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VOL. X.
PM CROWDS
In Attendence on the Taberna
cle Meeting.
STIRRING SERMONS PREACHED,
Amt all Kinds of Sin Most Fearfully
Excoriated.
The Ball Room Denounced.
The Frailties of the Weaker Sex Come
in for Criticism.
The Two Cent Call* Fashionable Women
Make.
The Tabernacle meeting is in
full bloom.
It is being largely attended. Im
mense crowds are every day at the
Tabernacle and the splendid servi
ces are much enjoyed.
Sunday was the opening day and
vast crowds attended each meeting.
Excursion trains were run to the
city from Rome, Atlanta and Ce
dartown, each one being well load
ed. Besides these there were an
unusually large number of people
from the country, coming in on foot,
horseback, in wagons, buggies and
carriages. For the first day the
crowd was exceptionally large.
l)r. Sullins, of Cleveland, Tenn.,
and Rev. J. 11. Culpepper have had
charge of the meeting up to the
time of the arrival of Rev. Sam P.
Jones. The sermons of the former
were marvels of power and elo
quence and they carry with them
conviction to the hearts of many.
It is seldom that an audience has
the good fortune to listen to such
preaching. Nothing can be more
beautiful than the thoughts of this
great and good man as lie soars to
heights sublime and are always
couched in the purest and most
elegant language. Dr. Sullins is a
favorite with our people and it can
lie relied on that when he is to
make an address here he will have
a large and attentive audience.
Mr. Culpepper is the possessor of
an unique and interesting style. In
his make up he has a great deal in
him that reminds one of our own
Sam Jones. lie is both humorous
and pathetic and seems always ter
ribly in earnest. He excoriates
right and left and his awful anathe
mas make the strongest and most
hardened quail. Whenever it is
announced that he is to preach a
large crowd congregates under the
Tabernacle.
Four services are held each day.
Every morning at sunrise a goodly
number of the faithful assemble at
the Tabernacle and engage in
prayer. The other services are at
10:30 in the morning, at 3 o’clock in
the afternoon and 7:30 at night.
One of the most interesting fea
tures of the services is the music,
which excels anything of the kind
ever listened to at similar meetings.
One hundred of our most talented
singers compose the splendid choir
and the grand hymns are sung with
much feeling and harmony. Mr.
Lemuel Gilreath, of this city, ac
ted as director of the choir for the
first two days, in widen position he
acquitted himself most admirably,
Since the arrival of Prof. Excell,
the noted vocalist, the audiences
have had some magnificent treats.
The instrumental accompaniments
are the cornet, piano, and organ, Mr
Clarence Blosser playing the former,
while Mrs. J. 15. Mays presides at
the piano and Miss Nannie H&mi
ter at the organ.
At the opening service- the vast
Tabernacle began filling long be
fore the hour for the services to be
gin and when the time did come
the few vacant seats in the two re
motest corners told that interest
which had for some time been cen
tering in these meetings had result
ed in the bringing together of a
great mass of humanity intent on
not missing a single one of the
services.
The choir rendered several sweet
and inspiring hymns splendidly,
when Dr. Sullins arose and an
nounced his text, 4th chapter and
fitli verse of Zachariah: “Not by
might or power, but by my spirit.”
One could see by the seriousness
with which the speaker scanned
the faces in the great assemblage
before him that he was in earnest
when he said he felt the responsi
bility of the hour. Never did a
preacher more closely adhere to
his text aim more forcibly plant
the truth in the minds of his hear
ers. He showed that man’s agen
cies were all naught without the
power of God and the aid of God’s
spirit should be invoked in every
THE GOL RANT-AM EE LOAN.
good undertaking. In every phase
of tin l world’s moral development
man had played the insignificant
part, He hoped that the meetings
would be conducted in q way show
ing that God’s poweF was the great
agency looked to for good results.
Dr. Sullins again occupied the pul
pit in the afternoon. At this meet
ing t here was also a tremendous at
tendance. The sermon was upon the
relation of the church to God and
illustrated by the relation of the
wife to the husband. He used
many forcible illustrations during
tiie discourse which were able and
eloquent as is usual with the doctor.
At night Rev. J. B. Culpepper
occupied the pulpit aim preached a
strong and effective sermon.
An interesting service was the
one at 10 o’clock Monday morning.
'Christian experiences were related
by many and old time hymns with
out the organ attachment were
sung. It was pleasant to listen to
the brothers and sisters testifying
to the love, forgiveness and good
ness of the .Saviour. Some were
touching in the extreme and as they
were told in a plain and unaffec
ted way tears would come unbid
den to the eyes of listeners. The
sermon was preached by Dr. Sullins,
whose subject was family discipline.
On the proper discipline of families,
he said, depended the future happi
ness of the members, the peace of
the neighborhood and the very
foundation of the government itself.
He gave some wholesome advice to
fathers and mothers, urging re
straint of improper conduct on the
part of children. He did not be
lieve in severity except in rare
cases, but thought parents should
i>ray in the private closets with
their children over the latter’s mis
doings. He urged parents to set
proper examples as the little ones
were great imitators. During his
remarks the great preacher made
many happy illustrations. After
Dr. Sullins had finisned, Mr. Cul
pepper made a short address on the
line mapped out by the former.
Those who intended reformation in
family matters were invited to gath
er around the altar, which invita
tion . was accepted by many. A
fervent prayer was offered, and,
after a hymn Was sung by the
choir, the audience was dismissed.
At the three o’clock service Rev.
Mr. Livingston, an evangelist from
Alabama, preached. Those who
heard him were very much pleased
with him.-,.
Rev. .J. B. Culpepper occupied
the pulpit at night. His sermon
on this occasion was universally
pronounced as the best he lias yet
delivered here. He spoke on the
general cussedness of the human
race and excoriated saint and sin
ner alike. He talked for quite a
while on bearing malice against a
neighbor and showed that while
many eased their consciences with
the idea they had forgiven their
persecutors and slanderers, yet
they had done nothing of the kind.
They still remembered the sting
and harbored, in spite of what they
thought, malice against those who
had wronged them. He believed
we should forgive them as we would
be forgiven. “Tattling” came in
next for the attention of the speaker
and woman, lovely woman, as she
is frequently spoken of, received
the sharp shafts of the evangelist.
He was opposed to the modern way
of calling. The women nowadays
leave their home duties for a day
or an afternoon just to return a lot
of two-cent calls. And when these
calls are made the conversations
consist only of gossip and the
characters of their neighbors are
torn in shreds. He called on all
who made a habit of asking her
sisters to pray when she called on
them to stand up and as not one re
sponded his argument was conclu
sive. Women’s first duty is the
management of the children and
her home, in which she is queen,
and not to society. The men, who
hack before thought the sermon
would be exclusively devoted to
the fair ones, were much surprised
when the speaker turned his bat
teries upon them and their wicked
ness. He devoted himself to that
portion of humanity that engaged
in swearing and drinking and hurl
ed anathema after anathema
against their shortcomings and vio
lations of divine law'. He then in
vited those who would agree, God
being their helper, to lead more re
ligious lives, to come up and give
him their hands. While the choir
sang a hymn many went forward
and gave the preacher their hands.
The services were concluded by
members of the congregation shak
ing hands with each other and
promising to pray for one another,
swapping prayers as it was called.
So ended a most novel and inter
esting sermon.
Tuesday's services showed a
great increase ot interest. Mr.
Culpepper preached in the morn
ing to a very large audience.
Rev. Sam P. Jones, Rev. G. It.
Stuart and Prof. Kxcell arrived on
the noon train and at the afternoon
service they were conspicuous fig
ures on the Tabernacle platform.
The service began with one or two
selections by the choir, after which
Rev. Sam P. Jones led in prayer.
The choir then sang “We Shall
Stand Before the King,” at the con
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elusion of W’hichJProf. Excell favor
ed the audience with a solo.
Mr. Jones arose and said that in
the early morning when he arrived
in Chattanooga one of thy first
tilings he heard was of the wonder
ful meeting going on iqCartersville
and that he was glad* to know that
such was the case. He thought
the influence o< this meeting was
being felt from Clvattaiiooga to At
lanta. He never saw Cartel sville
more lie then called
on all Christian people to do their
utmost to make it a grand success.
Mr. Jones then introduced to the
audience Mr. Stuart.
Mr. Stuart announced as his text,
“Awake, O Zion, and put on thy
strength.” Although perceptibly
fatigued by his long journey, the
evangelist delivered a most jiower
ful and effective sermon.
Mr. Stuart said he did not know
why all tiie great events of the
ehurch occurred on mountains, hut
nevertheless such was the fact, and
lie related numerous biblical events
to make good the assertion. In
his opinion it was liecause the
ehurch was the highest, the biggest
and grandest thing on earth. And
yet he had -looked into some town
where, a half dozen saloon keejiers
run the municipal government in
spite of the fact that the spires of
an equal number of churches poin
ted heavenward. It is an -appall
ing fact that about 7. r > per cent, of
the young men never darken the
doors of our places of worship and
only about 15 per cent, were mem
bers of churches, as statistics will
tell. How is it that the devil got
seventy-five per cent, of our hoys?
Seventy-five per cent, of our girls
are in the whirl of the ball room or
the glamour of the theatre. In a
church where there are about 400
members, how many pray in pub
lic or hold family prayer. From
25 to 40 per cent, is the best that
cau he relied on. Tiie only way it
ctiuld he accounted for is that we
are asleep. The evangelist ex
plained the difference of w aking up,
and waking up to a thing, by tell
ing of a number of children playing
around a tree where a poisonous
snake lay coiled. The mother, wdio
is sleeping near by, is awakened,
but she soon tails back to sleep
again. She was awake, but not
awake to the danger. Awake,
church of Christ!
The latest system of burglary was
for the robber to put a chloroform
ed hand kerchief on a long pole and
put it through a window applying
it to each of the inmates within.
When all had betm put under the
influence of the drug to break open
the doors or windows and enter
and take all the valuables therein.
The devil has been playing that
same trick a long time. The devil
never took a daughter away to the
hall room without the father and
mother being asleep. It is no ex
cuse to say that the children will
have to sow wild oats. You will
help to reap them. He urged par
ents to awake and drive the devil
out of their homes.
Charles Durand, tiie great ex
plorer, carried with him a little
parrot. One morning lie was
awakened by the bird crying out
“Time to get up!” He looked
around, but seeing nothing, he be
came angry anil reached up to
knock Polly off' the perch. As he
did so he saw a glistening snake
coiled ready to strike him. He
killed the snake and was overjoyed
bystiie timely warning of the bird.
There are a great many people the
same way. They get mad at the
preachers for sounding notes of
warning, hut when at last they see
the devil and get thoroughly
awakened to the situation their
madness is gone.
* Whenever church members go to
a place they ought not to they
traiuple on their vows. He never
saw a wide-awake Christian in the
ball room or the saloon. Whenever
the devil gets you asleep he can
take you anywhere. It has gotten
so that a revival is necessary o ce
a year to wake up church mem
bers and when it is over many go
right back to sleep,
“Put on thy strength.” Strength
is unity. He illustrated this by
telling of the father who had given
each of his sons a withe and telling
them to break them. Each one
snapped as it was bent over the
knee. The same number of withes
were gotten and tied together and
after several trials none were bro
ken. It is the same way witli
c hurches when all are united. The
way some churches did reminded
the evangelist of a rope pulling at a'
Sunday school picnic. A mark
was made and an equal number of
men gets on each side of the line.
They pull and tug, hut the rope is
at the end just as at the start and
nothing is accomplished hut the
tiring of a lot of men. Churches
were divided, a lot are pulling this
way and a lot that way. They split
on tiie preacher. Some like' him
and others do not. He is criticised
and liis sermons are torn in shreds.
If God calls a man to preach and
tie is filled with the Holy Ghost no
one has the rigid to criticise his
preaching. If all church members
would pull together the devil would
soon lx* uprooted. Pull for od on
the same side and on the same
rope.
The sermon, which is here only
partially reported, was a tine one
and had a marked effect- on the
congregation. At its conclusion
Air. Joues offered the proposition
for those who had been asleep and
would awake to their interest to
come forward and give him their
hands. Nearly half of the congre
gation wont forward.
The night service showed a mov
ing up all along. Rev. J. A. Bowen,
of Aberdeen, Miss., preached a
most effective sermon, at the finish
of which a large number pressed
forward to give the preachers their
hands on the proposition that they
were glad that they were members
of the ehurch of Christ.
After the singing of two or three
hymns Rev. J. B. Robins led in
prayer, after which Rev. Sam I’.
Jones addressed a fbw words to the
audience. He said he had had part
in a number of these movements
and he was assured of one fact and
that was that we receive as much
from it as we put in. He then ask
ed the merchants to close up their
stores during the morning and af
ternoon services. It was a week
that we should give to God.
After Mr. Jones’ remarks Prof.
Excell sang a delightful solo, “That
Beautiful Home.”
Mr. Bowen announced as his text,
“Then Peter opened his mouth ami
said of a truth I perceive that God
is uo respector of persons. But in
every nation lie that fearoth him
and worketh righteousness is ac
cepted of him.”
The gifted Mississippian then
preached a very fine and impres
sive sermon. His remarks were
mostly directed to those who pro
claimed themselves “outsiders”—
not members of any church. Many
of these gave as their excuse that
they could not take the responsi
bility of joining the church. When
ever a person took tiie vows of the
church he created no new respon
sibility; lie only begins to live up to
the* responsibility for which lie was
born. He showed the difference
between the man belonging to the
church and one who did not, as one
acknowledging a debt and one on
whom a debt rested, but refused to
settle. * There are no “outsiders”
except those who are in hell, and
the same responsibility rested on
those who styled themselves such
as those who took the vows. He
wouldrather be the poorest Chris
tian, trying to get to heaven, than
to be a king without tlve hope of
eternal reward.
“I go the way of all the earth;
strong and show thy
self a man,” was the text announc
ed by Rev. Sam P. Jones at the 10
o’clock morning service yesterday.
This advice, as related in the
first book of Kings, second chapter
and second verse, was given by
David while he was on Ids death
bed to Solomon. Mr. Jones said
that in that supreme moment he
was glad that David did not ay to
his son be the greatest prince that
ever presided over Israel or to he a
king among men or that lie have
as his chief end the building of the
greatest temple ever erected to
God. To be strong and show thy
self a man was the very best advice
that could be given any one.
There never was a time in the
history of America or the history
of the world when there was such
a premium on true manhood and
womanhood. It is worth more
aim brings more than any other
commodity, and the market is not
influenced by trusts.
He admitted that it was some
thing to achieve success in the
different pursuits of life, as a law
yer, a physician or a farmer, etc.,
hut all these things God intended
should he the stepping stones of
the grand climax —the being of a
true man or woman. He remem
bered that in tiie* Delta region of
Mississippi he was a listener to a
conversation among farmers. Each
one was telling of the number of
bales ol cotton that he had raised,
except one man who lived in the
northern part of the state where
the lands were not quite so pro
ductive. In a mischievous way
one of the Delta crowd said to this
man, -“How many bales did you
raise ?” The reply was, “We don’t
raise cotton; we raise men.” “1
couldn’t help,” said Mr. Jones,
“from getting right up and shaking
that man by the hand.”
The evangelist said he once asked
a little boy how many hogs would
ten pigs make. The boy correctly
replied ten, that is, of course, if all
lived. He then asked how many
men would ten little boys make.
“Ten” was again the answer. He
didn’t agree with the little boy be
cause he had known five out of
ten grow up drunkards, three gam
blers and the rest dudes. God
never made man without co-opera
tion in the right direction. There
arc plenty ladies and gentlemen,
but mighty few men and women.
It doesn’t take much to make a
lady or gentleman these days, any
how.
A man’s, strength depends in a
large measure on his position. No
army ever iiad a better position
than we Christians have to day—
and in that position we should be
unconquerable. Koine people do
not take positions. In his opinion,
a man who doesn’t fake a position
is a fiuisanee.
The position to take is the right
position. Take the right position
on family prayer, on visiting the
sick and helping the poor, on pro
hibition and.liberality. The man
who is right on some things and
wrong on others will have to
change some of his views before he
can enter the pearly gates.
Mr, Jones alluded to a recent visit
h(> made to a navy yard where two
great gun boats were in course of
construction. He saw the double
steel plates that make the hulls of
the great boat, and was told that
nothing could penetrate them. He
was also told that they would be
manned by guns that would sink
any boat that was less strong than
they. That was his idea of a strong
Christian, perfectly able to resist all
assaults, and when the guns are
pointed at the ship of sin it sinks to
the bottom.
Mr. Jones concluded his remarks
by some allusions to dancing and
lie made heavy thrusts at the home
boys and girls who indulged in this
pastime. Hegaveas his excuse for
Mas that he was hewing along the
line and he couldn’t help it if others
got on the line and got hurt. *
The meeting will continue until
next .Sunday night. Great interest
is being manifested in it and great
results are hoped for. The mer
chants have signed an agreement
to close their stores during tin*
morning and afternoon services. '
• 4 Ti! E .lEFFERSOSIANS”
Delegates Elected to Attend the Koine
Convention.
A meeting was held in this city
last Saturday for the purpose of
sending delegates to tiie democratic
convention to be held in Rome, Sep
tember 3, 1890. it was composed
in a great part, if not a majority, of
citizens from the outer districts of
the county, and their action was
harmonious in the extreme.
Major George H. Waring was
called to the chair.
In well chosen words he stated
the object of the meeting. Mr. W.
M. Graham was elected secretary.
The following resolution was in
troduced by Mr. T. W. H. Harris,
and overwhelmingly adopted by
the convention:
That we hereby pledge ourselves to
abide by the action of the democratic
convention to assemble in Rome, Sep
tember a, lsiHl, to support the nominee
of that convention for the fifty-second
congress.
Delegates were then selected from
•the county at large, and are twenty
six in number, The delegation is a
strong and representative one. The
following resolutions were then
adopted tiy the convention without
a dissenting voice:
1. That we hereby endorse the call of
the democrats of the ciiunty of Floyd
for a convention of the dmmcracy of the
7th congressional district of Georgia.
2. That we are pledged to the princi
ples of democracy embraced ill the time
honored sentiment, “equal rights to all
and special privileges to none. ’
3. That we repinnato all class legisla
tion, whether it he proposed by high tar
iff enactment or sub-treasury bill.
-i. That we repudiate all politicians
who would deceive the people by appeal
ing to them in behalf of class legislation.
5. That the democratic party by its
record lias proven itself tiie friend of
the laborer and producer and lias array
ed itself against trusts and coinhin'a
tions and their encroachments and op
pressions.
li. That we repudiate the action of the
present cuwmittee now assuming the
rights of the executive committees of
the democratic organization of Hartow
county in ordering a primary election
for congress as illegal and without au
thority, said committee not having been
appointed by any convention having
authority to elect the same.
7. That we denounce the candidacy of
R.W. Everett asa stepping stone to the
disruption of tiie democratic party and
warn all democrats to take heed before
it be 100 late to escape the ruin which
would follow such disruption.
H. That we endorse lirst, last and all
tiie time the Ron. John H. Gordon' for
United States senator,
A motion was then made, put and
carried empowering the chairman
to appoint at his leisure an execu
tive committee for the county, after
which, there being no further busi
ness, the meeting adjourned, witli
the firm conviction that the Rome
convention will name the next
democratic congressman for this
district, and his name will beWm.
11. Felton.
Thrown From a Train.
Sam Johnson, a negro of this city,
attempted to swing on the south
bound passenger train last Satur
day afternoon while it was in rapid
motion. Ilis foot caught in be
tween the steps and an iron support
and in that way he rode quite a
distance until his hold broke and
he was thrown from the car. He
received several severe injuries.
He was considerably under the in
fluence of whisky at the time.
Death of a Good Woman.
Mrs. Wm. Stocks died at her
home, in this city, last Saturday
night, surrounded by her family
and several loving friends. She had
been ill for quite a while with pul
monary troubles, and all through
her sickness she exhibited that rare
grace and resignation that bespoke
tiie true Christian. The funeral ser
vices occurred Sunday afternoon
and were conducted by Rev. IT. J.
Ellis. The remains were followed
to the grave by a large number ol
sorrowing relatives and friends.
P2RTER
*&*
OVAd GHARO
Arc now offering every dollars’ worth of
SUMMER GOODS
IN THEIR HOUSE AT
ACTUAL COST,
TO CLOSE OUT.
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Our buyer leaves this week for the eastern markets
to purchase an immense stock of fall and winter goods.
We are compelled to make room for them, consequent
ly all summer goods in our house will be sacrificed at
once.
*NOW + IS + THE + TI7VTE*
TO
SECURE A BARGAIN.
All our white goods at cost. All our satines at cost. Our
entire stock laces and embroidery at cost. All our light
weight shoes at cost; all our fans at cost. Great reduc
tions in every line to make room for new goods.
*
We mean business. Our stock must be reduced at
once. Now is your opportunity to buy.
PORTER X VAUGHAN’S
Low prices for the next 20 days will astonish the most
economical buyers.
Cotton challies worth 7c., cotton challies sc.
worth ioc., fine satines 10c. worth 20c., fine satines 16c.
worth 25c., fine plaid and striped white goods 11c. worth
20c., fine plaid and striped white goods sc. worth 10c
fine plaid and striped white goods 15c. worth 25c., ladies’
silk mitts isc. worth 30c., ladies’ silk mitts 20c. worth
50c., ladies’ Jersey undervests 9c. worth 25c., ladies
Jersey undervests 15c. worth 35c.
A few straw hats left at less than cost. A few pairs
ladies’ Oxford ties at 75c and SI.OO, worth $1.25, $i.75.Q
Examine our stock before purchasing. We can
and will save you money.
PORTER & VAUGHAN
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LEADERS OF THE
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DRY GOODS TRADE.
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