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For the Temperance Crusader.
LETTER FROM UNCLE DABNEY.
Thank Gtxl I am still alive, and though ad-
vanced in years, nay devotion to our great
cause, Temperance and Prohibition, is una
bated. I can speak as long and as loud as
ever; and though I expect to remain at
home the balance of my days, except that I
mav sometimes sally out on some occasion
al skirmishes, yet the ruin and blight ot
jdram shops will always be held up by me
to the gaze of bleeding humanity. Igo lor
the abolition of the liquor traffic all the time.
I want moral suasion to go forward with
the olive branch of peace in her left hand,
and legal suasion with the requirements of
the law in her right hand. lam still strong
ly in favor of the Sons of Temperance as a
high-toned moral institution, and while I
would not detract from the great excellen
cies of the Knights of Jericho, as equally
promotive of morals, yet I think the “Sons
better adapted to the masses whom we
would reform, being more simplified ; and
I expect less expensive. The Knights are
better adapted to cities and large towns,
but it appears to me the “Sons” suit best tor
small towns and the country.
I am glad to learn that in some places the
“Sons,” Phcenix like, are rising from their
ashes and flapping their wings for another
fight. In Fairburn, above our town, they
have revived with renewed and increased
energy—and if my voice could reach every
place in Georgia where Divisions have gone
down, I would say, brethren, try again. I
would say, think of the good you accom
plished, and do build up an asylum again for
the poor inebiate and his afflicted family.
I live, as you know, near Palmetto, where
I assure you, liquor has a fearful reign,
where death and ruin have been produced,
and though I am always ready, at all suita
ble times and places, to raise my voice in
favor of our noble cause, yet I confess I have
been greatly discouraged here—yet, last
Wednesday night, a sweet star, the star of
hope arose and shot its mild rays athwart
Palmetto—-I, in conjunction with the Rev.
Noah Smith, who is not slow on a speech,
received fifteen or sixteen names to revive,
re-model, guilt and letter our old Division.
We expect to organize to morrow, and swell
our numbers. The ladies, too, are uniting
with us, and we expect, in the name of Goa,
humanity and our country, to effect great
good. I rejoice to see the widening circu
lation of the Crusader; I hope our Temper
ance hosts in Georgia will every where pa
tronize it ; let light beam forth, let Overby
take the field, with a banner over his head,
with these words inscribed on it, GREAT
IS TRUTH AND IT WILL PREVAIL,
and instead of six thousand rallying to the
support of a Prohibition Governor next time,
fifty thousand will come to the rescue. I
still, if spared, want to redeem my pledge,
in all of this year, to be one of that hundred
to get one hundred subscribers for the Cru
sader. Truly, sec. #
D. P. JONEK.
Prohibition Hill, April 17th, 1856.
P. S. Passengers often on the cars while
the cars would stop at Palmetto, would ask,
in my hearing, “does not Uncle Dabney live
near here?” pointing to the liquor signs.—
Well, I would not say a word, i hope the
day is near at hand when, if the question i
asked, I can say YES!
For the Temperance Ovusader,
Meesre. Editor a: In the Republican &
Discipline of the 11th inet., I notice, over
the signature of “Justice,” an article in op
position to the move which is now being
made by some of our Temperance friends,
to relieve Uncle Dabney. Now there is
evidently some mistake in regard to all this
thing. In my article, published in the
Crusader some weeks ago, I endeavor
ed to set this thing before the people
in its proper light. I said then, and I re
peat it now, that Uncle Dabney is not beg
fared, nor is there any likelihood of it.
lo can easily pay every debt that be owes
and be independent, as regards the good*
of this world. We are not then begging
charity for the old man. There is a vast
difference between a debt that we owe, and
an alms that we give. The Temperance
people of Georgia owe Uncle Dabney some
compensation for the time, labor, and mon
ey, that he has, directly and indirectly,
expended in their canse. The question is,
will they remunerate, him f Someone per
haps, will ask—should not Uncle L'abney
bear a portion of the expense necessary to
further our cause ? We answer, certainly
he should. But has he not already borne
his part aud more than his part in the five
3 ear’s labor and privation in our cause?
that hardest of all labors, mental —a labor
that wrinkles the brow, burdens the heart,
and tortures the brain ? Have we so soon
forgot the self-denying toils of onr own
faithful Georgian in onr canse ? Was hie
voice not heard from the mountains to the
seaboard, and at a time too when domestic
afflictions were well nigh to the point of
overwhelming him with their wild waves of
agony—afflictions that, with some men,
would have conjured a fury to lap its kiss
ing wing around a maddened brain ! The
bending of his powerful intellect wholly to
our cause, and the mental toil, and the bod
ily pidvation, that were the necessary con
comitants of his five years’ wanderings,
are surely enough for him to contribute!
Prior to those five years he always made
a support, and something over. Since that
time he has never made a sufficient sup
port. Does not every one know that a
man’s presence at home is necessary to the
prospering of his business. Neglect of
that business has gotten him in arrears.
Now why did he neglect that business ?
Simply because he was so devoted to the
Temperance cause, and the good of his
country, that ho was willing to leave all,
and to endure all, and to risk all, for the
furtheringof that glorious cause and those
noble principles to which ho is yet wholly
and soully devoted. I know Uncle Dab
ney well; I know his secret feelings, many
of them, -and hie peculiar proclivities; I
know that, next to his God and his hope of
Heaven, he values the Temperance refor
mation. He was not the originator of this
m|)ve in his behalf. It is, with him, adeli
cate subject. Anonymous waters may at
tack him on this move; they may inpQgn
his motives, and load him with bitter invec
tive, and he, perhaps, will never reply. I
am not alluding to Justice; from his article
I take him to be a candid and generous man,
Bntl am merely surmising Uncle Dabney’s
feelings, in case he should be assailed.
It iB useless, and boots nothing to multi
ply words about it. The facts are before
us* He is now in debt between two and
tbwe thousand dollars. Those debts, as I
have already said, have accumulated in
consequence of the neglect of his business
at home. That neglect was in consequence
of his love for us and his devotion to our
cause. Now shall we let his property be
sacrificed f lam one of “his neighbors,”
and, being well acquainted with the facts, I
have personally contributed my mite to
him, which he will testify. I, too, say
justiliafiat etsi ruatooelum. Public bene
factors “generally go unappreciated and un
rewarded. Friendship itself is not enough
‘like the oak that stands firm in the storm,’
and too much like “the willow that trem
bles in the breeze.” There is not enough
incentive to disinterested philanthropy,
and self-denying patriotism. A nation
will let a hero fight its battles, and rot on
a dunghill; the literary world will let age
nius increase its stores, and then die in a
poor house, and rest in a “grave without a
monument.” Are the noble hearted Tem
perance men no better than the common
worldling ? Northern demagogues have
come among us, with their theatrical mum
mery on the subject of Temperance, and
we have liberally contributed to them.
Shall onr own Southern champion be for
gotten and despised 3 PHILO.
April 19, 185(1.
For the Temperance Crusader.
MONSTER SERPENT.
Reason is the faculty by which we arrive
at correct conclusions from the collection of
knosvn facts, and the inferences they sug
gest We wish then to ascertain, by this
agent, whether, or not, all who indulge, and
those who do not, would be better, happier,
wealthier, wiseer and more useful by absti
nence from the habitual use of ardent spir
its ; whether, or not, our national felicity
would be promoted by the abrogation of ex
isting laws, which grant license for the sale
of intoxicating liquors, and the passage of a
law prohibiting it ?
Let us imagine that a monster serpent
winds his loathsome form through every
settlement, village, town, and city, in the
United States, planting his poisonous fangs
into the persons of the inhabitants, and
spreading desolation, poverty, and misery
throughout the land. Would reason not ad
monish us to shun this hideous monster ?
Let us also imagine that this poisonous
reptile has the gift of charming his victims
unawares into his fatal coil—that his poison
eventually creates an incurable malady,
called “ mania a potu” which dethrones
reason and leaves the passions and vices
triumphant,—that those deluded victims,
thus robbed of reason and humanity go a
broad insulting, wounding and murdering
relatives, friends and foes alike; that wives,
daughters and sons having stood aloof from
his charms and escaped his poison are forc
ed to the extreme mortification of beholding
the husband, the father, the brother, the
friend, a miserable outcast from decent so
ciety, a gambler, a maniac, a murderer 1
Would not reason—would not our duty to
our fellow-men and our country prompt us
to legislate for the removal and extermina
tion of this monster serpent, which thus in
stigates men to violate and defy the laws of
the land ? Would not our country be freed
from a mighty grievance? Who would
not war against such a prodigious pest ? Can
any Christian law protect such a monster ?
Would the Constitution of this free country
forbid such legislation ? If so, our Consti
tution is a curse to the country, and tolerates
rather than prevents crime I
There is not really such a serpent exis
ting, but there is something equally as bad,
which Solomon, the wisest man the world
ever knew, declares (Proverbs, 23d chap.,
32nd verse) biteth like a serpent, and sting
*th like an add<r” It is wine ! OLA.
GENTLY CHECK A CHILD.
A child was asked why a certain tree
grew crooked, replied, ‘-Somebody trod
upon it, I suppose, when it was little,”
He who checks a child with terror,
Stops its play and stills its song.
Not alone commits an error,
But a grievious moral wrong.
Give it play and never fear it,
Active life is no defect;
Never, never break its spirit,
Curb it—only to direct.
Would you stop the flowing river,
. Thinking it would cease to flow£
Onward must it flow forever—
Better teach it where to go.
WOMAN’S LOVE.
Oh I the value of the love of a true
woman I Gold cannot purchase a gem so
precious I Titles and honors confer upon
the heart no such serene happiness. In our
darkest moments, when disappointment
and ingratitude with corroding care gather
thick around, and even the gaunt form of
poverty menaces with his skeleton finger,
it gleams around the so.ul with an angel’s
smile—Time cannot mar its brilliancy, dis
tance but strengthens its influences, bolts
and bars cannot limit its progress, it follows
the prisoner into his dark cell and sweetens
the homely morsel that appeases his hunger,
an “ silence of midnight it plays a
round his heart, and in his dreams he folds
8 ” oso jn the forms of her who loves on
still, though the world has turned coldly
from him The couch made by the hand
of a loved one is soft to the weary limbs of
the sick sufferer and the portion administer
ed bv the same hands loses half its bitter
ness. The pillow carefully adjusted by her
brings repose to the fevered brain, and her
words of kind encouragement survives the
sinking spirit. It would almost seem that
God, compassionating woman’s first great
frailty, had planted his jewel in her breast,
whose heavenlike influence should cast into
forgetfulness man’s remembrance of the
Fail, by building up in his heart another
Eden, whose perennial flowers forever
bloom, and crystal waters gush from ex
haustless fountains.
A HAPPY HOME.
In a happy home there will be no fault
finding, no overbearing will
be no peevishness, no fretftflnesa. Unkind
ness will not dwell in the heart or be cm the
tongue. Oh. the tears, the sighs, the wast
ing of life and health, and strength, and time
—of ail that is most to be desired in a hap*
py home, occasioned merely by unkind
words. The celebrated Mr. Wesley re
marked to this effect, namely, that fretting
and scolding seemed like tearing the flesn
from the bones, and that we have no more
right to be guilty of this than we have to
curse, or swear, or steal. In a perfectly
happy home all selfishness will be removed.
Even as ‘‘Christ pleased not himself,” so the
members of a happy home will not seek
first to please themselves, but, to please each
other.
Cheerfulness is another ingredient in a
happy home. How much does the sweet
ness emanating from a heart fraught with
love and kindness, contribute to render a
happy home. How attracting, how sooth
ing is that sweet cheerfulness that is borne
on the countenance of a wife and mother.
How the parent and child, the brother and
sister, the mistress and servant, dwells with
delight on those cheerful looks, those confi
ding smiies that beam from the eye, and
burst from the inmost soul of those who are
near and dear.
How it hastens the return of the father,
lightens the care of the mother, renders it
more easy for youth to resist temptation !
and, drawn by the cords of affection, how
it induces them with loving hearts to re
turn to the parental roof!
Oh, that parents would lay this subject to
heart, that by untiring efforts they would so
far render home happy, that theii children
and domestics shall not fieek for happiness
in forbidden paths!
THE HIGHEStToRM OF LOVE.
Blanche. —l should like to hear what
Cousin Leonard would say of Love. It is
not likely that so grave a man has thought
much about so foolish a thing. But his
big books tell him every thing, I think? I
often fancy I hear them talking together
in the night.
Milverton. —Why, beauty, I think that
love is the only thing that shows us
the possibilities i:i human nature. I be
lieve it was given us for the purpose that
the sight of the infinite involutions of star
ry worlds was given. Knowing what one
human can feel for another when in love,
seeing the inventive and undying toler
ance which love gives, one can imagine
what it would be if some feeling of the
same kind were to pervade the whole race,
and men exercised the best of their pow
ers in discerning and developing what was
level}’ to all those about them. It would
create a universe of loveliness.
Elleemere. —Whether she wears a bon
net that is like a coal scuttle, or whether
she claps on a little platter that is attached
to the back of her head; whether, graceful
ly, she trails after her in the muddy streets
an ample sweep of flowing drapery, or
whether, succinct and neat, she trips along,
in bloomer costume, she is equally fasci
nating, equally tiresome, and equally dis
posed to look- in at all the haberdasher’B
shops. Ob ! what a pains-taking and ac
curate translater is lost in me.
Milverton. —Rons&ean Ims said, to my
mind, one or two of the best things about
love—l cannot recollect them exactly, and
I merely saw them in quotation, )>ut it
struck me when I read them.—ls this is a
bad fellow, as they say be is, at any rate
he Ims had the most delicate and exquisite
notion of love. Os course without the ex
act words they are nothing.
Blanche. ray, Leonard, let us have j
them.
Milverton. —Well, my pot, they were
very slight, simple things. “It was merely
that-he made out that the height of love
was in an exquisite companionship. That
if, for instance, you were in love with a
man—lain not sure that you ever will be,
not many people are to that heights of af
fection—you will never be dull with him.
You will be in the most eloquent company
with him, even when bespeaks. You will
have almost the freedom .of solitude, with
all the joys of companionship.
Ellesme7'e.~~Forg\ ve roe for interrupt
ing, but I suspect you are describing a
man’s love, and not a woman’s. I believe
that when we are fond of any of those be
wildering creatures, it is pleasure enough
to see them more about the room.
Milverton.-— And variety enough in the
change of lights and shadows which, in
quick succession, fall upon their beautiful
selves and the folds of their drapery as the} 7
glide about.
Mildred. —Very prettily said, gentle
men; but these beautiful figures must be
dumb, I suppose, or nearly so.
Milverton. —No, by no means. Whatev
er they utter then is equally and unac
countably delightful.
Ellesmere. —Oh, yes; their nonsense is
grateful to our ears as a baby’s cooing to its
mother—as unintelligible.perhaps, but not
the less delectable. Stop a miunte, tho.ugh.
I believe 1 am running into unmeaning
generalities. I won’t pledge myself to say
that all these felicities happen in general
It is only when one is in low with that
rare creation, a pleasant woman. There
are plenty of loving women, graceful wo
men, good.domestic, women, the women
who make the heroines in novels, who do
not venture to talk or act much but who, the
author tells us, are very loveable, and about
whom he throws a charming halo of dainty
insipidity. I do not mean any of these,
but a pleasant woman, one of those delight
ful appreciative creatures who, whether
they are beautiful or not. are charming
*when young, most agreeable and compan
ionable when middle-aged, and exquisitely
pleasant when they are old women.
Milverton. —l do not intend to bebou&d
by Ellesmere’s rather captious classifica
tion of women. The lorer always finda in
the society of his beloved something of
that pleasure which Ellesmere has so ad
mirably described, and which be wishes to
confine to the society of those whom he
calls pleasant women,
Midhurst: —Any wav, this pleasure
wont last long, and that’s oorofort—-at least
to ua, who know nothing about the “ex
quisito companionship.”
Milvei‘ton. —A hi you malign human na
ture. It will last long, it will outlast all
that we generally mean when we talk of
love; and this perfect companionship—
rare blessing, I admit—is the highest thing
this world, or, as I suspect any world can
give—l mean in the relation to one anoth
er of created beings. Nay, the compan
ionship will be so sweet, that you may seek
for solitude, and quit even the object of
your love, in order to think over the happi
ness which there is in being with it. That
last thought is one, too, winch I believe we
owe to that strange and sensitive French
man. Innumerable men, however, must
have felt the tiling which he so beautifully
describes.— Brazier's Magazine.
Cj )t (Tmjmwf Cnisakr.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morning, April *, 1856*
5-jgT'Rev. Claiborn Trussed, of Atlanta, i= a duly
authorized Agent for the Crusader.
Liberal Offer.
Any persoa sending us five new Subscribers, ac
companied with tlie “rhino.” shall be entitled to an
extra copy of tho Crusader for one year. Orders for
our Paper must invariably be accompanied with the
cash to receive attention.
Notice to Advertisers and Correspondents.
The outside Form of our paper goes to Press early
every Monday morning, and the inside at 12 o’clock
every Thursday. So any Notices or Advertisements
reaching here after 12 o’clock Thursday, is too late
for the forthcoming issue. Our county Officers par
ticularly wifi bear this in mind.
Agents Wanted.
We want a hundred Agents for tho. Crusader—
. and energetic Temperance men; those
who take a lively and earnest interest in the subject,
are the kind desired. We wish one in every county
in the State; one who will canvass the country and
remind the people of their duty in regard to patroni
zing the Temperance press.
Liberal compensation will be awarded to all who
will act as Agents for our paper.
Meroer University.
Anew Catalogue of this Institution has just been !
issued at this office, which shows it to be in a very
flourishing condition. The College classes number
22 Seniors, 24 Juniors, 30 Sophomores, 17 Fresh
men. We trust that the Trustees at their approach
ing meeting, in Savannah, will succeed in procuring
able occupants for the vacant chairs.
More Clubs.
We return our thanks to J. B. Ford, and Mrs. L.
Jackson, for the new subscribers whom they sent
us. We are doubly happy in acknowledging the
latter, as it is the first Club sent us by a Lady. We
hope it will not be the last. Every true woman
should be in favor of Temperance and Prohibition,
and we need their support,
Philos,
Wo would call attention to the communication of
“Philos,” which will be found in another column.
Wo have not seen the article of “Justice,” to which
ho refers, and of course are not prepared to express
any definite opinion in regard to it. Wo are very
sorry to hear of any man’s entertaining such senti
ments as it is said to contain. The Temperance
men of Georgia owe “uncle Dabney” a heavy debt
of gratitude, and if they choose to pay it in a sub
stantial way, who should say unto them, Nay. If
any do not feel disposed to contribute of their sub
stance to this fund, let them hold their peace, nor
strive to hinder a work of love and mercy. *
Temperanoe Convention.
The Temperance Convention of Georgia which
held its last meeting in Marietta, appointed the place
and time of its next meeting to be held in the city
of Atlanta on the 30th of July next We make
mention of this at an early day, in order that the
friends of the cause in each county may prepare to
have a delegation there, and we may hereafter name
it from time to time, in order to keep them reminded
of it We hope this Convention will be largely at
tended by representatives from every part ot the
State, as we think that a meeting of this kind, a real
mass-meeting is an indispensable requisite to the re
vival of Temperance. Let its friends bestir (hem
seives actively, and send up men of zeal and devo
tion to the cause, and a great change will be wrought
in our prospect. Now is the time when vigorous
action on our part can be of avail, when a calm is
resting on the sea of politics, and men are unbiassed
by the evil genius of demagogueism. One effort can
now do more than years of toil when human passion
is excited by political strife.
“Lot us then be up and doing,
With a heart for every fate.” *
The Cost of Intemperance.
Intemperance is, without doubt, the most expen
sive vice in which an individual or a people over in
dulged. Were there no other, this would be a suffi
cient reason why every one should wish its suppres
sion. The amount of money which is paid out di-:
rectly for intoxicating liquors, is enormously great,
and would be sufficient to give a decent support to
all the indigent and helpless people in our country.
The money thus spent would be sufficient to estab
lish and maintain a free school in every county in
our State. But this becomes but a small item when
compared with the immense destruction of property
which is produced by intemperance. Where may
we not see dilapidated dwellings and neglected farms
lying in useless sterilty, produced by the drunken
ness of their possessors f When may wo not hear
of property sold at public outcry to liquidate debts
contracted at the Grocery ? For the rumseller is
the most merciless of creditors. However bland his
smile may be, while mixing the ingredients of his
“poisoned ehalice,” when the day of accounts comes,
he is inexorable. He would strip the poor man of
his last raiment, or snatch from his famished lips the
last morsel of bread, to pay for the hellish poison,
which he hus sold. Intemperance is not merely an
injudicious outlay of capital, not yet a positive waste
which makes no return, but it gives back an equiva
lent in a curse, blasting to tho fondest hopes, blight
ing to the fairest reputation, utterly destructive of
soul and body for time and eternity. *
Idgrßeitfamin Brantly, Esq., wishes his corres
pondents to address him at Kansas City, instead of
OaseviUe, Ga., as heretofore.
Will Ton Have A Lecturer?
We have awaited for the last two or three weeks
in anxious solicitude, to hear of new names to the
subscription list for a Temperance Lecturer; but
wo have waited in vain. Why is this apathy mani
fested in a subject of such vital importance ? Mr.
Overby has signified his willingness to accept, pro
vided the requisite amount be -raised; and ail attest
his fitness for the high, responsible office. In accep
ting under these conditions, he will make a sacrifice,
a great sacrifice, much greater than any one man
will have to make in order to raise the required sun'.
Yet the year is rapidly passing without a Lecturer in
the field Now while a quiet is reigning over the
land, when men can listen with unprejudiced minds
to the voice of reason and truth, we are idle. Soon
the political caldron will begin to bubble, and all the
attempts at successful action will be vain. It is now
that energetic efforts on our part can meet with de
served success. And how can we act more efficient
ly than by securing the services of an ardent, zealous,
eloquent, State Lecturer ? Is there not enough of
patriotism, philanthropy, and devotion to our cause
to contribute the small sura of three thousand
dollars, to promote such laudable ends? The trifling
sum of fifty dollars from each county in the State,
(more than twice this amount is given to every cir
cus or monkey show which comes along) Would
make more than is required The friends of Tem
perance should meet in every county, and send up
their donations; to this fund, and they may do so in
the full assurance of having it returned to them with
usury. Wo knvw that Mr. Overby’ would do good
His eloquent voice would, like the song of a syren,
woo men from the path of the drunkard, which
‘‘takes hold on hell” and ring like a clarion of hope
to the despairing struggler in the waves of iniquity.
Send up your names and your contributions then,
and let us have him in the field at an early day. We
tell you candidly, and we would have it impressed on
your mind with ail solemnity, unless you are de
termined to act with vigor, to make sacrifices, to
manifest a spirit of self-denial, you may as well “give
up the ship” forever. *
Maine Repudiates the Blaine Liquor Law.
.Speaking of the repeal of tho Maine Liquor Law
by the Legislature of Maine, the Hartford Times re
marks :
“Thus has Maine, the State that originated the li
quor law to which it has given a name and notoriety,
repudiated the ultra statute by a decided vote. The
action of the legislature in this respect seems to re
flect the popular sentiment throughout the State,
and it is not likely that any future legislature will
restore the Maine law to the statute book. Maine,
the first State to try the Maine Liquor law, is the
first to turn her back upon it. Ita unconstitutional
provisions, and its. infringement of individual rights,
prove to be of a character too flagrant to be endured,
even in Maine.”
The above is a fair sample of the side thrusts
which political and secular papers are continually
making at the Temperance cause. Few have had
the effrontery to attempt opposition by reason and
argument. Whenever the evils of intemperance are
arrayed before them, or the question is presented to
them as a matter of public polity, whether the sup
port of Law shall be given to it, they either seek
wilfully to ignore it, or to produce the impression
that it is a moral question only. But let the least re
verse happen to it, and their ovations may be heard
from one end of the land to the other. They eagerly
catch at these as evidences of the popular will, and
endeavor thereupon to palm off a statement to which
they dare not give words, that the Cause is wrong
in itself. They would, with a look of scorn, or-a
sneer of contempt, attempt to crush arguments which
they cannot meet with reason. Howl ye, long and
loudiy, in your fiendish triumph. You have before
you spectacles of your Rum-God's power, over which
ye may gloat to your heart’s content But know
that your cries-of victory will 9 :nd no chill of despair
to our hearts. We rely not on the aid of your party
leaders, who are lost to every sentiment but the love
of office, for the success of our Cause. It is the
Cause of humanity and truth, and we feel assured
that it must prevail. You may ignore if you can,
you may despise if you will; you may pour out upon
it the surcharged volume of vituperation; but you
cannot check it It dates its beginning from God;
it has received the unction of His Holy Spirit, and it
must go on, “conquering and to conquer,” until the
last foe has yielded to its power. *
A “Great” Sermon,
Anecdotes of the self-assuring ignorance of the
“Hard-Shell” ministry have become so common that
they have almost ceased to be ridiculous, The fol
lowing, which we take from the May Number of
Harper, may have been preached by a brother of
the one who “played on a harp of a thousand
strings.”
“During the summer I attended an association of
the Hard Shell Baptists in a western county of Geor
gia, At the appointed time on Sabbath morning a
plain preacher rose and conducted the usual intro
ductory services without exciting any special atten
tion. After reading the chapter in the Gospel of St.
John, where the blessed Saviour demands of Peter
three times ‘Lovest thou me i ’ he chose these words
as his text, and then solicited the prayers of the peo
ple in the following quaint address :
“Old Coles is in a tight piaco—has deep and mud
dy water to wade through—and now, dear brethcr
ing, he wants you to help him out by your prayers.”
The bretheren manifested their acquiescence by
audible groans. The preacher then went on to de
scribe the object of the Saviour’s mission to the
earth; gave his own opinion of the nature and ex
tent of the work he performed; his belief as to the
proper subjects and the mode of baptism; the final
perseverance of the saints; and nearly every doctrine
in and around the Gospel, till we had at least all the
theology that Preacher Coles had ever found in the
Bible; then he came down to the abomination of
building handsome churches and paying ministers
for preaching in them; the folly of fashion and the
sin of wearing silks and feathers, and all that sort of
thing; till at last he happened in his excursions to
stumble on his text, and suddenly wound up his
discourse in such words as these : ’
“Now, my dearly beloved brethering, Old Coles
don’t exactly agree with some of the Presbyterians
Methodist and the softer Baptists, as to our Lord’s
meaning when he axed that question, ‘Simon lov
est thou me more than these V Some of them’high
larnt, thousand-dollar preachers contend that he
meant, ‘is ™ur love for mo greater than for these
follow-disciples?’ Another set of the broadcloth
and satin-vest preachers contend that he meant ‘is
your love to me stronger than the love of the rest of
ifutwh 0 ?!? B *-’ i°I and i eS hain t ? ot uo education
ini SSf he J p,C H ed P bere and tW, while swing
{°, tbe Ptow-handles or swinging the ax—never
go- fai therthan the rule of three in rethmotic —
r u lhing abo , ut i°S ra P h y and such tomfoolry,
?" and bI , U whon U ScripteV
the old feller has a few wrinkles, and wouldn’t swap
places with any of them college chaps. Now, listen
dear brethering, and Old Coles will tell you in few
words what our Lord meant when he said, ‘lovest
thou me more than these r You know they had all
just been oating dinner, and that dinner was made of
nsh: at.d consequently, therefore, on this ero ac
count I conclude and reckon, that he meant to ask
Simon, ‘lovesi thou me more than thou lovestyM/’
1 wonder, dear brethering, if Peter would have made
the same answer if the question had been put to him
before dinner 1 Brethering, I rockon not 1”
This was pronounced with an air of aelf-cutiaficd
assurance, and with q few ‘♦preliminaryremarks,
the discourse was ended,
Smiles.
Smiles are beautiful reflections cast by the sod
upon the wails of its outer temple, which convey
some faint glimmerings of the hidden mysteries
within. They transcend the eloquent music of the
voice, or the impressive language of the beaming
eye, and hold immediate converse with “the heart of
hearts.” Who hath not felt t e power of friend
ship’s smile, as it steals over the troubled spirit, cha
sing from the brow each anxious frowst, and diffuse?
a placid joy through every faculty? It comas like
toe rich gushings of a lyinpid fountain to the weary
traveller, amid a scene of arid desolution. Ah, how
it smoothes every deformity, increases every beauty,
until the whole countenance beams with the Heaven
lit radiation of joy 1 But far exceeding this in all its
excellencies, is “the smile from partial beaut}’ won.”
It is the dawning of hope, more lovely than that
which heralds the rising sun, and more brilliant than
the glow which emblazons his retiring splendor.
But a smile is only the mirrored image of the
heart. A beautiful smile can not be reflected from a
heart where moral deformity reigns. All smiles art*
not interesting to contemplate or pleasing to behold.
There is tho simple smile, which always precede*
“tho k*ud laugh which speaks the vacant mind.”
There is the bland smile which means nothing, and
the patronising smile which is intended to speak
volumes of complaisance and condescension. There
is the faint, meagre smile of the miser as he chuckles
with inward delight over his ill-gained treasure, and
the feeble smile of the ascetic as he chases rt away
with a gloomy frown, ere it is half formed. And
the hollow-hearted hypo*'rite “grins horrible, s,
ghastly smile” wishing people to forget that “a naan
may smile, and smile, and be a viilian.”
Would you have & beautiful smile; a f>mie which
would speak of innocence, friendship, and Jove r
Then cherish goodness and virtue in your hearts.
Let kindness and charity be your ruling motives.
Then will your smile be like an ever-blooming flower
which yields its sweet fragrance to all around. *
The Sons in Jefferson.
A friend from Louisville has furnished us with
some interesting news from that place and countv.
There are three Divisions of Sons in the county, all
in a i}.igl\l\ flourishing condition. YVo are glad to
hear ofit, and hope they will all be valiant in the
cause which they have espoused. The time is now
at hand when we must have firm and true men to
attain success.
“December on the Lap of June. 55
After a week or two of the most delightful weath
er, we were last week visited bv another blast of
winter. Wo hope it is a farewell salute, and we feel
no reluctance at the parting. Wo entertained the
most serious apprehension for fruit, but we believe
it has thus far escaped unhurt.
A New Coat.
A handsome Coat has a tendency to “haudsotn
iae ’ a homely person;; but a handsome Coat on &,
handsome naan (as ourself for instance) is certainly
the handsomest thing of the handsome genus, and if
we hay ut a handsome Coat, then you can u(nnpi
tute our “red nose. ’ It was manufactured at the
Taiioring Establishment of Morgan & Tarwater,
where you may get one nearly as handsome by leav
ing your order.
Editorial Changes.
Friend T. A. Burke, recently of the Cassviile Stand
ard, has returned to Madison, formerly his home, aadt
taken the Editorial Chair of the- Visitor.
h riend C. L. Barbour has retired fi-ona Hie Atlanta
Examiner, and left its Editorial interest in the hands
of his co-Editor, Steel. We regret exceedingly, that
our sensibilities are no more to be regaled by the hu
mor, witticisms, and literary effusions of friend
Charlie.
—ml 1 a
ISIP’The following lines were sent to us by a
young friend, whose indulgence wo claim for giving
them an insertion in our columns. It is among her
earliest efforts, and of course wants the smooth flew
which is the result only’ of long practice in pootic
composition. Poetry of the highest order, cannot
of course be expected from girls of thirteen sura
mere. There is however a richness of imager?
about this which gives promise of better things.
Night has unlocked, and ope’d her casket wide,
And countless jewels sparkle, side by side;
Devices strange, appear ; and fastenings firm and
strong
Secure, now flowery wreath, now fiery serpents long.
Crosses of light, and crowns like glittering gold
Ghams oi the diamond’s lustre, things of curies
mould, *
With anchor of hope, and shield of Warrior famed.
Mtx strange; in olaspiugs strange aro
But mark one lonely gem, apart from all the rest.
With beauty and with dazzling brightness blest;
It seems to watch me, and oftimes to say
Lise al. things mortal, thou must pa.se sway.
Must leave this busy world of thorns and flower*
” hc ; r , e a,i H 0 S lid the fleeting hours,
Must leave this world of mirth, and joy and sorrow,
1 - mhnbiv realms where conies no more to-morrow.
Our Book Table.
Harper a Magazine. The May number Is more
than usually interesting. It contains an account of
Cora. Perry’s expedition to Japan; a continuation of
Dickens ‘“Little Dorrit,” and No. 5 of a well written
series on the Senses. His “easy chair” is as Jooww*.
as ever, ami his Drawer replete with humor,
$3 r, year.
G<ydey'& Lady's Book. “Excelsior” },i the motto
of Godey/and well do his promises and actions ac
cord. It is designed particularly for the ladies, and
he spares no pains in getting up a work in every
way worthy of their patronage. Price $3 a year.
Stop Papers.—Settle Arrearages.
P ersons ordering their papers discontinued, muse
invariably pay up all their dues. We shall not strike
off any subscriber’s name who is in arrears.
Let the List swelt
Wo shall keep a standing list published just hen;
in our paper, of those who shall aceeed to Mr. H.
Phinaaee’s proposition to raise three thousand dob
:ars to employ the Hon. B. H. Overby to lecture
through the State, the present year. Let the list
swell rapidly, for it is time he was now in the field
for the year is fast wearing away We hope by
next issue to publish a column of names. Let us
enter the names of every Division and Lodge of
Knights in the State. A few have already respond
ed, whose names will be seen below.
Glade Division, Oglethorpe, co., SIOO, 00.
Rev. J. Grisham, Canton, says Chero
kee will find two, 100, 0&.
Rev. H. Phinazee, Forsyth, 50, 09..
Taliaferro, county, 50, OCi
jj£jgf*'Drß, Coe & Latimer, late of
sire their correspondents to address
Jeffeißon county, N. Y. •