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AT THE
TABERNACLE
Lessons Drawn From the
Wedding Feast.
The Many Excuses Men flake for
Not Becoming Christians.
Christianity Is a Great Help in Every
. Proper Relation in Life.
Brooklyn, April 16.—Rev. Dr. Talmage
In his sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this forenoon spread before the great audi
ence in eloquent words the beauty and at
tractiveness of the gospel feast, the text,
chosen being from Luke xiv, IS. “And they
all with one consent began to make excuse.”
After the invitations to a levee are sent
out the regrets come in. One man apolo
gizes for nonattendance on one ground, an
other on another ground. The most of the
regrets are founded on prior engagements.
60 in my text a great banquet was spread,
the invitations were circulated, and now
the regrets come in.
The one gives an agricultural reason, th ?
other a stock dealer’s reason, the other a
domestic reason—all poor reasons. The
agricultural reason being that t he man had
bought a farm and wanted to see it. Could
he not see it the next day? The stock deal
er’s reason being that he had bought five
yoke of oxen and he wanted to go and
prove them. He had no business to buy
them until he knew what they were. Be
sides that a man who can own five yoke of
oxen can command bis own time. Besides
that, he might have yoked two of them to
gether and driven them on the way to the
banquet, for locomot ion was not as rapid
then as now. The man who gave the do
mestic reason said he had got married. Me
ought to have taken his wife with him.
i The fact waa, they did not want, to go.
“And they all with one consent began to
make excuse.” So now God spreads a
great banquet. It is the gospel feast, and
the table reaches across the hemispheres,
and the invitations go out, and multitudes
come and si t down and drink out of the chal
ices of God’s love, while other multitudes
decline coming—the one giving this apolo
gy and the other giving that apology. "And
they all with one consent began to make
excuse.” I propose this morning, so far as
God may help me, to examine the apolo
gies which men make for not entering the
Christian life.
RELIGION HAS MADE A RECORD.
i Apology the First—l am not sure there is
anything valuable in the Christian reli
gion. It is pleaded that there are so many
Impositions in this day—so many things
that seem to be real are sham. A gilded
outside may have a hollow inside. There
is so much quackery in physics, in ethics,
in politics, that men come to the habit of
Incredulity, and after awhile they allow
that incredulity to collide with our holy
religion.
But, my friends, I think religion hns
"made a pretty good record in the world.
How many wounds it has salved; how
many pillars of fire it has lifted in the mid
night wilderness; how many simoom struck
Saharas it hath turned into the gardens of
the Lord; how it hath stilled tbo chopped
sea; what rosy light it hath sent streaming
through the rift of the storm cloud wrack;
what pools of cool water it hath gathered
for thirsty Hagar and Ishmael; what man
na whiter than coriander seed it hath
dropped all around the camp of hardly be
stead pilgrims; what promises it hath sent
.nut like holy watchers to keep the lamps
burping around deathbeds; through the
darkness that lowers into the sepulcher,
what flashes of resurrection moral
Besides that this religion has made so
many heroes. It brought Summerfield, the
Methodist, across the Atlantic ocean with
his silver trumpet to blow the acceptable
year of the Lord until it seemed as if all
our American cities would take the king
dom of heaven by violence. It sent Jehudi
Ashman into Africa alone, in a continent
of naked barbarians, to lilt the standard of
civilization anil Christianity. It made John
Milton among poets, Raphael among paint
ers, Christopher Wren among architects,
Thorwaldsen among sculptors, Handel
among musicians, Dupont among military
commanders; and to give new wings to the
imagination, and better balance to the judg
ment, and more determination to the will,
and greater usefulness to the life, and
grander nobitity to the soul, there is noth
ing in all the earth like our Christian reli
gion.
WERE THEY ALL DECEIVED’
Nothing in religion! Why, then, all
those Christians were deceived, when in
their dying moment they thought they
saw the castles of the blessed, and your
child, that with unutterable agony you put
away into the grave, you will never see him
again nor hear his sweet voice nor feel the
throb of his young heart? There is noth
ing in religion! Sickness will come upon
you. Roll and turn on your pillow. No
relief. The medicine may be bitter, the
night may be'dark, the pain may be sharp.
No relief. Christ never comes to the sick
room. Let the pain stab. Let the fever
burn. Curse it and die. There is nothing
in religion!
After awhile death will come. You will
hear the pawing of the pale horse on the
threshold. The spirit will be breaking
away from the body, and it will take flight
—whither, whither? There is no God, no
ministering angels to conduct, no Christ,
no heaven, no home. Nothing in religion!
Oh, you are not willing to adopt such a
dismal theory. And yet the world is full
of skeptics. And let me say there is no
class of people for whom I have a warmer
sympathy than for skeptics. We do not
know how to treat them. We deride them,
we caricature them. We, instead of taking
them by the soft hand of Christian love,
clutch them with the iron pinchers of eccle-
Biasticism.
Oh, if you knew how those men had fall
en away from Christianity and become
skeptics you would not be so rough on
them! Some were brought up in homes
where religion was overdone. The most
wretched day in the week was Sunday. Re
ligion was driven into them with a trip
hammer. They had a surfeit ofi-prayer
meetings. They were stuffed and choked
with catechisms. They were told by their
parents that they were the worst children
that ever.lived because they liked to ride
down hili better than to read “Pilgrim’s
Progress.” They never heard their parents
talk of religion but with the comers of
their mouths drawn down and the eyes
rolled up.
Others went into skepticism through
maltreatment on the part of some who
professed religion. There is a man who
gays, “My partner in business was voluble '
in prayer meeting, and he was officious in
all religious circles, but he cheated me out
of ¥3,000, and I don’t want any of that re
ligion.”
THE PRIDE OP INTELLECT.
There are others who got into skepticism
by a natural persistence in asking ques
tions —why or how? How can God be one
being in three persons? They cannot un
derstand it. Neither can I. How can God
be a complete sovereign, and yet man a
free agent? They cannot understand it.
Neither can L They cannot understand
why a holy God lets sin come into tne
world. Neither can I. They say: “Mere.is 1
a great mystery. Mero is u uiscipieor ink. -
ipn, frivolous and godless ull her days—sho
lives ou to be an octogenarian. Here is a
Christian mother training her children for
God and for heaven, self sacrificing, Christ
like, indispensable, seemingly, to that
household—she takes the cancer and dies."
The skeptic says, “I can’t explain that.”
Neither can I.
Oh. I can see how men reason themselves
into skepticism. With burning feet I have
| trod that blistering way. I know whnt it
is to have 100 nights poured into one hour.
There are men in this audience who would
give their thousands of dollars if they
could get back to the old religion of their
fathers. Such men iv not to be cariea-
I tured, but helped, and not through their
heads, but through their hearts. When
these men really docome into the kingdom
of God. they will be worth far more to the
cause of Christ than those who never ex
amined the evidences of Christianity.
Thomas Chalmers, ur.ee a skeptic; Robert
Hall, once a skeptic; Christmas Evans, once
a skeptic—but when they did lay hold of
tho gospel chariot, how t hey made it speed
ahead!
If therefore I stand this morning before
men and women who have drifted away
into skepticism, I throw out no scoff; 1
rather implead you by the memory of those
good old times when you knelt at your
! mother’s knee and said your evening pray
-1 er and these other days of sickness when
■ she watched all night and gave you the
| medicines at just the right timeand turned
i tho pillow when it was hot, and with hand
| long ago turned to dust soothed your pains,
and with that voice you will never hear
again, unless you join her in the better
country, told you never mind—you would
be better by and 1“ -and by that dying
| couch where she talked so slowly, catching
I her breath between tho words—by all those
- memories I ask you to come and take the
, same religion. It was good enough for her,
it is good enough for you.
Aye, I make a better plea; by the wounds
and the death throe of the Son of God, who
approaches you this morning with torn
brow and lacerated hands and whipped
back, crying, “Come unto me, all ye who
are weary and heavy laden, and 1 will give
you rest.”
THE VICE OF ILL TEMPER.
Other persons apologize for not entertain
ing the Christian life la-cause of the incor
| rigibility of their temper. Now, we admit
; it is harder for some people to become
| Christians than for others, but the grace of
i God never came toa mountain that it could
not climb or to an abyss that it could not
fathom or to a bondage that it could not
. break.
The wildest horse that ever trod Arabian
sands has been broken to bit and trace.
The maddest torrent tumbling from moun
tain shelving has been harnessed to the
millwheel and the factory band, setting a
thousand shuttles all a-buzz and a-clatter,
and the wildest, the haughtiest, the most
ungovernable man ever created, by the
grace of God may be subdued and sent out
on ministry of kindness as God sends an
August thunderstorm to water the wild
flowers down in the grass. (
Good resolution, reformatory effort, will
riot effect the change. It takes a mightier
arm and a mightier hand to bend evil hab
its than the hand that bent the bow of
Ulysses, and it takes a stronger lasso than
ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A
man cannot go forth with any human
weapons and contend successfully against
these Titans armed with uptorn mountain.
But you have known men into whose spirit
the influence of t he-gospel of Christ came,
until their disposition-was entirely changed.
So it was with two merchants iu New
York. They were very antagonistic. They
had done all they could to injure each
other. They were in the same lino of busi
ness. One of the merchants was converted
to God. Having been converted, he asked
the Lord to teach him how- to bear himself
toward that business antagonist, and he
j was impressed with the fact that it was his
! duty when a customer asked for a certain
kind of goods which he had not, but which
he knew his opponent had, to recommend
him to go to that store.
I suppose that is about the hardest thing
the man could do, but being thoroughly
converted to God, he resolved to do that
very thing, and being asked for a certain
kind of goods which he had not, he said,
“You go to such and such a store, and you
w ill get it.” After awhile merchant No. 2
found these customers coming, so sent, and
he found also that merchant No. 1 had been
brought to God, and he sought the same
religion. Now they are good friends and
good neighbors, the grace of God entirely
changing their disposition.
“Oh,” says some one, “I have a rough,
jagged, impetuous nature, and religion
can’t do anything for me.” Do you know
that Martin Luther anil Robert Newton
and Richard Baxter were impetuous, all
consuming natures, yet the grace of God
turned them into the mightiest usefulness?
Oh, how many who have been pugnacious
and hard to please, and irascible and more
bothered about the mote in their neighbor’s
eye than about the beam like ship timber
in their own eye, have been entirely changed
by the grace of God and have found out
that “godliness is profitable for the life that
now is as well as for the life which is to
come.”
THE IMPETUOUS APOSTLE.
Peter, with nature as tempestuous as the
sea that he once tried to walk, at one look
of Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rich
harvests of grace may grow on the tiptop
of the jagged steep, and flocks of Christian
graces may find pasturage in fields of bram
ble and rock. Though your disposition
may be all a-bristle with fretfulness, though
you have a temper a-gleam with quick
lightnings, though your avarice be like
that of the horse leech, crying, "Give!”
though damnable impurities have wrapped
you in all consuming tire, God can drive
that devil out of your soul, and over the
chaos and the darkness he can say, “Let
there be light.”
Converting grace has lifted the drunkard
from the ditch, and snatched the knife
from the hand of the assassin, and tho
false keys from the burglar, and in the pes
tiferous lanes of the city met the daughter
of sin under the dim lamplight and scat
tered her sorrow and her guilt with the
words, “Thy sins are forgiven—go and sin
no more.” For scarlet sin a scarlet atone
ment.’
Other persons apologize for not entering
the Christian life because of the inconsisten
cies of those who profess religion. There
are thousands of poor farmers. They do
not know the nature of soil nor the proper
rotation of crops. Their corn is shorter in
the stalk and smaller in the ear. They
have 10 less bushels to the acre than their
neighbors. But who declines being a farm
er because there are so many poor farmers?
There are thousands of incompetent mer
chants. They buy at the wrong time. They
gefreheated in thesaleof theirgoods. Every
bale of goods is to them a bale of disaster.
They fail after awhile and go out of busi
ness. But who declines to be a. merchant
because there are so many incompetent
merchants? There aro thousands of poor
lawyers. They cannot draw a declaration
that will stand the test. They cannot re
cover just damages. They cannot help a
defendant escape from the injustice of his
persecutors. They are the worst evidence
againstany case in which they are retained.
But who declines to be a lawver because
there are so many incompetent lawyers?
Yet there are tens of thousands of people
who decline being religious because there
are so many unworthy Christians. Now, I
say it is illogical. Poor lawyers are noth
ing against jurisprudence, poor physicians
THE AUGUSTA WEEKLY CHRONICLE. APRIL 19, 1893
nrt notnuig against medicine, poor farmers
aro nothing ngaiyst agriculture, and mean,
contemptible professors of religion are noth
ing against our glorious Chris tiauity.
THE WILD FANCIES OF SKEPTICISM,
Sometimes you have been riding along
on a summer night by a swamp, and you
have seen lights that kindled over decayed
vegetation—lights which arc called jack-o’-
lantern or will-o'-the-wisp. These lights aro
merely poisi nous inhuniuta. My friends,
ou your way to heaven you will want a bet
ter light than tho will-o’-the-wisps which
dance on tho rotten character of dead Chris
tians. Exudations front poisonous trees in
our neighbor's garden will make a very
floor balm for our wounds.
Sickness will come, and we will be pushed
owt toward the Hod sc i which divides this
world from the next, and not the inconsist
ency of Christians, but the rod of faith
will wave back tho waters as'a commander
wheels his host . The judgment will come,
with its thuudershod solemnities, attended
by bursting mountains and the deep laugh
of earthquakes, and sunswill fly in-fore the
feet of God like sparks irotn the anvil, and
ten thousand burning worldsshall blazelike
banners in the track W Cod omnipotent,
Ob, then we will not stop and say, “There
was a mean Christian; there was a cowardly
Christian; there was a dying Christian;
tin re was an impure Christian.” In that
day, as now, “if thou be wise, thou shalt.
be wise for thyself, but if thou scornest
thou alone shall bear it.”
Why, my brother, the inconsistency of
Christiaus„so far from being an argument
to keep you away from God, ought to bean
argument to drive you to him. The be.\t
place for a skillful doctor is iu a neighbor
hood where they are all poor doctors; the
best place for au enterprising merchant to
open his store is in a place where the bar
gain makers do not understand their busi
ness, and the best place for you who want
to become the illustrious and complete
Christ ian, the best place for you is to come
right down among us who are so incompe
tent and so inconsistent sometimes.
Other persons apologize for not becom
ing Christians because they luc\ time, as
though religion muddled the brain of the
accountant, or tripped the peu of the
author, or thickened the tongue, of the or
ator, or weakened the arm of the mechanic,
or scattered the briefs of the lawyer, or in
terrupted the sales of the merchant. They
bolt their store doors against it and fight it
back with trowels and yardsticks and cry,
“Away with your religion from our store,
our office, our factory!”
They do not understand that religion in
this workaday world will help you to do
anything you ought to do. It. can lay a
keel; it can sail a ship; it can buy a cargo;
it can work a pulley; it can pave a street;
it can lit a wristband; it can write a consti
tution, it can marshal a host. It is as ap
propriate to the astronomer as his telescope;
to the chemist as his laboratory; to the ma
son as his plumbline; to the carpenter as
his plane; to the child as his marbles; to the
grandfather as his staff.
RELIGION ADDS TO ONE’S ENERGIES.
No time to be religious here! You have
no time not to be religious. You might as
well have no clerks in your store, no books
in your library, no compass on your ship,
no rifle in the battle, no hat for your head,
no coat for youT back, no shoes for your
feet. Better travel on toward eternity bare
headed and barefooted and houseless and
homeless and friendless than to go through
life without religion.
Did religion make Raleigh any less of a
statesman, or Havelock any less of a sol
dier, or Grinnell any less of a merchant, or
West any less of a painter? Religion is the
best security in every bargain. It is the
sweetest note iu every song; it is the bright
est gem in every coronet. No time to be reli
gious? Why, you will have to take time to
jbe sick, to be troubled, to die. Our world
is only the wharf from which we are to em
bark for heaven. No time to secure the
friendship ot Christ? No time to buy a
lamp and t rim it for that walk through the
darkness which otherwise will be illumined
only by the whiteness of the tombstones?
No time to educate the eye for heavenly
splendors, or the hand for choral harps, or
the ear for everlasting songs, or the soul for
honor, glory and immortality? One would
think we had time for nothing else.
Other persons apologize for not entering
the Christian life because it is time enough
yet. That is very like those persons who
send their regrets and say: “I will come in
perhaps at 11 or 12 o’clock. 1 will not be
there at the opening of the banquet, but I
will be there at the close.” Not yet! Not
yet!
Now, I do not give any doleful view of
this life. There is nothing in my nature,
nothing in the grace of God, that tends to
ward a doleful view of human life. I have
not much sympathy with Addison’s de
scription of the “Vision of Mirza,” where
he represents human life as being a bridge
of a hundred arches, and both ends of the
bridge covered with clouds, and tho race
coming on, the most of them falling down
through the first span and all of them fall
ing down through the last span. It is a
very dismal picture. I have not much sym
pathy with the Spanish proverb which says,
“The sky is good, and the earth is good—
that which is bad is between the earth and
the sky.” ■
But while we as Christian people ar
bound to take a cheerful view of life, we
must also confess that life is a great uncer
tainty, and that man who says, “I can’t
become a Christian because there is time
enough yet,” is running a risk infinite. You
do not perhaps realize the fact that this de
scending grade of sin gets steeper and steep
er, and that you are gathering up a rush
and velocity which after awhile may not
answer to the brakes. Ob my friends, be
not among those who give their whole life
to the world and then give their corpse to
God.
It does not seem fair while our pulses are
in full play of health that we serve our
selves and serve the world and then make
God at last the present of a coffin. It does
not seem right that we run our ship from
coast to coast carrying cargoes for our
selves and then when the ship is crushed
on the rocks give to God the shivered tim
bers. It is a great thing for a man on hi>
dying pillow to repent—better that than
never at all, but how much better, how
much more generous, it would have been if
he had repented 50 years before! My
friends, you will never get over these pro
crastinations.
NOW IS THE PROPER TIME.
Here is a delusion. People think, “I can
go on in sin and worldliness, but afte:
awhile I will repent, and then it will be a
though I had come at the very start.” That
is a delusion. No one ever gets fully over
procrastination. If you give your soul to i
God some other time than this, you will cn- ;
ter heaven with only half the capacity for
- and knowledge you might have i
had. There will be heights of blessedness
you might have attained you will never
reach; thrones of glory on which you might
have been seated, but which you will never
climb.
We will never get over procrastination,
neither in time nor in eternity. We have
started on a march from which there is no
retreat. The shadows of eternity gather on
our pathway. How insignificant- is time
compared with the vast eternity! I was
thinking of this while coming down over
the Alleghany mountains at noon by that
wonderful place which you have all heard
described as the Horseshoe, a depression in
the sfr’e of the mountain where the train
almost turns back again upon itself, and
you see how appropriate is the description
of the Horseshoe, and thinking on this
very theme and preparing this very ser
mon it seemed to me as if the great courser
ot eternity Speeding along mta juct bsr:-"
the mountain with one hoof and gone on
iuto illimitable space. So short is time, so
insignificant is earth, compared with the
vast eternity!
This mqyning voices roll down tho sky,
and all the worlds of light are ready to re
joice at your diseutbrnllment. Rush not
into tho prrounco of tho King ragged with
sin when yen may have this robe of right
eousness. Dash not your foot to piece
against the throne of a crucitled Christ.
Throw not your crown of life off tho bat t 1< •
meats. All tho scribes of God are this mo
ment ready with volumes of living light to
record the news of your soul emancipated.
COTTON MANUFACTURING.
What Brad.trevl’s Hay of the South’s Posi
tion nnd Aflvnnt
Much has boon printed lately regard
ing the availability of tho South ns a ri
val of New England in the manufacture
of cotton goods. Recent articles in the
('liatlanooci Tradesman and Boston
Journal of Commerce have defined the
positions of tho partisans of both sec
tions of tin- country ns regards the mat
ter? Tn the latter journal the usual ob
jections. such ns insufficiency of canital.
unskilled labor, imperfect construction
and liiuidciinato maohinory wore lain
aside as being removable, and tho chief
objection to tho probability of enlarg
ing Southern manufacture was given ns
the unfavorable effect upon labor of the
enervating climate of -the Smith. Tho de
bilitating influence of a high temperature
upon tho physical, if pot tho mental, effi
ciency of the labor so employed was the
chief argument advanced. Every thins
else, it was admitted, could be corrected,
but this one objection, it was stated,
warranted tho expectation of bettor pc
enniary results for a series of years
from cotton manufacturing operations in
the North rather than in the South
This and others hitherto regarded as .im
portant objections are combatted by Mr.
C. F. TTnhlein of Louisville, in the
Tradesman, in answer to an Enidish in
quiry regarding tho prospects of cotton
manufacturing in tho South. The ques
tion was asked. “Why should not the
mill bo built whore tho cotton grows?”
•A striking comparison between the
prosperous condition of Southern cotton
mill employes and those of Oldham, Lan
cashire. wore a five months’ winter
strike involving terrible hardships to the
working classes has just ended, wv
mndo by the writer. Tie said: “Verily
‘why should not the mill Ivo built where
the cotton grows?’ We can -assure our
on the baW« nil the
United States census returns, hist mndo
public, also on the very reliable reports
of Mr. Secretary Hester of tho New Or
loans cotton exchange, on the basis of
the reports of Bradstreets Agency and
Bradstreet's journal, and on reports ana
dividends of the vaimis cotton-mill cor
porations of the South, that for several
seasons past, and in general from their
inception. Southern cotton mills have
made and are making, profitable re
turns, and rank as solid, healthy and
thoroughly prosperous institutions.” Tn
co-nnbotion with the diverse views ot
American exports regarding the possibil
ities of Southern manufactures, it is or
interest to refer to an article in tho
Southern States Magazine for March.
Tho article which 1-s form the pen oi
Mr. J. S. Jeans, secretary of tho Brit
ish Iron nnd Steel Institute, deals pri
mnrilly with tho progress made from
ISWI to LSno by Southern mills, nnd in
i cidontallv advances reasons not hither-
I tn prominently brought forward why the
, Southern states should in future bo the
i center of American cotton manufacture.
Mr. J'Mga. in opening, explains the ad
vantage which England has had in be
ing thoi homo of the most important ap
plications of cotton machinery. The ad
■ ranee of the United States, however, in
: this direction has brought about a
' change. Ho says: “Lancashire is fal
ling back and the United States is conn
ing forward, and among the recent ad
vances of the United States no feature
is more conspicuous than the remarkable
growth of this industry in the New
Sonth.”
Mr. Joans instances tbo facts that tho
United States furnish SO per cent, of
the world's raw cotton consumption, but
only use one-third of their own produc
tion. Ho quotes census figures to show
that Southern mills in capital invested
increased about 180 nor cent., in opera
tives 105 per cent employed and 125 per
cent, in value of production during tho
ten years from ISBO to IR9O. That suc
cess in the industry does not depend
upon mere nominal cost of labor Mr.
Jeans seems to regard as plain. He
gives some figures showing a higher cost
of manufacturing sheetings in Georgia
than in Now York, owing mainly to
high cost of material, in -which he ex
cepts raw cotton, but includes fuel and
other stores. Some statistics showing
the advance in efficiency of Southern la
bor in ten years are also given. Curious
ly enough, from one point of view Wes
tern cotton mills are shown to work un
more cotton per empolye than those ot
either Now England or tho South, owing
1o the employment of latest -improwe
ments in machinery. It is. however, in
the matter of access to the markets of
the world that, a most potent, argument
in favor of the supremacy of the South
ern mills is found. The great cotton
markets of the world, he says, are In
dia, China, Japan and the East general
ly. The Southern states are nearer
to China and Japan than England, and
if the Nicaragua Canal ho complete*], as
seems probable, the geographical posi
tion of the South in reference to these
markets should be improved.—Brad
street's.
QU ARA NTINING CHt ILER A.
Austin, Tex.. April 16.—Governor
Hogg has issued h proclamation quaran
tining all vessels or persons from in
fected ports, to go into effect May 1.
Tho quarantine is declared against pe--
sons with cholera, yellow fever, or sit:-
ilar diseases. The borders of the stag
will be watched by’ an efficient corps of
physicians under State Health Officer
Swearingen, and every effort is being
made to keep cholera otit of Texas this
summer.
AN EXPRESS SCOOP.
Louisville, Ky., April 16.—The Adams-
Express Company has made another
scoop rm another of its rivals. Today t
took charge of the express business or:
the R. N. I. & 8., and Kentucky Mid
land railroads iu place of the Uniter)
States Express Company, which was
forced to give up the roads in conse
quence of the loss last January of the
Queen and Cresent systems.
OPPOSING HOME* RULE.
London, April 16.—More than 260
Methodist ministers in Ireland have
signed the appeal-of the Methodist min
isters in England to oppose Home Rule,
both on religious aud commercial ground*
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You Cannot Afford
To pass us in justice to yourself if you have a spring
dress to buy for yourself or anyone else the magnifi
cent stock we offer at magnetic prices. We show
the latest styles at the lowest cost for the same
quality of goods anywhere. You save on every article
you buy, as we have no fancy prices on anything.
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SILKS AND DRESS GOODS
Hava the Call. Cut Prices Next Week.
si.oo for piece 44 inch Silk Poplin, everywhere $1.50.
35 cents for elegant fancy wash China Silks, value 50 cents.
49 cents for pure l labiteri Silk, all shades, value 75 cents.
50 cents for elegant wash India Silk, regular price 75 cents.
Silk Hernanas, Grenadine, Thibets,'Batiste and all new best makes
of black and mourning summer dress fabrics.
Tomorrow!
100 all-wool large street overskirts, worth 5.00 at 2.50.
50 Broadway blazer all-wool suits, value 8.00 at 4.00.
50 finest tailor made Eton serge suits, worth 12.50 at 7.49.
437 Ladies’ shirt waists, fine goods, at cost of material.
The Coin of the Realm
TURNS THE WHEEL.
100 pieces of 15c. outing flannels, Monday and Friday at sc.
85 dozen best English hose, 5 to 8 12, worth 25c., Monday and Fri
day 12 I 2C.
150 doz. Hermsdorph Best German hose and 1-2 hose, 15c.
100 pieces wide 10c. Torshon Lace, best made, for sc.
All our Hamburg Edgings to go at just one half price.
Thousands of remnants of cambric edgings at one-half price.
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10 cases check Nainsook, elsewhere 10c., with us sc.
50 pieces Belfast lawn, elegant goods, double wide, ioc.
60 pieces French Dimitie, the 25c. quality, at 12 1 2c.
50 cents for all the best makes of prints.
T'lic Gen tiemeii
Can Get Fixed for the Summer Better and Cheaper Than Ever Before.
75 dozen gray, amber and balbriggan 50c. vests at 25 c.
50 dozen Reperell and King Mill jeans drawers at 25c.
25c. for the handsomest line of neckwear in the city.
Pins ic., 10 Pencils ic., Handkerchiefs ic.. Gloves 10c., Collars 5-
Prices on every article lower than the lowest at
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P. 0. HORKMi & CO.,
842 BROAD SSTR-GJOT.
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and Machines,
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“ There’s no place like home,”
if you’ve got a KNABE ®
Piano in it. $
over 50 Years |
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larity is so fixed that blow ®
and bluster cannot move it.
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FOR FIRST-CLASS Eric and Atlas Engines, Tanks, Stacks,
Tubes, Griss Mills, Injectors. Shafting, I’ul-
1 > _, T ■ levs, Belting and Fittings; c.miplete .MILL,
W g ENGINE and GIN OUTFITS, at Bottom
Bl x.__y B B Prices. Don’t fail to write us belore you buy.
Lembari Iron Works ani Supply Co., ■ • ■ Augusta, &a.
Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castana.
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