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■WeTiave just received an elegant new stock of SPRI1VG and SUMMER GOOPS,
* consisting in part of DRYGOODS and NOTIONS,LADIES’ HATS and MILLINERY
SHOES, CLOTHING, HATS, FANCY and STAPLE GROCERIES,
CROCKERY, &C., andwould respectfully invite our friends
and the public generally to call and examine *
the same.
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Local and Personal.
The big barbecue is upon us and
all things are now ready.
Wet or dry, everybody and his
cousin will be here to-morrow.
The {Journal will issue a big
I double number next week to make
amends for shortcomings this week.
Mrs. Buchanan, of Marvyn, Ala.,
is visiting her mother, Mrs. T. N.
Sparks. Miss Carrie Sparks returned
home with her.
Misses Bettie and Effie Hardy and
Carrie and Minnie Crawford, of Chip
are in the city the guests of Mrs.
Dr. S. G. Riley.
A number of Hamiltonians went
to Waverly Hall last Frida/ to the
school examination, and many have
gone from here to-day to Shiloh.
Mis. W. H. Myhand died at her
home near town, yesterday morning.
She leaves a husband and a young
infant, who in their sud bereavment
have much sympathy.
There was wind and hail with the
rain Saturday, as it pissed two miles
r south of town. About Mrs. Hill’s
plantation crops were prostrated and
nut houses were umoofed.
Rains have been partial in the
CQunty the past week. We had a
good shower hcie Saturday, but only
the south end of town got enough.
Some farms have Jbeen too wet to
plow and others are very dry.
Miss Mary Johnston, who has been
attending Chappell’s Semminary, in
Columbus, returned home for the
summer vacation last Friday. She
was accompanied by her friend, Miss
Lyra Beach, who remained her guest
until Wednesday morning.
Col. W. A. Redd passed through
towa this morning with about eighty
convicts and sixty free laborers. He
was moving them from above Car¬
rollton, where they had been working
on the C. r R. & C. railroad, to Col¬
umbus where they will begin grading
the Columbus Southern.
Mrs. Morgan Askew died this
morning at her home near Mountain
Hill. She leaves an infant about
three weeks old. She was a consist
ent member of the Baptist church,
and a daughter of the late Marion F,
Talley. Her bereived husbai^ P nd
relative svmpa la
The wind Saturday blew down the
new ginnery of Mr. O. S. Bernes
which was nearing completion. It
had been partially covered and
weather boarded when the wind got
under it and did its work. jVf r
Barnes has been busy this week re¬
paring the damages.
The Journal is late this week for
lack of paper. When we went to
press last week we had two lots of
paper on the road—one from Mari¬
etta and another from Cincinnati—
but the speediest of them only came
to hand last night. The delay has
been through no fault of ours, but
was entirely unavoidable.
The barbecue to-morrow will be
informal • r ___• affair, as genuine P™ Geor
an
gia barbecues should be. At nine
o’clock the Masons will meet in their
lodge room All visiting' brethren
are requested to meet with them. At
IO o'clock they will form in proces
sion • _ and ontt march to In the Gw. baptist Rintict church rhnrrh
where the oration will be delivered,
Aftcr this the procession Will be
marched to the glove where dinner
will be served. In the afternoon, at
a seasonable hour, the procession will
again be formed and marched to the
Masonic hall. 1 he Royal Aich
Chanter meets to night.
A 4 note A-.tr,A dated at ai Uatrard Bayard pf Ga., from rrirn
the widow of the late lamented I,,
G. R. Wiggins of Cataula district,
informs us of the recent death of her
grandson Lemuel, infant son of H.
M. and D. E. Snell; enclosed, were
the following touching lines which
contain consolation for any of our
readers who may have been similarly
bereaved.
Empty is the cradle baby now is
gone— in their
Gone to join the angels
bright home.
* * * *
For this is the darling’s portion.
In Heaven where he has fled,
By angels securely guarded,
By angels securely led.
Father, mother, be not sorrowful
Over the empty nest,
Can you not see thro’ the shadows
Whv it is all for the best?
Better the heavenly kingdom
Than riches of earthly crown.
Better the early morning flight
Than one when the snn down.
Better an empty casket
Than jewels stained with sin:
Safer baler than than those tnose without un the me fold ioui
e e that have
CHRIST'S MISSION CI.OSKD.
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LESSON XIII, SECOND QUARTER, IN- ;
TERNATIONAL SERIES, JUNE 24.
Golden Text, Matt, xxvill, 18— Ilia Final
Teachings, Lessons I-V—Hls Final Sufl'er*
Ings, Lessons VI-IX—His Itejuirrection
and Final Commands, Lessons X-XII.
(Condensed from Lesson Helper Quarterly, by
permission of H. S. Hoffman, Philadelphia, pub¬
lisher.)
The second quarter of the year is devoted
to the closing scenes, final lessons and com¬
mands, death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ—events and teachings transcending in
importance all other earthly events what¬
ever. In the first quarter the calling of his
disciples and the preliminary work were doc¬ un¬
folded; we now come to the distinctive
trines, the warnings and judgments, and
after them the shameful and painful death
w y c h sealed the divine testimony, followed
by the visible proofs of life and immortality
The first lesson is the parable of tho mar
people were then called and accepted, and
how even one of them was found without a
wedding garment aRd rojcc te.l. The ***
ing is plain. The Jews first received a revo
lation and neglected it; Christ came and sent
his servants, the apostles, to tell them all was
ready, and again they refused, covetousness
cou( jitio n s of people accepted the call. And
of these some failed on the final test. No
great learning is required to understand this
,asfc; we 8ee the formal professor daily,
ghowing that the true work of grace is not
in his heart. J
The second lesson startling (Lesson XV, break April in Christ 8) pro- |
sents an abrupt, a s
general tone. He is no longer the gentle
friend; he is the great and terrible Judge,
pronouncing woe upon the blind guides, the
“generation of vipers.” It is a terrific in- j
dictment; but so far as it was history it was
known to the indicted themselves to
be true, and so far as it was proph
ecy, it was soon to be fulfilled. The
Jews were soon to fill up the measure of their
iniquities by fierce persecutions, and within ,
the lives of many who heard Christ Jerusa- j
lem was destroyed (70 A. D.), after the most j
frightful suffering by its people, and the
Jewfsh nation was utterly blotted out. The
essential point of the lesson is that God is a
just Judge, as well as a fcJavioor and Friend. ,
Lesson XVI continues the warning with
an exhortation to watch, and then comes
the remarkable parable of the ten virgins,
with the same lesson, and to a considerable
extent the same figures and similitudes as in
Lesson XIV The parable of the ten talents
continues the teaching as to our Ixird’s
second coming, again emphasizing the ter
rible fact that even of the chosen servants
’ one did and many may prove slothful or
faithless. Indeed, this fact appears In al¬
most every teaching, and is at the last most
painfully confirmed by the treachery of
Judas. One point in this parable is quite
delicately put: the slothful servant, when
called to account, at once began to find fault
w ith the conditions of the trust, and to
exaggerate the exacting disposition of his
lord. even charging him with cruelty and
aVa riciousmess. How very natural! How
rigor of Bibio doctrine! And the lord’s re
ply is sufticieut answer to all those who coin
plain of this or that ns “hard doctrine.” 41 He
says in effect that the complaint is false, but
even if the servant believed it true, “Thou
oughtest so much the more have given thy
self to the business 1 appointed thee to.”
The judgment set forth in Lesson XIX —
Matt, xxv, 81-40—has probably been more
thoroughly and heatedly discussed than any
other section of the New Testament. It is
estimated that some hundreds of volumes
have been written upon the single Greek
word “aionios”—“eternal”—and that the one
question as to whether the judgments are
contemporary or successive has called forth
more than ten thousand pamphlets and pub¬
lished sermons in Great Britain alone. And
it is indeed remarkable that with all this the
doctrine held by the Christian churches has
not greatly varied from Tertulhun, in the
Second century, till now On one point
only does there appear a marked change,
and that not of practical Importance. It
was long held that the Judgment was to l»e
one great event, when all human beings
would appear before the “Great White
Throne;” but now many learned and pious
men hold that there are separate resm*rec
turn* did successive judgments Belief in
either is not a test of faith, the reality is
awful enough, be it one event or many The *
Scriptures are open to all believers to study
and decide for themselves, so the reader is
ret erred to 1 Thess. iv. 13-18, 11 Tbess. i,
7 : l >; I Cor xv, 23-20, Rev rx, ft, arid xix
entire. 11 Cor v. 10, and parallel passages.
With the close of the prophecy on the Judg¬
ment, a change appears, that lesson most up
propriately ends the comprehensive lessons;
thereafter it woul«k«eeni that Christ consid¬
ers His mission as a teacher at an end. and
B , t8 Um exain ,,j e 0 f making final arnuigo
ments for death, indulging in Inst words un i
scenes with His companions. In Lesson XX
beautiful and simple ceremony of tho
Lord’s Supper is instituted.
At the regular supper Ho announces tho
approaching tragedy and thrills the hearts
0 f djgcjpies with tho astounding state
“One of you shall betray mo.” Then
that curious episode occurs in which tho Biv
v iour quietly intimates to tho disciple near
Him as to who the traitor is. and “uninedi
a tely after the devil entered in Judas.”
The time bad now come when Jesus must
enter into experiences where His discipk s
could not uecotnpany Him. On the Mount
0 f (jjjves He still more explicitly declares
His approaching death; but is plain that the
disciples did uot yet understand His mission,
They still entertained tho idea of an
earthly kingdom, of deliverance from tb“
ruioofthe Homans, they thought “it h ui
been Ho which should have redeemed Israel.”
Then followed His agony m Got Use uiane, His
arrest and trial, the denial of Peter and tho
j 0 ng night of buffeting and derision, after
which lie was led out to execution. It was
©n Friday about U o’clock in tho morning
when tho sad procession reached Calvary.
a nd we may tielieve that tho cruel act of uail
Ing His hands and feet td the cross was soon
completed. The cross was used by the Ko
mans to inflict death on slaves who had at
tacked their masters, or criminals or outlaws
who ha<l long resisted the law, on those who
had murdered near relatives or committed
other peculiarly atrocious crimes. common
murderers or criminals generally revived a
quicker and more merciful death. We tna.v
conclude, therefore, that the two thieves
were the worst of then class, and this ad*.;*
somewhat to the foray of the lesson cusifnr i
in the re|*uumee of one l he rasum-etmu
and final commission to the disciples, but re
^ thammrnr.