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BILL ARP'S LETTER.
The sage of bartow takes a
LIVELY INTEREST IN POLITICS.
Says Bryan Must be Elected or He
Will Stop Talking.
How funny and fantastic is politics.
Onlv a few years ago the alliance was
in full blast and had its star chamber
with its signs and grips and pass words
and no lawyer or doctor or preacher
need apply. It rolled into office a
few leaders and schemers and then
went into a state of innocui.iVi desne-
tude, as Mr. Cleveland would say.
But it dideDt stav dead. In its dying
agonies it gives birth to a child that
had more sense than its daddy and
they named it populist or the people’s
party and invited us all in. The star
chamber was abolished. The goat was
dehorned and turned out to grass. The
big warehouse scheme was abandone d.
The railroads and telegraphs were al-
lowed to run on awhile longer on their
own hook, but they held ou to the free
silver plank with a stubbornness that
was born of desperation. By and by the
southern and western democrats began
to cry out for free silver and they
cried so loud and so strong that they
carried Chicago by storm and took the
fort like a cyclone had struck it. Then
came the populists at St. Louis and
with great good sense and liberality
said what is the difference between us;
let us be brethren. You have stolen
our platform, but we can all stand on
it. You take the head and we will take
tho tail and together we will bury these
goldbugs so deep the hand of resurrec¬
tion will never reach them. But tho
democrats had already attached a tail
of their own and now the head has two
tails that are wagged by different par¬
ties and it’s very annoying, for there
is no law or constitution that allows
but one. And there is the republican
party, and before long there will be a
goldbug democratic party, and so if
this tail question is not settled the
populists will put up an electoral
ticket of their own with Bryan and
Watson electors and it will take four
electoral tickets to settle the great
question of the next president and
vice president. That means McKinley
and Hobart, it seems to me, for the re¬
publicans always stick to their party.
But I reckon the general managers
know mors about this than I do and
will arrange about the details. I hope
so, for if Bryan is not elected I shall
do like Evan Howell said, “I will take
to tho woods,” or I will do like Iago
said, ‘‘I will never spieak word more;”
that is to say, a political word. When
the late war begun I heard r. preacher
say iu the pulpit that if tho Lord suf¬
fered the yankees to defeat us he
would never again believe in a special
providence. 1 don’t say that, but I
have a superstitious faith in Bryan’s
election and shall go to bed sick if he
is not. I believe he was raised up to
purify and reform national politics.
But I was ruminating about these
populists in our state affairs. It hasent
been so very long since Tom Watson
sold hie law hocks and burnt the bridge
behind him because his party said that
lawyers wero not fitten to hold office
or go to heaven and were not fltteu lo
get fitten. But now Tom has picked
up Seab Wright, a lawyer in full
practice, and is grooming him for the
governor’s chair. Besides that, Seab
has the misfortune of being rich, which
was another unpardonable sin. But
now Seab dident have to sell his law
books like au idiot, nor take liis wife's
money out of a national bank. The
fun of the whole business is that the
populists took a democrat for py
deut and now have consenjiteA’ademo-
joinedJthejQMnRii orat for goveruor*^§-^Wright never
after he was nomi-
in fact, I don’t know whether
ho has joined them yet or not, nor
how long he will work in the harness.
For several years he hasent been
consider^ a subdued working demo¬
crat. He wnsent well broke and had
to be watched, for sometimes hs
bucked like a broncho. But this is in
bis favor, for I never admire a demo¬
crat who would go it blind and never
kick at tbe pop of tbe party whip.
Statehonse rings and courthouse rings
havo sometimes to be broken np and
it takes a man of nerve to do it. But
it is funny to see the populists bunting
around in the bushes for a staudard
bearer. And they found a good one.
I iike Seab—everybody does. He was
raised iu my town and went to school
with my boys and wanted (o marrv in¬
to my family connection and call me
uncle, aud Seab says everybody was
willing but the girl, and 6he made a
mistake and said no when she meaDt
yes, but he dident kuow it at the time
and heloBt her. But be called me Uncle
Bill the other day to show his affection.
He dosent want this mentioned at all,
for such things sometimes interfere
Fith domestic felicity.
Seab is smart, .bright, handsome,
eloquent—another boy orator who wili
make the “welcome ring,” as a popu¬
list said in the convention. They
wanted him bad or they wouldn’t have
let him bring his plank in with him.
Seab carries that prohibition plank
under his arm and when he stops to
rest he lays it down and stands on it.
rolls and that makes $750,000 a year
for books. Well,of,course no sensible
manlike Seab will stand on Such
a plank as that. It is catch* only a little
molasses spilled out to flies, and
it will catch ’em. It will get every
darky in this town and some of the
white folks, for it is a fact that the
people are tired of buying new books,
Seab can straddle that plank. In fact,
it ought not to be expected of a candi¬
date to cover the whole platform. No
man can build a platform that will
please every member of the party.
There are many men of many minds
and we all want as much latitude and
longitude in politics as in anything
eiHe. Seab knows that neither he nor
the platform has any power to furnish
school books, and that the legislature
will never commit such an outrage.
The public treasury is a thing to be
sucked, but property is going down,
down and of course the tax rate must
go up, up, up to realize the necessary
money for running the state and now
our taxes are a serious burden on the
people.
Another catching plank is the
promise to the school teachers. There
are now over 6,000 of them and they
want their money, and ought to have
** promptly, whether it is in the treas-
«ry or not. If every teacher can con-
trol his own vote and one other that
make 10,000 or 12,000 votes on
ti |at ^ ne -
But the plank against railroad passes
is a bad one. Every law-maker and
public official likes to have a free pass,
J t magnifies a man’s importance and
flatters his conceit and rides so easy,
The law makers will never prohibit
them. Ou the contrary, the tendency
ol legislation is to incre ase their pay
an d their privileges. The last con-
green voted a clerk to every member,
This thing of^ picking and hawking at
railroads has got to bo a
chestnut anyhow and a healthy
reaction has set in. If the rail-
™ a A commission doesent understand
railroading in all its complicated details
^ r - Thomas does, and so does my
friend Joe M. Brown. His late reply
*o Mr. Crenshaw was not only admira¬
ble, but unanswerable. I heartily en¬
joyed it, and so did all impartial men.
You caD’t pick up a politician out of
the woods and make a good railroad
commissioner out of him. It takes a
long railroad education to fit a man
for that office.
But why should Seab Wright chal¬
lenge Governor Atkinson, or vice
versa? What issues are there between
them? Upon what great principles
do they differ? Atkinson has made a
good governor; so will Seab i( elected;
so would a thousand others I could
name, one of whom I am which, and
so I am contented. Let the proces¬
sion proceed.— Bill Arp, in aAtlauta
Constitution.
KENTUCKY GOLD MEN
Hold a Convention and Select Dele¬
gates to Indianapolis.
The “sound money” democratic con¬
vention, held in Louisville Thursday
afternoon, was attended by nearly
every Ex Lieutenant leading democrat in Kentucky.
Governor James R.
Hindman was elected temporary chair¬
man, and then there was a loud de¬
mand for ex-Cougressman W. C. P.
Breckinridge.
The silver-tongued orator addressed
tho convention at considerable length.
He began by saying that he could not
stand the Chicago platform nor sup¬
port the nominee.
“The heart of Kentucky is with us,”
ho said. “We were a ‘sound money’
state years ago. We lost through want
of vigilance and cowardly leaders and
we almost became reconciled to free
coinage. But we did not look forward
to a platform in which the best thing
in it is the free coinage plank.”
Just as Colonel Breckinridge was
bringing his speech to a close a spec¬
tator in the rear of the hall yelled,
“Hurrah for Bryan!” Amid cries of
“Throw him out, throw him out!” the
police escorted the democrat through
the door.
A. J. Carroll, of Louisville; ex-
Governor Buckner, W. C. P. Breckin¬
ridge, of Lexington, and W. F. Bro-
der, of Russellville, were chosen as-
delegates from the.statetWlarge to In¬
dianapolis— —
fhe roll call showed that 114 out of
the 119 counties were represented in
the convention.
R. T. Tyler, of Paducah, and Judge
J. Quincy Ward, of Paris, were named
as eiectors-at large.
On motion of Colonel Breckinridge
the delegates to Indianapolis were in¬
structed to vote for ex-Govemor Simon
Bolivar Buckner for vice president as
long as they deemed it advisable.
The report of the committee on
resolutions was adopted unanimously.
After indorsing the teachings of Jef¬
ferson, Jackson, Benton, Tilden and
Cleveland, the report demands a cur¬
rency measured by the existing gold
standard, which shall consist of gold
with a bank currency well secured and
redeemable in gold, and with the use
of silver and other metals within the
reasonable limits prescribed by con¬
venience and safety and to be kept at
par with gold. A tariff for revenue
only is demanded and it is believed to
be the duty of the government to pro¬
tect the citizen aud his property from
lawlessness,
The recent convention at Chicago
and its platform and candidates are
disclaimed as undemocratic. Bryan
is declared to be a populist and Sewall
a subsidized shipbuilder and a high
protectionist. The administration of
Grover Cleveland and John G. Carlise
is endorsed and the Chicago convention
condemned for its refusal to take simi¬
lar action.
The convention adjourned at 11:03
o’clock. At the district meetings del¬
egates to the Indianapolis convention
were chosen.
RAILROADS CUTTING RATES.
Two River Lines Start a Hot Rate
War Once 3Iore.
A Baltimore special says: The rate
war between the Bay line and the
York River line has broken out afresh.
The latter announced that it would
meet the cut in passenger rates put in¬
to effect by the Bay line Ju:v 17tb,
and would go under the latter’s cut in
freight rates on Norfolk business.
The Merchants’ and Miners’ Transpor¬
tation Company has also taken a hand
in the fight and has announced that it
will meet the cut of the York River
Hue.
CAST1LUANS MAD.
THEY INSIST THAT THE SPANISH
FLAG BE RESPECTED.
Prime Minister’s Resignation De¬
manded Because of His Indifference.
Spanish residents in Havana are up
in arms against Senor Canovas del
Castillo,prime minister of Spain. Cas-
tillian blood has been aroused and an
urgent demand will be made upon the
home government for the minister's
resignation.
Senor del Castillo was one of the
most popular members of the borne
cabinet until Saturday, but now there
are none who abuse him so bitterly as
those who praised him then.
Castillo’s remarks about a contem¬
plated demand upon the United States
for an apology for the flag episode in
Key West a few days ago has pro¬
duced the change. Tho Spaniards
throughout the island were aroused
when they heard that the Spanish
colors had been torn down, trampled
in the dust and made into rags, by the
crowd at Key West. Nothing but a
demand for an abject apology was
thought of by the Spanish, and when
it became known that Castillo contem¬
plated letting the matter go by without
even a request for reparation tl^ am
ger of the Spaniards was let looSfe.
Nothing but the minister’s resigna¬
tion will appease the people.
The Spaniards say that because the
United States has allowed the stars and
stripes to be dragged down and dis¬
graced by students is no reason that
Spain should submit to the same thing.
They declare that the Americans
can Bubmit to as many insults as they
desire, but that the Spaniards are not
of that mold, and that their flag shall
and must be respected wherever it
floats.
More than one meeting has been
held since Senor del Castillo asserted
that no demand would be made, and
at every one resolutions denouncing
the minister in the most severe terms
and calling for his immediate resigna¬
tion have been passed.
It is a merry mess Castillo has cre¬
ated and before the end comes he may
find himself without a job. The Span¬
iards laugh at the idea that the United
States would not apologize if an apolo¬
gy were demanded. They say that it
would be forthcoming almost as soon
as asked. Their estimate of Uncle
Sam’s valor is not the highest by any
means, and in support of that they cite
the frequent insults to the flag of the
union which have been passed un¬
noticed by the government.
TO GREET LI HUNG CHANG.
President Cleveland Will Welcome
the Chinese Viceroy.
The following program respecting
the visit of the Chinese viceroy, Li
Hung Chang, has been announced by
Secretary of War Lamont:
Earl Li Hung Chang, special ambas¬
sador from the emperor of China, will
arrive in New York by the steamship
St. Louis on Friday, August 28. Ma¬
jor General Thomas H. Rugsr, U. S.
A., commanding the department of the
east, who has been designated by the
president to act as his representative,
will meet him on his arrival and escort
him with a detachment of the Sixth
regiment, United. States cavalry, to
the Waldorf hotel, where he will re-
maiiL^iirfng the his stay in New York as
guest of the nation. The state de¬
partment will be represented by W.
W. Rockhill, first assistant secretary
of state. General Ruger will attend
the viceroy during his sojourn in this
country, and will be in charge of all
arrangements pertaining to his vssit.
The president of the United States,
who is to be in the city as the guest of
ex-Secretary of Navy William C.
Whitney, will receive the special am¬
bassador at Mr. Whitney’s residence
on the day following his arrival, the
secretary of state, the secretary of the
treasury, the secretary of war and
possibly other members of the cabinet
being present.
On Sunday a visit will be made to
General Grant’s tomb at Riverside.
Monday will be spent in a trip to the
military academy at West Point by the
United States steamship Dolphin and
a sail under the Brooklyn bridge and
up the East river. On Tuesday the
party will be entertained at lunch by
representative business men of New
York and later in the day an opportu¬
nity will be given the Chinese resi¬
dents of the city to meet the earl by ar¬
rangements of the Chinese consul.
Wednesday will be occupied by a visit
to Brooklyn on tbe invitation of the
mayor of that city, and in the evening
the viceroy will be tendered n review
by the Seventh regiment in its armory.
On Thursday the party will go by the
Pennsylvania railroad to Philadelphia,
where suitable entertainment will be
provided, and Friday and Saturday
will be spent in Washington and Sun¬
day at Niagara Falls, where the vice¬
roy will be met by representatives of
the Canadian government, who will
escort him to Vancouver, from which
port he will tail for home.
31 ANY MINERS ON A STRIKE.
Shawnee Ore Diggers Quit Work Until
the Scale Is Fixed.
• - A‘ telegram was received at the head¬
quarters of the United Mines Workers
of America at Columbus, O., from
State President Ratchford, at Shaw¬
nee, stating that the entire force of
miners working under the lease sys-
tern in that valley, a thousand, quit
Friday morning in obedience to the
order of the state convention of miners
held a week ago. The strike will con-
tinue there and elsewhere until the
scale of wages is paid everywhere in
the state.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
Governor Atkinson has respited
Arthur Hayne, who was to have been
hanged in Atlanta last Friday, for two
weeks. The Governor’s action was
taken on account of new evidence being
found in the case.
The new dormitory of the Industrial
college at Milledgeville has been fin¬
ished aud accepted by the board of
trustees. President Chappell has very
appropriately ‘‘Atkinson named the new building
Hall” in honor of Governor
Atkinson. The old dormitory, which
is an annex of tho old executive man¬
sion, will be called “The Mansion.”
Recently the household goods and
effects of Dave Berryman,the murderer
and suicide, were sold at public outcry
and brought fabulous sums. Every
detached piece of the house and furni¬
ture was eagerly sought after by the
crowd. It will be remembered that
Berryman, near RojstoD, slew his
wife and four children and then took
his own life, an account of which was
extensively house published at the time. The
has become so offensive it has
been decided to burn it, and thus blot
from sight the standing monument of
Georgia’s most harrowing tragedy.
An application for a charter for a
new the mining company has been filed in
office of clerk of the superior
court iu Atlanta. The name of the
new company is to be the Globe Min¬
ing Company, aud a charter is asked
for for the period of twenty yearp,
with the privilege of renewal at ilie
expiration of that time. The capital
stock of the company is to be $100,-
000, and the business is to be workiug
up gold and silver and other mining-
property and the development of such
mines as the company may see fit to
purchase. The mines on which work
will be prosecuted are located in Hall
and Gwinnett counties.
Mr. Tom Cobb, of Atlanta, has an-
nounced as an independent candidate
for congress from the fifth district.
The full entry list in the race is now
Colonel Thomas R. R. Cobb, Colonel
Leonidas F. Livingston, Colonel J. C.
Hendrix, and “Swamp Angel” Marion.
Mr. Cobb will run practically as an
independent, and be will make an
effort to draw strength both from the
republican and democratic candidates.
Eveu the republicans in the state are
footloose by the decision of the state
central committee, and all the candi¬
dates will have free access to the minds
of republican voters. Mr. Cobb will
be likely to get all the populist
strength except that obtained by
“Swamp Angel” Marion. As the race
now stands, it wili prove lively enough
to be interesting.
Railroad to Fitzgerald.
President Williams, of the Georgia
and Alabama railway, announces that
at a called meeting of the stockholders
of the twD companies, held recently at
Richmond, resolutions were adopted
by which the Abbeville and Waycross
railroad, extending from Abbeville,
Ga., to Fitzgerald,Ga., twenty-two
miles, the seat of tbe soldiers’ colony,
has been merged with the Georgia and
Alabama railway, and will hereafter be
known as the Fitzgerald branch of tho
Georgia and Alabama railway. The
latter company several months ago
quietly secured control of all the bonds
and stock of the Abbeville and Way-
cross railroad, but up to the present
time the Abbeville and Waycross has
been operated as a separate and inde¬
pendent road. By this consolidation
the mileage of the Georgia and Ala¬
bama railway is increased twenty-two
miles, making a total of 362 miles op¬
erated.
Telephone T Lines . Galore. .
The telephone system of Georgia is
to j -i be very materially i • it increased • -j
m o
short while. So great has been the
patronage of the telephone companies
that that thev they will will at at once once be^in Degin to to build build
Dew lines m ail parts of the state. An
important line will be built from
Rome to Cave Soring to Cedartown.
This n-ii • ,■ line will •n give • these towns , tele- , a
phone connection with Atlanta, and
will very greatly increase the system
in that oart of the state
Another , line will - n be , built from , Ha- -. r
con to Fort Valley to Montezuma to
Oglethorpe ^ to Americas. This line
will mi connect a at. the above u named i towns a
with Atlanta since Atlanta is already
connected with Macon.
Another Another line line will will be be built DUllt from irom At At-
lanta to Macon, making three direct
circuits between the two cities.
The material for these lines is now
arriving from New York and work will
be commenced on them at once and by
next spring they will be completed.
Besides these new lines in Georgia,
Opelika will be connected with Mont¬
gomery, Ala., which gives Atlanta
direct communication with Opelika.
The erection of these new lines gives
Georgia nearly 500 miles of telephone
wire. She is far ahead of maDy other
states in this matter, and inside of two
years, if the plans of the telephone
companies are carried out, she will
have as many miles of telephone wires
as almost any other state in the union.
Recext statistics show that the in-
crease iu the crutch manufacturing in¬
dustry is keeping pace with the pro-
gress in the making of bicycles.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “The Great Trial.”
* Text- We have an advocate with the
Father. Jesus Christ the righteous. -I John
ii., 1,
Standin" ‘‘it in a court room, you say to your-
seH- this bar crime has often been
arraigned- oftei at this witness stand the oath has
been taken; at this jurors’ bench the
verdict has been rendered; at this judges
anv Over and Terminer or Circuit or Su-
uremeor Chaneerv. It is the trial of every
Christian man for'the life of his soul. This
trial is different from any other in the fact
that it is both civil and criminal.
The issues at stake are tremendous, and 1
shall in mv sermon show you, lirst. what are
the "rounds Q f complaint; then, who arc the
witnesses in the cause, and lastly, who are
the advocates. thing is
When a trial is called on the first
to have the indictment read. Stand up then,
O Christian man. and hear the indictment
of the court of high heaven against thy soul.
It is an indictment of ten counts, for thou
hast directly or indirectly broken all the ten
commandments. You kuow how it thun-
dered on Siuai and when God came down
how the mountain rocked and the smoke
ascended as from a smoldering furnace, and
the darkness gathered thick, and the loud,
deep trumpet uttered the words; ‘‘The soul
that sinueth, it shall die!” Are you guilty,
or not guilty? Do not put in a negative plea
too quick, fori have to announce that “all
have sinned and come short of the glory of
God. There is none that doeth good; no,
not one. Whosoever shall keep the whole
law. yet offend iu oue point, he is guilty of
all.”' Do not, therefore, be too hasty in
pronouncing yourself not guilty.
The lawsuit before us also charges you
with the breaking of a solemn contract,
Many a time did we promise to be the Lord’s.
We got down on our knees and said; “O.
Lord. I am Thine now aud forever.” Did
you keep the promise? Havo you sometimes stood up
to the contract? Have you not
faltered when you ought to have been true?
Have you not been proud when you ought
to have been humble? Have you not played
the coward when you ought to have been
the hero? I charge it upon you aud I charge
it upon myself—we have broken the con-
tract.
Still further; this lawsuit claims damages
at your hands. The greatest slan ler on the
the Christian religion is au inconsistent pro-
fessor. The Bible says religion is one thing;
we, by our inconsistency, say religion is
some other thing, and what is more deplora-
bie about it is that people can see faults in
others while thev can not see any in them-
selves. If you shall at any time find some
miserable old gossip, with imperfections
from the crown of her head to the sole of her
foot, a perfect blotch of sin herself, she will
go her tattling, life tattling, tattling, all the years of
about the inconsistencies of others,
having no idea that she is inconsistent her-
self. God save the world from the gossip,
female aud male. I flunk the males are the
W9 r sl -
Now you have , heard , the indictment real. ,
Are you ready to plead guilty or not guilty?
Perhaps you are not ready yet to plead.
Then the trial will go on. The witnesses will
be called, and we shall have the matter de-
cided. In the name of God I now make pro-
clamatiou Oyez. Oycz Oyez. whoever
hath anything to offer in this trial in whicn
God is the plaintiff aud the Christian soul
the defendant, let him now step forth and
R1 te t tlr r n T m S 0ma tr ‘u *
™ Wltness * cad w upon tae stand . in
. behalf of the prosecution the
is world-all
critical and observant of Christian char-
aetei. You know that there are people
.round you who perpetually banquet on the
irmlties of God s children. You may know.
l you hav-lived in tne country, that a crow
cares for nothing so much as carrion. Toore
^ &t out of the fluids
^ hooS ^ thi th aV °, f 1 a death, M aud ^ they 0t
WhrSi S-nl n S t S J f U i' UlflS away for ^e T l mistake! i S °
H rS ° U St0p 8 i''
n La J eye aQ ? , lha
fifv Wd d ! ta ^ n w + *°f*
in hPhaif n,d1 thl ®
S <’hrict'munV yOU k 'VU w
Rhrmi thiq i
l»™k „ w fffl an « mQ God,”? fA »ant L hS ilt lull i .
child of he to ef
imperfections. I do not knew but I am a
great deal better than he is now. Often-
times he is very earthly, and he talks so lit-
tle about Christ aud so much about himself.
^arn T am very very to ^ltid ia Q to to tostifv testuy that that thi<* this is a a Karl bad
hard Stop, O World, I with the greedy eye and
heart. fear you are too much inter-
ested iu this trial to give impartial evidence,
Let all those who hear the testimony of this
witness know that there is au old family
quarrel between these two parties. There
World always has been a variance between the
and the Church, and while tho World
on the witness stand to-day has told a great
deal of truth about this Christian man, you
must take it all with much allowance're-
membering that thev still keep the old grudge
good. O, World ofthe greedy and the hard
heart, The that will do; you must sit down.
second witnesss I call in this case is
Conscience. Who art thou. O Conscience?
What is your business? Where were you
born? What are you doing here? “Oh”
says Conscience, “1 was born in heaven. I
I came down to befriend this man. I have
lived with him. I have instructed him. I
have warned him. I showed him the right
and the wrong, advising him to take the one
and 6scli8 s c f it tho oth©r 'ou]. X hnv© kindl«ri Jhip oj
scorpion , , igh ia hls WHh a
I have scourged his wickedness, and
I have tried to cheer him when doing right;
and y et 1 am compelled p to testify on the
gtaQd tQ _ day tfaat ha ha3 sometimes rejects t
j^y mission. Oh, how many cups of life
have I pressed to his lips that he dashed
down, and how often has he stood with his
hard f r “ heet It° on the bleedin" v.?? m,.=i hrart thaJ1 of th“ Son
0 G pa iaa . have
to testify against this Christian man, and
yet I must, in behalf *f Him who will in no
wi s« clear the guilty, say that this Christian
man has done wrong. He has been worldly,
He has been ne ^iectful. He has done a
thousand things he ought not to have done
and left undone a thousand things he ought
to have done. That will do ' Con^ienee
You can sit down.
The third witness I call in the case is an
angel of God. Bright and shining one, what
do8st thou here? What hast thou to say
againstthi3 maQ on trial? “Oh.” savs the
angel, “I have been a messenger to bim. I
hav« guarded him. I have washed him. With
this wing I have defended him, and often-
times, when he knew it not, I led him into
green pastures and beside still waters. I
snatched from him the poisoned chai-
ices. When bad spirits came upon him to
destroy him, I fought them hack with infinite
that he has rejected my mission/ He has
Though with this wing I defended him, and
though with this voice 1 wooed him, I have
to announce his multiplied imperfections, i
dare not keep back the testimony, for then I
should not dare to appear again amongst
the sinless ones before the great white
There is only one more witness to be called
on behalf ofthe prosecution, and that is the
Spirit great, tbe holy the august, the omnipotent
of God. We bow down before Him.
Holy Spirit, knowest Thou this man? “Oh,
yes, says the holy one, “I know him. 1
have striven with him ten thousand times,
and though sometimes he did seem to repent,
he fell back again as often from his first es-
t&te. Ten thousand times ten thousand has
he grieved Me. although the Dible warned
nlm, saying: ‘Grieve no.: tae r.Oiy Unos,.
Quench not the Spirit. 1 Yes. h<‘ h;is driveii
3[e back. Though I am the Third Terson of
the Trinity, he has trampled on Mv Mission
and the blood of the Atonement that i
brought with which to cleanse his soul, he
sometimes despised. I came from the throne
of God to convert, and comfort and saneti-
fv and yet look at that man and see what he
is compared with what, unresisted, I would
have made him.”
The evidence on the part of the prosecu¬
tion has closed. Now let the defense brim;
on the rebuttal soul, testimony. bring iu What reply have voif ev’-
O Christian to to this
idenee of the world, of Ghost? the conscience, of the
angel and of the Holy No evidence?
Are all these things true? “\es. Unclean,
unclean,” says every Christian soul. What?
Do you no t begin to tremble at the thought
0 f condemnation?
The advocates speak. The profession of au
advocate is full of responsibility. In Eu;-
i !iml a nd the United States there have arisen
Itl en who in this calling have been honored
bv thdr race and thrown contempt upon
those who iu the profession have be m guiltv
of a great mauy meannesses. That profes-
sion be honorable as long as it has at-
tached to it such names as Mansfield, and
j Marshall, and Story, and Kent, and Snnh-
iiv j t and William Wirr. The court room has
j sometimes been thescene of very marvelous
an q thrilling things. Some of you remcm-
ber the famous Girard will case, where one
0 f 0 ur advocates pleaded the cause ot the
jjible and Christianity in masterly Anglo-
Saxon, every paragraph a thunderbolt,
But I turn from the recital of this memor-
a ble occasion to a grauder trial, and I have
to ie \\ you that in this trial of the Christian,
f or the life of his soul the advocates ar«
m i g ’ A tier, wiser aud more eloquent. The
evidence all being in, severe an 1 steru
j usl j CO rises oa behalf of the prosecution to
ma k 0 his plea. With the Bible open in his
hand, he reads the law, steru and indexible,
an q the penalty: “The soul that sinnetb,
jt s hall die.” Then he says- “O, Thou
judge and Lawgiver, this is Tame own
statute, and all the evidence inearth aul
Jieaven agree that the man has tinned
a g tt inst these enactments. Now lot the
gword leap from its scabbard. Shall a man
go through the very flames of Sinai un-
ginned? Let the law be executed. Let
judgment be pronounced. Let him die. I
d 0m . V nd that he die!”
O. Chr'stiau , does it not look very dark for
thee? Who w ill plead on thy side In so for-
| oru a onus-? Sometimes a man will bo
brought into a court of law. an 1 he will
have no friends and no money, aud the
Judge will look over the bar and say: “is
there any one who will volunteer to take
this man’s case aud defend him?” And some
young man rises up aud savs: “I w.ll be
nis counsel" perhaps starting on from that
v0rv p 0 j n t to a great and brilliant career,
Now, m this matter of the soul, as you have
no ihiug to pav for counsel, do you think
t hat rising. ., nv on3 wi n volunteer? Yes, yes: I sea
0 ne H« is a young mau, only thirty-
three years of age. I see His countenance
su ffusad with tears anil covered with blood,
a nd a il the galleries of heaven are thrilled
with the spectacle. Thanks be unto God,
. l5Va hav0 an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous.”
Ob, Christian soul, your case begins to
look better. I think, perhap-, after ill.you
may not have to die. The best A ivo i ite iu
the universe has taken your side. No one
was ever so qualified to defend you. He
i C u OW 3 all the law, all its demauds, all its
penalties. He is always ready. No new
tum of t „ e caSa eaa snr prise Him, and He
wiU plea d for you for nothing as earnest!*
as though you brought a world of treasure
to jj[ S f ee t. Bis d «3 that, He has under-
taken the case of thousands who were a3
tor orn as 6 you. and He lias never lost a case.
Courage. Christian soul! I think that,
after all, thore may be s ime chauce for you,
for the great Advocate rises to make His
| p] 3a . He says: “I admit ail that has been
irova t against My client. I admit all ihese
> ay , more, but look at that wounded
hand of Mine and look at that other wound-,
e j hancl an d at Mv right foot and at Mv I sft?
f()0t By all them wounds I plead for his
elearance. Count all the drops of My tears,
C ount all the drops of My blood. By the
humiliation Gcth.semane. of Bethlehem; by the sweat of
by the sufferings of the cross. I
, x , th . Jt h9 go free. On this arm ho
hath leaned; to this heart he hath flown; in
My tears he hath washed; Let on My righteous-
ness he hath depended. him go free. I
amtheransem. Let him. escape the lash; I
took the scourging.?. Let the cup p iss from
him 5 I drank it to the dregs. Put on him
s&rite?f the crown. of life, for I have worn the crown
iuro “* ,,tsh ^
spoken, and therdis only one mere thing
the hwiirjiu^ of
^ ( i Ur t r00 U y ?i U ^ h U0 y° .'T- u ^‘ W0 Sl [ ® eac ver 9 bean ai J in a
i*? a \ - , ty W ; , ‘ l!C f 13 ilool i t , 10 , ? be ron- so "
r rt a )0 I 1 t t ? 03 Siveo.
this soul on trial shall , . it ., b8 saved or
sh ail it be lost? Attention! above, arouud.
AU th3 « l »verse cries; “Hearl
f. ises aatl gl '’ e3 th !f decision,
i-A 1 } 6 " / 0 1S ^fi therefore,; Cdaa ^ 0 -' ,jevai ‘ to condemnation be revotced;
.
to them who are in Christ Jesus,
f fA'A rai la my ?7 aiCd , ‘. ri , en a da’ ° °^} thsrc'is y C’® saint coming but a the day sm- o.
l
md3 . L ‘!: ay o£ tr i 11 a , b9 Tri at
| be P low 't i * ,in ^“ r(j!ia,lt: ' vl i, b ® 1I ithe count-
ln S r °ona, the woodman will . be ringing his
f oot ttl9 t ^ e a A ^ e ?T lhe e:iver manufacturer W! f " haVe
' 1 be . walkmg amid '
’f 1 , the , buzz of looms and
clackmgofflying machinery, tne ooun-
s ‘ 3 .‘ Jlay a - l ] 16 m bar the pleading pulpit pleading the law, tho the
gospel, bls ca P ! the ,, aar ^ drunkard the blasphemar may be with reeling tne amid dh
? his o
teeth.
suu bl< * es - y* l gnt come.s down
Lf f 1 at
to ‘
in© G«irtu snud i©rsnud throbs. . Tucr©
«■> ^Mle earthquata opeoa aad a ait y S i Dk9 as a
« r woutd crunch a child. Mountains .
ll .“ aa ^ send down their
f „ ramt e cliffs in avalanche of rock. Rivers
1>ause in their ebase for the sea. aud ocean,
oprearing, cries to the flying Alps and Him-
jv aya ; ® ia s sbellow aud moau and snuff up
1 wift it ea^l eagles. O Great A+Thn thunders w beat ke «. and flo Sl boom s ° f
“■‘burst.. “^hty Stars His shoot throne, aad (all. Th. Al-
rising on declares that
1 be archangels
„ r «P eat . 3 *t till all the living
^he continen.s t of dead spring their hear, and
cry J? g ‘ rime shall be longer!’' to feet,
on that : day will you be no ready? Oh, on
the Chrl ^ iaQ
win get on in his trial. Will you get off as
well in yourtrial? Will Christ plead on your
31(19 or a ? ai ^t you? Oh. what will you do
the i a3t 8 re it ^size, if your conscience is
a ”^ l ful y0U, a ad tb ? world is against you,
an and ^ t h s R°ly aa p el , spirit ® ? f . heaven is against are against and you,
0r Almighty you, the
rt , is against you? Better
tai s day secure an Advocate.
TORCH 100 FEET HIGH.
-*
m,n 2 „ and Oil
‘ Well Slakes a Grand
Spectacle.
sce^ea ^ew nignm a-o of^“he^oS £tuiant
strong accident, producer burning of gas'took derrick lire tlirn^h sevefai
thousand the fha and
barrels of oil When wJffi nrasuro
was reduced at the mouth of sprayT the throwfn^
broke the the'"air spouting oil into P huntedTeet!
it into more than on e
th* spraying^ oH^formhS? Topping 0 into h KffiK g5steni?g
shower, drops in the air and dens^v m hb/l
while the smoke
hills ascended for way mite/ above the wX/overed mountain The K
sightseers, aroand
who had come from ait over the
region. The loss to the owners is enormous,
as the well was producing *>03 barrel* a dav
There was n*o way to pulout the*fi r L' -is
gas and oil pressure were constant knd tha
roaring heat of the flumes terrific