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■ui|ti< , ni Dissertation on the Sin of
t: “\Y oe unto them that silt, as it wore
•art rope.”—Isaiah y„ 18 .
t v * ri lloart ' an> some After iniquities that only nibble
1P - a lifethno of their work
pan still stands upright, respected and
fed- Jrh These vermin have not strength
to gnaw through a man’s character,
...■here are other transgressions that lift
1 yF eivBS up to gigantic proportions and
l'l inel bold forever. Of a There man and bind him with
tin’ such great emphasis are somo of iniquities
ivu evil that
commits them may be said to sin
1 » 1 >- | l|’l>ose you know
dnw.U'cy fell , it make is fashioned a great rope. is The stuff out
V., !■ puli without nothing but tow
Jitr you apart any exertion
lingers. This is spun into threads,
Cf which you could easily snap, hut a
t many of these threads are inter-
you have a rope strong
IKh to bind ait ox' or hold a ship in a
H>oak to you of the sin of gambling. A
iff Tope iu strength is that sin, and yet I
or more especially to draw your atten-
the small threads of influence out
ma^'h-' "crime h that is mighty the advance, iniquity is that twisted. it is
on so
not only that fathers and brothers and
he Interested in such a discussion, but
wives and mothers and sisters and
f row jaorifleed titers look out lest their present home
or their intended lwme be
.-«d. h<# No man, no woman, can stand
from such a subject as this and say,
Jiere no practical bearing upon my life,”
'j may ho in a short time in your
5 c*'y ■ an experience iu which you will
IAs—.earth, that the discussion involved three
5enisling heaven, hell. There are
establishments bytlie thousands.
> 'heri‘ * are about 5500 professional gamb¬
it Out of all the gambling establisli-
itt- how many of them do you suppose
to be honest? Ten—these ten pro-
iac to be honest because they are merely
, anti chamber to those that are aeknowl-
red fraudulent. There are first-class es-
: I ltsfhments. You step a little way out of
I badway, stairs'. New York. You go up the mar-
You ring the bell. The liveried
vaiit introduces you. The walls are lav-
Jertinted. The mantels are of Vermont
irble. The pictures are “Jephthah’s
iughter” and Dore’s “Dante” and Virgil’s
ur«m ltegion of Hell,” a most appro-
ate selection, this last, for the place,
tore is the rouiette table, the finest, toost-
tt, most exquisite piece of furniture in
) United States. There is tho banquet-
; room, where, free of charge to the
eats, you may find the plate and viands
d wines and cigars sumptuous beyond
rallel. Then you come to the second
.38 introduced gambling establishment. To it you
; herigamble ^flghtT by a card through some
ideawith Sanded curds.Xie
quicksilver, poor drinks mixed
th getl-id more poor drinks will soon help you
ortFeter of all your money to a tune in
with staccato passages You
se<? ’ pantL^sqimt^n Y°n saw ’ J be low theTrass' villains
notthe
owacaif when she secs it? Wrangle not
r you rnghtsm that place, or your body
licy establishment. In that place you
re^s ton numbers. Betting on two numbers
d lT C ; beAt°nT h
rs is canon called a ' ‘Kig gig, ” oeuing on on four tour
t'ersi jands is called a “horse,” and there are
of our young men leaping into
that B “ho?se”' ridfng to p^fi-
the door, for there in that room a
injexehanges loss of health, health, loss of peace home, loss and of heaven fnm-
Ipss and of immortal infinite enough. soub Exchange sure
ppe jpNow of you evil, acknowledge but you want thrit to know is a what cart-
ftje the There .small is threads in out of disposition which it to is
many a
YYasard. They feel a delight in walking of
Linger. » precipice because of the sense
’There are people who go upon
..tngfrau, not the for feeling the largeness ot the have pros- of
but for that they
-sinking, “Wliat would happen if I should
’off? - ’ There are persons who have
teir blood iiiliped and accelerated by
very near an airhole. There arc
who And a positive delight in driving
is this disposition to hazard that finds
re t500. I may stake them. If I stake
iem, I may lose them, but I may win
5000. Whichever way it turns I have tlie
xcitement. Shuffle the cads. Lost! Heart
lumps. Head dizzy. At it aguiu just
o gratify this desire for hazard.
Then there are others who go into this
through sheer desire for gain. It is es-
■eeially so with cool. professional gamblers, drink
always keep They never
nough to unbalance their judgment. They
not see the dice so much as they see the
lollar heyond the dice, and for that they-
vateh as the spider iu the web, looking as
f dead until tile fly passes. Thousands of
,-ouDg men in tlie hope of gain go into
hese practices. They say: “Well, my sal-
try is not enough to allow this luxury. I
I ought to liave liner apartments. ought
lit to have better wines. I to
more richly flavored cigars. I ought
to pwjively. be able to entertain my friends more ex-
ctfii I won’t stand this any longer,
I with one brilliant stroke make a for-
pHit-iple, Now, here goes, liell. principle cares?” or no
heaven or Who
When a voung man makes up his mind to
Jive beyond his income, satan has bought
him out and out, and it is only a delivered, question
of time when the goods are to be
The thing is done. You may plant; in the
way all the batteries of trutli and right-
Wjtasness; but man is bound to goon. When
a man makes $1000 a year and spends
$1200. when a voung man makes ?1500 and
cry out, "Ha! ha! we have him!” And
they have. How to get the extra $500 or
the extra $2000 is the question. He says;
“Her- is mv friend who started out the
other day so'great with but little money, and in one
night, hundreds was his luck be rolled up
and thousands of dollars. If he
got it, why not I- It is such dull work,
this add.ing up 0 f long lines of figure- in
the counting bouse, this pulling down of a
hundred yards ot goods and selling a rem-
else nant, when this 1 always eouiq waiting upon somebody and
p U t sioo on the ace
pick up tldOO.*'
This sin works very insidiously. Other
sins sound the drum, and flaunt the flag,
and gather their recruits with wild huzza,
bat this marches its nroeession of pale vie-
tlm* they In drop dead Into of night. th- In silence, and when
piuehfiound grave there is not so
as the ellelr of dice. Ob, how
ASH BURN. WORTH CO., GA.. FRIDAY. AUGUST (J, 1897.
many iiavc gone down under it: Look at
those men who were once highly \ >ros-
pored. Now their forehead is licked by a
tlmt man s heart an 1 you *«!■ « eoil of ml-
(lers wriggling their imlosoribuble horror
until you turn away ami hide your face and
ask God to help you to forget it. The
most of this evil is tiuadvcrtised. Tho
community does not hear oJ it. Men de-
frau,,,H ‘ 1“ " un,l, l*".K ''stub islmumts
are not loo:^ , n<mg;i to toll ot it.
*
Omm hi awhile, however, tlioro in an
exposure, a- wbon m Boston the pollen
swooped u; to a gaining establishment amt
1 omul in it tae representatives of all ciasses
ot eitir.eiis. from tlie llrst merehnnts on
State street to the low Ann street gambler;
as when Bullock, the cashier of the Central
llailroad of Georgia, was found to have
stolon (103,000 for the purpose of carrying
Oil gambling practices, as when a young
man in one of the savings banks of Brook-
lyn many years ago was found to have
stolen $40,000 to carry on gaming praetiees;
as when a man connected with a Wall street
Insurance company was found to liave
stolen $108,000 to carry on his gaining prae-
tiees. But that is exceptional.
the money leaks silently from
the merchant's tilt into the gamester'swal-
let. X believe that one of the main pipes
leading to this sewer of iniquity Is the ex-
eitement of business life. Is it not a sig-
niflcant fact that the majority of the day
gambling houses in New Y'ork are in pro.x-
imity to Wall street? Aten go into the ex-
(dtement of stock (ramblin'-' and from that
they plunge into tile gambling Houses, as,
when men are intoxicated, they go into a
liquor saloon to get more drink. The agi-
tation that Is witnessed In the stock market
when the chair announced the word
“Northwestern,” or “Fort Wayne,” or
“Rock Island,” or “New York Central.''
and the rat, tat, tat, of the auctioneer's
hammer, and the excitement of making
“corners,” and getting up "pools,” ami
“carryingstock,’’and a‘'break” from eighty
to seventy, and the excitement of rushing
around in curbstone brokerage, and the
sudden cries of “Buyer three:” Buyer
ten!” Take’em!” “How many?” and the
making or losing of $10,000 by ono opera-
tton, uuflts a man of to go home, and so he
goes up the flight stairs, amid business
shuttered offices, to the darkly curtained, wooden-
room, gayly furnished inside,
and takes his place at the roulette or the
faro table. But X cannot tell all the pro-
cess by which men get into this evil. A
man went to New York. Ho was a Western
merchant. He went into a gaming
house on Park place. Before morning lie
had lost all Ills money save $1. and lie
moved around about with that dollar in his
hand, and after awhile, caught still more
powerfully under the infernal infatuation.
he-came up and put down the dollar and
cried out until they heard Mm through the
saloon, “One thousand miles from home,
and my last dollar on the gaming table.”
Many years ago for sermonic purposes
and in company visited with the chief of police brilliant of
New York I one of the most
gambling houses in that city. It was
night and ns we came up in front all
seemed dark The blinds were down, the
( j oor wag "warded but after a whispering
of *" the rP ad officer mittB<J with ‘'^ft'lindGfence IrntneMcht inTo
th or « tenmen l’ arlors . in : a, midli '°^ L^J^Ges-e. w . ’jV -alU ' e
.
prattling “chips” on revolving the gamingtable ball of the
jn one p ar i or an d tho
roulette table in the other parlor. Some of
J^sonHsomo^Tre “S brokers 1 ^shipwreckTltanTSs and
a and money dealers, some
there was something awfully solemn In
’ intense the
t)ie s u onee _the gaze, sup-
pressed emotions of the had players. No in one the
i ooke , lup xbey J til money
’ , j , , loul , t som e saw,
th sat thore , horses and car-
ria f s ’ ho me' 1 nnT^fami'iv'' rushing
,., K : 0 bad he not been accompanied Dy the
polim , if he had been supposed to be on a
0 liristlan errand of observation. Some of
t!| ., g0 men , v , mt |,y private key, some went
in |,y careful introduction, some were
taken in by the patrons of the establish
ment- Tke 0 Rf r .,. r 0 r the law told me,
• • None gets in here except by police While man-
jate or by somrf'lett.er of a patron.”
wore there ,j a young man came in, put
, )ja m01H , y own on the. roulette table and
| 0B t; put more money down on tho roulette
table and lost; nut more money down on
tll( . r0 ,,lette table and lost; thei feeling in
, lig poekets for more m r,nev. finding none,
j n severe silence he turned liis ba-k upon
tlie seene an(] r , assf .,i „„t. While wo stood
there men lost their property and lost their
oil merciless place! Not once in
there b een one word of sympathy uttered
sil . ]{ ora , :l . Waljioie said that, a man
q r „p P ,,d dead in one of the clubhouses of
London. His body v.uis carried into the
a i H bhouse, ami the members of tlie club
began immediately to bet as to whether lie
, yas ,] Pa q or alive, ami when It was pro-
posed to test the matter by bleeding him,
jt was on ] y hindered l>ythe suggestion that
j^ u’ouId j,e unfair to some of tlie players.
[n gaming houses of our cities men
fjave thdr property wrung away from them,
an q then tliev go out, some of them to
,j r0W n their grief in strong drink, some to
pj y the counterfeiter s pen, and so restore
t hefr fortunes, some resort to the suicide’s
revolver, hut ali going down, and that work
proceeds day by day and night by night.
“That curt-rope,” says some young man.
But have not some threads of that cart-
rope been twisted?
I arraign before God the gift enterprises
of our cities, which liave a tendency to
make this a nation of gamblers. Whnt-
ever you get, young man, in such a place
as that, without giving a proper equiva-
lent, is a robbery of your own soul and a
robbery of the community. Yet how wo
are appalled to see men who have failed
in other enterprises go into gift concerts,
where the chief attraction is not music,
but the prizes distributed among the au-
dience. or to sell books where the chief
attraction is not the hook, but the package
that goes with the book. Tobacco dealers
advertise that on a certain day they will
the purchaser of tills tobacco in Gin-
rinnati or New York may unexpect-
edly come upon a magnificent packages gratuity.
Boys hawking through tne what, ears until
containing nobody knows contain nothing. you
open them and find they
Christian men with pictures on their wall
gotten in a lottery, and the brain of com-
munitv taxed to a find out some new way
of getting things without paying for them,
Oh,young men, these are threads that make
the cart rope, and when a young man eon-
sents to these practices he is being bound
band and foot by a habit which has already
destroyed "a great multitude that no man
can number.”
Hometlmes these gift enterprises and are car- of
ried on in the name of charity, civil some
you remember at the close of our war
how many gift enterprises were on foot
the proceeds to go to the orphans and
w it lows of the soldiers and sailors. What
did the men who luid charge of those gift;
enterprises rare for the orphans and
widows? Why, they would have allowed
them, to freeze to death upon their steps.
I have no faith in a charity which for the
sake of relieving present: .miiterlng opens a
gaping jaw the that has swallowed down so of
much of virtue and good principle
tin? do community. with these Young man, They lmve only sharpen nothing
to things.
.’,f your appetite for beVmwt games of chance. Doom*
two thluR»- or dt<*.
j h aV e accomplished my object if 1 put
Easier vou on ti l( , lookout. It is a groat deal
to fall than it is to get up again,
The trouble is that when men begin to go
astray from the path of duty they are apt
to say: “There's no ustfof my trying to got
bnek. I've sacrttleeil mv respeetabiiity, i
1 eun't return." Amt they until they
go on
a re utterly destroyed. I tell you, my
iriemls, that God this moment, by ills
tloiy Spirit, ean eliunge vour entire nature
so Unit you will be a different man in a
'
minute. Your great want what is It?
More salary? Higher social position? No.
no. 1 will tell Inis’ you the great want of every
man it' lie not already Are'thero obtained it.
it is the grace of God. any who
have fallen victims to the sin that 1 have
been reprehending? You are in a prison,
You rush against the wall of this prison
and try to get out and you tail, and you
turn around and dash against the other
wal! until there is blood on the grates and
blood on your soul. You will never get
out in Ibis wav. There is onlv one wav of
getting out. There is a key that can ur.-
lock that prison house. It Is the kov of
the house of David. It is the key that
Christ wears at His girdle, ir vou will
a i| ow him to put that key to the lock, the
bolt will shoot back, and the door will
swing open and you will be a free man in
Christ Jesus. Oil, prodigal, what a busi-
ness this Is for you, feeding swine, when
your father stands iu the front door, straiii-
ing his eyesight to catch the first glimpse
of your return, and the ealf is as fat as it
will be, ami Hie harps of heaven are ail
strung, and the feet free,
There are converted gamblers in heaven,
The light of eternity Unshed upon the green
baize of their billiard saloon. In the layer
of God’s forgiveness they washed off all
stakes. their sins. They They tried quit heaven trying and for earthly It.
for woo
There stretches a hand from heaven toward
the head of the worst offender. It is a
hand, outspread not clinched as drop if to benediction, smite, but
as if to a
Other seas have a shore and may be
fathomed, but the sea of God's love-
eternity has no plummet to strike the
bottom, and immensity no Iroubound
shore to coniine it. Its tides are lifted
by the heart of infinite compassion. the Its
waves are tho hosannas of redeemed,
The argosies tho that sail on ir, salvo drop anchor
at last amid thundering of eter-
mil victory. But alas tor that man who
sits down to the final game of life and puts
his immortal soul on the ace, while the
angels of Clod keep the. tally board, andat-
ter kings and queens, and knaves, and
spades are “shuffled" and “cut,” and the
game is ended, hovering and impending
worlds discover that he has lost it, the faro
bank of eternal darkness clutching down
into its wallet nil the blood stained wagers.
HELD PREACHERS FOR MURDER.
Coroner’s Jury at, Montgomery Ueturus
Verdict I.. the Patterson Killing.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.,
says . “The ooroner’s jury Friday af-
torn,,on iMidered a verdict to the effect
that Patterson, the Colored Baptist
Iron; a pistol shot wound inflicted by
George NY. Pritchard, a member of
anot her negro Baptist church here,
aIJl1 , that ,, , I'evs. A. t J. t tu Stokes, i J. t m 1.
Brown, William Bracey, Mace Cole-
''“ U1 ?. t)d <? alvi " WoCou were his ac-
CYCLONE KILLS SEVEN.
An Illinois Farmer's II on re ami Itnrn De-
inoIlglieJ By Iiagfng Wind.
At 7:30 o’clock Friday evening a
cyclone struck the farm of A. (!. Mc¬
Dowell, two miles north of Ban Jose,
Ill.,his house and barn were destroyed
Seven people were killed and three
severely injured. The killed are: A.
G. McDowell, A. C. McDowell’s
grandson, wife of Samuel Brownlee,
three of Brownlee’s children, Miss
Bessie Groves.
WILL SELL UNION PACIFIC.
Priutt For tin; ltoad Ih Placed at
#50,000,000.
Judge Sanborn passed on the de¬
crees of sale in tlie Union Paoifiic case
at Omaha, Neb., Thursday morning.
He accepted tlie Atncs decree with but
few corrections.
There was a sharp debate over the
government’s decree, the attorneys for
the reorganization committee object¬
ing.
The upset price was set at $50,000,-
000. Judge Cornish was appointed
special master to conduct the sale. He
will fix the date later.
laU'H f’S l-OITI.ATION "HOWS.
Our State Department Haw Advance Fifj-
urea of Coming; Census.
The United States minister to Greece
has c„„„lied supplied tlie the sinte statu detinrtment department at at
W ashington with some advance hgures
of the flrcek census taken last October,
'I’hev J hey show snow a a rotai total popumuon DODiilntion of ot the the.
voiiutiyof -,+.>.1,800, as against a total
0 f 2,187,208 in the year 1889. There
wer? , 1260,810 males and 1,100,990
^ L, Souvenir . tlie . r ftOUth. , ,
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t he lasscngc-i ,, Department Department of OI the tnc
fjeaboard Air Dine at I ortsmoutn, V a.,
j jas j ssue <l a unique, attractive and
n8elll , . ‘, sollveur ; t lue j e H ) la[)e 0 f ‘ a
paper-weight, being a bale of cotton ,
reduced to about two by three inches,
i , *J truck while an idle negro
- i :
seated the bale , , cnjij. •
on ..
melon.
Tliis attractive as well as useful
article article can c-ui be De orira.nea obtained bv oy sending scmiitig 25 zr
cents in stamps to i • J. Auaers jn,
Gen l. Pass’r. Agent, Portfsmontli , N a. ,
_ ,, (mt () f mailing,
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION OFFI¬
CIAL WRITES HOT LETTER.
BROUGHT OUT BY SEAL FISHERIES.
lillloit Claim* That SjmmIhI Commifisioiicr
Fowtor Him niUlctl Secretary Sherman
in Hi* Hc|>orti On Matters.
Professor Henry YY. Elliott, of the
Smithsonian institution, has given out
the eoni|ilete text of his recent sensa¬
tional letter to Judge Day, assistant
secretary of state, regarding tho seal
lisheries. It reads its follows:
Hon. AY. E. Day, assistant secretary
of state, Washington;
Dear Sir—In the Morning Recorder,
of Lakewood, Ohio, appears the text
of a letter to Lord Salisbury, dated
May 10, 1897, and signed by Hon.
John Sherman, secretary of state, on
the fur seal question. This letter is
prefaced by an account of the great
embarrassment which its publication
has caused the president, and that it
has been held up for several days at
the request of John W. Foster, xvho
now fears the effect of his own work
a few weeks earlier.
“Inasmuch as I have n closer per¬
sona! knowledge of this present ques¬
tion than any other man living, and
vastly more extended, and inasmuch
as I am the author of the modus viven-
di of 189!!, which is the only credible
step taken by our government toward
settling this seal dispute since it be¬
gan in 1890 up to date, 1 desire to say
that after a careful perusal of the let¬
ter of May 10th, above cited, the
president lias reason to feel greatly
embarrassed, because it lays the state
department open to a crushing reply
from those not, of the Canadian office,
and you will he in the same mortify¬
ing iix that Blaine found himself in
18SK), when the Canadians simply
crushed his contra bonis mores letter
by the date which they promptly fur¬
nished in’rebuttal.
“Inexperienced and ignorant men
should not write such letters dealing
with data about which they know no
more than so many parrots. John NY.
Foster is utterly ignorant of the truth
in regard to the salient features of this
seal question on the islands; that letter
of May 10th is like all other prepara¬
tions from his hand on this subject—
full of gross errors,
“His dullness in making up the
American case in 1892-911 cost us that
shameful and humiliating defeat which
we met with at Paris in 189i(. Had
he been bright and quick witted, he
never would have niet with such dias¬
ter.
“Taking this commonplace man up
now, after this record of flat-failure is
stamped all over his anatomy, and
putting him in charge of your sealing
question will only thrust you deeper
into tlie mire than he and yonr prede¬
cessors liave been placed before by the
bright men over the line at Ottawa.
“1 am moved to write you on this
point because a senator of Hie United
Btates recently said to me that Foster
had assured the president that the
information which 1 gave the British
in 1890 caused the defeat of the Amer¬
ican case at Paris in 18911. The mean¬
ness and untruth of this charge will
be quickly seen by your turning to
rny report of November 17, 1890, which
contains this information.
“Air. Foster and his stupid associ¬
ates tried to suppress this report be¬
cause it contained the proof of my au¬
thorship of the modus vivendi of
1891-93, which he meanly stole from
me—plagarizetl in fact, but lie was mi-
able to suppress it. And now that he
comes forward again to figure in this
question, I intend that he shall be re*
quired at the proper time and before
the proper tribunal to give a full ae-
count of bis wretched record as tlie
agent of the United Staten before the
Behring sea tribunal at Paris in 1893.
“This whole sealing business, from
the day the trouble began in 1890-91
up to dute, has not been in the hands
of a competent man for one moment.
It has been and is now the sport of
Canadians, and the languid contempt
of the British queen’s council is all
that it receives when it comes up
there. Very truly yours,
‘Hunky W. K/.mott. ”
MINERS BECOMING DESTITUTE.
Four Hundred Families Are Without Any
Mnunn Wlittiovitr.
Miners in the Danville, III., dis¬
trict are in destitute circumstances.
Over 400 families are reported without
means. Citizens and many of the op¬
erators are contributing liberally with
provisions and money. There is no
evidence that the strikers contemplate
giving up. dispatch Provisions
A Chicago says:
for the relief of the suffering miners
of Illinois are coming in rather slowly,
Tbe relief headquarters have been
open two days, but nothing beyond a
few cash contributions from labor
unions has been received.
MARYLAND DEMOCRATS MEET.
State Convention Held at ItnltinuM-o Willi
German In Control.
Tlie democracy o£ Maryland ns Wed¬ s em-
hied in convention at Baltimore
nesday nominally to select candidates
for eomptioller and clerk of the eourt
of appeals, hut actually to open tho
campaign that will decide who shall he
tho next United States senator.
The convention was unusually well
attended and its controlling spirit
plainly was Senator (ioritmn, whose
reception showed that tho defeats the
party has sustained had not lessened
his hold on the rank and file of his
party. declares fun¬
The platform that the
damental principles of democracy re¬
main unchanged; that, the democracy
of Maryland believes now, and has al¬
ways believed in “honest money, the
gold and silver money of the constitu¬
tion and the coinage of both metals
without discrimination against either,
into standard dollars of final payment
and redemption,” and asserts (lint the
demand of more than six and one-half
millions of democratic voters forced
President McKinley and a republican
congress to send a commission abroad
to negotiate with European countries
for tho restoration of bimetallism.
The Ringley tariff law is termed a
more odious measure than the McKin¬
ley act of 1890, and it is asserted that
it, will he more signally condemned in
1898 than was the McKinley aid in
1892.
A demand is made that the United
States gove.uinent take such action ns
will ameliorate the atrocities now
being committed in Cuba and to fully
protect every Amvrirnn citizen tJiero
in the enjoyment of his life and prop¬
erty. The following state nominations
were made;
For Comptroller—Thomas A. Smith,
of Caroline county.
For Clerk of the Court of Appeals—
J. P. Ford, St. Marys county.
PALMYRA SEIZED BY BltlTISlI.
Aftleu MrtUrs llriele Sam Wratliy, mid In
Considered Very Slgnlfleont.
A special from Washington ways:
Official information of tlm action of
tho British government in taking pos¬
session of the Island of Palmyra, in
tlie Pacific ocean, has been received at
tlie state department.
The information was embodied in a
dispatch which reached the state de¬
partment from Han Francisco, it having
been wired from that, point by the
dispatch agent of the department sla-
tioned there, who had received it from
Minister Bewail, at Honolulu. The
message merely contained the bare
facts of the seizure of the island.
The action of Great Britain in bik¬
ing possession of the island at this
time, following us it does Hie submis¬
sion of an annexation treaty to the
senate by the president, is considered
very significant by the authorities
here. Whether it is intended to com¬
plicate matters so uh to stave off an¬
nexation or whether Great Britain
proposes to establish a naval station
upon tlie island in question, her act¬
ion is regarded as of the highest im¬
portance and future developments will
he awaited with keen interest by offi¬
cials at Washington.
VIRGINIA POPULISTS
Hirst In Slatr Convention In Knnnoko and
Adopt » Platform.
The populist party of Virginia held
their state convention at Roanoke
Wednesday with about 150 delegates
present. made
General James G. Field was
permanent chairman arid delivered tin
address in which he eulogized Bryan
and Daniel.
The platform indorses the national
platform adopted at St. Louis in 1890,
inveighs against tho use of money in
elections and moneyed and corporate
influences over the action of legislu-
Hires, courts and executive officers of
the national and state governments;
demands a greater volume and flexi-
bility in currency; favors the running
of free schools at least eight months
in tho year out of the present revenues
of the state and salaries sufficient to
command competent teachers.
The report was unanimously adopt¬
ed amid great, enthusiasm. Edmund
Cocke and Kev. B. V. Gaines were
placed in nomination for lieutenant
governor. The convention was con¬
siderably divided, and at If) o’clock a
motion to adjourn until 10 a. rn.,
Thursday prevailed.
TWO SENTENCED TO HANG.
A Third 1‘lncnl On Trial for hire All
Charged With Heinous Crime.
At Decatur, Ala., Saturday night,
after being out three hours and twen¬
ty-five minutes, tlie jury in the case of
Walter Neville, colored, accomplice of
Lewis Thompson in the assault of Nel
lie Lawton, brought in a verdict of
guilty and fixed the penalty of death,
as in Thompson’s case. of the
The most sensational part case
began Monday, when Rosa Buford was
placed on trial, She is the negro wo-
man who instigated the crime and de-
coyed the little girl, her
Feeling is much stronger against
than against Neville, as it seems she is
responsible for the whole crime.
VOL V. NO. r,2.
TUB SABliATil SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR AUCUST 8.
Demon Text: "Working and Walling for
Christ," These, tv., 0-1H; v., I-'4—
Golden Text: John xlv., El — Com¬
mentary by ltev. I>r. It. M. Stearns.
9. “But as touching brothnrly love, ye
need not that 1 write unto you, for ye your¬
selves are taught of God to love one another."
The epistle 1 h addressed to the church of
tini TliessalonlaDs in God tlie Father and
the heard Lord the Jesus gospel, flhrlst, received those the who, word having
and
turned from their idols unto God, to serve
tho living and true God and to wait for His
Hon from heaven, oven Jesus who delivered
thorn from the wrath to come (chapter 1., I,
5, (t, 9, 19). He exhorts them to walk
worthy of God, who line called them to His
kingdom and glory, and to seek in ill!
I Idngs to please God and not man (chapter
II., fl; lv., 1).
10. "And Indeed ye do It toward all tho
brethen which lire in all Macedonia. But
we beseech you, brethren, that ye Increase
more anil more.” There is always room
for increase in Inyo and in all the fruit of
the Spirit, for we can never manifest the
fruit as fully as Christ did, and yet Ho Is
our only example. branch He is ever seeking mueh
more fruit, for no Is bearing all that
it might.
tl. “And that ye study to he quiet, and
to do yonr mvn business, commanded and to work with
I our own hnnds as we you.”
a a later epiHtlo he said that if any would
not work neither should they eat (II Th ess.
ilk, 10). The word here translated "study”
The (ithllottmoomai) other places Is used only throe times.
two are Item, xv.,20; II
Cor. v.,9. The late Dr. A. J. Got-don loved
to call attention to the truth that the word
signifies “to be ambitions,” or to thing,and us one's
utmost endeavor to aooomplisli a
that In these three passages we have a law¬
ful threefold ambition for every believer--
viz., to mind one's own business, bo well
pleasing to God, and preach the gospel
wliero Christ has not yet boon named.
12. “That them Hint ye may without, walk honestly and that to¬
ward are ye
may have lack of nothing.” Wonrn to pro¬
vide things honest in the sight of all men
(Bom. xii., 17), tint we should take special
pains to lie In ovory sense upright before
unbelievers. They will not read tho Bible,
but they will and <U> read something people, and they
ought to ho able to road of tho
Bible In the life of every Christian. One
lias said that a Christian ought to bo a large
print, clear type Bible that any one can
read easily. Hindi upright people cannot
luck imv good would (I’s. lxxxiv., 11). be
18. “But 1 not have you to Igno¬
rant. brethren, concerning thorn which n{o
asleep, that ye sorrow net, even ns others
which have no hope.” While teaching them
how to live on the earth as Christians
the fact was ever before them that some
were passing away. Death was doing Ills
cruel work. And what about those who
die in the Lord? While ltev. xlv., 18, lias
special reference to those who in the days
of the manifestation of satan’s greatest.,
power will rather die than deny Christ, yet,
it is always true, “Blessed are tlie dead who
die in the Lord." There Is the gain, and
the very far better (Phil. Is, 21, 23).
14. again, "For If wi' bqllevn that Jesus died and
rose even so thorn also which sleep
in Jesus will God bring with Him." To die
is gain, and to be with Christ fs far better.
But that Is not the whole of It, for after the
resurrection of the righteous till tho saints
are coming back with Him when ho comes
to judge the Nations,save Israel ami begin
His reign on earth.
15. “For this Lord wo say unto which you by alive the
word of the that wo are
and remain unto the coming of the Lord
Tlie shall B. not V. prevent In them the which last clause are asleep." of this
says precede them
verse, “Hindi In unwise that
are fallen asleep.” Rotherham says that
we Hindi "in nowise got, boforo” thorn
which are fallen asleep. It would seem that,
the Christians thought that their friends
who had died had lost somewhat by not be¬
ing allowed to remain until the l.ordshould
come, but the assertion here Is very em¬
phatic that those who are allvo on tile
earth when Christ shaft come shaft have,
no advantage over those who have died in
Christ, and who have been somo time ab¬
sent Irom the body and present with the
Lord.
19. “Fqr tho with Lord Himself shout, with shall the descend, voice,
from heaven a
of tho archangel and with the trump of
God, and the dead In Christ shall rise llrst.”|
As at the llrst coming of Christ, In hnmllia-;
lion, to suffer and die and riso from tho
dead, there were many events covering]
second many years, coming at to leiiHt reign thirty-three, there will so ho at many, His]
events covering ninny years. Tho coming J
with Him of verse 14 and chapter Iff., 18,j
and Rev. xlx., 11 -10, Is the last stage of Illsi
second coming and niiiHt be preceded by,
the events of verses HI, 17. He cannot
bring us with Him until He gets us all with
Him. alive
17. “Then wo which nre and re¬
main shall be caught up together with 1
them in the clouds to meet the Lord In the
air, and so shall we ever be with tho Lord.”
I like to fancy this as actually occurring,,
and often say to my congregations, "Let!
ic now imagine it taking place.” the Tlntj
Lord Himself, not an angel, Jesus nor (Acts I., Holy,
Hpirit, but lids same the II),:
shall leave the right hand of Father,
and descend to tlie air. Like a mighty:
magnet He will attract to Himself all tlm
members of His body. The dead in Christ
shall rise. They who have been with Him
absent from tlie body shall refnhablt their
bodies risen from the grave and made like
unto 18. “Wherefore Ills glorious comfort body. one anotherwith
these words." I think there Is no other
vurso just like th/s iu the Hlble. In Inn.
xh, 1, 2, the prophet is told to comfort
Jerusalem and Israel, and It Is In connec¬
tion with the coming of the Lord. If Cor.
!., 8, 4, the God of all comfort comforts us
that we may comfort others with our com¬
fort, whatever It is. But hero are tho very
words with which wo are to comfort those
who are bereaved. We are not lo say, Uko
David, I shall go to them, but they cunnot
come to. me. On tlie contrary, We are to
think of the possibility of their bofn with
uh In their resurrection bodies any mo¬
ment, and wo Instantly changed and
caught away with them to meet and he
forever with tlie Lord (v., ), 2). “But of
the times arid the seasons, brethren, yo
have no need that I write unto you, for
yourselves know perfectly that tho day of
the Lord so coineth us a thief fn the
night." He now passes to another topic,
or rather another phase of our Lord’s
second coming. We do not know of any
event that roust necessarily intervene be¬
tween the present moment and the taking
away ot the eburcb. But before the com¬
ing of Christ with His saints there must set
In more fully the great apostasy, and be
manifested the man of sin referred to In
U These, ii., 1 4.—Lesson Helper.
ODD COINCIDENCE.
Mr. Oldby—1 am a self-made man, sir.
I began life as a barefoot boy.
Kennard—Well, 1 wasn’t born with
shoes on, either.