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A MOST GLORIOUS GROWTH. D3. TALMAGE SHOWS HOW CHRISTIANITY ADVANCES. Some Sturdy Blows at Infidelity—Re ligion Good to Live by and Consoling for One to Die By. Brooklyn, March 18.—In the Taber nacle today Rev. Dr. Talmage preached i* meet eloquent and characteristically rigorous sermon In refutation of the oft renewed assertion of the enemies of reli gion that Christianity is retrograding and the Bible losing its hold upon the hearts and consciences of men. The sub ject of the discourse as announced was "From Conquest to Conquest,” the text being taken from Amos ix, 13. ‘‘Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall o% ertake the reaper.” Picture of a tropical clime, with a sea- eon bo prosperous that the harvest reach- ee clear over to the planting time, and the swarthy husbandman swinging the sickle In the thick grain almost feels the breath of the horses on his shoulders, the horses hitched to the plow preparing for a new crop. "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper.” When is that? That is now. That is this day, when hardly have you done reaping one harvest before the plow man is getting ready for another. I know that many declare that Chris tianity has collapsed; that the Bible is an obsolete book; that the Christian church is on the retreat. I will here and now show that the opitosite of that is true. An Arab guide was leading a French infidel across a desert, and ever and anon the Arab guide would get down in the 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: “How do I know’ that a man and a camel passed along our tent last night? I know’ it by the footprints in the sand. And you want to know how I know whether ther Is any God? Look at that sunset. Is that the footstep >t a man?” And by the same process you and I have come to under- itand that this book is the footstep of a God. A HEALTHY GROWTH, But now let us see whether the Bible a last year’s almanac. Let us see whether the church of God is in a Bull Run retreat, muskets, canteens and hav ersacks strewing all the wav. The great English historian, Sharon Turner, a man of vast learning and of great accuracy, not a clergyman, but an attorney as well as a historian, gives this overwhelm ing statistic in regard to Christianity and In regard to the numl>er of Christiana in the different centuries: In the first cen tury, 500,000 Christians; in the second century, 2.000,000 Christians; in the third century, 5,000,000 Christians; in the fourth century, 10,000,000 Christians; in the fifth century, 15,000,000 Christians; in the sixth century, 20,000,000 Chris tians; iu the seventh century, 24,000,- 000 Christians; in the eighth cen tury, 30,000,000 Christians; in the ninth century, Christians; JlV'tbe tenth pent ary, iU,000.‘0<Ki Chris tians; iu the eleventh century, 70,000,000 (Christians; in the twelfth century, bO,- 000,000 Christians; in the thirteenth cen tury, 75,000,000 Christians; in the four teenth century, 80,000,000 Christians; iu the fifteenth century, 100,000,000 Chris tians; In the sixteenth cent ury, 125,000,- (KO Christians; in the seventeenth cen tury, 155,000,000 Christians; in the eight- pentury. V^nristians— a decadence, as you observe, in only one century ami more than made up in the folluw’ing centuries, while it is the usual computation that there will be, when the record of the nineteenth century is made up, at least 800,0<JO,<)00 Christians. Poor Christianity! What a pity it has no friends! Huw lonesome it must bo! Who will take it out of the pool house? Poor Christianity! Three hundred mil lions in one century. In a few weeks of the year 1881 2,500,000 copies of the New Testament distributed. Why, the earth is like an old castle with 20 gates and a park of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. Lay aside all Christendom and see how heathendom is being sur rounded and honej’combed and attack ’d by this all conquering gospe]. At the Beginning of this century there were •nly 150 missionaries; now there are 25,- 000 missionaries and native helpers and evangelists. At the beginning of this century there were only 50,000 heathen converts; now there are 1,750.000 con verts from heathendom. There is not a seacoast on the planet but the battery of the gospel is planted «n4 ready to inarch on—north, south, east, west. You all know that the chief work of an army Is to plant the batteries. It may take many days to plant the bat teries;' and they may do all their work in 10 minutes. These batteries are lieing planted all along the seacoasts and in all nations. It mav take a good while to plant them, and they may do all their work In one day. They will. Nations are to be born in one day. But just come back to Christendom and recognize the fact that during the last 1{) j’Oi jyj many people have dOnhected themselves with Evangelical churches as connected themselves with the churches in the first M years of this century. A GLORIOUS BOOK, Bo Christianity is falling back, and the Bible, they say, is becoming an obsolete book. I go into a court, and wherever I flhd ft judge’s bench or a clerk s desk I £ d a Bible. Upon what book could >re be uttered the solemnity of an 6ath? What 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 Brook lyn? The Bible. In nine out of every £ti home* in Christendom? The Bible. Voltaire wrote the prophecy that the Rlb’e in the nineteenth century would pacome extinct. The century is nearly gone, and as there have lieen more Bihles published in the latter part of the cen tury than in the former part of the een- •unr do you think the Bible w ; ll become pxtinct in tlie next hIa years? I have to tell you that the room in Which Voltaire wrote tlm*. prophecy not long ago was crowded { to ceil (Ug with Bibles from P ' pose Should pass ^ no more Bibles • 4/1 n BO mor® Bible 4/* If 000,000 grov it^ ites, thr be an Jf mb Bibles from F Aid. Hup. the congress ✓ /^Vdjted States Id pass a lav ' f'A \n) if* umose the congr* States should make a law against the reading or the publication of any other book, how many people would go out in such a crusade? Could you get 40,oo0,000 people to go out and risk their lives in defense of Shakespeare's tragedies or Gladstone's tracts or Macaulay's ‘‘History of Eng land?” You know that there are 1,000 men who would die in defense of this book where there is not more than one man who would die in defense of any other book. You try to insult my common sense by telling me the Bible is fading out from the world. It is the most i>opular book of the cen tury. How do I know it? I know it just as I know in regard to other l>ooks. How many volumes of that book are publish ed? Well, you say, 5,<XX). How many copies of that bx>k are published? A hundred thousand. Which is the more popular? Why, of course the one that has 100,000 circulat’on. And if this liook has more copies abroad in the world, if there are five times as manj’ Bibles abroad as any other book, does not that show you that the most popular lx>ok on the planet today is the word of God? ••Oh,” say people, “the church is a col lection of hypocrites, and it is losing its power, and it is fading out from the world.” Is it? A bishop of the Metho dist church told me that thnt denomina tion averages two new churches every day of the year. There are at least 1,500 new Christian churches built in America every year. Does that look as though the church were fading out. as though it were a defunct institution? Which in stitution stands near< t the hearts of the people of America t> lay? I do not care in what village, or in what city, or what neighborhood you go. Which institution is it? Is it the postofiice? Is it the ho tel? Is it the lecturing hall? Ah, you know it is not. You know that the in stitution which stands nearest to the hearts of the American jeople is the Christian church. If you have ever seen a church burn down, you have seen thousands of people standing and look ing at it—people who never go into a church—the tears raining down their cheeks. The whole story is told. AN UNPOPULAR P.ELIEF. You may talk about the church being a collection of hypocrites, but when the diphtheria sweeps your children off whom do you send for? The postmaster, the attorney general, the hotel keeper, alderman? No, you send for a minister of this Bible religion. And if you have not a room in your house for the obse quies, what building do you solicit? Do vou say, “Give me the finest room in the hotel?” Do you say, “Give me that theater?” Do you say: “Give me a place in that public building, where I can lay my dead for a little while until we say a prayer over it?” No. You say. “Give us the house of God.” And if there is a song to be sung at the obsequies, what do you want? What does anybody want? “The Marseillaise’ hymn. “God Save the (j Ourown grand national air? No. To y want the hymn with which they s. g their old Christian mother into I ’ t sleep, or they want sung the San! rhoolhymn which their little girl e last Sab bath afternoon she was i.::t before she got that awful sickne.-;- which broke your heart. I appeal to your c< uiinon sense. You know the most endearing institu tion on earth, the most popular institu tion on earth today, is the church of the Lord Jesus Ciiri.'t. The infidels say, ••Infidelity shows its successes from the fact that it is every where accepted, and it can say what it will.” Why, my friends, infidelity is not half so blatant in our days as it was iu the days of our fathers. Do you know that in the daysof out fathers there were pronounced infidels in public authority and they could get any political ijosition? Let a man today declare himself antag onistic to the Christian reMgion, and •ehat city wants pirn |o*- mayor, what &ate wants him for governor, what na tion wants him for presid. ntor forking? Let a man openly proclaim himself the enemy of our glorious < 'hristiauity, and he cannot get a iiiaj"rity of votes in any state, in any city, in any county, m any ward of America. RELIGION IS .S< II.NCE. Do you think that: ueh a si-ege could be enacted now as was enact' <1 in the daysof Robespierre, when a shameless woman w;is elevated as a goddess and was carried in a golden chair to a cathe dral, where incense was burned to her and people bowed down before h<T as a divine being, she taking the place of the pible and (jod Almighty, while in the corridor of that cathedral were enacted euchscenesof drunkenness and debauch ery and obscenity us have never lieen witnessed? Do you believe such a tiling could possibly occur in Christendom to day? No, sir! The police, whether of Paris or New York, would swoop on it. I know infidelity makes :i good deal of talk in our day. It Is on the principle that if a man jump overboard from a Canard steamer he makes more excite ment than all the 500 people that stay on the decks. But the fact that he jumps Overlmard -does that stop the ship? Dot- a that wreck the 500 passengers? It makes great excitement when a man jumps from the lecturing platform or from the t mlpit into infidelity, but does that keep he Bible and the church from ' itj’ jin* their millions of 1;^®^’”" ' Skies? 1,1,0 ,lie o mey say, these men, that science is overcoming religion in our day. They look through the spre a< ics of the infidel scientists, and they fay: “It is mq*>»si- ble that this ls>ok can be true. Peoy ie are finding it out. The Bible has got to go overboard. 8ci« nce is going to throw it overboard.” Do you b dieve that the Bible account of the origin of life will be overthrown by infid* I scientists who have 50 different theories abon* the or igin of life? If they should coup op in sol id phalanx, all agreeing upon one senti- ineut and one theory, perhaps Christiani ty might be damaged, but there ar< not so many differences of opinion inside the church as outside the church. THE K1TTLHT SUBUVfjs.- People used losny, “There arc so many different denominations of Christians • hat shows there is nothing in religion.” I have to tell yon that all denominations agree on the two or three or four radical doctrines of the Christian religion. They are unanimous in regard to Jesus Christ, and they are unanimous in regard to the divinity of the Scriptures. How is it on the other side? All split up you cannot find two of them alike. Oh, it makes me sick to see these literary fops going along with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm, telling about the “survival of the fittest,” and Huxley s protoplasm, and the nebular hypothesis. 'Jhe fact is that some naturalists just 1 as soon as they fimi out the difference i between the^J^-lers of a wasu and the ^ \ nonis of a beetle begin to patronize the Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agas siz, who never made any pretension to being a Christian, puts both his feet ou the doctrine of evolution and says, “I see that many of tho naturalists of our day are adopting facts which do not bear observation or have not passed under ol>- servation.” These men warring against ead other—Darwin warring against La- marche, Wallace warring against Coi>e, even Herschel denouncing Ferguson. They do not agree about anything. They do not agree on embryology, do not agree on the gradation of the spe cies. What do they agree on? Herschel writes a whole chapter on the errors of astronomy. La Place declares that the moon was not put iu the right place. He says that if it had been put four times farther from the earth than it is now there would be more harmony in the universe, but Liouville mes up just in time to prove that the moon was put in the right place. How many colors woven into the light? Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says David Brewster. How high is the au rora borealis? Two and a half miles, says Lias. One hundred and sixty-eight miles, says Twining. How far is the sun from the earth? Seventy-six million miles, says Lacalle. Eighty-two million miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million miles, says Henderson. One hundred and four million miles, says Mayer—only a. little difference of 28,000,000 miles! All split up among themselves—not agreeing on anything. They come and say that the churches of Jesus Christ are divided on the great doctrines. All united they are, in Jesus Christ, in the divinity of the Scriptures. While they come up and propose to render their ver dict, no two of them agree on that ver dict. “Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict?” asks the court or the clerk of the jury as they come in aft er having si>ent the whole night in de liberating. If the jury say, “Yes, we have agreed,” the verdict is recorded, but suppose one of the jurymen says, “I think the man was guilty of murder,” and another says, “I think he was guilty of manslaughter in the second degree,” and another man says, “I think lie was guilty of assault and battery, with in tent to kill,” the judge would say: “Go back to your room and bring in a ver dict. Agree on something. That is no verdict.” INFIDELITY AT A STANDSTILL. Here these infidel scientists have im paneled themselves as a jury to decide this trial between infidelity, the plain tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and after being out for centuries they come in to render their verdict. Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a ver dict? No, no. Then go back for another 500 years and deliberate and agree on something. There is not a poor, miser able wretch in the Tombs court tomor row that could be condemned by a jury that did not agree on the verdict, and yet you expect us to give up our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agree on anything. Ah, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ, instead of falling back, is on the advance! 1 am certain it is on the ad vance. O Lord God, take thy sword from thy thigh and ride forth to the vic tory! I am mightily encouraged because I find among other things that while this Christianity lias been bombarded for centuries infidelity lias not destroyed one church, or crippled one minister, or uprooted one verse of one chapter of all the Bible. The church all the time get ting the victory and the shot and shell of its enemies nearly exhausted. I have been examining their ammuni tion lately. I have looked all through their cartridge boxes. They btri v not m the Tot 2(> year# advanced one new idea, 'i'fiey' "have utterly exhausted their am munition in the battle against the church and against the Scriptures, while the sword of the Lord Almighty is as keen as it ever was. We are just getting our troops into line. The- ^ yo^img up In companies, and iu regiments, and in bri gades, and jou will hear a shout after awhile that will make the earth quake and the heavens ring with “Alleluia!” It will be tiiis, “Forward, the whole line!” And then I find another most encour aging thought in theiacttlmt the secular printing press and pulpit seem harnessed in the same team for the proclamation of the gospel. Every Wall street banker to morrow iu New York, every plate ytveet j.anker tomorrow 1 in Boston, every Third street banker tomorrow iu Fhiladelphia, every banker iu the United Htates, and every merchant will have in his jsx ket a treatise on Christianity, a call to rejient- auce, 10, 20 <>r 80 passages of Scripture in tho reports of sermons preached throughout these cities and tin ugl^t the land today. n tit lx? so In Chicago, so in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so every where. I know the tract societies art doing a ! grand and glorious work, but l tell you there is no bower on earth todaj’ equal to the fact that the American printing press is taking up th? sermons which are preached to a few hundred or a few thousand people, and yu i ing and JJundM® *- ntorn- w ^•euing.in the morning evening pajiers, scattering that truth ( to the millions. What a thought it is! What an encouragement for every Chris- ! tiau man! A GLORIOUS FACT. Besides that, have you noticed that during the past few’ years every one of the doctrines of the Bible came under dis cussion in the secular press? Do you not 1 remember a few years ago, when every paper in the United States had an edi- j torial on the subject, “Is There Such a Thing as Future Punishment?” It was the strangest thing that there should be a discussion in the secular papers on that subject, but every paper in the United States and in Christendom discussed, “Is There Such a Thing as Retribution?” I know there were small wits who made sport of the discussion, hut there was not an Intelligent man ou earth who, as the result of that discussion, did not ask himself the question, “What is going to lie my eternal destiny?” So it was in re- gard to Tyndall’s prayer gauge. About 12 years ago, you remember, the secular pajs-rs discussed that, and with its much enriiestness as the re ligious papers, and there was not a man in Christendom who did not ask himself the questions:“L rnything in piay- ‘ er? May the creature impress the Cre ator?” Oh, what a mighty fact, what a glorious fact—the secular printing press and the pulpit of the church of Jesus Christ harnessed in the same team! Then hs^k at tho international series of .Sunday school lessons. Do you know that every Sabbath, la-tween 8 and 5 o’clock, there are 5,000,000 children study ing the same lesson—a lesson prepared by the leading minds of the country ami Diluted iu the papers—aud tbcu these ennjecis are uiscusscu ana given Over to the teachers, who give them over to the children? So, whereas, once, and within our memory, the children nibbled here and there at a story iu the Bible, now they are taken through from Genesis to Revelation, and we shall have 5.000,000 children forestalled for Christianity. My soul is full of exultation. I feel as if 1 could shout—I will shout, “Alleluia, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!” SCIENTIFIC CONSOLATION. Then you notice a more significant fact, if you have talked with people on the subject, that they are getting dissat isfied with philosophy and science as a matter of comfort. They say it does not amount to anything when you have a dead child in the house. They will tell you, when they were sick and the door of the future seemed opening, the only com fort they could find was iu the gospel. People are having demonstrated all over the land that science and philosophy can not solace the trouble and woes of ti e world, and they want some other rei ; - gion, and they are taking Christianity, the only sympathetic religion that ever came into the world. You just take your scientific consola tion into that room where a mother has lost her child. Try in that case your splendid doctrine of the “survival of the fittest.” Tell her that child died because it was not worth as much as the other children. That is your "survival of the fittest.” Go to that dying man and tell him to pluck up courage for the future. Use your transcendental phraseology up on him. Tell him he ought to lie confi dent in “the great to be,” and the "ever lasting now," and the “eternal what is it.” Just try your transcendentalism and your philosophy and your science on him. Go to that widowed soul and tell her it was a geological necessity that her companion should be taken away from her, just as iu the course of the world's history the megatherium liad to pass out of existence, and then you go on in your scientific consolation until you get to the sublime fact that 50,000,000 years from now we ourselves may be scientific spec imens on a geological shelf, i tetri tied specimens of an extinct human race. And after you have got all through with your consolation, if the poor afflict ed soul is not crazed by it, I will send forth from this church the plainest Christian we have, and with one half hour of prayer and reading of Scripture promises the tears will lie wijted away, and the house from floor to cupola will be flooded with the calmness of an In dian summer sunset. There is where I see the triumph of Christianity. Peo ple are dissatisfied with everything else. They want G<xl. They want Jesus Christ. Talk about the exact sciences. There is only one exact science. It is not math ematics. Taylor's logarithms have many imperfections. The French metric sys tem has many imperfections. The only exact science is Christianity—the only thing under which you can appropriately write, “(^noderat demonstrandum.” You tell me that two and two make four. I do not dispute it, but it is not so plain that two and two make four as that tbe Lord God Almighty made this world and for man, the sinner, he sent bis only begotten Hon to die, l put ou the witness stand to testify iu behalf of Christianity the church on earth and all the church iu heaven. Not 50, not a thousand, not a million, but all of the church on earth and all the redeemed iu heaven. A QUESTION OF TESTIMONY. You tell me James A. Garfield was in augurated president of the United States on the 4th of March, 1881. How do I know it? You tell me there were 2O,00u persons who distinctly heard ins inau gural address. 1 deny Ixith. I deny that £e was inaugurated. I deny that his in augural address was delivered. You ask why. I did not see it; I did not hear it. But you say that there were 20,000 persons who did see and hear him. I say I cannot take it anyhow. 1 lid pot and hear him. \YUose testimony will you take? You will not take my testi mony. You say; “You know nothing about it; you were not there. L> t us have.the testimony of the 20,000 persons who stood before the Capitol and heard that magnificent Inaugural.” Why, of course that is as your common sense dic tates. Now. here are some men who sav they have never seen Christ crown,*<l in the heart, and they Vv ,i believe it is ever ylouv. Theye is a grouj> of men who say they have never heard the voice of Christ; they have never heard tho voice of God. They do not Ixdieve it ever transpired or was ever heard—that any thing like it ever occurred. I poin( to 2t>, 100.000 or 1,000,000 bepplo who say, “Christ wag gowned in our hearts’ af- mctions; we have seen him and felt him In our soul, and w® have heard his voice; we Imve heard it in storm and darkm-y;, we have heard it again 4m( agaju. Whose testimony \yiU you take? These yieD, why say they have not heard the voice of Christ, have not seen the corona tion, or will you take the thousand* 'iid millions Of Christlajjs u^ 0 tf . Btify of ***- HU their own eyes and ..^ard with their own ears? Yonder is an aged Christian after 50 years’ experience of the power of godli ness in his soul. Ask this man whether, when he buried his dead, the religion of Jesus Christ was not a consolation. Ask him if through the long years of his pil grimage the Lord ever forsook him. Ask him, when he looks forward to the fu ture, if he has not a jieace, and a j.>y, and a consolation the world cannot tale aw’ay. Put his testimony of what I • has seen and what he has felt opisa-.i.) to the testimony of a man who says be has not seen anything on the subject or felt anything on the subject. Will you take the testimony of jteople who have not wen or people who have seen? a bit or ADVICE. You say morphia puts one to sleep. You say in time of sickness it is very useful. I deny it. Morphia never puts anybody to sleep; it never alleviates pain. You ask me why I say that. I have never tried it; I never took it. I deny that morphia is any soothing to the nerves or any quhd in times of sickness. I deny that morphia ever put anybody to sleep, but here are 20 jierbous who say they have all felt the soothing effects of a physician's prescribing morphine. Whose testimony will yon take? Those who t<x<k the medicine or mv testimony 4 never having taken the medicine? Here is the gospel of Jesus Christ, an anodyne for all trouble, the mightiest medlciue that ever came down to earth. Here is a man who says: “I don’t Ixdieve in it. There is no power in it.” Here are other people who say: “We have found out its t ower and know its soothing influence, t has cured ns.” Whose testimony will you take iu regard to this healing medi cine? I feel that I have convinced every man lu this turn*) that it.U uttvr Cvliy tu t*k« tiMTiRar> f t'« i "tioovt. me testimony oi tnoee wno nave liever tried the gospel of Jesus Christ in their own heart ami life. We have tens of thousands of witnesses. I Ixdieve you are ready to take their testimony. Yonng THE m„.l : PROGRAMME LL & Of tfie Northern Division of the Spar-H/IDOM .! !A I! TV ; . : it tanburg Association. | *JV JK I* The union of the Northern Division man, do not be ashamed to lx? a friend i, , uq ' of the Bible. Do not put your thumb in | » f Vrtanhurg Associat ion will your vest, as young men sometimes do, rfieUt trllli the Cherokee fiprings Brjx ho and swagger about talking of the glori ous light of the nineteenth century and of there being no need of a Bible. They have the light of nature in Indja and China and in all the dark places on earth. Did you ever hear that the light of na ture gave them comfort for their trou ble? They have lancets to cut and jug gernauts to crush, but no comfort. Ah, my friends, you had better stop your skepticism. Suppose you are put in this crisis: Oh, father, your child is dying. What are you going to say to her? Colonel Ethan Allen was a famous in fidel in his day. His wife was a very consecrated woman. The mother in structed the daughter iu the truths of Christianity. The daughter sickened and was about to die, and she said to her father: “Father, shall I take your in struction, or shall I take mother’s in struction? I am going to die now. I must have this matter decided.” That man, who had lieen loud in his infidelity, said to his dying daughter, "My dear, you had better take your mother's re ligion.” My advice is the same to yon— oh, young man, you had better take your mother’s religion. You know how it comforted her. You know what she said to you when she was dying. You had better take your mother’s religion. Our Advertisers. Among the advertisers ween , attention to the your four new advertise- tist Clmreli. beginning oh Friday be fore the tiftli Kutidaylln April IMM. Tbe following is tm* program : , -J ^ .• tt | FKIPAT. Devotional exercises to t»e toip ducted by T. I). Earle. .Organization. Reports; and .Mixcel* lu neons business. First Query—Have we any Script li ra! authority for holding weekly prayer meetings and Sunday Schools; and if so who should attend and parti- eipate in these meetings!' S|x*akers. Rev. W. F. Sorrells and C. ('. Tur ner. Second Query—What is the Bibli cal conception of a preacher and his duties; and is it generally observed? Speakers. Prof. R. (>. Sams and S. R. Ezell. SATURDAY. Devotional exercises to he con ducted by G. M. Hicks. Miscclla- j neons business. Third Query—Who are the hea then; what is tlie Scriptural relation ; which tlie Christians sustain to them ; I and are the Christians observing this ; relation? Speakers. Revs. J. E. ! ( ovington and W. R. Horton. Fourth Query—What is the Bibli cal conception of giving; and are 1 Christians generally observing this j conception? Speakers. Revs. W. T. ; Derieux and J. M. Bridges. SUNDAY. Tl iMU-pct, H • ,(»(< tiVi iti UuKiUcvs . A' b :■ f/.MI K lilg Careful atuuiium to collections nil all jioinfs. • ’f »j;t l • I I • | i • i. Safety Deposit Boxes Iiisitie. Kiro Proof Vault for Relit-; Ri:-> ti!•• •! * • ? I »t«i«! rv* Your patrcr.age Solicited. •> • : ■! ■■ - '■ i ■ . ■- \J: .-'lUj ■ L. BAKER, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. * ' ,!i! f DIC A IIV • r TTamml Sash,»Blinds. * Doors. if -and all kinds of- ,i t Missionary sermon to he by Rev. J. R. Aiken. preached 'meats of firms who have joined the procession. They say something and say it well. Read their mis. and when you want goods ••all upon them. Busi ness men advertise for the benefit of tlie public as well as themselves and tiie public can only lx- benefited by reading their ads. The Gaffney City Land A Improve ment Company come before the world in a new ad. See their display adver tisement in another column. Mr. W. O. Lipscomb calls at tent ion to his large stock of spring go<xls. His advertisement in this issue shows The fo,,uwin b' "ill be the pro- that lie “means business.’’ i 8 ra,,1,ne> 1st. Devotional exercises. 2d. Enrollment of delegates. *kl. Reports from societies. 4th. Miscellaneous business, nth. Essay by Miss Bessie Rich ardson. fith. Address bv Rev. .1. R. Aiken; Do not fail to read their “special offer- subject: The Scriptural conception m tf‘ | of tlie position of woman in the Evan- Mcssrs Wilkins Bros.have something ! gelization of the world. Building Materials. Plans and specifications for build ings made on short notice. —— — Livery and Feed Stables. Headquarters for drivers and Fa r in- Sunday School mass meeting to he ors ' "bo want to buy.sell or exchange, conducted by Rev. J. E. Covington. i.. . , The Woman’s Missionary Union will hold its session at <i p. m. Satur- Note “How to obtain a reduction” ] in the story that Win E. Wilson, our i photographer, tells in ins ad. to our readers this week. Messrs Carroll A- Carpenter have 1 made a change in their advertisement. new to say this week. Note the changes in their advertisement. Mr. T. Davenport quotes prices of interest to house keepers and invites you parusai. Mr. .1. I. Karratt has a new display fl,, d 1 p. m. each day and adjourn at ad. He means to keep in the van. pleasure. 7th. Question box opened. 8th. Closing exercises. Tlie Question Box will lie opened during each session of the Union. The Union will meet at 10 a. m. Mr F. <». Stacy tells how to protect your property from loss. Mr. I. M. Peeler advertises Dress Goods for sale; also a horse on easy terms. Carroll .V Stacy have the only vacant store house in town, so they adver t ise it for rent. B. I’. Rorhktson, For < 'ominit tee. I make a Specialty of Feeding Stock*. First-class turnouts at reasonable rates. Cattle and Hogs bought and sold. J. G. Spencer, Proprietor. ^Y. :v. wooi>, IfA.N If 1CK, Gaffney, - - S. C. Having just jmrcliiised a HERRING-HALL-MAR VIN BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE —WITII- Death of Mr. Robt. McCraw. Mr. Robt. Met'raw. of State Line, ! died last Friday night after a painful illness of several days. He was 75 ( Automatic Bolt Work years old and one of our best citizens ^ Tlie Xortli Paeolet ! iitor-.d‘ i nomi- national >uhhutn Seh»xd Convention and most sucessfui farmers. He is the father of Mrs. T. R. Wilkins of The North Paeolet S. S ; Convention ! thu and of our esteemed towns men. Robt. K., .1. T. and M. A. Me- (.’raw. His worth and influence will whi t hapel. March , M . 1)>ss t<) tJ|e ,. OInimniitv< We 25. (siil at |u.:}<) A. M. —AND PltOGKAMME. I. Devotional exercises witii respon sive reading of 2itli chapter of Euke, and singing Faster Anthem by tlie Schools. 2. Enrollment of Sr boots and deb ■ •rates. tend our sincere sympathies to the bereaved ones. I • What Dr. Lemon Will Do. Do you want toknow the nameoi • ,n. of the best all-around household d«*-- j tors, and certainly the cheapest that ••an be found in any country? It is Dr. Lemon. Yes, an Ordinary vi Address of Welcome by Boyce sour, yellow lemon, v hie'; you can buy W hisouant. Response by Byers at any grocery for a'ew cents. Greer. Here are sqie t . of the tilings Dr. 4. Music by Miss Pearl Whiscuumt. ! , 7 tfmoa do for you if give him the f *l^ai 5. What are theesdential qualifiei ■ < ‘ ' i_- • . . # 1 . I Squeeze him into a glass of water tions of the successful teacher in tin t every morning and drink him with j Sabbath school? by Prof. W. F very little sugar. He will keep your McArthur. stomach in ihr best of order, and never let Mr. Dyspepsia, whom he Time Lock and Safety Deposit 1-8 < >xo«, I will lie better prepared than ever to take care of my customers funds. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate, rent. County claims bought. Exchange bought and sold. (*. Is the viol;ili -n of th* 1 Sabbath hates cordially. get into it. moral degeneracy? By Robt. <\ Pat rick. Wesley Sanders and William Jefferies. 7. How does the Sahhath school benefit Society generally? by J. A. Humes. T. J. Estes and M. Dor man. 8. Question Box. under (be guise of “public necessity” I If you have dark Jiair. audit seems an vyidvnee of National prosperity or tube falling out, cut off a slieeof the doctor and rub him on jour scalp. He will stop that little trouble promptly. Squeeze him into a quart of milk, j and lie will given you a mixture to # rub on your face night and morning and get a complexion like a princess. Pour him into an equal quantitj' of glj’eerine, and rub j’our hands with tlie mixture before going to bed. If Each school will he entit led to three j you don’t mind sleeping with gloves delegates, on:* of whom is expected to on ’ 1 l* at ** better still, and helps tlie doctor considerable in Ids task of j reai i • n por . whitening the hands. In the mom- All persons friend I j - to the work ing wash your hands thoroughly in nrc invited to come and take part in warm water and apply the doctor it. Bj’ order of Committee. J. M. Greer. J. L. Strain, Beet y. J. E. WEBSTER, iYt loi'iic\v-A> 1 - I^ii’vv r 9 Gaffney City, S. C. I nntiecs in all the courts. Uollee tionS a specialty. R. & D. R. R. SCHEDULE. WASHINGTON IO ATLANTA. again pure, but only a few drops of him this time. You must not keep J’res’t. tiiis up long, or your hands will show such a dazzling whiteness as to make all the other young ladies in the vicin ity jealous. If j’ou have a had headache, cut Dr, Lemon into slices and rub these along your temples. The pain will not be A Fal»e Teat For Steel lilode*. Many people v uagine that by blow ing their breath ou the blade of a knife they can tell whether tbe blade is steel or pot metal. Now, a per son’s breath will adhere to a pot met- | long disappearing, or. at last in grow- al blade and fade away the same as on steel, but nine out of ten men ing easier to bear. If a bee or an insect stings you, don’t know this, and that is tbe rea rlu P 11 " ‘>rop> of the doctor on the sou whj so many people carry in- ferior pocketknives. — Philadelphia Pm* ! If you have a spot, and you will find yourself the troblesome corn, the doctor cun lie again put to good ac count by rubbing him on the toe after Why lie Didn't. “Didn’t Johnson care to live in Pari**?” _ awLj as much ax | “Yes, indeed. He said he would troublesome intruder, have "i veil all be was worth to stay thoiv- •Why didn't In*?” “Ob, he died.”— Loudon Tit Bits. Besides all tiiis the d<x‘tor is always r"”dy te, , hinisri' in liin cause of Russian tea—slice him in without sugar—or iu the preparation of nld- fashionhd lemonade, than which no Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. drink is more wholesome. The Best Salve in the world for Altogether, Dr^/Cinon is an kndi- Cuts, Bruises, Korn Ulcers, Salt ; vidual few j^gj^^^^^jUford to get Rheum, Fever Sores tier, ('bispped abm^ Hands, ('hilhlains, ('o.-ns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Files, or no pay required, ft is guarantee^ to give perfect satisfaction or nmiiij refunded. Price 25 cents per Iki Leave] | Arrive No. 11. No. 12 A. M. P. M. 11 01 . Washington. 2 55 5 50 ... Danville.. ■ 8 10 P. M. P. M. 12 no .. ('harlot te.. 8 10 12 50 . .Gastonia ■.. 7 21 147 . Blacksburg. (> 20 2 07 • GAFFNEYS. <5 07 r> oo • Spurt anhurg. 5 21 1 52 . <ireenville.. 11 Iff 10 15 p. m . \tlauto... • a. m. !• 50 Comicnsed Schedule, R. & D. R. R. SOUTH ROUND. No. II • ••• .. 2.o7 p. in 37. Vestibule ■ II .0.5 a in north round. | No. 12 • •• ••••• •••• .. 0.07 p in Jfi. Flag ... 1.08 a m H8. Vestibule ... 0.57 it m | < MARLES ION , UOLUMRIA, SI IKTAKHI'KO AND ASIIVILLE DIVISION. Ia*aveJ [Arrive No. Bi No. 14 7 15 a. m. • ( 'harleston ■ 8 45 p. m. | 10 0o p. m .. ('oltimhia. . • 1 <NI p. in. 5 50 p. in*. .... Aisson.... 12 20 p. in.