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a^ ', ■■ — ■«»■ , . , ■- „ r W«^ , i .. r -*.! 11!.■!■■■■ ■ . .. ....... ■■i in . n ■■ 1. ■tana D A. I L Y evening pm ‘71 J J. AN NA H rcrioi YOL I.—No. 117. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (.•Saturday Excepted,) A.« 101 BAY BTnBBT, By J. STERN. The Recokdkh is served to subscribers, in every part oi the city by careful carriers. Communications must be accompanied by the name of the writer, not necessarily lor publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Remittance by Check or Post Office orders must be made payable to the order of the pub¬ lisher. We will not undertake to preserve or return rejected communications. Correspondence on Local and general mat¬ ters of Interest solicited. On Advertisements running three, six, and twelve months a liberal reduction from our regular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressed, Re¬ corder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the ,,iace of the Saturday evening edition, which win make six full issues for the week. 49 -tVedo not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. [For the Bnvannah Recorder.] THE SOUL’S DESTINY. BY JOHN D. DONEIjAN. When death’s grim messenger shall steal, Across my life’s dark gloomy path, And on my brow shall set his seal. The curse of a Creator’s wrath, Ah ! whither shall this spirit soar, Which trembles now within my breast, Or, shall it cease to be no more, And in the grave forever rest ? Back to Its Author it shall fly, Unconscious of death’s mortal sting, All mindless of each tear or sigh, That sorrow shall from mourners wring, And o’er strange paths ne’er trod before, PatliB ne’er conceiv’d by mortal thought, Its form shall wend, forevermore, To feel the joy or woe it sought. Man makes the after world hiB own, By actions wrought upon this earth; The seeds his wordly life have sown, Only death reveals their worth. Then why should mortals here below, Tremble at the thought of death, Blnce the spirit joy can know, As gasps on earth our latest breath. Why should we murmur at a doom, That wafts us to a peace like this, For the dark passage of the tomb, Is but the pathway to our bliss. And as yon clouds obscures the light, Which casts on earth a lovely ray, So does the world veil from our sight, The sunny land that’s far away. Does God get Mad ? _ Frofes.or , Chandler „ , ^Sunday . , Night „ Lectnra. Isaiah lvii. 14: Cast ye up, prepare the way: That expresses the work I am trying U do. It was acknowledged by the Almighty to the prophet that there wers WhatsTtr stumbling-blocks to be removed. is not in harmony with the Diviat mind it is the duty of evsrv minister to do what he can to remove. Now, my friends, you know that the church good as it is requires its members to subscribe to certain tenet. thet ere stumbling-block,. There i» not a eingle creed Vh.t i. presented to e cendiaet. in eny church but what i. a stumbling-block. The candidates submit to it for they think it is all right, but the more they reflect upon it, the aore dissatisfied they become. You will find multitudes in this con dition. I know this to be true, and you know it to be true. And you will find multitudes outside of the church —good moral just people, and intellectual people, spiritual things as capable if of they understand- in i»g as were eide a church. I do not think all goodness, nor all good judgment is in the church. Well why don't these people go into the church ? Because they creads are doctrines stumbling-blocks there— or they cannot tu dorse. You know this to be true. I have said all'along I should teach nothing but the truth. It is no part cf my purpose to undermine the Bible or the church, nor to weaken any one's faith; but, on the contrary, it is my purpose to undermine error and strengthen faith in the truth, and in every divine excellency revealed in tke Bible and in God’s works. And whoever represents me differently from this is breaking one of the com Kandments bearing of the decalogue—be his is false witness against neighbor. Why, my friends, that command is broken among Christiaus more than with any other class. There is no class of Christians that will not misrepresent another’s ideas. This has been the character of New England theology, and theology elsewhere—prejudice Outsiders and and bearing false witness. infidels will tell yon more clearly and with greater charitv what they be lieve, than the members of churches, They speak with more charity of those who differ from them; and Christians could well learn a lesson of them iu this respect. Charity—the great les son Christ taught—isfound to a than greater in. extent outside' of the church Christians should learn not to falsify their neighbors because they do not bipjpat} tfc tfub&’ribt tto ttwir These are stumbling blocks to the Christian religion, and the church should awaken to the realization that so long as these exist it is shorn of half its influence, and its doors kept closed to men of widest culture and intellect I want these stumbling blocks removed so that people of high culture can em brace Christianity because of its purity, This is the work I am doing ; so when you speak of me, I warn you to heard, speak truthfully. So far as I have moat of the falsifications have come from church members. I have not heard of any outsider misrepresenting And me. It all comes from Christians. I expect to hear more of it, especially on this evening’s discourse. It is not a singular fact that we cannot look at these things reasonably, and discuss them in _ a Christian way ? What are we to understand by tbe teachings of the church that God, the creator of the universe, is a being that gets mad ?—for I express it in tbe plainest English I can. A being that gets wrathy ! Hence in our songs of praise to Him we have to sing of His wrath ! and preach to the people of God’s anger. Is such a Being calculated to make people love him? The wor ship that is given through fear is no worship at all—it is the cringing servility of the dog. God is represented as being stirred up in wrath all tbe time about something that is goiDg on in this world. Now, my friends, I don’t believe anything of the kind, and you are at liberty to say that to whom you please. If I believed God was a being who was getting mad every day I would have nothing to do with Him nor Christianity. God is represented as having His anger kindled very easily and furiously. Now how do you re concile this with the idea that God is love? God sent His Son into the world to represent the Father—to teach His disposition the and attributes. Let Moses alone, and prophets and apostles for the moment, and fix your attention upon this Son, who was above all the prophets. John the Baptist was said to be the chief of the prophets, but “Behold, a greater than John the Bap tist is here,” was the exclamation. The Queen of the South came to see the wisdom of Solomon and the great tern pie, but “Behold, a greater than Solo mon is here,” and a greater than John the Baptist, and than all the prophets, Did Christ teach that God was a being that lost his temper ? If he did not then he is the best teacher on this sub ject. J He says j' that God so loved the world that gaTe hjs 0 „ ly begotten Son. While we were in rebellion He so loved us that He * aTe LlS 0D ^ S °°‘ ^ could not be ? reate f g. lft \ fhe *f her em bo dl « d a himself m human form—the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Again, John m. 17 God sent not his \ n \° th ,* w ? rld to c° ndem “ t hc world , but that the world , through , him . > ? lght b ® 8 f y3 ’ COlV ^mn no man. And A j when the Jews T br °, U| ',b! hn, P. di l n„ twl IT ^ T h a, i^f-nd ’ S* He y did 47 ' X P He came t0 flave Uie lo0t - When you and I get lost, in sin, God ccmie8 reform us. Isn’t that beauti ful? Yet ministers have held up God HB such a terror to the world that it ^ ia8 sometimes made my own hair stand u P ri gl»t ed with You such a picture of hell unca PP - know the evangelists ^at ground; but I think good brother Moody has not taken it so muc b- I want to notice a few passages in the Bible. In the epistle ot John— this was the disciple whom Jesus *° T ® d ; and John knew more about his divinity of love than any of the other a P 08t i e9 “ffi fke first epistle of John it * 8 8a ’ d * “H® that loveth not, not God for God is love.” When you and I are angry, that is not love. God is love; remember that; all His Being is love. He does nothing except through this attribute of love. [Here the speaker gave va nous quotations to sustain that idea.] Now, then, all these passages give ns tbe principle of God's love; they us what He is He is the Spirit Love—that is the platform. Did Christ ever get provoked ? If so show me the place. There was no siu > n Him, ueitker was guile found in His mouth; when they reviled Him, He re viled not again; when they put the crown of thorns upon Him, His anger never arose; when He was in the judgment hall,and they spit upon Him, He was not angered. It is in human beings to get angry, it is not in God. He had become angry it would'kave ended hie mission ; He would not have been a perfect Saviour. In Matthew it is said—“I have heard it is said, An .eye for an eye, and a tooth tor a tooth”—that is the old law—“but I say unto you, resist not. evil.” If you violate law, you must meet the consequences; if._you stick surely your be burned. finger in the fire, physical it will Violated wifl male* ybu Fatter sb thttr* SAVANNAH, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1C, 1879. are laws of the soul, which if violated will bring the penalty. The divinity heart, of God is written on your own It is your own conscience that condemns you when you do wrong. The old law of Moses was love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy; but Christs law was different; He taught us to love our enemies. True Christianity teaches us to do good there to our enemies Hartford ; how much of that is in ? in New England? in the United States? The Bible does speak of God’s wrath, Jt [ s i n our hymn-books, and every where. How shall we interpret it ? Understand this, that all Oriental re ligions, up to this day, maintain the idea that the Gods were beings that got mad. Not a single religious system among the heathen but has this idea, the Gods were capricious and got mad. And the Jews engrafted this into their religion. I tell you that worshipi ig God under fear is a heathen notion. It ought religion. not It to belong to taught the by Christian Christ, was not The apostles fell into this heathen doctrine, more or less; Christ did not write their epistles nor gospels. It was more than thirty years after Christ’s death that a single gospel was written, and then it was written from tradition, So you can see how readily these apostles drank in the spirit paid of the time. When Christ came, He no attention to the Jewish doctrine of God getting angry. It is a doctrine of heathen origin. All the heathen en graft the idea of a wicked, savage pas sion on the part of God. Moses says a deal of the “anger of the Lord” getting “kindled.” Moses was the mouthpiece of God to the people, they knew no thing of the true God, they were slaves in Egypt, under taskmasters, and had no books, but Moses wa3 a man learn ed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and brought up as a prince. Now, then, this Moses is said to have had a vision that he was to become the leader of that people. He told the people all about God’s designs, and Everything what be was to say to Pharaoh. that Moses said, he introduced by saying “The Lord says this.” You know how it has always been preached, a man gets up and says, “The Lord tells me to *ay” so and so; “I have a message to deliver to this people.” But some of these messages are the most absurb stuff. The poor simple people think it is the Lord. So when Moses was full of anger he said, The Lord is mad. Everytime Moses was mad, God was mad. Moses’ God was just like Moses. I don't know how to interpret that.any differently; if you don’t like it, inter P«t H for yourself, you wont go to hell if you do. Now, if you will substitute the word “judgment” or be “chastisement” the truth, for “anger, you will nearer Thera is an expression in Matthew, “Ace from the wrath to come. Sup p 0Se you say, flee from the judgment to come, that would ba better. If you are sick, or have lost your property, you bo ‘ d the 8ent, %" t th f , T 8 ' 7 ,' . has obt, 1Del1 m the Jew,eh end Chn.t,an churches , , ; f nt , I re ,' ! y 8 V“ Dg t0 “ t tnbute ! 8ucb f th t '“K 18 8 to God. When God , bnngs judgment . upon a nation, He does it in a perfectly natural way. God is just as loving kind to us as an earthly parent to children A good father never chastens his child in anger, but in love. David says, It was a good thing for me to be afflicted. When affliction is taken in that way, it does us good. Christ wept over Jerusalem. He came over the kill of Olivet, to the east ot Jerusalem, and looking upon the city saw its doom. He saw in perfect vision what was to come upon that city. eaid, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! would I have gathered you even as a hen gatheieth her chickens—but ye would not—and now your house is left idesolate.” He saw their doom, and Pie wept. So God weeps; He doesn’t get angry. No circumstances, either of in dividuals or nations, has the tendency, or the power, to make the Almighty wrathy. God is an omnipotentbeing. He knows everything from the begin mng. Now if He gets angry with a man, He must have known, when He created him, that He was creating a j being madness. who was He going must to have stir known Him up ali in this, beforehand, and then when the event comes, to get angry !—How ab surd! God understands us before we are here. If He was going to be mad He ought to have been so before we came, for He knew what was coming, The arrangement of our lives are under His administration, just as a mechanic’s tools are under the hands of a mechanic, It there is a flaw in the mechanic’s machine he goes to work and tries better it—and sometimes he gets mad, and breaks it to pieces. That is simply human. God is too perfect to do that. Do you think He is disappointed in this world here?—that it hasn t turned out j ust as He expected ? Is He surprised ftt t ^ e result of His own worn ? That ^'Ould be putting limits to the Atmigh UJ- Tne world is just^what He Knew ^ bfe bstbrehanti. It is a Rattling Big Snake Story from Curious Kansas. [From the Atchison (Kes-) Patriot.] Mr. J. H. Beeson, the well known Central Branch contractor, gave the Patriot a pleasant call this morning, and from him we learn the particulars of the most remarkable snake story we have heard. In the extension of the Central Branch road from Beloit to Cawker City the line passes through the town of Glen Elder. A short dis¬ tance from Glen Elder, on the Solo mon river, is a steep and rocky bluff, about fifty-five feet high, a large por¬ tion of which had to be blasted away to make room for the road bed A few days ago, while the excavation was in progress, a blast of nitro-glyeerine caps and giant powder tore off an un-^ usually large part of the bluff, and down the dec’ivity there came writh¬ ing and rolling a bunch of snakes, which Mr. Beesou assures us was al¬ most as large as a barrel. They were of different varieties, rattlesnake- pre¬ dominating, with racers, adders, gar¬ ters, etc. When first disturbed from their warm bed they were alive and dangerous, but coming out into the severe cold they were soon compara¬ tively harmless, and were killed by the men without much trouble, or covered up in the dump by earth and stones. But this is*a very small por¬ tion of the story. Every day and every blast, since this first batch ap¬ peared, has brought another huge bundle of reptiles. Every hour a moving, writhing lump comes rolling down the hill, only to separate at the foot, and what escape the laborers’ picks and shovels, crawl off to get cov¬ ered in the dump. Thousands of them have been unearthed and killed, and every blast brings thousands more, rivalling in number the famous snake den of Concordia. Not a single case of snake bite has yet occurred, notwith¬ standing it is many times almost im¬ possible to avoid stepping on them. Mr. Beeson says there are no unusual monsters among them, the great ma¬ jority being as large round as a man’s wrist, and about three to three ana a half feet long. He also says that far¬ mers for five miles around tell him that thi 3 is the regular winter den of these venomous creatures, and that during the fall tbe snakes in that country, which are discovered, are headed in the direction of the blufls, and the only way they can be turned from their course is to kill them. Suing for Escort Service. mt,. +v, Q nn ;t PWloa * filed the Kings ha8 be n in county Clerk’s office, tells the following storv : On January 15, 1878, in San Francisco, the defendant employed the plaintiff and to travel wit h her as an escort, to reri der suc h services as would conduce to her safety while she was travelling in this country and Europe. The plain tiff was employed to protect the defendant, valuable property end belonging months, to when they At tbe of six were in Jdorl Paris, she discharged him with out plaintiff further alleges that after defendant quitting employed San Francis c0 , where the him, s h e compelled him and to that represent she himself as ^ er brother, so intro duced bim at balls and at private deDces. He was obliged, it is further 1 alleged, to attend for to her her baggage and to se cure rooms at various places which they visited, and to wait, upon her daily, and was required to carry about on his person a quarter of a million of dollars’ worth of and other precious stones. He sues for ! $5,000, as reasonable remuneration for six months’ services. On an affidavit that diligent had been made and that the defendant j could not be seen, so that the Judge complaint 1 could be served on her, granted an order permitting the ser vice of a summons on any one having access to her, as a substituted service, 'or by nailing the complaint The on the door of her apartments. tound that Mrs. Bell was rooms in the Hoffman House, and he subsequently obtained from the court an order of attachment, which the Sheriff of this county executed upon some of the defendant’s property. Mrs. Bell lives quietly at the Hoff man House, in this city, only oecasion ally going into society. She is said to be the wile of a California millionaire, and she is described as being ot impos ing presence, past 30, and of having a casket of jewels worth a large fortune, Dean, who says he acted as her escort, it is said was forced to go armed to protect himself m case ot an attempt to rob him of her jewels. served the No answer has yet been to complaint.—Jut York Sun —-- - At last tne evacuation ot Turkey by the Russian troops is ordered to take place within forty days after the ratification of the treaty. No doubt Russians are as anxious to get back Pome as the Turks are to get rid The aripy of occupation fea'rfully by dis’eWe. PRICE THREE CENTS. The Barth Will Freeze — Not Burn Up. Rev. Prof. Chandler’s idea of the end of the earth is different from generally received opinion. Hear him: “There are some people who are preaching end—is that this world is coming to an going to be set on fire. A man is said to be preaching this, here in town, to-day. Let me here diverge a little from my general subject, and give a geological fact. The world is not going to be burned. Things going the other way. It is going to freeze instead of burn. Do you ask, how do I know this? Well, we have a demonstration of it. The moon is 240,000 miles from us It is 2,100 miles in diameter. It isn’t so far but that men have brought it within fifteen miles of us, so that you can see as we see objects here that are fifteen miles away. We actually know more of the moon than we know of portions of our own globe, for there are large portions of the earth that we know nothing about. Now, then, what is the result? The moon has become a solid body. Its atmosphere has been used up. All, even the rocks, came from the atmos¬ phere—the rocks and trees ; and the solidation. tendency of the loses atmosphere element is to con¬ It the that makes worlds. Our own atmosphere is growing thinner as the ages go by. The time will ccme when this atmos¬ phere of our Earth will not sustain life. It will slowly be drawn into the in¬ terior of the planet, just as the air of the moon has disappeared. The same law that governs the moon, governs :.he Earth; consequently, instead of burning up, it is going the other way. “We have had for the past forty years these predictions of a general smash-up. “I will take the responsi¬ bility,” as old Jackson said in removing the deposits from the United States bank, to say that this world is good enough lor 100,000 years. God has stored up oil enough, and coal enough, and all the necessary resources, to sus¬ tain life here at least tor lUO.OOO years. He has put on board all these stores for the great voyage we are taking through space, around the grand cen¬ tral sun of the universe,—a voyage that will take over seventeen millions ot years for us to complete once the graud circle. He has put iu enough for that, and for seventeen millions more, no doubt. God’s justice to the human race is ad¬ ministered in love. The results of your own doing but you must not charge upon God, upon yourself. God’s justice is the meting out of the results of your own conduct. God never created a hell for anybody, but the human con¬ science is the instrument of punishment for wrong-doing. It keep is a harder matter to go to hell than to out. The in¬ fluences are for the reform, not the punishment, of the human race.” Mr Jacob Schaefer the Billiard Y Champion of the World. The Mott wonderful Game ever played in America—The greatest Average and the Longest Run on Record—600„to 571. The last regular game in the J. M. Brunswick and Balke tournament for billiard championship of the world was played in the Cooper institute but had last evening. All experts two gone overboard and been thrown ashore by the surf. Slosson and Schaefer were the only oues left upon the craft, and there was room but for The other must take water Both players come from the West. Both are twenty-five years old Though hailing from Chicago, Slosson is really a New York boy. He was born in DeKalb, St. Lawrence County, in 1854. He was the last man to play Selton for the American championship, and was defeated. He has worsted Schaefer four times—the first in Ins dianapolis, the second in Tammany Hall, the third in Chicago, and the fourth in St Louis In this tournament Slosson has twice made an average of 75, the highest on record. He re venged himself on Sexton on Jan. 22. defeating him by the extraordinary score of 600 to 87. In this game Slos son made a run of 441, the ^largest on ; record. In a game with Gamier Jan 27 he ran 103. Schaefer was cred-, ited with the next highest average and next largest count on record. He had an average of 66£, and has made a run of 429. Slosson is a blue-eyed, and active little fellow, with a pale face reg ular features, His hair and moustache are brown. He dresses in black, and usually wears a white era vat. Schaefer is about the same as Slosson, but not so handsome. IT has a hatchety face, and there ar e K • lows in his cheeks which force bi cheek bones into undue prominence, He has small, sharp brown eyes, and wears a slight moustache and a ruf fled scalp lock. Slosson has an earnest, eager expression, and Schaefer always looks as though he was afraid of doing for w^aich he might feel sor ‘ ry?— JY. Y &uh. L OST—A TRUNK, containing: Artist’s Tools, Paints and Pictures. The finder will be suitably rewarded. Address. Prof. J. EDWIN CHURCHILL, Artist. • Business Cards* VAL. BASLEK’S WINES. LIQUORS, SEGARS and TOBACCO The best Lager Beer in the city. The well known TEN PIN ALLEY reopened. Lunch Square every day House, from 174 11 to BRYAN 1 o’clock. ST. Savannah, At the Market Ga. F. BINGEL, WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS. Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer o» draught. hand, Free 21 LuDch. Fresh Oysters always on Jefferson st., corner Con ogress street lane. mchlO-ly Dr. A. H. 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Spring and Farm Wagons, Canopy and Falling Top Baby Can material. iages. also a full line of Carriage and Wagon skillful I have engaged chanics. in my factory orders the most work, and me¬ Any executed for new satisfaction re¬ pairing, will be tc< give and at short notice. mayl2-ly Candies* ESTAHLISHED T850. M. FITZGERALD —Manufacturer of— PLAIN AND »wrr\ FINE CANDIES. Factory and Store, 17« BRYAN STREET Branco .store, No. 122 BROUGHTON ST., One door east of Bull street, SAVANNAH. GA. The Largest Variety of Smoking Tobaccos in the City. Marburg Comprising the following brands: Bros. “Pickings .;»Uite !.» “ “ “Virgin," “ “ Happy Hours,” “ “ “Seal of North Carolina,” “ “Robin Adair” Cavendish, “ “Puck.” “ ’ “ “ “Bob White,” Granulated. Cunad & Co. "Love Among the Roses” “ Gall <fc Ax’s “Eaglish Bird Eye.” J. F. Allen’s "Perfection Curly Cut.” “ “Imperial StraightCut Cavendish “ “Perlique Mixture.” W. T. Blackwei’s Durham Tobaoco. Duke’s “ “ thekjwe st wholesale m