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announcements. For County Burvoyor. or 1 County Suroy subject to the democratic primary of June Tor County Commissioner. Editor Call : Please announce that I am a candidate for re-election for County Oommiaeioner, subject to the action of the democratic primary, and will be glad to bare the support ot all the voters. J. A J. TIDWELL. At the solicitation of many voters I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner, subject to the dem ocratic primary. If elected. I pledge my self to an honest, business-like administra tion of county affairs in the direction of lower taxes. R. F. STRICKLAND. J hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner, subject to the democratic primary to be held June 28, next. If elected. I pledge myself to eco nomical and business methods in conduct ing the affairs ot the county pUTRAL I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner of Spalding county, subject to the Democr itic primary of June 28d. W. W. CHAMPION. To the Voters of Spalding County: I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of County Commls sioner of Spalding county, subject to the democratic primary to be held on June 28, 1898. My record in the past is my pledge for future faithfulness. D. L. PATRICK. 11 y For Representative- ' To the Voters of Spalding County: I am a candidate for Representative to the legislature, subject to the primary of the democratic party, and will appreciate your support. J. P. HAMMOND. Editor Call: Please announce ray name as a candidate for Representative from Spalding county, subject to the action ot the democratic party. I shall be pleased to receive the support of all the if elected will endeavor to represent the interests of the whole county. J. B. Roll. Tor Tax Collector. I respectfully announce to the citizens of Spalding county that I am a candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Collec tor of this county, subject to the choice of the democratic primary, and shall be grateful for all votes given me. T. R. NUTT. For County Treasurer. To the Voters of Spalding County : I announce myself a candidate for re-elec tion for the office of County Treasurer, subject to democratic primary, and if elect ed promise to be as faithful in the per formance of my duties in the future as I have been in the past. J. C. BROOKS. For Tax Receiver. I respectfully announce myself as a can didate for re-election to the office of Tax Receiver of Spalding county .subject to the action of primary, if one is held. S. M. M’COWELL. Tor Sheriff. I respectfully inform my friends—the people of Spalding county—that 'I am a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to the verdict of a primary, if one is held Your support will be thankfully received and duly appreciated. M J. PATRICK. I am a candidate for the democratic nomination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask the support of all my friends and the pub lic. If nominated and elected, it shall be my endeavor to fulfill the duties of the of fice as fhithfhlly as in the past. M. F. MORRIS. 2W wit ?V "• mH . * zw 4 / •je*^* - *^* 1 * q IT 11 ay /*/ *MH‘O*MpJ I j BEGINNING HOUSEKEEPING and furnishing her home, the Easter bride finds a pleasant task, if she has such a handsome and up-to-date stock of new de signs and rich upholstering in Furniture to choose from at such prices as we are selling our parlor, diningroom and bed room suits at. • , CHILDS# GODDARD, Low Bates to Baltimore, Md„ Kay 4 29 —IB9B. Account of the quadrennial general con ference M. E. church, south, Baltimore, May 1-28, the Southern Railway will sell tickets May S, 8,4, with final limit May 81,1898, at half rates—one fare round trip. Choice of routes, vis Washington,, all rail, or via Norfolk and steamer. For fttll particulars address, “8. H. Hardwick, » A. G. P. A., Atlanta. Rahdall Cliftox, „ T. P. A.’, Macon. C. 8. White, T. A., Griffin. Notice to Tax Payers. All city tax fi fas have been placed in my hafeds for collection, and levies will be made atone# unless settlement is promptly made. E. J. Isoir,, -Chief Police. - THE LIGHT OF LIFE. ® DR. TALMAGE PORTRAYS THE BLESS e INGS OF MISFORTUNE. People Who Are Blind to the Brich* Light In the Clonda —Earthly Bereare- [ meats Eaaential to Heavenly Welcome, r Glory Su.ceeda Gloom. B , [Copyright, 1898, by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, April 84.—This sermon of Dr. Talmage will have a tendency to take the gloom out of many lives and stir up a 1 spirit of healthful anticipation; text, r Job xxxvii, 21, “And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds.” Wind cast. Barometer falling. Storm J. signals out. Ship reefing maintopsail. ‘ Awnings taken iyi. Prophecies of foul weather every where. The olouds congre gate around the eun, proposing to abolish 3 him. But after awhile he assails the flanks 3 of the olouds with flying artillery of light, , and hero and there is a sign of clearing - weather. Many do pet observe it. Many - do not realize it. —> ‘ And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds.'* In other words, there are 100 men looking for storm where there is one inan'looking for sunshine. My object will be to get you and myself into the delightful habit ’ of making the best of everything. You may have wondered at the statistics that In India In the year 1876 there were over 19,000 people slain by wild beasts, I and that in the year 1870 there were In ? India over 20,000 people destroyed by wild ■ animals. But there is a monster in our 5 own land which is year by year destroying , more than that. It is the old bear of mel : ancholy, and with gospel weapons I pro pose to chase it back to Its midnight cav erns. I mean to do two sums—a sum in subtraction and a sum in addition—a sub traction from your days of depression and an addition to your days ot joy. If God [ will help me, I will compel you to see the > bright light that there is in the. clouds ) and compel you to make the best of every ' thing. In the first place, you ought to make the very best of all your financial misfor tunes. During the panic a few years ago i you dll lost money. Some of you> lost it ! in most unaccountable ways. For the question, “How many thousands of dol lars shall I put aside this year?’’ you sub i stltuted the question, “How shall I pay my butcher and baker and clothier and landlord! 1 ” You had the sensation of row ing hard with two oars and yet all the time going down stream. You did not say much about it because it was not politic to speak much of flnan i cial embarrassment, but your wife knew. Less variety of wardrobe, more economy at the table, self denial in art and tapes try. Compression, retrenchment. Who did not feel the necessity of it? My friend, did you make the best of this? Are you aware of bow narrow an escape you made? Suppose you had reached the fortune to ward which you were rapidly going? What then? Yon would have been as proud as Lucifer. What Is Success? How few mon have succeeded largely in a financial sense and yet maintained their simplicity and religious consecration I Not one man out of 100. There are glorious exceptions, but the general rule is that in proportion as a man gets well off for this world he gets poorly off for the next. He loses his sense of dependence on God. He gets a distaste for prayer meetings. With plenty of bank stocks and plenty of gov ernment securities, what does that man know of the prayer, “Give me this day my daily bread?” How few men largely suc cessful in this world are bringing souls to Christ or shewing self denial for others or are eminent for piety? You can count them all upon your eight fingers and two thumbs. One of the old covetqus souls, when he was sick and sick unto death, used to have a basin brought in, a basin filled with fold, and his only amusement and the only relief he got for bis inflamed hands was running them down through the gold and turning it up in the basin. Ob, what infatuation and what destroying power money has for many a man! Now, you were sailing at 80 knots the hour toward these vortices of worldliness—what a mercy it was. that honest defalcation I The same di . ine hand that crushed your store house, your bank, your office, your insur ance company, lifted you out of destruc tion, The day yon honestly suspended in business made your fortune for eternity. “Ob,” you say, “I could get along very well myself, but I am so disappointed that I cannot leave a competence for ray chil dren!” My brother, the same financial misfortune that is going to save your soul will save your children. With the antici pation of large fortune, how much indus try would your children have, without which habit ot Industry there is no safety? The young man would ray, “Well, there’s no need of my working. My father will soon step out, and then I’ll have Just what I want” You cannot hide from him how much you are worth. You think you are hiding it He knows aH about it He can tell you almost to a dollar. Perhaps he has been to the county office and searched the records of deeds ana' mortgagee, and he has added it all up, and he has made an estimate of how long you will probably stay in this world, and is not as much worried about your rheumatism and short ness of breath as you are. The only for tune worth anything that you can give your child is the fortune you put in his head and heart Os all the young men who started life with 840,000 capital, how many turned out well? I do not know half a dozen. Inspiring Inheritance. The best inheritance a young man can have is the feeling that he has to fight his own battle, and that life is a struggle into which be must throw body, mind and soul or be disgracefully worsted. Where are the burial places of the men who started life with a fortune? Some of them in the potter's field, some in the suicide’s grave. But few of these men reached 85 years of age. They drank, they smoked, they gam bled. In them the beast destroyed the man. Some of them lived long enough to get their fortunes and went through them. The vast majority of them did not live to get their inheritance. From the ginshop or house of infamy they were brought home to their father’s bouse and in de lirium began to pick off loathsome reptiles from the embroidered pillow and to fight back imaginary devils. And then they were laid out in highly upholstered parlor, the casket covered with flowers by Indul gent parents, flowers suggestive of a resur rection with no hope. As you sat this morning at your break fast table and looked into thefaoesof your children perhaps you said within your self: “Poor things! How I wish I could start them in life with a competence! How I have been disappointed in all my expectations of wbat I would do for them!” Upon that scene of pathos I break with a po*an nt Congratulation, that by your financial losses your own prospectafor heaven and the pror.pi.ct for the heaven of your children nre mightily improved. You n ay have lost a toy, but you bare won a palace. “How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!” "It la easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the king dom of heaven.” Wh'at does that mean? It means that the grandest blessing God ever bestowed upon you was to take your money away from you. Let me hero say, in passing, do not put much stress on the treasures of this world. You cannot take them along with you. At any rate, you cannot take them more than two or three miles. You will have to leave them at the cemetery. Attila had three coffins. So fond was he of this life that he decreed that first be should be buried in a coffin of gold, and that then that should be inclosed in a coffin of silver, and that should be in closed In a coffin of iron, and then a large amount of treasure should be thrown in over his body. And so he was buried, and the men who buried him were slain so that no one might know where he was buried and no one might thero interfere with his treasures. O men of the world who want to take your money with you, better have three coffins! Profit by Bereavements. Again, I remark you ought to make the very best of your bereavements. The whole tendency is to brood over these sep arations, and to give much time to the handling of mementos of the departed, and to make long visitations to the ceme tery, and to say: “Oh, I can never look up again! My hope is gone. My courage is gone. My religion is gone. My faith in God is gone. Oh, the wear and tear and exhaustion of this loneliness!” The most frequent bereavement is the loss of children. If your departed child had lived as long as you have lived, do yon not sup pose that he would have had about the same amount of trouble and trial that you have had? If you could make a choice for your child between 40 years of annoyance, loss, vexation, exasperation and bereave ments and 40 years in heaven, would you take the responsibility of choosing the former? Would you snatch away the cup of eternal bliss and put into that child’s hands the cup of many bereavements? In stead of the complete safety into which that child has been lifted, would you like to hold it down to the risks of this mortal state? Would you like to keep it out on a sea in which there have been more ship wrecks than safe voyages? Is it not a comfort to you to know that ' that child, instead of being besolled and flung into the mire of sin, is swung clear into the skies? Are not those children to be con gratulated that the point of celestial bliss which you expect to reach by a pilgrimage of 60 or 60 or JO years they reached at a flash? If the last 10,000 children who had entered heaven had gone through the av erage of human life on earth, are you sure all those 10,000 children would have final ly reached the blissful terminus? Besides that, my friends, you are to look at this matter as a self denial on your part for their benefit. If your children want to go off in a May day party, if your children want to go on a flowery and musical ex cursion, you consent. You might prefer to have them with you, but their jubilant absence satisfies you. Well, your departed children have only gone out in a May day party, amid flowery and musical entertain ment, amid joys and hilarities forever. That ought to quell some of your grief, the thought of their glee. Glorious Welcomes. So it ought to be that you could make the best of all bereavements. The fact that you have so many friends in heaven will make your own departure very cheerful. When you are going on a voyage, every thing depends upon where your friends are—if they are on the wharf that you leave or on the wharf toward. which you are going to sail. In other words, the more friends you have in heaven the easier it will be to get away from this world. The more friends here the more bitter goodbys. The more friends there the more glorious welcomes. Some of you have so many brothers, sisters,children, friends, in heaven that I do not know hardly how you are going to crowd through. When the vessel came from foreign lands and brought a princo to our harbor, the ships were covered with bunting, and you re member bow the men-of-war thundered broadsides, but thero was no joy there compared with the joy which shall be demonstrated when you sail up the broad bay of heavenly salutation. The more friends you have there the easier your own transit. What is death to a mother whose children are in heaven? Why, thero is no more grief in it than there is in her going into a nursery amid the romp and laugh ter of her household. Though all around may be dark, see you not the bright light in tho olouds, that light tho irradiated faces of your glorified kindred? So also, my friends, I would have you make the best of your sicknesses. When you sec one move off with elastic step and in full physical vigor, sometimes you be come impatient with your lame foot. When a man describes an object a mile off and you cannot see it at all, you become impatient of your dim oye. When you hear of a well man making a great achieve ment, you become impatient with your de pressed nervous system or your dilapidat ed health. I will tell you how you can; make the worst of it. Brood over it— brood over all these illnesses—and your nerves will become more twitchy, and your dyspepsia more aggravated, and your weakness more appalling. But that is tho! devil’s work to tell you how to make the worst of it. It is my work to show you a bright light in the clouds. Which of tho Bible men most attract your attention? You say, Moses, Job, David, Jeremiah, Paul. Why, what a strange thing it is that you have chosen those who were physically disordered! Mpses—l know he was nervous from the clip he gave the Egyptian. Job—bis blood was vitiated and diseased and bis skin distressfully eruptive. David—he bad a running sore, which he speaks of when bo says, “My sore ran in the night and ceased not. ” Jeremiah had enlargement of the spleen. Who can doubt it who reads Lam entations? Paul—he bad a lifetime sick ness which the commentators have been guessing about for years, not knowing ex actly what the apostle meant by “a thorn in the flesh.” I do not know either, but it Was something sharp, something that stuck him. I gather from all this that physical disorder may, be the means of grace to the soul. You ray you have so many temptations from bodily ailments, and if you were only well you think you oould be a good Christian. While your temptations may be different, they are no more than those of the man who has an appetite three times a day and sleeps eight hours every night. No More Pain. From my observation, 1 judge that in valids have a more rapturous view of the next world than well people and will have higher renown in bcs.ven. The bust view l>r - , i ' •. r- of the dck< table mountains Is through the lattice qf the sickroom. There are trains running every hour between pillow and throne, between hospital and mansion, between banilnces and robes, between crutch and palm branch. Oh, I wish some of you people who are compelled to cry: “My bead, my head! My foot, my foot!' My back, my back!” would try some of the Lord's medicine. You are going to be well anyhow before long. Heaven is on old city, but has never yet reported one ease of sickness or ono bill of mortality. No ophthalmia for the eye. No pneu monia for the lungs. No pleurisy for the side. No neuralgia for the nerves. No rheumatism for the,muscles. “The In habitants shall never say, I am sick.” “There shall bo no more pain.” Again, you ought to make the beet of life’s finality. Now, you think I have a very tough subject. Yon do not see how I am to strike a spark of light out of the flint of the tombstano. There are many people who have an idea that death is the submergence of everything pleasant by everything doleful. If my subject oould close in the upsetting of all such precon ceived notions, it would close well. Who can judge best of tho features of a man— those who are close by him or those who are afar off? “OH, "you say, “those oan judge best of tho features of a man who are close by him!” Now, my friends, who shall judge of the features of death—whether they are lovely or whether they are repulsive? You? You are too far off. If I want to get a judgment as to what really the features of death are, I will not ask you. I will ask those who have been within a montffibf death, or a week of death, or an hour of death, or a minute of death. They stand so near the features, they oan tell. They give unanimous testimony, if they are Christian people, that death, instead of being demoniac, is cherublo. Os all the thousands of Christians who have been carried through the gates of tho cemetery, gather up their dying experiences, and you will find they nearly all bordered on a Jubilate. How often you have seen a dy ing man join in the psalm being sung around his bedside, the middle of the verse opening to let hie ransomed spirit free, long after tho lips could not speak look ing and pointing upward. Some of you talk as though God had ex hausted himself in biuldlng this world, and that all the rich curtains he ever made he hung around this planet, and all the flowers be ever grew he has woven into the carpet of our daisied meadows. Na This world la not the best thing God can do. This world is not the best thing that God has done. Season of Blossoms. One week of the year is called blossom week—called so all through the land be cause there are more blossoms in that week than in any other week of the year. Blossom week! And that is what the fu ture world is to which the Christian is In vited—blossom week forever. It is as far ahead of this world as paradise is ahead of Dry Tortugas, and yet here we stand shivering and fearing to go out, and we wank to stay on tho dry sand and amid the stormy petrels when we are Invited to arbors of jasmine and birds of paradise. Ono season I had two springtimes. I went to New prleans in April, and I marked the difference between going to ward New Orleans and then coming back. As I went on down toward New Orleans the verdure, the foliage, became thicker and more beautiful. When I cams back, the farther I camo toward home the less the foliage and less and less it became un til there was hardly any. Now, it all de pends upon the direction in which you travel. ’lf a spirit from heaven should come toward our world,ho is traveling from June toward December, from radiance to ward darkness, from hanging gardens to ward icebergs. And one would not be very much surprised if a spirit of God sent forth from heaven toward our world should be slow to come. But bow strange it is that we dread going out toward that world when going is from December to ward June, from the snow of earthly storm to the snow of Edenio blossom, from the arctics of trouble toward the tropics of eternal joy! Oh, what an ado about dying! We get so attached to the malarial marsh in which we live that we are afraid to go up and live on the hilltop. We are alarmed be cause vacation is coming. Eternal sun light and best programme of celestial min strels and halleluiah, no inducement. Let us stay here and keep cold and ignorant and weak. Do not introduce us to Elijah and John Milton and Bourdaloue. Keep our feet on the sharp cobblestones of earth instead of planting them on the bank of amaranth in heaven. Give us this small island of a leprous world instead of the Immensities of splendor and delight. Keep our hands full of nettles and our shoulder under the burden and our neok in the yoke and hopples on our ankles and handcuffs on our wrists. “Dear Lord,” we seem to ray,“keep us down here where we have to suffer instead of letting us up where we might live and reign and re joice.” Amazing Infatuation. I am amazed at myself and at yourself for this Infatuation under which we all rest. Men you would suppose would get frightened at having to stay in this world instead of getting frightened at hating to go toward heaven. I congratulate any body who has a right to die. By that I mean through sickness you oannot avert or through accident you oannot avoid— your work consummated. “Where did they bury Lily?” said one little child to another. -“Oh,” she replied, “they buried her in the ground. ” “ What I In the cold ground?” “Ob, no, noj not in the cold ground, but in the warm ground, where Ugly seeds become beautiful flowers!” “But,” rays some one, “it pains me so much to think that I must lose the body with which my soul has so long compan ioned.” You do not lose it. You do more lose your body by death than you lose your watch when you send it to have it re paired, or your Jewel when you send it to have it reset, or the faded picture when you send it to have it touched up, or the photograph of a friend when you have-it put in a new locket. You do not lose your body. Paul will go to Rome to get his, Payson will go to Portland to get hie, President Edwards will go to Princeton to get bis, George Cookman will go to the bottom of the Atlantic to get his, and we will go to the village churchyards and the city cemeteries to get ours, and when we have our perfect spirit rejoined to our per fect body then we will be the kind of men and women that the resurrection morning will make possible. So you see you have not made out any doleful story yet. What have you proved about death? Wbat is the case you have made out? You have made out Just this— that death allows us to have a perfect body, free of all aches, united forever with a perfect soul, free from ail sin. Correct your theology. What does it all mean? Why, it means that moving day is coming and that you are going to quit cramped apartments and be mansioned forever- ’ • Thp horse that stands at the gate will not be the one lathered and bespattered, cirry. 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