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ISF' Robert, a bashful young student of
Cupid, recently summoned up enough courage
to escort a young lady home. At the
breakfast table next morning his father
said:
"Well, my son, did you go home with any
of the girls last night?"
x "Yes," said Bob.
, "Who was she?"
Robert hesitated, but finally blurted out:
"I thought it was Annie Warren, but
when we got to the turn of the road she
went into Ella Ham's house."
"But'I should think you might have told
by the sound of her voice," said his father.
"Neither of us said a word," said Bob,
blushing and stammering.
Boston Boots.^-A wealthy citizen had
been out until the small hours with convivial
companions, and he arrived home
slightly exhilarated. He managed, by describing
several erratic rather than geometrical
lines, to get to his bed room and into
a chair. Then he called to his wife in a
single whisper:
"I can't get my boots off."
"What's the matter with your boots?"
"Nozzin," (in a faint, whisper.)
"What's the matter with your hands,
then ??
"Nozzin."
"Why don't you pull your boots off
then ?"
"Maria, I've forgot the combination !"
The Domestic CoMPROMisE.-"Bromley,
I'm having a wretched time with my wife.
We wrangle fearfully, and she's so wordy
that she overwhelms me every time."
"Well, Derringer, these little pleasantries
are not to be avoided, it seems. My wife
and I have reduced them to a science. She
demands but two words, and I good-naturedly
let her have them. It's a small concession,
you see." ,
"I should think it was. I envy you, Bromley,
'pon my soul I do. Oh, by the way,
what are the two words?"
"The first and the last."?Pittsburg Telegraph.
It Was Mutual.?Two men who were
rail-fencing along Michigan avenue under
the influence of drink the other day met at
Rowland street. After a long stare at each
other one turned away with the remark:
"Too bad! Too bad! Zhat feller'd be
oKirtnufnof mnn ! r* til* nAlinf.flT ' foo HiHn'f,
UUO Olimaib^Ot UIVU IU Vi wuuvaj aw %aavtM ?
git shrunk."
The other looked after him and mournfully
soliloquized:
"Poor man! Might go to Congress as
well as not, but for zhis awful habit. It is
really too bad. I must shee him and tell
him of 'sr degrading 'fluences of shrink."
"Not five minutes before that electriclight
tower fell the other evening," said one
citizen to another, yesterday, "I passed it
with my wife. A little later one or both of
us would have been killed."
"I see. It is too bad."
"How?why ?"
"Probably only one would have been
killed, and the survivor would have receiv
ed at least $5,000."
The first speaker is still looking up the
street at the spot where the second dissappeared.
A Very Practical Woman.?This
short, but pointed conversation between
two ladies was. overheard in front of the
Japanese wood carvers'stall, at the Ignatius
Hall exhibition. They were attentively
regarding the carved figure valued at$3,000.
"It's a wonderful piece of work of course;
but I wouldn't give $3,000 for any old wooden
man."
"Well, I should say not. Why, if I had
$3,000 I could afford to have a live one."?
San Franciscan.
Where He Dwindled.?"What kind
of a man is he ? Good, bad, or indifferent?"
"Well, that depends a good deal on who
teeters on the other end of the plank with
him."
"How so, sir?"
"Well, if you size him up alongside of Judas
Iscariot he, looms up midlin' fair; but
when you come to get him down between
such fellows asyou and me, Judge, he does
dwindle terrible surprisin'?he does for a
fant."?Chicaao Ledaer.
a u "What
seems to be the trouble here?"
he asked as he elbowed his way into the
crowd.
"Runaway," some one answered.
"Humph! Nobody hurt, I suppose?"
"Man almost killed."
"Oh! Ah! but of course he'll get wellalways
do. What an idiot I was to run
two blocks in hopes to see a dog-fight!"
"You're looking badly, Mr. Ellis.
Why not try the hot-water cure? Dio
Lewis says it will cure every complaint."
"That shows how little he knows, then."
"But you haven't tried it." "Oh, I haven't,
eh? I've been in hot water ever since I
married, and I ain't getting no better very
fast."
"Wouldn't he go along with you?"
asked a judge a day or two ago of a policeman
accused of unmercifully clubbing a
prisoner. "Oh, yes, he went along all
right," replied the policeman. "Then why
did you club him ?" asked the judge. "And
sure, your Honor, what did I have the club
for?"
J?* An exchange, ridiculing the ridiculous
county fairs, which make no effort at good
shows, says that the Clearfield fair consisted
of a calf, a goose and a pumpkin. It rained
so hard the first night that the goose swam
off, the calf broke loose and ate the pumpkin,
and a thief prowling around stole the calf,
and that ended the fair.
Wife?"What a very polite young man
Mr. Dunley is!" Husband?"Yes? I never
discovered it." Wife?"He was very polite
to me last evening." Among other compliments,
he spoke very pleasantly of my
singing." HusbaDd?"Did he? That was
polite."
? ? ?
5@~A West Virginia horse thief is said
to have the peculiarity of running away
with a woman whenever he steals a horse.
He has a theory that this reconciles a man
to the loss of his horse.?Boston Post.
"Are you chewing tobacco?" said a
iady to her husband a few evenings ago as
he walked up to the stove and removed the
cover. "No," he replied. "What are you
doing, then ?" "Spitting it out."
V3P Sunday is the golden clasp that binds
together the days of the week, but judging
from the contents of the contribution plate
most men consider it a kind of silver and
copper anniversary.
93 In Washington: "Mr. Congressman,
allow me to introduce my son William. I
believe the paper said this was the day for
the introduction of Bills."?Louisville Courier
Journal.
He: "I see the latest idiocy of women
is to have a monkey for a pet." She: "This
is not new. It was so when we got married."
$3* A friend of ours, absent on a trip to
Washington, writes that he has been all
through the national capital and considerable
of his own.?Lowell Citizen.
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UJisceHtttteous fUadhuj.
MR. HEMPHILL ON SILVER.
In the debate on the Silver question, in
the House of Representatives, on the 20th
ultimo, the following proceedings are reported
:
Under the special order the limited debate
on the adverse report on the Free
Coinage bill was begun, and the floor was
taken by Mr. James, of New York, in opposition
to the bill.
Mr. James premised hisspeech with what
he stated were a few words of personal ex-1
planation. People were wont to look to
lawyers and professors and political leaders
for legislation on financial questions instead
of to business men, such as he was. The
result of this looking to lawyers, professors
and political leaders was that now the country
was in a slough. The Car of State was
very nearly ditched. This was not a quesnnmufKinrr
crroot if YVHJS f\
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question of getting out of something bad.
It was not a question of making good time;
it was a question of getting the wheels out
of the slough; it was a question which business
men ought to solve. If the business
men had dealt with the silver question, the
team of the State would not have been stalled
in the mire as it is now. They should
have spoken out and insisted that their
advice should be followed. They should
join their forces for the judicious handling
of great questions. The so-called demoralization
of silver had been from the start, a
great blunder. Coinage under the Bland
act should be suspended, for a continuance
of that coinage was but organized chaos in
the United States. The coinage of silver
under the Bland act had been from the
beginning, and was now, a colossal business
blunder; and he believed that had it not
been for the passage of that bill, silver would
have been remonetized long ere this?both
in the United States and Europe.
He went on to argue that Germany,
France and England were in a condition
where little pressure, such as the suspension
of coinage in this country, would force them
infrw orlrirvtino- hi.mptal i<?m. For the United
States to fix a day for the suspension of
coinage, unless there was an international
concurrence before, that time was a summons
which European statesmen could ignore.
Mr. Seymour, of Connecticut, followed on
the same line. ,
Mr. O'Donnell, of Michigan, branched off
from the coinage question to advocate a
proposition to encourage the production of
sugar in this country by a system of bounties.
Mr. Hemphill, of South Carolina, said that
the question before Congress was as to the
best method of restoring gold and silver to
a parity as money metals, and he advocated
as a means to this end the appointment of
a commission to secure an international bimetalic
union. The present standard of
silver dollar had neither a dollar's worth of
silver in it, nor was it a promise to pay a
dollar in the future. Every time that the
Government bought 80 cents worth of silver
and stamped it as a dollar it stamped falsehood
on the face of its own coin, and robbed
the man to whom it was paid. Congress
should not require the Secretary of the
Treasury to perpetrate this gross injustice,
auu oy iuruiug suver un wie wumij eventually
put gold at a premium and drive it
out of circulation.
Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, suggested
that greenbacks, national bank notes,
silver and gold alike paid debts and taxes.
Mr. Hemphill replied that greenbacks
and national bank notes did not pretend
to be real money, and no man accepted
them as such. They were a promise to pay
in the future. But a man who took a gold
dollar or a silver dollar had the right to rely
on the honesty of the government, and
when he took a silver dollar worth 80 cents
he was fooled thereby. This country had
never been a double standard country. The
people had been prosperous and happy in
the past and this had been confessedly under
the single standard of value. There
could be neither justification nor excuse in
forcing upon the country a monetary policy,
directly in the teeth of past history, and
one which threatened to unsettle value, discourage
business and stop the wheels of
progress simply for the purpose of maintaining
a financial delusion among the people.
He would be glad to see two kinds of coin
floating together at par at a proper ratio,
but if the country must have gold or silver
alone, he much preferred the former.
There was S12 gold per capita in the country
against $4 in silver. The United States
had been confessedly a gold using country
inni 1
suite .tod'*, aiiu iiu reusun uuuiu ue ussi^ueu
for such a change in policy as would reduce
our metalic money to one-fourth of its present
value.
If this were done what would become of
the great debtor class ? Had any plan been
suggested by the silver men by which
this policy could make one dollar do the
work of four? If farmers were to be paid
for their cotton in silver worth 80 cents,
the day Tor their prosperity was in his
opinion, forever gone. The relative value
of silver and gold would be fluctuating
in the future, as in the past. The cotton
grower must make allowance for that.
By the time the deduction was made from
the value of cotton for freight, insurance,
weighing, the difference in value between
silver here and gold in Liverpool, there
would be little or nothing coming to the
men who sold it. He asked the gentlemen
who represented Southern constituents to
consider well before they adopted a policy
which turned the agriculturalist over to the
tender mercy of money sharks. A gor
deal had been said about the stockjobbers
of Wall street. If there was one thing
they delighted in it was a fluctuating money
market. The great fortunes of Wall
street had been made almost entirely when
gold was at a premium and when the business
of the country was conducted on fluctuating
currency. That had been the key
note of the millionaires. Referring to the
difficulty of getting the standard dollar in
circulation, he said that the history of
mankind did not show that good money
required any power behind it. It went on
its own merits. The legal value of our silver
dollar over the real value was mantained
only by an act of Congress. One-fifth of
its value rested upon the act of Congress,
and the only assurance the people had that
this fictitious value would continue was
found in the hope that Congress would continue
in the same mind that it was in 1S79.
If Congress should at any time withdraw
the legal tender function of silver, down it
would at once fall to its real value, and
every citizen of the republic who had silver
in his pocket would in the twinkling of an
eye find that it had fallen 20 cents on the
dollar. In 1873 the trade dollar had been
made a legal tender for any sum not exceeding
In 1876 when 15,400,000 of these
dollars had gone into the pockets of the
people, Congress had deprived them of
their legal tender qualities. The Treasury
refused to receive them, and they were
worth only about 85 cents. The Government
was in the peculiar.condition of receiving
at the Treasury a dollar which
contained 4121 grains, and repudiating another
containing 420 grains. It multiplied
its inferior coin at the rate of $20,000,000 a
year, and refused to recognize its better
money coined out of exactly the same metal.
Was it any wonder that the people were
slow of taking the standard dollar when
they realized that one-fifth of the value
rested wholly on the action of Congress?
Those who desired to see the country enjoying
a stable currency could not be blamed
if they insisted that the people should be
provided with coin which was what it pretended
to be, and depended on its value or
what was in it, and not on varying notions
of an ever changing Congress. Poor people
were entitled to as good a dollar as anybody,
and if his vote would give it to them,
they should certainly have it. He believed
that if the great body of the people of the
country apprehended the facts connected
with this issue and understood what was
being done in their name, they would repudiate
the whole thing as a sham and humbug.
He then went on to discuss the policy
of Great Britain which he declared was the
richest nation on earth, and said in conclu
sion: How has England achieved this most
enviable position? Certainly not by coining
silver, for she has not indulged in that
for near a century, and while our friends
say that England has grown enormously
rich on a wrong financial policy, still if we
cau bring these United States to the same
condition as the mother country, have all
nations debtors to us and conduct our entire
people to that contentment and happiness
that comes with prosperity and wealth, I
for one will not disdain to follow her example.
That would be indeed a glorious
result, worthy the noblest ambition of a
statesman and patriot, and toward the accomplishment
of which I would count myself
happy on being able to render the
slightest aid, fori most desire of all worthy
j things to contribute something during the
i years of my active manhood to the true development
of this great country, and to
the improvement and amelioration of the
condition of that generous people who have
chosen me to this high office, and with
whose good name I shall be proud to have
mine associated as long as anything said or
done by me shall be remembered among
| the sons of men. [Applause.]
Mr. Bynum, a member of the Committee
on Coinage, Weights and Measures, supported
the minority report, which favors
the passage of the Free Coinage bill.
Mr. Stone, of Missouri, announced himself
in favor of any measure which would
tend to restore silver to an equality with
gold. ^
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
JOHN S. CHAMBERS, ESQ.
DEATH OF A FORMER CITIZEX OF YORK
COVXTY.
Many friends in York and Chester will
j mourn the death of this most worthy ChrisI
tian gentleman. Noble traits gemmed the
characterof our lamented friend. Blending
harmoniously with the winning qualities
of a sympathetic and generous neart, were
the sterling attributes of a well-regulated
understanding, a sound and discriminating
judgment, firmness of principle and devotion
to duty. Nothing mean, or low, or
groveling, came near his head or heart. He
, was one of the truest of friends, and one of
the noblest of men. A devoted husband, a
I tender, watchful father, concerned not only
I for the usefulness of his children in society,
| but, above all, for their spiritual and eter[
nal well-being, anxiously desiring that they
should seek first the Kingdom of God, and
j choose the better part that shall never be
taken from them, he was a comfort and
| blessing to his pastor, whose "heart could
safely trust in him." Asa Christian, he
was humble, distrustful of self, ever impressed
with a proud sense of his entire
dependence upon the sovereign grace of
God. He had a clear perception of the gospel
system, and the precious doctrines of
grace, heartily embraced by him had moulded
his Christian experience. Asa ruler in
the church he was just and impartial, making
no invidious distinctions. The solemn
responsibilities of his office were felt by him.
The headship of Christ over the church was
, to him not a sentiment, buta reality. He
looked upon himself as the representative of
Christ, entrusted with His honor, and charged
with executing the laws of His Kingdom,
and realized that only thus could he repre!
sent the true interests of the people. He
j was their representative, not their deputy.
The integrity of his Christian character, the
blamelessnessof his walk, and alifeabounding
in good works, were a standing testimony
to the power of the gospel; before
which, blasphemy laid its hand upon its
mouth, and infidelity was dumb. He gave
his heart and his hands to every cause,
whose object was the expansion of his Saviour's
Kingdom and the glorifying of his
Saviour's name.
In has last hours, no wave of apprehension
ruffled his placid breast. His Saviour's
presence imparted peace?sweet peace, sacred
peace, victorious peace, that smiles at
death and the grave, and says: O Death,
where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy
victory ?
The silver cord was gently loosed, and the
emancipated spirit was borne by loving angels
to the home of the Redeemer and the
redeemed, to the royal entertainment of
the King of kings and to the marriage-supper
of the Lamb.
In society, his deuth has vacated a sphere
of virtue, honor and usefulness, which
none but the pure, the upright and the
true hearted are qualified to occupy.
Upon his honored memory rests the love
of kindred and friends, the gratitude of
the poor, the benedictions of society, the
blessing of the Church, and the smile of
God. a. w. m.
Charlotte, N. C.
The following notice of the death of Mr.
Chambers is copied from the Ennis, Texas,
Saturday Review at' November 21, 1885:
an old citizen gone.
On Sunday morning last, Mr. John S.
Chambers, an aged and much respected citizen
of Ennis, breathed his last at his home
in this city, in the 74th year of his age.
He was a native of York District, S. C.,
where he was born in 1812, and lived there
and in Chester county, until 185(>, when he
emigrated to Bradly county, Ark, and from
thence in 1874 to Ellis county, Texas. In
1879 he became a resident of Ennis, improving
a home in our city and removing to it
from his farm, six miles west of town,
where he lived until the day of his death,
sincerely respected by all who knew him.
He was a ruling Elder in the Presbyterian
church. Possessing a remarkably clear
judgment, but of a quiet, unobstrusive nax
^ tkn nAnfirlnnno onil
lurt", jiu umiuiaiucu iiiciuuiiuwvvuiiu
esteem of his brethren. His respect and
veneration for the church and sanctuary
were characteristic, and such as is only inspired
by close communion with God. lie
departed this life in the full triumphs of the
Christian's faith. His funeral Monday was
one of the largest we have seen in Knnis.
A touching tribute to his memory was the
attendance of the children of the public
school at his funeral services, at the C. P.
church, which, amid a large concourse of
sorrowing friends, were conducted by his
pastor, Rev. T. W. Erwin, assisted by Rev.
Mr. Joplin, Prof. Taylor, at the organ, singing
"Safe on the Evergreen Shore," and
other appropriate solos, with feeling and effect.
The remains were afterward tenderly
placed in Myrtle Cemetery. To his family, j
his friends and his church, John S. Cham- j
bers has left the inestimable treasure of the j
example of a consecrated and devoted life, j
Peace to his ashes. I
fjkaflwg for the $ahhath.
CONDUCTED I1Y
UEV. ROBERT LATHAN.
[Orlglnnl.]
"WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE ??
The words which stand at the head of this
article, occur in one of the most remarkable
passages in the Bible. The time they were
uttered was during the progress "of a feast
of the Jews," but what particular feast we
can only conjecture. The circumstance
which led to their utterance is thus briefly
stated : At that time, we are told (John 5,)
there was at Jerusalem, by the sheep market,
or rather, by the sheep gate, a pool
called Bethesda. In some way, there was
connected with this pool five porches, in
which lay a great multitude of persons afflicted
with various diseases, or rather the
subjects of various misfortunes. There were
gathered around this pool a great multitude
of blind, lame and palsied persons. These,
we* nrn tnld wprp "umitinf for the movine1
of the water." In explanation of what is
meant by "moving of the water," it is added
: "An angel went down at a certain season
into the pool, and troubled the water;
whosoever then first after the troubling ot
the water stepped in was made whole of
whatsoever disease he had." This is perhaps
the most remarkable passage in the
Bible. In no other place in the Scriptures
is any mention made of this pool, and neither
Josephus nor Philo say anything about it.
The clause of the tyiird verse beginning
with the words, "waiting for," and the
whole of the fourth verse is left out by many '
editors of the Greek Testament. They are
left out by Westcott and Hart in the Greek
texts prepared by them entirely, they say,
from original manuscripts. They are left
out by what is called the Revised version
of the New Testament. Notwithstanding
all this, the reasons for rejecting the words
are not unattended with difficulties.
Whether the words declaring that an angel
went down into the pool at a certain season
and troubled the water, are spurious or not,
we are certainly informed that there was in
one of the porches connected with this pool
a man who had been the subject of some ailment
for thirty-eight years. How long he
had been at the pool we are not told, neither
are we informed as to what was certainly
the matter with the man. The name of the
man is not given and he is spoken of in the
most general and indefinite manner. "A
certain man." He may have been a Jew,
or he may have been a Gentile. He may
have been of a good family, or he may have
belonged to that class of the human family,
which is known only by its obscurity. The
only thing that is definitely stated is that he
had been a sufferer for thirty-eight years.
For anything that we know to the contrary,
he may have been born "in that case,"
whatever it was, and consequently he was
a sufferer all his life. Notwithstanding the
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vagueness in me uriei nisiory wxucn weare
given of this "certain man," the indefiniteness
is actually definite, and in reality we
are told a great deal about him, not directly
but indirectly, and in his case we are taught
a moral lesson of vital importance.
The first thing noteworthy in his case is,
Jesus saw him and knowing that he had
been the subject of affliction for a long time,
said to him, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
or, in modern English, "Doyou desire to be
restored to health ?" There is no evidence
that Jesus had ever seen or heard of him
before. The man may have been wellknown
about Jerusalem, but by far the larger
portion of our Saviour's life was spent at
Nazareth, a little town in Galilee, sixty
miles north of Jerusalem. The probability
is that ourSaviou'rhad never seen the man,
nor heard any one speak of him before.
Still he knew that he had been a poor afflicted
creature for thirty-eight years. All this
Jesus knew because he is omniscient and
knows all things. This suggests a delightful
train of thought. Scattered all over this
sin-cursed world of ours, there are a great
multitude of "blind and haltand withered."
They have spent their lives in great obscurity
and misery. They have been "in that
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case" ii long unit;?suiting umiuiunc ucmcsi
to them by human ties, are growing weary
of them. In winter they shiver with cold,
and are parched with the heat of summer.
They are neglected. All of these Jesus
knows.
The reply of the impotent man is worthy
of notice. "I have no man when the water
is troubled to put me into the pool." He
did not say, "Yes, I am anxious to be made
whole," and yet he did say so indirectly,
but very emphatically. No matter whether
or not he was blind, as some suppose,
or could not walk as others think, we are
indirectly told by the man himself, that of
himself he could not get into the pool, and
no one would lend him a helping hand.
He was an "impotent man"?a man dis
abled by disease. He was lying?probably
he could neither sit, nor stand, nor walk.
He was solely at the mercies of his fellowmen,
and they neglected him. His case
was a sad one. How long he had been lying
near the pool, and how often he had
been disappointed no one can tell, but he
had met with disappointments. Poor, helpless
creature, in the tones of one who was
nearing the line which divides hope and
despair, he said to the Saviour, "I have no
man toput me into the pool."
It is evident from the reply of the impotent
man to our Sayiour that he earnestly
desired to be healed?to be made well.
This the Saviour knew as well as he knew
that he had been "in that case" for a long
time. Why did the Saviour ask the man if
he desired to be made whole? The man
had been there, how long we know not, but
whether the time was long or short, he was
at the pool for the purpose of being healed.
Why did the Saviour say, "Wilt thou be
made whole ?" It was simply to give the
man an opportunity of declaring, or making
public the desires of his heart.
Here again we are taught an important
lesson. Morally, the whole world lieth in
wickedness. Sin has made us all "impotent
folk." Morally, all of Adam's race are
blind, and halt and withered. In the gos-"i
ufimnn 1\a! r?? io OcLrOfl 1 VlO
|)C1 iiuimui uciii^ jo uuuvv4 v?iv v^wvw
tion, "Wilt thou be made whole?" None,
by nature, do really desire to be made
whole, but those who are by grace made to
desire to be healed of their moral impotency,
must make known that desire as did this
certain man, by acknowledging their own
utter helplessness and their destitution of
help in man. They must say, and say it so
that it can be heard not only by God, but
by their fellow-men, "I am helpless and
neglected."
Those persons who assert that it is useless
to join the church, may learn from the answer
of this "impotent man" to our Saviour
a lesson which they should lay seriously to
heart. Had the "impotent man" made any
other reply to our Saviour than that which
he did make, in other words, had he not
frankly and fully confessed that he was unable
to help himself he would, we may safely
say, have remained an "impotent man"
until death had taken him to the other
world.
It is said that none out of the Church can
or will be saved. It is said, however, and
said with confidence that it is Scriptural,
that ordinarily there is not a particle of hope
of salvation outside of the pale of the visible
Church.
So soon as the "impotent man" had stated
his helple.ss and, as he no no doubt thought,
hopeless condition, the Saviour said : "Rise, |
take up thy bed, and walk." The impo- i
tent man is commanded to do these things
any one of which would demonstrate that
he was made whole before he was commanded
to rise. The Saviour found him prostrate
and helpless and he commands him to
rise. Next he is commanded to take up his
bed. It was no doubt a miserable thing.
It was the bed of a poor neglected man who
had been helpless for thirty-eight years. No
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uuuum was ;t naru utju, anu una uecu jjuuhj
tended to. Whatever were its defects it j
was his bed and so far as we know his only \
bed. To take it up would further demonstrate
that lie was made whole. Again he
was commanded to walk. For thirty-eight
years?more than half of a long life?he had
been confined to his bed. His whole physical
strength whatever he may once have been
had was gone, his muscles had perished because
they had not been used and he was
a mere skeleton. This man who had lain
a-bed for thirty eight years is commanded
to walk. This added to his rising and
taking up his bed would prove beyond all
contradiction that he was not only recovering
but that he was sound and well.
Immediately, we are told, the man who
had lain on his bed helpless for thirty-eight
years, "was made whole and took up his
bed and walked." No time intervened between
the command of the Saviour and its
execution by the man. The command was
in one moment and the execution was in
thfe following moment. Whence came this
power to the impotent man ? Whence
came the power to the dead, and, as was
^supposed, stinking corpse of Lazarus, to
come out of the sepulchre? The power
was in the word of Jesus. With the command
to rise he gave the "impotent man"
power to rise, with the command to take
up his bed he gave him the power to take
up the bed, and with the command to walk
he gave the power to walk. Just so it is
with men spiritually impotent. They are
commanded to repent and believe the gospel?to
accept of Jesus Christ as their saviour.
They are by nature dead in trespasses
and sins but still they are commanded to
believe. The power to believe in Jesus
Christ they have not, but he who gives the
command to believe gives the power to believe.
The healing of this "impotent man" was
a miracle. No philosophy is able to account
for it. So the quickening of a soul dead in
sin is a miracle of grace. No philosophy
can understand it, no philosophy can explain
it. Never should we forget that the
whole of our duty consists in obedience.
When God commands it is rebellion to say
"we cannot." He never commands us to
do anything which he is not ready and
willing to give us the power to perform. A
good illustration of this is found in the case
of Moses, when sent to deliver his people
out of Egypt. Moses pleaded his inability
for the undertaking. I, in substance,
said God to him, made the tongue, and I
can makeyour stammering tongueeloquent.
A case illustrative of the results or consequences
of disobedience is found in the case
of Saul who was sent to destroy Amelek.
Because he disobeyed, God rejected him
from being king.
POSSESSING THE LAND.
This glorious land of ours is destined to
become Immanuel's land, the efforts of Satan
to the contrary notwithstanding. Before
human eye beheld the mountainsof Colorado,
Christ had put his mark (Ez. 9:4) upon
one of their highest peaks. At an altitude of
14,178 feet behold a white cross, its perpendicular
arm 1,200 feet, and the horizontal 700
feet, sunk into a cleft 50 feet wide and 100
deep, filled with perpetual snow. Already
we see how the different denominations vie
with each other in their efforts to reach and
elevate the masses, and to spread light and
truth abroad. Our own church (General
Assembly) supports 1G10 home missionaries,
in addition to those laboring in foreign
fields, and contributed during the
past year to her eight boards the enormous
sum of $10,102,053, and our church is only
one among many others equally zealous and
liberal. In view of these facts, how absurd |
the assertion that Christianity is dying out
in the world! Could Voltaire, who predicted
that in the year 1800 the Christian
religion would have disappeared from the
* At % ? ? mn? I
eartn, see tne cnurcn id 1000, now usiuujshed
he would be! Then let no Christian
worker be despondent.
Pointed reefs may seem to defy the rolling
waves, but very soon they disappear beneath
the waters of the incoming tide.
So infidelity may lift up its proud head for
a while but the time is speedily coming
when "the earth shall be full of knowledge
of the Lord as the waters cover the sea"
(Isa. 11:9). Let all Mission Boards and all
missionaries at home, and abroad, take new
courage, and prepare thoroughly for the
last decisive battle between light and darkness,
evidently near at hand. While Satan
is concentrating his forces, it does not behoove
the Christian to be inactive and consult
his ease. Light cannot illume without
consuming itself. Let him who would
aid the great cause of Home Missions begin
the work nearest home?in his own heart?
and then try to bring another soul to
Christ, as Andrew brought his brother Simon,
who afterwards became the prince
of apostles. Thus any one, in high or humble
station, may become a Home Missionary.?
Rev. P. A. Skicarz, in Presbyterian
Home Missionary.
Are There Few ? Will You Be One ?
"Are there few that be saved ?" Not so
very few, when the final reckoning comes
to be made; for in the Father's house are
many mansions, and that house is to be
"filled." Not so very few; for the Saviour
is to see of the travail of his soul and be
satisfied, and He who died for all, would
not be satisfied with a few souls as his recompense.
But the saved will be far fewer
than they might have been ; and the failure
* * / --li. I., Un
will he wholly meir own mun?siminj uueause
they did not "strive," and strive in
time, to enter into that gate of whose
straightness they were forewarned. They
thought it better to "labor and tug and
strive" for the world's wealth, honor, and
pleasure, of which the most utterly failed.
With the same effort they might have won
the riches and glory of heaven. Reader,
will the number of the saved be one less
than it might have been, for lack of your
name written among them?
Personal Influence.?Upon the higher
Alps, the snow is sometimes piled so
high, and so evenly balanced that the crack
of a whip, or the shout of a voice, may give
sufficient vibration to the air to bring down
the whole mass upon the travelers below.
So in our moral world, there are souls
just hoveringoverthe abyss of ruin ; a word,
or even a look from us, may cause them to
plunge down into the depths from which
there is no return ; or a helping hand stretched
out to them in the moment of peril may
lead them back to the safe, sure paths of
virtue.
Knowing that we have such power, shall
we not humbly pray, "Lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from all evil?"
fiiar The Bible tells us of the streams that
it may allure us to the fountain ; it tells of
the past acts of God's faithful love that we
may be led to set our hope on God, and feel
that he who hath helped and loved will help
and love unto the end.
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r RESPECTFULLY inform Stovo Buyers all
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NOTICE is herehy given that the undersigned,
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MILLER, deceased, has madea final settlement
with the Judge of Probate for York county, and
011 Monday, the 10th day of April, A. D.,
1886, at 11 o'clock A. M., will make application
for a final discharge from liability as Administratrix
of said estate.
MARY O. MILLER, Administratrix.
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APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned,
Executor of the estate of JOHN YOUNG,
deceased, has made a final settlement with
the Judge of Probate for York county, and
on the 5th day of April, 1886, at 12 o'clock, M.,
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TXIE .STATE OF SOUTH CAROLIN A,
COUNTY OP YORK?COl'KT OF COMMON PLEAS.
William E. Erwin and George J. Steele, Administrators
of George Steele, deceased, Plaintiffs,
against Samuel E. Bratton, Robert E. ?
j Bratton, William E. Bratton, Jerome B.
Bratton, Rebecca I. B. Ashcraft, John A.
Bratton, John S. Bratton, J. Rufus Bratton,
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Complamt not Served.
To the Defendants above-named, the first six
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demanded in the Complaint.
[Summons and Complaint filed March 15, 188(5.
Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis.]
Dated Yorkville, S. C., March 15, A. D. 188(5.
C. E. SPENCER, Plaintiffs' Attorney.
March 18 11 Gt*
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, t
j COUNTY OF YORK -COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Anderson Earwood, individually, and as Administrator
of Charlotte Gaston, deceased,
Plaintiff, against Betsie Carroll, Mary A.
Settles, MeliahTrantham, Thomas Earwooa,
Riley Earwood, Oma Enloe, Andrew Gladden,
John Ramsey and Holly Ann Ramsey,
Defendants.?Summons for Relief?Complaint
not served.
To the Defendants above-named, all being nonresidents
:
YOU are hereby summoned and required to
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Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days
after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of
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within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff
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demanded in the Complaint.
Dated Yorkville, S. C., March 15, A D., 1880.
C, E. SPENCER, Plaintiffs Attorney.
March 20 12 Ot
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