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‘THEGREAT LAWSUIT. A SERMON DRAWN FROM SCENES IN THE COURTROOM. It Appearn Kcv. Dr. Taliu: c* Orcr* ■tu<He<l Lev.-, bar When thn World Lout m Orrat Advocato It Gained a Greater Freachcr. Washington, Aug. 1C.—The illustra tions of this sermon are drawn from tho ■rones in a courtroom, with which Dr. Tahnago became familiar when ho was studying law, before he studied for tho ministry. Tho text is I John ii, 1, “Wo have an advocate with tho Father, Jesus Christ, tho righteous. ” Standing in a courtroom, you say to yourself, “At this bar crime has often been arraigned; at this witness stand tho oath has often been taken; at this jurors’ bench the verdict has been ren dered; at this judge’s desk sentence has boon pronounced. ” But I have to toll you today of a trial higher than any oyer and terminer or circuit or supremo or chancery. It is tho trial of every Christian man for tho life of his soul. This trial is different from any other in the fact that it is both civil and crimi nal. The issues at stake are tremendous, and I shall in my sermon show you first what are the grounds of complaint, then who are tho witnesses in tho cause and lastly who are the advocates. When a trial is called on, the first thing is to have tho indictment read, Stand up then, O Christian man, and hear the indictment of the court of high heaven against thy soul. It is an indict^ ment of ten counts, for thou bast di* rectly or indirectly broken all the Ten Commandments. You know how it thundered on Sinai, and when God came down how the mountain rocked, and the smoko ascended as from a smoldering furnace,and the darkness gathered thick, juid tho loud, deep trumpet uttered tho words, “Tho soul that siniicth, it shall die!” Are you guilty or not guilty? Do pot put in a negative plea too quick, for I have to announce that ‘ ‘all have sinned and come short of tho glory of God, There is uono that doeth good; no, not one. Whosoever shall keep tho whole Jaw, yet offend in one point, ho is guilty of nil.” Do not, therefore, bo too hasty In pronouncing yourself not guilty, A Drokcn Contract, Tlds lawsuit before us also charges you with I ho breaking of a solemn com tract. Many a time did wo promiso to bo tho Lord’s. Wo got down on our knees and said, ‘ ‘O Lord, I am thine now and forever.’^ Did you keep tho promise? Have you stood up to tho eon* tract? I go hack to your first commu nion, You remember it as well ns if it wore yesterday. Yon know how tho vision of tho cross roso before yon. You remember how from tho head, and tho hands, and tho side, and tho feet there came bleeding forth these two words, “Remember me. ” You recall how tho cup of communion trembled in your hoiud when you first took it, and as in a Konshell you may hear, or think you hoar, tho roaring of tho surf even after the shell has been taken from the beach, so you lifted tho cup of communion, and you heard in it the surging of the great ocean of a ,Saviour’s agony, and you came forth from that communion scry- ice with face shining as though you had been on tho mount of Transfiguration, and the very air seems tremulous with tho love of Jesus, and tho woods, and tho leaves, and tho grass, and tho birds were brighter and sweeter voiced than ever before, and you said down in tho very depths of your soul, “Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that Ilovothcc. ” Havo you kept the bar gain, O Christian man? Have yon not sometimes faltered when yon ought to havo been true? Havo you not been proud whru you ought to have been humble? Havo yon not played the cow ard when you ought to have been tho hero? I charge it upon you, and I charge it upon myself—wo havo broken tho contract. Still further, this lawsuit claims damages at your hands. Tho greatest slander on tho Christian religion is an inconsistent professor. The Bible says religion is ono thing; we, by our incon sistency, say religion is sonio other thing, and what is moro deplorable atxmt it is that people can see faults in others while they cannot seo any in themselves. If yon shall at any time find tome iniserablo old gossip, with imperfections from tho crown of her head to tho solo of her foot, a perfect blotch of rin herself, she will go trut- tliug, tattling, tattling all the years of her life about tho inconsistencies of others, having no idea that she is incon sistent herself. God savo the wojld from the gossip, female and male! I think the males are tho worst! Now the char iot of Christ’s salvation goes on through tho world; but it is our inconsistences, my brethren, that block up the wheels, while nil along tho lino there ought to havo tieen east nothing hut palm branches, nud tho shout should have been lifted, “Hosanna to tho Won of David!” Now you have heard tho indictment read. Are you ready fo plead guilty or not guilty? Perhaps you are not ready yet to plead. Then the trial will go on. Tho witnesses will be called, and wo shall havo tho matter deeided. In tho name of God I now make proclamation: Oyoz! Oycz! Oyez! whosoever hath any thing to offer iu this trial in which God is tho plaintiff and the Christian soul the defendant, let him now step forth and give testimony in this solemn trial. Call the WltneRM*. Tho first witness I call upon tho stand in behalf of the prosecution is tho World—all critical and observant of Christian character. You know that there are people around you who per petually banquet on tho frailties of God's children. You may know, if you have lived in tho country, that a crow cares for nothing so much as carrion. There are those who imagine that out of tho faults of Christians they cau make n bridge of boats across the stream Of death, and they are going to try it ' i THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., AUGUST 20, 1896. 3 But alas for the mistake! When they get midstream away will go tho bridge and down will go their souls to perdi tion. 6 world of the greedy eye and the hard heart, come on the stand now and testify in liehalf of the prosecution against this Christian soul on trial. What do yon know about this Christian man? “Oh,” says the world, “I know a great deal about him. He talks about putting his treasures in heaven, but he is the sharpest man in a trade I ever know. He seems to want ns to believe that he is. a child of God, but he is just full of Imperfect ions. I do not know but I am a great deal better than lie is now. Oftentimes ho is very earthly, and he talks so little about Chrisi and so much about himself. I am very glad to testify that this is a bad man.” Stop, O world with the greedy eye and hard heart. I fear you are too much interested in this trial to give impartial evidence. Let till tJio.se who hear the testimony of this witness know that there is an old family quarrel between those two parties. There always has been a variance between the world and the church, and while the world on tho witness stand today has told a great deal of truth about this Christian man, you must take it all with much allow ance, remembering that they still keep the old grudge good. O world of tho greedy rye and the hard heart, that will do; yon may sit down. The second witness I call in this case is conscience. Who art thou, O eon- science? What is your business? Where were you born? What are you doing here? “Oh,’’says conscience, “I was born iu heaven. I came down to be friend this man. I have lived with him. I havo instructed him. I have warned him. I showed him the right and tho wrong, advising him to take the ono and eschew the other. I have kindled a great light in his soul. With a whip of scorpions I havo scourgi d his wicked ness, nud I have tried to cheer him when doing right, and yet I am com pelled to testify on tho stand today that ho has sometimes rejected my mission. Oh, how many cups of life have I pressed to his lips that he dashed down, and how often has he stood with his hard heel on the bleeding heart of tho yon of God! It pains me very much that I have t<> testify against this Chris tian man, and yet I must, in behalf of him who will in no wise clear tho guilty, say that this Christian man has done wrong He has been worldly. Ho has been neglectful. Ho has done a thousand things he ought not to have done and left undone, a thousand things he onght to have done,” That will do, conscience. You can sit down. Important Testimony, The third witness I call in the case is an angel of God, Bright and shining one, what docst thou Lore? What hast thou to say against this man on trial? “Oh,” says tho angel, “I haw been a messenger to him. I have guarded him. I have wntclml him. With this wing I have def< nded him, and oftentimes, when he knew it not, I led him into green pastures and beside the still wa ters. I snatched from him the poisoned chalices. When bad spirits came upon him to destroy him, I fought them back with infinite fierceness, and yet I have to testifj' today that ho had rejected my mission. Ho has not done us he ought to have done. Though I came from the sky, he drove me back. Though with this wing I defended him and though with this voice I woord him, I have to announce his multiplied imperfections. I dare not keep back the testimony, for then I should not dare to appear again amongst the sinless ones before the great white throne, ” There is only erne mere witness to be called on behalf of the prosecution, and that is the great, the holy, the august, tho omnipotent Spirit of God. Wc bow down before him. Holy Spirit, knowest thou this man? “Oh, yes,” pays the Holy One, “I know him. I have striven with him 10,000 times, and, though sometimes he did seem ton pent, he fell back again as often from his first estate. Ten thousand times 10,000 has he grieved me, although the Bible warned him, saying: ‘Grieve not tho Holy Ghost. Quench not the Spirit.’ Yes, ho lias driven me back. Though I am the third person of the Trinity lie has tram pled on my mission, and tho blood of the atonement that I brought with which to cleanse his soul he sometimes despised. I came firm the throne cf God to convert and comfort and sancti fy, and yet look at that man and see what he is compared with what, unre sisted, I would have made him.” Tho evidence on tho part of tho prose cution has closed. Now let the defense bring on the rebuttal testimony. What have you, O Christian soul, to bring iu reply to this evidence of tho world, of the conscience, of the angel and of tho Holy Ghost? Nocvidence? Are all these things true? “Yes. Unclean, unclean,” says every Christian soul. What? Do you not begin to tremble at the thought of condemnation? Suiuiulu); (Tp. Wo have come now to tho most inter esting part of this great trial. Tho evi dence all in, the. advocates speak. Tho profession of an advocate is full of re sponsibility. In England and the United States there have arisen men who in this cMling have been honored \y their race and thrown contempt upon those who iu the profession have been guilty of a great many meannesses. That profes sion will he honorable us long ns it has attached to it such names as Mansfield and Marshall and Story and Kent and Southard and William Wirt. Tho court room has sometimes been tho scene of very marvelous and thrilling things. Some of you remember the famous Gi rard will ease, where one of our advo cates pleaded the cause of tin* Biblo and Christianity iu masterly Anglo-Saxon, every paragraph a thunderbolt. Some of you have read of the famous trial in Westminster hall of Warren Hastings, (lie desjtoiler of India. That great man hud conquered India by splen did talents, by <outage, by bribes, by gigantic dishonesty. The whole world had rung with applause or condemna tion. Gathered iu Westminster hall, a place iu which 50 kings had been in augurated, was me of the most famons audiences ever gathered. Foreign min isters and primes sat there. Peers marched in, clad in ermine and gold. Mighty men and women from all lands looked down upon tho scene. Amid all that pomp and splendor aid amid an excitement such as has seldom been seen in any courtroom Edmund Burko ad vanced in a speech which will last as long as tho English language, conclud ing with this burning charge, which made Warren Hastings cringe and cow er: “I impeach him in the name of the commons house of parliament, whoso trust lie has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whoso ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whoso country he has turned into a des ert. And, lastly, in the name of human nature, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every ago and rank, I im peach him as (ho common enemy and oppressor of all. ” But I turn from the recital of these memorable occasions to a grander trial, and I havo to rell you that in this trial of the Christian, for tho life of his soul, the advocates are mightier, wiser and more eloquent. The evidence all being in, severe and stern Justice rises on be half of tho prosecution to make his plea. With the Bible open in his hand he reads the law, stern and inflexible, and the penalty, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” Then ho says: “O thou Judge and Lawgiver, this is thine own statute, and all the evidence in earth and heaven agrees that the man has sinned against these enactments. Now let the sword leap from its scabbard. Shall a man go through the very flames of Sinai unsinged? Let the law be ex ecuted. Let judgment be pronounced. Let him die. I demand that he die!” O Christian, does it not look very dark for thee? Who will plead on thy side in so forlorn a cause? Sometimes a man will be brought into a court of law, and he will have no friends and no money, and the judge will look over the bar and say, “Is there any one who will volunteer to tako this man’s case and defend him?” And some young man rises up and says, “I will be his counsel,” perhaps starting on from that very poinMo a great and brilliant ca reer. Now, in this matter of the soul, us you have nothing to pay for counsel, do you think that any one will volun teer? Yes, yes; I see one rising. Ho is a young man, only IL'l years of age. I seo his countenance suffused with tears and covered with blood, and all the galleries of heaven are thrilled with the spec tacle. Thanks be unto God, “we have an advocate with tho Father, Jesus Christ tho righteous.” O Christian soul, your case begins to look bitter - . I think, perhaps, after all, you may not have to die. The best advocate in the universe has taken your side. No one was ever so qualified to defend you. He knows all the law, all its demands, all its penalties. He is al ways ready. No new turn of tho ruse can surprise him, and he will plead for you for nothing as earmstly as though you brought a world < f treasure to his feet. Besides that, he has undertaken the case of thousands who were as for lorn as yon, and ho has never lost a rase. Courage, O Christian soul! I think that, after all, there may be some chance for yon, for th»* great advocate rises to make his plea. He says: “I ad mit all that has been proved against my client. I admit ail these sins, aye, more; but look at that wounded band of mine and look at that other wounded hand, and at my right foot and at my left foot. By all these wounds I plead for his clearance. Count all the drops of my tears. Count all the drops of my blood. By the humiliation < f Bethle hem, by the sweat of Gcthscmane, by tho sufferings of tho cross, 1 demand that he go free. On this arm he hath leaned; to this heart he hath flown; in my tears ho hath washed; on my right eousness he hath depended. Let him go free. 1 am the ransom. Li t him escape the lash; I took the scourgings. Let tho cup pass from him; I drank it to tho dregs. Put on him the crown i f life, for I have worn the crown of therns. Over against my throne <f shame set his throne of triumph!” The Judgment. Well, the counsel on both sides havo spoken, and there is only one moro thing now remaining, and that is tho awarding of tho judgment. If you have ever been in a courtroom, you know tho silence and solemnity when the verdict is about to be rendered or the judgment about to be given. About this soul on trial—shall it be saved or shall it he lost? Attention, above, around, beneath! All the universe cries, "Hear, hear!” Tho Judge rise s and gives this de cision, never to be changed, never to be revoked: “There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus. ” Thu Hon I dirt on Jchum Lath leaned for ropoao I will not, I will not, desert to Ids foes. That Hold, thorn'll all hell bhould endeavor to Hhake, I’ll never; no, never; no, never, forsake. But, jny friends, there is reining a day of trial in which not only the saint, but tho sinner, must appear. That day of trial will come very suddenly. Tho farmer will bo at the ]Mow, the mer chant will be iu the counting room, tho woodman will be ringing his ax on tho hickories, tho weaver will have his foot on tho treadle, the manufacturer will be walking amid the buzz of looms and the clack of flying machinery, the coun sel may be at the bar pleading the law, the minister may be in the pulpit plead ing the gospel, tho drunkard may bo reeling amid bis cup* and tbe blasphem er with tho oath caught between bis teeth. Lo! Tho sun hides. Night romes down at niidnoon. The stars appear at noon today. The earth HhutliUrs and throbs. There an earthquake opens, and u city sinks as n crocodile would crunch a child. Mountains roil in their sockets and send down their granite cliffs iu avalanche of rock. Rivers pause iu their chase for the sea, and ocean, tiprcaring, cries to flying All* and Himalaya. Beasts bellow and moan and snuff up the darkuesa Clouds fly like fioeks of swift eagles. Great thunders beat and boom and buret, fctars short and fall. Tlie Almighty, rising on his throne, do- i elans that time shall be no longer, and the archangel’s trump repeats it till all the living hear and the continents of 1 d< ad spring to tin ir feet, crying, “Time shall be no longer! - ’ Oil, on that day j will you be ready? I have shown yon how well the Chris tian will get off in his trial. Will you gi’t off as we ll in your trial? Will Christ plead ou your side or against you? Oh, what will you do in the last gn at assizo if your conscience is against you, and the world is against you, and the angels of heaven are against you, and the Holy Spirit is against you, and tin* Lord God Almighty is against your Better this day secure an Advocate. SlinkcHpcare and the Color Srnae. I have selected Shakespeare's “Son nets - ’ as his most personal utterance and “Venus and Adonis” as a charac teristic youthful poem, avoiding tho plays, in which the coloring might bo held to be largely of tho scene painting order. I believe this selection is fairly comparable with Marlowe’s work. Tho “Sonnets” give very different results from the longer poem. They are much severer iu color, black and yellow pre dominating, while in “Venus and Adonis” there is a profusion of red and white, with very little blac k er yellow. It iseaiy to gain a view of Shakespeare’s color generally by turning to a good concordance such as Schmidt's “Shakes peare Lexicon.” He appears, speaking roughly, to use red epithets about SO times to 50 times that he uses green, if we exclude numerous eases in which ho uses green without any referenco to color. Shakespeare's use cf color is very cx- | trnvagant, symbolical, often contra- ! dictory. lie plays with color, lays it on to an impossible thickness, uses it in utterly unreal senses to describe spirit ual facts. Colors si cm to become color less algebraic formulas in his hands. It may safely be said that no great poet ever uso 1 the colors i f the world so dis dainfully, making them the playthings of a mighty imagination, only valuing them for the emphasis they may give to the shape s of his own inner vision. In his use iff color Shakespeare licars wit ness to his belief in Prospero’s philos ophy anTl counts the external world ns hut a gay, insubstantial fabric, a moro Japanese house set up over a volcano, and though ho sums well pleased to live there, ho is sometimes tempted to thrust his fist through tho walls.—Con temporary Review. larto French Dm per or. There never was a more amiable man in private life than the Em pm r Napo leon III or one more absolutely unpre tending. His constant gentleness, bis unvarying, patient kindness, were only too much preyul upon by many of those around him, but he was certainly deep ly loved by all who were in habitual personal contact with him—mere loved than was the Empress Eugenie, not- withstanding her i ersennl charms. She was extremely good uatnred, thorough ly natural, devoid if haughtiness (a great merit in such a position), hut im pulsive and hot tempered, too sineere, too straightforward, to conceal lar va rying impressions, withal fuueit'nl and tenacious in her fancies, which often ir ritated those who had to yield to her wishi s despite difficulties and inconven ience. “Ono of the empress’whims,” was often the comment of her attend ants, down to tin - domestic servants of the palace. The empt ror, always quiet, and even npathotie, disturbed no one, but if an appeal were made to Lis feelings ho could not resist. Ihere was a sort of tenderhearted, sentimental softness iu his nature which mailed the “sensibil ity” ef bygone days probably inherited from his mother, Queen Hortonse. This often led him astray and is the real ex planation of many errors. He was far from being deliberately false, as lias been so often asserted; but, unfortu nate]}', lie was more a man of feeling than a man of principle. This led to weakness and vacillation, though, like many others whose natures are too yield ing, when he had finally taken a deci sion, he was firm even to obstinacy.— “Life In the Tuileries,” by Anna L. Bicknell. I’cuKlot'H For Fnglish !M inWtrrH. Has a minister anything to look for ward to on retiring from office? An ex lord ihancollir of England receives £5,000 a year, hut iu consideration of the pension contilinos to act as a law lord. An ex-lord elniueellor of Ireland gets as much as £"1,020 Cs. Id., tho penny, like the more substantial re mainder if the pension, being duly paid quarterly iu farthings. Four pensions of £2,000 each may bo grantid to as many ex-ministers who for not less than four years have h* on either ono op other of the five principal secretaries of state or first lord of tho admiralty, and four more pensions of £1,200 each may be granted to ex-ministers who havo filled for not less than six yciffS an oflieo of loss than £5,000 but not loss than £2,000 jht annum. An applicant for ono of these pen sions. which wore created by the polit ical office pensions act of must make a declaration that it is nei:essary for his supi>ort. The benefits of the act have been taken advantage of by alxmt ten ex-ministers. If tho holder of one of these pensions for political and civil services should he again appointed to offier with salary, ho is not entitled to draw tho pension while ho is in the ministry.—Chambers’ Journal. Tliti llegimiliii; of tlifi F.ntl. Something whizzed through tho air | at a distance of about ton foot from the head of William the Conqueror. “Was that an arrow?” asked the monarch. “It went rather tm wide for a nar row,’’ said the court jester, and from that moment his office began to ione iu importance and respectability.—Indi anapolis Journal A SILO IN A DARN. InexpdiiKlvc, FfHelmf n:xl T'asflT CojiRtnirt- eft In » Day l-y Two Men. The silo was circular in shape and built of pine staves six inches wide and two inches thick, which had been beveled at the mill for tho purpose. The foundation was of concrete, and upon this the staves were sot. Tho circular form was obtained by simply nailing barrel staves on the outside to hold them in place until the hoops could be put on. The use of barrel staves in this manner saved tho making of a frame j around which to build the silo. Tho hoops or bauds should be of gal- ! vanized iron, the size being about one- half inch in diameter, and these should be put on at a distance of 3 to VJ.j feet 1 rrfll Devlt'o From K*obm. Her: - is a device that will take tho lice off the farmers’ hogs when ho is xoand asleep. Drive a stake in the ground, wrap an old r o p o around the stake and tack with ^ sli ingle nails. Saturate the rojie with equal parts of coal oil and lard once a week. Drive the stake mar tho hogs’ Foil Tith il.Hjs (om— Hlocping quar- |rouT- tors. This is so yffirtual that the hogs will stand in line waiting their turn. At h ast this what a Kansas farmer assures The Farm Journal. BIMI'LE, WEt.I. I.ONSTKl CTF.n SII.O. apart, one being placed within 18 inches of the top and bottom of the silo. The method of keeping these bands tight and of taking up the slack due to the shrinkage of the staves is a very simple one. Pieces of well seasoned oak, 4 by 4 inches by about 4 feet long, have holes bored through them for the iusoi tiou of the hoops. Large nuts with wash ers are put on the ends of the hoops, and then by simply tightening these nuts the silo can ho kept tight, and as shrink age progresses the slack can Ih> taken up. If when the silo is filled the moisture causes the staves toswi 11, we may loosen the nuts and prevent anything from breaking. To hold the staves in place during tlje summer when the silo may be empty ono may use largo staples such as are employed in the const met ion of barb wire fence. These staples should be driven in so that they will overlap the crack, one prong Ixdng inserted in one stave, the other prong being inserted in the adjoining stave. The doors may be constructed iu the following manner: Pieces similar to the felly of a wagon wheel are nailed to tin outside of the silo between the bauds; then with a saw set at a Li vid the ifixe is sawed out so that it can Is- removeo only from the inside. A space three feet wide v ill usually lx> found large enough for the dix>r. The cut made by the saw at each end will permit the insertion of a piece of tarred paper when ho dixir is put in place. The sides of the door may lx - planed off slightly so that paper may be put in to make the opening airtight. All the doors needed would probably be secured by cut ting out the spare between every sec ond hoop. A silo .80 feet high and 20 loot in diameter would ho.d about 188 tons of ensilage. Country Gentleman, nv.thrnty for the foregoing illustrated description, tells that this silo was set up in one day by two men. V.'lmlrowod Knesr Cano. W. C. Stubbs, director of tho Louisi ana station, in an article on vindrowed versus standing cane, gives tho results of three years’ wink iu comparing early cut, late cut nnd windrnwod sugarcane, with a view to ascertaining some inruns of prolonging the grinding season. When no frost occurred before the working of tin* windrowed and lute cut canes, windrowing resulted in a heavy loss both as to quality and quantity of crop. In the ahm nee of a forecast of an approaching freeze windrowing lx*fore the middle or last of December is re garded as icarcely justifiable. Wind- rowing just before a freeze is preferred to windrowing just after a freeze. After a hud killing freeze windrowing is pre ferred to leaving the cane standing, or, if expedient, topping should be prac ticed. After a splitting freeze windrow’- ing is not recommended. The usual method of windrowing cane intended for seed is not advised with rane for the mill. Partial hurtling iff afield of stand ing cane reduced the yield of sugar about 25 per cent A New Flow. A recent invention by n resident of Texas is a plow having a subsoil and harrow attachment, American Agricul turist lx lievis that iu the cotton grow ing states such an implement will be of value, as the immediate harrowing of the soil will act us a mulch iu the pres ervation of moisture. As to the Kutmoil attachment, that is a matter of minor importance as compared with that of the pulverization of tho surfaeo. TURNING GRAY AND TRUE A VINES WITH BALDNESS The Danger is Averted by Using JiAJHS H VtCQR “Nearly forty years ago, after some weeks of sickness, my hair turned gray and lagan falling out so rapidly that I was threati tied with immediate baldness. 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