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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
Tabernacle Sermons.
A DISCOURSE BY
EEV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE. ON
SUNDAY MORNING SEP. 19TH.
Till; CHINESE IN AMERICA.
Text -“Who is my Neighbor -Luke x. 2!)
A keen lawyer had Christ under cross-
examination and this was one ot the ques
tions. Christ's answer enlarged the idea of
neighborhood, and the idea has been en
larging ever since. It once seemed a figure
of speech to call people on the other sides
of the earth onr neighbors, but natious are
so rapidly intermixed. Steam power from
Southampton to New York, from China to
San Francisco, and iron tracks across the
continents and cables under the seas, make
the world one neighborhood. Is the China
man a neighbor ? Does he belong to the
race of wbic*h God is the I ather ? Is he a
brute or an immortal ? How ought you to
treat him ? Must he be welcomed or driven
back ? Will he help or hurt us ?
These important questions are pressed
upon the attention oi this Nation and decide
them we must, and decide them we will. It
will be as agitating a qntstion in Brooklyn
as in San Francisco. I want to have you
start right in your opinions, and lor that
r. asou I give you the rtshlt ot my summ r.
observation in California, where the Chinese
population lias become a tremendous factor.
Arriving in San Fiancisco Saturday, Au
gust 7th, 1 had been but a lew moments in
the hotel when the highest ollicers ot the
State called upon me in the interest of the
anti-Chinese sentiment. From that time
and for many days lrorn morning till night
there was scarcely a halt hour in which, by-
committee or document or letter, the sub
ject was not presented. The Chinese quar
ters, called Chinatown, are shown to most
Eastern people who get to California. The
papers this week say that President Hayes
was shown Chinatown, but the roughest
part was covered up so that he should be
deceived as to how bad it was. No one can
say that of my isnpection, lor it was the one
interest ot the gentlemen who took me there
to make me see the worst side. 1 he five
gentlemen who took me there were openly
opposed to the Chinese emigration. Dr.
Hears, a most obliging gentleman, the
President ot the Board of Health, went with
me at the request of the Mayor, and there
is no man on the continent more pronounc
ed against the Chinese than Dr. Hears. So
I saw Chinatown at its worst. It is bad
enough, filthy enough, dreadful enough:
but underground New York is 50 per cent,
worse than underground San Francisco.
New York American vice is live-fold more
brazen than San Francisco yellow-covered
vice. The difference in malodor is the dit-
feiecce between whisky and opium; and the
malodor ot whisky is a Luudied-fold worse
than the malodor of opium. The crowded
tenement houses of New Yoik are more
fearfully crowded than the Chinese quarters.
As I told them face to face in their Grand
Opera-house, if their three hundred police,
together with an extra force of five hundred
police sworu in from among their most
worthy citizens, would, in the named God,
and in the strength of the law, go out to do
their whole duty, in one night they could
break up the last iniquity of Chinatown.
Do you tell me that 280,000 law-abiding
people of San Francisco could not put
down the 20 000 bad people? From my
observation this summer, and ten years ago,
I give as my opinion, an opinion in which
thousands of the merchants and clergy and
best people of Calilornia agree, that of all
the foreign population who have come to
onr shores within the last lorty years, none
have come more cleanly, more industrious,
more sober, more courteous, more harmless,
more genial than the Chinese. I have in
my possession a long list of affidavits by the
first farmers, merchants, manulacturers and
professional gentlemen ot California, testi-
lying as to their integrity and hard work,
and ingenuity and love ol good order. 1 key
have no equals as lauudrymen, aud in many
of the homes I w T as told that they had no
rivals as house help. One ol them, 1 was
told, would do the work of three ordinary
servants.
It is objected of them that they underbid
other workmen, being able to live cheaper
than other nationalities. Mistake ! Tjiey
get higher wages in many departments. No
such wages are paid in Brooklyn lor domes
tic services as are paid to the Chinese ser
vants in California. So far lrom hurting
the compensation of others they have made
possible vast enterprises which have given
employment to other people. But suppose
that in any case they did underbid. If you
turn them out on that account then you
ought to turn out all those people who
work the sewing-machine, or reaper or hay
rack, since these machines underbid tens ol
thousands of hard-working people who toil
only with the hand. But the fact that
refutes all these stories about the ruinous
competition of the Chinese is that wages
have been higher in California than in any
State of the Union. When there shall be
twenty thousand Chinese in New York and
Brooklyn, as there will be, there will be
just as large wages for all our people and
more prosperity than now, for then, instead
of one million of people, we shall have
three or lour millions.
Again it is objected that the Chinese do
not spend their money whero they make it.
False again ! They pay rent in San Fran
cisco lor residence, wash-houses aud so on,
S‘2,400,000 yearly. Would you not consider
.*2,400,000 added to the income of Brooklyn
a prosperous addition ? The Chinese pay
to the State ot California a tax of over
.*4,000,000. They paid in Custom-house
duties to the United States in one yeta
$9,404,379. Now, take back that falsehood
about Chinese not paying any money where
they make it. I do not wonder that many
of them send home their money aud do nor
make large investments in this country.
How much of y«mr money would you invest
in a land where you were not allowed citi
zenship, and might any moment have to
suffer outrage or expatriation ? I do not
wonder that they have their bones sent
back to China. If you and I were treated
as badly in Brooklyn as the Chinese have
been treated m California, we would not
want to be buried within 3,000 miles of the
place where such indignity was possible.
We would argue: If they do sueh things to
us while we have our arm strong lor defense,
what may they not do when we become
helpless ? But what an inconsistent thing
it ib tor us to complain that they send their
money home ! Have we not tor the last
twenty years been complimenting and prais
ing the German and Irish serving maids for
that, denying themselves almost every com
fort, they have sent so much of their w*ages
to their fatherland ? Is it not to their ever-
last ng credit that they are so kind to the
old lolks at home that they send their wages
to Ireland atd Germany ? Perhaps you
have not been told what is done with much
ol tlje w ages whieh the Chinese send home.
Hear it and blnsh that you have ever de-
2 tided theju so unjustly. Their parents in
China are serfs, the subjects of a base feu
dal system, and much of this money goes
to lit eiate these paients from bondage. I
bave this lrom a mandarin high in authori
ty. Ii your father and mother were in bon- I
| dage, would yon not pay something to set
j them free ? Do you not suppose the Chinese
I love luxuries as macli as you ? Khali their
j magnificent self-denial for others be the
: cause of their assault ?
| But, it is objected, they use such close
economy. Well, that is a crime of which
I out nation is not very much guilty. I think
in this we may learn something from the
Chinese. They are not only economical,
but they pay all their debts, two peculiari
ties tor which, of course, they ought to be
punished. What a low order of civilization
these Chinese have, for they work all the
time, live within their means, aud pay all
they owe ! Such habits ought to be put a
stop to.
it is objected that they are Pagans, aud
that their dress is so very different. What
do yon refer to now ? The Chinese queue ?
Why, George Washington wore a queue,
Benjamin Fraukliu wore a queue, Joliu
Hancock wore a queue, our great-grand
fathers wore queues. Anything that Wash
ington, aud Franklin, and John Hancock,
and our revered grandfathers did must have
been respectable. Besides that, again and
again, our American dress has been more
absurd than the Chinese apparel. The
crinoline monstrosities of twenty years ago,
the coal-scuttle bonnets of our grandmoth
ers, the powdered hair and knee-buckles of
our grandfathers, aud at different times the
elaboration, the over-topping ami appalling
mystery ol woman’s head-dress in our time
! ought to make us lenient with Mongolian
conspicuities. As to their other religious
j peculiarities for their dress has a religions
significance can it be that iu this country
a man’s religious belief is to be interfered
with ? Do you suppose the Pilgrim Fathers
aud the Huguenots and Revolutionary
Fatheis would have endured what they did
iu behalf of religious liberty iu this country
if they had supposed their descendants
would ever make the style ot religious belief
the giouud ol residence or citizenship? 11
our government is to stand, the Joss-house
of the Chine e is to be as secure and undis
turbed as the Cathedial of the Catholic, the
meetiug-house of the Quaker, or the church
of the Presin terian. If the choice must be
between a religion that persecutes, and in
salts, and stones a man because of the color
ol his skin of the length of his hair, of the
economy of his habits and the industry ol
uis life, on the one hand, and the Paganism
which bears patiently all this abuse, ket p-
iug right on with its work—if 1 must make
a choice between such a religion aud such a
Paganism, give me Paganism. It you have
a superior religion, iu kindly and persuasive
way present that superior religion.
And this brings mu to tell you what I saw
and heard of the glorious work being done
among the Cbiuese in San Francisco. My
first Sabbath morning I spent iu a Chinese
mission church, aud had there the opportu
nity aud joy of telling these Mongolians of
Him who came, not an American Christ, nor
a Chinese Christ, nor German Christ, nor a
French Christ, nor a Spanish Christ, nor an
Italian Christ, but the round world's Christ.
There they stand this morning, doing a
work renowned iu heaven, though little ap
preciated on earth —the Presbyterian Mis
sion of Dr. Loomis, the Methodist Mission
on Washington street, the Congrega ional
Mission near the Park, the Episcopal Mis
sion aud other great charities. The Chinese
make grand Christians, aud there will be
five hundred million of them yet, when ac
cording to the prophecy the land of Siuim
shall surrender to the one God. Will not
this generation of Christians seem small
enough and contemptible enough iu the fu
ture, when it shall be found out that these
Mongolians were brought here, not so much
by th', stigmatized six Chinese companies,
but by the God of the Bible to have them
Christianized, and then multitudes ol them
sent back for the evangelization of their
native country. Now, my friends, these
Chinese are either our inferiors or our
equals or our superiors. If they are inferior,
there is no danger that they will become
our masters. Flat heads cannot rule high
foreheads. Stupidity will never dominate
large brains. If they are our equals, then
they ought have equal rights. If they are
our superiors, then we cannot afford to in
sult them. Do you know who these men
are ? Their ancestors have forgotten more
than we ever knew. Education is far more
general in China than iu America. Y'ou
cannot find a Chinaman that cannot read
and write, while you can find tens of thou
sands of Americans who cannot write their
own name. Ages before our nations heard
of it the Chinese invented printing, paper,
making gun-powder, the mariner’s compass
aud porcelain. Five hundred years before
Christ came Confucius anticipated the
Golden Rule, aud when asked to compress
into one sentence a directory for human
life, said, “Do not unto others what you
would not have them do unto you.”
I think the Chinese are God's favored na
tion. Why? Because He has made more of
them than any ot her kind of people. More
over, He has made China the wealthiest of all
lands. Oh, the ruby, and the amethist, and
the porphyry, and the turquoise, and the
jasper, and the agate, and the sapphire,
and the lapis’ lazuli, and the crystal!
Enough precious stones to build the lour
walls of heaven ! Oh, the gold, and the
silver, aud the copper, and the salt, aud the
coal, aud the lead, and the iron that lie
waiting for the cellar door of her great hills
to be opened ! Ob, the rosewood, and the
ebony, and the camphor, and the cypress,
and the varnish-tree, and the cedars and
the ivory, waiting to be transformed into
tbe cabinet-work of the nations 1 Oh, the
wheat, aud the barley, and the mango, and
the pineapple, and the orange, aud the per
simmons, and the cocoanuts, and the rice—
enough to provide pudding for all the earth,
aud tea enough to refresh all nations. You
stupid man to begrudge tbe Chiuese room
here ! Why, it all implies a permission to
go there. Belore many years there will be
more Americans iu China than Chinese in
America. The question all over China will
be, “Shall the Americans go?” If Ameri
cans went to Calilornia by emigrant wagons
when it took six months, do you not sup
pose that New Yorkers and Long Islanders
will in great multitudes go to China when
they can go iu five weeks ? It is the design
of Providence to put all the nations on
wheels, moving them East, West, North,
South. The tide happens to be setting
this way, but after one world is tolerably
populated tbe tide will set tbe other way
toward Ireland, toward Germany, toward
Switzerland, toward China. All thenatives
will intermarry until far down iu tbe future
a man will have the blood of fifty nationali
ties in his arteries, and there will be only
one nation left occupying the five conti
nents—one grand homogeneous, grand-
hearted, all-climated, five-zoned, world-en
circling Christian nations. They broke to
pieces at the Tower of Babel; they will
come together at the throne of Christ.
Under the shawdow of one they were con
founded, under the light of the other they
will be harmonized.
Again it is objected that the Chinese who
come to this country are mere slaves under
the bondage of tbe Six Chinese Emigration
Companies—Sim-Y’up Com pany, King-Chon
Company, Sang-Wo Company, Wing- YuDg
Company, Hop-Wo Company, Yan-YVo
Company. Now, say the two political
platforms, we don’t want any slaves of such
companies introduced here. Hear this one
fact: the Six Chinese Emigration Com
panies give free passage to these Chinese,
they contracting with the Companies that
they will work it out after they get here.
This is as honorable and righteous as any
contract ever made in New York or Brook
lyn. I want to go to Italy to study art,
and have not the money to go with. Y’ou
say: “I will pay all your expenses, if all the
pictures you make the first year in Rome
you give me.” Right! Is ‘it not just as
riclit for the Six Ceiuese Companies to say:
“You are poor, and I w ill give you clothing,
and outfit, and passage and food across the
Pacific Ocean, on condition that for a cer
tain number ot months or yea s vou will
give me all you make,” That is just before
God and all reasonable men. The Chinese
who come to this country are no more slaves
ot the Six Companies than you lawyers are
of the clients who give you a retaining tee,
than you builders are the slaves of the cap
italists %vho prepay you for undertaking a
job. These Chinese have only been pre
paid before embarkation, ami are now
working it out. The Ant.-Chinese planks
iu the political platforms are a lying swindle
on the credulity of this nation. I tell you
people of the Atlantic coast that this Chin
ese scare is the most groundless and absurd
humbug that hus been practiced ou the Am
erican people. After twenty-five years ol
emigration, as compared with the emigra
tion of other nationalities,it is tbe snow-flake
on a sea. Do not be afraid they will over
come us. The Chinese Government is op
posed to the departure of her people, and at
the slow rate they have been coming, com
pared with other nationalities, they will
never trouble us with their numbers.
What a pitiable thing it is that the two
great political parties had, for the sake of
getting the Electoral vote of California, put
an anti-Chinese plank, thus insulting the
largest nation God ever created. I was not
surprised at the Democratic party, because
they have always said that the color and
iacu question was a reasonable question.
But when I saw the Republican party,
w hich had fought a four years’ horrible war
for the sake of establishing that all colors
before God and the law had equal rights,
when 1 saw that party surrender that Na
tional principle which they had purchased
witli the blood of 500,000 men, and widow
hood and orphanage, all the laud over,
making a different regulation lor the yellow
man from what they had made tor the
black man, I said of that party, “Her
scepter is gone.”
The simple fact is this: In 1784, nearly a
century ago, the American Hag first appear
'd in a Chinese port. Ever since we have
been begging the Chinese people to come
out and come ovc-r and be sociable and
neighborly. In 1814 the Government of
the United States said practically: “Oh,
you dear Chinese ! Do come over and see
us. Come and bring your works with you.”
Iu 1858 we practically said: “Oh, you
dear, dear Chiuese, we can t live without
you. Do, do come and see us aud live
with us.” In 1807 we sent Mr. Burlingame,
a skillful Embassador, to say practically:
“Oh, you dear, dear Chinese, you have no
idea how much we think of you ! Y'ou are
on our minds day and night. We dream
about you.” Mr. Burlingame acted so
pleasantly that he has been deified by the
Emperor of China, and has become one of
the gods of that Nation. The Chinese said,
“Will you protect us?” “Oh, yes, you
shall not only be protected, but you shall
be welcomed. Y'ou shall worship what god
you will. Dear me, if you will only come
we will do anything to make you feel at
home.” Overpersuaded and against all
their national habits they came. But final
ly the pot-house politicians got hold of the
question and stirred up against the "Ipiicse
tne hoodlum of Sau Francisco, the mot* ac
cursed population with which any city was
ever afflicted. Kearney their archangel.
Aud the Chinese are maltreated as no for
eign people have been, brickbatted and
slain in the streets; as no other Nation,
made to pay a tax for the privilege of enter
ing the country; att. r arriving here, made
to pay a tax to a Government which refuses
to defend them; taxed for street-cleaning,
while not one dollar of it was spent on their
Chiuese quarters. Iu other words, our
United States Government, in the sight of
God and the Nations, broke its treaty.
Eight hundred thousand dollars did the
Chiuese Government cheerfully pay as in
demnity for the ban treatment of some Am
ericans in China. The Government of the
United States refused to pay indemnity for
wrongs inflicted on Chinamen iu this coun
try. In the name of Almighty God - the
God of Nations, who made of one blood all
people—I impeach the United States Gov
ernment for its perfidy toward the Chiuese.
I want to forewarn the people of the At
lantic Coast against joining iu any crusade
against the Chinese, as they are now coming
into these States. While you meet the mul
titudes of Europe at Castle Garden with
hopes for their future prosperity, have the
same treatment for the children of Asia,
who by the great Union Pacific and Central
Pacific Railroads are being forwarded over
the Sierra Nevadas. Offer them civiliza
tion and Christianity. There is no gospel
in the brickbats. Under a Government like
this there is no room for violence. The
most insignificant, abandoned, besotted,
leprous Chinese that ever lay in lazaretto
will live as long as God lives. He is im
mortal. That Chinese Nation is going to
be saved whether Trans-Pacific or Cis-Pa-
cific. In the millennial glory will yet
stand side by side Europe, Africa, America
and Asia. The Rocky Mountains and the
Himalaya vail answer each other with sal
vation echo.
As to the whole question of Chinese emi
gration let me encourage you by the thought
that the God of Natious will regulate that
iu the right way. Ever and anon in this
country we fly about in great excitement as
though everything were going to pieces.
But God never gets excited. The Chinese
question is going to be settled. What a
time we had with the slavery question !
For half a century the North proposed oue
thing and the South proposed another
thing. Matters grew worse. Missouri Com
promise ; that di ! n’t settle it. Fugitive
Slave Law passed; tbatj didn’t settle it.
Riots iu all the cities; that didn't settle it.
Ecclesiastical Courts passed resolutions,
and Congress deliberated for a quarter of a
century; that didn’t settle it. Lovejoy’s
printing press thrown into the Ohio River,
and Pennsylvania Hall burned in Phila
delphia, and negroes shot, negroes tarred
and feathered, negroes hung—all that didn't
settle it. Then God rose up and said: “All
human wisdom has failed. I will settle it. ”
And He settled it at Shiloh, and Corinth,
and South Mountain, and Gettysburg —set
tled it by the graves of one million of brave
Northern and Southern dead. So this
Chiuese problem is vast, complicated, tre
mendous. Chinese emigration is a ques
tion higher than the dome of your City
Halls, higher than the heathen goddess on
the top of the Capitol at Washington, high
er than the highest church-steeple, so high
that it is on a level with the throne of God,
and the same power that controls the tides
of the ocean, sending them this way and
that, will decide the great tides of human
emigration, turning them wherever He will.
If He say come, they will come; if He say
go, they will go. Do not get nervous about
their coining and build a high, strong wall
to keep them out, while you let other Na
tions come in. Such a wall would be
shaken with the earthquake of Gods’s in
dignation from beneath and struck with
the thunderbolt of God’s wrath from above,
and it would heave and rock and fall upon
ibe demagogues who constructed it, and
upon the Nation that favored it and upon
Christianity that was to cowardly to de
nounce it, and God would say: “I built
that American temple for civil and relig
ious liberty and the Gospel that would have
all men saved. I founded that temple in
the blood of the American Revolution. Its j
arches were lifted by the shoulders of men !
who died for their principles. Its baptis- j
mal fonts were tilled with tears of those !
who were exiled from other lands, coming !
here for refuge. The swords of your pa- >
1 riot ancestry were the trowels that mortared |
the foundations. But you have sacrificed j
on your altars the swine of passion and !
hate. Y'ou have defaced the pillars by uu- !
holy hands. Let it go down, column and I
capital, arch and dome; and in some other '
laud, among more generous people, and in !
some brighter age of the world, I will de- j
monstrate before earth and heaven how i I
would have all men equal and free.” j
JUDGE JOHN ROBSON
Great in His Goodness,
i:io«inen| Tribute to a Remark
able 31 an.
Written on
the Heath
Kolison.
oT Mr. John
Newporte, Fla.
IT*
l» EC AT
similm;
NI.YERAI,
. ETC.
Itipe for heaven and full ol years
He waited in this vale of tears. ’
With ear attuned he listened long
for Jesus' call. With prayer and song
fie cheered the watch, and smiling, told
lloiv soon he'd walk tne streets of gold.
I he summons came like evening dew
1 hat tail oil thirsty flowers. He knew
Nor death, nor pang,and past away
Like setting sun at close of day
Decatur, Sept. I, two. q, L . s ,
Tne twenty-eight day of last August wit-
nessed che dose of oiif of those rctre lives
which are as interesting as a study as they
are instructive as an example.
Air. John Itobson had lived eighty-three
3- ears on this “wild, whirling globe” so
blamelessly, so usefully, so lovably, that
men mourned his death as a public loss and
felt that his vacant place was hard indeed to
be filled, while one among them of such dis
criminating mind as Chief Justice Jackson
could say over the coffined remains: “I es
teem it a precious privilege to cast a flower
upon this bier.
Such a life affords the Pest analysis for the
O. G. j moral philosopher, who will find it interest-
— | mg lo exnloie the secret of the confi iem e,
We reached this dilapidated town, the 1-th I res pect and affection which followed tin
> enjoy
and to
the ex
fish and
day of August. Haulted
cellent water of its Spring:
bunt.
As one views its desolate, tenant less .houses
and winds in whose silent halls the busy spi
der unmolested spins his web, and undisturb
ed, the industrious dirt-douber builds a man
sion for his young, he feels a spirit of sadi.eis
creep over his soul, for the once happy in
mates, now exiles from their once prosperous
comfortable homes. The yards of these de
serted homes, contained rare plants and
flowers. Struggling for existence with the
runk grass and weeds is convincing proof,
that the former occupants were people of cul
ture and refinement.
It is hard to realize the fact as we gaze tip
on the fast perishing buildings, the old des
erted hotel: the deserted streets, covered
with green rank grass, untrodden save by the
•leasts of the field, and a few forlorn looking
whites and blacks—sad historians of its pros
perous days—that they ever resounded to the
tread of the busy ones of commerce and
avarice.
Strange as it may seem, jirior to the war,
on the bosom of the dark river that flows by,
vessels capable of bearing two thousand bales
of cotton furled their white wings, discharg
ing at its very feet rich cargoes of merchan
dise from the old and new world.
Hundreds of wagons covered its streets un
loading cotton, syrup, tar, turpentine, rosin,
etc.,—for shipment; and receiving in return,
merchandise from almost every part of Flori
da. and a large portion of South Georgia.
Eleven large stores did a thriving business.
Oil stills, gi ist, and steam saw mills: com
modious ware houses; turpentine distilleries,
did a large and lucrative business; her hotels
were filled with the gay votaries of pleasure,
and the steady sober ones of trade and trafic.
Two thousand souls dwelt in her elegant cot
tages and peace plenty and prosperity re
igned. But, railroads were built too near.
They withered her prosperity, and swept
away ter commerce.
On arrival, travel-staine 1 and weary, we
went at once to t he bath house over a sulphur
spring run, half a mile from the center of the
town. This spring boldly boils up from a
dark soil, and sends down the trough that
brings its waters from a water box into the
bath house, a stream sufficient to form a riv
er or turn n tk usand . pi ml it s, and eniptii s
into the swift waters Of the St. Marks, three-
fourths of a mile from its head. Its waters
contain sulphates of sulphur, magnesia, lime
and sodium. For neuralgia, rheumatism and
many other maladies of the human frame it
is excellent.
Rising from the hammock lands of the St.
Marks, it is embowered in the dense forests
that line its banks. Magnolias, large in size,
tall, straight and beautiful, tower above
others in graceful curves bending low, cast
their beautiful boughs over to shade its wa
ters from the sun’s fierce rays. Buy trees,
mingling with laurel, poplar, beach, ouk ami
sweetgum, whose boughs entwining and in
terlacing form a magnificent boquet of forest
trees around it; whilst high above all, in
lordly pride, rise tall, graceful pines, clad
in evergreen leaves with wide-spreading
branches covered with 1 -ng streamers of
gray moss, that throw theirMense shade over
all. In humble pride, at the feet of these
lovely children of the forest, in abundance
grow water lilies, ferns and wild flowers. In
front of the bath houses the earth is carpeted
with grass of emerald hue. The whole pre
senting a picture of surpassing loveliness—
“So w r ondrous wild the whole might seem,
The scenery of a fairy’s dream.’’
Notes By A Traveler-
Dots on the IVing.
The sprightly correspondent whose excel
lent letters appear over the signature “Ajax,’’
is one of the most accomplished and beauti
ful ladies of Tennessee, famed for its beauti
ful women, and she lives not a hundred miles
from Bristol.
J. A. Roberts, a street fruit vender in the
city of Lynchburg, weighs 500 pounds. The
city' authorities are thinking of moving the
houses back about six feet so that people
walking the streets may lie able to pass him
as he sits in his chair.
During the year closing September first,
Danville, Ya., has manufactured thirty mil
lion pounds of tobacco. Lynchburg, twenty-
eight millions, Winston, eight and a half mil
lions and.Reidsville, three and a half millions
of pounds.
The Martha Washing College at Abingdon,
Va„ ranks among the leading institutions iu
this country for the education of young
ladies. Tne buildings are large, imposing
and well ventilated, the faculty is composed
of ladies and gentlemen of the highest cul
ture, backed by ample experience, with maps,
charts, extended apparatus and all necessary
appliances to aid them in their work, while
the grounds are simply superb. The grand
old sugar maples, the terraces, the blue
grass, the gravelled walks, the lucious fruits
of many kinds, the summer houses, the cro
quet grounds and the cool, shady bowers, al-
combine to form a spot not merely lovely but
peculiarly inviting. We were recently
shown through the houses and grounds by
the cultivated president, Rev. E. E. Hoss,
and know whereof we speak. The school is
large, with a liberal patronage from abroad.
Barents could not do better than to send
their daughters to the Martha Washington.
Send for information to the president.
Dr. Purse, of Savannah, Ga.,now deceased,
while president of the Central Railroad, was
the first to suggest the practicability of run
ning railroad trains by a regular and fixed
time schedule. He was opposed in the prop
osition by all his engineers, who said it could
not be done with safety.
The Alabama Great Southern Railroad,
running from Chattanooga to Meridian,Miss.,
of which Col. C. P. Ball is General Superin
tendent, is one of the best managed concerns
in the country. The winding road bed has
been straightened, the brail, cheap trestle
has been replaceid with substantial iron
bridges, the superstructure is of steel rails,
and the coaches of the finest and newest pat
ters. Everything about it is first-class
Col. Ball is one of our best railroad men.
Commercial travellers going to Quebec and
St. John just now should know that these
cities have decided to tax commercial travel
lers by a license, the first cost of which is $50.
and the happiness which encircl‘d hi_
lia halo alike uj o . the heights of woith
prosperity and in the valleys of tempt r.ii ad 1
versity. j
•A part of the solution to the secret lies in j
Mr. Robson’s admirable physical organiza- j
tion, in lr,s tine constitution, his splendid I
vitality, his bouyant hopefulness, his tireless j
energy and his warm sympathy with his ,
human brotherhood. These helped to give j
his nature its rare development; but a high j
moral sense, a faithful study and (Oiscien- |
tious following of the teachings of the great j
Nazarene came in to complete the circle, and 1
give to this man’s nature its rounded and j
beautiful symmetry.
An Englishman by birth, coming to tills
country when young, one of the most inter
esting of the eulogies that shed their spon
taneous perfume over his grave, says of him:
“His life exhibited the characteristics of the
best kind of Englishman—the Englishman
bv whom the peculiar glory of England lias
been wrought, and by whom its present
greatness is upheld. There could be seen in
him the same sound integrity of moral per
ception, tbe almost pathetic steadiness of
gentle heroism that carried Latimer and
Ridley triumphantly through the flames of
Smithfield, and Wellington through those of
Waterloo. He did right easily, inevitably as
if by instinct. Tbe law that attracts us to
good seemed to act on him as the law of
gravitation acts upon bodies within jits in
fluence. He spoke the truth as if there was
no other possible course. He was without
ostentation or worldly ambition. Little
cared he, of this sound manhood, for the
pomps and vanities of the world. His own
consciousness was his estate and wealth. He
who enjoyed a richness of life that had
sprung up, grown and mellowed in heaven's
beams could see no happiness in the hollow
vanities of earth. I’oor and mean, and vul
gar must the triumphs of selfish ambition
have seemed to him, who had so completely
suppressed Self and whose life had become
hidden in the life of Christ."
Indeed an unconscious child like simplicity
was a distinguishing attribute of this large
and bounteous nature. Another marked
trait was a radiant cheei fulness, that saw
ever the silver lining to the cloud, that kept
his heart green when his temples bore the
gray livery of age, an I gave him that sym
pathy with youth which cbok from his coun
sel and example the austerity that often re
volts the young.
Major J. H. Lewis one of Mr. Robson’s
earliest friends, in his beautiful and eloquent
tribute to the life of this remarkable man
describes him as he saw him first. It was in
1817 and 1S1S when Major Lewis was a child,
but he distinctly remembers the fine looking
Englishman with his clear, rosy complexion,
his bouyant look, as though disappointment
had never touched him, aud the cheerful gen
iality, “always under check of perfect de
corum and courtesy, which made his conver
sation so attractive lo ihe young and indeed
to the intelligent of all ages.”
At this time of which Major Lewis writes,
Mr. Robson was a resident of Greensboro,
Georgia. Afterwards he removed to Madi
son where he married, became a leading
merchant and one of the most influential
citizens of the county. Major Lewis says:
“He never felt ambition, would have put
aside political promotion, but tilled accepta
bly a seat on the bench of the Inferior Court,
whoss incumbents, were at that day, chosen
from the men of the country most distin
guished for social standing, solid worth and
intellectual respectability. With tine habits
of business, formed almost in childhood,
with remarkable energy aud with instinctive
rectitude as a basis of character to inspire
confidence, there was lit tie difficulty in his
acquiring an ample competency. He met
reverses of fortune later in life, but ere the
time I knew him, he had dropped a quiet an
chor in depths so secure that it could defy
every tempests—in depths whose surface
alone could he rippled by the hurricanes of
life. While neither noisy nor demonstrative,
he was yet active, influential and useful in
the church, where his steady consistent, hut
utterly unobtrusive example made him a
pillar of strength and a shining light to the
world outside. These fine examples are elo
quent as Whitfield or Chryostom. Their
voices never die out iu sileuce. They ring
perpetual echoes iu the hearts and consciences
of men. Their services to religion and
morality resemble the enconomiesof Nature.
The pulpit, with its sh wers of instruction
and peals of reproof, purifies the atmosphere.
The ministry of example in the intervals,
like the modest dew, preserves that purity,
and refreshes and brightens the moral land
scape. Such a noble, Ghristiou example was
seen in John Robson’s life. Encircled with
the sunshine of religion, his descent to the
tomb leaves behind a track of light. What
to such a man were all the seductive misin
terpretations of nature and modern science
with reference to Christianity! He was of
that class of vigorous-minded Christians who
oppose the proof of consciousness to the evun-
escent subtleties of scepticism—a proof cog
nate to the great philosopher's “ I think,
therefore I am,” which has never been refut
ed. To the mtidel, John Rohson would prob
ably have replied, “I feel, therefore!know.”
Such is Major Lewis’ thoughtful and feel
ing tribute to his friend'
Over the remains of the deceased as they
lay in their casket in the Methodist church
of Atlanta, abounding testimony was utter
ed concerning the good man's exulted char
acter and the affection the people bore him.
Chief Justice James Jackson pronounced a
eulogy brimful of eloquent sincerity, grace
and fervor. He had known the deceased, he
said, forty years before, when he himself
was young and wild, the associate of godless
young men “who yet had all confidence in
the piety of this Christian man. He was,”
says Judge Jackson, “foremost inevery good
work. He illustrated them by devotion to
the good, the same religion whieh so serene
ly softened the twilight of his happy and
holy day. He was emphatically an epistle
kuown and read of all men. Those who did
not read their Bible, could read its religion
in his upright walk and steadfast devotion
to duty. No one attacked his integrity,
none doubted bis purity and piety.
“When, after the civil war, I settled in
Macon, brother Robson soon sojourned there
too as an officer in the Masonic Insurance
Company. There, in the Mulberry Street
Methodist Church, he was the same happy
Christian you saw and knew him here. His
face was aglow with the same halo, his eyes
sparkled with the same joyful tears, his voice
trembled with the same holy unction when
he spoke of God and his goodness. There, as
here, he repeated in every experience the
sentence from the word of God which was
the motto of hi' life: ‘Do justly, love merer,
j walk humbly before God.’ These words
: were written, as my brother has just told
j you, on tbe margin of his old Bible, worn
| with the reading of fifty years. These words
I were stereotyped on his heart; they were
1 photographed in his life.
“Often, very often, have I heard him say-
‘I have perfect peace. 1 am full of joy. Not
even temptation assails me now. 1 wonder
why the Lord lets me linger so long. I wait
His will patiently: full of unspeakable love I
await his summons.’ Ah! venerable saint,
your God kept you as a finger-post to point
us to the skies. As John Weslev and Lovick
Pierce remained so long to lift God’s ch:l
| dren to the higher plain of Christi m life by
| speech and writings and example, so, in your
1 narrower sphere, but sphere as high and
1 pure as theirs, you were left to lift us nearer
your side, to raise us; to mountain tops of
faith above the niiasrna of a worldly life.
Long will your revered form and venerable
face, your holy counsel and mellow expert
ence tie remembered in the prayer room and
class room below. Long will your example
stimulate faith and brighten hope, enrich
love and energize action.”
~ Most people use or hear the words “Mrs.
Grundy,” as applied to gossip, and meaning
the female part of society, according to fash
ionable slang, without knowing their origin.
“What Mrs. Grundy says,” means “what
the gossips say.” The original Mrs. Grundy
w as the wife of President Van Buren’s Attor
ney-General, the Hon. Felix Grundy, of Ten
nessee, and she ruled aristocratic society in
Washington w ith a rod of iron. Her edicts
were law, her presence was indispensable to
the success of all fashionable gatherings, and
such an authority she became on social topics,
that the expression “Mrs. Grundy says” be
came so common as to outlive her fame.
Do Not Stammer
ANY MORE !
VO (OVFIMOV SIIOI LH BE MADE
between the French method of Messrs.
ititoiiii:ic*
lor curing permanently Stammering and a.
delects of speech, and t.:.e many other so-called
systems which so far have proved tv, be mere
humbugs and have resulted <» ly in.mone\-
waating by the credulous patients who can
didly believed in Mouutbauks' extravagant
program-, es.
No money is requited in advance by Mr.
Lucian Felon, whose wonderful cures in
Montreal, St. Louis, Charleston. New Orleans
Philadelphia, «fcc., are attested by undeniab:e
testimonials from the most respectable citi
zens.
Nor one cent asked from the patient until
bis, or her, cur is acknowledged by a com
mittee of competent persons.
Cure certain and permanent after a lapse* '
from one week to three weeks, according t*»
t he smartness of the stammerer.
Address !»r«l. L. DELON.
270 2t K«*nnesaw House, IV-j Broad st
Logical Teaching.
“Che Louis ullc mu promcncr hier madin, a lu
parr, tans uu* foiaarc a' Uu is c/ie/als,” Such is
the kind of elegant French one is sure to learn
from a German teacher of the French lan
guage. Alike non enviable pronunciation,
with a strong English accent, may be expect
ed from an English or American teacher of
said language, however highly educated and
well versed in the French grammar and liter
ature this foreign teacher may be. Therefore,
if you wish to talk French with a correct
genuine pronunciation, which will not call a
smile on the lips of your hearers, you muf
take lessons from a f rench gentleman or la
dy. And now is your opportunity,by address
ing Prof. ALCitED K'KHEKY. Kennesaw
House, I'. 1 7 broad street. Terms moderate.
270-2t
AN ERA IN SUNDAY SCHOOL MUSIC^
“Spiritual Songs for the Sun
day-School.’’
By Rev. CHAS. S. ROBINSON, D. D.
Author of “Songs for the Sanctuary,'' etc
Completing, with Spiritual Songs /«,
Chtirch‘and Choir,” and “Spiritual Songs
for Social Worship,'' the “Spiritual Songs
Series" of standard lignin books.
Send 25 cents to Scribner & Co., 743 Broad
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It has been said of it that “It marks the high
tide of reaction from the Mother Goose era of
Sunday-school bymnology.”
The Illustrated Christian Weekly
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2&l-4t
ATLANTA MEDICAL COLLEGE,
(THE TWENTY-TIHRD ANNUAL COURSE
I of Lectures will commence October 15th,
ls8u, and close March 2d, 1881.
FACULTY—H. V. M. Miller, W. F. West
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land, V. H. Taliaferro, W. A. Love, J. H.
Logan. W . s. Armstrong.
At the last Annual Commencement the
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six hundred and ninety-three. It is in con
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o f nisi «■,
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BRANCHES TAUGHT—Piano. Organ,
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