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. W==tr.:^ y0L_ XVIL . LEXINGTON. S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1887. NO. 41. ? KL~',
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DISCOURSE BY REV. DR. TALMAGE |
AT THE HAMPTONS.
The World Will Be Brought to God Not j
Through Argument, but Through Tea^kaonj-The
Christina's Weapon in the
Conflict Is Faith, Not Logic.
The Hamptons, Aug. 21.?"The Facts 1
Proved"' is the subject of discourse by ;
. the Rev. T. De "Witt Talmage, 'today. !
His text is from Acts xv, 8: "We are
witnesses." Following is his sermon in
full:
In the days of George Stephenson, the
perfector of the locomotive engine, the
scientists proved conclusively that a railway
train could never be driven
steam power successfully and without
peril, but the rushing express trains ;
from Liverpool to Edinburgh, and from
i Edinburgh to London, have made all the
^ nation wilnesses of the splendid achieve^^^^inent.
Machinists and navigators proved
^that a steamer could never
^ *^bf sucha^ij^ocean, but no sooner had
v mh ii il?n ??5fc^roved the impossibility
liuru, and the Innj^r than the work
and the White Sta^uers on the Cu
There went up a guffa^N^l8,110 '
" at Professor Morse's propositrtlifcj^^'3"
the lightning of heaven his erranSi^
and it was proved conclusively tliat^^,
thing could never be done; but now aL
the news erf the wide world, by Associated
Press put into your hands .every
morning and night, has made all nations
witnesses.
Soin the time of Christ it was proved
Conclusively that it was impossible for
him to rise from the dead. It was shown
logically that when a man was dead, he
was dead, and the heart and the liver and
the lungs having ceased to perform their
offices, yie limbs would be rigid beyond
all power of friction or arousal. They
showed it co be an absolute absurdity that
the dead Christ should ever get up alive;
but no sooner had they proved this than
the dead Christ arose, and the disciples
beheld him, heard his voice, and talked
with him, and. they took the witness
stand to prove that to be true which the
wiseacres of the day had proved to be im^
- - - * -
j uip recora oi the experiment
and o the tettimop^ is in the text: "Him
hath God raised from the dead, whereof
we are witnesses."
Now let me play the skeptic for a fcaoment.
"There is no God," says.the
skeptic, ' 'for^I have never seen him with
my physical eyesight. Your Bible is a
pack of contradictions. There never was .
a miracle. Lazarus was not raised from
the dead, and the water was never turned
j wine. Your v religion is an impoeion
on the credulity of theages." There
" ?7"\ aged man moving in that pew as
" '> would like to respond. Here
m * Z^iof n^Mfcyith faces a little
ftements, and all
a suppressed r1
speak out in
Chris
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nHI^^^H^nRHB^HPrriot
beautiP^^^nB^HHflpB^nllsavc
a soul.
and a man of the
^^wIRBRSeach other and the man of
the werld *ilT in all probability get the
triumph. There are a thousand things m
our religion that seem illogical to-the
vrtrld, and always .will aeem illogical.
Our weapon in this- fconflict
not logic; faith, not metaphysics; faith,
not nrofundity; faith, not scholastic ex
ploration. But then, in order to have
faith, we must have testimony, and if
five hundred men, or one thousand men,
or five hundred thousand men, or five
million men get up and tell me that they
have felt the religion of Jesus Christ a joy,
& comfort, a help, an inspiration, 1 am
bound as a fair minded man to accept
their testimony. I want just now to put *
^ ^before you three propositions, the truth
vhioh I think this audience will attest
with overwhelming unanimity.
The first proposition is: We are witnesses
that tl\e religion of Christ is able
to convert a soul.
The Gospel may have had a hard time
to conquer U3, we may have fought it
back, but we were vanquished. You say
conversion is only an imaginary
thing. We know better. "We are witnesses."
There never was so great a.
change in our heart and life on any other
subject as on this. People laughed at
the missionaries in Madagascar because
they preached ten years without one convert^
but there are 83,000 converts in
Madagascar today. People laughed at
Dr. Judson, the Baptist missionary, because
he kept on preaching in Burmah
* five years without a single convert; but
there are 20,000 Baptists in Burmah today.
"Tieople laughed at Dr. Morrison, in
China, for preaching there seven years
vithout a single conversion; but there are
15,000 Christians in China today. People
laughed at tlie missionaries for preaching
at Tahiti for fifteen years without a
single conversion, and at the missionaries i
preaching -in Bengal for seventeen
^^^^years without a single* conversion; yet in j
all those lands there are multitudes of j
. Christians today.
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But why go so rar to nna evidences oi
the Gospel's power to saye a soul? "We
are witnesses." We were so proud that
no man could have humbled us; we were
so hard tliat no earthly power could have
melted us; angels of God were all around
. about us; they could not overcome us;
but one day, perhaps at a Methodist
anxious seat, or at a Presbyterian dathechetical
lecture, or at a burial or on
horseback, a power seized us, and made
us get down, and made us tremble, and
made us kneel, and made us cry for
mercy, and we tried to wrench ourselves
away from the grasp, but we could not.
It fltrag us flat, and when we arose we
were as much changed as Gourgis, the
heathen, who went into a prayer meeting
with a daggpr and a gun to disturb
the meeting and'destroy it, but the next
day was found crying: "Oh! my great
-- - -^?* ?"
sins! Oh! my great oavwuii
eleven years preached the Gospel of
Christ- to his fellow mountaineers, the
last words on his dying lips being "Free
grace!" Oh, it was free grace!
There is a man who was for ten years
a hard drinker. The dreadful appetite
' liad sent down its roots around the palate
and the tongue, and on down until
they were interlined with the vitals of
body, mind and soul; but he lias not
taken any stimulants for two years,
* What did that? Not temperance soci.Qr
ties. Not prohibition laws. Not moral
suasion. Conversion did it. "Why/
said one upon whom the great change
had come, "sir, I feel just as though I
were somebody" else.''
There is a sea* captain who swore all
> the way from New York to Havana, and
from Havana to San Francisco, and
when he was in pert lie way worse than
when he was on the sea. What power
was it that washed liis tongue ciearj of
profanities, and made him a psalm singer?
Conversion by the Holy Spirit,
I '
There are thousands of people in this (lionse
to-night who are no more what !
they'once were than a water lily is night- j s
shade, or a morning lark is a vulture, or 0
day is night. . ! ^
I Now, if I should demand that all those ' ?
people in tliis house who have felt the ! E
converting power of religion should rise, r
so far from being ashamed, they would J
spring to their feet with more alacrity *
than the}T ever sprang to the dance, the r
tears mingling with their exliilaration as j 1
they cried: "We are witnesses!" And ?
if they tried to sing the old Gospel hymn, ^
they would break down with emotion by 8
the time they got to the second line: 3
Ashamed of Jesus, that dear friend ?
On whom my hopes of heaven depend? *
v No! When I blush, be this my shame: \
That I no more revere his name. ]
Again, I remark that '.'we are wit- *
ne&ses" of the Gospel's power to comfort.
When a man has trouble the world
corner in and says: "Now, get your (
mind off this; go out and breathe the
fresh air: plunge deeper into business."
What poor advice. Get your mind off of
it! when everything is upturned with
the bereavement and everything reminds '
you of what you have lost. Get your
mind off of it! They might as well ad- j .
vise you to stop thinking. You cannot f
stop thinkings and, ydu cannot stqp>}mik
> " - ii "walk hi 1
mg ra ^ ^ that very j ,
the fresh aff! *she once ac- | J
street, or tha "T that grass plot : ;
comivmrf you. O that show ! ?
h?8 /U^Ke ST, fascinated, saying:
Ncilldow Slie )00#vy> ,, ^ ,1,wM>rrr 1
EW? see the pictures. Go decpu ?
' f^fiisivvess! Why, she was associateu .
sincesawmr business . ambition, and
1 left. you have no ambition
Oh, this isa\ ,, , . ;f 1
fries to comfort aS^v world when . ,
build a Corliss enguRl> heart. 1 ca (
Raphael's "Madonna, ??} ]
thoven's symphony a3 Yp'^' a <
world can comf ort a broken*/ ^ . . <
yet you have been comforted.' I
it done? Did Christ come to 5^ 1
say,. "Get your mind off this; "go oK. ^ t
breathe the fresh air; plunge deeper*? 1
business?" No. There was a minuv^' 1
when he camo to you?perhaps in theV,
'watches of the night, perhaps in your
place of business, perhaps along the street
?and he breathed something into your
soul that gave peace, rest, infinite quiet,
so that you could take out the photograph
of the departed one and look into
the eyes and the face of the dear one and
say: "It is all right; she is better off; I
would not call her back. Lord, I thank
thee that thou hast comforted my poor
heart."
There are Christian parents here who
are willing to testify to the power of this
Gospel to comfort.. Your son had just
xiwlu. svaooi or-college and was
going into business and the Lord took
him. Or your daughter had just gradu- ,
ated from the young ladies' seminary and \
you thought she. was going to be a useful ]
woman and of long life, but the Lord j
took her and you were tempted to sav: ?
4'All this culture of twenty "years for ?
nothing!'; Or the little ohild came home 4
from school with the hot fever that ^
stopped not for the agonized prayer or for c
the skilful physician, and the little child t
was taken. Or the babe was lifted out of t
your arms by wme quick epidemic and s
take it away. And yet you are not repin- *
ing, you are not fretful, you are not fight- L
hag against God. * s
What has enabled you to stand all the a
trial? "Oh," you say, "I took the medi- '
cine that God gave my sick soul. In my S
distress I threw myself at the feet of a \
sympathizing God; and when I was tfco
weak to pray, or to look up, he breathed l
into me a peace that I think must be t^9 I
foretaste of that heaven where there is g
neither a tear, nor a farewell, nor a s
grave." Come, all ye who have been 1
out to the grave to weep there? come, all t
ye comforted souls, get up off your j
knees. Is there no power in this Gospel t
to soothe the heart? Is there no power l
in this religion to quiet the worst par- c
oxysm of grief? There comes up an
answer from comforted widowhood, and s
^V>Anooa Onrl ^il^laconocc caxrrnor* f
"Aye; aye, we are witnesses!" ^
Again, I remark that we are witnesses ]
of the fact that religion has power to give t
composure in the last moment. I shall t
never forget the first time I confronted {
death. We went across the cornfields in i
the country. I was led by my father's 1
hand, and we came to the farmhouse
where the bereavement had come, and
we saw the crowd of wagons and car-? J
riages; but there was one carriage that '1
especially attracted my boyish attention,
and it had black plumes. I said:
"What's that? what's that? Why those 1
black tassels at the top?" and after it was
I explained to me I was lifted up to look
upon the bright face of an aged Christian
woman, who three days before had de- i
parted in triumph. The whole scene i
j made an impression I never forgot. '<
In our sermons and in our lay exhorta- I
tions we are very apt, when we want to
bring illustrations of dying triumph, to 3
go back to some distinguished personage 1
?to a John Knox or a Harriet Newell. I
But I want you for witnesses.
I want to know if you have ever seen 1
anything to make you believe that the
religion of Christ can give composure in
the final hour. Now, in the courts, attorneys,
jury and judge will never admit
mere hearsay. They demand that" the
witness must have seen with his own 1
eyes, or heard with his own ears, and so '
I am critical in my examination of you ;
now; and I want to know whether you i
have seen <jr heard anything that makps 1
you believe that the religion of Christ :
gives composure in the final hour.
"Oh, yes," you say, "I saw my father 1
and mother depart. There was a great
difference in their death beds. Standing 3
by the one we felt more veneration. By '
the other, there was more tenderness."
Before the one, you bowed perhaps in
awe. In the other case, you felt as If j
you would like to go along with her.
How did they feel in that last hour? 1
How did they seem to act? Were they 1
very* much frightened? Did they take
hold of this world with both hands as
though they did not want to give it up? ;
4'Oh, no," you say; "no, I remember as '
though it were yesterday; she had a kind
word for us all, and there were a few
mementoes distributed among the chih
dren, and then she told us how kind wo '
must be to our father in his loneliness,
and then she kissed us goodby and went
asleep as a child in a cradle."
What made her so composed? Natural
courage? "No," you say, "mother wasvery
nervous. When the carriage inclined .
to the side of the road, she would cry
out; she was always rather weakly."
What, then, gave her composure? Was
it because she did not care much for you,
and the pang of parting was not great?
"fch," you say, "she showered upon us
a wealth of affection; no mother ever
loved her children more than mother
loved us; she showed it by the way she
nursed us when we were sick, and sho
toiled for us until her strength gave out.;
: What, then, was it that gave Jier comj
posure in the last hour? Do not hide if. I
[ .Be frank and let me know. "Ob." you J
I say, "it was because she was fo good; j
she made the Lord her portion, and she !
had faith that she would go straight to ;
"glory, and that we should all m?et her at
last at the foot of the throne."
Here are people who say: "I saw a
*
Christian brother die, ana lie triumphed." j
Lnd some one else: *1 saw a Christian J
istor die, and she triumphed." ' Some":
no else will say: saw a Christian j
laughter die, and she''triumphed." j
hme, all ye who have seen the last
iioments of a Christian, and give testinony
in this cause on trial. Uncover
:our heads, put your hand on the old
arnily Bible, from which they used to
ead the promises, and . promise in the
>resence of high heayen that you will tell
he truth, the whole truth and nothing
>ut the truth. With what you have
een with your own eyes, and from-what
rou have heard with your own ears, is
here power in this Gospel to give calmless
and triumph in the last exigency?
rhe response comes from all sides, from
roung and old and middle aged: 4'We
tl U ?* IVUUMVU*
You see, my friends, I fiaye not put
before you an abstraction, or a chimera,
>r anything like guess work. I present
rou affidavits of the best men and women,
iving and dead. Two witnesses in court
will establish a fact. Here are not two
witnesses, but thousands of witnessed?
">n earth millions of witnesses, and in
leaven a great, multitude of witnesses
mat no man can number, testifying that
:here is power in tfiis religion to convert
he soul, to give comfort in trouble, and
:o afford composure in the last hour.
If ten men should come to you when
rou are sick with appalling sickness, and
ay they had the same sickness, and took
t certain medicine, and it cured them,
rou would probably take it. Now, sup>09e.
ten other men should come up and
>ay: "We don't believo there is anything
n that medicine." "Well," I say,
"have you ever tried it?"
"No. I never tried it, but I don't beiieve
there is anything in it." Of course
pou discredit their testimony. The
skeptic may come and say: "There is no
power in your religion." "Have you
3ver tried it?"- "No, no." "Then
1 vaunt P Let me take the testimony of
'he millions of souls that haye been concerted
to God and comforted in trial and
solaced in the last hour. We will take
.heir testimony as they cry: "Wo are
witnesses!"
Some* time ago Professor Henry, of
^srtington, discovered a new star and
"*e ?Win<?a srwvi bv'submarine teleoranh.
and ali the observatories of Europe were
watchir^for tiiat new star. Oh, hearer,
ooking othr trough the darkness of thy
eoul, canst thou see a bright light beaming
on thee? 4'Where?" you say, ' 'where?
How can I find h?" Look along by the
liDe of the cross of the Son of God. Do
you not se^it trembling with all tenderness
and beaming with all hope? It is
the Star of Bethlehem.
Deep horror then my vitals froze;
Death struck L ceased the ti de to stem.
When suddenly a star arose?
1 It was the Star of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearer, get your eye on it. It is
sasier for. you now to become Christians
than it is to stay away from Christ and
leaven. When Mme. Sontag began
ler musical career she was hissed .off the
ttage at Vienna by the friends of her
ival, Amelia SteiniDger, who had already
)egun to decline through her dissipation,
fears passed on, and one day Mme.'
lontag, in her glory, was riding through
he streets.' of Berlin, when she saw a litle
child leading a
'That's my mother; that^^^l^^^nnger.
She used'to be a great gS&^tfut
he lost her v6ice, and she cried so much
.bout it that she lost her eyesight."
'Give myJove to her," said Mme.
iontag, "a3ra tell her an old acquaintance
rill call on' her this afternoon."
The next week in Berlin a vast assemilage
gathered at a benefit for that poor
>lind woman, and it was said that Mme.
kratag sang that night as she had never
,n ng before. And she, took a skilled ocuJfrfr
TrrVi/k in noin 4~rickf^ (rivfi OVPWtrVlt. tA
I'UV/ ~ -O? -~
he poor bund woman. Until the day of
Amelia Steininger's deatli Mme. Sontag
ook care of her, and her daughter after
ler. That was what the queen of song
lid for her enemy. . rf.
But, oh, hear a moro thrilling story
till. Blind, immortal poor and lost, \
hou who, when the world and Clirist
vere rivals for thy hfeart, didst hiss thy
Lord away?Christ comes now to give
hee sight, to give thee a home, to give
hee heaven. With more .than a Sontag's
generosity*he comes now to meet your
iced. * With more than a Sontag's'music
le comes to plead for thy deliverance. '
It is said that all the elements of the
attlesnake's poison are to be found in
:he common Irish potato.
3? '
It is hard to estimate the exact value of
what one does one's self.?Ciu-isiian Keid.
Curious Hysterical Epidemic.
A curious outbreak of convulsionist
nania, analogous to those which occurred
?rom time to time during the middle
iges, has shown itself at Agosta, in the
province of Eome.
For some weeks jxist tho country people
have been laboring under the delusion
that the district is under -the immediate
government of the evil one, and before
retiring to rest they carefully place on
the tlireshold the broom and the salt,
which are credited with the power of
keeping off evil spirits. Many of the
younger women have epileptiform attacks,
during which they. utter piercing
shrieks and are violently convulsed. So
serious had the condition of things become
that the syndic of Agosta found it
necessary to inform the prefect, who sent
detachments of soldiers into the district
in order to calm the apprehensions of the
inhabitants.
As a natural consequence of this condition
of mental perturbation the country
is overrun with quacks, who claim to
possess the only infallible remedy for the
seizures. One of these nostrums, the
vender of which was making a rich harvest
from its sale, was found on analysis
to consist of earth, snuff and borax.
Ihree medical men who were commissioned
to investigate the cause and nature
of tills extraordinary affection came to
the conclusion that it was ah epidemic of
hysteria.
They examined a number of the sufferers,
mostly young women, some of whom
were alleged to have vomited nails,
horseshoes and other equally indigestible
substances, while others barked like dogs.
Several of them were removed to Home
for treatment in the hospitals there, and
measures have been taken to check the
spread of the mischief.
In a milder degree this contagious form
of hysteria is not infrequent, especially
in places where ignorance and superstition.
favor manifestations of nervous disorder.
The worst excesses of popdlar
outbreaks, like the French revolution,
have been attributed to similar iniluences
and with every appearance of justice.?
British Medical Journal.
Jubilee Fever in New Zealand.
They have had the jubilee fever very
Strong in New Zealand. The Herald of
that colony contains abundant evidence
of the fact. Hero is one advertisement:
"Wanted?Two jubilee ladies want two
jubilee husbands. Apply 2-5 Queen
street." Here is another: "Wanted?
Jubilee wives, husbands, housemaids,
waitresses, housekeepers, barmaids and
genccaJ servants, can ix* had for the listing.
A. McLeod, 25 Queen street."?
New York Tribune.
WHOM THE NEWSPAPERS NOTICE.
People Who A.ro Well Known, and What
Is Said About Them.
A son of Charles Dickens is to bo one
j of the social lions in New York next fall.
Lawyer Belva Lockwood is going to
lecture in New York state on the woman
question.
\ Dom Pedro paid much attention to the
Pasteur institute in Paris, with a view to
| founding a branch of it in Brazil, where
; mad dogs abound.
Mrs. Augq^h Evans Wilson is to rise
from her loijfc literary slumber, and will
publish a ne^rfcrovel in the early fall. It
will be entitled "At the Mercy of Tibe!
rius." ' ,
; Florence Dunn, the little London school
prl who received a ring from the queen's
j hand for not missing a day at school for
j seven years, is an Irish lassie from Tipi
perary.
Mrs. Crawford, Paris correspondent of
The London Daily News and Truth, is
said to earn $10,000 a year by her pen?
the largest sum made by any woman out
! oF journalism.
{ The dissipated monarch of Hawaii has
I gone into literature. He is writing a
1 lx>ok: \o be sailed the "Myths and Mois of
the Hawaiian Islands.". The ex-United
j States minister reads his copy and makes
| suggestions, and a .New York firm will
publish it. ^ .
The Boston Transcript mentions that
the mother of the late Sylvaniis Cobb.,
Jr., had in her veins the blood of the
Hales, the Waites and the Stanwoods.
j She was a first cousin of Mrs. James G.
' Mioo Akirrail TVvfryn
; JLUtfuJLUs iUIU
The empress of Japan, accompanied by
a retinue of twenty persons, will visit the
i United States in October. She will land
: at San Francisco, stop at Salt Late,
: Omaha and Chicago, and return, after a
I two months' sojourn, by the Southern
| Pacific route.
i Jefferson Davis and Thomas L. CHngman,
of North Carolina, are the only exsenators
now living of all the southern
! members of that body who, in July, 1861,
were expelled from the' United States
senate for having left their seats and
| gone over to the Confederacy.
Mme. Christine Nilsson hag among her
| treasures photographs with autographs
i attached which have been presented her
; by the queen of Spain, empresses of
; Russia and Austria, the queens of Greece,
i Sweden, and ^Norway, the. Princess of
i Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh and
j many other royal ladies." Mme. Nilsson
| is probably the richest prima donna in
j the world, and .was the poorest when she
| l>egan her career.
Mrs. Leonard Swett, nee Marie Decker,
j who has just married the well known
. Chicago lawyer; was her husband's con
l fidential clerk and partner in business for
I a number of years. Her interest in the
i firm at the time of her marriage amounted
! to $5,000 a year. Storting out as book;
keeper, she was soon placed in charge of >
! the vaults, and was the only one who
| knew where to place hands upon imi
portant papers oohnected wifh. ail the
! varied interests intrusted with the firm.
In two years she became cashier in addiI
tion to the other trusts,jgid Itf* fOfcJfflCT
ti~
! she toas admitted as a partP^^p^^^p
VJ iuo ivcvj ijunui x Wi]Q
has just celebrated his seventy-eighth i
birthday in Boston, the poet %}rffctier '
writes: "More than fifty years agot mc^ j
j liim at the convention which formed j
first temperance society in Essex cou*y j
and about the same time at the format^' j
of the Essex Anti-Slavery society. Sim
: then liis genial face and cheeriri& vou j
; liave been rkrely missed wherever tk '
causes of temperance and freedom mei
i together. He was always .a welcome *
! speaker. Like President Lincoln, he had]
j. the gift of story telling, and .fiis stories
were always to the point, putting to
i shame his opponents with ready wit and
{ humor." ^ . ..
The funeral of Miss Jennie Collins, the
! philanthropic lady who established a
! home for poor girls in Boston, was a
! most impressive one. Girls she'had bo
, friended in their need, and sorrowing
\ fronds were there. Some wept silently,
: se^ue lingered and passed their bands lov!
fi^ly and tenderly over the brow of the
1 Head woman, others wept outright and
were led away by friends, while in the
corners of the vestibule and on the pavement
near the church men and women
gathered in groups and told of little
deeds of kindness and thoughtfulness
which had endeared little Jennie Collins
to each personally, and grieved over the
loss of one so true and faithful to her self
imposed trusts,
i ? - -
Theodore Kooseveit speaxs enmusiasu;
cally of ranch women. He lells of Mrs.
; Bishop Hiff "Warren, who is worth $10,
000,000, and made it on cattle with no
; assistance other than her mother wit.
i Another cattle queen, Mrs. Rogers, of
j Corpus Christi, Tex., a fearless rider,
I goes over the range as frequently as the
ranchmen she employs. Sho started with
| a few cattle on a small scale, and lias now
; amassed $1,000,000, and is every day enj
larging her enterprises. A rich widow,
I a Mrs. Massey, of Colorado, went there
| as an agent of a life insurance company
i and married a man owning 150,000 head
J of cattle.
Tar Heel Squirrels.
A farmer named Corner, of Roane
-county, W. Va., has invented a new plan
to catch squirrels, which has proven a;
great success. He has a larg<? corn field,
j which borders on the woods, and which
I the squirrels have almost devastated during
the past season. Having liit upon a
; plan, he first, watched the animals, and
| found that when they had made a raid
i and retired they retreated to the woods
almost invariably along one particular
line of fence. Having learned this fact,
| Corner covered the top rails of that line
i of fence with tar, putting on a heavy
; coat. This he did in the evening, and in
the morning when he went to the field
I lie saw a long line of squirrels running
! along the fence toward the woods. They
! succeeded in clearing the fence, but when
j they struck the woods the leavqs and
i sticks stuck to their leet so Dacuy mat
j they could not climb the trees nor run
very far even on the leaves. The first
J capture amounted to twenty-seven squirrels,
and within a week Corner had
killed and captured over 100 squirrels by
his unique device.?Christian Advocate.
There's Something In that Hoy,
A funny sight the other afternoon was
j a little urchin about 10 years old, who,
having sold all his papers for the day,
took out of a sachel swung across his
i shoulders a clean blue and white shirt,
j which, after washing his face and hands:
j and drying them on the soiled shirt, he
j proceeded to put on. Tjben he brushed
; his trousers and boots, brushed bis hair
I .with a brush carried in the sachel, and,'
1 having dusted his hat and replaced it
upon his head, ?be really did look muck
I improved. Then he danced a hornpipe,
I He next proceeded to dine on tho curb
| stone, spreading out thereon a piece 0
paper, two liam sandwiches, a piece d
gingerbread and*a slice of watermelon
After this fine repast he washed it dowj
with water from the Jerry McAule
fountain. And then came, to me, tl;
most remarkable part of the whole pi?/
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rarmer who was a friend of mine near
Hollonville, who owned a very fine cow
whioh had a most promising heifer calf.
The cow died while the calf was very
young, and the calf, as the saying goes,
had to be raised by hand, and of course
as the farmer's wife "took'a hand" in
its. nurture and admonition, when the
heifer grew to maturity "she was a
daisy." But let me back to the subject
of physical training. While the
poor little orphan heifer was passing
through the first stages of grief for the
irreparable loes of her kind and tender
mother, 6he would soek sympathy from
every source, and early every morning
when my farmer friend would rise te
feed his stock the little orphan would
meet him at the door as he came out and
rub up against him and hold up her little
black nose to be caressed, and the farmer,
touched by these demonstrations of
affection and being a kind hearted
man, overflowed with sympathy for the
m^Vinvloae nfiH urifK f/wra In hfa
j ceeding. \Ho actually stooped down co
the lower oaSrin, intended for dogs and
cats, and proceeded to wash tho soiled
checked shirt fte had previously worn. It
! was duly rir.sedl wrung out and hung up
on. the iron railing amrrounding the'flower
garden to dry. All^ this time I sat in a
building directly op>posite, awaiting my
turn to come at my dentist's, who told
i me afterward that the small boy was a
daily frequenter of the fountain, and bo
, didn't believe the _l^d had any other
home.? Springfield Union.
A New English Game.
A new game called ^ringoal has come
into favor i;i England vthis summer, and
i forms an addition to\ tennis at garden
j parties and fashionable outdoor gather|
ings. The'game require ' two goals in
the shape ci" nets, gra^s It ps and sticks.
I* The hop is thrown to a\l fro between
tho pflyers, the thrower\ scoring one
point each time that He succeeds in sending
the hoop past his opponnent into the
goal. This the other player tries to prei
vpnt b* catching the hoop on one or both
I of Ills *sta*s|Ptiid it lie is success! ui ne
: throvr^Xln'.cK at Lis opponent, in order,
: if jxmbfe, io get it into his goal.?Chicago-feues.
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PARAGRAPHS OF INXEREST> *.
.Twefify-seven thousand emigrants landed
at Castle Garden during *th6 month of
July. X ^
The millers are hext talking of organizing
a trust.
A failure to vaccinate is punished at
Phcenk, A. T., by $300 nne or six
I month* in jail.
People say that next winter different
; colored lace parlor window curtains will
be the fashion.
j n The digging for the foundations of the
i new Roman Catholic cathedral at Peking
j has been begun.
A San Jose,. Cal., bicyclist is having a
I machine made in the east with a nine
; foot wheel, and which will run a mile a
j minute.
|
A law designed to prevent girls under
i the age .of 15 years from begging or peddling
has been admitted to the statute
books of Massachusetts.*
The police matron system is about to
| be adopted by the Cincinnati department,
j It is found to havoworked in Philadelphia
with excellent results.
f
The Buffalo Ccnrier declares that'tit is
! safe, to isay there are 75,000 people in'
i Buffalo today" that have never seen
Niagara Falls not heard their Cbaring.
Some^^ha.-cottages at Bar Harbor
hai^Jfl^^Hight a tiny and brass
* ^U^^^J^Khich is inscribed the name
given it. This is the
ilaT^^^^Hvrrinkie. '
San^^^Bteco's historic "Sand Lot" is
to be no^Kre. By order of the super1
visors of city it has been sown with
I clover. jHirney is the proprietor of a
I peaceful in&lligence office.
Somebc^w has discovered that Danief
! Webster StJ no right to practice in the
i United St.As supreme court. It is a
i little late r?w to do anything about it.,
j and we dot^t know as thire is anything
y^e^^K of the Philadelphia zoo are
j S^E^dant!?ye?
I trou
the
put at^^0Raf VashingtoiTintne east
parlor, f j /
Sixty i thousand orange trees are on theit
way tos California from Japan, where ?
they were shipped (in board of an English
bark in the harbor of Yokohama about
two weeks ago. Vith them also comes
a miscellaneous ass?rtmeqt of over 90,000
trees and shrubs, indigenous to Japan,
which it is proposed to acclimatize in
California:
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During her majesty s journey from
Windsor to Gkwportthe royal saloon was
made cool by meazB of wooden frameworks
on each side, covered with felt
and canvas, which were kept saturated
with iced water, so that the temperature
was exceedingly peasant, although if
was one of the hottest days of this tropical
summer. . .
Mrs. Island Stanford's Charity.
The other day & lady visited the
Women's ud Children's hospital in San
Francisco, and was, says The Alta, particularly
aifected at the sight of the many
liitlc childrtn, whose wan faces and distorte*l*fonn
told of intense bodily anguish.
jSJm sight of one little fellow,
whose suff^ngs are of a peculiarly harrowing
natire and whose patience is the
wonder of ill who see him, so affected
this kind T&arted lady that the tears
flowed fast is she bent'over his tiny crib.
The attendants of the hospital wero unaware
of ;ke identity of the lady until
she registered just before her departure
as Mrs. LsUnd Stanford. Next day the
children's <wara was thrown into wild
excitemert and joy by the receipt of an
immense package of toys.. The mana-'
gers of tba hospital were not forgotten,
for to thea Mrs. Stanford sent a check. i
for $1,001, which was doubly acceptable,
for it caoie at a time when the funds
were muh depleted.?New York Tri- 1
bune. *
Sort 6f Careless Style.
Now <ones a tutor in penmanship in
one of tie down town commercial
schools, who informs the club man that
the day of angular penmanship has
passed. It is English still in England,
for they don't change over there as often
as we de, but it is not the proper caper
any more in this cotintry. Asked what
the thmgin penmanship now is the professor
retlied: "Oh, ei sort of careless
style?asif the writer didn't care. The ,
idea is tlat it denptee independence, and
the Anwrican girl of the present day
wants tqmake it appear that she doesn't
- care d caitinental about anybody." So
to be in style, be .careless.?Chicago Mail. 1
Keeping Up Appearances.
An Allany newspaper says that there
j are families in that town who have got
, 'the art of keeping up appearances reduced
to a science. When they want to
make tluir neighbors think that they
have gone into the country they are not
content with the old plan of shutting the
front blinds and living in the back of the
house. They leave their^ newspapers on
the front piazza, apparently neglected;
but they take them in at night and read
them, at the same time supplying the
piazza with old l&pers for the next day's
masquerade.?New York Sun.
Could Carry a Oow.
One of the most remarkable instance*
of physical training that I ever knew ocj
curred in Pike county. There 'was a
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eyee he took it up under his arm and carried
it with him to the lot and fed the
stock, jpd then wouM carry the calf
back to the house.
In the meantime the farmer's wife had
prepared food for the calf, and then
would feed it Every morning this was
repeated pntil it became a confirmed
habit of tne farmer to carry the calf to
' t?te lot and then back to the house to be
fed, and it became a part of the calf's
existence, and it would not eat at all
without this treatment And thus it
went on; years passed, and the heifer
grew to be a.large oow, weighing 800
pounds, and her growth was so gradual
that it was imperceptible to the fanner,
as he had accustomed himself to carry
the daily increasing weight, and it had
never occurred to him that there was any
more effort necessary to carty the full
grown cow than there was to carry her a
little, motherless, orphan heifer. Yet,
strange to say, that if the farmer was
called on to raise a weight of 200 pounds
he could not do it, but an 800 pound.cow
was an easy load, simply because his
physical training was in that line.?Uor.
Griffin (Ga.) News.
Our Sunday-schools Must Teach
the Doctrines of Our Church.
address delivered by
Rev. E. L. Lybrand, at the Sandayschool
Convention in St. Stephens
Church, Lexington, S. C., August
14,1887.
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Many Christians fail, in practice if
not iD theory, to give doe credibility to
that verse of wisdom, which declares:
'Train up a child in the way he should
go, and when he is old be will not
depart from it." The great body of
Christians profess to believe that all
scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for Reproof, for correction, for instrucffaSn
in ridrhteou^fl ? ~"Y)f course no
0f flod's word with'reference
yard in a 1 doctrines a&'repentfcb,
holiness of heart and life,
ruction of the wicked, and the
ng blessedness of believers. ;
nparatively few realize as
troth, "Train np a child in
it shoold go.n The church
under the old dispensation had children
iqcorporated within it, and the
heads of families were required ' by
A1 i to i- i i. _ii I
me Jkcernai raiaer 10 ceaco an iuv
precepts of the law to their children..
Not only the precepts of law/bcrt the
ceremonies, rights and meaniog of
the principal feasts were to be tanght
and explained to the yonng. And
the last command of onr blessed
Savionr, to His disciples was: Go
make disciples of all nations, baptising
them in the nan^p of the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost; teaching them
to .observe all things whatsoever I
have commanded you. Reiterating
the Old Testament injunction of
bringing children in the church as
well as adults, and of teaching them
to observe all things whatsoever He
had command. Christ commanded
Peter to feed the lambs as well as
the sheep. And wheD, on a certain
occasion, the disciples rebuked certain
ones for trespassing upon the
Saviour's time in offering to Him little
children. He said: "Suffer little children
to come unto me* and forbid
tbem not, for of such is ihe kingdom
of heaven. And whosoever shall offend
one of these little ones which believe
in me, it were better that a millstone
were hanged about his neck and that
he were drowned in the depth of the
sea." Beyond .? doubt, Christian
training is as clearly revealed as any
other doctrine, and children are proper
subjects for it; " For of each is
the kingdom of heaven." .The chnrch
is largely composed of children; the
charch militant and. the chnrch triumphant.
In thq Mosaic dispensation,
parents were positively required
by God to teach their children. Hence,
the children were early tanght to
reverence God's law, to obey its precepts,
and with the meaning of the
worship of the sanctuary they wore
thoroughly acquainted. Thus as one
veneration passed away another was
ready to take its .place, having the
same law,'the same feasts, the same
worship. We observe, then, very
little change in Jewish customs and
worship from Moses to Christ, a
period of many hundred .years; and
with reference to worship, comparatively
none. The same may, in the
mean, be said of Judaism from Christ
down to the present. This oneness
of life and worship may largely be
attributed to the careful manner in
which the children were taught the
truths of their religion. Nor will the
time ever come when parents should
fail to teach their children in those
principles which are to control their
after life. The admonition will ever
be binding. "Fathers provoke not
yonr children to wrath, but bring
them np in the nnrtnre and admonition
of the Lord." The charch in
our families should teach every member
of the church and famdy, the faith
of the church, and to know the foundation
upon which she is builded.
The church, however, in its united
efforts offers to assist the family
church in teaching the children
the fear of the. Lord. This
assist&Qce offered and given by the
united church constitutes as what is
known as helps to family training.
Prominent ampng these helps in these
latter days,/is the Sunday-school.
The object of the Snoday-school is to
instruct and train the children to
properly take their places in the
church. It is not an independent
organization as the practice of some
would go to show. ' Id many Sundayschools,
especially in our large cities,
it is thought enough for the children
to attend the Sunday-school, but no
effort is made to keep them in the
sanctuary during the regular services
of the church. As if the children had
no use for the preached word. And
any SQoday-sckool that presumes to
train children and yet ignores tbo
regular worship of God's house, is
exerting do good for Christ or the
church. 'It is that kind of training
which trainB children to do without
knowing how or what to do.* The
Sunday-school is very properly styled
the nursery of the church. And just as
the little twigs in the nursery have
to be trimmed and cultivated so that
the sprigs may become trees and bear
the fruit of the parent tree, so in the
nursery of the church, the Sundays,
school, the children, with their plastic
minds are to be trained Tor usefalneei|
io the cbarch. The moral nature o:
the child is to be developed byxterefal
training, so that Christian fruit
may produce and develop tBreon.
i But as the Sunday-school is te nurj
sery of the church and aimsto help I
! the charch, it must of necessty teach
the doctrines and prioriyie> of the
church. . / L ^
or grapcon thistles, so a Lutheran*""*
Sunday $ool is not the place to
tcaio a eld for aoy other faith. I
repeat thfcame idea, if our faith is
the faith c God's word, then God
commandfius to teach our children
that faith. "If Hebrew parents permitted
their children to grow np in
ignorant of tie tenants of their religion
arid to stray about from Sunday
school to Sunday-school, according to
their own whin*? or ndtions, or because
some one mxj perchance say it
is nncharitable to dt otherwise, "how
long would Jadaism continue to exist?
God's way is best; let. us then
follow it, training up our children in
the nature and admotion of the Lord,
and in the knowledge of the doctrine,
discipline and worship of the church.
Bat now let as consider our duty
in Lutheran Sunday-schools by a
brief study of others. And I have
already referred to Judaism, which
ought to be an ample illustration of
this matter. How she has, from the
the days of Abraham to the present,
maintained a onenes^in her religions
worship, and that all along down
through this long, long period of
time, she has never lost sight of the
dnty, as well as the necessity of teaching
tHe children the tenants of her
faith. Tliis, I say, ought to be sufficient
to forever set our minds at rest,
that we, as Latherans, are to teach
anything to our children except the
principles of our church. But io
order to give us more information let
us notice a few other examples, equally
illustrative. Suppose the Romish
'church were to teach her children
Protestant principles, how loDg would
Romanism exist? The Romish church,
however, has beeD zealous in inculcating
her doctrines in all her members.
And to make a success, she
removed the Bible from the laity, in
order that tbey might study only the
Oanobs of the church. Apply this
argument to the Mahometan religion. |
If Mohometan conn-tries would allow |
their children to associate with Chris
tiane and receive unnsuan iruiuiug,
from what source woald Mohometanism
draw its increase. "If satan's
kingdom be divided against itself,
satan's kingdom will come to nanght.
One more illustration. And this
one we take from what is commonly
called part of Protestantism. There
is an organized society "Of Christians
known as the Baptist. The great
distinguishing feature of the Baptist
is the doctrine of immersion. That
immersion .or dipping the subject in
water is the only correct mode of
baptism. Now, if the Baptist cease
to believe in immersion, 1! tbey relinquish
their cardinal principle, there
remains no longer the Baptist church.
They are bound to maintain immersion
as long as they desire to maintain
the identity of the Baptist chnrcb.
Now if the Baptist would everywhere
send their children to Pedobaptist to
receive Christian training, and depend
upon adults who are outside of the
church, for their increase, tbey would
lose more oy death in one year than
they would gain in several. And
what shall I say in regard to our beloved
Lutheran church? With her
great principle of justification by faith
as the doctrine of all doctrines, she is
bound-to teach her children the phin
of salvation. Do we find fault with
the Cbnrch of Rome for teaching
hers, or the Baptist or Methodist, or
any one else, for teachiBg their's?
No; ifris,tlje errors that underlie the
different 9ystem that we contend with,
bat not with their connections of
daty to teach their children. '
Shall oar beloved charcb, the
charch of the Reformation, the church
built upon the foundation of the >
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ. being
the cornerstone be too timid to
teach her children the plan of salva- .
tion in the fear of the Lord?
We believe oar church is right.
Sorely there is no one present, claiming
to be a Lutheran,' who does not ^
believe the Lutheran chufch is right?
Religion should be a matter of firm.
settled faith. If we, claiming
as we do, the name * of Lutheran,
deny Luther in theory aod
practice, then we are untrue to ourselves,
and to the cause we claim to
present. Assuming, then, that we #
are a unit npon this point, that we
bright to be what fte profess to be, I
repeat, we believe our church is right.
While we grant there are many good
people in other chnrches, yet of
systems professing Christ, we
oars the purest That in
fessions, in
the
her teaching there
more than
any where else
quote a few words a ]<S I
author: "No partiopWlharcl^^^^^^^^l^fl
on i>? own showir^J rfclht
j^^^uoiverga
ngbt to a part which does not dfl B
that to it shoald belong the wd|^H^H^H
tfaen
word iu
regenerating aud saving th? I
"Being born again, not of
seed4 bat incorraptabie, V I
word of God which livethand
forever." Granting, then, that we
a cburcb are right?bave the true
doctrines of God's word, let as apply ' '
a principle of Christian ethics to onr
present sobject. It is an assomed
fact, in Christian ethics that it is never
right to do wrong, bat always right to
do right, and always wrong to do
wrong. And now, if we are right, can
it be wrong for as to teach oar children
what is right ? Is it right
for as to teach oar children
in Snnday-scbools systems and
principles which we believe to be
'wroDg* Is it right for as to engage
in any form of worship or to countenance
any doctrine which we believe,
from God's word to be wrong? If ?
not, how can it be right for as to
kavA nnr ehildren taaghf,
bCOCU Ui uuif v W v?. ? ?
thiDg8 which we do not believe our?
selves? Bat the cry will no doubt be
raised: "Yon are uncharitable;"
"charity is the best of all." Bat Sanday-school
teachers, if charity is the
greatest, faith is the* first. "Faith,
hope and charity." "Add to your
faith, virtue to virtue, knowledge to
knowledge, temperance to temper'
ancce, brotbetly kindness to brotherly
kindness, charity." Towards a departure
from any trath of God's word,
there can be no charity. Suppose
Lather had thought it charitable to have
acquiesced in the wishes of
t? T.ntheranism and
IVOmtJj wuoic nuum ?
Protestantism be to-day? Did the
Protestant Prince think it charitable
and acqaie8ce, when in the city of
I Augsburg to attend the Diet, he received
the order -not to allow his ministers
to preach while there! In sub|
stance he answered: You may sever
j my head from my body, but for me
to forbid my ministers to preach what ^
I believe to be the troth, I'll never do
i it. Upon snchj an immovable basis
the church of. the Reformation was
' planted; resting upon the same, we
; are to (depend aod promulgate the
truth. Let us go oo, then, teaching ?
the truth, and nothing but the truth,
and God will lead us on to victory.
Two weaks ago the farmers of Aiken
connty had -the brightest prospect
j for a big yield of cotton they ever had.
| The crop had been well worked, was
i in good condition, and was growing
well. To-day they report a different
condition of affairs.?Aiken Journal
j and Review.
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