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—- f A SEEMON FOR SUNDAY HELPFUL AND READABLE DISCOURSE ENTITLED *?A LIFE MADE OVER." h Cha Dtsttnimtahad Paator-BvancreUBt, tha Bev. Dr. Jt.Wilbur Chapman, Ru Fro- pared the Following Sermon For tha Preit—God Hal a Plan For Kronr Uto. New York City.—The Rev. Dr. J. Wit- pur Chapman, the popular pastor-evangel ist, \Fho preaches to overflowing congrega tions in this city, has furnished the follow ing eloquent sermon to the press. It was preached from the text “So he made it again. Jeremiah 18: 4. To any one familiar with the prophecy of Jeremiah up to this point in the Scripture it will be apparent that Israel was rushing on to destruction, and Jeremiah seems powerless to stop them in their mad course. One day as he passes along the highway he beholds a potter working in a booth, and as he turns aside he beholds him with the clay in his hands and the wheel revolving, toiling away until this piece of work is finished. He looks at it with disappointment, and then crushing it into his hands he kneads it over and over and'finally makes it again as the text de clares. Jeremiah is interested, and then he saw the spiritual significance of it all as we read irr the fifth and sixth verses of this 18th chapter, "Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, O, house of Israel, -cannot I do with you as this pot ter? Saith the Lord, Behold as the day* is in the potter’s hands, so are ye in Mine hand, 0 house of Israel.” The trouble was not with tbe potter; he was evidently a good workman, nor with the wheel, for that seemed to do its work well, but en tirely with .the clay. Sometimes the clay was coarse and difficult to mold, other times it was full of grits,-but there were two courses that were opened to the pot ter. First, he could purify the day by re moving the coarser elements, and second, he could moke a rude vessel of the material at hand. This is g familiar figure in the Scriptures, for we read in Isaiah 64: 8, "But now, O Lord, Thou art our Father: we are the clay and Thou our potter: and we all are the work of Thy hand,” and then we read in the New Testament in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, the Dth chapter and the Slat and 22d verses, “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make ouo vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor? What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction.” > i. We are the clay, God is the potter. Clay In itself is most unattractive, but the art ist looks upon it with interest because ol what he sees in it ia the way of beauty af ter his hands have touched it.' This makes the difference in two pieces of canvas, one if touched by the master hand and is a masterpiece, the other is simply canvas in its natural state and is not interesting. A traveler stood watching a potter work In the factory one day and said to him, "Why is it in these days when duch won derful mechanical tools are constructed this work is not done by machinery rather than by hand,” and the potter said, "There are some pieces of work which can only be brought to perfection by the touch of a human hand,” and so it is ia the formation of character. Whatever may be one’s social position or bis financial wealth he will net be able to please God nor to be prepared for heaven until the hand of God has touched him.-. This is • picture of our regeneration, for regenera tion is the coming into us of the life of God. I stood one day in Venice watching the glassblowers, and while glass in its natural state was most uninteresting, just as soon as tbe workman began to blow the breath of his own life into it it became a thing of bcanty. Adam, back in the Old Testament becoming a living soul is the Old Testament story of God’s inbreathing, while the child of God in the New Testa- 3 pnt is the New Testament’s story of that me inbreathing. H, The day of our conversion we yielded ourselves to God: that was the closing of ourselves in the sands of the potter. As we came into the light with Him God saw imperfections in our make-up, things that were not pleasing to Him, and so He put His finger upon this or that: some of these things we have not been willing to give u] and so our lives have been marred. TV have had n controversy with Him, and wherever there is n controversy there is no peace. We are Christians, it is true, but we are fruitless and joyless, and many of us are shorn of power. The vessels were marred in the making, bnt it ii a comfort ing thing to know that we are in the handi of the potter •till, and although we failec yesterday we need not fail to-morrow, for He will fashion us if we will but permit Him to do so in the likeness of His own dear Son. We are to be holy, we are to be pure of heart, we certainly are to have fellowship with Christ, wc have been in bondage long enough, now the question is shall we yield or not. Suppose we do not yield, are wc then lost? Certainly not. Paul says, "He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him, and in the eighth chapter of Romani he seemh to ex haust language to soar into heaven and to make his way to the very depths of the earth and then to cry aloud, “Nothing shall lie able to separate us from the love of God which ia in Christ Jesus our Lord,” but we shall be shorn oi peace and of power and of blessing, and while certain kihds of work will go on in onr lives an other kind of vessel will be made. Ro mans 0: 21, “Hath not the potter power over tbe clay, of the same lamp to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor." We might have been a vessel in tbe king’s palace, we might have been in the throne room of the king, we might - have been used to carry life to the dying and God would and ydu would not is sad story of many a life. m. God has a plan for every life. Jeremiah did not know what waa in the mind of the potter, bnt he knew that he waa working according to a plan, but we know what ii in God’s mind. Romans 8: 29, "For whom He did foreknow. He also did predestinate ' to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first bom smonj; manv,brethren." Philippian* 3:' 12, “Ne i as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also X am apprehended of Christ Jesus." God cannot be satisfied with anything less than this. A workman in a factory fashioning a beautiful design saws an imperfection in tbe plan. To carry it on meant ruin, an< so He carried it back to the artiet am found that it was sn error of the copyist, and that is the difficulty of an inconsistent life. It misrepresents Jesus Christ. There are people in this world who would scorn to be heterdox. so far as the Scripture* are concerned, but eo far as the manifestation of the Christ life is concerned they are ex- A distinguished preacher has said, •There is a definite and proper end and issue for every man’s existence, an end which to the heart of God is tbe good in tended for him, or for which he was in tended; that which he is privileged to be come, railed to become, ought to become; that which God will assist him to become, and which be canuot miss save by his own fault. Every human soul has a complete and perfect plan cherished for it in the heart of God—a divine biography marked out, which it enters into life to live.” Surely this is a great thought, and qas that gives to life—to each ana every life, the smallest, the obscurest—a sacred dignity and importance. Nothing can be trivial or common which tbe great God thinks about, plana and creates. The lowliest place in this world, to the person whom God made to ocqupy that place, is a position of rank and honor glorioua as an angel’s seat, be cause it is one which God formed an im mortal being in His own hands, and with immeasurable possibilities to fill. George MacDonald says, "I would rather be what God chose to make me than tbe most glo rious cresture thst I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’a thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing “ think’ “ i nor what we are ourselves. hut altogether the question is as to whether we are com trolled absolutely by Christ. This is tbs surrendered life. ceedingiy ’feretical. It ii gas ify'L: xksakl fail. in all thinking.” God’s plan is the The legend of the old olive tree is interest ing here. The monks Wanted oil, and they asked God as they planted the tree to send upon it rain and sun and then to send the .frost to toughen it, and the frost killed it. and then another monk planted a tree add asked God to do at He would regarding it and the tree became a thing of beauty! When you have crossed the ocean have you not os yon studied the captain’s chart seen the little zig-zag line* running north and south, and have you not sometimes wondered how it was that we could reach home in that fashion, but when the- jour ney is ended we find that every dot marked the progress of the homeward journey, and when we reach heaven and enter the graft room of the sky we shall find that every line led homeward and things we could not understand pointed heavenly. "Tbe years of man are the looms of God, Let down from the place of the sun, Whereon we are weaving hearts, Till the mvstio web is done. And when the task is ended, And the web is turned and shown, He shall hear the voice of the Master, It shall say to him, ‘Well done.’ ’’ God has a way of making lives over. First, by outer circumstances, like the potter’s wheel, such as trials and disap pointments. Second, by His own word. It is called tbe light, and light reveals imperfections; it ia called the fire, and fire purges the drozs; it iz described as water, and water cleanses all displacements; it is said to be a hammer and the hammer in the hands of the artist fashioned the angel from the block of marble. Dr. Arthur T. Pierson tail* of the potter who was seeking to make ] orcelain for the king’s palace, was greatly discouraged in the work and in desperation threw himself into the fire, and there was something about the burning of his own body that gave an inestimable value to the torcelain which is still in existence, and hat to the value of this hook. God threw [ into it in the person of His own Mvu,«ud no man can read it without feel ing His powsr. IV. There are some lives mentioned in the Bible which have really been made over again like tbe clay in tbe hands of the pot ter. First — Jacob. By nature he was a sup- ilanter and a cheat: he stole his brothers lirthright and deceived his father, but by the power of God he became Israel, the S rinee. .and all because be and God met at abbok’s Ford, and God touched him and he limped awey from weakness to power. Michael Angelo was banished from nance, but afterward they wanted him to return. They wished him to take a block of marble, which bad been lying at the gates of the city, and fashion it into some nasterpiece, and Michael Angelo came jack to the city, end out of the piece of marble that had been lying for yean in tbe dirt ol the city he made his David, which is his masterpiece in many respect*. God by the touch of affliction sometimei and the touch of disappointment again has made many a life oyer. May He make yours? Second—Elijah. He was a man of liko passions with ourselves and came from a rugged country, but God made hit passions and his appetites to be like horses to his chariot by means of which he was trans lated, and he will make the weaknesa of your life to be power if you wifi let Him. Third—Paul. His was a bitter nature and his spirit that of s persecutor. He hears of a few Christians in Dan, and hur ries away that he may cast them into pri son, and from the man of bitterness and prejudice he is changed into the little old nan a prisoner in Rome who cries out, "I know whom I have believed and am per suaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day,” and all because he had found Christ. When the children of Israel made their way across the land they came to the waters of Mnro, which were very bitter. They were all but dying of thirst, but Moses cost the wood of a certain tree into the wateri and they became sweet. Into Paul’* life had been pressed the principles of the crose; not His wifi, but God’s was to be done, and he was made happy. Fourth—Peter. He was a man of weak ness, but transfigured into a man of strength. He was ignorant, but he writes the Epistle that stands as his monument in the purest Greek oi the New Testa ment, and all because he added Christ to his life. So it is not a question as to who we are or what we have been, but whether we are united to Him. It is said that Ole Bnl was making his way at one time through one of the great American forests, and he came upon a hut in which dwelt a hermit. He had left his city home because disappointed in busi ness, and had been living alone for years, his only companion being his old violin, an which he conld play a few homely pieces of music. Ole Bull stopped in the nut over night, and in the shade of the fire- light, to entertain hia guest, tbe old her mit took down bis violin and played tbe simple pieces with which he had whiled away hia long honrs of loneliness. When he hod finished playing the great musician asked him if he' thought he could piey. Tbe reply was, "I hardly think it possible; it took me rears to learn,' and yet," said he, "you might try,” and ao tbe great violin- 1st took the instrument, drew his bow across the string* and instantly the room was filled with harqjgpv. He played “America” and "Home, Sweet Home,"' until the old hermit sobbed like a child, and then putting the instrument back again in its plaee the old hermit was made to understand that he was in tbe presence of the neatest violinist of the day. But what a difference of tbe violin when in tbe hands of tbe hermit and in the hands of I the master.' The tones of one were any thing but complete; the maple of the s;u- Bear To One Another’* Burden*. In order to be satisfied even with the best people we need to be content with lit tle and bear a great deal. Even the most perfect people have many imperfections; we ourselves hare as great defects. Our faults combined with theirs make mutual toleration a difficult matter, hut we can only "fulfil the law of Christ” by "bearing one another's burdens " There must be a mutual loving forbearance. Frequent si lence. habitual recollection, prayi,-. self- attachment, giving up nil critical tenden cies, faithfulness m putting aside all the idle imagination* of a jealous, fastidious »elf-love—all these wifi go far to maintain peace and union. How many trouble* would be avoided by this simplicity! Happy is he who neither listen* to him self nor to the idle talk of others. Be con tent to lead a simple life where God has S laced you Be obedient; bear your little aily crosses—you need them, and God gives them to you only out of pure mercy. —Fenelon.' The Cure Foe Loneliness, The medicines for the cure of loneliness are portion* of generosity, thoughtfulness of others and Chriatian self-sacrifice, taken in large doses.—Presbyterian Banner. THE SUPREME COURT BENCH. The Resignation of Judge Hal. Lewis From That .Position Necessitates an Election. Tbe vacancy caused on the Supreme Court Bench by the resignation of Judge Hal. Lewie has precipitated an election which Is of paramount in terest to the people of Georgia. Among those whose names are prominently mentioned is that e< Judge John S. - Candler, whose rela tionship to the present governor of the state makes his candidacy and previous record a matter of news inter est to the people of the state. We give below a summarized history of his political career, believing that our readers will be anxious to know all that is possible in regard to the can didates who aspire to the Supreme bench. Judge Candler'was born In Carroll county,- Ga., In 1861. He Is a brother of Bishop' Warren A. Candler, Asa G. Candler, of Atlanta, and Ex-Congress man Milton A. Candler, of the Fifth Congressional District. He Is also first cousin of the present chief exec utive of this state. In 1887 Judge Candler was appointed Solicitor Gen eral of the Stone Mountain Circuit by General John B. Gordon, and at the next session of the Georgia Legisla ture was elected to fill the same of fice without opposition. In February, 1896, on the death of Judge Richard H. Clark, Judge Candler was appoint ed by Governor W. Y. Atkinson to fill hts unexplred term as judge of the Stone Mountain circuit. In October of the same year. Judge Candler was elected, without opposition, to the same office by the Georgia Legisla ture. In 1900, Judge Candler was re elected by the popular vote of the peo ple carrying every county in his cir cuit with the exception Of one, that being the one in which his opponent, one of the most popular lawyers In Georgia, resided. His home county, DeKalb, gave him a larger vote than was received by thu governor and state house ticket which had no oppo sition. While attending to his own courts, Judge Candler has found time to as sist many of the other judges in the state. As judge of the Superior Courts of the Stone Mountain Circuit, he pre sides over the criminal branch of the Superior Court of Fulton county. Whon he went upon the bench it required twenty-eight weeks to dispose of tho criminal bua4ness of this county, Under his administration last year, court only, sat in Fulton county for eight weeks, thus reducing tho expenses of'this court from 118,000 to less than |5,000 per year. Whllo the records of the courts show that there was 25 per cent less crime in 1901 than there was in 1896 . When be went on the bench there were city and county courts in most of the counties cf the Stone Mountain Circuit.. All of tb-jse courts, with the exception of one have been abolished, and at the same time the Superior Court sessions in each county in this circuit have been re duced from one-half to two-thirds of the time that was formerly required to dispatch the business of these courts. No old cases are on any of the dockets in this circuit Judge Candler has been Judge Advo cate General of the Georgia State Troops and Colonel of the Fifth Regi ment and was Colonel of the Third Georgia Volunteer Infantry In the Spenlsh-American war. Loans! Loans! Loans! WK CAN PROCURE A LOAN FOR YOU ANY WHERE FROM $150.00 TO $5,000.00 FROM 0. 7 TO 7 i 1-2 PER CENT. AND AT A VERY SMALL COST. i. Henderson cfo Jordan. Hair Cut, Any Style! If you want a first-class Hair Cut, Shave, Sham poo or Shine call to see me. Next door to the Racket Store. AUGUSTUS JOM ES, Barber. JJ A NEW TRAIN l - -BETWEEN— Helena, Abbeville, Cordele, Americus, and Columbus, Ga. Via SEABOARD AIK LI/ME KAILWAg With Connections From— FITZGERALD, ALSO DAWSON AND ALBANY. Beginning Sunday, August 17th, trains heretofore operated be tween Ocllla and AmertcuB will be changed and will be run between Helena and Columbus as follows: Lv. Helena ... Lv. Abbeville . Lv. Cordele ... Lv. Americus . Lv. Richland .. Ar. Columbus . Lv. Albany .. Ar. Richland ..... 6 8: 00 am 58 am :58 am 02 am :10 am :50 am :30 am Lv. Richland 30 am Ar. Albany Columbus Richland . Americus . Cordele ... Abbeville . Helena ... 2:30 pm 3:55 pm 1 4:55 pm' 6:06 pm .7:07 pm‘ 8:00 pm' Lv. Ocllla 10:30 Lv. Fitzgerald. 11:00 Ar, Abbeville ..12:20 am 4: am 5 pm 7 :55 pm:Lv. •25 pm'Ar. 00 pm|Ar 4:10 pm' 7:00 pm 7:00 lun ”3:16 pm 9:00 am 4:20 pm Abbeville.... Fitzgerald Ocllla 10:00 am 4:45 pm Schedule from Intermediate points furnished upon application to Seaboard Air Dine Ticket Agent, or C. P. WALWORTH, A. G. P. A., Savannah, Ga. JOHN F. POWELL & SON, LAWYERS, VIENNA, GEORGIA. WOMAN CUT-s HOPE. Daughter of Murdered Man Takes Part In a Hanging. Boisy Bryant waa hanged at Nash ville, Ga., Friday at noon for the mur der of Town Marshal Hynds. Mrs. Etta Hynds Parker, daughter of the murdered officer, watched the proceedings of the execution from the scaffold trap. As soon as Bryant was pronounced dead, Mrs. Parker, with her father's knife, cut the body of the murderer down. v Mrs. Parker retained the first piece of rope for herself. Five hundred per sons were allowed to witness the ex ecution and the negro's body was turned over to lrlends as none of his relatives were present. Bryant was Interviewed shortly be fore the execution, saying (hat he had been saved and was ready to go and did not dread deeth. He said be bad killed Hynds after he had covered him with a cocked pistol. The crime was committed in .Adel, a nearby town last May. The negro was wanted on a misdemeanor charge and Town Marshal Hynds attempted to arrest him. As the marshal ap proached Bryant, the negro drew a pis tol and fired upon tbe officer, mortal ly wounding him. Bryant escaped but was captured a taw days later, and placed in jail at Nat hr file. Owing to threats of lynching a spe cial term of court was called and Bry ant was convicted and sentenced to be hanged on September 12th. CHEAPEST MONEY DEARTH! We guarantee to make yon a loan on yonr farm for less expense and on easier terms tlian any one. If yon need money it will pay yon to see us. J. H. WOODWARD & SON. LAWYERS, Vifiima, • • Georgia. A portable street light of great il luminating power has been devised by tbe Westminster County Council for lessening accidents from fogs in Lon don. Tbe torch, a cylindrical tank, eighteen inches In diameter and two feet high, is charged with petroleum and compressed air. When it Is light- . * . ed, the torch flares up two feet with a ter was perfect, and ao it i* not ao much a newer of 1,000 candles, flotation U to jriul our fives ton beta, ' A. L. McARTHUR, DENTIST,' Rooms 2 and 4, People’s Bank Build* ing, Cordele, Georgia. W. V. HARVARD, ATTORNEY-ATLAW, Vienna, Georgia DR. C. T. CTOVALL, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Vienna. Ga. BIVINS & MOBLEY, T. F. Bivins, M. D., H. A. Mobley, M.D.t PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, > ^ Calls Promptly Answered. VIENNA, GEORGIA. A BLOW TO CORK KBS. Board of Trade (liven Black Kye by • hieago Judge. , A moat important decision against the Chicago board cf trade was ren dered Saturday by Judge Axel -City- traus In the July oats corner Injunc tion cases. Not only does the opinion of the court, if sustained by higher tribunals, put an end to all corner* in commodities on this exchange, bnt it strikes at the very life of the Instltu- j Ucn asjyj" crgqalzefl, HALL A GEORGE, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, VIENNA, GEORGIA. D. A. R. CRUM, LAWYER, VIENNA, GEORGIA. J. M. WHITEHEAD, * DENTIST. Will be In my office from 15th to last of each month. , . , VIENNA, GEORGIA.