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JESUS CRUCIFIED.
BY ELLIK S.
O! agonizing JesusJ what grief, what pain is
Thine!
Bleeding, dying on the cross, to save this sou*
of mine; ’
Thy pallid thorn-encircled brow, Thy sad
sweet suffering eyes,
Drop o’er the tear-stained cheek, where sorrows
shadow lies,
From the quivering parted lips, there trembles
forth a sigh,
And Sitlo! Jesus cries aloud, from His cr ue
throne on high.
Yes! Jesus thirsts, He bleeds, He dies for love
of thee,
Then Christian soul, would'st yet resist, then
look again and sea,
Those wounded hands and feet, that opened
bleeding side,
A refuge safe from sin and care, to thee are
opened wide.
Oh 1 in those wounds of love divine, for the
wear; there is rest.
And hearts oppressed with sin and grief, find
there, solace blest.
Draw us then, dear Lord, to those founts of
living love,
Far from the world’s sad bitterness and care*
We too have suffered, and oft like the timid
dove,
Wandering through earth's thorny ways, have
louud no shelter there. t
Then at Thy feet, sweet Jesus, may we ever
cling and pray,
’Mid life’s fiercest storms, and in the gloom of
earth’s Tenebral.
Who Know* Positively of the
Life Hereafter.
The dogmatic assertions, in which
some the people are wont to indulge, as
to fate and condition of human
souls after they pass from this mortal
life, are likely to have their force im¬
paired, at least with reflecting minds,
by certain hard, undeniable facts of
not infrequent occurrence. To illus¬
trate: it is most positively affirmed and
and sincerely believed by many, that
no human being, who dies without
having repented of his sins in such a
way as to insure divine forgiveness,
can poasibly beyond enter into a state of hap¬
py existence the grave, but is
certain to be consigned to a condition
of unending woe; but that, at no matter
what period of this life the requisite
repentance and consequent forgiveness
be secured, if it he in reality secured,
the soul thus circumstanced will be
certain of an eternity of bliss. Again,
and pa- contra, others assert with equal¬
ly dogmatic assurance that, no matter
what the souls character may have been
here in this life, and without reference
to any consideration of repentance in¬
dulged in here, or of divine forgive¬
ness obtained before death, it is abso¬
lutely certain that all human souls will
be, in the life beyond the grave, puri¬
fied and made happy. Now, let as
consider these two theological dogmas
with some of the corollaries which they
necessarily involve, in the light of some
facts of human experience, If the first,
asserted creed be true, it follows, that
a human soul, no matter how polluted
with sin and crimes against both God
and man, will, provided it repents
the eve of its departure for the future
life, escape all punishment and penalty
and be forever thereafter supremely
blest; it also follows that a human soul
no matter how lightly it may have
stained itself with sin, will yet, if
repentant, when it passes the portal of
dealh, remain forever unforgiven and
completely damned. If the second
asserted creed, which is the opposite of
the first, be true, it follows that both
these human bouIs, the one deep dyed
in guilt, the other with its purity only
slightly marred by sin, will enter on the
future their happiness lite on equal is concerned, terms, and so far the as
differences between their characters
which existed in their mortal life, will
not enter as an element into the deter
minatton of their future and eternal
.destinies. How do these dogmas
apgdttti tfc tsufeu trf wiuUi WU bftfe
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positive knowledge? This one will
as an illustration of the difficulties
which result from the acceptance
either of these dogmas.
At Cleveland, Ohio, a few days ago, a
young man named McGill was hanged.
He had deserted his wife and child,
and lived with a wayward girl as his
paramour. She became weary of his
company and left him. He followed
and found her, urged her to return to
his companionship, and when she re¬
fused to do so he murdered her in cold
blood, and under circumstances of most
heartless cruelty. He was justly con¬
demned and righteously hanged. But
while in prison, after sentence, he re¬
pented, professed to have become
sincerely religious, and went to the
gallows declaring that he felt assured
of immediate admission to heaven and
an eternal life ot happiness, and ex¬
horted others to repent and make
themselves as sure of heaven as he had
done.
Now, what are we to conclude as to
a case like this, on either one of the
dogmatic, theogolical theories we have
before noticed ? According to the first.,
if the murderer was really repentant,
and unless we admit the possibility of
his being so the whole theory falls, he
is in heaven supremely and eternally
happy, while his murdered victim,
whom he sent into eternity without a
moment’s warning, or giving her the
opportunity to repent of her life of
impurity, is in hell ineffably and
eternally unhappy. What just mind,
what right reason, does not revolt
conclusions? against being compelled to accept such
Yet what other outcome
is possible ?
But the case is not more satisfactory
on the other and opposite creed ; for if
that be true we must believe that the
wilful murderer and the victim of his
parsion and his auger are now both in
a state of supreme happiness, and in no
wise affected by their previous charac¬
ters so far as their eternal future is
concerned. Can we accept the absurd,
the revolting consequences which must
follow.this theory ? If it is correct
then McGill, in murdering the girl,
who, though guilty enough in other
ways, was not, like himself guilty of
murder, did her a favor in killing her
and sending her to heaven a few months
in advance of himself
There are a great many other deduc¬
tions, which logically, inevitably, fol¬
low the acceptance of either of these
dogmatic assertions as to the future of
human souls, many of them quite as
repugnant to reason and common
sense as those which we have noted
The moral which we would draw from
all this is that we should be very
cautious how we assert that which we
do not and cannot positively know, and
exceedingly charitable in conceding to
others the right to give or withhold
their assent when any dogmatic propo¬
sition relating to these matters is an¬
nounced. Let every man be fully
persuaded in his own mind—if he can
—but let him not attempt to sit in
judgment on any other soul or its final
destiny .—Jersey City Journal.
‘‘Outlived Her Usefulness, Or, a
Son Without A Heart.
Not long since, a good-looking man
in middle life came to our door, asking
for the minister. When informed that
he was out of town, he seemed disap¬
pointed and anxious. On being replied: ques¬
tioned as to his business, he
“I have lost my mother, and as my
father lies here, we have come to lay
her beside him.”
Our heart rose in sympathy, and we
said:
“You have met with a greftt loss.”
“Well, yes,” replied the strange man,
with hesitancy, “a mother is a great
loss in general ; but our mother had
outlived her usefulness; she was iu her
second childhood; mind had grown as
weak as her body, so she was no com
. , . , a , ur , en o evert
or o , a.
10 ;,L ere were seven o us sons
an aug ers an as we con no
burl anybody wbo was willing to board
her,». agreed to keep her among us a
year about. But I bare had more than
my share of her. for she was too feeble
to be moved wuen mv time was out,
ana that was more than three mouths
before ter death. But then she was a
good mother in her day, and toiled
very hard to bring us a.l np.
Without looking at the face of the ^
heartless mao, we directed him to the
house of a neighboring pastor, and
returned to our nursery. We gazed on
the merry little faces which smiled
or grew sad in imitation of ours—
those little ones to whose ear no word
in “Mother,” our language is half so sweet that dav as
and we woudered if
would never come when they
say ot us, “She has outlived her useful
ne*s«=; she is no comfort to herself and
a burden to everybody else. would And dawn we
hoped before such a day
we might he taken to our rest. God
forbid that we should outlive the
of our children! Rather let U6 die
when our hearts are pyt of their own,
'thftt o\ur ms/ wfeftba&i WtUi
SAVANNAH SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1879.
their tears, and our love linked with
their When hopes of heaven. bell ceased tolling, the
the
strange minister rose in the
his form was very erect, and his hair
was silvery white. He read several
passages God’s of Scripture expressive and of
especially compassion to feeble man,
of his tenderness when gray
hairs are on him, and his strength
faileth him.
“From a little child I have honored
the aged; but never till grey hairs
covered my own head did I know
truly how much love and sympathy
this class had a right to demand of
their fellow creatures. Now I feel it.”
“Our mother,’’ he added, most tender¬
ly, “who now lies in death before us,
was a stranger to me, as are all these
her descendants. All I know of her is
what her son has to)d me to-day, that
she was brought to this town from afar,
seventy years ago, a happy bride, that
here she passed most of her life, toiling;
as only mothers ever have strength to
toil, until she reared a large family of
sons home and clad daughters ; that she left her
in the weeds of widowhood,
to dwell among her children ; and that
till health and vigor left her, she lived
for you—her descendants.
“You, who together have shared her
love and care, know how well you have
requited her. God forbid that con
science should accuse any of you of in*
gratitude or murmuring on account of
the care she has beon to you of late !
When you go back home be caieful of
your words and example before your
own children, for the fruit of your own
doings you will surely reap from them
when you totter on the brink of the
grave.
“I entreat you as a friend, as one
who has himself entered the ‘evening of
life,’ that you may never say, in the
presence of your iamilies, nor of heav
en.'Our mother has outlived her use*
fulness; she was a burden to us.’ Never,
never. A mother cannot live so long
as that. No ! when she can no longer
labor for her children, nor yet for her¬
self, she can fall like a precious weight
on their bosoms, and call forth, by her
helplessness, all the noble, generous
feelings of their natures.
“Adieu, then, poor, toil-worn moth¬
er 1 there are no more sleepless nights,
ing no more days of pain for thee. Undy¬
vigor and everlasting usefulness
are part of the inheritance of the re¬
deemed. Feeble as thou wert on earth,
thou wilt be no burden on the bosom
ot Infinite Love, but there wilt thou
find thy long-sought rest, and receive
glorious sympathy from Jesus and His
ransomed fold.”
The Black Cloud That Hangs Over
It.
The black cloud which has been
hanging for years past over the old
ducal house of Newcastle seems to
grow thicker and thicker. Only a few
weeks ago the old Duke died at a hotel
in St. James Place, with nobody by his
side except an old servant. He for
years, has been separated from his wife,
and lived upon an annuity £2,500 paid
him by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Hope,
to whom he had surrendered the whole
of bis estate. He was a man more
sinned against than sinning. He ran
through the best part of an immense
fortune solely beeause he could never
reiuse assistance to friends. His larg
est liabilities were incurred by going
security for other people. He died of
gout, for which lie had doctored him
self with homoeopathic medicines. The
boy of fifteen, who succeeds him. has
always beau weak, and some years ago
he broke his leg. He was in charge ol
a nurse, who patched up the leg with
the aid of a oountry doctor. Later on
it had to be rebroken and set anew,
But this operation does not seem to I
have been much more successful, for i
the leg had to be amputated a few!
months ago. Poor little Lennie, as he j
is familiarly called, was slowly
e q D g f rom the amputation when
neWi 0 f his father’s death reached him.
^ as q U jj e n r0 9 trated the boy, and hope! his
medicai attendants give but little
f hi rec Wednesday last a
M ow was inflicted upon the little
fcl|ow by , be burm 0 f C l„mber House,
^ Nottinghamshire seat of the family,
^ ccor jj n g to the cable dispatches, the
wor j. g ot art con tained have been I
destroyed. value, The propertv was of im
mense and has been admirably
taken care of by Mrs. Hope, since
bought up all the Nottinghamshire
mortgages of the late Duke.
Notwithstanding all these calamities, maiority',
the boy, if he lives, will,at his
fi n d himself worth some four hundred
; t h 0U sand dollars.
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The Bureau Veritas, of Paris, in
tne number of steamers regie
tered in 18TS, makes Great Britain
head the list, with 3,216; the United
States is placed next, with 516, and
France ranks third, with 275 steamers,
—— ■— — —-
General ^ Beauregard denies the story
about the $26,000 secession editorial of
D- Preethcfc itt Che LounfvHita I
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The Endless Future of the Human
Race.
A Letter to a Friend by C. S. Henry, D. D.
Dr. Henry is probably a Universalist
minister, since he speaks of his “hope
and trust in the final restoration of all
men to goodness and blessedness,” and
since his words have the usual Univer
ealist tone in them, He believes in a
purgatory, but “not the Romish one,”
and he believes in praying for the dead.
It is strange past comprehension that
men, dootors of divinity, 40, 50 and
60 years old, who have spent their
lives in the study of the Bible, should
bo persistently fail to discern the sim¬
ple truth of the matter. For example,
why endeavor to escape the conclusion
of eternal punishment by twisting the
teachings of the Bible, when the teach
ings of the Bible have nothing to do
with the subject? Why not tell the
suffering friend of the truth and be
done with it? The facta are these:
Previous to the Babylonish cai ; vity
the Jews knew nothing of the lure
life or future punishment—had i.iver
thought of them, so far as we of this
age can tell. When they were carried
captive down to Babylon they came in
contact, of course, with the Persians.
The Persians are sun worshipers, and
believe that after death men are puri¬
fied from the effects of their sins by
fire. By a very easy step the Jews
drew from this belief—which, together
with a belief in immortality, they ac
qnired from the Persians—a doctrine
of future punishment by fire, and then
an endless future punishment. This
sun Persia, worshiping religion still exists in
as every man of any intelligence
knows. The Jews brought these be¬
liefs back to Palestine with them, when
they were released by Cyrus, and the
beliefs grew and were transmitted from
father to son, and by the time that
Jesus was born they were a part of the
religious beliefs of the time, He
learned them at His mother’s knee,
perhaps as every boy has, be it said
reverentially, learned hideous theolog¬
ical, doctrines. He believed them, and
when He grew up, and became a re¬
ligious teacher, He taught them. But
what did He know of their truth any
more than we do? Or why should we
be agonizing ourselves over a mon¬
strous fire superstition that originated
among the ignorant mountaineer sheep
keepers of Persia simply because Jesus
repeated it? The quickest and best
and truest way to relieve the appre¬
hensive suffering of modern skeptics is
to go back of the jbihle and see how
this hell doctrine originated, That
done, he will not trouble himself about
what the Bible or what the words of
Jesus teach, lor he will see that they
have nothing *o do with it. And then
to him any exegesis of the scriptures
<»n the subject will appear silly, as it
ought to.
A Clever Rogue.—A gentleman of
great world cashed experience in the commercial
a check at a London bank
£i,000, taking the whole in £100
notes. He was only a few hundred
yards from the bank when a person
resembling a eleik, bareheaded, and
with a pen behind his ear, touched him
ou the shoulder, saying: “Beg your
pardon, sir ;. will you allow me just toj
take the number of these notes again ?
I won’t keep you a minute.” The gen
tleman taken off his guard, handed the
notes over to the supposed clerk, whom
he followed into the bank. After giv
ing the former time to reach the top
end and return, he met the gentleman
at the door, saying, “Please walk this |
way ; that gentleman will attend to
in a minute,” pointing to a clerk
who was deeply engaged. Five min
elapsed before the gentleman could!
the clerk s attention to his case ; j
and he was thunderstruck to find that
this officer knew nothing about it. The
cLika were interrogated, and
were equally in the dark. Of
no time was lost in going to the
bank of England, but too late, the
rogue had been before them, and
gold for the notes .—Chamber's
Journal
Aram Foon.-The origin of April
tooling is hardly known ; but the cus ;
tom is widespread. It is universal in
Europeans Europe, and in all countries where
have settled, and is prac
(iced in Hindostan, where the Hindus
the Hull Festival, as they
term it, on the 31st of March, by send
mg whomsoever they* canon fruitless
by playing all manner of
pranks on people, and then exposing
i
them to laughter, as the Western na
tions do. Oriental scholars trace April
fooling to this source. Another opin
ion is that it came from a travesty of i
the sending hither and thither of Jesus
from Annas to Caiaphas and from Pilate Ages!
to Herod, because in the Middle
that Scriptural scene w^s turned into',
a miracle piay at Easter, which
during this month.
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Dr. Polli says that no human being
die bteiore tho hundredth y&ar
arownud.
A Protest Against Pensions
Union Soldiers.
From [Jackson (Miss.) Clarion.]
Not to be considered censorious,
Southern members (whose names we
not know, because we have not
inedthe record, and, therefore, we
stepped not aiming at any in particular,) over¬
the bounds of magnanimity
itself in voting these $50,000,000 of
extra pay to the armies that fought and
desolated and impoverished their own
States in the late war. It is an open
question, so far as the opinion of man*
kind at large is concerned, whether
that war was a just one; but it is
not but an open question with
the people of the South, who have
always held to be a slander the
charge destroy that they were seeking to
the Government from which
they propose to withdraw, and estab¬
lish a Government of their own, based
upon the principle that just Govern¬
ments derive their powers from the
consent of the governed.
If bygones are to be bygones, let
them be so in fact as well as pretension;
but this system of pensioning the sol
diers who fought on the winning side
of the war at the expense of the side
that lost (because of the overwhelming
odds against them) is not only a disa¬
greeable reminder and of bygones but a
most While unfair iniquitous proceeding
large numbers of the soldiers on
the side of the North houestly believed
they were fighting to save their Govern-,
ment and were impelled by patriotic
motives, others were mere soldiers of
fortune from abroad, who enlisted for
pay, regardless of the cause involved.
On the side of the South the struggle
was for home and altar and the right
of It self-government.
is a monstrous crime against the
peace of the reunited country for its
Government to pursue a course which
will perpetually remind the weaker
side that it is to be a beast of burden
for the other.
It was only twelve months ago that
a bill passed the Republican Senate
Grant, voting a princely leader pension to General
the of the Northern ar¬
mies, notwithstanding that he had been
crowned with the Ligbest. honors of the
country and had received hundreds of
thousands of dollars from the public
treasury. And but the other day the
same body passed an amendment to the
Mexican War Pension hill, excluding
Jefferson Davis from its benefits, though
he was one of the most gallant and
successful leaders of the armies of die
United States in that war.
How the Woman Vote in Kansas.
A Hoosier sees in Kansas many new
and unfamiliar sights, but none more
interesting than that of the ladies
voting. They have the privilege of
voting in all matters pertaining to
schools. As far as my observation goes,
the ladies have minds of their own.
They neither vote for the handsomest
rjaan ,l0r the one their husband tell
them to vote for > unless the candidate
in their own opinion, the proper one.
Their votes cannot be bought,
They are universally on the side of
morality and temperance; hence the
workers in'the temperance cause are
warm advocates, of equal suffrage,
Election days pass quieily. If there is
Hn y the drinking or Everything fighting done, it is not
polls. is orderly
circulated there, notwithstanding contrary reports
by anti-suffragists in the
Eastern States,
Candidates keep carriages running
^ or accommodation of the ladies,
Unt * great many walk up and deposit
their votes. As the result, so far, has
been very satisfactory, even to the men,
the brutes, it will probably be but a
s ^ 0f f time until equal suffrage is grant
e <I
I he gentlemen show their gallantry
an< ^ kdth in the ability of the ladies by
appointing them to office. The enroll
ing clerks ot the Legislature are ladies,
a * 8C a l ar 8 e proportion of the county
superintendents, discharge who in every instance
their duties in a manner that
£ lves universal satisfaction.— Indian
apolis Herald.
“Ze Buzzard.” When Achille Mu
rat was in Florida, with a true French
man’s instinct for new and rare foods,
he cooked and ate from nearly the en
tire fauna of the State. He used to
cook alligator steak in a way so deli
cious that no alligator in all Florida
would recoguize it as a morsel of one
of bis brothers. He worked long and
faithfully to make the turkey buzzard
palatable by good cooking, but at last
gave it up in despair. When asked
how he liked it, be said, “Oh! I can
eat any kind of bird—I am not affrate to
eat anyzing, I Have no prejudice, but
ze buzzard is not goode.”
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The distinction betw pen liking and
Moving was well made by a little girl
years old. She was eating an egg
at breakfast, which she seemed to relish
very much. “Do you love it ?” asked
her aunt. “No,” replied the child,
with a look of disgust. “I like it. If
loyud ic I should kiss it,“ i
PRICE THREE CENTS.
Wanted.
C ARPENTERS W ANTED—Apply to A. G.
Ybanes, No. 99 Ray street tf
"ITT*ANTED—Everybody VV prepared to to know that I am
now serve my customers,
witli Jos. Bchliiz’ Milwaukee Beer, also with
the finest of choice WINES and LIQUORS,
Segars, Tobacco and Smokers’ Articles, at my
old .Stand, the C. R. U. HOUSE,
Cor. West Broad & Harrison sts.,
to which I have now removed.
THEO. RADERICK.
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Business Cards.
JAMES RAY,
—Manufacturer and Bottler—
Mineral Wafers, Soda, Porter and Ale.
feb23-3m , , A 5 Houston St., Savannah, Ga.
Hr. A. H. BEST,
beutist
Cor. Congress and Wh itaker streets.
SAVANNAH, GA.
T EETH extracted without p; tin. All work
guaranteed.
I respectfully beg to refer to any of my
patrons. oot.l-btno
W. B. FERRELL'S Agt.
RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market Basement,
(Opposite Llppmau’s Drug Store.)
Ian ISM SAVANNAH GA
C. A. CGRTJNO,
Hair Cutting, Hai? Dressing, Curling ani
SHAVING SALOON.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
der lGG'A Planters’ Bryan street, opposite the Market, un¬
Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger¬
man, and English spoken. selfi-tf
Cigars! Cigars!
A FINE stock of Cigars on hand. Prices to
suit anybody. Call and examine my stock
before purchasing, and save money.
H. J. RIESER,
mil 28 Cot. Whitaker and Bryan sts.
JOS. H. BAKER.
IB T 7 T O H IE ■&,,
STALL No. C6, Savannah Market.
Dealer ia Beef, Mutton, Pork nd
All other Meats iu their Seasons.
Particular attention paid to supplying Shi p
and Boarding Houses. augi2
HAIR store;
JOS. E. L0ISEAU & CO.,
118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull & Drayton
K EEP on hand a large assortment of Hair
Hair Switches, combings Curls, Puffs, and Fancy Goods
worked in the latest style.
Fancy Costumes, Wigs anil Beards for Kent
GEORGE FEY,
WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS. TOBACCO, Ac.
The celebrated Joseph Schlltz’ MILWAU¬
KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22
Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah,
Ga. r-z31-lv FREE LUNCH every clay from ii to 1.
Carriages*
A. K. VVILSON’S^
CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY,
Corner Hay and West Broad sts.
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY .
Cor. Bay ami Montgomery streets.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
The largest establishment m the city.
I keep a full line of Carri «;e,s, Itockaways,
and Buggies. Falling Bpring and Farm wagons. Canopy
line of Top Baby Can luges also a full
Carriage and Wagon Material. I have
chanics. engaged in my factory the most skillful me¬
Any orders for naw work, and re¬
pairing, will be executed tc give satisfaction
and at short notice. may!2-ly
EAST END
Carriage Manufactory.
P. O’COINYOIt,
Corner East Broad, President and York sts.
Savannah, Ga.
I public beg leave in general to Inform that my I always friends keep and the on
hand a full supply of the best seasoned mate¬
rial and am prepared tc execute orders f>r
Wagons, Buggies, Drays, Trucks,
Etc., with promptness and dispatch, guaran¬
teeing all work turned out from my shops to
be as represented
nishing. Repairing polishing, in all its branches. Painting, Var¬
done workmanlike lettering and trimming
in a manner.
Horse-shoeing a special ty. mch2tf
Ice.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers iu and
Shippers of
EASTERN ICE.
— DEPOT;
1M BAY STREET.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
J. F. CAVANAUGH, Manager.
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Candies.
ESTABLISH ED IhW.
M. FITZGERALD
—Manufacturer of—
PURE, PLAIN AND FINE
CANDIES.
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