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TALRAGUB'S MERM. CHARACTERISTIC AND ELOQJENT SERMON BY REV. DR. TALMAGE. He Takes For a1is Sutbi ct F-om COD-CUO"t to Comques-Ts clhrivsiI'y ne'r Z'Sd ing and the B ble L'Ing Its HoIdO-AD Encouragioc Di.court--. BROoKLYN. Mirch 18.-In the Teb ernacle todav I-v. Dr. Talmaae p each ed a most el< quenu and chsracteristicall% vigorus sermon in refavatlon of the (f. renewed assertion o the enemies of re lioioo that Christianty is retrogradioe and the Bible loslu4 its hold upon the hea-t' and c rnciences of men. The subg ct ot the discourse as anneurcee w", "Fr >m C" quzst to Cot (Ues.1" the ter. being tik n f cm Aot x. 13 "Beboid, the dass come. saith t'-e L ro that the plowman shall uvertake the reaver." Picture (f trep-cal c.'m- with a sea son so prospercus lj-t he harvep reaches clear over to t .q planting time, and the swsrthy husia:aman sweing the sickle in the thick Lrain abinost feels the breath of the borsesou his shoulders the horses bitcbed to the p1 )w prep?.ring for a new crop. -Bebold the days come saith the Lord. that the plowman e4i! overtake the reazer." Wi" -n is thi' ? That is now. That is this d.-V when hardly bave % ou doue reap:ug oue har vest before the powmar it, gettinz ready for another. I ku<.w ibat manv d clare that Christ ianitv has c ilaused; th;- -, e Bible is an -obsolete b'.ck; thait :1, trisian chuich is on the retreat. .1 will here and now show that the opposi'e ot that is true. An Arab guide was leading c French infidel across a desert, and ever ani anon the Arab puide woild get down in i&." sand and pray to the Lord, It disgusted the French infidel, and after awhile as the Arab got up from one of his prayers the infidel said, "How do you know there is any God?" and the Arab guide said: "H.wdo I know that a man aod a.camel passe-d along our tent last night? I know it by the footprints in the sand. - And yon want to know bow I know whether there is any Cod. Look at that sunset: Is that the footstep of a man?" And by the same prccess you and I have come to understand tha, this book is the footstep of a God. Bat now let us see whether the Bible is a last year's almanac. Let us see whether the church of God is in a Bull Rn retreat, muskets, canteens and haversacks strewing all he way. The great English historian, Sharon Turner, a man of vast learning and of great ac curacy, not a clergyman, but an att. r ney as well as a historian, give this over whelmin., statistic in regard to Christi anity and in regard to the number ot Christians in the difterent ceolties. In the &st century, 500,000 Christians; in the second century, 2 000 000 Christ ians; in the third century, 5,000 000 Christians; in the fourth century, 10,000 000 Christiane; in the fitth century, 15, 000 000 Christians; in the sixth century, 20,000,000 Christians; in the seventh century, 24 000.000 Christian.; in the eighth century, 30 000 000 C ristians; in the ninth century, 40.000.000 Christ ians; in the tenth cen ury. 50 000 000 Christians; in the eleventh cent-urv, 70. 000 000 Chrhite; in the twelfth cen tary, 80 000 000 (Christians; in the thir teenth centiury, 75 000 000 Christiane; in the fourteenth century, S0.000 000 Christians; in the fif eenti. centur , 100 - 000,000 Chrisaian'-; in the six eenhbc..n tury, 125 000,000 Chrioia-s: in the seventeenth ceniturl 155 000 000 ('hrist ians; in the eighteenth cem..ury 2900000. 000 Christians-a decadence, as y ou ob serve, is' or'y one century and mnore than made up in the tollowing centuries while it is the usual comijutation that -there will be, .then the record of the nineteenth is made up, at leaat 300 000 000 Christians. Poor Christanlty! What a pity it haa no friends! How lonesome it most be! Who will, take it (out of the p'orbe ass'? Poor Christi wity! Three bnodred itl lions in one c-nturv. In a few weeks of the year 1881 2,500 000 copies of the New Testameint omser'bu ed. Why, the earth is like an o'd castle with 20 gates and a park of artillery ready to enunder down eve ry gaie. Lay aside all Corist endom and see niow heatthendom is be ing surrounded sad honeycombed and attacked by this all conquering gospel. At the beginning of this c-uurv there were onht 150 missionaries. Now there are 25,000 missionaries and native neip era and evangelhsts. At the beginnine of this century there were only 50.000 heathen converts. Now there are 1,750. 000 converts from beathendomi. There is not a seacoast on the planet but the batt ery of the gospel is p'anted and ready to march on north,. south, east, west. You all know that the chief work of an arnmv is to plant the batter les, It mnay tape many days to plant the batteries, and they may do all their work in 10 minutes. These batteries are bemne planted all along tbe seacosts and mn all nations. It may t. se a good while to plant them, and they -nay do all thxeir work in one day. Th::' will. Naty~ ,s are tobe born in adrey, Bat jufs ome back to Christendom and rec- nize the fact that during thel1 0 years as many people have nected themselves with evangehei' churches as co~rmected -themselv ith the churches in the first 50 of this century. Christianity is falling back, and the Bible, they say, is becoming an obeo lete book. I go into a court, and where ever I find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I find a Bible. Upon what hook could there i. uttered the solemnity of an oath? Wha book is apt to be put in the trunk of the young man as he leaves for city life? The .Bible. What shall I find in nine out of every ten homes in Brooklyn? The BIble. In nine out cf every ten homes in Christen dom.? The Bible. Voltaire wrote the prophecy that the Bible in the nine teenth century would become extinct. The century is nearly gone, and as there have been more Bibles published in the latter part of the century than in the former part of the century do you thnc the Bible will become extinct in the next six years? 1 have to tell y ou that the room in which Voltaire wrote that prophecv was crowded from floor to ceiling with Bibles from Swizerland. Suppose the congress of the United States should pass a law that there should be no more Bibles printed in America and no o'e Bibles read. It th-re are 40 000,000 grown peoPle in the United States, tuere would be 40,000.000 people in an army to put down such a law sad defend their right to read the Bible. But r-uppose the congress of the United States should make a law against the reading or publi cation of any other book, how manyt people woula go out on such a crusade? Could you get 40.000 000 p~eople to go out and risk their lives in defense of Shakespeare's tragedies or (Gladstone's tracts, or Macaue's "History of Bag lano?" You know that there are a thousand men who would die in defense ni this book wbere there is not more than one man who would "ie in de tense of an'- other book. .: u tin to insult my common sense by te!l ing me the Bible is fading ".. from the world. It is the most popular bonA of the century. Ho~w do I knuow ii? 1 know it just as I know in -egard to othe. books. How man'y volh mres of :ht book are Dublissec? W el'. y oiu sa 5. 000. How many cop.:es of tha. b.'pi ar publihe> ~A iEnnird thousand. Which is 'he more popuiai? Why. of pro course the one that has 100 OCO circula of t tion. And if this book bas more copies " abroad in the world, it there are five agr times as many Bibles abroad as an% the other book, does not that show you that aftI ,he most popular book on the planet to d,- ii the Word or God? ed "Oh," say people, "the cbu-ch is a e ilection of hpocrites, and it is losing mu its power, and it is fading out from the w-de world." Is ii? A bishop of :be Meth onc cdist church told me thattbat denomina- thu t4on averages two new churcbes ever, t-r: o .v f the year. There are at leas 1 - I1 500 ne-w Cbristian cOurces run't 1, brii Amier'cau every yebr D es that lo k 'h" ! though the charch we-re tad-ng on . as t'ough it were a defuact iLnSLUt:0 ? Whieb instituiuan stauds nearest, the t4 earls (of the peopl of America todos? I do not care in what city, oi what reigh- ..on borhood you 2o. Which metnitution is ti, E ii? Is it the postnffet? Is it the hoel? v, is it the lecturin2 balE? Ab, you know anc it is not. Yo.u know that the instituti" agr which stands nearrst to the hearis ol poo tbe American people is the Christian -ou cturch. If y ou have ever seen a c'uet 'dt-n ourn iown, y'u have se-n trinousauds of Un 0 people standinu .nd lookine at it-pe t twe who never zo into a cburch-the tears raining d iwn their cheeks. The any whole story is told. A You may talk atout the church being adv a collection ot bypocrites, but when the van dphtheria sweeps your children ofi frot whcm do you send foi? The postmas vict ter, the attornev general. the hotel keep i er, alderman? No, you setad for a miois ind ter of this Bible religion. And if vou this have not a room in your house for the r-.b for sequiet- what building do you solicik? D ed< Nou say. "Give me the fiBest room I. ter, Lb bote'?" 1Do you say, "Give me tha, ter theater9" Do you say, -Give me a place 'i in that public building where I can lay aend my dead for a little while until we say a t prayer over it?" No. You say, "Give I as the house of God." thel And it tmere . is a song to be sung at in t the obsequies what do vou want? Wha' ide does anybody want? "The Marseillaise" thei nymo! "God save the Queen?" Our the own grand national air? No, They whi want the hy mn with which they sang is a their old Christian mother into her last getA sleep, or they want sung the Sabbath col school hs mn which their little girl sana met the last Sabbath afternoon she was out bea before she got that awful sickness which mal broke your beart. I appeal to your com mon sense. You know the most endear A ing institution on earth, the most popu-- con lar insd ution on earth today, is tht sect church of the Lord Jesus Christ. bar The infidels say, "Infidelity shows its proi success from the fact that it is every- Wa where accepted, and it can say what it Yo1 will." Why, my friends, infidelity is row not half so biatant In our day as it was ban in the days of our fathers. Do you know ban that in the days of our fathers there met were pronounced infidels m public au tres thority, and 'they cluld get anv political Seri positior? Let a man today declare him- e self antagonistic to the Christian reliz thr( ion, and what city wants him for may so i or, what state wants him for governor. Chs what nation wants him for president or delI for king? Let a man openly proclaim I himself the enemy of ouriglorious Chris a gi tianity, and he cannot Let a majority of yOuL votes in any state, in any city, in any equ. county, in any ward of America. Put Do you think that such a scene could Whi be enacted now as was enacted In thte or a days of Robespierre, when a shameless ay the woman was elevated as a goddess andte was carried in a Enl* en chair to a cathe dral, where incense was burned to her and people bowed down befoire her as a B tivine beinit, she taking the pl.,ce of the dur: Bible and God Aim'g'ity, while in the the corridor of that cathedral were enacted dise such scenes of drunkenness and debaaco not ery and obsceni y as have never been ~eie witneset ? Do you believe such a thir Sr an c uld possibly occur in Christendom to Suc da ? No, sir Toe police, whether <-t It Paris or New York, would swoop on i' who I kn iw mnildelity makes a good 3eal pat p et 'alk in our day. Is is on the princi-tin pie that it a man jumps overboard fromTh a Cunard steanmer he makes more ex wer ctement than all the 500 neople that disc -tay on the decks. Bn- the fact, that he lige jumps otvrbord-doesa that stop the' of t aiu? Does that wreck the 500 passen the gere? It makes great exciiemnent when eter a man 'umnps from a lecturine platfwrm tu '1 or f om the pulpit into infidelity. Bu: A d es that keep -he Bible and the church, thie froum carrting their millhons of passen- u ers into the skies? g.o They say-these men--that science is self tvercoming reliuion in our day, They in 5 ook through the spcctacles of the infidel the scientists, a'nd they saty: "It is imnpos- wbi sible that this book can be true. Peo ing pe are ficithng it out. The Bible has of a got to go overboard. Science is going teat to throw it overboard.'" Do you believe T that the Bible's account of the origin of of life will be overthrown by infidel sci- th entists who have 50 different theor-w /c about the origin of l.fe? It they .should (y cuime up in solid phalanxg a.iU agreeing and on one sentiment antione theory, per.- the: haps Christian;'y might bs damatged, ove but there are iot so many d~fferences of ove opinion iaside the church as outside the and chpldi, nib SPeople used to say; "There are so Bit many different denominations of Chiis fo tians. That shows there is nothing in aor religion." I have to tell you that all ut denominations agree on the two or three wilt or faar radical doctrines of the Christian om1i religion. They are unanimous in regard to Jesus Christ, and they are unanimous fact in regard to the divinity of the Scriptures, the How is it on the other side sati all split up. You cannot find as5a t wo of them alike. Oh, it makes doe me sick to see these literary fops going YOU along with a copy of Darwin under one Th~ arm and a case of- transfixed grasshop- the pers and butterflies under the other arm' h telling about the "survival of the fittest" te and Huxley's protoplasm and the nebu' and lar hypothesis! trot The fact is that some naturalists, just the as soon as they find out the difference the~ between the feelers of a wasp and the syn horns of a beetle, begin to patronize the fnt< Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Ag- ~ assiz, who never made any pretensions lati to being a Christian, puts his feet on the has doctrine of evolution and says, "I see you that many of the naturalists of our day of are adopting facts whi.ch do not bear the obseivation or have not passed under i observation." These men warrmng with a each other-Darwin warring against fur Lamarche, Wallace warring against cen Cope, even Herschel denouncing Fer- Tel gson- con They do not agree about anything. "ev They ao not agree on embryology; do wb~ not agree on the gradation of the ent speces. What do they agree on? G Herschel writes a whole chapter on it a the errors of astronomy. La Place con declares that the moon was not put trol in the right place. He says that .if it wot been put four times farhter from the to I earth than it is row there would be go < ore harmony in the universe, but urt Lionville comes up just in time to 50,0 prove that the moon - was put in the ma; right place. giel How many colors woven into the ext: light ? Seven says Isaac Newton. Three A says David Brewster. How high is the wit aurora borealis? Two and a half miles fiet says itas. One hundred and six' y- sen eIght miles says Twiming How far is e-st the sun from the earth? Seventy-six hal' million miles says Lacalie. Eighty two ser million miles says Humboldt. Nine-ty wit million miles says Henderson. One fro und red and four million miies sats wit M s er. 001, a lirtle difference of 28, is 000,000 mites! All split up among them- tru se-tv e, not agreeing on anyt hiag. They disi come and isay that tn.- churches of wal Jesus Corist are divided on ths great I doctrites. All united they are in 1s Jsus Christ, in the divinity of the not Scriprr. While they come up anri has pose to render their verdict, no two a hem agree on that verdict. T Jentlemen of the jury, have you - Ded on a v-rdict ?" asks the court or al clerk of the jur.v as they come in St -r haviag spent the whole night in t, be-rating. It trie jury say, "Yes, b have aur-ed," the verai.'t is rec ird- u: But supp.>se one of ' ne jun r--n m i 3, '1 think the man was guilty of tt rder," and anotho-r says, "i think he Si i guilty of manslau hf er in the sec degree," .azd another wan stvs, "I i ik he was guilty of asiault 4d nat 7 with io ent to kill," the judice N ild say: "Go back to your room and er ig In a verdic. Agree on sofme- d -g. Tha4t Is no ve-rmiet re th-se t fidel sci-nis's have in if, eled themselv s as i jiry m! decide -' trial bet ween intidrny, h. plain- j, atd Cnris.ianitv, the ti, -d t. 2 afte-r beiuir out for centuries they 1: e in to ren-er their vrrd e C n- it 3en of 'he jr-., h4ve you re..' *'u sl -raic ? N , no. Then go hark :or . ther 500 yrars and d-liter.e ad it e o) ajmethbtig. rne.e is not a P. r, miserable wretch in the Tombs s. rt tomorrow that could be con- se ctar-d by a jury that did not agree v re ve-rdict, and yet you expect us tt ive up uur glorious Christianity to i se these men who cannot agree oU U4 thing. P( b, my friends, the church of Jesus a, ist, instead of tailing back, is on the w ance. I am certain it is on the ad- s Ce, 0 Lord God, take thy sword a thy thigh and ride foith to the tt ory. hi am mightily encouraged because I d( among other things that while s Christianity has been bombarded C, enturies intidelity has not destroy- v< ne church, or crippled one min- ei or uprooted one verse or one chaP- at )f all the Bible. The church all the tc 3 getting the victory, and he shot sa shell of its enemies nearly exhaus- al fe have been examining their ammu- hi Dn lately. I have looked all through a, r cartridge boxes. They have not at ae last 20 years advanced one new ta They have utterly exhausted n, r ammunition in the battle against se church and against the Scriptures, tt le the sword of the Lord Almighty ti keen as it ever was. We are just w ing our troops into line. They are tt ing up in companies, and in regi ts, and in brigades, and you will a shout after awhile that will e the earth quake and the heavers with "Alleluia!" It will be this, tt rward, the whole line!" cc d then I find another most en 10 aging thought in the fact that the el Lar printing press and pulpit seem 10 iessed in the same team for the lamation of the gospel. Every 1 street banker tomorrow in New t kk, every State street banker tomor in Boston, every Third street of ker tomorrow in Philadelphliaevery at er in the United States and every tb chant will have in his pocket a Lb tise on Christiaaitv, a call to re- Be ;ance-10, 20 or 30 passages of ptures in the reports of sermons y ched throughout these cities and W ughout the land today. It will be P 3 Chicago, so in New Orleans, so in l, rleston, so in Boston, so in Pnila- tb ia, so everywhere. to know the tract societies are doing so and and glorious work, but I tell there is no power on earth today tv iI to the fact that the American at ting pr-ss is taking up the sermons -h are preached to a few hundred few thousand people, and on Mon- W morning and Monday evening, in morning and evening papers, scat ig that truth to the millions. What ought it is! What an encourage- tr 't to e-very Christian taan! -sides that have you noticed that .ng tbe past few ye~rs every one ofT doctrines of the Bib e came under uaone isthe seeular press? Do vou remmber a fee- years ago when 7 paper in the Uoited states had t uiitorial on the subject, 'Is Tnleret ni a Thing as Future Punishment ?" w'as the s ranges' thing that tuer" .Id be a discussion in the secular e-ra on tilat sur'ject, but every pa- b in the Unilted States and in Chris- Cl loin d'scussed, "Is 'here Such a I og as Ret ri oution ?" I kui e th--re e small wit s who made sport of t-he sson, but there was n.>'t an intel ct ma& on earth who, as the resultB ist dscumssion, did not ask himself question, "What is going t o he my s nal desimy ?" So it was in regard to 'yndal's prayer gauge. a: out 12 years ago, you remnember, o s.-cular papers discussed that with as much earnestne-ss as t'he re is papers, and there was unot a m-an V< nrstndoir who did not ask omt the questions: "Is there any'b ing i 'rayer ? Maiy the creature impress n Creator?" O0', what a mighty fact, e t a glorious fact-the secular print- a press and toe pulpit of th~e coe ess Christ hlarnessed'in the same d ci! - -. hen ook.at the International series' uldy school lessons. Do you know i -('dery Sabbatn between 3 and 5 1 acthere are 5,000,000children study the same lessoz'-a lesson prepared S the leadimg minds of the country C printed in the papers-and then a ue subjects are discussed and given h n to the teachers, who give them Y' r to the children, so whereas once- en within our memory-the children n aled here and there at a story in the 1 le, now they are taken through n Genesis to Revelation, and we I have 5.000,000 children forestalled Christianity. My soul is futll of ex tion. I feel as if I could shout-Ib shout, "Allelula, the Lord God ipotenit reigneth!"k hen you notice a more significant ;, if you have talked with people on subject, that they are getting dis sied with philosophy and science matter or comfort. They say ita not amount to anything when a have a dead c'iild in the house. iy tell you when they were sick and door of the future seemed opening t) only comfort they could find was in gospel. People are having demon-n ,ted all over the land that scienge c philosophy cannot solace the ible and woes of the world, and h i want some other religion, and 0 are taking Christianity, the only pathetic religion that ever came Sthe world. 'on just take your scientific conso- i m into that room where a mother 1 lost her child. Try in that case ci r splendid doctrine of.the "survival he itest." Tell her that child died d muse it was not woith as much as e other children. That is your "sur- i i of the fittest." Go to that dying and tell him to pluck up courage ~ the future. Use your tranis ental phraseology uponl him. hlm he ought to be eon-h fident in the "great to be," and the srlasiang now," and the "eternal Lt us it." Just try your transcend slism, and your science on him. o to that widowed soul and tell her -as a geological necessity that her fr epanion should be taken -away ie n her, just as In the course of the e, -id's history the megatheriumti had a1 wass out of existence, and then you n tn in your scientific consolation al l you get to the sublime fact that s< 00,000 years from now we ourselves ci be scientific specimens on a geolo- e ii shef-petrifled specimens of an E .net human race, S .nd after you have got all though y h your consolation, if the poor af- gi ed soul is not crazed by it, 1 will cl forth from this cnurch the plain- j Christain we have, and with one-y hour of prayer and reading of ri *pture promises the tears al .be wiped aw v, au's the boues h: floor to cupola will ne flooded ai a the calmn.-ss of an Indian sum- a ' sunset. There is where I see the a imph of Cnristianity People are p, attded w ith every thin g else. They it i God. They want Jesus Christ. t alk about toe exact scinces; there -e )nly one exact science., It 1s a matematics. Taylor's logarithms ai mny imperfkciions. The French . etric system h,4s many ;mperfections. ne only exact sciuce is Cristinanity .the only thing und-r which you can ,propriat-ly write, "Qtod etat demon randum " You tell we that two and vo make four. I do not fspute it, it It is DOt so plain that two an.! two ake four as to tt th- L ,ri Gd Al g'ry made this world. and for a roan te sinner he sent his only lit-gotten ) to die. I put. on tI e witness stand to tesiify behalf of Criristi-,nity the chur-r: er n and all re thuren hi4v en at 50 not. 1,000, not 1.000.000, hur. l1t e C !vctih Ou eirt 'a and all the re --m..d in heav.-n. S You tell cae J imes A G irni-ld w;1 augurared vre-went i t rh- Unirt-n a.-.s on the 4 h -f N1-iich, 1881 H - v , T kn-ow 1v ? You Ieli me 'here were r .000 ersorns who d:stinetly her;id nia 0 dugir-il addirss. I de, y tbat. te- was auia -i .'ed. I deny t'c it his inaugur a r-ss was delive -I. Y u .-k t :t. I did not see it. I did not teDO v Bit you say tha. t h re were- 20 01 rs ,us wno did s-e and h.-ar hi u. a r ,y I cannot take it anyhow; I dii nor - e and hear imm. Wnose tes i non% p ill you tak.-? Y'u will not take my e stimony. Y.u say: "You know noth I g about it. You w-re not there. L-' i have the testimony of the 20,000 I rsous wno stood b -f >re the c ipiuo. id beard that magnifcient inaugural ny of course that is as your cmn lon n nse dictates. Now, here are some men who say t ey never seen Christ crowned in the- u art, and they do not believe it is ever v >ne. There is a group of men wno o y they have never hear' the voicep t 1, -rist. They have never heard the a )ice of God. They do n:-t believe it a 'er transpire or was ever head-that p ything like it ever occurred. I point 1 20, 100.000 or 1,000.000 people w(o r y: "Christ was crowned in our hearts -, ections. We have seen him awd o it him in our soul, and we have heard s s voice. We have heard it in storm id da.ikness. We have heard it again r, id agaio." Whose testimor.y will you a ,ke? These men who say they have f, >t heard the voice of Christ, have not d en the coronation, or will you take C e thousands and millions of Chris- rt ins who testify of what they saw a Ith their own eyes and heard with E *eir own ears? p Yonder is an aged Christian after 50 u ars experience of the Dower of god- t iess in his soul. Ask this man a hether, when he be buried his dead, e religon of Jesus Christ was not a C nsolation. Ask him if through the S ng years of his pilgrimage the Lord a 'er forsook him. Ask him when he h oks forward to the future if he has n it a paece, and joy, and a consolation n e world cannot take away. Pat his v stimony of what he has seen and It hat he has felt opposite the testimony p a man who says he has not see" 11 tythiog on the subject or felt any v ing on the subject. Will you take C e testimony of people wno have not \ n or people who have seen ? r You say morphla pars one to sleep. t ou say in time df sickness it is very r ful. I deny it. Morphia never o its anybody to sleep. It never al- p riates pain. You ask me why I say 0 at. I have never tried it. I never % ok it. I deny that morphia is any f othing to the nerves or any quiet in I es of sicEness. I deny that morphia t er put anybody to sleep. But nere p e 20 persous who say they have all i it tne soothing eff-crs o? a physician's t escribing morphine. Whose te.-timony A i yonu tak-those woo tooK the med- % neormy testim-iny,I neverhavi'e h _en the medic-? Here is the gosp-1 a Jesus orist-an anodyne for all a ouble, toe mightiest medicine that e -erv carne down to ear 'u. Here is t man who says: "I dort bdlige in it.. d ere is no power. in it." Here are r h.-r people uno say: "We 'av r ,a d u t. its power and ku' e i sob) hi oig t fluence. Ir. has cured us" Whuse f sumony will you tage ii regard to is healing 'nedicine? I feel tniat I have con.'inced overy c an n this house mnat i. is uter folly t take. .he te-stimony of tnose w as t ive never tried the gospel of Jesus rit in their own heart anid r 'e We have tens of thousands of o itness'-s. I believe you are ready to d ke tertestimony. Youngiman, do t be ashame i to be a friendI or tie g ible. Do not put your thurob t your vest, as young men r m-timnes do and swagger about a Imng of the glorious lignt of toe s neteenth century and of there being a >need of a aolie. Th. -y have th-' a ht of nature in India and Cninza and .ad - e dark places on0 earth. Drd i ev-r hear that th-e znt of nature a ve tsem comfort for their troped I tey have lance's to ,0i ard Ngge-r- t tuis to crusr- but no comforL. Ab, c y friesiis, yon had netter srtop your m~icicism. Suppose you are puit in a i crisis: 0-, fcther, your child Is i ing! What are you going to say Sher? t Colonel E than Allen was a famous fidel in his day. Hi7s wife was a very i esecrated womnan. The mother in. C ructed the daughte-r in the truths of C ristianity. Tne daughter sickened id was about to die, anid she said to C r father: "Father, shall I take C >ur instruction, or shall I :ake moth 'sinstruction? I am going to <iie I >w,1I mu t have this matter decided." ' hat man, who had been loud in his fidelity, said to his dy ing daughter. I dy dear, you had better take your other's religion." My advice is the imeto you, 0 young man-you had t 'itter take your mother's religion. on know how it comforted her. You aw what she said to you when she C as dying. You had better take your other's religion. & Sucek company. t CoumII, 8. C., March 17.-There 2 ypeared a tew days ago in The State i i account of the location, by the ats ferrilizer inspectors, of a large t nount of fertilizers in Marlboro couu- I ',near the North Carolina line, tot hich the So)uth Carolina tax tags had y been affixed. The officeers who< ime across tne fertilizers,thought that te North Carolina company could be C la liable for the violation of the laws t this State. But the company was too iarp. Had it delivered the stuff in 2 >nth Carolina to the purchasers theu would have been lie ble. But insteadi delivering it, it got the South Caro- t ma Farmers, who live near the line, to1 mie across to the factory with their E agons and the fertilizers were thus -livered in North Carolina. The farm I a brought tne stuff in themselves, and C the State gets its tax it will have to I llect it from them. Governor Tillman iys the compiny simnpiy duped and 1 oled the poor farmers of tnis State to breaking the law. The S.ate will,t wever, try to colleet the tax from thet Irmers, who have the fertilizers ir. eir possession.-State,t George W. Chilsones said to a girl i om ine west, who went to him w ith .i ters and tne nope of getting suflici it influence- to do something in the table ield of journalism: "Little wo t bali, if you can do something, go ahead ; ad do it. The world is nungry for ct~hing new. It is an omnivorous 'eature, onut it wan's a chance cou antly. - Keep as quiet as you can. . ep out. of men's ways .as much as u can, for it is tres passing to go on ; rivate property. K-rnp youu~tlt in )od health, good spirits a.'i good I otnes, and don't try to bie a good fel w or one of the boys. N' e halt if I iur earnings. G> io churen. Be e- I e4bi, nut reserved. andQ if some' hon f >e man offers you1 hifan as d is protectioni gve it all up, marry him ad devote your eniergie.. to now ru ig. Te business world is n1o pma o w.man. Ir, is a rough plasc-, aid opl nave to get rough to succeed in I know huudreds of gentle worne , uniess, Dut. they al way s se-n m o e ike going tistling in a dreas slit id wite glovers. Exqiisite ahrss . no itede for rough and reacy L CoXt.Y AND hS CREW. VASWINGTON TO BE INVADED E 500,000 UNEMPLOYED. h-r.- In D4ngrrLatking in Such an A rn -Th- M -reh X ..t B - Stnpped or Bio, ,h-d Mar irult-Danger of Ravol tion. WASHINGTON, \Iarch 17.-The c, ci will :On b invested with 500,0 nempliyed if steps are not ta'atn *rp Cox.-y if) his mid intentions. TI -tuy which he threa.eend to rais or a m th, and there is some agitatic isible on :he- uu;l cairm exterior ie city wnich IE .fAn so carefully la u.. to prev-rv rev.ututions. Phis army to be composed of crani narenists aul tramps is fast beit .rim-d. It contempiates startirg f V-snirirgtoo Eisrer Monday with tl irpom. of dem odiig fro-n Congre 3e issue of $500 000,000 of non inte 3t tadrii.g b.n)as. Little attention w nid at tiest to Coxey's fulminatiot is proclamations and general ordet [ - ,as simplv regarded as a man wit heels. comm.-oly called a cran] hes- wheei. have eva'ved faster at iore effectuatly than Lamont ev nagined possiole, and the great fe ow is that with a nuc!as started, evel agaboid tramp and desperate chara r in the couotry will swarm dow pon Washingtoa and the movemei ill get beyond control of the office f peace. What is feared most is th; ie mob will fall a prey to red hardt aarchists who woull welcome such 9 prising. To such a mob they would al Ly the torch of their Inflammator eeches. Dynamite and nitroglyc nae would do the rest. No civil a orities could cope with a great arix f desperate and reckless wen undi ich leaders. Once the standard of anarchy wg wised much destruction of propert d probably los3 of many lives, won] >flow before the disorder could be pi wn. If the route marked out It oxey Is followed it will be through ti -gion around Pittsburg where thei .e thousands upon thousands of Pole [uns and other non-Eaglish speakiE ople, most of whom at present al nemployed, and all whom are by n ire revolutionists and enemies of la 2d order. They are the material from whic oxey's recruits would naturally coin ould tne army start and swell ini arming proportions the autboriti ere would of course expect the Gove or of Pennslvania to call out troops, ecessary, to disperse them. But it I Lolent demonstration were made r gal means could be used to dispel maceful gathering and some fine mori g in the letter part of April, the who :t noLdescript conconse, headed t oxey and his crew, might march in Tashington. Long before they coul ach here, however, the National CaP i would have become the paradise f4 tg-tag and bob-tail of the country. . y a miracle, the leaders are able I revent riot, bloodshed arson and rot sry enroute. all control would be 1o1 rhen the army balked at Its failore 1 )rce Congress to isue $500,000 000 f< ieir beieSt, witbout fauda, driven! le walls, would in its despair and de eration become the easy prev of anare itsindborni-throwers. The leaders iey counciled peace, if there were ar ould be swept aide-, and the arn rould become- a fl ming, furirou mc oiling for blood and plunder. Tt wtul cenesof .he Frenen revolutic od tile reign of terror mignt be i uced in i..i enlightene-d capirtal, se Arnerican R pu'lic. Coxey litt reams, in h is Don Q uixoric sebemel uraisn employ2uz00 nor all th->se witi at work 'nat he mcy be incir-g a r elon, that may sake the Repunt ~om t urret to toutidation stone. It orthy f commenr that Coxeyintt rgantz 'tion r his army has followi lIsely the plain oft the Frencn revol on. His d ivisions, c immune ano ca een are those-of the French revolutio [e has even gisne to tile ex .eut of be wirmg the liftie "cit ' z ani and cetizeenei 'riin obtained in Pis in tne da as when the victims of tnenrevolutic tre earted over the caible sr.oues< uillotine by the hundr ed, when a pri tute was enthroned as the god 4-ss as>n and all the monarchs of Eurol aped anid trembhled in horror -at tl i h.. 'hat was a revolt of oppresi< gast royalty and easte,this mightl revolV of poverty against entrenchi Were such an unfortunate state ffairs !c ie the result of Cioxey's sent -s descent upon tne capital, no city be country is so well situated to stan ut such a riot as Washington. The city was laid out by L'Enfai Fench engineer employed by Weis agr~on with the special object of defen view. From several central point be Ciapitol, the White House, Dupoi ~irrele, and Scott Circle, broad avenu adiate in every direction. From the etnral points cannon and Gatling gul ould command the entire city. L'E ant who experienced all tbe horro f the French revolution with all i suntless barracades In long crook< arrow streets, drew the map of Was igton with an eye to preventing epetition of such horrors here. \irt Hever, on Arlington Heights, c site Washington there are sever egiments of cavalry and infant1 hich could be thrown into Washin on at a moment's notice, and at ti farine barracks are quartered a thou nd tried ana trainea marines. Wi annon, gun and sabre thev 3ould pl1 ad navoc with Coxey's army, and ti ongress of the' Uoited States, besieg n its citadel, would not hesitate to a horize the use of every man and gi t Uncle Sam's command to put doY narchy and la wlessness. The general impression here is th he State of OniO, wherne this incipiel eellion is being nursed and cradled e sent out on its work of blood and d astation, owes it to itself to stamp ut with an iron heel. Secretary Lamonit has received ommuncation from Gen. Frye, sayli hat he had organized an army of 8( en at Los Angles, and proceeded erve notice on tne Secretary of W hat the army was ready to m-acn C Vashington, and de natded transpc ation and rations. While this blu as being played another interestir Diode was occuring about the Capits (epresentative Sweet, of Id 4do, hi een appealed to persistently to intr ce a bill of financial relief. Comir rom a silver prod ucing state and des ous of aiding his people Mr. Swel ged to offer tbe bill. A few da; go it was handed t o him. Expectic o find something loing to the fu nr coinage of silver he was astonish' o itnd in it a demand of tile most e ravagant nature. Having promised rent it lie did so, out wrote tile oi aous words, "by re-quest" on the ba< the bill. After numerous sectioi 0 ut ord issues, the bill ended wit his sgr fbant sentence: "Adi all citiz-ns making applic on for ianor sfaul beemnployea."--A 'ust i Chronicle. Blarmny Wated. AUSTIN. T.x r. Mucch 17.-The t? ate - x -cutive c.,mmit teecs of the t' )<ocratic tcc'ions will meet in DallI 1nday to e-rg about harmnons in t! a. toi Terii, and to fix a date ai --ci for-te uext meet:n. of' tile St~a )imoraile convennion. Fromine m crat ic-im b t- iactions will n thisi city, and Govere-Tr Ho~it w ve- to mnor-w to do what be can< u er-sn' harm-Ony ans u-inn t) ges I.S is rcom zed tbat ont sbe seeu'-d oir the Stste Pr'-asut fy a stoe handoi or the Popui. d and Kansas. A strong efi'rt n-c made here and all over the Sta : ave Frins Jones head the Popui c het toC et, -d be has accep'.ed ivianot to make a sneech here. ELLERBE MUST COME DOWN. What a Prominent Alliance Leader Says About It. COLUMBIA. S. C., March 20.-The State, which some how or other, seem3 to stand in well with some prominent alliancemen, published vesterday the :- tollowine political gossip: The manipulation of the political chess board of Reform just now seems to be productive of some new surprise a every day. The practical withdrawal )0 of Secretary of State Tmdal from the to race for Governor was no little surprise ie of itself, and it was much talked of yes. 1-, rerday. but there is another surprising in condition of affairs whith ha- arisen 3f sirce tb Lexington campaign meeting, id which will likily bffect the coming cam paign and fight for the nomination, both s, in the convention and in the pri nary, far i more than Mr. Tindal's withdrawal. 3r The State has alre-ady predicted that Is the fight was going to be narrowed r. down ;, a battle between one man from s the Irbv Reform side and one man from s, the Alliance Reform side, and it was s. tated that the two leaders who wou'd A so battle would be John Gary Evans k. and omperolier General Ellerbe. This d was the case up to the time of the Lex ' inton meeting on Saturday, but now it ir begins to appear that some one else will 7 be at the head of the Alliance Reform - column. t Yesterday, a very prominent leader on the Alliance Reform side had a long i talk with representative of The State d and he gave some information of a very a surprising character. It is all the more - surprising because he has all along y been a warm supporter of Comptroller e- General Ellerbe against all the other 1- candidates whose name have been sug T7 gested. He states that at the Lexing !r ton meeting the Comptroller General disappointed his friends terribly. El s lerbe, it appears, failed to develop as a stump speaker and after getting iulf way with what this man terms his "school boy" oration, he faltered, got Le mixed up and finaliy gave up com e pletely and took his seat. Now he says s. unless ELlerbe retrieves himself, and g shows up more strength :as a stump e speaker at the Spartanburg meeting, t- on Saturday next. as math as they wish w to push him thro'3gh, they will select some other leapar. h He states that they have no idea that e. John Gary Evans is going to abide by 4 the nomination of the commag nomina ting campaign, in which they will be able to do as they please, and they must o have a man, who, as soon as he has to o go baiore the people and make the fight, a can tackle John Gary Evans on the i- stump and give nim as good or better le than he sends. y He states further that they are al 0 ready looIng about for another leader. d He says that some are anxious to take i- W. D. Evans up. This man has had > fne training as a stump speaker and [ can more than match his youthlul op ,_ ponent, but the objection to him is raised that he is president of the State Farmers' o Aliance, and that organization wishes ir to keep its officers out of active politics. o He says, bowever, that Mr. Evans can 8- esign the presidency Some of the rI- other men in this faction, he says, are if very anxious to have C-oagressman M ' Liurin cowe back from WashingtOn Y -nd enter the list against Jot-n Gary b Evans, as the leader of the Alliance Re 'orm faction. The trouble with this, be nstates, is that McL urin is practicall the only man South Carolina no. nas in ICo ngrese and it wou d come hard to tak' olin cut cf that body He regards Mc Lia - rn as the ablest fiihte-r id the- Reform . arty and sawa that he cnuld easih' meet ic nd handle Tillman on the stamp. is Such is the si nation now. Things ie are nosettled, but in two or three dass d atter the Si.artamburg meeting the lea u der will be defintely decided upon and for *- -nat time~ on thie figut will be madie :o n '~be fioish between Lhe two facdions of . iings that S.ecretary of State Tbndal de-. scribed in his letter yeserday and de ,plored the fact that such a condition #8s imminent, exist. SIt seems that the anticipation of the of act tbat John Gary Evans will not. ye abide the decision on the convention is le well-grounded. in Statue to Gen. Francie Marion. De WASHINGTON, March 21.-The very dserious ,llne-ss of Senator Colquitt of SGe'orgia, from a second attack of paral "ysis yesterday at his residenee in tfhis Scity was r: fe-rred to In Chaplin Mil aburn's opemng prayer this morning. P "Hearken to our earnest cry, 0 Lord," he prayed, "in behalf of our beloved afriend and brother, the Senator from d'Georgia. Stretch forth thy hand and d raw him back to the duties of life of , this world, so that he once mere may taae his place in this chamber and re es joice the hearts of all who know and s love him." There was very little ron a tine morning business; and after it was 'disposed of, the unobjected to bills on r the calendar were taken up. Among tthose passed were the following: San date bill appropriating $10,000 for im b' prveet for the road to the Nation a provemear near Pensacola, Fla. Sen tatbllfrthe restoration of the books P of the Beaufort Linrary Society, of al Beaufort, S. C. It provides for the dui Yplication from the library of Congress gof books equivalent in number an~d :e value to replace those taken by a Uniit 3~ ad States officer in 1862, and subse th quantly destroved by fire. Senate bill e appropriating $40,000 for an equestrian '" statue to General Francis Marion, of dthe Revolutionary army, in Columbia, SS. C. Twenty-five bills in all were Spassed, and at 2 p. m., the unfinished abusiness was' taken up, being the Sen ate bill to simplify the form of deeds of at conveyance, trust and release of land it in the Dirtrict of Columbia. No action t was reached on the bill, which still re e- mains the unfinished business; and af tter a short executive session, the San a a'e at 5:30 adjourned,auntil tomorrow. Flods In heWest. )0 MEMPHIs, March 19.-The heaviest Sfall of rain ever known in this section r occured during the past thirty-six n hours, the local office of the weather r- bureau recording nearly seven inches. SThe whole country for miles around Is gflooded, the rivers are on the rampage Sand enormous damage is reported in devery direction. Washouts have occur e d on the Tennessee Midland, Louis gvilla and Nashville, Illinois Central and the St. Louis, Iron Moenn tain and at Southern Railroads. Freight traffic has sbeen suspended and passengers are transfered in boats at tne breaks. A r frieght train on the Illinois Central ran into a washout today in the Medon . Swamp, t welve miles south of Jackson. o Tenn., and four cars are wrecked. Tue . locomotive and ten cars passed over k safely when the bridge* collapsed. In s the immediate vicinity of Memphis, the damnane hais been very great. One hundrad teet of the bluff at the foot a- of South and Georgia streets, caved 2. into the Mississippi river, crrilng with it one of the tracks of tue K ansas City, Fort Scot'1and Memphis Railroad. The streets were flooded with water, and traffic in the city was suspended 0 during the forenoon, L'ghtning r wrought ruin with the street railroad ' troulley arnd ejetric light, telephone arid 2t tal-graph wires. For a time during the id storm, the electricity and the trolley te wires were struck so often by lightniug t that the streer cars had to be stopped ro The rains and floods have weaknead. ll the levees, and grave apprehensions 30 are felt for the safety of planters i e the valley. Tne M,ssissippi river has passed the danger ine at Memphis, and it is fe-ared the levees cannot be repatred and strengthened in time to resist the fiood coming down from the 9upper rivers. At Forest City, Ark., i the Sewers burst and flooded the town C durinri the storm, doing great damage. 4 At Miadismn, Ark., the White river has i reachea the flood stage and is still ris ing at the rate of one foot an hour. Wid-op-esd Ruin. MEMPHS, Tenn., March 20.-The damage to property in the Mississippi V tll-y by storms and floods during the past forty-eight hours is beyond calcu lation. Bridges have been washed away, houses wrecked, railroad tracks displacsd. iarm land has been flattened out, especially in the bottoms, and crops that have been promising are ruined. During the two days tne pre cipitation at Memphis reached about eight inches. There are eleven rail roads entering Memphis, and every one of them has been subjected to washonuts. Two miles of the track of the Cnesa peake, 0oio and Southwestern Railroad was swept away at the Hatebie river, seven miles north of Memphis. The St. Louis and Southwestern and the Tennessee Midland each report five washouts, while the track of toe forua er is submerged for several miles in White river swamp. The stormin Ar kansas was accompanied by high winds and more damage was done n that S ate than in Tennessee. A dispatch from Helena, Arkansas, says that a cy clone struck that place last night, un roofed houses, uprooting trees, blowing down fences, splintering telephone poles and doing other damage. The roofs were blown off two stores. Scores of trees were uprooted and innumera ble fences blown down. A row of ne gro shanties located on the levee near the Mississippi Valley depot was com pletely demolished. Great excitement prevailed among business men who were cut off from their homes by the fury of the storm. So far as can te learned there was no loss of life in the city. The country a few miles south of Helena was greatlv damaged, as the storm seemed to have been more furi ous down the river than in the city. A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn., says the tail of a cyclone struck that place this afternoon and wrecked a number of buildings. The wind was followed by a terride rain and hail storm, which flooded the streets and smashed windows and sky-lights. In the vicinity of Popular Grove and Marvel, Ark., the cyclone wrecked a dozen or more farm houses and scat tered the debris over the country for miles around. The cyclone crossed the river into Mississippi near Helena, Ark, spreading ruin in every direction. Tel egraph wires are prostrated and details are slow coming in, but no loss of life is reporten so far. Must Pay Up. COLUMBIA, S. C., March 23.-Judie Simonton nas rendered another decision which shows that all the railroad tax cases in this State are to ba jadged ex actly as in the ca ie of the South Carolina Road, decided last week. Tne to' lo w ing in the decision in the case of the Wilmington, Columbia and Aigusta Road: "The bill in this case was filed to re strain certain persons filling the offices of sherift and County Treasurer in the State of South Carolia from proceedin: to levy tax executions upon the ground of illegal assessment of the property of complainant. The allegations ot the bill and the issues made by the answer are almost, if not ensirely, identical with those in the case of Cpamberlain, re ceiver, vs Walter et all., the opinion in which was tiled on 13 h March current. This case varies f om that in otner fea u'es. The bih . f the receiver vas an e llarv to F N B tund vs Sour b Carolma Railway Company, and our j ir'.ariction did n->t d-pend upon 'itiz.nship or am-unt In controversy. This case is an original hill and the fit question is as t ttre ju iadi-tio. ?'ne persons actin-z as ou 'n., T -asurer and as sherff -f flue c unties are de tendantq. Af er Lfn.- teudler anxd pay ment ' f so muchb - f tlie taxes as are 'dmitied to have been the result o: law ful asse-sment, there is due im th.- con v --f Fl. r~ c $2,734.39; in the court% .I H .rm 3-28 23; io tnet e. u tv or Mar '* 1 685 23; ii, the Conacn or R cila d $2.7-24 29, and in the County oi Sumter $1 683 72 --Ua.der Walter v- N rr.hesbro R d road Company, 147 U. S , 370, and Nrthern Psc'ide Railroad Cotupany vs Walker, 48 U S., this court has no jurisdiction over tbe questions rae-d against the Treasurers and sheriffs * I H >rry, Marion and Sumter, and as to tese the bill should be dismissed. With reard to the Treasurer and sheriff ot the County <.f Ricbland, and of the County of Florence, this case is controlled by the case of Chamberlain vs Walter, above referred to. "LeL an order be prepared dismissing the bill. "CHAS, H. SimoNToN. "Circuin Judge." March 19, 1894. Th.- Lexington Plan.. Hon. C. M. Efird, of Lexington coon ty, sets forth the Lexington plan to promote harmony in the ranks of the Reformers as follows: "It is to have the committee meeting 1D Columbia on the 4th of April to request the State Exective 'Jommittee to permit the Reformers of each county to print their tickets with a blank at the head for Governor, which each voter can fill out with his choice, and to let the man agers count and tabulate this vote with the rest. Then in each county run only one set of Reform delegates for the September convention, and have each of them sign and file with the ex ecutive committeeman of the Reform ers in eacn county a pledge that he will vote, on first ballot, in the September convention, for Governor, for that Re form candidate for the office who re eve sthe highest number .of votes in his county. This plan obviates the necessity of a nominating convention, also that of having a set of delegates for each candidate for Governor, it'no nominating convention is held and permits all the candidates to come out and stump the State during the cam paign; and further carries out our for mer demand that the people be per mitted to express in the primaries their choice for State officers, which we ought to keep inviolate by all means. Under this plan the choice-of tne people for Governor can be ascer taned by the vote and that vote the September cinvention can and ought to heed. Under this plan, only one thing is necessary to. secure the proper nominations in September, aud that is to have the Reformers of each county nominate true and tried meu as dele gates to the September convention-" This is certainly a good plan, and if adopted, would give satisfaction all round. A elad Love. DURANGO, Mexico, Mirch 21-T here Is mucai exct-ment among the peonle of the little town of Cacaria, situated about sixty miles North of here, over a terrible tragedy that has just been en acted there. Trhe perpetrator of the eed was a well kno wn man of the town named R afal L aoez. Lie was en gaged to marry Miss Forina, Lne pr etty daughter Or Martin Parenza, a wealthy rnchero of that sec;iun. Having re cently heard reports very degratory to 'he cnaracte-r or Lopez, tne young lady wrote him a letter breaking their en gagement. Snortly af er he received the letter, Lopez called upon her anad pleaded to be reinstated in her aff -c tions. but sne refused. Tne lather of the girl, with true spanisl hospitaity, invited the discarded lover to remain for dirnner and t~he invitation wa~s ae cepted. The tnree sat aown to eat and Lopez, In n seceret manner, put poison in s-veral disnes of rood and then par took ot the fatal mix' ures also. In a few minutes all three were taut-n deatly ill and all died before a phy si eian could be sutnmoned. THE teller of the Mercnants' Nation al Bank of Middletown, Onio, oie of the richest counstry bauks in the West and the depository of the great tobacc~o section of the Miama V dley, is Mras Louisa Smith, a remarkably pretty yungn girl. C-ton M11e. The three States-South Carolina, No)rti Carolina and G-orgia-make a good showing in the c.tton mill enter prises of the South. Without c:unt ing the mills projected the figures s'and this way: south Carolina, 626, 490 spindlep and 16,291 looms; N ir.-q Carolina, 660,A27 somi ies and 13.306 itoms: Georgia. 556,761 spindles and 12.544 looms Wne it is co tsidered that only a few years ago, comparat ively, there were but few cotton mills, in the South as couipared with the New Eogland manutacturing region tne strid-., upward n thi- direction has oeen great, and the miles are rapidly being tangbt neatr the ctton tields wr-ere they s'ioulI have been at first. While South Carolina and Georgia have very large mills, North Calolina has a :egion of sm ail n anuf sctories. South Carolina has 16 294 looms record ed. Including the Coluwb a and other mill, the total will be ov-r 18,1'00 looms. 1ri1880 we had only 1.776 loosi. The increase has been 1.000 per cent in clothes making in 14 years. The Col umbia State alludes to this industry, and, among other good words, says:' " [he reader will be impressed by the very large unmber of small mills in North Carolina, and the thought is in evitable that if North Carolina can operate such mills at a profit-as a multiplication year by year evidences -South Carolina can do so too. North Carolina has 151 miles. An equal unm ber in this State would give one to every to wn, ive to every county. Of course, the larger the mill the better; but if you can't afford a large one, and a small one will pay, by all means build the small one. Perhaps we have been too grandiose in our ideas, and have despised the day of small things. There would have been a half dozen small miles in Columbia by this time but for the idea of waiting to build a big one. Still, South Carolina can boast justly of her big mills. She has the four largest in the South at Pacolet, Clifton, Pelzsr and Piedmont. Pacolet, with a prosoective total of 59,924 spin dles and 2,080 looms, leads tne South. The Soutn Carolina listis defective. The Columbia mills should be credited with 35,000 spindles for a starter, and looms enough t, tarn into duck all the yarn they can spin 0 ving to the character of the goods to be man.fac tured, the mill will consume as much cotton as a 45.000 spindle mill, and itt s but little over nalf its intended size. A complete list would probably put South Carolina in the lead as to spind les as well as looms; and we hope that any mill which may be omitted will send us the figures with which to am end.the list. South Carolina consumes more cotton and mame more cloth than any State in the South. and she ought to have more spindles." A Ssnsational sermon. The Darlington EI.'ald says a few weeks ago Rev. J. C. Kilgo, the finan cial agent of Woff orri College, preached a sermon in the Methodist Church at Bennettsville which was sensational in the extreme and which was far better suited to the political platform than be p-ilpit. Among other things Mr. Mir. K Igo said that one of the causes of bard times was a lack. >f confidence in our fellow mans, and attributed this lack or faith largety to the infi teace of the ndwspapers. They thought they must n ave os vs arid ao scidal is t0o dirty, no foul, fi--adish lie too mean for rh, m to p-ib iso. Uadtr cov.-r of the fret-edom ot the press, they, the newspa pers , think they can priut. anytning nowever false, abour the most sacred things. r'na t ney 0V1 4(id 1-) it- a-te - lv. That their miserable little 10 cent a colama r--p ,r t.-rs w.u ni i st-in at a keyhole or resort to any other means to du'd out 'he most private matters of a mac's life. He said that tney mignit print such thingcs as would forever ruin our characters acid that there was no redress. If anty other man did this you could call him to account, but go to the edit'r an I h-: woul i refer von w0o tne cou rts and <e;l you to sue nlim; but n'e sad, I would1 rather -tie a cemetery of dead tramps. Mr. Krigo was gra cious enough to e-xc-pt some of the newspapers from his tirade. This is pretty plain languiag-, and we must confess that in our judgmient it is too strong to be used in the pulpit, but the main question for the newspapers to consider irn connection with it is, is there any c'ausei for it so far as they are concerred? Do they do any of the things chat Mr. Kilgo claims that they do? Ir. other words are they guilty of the e'aarge? We fear that a great many are, and ttrat is one reason why such plain talk always hurts so. In stead of gettin'r mad, let us examine the record and see if we are guilty and if we are, let us mend our ways, and if we are not guilty, we have a perfect right to conclude that such language does not aply to us, and we need not take any part or it to ourselves. A vendetta. BIRMINGHAM, ALA, March 21.-In a gene'ral Lignt between the Cobb and King faimilies at Three Notches, Ala, this Mo:-ning Jhon Cobn's throat was cut and be died in a iew minutes. Brad King and hIs brotTer Dave were badly wounded. Warrants were issued for. the entire K'ng family, consisting of the ather and three sons. Tne fight was the result of an old feud, and is the outh murder in ten days In B-illock County. Hangi|ed. CHARLESTON, March 16.- Jerry HorI beck was hangea in Berkeley county jail yard this morning for the murder of Bob HIrzal, a constable, last spring. Early this morning, the prisoner at tempted to. commit suicide, and succeed in gashing his neck and wrist with a piece of tin, but he was dis~overed in time and he was quickly rivived and hanged. He dien protesting that he had killed the constanle in self-dsefnse THOMAS CLEVELAND. the while ne gro, who has been ,'xhibited bsf ore medical men in Philadelp bia, is going . to.New Yore, and will probably appear in the C >llege of Paysicpe-m-d Sur geons. His case is a most extraordina ry one.' Although a full-blooded negro the coloring pigment in his epidermis is entirely absent. H~e is the only liv ing negro who is completely white wihout s olack spo: on -any part of his body. ________ GEN. Howard, after examining the defeices of our Atlantic seaboard cities reports t'iat not one has any modern means of defence. Washington will probably be the tirst city properly pro teced. Work is no w goiug on at old Fort Washington. ten miles down the -ver. A T a din ner in Be'rlin given by Count cnoub 4off E noeror Wzliam appear ed in a R issian uu:t',rm anid c~rdially drak tne Cz ar's heairi. It is taken as a sign that :he triend'y re-lations be tween Germauy and Russia are sincere. JOE Carden, of Chattanooga, exemp lary y oung mian of tnirty-t.so, engineer ny profe:,sion lost his inmnti's salary gnib-tog Saturda2 night never navmng gawoled neror'-, andI took rough on rots and died to avoid facing his wife. DURING The past eight or ten years i J .am a mirage of a )tne unknown cit suspe rid d in the ai;r has bee-n ob s-rvei a Ulacier Bay, Alasta. It has ben phograpn-d, tu. to is far na one has been aOle to idetify tae vision. A PITT County, N C., c >ltred man. is te t~rtner of seven seOs, each of wom wveig's :n re than 20u0 pouuds. ~e is a small ma~n himiself, and famdy discipline nias Ueen a hard thing for him to preserve. WHILE -4 grave crists in llian po litical .i.i srs is transpiring at Brcussels King L-oplis us eut,'ivin'g skipped the towu andI gaa to (Geaev4 without eplanng th-. wonr wher-fore.