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WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY MARCH 30 IBg6i
TALMAGE’S SERMON-
preached yesterday,
LOUIS,. MO.
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| the Twelfth of Hia
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nWltt lalitigi), D. D., of Brooklyn,
[ inthil rity. thh morning, on hia
ay borne from hb'Westcrtt trip, the twelfth
of hia eerie* of aermona on "The Marriage
■Bin*-" ills subject waa “Motherhood.”
Tho.eloquent preacher took for hia text, I
%, ( Samuel ftlK “Moreover hia mother made him
’ a little coat, and brought it to him from pear
pear, when ahe came np with her hatband
to offer the yearly aacriflce.”
,'Ahs atoriea of Deborah and Abigail are very
..! j apt to discourage a woman’a aonl. flhoaayi
within heraelf, “It ia impoaaiblo that I oyer
can achieve any each grandeur of character,
and I don’t mean to try;’’ aa though a child
should refute to play the eight notea beeatue
T ‘ lie Cannot execute a “William Tell.” Tbit
Hannah of the text differ* from the pertonl
Juat now named. She ana an ordinary wo'
mu, with ordinary intelieetual capacity,
placed in the ordinary circumstance!, and yet,
byextiaordinaiy piety, atuding out before
«11 the agea to come, the model Chrlatfan
mother.
Hannah ana tho wife of Elkanah, who waa a
poreon very much like heraelf— unromantlo
and plain, .never having fought a battle or
lieu the eubject of a marvellous escape. Nei-
amah and Hannah.
The brightest time in all the history of that
family arts the birth of Samuel. Although no
atar ran along tho hravens pointing down to
hia birthplace, I think the angels of God
atooped at tho coming of eo wonderful a
prophet
' Aa Samuel had been given in aniwor to
prayer, Elkanah and all hia family, save
Hannah, started up to Shiloh to offer aacrlfl-
cea of thanksgiving. The cradle whore tho
child alept wu altar onongh for Hannah'e
Stateful heart, but when the boy was old
enough she took him to Shiloh and took threo
bullocks, and an ephah of dour, and a bottlo of
wine, and made offering of saoriflee onto tho
Lord, and there, accordiog to a previous vow,
ahe left him; for thero lie was to stay ail tho
daya of hia life, and minister in the temple.
Years roiled on, and every year .Hannah
made with her own hud a garment for
Samuel, ud took it over to him. Tho lad,
would have dot along well without that gar
ment for I suppose ho waa well clad by the
minlatry of the temple: bnt Hannah could not
be contented unless ahe svms all the tlmo
doing something for her darling boy, “More
over hia mother mage him a little coat and
bronght it to him from year to year, When ahe
camirupwjth her-hnsband to offor the yearly
1. Hannah studs before you, then, in tho
first place, aa u industrious mother. There
waa no need for her to work. Elkanah, her
hnabtnd, waa far from poor. Ho belonged to
• distinguished family; for the Bible tolls us
that he waa tho -'ton of Jeroboam, the son of
Ellhn, the son of John, the son of Zupb.
tloned.
Hannah might have seated heraelf with her
family, and, with folded arms ud dishevelled
hair, read novels from year to year, it there
had b.on any to read; bnt when I ace her
that garment, ud taking it over to
ileasnre. God would
i ought no’—
to bo found maxing a coat for
fiamotLv
Moat toothers need no counsel in thta direc
tion. The wrinkles on their brow, the pallor
on their cheek, tho. thimble-mark on their
linger attest that they are faithful in tholr
maternal dnties. Tho bloom, ud tho bright
ness, and the vivacity of girlhood have given
place for the grander dignity ud usefulness
ud industry of motherhood. Bnt thero ia a
heathenish Idea getting abroad In some of tho
ftmlliea of Americans; there are mothora who
banish themselves from tho homo circle. For
. three-fourths of their maternal duties they
prove themselves incompetent. They are ig
norant-of What their children wear, ud
what their ' children eat, - and
What, their „ children read. They
lufnnt to lnaroaiulblo ’ persons these young
immortals,and allow them to ho nuder influ-
•nets which may cripple their bodies, or taint
their purity,or. spoil their manners, or destroy
their souls.,
From the awkward cut of Samuel’s coat you
know hiamother Hannah did not msko it.Out
from nuder darning chandellert,ud off from im
pelled carpets, ud down tbo granite stairs,
thero has coma a great crowd of children ia
this day, untrained, saucy, incompetent for
ail practical duties of life, ready to be caught
in the drat whirl of crime and sensuality. In
dolent and unfaithful mothora will mako in
dolent and unfaithful children. You cannot
expectnratness and order in any house where
the daughters aeo nothing but ilattornllm
ud upride-downativeneu in their parei
Let Hannah bo idle, and moat certainly Sr
oel will grow no idle.
Who are the industrious men in all our occu
pations and professions? Who aro they man
aging the merchandise of the world, building
the walls, tinning tha roofs, weaving the car
pets, nuking the laws, governing the nations,
making thaearth to quake, and heave, and
roar, and isttlo with
nts.
> old homestead, used to spin their own
yarn, ud weave their own carpets, and plait
their own doormats, and dag their own chairs,
utr rand do their own - work. Tha stalwart; mon
and the tudnentlal women of this day, ninety-
nine out of a hundred of them, oame from
such u illustrious ancestry of hard knuckles
and homespun.
And who aro these people in society, light
aa froth, blown every whither of temptation
and fashion—the peddlers of dlthy stories, the
dudngjseks of political parties theeenmof
society, the tavern lounging, the store infest-
and ^ aa men of low wink, a
itns, ud
t, thor
ng—the
ud dlthy chuckle,
rotten aaoociations?
came from mothers
of
1 brass breastpt
For the moat part,
idle ud dlagnatiaL
.society, going from house to house, attending
to everybody's business bnt theisowo, believ
ing in witches, ud ghosts, ud horseshoes to
keep tbo devil oat of the ohurn, and by a god-
,laas Ufa totting tholr children on the very
. verge of bell. The mothers of Samuel John-
,i ion, and of Alfred tho Great, end of Isaac
. Hew ton, and of St. Augustine, and of Biebard
, Cecil, and of Pieeklent Edwards, for tho most
part, were industrious, hard-working mothers.
Haw, while 1 congratulate all Christian
mothers upon tho wealth of modem science,
which may afford them all kinds of help, let
me aay that ovary mother ought to be observ
ant of her children's walk, her children’s be-
fcarior, her children's food, her children's
looks, her children's compuionshipe. How
ever much help Hannah may have, I think
ahe out every year, at least, aiaks one garment
for Seninel. The Lord have mercy on a man
who is so unfortunate as to have had a lasy
mother.
Again, Hannah stands before yon at an
intelligent mother. From the way in which
ahe talked In this chapter, and from the way
she maneges this boy, you know she wu In
telligent. There ore no persons in a commu
nity who Mad to be so wise ud well-informed
as mothers. ....
Ob! this work of cnltnro in children for
this world snd tho next! This child is timid,
ud it most be roused np and pnshed oat Into
activity. This child is forward, and ha most
bo held back and tamed down into modesty
ud politeness, ltcwards for one, pnnuli-
. meals for another. That which will mike
George will ruin John. Tho rod Is necessary
in ta see IS, while a frown or dtaploowr* is
more thu eaoogh in uotber. Whipping and
a darkchhet do not exhaust all tho rounds of
domeatiedisclpline. There have been children
"ho have grown up and gone to glory with-,
out ever having had their ears boxed.
Ob, how. mneh care and Intelligence aro
necessary in the rearing of children! But in'
this day, when there are go many books on the
subject, no parent Is excusable. In being Igno
rant of tho neat mode of bringing up a child. If
parents £naw more of dietetics thero would
not bo so many dyspeptic stomachs, and walk
incompetent livers among chib
mpot
know more of physiology
1 spines, and
nerves ud
dren. If pai
there woo'd not bo so many carved .
cramped cheats, ud inflamed threats; and dls‘
eased longs u thero aro among Children. If
r nto knew more of art, and wore
sympathy with all that is beau
tiful, there would not bo so many chUdren
coming into the world with boorish
proclivities. If parents know more of Christ,
ud practiced more of His religion, thero
would not bo so many little feetalreedy start
ing on the wrong road, ud all around us voices
of riot and blasphemy would not come up with
such ecstasy of Infernal triumph,
Tho eaglets in tho eyrie have no advantages
over tho eoglets of a thonsud yean ago; tho
kida have no mporior way of climbing np tho
rocks thu the old goats taught hundreds of
yean ago; tho whoipa know no more now thu
did the whelpa of ages ago—they are tught
no more by the Ilona of the desert: hot It is a
shame that in this day, when there are so
muy opportnnltioo of improving ourselves in
the best manner of cultivating children, that
so often thero is no more advancement in this
respect thu there has boon among the kids
and the eaglets ud tho whelp*.
3. Again, Hannah stands before yon aa s
Christian mother. From her prayers ud from
tho way she consecrated her boy to God, I
know that she wu good. A mother may have
tho finest cnltnro, the most brilliant surround-
Itfg, hot the is not dt for her duties tinlou she
bo a Christian mother. There may bo well-
read libraries in the house, ud exquisite music
in the parlor, and the canvas of tha best artists
•doming tho walls, ud tho ward robe bo crowd-
id with tastcmi apparel, ud the children bo
wonderful for their attainment ud. make tho
house ring with laughter and innocent mirth,
bnt there is something woetaMooklng in that
house, if It be not also tho residence of a Chrls-
tlan mother.
I Mesa God that there are not muy prayer-
Icu mothers—not muy of thorn. The weight
of reoponsibllity is so great that they feel tho
need of a divine hud to help ud a dlvins
voice to comfort ud a divine heart to sympa
thize. Thousands or mothers have boon led
into the kingdom of God by tho hands of tholr
little children. Thero wore hundreds of
mothers who would not havo boon Christiana
haditnotbeenfbrthoprattloof their llttio
ones. Standing somo day in the nnraory they
bethought themselves, "This child God hu
given me to ralso for eternity, What is my
influence upon it? Not being a Christian my
self how can I ever expect him to beoomo a
Christian?. Lord help mo!”
Are there uxlous mothers, who know
possible that your ChUdren come up iniqui
tous. Out of just sueb, this brows, and bright
eyes, ud soft buds, ud innocent hsarta,
crime gets its victims—extirpating parity
'—i tho'heart, and robbing ont the smooth-
fromtho brow, ud quenching tho lustre
Every child is a bundlo of tremendous poa-
•lbllltiesj.asd wliother that child ahaU como
forth to lift, its heart attuned to the oternal
harmonies, ud after a life of usefulness on
earth go to a lift of Joy in heaven; or whether
across it shall Jar eternal discords, and after a
life of wrong-doing on earth it ahaU go toa
home of impenetrable darkness ud an abyss
of immeasurable plunge, la being doddeiby
nursery song ud Sabbath leason, ud orenlng
prayer, ud walk, and rido, and look, ud
frown, ud amUo. Oh! how muy children in
glory, crowding all the battltmenta, and lift-
ing a million-voiced hosanna, brought to God
tbroush Christian Parental?o.
One hundred ud twenty clergymen were
together, udthey were tolling their expe
rience ud their snceetry; and of tho ono
hundred ud twenty clergymen, how muy of
them, do yon snppooo, assigned as tho means
of their conversion the influence of a Chris-
tisn mother? One hundred ont of the ono
hundred ud twenty! Philip Doddridge was
brought to God by tho scripture lesson on tho
Dutch tiles of a chimney fireplace. Tho
mother thinka she is only rocking a child, but'
at the same time she may be rocking tbo firto
of nations, rooking the glories of heaven. Tho
same maternal power that may lift tho child
np may preta a child down.
A daughter cams to a worldly mother and
•aid tho was anxious about her sins, ud she
hed been praying all night. Tho mothor.said:
“Oh, stop praying! I don't bolieve in praying.
Get over all these religious notions and I’ll
S lve you a dress that will coat flvo hundred
oliara, ud yon may wear It noxt week to
that party.” Tho duglitor took tho dross and
•ho moved in tho gay clrclo, the gayest of all
tbo gay, that night; and sure enough, ail re
ligious impressions wore gone, and she stop
ped praying, A fsw months after ahe came to
die, and In her closing moments said: “Mother,
I wish yon would bring mo that dress that ooot
five hundred dollars.” Tho mother thought
it a very atruge request, but ahe brought It to
pleaso the dying child, “Now,” said the,
daughter, “mother, hang that areas on the
foot of tho bed,” ud tbo drees was hung
there, on tho foot of tho bed. Thu the dying
girl got np on ono elbow and looked at her
mother, ud thu pointed to tbo dress, ud
•aid; “Mother, that dress ia tha price of my
son)!” Oh, what a momentous thing it is to bo
a mother!
4. Agan, ud lastly, Hannah atands before
yon tbo rewarded mother. For all the coats
•he msde for Samnei, for ail the prayers she
offered for him, for too discipllno exerted over
him, she got abundant compensation in tho
pioty ud the naetalness, and tbo
of her son Bamnel; am
Every
teas, and tbo popularity
id that is truo in all ages.
mu nseftil in commercial life; that mu
prominent in a profession; that master’ me
chanic—why, every atop he takes in lifo has
u echo of gladness in the old hurt that long
ago taught him to bo a Christian, and horolo
ud earnest.
Tho story of what you have done, or what
in have written, of tho influence yon havo
exerted, has gono back to the old homestead—
for thero is someone always ready to cany
good tidings ud that story makes tho needle
in the old mother’s tremulous hud fly quicker
end the flail In the father's hud como down
upon tho ham floor with a vigorous thump.
Parents love to boar good nows from tholr
children. Do you send thorn good nows al-
YSkoutforth. young man who speaks of
. ... ..... “luire," o
woman who nils her mother her
ancestor,” or tbo “old sromtn.” “The eye
that moeketh at hia father, ud refnsoth to
bey bis mother, tho ravens of tho valley
hafl pick it out, and the young ugiu shafl
Ood grant that all thi
uod grant that all then parents may have
tho great satisfaction of seeing tholr chUdren
grew np Christians. But oh! the pug of that
mother who, after a life of streot-gaddlng and
gossip-retailing, banging on the children the
fripperies and lollies of this world, sou thou
children loosed out on the sea of life like fosm
on the wave, or nonentities of the world whore
only bravery ud stalwart character cu
stand the shock! Bntblesoed bo the mother
who looks upon her children as sons ud
daughters of the Lord Almighty.
Oh! the satisfaction of Hannah In seeing
Samuel serving at the altar; of mother Enolee
in suing her Timothy luroed in tho scrip-
tores. That is the mother's recompense, to
see children coming op nseftil in tho world,
reclaiming tho loot, healing the tick, pitying
tho ignorant, earnest ud nseftil in avery
sphere. That throws a new light back on tho
old family Bible whenever she roads it, and
that will he ointment to soothe the aching
llmba of decrepitude, ud light np tho closing
boors of life's day with tha glory of an antnm-
Dal me let.
There she sits, the old Christian mother,
ripe for heaven. Her eyesight ia almost gone.
I ut the splendors of the Celestial City kiodle
up her vision. Tho gray light of Jhearen'*
morn has struck through tho gray locks
which are folded bock over the wrinkled
temples. She stoops very mneh now under
the burden of care aho used to carry for her
children. She ait* at homo, too old to And
her way to tho house of God; but while oho
•Its there, all the put comes back, and the
children' that forty years ago tripped
aronnd her arm-chair with their griefs,
ud joys, ud sorrows—thou childron
are gone now. Some caught np into a hotter
realm, where they shall never ilte, ud others
ont in the broad world, totting tho excellency
of a Christian mother’s discipline. Her l«t
days are toll of peace; ud calmer ud
sweeter wiU her spirit booome, until the gates
of life ahail lift ud let in the wornont pil
grim into eternal apringtldo and youth, where
the limba never ache, ud the eyes never now
dim, ud the staff of tho exhausted and de
crepit pilgrim ahaU become the palm of tho
immortal at!' *
THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE.
A ScrTlce of Homa-Woesblp tot Every Sunday in
the Year.
By Bit. Chaslxs F. Dior* D. D„
Pastor of tho Church of the Strangers, New York,
FOURTH SUNDAY IN MARCH.
{Here the whole (amity may mute in some prayer
including ageneral confession.]
THE LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
(The leader should announce tho place of lesson,
•o that etch worshipper mty open too Bible ud
follow tho readlD£:i
(t’cnc*ls xxxii., Hymn, Prayer.
[Then may follow a prayer appropriate to tha tea*
ood, the Scripture Ioanna. and the clrctimrtjuioea of
the family: or the leader may read from noma of
tha collection* of orayera. of which there ahooMbe
•evrral In each household.]
[The Epistle and tho Gomel for each day should
b<‘ announced, so that all the family mar turn to
the pasMfo and accompany the reading:j
The Epistle-Ephesians y„ 1; The Gospel; Lake
xi., ll.Tho Discourse.
(Then may be read tho following or uy other
short discourse. The (coder may courts opon any
sentence, or Introduce other matter. Tho para
graph divisions and Italics will assist .1
Text.—"Yield yourselves onto God.”—Bo-
mans vi., 13.
If wo keep ourselves from God, wo with
draw ourselves from tho circle of all hjeoaod-
If wo yield onrselves to God, wo are not inr-
rendering to an enemy who will destroy when
ho obtains control of ns; we are letting go that
which will be onr destruction if we ding to it;
wo are tailing into tho power and loving hands
of One whoHrsires tosavo ns; losing our hold
on a horning rafter ud yielding to a Friend
who la drawing na away into safety.
Yield to God!
Yon aro a tinner against Him.
He seeks not to destroy, bnt to save;
He knowa how tosavo: you do not kuuw.
^Glvo np your piu of salvation; yield to
Cease listening to tho shallow philosophers
whotslk to You oft way of moral improve-
mcnt'according to .reason; you can be ^aved
only according to God’s plan; whether that: be
according to reason or not; bnt who dare say
it la not?
Ho lovee yon.
Ho must toll yon how to bo saved.
He haa come In tho deoh to ply yon with tho
woolngs of affection, not to drive you by foroe.
Yen are blind. All other saviours toll yon
the way; thlsSavlonr takes yon by tho hud.
Yield to Him and yon are saved. Yield to
God. Yon prefect to do so, being a member of
a Christian church.
Yield wholly.
Ho is yonr Teacher. Follow thoroughly ail
His teaching. Never mind what it bring! on
yon, nor where it lands yon. Obey thorough
ly Hia commandments. j
DonottiyOod; do pot experiment '
what tho result will be of n partial o!
deeper grows tho lunging, there ia, indeed, no
satisfaction fur sinful until until Ho dmls Him
who ia tho Way, the Troth, ud tho Lifo. What
a Saviour! so full of saving, keeplug, and on-
lightening grace! Wlmt in tho wurld ia thero,
in comparison to Him! Finally, let ms ask
you: what think ye of Christ? Would yon
have Him show you all His grace and troth ?
Then ask, ud it shall be given you; took, snk
ye shall And; knock, ud it ahail bo opened
unto you.
[Tho following poem may be committed to
memory by the young people.]
undue nts WINO.
Under Ills wing I sweetly rest,
Wbllebslmypeaeorelsnstnmybresst,
I never need a foe to drond,
While Hls bright wing 1. o'er me spread.
Coder Hu wing I Under His wing I
Oh, may my heart forever singl
t, seen or known,
lets o'er mo thrown,
It soothes me with Its u - J
Hts loving v._ , —
'Mid scenes of conflict and of grief
Its presence gives nr soul relief.
Under Hls wlngi Under Ills wtng I
Oh, may my heart forever stag I
The an gels with their pinions bright
•‘mogivedollr ■
r tone I sing
i saviour’s wing,.
lor Hls wing!
vsr sing I
This Heavenly win*, so widely spread,
" over me where’er 1 tread;
‘ "att g"
It will certainly pr
will discourage sill obedience. . • ( •
Yield to Him; He is yonr pilot. Be If not
responsible—you aro not aafo—unless you take
your bsnd bom off the rodder, and lot’HIm
steer; make Him no suggestions, bnt gladly,
promptly, thoroughly, obey all orders.
[After this, or uy other short discourse, a hymn
or several lgmns maybe sung, oaths family^ may
. rfa sertioo,
the "tilorla’’or other Horology.]
■Mil
FULL or OXACE AND TttUTU.
By Bov. F. H. Bcynolds, Philadelphia.
Jeans Himself, we are here told (John i J14),
is bill of grace and troth; not a staled foun
tain, whoso waters havo ceased to Oow, add la
of no nso to tho weary traveler, this Is nog tho
charaetcrof Jesus; Hois a fall, overflowing
fountain, to bo used by those in need of grace
ud those who would bo enrlohed by trntn.
Full of grace ud troth! a fountain never
dry, bnt always full for every thirsty, nbody
soul. How different this Is from the troth
which Socrates or Plato taught! tt
Greeks much moral truth, ud yet
urcui mucB uum »niuiiua je» iub
were always in starch of deepor truth, ...
never aeo Jesus thus Booking, for He wai tha
truth Himself.
Pint note, Ha was full of grace; that if un
merited iavor, undeserved kindness; and yon
will remember that God ia spoken of at the
God of Greco. Tbit was truo of Josns in' HiS
outward state, His whole life being occupied
in nonring out grace upon the sons of mon;
and also, truo in u inward sense; Ho was fall
of spiritual gneo in contrast with tho law of
Mooes, for the law was given by Moses, bnt
t ract ud troth oame by Jsana Christ. Tha
iw could never speak pesos to tho guilty con
science, but Jesus came to show a bettor way,
a way of access to tbs Father.
Ho woo full of saving grace, yea, He is
mighty to savo, as His name so cloarly indi
cates, ud He Jiiinsalf tolls us, that He earns
to seek ud to save that which ia lest. To tho
woman He laid, “Thy faith hath saved thoe,”
day, ud forever, wo may bo seoul
yet saves to the uttermost til that comae nato
Godby Him. AB we then need to do is to
come; tbit salvation cu never be earnod by
any works or merit* of onr own, ud for this
very reason Jesus came to earth to dla. Oh.
that all Uw heavy-laden would only como ana
drink snd lire,
Now, in tbo second plice, notice that His
grace Is a keeping grace. A grace to keep ns
from tailing in every time ofnaed, and which
make* na victorious in onr daily warfare with
the world, tbo flesh, ud tha devil. Boms say
they can’t hold ont, which la true; but then,
Jesus can ud doe* keep the aonl by the very
power of Ood Himself. In Muses' time it wee
said: “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.”
But Jeans came and made it still clearer to th#
tons of men, eo that Panl could cry: ‘1 can
do all things through Christ, which strength-
tueth me-,ho had grace to save ud grace to
keep Mm. .Kept by the power of Uod I what a
grand keeping I onr strength is so changeeble;
one dey afire ud the noxt lukewarm, but, He
who chugeth not, test! floe that wo aro kept by
tbo power of God 1 And once again, it ia writ
ten: “Your lifo la Md with Christ in Ood.”
Oh I are yon all rejoicing in view of this tact?
It will give yon a power for service which
nothing else can give. Come, then, ud trust
Him who is so full of grace.
And thirdly. He waa tail of enlightening
grace. Those who walked with Him to Km-
■nans lad their hearts opened to understand
the Scriptures; and so shall we, in onr daily
walk, nndcistud onr oneness with the Father,
if ever drinking from this same fountain si
full of enlightening grace. The reason why
so muy Christians know nothing of the joy
of tho Lord, is he cause they so seldom drink
from this besvenly fountain.
But He was tail of troth as well. lie came
to manifest tho truth. The types all pointed
to Christ from different sides, and when He
came w* see them all distinctly rerifled, th*
substance taking Use place of the shadow. He
was the tree Lamb of God; tbo true state
ment for the «ina of a ruined world. Homan
truth never •atianos; tbs more ono gets, tha
IthanUhca aUgloom and fear
* wing I
Oh, may my heart forever sing I
^’iiWm'tistlnfonliliotedof'ofdcaui-' I
I still causing with dying breath,
For round ms I can clearly sec
Christ's wing oflore o'reaehlnjr me.
Under Ills wing 1 Under lsla wing I
Oh,nmymyhrarttarare f rin|. r|[(DD
BOUTHEBN MtOnnirrioN POINTS.
It fa a remarkable tact that the traveler
going south from Washington city will And
himself going along the path of a temperance'
cyclone. Ho will find the capital city (Bioh-’
mond) of Virginia in the beat of. a prohibi
tion campaign. He will find Italoigh, the
tarheel metropolis, trying to drive ram ont.
In Atlanta, Georgia’s capita), ho will find
tho work already done. Dno west on lias
of roll ho will find Meridian and Jackson,
the Utter city tho capital of Mfaslssippi,
battling for the abolition of barrooms. Cross
ing Louisiana, prohibition Will be tbo flmt
subject he will bear dtocnaaed in Texas. A
linoofover a tbonaaod miles fan pretty long
front to keep np.
MiLLKDoaviLLN, Ga., March *3.—[Spooial,]'
At 6 o'clock this morning the polls at the
courthouse opened, ud voting began on tho
extremely exciting Isono of pronlbitlon, which
haa so thoroughly aroused our peoplo for tho
past taw weeks. A stream of poopld has
pocked tho courthouse door all day. Yester
day Dr. A. G. Haygood preached twice, to tho
whltcsin the morning ud in tho afternoon to
in the Intorrat of temperance.
Today the Indies havo a bountiful repast
spread in theTreuor building, ud every nlno
bodge was cordially woloomea to their hospi
tality. At 4 o'clock a crowd of about threo
hundred boarded tbo Macon ud Augusta train,
bound for the Brown’s Crossing prooinot. In
order to vote there. Tho registration books
•how 7B0 white and 1,S2S negro voters.
At 8 o'clock, the voto having boon counted
flrom nil over the county, showod the follow
ing result:
MUlcdgevillo—Prohibitionists flvs hundred -
snd seventy-six; antis, one hundred ud sixty-
Coopers— Prohibitionists, thirty-six; antis,
two hundred and forty-tiro.
Bntts—Prohibitionists, forty-five; antis, two
hundred ud thirty-seven.
Browns—rroblbitionfats, forty-soven, antis,
three hundred and sixty-one.
Total—Prohibitionist, 7<M; total, antis, l.OOff.
The prohibitionists claim that the ooat on
executions, to the number of nearly Mx hun
dred, are not paid, and therefore the election
Is illegal and will bo contested, and that tho
polls at Brown's Crossing were held open
twenty minuet too fats, by which tho antis
won a victory.
SiHicjt, S. C., March 31.—[Special.]—Eloo-
tion day here waa lively. A new town coun
cil waa to bo elected. Two tiokets wore
plaocd in the field, and tho light was waged
with much fooling from the opening tilt the
doting of the polls. There wu an ut passed
by tho legislature In 1883, which prohibit* the
uleof spirituous liquor* in thotownofSoUeca.
except by druggists. So Seneca fa not a. local
option town; aUll the tickets pat up represent
ed, ta * great extent, tho wet and dry faction*
respectively. Several tlmo* during the day
those wu bitter quarreling, and serious
trouble wu hourly looked for; but no ono
wu hart. Tho ticket nominated by the dry
taction wu elected by a majority of 30. Ono
of tho mon who voted tho wot ticket wet hi*
ballot with whisky before patting it In tho
box, ud,u ho put it in, ■aid: “Hors she goes
wet.”
WaynoNoxo, Ga, March 25.—[Spaclatl.1—
A meeting of prominent cltlsons, hold her*
today, resulted In a decision to tost the whisky
S ueation for Barks in June noxt ud tho
once lame in July.
Newton county will voto on local option on
Thnnday, the 82d or April.
ItALXion, N. C., March 25.—This olty fa
now preparing to vote on tho oxclnsloa of li
quor, the election being fixed for tho first
Monday In Jane. Associations havo boon or-
ganlredtor tbo pnrpooo of conducting tho
sign,and,u i<now thojfuhlon In ton them
elections, a special plaoe fa reserved for
negroes. A lugs muting of whltu hu re-
mired that “we hsil with pleasure the adrue-
ad step the colored peopio have taken in th*
good work of removing the evil from onr pity,
ud welcome thorn u co-laborers in thta grand
reform.” * . i-u'l I n/.n
Houston, Tor,. March 25.—Elaotlons havo
Jnat taken place In Bobertaon ud Clay coun
ties, the former voting against prohibition of
tho liquor traffic and th* latter tor it.
Vxxidian,Mia*,March 20.—Tb* local option
•boil order u election sad submit th# question
of prohibition or no proMbitlon to th* pooplo.
Tho uti-probibitioDfata of this county have
started inch a petition here ud nn election
will soon ho bold. This city will go “wet”
ud tbo eowtyl* thought to bo very sloe*.
Tho con tut will b* spirited and bittor.
OxronD, Ala., March 20.—[Spotlai.l—Th*
town council mot lut night and decided to
issue whisky llccnso under tho reunt dulaion
of tbo supreme court. The license wai fixed
of the supreme e«
at $1,200 tar tech
Over Three Regiments of April Hen.
There ere S.KO Comrmmox men whom sub
scriptions expire In April . This Is thru fell regi
ments wd a bsiullon. Drawn np In line they
would make e line army.
How many of these soldiers will re enlist? WIU
any of them be mustered ool finally? Won't every
mu, every aqned, every company, every regiment
come marching op shoulder to shoulder, re-cnflesed
tartbewer? We beta to eu any of the old ret
crane fell out. Better than all, won’t every Cox-
STitUTion soldier brio* up a now recruit, eo Ibtl
every company and every regiment may bo
dcnhhd, and Ibe April regiments grow Into u
April brigade? Let us have the brigade, and the
man who bringa In the most recruit* daring Aprf
ol,bll be published u the brlgadlar-ganoral, and
we will send bis wife one of our uwlng machines.
Now, all fall in and go to work, end let ua au
who will Le brigadier-general or tho Aprilbrlgade
and will hava bla uniform made on the sowing
machine we will present to hie wife. I.adlce, ge
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