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Hale s W« i'.'.d Eta s :• "• y.
VOL. 13.
1AB0RESS WITH GOB.
BRV. THOMAS DIXON ON ENCOUFt
| AGEMENTS TO CHRISTIANS.
A Prelude on Debased Journalism and
| the Publication ot Criminal Ke-res— All
j fclie World Just Now Seems Kipe fol
/ ftke Christian Harvest.
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i New York Jan. 15.—Rev. Thomas
Dixon Jr returned to .Jus..-pulpitfrom
ftisuestem u morning. Theser.
t‘ y „ review of Mr
imon was prece ’
recent remartra e _
Cleveland’s New Yotk newspaper ^ as
About a famous
presenting the subject of public breeders
ofertae. Hekaid.: i :i
A wfld yarn diskebutablq wks recently published
in a Certain daily news- aj%
maner pubtfshedi ip New York Yad
President'Elect Cleveland
offered the position fWaihi^tph of chief of the seqret Mr]
«ervidd bureau ’lat tot to bi
Thomas- ByrneS; chief th^ police, sbjeet
New York. This same canarcj
furthermore declared that Mr. Byrnes
bad taken precautions to protect Mr.
Cleveland from assassination. In an in
terview with,the New Ifork Herald the
president efect flatly contradicted these
stories and branded the editors of the
sheet as would be assassins in the fol
lowing pemeftkablp i-b.in woi;ds:.
“Haying sben that paper you
might have absurd,’and known it .isn't so. The nof story
is pekfectl(y them is a
word of truth in it. Nothing anthorita
tive about my movements will ever he
seen in that paper. It’s just like that
about*Superintendent. ctcrykliiy published yestefdav having moikiing he-,
to'my Byrnes
00 m panted me office and his. tak-.
ing precautions to protect me from the
possible attacks, of ' 'crankf. That ifas
another rnitrutii but 1 cfa’zVfeilow’s suppose that
sheethWll put’it Sfto some
head to attempt, something likd
The article was published with a mali
clous accu^KSn,
This is a-nfl»t sdRous and
spoken to the press for publication, and
oewspa
of the
Amerfc
This newspaper has been the
and champion of every distingni’slM
I thief and crook who has figured
public life of the-city during the
twent >' >' ears - At the same time it lids
deliberately sought to bo the assassin
sought: tfadift the - standard of our
ct the CMe - Swb R Iia.p™ 1S
?5 «be deliberately army of craaks attempting theideaof to suggest
' in whom Mg agbexhausted i arS ’ t a f
lary slander and falsehood. There is
sort of question that such sheets
the breeders ot a thousand crimes.
form the daily inspirations of the
ua world an* pom:into the lleadhest our
om y a sw^t. poison
f from decent pub ,10 life. They can
aient fiecausa tqb
Wa nation; ® ma a up disgrace ° n T 0 to the r£ UiriPe-an e -kX? .con- Cal »
®‘' f be lence y ar ® 01 a constant the threat to too on paac T * 30 o* ]
ever ? abiding communityi T.iey
are edupati-nr; a new generation of enm
our cctfters of cn thzation. It m tune
for the ehtircli of tunst to speak m 110
uncertain Voice to these public assassins.
I have come to the firm conviction that
of your s ;i ” leper X than .bring f - such f a sheet
.
"'’CO*fORkERA •’ -
For we are laborers together with God.-I
Cor. iii, y.
ij !; w.<
labor? S'C.tScr vjth
G 1 But lttoor for what? Y7hat is the
■ of Christianity? It ^bepoji'qojlf hi
of dri¬ ms of the ages; itis
Inspiration for every dreaoior Utopia
in tho sou? of
ar oped for belli r things. r J
511 bo lamb eh;: 1 :! he down t
Ue little child ieuu
CONYERS, GEORGIA SATURDAY JAN. 21 1893.
they shall nothurt nor destroy mail my
holy monntain. for the glory of the Lord
shall cover the world as the waters
cover the deep. Such is the dream of
the prophet who foresaw the Jesus who
should announce to the world his scheme
for a world’s redemption and regenera
tion. The work of Christianity is the
salvation of this world—here, note; the
salvation of man individually, of society
in all its ramifications, of the state in all
its possible powers and duties; the sal
vat ion of a race.
<i«d has called you USA bahabfChris
toms to. thia woirk, iplicjir as he has called all
hwchurth Who Christ; but he has
called you’ with'anfeniphasis peculiar,
with an emphasis jm*e blear, larger in its
responsibilities, than any other td.stauft church,
jj e [ ias ca j| e <i this ptki ,thiif<|h
in theory World, heahjbriaifi mefebpolisbf t|rd^^n| tbs
New and:in ifs eCTfteJr
there to, utmost touch ^he lif$ of Ybnr j the wh$l»j tfiti’
to its limits,;. fiity is thfe
wealthiest city of the New World. God
the Jiapgiy^n century.; yep|»mpssap‘to - feMias!.also. t£e given, wealth yotU r df
message aij^ to the poor—the poor, with their
Wapts fieefis, whom he has called to
your door in larger numbers than to any
other church's; door, tori the! cdntftietati
He has called you to the work of social
and economic regeneration, for your
city is the queen of the commercial
world. "Through our open doors presses
the commerce oi,the ydur-han4 Old.W«jdd., ihe ^ Wfer |^
. God has pht on i
of a world’s commerce, and if is to be
Christian or heathen; civilized or
barian. . He has called you to the minis
try of touching the strirngersmo crowd
info your metropolitan city from the
four quarters to''minister ,of , the. woridj. ;Hq. ha?)
cahed yf>u to, the helpless, to
the slrbagi ththe vri»lii te the ’indiifer
,ent; totherforwglferi and he has laid it
Wj-qur' Ho^is sUbulderV this a* > ttoiiidri(lduf a divine ro^pensi- Wk
to
be dque? ! Listen;. I 1
- ‘ Ye 1 are couwker* riiESEcr. ; ,xtoi«la 1
’ N0 time, like the
Tn ■ nr*T fVrsa to von? It
the,time for; youitomork
never geasttsaa ..thrillAo-tbo-uttee*
ghallfcotneb -Mkn'sfatal mistake is the
In j sta k e of a tomorraiy, ‘GpidSnW ff. 4m4>ust man is to co
' ,fl fi be
i A ai s tinguWhed " : laWy^ ^ who bad drawn
th , r - l}s mei} w ,Ueqei> ;
liffysS
fifsent i’ofa tfiend to draw
a wili . H {iic3 is friend had only
mi ltm ia >v to d 9 pbut
Wht'l to the bedside of his dytag
frielul . xh dying man took the pen in
J n crav<iled |^. ffiia first letter: then
..^q tHu ^elpl'ess. an ;^ ! tljef a' became limp
\ and in moment life was
, 0 | t is fatal defect to wait,
_ t ^oarisGtids onf . t$ tiAidi '* >
<
Seeoml-Yro have an a.-.frur..-o that
4 a JdbwoDkm W ifol 1
deavor, 4 ' if, A iat exhi&ufd 4 r&,-!f evfry i ptif-fioftfi J*f>?4i^^re- all of
^ m^
which l am capable, I am weak, lam
weak f ora battle, fora struggle, 1 because
£ bavre no h/ ^, Be rve power. The men who
move t VO rbl are men that have a
^ jn fife.-is the'ifianwlio has this to
aebtopawetTiehiud * that which theivorld
. v
Y aho-ild be the Strongest
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hrs ciqucitj . , .. i- - - • *
haves n* he^js maitH-iess in
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--g 1 i m ( Cl; I.I (\ I i .*•
mo ‘ '■ :
whet r n isi rtune Or fortune t mpo-
53 MakJ|:s ris4c#e ra*:li4a«*wjteai^ d^fT't ’- C ■■ /'
infinite_anu c«nipasiiei>.huth
111
haWtants of a certain province in Japan
were more or lew ground by taxation
and oppression. The rule* wasadissi
pated wretch, and the peasants could get
no redress. At last one man determined
that he w 6 uld give a petition to the
emperor. It was against the law of the
realm for any peasant to. dare approach
the emperor, but he took his petition,
placed it on along bamboo cane, and,
concealed behind a bridge, just as the
emperor came by without any ceremony
thrust it.injo.ljja.yery
The emperor seized it, opened it and
read it and saw what moved this breach
of courtesy, this thing unheard of in the
realm. He redressed the wrong; but he
turned over the peasant for torture for
a breach of the imperial rules of eti
(fpettk they built But tie saved' tiis him people, where and he
a monument to
f|ll. and his name is the inspiration stir
df generations unborn who shall know
of his name. S 9 success to him who
works'Witli God is hot limited to su
tdss or failure here. It sweeps in its
fcompass both, the finite dying and the infinite.
Man sometimes by will live most
truly! a’nd he 1 who only’lives truest does
in ;Christ. < .
' ■ ' the umbria.
Third—You 1 are coworkers with God—
therefore yeur part is as essential as
God’s: The essence of coworkership is
mutual responsibility. If 1 am coworker
with:Gbd,-theta' l am mutually responsi
ble vritb, God.- It has been said by a
philosopher that with God one is a ma
.jofity. It is true: but we understand by,
that more than what the philosopher
first meant. One with Uod is a major
ity, and tha.t qne is a fiipnan brang,_and Your
r 0 ?* 1 & •tha’f'partrtfetshlp. part
then .is just, as essential as God’s. God
is going.to do Ins.pa.rt. hut- yo« must do
yours.-df tlie-lfrngaotil will not c.ome.
A fvomfin lay dying itla back street of
this Qity,,itod|sh fnd 9 ,,caJl;ed:hei- boy toiler
said, “My boy. God will
!W buridd of >' ou w i* e “ } Aftfuri-wd
tbe litlTe JeIlow was standing on the
street qorner
^ M ^ ^ ^
him dnd Ca ^ ed fl ] r , hl , m ’ ,^ od
are tile shaft, and.. Gadb■■is, the
steam .‘that drives the machinery. It is
I absolutely necessary that the
be there, but it is, equally pentad that
! there shall be a medium through wliich
shall be commnnicated to the
' vrith'sto™. her engineers wrn
tion had been cut. The power
‘fV-Ir |but the means of
wfcs-wmfdfigi.i 30 d is peWer; mrt
that power shaU becomiuupwitad toflw
world
L.u:oi;sT l*Rf«|*MlST -
Then there is another xyu thA
; learn from that revelation, and is
.fa^ncrii* 41 , ^, lJ>'Ud«in* 1 *,^
11 , 1
p’?:: ami wi|ji
-f 1 vi a;
Si t^mph. IrWill be a better world m
j great cotiflk-; of gopd with
; ing oat the salvation of a w^rld. . on
are chosen, you arte cflkx-l.net
God needs you to do the vrarx, but be
: causa ybu need God. So has called you
; in.ijw s
The history of the. present tod»c-.-.s
that God is moving toward this era of
! triumph for the church. I bolieve that
the signs of Hu? daftSTrciMltfliitt.therois
• J\ ^ Go‘toljonloii‘ ..toi^mthehh.mT todav, and
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Jesus Christ. Our own. cmurcn tn **
development here has given, WAi^ie0S{ us ea&efor
thankfulness to Godfbr
done in the past. Thm
began onr work in thisoity, 4jp
experiment We began, |«M«bift4q^npg^ with &ttda
cious idea that it was
church in New York too smalf-fiw&u
people that came to it. When I told the
plan to men they said: "You areyojdj
Why, man, look at the vacant pevvs in
our city churchesl It i»-not possible to
a church useless because people
cannot get into it”
We said we would experiment.,and
we did. That little church soon tejaih.e’
too small, and we experunfcuted. Vsriflh 1
this hall, and in the past.year there b^yp
been days when we have turned hibre
people away from the doers than could
get into the hall. Today we
largest congregation .on. Manhattan it
land in a Protestant church, ktmjrfy’tfy
believing that God’s promise .iatpieftad
ing by putting that we our ara bandstothe-work,belief coworkers WtthGOtt.
The only limitations to the possibilities
of future work are our limitations, not
God’s, and the highest and broadest and
grandest success needed its thhftjty can
be accomplished the moment we really 6
and truly place ourselves in. a pe Motf>
for God to do his great things. ,; fi-ia
what three years have donii.
In theso three j'ears we have had' over
a thousand confessions of faith in Jesus
Christ, have received pew member^ ouf
selves churches. and But sent this is members nothing. to WelM“ otl^
brought together from every.
this city a band of young men—pegfeaps
3,000 young men—who attend tlfis cfossed' .ball
today who three years ago never
the threshold of a church. BaAKSMsW
gpthijn'g. There are a the hundred radius fhqjts^jl .this
young men within of
church threshold today who church. donot’erbss And Godlike %
of any
ca i)ed you to this responsibility. ...j , )f:
1 believe the church of Christ t&ngfi ito the
future in this city must do great
aD ,l if so it must do them agffrestiik^lij
and with.big plans and in. large, ways
if the of Christ
,
centuries, for G 04 , has . brought tq
’««rss&
! its. A latly^ame from, a tar
mnefi to'New \ ork cify some time US
maguifibeut dog, which
I bedti her proteytor and was very
1 f Yul aW^hiS'iVt! iS,
iSw di-onsoutirefused
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,
" e j?°P 1 hfrw™ 1
£ n^osifi-^ S
cHWeund. ran bun- from roto toe t he
fe aiuLto SSKiwSov 1 came bounding hack with joj
.the food ^ t
loofafikpand m a»i!»i«orbowl ami-<lo«S[
powe.mit. ; ,
,
^ c ieu.rHWt3. The 'troiibls with
^ ^ '
^.-jV ^ do nct recognize the qlil Wy ,
Bki jj al)(i consummate genius,
^ " h a 0 nbmy wilh to fight,
1 lipu nd d»ng, e«
HampehW. On tho second day of •
1 . ionruev 3 ° n fl y they ’ y encountered e Indians
-
w|p , werb profu , .
m m,
coutulcmce m the h- rgcaijt toev
his instructions. They cut down a tre$,
anil each man rut from it-a.loff,
vvhuli tie w r.qiped 1ms bl-.riketand thei.-rl^ ph'-ued
. : .nr.. 1 tli.-M t' .- laid
tho camofire f 0 in i-.e’e ns -11 si- p
“then ^himl the vhvnsh develop] t! y
took their positions to await
ll
th rh tho
NO. 3.
I
, ew aear TO cmmx II1C n ^
"scarcely Then, with a savage eagerness that could
wait for the onslaught, they
t»ok dm and discharged their musket*
'broke gf iba- supposed victims. But as they
into; the indosnre the deadly fire
the men in ambush was opened, and
‘"hot an Salian escaped,
If you are to fight the devil you must
[fight him with skill, with force and
j xnver . If you go to eleep the devil will
.scalp yoa sure while you are asleep.
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And so ia manv has'lain down town district*
the chuadr down. by the old
eampSre hjlo to keep the tmibers bright, and
w th»e asleep the devil has comet
ihicl scalped the whole body —and thef
; htxve ‘ movsd up town.
skked from matter.
if i n the future the church is to fight
4evil,. and do it really and thor
rj^hiy and in every with section of the with city,
B he must do it aggressiveness,
tfbice, with skill, with wisdom and even
.y^th ftutming. You must’Bet traps for
Yneh that .will catch memwho are afraid
m traps, but who will walk right in, liko
a bird Of a fish into a trap, and you have
him before he knows it. The church that
does neij plan to make fishers of men has
failed to understand the command of the
'Christo Ifdhe. Christian world is to sm>
oue&liu.the work Christ hasoalled it to
^q. it must adjust itself to the conditions
of the new life, If you will do that God
trtli use you mightily as;a.aoworker in
Us vineyard.
Bp not wawy about heaven; you will
&t t^iRfe heaven; *11 right. Your business business is to is bi-ing not
to your
th&Ikingdom of heaven to pass here,
4 “Ypu tiro laborers svith me,” says Christ,
tf ih thifi.yyork of caving tho world.” Oh,
'^aoul yill.go to its source with »
itemtii’dl'instinct that is divine and nn
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During tto siege of Paris in 1870 a
ifiigton vyas captured by the German
spUfiersV - They took it to Germany, and
U wai gWefcto one of the ladies of tho
royal household. She cared for it ten-
1 «>rly for years and kept it in a luxurious
.iitelosiyeiwCne day, after four years of
tl,e do ° r was an<1
t .
ft®.djng the point of the compass, and
■was beating its
.
““ft?
Uf<W*n(] p-y^mK^tirelesswmgs. tack to,ita source it will go mr
toliete^ ho \ati .
now-e\tn s«
^
1 ^ ! Great. 9 el,em„ f«r tbe c„wr MMM11 .
hem: i, a bright ideal A Pemri
• introduced a WU
touchin* such matters as may
tL„ Itis vemuvkable
that scW.^a* never before
'iAtfgd tr'f hL ^ffered 1 '^ 4ant of-it. • The >
T. mehMr <ti confess is so ill in-.
l oncernJn nm!b?hW - pisdutie's eOnsilrmioii and mat
tors coming » that •
Sh, , (1 k - vin
„ a
^ c 1 4iUidi df fcinsblf tb h^di^
Ho is out
after a couple of terms, only to give place
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bvel/Mimbbr cduld This put Minkclf in
some use. 'would lie
f d', z #ith such a master as Tom Heed,
tolerating no foolishness
Btebig boys on the back benches,
'ttefrf thens 'in wpul^ be a perceptible imptove
l.rttf^'4* fhe diameter of national legia
it very littlo while. Bet this '
! i«M. fc»t for books, writing matermln,
etc.—Philadelphia Tele
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