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The Democrat.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY CLEM. C, MOORE.
OR A WF0RD VIL L E, G E0RGIA.
Kri-.red at th<* po«tofBc* at C raw ford v !!»
Georp x. k% ■ecottd'Clacif ma.J matter.
It is Rial, i by the Medical Hu.,id,
that tl»c United thivernnierit 1 t
paid more money ail tliQ
flit: rli- ■ a - 'if hogs than il ha-, for
disc;. ■ afferlino the human raeo.
An agjt.i! ion ornoii; the imtives of fn
ilia in the pfovi e of iicrigal is disturb
ing Kngli*Ji , (heads. It i- said to be nn
otllg'rowih of 1 he Iri-i struggle for home
nth:, and may take the form of a general
refli: il to j it tab' to England.
The iMri.il .brnni.'il reeenlly hfadul
its column of Michigan news with the
following clwlleiig' ; “Leap year h gone,
yc( can fifty oru. tell of a bona fide cast!
wlert in n Miehimm girl really proposed
1o a mart during the* year? (ilY(! JiOfll' ,
please; no g<*ncializaiionM.”
Th* : tarllimr a*-sort ion i- mum If* in one
f>f die opening p ; »T of a recent work on
prj-on reform that 1 ■ judionfi l»y the nutti
lx r nf commitmcntw, year by yoar, tf> tlm
penitent iaricH and Htati* prinons, crime
hn- incrf'iiM-d m the t nited States, re! a
lively to the population, since tho war
by not h' than one third.
It i iv w ■rteil by the H\tml New Yorker
That 1 M-irc Ina'p and lambs are killed ill
Kcw York than in any other city in the
world, over two million lead being
Klftughli red annually, and with ihe in
cri a ing demand for n'.iitton and iambs
the chiilic . are that : lie will continue 1"
liuld tit 1 place for smile lime 1 i conic.
It is tile intention to id iv portable.
Btcainer from Liverpuol toi entrttl Africa,
to be trun-porled by nalitcs to Simile)’
1'iml, (ill) miles loan the month of the
Congo River, to mu i "all' the Congo,
which, il is e lim ited, is navigable lor a
distance of -RKK) mile Tho : trailin', it
is hoped, will he running in about a y ear.
The New Ymk. lb laid < alculitt t hat
“a single year of failure in agricultural
production would bring a famine, the like
of which has never been in the history of
all the centuries since civilization begun
and y< 1 we have philosophers posing
Ug stahsmen who think all t» farmer is
goot I for is to east liis vote for the fu
vored political parly.’
Daly is rearranging her v.iilvond system
on the plan of her great neighbors, so ns
to make il more efficient in carrying
troops to any threatened point, It seems.
comments the (’ini iniiali Enquirer, us if
the war burdens Mould never dose over
them. But they have increased at such
a frightful rate since 1 S 7D that every one
who cult is running away.
There are few countries where tires are
more lisastrons than in Russia; the
yearly average of the European part is
more tlui^ -10,000, destroying nearly
IRe.'KMl buihliii:'\ahud at uhout ^ :
000,0(10. Tin- gnat number is due to
the fact that the houses are of Wood .and
not sei-arated except hy hedges d twi: ',
which In lp to spn ad the lire.
In spite of the largely increased con
sumption of coal oil, owing to the de
cided favor in which lamps are held for
illvuninating purposes by fashionable ] )t*o
pic, the price, slates the San Eranci- >
Chronicle, keeps low and manifests a
tendency to go lower, The ow tiers "f
oil wells owe a debt of gratiluth* to the
artists of the United {states who have
improved the form of coal-oil lamps to
such an extent that they have Ix-comc ar¬
ticles of ornament as wa ll as utility. If
it were not for this fact the immense pro
ductiou of coal oil, so largely in < xeese
of the demand, would have brought
down prices to a stage which would
have destroyed all the profit in the busi¬
ness.
It is hard for the clergy to please
everybody nowadays A R> -ton woman
complains that Iter pastor never looks at
her when he preaches, but devotes all bis
attention to the sinners on the other side
of the church. For this reason she says
that his sermons do not have the moral
effect on her which they ought to have,
On the other hand. * l‘hi. ■>; > woman n
cently ivntp!ai:n'il tint! her pastor mv ..'
ably looked at her whir, ht pit
ing. t - v "k lit 1 JCIUT ed hum.
bugs an it IV | ■ritrs. and sh<* wanttsl i 4
know if it w a u t an out to treat
apeo'able pew hob rs tn this w 5
the clergyman fin : ' h ■ ,ltl of '• lev
ancte l;e laughingly i\j *U d tl S. he
Wasn't !o. king at the w man a! a” when
she thought he xva> hut at a certain pil¬
lar behind her, tl« sight of which, foi
come mysterious reason, always tit
to clarify la* th- ;-ght.
THE DEMOCRAT, CRAWFOKDVIi.EE. GEORGIA,
. I J \ l)J| I \ 1 M \ ( ... ,, I- 1
tils' * I'll. 1 illvJl.lUlji
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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERK0N.
Subject: “Onr Own Generation.”
Text; "Dno-irf, after hr had served An
mtm yentra'ion by thr unit of Gad, Sell on
slrrp —Acts xin ,
That is a text which ha* for a longtime
been running through my mind, but not nn- ,
tl now a Seen fully reveal-1 to me.
Sermons have a time to be born as wad as a
time to die, a radio as well as a grave.
Inv.d. cowboy and totie-almger and lighter
rsa ...... .......»*•"•*•*
I;':.;:""""'" generation 1 that he had I
it wa- his own
sc, ed that i, th ( ,*-o|.|e living at the tim
our r< •.pun--.tali!,-, ,‘,W are rdiiefiy with th# |
people walk,. Jg abreast of us' The =
nr" al» ,,t four i ••i.cr.d.oM-u. ac-ntury ancltbere now,
but in o den time life was longer
w.v< perhaps, only one generation into the calculation, to a >»«•
tiny. Taking t; fi*ct.H thattbcrc have
I make a rough yue.s find |
ftI one l.uwlreil and eikhtv
generations of the human family. \V th j
refe, en.e to them we have no responsibility |
Ue cannot bach thin, we can not correct ■:
tlieir imsta c w- cannot - -"the their >or
rows, we cannot, heal Uicir wound., ihelr >
aepuh hf an d'-..; and dumb to anything
Ur N, vli> H«y to them. I lie lust i-giment of .
that, pi it army ti> pa -d ■ ut of .Rbt. »•
Blight halloo as loud a* we could, not one of
them would avert his head to see what we
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w " nl1 i
1 admit , , that I am in sympatty with the
cht’d whose lath- bad suddenly died and
who in her little evening prayer wanted to
coat.nuo to piny tor her father, although lie
|'Hd one mbo le aven and no i.iore n eilui
her i-nyers, an-i lonking up n o ‘‘-i
n vi tner h face said: o, mother, J ■an
mil, .cave him nil out. I«t me say,
■ I liaiiH G' U that I had a go/sl tatlier > . ,
nut so I 'Tin U( ’f‘l> '"Ml m my pray
C, a Rut t he one hundred and «K»t*Rcn
'■/•"’""V....... do.vn Gone b-rever. ' u bhen , theroai ,T ? J‘ ►, n
h/w""-iiwl ,0 i’"rhniri’ ,7w r a 0 huiuin-<l thouind and eighty «i.S
aenarauoas i wrhaw a
nf 'oth. , in?,i !m \\n the.'■ si i J vonVs u<?f w" th^ru will wo shu I
«r V nf take no
i,art " m in ir ronvo nt",ns their elections
rovolutl \V««illi„ in- their now,*atrl-t catastrophes their
■min » the one
temnred and Cghty generattens gone *is or the
o-e t,nmlied mdei'h'.v tn'. •enerati to come,
, .. fj .,,111 h,’d .'afienes of heaven the
Co,■ e ,.m-rat Kins o..wn and rejoice at
om VI lone or w» mii v by our le-havior
*ta,u mfliiein th.-iidvan ", -nod or Im I th it shall roll
on through Itnvi in - ages. Rqt our busi
nes, h like I to-crvHoiirowtiLcneration,
the people now iivim* iicni- those whose lungs now
lir.Lthe rk'vnn' Hid v ...... now beat And
111 - it,- not « s,l.mt .irocesfioii, but
moving It is a ‘'forced inarch ' at twenty
four niilf*s a <lnr, each hour being a mile,
(ioinc with th it celerity, it has got to be a
Quick service <»n our i#irt, or no service at
nil. We not only cannot teach the
one hundred find eighty genera
tions past and will not see the
one h'indr d generations to « • me. but this
geuerat on n«?w <»n the stage will soon be off
io.; ■ . r n be o 1 wit! them The
frtef. is Unit you and I will have to Sturt very
noon for our work or it will be ironical and
miroitic for any one after our exit to say of
us as it was Maid of l)avid, “after he had
*<u*ved his own generation b.v Um will of Hod,
he fell on sleep.”
Well, now, let us took around earnestly,
prayerfully and in a common *m» c way and
•a© whaL wc mu do for our own generation,
» ir 1 of aillot ic see to it that, as far as w.»
ran, they have ©nnusrh to cat. The hiirimn
bo<ly is -g? < csi ituted that three time* a day
tho i v )!'■; .is food as much a, a lamp
n»*edg oil, ic much n ;i locomotive
ikh*<1h f'•»■*!. To meet this want God
has girdled tha earth with appln orchards,
orting * i -ov. . wheat fields mid o cans full
of Ibh and priori** full of cattle. And not
withstanding thin, f will undertake to say
that the vuNf. mujority of the human family
ore suffering: either for I n k of food or tlia
right kind of food. Our civilization is all
n#k«.w «>n this subject and God only can set
it right.
M»mv of the greatest estates - of to day have
been built out of the blooii and bones of un
requited toil In olden times, b»r tho build
ing, of fovts and towers, the ndmbitnnv^
of Ispahan hud to contribute .0,o >0 human
skulls, and Bug lad 00,oofl human skulls, and
that number of peoid© were Jain so us to
furnluh the skulls. But these two contribii
tion* added together ma in only Hi0,(KK!
skull*, whilo into the fewer <>f the world’s
wealth «itd pomp and magnificence hiv*
b«©n wrought th© skc-cit.MS of mu'ounted
numl'crs of the half fed populations of the
earth, mill ouh of skulls.
Don t sit down at your table nth five or
six courSt s of nbumi int suppl v and think
nothing *>f that family In the next street who
won d lB.m tiny an • of tiuw * five courses lie
tw»xn soup Httu almond m»t« aitd tcci they
W«-| •• I" ln'H'.pn. ri«p ‘.ni’k of th" right land
of food is tl!" rail., of tl! h of th" drunk
eniiess \fter drinking wlmt m.uiv of our
groerseill >-«H ro(T,v, and s.< eating <<ot<>nod hat "Hi "ha ot
many *'*sar, « many
our fcutvbei's rail meal, and "hewing what
mam-id oir baki'is rail hr.Kid, until v of th"
laboring Casses r.-el so miserable they are
tempted to put into their misty
What th' tohm onixt .-.ids leio'-'O, or
I go into the drinking saloons for what the
nini sellers tail beer G...kJ i«ffee would do
much in driving out l«i I rum. Adulteration
of food lias got to 1* nn evil against which
nil tie- health o'h.aa-s and dl the do -t >rs and
all the ministers and all the reformers ant!
all the Christians neel to set thera
selv.ss m battle array llow .m wo servo
our genorati ii with enough to eat Rv sit
ting dow n m embroidered sUpoers and ioung
ing l i k in an arm chair, our mouth puck
erei] lip around a Havana of the la st brand,
end through clouds of luxuriant smoke rend
iug ab. ut political economy mid the phi.os
test No v By
whom Rrool, vn has been hung on grist!.
and sending them n tenderloin beefsteak,
Meek <»ut some r.amtlv who through sickness
or .cu. unction of mi-fortune have
not eiuuig i to vat and do for
them wliat t’heist did for the
hungry mu . ud»* of Asia Minor, multiply
! ing the loaves and tne fishes, l.-t ua quit
the surfeit ; of oiirsni.e* until we cannot
choke.L wn mother crutub of cakeaAdb*
fin the ss.: n v o other- luvi'-i' s
\\> ten see.* asm:; - ale a i <■ ’k lessnes
als ut th. w 'me f ed . i s whi h a gr. at
w arnor ..... a - ' w.a-nhis
! ■ o.ssu in; i u fr mi n tan
«amp .;n.' v.n-, :» i •! ■ tw,» bun
di e! tii. uisan i tve- ■> v . m s dial cl
I ism tha’. can never tv> !.»r ““ten V\ iiat ati
j two s.i bin ire.l fro at tccwsan l p i : : ve- -. :o »se me I worsv*
! huttge; them are !!,. —■ " u suj *
j ; *.-r.ties is c in iingth" **.«>: tn •!»»•*:• N o»
; have ■" t a lari put *
I tevthe > : «’1 en a cr n l i i: « ' s om»
j cue was t r.-un 1 a . t round and
the man be.ing t! e ,.x bore on it harder
and harder wh.le •> water p. 1 rom
ti, and 1 eedswoft e « rom
i lieing round and dull, got keener aod keener.
ami tb© m© h th© ax.
an 1 with edeeso keen be must oau
run lu* tinker lost while ex
| amming the b© cut hi* band
to tb© bon© So 1 have men who wera
yui aian\st the gnudstoue of hardship, and
wh Jeon© turned the crank anoth©r would
pre-s th© unforiunat# ha ier down and
karvier down u stu be eras gr und «way thm
n r an l thinner, hi* comforts thinner. Ins
pr ts i t ..ui*r and h s face thmuer.
' . * ah s r *ks oul •AVbat me*n ye
that y© grtn-i the f*«'©.■> of the r sv% r It e
*n m«rfu th nf to b© hungry it is an easy
thins for us to tv m gtkvi humor with afo the
noG-i ©■ rii «t* have u ' A -x. But let f-un
per take fu.t i*>**es*jon of us aad w© would
a I turn into bartoriaus and vaiiniba>s and
ben da
'larriElad to know that the time family h coming, the
God hvtrii it. when every in
round world will sit down at a full table, add
it will bo only a ou-ation between lamb
and ven«.on, or between partridge made and
quail on toast, and out of spoons
oit of N'ovada silver or (,'alifornia gold the
pa-tries will drop on tongues thrilling withU
l hankfu ness tiecau-e they have full enough.
1 nave no idea Go 1 is going to let the human
rac .. >,t.iv n its present predicament.
if the worl i winds up as it now
h • it w “ ' be an awful failure of
Th> . pomologis’fi barren places will 1*
wifi' ^ -j ) IK fruits.' helped botanists, of God, in
urge on tb • The
« p i r ,,.i of the Lord, will help on the garden*.
The l a sers of stock will send enough ani
mata «, fcr human food to the markets, and
th ,, Ja t narthquake that rends the world
wilI upsat /. a banqueting table at wnich are
. n ,U; raca . Meanwhile,
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Affe Wf* u "'' p te?- * - vg- :
u ! ‘ ;‘.f. ’„„■!•• 0 ’is fhe
, t«Tifl-'ba‘tle now be
TougUfc all the worhio r. -■ ■ ' ®
**r« 1 * 1 or ^e ground tone of the
r p« r t „« in on* of t k
U 1 1,1 “ ■ t l ‘ S' f th ,LZ,W dwSKS .ft,
v . •ni , .i'<s«lc‘ l Kin* role r ,. t •• •«.,.,• i they f[
* ■" "" , nda
; ,J.hr-d ol m ii
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S ,X“ou and m l I hear the
^ 0 |£ ml torm .the tragedy of un
) , 1 , lt ,., i A nu lt ,udes, who with streimmg behalf eye;
aad broken hearts in
t!ie , n ol » and their families, are pleading
{ i, r ,. a d • around to
( nnott , er j 0 ok
( , v . we mav s .. rvB our generation. they
;, c us far pos,-,:l.!e tim*
jj enough to we ir God looks on
' knows just how
1fa hu . tia rafi9 , ;n d
rnaiiv n. Habitants the world his. The
. g , th( v .,, r , r , population and are
ta!< o„ in civilized lands, every
fl ,., v vears 0 tjj ers of government go through
tha !a ,„, a ml count how many Englandandgreat people there
Hrf , ti m i; n ,ted Ktatesor
,, ri ,cy is reach- l. Rut when people tell us
j,ow many inbabitants there are in Asia or
Africa, at best it most b« • wild goMS. Yet
j nows the exact number enough of people apparel on
J p i anot «nd he lias made
for a nnfl if there G, fifteen hundred mil
i.on fifteen thousand fifteen hundred and
' apparel
^ ,, e orflc then there is att,e*;n“uousatid, enough
for fifteen hundred million, slouch
fifteen hundred nmi fifteen. Not ap
jure!, not rugged apparel, not insufficient
apparel, but appropriate apparel. At
least two su ti for every being on the
earth, a summer suit ami a winter
smt. A good pair of shoes for every living
mortal. A good coat, a good bat or a good
bonnet and a good shawl, and a complete
rmisculine or a feminine outfit of apparel. A
wArdroiie for all nations adapted to all
climes, and not a string or a button, or a pin
or a hook or an eye wanting. But, alas!
where are the good clothes for three-fourths
of tho human race? The other one
fourth have appropriated them. The fact
is, there needs to be and will be a redistri
bution Not by anarchistic violence. If
outlawry had its way, it would rend ami
tour and diminish until instead of three
fourths of the would world not properly I attired, let
four fourths be in rags. you
know how the redistribution will take
place. By generosity on the part ot
those who have a surplus and sinfering increased in
dustxy on the part of those from
delicti Not all, but the large majority of
cam * of poverty in this country are iKHlIt
of idleness or drunkenness, either on the part
of tho present sufi'erers or ihoir ancestors,
Jn most eases the rum iu;» down is tho mael
strom that has swallowed tho liveli
hood of those who are in rags. But things
will change, and by generosity on tho part
of the crowded wardrobes, and industry
j and sobriety on the part of the empty ward
robes there will la» enough for all to wear.
God has done Mis part toward the
cfiruT “huThaH Thm. He gnnv.-j a
plus of wool on the sheep’s back,
,.,nd flocks roam the mountains and
valleys with a burden of warmth intended
for transference to burn in comfort, when the
Klmttlos of tho factories reaching all the way
from the Chattahoochee to the Merrimac
shall have spun and woven it. Andherocome
forth the Rocky Mountain goat and the cash
mere anti the beaver Here are the merino
she »j», their origin trace?i back to the flocks
of Abrahainic ami I hividic times. In white let
tors of snowy fleece,God has be n writing for a
thousand years His wish that there might be
warmth for all nations. While others are
discussing the effect of high or low I Far iff or
„ ( > tariff at all on wool, you and had better
see if in our wardrobes we have nothing that
W(gl can spare for th© shivering, or pick
Rome poor lad of the street and
jpjii down to a clothing store and
fit him out for tho winter. Don’t
think that God has forgotten to send ice and
8novv , because of this wonderfully mild Janu
arv tt nd 1-eoru irv We shall yet have deep
gn ows and so much frost on th© window
that in the morning vou cannot blizzards, see through
it and whole flocks of for
long ago declared that winter as well as sum
m er shall not c^ase, ami between this and the
S p r i nt r <tocus we may all have reason to cry
ol|t wif u th© psalmist: “Who can stand be
j fore this uxjld ^
| et „ s | 0O k armm.l an ) w how wa
ma v serve our generation. Wliat short
, K1Kht ,^| mortal* we won d be if we were
! anxious to elothe and feel onlv the most in
I gigmfieant part of a man, namely, bis body,
j , v | u |„ } , ut f t)r th no eilort to ciotuo
„ t „! save Ins soul lime is a
! lt ,i„ , n ,. ow b,oken o;r a groat eternity,
\\ | lat are we doing for the souls of
, )res ,,„i generation saving. Let me .Most sav
„ is a generation worth Wo
maguifleent men and women are in it.
make a great ado about the improvements in
navigation, and in h.com. tam and in art
s ,,,i machinery. W* remnrs wiiat wonders
of telegraph, and telephone, and stethoscope.
What unprovem -ut is eiei-trie light over a
tallow .-an lie! Rut all these improvements
are msigmll -ant compared with the improve
m ent in the human race. In olden times.
mice in a while, a great ami goal man or
woman would >me tip and the world
t„ ts made a great fas. about it ever since,
now tie v are so uunerous we scarcely speak
- We put a halo about tha peo
() |e of tie past, bnt 1 thins if the times de
mamled them it would be found we have now
|,vmg ;n this vear Ib-H riftr Martin Luthers,
fifty George tVa.hingtons. fifty Lady During Hunt
inrtons, fifty noresplendid Elizabeth warrior*in Frys. Ncrth and our
,. lv c wsrJ
South were developed ;n four years than the
wlto.e world developed in the neeviou**w n
, tfacn*«ai
, challenge the four
< adore the flood and the eighteen oac- of
t lines f.,... ».fter the flixal to show me the 1’eabodv. equal
a large s wle of ideorge
ration of men and women is more
„ orU , than anv of the »nv hundred
put'‘wit-re , ^ . illv generation- that have passed off.
shall we tiegm) vfith our
, v 'y;.',t is the pil'ar from which we
lm ,st starL Preacott. the blind historian,
tie s us bow R.-arro saved his ar»y for the
.. , A ,, v were about deserting him.
u'u, ni he made a lour mark on
, , jle savi “Mv tutu, on
. „„tL ...L j... Jiitulimi mill dnalti.n **r
... j. Lana
rv „„ the north side
" an t er tv. on the -.-uth side Parti with
rci. ■* t'Knwe for veurveive*. for mv
’ ,’ , to s -th .stepping across fob
. ue one by one. hi* troop* ‘
an .j fi t iaHv h s whole army.
** >w. ni of \tratb the
^ \ k! : I ne t > dav. on© fid© of it are
.
*. n tod »■ n ard e,*th on tha other s$d© ar©
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4 ^ an: u^fuines* and ha spinels and
h . ,^ {rom the wkm^sid© mil to
, r ^ s and vour family ’ and Croat
n , an ,j rour friends your
H ^ v n -ph© wav vou go t lt*r will
j. vv? aiv no j saved, we will never
s ive anv on * e How to get saved? Be
n u-ln acv^r-t Christ and then accept
insmtaneouslv and forever Get on
th R,.vfirst and then vou will be able to
^ nothM ^ ttpCia xh9 same Rcvck. lien and
wom€n j are itvn sared quicker than I have
lwn talkin - %Jon % What, without a
prjiver What, without time
j % . ej lo th.nk it o^er? Vos.
Wpat. without a tear! Yes. believe! That is
all- oil from Believe sin what? and death That and ’J e ? he. us ,wm Will you. vnn
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Dr- you! You have. Soraeth.ng makes
think you have. >tw light Ms
efime! c4 m * 1 ’£°, Welcome! you f Hail. countenances. Hail. hav-i "el
ylmrselves, By testimony. how are you lell going .t to your to save tarn
ot hers!
I :fy. Tell it to your business assoc, ates. led
do every whei e. We will successfully prea'-.i talk
more religion and will successfully
i aro more redgion than we ourselves hare.
I The mostof that w.ie-h you do to benefit
tlh^ragh *jbs souls ot this generation, behavior. you Go wrong, will effect and
your own
®at will induce others to go wrong. >o
right, and that will ranine others to go
light. I When the great, oentenniatexh.bit on
as being held in Philadelphia, the ques
tjiou whether came up they among could the keep directors the ex- as
fesiTjlJ'oi’Z to
!
irjTirsttsffl.jss .v.jj
rhUW: mother
*ember what my glorihed and I
tight me about keeping ..unday. and
■ • hear her voice again
w-l as l did when ever/evening d kneit by
p p ,-ide in prayer. < I_vote for
. observance of the i.hnstian Sa.»i>ath.
M he carried everything by storm, and
'hen the question was pat ‘.'shall we on n
the exhibition on SabbathT it was aim st
iwanimous, “No.” “No ’ " hatone man can
do if he does right, bold.y right, empba c
ally right.
What if we eonjd get this whole gen«ra
t-ion saved! These people who are living
with us the same year and amid the same
itupendous events and flying toward tbs fu
tftre sw ifter than eagles to their prey. We
c ann ot stop. They cannot stop. We thins
v., can stop. We say. “Come now, my
friend, let us stop and discuss this does subject,’
but we do not stop. The year not
Stop’ atop, the day does not stop, the hour does not
The vear is a gieat wheel and there ts
L band on that wheel that keeps it. revolv- three
mg, and as that wheel turns, it turns
hundred and sixty -five smaller wheels, which
H re the days, ami then each of these three
hundred and sixty five wheels turn twenty
four smaller wheels, which are the hours, and
these twenty-four smaller wheels turn sixty
smaller wheels, which are tha min
utes, and thee sixty smaller wheels turn
pixt y more smaller wheels, which are the
seconds, and they keep rolling, rolling, roll
mg. mounting, mounting, mounting, and
swiftening, swiftening, swiftening. Oh,
God! if our generation is going like
that and ue are ^ oin '* 1 ^
waken us to the , short , but *. tremendous
opportunity. I confess to vou that my
one wish is to serve this generation, not to
antagonize it, not to damage ,t, not to rule it,
out to serve it. I would like to do something
toward helping unstrap its load, to stop its
tear-, to balsam its wounds and to induce it
to put foot on the upward road that has
at its terminus, acclamation rapturous
and gates pearline, and garlands and amaranth- dominions
ine and fountains rainbowed
enthroned and coroneted, for I cannot forget
that, lullaby in the closing words of my text:
“David, after he had served his own genera
tion by the will of God. fell on sleep.”
And what a lovely sleep it was! Unfilial
Absalom did not trouble it. Ambitious Ado
niiah did not worry it. Persecuting Saul
did not barrow it. Exile did not fill it with
nightmare. .Since a red headed boy amid
his father's flocks at night, he had not had
such a good sleep. At seventy years
of age he lay down to it. He has had
many a troubled sleep, as in the caverns
o Adulhun "** to the palace his at
the time his enemies were attempting
capture. Ilut this was a peaceful glorious sleep, sleep. a
calm sleep, a restful sleep, a
“After he served his generation by the good will
of God, ho fell on sleep.” Oh, wi at a
thing is sleep after a hard day’s work! It
’ takes all the aching out of the head and all
i the weariness out of th© limbs and all the
[ smarting morning out and of the ir is eyes. From world. it we And rise in if
the a new
—seryo our gener a
I tion, we will at life's rioie mive
most desirable and refreshing sleep. In it
will vanish our last fatigue last of body, our
last worri men t of mind, our sorrow of
soul. To the Christian's body that was hot
with raging fevers so that the attendants
must by sheer force keep on the blankets,
it will be the cool sleep. To those who
are thin ooded and shivering with
agues, it ill be the warm sleep. To
those who, terrified because with of night physical visions, disorders,
were it
will be the dreamless sleep. *To nurses and
doctors and mothers who were wakened al
most every hour of the night by those to
whom they ministered, or over whom t hey
watched, it will be the undisturbed sleep.
To those who could not get to bed till late at
night before and must getting rise rested, early it in will the be morning the long
and
Bleep. with all gloomy talk about da
Away your
parture from this world. If webaveserved
| our generation ft vriii not De putting out into
breakers, it will not be the fight with the
) I £ A in friend £ ot Terrors; writing it me will from be going Umo to s sleep. says
th at Rev. Dr. Wingate, President of
Wake Forest College, North Carolina,
" ft * r A niost useful life, found his last
day on earth his happiest day, and
that in his last moments he seemed to be p r
sonally talking with Christ, .s friend with
friend, saving: “Oh, how delightful it is. 1
knew N ou would be with me when the time
game, and I kn-w it would be sweet, but I
did not know it would be as sweet as it is."
The fart was lie bad served his generation in
the gospel ministry.and by the will of God he
fell ou sleep. When in Africa. Majvvara, the
servant, looked into the tent of David Li v
i mgstone and found him on his knees, he
j 'topped back, not wishing to disturb him and in
I prayer, and sometime after went in
found him in the same posture, and stepped
I back again, but after a while went in and
, touched him. **& io! the great traveler had
; finished bis Lm-t journey and he had
died ia the grandest and mightiest
piwture • man ester take*—on hi* knees. He
i bud serve,! his generation by unrolling the
| scroll of a continent, and by the will of God
fell on sleep. Grimshaw. the evangelist.
when asked how he felt in his last moments,
responded: “As haopy as 1 can be on earth
and as sure of glory as if I were in it 1 have
uotbing to do b ut t- step out of tics bed into
heaven.' Having served liis generat on ia
successful evangelisas by the will of irod. he
fell on sleep.
In the museum of < .reenwich Hospital.
England, there is a fragment of a took tost
wa- found in the Arctic regions am d t.ie
relics of S r John Irankltn, who h ut per
ished amid the snow ana ice, an 1 the leaf
of that piece of a bewk was turned dowm at
t the words: M hen thou {taysest thioug.it e
waters I will be with thee Having sened
• his generation in Hte cause of science and
discovery by the wfil a God. he fe.l on
,!ep P
| Why will you keep us all wo nervotw talk
; ing about Uiat which is only a dormitory and
u pillowed slutulier. canopied by aiigeis
w.ngs ! bleep ! Transporting sleep ' An.i
■ wliat a glorious awakening * \ ou and leave
eotnvtimes been thoroughly bewnderei alter
a long and fat-gu;ng jouraev . we hire
etsppeii at a frieail’s house lor toe night an .
I after hours of complete iraconaeiousness high f»d we
have opened our eyes, the r;--n t in
m o«r faces, and. before we coaM lu, y cej
lect our faculties, have said; -WnepeamL
wbon house :s this and whose are tr.ee* gar
j | dens?* gl*d reality. And then And it I has ehotdi flashed not upon wonder us L. i*
aft«r w© hav© served our generation una. i->
th© will of God, have la^.en on > «*ep. the
deep sieep. the rretful s e-p. W
should awake in bfo-^ful \>©wi uerivient
i and for a litt © wb:.e **?- '" ****
j on\ II What palace is. this-. »* ; ,un ^
this upholstery? ''hat *o in.a n
| or© thass tossing: m th# ngfct.w hy_t us locks
like heaven' It is. It is. >Sn'. ’-u re is *
j | building; ftronder mountain than a I the of east»es spi r. t *r, ©-irtn t: at
heavevi into a
; must b© the pa‘.a nned © or * non
i there, those walks s.-n a *
beautiful than anyth.ng l ever saw
j and >ee those who are walking down those
aiGee of verdure. From wna^ I o&re
( heard be of Mow th-m. and those Joshua, two him arm o in sxonmi arm
must .
Sinai and him o' the halting sun over A alon. |
And those two walking arm in arm must be j
John and Paul, the one st> gentle and the |
other so mighty. And th *e two w.ih tue ,
robfs as brilliant as though made cut of the
cooled off flames or marly; irru, must be ,
John Kuss and Hugh Lot in if. those . I -
Eut I must not look any lOhJef at |
gardens of beauty, but exam r.s this bu: ding
in which I have just awakened. I loo.; out j
of the window this way and that and up and j
down, and 5 find it is a mansion of immense
size in which I am stqpmnz. All its !
windows of agate an 1 its co onnades <>
porphyry and a.abascer. " hy 1 " oa
d*r if this is not the h» . f
.
many m ancons oi * ‘ “ -_
read Jt i». u i». 1 1 .. i -” 1
m^radred sum Hark ? n A who 0 f "are eaie those those v vo^ °£.,. who“« 'j
are ‘■hose .iow n.i"J’ ; i; the
«*-and Jo.trey are emmn'g ti^noa^h -h an a tne
a5«-{^
SSRS.'SU “Never to part. Never more to part.
more
Then our glorjfisd friends say: Come ou
wlt h us and see heaven. And. some of
them bounding ahead of us and some of
thera skipping beside us, we start
,| own the ivory stairway. And wo
nieet coming up, one ot the Kings of
,
anClenl Israel, somewnat small of stature,
but having a countenance radiant with*
thousand victories. And as ail are making
obeisaime to this great one of heaven I y
out;.“YVhoi^ ^e! artI ;he ianswiercome^
1 his 1S t \ ,e of ail th... v o
Israel. . u i? T ^ a ^Vv wdi
hi- generation rt by the a will of of (dml God, It fell 1 on
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S I’UIXGS IX VO i.XISTEXCE.
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f Lomnilhbioner . , . «i f Ag.ltultiilt 4 ,„•! culture minim COlll ai
Nominated for Secretary. *
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The 1 Pres'dent has approved ° the bill raising "
the Bureau of Agriculture to the the di dignity „ nitv ol 0 £
an executive department, and named the
present Commissioner of Agriculture, Mr.
j, orrnan j. Colmon. to be Secretary of the
^ - narunent al cf Agriculture. “
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SThe law creating the new department doss
not deline its functions or limits. A dis
pa oh from Washington says: “The
Senate will doubtless confirm the nomi
n TT r o n'. da it THF lV i lW T^n^ Jn the
president’s choice of advisers, vmt- nnita
aside from this, it is conceded that Mr. Col
man has discharged the duties of his office
with intelligence, li faitlifullv. and to the satis
faction of large number of Democrats
as we 1 as Republicans. It is therefore quite
pertain that ho will have the satisfaction of
bem rr the first Secretary of Agric ulture,
though be will have held the office but three
weeks. At any rate be will return to .Mis
gouri as Secretary.” executiveMe
It is forty years since a new
part me nt oc the Government was created.
The State Department and other depart
ments of the Government in IMS had be
come overburdened with public Mexico business,
The result of the war with was a
large acquisition of territory. The discovery
of gold in California opened up a new era in
emigration tion° to the West, and the land cues
was becoming a very important one.
The business of the Patent Office was
i lKToa siug. Th«> details of tho census,
t | 1(1 C are of the Indians tension and bounty
matters were mnltmlviug details. All these
were grouped under the tho Interior new department,and
the a-t making March it Department
t was approved J, 1MD
Naturaliv, agricultural matters a^gre
t un( icr the Secretary of the Interior
until IStV’ ” when Congress created a Depart
of Awrirulture "interior ’ iiiriepe-mient entirely
af the lleuartmeiit but
, m Tl',.> ade its head onlv a Commissioner.
new department which is now to take a
( part } uf tho burden of the Interior under
ts c3re „ iil be known es the
! Centennial Department of the Gov
eminent One hundred years
| the State, Treasury, War. Rostoflice and At
{ torwy-Genere.'s fbngress, offi.-e were create 1 byaet
0 f and these five Cabinet posi
. 1 , olls , vpr e fiu e ,i that veaf by President
'Washington. The Navy Department did
; m t begin until lTfifl.
y or fifty-two years th“reaftc" these s x de
partments ha 1 charge of the exeem ;ve busi
j ness of the government, and the n> w depart
ment just now created oomnletes the octette.
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j Modes of Execution Contrasted.
_
; T„ pu meuera ana more , DarDaroilS , times ..
^ uie aim Of tho executioner was to tor
ture tho criminal by killing him as slow
ly as possible; now. on the contrary no’diKte the
mm is to kill him as nnmxlilv 1 is o&sr le
, ,
* na sni n ten ms sunenugs, ...y ■ from tins
point of view the English method of blow
j n g from guns practiced in India, is the
humane—this mode of pm mti. .n
• ,mi k therefore near)
wur , ijuicx, 0 and and tUereforenearly v p®u»- i-min
loss. t. the same time the moral tmpres
sion produced by it is very great, and
well suited to the spirit of contemporarv
j gw ^ next mos: humane method of
execution j is bv lianfonir }&\ in “ a old “ exnedi -Xpeat
eut. ver; ntDili ; resorted to - Russia
_ in in
modern times, ibis method is inferior
to the former, because death is more
lingering and cruel. But still it is an
WV • ajK>n .i the ..n old system of ,
1 M 6 • Bn very r
cructSxion much practiced by the Ko
mans, lly this latter the man who vio
J ft ted the law was nailed to the wood of
th cross and hung there often many
d-irin^, «hich ».t,; q, i„’e his ‘
'•*. -» tin* sufferings
must have teca ternbie.— . .
Ad.t'rtti r.
NoTW’TTHSTASPDtii the euormotia
popa»fttiOn oi ludta, r . there . are vet v as t,
tracts of uiimhabited territory. Accord
ing to official returns of the total area,
o *4,t". d.i ti ) acres under the direct ad
ministration of England, only 15*2,000,
it> acres are under cultivate n. A very
large port- U cf . t;.s t-mJ , r is re
rurne.i ns unfit I, r cultivation, an t the
forests are credited with 40,000,000
a -r-s. but there still remains no hss
than - . i*.'*,' t* • cnliivabie acres as yet
un touched by the plow.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
tXTERXA TIO^iAL LESSOX FOR
rr rprj »r
J
Le*son Text : “Tac tfi'T Tc.-ic’mt rir.d
i lie Ttvfdve.*’ Mark v i.. 1 i 3 -i«o *U‘M
Texts Mark vi., 1-13 ..unuentary.
j “And He went out fr ni thence.” that
is froni Capernaum, wh re He had just
healed the woman who had been twelve years
sick, the little girlVz years old who had just
dled the two blind men and the dumb de
,
momac: where also he bad on previous oc
casioI)S healed the nian in the synagogue
SRSSSftSfeViSSS s^25SS«8m.Traf
pj-Nbeg^s ss
J |§ and ask vourseif if it will be more
ol ra e j or s0me on© who never heard of
christ '•! t!ian for vou j n the dav of judgment,
' ^N eameirto His own countrv.” After
tl p I a zareth re Noted Him and
^ l 'Hi; ^ life ‘““Im He ma le Capernaum hive His
if !ie said to a home),
aI>(1 it was called “His own (WlMatt. ix., 1;
Lui untVv . e iv 10 :J1 , ; but Nazar th was His own
0O where Hehad been brought up. How
patien £ f or g iv ,«g and long suifering He is,
alld how earnestly He continues to seek those
wfc reject Him, if perchance they may rc
pent. “His disciples follow Him.” Feme follow
fully and some foiiow afar off; some seek and
serve H;m with the whole heart and some do
anything but that, linless we are as earnest
as He was in seeking the lost, as patient and
forgiving towards our enemies, and as faith
ful in witnessing for God, can we be said to
follow Him fuliy and serve Him with all the
heart| He
g. ■■ When the Sabbath day was come,
began to teach in the synagogue.” Hehad
been at it early and late all the week, tench
j n g, healing and journeying on foot or by
boat from place to plnce; bu every Sabbath
day is filled aso, and it would seem that they
were among his busiest days. Jf we serve
Him only on the Sabbath day. or if our
work through the week is such that we can
not heartily serve Him even on that day, or
jf we ^ til0 one day giv6 n wholly to Him
a weariness, is it worth while to call our
seives His followers or protess devotion to
Him! had
is not this the oaipenter. . They . ,
known ^ the Him carpenter many years (Matt as the. carpenter, oo). His
ai,< s sou xin.,
mother also they knew ami His brethren and
sisters, and while they could not but wonder
at His wisdom and Hif mighty w Him orks, it was
too much for them to receive ot tho
humble home .as their Messiah, and they were
oSendefl at Him. Their blindness is but a
type ot the blindness of multitudesi or pro
fl 'ss,ng Christians to day, who, not hee ling
the plain statements of Scripture, are look
ing for results which they wid not see and
are blind to the things they are told to look
for. As to these brothers and sisters being
Mary’s children, the language of the text in
di, ates it, and 1 s- b.ix., s, loretells and con
forms it. »
A prophet without ... . . honor, out . -
‘ is no« in
liis own country, among his own km, and m
his own house. < >n two Ovher occasions di
He speak the same truta d.u.ke iv., .A, oobn
iy., i-!), and John vn., a, te..s us teat at one
tmie eveu Ills own brethivii aid not belie\e
in Him. Jhercfore it any one reads this wh'
,s ( ‘a.."lof i »•., i » b»*a t“achei in.uiday
f c ^ 100 ^ or a preacher of the aospel, and viroo.
lias sealed the call by showing you results ot
your work, let not the opinions ot jour
neighbors, or lnenas. or Kiiiured, as to wiiac
they may deem your lack ot fitness lor the
| work, in trie least (leter you; put seeing oesus
1 only and aiming to gioriiy linn, go tor ward
renieinhcnng 1 Lor. i., Ji-.J.
could there oo no mignty work. „
"VV jp ith the exception or heahng a, lew sick
His power wasinot *JJ, S
j o tOVV Hnwrln Ui W fIrFr? ' c
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all their sick, and magnified tne name Ul UlU
Lord among them if they had only received
Him; how His heart must have yearned to
j tell them more fully the good news or the
I kingdom, but their ears were stopped, and
they compelled Him their to turn unoelief. away, and * He
j marveled because or
! “He went round about the villages, teach
i ing.' Matt, ix.,o, says that He taught an
i j their synagogues, preaching the sickness gospel and of
the kingdom arid healing every
| every disease among the people, and that tho
; sight-of the shepherd, multitudes, totv.-heci who were Him as that sheep He
! without a so
asked the discudes to pray the Loid ol the
harvest to send forth laborers,
“ ‘‘He caheu unto linn the twelve ana
began to send them forth lorth. to 1 he their praying
! ones are now going answer own
prayers, and then He sent forth over seventy
also, still encouraging them to continuepray
mg tor more laborers (Luke x., HO
gave them authority over all devils and to
cure diseases; He sent them to preach the
kingdom of God and to heal the sick, ihev
went forth m His name to show forth His
power : to proclaim that the King had come,
i the kingdom was at hand and to prove it had by
such deeds in His name as the prophets
said He would periorm. They were sent only
to the lost sheep of the hotisa of Israel, not
to Gentiies nor Samaritans uVIatt.x., 5-0), had lor
Jesus hod coni" as Israel s Messiah, and
they received Him they would have become
as a nation a center of light and salvation to
all the world. These missionaries went forth
seeking only to make Him known,
b, '•». “Notliing lor tr.eir journey, * * *
no scrip, no bread, no money, no extra coat,”
They were evidently not oh a pleasure tour,
nor going to make much out of this tinan
cially. They were on the King’s business'
and He would not fail to provide for them
by the way nor to recompense them for their
work, \>nt they must simply Lave all that tC
Him and fulfill His commands,
10. “In what place soever ye enter into an
house, there abide till ye depart from that
place.” house, They but were to not inquire to enter for any worthy or
every a
house, and if after entering they should find
the house not what it was said to be, they
wtsre to leave it lilatt. x., 11-13.) The fel
lower of t.'brist is not to expect that either
Ho or His message will be well received by
al L nor is he to trust himself where he is
not wanted, nor seek help from those who
know not the Lord; but lovingly and
patiently is he to go in liis Master's name.'
bearing his Master’s nn-ssage of peace and
gool will, content to be faithful to Him,
bearing all things for His sake, and coveting
above all things His approval,
)L -Jloretolerable for Sodom andGomor
rha in the day of judgment, than for that
citv." Although this sent: nee is not in the
Revised Version, yet it is found in Matt, x.,
«hihty l: " si.. of 24; and -hows privilege- us tfcegreater and how respon
greater fearful
will be the doom of those who refuse to hear
or receive the I.ori Jesus Christ, or those
whom He sends forth as His witnesses. Matt.
x.. 4' M'e are a so taught here that the
people of fsodorn and G nmrrha hare yet to
come into judgment for the Judge Himself
has sabi it with His“ Verdy, I say unto you.”
]“ "An i they went out and preached that
men shou’d repeat.” Bet .teen this verse and
the last the whole of Matt. x.. ltr-42, sterns
*<> come tn with its warnings, instru t ons
and exhortations to proclaim the truth
boldly and God. to fear no man. nor death itself,
but only
13. “They ea-t out many that*were devils, and
anointe 1 w:tb c;l many sick, and
healed tfi-m. ' Tee Lori wrenght through
them and His name was glorified. His power
through item wa- as if He had be- n i re-ent
Himself, and it -h--uld b" so still: but we
must rememlier that these miracles were
tokens of the k-nedom then at hand.bnt now
P *t;-'ned t ;] Hts rc-tum; and yet the apos
contmu-si to worg mirae^iim His name
Jong a ter il- 1 hid a-:--n tel back to the
Fatber.Jand if there was more faith and whole
hearted «e:varat a onto Him now on tha
part of His followers there would be more
manifestations of H’s p:-wer. Let every
C r:stian obey m simple reliance on H m,
and bow soon would the whole world ba
yvangelirei— Lesson Helper.
