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AT THE TkERNACLE- 1 TALMAGE FINDS LESSONS IN THE TRAGEDY OF RlZP/kH. ' ' ^5 / . The Bereaved Mother WSP&unx by Her X>caui 1? but the Type W Million* of ' " Saflferirrx and Sorrowing Wo men ?The Son* Su ffering for Their Father*' Crime. Brook lyn, 1)^ 4. ? This is one of those discourses of Dr. Talmage deliv ered from texts which no one seems to have used before. Important and practical lessons were drawn. Tb# opening" hymn, in which many thous ands' joined, was: Come ye diw?asolarc where cr ye Iangul h. j 'The aubjuek-.of the sermon was.) "Rizpab on the liock/ the text selec j ted being II Samuel xxi, 10, ''And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest], until water dropped upon 'them out jiilheaven, .and suffered neither the birdWf theair to rest on ^ them by day nor the 1 yeasts of the field by night'' Tragedy that beats anything Shake spearean or Victor JHugoian. After returning i from the Holy Land I briefly touched upon ft, but I must have a whole sermon for that scehe. The explosion and Hash of gunpowder have driven nearly all the beasts and birds of prey from those regions, and now the shriek of the locomotive whistle which is daily heard at Jeru salem . wilt for many miles around clear Palestine of cruel claw and beak. in tl? time of the text those regions were populous with multitude of jackals and lions. Seven sons Saai had been crucified on a i Bizpah was mother to two and relat to five of tfee Bbys. What had boys done that they should be fiec?? Nothing except to have a , lather and grandfather. But nowi that the beys were dead, why not tafc^j /them d$jwp from the gibbets? No. Tfiey are sentenced to hang there. So Riz pari - takes the sackcloth ? a v rough abawl with which in mourning \for her deadihe had wrapped her x?l?^aod spreads . that sackcloth upon i \ the roc^ near the gibbets, and-a^j the part of a sentinel, watching and / defending the dead. Yet every^ther sentinel is relieved, and after being on guard for a few hours some one else ? takes his place. But' Rizpah is on guards both day and night and for half a year. One hundred and eighty days and nights of obsequies. What .nerves she most have' sad to stand that! Ah, do you not know that a mother can stand anything? j I DENTED EVEN A JBUBIAL PLACE. <%, if she might be allowed to hol a pSace in the sidp of the hill and /lay the bodies of her children to quiet res&l If in some cavern of the njoun tains she might find for them Chris tian aepultur^ \ Oh, if she might takp them from tne gibbet of disgrace and earry them s^H farther away from thf haunts of men, and then lie beside them ia the last long sleep ! Exhaus ted nature [ever and anon falls into slumber, but in a moment she breaks the snare, and, chides herself as though she had been cruel, and leaps up on the rock shouting at wild beast glar ing from the thicket and at vulturous brood wheeling in, the sky. The thrill ing *tory of Kizpah reaches David, ^ fljvd he comes forth to hide the io de3fc?^~ The corpses had been chained to the trees. The chains are unlocked with horrid clank, and the skeletons are let down. A1I the sevefo are Juried, and the story ends. But it hardlyends before you cry out, "What a hard thing that those , seven boys should suffer for the crimes 00* father and grandfather!" Yes. <Bufc it is always so. Let every one who does wrong know that he wars* not only, as in this case, against two generations, children and grandch#d^ but against all the generations of ig time* -^That is what makes ation and uncleanness so awful. It reverberates in other times.; It may skip one generation, but it is- apt to come up in the third generation, as is [suggested in the Ten Command ments, which say, "Visiting the ; ini quities of the lathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." \r: Jj. ft says nothing about the generation, but mentions the id the fourth. That accounts it you sometimes see ? very] parents with very bad children, far enough back in the ancestral and you find the. source of all thfc tnde. "Visiting the iniquities of fathers upon the children unto the " and fourth generation." If when * the consequences of his ini quity t561fc!tt?^iUe*L--with feim it B would not have been so- sad. Alas, 'no! Look on that hill a few miles out from Jerusalem and see jfche ghast ly burdens o (.those seven gibbets and > the wan and wjjtcd Kizpah watching * them. . ??Uu lu lb) Ibrotfgh .the wards and i aldk-iiouse a ad the reformatory institu tions where unfortunate children are and you wijl find that nine ont had drunken or vicious parents, by day on the street? ot our? ?? men and women wreck- : itage. They are moral the seven sons of Saul , iH^aried I Alas for months,*]^ SORROWS OP THIS CREAT. Who is this Rizpah sitting in deso One of Seal's favorites^ Her lation? r-* '< personal attractions had won his h^art She hadL been caressed of fortune, j With a mothers pride dhe looked on \y children. Bet the scene Behold her in banishment juad bereavement ? Rkpah on the ] rock! if V " J ; ' -Si* " ' Ffeoae of the worst distresses have j come -to scenes of royalty and wealth, j What porter at the mansion's gate has : ? i' i iii *i" au<I lathered ! dispatch? On j has there not j solemn bier? Under I not let in I steed ' jbricjpot evil what tessellatea hall stood the; what exquisite S resoo has there aoj been enacted a .iragedy' Qfl disaster? /:iWhat curtained couch hath ; ' ' . . . 31* : heard no ?ry of pain? What harp hath nevet trilled Vith sorrow? What lordly nature hath never leaned again3t carved pillar and made utter- , anceof w<ie? (rail is not less hitter when queried from a golden chalice than wheni taken from a pewter mug.<* Sorrow is i>ften attended bj running j | footmen and laced, lackeys mounted behind. Oueen Anne Boleyn is des olate in the palace of Henry VI II. Ado! f&ls wept in German castles over- the hypocrisy of friends. Pedro I among Brazilian diamonds shivered with fear of massacre. Stephen, of England sat on a rocking throne. And every mast of pride has bent in the storm, and the highest mountains ! of honor aad fame are covered- with perpetual siiow. Sickness will frost the rosiest cjheek, wrinkle the smooth est browianjd stiffen the sprighthest step. Rizp&h quits the courtly circle and sits on jthe rock Perhaps you look back upon scenes now You different frobi those in which from day to! day you mingle. have exchanged the plenty and luxuri ance of your father's house for priva tion and trials known to God and your own heart. The morning of life was flushed with promise. Troops of calamities since then have made des * iipon you. Darkness irrowshave swooped like from the sky and barked :rom the thieket You our slain anguish and Rizpab on the rock, n in all ages. Vasbti spangled robes of tho? and go forth ".blasted' gate. Hagar ex perate char. has come, carrion bird like jackals stand amid . woe struck. So it has mast doff Persian oo sod tne v I |(HHH T changes oriental comfort for the wil derness of Beeraheba, Mary, queen of Scots, must pass out from flattery &pomp j to suffer ignominious in the I castle of Fotheringay. T?he wheel of! fortune keeps turning, ahd#mansion$ and hats exchange, and ^hie who rode |the charriot pushes tbe barrow, and instead of the glare of festal lights Is the simmering of she peat fire, and in place of Haul's -palace is the rock ? ithe cold jock, tbe cfaeo late rock. j A. VERY PXEfcEHT HlSLP IN TIME OF -4- [JPROUBLE. But that is! the place to which God comes. Jacob, with his head on a stone, saw the shining" ladder. Israel in the desert beheld the marshaling o I the fiery baton. -r John on ibarren. Pfctmos heard! trumpeting, am! the I 1' !- * ?? clapping of seraphic fing nothing but Kizpah for amid the sc ? . and the Etroke of on golden harps, and enly strength nerved er appalling mission m of - wild birds and the steal thf t|ead of hungry monsters. TKa ! TTfatAtka ? iL ^ ; I G' The grandest ! visions of glory, the most rapturou^ experiences of ; Chris tian love, the'.'jpqatest triumphs of g*ace have coine to tihe tried, and the hard pressed, and the betrayed, and the crushed. down God j. stooping _ from heaven to comfort Rizpah on the rock. Again, the trag?d?of the text dis- 1 plays the courage ofVoman annd giteat emergencies. What mother or *iier or daughter would dare to go oijt to fight the cormorant^ and jackal? ! Rizpah did it And so would yon if an emergency demanded. Wowan is naturally timifl and shrinks from ex posure and depends on stronger arms io^ the achievement of great enter prises. And she is often troubled lest thfere might be occasions demanding fortitude wheui she would fail. ISfot soi Some of those who are afraid to loik out of the door after nightfall, aad who quake in the darkness at the leist uncertain; sound, and who start iat the slam of the door and turn pale in a thunderstorm, if the day of tr|al cajne, would b<i heroic - and invulner <3od has arranged it so .thasfc that woman needs j the trumpet of some gr^at contest of principle or aSectipn !) to jarouse up tier slumbering courage ' THen she will Stand under the croj firi of opposing hosts at Chalons gite wine to the wounded. Then sfte wijl carry into prison and dark lane the message of salvation. Then she wijl brave the pestilence. Deborah go^s out to sound terror into the hearts of l God's enemies. Abigail throws heiself between a raiding party^of in& riaied mefi and her husband's vine yatds. Rizpahf fights back -the vul tuifes from the lock. Among the Orkney islands an eagle swooped and lifted a child to its eyrie far! up pn the fountains. With the springs of a panther the mother mounts hill abojve hill, crag above crag, height above height, the fire of her own eye outflashing the glare of the eagle's, and ! with unmailed hand stronger than the iroiubeak and the terrible claw she hurls the wild bird down the rocks. In the French revo lution Cazotte was brought ou| to be executed, when j his daughter threw herself on the body of her father and ? said: "Strike, barbarians! You can not reach my father but through my heart!" The crowd parted, and link ing arni3 father aud daughter walked out free, j ? J / ^ During the siege of Saraigossa Au gustina carried refreshments to the gates. Arriving at 'the battery of Portillo she found that all the garri son had been ki led. She snjjfched a match from the pand of a dead artil leryman and fir jd off a twenty- six Jpounder, then k ap&l on it and vowed the would not - eave it alive. The soldiers looked ifi and saw her daring ?and. rushed up ind opened another -jtrertecdoos fire on the enemy.. life of Janes' I of threatened^ Poets- _r_ tho*3 times and able pens have ling ered upon the sfc *y of mainly enda^i ance^ brfVhow fe v totell the story 6f Catharine Dougl is, one of the queenls maids, who ran tt> bolt the door; btifc found the bar ha I been taken away* so afe to facilitate! the entrance of the assassin! " She thrust her arm' into the staple. The ^murderers rushing', | against it, her arm was shattered. 1 Yet how many hive since ijved an$ died who never fteard the touching, self sacrificing, heroic story "of Cath arine Douglas aru! her poor, shattered aim! M-' ^ 1 Yiou know " thow calmly Mme. j Roland went to j execution and how , cheerfully Joanna of Naples walked ! to the castle of Morr>, and how fear lessly Mme. Grinjadi listened to her | -a-A ] K condemnation, and lio*.v -Charlotte ] Gird ay smiled upon the Iran lie ;| >n$b drat pursued .her to the guil-j : iotine. And there would be uo endj ? t<> the redtal if I attempted to \f^ \ sent all the historical incidervls which i'show that woman's ourage jsronld] ! rouse itseiffor great emergency; ;; Bui i need not go so far; <[ Voa 1 liave known some one who was; con 1 sitfered a mere butterfly in society. Hl6r hand had- known no-joil. \ Her ; | eye had wept no tear over mus&etu.ne. : I She moved among obs&qtfiouB ad [ mi rers as careless as an insect jja a j field of blossoming buckwheat j Bat j in 18(>7 financial tempest struck the ! husband's estate., Iiefore he had time-^ to reef .sail and fciake things snog th p ahip capsized and went down. Ei/e- I | mi$s cheered at the misfortune! afcd ? r wondered vw^at would become ojf the, j butterfly. ^Tiood men pittiedand said' she would die of a broken fcearfe^* l?>he will not work^'-^ay they, -''and? she is too proud to beg.7 But tho prophesies have failed:-"' Disaster Ws transformed the shining sluggard i?t!o a practical worker ? happy as a priu ees^, though compelled to husli ?er owrt child to sleep and spread herf own table and answer the ringing -Off? her own door bell. Her arm ha?V* been muscled for the conflict againsf mis fortune, hunger and poverty and want and all the other jackals Rizpah scares from the rock. I . ? ? vii ; HIE PATIENT, TOltlN'G MOTUljl*. I {Saw one in a desolate home. j Hex ^merciless companion had panned even the- children's shoes for tram. From honorable ancestry she had ecme down to this. The cruse jif oil was -empty and the last candle had gone out. Iter faded frock was fr?g?*ts of antique siikjthut she had worn on the -bright I marriage day. Confid?Bt in ("Sjjshe j had [ a strong heart, V which her ! childoen ran when they trembled - at I the staggering step and quailed under a fether'scurse. Though the heavens were filled with fierce wings and! ithe thickets gnashed witk rage, Kixpah hatched j faith fu ] ly day after day; and year after ?ear, and wolf?uid cormor ant ?y. |ier Go&I strengthened !armi jterei hurled down the rocks. K* j>u pass day by day 'along streets whefle thjre are heroines greater jfchan Joaa of A rc. Ufrmthat cellar '& oor there* axe con Hicts^s fierce as Sedan, and heaven and hell mingled in, ihe %hti Lifted iii that garret there are tribunals where more fortitude is . de manded than was exhibited by ladv Jane; Grey on Marv^jueen of Scots. " ? Now I ask, ii .jftere natural courage can do so mucl?? what may we not ex - ]>ect or women .who have gazed on the great? sacri lice,,- and who are<j^irged forward by all%the voices of gradtfthat sound from thc^Jiible amra!i the notes of victory tha^speak from the sky* Many years ago the Forfar.^ ire steamer started from Hull bound: for Dundee. After the vessel had been out a: little while the winds began to rave and billows rise until a tempest was upon them. The vessel leaked, and the iires went Out, ami th<iiHi the sails were hoisted fore ami aii she went seeding toward the breakers. She struck with her bows ioremost on the rock. The vessel parted. Amid the whirlwind and the darkness* all were lost but nine. These clung to the wreck on the beach, Steeping that night-* in .Longstone lighthouse was a girl of gentle spirit and comely countenance. As the morning dawns I see that girl stand ing amid the spray and tumult of contending elements looking through a glass upon the wreefe and the nine wretched sufferers/ :* She proposes to her fa;ther to;^r^t and put out across the wim sea to rescue tliem. The father says: "It cannot be done! Just look at the tumbling surf!" But she persisted, and with her father bounds into the boat. Though never accustomed to plying the oar, she takes one and her father the other Steady now! Pull away! Pull away! Ihe sea tossed up the boat as though it were a bubble; but amid' the foam and ^ the wrath of the sea the wreck was reached, the exhausted people picked up ami saved. Humane societies tendered their thanks. VVealtlrpon red into the lap of the* poorv girl. Visitors from all lands came to Icok on her sweet face, and when soon after she launched forth on a i dan*. siea, and Death was the oarsman, dukes and duchesses and mightv men safyddwa in tears in Alnwick 'castle to think they never again might see the face of (?race Darling, t* the jiattle wrrri sin. / T T ^ ' No such deeds of daring will prob ably be ajked of you, but hear vou not the howl of that awful storm' of troub!e and sin that hath tossed ,*en thousand shivered hulks into the breakers? Know you not that the whole earth is strewn with the shir* wrecked? that there are wounds toi be! healed and broken hearts to be Wind and drowning souls to be rescued? Some, have gone down, and you come too late, but others are clinging to the wreck, are shivering with the ooio, are strangling in the wave, are crying to you for deliverance. Will yon mi, oar in hand, put out Kwlay from tie lighthouse? : \\ heu the last ships tMiber siiall ; have been rent, and the fLt Loii-. jitonebjrao.ii shall have K? tba? I dered clown in the hurricane, and the last te m|>est shall have folded its wings, end the sea itself shall have beenjidced up by the tongue of all And Ckihit, , pointing to the inebmte Uat yop reformed, hn?l the dying sin j ner whom you taught to pray", and the outcast =whiom yon pointed to (Jod for shelter, -will say: -Vou did it to them! l ou di^l it to me!*' Again, the scene of the text im presses jipon us the strength of rnateri 1^1 MUcpmenL ^ot many men would ! <??rage or endurance for the r awful mission of Kizpah. To dare the j rag^e of wild beasts, and sit from May to Oetol^r unsheltered, and to ireigii. i the corpses of unburied children, Tvjas a work that nothing but the.>i2igternsl heart cobld jbave ^com^sb&L^t I needed lfaore strength tban^t^s?ai&d i before opened batteries or to walk Jn calmness the deck of a foundering steamer.' There is no emotion so completely unselfish as^jateraal affection. ' Conju guHuvc expects the retumi of many loudnesses and attentions, a Filial love /expects paternal careor is helped by the . memory of past watchfulness. But the strength of a mother's love is entirely independent of the paistand tHe future, | 4ttd is, of all emotions, 'the puces^ The r child has done nothing in the past to cam kindness, and in! the fu$ re it may gpow up to maltreat; its parent, but j still from the mother's heart there j goes forth inconsumable affection. Abuse cannot offend it; neglect can ! not cnill it; time cannot efface it; death I cannot destroy Ik For liarsh words it j has gentle chiding; for the blow it has beneficent ministry; for neglect it has ; increasing watchfulness. It weeps j at the prison door oter the | ineaYeerated prodigal, and pleads ! for pardon at tl?j . governor's feet, and is forced avrey by com passionate friends from witnessing the struggles of the gallows. . Other lights go out, bnt this burns on without extinguishment, as in a gloom struck night you may see a single star, one ofGod's pickets, with gleaming bayonet^ of light guarding the outposts of heaven. - ? L ' ?* 1 The Marchioness of Spadara, when the earthquake at Messina occurred, | wAs carried out insensible from the falling houses, pn coming to. .her senses she lound that her infant had not been resched. She went back and. perished in the ruins. Illustration oi< ten thousand. nWhers? who in as many' .different ways hWe sacrified themselves for their children. '? / BE KIND TO Til}? AGED i^A RENT. ft 5S Oh, despise not a mother's love! If* heretofore you have been negligent of such a one, and you have still oppor tunity for reparation, mate haste. If you could only just la61_ in for an. hour's visit to her vymi would rouse | up in the aged ohe a whole world of i blissful memories. What if she docs sit without talking much? She watched | you for many months when you knew not how to talk at all. What if she has many ailments to tell about? Dur | ing, fifteen years you ran to* her with eviry little scratch and bruise, and | she doctored your little finger as carefully as a surgeon would bind the 'worst, fracture. ? You say she is childish now; I wonder if she ever saw you when you were childish. lYou have no patience to wail with her on the street, she moves so slowly; I wonder if she re m embers the time when you were glad enough to go slowly. You complain at the expense of providing for her now; Itfcwonder j what your financial income w?s irom one year to ten years of age. Do not begrudge what you do for the old folks. I care not how much you did for them; they have - done more for you. v But from this weird text of ti?e morning comes rushing iu upon my soul a thought that overpowers me. This watching by Rizpah was an after death watching. I wonder if now there is an alter death watching. I think there is. There are Rizpahs who have* passed death and are still watching. They look down, from their supernal and glorified state upon ufc, and is not^ that an after death watching? I cannot believe that those who before their death* were interested in us have since i their death become indifferent as to what happens to us. Not one hour of the six months during which Ilfepah \patched, seated upon the rocks, was' she more alert or diligent or armed for us than our mother, if glorified, is alert and diligent and armed for us. It is not now Rizpah on a "rock, but Kizpah on a throne. How long -has your mother been dead?. Do you think she has been dead long enough to forget you? My mother has been dead twenty-nine years. I believe ehe knows ? more about me now than she did when I stood' in her presence an? I <am no Spiritualist either. The Bible says, -'Are they not all minister ing spirits sent forth to minister to them that shall be heirs of salvation?" Young man, better look out what you do and where you go, for your glorified mother is looking at you* You sometimes say to yourself, "Whatr would mother say if she knew this?" She does know. You might cheat her once, but you cannot cheat her now. Does it embarrass 113 to -think she knows all about us now? If she i had to put up with so much when she ' was here, surely she- will not be the ; less patient or excusatory8 now. THE WATCH A ITER DEATII. . On this tremendous thought of my j text ? this after death watching! What an uplifting consideration, and what : a comforting thought! Young mother, you v*4i?L_li&ve just lost your babe, | and jsvho feel that need ?*f a neare r solaee^thiau that which come from ordinary sympathy, your mother, knows all about it. You cannot run in and talk it all over with herfas ?> you would if she were still a terrestial resident, but it will comfort you some, I think ? yea, it will cojnfort you -a good deal ? to know that she understands it all. You see that the velocities of the heavenly conditions are so great that it would not take her a half second to Come to your bereft I heart. ! Oh, these m >tliers in heaven! They | ! can do more for us now than before i 1 they went away. The bpjdge between ? ' this world and the nexfis not broken down. f hey approach the bridge from both ways, departing spirits and coming spirits, disimprisoned spirits ^rnal companionSp. artd if to any | i <?!' as life o:i^earth is a bard grind, let j f ns understajj^thafc if we watch faith- ] ? fully and trust fullv our blessed Jx>rd | there will l>c a corresponding reward i in the land of peace, ?and that Kizpah, j who oucc wept on a rock, now reigns ; ? on a throne. j < ? T 1 " ; Opposition to an Kttra Scsiion. Nf/w Yt?i:K, Nov. 2o.?-Coiigreffl | man GeorgoAVise, of Virginia, of; the ! committecmVestigating the Iieading eoal trust, was-fcaji by a reporter of ? theUnitgd Tress regarding ah extra j j aessioa oi| Congress. "I am opposed i ! io sn exlpa sesion."' said tlte Virginia 1 , Oangre^ftnan, "and I ihjnk this senti- ; meut prevails generally among my ; constituents and the lead ins: I)emo- ( * o crats of- my State. I agree, with j, ! Senator Vest, who said the l)emo- j ; cratic party does notlpropose tn make ji ' a cavalry charge on the tariff." WOMOFTMA? PR&^EEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION . y AT AiK?N yesterday. : V Deb?t? <m the Subj^ofAidVc yit* Education of Cohmtf Procter* i / Afternoon :ui?l rJSIjhti y Session*. / Aiken. December 3.? Sj>eciah The ftaps have lowered and there has Ween some rain since yesterday morn ing, but still the atmosphere ami ! tenijferature are pleasaut and agreeable. The delegates began jo gather more than a half hour beforartime for open ing. One of the ifcst interesting members generally of the Conation, John G. Williams, is not in this mect-^ ing. He is of!' on a visit to rforida. His church sent him. Dr leasing Burrows, of Augusta, and I)r W D. ^el), 0f Mexico, hjpe added not a little to the pleasure and nrofit of the Convention. Dr Nelson, the pastor of the Aiken Baptist Church, has been iudefatigable in his efforts ^ io make the delegate and Visitors happy. He is a newcomer among South CaroliA Baptists, but lie is rapidly showing himself useful One ofrthe oldest ijieaij>ers present ; Corley, of Laurens County liis nar^e occurs amon^ the delegates of the Convention in 1851. At this same Convention, which was held with the Welsh Neck Church, /delegates were sent up from 4he Charleston remale Missionary and Education oociety. They were male delegates. At 10 o'clock A. M. the. president was in the chair and announced the hymn, "Come Thou Fount oBEverv X!* 8"Dg- After re?di"g the 9,)th I stNm, the Convention was led m prayer \by P. J. M. Osborne, and the secretaiV fad the minutes of yesterday's meetWg. There were not many delegates present at the open ing. ; ? . 1 The committee to nominate delegates to the American i Baptist. EducSion oociety made the following report: J ' A. Hoyt, CharlesjjManly, C. CVBrpwn", C.R Emn a p. Griffin j w eYrl I'- .T- Forrester, W. C. Lindsay and D. ^1. Ramsey. 1 ^e report of the board of ministerial education was read by D. W. Key. fhere are now in Furman University thirty-five ministerial students and and twenty- four in the Theological Seminary at Louisville from South Carolina. The report of the treasurer ot this board was read bv J. A. Mundy, 1). I). There was received by them from the churches for their work oi aiding ministerial students $2,482. ' IS. Br Mur%.!made a short talk, urging mop^fc^uent" contributions [\ Wm Whitsit, I* I)., Professor in the Seminary, ad dressed the Convention. He made in the > beginning sl few re marks concerning one of South Caro lina s sons, DrKC. Dargan, who is now** professor in the Seminary. The Seminary has 247 students. This is a great responsibility upon the denomination to equip these men through the Seminary faculty for tlie wor ku4' preaching. Some "students thinK that the Seminary is a "royal road to 1 earning, v that all they have to (.o is to, go there; but they soon *hc thing is true there as everywhere, <ye get what we work ior. 1 lie Christian: ministry is a call ing and should bp to considered, but a $ the same time preparations should be gone through for it as for > a profession. fest year ther* were helped at the j Seminary seventeen students from South Carolina and there was received from South Carolina $362. Al>out 811,000 was expended last year in aiding students in tK?. institution. This year, while South Carolina has morje students than last, only twelve of tfoein are receiving aid from the stndenta fund. Eight .hundred dol lars is needed for them. No outlay ot money in the Lord's work promises a more direct return than that which is expended on ministerial education. The^Stext sjteaker was John S. Croxton, one Of the members "'of the education board. Men are greatly honored by God by bein^ taken into His copartnership. Such are the i ambassadors of Christ. One of the ! interests that the Lord of the harvest j gives to His laborers is to pray for more laborers. One evidence of a call j to the ministry is a desire fur an j education. The report was adopted.! C. C. Brown read thfe report on the j education of the negro preachers. This work was in the bands of the State board two years ago,~1jut*it was taken ; out of their hands and turned over t" j a special committee, ot which C. ('. j Brown was chairman. The report ; recommends that the work be put I back under the care of the State j executive boaijd. Mr Brown made a sjteech in defence of his report. As i usual, in the beginning, he dealt in j many" pleasantries. He is the wit of ' the Convention. His speech was a j strong argument for white Baptists to j aid in educating negro preachers. This is needed that these people may have a true and simple Gospel. This j ought to be done by ihe denomination through itsregulfer boards. In the mid dle of his speech th&.time expired for &e consideration of this subject, but the Convention extended the tnae. He spoke in a very amusing wfcy of the ! wfettion of some people to anything j Northefauj "Thej will not even look , at the North stas^," he said. Some are appointed :] to ^schools now in the South for negroes i>ecause they are supported by Northerners. No need say let this case stand upon its merits. It 1k>s no merits. The negro : has shown $i in self the white man's j>olitical enemy, and in other ways his.; toerits have been, destroyed; but the j appeal comes from a deeper motive ! aiH* ioghet desire; they are needy, and* we can help them. -Pathos, wit and wisdom characterized thin whole speech. Dr J. William Jones, of Atlanta, followed in a speech favoring the adoption of the? report. > He thinks, j though, that it is not the best tiling thafcjean l>e dfcne for the negroes. The corresponding secretary of the State*" board T. Mi- Bailey, D. I)., in a short speech tbofight the f-ork of negro preacher education important, bat be thinks it unwise to h|ve it done ; through the State mission board . HwJ reason is that many of the givers to | State missions are not in sympathy j with the work. C. T. Scaife made a speech in opposition to the report. He thinks, that the whites are doing, and have! done, a'-goed work lor the colored race! iu the South. t * VJ A motion was made by I. L. Allen ? to strike out so much of the report as recommended, this work to be done through the .State - missionary board, j John Stout, one of the leaders in the i Convention, opposed the report and wanted the amendment to carry. II. H. Gritlith, I). I)., thinks that ?to put this work into the hands of another board would "be to cripple _this negro preacher educational work. A motioIVNto recommit was made by * I). M. Ramsey and lost..~ J. E. Covington thinks that to pass the recommendation would be to evad> the responsibility of helping the colored people. Th<i_work of the State mission board is to evangelize the State "and this is what educating negro preachers .is. J ' W. J. Laugston is heartily in favor ol the work, but thinks it should be done through a separate l>oard. Other speeches were made to this subject: \ motion was made to close discussion and it was' carried. On tha vote to amend the report, giving Iffe-AEprk t^>a separate coin* iroittcc, it was carried, aud the com mittee was instructed to raise $">00. Much amusement was occasioned by a motion to strike out the words "side show" occuring in the report. f The hour for adjournment having arrived the Doxology was sung, and the meeting closed with prayer by C. a Brown. Til R A I-TKIINOON SESSION. The South Carolina Baptist Historical Society held a meeting this afternoon. l)r Richard H. Griffith, of Cooper Limestone Institute^Spartan burg County, is president. JThe So- . ciety was organized two years ago at ligion. Its object is to collect and preserve historical matter of the Baptist denomination in the State. Auy contributions or literature or relics will be gratefully re&ived and acknowledged by Prof If. T. Cook, secretary, Greenville, S. C. This meeting of the society was called to order a few noments alter 4 o'clock, and was led in prayer by .]. L. Rollins. K. J. Forrester r^ad the constitution and minutes -#f ttu) hist meeting, and the annual report of the s^jMety. ?*iyne valuable historical material has Ocen received during the past year. All friends of history are urged to collect and send in material, and the brethren to put important ^kns into'such shape as to be kept. A nis story of the old Euhaw Baptist Church, one of the old churches that, has now passed away, is very much {, desired. Any copies of the Confederate Baptist would be an important acquisition to the collection. J. W. Perry was requested to Correspond with [>ersons, ol whom he may have information, soliciting old associational minutes, papers, etc, etc. I For information of the meeting, | (.'apt J. B. Patrick stated ; bat he | thinks Prof Judson has a com])lete j lile of the Stat* Convention minutes, j Tlie invitation for new members was ; responded to by several of those | present. * l)r J. William .Jones, who was On Lee's chaplain during the war, stated to the ^society that a complete iilc oi the Confederate Baptist is in the archives of the Southern Historical Society at* Richmond, \ a. lhis file was presented by a Presbyteriai\^ gentleman. Dr Jones is a writer of history, being the author of ''Christ in the ' Camp" and "Private Re miniscences" of Gen Robert K I^ee. f The ladies representing the woman's ; mission ^ societies of the. .Baptist churches in South Carolina hell anoth er meeting this afternoon and listened to speeches from tlio returned | missionaries; Mr and Mrs J. A. Brun- . son, late of Japan. v THE NIGHT MEETING. Aiken, December Special; The j Convention reassembled at 7.15 1'. M. The special order for the hour. was taken up. This was the report on the indigent ministers' fund read by f '. C. Brown. During the year the board | has received $41 ?><>. Onc ()f t'ie j benefieiaries is I)r W. B. Carson, now j in Alabama. J. William Jones spoke interestingly of I >r Carson, with whom ; he was associated as chaplain during the war. He paid a high tribute to him as chaplain and soldier when the circ%instance3 demanded it. He was taken prisoner and carried to tort Delaware, where lie planned -and executed an escajKi which was a man-el of oolness and daring. A voluntary collection was taken. I hen the congregation burst into a song, a . good old song, and l>r Griffith led in prayer. The collection amounted to ?4:i 85. x W. D. Kice reported froin the com mittee to whom the rep'?rt on separate board of trustees for the Greenville Female College and Furman I'ni versity was committed pending this report. Prof tVhitsit, of theThelogical Scnuiiary, oCLouisville, Ivy., i^aUe a short talk W high schools in each J association to prepare students for Fnrman University. ;Col Hoyt va tfcd the. chair and delivered a clear Jnd dispassionate spe<?h opposing the j /separate board of trustees. A telling speech was made by A. J. S. 1 homaa favoring a sej?arate board. Other speeches wore made. ai'd the report was adopted. J.T.Smith ottered a prohibition resolution favoring the raa*\ wlift*li was quickly adopter!. R. J. Forrester moved to have i;ve membe*s of a committee ap|?ointtd to nominate new members ot the board and the committee on high schools C. T. Scaife moved "to have a com niittee of th reappointed to rej?oit on Sundav-school work at the next ses sion of tlfo Convention to consist ot R. W. Sundefs, Charles Manly, J. W. perry and 1>. W. Key. It was adopted. The chairman appointed tlie com mittees to report next year. Pastor kelson made the announce*-. . ment for preaching to-morrow. , J. T. Smith offered a resolution oV thanks to ?the. people of Aiken i<t| Castorials Dr. Samuel pitcher's prescription for AikI Children, It conU^ns ttoitlicr Opium, MorpI ether Narcotic substinccj It is a liarmless flu for Paregoric, Drops, Sootjhing Syrups and Cass It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years* Millions of Mothers. Castcjria destroys Worms and feverishness. Cast or ia prevents vomiting^ Sour cures Diarrhoea a nfl wjud Colic. Castoria r teething troubles, enrcs Jconstipatiota and flatn] -Castoria assimilated' the food, regalatcs tho and bowels, giving 'healthy and natural Hlcejv toria is tho Children's Pajiacca? the MothA^jP Fri Castoria. V 14 Castoria is on cx?*l!t?ot^KxTI^hto ? dren. Mothers havo repeatedly told uie/jflt s good effect uj?on their clirW*elT*<~^> ? ' Da. Q. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass. " Cactoria to tho best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope tho day is not f-r distant when mothers will consider tho real Interest of their children, and use Castoria in stead of the variousquack nostrums which arc destroying their loved ones,- by forcing opiu?\, morphinf, eoothing syrup and other hurtful agents down tlieir throats, thereby sending rLcm to pro/nature grows." c l)a. J. F. KixcfisLOE, Conway, Ark. f Castoria. ? " Oastorja is so well adapted too! TywuMiiauil Xus superior toaoy j known to* Jim." C n. a. a? 111 So. Oxford SL, I " Our physicians in tbo cUil mcnt havo spoken highly of lhatr one? in their outside prlctfco will t * and although wo only li.vo are mcdical supplies what la known n | products, yet wo oro ftvo to contact ttj merits of Castoria lias won us to feg| favor upon it." United hospital and IMiwtm vSm Aujw 0. 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'j . . 0 he ;iB? S 1 ASt? BEST is rnr 1 ?f ^Mh .] : Fi i p -i PS'? ?j ^ * * v^- ci c r? POST -HOLE Uiyr^^M ? J ."vci :?!!/ rr.nr.rt* 1 n be ? .'.at a;:>i only tliat to jic: :n the mft ? f '..Tid anJ th ? toi of ? .if.-.l unequalled by a'.l ?v'.crs If. v/(,rk 5 r? a-.y kind cf ::u.l. as iV.c Made . ::rc ?.o i ; ra.T?*,c ! a-.-l triad'? of r:(ir;Tv \ t!n:r. ailownK them to l\ '??'?'.'?and ivA contract "A'h^n I! 4 i : a:i<J emptying v:rn?. Th" !?ar.4J-? hi so arranged ! ! j t*~.it .t cat! he lengthened to 'Jt ./ i length by r , , ? c lo it in 2fvtio:?!., to that ? 1 depth' cor. b<: j.; r. ..the ! ?. those Diggers. i". . ti'jlrf. r.'r"n>;, tl u r>t hi i! ar. 1 x'.Ht'tli- (nothing com;:Ji !j ?. .t. I abant it', sr.^doea tv.ice I] the ?.vdil: i i> less t:in* than any H i ?? l .r - ' '.-s-iff ' ? * - mmz mm so., :.o'as bno. their hospitality, to t !?*? ;i >r i re?luee<l rates, t > lit*; pap*- the young Ia?ly v. } i ? ? attcufie'l t" tin.- < \m- j vention mail. The C<>i!V< iiti":: onloritl tuo thou sand copic- < if the iiiitiutos bi ho print ed. 1 he rni.-siojj C'dlectioiLt/Muorrow i a to }>e given L>> .State missions. The | State board wa-j ordered to pt?reiia-e a desk f?>r the s*-or^tarv. No business will lie done t" morrow, i he meeting piier pr. aching to-morrow night U the formal adjournment,- -finmtm S< '.mm. CYCLE MFG. CO.l INDIANAPOLIS,. WD. m \K?'.i:h or I BEN-HUR m BICYCLES 5 FHEUHiTIG TlftE, . ? - $100.00 CUSHION TIRE, ? ? ? 75.00 ? A string ?? ? ^ 1 !" v;'*:!; PULQMlTCtn [Hi!'' ' 'lioOKT liuRnAn lttU tl|Uh!.it! lEnto! Priw v^ry tlirrr r* y *. P&P% , " ' ? MCO. 1. i I hi-: IXiRUKTjilio party cannot a'.ionl to postpone the relief the people demand ami which was \>ruruuwl them: \Ve hype l/rt^k-nt Cleveland u ill an extra Session <>f Congress. i ! *ib?eril? r?r' Tl? ,mlr qiwO per annum. - ?