The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, February 06, 1889, Image 1
VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1889 NO
A DELIGHTFUL SABBATT.
Sermon by the Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmage, D. D.
Th. Sabbath Should be a Delight-A Da'
of Joy and Rest-The Savlas Bank
for the Storing of Mental and
Physical Forces.
"A Bright Versus a Doleful Sunday" was
the subject of Rev. Dr. Talmage's recent
sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. After
expounding appropriate passages of Scrip
ture he gave out the hymn:
"Welcome sweet day of rest.
That saw the Lord arise."
The text was, "And cal the 3abba a do
light'-Isaiah lviii. 13. Dr. Talmage said:
an element of gloom striking
through all false religions. Paganism is a
brood of horrors. The god of Confucius
-frowned upon its victims with blind fate.
Mohammedanism promises nothing to those
exhausted with sin in this world, but an
eternity of the same passional indulgencies.
Bat God intended that our religion should
have the grand characteristic of cheerful
ness. St. Paul struck the keynote when he
said: "Rejoice evermore, and again I say
nejoice." This religion has no spikes for
h feet; it has no hooks for the shoulder;
it has nolong pilgrimages to take; it has no
funeral pyres upon which to leap; it ha; no
Juggernauts before which to fall. Its good
-ehoer is symbolized in the Bible by the
.brightness of waters, and the redolence of
ilies, and the sweetness of music, and the
;hilaWes of abanquet. A choir of seraphim
,ebasted at its induction, and pealing
trumpet, and waving palm, and flapping
wing of archangel are to celebrateits tri
wphs. It began its chief mission with the
chest: "Glory to God in the highest!" and
t wfill close its earthly mission with the as
eiptton: "Hallelujah, for the Lord God
omnipotent reigneth !"
But men have said that our religion is not
okeerful, because we have such a doleful
Sabbath. They say: "You can have your
religious assemblages, and your long faces.
and your sniffling cant, and your psalm
books, and your Bibles. Give us the Sun
- day excursion, and the horse race and the
.convivial laughter. We have so much joy
that we want to spread it all over the seven
days of the week, and you shall not have
one of our days of worldly satisfaction for
- religious dolefulness." I want to show
these men-if there are any such in the
hosse this morning-that they are under a
great delusion, and that God intended the
fifty-two Sundays of the year to be hung up
]We bells in a tower, beating a perpetual
-hime of joy and glory and salvation and
Heaven; for I' want you to carry out the
Idea of the text, "And call the Sabbath a
I resaark, in the first place, we are to find
a this day the joy of healthy repose. In this
-democratic country we all have to work
esome with hand, some with :rtia, some with
.toot. If there is in all this house a hand
'that bas-not' during the past year, been
sa'etched forth to some kind of toil, let it be
oYe sell the
ukk rom. You practice at the bar. You
ed a newspaper. You tan the hides. You
semus the gospeL You mend the shoes.
You si at the shuttle. You carry the hod
-et bricks up the ladder on the wall. And
e one occupation is as honorable as the
Sther, provided God calls you to it. I care
aot what you do. if you only do it well. But
whea Saturday night comes you are jaded
sad worn. The hand can not so skillfully
manufacture; the.eye can not see so well;
.*e brain is not so clear; the judgment is
-not s well balanced. A prominent maau
urer told me that he could see a differ
-mo between the goods which went out of
Is establishment on Saturday from the
goods that went out on Monday. He said:
"!bey are very diferent indeed. Those that
were made in the former part of the week,
because of the restthat had been previously
:given, wo'-e better than those that were
.made in the latter part of the week, when
'th men were tired out." The Sabbath
.eom and It bathes the soreness from the
Mebs, quiets the agitated brain, and
-uts eat ,the fires of anxiety that
tune 'bees burning all the week. Our
bedies -are aeven-day clocks, and un
lass on the seventh day they are wound
ug, they run down into the grave. The
Sabbath was intended as a savings bank;
iato it we are to gather the resources upon
-which we are to draw all the week. That
man who breaks the Sabbath robs his own
were, his own muscle, his own brain, his
own bones. He dips up the wine of his
own life, and throws it away. He who
breaks the Lord's day gives a mortgage to
disasea and death upon his entire physical
-estate, and at the most unexpected moment
*tat mortgage will be foreclosed and the
soul ejected from the premises. Every
gand, and pore, and cell, and finger-nail de
-mands the seventh day for repose. The
respiration of the lungs, the th-ob of the
golae is the wrist, the motion of the bone In
- its socbet declare: "Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy." There are
*thousands of men who have had their lives
- dashed out against the golden gates of the
Sabbath. A prominent London merchant
-estfesm that thirty years ago he went to
London. He sage: "I have during that
time watched minutely, and I have noticed
tat the men who went to business on the
Lord's day, or opened their counting-houses
bave, without a single exception, come to
faiure." A prominent Christian merchant
in Bosten says: "I find it don't pay to
-work on Sunday. When I was a boy, I
noticed out on Long Wharf there were mer
-chants who loaded their vessels on the
Sabbath day, keeping their men busy from
morning till night, and it is my ooservation
that they themselves came to nothing
tese merchants-and their children came
to nothing. It doesn't pay," he says, "to
work on the Sabbath."
I appeal to your observation. Where are
the men who twenty years ago were Sab
bath-breakers, and who have been Sabbath
breakers ever since? Without a single ex
ception you will tell me they have come
either to financial or to moral beggary. I
defy you to point out a singie exception, an4
you can take the whole world for your field.
It has either been a financial or moral defl
cation in every instance. Six hundred and
forty physicians in London petition Parlia
ment, saying: "We must have the Sabbath
obeyed. We c-an not have health in this city
and in this nation unless the Sabbath is
observed." Those in our own country have
given evidence on the same side. The man
who takes down the shutters of his store on
the Sabbath takes down the curse of Al
mighty God. ThIV farmer who cultivates
his ground on the i-abbath day raises a crop
*f neuralgia, and of consumption, and of
death. A farmer said: "'I defy your Chris
tien Sabbath. I will raise a Sunday crop."
So be went to work rand plowed the ground
on Sunday, and harrowed it on Sunday, and
he planted corn on Sunday, and he reaped
te corn on Sunday, and he gathered it into
he barn on Sundasy. "There," he says. "I
have proved to you that ali this idea about a
fatality accompanying Sabbath work is a
perfect sham. My corn is garnered, and all
is well." But before many weeks passed
the Lord God struck that barn with light.
..... -ad away went the Sunday cron.
So great is the moral depressin aumg
upon those who toil upon the Sabbath day,
that you may have noticed (if you have not,
I call your attention to the fact) that in
cases where the public interest demands
Sabbath toil the moral depression is so
great that there are but very few who can
stand it. For instance, the police service,
without which not one of our houses iould
be safe-there are very few who can stand
the pressure and temptation of it. In Lon
don, where there are 5,000 policemen, the
statistics is given that in one year 921 of
that 5.000 were dismissed, 523 were sus
pended and 2,492 were fined. Now, if the
moral depression be so great in occupations
that are absolutely necessary for the peace
and prosperity of society, I ask yo:: what
must be the moral depression in those cases
where there is no necessity for Sabbath
work, and where a man chooses worldly
business on the Lord's day just because he
likes it, or wants to add to his emoluments?
During the last war it was found out that
those public works which paused on the
seventh day turned out more war material
than those which worked all the seven
days. Mr. Bagoall, a prominent iron
merchant, gives this testimony: "I find
we havo fewer accidents in our establish
ment and fewer interruptions, now we ob
serve the Lord's day; and at the close of the
year, now that we keep the Sabbath, I fnd
we turn out more iron and have larger
profits than any year when we worked all
the seven days." The fact is, Sabbath-made
ropes will break, and Sabbath-made shoes
will leak, and Sabbath-made coats will rip,
and Sabbath-made muskets will miss ire,
and Sabbath occupations will be blasted. A
gentleman said: "I invented a shuttle on
the Lord's day. I was very busy, so I made
the model of that new shuttle on the Lord's
day. So very busy was I during the week
that I had to occupy many Sabbaths. It was
a great success. I enlarged my buildings, I
built new factories, and made hundreds of
thousands of dollars; but I have to tell you
that all the result of that work on the Sab
bath has been to me rain. I enlarged my
buildings, I made a great many thousands
of dollars. but I have lest all and I charge
it to the fact of that Sunday shuttle." I will
place in two companies the men in this com
munity who break theSabb ath and the men
who keep it, and then I ask you who are the
best friends of society! Who are the best
friends of morals! Who have the best pros
pects for this world! Who have the best for
the world that is to come?
Sabbath morning comes in the household.
I suppose that the mere philosopher would
say that the Sabbath light comes in a wave
current, just like any other light;but it does
not seem so to me. It seems as if it touched
the eyelids more gently, and threw a
brighter glow on the mantel ornaments, and
cast a better cheerfulness on the faces of
the children, and threw a supernatural glory
over the old family Bible. HailI Sabbath
light! We rejoice in it. Rest comes in
through the window, or it leaps up fromthe
ire, or it rolls out of the old arm chair, or
it catches up the body into ecstasy, and
swings open before the soul the twelve
gates which are twelve pearls. The bar of
the unopened warehouse, the hinges of the
unfastened store window, the quiet of the
commercial warehouse seem to say: "This
te ntiig bwit weary ban s a
aching side and sick heart. Rest for the
overtasked workman in the mine, or on the
wall, or in the sweltering factory. Hang
up the plane, drop the ads, slip the band
from the wheel, put out the fire. Rest for
the body, for the mind, and for the soul.
"Welcome, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes."
Again, I remark, we ought to have in the
Sabbath the joy of domestic reunion and
consecration. There are some very good
parents who have the faculty of making the
Sabbath a great gloom. Their children run
up against the wall of parental lugubrious
ness on that day. They are sorry when
Sunday comes, and glad when it goes away.
They think of everything bad on that day.
It is the worst day to them, really, in all the
week. There are persons, who, because
they were brought up in Christian families
where there were wrong notions about the
Sabbath, have gone out into dissipation and
will be lost. A man said to me: "I have a
perfect disgust for the Sabbath day. I never
saw my father smile on Sunday. It was
such a dreadful day to me when I was a boy
I never got over it, and never will." Those
parents did not "call the Sabbath a de
light;" they made It a gloom. But there
are houses represented h ere this morn
ing where the children say through the
week: "1 wonder when Sunday will come!"
They are anxious to have it come. I hear
their hosanna in the house; I hear their
hosnna in the schooL. God intended the
Sabbath to be especially a day for the father.
The mother is home all the week. Sabbath.
day comes, and God says to the fc'her, who
has been busy from Mfonday morning to Sat
urday nightat the store, or away from home:
"This is your day. See what you can doc in
this little fiock in preparing them for Heaven.
This day I set apart for you." You know
very well that there are many parents who
are mere sutlers of the household; they pro
vide the food and raiment; once in a while,
perhaps, th.ey hear the child read a line or
two in the new primer; or if there be a case
of special discipline, and the mother can not
manage it, the child is brought up in the
court-martial of the father's discipline and
punished. That is all there is of it. No
scrutiny of that child's immortal interests,
no realization of the fact that the child will
soon go out in the world where there are
gigantic and overwhelming temptations that
have swamped millions. But in some house
holds it is not that way; the home, beautiful
on ordinary days, is more beautiful now
that the Sabbath has dawned. There Is
more joy in the "good morning," there is
more tenderness in the morning prayer.
The father looks at the child, and the child
looks at the father. The little one dares
now to ask questions without any fear of
being answered: "Don't bother me-I must
be off to the store." Now the father looks
at the child, and he sees not merely the
blue eyes, the archr'd brow, the long lashes,
the sweet lip. He sees in that child a long
line of earthly destinies; he sees in that
child an immneasurable. eternity. As he
touches that child he says: "I wonder
what will be the destiny of this little one?"
And while this Cihristian father is thinking
and praying the sweet promise fiows through
his soul: "Of such is the kingdom of
Heaven." And he feels a joy, not like that
which sounds in the dance, or is wafted
from the froth of the wine cup, or that
which is liku the "crackling of thorns under
a pot," but the joy of domestic reunion and
consecration.
Have I been picturing something that is
merely fanciful, or is it possible for you and
for ae to have such a home as that? I be
deve it is possi ble.
I have a sta;;.:ic that I would like to give
you. A groat many people, you know, say
there is nothing in the Christian discipline
of a housenold. In New Hampshire there
were two neighborhoods--the one of six
families, the other of five families. The six
families disragarded the Sabbath. In time
five of these families were breken up by the
separation of husbands and wives; the other
by the father becoming a thief. Eight or nine
of the parents became drunkards, one com
mitted suicide, and all came to penury. Of
.s.m e -o flty descendants, about
twenty are knwn to be drunkards and
gamblers and dissolute. Four or five have
been in State's prison. One fell in a duel.
Some are in the almshouse. Only one be
came a Christian, and he after first having
been outrageously dissipated. The other
five families that regarded the Sabbath
were all prospered. Eight or ten of the
children are consistent members of the
church. Some of them became officers in
the church; one is a minister of the Gospel;
one is a missionary to China. No poverty
among any of them. The homestead isnow
in the hands of the third generation. Those
who have died have died in the peace of the
Gospel. 0, is there nothing in a household
that remembers God's holy day? Can it be
possible that those who disregard this holy
commandment can be prospered for this life
or have any good hope of the life that is to
come?
Again, we ought to have in the Sabbath
the joy of Christian assemblage. Where
are all those people going on the Sabbath?
You see them moving up and down the
street. Is it a festal day? people might ask.
Has there been some public edict command
ing the people to come forth? No, they are
only worshipers of Go d who are going to
their places of religious serviee. In what
delicate scale shall I weigh the joy of
Christian convocation? It gives brightness
to the eye, and a flush to the cheek; and a
pressure to the hand, and a thrill to the
heart. You see the aged man tottering
along on his staff through the aisle. You
see the little child led by the hand of its
mother. You look around and rejoice that
this is God's day, and this the communion
of saints. "One Lord, one faith, one bap
tism." Some familiar tune sets all the
soul a-quiver and a-quake with rapture.
We plunge into some old hymn, and all our
cares and anxieties are bathed off. The
glorious Gospel transports us, the Spirit
descends, Jesus appears, and we feel the
bounding, spreading, electric joy of Chris.
tian convocation. I look upon the Church of
God as one vast hosanna. Joy dripping
from the baptismal font, joy glowing in the
sacramental cup, joy warbling in the
anthem, joy beating against the gate of
Heaven with a hallelujah like the voice of
mighty thunderings. Beautiful for situa
tion I The joy of the whole earth is Mount
Zion. It is the day and the place where
Christ reviews his troops, bringing them
out in companies and regiments and bat
talions, riding along the line, examining the
battle-torn flags of past combat, and cheer.
ing them on to future victories. 0, the
joy of Christian assemblage!
.I remark, also, we are to have in this day
the joy of eternal Sabbatism. I do not be
lieve it possible for any Christian to spend
the Lord's day here witnout thinking of
Heaven. There is something in the gather
ing of people in church on earth to make
one think of the rapt assemblage of the
skies. There is something in the song of
the Christian church to make one think of
the song of the elders before the throne.
the harpists and the trumpeters of God ac
oompanying the harmony. The light of a
better Sabbath gilds the top of this, and
earth and Heaven come within speaking
distance of each other, the song of triumph
waving backward and forward, now tossed
up by the church of earth, now sent back
by the church of Heaven.
-Dayoft the week hTe6sr
Emblem of eternal rest."
The Christian man stands radiant in its
light. His bereft heart rejoices at the
thought of a country where there is neither
a coffin nor graves; and his weary body
glows at the idea of a land where there are
no burdens to carry, and no exhaustive
journeys to take. He eats the rapes of
Eshcol. He stands upon the mn :ntain top
and looks off upon the promised land. He
hears the call of the eternal towers, and
the tramp of the numberless multitude with
sins forgiven. This is the day which the
Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad
in it. 0. ye who have been hunting for Sun
day pleasures in the streets, and on the river
bank, and in the houses of sin, I commend
to you this holy service? I do not invite you
to swallow a great bitterness or to carry a
heavy yoke, but I invite you to f eel in body
mind and soul the thrill of joy which God
has handed down in the chalices of the gold
en Sabbath.
With what revulsion and with what pity
we must look out on that large class of per
sons in our day who would throw discredit
upon the Lord's day. There are two thingi
which Christian people ought never to give
up; the one is the Bible an d the other Is the
Sabbath. Take away one and you take both.
Take either and farewell to Christianity in
Ithis country; farewell to our civil and re.
ligious liberties.
When they go, all go. He who has ever
spent Sunday in Paris, or Antwerp, or
Rome, -' he be an intelligent Christian, wyill
pray (16 that the day will never come when
the Sabbath of continental Europe shall put
its foot upon our shores. I had a friend in
Syracuse who lived to be one hundred years
of age. Ie said to me in his ninety-ninth
year: "I went across the mountains in the
early history of this country. Sabbath
mornIng came. We were beyond the reach
of civilization. My comrades were all going
out for an excursionr. I said: 'No, I wou'L
go; it is Sunday.' Why, they laughed. They
said: 'We haven't any Sunday here.' '0,
yes.' I said, 'yvau have. I brought it with
me over the ruountains.'"
There are two or three ways in which we
an war against Sabbath-breaking usages in
this day~ - e~ the first thing is to get omf
children upon this subject, and teach themn
that the Sabbath day is the holiest of all
the days, and the beet and the gladdest.
Unless you teach your child under the
paternal roof to keep the Lord's day. therc
are nine hundred and ninety chances out of
a thousand it will never learn to keep the
Sabbath. You may think to shirk responsi
Ibility in the matter and send your child tc
Sabbath-school and the House of God ; that
will not relieve you. I want to tell you in
the name of Christ, my Maker and mn3
IJudge, that your example will be more po
tential than any instruction they get else
where, and if you disregard the Lord's day
yourself, or in anywise throw contempt
upon it, you are blasting your children
with an infinite curse. It is a rough truth I
know, told in a rough way, but it is God's
truth. nevertheless. Your child may go on
to seventy or eighty years of age, but that
child will never get over the awful disad
vantage of having had a Sabbath-breaking
father or a Sabbath-breaking mother. It is
the joy of, many of us that we can look
back to an early home where God wa~s
honored, and when the Sabbath came it was
a day of great consecration and joy. We
remember the old faces around the table
that Sabbath morning. Our hearts melt
when we think of those blessed associations
and we may have been off and commnitted
many indiscretions and done many wrong
things; but the day will never come when
we forget the early home in which God's
day was regarded, and father and mother
told us to keep holy the Sabbath.
There is another way ia which we can war
against the Sabbath-breaking usages of the
country at this time, and that is by making
our houses of worship attractive and the re
ligious services inspiring. I plead not for a
gorgeous audience chamber; I plead not for
groined rafters or magnificent fresco; but I
do plead for comfortable churches, home
like churches-places where the church go
g population behave as they ought to.
Make the church welcome to .ll, howeves
..er.1 eadr theY mar be. or whratewa sa
have been their past hisry; for I ink
the church of God is not so much made for
you who could have churchos in your own
house, but for the vast population of
our great cities, who are treading on
toward death, with n - voice of mercy to ar
rest them. Ah 1 when the prodigal comes
into the church, do not stare at him as
though he had no right to come. Give him
the best seat you can find for him. Some
times a man wakes up from his sin and he
says: "I'll go to the house of God." Per
haps he comes from one motive, perhaps
from another. He finds the church dark
and the Christian people frigid (and there
are no.people on earth who can be more
frigid than Christian people when they try),
and the music is dull, and he never comes
again. Suppose one of these men enters the
church. As he comes in he hears a song
which his mother sang when he was a boy;
he remembers it. He sits down, and some
one hands him a book, open at
"Jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever dear to me."
"Yes," he says, "I have heard that many
times." He sees cheerful, Christian people
there, every man's face a psalm of thanks
giving to God. He says: "Do you have
this so every Sunday? I have hoard that
the home of God was a doleful place, and
Christians were lugubrious and repelling!
I have really enjoyed myselfI" The next
Sabbath the man is again in the same place.
Tears of repentance start down his cheek;
he begins to pray; and when the commun
ion table is suread, he sits at it. and some
one reaches over and says: "I am sur
prised to find you here. I thought you
didn't believe in such things." 'Ah !" he
says, "I have been captured. I came in one
day, and I found you were all so loving and
cheerful here that I concluded I weuld
come among you. Where thou go eat I will
go; thy people shall be my people, and thy
God my God. Where thou diest will I die,
and there will I be buried."
Ah! you can't drive men out of their alas,
but you can coax them out-you can charm
them out.
I would to God that we could all come to
a higher appreciation of this Sabbath herit
age I We can not count the treasures of one
Christian Sabbath. It spreads out over ne
the two wings of the archangel of mercy.
0, blessed Sabbath! blessed Sabbath! They
soff a great deal about the old Puritanic
Sabbaths, and there is a wonderful amount
of wit expended upon that subject now
the Sabbaths they used to have in New En
gland. I never lived in New England, but I
would rather trust the old Puritanic Sab
bath, with all its faults, then this modern
Sabbath, which is fast becoming no Sab
bath at all. if our modern Sabbatism shall.
produce as stalwart Christian character as
the old New England Puritanie Sabbatism,
I shall be satisfied, and I shall be surprised.
Oh, blessed day I blessed day ! I should
like to die some Sabbath morning wheathe
air is full of church music and the bells are
ringing. Leaving my home group with a
dying blessing, I should like to look off upon
some Christian assemblage chanting the
praises of God as I went up to join the one
hundred and forty and four thousand and
the thousunds of thousauds standing around
the throne of Jesus. Hark! I hear the bell
of the old kirk on the hill~de of heaven. It is
weaau sn.a, ror behold the Bridegroo.
oometh. It is a victor's boll, for we are
more than conquerors through Him who
hath loved us. It is a Sabbath bell, for it
calls the nations of earth and heaven to ev
erlasting repose.
"0 when, thou city of my God,
Sball I thy courts ascend?
Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths have no end."
A JAPANESE TEA-HOUSE.
Pleasant Sights and Soenes In the Land
of the Miand.
The pretty tea-house quite enchanted us.
We began by admiring a rough curbed
well in the court-yard, with a queer para
sol arrangement of a roof, high over the
well-sweep, and passed to the pretty gar
den, that was all cool, green shade at that
late hour in the afternoon that we saw it.
The stairway was steep and high, as all
stairways are in this land of short people;
but at the top we entered upon a loeg,
dim corridor, with a polished floor of dark
keyaki wood. Our rooms were at the
farthest end of the house, overlooking a
third charming garden, and each little
room differed in the beauty of Its wooden
eilings, its pretty recesses, screens and
Irregular windows. The charm of that tea
house, however, was a little maid, who, for
artless ways and general winningnss, can
not be matched in Japan. Upon our arrival
sh helped carry our traps up-stairs, and
then went into the moat native raptures
over our rings, hair-pixie, bead trimmings
and belongings. She clapped her hands in
ecstacy, her bright eyes sparkled, and she
showed rows of the most dazzling and regu
lar teeth. We noticed then that see was
rather nice looking, and had more *wIt and
animtion than any of the specimens we had
encountered before. When we ate supper,
sitting on the floor around an eight-Inch high
table with little Tatsu presiding and wait
iig on us, we discovered that she was
really beautiful; but It was her charming
frankness, her simplicity ad naturalness,
added to her quickness and grace that made
a complete conquest of us all. After thea,
we let none of the other maids have a turn
at waiting on us, although they sat quietly
on their heels in the room to be ready at
call. It was Tatsu that we called for when
we clapped our hands, and the whole staff
of maids answered "Heil Heil" in chorus.
atu enjoyed it immensely, too, and went
off and arrayed herself in her freshest blue
and white kimono, patronized the best hair
dresser in town, and came back with gor
geous bite of craps and gold eord tied in
with the butterfly loops of her blue-black
hir.-Christian at Work.
Humble Workers.
If your station Is a humble one fill it to
the best of your ability, and that is all that
will be required of you. God only wants
now and them a Paul, a Luther, a Calvin
and a Mioody, but He always wants, and the
world always wants, a multitude of men
sd women ready to bury their lives In the
tunnels and mines of society, away from
the gaze of those who seek a less noble and
a less enduring work. To a 'rast number of
such self-denying, humble workers. like
tose "of whom the world was not worthy."
the State, the church and society are meet
deeply indebted to-day; and, though their
names are unknown and their deeds are un
sung, yet in the world to come they may
have a fuller joy and a more blessed inher
itance than many who are occupying a more
conspicuous place, and seem to be doing a
larger work in the world.-Christia In
q uirer. _______ ___
-Kind words produce their own knage in
men's souls, and a beautiful image it is
They soothe and quiet and comiert the
hearer. They shame him out of his sour,
morose, unkind feelings. We have not
yet begun to use kind words In se
abundane as they ought to be used.
-Oe of the bes sights spa whlh he
men eyes can rest Is an old man full to the
bim of sweetness and hopea regular opti
mist in every thing that concerns grace and
ql, -riciga Chriane Advocate,
TILE SPLENDID SOUTH.
AN ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS'S ENTHU
SIASrIC REVIEW.
Marvelous Progress Against Opposing Eir
cuur.tance-A Glorious Empire and Peo
ple and How they Have Recovered from
Wasttng Wer.
aFrom the London Telegraph.)
This is the time of year when statis
tics find favor, and there are few quar
ters of the globe in which the prospects
of the future appear more favorable than
in those Southern States of Amirica
which once seemed so hopelessly beaten
in war and broken in resources. '-No
such advance in wealth," writes Mr. G.
W. Curtis the editorof '-Harper's Maga
zine," "has Ev.r been made in any other
part of the American Union as that re
corded by the Southern States between
1880 and 1883." In 1880, the fifteen
years which La-d irtervened since 1465,
when the great rebelli-n nt:der Mr. Jef
ferson Davis collapsed, had na.t Futic:d
to restore prosperity to oue of the mast
ricLly ehldowed counties on the face of
the gtobe. It was in that yeer, however,
that the. reha tion of ''Secessit be
gan, we ray no -:e perceive, in earnest, as
is shown by he. remaikable fact that the
So'he rr railrosds covered about 17.000
miles in 1880, and about 36,000 in 1S8.
Still more notab!e has been the growth
of irn msnufactures in Alabarna, Geor
gia, Virginia, Tennessee aud Kentuyky,
and of their collective products since
1880, in which year they turned out 200.
000 tons of pig iron, against about a
million in 1888. Last year there was a
decreaso in the total yield of the blsit
furnaces of the United States, but that
decrt ase was confined to the North, and
did not extend to the south of the Poto
mac and Ohio rivers. Alabama and
Tunneasee continued to auvance while
Petnsylvania fell back: and the pros
perity of those two iron-producing
tates of the South n.,w is wholly out
trapping their Northern aidiferous
rivals. Moreover, the iron of the "War
rior Fields" of Alabama is said to be not
only the best but the cheapest in tho
world. Turning next to cotton, which
many prophets of woe declared could only
be grown by slave labor, we find that
nearly seven million bales of that great
staple were produced in 1888, against
5,500,000 in 1880. The observing South
erner has discovered, moreover, that it
is more profitable to turn his cotton into
yarn, and to export it to Europe, than to
Bend it raw and packed in bales. The
result is that there are now 300 cotton
mills in the Southern States against
about half that number in 1880; and al
recady the looms of Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina, North Carolina and
Virginia are threatening the New Eng
land States and lowering prices in Law
and Lowell, Mass., and Providence, R.
L Fourthly, the lumber trade establish
ments of the South at present employ
about 100 000 hands, and turned out last
year planks and and sawn timber worth
nearly ?20,000,000 sterling, Finally, the
value of Southern live stock has increase
to the extent of ?40,000,000 in the last
eight years, while her agriculture has
made a corresponding advance.
These really astonishing figures, and
many more of the same kind, are sum
monad up by a Trans Atlantic Journal,
the New Orleans Time-Democrat, with
the statement that in eight years the
available capital of the Southern States
has increased by ?50,000,000, in their
gross wealth by more than ?200,000,000
stearling. All this has happened in a
country one single State of which
Texa-possesses an area larger than
that of France and Spain combined-a
State which could, if as thickly as Great
Britain, support 70,000,000, human be
ings. Bearing these figures in mind, we
can easily e-timate the magnificent pros.
pects of the Southern States of tie
American Union when it is mentioned
that on the 1st of July last there were
fewer than 20,000,000 inhabitants in the
whole of Secessia, three-fifths of whom
were whites and two-fifth blacks. More
over, the climate is equally delightful
and salubrious, especially to those who
in July and Augmt-the only two in
conveniently hot months- can afford to
retire to the mountains which overhang
the States of Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, South and North Carolina,
Virginia and Tennessee. Once, indeed,
in tventy years or so, the yellow fever
appears at some little town where the
laws of sanitation have been outrageously
neglected, and produces fright altogett r
out of proportion to the mortality which
it causes. Last summer and autumn, for
insane, a visitation overtook Jackson
vie, in Florida, and telegrams were
scattered all over the United States, and
cabled to Europe, proclaimning the "r-ava
ge" of a pestilence which in five montns
put four hundred persons to death-le-s
than the number of victims killed by
consumption in this Metropolis every
two months. More than a quarter of a
century ago the still living Benjsmin F.
Butler, of Massachusetts, showed the in
habitants of New Orleans, whom he ruled
with a rod of iron as Military Governor,
that cleanliness and yellow fever stand
to each other in the relation of alkali and
acid. Last winter the whole area of the
Northern States was desolated with a
worse scourage than "Yellow Jack"
those "blizzards in which hundreds of
human beings perished and hecatombs
of hogs were frozen to death on their
road from the West to New York. For
the greater portion of the year the cli
mate of the Southern State is as soft as
that of Italy and as brucing as that of
the Tyrol. When Mr. Cleveland and his
yo~ng wife made a brie-i Southern trip
after enduring the hardships of an un
usually severe winter in Washington,
the President is said to have expressed
astonishent thaet wealthy Americans
should thamk it necessary to cross the
Atlantic and take up their abode on the
shores of the Mediterranean, when their
own country offers a fine climate, and
the Gulf of Mexico more attractive
scenery even than the Bay of Naples. At
this moment Mr. Jefferson D)avis is
passing his mild decline in the extreme
South of the State of Mississippi in a
house callied Beauvoir-bequeathed to
him in 18'79 by Mrs. Dorsey-an entire
stranger in blood--which looks out upon
the Gulf of Mexico, and is described by
it4 fo+tnat nnuant an "the most de
lightfnl spot on earth." If any Englih
man desires to have the horoscope of
the "New South" and of its prospects
drawn for him by a competant hand, he
would do well to follow the emample of
Lord Roseberry, and seek out the ex
President of the Southern Confederacy
in his Mississippi home.
A WO1TN's WAR ON WOMEN.
The Cruel Awindles of a Heartless Adven
tures-Miserable Ending of a Strange.
Bad Career.
(From the Baltimore American.)
Mme. Guinan, once a celebrated fi
male beautifier or enameller, of Paris,
died in an old log hut, about six miles
north of Catonsville, Wednesday last.
Mme. (luican, whose real name was
Paynaud, or Paynard, used to carry on
busicess as a perfumer in the neighbor
hood of Paris. She advo:tised a peculiar
treat, warranted forever, and a large
number of ladies principally of the
aristocracy, whose personal attractions
were fiding, -vailed themselves of her
skill. Uher process was to give one or
't Wo ws,'. t her patient, which brought
out ri;; t'ul eruptions on the skin, then
to d.cOedu:, t : oroceed fiuther until a bar
gia was nah1, and the money paid,
terrifying he: patient at the same time
by assuticg her thatif the processceased
at the particueir stage to which it had
been carried, the wou!d not be beautiful,
but hideor.i, for the remainder of her
eristcuce.. ?giinst one of them, the
wife of an aniral in the navy, Mme.
Guiuaa brogk. t an action for breach of
c.mtract, claiming $3,000 as the price of
-toration." The jury however gave a
verdict against her, and her ill-success
i 1is o-is, no doubt, was the cause of
Ler future adventures. Nothing was
beard of her until she figured in a re
markable case in 18G9, in which Mrs.
Bcunsu charged her with obtaining
money under false pretences. Mrs.
ihanaux wBas ev dently a woman of weak
intellect, and undoubtedly of advanced
years; but on the strength of a promise
;rom Mme. Gainau, that the comeliness
Of yoath should be restored to her, and
that she should marry a duke, she parted
with over S?,000. A servant represented
toe duke at several interviews, and the
lady was delighted hrt her supplies of
money gave out, and Mime. Guinau had
the hardihood t > have her arrested for a
breech of contract. This led to a reve
lation of all the proceedings, and after
a short trial Mme Gainau was sentanced
to five years in prison. She could not
have been liberated more than a few
months when she had bask many of her
oid customers, and for some years con
tinned driving a profitable business. In
the winter of 1884 she was again com
mitted for trial on the charge of obtain.
$500 under false pretences from Mrs.
S. J. Nichols, who had been induced to
leave all her jewels in the woman's hands
in consideration of being rendered for
ever beautiful. Mrs. Nichols was a
married woman, about twenty-four years
old, and a daughter of a celebrated
singer, and the wife of a prosperous
stockholder. She was put through a
course of washes, lotions and baths, rep
resented by Mme. Guinau to be enor
mously expensive, immediately after
which the rash broke out on her face and
disfigured her. In this condition Mme.
Guinan demanded more money, and
threatened that if it were not forth.
coming, she would discontinue the treat
ment, and thus the patient would be
hideous for life. Terrified by these
threats, Mrs. Nichols confessed all she
had done to her husband. Becoming
exasperated at the part Guinau had
played in disfiguring his wife, he had
her brought to trial. She was found
guilty, but escaped from prison after
serving several months of her term.
For some months her whereabouts b5ad
the detective and police departments, and
they ninally gave her up for dead D~uring
the period of her escape she had fled tc
a lonely and unfrequented part of France,
where she remained almost a year, quiet
ly underan assumed name. Sneflast gain
ed the confidence of all who came in
contact with her, and the village was
surprised one morning to hear
that she had left for parts unknown.
She went to the gay city of Paris again,
but soon sailed for America and landed
in New York 1875. For many days she
endeavored to gain a practice in her art,
but her endeavors were not crowned with
the success she had anticipated, and be
coing weary and disgusted at the check
era life she was leading, she determined
to ma~ke amends ior tho vrong Flhe had
done. She sought the counsel of a priest,
who advised her to do penance and seek
a life of retirement fromn the world. To
do this was greatly against her feelings,
but she finally determined to follow his
admonitions, no matter at what sacrifice.
Her sojourn in New York was of short
duration, she soon drifted to this city, in
quet of a lonely spot where she could
end her days. A shelter in Howard
County was offred, which she gladly
accepted.
The American reporter, after several
miles walk through mud and climbing
over fences, reached the habitation of
this old hermit. It is situated about six
miles in a northerly direction from
Catonville, and in a part of the country
which is rarely visited. About a square
from a crocked lane-which are so
numerous in this portion of the country
the reporter peered through the trees
and saw the log hut. Soon he stood be
fore the dwelling of the person who for
years figured conspicuously in the lives
of tae aristocrats of Paris.
When the door was opened about a
dozen eats were fonud, some slumbering
peacefully, others jest waking from their
daiy siesta. Nothing else was to be seen
but a rug~ thrown carelessly on the floor,
and, on a broken table, a bottle with a
ca do in it. In the left hand corner of
'this hut was a buedhe of straw on which
Mie. Guinau had breathed her last.
Besides i was an old arm chair. Across
this was thrown several straps of huge
dimensions, which, no doubt, she used
in bodily chasisemients. Mmne. Guinau
was known by only a few persons.
Logical reasoning and theories may
convince a eupesticial observer, but
earnest seekers after truth demand ex
perimental knowledge, found only inthe
testimony of those who have experienced
he virtue of an article. For this reaLson
the thinking world knows that B. 13. 1B.
(Botanic Blood B3alm), excels all other
lod puriisers, judging it as they do
from convincing truths they see pub-.
ahaird from time to time.
THE UHINESE NEW YEAR.
The Chinamen of New York Making a ltIght
of It.-They Bow Down to Jose, Osb :Ms
Wines, They Pay Visit and Exchange Cu-..
one Red Carde..Presents for hildren
(special to the Philadelphia Times.) -
NEw YoRK, January 29.-Chinamen
in New York and elsewhereinthe United
States will take a solid day of rest to
morrow as far asmanual work or money
making business are concerned. It is
their New Year's, the 5075th of Ponk o
wong, founder of the Chinese world. . It
began silently when all the goodand bad
Christians of Gotham were sound or
otherwise in sleep, at 12.30 o'clock to
night. There was no bell rung, no whist
ling of steam engines nor salutes of war
vesse'e. Not even as much as a tin horn
announced the arrival of the New Year
of nearly one-third of the entire world's
population. They simply shot oft a few
small five-cent fire-crackers.
Nevertheless, not a Chinaman in all
Chinatown here went to sleep the entire
night. They satup and waited patiently
chewing watermelon seeds and "hitting'
the enchanting pipe as anxious for the
arrival of their new year as some Chris
tian wives waited for their dilatory hus
bands who went on a fashionable club
expedition.
PREPABlNG Bob TEm 0oLnUm3ZIO-.
As early as 7 o'clock this evening the
clerks and other employes of the various
Chinese shops began tb bolt for their re
spective apariments to prepare for their
great national holiday, and to take their
annual ablution, don clean undergar
ments and brand new blouses, prepara
tory to presenting themselves before Joss
for the remission of their crookedness
of the entire year, so that by. 8 o'clock
every store was forced to shut down for
'the want of help. The dozen or more
big restaurants, the fantan and other
shops immediately followed suit, pulled
down their blinds and barred their doors
and hundreds of the floating Chinese
population whose only boarding house
were the Chinese restaurants, were forced
to take beefsteak, onions and second-.
handedhashintheneighboring American ~
restaurants'in the absence of delicate
shark-fins and delicious birds' nestsoups
of the Cninese Delmonies. At about 10
o'clock Chinatown for the first time in a
year was desolate, dark and silent as an
Egyptian tomb.
But within the tightly closed doors of.
every Chinese establishment were aglow
with all manner of illuminations. Gas,
kerosene lamps, candles. sweet oil lamps
and lanterns were lavishly employed.
Even the utmost corners of the hallways
were made glorious for once. Such are
the superstitions of the Chinese that
they believe that if upon this day a man
c:n live glorious and happy the rest of
the year is assumed with thesameresults.
Under these illuminations they hastily
prepare and get into shipshape for the
great midnight celebration. Joss i
pulled out from "Spidervillfe" in some
obscure and filthy corner of the room, is
duly dusted and straightened out and
hung up by a new string upon thefamily
or store alter and ready to be treated
once more to a great "blow out" of
roasted meats and to receive the annual
homage from its owners, devotees and
general traduces.
WELONGa TEE HEw as.
At about 10.39 o'clock most all the
houses had things in shape to begid the
new year, and the celebrants began to
put on their best clothes in which to re
ceive the incoming year. All the mer
chants were attired in blue and yellow
gowns of sois silks, with a black satin -
short esp. Their queues were let down
to hang naturally on the back, as in their
own country. A black sat n skull cap.
with an imitation coral button on top
and red silk tassel hanging on one side,
ornamnenting the head, and big silk baggy
pan:s a la Turk upon their lower extre
mities, completed the new yearcotumles
of the elite of Chinatown.
Precisely at 12.30 a few fire-crackers
shot off at the Chinese Temple announced
the arrival of the new year, andinstantly
the head of each family began'the cere
monies at the shrines of their -respective
house Joss. These are the same~ ceremo
nies as at the declaration of the Chine.
Tempte recently, only not so long,,and
consisting mostly in burning Joss sticks,
increases and the offering of wines and
swetmeats. When the head of the
family got through the other members
of it feli before Jossin a body and prayed
in silence. After each had poured ire
cups of wine upon the foor they arose
to congratalate each other with "IKoon
hi Fali Toy"-"Long life, happiness
and prosperity to you."
MiXIN A NaHr 0r rr.
At about 1 o'clock theintimate friends
and relatives began to arrive and to
make New Year calls. These must nlrst
make their "Ko tow," or prostrations,
bfore the family Joss and thien turn
their attention to th~e inmates of the
hoswih consists of each squeezing
hisow hadswhile saying "Koon hi
Fah Toy." After duly changing big red
New Year cards, looking like country
show bilis, they oflered tea, cigars and
Tswe early calls are only about two
minutes long. They will be continued
ll day to-morrow and next day. It is
not fashionable to make New Year calls
on the third day, although the celebra
tions last tieariy a week.
Chiname~n who are fortunate enough
to have children will send them out with
their nurses to make New Year calls, for
tomorrow morning is the Chinese chil
dren's "Christmas," the only holiday
upon which they receive presents. These
presents are mostly in money, silver or
gold dollars, wrapped in red rice paper,
while the nurses receive only quarters or
ten-cent silver pieces. Cnineseetiquette
compels the recipients of these juvenile
calls to make these donations, anud they
never call only upon those whom they
know are good for the amount. Bat
there are only five pure-blooded Chinese
children. The half-breed children, or
those born of Chinese fathers by white
mothers, only get about half the amount
that the other children get.
The New Year celebration at the Jos
house will begin Friday and the fastings
will last about a week hence.
WOiG CmnN Foo.
Perform a good deed, speak a kind word
bestow a pleasant smile, and you will re
ceive the same in return. The happiness
you bestow upon others is reflected back.
He that pelts every barking dog must
pic up a great many stones