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. ■■■■■■■ ■ ■■ "■■ DE. CHAPMAN’S SEBMON Vienna News. Published Semi-Weekly. VIENNA, - - - GEORGIA. Since 1826, $8,000,000 has been ap propriated by the federal and the state government for the Improvement of Boston harbor. During the same peri od, $8,000,000 has been appropriated for Galveston, $7,000,000 for Philadel phia, $5,000,000 for Savannah and $3,- 000,000 for San Francisco, The flagpole which has been erect ed above the crown of the home of the new postofllce in Chicago is 72 feet in height and cost $500. It was originally on Aregon Hr tree, was shipped from the far northwest In its rough state and was turned on thf lathe of one of - the great planing mills In Chicago. The second largest irrigation ditch In the United States has Just been completed in the state of Washington. The main canal Is 40 miles long, while the branches have an aggregate length* of 350 miles, the ditch being 65 feet wide and eight feed deep, and irrigat ing no less than 20,000 acres. Society men In Paris have formed a Antl-Plng-Pong league. They found , that wherever they might go they were expected to play the game, and It be came necessary to organise for self- protection. The members of the league wear a distinctive button, noti fying whom it may concern that they have sworn never to indulge In "this foolish, unmanly English pastime." Recent experiments on important railroad lines in the United States, en courage the hope that with the aboli tion of grade crossings, the laying down of the heaviest and strongest of steel rails, and the Improvement of signals and of rolling stock, express trains in the United States will reach an average epeed of at least 75 miles an hour before thfe first quarter of this century is ended, remarks the Now York Tribune. What a welcome saving of valuable time will then be accomplished! China Is making arms at a great rate, all the Yang-tso arsenals being at ■work full time. At Hankow over 200 workmen are employed In making field guns, Mauser rifles and all kinds of ammunition, including smokeless pow der, and at Shanghai an equal number are employed In turning out a like product. As treaty stipulations pro hibit the Importation of foreign arms into China the home production, par ticularly in view of the recent'experi ences, is stimulated to a degree of ac tivity not often witnessed in any Chi nese Industry. With reference to the shipments of horses to South Africa, It may be noted that within the past two fiscal years there has been shipped to that destination from the two North Amer ican countries, the United States and -Canada, a total of 54,035 head ot horses—a number almost equal to the aggregate exports from the United States to all countries for the entire 20-year period previous to 1894. To this may be added shipments of mules from the United States to the same destination probably aggregating an approximately equal number. These belated sowers are on every hand. Sometimes they struggle hard to ove'rcome their handicaps, to meet the urgent present need by stealing time from sleep or recreation, to learn that which will redeem them from mediocrity. Sometimes * they stifle their longings and revel in gold-bought luxury and princely vices. They have succeeded by money-rating, but in their hearts they sadly and bitterly know that they have failed; there is gall in their every cup of nectar, re flects O. S. Marsden, in Success. Some times these wasters of the springtime are ground beneath the wheels ot pov erty, unable to gain even material comfort, despair being their only por tion. Sometimes they are mocked by high position, where their shortcom ings are In the public eye 1 'and the public print, and the humiliation goads them to desperation. Whatever their final fate, business success or busi ness failure, the memory of their wast ed seedtime, the misspent spring, mars every act. A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR-EVANCELIST. Subject: Why Men Do Not Attend' Ghnrcb —Some Keatons Given by Non-Goers— The Value of Sympathy — Spiritual Happiness Found In God’s Lore. ■ New Yobk City.—The Rev. Dr. J. Wil bur Chapman, the popular pastor-evangel- ist, who is now preaching to overflowing congregations in this city, has furnished the following eloquent sermon to the preas. It was preached from the text "And the man said, The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” Genesis 3* 12. This may be counted a strange text for a sermon with such a .theme as this and yet we will all agree, I am sure, that all men are the sons of Adam in this respect as well as in otbere, for there is always a disposition to excuse self and place re sponsibility upon some one else for wrong doing and failure. I have sent out letters through some personal friends asking those who were non-attendants upon church to f ve me the reasons for their position, and have been amazed to see how many have found fault with the church, and bow very many with the ministry and how re markably few with' themselves. I shall give you these excuses as they have sent them to my friends, and yet I doubt not but if men were, perfectly honest' they would say that they were away from.the house of God because of something in their own heart and life which made church attendance a constant rebuke to them. This is an important question we have to consider. More than half the inhabitants of our country do not attend church; of the non-church goers the majority, are men, and there arc actually- millions of men in this land of ours who have no con nection with the church whatsoever A few of this company attend occasionally, some of them are employed and cannot come, but the vast number have become indifferent. In New York City not more than three per cent, of the male population are members of the Protestant churches, and of the church membership it it said three-fourths are women. Not only is this true in the cities, but in the rural distriets as well. AU classes of people to-day seem to have become affected with this disease, for there are Christless rich as well ns Chriatless poor. It is true that a crowd ii not the only thing to be considered in church attendance. It is easy to get a crowd; a balloon ascension always draws a crowd; if the minister is sensational he usually has a crowd about him, but there is this to be said about sensational preaching, while it draws it does not hold, and yet a crowd is necessary to consider, for there is great inspiration in a great company of people. However, let us not forget that some of the greatest sermons in the world's history have been preached to the few. Jesus •pent an evening with one man and preached on regeneration as no man has ever preached, and Nicodemos became a child of God. He must needs go through Samaria and stops at the well curb of Jacob because there is one poor woman' there, and she had her life transformed by His teaching. One cold rainy night in England yean ego a minister said, “I do not think 1 snail attend the church to-night, for no one will be there," and when finally he did go ho found a scattered few through tho pews. He was then almost persuaded to give up the preaching; when finally he did go on a boy up the gallery heard the text and began to live, and the boy was the preacher who led 13,000 people into his own church and drew a multitude to Christ the wide world round. His name was Charles H. Spurgeon. Yet I am per suaded that what is needed to-day is not so much minister* that will draw, that is what we hear on every side, but rather churches that will hold the people that at tend, hold them by their sympathy, hold them by their manifestation of the Spirit oJ Christ. These are the reasons which men have euggested to me for non-church attendance. 1. First—One man wrote, "I am out of the habit of attending church." It it a very easy thing to'form any kind of a habit, but, if once broken it is difficult to begin again, especially if it be a habit to do good. Our large cities aro remarkable in this respect in these days, for with over thousands of people in them professional church members who do not frequent the church, they lower the spiritual atmos phere of the city and their last state is frequently worse than the first. Second—Another man wrote that he wai not a church attendant becauae he had never .been trained to it in his youth, and this is certainly true, for the homes have changed; for while it used to bp that the father and mother and the children at tended church, now the children are con spicuous for their absence. I can remem ber in my' own boyhood’e days that no one of the children, however young or however old, had the. right to stay away from the house of God. I tremble when I think of the next generation of non- church goers unless the church reforms speedily. Third—One young man writes that he has come to believe tint It is not manly to attend church. That it a reflection upon the family life, for the father of the house ought to so reflect Christ in his home life that the children could easilj say, “Of all the pood men in the world my father is the best, and if church at tendance can produce such a character I shall never be absent.” Fourth—"I do not attend church,” says another, “because I am too tired,” and in meny respects this is the most reasonable excuse preeented. I believe the time is coming when the business life of our large citiee must be adjusted so as to give those who toil more time on Saturday, thereby giving them a better opportunity ori Fri day to worship God, and yet one of the busiest men in this country, with whom it was my privilege for a number, ofyeara to be associated, the Hun. John Wina- maker, who attends church every Sunday from early morning until late at night, de clares that it vests him, and that be be gins Monday always refreshed. Rest is not idleness, but a change of occupation. Fifth—One man writes that he had rath er sleep and read than attend church, but that is pure, unadulterated selfishness. A selfish man it one who is out of proportion, I have no right to consider simply my own comfort. I am a citizen and Tam respon sible for the morality of my city. I ought to be willing to do anything that would make my own life better at my brother's life better 8ixth—“I do not attend church because the sermons are too long.” said another, and yet be confesses that be has not been in church for years. T am well aware that the sermons used to Jie long. I have sat many a time through pn hour sermon with my father, but as a matter of fact very few men preach long sermons to-dav, and yet strange to say thie very men who ob-1 ject to long sermons could sit through hours of a theatrical performance which would bo crucifixion to some of us. Seventh—‘I am fed upon drv husks when I attend church," writes another, and that is true in some places. There are so-called Christian churches where men preach any thing but the gospel. They are a disgrace to the profession and a dishonor to Christ. It is, however, my privilege to know as many ministers as the most of men, and I know comparatively few in all this great company who preach 'anything but the gospel of Christ. It is true, however, that thy world feeds upon dry busks. Remem ber the story of the prodigal. Eight—‘.‘I am just as good as the mem bers of the church; why should I attend!" But that is not at all the question that ihonld be considered by the writer of this letter. He may be aa good as some mem-’ bers of the church, but is not it a little itrange that men who take this position stways pick out the weak members and line up beside them. Why not take the itrong characters of the church instead. Hie question is, “How does your life com pare with that of Christ!’* He is the ideal. Ninth—“The reason why I am away from the church ia because when I attend the sermon rebukes my manner of living." Then I beseech you, in the name of Christ, change your life, and to the man who writes this letter I send out a special nlea that God may lead him speedily to Him self. Tenth — "If I should attend chorch," writes another young man, "I should have to give up my evil companions, and 1 arn not prepared now to do that.” It is an awful thing for any young man to say that his love of certain comoaniona hinders his desire to be right with God. and the writer of this letter presents the! strongest reason why he should turn quickly into the straight and narrow Way that leads to life. Eleventh—“The secular side of life ap peals so strongly to me that I find mv spiritual interest is becoming deadened,” writes a man who used to be a member of the church, “and for this reason I am not attending." It is easy to understand how men who live in a great city would say this, and I wonder sometimes when I see men in their place of business and in the Stock Exchange that they can be as good as they are. It is an alarming condition, and sooner or later such men will - find themselves hopelessly enslaved and lost. .These are the reasons presented. It would he better for us to call them ex cuses, for excuses arc very different from reasons. An excuse is a Subterfuge behind which men hide; reasons are entirely dif ferent. A few reasons have been given in the above remarks, but the most of them are excuses pure and simple. II. It is said that an- honest confession is good for the soul, and there are some things that we ns members of the church and as pastors of the church might as well acknowledge first as last. First—We ought to recognize that men cannot be driven to the church, but they may be attracted. They will not go simply because it is their duty or because the Bible tells them to go, but they may be won. and we ought to remember that the average churcli building, shut up tor tnn week, with the undertaker’s sign the most prominent upon its exterior, is not attract ive to the un-church people. The inside of the building may he beautiful, but doubt less they do not think that. Second—With each new generation new conditions present themselves. Within twenty-five years the methods of business have entirely changed, and indeed within ten years a new order of business prevails, and the church must keep up with the times. The old truth is sacred and can never be chapged. God pity that man who tries to present a new truth which cannot be found in the word of God, but old methods may be absolutely valueless, and we have a Scriptural warrant for changing our method* every Sunday until we nave one that will win the indifferent. This warrant ia found in the little word “un til," in thq parable of the lost sheep, th* lost piece of money, and the lost boy, for the Shepherd searched, and the woman looked, and the father waited until the lost was found. The Emperor of Russia in passing through his palace with a distinguished visitor one day was asked as they looked out the window why a sentinel was stand ing at a certain place on the grass. The Emperor asked the sentinel of the day, and he did not know, and then he ques tioned the gentleman in. command of the force*, and he could not tel), but when the records were studied it was found that year* ago the wife of the Emperor had no ticed a hunch of wild flowers growing there and had asked a sentinel to stand there and guard them. The order had n.ver been reversed, and for years and years the soldier had been standing there, and there are many people in these .days who stand guarding some withered fiajwer in the shape of an old method or an old tradition in stead of shaping themselves to the times. Wo have a gospel infinite in its beauty and its sweetness, and we with such ought to make encouragement apparent to lost men. Third—We have to preach to a com posite man. If a church makes its plans to reach the rich only it it .not Christian,, whatever else it may be;'if it plans sim ply to reach the poor it is not tut Christ would have it. The distinction made be tween rich and poor are to be despised; th* gospel i* for all. There is not more elec tricity to-day in the world than twenty- five years ago, and not more in America than in the heart of Africa, but Edison harnessed it and makes it useful, and that is the need of the day for the church. Oh. for some man who can take the old gospel which has keen given to the world for cen turies and make it attractive. We find men with the influence of the week of business upon them, and he is the best preacher who finds men as they arc and. then leads them to Christ. There are some preacher* jnore particular about their pro nunciation than' about the lifting of a soul into the 'kingdom of God, but we are thankful that these are few in number. Fourth—Let it be known that' men have never been found in great numbers in any church where the preacher lacks a holy boldness in the presentation of the truth. Men will not come to the church to hear theories or speculations; they want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and a positive theology in the puloit it the most pleasing to the new. Fifth—It is the Christlike spirit that draw*. Education ia well, philanthropy ia not to be despised, culture is a good thing, but the church that make* its hold upon society ia the church that feels it* need and makes it* contribution'to meet that need. In other days when the church bells of St. Paul’s, in London, chimed the mid night hour there used to be a tall, thin gentleman with * lantern and one or two assistants going from arch to arch and group to group, stooping down by thi* hungry man and that ragged beggar, pick ing them up gently, feeding them and clothing them, nut better than all, telling them of the Lord Jetns Christ, *nd so he spent hi* nights, robbing his sleep of it* allotted time. Who it this man? He has in his veins the bluest blood of the British royalty. He is Earl of Shaftesbury, who leaves hU palace at West End to dig with in the filth and squalor of these places of the Hilton viaduct. Finally the coster mongers.said they would not receive help from Lord Shaftesbury, for he was too S roud and his blood was too blue, and so lie great man became one of them, with cart and donkey, and with his crest em blazoned on the harness, and when they saw. that they said, “Lord Shaftesbury Stands with us and be shall help us. “When did your reformation begin!’’ a gentleman asked a Christian man who had been formerly a great criminal. “With my talk with the Earl, sir,” he replied. “What did the Earl say!” asked the gen tleman. “It was not so much anything he said, but he took my band in his and said, ‘Jaclf, you will be a man yet.’ It was the touch of his hand electrified by hia soul of love,” and that will he a great day for the church when men sit in its they reply possibly, "Well, I cannot tell what.,he said.’’ “And what was his text!” might be the question, and the answer, “I do not know his text." Well, then, of what value waa your attendance upon the church, and if the reply could be, "I only know that while the minister preached I determined to be a better man,” preaching •f this sort would draw the un-churched and win a multitude to Christ LABOR WORLD. There are 72,628 miners In Mexico. ’ Michigan postal clerks have orgar Ized. i Barbers In Holland receive aboil $0 a week. The labor trouble at Moscow, Russia, has been renewed. Laundry workers in New Haven, Conn., will organize. Striking bricklayers at Wichita, Kan., have returned to work. Canadian labor unions are demand ing contract foreign labor laws. The strike of bakers at Denver, Col., has been settled by a compromise. It Is estimated that 4,475,000 persons are employed ip the world's mines. Wagers of Durham,.England, miners have been reduced two and a half per cent. . ' Textile Industries In America employ 082,978 wage earners, at an average of $0.17 a week. A week’s work for women and boys In New Zealand, factories Is limited to forty-five hours. Eight hundred shipyard mechanics at Tort Richmond, S. I., have been grant ed an advance in wages. Union men at Duluth, Minn., are at odds with the city officials for employ ing a non-union painter. The Association of Stationary Fire men, of New York City, has voted financial aid'to the striking miners. Children are barred from working in thirty-one employments in Germany. The new law went Into effect May 1. The 1200 striking teamsters In Prov idence, R. I., have yielded because the national organization withdrew Its aid, .The Building Trades Council, of Denver, Col., hns declared off the strike which has affected 5000 men for two weeks. SPORTING BREVITIES. Boxing is to be resumed again In Memphis, Tenn. Cresceus cleared $142,000 last season for its owuer and driver. A six-day woman's bicycle race has been held at Toronto, Ontario. Sceptre, at 5 to 2, hus won the Oaks, worth $22,500, at Epsom, England. Cadet John Rodgers has been elected captain of the Naval Cadet boat crew or 1003. J. Gubbins’ Ard Patrick, ridden by •Skeets” Martin, an, American jockey, lias won the English Derby. The Princeton undergraduates have icaton the alumni in a golf team match at Princeton by 31 holes to 10. Tlio Newport Yacht Racing Associa tion will bold a three days’ regatta fol- lowing the N. Y. Y, C. races off that port, In July. In the second match for the interna tional polo cup, at Hurlingbam, Eng land, the American team was beaten by 0 goals to 1. The Board of Governors of the Automobile Club of America have manlraously- voted to abolish speed 'ontests in the highways. Meyer Priustelu, of the Syracuse Y. al. C. A., and holder of the world’s rec ord for the broad jump, has been re instated by the A. A. U. The dog world has sustained n big loss by the death of the famous ebam- ilon English bull pup,’Lord Roy, the property of Mrs. May E. Beuton, of Joston. The University of Chicago has won lis dual track athletic meet with the University of California and. Andover has'won the New England lnterscbol- astic meet The bicycle racers of Germany seem to have little use fbr Mayor Taylor, the negro cycle racer, and they crowd nnd bump him every chance they get ill the races in which he competes. STRIKERS t LUSK THIS MILL. Manager Refused to Discharge Girls in Lace Making Factory. Because the general manager would not discharge five girls Whose relatives are still at work in the mines, the Wltkesbarre (Pa.) Lace Manufacturing Company, the largest in the United States, was compelled to shut down Tuesday. Between 800 and 1,000 per sons are affected. The lace maker* and cotton workers are strongly organ ized and have been helping the strik ing miners In every way possible Time Table S25, 1902. WAYCR083 TO CORDELE. Lv. Waycross ... Lv Beach Lv. Sessoms .... Lv. Nlcholls .... Lv. Douglas .... Lv. Ambrose ... Lv. Wray Lv. Fitzgerald ... Lv. Isaac ....... Lv. Rebecca .... Lv. Double Run. Ar. Cordele No. 1. Daily. . 8:00. am . 8:47 am , 9:00 am .9 . 9:*1 am .10:03 am .10:09 am .10:37 am .11:04 am .11:21 am .11:36 am .12:20 pm 'No. 3.. DailJ’. 4:00 pn» 4:47 put 6:00 pm 5:08 pm: pm. 6:01 pm 6:10 pm. 6:37 J?m: 7:04 pm.' 7:21 pm/ 7:36 pm* 8:20 pm» CORDELE TO WAYCROSS. No. 2. No. 4. Dally. Daily. Lv. Cordele .... . 6:00 am 4:00 pnr Lv. Double Run . 6:44 am 4:44 pm. Lv. Rebecca ... . 6:59 am 4:59 pm. Lv. Isaac* . 7:16 am 5:16 pm Lv. Fitzgerald .. . 7:43 am 5:43 pm Lv. Wray 8:11 am 6:10 pm Lv. Ambrose ... . 8:18 am 6:17 pm Lv. Douglas .... 6:42 pm Lv. Nlcholls ... 7:12 pm Lv. Sessoms ... . 9': 20 am 7:20 pm Lv. Beach ,. 9:3.3 am 7:33 pm Ar. Waycross .. ..10:20 am 8:20 pm THROUGH SCHEDULES. Lv. Waycross .. . 8:00 am 4:00 pm Lv. Douglas .... 5:38 pm Lv. Fitzgerald .. ..10:37 am 6:37 pm Ar. Cordele .... 8:20 pm Ar. Americus ... .. 3:12 pm .10:22 am Ar. Columbus .. . 5:20 pm Ar. Macon ..... . 4:10 pm 3:55 am 7:25 am Ar. Chattanooga .. 1:00 am 1:00 pm Ar. Louisville .. .,12:45 pm 2:30 am Ar. Cincinnati .'. .. 4:20 pm 7:20 am' Lv. Cordele .... .. 6:00 am 4:00 pm Lv. Fitzgerald . .. 7:43 am 5:43 pm Lv. Douglas .... t. 8:42 am 6:42 pm Ar. Waycross .. ..10:20 am 8:20 pm Ar.. Jacksonville ..12:50 pm 8:30 am Ar. Brunswick . .. 7:30 pm 10:00 am Ar. Savannah .. .12:45 pm 12:20 am Ar. Columbia .. .. 6:05 pm 6:00 am Ar. Charleston . .. 5:10 pm 6:40 am Ar. Washington . 7:35 am 9:00 pm Ar. New York . ...1:43 pm 6:13 am GEORGE DOLE WADLEY, Vice President & Gen. Manager. H. C. McFADDEN, Gen. Freight and Pass. Agent. ALEX BONNYMAN, Superintendent. J. G. KNAPP, Trav. Freight and Pass. Agent. A. B. DEMONT MOLLIN, Agent, Cordele, Ga. GEORGIA SOUTHERN b FLORIDA RAILWAY. autaeuu.c in Direct May 4, lDOSi. SOUTHBOUND. Stations. (Quick! 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Room 211 Equitable Bldg:, Atlanta. Ga. , HARR Y BURNS. F: P; A.. ® . MI W. Bay BL, *“* ?-* Jacksonville. Fife-