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Clay County Reformer.
S. R. WEAVER, Editor.
VOLUME I.
ONLY TWO WAYS.
IT IS A UNION OF THE WEST
AND SOUTH OK REVOLUTION.
Tb« (Cast Has No Trouble tn Handling
tho Two Old Partlea
The situation is serious. Every
patriot wiil visw with alarm the
naves of discontent and revolt that
are rising higher and higher all over
the land. The question on every body’s
lips s “how is this all going to end?"
There can be but one answer. Plu¬
tocracy must take her hand off the
throat of labor; the money power
must loose its grasp on the industries
of the country or there is going to be
trouble. It is urged that the matter
can bo settled by the ballot But
how? No one claims for one instant
that the present congress is carrying
out tho policy which it was elected
to do. No tine doubts that
tha reason is members have
been bribed, either with office or
money, to betiav the interests of their
onstituents. Since 1878 there lius
been no expression of the people at
the V»a lot box that did not demand
an increase of the currency, and that
direct from the government. Yet
with systematic regularity tho will of
the people, aa expressed at the ballot
box. has been set aside and the de¬
mands of Wall street complied with.
The pe< pie, disappointed with one
party, have gone over to tho other,
like two balky horses, but never with
any belter success. It has been the
same to Wall street whether the peo¬
ple supported the demo, ratic party or
the republican party. Within the
past ten years both old parties have
experienetd a political cyclone that
almost swept them out of existence
But disappointed again the jeoplo
have returned atid resurrected the
corpse of their former love, only to
meet again sad disappointment. The
trouble is that neither one of the two
is any longer in the
hands the people. They
are represented by two machines
and those machines are controlled by
politicians that are in the pay of Wall
atreet. It is ho longer asked is this
measure what the people need, but
bow will it affect the party? Whether
it be a fact that a minority in each
party dictates its policy, or whether
it is a majority that does so, it is
evident that the people no linger do.
Under these conditions what are we
to do? The people will never submit
to the injustice that is being heaped
upon them. The money power is
arming itself to carry on Its usurpa¬
tions by force, if necessary, and tha
people are arming for fr- resistance.
Revolution, with all its revolting
hccnes, its sufferings and devasta ion,
is staring us in the face. The two old
parties cun give no relief. They are di¬
vided within themselves m Bitch way
that Wall street can use fragments of
either to help the other. Tho demo¬
cratic party n ith 80 majority is power¬
less to pass any measure of relief. The
republican party would not if it
could. The men who control the two
old jartlei are either wealthy
or drawing good salaries. Hard times
•for the producers is a harvest with
them, l ow prices is money iu their
poekets. They are not producers.
They are consumers. There is no
hope of relief in that direction. But
there are enough earnest and sincere
men in the west and south to control
legislation if they will unite. Thej'
will never do it under either the
democratic or republican banners. It
is unreasonable to expect it The
People's party ts a common ground on
which they can meet. In that way
revolution can bo prevented. It is
theouly way. With the west and
south a unit relief could be had quick
and sure. The man who still con¬
tends for democratic success or repub¬
lican success is either a demagogue
or blind to his own au.l to his coun¬
try’s interests. As a rule the men
who do so are either drawing a good
salary as a result of talking for their
party or expect to do so. The coun¬
try ia being led into i he vortex of de¬
struction by spoilsmen instead of
statesmen. Let the west and south
unite. *
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The Bank of Venice was the longest
continuous financial system known in
history, and the most successful. It
did business by a system of credits,
not redeemable in coin. Wilh this
system contraction was impossible. It
existed and flourished for about six
centuries (until the downfall of the
republic), and-never knew a panic,
Not so with the “cash office," a branch
which was opened for a part of this
tinoe, ai d whose credits were redeem
able in coin. On two occ sions It was
compelled to Suspend payments, and
jts credits fell below par. It was
“tided over” by the aid and influence
of the main bank, whose credits (re
Bt< mber, not redeemable in coin—in
fact, never to be redeemed at all, ex
cept the constant redemption of cur
rent business) for the last four centu
riee of its existence were 20 per cent
above current coin value. Contrast
this with the numerous and disastrous
panics in this and other countries still
persisting in a metal basis.
Hr oub currency is so “honest” how
Is it that the dishonest men have got
of it?
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WE ARE STILL, HIS SUBJECTS.
So lonar a* the United States lives under the English Gold system, just so long do American Producers remain
lhe slaves of British Imperialism. I.et us shake off the British yoke (Gold) once more by establishing a currency
(Silver) the basis of supply of which Js not in British possessions.—People’s Party.
FINANCIAL TRUTHS.
The difficulty with bimetalism is
that it requires a less valuable metal
to be maintained at par with a more
valuable one. This unnatural condi¬
tion can not be indefinitely main¬
tained except at constant expense.
The objection to the recen t bill for
coining the silver seigniorage was
not that it would add fifty-five mil¬
lions to our coined money, but that it
necessitated the additional burden of
ma'ntaining fifty-five millions more
of silver at par with gold. Issuing
gold bonds to meet this expense does
not cure the difficulty—it only post¬
pones it, together with adding to our
indebtedness. Along these lines
thero is nothing but difficulty and
disaster
A circulating medium for tho ex
change of commodities should consist,
not of a substance naturally scar,e,
which can not be made to increase
with tho increase of population and
the growth of business, but, on the
contrary, it should be capable of
adjustment to these conditions.
Our ^ couutry l> , comparatively . ,
a new
o^e, with population increasing
rapidly by immigration as well as by
natural increase, and rapidly increas¬
ing wealth by the development of vast
natural resources. Shall our vast in¬
terests be crippled by a meagre
medium of exchange? The natural
basis for a medium of exchange is
population and wealth, and not dia¬
monds, rubies, gold or silver. Popu¬
lation, with wealth in its various
forms, is the source of need of a
medium of exchange and should be
he basis of supply. Considering the
ast material wtalt h of this coun
tr, many think , . , that ISO par capita is
the amount required for the best re¬
sults. The evils of insufficient (and
improperly distributed) circulating
medium have been seen during the
past nine months in the shape of idle
hands and silent industries.
Gold has arbitrarily been chosen as
a money metal on account of its
scarcity and the difficulty of getting
ifc. It has very little intrinsic value
above other metals; its is -
use as money
the chief thing that gives it v*lue; take
that away and it will decrease in value
as much if not more than silver, by
limiting its use as money. The sup
ply of gold does not increase with the
growth of population and the increase
ot other forms of wealth; therefore, it
is not a rational medium or basis of
exchange of wealth between man and
man. Population is the natural basis of
a medium of exchange, the amount
issued per capita bearing a reason
able relation to the total wealth of
the community or nation.
One of our greatest needs as a
remedy for the present depression.and
as a basis for future prosperity, is a
paper money issued directly by the
government, not based upon any
metal, and not a promise upon the
part of the government to pay, but.
instead, a promise to receive, as taxes,
revenue, customs and all other obliga
tions to the government, and a legal
tender for all obligations, public and
private. Of course, sufficient guards
as to quantity would be necessary,
That could be a limited amount per
capita, the total amount increasing
according to the showing of the cen
sus every ten years. Also a certain
amount extra every year, to make up
fer reasonable contraction caused by
accidental destruction, as by fire, etc.;
the entire amount to be kept in con
stant circulation by being immediate
ly reissued as soon as received by the
government. Let the present coin
circulation remain jnstas it is, to take
care of itself according to natural
laws. The fact is, the metals would
find their natural places iu the arts
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“The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.”
FORT GAINES, GA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1894.
SOMETHING TO SELL.
If there is any one thing that is cal¬
culated to make us tired more than
anything else it is this sensele-s
twaddle about having “something to
sell.” Only a few days ago the writer
heard a farmer make the remark that
if the people only had something to
sell they could get the money for it.
Y'es, we replied, they can get money
for it, but how much? Cotton raisers
can get from 2 to 4 cents les-s for their
cotton than it takes to raise it.
Wheat growers can obtain less 'for
the r wheat than it takes to produce
it. Labor can sell its products at
prices that make the producer poor
and the speculator rich. Millions of
men and women can not even sell their
labor at any price. But government
Ronds can be sold at a good premium,
And why? ’lbe bond is not good to
eat nor to wear. There is no in
trinsic value in it. Yet for it the
m i s e r will part with his gold. For it
usu >rer will give up his cash,
Why, we repeat, is tins true? Be
cause with every bond goes the privi
lege of levying tribute on labor. Be
c „ use „ wU1 gather in the earnings of
generations yet unborn. For the
men who have the gold, bonds are
issued that the purchasers may levy
tribute on labor.
How different is it when men pro¬
pose to swap their labor for bonds?
Men, too. who are out of employment
and whose families are suffering from
the pangs of hunger.
They propose to give something of
real value, their labor, for bonds, and
don’t ask that the bonds shall bear
interest or be a burden on future gen¬
erations. But no, these men are
Urar.lts. True they have something
to 8e U-thelr labor-but that will not
do. It takes gold, precious gold, to
buy bonds, and the bonds must bear
interest—gold interest—so that the
purchasers can get their gold back and
still have the bonds with which to
levy tribute on labor. A great scheme
this, and a great government thatper
mits it. Great also is gold! You can’t
eat it or wear it, but it is great be
cause, because—because most of the
fools whi m it is robbing, say it is
great. That is the only reason under
the shining sun.
The curse of all government is that
governs too much. At the present
rate G f legislation we are approaching
the point where the masses will be
mere*'jumping jacks.” Another dec
ac j e i n the modern evolution will
take us back to where Darwin traces
the beginning of the human race—
the ape! And, having no further op
portunity for the exercise of our
brains—no use for our arms in work
—and when tramping nas been made
“illegal,” cur progenitor will still
have the advantage over us of b?ing
able to “hang on” by the tail!
Twentieth Century.
The United States is operating
sixty-seven railroads now, including
such gigantic systems as the Union
Pacific, Northern Pacific and Atchison,
Topeka A Santa Fe. That is all right,
for they are being operated for the
benefit of the stockholders. If they
were operated for the benefit of the
people, it would be all wrong.—Popu¬
list, Utah.
lhe wealers say they can not wait
for a new congress. They will doubt
less have to wait But their agitation
has gone a long way? toward making
the new congress the right kind.
Nothing has done so much to set the
people in the cities and in the east to
thinking about government affairs as
these pea ce armies.—World .
The'south and west have all begun
to talk one way. Now if they will
only vote one way “the enemy is
our n.”—Spirit of Reform, Belm'ut,
N. J.
*
POLITICAL • HASH.
Served Hot and Cold to Salt Our
Readers.
One of the metropolitan papers
makes the statement that it is gener
-illv ally belie-iTeri believed, ir, in Wo W ashington, ; v, that it * 4 .
was a mistake, putting Coxey in jaiL
W'e ue are are somewhat somewnat of of 4 .hat bat. onininn opinion mir our
selves. We have been laboring
assiduously for a long L time endeavor
imr mg tn to imnress impress nmn upon the minds of the
people that a poor man in this coun
try y had no J rights 5 wmcnine which the plutocrat* niutocrata
were V bound to respect, and this ulus
tration of our idea has done more to
convince them than all the reform edit
tors could have done in a thousand
years. A few more object lessons and
the people will begin to arouse them
selves to a sense of the danger which
surrounds them.
* *
TT, ne , miner r . n tounty Democrat , of
South Dakota sizes up the situation
as follows*
“The recent strikes and the dozen
or rn oxey ______ armies marching 1 .*___ on
.
to Washington’have caused many an
intelligent person to ‘set up F a terrible
+ thmkm . * ,, But ,, . will ... the ,, millions .... of ,
.
voters attribute the r reverses and
miefartnroc imsf i tunes tn to the true causes. Tt It is •
not McKinley tariff nor the proposed
changes in the schedules provided for
by the YYilson bill; it is not because
Cleveland and the democratic party
are in power; it is one or all of these
things combined which have brought
the country into its present perilous
condition and filled the land with
idlers and tramps. The toilers are re
quired, like the children of Israel in
the time of Pharoah, ‘to make brick
without straw.’
“We had hoped that democracy
would take the bull by the horns and
be true to themselves and to the prin¬
ciples and traditions of the party, but
we confess that the prospect of arrest¬
ing the downward course of the party
we love is very gloomy. The leaders
are jealous of each other. Inordinate
personal ambition is leading some to
min, and while they are digging
; own political graves, they are
| dragging down with them to disgrace
and ruin those of their own household.
There is no truer axiom than that
a ‘ house divided a S ainst itself can not
stand -’
“The democratic party is now di
v ided into wairing factions. They
are more hostile toward each other
thsIn they are toward a common
ene my. T here is manifest discontent,
hear t-burning and jealousies in the
republican party. Chronic hatred of
democracy and a love of spoils are
the principal cement which holds the
! ,ea ders together. The leaders of both
P arli * 8 are deserving of the condem
nation of the masses of the people.
The times indicate a disintegration
and reformation of the political ele¬
ments.”
* * *
The only thing which the democrats
had left to make themselves safe on
all their promises made in last cam¬
paign was the Wilson tariff bilL
Figuratively speaking it was their .
; tail-hold on a further lease of power.
i That is now so badly mangled that all
hopts in that direction are gone glim
mering. The thing is mangled so
' that its father would not know
own
it, and, if it don’t come to a vote pretty
soon, some good democrat cught to
moTe to adopt thaMcKialay law in
the interest of tariff reform. Senator
Vest says: "We might as well be can
did with ourselves. There’s no good
in trying to humbug the people for a
month or six weeks, and then have to
admit that we are humbugging them.
The Wilson bill now, as it stands, is a
McKinley bill, with a short reduction
It is a bill on the same principles. It
is protective from start to finish.”
* * *
We have heard of “cheek” in our
time, and have seen a pretty fair arti¬
cle of it among local politicians and
lightning rod agents, but it remained
for Grover Cleveland to exhibit a spec¬
imen that kno ks the persimmon
without any pole—just standin’ flat
footed. In a letter to the president
of the National Association of Demo
cratic clubs, he says: “It seems to me
that its best service has been an en
foreement and d^ monstration of the
truth that oub party is best organ
: ?~a nrir i most powerful _____i when it ..
strives for principles instead of
spoils,” etc.
Then, as if he had not said enough
to iaj make iuiiK.e an an nrmp array mni« mute BHisb oiumi f ioi n „ stiame, t i, om „
«Q continued:
"The National association of demo
.ratic clubsandeieryother democratic j ,.
agency should labor unceasingly and
parneRtlv earnestly to x,o sstp save nn»- our nm-iv party, in in n,to tins
time of its power and responsibility,
from the degradation & and disorace oi
a « r„,*i„„ iauure t to redeem . the ,, pledges , , upon
which our fellow-countrymen en
tmstAJ I 1 » will, tho 1 6 contro1 °f rUo?.. then
I government.
Of course, his Royal Fatness having
■delivered himself thus the little squir¬
rel-tailed lawyers, doodlebug politi¬
cians and liver pad editors can eat
their crow and relish this dish. Sicli
ia democratic politics.
* # *
I Men are leaving the old parties as
rats do * a slotting sinbino- snip. shin A a few f oro a days a „ c
ago ex-Congressman W. II. Kitchen of
North Carolina published a card in
which he stated that the democratic
party would do very well as a minor!
- tv ty nartir party, but- but was a failure as a ma
jonty party. A dispatch from Gil
man ’ Wash ’ savsMavnrP ^ Y • V • lln-pie »
& prominent . republican, renounced his
party and joined the Populists. About
the same time a a half dozen aozen men men left left
the old parties . and , joined the Popu
lists, among whom was Geo K liar
ttenstem, „ a member v of . the ,, state cen-
1.ral committee of Colorado. In a let
,ter to Chairman firman t. F P P. Arbuckle, ArVm,.b-i« Mr.
n Hartenstem A said:
“I am sorrv to nait enmr.nr.Tr mpany m*tv, wnn
Q u i d political , friends, , . but I not
can
follow Cleveland democracy 1 and until
tne party leaders return to democratic ,.
principles and politics, I will refuse
to follow “ nr ° snrmnrt support, th tnem. D m t l 1 have ,..,,^
not changed my opinion concerning
democratic principles as taught bv ^
°
our aistinguisnea . , , founder , and former
leaders of the party, and I find that
there them is is more mnro true democracy __. m the ,,
Peoples party at the present time
than in the so-called democratic y partv
t I „ am sorry ,, that , you still .... stand , , by the
party with all its treachery to the
npnnl»«nfl P P iic.,« ts un- emocratic policies. . ,* -
I hope it Will not be long until you
see your way clear to ioin the
only _ q party now in . existence . , th , it will .,,
and can give the country much needed
relief” eI *
A NATION’S DISGRACE.
The imprisonment of Coxey by the
authorities of the District of Columbia
condemned by the people of all par¬
ties. That he should be manacled
an d thr0Wn in jail for an alleged
. outrage.
or ' me ari
His right to go to Washington ana
P resent his petition is a right that is
guaranteed by the constitution.
r l he assembly the capitol grounds
on
was peaceful. The commonwealers
were unarmed. Were in no manner
threatening and the law under which
he was convicted had been almost for¬
gotten. Nearly every week proees
sions pass through the capitol grounds
yet are not molested by the police.
Every day people walk on the grass
and are not disturbed.
Every day men may be seen wearing
badges as conspicuously as were those
worn by Coxev and Brown, yet no
objection is raised.
The ordinance has been violated
millions of times and will continue tc
be violated without notice, but in this
case it was adequate and served tc
send an enemy of plutocracy to serve
a sentence behind the bars.
The expediency of his plan is not
the question with the peopla The
infamy of his" persecutors is the ques
tion that the people have in mind.
Those who do not indorse his march
DOr e ven believe that his demands
were tbe p roper remedy for the popu
lar unre8tf the hunger and distress of
the unemployed thousands, do not
argue that now.
They look on this outrage from a
different standpoint entirely and with
a unanimity that is remarkable, it is
denounced by men of all parties.—
Express. r
If you owe a man 810 and have but
to . it .. with, ... how , do j expect .
pay you
*° P a y debt? Youcrive him the 51,
but you can pay him no more till you
have borrowed it back or sold him
some property. It is estimated that
the total indebtedness in this country
has now reached the enormous total
of $40,000,000,000. We have put £500,
000,000 in gold. That is 81 in gold tc
*90 of debt Will our soup-house,
cheap-abor, gold-cure friends tell us
how, on a gold basis, we can ever pay
that debt?—Sledge Hammer.
-•——
We should remark! There s a few
candidates in the land. Somebody
else besides Populists want office.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEaR.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
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Da\1 0|LIy.uUM»
Subject: “The Excited Governor.”
Toxt: “Felix tremble l an l answered, Go
thy way for this t ime. When I have a eon
^‘ en J sensou 1 wiU 01,1 fur thoe. ’-Acts
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A city of marble was Camroa—wharves o!
marble, lions-s of marble, temp’os of mar
hie. This being the or Hilary architecture ol
the place, you may imagine something of the
splendor of Governor Felix’s rrsi lenoe. In
a room of that palace, floor tessellated, win
flows curt nine,1, ceiling fretted, tho whole
$eene afflu >nt with Tyrian purple and sfat
ues and pictures and carvings, sat a very
dark lix, and complexioned beside him man a woman oi the of name extraordi- of Fa- j
nary beauty, whom he had stolen by break- '
fng up another ilonmstio circle. She was
only eighteen years of age, a princess by j
birth, and unwittingly waiting for her doom
—-that of being burled alive in the ashes aud
scori® of Mount Vesuvius, which in sudden
eruption one day put an end to her abomi
nations.
Well, one afternoon Brasilia, seated in the !
p:i iace, weary with tho magnificent stupidi- j
ties of the place, say* to Felix: “You have
a very distinguished prisoner, I believe, of |
the name of Paul. Do you know he is one
of my countrymen? I should very much like
to see him, aud I should very much llko to
hear him speak, for I have heard so much
about hj s eloquence. Besides that the other
day, when this.palace ho was being tried in another
room of and tho windows were
open, I heard the applause that greeted tho
speech of Lawyer Tertulius as ho denounced
Paul. Now, I very much wish I could heat
Paul speak. Won’t you let me hear him
speak?’’ him “Yes,” said Felix, “I guardroom.” will. I will
order up now from tho
Clank, clank, there comes a chain up the marble
stairway, and is a shuffle at the door,
and in comes Paul, a little old man, prema
turoly of age, old but through looking exposure, as though only he wereeighty. sixty years j 1
Ho bows very courteously before the govor
nornud tho beautiful woman by his side,
They say: “Paul, we have heard a great deal
about of your speaking. eloquence.” Give us if now a sped* ,
men chance your Oh, there Paul ever
was a for a man to show off,
i had a chance there! Ho might have hnr- i
i angued them abcut Grecian art. about the
wonder r u i waterworkshebad seen at Corinth,
about the Acropolis by moonlight, about
prison life in Philippi, about “what I saw in
Thessalonioa,” but “No!” about tho old mythologies,
the Paul said to himself, “I am now and
on way to martyrdom, dead, and and this this man
woman will soon be is my
only opportunity to talk to them about the
things of eternity.” I
And just thero and then there broke in '
upon the scene a peal of thunder. It was the
voice of a judgment day speaking through
the words of tho decrepit apostle. As that
grand old missionary proceeded with his re
marks lhe atoop begins to go out of his
shoulders, and he rises up, and his counte
nance is illumined with tho glories of a future
life, and his shackles rattle and grind as ho
lifts his fettered arm and with it hurls upon
his abashed auditors tho bolts of God’s in
dignation. Felix grew very white about tho
hand ijpg. His heart boat unevenly. He put his
to his browns though to stop tho
quickness ana violence of his thoughts. He
drew his robe tighter nbout him, as under a
sudden chili. Ilis eyos glare, and his knees
s hake, and as ho clutches the side of his
chair in a very paroxysm of terror he orders
the sheriff to take Paul back to tho guard
room. for this “Felix trembled»andsaid: When have Go thy way
time. I a convenient
season. I will call for thee.”
A young man came one night to our ser
vices, with pencil in hand, to caricature tho
whole scene and make mirth of those who.
should express any anxiety about their souls,
but I m( * him at the door, his face very
white, tears running down his cheek, as he
said, “Do you think there is any chance for
me?” Felix trembled, and so may God grant
k may be so with others.
I propose to give you two or three reasons
why I think Felix sent Paul back to the
guardroom and adjourned the whole subject
of religion. The first reason was, ho did not
Wi)nt t0 g j ve up his sins. He looked around.
There was Drusilia. He knew that when he
became a Christien he must send her back to
Azzius, her lawful husband, and ho said to
himself, “I will risk the destruction of my
immortal soul sooner than I will do that.”
How many there are now who cannot get to
be Christians because they will not abandon
their sins ! In vain all their prayers an 1 all
their churchgoing. You cannot keep these
darling sms and win heaven, and now some
of you will have to decide between the wiuo
cup and unlawiui amusements aud lascivi¬
ous gratifications on the one hand and eter¬
nal salvation on the other.
Delilah sheared the locks of Samson.* Sa¬
lome danced Herod into the pit ; Drutilla
blocked up the way to hoavau lor Felix. Yet
when I.present the subject now I tear that
some ol you will say : “Not quite yet. Don’t
be so precipitate in your demands. 1 have a
few tickets yet that I have to us-*. I have a
lew engagements that I must keep. I vvunt
to stay a little longer in the whirl of con¬
viviality—a low more guffaws of unclean
death, laughter, a few more steps ou the roa l to
an 1 then, sir. I will listen to want you
say. ‘Go thy way lor this tim *. Wnen I
huvo a convenient season, I will call lor
thee.’ ”
Another reason why Felix seat Paul to tho
guararoom and adjourned this su bject was
he was so very busy. Iu ordinary times he
found tho affairs or state absorbing, hut
those were extraordinary times. The whole
land was ripe for insurrection. The Sicarif,
a hand of assassins, were already prowling
around tho palace, and I suppose he thought,
“I can’t attend to religion while I am so
pressed by affairs of state.” It was business
among other things that ruined his soul, and
I suppose there are thousands of people who
are not children of Goi because they have so
much business. It is business in tho store
losses, gains, unfaithful employes.
It is business ia your law office—sub
poenns, wrils you have to write out, papers
3 *ou have to file, arguments you have to
make. It is your medical profession, with
its broken nights and the exhausted anxie¬
ties of life hanging unou your treatment. It
is your real estate office, your business with
landlords and tenants and the failure of men
to meet their obligations with j-ou. Aye,
with some of those who aro here it is the an¬
noyance of the kitchen, andtho sitting room,
and the parlor—the wearing economy oftry
ing to meet large expenses with a smalt in
come. Ten thousand voices of “business,
business, business” drown the voice of the
eternal Spirit, silencing the voice of the ad
vanning judgment day, overcoming the voice
of eternity, and they cannot hear; they can¬
not listen. They say, “Go thy way for this
time." Some of you look upon your goods,
loo!{ ^P 011 5' oar profession, you look upon
your memorandum books, and you see the
d e man(l8 that aro made this very week upon
Your time and your patience and yonr
money, and while I am entreating? you about
your soul an i tho dnnurer of procrastination
the*-” iTave a' eon'C-enS^.^aio^ I "wifi e 'calMor
fairs Ob, Felix, wliy be bofbereJ about the at
of this world so much more than at-out
l^whern death com^ you wiahave to^t™
business, though it be in tho most exacting
niSa™Uo h r‘ > th P o a SEa? 1 ' 4ha
moment he comes you will have to go. Death
waits for no man, however high, however
your sK ircompaSou^ffi’ the'affaKf
an eternal world, affairs that Involve
fou put p J}!? 203 ce9 acres ' dorn of , inion9 around eternal? against Will 1m
measity? Will you millions put forty or fifty years of
yonr life against of ages? Ob, Felix,
lor do you
NUMBER 4.
of Tyrian purp’c H vm** m!i»i will |.i,,
an*! the marble blo.u* (Vo uv.t w.u
crumble, and the breakwater at tinl-nob,
made of great" blocks of slon> siviv fee:
long, mint give w iy >ofore tno per¬
petual Paul wash of the s *a, but the redemption
that offers you will bo forever? A id
yet and yet and yet you wave him back to
the guardroom, saying. “Go thy way fot
this time. When I have a convenient season.
I will call for tliee.'’
Again, Felix adjourned this subject of re¬
ligion and put off ufrtlHnToifW Paul 'Mfrgr ?.tncnt because
ne couUt not give sof the world.
He was afraid somehow ho would ho com*
prornised himself in this matter. Remarks
he made afterward showed him to bo In
tensely favor of ambitious. men! Oil, bow ho hugged the
I never saw the honors o( this world in
their hollowness aud hypocrisy" wonderiui so much as
in the life and death of that man,
Charles Bumper, As ho went toward the
place Philadelphia, of burial, oven Independence Hall, in
asked that his remains stop
there on their way to Boston. The Hags were
at half mast, and the minute guns ou B iston
Common throbbed after his heart had censed
to beat. Was it always so? While he lived
how censured“6f legislative resolutions . how
caricatured of tho pictorials ; how charged
with every motive mean and ridiculous;
how all the urns of scorn and hatred and *
billingsgate emptied upon his head; how,
when struck down in Senate chamber, there
were hundreds of thousau !s of people who
said, he “Good for him; serves him right;”
how had to put the ocean between him
and his maligners that he might have a Ut
tie peace, and bow, when hearted he went off sick,
they said ho was broken because lie
could not get to ba Fred lorn or docroUryof
State 1
O, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who
is that man that sleep* in your public hall
covered with garlands an l wrapped in the
stars and stripes? is that the man who, only
a few months before, you denounced as the
foe of republican aud democratic institu
tions? Is that the same man? Yo Am‘dean
people, eulogium ye could not by one week of funeral
and newspaper loaders, which tho
dead senator could neither road nor hear,
atone for twenty-live years of maltreat incut
an l caricature.
When I see a man like that, Iteuuei pursue 1 by
all the hounds of the political so loug
ns ho lives ami then burled uu ier a great
pile of of whole garlands and amid the lamentations
unutterably a nation, I say to myself* What an
npp'anso and hypocritical nil tiling invert is nil You human fools
fmurm down
twenty-five years in trvin * to pu l lib
fame and then take twenfy-fivo years in try
ing to build his.monument. My friends, wnt
there ever a better comment ary on the hoi.
lowness of fill earthly fnvmff If there are
young men who rea l this who are po«tpou
ing religion 111 order that they miv have the
favors of this world, let me persm d« them
of their complete folly. If you are looking
forward to gubernatorial, senatorial or pn*.
idential chair, let me show you your great
mistake.
Cl 'n it bo that there is now nnv young
man snyinc: “Lot me have politic d offl-e,
lot mo have some of the high positions of
trust and power, and then f will attend to
religion, but not now. ‘ Go thy wsy for this
time. When I have a convenient season, I
will call for thee!’”
-And now my subject takes n deeper tone,
and it shows what a dangerous thing is this
leforring tfown of religion. When Paul’s chain
rattled tho marble stairs of Felix, that
was Felix’s last chance for heaven. .Tu 1glug
from his character afterward, ho was re
probate silla. and abardoned. Aul so was Dru
trembling One day In the southern Italy thero was a
of the earth, and the air got blank
with smoke Intershot with liquid rocks, add
Vesuvius rained upon Drusilia and upon Her
s °n a horrible tempest of ashes and fire,
They did not reject religion. They only put
it off. They did not understand that that
day, that that hour when Paul stood before
them, was the pivotal hour upon which ever.v
thing was poisod, and that it tipped tho
wrong way. Their convenient season came
when Paul and his guardsman entered the
palace. It wont away when Paul and his
guardsman loft. Have you never seen men
waiting for a convenient season? Thera is
such a great fascination aboutdt that, though
you may have groat respect to tho truth of
Christ, yet somehow thero is in your soul
the thought: “Not ouito yet. It ’ is
not time for me to become a Christian. I
say Ion boy, “Seek Christ.” He says, “No.
Walt until I get to ho a young man.” I say
to the young man, “Seek Christ." Ho says,
“Wait until I eomo to midlife.” I most tho
same person in midlife, and I say, “Seek
Christ. " He says, “Wait until I g>*t old.”
I meet the same person in old age and say to
him, “Seek Christ." He says, “Wait until I
am on my dying bed.” I am called to his
dying couch. His last moments have come.
1 bond over the couch and listen for his last
words. I have partially to guess what they
are by the motion of bis lips, he is so feeble,
but rallying himself he whispers until I can
hear him say, “I—am—waiting—for—a—
more—convenient—season,” and he is gone 1
I can tell you when your convenient season
will come. I can tell you the year. It will
be 1894. I can tell you what kind of a day
it will be. It will bo tho Sabbath day.
lean tell you what hour it will be. It will
he between 8 and 10 o’clock. In other words,
it is now. Do you ask mo howl know this
is your convenient soason? I know it be¬
cause you aro hero, and because the elect
sons and daughters of God aro praying for
your redemption. Ah, I know it is your
convenient season because some of you, like
Felix, tremble as all your past life comes
upon you with its sin, and all the future life
cornea upon you with its terror. This night
air is aglaro with torches to show you up or
to show you down. It is rustling with wings
to lift you into light or smite you into de¬
spair, and there is a rushing to and fro, and
a beating against the door of your souls with
a great thunder of emphasis, telling you,
“Now, time.” now is the best timo, as it may tyy the
only
May God Almighty forbid that any pf you,
my brethren or sisters, act the part of Felix
nnd Drusilia and put away this great sub¬
ject. If you aro going to bo saved ’ever,
why not begin to-night? Throw down your
sins and take the Lord’s pardon. Christ has
been tramping after you many a day. An
Indian and a white mifn became Christians.
The gospel, Indian, almost as soon ns he heard tho
believed and was saved, but the
white man struggled on in darkness for a
long while before he found light.
After their peace in Christ the white
man said to tho Indian, “Why was it that l
was kept so long in the darkness ami you
immediately “I found peace?” The Indian re¬
plied: will tell you. A princo comes
along, and he offers you a coat, Yuii look
at your coat, and you say, ‘My coat is
good enough,’ and you rofuso his
and offer, he but the prince comes along,
offers me tho coat, nnd 1
look at my old blanket, and I throw that
away and take his offer. You, sir,’” contin¬
ued the Indian, “are clinging to your own
righteousness; you think you aro good
enougn, and you keep your own righteous¬
ness; but I have nothing, nothing, an i so
when Jesus offers mo pardon and peace I
simply take it.”
My reader, why not now throw away the
wornont blanket of your sin and take tho
robe of a Saviour's righteousness—a robe so
white, so fair, so lustrous, tUat no iuiler ou
earth can whiten it? O Shepherd, to-night
bring home the lost sheesp ! Q Father, to¬
night give a welcoming kiss to tho wan
prodigal! 0 triend ot Lazaru«, to-night
break down the door of tho sepulcher und
say to all these dead souls as by irresistible
fiat i “Live! Live!”
Strikers Burn a Bridge.
A dispatch from Bridgeport, Ohio,
says: A mob of striking miners was
driven from bridge No. 2 on the
Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheeling
railroad by tho Ohio militia Saturday
night and retreated to bridge No. 4.
Shortly afterward the bridge was din- ’
covered to be on fire. It was com¬
pletely destroyed. m
