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JiAGK’S SERMON 1
jkeat DIVINE’S SUNDAY
discourse.
I. npleas ,,res of J.]fe”-n»»NoSym- Dennncla
L With the yVholesa'e Work
Amu9ei’»e“ t8 Giorlous
[of r Ttr C. A#
e v their
» f-And *o p**-. when
It came C;tU for
sport. And
»• samsoa out sport.’’-Judges of the prison
^diie'»
ff'gport thrfle thousand peop^assern^
1 the of eyeless Samson.
0 erei, ma f J,iv tor the nnd entertainment. im TV, eut
sgftn t0 t0 ci«p c "t,. and p° ’ and they
f e ?m to begin, out!”
s ara h out! Fetch Jiim
P K& a “' the house, so he says to the
t “Bring where the
Mm. me
1 © ” Tim lad does so. Then
» ^ fir l ,re " ' hands one of
nu ts his on
md with the mightiest push
nrta'l ever made, throws himseif for
° m l the orJl whole house comes down in
IBt grinding the audience
roUS - a’wine-press. “And it
in so
tapes when their hearts were merry,
[o pass said, _ Cali for Samson, that he
hey ^ P t°lie’prison-house; \nd they called for
S and lie
thon!snort.” out of In otner words there
“o,vn foments that and are death destructive and the
disaster upon While
ilBKf those who practice them.
they die The three
d who perished that day in Gaza
K an fi compared have been to destroyed the tens of thou- body
Lml soul by carried bad amusements to excess. and
amusements must have noticed
,v sermons sympathy you with eeclesiasti
a i,,ve no with that wholesale
iciation rait-jackets, amusements or to which many
J “ited of Church of God
I believe the
mle a tremendous mistake in trying
I mressthe sportfulness of youth and
out irom men their love of amuse
If God ever implanted anvthinghn
implanted this desire. But instead
[vidin* for this demand of our nature,
hurcli of God lias for the main part
dit. \ s in a riot tbe Mayor plants a
y at the end of the street and has it
[Off so that everything is cut down
happens to stand in the range, the
L as well as the bad, so there are men
church who plant the batteries of
fcmnation and Arc away indiscrimin
I Everything is condemned. They
Is if they would like to have our youth
J Fin blue uniform like the children of
[chan asylum, and of march the Dead down March the
of life to the tune
fi. They hate a blue sash, or a rose
_ ■n the . hair, , ; or „ a tasseled gaiter, and
K: a man almost ready for a lunatic
P m who utters a conundrum.
lung ■coantry Mens Christian Associations glorious work. of
are doing a
Khave fine reading rooms, and all the
lenses are of the best kind, and are
•adding I gymnasiums and bowling al
where, without any evil surroundings,
lyoung Itual men may get physical as well as
improvement. We are dwindling
|r ■e-voieed to a narrow-chested, race, when God weak-armed, calls us to a
■ in which he wants physical as well
fntua athletes. I would to God that
■ime might soon come when in all our
■gesand peiton, theological seminaries, as at
a gymnasium shall be estab
If. nTT,™. s P®? d 11 ? £c eve T ii tl10 yea ministry, . rs . bart and J
IL cmnplaMt^and’then^awlu^into
Diver
pulpit, l heavenly!” and the because people say, he looks “Doesn’t sickly, he
the Church of God direct, rather than
Impt to suppress, the desire for amuse
it. The best men that the world ever
w have had their sports. William Wil
force trundled hoop with his children,
■tin luther helped dress the Christmas
'■ Ministers have pitched quoits, phil
iropists have gone a-skating, prime
isters have played ball,
nr communities are filled with men and
ieu who have in their souls unrneas-
1 resources for .sportfulness and frolic,
w me a man who never lights up with
rtfulness and has no sympathy with the
cations of others, and I will show you
ian wll ° is a stumbling block to the
?uom of God. Such men are caricatures
■eiigion. They lead young people to
K tllat a !aan is good in proportion as
Joans and frowns and looks sallow,and
the height of a man’s Christian stature
proportion to the length of his face. I
k bright-faced, • if 8 . 0 ® five radiant hundred such men for
1 fago Christian on
are the words, “Rejoiceever
”t oaes fy ^*7 morning by his cheerful face
sermons. I will go further
y that . I have no confidence in a man
.~? 9 a religion of his gloomy looks.
„i,i a man al ways turns out badly.
not „ want b£m . £or the treasurer of
ii-ni, al1 ssylum.. The
orphans would
nurch Pf°ple at one whom communion, I received there
oni applicant of whose piety I
H- XDeHi k r '! 0 „ us een ‘ the He most had the longest story.
P nance visions > and gave
n so wonderful that all the
had52fo1f =urnri2 C a n i tll s e were year discouraged. atter t0 l0arn I that was
h wiiinv, 0 )? Wltb was I u connected. tbe funds of Who the bank this
ck an «f hi*.^ ♦u is
feet hi P u cal1 rt) ligion—wings
on’ a „ a< *’ feathers black? Our re
eht wines'k^ brig aogei— l£ taking f eet her bright, place eyes in
isool eia si, 6 f’ u , s , a ro that reaches
I skies d ts ab P e to
pWne rmf tbe bells of heaven
-n talt!r,„ ere ne some persons who,
ft * i° ? m inister, always
itic to in, k iagubrious. feel it
Pie. to tf! i Go forth, O
ins von awful amusement. God
S many ° haa Py- But, when there
fWJlT poliuTi!/ 1 3 an 01 E! lins juuocent that is pleasure, danger
I and full nV ^by
lTe n Dg ' stop our ears to a
s of a songsters to listen to the
e Why turn back from
wers and a abloom with wild
nts,and within • , tlle nimble tor*
Ad)the hot In Slde8 J?, blistered of Cotopaxi? feet attempt to
Sow eys,’ aii skating 3 H°?
| rl ?bs ses » and theatres, all bowling
msetc» da nt3 n a n d ba< J’ 1 styles of
? Principle! andjadve nf f i, by put on trial
em certain car*
insement pw ? lrs t> you judge . of any
official hv if be ^ ful result by
reacts °<w T or its
cm made 6 f e are P eo P le who
•mbination ud U ^ n j They
0 mu 'tiplication are a
atisties, rime Tf v Sb ? w them tables and
they wm, an exquisite
a botanical Hnoi° Se i’ they win submit it
bey , stmortem which is only the
never do"anvthi atl0n of a fi °wer.
bde. There yth g more than feebly
3rB are no great tides of feeling
surging up from the depth of their soul in
billow after billow of reverberating laugh¬
ter. They seem as if nature had built
them by contract and made a bungling job
out of it. But, blessed be God, there are
people in the world who have bright faces
and whose life is a song, an anthem, a
psean of victory. Even their troubles are
like the vines that crawl up the side of a
great tower on the top of which the sun¬
light sits and the soft airs of summer hold
perpetual like to carnival. have They are tbe people
you the people I coins like to your house; they
are to have come to my
house. Now, it is these exliilaratit anil
sympathetic and warm-hearted people that
are most tempted to pernicious amuse¬
ments. In proportion as a ship is swift it
wants a strnn- helmsman: in nrofortion up
a horse is gay it wants a strong driver; ana
these people of exuberant nature will do
well to look at tbe reaction of all their
amusements. If an amusement sends you
home at night nervous so you cannot sleep,
and you rise in the morning, not because
yon are slept out, but because your duty
drags you from your slumbers, you have
been where you ought not to have been.
There are amusemeuts that send a man
next day to his work bloodshot, yawning,
stupid, nauseated, and they are wrong
kinds of amusements. There are entertain¬
ments that give a man disgust with the
drudgery of life, with tools because they
are not swords, with working aprons be¬
cause they are not robes, with cattle because
they are not infuriated bulls of the arena.
If any amusement sends you home longing
for a life of romance and thrilling adven¬
ture, love that takes poison and shoots it¬
self, moonlight adventures and hair¬
breadths escapes, you may depend upon it
that you are the sacrificed victim of un
sanctided pleasure. Our recreations are
intended to build us up, and if they pull us
down as to our moral or as to our physical
strength, you may come to the conclusion
that they are obnoxious.
Still further: Those amusements are
wrong which lead into expenditure beyonil
your lmuins. Money spent in recreation is*
not thrown away. It is all folly for us to
come from a place of amusement feeling
that we have wasted our money and time.
You may by it have made an investment
worth more than the transaction that
yielded you a hundred or a thousand dol¬
lars. But how many properties have been
riddled by costly amusement? The table
has been robbed to pay the club. The
champagne has cheated the children’s
wardrobo. The carousing party has burned
up the boy’s primer. Tbe tablecloth of the
corner saloon is in debt to the wire’s faded
dress. Excursions that in a (lay make a
tour around a whole month’s wages; ladies
whose lifetime business it is tc “go shop¬
ping,” have their counterpart in uneduca¬
ted children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appall the church, and
that send drunkenness staggering across
the richly figured carpet of the mansion and
dashing into the mirror, and drowning out
the carol of music with the whooping tlieir old of
bloated sons come home to break
mother’s heart, when men go into amuse¬
ments that they cannot afford, they flrst
borrow what they cannot earn, and then
they steal what they cannot borrow. Fir^t
they go into embarrassment and then into
theft, and when a man gets as far on as
he does not stop short of the penlten-,
tiary. There is not a prison in the land
where there are not victims of unsanctilled
amusements. How often I have had par
en p s com e to me and ask me to go and beg
tlieir boy off from the consequence of
crimes that he had committed against his
employer—the taking of funds out of the
employer’s till, or tho disarrangement of
accounts! Why, he had salary enough to
p U y a ii lawful expenditure, sinful but not enough
Sll iary to meet his amusements,
And again and again I have gone and im-
2, pi or ,.q f or the young man—sometimes,
lfls , the petition unavailing.
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens! The young man says:
“Now I am. off for a good time. Never
mind economy; I’ll get money somehow.
-\yqat a fine road! What a beautiful day
£ ° r a r '" le! Cril ° k the whip nnd ° VUr tlu!
turnpilcel Come,boys, fill high yourglasses! ride3
Drink! Long life, health, plenty of
just like this!” Hard-working men hear
the ciatter of the hoofs and look up and
say, “Why, I wonder where those fellows
get their money from. We have to toil and
drudge. They do nothing.” To these gay
men life is a thrill and an excitement.
They stare at other people and jingles. in turn The are
stared at. Tho watch-chain
cup foams. The checks flush, the eyes
flash. The midnight hears their guffaw.
They swagger. They jostle decent men off
the sidewalk. They take tho name of God
in vain. They parody the hymn they
learned at their mother’s knee; and to all
pictures of coming disaster they cry out:
“Who cares!” and to the counsel of some
Christian friend, “Who are you?” Passing
along the street some night you hear a
shriek in a grog-shop, the rattle of the
watchman’s club, the rush of the police.
What is the matter now? Oh, this reckless
voung man has been killed in a grog-shop
fight. Carry him home to his father’s
house. Parents will come down and wash
his wounds and close his eyes in death.
They forgive him all he did, though he
cannot in his silence ask it. The prodigal
has got home at last. Mother will go to
her little garden and get the sweetest
flowers aud twist them into a chaplet for
the silent heart of the wayward boy and
push back from the bloated brow the long
locks that were once her pride. And the
air will be rent with the father’s cry: “Oh,
mv son. my son, my poor son; would Goa
I had died for thee, oh, my son, my son!”
You may judge of amusements by their
effect upon physical health. The need of
many good people is physical recupera¬
tion. There are Christian men who wrlto
hards things against their immortal souls
when there is nothing the matter with
them except an incompetent liver. There
are Christian people who seem to think it
is a good sign to be poorly, and because
Richard Baxter and Robert Hall were in¬
valids they think by the same sickness they
may come to the same grandeur of charac¬ that
ter. I want to tell Christian people
God will hold you responsible for your in¬
validism if it is your own fault, and when
through right exercise and prudence you of
might be athletic and well. The effect
the body upon the soul you acknowledge.
Put a man of mild disposition upon the an¬
imal diet of which the Indian partakes, and
in a little while his blood will change its
chemical proportions. It will become like
unto the blood of the lion or the tiger or
the bear, while his disposition will change
and become fierce, cruel and unrelenting.
The body has a powerful effect upon the
soul. There are people whose ideas of
Heaven are ail shut out with clouds of to¬
bacco smoke. There are people who dare
to shatter the physical vase in which God
put the jewel of eternity. There are men
with great hearts and intellects in bodies
worn out by their own neglects. Magnificent
machinery capable of propelling fastened the great in
Etruria across the Atlantic, yet Physical
a rickety North River merely propeller. shows itself in
development which walk¬
a fabulous lifting, or in perilous rope only
ing ‘or in pugilistic encounter, excites
our contempt, but we confess to great
admiration for a man who has a great soul
in an athletic body, every nerve muscle
and bone of which is consecrated to right
uses. Oh, it seems to me outrageous that
men through neglect should allow their
physical health to go down beyond repair,
spending the rest of their lives not iu soma
great enterprise for God and the world,
but in studying what is the best thing to
take for dyspepsia. A ship which ought
with all sails set and every man at his post
to ho carrying a rich cargo for eternity
employing all its men in stopping up leak¬
ages! When you may through some of the
popular and healthful recreations of out*
tune work off your spleen and your qner
ulousness aud one-half oT your physical
and mental ailments, do not turn hack
from such a grand medicament.
Again, judge of the places of amusement
by the companionship into which they put
you. If you belong to an organization
where you have to associate with the in¬
temperate, with the unclean, with the
abandoned, however well they may be
dressed, in the name of God quit it. They
will despoil your nature. They will under¬
mine your moral character. They will drop
you not give when you cent are destroyed. "They will
one to support your children
when you arc dead. They will weep not
one tear at your burial. They will chuckle
over your damnation. But the day comes
when the men who have exerted evil influ¬
ence upon their fellows will be brought to
judgment. Scene: the last day. Stage:
the rocking earth. Enter dukes, lords,
kings, beggars, clowns. No sword. No
tinsel. No crown. Tor footlights, the
kindling flames of a world. For orchestra,
the trumpets that wake the dead. For
gnllery, the clouds filled with angel spec
tutors, for applause, the rlanpiog floods
of the sen. For curtains, the leaves rolled
together as a scroll. For tragedy, the doom
of the destroyed. For farce, the effort to
serve the world and God at the same time.
For the last scene of the fifth act, the
tramp of nations across the stage—some
to the right, others to the left.
Again any amusement that gives you a
distaste for domestic life is bad. Howmany
bright domestic circles have been broken
up by sinful amusements? The father want
off, the mother went off, the Child went, off.
There are all around us the fragments of
blasted households. Oh! if vou have wan
dered awav, I would like to chnnn you
back by the sound of that one word,
u but H .°,Do little more you time not to know give that to you domestic have
welfare? Do you not see, father, that your
children are soon to go out into the world,
and all the influence for good you are to .
have over them you must have now? Death
will break in on your conjugal relations,
aud, alas! of if you have perished to stand from over the
grave one who yourneg
le 2;
t me say to all young men, your style
of amusement will decide your eternal
destiny. One night I saw a young man at
a street corner evidently doubting as to
winch direction he had better take. He
had his hat lifted high enough so you
could see he had an intelligent forehead,
He had a stout chest; he had a robust de
velopment. Splendid young man. Cultured
young man. Honored young man. Why
did he stop there while so many were go
ing up and down? The fact is that every
man has a good angel and a bad angel
contending for the masterv of hts spirit.
And there was a good angel and a bad
angel struggling with that youug man’s
soul at the corner of the street. “Come
with me,” said the good angel, “I will take
you homo. I will spread my wing over
your pathway. I will lovingly escort you
all through life. I will bles3 every cup you
drink out of, every couch you rest on,
every doorway you cuter. I will conse
crate your tears when you weep, your
sweat whan you toil, and at the last I will
hand over your grave into the hand
of the bright angel of a Christian resnrrec
tion. In answer to your father’s petition
and your mother’s prayer I have been sent
of the Lord out of Heaven to be your guar
dlan spirit. Come with me!’’said the good
angel, in a voice of unearthly symphony.
It was music like that which drops from a
lute of Heaven when a seraph breathes on
It. “No, no,” said the bad angel, “come
•with me; I have something bet ter to oil or;
the wines I pour arc from chalices of be
witching carousal; the dance I lead is over
floor tessellated with unrestrained indul
gences; there is no God to frown on the
meadows daisied and primrosed; come with
with me.” The young man hesitated at a
time when hesitation was ruin and the bad
angel smote the good angel until it de
parted, spreading wings through
the starlight upward and away, until a
door flashed open in the sky and forever
the wings vanished. That was the turning
point in that young man’s history; for the
good angel flown, he hesitated no io ger,
but started on a pathway which is beauti
The l bad < angeb Il ieading* , the* :e way, * opened
gate aft,er gate, and at each gate the road
became rougher and the sky more lurid,
and, what was peculiar, as the gate
slammed shut it came to with a jar that
indicated that it would never open. Passed
each portal, there was a grinding of locks
and a shoving of holts; and the scenery on
either side the r^d changed from gardens
to deserts, and tile June air became a cut
ting Decemberdflast, and the bright wings
of the bad angel turned to sackcloth and
the eyes of the light became hollow with
th 0 e Pel start rie had nd Ss 0 sed 0Un w“ne?’ poured
forth bubbling tears and foaming blood,
and on the right side of the road there was
LSSrshS 1 “«>«“ find K
answer was, “That is the serpent of sting
ing remorse.” On the left side of the road
there was a lion, and the man asked the
ho(j amrel. Wluit is tliftt lion? ftnd tiio
answer’was despair.’” “That is the lion of all-devour- the
ing A vulture flew through
sky, and the man asked the bad angel,
was! “ThaMs* tie vulture '"waiting forThe
carcasses of the slain.” And then the man
began to try to pull off of him the folds of
something that had wound him round and
« h e 8 0 he b R S
“What t h at twists me in t his
convolution?” and the answer was, “That
is the worm that never dies'.” and then the
man said to the bad angel “What docs all
this mean? I trusted in what you said at the
corner of the street that night; I trusted it
all, and why have you thus deceived me?”
Then the last deception fell off the char
the pit to destroy your soul; I watched my
chance for many a long year; when you
hesitated that night on the street I gained
my triumph; and now you are here. Ila!
ha! You are here. Come, now, let us Ml
these two chalices of fire and drink to
getherto darkness and woe and death,
Hail! hail!” Oh young man, will the good
soul? Their wings are interlocked this
nioment above you, contending for your
condor flgdif inM-sky.^Thi^hour® God help rnay*(16- T*
eide your destiny. you!
hesitate is to die!
it ussian ^clones.
According to recent Russian statis
;ics there are now 17,005 factories in
‘he empire, with an annual production
valued at $733,500,000. In these fac
ories there are employed 940,044 w ork
nen and 204,030 women and girls.
J
DESTINIES OF A NATION LIKENED
TO A GAME OF CHESS.
ALL CLASSES ARE REPRESENTED,
Bishops Stand For the Church; Knights
Are the Politicians and Pawns the
Great Masses.
A nation’s progress or its decline is
like a game upon a chessboard, and we
all play our parts. The king is a kind
of divinity, to be idolized aud protect¬
ed, but is helpless and always in peril.
Cleveland was a king, but got check¬
mated and had to retire to private life.
The bishops on the chessboard repre¬
sent the church, which is a great pow¬
er in the land—a moral power that
makes but little noise and attacks in
iquity in high places and sweeps the
i, boai „„„/i diagonally „ ., from , ,, Maine . to , ,, Mexi
“
co—The knights are the politicians
aud statesmen whose movements are
r j„i g lt 0 °o“qiie v,lione and and leit left oblique, nhlimie over- nvnr
, leaping . precedents and proprieties,
They have no straight lines nor right
angles, but are always J dodging ° around
a „„ i shifting __... their to suit the
comse
changing , situation. They require a
great deal of watching. The castles
are those rich old fellows “ who carry
tbe , . bags and , buy the ,, nation’s ,.
money
bonds and heap up their interest and
fight the income tax. But after all it
• * little humble, , . , unpretending , ,.
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pawns that master the situation and
control the game. They move straight
f orward a nn ,i . l)Ut t a ste t P at t a time, u but, nt
their phalanx , , is solid and irresistible
when marshalled by a master hand.
They are the common people-the
masses, lhe game of a nation has no
fixed movement. It is never played
twice alike ancl its resu i t8 ft re un -
i, known and uncertain until n they i have
transpired. Harrison was once a king,
hut was checkmated, and now there
none so r to do him revel
cnee.
Fate, chance, circumstances and
providence r all take a hand in this
^me. What , prophet , , or seer or states- . ,
man could have foretold to us tno
present unhappy condition of our
country? How long ” will it last and
what , , will be the ,, result. uo T Is _ ii the war
drifting into a war of conquest? Will
we have to take Cuba for pay and per
, haps the Philinnines l ninppines and and will will we wean an
hex Hawaii, and will the republican
party father all this imperialism and
0 ff 1C er the new ° governments and per- r
petuate , , their ,, . with ... patronage? , „
power
Or will Bryan and Cleveland coalesce
and combine against such a dangerous
P 0IR y an i 1 demand ,®* naaa the tue voice ’ 00 of the e
people it? I delighted , with ,“
upon was
Mr. Cleveland’s utterances on this war
business. It may J be a political kev
note, , but , he is Bryan s line about
on
acquiring territory and the Monroe
doctrine and he speaks boldly and
tude. He deplores tbe allurements
G f war to our young men and declares
th t even victories are demoralizing
to a nation and , quotes . from , ^ Generals
Grant and Sherman to prove it. A
leading ° Richmond paper says that
these , utterances , r from t> Bryan and i
Cleveland will make the next presi
dential issue and that the silver ques
will be a “ ed th ° ? ati ° n .f
platfoim and that the Democrats noith
and south and east and west will have
a great * love feast and sweep the conn
tr 7* ^s . old man Baugh Bangn would vouiu say, sav
we will all know by waiting, and that
j 8 a |i that we little pawns can do.
j w - a ^ t hat som ething ° would happen
to stop this shedding . ... of . , blood—this . , .
rich man’s war and poor man’s fight,
for t } lat is wbat it is M r. McKinley
"ays he is daily expecting a great and
very bloody battle. Ob, the pain, the
agony, the horror of a bloody battle
-i* «>«« «■*?“ »'
tion. There have eight yoang men
gone from this town and hundreds
more f rom tbe state and thousands
from _ tne ., south—gone ,. i*i like ai they were _
going to a frolic. Already many of
them are demoralized and have lost
a]1 ™g«d for the laws and all respect
lor womankind. The good people of
Walker county are paralyzed with fear
80 i,lj er8 — our goldiers whom we
call our patriots. And so it was at
Griffin and Tampa and other places,
There is enough tiouble and grief
at , a £me in . times . „ oi f peace. Old fa¬
ther Time keeps cutting onr good peo
pie down and strewing our homes with
tears The other day be took {rom u9
a good wife and mother without any
warning and now the light of that
bome ba8 gone out. Nobody knows
the ™ usauanuu desolation m of that hearthstone save
the bereaved husband and the heart
broken sons and daughters. How
w and longing are their days—
how "sail and lonaaome are thair
nights. This good Christian wo
man bag f or years sat near us in
the church and was one of its props,
We were always glad of her presence
and her smiles, and if we miss Ijer ac¬
customed welcome what must be the
loss to those who shared her sunshine
morning, noon and night? But Mrs.
Calhoun bad passed the meridian of
life and was more of a companion than
a mother. She had reared her flock
and reared them well aud was ready
for the call. How much sadder is the
death of a young hopeful and happy
mother. When I was a lad I had a bow
and a bunch of arrows and was proud
of my skill in using them. One day
I was aiming at a bird lliat was sing¬
ing on on the garden fence when my
father called me and said: “Don’t
shoot—don’t, shoot that bird, my son.”
He came to me and in tender words
told how he had found that, catbird’s
nest iu a tree at the corner of the gar¬
den and there were young birds in it,
and he said: “I think that this very
bird is their mother and she feeds
them all through the day and sings
because she is so happy. If you should
kill her what will become of her little
ones? Who will feed them when their
mother is dead?” I have never forgotten
that lesson he taught me. When I read
of Mrs. Clark Howell’s sad aud sud¬
den death my first thought was, who
will feed the young birds now, for no
one can nestle them and caress them
like a mother. How lost and helpless
are little children when their mother
dies. What Christian faith we must
have to be reconciled to the will of
God and to trust them to His watchful
care. But the promises are multiplied
over and over. Our heavenly Father
is the God of the widow and the or¬
phan. Even with those promises, the
death of a young mother is the saddest
thing in this troubled world—aud only
Providence can give consolation for it.
His tender care of orphan children is
the strongest proof of his love to man.
For 03 years George Muller trusted
Him to provujp for the orphans in his
asylum in London. He began with 20
and died with 2,100 under his care. As
their numbers increased bis means in¬
creased aud his buildings were enlarged
and his accommodations improved and
every want supplied, and yet he rewer
had an endowment nor an annuity, nor
did he ever know today what money he
would have next week. The money
came generally from unexpected sources
aud in varied sums, from a shilling to
£500. He says in his diary: “I
never had too much did I
ever have too little, did I
ever feel the slightest apprehen¬
sion that God would fail me. The
orphans were His and I was but His
agent and my text in my prayers was
‘open thy mouth wide aud I will fill
it.’” When Muller died, a few years
ago at the great age of ninety-three,
the orphanage was costing near $200,
000 annually for its maintenance, and
the money kept coming in. He never
sent out a circular aud never asked a
man or a woman for a dollar. He went
to God. That orphanage proves two
things—that God cares for orphans
and that He-answers prayers.
Win. T. Stead of The Review of Re¬
views has written a most interesting
character sketch of Muller in the May
number. If anyone is skeptical or un¬
settled upon this question of prayer let
him read it. Our own Dr. Jacobs,
who founded the Clinton orphanage
many years ago, has had a similar ex¬
perience on an humbler scale. He
never refused an orphan for lack of
funds. The funds increase as their
numbers increase and, like Mnller, he
keeps on enlarging the institution,
and the money grows with his wants.
Providence is behind it all.—Bxnn
Akp in Atlanta Constitution.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Various New Industries Reported
For the Past Week.
Alabama heads the new enterprises
of importance reported from the South¬
ern States for the week ended Juno
25, 1898, with the announcement of
the Alabama Steel aud Shipbuilding
Co., organized at Birmingham, with a
minimum capital of $500,000, and its
usual steady showing—this week a
large cotton gin, a flouring mill, and
a cotton oil mill; Arkansas reports a
contract awarded for water works;
Georgia, an oil mill, two cotton gins
and a flouring mill; Kentucky, an
electric light plant to be erected;
Louisiana, salt mines, and an electric
light and water works system; Miss¬
issippi, an oil mill, with refinery and
soap factory—capital, $125,000, a han¬
dle factory rebuilt, and a $50,000
compress company; North Carolina,
two flouring mills, a ginnery, a saw
mill and a foundry; South Carolina,
two flouring mills and a $60,000 cotton
mill; Tennessee, a saw mill rebuilt,
two large planing mills, and a grain
elevator; Texas, a flituring mill, a
$50,000 saw mill and a $75,000 irriga¬
tion investment; West Virginia,a local
telephone company.-Tradesman (Chat¬
tanooga, Tenn).
STAHLMAN GIVES INFORMATION.
Exhibits Telegrams to the Senate In¬
vestigating Committee.
A Washington special says: Major
E. B. Stahlman appeared before the
senate investigating committee again
Monday and exhibited copies of tele¬
grams that passed between himself
and Barbee & Smith, not, as he said,
because the committee had a right to
demand them (inasmuch as matters be¬
tween an attorney and client were
sacred), but because he desired to give
the fullest information to the commit¬
tee to enable it to reach a just conclu¬
sion. He presented also a statement
showing what disposition he made of
the money derived by him as a fee in
prosecuting the claim.
