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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 20, 1«87.
the “coniimc MAN ”
A nalr ol very chubby lens
E leased In scarlet tins*—
A pair ol little stubby boots
■'Ith rather doubtful toes;
/ tie hilt, a little coat,
*fSt as a mother can—
jhnd lo! before us strides. In state,
The Future’s “coming man.
His eyes, perchance, will read the stars;
And search their unknown ways.
Perchance the human heart and soul
Will oper to their gaze;
p -rebance their Keen and flashing gunce
Will be a uation’s light—
Those eyes that now are w'sUul bent
O j some “big fellow's’ kite.
That brow where mighty thoughts will dwell
In solemn, secret s. ate, .
When fierce Ambition’s res.less strength
Snail war with future fate;
Wnen Silence, from now bidden caves,
New treasures shall outpour--
’Us knit now, with a troubled doubt
Are two or three cents more 7
Those lits that. In the comtag years,
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TifaMteTnVy^^maTWc^maud.
Or, smiling, win control-
Are coaxing now for ginger-bread
With all a baby’s soul.
Those hands—those little, busy hands—
Ture’SIw^onYy mfsTlon seem,
To tear all order dawn;
Who knows wbat hidden strength may lie
Wltblu their future grasp.
Though now ’tls but a tall / stick
In sturdy hold they clasp?
Ah 1 blessings on these little bands
Whose work Is yet undone,
And blessings on those little feet
Whose race Is yet unrun;
And blessings on the little brain
That has nor learned to plan!
WhateVr the Future holds in store,
God bless the “coming man!’’
Cotton Seed.
It is said that cotton seed should net the
planter fully $11 per ton, if meal is selling at
$20. Prominent agriculturists adv.se keeping
it for manure unless it brings that price.
A Cood Suggestion.
A box kept well supplied with ashes in
-which charcoal is found should be within reach
-of hogs all the time at this season of the year.
Like all gross feeders they are apt to be
troubled with acidity of the stomach, and the
coal and ashes correct this.
The Vineyard.
No work should be done in the vineyard
during August exteptscraping off theprassand
weeds which have accumulated duiing the
ripening period. This should be placed back
on the rows to shade them from the hot sun
and prevent baking of the soil. No cultiva
tion should be given, as the plants are apt to
start a new growth, blossom, and bear some
fruit at the expense of next year's crop.
Slow not Always Sure.
Don’t you think because a horse is slow
that lie is “safe” and will do for a “family
horse.” Some of the slowest brutes are the
meanest. Some horses, even of good, natural
disposition may be unsafe, because timid and
nervous; but there are often horses that run
away and kick and indulge in ^ill manner of
meanness from innate viciousmjss. They may
1"*? "pjT'*!**"?. l'***.ilV l, '; n y unsafe. It
>s safer to trust in a well 'disposed, spirited
/animal, that a lazy, yet vicious lunkhead.
Utah’s Wool Crop.
The Utah wool clip will be 8,000,000 pounds.
Seven horses and mules died from the effect
of the heat around Kuiield, North Carolina, in
one day lately.
A farmer of White County, Mich., is f« e ing
150,000 silk worms, employing eight persons
in the work. The worms consume several
hundred pounds of osage orange leaves daily.
A man lately thoroughly cured a balky horse
by simply hitching him in the held and letting
him stay ibere until ho got hungry enough to
pull it home.
A rural correspondent asks: “How can I
remove vermin from my hens?” Make them
use their combs. Y<.ur hens don’t seem to have
been brought up right
Wanton Dostruction of Birds.
[Times-Democrat.]
The wanton destruction of birds in the coun
try contiguous to New I Irleans is enormous
Mid ought to be prohibited and severely pun
ished. They are the farmers' best friends, and
without them farming is next to impossible.
Blue-birds, mocking-birds, wreus, orioles,
wood peckers, quails and various other species
destroy from 500 to 2,000 noxious insects daily.
Taking these facts into consideration, ought
not our native birds to be protected? The En
glish sparrow, however, is an exception, and
from what we cun glean from all portions of
the country, he has proved to be a most un
mitigated nuisance.
Midsummer Chickens.
Eggs are not so good to eat in hot weather,
even whm freshly laid. Perhaps we do not in
extreme heat need so hearty food, though there
is also, doubtless, some deficiency in flavor.
The eggs produced now will not usually hatch
■out so strong, lively chickens as those of the
•earlier laying, when the vigor of the hen was
greater. Possibly the feed has somewhat lo
do with it. Farmers who have grain near
their barns can usually get a clutch of chick
ens hatched about or a little after harvest that
will be lively and vigorous, while when the
hen has to produce her egg a day from grass
and what she can pick up of innutritious re
fuse, she will make an egg accordingly, that
■■will neither be good for much itself nor pro
duce a vigorous chicken. But when liens sit
■nut of doors on the ground the conditions favor
hatching a larger percentage of chicks, even
from poor eggs, that we get from better eggs
i earlier in the season.
Hogs Killing Rattlesnakes.
In the Southern States, in localities where
’-he rattlesnake abounds, the hogs running
wild in the woods are the inveterate enemies
of this pest. Sows with young are the fiercest
tCor this prey, and long practice makes them
expert. The wary porker cautiously avoids ex
posing parts of its body where a bite would be
•dangerous or fatal. Turning its flanks to the
reptile, it allows it to Btrike its fangs into the
ham, which, having no blood-vessels, receives
Lho venom without injury. After two or three
strokes the rattlesuske’s power has gone. Its
venom is exhausted and it must secrete more
before its bite anywhere could do much hurt.
Then the snake tries to get away, but I he pig
has earned her prize. She coolly kills him,
and she and her young make a meal off of the
carcass. It has been said that when the Wes
tern States were new, farmers considered hogs
the best kind of stock to keep where rattlers
abounded. They were less likely to be killed
by them, and were a holp in clearing the land
of these pests. Before civilization came, deer
made war on the rattlers, gathering their fore
feet together and coming down on the snake
-while coiled and ready to strike.
Be Kind to Your Horse.
Kindness with the family horse is of ihe ut
most importance. Always cultivate au ac
quaintance and be on social and friendly terms
with him- If he is tired and worn out, it is as
tonishing how these little attentions will en
courage Ind cheer him up. When not in use
he should bo given a reasonable amount of
dailv exercise. No animal will do well without
exercise. It promotes a good action of their
ItaS and assists digestion. The harness
should be made to fit, thus avoiding chafes and
brotaes In cold weather the lips and tongue
2Tto horse may be made very sore by contact
with the frozen bit. The bit should always be
warmed before being placed in the horses
■mouth- Flies are very annoying to boraes, and
toe use of the net, or some preparation that
wifi keep the flies away, is well repaid,
r’are in driving is of the greatest importance.
Care m nrivius an ^ inUk j driven until
wet W wfth perspiration and dotted with foam,
standing without blanket or protection of any
kted from the cold Northern winds. When in
such condition he evidently suffers intensely,
besides'lbe danger of contracting diseases from
Jufsutum'lUrshouldte more rigidiy en-
IrHruWiVrjixststt
aD S . 1 .a —i-thpr so that they will dry
provided in cold weather, so in j drafts
without chilling. Protect tom from drafts
when warm, and either rubdown .. v
.-stand in a stable where cold air cannot strike
them.—Agriculturist.
What Trees to Plant.
We have made it a rule to plant nothing but
fruit or nut bearing trees. They aro quite as
ornamental as those which produce nothing,
besides furnishing food for man and beast.
Farmers as Business Men.
The farmer should be a business mail as well
as an agriculturist. He must keep accounts,
know how much he spends, what his crops
cost and the amount of profit he makes.
A Baseball Field.
A use for it: 1’rond father—Welcome back
to the old farm, my toy. So you got through
college all right? Farmer’s son—Yes, father.
P. F.—Ye know I told ye t’ study up on chem
istry and things so you’d know best what to
do with different kinds of land. What do you
think of that fiat medder there, for insta ce?
F. S.—Cracky, what a place for a ball game!
of €f)ougl)t.
Inquisitive people are the funnels of conver
sation ; toy do not take in anything for their
own nse, but merely to pass it to another.—
Sir Richard Steele.
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a
gallery of pictures where there is no love.—
Lord Racon.
In expectation of a better, I can with pa
tience embrace ibis life.—Sir Thomas Rrownc.
Knowledge of our duties is the most useful
part of our philosophy.—Wliately.
He that would live clear of envy must lay his
finger on his mouth, and keep his hand oat of
the ink-pot.—V Estrange.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we
do but grapple with her.—Seneca.
Ail theory is against the freedom of the will;
all experience for it.—Dr. Samuel Johnson.
You may depend upon it that he is a good
man whose intimate friends are all good, and
whose enemies are characters decidedly bad.—
Lavaler.
If I am asked, Who is the greatest man? I
answer, The best, and if I am to say who is
best, I reply, He that has deserved most of his
fellow-creatures.—Sir William Jones.
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and
cementing principle.—Rurlce.
When honors come to us, rather than we to
them, when they meet us, as it were, in the
vestioule of life, it is well if our enemios can
say no more ngainst us than that we arc too
young for our dignities; it would be much
worse for us if they could say that we are too
old for them; time will destroy the first objec
tion, but confirm the second.—Colton.
Humility is the first Iff son we learn from re
flection, and self-distrust the first proof we give
of having obtained a knowledge of ourselves —
Zimmennann.
Qi/rPi/lpit
Norman-Percheron Colt Crop.
The colt crop of the Norman-I’ercheron
Horse Company, of Colorado, will number 1,
100 this year. Most of these are pure bred
and none less than half-bred. This company
will this year make their first shipment of
three-year-olds to London, where there is al
ways a good market for unbroken horses of
heavy weight, and the Denver Field and Farm
says horses raised in the Western States are
preferred on account of their stout legs and
sound lungs.
Horseradish Seed.
A paragraph is going the rounds saying that
the horseradish plant never produces seed;
that its only mode of spreading is from the
root. It does not really need any other method
of propagation, but we have seen a few horse
radish seed on plants where the soil was thin
and poor. As usually planted on rich garden
or alluvial soil the plant has no instinct teach
ing it the need of producing seed, l’iaco it
where it is pinched and likely to die, and it
will propagate seed the satno as all other
plants to.
Whole Crain for Fowls
I’oultry do not need to have their food mas
ticated. If they did, nature would have pro
vided them with teeth, and, as everybody
knows, “as scarce as hen’s teeth” has become
a proverb. The work of mastication is done
in their gizzards by the aid of stones and shells.
It is better for the fowl’s health to keep this
mill suitably provided with hard food that
needs grinding up. Y'oung chicks are often in
jured by having too large a proportion of soft,
watery food. It does not give the gizzard suf
ficient exercise. Try feeding whole wheat a
little while. The chicks wiil become hard,
plump and lively.
Plant Peach Stones.
Many years ago a hundred peach stones were
procured from an orchard which contained
several of the best sorts, and these were
planted in a row across a garden, the trees be
ing a foot or two apart. In a few years they
began to bear, and while most of them had re
ceded from the parents in quality, a few were
quite valuable and afforded a tine repast on
several occasions. Among the best was the
well-known White Imperial. Those who have
the means at hand may easily repeat this ex
periment by saving the stones of fine varieties
and planting them. They will not be likely to
obtain any new sorts better than our old
standard varieties, but some fino ones will
turn up, well worth the trouble, and good trees
may be thus easily procured.—Country Gentle
man.
What a Smart Cirl Did.
The New York Tribune gives the following
brief chapter in the real life of a Western New
York girl, who, having a longing for more
pocket money than the paternal purse could
well supply, cast her eyes over the farm in
search of sometoing she might turn to account.
A sadly neglected bed of strawberries attract
ed her attention, and with the help of a young
er brother, rows were furrowed out and the
plants were cultivated and prepared for fruit
ing. The first season the patch—a little less
tiian a fourth of an acre—netted about $70.
Prices averaged thirteen cents a quart—high,
to be sure, but her fruit warranted asking it,
as the berries wtro of uniform size, the baskets
and crates clean, and every box full; moreover,
the berries at the bottom were as good as those
on top. Unconsciously she had, by her meth
od of packing, solved the problem of over
production—which, by the way, refers only to
inferior-grown and poorly-packed fruit, as
there is a scarcity of good fruits generally.
The result of the season’s work opened her
eyes to to possibilities of a fruit farm, and
she gradually increased her area until to-day
she rates as one of the most successful fruit
growers iu her section of the country.
Curious fctctjS.
A church organ constructed entirely of paper
is on exhibition at Milan.
A Florida woman has made a bed quilt con
taining 1(1,000 pieces less than the size of a
man’s thumb nail.
A trumpet has been invented for telephoning
at sea, which conversations are said to be car
ried on miles apart with no wire.
Javelle water, used to remove tea and coffee,
grass and fruit stains from linen is made thus:
Mix well in an earthern vessel one pound of
salsoda, five cents worth of chloride of lime and
two quarts of soft water.
The large dog kennels at Lancaster have been
marked by many curious holes in the ground
laiely. Investigation has shown that they are
receptacles for puppies, dug by the larger dogs
to keep the little ones cool during warm weath
er.
The city of Paris is shown by official statis
tics to have consumed last year 1,000,000 eggs.
It also drank 87,500,000 gallons of wine, 3,217,-
000 gallons of spirits and liquors, and something
over 12,000,000 gallons of cider and of beer, or
0,000,000 and over of each.
Recent experiments are said to have shown
that a snail weighing a quarter of au ounce,
when crawling up a window, was able to lift
vertically 21-2 ounces, or nine times its own
weight. Another snail, weighing one-third of
an onnee, drew horizontally on a table seven
teen ounces, or lilty times its own weight.
Artificial clouds were recently made for the
protection of vines from frost at l’agny, on the
Franco German frontier. Liquid car was ignit
ed in tin boxes and pieces of solid tar on the
ground near the vines. Large clouds of smoke
arose and protected the vineyard for two hours.
Although the vines in the neighbordood were
injured by the frost, all that remained under
the clouds were uninjured. Of course this
contrivance can succeed only in the calm weath
er, but it is only in calm weather that white
frosts occur.
I n a recent letter to adaily paper, a correspon
dent states that he has made twenty-six trips
or fifty-two tours across the Atlantic, and has,
iu every instance except the last, suffered very
much from seasickness. On this last trip, he
had with him a rubber bag, twelve inches long
and four inches wide, the mouth of which was
closed by an iron clamp. This he tilled with
small pieces of ice, and applied to the spine at
the base of the brain for half to three-quarters
of an hour every morning. It had a most sooth
ing effect, and he enjoyed every hour and every
meal.
A clock recently patented in France i# an
imitation of a tambourine, on tbe parchment
head of which is painted a circle of flowers,
corresponding to the hour figures of ordinary
dials. On examination two bees, one large and
the other small, aro discovered crawling among
the flowers. The small bee runs rapidly from
one flower to another, completing the eircle in
an hour, while the large one takes twelve hours
to complete the circuit. The parchment surface
is uabrokeu, and the bees simply laid upon it,
but two magnets connected with the clock-work
inside the tambourine move j ust under tbe mem
brane, and the insects, which are of iron, fol
low them.
How Cood Farmers Save Money.
They take good papers and read them.
They keep accounts of farm operations.
They do not leave their implements scat
tered over their farm exposed to the rain and
heat.
They repair their tools and buildings at the
proper time, and do not suffer subsequent
three-fold expenditure of time and money.
They use their money judiciously, and they
do not attend auction sales to purchase all
kinds of trumpery because it is cheap.
They see that their fences are well repaired,
and their catile are not grazing in the mead
ows, or the grain fields, or orchards.
They do not refuse to make correct experi
ments in a small way, of many new things.
They plant their fruit trees aud care for
them, and of course get good crops.
They practice economy by giving their stock
good shelter during the winter also good food,
taking all that’s unsound, half rotten or partly
mouldy off
They do not keep a tribe of cats or snarling
dogs around the premises, who eat more in a
month than they all are worth in their whole
lives.
Lastly, they read the advertisements—and
know what is going on, and frequently save
money by it.
Successful farming is made by attention to
little things.
The fanner who does his best, earns his
money with best appreciation, and uses it with
best results Such men are to salt of to
earth.
We accidently overheard to following dialo
gue on the street yesterday.
Jones. Smith, why don’t you stop that dis
gusting hawking and spitting?
Smith. How can I? You know I am a martyr
to catarrh.
J. Do as I did. I had to disease in its worst
form but I am well now.
S. What did you do for it?
J. 1 used Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. It
cured me and it will cure you.
S. I’ve heard of it, and by Jove I’ll try it.
/. Doso. Ytu’ 11 find it at all to drug stores
in town.
$ij$toricaI.
Sanchomathe, abridged as he is by Eusebius,
makes ancient history plain as far back as the
years 3000 or 3100 B. C.
The governmental Carthage sent out Himilco
to make discoveries in 500 B. C.
The Jews confer on Ezra parallel importance
to Moses. To him they ascribe the collection
and arrangement of their bible.
Mahmcud, the Mohammedan Sultan of
Ghizna, about A. D. 1.000, invaded India
twelve tiu.es and laid the foundation of the
Mojul empire.
In 711 Spain was overrun by the Saracens,
and became a dependency of the Caliphate of
Bagdad, but about 1250 the Moors only held
Granada and in 1400 Spain became entirely free
of Mohammedan dominion.
In five centures France had 320 years of war
for 174 of peace; and in the wars were fought
184 bloody battles.
The first king of Prussia was Frederick I. in
1701, and there have since been Frederick II.
(best known as Frederick the Great,) three
Frederick Williams and one William, the latter
the present venerable Emperor of Germany.
Coining with a die was first invented in 1017,
and first used iu England in 1020, the very year
the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
In the year 300 a column of vapor appeared
in the air at Rome, and remained visible for
thirty days.
‘THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.”
Honors to the American Minis’erbv
the Government of Venezuela.
[New York Star.]
The following is an interesting extract from
a letter written by the wife of Hon. Charles L.
Scott, United States Minister to Venezuela, to
a relative in this city:
I must now tell you about to the “glorious
Fourth,” which we celebrated as we did last
year. Mrs C. and Mrs V. Santana, as
Americans, claimed a special interest in tbe
affair, and assisted me in adorning the rooms
for the occasion.
We had a great rare and beautiful flowers,
some from our own patio, but those ladies, ami
also Mrs. Stirrup, presented us with others as
their contribution to the anniversary, which
we most tastefully arranged—among tom a
large star composed of exquisite flowers. Over
the doors hung wreaths of evergreens, and par
lors and corridor presented a scene of tropical
loveliness. I must not omit to mention among
the decorations were two beautiful batmen—
the stars and stripes; and the curtains were
connected with bows of ribbon—white, red
and blue. Refreshments consisted of cakes,
sandwiches, confectioneries, ice cream, tea and
champagne.
Invitations were from four to six o’clock, but
a few were dropping in until eight. The first
get that called was composed of to Govern
ment cabinet, which was quite a surprise, as
toy were sent by President Guzman Blanco
as a compliment to Mr. Scott, and to our Gov
ernment. They came in a body and were re
ceived with due ceremony. Dr. Saies, to Secre
tary of State, made some appropriate remarks,
to which Mr. Scott responded in his usnal ready
manner. 1 must mention that Mr. Middleton,
an old English diplomat, said that he had never
before known such an honor paid by this coun
try to any other country or its Ministers.
Tossts were drank, and altogether it was as
agreeable as it was an unexpected event, and
was most, highly appreciated by us. Nor was
this, all for another surprise greeted us, and
also by order of tbe President The National
Band came about seven, and in our corridor
discoursed some of to sweetest music I ever
heard. ' All seemed to enjoy themselves, and
the speeches will soon appear in to Opinione,
which were spoken on that pleasant occasion.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
The Hamptons, August 14 —To-day the
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage’s sermon is “Con
cerning the Bigots,” and the text, “Then said
they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he
said Sibboletb; for he could not frame to pro
nounce it right. Then they took him, and slew
him at the passages of Jordan.”—Judges 12:0.
Do you notice the difference of pronuncia
tion between Shibboleth and Sibboleth? A
very small and unimportant difference, you
say. And yet, that difference was the differ
ence between life and death for a great many
people. The Lord’s people, Gilead and Eph
raim, got into a great fight, aud Ephraim was
worsted, and on the retreat came to the fords
of the river Jordan to cross. Order was given
that ail Ephraimites coming there be slain.
But how could it bo found out who were Eph-
raimites? They were detected by their pro
nunciation. Shibboleth was a word that stood
for river. The Ephraimites had a brogue of
their own, and when they tried to say shibbo
leth, always left out the sound of the “h.”
When it was asked that they say shibboleth,
they said sibboleth and were slain. “Then
said they unto him, say now shibboleth; and
he said sibboleth, for he could not frame to
pronounce it right. Then they took him and
slew him at the passage of Jordan.” A very
small difference, yon say, between Gilead and
Ephraim, and yet how much intolerance about
that small difference! The Lord’s tribes in our
times—by which I mean the different denomi
nations of Christians—sometimes magnify a
very small d fference, and the only difference
between scores of denominations to-day is the
difference between shibboleth and sibboleth.
The church of God is divided into a great
number of denominations. Time would fail
me to tell of the Calvinists, and the Armin-
ians, and the Sabbatarians,, and the Baxter
ians, and the Drunkers, and the Shakers, and
the Quakers, and the Methodists, and the Bap
tists, and the Episcopalians, and the Luther
ans, and the Congregationalists, and the Pres
byterians, and the Spiritualists, and a score
of other denominations of religionists, some
of them founded by very good men, some of
them founded by very egotistic men, and some
of them founded by very bad men. But as I
demand for myself liberty of conscence, I
it give that same liberty to every other
man, remembering that he no more differs
from me than I differ from him. I advocate
the largest liberty in all religious belief and
form of worship. In art, in politics, in mor
als, and in religion, let there be no gag law, no
moving of the previous question, no persecu
tion, no intolerance.
You know that the air and the water keep
pure by constant circulation, and 1 think there
is a tendency in religious discussion to pur'fi-
cation ami moral health. Between the fourth
and the sixteenth centuries the church pro
posed to make people think aright by prohib
iting discussion and by strong censorship of
the press, and by rack, and gibbet, and hot
lead down the throat, tried to make people or
thodox; but it was discovered that you cannot
change a man’s belief by twisting off his head,
and that you cannot make a man see things
differently by putting an awl through his eyes.
There is something in a man’s conscience
which will hurl off the mountain that you
throw upon it, and, unsinged of the fire, out
of the flame will make red wings on which the
martyr will mount to glory.
In that time of which I speak, between the
fourth and sixteenth centuries, people went
from the house ol God into the most appalling
iniquity, anti right aliens; by consecrated altars
there were tides of chtoakenness and licentious
ness such as the world never heard of, and the
very sewers of perdition broke loose aud
flooded the church. After awhile the printing
press was freed, and it broke tbe shackles of
the human mind. Then there came a large
number of bad books, but where there was oie
man hostile to the Christian religion, there were
twenty men ready to advocate it; so I have not
any nervousness in regard to this battle going
on between truth and error.
The truth will conquer just as certainly as
that God is stronger than the devil. Let Er
ror run if you only let Truth run along with it.
Urged on by skeptic’s shout aud transcend
entalist’s spur, let it run. God’s angels of
wrath are in hot pursuit, and quicker than ea
gle’s beak clutches out a hawk’s heart God’s
vengeuce will tear it to pieces.
1 propose this mcmiug to speak to you of
sectarianism—its origin, its evils and its cures,
There are those who would make us think
that this monster, with horns and hoofs, is re
ligion. I shall cliaso it to its hiding place, and
drag it out of the caverns of darkness, and rip
off its hide. But I want to make a distinction
between bigotry and the lawful fondness for
peculiar religious beliefs and forms of wor
ship. I have no admiration for a nothingarian.
In a world of such tremendous vicissitude
and temptation, and with a soul tnat must af
ter a while stand before a throne of insuffera
ble brightness, in a day when the rocking of
the mountains and the flaming of the heavens
and the upheaval of the sea shall be among the
leas? of the excitements, to give account for
every thought, word, action, preference and
dislike—that man is mad who has no relig
ious preference. But our early education, our
physical temperament, our mental constitu
tion, will very much decide our form of wor
ship.
A style of psalmody that may please me may
displease you. Some would like to have a
minister in gown, and bands, and surplice, and
others prefer to have a minister in plain citi
zen's apparel. Some are most impressed when
a little child is presentad at the altar and
sprinkled of the waters of a holy benediction
“in the name of the Father, and the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost;” and others are more im
pressed when the penitent comes up out of the
river, his garments dripping with the waters
of a baptism which signifies to washing away
of sin. Let either have his own way. One man
likes no noise in prayer, cot a word, not a
whisper. Another man just as good, prefers
by gesticulation and exclamation to express
bis devotional aspirations. One is just as good
as the other. “Every man fully persuaded in
his own mind ”
George Whitefield was going over a Quaker
rather roughly for some of his religious senti
ments, and the Quaker said: “George, I am
as thou art; I am for bringing all men to the
hope of the gospel; therefore, if thou will not
quarrel with me about my broad brim, I will
not quarrel with thee about thy black gown.
George, give me thy hand.”
1 In tracing out the religion of sectarianism,
or bigotry, I find that a great deal of it comes
from wrong education in the home circle.
There are parents who do not thtnk It wrong
to caricature and jeer the peculiar forms of re
ligion in the world, aud denounce other sects
and other denominations. It is very often the
case that that kind of education acts just op
posite to what was expected, and the children
grow up, and, after a while, go and see for
themselves; and looking in those churches,
and finding that the people are good there, and
they love God and keep His commandments,
by natural reaction toy go and join those very
churches. I could mention the names of prom
inent ministers of to gospel who spent toir
whole life bombarding other denominations
and who lived to see toir children preach the
gospel in those very denominations. But it is
often tbe case that bigotry starts in a house
hold, and that the subject of it never recovers.
There are tens of thousands of bigots ten years
old.
I think sectarianism and bigotry also rise
from to > great prominence of any olb denomi
nation in a community. All to other denom
inations are wrong, and hia denomination is
right, because his denomination is the most
wealthy, or to most popular, or to most in
fluential, and it is “our” church, and “our”
religions organization, and “our” choir, and
' our” minister, and the man tosses his head,
and \yants other denominations to know their
places. It is a great deal better in any com
munity when the'great denominations of Chris
tians are about equal in power, marching side
by aide for the world’s conquest. Mere out
side prosperity, mere worldly power, is no evi
dence that the church is acceptable to God.
I Better a barn with Christ in the manger than
! a cathedral with magnificent harmonies roll
ing through to long-drawn aisle, and an an-
. cel from heaven in the pulpit, if there be no
i Christ in the chancel, and no Christ in to
’ robes. Bigotry is of ten the child of ignorance.
You seldom find a man with large intellect
who is a bigot. It is tbe man who thinks he
knows a great deal but does not. That man is
almost always a bigot. The whole tendency
of education and civilization is to bring a man
out of tbat kind of state of mind and heart.
There was in the far East a great obelisk, and
one side of to obelisk was white, another side
of the obelisk was green, another side of the
obelisk was blue, and travelers went and looked
at that obelisk, but they did not walk around
One man looked at one side, another at
another side; and they came home, each one
looking at only one side, and they happened to
meet, tbe story says, and they got into a rank
quarrel about the color of that obelisk. One
man said it was white, another man said it was
green, another man said it was blue; and when
toy were in the very heat of thi controversy
a more intelligent traveler came and said:
Gentlemen, I have seen that obelisk, and you
are all right, and you are all wrong. Why
didn’t you walk all around the obelisk?”
Look out for the man who sees only one side
of a religious truth. Look out for the man who
never walks around these great theories of God
and eternity and the dead. He wili be a bigot
inevitably—the man who only seea one side.
There is no man more to be pitied than he who
has in his head just one idea—no more, no less.
More ligit—less sectarianism. There is noth
ing tbat will so soon kill bigotry as sunshine—
God’s sunshine.
So I have set before you what I consider to
be the causes of bigo ry. I have set before you
the origin of this great evil. What are some of
the baleful effects? First of all, it cripples in
vestigation. You are wrong and I am right,
and that ends it. No taste for exploration, no
spirit of investigation. From the glorious
realm of God’s truth, over which an archangel
might fly from eternity to eternity and not
reach the limit, the man shuts himself out and
dies a blind mole under a corn shock. It stops
all investigation.
While each denomination of Christians is to
present all the truths of the Bible, it seems to
me that God has given to each denomination
an especial mission to give particular emphasis
to some one doctrine. And so the Calvinistic
churches must present the sovereignty of God;
and the Arminian church -8 must present man’s
free agency; and the Episcopal churches must
present the importance of order and solemn
ceremony; and the Baptist churches must pre
sent the necessity of ordinances; and the Con
gregational church must present the responsi
bility of the individual member; and the Meth
odist church must show what holy enthusiasm,
hearty congregational singing can accomplish.
While rach denomination ot Christians must
set forth all the doctrines of the Bible, I feel it
is especially incumbent upon each denomina
tion to put particular emphasis on some one
doctrine.
Another great damage done by the sectarian
ism and bigotry of the church is that it disgusts
people with the Christian religion. Now, my
frirnds, the church of God was never intended
for a war barrack. People are afraid of a riot.
You go down the street and you see an excite-
meat and missiles flying through the air, and
you hear the shock of fire-arms. Do you, the
peaceful and industrious citizen, go through
that street? Oh! no; you will say, “I’ll go
around the block.” Now, men, come and look
upon this narrow path to Heaven, and some
times see the ecclesiastical brickbats flying
everywhither, and they say, “Well, I guess
I’ll take the broad road. If it is so rough, and
there is so much sharp-shooting on the narrow
road, I guess I’ll try the broad road.”
Francis I. so hated the Lutherans that he
said if he thought there was one drop of Lu
theran blood in his veins he would puncture
them and let that drop out. Just as long as
there is so much hostility between denomina
tion and denomination, or between one pro
fessed Christian and another, or between one
church and another, just so long men will be
disgusted witli the Onristian religion and say,
‘If that is religion, I want noue of it.”
Again, bigotry and sectarianism do great
damage in the fact that they hinder the tri
umph of the gospel. Ohl how much wasted
ammunition, how many men of splendid intel
lect have given their whole life to controversial
disputes, when—if they had given their life to
something practical—they might have been
vastly useful! Supposs this morning, while I
speak, there were a common enemy coming up
the bay through the narrows, and all the forts
around New York began to fire into each
other—you would cry out: “National suicide!
Why don’t those forts blaze away in one direc
tion, and that against the common enemy?”
And yet I sometimes see in the chnrch of the
Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing going on—
church against church, minister against min
ister, denomination against denomination,
dring away into their own fort or the fort
which ought to be on the same side, instead of
concentrating their energy and giving one
mighty aud everlasting volley against the na
vies of darkness riding up through the bay 1
I go out sometimes in the summer, aud I
find two beehives, and these two hives are in
a quarrel. I come near enough, not to be
stung, but I come just near enough to hear the
controversy, and one beehive says. “That
tield of clover is the sweetest,” and another
beehive says, “That field of clover is the
sweetest.” I come in between them, and I
say, “Stop this quarrel; if you like that tield
of clover best, go there; if you like that tield of
clover best, go there; but let me tell you that
hive which gets the most honey is the best
hive.” So I come out between the churches
of the Lord Jesus Christ. One denomination
of Christians says, “That field of Christian
doctrine is best,” aud another says, “This field
of Christian doctrine is best.” Well, I say,
“Go where you get the most honey.” That is
the best church which gets the most honey of
Christian grace for the heart, and the most
hoi ey of Christian usefulness for the life.
Beside that, if you want to build up auy de
nomination, you will never build it up by try
ing to pull some other down. Intolerance
never put anything down. How much has in
tolerance accomplished, for instance, against
the Methodist church? For long years her
ministry were forbidden the pulpits of Great
Britain. Why was it that so many of them
preached in the fields? Simply because they
could not get in the churches. And the name
of the church was given in derision and as a
sarcasm. The critics of the church said:
“They have no order, they have no method
in their worship;’’ and the critics, therefore,
in irony called them “Methodists.’’
I am told that in Astor Library, New York,
kept as curiosities there are seven hundred
and seven books and pamphlets against Meth
odism. Did intolerance stop that church? No;
it is either first or second amid the denomina
tions of Christendom, her missionary stations
in all parts of the world, her men not only im
portant in religious trusts, but important also
in secular trusts. Church marching on, and
the more intolerance against it, the faster it
marched.
What did intolerance accomplish against the
Baptist church? If laughing scorn and tirade
cojild have destroyed the church it would not
have to-day a disciple left.
The Baptists were hurled out of Boston in
olden times. Those who sympathized with
them were confined, and when a petition was
offered asking leniency in their beba'f, all the
men who signed it were indicted. Has intol
erance stopped to Baptist church? The last
statistics in regard to it showed about thirty
thousand churches and two and a half million
communicants. Intolerance never put down
anything.
In England a law was made against the Jew.
England thrust back the Jew and thrust down
tbe Jew, and declared that no Jew should bold
official position. What came of it? Were the
Jews destroyed? Was toir religion over
thrown? No. Who became prime minister of
England years ago? Who was next to the
throne’ Who was higher than the throne be
cause he was counsellor and adviser? The de
scendant of a Jew. What were we celebrating
in all onr churches as well as synagogues a
few years ago? The one hundredth birthday
of Montefiore, to great Jewish philanthropist.
Intolerance never yet put down anything.
III. But now, my friends, having shown
you to origin of bigotry or sectarianism, and
having shown you the damage it does, I want
briefly to show yon how we are to war against
this terrible evil, and I think we ought to be
gin our war by realizing our own weakness
and our imperfections. If we make so many
mistakes in to common affairs of life, is it
not possible that we may make mistakes in re
gard to our religious affairs? Shall we take a
man by to throat or by to collar because he
cannot see religions truths just as we do? In
to light of eternity it will be found out, I
think, tore was something wrong in all our
creeds and something right in all our creeds.
But since we may make mistakes in regard to
things of the world, do not let us be egotistic,
and so puffed up as to have an idea that we
cannot make any mistake in regard to relig
ions theories. And ton I think we will do a
great deal to overthrow to sectarianism from
our heart and to sectarianism from to world
by chiefly enlarging upon those things in
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Now, here is a great gospel platform. A man
comes up on this side the platform and says,
“I don’t believe in baby sprinkling.” Shall I
shove him off? Here is a man coming up on
this side of the platform, and he says, “I don’t
believe in the perseverence of the faint?.’
Shall I shove him off? No. I will say, “Do
you believe in the Lord Jesus a=» your Saviour?
do you trust Him for time aud for eternity?”
He says, “Yes.” “Do you take Christ for
time and for eternity?’’ “Yes.” Isay, “Come
on, brother; one in time and one in eternity;
brother now; brother fore7er.” Blessed be
God for a gospel platform so large that all who
receive Christ may st«nd on it.
I think we may overthrow the severe secta
rianism and bigotry in our hearts, and in the
church also, by realizing that all the denomi
nation of Christians have yielded noble insti
tutions and noble men. There is notbiugthat
so stirs my soul as this thought. One denomi
nation yielded a Robert Hall and an Adoniram
Judson; another yielded a Latimer and a Mel
ville; another yielded John Wesley and the
blessed Summertieid. while our own denomi
nation yielded John Knox and the Alexauders
—men of whom the world was not worthy.
Now, I say, if we are honest and fair minded
men, when we come up in the presence of
such churches and such denominations, al
though they may be different from our own,
we ought to admire ihe r, and we ought to love
and honor them. Chuic ies which cm pro
duce such men, and such large-hearted chari
ty; and such magnificent martyrdom, ought to
win our affeciio 1—at any rate, our respect. So
come on, ye four hundred thousand Episcopal
ians in this country, and ye eight hundred
thousand Presbyterians, and ye two and a half
million Baptists, and ye nearly three and three-
quarter million Methodists—come on, shoulder
to shoulder, we will march for tbe world’s con
quest; for all nations are to be saved, and Gi d
demands that you and I help do it. Forward,
the whole line.
Morever, we may also overthrow the feeling
of severe sactarianism by joining other de
nominations in Christian work. I like when
the spring-time comes and the anniversary oc
casions begin, and all the denominations come
upon the same platform. That overthrows
sectarianism. In the Y'oung Men’s Christian
Association, in the Bible society, in the Tract
society; in the Foreign Missionary society,
shoulder to shoulder ail denominations.
Perhaps I might more forcibly illustrate this
truth by calling your attention to an incident
which took place fourteen or fifteen years ago.
One Monday morning at about two o’clock,
while her nine hundred passengers were sound
asleep in her berths dreaming of home, the
steamer Atlantic crashed into Mar’s Head.
Five hundred souls in ten mim es landed in
eternity! Oh, what a scene! Agonized mt n
and women running up and down the gang
ways, and clutching for the rigging, and the
plunge of the helpless steamer, and the clap
ping of the hands of the merciless sea over the
drowning and the dead, threw two continents
into terror. But see this brave quartermaster
pushing out with the life-line until he gets to
the rock; and see these fishermen gathering up
the shipwrecked, and taking them into the
cabins, and 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 out for the wreck, pulling away
across the surf, and pulling away until they
saved one more man, and then getting back
with him to the shore. Can those men ever
forget that night? And can they ever forget
their companionship in peril, companionship
in struggle, companionship in awful catastro
phe and rescue? Never! Never! In what
ever part of the earth they meet, they will be
friends when they mention the story of that
awful night when the Atlant c struck Mar’s
head.
Well, my friends, our world has gone into a
worse shipwreck. Sin drove it on the rocks.
The old ship has lurched and rossed in the
tempests of six thousand years. Out with tbe
life line! I do not caro what denomination
carries it. Out with the life-boat! I do not
care what denomination rows it. Side by side,
iu the memory of common hard-ships, and
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must be. We must be.
“One arm of the living God;
To whose command we bow;
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