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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 10, 1895. RECT QUESTION. DR. TALMAGE PUTS IT POINT BLANK TO MEN AND WOMEN. tham up in his parlor! But this foul dog of sin ami these herds of transgres sion we have entertained for many a w h eh should ho till you get a good crack at h : m, and when at iast von f.ud him in a t’ght times (he last illness of the Christian is thronah the long year l)'r<-ctly tu tli< »<> Hiiv*- .Not is<-fin Free Offer of *‘I» Tlilrio Heart Kiglil?’ Hearts of All Ij Aet't ptf il tin) In Christ .Je»u*. in our the cleanest, hr nature. Out with Ihc v ve 1 rh-alcrs oi an in '.a' <> ae, ! Turn out the Ina.i- and let Christ con.'' in! A licit hen i a an t an early Christian who hud the reputation ot curing diseases. The Christian said, “You must have all your idols destroy ed.” The heathen gave to the Christian the key to his house, that he might go in and destroy the idols. Ho battered to pieces all ho saw, but still the man did not get well. The Christian said to him, “There must be some idol in your house not yet destroyed.” The heathen confessed that there was one idol of beaten gold that ho could not bear to give up. After awhile, when that was destroyed, in answer to the prayer of the Christian, the sick man got well. Many a man has awakened hi his dy ing hour to find his sins all about him. They clambered up rn the right side of the bed, and on the left side, and over the headboard, and over the footboard, and horribly devoured the soul. Repent, tlio voice celestial cries, Nor longer dare delay. The wretch that scorns the mandate dies And meets a fiery day. A Believing Heart. Again, wo need a believing heart. A good many years ago a weary one went up one of the hills of Asia Minor, and with two logs on his back cried out to all the world, offering to carry their sins and sorrows. They pursued him. They slapped him in the face. They mocked him. When ho groaned, they groaned. They shook their lists at him. They spat on him. Ti. y hounded him as though he were a wild be^st. His healing of tho sick, his sight giving to tho blind, his mercy to the outcast, si lenced not the revenge of tho world. His prayers and benedictions were lost in ! that whirlwind of execration: “Away ] with him ! Away with him 1” Ah, it was not lueiely tho two pieces of wood that he carried; it was the transgressions of tho race, tho anguish of tho ages, tho wrath of God, the sor rows of hell, the stupendous interests of an unending eternity! No wonder his back bent. No wonder tho blood started from every pure. No wonder that ho crouched under a torture that made the sun faint, and the everlasting hills tremble, and the dead rush up iu their winding sheets sis ho cried, “If it [ he possible, let this cup pass from me.” But tho cup did not pass. None to com- i fort. There ho haugs! What has that hand douo that it should bo thus crushed in the palm? It has been healing the lamo and wiping away tears. What has that foot been doing that it should bo so lacerated? It has been going about do ing good. Of what has tlie victim been guilty? Guilty of saving a world. Tell me, ye heavens and earth, was there ever such another criminal? Was there ever such a crime? On that hill of car nage, that sunless day, amid those howling rioters, may not your sins and mine have perished? I believe it. Oh, tho ransom has been paid. Those arms of Jesus were stretched out so wide that when ho brought them together again they might embrace the world. Oh, that I might, out of the blossoms of the spring or the flaming f Jiuge of tho autumn make one wreath for my Lord! Oh, that all the triumphal arches of the world could bo sung in one gateway, where the King of Glory night como in ! Oh, that all tho harps and trumpets and organs of earthly nnsic might iu ouo anthem speak his praise! But what were earthly flowers to him who walkoth amid tho snow of the white lilies of heaven? What were arch es of earthly masonry to him who hath about his throne a rainbow spun out of everlasting sunshine? What were all earthly music to him when tho hundred and forty and four thousand on one side and cherubim ami seraphim and arch angels stand on tho other side, and all tho space between is filled with the doxologies of eternal jubilee—tho ho sanna of n redeemed earth, tho hallelu iah of unfallen angels, song after song rising about the throne of God and of tho Lamb? In that pure, high place, let him hear ns. 8top, harps of heaven, that our poor cry may bo heard. O my Lord Jesus, it will not hurt theo for cue hour to step out from tho shin ing throng. They will make it all up when thou goest back again. Comehith- : er, O blessed one, that we may kiss thy feet Our hearts, t(K) long withheld, wo now surrender into thy keeping. When thou goest back, tell it to all the bent, gliest room lr> I ; in all our it Betr me. New York, Oct. ti.—In his sermon for today Rev. Dr. Tulmage speaks di rectly to the hearts of all who have not yet definitely accepted the free offer of salvation in Christ Jesus. The subject was, “A Point Blank Question,” the text being II Kings x, 15, “ Is thine heart right?” With mettled horses at full speed, for he was celebrated for fast driving, Je hu, the warrior and king, returns from battle. But seeing JoJiouadab, an ac quaintance, by the wayside, he shouts, “Whop! Whoa!” to the lathered span. Then leaning over to Jehouadab Jehu solutes him in the words of the text— words not more appropriate for that hour and that place than for this hour and place, “Is thine heart right?” I should like to hear of your physical health. Well myself, I like to have ev erybody else well, and so might ask, Is your eyesight right, your hearing right, your nerves right, your lungs right, your entire body right? But I am busy today taking diagnosis of the more im portant spiritual conditions. I should like to hear of your financial welfare. I want everybody to have plenty of mon ey, ample apparel, large storehouse and comfortable residence, and I might ask, Is your business right, your income right, your worldly surroundings right? But what are these financial questions compared with tho inquiry as to wheth er you have been able to pay your debts to God; as to whether you are insured for eternity; as to whether you aro ruining yourself by the long credit sys tem of the soul? I have known men to have no more than one loaf of bread at a time, and yet to own a government bend of heaven worth more than the whole material universe. Gospel Truth. The question I ask you today is not in regard to your habits. I make no in quiry about your integrity or your chas tity or your sobriety. 1 do not mean to stand tin tho outside of the gate and ring the bell, but coming up the steps, I open the door and come to tho private apartment of the soul, and with the earnestness of a man that must give an account for this day’s work I cry out, Oh, man, oh, woman immortal, is thine heart right: I will not insult you by an argument to prove that wo are by nature all wrong. If there be a factory explosion and tho smokestack bo upset, and tho wheels be broken in two, and the engine unjoiuted, and tho ponderous bars bo twisted, and a man should look in and say that nothing was tho matter, you would pronounce him a fool. Well, it needs no acumen to discover that our nature is all atwist and askew and uu- joiuted. The thing doesn’t work right. The biggest trouble we have iu the world is with our souls. Men sometimes say that though their lives may not bo jnst right, their heart is all right. Im possible. A farmer never puts the poor est apples on tup of his barrel; nor does the merchant place the meanest goods his show window. The best part of jis is our outward life. I do not stop to liseuss whether we all fell in Adam, for we have been our own Adam, and have till eaten of tho forbidden fruit, and have been turned out of the paradise of holiness mid peace, and though tho flaming sword that stood at the gate to keep ns tmt lias changed position and comes behind to drive us in, wo will not go. Tho Bible account of us is not exag gerated when it says that we are poor and wretched and miserable and blind and naked. Boor! The wretch that stands shivering on our doorstep on a cold day is not so much in need of broad as we are of spiritual help. Blind ! Why, the man whose eyes perished in the powder blast, and who for these ten years has gone feeling his way from street to street, is not in such utter darkness as wo. Naked! Why, there is not one rag of hi linchH left to hide the shame of our sin. Sickl Why, the leprosy lias eaten into the head and tho heart and the hands and the feet, and the marasmns of an everlasting wasting away has al ready seized on some of us. Oar Need*. But tho meanest tiling for n man to do is to discourse about an evil without pointing a way to have it remedied. I speak of tho thirst of your hot tongue only that I may show you tho living stream that drops crystalline and spar kling from tho Rock of Ages and pours a river of gladness at your feet. If I show you tho rents iu your coat, it is on ly because the door of God's wardrobe now swings open, and hero is a robe, white with tho fleece of the Lamb of God, and of a cut and make that an angel would not be ashamed to wear. 'If 1 snatch from ym the black, moldy •»ad that you are munching, it is only Ve you the bread made out of the 'heat that grows on tho celestial bit. Naked in tho fires of the cross, and «, tumb of which would be tnough v ^0 all heaven n banquet Hear it, om 'Viill, and tell it to yo r friends whct» V go home, that the Lord Jesus vJbru 'u make the heart tight. / First we need a repenting heart If I for the last 10, 20 or 40 years of life wo have been going on in tho wrong wuy, it is time that we turned around and started in ti e opposite dnection. If we offend our friends, we are glad to apolo gize. God is our best friend, and yet bow many of us have never apologized for the wrongs we have done him I There is nothing that wo so much need to get rid of as sin. It is a horri ble black monster. It polluted Eden. It killed Christ. It has blunted the world. Men keep doge in kennels, and rabbits in u warren, uud cattle m a pen. What a nun that would be who would shut place give it No qr.ai t< r. t 'll. Juivti < him in his « cii in. sT' '.i 1 to L< or h in ' \ o • m a f re ve a v h A' c! struggle. He is yugo. T he wave i! most I f u i t'- nl. I." 1 1 Bat, inv friends, that i not the right 1 ind > f licait. No man t v.. did moan a thing toward us as \.t have done to ward God. And if we cannot forgive others how can we expect God to forgive us? Thousands of men have been kept Is thy .apart 1 i, ;>v 1111 h w ■ ti i this ill i ni t,ni' icstiou. Diyi.nnut that you will soon have to go that store, that you will soon can :? It i.S realize out of have to immortsi’s that tho Bst aro found, ami let tho F.tti pt-'b bouse riug with the mu sic and L. < .nice. They have some old wino in bcaveu, not used except in rare festivities. In thin world those who are accustomed to use wine on great occasions bring out the beverage and say, “This wine is 80 years old” or “40 years old. ” But tho wine of heaven is more than 18 centu ries old. It was prepared ut the time when Christ trod the winepress alone. When such grievous sinners as wo coma back, mothiuks the chamber lain of heav en cries out to the servants: “This is unusual joy! Bring up from tho vauHs of heaven that old wine. Fill all tho tankards. Let all the white robed guests drink to tho immortal health of those newborn sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. ’’ “There is joy in heav en among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth,” and God grant that that one may be yon 1 A Forgiving Heart. Again, to have a right heart it must be u forgiving heart. An old writer says, “To return good for evil is God like; good fur good in manlike; nvilfor good devilliko. ” Which of these natures have we? Christ will have nothing to do w ith us as long as we keep any o.d grudge. Wo have all been cheated ai d lied about. Thcroafo people who dislike us so lunch that if we should come down to poverty and disgrace they would say: “Good for him! Didn't I tell you so?” They do not understand us. Uu- snnetifled human nature says: “Wait out of heaven by an unforgiving heart. Here is some one who says: “I will forgive that man the wrong ho did me about that house and lot; 1 will forgive that man who overreached me iu a bar gain ; I will forgive that man who sold me a shoddy overcoat; I forgive them— all but one. That man I cannot forgive. The villain—I can hardly keep my hands off him. If my going to heaven depends on my forgiving him, then I will stay out.” Wrong feeling. If a man lie to me once I am not called to trust him again. If a man bejray me once I am not called to put confidence iu him again. But I would have no rest if I could not offer a sincere prayer for tho temporal and everlasting welfare of all men, whatever meannesses and out- | rage they have inflicted upon mo. If ! you want to get your heart light, strike a match and burn up all your oid grudges, and blow the ashes away, "if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly father for give yon your trespasses.” An old Christian black woman was going along tho stieets of New York with a basket of apples that she had for sale. A rough sailor ran against hur and upset the basket, and stood back expecting to hear her scold frightfully, but she stooped down and picked up the apples, nml said, “God forgive you, my sou, as I do. ” The sailor saw the meanness of what he had done, and felt iu his pocket for his money, and insist ed that she should take it all. Though she was black he called her mother, and said, “Forgive me, mother, I will nev er do anything so moan again.” Ah! there is a power iu u forgiving spirit to overcomo all hardness. There is no way of conquering men like that of bestow ing upon them your pardon, whether they will accept it or not. An Expectant Heart. Again, a right heart is an expectant heart. It is a poor business to be build ing castles in tho air. Enjoy what you have now. Don’t spoil year comfort iu the small house because you expect a larger one. Don’t net about your in come when it is 13 or $4 per day be cause you expect »o have after awhile $10 per day, or $10,000 a year because you expect it to be $20,000 u year. But about heavenly things, the more we think tho better. Those castles aro not iu the air, but on tho hills, and we have a deed of them in our possession. I like to see a man all full of heaven. He talks heaven. He sings heaven. Ho prays heaven. Ho dreams heaven. Some of us iu our sloop have had tho good place open to us. Wo saw tho pinnacles , iu tho sky. Wo heard the click of the | hoofs of the white horses on which vic- ! tors rode, and tho clapping of tho cym- ! bals of eternal triumph. And while in our sleep wo were glad that all our sor rows were over and burdens dune with, tho throne of God grew whiter and whiter and whiter, till wo opened our i eyes and saw that it was only the sun ! of earthly morning shining on our pil low. To have a right heart yon need to be tilled with this expectancy. It would make your privations and annoyances more bearable. In tho midst of the city of Paris stands a statue cf the good but broken hearted Josephine. I never imagined that marble could bo smitten into such tenderness. It seems not lifeless. If tho spirit of Josephine be disentaberuacled, the soul of the empress has taken pos session of this figure. I am not yet sat isfied that it is stone. The puff of the press on the arm seems to need but the dressme of tho 1'nger to indent it. The figures at tho bottom of the robes, the rufilo at the neck, the fur lining on the dress, the embroidery of the satin, the cluster of lily and leaf and rose in her hand, tho poise of her body us she seems to como sailing out of the sky, her face calm, humble, beautiful, but yet sad— attest the genius of tho sculptor and the beauty of tho heroine lie celebrates. Looking up through the rifts of thocoro- net that encircles her brow, I could see tho sky beyond, the great heavens where all woman’s wrongs shall bo righted, and the story of endurance and resignation shall ho told to all tho ages. Tho rose and tho lily iu tho hand of Jo sephine will never drop their petals. Believe not tho recent slanders upon her memory. Tho children of God, whether they suffer on earth iu palaces or in hovels, shall como to that glorious rest. O heaven, sweet heaven, ut thy gate wo set down all our burdens uud griefs! The place will be full. Hero there are vacant cha rs at the hearth and ut the table, hut there are no vacant chairs in heaven. The crowns all wont; the thrones all mounted. Uomo talk of heaven as though it were u very hand some church, where a few favored spir its would come in and sit down on fine ly cushiom 1 seats all by themselves and sing psalms to all eternity. No, no! “1 saw it gi at multitude that no man could number standing before tbo throne. Ho that talked with mo had a golden reed to measure the city, and it was 12,000 furl,ngs”—that is, 1,600 miles —in circumference. Alt! heaven Is not a little cob ny at one corner of God's dominion, where • man's entrance de pends upon what kind of clothes he has on his back and how much mone^ he has iu his ] irse* but u vast empire. 4God grant that the light of that blessed world may shine upon us in our lust moment 1 The first time I crossed the •Atlrmtio tho roughest time we hud was at the mouth of Liverpool harbor. Wo urri-ved at nightfall and were obliged to lie there till tho moruiug, waiting for the rising of the tide, boforo we could go tip to tho ci How tho vessel pit^ht'd uud writhed iu the water I bo suene* resign that partnership, that soon among all the millions of dollars’ worth of goods that aro sold you will not have the handling of a yard of cloth, or a pound of sugar, or a penny worth of any tiling; that soon, if a conflagration should start at Central park and sweep everything to the Battery, it would not disturb yon; that soon, if every cashier should abscond and every insurance company should fail, it would not affect you? What are the questions that stop this side the grave, compared with the questions that reach beyond it? Are you making losses that are to bo everlasting? Aro you making purchases for eterniiy? Are you jobbing for time when yon might bo wholesaling for eternity? What ques* : ou of tho store is so broad at tho base, and so altitndinous, and so overwhelming as the question, “Is thy heart right?” Or is it a domestic question? Is it something about father or mother or companion or son or daughter, that you think is comparable w ith this question in importance? Do you uot realize that by universal and inexorable law all these relations will bo broken up? Your father will bo gone, your mother will be gone, yo^r companion will be gone, your child will bo gone, yon will be gone, and then this supernal question will begin to harvest its chief gains, or deplore its worst losses, roll up into its mightiest magnitude or sweep its vast circles. What difference now does it make to Napoleon III whether he triumphed or surreu.leied at Sedan, whether ho lived at the Tuileries or at Cliiselhurst, whether he was emperor or exile? Thev laid him u iu Ins cofliu in tho dress of a field marshal. Did that give him any belter ihauce for tho next world than if ho had been laid out in a piu u shroud? And soon to us what will oe tho difference, whether in this world wo rude or walked, were bowed to or maltreated, were applauded or hissed at, were welcomed iu or kicked ouj, while laying hold of every moment of the great future, and burning in all the splendor or grief, and overarching and undergoing all time and all eternity, is tho plain, simple, practical, thrilling, agonizing, overwhelming question, “Is thy heait right?” Have you within you u repenting heart, an expectant heart? If not, I must write upon your^ soul what George Whitefield wrote up on the window pane with his diamond riug. Ho tarried iu an elegant house over night, but found that there was no God recognized iu that house. Before he left liis room in tho morning, w‘ i his ring ho wrote upon the window pane, “Ouo .hiug thou lackest. ” After tho guest was gone the housewife came and 1 joked at tho window, and saw the inscription, and called her husband and her childroji, and God, through that ministry of the window glass, brought them all to Jesus. Though you may tn- day be surrounded by comforts and lux uries, and feel that you have need of nothing, if you are not the children of God, with tho signet riug of Christ’s love, let me inscribe upon your souls, “Ouo thing thou lackest 1” -I?-' Erysipelas Hts been mv afSiction from ciii : ”.ood. It vrns cniiB d by impure i t aim every < / ure » t- g spell f n « r a 1 J v.T'idd give v.a>. rooters did it c> l t l: tl3 good and J bccar.e de spondent. Last spring erysipelas settled in my eyes and I became total- ly * or Bevera l tI ASaaiHaWsX .1 weeks. Hood’a Sar saparilla was recommended and after tak ing one bottle my sight gradually returned, my blood became purified and I was restored to good health. With Hood’s Sar saparilla ouo is well armed to meet any foe.” Miss Lulu Leu, 144 Market St., Memphis. Tenn. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the Only True Blood Purifier promi nently in the public eye. fl; six for *>. Hno/J’c Pillc eiire all liver ills, I IPous- IHJOU b r Ills ness, tieulaelie*. r-- R. S. LIPSCOMB, * ‘ • il 1 '! Merchandise Broker And Dealer ia The Celebrated No. f Weheler & Wilson Sewing HachinM. Needles and attachment! for •U different makes of machines. Office over R. A. Jones’ store. It’s the Talk Based on facts that your dollar will buy more Groceries at Webster’s than at any other store In town. My stock of Fine Candies is up-to-date. Yours for business. W. M. Webster, Jr. ’uly ig, 1895. A Wise Investment. A policy of insurance in such com panies as the iFtna, Home, Hartferd, American Fire and Pennsylvenle to protect your home and business frsss ioss and damage by fire is a wins 1*- vestment. I shall be glad to furnish such pro tection at any time. Call before im- suring. 1^. O. crTiYCY. 100 PROOF Corn Whiskey. 100 -)'o(- I WILL furnish 100 proof Cor* 1 Whiskey in quantities of 4 galleag and 3 quarts at $1.40 per gallon a?4 upwards. Address. J. P. DELLINGER, Dellingers, N. C. Turnip Seed! Fine Assortment!!! W. B. DuPRE, •hone 21, ISisrlit Call 4-7—2 Iting-H. Heart Disease 30Yrs! Short Breath, Palpitation. Mr. G. W. McKinsev, postmaster of Kokomo, lud., and a brave ex-soldier, says: “I had been severely troubled with heart disease ever since leaving the army at the close of the late war. I was troubled with palpitation and shortness of breath. I could not sleep on my left side, and had pair, around my heart. I became so ill that I was much alarmed, and for tunately my attention was called to Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure I decided to try it. The first bottle made a decided improvement in my condition, and five bottles have com pletely cured me.” O. W. McKINSEY, P. M., Kokomo, Ind Hr. Milos Hoart Curo Is sold on a positive cuarantoo that tho first bottle will benefit. AildruitglstssulMtatSl, 6 bottles for #5. or i! will boBont. prepaid, on roeylpt of price by tbo Dr. Milos Modical Co, Likbart. ind. Valnable City Lots For Sale. j^c^-ooD 6uyN£.5<; IDEA. /Vci M lyjuiw SHOE. I^nI 'ou jor 90 3*^ by hv'jwg t Sjfey Top SAL?- AT C. I_,I I >JVI I CLOSE OUT THE ENTIBE remnant of my stock of Straw A/I I I Hats, Ladies’ Oxford ties and IL#L* Summer Dress Goods an pncM ^wer than you have ever had. The best lin# f saddles in town, just opened up, at price® om $3.50 to $15. A big lot of double and ngle barrel Shot Guns, Pistols of all makee, artridges of all kinds and calibres always on and. Respectfully, J. N. Lipscomb. AM goods delivered town. [,IMF,STORE * SPRINGS * LIME * VORU, CARROLL 3t CO., Lessees. Manufacturers of BUILDING, * PLASTERING * AND * AGRICULTURAL * LIU, And Dealers In Coal, Shingles, Laths and Plaster Hair. Dymamite, Blasting Powder, Fuse and Dynamite Caps. lot on Limestone Ave., wit 1 ndid o room cottage and goo buildings. One SJ)li out (>ne lot in west end with splendid room col I are. v i< e nice building lots near cott< mill. mo excellent lot at Limesto springs. liree room house and lot, wohJ ei For terms apply to F. G. STACY. Cut Pricss At J. I. Sarratts. I M now offering my entire stock at prices that will sell to an jobs wanting goods. Gents’ low cut shoes 80c, Ladies (»0c, Childs 60s and up. Men’s suits, new goods $2.50 and tip, Pants 40c and up. Caf- foefitbg for $1. Sugar. Rice, Ten. Lard. Meat. Flour, and Tobies* at BOTTOM PRICKS. California Hums He. Dove brand 9e. Monsvits tools, such as Shovels. Spades, Mattock*. Picks. Ac , cheaper thin say one in town. A few Straw Hats h fl at New York cost. Gent’s shirls Ifigc and up. Suspenders 5c and up. Giv nit* a eull win n in tuws. Respectfully, J- i- A. I* I* .X I I