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TALMAGE
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By Rev.
FRANK PE WITT TALMAGE. D.O..
Obic
8. — In this pennon
I operating tables and Frnni Slgel to
fight her battle, ami Speaker llemler-
| son to preside over her congress and
Thomas Watson to plead at her liar?
! Shall the Goddess of Liberty feel no in
debtedness to foreign countries when
. she has taken from their firesides their
1 fairest daughters and their bravest and
> truest young men and clasped them to
lidr own heart until these adopted sons
nntl daughters look up amt cait her
: mother?
j If we were to blot out from Ant-r-
lean history the deeds of Its foreign
i born children, we would obliterate
many of the best pages of our national
th« preacher shows that there are other lwiro ,, H . An oU1 y<M , m lw g Uia *nue-
, than commercial and flume aJ oh Iga- tlli . llke 0lIg .
IITA r n “ v," Blv .a,,™ h^mana,
tlnn America owes a debt, both hi the ! ae ' a „ ^mds. pure hearts, true faith and
spiritual and philanthropic sense, to the j ready hands:
Men who pos.scas opinions nncl n will:
modern Greeks and barbnriuns which
■he now has opportunity to pay. The
text Is Romans 1, 14. “1 am debtor both
to the Greeks and to the barbarians.”
k A national debt! It is popularly un
derstood to be a llnnnclal obligation
Christ lore. Queen Victoria gave us the
example of how a royal queen could be
a domestic queen, and the ships which
ply the Atlantic still return with as
heavy cargoes as when they left our
shores.
How TV® Mar Cent Rc;my.
How, t!i»n. is America to cancel t!»*»
| untioiui debt in a moral ami spiritual
sense vrUHi she owes to the modern
j Greeks enrl to the barbarians? -Weil.”
: answers jvine one. “I suppose the best
way to ivoay tl’.e debt we owe to for-
, eign lamis is to make our goods better
j and cheaper than they can make them
j •r.d then go forward and capture their
j markets for our home industries.” Ah,
| my brother, l am not here to fritter
: away my rime answering these selfish
I propositions prompted by mere com-
j merclnlism: I am here today to tell you
i how, in t!;e language and the spirit of
j the aposjle Paul, we are to cancel the
| national dMit we owe to foreign lands;
j I am hen* today to tell you how best
| we cau nay the debt as individuals as
Men whom desire for office does not kill.
Th® Demand For Men.
To supply this national demand for-
Mgn countries have been giving us for
w centuries their best treasures. They
hlch a government lias pledged itself ! have givcu us their sturdiest men of j well as a nation. We can repay our
to pay. Sometimes tills is contracted ! mental and moral worth and tlielr fair- ! national ib'bt iirst by conveying to for-
In the Interest of a single subject. 1 ?»t daughters, whose virtues are, as ! etgn lands the sweet message of the
About thirty yea rs ago the English gov- .King Solomon says, “above the price | Calvary cross When many years ago
ernment assumed a debt of over $25.- rubies.”. Surely for such priceless j live humble, consecrated students met
000,000 to liberate a single mail, Cap- i gifts America must acknowledge she j behind c haystack in old Willlamstown.
tain Cameron, who had been unjustly i »* » debtor “to the Greeks and to the
endungeoued by the king of Abyssinia , barbarians.”
In the rocky fortress of Magdala. It I Religious liberty’s cradle also was
took six months for the news of the | built across the seas. True, it was
outrage to travel to England, but in j floated across the Atlantic, and during
less than eleven days afterward a Brit- ! It* tempestuous voyage of many miles
lali army of 15,000 men. under Genera! j Its infantile occupant grow and waxed
Napier, was on its way. It not only I ftrongcr. But. after all, we should not
crossed the seas, but also marched a j forget that the cradle of civil and rell-
terrible Journey of 400 miles under a i «tous liberty was first hammered to
gether on foreign shores.
In the astronomical world we find
that stars generally travel in constella
tions. or in groups. Thus we also find
that every groat advancement of the
Inman race, spiritually or mentally, so
cially or economically, is in touch with
other events, though they may be scon
or unseen. The sweet voiced village
church bell of today is not entirely of
American manufacture. It was cast
In the hot tires of the Covenanter's per
secutions; it was cast among the tlaines
which wrapped their fiery tongues
the multitude because they had noth
ing to eat” would never have closed his
ears to the cry of a famine stricken
nation. If we would be like him. we,
too, should food the hungry ami succor
the homeless, the widow and the or
phan. IIow better can we make known
the grandeur and beauty of the Chris
tian faith than by proving toother na
tions Its beneficent Influence? As the
hand of Christian Amorim' U stretched
out across tin* seas, hearing bread for
the starving, tiny see Christ living
again in us and bless his dear name.
Having accepted from us the bread
that perishes, they will listen as we
tell them of the Bread that came down
from heaven, of which if a man eat he
shall live forever. Were the welcom
ing doors of heathen India ever more
widely opened for the gospel message
than when the shiploads of American
breadstuffs were iloated across the At
lantic. through the Mediterranean,
down the Rod sea aijd over the Indian
ocean until they were safely landed in
the liai^Pr of Bombay during the awful
Indian famines of 1KP7 and liiOO? I
have seen It estimated flint hundreds
of thousands of starving and dying na
tives were physically saved through
American generosity during those two
years. But no one save the recording
angel of heaven will ever lie able to
keep track of the multitudes of humor-
i tal souls who will ultimately lie
' brought to the feet of Christ through
evangelistic work j the contributions and the prayers of
ime worldwide scone ! those who tried to some extent to allay
• •
i where 1 used to go to college, and
! founded the first American foreign
• missionary society, one of the greatest
j purposes of America’s future life was
| given practical form. Those five young
j mo:i piaimcd
I which luvl tin-
that Paul's mission had for tin* Chris | tbe horrors of that awful famine
Can ivlhfion. If the rellK'on of ,1-sns ! plnfruo.
tropical sun, until the troops reached
Magdala and battered down the for
tress and rescued their incarcerated
countrynufu. A civilised country is
usually ready to begin any undertaU- j
hig, assume any financial responsibili
ty, In order to protect its own from the i
tyrannical clutches of a foreign foe.
Sometimes an extra financial obliga
tion is assumed by a government in
times of peace as well ns in times of
war. A depleted trermrry during the ;
financial panic of 1803 caused the pres
ident of Hie United States to Issue
I'hrlst b* Bio beneficent thing that we
profess to believe it. are we justified in
keeping *lie knowledge of it to our
selves? Are we not hound as debtors
to the whole world to repay our obli
gations by making it known far and
wide?
The medical profession sets us an
example In its performance of lids
duty. Xe sooner does a physician dis
cover a means of alleviating physical
suffering than lie places it at tin* dis
posal of his professional brethren the
When did Russia ever hear a sweeter
gospel message than that played by the
waves lapping the ships’ prows which
carried American food to her peasants
during tlie famine plague of 181)2? All.
those were not idle words which Christ
uttered when lie said unto those on ids
right hand. “( mm*, ye blessed of my
Father, Inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the
world, for I was an hungered, and ye
gave me meat.’’ It does seem that in
a national as well as in an individual
$200,00<j.mi0 worth of governmeut i about the shrlvollng hollies of John
bonds. Some of these Interest hearing
Hubs and Ridley and Latimer and (’ran-
bonds were purchased by foreign cap- j uier; it was cast among the burning
italists and others by American clti- l°£ R heaped about the dying body of
7.ens. But there are still other forms j Savonarola when the Italian priest,
and causes of international obligation. ! Elijah-like, was about to go a to heaven
A government can owe to foreign lands , hi a chariot of lire; it was cast centu*
more than money. Such definitions as j
we have given are right as far as they tions in tlie
world, over. When Edward .l.'imer 1 Rm,sc "° I’hri.thni romdry rail truly
demon stroked the marvelous immunity | P r * ,! j ont the g"q>el to foreign lands if
of a human lining who was vaccinated i 1 H ‘ s:l,n “ it is not ready to help
i with cowpox, did he keep Ids discovery ! tllose fol ’ |,, » 11 n,,,lons they nn
j from the v.-orld? Did he refuse to ad
vocate it Jest lie might In* persecuted
by such medical authorities as Dr. In-
genhousz and Dr. Pearson? Ob, no!
As an intelligent man he deplored the
hack among the Nerodlan persoou- | awful destruction made by this terri*
ays of the apostolic umr- j hie scourge of smallpox. I It* knew that
hut they are too circumscribed. I tyrdoms. | whole countries liad been almost depop-
When the Hebrew Paul wrote, “1 am l Can we ever reach the day when wo j u In ted by the pest. Mexico was not
debtor both to the Greeks and to the 1 shall feel that our religious liberty Is i conquered so much by Cortes as it was
barbarians,” I do not believe he had not a natural outgrowth of the Chris- | made helpless by the invasion of this
any idea of a financial Interpretation. Ban heroes and heroines who dared to king of Horrible plagues called small-
Referring to Greece, he was alluding ! defy “Bloody” Alva, the persecutor of ; pox. When the pilgrim fathers landed
to the intellectual influence of tlie A the- 1 the Netherlands, or Lord Claverhouse. j upon th« Massachusetts shores, they
nian capital, which made itself felt 1 the persecutor of old Scot laud, or do- > found that the Indian tribe which the
throughout tlie world. That city sway- ! Uioniac Catherine, the fiendish lcmnle j year lietore liad been inhabiting tliat
od tlie scepter in tlie domain of Intel- j Instigator of tlie St. Bartholomew mas- j part of the country had been entirely
lectuallty; it ruled tlie world of culture «acrc\ or tlie bloody Queen Mary of the j obliterated, with the exception of one
with the sculptor’s chisel, the poet’s j English throne? When that grand old man, by the fatal ravages of smallpox,
pen and the Demos the non n oratory of ; man. Hugh Latimer, then over eighty. So, in the face of derision and persecu-
n patriot rousing tlie people to wage stood among the burning logs that j tlon, Jenner proclaimed the gospel of
war against King Philip. When Paul | were cremating him. he turned to BlsU* j vaccination. Though he might, and to
spoke of the barbarians. I believe he °P Ridley. Ids fellow martyr near by. ' a groat extent did. destroy his private
was alluding to tin* strength and tlie mid said: “Bo of good comfort. Master j practice, lie kept crying to suffering
Ridley, and play the man. We shall { humanity: “Here Is a remedy foil this
this day light such a candle by God’s i dreadful and malignant disease. Take
grace in England as. 1 trust, shall nev- j it and live! Take it and live!”
er lie put cut.” Aye. they did; they • When .lames Y. Simpson perfected
did! They not only lighted a gospel i Ids Investigations in chloroform, did
torch for England, hut a torch which he keep them to himself? Did lie pat-
would blaze in America centuries after- ! cut them and say. “You come to me or
ward. We have religious lib;
virility which the world liad absorbed
from the different provinces. As n
union of learning he was indebted to
[>*hose people to whom he was about to
present Jesus Christ. So today I want
to speak of America’s national debt in
n moral and spiritual sense as well as
In a financial: I want to show what we
should give hack to the lands across
the sens In return for wliat we have
absorbed from them, consciously or un
consciously. As we balance our nu- on the other side of the seas.
, suffer and d!e?”
America been use the first great battles ! the amestlietic to tin
for tlie enchainment and tlie decapita
tion of Satanic bigotry were fought up-
atllicted with famine and plague. We
say “famine” and “plague” in the same
breath, because starvation and disease
are two horrors wliloli always devas
tate tlie land at tin* same time. Where
famine goes, there plague follows close
behind. Ami. while we are thus con
sidering tin* philanthropic aspect our
national duty to oilier lands sometimes
assumes. 1 want to make an especial
plea for famine stricken Finland. I
make It the more earnestly because
many of her sons and daughters have
migrated to our shores, and therefore
for that reason Finland lias a special
claim upon us. They are of the same
household of faith with ourselves:
therefore It Is doubly our duty to aid
them. I make this plea the more ear
nestly because If food Is not sent
quickly thousands of those poor peas
ants will soon lie beyond human aid.
Brothers and sisters will be dead; chil
dren will he dead; fathers and mothers
will In* dead; whole communities will
he exterminated by famine and the
plague.
The Cry of Finland.
Though the religious and daily nows
papers have been for weeks filled with
tlie accounts of Finland’s sufferings,
the horrors and agonies which those
simple people of the north are going
throng'll will probably never he fully
tional hooks the debit side of our ledg
er must hi* cleared off. If we are na
tionally honest, we are ready to pay
for wliat we have received.
W® Have Borrowed Europe'** ReNt.
Our country Ims been the reservoir
for the best and the richest blood of all
Europe. A few years ago a noted Irish
lender, now a member of the British
parliament, was addressing a great
gathering of Irish-America ns lit Chica
go. During Ids speech lie made this
suggestive statement: “You Irhdi-Aiuer-
leans congratulate yourselves because
every year you send over a few thou
sand dollars to help us in our struggle
for home rule. But I want to tell you
that you 77r •hiliur no more than you
Our Artistic Debts.
America is indebted to foreign lands
hi a commercial and an artistic sense
ns well as in a moral and spiritual
sense. Some political speakers love to
boast that commercially we are hide-
pendrtit of the world. They assert it
would make very little difference to us
whether or no foreign countries held
•my trade relations with us at all. But
this Is not true. You are u wealthy
man. You invite me to your homo
some night to a banquet. I accept.
As I sit waitiug for the other guests to
arrive I say: “Mr. So-and-so, this is a
beautifully designed home. Where did
Your architect get the idea?” You an-
“The plans of this house are not
He freely gave
world. And to-
I day thousands upon thousnmls of men
and women who have been compelled But us I try to describe it to you
i to lie upon an operating table have j fwt't 1,0 words of mine can so touch-
| risen up to call him blessed. Is the I Big’ly present the condition of that af-
Gonnati physician, Robert Koch, work- j ns <1°°* the simple stnte-
: lug in Ins laboratory for personal gain? j "’lileli Inspector Eugherg, who
I Oh, no. lie is trying, purely on plill- j knows that country well, gave to a
! anthropic grounds, to cure eonsump- representative of the American press:
tion. which causes at least one-fourth i ' * * mvo n,u,, k °f Ihe suffering,
! of the total annual mortality among j R, ’5 H '
! the human race. If lie ever perfects a i [ H ,< ‘ 1
ought to do. America owes a greater his Ideas. lie merely worked the
debt to Ireland than Ireland doe?
America. America has not taken from
us money, hut sin* lias taken from us
what Is of more vsvftc than money.
Her magnetism lias come into our large
out in detail after I had described them.
Some years ago, while I was in Eng
land. I caiue across a beautiful coun
try home. I then said to myself that
\f 1 should ever have money enough 1
cities and villages and factory towns ; would build a house upon that plan,
and wooed from our shores the best This home is the result of my r solve
nnd strongest young men and young made at that time.” Under my f**et is
women we had. She lias taken them i n rug of exquisite workmanship. Where
away annually not by tlie scores and was it made? In the city of !Minus-
hundreds, but by the thousands and cus. It is an imported rug. When
the tens of thousands; she has taken your wife comes in to greet me, sin* is
away tlie strongest young men and wo- dressed in a lieaiitiful costume. It
men we had and has left only the weak- came from the silkworms of France,
lings—those who are afraid to start out That diamond glittering upon your tin*
In the new world. Mctmwhile we, the ger was dug out of the African mines.
stay at homes, must go on •struggling
while our stalwart Irish - American
broth *rs and sisters an* winning suc
cess in another hemisphere.” Wliat
that member of the British parliament
said in reference to Ireland can ho
said in reference to almost every coun
try of Europe. Go down to the grant
seaport towns of Norway nnd Sweden.
Up to a comparatively recent date
germicide for the tuberculosis bacilli,
| lie will at once tell ail lie knows, lie
; is struggling and working and aimlyz-
1 lug purely to save a dying race.
Make Known th«* Itevctntton.
j What a lesson do these illustrious
j bon*‘factor of the human race teach.
! us! How they study and investigate
and labor to alleviate suffering and in-
| crease the longevity of mankind! And
| when any of them discovers a remedy
! for diseas • or a means of removing do-
: fortuity low eagerly lu* makes the dis
covery known that nil the world may
Kiiare in the benefit! lu our hands we
have a revelation of infinitely greater
i value. Their discoveries can at tie*
: bes.‘ prolong life only a few year**.
while tlie gospel of Jesus Christ Is the
j gospel of eternal life and tlie remedy
for tlie universal malady of sin. Yet
j Have are among us men calling thorn-
i selves Christians who make no effort
i to publish the knowledge of that rein-
j inly. They say; “If the Chinese are not
willing to receive our gospel mission:*.-
1 rle.‘. * then let those missionaries stay
| at home. Let tin* Chinese hordes grov-
A WORD TO
THE WISE.
We wish to inform the people of
Vienna and Dooly county that we have
just, received a 810,000 stock of
Clothing, Shoes, Caps and Hats,
which we are going to sell to you at
prices that will make you our customers.
We make a specialty of
Merchandise, Farm Implements, Plows, Etc.,
and handle a general line of these
goods. We cater to the city as well as
he country trade.
Mayer, Watts & Co.
laacjaauaancic sciciQaacaDciciaDcaac
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DO YOU EAT?
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Why, uf course you do! But do you eat the best? jD|
m * in the t/twnlioii that should interest you the most. Buy ]j|[
your Groceries from us and rest assured that you have the |Dj
best there is in the ealiny line. 41? hare just opened up jjj[
« nice Market and will keep on hand nice Country Beef, |D|
and everythin;/ else in the market line.
In connection with our Grocery and Market, we have jQ{
a first-class Restaurant, where you can yet one of the best
meals in town for on 2~>c. Conic to see us whenin town.
W. J. BRYANT raBRO.
3tir commercial dependence upon Eu- 1 el ami die! Lot tin* human streams of
repomi markets for nearly all our goods
and chattels was almost absolute. In
1820 the Edinburgh Review of Scot
land tauntingly asked: “Who in the
four quarters of the globe rends an
American hook or goes to an American
play or looks at an American painting
Germany. France. Italy. Holland and or statue? Wliat does the
arid
f
to American physicians or surgeons?
Wliat new substances have tlwir chem
ists discovered? Wliat new constella
tions have their astronomers discover
ed? Who drinks out of American
glasses? Who eats from American
;*l:».tes? Who wears an A meric® n coat
England and Scotland and ask those
emigrants, those stalwart young fel
lows and those red cheeked lassies.
Wien* they are going. Everywhere
you can hear th® same answer: “To
,Vmorica. We are tailing for America.”
Has America no obligation to meet
when she lias taken from other lands or lies down to sleep in an American
■uch foreign horn leaders ns Alexander blanket?” Foreign manufacturers of
Hamilton to run her finance's and Agas- the present day kuow only too well
Hiz to read the records of her rooks ami that since 1820 the commercial depend-
Ericsson to save her navies and John oncy of America upon commercial Eu
Summerville and John Hall to preach rope lias mightily changed. But we art*
In her pulpits and Andrew Carnegie to ' still dependent upon Europe in many
build her st«*el works and John W. ways. Finsen. the Norwegian, reaches
Mackay to develop her mines and ( across the s«*ns to lessen the horrors of
Thomas Moran to paint her pictures » Smallpox. Charles U. Spurgeon and Jo-
and Dr. Nicholas Scnn to stand at her soph Parker sent their messages of the
he;i*.!it»i: lift* heroine choked with moral
vermin! It is their own lookout, not
our. !” I tell you Unlay that Christian
An erica's foreign obligations can nev-
• r b“ canceled until Jeans Chris* is
preached to all people. When wo have
now one missionary in the dark lor.ti
neats we ‘should send a thousand:
where we have one gospel messenger
now for a hundred thousand people w**
should hr.vo so great a number that ev
ert foreign town and village, as well
as every city, should he pi-isumlcd to
race I \«» tiie open Bible ami to study the
word of God. Christian America will
not la* free from responsibility until
the gospel of tlie Lord Jesus is preach-
(d unto all peoples. If those peepies
r.s-oivo It not, then they, not we, must
hear the res{s>usihlHty.
Tlie nations of the world have also
other claims upon us as a Christian
people that must not lie Ignored. I»
we have tlie spirit of Christ, we shad
not 1h* unmindful of tlielr material
wants, lie who “had compassion cn
ft has been awfully black and
still, take my word for that. I
] have become through custom almost
] liatdemd to seeing women and children
I crying for food, that was common us
| recently as New Year's day. When 1
j hear people talk about conditions be-
I lug exaggerated, I think of how I have
seen human beings eating bran, of how
an old woman, the wife of a formerly
prosperous farmer, is in the habit of
coining to my stable and begging per
mission to scrape tlie leavings in the
bin of my horse for sustenance for her
i three caws, of how every mother in
; tills community la delighted to get meat
| hones that have been discarded by
1 more prosperous householders and boil
| them nnd relwii! them until they float
, in tlie hope of extracting particles of
i nourishment. You will he right in say
ing that we have staved off starvation
till now. but Go«l help us if relief
should now fail us.” Oli. my brother
j and sister, could any plea for food be
more pathetic, more urgent, than that?
Human beings compelled to eat bran—
i that food which today joii would re-
I fuse to giv* to your dog. Eating bran
! ami chopped rye straw and the hark of
i tra*s merely to still** tla* awful erav-
i lugs of hunger, and yet not aide to even
1 get enough of that!
i .Starving Finland is stretching her
1 arms across tin* Atlantic, appealing for
brand from Christian America. Dare
Wl, call We, refuse to heed tlie cry?
Dan? we, shall we, stop our ears to this
I go *pel call? Remember that solemn
«Iu »st!on of the apostle, •*!!«* that hath
; this world's goods and sooth Ids broth-
*r have need arid shuttoth up his com
panion from him. how d\\*-l!cth the
lo**e of God lu him?*’ As you love your
children, think yf those children that
ar» starving; as you love your wife,
think of those wives ami mothers and
i sisters who are now tottering ii|hhi tlie
i brink of the grave because they have
nothing to cat! May God l**ad you to
s**o your duty In reference to tills call
which comes from across tlie sens!
Then, to some extent at least, we may
ho able to cancel a part of the national
debt which Christian America ow**s to
the modern “Greeks and to tlie harha-
; riatis.”
JCopyright, 1503, by Louis Klopsch.]
Dooly County ... .
Fair Association
Offers Premiums for Races
JULY 16th.
Open to Dooly County.
TROTTING:
Purse $100. Mile heat, 1} in 5, owner to drive. Owned
since May l. Entries close June 1. Entrance fee $5.
$■> additional unless more than Jive enter.
RUNNING:
Purse $J~>. Half mile heals, il in ti. Entrance fee $2.50,
Entries close July 1.
MUUE RACE—Running:
Purse $ll). Half mile heals, 2 in S. Entrance fee $1.00.
Enter Now.
Ear further information apply to
J. O. HAMILTON, Secretary.
Ollier races or allraelions will be hehl.
TO THE TRADING PUBLIC:
In eominy to town please make my store, near the A, &
B. depot, your heudt/uar/ers, where, yon will always find a
nice and fresh line of—-
FAMILY AND FANCY GROCERIES.
with prices ever riyhl. Iliylust /wires paid for country
produce. I solicit the city as well as the country trade.
Come, loser me. Yours for business,
J. B. FOREHAND, Prop’r.
Vienna, Georgia.
MONEY LOANED ON CITY PROPERTY.
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