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.nblect to the democratic primary or June
23
Tot (Jaunty Oommindouer.
Please announce that I
.JfSdldatefor reflection for County
•® * iaainnw subject to the action of the
primary, and will be glad to
? th« suDDOrt oi all the voters.
* Te j A j TIDWELL.
At the solicitation of many voters I
karebv announce myself a candidate for
bounty Commissioner, subject to the dem-
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I hereby announce myself a candidate
J'County Commissioner, subject to the
primary to be held June 23,
next If elected. I pledge myself to eco
nomical and business methods in conduct-
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for County Commissioner of Spalding
county, subject to the Democratic primary
ot June 23d, W, W. CHAMPION.
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To the Voters of Spalding County: I
herebv announce myself a candidate for
Selection to the office of County Commis-
Atoner of Spalding county, subject to the
Zmoc ratio primary to be held on June 23,
1898. My record in the past is my pledge
for future foitbfuinecs.
® D.L. PATRICK.
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For Representative.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
im a candidate for Representative to the
legislature, subject to the primary of the
w.
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Editor Call: Please announce my
name as a candidate forHepresenlative
from Spalding county, subject to the action
oi the democratic party. I shall be pleased
to receive the support of all the voters,and
ts elected will endeavor to represent the
interests of the whole county.
J. B. Bull.”
For Tax Collector.
I respectfully announce to the citizens
of Spalding county that I am a candidate
for reflection 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.
8 T. R. NUTT.
For County Treasurer.
To the Voters of Spalding County: I
announce myself a candidate for reflec
tion for the office of County Treasurer,
subject to democratic primary, and if elect
ed promise to be as fhithful in the per
formance of my duties in the future as I
have been in the past.
J. C. BROOKS..
*' For Tax BaoHvsr. .
Editor Call : Please announce to the
voters of Spalding county that I am a can
didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub
ject to the Democratic primary of June
23rd, and respectfully ask the support of
all voters of this county.
Respectfully,
It. H. YARBROUGH.
I respectfully announce myself as a can
didate for ref lection to the office of Tax
Receiver of Spalding county .subject to the
action of primary, if one is held.
8. M. M’COWELL.
For 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 oe thankfully received
and duly appreciated.
MJ. 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 oflWOf
flce ss faithfully as in the, past.
M. Fj MORRIS.
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MAKES WRONG RIGHT
DR. TALMAGE SAYS CHRISTIANITY IS
REVOLUTIONARY.
Kot a Relined Imbecility, bnt » Robuat
Force For Dettering th. World Re
ligion is Mot peace, but That Will Bo
ths Final Result.
(Copyright, 1888, American Press Asso-
WASHINGTON, May I.—This discourse of
Dr. Talmage is revolutionary for good in
families and churches and nations and
•specially appropriate for them times;
tut, Acts xvii, 6, “These that have
turned tho world upside- down aro come
hither also.”
There is a wild, bellowing mob around
the bouse of Jason in Thessalonioa. What
has the man done so greatly to offend the
people? He has been entertaining Paul
and his comrades. The mob surround the
house and cry; “Bring out those turbu
lent preachers! They are interfering with
our business! They are ruining our re
ligion I They are actually turning the
world upside down I"
The charge was true, for there is noth
ing that so interferes with sin, there is
nothing so ruinous to every form of estab
lished iniquity, there la nothing that has
such tendency to turn the world upside
down as our glorious Christianity. The
fact is that the world now la wrong side
up, and it needs to be turned upside down
in order that it may be right side up. The
time was . then men wrote books entitling
them “Apologies For Christianity.** I
hope that day has passed. We want no
more apologies for Christianity. Let the
apologies be on the part of those who do
not beHevo in our religion. We do not
mean to make any compromise in the
matter. We do not wish to hide the fact
that Christianity is revolutionary and
that its tendency is to turn the world up
side down.
Our religion has often been misrepre
sented as a principle of tears and mildness
and fastidiousness, afraid ot crossing peo
ple’s prejudices, afraid of making some
body mad, witb silken gloves lifting the
people up from the church pew into glory,
M though they vjore Bohemian mass, so
very delicate that with one touch it may
be demolished forever. Men speak of re
ligion as though it were a refined imbecil
ity, as though it were a spiritual chloro
form, that the people were to take until
the sharp cutting of life were over. The
Bible, so far from this, represents the re
ligion of Christ as robust and brawny—
ransacking and upsetting 10,000 things
that now seem to be settled on firm foun
dations. I bear sonje man in the house
say, “I thought religion was peace.”
That is the final result. A man’s arm Is
out of place. Two men come, and with
gfoat effort put it back to the socket. It
goes back with great pain. Then .it gets
well. Our world is horrify disordered
and out of joint. It must come finder an
omnipotent surgery, beneath which there
will be pain and anguish before there can
come perfect health and quiet I proclaim,
therefore, in the. name of my Lord Jesus
Christ—revolution!
The religion of the Bible will make a
revolution in the family. Those things
that are wrong in the family circle will
be overthrown by it, while justice and
harmony will take the place. The hus
band wUI be the bead of the household
only When he is fit to be. I know a man
who spends all tbe money he makes in
drink as well as htt the money that his
wife makes, and sometimes sells the chil
dren 's clothes for rum. Do you tell me
that ho is to be the head of that house
hold? If the wife bayo more nobility,
more courage, more consistency, more of
all that is right, she shall have the suprem
acy. You say that the Bible says that the
wife is to be subject to the husband. I
know it, but that is a husband, not a
masculine caricature. There is no human
or divine law that makes a woman subor
dinate to a man unworthy of her. When
Christianity comes into a domestic circle,
it will give the dominancy to that one
who is the most worthy of it
As religion comes in at the front door,
mirth and laughter will not go out of the
back door. It will not hopple the chil
dren’s feet. John will laugh just as loud,
and George will jump higher than he ever
did before. It will steal from the little
ones neither ball nor bat nor hoop nor
kite. It win establish a family altar.
Angels will hover over it. Ladders of light
will reach down to it The glory of heav
en will stream upon it The books of re
main brapce will record it, and tides of
everlasting blessedness will pour from it
Not such a family altar as you may have
seen where the prayer is long.and a long
chapter is read, with tedious explanation,
and the exercise keeps on the chil
dren’s knees are sore, and their backs
ache, and their patience is lost, and for
the seventh time they have counted all the
rungs in the chair, but I mean a family
altar such as may have been seen in your
father’s house. You may have wandered
far off in thp paths of sin and darkness,
but you have never forgotten that family
altar where father and mother knelt im
portuning God for yoursouk That is a
memory that a man never gets over.
There will be a hearty, joyful family altar
in every domestic circle. You will not have
to go far to find Hannah rearing her Sam
uel for the temple or a grandmother Lois
instructing her young Timothy in the
knowledge of Christ, or a Mary and Mar
tha and Lazarus gathered in fraternal and
sisterly affection, .or a table at whieh
Jesus sits, as at that of Zaccbeus, or a home
in which. Jesus dwells, as in the house of
Simon the tanner. The religion of Jesus
Christ, coming into tbo domestic circle,
will overthrow ail jealousies, all (anglings,
and peace and order and holiness will take
PO AS2A O ChrtatiiS°'will produce a rev
olution in commercial circles. Find me
50 merchants, and you find that they have
50 standards of what is right and wrong.
Yon say to some one about a merchant,
“la he.honest?” “Oh, yes,” the man says,
“he is monest, but he grinds tbe'faces of
his clerks! Beta honest, but he exagger
ates the value of bls goods. He is honest,
but he loans money on bond and mortgage
with the understanding that the mortgage
can Be quiet for ten years, but as soon as
he gets the mortgage be records it and be
gins a foreclosure suit, and the sheriff’s
writ comes down, and the day of sale ar
rives, and away goes the homestead, and
the creditor buys it In st half price.”
Honest? When he loaned the money, he
knew that he would: get the homestead at
half price. Honest? But he goes to the
insurance office to get a policy on bls life
and tells the doctor that he is well when
he knows that for ten years be has had but
one lung. Honest? Though he sells
property by the map, forgetting to tell the
purchaser that the ground is all under
water, bnt it is generous in him to do
that, tor he throws the water into the bar
gain.
Ah, my friends, there is but one stand-
‘ ...
•rd of the everlasting right and of the
everlasting wreng, end that is the Bible,
and when that prim lp| o shall get its pry
Wmcr our commercial Imuses I believe
that one-half of them will go over! The
ruin will begin at one end of the street,
and it will be crash! crash! crash! all the
way down to the docks. “What is the
mattar? Has there been a fall in gold?”
‘Oh, no.” “Has there been anew tariff?”
“No.” “Has there been a failure in
crops?” “No." “Has there been an un
accountable panic?” “No." This is the
secret: The Lord God has set up his throne
of judgment in the exchange. He has
summoned the righteous and the wicked
to come before him. What was 1887? A
day of judgment! What was 1807? A day
of judgment! What was the extreme de
pression of two years ago? A day of judg
ment! Do you think that God is going to
wait until he has burned tho world up be
fore he rights three wrongs? I tell you,
nay I Every day is a day of judgment,
The fraudulent man piles up his gains,
bond above bond, United States security
above United States security, emolument
above emolument, until hie property has
become a great pyramid, and as he stands
looking at it he thinks it can never be
destroyed, but the Lord God comes and
with bis little finger pushes it all over.
You build a house, and you put into it
a rotten beam. A mechanic standing by
says: “It will never do to put that beam
in. It will ruin your whole building."
But you put it in. The house is complet
ed. Soon it begins to rock. You call in
the mechanic and ask: “What is the mat
ter with this door? What is the matter
with this wall? Everything seems to be
giving out.” Says the mechanic, “You
put a rotten beam into that structure, and
the whole thing has got to come down."
Here is an estate that seems to be all right
now. It has been building a great many
years. But 16 years ego there was a dis
honest transaction in that commercial
house. a That one dishonest transaction
wjll keep on working ruin in the whole
structure, until down the estate will comq
in wreck and ruin about the possessor’s
tars—one dishonest dollar in the estate
demolishing all bis possessions. I have
seen it again and again, and so have you.
Here is your money safe. The manu
facturer and yourself only know how it
can be opened. Yoh have the key. You
touch the lock, and the ponderous door
swings back. But let me tell you that,
however firmly barred and bolted your
money safe may be, you cannot keep God
out. He will come some day into your
counting room, and he will demand:
“Where did that note of hand come from?
How do you account for this security?
Where did you get that mortgage from?
What does this mean?” If it is all right,
God will say: “Well done, good and faith
' ful servant. Be prospered in this world.
Be happy in the world to come.” If it is
all wrong, he will say: “Depart, ye cursed.
Be miserable for your iniquities in this
' life, and then go down and spend your
eternity with thieves and horse jockeys
and pickpockets.”
You have an old photograph of the signs
on your street. Why have those signs
nearly all changed within the last 20
years? Does the passing away of a gener
ation account for it? Ob, no. Does the
fact that there are hundreds of honest
' men who go down every y*ar account for
it? Oh, no. This is the secret: The Lord
.God has been walking through the oom
’ , menial streets of our great cities, and he
has been adjusting things according to the
principles of eternal rectitude.
The time will come when, through the
revolutionary power of this gospel, a false
hood, instead of being called exaggeration,
' equivocation or evasion, will be branded
a lie, and stealings that now sometimes
go under the head of percentages and oom
. missions and bonuses will be put into the
catalogue of state prison offenses I Society
will be turned inside out and upside down
and ransacked Os God’s truth until busi
ness dishonesties shall oome to an end, and
all double dealing, and God will overturn
and overturn and overturn, and commer
cial men in all cities will throw up their
hands, crying out, “These that have
, turned the world upside down are oome
hither.”
The religion of Jesus Christ will pro
, duce a revolution in our churches. The
noncommittal, do nothing policy of the
church of God will give way to a spirit of
I bravest conquest. Piety in this day seems |
, to me to be salted down just so as to keep.
. It seems as If the church were chiefly anx
ious to take care of Itself, and if we hear
i of want and squalor and heathenism out
, side we say, “What a pity!” and we put
our hands in our pockets, and we feel
■ around for a 2 cent piece, and with a great
flourish we put it upon the plate and are
, amazed that the world is not converted In
, six weeks. Suppose there were a great
war, and there were 800,000 soldiers, but
all of those 300,000 soldiers, excepting ton
i men, were in their tents or scouring their
. muskets or cooking rations. Yoh would
, say, “Os course defeat fnust oome in that
. case.” It Is worse than that in the
, church. Millions of the professed soldiers
of Jeeps Christ are oooklng rations or
asleep in tbblr tents, while only one man
here and there goes out to do battle for
. the Lord.
“But,” says some one, "we are estab
lishing a great many missions, and I think
they will save the masses.” No; they will
i not. Five hundred thousand of them will
. not do it. They are doing a magnificent
i work, but every mission chapel is a oon
i session of the disease.and weakness of the
. church. It is making a dividing line be
i tween the classes. It is saying to the rich
( and to the well conditioned, “If you can
i pay your pew rents, come to the main au
; dlence room." It is saying to the poor
l man; "Your coat is too bad and your
shoes are not good enough. If you want
to get to heaven, you will have to go by
, the way of the mission chapel.” The mis
sion chapel has become the kitchen, where
. the church does its sloppy work. There
, are hundreds and thousands of churches
, in this country—gorgeously built and sup
ported—that even on bright and sunshiny
' days are not half full of worshipers, and
yet they are building mission chapels, be
! cause by some expressed or implied regu
. lation the great masses of the people are
kept out of the main audience room.
, Now, I say that any place of worship
, Which is appropriate for one class is ap
i propriate for all classes. Let the rich and
the poor meet together, the Lord the Maker
i of them all Mind yon that I say that
. mission chapels are a necessity, the way
churches are now conducted, but may God
speed the time when they shall cease to be
, a necessity. God will rise up and break
, down the gates of the church that have
i kept back the masses, and woe be to those
, who stand in the way I They will be tram
pled underfoot by the vast populations
i making a stampede for heaven.
I saw In some paper an acoonnt of a
i church in Boston in which, it is said,
there ware a great many plain people.
The next week tiro trustees ot that church
came out In the paper and said it was not
so at aH; “they were elegant people nnd
highly conditioned people that went
there.” Then I laughed outright, and
when I laugh 1 laugh very loudly. “Those
people,” I said, "are afraid of the sickly
sentimentality of the churches.” New,
my ambition is not to preach to you so
much. It seems to me that you must be
faring sumptuously every day, and the
marks of comfort are all about you. Yon
do not need the gospel half as much as do
some who never come hqye. Rather than
be priding myself on a chuveh In front of
which there shall halt 00 splendid equi
pages on the Sabbath day X would have a
church up to whore gates*there should
cornu a long procession of the suffering,
and tho stricken, and the dying, bagging
for admittance. You do not need the gos
pel so much as they. You have good
things in thia life. Whatever may be your
future destiny, you have had a pleasant
time here. But those dying populations
of which I speak, by reason of their Want
and suffering, whatever may be their fu
ture destiny, are in perdition now, and if
there be any comfort in Christie gospel for
God’s sake give it to them!
Revolution! The pride of the church
must oome down. The exclusiveness of
the church must come down 1 The finan
cial boastings of the church must come
down I If monetary success were the chief
idea in the church, then I say that the
present mode of conducting finances is
the beet. If it Is to see how many dollars
you can gain, then the present mode is the
best. But if it is the saving of souls from
sin and death and bringing the mighty
populations of our cities to the knowledge
of God, then I cry revolution I It is com
ing fast. I feel it in the air. I hear the
rumbling of an earthquake that shall
shake down In one terrific crash tiro ar
rogance of our modern Christianity.
The sea is covered with wrecks, and
multitudes are drowning. We come out
with the church lifeboat, and the people
begin toolamber in, and we shout: “Stop!
stop! You must think it costs nothing
to keep a lifeboat. Those seats at the prow
are |1 apiece, these in the middle 60 cents
and those seats in the stern 2 shillings.
Please to pay up or else flounder on a lit
tle longer till the mission boat whose
work It is to save you penniless wretches
shall come along and pick you up. We
save only first class sinners in this boat.”
The talk Is whether Protestant churches
or Roman Catholic churches are coming
out ahead. I tell you, Protestants, this
truth plainly—that until your churches
are as free as are the Roman Catholic
cathedrals they will beat yfiu. In their
cathedrals the millionaire and the beggar
kneel side by side. And until that time
comes In our churches we canpot expect
the favor of God or permanent spiritual
prosperity.
Revolution! It may be that before tiro
church learns its duty to the masses God
will scourge it and oome with the whip
of omnipotent indignation and drive out
the money changers. It may be that there
is to be a great day of upsetting before
that time shall comq. If it tauat oome, O
Lord God, let it oome now!
In that future day of the reconstructed
church of Christ the church building will
be the most cheerful of all buildings. In
stead of tiro light of the sun strained
through painted glass until an intelli
gent auditory looks green and blue and
yellow and copper colored, we will have
no such things. The pure atmosphere of
heaven will sweep out the fetid atmos
phere that has been kept in many of our
ohurohea boxed up from Sunday to Sun
day.
The day of which I speak will be a
day of great revivals. There will be such
a time a? there was in the parish of Shotts,
where 600 souls were born to God in one
day—such times as were seen in this
country when Edwards gave the alarm,
when Tennent preached, and Whitefield
thundered, and Edward Payson prayed;
such times as some of you remember in
1867, when the voice of prayer and praise
was heard in theater and warehouse and
blackshop and factory and engine house,
and the auctioneer’s cry of “a half, and a
half, and a half,” was drowned out by
the adjoining prayer meeting, in which
the people cried out, "Men and brethren,
what shall we do?”
In those days of which lam speaking
the services of the church of God will be
more spirited. The ministers of Christ,
instead of being anxious about whether
they are going to lose their place in their
notes, wUI get on fire with the theme and
pour the living truth of God upon an
aroused auditory, crvlng out to the right
eous, "It shall be well with you,” and to
the wicked: “Woe! It shall be Hl with
you.” In those days the singing will be
very different from what it is now. Ths
music will weep and wail and chant and
triumph. People then will not be afraid
to open their mouths when they sing. The
man with a cracked voice will risk it on
“Windham” and “Ortonville” and “Old
Hundred.” Grandfather will find the
place for his grandchild in the hymnbook,
or tiro little child wUI be spectacles for the
grandfather. Hosanna will meet hosanna
and together go climbing to the throne,
and the angels wUI hear, and God wiU
listen, and the gates of heaven wUI hoist,
apd it will be as when two seas meet—the
wave of earthly song mingling with the
surging anthems of the free.
Ob, my God, let me live to see that day!
Let there be no power In disease or aoofT
dent or wave of the sea to disappoint my
expectations. Let all other sight fail my
eyes rather than that I should miss that
vision. Let all other sounds fail my ears
rather than that I should fail to hear that
sound. I want to stand on the mountain
top to catch the first ray of tiro dawn and
with flying feet bring the news. And, oh,
when we bear the clattering hoofs that
bring on the King’s chariot may we all be
ready, with arches sprung and with hand
on the rope of the bell that Is to sound the
victory, and with wreaths all twisted for
the way, and when Jesus dismounts let it
be amid the huzza! huzza! of a world re
deemed!
Where and when will that revolution be
gin? Hera and now. In your heart and
mine. Sin must go down, our pride must
go down, our worldliness must go down,
that Christ may come up. Revolution!
“Except a man bo born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God.” Why not now
let the revolution begin? Not next Sab
bath, but now. Not tomorrow, when you
go out into commercial circles, but now.
Arohias, the magistrate of Thebes, was
sitting with many mighty men, drinking
wine. A messenger came in, bringing a
letter informing him of a conspiracy to
end his life and warning him to flee.
Archias took the letter; bnt, instead of
opening it, put it into his pocket and said
to the messenger who brought it, "Busi
ness tomorrow.” The next day he died.
Before he opened the letter the govern
ment was captured. When he read the
letter, it was too late. Today I put into
the hand of every man and woman who
hears or reads these words a message of
life. It says, "Today, if ye will bear his
voice, harden not your heart.” Do not
put away the message and say, "This busi
ness tomorrow.” Thia night thy soul may
ba required of thee! t
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