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Spirit-Flowers.
BY C. D. STUART.
1 rcaac child stood by its mother’s side,
Watching the shining mold
■Va crave, fresh scooped from old grave dust,
o y , aextoa grey and old;
.. j -why do they bury us, mother dear,
pown m the earth so cold ?”
Of >,;kcd, as she gazed at the grave fresh scooped
' Kytbe sexton grey and old.
-pe earth is not cold, my darling child,”
the mother said;
-I;. bosom is warm, and to sleep and rest.
Gently we bury the dead;
w bosom is warm, my darling child,
to,I under the .ran and shower,
iy soul will rile from its quiet sleep,
' l beautiful hr:; or Lower.
jtd angels will bear it up, my child,
l,io the heaven above,
o r again to droop or die,
' pat bloom in the light of love;
r. f ‘un'a warm rays at d the shining dew,
"lie shapes of t o angel band
fbii, sent to gather the spirit flowers,
l),tr the grave turf stand.”
ud silent, the young child answered not,
But knew, from that blessed honr,
why she had gaaed and wondered so much
it every beautiftl! flower;
yvtn in after years, the breath
' of the flowers was sweeter far ;
led up to the Spirit-land,
‘ o«r the shining alar I
DIE NEW SOULOF JOHN MARKHAM
,T THE AUTHOR OF THE "IIASIIEESI! EATER.”
FirTF.K.’v years had rolled away since last!
in the market place of the city of Hart
I left it when the turf was green, and
-v tbiusbes was making music in the elms -
ttnrf was green, the birds were singing now.
: jjtr a staid man in black go by, gravely,
to the children, and knew he was the
^t el clergyman, but not the one I left there.
r f(T * were countrymen standing by their carts
;;Le market; women chaffering with penny-
i. ::b purchasers in the stalls; carriages driv-
.. in the streets, filled with ladies on an air-
7. from the watering place near by; old men
^ young men, women and girls—the manner
-• i;te was even as when I left it; the forms,
if :ice* of that once familiar life were forever
Ah! fifteen years make great differences
j i returning man. Wherever he may have
j them—in a home as cheerful as the one
Oiadoned. amidst the caresses of the beloved,
aminded by pleasant prospects, fondled by
..perity—if he will go back to the old place,
him remember that a chilly pain in the
ttiti awaits him there, when he shall see
it trees and houses and the very street stones
at, but the living pass and are forgotten.
But when a man has spent his absence as I
jat mine—for I had not been on the conti-
ct, listening now to Rose Cheric, now to Thal-
sr, now to the cathedral cadences of Velino,
are the floods break from his resounding
wonder the ever-blue arch of the Italian sky;
ad not been wafted to the Upper Cataracts,
cbed in the nepenthe of that air which lulls
ilowadji; I had not bcenliving with friends
a shoulder to shoulder, worked with me
:?iully in the daytime, or welcomed me at
;:t to a glowing household hearth in a room
ire my children sat upon my knee, where
• rosy firelight danced with the shadow on
mil, where a woman beloved hushed down
hsiuess echoes in my heart with a rich old
-ii, in a soft, young voice.
ionotfiftftn rail Tip tltne* fiftoon
tielnncboly, maddening ghosts. But when
the music with which they stalk into my
:^bt* is such at this: A monotonous sound
naimers—clink, clink, clink—aways in the
remeasure, and broken only by the fall of
,:e fragments: a heavy clang of iron doors
ratasly Bhut to in reverberating corridors,
i nothing but my own breathing, my own
:be coming afterward; for I rpent my fifteen
urs in prison.
l)o you ask how I came there ? The story
vi a iong one. I was a junior partner in
s banking house of my elder brother near
Word. One evening about nine o'clock, as
»w leaving the steps of my lodging, a heavy
nd fell upon my shoulder, and I turned to
tt i sheriffs officer, with his assistant, stand-
l; dote to me. On the opposite side of the
awt the light shone merrily from the window
i the troman I loved. I was on my way to
»*« her invitation, and felt, as every true
nafeels on such an errand, gentle towards all
amity. So I did not roughly push aside
it interloper’s hand, as ordinarily I would
ait done, but quietly moved out from under
i ud said “My man, there is some mistake,
1st. You have taken the wrong person.”
Any one who knpws what it is to lose so
snpletely, in a fearful dream, the self-posscs-
k* on which he would steady himself, that he
fu bo longer say, “This is only a dream,
kt begins to know that it is actual, will ren-
-ttbow the awful truth broke ou me in an ra-
s °t »s the officer answered—
"That won’t do; you are John Markham,
- Hartford. In the name of the Conunon-
'•-ih, I arrest you for forgery.” Just then,
stbc opposite side of the street, the curtain
•ttt down at tho window, and, knowing
1 ®J soul that it dropped forever between
•• tad the one being who in her heart held
- things for which I lived, I felt a quick
■ - chuiider run through me, and my knees
^ tc together like a coward’s- I said P° morc
* *ent with my captor.
first night in jail! Ah* that was tern-
*! The clammy, echoing stones of the floor
Jo which I paced in tho darkness did not
^ ate by their hardness. The foul coarse
- ’ on which, at intervals, I threw myself
bewildered weariness, did not chafe me
ytfscoflin narrowness. I was beyond hurt
Jssach things; for, in the five minutes be-
■■ (ta my lodgings and my cell, I had become
that I was brought to a position whose
■.■■ate awfulness could not be equalled by
Jjihiag else on earth. (Quicker by far than
lEta *rite, yet in this channel had my thoughts
brother, three days ago, gave me in pri-
v 'iheavy draft, to be collected at another
.‘‘‘tog-house, drawn in his favor by one of
? c itresDondents, and endorsed by another,
‘'sunnier that he looked restless when he
t* 1 'it to me; that he hurried from the room
i^ely afterward. I presented the draft;
['Waved tho money; it was put into his
*>•; the books which I keep bear no ac-
: -i ofit. Ho forged the paper—I nrn the
^Wed one. I have no means of proving
^nce. unless, perhaps, by proving his
That, most likely, is impossible. 4*
3 r *ie, what a terrible step for a man to take
gat hi* dead mother’s only other child!
has a lovely wife whom it would slay.
2 1 have; oh God! shut out the im-
-."jfrom me!—I must not sec it; I shall go
i tb*» groove my thoughts rolled back and
••“ard through the night. Facing this altcr-
1 atood till the day of my trial—just
j*r tuc >nth. My brother came often to see me;
Kj^hed tears and embraces on ine ; he re-
, for me the best of counsel—yet be nl-
I s *e»aaed like one in tho delirium of a fever,
' (v *r, just as the turnkey swung back the
’ *’.v door to let him out, he would stop for a
trembling and with his lips half open-
j, if about to say something more to me—
l o» *' lllou t meeting my eye, he would rush
we cell. Suffering as I was—suffering
wore, as I was about to be, from the c<5n-
1 of his sin—I could pity him deeply,
-rbear with the cowardice which could
*»; fori knew how priceless liberty
to a man who, losing it, leaves his
other soul in that most heart-broken of all
widowhood—the widowhood of a convict’s wife.
She whom I loved visited me many times
always bringing me sweet messages in her pre'
sence from the birds, and the flowers, and the
freesky outside—always talking with a voice
intensely sustained into cheerfulness of my ac.
quittal, and restoration to our old hopes. ]
told her I was innocent, and she believed me
I could not tell her who was guilty.
My trial came on. I need not pain myself
with a long recital of the thronged court, the
weary questionings and cross-questionings, the
audible silence of the crowd when the pleas
were made, and then the moment whose shadow
fell upon me when the foreman solemnly said
“guilty”—that other moment when I was con
demned to the awful alienage of prison for the
fifteen years to come.
Then I parted from home and friends. My
brother did not bid me good-by; he lay sick of
a raging fever, on whose chances hung life.
But she—the holy, the heroic—had borne all
things and came to sec me go. She clasped
my manacled hands in her own, she pressed one
long, last kiss upon the convict’s lips, and said,
with solemn cheerfulness, “I will wait for
you!" Then, with a superstition which, friv
olous though it seem, still crept into the awful
ness of that hour, I stopped my watch, and
vowed inwardly that its kind should never more
move till we met again.
After that the gates of my prison opened to
let in but one message from the life outside.
The chaplain brought me a lock of well-known
soft brown hair, and told me, with a tear in his
eye, that an old man had given it to him for me,
saying, “My daughter is with God. She died,
whispering that she would wait for John Mark
ham.”
I endured the knowledge of her death with
a benumbed patience, uncomplaining, rarely
weeping a single drop. I went through the
unvarying round of aay-iabor in the prison-
yard with a steady, mechanical industry, which
surprised my task-master—for heretofore I
had been taunted as “the weak gentleman,”
white fingers,” and whatever other epithets of
insult the hardened bullies of discipline are
accustomed, at discretion, and without fear of
resentment, to confer upon the wretched in
their grasp. At evening I held up the tress in
to the faint twilight which just filtered through
my grates, and, kissing it, seemed to see her bv
me—for I conld never think of her as dead.
That realization was kindly spared me by the
fact that no new void can be felt, no new un
naturalness, in the eternal void and unnatural
ness of a prison.
But one night, coming from work, I found
the tress gone. Asking the turnkey for it, I
was told, “Prisoners arc allowed no useless ar
ticles.” From that moment I knew that she
whom I loved was dead. Like a wild freshet,
the agony of that knowledge gushed in upon
me. With it came the memory of my burn
ing wrongs—the scorn of man spent upon my
innocent head—the perfidy of my only brother
—the irredeemable hopelessness of all things.
And I shat myself up in a sullen, silent mad
ness. A most dangerous madness it was. From
the time that I lost the tress, five years were
to elapse before I went out, and if, in that time,
a revolt had sprung up in prison, I had died
fighting in its front—for I was ripe for any
crime. As it was, I only bode my time.
oiiso^Stj^Jn^aw—oii’ mjTowff brotflefl '
The five years passed—five years of dust,
and clinking in theyard—of darkness, mutte-
ing, low, smothered heart-burning in the cell.
At last, one morning, the warden threw open
my door, and I passed out with the slow, lock-
step which I had been practicing nearly the
quarter of a lifetime. I was going to chapel
with the rest to hear of the Prodigal Son and the
Magdalen—they, the guilty, but the welcomed
1, the innocent, yet the thrust out. But the
officer stopped me with these three words—
You are free!”
I did not cheer, nor wring the man’s hands,
nor even smile. One grows used to forget
these ways of the world, after fifteen years in
^ But the revenge which, little by little, had
stretched its fibrous roots through the soil of
my heart till every drop of life-juice went to
nourish the plant, now begin to put forth its
blossoms, and I felt them bud into an ecstatic,
poisonous fragrance. My sweet, long-hopcd-
] 'or hour had come! In a few moments, more,
tho despised convict should burst from his
motley chrysalis, and then be rushing like a
winded Nemesis to settle accounts with a world
which had the start of him by fifteen years.
I went to the prison wardrobe and got back
that dress which, in the days long gone, I had
put off with the rest of my humanity. They
were clean, and fastidiously gentlemanlike, as
when I left them- I seemed, for a moment, at
their sight, to be waking from the terrible
eternity of bad dreams—to finding 4 them folded
by my bedside where they had lain only since
the last night. , ,
I had come in with the majesty of the law—
it guard on either side. I went out alone; no
danger was apprehended of my escaping fro®
the other prison-the world. Leaving the
high, grey walls behind me, I struck into the
road for Hartford. Had I come out five years
before I might have been inexpressibly soften
ed by the long, unwonted music of the birds,
that, from trees and orchard-walls, made the
air full of their joy. Now I had hvedpast the
time when such things could touch me, and
walked still in the lock-step, looking neither
about nor forward, but ever moodily on the
ground. And thus, late in the afternoon, 1
came whither the commencement of my recital
finds me, and stood in the market-place of the
town which I had last seen fade out behind me,
as I went away in scorn.
No wonder that by all pqssers I was stared
at as an oddity—something to be suspected and
shrunk from ; for my grizzled hair was of the
prison cut. my clothing had gone ont of fash
ion when the fathers in the street were chil
dren, and, not from fear, but long use, I look
ed no man in the face. And here and there,
in knots, the people whispered about me—
something with an evident carelessness as to
how loud. But I only nursed a deeper and
more quiet wrath.
There came along then a throng of children,
inst from school. Stepping up to one of them
[asked, “Does George Markham still Ido in
this place?" The little girl, turned up a sun.
ny spring-morning face, and answered, l am
his daughter, sir—do you want to see him ?
A hellish thought suggested itself to me. I
said—"Yes, you may show me the way to Ins
house.” I knew wo should tako across path
over the fields, and pass a long reach of loncly
woods. In the most solitary part of that path
I migh wreak upon.the guilty head of George
Markham, the most terrible vengeance which
could wipe out his bitter wrong to me. I would
kill his child, and bring her home to him, con
fessing that I did it, and glorying m the end
of that horrid game of quits, on whose first
throw he had staked my heaven and lost it.
The little maiden took my hand, confidingly.
That might unnerve me ; so I loosed it, am
lo’scSac-k he^curlsrandwen t bounding ahead
SlcalicdTo'thcchild to «op, ..yioB that
I must look for something I had dropped. She
obeyed, and stood amusing herself with mak
ing wreaths of the violets which grew by the
water-course, while I stooped to find a heavy
stone which might do my bidding of vengeance
surely and silently. All around me in the bed
of the brook were nothing but pebbles. I walk
ed a few steps further down in my quest, and
went out of sight around a clump of alders.
The little girl must have thought me leaving
her, for all at once I heard her call, gently, ,,I
am waiting for you!"
Gracious God! Who spoke 1 .Do the lov ed
that are forever lost cry to us ont of paradise?
“Iam waiting for you !”■—the very message
that, five years ago, floated down through my
prison-bars from her whom the Father had just
numbered with his saints.
I stood up and wandered back, more dream
ing than awake, to the spot where George
Markham’s daughter still staid plaiting violets.
She turned to me with a smile, and said, “ I
did not mean to hurry you, sir, but my father
is very, very unwell, and I ought to be at
home. Will you please tell me how late it is?”
For the first time after those fifteen prison
years, in which, knowing toil and darkness
only, I had asked no other measurement of
time, I mechanically put my hand to my breast,
and drew out my restored watch. Was I sane?
The second hand, stopped at the last kiss of
agony given me by my beloved, whether by
miracle, or the agitation of my grasp, I know
not, suddenly moved on. Like a lightning
flash rushed on me the memory of my vow—
Till we meet, this watch shall never count
time again
Yes, we had met—met in that voice of quiet
waiting—met in this wondrous omen' of the
watch—met when I knew it not—when she
was seen by none but God and her sister
angels. And the wrathful embers went out in
the breast of John Markham, and viewlessly
hovering over hiui, the Iong cherished dead
smiled blissfully as she saw that in that mo
ment there bad entered into him a new soul.
I clasped the little one in my arms. I told
her that her father was my only brother, and
then waited humbly to see her recoil from the
loathsome convict. But with child-like joy
she hugged me closer around the neck, and
cried, “ Oh, I am so glad! I am so glad!—
Poor papa has been talking about you these
four days, and saying—but oh, he must not
die!—‘ I cannot die tUl John comes home!’ ”
With a reverent step, and bowing low, I
came into the room of my dying brother. His
pale face flushed and paled again as he saw
me, and then hiding it in the pillow, he cried,
“Look not on me. God is wreaking his
wrath on the devil who wasted your life!”
“ Not so, my brother,” I answered, solemn
ly; “I from my soul forgive you. How much
more shall He who pitieth his children ? For
e, He hath this day wiped out the past like
tablet; and looking up to Him as both of us
condemned in his sight, let us join hearts, mak
ing no difference. My brother!” . , . ...
t v.„i j l •„ • to bo spurious and worthless. I have heard of the
I held Dim on my breast through the waxing p e0 p] e crowding in the morning, the afternoon, and
The Great Revival in America
A SERMON,
RECENTLY DELIVERED IN LONDON.
BT THE
REV. C. H. SPURGEON.
When the.heroes of old prepared to fight, they
pat on their armor ; bnt when God prepares for bat
tle, he makes "bare his arm.” Man has to look two
ways—to his own defense, as well as to the offense of
his enemy ; God hath bnt one direction in which to
cast his eye—the overthrow of his foeman; and ha
disregards all measures of defense, and scorns all
armor. He makes fare his arm in the sight of all the
people. When men would do their work in earnest,
too, they sometimes strip themselves, like that war
rior of old, who, when he went to battle with the
Turks, wonld never fight them except with the bare
arm. “Such things as they,” said he, “I need not
fear; they have more reason to fear my bare arm
than I their scimitar.” Men feel that they are pre
pared for a work when they have cast away their
cumbrous garments. And so the prophet represents
the Lord as laying aside for a while the garments of
his dignity, and making bare his arm, that ho may
do his work in earnest, and accomplish his purpose
for the establishment of his Church.
Now, leaving the figures, which is a very great
one, I would remind yon that its meaning is fully
carried ont, whenever God is pleased to send a great
revival of religion. My heart is glad within me this
day, for I am the bearer of good tidings. My soul
has been made exceedingly fall of happiness by the
tioingsof a great revival of religion throughout tho
United States. Some hundred years, or more, ago,
it pleased the Lord to send one of the most marvel
ous religions awakenings that was ever known ; the
whole of the United States seemed shaken from end
to end with enthusiasm for hearing the Word of God;
and now, after the lapse of a century, the like has
occnrred again. The monetir-y pressure has at length
departed; out it has left behind it the wreck of many
mighty fortunes. Many men, who were once princes
have now become beggars, and in America, more
than in England, men have learned the instability of
all human things. The minds of men, thus weaned
from the earth by terrible and unexpected panic,
seem prepared to receive tidings from a better land,
and to turn their exertions in a heavenly direction.
You will be told by any one who is conversant with
the present state of America, that wherever you go
there are the most remarkable signs that religion is
progressing with majestic strides. The great revi
val, as it is now called, has become tho common mar
ket talk of merchants; it is the theme of every
newspaper! even the secular press remark it, for it
has become so astonisning that all ranks and clas
ses of men seem to have been affected by it. Ap-
larentlv without any cause whatever, fear has ta-
:en hold of the hearts of men; a thrill seems to be
shot through every breast at once; and it is affirmed
by men of good repute, that there are, at this time,
towns in New-England where you could not, even if
you searched, find one solitary unconverted person.
So marvelous—I had almost saidso miraculous—has
been the sudden and instantaneous spread of religion
throughout the great empire, that it is scarcely pos
sible for us to believe the half of it, even though it
should be told us. Now, as you are aware, I have
at all limes been peculiarly jealous and suspicious of
revivals. Whenever I see a man who is called a revi
valist, I always set him down for a cipher. I would
scorn the taking of such a title as that to myself.—
If God pleases to make use of a man for the promo
ting of a revival, well and good; but for any man
to assume the title and office of a revivalist, and go
about the country, believing that wherever he goes
he is the vessel of mercy appointed to convey a re
vival of religion, is, I think, an assumption far too
arrogant for any man who has tho slightest degree
of modesty. And again, there are a large number of
revivals, which occur every now and then in our
towns, and sometimes in our city, which I believe
and waning of that strange night—my first
night of liberty—my first night with the new
soul. And he sorrowed with the sorrowing
that needeth no repentance. With a kiss
which brought back the days of our childhood,
at dawn his spirit parted from me. Then, be
side the little girl who had fallen asleep from
—the sleep’o! fo’rgivcncss ana peace*.
The gentle child and I followed him to the
grave. With her I mourned for him in my
new soul.
The day came for the reading of the will.
[Relatives, friends, neighbors, were all collect
ed in the parlor, where my dead brother used
to sit pining remorsefully through the long
evening with his motherless child. Yet the
company sat apart from the returned convict,
looking at me with an evil eye. But I bore it
meekly, with little Rose, in her mourning dress,
nestled against my dress, as if I were the last
thing she had on earth to cling to.
The lawyer opened the will, and began:—
“ In the name of God. Amen. I, George
Markham, banker, of Hartford, being of feeble
body, but of sound disposing mind and memo
ry, do hereby constitute this my last will and
testament. _ .
I bequeath my soul to the infinite mercy
of God, if it be possible. I bequeath my name
to the oblivion of all true men who shall know
the truth. That truth I bequeath to my
brother John Markham, not of bounty, but of
immeasurable indebtedness, in my confession
that I alone, and unaided, am the author of
that damnable sin which brought the shadow of
a prison, the loss of all things, on his innocent
head. And, finally, I give and devise, to John
Markham, all my estate, both real and person
al, to have and to hold, to him, bis bcirs, and
assigns forever, confident that ho will so far
have mercy on my guilt as to be iu all things
a father to my only child.”
Then like the friends of Job, my acquaint
ances came back to me, beholding how I was
prospered. Again I stood an upright man in
the face of earth as well as heaven, and none
uttered an ill whisper of me. Now I live alone
with Rose, who has filled the place of the daugh
ter I might have had but for the fifteen years.
She is my child, my companion, my comforter,
my pupil. And never on earth will I bring
any other love between us; for at night, when
I look up into the stars, I hear a low voice say-
ing—
1 am waiting for John Markham!”
Tlic Little Ones in Bed.
A row of little faces by the bed—
A row of little hands upon the spread—
A row of little roguish eyes all closed—
A row of little naked feet exposed.
A gentle mother leads them in their praise,
Teaching their feet to tread jn heavenly ways,
And takes this lull in childhood^ tiny tide,
The little errors of the day to chide.
Then tumbling headlong Into waiting beds,
Beneath the sheets they hide their timid heads ,
Till slumber steals away their idle fears,
And like a peeping bud each face appears.
All dressed like angels in their gowns of white.
They ’re wafted to the skies in dreams of night;
An heaven ifill sparkle in their eyes at morn.
And stolen graces all their waya adorn.
Lowndes Superior Court.
We arc informed that the report is in circu
lation in the county of Lowndes, that the next
Superior Court of that county will not be held,
which report we take occasion to contradict.
Providence permitting, the Court will not on
ly be held, but, as there are no Courts imme*
diately succeeding it. either in this or the au-
joining circuits, will he held until every case
that ern be tried, is tried. It is likely that
special friends who so particularly desired to
have the last term adjourned, who stated that
it was the general wish of the pqpplc that it
should be, and who, when it was adjourned,
upon recommendation of the Grand Jury, went
around and complained of the Judge, li tre
Grass Reporter.
Many a person thinks be is honest because
he has never cheated. Instead of that, he is
only honest because be has never been tempt
ed. What the world calls “innate goodness’
is very often a full stomach, and what it terms
vico
basket.
QCOTll Smith to Jones, “It really is a sin n
Von do not get your pretty house fenced w :
Quoth Jones. - You’re wrong-the placed is fenced
confound it! ... M
My wife is all the time a railing round tt.
to rouse, and say, “I wonder what has happened to
him; how can it be ? Why, he preaches like a man
on fire. The tear runs over at hi3 eye; his son] is
fall love for souls.” They cannot make it out; they
have often said he was dull and dreary and drowsy.
How is it all this is changed ? Why, it is the revival.
The revival has touched tho minister; the sun, shin
ing so brightly, has melted some of the snow on the
monntain-top, and it is running down, in fertilizing
streams, to bless the valleys; and the people down be
low are refreshed by the ministrations or tho man of
God, who has awakened himself up from his sleep, and
A ids himself, like another Elijah, made strong for
ferty days of labor. Well, then, directly after that
tl-e revival begins to touch the people at large. The
congregation was once numbered by tho empty
seats, rather than by the full ones. But on a sudden
—the minister does not understand it—he finds the
pooplo coming to hear him. He never was popular,
never hoped to be. All at once he wakes up and
finds himself famous, so far as a large congregation
can make him so. There are the people, and how
tlisy listen ! They are all awake, all in earnest; they
lean their heads forward, they put Iheir hands to
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th ) Word of Life. And then the members of the
church open their eyes and see the chapel full, and
th'ty say, “How has this come about ? We ought to
iny.” A prayer-meeting is summoned. Therehad
>een five or six in tho vestry; now there are five or
sir hundred, and they turn into the chapel. And oh!
how they pray I That ol<] stager, who used to pray
for twenty minutes, finds it now convenient to con
fine himself to five; and that good old man, who al
ways used to repeat tho same form of prayer when
he stood up, and talked about the horse that rushed
into the battle,and the oil from vessel to vessel, and
MTJSLINS, of every grade;
Bordered Prints, Expan
sion Skirts, French
Lace and Chan
tilly Lace
Mantillas
Domestic Goods of every description
all that, leaves all these things at home, and iust I tt j tt /-, t n* • ,
priys, “O Lord, save sinners, for Jesus Christ’s sake.” Head Ul’CSSeS, GrlOVeS, Hosiery, LOl’
Ai A there are sobs and groans heard in tho prayer opta o n d A rfiVlpci fnv fTio Tmlpf All
meetings. It is evident that not one, but all, hre SetS anQ - iU nCle9 101 lne X01lel: ’ -
jr.iying; the whole again ? Why, it is just the ef- of which being purchased late in the
feit of the revival, for when the revival truly comes, , . ,
the minister and the congregation and the church season, can be Ottered at a great l’eauc-
wIS receive good by it.
Ilut it does not end here. The members of the
church grow more solemn, more serious. Family
duties are better attended to; the homo circle is
brought under better culture. Those who could not
spare time for family prayer, find that they can do so
now; those who had no opportunity for teaching their
children, now dare not go a day without doing it; for
they hear that there are children converted in tho
Sunday-School. There are twice as many in the
Sunday-School now as there used to be; and, what
is wonderful, the little children meet together to
pray; their little hearts are touched, and many of
then show signs of a work of grace begun; and
fathers and mothers think they must try what they
tion on former PRICES. ’
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HUNDREDS OF PICTURES
can do for their families; if'God is blessing little I ™ PH °1" OGR A p HS
children, why should he not bless theirs ? Taken at lus Gallery, surpass any thing ever offered
, why s
And then, when you see the members of the church
going up to the house of God, you mark with what a
to the public, both as regards
Quality and. Price.
he evening, to hear some noted revivalist, and under
his preaching some have screamed, have shrieked,
have fallen down on the floor, have rolled themselves
i convulsions, and have afterward, when he has set
form for penitents, employing ono or two decoy
ducks to run out from the rest and make a confession
of sin, hundreds have come forward, impressed by
that ono sermon, and declared that they were^l^yj)
place^ra ouT'own’country.'glvIng" an account, that
n such a day, under the preaching of the Rev. Mr.
-o-and-so, seventeen persons were thoroughly sanc
tified, twenty-eight were convinced of sin, and twen
ty-nine received the blessing of Justification. Then
comes the next day, so many more; the following
day, so many more; and afterward they are all cast
up together, making a grand total of some hundreds,
who have been blessed during threo services, under
the ministry of Mr. So-and so. All that I call farce .
There may be something very good in it; but the
outside looks to mo to be so rotten, that I should
scarcely trust myself to think that the good within
comes to any very great amount. When people go
to work to calculate so exactly byaritbmetlc.it al
ways strikes me they have mistaken what they are at.
We may easily say that so many were added to tho
church on a certain ocoasion, but to take a separate
census of the convinced, the justified, and the sanc
tified is absurd. You will, therefore, be surprised at
finding me speaking of revival; but you will, per
haps not be quite so surprised when I endeavor to
explain what 1 mean by an earnest and intense de
sire which I feel in my heart, that God would be
deased to send throughout this country a revival
ike thatwhich hasjust commenced in Amerioa, and
which, we trust will long continue there.
First, then, the cause of a true revival. Tho mere
worldly man does not understand a revival: ho
cannot make it out. Why is it, that a sudden fit of
godliness, as he would call it, a kind of sacred epi
demic, should seize upon a mass of people all at once?
What can be the cause of it ? It frequently occurs
in tho absence of all great evangelists; it cannot
be traced to any particular means. There havoheen
no special agencies used in order to hring it about—
no machinery applied, no societies eatabhshod; and
yet it has come, inst like a heavenly hurricane, sweep-
m" everything before it. It has rushed across the
land, and of it men have said, “The wind bloweth
where it listeth; we bear the sound thereof, but we
cannot tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth "
What is, then the cause ? Our answer is, if a revi
val be true and real, it is caused by the Holy Spirit,
and by him clone.
But while this is the only actual cause, yet there
are instrumental causes; and the main instrumental
cause of a great revival must be the hold, faithful,
fearless preaching of the truth as It is in Jesus. But
added to this, there must be the earnest prayers of
the church, Allin vain.themost indefatigable min
istry, unless the church waters the seod sown with
her abundant tears. Every revival has been com
menced and attended by a largo amount of prayer.
In the city of Hew York at the present moment there
is not, I believe, one single hour of the day, wherein
Christians are not gathered together for prayer.—
One church opens its doors from five o clock till six,
for prayer; another opens from six to seven, and
summons its praying men to offer the sacrifice of
supplication. Six o’clock is past, and men are gone
to their labor. Another class find it then convenient
juch as those perhaps, who go to business at eight
nine—and from seven to eight there ia another
prayer meeting. From eight to nine there is another
n another part of the city i and what is most marvel
ous, at high noon, from twelve to one, in the midst of
the city of New York, there is held a prayer-meeting
in a large room, which is crammed to the doors every
day, with hundreds standing outside. This prayer
meeting is made up of merchants of tho city, who
can spare a quarter of an hour to go in and say a
word of prayer, and then leave again ; and then a
fresh company come in to fill up the ranks, so that
it is supposed that many hundreds assemble iu that
one place for prayer during the appointed hour.—
This is the explanation of the revival. If this were
done in London—if we for once would outvie old
Rome, who kept her monks in her sanctuaries al-
getber in supplication, then might wo expect an
abundant outpouring of the Divine Spirit from the
Lord onr God. The Holy Spirit, as the actual agent
—the Word preached, and the prayer* of the people,
as tho instruments—and we have thus explained tho
canse of a true revival of religion.
But now, sekat are the consequences of a revival of
fdieion 1 Why, tho consequences are everything
that our hearts could desiro for the church’s good.
When tho revival of religion oomes into a nation,
tho minister begins to be warmed. It is said that in
America the most sleepy preachers huvo begun to
lu „ „„ . wake np; they have warmed themselves at the gen-
tbis report was set afloat by some of thoso e ral fire, and men who could not preach Tyithout
. . — ■ v * nncirnrl tA
notes, and who could not preach with them to any
purposo at all, have found it in their hearts to speak
ri"ht out, and speak, with all their might to tho peo
ple. When there comes a revival, the minister all
of a sudden finds that the usual forms and conven
tionalities of the pulpit aro not exactly suitable to
the times. He breaks through one hedge; then ho
finds himself in an awkward position, and he has to
break through another. He finds himself perhaps
on a Sunday morning, though a Doctor of Divinity,
actually telling an anecdote—lowering the dignity
of the pulpit by actually using a simile or metaphor
—■sometimes perhaps accidentally making his people
smile, and, what is also a great sin iu these solid tho-
ologians, now and then dropping a tear. He does
not exactly know how it is, hut the people catch no
his words. "I must have something good for them,”
f ~ r omnlv bread- he says. He just burns that old lot of sermons; or
is quite as frequently an empty he puts them under the bed, and gets soma new ones
or gets none at all, but just gets his text, and begins
to cry. “Men and brethren, believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and you shall be saved.” The old deacons
say, “ What is tho matter with our minister V The
old ladies, who have heard him for many years and
slept in the front of tho gallery so regularly, begin
for a very small sum and as natural as life. Call and
and see them—they speak for themselves.
MR. BERUFF,
spOLSsa&aw jp&aaaaso
Is still the Artist at this Gallery.
ASfflMOTIPIS
Taken in superior style and at very low.prices.
Macon, May 25, 1858. tf
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stei dy and sober air they go. Perhaps, they talk on By sendIng a COIunlou Daguerreotype you can
the way, but they talk of Jesus; andif they whisper I J obtain a
together at the gates of the sanctuary, it is no longer 1
idle gossip; it is no remark about, “How do you like
the preacher ? What did you think of him f Did
you notice So-and-so 1" Oh no! "I pray the Lord
that he might bless the word of bis servant, that he
might send an unction from on high, that the dy
ing flame may he kindled, and that where there is
life, it may he prompted and strengthened, and re
ceive fresh vigor.” This is their whole conversa
tion.
Ai d then comes the great result. There is an in
quirers’ meeting held; the good brother who presides
over it is astonished; he never saw so many coming
in his life before. “ Why,” says he, “ there are a
hundred at least come to confess what the Lord has
done for their souls! Hero are fifty come all at once
to say that under such a sermon they were brought
to the knowledge of the truth. Who hath begotten
me these? How hath it come about ? How can it
be? Is not the Lord a greatGod that hath wrought
such a work as this ?” And then the converts who
are thus brought into the church, if the revival con
tinues, are very earnest ones. You never shw such
a people. The outsiders call them fanatics. It is
blessed fanaticism. Others say, they are nothing
but enthusiasts. It is a heavenly enthusiasm. Eve
ry thing that is done is done with such spirit! If
they sing, it islike the crashingthunde£: i£Xha“«rt—a
ihtftAihlt teel thai Ihere'is' something in prayer.—
When the minister preaches he preaches like a
Boanerges, and when the church is gathered togeth
er, it is with a hearty good will. When they give,
they give with enlarged liberality; when they visit the
sick, they do it with gentleness, meekness, and love.
Everything is done with a single eye to God’s glory;
not of men, but by the power of God. Ob, that we
might see such a revival as this !
But blessed be God, it does not end here. The re
vival of the church then touches the rest of society.
Men who do not come forward and profess religion,
are more punctual in attending the means of grace.
Men that used to swear, give it up; they find it is not
suitable for the times. Men that profaned the Sabbath
and despised God, find that it will not do ; they give
it all up. Times get changed ; morality prevails;
the lower ranks are affected. They buy a sermon
where they used to buy some penny tract of non
sensei The higher orders are also touched; they
too are brought to hear the Word. Her ladyship in
her carriage, who never would havo thought of go
ing to so mean a place as a conventicle, does not
now care where she goes so long as she is blessed.
She wants to hear the truth ; and a drayman pulls
his horses up by the side of her ladyship’s pair of
grays, and they both go in and bend together before
the throne of sovereign grace. All classes are af
fected. Even the senate feels it; thestatesman him
self is surprised at it, and wonders what all these
things meuD. Even the monarch on the throne feels
she lias become the monarch of a people better than
she knew before, and that God is doing something in
her realms past all her thought—that a great King is
swaying a better scepter and exerting a better influ
ence than even her excellent example. Nor does it
evenendthere. Heaven is filled. One by one the con
verts die, and heaven gets fuller; the harps of heav
en are louder, the songs of angels are inspired with
new melody, for they rejoice to seethe sons of men
prostrate before the throne. The universe is made
glad; it is God’s own Summer; it is the universal
Spring. The time of the singing of birds is come ;
the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Oh, that
God might send us such a revival of religion as this!
A New Process of Extracting
TEETH.
The Baltimore Patriot says
We yesterday witnessed the trial of a new
process of extracting teeth, by which it was
stated the operation would cause no pain. The
trial was made at our College of Dental Surgery
and the operators were Drs.Harris and Arthur.
It was certainly the most satisfactory trial
of the kind we have over witnessed. A num
ber of teeth were extracted, and the patients
declare they received no pain, but experienced
a numbing sensation about the tooth. This
soothing is produced by passing a current of
electricity tkrougb the tooth at the time of
extracting. The patient grasps firmly in his
hand one pole from an electro-magnetic ma
chine, the -other pole from the machine is at
tached to the forceps, and by this means a cur
rent of electricty is passed through the tooth
and produces a local anaesthesia, and so avoids
the use of chloroform or ether. The amount
of is current adjusted to suit each patient, so as
not to produce unpleasant sensation.
The British War Steamer Styx.
The Havana correspondence of the New Or-
loans Delta, thus refers to this vessel:
“Tho evidence accumulated shows that the
captain of the British war steamer Styx is a
regular drunken brute, that “Charon” has been
long waiting for to ferry over. No other ex
cuse can be given for his outrageous conduct.
Most of his violence has been committed after
dinner debauch. His last adventures were in
the bay of Sagua La Grande, where he passed
on board of fifteen vessels belonging to the
United States, with marine guards, making
forced entry, visitation and search. We have
not a vessel of war in these waters. If this
Rover of the infernal regions should be met
with by a vessel of war, she ought to be blotted
out at once for her continued piratical acts,and
then let the explanation be sought for by John
Bull. This captain of the Styx had also a for
age on shore, under pretence for looking up
negroes that had never been landed: With
an armed force, he penetrated the interior some
fifteen or twenty miles, and got what he really
sought for his larder— chickens anti pigs—so
say°the poor negroes he robbed, not having
paid out a dime. This is one of the representa
tives of the proud navy of proud Britain, become
a by-word of scorn among honorable men—as
a worthless bandit of the sea—a low, mean,
picayune thief—and confessing in his common
conversation that money is what he is in pur
suit of. Let him pass to the pit where he be
longs.”
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Particular attention paid to sapplyin
PLANTATIONS & PHYSICIANS
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Macon, Feb. 9, 1858.
NEW DRUG STORE.
ALEX. A. MENARD,
RALSTON'S BUILDING, CHERRY ST., MACON, GA
TT AS iast received and is now opening a fresh
II stock of
Siragu, ITIrdicinca,
(,’hriiiicnlH, .r'-'i., Juslruinenu,
Paints, Oil*,, Dye-Stofli,
Perfumery, Patrul Medi
cines, Piinrmnceutieal
Preparations, Arc.
My Drugs have been selected with strict refer
ence to their purity aud quality; they are firesh and
may bo fully relied on.
13 s * Orders Fnitiifully Executed. ^SPl
IS” - Physicians’ Prescriptions and Family .uedi-
cines put up with neatness and accuracy, at all hours
of the day or night.
LsT A large lot of Artificial Teeth just received
feh 24-tf
House Furnishing Store
FOR SALE.
O WING to the continued bad health, which I am
now afflicted with, and but little prospects of a
final recovery, renders me unfit for business any lon
ger. i air there foie desirous of selling out to an ap
proved. purchaser ou very moderate terms, my entire
stock mid trade now kept in the Brick Store, next
below the Mechanics'Bank consisting of a general
stock of HOUSE FURNISHING supplies, such as
STOVES, RANGES,GRATES: HOLLOW-'WARE
of the very best kind ; TIN WARE of all kinds ;
COPPER, SHEET IRON, BRASS, LEAD, BLOCK
TIN, n:id SHELF COODS, of tho very best; CUT
LERY, ot late importation; with a mechanical bu
siness nttaclied, with my own workmen, who would
be hire 1 at the same time it desired; with the neces
sary Machines aud Tools, Patterns and many other
things ton tedious to mention. This is a business of
THikl V-ONE YEARS' operation, and is a tirrt rate
opening for somo young man just starting in the
world. Will also be sold, if desired, 30 boxes ROOF
ING TIN, 20 do. lc. do. 15 lx. do. and 5 do. 20 by 14,
lx., suitable for customer’s work; together with a
large supply of WIRE, ali Nos., from i to 20, with
all kinds of F I T X1N G suitable to the business.—
Time will be given to *n approved purchaser.
Enquire of B. F. OfclEW, Augusta, Ga.
may 4 Ct
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CRADJLES,
c AND C FIGURES and warranted Blades: SIL-
D VER STEEL SYTHES, SNATHES, SICKLES,
GRASS HOOKS; STRAW R.A KES. f. r sale by
mftv 18 N. WEED, Macon, Ga.
M ADE by EMERY BRO.. and warranted to
work well. BROWN’S VirginiaWheat Thresh
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m a y pQ N.A\ LED,Macon, Ga.
HORSE POWERS.
E MORY’S Celebrated Rail-Road Powers ;
SINCLAIR’S Lever Horse Powers ;
WHITMAN’S Lever Horse Powers,
all of which are warranted to work well, in field or
house. For sale at Manufacturer’s prices, by
may 18 N. WEED, Macon, Ga.
W heat Fasis.
G RANT’S Patent Fan Mills, all sizes ; .
CLINTON’S Celebrated Pan .Jills,.all sizes ;
BROWN’S Virginia ian Mills, all sizes,
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Mackerel and Shad.
O NE HUNDRED packages Mackerel,
10 “ Pickled Shad,
Dailv expected by J. B. & W. A- ROSS.
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~ Bacon-
on nnnLBS. A No. 1. Tennessee Bacon, well
oU.UUU cured and trimmed, in store and iur
sale by BEARDEN «5c GAINES,
may 4—tf
BOEBH/iVE’S
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THE CELEBRATED HOLLAND REMEDY
• FOR
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In all Nervous, Rheumatic, and Neuralgic Affec
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beneficial, and in others effected a decided cure.
This is n purely vegetable compound, prepared on
strictly scientific principles, after the manner of the
celebrated Holland Professor, Boerliave. Because
of its great success in most of the European States,
its introduction into the United States was intended
more especially for thoso of our fatnerland scattered
here and there over tho face of this mighty country. -
Meeting v/ith great success among them, I now offer
it to the American public, knowing that its truly
wonderful medicinal virtues must be acknowledged.
It is particularly recommended to those persons
whose constitutions may have been impaired by the
continuous use of ardent spirits, or other forms of
dissipation. Generally instantaneous in effect, it
finds its way directly to tho seat of life, thrilling and
quickeniig every nerve, raising np the drooping
spirit, onu, in fact, infusing new health and vigor in
the system.
Notice.—Whoever expects to find this a beverage
will be disappointed; but to tho sick, weak and low
spirited, it will prove a grateful aromatic cordial,
possessed of singular remedial properties.
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The gn at popularity of this delightful Aroma has
induced many imitations, which the public should
guard against purchasing. Be not persuaded to buy
anything else until you have given Boerhave's Hol
land Bitters a fair trial. _ One bottle will convince
you how infinitely superior it is to all these imita
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Ep Sold at 6l per bottle, or six bottles for 65, by
the sole proprietors,
BENJAMIN PAGE, JK., & CO.,
Manufacturing Pharmaceutists and Chemists, Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania.
tST Sold in Macon by E. L. STROHECKER *
CO., Z El LIN, HUNT Sc CO., GEORGE PAYNE,
and Druggists generally, throughout the State,
may 18
THRESHING MACHINES,
FAN MILLS,
HORSE POWERS,
GRAIN CRADLES,
SCYTHE BLADES,
GRASS BLADES,
In store and will be sold very low.
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T O tho people oftbe following named counties,
viz: Bibb, Jones, Jasper, Monroe, Crawford,
Upson, Talbert, Pike, Muscogee and Harris. In
presenting you this new improvement in the shape
of a Was hing Machine, we offer you no HUMBUG.
We refer you to the following gentlemen and ladies,
who have tested and seen tested the above, who cer
tify that they wash all kind of clothes clean without
injury. We will sell Family, County or the State
Rights. A. B. BROWN, DAVIS & CO.
Col. Z. H. Clark Sc Lady, Lexington; Hon. _J. T.
Brown, Newnan; Dr. A. R. Welborn, do; Davis Or-
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Elbert; Rev; C. C. White, Newton; John Bryans
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Lady, do ; and a host of others too tedious to name.
These Washing Machines can be had in a few days
at Thomiis B. Fife, Macon, and at John H. Webbs.
in Thomaatou.
[may ll—4t.
Lime, Lime, -Lime,
FROM THE
“CHEWACLA LIME WORKS,”
auabama.
W E are now prepared to furnish any quantity
i from l to 500 bbls) of the above named ar
ticle, equal if not superior in quality to the best Rock
land, at ns low or lower figures than any Lime can be
had in our market.
Masons and contractors v.i’J find it to their inter
est to call. C. CAMPBELL Sc SON,
City papers copy. Agents,
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STRAW CUTTERS!
-p ATE NT Self Sharpening Straw Cutters, warrant-
Jl ed superior to any in Use ;
Hide Roller Cutters;
Georgia Cutting Boxes, for sale by
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j3ent lists,
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