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THE COURANT.
Antered in the J’oetojfive at Carteret* lie, Ga.
as eecond-claee matter.
All ilic Official AdTertisements ot Bartow
County Apear in The Conrait,
~ OFFICE :
PUCKETT BUILDING, 8. E. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1886.
CANDIDATES.
For tlie
We are authorized to announce th ■ 1 c of
MR. JOHN A. CRAWF JRI) as a candid do for
a seat in the Lower House of the Georgia Leg
islature.
We arc authorized to announce the niraeof
MA.J. A. M. FOUTE as a candidate for i seat
in the Lower House of the Georgia Legis ature.
To the Voters of Bartow County:
I am a candidate for the Legislature and re
spectfully ask your votes.
THOS. WARREN AKIN.
For Tax Receiver.
We are authorized to announce the name of
ALBERT SMITH as a candidate for Re--,elver
of Tax Returns ot Bartow county.
We are authorized to announce the nane of
NAT DUNAIIOO for the oflice of Tax Receiver
of Bartow county.
For Tax Collector.
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. JOSHUA BRADFORD, of Pinelog, an a
candidate for office of Tax Collector of
Bartow county.
I hereby announce my name as a candidate
for Tax Collector of Bartow county. Election
first Wednesday in January next, if eleclßd, I
will faithfully and honestly discharge the and ities
of the oflice, and will not ask to be favored with
a successive term. Itespectfullj,
JAMES L. MILHOLLiN.
We arc authorized to announce the name of
MR. J. as a candidate for Tax Col
lector of Bartow county, Georgia.
For County Treasurer.
We are authorized to announce the narai of
MR. H. W. COBB for re-election to the cflice
of Treausurer of Bartow County.
We are authorized to announce the nam i of
A. G. B. VANIHVERE as a candidate for the
oflice of Treasurer of Bartow county.
For Sheriff.
We are authorized to announce the name of
W. W. ROBERTS as a candidate for re-elec ion
to the oflice of Sheriff of Bartow county, a ith
John A. Gladden as his deputy. Election in
January, 1887.
We are hereby authorized to announce the
name of A. M. FRANKLIN for Sheriff of Ear
tow County, and J. W. Williams, of the 17th
District, as his Deputy. Election to be held on
the first Wednesday in January next, an< if
elected promise a faithful performance of the
duties of the oflice as heretofore.
July 20, 1886.
For Clerk Superior Court.
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. F. M. DURHAM as a candidate for re
election to the oflice of Clerk of the Superior
Court of Bartow county.
For Coroner,
We are authorized to announce the name of
MR. WILLIAM VAUGHAN as a candidate for
lie oflice of Coroner of Bartow county.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Col. Capers has been lingering with ns
and enjoyed the meeting immensely.
Mr. R. T. Moon, came over from An
niston Sunday and spent the day wi h
his family.
Mr. J. R. Gibbons, of Rome, came
over Saturday with the Pansies and re
mained over until next day.
Miss Lula Smith, of Ohatchee, Ah.,
has been in the city for several day*
visiting; Misß Maggie Yandivere.
What a godly spirit has been devel
oped in good old Cartersville in the pa*t
week or so. It is plain to all that the
meeting has improved the town a hun
dred per cent.
From one who lives at Coal City le
learn that Tobe Jackson is laying track
about half a mile below the ground. £ e
is as hilarious as ever and has great faith
that he will be released through tit
efforts of his friends.
Mr. Lewis Erwin was in town a few
days last week. Lewis has received the
democratic nomination for state senatcr
from his district in Tennessee and
wears his honors well. He is as happy rs
can be over the honor bestowed upon him
by his party.
Pomp Johnson has engaged the *er
vieeß of a first-class barber from the
Markham House, Atlanta, and now pro
poses to run a first-class shop in every
particular. Remember, call at the Citf
Barber Shop to be certain of the most
polite and careful attention.
Merchants get ready for the fall busi
ness by having your bill and letter heats
printed. With good type and a fine
firinter we can give satisfaction in every
nstanca. Get ready and have it done
and don’t let some cormorant from At
lanta come along and bore you into the
notion.
Col. Capers is in the field for the legis
lature a fact pretty generally known over
the county. Head his letter in another
column and you will be entertained. If
elected he will no doubt prove a good
representative and will dilligently look
after the interests of his people.
Mr. P. L. Moon, we are glad to state,
has concluded to remain in Cartersville,
he having bought the interest of Capt.
Pritchett in the firm of Mays & Pritchett
This firm now reads Mays & Moon and a
good one it makes too. Both gentlemen
are well known and very popular and
will command an immense trade.
Thomas Johnson and another colored
boy were badly damaged and shaken up
by a dynamite cartridge Monday morn
ing, by which Tom lost a finger and ht>d
both hands considerably lacerated. The
other boy was struck in the stomach 1 y
a fragment of the cartridge, entering ard
making a bad wound. It is not known
where the boys got the cartridge.
The Courant had a pleasant call Mon
day from Mr. G. N. Hurtel, of the At
lanta Evening Capitol , who has been ;n
attendance upon our meeting. Mr. Ilurtel
does good seryice on one of the livest
papers in Georgia. The success of the
Evening Capitol has been phenomenal,
and though only a year old it has a repu
tation far and wide.
We have received a private note from
Moses Scheuer who has been for the
past few months sojourning among the
scenes of his childhood across the Atlan
tic. He says he has been enjoying him
self hugely, and never was happier than
when he received a copy of The
Courant. He grows eloquent on the
pleasures derived by reading its familiar
columns. He will start in a few days for
home.
A Good One.
Two Dutchmen from Atlanta passed
up the State road on Sunday, and saw the
immense crowd at the depot. Ascer
taining what it meant —Deadrick say* to
Hans—“l)is is where dat tarn Sam Jones
lives.” “Yar,” answered Hans, “Mine
goot, dese tam Sam Jones and tam Sam
Schmalls give us no bier.”
THE GREAT REVIVAL.
IT CLOSES A GRAND SUC
CESS.
CARTERSVILLE DOES HER 1* ART
NOBLY AND EVERYBODY HAi'PY.
The “Sam Jones” great tabernacle
meeting here closed Sunday night amid
great enthusiasm. The last services was
a fitting Jinale to the most wonderful
revival of religion ever held in North
Georgia. The concert of action, harmony
and unity of purpose of all the churches,
pastors and people participating in the
great meeting, evidenced the spirit and
temper of the community. Carter sville
has been a moral town for some time
past, and has compared favorably with
the best towns in the grand old common
wealth, but the late meeting wrought
another revolution for good, and this
splendid old town has turned over a new
leaf in her history, un marred, spotless
and without a blemish, with only the
legend emblazoned upon it, the joyous and
angelic song, proclaiming the advent of
anew born Saviour to the world.
“Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace and good will towards men.”
Anew era has dawned upon Carters
ville, a happy era, a peaceful era, an era
of brotherly love.
An impartial observer of the events
and results of the tabernacle meeting
could not fail to be struek with the sin
cerity, earnestness and fervor of the
ministers, and the deep attention and ab
sorbing interest manifested by the large
audiences. While the interest at times
was intense, there was a marked absence
of uadue excitement. Although the ten
sion was high at times it was of a
character that could alone biing forth
determination and conviction. From the
very character and conduct of the meet
ing the conversions to the religion of
Jesus Christ “The Light of the Worid,”
could not be ephemeral or transitory.
Men were convinced, the head and heart
were both appealed to. Points of doubt
were cleared away, duty was made plain
and unmistakable, nerves were not over
wrought, sensitive, nervous and exdie
able dispositions were not appealed to,
imagination and extra enthusiasm was
not worked upon, but the heart, the mind,
the judgment—God was brought faeßto
face with man—the wonderful and divine
plan ot man’s recovery through the di
vinely human instrumentality of Jesus
of Nazareth was unfolded clearly, and
the grandeur and flawlessness ot the
plan could not help imbedding itself as
an abiding and preeminent conviction in
the hearts of right thinking men.
The splendid tabernacle as a building
has been described, but it is perhaps well
to say again that it is a quadrangular
structure, substantially built, with shingl
ed roof sloping at acute angles. It has a
capacity of seating something like forty
five hundred persons. The platform for
the speakers and singers is deep and long.
It is roomy and comfortable. The acous
tic properties are good, and it splendid
ly adapted for the purpose it has been
consecrated to.
The idea of having such a permanent
structure here emanated in the mind of
Rey Sam Jones several months ago, and it
did not take him long to put the idea into
tangible shape. The building was neces
sarily an expensive one, but Mr. Jones
did not stop at expense, committees of
citizens were formed and the work of
procuring the proper site at once begun,
subscriptions by the citizens for the
purchase of the land were promptly
given, and bids for the construction of
the building were made. The building
was a gift entirely from Rev. Sam Jones,
he almost literally gave the contractors
and builders carte blanche, he loves his
townspeople, the people in surrounding
country, he loves humanity. In the
many meetings he has held elsewhere he
has seen many such buildings dedidated
to the worship of God and the salvation
of souls, he determined that his own
home should have one as good as any he
had seen, and the massive structure on
the western slope ol the city, in the grove
of oaks and pine, attest that he has ac
complished his desires.
The people of Cartersville loved, ad
mired and were proud of Sam Jones be
fore, they love him more than ever now.
This monument he has built to the glory
of God and for the good of his fellow
man is greater than any obelisk or monu
ment of stone or bronze that could e
built to tower skyward, and will by its
influence for good for succeeding years
and generations endure in the lives of
the people in this section, long after the
timbers of the building shall have crum
bled by time.
The class of preachers who took part
in the conduct of the meetings was spirit
ually and intellectually of a high order.
They were' earnest, impressive and in
structive. They were not only brainy
men, but they were Godly men. Mr.
Jones was fortunate iu his selection of
such men to assist him and his co-laborer,
Rev. Sam. Small, as Rev. Dr. W. M.
Leftwich, of Nashville, Tenn., Rev. Dr.
J. B. Hawthorne, of Atlanta, who
preached the splendid dedicatory sermon,
Rev. Dr. David Sullins, of Tenn., Rev.
W. W. Wadsworth, Rev. W. D. Shea,
Rev. Tom Gibson, Reverends Cofer,
Timmons, Hill, Kendall, Allday and
other visiting ministers. The local min
isters were present at every meeting, and
the Rev. W. M. Dodge, of the Methodist
Church, Rev. Mr. Cooper, of the Baptist
Church, and Rev. Mr. Hillhouse, of the
Presbyterian Church, rendered active and
valuable service throughout the entire
meeting.
The singing was a potent factor of the
meeting. Prof. E. O. Excell, Mr. Jones’
soloist, and Prof. M. J. Maxwell, Mr.
Jones’ choirster, did a wonderful work
in the song service. Prof. Excell capti
vated the immense audiences by his feel
ing and magnificent rendition of sacred
songs of his own and other compositions.
His voice though a baratone, was flexi
ble, and his higher notes reached a pure
tenor at times. Some of his songs were
quaint in melody and words, but all of
them sweet and brimful of religious sen
timent. He sung from the heart and
awoke responsive feelings in the breasts
of the large audiences.
Prof. Maxwell organized and trained a
superb choir. The hymns were sung
from the ‘‘Great Awakening,” compiled
by Prof. Maxwell, and used by Mr.
Jones at all of his meetings. As some
one remaiked, “there was as much relig
ion sung into the people as was preached
into them.”
It was the intention of Mr. Jones that
he would preach once a day and Rev.
Sam Small once each day, but shortly
after the meeting began Mr. Jones was at
tacked with nervous pros
tration and was confined
to his home until Friday last. His
absence from the tabernacle vras of
course greatly regretted, but the reaction
upon his physical system had set in and
plainly told the story of the powerful
strain he has been under in filling his
many engagements for many months
past. His recovery was greeted with de
light by his friends and admirers. Mr.
Small did splendid Service, and with the
exception of once preached dally, some
times twice a day.
Four services were held each uay, the
sunrise service was always a refreshing
and interesting one.
Tuesday morning, the 7ih inst., Key.
VV. D. Shea conducted a meeting es
pecially in the interest of the “old
folks.” There were many present whose
heads were silvered by time. The serm
on was eminently an appropriate one, in
which was sound and practical advice to
the rising generation.
The children’s day was another pleas
ant feature of the meeting. All the Sun
day schools in the county, together with
many visiting schools, were present.
Short addresses were made the children
by Rev. Sam Jones and others, which
they enjoyed greatly. The “Littie Pan
sies” of Rome attracted much at ention
and considerable favorable comment.
The crowds attending the meeting con
tinued to increase steadily day by day.
Special trains were run on the M estern
& Atlantic and on the East & Wes; Rail
roads, reduced rates were put on. Right
here it will be well to mention that the
railroad officials have received and de
serve great praise for the facilities they
afforded the people in attending these
services. It is difficult to see how they
could have done better. Towards the
last days of the meeting the crowds at
tending were so immense that it was al
most impossible to gain anything like a
correct estimate of numbers, but at times
there were not less than seven thousand
people crowded into the tabernacie and
around it. Every conceivable space for
sitting and standing was utilized,
Cartersville is proverbially a hospit
able place, and its well known reputa
tion in this regard, while taxed *o the
utmost for facilities, was nobly sustained
by the entertainment of the visiting
multitudes.
On Friday morning, Mr. Jones, still
pale and looking rather worn from his
late illness, addressed a surging throng
of people in the tabernacle. Ilis sermon
was a characteristic one, pointed,
straightforward, full of love and telling
in its effects. lie took his text from the
32 chapter of Jeremiah: “I will give
them one heart and one way, that they
may fear me forever, for the good of
qnil their children after them.”
Mr. Jones preached for over an hour,
holding the attention ot his ia* 6 o ..ud:-
encc in unbroken interest. It is impos
sible here to make anything like a close
report of that sermon, but some extracts
may be woven in that will be of interest
to Cartersville and elsewhere. In begin
ning this discussion Mr. Jones said that
he was assured of one fact, by his obser
vation and experience, limited though it
might be, that whatever pains or dis
cords, or troubles or difficulties they had
encountered and borne in the past were
all traceable to one fact in their histories,
either that they were ignorant of God’s
ways or else they had, against light and
knowledge, wilfully departed from the
ways of the Lord. He said he was free
to make all excuses for his fellow-men.
I*le knew and felt the weakness and
natural tendencies for evil with which
man was born. He saw the necessity of
leaning upon the arm of God every mo
ment of his life. He could not ever go
out of his front gate without God t> go
with him, and he could not, even under
the most favorable circumstances, risk
himself without the help and grace of
God, and he had in the thirteen years of
his religious life learned to have a g* eat
deal of sympathy for those who do not
do like God wants them to do. “It is
much easier,” he said, “to see in others
their faults than it is to see their virtues,
tn pick flaws in one another’s character
than it is to round off and help make up
a full Christian character by kindness and
words, and now with a good understand
ing of the ways of the Lord and a per
fect consecration of those ways, we may
let the mistakes of the past redoun to a
grander Christian character in the
future.”
“The great desire of my heart to day
is, and for j T ears has been, that God would
unite our people here, that God would
make us one people, to make us all to
walk in one way, and that our children
after us might follow in the way as we
have followed the way of Christ.”
“I am assured of this fact, God mr.de
you and made me, and this gives me rhe
assurance of another fact, that if lie made
me, then surely God knows me, then
coupled on the precious truth that God
loves me. God has perfect knowledge
of me, He made me, God loves me, He
is my father and He wishes me well, and
before me to-day I have open the book,
(the bible), the only book In the world
that can unify the race, that can make
us of one heart and of one mind. It is
the only book that can make our every
effort and desires in common with one
another. If we run and move by that
book and follow the instructions given in
it, brethren, we arejgoing to have bet
ter days in Cartersville and in Bartow
county, in my own family circle, in ycur
own family circle; in our law offices; in
our court houses; in our stores and work
shops, on our farms and everywhere.
Oh my God, to-day let the light of thy
spirit flash the truth home to us, show
us clearly how we may be a better and
a happier people. lam sure a man can
not order his steps without the interpo
sition of divine wisdom, there are difficult
problems, there are intricacies coming
up in human lives that we must defer to
God for His wisdom and grace to sustain
us in.”
‘‘l believe the best way is to say, ‘Now,
Lord, if you will show me the way I
will walk in it; if you will teach me the
way of truth I will follow in that way.’
If we do that we need not look so much
to the success that shall crown this meet
ing to-day as we shall look for eternal
blessings and happiness. Let every en
ergy of our lives be pointed in the direc
tum of the ‘home over there.’ ”
“The God that made humanity with
its intellectual, moral, spiritual and
physical nature, who gave me an im
mortal soul, who shaped me by His own
hand, is the God that shaped this book
(the bible). If I would run myself in
God’s ways the first thing I ought to do
is to overhaul my life and put it in har
mony with this book of instructions. I
see then I can make myself such an hus
band as God would have me be; then I
know what God means when He says,
‘Husbands love your wives;’ then I can
appreciate it when he says, ‘Children
obey your parents;’ and when He
‘Thou shalt love Me with all thine
heart,’ then we shall indeed meet the pur
poses for which we were created into
Christ Jesus, unto good works. We have
these instructions before us, by which we
may put ourselves in order as shall in
deed make us an honor to Christ Jesus
and a blessing to our race.”
“The meeting we have in Cartersville
to-day was an impossibility here twelve
months ago; there was a lack of unitv, a
lack of harmony in Cartersville and Bar
tow county then, which, thank God, has
been done away with, and I trust for-
ever.”
“This world will never have Christ in
it, with all His beauty and glory, until
the Christian world is of one heart; hearts
that pulsates in sympathy and in love for
each other as member of the Church of
Christ, and pulsates in sympathy and
love to the whole world around us. Oh,
for Christian unity and ehri3tian love.”
He remembered in his boyhood’s days,
when looking back with the eye of mem
ory, the controversional spirit of twenty
five or thirty years ago in the different de
nominations, when they stood out in all
their distinctiveness and exclusiveness,
but “thank God” said Mr. Jones, “nearly
all of these exclusive brethren have gone
home to IleaVen, ahd liitife fcl‘B fdii
to day to disturb the unity of the church
of God who live on the face of the
earth.”
“The most disgusting sight I ever saw
was a Methodist preacher ringing the
changes on infant baptism, and he made
the fur fairly fly, while every baby in town
was asleep, and two-thirds of the people
going to hell. Do you reckon the devil
wants any better joke on a preacher than
to side track him like that, and then pull
up the rails on both sides of the switch ?
Or to hear an Episcopalian get up and
ring the changes on apostolic succession,
and he is proud to teach his children and
his church that they descended in regular
line from the apostles. I thought, well,
old fellow, you wouid be doing a heap
more good if you would tell your crowd
where they were going to; most any fellow
can make out with where he came from,
but you had better look out as to where
you are going to.
Or to hear a Presbyterian minister ring-
ing the changes on final preservauce, and
not one in three of his crowd have got
anything to persevere about.
Or to hear a Baptist preacher ringing
his changes on water! water! water! while
one-half of his crowd are going where
they will never even get a drop of water.
“Just such as that keeps up a contro
versial spirit, this want of unity, until the
world has looked on and said: ‘Can there
be anything in Christianity to desire?’ Let
ns wake up to the grand cardinal doctrine
of our Lord Jesus Christ and fight the
devil, the world and the flesh, and be
Christian people with one heart and love
and affections. I thank God for the spirit
I have myself in this thing. If I love
Brother Dodge (Methodist minister) any
more than I love Brother Cooper, Hill
house or McConnell (Baptist, Presbyterian
and Episcopal ministers) I am not con
scious of it. When I look around, I say
to wife and children: ‘Go to the church
that’s got the most religion in it. If the
Baptist has got more than any other, you
might slip in there and get a little, that's
the way I feel about it.
“The time has come, fellow-country
men, when we must lay aside everything
except Jesus, and Him crucified, and
learn to love Him with all our hearts..
Oh God, give us the day of Christian
unity. I am glad of the unity that brings
four preachers of different denominations
here together, thank God for it. And,
brother, that is but an index finger point
ing to the time when there will be abso
lute Christian l everywhere.”
Mr. Jones expressed pleasure in
seeing the colored people taking an merest
in the meeting, and said:
lam glad to see the colored people
here. God bless you, lam glad to see
presiding elders and preachers of colored
districts and congregation sitting here
with us, enjoying the same good spirit
and same good songs. When we see eye
to eye and face to face, all these things
we will not only be solid in building up
a common unity, but solid in our efforts
to save the souls of all people.”
He said he never had any patience
with that sentiment that would raise
large amounts of money to convert the
Chinese, when at the same time, right
here at home, were poor, perishing
black men. Said he, “I believe any
colored man sitting back there is a gen
tleman and a scholar by the side of a pig
tail Chinese, when you go to measuring
him on his race. But he loved the Chi
namen also, as well as all of the inhabi
tants of the islands of the sea. When
God converted him he put his hand into
the hand of every man on earth and made
him his brother in Christian love and
kindness.
In speaking of selfishness as a despicable
human characteristic, Mr. Jones said that
selfishness was the reason that there liad
not been better and happier times in the
past. “Selfishness,” said he, “will divide
and split up families and bring about dis
cord and disagreement between friends.”
He said lie had said before and would re
peat it, that he believed hell itself was
nothing more nor less than selfishness on
fire.
“If religion is anything in the world it
is harmony,” said he. “When we get
our hearts full of the love of God and hu
manity. God will set the ten command
ments to music in our souls, then there
will be music in our lives that will charm
the very ear of angels as they listen.”
“I know what the Lord can do for a
man; iust take a glance at your humble
servant, it don’t look like He has done
much for me, but, thank God, He has
taken out of my heart all ill will, bitter
ness and unkindnessto my fellowmen.
I’ll tell you another thing, a man don’t
know the secret of a happy life until he
gets where he loves his neighbor as him
self.”
“Let us all, brethren, get of one heart,
then we are going to have sympahy for
our fellowmen. Christ had the deepest
sympathy for every human being that
walked the earth.”
“I tell you, my brother, to-day there
are many poor fellows in this world that
need sympathy; my, my! how it tells.”
“I’ll tell you another thing, whenever
you get your heart up close to Christ and
the great heart of His love presses on
your soul, you are going to pour it out on
the world. A heart full of sympathy for
our race. I want hearts full of sympathy
for one another.” :
“There are men in Cartersville in to
whose houses Christian, sympathizing
men have not been for fiye, maybe ten
years.”
“The time has come in Cartersville
when there is no reason why we should
not go into every home with love and
sympathy for the inmates. You may
take the man, whom you think is the
worst enemy God has in Cartersville, and
if you sit down and talk with him, he
will tell you he wants to be a better man,
and wants to do right and get to heaven,
but he has had no one to sympathize
with him, he will tell you that, and will
tell you they have abused me and talked
about me, and nobody is a friend to me.
Let me say to any man in this town, from
the very depths of my soul, if you will
walk up and put your heart against my
heart you will realize that there is one
heart in Cartersville that beats in sympa
thy and love for you. There is no one in
Cartersville that I would not get down
on my knees and pray that God to give as
good a home in heaven as to my wife and
children.”
Mr. Jones earnestly urged a settlement
of all differences or disagreements exist
ing between people. Urged them to go
right up to the person and make friends,
he also urged them not to wait for “the
other fellow” to come first with friendly
overtures, but to go right ahead, said he,
“All the devil wants you to do is to wait;
let’s you and I, before the sun goes do wn,
hunt* everybody to whom we have not
spoken, or with whom we have not been
friendly, and make up our friendship. I
recollect once I preached on love at a cer
tain place, I went home to the preacher’s
house, his wife was all disturbed in her
mind, and when I questioned her as to
what the matter was, she said there was
a lady acquaintance in town who did not
speak to her—who was angry with her—
I’ll tell you what to do, said I: You go
andput your bonnet on and go down and
beg the other woman’s pardon and make
up all differences.”
“But she is to blame,” said the lady.
“Well, you just go down and beg her
pardon for her meaness to you.”
She went down, and after awhile came
back, her face wreathed in smiles. “Oh,”
said she, “it is all right. I went to the
house and rang the bell, the door was
opened by the lady herself, she met me
sosweetly and said she was just coming
to our house to see me and make friends.”
“Don’t you see the Lord was working
on both ladies, and whenever God tells
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you to straighten a thing out, lie is over
there at work on the other fellow too.”
“I believe the best kind of a prayer is
the prayer of a little boy, who had
roughly handled a pair of goats he was
driving to his little cart, and he in turn
had received a threshing from his father
for the manner he had treated them. He
prayed God’s forgiveness on himself, and
then prayed, ‘Good Lord do help the
goats that they may not be mean any
more.’ Just pray,‘Good Lord, I am going
to straighten out, help the other fellow
to straighten out too,’ that’s the way to
settle it.”
“If you all want to settle to-day you
never had as much cash on hand to settle
with, and you never had a debtor as easy
to settle with as you have. My Father in
heayen, bring a’l differences to an end
and make us a people with one heart.”
“Boys, young men, listen. If there is
any difference between you settle it with
love. There have been troubles and quarrels
and difficulties in Cartersville, and it always
pained my heart to listen to any disturbance. A
bad spirit, temper, enmity, unkindess, ill will,
will ripen into something worse. Sin does not
come like a flash or fall like a rock from a
heighth but it grows larger and larger until
some day it has the mastery and will over
power you. Oh, my Saviour, what would I not
give to-day if Cartersville had been without
enmity, blood would not have been spilt upon
our streets, the cry, the wail from a broken
heart need not have gone up, ‘Oh, where is my
wandering boy to-night?’ My God, eternity must
answer that question. Good Lord forgive me if
I ever had an evil, unkind thought towards any
body, I’ll tell you right now if you have got
“BY til Jig against me, and think I have got any
thing against you, 3? soon as this meeting is
out, if vou will come up ht-FC T will hug you un
til, maybe, I will break some ot J0 y } r fibs.
[Laughter.] I will settle it to-day. And you
will be happier if you settle these things. God
says I w ill give you one heart, and it shall be
full of love and sympathy, in unity and harmony
for our race. In addition to one heart, God
give us one way. Cartersville has had too many
ways of doing things. I will tell you we have
got about twenty different ways in the Methodist
church. If you sit down and see it as God sees
it, the Methodist and Baptist churches have
about twenty different ways to serve God and
get to heaven. God says, ‘I give you one road
and one way.”
“I will tell you, pastors, suppose we hold a
meeting and call up our dancing members and
card playing members, and swear them and ask
them on their oaths if dancing and card playing
will help us on our way to heaven, make us
more efficient as Christians, make us love God
and our neighbors more, and if they answer that
they do, then let us adopt them in our religious
platform as the means of grace; but if you don’t
think them to be a help, let us fall into the same
way with Christian people and live one way in
righteousness. Let us fall into one plan, but be
sure you fall into the best plan for the glory of
Gon and the salvation of men.”
Mr. Jones preached to show the differ
ent ways of church members, and in his
own inimitable way tairly excoriated the
dancing and card-playing members of
churches. Mr. Jones also handled
church members and did not hold
family prayer, that members who neg
lected prayer meeting and other Christian
duties in and out of the church, and he
handled them without gloves. Mr.
Jones said, “I have never found but one
way to be religious and that is to be re
ligious; I have never found but one way
to do right and that is to do right; I haye
never found but one way for a man to
quit his meanness and that is for him to
quit his meanness. That’s the only rule
that men can rely on. Let’s you and I
reach the point where we can see that
Heaven is worth the effort of trying to
attain it, and that salvation from sin is
worth the effjrt, and that salvation from
hell is worth the effort. Anything will
beat going to hell. Well then, give me
that thing that if I do it, I will not go
to hell.
Mr. Jones touched up the dancing
and card-playing church members, char
acterizing them as “little flip jigs,” and
brought them out in strong colors thus:
“You are not worth the powder and lead
to kill you and you know it, and when
you come to die you don’t want the crowd
you’ve been dancing with around you,
and you know that too. I said to one of
the best boys in Cartersville ‘you have
had a symmetrical, beautiful Christian
character, will you mar that character
and despoil one of the most beautiful
Christian lives by going to dances? Ah
me, I would not mar such a Christian
character if I were you.’ ”
He spoke also of the loss of parental
authority and said, “How many parents
hear my voice now who have not lost
control over their children —in the sense
when you tell them you don’t want them
to do certain things, and they tell you
they don’t care whether you want them
to or not. You are going to let your
children run on that line until, like
some hordes I have seen, they are not
roing to kick as long as you let them
aave their way, but just check them up
and. then they will kick—they will kick
the dashboard out first and then you
next. Ah, fathers! mothers! beware
what you are doing. I would rather see
my children, and you may say they are
the worst children in town, I had rath
er see my children in their coffins than
to see them the constant associates of
some of your children. Now what do
you say? There are some boys and
girls in Cartersville that are a disgrace
and their parents are members of the
church. I don’t mean your children
with beards on their faces; I mean
those ‘pin feather’ chaps, and they are
ruining you too. You can’t depend on
them for anything; you doa’t know
where they are and what they are do
ing. You pan just hold them up be
tween you and the moon, (you need
not use sunshine) and tead the record
of miserable misspent lives. It is time
for us parents to w ake up, If everybody
in Cartersville would “check up” the
thing and let it kick out, once for all,
and put a stop to it forever. Now,
maybe you will all fall out wi h me,
but God bless you, that don’t help your
mean children, and they are going to
get worse if something is not done. I
am going to tie and block mine btfore
they shall run with that crowd.
“You say if my children don’t go out
they wont get into society. There is
many promising marriagable fellows in
Cartersville. Ycu will miss it if you
don’t get your daughters in society. I
say it because I believe it, if your daugh
ters were to marry them, the very next
day they would put up on the bride’s or
the groom’s father, and they would be
simply burdens. A large proportion of
the young men of this town are of no ac
count to themselves, their parents or
their country. 1 mean this, and thinking
people will agree w-ith me.
I “Instead of all the time talking about
peace, heaven and purity hereafter, let
us talk ot it as being down here. In
stead of singing ‘Oh to be nothing, noth
ing,’ let us sing ‘Oh, to be somebody
in the love of Christ aud doing good to
the world. Instead of singing ‘Surely
the Captain may depend on me,’ and
then doing nothing at all, let us, you
and I get up and get our old musket
and rub it up, and get our cartridge
box and go up to the front and battle
for God and righteousness. We have
been running a kind of syllabub senti
ment long enough, let us now be up
and doing. I want to leave this county
better. I don’t want to die and leave it
in the condition its in.”
Mr. Jones drew a beautiful but pa
thetic prophetic picture of his children
grown to the estate of men and women,
and concluded by asking, ‘‘What will
the children of to-day be twenty years
hence?”
“Whenever you all think about bring
ing whisky back to Cartersville and
selling it here again, I want you to re
member that there is one poor father
who will have his heart broken. May
God keep that temptation away from
my children forever. [Exclamations of
“It’s gone now forever.”] I told you
all before that I hsd a big task on my
hands and I asked every father and
mother in Cartersville to help me raise
my children right. When they asked
me how I tokl them that if they began to
raise their children right there w ould be
no evil children in the community to
contaminate my children. Suppose w r e
all go into copartnership and say God
being our helper nothing demoralizing
shall occur here.”
Mr. Jones spoke in grateful terms of
the beautiful home God had given him,
and of how he had sacredly and solemn
ly [£a ted it to God. Nothing he said,
that Go<Twoilld disapprove should hap
pen there. He he wished every
home in Cartersville vas dedicated to
God. He finished his and im
pressive sermon by praying lof ( ‘ s
blessing upon this people and beseeching
them to be of one heart and one way a*
to serve God the rest of their days. '<
The actual good done by the meeti*
is simply incalculable. Its influence (
good has permeated almost every fami
worldly, indifferent and outspoken v'
lators of divine law have been convex
ed, weak Christians strengthened aj
backsliders reclaimed. Never befq
has Cartersville been so religious, am
is not a sad, sorrowful or moody religir
but a joyous, happy one, and the wrH
who lias looked upon the whole with tfe
passionate eyes is constrained to belit>
that the effect is of a permanent ch;
acter. "
Thousands of people who came from adjo- 1
ing counties and states have ieturned to tIJ
homes doubtless similar l / affected and
ed.
in all of the vast and changing crowds tl'
attended the services, not a sign of intoxicat?
liqnor was seen upon a single individual. f J
most perfect quiet prevailed. The stores r \
other places of business were closed during the
hours of services. There were some conversions
that surprised the people aud sent thrills of joy
through their beings—some almost marvelous.
Rev. Dr. Leftwich, of Nashville, made many
warm friends during hia stay here. His elo
quence, sound and true reasoning and loving
heart were of great power in the meeting.
Toward the close of the meeting a collection
was taken up for the permanent improvement
of the tabernacle grounds, and between nine
hundred and a thousand dollars were collected.
Among the subscriptions was one from Mr.
Morgan Rogers, of Renfroe, Ala., who gave a
carload of lumber delivered here, cut in any
way desired.
L.ay in Your Winter Supply of Coal.
To whom it may concern:
I am selling coal this season same as I have
done for the past eight years, with increased fa
cilities. Can furnish any coal and in any quan
tity wanted, from Pennsylvania Anthracite to
the Montevallo coal, Alabama. Will be glad to
have the orders of all my old customers that
have paid me, and others that will favor me
with their business.
Very respectfully,
SAM. F. MILAM, Agent.
Cartersville, Ga.. Sept. 14. 1886,
at City Council Chamber; Yard on
Church street.
The Pansy Society of Rome.
Those who were at the Tabernacle last
Saturday were particularly struck with
the noble little band of Christian workers
from Rome, the Pansies, and they were
the recipients of many favorable re
marks. Rev. Sam. Jones paid them a
merited and beautiful tribute. He in
formed the audience of their noble deeds
and said that they reminded him of
Christ —going about doing good. The
Pansy society is composed of Sunday
school children of Rome, who by their
own exertions, contribute largely to the
welfare of indigent persons and scatter
ing the gospel. They have raised in
the past nine months over four hundred
dollars which has been devoted to inking
care of those that were sadly in need.
Besides doing this they have erected and
handsomely furnished a neat little church
near the Rome cotton factory, where
services are held as regularly as in the
churches of the city. Around every
lactory there are scores of poor children
whose parents are compelled, from foree
of circumstances, to keep at how*, and
their lot in many cases are miserable in
deed. These blessed little Pansies are
looking for just such children and no
time is lost in bringing the poor inno
cent ones into the fold. They are clothed
and if necessary fed. What a reward
awaits the noble little Pansies in Heaven !
And what a noble example they set tor
other children! We believe the little
Pansies from Rome have inspired our
own Cartersville children, and we hope
and believe a like organization w ill be
inaugurated h< re.
By a little exertion the Pansies have
contributed largely to the indigent of
Rome. By holding fairs occasionally
they have raised considerable money.
They take the money given them by
their parents to buy candy with and do
nate it to their cause. They make dolls
and sell them at their fairs, the pro
ceeds of the sale going towards sustain
ing the poor. Rome has just cause to be
proud of this noble little band of Chris
tian workers.
Quadruple silver-plated ware, the lar
gest assortment, prettiest designs and
lowest prices ever seen in Cartersville, at
Turner & Baker.
Turnip Seed, at Curry’s.
OUR MINERALS IN BIRMINGHAM.
To Make Steel Birmingham will Depend
on this Section for Material.
For several months Tiik Courant has
noticed strange gentlemen prospecting,
in company with our local mineralo
gists, around the mountains of this im
mediate vicinity, but when any attempt
was made to find out anything nothing
of their operations would be divulged.
Rumors flew' thick and fast to the effect
that the vast EUnvali mineral property
was being negotiated for by a steel com
pany of Birmingham. In the past few
months Birmingham has become very
much agitated over the question of steel
manufacture, and when it w r as found
that the necessary material could be found
there are in this vicinity they immedi
ately organized a company and are now'
building the furnaces. It will be sever
al months before these furnaces can be
placed in operation, but wiien they do
go in operation they will employ con
siderable labor in mining the minerals
w'anted here. On the subject Mr. G. B.
West, the regular correspondent of the
Baltimore Manufacturer's Record , has
written his journal a long and interest
ing letter, extracts from which are pub
lished belowr.
Ido not know how long ago it is
since Mr. de Bardeleben got his origi
nal inkling of the presence of Bessemer
steel at Cartersville, Georgia, but am
pretty sure that it w r as not before the
first of January last. Since that time a
few of his friends have been waiting
impatiently for his play to develop, and
it has now with a vengeance. With his
customary prudence, he appeared to be
very busy buying corner lots in town,
and the majority of his rivals in the
field of large local operations supposed
rision.
Cartersville is on the East and West
Alabama railway, which line is built
this way 110 miles to Broken Arrow.
From the latter point Mr. de Bardeleben
is extending the road 18 miles to his
Ilenry-EUen mines, thence 14 miles to
Birmingham, and thence 12 miles to his
new steel town of Bessemer. At Besse
mer he is erecting two furnaces, each 75
feet high with 17 feet bosh, and together
capable of producing 300 tons of Besse
mer pig per diem. lie is building a
standard guage coal road out into the
neighboring coal field, a large area in
which is owned by himself and asso
ciates, and he is offering large induce
ments to everybody in the iron and steel
manufacture to come and locate with
him. Bessemer occupies a 5,000 acre
townsite about 11 or 12 miles south of
Birmingham, and in the centre of most
of our mining and other enterprises. A
mining and furnace community of sev
eral thousand working people and their
families is already on the ground.
A Pleasant Gentleman.
We cannot refrain from speaking in
complimentary terms of Mr. Reed, as
he is going to leave us next Monday.
With his elegant photograph ear he has
been in our midst for several weeks, and
we are glad to learn that his presence has
been appreciated by our people. He has
turned out some as good work as ever
was executed in any gallery north or
south, and we have yet to hear of any
dissatisfaction whatever among his nu
merous patrons. By his gentlemanly
deportment he has captured a host of
friends, who will always be glad to learn
of his success wherever he goes. He is
one great big three hundred pound piece
of downright cleverness, and sports a
heart fully commensurate with hi 9
avoirdupois. He will leave Monday and
will take a few more photographs yet.
We will miss him when he is gone.
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