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CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, UA„ FRIDAY* MARCH IK), LSDL
NO. I a.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R R.
JUSTICE COURTS.
Samuel Spencer, F. W. Htiidekoper j
and Ruben Foster, Receivers.
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REV. ]>R. TAIMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN OIVIXK’S SUN
DAY SERMON,
Subject:
‘From Conquest to Con
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sey, J. P. ; J. B. Robertson, N. P.
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Drains ami brawn make a rombiua-
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GENERAL 1)1 R ECTOR V.
Yoiuth Lodge, F. k A. M , No. 882.
CLEVELAND, <JA.
Monthly communications fourth Sat-
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.T. C. Bell, S. W.
d. I). Conley, J. W.
.1. J. Kimsey, S. D.
A. M. Dean, Trend.
S. L. Brown, J. D.
J. \V. H. Underwood, See.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Baptist—Services every third Sun
day an.l Saturday before- 11 o’clock
a. in. Sunday school every Sunday
morning— 9 o’clock n. m. All are in-
vited to attend, especially non-church
members.
John J. Kimsev, pastor.
Methodist-- Services every fourth
Sunday at 11 o’clock a. in. Sunday
school at t) a. in. All have a cordial
invitation to attend. ITayer meeting
nt the church every Wednesday even
ing at 7 o’clock.
W. If. Simmons. Pastor.
Schedule of Arrhnl and Departure of
Cleveland Mails.
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Blairsvilie, “ “ 7 oiu.
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JXO. R. GLEN, P. M.
JUDICIARY.
J, C. Wellborn, Judge S. (’.
How ard Thompson, Solicitor.
Court convenes second Monday iu
April and October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
\V. B. Bell, Ordinary.
S. L. Brown, Sheriff.
W. R. Power, Clerk S. C.
S. N. Black. Tax Collector.
J. M. Chapman, Treasurer.
C. L. Fr.anh.lin, Tax Receiver
J. W. Fain, Surveyor
G. N. Colley, Coroner.
R. T. Keniher, A. P.William
11*>n Coolsv, Countv Commissions
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The Aiken, S. (’., Comity, Town
and Savings bank Inis been closed by
un injunction granted to Godfrey
Wheeler, who asks for a rect ivership.
Governor Jones, of Alabama, has
appointed ex-Chiof Justice R. (’.
Rrickell ns successor to tin* late Chief
Justcie Stone, on the Hupreim* bench.
A dispatch from Bristol, Trim.,says:
The Abingdon and Damascus railroad
has been sold at public auction to sat
isfy a debt to Air. Fortuue,contractor,
for $38,000. The road is fifteen miles
long, and though nut finished, has al
ready cost $100,000.
A dispatch from Massihui, Ohio,
says: There seems to bo no danger o'
the soldiers of Coxey’s commonweal
starving. The populists along the
proposed line of march are bestirring
tliemscdvcH. At Alliance, a storeroom
has been set apart ns commissary
headquarters, and this is packed with
an endless variety of eatables.
The Portugese war ships having
Admiral Da Gama and other Bra/,iMan
insurgent refugees on board, have ar
rived at Montevideo. The authorities
representing the government of Uru
guay refused to allow the warship to
enter the quarantine station, and it is
thought probable the Portugese ship*
will now proceed to Buenos Ayres.
Advices from Santamh r state that
the official report on the second dyna
mite explosion gives the number killed
as eighteen, and the injured seven, ol
whom three may die. The authorities,
though convinced that there is no more
dynamite remaining in the hull of the
sunken vessel, have ordered the de
struction of the wreck by means of
petards.
Reports from Comanche,Erath, Wise,
Parker and other Texas counties west
and southwest of Fort Worth, are to
the effect that the heavy frost has r**
suited in serious damage to fruits. I n
many places corn was up and lias been
cut off’. Peaches and other fruit trees
were in bloom, and a serious falling off
in the fruit crop of the Reason is almost
certain.
The Boston Journal says that the
dull times in the paper manufacturing
trade have caused a movement for a
great national combination or pool of
all the mills. The plan is to form a
fixed schedule of prices which all the
members shall observe iu selling their
output. The schedule shall go into
effect the first day of next January.
Every effort is being made to bring the
chief mills into line.
The grand jury of the Herinco
county, Va., court at Richmond, found
a true bill against, James Hallorau,
William Wilson and B. F. Ashby,
judges, and William P. Woodson and
Lee W. Brauer, clerks of election of
Kmithers’ precinct, for allowing and
abetting fraud at the last election -
gubernatorial. They were indicted on
six counts and bailed in the sum of
$500 each to appear at the next term
of the court.
Coxey’s army of commonweal mov
ed out of Massillon Ohio, Sunday on
schedule time. There were perhaps
seventy-five stragglers in line at the
start, and twenty-five less \jhen Can
ton eight miles away was reached.
The weather was pleasant when the
start was made, but the procession
was soon overtaken by a severe snow
storm. This had a depressing tenden
cy, and a number of desertions were
reported before Reeduburn, the first
stop was reached.
A St. Petersburg, Russia, dispatch
says: The minister of the interior
has issued an order that foreign J» ws,
having in their possess ton proper pass
ports must nM lie interfered with by
the police or other authorities. This
order is the result of numerous com
plaints by .Lavs of foreign residence,
that they had L^en expelled or ill-
treated while visiting Russia. The
government has several times before
been asked tu issue such au order, but
hitherto, has refused to do so.
Text: "Behold the clays come, sailh the
Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the
reaper,”—Amos lx,, 13.
Picture of a tropleiil clime, with a Reason
so prosperous that tho harvest reaches clear
over to the planting time, ami tho swarthy
husbandman swinging tho sickle in the thick
grain almost feels the breath of tho horses on
his shoulders, tho horses hitched to tho
plow preparing for n new cion. “Behold
7he days come, saith the Lord,that the plow
man shall overtake the reaper.” When is
that? That Is now. That is this day. when
hardly have you done reaping one harvest
before tho plowman is getting ready for
another.
I know that many declare that Christianity
has collapsed ; that the Biblo is an obsolete
book ; that tho Christian church is on the
retreat. I will here an t now show that tho
opposite of that is true.
An Arab guide was leading a l’retieh in
fidel across a desert, and ever and anon the
Arab guide would get down in tho sand and
bray to the Lord. R disgusted tho French
Infidel, and after awhile as the Arab got up
from one of his prayers tho infidel said.
"How do you know thorn is any God?” and
tho Arab guide said : “lfow do I know that
a man and a camel passed along our tent hist
night? I know it by the footprints in tho
sand. And you want to know how I know
Whether there G any God? Look at that
sunset. Is that tho footstep of a man?” And
bv the same process you and I have come t<»
tindorstaiid that this book is ttio footstep of
a Hod.
But now let us see whether the Bible is a
last year’s almanac, l.ot us see whether tho
church of God is in a Bull Bun retreat,
muskets, canteens and haversacks strewing
all the way. The great English historian,
Bhnron Turner, a man of vast learning and
of great accuracy, not a clergyman, but an
attorney as well as a historian, gives this
overwhelming statistic in regard to Chris
tianity and in regard to the number of Chris
tians in the different centuries : In tho first
century, 500.000 Christians? in the second
century, 2,000.000 Christians : in tho third
century, 5,000,000 Christians: in the fourth
century, 10,000.000 Christians | in the tilth
century, 15.000.000 Christians : in the sixth
century, 20.000.000 Christians ; in the seventh
century, 24.000.000 Christians ; in tho eighth
ochtuiy, 80.000,000 Christians; in tho
ninth eenltiry, 40,000.000 Christians; in tho J
tenth century. 50,000,000 Christians ; ill
the eleventh century, 70,000,000 Christians:
ill tho twelfth century. 80,000.000 Christians;
in tho thirteenth century, 75.000,000 Chrlflt-
lahstihlho fourteenth century, 80.000.000
Christians ; in tho IHteeuth century, 100,-
( 00,000 Chrislinhs: in tho sixteenth cou
nty, 125,000,000 Christians; in tho seven
teenth century, 155.000,000 ; in tho eight
eenth century. 200.000,000 Christians- a de
cadence, as yolt observe, in only one century
and more than made tip in tho following cen
turies, while it is tin usual compu
tation that there will be, when tho
kocord of the nineteenth century is mado up.
nt least 300,000,000;chrtstlum«.
Poor Christianity ! What a pity it has no
friends ! How lonesome it must bo ! Who
will take it out of the poorhouseV Poor
Christianity ! Three hundred millions iu one
century. In a few weeks of tho year 18H1
2,500,000 conies of tho New Testament dis
tributed. Why, the earth is lilco an old cas
tle with twenty gates and a park artillery
ready to thunder down overy gate. Lay
aside all Christendom and see how heathen
dom is being surrounded and honeycombed
and attacked by this all conquering go3pol.
At the Loginning of this century there wore
only 150 missionaries ; now there are 25,000
missionaries and native helpers and evang
elist r<, At fhe beginning of this century
1 here were only 50,000 heathen converts -, now
♦ hero are 1,750.000 converts from heathen
dom.
There Is not rt seuconM on the planet but
the battery ofthegospcl is planted and ready
to march on- north, south, east, w«*st. You
all know that the chief work of an army is to
plant the batteries. It may take many days
to plant Ibe batteries, aud they may do all
their work in ten minutes. These batteries
are being planted all along (ho seucoasts and
In nil nations, ft may take a good white to
plant them, and they may do all thnlr work
in one day. They will. Nations are 1o he
born In one day. But just couio back to
Christendom and recognize the fact that
fluring the lust ten years as many people
have connected themselves with evangelical
churches ns connected themselves with the
churches Jn tho first fifty years of this cen
tury.
Bo Christianity is falling back, and tho
Bible, they say, is becoming un obsolete
book. I go Into a court, and wherever I
find a judge’s bench ora clerk’s desk I find
u Bible. Upon what book could there tie
uttered the solemnity of an oath? What
book is apt to bo put in tho trunk of tho
young man ns he leaves for city lifoV Tho
Bible. What shall I find in nine out of every
ten homes in Brooklyn? Tho Biblo, In nine
out oT every ten homes In Christendom? Tho
Bible. Voltaire wrote the prophecy that tho
Biblo in the nineteenth century would be
come extinct. The century is nearly gone,
and ns there have been more Bibles pub
lished in the latter part of tho century than
in tho former part of the century, <io you
think the Bible will become extinct In tho
uoxt six years?
I have to tell you (that tho room in which
Voltaire wrote that prophecy not long ago
■was crowded from floor to celling with
Bibles from Switzerland. Suppose the Con
gress of the United .States should pass a law
that there should bo no more Bibles printed
in America and no more Bibles read. If
there are 40,000,000 grown people in the
United States, there would bo 40,000,000 peo
ple in an army to put down such a law and
defend their right to read the Bible. But
suppose the Congress of the United States
should make a iaw against the reading or
the publication of any other book, how many
people would go out in such a crusade?
Could you get 400,000,000 people to go out
nnd risk their lives in defense of Shake
speare's tragedies or Gladstone’s tracts or
Macaulay’s “History of England?” You
know thut there are 1000 men who would
die in defense of this book where there is
not more than one man who would die in
defense of any other book. You try to in
sult my common sense by telling me the
Biblo is failing out from the world.
It is the most popular book of the century,
flow do I know it? I know it just as I know
in regard to other books. How many vol
umes of that book are published? Well, you
aay, 5000. How many -copies of that book
are published? A "hundred thousand.
Which is the more popular? Why. of course
the one that has 101.000 circulation. And if
this book has more copies abroad in the
world, if there are five times as many Bibles
abroad as any other hook, does not that
ehowyou that the most popular hook on the
planet to-day is the word of God ;
“Ob,” say people, “the church is a collec
tion of hypocrites, und It is losing its power,
nod It is lading out from the world. ’ Is it?
A bishop of the Methodist church told me
that that denomination averages two new
churches every day ol the year. There are
m least 1500 new Christian churches built in
America every year. Doe.Vthat look although
iha church wore fading out, as loough it
were a defunct institution? Which institu
tion stands nearest the, hearts of the people
of America to-duy? J -to not cure in what
village, or in what city, or what neighbor
hood you go. Which institution is it? Is It
the post office? is it the hotel? Is it the
lecturing hull? Ah, >ou know it is not. You
Lnow that the institution '/hi<.h stands uear-
e§t to the hearts of the American people is
the Christian church, if you have over seen
a church burn down, you have seen thou
sands of people standing and looking at it
—people who never go Into g chijreh—the
tears raining down their oheekfl. Tho whole
story Is told.
You may talk about the church being a
collection of hyrocrltos. hut when tho diph
theria sweeps your children off whom do
you send for? Tho postmaster, the attorney-
genera), tho hotel-keeper, nldormnn? No;
you send for a minister of this Bible roglon.
And if you have not a room In your house
for the obsequies, what building do you so
licit? Do you any, ''Give mo tho fiuost room
in ti e hotel?” Do you say, “Give mo that
theatre?” Do you asy, “Give mo a place In
that publb, building, where I can lay my
dead for a llttlo while uuttl wo say a prayer
over it?” No. You say, “Give us tlio house
of God.”
And if thorn is a song to bo sung at the
obsequies, wlmt do you want? What does
anybody want? “Tho Marseillaise” hymn?
“God Rave the Queen?” Our own grand
national air? No. They want the hymn
with which they sang their old Christian
mother into her last sloop, or they want sung
tho Sabbath school hymn which their little
girl sang tho lost Sabbath afternoon sho was
out before she got that awful sickness which
broke your heart, f appeal to your common
sense. You know tho most endoaring in
stitution on earth, tho most popular Institu
tion on earth to-day is tho church or the
Lord .Tesus Christ.
Tho infidels say. “Infidelity shows its suc
cesses from the fact that it is everywhere
accepted, and It can nay what it will.” Why?
my friends, infidelity is not half so blatniit
in our days ns it was in the days of our
fathers. Do you knowtlmt in tho days of our
fathers there wero pronounced intldolg In
public authority and they could get any
political position? Let a man to-day declare
himself antagonistic to the Christian re
ligion, and wlmt city wants him for mayor,
what Stato wants him for governor, what
nation wants him for president or for king?
Let a man openly proclaim himself tho
enemy of our glorious Christianity, and ho
cannot get a majority of votes In any State,
in any city, In any county, in any ward of
America.
Do you think that such a scene could be
on.netoil now u8 was Guuotod iu tho days of
Itobespiorre, when a shameless woman was
elevated as a goddess and was carried in a
golden elmir to a cathedra), where Incense
was burned to her and people bowed down
boforo her ns a divine being, sho talcing the
phi *o of the. Bible and Gol Almighty, while
in tho corridor of that cathedral were en
acted such scenes of drunkenness and de
bauchery and obscenity ns 1ms never been
witnessed? Do you believe such a thing
could possibly occur in Christendom to-day?
No, sir I Tho police, whether of i’uris or
Now York, won 1*1 swoop on it,
1 kuovV infidelity makes a good deal of
talk In our day. If is on the principle that
ir a man jump ovorboard from a Cuuahl
Mourner lie makes more excitement than all
the 500 people that stay on tho docks. But
the fuel that lie jumps overboard- does (hat
stop the^hlp? Does that Wreck tho 500
passengers? It makes great excitement
when a man jumps from the lecturing plat
form or from the pulpit id fidelity, but does
that keep the Biblo and tho (JliUrclt from
Carrying tlicit millions of passengers into
the skies?
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Drill of tiie South’s Progress and Pros-
have utterly exhausted their ammunition tn
tho battlo against tho church and against
tho Scriptures, while tho sword of tho Lord
Almighty Is ns keen ns it over was. Wo arc
just getting our troops Into line. They are
coming up in companies, and in regiments,
nnd In brigades, nnd yon will hear a shout
after awhile that will make the earth quake
and the heavens ring with “Alleluia !" It
will bo this, “Forward, the whole line !”
And then I find another most encouraging
thought in tho fact that tho secular printing
press nnd pulpit scorn harnessed in the same
team for tho proclamation of tho gospel.
Every Wall street banker to-morrow in New
York, every Stnte street banker to-morrow ! , . . .... . ,
in Boston, every Third street banker to-mor- j 11 federal court nt Ririniuglifun,
row iu Philadelphia, overy banker tn tho : Ala,, Judge Brueo granted tho motion
tTnltml St.-ilos, niul ovnry morohnnt will buys | „f (] 10 district attorney to ihsehnrge
II n|) |k<ii in pi or In (crest Portrajoit In
I’itlif I’ninifinplis.
in bis pocket a treatise on Christianity, a i u, „ .• i , t .. .. i
call to * repent cnee, ten, twenty or thirty ; < ledernl jury box on the ground
passages of Sarinture in tho reports ot ses- I that it had been irregularly drawn.
slon proaohod throughout those cities
throughout the land to-day. It will ho so In
Chicago, so in New Orleans, so in Charles
ton, so In Boston, ho in l’hlludolphla, so
everywhere.
I know tho tract societies arc doing a
grand aud glorious work, but I .tell youthen
ts no power on earth to-day equal lo the
fact that tho American printing proas {stak
ing up tho sermons which ara proaohod to a
few hundred or a few thousand people und
on Monday morning und Monday evening, in
tho morning an 1 evening papers, sectoring
that truth to tho millions. What u thought
it is ! Wlmt Jiu encouragement for every
Christian man :
Besides that, have you noticed that during
tho past few years every one of the doctrines
of the Bible came under discussion in
the secular press? Do you not remember
a few years ago, when every paper iu the
United .States had all editorial on the sub
ject, “Is There Such a Thing as Future Pun
ishment?” ft was the strangest thing that
there should bo a discussion in tho
Tho court ordered a now jury box to
bo tilled. Ho Raid ho did not know
; whether ho would Hummon a now grand
| jury or not.
A suit somewhat out of tho regular
order of anch ji Hairs has boon entered
j in the Chattanooga courts. It is a suit
| by the Etowah Mining Company, of
I Eli)wall county, Alabama, to compel
i tho Peeples estate and others to pnr-
1 chase the property of the company jis
j per the valuation set upon it by tho
; company.
Three thousand negroes attended ji
I slate convention ul Birmingham, A hi.,
| to consider the question of emigration
to Africa. Resolutions were adopted
to the effect that, as the white men
ulac j brought tho negroes to America, they
ought to pay their fare back to their
native land. Bishop Turner was pres
ent and advocated emigration.
A Memphis dispatch says: That anc
hor of other members of tho combine
are under indictment.
Judge Himoiiton has filed a decree at
Charleston, S. C., dismissing tho com
plaint of the Richmond niul Danville
railroad. Tin’s suit was similar to tho
other railroad tax eases heretofore de
cided. In ouch ease tho roads claimod
that their property was over assessed
for taxation. They paid the amount
of tuxes on what they considered a fair
assessment, and then brought suit
against the county sheriffs and treasu
rers to restrain them from collecting
the remainder of tho taxes. Judge
Simonton decides Hint tho railroads
have no remedy at law against tho al
leged over assessment.
ST. LOUIS BANKS SWINDLED.
pa pars on t hat flubjaet, but every papur
tho United States and in (flu* 1st cm do in dis
cussed. “Is There Such a Thing jir Botribu-
tion?” 1 know there worn small wits who
made sport of the discussion, bill 1hero was
KfflLMSiM i k o,, L '«».*>• r-v*
the question, “What is going to he my
nal destiny?” So it was in regard to Tyi
They aay, those men, that aoloiwo Is ovor-
oming religion in our day. They look
through tho spectacles of tho infidol sulon-
ti.sts, and they any: “It is impossible that
this book nan be true. People are finding it
out. The Bible has got to go ovorboard.
Hcienon is going to throw it overboard.” Do
you believe tlmt the Bible aoeount of tho
origin of life will bo overthrown by infidel
scientists who have fifty different theories
about the origin of life?. fj^oy should come
up Im solid phalanx, all agreeing upon one
sentiment undone theory, peihsps Christian
ity might bo damaged, but there nvo not so
many dlfferenoos of opinion Inside tho
church as outside the church.
People used to say, “Ttooro are so many
different denominations of Christians—tlmt
shows there is nothing in religion.” I have
to toll you that all denominations agree on
the two or throe or four radical doctrines of
the Christ ian religion. They are unanimous
in regard to Jesus Christ, and they are
unanimous iu regard to fjie divinity of the
Joriptiirea, How is it»oil the Other side?
All split up you cannot' Hud two of them
alike. Ob, it makes mo sick to ace these lit
entry fops gding along wi Ii ft copy of Dar
win under One arm nitd a case bf transfixed
grasshoppers and InlUerfUes under tho other
arm, telling about the “survival of tho fit-
tent,” and Huxley’s protoplasm, and tho
nebular hypothesis.
Tho fact is that some naturalists just, as
soon as they find out tho (llffereiaco between
tho feelers of u wasp and the horns of a beetle
begin to patronize the Almighty, while Agus-
siz, glorious Agassiz, who never made any
pretensions to being a Christian, puts both
nls feci on the doctrine of evolution and
says, “l see that many of tho naturalists of
our day are adopting facts which do not
bear observation or have not passed under
observation.” These men warring against
each oilier—Darwin warring against La-
nmrehe, Wallace warring against Cope, oven
ilorsehel denouncing Ferguson.
They do not agree about anything. They
do not agree on embryology,‘do not agree
on tho gradation of the species. What do
they agree on? Heraohol writes a whole
chapter on the errors of astronomy. La
Place declares I list tho moon was not nut in
the right place. He says that if It had boon
put four times furl her from the earth than It
is now there would be more harmony iu the
universe, but Lionvillo comes up just in time
to prove that tho moon was put in the right
place.
How many colors woven into tho light?
Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says
David Brewster. How high is tho aurora
borealis? Two and a half miles, says Idas.
One hundred nnd sixty-eight miles, says
Twining. Ifow far Js the sun from the earth?
Hevonty-six million miles, says Lacaile.
Eighty-two million miles, says Iliunboldt.
Ninety million miles, says Henderson. One
hundred and four million miles, says Mayor
only a little difference of 28,000,000 miles !
All split up among themselves -not agreeing
on anything. They come nnd say that the
churches of Jesus Christ are divided on the
great doctrines. Alt united they are, in
Jesus Christ, iji tho divinity of tho Scrip
tures. While they come up and propose to
render their verdict, no two of tnom agree
on that verdict.
“Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed
on a verdict?” asks tho court or tho clerk of
tho jury ns they come in after having spent
tho whole night in deliberating. Jf thejury
says, “Yes, we have agreed,” the verdict Is
recorded, but suppose one of the jurymen
says, “I think the man was guilty of mur
der,’ another says, “I think he was guilty of
manslaughter in the second degree,” and
another man says, “I think he was guilty of
assault aud battery, with intent to kill,” the
judge would say : “Go back to your room
and bring iu a verdict. Agree on something.
That is no verdict.”
Here these infidel scientists have impan
eled themselves as a jury to decide this trial
prayer gauge.
AboJil twelve years ago, you remember,
the secular papers discussed that, and with
just as muon oarnestuess as tho religious
papers, aud there was not a man In Christen-
lom who did not ask himself the question :
•Is there unythtng in prayer? May tho
ireaturo impress tho Creator?” Oh, wlmt a
mighty fact, what a glorious fad- tho secu
lar printing press and the pulpit of tho
Ixm-li of Jesus Christ harnessed In the same
team !
Then look at (ho International series of
Sunday-school lessons, Do you know tlmt
oVery Sabbath, between 3 aud 5 o’clock, there
are 5,000,000 children studying the same les
son a lesson prepared by the leading minds
of the country and printed in the papers
and tlicit those Rilbjoots are discussed and
given Over to the teachers, Who give them
over I o thoehlldrou? Ro, whereas, once, aud
within our memory, the children nibbled
hero and there at a Morv in tho Bible, now
they nro taken through from Genesis to lte-
volaliou, and we shall have 5,000,000 chil
dren forestalled for Christianity. My soul is
full of exultation. I feel as If 1 could shout
I will shouj, “Alleluia, the Lord God om
nipotent rolgnoth!”
Then you notice a more significant fact? if
you have talked with people on tho subject,
tlmt they are getting dissatisfied With
philosophy and science as a matter of
comfort. They say it does not amount to
anything when you lmvo a dead child in the
house. They will tell you, when they were
sick and tho door of the future seemed
opening, tho only comfort they could find
was in tho Gospel. People are having
demonstrated all over tho land tlmt science
and philosophy cannot solaeo tho trouble
and woos of the world, and they want some
other religion, and they are taking Chris
tianity, the only sympathetic religion that
ever came into the world.
“Now, there arc acme men who say they
ijuvo never soou Christ crowned in the heart,
and they do not Relieve it is overdone. There
is r group of melt who say thoy have uever
hoard the voice of Christ; they lmvo never
heard tho voice of God. They do not belioyu
it ever transpired or was ever hom'd- that
anything like it over occurred. I point 1 a
20,000,000 or 1,000,000 people who say,
“Christ was crowned in our heart s’ affec
tions ; wo lmvo seen Him and felt Him in our
souls, and wo have hoard IBs ’oico ; wo have
heard it iu storm and darkless: we have
hoard it again and again.” Whoso testimony
will you take? These men who say they
have not heard the voice, lmvo not sc *n the
coronation, or will yon take tho thousands
and millions of Christians who testify of
what t hey sa w with thoir own eyes and hoard
with thoir own oars?
Yondor is an aged Christian sifter fifty
yours’ experience of tho power of godliness
in his soul. Ask this man whether, when ho
burled Ids dead, the religion of Jesus Christ
was not a consolation. Ask him if through
the long years of Ills pilgrimage the Lord
oyer forsook him. Ask him if, whoi ho looks
forward to the future, If ho has not ji nouee
and a joy, and ji consolation tho world can
not take uwny. Put this testimony of wlmt
he 1ms seen und what ho has folt opposite to
the testimony of ji mail who says ho has not
seen anything on the subject or felt anything
on i ho subject. Will you take the testimony
of people who have liot seen or people who
have seen?
You say morphia puls oue to sleep. You
say in time ot sickness it is very useful. 1
deny It. Morphia never puts anybody lo
sleep; It never alleviates pain. You ask
me why I say that. I lmvo never
tried it. J. never took It. 1 deny
that morphia is any soothing to the
nerves or any qujet In time of sickness. 1
deny that morphia ever put anvbody t»»
sleep, but hero are twenty persons who say
thoy lmvo all folt tho soothing effects of a
physician’s proscribing morphine. Whose
testimony will you take? Those who tooii
tho medicine or my testimony, I never hav
ing taken the medicine? Here is the Gospel
of Jesus Christ, an anodyne for all trouble,
tho mightiest modicino that ever came down
to earth. Here is a man who says: “i
don’t believe in it. There is no power in if.”
Here are other people who say : “We have
found out its power and know its soothing
influence. It has cured ns.” Whose testi
mony will you take iu regard to this healing
medicine.
I feel that J lmvo convinced every man in
this house that it is utter folly to take the
testimony of those who have never tried the
Gospel of Jesus Christ in their own heart and
life. We have tons of thousands ot wit
nesses. t bellovo you are ready to take their
testimony. Young mail, do not be ashamed
to be u friend of tlio Bible. I)o not put your
thumb in your vest, as young men sometimes
do, and swagger about talking of the glori
ous light of the nineteenth century and ot
there being no need of u Bible. They have
tlio l iver proHontH tho nppoariinc
Yrtfit inland non. Tlio Htcady downpour
of rain Iiiih flooded tlio whole country.
BridgOH have boon swept nway and
farm IjiikIh inundated. The damage
will mu up into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The railroads
lmvo been the greatest Biifferers.
The street ear lines of Savannah are
in the midst of a rate war. The City
and Suburban railway has made a oui
! of 3 emits. The Electric Railway Com-
i puny say they will not meet the cut.
I Sometime ago negotiations worepend-
; ing for ji eonsolidntion. They were
! culled off, however, and it is thought
the cut was made to try und force tho
: eleeiric railway people to terms,
i On a petition of the Birmingham,
: Ala., Trust and Savings Gompany, as
! trustee for t he majority of bondholders
i of The Age-Herald Company, tho latter
! corporation lias been, by a decree of
l court, placed in the hands of Frank V.
Evans, ns receiver. The paper will
i eontinuo to be published regularly
! with Mr, Evans in direct control ot its
j editorial policy and business affairs.
The Howard Harrison pipe works,
! of the Birmingham, Ala., district,
| has made the first shipment to Phila-
I dolphin, Fa., on a contract recently
, M llIU i lullMI „ ! made by them with the city council of
1 they want some | Philadelphia lor .10(1,000 tons of iron
pipe. The pipe is to be used for water
mains. Iron men of (lie district are
glorifying over Ujo fact that Philadel
phia is buying her pipe from Birming
ham.
A Lexington, Ky., dispatch says:
Major Horace Means, who is one of
the lenders of Colonel Breckinridge’s
political opponents, declares that a
wealthy widow residing in Washington
went to Mr. Wilson at the time Miss
Pollard was begging him to take her
suit, and told him to go ahead with tho
euse and that she would back Miss
Pollard to the amount of live.thousand
dollars.
A publication signed by a number of
prominent prohibitionists of Jackson,
Miss., has been issued to tho friends of
prohibition in Hinds county, asking
for a local option election to determine
whether the liquor traffic in that county
shall be any longer allowed. Petitions
are now being circulated for signers.
It, takes ji petition of one-tliird of the
qualified electors before the board of
supervisors can order such election.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Governor Tillman has returned from
Washington. He denies emphatically
that his visit had any political signifi
cance, but said that he had become
tired of having conflicts of authority
between the United States revenue of
ficers nnd the state in the matter of
seizing nnd handling contraband liq
uors. Unsays that he and Commis
sioner Miller had a clear understand
ing, and that the matter was satisfac
torily adjusted.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
Colonel D. S. Troy, one of the most
prominent politicians, one of tho most
successful business men and one of tho
foremost lawyers of the state, has cre
ated something of a sensation in Ala-
! bama politics by stating to a reporter
' of The Monfffomer-jj Journal in no un
equivocal language that he does not
1 nee how it is possible for the demoo-
racy «>1’ the state to conscientiously
j endorse the administration of Air.
! Cleveland.
fhe initial step has been taken at
Three (’lever Forgeries in Which
About $200,000 Was Secured.
Well matured plans to swindle St.
Louis banks were executed the past
week by three clever forgers. A dozen
banks were victimized, the amount se
cured aggregating $200,000. Tho
swindlers by some means secured
copies of bank checks used by firms
and individuals,even copying iu rod the
serial numbers used by the firms.
These numbers were obtained by a
smooth young man who claimed to
represent tin* house doing tho print
ing for the firm. He would ask the
business house cashier to see his
book, saying there was some de
fect in the printing that, ho wished to
correct if the firm desired. Tn every
instance he was successful in getting n
look at tho last stub in a partly used
check book and noted the serial num
ber. The forged paper would be made
out a few numbers in advance of tlio
cheek books. Even the minutest char
acteristics of individuals in thoir sig
natures wore closely followed. Ho well
was the work done that not ono of tho
forged checks was rejected. The offi
cials of tho different hanks refuse any
information on tho matter, but it is
known that, ji detective agency is at
work on the case.
BRECKENRIDGE’S DEFENSE
Is Looked Upon by His Washington
Col tongues as Very Weak,
A Washington special aays: Mr,
Breekenridge’s defense ns mado before
the jury is looked upon iu this city as
a very weak one. The idea of a man
who Iiah seen as much of tho world as
ho has, being led astray by a young
girl ih looked upon as absurd. Iiis
colleagues in congress are thoroughly
disgusted with the man. Whether
Miss Pollard wins her case or not, Mr.
Breckeuridge has forever lost cast wit h
his colleagues in the house. They arc
almost sure to exhibit their contempt
for him iu some manner the first timo
he shows himself on the floor.
In his troubles there is one person
who is however, standing closely by
him, ami who believes him guilty of
no great wrong. Mrs. Breckinridge is
as faithful to him as wife was ever to
husband. Blie is at Washington with
him nt his residence. Him will believe
no wrong of him, and her friends in
dignautly deny that she has over
thought of applying for a divorce.
Mrs. Breckinridge is a woman of
culture and suino wealth, and she is
devoted Lo her husband. No mattor
what is proven on him in the trial,* her
friends say nothing could drive her
from colonel Breckinridge.
DEMOLISHED BY DYNAMITE,
Works of (lie Acme Powder Co. Blow
lip, Killing Six People.
The dynamite works of the Acme
Powder Gompany, at Black’s run, four
teen miles above Pittsburg, Pa., on the
Allegheny Valley railroad, blew up,
killing two men and throe women,
wrecking houses at Acmetonia on tho
opposite side of the river; at Hutton,
two miles south, and at Johnston sta
tion, a short distance'east. The only
person about tin* powder plant who
survives is Superintendent James Moo-
ney. Mooney’s logs were shattered,
and will probably have to be amputa
ted. The principal* owner of tho
plant estimates his loss at $15,000.
Five tons of dynamite were stored in
tho building, ready for shipment., and
it all went, in the explosion.
Affairs hi Nicaragua.
A special from New Orleans says:
The condition in Bluefields, Nicaragua,
is as unsettled as ever. The English
are still in control of tho police pro
tection of the city, and, in fact, iu
practical control of the entire reserva
tion. Lacay remains at Bluefields and
refuses to vacate. But his position is
not recognized aud Americans continue
to ignore his demand upon them for
payment of shipping dues.
Li I to Lecture.
An Indianapolis dispatch says: Jf
Dr. J. A. Houser is to be believed, the
Birmingham toward the organization deposed queen of tho Sandwich islands
of the Daughters of Confederate Vote- I will soon be going around tlie country
Duughtr
Tho ladies
»f the
between inliuoitty. tno piuintitr, ana unrig- j i\ lQ light 0 f nature in Infflaamt China and in
tianity, the defendant, and after being out (l u the dark places on earth. Did you ever
I for centuries they come in to render their ] hear that the light of nature gave them com-
j verdict. Gentlemen of the jury, have yoti ( f 0r t for their trouble? They have Jiuj-***t3 to
‘ agreed on a verdict? No, no. Then go back j cu t and juggernauts to crush, but no com-
I for another 500 years aud deliberate and | f or f. Ah, my friends, you bad better stop
: agree on something. There is not a poor, your skepticism. Suppose you are put in
| miserable wretch in the Tombs coarl to-mor- (|,| 8 <. t -iufs : Oh, father, your child is dying.
row that could bo condemned by a jury that . What are you going to say to her?
j did not agree on the verdict, aud yet you ex- | Colonel Ethan Alton was a fatuous infidel
' p. : t jis to give lip our glorious Ohrisrtunlty 1 j u his day. His wife was a very consecrated
to please theao men who cunuot Jigree oa
| anything.
! Ah, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ.
' instead of fulling back, (sou the advance! t
! am certain li is on theadvanco. O Lord God,
1 take Thy sword Horn 'thy tlilgh and ride
• iorth to the victory !
• J urn mightily encouraged because I find
I among Other things thut while this Glirls-
, liunily tins been bombarded for centuries In-
j ddellty has not destroyed ono church, or
I crippled oue minister, or uprooted one verse
I of one chapter of all the Bible. The church
taking ran* of tho veterans who will |
ul tend the reunion in April when it i
was suggested that th’fty call them- 1
.-.f'lvo.s the daughters of the Confeder- !
utc Wit-mne. From this the idea of j
organizing a national association with
lliin name grew with favor until it wan j
resolved that btepH be taken to organ- !
i/e Biudi an uj-soeiation during the re- ;
ity met for j with him on a lecturing tour, wear-
in the same royal robes which she wore
on state occasions nt Honolulu. He made
au offer to her majesty six weeks ago,and
says he has received letters which show
his offer will be accepted.
WOinnn. Tho mother instructed Hie daugh
ter lri tho irutUa of Christianity. Thoduugii-
ter sickened and was about to die, aud she | UII j 0l , j u April
said to her father: “Father, shall I take |
your luatriicliou, or shall 1 take mother's in
struction? 1 urn going to die now. 1 must
have this matter decided.” That man who
lntd been loud In bis infidelity, said to his
dying daughter. My dour, you had hotter
take your mother s religion.” My advice is
the same lo you—oh. young man, you had
better rake your mother’s religion. You
know how it comforted her. You know
.11 the time getting the victory, and the shot j what she said to you when she was dying,
ini shed ot it* enemies nearly exhausted. You had better take your mother's rel.'gion. | cumbiue bundled exclusively the out-
1 lmve been examining their ammunition j — . pu t of sixteen mines. The judge de-
Tlie sprinx, or bundle of reed pipes, ( .j ( ( (1( j thut Overton was guilty
At Nashville, Tenu., Judge Ander
son has decided the case of J. M.
Overton, under indictment for misde-
ju'-anor in entering into tho cou! coin-
, bim*. The ease was decided upon an
1 agreed statement of facts to the effect
tliat the defendant had entered into
the contract as charged, and thut the
Gold in Virginia.
Two valuable veins of gold-bearing
quartz, assaying ou the surface from
S'J to $12.00 per ton, have been dis
covered in Louisiana county, Va. It
i's said ibul New York capitalists, who
own the propel ty, have organized a
syndicate to buy up all the adjoining
land.
lately. I have looked all through thoir
•artridge boxes. They have not in the last
• ■iirinuKM vuacb. xuoyaaveuut iu me mn . - , , ,■ ... l....
{.twenty years advanced one new idea, They 118 the prototype ot the bagpipe.
charged, and fined him $‘250, A uiim-
Decided Against Waite.
A special from Denver, Col., says:
The supreme court has handed down a
written reply to the question propound
ed by Gov. Waite as to who are the le
gal members of the lire and police
board. The decision was substantial
ly against the governor.