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About The Crawford County herald. (Knoxville, Crawford Co., Ga.) 1890-189? | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1892)
PEV. DR. TALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN* DAY SERMON. Subject. i i Raw Recruits.’’ Text: '‘Put on the whole armor of God.”—Ephesians vi11. I There is in this text a great rattle of shields and helmets and swords. Soldiers are getting ready for battle. We have had recently in this church new enlistments, and I shall address myself to those in this and other churches who are putting on the armor of God, and who may feel themselves to be as yet only raw recruits. “Masterly re¬ treat” is a term often used in military cir¬ cles, but in religion there is no such thing. It is either glorious advance or disgraceful and ignominious falling back. It would be a strange thing if all our anxiety about men ceased the moment they were converted. You would almost doubt the sanity of that farmer who, having planted the corn and seen it just sprout aboveground, should say: “My work is all done. I have no more anxiety for the field." No. There is work for the plow and the hoe, and there must be there a careful must be keeping frightening up of the fences, of and the birds that would a pillage field. away the And I say the entrance upon Christian life is only the implantation of grace in the heart. There is earnest, hard work yet to be done and perhaps many years of anxiety before there shall be heard the glorious shout of “Harvest home.” The beginning to be a Christian is only putting down the foundation; but after that there are years of hammering, polishing, carving, lifting, before the structure is com¬ pleted. It takes five years to make a Chris¬ tian character; it takes twenty years, it takes forty years, it takes seventy years, if a nian shall live so long. In other words, a man dying feels after half a century of Christian experience that he has only learned the “A B C’s” of the glorious alphabet. The next year will decide a great deal in your history, young Christian man. It will de¬ cide whether you are to be a burning and shining light covered of the church, or a spark of grace up in a barrel of ashes. It will decide whether you are to be a strong man in Christ Jesus, with gigantic blows bedwarfed, striking the iron mail of darkness, or a whinniug, grumbling soldier. that ought to be drummed out of the Lord’s camp with the “Rogues'March.” You have only just Earth been launched; the voyage is to be made. and heaven and hell are watching to see how fast you temptest.’ will sail, how well you will weather the and whetherat last, amid the shoutingof angels, "May God you shall help come this into the right harbor. words me of Christian morning to give you three or four counsel, as I ad- dress myself more especially to those who have just first now entered the Christian life. * My word of counsel is, hold before your soul a very high model. Do not say, “I wish I could pray like that man, or speak tte this man, or have the consecration of Christ,°a perf^t pattern. 'By^hat*! mean** with God’s grace, to shape all my life.” Iu other words, than you will never be any more a Christian you strive to be. If you build a foundation twenty by thirty feet you will only have a small house. If you build % foundation one hundred by one hundred feet you will have a large house. • It vou re- solve to be only a middling Christian vou will only be a middling Christian. If you have no high aspiration in a worldly direc- Cion you will never succeed in business. If you have no will high aspiration in relmous chings you never succeed in religion. ■ You have a right to aspire to the very highest Prom style feet of there Christian character. your reaches out a path of Christian attainment which you may take, and I deliberately say that you may be a better man than was Paul or David or Summerfield or Doddridge—a better woman than Hannah More or Charlotte Elisabeth. Why not? Did they have a monopoly of Christian grace? Did they have a private key to the storehouse of God’s mercy? Does God shut you out fcbey ^ were la t introduced? e f, an ^rt Oh, ess no. to W v You ch have just the same promises, just the same Christ, just the same Holy Ghost, iu?t the same offers of present and ever- lasting love, and if you fall short of what jfchey were—aye, if you do not come up to the point which they reached and go beyond It—it is not because Christ has shut you out from any point of moral and spiritual eleva- kkm, but because you deliberately refused to lt - I admit that man cannot become m Christian like that without a struggle; but what do you get without fighting for it? The fortresses of darkness areto be taken by storm. You may by acute strategy flank the hosts of temptation, but there are temp- tations, there are eviis in the way that you will have to meet face to face, and it will be ■hot for shot gun for gun, grip for grip, •laughter Paul for slaughter. The apostle over and over again represents the Christian life as a combat. When the war vessel of Christ’s church comes in co glory bringing ita crew audits passengers it will not come in like a North Itiver yacht,beautifully painted and adorned, •winging into the boathouse after a pleasure excursion. Oh, no; it will be like a vessel coming with a heavy cargo from China or India, the marks of the wave aud the hurri- cane upon it—sails rent, rigging spliced, pumps all working to keep her afloat, bul- warks knocked away. I see such a vessel coming her, and get and out I my small “Ahoy, boat and captaiu! push toward shout: What are you going to do with those shiv •red timbers? That was a beautiful ship when you went out, but you have ruined it.*' “Oh,” says tho captain, U Xhare a fine ■cargo I have on board, and by this round trip I made ten fortunes.” ■It will come bearing upon it the marks of a ^reat stress of weather. You can see by the very looks of that soul as it comes into glory that it was driven by a storm and dashed an the hurricane* but by so much as the voy- age is rough, will the harbor be blessed, “If ye suffered with Him on earth, ye shall be glorified with Him in heaven." Aim high. Do not be satisfied to be like the Christians ^ ^ Sf My second word of counsel to those who have recently entered upon Christian life is, Abstain from all pernicious associations, and take only those taat are useful aud benert- Take jr,d only those associations that will help you. A learned mau said, “If I stay with tsfisss w.T- eUe 1 ° n an 7 lon?er g®t to ~ associations. Now what kind of associa- tiorns sbaU wa, M young Christians, seek * ter I tbmk we ought to get into com- Eto L ne ™, r ritet § S^tenr^T- are ten peoplein that °“ r ? elve8 oom paaj, “ ten d changes u there TOm^uiy riittte wor^ re I <.n'^ lvl t j*™. Sfh7£“E5prfa Sit th*n wu». P & ’ ore- evil • ■ • I do not pro ten l to point; out aay surround- in- fluenees, but are there not som9 iug influences that are pernicious to your growth m grace? Stand back from that tui - naca in which so many young Christians have been destroyed. In this church there is a large company of young men and young women consecrated to Cnrist. i know ol no better than they are. their _ . I invite into . Young convert, with them you will elevate friendship. Contact followers>ol Jesus you. All hail, young Christ, my joy and my pridet advancement. *ly uearu thrills at every step of your I talked with you in that hour when you most tried to break from sin, and now I re - joica as I see you putting on the armor ot a conflict in which God will give you present and everlasting victory. Staud off from all evil associations. A man is no better than the company he keeps. Go among those who are batter than you are and you will be made better. Go among those who are worse than you are and you will be made worse. My next word of counsel is that yon be actively employed. I see a great many Christians with doubts and perplexities, Their entire and they seem to be proud of them. Christian life is made up of gloom, and they seem to cultivate that spiritual despondency. in when I will undertake to say that nine cases out of ten spiritual despondency Who is a judgment of God upon idleness. are the happy people in the church to-day? The busy people. Show me the mau who professes the religion of Jesus Christ and is idle, and I will show you an unhappy mau. The very first prescription that I give to a man when I find him full of doubts and fears about his eternal interest is to go to work for God. Ten thousani voices are lifted up asking for your help. Go and help. lhave another word of counsel to give those who have just entered Christian life. and that is, be faithful in prayer. You might as well, business men, start out in the morning without food and expect to be strong all that day—you might as well abstain from food all the week and expect to be strong physically, .... to , be strong without ... . as prayer The only way to get any strength only into the soul is by prayer, and the difference between that Christian that is worth anythiug and that who is worth nothing is the fact that the last does not pray and the other does. Aud the only difference between this Christian, who is getting along very fast in the holy life, aud this, who is only getting a^ng tolerably, is that the first prays more than the last. You can graduate a man’s progress in religion by the amount of prayer; not by the number of hours, per- hap?, but by the eurnest supplication that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a Christian man who neglects this kind of duty, and I will show y° u one w bo is inconsistent, bhow me a raau w bo prays, and his strength and bis P owe ‘‘ cannot be exaggerated. of .. and hv% iust g»™ Jo a man this power prayer you give him almost omnipotence. This afternoon you will see two Sabbath school teachers. That one does not gain the attention of her class. This one does. M hat JbSfatout SuhI 6 ” ThTflr^ thought only of her own apparel. The other came from great prostration before God in earnest supplication, asking that God’s mercy might 00010 HP oa the school and that m the after* * looa sh< ? m l Sht gam the attention of those £ va or immortals . that would be around her - The one teacher has no*control over her class. The other sits as with the strength Another f? or “ word “ or | of Almighty , I * counsel have to give „ Be careful in Bible research. A great many good books are now coming out. We can- not read ha, f ot then 1 - At every revolution of the Panting . press they are coming. They *? V ® r J^E par ,^ b •’ and are in our sit- j;! n £ rooms anil , libraries. Glorious books they are We thank God every day for the work of the Christian printing press. But I have thought that perhaps the followers of I-hrhJ sometimes allow this religious litera- }° ta ke ^eir nttention from God’s an , , oro raa 7 n °t he as much Bi „ £ 1l ‘ rea<il ,- “S as there , ought to be How 18 with your own experience? Just calculate iu your minds how much re- ^7'^!. s n i te f r ,f^ ir u/„? 1 u 1 , a hava * read during the W ord of God you have read, and theu con- trast the two and answer within your own soul whether you are giving more attention to the books that were written by the hand of manor that written by the hand of God. Now, you go to the drug store and you get the mineral waters, but you have noticed that the waters are not so fresh or spark- ling or healthful as when you get these very them waters right at. Saratoga and Sharon—getting where they bubble from the rock. And I have noticed the same thing in re- gard to the truth of the Gospel; while there is a good Gospel deal of refreshment and health of the of God as it comes through good books. 1 find it is better when I come to the eternal rock of God’s Word an 1 drink forth that fountain that bubbles up fresh and pure to the life and the refreshment and the health of the soul. Read the Bible and it brings you into the association of the best people that ever lived, You staud beside Moses and learn nis meek- ness, beside Job and learn his patience, be- side Haul and catch something of his enthus- iasm, beside Christ and you feel His love. And yet how strange it is that a great many men have given their whole Jives to the as- saultiug of that book I cannot understand it. Tom Paine worked against that book as though he received large wages and was in- spired by the very power of darkness, con- fessing that all the time he was writing he did not have the Bible anywhere near him. How many powerful intellects have endoav- ored Voltaire to have destroy it. Hume, Bolingbroke. been after it. Tea thousartd men now Word are warring What against the truth of God’s do you think of them? wili I think it is mean and will prove it. 1 G 2 *<£SS , J?ffiS,SSg. ,ta ‘ ever There is a ship at sea and in trouble. The captain and the crew are at their wits’ end. You are on board. You are an old seaman. You which come is kindly up and taken. give some That good is counsel,’ all rivht. But suppose, instead of doing that, in the midst of all the trouble, you pick up the only compass that is on board and pitch it over thetaffraii? Oh, you say, that is dastardly. ves^l Butisitasmeanasthis? Hcreisthe millions of piLsseugere, teicbm Uhveiit! the tempest, and at the time we want helo the infidel comes and he takes hold of the only compass aud he tries to pitch it over light? better Bring it on if you have Have vou any comfort to give us? Brine it on if you have. Have you &syssi any better hope’ K«s.-iarisT s W Dt 11 again. But ! can think of a meaner thine than that, aud that is an old man going alon-* on th , 0 mouutAin u Wltb * 8taff one hand "and pick Scwi, his way out amid the rocks and nr«cA leaning himself on his staff with one hand and e» Vo.» il i»ng with the light in the other. m .» P Md»-.-F.O M r,jo. r „» by the kind hand and lead But him home. That is very of you. suppose instead of that you should snatch the staff from bfc bands and hurl it over the rocks, an I snatch thft j amera an i blow it out? That would bo daK t ard ] y contemptible until there is no dtptu 0 *‘contempt beneath it. It you have ,, t t er staff give it to him. It you have a . better lh'lit give it to hirn. Gospel YVhenliod has DUt the staff of God’s of the VVord to . q our hands arid the lamp take from us our feet are you going to D „ r on i ^ v SUD ^ port and our only illumination? } 1qv( . t e g g of tilQ waS p and the rattle- snakfl better than I do the man who wants to ^i u teh the Word of God from my grasp. Clin^to vour Bible 1 If this Bibie should destroyed it all the Bibles that have ever been printed’should 1 be destroyed, of this audience, we could , ‘ j. jb | e r j„ b t out I take „ t t {jhristian man’s experience that old ^ c i uste r of promises, and from Christian man’s experience another, I put them all together, and I think I would mve a Bible. have not tried Yon see. my friends. I i hide the fact that I have large expectation of you who have entered the Christian life. Do not be discouraged. Press on toward the prize; God beside you and heaven before you. Keep your courage up. Look in thirty years from now upon this church. Another man in the pulpit. Other faces in the pews, Another man leading the song Others carrying around the alms boxes of the church. All changed. Thirty years have gone and 1 look into the faces of the people and I say. \ ay, it seemssto - somewhere, . seen these people Oh, > 1 be in to exactly say where. yes. now 0 think. These were the converts in 1892 and 1830. Why, how you have change 1!’’ “Oh, ves,” they say, “of course vve have changed. Thirty years makes a great change. Isay "How niany wrin^ies i are in your faces!” “On yes,” they inkles, sa* “thirty years make a faith." great many wi have “Hava you kept the Yes, we kept the faith MV here are those peop « who used to sit in the pew with you- A gone!’ “Than I say, “Well, I feel lone y; come, let us sing one ol tue oul hymns we used to s.ng thirty years ago, m 189-, on communion day. / Any of you know the old ? 8om0 ( ne huin it Y es, that’s it, th t>git Now, altogether, let us sing, just we did iQ l892; “ TUere is a fountain Ailed with blood, Drawn from Immanuel’s veins; And sinners plunsrei beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains. “ The dying thief rejoiced his day: to gee That fountain in And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all mv sins away.” BIG BLAZE AT BALTIMORE. Several Vessels Damaged and 5,000 Hales of 01 Cotton <- otto Destroyed UewrOJCtt. 1 he big warehouse of the Ray Line of steamers, at the foot of Union dock, Bal- timore ’ took g re Tuesday afternoon from ' an unknown k cause, and and within w ithin nve five min min- utes was a roaring mass of names, Stored inside the warehouse, which is severa l hundred feet loner, were between five hundred and one thousand bales of cotton, several shiploads of rosin in barrels, and a great number of hogs- heads of molasses. The inflamma- b ] e nature of the contents of the warehouse „ u caused caused the the blaze blaze to to spread with lightning-like rapidity, The big four-masted schooner Caroline Augus- tus Weil, the steamer and a number of other vessels lay at the pier when the , fire K broke , out. . T he CarAiinn Caroline caught fire, but the tugs made a desper- ate fight to save her. The schooner Wirt wa8 wrappe( j j n fl am es in a few minutes, the heat . from . t the * burning burning warehouse, warehouse together with that of the weather, was terrible on the firemen, and several dropped at the hose pipes, The loss will approximate $1,000,000. The fire is thought to have originated from spontaneous combustion , . the among cotton. None of the vessels lying at the docks were totally destroyed, because a tugboat drew them into the stream, __I vrhere the fireboat, Cataract, ___* and streams from the tugs saved them from total loss; but several fine vessels were badly dam- agi d. Amon<' these were the St steamers “LT 8 Caroline ar °i 1 “ e jna and Gaston uas t0D > seboon sctJ00 “ , Oliver, Mamie . Howard, ers es ‘ e y William . . AVirt and Augustus Weil. The latter had just arrived with 1,200 tons of i ce . All the top hamper of the schoon- J' named was nirm d off and the hulls u n damaged. I he Ray Line warehouse was totally destroyed with its contents, in- eluding 5,000 bales of cotton and over one thousand two hundred barrels 8 01 w bisky, intended , for f foreign , shipment SHORT COTTON CROP. „. Statistics .. 1 ¥ , resented , . . by the „ Depart* ] of j ment Agriculture. . astuugtou dispatch ot rrulay I “ says: Returns of statistical correspondents of the department of agriculture report cot- ton planting late, I,” germination ret irded bv e ] n _ ® ni P^ r ture and „ * -low . develop *__, ment . of . the plant. In the entire cotton belt the temperature of the past three months is reported below normal and ; u some districts two and and three three decree, degrees below. Ihe rainfall has also been re- ported below normal on the Atlantic coast, while generally in excess in the botl V C0Ddi, in,ls T perate vith the low , temperature , to retard growth. Many correspondents of the Atlantic section report poor stands The average condition condition of of cotton rotten in the coMolulhtlon of reports is 8o .9. Tins is the lowest average, with one exception, since 1874. State averages North areasfol- lows: Virginia 79, Carolina 88, arolioa Georgia 87, Florida Alabama £ 91, Mississippi 91, Louisiana 82 > Texas 81. Arkansas 75, Tennessee 90. The reduction of the area from floods °f Ihe Mississippi ^ and its tributaries, .«r~w>r has been heavy. The acresge of cotton has been materially reduced. On the 1st of 5 “ j - ™ ™ correspondents reported an intention to reduce tlle acreage 18.6 per cent. The present report of the completed acreage makes the reduction 16 5 per cent. com P arigon Wlt b the actual acreage of North !* g t Tear Carolina, are as follows: Virginia, 78 76; South Carolina, 84 Georgia, 84; Flor.de, 8t; Atebm., 84 “ Arkansas, 82, Tennessee. 88. Average. ®* Atlanta, Georgia MAISTUFACTUREH.S. COTTON SEED OIL WIND Mid MILL MACHINERY PCMpj COMPLETE. 323® COTTON gJ iAk PE! FERTILIZER .MACHINERY M'-i CONDENSH COMPLETE. i ANDPpJ CYPRESS TANKS. I glCE MAC! COMP! The best system for elevating cotton and distributing ^ eet to gins. Many gold medals have been awarded io { Write for catalogue and for what you WANT. Van Winkle Gin and Machinery Com ATLANTA, GA. Atlanta and Florida Railroad Conn Time Table No. 14, Taking Effect April 21st, 1892. SOUTHBOUND? 5.45 A. M: NORTHBo! Tbro’g h Local Passenger Passenger Local" Freight No Fnl'lit No 1 STATIONS. No 2 Frcighl 7 No 5 Daily Daily No 6 ; p M—;,v A M—LV P M—LV A ooooS — Ar P M—, 3 45 ..........Atlanta............ ©tot© 8 30 4 00 “ Yard..... 3 35 ........... 8 46 4 10 ..........Cornell........... 3 15 0 05 4 21 ......... llaasville......... 2 57 o A 9 35 436 .........Rivcrdale......... (£> 2 22 I D 945 KBBChmo 955 440 ..........Selina............ 213 10 13 4 49 ..........Blalock.......... 156 10 37 5 5 01 ........Fayetteville........ 131 11 05 16 ...........Inman.......... 103 11 14 5 21 ..........Woolsey.......... ............Lowry.......... 12 54 1132 5 30 12 36 1136 5 37 ....Kall'ilah Junction.... 12 23 ......SG & X A HR...... to A 12 01 p C* ...........Zcte'la............ K D D 12 05 m A 109 12 27 ON ........Willi imson ........ GC ....June G M A-ii R R.... 12 57 to .......... Zebu ion.......... XOCI>te 3SSS tO 119 C0 ........Means vi lie......... to 137 fC .........Piedmont......... rc 1 58 X I.....Topeka Thomaston Branch Junction..... C R R to 6 57, 9 30 ' 320 co ! 712 |.........Yatesville......... 7 24 9 00 ......June M & B Ry...... A M—Ar 332 T 23 .........Culloden.......... 7 13 833 4 07 7 39 ..........Musella........... 6 57 3 00 4 38 7 54 .........Knoxville......... 6 42, 7 30 6 27 4 51 7 59 ..........Crawleys......... 620 7 7 12 5 03 8 04 ........Hammetts......... 613 00 5 13 8 08 .........Gaillard’s......... 009 n 4» 5 28 8 14 .......... Paynes .......... 6 03 6 35 5 38 8 19 .........Iee Pope........ 5 59 6 25 610 835 ........Fort Valley........ 5 45 5 55 P M—Ar p m—A r A M—-I.V A M—LV ?!o. 5 will run Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. No. 6 will run Tuesdays,! and Saturdays- No. 7 a 3 d 8 will run dai.lv except Sunday. *IStop for meals. R. H. PLANT, liec ft iver. T W. GARRETT, SuperW WILSON & -DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Hardware, Tinware, and Willow ware, Furniture, Harness, Guns and Ammunition. Ouri Ladies goods is complete. We have just received a large stocks/ Famishing Goods from the cheapest working suit to a Dude’s outfit. HATS AND CAPS OF ALL STY Our stock ot Furniture has never been equaled in the county braces a beautiful line of OAK WALNUT AND POPLAR IN SUITS OR PI! A car load of MASON <fc FORDS Celebrated Chairs, direct fronj also tory. large Consisting lot of Dining Room, Parlor and Bookers; Settees anC a Guns from ot the Spring Single Mattresses. W Barrel to the beat Double Barrel Breeoh also ammunition. FANCY AS WELL AS FAMILY GROCEI We extend a cordial invitation to call and inspect our goods. Y be for pleased cotton; with thereby what aiding we have the to show you, We will pay Quick the highest] farmers. Our motto is Small Profits. WE SELL AT ROCK BOTTOM PRI Every Knoxville attention will be shown customers. A free delivery in or in of all sales of Dry Goods of ten dollare and upwards. Respectfully, WILSON & MATHE Roberta, Orders for Plain and Fancy Job P ing receive prompt attention at this o
