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Newspaper Page TextConsolidated b * | -* — ,u ft BTi.1. I MclXTOSB I A Family and Political Jouuxal Deyotkd to the Ixtkhkrts ok Southwest Georgia. Year. « ► r il I Volume 1. ALBANY, GA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2<», 1881. ■ ' ... j ■I—'!.;--!""— — Number 25. ggofcssiowal <£nv&s. James Callaway, Attorney at Law CAMILLA, OA. fell’#- Jas. H. Spence, Attorney at Law, CAMILLA OA- Will preetfft in *11 th* conuli«> «t *1- sasfes 0t j£rOaca Up-Jtairs. overTwitty*Cob P**rP"‘«- land and collection agency. H. 0. SHEFFIELD. ATTORNEY AT LAW, AKLDJOTOX. GA pp- Wild Luna* looked after anil Col- leetions mwls in the counties of Early. Millor, Culhoan anil Hater. K'.zo-ly Mb. D. B. Hack, aJrominent citizen of Richmond county,* dead. Gekkbai. Gordon fall-Uedged rail have beliered it ? igrowing to baa Who would It is now consul-d a sett.ed fact that (hero will be noolored represen- tatire in Garfield’s $binot. It is said that tl the Interior will Garfield to Robcrtf. Lincoln, son President Lincoln. Mu. Gzoun* J. the Metropolitan Trowbridge & Holliitsbcd dentists, WAtGROSS, - - - - GEORGIA. «xtracted without pain. All work wSSHfcJd Terrae moderate. Will go any- ISKVTb. * ™.in”S. r a W. Itailionds. SIu-l*» JOSEPH A. CltOSK, JLTTO 5HTBV a.t I*A.W 111 BAT STREET, SAVANNAH, G.\. apSIlftn Sew York, on bis solicited, gives to thoussnd dollsrs towards the endov .’ lege in Georgia. Secretaryship of offered by Mr. ot inev. President of ational Bank of n motion, and un fit of Emory col. “Gath" thinks 11 this country now contains three gr< secrets—Garfield, Grant and Conklii will say. and how Whom Garfield will appoint in hit binet, what Grant nkling will behave Preettaos In all the State Courts, baton to Bo*. T. M. Norwood. or. jowws, jesse w. wai.tkrs. JONES ft WALTERS, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY. GA. oiBm ..sr Croton’ Rsllrosd Book. MalS-ly : about it, makes oretty little prob- lcin We understand'*! Hon. 11. G. Tur ner, our Congresin-elect, will go to Washington to "ess the inauguta tion of Mr. Garf- All four of the new members fi Georgia will, it is understood, be cjuid at the inaugurs .tion to “take dob Bekbv Geao lopaphs from No' York to the ( 1 Million that Gen Jno. B. Gordon organised a comps ny with ample “tat to build the Georgia Westei ulruod, and that be will be in Atlai n a few day* to ar range for begin the work. Delta & Osten, DMMFI&rSi Albany. - - - Georgia. Tub arenee J of rice per »cro in tho Slate fo|80 was thirty-five both els. At ’» the price ranged from eighty c to one dollar per bushel The rago income for rice last year was per acre, and the av erage income cotton was $16.2*1 per acre, a di^cc of $11.27 ill fa vor of rice. O rrir»_ovBR t\»i to« a r»E«r. OFFICE. WASHING jaunwlydl M.J. WRIGHT. WRIGHT & POPE, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY. GA. OFFICto—(tour S. Mayer A Olsubar’* store, cor ner n-.’.d and Washington Ms. Daa.M, l«s" dlwwly ■ The PrincusVales lias given the Jews much si clion by his present, at the inarriajMr. Ietopold Roths child, which jgarded as a sign that there is no jsympathy with th- It il. persecutions.! Jews. No English I’rinco has «1 a synagogno since 1809, when tl'f the royal Dukes at tended a serilt once. WM- E. SMI1H, Attorney at Law, ALBANY* GA. a viMUt7N10.\TP»NS on buslnem directed lo ( / me WtoYloanto CKT. during tho n«t .lx- w A U f% Will wcidY* |T.nupt attention. JM. I. tMt. - B,A.VA«*V. A. II. AI.FItlKNIl r.tso.y jt siLFitiESJ) Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, GA. ■**! prompt aucution given to rol- *2S2ZZ*& roni'ruS bu-im-* Fructice iaSr.*" "‘Mr it. A. STAOTHSR.H.D. AI.BA*r. UEOBCIA. IHh ttsr Gillen’S Drai Store nr g. W. AI FRIEISD i »iJEP«;rFUI.I.r lauderr bli wr.lw, In 'b« !t rtrl.s* »r*nrhra ol hi. JJ 1 v Hi*i? »«d <«irr»wu'llnbVrtUO*r>. ui K \ l|.iti*a -»n I’i'rfrtTMt Souk writ) the Atlanta C'ontli tut,oh arc 'g ex-Goyurnor Bul lock’s name a place in Garfield’s Cabinet typposo lie would do about as w any other Southern Republican,! shall not object. But isn’Pit (thing how this man 1* out-living titled which was once so bitter t? him in Georgia. The Datic Congressmen from New Yor!that tho bittor fight between T»»y and anti-Tammany will rcsultecting a Republican to succeed Flo Wood. Tammany will insist upc ididatc front its ranks, and, with tter feeling now exist ing there,Believed that anti-Tam many wil eld, and that there will bo two D.tic candidates. etAr-ar H3TEL*. TUB JOHNSON HOUSE bssitiivill*. OA., Is the place to atop and get a GOOD HQU A HE MEAL THE ALBANY HOUSE! JU-rrlck Barne*, Proprietor Albany^Oeorgia. navis Honse Is well furnished anil in ov- T arrway prepared for the acoomme- A J Jf U,e traviling pnblir. Entire sut- lalijow gn»r*nteed. The table is sm.- >114 vita the tiest the country affords and tha aarvanta are unsurpassed in p<>- I Itoaew and attenUon to the wants of Vaaata. Omuthnse* convey paaaengers to and from the different railroads pmn.pta ty, free of charge. Charges to times. soil ttu* sep29 tf One of jisnres recor tly added o those whi one enjoys who attends an Knglis s that of having one's photogradi A temporary stndie is fitted i e of the |>ar1ora and any lady ishes her picture taken in her ha! can do so. Thu lux- oghraph. used—the exposure i* really sh an in daylight—and, as two phot I can be taken in less than fire t. the intervals between the done cite sufficient for th- purpose.! The jlirk grocery merchants held a iking on Tuesday to de nounce J.erman for having sus pected t' coloring up their' au- :cr what the morcharita th” to the Cincinnati people hero complain llic sugar in domestic weetness it formerly had. and traces o r having been ad ill torsi grape sugar, and pos sibly n of more weight and less swdhan even grape sugar. Moss.’sVndjHavoineycrs were in the me DR. TALMAOE. WHAT BOOKS TO READ. TIIE ORLY WAY TO FIGHT t BOOK LS BY PRINT!.ft! A GOOD ONE. BAD I. J. BRINSON, Contractor Ouilier AND DE.Vl.Elt IN A LB AS Y. GA. Lumber, Brick, Shingles Lathes. Lime and Cement Cgaitautlr on hand, and orders promptly MtoKillaito turaiiHsl l.'rbo Hdinga and nBni n- taken at lowest ll*lu* raw*. d ik||T and toathwest Uiwruu »«dsu *non tarJrSVtals k'n.i, sod 1 a* dotern.lno.1 to ^ VkSssir* aoliolted and aatlafacttoa guar- “'SrOFFlCE: At 3. Sterne’* Store on Washington Street. Albaar. tis^Sspt.,, ISSO. lf Thousands of Dollar* Are spent annually by our people for medicine* made North, they are adver- tiaod as being adapted to Southern com plaints, bet U. H. P. in a medicine that It** done more good than any of them, . M k is especially adapted tn our cli mate.—.Voter (Augusta, Qa.). Me. son Davis appears to have k* that way, and will die with it item.—Cincinnati En quire)' Yes; mid to God that there had bmnicn horn like him, and whose were impervious to the niiasmrrn polities, Horn willi the pul giving, principle-loving hi >wl Southern gentleman in his “sye has lived the life of a genuinsshioned patriot and statofi will die, we trust, a msrtyi grand principles of s brare tnd once free and proa- perou Mr."B D. Con way says; “The if hatred towards tho Jews by, however artificisl it* origimght on a gennuine epi- dcmiticdimval madness 5 which redde’ European river with Jevvit There is no mistake aboulCirl Vogt, the famous natusust written a pamphlet, in wlys the agitation can on ly facally explained; it is a phenf natural atavism. As all aidcially bred always tend to rft original type, and mnst do so, so do natkma. This is a recurrence to Ger Cherish Good Boob* and Newspapers— Beware of the Bad Ones. WHAT SIOI.DED THE VITE9 OP UKNJAWIN FBAXKVIN AND Tim AKNAHNIN OP LOUD KDISEU. Shell We Bead Iforrlat Brooklyn, N. Y, Feb 13.— In the Tabernacle this morning the Her.' T. DeW’.tt Thlmage, D. !>.. prcaib- •d a Rrmnses (he wAjert. wiiat books to bead. The following is llie lull text of the learned Doctor's discourse: T*xt: Ecclesiastes xii., 12—“Of makimj many book* there it no end.” The prinling'prcss is the mighti osl agency on earth for good anil evil. The minister of the gospel, standing In a pulpit, has a respon sible position, out I do not think it is us responsible ns the position of an editor or a publisher. At wlmt distant point of lime, at wlial far- out circlu of eternity will n-ase the influence ol a Henry J. Raymond, or a Horace Greeley, or a James Gordon Bennett ? Take the simple statistic lliat our New Y'ork dailies now have a circulation of 350,000 per day and ndd lo it the fact lhal Ihrco of our weekly periodicals have an aggregate circulation of about 1,000,000, and then cipher, if you can, how far down, anil how far out, reach the influences of the American printing-press. I believe the Lord_intend* the printing-press to be the chief means forth world’s rescue and evangelization, and I think (lint the great last lialtle .of the world will not be fought with swords or guns, but wilh type-anil presses—a purified and gospel literature triumphing over, tramp- liug down and crushing oul forever that which is depraved. The only way to fight a bad book is Uy print ing a good one. Tho only way to overcome unclean newspaper litera ture is by scattering abroad that which is liealthful. May God spread the cylinders of an honest, iulclti- genl, AOOUESSIVE CliniSTIAN riilNTIXG- PKE88. piit this morning a question of overmastering importance to you and your families. What books and newspapers shall we read? You soe, I group them together. A newspaper is only a hook in a swifter and more portable shape, and the same rules which apply lo book reading will apply to newspa per reading. What shall wo rea l? Shall our minds bo respectable of everything that an author bus a mind, to write? Shull there he no distinction hot ween the tree of life and tho tree of death? Shall we stoop down ami drink out of tin* trough which the wickedness of men has filled with pollution and shams? Shall we mire in impuri ty and chase fantastic will-o’-the- wisps across the swamps when we might walk in the blooming gar den* of God? Oh, no. For tin- sake of offr present and everlasting welfare, we must make an intelli gent Christian choice. Standing a* we do chin-deep in fictitious litera ture, the first question that mint of the young people are asking me is: “shall we bead novels ?” I reply, ttiere are novels that arc pure, good, Christian, elevating to the heart and ennobling to the li e But I have still further to say. that many ot the novels in this day an- baleful anil destructive to the la.t -grer. A pure wot k of fiction is history ami poetry combined. It is history of things around 119 with the licenses and the as-urned names of pnetrv. The world can never pttv the debt which it owes to such fictitious writers as Hawthorne, and Mackenzie, and Lander, and Hunt, and Arthur, and Marion Harland and others whoso names are familiar to all. The follies of high life were nover hr tter exposed titan by Miss ERgewortli. The memories of the past were never more faithfully embalmed limit in the writings of Walter Scott. Cooper’s novels are healthfully redolent with the breath of seaweed »n-l the air of thp American fore-t. Charles Kings ley has smiin-ti the morbidness of the world, mid led a great many to appreciate the poetry of sound health, strong muscles and fresh air. Tlmrktrny -lid a grand work in caricaturing the pretenders to gen tility ami high blood. Dickens has built his own monument in his hooka which are ah everlasting plea Tor tite poor ana an anthema of in justice. Now I say books like these read at right times and read in right proportion with other cooks, can not help but be enuobiing and purifying; but, alas 1 for the loath some aud impuro literature that has emtio tt|ion this country in tho shape of novels, like a freshet, overflowing all the banks of decency and com mon sense. They are coming from some of the most celebrated pub lishing houses of the country. They are coming witli the recommend*, tion of some of our religious nows- pa|>ers. They lie on your centre- table TO CPUS* TOUR CHILDREN and blast with their Infernal fires generations unborn. Yon find these’ lutoks in the desk of school-miss, iu tho trtiuk of the young msn, in tho steamboat eabin and on the table of the hotel reception-room. Yon see * light in your child’s room late at night. You suddenly go in, and sayr “Wh«t are you doing?” “I am reading.” “ What are you road- tog?” “A book.” “Where did you S it it?” “ I borrowed it.” Alas, ero are always those abroad who would like to loan your son or daughter a bad book. J Everywhere, everywhere, an unclean literature I I ebargo upon it the destruction of tea thousand immortal souls, and I Idd yon this morning to wake up to the magnitude of the theme, I shall •' ■ take all the world* literature, good tiovela anti bad, travels Hate amt false, histories faithful and incor rect, legends beautiful and mon strous, all tracts, al! chronicles, ail epilogues, all family, city, state, national libraries, aud pile them tip in a pyramid of literature, and then I shall bring to bear upon it some grand, glorious, infallible, unmis takable Christian principles. G»d help me to speak with reference to ihe account I must at last render, ami God help you to listen. 1 charge you in the first place to stand aloof from all books that give false pictures of human life. Life i< ^neither a tragedy nor a farce. Meu are not all either knave* or herot-s. Women arc neither angel nor fairies, and yet, if von depend npou much of literature of the day, you woultl get the idea that life, in stead of being w SOUTHING EARNEST, SOMETHING TEAC TICAL, is a fitful and fantastic an-1 extrav agant thing. Ilow poorly prepared are that young man ami woman for the duties of to-day who S|w-nt last night wading ‘hroiiglt brilliant pas sages descriptive of magnificent knavery and wickedness I The matt will be looking all day long for his heroine in the tin-shop,' by tile forge, in the factory, in llie count ing-room, and he will not find her, and hit will' he dissatisfied. Tne man who gives himself up to the indiscriminate reading or novels will he nerveless, ittaaitc, and a nui sance. He will l-e fit neither fur ti e store, nor the shop, nor the field, l lie woman who gives herself up to Ihe indiscriminate reading ol novels will bo unfitted tor the du ties of wife, mother, -inter, daugh ter. There sbn is, hair dishevelled, countenance vacant, cheeks pale, hands trembling, bursting -.into tears at midnight over Ihe fate of some unfortunate lover; in thedav- ti-ne, when she ought to lie busy, staring hv the half hour at—noth ing, biting Iter finger-nails to llie qni- k. The carpet that was plain lieforu will be plainer after liavfng through a romance all night long wandered in le-scllalcil halls of cas tles, and your industrious compan ion will he more unattractive Ilian ever, now that you have walked ip the rninaiico through parks with plumed princesses, or lounged in tlm arbor with the polished desper ado. Oil, these confirmed itovei reader* I They are unlit for Hit life, which is a tremendous discip line. They know not how lo gi through the furnaces of trial where they must pas*, and they are unfit ted for a world where everything we gain we achieve by hard, loug- ennti titling, exhaustive, work. Again,, abstain from all those books which, while they have some good things 80011’ them. Intvo also an admixture of evil. You have read books that have had ' tho two oleinenls ill them, the good and the bad. WHICH STUCK TO YOU ? Tho bad! The heart of most pen pie is liko a sieve which lets the stnsll particles of gold fall thruugli, but keep* the great cimier*. Once in a wliilo there is a mind like a loadstone, which, plunged amid steel ami brass filings, gathers up the steel anti re|>els tiic brass. But il is generally just tho opposite. If von attempt' to plunge through a hedge of burs to get one blackber ry you will get more burs than blackbci rie*. You can not afford to read a had hook, however good yon am. You say: “1 lie influence i* insignificant.” I tell you that the scratch of a pill has sometime* pro duced lockjaw. Ala*! if through curiosity, a* many do, you pry into an evil* hook, your curiosity i* as dangerous as that of llie man who should take a torcli into a gunpow der merely lo *ee whether it- reallv would blow up. Some years ago, in a menagerie in New Y'ork, a man put his hand th rough the bars of a black leop ard’* cage. The animal's side look ed so sleek and bright and beauti ful. Ho just stroked it ouce. The monster seized hint, and he drew forth tho hand lorn and mangled and bleeding. Ob. touch not evil, even with the gentlest stroke; though it may be glossy and beauti ful, touch it not, lest you puli forth your soul torn anil bleeding under the clutch of the black leopard. “Bat,” you sav, “how can I find out whether a book is good or bad with out reading it?” There is always something suspicious about a bad hook. I never knew an exception. Something suspicious in the index or the style of illustration. This venomous reptile almost always carries a warning rattle. Again I charge you to stand off from all those books which corrupt the imagination and iuflame the passion*. 1 do nut refer now te that kind of a book which theviliian has under his coat waiting for the school to be 'out, and, then looking both ways lo nee that there is no policeman round the block, offers the book to your sou on his way home. I do not speak of that kind of literature, but of that which evades the law and comes out-in polished style and with acute plot sounds the tocsin that rouses op all the baser passions of the souL Years ago a French lady came forth as an authoress under Ute assumed name of George Sand. She smoked cigars. She wore gentlemen’s ap parel. She stepped off tbo bounds of decency. Site wrote with a style ardent, eloquent, mighty in its gloom, horrible in its unchastity, glowing In Its verbiage, vivid in its portraiture, ' DAMNING IK ITS EFFECTS, transfusing into the libraries and homes of the world an evil that has aot even begun to relent; and the has her copyists in all lands. To day, under the nostrils of your city, there is a foetid, rocking, unwashe'd literature, enough to polsou all the fountains of public virtue and smite your sons and daughters as with the wing of t destroying angel and it is time that the minister, of Gndbiewtiic trumpet and rallied the forces of righteousness, all armed to tho teeth in this great battle against a depraved litcratarc. Again, qhstain from those book* which aro apologetic of crime. -It is sad thing tiiat some of the best and most bcantiful book-binding and some of llie finestjrlieloric have been brought to make sin attractive vicea i. horrible thing anyhow. It is Imrii n'^hanii', and it dir* howling ia aBtiw. In tlii* world it i* -courtiai wit!, the whip of scorpi on-, but al'icrwaril lliti lliuudcr* of (jo.!*- wra li. pur*u-<• it aeroa* a :*.ilni!le— di—ert. heating it with ruin and woe. tVh-'n you come to paint carnality do noi paint il a* looking from beuind embroidered curtain- or through lattice of royal -entgiio. but a* writing in the ago nic- of therity hospital. Cnrteil be the blocks that try to make impari ty decent and crime attractive and hvpocri*y noble! Cttraed bo the books that swarm with libertine* and dc-pcradoes who make the brain of the young people whirl with villainy I Ye authors who write them, ye publishers who print them, ye book-sellers who distribute them, sliali be cut lo pieces, if not by an aroused community, then at last by the ai.l of divine vengeance, which SHALL SWEEP TO THE LOWEST PIT of pcrdit’onall you murderers of souls. The clock -trike* midnight. Fair form Iietids over a romance. The eyes flash fire. The breath is quick and irregular. Occasionally the color da-h'-a to tho cheek and then dies our. The hands tremble as though a guardian spirit were trying to shake llie deadly book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall. She laughs with a shrill v»ia that drops deat! at its own sound. The sweat on iter brow is the spray dashed up from the river ot death. The clock strikes “4,”aud the rosy dawn soon after begins to look through the lattice upon the pale form that looks like a detained specter of the night. Soon in a mad-house she will mis take her ringlet* for curling ser pent*, and thrust her white tends through the bar* of the pritoo, and -mite her head, rubbing it hack as though to push the scalp from the skull, shrieking, “My brain 1 my brain!” Ob, stand off from that Why will you go sounding your own way amidst the reefs and warning buoys, when there is such a vast ocean in which you may voyage, all sails set ? There is one thing I shall say this morning before I leave you, wheth er you want to hear it or not, and that is that I consider the UNCLEAN PICTORIAL LITEHATUBE ol the day as most tremeudaous for rum. There is no one-who can like good pictures belter than l do. Tite quickest aud most condensed way ofiinr>re-sing the public mind is By picture. What the painter does by his brush for a few favorites the engraver does by his knifo for the million. YVhat the author accom plished by fifty !iageetho artist does by a flash. Tite he*t part of a paint ing that costs $10,000 you may buy fur . ten cents. Fine paintings be long to the democracy of art. You do well to gather good pictures in your home*. Spread them before your children after tho tea hour is past and llie evening circle it gath ered. Throw them on the Invalid’s couch. S’.row them on the train to cheer the traveler ou his journey. Tack tiicm.on tho wail of tho nur sery. Gather them in albums and portfolios. God spi-od the good picture*on their way with ministries of knowledge aud inerey. But tvhat i say of the prostitution of this art to purposes of iniquity ? These death warrants of the soul are at every street-corner. They smite the vision of the youth with pollution. Matty a young man buying* copy haslmught his eter nal discomfiture. There may be enough poison in one bad picture to poi-on one soul, and that soul may poison ten, and tho ten fifty, and tlif hundreds thousands, until noth ing but the measuring line of eter nity can tell the Imight and depth of ghastliness and horror of J the great undoing. Thp work of death that Ihe wicked author does in a whole book the bad engraver may do on half a side of pictorial. Under the disguise of pore mirth, the young matt buy* one of those sheets. He unrolls it before his comrade*, amidst roars of laughter; but, long after tbi paper is gone the roeull perhaps be seen in tho blasted imag ination* of those who saw it. The Queen of Death every night holds a banquet, and these periodicals are the printed invitation to her guests. Alas! tiiat tho fair brow of Ameri can art should be biotchod with this plague spot, aud that philanthro pists bothering thcmaelve* about smaller evils should lift up uo unit ed and vehement voice against this great calamity. Young man! bny not this moral strychnine for your soul! pick not up thi* neat cf coiled adder* for your pocket I Patronize no news stand that keeps them! Have your room bright with good eugravings, but for these oulragiout pictorials have not one wall, not one bureau, not one pocket. A man is uo better than the picture he love* to look at. If your eyes are not pure, your heart cangot be. By a news stand one can guess the char acter of the man by the pictorial he purchases. Wlien tho devil fails to get a man to read a bad book, be sometimes succeeds in getting him to look at a bad picture. When Sa tan goes a fishing, b* does not caro whether it is a long line or a short line, if be only draw* his victim iu. Beware of unclean pictorials, young man; in the name of Almighty Goa I charge you. If I havo this morn ing successfully laid down any principles by which you may jndge in regard to books and newspapers, then I have dime something of which I shall not l>e ashamed on the day whioh shall try evsry min’s work, of what sort it it. CHERISH GOOD BOOKS AND NEWSPA PERS. Beware of the bad ones. One column may save.your soul; one paragraph may ruin iL Benjamin Franklin said that tho reading of Colton Mathew’s “Essay to Do Good” niolile 1 Ida entire life. Tho a-sassin of Lord RusscII^declared thttl be was led into crime by read ing one vleious romance. The con secrated John Augel James, thin whom England never producedf* belter man, declared in his old days that he had never yet got ov«r the evil effects of having for fifteen minutes once read a bad book. Go home to-day and look through your library, look on the stand you keep your pictorials and ami apply the Christian I hare laid down this marning. If there ia anything in your homo tiiat ran not 'stand the te*t, do not give it away, for il might spoil an immortal soul; do not sell it, for the you get will ho the price of blood; but rath er kindle a lire on your kitchen hearth or in *your bark-ynnl, anil th-n drop Ihe poison in it, and keep stirring ihe blaze nnlil front prefare to appendix there shall not hca sin gle paragraph left. New The Devised Version or the Testament. Nsv Tort l IBM The.following examples of the text of the rcvisetl New Testament, which ItAve been given-to the pub lic in advance of me meeting of Ihe Convocation or Canterbury, gives a fair idea of the character and sco|ie of the ten years’ work which been done by Ihe two committees in England and America, l’lte book will probably be published within tbo next mouth, and it it said that a cheap ten cent edition will be among tbo first given to llie public. But little doubt ia expressed by any member of the committee tiiat llie Convocation will approve aud adopt the now version. Whether oilier churches than the Church of Eng land will aocept it is a questiou to be decided in the future. Among the more atrikiug changes may be noted au alteration in the Lord’s Prayer as rendered in'Mattbew, vi, 9—16. In the new version the Dox- ology is entirely omitted, and the prayer reads thus; “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in Heaven, so an earth. Give ns this day our daily bread, and forgive ns onr debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. Anil lead ns not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” The prayer as recorded in Luke, xL, 2,3, 4, reads as follows in the revised book: “Father, hal lowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us onr sins, for wo ourselves alto forgive •very one tiiat it indebted to u And lead ns not into temptation, in Matthew, iv., 5, whero the temp tation of Christ ia related, tho old version says: “Then the devil taketli him up into the holy city aad setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple.” Iu this verse “a pinnacle” is made to road “the pinnacle,” and the change it manifestly proper, since there was only one pinnacle to the temple. Very many of the altera tions are of precisely such nature at this, the definite article being sub stituted for the indefinite and vice vena. Matthew, vi., 1—“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men”—is made to read, “Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men,” which is looked upon as a much broader command, and more in accordance with the whole spirit of Christ’s teachings. Mat thew, xix, 17, the ontire meaning of the text it changed, but no new doc trine is put forth and no old one as sailed. In the King James version the verse reads: “Why callcst thou me good? There is none good but oho; that is God. But if thou will enter into life, keep the command- menu.” Ia tho now version the verse is as follows: “Why askclb thou me concerning that which it good? One there7s good; but if thou vouldst enter into life, keep the commandments.” The question in Mark, viiL, 36, 37, “For what shall it profit* man if ho shail gain th* whole world and lose hi* own tool ? Or whet shall a man give Iu oxetenge for b<s soul ?”Is rendered, “For what doth it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what should a man give in exchange for his life ?” In Luke ix., 36, “And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, ‘This is my beloved son; hear him?” Tho new work reads: “And then came a voice oat of the clouds, saying, This is my son, my chosen.’ ” In speaking of Capernaum, Christ said, aa recorded ia Lake x., 15, 16. of the accepted version: “And thou Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hall. He that heareth you [speak ing to his disciples] heareth me, and he that despise th me despiseth Him that sent me.” The committee have changed this passage very ma terially. It reads: “Ana thou, Ca pernaum, shall thou be exalted' un to heaven? thou shall be brongbt down nnto Hades. He that bear- eth yon heareth me, and he that re- jocteth you rejecteth me, and be that rejecteth me rejecteth Him that teat me.” Lake xvi., 8,9, have also been materially changed. In the present version they read: “And the Lord commended the unjust steward because he ted done wise ly ; for the children of the world are in their generation wiser than the children ofiight. And I say unto you, make to yoursolvcs friends of the mammon of unright eousness, that when ye fail they may receive you into' overlasting habitations.” In tho revision these two verses read as follows: “And the Lord commended the unjust steward because he ted done wisely. For the sonsoftlie world are, lor their own generation, wiser than the sons of light. And I say unto yon, make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unright eousness, that when U shall fail they may receive you Into the eter nal tabernacles.” In the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, aa told in Lake, the word “hell” is changed to Hades, so that tho .verse reads, “And in Hades he lifted aphis eyes, being in torments.” Without Itav- ing tho entire revision to examine, it is impossible lo say whether the word “hell” is expunged in every instance where it occurs, and the members of the committee in this city refuse to give any information on the subjert, but hero aro two cases where it is stricken out, and tho presumption appears to be that the old hell of our fathers has been abolished by tho committco on re vision. The story of tho pool of Betheada, as told in Joint, is mate rially changed by taking from it that portion which relates to the miraculous powers of tko water iu tho pooL In verse 3—“In these lav a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of.the water”—the last seven words are stricken out, and ->For a certain angel went do* it at a certain season into ihe pool and troubled the water; wlio- MM-ver llieu first after the troulilln- •>f the water stepped in wai made whole of whatsoever disease he .had”—is omitted altogether. AcU xi, 47, “And the Lord added to tlie eliitri'h daily such as should be snv- ed,” i* made to read, “And the Lord -■dried to them day by. day llmse tliat were bring saved.” In Act- viii.. 37, “Anri Philip said, if thou helievest with all thy heart thou mayest. And he answered and said, t believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,” conipt ising the eu nuch's profession of faith, is ex pttngeU, ns is also the expression. ••Let its not tight against God,” in Act* xxili., 9. Jit Acts xvii., 23, “For as I pa scil by and beheld your devotions, I found nn altar •vitlt this inscription : To the un known God. Wlmt, therefore, ye ivorship in ignorance, that declare l unto you.” In the trial of Paul before Agrippa, recorded in Act- xxvi.,- some rather important chang es arc made in verse- 24 to 29 inclu sive, and the impression that Agrip pa was almost persuaded to become ;t Christian by Paul’s eloquence is dispelled. The verse* iu the present version are as fol lows: “And as ho thus spake for himself Feslus said, with loud voice: Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. But lie said: 1 am not mad, most noble Feslus, but speak forth the words of truth aud sober ness. For the King knoweth of these things, before whom also speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in the corner. King Agrippa, helievest thou the prophets? know that thou belicvesL Then Agrippa said unto Paul, -almost thou pcrsiiadcst me to be a Chris- tian. And Paul said, I would to God that not only thou, but also all that bear mo this day, were both almost and altogether such as I am except these bonds.” In the revis ed version this scene is described thus: “And he thus made his de fense, Festus snitli with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad ;thy much learning doth turn thee to madness. But Paul saith, I am not mad, most excellent Festus; but speak forth words of trutii and soberness. For the King knoweth of these things ■intowliont also I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things arc hidden from Him; fur this hath not been done iu a corner. King Agrippa, helievest thou the prophets? I know that thou believ es!. And Agrippa said unto Paul, with but little persuasion thou wouldst make me n Christian. Aud Paul taid I would to God that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all who hear me this day, might become snch os I am, except these bonds. Kindness (o Employee. H«t York Grocer. We heard a prominent West Side grocery merchant make a remark tiiat if a man expected to succeed in business he must divest himself of all feelings of generosity or kind ness to his employes or anybody else. Wc do not believe that tiiis is so. To achieve the fullest success, especially in a large business, there must be a cordial feeling existing between the employer and employ ed—an etprit du corps, as the French have it—and unless the employer treats his employes fairly, ana even generously and kindly, this is im possible. A merchant, by subordi nating all his better feelings and impulses to money-getting, may he successful from a financial point ot view, hot instead ol being a man he degenerates into a money-getting machine, and when he has .accumu lated wealth is incapable of enjoy ing it This may be success, but we do not desire that kind of success. Man has a higher mission than this in the world. He has other dnties than to satisfy his own selfish de sires; and his duties to his fellow men will not permit him, if be is a conscientious man, to shnt himself up and keep out those better im pulses, which will make his em ployes respect and love him. Un less he has the respect and good will of those who serve him, he will nev er be well served, and unless he deals kindly and generously, as well as justly, with those who work for him he will never have their good will. Friendship.; If friendship be delightful; if it be above all, delightful to enjoy the continued friendship of those who are endeared to us by the intimacy of many years, who can discourse ith us as the frolics of the school, of the adventures and studies of the college, or the years when we ranked omselves with men in the free society of the world; how de lightful must be the friendship of those who,cacompanyingus through all this long period, with a closer union than any causal friend, can ; ;o still farther back, from the school i-o the very nursery which witness ed our common pastimes ithat J has excited our love or our hatred; who have honored with us those to whom we have paid every filial honor in life aud wept with us over those whoso death has been to us the most lasting sorrow of our heart! Every dissension of man with man excites in us a feeling of painful incongruity. But we feel a pecu liar melancholy in the discord of those whom ono roof has continued to shelter during life, and whose dust is afterwards to be mingled nndcr a single stone. Wholesaled Retail Jewelers AUD l Watch Manufacturers, PEA LEIS IU -FI TV Fine Jewelry, Solid Silver, Silver Plated Ware, Bridal Presents, Clocks, Bronzes, Etc., Etc. WE CAN SAVE PURCHASERS SO PER CENT. Semi lor onr Prices before bny Inf elsewhere. FACTORY art SALESROOM, 34 Whitehall. St., ATLANTA, GA. Semi for C»U)o*tie sod Prices. HexAMielt have received another. lot of those Texas Call early 1 demand Is s COEN, nAT, WHEAT BRAN, FEED OATS. ETC., ETC.. to parties who want to buy for sash or city acceptance and no other way. Please ilonot send orders unless Ton are sd to pay on present .tion ot MIL Red Rust-Proof Oats. r they will all be sold baton tho pplmd. I can makeiastdo prices Universal Favorite! 5c, CIGAB BAEEBY AND CONPECTIONEEY Ton will And the beat of Fruits ot Uie Season. ORANGES & LEMONS ocoAjnrrs and- DRIED PRUNE*. POTATOES, ONIONS, CABBAGES, CRANBERRIES. VIR GINIA PKAKUT8.PECANS. BRA ZIL AND _EN«*LI8H WAIr» nuts. a£mo;— — ONDS, BXU, An a rail Lino of FANCY GROCERIES, nonenrd Winn and Liqnrrs of all doscripi At Low Prices the best Chec.o and Bi Dried Beef, Baltimore Saasnae, V e aad Patent ncur, Bte? taction guaranteed. WUt wants of each and ererr onu if tfons. utter, E. CRINEe Sept lo, 1880-dmd Txtg) weeks since the Coffee Coun- S i Gazette announced the death ot a ttle eon of Mr. Henry Ingram, of that county, from hydrophobia. It now announces the death of Chann- ccy, another son of that gentleman, from the same disease. The strange fact about this second death is tiiat the boy was, as far as known, never bitten by the cat which caused the death [of his brother while he was suffering with his fatal attack. IIow he contracted the disease is a mys tery. A gentleman tho other evening objected to playing cards with a ladjr, because, he said, she had such a winning way about her. '. i ;Vw RTJMNEY, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, WASHINGTON STRFBT. TOST RECEIVED, A LARGE LOT OF 8AM- ° PLES of the Latest Styles! FALL AID Wmk SUITS! Mi SHIET CUTTING « —A— SPECIALTY ! Good Work ! Perfect Fit a&4 Seasonable Price* Guaranteed! ijM-I,

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly news and advertiser. (Albany, Ga.) 1880-1???, February 26, 1881, Image 1