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THE DAILY TIMES.
LARGEST CIBOVfcATION
la »h«<U«ual*e> Adjaceal <• TraMlaa
at Columbae-
Coiunibua. Georgia,
BUNDAY NOVEMBER 80. 1884.
aHKKM&N V« OITIS
The prominent Northern generals,
with rare exceptions, are living too
long. We are not now contending
for the converse of the proposition
that Southern generals, with rare ex
ceptions, are not living too well. But
with the former, like the "vino in
verltas,” the weakness of old age
begins to expose native imbecility
and moral depravity. Oan any
reasonable man assign a reasonable
excuse for Sherman’s attack upon
Mr Davis? We will add for argu
ment. even if it was true. Both men
are walki- g feebly on the ot/ter side
of the hill, and lengthening shadows
are failing on their pathway, flood
men everywhere are calling to the
angry waves of sectional strife,
•‘Peace, be still.”
Southern hands have strewn flow
ers on Northern graves, and North
ern lips speak tremulous and tearful
words of sympathy over the martyr’s
of the lost cause. The national life
le buoyant with new hope; the ani
mosities of the past flee like spectres
before the rising sun of a Union re
stored, a people reconciled. What
possible good can grow out of as
saults upon Jefferson Davis? What
motives worthy a patriot or a soldier
can induce such an attack? What
is written is written. Sherman
to the contrary, there is nothing new
to be said; that sad war has no secret
history. Both sides were Influenced
by the best and purest motives which
animate true manhood. Both fought
upon their own convictions
of constitutional right. Both
have joined Lands in friendship
and declared the strife ended. Is it
not shocking that one among the
foremost of the gang that tattened on
the spoils,should leave such a legacy
to hts family and country, and blotch
his own fame by musing over
the fire and raking up the em
bers of the dead strife? Sherman
does not appreciate the situation,
It is true that his reputation is acci
dental and his military success bor
rowed from other men’s brains.
Essentially, he is a little man. He
lacks the sense to see and the manli
ness to confess that, to what he calle
"Jeff Davis’ Conspiracy,” he owes
the enormous obligation of rescue
from native insignificance and in
creasing obscurity. But for the
“terrible rebellion” he breathes only
to denounce, he might now have
been teaching school in a log cabin
on a nigger plantation in Louis
iana. The convulsion which floated
many light things to the surface was
a deity of luck to him. The gilded pal
ace exchanged tor the barrack room
or the tent, is wet with better blood
than hie. Nobody believes that Sher
man honestly regrets the "Jeff Davig
conspiracy," or that his real or pre
tended patriotism would turn the
page of history back, wipe out the
past woes of his country and send
him back to the] bottom whence he
sprang. If the blood of that revolu
tion must be stanched, and its tears
dried by the sacrifice of Sherman’s
place and money to which he owes it
ail, its gaping twounds would
never heal, and its tears would
flow forever. Rather than forfeit all
these good things, he would see his
country plunged again in strifie and
reeking with fratricidal blood. He
feels that he has more than he mer
its. He feels that, while a people’s
gratitude waits upon him, and its
generous gifts have surrounded him
with comfort and elegance, there are
better men. botter.soldiers and purer
patriots, his superiors in all the ele
ments of true manhood, leading lives
of toil and penury, of neglect
and ostracism. His gilded caee
holds a restless bird, he
envies even the reputation of Jeffer
son Davis. He is uneasy that
Tecumseh Sherman as compared
with Jefferson Davis is a pigmy, acd
the contrast fills his little soul with
madness. He remembers that the
judicial power of the government
was invoked and in its presence, the
manacles fell from the hands of the
august prisoner. But, the “argumen
tiim ad hominem” aside, this eternal
warfare upon Mr. Davis Is not only
senseless, but it has worked the very
result his enemies would have avoid
ed. Not a secessionist per se, but
called by the unanimous voice of his
people to the helm. Northern sent!
ment has made him a vicarious sac
rifice for all Southern sin. With un
precedented fortitude and admirable
dignity, he has carried the burden
thrust upon him. In vain the whole
South has sought to relieve him; but
hie persecutors are relentless. All
things have an end, and for him it
■eems to draw nigh. Soon he will be
beyond the reach of human reproach
Until then he can afford to wait.
History will oannonize the character
that Sherman would destroy, and the
tame page which recites its virtues
and proclaims its fame, will record
among the “robber raids,” that
"march to the sea."
Senator Oonger is from Michigan,
and it is now proposed to retire
Judge Carter from the bench of the
District of Columbia on account of
age, and seat Oonger in his place.
If it was objectionable only because
the District is full of better men than
Conger, it might be tolerated; but It
has now very much the appearance
that the declining days of Arthur’s
administration are to be made inglo
rious by forcing into high judicial
places, some of the most corrupt and
bitter men of his party. Judges
may retire at any time and after a
fixed age retire upon pensions. They
hold their places for life, and in no ;
other character of appointments ,
Should executive pjWer be exeroia j.
more wisely. Honestly and capacity
are the only qualifications
of which diligent inquiry and
true presentment should be made
Senator Oonger has been the Fou
che of his party, without Fouche’s
talents. Bitter in his resentments
and unscrupulous In his espionage
he bus lost no opporiunity of Insult
ing the South from his piece in the
Senate, and only ceased bls vituper- ,
anoe when the atmosphere of the
Senate exposed his ignorance and
silenced hts gabble.
Among the host of men grown into ,
notoriety by sectional Intolerance, i
the Michigan Senator is a chief, and !
his transference to the bench would ,
be a political benefit if it was not a ,
public calamity. If Mr. Arthur
would preserve that semblance of res
spectability which attaches to his
own In common with all weak and
inoffensive administrations, he will i
leave judicial vacancies to be tilled
by hie successor. Buch appointments
ae Oonger will not benefit hia own
reputation, or increase the public re
spect for bis executive ability.
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Brooklyn, Nov. 23.—The opening
hymn in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this morning was:
•‘How pleasant thus to dwell below
Infellowehip oi iove '*
Before the sermon Dr. Talmage ex
pounded the story of David and Jot.a
than. The subject of his discourse
was religious intolerance, and the
text was Judges xii, 6: “Then said
they unto nim say now shibboleth,
and he said eibboleth, for he could
not frame to pronounce it right. They
then took him and slew nim at the
passage of Jordan.” Following is
the sermon in full:
Do you notice the difference in
these pronunciations: Shibboleth
and Bibboleth? Very alight and un
important difference you say, but the
difference of pronuntation was the
difference between the lite and death
ot many people. Two of the Lord's
tribes, Ahead and Ephraim, got into
a fight. The Ephraimltes were wots
ted. and in their retreat came to the
fords of the Jordan to cross. Orders
were given to destroy ail the Ephrai
mites who attempted to cross, but
bow should it be known who were
Ephraimites? They were detected
by their pronunciation. Shibboleth
was the word for river. It seemed
that the Ephraimites had a peculiar
brogue, and that in pronouncing the
word Shibboleth they always left cm
the sound of the ‘h’. As the troops
on retieat came to the Jordan they
were asked to pronounce the word
Shibboleth, and if they said ‘Sibbo
letiT they were known immediately a=
Ephraimites and were destroyed,
Thus said they unto him "say now
•Shibboleth,’ and he eaid ‘Sibboletb,’
for he could not frame to pronounce
it right. They then took him and
slew him at the passages of Jordan.”
What a small difference between
these tribes of Gilead and Epbriam
And what intolerance with that small
difference! But the difference be
tween the tribes of the Lord in our
time, that is between one denominu
tion and another, is often of no mor>
Importance, The church of Go i 1-
all divided up into a multitude ot de
nominations and sects. Time would
fail me to speak of the Calvinists,and
the Sabbatarians, and the Armenians
and the Swedenborgians, and the
Baxterians, and the Dunkers, and the
Shakers, andjthe Parkerites, and the
Methodists,and Baptists,and Luther
ans, and Presbyterians, and Spiritu
alists and scores of other denomina
tions of religionists. Some of these
denominations were established by
very good men, some by very egotis
tical men, some by very bad men.
Between some of them there is only a
difference in words; between others u
difference as wide as between truth
and error, between light and dark
ness, between heaven and hell. Some
of these beliefs I could In no wise
adopt, and yet so long as I demand
liberty of couaclenos for myself, I
must allow liberty of conscience to
every other man; for 1 must remem
her that he .does not differ more irom
me than I differ from him.
1 shall this morning advocate the
largest liberty in all religious belief
. and discussion. In art, in social life,
in politics, in religion, let there be no
moving ot the "previous question,”
i no intolerance, no thumbscrew, no
gag law, no persecution. You all
, know that the air and the water are
kept pure by constant circuiatica,
and I believe there is a tendency in
religious discussion to purification
i and moral health. Between the fourth
century and the sixteenth century,
' the church of God proposed to keep
1 out error by prohibiting all religious
i discussion, and by a strong censor
, ship of the press,and rack and gibbet
and hot lead poured down the throat
to make people orthodox; but the
world found out that you cannot
1 change men’s beliefs by twisting off
their heads, or make them see things
differently by puttlngan awl through
' their eyes. There is something in
every man’s conscience to upheave
the mountain that you would throw
upon it, and unsinged of the fire out
of the flame to make red wings on
which the martyr shall mount to
glory
In that very time of which I speak,
between the fourth and sixteenth
century, men went from the churches
of God into the most appalling iniqui
ty, and right by the altars of Onrist
flowed a tide of drunkenness and li -
centiousness that the world has never
seen equaled, and the very sewers of
perdition broke loose and deluged
the church with tilth and wickedness.
Then the printing press came forth
and broke the shackles of the human
mind. There came a good many bad
books, but right after them there
came a great many healthful books;
so that where there was one man to
denounce the Christian religion then
were twenty men to advocate it. So,
my friends, 1 have no nervousness in
regard to this great, war going on be
tween truth and error. Lot error run
if you only let truth run along with it.
Urged on by skeptic’s shout and
transcendentalisl’s spur, let it run.
God’s angels of wrath are in hot pur
suit and quicker than eagle’s beak
oiutcheth out a hawk’s heart, God’s
vengeance shall tear it to pieces. L
error run if you only let truth run
along with it.
In this great conflict between the
right and the wrong the right will
triumph just as certainly as that God
is stronger than the devil. Let us
have no fear then that the error of
the world Is going to overcome the
truth of the church. God is ruling in
the world and ail shall be well. lam
very glad that people do no not all
think alike in matters of religion.
What a stupid world this would be if
all pepie wereaiike. I will never see
through your eyes. Fou will never
hear through my ears. No man can
lord it over our consciences.
I propose this morning to speak to
you of sectarianism; its origin, Its
evils and its cures. There are those
who would make us think that this
monster with horns and boots is re
ligion. I shall chase it to its hiding
place and drag it out of the caverns
ot darkness and rip off its hide. Bit
I want to make a distinction between
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bigotry and the lawful fondness for
peculiar religious beliefs and form
of w, rship, I have no admiration for
a nothingirtan. In a word of such
trem.mdcus vicissitude and tempta
tion and with a soul that must after
a while stand before a throne of in
sufferable brightness, In a day when
the rocking of the m juntalne, and the
flaming or the heavens, and the upe
tieaval of the eea shall be among the
least of the exifltemenis, to give ac
count tor every thought, word, action
preference and dislike—that man is
mad who has no religious preference.
But our early educat ion, ourpnyeloal
temperament, our mental constitu
tion, will very much decide our form
of worship. A style of psalmody
that may please me may displease
you'
Some would like to have a minister
tn gown and bands and surplice, and
others prefer to have a minister in
olein citizens apparel. Some are
most impressed when a littte child ie
presented a’ the altar and sprinkled
of the waters of a rady b-ne.fiction in
the name ot the Father, and of the
Son and ot the Holy Ghost, and oth
ers are more impressed when the
penitent comes up out of the river,
his garmen’H dripping with the wai
ters ofabaptiem which signifies the
washing away of sin. Either is right
in my eetlma'lou. Let either have
his own way. One man likes no ucis
in prayer—not a word, not a whisper.
Another man. just as good, praters
by gesticulation and exclamation to
express hie devotional aspirations.
One is just as good as the other.
“Every man is fully persuaded in hie
own mind.” New in our neighbor
hood on Oxford street we have quiet.
Every neighbor prefers cis own hem
to any other home, and yet he is io
peace with all the neighborhood. I
nave no idea that 1 will promote the
prosperity of my household by upset
ting somebody clse’s home, nor has
ray neighbor any idea that he will
benefit his home by injuring my
home. Each one preferring his own
home the better, yet kind and good
neighborhood. Now, so it ought t -
be in the kingdom of Christ,. Pref
erence tor religious homes, but large
heatted and Christian neighborhood
"Peace on earth, good will to men.”
George Whitfield was going ov. r a
Quaker rather roughly for some oi
his religious sentiments, and the
Quaker eaid : "George, lam as thou
art; I am for bringing ail men to the
hope of the gospel; therefore if thou
will not quarrel with me about my
broad brim. I will not quarrel with
thee about thy black gown. George,
give me thy hand.”
In tracing out the origin of secta
rianism or bigotry J find that a great
deal or it e rnes Irom wrong educa
tion in the home circle. Tnere are
parents who do not think it wrong to
caricature and jeer the peculiar forms
oi religion in the world and denounce
other sects and other denominations.
It is very often the case that that kind
of education acts just opposite to
whar. was expected, and the children
grow up and after awhile go and see
tor themselves, and looking in those
churches and finding that ti <■ people
are good there and they love God and
keep His Commandments, by natural
reaction they go and join those very
churches. I could mention the names
ot prominent ministers of the G ispel
who spent their whole life bombard
ing other denominations and who
lived to see their children preach the
Gospel in those very denominations.
But it is often the case that bigotry
starts in a household, and that the
subject of it never recovers. There
are tens of thousands of bigots ten
years old,
I thing sectarianism and bigotry
also arise from too great prominence
of any one denomination in a com
munity. All tae other denomiaacions
are wrong and his denomination is
right; because bis denomination ie
the most wealthy, or the most popu
lar or the most influential, and it is
"our” church, and "our” religious
organization, and "our” choir, and
“our” minister, and the man tosses
bis head and wants other denomina
tions to know their places. It is a
great deal better in any community
when the great denominations of
Christians are about equal in power,
marching side by side lor ihi world’s
conquest. Mere oueiile prosperity,
mere worldly power is no evidence
that the church ie acceptable to God.
Better a barn with Cnnst in the man
ger than a cache irai wi h m ignlfloent
harmonies rolling tin mgh the long
drawn aisle, and an angel from heav
■ en in the pulpit it there be no Christ
in the Chancel and no Christ in the
robes.
Bigotry is often the child of igno
, rance. You seldom And a man with
large intellect who is a bigot. It is
' the man who thinks ho knows a great
leal but doesnot. That man is al
' most always a b got. The whole ten
deucy >t education and civilization Is
to bring a man out of that kind of
state of mind and heart, i'nere was
iu the far east a great obelisk, and
, one|side of the obelisk was white, an
other side of the obeli :k was green,
another side of the Obelisk was blue.
And travelers went and looked at that
J obelisk,but they did not walk around
it. One man looked at one side, an
; other at another side, and they came
i home.each one having looked at only
’ one side. And they happened to
meet, the story says, and they
‘ got into a rank quarrel about the
color of that obelisk. One man said
it was white, another man said it was
green, another man said it was blue,
and when they were in the very heat
of the controversy a more Intelligent
traveler came and Said : "Gentlemen,
I have seen that obelisk and you are
all right and you are all wrong. Why
didn’t you walk ail aiound the obe
lisk?” Look out tor tne man who
' sees on: y one side of a religious truth.
Look out for the man who never
walks round about these great theo
ries of God and eternity and the dead,
fle will be a bigot inevitably—the
man who only sees one side. Tnere is
no man more to be pitied than be
who has juet one idea in his head, no
more, no less. Better vacuity over
throwing the philosophical ttieory
that an entire vacuum is an impossi
bility, than just one idea wandering
around about in perpetual louidiness
and bachelorhood, walling through
the desert of the man’s intellect.
Batter no Idea at all than only one
idea. Run up your schools and your
colleges and your universities. More
light, less sectarianism. There is
nothing that wiil so soon kill bigotry
as sunshine—God’s sunshine.
Now.having sir wn you the religion
ot bigotry, just look abroad in the
church and see the damage bigotry
has done. It cripples investigation,
The differentdenotninations of Chris
tians were Intended by holy rivalry
and honest competition to keep each
other wide awake. Suppose one de
nomination of Christians should gar
ble the Word or God; all the other
denominations would flyout in right
eous indignation. It was eo intended
to ba. While each denomination of
Christians is to present all the truths
of the Bible, it seems to me that God
has given to each denomination an
especial mission to give particular
emphasis o some one doctrine; and
so the Odivanistio church must pre
sent the sovereignty of God, and the
Armenian churches must present
man’s tree agency, and the Episcopal
churches must present the import
ance of ord r and solemn ceremony,
and the Baptist churches must pre -
sent the necessity of ordinances and
the Congregational chutcn must
present the responsibility of the
individual member, and the
Meihodist chu ch must show
wh it holy enthusiasm and
hearty congregational singing can
accomplish. While each denom
in don of Christians must set forth
all the doctrines of the Bible, I feel it
Is especially incumbent upon each
denomination to put particular em
phasis on some one doctrine. But
you ace tliita man la a bigot who
shuts his eves to all the lessons he
ml ;ht Ie rn from other dencmina
tions. You are wrong and lam right
and that ends it, No taste for ex
ploca lon. i investigation. No dis
position to reason tne matter over.
And from the realm of God’s glorious
truth, over which an archangel
might fly irom eternity to eternity
and nevi r reach the limit, the man
shuts himself out a blind mcle under
a corn-shock.
Another great damage done by the
sectarianism and bigotry of the
ebu hin tt.iV it disgusts people with
the Christian religion. Now, my
friends the church of God wa? never
intended for a war barrack. People
are afraid of a riot. You go down the
strei t and you see an excitement and
missiles flying through the air, and
hear ih • smock of tlrearms. Do you,
the peaceful and industrious eitiz n,
go through that street? On, no ; you
say: "I’ll go round the block ”
Now, man come and look upon this
narrow path co heaven and some
times see the ecclesiastical brickbats
living every whither, and they say,
"Well, I guess I’ll take the broad
road, for there is so much sharp
shooting on the narrow road. I guess
I’ll take ho broad road,” I have
more admiration for a Spanish bull
tig'.t, and tali k it more useful and
honorablethm the contest of carniv
voroue ecciesias'ics. Francis I. so
hated the Lnt herans that be said if
he thought there was one drop ot
Lutheran blood in his veins,he would
puncture them and let that drop out.
Just as long as there is so much hos
tility between denomination and de
nomination,or between one professed
Christian and another, or between
one church and another, just eo long
will men be disgusted with the Chris
tian religion, and say, "If that is
religion, I want none of it.”
Again, bigotry and sectarianism do
great damage.from the fact that they
hinder the triumph of the gospel,
Oh, how much wasted ammunition!
How many men of splendid intelleo
have given their whole lives to con
troverslai disputes, when, If they had
given their lives to something practi
cal, they might have been vastly use
ful. Burpose this morning, while I
epeak, there were a common enemy
coming up the bay through the nar
rows, and all the forte around New
York began to fire into each otuer
You would cry out,"Nat tonal suicide 1
Why don’t those forts blaze away in
one direction, and that against the
common enemy?” And yet I some
times see in the church of the Lord
Jesus Christ a strange thing going
on: Church against church, minister
against minister, denomination
against denomination, firing away
into their own tort or the forts that
ought to be on the same side, instead
of concentrating their energy and
giving one mighty and everlasting
volley against the navies of darkness
riding up through the bay. Igo out
sometimes lathe summer and I find
two bee hives, and these two bee
hives are in a quarrel, I come near
enough not to be stung, but I come
just near enough to hear the contro
versy, and one bee hive says:
"That field of clover is the
sweetest,” a id another bee hive says,
“That field of clover is the
sweetest.” 1 come in between them
and I say, “stop this quarrel. It you
like that field of clover best go tnere.
But let me tell you that that hive
v; deh gets the most honey is the best
hive.” So 1 come out. between the
churches of the Lord Jesus Christ.
One denomination of Christians
says, "That field of Christian doc
trine ie the best,” and another says
"This field of Christian doctrine is
best.” “Weil,” I say, "go where
you get the most honey. That Is the
best church which gets the most
honey of Christian grace for the heart
and the ffiost honey of Christian use
fulness for the life.”
Depend upon It, intolerance never
put down any denomination. What
did it do against the Methodisi
Church? That church was persecu
ted and nearly all the puiplts ot
Great Britain closed against her
ministers. The very name of the
church was given in decision. There
are in the Astor library, New York, I
am told, 707 books and pamphlets
against Methodism, kept there mere
ly as a curiosity. Did intolerance
destroy the Methodist Onurch? She
stands either first or second, I do net
know which now, in numbers in ali
the earth, while she has her men not
i only In places ot religious trust, Put
of secular trust. Intolerance against
, the Methodist Oaurcn has lilted it
up. What is the use of trying then
that spirit of intolerance? Let us
have division of work. Let ub attend
to Christian work and let Satan do
ail the work of intolerance. He is
lively and he is active and he is in
dustrious and he understands ec
oleeiastical law. He will attend to
that.
What did intolerance accomplish
against the Baptist Church? If
laughing scorn, it tirade and denun
ciation could have destroyed that
Church it would not have a descipk
to-day. Rev. Leonard Bernkop, a
Baptist minister, burned at Saulie
bury because he was a Baptist, in his
dying moments saying: “I am
roasted enough on that; turn me over
now. The fire don’t hurt compared
with the eternal glory.” Rev. Mr
James, a Baptist, because he was a
Biptist, drawn on a hurdle from
Nowgate to Tyburn. His dead body
lifted on the city gates. His head
lilted on a pole and set up in front oi
the place where he used to preach.
Rev. Obadiah Holmes, a Baptist min
ister, and because he was a Baptist,
publicly whipped, and two men com
ing up and shaking hands with him
they got whipped, and the surgeon
who dressed his wounds pursued as
a criminal. Four hundred Baptists
were put to death in Flanders and
Holland because they were Baptists.
Even Richard Baxter lost his balance
on the subject and he said that the
Baptists were as bad as murderers
because they put people under water
and they caught their death of cold.
He wrote these words: “Tne ordi
nary practice of baptising overhead
and in cold water, as necessary, is a
plain breach of the Sth
Commandment. Therefore it is
not an ordinance of God,
but a heinous sin;” and as Mr.
Craddock snows in the book of his
"Gospel Liberty,” the Magistrate
ought to restrain it to save the lives
of his subjects. In a word, it is good
for nothin g but to dispatch men out
of the world that are burdensome
and to ranken churchyards. I con
clude if murder be a sin, then dipping,
ordinarily, overhead Is a sin; and if
those who make it men’s religion to
murder themselves and urge it upon
their conscience as their duty, are
not to be suffered in a commonwealth
any more than highway murderers,
then judge how these Anabaptists
that teach the necessity of such dip
ping are to be suffered. In England
the Baptists were persecuted. They
were driven out of Boston, and when I
a petition was sent up asking leniency !
In their behalf, the men who signed |
the petition were fined, and it la s
matter of Church history that after a
man had been babtized by immersion,
weeks having gone by. and b s death
oceticing, the officiating cle’gvman
was thrown Into orison and indicted
for murder. How near di I Intol
erance destroy toe Baptist Church?
Well, the last statistics I -aw oi that
church was they had 20,000 churches
and about 2,000,000 o> mmunieauts.
England persecute 1 the Jews.
England bv law add no Jew si ould
hold any official powi r in the realm.
England thrust back the J iw and
tnrustdown the Jew Who was for
vests the Prime Minister of England?
Who became next to Queen Victoria
in power? Who was higher than the
throne, because its adviser and coun
eelloi? Disraeli, the Jew. Intoler
ance never puts down anything; it
puts it up.
Biit now, mv friends, having shown
you the origin of bigotry or sectari
anism, and having shown you the
damcgelt does, I want briefly to show
you how we are to war against this
terrible evil, and I think we ought to
begin our war by realizing our own
.weakness and our imperfections If
we make so many mistakes in
the common affaire of life, is it not
possible that we may make mistakes
in regard to our religious affairs?
Shall we take a man by the throat
or the collar because he cannot see
religious truths juet as we do? In
the light of eternity It will be found
out, I think, there was something
wrong in ail our creeds, and some
rhingright in.all our creeds. But since
w ■ may make mistakes in regard to
things of rhe world, do not let us
be so egotistic and so puffed up as to
have an Idea that we cannot make
any mistake in regard to religious
theories. And then I think we. will
do a great deal to overthrow the sec
tarianism from our heart and the
sectarianism from the world by chief
ly enlarging in those things in which
we agree rather than those on which
we differ. Now, here Is a great Gob
pel platform: A man comes upon
thia side the platform and says; "I
don’t believe in baby sprinkling.”
Shall I sbove him off? Here is a man
coming up on this side the platform,
and he says; “I don’t believe In tm
perseverance of the Saints.” Snail
I shove him off? No. I wiilaay:
“Do you believe la the L rd Jesus as
your Savior? Do you trust Him for
time and e’ernity?” He says : “Yes.”
"Do you take Onrist for time and for
eternity?” "Yes,” I say: “Gome
on, brother —one in time and one In
et rnity: brother now, brother for
ever.” Bi gsed be Go 1 for a Gospel
platform so large that all who re
ceive Christ may stand on it.
I think we may overthow the se
vere sectai iatdem and bigotry in our
hearts and in the .church also by
realizing that all the denominations
of Christians have yielded noble in
stitutions anil noble men. There ie
nothing that so stirs my soul as this
thought. One denomination yielded
< Robert Hall and an Adonlram Jud
son, another yielded a Latimer and
a Melville, another yielded John
Wesley and the blessed Summerfield,
while our own denomination yielded
John Knox and the Alexanders—men
of wh 'tn the world was not worthy.
N v, I say, if we are honest and fair
minded men, when we come up In
the presence of such churches and
such denominations, although they
may be diff-rent from our own, we
ought to admire tnem and we ought
to love and honor them. The churches
which can produce such men, and
such large-hearted charity, and such
magnificent martyr lorn, ought tc
win our offeotion—at an v > ate oiu
respect. Bo come on ye 95,000 Epis
copalians in this country, and ye
400,000 Presbyterians, and ye9uo,ooo
B ptists, and ye 2.000,000 Methodists,
come on. Shoulder to eboulder we
will march for the world’s conquest;
for ail nations are to be saved, and
God demands that you and I help do
it. Forward the whole line!
But there Is a better way of over
throwing the sectarianism and big
otry ot the church, and that Is by
toiling in Christian service right be
side people who differ from us. You
cainot. get two Christians to hate
each other it they hav suffered to
gether and striven for Christ togeth
er. Here I find two Christians in
angry controversy. A messenger
comes asking them to appear in a
sick room. There is a man dying;
ne wsnts to be prayed for. These
two brethren kneel, one on one side
the bed, the other on the otherside
tne bed, and they commend the part
ing spirit to the Lord Jesus. Can
these two men ever fight again? Can
they ever be angry with
each other again? No, by
the memory of that dying pillow
they will be brothers forever. And
so I am glad when the Spring comes
and the anniversaries in all our
great cities take place and on the
same platform there comes ministers
of all denominations ot Christians to
plead the same cause. After I have
been on the platform pleading the
same cause of charity or mercy be
side some man with whom I have al
ways differed in a thousand things—
after I have stood beeiae him plead
ing for the same cause, I feel in my
soul the spirit of brotherhood. I
cannot help it.
Perhaps I might m ire forcibly il
lustrate this truth by calling your at
tention to an incident which took
place a few years ago. One Monday
>norning at about 2 o,clock, while her
900 passengers were soundly asleep
in her berths, dreaming of home, tiiu
steamer Atlantic crashed into Mar’s
Head. Five hundred souls in ten
minutes larded iu eternity! Oh,
what a scene! Agonized men and
women running up and down the
gangways, and clutching for rigging,
and the plunge ot the helpless steam
er and the clapping ot the hands of
the merciless sea ever the drowning
and the dead threw two continents
into terror. But this brave quaiter
maeter pushing out with the life line
until he gets to the rock and sees
these fishermen gathering up the
shipwrecked, and taking them into
th cabins, and wrapping them in
flannels snug and warm, and see that
minister ot the gospel withthree oth
er men getting into a life boat and
pushing out for the wreck, pulling
away across the surf, and pulling
away until they have saved one more
man, and then getting back with him
to the shore. Can these men ever
forget that night? And can they ever
forget their companionship in that
awful catastrophe and rescue? Never I
Never I In whatever part of the earth
they meet they will be friends when
they mention the story of that awful
night when the Atlantic struck Mar’s
Head.
Well, my friends,our world has gone
into a wotee shipwreck. Bln drove
it on the rocks. The old ship has
lurched and tossed on the tempests
of 6,000 years. Out with the life boat I
1 do not care what denomination
rows it. Bide by side, In the memory
of common hardships, and common
trials, and common prayers, and
common tears, let us be brothers for
ever. We must be; we must be,
God hasten the time when ali
denominations of Obrietians stall
join hands around the cross ot
Christ and recite the creed; “I believe
in God tne Father Almighty, Maker
of Heaven and earth, and In Jesus
Christ, and in the communion of
saints and in the life everlasting.”
“One army of the llvicg God,
To wnose conituui.'d we bow;
Fart of the host have crossed the flood.
And part are crossing now.”
THE SOUTHERN MUTUAL.
How the Case Waa Satisfactotrily
Settled.
Athens, Ga., November 26—The
sensation in Athens to-day is the set
tlement by the 8 luthern Mutual In
surance Company. The history of
the litigation is well known to the
people of Georgia, as ihereisaot a
county in the State that Is more or
less interested iu the matter. It will
be remembered that this company,
being burdened with a surplus capi
tal of over $1,1)00,000, asked t he courts
to define the owner ot this money.
No one supposed there was anything
in the case, and for a while It seemed
as if the whole matter would be left
to the decision of the company. But
finally Messrs. E. K, Lumpkin and H.
Carlton, of Athens, and Henry Jack
son and J. H. Lumpkm, ot Atlanta,
took the case in hand as counsel lor a
few ot the past policy holders, The
case was finally carried to the Su
preme Court, and the decision render
dered as published in the Constitu
tion, left the question to a jury to de
cide upon a sufficient capital for the
company to operate upon. But the
case was com promised last Monday
by u consent verdict and a decree on
the basis published in the Constitu
tion.
The company is allowed to retain a
minimum surplus of slightly over
SBOO,OOO, to be increased it the exi
gencies of the company should re
quire. The past policy holders (that
is ali who were insured at any time
from July 1, 1855, to May 1, 1884, al
lowance being made for the loss of
Confederate currency in 1865) recover
every dollar of premiums paid by
[them, (lessexpenses, losses and divi
dends already received by shem) with
interest thereon at seven per cent.
Under the decision of the Supreme
Court recently rendered in this case,
policy holders prior to 1855 do not
snare in the fund, because the com
pany in tnatyear change t its manner
ot conducting business from taking
wtiat are called premium notes to a
cash system, and In 1856 the legisla
ture amended the charier authorlz
log the holding of a resetve. The
total reserve for the benefit of past
policy holders amounted to nearly
?243.uW. This sum, less the tees ot
Messrs. H. H. Carlton and E. K.
Lumpkin,ot Athens, and J.H. Lump
kin and Henry Jackson, of Atlanta,
which will amount to
ABOUT $16,000 BACH.
will be distributed as rapidly as the
accounts can be passed upon by Mr.
A. L. Mltcheli, who has been ap
pointed to the responsible position of
auditor. The company has been al
lowed by the decree until Janna: v 25
next to make preliminary calcula
tions and otherwise prepare for a dis
tribution. Notice Uli then be given
by publication as to how claims shall
be presented. This litigation being
thus satisfactorily terminated, and ail
of the moneys of the old policy ho!
dors which went to the reserve fund,
with interest thereon refunded,
leaves the company rheationgos' in
the United States, when considered
in the relation which its assets bear
to the risk carried. The wonderful
results in this ease have been reached
through the ability and indefatigable
diligence of the counsel for the old
pol icy holders. Rarely does a Geor
gia jury record a verdict for nearly a
qu i rter of a million of dollare;and
-till more r trelv is this result achiev
ed from eo unpromising a beginning.
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A 'k.\
STOMACH
Hostetter's Stomach, Bitters Is a fine blood,
depurent, a rational cathartic, snd a superb
anr-bilfons •vecitlc. 1> rallies the failles oner
gi. a < : the debilitated, and ohecka premature
le sy Fever and jvup, blLloua remittent
dyepevaia an i bowel oon.plaints are among the
evils which !t entirely remove*. In tropical
ountrles. where the iiver and bowels are or
ans n oat unfavorably affected by the combined
influence of cl.mute, diet and water, it is a very
safeguard. For sale by all Druggists
and Defers generally.
O aT’K.UXTGUnLL |—
PERA HOUSq
o
THSO. M FOLEY Manager.
o
Mr. Tannenbaum has tb.a hono r to an
nounce to the citizens o? Columbus and
vicinity tha; he has made an engagement
with the
Rev. T,De«W Talmage
For a Southern Tour, and will give
ONE LECTURE
THURSDAY, Dec. 4, 1884.
SUBJECT:
‘INGERSOLISM.”
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Seats One Dollar—Secured at CHAFFIN'S.
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attended to for MODERATE FEES.
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Office and wa oau obtain Patents In less
than those remote from Washington.
Send MODEL OK DHAWINO. We ad
vise as to patentability tree of charge; and
we make NO OdABUE UNLESS PAT
ENT IS SECURED.
We refer, here, to the Postmaster, the
Sup’t.of Money Order Dl’v- and to offi
cials of the U. S. Patent Office. For cir
cular, advice, terms and references to
actual clfnets tn your own state or coun
ty, write to
C. A. SNOW A CO.,
Opposite PutentOffiee, Washington. D. C
Talbot Gcuiity Plantation
For Sale.
The tract cod tains 600 acres of
land, 260 of which Is woodland,
original growth end well timber
ed. On the place tea four-roomed
dwelling and other necessary out
buildings. It is situated three ?>nd a half natas
I orth «t of Box BpriLgs, in good neighbor
hood, r ''UVPHifcnt to churches, schools and rail
road. Address
BOH. DIWQLF,
auM-tf Bdx bprUiga, G*.
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CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000.
Vn" Wu do lie-roby oortliy t lai vV‘ NUpervUe ti o
Arrangements i >r mH tiu n'y and hgluj
annual Drawing h f i Ths luunn Slate Lot-
tery Company and ni persuu n.. .i. /e »u,l coi—
rot the Dntwluiu. th itua. lv - i i tl At 118
saint, are conducted with hou -.15. lairueßE, r.f I
1 a good faith toward ah part, ir, m i■ \ .1 or ■
Ise the Company to neo thU ••omin si». with
(ac-slmlles ot our signatures ate? Jbed, tu ua ad
CXtmmiaaiwnera.
Incorporated in 186? for 25 ysars by t. : e i.egiF,
lature for Educational and ' heritable purposes
—with a capital of sl*ooo,oo0 —to which a reserve
fond of over $560,000 hu since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
was made a part of the , . (jnuHUtu-
tion adopted December 2d, A. D., 1H79.
its firsnil Mingle Humber
will take place monthly, It never tca'aa ar
ponat. Look at the following Distribution:
175(11 Grand Monthly
AND THE
Extraordinary Semi-Annual Drawing
In the Academy of Wew Orleans
Tuesday, Uecember 16, IMS4.
Under the personal supervision and manage
ment of
Gen. G. T. BEAUREGARD,of Louisiana,
AND
Gsn. JUBAL A, EARLY, of Virginia, i
Capital Prize, $150,000.
«** Notice.—Tick ata are Ten Dollars only
Halves, $5. Fifths, $2. Tenths, sl.
Liar oy ffKitKH.
1 CAPITAL PAIZ>I OF $160,000.... $150,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 60,000.... 60,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,0 f- . . 20.000
2 LARUE PRIZES OF 10,000.... 20,1 X 0
4 LARUE PRlZjfo uF 6.0UU.... 20,0' 0
20 PRIZES OF I,‘ 00.... 20.000
60 “ 50".... *>5,000
100 “ 300.... 51,000
200 *• 200.... 40,000
600 •« 1U0.... €U,OOO
1000 •• 50.... bi',ooo
APPROXIMATION PBIZEfr
100 Approximation Prison of $*200.... $20,0u0
100 “ “ ■ .... lU,OOO
lOU “ •' 75.... 7,000
2,279 prises, amounting to $'>212,600
Applications for rates to caULih hL yii. bt
only to the office of the Uompauj . <ew
Ur leans.
For further inforu*au<Ji* write ciear*. g.vlng
full aduA'oss. 4AL F.*, Express
Monty Orders, o: Uvw Y >rk Exc/ i in rdi
nary letter, . rrenoyoj Kx; r*. ai< gams of
$5 anc apw r u nt our expense) address
IL. A. l/AOr 41N,
New
>’ H. A. O U
Ghl tfevcttth WawlKfuKtou u, <;
Me. kt I’. O. Money Orders pr . and address
RegisteXud tettern to
-telH NATIONAL
vu a< •* Ln.
FLMMi Pl LEM! i tL.ij.blU
Sure cure foi BiirU, Bkedlug anti Atcti
ing Pllet. Oi • box u:u. < ’ii» ’ tin worst
bfcoed Oi yr.ttiß etttiiGl c . • UDV IlCt 4
but! l tiV’f mii.uivb uiic W. .am'u
lualanPUeUlntmoLl. j. c .ilm Illinois,
ilctUmc, » u- h. i. . ice,
slant relief. Prepuri t- y 1 ; Fileb.
itching oi in l . It”.
Hou. J. M. Uolf nbui;, < lew il< , bays:
“1 nave usui 1 © resi I e . ;c
affurde nw pleasdr- u ;y tn.-i A nave
n- vei touu lai y toll m win >.
in;mediate ana permanent relu Ur.
Wiillam’bAn, ian F- • Ointmen . .1. b/
dniKgloU au«l man- ', on receip: price,
sl. Fot sale by bi i non & < li.
Carter. Jotin P. Ci Ueo. A. Brad-
L.l Ooluiubus,
Dr, Praxler*s liuot ! Jtt* ’
Frazier’s Boot Bliu r., are not a uram
shop beveraao, out ar- strictly n; . .i
in every sense. They act strongly upon
the Liver aud Kidney s. keep ihe .oweis
open and regular, make Hi" ■ at t;cug,
heal the luug-, bulls up the sei v , uud
cleanse the blood au<: system > ; every Im
purity. bold by druggists. Sl.w.
For sale by Bram.su <t . jarsou and Jno.
F. Turner, Ooiumbus, lia.
Dr. Fruler'a Magic Ointm.’r.tt
A sure cure for Little Grube iu the Skin,
Bough bklti, etc. It will p . iovi- m.t
roughness from the n i.als i . iac" and
make you beautiful, i’rlce 5' -at t>y
mall. For sale by B anon A Gai..on acl
John F. Turner, Coiucibus, Ua.
Mrs. Dr. Walton', Periods-4 ft ~
Mother Wsoiou him prase; il •i.-.vU
uablemedlcc .f is; .1 goal, m wsin
her private practice. It hat, < . . d an
unfailing specific in the treai ci. „ tae
many ulsorders to wiilcu tae imuu.ii con
stitution is subject. It is a ..are cure for
the monthly troubles that. jo u n
suffer. Mailed on receipt .a price, t>
For s ale by Brannon <t Uart-tn and Jno
P. Turner, Columbus, G.
Saratoga High li< ;k a Wa ! r tor
dale <)'■ an irnurW Aw
Dll. J. M. MAbON,
UJBATIST.
dt. Glair St., C.dumbu Ga.
EHPEGTFULLY tenders ah; -«r* to the
Giu*<bUri ot Columbus ud iuir; :udl> , autry
m«y2owiy
UEOiittiA .li.L'iii.. a.
Corrected by J oils, Black <nar,
iiroker and l/eaibr u Ml loctb bdl do -,
UULtHi -•
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I- A<?-ud
■jeorglß ( i<ji
Georgia Ua ... log
Georgia 7s, 1896,...., . 23 124
Georgia 7b. iB'JO - ... 11. 11l
City
Atlanta i 1 iu2
Atlanta 7s £< 6 108
AtlaDvsuß il2 113
Atlanta loh 1. ] 2
Augusta ■*’»b. , i . 7
AugUßt* 75....... J O ri 8
Ooiuinbuto . . .. . .110 Jr 2
Oolumbu 5e 83 34
LaGrange 7e .... ■ i 2
Macon 6a................. .......... TOO lu2
Bavd.:uat <3 84
Railroad Ho. 1 ..
Atlantic A Gull7 ... .no isl
Central uon mtge 7a..«. .. .. 08 .09
Georgia B R 7a. ~i ~ iijtt
Georgia K F. 68 1 x O2
Mobile A Girard 2d id tge end O 1 . <>7 108
Western K K Aia. lai mtgu er 8..109 ;iu
WeaUrn Alabama mtgeeuo
Oentral, oommoii 8
Georgia 11 per0ent............ .. .....140 186
douthwestern 7c. pr ot <OO 176
0 B R Bcript 6 per cent 47
Paetarv Bi 4» «>.
Eagle & Phenix, . . 98 juO
Uoiumbua ....... 23 24
rtUßCOgee ~ 9o wb
lusurancf Bit>ck.
Georgia Home Insurance Go. T.l pr ci. ..130 131
Uhattahoochet National, io perct....
Merchants <s Msoiiauioii, lo per nt. ~.<.120 725
MLli4oaiih.il £i. ua.
Pioneer Go-Operative Go, 10 per 0t.,,.. 98 100
For Me io.
20 shares Boutk Western B. Ji., 7 per cent,
guaranteed stock.
fO shares Centra! R, R. stock.
10 shares chat ! ahooohee Loan Ahseclatlon
stock.
10 shares Muscogee Loan AtHcoiation btook.
at a discount.
13 sharks utt rgia Home . nanranc' Co.
10 81. ares Colombas Fact >ry Stock.
1,000 Mobib? & Giraid railr.Ad 6 per cent,
bonds.
20 shares Muscogee Factory «t ck.
25 shares Eagle & rhetiix Factory stock.
Buyer Rets the
dend, due December 30.
Wanted
50.000 Confederate Bonds. Or Miy part.
U. fe. Land Warrants,
5,000 Oity of O lumbus bonds 6 per cent,
bonds.
JOHN BL M LM ’iR,
BROKER A D
in all the above Stock# and Bonds. All seenrf
tiaa placed in my hands for sale »dvertired .rea
of Qharge.