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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE.
II. D. SMITH. EDITOR.
POULAN.
Ijoxao pv«xcuxicc»i f\J
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Was thought to he a false
report, but was found to be
true.
News broke out among the
people of Worth county that
McGirt &
McPhaul
Were selling Goods cheaper
than any other merchants in the
county , which was investigated
and found correct.
Bow we ask the people of
Worth and adjoiwng counties
to come and examine our line of
4 1 !
We Carry a Side Liue of
Wash Pots,
Dinner Pots,
Stoves,
Stove Furniture,
Plows,
Plow Gear
Anfi All Farming Utensils
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
Crockery
—AND ALL—
Heavy Groceries.
CLOTHING!
We have a large lot oj
Clothing selected for the Fall
Trade, and we want to sell
them rapidly. We have put
them at very low prices. We
can save you enough of money
on one suit of Clothes to pay
you for eoming to Poulan.
When you want Hats, come to
see us.
When you want Shoes, come to
see us.
When you want Suits, come to
see us.
When you want Harness, come to
see us.
When you want Groceries, come to
see us.
When you want Stoves, come to
see us.
When you want Furniture, come to
see us.
We have good and polite salesmen,
so that when you come to see us,
goods will be thrown down to you for
your examination.
We carry everything in the HARD¬
WARE LINE from a handsome File
to a Grind Rock.
TOB acoo.
Everything from a pinch of Snuff tc
a box of Tobacco.
Call and examine our Goods and gel
prices. We will take pleasure in
showing you.
We have one of the best RICE
MILLS in the country. Bring yout
rough rice and let us hull it.
Have your corn ground here.
We will gin your cotton for you and
then buy it or ship it from our ware¬
house free of draynge.
Turn your face this way and make
our store headquarters for trade.
McGirt & McPhaul.
ASHBURN. WORTH CO.. GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1897.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY DISCOURSE.
Strong Words ol Hope and Promise For
Discouraged Tollers In llie Lord's Vine¬
yard — Christian Workers, Like the
Stars, Sliino in Magnitude Forever*
Text: “They that turn many to right¬
eousness shall shine as the stars forever
and ever.”—Daniel xii., 3.
thousand Every man has a thousand roots and a
branches, ills roots reach down
through all tho earth, Ills branches
spread through all the heavens. He speaks
with voice, with eye, with hand, with foot.
His silence often is loud as thunder and his
life is a dirge or a doxology. There is no
such tiling as negative influence. Wo aro
aU positive in the place we occupy, making
the world better or making it worse, on the
Lord’s side for or blessedness on the "devil’s, making up
reasons and our or banishment,
we have already done work in peopling
heaven or hell. I hear people tell of what
they are going to do. A man who has
burned down- a city might as well talk of
some evil that ha expects to do, or a man
who has saved an empire might as well talk
of some good that he expects to do. By
the force of your evil influence you have
alrenfly have consumed infinite values, or you
whole by kingdoms the power of a right influence won
for God.
It would he absurd for mo, by elaborate
argument, to prove that the world is oft tho
track. You might as well stand at the foot
of an embankment, amid the wreck of a
capsized rail train, proving by elaborate
argument that something is out of order.
Adam tumbled over the embankment sixty
centuries ugo, and the whole race, in one
long train, has gone on tumbling in tho
same direction. Crash! Crash! Tiro only
question now is, By what leverage can the
crushed thing be lifted? By what hammer
may the fragments bo reconstructed? I
want to show you how we may turn many
to righteousness and what will bo our
future pay torso doing.
First, we may turn them by tho charm of
a right example. A child coming from a
filthy home was taught at school to wash
its face. It went home so much improved
in appearance that its mother washed her
face, and when the father of the household
came home and saw the improvement in
domestic appearance he washed his face.
The neighbors, happening in, saw the
change and tried the same experiment, un¬
til all that street was purified, and the next
street copied its example, and the whole
city felt the result of one sohoolboy wash¬
ing his face. That is a fable by which wo
set forth that the best way to get the world
washed of its sins and pollution is to have
our own heart and life cleansed and puri¬
fied. A man with grace in his heart and
Christian cheerfulness in his face and holy
consistency in his behavior is a perpetual
sermon, and the sermon differs from others
in that it has but one head and the longer
ft runs the better.
There are honest men who walk down
Wall street making the teeth of iniquity
chatter. There are happy men who go in¬
to a sickroom and by a look help thebroken
bone to knit and the excited nerves drop
to a calm beating. There are pure men
whose presence silences the tongue of un¬
cleanness. The mightiest agent of good the on
earth is a consistent Christian. I like
Bible folded between lids of cloth or calf¬
skin or morocco, but I like it better when,
in the shape of a man, it goes out Into the
world a Bible illustrated. Courage is beau¬
tiful to read about, but rather would I see
a man with all the world against him confi¬
dent as though all the world were for him.
Patience is beautiful to read about, but
rather would I see a buffeted soul calmly
waiting for the time of deliverance. Faith
is beautiful to read about, but rather would
I find a man in the midnight walking
straight on as though he saw everything.
Oh, how many souls have been turned to
God by the charm of a bright example!
When, in the Mexican War, the troops
were wavering, ft general rose in his stir¬
rups and dashed into the enemy’s lines,
shouting, “Men, follow me!” They, seeing
his courage and disposition, dashed on af¬
ter him and gained the victory. What men
want to rally them for God is an example
to lead them. All your commands to others
to advance amount to nothing as Jong as
you stay behind. To nffoot them aright
you need to start for heaven yourself, look¬ of
ing back only to give the stirring cry
“Men, follow!” righteous¬
Again, we may turn many to
ness by prayer. There Is no such detective
as prayer, for no one can hide awfty from
it. It puts its hand on tho shoulder of a
man 10,000 miles off, It alights on a ship
midatlantic. The little child cannot under¬
stand the law of electricity, or how the
telegraph operator, by touching the instru¬
ment here, may dart a message under the
Sea to another continent, nor can we, with
our small intellect, understand how the
touch of a Christian’s prayer shall instantly
Strike a soul on the other side of the earth.
You take ship and go to some other coun¬
try and get there at 11 o’clock in the morn¬
ing. You telegraph to America and the
message gets here at 6 o’clock the same
morning. In other words, it seems to ar¬
rive hero five hours belore it started. Like
that is prayer. God says, “Before they
call I will hear.” To overtake a loved one
on the road you may spur up a lathered
steed until ho shall outpace jhe one that
brought the news tq Ghent, but q prayer
shall catch It at one gallop. A boy
running away from home may take
the midnight train from the country
village and reach the seaport in time to
gain the ship that sails on the morrow, but
a mother's prayer will bo on the deck to
me§t him, and in the hammock before he
swings into it, and at tho capstan before
he winds the rope around, and on the sea,
against the sky, as tho vessel plows on
toward it. There is a mightiness in prayer.
George Muller prayed a company of poor
boys together, and then he prayed be sheltered. up an
asylum in which they might Edinburgh and
He turned his face toward turned
praved, and there came 41000, He
his'face toward London and prayed and
there came 41000. He turned his face to¬
ward Dublin and prayed and there came
4T000. The breath of Elijah’s prayer blew
all the clouds off the nky, ana it was dry
weather. The breath of Elijah’s and prayer It
blew all the clouds together, was
wet weather. Prayer, iu Haulers time,
walked the cave as a lion tamer. It reached
up and took the sun by its golden bit and
stopped it and the moon by its silver bit
and stopped all it. yet to try the full power or ,
We have the Amer¬
prayer. The time will come when
ican church will pray with its face toward
the west, and all the prairies and inland
cities will surrender to God and will pray
with face toward the sea, and all the islands
and ships will become Christian. Parents
who have wayward sons will get down on
their knees and say, ’Lord, send my boy
home,” and the boy in Canton wi 11 get righ
up from the gaming table and go down to
find out which ship starts first for America*
Not one of u» yet knows how to prav* ah
we have done as yet has only been potter¬ and
ing. A boy gets hold of his father's saw
hammer and tries to make something but
it is a poor affair that he makes. The father
comes and takes the same suw and hammer
an 1 builds the house or the ship. In the
childhood of our Christian faith we make
but poor work with those weapons of
prayer; bill when we come to the stature
of men in Christ Jesus then, under those
implements, the temple of God will rise and
the world's redemption will be launched.
God cares not fertile length of our prayers,
or the number of our prayers,or the beauty
of our prayers, or the place of our prayers,
but it. is the faith in thorn that tolls. Be¬
lieving prayer soars higher than the lark
ever sang, plunges deeper than diving bell
over sunk, darts quicker than lightning
over Hashed. Though wo have used only
the back of this weapon instead of tho edge,
what marvels have been wrought! If saved,
wo aro ail the captives of somo earnest
prayer. Would God that, in desire for the
rescue of souls, we might in prayer lay
hold of the resources of the Lord Omnipo¬
tent 1
We may turn to righteousness by Chris¬
tian admonition. Do not wait until you
can make a formal speech. Address the
one next to you. You will not go home
alone to-day. Between this and your place
of stopping you may decide the eternal des¬
tiny of an immortal spirit. Just ono sen¬
tence may do tho work, Just one question,
just ono look. Thu formal talk that begins
with a sigh and ends with a canting snuffle
is not what is wanted, but tho heart throb
of a man in dead earnest. There is not a
soul on earth that von may not tiring to
God tt you rightly go at it. They said Gib¬
raltar could not lie taken. It is a rock 1003
feet high and three miles long,but tho Eng¬
lish and Dutch did take it. Artillery and
sappers and miners and fleets pouring out
volleys of death and thousands of men reck¬
less of dan ger can do anything. Tho stoutest
lioart of sin, though it lie rock and sur¬
rounded by an ocean of transgression, un¬
der Christian bombardment may hoist tho
flag of redemption.
But is all this admonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? My text
promises to all the faithful eternal luster.
“They that turn many to righteousness
shall shine as the stars forever.” As stars
tho rodeemed have a borrowed light.
What makes Mars and Venus and Jupiter
so luminous? When tho sun throws down
ills torch (n the heavens, the stars pick up
the scattered brands and hold them in
procession as the queen of the night ad¬
vances. So all Christian worker's, stand¬
ing around the throne, will shitia in the
light borrowed from the Sun of Righteous¬
ness-Jesus in their faces, Jasus in their
songs, Jesus in their triumph.
Again, Christian workers shall be like
the stars in the fact that they have a light
independent of each other. Look up at
tho night and see each world show its dis¬
tinct glory. It is not like the conflagra¬
tion, in which you cannot tell where one
flame stops and another begins. Neptune,
Hersehel and Mercury are as distinct as if
each ono of them were tho only star. So
our Individualism will not be lost in
heaven. A great multitude—yet eaoh ono
as observable, as distinctly recognized, as
greatly celebrated, as if iu all the spaoo,
from gate to gate and from hill to hill, ho
were the only inhabitant—no mixing up, no
mob, no indiscriminate rush, each Chris¬
tian worker standing out Illustrious, all
the story of earthly aehtevmont adhering
to each ono, his self-denials and pains and
services and victories published.
Before men went out to the last war the
orators told them that they would all bo re
membered by their country and their name?
be commemorated in poetry and in song
But go to tlie graveyard in Richmond, am’
you will And there 8000 graves, over eacl
of which is the inscription, “Unknown.’
The world does not remember its heroes
but there will be no unrecognized Christair
worker in heaven, Eaoh ono known by al’
—grandly known, known by acclamation,
all the past story of work for God gleaming
in cheek and brow and foot and palm. They
shall shine with distinct light as the stars
forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers shall shine like
tlie stars in clusters. In looking up you
find the worlds in family circles. Brothers
and sisters, they take hold of each other’s
hands and dance in groups. Orion in a
a group. The Pleiades in a group. The
system is only a company of children with
bright faces, gathered around ono great,
fireplace. The worlds do not straggle off.
They go in squadrons and fleets, sailing
through in immensity. dwell So Christian workers
heaven will in neighborhoods qnd
clusters.
I am sure that some people I will like in
heaven a great deal better than others.
Yonder is a constellation of stately Chris¬
tians. They lived on earth by rigid rule.
They never laughed. They walked every their
hour, anxious lest they should lose
dignity, But they lovod God, and yonder Yet
they shine in brilliant constellation, I
shall not long to get into that, particular
group. Yonder is a constellation of small
hearted Christians—asteroids in theetornal
astronomy, While some souls go up from
Christian battle and blaze like Mars these
asteroids dart a feeble ray like Vesta, Yon¬
der of is a constellation of martyrs, of apostles,
patriarchs. Our souls as they go up to
heaven will seek out tho most congenial so
ciety.
Again, Christian workers will shine like
the stars in swiftness of motion, The
worhls do not stop to shine. There are no
fixed stars, save as to relative position.
The star apparently most thoroughly fixed
flies thousands of miles a minute. The as
tronomer, using his world telescope for an alpen¬
stock, leaps from crag to world crag
and finds no star standing still. Tli*
chamois hunter lias to fly to catch his prey,
but not so swift is his game as that which
the scientist tries to shoot through tin
tower of observatory. Like petrels midat
lantio, that seem to come from no shore
and be bound to no landing place, flying
flying, so these great flocks of worlds rest
not as they go, wing and wing, age after
age,, forever and forever. The eagle hasten!
to its prey, but we shall in speed beat the
eagles. You have noticed trio velocity o'.
tho swift horse under whose feet the miles
slip like a smooth ribbon, and ns he passes
the four hoofs strike tho earth in such
quick beat your pulses things take the same vibra¬
tion, but all these are not swift in
comparison with the motion of which I
speak, The moon moves 54,000 miles in a
day. Yonder Neptune flashes on 11,000
miles in an hour. Yonder Mercury goes
103,000 miles in an hour. So like the stars
the Christian shall shine in swiftness of
motion,
You hear now of father or mother or
child sick 1000 miles away, and it takes
you two days to get to thorn. You hear of
some case of suffering that demands your
immediate attention, but it takes you an
hour to get there. Oh, the joy when you
shall In fulfillment of the text, take starry
speed and be equal to 100,000 miles an hour!
Having on earth got used to Christian
work, you will not quit when death strikes
you. You will only take on more velocity.
There is a dying child in London, and its
spirit must he taken up to God. You are
there tn an instant to do it. There is a
young man in New York to be arrested for
going into that gate of sin. You are there
in an instant to arrest him. Whether with
spring of foot or stroke of wing, or by
the force of some new law that shall hurl
you tq the spot where you would go, I
know not, but before my text suggests with nothing velocity.
All space open you to
hinder you in mission of light and love and
joy, you shall shine in swiftness of motion
as the stars forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers, like the stars,
shine in magnitude. Tho most illiterate
man knows that these things in the sky,
looking like gilt buttons, are great masses
of matters. To weigh thorn one would
think that it would require scales with a
pillar hundreds of thousands of miles high
and chains hundreds of thousands of miles
loftg, and at the bottom of 0ho chains
basins on either side hundreds of thousands
of miles wide, and that then Omnipotence
ulono could put tho mountains Into the
scales and the hills into tho balance, but
puny man lias been equal to the under¬
taking and has set a little balance on Ills
geometry and weighed world against
world. Yen, hi" has pulled out Ills measur¬
ing line and announced that Hersehel is
38,000 miles in diameter, Saturn 79,000 miles
In diameter uud Jupiter 89,000 miles in dia¬
meter and that the smallest pearl on the
beach of heaven is immense beyond all
imagination. So all they who have toiled
for Christ on earth shall rise up to a mag¬
nitude of privilege, and a magnitude of
strength, and a magnitude and of holiness, and
a magnitude of joy, tho weakest saint
in glory become greater than all that w<
can imagine of an archangel.
Lastly—and coming to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the con¬
templation—like the stars, all Christtai
workers shall shine in duration. The sane
stars that look down upon us looked down
upou the Chaldean shepherds. The rneteoi
that l saw flashing across the sky tho other
night I wonder if it was not the same ono
that pointod down to where Jesus lay in
the manger, and if. having pointed out ills
birthplace, through it has even since boon wander¬
ing tho heavens, watching to seo
how tho world would treat Him! When
Adam awoke in the garden in the eool of
the day, he saw eoming out through the
dusk of tho evening the saino worlds tlmt
greotod us last night.
In Independence Hail la an old cracked
boil that sounded the signature of the Dec¬
laration of Independence. You cannot ring
it now, but tliis great chime of silver bells
that strike in tho dome of night ring out
as sweet a tone as when God swung them
at the creation, Look up at night and
know that the white lilies that bloom In all
tim banging gardens of our King are cen¬
tury plants—not blooming once in 100 years,
but through all tho centuries. Thestarat
which the mariner looks to-night was tho
light by which the ships of Tursldsh were
guided across tho Mediterranean and tho
Venetian found Its way Into Lepanto. Their
armor is as bright to-night as when, in
ancient battle, the stars in their courses
fought against Sisera.
To the ancients tho stars were symbols
of eternity. But hero the tlgure of my text
breaks down—not tu defeat, but In the
majesties of the judgaient. The stars
shall not shine forever. The Bible says
they shall fall like autumnal loaves, As
when tho connecting factory band slips at
nightfall from the main wheel all the
smaller wheels slacken their speed and
with slower and slower motion they turn
until great they machinery come to of a the full universe, stop, so wheel this
within wheel making revolution of
appalling speed, shall, by tho touch band
of God’s hand, slip the
of present law and slacken and stop. That
is what will lie the matter witli the mount¬
ains. The chariots in which they ride shull
halt so suddenly that the kings shall bo
thrown out. Star after star shall lie car¬
ried out to burial amid funeral torehos of
burning ashes worlds. Constellations shall throw
on their heads, and all up and down
the highways of spaco there shall ho mourn¬
ing, mourning, !j mourning, because the
worlds are dead. But tho Christian work¬
ers shall never quit their thrones—they
shall reign forever and ever.
Toads Waylay Bees,
“I found out something last night
that makes me feel silly, and I’ve
learned a little lesson in natural his¬
tory that I shall not soon forget,” said
K. V. Hall. “Every night,” explain¬
ed Mr. Hall, “when I have gone out
.about sundown to shut the hen house,
I have noticed a largo toad sitting in
front of one of my hives of hoes, the
one nearest the walk, and I was careful
not to moIeBt him because I have al¬
ways protected toads on my place on
account of their usefulness in destroy¬
ing troublesome insects. I stopped about
to watch aud I soou learned all
}t, The hive, under which they bur¬
rowed in cool retirement in the day
time and in front of which they took
Up sentinel positions in tho early even-
fug, stood on the ground with only The a
board between it and the sod.
board projected in front of the hive
about three inches, so as to afford the
bees a convenient place for alighting.
While I watched the bees arriving
home last night, heavily laden with
honey, I saw those two toads shoot
out their long, slim, slimy tongues and
capture every bee. I did not wait to
see them cut many before l killed
them both. I dissected one ami found
his stomach full of bees whole and
others in various stages of digestion.
I estimated that those winking, blink¬
ing toads have been devouring fifty oi
sixty a day. J had »oipposc>l
stings would protect them from such a
fate.”—Buffalo Courier Record.
’’High Water Bill” Moorhead.
William II. Moorhead, better known
during later years as “High Water
Bill,” has just died at his home in
Pembina, North Dakota, after an ill¬
ness of six months, This sobriquet
be gained by his numerous prophecies
as to just how high the water in the
Red River would rise eaoh year, and,
be it said, his predictions were usually
not far astray. As an incident in this
line it is said that this spring, before
the snow melted, as he was lying in
his bed on the lower floor of his
house, talking “high water” to a vis¬
itor, he reached down about half way
on one of his bed posts gud said:
“You’ll sec the water up to this spot
when the snow melts,’’and his predic¬
tion was verified. He refused to be
carried up stairs until the water came
in on the floor.
Mr. Moorhead was a typical fron¬
tiersman and a general favorite, Tho
history of the Red River valley would
be fqr from complete without an inter¬
esting reference to a man who was
known far and wide for his genial
good nature and interesting stories of
the pioneer life in the northwest.—
Ht. Paul Pioneer PresH.
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