ing in del* and that if you pur- every year through misdirection; chase goods with no expectation of that it is pocsible to calculate just paying for them, or go into debts how many letters will be detained which you cannot meet, you steal! for lack of postage-stamps through just so much money. If I go into a grocer’s store, and I buy sugars and coffees and meats, with no ca' pacity to pay for them, I am more dishonest than if I go into the store, and when the grocer’s face is turned tho other way I till ray pockets with the articles of mer chandise anil carry off a ham. In the one case I take the merchant’s the forgetfulness of tho senders, and that it is jxissible to tell just how many people will fall in the streets by slipping on un orange- peel. In other words, there are no accidents. The most insignificant event you ever heard of is the link between two eternities—the eterui- time, and I take the time of the | young man, and you will come out messenger to transfer the goods to I at tho right goal. Bring me a my house, while in the other case j young man, and tell mo what his I take none of the time of the incr- physical health is, and what his chant, and I wait upon myself, and | mental calibre, and what his hat lome. Have a Bible on the stand I transfer the goods without any j its, and I will tell you what captured his Bible, and you have ] trouble to him ! In'other words, a j will not make five inaccu- J taken his strongest fortress. The if yo u can afford it and can play sneak-thief is not so bad as a man .rate prophecies out of way is comparatively clear, and all on it ) mve au i,„tiument of music who contracts debts he never ex- [ five hundred. All this makes me [ the gates of his soul are set ojwn in _ ft |’ mrp) or or ( , ()rnrt] pects to pay. Yet, in all our cities there are families that move every May-day to get into proximity to other grocers and meat shops and apothecaries. They owe every body within half a mile of where they live, and next May they will move into n distant part of the city, finding a new lot of victims. Mean while, you, the honest family in the new house, are bothered day SLAUGHTER OF YOUNG MEN. Sermon of Rev. T. DcWitt Talmage, of Brooklyn Tabernacle. A* M ox to the lUojhtw.-iProTMb* vil. 12 Theye is nothing in the voice or manner of the butcher to indicate to the ox that there is death ahead. The ox thinks he is going on to a rich pasture-field of clover, where all <j»y long he will revel in the herbaceous luxuriance; but after awhile the men and tljp boys close in upon him with sticks nnd stones and shouting, and drive him through bars and into a door-way, where he is fastened, and, with a well-aimed stroke, the axe fells him, and so the anticipation of the redolent posture-field is completely disappointed. So many a young man has been drawn on by tempt ation to what he thought would be paradisaical enjoyment, but after awhile influences of a darker hue and swarthier arm close in upon him, and he finds that instead of making an excursion into a garden he has been driven “as an ox to the slaughter.” ' We are apt to blame young men for being destroyed, when we ought to blame the influences that de stroy them. Society slaughters a great many young men by this be hest: “ You must keep up appear ances; whatever bo your salary, you must dress as well ns others; you must wine and brandy as many friends; you must smoke os costly cigars; you must give as ex pensive entertainments, and you must live in as fasbionnblen board ing-house. If you haven’t the money, borrow. If you can t bor row, make a false entry, or subtract here and there n bill from a bundle of bank bills; you will only have to make the deception a little while; in a few months, or n year or two, you can nmke it all right. Nobody will be hurt by it, nobody will be the wiser. You yourself will not be damaged.” By that awful process a hundred thousand men have been slaughtered for time nnd slaughtered for eternity. Sup pose you borrow. There is nothing wrofig about borrowing money.— There is hardly a man in the house but hns sometimes borrowed mon ey. Vast estates have been built on a borrowed dollar. But there are two kinds of borrowed money —money borrowed for the purpose of starting or keeping up legitimate enterprise nnd ex|M>nso, nnd money borrowed to get thnt which you can do without. The first is right, the other is wrong. If you have money enough of your own to buy a coat, however plain, nnd then you ^orow money "for a dandy’s outfit, you have taken the first revolution of the wheel on the down grade. Bor row for the necessities—that may be well. Borrow for the luxuries— that tips your prospects over in the wrong direction. Tho Bible dis tinctly says, “ The borrower is ser vant to the lender.” It is a bad state of things when you have to go down some other street to es cape meeting some one whom you owe. If young men knew what is the despotism of being in debt more of them would keep out of it. What did debt do for Lord Bacon, with a miml towering above the centuries? It induced him Intake bribes and convict himself as a criminal before all ages. What did debt do for Walter Scott ? Broke his heart at Abbotsford. Kept him writing until his hand gave out in paralysis to keep the sheriff away from the pictures ami statu ary. Better for him if he had minded the maxim whicli be bad chiseled over the firc-plnce at Ab botsford, “ Waste not, want not.” What did debt do for Robert Bums ? Drove him to hard drink ing, and to begging fur seven pounds and four shillings to pay fbr a volunteer’s uniform. Wiiat did debt do for I.ord Byron and his mother? She died in a fit of rage from reading the upholsterer’s bill at Newstead. William I’itt, with genius enough to control the fiuances of the English nation, could not control his own finances, i Certain lines of conduct always t ho V.l i a irii, t li i it no, the niliowon and went from one mortification to lead out to certain successes.— which be died. Cursed be debt! another, and after death ttic l'arlia- There is a law which controls even l or the sake of your own bapjiiness, ment voted $200,000 to nay th<‘ those things that seem haphazard. f°r the H«ke of good morals, for the debts of that man who had received l have been told of those who have ^ Jounf M ^ $30,000 salary annually. The observed that it is possible to cal- j imesible, keep out of it I vunsuirh %ftnvtim. I5KUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER IS, 1880. ?2 00 A YEAR. But I think more young men are each of your bunds for your own ruined for want of religion. Take * defense. Wait not for Young Men’s away a young man’s religion and ' Christian Associations to protect you make him the prey of evil.— you, or churches to protect you.— We all know thnt the Bible is the Appealing to Clod for help, take only [.erfect system of morals. Now, | care of yourself, if you want to destroy the young; Kirst—haven room somewhere man’s morals, take his Bible away. j that you can call your own. Wheth- HoW will you do that ? Well, > on' ,,,• u be the b*ok parlor of a fash- will caricature his reverence for the ^ ioiinlsle hoarding house, or a room Scriptures. You will take all those. in tile f ourt |, stwy of „ chcll p incidents of the Bible which can i r ,g ( [ ( . aro not, only have that one he made mirth of—Jonah’s whale, yoar tatUm. Let out .the Samson s foxwi, Ailarn s rib. 1 licsc j dissijiuter or unclean step over the ty of the past and the eternity of you will caricature eccentric Chris.| tl ir e»holtl. If they come up the the future. Head the right way, tinns or inconsistent Christians.— I | ong flight of sfairs nnd knock at Then you will pom off os. your own j t ho door, meet them face to face all those hackneyed arguments aml Uinilly ye , firl „l v refuso t | )cm against Christianity which are ns j admittance. Have a few family old ns Tom Paine, as old as Vol- j portraila on the Wl)11 ifyou brought taire. ns old ns sin. Now, you have, tla .; u wU h you from your country solicitous in regard to young men, invitation to tho sins of earth and lodeo(1 or violil)) or pjano Eye nnd I want to make them nervous | the sorrows of death, that they may , norning y(JU lt . av( , that roonli and drive the stake for come in mm unvc u»e siukc mr Kvery night you come home their encampment A steamer flf- L ^ roonij |lray Make thnt teen hundred miles from shore. L , m aibndtor. your Sebns- with broken rudder and lost com- Mount Zion. Let no pass, and hulk leaking fifty gallons bm| lxx , k or newBpa , M:r in(o an hour, is uetter off than the (|mt ro()m any tlian young man whom you have robbed |* wouI(I n |, ow ft ’ cubra t() of the Bible. Have you ever no in regard to the contraction of un payable debts. I give you a para graph from my own experience:— My first settlement as pastor was in a village. My salary was $800 and a parsonage. The amount .... v —, — - ----i mat room any more man you seemed enormous to me. I said to young man whom you have robbed | # wou j ( j n u ow Cu b ra to crawl on myself, “ What! all this for one of the Bible. Have you ever your tu l,l e . Take care of yourself, year?" I was afraid of getting j ticed how dwpicably mean it is to i NotKX | y e)g0 will lake care of you by day by the knocking at the worldly under so much prosperity ! | lake away the world’si Bible with- Vour help will not come up two, door of the disap|H>intvd bakers, 11 resolved to invite all the oongre- out proposing a substitute? It I* or three or four flights of stairs.— and butchers, and dry goods deal-j nation to my house in groups of meaner than to come to a sick man Vour help will come through tho era, and newspaper-carriers, and Uenty-fivc each. We lagan, and , steal his medicine, meaner tlinn na ,f f j own f mm heaven, from that as they were the best congregation , to come to a cripple and steal his j „ tu)> l)l( , aix thousand years in all tho world, and we felt noth- crutch, meaner than to oomo to a L fthe W(irll p a llist< , ryi never |, 0 . ing was ton good for them, we piled , pauper and steal his crust, meaner trayc ,| „ younR ,j iall who trieel to all the luxuries on the table. I, than to come to a poor man and I g^i an( ) a Christian. 1s t me never completed the undertaking, burn his house down. It is the I i() n . ( , ar ,i t(l your n ,l verBe At the end of six months l was in ] worst of nil larcenies to steal th ^ wor hll y cirotiintrtnncea. In passing, financial despair. . I found that we Bible which has been crutch, t |, a t you are on n level now with were not only weio without the sur- medicine, and food, and eternnl l thoao who nr,! flnnlly to succeed.— plus of luxuries, hut we had a home to so many. What a goner-1 Mnr || my wor young man, and struggle to get the necessaries, and j ouh nnd magnanimous business m- tllillk of it tllirty yeara r rom nmv . I learned what every young man fidelity has gonointo! tbisvphtting y ou wi „ fin| , tl)||l who tllir . learns in time to save himself, or| up of lifeboats, and taking away ofj ty yyara f rilll] „„„ ar( , t | lc mniion- you are asked where your prede cessor is. You do not know. It was arranged that you should not know. Meanwhile, your predeces sor has gone to some distant part of ihe city, and the people who have anything to sell have sent their wagons and stopped there to Solicit the “valuable” custom of the new neighbor, nnd he, the new neighbor, with great complacency, and with an air <»f nfllucnce. ord the finest steaks, the highest-priced j too late, that you must measure the fire-escapes, and extinguishing of a * rf . H v f t j 10 coun ( r y | who are the or sugars, the best of the canned fruit,• size of a man’s body l>efore you be- j lighthouses. I come out and hn J' u tnrs oT the country, who are the ami perhaps all tho newspapers— b)ujlc, Argus, Sun, Hcra'd, Tribune, World, ami Timm. And tho debts will keep on accumulating until be tho deficit. Invited on all hands to drink, and their exhausted ner vous system seeming to demand stimulus. Their religion carica tured by the most of the clerks in the store, and the most of the oper atives in the factory. Tho rapids of temptation and death rushing against that young man forty miles the hour, and he in a frail boat headed up stream, with nothing but a broken oar to work with.— Unless Almighty God help them, they will all go under. Ah ! when I told you to take care of yourself, ftn voico * began to *1***. the fifty ness, nnd when lie Raid to his coropnn- “ Now, I want to wind this watch as long ns I can, nnd then when I run Rone I want you to keep it wound nn- til it gets to my friend Dr. Doremus, iu New York, and then he will keep it wound until his life is done, nnd then I want the watch to go to his youngest son, my especial favorite.” The great physician, no more than any other artist, had made the violin spenk, and ring, and weep, nnd langb, nnd triumph—for it seemed when ho drow the bow across the strings, as if all earth and heaven shivered in de lighted sympathy—the great musician in a room looking off upon the sea, nnd surrounded by his favorite instru ments of music, closed his eyes in death. While all tho world whs mourn ing at his departure, sixteen crowded steamers fell into line of funeral pro cess iou to carry his body to tho main- laud. There were fifty thousund of his countrymen gathered in an amphi theatre of the hills, waiting to hear tho nloginm; nnd it was said when tho great orator of the day, with stontori- you iiiiaunileratood me if you: ‘'■"“""nil i*-o|.le on the hilUi.lea burst into tears. Oh, that was* the I close of a life that had done so much thought I meant you are todepend upon human resolution, whicli may .. . al ... , . T «_ , . . , J to make tho world happy I But I have be ilisaolyed in the foam of the j lo yoUi yo „ h(( if „, 0 wme-cup, or may he blown out wiih rj(( , lt> , h .i w «. a t»n.e the first gust of temptation. Here scene compared with that which will is the helmet, the sword of the greet you when from tho gnllnries of Iiord God Almighty. Clothe your-' heaven the one hundred nnd forty snd self in that panoply nnd you shall f° ,,r thousund shall accord with Christ not he put to confusion. Hin pays ' n cr )'*ng, “Well done, thou good uud well neither in this world nor in w,nrw,t *” nm1 tho i,,fln ®*ooa the next, but right thinking, right I ll,ftt OD e " tb you p,,t * n mo,ion believing and right acting will take (l ° ,u , n rnt * on ^ • , . ,i lllu inflmwore yon you in anfety through Una life and llandBl yolireWMr , n aB in transport through the next I gin tocut the cloth for his coat. I to such people, hat arc you do-i ^ jj JC coun t rv> are # j} ie When a young man willfully and j ing this for ?” “Oh,” they say “just nier( .| uinlH ,',f t h e country, of choice, having the comforts of for fun. It is such fun to L ho are the great philanthropists life, goes into the contraction of un- Christiana tr to hold on to their Lf thocount ry--m!ghtie*t in church gets his goods, yn the dOth of next ; payable debts, he knows not into Bibles I Many of them have ' !in( | state—arc this morning on n April, in the furniture cart. Now, J what he goes. The creditors get, loved ones and havy been told that j evv j w ith you, not an inch above let me say, if there are any such (after the debtor, the pack of hounds, there is a resurrection, and it is VOUi ft „d in straitened cireumstan- persons in the house this morning, i in full cry, and alas, for the rein- such fun to tell them there is no y regard for your deer. They jingle his door bell be- rcsuricction ! Many of them have •, you had better fore he gets up in the morning, | believed that Christ came to carry if you have any own conscience, move to some greatly distant part of the city. If, fyr instance, you livo in South Brooklyn, move to the Eastern District or Green point. Or, if you live in this central part of Brooklyn, move to New York or they jingle his door-bell after he j the burdens and to heal the wouuds has gone to bed at night. They | of the world, and it is such fun to meet his as he comes off his front tell them they will have to'bo their steps. They send him a postal card or a letter, in curtest style, teljing him to pay up. They attach Jersey City 1 It is too bad that, his goods. They want cash or a having hail all the trouble of con- j note at thirty days, or a note paya- suming the goods, you should also j ble on demand. They call him a have all the trouble of being dun- knave. They say lie lies. They ned ! And let me say, if you find want him disciplined at the church, that this picture is your own pho jThey want him turned out of the tograph, instead of being in church hank. They come at him from you ought to, be in the penitentia- this side and from that side, and ry ! No wonder that so many of from before nnd behind, and from our merchants fail in business !— | above and from beneath, and lie is own saviours I” Think of the meanest thing you ever heard of, then go down a thou sand feet underneath it, and you ecs now. Those who die at the top were born at the foot, llerschel earned his living by playing on a violin at parties, and in tho inter stices of the play he would go out and look up at the midnight heav ens, the fields of his immortal con quests. George Stephenson rose from being the foreman in a col liery to be the most renowned of will find yourself at the top of a ii lt ; world's engineers. And those stairs a hundred miles long, go to men who are to succeed aro on your the bottom of tho stairs, and you level now. I sjieak to those who will find a ladder a thousand miles | are complaining of their straitened long; then go to the foot of the hid- anil hard circumstances. Those der and look oil a precipice halt as who are at tli«; top at your age, nine believe from what this young man far ns from here to China, and you out of ten of them will comedown.! told mp that your sounding the never shall forget a prayer I heard a young man make some fifteen years ago. It was a very short prayer, but it was a tremendous prayer: “Oh ! Lord, help us. We find it so easy to do wrong, and so hard to do right, Lord help us.”— That prayer, I warrant you, reached the ear of God, nnd reached his heart. And there are in this house to-day one hundred men who have found out a thousand young men. perhaps, who have found out that very thing. It is so easy to do wrong and so hard to do right. I got a letter last night, only one paragraph of which I shall read: Having moved around somewhat I have run across young men of in telligence, ardent striven after that wiil-o-the-wisp—fortune—nnd o f one of these I would speak. He wns a young Englishman of twen ty-three or four years, who came to New York, where he had no. ac quaintance, witli,H»arely sufficiency to keep him two weeks. He had been tenderly reared, perhnj* I should say too tenderly, nnd was not used to earning his living, and found it extremely difficult to get any position that he was capable of filling. After many vain efforts in this direction, he found himself on a Hunday evening in Brooklyn, near your church, with about three dollars left of his small capital.— Providence seemed to lead him to your door, and he determined logo in nnd hear you. He told me his fiiicnct* wound up bunded children, until watch nud c! more needed to mark tho prog cause time itself shall be no He who said “Suffer littl to como unto me” wns the g dor of the gladsome fwist of C and it is in His honor tlmt we uph the feast and gladden the hearts of the little ones he loved so dourly. It is a pleasure to make their smiles brighter, their laughter cherrier nnd more mu sical. Let ns all, then,'properly cele brate Christmas dav. Now comes the season when the yonnp mail on an eight dollar salary bothers his brains to raise the stamps to get Ids girl a twenty dollar liolidsy present As the Christmas tree i* bent so is the youthful h>*nrt made glnd. It Is a Well-known Pact Among physicians that Biicbn, Jun iper and Purera Brava in combination arc the best remedies in tho world for uny disease of tho Bladder or Kidneys, uud that not less than one half of the human family, both nude and female, suffer from derangement of those or gans, nud neglect or failure to nsc proper remedies hurry many to un timely graves. Numerous combina tions have been tried for (travel, Brick Dust Deposits, Bright's Disease, Weak ness in Back und ilips, produced by derangement of Bladder and Kidneys, but none with suoh happy results ns ltaiikin's Kxtruet of Huchti mid Juni per. If you suffer from any diseases of these organs, get s hottle--oue or o will relieve yon. Prepared only by Hunt, Iluukin k Lunar, Atlmila, (la. Kohl by F. Joer- fcer, druggist, Brunswick. novl4-eow Ga., Aug. 24. 1877. going to hear you that night wan Dk. C. J. Morrm—Dear Doctor—. uiulouM&dly the turning point in We gave your *• Teethina '* (Teething . . ,. e e . , . : * ...» Powders) to our little grandchild with >118 life, for when lie went into jour tbe ' i( .„ weru church he felt desperate, blit while almost magical, ctrininhi more tat- listening to vour discourse his l>et- '*f , *** tr M from anything we ever . . , lours very truly, ter nature got the mastery. I truly j Joasra 8. Key, Pastor of 8t. Paul Church. ArorsTA. Oa.. Feb. 6, 1878. I take pleasure iu saving that Iknve . * , .. ’’ 1 w. ...... 8— iiaed Dr. Ifoffet'a Tektdina for my meanness that would rob this world with ! Young man, go down to the brought him hack to his God whom infant with entire satisfaction. It ful- They are swindled into bankrupt* I insulted, and gibbeted, and sued I of its only comfort in life, it« only j Mercantile Library and get some j he was so near leaving. I l )nrMsLs P for , wi!i 1 -h it H< H C,rn,,liMhM, ded 6 cy by these wandering Arals, these j and dunned, and swum at until-hc; jwaco in death, and its only hope i„ w ks, and read of w hat wonderful j T | 10 tkat „f multitudes I mUSSlm 1 * Csw bTstaflxh. ' nomads of city life. They cheat 1 gete the nervous dispopsia, gets >r immortality. mechanism God gave you in your : , h ho ' y.1, ’ nin j am | who fits them for departure from they will lot him alone.” Oh, no. the neighborhood where tho owe | Now they are watchful to see wheth- everybody, when they pay the or there are any unnecessary ex- debt of nature, the only debt they penaeg at tho obsequies, to see |,he hospital, others arc in Urecn- cver do pay ! Now, our young whether there is any useless ban- j voo a, „ r rather their bodies are, men are coming up in this do- die on the casket, to see whether | f„ r t hcir souls have gone on to ret- some of them nrc in their father’s or mother's house, broken down in health, waiting to die; others are in ribution. Not much prospect for a young man who started life with good health, and a good education, and a Christian example set him, and an opportunity of usefulness, praved state of commercial ethics, j there is any useless pleat on the ami I am solicitous about them.— shroud, to see whether the hearse I want to warn them against being is costly or cheap, to sec there the slaughtered oil the sharp edges of flowers on the casket have been debt. You want many things you bought by the family or donated, have not, my young friends. You to see in whose name the deed to who gathered all his treasures and r ^ , all have them if you have pa- the grave ta made out. I hen they them in one box, and then cause you havo so littlo to do with,; mad, sad l J o:1 un right lienee,"and hoiiest'y.Vnd industryij^“ ck ‘ he ^" !ft hourehold^i'c »’ ut - . J I >looks, the pictures, the carpets, dropped it into tin: sea. Now, how is this wholesale slaughter to be stopped ? There Is not a |>erson in the house hut is interested in tiiat question. Young man, arm your- you have read nlxiut, ami never cuuraged youug raau ! wouuded young Lw a reliable soil valuable alterative again commit the blasphemy of mnn ! I commend you to Chriot tUi. " n< * 8 TDt * e <n<ttiurtie. Ti« rapidly in- ” , . ,, oreeeiag popularity attests tbe mine of saying you have no capital to start 'ley. the Iwst friend a man ever Imd.— jt3 medicinal properties, with. Equipped ! why the |>ooreet He meote yon this morning. Ton have Yoara reepeetfnlly, young man in this house ig come here for Hi. hieing. De»H ^ * equipped as only the G<*1 of the ; uot l ‘ ,e potion naiog in your *ml-, whole universe ^ould afford to eauin a 11 dmne,y Lo,,k ,llt0 th °| Th*Jfollowing abort Utter from Dr. fact* of Christ l Lift one prayer to J. D. Miloliell, a member of theGeor- bun 1 hen his body w ft very poor r filthl>r . M Goi \ t to Jonr mother’s j L^gislaturr, is a y«ry strong en- affair compared with hi« wonderful | Oot , aI|(l ihU mornioggt . t th e pardon-1 ^^ % ) lutckinmn d . ; x hrtT# Boiii . Oh, that is what inaked me , jyg Wltioaing. Now, while I speak, you j nw( | your “Neurslgiue” ni|dflii<l it all solicitoua ! I am not bo much mix- u r»> at the forks of the road, nod this von claim, a s^-cific for neuralgia and ions about you, young man, be- ia the right road and that ia tbe wrong hradaoha. J. D. MiTfUEieL, M.D. * * Rev. Dr. J. H. Dcvotie says: “I. have been relieved by it of a severe at tack of headache.” as I am anxious about you because ro *^ . . . .. . . tel , , I Last Sabbath morning, at tho dote you have so much to risk, and lose |<rf ^ , Mw tl|e K „ M ,. Htch of or gain. There is no class of per- (%he worJ | renowned v i u Uni»t, Olo Bonn that bo stir my Bynipathies a.s | t||j j y un remcmlier ho died lust young men in great cities. Not HUmme r in his island home off the coust self l The object of my Bertnon quite enough palary to live on, nnd ,>( Xonray. That watch he hud wound thin morning is to put a'weapon in [all the temptations that come from jnp day after day through his last ill- Decatur, Drceml*>r to, 1879. I was very ranch troubled jg4fh bed bug*, wed applied the Rex Extermina tor, and hate not l»e»*n troubled with them since, nud have not n^u a live, bug siucti, but many dead one*. Ubo. Parsoho.