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THE SHiSnSTT SOUTH.
TALMAGE.
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mntioD to express his devotional aspira
tions. One is ja*t as good as the other.
“Every man is /ally persuaded in his own
mind.” Now in onr neighborhood, on Ox
ford street, we have qniet. Every neighbor
prefers his own home to any ether home,
and yet he is in peaee with all the neighbor,
hood. I have no idea that I will promote
the prosperity of my household by upsetting
somebody elee’s home, nor has my neigh
bor any idea that he will benefit his home
by injuring my home. Each one preferring
his own home the better, yet kindand good
neighborhood. Now so it ought to be in the
kingdom of Christ. Preference for relig
ious hames, but large-hearted and Christian
neighborhood. “Peaee on earth, good will
to men.” George Whitfield was going o\er
a Quaker rather roughly for some of his re
ligions sentiments, when the Quaker said :
“George, I am as. thou art; I am for bring
mg all men to the hope of the goepsl; there
fore, if thou wilt not quarrel with me about
my broad brim, I will not quarrel with thee
about thy black gown. George, give me
thy band.”
In tracing out the origin of sectarianism
or bigotry I fiod that a great deal of it come
from wrong education in the house circle.
There are parents who do not think it
wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar
forms of religion in the world and denounce
other sects and other denominations. It is
very often the case that that kind of educa
tion acts j ist opposite to what was expected,
and the onildren grow up and after awhile
go and see for themselves, and looking in
those ohurohes and finding that the people
are good there and they love God and keep
his commandments, by natoral reaction
they go and j )in those very ohurohes. I
could mention the names of prominent min
isters of the gospel who Fpent their whole
life bombarding other denominations and
who lived to see their children preach the
gospel in those very denominations. But ii
is often the case that bigotry starts in a
household and that the subject of it never
reoovers. There are tens of thousands of
bigots ten years old.
I think sectarianism and bigotry also
arise from to i great prominence of any one
denomination in a community. All the
other denominations are wrong and his de
nomination is right, beoause Jri* denomina
tion is the most wealthy, or the most popu
lar, or the most it floential, and it is “our’
oburoh, and “our” religious organisations,
and “our” choir, and “our ’ minister, and
the man tosses his head and wants other
denominations to know their places. "It is
a great deal better in any oomihuiifty when
the great denominations Of Christians are
about eqnal in power, marching side by *i>ie
for the world’s oonqnest Mere outside
prosperity, mere worldly power, is no evi
dence that the ohuroh is acceptable to Gcd
Better a barn with Christ in the manger
than a cathedral with magnifioent harmo
nies rolling through the long drawn aisle
and an angel from heaven in the pulpit if
there be no Christ in the ohanoel and no
Christ in the robes. -
B'fotry is often the child of ignoranoe.
Ton seldom find a man with large intelltct
wno is a bigot. It is the man who thinks he
knows a great deal but he does not. Thai
man is almost always a bigot. The whole
tendency of education and civilization is to
bring a man out <f that kind ofstateof
mind ar,d heart. There was in the far east
a great obelisk, and one side of the obelisk
was white, another side of the obelisk was
had given their lives to something practical
they might have been vastly useful. Sup
pose'his morning while I speak there were
a oommOT enemy coming np the bay
through the narrows and all the forts around
New York began to fire into each other-
yon would cry ont: “National suicide!
Why don’t those forts blaze away in one di
rection and that against the common ene
my," and yet I sometimes see in the obnreh
of the Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing go
ing on: Chnreh against ohnroh, minister
against minister, denomination against de
nomination, firing away into their own fort
or the forts that ought to be on the same
side, instead of concentrating their energy
and giving one mighty and everlasting vol
ley against the navies of darkness riding up
through the bay. I go ont sometimes in the
summer and I find two beehives, and these
two beehives are in a quarrel. I come near
enough not to be stnng, hot looms j i*t near
enough to hear the controversy, and one
beehive says: “That field of clover is the
sweetest,” and another beehive says. “That
field of otover is the sweetest.” I onme be
tween them and I say. i'Stop this qnarrel.
If yon like that field of clover beet, go there.
Bat let me tell yon that that hive whioh gels
t“e most honey is the best hive ” So 1 come
out between the churches of the Lord Jesus
Cnrist. One denomination of Christians
says, “That field of Christian doctrine is
'he beet;” and another says, -This field of
Christian doctrine is best.” “Well,” I say.
“go where yon get the most honey.” That
is the best ohnroh which gets the most honey
of Chris'ian grace for the heart and the
m >et honey of Christian usefulness for the
life.
Depend upon it intolerance never puts
down any denomination What did it do
against the Methodist ohnroh ? That ohnroh
was persecuted and nearly all the pnlpits
of Great Britain dosed against her minis,
tors. The very name of the ohnroh was giv
en in derision, There arc in the Astor li
brary, New York, I am told 707 books and
pamphlets against Methodism kept there
merely as a curiosity. Did tolerance de
stroy the Methodist ohnroh? She stands
either first or seoond, I do know whioh now.
in nombera in all the earth while she hss
men not only in places of religions trns',
but of secular trust. Intolerance against
the Methodist ohnroh has lifted it np. What
is the ns« of trying then that spirit of intol
eranoe. Let ns have division of work. Lei
ns attend to Christian work ard let -atan
d » all the work of intolerance. He is live!)
tied he is aotive, and he is industries, and
he ooderstsnde ecclesiastical law. He Will
at'end to that.
What dm intolerance accomplish against
the Baptist ohnroh ? If laughing, scorn, if
tirade and denunciation could have destoy-
ed that huroh it would not have been a dis
ciple to day. Rev. Leonard Bernkop, t
Baptist minister, burned at Salisbury be
oanse he was a Baptist, in his dying mo
inents saying: “I am roasted enongh on
that side ; torn me over now; the fire don't
hurt compared wit the eternal glory.’ 1
Rev. Mr.a Jmee, a Baptist, because he was
a Baptis', drawn on a hnrdle from New
gate to Tybnrtn His dead body lifted on
the City gates. His head lifted on a pole
and set np in front of the place where he
n-ed to preach. Rev. Obadiah Holmes, a
Baptist minister, and because he was a Bap
tist, publioly whipped and two men coming
up and shaking hands with h m they got
whipped, and the surgeon who dressed his
wounds pursued as a criminal .-F -nr hnn
dred Bapti-ls were put to death in Flanders
and Holland because they were Baptists.
Even Richard Baxter lost his balance on the
subjactand he said that the Baptists were as
bad as murderers because they put people
under water and they canght their deaths of
cold. He wrote these words: “The ordina
ry practice of baptism overhead and in cold
water, as necessary, is a plain breach of the
sixth commandment. Therefore it is not
an ordinance of God but a heinous sin; and
Patti and her tenor-How sh? makes her bags of gold.
green, another side of the obelisk was bine.
U And travelers went and looked at that obe
lisk, bnt they did not walk aronnd it. One
man looked at one side, another at another
aide, and they'dame home, eaoh one having
looked on)7 at one side. And they happen- „ ,, . _ . , - - ,
ming uvfidnigss. ‘ 'l irti*”F"' !"Uv n, 8 .Tr, 1 ’’,.^ shows in hie book of gos- P la0 8
eu to meet, mentutjr nUyn, -rrv»Vn"v\r.-"rk”-— .... .■ - ■,
color of that obe- l fco“‘mber*>' tuf) uti&nt rc resn-ain ■ ■ — - j-~ —.—
• • ** ' ■ ■ ■ • sea over the drowning and fhe dead threw average priced one.u.T
nations are to be saved aud God d.maods
that yon and I help do it Forward, the
whole line in.
But there is a better way of overthrowing
the sectarianism and bigotry of the ohnroh
and that is by toiling in Christian servioe
ight beside people who differ from ns. Y m
cannot get two Christians to ha*e each other
if they have suffered together and striven for
Christ together. Here I find twoChristiau*
in angry o mtroversy. A messenger come-
aaking them to appear in a sick room
’’here is a man dying; he waDts to be prayed
’ >r. These tw brethren kneel; one on one
ide the bed, the other on the other side the
bed and they com nend the parting spirit to
the Lord Jesus. Cat these two men ever-
tight again? Oan th<*y ever be angry with
eaoh other ag ue? No. By the memory of
that dying pillow they will be brothers for
ever. And so I am gl-td when the spring
oomes and the anniversaries in all onr great
cities take place and on the same platform
there oome ministers of all denominations
if Christians to plead the same oaase. Af
ter I have been on the platform pleading
the same oanse of charity or mercy beside
some man with whom I have alwa>e differ
ed in a thou-and things—after I have stood
beside him pleading for the same cui-e, I
feel in my soul the sprint of brotherhood.
I cannot help it.
Perhaps I m ght more forcibly illustrate
this truth |hy calling yonr attention to an
incident whioh took plaoe a few years ago.
One Mond iv morning at abont 2 o'clock,
while her 900 passengers were soaud n«leep
her bertne, dreaming of home, thestea n-
Atlaotio crashed into Mars head. Five
hundred souls in ten minates lauded into
eternity ! O >, what a scene 1 Agonized
men and women running up aud down the
gangway
BILL AEP
On West’s Railroad-Pig Iron—Ala
bama Towns and Schools.
The other day I took a ride on thd narrow
gauge to Cedartown. It is a smart-little roaffi
and the train can skip out from a station quicker
than a wide gauge train. The whole turnout
looks like it was made for children to go on a
Sunday school excursion. The conductors and
engineers ought to be little men, and I think Mr.
West, who owns It, is entirely too big for his
road. I remember when he first came South,
and was prospecting around for iron property.
Before anybody knew It he had bought a few
thousand acres near Cedartown, and now he
rims a big furnace and owns a railroad, and has
doubled the population of Cedartown and
trebled the value of contiguous property.
Schools and churches are thriving, and so is
trade and business. It is wonderful what one
smart, energetic man can do for a community.
I saw great stacks of pig iron around the fur
nace, and learned there were over 7.000 tons
waiting for a rise In price. Mr. West said
there would be a rise before long. He
talked like he had confidence, aril said that
if the politicians would let the tariff on iron
alone he dident care who they elected president
so they dident elect him. He is one of the solid
men and devotes his time and money to Increas
ing the value of our natural products. The ore
in the hank and the charcoal in the standing
pines and the limestone in the quarry, all cost
improve society. They give a high tone to the
churches and the Sunday schools. They help
the merchants and the milliners and the board
ing houses and tlie liverv stables. It is a good
thing for a people to fatten off of people afar off
It is better than to have to live off of one an
other. When a than sends his danghter to
school in Marion lie has to send some money
with bar and the Marion |>eople get it. That is
the way the Yankees have lieen doing us. They
have been sending their goods and their Yankee
notions and nil their tomfooleries down here for
fifty years, and onr folks buy them and thev
have got hell off of us. Wheal was there ail
Marlon was happy. The fair was in full blast
and they had lots of raring and a circus and a
balloon ascension and an opera Iroiqie and all
sorts of vehicles were dashing to and fro all the
day long. Everybody seemed to have plenty of
money and they spent it free.
Alabama is certainly prospering. She lias
made wonderful strides in the last ten years
and has about doubled her property iu value
She lias railroads everywhere. Her State seal
shows her great rivers, lint her railroads are of
more consequence now. What huge things
these syndicates are. These mammoth corpora
tions that send their lines and systems all
through the country, and where there is a gap
they build a road and fill it. 1 was thinking
about the E. T. & V. that carried me away down
to Unfontown. How it occupies Georgia and
Alabama and I don’t know how many States.
What a head It takes to manage so vast an en
terprise. It is an aggressive system and is
fighting its way for business and is getting it
Our State mad property lias suffered by It but
our people have been benefited. Competition is
a good thing. It cheapens freight and fare and
gives more speed and develops civility and po
liteness.! With the railnoad commissions and
plenty of^competition the people are safe.
MR. EXCliniL
a rank quarrel about the
link. One man a id it was white, another
man said it was green, another man said it
was blue, and when they were in the very
heat of the controversy a more intelligent
traveler oeme and mid : “Gentlemen, I have
seen that obelisk, and yon are all right and
areall wrong. Why didn’t yon walk a*l round
the obelisk ?” Look out for the man who
sees only one aide of a religions troth. Look
•nt for the man who never walks roond
abont these great theories of God and eter
nity and the dead. He will be a bigot inev
i'ahly—the man who ODly sees one side.
There is no man more to be pitied than he
who his j ist one idea in his head ; no more,
no less. Better vaonity overthrowing the
philoeophionl theory that an entire vaoon-
nm is an impossibility than ju«t ooe idea
wandering aronnd abont in perpetual lone
liness and bachelorhood, wailing through
the desert of the mftn’e intellect. Belter no
idea at all than only one idea. Run up
pour schools and your colleges and your
universities. More light, i@gs sectarianism.
There is nothing that fill 63 #995 kill big
otry as sunshine—God’s shine.
Now, having shown you religion 6f cants,
bigotry, just look abroa in the ohuroh and
see the damage bigotry has done. It crip
ples investigation. The different denomi
nations of Ohristians were intended by ho
ly rivalry and hopest competition to keep
bach other w(d» awake. 8$, p 18 e one de
nomination of Christians should garble the
word of God, aU the other denominations
would fly out Id righteous indignation. It
was >o intended to be. While eaen denom
ination of Christians ie to present all the
troths of the Bible, it seems to me that God
has given to each denomination an especial
mission to give particnlar emphasis to some
ODe doctrine, and bo the C-tlyini-tio ohnroh
most present the sovereignty of Go.i, and
the Armenian ohurohes must present man’s
free aueucy, and the Ep>C pil charch°s
money. Iml it is not generally kno- n 'that fifty
. . . . . - v ,■ -yi cents worth will a ton of pig iron that wifi
>s, and clntohiog foi the rigging. | sell for fifteen dollars. From twelve to fourteen
pinnge of tiie helple-Jbie-.m^r. aud j dollars is expended for labor. I.almr of man
~ tk ?.oil ideas yujd beast, sweat aii.l toil that is paid for at an
.o save toe lives of his subjects.
word, it is good fetr nothing but to despatoh two continents into terror.
men out of the world that are burdeusome
and to ranken churchyards. 1 conclude if
murder be a sin then dipping ordinarily
overhead in England is a sin; and if those
who make it men’s religion to morder
themselves and nrge it upon their oon-
eoienoe as their duty are not to be suffered
in a commonwealth any more than high
way murderers, then jqdge how these Aua-
baptists that teneh the necessity of suoh
dipping are to be suffered.” In New Eng
land the Biptists were persecuted. They
were driven ont-of B iston and when a pe
tition was sent np asking leniency in their
behalf, the men who sigoed the petitiou
were fined: and it is a matter of ohuroh his
tory that after a man had been baptized by
immersion , weeks having gone by, aud his
death occurring, the effioi >ting olergyman
was thrown into prison and indio ed for
tnnrder. How near did intolerance destroy
the Baptist chnrh? Well, the last sta'i-tio
I saw of that ohorch waa they has 20 000
yliiireii® 8 ^ flhaat two million comuiuut-
uuglaod persecuted the Jews; Eoglnfl<1 by
law said no Jew should hold any official
power in the realm; England thrust back
the Jew and thrust down the Jew. Who was
for years the prime minister of England?
Who became next t<> Q teen Victoria iu pow
er? Who was higher than the throne be
oause its adviser and oouuselor? Disraeli,
the Jew. lot deranoe never puts down any
thing, it puts it up.
But now, my friends, hakitig shown yon
the origin of bigotry or sectarianism and
haviog shown yon the d image it does, 1
Want briefly to show you how we Hre to war
against this terrible evil, and I mink we
nnght to begin our war by real'Z ug our own
weakness aud onr imperfections If we
make so many mistakes in the common
brave quartermaster pushing out with the
life line until he ge e to the rook; and see
these fishermen gathering up the shipwreck
ed, and taking them into the oabtns, aud
wrapping them in the flannels snug and
warm! and see that minister of the gospel
with three other men getting into a life
boat and pushing ont for the wreck, polling
away across the surf, and pulling away an
jJll they saved one more man, and then get
tiog back with him to the shore. Can those
men ever forget that night? And oan they
ever forget their oompanionship in peril,
companionship in straggle, companion hip
in awfnl catastrophe and rescue? Nevur I
never I Iu whatever part of the earth they
tnee they will be friends when they men
tion the story of that awful night when the
Atlantic si ru k Mars Head.
Well, my friehua, our world has gone into
ft wor e shipwreck. Sin dt>ve it on the
rooks; The old ship has torched and toss
ed in the tempests of 6 000 years. Oat with
the life line; i do Dot oare what denomina
tion carries it. Out with the life-boat; I
do uot care what denomination rows it.
Side by side, in the memory of common
hardships and o>mcn n trials and c mmon
tears, let us be brothers f rever. We must
be, we most be. God hasten t e time when
all denominations of Christians shall j mu
hands around >he cross of Christ and recite
the Creed: 1 “Believe in God, the Father
A'mighty, Maker of heaven and esrth and
in Jeans Chri-t nd in the oomtn nion of
of saints a-id in the life everlasting.”
Bnt see this ‘ a d< i y keep the average laborer and his wife
and his children from want, bnt fifty rents will
not. When the tariff is taken off and foreign
iron comes tree into our markets tlie price will
tie reduced to seven or eight dollars a ton and
the labor be reduced in the same way. That
will help the masses a little I reckon, for mir
plows and hoes and wagons will la; a little
cheaper, not milch, hut it will he ruin to those
poor humble toilers who make the iron. Fifty
cents a day wont support them, for bread
aud meat will he no cheaper than it
is now. Some things will come down
tinder the free trade principle hut bread I
aud mesit will not. We eliport wheal arid
flour and pork ami beef now to '
charge no custom house duties,
should they come down. What we
His Criticism Criticised-
_I do not propose In this letter to answer your
intemperate expressions against me personally,
but to make a few remarks on your article in
the Sunny South concerning my criticisms of
the “Fair Eurasian,” which remarks I hope will
benefit you if you contemplate continuing your
career ;is a critic. You cite Carlyle’s expres
sion, that “critics are those who have them
selves failed in literature,” which is meant, I
suppose, as a side slap at me. Now the sound
old Scotchman used that expression, hut if you
apply it to Voltaire, Boileau, St. Beuve, Mat
thew Arnold etc.,yon will findthat far from being
a rule by «liieh to judge critics, it is only an un
healthy ebullition of a mind warped by dyspe;>-
sla and disappointment. So don’t resort to it
again.
You further 3ay that you may “hang the fault,
finding Ericsson upon his own gallows.” 1
wouldn't use such coarse, vulgar expressions if
1 were you. They only show that you have
been iu' bad literary company, and wouldn't
hurt me hilt blight injure yourself.
You seent to raise objection to |„y calling the
ather of the “Fair E.” a—hidalgo” and a
•grandee. ir he was a scion of a long line, of
Castiil.ill ancestry and the richest man iu Spain,
as we are informed afterwards, and was not a
grandee—not even a hidalgo—he certainly might
lie considered as such by implication. How
ever, that lias nothing to do with it. The fact
that a descendant of a long line of Castilian an
cestry and ilie richest man in Spain was ciriii-
vating coffee in Java and jobbing with a Yankee
speculator is sufficiently ubsurdln itself, wheth
er he was a hidalgo, a grandee, or not. Now,
dear Kxealibur, I would advise you. if you can’t
make any sharper cuts than that, to let your
bright sword rest’quietly in its scabbard. You
then say something about my “ignorance of the
story.” I don’t know what that means. Does
it mean that I have not read the story, or that
I have failed to notice its literary beauties, or
that my pointing out its faults is all in Hie
wrong, or w hat? You further go on in this wav:
“Were Ills crilh ism less varied, he might lie ex-
ensed ii)m>ii the plea of ignorance: hut, since lie
demands justice, it is well,” etc. Now, what my
demanding justice (whatever that may imply)
lias to do with my criticism being more or less
varied. 1 am at a complete loss to fathom. The
logical train of ideas is too rickety. Friend Kx-
caiilmr, you must really try to lie a little less
rumbling if you wish to s< t up for arrilic. This
is honest adviee, with no sneer about it! Or, if
■VfiL d»n I., some person 'ess good-natured than
1 am might suggest t liat't iT?'- erne one ii "iog,'^rf“
reason,” whicli you profess to manage, lias not
fire enough under it to keep it working, or that
it may he cracked somewhere. Such remarks
are unpleasant, you know, and I would not like
to see you exposed to them. And your exclama
tions: ”A brilliant critic! A Daniel—yea, Dan
iel!”—what must 1 think of them? Well, my good
friend, they would stilt a rancorous, bigoted par
son at a revival much better Ilian a reflued critic
of literature. Whatever you do, don’t fall intu
the error of using such and similar explosions is
long as you meddle,wtrtl I>olll» literature. It will
htll'l your l’fpUtutlntti as sure as you ;tre born.
* And nt lust, we come to 21 part of what
REV. DRJALMAGE.
Lectors on Ingersollism-
This great divine, the greatest of American
lecturers, will deliver next Tuesday, Veeember
2d, in Atlanta, his fine lecture on IngersolUsm.
The fame of Mr. Talraage has reached the most
oliscure corner of this continent, and therefore
hut little need he said about him. Whatever
subject he undertakes he treats it in an exquis
ite. masterly grand manner. Every time he has
delivered one of his lectures in Atlanta the Ojv
era House has been filled. But the subject of
the present discourse hits a fteculiar interest for
our people, aud we must call everypody’s atten
tion to the coming event. To the scientist, the
question to be reviewed is of great Importance;
It Is discussed every day In our pe
riodicals, In our universities, in our de
bating societies. A dissection of It by
tliis eminent divine will be highly Interesting
for our society people who have heard so much
of the same matter, they will have much to
learn in listening to the opinions of tlie reverend
gentlemen. But those who ought not to inlse
1 lie opportunity are the young of both sexes,
who are now on the tlireshhold of life, and are
forming an opinion wliieh will have a great in
fluence ti|M>n their future existence. To them
we would say: come ail To their parents we
wold stiy: send them. The theories advocated
by Ingersol and Tulti Qiianti are veiw dan
gerous ; no worse poison can he instilled iu a
young heart. The reverend doctor will show
them liow fhllacfoMi these theories are; how hoF
low is the doctrine; what a humbug Is the great
American apostle of them.
The following from the Philadelphia
describes the style of the orator:
lie defies criticism. The attempt to do any
thing but listen to those sentences, now short,
sharp and ringing, and now drawn out with a
P aintiveiiess that will Huger after his voice has
died away; to do anything but laugh at those
fine lilts—1 hat delicate sarcasm, mimicry that Is
the perfection of aeting—or to feel so very, very
serums when, in a moment, you are carried from
laughter to a sober, solemn reflection; the
attempt, in fine, to be in anything else but in
complete harmony with tlie s;>eaker, and
to acknowledge Iris absolute sway, is so
vain that it needs only to be mentioned
and tried to show his power. We thought
hist evening, as we looked over the
audience, now unrest rained in its merriment,
now hushed so that we could hear the clock's
solemn tiering keeling time to the speaker’s
utterances—people seemingly afrtiid to breathe,
lest they might lose a word—we thought to our
selves. here is tlie perfection of oratory; here is
dominion absolute and nndisi uted; here is
mind linked to mind, reeeiving its sustenance
from one superior to its own, ready to ac’.-owh
edge its subjection, equally touched' ‘ ' >0 -
nerest and merriest moods, now unseai...g its
fountain of tears, and. in the next instant, feei-
mg a gaiety atnl gladness without an alloy—
/‘huadeJphia 4 !
A Frw Words from Captain R.
W. R»o*rr,a Well-Known
i'isiien ol m»c»n.
In August. 1881, nearly three years ago, nay
son, whowasMi that time living at Uinton,
Da came over to see me with the *ad Intel
ligence thalbis wile was In the last stags* of
'HIM • plum ami that, her pby»!< tan had pro
nounced her case hopeless. I went Imn-edi-
• tely over, and I felt that nothing could bo
ton . Mne was coughing and spitting inces
santly, and at tin es wnu d discharge rrom
ner lung- a large quantity or pus or matter—
could not sleep or retain anything on her
stomach, and was. in fact. In the last stages
>l the di-ease. This wi» abont the tin e you
oegan to advertise Rrewer s Lung Restorer*
and, as my son expressed* desire to give It
o Iris wile, two or ihree oomes were pro
cured and wit h scarcely a vestige of hope we
commenced giving it to her in small doses,
gradually increasing the quantity until the
prescribed dose was reached. She began to
'•npr ve alter a tew doses, ami co-tinued to
do SO daily uni it she was flnady restored to
de and health, and is to-day perhaps in bet-
>er health th n ever before. Nile is subject to
cools bu a few swallows ol Brewer’s Lung
ttesiortwhich she is never without) relieves
her immediately. 1 Cn,iisider her restoration
'« Perfect healti a mtqute. for w tch she is
."debt-, to Brewer’ ? Restorer, My sou
"stiy^i
Brewer s Li ng Restorer and never i» ts an
opportunity puss where he thinks sneb a
medicine would be required, that he does not
-peak of It In most glowing terms. Not toue
once a Northern gentleman on his way £
Mi rlda heard of this cure and was induced by
my son to give It 10 hii; )q valid wife, and th%
-vas cured as it by qnfigia- '
must present t e imporun. e of orrer andi affairs of life, is It nut pOseloie that we may
sublime oeretnou), aud the Baptist churches | make mlstftitfes iu regard to our religious
must present the necessity of ordinauc. s aff-irs? 8 -all we take an a ■ by the throat or
and the Congregational churches most pre
sent the responsibility of the individusl
member and the Methodi t ohuroh must
show what holy enthusiasm and he irty con
gregational singing can accomplish. While
eaoh dem mination of Christians must set
forth all the doctrines of the Bible, I feel it
is especially incumbent upon eao denom
ination to put particular emphasis on some
one ductriue. But yon see that a man is a
bigot who shu's his eyes to all the lessons
he might learn from other denominations
Yon are wrong and I am right aod that
ends it. No taste for exploration, for in
vestigatiou ; no d sposition to reason the
matter over. And from the realm of God’s
glorious truth, over whioh an archangel
might fly from eternity to eternity and nev
er reach the limit, the man ah nut himself
ont. a blind mole onder a corn snook.
Another great damage done by the sec
tarianism and bigotry of the Church ie that
ii disgusts people with the Christian relig
ion. Now, my friends, the ohnroh of G >d
was never intended for a war barrack. Peo
ple are afraid of a riot. Yon go down the
street and yon eee an eioitement and mis
•iles fl,ing through the air and > oh hear the
shook of fi>e arms. Do yon, the peaeefnl
and indnstrions eitiz n, go through that
street? *< >n, no,’ yon say; ‘lfll go round the
bio k.’ N »w n on oome and look upon this
narrow path to heaven aud sometimes see
the eoolesiastioal briekhats flying every
whither and they say, ‘Well, I guess I’ll
take the broad road,' for there is so much
sharp-shooting on the narrow road; I guess
I'll lake the broad road. I have more ad
miration for a Spanish boll fight, and think
it more nsetnl aud honorable than <he con
test of e iruiverons ecolesi-tstios. Franois I
so hated the Lutherans that he said if Re
thought there was one drop jf L ithtran
blood in his veius he wonld puncture them
and let that drop ont. Just as long as there
is so much hostility between denomination
and denomination, or between ooe profess
ed Christian and another, or between oue
church and another, j ist so ieng will men
be disgusted with the Christian religion,
and sh> if that is religion 1 want noue of it.
Again bigotry and sectarianism do great
damage, from the fao , that they hinder the
trinmph of the gusuel. Oh, how mooh
wm-ted am munition 7 1 H»w many, men of
ap'endid intellect have given their whole
lifts to controversial oiiputee, wnen if they
by the #o!ar because he omnotsee religions
truth jn-r as we do? 11 the light of eternity
it will be f mod ont, I think, there was soulu
thing wrong in all our ertflds aud some
thing right in all our oreeds. But sinoe w*
may make mistakes in regard to things of
the World, do not let ns be so egotistic and
so pnffsd np as to have an idea that we oau
not make any mistake in regard to religious
theories, and then we wil{ do a great deal
to overthrow the rec onanism from onr
heart and the sectarianism from the world
hv chiefly enlarging in those things iu whioh
we agree rather than those on which we dif
fer. Now, here is a go-pel platform. A
man oomes np on this aide the platform
and says: “I don’t believe in baby sprink
ling,” Shall I throw him < ff ? Here is a
man coming np on this side the platform
and sat sc “I don’t believe in the persever
ance Of ihe saints.” Shall I throw him off?
No, I will say, “Do yon believe in the Lr.id
Jssns as yonr Savior, d» yon trust him for
lime end for eternity?’’ He says: ‘-Ye-.’’
“Do yon take Christ for time and for eter
nity?" “Yes.” I say, “Come on, brother ;
one in time aod one in eternity; brother
now, brother forever.” B1 seed be God for
a gospel platform so large that all wno re-
eeive Christ may stand on it.
I think we may overthrow the severe sec
tarianism and bigotry in onr hearts and in
onr ohnroh, also by realizing that all the de
nominations of Christians have ,Ayer’s Sarsaparilla thoroughly cleanses the
ble institutions and noble men. inere is i stimulates the vital tiuictious, aud re-
nothing that so stirs mv sonl as this thought, stores the health ami strength. No one whose
One denomination yielded a R ibart Hall | i,| ih mI is impure cau feel well. There is a weary,
aud an Adoniram J'id-ou. another yielded a ! languid feeling, and often a sense of discourage-
Latim-r aod a Molville; another yielded niei.t and despondency. Persons having this
. ... . . . .. ’ jo -a i-t feeling should lake Ayer’s Sarsaparilla to purify
“One army of the living God,
To whose command we bow:
Part of tlie host have crossed the flood,
Aud part arc crossing now.”
Eczema!
Eczema is one of the ugliest ilriii iriost trouble
some of all blond diseasas. It pna-eeds from
liiiinors iu tlie hlomi-wlilch are sometimes very
difficult to eratlk’file. For five weary years Mr.
J. D. Rodefef, ol tireeudale, Va.. suffered ter
ribly ff-oiil this disease. He writes: “Eluding
no relief iu the many medicines till 1 used
Brown’s Iron Bitters, I pm chased three bottles;
from the use of winch 1 have obtained almost
entiie relief. 1 recommend it to every oue m my
neighborhood for auy disorder of Hi aud
as a general tonic.” e blood
One should believe iu marriage as in the Im
mortality of the soul.—BnJtac.
Consumption Cored.
An old physiatcm, retired from praetioe.
having had placed in his hands by an E <s'
India missionary the formula of a simple
vegetable rente ly for the speedy and per
manent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis
Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lang
Affections, also a positive and radical oare
for Nervous Debility and all Nervous C m-
plaints, after having tested its wonderfnl
carat ive powers in thousands of oases, has
felt it his duty to make it known to his snf
fering fellows. AotDried by this motive and
a desire to relieve human snff-ring, I will
send free <>f charge to all who deeire it, thi-
reoipe, io German, French, or English,with
full directions for preparing and using.
Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, na
ming this paper, W. A Noyes, 149 Power’s
Bloos, Rochester, N Y.
Run no risks when your soul is at stake.—
Theodore L. Vuylrr.
flour and pork and beef now to countries that I Xlal-ha* criticism of niy re
charge no custom house duties. Ttien why "" j, 1 ? )l j a, TJ’j’.<S h i el S J?“ u rea y - lave
should they come down. What we all Want is kI!- , 6 ., 1 ,
diversified industries. Anniston flourishes and 5er father’s coffee fields, and tha
John Wesley and the blessed 8 immerfield,
while onr own denomination yielded J »hu
Knox and the Alexanders, men of whom
the world was not worthy. N >w I say if we
are honest and fair minded men when we
come up in the preseuoe of snohehmohes
and anoh denominations, although tney
may he different from onr own, we onght to
admire them and we onght to love and hon
or them The or-nrohes whioh oan produce
anoh men and snob large-hearted ohafity
and soon m igmfioent martyrdom onght; to
win onr Htfeorio-- »"y rate our reap*o'-
go oome on ye 95 COO Episcopalians in this
oon-iry. and ye 400,000 Preshiterians, and
ye 900.000 Bspliate ai d ye 2.010 000 Metho-
di<t<>—^Wine on; sftonMer iv atiuulder we
will maroh for the world’s oonqaeet; for all
and vitalize the blood.
A very stubborn man is often wrong, but sel
dom dishonest.
The lllgheNt Mcdlrsl Authorities,
Ceareile ANULO-8WIS8 MILK FOOD to
be tne BEST prepared FOOD for luranls
and Invalids. Ask Druggists, dr write An
glo Bwias Condensed Milk Co., 86 Hudson
8 reet. New York, for their “Pamphlet.
Notes,” regarding Use of Aoglo.8w.isgMilk
Foot*- (&-* advertisementtht*)pa|ier ) :
’ ADR ■ IMA p-TH. '*s graaf'- ’•» eigaireek,
■ays of Bnloii Palmei’a Per \ Toilet tkstps.
an-loih r Toilet article*: “I un hesitatingly pne
nonnee them superior to any I ever nsed.’ 1 Prin-
cpal Depot, 174 and 176 Petri HwKssr fork.
everybody seems Pi be doing well there. Even
the farmers in that uuborhood are making
money. They have a good market for every
thing they raise. 1 saw a bushel of turnips sell
there the other day for a dollar. I don’t blame
those people for wanting protection on iron, for
It supports them all. Suppose the Nobles and
Tylers have got rich and are getting richer.
Where can you find rich men who have added
more to values mid done more for our people.
They are Just the kind of rich men we want all
over the country. I think that my old friend
Sain Noble got scared tia> stain and flopped over
to Blaine Without any sufficient reason, but lie
can flop hack now gracefully aud apologize for
his haste and it will all come out right at last,
lie is too good a man to tight for llie Philistines.
Selma is improving rapidly. New blocks of
handsome buildings have been put up since I
was there live years ago and their commercial
business Seems to be increasing rapidly. What
a splendid country lies west of that town. 1J is
black land, and it is pretty blaek With
the negro, but the white folks- -speckle it
all over and get about all the negro makes
for he works about half tlie time aud
don’t want. much. It is all done lair and it is all
right, for it takes more to do white folks, and
the darkey is content with his portion. They
are as happy on a little as tiie while man is on a
good deal. They seem to have quit politics. Mr.
Davidson was elected to Congress over his Re
publican opponent l>y 7,000 votes, nolwitlist jud-
mg tlie negroes were three to one in the district.
There negroes didn't Care a cenl whether Blaine
or Cleveland was elected, so they can keep i n
making cotton and go to town Saturdays and to
meeting Sundays, and go to the circus when it
comes. I heard two of them at Hie depot talk
ing polities, and one ol them said: ‘ Weil. I'm
ail right; 1 voted for Cleveland, and when 1 set
him I is gwine to tell him so.” Tlie oilier said
•‘You is, is you? And when you tell Mr. Cleve
land you voted lor him lie look at you and wink
one eye aud say,’He h—1, you say!’” I heard
a goial, honest darkey talking lo his landlord
about Iris crop, aud lie said in substance: "Well,
boss. I is come out behind. 1 knows; I don’t
know how much 1 owes you, and don't want lo
know, for 1 can't pay it; but, boss, you knows
liow it is and you keeps de books, and l'il work
and work as long as de laird gives me strength.
Maybe he give poor bigger more rain next
year.”
Well, I do love these old fashioned houest
darkeys. 1 love them for their dependence and
trust in us. 1 wouldn’t defraud oue out of Iris
just dues for no amount of profit or gain. 1 had
rather overpay him Ulan underpay him. Blit 1
have no consideration for these educated u|>-
starls who swell around and talk trig about
equably. Well, as to mat, 1 Haven't any more
res|>eel for lazy su|>erci!lious white folks. Ed
ucation s|H>ils lots of folks, both white and
blaek. Just about half tlie college boys ought
to be in the corn field right now, they are no ac
count. Well, 1 don’t mean to say that tlie corn
field wants no account men but I mean to say
Dial tlie college spoilt a good corn field man.
When he was at home on tlie farm he was filten
to do something. But as Sam Jones says he
went off to college aud now he ain’t fit ten lo get
filten.
Marion Is about thirty miles west of Selina,
and is called the Athens of Alabama. There are
four colleges lliere-7-two for girls, one for Ikivs
and one for negroes. They are all iu a flourish
ing condition. Tlie tuwu is just sweet with
pretty girls. A young man who is fitien to get
married could go there and get a nice wile just
as easy. It seemed to me they were the largest
school girls 1 ever saw. But everybody Is huge
down there. 1 could have picked out a hundred
.men at tlie fair ground who would have aver
aged 200 pounds, and as many women who would
have averaged 160. There are lots ol big folks
down there. Moat all of the people past middle
age wear something la-fore tlieintliul the French
call “our bong pong.” It makes them look
lieallliy aud consequential. Wln-never a man
gels ricli and feels Iris oats lie begins lo put ou
some "our bong pong” and strut around. Ills
a mighty good sigu of contentment, aud 1 never
saw as much ol il as I saw al Marion. When
7ou see a town with lots of suburbs cut up in
large two-acre- hits, and a nice house with
a broad piazza set bark in a glove
of trees in every lot, you may be sure of a
happy, hospitable people. Plenty of room
aud plenty of shade aud an ab'liiidnfu-e of flowers
in tlie front yard enlarges and refines a people.
. Those.colleges do a great deal lor Marion. They
-Suer,
you really
’’ was staring at
that English Lord
was staring at her. That suggested to me a
scene of immovability; and as I happened to
think at tlie moment of Ben Butler, my fancy led
me astray so far as to make the “Fair E.” cross
eyed the m rone way. In order to perpetrate a
joke on old Hen. That was a stupid stroke of
Mr. Charles Eden, of Trinidad, Colorado,
say*: Bee ng certificates of toe wonderful
o ires made by Brewer’* Long Restore'’, J waft
induced lo try !t on my little son, who wn»
roubied with inng or throat afleetlon, pro
nounced b one physician consumption. It
imed wonderful,y on him. and by the urns
he bud taken one bottle o It the eoa.h dia-
topeared. I am now on a vis t to my parents
iu Ueorgia. but will return in a few days to
my home and will certainly take some 01 the
Lang Restorer with me.
LAMAR. RANKIN t LAMAR,
Maoon A'lan a and A bony, Ga.
JBrewer’s Lang Restorer contains no
on tales.) Ml
mine, and if I now say. “Frater Excallbtir, pec-
canvi.” I hope you will have no more remarks to
make about that.
. But now we come to a part where, I am sorry
to say, you miss it again. Here are vour words:
“He asserts that a Sultan must The either a
“ruler at Constantinople, or by courtesy, the
title may be applied to the rulers of Zanzihor
(Zanzibar is the spelling of It). W. H. DePuv,
in Iris encyclopaedia, defines Sultan as an Arabic
word, meaning mighty man.” That is a deriva
tion of the word; my dear Exralihiir, and has
nolhiug to do witli the subject in question.
“And a title of courtesy to people of high rank.”
Exactly. That corresponds with Webster’s
definition, which runs thus: “An apnelhitiou
given to the Emperor of the Turks, ueuoiing
ruler or comm miler. The title is sometimes
given to oilier Mohometfan sovereigns." Mo-
hamedah sovereigns—that is the ] oint. And
here comes in tlie absurdity of that I igh-born
Spaniard being willing to shut his daughter up
in a Moliainedan liaiem. Dear Excalihtir. don’t
von see liow von commence losing your -grip”
here by quoting from de Buy’s encyclopaedia?
That quotation don’t advance your cause an
Inch. Then you pmeeed in this way: Like those
I have mentioned, so are all of his criticisms,
groundless.” etc. Why. dear critic. Ii won’t do
to s eep everything behind you in that “1 od-
snappian” way, because you have only made
one point so far. You have not touched upon
the principal points of my criticism yet. viz.,
tlie inmphig across the lava stream, the looking
at the lights of Madrid from the Mediterranean,
the bridal party in tlie Madrid Cathedrals, the
jumping up of that English Lord Jack-in-the- It is from the recipe »f a mod dietirgnisbed
box. etc. It looks to me as if the rage with d ysicisn. It is composed > f wrietiy official in-
wliich you commenced yonr criticism petered I (Aedient*. wn-se bappy combination lasmver
out half way and caused you to collapse helore I f, eea n pae-ed. Ir. is prei ared with scientitio
S oil were half doue. Take care not lo fizzle in » ill fro .. the timet materials it be .re toe palm
int fashion next time you attempt criticising for caiBtam y of -t,e >sth. certiin'y ,,f effect,e «-
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80 appeared Mother Eve, and so may shine her
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And now for the advice I have been anxious to
giv • yon all this time. My dear Exealabur,
(Fxeaiibiir is the spelling of that word, by the
wav), when von g» to writing next time, be sure.
1. To get vour temper under control. 2. To
think well over what you mean to say. so as to
avoid floundering before you are done. 3. To
avoid all personalities; ana. 4. To steer clear of
vulgar and slang expressions. A little applica
tion to the studv of logic and rhetoric, with an
occasional spellfng-bee thrown in, would also not
be out of the way. By ntteuding to these friend
ly suggestions. I think you w III be a tolerably
fair writer after a while; and till then believe
me to be, Your friend and weU-wislier.
O. A. Ericsson.
Richmond, Va., November, 1881.
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