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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE. a . I). SMITH. K rp -• iV. DE. TALMAGE. .■* __ proof, 1 DAY DISCOURSE. ■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. , , 01 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.