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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA.fiA., .TUESDAY JIARCH 16 1880
TALMAGE’S SERMON, ;
PREACHED YESTERDAY W BROOK-
LYN TABERNACLE.
Brim of wuu on mo • M«rrl«ie -tHtas.”
UM Subnet Being The Bbenr'a In
fluence Upon See Brother.."
Bbooklys, N.< Y., March 14.—[Special.—
Soy. T. Do Witt Talmtge, D. D., preached to-
flap in the Brooklyn tabernacle the tenth of
He eerie*of sermona on "The Marriage Ring,"
the subject being "The Sister’s Influence Upon
Ber Brothers." The pastor first read and ex.
pounded a chapter in Exodus, on the crossing
of the Bed Sea, and spoke of the water on ei<
Iher.side of the Israelite* a*“cry*ta! palisades.'
The hymn sung wu:
"Come, thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my besit to sing thy grace."
Tbo text was Exodus 1(, 4: “And bis sister
Miod afar off, to wait what would be donoto
Htn.”
Dr. T*1 mage said;
Princess Thermutis, daughter of Pharaoh,
looking out through the lattice it her bathing,
house, on the banks of the KQc, saw a curious
boat oh tho river, It had neither oar nor
helm| and they would hav« Man useless any
how/ ’ There was only cue passenger, and that
a baby boy. But tho Mayflower that brought
the pilgrim fathers to America chrried not ao
precious a load. The boat was made of the
yrua, tightened togotherby
ire sometimes made of that
material, as wo learn from Pliny and Herodo-
Inl and Theophrastus. "Kill all tho Hebrew
child ren born,” had been Pharaoh’t order. To
save ber boy Jochebed, the mother of little
Moses, had put. him in that queer boat and
launched bun. His aiator Miriam atood on tho
hank watching that precious craft. Sho waa
far enough off not to draw attention to the
boat, but near enough to offer protection
There she stands on the bank. Miriam, the
poetess, Miriam the quick-witted, Miriam the
, faithful, though .very human, for in after time
she became to mad with that Very brother for
marrying a woman she did not like, that aho
made a great family row and waa struck with
iliriam was a splendid sister, but bad ber
fancies like all the rest of us. How carefully
she watched the boat containing her brother!
A fltroug wind might upset it. The buffaloes
olten found there might in a sudden plnnge of
thirst sink it. Some ravenous inter fowl
might swoop and pick his eyoa ont with Iren
best, gome crocodile or hippopotamus, crawl
ing through the rashes, might crauch the
. babe. Miriam watched and watched,
until Princess Thermutis, a maiden on
each side of her, holdiug palm leaves
over her hesd to shelter her from tho
BUU, came down’ flnd entered her. bathlBl
bouse. When Rem the lattice the saw that bos.
She ordered it brought, and when the leaves
were pulled back from the face of tho child
and the boy looked up he criod aloud, for be
was hungry and frightened and would not
even let tho princess Uko him. The infunt
would rather stay hnngry than uc.
knowledge any one of the court as mother.
How Miriam, tho sister incognito, no one sus
pecting her relation to tho child, leaps from
the bank and xnahos down and offers to rot a
nurse to pacify tho child. Consent is given,
she brings Jochebed, the baby’s mother, incog
nito, not sure of the court knowing that she
waa the mother, and when Jochebed arrived
the child (topped crying, for the fright was
calmed and Its hunger appealed. Yon may
ndmire Jochebed, the mother, and all tho
ages may admire Hoses, bat I clap my hands
In applause nt the behavior of Miriam, the
ftitbful, brilliant and atrateratlo sitter.
on tho banka or the Nile, breathing tho miasma
and in danger of being attacked of wild beast
or (tiHian; go home!’’ No; Miriam, the sister
most lovingly watched and bravely defended
Moses, the brother. Is he worthy hercaro
and courage? Oh, yes; the sixty centuries of
the world’s history have never hnd so much
involved in the arrival of any ship at any port
na in tho landing of that papyrus boat caulxed
with bitumen. It’s one passenger was to be a
nonsuch in history. Lawyer, s
tlcian, legislator, organizer, con
crer. He had such remarkable beauty in
childhood that Joacphus says, when ho was
carried along the road people stopped to gaze
•t him. and workmen would leave their work
to admire him. When the king playfully put
his crown upon ibis boy he threw it
off indignantly and put his foot on it. The
king, fearing that this might be a sign that
the child might yet take down bis crown, ap
plied another test. According to .the Jewish
legend the king ordered two bowls to bo put
Before the child, one containing rabies and tho
other burning coals, and if he took tho coals
he was to Hvt, and if ho took the rabies bo
was to die. For soma reason the child took
one of tbocoalsand pnt it in bit month, so
that his life waa spared, although it burned
the tongue till ho was indistinct of ntteranco
ever after. Having cemo to manhood, be
Bprcnd open the palms of his hands in prayer,
nnd the Bed sea parted to let two millions
Bro hundred thousand peoplo escape. And he
put the palms of his hands together in prayer,
and the Bed tea closed on a strngniated host.
H is l ife was unutterably grand, liisbnrlal
must lie on tho same scale. Goa would for
neither man nor saint nor archangel
have anything to do (with weaving for
him a shroud or digging for him a
K ve. Tbe omnipotent Gad left his throne in
ren one day, and if the question was asked
“Whither is the King of the Universe going ?"
the answer was, “I am going down to bury
Moses.” And the Lord took this mightiest of
men to the top of a hill, and the day was clstr,
nnd Metes tan his ero over tho magnificent
.range of country. Nero, the valley or Esdra-
elon, where tho Anal battle of all nations la to
he fought; and yonder, tbe mountains Harmon,
nnd Lebanon, and Gerisim, and hilia of Judea;
' and tha village of Bethlehem there,and the city
of Jc richo yonder,end the vast stretch of land
scape that almost took tho old lawgiver’s
hreath away as he looked at It. Amt then,
without u pang, ss I learn from the statement
ghat the eye of Moses wee undimmed
and his natural force unabated, God
touched the great lawgiver’s eyes, and they
closed; and He lunge, end they ceased; and
bis heart, and it stopped; and commanded,
saying. ‘To the skies, thou immortal spirit!”
And then one Divine hand waa put against
the back of Moses, and the other hand against
the pulseless breast, and God laid him softly
down on Mount Xebo, and then the lawgiver,
lifted in tbe Almighty’s arms, was carried to
the opening of a cave and placed in a crypt
and one stroke of tho divine hand smoothed
the features Into an everlasting calm, and a
. rock was rolled to the.door, and the only ob
sequies at which God did all the "offices
bf priest and undertaker and gravedigger and
mourner, were ended.
T Oh, was not Miriam, the daughter of Hoses,
doing a good thing, tn important thing, a glo
rious thing when she watched the boat woven
of river plants and made water-tight with aa-
phaltnm, carrying its one passenger? Did aha
not pnt all the ages of time end of a coming
eternity under obligation whan she defended
her helpless brothor from the perils aquatic,
reptilian and ravenous? She it waa that
Jirought that wonderful baba and hto mother
gogethc? so that he was reared to he thede-
. livercr of bis nation, when otherwise, if saved
at all from the makes of the Nile, he would
havf(hc«n only one mure of tbc’God-dcfyiug
Pharaohs; for Princes- Thermutis of the bath
ing bouse would have inherited the crown of
l'gyi t. and as she had no child of
her own this adopted child ‘would
have tome to coronal ton. Had there been no
Miriam there would t have been no Moses.
What a garland for faithful sisterhood! For
■how many a lawgiver and how many a hero
mad how many a deliverer sod how many a
saint are the world and the church indebted
to a watchfal, loving, faithful, godly sister?
Come up out of the farmhouses, come up out
-of tbe inconspicuous homes! Come np from
4hc! auks of the Hudson and the Penobscot
and i be Savannah and Use Mobile and tha
Mississippi and all the other Niles of America,
and let ns see you. tbe Miriams who watch
ed srd protected the leaders in law and mad-
kino and merchandise and art aad agricul
ture and mechanics and religion! If I should
ask all theso physicians and attorneya
and merchants and ministers of religion and
•ucaatftil men of all professions and trades
who are indebted to on elder sister fer good
lexicons and how much of our schooling was
~ r M
a if-
sounding sphere the itoto* watched him from
tho banks of self-denial.
Miriam was the oldest of the femily, Moe«s
and Aaron, her brothers, and younger. Oh,
the power of the eldest sister to help decide
tho brother’s character for uielUlneas and for
heaven! She can keep ' off . from
her brother more evils than Mirlata
coaid have driven hack waterfowl or crocMllB
from the ark of bulrushes. The older sister
decides the direction in which the cradle boat
ehall tail. ' By gentleness, by good tenge, by
Christian principle sho can tarn it toward tho
palace,-not of a wicked Pharaoh, but of a holy
God, and a brighter princess than Thermutis
Shall lift him ont of peril, even religion,
whoso ways are ways of pleasantness and alt
of her paths art peace. The older titter, how
much the world owes her. Born white yet
the family was in limited circumstances, tbo
had to hold and take care of her younger
brothers. And if there il anything that 'ex
cites my sympathy it is a little girl lagging
round a great fat child and gating ner ears box
ed because the cannot keep him qulot. By the
time the gets to young womanhood aho is palo
and worn ont, and her attractiveness his
been sacrificed on the altar of sisterly fidelity,
and she iabonelgnod it celitetey ana eoalety
calls her by an ungallant nalffta, but in heaven
they call her Miriam.' In most families the
two most undesirable places in the reooid Of
births art tho Drat and the last, tho first be
cause she is Worn ont with ■ the caret of a
home that cannot afford to hire help, and tho
last becanto the it spoiled as a pet. Among
tho grandest equipages that sweep through
the streets of heaven will bo those occupied
by sisters who sacrificed themselves fjr
brothers. They will havo tho finest of tqe
Apocalyptic white horses, and many who tin
earth looked down upou them will have lo
turn out to let them pise.
Let sister* not hegrudgo'the time aud cafe
heetowed on a brother. It Is-hard to' believe
that any boy that you know to well as yonr
brother can over tarn ont anything very use
ful. Woll. he may not bo a Moles. There is
only one of that kind needed for eix thousand
years. But 1 tell you what yoar brother will
be— either % Meeting or a curat to eocietf amj
» candidate for happiness or wretchedness.
He will, like Motes, nave the ghoicc betwee
rabies end living coals, and your infiueni
Will havo much to do with hla decision. “
may not Uko Moses, he the deliverer of a
tion, but ho may, after, your father
and mother aro gdne. is
deliverer of a household. W1
thousands of homes to-day tare piloted
brothers? There are properties now well ii
vested end yielding Income for the support of
listen and younger brothers, because tho oldfir
lirothor roso to the leadership from tho day tl)0
father laid down to die. .Whatever you do for
your brothels will comeback to you again. If
you set him an ili-naturod, censorious, unac
commodating example, it will recoil upon you
from bis own irritated and despoiled natnro.
If you by paticuco with ail his infirmities
ana by nobiuty or character, dwell with him,
in tho few years of yonr companionship, yon
will have your counsel reflected back upon yon
some day by h!s splendor of behavior in tome
criila where he would havo fulled but for you.
Don’t snub him. Don’t depreciate hie abil
ity. Don’t talk discoungingly about hisfta-
ttirt. Don’t let Miriam get down off the bank
of the Nile and wade out. and upset tha ark of
bulrushes. Don’t teaso him. Brothers and
sisters do not consider it day harm to tcate.
That spirit abroad in the family Is ono of the
meanest and most devilish. Thors is a toss
ing that is pleasurable and is only another
form of Innocent raillery, hut that which pro
vokes and Irritates and niskos the eyo flash
with anger la to be reprehended. It would ho
leee blameworthy to tako e bunch-of thorns
and draw them across your sister’s chock, or
to take a knife nnd draw its sharp odgo across
yonr brothor’s hand till the blood
spurts, for that would damago only tho body,
hut tewing ia the thorn and tho knife
scratching and lacerating tho disposition and
the soul. It is the curie of innumerable house
holds that tiro brothers tease tho sisteranud the
sisters the brothers. Sometimes it is the color
of the hsir, or the ibepe of tho features, or an
affair of the heart. Sometimes It is by reveal
ing a secret, or by a suggestive look, or a guf
faw, or an "Ahem!” Tease! Teaso! Tease! For
God’s sake quit It. Christ says, “He that
hateth his brother is a murderer." Now. when
ou, by teasing, make your brother or alitor
ate, you turn him or her into a murderer or
luraertrs.
Don’t let lealously ever touch a slster’i tool,
as it so often doea. becanto her brother gets
more honor or non means. Even Mlriim,
the heroine of the text, was struck by that
evil passion of Jealously. She had possessed
unlimited Influence over Motet, and now bo
merries, end not only so hut marries a black
woman from Ethiopia, and Miriam Is so dis
gusted and outraged at Moses, first heeauso be
had married at alt, and next, because he hail
practiced miscegenation, thatebe is drawn
Into a frenzy, and then begins to turn white,
and gets white as a corpse, aud then whiter
than a corpse. Her complexion is like chalk:
the fact in, the has the Egyptian leprosy. And
now tho brother whom Me bed defended on
tho Nile, comee to her rescue, in a prayer that
brings her restoration. Let there be no room
in tu yonr houso for .jealously either to sit or
stend. It is n leprous abomination. Your
brother’! success, Oh, listen, it yonr success.
Hie victories will ho your victoriee. For,
while Moose; the "brother, led tho vocal music
after the clearing of the Bed Sea, Miriam, the
sitter, with two glittering sheets of braes up
lifted end glittering in the inn, led the inetra-
mental music, clapping tha cymbals till the
last frightened neigh of pursuing cavalry horse
was smothered in the wave, and tho last Egyp
tian helmet went under.
How strong it makes a
sisters and brothers stand together, aud what
an awful wreck when they disintegrate, quar
relling about a fether’s will and making the
tn rrogate’e office horrible with their wrangle
Better when yon were little children In the
nursery that with yoar playhouse mallats you
bad accidentally kilted each othar fighting
aeroas yonr cradle, than that haring come to
tbe age of maturity and haring in yonr veins
and arteries the blood of the sains father and
mother, you fight each other aeroas the paren
tal grave in the cemetery.
Ir you only knew it, your interests ere iden
tical. Of all the femmes of the earth that
ever stood together, perhaps the most co tuple-
uaas is the family of the Rothschilds. At
Mayor Anselm Rothschild was about to die in
1812, he gathered hit children about him,
Anselm, Solomon, Nathan, Charles and James,
and mado them promise that they would al
ways he united on ’change. Obeying that In
junction theyhavo been the mightiest power
on earth, and at tha raising or lowering of
their sceptre nation! have risen or fallen. That
illustrate* how much, on a largo scale and for
eelfieh purposes, a united finally may achieve.
But suppose that instead of a magnitude of
dollars as the object, It bo doing good and
making salutary Impression and raising this
sunken world, how much mort ennobling!
Sister, you do yonr pert, end brother will ao
his part. If Miriam will lovingly watch tha
beat on tha Nile, Monet will help her when
' prou. disasters strike.
When father and mother are gone, and they
toon will he if they have not already made
rail, the sisterly and fraternal bond will bo
the only ligament that will hold the family
together. How many resaons Tor your deep
snd unfaltering affection for each other!
Rocked in the tame cradle: Lent over by tiro
me motherly tenderness- toiled for by the
same father’s weary arm and aching brow;
with common inheritance of all tbe family
secreting and with names given yon l>y parent!
who started yon with tho highest hopes for
C ar happiness and prosperity—I charge you,
loving and kind and forgiving. If the sis
ter see that the brother never wants a sympa
thizer, the brother will see that tha
sister never wants tn escort. Oh, if
ths sisters of a heasehoM knew through whs*
terrific aad damning teaeptetioat their brather
goes in this city life, they would hardly sleep
nights in the anxiety for hie ealvatlon! And if
you would make a holy conspiracy of kind
wordt and gentle attentions and earnest pray
er*, that would save his soul from death aud
hide a multitude af tine. But let the sister
doth off in one direction in dieciploehip of tkp
world and the brother Hie* off in another di
rection In dissipation, and it will not be long
before they will meet again at the iron cafe of
despair, their blistered feet In the hot aahee of
a consumed lifetime. Alas! that brothers »ud
sisters, though living together for years, very
often do not know etch other snd that they
tee only the imperfections end none of the
virtues.
General Baner, of the Banian cavalry, ha
in early Ufo wandered offin the army andtt
family supposed be wat dead. After he gait
ed a fortune he encamped one day. in Haean
his native place, and modes banquet,, (n
among the great militaryman who ’were 5 1
dine, net -invited a plain miller and his wil
who lived near brand who. affrighted, cami
fearing tome heriu would bo done them. Th
SESfElfeiS
miner said that he Nad two Brothers fed * sis
ter. “No other 'brothers?” . “My "youngri-
younger brother whom be thought wis dead!"
And how lopd waa the cheer and how trarm
waa tho embrace?- i'
' Brother and liner, yoV need as much of fe
introduction to each other at they did. Yon
do not'know each other. Ton think your
brother la gouty ami cross anff queer, and! ho !
thinks you are selfish and proud and unlovely.
Both wrong! That brother will bo a prince in
some troman’e ryes, and that sister a queen fn
the estimation ofrtome man. - That Brother is
a magnificent fellow, and that sister is a morn
ing in June. Comes let us introduce yotf:
‘'Moses, this ia Miriam.’.’, “Miriam, this is
Moses.” Addsdventy-flve'per cent to your
present appreciation of each other, and when
jou kiss good morning do not stick up yonr
eold cheek, wet from the recent washing, vs
though you hated to touch each other’s lips ih
affectionate canes. Let it have ail the fond
ness and cordiality of a loving sister’s kiss, j
Make yonraolfaa agreeable and honelbl to
each other aa possible, remembering that soota
you part. Tho. fosr years of boyhood and girl
hood will toon slip by and yon will go ont to
homes of your own', ond into the battle With
the world and amid ever changing vicissi
tudes, aad on-path* created with grave* and
up steps hard tocllmb, and through shadowy ra
vines. But,' Oh, my God and Hcvvtour! may up i
terminns of, tbo Journey be the same as tin
start, namely, at Athbrs and mother's knot,
if they have inherited the kingdom. Then, aa
In boyhood and girlhood days, wo rushed in
after the day’s absence with much to toll qf
exciting adventure, and fkther and toother en
joyed the recital as much as we who made it,
,so we shall on the hillside of heaven rehearse
to them ail the scenes of onr earthly expedi
tion, and they shall welcomo us home,
as we say, "Father and mother, we haYc
come and brought onr children with us/'
The old revival hymn described it With glori
ous repetition:
"Brothers and sisters there will meet, t
Brothers snd sisters there wilt moot, ,
Brothers and tisten there wUl meet,
Will meet to part no more.”
I rend of a child iu tho country who was de
tained at a neighbor's house on a stormy night
by some fascinating stories that wore being
told him, and then looked ont and aaw tt waa
•o dark he did not dare to go home. Tire in
cident impressed me tho more because in toy
childhood I had much the same experience.
The boy aaked hla comrades to go with him.
hut
they dared not. It got later and later—
seven o'clock, eight o'clock, nine o'clock, "Ota,"
ho mid, “I wish I were home!” Aa he opened
the door tho last time a blinding flaali of ,tlpo
storm and a deafening roar overcame him.
Bnt after a while be law in the distance a lap-
tern, and lo! hie brother was coming to fetch
him home, and the lad atopped. ont snd with
swift feet hastened onto hit brother, who took
him home, where they ware ad gUfftogrevt
him, and for a long time sapper hail been
waiting. So may it be when the night of death
comet and our earthly friends cannot go with
ua and we dare not go alone; may our Brother,
onr Elder Brother, onr Friend closer than a
brothor, como out to meet tu with tho light of
tbe promise*, which shall lio a lantern to onr
feet, and then we will go in to Join our loved
ones waiting for us, supper all ready, the mar
riage supper of the Lam b.
THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE.
A Service of HoaC'Wortblp fbr Ever/ Sunday In
the Year.
By Rkt. Cbam.es F. Deems, D. D.,
Faitor of the C’hnrch of the Stranger«, New York.
SECOND HUNDAYIN MARCH.
(When the household shall hare Aiaombled, M
the hesd of th family, or some other person ap
pointed by him to lead the service.]
(Itwlll promoto attention and reverence If. at
the c lose of every prayer, every member of the
family repcot "Amen, j
THE LESSON FROM THE OLDTE8TAMEKT.
(The leader should announco tho place of lesson,
so that each worshipper may open the Bible and
follow the rcadiDc:l
Genesis xxoli., l4o; nymn; "While Thee I seek
Protecting rower;" Prayer.
end the Gospel for each day should
bo announced, no that ailthe dm ily may turn lo
the postage and accompany the reading: J j
Tho Epiltle—?1. Cor. vi„ 1; The Gospel; 8t
tbcwlv., l;l!ymn, "I loy my Sin on Jesuit;’
sentence, or Introduce other mstter. The para*
graph divisions and Italic* will oafct.]
Text.—'"Because that your faith groweth
exceedingly.”—II. Then. I., 3.
Paul never flattered, bat he praised.
It is right to acknowledge the graces of oil r
friends, and thank Clod for them.
No grace like faith. It Is tho root grace.
The others sprint therefrom.
Without faith there can be no hope, no chat
lty, no fidelity, no courage. i
In all porta • Chrlatlan must grow, not only
In trnnk, branchea, and fruit, but olio in the
root. How chn the other gracea grew if faith
atop? An oak would perish if the growth of
the root did not keep peco with the growth of
tho upper portions?
The disciples prayed, "Lord, increase our
felth."
Faith mutt grow or diminish. It will ndt
stand still.
Wc should sock to grow in grace exceeding
ly; for then:
1. Our other grace* grow. Set how Paul
recognizee tbe other accompanying growth Of
their charity and the patience of the These*-
tonlane. Have Jos leas love for tbe brethren?
O Lord; tn the morning will 1 direct my pray
er unto Thee, and will look un.”—Psalm v., 3.
If it were to that you could pray once in
the day, that one time should be “in tho
morning." Then tho mind Is freest frotu
thought, tho soul from sorrow, and the flesh
from weariness. Then the feellngsofdevollon
spring up with most freshness as the lark rises
upon the wing with k tong.
We ought to pray often. The Psalmist agreei
with the bommon estimate that food for the
spirit it needed aa often aa food for the body:
"Evening and morning, and at noon, will I
pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear my
voice.” Beyond that he was somotimea carried
by a grateful sente of Divine goodness: "Seven
times a day do I praise Thee, because of Thy
righteous judgments.”
In the press of bnrineu there are those who
excuse themselves from family prayers, and
even from private devotion. They hurry out
to undertake the labor that waits fer them, or
to -begin the long joaraoy. But they hold
prayers at night, when they hove leisure.
Then, ton, perhape, they have* ranee of danger
and the need of promotion; fer most grown'
people, like children, are afraid of darkness.
But, think of It 1 How many dangers beset
? on in a day's work, er pleasure, or travel?
ou return in the evening too often, alas! har
dened with a sense of remUanees, if not far
guilt, snd your prefer it for forgiveness. In
the morning, before crossing the threshold, tt
has been better to took grace fer trial*, tetup.
tattoos and dutie*. Who can tell what a day
will bring fogthi How can you venture upon tt
without the guard and tbeglrding of prayer to
Him who snathe end from the beginning? In
the morning the day’s history is unwritten; at
night, tho recent Is made u ’
a moment mty be the grle
Begin every day by looking up. Look up,
to give thanks fer tba care of Providence un
der which yon sleep safely. Look up, to obtain
grace to help yen and to keep yon through all
yonr waking hears. Look up, for. guidance,
and all the good glfte that eomo down from
above. lawk up, and morally maintain this
attitude all the day long.
[The following poem may
uunory by the young people.)
VISIOHS OV FAITH.
be committed to
Biiaii pee nungn xiriuvr, Muug* uivi
Heaven to thet rozo shell open wide,
And brightest angels, to end fro.
On messages of love shall glide
Twixt God above Snd Christ below.
—John Kedi.i:.
PROHIBITION POINTS.
GAiHHtriLl.s, Match 10.—[Special.]—Long
before sunrise a blast of unsio rang out on tho
morning air from the headquarters of tjio
antl-prohlbltlonlsti, arousing tho (looping pop
ulace from their dreams and caused them to
calico that the day for tho greet atruggle had
at last arrived.
Aa early as five o'clock break fart wai served
in the room of the wet men to e large nntoher
of voters, many of whom had boon there all
night. At soon aa the polle were open theee
men, about seventy strong, inarched to tho
qotirt house in a body, ana
IfEFOSlTFD TUEIB BAU.OTS,
and the battle had then commenced in
earnest.
Close at bund tho dry mon had fitted up
tho Dunlap store for the accommodation and
comfort of their workers nnd voters, and very
soon tho ladies began to arrive with bukcti,
crockory and cooking utensils, nnd apeodily
were in readiness to refresh the weary worker
and hungry voters with dollclons coffee aud
excellent lunches.
Over tnoir door, on u largo ploco or cloth,
was printed:
"iroH county prohibition headquarters. Hand-
wlchos and coneo."
In the windows wore displayed bountiful
banners hearing tho inscriptions, “Wine is a
Mocker,” "Save Your Bofe," “Close tho
Bat*,’.’ "Rosette the Perishing.”
- 'The young ladies end girls wore largo
'hiuo saahesond whtto aprons. Going iu, your
more impatient under persecutions and ..
Iationa? Has not your feith sleekened?
not try to increase your charity and patience,
bnt lehor for tho growth of your feith, and til
the other things will came richly. !
2. The more peace of eoul, "Peace in be
lieving.” The Christian mere aud more cotq-
mita hit ways to God, more and more trusts a
arectons Providence, which be cannot under
stand. He does not make haste.
3. The more courage. He doe* not meet his
.(irituel feet in hie own rtrength, hut rotting
on ell tl.en-Murceeof Omnipotence. More end
more he believes thrt all there is in Chrtrt
stands pledged to bring him off more than con-
qro.or.
4. The more fit for heaven. Hie feith wra[h
tbe zplritnal world more closely about his sj.iiu
it. He lives as seeing Him that to invisible.
While he has growing feith in the things wbict
arc unrein and eternal, more and more his
liaht aflliction. which is bnt for a moment, Il
working oat for him hr mere exceeding and
eternal weight of glory, and to fittieg hint
therefor.
each serviee. aud un na,
tbe -Gloria’' or other Doxology.)
Arrxxifoex Talk.
^(A ratrlre aaay be taetd and the following ulneoaru
ffafoh or psAYftn, »r Bishop MoTvemr.
"My voice shell thou hear in tha araraisg,
correspondent was .
ham, of tho Methodist church, who Mid:
not this e beautiful sight?"
Tha negroes, almost without oxoaptlon, have
voted and worked for tho wot ticket.
From the moincut the first vote wat cast,
general good humor has characterized tho
crowd. Bo fer as your correspondent knows,
not an unpleasant incident bat occurred dur
ing the entire day, end many things havo hap
pened to create merriment. Laughter has
been heard instead of tho load brawl tbatjis-
nelly characterizes an election.
About 4 o'clock tha ladies took their depart
ure from the prohibition hall, aud all tho in
terest began to center at tho polls. Your cor
respondent got tho ear of tho mauagors about
r, o'clock, and was admitted into tbolr room,
and began to watch dovelonmonts.
8AHDKOHVH.I.B, Ga., March 0.—[Special.]—
Two years sgo an oloctlon waa hala In this
county on prohibition. After a very spirited
campaign, in which both tides worked hard
and with vim and earnestness, the whisky men
curled the day by a handsome majority. The
prohibitionists took tbeir defeat with good
grace, fully determined when tho proper time
arrived to test the matter again.
Alter patiently waiting for tho two years to
expire, which liy tho provisions of tha local
option law Intervene between ovary elec
tion, tho frleuds of tho prohibition movement
have decided that it is expedient to enter the
contest again. They feel confident, and talk
auurtdly of victory. They intend to nuke a
big effort to carry the coming oloctlon, and
are daily working to that end. For the past
few weeks several committees have been can
vassing over the connty, in the several dis
tricts, for the purpose of gottlug tbo. requisite
number of elgnatnres to tbolr petitions to pre
sent to the ordinary, Hon. M. Newman, taking
that an election bo ordered at an early date.
The temperance advocates have imported
tho prohibition badge, of blue satin, with tbeeo
words inscribed upon them: "Close
the barrooms and save the people.” On last
Friday a bevy of young ladles ware stationed
at each entrance to the oonrhouia enclosure,
with a flail safely of these badges, and pinned
them on the men at they passed iu on their
way to the courtroom.
Xuoi'tTA, March 10.—[Special.]—Anticipat
ing a general election on the llqnor question
daring tho spring, u has bean tnggestod by
tha circulation of petitions to tho ordinary to
order each voting, the antl-prohlbltlonlsti of
Augusts havo thoroughly organized their
fonts and now bold regular meetings and are
perfecting arrangements to kill any prohibition
movement in Angnsta.
Than aro lively times on tha programme
for Augusta. A counter petition it in circula
tion praying the ordinary to declino to order
balloting on tho question, and both iMrtiea are
working, not publicly aa yat, but like heaven
for the end in view. Tbe negroes, not ail of
them however, for tbe Augusta negro it above
the avenge, end not an article of traffic in
elections, are awaiting with pleasure tha ad
vent or tho election. They are, or courts,
onti.prohibitionlets, hut. es to tbo case
everywhere, can he “purauaded” easily, ana
will spilt about svealy on poll day.
ATnr.se, Oa., Match 11.—[Bpeetal.]—Roma of
the whl-ky men of Athens ore proposing a
compromise with tbs prohibitionist. They
agree that If the bill can he amended to ailin'
them to tell liter, that they wilt not get tip a
petition to bare another election or to have
the hill repealed.
O. H. Holberg, pastor Woodhaven M. E.
Church, South Woodhaven, Queens Co., N. Y
states: "I have used Allcock's Plaster* for
thirty years. Never found tham fall to cure
weakness of tha back, spine ond kidney diffi
culties. They are very agreeable and strength
ening. A short time ego I got in s profuse per-
epiration while preechinr. Imprudently go
ing home without my overcoat, 1 lost tbo nso
of my voice, ond tho next day had a violent
pain In rov hack, kidneys nnd chest. I could
hardly breathe. Three Allcock's Plasters ap-
plied Ao my back, chcct and kidneya cure-1 mo
completely In [six hoars. I was astonished
how quick my breathing became easy after
epv'jlo*-"
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