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position r.n: 1:? admired the pluck and enterprise of the men behid it. He had carried Mr. Gantt's bill through the House in relation to the Secretary of State's office. He had th i unanimous endorsement of the voters of Sumter and Lee counties. He had Lno diploma, but he had left college to enter the army, and had followed the flag from oFrt Sumter to Appomatto\. and had always served his State without the hope or expectation of reward. COL. J. T. AUSTIM. ^ ~' * ' *" * r* fk A lflft Cr?A?l l"_ VUI. O. 1. .'IUSUU MO..-J mc iaOb ii|,c?r.er. He said that Charleston had a glorious heritage and no city had produced so many great men as Charleston had done. He favored all laws that were for the betterment of South Carolina. He had served ten years in the Legislature, wa3 a member of the Wallace House and of the Constitutional Convention and felt that ne was the mac for the place. SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS Growth Reasonably Good During the Week. The average temperature for the week ending Monday, June 23. was 70 -degrees, which is slightly below normal The highest was 97 degrees at Darlington and Florence on the 20th, the lowest 61 degrees at Liberty on the 21st. Partly cloudy weather prevailed during the greater portion of the time. The Vinds were generally light, except over limited areas where high winds accompanied thunderstorms, and in Beaufort county where almost hurricane winds prevailed early in the week. The rain on the 14-l5th were general and heavy over the western half of the State, where the amounts ranged from 2 to over 5 inches, shading off to less than an inch in the eastern portions. There were frequent, scattered showers over the whole State, except in th Pee De sctions where the rain fall was limited, and where more rain is badly needed in many places. The ground has been too wet to plow in the southeastern counties, especially in the Salkehatchie valley, where grassy fields are becoming common, but generally the cultivated fields are still 1 clean, and show the good effects of their previous thorough coltlvation. The rains caused a material improv?ment In corn and the earliest has about all been laidby in good condition. It is in "silk and tassel." Later plantings look promising. Stubble' lands and bottoms have been planted extensively. with the soil in condition for quick germination. Budworms are still doing damage, but on the whole there is less damage by worms than heretofore. The condition of cotton is very fine, except in a few localities where excess of rain has caused deterioration, and in other localities where lice have broken the hitherto almost perfect stands, and checked its growth. Lice are fast disappearing. Mexican weevils have appeared in Marlboro county. A few fields have become foul with grass and weeds. Blooms have been noted in every portion of the State, and a few points report the plants blooming freely. Ssa-island cotton made moderate improvement. Tobacco made rapid growth, and the crop is above average condition, but needs rain in Florence and portions of Marion counties. Topping is general, but curing has made slow progress. Rice is a very promising crop. A large acreage of peas has been sown on etubble lands. Wheat and oats thrashing is well underway; the yields of both crops are poor over the western half of the State. The weather was favorable for transplanting sweet potatoes; slips aro scarce In Pickens county. Some peaches are rotting on the trees. The fruit crop will be a moderate one. except blackberries and plums which are plentiful. Fastures. gardens, and other minor crops were greatly improved by the copious rainfall and warmer nights. r * Palmetto Briefs. The Trough postoffice at Pacolet was blown open Monday night by nitroglycerine and about $3.30 was taken, also two registered letters, contents not known.. The governor Wednesday commuted the sentence of Geo. Parks, of Spartanburg. convicted of violation of the dispensary law and sentenced him to pay a fine of $100. to $50. on the recommendation of Solicitor Sease. The secretary of state Monday issued a commission to the Burial and Aid Society of Liberty Hill. Kershaw county. The purpose is to aid the sick and bury the dead among its members. W. T. Barber and others are the corporators. The taking of the testimony in the suit of Architect Gilbert against the Exposition company and the countersuit against the architect was concluded Monday in the United States circuit court. The hearing has occupied 19 days, holding the record of the court for the length of time which was taken in concluding the case. The governor has received a letter from a citizen of Colleton county who sayys that somebody passed a $20 Confederate bill cn him. He wants all the magistrate of the county removed because they do not know how to bring action against the man who did it. The governor has replied that he has nothing to do with that matter, it being entirely out of his jurisdiciton. Prayer is the pulse of the Christian's life?there is no secular, no sacred, all is God. Little rices keep company with great 1 virtue* ! MAN WITHOUT GOD l no m iou au'c cnurvAV ccnunv un? vujtrjiiaii j otni/rti juiiiu,< i Pitiable Condition of a flan Withou a Country -Beauties of a Christlai ! Life. Kew York City.?The "Rev. Dr. J. Wil ; bur Chanman, the noted pastor-evangel ! ist. continues to excite popular intere?1 by the series of remarkable sermons he ii delivering in the Fourth PresbyteriaT Church. Apropos of patriotic celebration! he has prepared the following discours< for the press, entitled "A Man Without t Country." It is preached from the text Enhesian9 2: 12. "Having no hope anc without God in the world." This is one of the saddest texts in th< New Testament, for while it describes $u: own condition when we were aliens frorr Christ and strangers to the covenant and promise of God. yet I take it in my pre entation of this subject to describe thos< who have wilfully rejected Christ anc I who have deliberately decided that the; will not accept Him as a Saviour. Witt this interpretation put upon the Scriptun we have in the text the saddest expressiot possible in human language. I suppose there is no one of my hearers to whom the words may be strictly applied, for if we take hoDe out of a man's life it is nol worth the living. The young man ma; have failed yesterday, but he has hoped that he may succeed to-morrow; the busi ness man who has lost his fortune in the wreck of past days is not discouraged be rause hope buoys him up. and he is confi dent that prosperity will be bis once again. Take hope from our lives and we are of all men most miserable, and if in addition to being deprived of hope we have no God we are not only hopeless foi time, but hopeless also for etemitv, foi aince we were made to be filled with God and all our h?ing was so adjusted as to be at tune to His nature, there is no saddei picture than to be without Him. Some years ago I came across that interesting and pathetic story written hv Edward Ev erett Hale entitled "The Man Without i Country." and it has furnished for me ar illustration of this text to which your at tention is invited. I found in the mar who drifted evervwhere across the sen without being able to enter a harbor s presentation of manv a man who has bur 1 ? ?> ? ?i -i i:f- TV.. | ieo unriRt out 01 nm mc. auc | Philip Noland by name. Whether the itory be truth or fiction it does not mat ter. for the illustration is the same. Thii young lieuterant in the armr had come under the influence of .Aaron Burr, and he had fascinated him. The young soldiei wrote to Burr long letters expressing his hopes and his desires that he might serve him, but had no letters from Burr in re ply. At last he came one dav to see the young man. and then his ho'd voon hirr was complete. The regular life of the sol I dier became tame; he was utterly un fitted for service. There came a time [ when in company with others who were t also under the influence of Burr he musl appear before the army court to be tried | for misdemeanor. The others for one rea son or another escaped sentence, bul Philip Noland was pronounced guilty Re was ashed bv the judge if he had any thing to say why sentence shouM not be passed noon him because he had beer false to his country and had sinned againsi the United States. His reply was ar oath, and in the presence of the court he cursed his country and said that lie wished he might never again hear the sound of the name United States; that he hated his native land. The judge, with a white face, answered, "It shall be as you say, and subject to the approval of the President of the United States, you shall never again hear of your country." Al this Philip Nolar.d laughed, but no one else did; there was a deathlike stillnes* over the court. He was taken to New Or leans, given over into the charge of a rommander of one of the vessels, witn int distinct understanding that no one wa? ever again to speak to him of the United States, and he was to he allowed to speah to no one of his old home. Tie was al last put UDon a Government vessel and given quarters befitting his late rank. If was expressly stipulated that he was tc be exposed to no indignity; he was not to be reminded of the fact that he was a prisoner, and while he could wear the uni form vet he must not have the buttons ol the United States Government ?pon this uniform. Indeed he was to be a man without a country from this time on. Ho was permitted once each day to dine with the officers, but thbv did not care to have ? nrocnn f fliPt mm. utruauoc ? ncu uc pivov...vt, could not talk of home; under no circumstances was the to ever see his country again and never was he to hear of it. He was not permitted to go on shore wherever the landing might be. If he read books at all they must contain no reference to his home, and if he read the for eign papers it was only after some one had carefully cut out every reference tc the United States. If the vessel upon which he was a passenger came neat his country it must wait until it would be overtaken by another vessel going seaward. Philip Noland became a passenger with his face'set away from his home. It has ever been to me one of the saddest illustrations I know, and yet a perfect picture of the man who has deliberately re jected Christ. has said, "I will not have this man to rule over me." and who is therefore, described by the words of the te*t as "havirz no hone and without God in the world." " T. We have reiccted Him. He has said in His word. "He that is not with Me is against Me," and not to accept is to re' ject. It is true we have never said in sc many words that we would not have Him as our Saviour, but we have resisted the entreaties of the minister and snurned the prayers of our loved ones, and what we have not been bold enough to say with the lips we have said in our hearts, and God knowe'h the language of the heart as men know the language of the lips. 1 am very sure that Philip Noland did not mean what he said. He had spoken in s passion, and I am perfectly positive that no one here could for a moment reject Christ if he felt that Christ would take him at his word, and possiblv he might never have a chance again. ^Ir. Moody used to say that no one wanted to be ei' cused. "Would you sign a letter like this?" he said. "Sitting in the house oi God this Sunday evening I received a pressing invitation from one of your sen*' ants to be present at the Marriage Sup' per of the Lamb. I pray thee, have me excused." No one would sign it. Then, would you sign this? "Sitting in the house of God this Sunday evening I received a pressing invitation from one ol your servants to be present at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. By the grace of God 1 will be there." If you could hul sign that there would he joy in heaver and joy in your own heart. We arc by nature afar of1. Our hearts aw deceitful above all things and despe?t ately wicked. Our minds are carnal and therefore at enmity with God; our wills are stubborn and will not yield to the . touch of His power: we are in midnight I darkness, and it is in this condition that Ke comes to us. In the 13th verse of tha I second chanter of Ephesians we read, "But now in Christ Jesus, ye who someB times were afar off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." "and to all the unsaved it is mv privilege to say that by the grace of God you are broueh nigh to Christ. TKia ie true because vou have been under I the influen<e of the Spirit, and you may he saved if you will, but if vou reject ' Christ no word can describe this sin of 1 which you are guilty. In the Old Testa* ment the man who despised Moses' Cod * died without mercy among two or three 1 enemies, of how much greater need of mercv shall he be that bath trodden under foot the Son of God. hath counted the 4 blood whereof He was glorified a common ; thine, and has insulted the Snirit of grace. In this picture of Philin Noland. a sailor I on the sea without a harbor. I find an illustration of the man who in spite of [ God's grace has rejected the offer of mercy. j m. r We begin to break away, not by great i sins, but by small sins. Have you ever ? noticed in tbe three verses in the first i chanter of Romans that wonderful dei scriptinn of sm, indeed the most remarlc? able of any the world has ever seen. In i the 24th verse we read. "God "-ave th^m 1 '??? " ftio OfUVi verse. / lip lO Ulicicrn uuraa. m v?.?. .. ' "God gave them up to vile affection?." I while in the 28th verse we read. "Hod - pave them up to a reprobate mind." The t uncleanness may have been sin of an insig nifieant character: to be river up to vile affections is to be permitted to set our ! hearts unon those things which are not ! right, and draw them to us as with hooks i of steel, but to be given over to a repro: bate mind is to be boneless. I make an snpeal to-dav in behalf of those whose lives are in the least touched by sin; it I is a dangerous position. ; IV. j What is the greatest sin in all the cats; logue as written in God's word? If this I ouestion were put to men there would be t almost as many answers a? there are men. , Tt is not impurity, nor dishonesty. Thesi things are not even to be considered in , the light of the greatest sin of all, which , is unbelief. When we read in the gospels l that the Holv Ghost is to come, it is said that He will renrove the world of sin, J and that sin is described ?s not believing , on Him. To reject Christ, therefore, is the chiefest of all transgressions. V. Having no hope. I cannot imagine that anv of my hearers would for a moment ' think of giving way to unbelief or takirg 1 refuge in infidelitv. That is. indeed, ! hopeless. It is said that Adoniram .Tnd son when he was a student in Brown Uni' versitv came under the influence of a feli low student who was an infidel. On his return to Providence at one time he was obliged to ston at a counfrv inn. The inn' keener told him he had but one room, and that was next to a man who was mp nosed to dying. -Tudeon cared nothing I for this, and said he would take thp room. All through the night he heard ' this man crying out to God for merov. shr-ekine in terror beeausp of his unbelief. ' and at last Judson utterly worn out fell asleep. When the morning came all was 1 ouiet in the adjoining room, but tfm man ; was dead. What was the student's horror 1 to find out that the dving man was his ' eomnanion in infidelity, and when he came to the end there wa? no hope for him. : and infidelity prevailed him nothing. It 1 is an awful thing to be without Christ in 1 the world. | VI. Without God. If yon eould imagine . God taken out of vour life for a moment ; it would be a position of terror. No one ' would ever again siy no to Him if thev realized that they might sav no for fhe last time. To have no heln in temptation \ and no comfort in the hour of sorrow, and no support in the day of death would indeed be an awful thing. A friend of mine told me of a man in the West who ; had been eonstantlv besoueht by his i friends to come to Christ, and had resisted . all their entreaties. He h d been en' treated by God Himself as He called him ' in prosperity and in adversity, and at 1 last the calls became so marked that it J was as if God had actually spoken to him. and at last in a heat of passion he cried ( out as if he were speakiny to God. 'Oh. ( God. let me alone." and He did. and until ( the dav of his death it is said he never ; nyain had even a faint desire to go to , Christ. It is dangerous to resist. Go'i pity the men who savs no to Christ and sneaks for the last time, and then comes ' to the place where he had no hope and is , without God in the world. Wai True to Her Colors. A beautiful instance of Christian fidelity was that displayed by a distinguished , Christian young woman who was spending , a few weeks of summer at a certain hotel in a favorite resort in the East. An effort was made to induce her to attend a dance, in order that the affair might have the prestige bestowed by her presence, as she stood high in society. She declined all the importunities of her friends. Finally, an honorable Senator tried to persuade her to attend, saving: '"Miss B-?, this is quite a harmless affair, and we want the exceptional honpr of your presence." I "Senator," said the lady, "I cannot: do it; I am a Christian. I never do anything in my summer vacation, or wherever ] go, that will ininre the influence I have over , the girls of my Sabbath-school class." The Senator bowed and said: "I honor , you; if there were more Christians like , you. more men like myself would become , Christians." God's Work Must Re Done. i A poor field negro with a wooden leg I hobbled up to the collection table to lay ; his offering upon it He took from a pockI et a handful of silver, and said. "That's ; for me, massa;" from another pocket, ani other handful, "That's for my wife, : massa," and from still another pocket, yet another handful, "That's for my child, > massa." The pastor remonstrated with ; him for giving so much. "0 massa!" said - he, "God's work must be done, and I will have a part in it." ? Commenting on this incident, Ida Q. ' Moulton says: "You and I want a part in i it. Heaven's treasures will be given us throughout the eternal ages for a brief life of seff-denial and self-sacrifice here, out ! of love for our dear Master. Take this , motto to your strong, true, loving heart, ! fellow-Christian: 'God's work must be done, and I will have a part in it.'" Cultivate Patience. ' Never be discouraged because good things : get on so slowly here, and never fail to ao i daily that good which lies next to your hand. Do not be in a hurry, but be diligent. Enter into the sublime patience of i the Lord.?George MacDonaid. BRYAN TALKS NOW. His Remarks on Cleveland's Speech at Harmony Dinner OVATION TO A FORMER DEMOCRAT Some Strictures on the Democracy of rir. Cleveland -- A. Characteristic Talk By Nibraskan. Lincoln. Neb., Special.?The absence of Wm. J. Bryan from the harmony dinner in New York is pretty well ex plained by a statement given out by Mr. Bryan, commenting on the dinner. At the outset, Mr. Bryan says there is no such thing as Democratic harmony where former President Cleveland is concerned. He says: "The banquet given on the evening of June 19th, by the Tilden Club, of New York, was advertised as a 'harmony' meeting, but it turned out to be what might have been expected of such a gathering, an ovation to the chief guests, former Democrat, Grover Cleveland. There can be no such thing as harmony between men like him and those who believe in Democratic principles and he is frank enough to say so. He spent no time looking for 'middle ground' upon which to gather together discordant elements. He boldly called upon the members of the party to abandon their convictions and accept the construction which he placed upon Democratic principles. He even taunted the party with being a sort of prodigal son, and invited it to give up its diet of husks and return to its father's house. "He spoke of his 'retirement from political activity' and said: 'Perhaps thnro are thnsp whn would define mv position as one of banishment instead of retirement. Against this I shall not enter a protest. It is sufficient for me in either"citse"that I have followed in matters of difference within qut "party th? teachings and counsel Of the great Democrat, in whose name party peace" and harmony are tonight invoked. No confession of party sin should therefore be expectod of me. I have none to make nor do I crave political absolution.' "He not only boasted of his course but put his brand upon those who sat it meat with him. Having asserted that his Democratic faith compelled him to leave the party (or resulted in his banishment), he described the banqueters as sharing in that faith. "He is not only defiant, but he insists that party success can be secured only by an open and avowod return to his ideas. Harmony is to be secured, not by the suppression of differences, but by the elimination of those who differ from him." Air. Bryan says ne win print in nis paper Mr. Cleveland's speech, "to show that the organizers do not want harmony, but control, and that their control moans the abandonment of the party's position, and a return to the policies and practices of Mr. Cleveland's second administration." He continues: "He (Cleveland) secured his nomination in 1892 by a secret bargain with the financiers; his committee collected from the corporations and spent the largest campaign fund the party ever had; he filled his eabinent with corporation agents and placed railroad attorneys on he United States bench to look after the interests of their former clients. He turned the Treasury over to a Wall street syndicate and the financial member of his family went from Washington to become the private attorney of tae man. who forced (?) the Treasury Department to sell him government bonds at 105 and then resold them at 112. He tried to prevent the adoption of the income tax proposition and refused to sign the only tariff reform measure passed since the war, and while thundering against the trusts in his messages, did even less than Knox has done to interfere with their highhanded methods. "His administration, instead of being a fountain of Democracy, sending iortn pure ami reiresuiug sutama, became a stagnant pool from whose waters foul vaports arpse?poisonous tc those who lingered near. Having debauched his party, he was offended by its effort to reform and gave comfort to the enemy, Virginias killed his daughter to save her chastity; Cleveland stabbed his party to prevent its return to the paths of virtue. "And now, still gloating over his political crimes, he Invites the party to return to him and apologize for the contempt which it has expressed for him. Will it? Not until the principles of Jefferson are forgotten and the u'/vt-irt? n' iQr>tcnn tn insnire. "I! we are to have reorganization, Cleveland himself should accept the presidential nomination. It will do him; his reinstatement would be poetic justice to him and retribution to those whose Democratic conscience revolted against his un-Democratic conduct. Of course, he would get no Democratic votes, but. being closer to plutocracy than any Republican likely to be nominated, he might divide the enemy, and even Democrats would have what little consolation would come from receiving their disappointment in advance. "To the fight is on between Democracy that means Democracy, and a Clevelandism which means plutocracy. Every speech made by Mr. Cleveland shows more clearly the odiousneas of the policies for which he stands. We have more to fear from those who, like Mr. Hill, endorse Mr. Cleveland's views but conceal their real purpose In ambiguous language." J ' * Wise and Otherwise. In this life even the cup of thanksgiving is mingled with bitter team. Remember that the day of small things precedes that of great things. Differences of opinions should be reconciled by calm and prayerful discussion. When we remember the angelic host revealed to Elisha's servant at Dothan, we can rest assured against danger. It is a great mistake to set up our own standard of right and wrong and Judge everybody accordingly. Too much profanity and vulgar conversation on the streets, and it is not always toughs who indulge in it. The egotist may have an impediment in his speech, but never in his I's. Physical culture doesn't necessarily make a girl sttong-minded. Women do not marry for money, but they find it is easier to love a rich man than a poor one. One of the forcible ways of expressing opposition to the church of God is, "Fighting against God. A mob which attacked the Hattiesburg. Miss., jail, attempting to lynch a negro, was repulsed by the military. 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