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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1886)
DR. TALMAGE’3 SERMON. AGAINST ALL ODDS. Text: “I have fini.be 1 the work which (bou pavret me to do."-John xv,i. 4. There is a profound at.> fa tlou in tho completion the of any with iind exhiluiation, -i ta ;ug. H« while put up tap-tone d* o« the other hand the;- - noth.ng more heartening than to toil on in v>n.<s dire 'i-m and find it is a la lor-, or to maim pro.it less Investment I ii i-t came to build a h eh way on which th- whole human ra e might, if they chose, mount into heaven. He slid it. All the lonl mouthed crew who trod on Him could not hinder him from the wttlmo tati.fae em exprcscl m the test: ‘T Dfcve finished th worn which thou garret men, ’ AJeiamlor the Great was wounded, audit wa, supposed that he was dying, and the physic an. w.-re powerless, but m hs dream AU-andor thought ho aw a certom plant with a very pw.liar (lower, and that the tlowerw - bnmgiit and putunon hi. wound and ,t entirely cured h.m. Awa.mgfrm his si k dream ho t-11 hi-; d.-ctor, and the iibyMcian sent out to find the flower that Alexander had d-scibed, and ho found the peeuliar plant and the peculiar blo.s im, and ho brought H,-m tu.n.e an l be put then mien the wound, and A - sand- r recovciol. Hell, tho hi man race was MutTermg with the wor-t of all wounds. Urn gha.tli t of all Wounds .ho wound o Ui-ist cc.ft.es to ssstfSc z&sassift, X ■ how many obsla-hs llu [omul; lew nine h resistance; what bitter hostilities; wlmt tre men ious opp«.h.Uon. .Vow, when we have a great enbupri. i- wo - ail our friends around US and they b- J, us draw out the .-.ketch, an I ,s,rlmps they help., intli-c-ro Iiuon. Christ all alone slaiU-l out.-n Jlismi-M-m with ail d„- foi-o s of thi, world ng.-un-.t JImi, and I .romr-e 1 tin- niornin - il the lx.rd w.ll help me, hi to b-ll you h . 1 , 1 - of the obstu-le, that - i-t had toov.no-uobelore He eoul.l in tnumpli litlerth- w i d. of t ,e lest: “I have finish-.1 the IV. rk whi.-li lh--u gnvest mo to of all, there was Hii w rldly hy,4,-pent,y, ocenpa turn II- had to ear,, hi. living a trade always r.<-ete I and ulwaysliomae well I for ifes U!.er„liu r Jill von know-very that in order to s,lire d in any trade, oeeu pation, or pr-Je sitni, there must be entire coneeutiati Iiupi n ti at one thing, and tho-so fatigisr I or ear; elites w / 1 himJiare 0 . must has e be.-n a hind ran e t, 1 his worko C „ I know we lot'll a Id - a, -Cal about wh it men hav,- a. hie,' ,1 m h-t-lle-- m.l si ,.- .mis and in moral reform, who at the same time were eoi.,|«»iied any on -,„e worldly well ocnptt turn. Hut you know as M 1 do tl.at, a bit:.;lied - -lv is » IW a ll-met to a toll! Ig nilnd. Hero eamn Christ forth U. do, Wlmt: I O upbuild a kingdom, to "trmiu-ram-w vo-.oOi morals, to start a religion whirl wa to rcv-lutipnm- ail .«• Non know as well a I know that ,f wo are going to a eo -y ball anythin m I he world w< Urn I e-n-- nl ; to upon one ,-li.eet. Yet here Chi islliad all the lull ;,(•. of ear pentry, while at the same time llo had this tremendous mission, and the la t that, he had to mu,.-h worldly wo, 1; t, - do must have been a Imidrnn e. in His father s enrpenter shop lfo had only to talk with men wh , leo (gilt tilings to men 1, or who wanted some ait,cl,) for a , ulture imuiubi tiire I, amt it was a worldly conversation; ami right out I run tins - ariienteid sli ip Christ is called to l,o a public, speaker, to Stand m (ho fa o of (lie mobs while some blasphoin -land some Ii ok their ll-l.s at Him. To add, - nn or.I r i and r.-s H , tfnl aw-omhlage is not as - a-y a -mo mi-ht sum )>< hc, but to-peak to an i-mis orut- il mob, wbat eoui 1 ngo, what < -n- 1 1, at ion w. I'd do omricli -1 ol ( In i t U liilo the villagers of Naznroth.ho.ud ill ■ tliimijung of His ham tner, nil nations wore t- h-ar the stroke of ItiH spiritual upbuilding. Mighty had men those times always some thing iu their nppiuel to in Ii ute th-i t they were ,1,sill,gu,shed robe, — some ep'inlet, someth,,,., iu their Soma a loin rn-nt ..r a so those poimlos.ro lug rtt.-h an «•-» turning would say; “Mike way for him; here conus a dignitary, None of or 11,6 an OtJleer of would the have Kovouenaut dared to • in ordi , 'omars citizen'sdre-s. But here appear Christ • nary eutims in a plain coat It was far iron, ahab'.iy groat b cause I find that after llo had worn it a while even then the gamlders the thought it worth taring about, Mill question !nn; plain Whoso shall ,t I--, lint it was a coat, just as you ami 1 might wear, and lie went out like an ordinary ordinary man, olttimes, "Ji what seemed nn mis ion. Then Hi* diet, wa a ainsl Him. Nc cupb aror lirought, in u g,,Id lln 'll chaliee, the wine for Iliin to tlriuk bunkfusttNl ou tho -MM^hoJv. i!r,t Inivin;.'. iMtHcl th Ii h Ho want, out not ontrn lined. 1 now think of only on rast u li , t . H,« wa> a a i>aiif,i.«*t, mid that uji* Im from Mint} tu >us, hocauio, to ndicve the awkwai Urnss of tho host, ono of the - )rtd t o provilc o»no Wiin* lor the oompanv. Otlun kin^s rod ; H - walk-d. Other* had h raid ahead and applauding Mihic. tsl clihnl; Hi went among tlio e who won* not mllucii'ml. uth- r kn»-s slant mi dor an orohmidertsl canopy; llo on a Ii Itor ]<hh hill llo rodo hut our on a colt, and that, Po'Towod. Avo, His povonv was « ”ninst him. It lake money to o taldish institution-; ii take- money f forward revolutions, whether for go.»d \Vln*n or for had. Hero is a nenni.os i hrist, if is tax w.isdnt* He liad to porl“rni a mira *'.e in order t > puv the tax. The pie.*e of money found in the llhli. Mm » f means arc afraid of a penniless piojector Jest a Join be do niRuded of them Hon* com-s i hrist with Out n dollar in tho world, a Christ wlio was born in anoUe r manhi tarn, aud to be buried In another man's somlehre. And 1 suppose ptmple sai«l: 4 *Who i-s to pay for this i*e ligioiii 1 Who is t<» charter the ships that are to carry tho missionaries* Who is to pay the salaries <f the Umchim. W hat: pull down an established religion/ Can n be dome by \ a pomidess pro* jector Mo.e than U, t want vmi to notice the fact that the totis-d ration that He had never ra luat d Irmn any schorl was a a list Him it a man lias come with • diploma from« ctdlege.oi* a cei tith ate from a Ronu.mrv or has traveled through He ought toreign lauds, we sav to ounselves: to Icimw a great deal.anvhow, ’But he ought to have some information. here was Christ, who had no diploma. He had nut attoiidt*»i am a adoiny where he <ould have learned tho alphabet of thelau<iiHp> He sjhiUv The Jews were m nsdde win u they hav-ing cried out: “How hath th n mait letters, phiioso never IwiruedC And vet. here.with no hy backing at all. He just comes out and Ho exjHH'ts these white haimi thest* grav ail boaixted meu wh > had studied theology have flair lives long to b »w U'f re him. We Icarred i» «»*ir tl n that a man may In* a> flora lit with a diploma without it. aul Clwit-• college caiiiio: turn a shux^nrd into a phiU^opb *r, and that a seminary oaimot ten h a tool to pi t ?i h. An emptv h n l after the laving on oi thelian.isot the iTosbvtory ts empty st.ll. 1 ut it choke 1 a 1 the pr ju diee-^ ot those yevvple in oUl n\ times that a limn without am sch 'lactic opportmiitic# •ho ihl come forth to tea h a new theolorv «ud a new religiou. and by it iwol itiom e all nations. Beside that, my friends, ^e want g.» notice that the brevity of His life was thirtv-tlireu yours of a <• h,- ev; i od Well. tif now. but vorv tow men a.-oomplteh mu rl e . hv.r nor tor tue w.-r w t*« o.x thirty three yiar>«-f aThe tim tifn-en Chen years n e g.von t -th-u.us> iy a. .1 (lies liool, it rh»f>s si \ years to getting utu s > ue traie, Issi h-ss- > ,-u: at ion. I'hat brings you t--twenty - -tie Tu. t, a-'t-r that if :n ,<-ii year-vo ;-s-i i e a: \enrea lv m. i - ;i ii get th.ireugUG - a -1 'll •. yo : -' ' »h“ - ' cei-ti ■» The men who are .noroiuhly e to lish-al in b s.i. - . » - uput of on, pro: - « ortrade.atth.it -tlirveyeais age, aie t - •see''linn, a wl , «t i' t' o tm ai win I Ghrs quit Site Th-brevity ol ill against Him V, > m nn itarv life mfi a he isl gnat sinsv-. l toucht g-.eat liat ties-efoie t!:.r;y thre vears.-f butyo n-ver beard- f a vreat leg suitor under thirtv three or at thirty thnv U ta .es prolonged nxperieuo*, Ai isiotle old. l.ycuryus , „ i. Sene a w old. all the great legislator! , f the wo-11 were old Christ was “Itcanoot young. It waiajaiust Him. iV.nple «a d; be this young wtir. knows more about these th ii"k than those wh > have lie'-n study, ig them fortw •idy.tni: tv. f ,rtv an 1 even tosev „ tv orel'ditv y-ur of age. I’ wa-all ngaintst Him. Th • it wore -.bsa |i«< He ha 1 to over tT-'.ry ' A (-.the “Weed fur-t th fa ^ j 1 ' jj^, r ’public who ' merchant / nnid the tajo . a tiedown on the “file banks sod of the the •, rj ir j-t ; . a ,d: are * ‘ ' j: -ol is the „ , tn ..... ...pi amid who l,r ail :-i- ft-stivi y. and **' ‘X | u :| ]>ivn “Bl-Wi 11 >- live, mid are they , ' theorv -aid: “blessed 1 ; whose wings , ... nation!, th - Hep o. cruel and whose , , ”n,-el mit,, i- -• -u-lfv u>on all who op ; are t he ir ., ■ bub h the rv Mid: “An eye '‘-ran . eye, a ., ,. tooth ,. j tor { , - a a to > - if it a J mac y y, t -oth you break his to th. f „- . ar ea,m. > - et.on for perse t;»'i, f h own ’iTp coin, " ' wound [ .-^.Jofully r t (IT them me and torment you " Was ‘ revolutionary? Was there ftri .’ y thing so of the wor.d ““t linv „ lin " t i,-it struck thr tlirones lyolenlly . , , , .a . n y f lt the solid ea-th mid.-r .ten: but '-hrwt -e l: I uphold the P 1 **"™ "J th i wijl turn it s41 into TheyIwi-d at i ^ I T 1 t -‘ 1 ' V ^r^ “‘hC' 47 o,., ^ lc 4 “ 1 ,Mi sw asx V im , o ,p flt lying down, th-n ugnly • exh-.i-b-l r a.id r one . <>•' them b id _tue i.o did not thm.: ho could have lifi- d iiic her- 1 t' e . hi in<-, it w., b !-l that a favi-r-:- n -.,.1 a, c-iiii-.-ig along the I me, and 1 limy ml got up »mi they gn v- . .. r u-o.g el, er. - ' hll/z.,. huzze ho -, Aliho.igh a 1 -,v n.oments I efor • they !-lt d liar. Hr Eft a ha ul to save He ir lit- So great win Nnpol.-n tho imignCism first of some men. ufb-r his n;,, tivitv put Im foot on the earth and it shook all king loins, an 1 350,00 J men gatli .red to hi:, standard, b ,t Christ hud min re wonderful magnetism than t at Napoleon bad a I around b r„ the :„o nones - -f Mam, o and Austorlit- and Jena. Her ■ com, a man with re, parade, no brand, died sword, no |«rulinrit.y of api arel, mid eomrarn tively no reputation. I do not now think of any re markable person com, ■ t. dwidilf.s name .->.eept hi-, in,»ther, hour and nbe > poor that inliiemo, s ,n .hat ever eom s to a won,.-, , - -or,I h - : -u -t lie down amor u the - nan ] driver, groom,-,g their head., of h ir den. Ah! notwithstanding all thiik what do ym. s • - A man Hun on the street so,,,- day an, says: Mv father wa-, n, gov iiiue-d ami ,„v grandfalh-r and great grit d. - tier. U le» was >onr fath-rf' Clo-i-,, ay e “My earthly lather was Jo genii. I,., <-ftr| entor Another man -.....Is (..hr,-1 and he IN 1m scroll and say , C - m a do h»„a fr-,:o Ih- best S-.-I on! ,,, Athens HI. -f • did you rnduato Hr Ht -"I never gra.iit-if -d. It w-i bong n l,ir,u-.;h K , m- lltt e Id lung -. ilia o on ,si,and should arraign N 1 v York. t ill, what a stir lie make . 1 It you have am nd to rail it mu nctism of |.<- on call it that, but what:, tt i lie makes, lie comes inton villa T e and th -n J(e siep-s out into tho field-.and all the people go alter Him,ami though they had taken only ( -n ,., h food to lost a they day, they are right so fa -minted with Christ foil ov clear , ut mlo tho wilderness, and in danger -f starvation. A man falls llat on tho gmu.i J h-lo-m Chri t„ and saw. ■ .My dan -;Iu -r is iloid.my da -ghtor i. -b-a-l. ’ A blind null i „ s to rub the -limn- -s out of his ever, an h-says: “Is r-I, that my wyes j might I,a opened.” that Tim light of day mire he through g-ter has no or before -u opened. And iioro- uni s a sick and fainting woman. his She-uys: ••Ifi-ouli) -that all,” iust t meh And the the hom little of garment is eioddren wh-, riAvavs liked th-u-mothers b-s fora struggled to get, out of their Christ’s mothers' nr ms. Hioy wanted t> go to arms au( ] tb. y want'd to kiss hi- cheek, am | they wanted to run their fingers through his hair, and they put Him so in love with chlldreu that there is hardly a hom j on oarth from which Christ has not taken'one. “Oh,” lie says, “I must havo them. I am go ing to make H««tven of these. To one i-edar that 1 plant in Heaven, I plant fifty white lilies. The rhildron loved me on earth, a id I ,, ow / have come to a throne, ought not to love them! Oh, weenia; mother, hold not bark that child. I.aviton mv loving and xympatlie.'i-- t tio o;n. O, . u -h is the Kingdom c Heaven." more I remark, lack tit organization „utat!y was against Him. If men nre going to carry grea ,o.-t t hev b„„ l toget.l, -r, mul their completeness success is generally the in orgnui'ntion. proportion to tho of Who ran t -ll Ii ,vv m ,c-h < an Ik* a com plislu-d Lather by a lar m* number of men h ind l for a ri-ht o hjoct, Chr id- had nn sl , j, nssociat.ioii. no one to back id w up. if pooplo canto into His corur*nnv. \Vu all ri^lit—if they loud wont salutation. a wav, all s V n'i n they cam<\ no follow - When they "cut nwav. no up o’ anathema. Toler loft Him, and what did rir ist .lt Th * Bible says H * looked ut him. Tnat is all. Oh, my trends, and did anyone through ovor Ktnri through such obstacles run suchohsta lus to achieve such siuvoss.- Nut withstanding his worldly occupation wnfi Against Him and His trade and His diet were against Him, and His poverty was against Hi*n, ,r: l His lack a dioo.'in wiis a ainst Him, an 1 tho brevity of His liio vie against. Him, and tho reversal of public maxims was against against Him, Him. and look of organization was yet you hear His voice th s m Jtning cadences: ringing through the ages iu everlasting “J have finished the work which fho igavesfc n ie to «lo Oh ves, Christ is a conqueror. S'* li<*w The Atlantic Hecoupiorod Ocean—wliit all tho forces of nature. a terrible shing it is in its wrath How the ocean will take down the Spam h Anna ta, or the I’re idont, or the c .mtral Amen a as e:i*.lv as it. coni l swallow a ' y. but have brm told by tho ; o "ho have visited ^ ; 1 M noi that a st rm t n dic»o jm-md hc8 h worse. An l vet Christ came and He lookeii at one of tho^e f?»va inland sens in cyclone a id the sea Vf°V hetl Hl V ! uvl Hls h 'fr He knew all the winds ami , th - waves. He beckoned ami thev came He frowned and they ihul. 1 he heel •f Hid foot matl' no i«uU>ntiti.ii on the sobiiii.ol water as He walked it. In the ba k part of the 1 oat s.nind asleep, ‘V*h, v v*ou sav, ‘‘poor man poor Christ, so tired, sound asit'Op in t-lio l lb* a k part ot the the boat.” But of the Ho r-mses vin conitG to prow I,a,-it He looks out. Hi' lias two words one f,-r lho « in-ls mul the ,-tlior for the s.-n. anil he says: tva bo sail. au» vno wave. crouch like whippet sjia.ncls at his tee t* > j!" ■ f i /k a.v. i ehold t..u ir-j-.i 1*; l.oUi the Go l Modi* a. seicut o has dona much f*>r the ai lev.at on of j’hcu i ati ail.m'iits and to cure tiis- ii tlbliKMi: but when the* mus *les are ail wiihc wi up Hum an power call ew r re stoit* th *m. U hen the lmad and the arm art dead, they ave dead. But here h a para yt u ii the presence ol Christ. Ann in rfectit u eiess, helpless. C hrist secs it. He could no see any dpi 1 g of that kin i without pity* iu^ it. He siys to this man wuh tn< paralytic arm, *si:etch toith ihy ha»*d. V M Ibv fith v-f (lie >. a No lntn-an ' i <"«t wrn.ruvu vi a— --.'l of fish, but Chr. ts voi.-o marshals tho fiunv tiihv. and th-w come ia a |daeo "h .re a UlUj wiuls i-.-tore p s>t,l - wore hsumg an-t -a n j,,g nl n. t air; ow tae gei-a' the a;aii in. ] ; the net. and t i->v pull uu il net brval.s The e s the gra e. The hinge# of the a nily va lit get very ru-tv be’au-'-ie door is so sol i.»m op me l It is only whim no of u- go tn to stav th-re :or thelis s! . A k rob on the outs -ta of the d>or of the family vault, bit no kuob «v thi i. Toe knob on the out id > we onea to-'as- in. but no knob on t >e inside. They w o pass tn -! »y there until the rvs.srre t on. ChrGt -line through all that real na-ui He said: “Da.igh ter of da-.rus Hse up" She rose up. He sail- “La-aius. come forth,” an 1 he -a ue forth. And He sa d to the widow s sot: .'Get off that bier and go home with thy ,h. r j-fi - s.,o H'o aril «vent ft'MU* w.to jp, Uio he »nd . T.ion sued Christ them pi to fced His uo girdle.and thj kayj a' <| -tub fast thro .ittere i a voire whi 'U still r isoua-is rgn all the graveya-ds of tie earth: Oh. asitti, I will bo th-. - p'e ?uel Oh, grave, 1 will be (,bv tie .traction!" t#s-r il-Htratioi of I do not know any ir and ot Cnri.t . th j vicari-vn ku Teroig the brotherhood wot** tj.s !t mn l Chill J fill I in tiny here presented an 1 her * welcomed with a il on hearts. Vi arious sulfering. He so <1 times ta'k as though it were an abstract word, and we try to illust atn it this way and that way. but it has ic-ri illustrated in the lives of that proles-ion and There occupation railroad perhap* . as in no other. is not a m lit 1 nib-d States mat has not been thes.ene of heroic endurance on the part of railroad engineers - a . cue worthy of poet» eapto chifttl and pai-itera pen -il and sculptor« bud--lators appropriation. There he is, V» in? along rapidly. He is at hts post. J here has been some wrong order or there ha. been some recklessness, -me where, and there comes the train down on the same t a ;< against him at tbs rate of ft ty mile- the hour. Standing at his post he -avv “H'i.at shall I dof for how much a man can think in a se-ond ‘‘Shall I pump and save my life and be the support t of my hcdpl c family, or sha 1 stand hero and save my three hundred pas senders Oh God. hell >." He conies awfut to quick *bap ^ bmte to th , ti.m of fire an 1 aiding an 1 whirlwind and before gore up to take h.: place among th- martyrs the throne. Thro is one hook that needs to bo f» written, Ma^i anditnee'lstobsen tUted: “ T I-oconofive Engineers of America.” I am glad thiy are rs^^^ss.'sgst’TXXfft dav alitlegirl I h nlr.iwdavsfter ? ‘ saw / _ . « , father’s cabin and t : „ • , „ waved \ ba -k and overv *<£'*** .. . the lo^lnotfveove? old en 'ineer’s >eart, ns pa.singfl ong in h 1:'' is sl f J-l?° P r '‘ -J*!, 1 ,' hi n and he wave 1 ba. . Kutoneev-ninv ' the train was belated and it was belat d , until tjJ theidancn^sjams^on. and of the rjmisithjt the cd, 1 ‘ t little /.hi d on the old tr.iX . . . L “ lo iking for tm engm r , , . derel why so long ho tarn -.a. one knew not her po >h '“o onzinwr (feat boripr «w fr f the >o his ^ . i ■ ™tcher en an q"£ 1 though a "l the L?in tra n wa ■ slowfnTSnaud g sl ,°, wl ^J'" ' e ‘J ,:l gaaiin- in 0 J el fi,. ’, ii were f„P a in „ th a” „. 0 nn ,t walt . the ^ r'eht ^ mo me with al mat ' sei ed h-r and fed b k , „ ( . ow ,, ltchor . Th „ train halted, |)0 assen e ,., ,, r , e arou nd to sea what was ’ j the old engineer J , tt , ,, t , le e ay ainte|l dead away, with the little child all unhurt in his a ms. lie had saved her. J{ , V , bravo' for the o rl engineer, who,! .. . , , , t son Q f God. Ion - trahis of d,-a ter were ■■ ming } () , | . lt ;onr-l..ng trains of ever , u wo0 and and doom, He t mat in his own Aim, chty strength and tlj „, „,, t doom, and snatched ' ' ,'pi't .... , Hi ,,. l, h n- m the ” l.“ I,.',-r t-id - of the vieari us ,. s , ; oi wh . t ;,i down ., . i or. iri- „ n ,. a _ ' IS ;V > le-'h'if h „n, it i. i . - , ; ' - : t ii so’lorrt ' 3 it-i so • i 'Tl H . svrnpx n ,r 4 V< V e nave a ■ • in this f.-lins' 1 know „ ,at You ca e . »-o'l, nn 1,.- -t- -.--r, y-m ■ anno., tell iriy . isu«., yon cannot te-1 Cmi,t a-i’tiimg a is -m onum-. II r lias b on t-n oug . - “ ' “ u wll ‘ novor nave a 1 a-t as hmivy to-■••rry a. the load llocarrmd up th3 1-lo-i. uioimt. Y' cl e-:: 'j 1 '-p than that which Chmtleit , tmH-rmg wore* ho# and wli-n. with tongue | a o.- ‘V ,l i'm 't'!’ 1 “ ‘ All, wil . 7 thir-t. you no c " “ so r ," ; < ' n ' ‘ i ne X . h-iile I do-u . .. “is T i>r.a>c . ^ . l Vi« g hoiltit i ,. ;“T This day I I.-i.v v Hh vo r‘e»t ob l tt niust have been Cemendotslv earnest, or all tha obsta-Ios ' driven Him ban ■ • -. n-N no. H i - nes right on. and He is h- , i.,ror y."' W J’ 1 .1 b ‘ r «. H* “ ■ '• ll p R 'L t “lPfi i with His praj-neo, an 1 1 put H» l t-asbefl l . heart at your feet. (»i, 1-1 it not told m Heaven that al ter nil your o mortoiHes of aicepbng this C.i.st^ aid after ad that Christ has done to >^ou you ,b - ,s « , * ! } 1 grace and putoXthw op.io. tumty. Many of you I see for tho list time an 1the last time, u ls so eve^T ba,i ,ath lnoinin, and it is 80 e \ el j£ i -,T„ f once throne and of the .•udgiiiet t never is a Ht a,n d.in until m,til to l-it »*y- , gr^t shall coni.'fiom ths Nmrf u and tua feoutli and die ' a ' ’* 1,1 ’ s Wh will all be there. II T .waver deep , downmath , . earth ,, we may !*• binmd ( wo will h i t w ® trmnpot. and sha 1 c'o a Q uo. we shall ronw n >. An lyot lave t» teU youi tins tnornm ; a id 1 - ’ '' ,l ' 5 tell you-tlrit n->tw.t'Htan 1 all n that t ( * ias ^'* ne n 0 e -‘ ‘ * ail His magnificent work nn l a'l tho st-try of cro>s and crown and lh»ni<aro for soaia people a dca l find failure. tho Helena, Holy the Empress, wont out to in Idand across, Iho particul ir cross on wiiich Christ was crucified, and tradition sHy\r-~of oonrs' there * vas su]M*rstition in inch'd with th ? tra litioii —tradition .‘■ays throe crosse? werocxijuiu^i. They did not know wo• they m of the doa three was the cross of Christ, so too'c a l »o ly and ?»nt it upon one cross an 1 the body moved not. Then thoy fc >ok tho dead body and pul it upon t-lu 83 *ond cress, but the body moved not. J hen toey t >ok tho dead body aril th *y pat it upon the thir l cross and it sprang into life—it sprang into lite. It- may have b on—Mb it story mav luiv T -.» l> *en m *rc fcrodicion or super* stitiou; blit it is not a s leerslUiou thatiu th3 cross of the Son of Hod there is a liio giving power for yo ir dead soul and mine. “Awa ce, thou that ^looped-, a id aris* iron the d*ad oud Christ shall give thee liie.” Not So Remarkable. ( > ne day f a solemn man entered a Wash . t s;l oon a nd allied: Is this this lilt the saloon s iloon where ulure Booth HOOth p-ot got a a drink of brandy beforckillingthebre.si dent ; ’’ “Ye-, sir-'’ “Have vou any of the same brandy left f ” “Yes, sir.” “In the same decanter?” “Y'es, >ir.” “,>ive me some of the same brandy out of the same decun r ” I; is given h.m and he puts down the fifty cents and the li juor. “G that the same brandy that Booth dr ink that nigh # ’ “\es, sir.” “And when he went out and shot the President? ” “Yes, sir.” “1 d n t w uidcr. One drink of that V-randy w .i!d make a man go out aud kill his grand.uotuer.” F. cis Overlooked. An Pf-dial, reviewlnif General r Grant# Yemo.rs, says that “Grant was the son ot a farmer, who gave him a much better education than htf h ., d hi|nsclf rec Ived.” that “the obi . d lir-int to 1 l»-com-- a soldier, ,. wachiapa , ty lie served for m i fourteen years, wh n he again took t J farming, which be ha I to relinquish on UCi . olIU t o lit lea th that “he th n be < sme 8U CC'-ive-l st.i.v agent, . clerk , . in . a store. .'euotor u: <i resilient” 1' is a 1 tt e strange that the English reviewer should have o frisked the fact t' at - , f apta ‘ ‘ ' n, . manager o. a c utno-'|K-ra opera c>m|iaiijr, pitcher «>f a Liaseball n.ne, and Go.eruor 0 . Urookiya.—„Y rr««.. an UeruUL CLING MAN’S T OBACCO REMEDIES Flw (truth: 310mm) Ihinmwn’ him 0f the age. Nu mmilv titan:- mum without CUSGHAN TOBACCO OINTMENT ‘ THE THE MOST EFFECTIVE Pile- .*•! I’KEPAKA Tl(P.\ on the market for A It h < ( If h fr»r KtrliifUf Pile**. Has never tailed to give prompt relief. Will cure Anal Ulcers. Aliens, j i -tula, Tetter. Salt Rheum. Barber’s Itch, Rnisr iw/mE, Pimples, Sores and Boils. Brier .ih ci*. THE CUNGMAN TOBACCO CAKE . N \TU« E’S OWN KEMEOY, Erysipelas. Cure* -il Wounds. irbnncles. Cuts, Bone Bruises, Felons, Hprains, Ulcers, Sores. Sore Boils. < Neuralgia.Rhenmatisra. Eyes Sr,re Throat Bunions,Corns. Orch»ti- Gout. Rheumatic Gout. CoMs, Coughs. , Brnr.ctiitts, Milk Leg, Snake and Dog Irritation Bites. Stings of Inject*, i*C, In fact allays all local and Inilamtn . i n from whatever cause. Price J.'t cts. THE CUNOMAN TOgACCO PLASTER Prepared aceordin^ to the most i cieiifitie PiviscildcN, ol Ihe 1M REST SEDATIVE I N<JREmENT>* and compounded specially recommended with th* purest f*.T i b tcco Flour, is i roup,Weed /jTitant ov Cake inflammatory of the Breast, maladies. and for Aches that class and '■* or p 'air.# where from too delicate a state of the system. ; hft patient Tobacco is unable Cake. to For bear Headache the stronger or other application Aches f t i invaluable. Price ,;i ! Flirt.-, ir i.< |.i els. Auk i otxr druggist for these remedies, or write to t he CUNGMAN TOBACCO CURE CO. DUMHAiVI, N. C., U. S. A, ^THE LIGHT RUHMIHO^ 4t % 8 b * O % C • it m 1 ' % ■fc Us* s'* >■ ! i | ; • HAS NO EQUAL. , | PEPFt'C T S/l TiSFAC TIP it - Kct Hoe Soiii Machine Co. —ORANGE, MASS.— , Y. III. St, Louis, Mo. 30 Union Square, N. Chicago, Atlanta, 6a. Dallas, Tex, San Francisco, Cal. FOR SALE BY SMITH'S [Ml :\-, BEANS /-VURE Biliousness; Sick Headache in Four hours. (<S) One prevent dose Chills relieves Fever, Neuralgia. Sour Stomach They cvra *>. Bad and ^ give Breath. Clear the Skin, Tone the Nerves, DEAN. and Life Vigor to iho system. Dose: OIS.E Try them once and you will never be without .hem. Price, 25 cents per bottle. Sold Sent by Druggists receipt and of Medicine stamps, Dealers postpaid, generally. to address, on price in any J. F. SMITH & CO. LOUIS.MO Manufacturers and Sole Props., ST. gsEEsgjj, INiiJ m :i Q M ms i i wes 6 BOTTLES v a BEST REMEDY KNOWM FOR CATARR SORE MOUTH OR SORE THROAT In all forms and stages. ! PURELY VEGETABLE. i REQUIRES NO INSTRUMENT. USED and ENDORSED by PROM INENT PHYSICIANS. l)r. O. B. Howe, Athens, Ga., eavs: “CERTAIN ( A TABRH CURE cared me of a s»vej-o ulcerated sort throat, and I cheerfully onaorseit. Lucy J. Cock, Oconee Co., Ga.. writes. Sent. 17th, J8S5, “One bottle of your remedy entirely cured me of Catarrh with which 1 had suffered greatly for five years.” *1 had J. H. Allgood. Athens, Oa.. writes Sept. 2Z.\ : Z, -sev^Tt' ly cur CAN YOU DOUBT SUCH TESTIMONY? WE THINK NOT. £lnly a Id ^ of our many ce rtificates are eiven here, jiddiesainrf Offers cjui bo obtained f rom your druggist, or by 8 C. CO., ATHENS, Ga. oa SALE BY DH. fl. J. KEID ,/a I n St ND FOR CATALOGUES ■ y h^tid I w. i ! 7 Hus mud“ Mnno ur nw Mo»! “on dvrful “mm on rerun]. The Biggest - 4 mmmm K&m/ V mm v M I ON THE R0AD.= 1 i ■— • '•j p r / \ / I H m i m§m m m ii r c. -1 WM : - -w A ► : YER X j A WFOltDVILLE. GEORGIA. lias hand in his mammoth store, not a CIRC US SHOW, hnt the on Greatest Show You Ever Saw In m I m w * BOOTS, SHOES, HATS (T.hTtirNh FURNITURE, AND GROCERIES, I have this season titceil out my store with everything that will please the people and will make you prices that will cause you to be amazed and delighted to know tha t you can buy line goods as cheap at home as elsewhere. Don t say that I have not the rtiele you want until you examine my stock. I can and will offer you bargains of a life-time, if you will only come and see me. You will have the biggest s'oek to select * rom l ' iat 1011 ever had in the town of Crawfordville. and I am determined to offer the best goods for the least money that has ever been offered in this town. l ou Can Count On baying from me vthen you come, because I have what you want and you can c<!t **■ ^ Iom me cheaper than you can buy it in any of the cities in your re-ch. Not on y the best and cheapest but the prettiest and most stylish lot of goods 1 ever had All 1 bought at the best New York Prices, And sold at the lowest Georgia prices. When you come to town, come to my store first and I will save you tire trouble of walking around and will save you mone; on even a small bill. THEY WILL MAKE YOUE SMILE! z Don’t fail to examine my large stock and see ay 1 1 at I can do tor you in bargains ot all kinds. s ‘m i rapi* ■ MM r/'idjikitflM - A -•» * -^1. ' J it Wls § “o t;.a 3 . V. l-'J Z 's “I SHOULD SNICKER ! !'* FALL & WINTER GOODS. UOW PLEASING TIIEYARE.
