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THE CHURCH GARDEN
REV. DR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES ITS
MANY BEAUTIES.
Be Says Christ Bought It, He Planted It
and He Owns It?Flowers and Fruit
That May Be Found In It?Hortatory
Closing Words.
"Washington, April 26.?As the parks
in "Washington are abloom with hyacinths
and the gardens are being made
the simile dominant in this subject is
very suggestive and practical. Dr. Talmage's
text was Isaiah lviii, 11, "Thou
shalt be like a watered garden."
The Bible is a great poem. We have
in it faultless rhythm and bold imagery
and startling antithesis and rapturous
lyric and sweet pastoral and instructive
narrative and devotional psalm, thoughts
expressed in style more solemn than
that of Montgomery, more bold than
that of Milton, more terrible than that
of Dante, more natural than that of
Wnr^swnrt.li. more impassioned than
thiit of Pollock, more tender than that
of Cowper, more weird than that of
Spenser. *
This great poem brings all the gems
of the earth into its coronet, and it
weaves the flames of judgment into its
garlands, and pours eternal harmonics
in its rhythm. Everything this book
tenches it makes beautiful,'from the
plain stones of the rammer thrashing
floor to the daughters cf Nahor filling
the trough for the camels^ from the fish
pools of Hcshbon up to tho psalmist
praising God with the diapason of storm
and whirlwind, and Job's imagery of
Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiades.
Tlio Church.
My text leads us into a scene of summer
redolence. The world has had a
great) many beautiful gardens. Charlemagne
added to the glory of his reign
by decreeing that they be established
all through the realm, deciding even
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til? names OZ tile 11UW via 10 uu i
there. Henry IV at Montpellier established
gardens of bewitching beauty
and luxuriance, gathering into them
Alpine, Pyreuean and French plants.
One of the sweetest spots on earth was
the garden of Shcnstcne, the poet. His
writing have made but little impression
cu the world, but his garden, "The
Leasowers," will be immortal. To the
natural advantage of that place was
brought the-perfc. c'.i^n cf art. Arbor and
terrace and slope and rustic temple and
reservoir and ura and fountain here had
their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel
put forth their richest foliage. There
was no life more diligent, no soul moro
ingenious, than that of Shenstone, and
ail that diligence and genius he brought
to the adornment of that one treasured
spot. He gave ?300 for it. He sold it
for ?17,000. And yet I am to tell you
today of a richer garden than any I have
mentioned. It is the garden spoken of
in my test, the garden cf the church,
which belongs to Christ. He bought it,
he planted it, he owns it, and ho shall
have it. Walter Scott, in.his outlay at
Abbotsford, rained his fortune, and
now, in the crimson flowers of those
gardens, you can almost think cr imrnn
sop flip Mood of that eld
man's broken heart The payment of
the last ?100,000 sacrificed him. But
I have to tell yen that Christ's life and
Christ's de^h were the outlay of this
beautiful garden of the church of which
my test speaks. Oh, how many sighs
and tears and pangs and agonies! Tell
me, ye women who saw him hang! Tell
me, ye executioners who lifted him and
let him down! Tell me, thou sun that
didst hide. Ye rocks that fell! Christ
| loved the church and gave himself for
it. If the garden of the church belongs
to Christ, certainly lie has a right to
walk in it. Come, then, O blessed Jesus,
today, walk up and down these aisles
and pluck what thou wilt of sweetness
for thyself.
The church in my text is appropriately
compared to a garden because it is
the place of choice flowers, of select
fruits and of thorough irrigation. That
would be a Strang** garden in which
ihesc were no flowers. If nowhere else,
they would be along the borders or at
the gateway. The homeliest taste will
dictate something, if i: be only the old
faSHlOKeU noiivnuc:*. Vi uami.i v.vmw
dil, but if there bo larger means then
you will find the Mexican cactus, and
blazing azalea, and clustering oleander.
Well, now, Clirist comes to his garden,
and ho plants there some of the brightest
spirits that ever flowered upon the world.
Some of them are violets, inconspicuous,
but sweet as heaven. You have to search
and find them. You do not see them
very often perhaps, but you fL d where
they have been by the brightened face of
the invalid, and the sprig of geranium
on the stand, and the new window curtains
keeping out the glare of the sunlight
They are perhaps mere like the
ranunculus, creeping sweetly along amid
the thorns and briers of life, giving kiss
for sting, and many a man who has had
in his way some great black rocl: of
trouble has found that they have covered
it all over with flowery jasmine, run
ning in and out amid the crevices. These
flowers in Christ's garden arc not, like
the sunflower, gaudy in the light, but
wherever darkness hovers over a soul
that needs to be comforted there they
stand, night blooming cereuses.
Thorny Plants.
But in Christ's garden there are plants
that may be better compared to the
Mexican cactus?thorns without, loveliness
within, men with sharp points of
character. They wound almost every one
that touches them. They are hard to
handle. Men pronounce them nothing
but thorns, but Christ loves them notwithstanding
all their sharpnesses.
Many a man has had a very hard ground
*- VlOOnillT- lwO?1 hwiTIO'll
Xj{j CUIIIvaic, auiuivuuo vuij wv**
severe trial he has raised even the smallest
crop of grace. A very harsh minister
was talking to a very placid elder, and
the placid elder said to the harsh minister,
" Dcctor, I do wish yon would
control your temper." 4'Ah," said tho
minister to the elder, "I control mere
temper in five minutes than you do in
five yeara."
It is harder for Rome men to do right
than for other men to do right. The
grace that would elevate you to the seventh
heaven might not keep your brother
from knocking a man down. I had a
friend who came to me and said, "J
dare not join tho church." I said,
"Why?" "Oh," ne said, "I have such
a violent temper. Yesterday morning 1
was crossing' very early at tho Jersey
City ferry, and I saw a milkman pour a
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can, and I said to him, 'I think that
will do,' and he insulted me, and 1
knocked him down. Do you think I
ought to join the church?" Nevertheless
that very same man, who was sc
harsh in his behavior, loved Christ and
could not speak of sacred things without
tears of emotion and affection. Thoms
without, sweetness within ? the best
specimen of the Mexican cactus I evci
saw.
There are others planted in Christ'a
garden who are always radiant, always
impressive, more like .the roses of deep
hue that we occasionally find, called
"Giants of Battle,'' the Martin Luthcrs,
St. Pauls, Chrysostoms, Wyclifs, Latimers
and Samuel Rutherfords. What in
other men is a spark in them is a conflagration.
When they sweat, they sweat
great drops of blood. When they pray,
their prayers take fire. When they
preach, it is a Pentecost When they
fight, it is a Thermopylae. When they
die, it is a martyrdom. You find a great
many roses in the gardens, but only a
few "Giants of Battle." Men say,
"Why don't you have more of them in
tho church?" I say, "Why don't you
have in the world more Humboldts and
Wellingtons?" God gives to some ten
talents; to another, one.
In this garden of the church which
Christ has planted I also find the snowdrops,
beautiful, but cold looking, seemingly
another phase of winter. I mean
those Christians who are precise in tneu
tastes, nnimpassioncd, puro as snowdrops
and as cold. They never shed any
tears; they never get excited; they never
say anything rashly; they never do anything
precipitately. Their pulses never
flutter; their nerves never -twitch; their
indignation never boils over. They live
longer than most people, but their life
is in a minor key. They never run up to
C above the staff. In their music of life
they have no staccato passages. Christ
planted them in the church, and they
must be of some service cr they would
not be there?snowdrops, always snowdrops.
But I have not told you of the most
beautiful flower of all this garden spoken
of in the text. If you see a century plant,
your emotions are startled. You say,
"Why, this flower has been 100 years
gathering up for one bloom, and it will
be 100 years more before other petals
will come out." But I have to tell you
of a plant that was gathering up from
all eternity, and that 1,900 years ago
put forth its bloom never to wither. It
is the passion plant of the cross! Prophets
foretold it, Bethlehem shepherds looked
upon it in the bud, the rocks shock at
its bursting, and the dead got up in
their winding sheets to see its full
bloom. It is a crimson flower?blood at
the roots, blood on the branches, blood
on all the leaves. Its perfume is to fill
~ - Tii Vwvnfk io V?
rui lily Lianuilis. ilO UiVi*IJa io uvpaivu.
Come, 0 -winds from the north, and
winds from the south, and winds from
the east, and winds from the we?t, and
bear to all the earth the sweet smelling
6avor of Christ, my Lord!
His worth if all tho nations knew,
Sure the whole earth would love him too.
Choice Fruits.
Again, the church may be appropriately
compared to a garden because it is a
place of fruits. That would be a strange
garden whieh had in it no berries, no
plums or peaches or apricots. The coarser
fruits are planted in the orchard, or they
are set out on the sunny hillside, but
the choicest fruits are kept in the garden.
So in the world outside the church
Christ has planted a great many beautiful
things?patience,charity, generosity,
integrity?but he intends the choicest
fruits to be in the garden, and if they
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arc not there, then shame 0:1 the church. !
Religion is not a mere sentimentality.
It is a practical, life giving, healthful j
fruit?not posies, but apples. "Oil," j
says somebody, "I don't sec what your j
garden of the church has yielded." In
reply I ask where did your asylums I
ccme from, and your hospitals, and your
institutions of mercy? Christ planted j
every one of tlieni. lie planted them in
his garden. When Christ gave sight to
Bartimeus, lie laid the cornerstone to j
every blind asylum that has ever been :
built. When Christ soothed the demoniac
of Galilee, he laid the cornerstone of !
every lunatic asylum that has ever been J
established. When Christ said to the i
sick man, "Take up thy bed and walk," j
he laid the cornerstone of every hospital !
the world has ever seen. When Christ |
said, "I was in prison and ye visited j
ine," lie laid tho cornerstone of every
prison reform association that has ever j
1 ? ?TRA AUnmVi nf id 1
Dtfll Ur^(liIJLZ?UU. J.UU wmiva wi v/ii*. i.;v *u .
a glorious garden, and it is full of fruit. I
I know there is soruc poor fruit in it j
I know there arc some weeds that ought ,
to be thrown over the fence. I know i
there are somo. crab apple trees that ,
ought to bo cut down. I know there are ;
some wild grapes that ought to be up- |
rooted, but are you going to destroy the !
whole garden because of a little gnarled
fruit? You will find worm eaten leaves
inFontainebleauand insects that sting in
the fairy groves of the Champs Elystes.
You do not tear down and destroy the j
whole garden because there are a few j
specimens of gnarled fruit. I admit ,
there are men and women in the church ;
who ought not to be there, but let us be
just as frank and admit the fact that i
there are hundreds and thousands and :
tens of thousands of glorious Christian '
men and women?holy, blessed, useful,
consecrated and triumphant There is j
no grander, nobler collection in all the
earth than the collection of Christians, j
There are Christian men in this house j
whose religion is not a matter of psalm ;
singing and church going. Tomorrow j
morning that religion will keep them ;
just a3 consistent and consecrated in j
their worldly occupation as it ever kept
them at the communion table. There are
women here today of a higher type of
character than Mary of Bethany. They
not only sit at the feet of Christ, but !
they go out into the kitchen to help
Martha in her work that she may sit
there too. There is a woman who has a !
drunkard husband who has exhibited
more faith and patience and courage j
than Ridley in the fire. He was con- j
sumed in 20 minutes. Hers has been a
20 years' martyrdom. Yonder is a man
who has boon 15 years on his back, un- j
able to feed himself, yet calm and
peaceful as though he lay cn one of the
{ green banks of heaven, watching the
oarsmen dip their paddle in the crystal
[ river! Why, it seems tome this moment
as if St. Paul threw to us a pomologist's
J catalogue ff the fruits growing in this
[ great garden of Christ?love, joy, peace,
I patience, charity, brotherly kindness,
gentleness, mercy, glorious fruit, enough
to fill all the baskets of earth and heaven.
Well Irrigated.
Again, the church in my text is appropriately
called a garden because it is
thoroughly irrigated. No garden could
prosper long without plenty of water. I
have seen a garden in the midst of a
desert, yet blooming and luxuriant. All
around us were dearth and barrenness,
but there were pipes, aqueducts, reaching
from this garden up to the mountains,
and through those aqueducts the
water came streaming down and tossing
up into beautiful fountains, until every
root and leaf and flower was saturated.
Tbnt i?? like the church. The church is
a garden in the midst of a great desert
of sin and suffering, but it is well irrigated,
for ' 'our eyes aro unto the hills
from whence comc-th our help." From
the mountains of God's strength there
flow down rivers of gladness. "There
is a river the stream whereof shall make
glad the city of our Gcd." Preaching
the gospel is one of the aqueducts. The
Bible is another. Baptism and the Lord's
supper are aqueducts. Water to slake
the thirst, water to wash the unclean,
water tossed high up in the light of the
Sun of Righteousness, showing us the
rainbow around the throne. Oh, was
there ever a garden so thoroughly irrigated!
You know that the beauty of
Versailles and Chatsworth depends very
much upon the great supply of water. I
came to the latter place, Chatsworth,
one day when strangers are net to be admitted,
but by an inducement which
always seemed as potent with an Englishman
as an American I got- in, and
thou the gardener went far up above the
stairs of stone and turned on the. water.
I saw it gleaming on the dry pavement
coming down from stop to step until it
came so near I could hoar the musical
rush and all over the high, broad stairs
it came foaming, flashing, roaring down,
until sunlight and wave in glocsomo
wrestle tumbled at my feet So it is
with tho church of God. Everything
comes from above?pardon from above,
joy from above, adoption from above,
Pfinctifioation from above. .
Hark! I hear the latch of the garden
gate, and I look to see who is coming. I
hear the voice of Christ, "I am como
into my garden." I say: "Come in, O
Jesus! We have been waiting for thee.
Walk all through tho paths. Look at
tho flowers, look at tho fruit; pluck that
which thou wilt for thyself." Jesus
comes into the garden and up to that
01(1 man ana toucnes mm, iuiu suvs;
"Almost home, father; not many more
aches for thee. I will never leave thee.
Take courage a little longer, and I will
steady thy tottering steps, and I will
soothe thy troubles and give thee rest.
Courage, old man." Then Christ gof*
up another garden path, and he comes
to a soul in trouble and says: '"Peace!
All is well. I have seen thy tears. I
have heard thy prayer. The sun shall
not smite thee by day nor the moon.by
night. The Lord shall preserve theo
from all evil. He will preserve thy souL
Courage, O troubled spirit!"
Plackinz the Flowers.
Then I sco Jesus gcir.g up another
I garden path, and I see great excitement
among the leaves, and I hasten'up that
garden path to see what Jesus is doing
there, and lo! he is breaking off flowers
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fcliorp UL1U UlCilU XHJ.LU HiC fiviil, IU1U A
say, "Stop, Jesus; don't kill those beautiful
flowers.'' He turns to me and says:
"I have come into my garden to gather
lilies, and I mean to tako these up to a
higher terrace, for the garden around
my palace, and there I will plant them,
and in better soil and in better air they
shall put forth brighter leaves and sweeter
redolence, and no frost shall touch
them forever. And I looked up into his
face and said: "Well, it is his garden,
| and ho has a right to do what lie will
with it. Thy will be done!" the hardest
prayer ever man made.
It has seemed as if Jesu3 Christ took
the best; from many of your households
the best one is gone. You know that she.
was too good for this world; she was
the gentlest in her ways, the deepest in
her affections, and when at last the sickness
come yon had no faith in medicines.
You kuew that the hour of porting had
come, and when, through the rich grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ, you surrendered
that treasure you said: "Lord Jesus,
take it. It is the best we have; take itThou
art worthy!" The others in the
household may have been of grosser
mold She was cf the finest.
The heaven of your little ones will
not be fairly begun until you get there.
All the kindnesses shown them by immortals
will not make them forget you.
There they are, the radiant throngs that
went out from your homea I throw a
kiss to the sweet darlinga They are all
well now in the palace. The crippled
child has a sound foot now. A little
lame child says, "Ma, will I be lame in
heaven?" "No, my darling; you won't
be lame in heaven." A little sick child
says, "Ma, will I bo sick in heaven?"
"No, my dear; you won't be sick in
heaven." A little blind child says,
"Ma, will I be blind in heaven?" "No,
my dear; you won't be blind in heaven.
They are all well'there."
I notice that the fine gardens sometimes
have high fences around them and
you cannot get in. It is so with a king's
garden. The only glimpse you ever get
of such a garden is when the king rides
out in his splendid carriage. It is not so
with this garden, this King's garden. I
throw wide open the gato and tell you
all tocomo in. No monopoly in religion.
Whosoever will, may. Chooso now between
a desert and a garden. Many of
you have tried the garden of this world's
delight. You have found it has been a
chagrin. So it was with Theodore Hook.
He made all the world laugh. He makes
Xs laugh now when we read his poems,
but he could not make his own heart
laugh. Whilo in the midst of his festivities
he confronted a looking glass,
and he saw himself and said: "There,
that is true. I look just as I am?dene
up in body, mind and purse." So it was
of Shenstone, of whose garden I told
you at the beginning of my sermon. He
sat down amid thoso bowers and said:
4 4I have lost my road to happiness. I
am angry and envious and frantic, and
despise everything around mc, just as it
becomes a madman to dol"
An Invitation.
O ye weary souls, como into Christ's
garden today and pluck a little heartsease.
Christ is the only rest and the
only pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do
you not think your chance has almost
come? You men and women who have
been waiting year after year for some
good opportunity in which to accept
Christ, but have postponed it 5, 10, 20,
30 years?do you not feel as if now your
hour of deliverance and pardon and salvation
had come? O man, what grudge
hast then against thy poor soul that thou
wilt not let it be saved? I feel as if salvation
must come today in some of your
hearts.
I Some years ago a vessel struck on the
rocks. They had only one lifeboat. In
that lifeboat the passengers and crew
were getting ashore. The vessel had
foundered and was sinking deeper and
i deeper, and that one boat could not take
the passengers very swiftly. A little girl
stood on the deck waiting for her turn
to get into the boat. The boat came and
went, came and went, but her turn did
not seem to como. After awhile she
could wait no longer, and she leaped on
the taffrail and then sprang into the
i sea, crying to the boatman; ' 'Save me
next! Save me next!" Oh, how many
| have gone ashore into God's mercy, and
yet you are clinging to the wreck cf sin!
| Others have accepted the pardon of
Christ, but yen arc in periL Why not
| this moment make a rush for your im|
mortal rescue, crying until Jesus shall
J hear yon and heaven and earth ring
with the cry: "Save me next! Save mo
next!" Now is the day of salvation!
Now! Now!
j * This Sabbath is the last for some of
you. It is about to sail away forever.
Her bell tolls. The planks thunder back
t in the gangway. She shoves off. She
I floats out toward the great ocean of eter!
nity. Wave farewell to your last chance
for heaven. "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
how often would I have gathered
thee as a hen gathereth her brood under
her wings, and ye would not! Behold
! your house is left unto you desolate,"
! Invited to revel in a garden, you die in
j a desert! May God Almighty, before it
; is too late, break that infatuation.
Two Lives Saved.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction
City, 111., was told by her doctors
! she had Consumption and that there
was no hope for her, but two bottles
j of Dr. King's New Discovery com-1
; pletely cured her and she says it j
! saved her life. Z\Ir. Thos. Eggers'*
139 Florida St., San Francisco, suf|
fered from a dreadful cold, approaching
Consumption, tried without re.
suit everything else then bought one
bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery
i and iH two weeks was cured. He is
! naturally thankful. It is such re1
suits, of which these are sample 3,
! that prove the wonderful efficacy of
' this medicine in Coughs and Colds.
! Free trial bottles at J. E. Kauffman's
The County Lecturers' Board
! Will meet at, Lexington C.' H., May
| 10, at 9 o'clock p. m. All Sub Lecturers
are requested to be present.
D. F. Ehrd.
April 10,1S96.
We cannot be just if we are not
kind hearted.
Easy to Take ^
asy to Operate
Are features peculiar to Hood's Pills. Small in
size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. As ono man
said: " You never know you
have taken a pill till it is all JpfTj H fl i a
over." 25c. C. I. Hood & Co., 1 | | ?
Proprietors. Lowell, Mass. ?
The only pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.
The Beauties cf Country Life.
Atlanta Constitution.
Brown ba3 what we call a lazy grin
that comes upon him with the spring
and grows with the heat of summer?
that grin is just sprouting now.
Tki'a olrl trior)/I nf minn is fl rmeer
genius when it comes to weather. Ho
wrestles with tbe weather all the
time. "When it is cold it is almost
impossible to get him up in the mornings,
and he shivers and complains
through all the day, but when the
earth begins to warm lip he takes,
upon his face a grin that continues
there until time to go to shivering
agair. That grin is the safest sign I
have ever planted?I shall plant corn
tomorrow.
Everything is bright and cheerful
on the farms, considering that the
people are just entering upon a heated
political campaign. It is just the
time in country life to be cheerful if
you ever can. The roosters crow
louder and hens sing all tbe day, the
turkeys strut prouder aEd the guineas
saunter around looking up a nest
which gives promise of plenty of
eggs in the near future. The fruit
trees add their charms of beauty with
the promise of a bountiful yield, and
who would not bee cheerful? There
has been a large increase in plow
stock for this season, and the ground
is being turned in a hurry. Here is
another delight. What is nicer than
to walk over the mellow fields and
small the fresh turned earth? All
these things have charms for the
countryman, and we venture that
there are many in the cities who
would be glad to come out with us
and walk barefooted in the fresh
earth?such could but stir up the
most pleasing memories. How many
would take delight in romping over
the woods and gathering dfg vood
blossoms just as they used to do? A
stroll up and down the clear branches
among the honeysuckles and a sip
from the cool springs on the way?
this is one of the delights of spring
time in Georgia that could but stir
the sweetest memories. How many
there are that fail in appreciation of
+ Uclinrlifa \ep rnnnnt; snv.
I.LlfSC tUUUlllJ uvuguww f. - ^ ,
nor could we say how many of the
fine city people there is that would
be glad to take such a romp, but
they are too busy or too fashionable.
Some very rich people really
think that they cannot lose the time
for a short rest in the country, and
there are others who do not think it
fashionable enough. I can tell these
busy people that there would be
nothing lost in taking such an outing
as suggested, and I can tell the
fashionable people that no sweeter
pleasures are to be had at the grand
resorts. It is these fashionable people
that need the most of our pity.
They cannot come out with plain
country people and live cheap and
romp over the fields and woods
among the wild flowers and cooliDg
streams from purely fashionable reasons.
They must go to the seashore
and watering places, and many of
them are strained to keep up a style
that could be relieved of by just going
to some of the prosperous farm
bouses right <l;se heme. I think
these fashionable people must feel
somewhat as we boys used to feel
when we wou d steal off fishing on
Sundays. 1 he thoughts of getting
whipped upon our return marred the
pleasures. A number of people live
in a stra:n to keep in the fashionable
whirl that could get all the benefits
of a rest in the country cheaply and
close by their homes.
Last Sunday we went to church
and everybody seemed to be inspired
with good cheer. I like to watch
these cheerful gatherings. It done
me good to watch the young couples
strolling to the spring and sitting
out in the buggies during the recess.
+r>av +ni/I oo/->Vi nthpr there
M uaii lutj IViu VUVM v?Mv.
some of them?we will never know,
but pretty spring dresses and sweet
young buds makes the girls so charmiDg
that I am most sure the boys
said just such things as the spring
time naturally calls for from the
young men?
"Iu the spring (ho yoncg man's farcy
Lightly turns to thoughts ol love."
This is as it should be. There is
no more charming picture than the
groups of young people at a well
regulated and prosperous country
church. Little country children
seem to look more cheerful now than
has been their wont for a few years
past. They are learning that to live
in the country and to work on the
farm is not so bad a thing as once
was thought. The parents are en
titled to credit for this most desirable
turn. Tbey have quit bemoaning
the hardships of a country life in
the presence of their children. There
is a great deal in imagination, and
the children of a few years back had
the right to imagine that any business
was better than farming. The
whole talk of the young people tended
this way. Lately there is might}'
little grumbling. Farmers have got
to believe that they are as good
as any other class, if not a little
better, and this is a healthy condition
and will leven the young idea in
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SUCLL a iuauiitri ua tc oiu^ ..
from the country that could result in
nothing less than a great misfortune
to the human family.
There never was any excuse for
i this great rush of people to the
towns, nor was there ever any truth
iu the belief that once prevailed about
the town people having such an easy
time. The pressure on town people
has been very much greater than
many thought. I heard a good old
gentleman say: '-God bless Sunday."
He told me that if it was not for the
rest of Sundav he would soon land
in the asylum. This came from a
man that I had thought almost free
from care and it put me to thinking.
Business. Business. The world is
running wild on business. The world is
overworked. Night must be turned
into day. The great wheel must
turn and the clatter of machinery go
on. It taks millions of dollars to
satisfy now where a few thousands
used to satisfy. The richest man I
knew before the war was rated at
?200,000. He was a wonder in those
days. He would not be so much now.
A man starting out to get rich in
these days would not think of stopping
this side of a million.
1 hare heard that there was not a
millionaire in Georgia till since the
war. Strain, overwork, never resting,
and all for more money than one can
devise what to do with. A man with
$1,000,000 cannot rest, and neither
can a man rest who has his heart set
on making a $1,000,000. Thoie is
too much of the strain; there is teo
little of peaceful relaxation. We can
seethe need of this restfulness every
where we look. There is a great
effort to supply the place of this rest
by other means than by short sojourns
in the rural districts. Prize lighting,
ball playing and other excitements
have been resorted to to relieve the
t nsion, but all such falls short. It
d.e3 not satisfy and you may go on
until you have the Spanish bull
fights and not find the satisfaction.
None of this can ease the tired brain
nor will any such improve the morals
of the country.
My advice would be to take a trip
to the country occasionally, especially
in the spring. Commune with nature
in the woods and fields. Go to
bed with the chickens and lay there
without scheming to make money.
This is what town people need and
you can find the places without going
to fashionable places. Brown is
down baiting a fish hole now, and
with the exception of that warm
weather grin he looks as happy as he
can be. He is happy?happier thau
any town man can be while the craze
for making millions is at such a ten
sion.
Get out to the country and breathe
the fresh air of these spring mornings.
Itomp over the fields and
woods and gather the wild flowers
that are everywhere. It will not c. s
very much and it will build up mucLi
better than to go to the fashionable
>*o<inrfo orul if. will llUVfi tllfi COO 1
effect of impressing the country people
around you that country life is
not so bad after all, if we only knew
it and would be satisfied.
Sakui-: Plunkkt.
Confederate Veterans.
Charleston, April 2">.?The business
session of the annual meeting
of the South Carolina division of the
United Confederate Veterans, in session
here re-elected Gen. C. I.
Walker commander of the division
and Colonels Asbury Coward and I.
G. McKissick were chosen commanders
of the First and Second
regiments, respectively. The roll
call showed G1 camps represen'el
with a total of nearly 400 delegates
present. A resolution was adopted
looking toward the establishment of
a soldiers' home for South Carolina
Veterans somewhere in the State.
Greenville was selected as the place
in which to hold the next annual
meeting. At the night rally of the
Veterans stirring addresses were
made by General Clement Evans of
Georgia, Colonel It. C. Wood of Lou:
i iana and other distinguished gentlemen.
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Cannot bo Without It.
Jamison. S. C, Sept. 2, ?90.
Since the people know I keep St.
Joseph's Quick Relief they have taken
it all out but one bottle, and that one
I cannot sell until I get in some
more, for I cannot be without it myself.
It is beyond doubt the best i
medicine for cramps, colic, and all
kinds of pain on the market. Send
me three dozen bottles per express. J
R. D KITTRELL.
For further information call on J.
E. Kauffmann's drug store and get a
copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons
Almanac. 28.
Spartanburg Wants It.
Spartanburg, S. C., May 1.?The
committee having in charge the location
of a Lutheran college for women
of the South has visited a number
of places in North Carolina and
South Carolina?Charlotte, Asheville,
Columbia and others?for the purnose
of examining into the advant
! ages and inducments offered by these
J places. Spartanburg has not yet
j been visited, but an invitation has
, been sent ti e committee by the city
l council and the committee on educaj
tion of the Young Men's Busine s
League, invitiug them to visit SparI
tauburg and note tl e unexcelled inducements
and advantages to be
found here.
Buckle.n's Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped j
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin
Eruptions, and positively cures Piles
or no pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction or m mey
refunded. Price 2o cents }er box.
For sale at the Bazaar,
Patience is the art of hoping. i
Almost Crazed.
Thought Her Child "Was Going To
Die.
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The Terrible Ordeal of a Mother?
Her Little Girl Almost Faded
Away?Saved in the Nick of Time.
A Story that Will Touch the Heart
of Every Mother.
From the Journal, Detroit, Mich.
A very grateful mother is Mrs. A.
L. ITartness, of G79 Grand Avenue, ^
Detroit, for the wonderful cure which
her daughter has received by the use
of Dr. Williams* Pink Pills. Said
Mrs. Ilartuess: '*Yes, my daughter's
life has been saved by using Pink
Pills, thanks to a kind friend who
recommended them to me.
"Blanche was sick for over three
years. She had the care of the best
physicians procurable, and no expense
or trouble was spared to give
her relief. She was so thin that she
was fairly skin and bones, her digestion
was out of order and she had
the most awful headaches. We gave
up all hope of her recovery. Her
long, thin, listless face made me
nearly crazy, and we did everything
in our power to give her strength
and induce her to take an interest in
anything.
"Oae day a friend told me about
the Pink Pills, and Mr. Hartness
sent down town and got three boxes.
She had taken about one box, when,
to my emazement, one morning I
heard her playing on the piano. I
could hardly believe it, for it had
been over a year since the piano had
been opened.
"Soon she began to take short
rides cn her bicycle, und soon she
went singing around the house, our
own happy, hearty little daughter
once more.
"She thinks nothing of a spin on c
her wheel over to Mt. Clemens or
Poutiac, and is as well as she ever
was. :J|
"I had a girl living at our house
who was a great sufferer from im
_i_ . i j j i_- j
poverisneu oiuou, uuu who receiveu
instant and permanent relief from
the use of one box of the pills.
"If this information can be of any
use to help sorao poor sick one, it is
given with the greatest of pleasure."
The proprietors of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills state that they are not a
patent medicine but a prescription
used for many years by an eminent . :
practitioner who produced the most
wonderful results with them, curiDg
all forms of weakness arising from a
watery condition of the blood or
shattered nerves, two fruitful causes
of almost every ill to which flesh is
heir. The pills are also a specific
for the troubles peculiar to fen.ales,
such as suppressions, all forms of
weakness, chronic constipation, bearing
down pains, etc., and in the case
of men will give speedy relief and
effect a permanent cure in all cases
arising lrom mental worry, overwork,
or excesses of whatever nature. They
are entirely harmless and call bo
given to weak and sickly children
with the greatest good and without
the slightest danger. Pink Pills are
sold by all dealers, or will be sent
post paid en receipt of price, (50 cts.
a box, or six boxes of &2.50?they are
never sold in bulk or by Ibe 100) by
addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
Calls a Convention.
A Gold Bug Fanatic Hunting for
* Cheap Notoriety.
Columbia State.
The following paper, looking to the
holding of an anti free silver convention
in this State to elect contesting
delegates to the national Democratic
convention, was handed to the
representatives of the press in Columbia
Thursday:
"It is manifest that a majority of
the business men of the State are - |
opposed to free silver, and that if
there is a free silver plank in the
Democratic platform the Republican
party must win.
"By prompt action on the part of
the business men of the State we
mav avoid the catastroDhe.
"Let a convention of self appointed
Jefferson Democrats meet in Columbia
at 12 o'clock m., May 13. Let 10
men come from Charleston, five or
more each from Columbia, Spartanburg
and Greenville, and two or more
from every town and village .in the
State.
"Let this convention, representing
themselves to be true Democrats,
pass the following platform or j
some paper embodying the idea: j
"We are a convention of citizens of
I South Carolina, prophesying to represent
the majority of - true Democrats
in the State, declare that we
are in favor of sound money and a
tariff sufficient to meet the expenses
of the government.
"That we heartily endorse the policy
of cur noble President Cleveland
in maintaining our present gold standard
and in preserving the credit of
the nation.
c - 'I1 l. .. t AMA AVftKltf AW*\/^OA>1
X u:u Wit Uiu ULiuiicxajjijf vjxpvocva.
to coining silver at 1G to 1.
"Let the convention thus appointed
elect delegates to represent
the true Democracy of Sonth Carolina.
Let these delegates go to
Chicago and claim their seats on the
ground that the Tillman delegates
are not Democrats, inasmuch as they
are advocates of cheap and therefore
dishonest money.
"If the delegation thus appointed
by our business men succeeds in
in gaining their scats, the national
convention may, and probably wil',
have a majority of votes for sound
money, aud the truculent Benjamin
will receive a stab under the fifth rib,
aud the weight of his mailed hand
being removed, the deluded satellites
will flop over to true Democracy, and
South Carolina be redeemed from
Egyptian darkness.
"F. TV. McMaster.
t "April 30,189G."
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