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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION'. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1984. TWELVE PAGES. 11 I 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. 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