Newspaper Page Text
-f A. G. RHODES & CO., +
^THE * BOSS * FURNITURE * DEALERS,0-
1017 BB0AD STREET, COLUMBUS, GA
Respectfully invite your attention to their elegant stock of Furniture, Stoves, Window Shades, Pictures, &c. \\ hen yon
visit Columbus be sure and call on us and inspect our goods. No old goods can be found in our store that have been picked
over and accumulating for years, but everything is bran new, just from the factories, .and the most attractive styles [monc\
can buy. duplicated dealer in Georgia, Why? Because buy for our seventeen Furniture Stores
Our prices cannot be by any \ie cheaper.
scattered through the Southern States, and as we are thus obliged to buy very largely it stands to reason we w buy
Genuine Silk Plush Parlor Suites from $35 to $45. Toilet Suit of
Only $50 for a 10 piece solid Walnut Marble top Bevel plate
Furniture.
A 10 piece maple marble top Suit for only $38.
Only $30 for 1 10 piece Imitation marble-top Toilet Suit.
250 good, strong Bedsteads from $1 50 up.
Only $8 for a nice cooking stove, complete.
We carry the tines line of Parlor bui rr t ^ounges, Hat Racks, Baby Carriages, Pictures, Willow, Cane and Fancy
Fancy Tables, Lamp Stands, &c., in Columbus. We guarantee to please and will sell 20 per
cent cheaper than any house in this part of the country. Look to your interest and don’t buy a single article of Furniture
until you get our terms and prices. & CO., 1017 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
A. G. RHODES
WE ARE TO WATCH.
I r '0N 111, SECOND QUARTER, iN
; ErtNATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 15.
Text of the Wesson, Matt, xxiv, 42-51.
!ir,!den Text, Mark xiii, 37—Memorize
Ver ses 42, 43, 44—-Comment by Rev. H.
s Hoffman
y, xl. S. Hoffman, Philadelphia, publisher.]
f Notes.—V. 42. Watch, because of the un
r > <. ijidness and suddenness of His coming.
m the east were built of sunburned clay, which
was often dug through. V. 44. Ready, not
only watchfulness, but prepared for His com
mg. V. 45. Faithful and wise, watching and
-ready. V. 46. Blessed, used by Christ, al
ways denotes something exceptional and
«;re. V 47. A great reward for a rare man.
V. 48. Evil, because unfaithful—unfaith
fulness springs from unbelief. \. 4d.
Unbelief leads to cruelty, noting
wickedness. V. 51. Asunder, cut off from
God’s people and Gods presence. Weeping
and gnashing of teeth, excluded forever from
hope, “weeping” becauseot the opportunities
lost eternally, “gnashing his teeth as he re
members the folly of his course; his eternity
is made up of regrets and self censure, lhis
the fire that is never quenched.
Jesus had left the temple never to return
t° it again. He had predicted its destruc
l-ion company with his disciples, he
journeys toward Bethany. On the way oyer
the hill he tells them many things a u ©
destruction of Jerusalem, the end of the age
for watch is closely allied with the word
wake. The master enjoins not a curious
looking for his coming, but a vigilance and
diligence that overlooks no duty and indulges
in no indolence
IV e, too, must watch against temptations,
evil influences, unfaithfulness and all the
wiles of the devil.
We must watch for hi, coming with hope
..
and joy. And hasten it by watching for the
signs of his spiritual presence, and for open
ings and opiwrtunities to serve hum The
obscurity and uncertainty as to the time of
his coming is the reason why we should
watch. The event itself is as certain as
death, but the time of the event is most un
certain. The destruction of Jerusalem was a
50 Bureaus with 12 20 German Glass, only $6.
500 Chairs all styles, from 50 cents up.
50 Imitation marble top French Dressers, 17-30 glass only $9.
50 marble-top French Dressers 17-30 glass only $14.
250 well made Cotton Top mattresses only $250.
300 Bed Springs (12 styles), from $1 25 up.
Full size No. 7 cooking stove, complete, only $10.
type of Christ’s second coming, which will
take place in due time.
V. 43. The duty of watchfulness is illus¬
trated by one watching against robbers.
Not knowing when they may come, the pru¬
dent householder must keep a constant watch.
Otherwise £here is no safety. If he knew the
day and hour when the burglar would come,
constant watchfulness would not be a neces
sity. watchful
V. 44. Included in this state of
ness is the idea of preparation. Only those
be accordance with our profession. Readi
ness to meet Christ, at a moment’s warning
or without any warning at all, is the duty of
y 45.47 Here the duty of watchfulness
ig illustrated by a faithful servant or
steward. Faithfulness and ability made this
servant a ruler over others, a position he did
uot abuse, for he wi-ely dispensed food to
those under him. The ministers of Christ
owe their office purely to the fact that they
give the bread of life to souls, and they are
honored for the work’s sake.
Note the reward which Christ gives. It is
both outward and inward. Larger ru+ership,
wider spheres, greater opportunities are
given together with greater capacity and
,
richer experience. connected with
y & As true watching in
taith, so not watching is connected with un
belief. The wicked servant says or thinks
“in his heart” what he is afraid or ashamed
to spoak openly. The worst skepticism is that
which lurks in the heart. Unbelief is the
pr i ma l cause of all evil thinking and acting,
V 49. Unbelief leads the evil servant not
.
only to neglect the household in not gi\nig
nourishraen t to its inmates, but to maltreat
th ,, ir absent Lord. They were .abused be
cause they were faithful.
One sin leads to another, and the leaser to
the greater. Next he resorts to world!diets
and immorality. Tyranny over others
usually goes hand in hand with laxity towaid
oursel V es and ends in self iudulgence.
V. 50. Christ still “lord” of the sinful
BervuIlt at last comce. Thoughts that he
wouhl not come , did not avail to hinder hi**
CO jniiig. The unexpecteduees of his coining
isa2ain m ade prominent.
y 51 The loving and tender Saviour here
uses words suggestive of the most terrible
pU3li8 bment of the wicked. “Shall lie cot
asunder,” means that the body shall be cut
into two parts as by a saw or orther instru-
merit of torture. Christ used the strongest
words in vogue when speaking of the punish
merit of the wicked. He drew his metaphors
from the most terrible modes of punishment.
The wicked servant is a “hypocrite” because
he umle* the guise of fidelity expected at last
to present himself to his lord, and because
under the semblance of official zeal ho tor¬
mented his fellow servants. His place was
appointed with “hypocrites,” Luke has it
“with unbelievers,” for unbelief is at the
bottom of all hypocrisy. Ho must go with
hypocrites because he is one. Each person
at last must go to his own place of rewards
and to his own company.
The last clause of the verso denotes the bit¬
terest agony of the mind and soul. “Weep¬
ing,” because of opportunities forever lost;
“gnashing of teeth,” because he remembers
the folly of his course. Eternity is sjieut in
unavailing regrets aud in the sullen rage of
.self-condemnation.
spec (men Washington Trump .
u , * ito astonishing the number of well
mQ&ni ^ oplo who come up to Washington
in ^ch of a pension. They seem to think
that all they have to do is to make personal
Hcation at the bureau and tlio money will
out U) thorn at once. There is a
* ral im pression that nearly everybody is
ui ft 1>en8 i on; that, the pot is boiling,
and now is the time to din in. A few days
a forlorn looking man walked into the
*; siou bureau. Ho had walked 300 miles
rom nftar Wheeling, pennil^si W. Va. Ho had but
one aioe} was aud hungry and sim
J, ]e „ as any man must bo who would do such
foolish thing. He could not legally prove
that he was entitled to a pension, and of course
cou , d n0t g(!t one In fa , % he (K}ukl not
^ prove anything, and in a sort of a half dozed
utJitiou bc fctor ted to walk back. Borne of
and raised *4 {or him, that ho might not
starve on the rood.
Washington is a bod place for a peer man
without friends. The proper way for all
lmimm in to put their claim into
the hands of an agont. They run no risk ia
4iohlg thir! Hince the law protects them as
re „ ari jy fues It is just as foolish for the
w “„ ,,, llo V< ,-mont former to mat,, a jour
liey Washington, hoping to get a pen
, j o;i ^ j- was f or the tramp from West
Virginia. Pension* are oajy granted after
(<ertnin facts have been legally proved.
Vial t!ic plai o to do that is nt homo.—Fuller
t.galkcr i i New York Graphic.
Dr. «'
||llCKLEI| 'i I Am?, e* J £ 5
p.J v jr%w
if ¥
‘■jr ■ ■ •
CORDIAL
The Great Southern Remedy for 9 \\
“XfToIiii ttflVCL TROUBLES
noru TFFTHINCL StTnowoMhto
cmwKi* do mountain*
ijuiebu*n MUnUSST mtoneei<l*of wilt* oar £**£?'JPE
have eaten In moat every *hap«\ tlier© is aprin
gpl©i?
S Lite ^ tU ‘“
k rr«n» wasonof
hen it i* considered that nt this
HUrf m
deaths occtirrln* b«f«»re a phyatcian can be
speedy relief adoaeof whh h relieve Um»
«^£a ffi^dapl© ifm^tEch
any Jfe’KR child Is pleased to tak
TaylorV ' ^UeroUe^heweJv (*rotit> and <;um Ceil¬
M»II©Ib wm rare
Pr»ce*eto. andli aboote.
TUlft xd^»rtisin«Btt«*u(io PAPER WdW pruc©ki-H^hpr,-aiiv- o* New '
U|ow»woU^l»t»*aei* 8 ,UUJ ‘ tvv
-