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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ^ATLANTA, GA«1 TUESDAY JULY 13 188
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TALMAGE’S SERMON
PREACHED YB8TBRDAY AT "THE
HAMPTONS."
Th* Second of Um Qro*t Dlrtne’* Series ot Eon
eormooi. Xntitled “Voice* of Gardena and
7lalda w -Tn* Blblea Great Poem, a Sweet
Pastoral and Xnatroetlve Volume.
"Tai IlAiipToirs," Jnly 11.—[Special.]—
Continuing hU series of rural sermon, entitled,
“Voices of Gsrdens end Fields,” the Bor. T.
DeWitt Talmsge, D. D„ today preached from
the Song of Solomon, chapter 5, verse 1: “lam
come into my garden.” He said:
The Bible it a great poem. We have in It
faultless rythm and bold imagery and start
ling antltheeis and raptnroua lyric and street
pastoral and instructive narratlvo and devo
tional psalm; thoughts expressed in style more
solemn than that of Montgomery, more bold
than that of Hilton, more terrible than that of
Dante, more natural than {that of Wordsworth,
more Impassioned than that ofPollolr, more
tender than that of Cowper, more weird than
that of Spenser. This great poem brings all
the gems of the earth into its ooronet,
and' it weaves the flames of
judgment into its garlands,
and poura eternal harmonies In Its rhythm.
Everything this book touches it makes beau
fill, from the plain stones of the summer
threshing floor to the daughters of Nahor Ail
ing the trough for the camels; and the flsh
pools of Heshbon up to the psalmist praising
God with diapason of storm and whirlwind,
and Job leading forth Orion, Arctnrua, and the
Pleiades.
My text leads ns into a scene of sun
redolence. The world has had a great many
beautiful gardens. Charlemagne added to the
glory of hu reign by decreeing that they be
eatabliihed all through the realm—deciding
even the names of the flowers to be planted
there. Henry IV., at Montpelier, estab
lished gardens of bewitching beauty and
luxnrianoe, gatherlng”*into them Alpine,
Pyrenean and French plants. One of tho
sweetest spots on earth was the garden of Shen-
stone, the poet. His writings have made but
little impression on the world, but his gar
“The Leaaowes,” will be immortal. To
natural advantage of that place was brought
the perfection or set. Arbor, and terrace, and
slope, and rustle temple, and reservoir, and
fountain and nrn here had their crowning.
Oak and yew and haael put forth thsir rich
est foliage. There was no life more diligent,
no Soul more ingenious than that of Bhen-
stone, and all that diligence and genius he
broight to the adornment of that one treas
ured spot. He gave three hundred pounds for
it; he sold it for seventeen thousand. And yet
I am to tell yon today of a richer garden thau
any I have mentioned.
It is the garden spoken of in my text, the
garden of the church, which belongs to Christ,
for my text says so. He bought it, He planted
it, He owns it, and He shall have it. Walter
Bcott in hia outlay at Abbotsford, ruined his
fortune; and now, in the crimson flowers of
those gardens, you can almost think or imag
ine that you see the blood of that old man's
broken heart. The payment of the last one
hundred thousand pounds sacrificed him. But
I have to tell you that Christ’s life and Christ's
death were the outlay of this beautiful garden
of the church, of which my text speaks. Oh,
how many sighs, and tears, and pangs, and
agonies! Tall me, ye women who saw Him
bang! Tell me, ye executioners who lifted
Him and let Him down! Tell me, thou sun
that didst hide; ye rocks that fell! “Christ
loved the church and gave himself for it.” If
then, O blessed Jesusi today; walk up anu
down these aisles, and pluck what thou wilt of
sweetness for thyself!
Tho Church, in my text, is appropriately
compared to a garden, because it is a place of
choice flowers, of select fruits, and of thorough
irrigation.
That would be a strange garden in which
there were no flowers. If nowhere else they
would be along the borders or at tho gateway.
The homeliest taste will dictate something, if
it be the old-fashioned hollyhock, or dahlia,
or datTodll; but if there be larger means, then
you will And the Mexican cactus, and biasing
azalea, and clustering oleander. Well, now,
Christ oomea to His garden and He plants
there route of the brightest spirits that ever
flowered upon the world. Borne of them are
violets, unconsplcuous but sweet as hoaven.
You have to search and And them. Yon do
not She them very often, perhaps, but you And
where they have been by the brightened face
of the invalid, and the sprig ofgerantumontho
stand, and the new window curtains keep
ing cut the glow of the sunlight. They are,
perhaps, more like the ranunculus, creeping
aw'ctly along amid the thorns and briars of
life, riving kiss for sting; and many a man
who has had In his way some great biaok rock
of trouble, has found that they have covered
it all over with flowery jessamine running in
and out amid the crevices. These flowers In
Christ’s garden are not like the snuflower
gaudy in the light, hut wherever darkness
hovers over a soul that needa to be comforted,
there they stand, night-blooming cereutca.
But in Christ’s garden there are plants that
may be better compel ad to tho Mexican c ic
tus— thorns without, loveliness within; men
with sharp points of character. They wound
almost everyone that touches them.
They are hard to handle.
Men pronounco them nothing
but thorns, but Christ loves them, notwith
standing all their sharpnesses. Many a man
has bad a very hard ground to cultivate, and
It has only been through severs trial he has
raised even the smallest scrap of grace. A
very harsh minister was talking to a very
placid elder, and the placid alder said to the
hanh minister: “Doctor. I do wish you would
control your temper." “Ah," said the minis
ter to the elder, “I control m
temper
ears.” It
harder forsome men to do right than for
other men to do right. The grace that would
elevate yon to the seventh heaven might not
keep your brother from knocking a men
down. Ihadafrlcndwbocamotomeandaaid:
“I dare not Join the church.” I said: “Why?"
“Oh,” be said, “I have such a violent temper.
Yesterday morning I was crossing very early
at the Jersey City ferry, and I saw a milkman
pour a large amount of water into the milk
can, and I said to him: T think that will do,’
and he insulad me, and I knocked him down.
Do you think I ought to Join .the church?"
Keverthelsaa, that very same man, who was
so harsh in his behavior, loved Christ and
could not speak of sacred things without tears
of emotion and affection. Thoms without,
sweetness within—the best specimen of Mex
ican cactus I ever saw.
There are others planted in Christ's Garden
who are always radiant, always impressive-
more like the teees of deep hue that we occa
sionally find called “giants of battle;” the Mar
tin Luthers, 81. Fault, Chrysostoms, Wick-
liffr, La timers and gunnel Rutherfords,
Wbat in other men is a spark, in them is a
conflagration. When they sweat, they sweat
S cat drape ef blood. When they pray,
eir prayer takes Arc. When they
preach, it Is a Pentacoat. When they
flgbt, it la a Thermopylae.
When they die It is martyrdom. You finds
great msny rasas in the gardens but only a
few “giants of battle.” Men say: "Why don’t
you have more of them In the church?" I say:
“Why don’t yon have in the world more Hum
boldts and Wellingtoni?" God gives to some
tan talent; to others, one.
It * '
has
fbl but cold looking, seemingly another.phase
of winter. I mean these Christians who are
precise In tbeir tastes, unimpaariosed, pare as
ssewdrope and as cold. They never shed any
tears, they never get excited, they sever say
any thing rashly, they never do anything pre
cipitately. Their pulses never flutter, Uteir
serves never twitch, tbeir indignation never
boilrover. They live longer than most people,
but their life is is a minor key. They never
run up to “C" above Ike staff. In their mode
of life they have no staccato passages. Christ
planted them la the ehurah, and they mutt be
of some service or they would net be then;
In this garden of the church which Christ
planted I also find the snowdrops, beauti-
zowdrous, always
But I have not f
not told you of the most beauti-
Ail flower in all this garden spoken of in the
text. If you see a century plant your eno-
Gone era started. You say: “Why, this flower
has been a hundred years gathering up for one
bloom, and it trill be a hundred years more
twfore other petals will come out/Bat I have
fctdl yen or a plant that was gathering up
from all eternity, and that nineteen hundred
put forth Ha bloom never to wither.
It is the passion-plant oC the cross! Prophets
fj™told it; Bethlehem shepherds'
it in too bad; tho rocks shook it am uaniiun
and the dead got up in their winding sheets
to see its toll bloom. It is a crimson flower-
blood at the roots, blood on the branches,
blood on all the leaves. Its pertome is to fill
all the nations. Its breath is heaven. Come,
0 winds from the north, and wind* from the
tooth, and winds from the east, and winds
from the west, and bear to all the earth the
•wcet-smelllnf savor of Christ, mj Lord!
"Hli worth If all the nations knew.
Bure the whole earth would love him too.'
Again: the church may he appropriately
compared to a garden, because It lee piece of
a»I:ct fruits. That would be a strange garden
which had in It no berries, no plants,
peaches, or apricots. The oosner fruits im
planted in the orchard or thoy ere act out on
the sonny hillside; but the choicest fruits
ere kept la the garden. Bo In tha world out
side the chnrch, Christ has planted a greet
many beautiful things—patience, charity, gen-
croaity, Integrity; but he Intends the chobest
fruits to he in the garden, and if they ere not
there, then sbsme on tho church,
Religion is not a men flowering
sentimentality. It is a practical, life-
giving, healthful fruit—not posies, but apples.
“O," aaya somebody, “I don’t see what your
S atdcn of the church has yielded.” Where
Id your aaylume come from, end your hospi-
ala and your institutions of mercy? Christ
planted every one of them. He planted them
in bis garden. Wben Christ gave sight to
Bartimeus he laid the corner stone of every
blind aeylum that hae ever been built. When
Christ soothed the demonise of Geililee He
laid the corner stone of every lunatic asylum
that hu ever been established. When Christ
raid to the sick man, “Take np thy bed and
walk,” he laid the corner stone of every hospi
tal the world hu ever seen. When Christ
uid: “I was in prison and ye visited Me,”
be laid the corner stone of every prison reform
ssatciation that hu ever been formed, The
church of Christ is a glorious garden, and is
full of fruit.
I know there Is tome poor fruit io it. I know
that then are some weeds that ought to be
thrown over the fence. I know that there
ere some crab-apple trees tbit oaght to be cat
down. I know there ere some wild grapes
that ought to be uprooted; but are you going
to destroy the whole garden because of allttle
gnarled fruit? You will And worm-eaten
leaves in Fontainebleau, and iuieota tbat sting
in the fairy grant of tbe Champs-Elyseea.
You do not tear down end destroy the while
garden because there era a few specimens of
gnarled fruit. I admit there ere men nnd
women In tbe chnrch who ought not to be
there; but let ne bejust u frank and admit
tbe feet tbat there ere hundreds end thous
ands and tens of thonunda of glorious Chris
tian men and women—holy, Messed, useful,
consecrated, end triumphant. There is no
grander colleetloa In all the earth than the
collection of Christians. There are Christian
men in this home whoso religion is not a
matter of psalm singing and church going.
Tomorrow morning that religion will keep
them just u consistent and consecrated in their
worldly occupation, u it ever kept them at
the communion table. Thera arc women
here today of a higher type of character than
Mary of Bethany. They not only sit at tho
feet of Christ, but they go out into tbe kitehen
to help Martha in her work, that ahe may
sit there too.Thiro la a woman who|hu a drun
ken husband,who has exhibited morejfaith end
salience nnd courage than Ridley in the Are.
Ho wsa consumed in twenty minutes, list's
has been a twenty years’ martyrdom. Yon
der is a man who has been fifteen years on his
bark, unable oven to feod himtolf, yot calm
and peaceful as though he lay on one of tho
greeu banka of heaven, watching tho oaramcn
din their paddlea in tho cryital river-
Why, it seems to me this moment
ulfSkFenlthrewtonsa pomologiat’s cats
logos of the fruits growing in thlsgroat garden
of Christ—love, joy, peace, patienoe, charity,
brotherly kindness, gentleness, mercy, glori
ous fruit, enough to All all the baskets of earth
and heaven.
I have not told yon of the better tree in this
tarden and of the better fruit. It was planted
ustoutsido Jerusalem a good while age. When
tbat tree wit planted, it was to split, and
bruised, and barked, men said nothing would
ever grow upon It; but no sooner bad that tree
been planted than It bndded, and blossomed,
end fretted, end the soldiers' spears were only
tbe cinbe tbat struck down that fruit, and ft
fell Into tha lap of the nations, end men began
to pick it op and cat it; and thoy found in it an
antidote to all thirst, to ail poison, to all sin, to
all death—tbe smallest cluster larger then the
famoue one of Esbcol, which two men carried
on a staff between them. If the one apple In
Eden killed the race, this one cluster of mercy
so all restore It.
Again: The church In my text Is appropri
ately called a garden, because It Is thoroughly
Irrigated. No garden oould prosper long with
out plenty of water. I have seen a garden In
the mldatof a desert, yet blooming and luxu
riant All around was dearth and barrenness;
tut there were pipes, aqueducts, reaching from
tide garden up to the mountains, and through
thus aqueducts tha water earns straamlngdows
ai d tossing up into besuttful fountains, until
every root and leaf and flower were saturated.
That la like the chutch. The church le e gar
den In the midst of e greet desert of eln end
•u flaring; but it is well irrigated, for “oar eves
ere unto the hills from whence comoth our
help.” From the mountains of God’s strength
there flow down rivsnof gladness. “There is
s river the stream whereof shall make glad
the city of our God." Preaching tbe gospel is
~ible is enotl
clean, water tossed high up in tha light of the
ton of righteousness, showing ui the rainbow
around the throne, O, was there ever a gar
den so thoroughly irrigated ? You know that
the beauty of VenalUes and Chatawerth do-
wnde very much upon the great enpply of wa
ter, I cams to tho latter place, Chatsworth,
one day when strangers are not to be admitted;
but by an inducement which always seemed si
applicable to an Englishman as an American, I
got in, and than tha gardener went hr np
above the stain of stone and tuned on the
water, I sew it gleaming on tha dry pave
ment, coming down from atop to stop
until it came ao near I could hear
the musical rush, and all over
the high, bread stairs ft cams foaming, flesh
ing, roaring down, nntil sunlight and wavs in
glectomo wrestle tumbled at my feet So it if
with tho chnrch of God. Everything comae
from above; cordon from above, Joy from
above, adoption from above, sanctification
from above. O, that now God would turn on
tbe waters of salvation, that they might flaw
down through this heritage, and that today
wa might find this very pises to bo “Klim,
with twelve wells of water and three score
and ten palm-trees'.”
Huh! I bear tha latch of tho garden gate,
and I look to see who la coming. I heir tho
voice of Christ: “I am coma into my garden.”
Isay: “Comein,O Jana! wahavo bean wait
ing for thee; walk ell through tho paths.
Look at the flowers; look at tha fruit; pluck
that which Thou wilt for Thyself” Jesus
comes into tho garden and np to that old mao,
end touches him, and mym “Almost heme,
father, not many more aches for thee; I will
never leave thee; take courage a little longer
and I will steady thy tottering steps, and I
will soothe thy troubles and give tboe rest.
Courage, old man.” Then Christ goes up
another garden path, end he comas to a tool
in trouble end eayr. “Peace! all is well. I have
seen thy Wan. I have beard thy prayer.
Tha eon shall not smite thee By day nor the
by night. Tha Lord ehalf preserve thee
frotn ell evil. He trill preserve shy soul.
Courage, O troubled spirit!” Then I see Jesus
going np another garden path, aad I see greet
excitement among tha leaves, and I beaten np
that garden path to (as what Jseue Is doing
there, end lei he U breaking off flowers, sharp
aad clean from tha stem, and I ssy: “Stop,
Jesus, don’t kill those beautiful
Ho tang to aaa aad ssy.:
“I have corns into my garden to gather
lilies, and I mean to take then np to a higher
terrace, for tho garden around my palace, and
there I will plant them; and in better soil and
in better air they shall pat forth brighter
leave* and sweeter redolence, and no froit
shall touch them forever.” And I looked up
into hia face and laid: “Well, it la Hia gar
den nnd He has a right to do what He will
with it. Thy will be done!’’—the hardest
prayer a man ever made.
It has seemed aa if Jesus Christ took the
beet; from many of your household* the beet
one Is gone. You know that she wsa too good
for this world; ahe was the gentlest in her
ways, the deepest in her affections; and when
at last the sickness came you had no frith In
medicines. You knew tut the hour of part
ing bad come, end when, through the rich
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, you surren
dered that treasure, yon laid: "Lord Jeans,
take it—it is the best we have; tike
it. Thou art worthy 1” The others in the
household may have been of grosser mould.
She was of the finest. On* day a man was
taking me from the depot to a village. He wee
very rough end coatee, and vory blasphem
ous; but slier awhile he mellowed down ns he
began to talk of his little eon whom be had
lost “Oh, air,” he said, “that boy was differ
ent from the net or us. He never used any
bad language; no, sir, I never heard him use
a bad word In my life. He need to ssy hie
prayers, and we Unshed at him; but he would
keep on saying hie prayers, end I often
thought: T can’t keep that ohUd/and I said
to my wife, ‘Mother, we can’t keep that
child.’ Bat, elr, the day he was drowned,and
they brought him in and laid him down on
the carpet, ao white and so beautiful, my
heart broke, eir, I knew we couldn’t keep
him.”
Tho heaven of youi little once will not bo
fairly begun until you get there. All the
kiodneasee shown them by immortal! will
not make them forget you. There thoy are,
the radiant throng* tbat went out from your
homes. I throw a kiss to the eweet darlings.
They ere ell well now in the palece. The
cnpplcd child has a sound foot now. A little
heaven?" “No, my dear, yon won’t be elok
in heaven.” A little blind lohlld says: “Ha,
will I be blind In heaven?” “No, my dear,
you won’t be blind In heaven. ThoySere all
well there.”
I notice that the fine gardens somctlmss
have high fences around them, and I cannot
getin. ItUao with a king’s garden. The
only glimpse you eveYget of such a garden la
when the king rldcc out In his splendid
carriage. It la not so with this garden, thie
king’s garden. I throw wide open
the gate and tell yon all to
in. No monopoly in
religion. Whosoever will, may. Chooee now
between a desert and a garden, Many of yon
have tried the garden of this world's delight
Y on have found It baa been s chagrin. So it
wee with Theodore Hook. He made ell the
world langh. He makes ne laugh now when
wa read bU poems; but he could not make bis
own heart langh. While In the midst of bis
festivities be confronted a looking glass and
he saw himself, end estd: 'There, that Is
true. Hook jostasl am; done np In body,
mind end purse.” Bo it was of Shsnstono, of
whose garden I told yon at the beginning of
my sermon. He eat down amid thoae bowers
and said: “I have lost my road to happiness.
I am angry and envious and frantic, and do-
spiso everything around ms Just aa it becomes
a madman to do.” O, ye weary souls! come
into Christ’* garden to-day and pluck a little
heartsease. Christ la the only rest and the
only pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do you
not think your chance hu almost
come? You men end women who have
been waiting yoar after year for some
f ood opportunity in which to accept Christ,
ut lievo postponed it, five, ten, twenty, thir
ty yean—do you not fool u if now your hour
of deliverance and pardon and aslvation had
come? O, man, what grudge hut thou
against thy poor soul that thou wilt not lot
it bo raved? I foci M if nlvatlon must como
today in eome of your hearts.
Borne years ego * vessel struck on the rooks.
They baa only one lifeboat. Id that lifeboat
tbs passengers and crew were getting ashore.
Tbe vessel had foundered and was sinking
deeper and deeper, and that one boat could
not tako the paraengera very swiftly. A lit
tle girl stood on the deck welting for her
turn to get Into the boat. The boat came and
went, cams and went, but her turn did not
sci m to come. After awhile ahe could welt
no longer, and aha leaped on the tetfrall end
thin (prang Into the aca, crying to the boat
man: “Save me next! Save me next!” O,
how many have gone ashore Into God’s mercy,
and yet yon are clinging to tho wreck of eln!
Ol hen have accepted the pardon of Christ,
but yon are In peril. Why not, this moment,
m»ho a rash for yoar Immortal rescue, crying
until Jesus shall hear you, and heaven and
earth ring with theory: “Save ma next!
Pave me next!" Now lathe day of salvation!
Now! Now!
This sabbath la tha last for some of yon. It
la about to nil away for over. Hor boll tolls.
Tho plonks thunder beck in the gangway.
She sbovee off. She floats ont towards the
great ocean of eternity. Wave farewell to
J our last chance for heaven. “Oh, Jerou-
rm, how often would I have gathered there as
e ben gsthereth her brood nndtr hor wlogs.
end yo would not? Behold you house Is left
unto you desolate.” Invited to revel In a gar
den you dlo In a desert. May God Almighty,
before it is too late, break that Inflatnatlon.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY
GAHtcsviLU, Ga., Jnly 0.—[Special.]—Th*
annual meeting of th* North Georgia confer
ence Woman’s Missionary aocioty convaned
present and tha Lord’s prayer repeated in
concert An address of welcome was spoken
by Mias 8ybll Rica, and n reply made by Mrs.
Blalock, of GrUfln.
The president read her annual address. In
reviewing the work in the different fields in
which our society la interested ahe stated
many interesting frets. Mira Lean Haygood
asked last year for the women of her church
to send her $25,000 to establish e girls’high
school, which should bo tho counterpart of tho
Anglo-Chlncoe university, the enterprise of
Dr. Young J. Alloa, which promise* each
pend results. Her request eras heard
with enthusiasm and >16,000 hie
already been raised. Tbe Praia*
which oomea across the world in regard to our
devoted Miss Anne Mora la the highest which
words can frame, “She hath don* what the
could," mere then wee thought possible even
by those who knew her ability. Industry end
devotion. Mrs. Boringmentloned that at tha
recent meeting of tha Woman’s board of mia-
dons in Augusta, reaolntiou were pssaod ex
pressive of their eoofldence in Dr. Allen.
Their power of attorney was pieced
in his bands, so that henceforth
tbeir butinara in tho distent field can be
transacted with greater ftcility. Io regard to
the mission work in Brasil much encourage
ment ia felt. Georgia has lately famished
another worker there la the poraoneg* of Miss
Msttio Bcthuno Jones, on tho Slthof lest
March embarked from New York, after becom
ing mistress of the Kindergarten system of
teaching, a method which tho emperor of
Brasil is particularly dtairousshould bo taught
in his dominions. She carried with her tho
ptflycra and blessings of many frionls and a
uratsl present from tho Church of
the Strangers—a printing press—tho lint Ice-
t rets of which, Mira Jones declares, shell be
the glorious proclamation, “Behold! I bringyon
I ood tidings ef greet Joy, which shall bate all
people!" Upon tha occasion above referred to
-the meeting in August—Mira Watts, one of
■he missionaries sent out by the Woman’s
U ard and at praosnt on a visit to friends in
tbs United States, regaled tho lad Ira with de
licious coffee, which ahe prepared with her
own hands from berries brought by her from
Paracaealb*. where they had been grown by
I be boys of her school. The homage wee
sweetened with sugar, tha east from which it
ns made having also been raised an th* mie-
*' < EnM»r*ifrg word* wore spoken of oor mis
sion on the Mexican border, where at Laredo
we have four teachers, their popila being
chiefly from Mexican families
A very gratifying statement in Mrs Boring’s
r *P®jl "as that by tbe exchange of property,
the Women’s society had become postealod of
tho Harold Institute’’ in tho Indian terri
tory. To all who fool tho debt wo owe three
sorely wronged aborigines; to all who know
tho deep interest onr great and good
Bishop Fierce felt in the conversion
of the Indians, this will be pleasant Intelli
gence. The venorablo Bishop Whittle, of tho
Episcopal church, whose labors among tho In
diana in Minnesota have been greatly blessed,
rays that “tho Indian Is tbe noblest typo of
heathen." There ere 250,000 Indians still
scattered in the oonntry which wee once *U
their own. The religion of Jeans can take re
venge out of their hearts end replace tho tom
ahawk by the implements ofpeaco and hat-
ftt'on*
hire, Boring mentioned a touching incident
when she told of the death of the Christiania,
ed Indira chief Checotle upon tbe seme day
when the eoul of hie beloved friend Bishop
Fierce winged its flight to heaven. Thie so
ciety hu undertaken the education of “Che-
code's daughter," as she is called, chiefly be-
canesi our saluted bishop promised her father
that it should surely bo dona.'
■Tho afternoon seamon was ooompled in read-
lag an abstract of tho minutes of tho annual
mooting of 1685, and of tho reports of tho
ionary society of
tho north Georgia conference, vu opened the
•econa day by religlona exercises, held bj
Mrs. Connell. The exhibition of a number of
Chinese ‘curios” by MlaaRankin was of inter
est to all. Resolutionslooking to the future wel
fare of the society were offered nnd accepted.
As there was much committee work to bo done
a short session was held. At 2 p. m. the con
vention was reopened, and report* of the ra
rlous committee* were made and acted upon
nntil 4 o'clock. At the night session the com
mittee reports were ooneluded.
The election of officers for tho ensuing year
resulted in the unanimous re-election of Mrs.
Jesse Boring, president; Mrs. Morgan Gallo
way, corresponding secretary; Miss 8*111*
Stewart, treasurer, and Miss Tadle O. Stone,
recording secretary. These most falthtol and
efficient officers have served for years, and
their value to the society and
the appreciation In which they are
held cannot be expressed in words. Mrs.
James Jackson, of Atlanta, was unanimously
elected vies president. District secretaries,
of the thirteen districts into which the north
Georgia conference la divided,were then elect
ed, and the convention adjourned to meet
next July in Borne* a cordial invitation hav
ing been extended by that "imperial city,”
THE TWO HAIM.
From the Boston Globe.
The two Sams—8am Jones, the Inspired
humorist, the eloquent man of God, who do«s not
fear to minxle with the world, and Sam Small, the
cultivated gentleman. tt»e reformed drunkard and
the man of force and Imagination, spoke at Lakes
ttaldenand Pleasant yesterday, and In spite of
long jonrnera and hot weather each folly Jurtlfled
the reputation he baa gained, and fulfilled the
expectation ol every man, woman and child who
big neck; both hare foil foreheads, largo and wide
between tbe ere*, the ore* of both are small and
keen, and yesterday both wore long black Prince
Albert coala, capable of buttoning to the chin.
The 8am whose surname la Small is tho hand
somer man of theta*. Ho wean glasses, that
give him a scholarly look, and a tall “choker" co 1-
lar, and his clothes fit his line form without a
crease or wrinkle. Add to these long whlto hands,
well-drewed chestnut hair and a long, heavy,
drooping mustache that gives him a melancholy
lock, and he will pass for a college professor or
well to-do young clergyman in any New England
crowd.
Bam Jones is not ao neat looking. Ho Is stouter ,
a glance that bo docs uot caro so much for hit
personal apposrance. His mustacbo, which is
very slim and drooling, tries in vain to conceal a
shelves of a mount!
putting it down again, hlsappei-
anco yesterday forenoon showed that ho waa either
very besbfol or wholly unconscious of what waa
going on. When ho arose and sauntered forward
Till KDQX OF Tits PLATFORM
and began to speak, every one saw that*he was not
* * •- - Kcmed the moat self nossissed
Beginning In a low tone, half
bashful. In fact, he seem*
tnpllmentary to hia audlenoeand half apologetic
bfmielf, his voice row as he went on. his form
:w erect, bis rate of delivery doubled and the
Muf rugged eloquence dug from the mountain
[of hu far off Georgia home leaped from his
gems of
study c'
itb.
about tbe same age. was wholly different In his
style. Jones uses short Saxon words, full of Are
and wit, hurling them out at the rate of 200 a min
ute. regardless of grammar or rhetoric, oaring
nothing foi style, but hammering his ideas Into
tho people until they must understand, while
Hmall rolls off hia Ifacauley-Uke sentences, full of
long Latin Idioms, punctuating with wave of hand
andnod of head, and always making hit verba
agiee with their subjects, no matter how many
paientheUcal clauses Intervene. Jones Is a sharp-
»hooter, using light arms that ean be
loaded and fired
In their aim. Fmnll 1h
are deadly
•vy orduanco
__ if tho heav
stile, using ad.il o( powder, maklng'ablg noise
•■id sweeping *11 before him, but hie elm U not ao
•crural, and hia n ote Is not ao high os that of hli
companion. Take them together they aaem capa
ble of doing greet work wherever thojr map go,
end I bo stories of tbeir wonderful power to move
j not eeem lobe overdrawn.
. —lienees wen very tarn. Yesterday
forenoon 8em Jones spoke to 12,000 oooplo at Lake
tVslden, and when 8am Small coma In the alter-
noon there wen between 10,000 and iwoo people
waiting for him. At Lake Pleasant, In Montague,
wben anal' spoke In tho forenoon end Jones In tbe
•neruooa, It u said that fullj 12,000 people were
present.
XXTUAOTS FROM JOXES'S SRZXCX.
5.can't run communism end anarchism with*
Slighter.) |M|
Audrey
wanttosajto you this U atreecounlry.
• DO doubt about that. And tho reason you *11
■eye whisky In Massachusetts Is because you went
would let politics mix up with the temp*ranee
cauie* the prohibition movement In the south. We
>rgU now, and a
Into power, we Jure hsrnimef up son# old lire
democrat at republican who bed been
end Joined the prohibition party, tnd w
mo victory- Yo go down In Georgia ik .
'-•tier announces himself for the legislature, or fir
Judas or for anything, about the first lino under
- is name is, "lam .quart on tbe prohibition qoe.
ticu; I Mend square on that lame/’ it it the aeuoal
trill u; It 1. the next thing After his neae—"I am
straight on the prohibition question.’’
And I tell ye *11 here that prohibition mixed
wtibipoutlca will help politics. Bat, God bloat ye.
don't,.put any politics In jour prohibition,
mind. Vo ace, I put my sugar In my coffee to
help mycoOtr, but If yo put your coffee in your
V'l'sar, your sugar la rulneu. [Laughter sud op-
You may let any politician In MaaracbtustW
know tnd seo that tha majority of Ms ooustlut-
racy ato for prohibition and bo will ho the strong
est prohibitionist In tho Mato. Don't yo know
that la true? 1 hare found out long ago teat about
all that ntne-tentbs of there politicians want Is
tfiice. Tbat is a fact YoogotoWaiblngton, toj
to to any atata legislature, end yon appeal to
those men on tho question of proMMuqn; tho
whole body of politicians on dominated by the
liquor Interest ol this oouotry, end they dare nos
move hand or foot. We bare fought liquor and
fcughllt everyday and every chance weharegot in
Georgia. Now,withIJ7counties,lJlofltiem are
prohibitionist counties (Applause.! We check
s ecb county off; wo work np Im public rentlmont:
we get the public cooecleueo aroused on Ibis
'-Agalnrt whisk j.” A Ria rtf* for whisk v.
be n*4 grt logo op *nd pot in hU ticket, with th*
li divtdnmT* name upon It, *od them it fodds F®*
wM>ky.” Th* other tetter pm op end put* la hi*
ticket"AgwinKwhtokr." ... .. .
RELIGION GONE WILD.
Wonderful Revival Mootings Bold 11/ a
Trance EvaugoUet.
Marion, Ind., Jnly 11.—Flinn’g grove, s
ratio west of this place, hae been the scene or
thrilling spectacles, stirring Incidents end con
siderable excitement tho past week. The oc
casion of this la u series or revival meetings,
conducted by Mrs, Mery Mention, of FendTo-
ton, Ind. lira. Mershon la * disolpi* and con
vert of Mrs. Woodworth, the noted trance
evangelist, whose peculiar methods have for
tha peat two years been the theme of wide
spread interest end speculation, The lady
who is conducting the meetings st this piece
wee converted two years ego, sad wa* at onoo
called to become an evangelist. Although an
invalid, ahe obeyed the call, and today is ■
strong, vigorous end energetic women. She ia
about sixty year* old, has * breed forehead,
black heir nnd eyee, tnd ia of mediom height,
She has .pleasing and commanding presence
and greoeml bearing. Her theology Is of the
hereto order, without any taint of mugwump-
ry. Her reasoning la not powerfnl, nor her
logic faultless, but her powers of persuasion
are great, her earnestness convincing tnd her
sincerity beyond question. The meetings
were commenced on Saturday, the 6th of
June, but for a time they dragged. Tho evan
gelist aaya ahe never conducted a meeting
where ahe contended with greeter difficulties
at tbe start, or where the lodlcttloni gave aa
little premise of auccees. It was next to Im
possible to secure s tent. The attendance was
light end the internet seemingly dead.
She waa not discouraged. Her frith ap
peared to be of that quality whloh will re
move mountains. The plain, unpretentious
and eloquent preaching bed its effect. Tbe
attendance Increased. Her enthusiasm took
hold of her hearers. The fame end report o
the wild scenes enacted spread among the peo
ple and the attendance end interest were fur
ther magnified end multiplied. Last Sunday
witnessed the largest attendance up to date.
The young convert* are moat enthusiastic and
demonstrative. They crowd the spaco sot
apart for seeker, after divine flavor, and with
singing, shouting, shrinking and praying,
gradually work themselves into a wild frenay.
Their hands are npilfted and their face, are
turned upward. Somo about and yell in tho
exuberance of their ecatacy: others plead, im
plore, and cry for tho rolling awayofthoir
burdens. Tbe spectacle at times la wild, wolret
and unearthly. Tho moat nervous and excita
ble aoon aaccomb and go “under tho poiror.”
They are stretched ont in every corner and ia
*TS' T -Gitudo. They become rigid, end their
wide-open, staring eye* have a deathlike and
unearthly expression, as thongh gazing upon
acutes not presented to the eyei of mortals.
Sunday night witneased the wildest and
moot extravagant scenes yet enacted. Suck
ahoutlne.aucfi Jumping, ench halleluiahs, such
delightful, promiscuous, end abandoned hug
ging of brothers and elston in the Lord pre
sented a eoene the liko of which hu never be
fore been wltauaed In this oonntry. It watts
wild, unrestrained saturnalia of nnbrldled
passion and emotion. The converts who wore
stricken down “by the hand of God” prior to
their conversion relate wonderful tele* of be
ing suspended hr n hair offer tho pit of hall,
of being fanned by tho sulphurous breexee
from the infernal regions of looking into boil
ing cauldrons, of being nibbled at by the flory
serpents and grinning devils, of being raved
by tbe outstretched hand of n pitying Frovi-
The meetings ere etlll in progress and will
eontlnne for at least two weeks. The flood-
tide of interest and excitement hu apparently
not yot boon reachod. The number of con
versions to date is In tha neighborhood of
ninety. A very large number of those are
people who would never have been reached
by the churche«.
Delicate disease* of either sex, however In
duced, radically cured. Address, with 1$
orate in stamps for book, World's Dispensary
Medical Araociatlon, Bnffitlo, N, Y.
Riel's Ben to Ilo noleasod.
Ottawa, Ont., Jnly 7,—All tho half breed*
In stony mountain penitentiary for participating
in th* recent rebellion, ere to be granted foil am
nesty by tbe government, and ere likely to be re
leased before the end of the month. Of the In-
dlsns,lt Is said that It la hardly likely that Big Beer
will be allowed hia liberty.
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