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THE SUMT SOUTH
ITALMAGE (^MONOPOLY.
Fourth of the Labor Sermons
in the Tabernacle.
The All-Devouring, Avaricious Fiend
Monopoly Denounced by the Eloquent
Divine—Beware ofNibiliim, He
is Not to be the Oroom.
UKOuKLlr N, June 0—Rev. T. UeWltt
Talmage. D. D.. preached to-day in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, the fourth of his
series of sermons on The Labor Question.
His snbjict was: “Monopoly an 1 Commun
ism Struggling for the Possession of this
Country.’’ Before beginning his sermon he
announce! that the congregation would
make a trip to the Thousand Isies on the 26th
Inst.
The text was Isaiah, Ixii, 4: “The Lord
delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be
married. ’ F. Ilowing is the sermon in full
As the greater includes the less, to does
the circle of future joy around our entire
world include the epicycle of our own re
public. Bold, exhilarent. unique, divine
Imagery of the text! S<> manv are depressed
by the labor agitation and think everything
In this country is going to pieces, 1 preach
this morning a sermon of goo 1 cheer and
anticipate the time when the Prince of Peace
and the Heir of Universal Dominion sh.,11
take possess on of this nation and “Thy land
shall be married.”
In dis ussing the final destiny of this
nation it makes all the difference in the
world whether we are on ihe way to
funeral or a wedding. The Bible loaves no
doub on this subject In pulpits, and on
platforms, and in places of pub ic concourse
I hear so many of the muffled drums of evil
prophecy sounded, as though we were on the
way to national in erment, and beside
Thebes an 1 Babylon, and Tyre, in the ceme
tery of dead nations our republic was to be
entombed, that 2 wish you to understand it
is not to be obsequies but nuptials; not
miuso’eum but carpeted altar; rot cypress
but orange blossoms; not requie a but wed
ding march, for “Thy land shall I« married.”
I propose to name some of the suitors who
are claiming the hand of this republic. This
land L so fair, so beautiful, so affluent, that
It has many suitors, and it will depend much
upon your advice whether this or that shall
be accepted or rejected.
In the first place, I remark: There is
greedy, all-grasping monster who comes in
as suitor seeking the hand of this republic,
and tba' monster is known by the name of
Monopoly. His scepter is made out of the
Iron of the rail track and the wire of teleg
raphy. He does everything for his own ad
vantage and for the robbery of the people.
Things ha. e gone on from bad to worse,
Until in the three legislatures of New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, for the most
part, Monopoly decides everything. If
Monopoly favor a law it passes. If Monop
oly oppose a law it is rejected.
Monopoly stands in this railroad depot,
putting into his pockets in one year $200.000,-
000 in excess of all reasonable charges for
service. Monopoly holds in his one hand the
steam power of locomotives, and in the other
the electricity of swift communication.
Monopoly decides nominations and elections
1 —C-ty elections, state elections, national
elections. With bribes he secures the votes
of legislators, giving them free passe-;; giving
appointments to needy relatives to lucrative
positions; employing them as attorneys if
they are lawyers; carrying their goods 15
per cent, less if they are merchants, and, if
he finds a rase very stubborn, as well as very
important, puts down before him the hard
cash of bribery.
But Monop ly is not so easily caught now
es when during the term of Mr. Buchanan,
the legislative committ’e in one of our states
expressed and exposed the manner in which
a certain railway company procured a dona
tion of public land. It was found out that
thirteen of the senators of that state received
$175,000 amen; them, sixty members of the
lower house of that state received $5,000 and
$10,000 each, the governor of tile state re
ceived $50,000, his clerk received $5,000, the
lieutenant governor received $10,000, ali the
clerks of the legislature received $5,000 each,
while $50 000 were divided amid the lobby
agents.
That thing on a larger or smaller Scale is
all the time going on in some of the states of
the Union, but it is not so blundering as it
used to be, and therefore not as easily ex
posed or arrested.
1 tell you that the overshadowing curse of
the United States to-day is Monopoly. He
puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat.
Upon every sack of salt, upon every ton of
coal; and every man, woman and child in
the United Slates feels the touch of that
moneyed despotism.
I rejoice that in twenty-four states of the
Union already anti-monopoly leagues have
been established. God speed them in the
work of lil>eration! I wish that t jis question
might be the question of our presidential
elections, and that we compel the political
parties to recognize it on th >ir platforms.
1 have nothing to say against capitalists.
A man has a right to all the money he can
make k< nestlv. There is not a laborer in
the land that would not be worth $1,000,000
if he could. I have nothing to sav against
corporations ns such—without them no great
enterprise would be possible; but what I do
say is that the same principles are to be ap
plied to capitalists and corporations that are
applied to the poorest man and the plainest
laborer. What is wrong for me is wrong for
great corporations. If I take from yon your
property without adequate compensation I
am a thief, and if a railway damage the
property o the people without any adequate
compensation that is a gigantic theft. IVhat
is wrong on a small scale is wrong on a large
scale. Monopoly in England has ground
hundreds and l housauds of her best people
into semi-starvation, and in Ireland has
driven multitudinous tenants almost to mad
ness.
Five hundred acres in this country make
an immense farm. When you read that in
Dakota territory Mr. Cass has a farm of
15.000 acres, and Mr. Grandon 25,000 acres,
and Mr. Dalrymple 40.000 acres, your eyes
dilate, even though these farms are in great
regions thinly inhabited. But what do you
think of this, which I take from ths Dooms
day book, showing what monopoly is on the
other side of the sea? I give it as a warning
of what it would do on this side of the sea
if in some lawful way the tendency is not
resisted. In Scotland. J. G. M. Heddle owns
60,400 acres; Earl of Wemysi, 52,000 acres;
Sir J. Riddell. 54.500 acres; Sir C. W. A.
Ross. 55,000 acres; E. H. Scott, 59,700 acres;
Mr. S. Baird, 60,000 acres; Eari of Dun-
more, 60,000 acres; Duke of Roxburgh,
60.000 acres; Earl of Moray, 61,700 acres;
Countess of Home, 62,000acres; Lord Middle-
ton, 63,000 acres; Earl of Aberdeen, 63.500
acres; Mackenzie, of Dundonnell, 64,000
acre*; Mr. J. J. H. Johnstone, 64,000 acres;
Earl of Airlie, 65,000 acres; Sir J. Colqu-
boun, 67,000 acres; C. Morrison, 67,000 acres;
Duke of Montrose, 68,000 acres; Meyrick
Bankes, 70.000 acres; Grant, of Glenmor-
riston, 74,600 acres: Marquis of Ailsa,
76.000 acres; Baroness Willoughby d’
Eresbv, 76 0(10 acres; Mr. J. Malcolm, 80,000
acres; Mai qu s of Huntly, 80,0.'K) acres;
Balfour of Whittinghame, 81,000 acres;
Sir J. O. Orde, 81,000 acres; Marquis of
Bute, 93,000 acres; the Chisholm, 94,500
i; Mr. E. Ellice, 99,500 acres; Sir G. M.
Grant, 103.000 acres; Duke of Portland, 108,-
000 acres; Cameron of Lochiel, 109,500 acres;
Sir C. W. Ross. 110,400 acres; Earl of Fife,
113.000 acres; the Mackintosh, 124,000 acres;
Jjord Macdonald, 130,000 acres; Earl of Dal-
housie, 136,004 acres; Macleod of Macleod,
141,700 acres; Sir K. Mackenzie, of Gairlock,
164,6S0 acres; Duke of Argyle, 175,000 acres;
Duke of Hamilton, 183,000 acres; Duke of
Athole, 194,000 acres; Duke of Richmond,
255.000 acres; Eirl of Stair, 270,000 acres;
Mr. Evan Bail lie, 300,000 acres; Earl of
Seafield,-300,000 acres; Duke of Buccleugh,
432,183 acr-s; Earl of Breadalbane, 437,696
acres; Mr. A. Matheson. 220,433 acres, and
Sir J. Matheson. 406,070 acres; Duchess of
Sutherlsn 1, 149 879 acres, and Duke of
Sutherland. 1,170,343 acres.
Such monopolies imply an infinite acreage
of wretchedness. There is no poverty in the
United States like that in England, Ireland
and Scotland, for the simple reason that in
those lauds Monopoly has longer and larger
sway. Las t summer in Edinburgh, Scot
land, afrer preaching in Synod hall, I stood
on a chair in frontflof the hall and preached
to an audience of 20,000 people, standing in
one of the most prosperous parts of the city,
and reaching out toward the castle—as fine
an array of strength and health and beauty
as one ever sees. Three hours after i,
preached in the Grass market and to tho
wretched inhabitants of the Cowgate and
Conongate, the audienC3 exhibiting the
squalor and sickliness and despair that re
mains in one’s mind like one of the vision*
of Dante’s Inferno.
Great monopolies in any land imply great
privation. The time will come when our
government will have to limit the amount of
accumulation of property. Unconstitution
al, do you say? Then constitutions will have
to be changed until they allow such limita
tion. Otherwise the work of absorption will
go on, and the large fishes will eat up the
small fishes, and the shad will swallow the min
nows, and the porpoise swallow the shad, and
the whale swallow the porpoises, and a thou
sand greedy men will own all the world, and
500 of these will eat up the other 500, and 100
eat up the other 400, and finally there will be
only 50 left, and then 40, and then 30, and
then 20, and then 10, and then 2. and then L
But would a law of limitation of wealth
be unrighteous? If I dig so near my neigh
bors foundations, in order to bu Id my house,
that I endanger his the law grabs me. If
have a tann -ry or a chemical factory, themal-
odors of which injure residents in the neigh
borhood, the law says, “Stop that.” If
drain off a river from its bed and divert it
to turn my mill wheel, leaving the bod of the
river a breeding place for malaria, the law
says, “Quit that outrage.” And has not a
good government a right to say that a few
men shall not gorge themselves on the com
fort and health and life of generations?
Your rights end where my rights begin.
Monopoly—brazen-faced and iron-fingered,
vulture-hearted monopoly—offers his hand
to this republic. He stretches it out over
the lakes, and up the Pennsylvania, and the
Erie, and the New York Central railroads,
and over the telegraph poles of the conti
nent, and says: "Here is my heart and hand;
be mine forever.” Let the millions of the
people, north, south, east and west, forbid
the banns of that marriage—forbid them at
the ballot box, forbid them on the pla form,
forbid them by great organizations, forbid
them by the overwhelming sentiments of an
outraged nation, forbid them by the protest
of the Church of God, forbid them by prayer
to high heaven. That Herod shall not have
this Abigail. It shall not be to all-de
vouring Monopoly that this land is to be
married.
Another suitor claiming the hand of this
republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing buta
knife for universal blood-letting, and a nitro
glycerine bomb for universal explosion. He
believes in no God, no government,
heaven and no hell, except what lie can make
on earth. He slew .the czar of Russia, keep.-
Emperor William of Germany practically
imprisoned, killed Abraham Lincoln, would
put to death every king and pre ident on
earth, and, if he had the power, would climb
up until he could drive the God of heaven
from His throne and take it himself—the
universal butcher. In France ic is called
Communism; in the United States it
called Socialism; in Russia it is called Nihil
ism. That last is the most graphic and de
scriptive term. It means complete and
eternal smash-up. It would make the hold
ing of property a crime, and it would drive
a dagger through your heart and apply
torch to your dwelling, and turn over this
whole land into the possession of theft and
lust and rapine and murder.
Where does this monster live? In Sfc.
Louis, in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New
York and in all the villages and cities of this
land. The devil of destruction is an old
devil, and he is to be seen at every great fire
where there is anything to steal, and at
everv shipwreck where there is anything
valuable floating ashor \ and at every rail
road accident where there are overcoats and
watches to be purloined. On a s mall scale
saw it in mv college days, wh en in our
literary society in New York university, we
had an exquisite and costly bust of Shakes
peare. and one morning we found a hole
bored into the lips of the mar ble and a cigar
inserted. There has not for the last century
been a fine picture in ycur art gal
lery or a graceful statue in your
parks, or a fine fresco on your wall, or a
richly bound vo’ume in your library, but
would have been despoiled if the hand of
ruffianism could have got at it without peril
of incarceration. Sometimes the evil spirit
shows itself by throwing vitriol into a beau
tiful face; sometimes by wilfully scaring a
horse with a velocipede; sometimes by crash
ing the cart wheel against a carriage.
The philosophy of the whole business is,
that there is a large number of people who
either, through their laziness or their crime,
own nothing and are mad at those who,
through industry and wit of their own, or
their ancestors, are in possession of large
resources. The honest laboring classes never
had anything to do with such murderous
enterprise. It is the villa inous classes, who
would not work if they had plenty of work
offered them at large wages. M any of these
suppose that by the demolition of law and
order they would be advantaged, and the
parting of the ship of state would allow
them, as wreckers, to carry off the cargo.
It offers its hand to this fair republic. It
proposes to tear to pieces the ballot box, t.bt
lesislative hall, the congressional assembly.
It would take this laud aud divide it up, or,
rather, divide it down. It would give as
much to the idler as to the worker, to the
bad as to the good. Nihilism! th is panther
having prowled across other lan is has set
its paws on our soil, and it is only waiting
for the time in which to spring upon its
prey. It was Nihilism that massacred the
heroic policemen of Caicago and St. Louis a
few days ago and that burned Un railroad
property at Pittsburg during the great riots;
it was Nihilism that slew black people in our
northern cities during the war; it was Nihil
ism that again and again in San Francisco
and in New York mauled to death the
Chinese; it is Nihilism that glares out of the
windows of the drunkeries upon sober peo
ple as they go by. Ah! its power has never
yet been tested. It would, if it had the
power, leave every church, chapel,
cathedral, echoolhouse, college and home in
ashes.
Let me say, it is the worst enemy of the
laboring classes in any country. The honest
cry for ref jrm lifted by the oppressed labor
ing man is drowned out by the vociferations
for Anarchy. The criminals and the vaga
bonds who range through our cities talking
about their rights, when their first right is
the penitentiary—if they could be
hushed up, and the down-trodden
laboring men of this country could
be heard, there would bo more
bread for hungry children. In this land riot
and bloodshed never gained any wages for
the people, or gathered up any prosperity.
In this land the best weapon is not the club,
not the shillaleh, not firearms, but the ballot.
Let not our oppressed laboring men be be
guiled to coming under the bloody banner of
Nihilism. It will make your taxes heavier,
your wages smaller, your table scantier,
your children hungrier, your suffering
greater.
Yet this Nihilism, with feet red of slaugh
ter, comes forth and offers its hand for the
republic. Shall the banns be proclaimed?
If so, where shall the marriage altar be? and
who will be the officiating pries:? And
what will be the music? That- altar will
have to be white with bleached skulls,
the officiating priest must be a drip
ping assassin, the music must be the smoth
ered groan of multitudinous victims, the
garlands must be twisted of nightshade, the
fruit must be apples of Sodom, the wine
must be the blood of St Bartholomew’s
massacre: No, it is not to Nihilism, the
sanguiuital monster, that this land is to be
married.
Another suitor for the hand of this nation
is Infidelity. Mark you that all Anarchists
are infidels. Not one of them believes in the
Bible and very rarely any of them believ*
in a God. Their most conspicuous leader
was the other day ♦pulled by the leg from
under a bed in a house of infamy, cursing
and blaspheming. The police of Chicago,
exploring the dens of the Anarchists,
found dynamite, and vitriol, and Tom
Paine’s “Age of Reason,” and ob
scene pictures, and complimentary biog
raphies of thugs and assassins; but not
one Testament, not one of Wesley’s hymn
books, not one Roman Catholic breviary.
There are two wings to Infidelity. The one
calls itself Liberalism, and appears in high.y
literary magazines, and is for the educated
and refined; the other wing is in the form of
Anarchy, and is for the vulgar. But both
wings belong to the same old filthy vulture,
Infidelity! Elegant Infidelity pro-ioses to
conquer this laud to itself by the pen;
Anarchy proposes to conquer it by the
bludgeon and torch.
When the midnight ruffians despoiled the
grave of A. T. Stewart, in St. Mark’s
churchyard, everybody was shocked;
but Infidelitv proposes something worse
than that—the robbing of all the
graves of Christendom of the hope of a res
urrection. It proposes to chisel out from
the tombstones of your Christian daad the
words, “Asleep in Jesus,” and to substitute
the words, “Obliteration—annihilation.” In.
fidelity proposes to take the letter from the
world’s Father, inviting the nations to virtue
and happiness, and tear it up into fragments
so smart that you cannot read a word of it.
It proposes to take the consolation from ths
broken hearted, and tne soothing pillow
from the dying. Infidslity proposes to swear
in the president of the United States and
the supreme court and thp governors of
states and the witnesses in the court room,
with their right hand on Paine’s “Age
of Reason,” or Voltaire’s “Philosophy of
History.” It proposes to take away
from this country the book that maizes the
difference between the United States and the
United Kingdom of Dahomey, between
American civilization and Bornesian canni
balism. If infidelity could destroy the
scriptures it would in -200 years turn the
civilized nations back to scmi-barUarism,
aud then from semi-barbarism into djrllhight
savagery, until the morals of a menagerie of
tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpanzees would
be better than the morals of the shipwrecked
human race.
The only impulse in the right direction that
that this world has ever had has come from
the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law
and of healthful jurisprudence. That book
has been the mother of all reforms and all
charities—mother of English Magna Charta
and American Declaration of Independence.
Benjamin Franklin, holding that holy book
in his hand, stood before an infidel club at
Paris and read to them out of the prophesies
of Habakkuk, and the infidels, not knowing
wkat book it was, declared it was the best
poetry they had ever heard. That book
brought George Washington down on his
knees in the snow at Valley Forge, and led
the dying prince consort to ask some one to
sing “Rock of Ages.”
I tell you that the worst attempted crime
of the century is the attempt to destroy this
bgok; yet Infidelity, loathsome, stenchful,
leprous, pestiferous rotten monster, stretches
cat its hand, ichorous with the second death,
i/o take the hand of this republic. It stretches
It out through seductive magazines and
through caricatures of religion. It asks for
all that parr, of the continent already fully
settled, and the two-thirds not ye occupied.
It says: “Give me all east of the Mississippi
with the keys of the church and the Chris
tian printing presses; then give ine Wyom
ing, give me Alaska, give me Montana,
give me Colorado—give me all the state:
and territories west of the Mississippi, and I
will take those places and keep them by
right of posession, long before the Gospel
can be fully entrenched.”
And tbissirtor presses his case appallingly.
Bhall the banns of that marriage be pro
claimed? “No I” say the home missionaries
of the west—a mattyr band of the world is
not worthy, toiling amid fatigues and ma
laria au.l starvation. “No! not if we can
help it. By what we and our children have
Buffered we forbid the banns of that
marriage!” “No!” say ail patriotic voices;
our institutions were bought at + .oo dear a
price, and were defended at too great a sac
rifice, to be so cheaply surrendered.” “No!”
says the God of Bunker Hill and Independ
ence hall and Gettysburg; “I did not start
this nnt’on for such a farce.” “No,” cry ten
thousand voices; “to Infidelity this land
shall not be married!”
But there is another suitor that presents
his hand for the hand of this republic. He
is mentioned in the verse following my text,
where it says: “As the bridegroom rejoiceth
over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over
thee.” It is not my figure, it is the figure of
the Bible. Christ is so desirous to have this
world love Him that He stops at no humilia
tion of simile. He compares His grace
to spittle on the eyes of the blind
man. He compares Himself to a hen
gathering the chickens, and in my text
He compares Himself to a .suitor begging a
hand in marriage. Does this Christ, tiie king,
deserve this land! Behold Pilat/s hall and
the insulting expectoration on the face
of Christ Behold the Calvarean massacre
and the awful hemorrhage of five wounds
Jacob served fourteen years for Rachel, but
Christ mv Lord, the king, suffered in tor
ture thirty-three years to win the love of
this world. As often princesses at their very
birth are pledged in treaty of marriage to
princes or kings of earth, so this nation at
its birth was pledged to Christ for divine
marriage. Before Columbus and his 120
men embarked on the Santa Maria, the Pinta
and the Nina for their wonderful voyage,
what was the last thing they did? They
kneeled down and took the holy sacrament
of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they
caught the first glimpse of this country
and the gun of oije ship had announced
it to the ot er v?ssc!s that land had been
discovered, what was the song that went up
from all the three decks? “Gloria in ExceU
sis.” After Columbus and his 120 men had
stepped from the ships’ decks to the solid
ground, what did they do? They all knelt
and consecrated the New World to God.
What did the Huguenots do after they
landed in the Carolinas? What did the
Holland refugees do after they landed in
New England? With bended knee and up
lifted face and heaven besieging prayer they
took possession of this country for God.
How was the first American congress
opened? By praver m the name of Jesus
Christ From its birth this nation was
pledged for holy marriage with Christ
Bat where shall the marriage altar be?
Let it be the Rocky mountains, when
through artificial and mighty irrigation, all
their tops shall be covered, as they will be,
with vineyards and orchards and grain
fields. Then let the Bostons and the New
Yorks and the Charlestons of the Pacific
coast come to the marriage altar on the one
sicie. and then let the Bostons and the New
York: and ihe Charlestons of the Atlantic
coast coine to the marriage altar on the
other side, and there between them let -this
bride of nations kneel; and then if the organ
of the loudest thunders that ever shook
the Sierra N.-vadas on the one silo, or
moved the foundations of the Alleghenies
on the other side, should open full d apason
of wedding march, that organ of thunders
could not drown the voice of Him -who
should take the hand of the bride of nations,
saying: “As a bridegroom rejoiceth
over a bride, so thy God rejoiceth
over thee.” At that marriage banquet
the platters shall be of Nevada
silver, and the chalices of California gold,
and the fruits of northern orchards, and the
spices of sou; hern groves, and the tapestry
of American manufacture, and the congratu
lations irom all the free nations of earth and
from all the triumphant armies of heaven.
" And so thy land shall be married.”
INTERNATIONAL BIBLE LESSON.
Sunday, June 13. •
Title.—“Jesus the Christ. ” I.ksson TfXT.—John vll,
37-51 Golden Text.—“Thou urt the Christ, the Son
of the living God.”— ilatthew xvi, 16.
LESSON EXPLANATIONS.
BY KEV. JOHN HALL. D D., LL. D., NEW
YORK.
In verse 10, of this chapter we see how
Jesus went to the feast, “not openly, hut
it were in secret,” for good reasons. To
have gone up with a Galilean band, fired
with mistaken zeal, would have made
trouble from the temper of the rulers a^il some
of the people at Jerusalem. We see from verse
14when he appeared and the impression made.
The line of his teaching and the impression
he produced we have in the portion from verse
15 to the beginning of our lesson. One effect
of it we have to notice because it comes up
in the lesson. At verse 32 we read of the
Pharisees and chief priests sending “offi
cers” to arrest him. This is all that needs to
be recalled to show the connection.
We now come to the circumstances which
explain the form of our Lord’s memorable
words of verses 37, 38.
The feast was that of Tabernacles, the
last of the three great feasts of the year, at
which all Jewish males appeared. it came
after harvest, on the 15th. of Tisri, falling
about the middle of our September. It
lasted seven days; recalled the period of
dwelling in tents, and gave a fitting oppor
tunity to praise God for the harvest. The
first and the last days were specially solemn,
the eighth being “an holy convocation.”
Whether the “last day” hero mentioned is
the seventh or the eighth is not apparent,
but it would suit the whole circumstances to
count it thi eighth. The people during these
days remained in arbors or booths made of
branches of trees, a part of each
day. Burnt offerings were made. The
custom had grown up of tne priests every
morning bringing water in a go.den vessel
from the Fool of Siloam and pouring it pub
licly on the altar. It was a memorial of the
miraculous supply of water in the wilder
ness. Fsalins 113-118 were sung and the Tal
mud (i. e. ths Hebrew commentary) connects
therewith Isaiah xii, 8. On the eighth day,
which Closed up all the festivals oi ijie year,
a day oi rest, Jesus fitting!? gave his invi
tation, as though he said: Tne feasts have
come and gone with their types and shadows.
They are ended. Now I am here, the sub
stance. You have been recalling. the divine
gift of water. “If any man thirst,” etc.
The figure is of easier comprehension to an
Oriental than to us, because men often enough
carried around water lor sale. The rices
had passed; he remains lorever. So he
“stood and cried,” lauguage marking ihe
solemnity of the appeal. Thirst is universal;
if not satisfied after a time it is toriure; if
no relief conies it is fatal, go all need the
Saviour. To live without hope in Him is
miserable. Never to be in Him and He in
us is death eternal. So as he took, up at
Nazaretn the words of isaian, and an
nounced himself as tne promised deliverer,
he here appropriates from the same writer,
and gives ms full and gracious invitation
like that of Revelations, xxii, 17.
We are to take the words of verse 28 as ex
plaining verse 37. “Coming” in tne one verse
is “believing” in the other. Tuac Jesus had
a right to follow the feast by this figurative
reference to Himself appears frail l Corin
thians x, 4. He was the “rock that followed”
the Hebrews, the source of the A supply a.l
through. The Hebrews used the woJ ds ■ reins, ”
“belly, ’ etc., in al wide sensa Borne times,
as we u-e “heart,” and we might read
this “out of his heart.” When a man re
ceives Jesus he becomes himself a center of
blessing. His graces, sympathies, words,
influence, deeds, satisfy and refresh others.
Ail this is because the believers in Jesus re
ceive the gift ol the Holy Ghost. Tlrs scrip
ture references are frequent, but none seems
to suit this representation so well as Ezekie,
xlvii, 9, “Everything shall live whitherso
ever the river cometu.” As that life-giving
stream flowed from the temple, so the divine
spirit conies from Jesus and gives life
wherever he goes. If we have received the
gift, we are to prove it by the spiritual good
we do to others.
Verse 39 gives the evangelist’s explanation
of this word of the Master as ttie events
interpreted it. Until he died for sin, so
that without putting his holiness in question,
God could receive a sinner, and until he was
received into heaven and seated at God’s right
band as accepted iwhich is here called “glori
fied”) the divine Comforter did not come to
the disciples. All this Christ explained
more fully in John, xiii, Id. See especially
John, xvi, 7, 13, 14.
We no w come to the discus don raised by our
Lord’s words, verses 40-44. Some said “this is
the prophet” expected by the Hebrews from
Old Testament predictions. Whether they
thought of the messenger to announce Christ
or not is not clear. Others said: “This is the
Christ;” but to this his Galilean origin
seemed an objection, and the f>j< ;etion re
ferred to Micab v, 2, as the Hebrews under
stood it So there was a division among
them. Some, from hostility to him (or per
haps from the desire to force him to declare
himself fully,) would have seized him; but
they did not They could not until, his
hour being come, they had power to do it
We now come to another incident The
officers sent to arrest Christ returned without
Him, but with strong and unexpected and
unwelcome : estimony in His favor: “Never
man spake like this man.” To this their em
ployers have but a poor reply: “Are ye
also deceived?” They deem it conclusive
against Christ that rulers and Pharisees
have so far rejected Him; and as for the
people, they, in their ignorance* of the law
and foolishness in favoring Him, are
cursed. This language, common with this
party, not only showed pride and ill-feeling,
but is a confession of their own worthless
ness. Why did they leave the multitude
ignorant of the law? We are not to under
stand that the Sanhedrin hadAyet taken
formal action against Jesus. ''Phis was an
attempt on,the part of some of its members
to get Jesus before it on trial, in the hope of
getting that sentence that came later.
Railroad guide.
PlEiiMONI AlK-LINfcKOUTE
Richmond A Danville System.
CONDENSED SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY
2d, 1886.
Trains inn by 75th Meridian time—One hoar
fatter than 90th Meridian time.
No 53
8 *0 a m
ID 37 am
11 00 a m
12 (13 p m
12 57 p m
2 05 p m
2 30 p m
3 43 p m
4 32 p m
5 41 p m
6 25 p m
8 01 p m
9 35 p m
11 26 p m
V (XJ a m
2 10 a m
4 25 a m
8 45 a m
l(i i 3 a m
12 35 p m
8 20 p m
Northbound, Daily.
No. 51.
Leave Atlanta 5 00 pm
Arrive Gainesville 7 03 p m
“ Lula 7 30 p m
“ T occoa 8 54pm
“ Seneca 9 59 pm
“ Easley jl04pm
“ Greenville 1132 pm
“ Spartanburg 12 45 a m
“ Gafiney l 38 a m
“ Gastonia 2 51 a m
“ Charlotte 4 05 a m
“ Salisbury 5 48am
“ Greensboro 7 35 am
“ Raleigh 1 35 p m
“ Goldsboro 4 40 p m
“ Danville 9 42 a m
“ Richmond 8 37 p m
“ Lynchburg 12 45 p m
“ Charlottteeville 3 15 pm
“ Washington 8 30pm
“ .Hiltnr ore 11 25 p m
“ Philadelphia 3 00 a m
“ New York 6 20 am
Southbound, Daily.
No. 50. No. 52.
Leave New York 12 00 n’gt 4 30 p m
“ Philadelphia...-. . 7 20am etOpm
“ Baltimoie 9 50am 9 45pm
" Washington 11 5am 11 00pm
“ Charlottesville 3 5t>pm 8 00am
“ Lynchburg.. 6 15 pm 5 15 am
“ Danville.. 9 V5 p m 8 1)4 a m
“ Richmond... 3 25 p n 2 lOan
“ Goldsboro .11 5t.m
“ Raleigh 5 (0 p m
“ Greensboro 11 21 p m 9 50 a m
“ Salisbury „ 1 l> am 11 23am
“ Charlotte 3 CO am luipm
“ Gastoni" 3 49 a m 1 42 p m
“ Gaffney s ■> (4 a m 2 49 p m
“ Spartan bnrg 5 56am 8 84 pm
“ Greenville . 7 14 am 4 49 p rr
“ Eceley 7 4!am 5 l4p m
“ Seneca 8 55 am 6 12 p m
“ Toccoa 9 56 a m 2 l9 p m
“ Lula 11 ('8am ‘.6pm
“ Gainesville 1134 am 50 pm
Arrive Atlanta lbpm 10 40pm
SLEPING-CAR SERVICE.
On trains 50 and 51 Pnliman Buffet Sleeper be
tween New York and Atlanta.
On trains 52 and (3 Pullman Buffet Sleeper be
tween Washington and New OrPans; Washing
ton and Augusta. Pullman bier per between
Greeneboro and Richtnoi d.
Through tickets on esleat principal stations,
to all points. For rates and information, apply
to aDy agent of the Company, or to
E. ,B THOMaS, C. W. CHEAB8,
Gen’l Manager, A ss’t Gen. Pass. A gt„
Richmond Va.
Cotton Belt
Route.
^MP TEXAS S ST.LDUH BY.
THE NEW THROUGH LINE
Between the
Southeast and the Great
Southwest,
BEST ROUTE to all points in
EASTERN ARKANSAS
And Southern, Eastern and Central
Texas.
The Equipment was built by the Pullman
Company, is all new aud elegant. Pullman
Palace Sleepers, Pullman Parlor Cars, vnd Day
Coaches Specially good accommodations for
all classes of travel. Low Rates and Round
Trip Tickets to all principal points. For Maps,
Time Tables, &c., &c., apply to any Agent to the
Company, or to
A. S.DODGE, J. S. LEITH,
Gen. Pass. Ag’t, Southern Pass. Ag’t,
Texarkana, Tex. Nashville, Tenn.
W. P. ROBINSON, Traffic Manager,
St. Louis. Mo.
QUICKEST TIME
ATLANTA
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY,
Office Gentral Manager,
Augusta, Ga„ Nov. 21st, 1885.
Commencing Sul day, 2 2d proximo, the follow
ing passenger schedule will be operated:
Trains run by 9Cth meridian time.
FAST LINE.
NO. 27 WEST-DAILY.
Leave Augusta 7 40 am
Leave Athens 7 45 am
Leave Gainesville 7 55 am
Arrive Atlanta 1 00 pm
NO. 28 EAST-DAILY.
Leave Atlanta 2 45 pm
Leave Gainesville 5 55 am
Arrive Athens 7 40 pm
Arrive Augusta 8 15 pm
DAY PASSENGER TRAINS
NO. 2 EAST-DAILY
L’ve Atlanta.. 8 00 am
Ar. Gainesville 8 25 pm
“ Athena 5 30 pm
“ Washington. 2 20 pm
” Milledgeville 4 43 pm
Macon 615 pm
Augusta..... 8 85 pm
NO. 1 WEST-DAILY.
L've a ugusta.. 10 50 am
“ Macon 7 10 am
“ Milledgeville 9 38 am
“ Washington. 1120 am
“ Athens 9 00 am
Ar. Gsinesville 825 pm
“ Atlanta 540 pm
NIGHT EXPRESS AND MAII-
NO. 4 EAST-DAILY. I NO. 3 WE8T-DAIDY.
L’ve Atlanta ..815 pm I L’ve Augusta.. 9 45 pm
Ar. Augusta.. 5 50 am I Ar. A lan ta... 6 45 am
COVINGTON ACCOMMODATION.
L’ve Atlanta.. 5 50 pm | L’v Covington 5 40 • m
Decatur 6 26 pm j L’ve Decatur.. 7 20 am
Ar. Covington. 8 80 pm | Ar. Atlanta... 7 55 am
DECATUR TRAIN.
* (Daily except Sundays.)
L’ve Atlanta... 903 am I L’ve Decatur... 945 am
Ar.Decatur... 9 30am I Ar. Atlanta.... 1015am
CLABK8TON TRAIN.
L’veJAtlanta. .1210 pm I L’ve Clarkaton 1 25 pm
L’ve Decatur. .12 40 pm L’ve Decatur.. 1 45 pm
Ar. Clarketon .12 52 pm I Ar. Atlanta... 2 20 pm
Trains Noa. 2,1,4 and 3 will, if signaled, stop
at sny regular schedule flag station.
No connection for Gainesville on Sundays.
Train No. 27 will atop at and receive passes,
gera to and from the following stations only
Grovetown, Berzelia, Harlem, Dealing, Thomp
son, Norwood, Barnett, Crawfordville, Union
Point, Greensboro. Madison. Rutledge. Social
Circle, Covington, Conyers. Stone Mountain and
Decatur. These trains make close connection
for all points east, southeast, west, nmthweat,
north aud northwest, and carry through sleepers
between Atlanta and Charleston.
Train No. 28 will stop at and receive parsen-
sra to and frem the following stations only:
•rovetowu, Berzelia, Harlem, Dealing, Thomp
sod, Norwood, Barnett, Crawfordville, Union
Point, Greensboro, Madison, Rutledge, Social
Circle, Covington, Couyere, Lithoma, Stone
Mountain and Decatur.
No. 28 stops at Union Point for supper.
Connects at Augusta for all points east and
souths' et.
J. W. GREEN, E. R. DORSEY.
Gen’l Manager. Gen’l Pssb. Agent.
JOE W. WHITE,
Gen’l Traveling Passenger Agent,
Augusta, Ga.
—TO—
MEMPHIS
—IS BY THE—
ist Tenn., Ya„ & Ga., R. R.
AND
MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON R. R.
73 MILES SHORTEST LINE
FROM
CHATTANOOGA to MEMPHISi
Only 17 Honrs from Atlanta to Memphis
Leave ATLANTA every day, - 12:16 n’n
Arrive CHATTANOOGA, every day, 6:00 pm
Leave CHATTANOOGA, “ 6:10 pm
Arrive MEMPHIS, “ 6:20 am
OVER 7 HOURS QUICKER
Than any other line leaving ATLANTA in the
afternoon.
CLOSE CONNECTION AT MEMPHIS
FOR TUX AS, ARKANSAN. KAS
HA* AND MISSOURI.
Call and see JACK JUMJSOI, Tide!
Agent, Atlanta, Ga.
C. IT. HUDSON,
General Mannger.
C.N. KNIGHT,
Div. Pass Agent.
B. W.WRBNN.
Gen. Pass. & T. A.
THU
BORGIA PACIFIC RAILWAI
COMPANY.
General Passen er Department.
BinuiNOHAir, Ala., Jan. 1,1886.
SCHEDULE OF PABSENGEB TRAINS.
WESTWARD.
No. 54. Mail and Express.—Leaves Atlanta 8:06
a. m. daily. Stops at all stations. Arrives at
Birmingham 8:55 p. m.
No 50. Fast Line—New Orleans, Vicksburg and
Shreveport.—Leaves Atlanta 4:80 p. m. daily.—
Stops at Chattahoochee. Tallapoosa and inter
mediate result r a ations Anniston and Oxana.
Arrives at Birmingham 1145 p. m.
No. 52. Night Paaeenger —Leaves Atlanta 1040
p. m. daily— Stops at all stations. Arrives at Bir
mingham 9£0 a. m.
EA8TWABD.
No. 55. Paaeenger and Mail—Leaves Birming
ham 840 a. m. daily—stops at all stations. Ar
rives at Atlanta 8:00 p. m. .
No. 51. Night Past eager—Leaves Birmingham
5:45 p. m. daily—stops at all stations. Ar.ives
at Atlanta 940 a.m. . .
No. 58. Fast T. ain.—Leaves Birmingham
145 a. m. daily—stops only at Anniston, Oxana,
Tallapoosa, and a ations east of Tallapoosa. Ar-
irves at Atlanta 7:16 a. m.
Mann Boudoir Sleeping and Dining Cars be
tween Atlanta and New Orleans via Tne Georgia
Pacific Bailway and Queen and Crescent on traine
50 and 51. . . _
Trains 51 and 53 Connect at Atlanta with E. T.
V, A G. B. B., C. B . B. of Ga. and Ga. B. B. for
points in Georgia and Florida and with Piedmont
Air-Line for points in the Carolinas, Virginia
and the North and East. _
The fastest line to Washington, Baltimore Phil
adelphia and New York.
Pullman Cars, Atlanta to New York without
change. . , .
Trains 50 and 52 leave Atlanta on arrival of New
York trains via Piedmont Air-Line and make
the fastest time via New Orleans and Shreveport
to all points in Texas.
All trains arrive at and depart from the Union
Depot, Atlanta, and from Ga. Pac. depot, (20tn
St., and Powell Avenue) Birmingham. Ala.
I. Y.SAGE. GEO. 8. BARNUM,
Gen’l fup’t Gen’l Pass. Agent.
OPIUM
Mention this paper.
and Whiskey Hab
its cured at home with
out pain. Book of par
ticulars sent FREE.
B. M. WOOLLEY, M. D.
Atlanta, Ga. Office
i65tt Whitehall Street.
(541)
EAST AND WEST R. K. OF ALABAMA.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
f}N and after Jan. 15th, 1886, passenger trains
D will run as fo lows:
No, 1.—Daily Passenger Train going West
Leave Carteraville 9 55 am
Rockmart 1110 am
Cedartown 12 01 pm
Cross Plains 145 pm
Arrive Broken Arrow 5 30 pm
No. 2.—Daily Passenger Train going East.
Leave Broken Arrow 6 55 am
Cross Plains 11 30 am
Cedartown 125 pm
“ Rockmart 2 25 pm
ArriveCartersvil'e 4 00pm
No. 3.—Accommodation. Going West.
(Daily except Sunday )
Leave Carteraville 4 50 pm
“ Rockmart 6 35 pm
Arrive Cedartown 7 35 pm
No. 4.—Accommodation. Going East.
(Daily except Sunday.)
Leave Cedartown 615 am
“ Bock mart 7 15 am
Arrive Catersville 9 00 am
No. 4 makes close connections at Rockmart
with E. T. V. A G. tr in reaching Atlanta 9:40 a.
m., and at Carteraville with W, & A. train reach-
iDg Atlanta 1145 a. m. .
No. 8 makes direct connection > t Carteraville
with W.& A. train leaving Atlanta at 1:30 p. m.,
aDd with E T. V. & G. train at Rockmart leav
ing Atlanta af 4:20 p. m. .
No. 1 mskes connection at Carteraville with W.
& A. traiD leaving Atlan(a 7 50 a. m., and with
Rome Express from the North.
No. 2 connects at Carteraville with W. & A.
train reaching Atlanta at 6‘87 p m.
FRED M. WILCOX, T. J. NICHOLL.
Gen. Pass. Agent. Gen. Manager
—TO THk—
SUMMER RESORTS
1886
—VIA—
Birmingham, Ala., the Georgia Pacific
Kailway and Atlanta, Ga.
The Fast Mail and Express Line from the
Bout hweetro the Mountains and Seashores, in
Palace Parlors and Sleeping Cars
Fast doable daily passenger sc had nip.
UeaveNew Orleans 11 85 am
Shreveport 2 00 am
Meridian
Birmingham .......
Arrive Atlanta
• harlo te
Danville
Washington....
Baltimore
Philadelphia..
. 7 CO pm
. 8 Oua ui
.. 4 00 pm
.. 4 15 am
.. 9 45 am
.. 8 25 pm
. .11 23 pm
3 00 am
New York 6 2 am
1 C 5 pm
7 20 am
6 45 pm
11 06 rm
8 40 am
10 03 am
12 35 pm
3 20 am
For maps, Pbinphlete, etc., wiving a de. enp-
tion of the different Resorts, call on, or address
G. 8. Barnum, ALEX. 8. THWEAT,
Gen. Pass, Ag’t, Trav. Pass. Ag’t,
Birmingham, Ala.
QUICKEST TIME
WITH
THROUGH FULLMAN BUFFET CAR
VTLANTA TO NEW YORK.
East Tenn. and Shenandoah Valley
Routes, Through the Virginia
Springs and Mountains
N. V. EXPRESS. ROUTE
L’ve Atlanta E.T..V.&G. Daily. 5 40 pm
Ar. Rome “ “ 8 35pm
Dalton “ “ 9 50 pin
Knoxville “ “ 14u am
Bristol.... “ “ 615 am
Roanoke N. & W. B. B “ 1145 am
Shenandoah Jnnc.S. V. B. B, “ 8 88 pm
Washington B. & O. R. B- “ It 30 pm
Baltimore B. & P. ti. B. " 11 30 pm
Philadelphia......■ Penn. B. B. “ 3 30am
New York “ ’ 7 00 am
Stops at Lursy Caverns, hatnral Bridge, and all
other points of Interest enroute in Virginia.
Onr Summer Tourist Book wi'l be ready for
free distribution dnring month of May.
BEVERLY W. WRENN.
General Passenger & Ticket Aaent.
Knoxville, Tenn,