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A SERMON
By Rev. W. R, Branham, Sunday,
Oct. 9th, at Methodist Church.
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LOCAL MENTION,
Self-discipline is the climax of all
training.
What is the best government? Self-
government.
Lar<*e crowds went from this city to
the Carnival.
The greatest human force is the
power of choice.
No man has ever to he ashamed ot
the tire company he keeps out of.
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve
Cure? Piles. Scalds. H-rns.
The Georgia railroad put on an
extra train during the Macon Carni
val. It passed through this city at < :30
a. m.
Be as just to others as you are to
yourself; you may some day need
mercy.
The members of the A. M C. A.
hold a prayer meeting in their^ room
every Sunday afternoon, at 3 o’clock.
The men, especially the young men,
are invited to attend these services.
A stubborn cough or tickling in the
throat yields to One Minute Cough
Cure. ' Harmless in effect, touches the
right spot, reliable and just what is
wanted. It acts at once. Culver&
Kidd.
In the woods at this season of the
year there is much that is pleasing to
the eye and soothing to the spirit.—
The crimsen and purple tints of autumn
are tingeing the trees and shrubbery,
and a mellow light rests on the hills.
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what It was made for.
Rev. Mr. Venable, of Gainesville
whp is visiting his daughter, Mrs. 1).
C. Camp, led the prayer meeting at the
Methodist church last "Wednesday even
ing. The subject of bis talk was
“Prayer,” and he made many useful
and timely suggestions.
CASTOR IA
Tor Infants and Children.
The KM You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Mr. Pritchard, who lives in "Wash
ington county, near Tennille, passed
through this city Sunday night He
was carrying a hog. which weighed
1 600 pounds to Macon to exhibit dur
ing the carnival. This was the big
gest hog ever seen in this city, and
was looked at with great curiosity by
some of our people. The hog was be
ing carried in a two-horse wagon.
More than twenty million free sam
ples of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel salve
have been distributed by the manufac
turers. What better proof of their
confidence in it’s merits do you want?
It cures piles, burns, scalds, sores, in
the shortest space of time. Culver &
Kidd. “
A Correction.
The sketch, published in this paper
last week, of Mr. J. C. W lute,
who taught school in tins county,
fifty years ago, was contributed by our
well-known fellow-citizen, Mr. D. «•
Hill, who was a pupil of the beloved
Englishman in his log school house at
“Sycamore Level” in ’44, and has,
been his life-long friend. By some
strange thoughtlessness the signature
to the article was changed from D. U. |
Hill to 15. II. Hill. We beg pardon of |
our friend I). 15.
Elsewhere in this paper notice is
given that a bill will be introduced in
the legislature to elect the county com-
missioners of Baldwin count) y t it
qualified voters. At present the com
missioners are elected by the gian
jury. The Union Recorder is not alone
in thinking that the best interest ot the
county demands that the selection ot
these guardians ot the county s iou
remain in the hands of the grand jury
which is composed of “upright and in
telligent” citizens. At the proper time,
we presume, steps will be taken to shew
the legislature that a change in the law
is not desired.
ra.l.rU B With T-Weu
Guaranteed Cure for Chills. Fever
Ague, or money refunded. <W cents.
Urugglste.
“I am the light ol the world; lie that
followeth me shall not walk in dark
ness. but shall have the light of life.”
—John 8c, 12v.
In Malaclii, Christ is called the Sun
of Righteousness; here he is called the
Light of the World. It is said, in the
beginning of this chapter that early in
the morning Christ went in from the
Mount of Olives to the temple. The
sweet sunlight had fallen upon moun
tain and valley. This probablv sugeest-
eu to the mind of Jesus the thought of
the text. As the sun is the light of
the material world, so lam the light
ot the moral and spiritual world. “In
the beginning, God created the heav
ens, and the earth was without torm
and void, and darkness brooded on the
face of the deep.” God said, “Let there
he light, and there was light.” but it
was ot a diffused character. Not until
the fourth day did He make the sun
and the moon, the one to rule by day,
and the other to rule by night. A very
long period may have elapsed from the
creation of light, to the creation of the
sun.
Christ was the light of the world, I
long before he arose the sun of Right
eousness, upon Calvary. The first ray
of light came fiom the promise, “the
seed of ihe woman shall bruise the ser
pent’s head,” and fell in cheering influ
ence upon the disconsolate pair, as
hand in hand through Eden, they took
their solitary way. Then another and
yet another ray of light shot forth
through all the period of prophecy and
promise, until all the heavens were fill
ed with a soft and mellow radiance,
and the nations stood expectant, wait
ing for the promised Christ, the sun
of Righteousness.
It is interesting to trace the history
of revelation, from its beginning to its
completion, in the life and death ot our
Lord. What a beautiful exhibition
it is of the goodness and wisdom ol
God. The Patriarchal and Levilical
dispensations constitute but a vast and
needful preparation for the Christian.
It is no improvised scheme,but gradual
ly be unfolds his plans.
The Christian religion is nearly six
thousand years old, instead of two thous
and, as we sometimes think.
If age adds aught of dignity to an
institution, then Christianity demands
the highest respect and veneration, i
The first to come, she shall survive
all other institutions. Her glorious
temple shall stand in beauty and
strength, in the midst ot a crumbling
world, and a decaying universe. A
tiny stream bursting forth from the
garden of Eden, it is now the great
river of life sweeping through all lands,
refreshing all people. At first twas but
a single ray, now its bright light fills
the whole world.
1. The sun is self-luminous, his
light is from himself, he borrows none.
So Jesus is self-luminous, the bright
ness of his Father’s glory, the express
image of his person. In him dwelt i
the fulness of the Godhead bodily. He i
is the center and source ot all light in
the moral and spiritual universe.
Remove Jesus from the spiritual
world, and it would be like removing
the material sun from the heavens, im
penetrable darkness would settle upon
every moral and spiritual question.
I am the light, the truth and the
way.” No one can find his way to the
Father but by me. Among all the
characters of the Bible Jesus is the
one central character. He is the. one
and the only one who speaks with au
thority, proceeding from himself. Ihe
prophets always prefaced the announce
ment of a truth by a “thus saith the
Lord.” Jesus says “Verily, verily, I
say unto you.” All the characters in
the Bible have their significance only
as thev are related to Christ. IV hat
would'Abraham, David, and Paul be,
separated from Jesusr They would
have been great men in their day,
but long since the dark waters of
oblivion would have buried them.
They are great and enduring, real and
immortal only as they were in Christ,
walking in his light, and rejoicing in
his life. On the other hand every one
lout of Christ walks’in a vain show,
gropes amid shadows, dies and lives in
outer darkness forever.
I 2. Like the sun Jesus shines upon
la'l indiscriminately. The rich, the
poor, the great, the small, the just, the
unjust alike become participants in his
unstinted beneficence. Every man
has the full light and warmth of the
sun. Ho every man may enjoy the full
and unmeasured salvation of Jesus, the
Christ. There is no limned atone
ment embodied in the expression, “I
am the light of the wohld. His per
fect power and willingness is pledged
in behalf of every sinner who will re
ceive him. He is the light of Heaven,
shining on through eternity. Ho this
salvation may not only be a presen
expeiience, but may become an eternal
realization. With undimmed luster
for six thousand years the sun has
shone, and will continue to shine until
the world shall need his Lght 110 more.
1 So the sun of Righteousness shalUhme
forever. The false l'g hts « nk,ndted
along the shores of time shaft be ex
tinguished. Agnosticism and all the
other isms that delude and damn men
shall pass away, but the glory of this
vreat spiritual sun in undimmed splen-
drr shall shine on torever.
3. The sun is the great revealer.
When he sinks beltind the western
hills, and darkness falls upon the earth,
the material world is wrapped in
doom: mountain and yalley, field and
flood, ocean and sea are hidden, and
and were it not for the memory of
them we would not know they had an
existence, we would he in ignorance of
the physical world. VVlint a tremend
ous change is wrought when the great
j king of day lifts himself majestically
I above the Eastern horizon, driving
I away the darkness and mist of the
j night, waking every bird, kissing
' everv flower, tipping every hill-top
i and mountain peak with gold, until
all nature thrills with inexpressible joy.
■ If it were not an every day oceuernce,
I sunrise would be the most glorious
| hour of the day. His light brings to
jus a world of beautv and a world ot
| knowledge. Ho the Hun of Righteous
ness acts upon the moral and spiritual
j world. In his light the great questions
jthat confront man, his creation, his
| dutv, his place in God’s universe stand
'confessed. His light penetrates the
deepest depths of spiritual existence,
searches the most hidden recesses of the
human heart, brings to vision every
truth connected with man’s moral and
spiritual wellbeing, life and immortali
ty: shines down into the grave, and up
from it, until it meets and mingles
with the radiance from the celestial
city. Where but in this revelation do
we find the history of man’s origin,
where his final destiny, where the
character and attributes of God, where
man’s estate by nature? Does any
other book tench that man is a sinner,
or that he may be a saint? Is there
discovered to us anywhere else, the
deep eternal wants of man’s spiritual
nature or anywhere the source where
all these wants may be met? Who
else, but Jesus declares to us the great
loving compassionnte fatherhood of
God or the brotherhood of man?
4. The sun is the great beauiifier of
Ihe world, without him it would he an
ugly, unseemly object. V\ hat a won
derful artist he is. He paints the sun
set,draws with matchless skill the rain
bow, colors the blushing rose, and the
modest violet. Even the storm cloud
he gilds with light and makes it. a
thing of beauty. In the springtime he
calls the flowers from their slumbering
beds, and clothes the fields in beautv
fair and sweet. “Consider the lilies of
tbe field bow they grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin: and yet I say
unto you that even Holomon in all his
<»lory was not arrayed like one of
these.” In summer he ripens to gold
en maturity the waving harvests. In
autumn throws over wood and moun
tain a robe of mellow and mingled
tints. Even grim-\ isaged winter be-
hecomes benignant and wreathed in
smiles under his inngic touches,
j So Jesus gives to youth all that is
I lovely and fair; to maturer age, all that
| j s strong and noble, to old age, all that
! is cheering and hopeful.
What the sun is to the material
world as a beautifier Jesus is to the
Spiritual world. How great His trans
forming power upon human character.
Under his genial influence the plants
ol virtue spring, and bloom, and bear
fruit. The whole nature of man is
moulded and refined and beautified.
Look at Ht. John, once so angry and
impatient that he wanted Jesus to
command fire from heaven, that the
villages that rejected him might be
burned: but under the refining and
transforming influence of Christ, he
became so gentle and patient, that in
his old age lie was called tlie apostle of
Love. Oil! it is with infinite love
that God looks down upon the
Christian; and when the work of moral
and spiritual re-creation is finished, as
in the beginning lie says “It is very
good.” As one lias said “It is not
without deep significance,a wonderfully
deep significance that the great trans
former of the moral world is called the
sun of Righteousness. The nation-
upon whom he shine* not, still sit in
the region and shadow of death. He
acts not like the sun upon particles of
matter, but upon immortal minds. As
under the one all forms of nature spring
into life and beauty, so under the do
minion o! the other, thoughts as wide
as the universe, and hopes more .im
perishable than the stars leap into ex
istence. As under the influence of the
one, the dry shriveled seed is changed
into the stately plant, and crowned
with gorgeous bloom, so under the
everlasting dominion ot the other is
the dark degraded and savage mind,
transformed into an angel of light, and
crowned with an eternal weight of
glory.” . , ,
5. The sun does his work silently,
gently, lie just pours down his golden
floods over all as gently as a sleeping
infant breathes, yet what mighty results
are accomplished by L<s all pervadinz
power. The winds are raised by his
subtile force and the deep seas shaken
by the feet of the mighty winds do hi*
bidding. One has said “that the sun’s
rays art ministering angels wot to
minister to all things upon earth.
They build the giant oak over our
heads ard weave the modest violet at our
feet. The forests of a thousand years,
no le s than the flowers ot a day are
the work of their delicate fingers.”
Every grain of corn, every head of
wheat, every boll of cotton, every
flower of the field, every leaf of the
forest, all these are the results, the
magnificent results of his silent shin-
|ing. So Jesus brings all light and
i power and beauty into being. “He
j shall not lilt his voice in the streets, nor
shall he cry aloud”—but his mighty
I power is seen in the splendid civiliza
tion of the 10th century, culminating
in the Ilispano-American war, a con
flict the impelling principle ol which
was the brotherhood of man in Christ
Jesus. Talk about infidelity triumph
ing? No, a thousand times no, the
world, the great mass ot mankind,
knows and has known tor a long time,
that they owe all that they have and
are or ever expect to be, to the Bible.
You might as well stand before an au
dience of intelligent people and argue
that we could get on very well without
the sun, and deny >be Vtlects ol bis
shining and try to blow it out with
your breath, as to assert that this
world could get along without Jesus
Christ. This world ns it now is, with
out the Christ,is unthinkable. The great
work is going on and on and on, oalm-
lv, mnj"sticnlly the great sun of Right
eousness shines, Inr above the little
dust, which a lew men would throw up
into the air to obscure his light.
Whenever 1 find one apprehensive
as to the final outcome of the Christian
religion and fearful lest the infidel
should overthrow it I urn reminded of
a picture 1 once saw ot Stone Moun
tain. There it was, a massive pile ot
granite, the foundations deeply imbed-
ed in the soil, lifting itself grandly
toward the skies; on one side a burly
man with shoulder against it trying to
the utmost limit of his strength to over
turn it, while on the other side was a
little dapper fellow with a walking
cane about the size of a man’s finger,
pressing it with all his might against
the side of the mountain, in order to
prevent tlie other man from upsetting
it.
6. VVe are taught that if we follow
Jesus we shall not walk in darkness but
shall have the light of life. How shall
we follow him? “It any man will be
my desciple let him deny himself, take
up his cross and follow me.” We fol
low Christ in sell-denial, in selt-sacri-
tiee, in living lor others. A selfish lite
is not a Christly life. Spiritual darkness
abounds because selfishness abounds.
If we follow Christ, if we have his
spirit, if we love as lie loved, we can
not walk in darkness, we shall hear the
softest whispers of his love. Could
you walk in darkness today unless you
voluntarily closed your eyes while the
sun is shining? li would be impossi
ble. Ho you cannot walk in spiritual
darkness. For just as truly as the sun
on a cloudless day will appear to the
natural eye, so truly will the sun ol
Righteousness be seen by the eye ot
tail'll. The one is physical and the
other is spiritual vision. Hpiritual
experiences areas real as physical. II
there is any difference, spiritual expe
riences are more incontestable, than are
physical ones. Our senses often de
ceive us, not so our spiritual conscious
ness. Religion is no dream but a lact,
a truth so big and so real that it tills all
of a man’s heart. He ha* found the
pearl of great (ii-ice and he knows it,
because lie has sold all that fie had to
buy it. He lias burning in his heart a
great lire of love and joy. Following
Jesus lie walks in the light ol file, it
shines all along his path, gilds the
darkest storm cloud of adversity, and
lar up the shining way leads him
home. Why in-darkness today broth
er, why in darknes?? Is not the sun
shining? Why in darkness? Is it not
because your eye is not single,fixed up
on the imperishable glory of the sun ol
Righteousness? Is it not that you are
looking down upon this eartli fife.'
Look up brother, oyer the hill tops the
golden light is streaming, the perfect
day has come. The great sun ot Right
eousness is shining in the Kingdom ot
grace, in the Kin plum of Providence,
shining in the church, in the midst of
his people, shining in words of death
less truth in deed* of deathless love.
The very heavens blaze with the light
and glory of the risen Christ.
“All Dan gen Are Not Death*.’
An old man that we knew well had a
life filled with alternating success and
failures. He made several fortunes and
in turn lost them. From wealth he was
reduced to proverty a number of times.
He bad his share of other troubles. But
he died happy. At 84 lie was gathered
to his lathers as a perfect and ripened
ear of corn. It it had occurred to him
to do so he could have enjoyed the con
sciousness that this long lite was studded
with many helpful and generous deeds
to those he came in contract with*
This old man had a maxim and
“Slogan.” He may have bad others,
we know not. To the unfortunate and
disheartened he mostly used the one
that, is enforced upon our recollection,
to-wit:
Maxim All dangers are not deaths.
Slogan Pick your flint and try it
again.
We commend both the maxim and
the slogan to our farmers who have
sowed again only to reap disappoint
ment.—H. A. C.
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Send your address to 11. E. Bucklen
& Co., Chicago,and get a tree sample
box of Dr. King’s New Lite l’ills. A
trial will convince you of their meri's.
These pills are easy in action and are
particularly effective in the cure ot
Constipation and Sick Headache, tor
Malaria and Liver troubles they have
been proved invaluable. They are
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every deleterious substance and to be
purely vegetable. They do not weaken
by their action, but by giving tone to
stomach and bowels greatly invigorate
the system. Regular size 25c. per
box. Hold by Culver & Kidd, drug-
gists. „
F or broken surfaces, sores, instec
bites, burns, skin diseases, and espe
cially piles, there is one reliable reme
dy, DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Sslye.
When you call for DeWitt’s don’t ac
cept counterfeits or frauds. You will
not be disappointed with DeW itt’s
Witch Hazel Halve. Culver & Kidd.
MONEY.
Loan* negotiated on iaspeeveft
flume, et lowest market rates, and am
most liberal terms.
Business of fifteen years standing!
More than three million dollars to
loans negotiated. Facilities unam^
passed. HOWARD M. SMITH,
Vo. 314 Second St., Macon, Qa
ept. 18,1838. 4 ms.
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A SUES RCLIET TO ’V 'MAN tor
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ATTENTION FARMERS.
Please look out for the American Flag which is floating over
Uncle Sam’s Cotton Warehouse. Old Glory has never gone down
neither has Uncle Sam E. .
The War Department rnav have made mistakes, but my banner
Friends, vou will make no mistake when you carry your cotton to
Samuel Evans for sale. He keeps expert men in his othce and
plenty of labor on yard to attend to your business promptly.
The money will be paid for the Cotton at the VV arehouse anu un
der my present arrangement can sell and settle for co.ton in ton
minutes after your wagon arrives on the yard.
Come on to the Old Reliable.
Respectfully,
P3 a Tvr 7 Xj zerv-A-iisrs.
As the Full and Winter Season Is Approaching I
am Rapidly Receiving a Large Stock; of
THE
BEST —for— MEN,
SHOES WOMEN,
CHILDREN.
SUITABLE TO THE WEATHER.
In the meantime I will sell all Summer Shoes at COST. Still
have left a few pairs of Ladies’Slippers will sell for * I and *l.db
worth from $1.50 to $2. Also Misses’ and Children’s Slippers Cheap.
Call and buy while offered at such low figures. ,
Have received part of my Mens, Ladies and Childrens*
4S FALL SHOES. 9*-
Look them over and see how strongly and J .stylishly they are
made.
Our little hoy was afflicted with
rheumatism in his knee; and at times
unable to put his loot, to the floor. We
tried in vain, everything we could hear
of that we thought would help him.
We almost gave up in desj air, when
some one advised us »o try Chamber
lain’s 1‘iiiii Balm. We did so, and the
first bottle save so much relief that we
got a second one, and, to our surprise,
it cured him sound and well.—J. T.
Bays, Pastor Christian Church, Neo-
desha, Kan. For sale by Geo* D.
Case.
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on Salary or Commission.
In New York a few days ago a man
paid $10,000 spot cash for tour standard-
bred horses. Was it not predicted a
short time ago that the bicycle would
run horse* off the street* and ruin the
market for them?
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Samples and sell measure blanks sent by mail,
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mm
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