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®lie Jllotttgomcrg -Monitor.
D. C. SUTTON, Editor and Prop’r,
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
ABSURDITIES OF EVOLUTION.
1 Preached at lakeside, Ohio.]
Text. ‘The statutes of the Lord are right.”
—.Psalm xix, 8.
Old books go out of date. When they were
written they discussed questions which were
being discussed; they struck at wrongs whu h
have long ago c-oased, or advocated institu
tions which excite not our interest. Wore
tliev boohs of history, the te. its have been
gathered from the imperil' t, mass, better
classified and more lucidly presented. W ore
theA- books of poetry, they were interlocked
with wul mythologies, which have gone up
from the fare ot the earth like mi-ts at sai
‘^ e V •’W’iwof morals, civil,.nth n
ill not sit at thvj twt of barbarism, neither
Tnllv e re" + aut i, a I’P h °» 1 ythagornn red
' S tench us morals. H hat do the
rnaajte ot the people rare now for the
pathos o: oimonides, or tho sarcasm of Men
ander, or the gracefulne-s of Philemon, or
the wit of Aristophanes; Even the old h inks
we have left..with a few exception;. have but
Xery little effect upon our times, Bocks are
human; they have a time ro be born, tticv
nrelon, leii they grow in strength,they Ini e
a middle life ot usefulness; then conies old
age. they totter end they die. Many of t «
national libraries are merely the cemeteries of
the dead books. Some of them live] lia-utious
lives aud died ileaths of ignominy. Some
were virtuous an 1 accomplished a gloriour
mission Some went into tho ashes through
inquisitorial firer. Koine found their funeral
pile m sacked and plundered cities, home
were neglected nud died as fouudlin -s at tho
door of science Some expired imho a:i
thors study, others iu the publisher’s hands.
it\ er aud anon there comes into your pos- |
session nil old borne, its author lorgott-u and
its usefulness potie, and with 1 atiiern lip; ,1.
seems to say- ‘‘i wish I were dead.” M-nu
niems nave been raised over poets and phi
Jan.hiopista Wou d that some tall shaft
-o erected in honor of tho world's
bnvied books! The world’s authors would
'.lake pilgrimage thereto, au,l p retry and it
eraturo aud science and religion would con
secrets it with their tears.
Not so witli one old book. It started in the
world's infancy. It grew under theocracy
and monarchy. It witbst od the st rms of
tire. It grew under pro, hut’s mrtutV and
under tho fisherman's ioat,of the apostles; in
Pome, and Ephesus, and Jerusalem,aud Pa'
Tyranny i;. sued edicts against it. aud
snhdolity put out the tongue, and Mohamme
danism from its mosques liuriod its mm-bo
urns, but the old Bilde .still lived. It crossed
the British Channel and was greeted by
>A lcklifiti and James I. it cros ei r.ho At
lantic and struck Plymouth Pock, until like
that of Horeb it gushed with blessedness.
Churches and asylums have gathered alone
its way, ringing t heir bells and stretching out
their hands of blessing; and every Sabbath
there are ten thousand be: aids of tho cross
hn,l,: n this open, grand, tree
old English Bible. But it will not have ac
complished its mission until it has climbed
the icy mountains of Greenland; until it has
gono over the granite cliffs of China: until
«; lias thrown its glow amid the Australian
mines: until it bas scattered its gems among
the diamond districts of Brazil; and all
thrones shall be gathered into one throne,
” n i. ‘V * crowns by the fires of revolution
shall bo molted into one crown, and this
Book shall at t o very gate of heaven have
■waved in the ransomed empires. Not until
'vill tin’s glorious Bibio have acco n
plished its mission.
Jnrerryiug out, thon, the idea of my toxt
the statutes of the Lord are right”—l
shall show you that the Bible is right in au
thentication; that it is right in style: that it
is right in doctrine; that it is right in its ef
fects.
1. ( an you doubt the authenticity of the
Scrip tun s' There is uot so much evidence
that Walter Scott wrote “The J.ady of the
Take;” not so much evideuce that Shake
speare wrote •‘Hamlet;’’ net so much evidence
that John Milton w.-otn “Paradise Lo,t” as
there is evidence that the T.or i God Almighty,
l»y the hands of the prophets, ev angolistsand
ajwitles, wrote this book.
Suppose a book now to bo written which
oarno iu conflict with a groat many thin" I *,
and was written by bad men or iumostors,
how long would such a book stand; It would
be scouted by every body. And J say if that
ruble had been an imposition; or if it ha l not
been written by the men who said they wrote
it,; if it had been a mere collection of false
hoods, do you not suppose that it would have
been immediately rejected by the people; If
“nd Isaiah, and Jeremiah, an 1 Haul,
ana Peter, and John were imposters they
would have been scouted by generations and
nations. If that book has come down through
fires of centuries without a scar it is because
there is nothing in it destructible. How
near have they come to destroying the
Bible? When they began their opposition
thpre were two or three thousand copies of it.
Kow there are two hundred millions, as far
as I can i aTulate. These Bible truths, not
withstanding ull tha opposition, have gone
into all languagi s—into the philosophic
Greek, the flowing Italinn. the grace
fill (Jerman, the passionate French, the
picturesque Indian, and the exhaustions
Anglo-Saxon. Uu.ier the painter's pencil
the birth and th» crucifixion and the resur
rection glow on the walls of palaces; or, un
der the engraver's knife, speak from the
man’ol of the mountain cabin; while t »ne
touched by the sculptor’s ehise’, start up into
prea h’ng apostles and as ending lnartvrs.
Mow, do you not suppo-e, if that Book ha l
been an imposition and a falsehood, it would
not have gone down under these ceasel -g
flies of opposition ?
Further, suppose that there was a great
pestilence goiug over the earth, and hundred ;
of thousands of men were dying of that j esti
lence, an 1 someone should find ame (• ie
that cured tea thousand people, woult ft
every body a kn iwledgo that [hat uiu-t Is; a
good medicine ; Why, some one would av:
“Doyou deny it ? There have been t<*n thou
sand people cured by it.” I simply state the
fact that there ha •- een hundreds of thou
sands of Christ an pen and women who-av
they have !e t the truthfulness of that book
and its power in their souls It has cured
them of tin worst leprosy that evir'atne
down cn our earth, naroely: the ienro-vof
sm. And if I <nnp. iitvou to multitude.
who pay they have ,'elt the power of that
cure, are you n it reasonable enough to ac
knowledge the fa- ■ tha; th«-e must be some
power in the me li ine? Will vou take the
ev'dence of millions of patients who have
been cured, or will you take theciiden-o of
the skeptic who stands aloof and confesses
that he m-v r took the rreiicinef
That l.ib e intimates thac there was a city
failed I’etra. built out of solid rock. Infldel
ity scoflel at it: “Where is your city of
Betraf’ Buckhardt and T-ahorde went forth
in their explorations and they came upon
that very city. Tnemountains-land around
like g all's guarding the tomb when the city
is buried Thcv linda street in that city sir
mile; long, where on e flashed imperial
pem-. and which echoed with the laughter
of light-hsarted mirth cm its way to th ■
th-atre. On temples fashioned out < f <•,,!-
orei stones—some of which have blushed
into the crimson cf the- roe. and sum- of
whi h have paled into the whiteness of th •
lily—aye. on column, and pediment, and en
tablature. and statuary, God writes the truih
of 'hat Bible.
The B.ble says that Sodom and Gomorrah
'rere flbsttpved by fire and brimstone. “Ab-
SuW. ’ Infidels year aft *r year Sato: “It is
positively absurd that they could have been
destroyed fy .brimstone. There is nothing in
the element* to < au-e, such a shower of death
hs that.” Lieutenant Lynch—l think lie was
the first man who went out on the discovery,
but lie bas been followed by many others—
Lieutenant Lynch went out iii explo atiou
and came to the Bead Sa, which,by a convul
sion of nature, has overflown the place
we re tho cities oneo stood, lie sank his
fathoming line, and brought up from the
bottom of the Deal Boa great masses of sul
phur, reitt nit tits of that very tempest that
swept Sod, m and Gotnprrnh so ruin who
Was right, tho Bible that attilounced the
destruction of those • ities, or the skeptics
who l'or ages Scoffed at it ?
. -’ho Bible says there was a cit,v calhd
Ninevt b, and that it was three days’" journey
around it, ami that it should be destroyed by
tire anil water. ‘ Absurd,” cried out hun
dreds of voices for many years; “no city
was ever built that it'would take three
days’ jouTney to go Abound. Beside-., it
re,,ld hot bo destroyed, by fire and iVv'er:
thOy are antagonistic elements.” lint Lnv
hrd. B »t,ta and Keith go out, and by t!i rt ir
or,pi. a aliens they find that city of Nineveh,
and they toll us that by they own experi
inteut it is three days’ journey around, ac
cord, ng to the old cs invito of a day’s jour
ney, am! tliAt, it was literally''destroyed by
fire and water—two antagonistic elements—
n part oi the city having 1 r-cn inumlatel by
the River Tigrir, the bii k material in those
tuner, being ilt'ie 1 day illstcftl of ImrUsi
while ill othek- pArts they find the remains of
the fire 'll hodps of charcoal that hue,, boon
excavated, and iii the calcin'd slabs ot
gypsum. Who was right, the Bible or in
li lelity;
Moses intimated that, they had viti wards
itt Egypt. “Absurd.” cried hundreds of
voices; “you can’t raise grapes in Egypt: or, !
if y, u can. it is a very great exception that
you can rats' them.”' But, the traveler goer
down, and in the un lergr-umi vaults of
Eil tliya he finds painted ,>n the wall oil the
pro e.,s ttf tending tho vines and treading
Ant the grapes. It is all there, familia Ivi
sketched by people who evidently knew all '
about if, and saw it all about thorn every
day: and in those underground vaults there j
are vases still inernstori with tho -oUlims-f
the wine. You ter tho vine did grow in *
H-vpt, whether it. crows there now or not.
Tuns, on s?o. that wlfilo Clod wrote tho
Bible, at tho same time 110 wrote (bis coin
itionta-y, that “tho statutes of tho Lord are
right ” on leaves of rock and shell, bound in
clast s of metal, and lying on mountain table
and in the jeweled vase of tho sen. In authen
ticity and in genuineness the statutes of the
Lord are right.
-• Again, the Btbl > is right in style. I know
Ihero are a great many people who think it I
is merely a collo dion of genealogical tallies I
and dry in Is. That is because they do not
know how to read tho book. You take the !
most int'resting novel that was ever written, i
nod if you commence at the four hundredth
page to day, and to-morrow at tho three t
hundredth, and tho next day at tho first
page, how much sense or interest would you
cot from it? Yot, that is the very process
to wlii. li tho Jlil.lu ts nut,l -v V.,1 u.-,-.o T .tar.
An angel from heaven reading tho Bible in
that way could not understand it. Tho
Bible, like all other palaces. ba» a door b“
which to enter and a door by which to
go out. Genesis is tho door liy which to go ,
iu aud Reve ations tin door to go out.
Tho Epistles of Paul tlia Apo,t!earo merely
letters written, folded up and sent by post
men to the d i tlerent Churches. Ido you read
other letters the way you read Raul s letters?
Suppose you get a business letter, and you
know that in it there are important financial
propositions, do you read tho last page first,
aud then one line of tho third page, and an
other of the second, and another of tho first?
No. You begin with “Pear Sir,” and end
with “Yours truly.” Now. here is a letter
written from the throne of God to our lost
world: it is full of magnificent hopes and
propositions, and we dip in here and there,
and wo know nothin ' about it. Besides that,
people read tho Bible when they can not
do anything els\ It is a dark day and they
do not feel well, and (hoy do not go to busi
ness, and after lounging about a bit they
pick up tho Bible—their mind refuses to en
,;oy the truth. Or they come home weary
from tho store or shop, and thev feel, if th y
do not say, it is a dull book. While the Bible
is to be read on stormy days and while your
hea 1 aches, it is also to bo read in the sun
shine and when your nerves, like harp
strings, thrum tho song of health. While
your vision is clear, walk in this paradise of
truth,nnd while your mental appetite is good,
pluck these clusters of gra m.
J am fascinated with the conciseness of this
look. Every word is packed full of truth.
K> ery sentence is double barreled. Every
paragraph is like an old ban van tree with a
hundred roots and a hundred branches. It is
a great arch: pullout one stone and it all
comes down. There lias never been a pearl
diver who could gather un one half of the
treasures in any verse. John Haisebaeh. of
Vienna, for twenty-one years every Sabbath
expounded to his congregation the first chap
ter of the Book of Isaiah, and yot did not get
through with it. Nine-tenths of all the good
literature of this ago is rnerelv the Bible
diluted.
Goethe, tho admired of all skeptics, had the
w.ill of his house at Weimar covered with
religions maps and pictures. Milton’s “Para
di-e Lost” is part, of the Bit.le in blank vi rse
Tassos “Jerusalem Delivered” is borrowed
from (he Bibl •. Spenser’s writings are imi
tations from (ho Parables. John Bun van saw
in a dream only what Saint John had .wen
before in Apo alyptic vision. Ma-anlay
crowns his most gigantic sentences with
Script ire quota ions. Through Add so'i’s
“Spectator’’ there glances in nnd out tho
stream that broke from the throne ol Go I
clear as crystal. Walter Scott's let
characters are Bil-lo men and worn -n
under different names, ns M<-g Merri
-1 ic-. the Witch of Endor. Shakespeare's
Lady Macbeth wa; Je.ebel. Hobbes stole
from this Castle ol Truth the weapons with
which he afterward assaulted it. Lord Byron
caught the ruggeduess and majesty of his
style from the pro; he'des. The writings of
Pope are saturated with Isaiah, and he fin Is
his mo t su" esstul theme in the Messiah.
Th: poet; Thompson an 1 Johnson dipped
th'-ir i-ens in the stylo of the inspired Ori-n
--t il. Tnomas Carlyle is only a splendid dis
tortion of Ezekiel: and wandering through
tlm lanes and parks of this imperial domain
of Bible truth, I fin I all the great American,
English, German, (Spanish. Italian poet-’,
palmers, orators nnd rhetoric.: ns.
U here is there in the world of poetic de
scription anything likn Jobs champing,
neighing, pawing, lightning-footed, thunder
necKed war horses? Jlrydens, Milton's, Cow
per's temoests are very tame compared with
David's storm that wrecks the mountains of
Is:isin---! and shivers the wilderness of
Kadirh. Why, it semi sas if > the feet of
th se Bible writers t,;e mountains brought all
th ir gems, an I the s-as all their pearls, an l
the gardens all the r frankincense, an I .he
Rpring all it; Mo v,m.s, and the harvests all
lie i.- wealth, and hea en all its gran 1 zur. and
efernitvall its stupendous r«aliti<-s: an I that
‘-inre t h m y-oets, and orators, and rhetoricians
have been drinking from exhausted foun*
tains, and searching fur diamonds in a realm
utterlv rifled and ransacked.
1 his book is the hive of all sweetness. It
is th - armory of all well-tempered weapons.
Ittoe tower containing th ■ crown jewels
of the :n;V'-rse. it is the lamo that kindles
ail oth'-r lights, it is the hme of ail ma eg
ti: s and sje ndors It is the marriage ring
that unit* the C'.iestial and terrestrial, while
MT. VERNON, MONTGOMERY 00..-GA-.TMUKHDA Y. SEPTEMBER !i, 188(1.
! nil iho roNnl denizen’s of th
j sky hovering around rojoieo nit tho nuptials
! This book—it i a tho wronth into which an
I twisio l nil garlauis; it is tho song into whicl
i :\!\' struck all ha r nionics; it is tho river int<
j \vhich are poured all the groat tide* of hallo
| lujtih: it is tl)e firmament in .which sn'nsauc
j moons, and stars and constellations, and n,ni
tor o ami eternities wheel i n l blaze and t i
uinph. Whze is tho yo ng man’s sou
with any music in it that is not stirred witl
I Jacob's lament, or Nahum's dirge, or Habak
kuk s dithyrambic, or Paul's march of tin
restin'o *tion, or John’s anthem whore the ol
dors with doxology on their faces respond ti
the ti'umppt-blast of the Archangel ns h<
stands witli one fddt on the Soft nnd the otho
iobt On the land, swearing by Him thrtt, liv
oth fordver and evp’r that fimoj-ha'l he nc
longer/
I am also amazed at the variety of thi
Book. Mind not eontradi< tion or <*(»!
lision, but variety. Just as in tho song yoi
Have the basso, anil alto, and soprano, am
tenor -they are not in colhsii n with ea 1
either, tmt cOmC in totnriko up tho harmony
S<> it is iii this Book; there lire different i Art:
of this great song of redemption. Tin
prophot comes ami takes onto j art, and tie
evangelist, another part, an l tin* apostle nil
other part, and yet they all rnmo into tin
grand harmony—“the song of Moses and th<
Lamb.” If Hod had inspired men of tin
same temperament to write this Book, i
might have been mom-ton us: but David
nn l lsainh, ami Pet r, nnd Job, and E/.okiol
dml Patti and John wore men of ditferen
it'mperiiim nts, and so, Urban , Ho I Inspires
j tlieni t<» Uriti* JlieV wrote in their own stylo
Col pn'parod tho book for all classes ol
[ poo *le. For instance, littlo children woulc
in ud the Bible, aud God know that, so in
allows Mathew ami Luke to writ» sweet
stories about Christ with tile doctors of the
; law, and Christ at tho well, and Christ at the
cross, so that any little child can understand
j thorn. Then Cod knew that the aged people
would want to ren 1 the book, s> He allows
Rolomon to com pa t a World of wisdom in
that Book of Proverbs. Cod knew that the
historian would want to r ad it, and so he
allows Moses to give the plain statement oi
til:* Pentateuch. God knew that the poet
would want to road it. and so In allows
Job to picture the Heavens os a curtain,
nnd Isaiah, the mountains as weighed in
a balance, and the waters ns hold in the
hollow of the Omnipotent hand ; and God
touched David until in tho latter part oi
the Psalms ho gathered a great choir
standing in the galleries ah >vo each other—
beast and man in th) first gallery; above them,
hills and mountains: above them, firo and
hail and tempest; above them, sun an
moon and stars of light: and on the highest
gallery arrays tho hosts of angels: and
, then standing before the great choir, reach
ing from the depths of ear'll to the heights
' of Heaven, like the loader of a great orches
' ten. he lifts his hands, crying: “Praise yo the
Lord! Lot everything that hath breath praise
the Lordl And all eavthlv creatures iu
i their s mgs,and mountains with their waving
cellars, and tempests in their thunder, and
rattling hail, and stars on all tlieir trembling
harps of light, and angels on thoir thrones,
respond in magnifiront acclaim: ‘‘Praise yo
the .Lord I Let every thing that hath breath
praise tho Lord!”
Hod know that tho pensive and comnlabi
ing world would want to road it, and so he
inspiro< Jeremiah to write: “Oh, that my
head were waters and mine eyes fountains of
tears!” God know that tho lovor.s of the
wild, the romantic an I tho strange would
want to read it, so lie lets Hzekiel write of
mysterious rolls and winged creatures and
flying wheels of fire. God orepared it for all
zones—for the Arctic and Tropic, as well /is
for the Temperate /one. Cold-blooded
Greenlanders would find much to interest
them, and the tanned inhabitant* at tho
Kouator would find his passionate nature
boil with the vehemence of Heavenly truth.
The Arabian would rea 1 It on his drome
dary, and t.ho Lnnlandor seated on the swift
sled, and the herdsman oT Holland guarding
the cattle in tho grass, and th * Swiss girl re-
Mining ami-1 Alnine crags. O, when I sea
that the Bible is suit'd iu sfvlc, exactly
suited, to ail ages, to all conditions, to all
land-, I can not. help repeating the conclusion
I or my toxt: “The statutes of the Lord uro
i right. ”
! I remark again : Tho Bible is right in its
doctrinei. Man. a sinner; Christ, asavior—
-1 the two doctrines. Man must come down—
his pride, his self.righteousness, his worldli
ne-;s; Christ, the Anointed, mint, g - up. If it
bad not, been for tho s-tt’ng forth of the
Atonement Moses would never have de
scribed the Creation: prophets would not
have predicted; apostles would not have
p-ea lied. It seems t- me as if Jesus and
tho Bib’o were standing on a platform in a
great amphitheater, ns if tho prophets
were behind Him throwing light for
ward on HD sacred person, and as if
the apostles and evangelists stoo I Id fore Him
lik' footlights throwing up the r light into
His blessed countenance, and tho i as if all
the earth and heaven were tho applauding
auditory, tt-e Blhlo speaks of Risgah and
Cnrrriel and Sinai, but makes a!] mountains
bow down to Calvary. The flocks lad overth »
Judean h lls were emblems of “tlu* baud- <-f
Go-1 that takoth away the sins of the world:”
and tho lion leaping out of its lair, was
an ombl 'tn of “tile lion of Judah's tribe.”
I will in my next breath recite to you the
most wonderful sent nice over written:
“This is a faithful saying and worthy of all
a- optation. that Christ Jems cam- into the
world to save sinners.” No wonder that
when Jesus was horn in Bethlehem Heaven
sympathized with earth, an l a wave of joy
dashed cleftr overt,he battlements and dripped
noon (he shepherds in t'uo w ir-ls: “Glory to
G'd -ri the highest, anl on earth peace, good
will toward men.” Iri my next sent mee every
word weighs a ton: “God so loved tho world
that. He gave His only be'ot'en Bon. that
whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life ” Show me
any other book withsu h a doctrine -c- high
so deer-, y vast ’
4. Again: tho Bible is right in it; effects. I
do not care where yon put the Bible, it just
suits the place. You put i' i- the hand of a
man seriously con-erned about his soul. 1 see
people often giving to the serious soul this
and that book. It may very well: but there
i:s no book like tho Bible. He rea Is the Don
mandments. an I pleads to the indictment
“Guilty.” He takes up the Psalms of David’
ami says: “They just de e dbu rnv feel
ings.” li-flier to good works; Raul starts
him out of that by the announcement: “A
rnan ir not i- s'iflel by works.” He falls
bn-k in hi; discouragement: the Bible starts
him uo with the sentence-: “Remember
I-ot's wi f e,” “Grieve not, the Spirit ” “Klee
the Wrath to Come.” Then the man in de
spair begins to erv out “VYhat shall I do?
Wl-ero shall I go?” nnd a voice reaches hirn
saving: “Come unto me. all ve who are
weary and heavy laden, and I will give you
rest.”
Take this Bible and place it in the hands of
men in trouble! is there anybody here in
trouble? Ah, i might 1-ettuzr ark are there
any here who have never been in trouble?
Put this Bible in th; hands of the troubled.
A on fin-1 that as some of the best berries
grow on the sharprst thorns, so some of the
sweetest consolations -,f the gor M grow on
the most stinging affliction. You though*
that death had grace! your child Oh, no!
It v. a only the H -avenly Shepherd taking a
-nu-b out of th • r 0 ‘ | Christ 1-ent over von
as you hel I the child in your lao and puttin'-
His arms gently a-uund th- little one, said:
“Os u-h is the kingdom of heaven.”
Pc* rhe Bible in tie s -bool Ral-ied be the
heed that, would tik- the Bible from the eol
je- r. and the s -bool. Educate only a man’s
head and yo j make h : ra an in*i lei. Edu ate
“ SUB DEO FAOIO FOE TITER."
y b’uiy a man’s heart and yob m«Ao him n{
fanatic. Educate them both together, ami
' you have the b'blest, work of Go l An e lu
» catart mind without moral principle, is a ship’
y without a helm, a rushing m’il train without
brakes or reversing rod to control tip* speed.
I Put. the Bible in the family. There it. lies oh the
table, an unlimited power. Polygamy ami
tins ripturnl divorceaiv prohibited Parents*
1 are kind and faithful, child on polite and
i obedient Domestic sorrows lessened by be
ing divided, joys increased bV being multi*
' plied. Oh father, oh m »the‘r. take down that
long-neglecto<d Bible nnd rea l it yoifrsolvcHf
> ami let your children read it! Put tho Bildo
' oi\ tho rail train nnd on shinlnard, till /ill
i* parts of this lan l and all other lands shall
have its illumination. This hour the e rises
1 the yell of heathen worship, and in the face
of t-fiis day’s sun smokes t he blood of human
* tfnerifice. Give them the Bible. Unbind that
wife from the funeral prye, for no other sac
i riflee is needed since the blood of Jesus
i Christ cleanse tli from all sin.
1 f am preaching this enn »n he *auso there
are so many who would have you believe that
1 the Bible is an outlandish book and obso’ote.
j It. is fresher and more intense tlmu any book
that yesterday came out. of the eroat nuldish
, ing lion sirs. Make it yous guide in life an 1
your pillow in death.
; a ftor the battle of Richmond, a dead
k soldier was found with his hand Iving on the
open Bible. Th * summer inso its hul eateu
’ tho flesh from the hand, but the sk deton fin*
j per lay on the words: “Vea, though I walk
j through tho Valley of flu* Shadow of Death,
T will fear no evil, for*Thou art with me;
Thy rod an I Thy staff they comfort me.”
C Yes, this book will become in your last days,
l when you turn away from /ill ot her books, a
» solace for your soul. Perhaps it, will be your
5 mother’s Bible; perhaps tho one given you on
* your wedding day, its cover now worn out
» and its leaf faded with age; but its bright
[ promises will flash upon the opening gates of
i Heaven.
» “How precious is tho Book divine,
i By inspiration given;
Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine,
| To guide our souls to heaven.
, “This lamp, through /ill the tedious night
i Os life, shall gtiideour way,
♦Till wo lx*hold tho clearer light.
Os an eternal day.”
iii ■ -
Told the Trulli.
A man who walked with a crutch nnd
was badly crippled generally was in front
of a house a few miles from Estelino,
when another man approached und said:
“Hollo, J'rown. Is that hay horse of
yours out there in the pasture for salo ?*
i “Yes.”
“I want a horse that won’t kick—l’in
afraid of a kicking horse.”
“That’s just, the hoss you want then,
| gov’nur. 1 never se ■ him kick.”
“You’re sure of this, are you ?”
“You bet I am—never see that hoss
raise his foot to kick.”
“Well, if that’s the ease, I’ll take
him.” j„
He bad not b<cn gone long when he
returned afoot, looking as if ho had been
1 run through a cyclone, and said :
“.Say, that infernal horse began to kick
down here und didn’t stop till he broke
tire wagon all up and got loose aud ran
oil across the prairie I”
“Is that so
“ v es, that’s so, nnd your neighbors tell
me that the reason you arc so badly crip
pled is that he kicked you.”
“Well, that.s about the size of it.”
“You’ll own up to it now will you!
j What made you tell mo vou never saw
him kick?”
“I told you so’cos it was tho truth,
pardner, I always make a practice o’
tollin’ the truth. I never see that boss
, kick. I’ve had him ’bout a week and
the other day I was out n’ the barn when
1 guess hesort o’got a noshin’ o’ kickin’,
leastways the air was filled with pieces
of barn and straps of harnesses and oats
and hay and mangled remains of a man
’bout my size,but it came so quick that I
didn’t see none of it. If you’d only b;en
I cen stand in’ ’round and told me ho was
goin' to begin, I should o’ been very
happy to climb up in tlie grand stand
I and take it all in, but you wasn’t, so all I
j knew ’bout it was what they told mo
after I come to. I told you th ■ truth
an I you'd better go ’long now aud catch
yer boss. I hain’tgotno time to stand
nnd fool with you any longer. Hood
i day!” -/intelUiie (Dakota) Bell.
A Sure I’roof,
I heard a story last week about the
twin-stccplcd Ste. Anne’s (.'hurcli. An
officer of sh" th reginr i-t, many aye ir
ago. was in Detroit,and he went out to one
of the jovial Detroit parties wlie.e the
cup that cheered and inebriated got iu
: its work. It was a fine moonlight night
when he turned his wavering steps to
the oi l American, where the Biddle now
stands, and in passing Ste. Anne’s church
he was appall, d to notice that it had two
steeples exactly alike. He could riot be
lieve that he was drunk as all that, hut
there were the two steeples before him.
When he got to his rooms he said to his
comrade:
“Jack, me hoy (hie , I’m afraid I’m
(hic)diunk. Coming ’long the other
street I passed a (hie) church, and do
you know, I aim st thought it had two
(hie. steeples.”
“Well,” said the other, it has two
steeples. “That's Ste. Anne's Church.”
The officer pondered a b-w moments on
this information, and remembering how
it hud been impossible for him to tell
whether the church had or had not the
two steep I. s as he stood by it, he replied,
mournfully: “By George. Jack fhicj,
lan drunk, sure enough.’’- Detroit Free
Brent.
Forgot she Answer.
“I sav, .Miss Belle, I think I can be
weal iutewestirig to-night, even more so
than usual,” said a young man who was
born that way, and e m’t help it, to the
young lady on whom he was calling.
“Is it possible?” was the response.
“Ya-a-s. You see I made a eonundwnm
the other day and I wote it down weal
quick bo's not to forget it. Heah it is.
Why is it that when the wcatliah gets
weal wahm, it’s always s’mother evening?
Smother evening—ain't that good.”
“But what is the answer?” inquired the
listener. “Oh—the answer—er —by
Jove! Do you know I forgot to make
any answer to it. t must try and think '
one up.”— Merchant Traveler,
Til T FAMILY PHYSICI.IX.
A physician says that if arnica with
I which bruised fiirtlw nro bathed is
I heated its good 1 effects two perceptlblo
liiurli BOtrmcr than if applied while cold.
A standing antidote for poison by poi
son oak, ivy, o tff.y 18 to take a handful of
quicklime, dissolve in wn**r, let. it stand
tf.ilf an hour, then paint tint poisoned
phrt with it. Three or four applica
tions, it is ffltM,. will euro tho most ag
gravated eases.
A retired phisieian living iff Ohio, and
strfTering with diabetes, elaims to find
great relief ia a diet consisting wholly
of buckwheat. He states that when lie
coniines himself to a buckwheat diet ex
clusively, tho disturbance in the stomach
is relieved, ns is also tho pain in tho
eyes, duo to the disease from which he
has so long suffered. This remedy is a
very simple one, and well worth trying.
For ordinary nervous system being out
of order or by excessive fatigue, a hot
bath will so soothe the nerves that sleep
I will naturally follow, and upon getting
I up the patient will feel very much ro
! freshed and tho toothache gone. For
j what is known as “jumping” toothache,
! hot, dry flannel applied to tho faco ami
| neck is very effective. For common
toothache, which is caused by indiges
tion, or by strong, sweet acid or any
thing very hot or cold in a decayed tooth,
a little piece of cotton steeped in strong
camphor or oil of cloves is ugood remedy.
Care in tho diet, especially when tho
bowels are disordered, is helpful to miti
gate toothache. If the tooth is much de
cayed, nothing is better than its extrac
tion.
Hand Organs.
Hand-organs, writes a correspondent
of the Troy Tima, are a modern inflic
tion, and have introduced the monkoy,
which is a feature formerly unkown in
mendicant minstrelsy. Tho monkey, in
! deed, is so amusing that one almost for
gets tho organ-grinding wliilo watching
| his nnties. Those animals are worth
from $lO to sllO, according to their train
ing, and when an Italian owns his organ
1 and monkey ho is really well-to-do In tho
world.
The best lmnd-organs cost from SIOO
' to $l5O, but those which so commonly
j torment the public rarely cost more than
j $lO. The best, aro the flute organs, and
they play nearly a dozen tunes, and some
j have extra cylinders, which add to their
capacity. The principal factory is in
Chatham street, this locality being so
near the Italian quarter ("Maxtor street)
that it is very favorable to trade. There
are some Italians who own a number of
organs, whieli they rent by tho season at
a large profit and with but little loss.
The grinder having finished his summer
itinerancy, of course comes back for win
ter quarters, and thus pays his rent.
liotll organ-grinders and hoy fiddlers
have their regular routes, which they re
peat year after year, and there seems to
be some general arrangement which pre
vents interference. It is said that moro
than 800 of these peripatetic minstrels
have gone from New York this season,
und yet it will be rare if two men visit
the same village. When cold weather
sets in tho grinders return to Maxtor
street, where they pack together—some
times nearly a dozen in a small room,
with neither fire nor lights. The Italian
can sustain life under extreme privations,
and he seems content to sleep on tho
floor and live on what he can pick up.
A Curious Kansas Law in Ifeguril to
Murderers.
The most curious law in the United
States dealing with punishment of mur
derer i exists in Kansas. The Legislature
in 1872 passed a bill which provided that
any person convieted of murder in the
first degree should be sent to the peniten
tiary, there to remain until the governor
of the state signed a warrant for and
fixed the date of his execution. This
was a fearful responsibility to place upon
the executive, who would hesitate before
being directly responsible for the death
of any man, no mutter how heinous his
crime. The responsibility was shifted
from the jury or court, to which it prop
erly belonged. That law is still in force,
and the result lias been that the Kansas :
penitentiary is crowded with murderers, !
as no governor would order their execu
tion. Forty-one convicted murderers,
four of whom are women, could bo bung |
any day by order of the governor. Some 5
of their crimes arc unparalleled in the !
annals of cold blooded assassination.
One of the-: days, unless that strange •
law is repealed, there will be a grand
hanging tournam nt in Kansas. The J
state will licet a governor pledged to rid 1
the community of a band of cut-throats. I
rt may be stated that the law was a neat
bit of strategy on the part of the oppo
nents of capital punishment. It sceins *
thus far to have fulfilled the expectation*
if those who desired to see bunging
played out.— Cincinnati Inquirer .
VOL I. xNO. 27.
Parted.
The SOW brook will m'ss thou,
Tin bniozi? Mini used to kiss Uioo,
| And rutlD with n sortr caress thy curls of
sunny htflvt
When the early dewifnpjps glLiUm
On thu roses, they will Ifsjen
For thy step upon the garden waJk,thy laugh
ter in tho air.
Tim meadows pay witli flowers, -
The summer's leafy bowers,
Will know thy joyous smile no more; the
woodlands stand forlorn;
f hear the soft complaining
Os birds, from mirth refraining,
: That greeted with their earo's sweet thy
waking every morn.
Poor mother 1 hush thy weeping,
Abofe thy darling sleeping,
Nor fret with ittlght of earthly grief tho still
ness where ho lies,
FI overs in Ids liWp Angers,
Wh re the rosy flush still lingers,
For the angels are his playmate* "" tho plains
of Paradise.
—lx- X
mni o Rous.
I'noide down A feather bed. ,
11. MiI,US FIIOM MT, VKIiNoN, SOUTH.)
jESSE FOR PRODUCE,
.VEST FOR HOODS,
ptcry Comity. \V« lump on hand
, HATS IN THE COUNTY,
Tin: in:ast iron icy.
f "arc Tinware, Fancy and Heavy Ornco
piriuidiing Goods, Ready Made Clothing,
lu « 1,1 “»« ,illu “I »->iy Goods, Notions
& CLOTHING,
he sold ecltnpcr llinn the cheapest,
nu lcr it limy. \y 0 will sell you
i? ~r! :( " 7 « I (: '”-ii 85c; Coffee 8 (,i 10 Ihn
~n" "" 11 ‘'ini. You will timl in,r
‘ '! Ui,u You. No trouble to show
nprlfi'Rfi (hu.
'MING OUT SALE.
IE A SOOO INSTSUSSENT
R-Q-TLIUST.
100 Filinas! 100 Oignns! to bn
( li’aratico Sale to reduce stock. Tlieso
stock; iini.d get our money out of them.
'' " m. •! as, w months; some used six months
; si . : ■■ mil i! unit Jirntnimint* taken
'Jjhlj< H and iiiadr uh {.'(H’dan now. »
pi.' Id I’innos, Grand Pianos, Church
v iliilcretif, o'.diets, including I hiei,
Get ,V l);tvis, tlmiHiHh, k, Vos*-
botiiugcr, Kwfny mid Itrnt
" •«» 'tiadi! by coirespon
io<|,tl|l’v < ' B,!,ltC<l oeiH ‘- , J r » ,f * l, "'y arc, uiul
Organs $5 T month. Orc.it miner..
will oiler burgmiu, that will op, n y„ ue
sold dnring Gcntcnnia! ww . k# hnt lh
■ '"Tr"’ ,iv<; '“”«aoM daily
i"i\ei tiscinciit (in 51) good papers) will
"It Hale Gii'cnlars, hu,l mention this ad-
WSIC HQUS£ SAVANNAH GA.,
, A, l„ ItVAI.S, Ag’t. McVillc On.
T 9 •« *tfTTM9\merjmtem n~. ■ev-rwmammmnemmummarni
ANODYNE
ll.ai i "
**uraUrU. I'.S-um»t!»m, Blci-'llmr «t tho tungsi
p. Cholera Morbus, DysOiitcr.r, Chronic
plot freo. Dr. L. O. Johnson & Co., Boston, Musa.
make qg| i a
CBW, BICQ Intf IA $ a
BLOOD, gj $ P,m yL
ike them in t?>«} rvorld. Will positively euro oi*
uoch box it* v/uitn ton limes tho eo:»t of a box cf
laukful. Ou« piii u hose. IlJtistrated pumphli t
j. ts. C.K. JOfiNHUN 4cCO.. V.* tJ.H. ht..Kostor>.
■cm. ms rs i.u «a Nothing on earth
•31 K */■ wA r 3 make hens lay
\A , ° WASfliko It. It cur*:*
*1 oCt rjr ctuokcu ehoi.-ra »r»*J
Mvin Dtf 9f ail dia iftscs of henw.
Hm St S’i S M I>» worth it« wciglti
£ m uflr ammSTv l 13 Tiiustrsie^
mt ky/ t’a 3 m 3 boflk l.y inaji fre-j.
d 1-4 ib- atr-tlght tin orm«. i jl ? byw t. -S-* yZ?«
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