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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION'. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1984. TWELVE PAGES.
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ORDINARY PEOPLE.
Let lJo Have a Gospel for the Ordinary Men and
Women In the Profession*, In Merchan
dise. in Mechanics, in Housekeeping,
in Llteratnre and in Ag riculture.
Brooklyn, September 7,???^Special.]???Dr.
Talmage has returned from bis summer vaca
tion in good health and spirits and preached
in the Brooklyn tabernacle to-day. The
usual immense throngs attended the service.
The music was grand. Thero were several
chants by the male quartette, and the congre
gational singing was led by a cornet precentor.
Very important mechanical improvements
have been made to the organ, which is now
without doubt the finest as well as one of the
largest organs in tho United States. Before
the sermon the congregation united in singing
tho hymn,
gear. So these over-wrought business ;
are neglected clocks, ami if, by some summer
recreation, to which you advised them, you
Tho subject of Dr. Talraage???s sermon was
"Ordinary People,'* and his text wad taken
from the Epittle to the Homans, 14th and loth
verses: ???Salute Asyncritui,' Phlogon, Her
nias, Fatrobns, Hermes, Philologus and
Julio.**
The great commentators, Matthew Henry
and Thomas Scott and Adam Clarke and Al
bert Barnes, pass over those. verse# without
especial comment. Tho other twenty people
mentioned in this chapter of Paul were dis
tinguished for something aud were discussed
by the eminent expositors. But nobody says
anything about Asyncritus, Phlegon, Iler-
tr.os, Palrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia.
Where were they born? No one knows. Whore
did they die? Their demise is not recorded.
What tort of people were they? Not distin
guished for anything or their characteristics
would.have been depicted. Had they been
very opulent or intrepid or musical of cadence
tr cross of style these features would havo
Icon photographed by the apostolic camera.
But that they were good pcopio is certain, bo-
~ * ???hem his high
esueo rattl sends them his high Christian
gards. They were ordinary people in ordinary
spheres, doing ordinary work and mooting
ordinary responsibilities, and so I am especial
ly interested in them. Let Aayncritus, Phle-
g. n, Hernias, Patrobns, Hermes, Philologus
end Julio, so long neglected of the world???s
biographical gallery, stand up to-duy for sor-
u.cnic admiration and improvement.
What tho world most needs is religion for
culinary pcopio. Wc spend much of our time
??? -jrhapsody of the remarkable*, twisting gor-
thd* for conquerors, building thrones for
n agnates, sculpturing warriors and apothc-
sliing orators. What is most needed is appre
ciation of tho rank and filo of the Lord???s
soldiery and so, turning aside to-day from tho
hundreds cf Bible extraordinaries wo givo
especial attention in the text to these seven
ies. Tho vast majority of you to whom
mon*comes by voicaor typo will nover
lead an army, will never fra mo a stato consti
tution, will never make a valuablo invention,
will never endow an observatory, will never
electrify assembly, will never propound a now
philosophy, will never docidoa nation's desti
ny. You'don't expect to. You don't want to.
You will not bo a Moses to lead a race out of
bondage, or a Joshua to prolong tho daylight
until you can put fivo kings into a cavern or n
Paul to preside over the apostolic college, or a
Ft. John to describe an apocalypse or a Mary
to mother a Christ. You will more probably
l.e Asyneritus or Phlegon or Hennas or Patro-
Lns or Hermes or Philologus or Julia.
Vast multitudes of you, aro women at tho
bead of households. You had to launch tho
'oroiiy this morning for Sabbqth observance.
Y???< ur br\in plaunedthe stylo ot apparel of the
whole group and your low is final fn all mat
te ra of personal attire. Evory morning you
plan for the day. Tho culinary deportment is
ur.de r your dominion. You decide the diet of
the household. The sanitary regulations of
your homo ore under your direction. To rogu-
Jatc the food and the appnrcj and tho habitj
Id i.d to scttlo a thpuiand questions of home life
liB a tax on nerve and brain and gonoral health
Inppolling, ifjthero be no divino alleviation. It
I does not help von much to be told of Elizaboth
I Pry *s notable behavior among tho criminals
of Newgate, or Mrs. Judson???s bravery among
l I???orncsian cannibals or Florence Nightingale's
I kindness toward the wounded of tho Crimea.
I Jt is better that I tell you that tho divine
I friend of Martha and Mary is your friend and
out of gear, and for a little while they will go
round and round and round, astounding the
world with their activities, and strike ten
a ben they qught to striko five, and strike
twelve when they ought to strike six, and
strike forty when they ought not strike at all.
And suddenly they will stop, and tho post
mortem will reveal that all tho cogs and
springs, and weights, aud rivets and balance-
wheels of life Joro hopelessly deranged. The
clock ran clear down, and at tho time whoa
its steady hands ought to have been pointing
at tho us eful and industrious hours and min
utes on clear and sunlit dials, it is put out of
sight. Greenwood has thousands and tens of
thousands of New York and Brooklyn busi
ness men, who died of old age at thirty and
forty and forty-five.
More grace tor ordinary business men, who
aro harnessed all the day, and all the year,
and all through life I Grace not to stand tho
loss of a hundred thousand dollars, but the
loss of $10. Grace not to control 150 employes,
but to manage ono bookkeeper and the two
salesmen, and the boy thAt sweeps out tho
Bduciui.u. nun wo uvjr ti
store, and rightly invest, not the $80,000 of
net profit, but tnc $2,500 of clear gain. Grace
to stand, not the wreck of a whole cargo of
spiceR frem the Indies, but tho damaging of a
box of linen collars by tho leaking from a dis
placed shingle of a poor roof. Grace for dam
age that cemes not by the Into passage of a
law by congress, but from the tardiness of an
errand boy in stopping to play marble* when
be ought to have been delivering the goods.
That grace which keeps thousands of men in
ordinary pieces of business, calm and happy,
whether goods sell or don???t sell, whether cus
tomers pay or don???t pay, whether high tariff
or free trade succeed in coining to ascendency,
whether the crops fail or ore luxuriant, in all
four seasons, ana amid all vicissitudes. Borne
hero or heroine comes to town, and people
steed on tip toe ou their store steps to catch
a glimpse of some one, who
in arctic clime, or in day
of battlo or ninid ocean storm or in mitigating
hospital agonies did tho brave thing, not
knowing that they, the enthusiastic spectators,
who never thought themselves anything re
markable have in ordinary life themselves
gone through exhaustions of business trial
??nd trouble which before God arc just as great.
Many a man has gono through freezing arctics
and burning torrids and awful morengos of
experience without having moved fivo miles
from his own door-step. What theso ordinary
business men need to know is that the Christ
who looked after the religious interests of
Matthew, the custom houso clerk, and helped
open a bakery anil fish market in the wiidor-
ncss of Asia Minor to feed the 7,000 who hsul
come out on a religious picnic, and who counts
the hairs of your head with as much particu
larity us though they were tho plumes of a
coronation,"find who wrote with his Huger on
the ground, though the first shufile of feet ob
literated the divine chirography, and who
knew just how many locusts wore in the plague
ny locusts wore In the plague
??? an odd number or au even
and how many ravens were necossary
1 *upply Elijah???s pantry by, the brook
Lciith, at* * *
| knows of the worrimonts, of tho^ fatigues aud
??? * ??? * * ???ni\ry house-
xn&perations to which tho ordini J
kcc par is put from morning to uight, and from
[the first day of tho year to tho last, and that
may havo his sympathy and reinforce-
t. Tho housekeepers of tho world docido
he health of the world. Napoleon lost a great
??? uttlo through fit of indigestion that morning,
f ono on business errand travel around amid
???untry and village hotels of England and
meric* ho appreciates how largo a portion of
! human race is slaughtered by meificient
leery. Though a woman moy have taken
s'in music and lessons in painting and
i in astronomy, sho is not well educated
'until sho has taken lessons in dough. They
[who feed and clothe the raco decide its capaci-
tv for endurance.
To unthinking men the management of do?
-tic economies may soomT insignificant but
earth is strewn with the martyrs of kitchen
a nursery. The health-shattered woman of
erica crici out for a God who cau help in
ordinary cares of homo life. In silonco
wearing, grinding, exhausting, unappro-
???k ol woman go
.ted work ot woman goes on. Yet the Christ
???o at early dawn on the bank of Galilee had
3 fire already built and the fish cleaned and
filing for the snortsmeu as they stepped
jure hungry and chill will, if asked, help
^ woman got breakfast whether with her
i. Yanda or through hired help the provides
uTorniug repast. The Christ who rubbed
grain in his hand on Sunday morning
hiic crossing the cornfield will, ifasked, help
all bread-making. The God who honored
jinali with indestructible eulogy because
??? made a coat and took it to the temple for
??? son Samuel, sympathises in your making
the family apparel. The God who j>pen*
??? Bible with the story of Abraham's enter-1
mnentof three angels on the plains of
mre will assist all women in providing
pitalitics, though for rarest and most etn-
rrussing occasion. You have heard tho pal-
' so many years give emphatic en-
i or excoriation of the conspicuous
* Mm Bible, Deborah and Jezebel and
ktbaliah and Herodios and Dorcas
As, whether excellent or abandon-
thigh time you noticed in the text,
J are the ordinary business men.
they get for their duties 1
??/Jp th . ???
??rto speak about business life we
right o??C to business life on a
. .c 1 talk of men who sell millions
K ??* of a million, or the eighth
v* all the merchants of
* * s by aide, and
of them don???t
i the ordinary
meat and want
lly the wrinkles
ory of fatigue
II how old busi
er looks. Some of them go
>f age with grey hairs.
> have on their shoulders
i nonagenarian. No time to at-
I important dentistry, their grinders
Ibcauae they are few, old and worn out
n of age, when they *ught to be at
.???idi;m. Their.bodies are as disordered
t neglected clock that you have tried tb
. and suddenly it began to whirr, and
t and the hands turned round
t rapidity, and it struck
, struck without any
t stopped. You opened
' i machinery was out of
, and who leads forth as floral com
mander fill the hosts of primroses, hollyhawks,
foxgloves and daffodils that pitch thoir tents of
beauty and kindle their camp-fires of color
crcund the hemispheres, that this God looks
after all business affairs, however minute und
seemingly inconsiderable.
Then there ore tho Ordinary farmers. If
wo speak of agriculturists wo begin to distin
guish their work by reference to Cincinnatus,
the patricau senator, who was at tho ???plow
when colled to great position, and who twenty-
cne days after ho got through his great dicta
torship, went back to tho plow. But the vast
majority of formers never wero senators, and
never will be dictators except with the forty
or fifty or hundred acres of the old homestead.
Wliot they want is oraco to drive oft tho oxou
and to endure tho drought that uses up tho
corn crop nnd to reitoro tho garden tho night
after the neighbor???s cuttle havo trampled tho
strawberry beds and gone'through the Lima
Dean patch and eaten up tho sweet corn in
such quantities that they have to bo kopt
away from tho water lest they swell up and
die, and in ???catching??? weather to spread oat
the hay again without imprecation after it lias
been three times almost roady for tho mow,
and to doctor tho cow with tho hollow-horn
and tho sheep with tho foot-ro<??> and the
horse with the dittompor, and at tery uauril
ling acres to compel a livelihood for the
family and schooling for tho chgdren and a
little sum to start tho older boy in businoss, or
provido for tho (laughter a wedding outfit and
a little surplus for tho years wheu tho aaklus
may become stiff and the breath short, and
tho swing of tho cradlo across tho harvest
field bring tho old man vertigo. Better eloso
up about Cincinnatus. the patrician. I know
600 farmers just as noble as he, and thoy want
the cross of that Chjist who was in such sym
pathy with the farmen* life that Ho frequent
ly drew Ills illustrations from it os wheu Ho
said: <f Thc sower wont forth to sow,??? ami
who built his best parable out of tho sccno of
a farmer???s boy coming back from hia wander
ing! to tho old farmhouse, which shook with
rural jubilco and compared Himself to a
lamb of the pasture fields, and said that tho
eternal God Himself is a (armor, declaring,
???My lather is tho husbandman.???
Tho stono masons do not want to know so
much about the (act that Christopher Wren,
the architect, built St. Paul???s cathedral as how
to carry a hod up the wall without slipping,
and smooth off tho mortar with the trowel on
a cold morning without complaint, and to* bo
thankful lor the food taken from tho pail at
tho roadside. The carpenter, standing beside
adze ami piano and bit and auger and broad-
ex, needs to realize that Chriat was a carpen
ter once, and with Ills own right hand
wielded hammer and saw. It is a very tirod
world, and there ore millions of people over
worked and undoried and wrung out, and
they want the rest and recuperation otity to
be found in God and His religion, which was
meant not ao much for extraordinary folks as
for tho ordinary, becauso thero are moro of
them. The cataplasm must bo cut the shape
of the wound. Too healing profession has had
its Abercrombies and Valentine Motts and
Willard Parkers, but the ordinary doctors do
the most of tho world???# medicining and they
need to know that they may have in the tak
ing of every diagnosis and prognosis aud in
the writing of every prescription and in tho
compounding of every medicament and in the
Deling of every babe???s pulse the presence and
dictation of the Omnipotent Doctor, who took
tho case of the madman of Gadara, when he
had torn his clothes into tatters in foaming de
mentia and clothed him body and tAind, and
lifted the woman bent almost double for eigh
teen years with the rheumatism into graceful
stature, and turned tho scabs of leprosy into
roseate complexions, and rubbed tbo numb-
nets out of paralysis, and swung open tho
closed windows of hereditary or accidental
blindness until the morning light came stream
ing through the palatial casements, and who
knows all the ailments and all the remedies,
all the herbs and all the cathoiicons, the mon
arch of all pharmacy and therapeutics, aud
who has sent forth to stand in this land tens of
thoUEsnds of physicians of whom no record
on earth will ever be made, but to prove that
they are angels of mercy I call upon tho men
whose sufferings they have assuaged nnd the
women in whose crisis of pain they have
stood next to God in benefaction. Come!
Come! Let us hare a gospel for the ordinary
men and women in the professions, in mer
chandise, in mechanics, in housekeeping, in
literature, in sgricuiture. Take this saluta
tion across the ages, Asyucritm, Phlegon,
Her mas, 'Potrobas, Ilcrmes, Philologus and
Julia. ???
First of all, let all who consider themselves
ordinary thank God that you are not extra
ordinary. I am tired and sick and bored
almost to death with extraordinary people.
They take most of their time in telling you
how extraordinary they really are. The most
useful work of the world is done by people
who unpretentiously work right on. i'ne-
nomcnens are of but little tue. Things ex
ceptional cannot be depended on. More to be
trusted is the smallest planet that turns regu
larly in its orb than ten comets, darting this
way and that, endangering the longevity, of
worlds attending to their own business. Bet
ter for steady illumination a lamp than a
rocket.
Moreover, ordinary life invites less attack.
Conspicuous people, how thoy have to take it!
How they are misrepresented aud abused and
shot ot. Tho higher the horn* ot roebuok,
the easier to (rack them down. I got, last
week, a book containing the abusive carica
tures of Napoleon in his time. His disastrous
retreat from Moscow uuder tho Russian win
ter, the tragedy of the centuries is set forth in
the figure of a monster called General Frost
shaving tho French emperor with a razor ot
icicles. As murderer, as Satan, a? Beelzebub ho
iiiiin. ns wmuvici, ob obwui ay utui.uuuu MU
appears, page after page. England cursed him.
Spain cursed him. Germany cursed hinr.
Russia cursed him. Europe, Asia, Africa,
North and South America cursed him. Nearly
oil the men and women who iu history have a
halo about their names onco wore a crown of
thorns. Take the few men who aro counted
extraordinary railroad men in our time. Tho
abuse of the world gathers upon them while
the ordinary men in their companies escape.
New York Central railroad has 9,285 stock
holders. If anything goes wrong all the
anathema is put upon ono head and 9,261 es
cape. Until lie got under ground the world
abused Thomas Scott, the president of tho
Pennsylvania railroad company, not recog
Hieing that that company has 17,718 stock
holders. AU the blame for everything that
goes wrong in tho Central Pacific railroad is
put upon one or two men, while there aro ten
thousand stockholders, i mention this to
prove that people extraordinary for success
must take assault while the ordinary escape.
Tho weather of lifo is not so severe on the
plains as on tho high peaks. Tho world never
forgives a man for knowing moro or gaining
more or doing moro than it can know or gain
or do. As parents sometimes give confcction-
eiy to a child to take before medicine so tho
world???s sugar plum precedes tho world???s aqua
fortis. The mob who cried after Christ ???cru
cify him? crucify himi??? wore so hoarse thoy
hod to say it twice so oa to bo understood, and
they had got their hoarseness by crying ot tho
ton of their voice ???Hosanna:??? Tho river
Rhone enters lake Leman foul and comes out
crystalline, but many a man has entered tho
bright lake of worldly success crystalline and
cc-me out fearfully riley. Thank God day by
day if you are only ordinary, becauso of tho
placidity and defences of your position.
Remember also that from your style of homo
the mightiest of tho world???s deliverers havo
come, and that reading by your evening stand
there may bo a child potent amid the ages.
Coll tho roll of the church???s great and the
world's great and you will find that thoy
came from the log cabins and unpretentious
homes. Really extraordinary people almost
never hove extraordinary parentage. By tho
second or third generation the gentses is sure
to run out. It is the ordinary that gives birth
to tho extraordinary. Thero nover has boon
a case where tho third generation of extraor
dinary people amounted to anything. In our
land wo had two great men, father and son,
president of tho United States, but judging
from prescut appearance that goncaologio.ol
lino will not provide another president for tho
next thousand years. Columbus from a
weaver???s hut, Demosthenes from tho cutler???s
home, Bloomfield from a shoemaker???s bench,
Arkwright from o barber???s shop, and ho whoso
name is over all in earth and air and sky from
a Bethlehem monger.
Lost of all, remember to bo contented with
your lot. Wo owo as much to God for what
Ho lias kept from us as for what lie has given
us. Even a knot may bo useful if it is at tho
end of a thread. The blackboard at tho anni
versary of a deaf and dumb asylum had on it
something as sublime as the iliad and odyssey
and divina comedia compressed in ono. ??? Who
mode tho world???? tho examiner asked in tho
signs of the muto language. The deaf and
dumb girl wrote with chalk upon tho black
board: ???In tho beginning God created tho
licavcni and tho earth.??? The examiner asked:
???Why were you born deaf and dumb while I
hear and speak. Tho student wrote this an
swer: ???Even so, Father, for so it seometh good
In thy sight.??? Bo may we bo in accord with
our circumstances. A spider will draw poison
out of a flower, but a bee will get honey out of
a thistle, and happiness is a heavenly elixir,
and a contented spirit extracts it not from tho
rhododendron of tho mountain, but from tho
lily of tho valley.
PUT SAND IN YOUR CHAW.
An Old Chicago Sufferer Asks About tho
New Cure for Dyspepsia,
Borne time ago Tns Constitution published tho
following special from Athens:
1 ho most wonderful cures of dyspepsia
a good deal of excitement over tbo now remedy.
This was extensively copied In.tho northern
press and brought, among other letters, tho fol
lowing:
i great
you will let me
know If there Is any reasonable foundation to
the story or la it merely one of tho humorous
items? 1 am an old chconic sufferer, and if there
Is anything fn it would bo glad to know it. Re
spectfully yours, W. V. I???owan.
P. 8.???would Jiao to know of some one who has
tried It.
The wholo matter was referred to Colonel Gantt,
of tho Athens Banner Watchman, who answers aa
follows:
Wo will state that thero is nothin* humorous
about the above, bnt It In au old remedy that has
??????have been affected
by it. Of late It has brokeu out afresh in Oconoo
county, and persons who have been sufferers' from
dyspepsia for year* are now entirely cured. The
where it bubbles up with tho force of the
water. Take a t??wi>oonful after each
meal. Tbo effects aro not at
all unpleasant or Injurious, and after n few days
f iaticnts can eat any kind of food and digest
t thoroughly. Mr. Wedd Uarbar, formerly a nlti*
zeu of Athens, substituted pulverized (lass for
itlty aff
Itu Ui iUUVUK, lUMIIIUIUU 1 *??*
solid, and took a small quantity after each ineal
for years, and says he never suflered with dyspep
sia afterwards, and the glass always kept his bow
els regulated. The remedy is slrnplo andco'ds
thing, and from the statement ot many reliable
from the sand cure.
LAWLESSNESS IN TROUP.
The following resolutions passed by the republi
can convention of Troup county, shows that that
party fs anxious to fomen^ disorder on the first
opportunity:
Whereas, Lynch law has become so prevalent
and, as It Is a direct violation of the divine law and
the common of both state and nation, and, t
Whereas, Such a law is so exceedingly unsafe
and inhuman, because Justice is left to the dicta
tion of a mob, which, aa a rule, is nude up of that
class of men who hare no regard for human rights
and arc at the came time In a heat of passion which
overrules all fence of cool deliberation, and there
by tbe innocent may suffer for the guilty, and,
Whereas, This Inhuman and ungodly practice
docs not tend to lessen crime, but, on the other
hend, its tendency U to inflame and stir up indig
nation between tbe two races and thereby aug
THE DEAD BISHOP.
GEORGE F. PIERCE PASSES INTO
HIS FINAL REST.
The Close of* Remarkable and illustrious Llfs-
Hla Family History-The Early Days ot tho
Great Ztlnerant-HIa Course iu Later
Life???Tbe Deathbed Seoue-Etc.
mint Iswlwnew;
Whereas, By thie law, la nfnety-nfne cases In a
hundred, all things being equal, tbe negro is the
victim, for these and many other reasons,
Resolved, therefore, That we support no candi
date for office, whether municipal, county, state
or national, who, Jn any way known to uvbas
taken part In or advocaud the lynch law.
Rcto;red. further. That if any one Is put in
prfion for any allegea crime whatever, and if th??:re
be any indication on the part of any party or the
public to take the law Into their own hands, or If
the civil authorities do not Interfere to prevent
Blub violence, we pledge ourselves, in honor
fondant at all htwrt
Whercr.s, The low makes no discrimination fn
regard to color as to Jurors, and provides or re-
tjulrc* that they be upright and Intelligent cltt-
zcijs, and a* there ere many suchathong ns and
more W than many who do sit upon the Jury,
as there fa smirch larger number of color* l
. aid
peo
ple tried before the common courts thou sny
Ifcer people, therefore.
Resolved, That we, the republican* of Troup
cotntr, support no one forolm-e nnieaa he pledge*
b:n.*eli to bring about colored representation on
the Jury.
Sparta, Go., September 3.???ISpeelal.???Bishop
George F. Pierce is deadl
What sorrow this announcement will bring to
thousands of hearts is not within human power to
tell. Ever since that day In 1831, wheu In tho
prime of manhood, his gifts wero consecrated to
God, his has been a life of labor. In tbo days
when there were not even roadway* in Georgia, on
bis Uttlo poney, Cherokee Prince, the *on of Lovie
PIctco followed the wilderness paths in aoarch of
his appointments. II?? preached with earnestness;
he grew to be a part of the tradition of evory
Methodist household. Tho year# brought him
honors, but no relief from work, for his was a labor
which could only bo kid down with his life.
From ocean to ocean, his T&ice, like that
ol tbeGrcat Baptht.haa been heard calling men to
snlvftrfion. But life's task is now over, and the
good bishop sleeps, while his bride of half a cen
tury weepa by his side, anq clasping ficr hands
her silent prayer fs for that reunion which only
another world can bring.
When the news went abroad that George F,
Pierce lay stretched on the bed of death a thrill of
pain came over bis friends.* Telegrams poured
in from General Toomba; from Dr. Fitzger
ald, the friend of his Californian
Itineracy; from Dr. McFerran; from Ills brother
bishops, all hoping for his restoration to lifo. Tho
bishop had faith in bis power to live. Dr.
Alfrfcnd, whose practiced eye saw that death was
the only relief, found it necessary to toll the
bishop that tho time had come. Tho sick man,
turning wearily in his bed, smiled and asked:
???Bow long will I have to wait????
???puly tt few hours.???
All heads wero bowed. Tho touch
of God???s linger mado evory tonguo
silent. Thus tho hours passed. Friends came iu
and received the good man's blessing. Daylight
brought with It dcluslvo hope, that even yet ho
might live. At eight o'clock it was observed that
ho was growing worse. Silently his wile took her
place at tho dyiug mau's side, holding hi* hand In
ber's. Children, grandchildren, great grandchil
dren, friend*, neighbors, grouped about tho bed. ,
Breathing grew harder; eyes were aulftiscd with
tears. At fifteen minutes to nino a voico whis
pered:
???Ho is deadl"
And thus tho story of a life was told- -a life that
shall long servo aa a awcet 'memory and an ex
am pie for those who knew him.
The funeral will take pluco hero at olevon
o???clock on Friday. ???
It is but a few months slnco tho preparations for
his golden wedding brought to Bishop Pierce aud
his brido of fifty years tho congratulations of
friends in all parts ot tho union. Through an in
terview with a representative of Tub Constitu
tion tho bishop permitted the world to get au la-
sidovlew of bis homo, nnd to share in the Joy
which crowned an active lifo of over half a cen
tury. On that occasion Bishop Pierce, In an in
formal way, gave tho story of his family, substan
tially ci follows:
TH* FAMILY TURK.
???There were thraabrauebe* of our family,??? ho
said, fn answer to a question. ???Two broth
ers went north, and wero lost sight of, while tbo
third found his homo in Halifax county, North
Carolina, where my father was born In 1781. Tho
family is of English anil Genevan origin, tho
rieruvs being English and the Flournoys from Go-
nova. Muny members of tho latter family c
to bo found in Virginia. When Franklin
was president I called upon him, and wo
ngttf
__ f _ found
;rtaisimilarity In mutiny of our family tnull-
.ions, but no positive proof of relationship. How
ever. I salfl Jocularly to tbo president:
''Since ygji have reached the presidency, wo will
agree to ecu you Cousin Frank/
??????Alter my father was born, but whiloyotan
thcr * ??? ??? ???
county, where my father grew up and married
Miss Annie M. Foster, daughter of Colonel Georg a
W. Foster, in 1809. At this time ho wu* presiding
elder of the Oconee district, extending from Jack-
son county in the north, to HU Alary???s in thosouth.
and as far wci>t ns tho frontlorsmen dared t > go. 1
was born In 1811, at tho boroaof my grandfntner,
three miles /rom Greensboro. In ono or those howrn
log houses such os were fashfouablo in thoni early
dsys. Tbo family lived in Oreensboro u >vil
1830, and afterward at Columbus. I wont
to school in ureenesboro. first to Mrs.
Bcott, and afterwards to hot husband, Mr. Archl-
l??)d Hcott, one of tho most famous teachers of his
day. One peculiarity of his teaching wav this:
The pupil was at perfect liberty U> do what ho
pleased, but lie had to hare his lesson. When
the lesson was not perfect, Hr. Bcott had a good
on** tilt tho lessons were generally perfect. 1
the age of fifteen 1 was sent to Athens university,
aud (returned In 1829. Among those who wore
my companions were Robert Toombs, Alexander
11. Stephens, Howell Cobb, and soveml other*
whose natnes hava since become Impressed upon
many of them took respectable places lu tho worm?
During my college days my father wav pastor of
itho church in Athens.
ndcr his teaching
* jk place, throoi.
graduated at my
on nrk circuit.
??? Returning home, following the natural bent ot
tie. Colonel Foster, I began the study of tho law,
A year later my conviction* led mo to seek service
in tho church. The district conference, up to that
time, consisted of South Carolina, Georgia aud
Florida. In 1831, howerer, tho Georgia coiiforoiteo
was organized, and I bccamo ono of Its first mem-
posed of the counties of Putuam. Jasper, Newton
???nd Morgan, with Rev. Jeremiah Free
man os jny senior In- chargo of the
circuit. Within tbe first quarter ho hroko
down under tho excessive labor, and I wa*
left alone to fill twenty-two appointments over*
territory so vast that my home seemod to bt con
tinuslly in the saddle.
_.. weddings, funerals
and household service#....During that^ear I re
reived into the church 160 mein
second
.. .iugusto
whose name af-
in uic juuiut w w. mwmn, wuuk iikiiiu
terwurd Ursine so prominent, fn May of that
year Mr. Andrew was elected bishop, and for ttie
second time Hound myself in sole charge of a
very responsible trust.
A SPICK OF ROMANCE.
???The third year found me appointed to Bavan-
ili anil hr-rft.??? **ld th* hlahmi. iMtkln* with the
nih and here," said tho bishop, speaking with the
air of a man whose imagination recalls anleasant
picture, ???I met Miss Anno M. Waldron. Hhe was
an orphan, Jiving with her married alater, tbo
wife ot Mr. Benjamin Bnlder. at that time ono of 1
(he leading business men of Savannah. Our meet
ings resulted In the old story told so often. We
were married on the 4tb of February, BKH, at the
residenrc of Mr. Bolder. A largo company was
present, nearly all of whom are now dead. In tho
I years which have passed they have dropped off
one ty on8f till now but few remain, and they are
waiting for the great summons. Itev. Richard I.
Winn.ibe clergyman who performed tbe ceremony,
still Jfves, a citizen ot Texas, I waa reappointed
I to Havsnnah the year following, with tho intima
tion that I would shortly bo transferred to Charles
ton, 8. C., for Dr. Capers, who was to locate In
iwe gait the ctfnrcb bad , mj^great progrew.'
then appointed presiding elder of tho Au-
KUtta dUtdct, during which time great revivals
wtre
female college
con, whence I wa* reappointed
for the years foft and IMl,
tun?? I built Ht. Jof *
Auguita
. - ??? ana ' during
which um?? I built Bt. Johns charch.
I was then appointed for three year* presiding el
der of the Augusta circuit, and then, inn, f wa'
transferred to Columbus, That summer Judge
????????????????????????????????????During all these years!
I never meddled with affairs of the world, never
became entangled with outside questions, and
never allowed college or other duties to interfere
and never ceasing preaching.
the general
superintendent* of the church. My dntiea have
sea. 1 have
at a time, spending weeks on the cars* and
undergoing many hardships of travel.
mws ox cukokxt Tones. ,
Tbe bfobop bad decided views on every toptp
ol importance, which b* never hesltate*l to ex
press. lie did not believe in choirs, aa Urey intro
duced on clement of bickering into tbo church,
the singers being filled with envy and Jealousy,
scandalizing each other Instead of worshipping
God. Tho Methodism ot the present day ho
looked upon as lacking in the personal* earnest-
ncis of an earlier period???thero beluga disposition
now to regard tho edicts of society which were
not ralwoys In accord with tho Christian code.
Ho did not fully approvo of tho agitation for per
fect holiness. So anxious was ho to bo correctly
quoted upon this topic that with his own hand
ho wrote tho following lines when waited upou
by Tiik Constitution???s representative last Febru
ary:
???Tho subject of sanctification, or Christian per
fection, or holiness, has been tho matter of con
troversy in the church, prominently at different
times from Wesley???s day down to tho prcso.it.
Tho great difficulty has been, not an actual dis
agreement upon the subject Itself, ns in the at
tempt to define what is undcfiuable. To convey
an idea in precise terms what is a matter of fact-
and ot feeling rather than of doctrine, is always
sure to confuse the common mind, and to pr.>-
- *- ttlon-
toko controversy. Tho scriptures unnnesV
ably tench that holiness of h.eart and lifo Is
cfcentlal to salvation. But to express ex
v. wvu nu, x minx, lunjr imtiuumro, i rvjuiuu in
the recent revival ot this subject, and whllo I do
not agree with the views or methods of Its modem
advocates in all reipecta. 1 think the agitation has
disunion, self examination, and stimulate
way of personal
r . r ???, ;*l ....
claims and profemlons, and tho doctrine left to
vindicate itself by tho lives of those who aro tho
subjects of this work of grace, M would be better
for all concerned. A preacher may present tho
tiuth and enforce it nnd commend it, deriving his
argument* from his own experience, as illustrative
of scripture preaching, without claiming himself
to bo an examnlo of It. I believe in holiness, and
have struggled through lifo to illustrate it in spirit
and In conversation, but havo never felt called by
the spirit to avow those high attainments which
seme of my brethren report concerning themselves.
I do not discredit their testimony nor deny tho
facts of their experience, but think it moro modest
aud humble, sny lug less ot one???s self nnd leaving
character to the Judgment of tho church and tho
world."
TltS C1XCECH AND SLAVERY.
The bishop, whose service, cither as delegate, to
the general convention or ns bishop ou tho bonch,
lms been in tho consulting councils of tho church
during the entire time in which tho slavery agita
tion split tho church, and developed into tho war
between tho states., is a prominent figure
in history. In possession of such experi
ence he declared that never onco In any of tho
governing councils of the church was tho qucstlou
of slavery or politics discussed; that the gospel,
pure nnd simple, whs tho only question with
which they concerned themselves. Reunion wilt
tho northern church ho considered undesirable.
Tbo education of the negro,beyond certain limits,
was harmful to tbo negro himself as well os dan
gerous to tbo whites. Tho future he regarded tw
full of hope, however, as tho good sonso of tho
people would lead them onto!all difficulties, pro
vided they did not forget God.
Taken altogether George F. Fierce was a groat
man. Great as ho made himself, ho would havo
been equally great in whatever calling of lifo ho
undertook. Ho was surrounded in his late years
by a happy aud appreciative family, who anticipa
ted bis every want, and nt the last moment eased
bis dying pillow with tho tenderness born of love.
The lUtrlnl of the Great Dlvlne-An Im
pressive Occasion.
Fi'AitTA, September 5.???[Bpocial.]???Tho funeral
of Bishop George F, Fierce ??? took place
to-day at It o'clock. As tho
As the church was n8t by any means large enough
to accommodate tbo Immense concourse of poo-
pie assembled to do honor to the remain# of tho
following waa about
THE OltDKtt OF THE RFJtVICES.
Voluntary??????One by Ono??????Sung by Mr, Alfred
Brown, with a number of voices Joining (n tho
chorus.'
??? Becond Uwoti-(8clection from one
ties) rend by Dr. Man.
First Ifymn??????Bervant of God, woli done,??? road
by Rev. V. A. Evans.
Frcvcr by Dr, Rotter.
Becond ilymn??????JIow blessed tho righteous,
when be dies," by Upv. Mr. Breedlove.
Bunion (from Romans, Vlth chapter, 7,8 verse).
THE NASHVILLE KFJ(i|.UT!C)??a.
Revolutions were passed by?? meeting of tho
ministers, the book committee, and tho represen
tatives of tho mission causo, which meeting was
he ld in Nashvllloon theft! instant* wheu tho new#
of Bishop rierco's death reached that city,
Tho revolution! wero brought to Sparta by
Dr. McFerran, and retd by Dr. Man. .with
J passed tho resolutions, which wero
a* follow*:
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to removo
from ns by death tho Rev, Georg?? Foster Fierco.
D. D., the senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
chimb, south; therefore.
Resolved, That we bow In humblo submission to
the will of the Great Hcadof the Church, who has
seen fit in bis wisdom to translate from tho field
of his earthly labors to the shore of hoaveny rost
aud on the platform, In advocacy of tho causo of
vital godliness, of Cbristlafi education, of
domestic and foreign missions, of church
thus
???nd to the establishment of the kingdom of Christ
among men: who, by his suavity ot manuor and
M>undm*?? of judgment in the cabinet and in tho
presidential chair of annual conferences, always
Inspired his brethren with fullest confidence and
sincere condolence in this the heaviest <
ufloored him to all the
youthful cbolae, for whoso welfare aud prosperity
he devoted bis life-long labors.
Resolved, That a copy of theso reaolutions bo
transmitted the secretory to the family of tho, de
ceased, and tbo publication of the same bo mado
lit their dally and church paper*. \
Tbo renlce* were then concluded at tho grave,
where they were conducted by Dr. Evans.
hit. If AYOOOD???S hP.RXOJf,
Dr. Haygood began bis sermon (by a short re
view of the bishop's career, and foUowod
with an analysis of |b!s character
fn every respect. Ifis discourse
sermon v
aitlon divL.
direct application of the text to the subject was
for the moat . part left to tho con
gregation. Tho pail-bearer* . wero
ail ministers. The remain* of tho departed were
bmk-d In the old part of the cemetery, in accord*
room for one more, the use of wh
had in hi* mind wfceu he iclected the spot.
No businem was done here to-day. All tho
hmduf** homes have black acres* the front, and
In the Methodist church tbo columns,tbe arUr.tho
reading desk and the pulpit are covered with
black. People are here from all over the south,
???nd ??? forge delegation have como from a number
of places within this state.
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