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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION’. ATLANTA, GA-. TUESDAY JUNE 15 1§86.
TALMAGE’S SERMON
PREACHED IN THE BROOKLYN
TABERNACLE.
Tlie Orest Dlrtne Dellvara the TifUi or His BeriM of
Sermons on “Mo Labor QusstIon"-The Sab*
Ject betas "Strong Drink the Wont Too
of Labor”—A Powerful Samoa.
Reooklvn, N.Y., Jane 13.—[Special.]—Eov,
T. DeWitt Talmago, D. D., preached today
is the Brooklyn tabernacle, the fifth of hli
series of sermoni on "The Labor Qneetion.”
El* (Object was, “Strong Drink the Wont
Foe of Labor.” The opening hymn win
“So let onr Up and lire* expreas
The Holy Gospel we profess;
So let onr work* and vlrtaes thine,
To prore the doctrine all divine."
After explaining appropriate paatages of
acrlptnre, Dr. Talmago took hia text from
Haggal, chapter I, reno 6; “Ho that earneth
wage*, earneth wage* to putltt Into a bag with
hue*.” Dr. Talmago (aid:
In Persia, under the reign of Darina Hya-
taphes the people did not prosper. They made
money bat did not keep It. They were like
people who hare a tack in which they pat
money, not knowing that the tack la torn or
eaten with moths or In tome way made Inca
pable of holding valuablea. As out as the coin
wasput In one end of the sack It dropped out
of tho other. It made no difference how much
wagea they got, for they loot them. “He that
earneth wagea, earneth wagea to pat It Into a
lug with holee.”
What baa become of the billlona and billions
of dollars In this country paid to tho working
classes? Some of these moneys have gone for
house rent or tho purchase of homesteads or
wardrobe, or family expenses, or tho necceasi-
tles of life, or to provide comforts In old age.
What has become of other billions? Wasted
in foolish oat-lay. Wasted at the gaming
table. Wasted In intoxicants. Pat into a bag
with a hundred holes.
Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for rnm daring the
last thirty years and I will bntld for every
workingman a house, and lay oat for him a
E rden and clothe his sons in broadcloth and
i daughters in silks, and stand at hu front
door a prancing span of sorrels or bays, and
secure him a policy of life insurance so that
the present home maybe well maintained
after he is dead. The most persistent, most-
overpowering enemy of tho working classes
is Intoxicating Honor. It is the anarchist of
the centuries, ana hu boycotted and is now-
boycotting the body and mind and soul of
American labor. It is to it a worse foe
than monopoly and worse than associated
capital. It annually swindles indnstiy out of
a large percentage of its earnings. It holds
ont its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or
operative on his way to work, and at noon-
spell, and on hia way home at even-tide; or Sat-
nrday, when the wages are paid, it snatches a
large part of the money that might come to
the family and fsacnfices it among the saloon
keepers. Within eight handled yards of 8and
street Uethodlst church, Brooklyn, it hu fifty-
four saloons and la plotting now for another.
Stand the saloons or this country side by side,
and It is carefully estimated they would reach
from New York to Chicago. Forward march,
says the rum power, and tako possession of the
American nation.
The rum busineu is pouring its vitriolic
and damnable liquids down the throats of
hnndreds of thouunds of laborers, and while
the ordinary striku are ruinous both to em
ployers and employes, I proclaim a universal
strike against strong drink, which, if kept
up, will be the relief of the working clauu
and the salvation of the nation. I will un
dertake to say that there is not a healthy la
borer in the United States who, within tho
next ten years, if ha will refuse all
intoxicating beverage and be uving,
may - not become a capitalist on
a small scale. Our country in a
year spends one billion, fire hundred million
and fifty thousand dollars for rum. Of courso
tho working classes do a gnat deal of this ex.
pendlture. Careful statistics show that the
wage-earning classes of Groat Britain expend
in liquors, one hundred million pounds, or
fivo hundred million dollars a year. Sit down
and calculate. O, working man! how much
yon have expended in these directions. Add
it all up. Add up what your neighbors have
expended, and realise that instead ofanswer-
lng the beck of other people yon might have
been your own capitalist.
When yon deplete a working-man’s physi
cal energy yon deplete his capital. The sum-
mated workman gives out before the uu-
atlmulatcd workman.
My father said: "I became a temperance
man In early life because I noticed in the har
vest field that, though I wu physically weaker
than other workmen, I coaid hold oat longer
than they. They took stimulants, I took
none.”
A hrlckmaker in England gives his exper
ience in regard to this matter among men In
h's employ. Ho says, after investigation:
“The beer drinker who made the fewest
bricks made 850,000. the abstainer who made
the fewest bricks, 746.000. The difference in
behalf of the abstainer over the indulger,
87,000.”
There came a very exhausting time in the
British parliament. The session was pro-
longed until nearly all the members got sick
or worn ont. Ont of six hundred and fifty-
two members only two went through undam
aged; they were teetotallers.
When an army goes out to the battle the
soldier who has water or ooffee in his canteen
marches easier and fights better than the sol
dier who has whisky In his canteen. Bum
helps a man to fight when ha hda only one
contestant, and that at tho street corner.
But when he goes forth to main
tain some great battle for God and bis
country, he wants no rum about him. When
the Bnssians go to war a corporal passes along
tho line and smells tho breath of every soldier.
If there be in hia breath a taint of intoxica
ting liquor the man is sent back to the bar
racks. Why? He cannot endure fatigue. All
our young men know this. When they are
preparing for a regatta or for a ball club or
for an athletic wrestling, they abstain. Our
working people will be wiser after awhile,
and the money they fling away on hnrtlbt
indulgences they will put into co-operative
associations and to become capitalists. If the
working man pnt down his wages and then
take his expenses and sprsad them ont so they
willjost equal, he is not wise. I know work
ing men who are in aperlect fidget until they
get rid of thoir last dollar.
The following circumstance cams nnder out
observation: A yonng man worked hard to
earn bis six or seven hundred dollars yearly.
Marriage day came. The bride had inherited
fire hundred dollars from her grandfather.
She spent every dollar of It on the wedding
dress. Then they rented tiro rooms in a third
atory. Then tbefyonng man|took extra evening
employment—almost exhausted with the day’s
work yet he took evening employment. It
almost extinguished his eyesight. Why did he
add evening employment to day employment?
To get money. Why did he want to get mon
ey? To lay np something for aratny day? No.
To' get hia life insured so that
in esse of his death bis wife would not be a
beggar? No. He pnt the extra eveaing work
to the day work that he might get a hundred
and fifty dollars to get bis wife a sealskin
coat. The slater of the bride heard of this
achlrement and wu not to be eclipsed. She
wu very poor, and she sat up working nearly
all the nights for a great while until she
bought a sealskin coat. I have not heard of
the remit on that street. The street wu full
ofthose wboare on small incomes, bnt I sup
pose the contagion spread and that everybody
Dad a sealskin coat, and that the people came
ont ard cried practically, nos literally:
‘Though tbe heavens fall wo most have a
sealskin coat.” *
I was ont west and a minister of the gospel
told me, in Iowa, that his chnrch and tbe
neighborhood had been Impoverished by tbe
fiut that they put mortgages on their farms
in order to send their families to the Philadel
phia centennial. It wu not respectable not
to go to the centennial. Between such evils
end penperism there is a very short step. The
vast majorities of children in your alouhooses
are there becaaae their parents are drunken,
or lasy, or reeklamly improvident.
I have no sympathy for skin-flint uving,
but I plead for Christian prudence. Youuy
it is Impossible now to lay np anything for a
rainy day. I know it; bnt wo are at the day
break Of national prosperity. Some people
think it is mean to turn the gu low when
they go out of tbe parlor. They foci embar-
reason if tho door-bell rings before they have
tbe hall lighted. They apologize fbr tho
plain meal if you surprise them at the table.
Well, it is mean if it is only to pile np a
miserly hoard. But if it be to educate your
children, if it be to give more help to
C our wife when she does not fool strong, if it
o to keep your funeral day from being horri
ble beyond all endurance because it is to bo
disruption and annihilation of tho domestlo
circle—if it be for that, then it is maxnlfi
cent. (■“
There are those who are kept in poverty
cause of their own fault. They might nave
been well off, but they smoked or chewed np
their earnings, or they lived beyond their
means, while others on the umo wages and
on the same salaries went on to
competency. I know a man who wu all the
time complaining of his poverty, and crying
ont against rich men, while he himself keeps
two dogs, and chews and smokes and is full to
the chin with whisky and beer. Wilkins
Mlcawber said; to David Gopperfield:
“Coppcrfleld, my boy, one pound Income,
l^nomna,
. , result, hap
piness.” Bnt, O, workingman of America,
take your morning dram and
S our noon dram, ana yonr evening
ram, and spend everything you have
over for tobacco and excursions, and you in
sure poverty for yonreelf and your children
forever. If, by some generous flat of the cap
italists of this country, or by a new law of the
government of the United States, twenty-five
per cent, or fifty per cent, or one hundred per
cent were added to the wages of the working
classes of America, it would be no advantage
to hnndrede of thousands of them, unleu they
stopped strong drink. Ayo, nntil they quit
that evil habit, the more money, the more
rain; the more wages tbe more holos in the
bag.
My plea this morning is to those working
people who are in a dltclpleship to tho whisky
bottle, the beer mug and the wineflask. Ana
what I uy to them will not be more appropri
ate to the working classes than to the busi
ness classes, and the literary classes, and the
professional classes and all classes, and not
with the people of one age more than of all
ages. Take one good, square look at the Buf
feting of the man whom strong drink hu on-
thialled, and remember that toward that goal
multitudes are running.
The disciple of alcoholism suffers the
of his self-respect. Jest u soon u a man
waku np and finds that he is a captive of
strong drink he feels demeaned. I do not
cue how reckless he acts. He may say: “I
den’t care;” he does care. He cannot look
a pure man in thoeyo unless It is with posi
tive force of resolution. Three-fourths of his
nature is destroyed: his ulf-respect is gone; he
uys things he wonld not otherwise say; h
docs things he wonld not otherwise do. WhoL
a man is nine-tenths gone with strong drink,
tho first thing he wants to do is to persuade
yon that he can stop any time he wants
to. Ho can not. Tho Philistines have bound
him band and foot, and shorn his locks, and
pnt ont his eyes, and are making him grind in
the mill of a great horror. He can not stop.,I
will prove it He knows that his course is
bringing ruin upon himself, He loves him
self. If he ;couldl stop |ho wonld. He
knows his coarse is bringing rain upon his
family. He loves them. He wonld stop if he
could. He cannot Perhaps he oould three
months or a yeu ago, not now. Just uk him
to atop for a month. He cannot; he knows
he can not so he does not try. I had a Mend
who for fifteen years wu going down under
this evil habit He had large means. He had
given 1 thousands of dollars to Bible socie
ties and reformatory institutions of
all urts. He wu very genial, Tory generous
and very lovable, and whenever he talked
about this evil habit he would uy: “I can
stop any time.” But he kept going on, going
on, down, down, down. His fiunlly wonld
say: “I wish yon would stop.” “Why,” he
wonld reply, “I can stop at any time if I
want to.” After a while be Had delirlnm
tremens; he had it twice; and yet after that
be said: “I could stop at any time if I
wanted to.” He is dead now- What killed
him? Buml Bum! And yet among hia last
utterances wu: "I can stop at any time."
He did not (top it because he oould not stop
it Oh, there is a point in inebriation beyond
which if a man goes, he cannot stop!
One of theso victims said to a Christian
man: “Sir, if I were told that I couldn't get
a drink nntil tomorrow night unleu I had all
my fingers cut off: I would uy, 'Bring tho
hatchet and cat them off now.' ” I have a
dear fhend in Philadelphia whose nephew
came to him one day, and when ho wu ex
horted about his evil habit said: “Uncle, I
can’t give it up. If there atood a cannon and
it was loaded, and a glau of wine were set on
the moath of that cannon, and I knew that
yon would fire it off Just u I oome np and
took the glass; I wonld start, for I most have
it” Ob, it Is a sad thing for a man to wake
op in this life and feel that he is a
captive! He uys: “I could have got rid of this
once, but I can't now. I might have livsd an
honorable life and died a Christian deatb.bnt
there is no hope for me now; there is no es
cape for me. Dead bnt not buried. I am a
walking corpse. I am an apparition of what I
once was. I am a caged immortal beating
against the wires of my cage in this direction;
beating against the cage nntil there la blood on
tbe wires and blood upon my soul, yet not
able to get ont. Destroyed without remedy!"
El go on and say that the disciple of rum
suffer from the lou of physical health. Tho
older men in the congregation may remem
ber that some years ago Dr. Sewell went
through this country and electrified the peo
ple by his lectures, in which he showed the
effects of alcoholism on the human stomach.
He had seven or eight diagrams by which he
showed the devastation of strong drink upon
the physical system. There were thousands
of people that turned back from the ulcerous
sketch, swearing eternal abstinence from
everything that could intoxicate.
God only knows what the drunkard suffers.
Pain files on every nerve and travels every
muscle, and gnaws every bone, and burns with
every flame, and stings with every poison,
and pulls at him with every torture. What
reptiles crawl over his creeping limbs! What
fiends stand by his midnight pillow! What
groans tear hu ear! What horrors shiver
through his soul! Talk of the rack, talk of the
inquisition, talk of the funeral pyre, talk of
the crashing Juggernaut—be feels them all
at once. Have you ever been in the ward of
the hospital where these inebriates are dying,
tbe stench of their wounds driving back the
attendants, their voices sounding through the
night? The keeper comes np and says: “Hush,
now, be still, stop making all thtsnoise!" But
it Is effectual only for a moment, for as soon
as tbe keeper is gone they begin again: “Oh
God! Oh God! Help! Help! Bnm! Giro me ram!
Help! Take them off me! Oh God!” And then
they shriek, and they rave, and they pluck
out tb sir hair by handfuls, and bite their nails
Into the quick, and then they groan, and thay
sbrlik, and they blaspheme, and they aakths
keepers to kill them: “Stab me! Smother me!
Strangle me! Take the devils off-me!" Oh, it
is no fancy sketch. That thing is going on
now all up and down tbe land, and rtellyou
further that this is going to be the death that
some of yon will die. I know it. I see it
coming.
A rain, the Inebriate suffers through the loss
of hia home. I do not care how mnch he loves
bis wife and children; if this pse-ijn for
strong drink has mastered him. be will do the
most ontregeona things, and if he could not
get drink in any other way ha would sell his
family into eternal bondage.
How many homes have been broken np in
that way no onobnt God knows. Oh, is there
anything that will so destroy a man for
this life and damn him for the life
that is to coma? I hate that strong
drink. With all the coocantrated energies
oi my soul I hate It. Do not tell me that a
man can be happy when he knows that he is
breaking hia wife's heart and clothing his
children with rags. Why-there are on the
reads and streets of this Land today littlechil-
dren, bare-footed, uncombed and
unkempt—want on every patch
of their faded dress and on every wrin
kle of their prematurely old oountenancas, who
would have been in churches today and a*
well clad as yon are, bnt fbr the Act that ram
destroyed their parents and drove them into
tho grave. O ram, thou foe of God. thou do-
raclTer of home, thou moral ting officer of tho
But my snbJect takes a deeper tone,
and that is, that the nnfortnnato of whom I
speak suffers from tho toss of the soul. The
Bible Intimates that in the future world, if
wo are unforgiven here, onr bad passions and
appetites unrestrained, will go along with ns
and make onr torment there. 8o that, I sup
pose, when an inebriate wakes np in the last
world, he will feel an infinite tnirst clawing
on him. Now, down in the world, although
ho may have been very poor, he could beg or
he could steal five cents with which to get
that which wonld slake this thirst for a little
while; but in eternity, where is the rum
to oome from? Dives could not get
one drop of water. From what chalieo
of fire will the hot lips of tho drunkard drain
hia draught? No one to brew it. No one to
mix Ik No one to pour lb No one to fetch
ite MtlHoni of worldi then fbr the drees
which the yonng man Just now slung on the
sawdosted floor of the restaurant. Millions
of worlds now for the rind thrown out of the
punchbowl of an earthly banquet. Dives
cried for water. The inebriate cries for rum.
jupto
work in a grog-shop and should go back taking
onitswingjustonsdrop of that for which
the Inebriate in the lost world longs, what ex
citement wonld it make there? Pntthat one
drop from off tho fiend’s wing on the tip of
the tongue of the destroyed inebriate; let the
liqnid brightness just touch it; let the drop be
very small, if it only have in it the smack of
alcoholic drink; let that drop Just touch the
lost inebriate, in the lost world, and ho would
spring to his feet and cry: ‘That it
rum, aha! That is ram!" And it
would wake np the echoes of the damned:
“Give me rnm! Give me ram! Give me
rnm!” In the ftitnro world Ido not believe
tbst it will be the absence of God that will
make the drunkard's sorrow. I donotbolleve
that it will be tho absence of lighk I do |not
believe that it will be the absence of holiness.
I think it will be the absence of rum. Oh,
"look not npon tho wine when it is red, when
it moveth itself aright in the cup, for at the
last it bltethllko a serpent, and it stingeth
like an adder.”
it is about time that we have another wo
man’s crusade like that which swept through
Ohio ten or twelve years ago. With prayer
and song tho women went into the groggories,
and whole neighborhoods, towns, and cities,
were reedeemed by their Christian heroics.
Thirty women cleared ont the ram traffic
from a village of one thousand inhabitants.
If thirty women surcharged of the Holy
Ghost conld renovate a town of a thousand,
three thousand consecrated women, resolved
to give themselves no peace nntil this crime
was extirpated ftom this city, eonld in six
months clear ont three-fonrth* of the grog
shops of Brooklyn. If there be three thou
sand women now in this city who. will pnt
their hands and their hearts to the work, I
will tako the contract for driving ont
all these moral nuisances from
the city—at any rate three-
fourths of them—in three months. If. when
that host of three thousand consecrated wo
men is marshaled there Jm no one to lead
them.then, as a minister of the most high
God, I will offer to take my position at the
front of the host, and I will cry to them:
“Come on, ye women of Christ, with yonr
soup and yonr prayon. Some of yon tako
the enemy's right wing and some the left
wing. Forward; The Lord of hosts is with
ns; the God of Jaoob Is our nftige. Down with
the dram shops.”
But not waiting for these months of hell to
close, let me advise the working and business
' and ail classes, to stop strong drink.
declared some time ago that there wu
a point beyond which a man oould not stop, I
want to tell yon that while a man cannot stop
In his own strength the Lord God by Hia
ace can help him to stop at any time. I wu
a room in New York where there wore
many men who had been reclaimed
from drunkenness. I heard their testi
mony, and fbr the first Urns in my life there
flashed ont a truth I never understood. They
said: “We were victims of strong drink. Wo
tried to give it np but always failod; butsome-
bow since we pvo onr hearts to Christ, he
hu taken care of ns.” 1 believe that tho time
will soon corns when the grass of God will
show Its power not only to save man’s soot,
but his body, and reconstruct, purify elevate
Mid redeem ike
I verily believe that, although yon fool
grapling at tho roots of yonr tongues an al
most omnipotent thirst, if yon will give your
heart to God Ho will help yon by Hia grace
to conquer. Tty Ik It Is yonr lut chance.
I have looked off npon the desolation. Sitting
in onr religions assemblages there are
a good many people in awful
peril; and judging from ordinary circum
stances, there is not one chance in five thous
and that they will get clear of ik There are
men in my congregation from Sabbath to Sab
bath of whom I most make the remark, that
if they do not ebanp their course, within ten
years they will, u to their bodies, lie down
In drunkard's graves; and u to their souls,
lie down in a drunkard's perdition. I know
that is an awful thing to say. butl cannot help
saying ik Oh, beware! Yon have not yet
been raptured. Beware! Whether the bev-
crap be pourod in a golden challoe or pewter
mug, in tho foam at the top, In white letters,
let there be spelled ont to yonraoal: “Be.
ware!” When the books or Judgment an
open and ten million drankards oome np to
gat their doom, I want yon to beer witnou
that I, this morning, in the fear of God and in
the love for your soul, told you, with all
affection and with all kindness, to be
ware of that which hu already ex
erted Its Influenoo upon yonr family,
blowing ont some of its lights—a premonition
of ths blackness of darkneu forever. Oh, If
yon eonld only hear this morning, intemper
ance with drunkard’s bones dramming on tbe
head of the liqnor cask the dead march of
Immortal aonls, methiuka the very glance of
a wlnecnp would make you shudder, and the
color of the liqnor would make yon think of
the blood of the aonl, and the foam on the
top of ths cup wonld remind you of tho froth
on the maniac’s lip, and yon would go
home from this service and kneel
down and pray God that, rather than yonr
children should beeome captives of this evil
habit, yon wonld like to carry them out tome
bright spring day to the cemetery, and put
them away to the last sleep, nntil at the call of
the south wind tho flowers would corns np all
over the grave—sweet prophecies of the resu-
rcction I God hu a balm for such a wound;
but wbat flower of comfort ever grew-on the
blasted breath of a drunkard’s sepulchre?
Eftct! and Flgurai,
The l(Sd grand monthly distribution of the
world-famed Louisiana Bute Lottary took place
at noon on Tueaday, May lltfa, I8S6, In the cur ot
New Orleans, under I ho sole management of Gen
erals O. T. Beauregard, of Louisiana, and Juba I A.
Early, of Virginia, when tUkCOOwu scattered all
over the world. Ticket No, 7S.M! drew the first
capital prise, which wu sold In fractions of oot-
II fin at II each; one-fifth wu held by tt. Hunt.
Vlneton. Ale, collected through cUyKetlooet
bank of Selma, Ala.; another fifth collected
y.rp,« Co-'a bank, olSan rrencls-
... :hfr to Harry Johoa-on, collected
through Chauocer J. Wedwell. Ksq., Iialomuter
Cleveland. Columbus. Cincinnati and Indianapolis
railway. Cleveland, Ohio: another to John Olson.
No. IS East Fourth street. Now York city, collected
through Adams Isoms company: end another to
C. lTBeseej.West JOoosborg, Vt, collected through
the National Perk bank, of New York city. This
will be repeated on Tueaday, July Ifilh. end any
Information thereof can be had on application to
M. A. Dauphin, Ntw Orleans, La.
keep my hat on !
FITS: All Fite stopped free by Dr. Kline’s
Great Nerve restorer. No Flte after first day's
use. Marvelous cores. Trestles and $3 trial
bottle free to Ttt cases. Bend to DrKliae,
Ml Arch 8k, Philadelphia. Pa.
SAM JONHS EXPLAINS.
His letter In Reply to Dr. Jeffrey's Attack
Apptonded by ■ Congregation,
Dr. Jeffrey, pastor of tho First Baptist
church, of Indianapolis, last week mado a vigorous
assault upon 8am Jones for having said, u quoted
In tho New York Independent, that "If any nun
uys that only Immersion la baptism, tell him I say
he tselUr." “I take exception to this language,"
said Dr, Jeffrey, "not because ho had expressed hie
dissent irom an opinion held by millions of Intel 11-
tent people, not because ho hu violated the de
mands or courtesy and good faith In proclaiming a
secrelarian opinion ftom an undenominational
platform, nor because a more Intelligent person
wonld bare represented the views he travesties In
more exact phraseology, but because of the gram
and Insulting epithet with which ho hu branded
the men and women who hold a sacred conviction.'
Ml. J OX XT'S aXTLV,
Indianapolis Sentinel:
Mr. Small came forward and retd the following,
which, be said, ho hsd Just received ftom bis col
league. Bov. Sam P. Jones. The reeding of the
letter produced a decided sensation In the audi
ence, and u the close there wu quite en outburst
of approving applause:
There hu come to my attention a circular ad-
dress, delivered to hia congregation In Indianapo
lis. on Sunday, May so, by Bev. Bonbon Jeffery.
From It I note that be uses en isolated quotation,
reported from a sermon of mine in Columbus,
MLsa, by Bev. Mr. Dobbs, the Baptist minister of
thatcity,Ins-tetter to the Now York Independent,
to lfnbrent end sectarian abuse) I put the truth of
the matter More you. The facts ere theso: |
InApril lut, during the progressof e wonder
fully sweeping work of grace In Oolnmbus, Miss.,
while hundreds of men, women, youths nod col-
less students were being converted to Christ, it
wu brought to my attention most plainly that
some of onr brethren of the BepUst faith wore pros
ecuting en open and aggressive system of proaelyt-
lim, especially among the younter people. They
meatoaUgei In rnrflun the minds end consciences
while thus absent from their homo e
Join the BepUst chnrch npon the pos
ment thst,lis mode of baptism alone
them the seal and sore witness of theL
van™. Others were led to understand that they
wonld be damned If they were not Immersed.
They were thus led to doubt the reality of the re
ligion of their fathers, motherland families from
time Immemorial, and In this dilemma, to draw
back from their profeeriotu of Christ. In this
emergency of danger to so many souls, produoed
by a spirit so JesnlUcally at variance with tho
union work of evangelism In which wo were en
gaged, and) which God wu favoring so mightily, I
lisnlF J^®***®* diJtcil theconvert, in'sub
If tn’yone approachu yon In an attempt to prose
lyte yon. u by telling you that Immenlon lathe
only and exclusive form of Christian baptism, tell
which ho receives It. If yon bellevt In Immersion,
hut ne sure trial in tne act, d
you are wholly consecrated
The above hu always I
preaching when called to f
Ito Christ.
I been tho tenor of ni]
face like
my colaborer. Hr. Small, du
the subject of like advice u
and he hu now In his possession a—
from a Baptist minister of Columbus urging him to
join the mlnhrtryqf the Baptist chnrch u the only
troa ministry ofchiM, by virtue of Ut doctrine of
baptism by Immersion. . .
I make these statements tot truth's sake; not for
defense of my speech, for that, I conceive, needs
no defense In Dace of the facts. My ealhollotty or
Christian courtesy end eon-fraternity needs no
llcUtloos bolstering before the c"-*—
this country. Mr language at si.
ling to freely and fully submit to parallelism with
that wbleh gives Its only punoeney to the circular
of Uev.Mr.Jelftey. Very respectfully.
Sax P, Jones.
Mr, Smallllhen said that u a denouement to that
statement of Mr, Jones, he desired to retd a clip
ping from tho Cincinnati Enquirer of tnet morning
(Juno ?). Tbe extract Is u follows, and burs the
headline “Large Accessions lo Trinity Chnrah.” *
Trinity M. E. church wu filled with people last
night, and the putor, Bev. Dr. Joyce, wu haopy,
the occasion befbx the receiving Into full member
ship of about one hundred end fifty piobatlontsts.
Tbe new members stood In two full rows around
entire chancel rail, and a number of twos
n tho aisles No regular sermon wu preached,
the putor, In somo remarks appropriate to tho
lion, awarded to Sam Jones this credit end the
Lord the glory for this luxe accession to Trinity
church, Tho services lasted nearly two hours,
Sam Jonas’s Explanation.
Editobs Constitution—In tho letter of
Bov. Sam Jones, published tu yesterday's
Constitution, replying to tho criticism of
Dr. Jeffrey, of Indianapolis, thorn an state
ments in regard to the Baptists of Columbus, Miss.,
tbst are so st variance with all that Baptiste bare
ever held end taught, that 1 am compelled to be
lieve that thou Columbus Baptists ut misrepre
sented. Tbe letter Is In the way of deft use or
Justification for whet Mr. Joses sold “that If any
ooe uys that Immersion only Is baptism, tell him I
uy he la a liar." Justifying himself. Mr. Jouu
uvs “that some of onr brethren of ihe Baptist
filth” were urging the converts in the Columbus
meeting “tojoutoe BepUst chnrah upon the posi
tive statement that its mode of baptism adooo
eonld ho to tbemtbe teal and sure witness of
ro^ , .hff i «ouSf i s , d^?3d sv?
- ' odor taught any
««
. art not of tbe
represent any pirtl-
Baptist! nerer hare held or I
of these things that arojta
••tome of our brethren of
am confidant that tho 1
wun uemn iuiu soui men uuciuucj hi biu
Vnfevdo'.ImrepudT.m these the whole Beptln
rotberboodoftbe world would repudiate tuem.
Jur filth la not of yesterday. It hu been set forth
in creeds and oonfused by martyrs through many
dent ot modern, from the den of the
apostles until now, the slightest scintilla of sup
port for such dogmu. The Baptists, sad u far a*
E°<S.rtoWtWJSi?5 0 6h^M
be baptised. Holding In many a dark end ckwdy
day that salvation la essential to baptism, how dare
ir ons accost us of the very reverse?
We htve repudiated U the exponas of suffering
id death alltba mischievous hereslu of baptismal
generation end tho saving efficacy of sscramenla
.heee church doctrines that have uone so much to
pervert and destroy tho Gospel, ban never been
mntenanced by us—no. not for en hoar.
Baptists Insist that the law of Christ requires
tbe used follower to be baptised. Christ hlmmlf
hu given the commandment, end, not u the
bondman paying the pries, hat u the grateful
loving disciple we render a glad obedience. I
deplore end duplicate religious controversy where
nUrepreetntaUon takes the piece of ft Imam and
•T&, ministers end evangelists u well, cannot
be teocsaiioos and exact In wpreeenllng the
views of there that differ ftom them. Candor end
absolute truthfulncu should distinguish every
word. Is It too much to exmet this? Must we
await the millennium for this 7
Let us rejoice In the blamed things of Gad In
wbleh we agree. Wherein we dlflfer let us be men,
wise, coculderete aod loving men: differing In
deed,foot without bitterness end wrath, end when
we slate oordUlkrences let It be done In words
that breathe the spirt! of the common Muter,
end so proving ourselves Ills disciples Indeed.
Above all, let our statements of others beliefs be
true, and inch u they would accept.
Ilxxav McDoxatp,
From a Veterinary Surgeon.
Cleveland, O., Dec. 13,1883.
Bits: Having given n fair and impartial trial
of Caustic Balsam, I deem It a duty that I owe
yon and the public to acknowledge lie surpris
ing therapeutic properties. Ite notion si a
vesicant surge see* anything I have hitherto
seen employed in veterlnery practice, and
will In due time, I doubt not, completely su
persede the "actual cautery."
John Cbottv, M. B. C. V. S.,
Veterinary Surgeon, Cleveland, O.
Gombunlt'e Caustic Balsam fo for sal# in At
lanta by Brad 11 eld At Ware, 86 Whitehall 8t,
The colored Metbodlsu bare uowtte largom
church in Washington, it ooati IIU.OM, ofwhlch
all bnt MO,000 hubecu raised, and seats J,SOI peo
ple.
Homan Ufa
greatly depends upon the parity of air end
water, end most Infections diseases reach us
through the medium of one or the other.
Derby's Prophylactic Fluid will taka out of a
room tvery atom of poisonous gss and noxious
effluvia and recharge it with oioao (nature’
purifier). Sprinkled over any putrescent nut
ter it not only deatroyi the odor but kills tho
disease gums. A few drops of tho Fluid trill
purify ■ large quality of water.
BULL’S SARSAPARILLA.
liverHH
SfcrHn'flt Hit eat arts ATf Chr fo
efisaaw JmfutSm tf Ut tho* * ty fr.
vssUAtrMzt*
Safissszrarxt
pan/ other distressing errr.p-
turned titer troubles, net#
uerelieredata/Keb/ tie tee of BUU'S'
SMSiPA/lllU Ut great 6/tod reulreet |
TVm Tavw Wreve Thawa * - - *
DYSPIP8IA
■“ at.
. T-.-I——.heartburn, wind in the
etemach, had breath, badtaetein Ut mouth.
an enfeebled or patented condition of the
blood. BUWs fRShPAItlUA b, canting
end rar.tr.nn Me Afioojf
md at once.
here no been
y JAJtia MOORE, Loulrrtlle, Xj.
^ — nii btb
taring
UauLS, none cave, Xj.
^/kidneys, iTaTVirYn I• 8CROruLA
Art thennot cecntarr organic f\ SDWiKJKJXJ \rt a peculiar morbid condition ot
tablingpoieoneuematter taken froaUeen- Ue lac* of eutllcent nourishment iurntehea
tern, lithe hdneje do notact properir (hit to thotjetom through Uo blood, utuaU,
matter it retained and ponone \Ue blood. alMing Jhe glands, often retailing ie
canting headache,wtaineet,pain Inthetmall ewellina^enhrgid Jalnte, abecesett.eon
oJbacfandloint.auihttofkeat.chilte.wiU ejtt. blotchr eruption! on the face or neck.
i!SAStiS l fT^. n4 fcg**’- BUU :. S tire’flae ie akin to Handle often mietaten
SARSAPARILLA aete at a diuretic on tho for Scrofulaae it comes fnm the tame oauee,
KUnoje and bowels, and direct!/ on Uo Impure blood. BULL’S SARSAPARILLA bp,
Hood ae well, cauting Ut great or. purifying Me Hood and toning upthi tjetea
gone of Ut bod/ to rosamt USr natural forces Uo iaparitiet from tho blood and
funobont. and boalU Ie at onco retlarid. 4 cleanni Un o/etea Urough Uo regular
frs. Jomv ntTT.t.—there ceM mrziu gansvi- channiit. y.
•mos.IL BENTLEr/aoerrUle. m.
BULL'S 8ARSAPARILLA. yriucipal OlVUSi
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