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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA* TUESDAY MARCH 2 188(5 TALMAGE’S SERMON. PREACHED YESTERDAY IN BROOK- LYN TABERNACLE. ?U« Oreet Divine Preachee the Sighth of Eli Rories or Sermon* on the Subject of tlte Marries# Ring —“Hotel and Hoarding Hone# Life Versus Homo Life,” Etc., Etc. Brooklyn, N. Y.,February 23.—[Special.]— Jlev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached today in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the eighth of his series of sermons on “The Marriage Bing," the subject being “Hotel and Board- inghoufe Life versus Home Life,” Professor Henry Eyre Browne played “O Sanctissioii,' By Lux. The whole congregation joined in singing tlic hymn: “Glory to God on high! Jx:t heaven and earth reply: Praise ye his name!'* I)r. T»Image expounded a chapter from tho second book of Samuel, about the ark deposited in the house of Obcd-cdom, about which Jose 1 phus says that the man was poor when the ark was left at his house, and rich beforo It left. The preacher remarked that every house is rich which lias in it the sacred chest of the Divine presence. The text was Luke x, 34 and 35: “And Brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on tho morrow when ho departed he took cut two pence and gave them to the host, and said unto him. take care of him and whatso ever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee." Following is tho sermon in fall: Th w Bill of a man who had been robbed and* almost killed by bandits. The good Samaritan had found tho unfortunate on a lonely rocky road, where to this veTj day depredations are sometimes committed upon travelers, and had put the injured man into the saddle while this merciful and well*to-do man Bad walked till they got to the hotel and tho wounded man was put to bed and cared for. It must have been a very superior hotel in its accommodations, for, though in the country tho landlord was paid at tho rate of what in our country would be four or five dollars a day, a penny being then a day’s wages and the two pennies paid in this case abont two days’ wages. Moreover it was one of those kiudhearted landlords who are wrapped op in the happiness of their guests, because the good Samaritan leaves the poor wonnded fellow to Bis entire care, promising that when he came that way again ho would pay all tho bills un til the invalid got well. Hotels and boarding houses are necessities. In very aucient times they wero unknown be- cause the world had comparatively fow in- SOjoUrilCrS; US nuvu nuiauum tusuou VIIV ttv Mamrc to invite tho three men to sit down to a dinner of veal; as when Lydia urgod tho Apostles to accept of her home; as when tho today. But wo havo now ho tels presided over by good landlords, and boarding houses presided ovor by excel lent host or hostess, In all neighborhoods, vil lages ami cities, and It is our congratulation that those of our land surpass all other lands. They rightly become tho permanent resi dences cf many people, such os those who are without families, such as thoso whose bnsinesi keeps them migratory, such as thoso who ought not, for various reasons of health or pe culiarity of circumstances, tako upon thorn* pelves the cares of housekeeping. Many n man falling sick In one of thoso boarding houses or hotels has boon kindly watched and nursed; and by tho memory of her own mill-rings and losses the lady at the head of such nhousolms dono all that a mother could do for a sick child, and tho slumborloJ3 eye of God sees and appreciates her sacrifices In behalf of tho stranger. Among tho most marvellous cases of patienco and Christian fidelity are many of thoso who keep board ing bouses, enduring without resent ment tho unreasonable demands of their guests for expensive food and attentions for which they are not willing to pay an equiva lent—a lot of cranky mon and women who nre not worthy to tio the shoo of their quoenly caterer. Tho outrageous way in which board ers sometimes act to their landlords and land ladies show that theso critical guests had bad early rearing, and that in the making uplof their natures all that Constitutes tho gentle man and lady were left out. Somo of the most princely men and somo of the most ele gant women that I know of today keop hotols and boardinghouses. But one or the great evils of this day is found In the fuct that a large population of our towns nnd cities are giving up and havo gi ven up thoir hon es nnd taken apartments, that thoy may Bate more freedom from domestic duties and more time for social life, aud becauso they like the whirl of publicity better than tho quiet nnd privacy of a residence they can call their own. The lawlhl uso of thoso hotols and Boarding houses is for most people whilo they nre in transit, but as a ter minus they are in many cases demoralization, utter and complete. That ia the point at which families innumerable have begun to disintegrate. There never has been a ttmo when'so many families, healthy and abundant ly able to support and direct homes of their own, havo struck tent and taken permanent abodo in these public establishments. It is au evil wide as Christendom, and by voice and through tho newspapor press, I utter warning and burning protest, and ask Almighty God to bless the word, whether in tho hoaring or leading. ... In these public caravansaries the domon of gessip ia apt to get full away. All the boardor* run daily the gauntlet of general inspection— Bow they look when thoy come down in tho morning and when they get in at night, and what they do for a living, and who they re ceive as guests in their rooms, and what they wear and what they do not wear, and how they cat and what they cat, and how much they cat and how little they eat. If a min proposes in such a place to be isolated nnd re ticent and alone, they will begin to guess about him: Who is he ? Where did he come from ? How long is he going to stay ? Has ho id bis board? How much does he pay? Per- ps he has committed some crime and does not want to bo known; there must be some thing wrong about him or he would speak. The whole house goes into the detcctivo Business. They must find out about him. They must find out about him right away. If he leaves his door onlockcd by accident he will find that his zooms havo been inspected, his trank ex plored, his letters folded differently from the way they were folded when he put thorn away. Who is Be? is the question asked with intense Interest until the subject has becomo a mono mania. The simple fact is, that he is nobody In particular but minds his own business. Tho best landlords and landladies cannot some times binder their places from becoming a ptsdemomium of whisperers, and reputations are tom to tatters, and evil suspicions aro aroused, and scandals started, and the parlia ment of the family is blown to atoms bv some Guy Fawkes who was not caught in time, as Was his English predecessor of gunpowdery reputation. The reason is, that while in private homes families have so much to keep them busy, in these promiscuous and multitudinous residen ces there are so many who have nothing to do, and that always makes mischief. Tbeygather Ia each others rooms and spend hours m con sultation about others. If they had to walk a half mile before they got to the willing oar of some listener to detraction, (hey would get out Of hicath before reaching there, and not fool in fall glow of animosity or slander, or might, Because cf the distance, not go at all. But Dooms 20,21, 22, 23,24 and 23 are on the same corridor, and when one carrion crow goes “Caw! Caw!” all the other crow3 host it and flock together over the same carcass. “Ob, I have heard something rich! Sit down, let me tell ycu all about ft.” And the first guffaw Increases the gathering, and it has to be told all ever again, and as they separate each car ries a spark from the altar of Gab to some ether circle, until from the coal heaver in the Cellar to the maid in the top room of the gir- £ ret, all are aware of the defamation, and that evening all who leave tho houso will bear it to other houses, until autumnal fires sweeping ffw-Mfeois prairies are less raging aud swift than that flame of consuming roputation bla zing across the village or city. Those of us who were brought up in the country know that the old-fasbionod hatch- faff . e ffff* 111 tho hay mow required four or five weeks of brooding, but there are new modes of hatching by machin ery, wnich take less time and do tho work in wholesale. So, while the private home may brood into life an occasional falsity and tako a long time to do it, many of tho boarding houses and family hotels afford a swifter and more multitudinous style of moral Incubation, and one old gossip will get off the nest after one hour's brooding clucking a flock of thirty lies after her, each one picking np its little worm of juicy regalement. It ia no ad vantage to hear too much about your neigh bors, for your timo will bo so much occupied fa taking care of their faults that you will have no time to look after your own. And while you are pulling the chickweed out of their garden yours will get all overgrown with horse-sorrel and mullen stalks. One of the worst damages that "comes from ----- - j wav of bringii them up on the commons. While you nai. your own private house you can for the most part control their companionship and their ,o sue a permanent rctmouco. o probability Is that tho wifo will hnvo to o her husband’s timo with public smokiug tding room, or with somo coquettish spl- w hereabout*, but by twelve years of age In these public resorts thoy will have * * * all the bad things that can be furnished by the pnirient minds of dozens of people. They will overhear blasphemies, and see and get precocious in sin, and what _ ... tender does not tell them the porter or hostler or bellboy will. Besides that, the children will go out into this world without the re straining, anchoring, steadying and all con trolling memory of a home. From that none of us who have been blessed of such memory have crcaped. It grips a man for eighty years if ho lives so long. It pulls him l ack from doors into which ho would other wise enter. It smites him with contrition in the very midst of his dissipations. As the fish already surrounded by tbe long wide net swinrout to sea thinking they can go os far as they please, and with gay toss of silvery stale they defy the sportsmun on the beach, and after a whilo tho fishermen begin to draw in tho net. hand over hand and hand over hand, and it is a long while before the captured fins begin to feel the not, and then they dart this way and that hoping to get out, but find themselves approaching tho shore and aro brought up to the very feet of the cantors, so tho memory an early homo sometimes seems to relax and let men out further and farther from God and further and further from shore— five years, ten years,; twenty years, thirty 3 cars; but someday they find an irresistible mesh drawing them back, and they are com- I died to retreat from thoir prodigality and warndoring, and though they make desperate effort to cecapo the impression, and try to dive deeper down in sin, after awhilo aro brought clear back and held upon tho Bock of Agos. If it bo possiblo, O father and mother t let your eons and daughters go out into the world under the semi-omuipotcnt memory of a good, puro home. About your two or throo rooms ia a boarding houso or a family hotel, you can cast no such glorious sanctity. Thoy will think of tficso public caravansaries as an early stopping place, malodorous with old victuals, cofl'ees porpctually steaming and meats in over buying stew or broil, tho air surcharged with carbonic acid, and corridors along which drunken boarders come staggering at one o’clock in the morning, rapping at tho door till the affrighted wifo lets them in. Do not be guilty of tho 6acriicgo or blasphemy of calling sncli a placo a homo. A homo is four walls enclosing ono family with identity of interest, and a priva cy from outsido inspection so completo that it is a world in itself, no one entering cxcopt by permission; bolted and barred and chained against all outsido inquisitivoncss. Tho phraso so often used in law books and legal circles is mightily suggestive—every man's houso is his castle. As much so as though It had draw bridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion and armed turret. Even tho officer of tho law may not enter" tarily sion< , clashes Its iron jaws on any ono who attempts it. Unless it bo necessary to stay for longer or shorter time in family, hotel or boarding house—and there aro thousands of instances in which it is necessary, as I showed you nt tho beginning—unloss in this excep tional case, let neither wifo nor husband con tent to such permanent residence. The divide rending room, or with somo coni der in search of unwary files, and if you do not entirely lose yonr husband It will bo bo* enuso ho is divinely protected from tho disasters that h&vo wholmcd thousands of husbands with ss good intentions at yours. Neither should tho husband, with out imperative reason, consent to such a lifo unless ho is suro his wife can withstand tho temptation of social dissipation which sweeps across such places with tho forco of tho At lantic ocean when driven by a September oqul- nox, Many wives give up their homos for theso public residences so that thoy may give their Cntiro time to operas, theatres, bolls, re ceptions and levees, and they at© in a perpet ual whirl like a whip top spinning round and ronnd and round, very prettily until it loses its equipoise and shoots off into a tangent. But the difference is, in ono cmo it is a top and in the other a coul. Besides tills thero is an Assiduous accumula tion of little things araund the pTivato homo which in the aggregate niako a groat attrac tion, whilo the denizen of oue of thoso public residences is apt to say: “What is tho use? I have noplace to keep them if I should tako them*.” Mementoes, bric-a-brac, curiosities, quaint chair or coscv lounge, upholitorios, pic tures and a thousand things that accrete in a home arc discarded or neglected because there homestead in which to arrange them. yet they are tho case in which tho pearl of domestic happiness is set. You can novor become ss attached to tho appointment* of a boarding house or family hotel as to tboso things tbit you can call your own and aro associated with the different members of your house hold, or with scenes of thrilling import in our domestic history. Blessed i i that home' . u which for a whole lifetimo they have been gathering, until every figure in the carpet, and every panel of the door, and every casement of the window has a chirography of its own, speaking out something aboutfather or moth er, or son or daughter, or friend that Was with us awhile. What a saerod placo it becomes when one can say: “In that room such a one was born; in that bed such a ono died; in that chair I sat on the night I heard such a ono had received a great public honor, by that stool my child knelt for her last evening pray er, here I sat to greet my son as he came back from sea voyage; that was father’s cane; that was mother’s rocking chair. What a Joyful and pathetic congress of reminiscouces! The public residence of hotel and boarding house abolishes tho grace of hospitality. Your :ncst does not want to come to such a table, to one wants to run such a gauntlet of acute and merciless hypercritidsm. Unless you have a home of your own, you will not bo able to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces. For exercise of this grace what blessing came to the Shunamite in the restoration of her son to life, because she entertained Elisha, and to the widow of Zarepath in the perpetual oil well of the miraculous cruise, because she fed a hungry prophet, and to Hanab m tbe preserva tion of her life at the demolition of Jericho, ccau£c she entertained the spies, and to Laban in tbe formation of an Interesting family relation, because of his entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in his rescue from the destroyed city because of bis entertainment of the angels, and to Mary and Martha and Zaccheus in spiritual blessing be cause they entertained Christ, and to Pnblins in tbe island of Melita in the healing of bia father because of the entertainment of Paul, drenched from the shipwreck, and of innnm- erable houses throughout Christendom npon which bare come blessings from generation to generation because their doors swung easily open In the enlarging, ennobling, Irradiating and divine grace of hospitality. I do not know wliat your experience has been, but I have had men and women visiting at my houso who left a benediction on every room—In the blessing theyasked at tho table, in tbe prayer they offered at the family altar, in the good advice they gave tbe children, in the gospel!- zation tbat looked out from every lineament of their counter, ances; and their departure was the sword of bereavement The queen of Norway, Sweden and Den mark had a royal cup of ten carves or lips, each one having on it the name of the distin guished person who had drank from it And that cup which we offer to others in Chris- taken from it refreshment. But all this is im possible unless you have a home of your own. It is the delusion as to what is necessary for a home that hinders so many from establishing one. Thirty rooms are not nooossary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten, nor five, nor three. In the right way plant a table, and conch, and knife, and fork, and a cup, and a chair, and you can raise a young paradise. Just start a home, on however small a scale, and it will grow. When King Cyrus was in vited to dine with an humble friend the king made the one condition of his coming that tho only dish bo one loaf of bread, and tho most imperial satisfactions have sometimes ban- quetted on the plainest fare. Do not be caught in the delusion of many thousands In postponing a home nntil they can have an expensive ono. That Idea ia the devil’s trap that catches men and women in numerable who will never have any home at all. Capitalists of America! build plain homes for the people. Let this tenement house sys tem in which hundreds of thousands of the people of our cities are wallowing in tho mire, be broken up by small homes, where peoplo can hkve their own firesides and their own altar. In this great continent there is room euough for every man and woman to have a home. Morals and civilization and religion demand it. We want dono all over this land wlratGeorgo Peabody and Lady Burdott-Coutts did In En gland, and some of the large manufacturers qf this country have done for the villages and cities, in building small houses at cheap rents, co that the middle classes can have soparato homes. They are the [only class not provid ed for. The rich have their palacos, and the poor have their poor-houses, and criminals have their jails, but wbat about the honest middle classes, who aro ablo and willing to work and yot have small income? Let the cap italists, inspired of God and pure patriotism, rke and build whole streets or small residen ces. Tho laborer mi day, to walk or ride to reach it, but when ho gets to his destination in the eventide, ho will find something worthy of being called by that glorious, and impassion ed, nnd heaven-aesccndcd word, “home.” Young married man, as soon as you can, buy such a place, even if you have to put on it a mortgage reaching from baso to capstone. The much abused mortgage, which it ruin to a reckless man, to one prudont and provident, Is tho beginning of a competency and a fortune, for tho reason ho will not be satisfied until ho has paid it off, and all thohousobold aro put on stringent economics until then. Deny yourself all superfluities and all luxuries until yon can tay: “Everything in this house is mine, thank God! every timber, every brick, every foot of plumbing, every door sill.” Do not havo your children bora in a boarding houso, and do not yourself bo buried from ono. Havo a placo where your children can shout,and sing and romp, without being ovorhaulod for the racket. Havo a kitchen, where you cau do something toward tho reformation of evil cookery and the lessening of this nation of dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost ono of his great battles bv attack of indigestion, so many mon have such a daily wrestle with tho food swal lowed that they have no strength left for tho battle of life; and though your wife may know how to play on all musical instruments and rival a prime donna, aho la not well edu cated unless she can boil an Irish potato and broil a mutton chop, since the diet somotimos decides tho fitte nt rAinllir* and nation®. Have a sitting room with at lonst ono easy chair, even though you havo to tako tarns nt sitting in it, aud books out of tho public li brary or of your own purchaso for the of your family intelligent and chockor and guessing matches with an occasional blind man’s buff, which is of all games my favorite. Bouse up your homo with all styles of inno cent mirth, and gather up In your children's natures reservoir of exuboranco that will pour down refreshing stroams when life gots parched, and tho dark days como, and tho lights go out, aud tho laughter is smothered into a cob. First, last and all tho timo. havo Christ in your homo. Julius Crcsar calmed tho fears of affrighted boatman who was rowing hlni a stream, by stating: “So long as Ciotar is with you in tho samo boat, no harm can hap pen.” And whatever storm of adversity or bereavement or poverty may strike your home, ail is well as long as you havo Christ tho king on board. Make your homo so far reaching in its influonco that down to tho last moment of your children’s lifo you mAy hold them with a heavenly charm. At seventy-six years of ago, the Desmosthenes of tho Americau senato lay dying ut Washing ton—I mean Henry Clay, of Kentucky. UU pastor fat at his hcJsido aud “tho old man clomicnt,” after a long and exciting public lifo, trans-At lantic and da-Atlantic, waa back again in the scenes of bis boyhood, and ho kept saying iu Bra dream ovor and over again: “My mother 1 mother! mother! mother!” may the parent al influence wooxert bo not only potential but holy, and so tho home on earth bo tho vesti bule of our home in heaven, in which placo may wo all meet, father, mother, son. daugh ter, brother, sister, grandfather ana grand mother, and grandchild and tho entire group of precious ones, of whom we must ssy In the words of transporting Charles Woslcy 'Onefamliy we dwell In him, One church above, bcucalti; hough now divided by tho stream— The narrow stream or death Though now The narrow One array of the living God, And part are crowing now,” Mighty Sensible Sion. Mr. W. II. Brace, Blanco, Texas, writes: •There are over forty subscribers to Tick Constitu tion at ibis off.ee. and every subscriber says Tim Constitutioii Is the best paper In the world. It is growing every day.” Consumption Cured* An old physician, retired from practico, hav ing had placed in his hands bv an East ludia missionary tho formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and all throat and lung affections, also a positive and radical cure for nervous debility and all nervous complaints, after having tested Its wondarfnl curative power! in thousands of roses, has felt it bis duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will tend free of charge to all who desire it, this re ceipt in German, French and English, with full directions for preparing and using. Heat bv mail by add resting with stamp, naming this taper, W. A. Noyes, 149 Power’s Block, Boehm- ter, K. Y. _ *>w It Comes Only a Week After Hard! Gras. The pleasure seekers at the Mardl Gres Fes tival at New Orleans. La., will havo until March Pth, Shrove Tuesday, this pear. Lent then rcrumencee, and on Tuesday, March 10th, the Grand Extraordinary Drawing (the 190th Monthly) of the Louisiana Htato Lottery will take place, when over a half million of dollars will bo thrown around promiscuously. All abont which event any one can learn on appli- r ation to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, Lou isiana. Carter's Little Liver Pills may well be term ed “Perfection.” Their gentle action and gooi effect on the system really makes them a per fect little pilL They please those who uv> them. THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE. A Service of Home-Worship for Every Sunday In tho Year. By Bev. Charles F. Deems, D. D., Pastor ofthe Church of the Strangers, New York. [Copyright Secured.] Fourth Sunday in February. . THE LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. (The leader should announco tho placo of lesson, so that each worshipper may open the Blblo and follow tho reading:] Genesis xvlii., 1-19. HYMN. PRAYER. [Then may follow a prayer appropriate to the sea son, the Scripture lessons, and the circumstances of the family: or the leader may read from somo of the collections or prayer, of which there should bo several In each household.] THE DISCOURSE. that fear Ilim.”—Psalm xxv., 4. The neatest thing it love. Tbe best thing we can get from others Is to bo loved. One of the chief characteristics of love is confluence. When » man loves the Lord ho confides to Him tho secrets of his soul. The Lord repays tho confidence. We all with open faco behold the glory of God.—II. Cor. iii., 18. a But not all of us see all tho glory at once. Suppose our friend is a great man, a man of vast knowledge, knowing tho affairs of busi ness and of state. As ho gains confidence fa us he tells us bis secrets, his plans. Society Increasingly respects us tho more it learns that we are In the confidence of our great friend. We havo pleasure in tho confidence and profit from tho knowledge he imparts. Men outside would give much for what wo know. Tho Lord has His socrets and Ills confi dants. Bemembcr IHs friend Abraham and read Genesis xviii., 17. Remember Moses and Ills Intimacy with tho Lord, as of a beloved Primo Minister with a Monarch. Bemembcr tbo Apostles, and read John xv., Ono great value of this is that it affords us a certainty of being able to roach the truth. Wo may havo such revelation from tho Lord of Ills secret that wo shall be suro wo know it. Ho shall cause us to understand the Bible. Wbat othereyeseco not wo shall see. We shall be the initiated. Tho initiation is “tho fear of tho Lord,” not tormenting, but loving fear. This fear attracts God to us snd us to God. [Alter this, or any other short discourse, a hymn or severs! hymns may besting, as tho family may find agreeable and profitable. After which all may unite in thaukiglvlng and prayer.] Afternoon Talk. [A service may be held nnd the following dis course read: PAUL’S ANTI-CLIMAX. By B. M. Palmer, D. D. Bead again Bomans xv., 18. “Tho God of hope fill you with all joy and poaco in bollov ing, that ye may abound in hope, through tho powor of the Jloly Ghost.” This looks like an anti-climax, but tho anti-climax disap pears as soon as wo rccogtiizo anothor law of experience, that tbo emotions deepen into per manent conditions or habits of tho soul. Thoy crystallize into principles, bocomo concrete, and go back * into character aud givo it strength. Tho order mentioned by tho apostlo Is ofton tho order in which our conversion is first re vealed to us. Tho first act of the now born soul is undoubtedly trust in tho Bodoomer; out of which hopo rest dawns upon tho soul; which then deepens into pcaco and becomes a holy calm; rislug, at length, In 1U tide into which bursts iu its fulness upon us! transition from darkness to light intoxicated tho heart; which is flooded with Joy, us though tho radiance of Heaven rested tipin tho spiritual birth of tho sinner as it did eighteen hundred years ago upon the plains of Bethlehem. Boon, however, tho offervcsccnco of feeling gives way; Joy sobers into poace.and there is a quiet resting upon the Uedeomcr and His promises. In this descent from joy to peace, and from peace to hope, thoro is a crystallizing of tho omotion lute n habit which forms a second nature with tho Christian, and the faith deepens into a permanent condition of tbo soul. Tho Apostlo desires, not merely that we shall hope, but that wo shall abound in hopo; and so wo havo tho climax still. Tho word, “salva tion,” is ured in a narrower and in a broader sense. A man is saved when his sins arc pardoned nnd bo feels the first pulse of (ritual life; still more when, though progros- vo sanctification, ho Is delivered more nnd more from tho dominion and pollution of sin hut when delivered finally from the being anti presence of sin, and ho is translated to Heaven, then is salvation complete in the fulness of its meaning. Because thoso blessings are largely in the future, they are brought within tho rangoand influence of hope: so the Apostlo speaks of our “being saved by hone.” This principle of hope may l>o increased in various ways: (1) Tho Holy Spirit may stimulate tho natural instinct of hope. Thanks bo unto God, despair in its fulness is known only to tho damned. May not tbo Divino Spirit, who operates through all tho faculties of our nature, stimulate this natural instinct in the Christian; so that when ho canno t sco tho E round upon which his hope rests, it shall yot car him up, nnd he slmll go on hoping against hope oven in thedarkesthour? 12) The Holy Spirit mny strengthen tho Christian principle of hope, implanted at the new birth; enabling us to see the ground upon which it rosta, and to exercise faith in the covenant and promises of Almighty God. (3) Tho Holy Spirit often enlarges our discoveries of what is beyoud. Ob, this second sight, which belongs to tho Christian--tho power to rise above tho fogs and mists of earth into tbe clear light of tbe upper flay, and sec tho things that aro eternal! When this becomes habitual, wo have a more intense longing for that which is beyond, as well ns greater certainty of its enjoyment. (4) We abound in hope when this risoa into the grace of assuranc e—a frame of spirit in which confident expectation of promised blessing is its abiding posture.. Let not the defect of our individual experience lead us to depreciate tho \aluc of this good grace. Oor error may consist in not distinguishing between tho aci-uramc of hope occasionally enjoyed and this ar Mi ranee as tho permanent condition and frame of tbe K»ui. There i» many a precious menu nt when the child of God has this assur ance, though it has not crystallized into a fixed habit. Let hope then have its scope, until it rises into unclouded assurance of our “accept ance in tho Beloved.” An appropriate poem Is added, which may be committed to memory by the young people.J Onr Jesus. Happy are we in Jesus. j the storm and the pitiless cold; Over the mountains snd over the sew. Lovingly, Joyfully. >T>e*dwc tothe«c '-coking tosave them by trnderest picas. Have by the blood of Jesus. Jojfully, then, let us spread the glad news. Never this service for Jesus refuse, .'•ever a moment to work for Him lose; Joy full v work for Jew*. Mr.'t. ncanine Johnson* ssssm . Messrs. Woodward, McClellan A Co., or East Point, Go., will i heifers, calves and bulls at tho aworiatlou -ale, to be held nt Admits, arrangementh can be made with thorn for timo until November l*t on interest at 8 per cent per annum. Mention this paper. oil rente oxfrti line Jorsev cows, G«t. 10th March next. Privet® good bankable pc per, draw lug THE SEW « GRESHAM » PATENT Automatic Re-Starting Injector.i A most rcm»rk»blobollcr feeder, which ku Just takes tbe first premium ut tbe Invcntem* Exhibition In Bag*, lend. M.ybjuMdun Motor onon-llltcr; raturUtm- mediately wlthoot uny munlpolutlon wbutuourur uftor J Interruption of tho food from any cunru. Themott effbo-1 tire Injector ever placed on tbe market ter itutlonury or. portable boilers. BeUnblo oadcheap. Mention thta pujtr, Bolt llunnfuctnreri In the United suites * Cunudu. Nathsn Manufacturing Company, 03 end 04 LIBERTY STREET, V. t. mur»—wkyst * o w not SAWS. OF HARD WOOD CUT WITH ONE FILINS BY ONE OF OUR CELEBRATED SILVER STEEL DIAMOND " Ttta li f extra thin back.^ Anyone ,,„ lu . r p oI J Saw Wo tnko this motlicrfof Introducing those sets to tbo exua mud one*, ahi “vv;— with ono ot our CcMinUctl Crlur 'IAV8, E.c. ATKINcs MR T< _ & CO., Sole Maki Tooth* iVcirrzn, special Stkel Di XJUT8, WinCULAdi wAtlO AND MULAV©AWR,Tn ■—TerKi'nB BROS. Agents Atlanta, Oa. .ER3 of Silver Steel :kel Diamond and *—— iawo, Indianapolis luring these sets to tbo fin Steel Diamond, > Champion Cross* i, Ino. dccl—wkyI3t coif nol Mention this paper. foL>2—wkiOt cow A beautiful worn of t;o pages, Colorsd Plate*, and woo IHuitrsiIont, with descriptions off the best Dowers snd Vegetables, prices of SiHLHKDQ snd plants, and How tp graw — - them. Printed In English and German. Price, only i© cent*, which way b© deducted ftosa first order. It tells what you want for the garden, and how to get U Instead of running to lb© grocery at tbe In*%. moment to buy whst teed* happen to be left over, meeting with disappointment niter weeks of writing. maniyWBL SEEDS, JAMES VICK, SEEDSMAN, Rochester, N.Y. Mention thU paper. jMrtJ-erkytl i«» Dnly $900 Required for a Complete CORN MILL OUTFIT. Capable of wak ing 1 barrel Flour nnd IS htmhels of Corn Moat per tbar.'|V*y for Itself.overy year. Addma plainly, The THOS. BRADFORD 00.. P. 0. Box 503. OINOTNNATL OHIO. Or MARK W JOlINSSOJt b CO., OllM-it tl. AiiKKM, A'1'l..i<M. .H IRDENSi ml? T+ I ^ Ml OM4IUAU.V SEtdsk Oiu Mod yru%houm,th.Uriwtto 11 Id,1.11' Kow ’/ork, ■» fitted op wtthrr.ry •P-Wlll'JI 5mj nC of orde U '° proBpt ,aA c * riftl1 vsUiH llfiWnMBhMpt ml 35 iSSM.*> Mention tbli p.per 1/ Onr Orocn-hotu. Eaubllihnunt »t t I detcrlpllont and llliitlnllM, | — ‘ on receipt 0! 1 DRUNKENNESS it* Impregnated wit* impossibility tot U» circulars sod tcrilmo I aaurcss uuiornn at st/inu uw., OCtaOwktf m Kara Hto,€iuclnweU. Ohio. Mention the Constitution. fbblf-wkrm t VAX* QLHCX M Pnf. > J Bwk «• Drew Xaftleg. “ U ew. A«Mta eatt M a Mg. I Mention this paper. febO—wgoo 1