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Disasters Are God's Designs
for Our Betterment.
This discourse of Dr. Talmage. which
ia helpful to all who find life a struggle,
is especially addressed to a class of persons
probably never before addressed in
a *ermon. The text is Genesis vii, 10,
''The Lord shut him in."
Cosmogony has no more interesting
chapter than the one which speaks of
that catastrophe of the ages, the submersion
of our world in time of Noah,
the first ship carpenter. Many of the
nations who never saw a Bible have a
flood story?Egyptian flood story, Grecian
flood story, of which Ducalion was
the Noah; Hawaiian flood story, New
Zealand flood story, Chinese flood story,
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which accounts agree in the immersion
of the continents under universal rains,
and that there was a ship floating with
a select few of the human family and
with specimens of zoological and ornithological
and reptilian worlds, although
I could have wished that these
last had been shut out of the ark and
drowned.
All of these flood stories represent the
ship thus afloat as finally stranded on a
mountain top. Hugh Miller in his
"Testimony of the Rocks" thinks that
all these flood stories were infirm traditions
of the Biblical account, and I believe
him.. The worst thing about that
great freshet was that it struck Noah's
. . Great Eastern from above and beneath.
The seas broke the chain of shells and
orystal and rolled over the land, and
the heavens opened theirclouds for falling
columns of water which roared and
thundered on the roof of the great ship
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one door to the ship, but there were
three parts to that door, one part for
each of the three stories. The Bible
account says nothing about parts of
the door belonging to two of the stories,
and. I do not know on which floor Noah
and his family voyaged, but my next
tells us that the part of the door of that
particular floor on which Noah sta'd
was closed after he had entered. "The
Lord shut him in." So there are many
people now in the world who are as
thoroughly shut in, some by sickness,
some by old age, some by special duties
that will not allow them to go forth
some surrounded by deluges of misfortune
and trouble, and for them I often
receive messages, and this sermon,
. which I hope may do good to others, is
more especially intended for them. To0.
day I address tne shut in. "The Lord
shut him in."
Notice first of all who closed the
door so that they could not get out.
Noah did not do it, nor hi* so* Shem,
nor did Ham, nor did Japheth, nor did
either of the four married women who
were o* shipboard, nor did desperadoes
who had scoffed at the idea of peril
which Noah had been preaching close
that door. They had turned their backs
en the ark and had in disgust gone
away. I will tell you how it was done.
A hand was stretched down from heaven
to close that door. It was a divine
hand as well as a kind hand. "The
Lord shut him in."
And the same kind and sympathetic
beine has shut you in, my reader or ray
hearer. You thought it was an accident,
ascribable to the carelessness or
misdoings of others, or a mere "happen
to." No, no! God had gracious design
for your betterment, for the cultivation
f your patience, for the strengthening
of your faith, for the advantage you
might gain by seclusion, for your eternal
salvation. He put you in a schoolroom,
where you could learn in six
months or a year more than you tould
have learned anywhere else in a lifetime.
He turned the lattice or pulled
down the blinds of the sickroom, or put
your swollen foot on an ottoman, or
held you amid the pillows of a couch
which you could not leave, f?r some
reason that you may not now understand,
but which he has promised he
will explain to you satisfactorily, if not
in this world, then in the world to come,
for he has said, "What I do thou knowest
not now, but thou shalt know hereafter!"
The world has no statistics as to the
number of invalids. The physicians
know something about it, and the
apothecaries and the pastors, but who
can tell us the number of blind eyes,
and deaf ears, and diseased lungs, and
congested livers, and jangled nerves,
and neuralgic temples, and rheumatic
feet, or how many took no food this
morning because they had no appetite
to eat or digestive organs to assimilate,
or have lungs so delicate they cannot
go forth when the wind is in the east,
or there is a fog rising from the river, or
there is a dampness on the ground or
pavement because of the frost coming
out? It would be easy to count the
people who eveiy day go through a
street, or the number of passengers carried
by a railroad company in a year,
r the number of those who cross the
ocean in ships. But who can give us
the statistics of the great multudinous
who are shut in? I call the attention
oi all sucn to tneir superior opportunities
of doing good.
Those of us who are well, and can
see clearly, and hear distinctly, and
partake of food of all sorts, and questions
of digestion never occur to us,
and we can wade the snowbanks, and
take an equinox in our faces, and
endure the thermometer at zero, and
every breath of air is a tonic and a
stimulus, and sound sleep meets us
within five minutes after our head
touches the pillow, do not make so
Ktuch of an impression when we talk
about the consolations of religion. The
world says right away: "I guess that
that man mistakes buoyancy of natural
spirits for religion. What does he know
about it? He has never been tried."
But when one goes out and reports to
the world that that morning on his way
to business he called to see you and
found you, after being kept in your
room for two months, cheerful and
hopeful, and that you had not one word ;
ef eomplaint and asked all about everybody
and rejoiced in the success of
your business friends, although your
own business had almost come to a
standstill through your absence from
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store or omce or snop, anu mai you sent
your love to all your old friends and
told them that if you did not meet them
again in this world you hoped to meet
them in dominions seraphic, with a
quiet word of advice from you to the
man who carried the message about im
^ . portance of his not neglecting his own
soul,, but through Christ seeking some-1
thing better than this world could give
him?why. all the business men in
the counting room say. "Good!
Now,that is reii^inn." And the
the clerks get hold of story and
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talk it over, so that the weigher and
cooper aind hackman. standing on the
ioorstep. say: 'kThatis splendid! Now,
that is what I cail religion."
It is a good \bing to preach on a Sun-,
iav morning, the people assembled in
most respectable attire and seated on j
soft cushions, the preacher standing in
neatly upholstered pulpit surrounded
by personal friends, and after an inspiring
hymn has been song, aBd that sermon,
Is preached in faith, will do good, j
but the most effective sermon is
preached by one seated in dressing
sown in an armchair into which the invalid
has with much care been lifted,
the surrounding shelves filled with
medicine bottles, some to produce sleep
some for the relief of sudden paroxysm,
some for stimulent. some for tonic,
some for anodyne and some for febrifuge,
the pale preacher quoting promises
of the gospel, telling of the
glories of a sympathetic Christ, assuring
the one or two or three persons who
hear it of the mighty re-enforcements
of religion. You say that to such a
sermon there are only one or two or
three hearers. Aye. but the visitor
calling at that room, then closing the
door softly and going away, tells the
story, and the whole neighborhood
hears it, and it will take all eternity to
realize the grand and uplifting influence
of that sermon about G-od and the soul,
though preached to an audience of only
one man or one woman. The Lord has
ordained all such invalids for a style of
usefulness which athletics and men of
200 healthy avoirdupois cannot affect.
It was not an enemy that fastened you
in that one room or sent you on cruthes
the longest journey you haye made for
many weeks being from bed to sofa and
from sofa to looking glass, where you
are shocked at the pallor of your own
cheek and the pinchedness of your features;
then back again from mirror to
sofa and sofa to bed, with a long sigh
saying, aHow good it feels to get baek
again to my old place on the pillow!''
Remember who it is that appointed the
day when for the first time in many
years you could not go to business and
who has kept a record of all the weary
days and ell the sleepless nights of your
exile from the world. 0 weary man!
0 feeble woman, it was the Lord who
shut you in! Do you remember that
some of the noblest and best of men
have been prisoners? Ezekiel a prisoner,
St. John a prisoner, John Bunyan
a prisoner. Though human hate
seemed to have all to do with them,
really the Lord shut them in.
Again, notice that during that 40
days of storm which roeked that ship
on that universal ocean of Noah's time
the door which shut the captain of the
ship inside and craft kept him from
many outside perils. How those wrathful
seas would like to hare got their
wet hand3 on Noah and pulled him out
and sunk him! And do all of you of
the great army of the shut in realize,
though you have special temptations
which you are now, how much of the
outside style of tempation you escape?
Do you, the merchant incarcerated in
the sickroom, realize that every hour of
the day you spend looking out of the
window or gazing at the particular figure
on the wall paper or listening to
the clock's ticks men are being wrecked
by the allurements and uncertaintiss of
business life? How many forgeries are
committed, how many trust funds are
swamped, how many public moneys are
being misappropriated, how many
bankruptcies suffered? It may be, it is
very uncomfortable for Noah inside the
ark. for the apartment is crowded and
the air is vitiated with the breathing of
so much human and animal life, but it
is not half as bad for him as though he
were outside the ark. There is not an
ox or a camel or an antelope, or a sheep
inside the ark as badly off as the proudest
king outside. While you are oa
the pillow or lounge you will make no
bad bargains, you will rush in to no rash
investments, you will avoid the mistakes
which thousands of mea as good
you are every day making.
Notice also that there was a limit to
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me snut in experience 01 muse oauieut
marieners. I suppose the 40 days of
the desending and uprising floods and
the 150 days before the passengeri could
go ashore must have seemed te those
eight people in the big boat like a small
eternity. "Bain, rain, rain!" said the
wife of Noah. ci Will it never stop?"
For 40 mornings they looked out and
saw not one patch of blue sky. Floating
around amid the peaks of mountains,
Shem and Ham and Japheth had to
hush the fears of their wires lest they
should dash against the projecting rocks.
But after awhile it cleared off. Sunshine,
glorious sunshine! The ascending
mists were folded up into clouds,
which instead of darkening the sky
only ornamented it. As they looked
out ol the windows these worn passengers
clapped their hands and rejoiced
that the storm was over, and I think if
God conld stop such a storm as that he
could stop any storm in your lifetime
experience. If he can control a vulture
in midsky, he can stop a summer bat
that flies in at your window. At the
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ngnt time ne will put tne ramDow oncloud
and the deluge of your misfortunes
will dry up. I preach the doctrine
of limitation, relief and disenthrallment.
At just the right time the
pain will cease, the bondage will drop,
the imprisoned will be liberated, the
fires will go out, the body? and mind and
soul will be free. Patience! An old
English proverb referring to long continued
invalidisms says, UA creaking
gate hangs long on its hinges," and this
may be a protracted case of valetudinarianism,
but you will have taken the
last bitter drops you will hare suffered
the last misinterpretation, you will
feel the gnawing of the last hunger,
vou will have fainted the last time.
from exhaustion, yon will have felt the
cut of the last lancet, you will have
wept under the last loneliness. The
last week of the Noachian deluge came,
the last day, the last hour, the last
moment. The beating of the rain on
the roof ceased and the dashing of the
billows on the side of the ship quieted,
and peacefully as a yacht moves out
over quiet Lake Cayuga, Como or Lucerne,
the ark with its illustrious passengers
and important freight glided to ,
its mountain wharfage.
Notice also that on the cessation of]
the deluge the shut ins came out, and .
they built their houses and cultured
their gardens and started a new world
on the ruins of the old world that had i
been drowned out. Though Noah lived
350 years after this worldwide accident1
and no doubt his fellow passengers survived
centuries, I warrant they never
got over talking about that voyage.
Now, I have seen Dore's pictures and >
many other pictures of the entrance
into the ark, two and two, of the human
family and the animal creation
into that ship which sailed between
two worlds, antediluvian world and the
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postaiivian wona, out- jl never saw & pm- i
tare of their coming out. yet their embarkation
was not more important than
their disembarkation. Many a crew
has entered a ship that never landed.
Witness the steamer Portland, a short
time ago, with 100 souls on board,
coing down with all its crew and passengers.
"Witness the line of sunken
ships reaching like a submarine cable
of anguish across tLe ocean depths
from America to Europe. If any ship
might expect complete wreckage the one
Xoah^commanded might have expected
it. Bat no. Those who embarked disembarked:
Orer the plank reaching
down the side of the ark to the Armenian
cliffs on which they had been
stranded the procession descended.
No other wharf felt so solid or afforded
such attractiveness as that height of
Ararat when the eight passengers put
their feet on it. And no sooner had
the last one, the invalided wife of Japh
eth, been helped down the plank ur>on
the rock than the other apartments of
the ship were opened, and such a dash
of bird music never filled the air as
whea the entire orchestra of robin led
preast, and morning lark, and chaffinch,
and mockingbird, and h>use swallow
took wing into the bright sky, while
the cattle began to low and the sheep
to bleat and the horses to neigh for the
pasture, which from the awful submer
gence had now begun to grow green
and aromatic. I tell you plainly notLing
interests more in that tragedy from
the first to the last act than the "exit"
and the "exeunt," than the fact that
the "shut ins" became the "go outs."
And I now cheer with this story all the
inmates of the sickrooms and hospital
and those prisons where men and women
are unjustly undungeoned, and all
the thousands who are bounded on the
north and south and east and west by
floods, by deluges of misfortune and
disaster. The ark of your trouble, if it
does 'lot land on some earthly height of
vindication and rescue, will land on the
heights celestial.
Meanwhile you have all divine and
angelic sympathy in your infirmities.
That satan thoroughly understood poor
human nature was evidenced when in
plotting to make Job do wrong, the
great master of evil, after having failed
in ev;ry other way to overthrow the
good man, proposed physical distress,
and then thq boils came which made
him swear light out. The mightiest
test of character is physical suffering.
Critics are impatient at the way Thomas
Carlyle scolded at everything. His 70
years of dyspepsia were enough to make
auv man scold. When you see people
out of patience and irascible and lachremose,
inquire into the case, and before
you get through with the explora
tion your hypercriticism will turn to
pity, aLd t? the divine and angelic sympathy
will be added your own. The
clouds .of your indignation, which were
full of thunderbolts will begin to rain
tears of pity.
By a strange Providence, for which I
shall be forever grateful, circumstances
with which I think you are all familiar,
I have admission through the newspaper
press week by week to tens of
thousands of God's dear children who
cannot enter church on the Sabbath
and hear their excellent pastors bej
cause of the age of the sufferers, or
their illness, or the lameness of foot, cr
their incapacity to stay in one position
an hour and a half, or their poverties,
or their troubles of some sort will not
let them go out of doors, and to tf em
as much as to those who hear me I
preach this sermon, as I preach many
of my sermons, the invisible audience
always raster than the visible, some of
them tossed on wilder seas than those
that tossed the eight members of
Noah's family and instead of 40 days of
storm and 5 months of being shut in.
as they were, it has been with these
invalids 5 years of ''shut in," or 10
years of "shut in," or 20 years of "shut
in." 0 comforting G-od! Help me to
comfort them! Give me two hands full
of salve for their wounds! When we
were 300 miles out at sea, a hurricane
truck us, and the lifeboats were dashed
from the davits and all the lights in
the cabin were put out by the rolling of
the iiaip and the water which through
the broken skylights had poured in.
Captain Andrews entered and said to
the men on duty: "Why don't you
light up and make things brighter, for
we are going to outride this storm?
Passengers, cheer up! Cheer up!''
And he struck a match and began to
light the burners. He could not silence
either the wind or the waves, but
by the striking of that match, accompanied
by encouraging words, we were
all helped.
And as I now find many in hurricanes
of trouble, chough I cannot quiet
the storm I can strike a match to light
up the darkness, and I strike a match,:
"Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth."
I strike another match, "Weep
ing may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning.,' I strike another
match, ""We have a great High
Priest who can be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities, and he was
in all points tempered like as we are."
Are you old? One breath of heaven
well make you everlastingly young
again. Have you aches and pains?
They insure Christ's presence and sympathy
through the darkest December
nights, which are the longest nights of
the year. Are you bereft? Here is a
resurrected Christ whose voice is full
of resurrectionary power. Are ^ou
lonely? All the angels of heaven are
ready to swoop into your companionship.
Here is the Christ of Mary and
Martha when they had lost Lazarus,
and of David when he had lost his son,
and of Abraham when he had lost Sarah,
and of your father and mother
when in time of old age they parted
at the gate of theltomb. When last I was
in Savannah, at tne close of the Sabbath
morning service I was asked to go and
see a Christian woman, for man} years
an invalid. I went. I had not in all
that beautiful city of splendid men and
grauiuus VYUUICU BCCU <x ia? ungual
than hers. Reaching her bedside, I
put out my hand, but she could not
shake hands, for her hand was palsied.
I said to her, "How long have you been
down on this bed? She smiled and
made no answer, for her tongue had
been palsied, but those standing around
said, ''Fifteen years." I said to her,
"Have you been able to keep your courage
up all that time?" She gave a very
little motion of her head in affirmation,
for her whole body was paralytic. The
sermon I had preached that morning
had no power on others compared with
the power that silent sermon had on
me. What was the secret of her conquest
over pain and privation and incapacity
to move? Shall I tell ycu the
secret? I will tell you. The Lord
I shut her in.
But do not think that heaven is made
up of an indiscriminate population.
Some of my friends are so generous in
their theology that they would lte
everybody in "without reference 10 condition
or character. Do not think that
libertines and blasphemers and rejecters
of God and his gospel have "letters of
credit" that will draw anything from
the bank of heaven. Pirate crafts will
not be permitted to go up that harborIf
there are those who as to heaven are
to be "shut ins," there are those who
will belong to the "shut outs." Ileavr>nhas12
crates, and while those 12
I gates imply wide open entrance f r
{those who are properly prepared to enter
them they imply that there are at
! least 12 possibilities that many will be
shut out, because a gate is of no' use
unless it can sometimes be closed.
Heaven is not an unwashed mob.
Show your tickets or you wiii nut get Is: j
?tickets that you may ""et without ;
money or price, tickets vMi a cross
and a crown upon them. Let the un- i
repentant and the vile and the offscour- j
ings of earth enter heaven as they now j
are, and they would depreciate and de- J
moralize it so that no one of us would j
want to enter, and those who are there |
would want to move out. The Bible j
speaks of the "withouts" as well as the
<;withins"?Revelation xxii, 15,
"Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and
whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters,
and whosoeverloveth and maketh
a lie." Through the converting, pardoning,
sanctifying grace of God may
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and not among the shut outs! .
AT HIS OLD PLACE.
Gen. Fitzhus:li Lee Once More Lands
on Cuban Soil.
The United States transport Panama,
with Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and his staff
on board, entered the harbor of Havana
Wednesnay morning.
General Lee was informed by a correspondent
of the Associated Press of
his appointment as governor of the
province of Habana. He said he was
much gratified, but had only wished for
a military command. The general added
that he is simply in command of his
soldiers, that his dntv is to preserve
life and property, and tl at he proposes
to do so with equal justice to Cubans,
Spaniards and persons of all other nationalities.
Gen. Lee added that he
had nothing to do with the establishlishmentof
any sort of government,
and that his duties were confined to flying
the flag of peace and order.
The headquarters of .Gen. Lee will
be established at Quemado camp. Mari \r
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friends called on the General when he
arrived here, including Gen. Greece
and Capt. Chadwick of the United
States cruiser New York. Later in the
day Gen. Lee and his staff, accompan
ied by Gen. Greene, in the tug Brittania,
started for Vedado, where he reported
to Gen. Wade. Thence Gen.
Lee went on horseback to Quemado
camp.
A batalion of the Tenth infantry was
landed from the United States transport
Saratoga Wednesday and marched
with band playing and flags flying, to
Marianao. The soldiers were followed
by crowds of people. At every street
corner Spanish troops were stationed.
There was some enthusiasm in the Cerro
suburbs. The troops which arrived
here on the Michigan and Panama are
all well.
The transport Florida also arrived
here Wednesday with the Eighth regular
infantry, and is discharging quartermaster's
stores at the pier at San Jose.
The Michigan and Panama will land
their troops Thursday evening. They
will march to the Quemado camp at
Mariannao.
Painting a Town Eed.
The town of Monck's Corner over in
Berkeley was recently painted red by a
man named Jolly in true Western style.
The following account of the little
frolic was taken from the Berkeley Free
Procer- "W. T. Jnllv was arrested for
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disorderly conduct, and using profane
language. After some difficulty lie
was locked up. He was released on a
deposit of $10, for his appearance before
the Intendant, the same being put
up by a friend. He was arraigned before
the Intendant on Tuesday, but refused
to plead to the charge until the amount
deposited for his appearance was turned
over to him. The Intendant stated
that he (the Intendant) was responsible
U the party who had put up the money
and therefore could not deliver it to
Jolly. Mr. Jolly thereupon refused to be
tried and walked out of the Court
room. "When the Marshal attempted to
arrest him he drew a gun and defied the
Marshal or anyone else to approach
him. The Intendant then swore out I
a warrent before Magistrate Lindsay,
who arrested Jolly and placed him under
bond for trial next Wednesday
for resisting arrest. Mr. Jolly then j
took possession of the town until a
late hour in the night, denying and .
defying the authority of the town, and i
judging from the frequent and heavy
discharges fr?m his guu, one would
have imagined that the town was undergoing
a bombardment from a fleet
nf war vessels."
Times Have Been Worse.
It would be bard to make any one today
believe tbat cotton bas ever been
lower, and times harder tban they are
now?but such is the case. Fifty years
or more ago, cotton was not only lower,
but the prices of goods were a great deal
higher. If you doubt the above read
the following from the Sumter Herald:
Through the kindness of a gentleman
living in this county we can here reproduce
the items of a bill, which it will
be interesting to study.
Txrn hales of cotton were sold b}7
estate Wm. H. Peebles to H. Levy on I
Dec. 17, 1814, the bales weighing 303
and 283 lbs. respectively. The price
paid was 31 cents per pound, the whole
amount being $19.94. Goods were
bought from the merchant as follows:
1 sack salt, $2.00; 20 lbs. sugar, $2.20:
4 wool hats, $3.50; 2 gals. X. 0. molases,
90 cts., and other items in proportion.
It will be seen by this,
that when compared with by gone days
we are not so badly off after all?things
might be and have been wore, and yet
the people survived.
Christmas Presents for the Poor.
In your Christmas purchasing do not
be tempted to fcrget those who, because
of their poverty, are unable to do
any shopping either for themselves, or
for others. Let your presents to them
be of a substantial character?a ton of
coal, some warm clothing, some money,
a box of groceries, or a basket of
Christmas marketing, topped with a
bunch of holly. And to the little childred
in whose hemes Christmas is little
more than a name, send some of the
many bright new tin toys which are so
inexpensive; some candy, some fruit,
bright red woolen mittens and Tam o'
Shanters, and if you can afFord it, some
good stout shoes and warm stockings.
A piece of bright-colored plaid will
make a pretty gift for the little girl
who has never, perhaps, had a new
dress in her life. Accompany your
Christmas presents with some cheery
Christmas greetings and some Christmas
greens. Be very sure that this
thoughtfulness will bring its reward,
and that in the years to come the memory
of the Christmas when you gave
most and received least will be the happiest
of all memories to you.
Not a Legal Trade.
That Newark, N. J., woman who permitted
herself to be sold by her hus
band to another' fellow and forthwith
married the purchaser, got rid of a
worthless husband but also got into trouble,
for;? i married the other fellow
without a preliminary divorce, and is
now under arrest for bigamy.
30KEEBEHCE APPOINTMENTS.
Tie Methodist Preachers and Their
Fields of Labor.
Below is given the oomplete list of
the appointments of the South Carolina
Conference of the Southera Methodist
Church:
CHARLESTON DISTRICT.
A. J. Stokes, presiding elder.
Allendale?A. J. Cauthen Jr.
Beaufort?A. B. Earle.
Berkeley?"VV. H. Thrower.
Black Swamp?W. C. Kirkland.
Charleston?Trinity. J. W. Kilgo;
Bethel. H. W. Bays; Spring Street. S.
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Cumberland?J. M. Steadman.
Colleton?H. C. Mouzon.
Hardeeville?K. W. Humphries.
Harleyville?E. M. McKissick.
Hampton?11. L. Holroyd.
Hendersonville?D Huck.
McOlellauville?J. F. Way.
Ridgeville?J. L. Ray.
Summerville?G. P. Watson.
St. Georges Station?W. B. Duncan;
St. Georges Circuit, W. T. Patrick.
St. Stephen's?D. A. Patrick.
CypreSs?0. N. Rountree.
Round 0?E. K. Moore.
St. Paul's?W. R. Buchanan.
Port Royal?R. E. Tumipgeed.
Walterboro?W. M. Duncan, S. A.
Weber.
Chaplain Second regiment, S. C. V?
P. A. Murray.
COKESBURY DISTRICT.
G. T. Harmon, presiding elder.
Abbeville?J. W. Daniel.
Antreville?S. W. Henry.
jtfutier?\v. u. vvinn.
Cokesbury?J.C. Chandler.
Donnald's?W. B. "Wharton.
Greenwood?R. A. Child.
Kinard's?J. J. Stevenson.
Lowndesville?TV. S. Stokes.
McCormick?TV. T. Duncan.
Mt. Carmel?Henry Stokes.
Ninety-Six?TV. L. TVait.
Newberry?TV. I. Herbert; Newberry
City Mission, J. TV. Speak; Newberry
circuit, D. Tiller.
Parksville?J. C. Holley.
Phoenix?M. M. Brabham.
Princeton?E. G. Price.
Prosperity?W. H. A rial.
Saluda?A. S. Leslie.
Yerdery?G. R. Shaffer.
"Waterloo?S. T. Blackman.
Rector of Cokesbury Conference
school, Peter Stokes.
COLUMBIA DISTRICT.
E. T. Hodges, presiding elder.
Bat-esburg?A. C. "Walker.
Columbia?"Washington street, W. R.
Richardson; Marion street, S. H. Zimmerman
; Green street, and Brookland,
J. .hi. iviahaitey, J. vv, JMeeiey; iucnland
and Granby, J. C. Abney; Ednewood,
X. K. Melton; Hyatt's Park to
be supplied.
Edgefild?R. C. McRoy.
Fairfield?M. L. Banks, Jr.
Fort Motte?J. C. Welch.
Graniteville?X. G. Ballenger.
Johnston?Jno. Owen.
Langley?J. H. Noland.
Leesville?J. F. Anderson.
Lewiedale?J. R. Sojourner.
Lexington?W. M. Harden.
Lexington Fork?J. N. Wright.
Ridgeway?A. R.Phillips
Upper St. Matthews?J. W. Arial.
Winnsboro?J. D. Crout.
President Columbia Female college,
J. A. Rice.
President of Paine and Lane InstiH.AA
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Editor Southern Christian Advocate.
Jno. 0. Wilson.
Superintendent Epworth Ophanage,
G. H. Waddell.
FLORENCE DISTRICT.
Florence District?Marion Dargan
presiding elder.
Cheraw Station?H. J. Cauthen.
Cheraw Circuit?J. B. Weldon.
Claussen?M. H. Pooser.
Clyde?J. S. Abercrombie.
Darlington Station?C. B. Smith;
Darlington Circuit, G. W. Davis.
Florence Station?P. L. Kirton.
Georgetown Station?J. L. Stokes;
Georgetown Circuit, J. A. White.
Hartville?J. W. Humbert.
Jonsonville?G. F. Clarkson.
Kingstree Circuit?W. H. Martin.
Lake Circuit?W. H. Kirton.
Lamar?G. M. Boyd.
Lane's?0. L. Dorant.
Salter's?R. C. Boulware.
Scran ton?J. M. Lawsoo.
Snnf.h rifle?R. M. DuBose.
Timmonsville?R. W. Barber.
Union?A. E. Holler.
GREENVILLE DISTRICT.
J. B. |Wilson, presiding elder.
Anderson?St. John's, W. W. Daniel;
West End, S. B. Harper.
Easley and Bethesda?J. E. Bushton.
Fountain Inn City?J. "W. Shell.
Greenville?Buncombe Street, W. A.
Rogers; City Mills, D. W. Kelier; St.
Paul's, M. B. Kelly.
Greenville Circuit?J. C. Counts.
Greer Circuit?J. C. Roper.
Iva Circuit?Supplied.
McLuro Circuit?IX. Stone.
Newry Circuit?To be supplied.
[ North Pickens Circuit?C. W. Burgess.
Pelham and Batesville?B. M. Roberson.
Pelzer?T. H. Herbert.
Pendleton Circuit?A. B. "Watson.
Pickens Circuit?J. S. Porter.
Piedmont?T. C. Ligon.
Riedsville?C.- H. Clyde.
Seneca and Wallialla?J. L. Daniel.
Starr Circuit?0. M. Abney.
Townville?L. L. Inabinet,
Traveler's Rest?J. P. Attaway.
Walhalla Circuit?H. W. Whittaker.
Westminister Circuit?R. R. 'Dagnan.
West Pickens Circuit?J. L. Mullinax.
Williamston Circuit?R. G. Martin.
Williarnston and Belton?P. F. Kilgo,
A. W. Attaway supernumerary.
Assistant Sunday School Editor?L.
F. Beattey.
Williamston Female College?S. Lan
der, D. D.
MARION DISTRICT.
W. C. Power, presiding elder.
Bayboro?L. M. Merritt.
Bennettsville Station?C. W. Creighton.
Bennettsville Circuit?A. J. Cau
then.
Blenheim?R. E. Stackhouse.
Brightsville?W. B. Baker.
Britton's Neck?T. B. Reynolds.
Bucksville?M. W. Gatlin.
Centenary?Gr. R. Whittaker.
Clio?T. M. Dent.
Conway Station?J. W. Elkins, Jno.
Manning supernumerary.
Conway Circuit?VT. E. Barre.
Dillon Station?C. C. Herbert.
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Little Rock?J. A. Campbell.
Loris?NT. L. Wiggins.
Marion Station?T. E. Morris.
McColl Station?T. L. Belvin.
Mullins?S. J. Bethea.
North Marlboro?W. S. Geodwin.
Waccamaw?D. A. Calhoun.
North Mullins?J. F. McKin; B. N'.
Rodgers, supernumerary.
ORANGEBURG DISTRICT.
II. B. BrowD, presiding elder.
Aiken?A. J. Stafford.
Bamberg?T. C. Oilell.
Barnwell?W. A. WrigTi't.
Braoehviile?W. A. Betts.
Boiling Springs?J. D. Friersozr.
Denmark?W. W. Williams.
Edisto?J. C. Younge.
Lower St. Matthew's?01. W. Hook.
Orangeburg Station?E. 0. Watson.
Orangeburg City Mission?E. Z.
James.
Orange?E. A. Wilkens; T. E. Wannamaker
supernumerary.
Providence?C. D. Mann. _
South Branchville?D. Z. JDantzler.
Springfield?G. E. Stokes, M. M.
Ferguson supernumerary.
Swansea?J. T. McFarlane.
Wagner?I. E. Smith.
"Williston?J. C. Davis.
Orangeburg Circuit?E. P. Hutson.
ROCK HILL DISTRICT.
J. B. Campbell, presiding elder.
Blacksburg Circuit?D. M. McLeod.
Blackstocks Circuit?B. P.. Ingraham.
Chester Station?J. E. Grier.
Chester Circuit?J. B. Tray wick.
Chesterfield Circuit?A. F. Berry.
East Chester Circuit?W. H. Miller.
Fort Mill Circuit?K A. Younge.
Hickory Grove Circuit?B. M. Grier.
Jefferson Circuit?L. L. Bedenbaugh.
Lanoastflr Station?J. E. Carlisle:
Lancaster 'ircuit?G-. C. Leonard.
North Rock Hill Circuit?J. Barr
Harris.
Richburg Circuit?J. C. Stoll.
Rock Hill Station?J. S. Beasley.
Rock Hill Circuit?J. H. Thacker.
Tradesville Circuit?Allen McFarlane.
Yorkville Station?A. N. Branson
York Circuit?S. H. Booth.
Van Wyck Circuit?R. E. Mood.
SPARTANBURG DISTRICT.
W. P. Meadows, presiding elder.
Belmont?S. D. Vaughn.
Clifton?R. W. Spigner.
Cherokee?W. J. Snyder.
Clinton?J. L. Harley.
Campobello?A. H. Best.
Enoree?J. M. Friday,
Gaffney Station?W. H. Hodges.
Gaftney Circuit?S. T. Creech.
Jonesville? E H. Becham
Kelton? * Isom.
T/nriTftns Station?R* H. Jones.
North Laurens Circuit?D. P. Boyd.
Pacolet Station?E. S. Jones.
Pacolet Circuit?S. A. Nettles.
Santuc?C. B. Burns. .
Spartanburg?Central, M. L. Carlisle;
Duncan, W. A. Fairey; Mission, E. B.
Loyless.
Union?Grace church?W. W. A.
Massebau; Second church, E. H. Shuler.
Whitmire?W. B. Justus.
Laurens City Mission?J. W. Shell.
S17MTEB DISTRICT.
T. J. Clyde, presiding elder.
Bethany?G. H. Pooser.
Bishopville?E. P. TaylorCamden
Station?J. Thos. Pate.
Camden Circuit?W. B. Yerden.
Foreston?F. Speer.
Jordan?W. A. Pitts.
Kershaw?J. G-. Bpckwith.
Lynchburg?E. W. Mason.
Manning?P. B. Wells.
New Zion?W. i$. Wiggins.'
Oswego?N. B. Clarkson.
Richland?T. J. White.
Heath Springs?P. A. Phillips.
Santee?A.T. Dunlap.
Smithville?J. H. Groves.
Sumter Station?J. A. Clifton; Magnolia
Street Mission, W. A. Kelly.
Sumter Circuit?S. D. Bailey.
Wateree?J. E. Strickland.
Wedgefield?J. R. Copeland.
The Colored College.
A meeting of a sub-committee of
the colored college which is located
in this city was held in Columbia Friday
night. President Miller submitted
his report, which makes a splendid
oViz-vrrjin rr fny> fli? TTlft Tfi
port shows that there 511 students ra
attendance, of both sexes. The report
divides them up as to religious persuasion.
which shows that the Methodists
come first with over 200; then follows
the Baptists and Presbyterians and
other denominations, but none have
such representation as the Methodists
and Baptists. There is one Catholic
and two Episcopalians. By states there
is a student from New York and three
or four from North Carolina and Geoigia.
President Miller goes into details
as to what has been accomplished in
improving buildings, and suggests an
appropriation to heat the buildings by
steam, instead of stove, which are a
constant source of danger. One steam
heater of ordinary capacity can heat all
the buildings, and its establishment
11 1 xT_ _
win materially decrease iue xusurauue
rates. He estimates that the college
will need $26,000 to properly run it the
next year and asks for an appropriation
to that amount. This amount will include
what eomes from the Hatch and
Scrip fund, which goes to the college
and the appropriation from the state
treasury will not necessarily be larger
than that heretofore made. The report
shows that splendid work has been done
in the various industrial departments,
and the president says that students
not only take a great interest in this
part of the work, but are anxious and
willing to learn. The students are prepared
to be able in life to have some
useful occupation by which they can
make an honorable living. President
Miller has accomplished great things in
his management of this college, and
the colored youth of the State are fortunate
in having access to such an institution
with such a competent man at
the head of it.
Jealousy Led to Murder.
A double murder was committed
"Wednesday in a country church two
miles out from Missouri City, Mo. Miss
Delia Clevengf r was shot down mortally
wounded and her escort to the meeting
house, George Allen, was instantly
killed. The murderer was Ernest Clevenger,
couis to the young woman who
was one of hi? victims. The tragedy
occurred immediately after the congregation
had been dismissed, as the wor- j
shippers were leaving the church.
Young Allen and Miss Clevenger were
walking out together. Ernest Clevenger
slipped up oehind them, placed a
revolver close to Allen's head and fired.
His victim fell dead at his feet. The
assassin turned the weapon upon his
fair young cousin, shooting her in the
back. She fell across the body of her
murdered escort. The murderer escaped.
Jealousy was the cause.
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of long standing. Will kill the poison
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Enormous Expenditures.
The d6'ficft for the fiscal year that
will end June oO, 5893, according to
the treasury estimates, will be $112,000.000,
and this does not include the
$20,000,000 which we will have to pay
Spain if we take the Philippines. The
Atlanta Journal says ';we may be sure
that the treasury official have not placed
the estimate of receipts too lew. These
are placed at $557,874,607, while the expenditures
are put at $689,874,674. So,
there we are in around numbers at least
$112,000,000 behind. We will probably
be even more than that when the end of
the fiscal year comes for we may look
out for increased appropriations consequent
upon the war. Federal expendi1
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lures nave gruwu uui vi an pivpuiuuu
to increase in population and there
most rapid growth has come just after
our wars. There is an increase in the
estimate for the executive establishment
of nearly $2,000,000, for the
military establishment of $120.500,000.
for the naval establishment of $9,200,000,
for permanent annual appropriation
of $10,800,000, and for miscellaneous
purposes of over $2,000,000, giving
a total of $144,500,000. This increase
alone is twenty-four times the total
amount of the ordinary expenditure*
for the year i860. We need not look
for a speedy return to economy in expenditures
for the federal government.
To show our appropriations have^un
up after each of our wars and remained
up. some figures are interesting: Before
the war of 1812 the average annual
outgo, exclusive of interest, was
not far from $5,000,000; after that war
it was seldom less than $12,000,000.
Before the Mexican war the government
was ipending about $23,000,800
a year; afterward it never spent less
than $40,000,000, except in 1849 and
1850, and it averaged nearer $50,000,000.
Before the civil war for several
? . T 1 t
years the annual outgo naa oeen running
from $60,000,000 to. $72,000,000,
averaging not far from $65,000,000: after
that war the outgo, exclusire or interest,
never was quite so little as $134,000,000.
It got down to perhaps $170,000,000
on an average for the period of
1869 to 1881, inclusive, and then took
a bound forward in the days of MeKinley's
billion dollar congress and for
years past has always exceeded $300,000,000,
exclusive of interest. Where
is the money coming from with wLich
to meet all the enormous appropriations
which we are told we must have? The
Dingley tariff and the war revenue act
combined will leave us from $112,000,000
to $150,000,000 short at the end of
the present fiscal year. It is not a
pleasing prospect."
We Had No Traitors.
The Atlanta Journal goes for the
play entitled the "Heart of Maryland,"
which has just been produced in that
city by a very poor company. This play
is based on the Confederate war and id
what .may be termed a war play. The
Journal says it is iaise ia iu? iuduji;
and Has not a bright line in it. In it
we see a Confederate colonel and a
southern youth of noble birth acting aa
traitors to the Confederate cause. No
such characters ever existed. The
Confederacy had no Benedict Arnold
and no decent southern bey ever betrayed
a cause for which hii kinsmen
were fighting and his mother and sister
suffering. The few men in the south
worthy to be called men who could not
approve secession enlisted in the Union
army; they did not wear the gloriouj
gray and sneak to the enemy with information
as to the plans and movements
of their comrades, nor did the
black bar of treason ever rest on the
brow of a southern boy. Another absurd
thing in "The Heart of Maryland"
is the holding up of Joe Hooker a* a.
terror to the Confederate army. The
Confederate generals and the. Confed
eiate soldiers were not afraid of any
man on earth. Hooker is an especially
unfortunate figure for a scarecrow. He
was the victim of the most colossal defeat.
of the war. No army in modern
I times j:ver got a more complete licking
than Hooker's forces received at unancellorsville,
and if Stonewall Jackson
had been shot a few hours later "Fighting
Joe" and his whole army would
have been marched before him as prisoners
of war. The man who wrote
"The Heart of Maryland" should read
history, burn up his play and apologize
to a buncoed oublic.
Gen. H. V. Boynton prints in the
New York Sun a two column article
contrasting Chickamauga in 1863 with
Chickamauga in 1898. He reoites that
Federal and Confederate army fought
and marched four days without tents,
with scanty rations, alternately soaked
and scorched and made no complaint^*
whereas the army <if this year wen
tented, abundantly rationed and with
comforts the soldiers of the _ sixties
never dreamed of had complained of
hardships.
It is said that the leaders of the Philippine
insurgents take the ground that
Spain had no Philippines to sell and
that if we want the only Philippines oft
the map we must a>ply to them.
here U much logi e in this poeition.^
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