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The Cartersville Coiirant-American.
VOL. IX.
ILL ARP AND THE BIBLE.
■teresting Paper by Our Bar
f* tow Philosopher.
H Good Book—Something About !t Hlg
| I tory— How it Found its Way Up
I Through the Centuries, etc.
following interesting paper was
E<l by Maj. €. H. Smith (Bill Arp) at
K meeting of the Bartow County Bible
Eiety, at the Presbyterian church last
■nday night:
Etiis book is called the bible, which
■aus “the book.” We reverence it as
E word of God. But it was not always
■led the bible, tor it was not a book.
Er fifteen centuries after the birth of
Hrist it was not in shape of a book; it
Es not printed or bound but it was
Eitten on rolls of linen or finely dressed
Eepskius or on papyrus. The letters
Ere large and it took a great deal of
Hicc to contain a single chapter; but,
E'ie were no chapters, no verses, no
Huces between the words. The letters
I ire all close together and written in
vvs that looked all alike, and nobody
it au expert them at all.
e could not do it now. Did you ever
V to read a sentence that had no
aces between the words?
For several centuries the bible was
lied the sacred scriptures, that is the
cred writings. It has not been in*print
litefour centuries; prior to that time
e scriptures were read to the people by
e priests, read on the Sabbath day,
ad in disconnected parts—sometimes
e sermon on the mount —sometimes an
listle from St. Paul—sometimes the ten
unmandments or the story of Joseph,
few wealthy men had copies of their
vn that they had had transcribed, but
le common people had none.
In course of time this liuen, or sheep
in, or papyrus wore out from age and
, and new copies had to be made,
ut the worn fragments of the originals
ere carefully preserved and forty-two of
lem are now in existence, some in Eng
ind, some in Germany and some in
ussia. They are in the original Greek
r Hebrew, none of them are complete
nd some are reduced to a few leaves.
The translations were for several cen
uries made into the Latin language, for
lat was the prevailing language of the
rieethood and the scholars of the mid
le ages. was the first inau to
•anslate the scriptures into English and
rnt was in the fourtenth century and
iss than five hundred years ago. John
lilt on said that the world owed more to
fyckliffe than to any other man, that
ut for him there would have been no.
,other, no Calvin, no John Knox, no
eformation. The Pope and priesthood
lenounced Wyckliff'e and persecuted his
ollowers, and thirty years after his death
hey dug up his bones and burned them
ud scattered the ashes in the Avon
iver, and the Avon carried them down
nto the Severn and the Severn into the
tea, and so the ashes of Wyckliffe are the
imblem of his doctrine which is now dis
persed all over the world. The Pope
leclared in a Papal order that “this man
IVvckliff'e has mude the holy gospel vul
gar, and laid it open to the laity and
even to women, and it is now thrown
about and trodden under foot of swine.”
Henry V ordained that “whoever should
read Wyckliffe’s scriptures should forfeit
land, cattle, body, life anil goods, and be
condemned as heretics to God and enemies
to the crown.” But it was in vain they
tried to crush it, and for a century or
more the fight went on, sometimes with
victory for one party and sometimes for
the other.
Henry the VIII espoused the Protes
tant cause and defied the Pope. He had
married Catharine of Aragon, who was
his brother’s widow, but when he saw
Anne Bolyu he fell in love with her and
isked the Pope to give him a divorce
from Catherine. This the Pope refused
to do, and so Henry made Cranmer an
Archbishop—Cranmer was a Protestant
—Cranmer granted the divorce on the
ground that a man was forbiddeu by the
bible from marrying his brother’s-widow.
Then the war between the Papacy and
Protestantism became furious, and lasted
for years. When Henry died he left a
daughter by Catharine; she is known to
history as Bloody Mary, she was a bitter
Catholic and drove the Protestants from
the kingdom and put many of them to
death. Tyndall and John Hues and
Cranmer and John Rogers and many
others were burned at the stake, and all
the bibles that could be found were
burned with them. Cranmer had in a
moment of bodily fear signed a recanta
tion, but he re{>ented of that and when
led to the stake held out his right hand
to the fire and said “let this be burned
first for signing away my conscience and
lying to my God.” Tyndall's last words
were: “Oh Lord, my God, open the eyes
of the King of England.” Verily the
bible came down to us through fire and
blood.
My friends, let us pause a moment and
thank God for our religious liberty.
But we were following the growth and
spread of the bible. After the death of
Bloody Mary, Elizabeth, a daughter of
Anne Bolyn, became Queen. She was a
Protestant because her mother was, and
she is known to history as Good Queen
Bess. She overthrew the Roman Catho
lic priesthood and restored the Protest
ants and encouraged the spread of the
scriptures. The great Geneva Bible was
published during her reign. For many
years it was the standard and was called
Bible becuuse of its render
ing of the 7th verse of the 3d chapter of
Genesis: “And the eyes of both of them
were opened and they knew tnat they
were naked, and they sewed fig leaves to
gether and made for themselves bree
ches.” So it seems that woman has good
authority for wearing that garment.
Last of all came the King James ver
sion early in the seventeenth century.
I ifty-six of the best classical scholars in
Europe were chosen to make up this
bible. They had access to all the bibles
and all the manuscripts that had been
preserved for the centuries. They were
conscientious men and ripe scholars, bet
ter scholars than have ever lived since.
They were as familiar with the Latin
language as their own; many of them
wrote their works and treatises in Latin.
These men were several years making up
this bible that we nmv use. It was a
great labor, alaborof love and of prayer,
and it has stood the test of time and
criticism.
But now we come down to our busi
ness of circulating this bible. After the
reformation that was brought about by
Luther, bibles and testaments were
printed freely and as rapidly as money
could be had to carry on the work. The
people rejoiced and received the word
gladly. It was a glorious privilege to
read the word of God by their own fire
sides. How grateful they were to the
noble leaders of the reformation. Thous
ands of children were named for Luther
and Melancthonand lluss andCalvinand
Knox and Tyndall. It was like the times
of our own revolutionary fathers who
through gratitude named their children
Washington and Jefferson and Madison
and Frances Marion. Why, a century
ago almost every family in England and
Germany and this country had scripture
names for their children, to show their
reverence for this newfound bible. Enoch
and Abraham and Jacob and David and
Daniel and Solomon and Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John were common for the
boys; for the giels, Hannah and Sarah
and Faith, Hope and Charity were spe
cial favorites. I remember a good old
lady whose name was Christmas Obedi
ence, and I knew three old men, brothers,
who were named Shadrack, Meschack
and Abednego. Sometimes these good
old-fashioned people made mistakes and
gave such questionable names as Cain
Absolam and Annanias.
For a century after the printed bible
came into use the people were concerned
mainly for themselves and their neigh
bors but during the latter part of the
last century they began to show some
concern for those who were not their
neighbors. In 1792 there was formed in
London a missionary society for the
promotion of Christian knowledge, and
their first meeting was held in an old
tavern and their first work was to send
some bibles into Wales—bibles printed
in the Welch language. They could send
but a very limited supply, not enough
for one family in ten to have a copy, but
it created great excitement and a few
years later a committee was sent down
to London to procure more and their
eagerness was so great that the good
people of London aroused themselves
and raised seven hundred pounds and
had printed twenty thousand copies, and
the Welch came after them with their ox
teams and were so proud of their treas
ure that they drove the oxen home end
pulled the wagons themselves. What a
scene that was for a painter’s skill. One
of the society, a Buptist minister by the
name of Joseph Hughes, was much af
fected by the scene and said: “If these be
so good for Wales, why not send bibles
to all the world?” Hughes then called
a meeting, and on the 7th of March 1804
the first bible society of the world was
formed. Since then the great work has
expanded into millions and millions and
it is supported mainly by donations. In
181(5 the American Bible Society was
formed m New York city. Its receipts
the first year were $37,779 aud its circu
lation of bibles and testaments 6,400
volumes. Since that time there have
been fifty-one million copies printed and
circulated by the society, and several
millions more were purchased and dis
tributed. What a wonderful work has
already been accomplished.
But, cui bono —what good comes of it?
It is answer enough to look at a map of
the world and see that wherever the bible
has the largest circulation the people
have attained the highest civilization, a
civilization that promotes the arts and
sciences and inventions and progress;
that inculcates honesty and truth and
temperance and virtue, and that has ad
vanced woman from slavery and degra
dation to her present exalted position as
a wile and a mother. Travel through
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1889.
this favored land and wherever you find a
family that has no bible and no knowl
edge of its precepts vou will find igno
rance and misery and filth and poverty.
It is the bible that wakes men up to a
consciousness of their own immortality,
it is the only book in the world that
tenches man his origin, his duty and his
destiny. You may t -talk about free
schools lor the poor and you may tax
the rich to support them and this is all
very well, but the most important thing
in the world is a free bible. No tax would
make so good a return to the public
pence and public prosperity as a tax
that would place bibles in every family.
Teach the poorchildren to read and then
give ench a well bound copy of the bible.
Search the country round and see to it
that there be no lack, no destitution.
Suppose that many will not or cannot
read, give them a copy anyhow, it is a
good thing to have in the house.
When I was a boy old man Rambo was
robbed and it created n great sensation.
He was a rich old miser, but his wife was
a good old woman and read her bible.
Rambo had bought a little iron safe to
keep his money in. and when he went to
bed he put the key under his pillow. His
wife never went to bed unril she had read
a chapter and said her prayers, and by
that time the old man was asleep. She
gently took the key from under his pil
low and unlocked the safe and took out
the money which was in hundred dollar
bills and put them among the leaves of
the big bible that lay upon the table,
and then locked the safe and placed the
key under the old man’s pillow. One
night the robbers came and gagged the
old man and his wife and found the key
and robbed the safe of forty dollars, but
the four thousand that was in the bible
they never found. W T ho would think of
looking in a bible for a miser's money?
The very presence of a bible is a charm, a
talisman forgood and a better safeguard
against witches and demons, than a
horseshoe over the door. With what
holy trust did the good old mother place
her bible in her soldier boy’s knapsack
when he left her for the war. How often
did we see those soldier boys reading
their little worn bibles while in Sunday’s
camp or the night before a battle. How
carefully he fastened it in his bosom and
next his heart, as he awaited the final
order to march—to march to victory or
the grave. I have known many a sol
dier who feared not God nor regarded
man, place his little bible in his bosom on
the eve of a battle.
Give the poor cheap bibles—free bibles.
Place them in every humble habitation.
It they don’t appreciate them, leave them
there anyhow, somebody will open them
and find comfort. The Chinese Emperor
keeps mottoes and maxims painted upon
the walls and over the gates and on their
public buildings, “Do unto others as you
would have them do to you” “Remember
the poor,” “Make your word as good as
your bond,” “Children obey your pa
rents,” “Let your bones turn to dust in
China.” These and similar injunctions
are ever before their people from infancy
to old age and they become a part of
their life and their religion. They ob
serve them and keep them and in many
virtues put our Christian land to shame.
We have some maxims too, spread in
large letters before our people, and they
tell us what to do for the body, “Take
Wizard Oil,” “Take Tutt’s Pills,” “Take
Simmons’ Liver Regulator.”
Now' let us place the bible before our
people, let the poor have them without
money and without price. There is in
London a beautiful monument to the
great statesman, Richard Cobden, and
the only epitaph upon it is, “He gave the
poor cheap bread,” and so let this so
ciety, which is just twenty-one years old
this month, rise up to the year of its
manhood and earn for its noble epitaph,
“It gave free bibles to the poor.”
A I.title too Previous.
EniTons Coukant - American: Tom
Lyon made a mistake when he crept
into the capital at Atlanta one dny
last week, to prompt a little fellow
from Brooks to say, that “Confederate
soldiers were not allowed to sleep in the
house where Dr. Felton and his wife slept
and were ordered to an outhouse, duriug
the war.”
He was told that he lied, and the fel
low from Brooks—said Tom Lyon was
there and could answer. But did he an
swer? No. Why? Because he knew he
couldu’t.
I understand he is moving heaven nnd
eath, the Alliance and the State Agricul
tural Society—to get to be inspector of
fertilizers, when Capt. Woolly quits the
business. I shall say, “good byeguano,”
when that happens. lam sure the stuff
is oftentimes a fraud, with honest inspec
tion; and I want to know who puts tags
on the stuff I buy.
It is reported he quit the law to get the
Alliance to send him to the legislature.
Let him try to make the trip—and he
will hear lrom Owe of the Boys.
P. S— Did you ever hear him tell about
the “err-norinerous” taxation the farm
ers suffer from fertilizer inspection ? Does
an “err-normerous” fraud desire to add
his heip to make it bigger. 0. B.
THE ESSENCE OF PEACH.
A Talk with Internal Revenue Collector
Galloway About Distilling.
A Cot;raxt-Amf.iucan man fell in with
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector Gallo
way on the southbond train Monday,
and pumped him for information.
“Yes sir, we are kept pretty busy now,
by the distillers of peach brandy. There
is a great deal of it going on, and they
are so scattered that it keeps the officers
busy.”
• “Is there much brandy being made in
Bartow ?”
“None at all scarcely. Why, in Chero
kee, Cobb, Paulding and all the neighbor
ing counties they are making thousands
of it.”
“How is the tax paid?”
“First a man who wishes to make it
has an officer to estimate the capacity of
his still, then, he gives the time he pro
poses to run, and must give bond in the
sum of the value of his product before he
begins. lie is visited once every fifteen
days by an officer to whom he reports,
and the government tax must be paid in
thirty days after fhe brandy is made.
There is not enough of it going on in this
sectiou to warrant the establishment of
a bonded warehouse. Where they have
these a man can place his product in the
warehouse, nnd It can remain there three
years if he likes before the tax is paid.
However, he can remove and sell it at
any time by paying the tax.”
“Is there much money in peach
brandy?”
“Let’s see: Here is the expense of mak
ing—
The Government, tax, ner pallor., . .90
Peaches, per pallon, 40
Making; per gallon 20
*: .50
Then there is the handling afterwards,
which, of course costs something. The
price at which it is sold generally will
average two dollars per gallon. So, it
seems there is not much money in it.
But some men old in the service estimate
that something like three-fourths of it
evades the government tax; and if this
is true, then there is big money in it.”
Then our friend expatiated on the age
at which the critter would go well with
honey—the length of time required for
the poisonous acids to evaporate, Ac.—
all, of course, on hear-say evidence, as
this deputy was not experimentally
posted.
Mr. Galloway said one nian at Austell,
in Cobb cotfnt.v, would pay tax on fifteen
hundred gallons. He is the largest pro
ducer in this district—so it will be seen
that this business is not run on a large
scale by any one individual.
Talking to another man an old citizen
of Cobb county, he said that twenty
years ago, with such a fruit crop as we
have this year there would have been at
least five times as much brandy made.
He gave as the cause of the difference the
lessening of the demand by the peogress
of the temperance sentiment among our
jieople.
How much better it would lie if all this
fruit were canned for winter use. If all
the surplus fruits and vegetables of this
county had been canned this year, they
would have brought into our midst sev
eral hundred thousand dollars. How
long will we allow so much to go to
waste?
Mothodiwt ParHomijj;©.
For some time past the Methodists of
this city have had in mind the building
of a parsonage. Not until a month or
so ago did the move take tangible shape.
At two different services Rev. Sam Jdfies
took in hand the matter of improve
ments on the church, and succeeded in
getting subscribed for the purpose about
$2,200, himself giving a large portion.
He left it with the church to agree by
vote how the funds should be applied,
and it was decided to improve the inte
rior of the church by proper decorations
nnd carpeting; then to purchase a lot
and erect a suitable peonage. The
work on the interior improvements has
been judiciously pushed, and the church
will soon present as handsome an ap
pearance on the inside as many in the
larger cities.
The committee, to whom has been en
trusted the matter of securing a lot and
erecting a parsonage, have carefully con
sidered the question of availability in lo
cation, price, etc., in choosing among
numerous properties offered and have at
last, we learn, decided to take a lot
offered them by Col. It. H. Jones, on Bar
tow street. The lot corners on Church
street and is one of the most desirable
in the city. It will be the purpose of the
church to put up a very handsome struc
ture for a parsonage, the cost to be prob
ably as much as $2,000.
A number of prominent members of the
church have already expressed their wil
lingness, if not anxiety, to assist in rais
ing whatever additional amount above
what has already been raised that may
be necessary.
She—“ Say, Sam! Go to Miot’s drug
store and get me a box of his candy. ’’
He—“l w ill, w ife as it is the best and pur
est to he had.”
=LEADERS=
OF
THE DRY GOODS TRADE.
t X~V )RTER & VAUGHAN’S ,
*} is packed and jam- r
. med from top to bottom U
the largest and
most complete stock of Dry *
j Goods, Dress Goods, Shoes ancl L
Cloaks in the city. *
Porter & Vaughan's store is the popular trading resort for first-class goods at rea
sonable prices. Fresh additions being made daily to our already immense stock. Our
Dress Goods Department
Is the “town talk such an assortment to select from; so many styles ; all combining
elegance and quality beyond question—marked at the lowest prices to meet the wants
of the finest, r a slenler purse.
Our Shoe Department
is always in the lead. We have positively the largest stock of Boots and Shoes in
North Georgia. The celebrated
Clement & Ball s Fine Shoes for Ladies,
J. F, Swain & Co.’s Fine Shoes for Children,
Edwin Clapp's Fine Shoes for Gents.
Every pair sold under a positive gnarantee; all styles and prices. Porter & Vaughan
are doing the shoe busiuess of the town. Our line of
HOSIERY, GLOVES @ NOTIONS,
Is completo in every detail, embracing all styles and qualities. Here’s a hummer :
Misses’ lull regular made seamless fast black half-ribbed Hose, double heel ana toe,
all sizes, only Isc; worth 30c.
Linen Department-^—
Is full and complete, comprising grand bargains. Porter & Vaughan's stock of Ladies’
Gents and Fbildren s Underwear is unequaled in the city for variety, quality and low
prices. Portor & Vaughan have the best 75c Unlaundried Shirt in America. Ag
assertion, but we don’t hesitate to make it. See them.
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR
ALL KINDS OF DRY GOODS !
Our great sped alties: Dress Goods, (’leaks and Shoes.
PORTER & VAUGHAN.
BARTOW COUNTY’S EXHIBIT
At the Piedmont Exposition.—Bring Out
tour Samples,
To the Public: All those who expect
to help in the display to be made by Bar
tow county at the Piedmont exposition
are requested to bring or send their ex
hibits at once. They can deliver them to
Mr. F. W. Frost, at Emerson, Mr. Au
brey, at Cartersville, or to Mr. McCor
mick, at Stilesboro and Taylorsville.
Those in the upper portion of thecounty,
at Adairsville and Kingston, can ship to
Mr. Aubrey, at Cartersville.
It is hoped that this request will be
responded to by all the farmers and
owners of mineral lands in the county,
as we desire to send forward the first in
stallment of the display by the Ist of
October, or before.
It is conceded by all that Bartow is
the richest county, in mineral and agri
cultural products, in the State, and
nothing stands in the way of our taking
the first prize, but the failure of our own
people to bring samples of these forward,
thus letting the county show what she is
able to do. We hope those who have
made promises to us will make them
good, and send in what they intend to
at once.
From the fields and gardens we want
corn, cotton, wheat, oats, tobacco, pota
toes, all kinds of peas, pumpkins, hay
ol all kinds, beans, squash, pepper, okia,
cabbage, turnips, garden seed of all kinds,
gourds, beets, syrup and sorghum cane,
milo maize and anything else that would
suggest itself.
From the mines we want specimens of
hH the minerals in the county.
Specimens of wood in all conceivable
shapes will be gladly accepted.
The ladies could help greatly by send
ing iu all kinds of preserves, jellies, can
ned goods, jurns, domestic wines, and
fancy work of all kinds.
Now, let the people put their minds to
work and every one send something to
add to the excellence of Bartow 's display.
Many tell us thut Bartow’ must take the
first prize and if she must, the jieople
must do their whole duty in the matter.
If they do that we will spare no pains or
expense iu making the display attractive
and grand, showing each exhibit to the
very best advantage. Do this and none
will fail to be proud of the grand old
county of Bartow. Respectfully,
H. J. McCormick.
Geo. H. Aubrey.
F. W. Frost.
The .Exposition.
One of the novel features at the Pied
mont exposition will be a hundred train
ed seals.
Among other special interesteng fea
tures will be the novel illusion of Galatia,
the automaton chess player, Ajeb, who
will give aprize of onehuudred dollars to
auy one who can defeat him at chess.
The Custer musee, and hundreds of other
novelties, iu addition to tbegreat leading
attractions, such as:
Thegrand military State and interstate
contest,
The great sham battle,
The cavalry tournament,
The great Wild West show free daily.
Fifty cowboys and fifty Comanche In
dians. The great balloon asceusion and
parachute leaps from an altitude of 5,000
feet, the most daring feat of the age.
The most magnificent and brilliant py
rotechnic displays ever made in America.
Sixteen days of great racing for large*
purses.
The above synopsis gives a fuint con
ception of what our visitors are to ex
pect in addition to the hundred mino r
attractions that will appear daily on the
programme.
The exhibits promise to far surpass in
every particular those of any previous
event ever held in the South.
Emerson Malleable Iron Company.
The Courant-Amkkican is proud to an
nounce the completion of the most im
portant enterprise ever uudertaloeii iu
Bartow county. The above company
have their extensive works now all iu
shape ami are turning out a 1 ! kinds of
gray and malleable iron castings of the
very best quality—besides doing all
kinds of repairing and jobbing in iron
machinery.
This is the only establishment of its
kind iu the Southern States and marks a
new era for our section. It is destined to
grow into immense proportions, and add
largely to the population and impor
tance of the beautiful town in which it is
located.
We congratulate Superintendent Lang
and his noble colony of Swedish iro#
workers upon their grand accomplish
ment. But for their perseverance and
hard labor the enterprise would have
failed. They deserve the most abundant
success, and will surely win it.
Read the company’s advertisement iu
another column.
Triumphant Songs No. 2, for 35c. at
W ikle &. Cos. s Book Cartersville,
Georgia.
NO. 15.