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Var en Line-Boat.' leave every day except Bun
[ day at 8:30 am. and arrive at6:oo pm.
■ Colonel’s Island a-id I c\ Bluff—Boat leaves ,
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la River Line—Boat leaves on Monda\> •••■!
■ Thursdays and aiiive Tues lays and Fn
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B Port ot Brunswick.
[Central Standard time
Btv.'inr on the bar 7:18 a.m. 7:34 v. m.
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Annie L. Henderson, Ain. 407 ions, Henderson
SUMMER RESORTS,
EXCURSION RATES,
OIWXiY
2 CENTS
per mile traveled.
TICKETS GOOD TO
)n JMPECTHt return
SALE UNTIL
TTOVT.
15 th. Ist.
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families traveling without male
escorts. The most liberal ar
rangements ever offered.
For information apply to
Agents E.T.V. & G. Railway
System, or to
El.mn.G. P. Agt, KmiH, Ttol
HerW Route
to and from
Florida.
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The short line between Brnnswi k ami Jack-son
Ville, via dekyl. ( uinberland. Dunge
ness ei <1 Ferna: Ima.
THE BEA I 11. I 1 ' : EAMER
City oi tawicl
Runs daily on the following srliedulo, tak
ing effect May 11. Jvjii. Standard
• time—9oth meridian.
S O U T 11 .
l.v Brunswick via steamer 7:ooam
Ar Jekyi 8:45a m
jr Cumberland , 10:0b a in
Ar Dungeness 11:15am
Ar Fernamlina 12.30 pm
Lv Fernandina via F C ami 1’ Ry 1.00 p m
Ar Jacksonville 2.25 pm
Lv Fernandina via F<J ami 1* Ry I •<. pni ;
Ar Tampa via FC and PRy 7.20 a in i
NORTH.
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Lv Jacksonville via F C and 1* Ry W. l" a in
Ar Fernandina 12. 1> p m
Lv Fernandina via bteaincr a <•<> p m
Ar Dungeness 3.45 p m
Ar Cumberland 5 no p m
Ar Jekyi ..o.aopm
Ar Brunswick 7.1.5 pm
Connections made at F. rnandina to am! from
all points in South Florid. . ' 1; . f ( and 1* Ry-, at
Jacksonville to and fr--m St Augustine ami at
points south. At Brunswick with FT V and G
Ry and B and W Ry to ami from all poims west
ami north. A good br< or dinneri-erved on
the steamer at low rates of .siie each. 'l’hrougl:
rates Brunswick and Jaeksonville Sh'-O. lir.-*
eiass: pi round trip; 42... > second ria.-s ~ i.se
round trip.
Tickets can be purchased aoy time on appli< a
ti on to J. F. Norris, agent I: T, \ and G;t Ry.
passengerdopot, or t» J um Wood, rurscron the
ateamer, to any point in Fb-ri i•;.
D. < . ALLEN,
General Ticket and I’a -enger Agcst.
« C. LITTLEFIELD (ieiieral Manager.
St. Simon’s Line.
NEW SCIIEIH LE.
(Standard Ti.ne.)
On and jftcr August Ist, schedule
will be as follows:
DEPARTURE.
From llrunNwirk—
For Ocean 4*wr and Mill/at 5.30 and 7 50a. m..
2 and 6 p. in.
RET< RNING.
Leave Ocean J*ier at 6: - o ami lo:‘ *i i m and
4:30 ami 7.U»> p. 10.
SUNDAYS.
Ix?ave Bruns• ii kat 0. r a. m a.d . p. in
Returning leave Oc-un I'd rat n> 1 m, un i
<; p, in. I D IRT,’Mipe! ii:h ud< nt. #
MONEY TO LOAN.
Loans Negotiated on Re d Estate
at Lowest Ratei.
F. E. 3 WITTY,
Att<> y at Law.
OFrI(E;3J2 NEWCASTLE t.
fi. R. HOPKINS & CO.,
Real Estate and Insurance Agents.
Represent a number of leading Fire Insurance Companies
A large number of the most desirable* lots in New and Old
Town for sale on reasonable terms.
150,000 Acres of Timber Lands.
Correspondence solicited. Address
CO.,
Office 207 Newcastle Street.
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MERCHANTS AND TRADERS BANK.
Deposits of ONE DOLLAR and upwards will be received. Interest
will be allowed on stuns to the credit of each depositor on the Hist of Jan
uary, April, July and October.
j'UF'l’ass books will be furnished to each depositor.
J. M. MADDEN, M. KAISER, A. IL LANE,
President. Vice President. Cashier.
” GLAUBER & ISAAC,
Grradri, H:lv
im cl Provisi 011 s,
Jleadquartei’s for
Dry, Salted and Smoked Meats, Hams
Breakfast Bacon
Lard. Meal, Grits. Corn. Oats, Bran, Mil)
Feed ete. .
BAY STREET - Foot of Monk.
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' SAM B. BREEDLOVi’.
I Book and Stationery Store.
Fancy Goods, Lamps and Fixtures, Pictures, Frames, Glass
ware ami Crocker,;
OFFICII SUPPLIES A SPECIALTY.
219 NEWCASTLE STREET.
TITE NEW YORK
Steam Dye House
AND TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT.
COX’- 57* z-iixcl
L BILLER, Proprietor.
i Gents’ garments made to order, cleaned, dyed and re-
paired. Satisfaction guaranteed.
MERCER UNIVERSITY.
MACON. GA.)
cor IISES OF STUDY:
J. Preparatory school.
11. Classical Course.
111. Scientifical Coi ;.sr.
IV. School of Theology.
VM ODE RN LA NG r A G ES.
VI. The LaW school.
VII. Department of Practical Art .
(Stenography, Book-keepm
Epenses.—Tfition Free in cent < <•’ -in iy 11,
111 an-1 IV.
I Matriculation and contingent f. . >.’<> annual ..
i Board at student ‘ hail. Iron to ‘it ppi
I Board in private f. milk's from ,12 to $ I • p»*:
month.
Fall Term opens Sept. 21. IsjkW. Er ratalogtn
ami further information. apply to
Prof. J. J. IIL’AXTLY, oi
to tin* Presider t.'*. A. NUNNALLY. Macon,Ga
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Commercial
RE ST AURA NT !
108 MANSFIELD STREET.
FIRST- CLASS
IN EVERY RESPECT.
Meals served from 4 a. m.. till 12 in.
PRICES OF MEALS :
! Breakfast, 25 cents. Dinner, 35 cents,
Supper, 25 cents.
The Commercial lodging house is
run in connection with the restaurant
\ and is strictly first-class. Lodging,
I 35 cents.
The undersigned has b *en the late chief rook
at the • b-ean 1I« tel for a long time ami conse
quent! v the public will lihvc ample proof that I
am no n-.vb-e in the bu.-iim*--.
A>l mg a fair share of publ <• patronage, 1 am
.Aurnnt Roberts.
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Oci.AM Hotel
BARBER SHOP.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
11 work stri itly flnit chisp.
SEASIDE COLLEGE
FOP YOUNG LADIES.
This institution will <»|><" .n Jln.i
day. September 29. The <<p. , <-iJ.
will be comph'lv, the fueuh) li ,lio
in.titi' ii tliur.,iiyb.
For iireula*'* or inform .:.•••<, o
dn »s al Br<ii*wi<'k, ufi> i A *.’ •►I J
b. < AiJOVI.J.I.,
Pie.ld. 111,
I’HE EVENING 1-OSi: MONI.A U’Gf sT IS, IS
• iVatchmaker
and Jeweler.
Removal.
! 1 now occupy the old stand of
R. L. Daughtry. The in- 1
creased.space gives me an.
opportunity to display the
many goods I have hereto- !
fore been compelled by lack
of room to store away.
For the convenience of
, the people of Brunswick, I
have purchased an electric
clock, connected by wire
with the Naval Observatory
at Washington, livery day
at 11 o’clock a. m., standard I
I want all who carry watches i
to call at my store and get
Washington time.
This clock is daily cor
-11 rected from Washington at
noon, standard (11 o’clock
‘ here) and every watch in;
Brunswick should be regu
lated by it.
Don’t forget this. Regu
late your watch and you will
appreciate its value.
E. J. ALLEN,
i Inspector of watches and clocks for
Brunswick and Western Rail
road.
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I A SERMON TO FARMERS.
: DR. TALMAGE PREACHES AT THE
ENCAMPMENT.
Ho 1»; a *’;j ' •!. I’ictnre of the
Farmers « f C7 :Ut’i* Timo lie Likens
the Christiun K. Ggioti to the Struggle
of the Tiller of the Soil.
Lebanon. Pa., Aug. 17.—The Amer-
I ican Fanners’ encampment at Mount
Gretna, near this city, today listened
attentively to a rcm.-nkable discourse
by the great Brooklyn preacher. Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage, who arrived her?
yesterday from Piedmont, Chautauqua.
Ga.. wliere he spok<‘ on Wednesrlay
’ last. The subject was one peculiarly
uited to the vast audience, being on
‘Farming a Gospel Type." I Kings
fix. If): Elisha, the s'.n of Shaphat,
whd was plowing with twelve yoke of
oxen before him, and he with the
twelfth.
Representatives of the great farmers’
axsociations from all parts of the conn
try are at the encampment, prepa.a
tions for which have been going on for
months in advance. The surrounding
I-. nsely populated counties oi I‘enn yl
"gain are also fully rcprescnteil. To
day’s service , wen* held in the open air.
An immense ehoirfrom the churches of
Lebanon led tile music.
Rev. Dr. Talmage spoke as follows:
Farmers of America! Accept my
'alutation. Our text puts u . down into
tiie plow's furrow, wliere many of us
have been 1 efore. My boyh. >d pa.-sed
m a fc.rm. and my father a .ariiier.
your style of life is familiar to m.\
One of my earliest recollections is that
of my father coming in from the hot
harvest field exhausted, the perspira
tion streaming from li! Io: !ic i l and
chin, and fainting on the doorsill, and
my mofficr resilseitatin.g him, until
seeing the alarm of the household he
said: ’ D.iii't be frightened. I got a
little tired, ;m l flit l sun was hot. but I
am ail right n >w.” And I remember
mother seated at the table often say
ing. ‘'Well, I am too tired to eat!"
I The fact is that I do not think the old
I folks got thoroughly rested until they
I lay down in the graveyard back of
I Somerville to take the last sleep.
THE I’A’i’-ilalS' TISIALS.
Office seekers go through the land
and they stand on political [ilatforms,
and they tell the farmers the story
ibout the independent life of a farmer,
giving liattcry wliere they ought to
give sympathy. Indepen l.mt of what?
| No class of people in this i imitry have
it harder than farmers Indc-K'udent
of what? Os the citrculio that stings
the peach trees? of the rust in the
wheat? of the long rain with the rye
down? Independent of tile grasshop
per? of th locust? of the army worm?
of the potato bug? Independent of
the drought that burns up the harvest? .
Imlepemleut of the caw vith the lai- ;
low horn.' or the sh ep with th?
I foot rot? <r the pet I: >rsp with a !
i nail iti his hoof? Imb pend. nt of
the <• ' 1 . that freeze, out the
I winter grain ? Independent of the
snowbank out of which fie must shovel
: him: 'll.' lii.lepen lent of the coil,
: weather when he stands threshing his
, ii'.mjbcd (mgers around his body to |
| keep them from being frosted? In.le
i peii(i:'ht of the frozen ears and the
fro. ?:> feet? Indep ■:i.l nt of what?
Fancy farmers who have made their
fortunes in the city mi l go out in the
cs ii .-y t , !:;•!!.I Ii .r’s-... with all the
ta. ••!( r.i imp •. ;:t , :-:i. I make farm- ■
ing a luxury, limy n. t need any. solace;
but the yc:.man:-y wh > .■ • their living
out of tiie soil, and who that way have
to clothe tliolr families ami educate
their children and pay their taxes and
i . : the iut rest on mort iged farms
- ■su h nt n find a terrii; • struggle.
Am! my lope is that this great Ni
tiomil Farmers' enemapment may do
something tAwnr.f Lftm.'.r th? l>ur i
dens c.f the : . ricultiirist.c Yes,
we were nearly pll of us born in
tiie country. Wo dropped earn in the
hill, ami nt on 8 tilt la; I he mill, :
tying the gris t in the cent rof the sack !
«> that tiie contents on eitlier side the !
horse bal'in ■ ■ I < di o'!i r; an 1 drove
the cattl ■ m’i •! I, our bare : . t v. f w’th
the dew. an 1 r . I ■ th? hor s v. hh th”
halter t > the br<> >!; until w ■ f II oil',
and Lmiied th • mow f r u ;s until the
f :::h':. I oe.iiip m's w. at c.icklhlg
away. Soweatl im:i • -t.-.id i i-tii' al
hisiom. The Biiile i full «.f-t!i i. In
| Christ's Sermon on t!:e ?! m , yon ee
I the full blown lilies and the ph -y
back of the eroxv'u wing tus it lit r
M. .‘livet. Dtivid .::: I I- i i .ml
and 1 eth find in eountry life ■ urce
,f fi, ;i:ent ir’i w. G .. v.'.'l? 'mist I
takes the .. .p<,.i-iljili’ . <>f i iiing God
if -ri : d clariri". F.i.tli ris the
in.. Landman."
xoAit ’1 :!!•; : , i:: :.
Noah was the fir. t farm. V.’" say
notiiin.g abmit Cain, the tiiier of tii.
-oil. .'.dam wan a garden vn a iar;.'e
scale, but to Noah was given all the
i acres of t.he earth. Elisha was an ,-.g
ricultiiri:'. not culturing a ten a re lot.
for in my text you find him plowing
witl; twelve yoke < f oxin before him,
ui<l he with tiie twelfth. In Bible times
fthe land was > plenty Mid the inhabi
i Units so few that Noah was right, when
be gave to every inhabitant a ei : tain
! portion of land: that land, if cultured, i
ever afi; r to be his own po.sses.~ion.
They w re not small crops raised In
Lose limes, for though the arts were
rude the plow turned up very rich soil,
mil barley and cotton and ll.ix and all
kinds of grain came up tit the call nt '
tlw harvesters. Pliny tolls of one st ok :
>1 grain that h. lon it l.<-fv.< i tl
Aii l four hundre 1 ears. Tin- riv. i 1
tiie brooks, thi'o.igh artilii ial clianm I
Were broirgiit ii n tot's j. id ti.c
Corn, nmi to tiii 1.. i ‘ f Gs. :ig a
rivr wiierow r it w:; X nt- I Go!.mam
ref u!)oil he ■ ■ : ‘ Th? king's h rt
in in the h. id of tiie 1/ . 1, end lie
term til it <i- the r'veni of ■..ib r nee
Uina-d, v.Lith': .. rti- ill."
The wll I le ast* w< eiltj Id. mid
lb", li hoJt »;>» pm into the r i.<
umltiei) they v. , I io r th- fi> 11,
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Anti noil nas :i Hoot; tn every man s
nose, whether it bo Nebueliaiiiiezznr or
Ahab or Herod. lie may think him
self very indepeniieiit, but some time in
his fife or in the hour of his deatli he
will find tiiat tile Lord Almighty has a
hook in hl’s nose.
This was tiie rule in r. paid to the
culture of tiie ground: “Thou shalt not
plow with an ox and an ass together,”
illustrating the folly of ever putting
intelligent and useful and pliable men
in association with the stubborn and
tiie unmanageable. The vast majority
of troubles in the churches and in re
formatory institutions conies from the
disregard of.this command of the Lord:
"Thou shalt not plow with mi ox and
an ass together.”
There were large amounts of proper
ty invested in cattle. The Moabites
paid 100,000 sheep as an annual tax.
Job had 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500
yoke of oxen. Tiie time of vintage was
ushered in with mirth and musie. The
clusters of the vine war? put into the
winepress, and then five men would
get into»the press and trample out. tiie
juice from the grape until their gar
ments were saturated with the wine
and had become the emblems of
slaughter. Christ Uimself, wounded
until covered with the blood of tiie
crucifixion, made use of this allusion
when the question was asked, “Where
fore art thou red in thine apparel and
thy garments like one who treadeth the
wine vat?” He responded, “I have
trodden tie? wine press alone.''
PISCII’LES OF THE i’i.OW.
In all ages there has been great honor
paid to agriculture. Seven-eighths of
the people in every country are dis
ciples of the plow. A government is
strong in proportion as it is supported
by an athletic and industrious yeo
manry. So long ago as before the fall
of Cartilage Strabo wrote twen'y eight
books on agriculture. Hesiod wrote a
poem .on the same subject "The
Weeks and Days.” ('ato was prouder
of his work on husbandry than of his
military conquests. But I must not be
tempted into a discussion of agricult
ural conquests. Standing amid the
harvests and orchards and vifieyardsof
the Bible, and standing amid the liar
vests and orchards and vineyards of
our own country—l want to run out
tiie analogy between tiie production of
crops and the growth of grace in tiie
soul— all these sacred writers making
us? of tiiat analogy.
In tiie first place I remark, in ?: .■ • ■
as in the fields there must lea plow
That which theologians call eonvi.-ti'.n
is only the plowshare turning up the
<ins tiiat have been rooted and matted
n the soul. A farmer said to his indo
lent sun. “There are a hundred dollars
buried ileepin I,hat Held.” The sou went
to work an 1 plowed the field from l?:iee
to fence, and he plowed it very deep,
iml til ■:> complained tiiat he had not
I lonnd th? money; but wheti the crop
I had be in g ithon I an 1 solj for a hun-
I Irefl dollai's more than any previous
I year then the young man took the hint
as to what his lather meant when he
said there were a hundred dollars
buried down in tiiat field. Deep plow
ing for a crop. Deep plowing for a
'Old. He who makes light of sin will
never amount to anything in the ehurch
or in the world. If a man speaks of
sin as though it were an inaccuracy
or a mistake, instead of the loathe
<onie, abominable, consuming and
damning thing that'God hates, that
man will never yield a harvest of use
fulness.
When I was a boy 1 plowed a field
with a teaiiMif spirited horsi s. I plowed
it very quickly. Once in a while I
passed over some of the sod without
turning it, but I did not jerk back the
plow with its rattling clevises. I
thought it made no difference. After
a while my father came along and said:
“Why, tliis will never do. This isn't
plowed deep enough. There yon have
missed this and you have missed that.”
And he plowed it over again. The
difficulty with a great many people is
I that they are only scratched with con-
I viction when the subsoil plow of God’s
| truth ought to be put in up to the
beam.
My word is to all Sabbath school
teachers, to all parents, to all Chris
tian workers: Plow deep! Plow deep!
THE FATAL DKUG OF SIN.
And if in your own personal expori
cnee you are apt to take a lenient vi-w
of tiie sinful side of your nature put
down into your soul the ten comnrind
ment.s. which reveal the holme.-s of
God, and that sharp and glittering
coulter will turn up your soul to the
deepest depths. If a man preach ,to
I you that you are only a little out of
order by reason of sin, and th.it you
need only a little fixing up, he deceives!
I You have suffered an appalling injury
by reason of sin. There are quick poi
sons and slow poisons, but the druggist
could give you one drGp that v.oul 1
kill the body. And sin is like that
drug: so virulent, so poisonous, so fatal
that one drop is enough to kill the
soul.
Jjleep plowing fora crop. Deep plow
ing for a soul. Broken heart or no re
ligion. Broken soul or no harvest.
Why was it tiiat David, and the jailer,
and the publicah and Paul made such
•do about their sins? Had they lost
their senses? No. The plowshare
struck tliein. Conviction turned up a
great many things that were forgotten.
As a farmer plowing sometimes turns
up the skeleton of a man or the anat
miiy of a monster long ago buried, so
tjie plowshare of conviction turns up
the ghastly skeletons of sin long ago iii
touibe.l. Geologists never brbugbt up
from t lie depth . <>f I h i mountain migli’t
ler ichthyosaurus or iiiegathcriuni.
But wb. I means all this crooked
plowin ', these crooked furrows, the re
|K>i>tm>ce that nmoiiiit to nothin,', tlui
nqs iitauce tiiat ends in nothing? -Meis
groan over th< ir sins, hut get no bettor.
T< v.ep but liieir tears nr- not
< • 'I R-y 'I <’ouvi> i I, but not
coin <l. What in tile re: oil I Ire
men, 1 • r toil on tla* farm we set a
stiindard V 'li fi n d flag at Hie otluu
end of Ila- I’.efij, We kept our eye on
th '< ■ . ie<| at tlnii. We ptoWi <|
upto i:.t Dating night of that we
piudc li I l’S<k"l furrow. Kcepiie’ <si|
eyes on that We macle a straigntTur
i- row. Now in this mutter of conviction
wo must have some standard to guide
i us. It is a red standard that God has
, set nt the other end of the field. It is
t the cross. Keeping your eye on that
yon will mate a. straight furrow. Los
> j ing '■gilt es it you will make a crooked
t i furrow. Plow up to the cross. Aim
’ not at either end of the horizontal
, piece of the cross, but at the upright
, piece, at the eenter of it, the heart of
| the Son of God, who bore your sins
, nnd made satisfaction. Crying and
weeping will not bring you through.
, “Him hath God exalted to lie a Prince
■ and a Saviour to give repentance.” Oh,
I plow up to the cross!
j SCATTERING THE SEEDS OF THE GOS
. | PEL.
Again 1 remark, in grace as in the
field there must be a sowing. In the
i autumnal weather you find the farmer
i going across the field at a stride oi
about twenty-three inches, and at every
. stride.he puts his hand into the sack of
grain and ho sprinkles the seed corn
over the field. It looks silly to a man
whodo snot know what he is doing.
Ho is doing a very important work. He
is scattering the winter grain, and
though the snow may come the next
, year there will be a great crop.- Now,
that is what wo are doing when wo are
[ireaehing the gospel—we are soatter
ing the seed. It i . the fooli hness of
. I preaching, but it is the winter grain;
and though the snow of worldlines.*
may come down upon it. it will yield
after awhile glorious harvest. Let us
bo sure we sow the right kind of seed.
Sow million 'talk and million stalk will
| come up. Sow Canada thistles and
I Canada thistles will come up. Sow
i wheat and wbcot will come iq>. Lot us
distinguish between truth and error.
I Lot us know tiie dilTerenee between
; whi’at and hellebore, oats and henbane.
The largest’ denomination in this
, country is the denomination of Noth
. ingarians. Their r< iigii.n isa system of
negations. Yon s:y tonne of them,
“What do you l-.eli; vc?” “Well. I dm't
believe in infant baptism.” “Who' do
. you believe.” “AVell, I don't, believe
■ in the perseverance of the saints."
“Well, now tell me what you do be
lieve!" “Well, I don’t believe in-the
eternal punishment of the wicked.”
S > their religion is a row of cyphers.
I : elieve something and teach it; or, to
r. mu? the figure of my text, scatter
abroad the right kind of seed.
A minister in New York preached a
m nnon calculated to set the denomina
tionsof i'hristians quarreling. He was
sowing nettles. A minister in Boston
advertised that he would preach a ser
mon on the superiority of transcenden
, tai and organized forces to i: ranscen
dental mi l unorganized fore. AVhat
was he sowing? The Lord J< ? Christ
nineteen centuries ago planted the di
vine seed of doctrine, it sprang
up. (hi one side of the stalk are all
th? churches of Christendom. On the
oilier side of the stalk are all the free
governments of th<> earth, and on the
top there shall be a flowering milleniuni
aft r awhile. All from the gospel seed
of doctrine. Every word that a parent,
or Sabbath school teacher, or city mis
s:s>n try or other Christian worker
: for Christ comes up. Yea, it
■ e..’ines up with compound Interest
y ii having one soul, that one saving
ten, the ten a hundred, the hundred a
thousand, the thousand ten thousand,
the ten thousand one hundred thou
sand —on. on forever.
A HARROWING AND REAPING.
Again I remark, in grace as in the
I farm there must be a harrowing. 1 re
fer not to a harrow that goes over the
field in order to prepare tha ground for
the seed, but. a harrow which goes over
after the seed is sown, lest the birds
pick up the seed, sinking it down into
the earth so that it can take root.
There are new kinds of harrow, but
the harrow us I remember it was made
of bars of wood nailed across each other,
and the under side of each bar was
furnished with sharp teeth, and when
the horses were hitched to it it went
tearing and leaping across the field,
driving the seed down into the earth
until it sprung up in the harvest. Be
reavement, sorrow, persecution are the
Lord's liarrows to sink the gospel
truth into your heart. There were truths
that y< >ll heard i hirty years ago that have
not affected you until recently. Some
great trouble came over you, and the
truth was harrowed in, and it has come
up. What di'l God mean in this coun
try i 1557? For a century there was
th ; I preached, but a great deal
of . i : .dueed no result. Then God
harm s-ed a wild panic to a harrow of
commercial disaster, and that harrow
went down Wall street and up Wall
street, down Third street and up Third
street, down rita/e street and up State
street, until the whole land was torn to
pieces a- it had never been before.
What followed the hargow/ A great
awa' ning in which there were 500,1X10
soul brought into the kingdom of our
Lord. No barrow, no crop.
A- lin 1 remark, in grace as in the
farm there must be u reaping. Many
Christians speak of religion as though
it were a matter of economics or insur
ance. They expect to reap in tiie next
world. Oh, no! Now is tiie time to
reap. < l.itiier up the joy of the Chris
tian religion tliis morning, tills after
noon, this night. If you have not as
much grace as you would like to have,
th ’.k<’"d for what you have and pray
for more. You are no worse enslaved
th a .1 ;.’i. no worse troubled than
was David, no worse scourged than was
Paul. Yet amid the rattling of set
, tern, and amid the gloom of dun
gi . , and amid the horror of ship
wr< -k they triumphed in the grace
of God. The weakest man here
has soi acres of spiritual joy all
rij> M b;, do you not go nnd reap It?
You luive been groaning over your in
lii ' for thirty years. Now give
<>i round shout over Jtour eituuioip»'
g \o;i my you bare it so hard;
•ht have it worse. You wonder
I s,liiisgreui < ol<| truuUokuejss ruvolv
ingihrougfiyoursoul, turning ami turn
i lug with a blai’k hand on the crank.
I All, that trouble Is the griuiUtone on
■ whii'h you are to rluirpeu your sickle,
i To Un*.Holds! Wak» Mpl Tiyko ofl
y«mr green spectacles, your bnie apvv
! taeles, your black spectaces. Pull up
□! the corners of your month as far as you
< j pull them down. To the fields! Reap!
9 Reap!
t A TIME FOR THRESHING.
Again I remark, in grac<> as in farm-
I ing there is a time for threshing. I tell
) you bluntly that is death. Just as a
I farmer beats the wheat out of the
t straw so deatli beats the soirl out of
f tlio body. Every sickness is a stroke
g if the flail .and the sickbed is the
] threshing floor. What, say you, is death
to a good man only t-iking the wheat
e out of the straw ? That is all. An aged
, man has fallen asleep. Only yaTerday
you saw him in the sunny porch play
ing with his grandchildren. Calmly he
■ received the message to leaye this
( world. He hade a pleasant good-by to
... I his oM friends. The telegraph carries
i the tidings, and on swift rail trains the
1 kindred come, wanting once more to
y look on the face of dsa.r old grand
( father. Brush back the gray hairs
i from his brow; it will never ache again.
) Put him away in the slumber of the
.. tomb. He will i t be afraid of that
i night. Graihllather was never afraid
] of anything. He will rise in the morn
t ing of tli<‘ resurrection. Grandfather
t was always the first to rise. His voice
has already mingled in the doxology of
. heaven. Grandfather always did sing
f in church. Anything ghastly in that?
; No. The threshing of Hie wheat out
. of the straw. That is all.
] The Saviour folds a lamb in his
. bosom. The little child tilled all the
house with her music, and her toys are
) scattered all up and down the stairs
| just as she left them. What if the band
that plucked four-o’clocks out of the
meadow is still? It will wave the eter
nal triumph. AVbat if the voice that
i made music in the home is still ? It will
sing the eternal hosamia. Put a white ’
r< so in one band, and a red rose in the
other hand, and a wreath of orange
> bio. soms < n the brow—the whiteflower
for the victory, the red flower for the
Saviour's sacrifice, the craiige blossoms
> f< r her marriage day. Anything ghast-
. l.v about that! Oh,-no. The sun went
down and the flower shut. The wheat
threshed out of the straw. “Dear Lord.
. give me sleep,” said a dying boy, the
■ son of one of my elders; “Dear Lord,
give me sleep.” And lie closed his eyes
, and awoke in glory. Henry W. Long
r fellow, writing a letter of condolence
to those parents, said: “Those last
, words were beautifully poetie, ‘Dear
. j Lord, give mo sleep.’ ”
, ’Twas not in cruelty, not in wrath
That the reaper came that day;
1 ’Twas on angel tiiat visited tile earth
- | And took the flower away.
So it may be with us when our work
is all done. “Dear Lord, give me
sleep.”
I have one more thought to present.
1 have spoken of the plowing, of the
; sowing, of the harrowing, of the
I i: ’. "! 1? " 1 hre-liiiig. I must
' ’’'"’Ting.
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i ’ ■: !•>. tlmt th.-
'■..■l,- put oh the top of the rack
surmounted the wagon, and
sheaves were piled higher and
and after a while the linrses started for
the bam, and these sheaves swayed to
and fro in tiie wind, and the old wagon
creaked, and tho horses made a strug
gle and pulled so hard the harness
came up in loops of leather on their
backs, and when tire front wlieel struck
the elevated floor of the bam it seemed
as if the load would go no further, un
til the workmen gave a great shout, and
then with one last tremendous strain
tho horsixs pulled in the load; then they
were unharnessed, and forkful after
forkful of grain fell into the mow. O
my friends, our getting into- heaven
may be a pull, a hard pull, a very hard
pull, but these sheaves are bound to go
in. The Lord of the harvest has prom
ised it. I see the load nt last com
ing in the door of the heavenly gamer.
The sheaves of the Christian soul sway
to and fro in the wind of death, and
the old body creaks under the load,
and as the load strikes the floor of tho
celestial garner it seems as if it can go
no farther. It is the last struggle until
the voices of angels and the voices of
our departeil kindred and the welcom
ing voice of God shall send the harvest
rolling into tiie eternal triumph, wliile
nil up and down the sky the cry is
heard: “Harvest home! llarx'est
home!”
A Cultivated Ear.
' Little Girl (during a thunder storm)
—Mamma, do they have nni-ie in
■ heaven?
■ “Yes, my dear.” .
Lu tie GiH—AVell, I guess AVugner
must be leading the orchestra. —New
I York Weekly.
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