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W. D. E CHAMBER?) Proprietor.
VOL X
A VISION OF THE CENTURY.
The lr>;)cr dreams; with restless, burdened
lieart
Still hopes and dreams—im rugged face
and brow
Turned Vo the century that trembling
waits.
Trembling yet purposeful, restive and
strong
She waits; how large and strenuous her
part
Tf step by step she walks with labor now
And with her virgin hand unbars the gates
ilchind which poverty has lain so long.
:So dreams the toiler; wooes her as his
bride—
rShc shrinking yet, but queerer; will she
yield
To this grim pleader from tho people
sprung?
(Or. true to race and ancient heritage,
Wed the soft-handed suitor at her side?l
He waits her answer: toiling in the field
He waits--or where, the tired nerves wrung
By factories’ din, worn youth is turned to
age.
And lifting weary eyes from day to day
IHe dreams that even now the word is said;
Grim labor walks with love for evermore;
])ark brows are crowned that were in dust
bowed low;
'While they who have gene far along the
way
AVith the old century, see the starving fed,
\od for l he prisoned ones an open door
That leads into the sunlight’s happy glow.
Thus tensely listening, his face grown pale
With visions whiter than the prophetagsaw,
Amid the din lie hears a wondrous cry.
“At last! oh, Lord!” that drowns “Oh,
Lord! how long?”
Ml, blissful dreamer! if before the Veil
Has fallen —labor and love and law
Shall lead a multitude that, passing by,
One-hearted lifts to heaven a mighty sVmg.
—Harper’s Weekly.
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S TAKING A BRIDE. 9
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O By Horace Eaton Walker. O
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V "]? G’T’ELL, Helenette,” t said
\/ V / to my pretty housekeep-
V V er ’ “Y ou came to me
just five years ago to-
Tay.”
■'Acs.” she assented, scarcely look
ing up from her breakfast dishes; she
wass a modest and unassuming woman.
“During these busy years I have paid
•every dollar of the RSOOO I agreed to,
and the farm is now mine.’
She smiled demurely upon mo, but
made no comment, so I continued:
“You have been a participant in all
th& details of my domestic life.”
“Certainly, Mr. Bollngbroke.” And
sbe turned a curious gaze on me for
the first time.
I may as well be plain and say at
once that iu the vernacular of the shire
where 1 lived, I was an odd stick.
llowc-re*-, I had good habits, a good
farm, and friends sufficient.
f would like to take a walk over the
farm, and bo accompanied by you, oth
er matters not interfering,” I said
“Other matters will not interfere,”
she responded in her unobtrusive man
ner.
We were soon on the way, and I
•commented on all we saw.
"Five hundred acres; SSOOO. A thou
sand dollars for every 100 acres; and,
Helenette, the place is mine!”
“You have done remarkably well in
so short a season. You deserve much
praise.”
“There on my left the everlasting
hills arise, their summits densely cov
ered with oak, spruce, pine, and trees
of lesser quality.”
“Yes, the timber alone is worth
$2000.”
"No doubt. Then there is the lux
uriant meadow, the fertile fields, the
rowen-patch, a pasture sufficient for
a large herd of cattle, a goodly flock
of sheep, a dozen horses, and two beau
tiful brooks cross and recross my fields.
Surely there seems to be nothing lack
ing.”
I tried to take note of her expression
as I ended the last sentence; but her
countenance did not change. She
seemed to be gazing off over the far
away hills. She said very pertinently,
however:
“And there is the sugar orchard.
Ihat ought to net you SSOO per year.”
“It will.”
I could not help noticing how very
practical she was in her observations.
“Your buildings are in good repair;
your farm is well stocked, you enjoy
the best of health,” went on Helenette.
our earthly lot is enviable. May
your prosperity ever continue!”
I looked at her intently. But that
sweet face betrayed no emotion.
A ou think the picture is complete?”
I said.
“Yes, financially.”
But money is no; everything. There
* s Rnp lack. The earthly picture cannot
he complete to me without it. Can
you guess what it is?”
“No.”
1 want a wife!”
"e both paused then, but her coun
tenance did not change.
“A wife?” she said in a matter of fact
manner. :
■ “Yes.”
‘Aon seem to be very happily situ
ated now; yet the right kind of a wife
would l)e a useful addition to the farm,
you should marry.
1 thank you, Helenette. Y'our ad
vi °e has always been good. I Shall
consider it carefully.”
By this time we had returned to the
house, and as she walked in, leaving
n >e outside, I thought, “When I take
m.v new wife, Helenette will be the
best help for indoors I can secure.”
From that moment I legan paying
more attention to dress than I bad
d°ne. and with such success that I con
gratulated myself on my general im
provement. I never was rated a mod
est man.
Hue day I dressed myself carefully,
harnessed up my finest team and pre
pared for a journey. Helenette stood
at the door to see me off.
“Helenette,” I said, “I’m going to
town, l may be gone a week. I may
he gone a month. Inuring my absence,
HADE COUNTY SENTINEL.
you and .tolin will keep the farm in
running order, and on my return I hope
to introduce you to your future mis
tress.”
I clucked to ihe horsb-, without wait
ing for nti.y reply from Helenette. To
my dying day I shall never forget the
Strange look that came into her face.
I gave it scarcely a second’s notice,
however, but dashed down the two
mile road leading to the Village.
“Going to town, Neighbor Boling
broke ?”
Looking Over my shoulder, I beheld
Mr, Dilysou, a well to do farmer who
lived a mile below my own farm, com
ing with his fine span of grays, the
beams of health irradiating his Counte
nance.
“Yes- I’m Wife hunting,” I said face
tiously-, refiling to one side that he
might pass.
“No, keep on; I’m not bound for the
village fo-day; I turn toward Mr.
Daft’s at the next corner. But, my
dear Bollngbroke, you have left the
woman you want behind.”
“What do you mean?"
“Helenette’s the wife for you. She’s
economical, capable, and you’re more
than half in love with each other.”
“Gammon! She thinks of nothing
but her Work,”
“Go back and find out if I’ni fiot
right. Why, you ought to marry her!
She’s helped to buy the farm."
My neighbor drove on, leaving me to
ponder over his words. I remembered
the look on Hcienette’s fftce as I drove
away. AVhat if it should be
“Hello! Can you tell me liow far ii
is to Gordon Bolingbroke’s?”
I looked up to see a gentlemanly
looking person standing in tile road.
“Why do you Wish to know?”
“I want to see his housekeeper, Hel
enette Ratliburne. Having decided to
take a wife, 1 intend to make her a pro
posal.”
I was dnmfounded for a minute; then
I said Curtly':
“Gordon Bolingbroke’s farm is just
one mile from here. Take the first
road that leads to the right. Good
day, sir.”
I touched my horse testily with the
whip, the result being that I found
myself in the ditch, my tie out of genr,
my watch chain broken. For awhile
I knew nothing. Then somebody
sweetly asked:
“Are you feeling lietter, Gordon?”
It was the voice of Helenette.
“Better? What’s the trouble?”
“Don’t you remember being thrown
from your team a week ago?”
“Oh, yes, I remember; but that was
only a few minutes since.”
“You have lain here nearly seven
days.”
“And where am I, pray?”
“In your own house, in bed.”
“In bed? Yyhat for? I’m going to
got up.”
“Gordon, listen. Y'ou are not your
self. You received a bad concussion
of the brain and have at times been
violent. I had to have some one to
take care of you.”
I raised myself in bed; beside me sat
the man I had met on the road.
“What! Y'ou here?” I exclaimed.
“Yes, begging your pardon, Mr. Bol
ingbroke. If I were not you might
now be a dead man.”
It ail began gradually to come back
to me.
“I see you found my housekeeper,”
I said significantly.
“Oh, yes.”
“And have you proposed marriage
to her?”
“No—l couldn't do that.”
“Why?”
“She is my sister—l told you I had
proposal to make. So I had. But it
wasn’t what you thought.”
I stared first at one and then at the
other. Helenette was smiling, but
looked at me earnestly.
“What mystery is this?” I exclaimed.
“No mystery at all. My sister and
I left our poor home some five years
since to seek our fortunes, she going
in one direction and I in another, the
agreement being that neither of us
should wed until success crowned our
efforts. Well, I am established in
business, and came to ask her to help
me get my house ready for my future
wife.”
“I am glad Miss Ratliburnc is your
sister.”
“So am I. When you marry she will
come to live with me. That also was
in tlie agrement.”
“Never! I’ve been a fool. Helenette,
will you have me? It’s you I’ve wanted
all along, only I didn’t know it.”
Helenette made some demur, hut
finally promised to remain on the farm
as its mistress. And if any one wants
to see the happiest pair in the world
let him call at Gordon Bolingbroke’s
—Waverley Magazine.
The Question of Dnlkhend Doors.
In referring to a recently installed
new system of centrally operated bulk
head doors on some of the steamships,
Cassell’s Magazine says: “There is no
disguising the fact, however, that a
door in a bulkhead is always an ele
ment of weakness and danger; Indeed,
the only safe bulkhead, as some very
able experts have contended, is the
bulkhead that has no doors. Most ship
captains and engineers, on the other
hand, say that they must have doors,
and tiie best solution of the question,
therefore, would seem a reduction of
the number of doors to a minimum, the
selection of a good type of door, and
the adoption of a safe means of oper
ating it. and, as to this last feature,
it appears to bp afforded by a central
station method like the one just
noted.”
How Cattle Lie Down.
A Western cattle man tells me that
all cows lie down on their left side
and never on their right unless the
| left is injured.—Victor Smith, iu New
I York Tress. . . .
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Bartow Man Tells of His Experi
ence fts ft Mail Carrier.
GREAT CHANCES HAVE BEEN WROI’GHT
Postage in the Old Days Wes Much
Higher Than Now—Receivers
of Letters Were the Ones
Who Paid;
Now, yo.u young people, girls and
boys, excuse me for telling you a
story about the old times. Sixty
four years ago, when I was twelve
yea-3 old, my father w®e the postmas
ter in our town and had to make con
trante for carrying the mail to Other
heigh boring town's. He gave those
contracts to needy toeh and the pay
was generally aco dollar a day. One
of thteS’e men gcrt lick and my father
made me take his place and ride th 6
mail to Roswell ail winter. It was
twSaty-flve miles away, and I had to
ride there and back in a day, and he
paid m.e the dollar fob every trip. It
wats a, bittof v.iinter and sometimes
when I vot home I had to be helped
off of the horse, for I wae frozen up
and helpless. But I was a tough and
hardy boy and always ready for the
next trip. On my first ride the good
old women on the fioute did not know
nto. They used to knit socks and send
them to town by the old man to sell
and carry back some coffee or sugar
or indigb, or cdpperac, or some little
thing, but they didn’t l:now r me, and I
remember that one old woman came
out to the gate and said: “Are you the
mail boy?” And I laughed and said:
“Yes, mam, I am not the female boy.”
She smiled and said: “You are mighty
little to carry bundle*, but I would
like for you to take a ccrtpie of pairs
of socks ahd bring me back the pay
in coffee, if you will i’ll give you a
little bag to put it in, and you can
hang it on the horn of your > saddle.”
Of course I did, for I always liked to
oblige the women, and besides my
father kept a store and got the trade.
Sometimes I had as much outside of
the mailbag as there wa.s inside. I
made fourteen silver dollars that win
ter and felt rich.
But I want to tell you about the mail
business ae it was then. There were
no stamps or stamped envelopes—nor
any other bind of envelopes. We
wrote on a long paper called foolscap.
It got that name from the watermark,
which was a fool’s cap and bells
stamped on the paper. After writing
we could fold the sheet up to the size
of a letter and slip one fold in the
other —thumb-paper Fashion —then
seal it with a wafer and address it.
The wafers were round and thin, and
were made of flour paste, and when
held on the tongue a moment got soft
and sticky. In my young days the
postage was paid at the end of the
line by the one who received the let
ter. It was 12 1-2 cents If it did not
cottne or go outside the State—lS 3-4
if from or to an adjoining State, and
26 cents of still farther off. B-ut if
it was to go to California, it had to
be prepaid ami sent by Wells and
Fargo’s express and cost a dollar, and
was a month on the way. Just think
of it. Now it costs only two cents and
takes only four days. That overland
express almost made us boys crazy.
They published a book called “Ten
Years Among the Mail Bags,” and it
had pictures in it —pictures of the
boys riding the mall on Indian ponies
—riding on a run of ten miles in an
hour, and then he was lifted off of
his pony and put on a fresh one for
another ten miles. The boys had to
weigh not less than sixty nor over
ninety pounds and had to make forty
miles a day—2o east and 20 west. It
took about two hundred boys and four
hundred ponies to do the work, and
I wanted to be one of the boys mighty
bad. Part of the route was beset by
hostile Icdiar.s, and the express com
pany had to keep soldiers at these sta
tions to guard the ponies, and the boys
had to keep a sharp lookout between
the stations. One of the pictures
showed soma Indians shooting at a
boy as to bent over the pony’s nock,
and was flying like the -wind. He had
left the track and taken roundance on
them and I thought that was heroic.
The letters were limited to a single
sheet of paper and a thousand in a
bag, a Hi that made about twenHv
pounds cf mail. Besides- the mail
there -were some two-pony hacks with
two drivers and guns and these car
ried gold dust from the mines to the
eastern 6tates and were limited to
two hundred pounds, which was worth
nearly $50,000 and was a tempting
prize to both white and Indian rob
bers. But the gold express ran at
irregular intervals and nobody knew
when it was coming.
But now- about postage. Not many
foolish totters were written in these
days. It cost too much and made the
man mad when he had to pay 25 cents
or 18 3-4 or 12 12 cents for it. The
next one me writer wc-ain ecu would
not be taken out an 1 would go to
Washington as a dead letter. I recon
you wonder why the postage was In
such curious amounts. Well, we didn’t
have any decimal currency then —no
dime/ or half dirr.u-s. The dollar was
divided into sixteen parts instead cf
twenty; one part was called a thrip,
which was 6 1-4 cLnts. Thrip is an
abbreviation for threepence. Two
parts was called a sevenpence and its
value was 12 1-2 cents. 1 don't believe
I have seen a thrip or a sevenpence
Ofaoial Organ ol Dado COunty
TItENTON, GA. FRIDAY, MARCH 28.190”
in fifty years. The government called
them all iu and issued dfnu’is and half
dimes iiictead.
In ruminating about the wonderful
change in our postal laws since I w;i>
a boy i Am prepared to say that noth
ing that has been discovered or In
ven .ud has wrought such beneficial
results and so much comfort to the
people. What pleasure at home is
more valued then the reception of let
tern from kindred and friends who are
far away? Postage is only one-tenth
what it used to be, blit there ire twSH
ty limes as many letters written by
every person who can write and there
are ten times as many to write them.
The great northern mail used to come
to our town once a week and a single
sack in the boot of a stage contained
It. Now five times that quantity comes
twice a day, I tmed to w’rite about
two letters a Week find bow i write
twefHyfiviS 6f thirty arid receive more
than I rtritte. Fbr I have quit ans weir
ing many letters that inclose no
stamp. The'number of letters in
creases faster than the postage de
creases. When the postage had to be
paid fit the fefid of the line U was pret
ty hard to receive a disagreeable let
ter ana have to pay for it. My rather
was a merchant for nearly fifty years
and Sold goods on a. year n time. and
sometimes we had to write dunning
letters to his customers. He wrote one
to a very slow man and got no an
swer, so he wrote another and the slow
man wrote back that be would have
to wait until he made another crop,
and as postage was high and sllvt-t
was scarce, he ndviced a very limited
edri-espondenefe. His vVroth aiidthef
letter to a belated customer at Warsaw
and another and another and then got
a reply which said:
“I have received your letters, but
they were a long time on the way. If
you had sent them around by Atlanta
and Marietta and Roswell I would
have gotten them sooner, for we have
two mails a week by that route, but
only one by the wdy you sent them.
Hereafter you had better send them
that way. Our mail system is very
imperfect. It takes six for me
to get a letter from is in
the Arkansaw. Jack.
But i atn hear from you.
Your WILLIAM WATERS.
“P. for that account of last
year, w-hich you say has run a long
time —as the boy said to the molasses,
just let her run. W. W.”
I wonder if our young people know
who was our first postmaster general?
Ho was the postmaster general before
the revolution Sfid was turned out by
King George because he was sus
pected of being a rebel and Id’s name
was Benjamin Franldin. When the
Declaration cf Independence was pass
ed, he established an independent line
and boycotted the English system and
afterwards organized a system of our
own. Sir Rowland Hill was the post
master general of England, and in 1734
established what was called the penny
post. Before, that the English mer
chants hired men to carry their letters.
When the battle of the Waterloo was
fought the Rothschilds hired private,
carriers to bring them the news tfM
the great batt’e. English credit ajjp
bonds and consols were then
down to 25 cents on the at
Napoleon was just running
over kingdoms and governnuJc-ii 1/-Y
Rothschilds got the news
twenty-four hours soon*-/ than 'the
bankers of London and they secretly
bought up all the bonds and stocks
and consols they could find, and when
the good news came of the great vic
tory these bonds and stocks jumped up
to par in a day and the Rothschilds
made many millions and this was the
beginning o< their great fortune. It
was a mean, dirty trick, but they didn’t
care. For nearly a century they have
controlled the finances cf the civilized
world and nations could net go to war
without' consulting the Rothschilds.
But now they have to take a back
seat, for Pierpont Morgan and Rocke
feller and a few others can control
moro money than they can, But our
postage has not yet got to the lowest
notch. The people say it must be re
duced to one cent, and a bill has been
introduced in congress to that effect
and letters will soon be delivered at
almost every man’s house, if he lives
on a public, highway. Verily, it mss
eth comprehension. I received a let
ter and a paper this morning from
Australia. They had come 12,000
miles for six cents and found me, al
though there are about a half dozen
Cartersvilles in the United States.
There is no system to perfect as the
postal system and no man can steal
from it without being caught.—Bill
Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
TWELVE YEARS CAPTIVE.
Bushmen of Australia Held Brooklyn
Man Long Prisoner.
After twelve years’ imprisonment
among the bushmen in Australia, Jo
sept J. Giil, a son of the late Thomas
Gill, a well known Brooklyn manufac
turer, has been heard from by his
family, who mourned him as dead.
Gill left home in 1886, and iu 1893
his wife, believing him dead, married
again.
“METEOR” rLIES THE TRACK.
New Train on ’Frisco Route Meets
Accidc it—Four People Hurt.
The ’Frisco’s new train, known as
“The Meteor,” southbound, left the
track near Francis, Ind. TANARUS., Monday,
and four passengers were seriously in
jured.
! The accident occurred at a curve
i where the track skirts a. high embank
ment and approaches a trestle.
DR.TALfI AOE*S SERHON
Hie Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subjcef: Tho Good Itcligion Does Us 1
This World—Christianity and the Jfi
tcllecl—-Inliuence of the Gospel in t*usl
liess— Can Yon Get Along Without It?
WAsittXGTOto I). C.—ln this discourse
Ur Telman*- advocates the idea that the
Christian religion is as gddd fdr this world
Us the next, and will help us to do any-
Jhiijg that ought to be done at all; I Tim
othy iv; 9; “GddllltCsa is profitable unto
all things, having promise of the lifo that
now is and of that which is to come.”
There is a gloomy and passive way of
waiting for events to come noon us. and
there is a heroic way of going out to meet
them, strong in God and fearing nothing.
When the body of Catiline was found on
the battlefield, it was found far in advance
of all ais troops and among the enemy, and
the best vay ift blit fer Us tp lift down and
let the events of life trample 6- \‘ct tisi but
td go forth in a Christian spirit deter
ifiined td conquer: Y'ou are expecting pros
perity, and 1 am d&tSfnimfcd;, so far as I
have anything to do with it, that yoii shall
not be disappointed, and, therefore, I pro
pose, as God rcay help me, to project upon
vour attention anew element of success.
You have in the business firm frugality,
patience; industry,; perseverance, economy
—a .very strong business firm—but there
needd to bs one member added, mightier
than them all, and tint <>. s\!ent partner
either, the one introduced by fay text,
“Godliness, profitable unto all
thing*, having the of the life that
now is as wen a3 Cf is to come.”
I suppo-e you arc all to admit
that godliness is important invts eternal
relations, but perhaps some of you say,
“All I want is an opportunity to say a
prayer before I die, and all will be well.”
There (ire a great many people who sup
port; tli.ll if .they Wirt finally pet. safely out
of this world intd, a Bstfcr Wdrlo they will
have exhausted the entire advailßigfi Cf
Our hdy religion: They talk as though re
ligion were a inert? If fid M Fpedgnition
which we are to give to the Lord Jesils bn
our way to a heavenly mansion; as though
it were an admission ticket,'of no use ex
cept to give in at the door of heaven. And
there are thousands of people who have
great admiration for a religion of the
shroud and a religion of tho coffin and a
religion of the cemetery who have no ap
preciation t)( it religion for the bank, for
ihe farm; fob The taiTory; for the Ware
house; for {he jeweler’s shop, for the 6meec
Now, while I Wpuld not throw any slur on
a post-mortem religion; 1 want to-day to
eulogize an ante-mortem religion. A telig;
ion that is of no use to you while you live
will be of no use to you when you die.
“Godliness is profitable unto all things,
having promise of the life that now is as
well as of that which is to come,” And I
liitve always noticed that, when grace is
very low in a man’s liedft He talks a great
deal in prayer meetings about (3o(itK4,ahd
about coffiu3 and about graves and aboiif
churchyards. I have noticed that the
healthy Christian, the man who is living
near to God and is on the straight road to
heaven, is full of jubilant satisfaction and
talks about the duties of this life, under
standing well that if God helps him to live
right He will hcln him to die right,
Now, in ihe mst baHte, I remark that
1 godliness is good ikjHr man’s physical
| health, I do not itiJPlii say tliAt.it Will
i restore a broken JftWui constitution fit
drive rheurtititisffi hjflrthe.limbs or neural
gia from the pleurisy frOm the
Aide; but .1 do aSK to say that it. gives
bne sucH puts one in such con
dition as favorable for physical
health. Thaf'TpJneve, and that I avdw.
that buoyancy Of
spirit is advantage. Gloom,
unrest, c AjnSfH are at war with every
pulse. and with every ros
piratifßM|HngH. They lower the vi
talitthe cireirlation, while
cxjJPjyuld yjirit pours the very baiiit
ejftjpwer isioHi all the currents of life.
aSBof all IkwMisecnritv which sometimes
ry TnarsbajstMn unregenerate men or
V I Rm with the blast of ten
r S, * *fts of terror is most deplet
re while the feeling
id ire working together for
i{Himl for our everlasting wel
fare is conHß’e to physical health.
You tvill-TB-erve that godliness induces
industry, h is the foundation of good
health. TjH is no law of hygiene that
will keep jlKzy man well. Pleurisy Will
rtab him, iwsipelas will burn him, jaun
dice Willolor him, gout will cripple
him, anAjOHe intelligent physician will
not pre,#fe antiseptic op febrifuge
Or anodfgj but saws and hammers
ftnd yarJHWis and crowbars And pick
axes. T#X is no such thing as good
physical SSition without positive work
of some although yoU should sleep
on downagr?wan or ride in carriage of
softest uMolstery or have on your table
all the luxuries that were poured from the
wine vats of Ispahan and Shiraz. Our re
ligion says: “Away to the bank, away to
the field', away to the shop, away to the
factory! Do something that will enlist all
the energies of your body, mind and soul!”
“Diligent in business, fervent in spirit,
serving the Lord,” while upon the bare
back of the idler and the drone comes
down the sharp lash of the apostle as lie
says, “If any man will not work, neither
shell he eat/’
I Oh, how important is this day, when so
much is said about anatomy and physio
logy and therapeutics and some new style
1 of medicine is ever and anon springing
upon the world, that you should under
stand that the highest school of medicine
is the school of Christ, which declares that
“godliness ig profitable unto ail things,
having the promise of the life that now is
as well as of that which is to come.” Fo
if you start out two men in the world with
equal physical health, and then one of
them shall get the religion of Christ in his
heart and the other shall not get it, the
one who becomes a son of the Al
mighty will iive the longer. “With long
life will I satisfy him and show him My
salvation.”
Again I remark that godliness is good
for the intellect. I know some have sup
posed that just as soon as a man enters
into the Christian life his intellect goes
into a bedwarfing process. So far from
that, religion will give new brilliancy to
the intellect, new strength to the imagina
tion, new force to the will and wider
swing to all the intellectual faculties.
Christianity is the great central fire at
which philosophy has lighted its brightest
torch. . , .
The religion of Christ is tno fountain
out of which learning has dipped it3 clear
est draft. The Helicon poured forth no
such inspiring waters as those which flow
from under the throne bf God c.ear as
crystal.
Religion has given new energy to poesy,
weeping in Dr. Young s “Night i houghts,
teaching in Cowper’a_“Task,” flaming in
Charles Wesley's hymns and rushing with
archangelic splendor through Milton s
"Paradise Lost.” The religion of Christ
lias hung in studio and in gallery of art mul
in Vatican the best pictures—Titian’s “As
sumption,” Raphael’s “Transfiguration,’
Rubens’s “Descent From the Cross.”
Claude’s “Burning Bush” and Angelo’s
“Last Judgment.” P.tligion has made the
best music of the world —Haydn’s “Crea
tion,” Handel’s “ Messiah,” Mozart’s “Re
quiem.” Is it possible that a religion
which builds such indestructible monu
ments, and which lifts its ensign on the
highest promontoreis of worldly power
can have any effect upon a man’s intellect
but elevation?
Now. I commend godliness as the best
mental discipline, bettei* than belles lettres
to purify the taste, better thin mathemat
ics to harness the mind to all intricacy and
elaboration, better than logic to marshal
the intellectual forces iVT onset and vic
tory. 4
Again I remark that godliness is profit*
able for one’* disposition. Lord Ashley,
before he ivCilf into a great battle, was
heard to offer this prayCi'. l “O Lord; 1 shall
be very busy to-day! If I forget Thee, for
get me not.” With such a Christian dispo*
sition as that a man is independent of all
circumstances.
Our piety will have a tinge of our natural
t *>,nl’crau’.Cn f. If a man be cross and sour
and fretful fcfitiirfillfv After he becomes a
Christian he will always nfififi to be armed
against the rebellion of those evil inelma
*religion has turned the wildest na
tures. It lilS turned fret fulness into grab
i„vn Aan r V *♦< nluior !irA
those who were hard and Ungovernable
and uncompromising have been rufide pli
able and conciliatory.
Good resolution, reformatory effort, will
not effect the change. It takes a mightier
arm and a mightier hand to bend evil hab
its than the liand that bent the bow of
Ulysses, ftnd it takes s stronger lasso than
ever held the buihild on the prairie.
A manufacturer card but Very' little for
a *tyeain .that slowly runs through the
meadow,' but Values a torrent that leaps
from rock to rock Snd rushes with mad
energy through the valley ft fid, out toward
the sea. Along that rivet- you Will find
fluttering shuttles and grinding mill and
Hasping water wheel. And a nature ine
swifted, the most rugged and the most
tremondous —thfif is* the nature that God
turns into greatest usefillness. ,
Reilgiffn will give an equipfll.se tff spirit.
It wilt kcTp Vti from ebullitions of tem
per, and you know ft great many tine busi
nesses have been b’.owrt td atoms by bad
temper. It will keep you from wdiriment
about frequent loss; it will keep you back
from squandering and from dissipation:
it will give you a kindnfee of spirit which
will be easily distinguished frdin that more
store courtesy which shakes hands violent
ly with you, asking about the health of
your family, when there is no anxiety to
knoW WHether your child is well or sick,
but the anxiety is td know how many
do ecu Cambric, pocket handkerchiefs you
will take and pav cash down. It trill pre
pare you tor tile practical duties flt every
day life.
In New York City there was S merchant,
hard in his dealings with his fellows, Who
had written over his banking house or his
counting house room, “No compromise.”
Then when some merchant got in a crisis
and went down—no fault of his, but a con
junction of evil circumstances—and all the
dthefi in’erohants were willing to compro
mise—they woiilfl take seventy-five cent*
6n the dollar or fifty cents rtr twenty cent*
“No comnrmiiite.' I’ll take 100 cents Ml ths
dolhr. and I can afford \o wait.” Well,
the wheel turned, and attei 1 awhile that
man was in a crisis of business, and lie pent
out his agent to compromise, and the agent
sfiid to the merchants, “Will you take
fifty cents on the dollar?” “No.” “Will
yo'u take anything?' “We’ll take 100 cents
on the fldllar: No, Compromise, And the
man who wrote that inscription over hi*
counting house door died ifi destitution.
Oh, we want more of the kindness of the
gospel and the spirit of love in our business
enterprises!
How many young men have found in tlio
religion of '.Tcsus Christ a practical help?
How mfttir there are to-day who could tes
tify out o'f (heir own experience that god
liness is profitable for the life that now is.
Thoi Jlterc times in their business career
when they went here for help and there
for help and vonder for help and got no
help until iliny knelt before the Lord cry
ing for His deliveronee, and the Lord res
cued them.
In a batik not far from NeW York— a
village tank—an dfficr could not balance
his accounts.. He had worked at
after day, night after night, and Ue was
sick nigh unto death as a result. He know
that he h-ad not taken one farthing from
that bank, but somehow, for some reason,
inscrutable then, the accounts would not
balance. The time rolled On and the morn
ing of the day wheri the bpoks should pa*9
under the inspection of th*i other officers
arrived, and he felt himself in UtVfUl peril,
conscious of his own integrity, but UtiSb.a
to prove that integrity. That morning iiC
went to the bank early, and he knelt down
before God and told the whole story of
mental anguish, and he said: “O Lord, I
have done right, I have preserved my in
tegrity, but here I am about to be over
thrown unless ThoU shouldst come to my
rescue. Lord, deliver me.” And for one
hour he continued the prayer before G°n,
and then he arose and went to an old blot
ter that be bad forgotten all abmit, Le
opened it, and there lay a sheet of figures
which he only needed to add to anot.ieC
line of figures—some line of figures he hail
forgotten and knew not where he had laid
them—and the accounts were balanced, and
the Lord delivered him, You are an infi
del if you do not believe it. The Lord de
livered him. God answered his prayer, as
He will answer your prayer, oh, man Ol
business, in every crisis when you come to
Him. , ,
Now, if this be so, then I am persuaded,
as you are, of the fact that the vast major
ity of Christians do not fully test the value
of their religion. They are like a farmer
in California with 15,000 acres of good
wheat land and culturing only a quarter of
an acre.
Why do you not go forth and make the j
religion of Jesus Christ a practical affair
every day of your business life and all this
year, beginning now, and to-morrow morn
ing putting into practical effect this ho.y
religion and demonstrating that godliness
is profitable here as well as hereafter'.
How can you get along without this re
ligion? Is your physical health so good you
do not Want this divine tonic? Is your ,
mind so clear, so vast, so comprehensive, ;
that you do not want this divine inspira- j
tion?' Is your worldly business so thor
oughly established that you have no use
for that religion which has been the help
and deliverance of tens of thousands ot j
men in crises of worldly trouble t And if |
what I have said is true then you sec what
a fatal blunder it is when a man adjourns
to life’s expiration the uses of religion. A
man wnrt postpones religion to sixty years
of age gets religion fifty years too late. He
inav get into the kingdom of God by final
repentance, but what can compensate him
for a whole lifetime unallevirted and un
comforted? You want religion to-day in
the training of that child. \ou will want
religion to-morrow in dealing with that
customer. You wanted religion yesterday
to curb your temper. Is your arm strong
enough to beat your way through the
ilrods? Can vou, without being incased in
the mail of God’s eternal help, go forth
amid the assault of all hell’s sharpshoot
ers? Can you walk alone across these
crumbling’graves and amid these gaping
earthquakes? Can you. waterlogged and
mast skivered, outlive the gale? Oh, how
manv there have been who, postponing the
religion of Jesus Christ, have plunged into
mistakes they could never correct, although
they lived sixty years after, and like ser
pents crushed under cart wheels dragging
their mauled bodies under the rocks to die.
So these men have fallen under the wheel
of awful calamity, while a vast multitude
of others have taken religion of Jesus
Christ into everyday life, and, first, in
practical business affairs, and. second., on
the throne ot heavenly triumph, have illus
trated while angels looked on and a uni
verse approved, the glorious truth that
“godliness is profitable into all things,
having the promise of the life which now is
as well as cf that which is TO come.”
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