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•?& i i ji ^ J'«'ii;ir»-n—S'lvo From Tom|itntion.
\2c\'* 1 ‘ ‘ ^ < :i n in My Aluy lie Avorfed l»y Itun-
about { il 0 j <2 niok A»vny From l-^vil.
lO' hea v y fcc,ing N Washington, ^prll S.-From an old
StOHUlcll, the kj j imo battle! stvne Dr. Talmage in this
/formation of ^as, the ^ j dbconisi- niakos ^OUH.- startling snggi’s-
nausca, sicH headache, [4 tii.ns a: to tlie iirst stylos of Christian
2nd general weakness of worlv and points lint tho roason of so |
tile whole body# Uliiuy [(iOUS iailurcs^ U‘Xt, JoiSllllcl Yin, i
f J You can’t have it a week 11 7 - “ Tbeu • sll!lil J« ,ise l u» the am- |
without your blood iSs «nd soizo upon tho city.”
1 being impure and your fJj l1 0liL ' S;:, I h:,,!l l ' v, ' nin - wiU 1 , I ! n - v fam - 1
2 nerves all exhausted, fj .. „ ’ , , , ..
r ^ 1 ^ tin* scone of tlie text. In tho wide open |
n There s just one remedy M t>yos !llul lh , , luit . k i Ut onogationa and i
ft Jj for you tho blanched chocks I realized what a :
^ thrilling drama it was. There is the !
V off flh ' (Aj i?s I edd city, shorter by name than an,,
jk nS®' wLEr M Tam oilier city in tlie ages, spelled with two j
n?. ‘* ij r. ,i^f I letters. A, I, Ai. Joshua and ids men
‘ i
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There’s nothing new
I about it. Your grand-
^Jj parents took it. ’Twas [>■
r 1 an Old Sarsaparilla before > j i camp in an ambush on the west side of
^ ] Other sarsaparillas were I -j ‘ the city of Ai. No torches, no lanterns,
A known. I: made the word Vi i s,r,n " 1 ^'Y.^ttaiions, i.m 30,-
! want to take it. How to do it is the ]
I (pa -Hon. On a former occasion, in a |
i st 1 aiglit 1 orurd, face to face tight, i
I they had been defeated, but now they j
! are going to lake it by ambuscade. Oeu- j
I end Joshua lias two divisions in bis
' nriny - . The one division tin* battle I
I worn commander will lead himself, i
the* other division he rends off to en-
“ Sarsaparilla ” famous
over tiie whole world.
There’s no other sarsa
parilla like it. In age and
y warriors moving in si- |
r <3 | lence, speaking only in a whisper; no I
ciicl.ing of swords against shields, lest |
I the walchmen of Ai discover it, and |
<1 i tlie stratagoin I o a failure. If the roist
aeiitisli army
j the line the* j
- ^ itnri *r 0 ci iiiLr MJidin 1 no i>i;i(*
power to cure, it s The fi , ", .
T , „ , 13 lorgets himself, all along t
leader of them ail. pi | U(1 ,,| is ••mi.-jH"
St.CJ a tiittli. Ai? dniggtsti. k j ; .b.sliua ta!;es the other division, the
Ayer’s Pills cure constipation. ^4 one with which lie is to march, and
After F'
?rribty I v. - as
IndiKM .! to try vour Sarsapa
took ti:r< • b-.t.'l-s and nov. n M l
a n<tw iijan. 1 cvoiiId ruivisc all n
feilowen-at.jr* s l<> try thi- r.iPdi' i
for it ha» s’ood tlio test of tiioe a
its curative power cannot be tx
4 celled.” l.U. fioon.
jfin. 30,1S39. Browntown, Va
1 ; ti
1 L
WrSie i!.* Ziocfar.
If von have any r .mph.h.t v.lntcvcr
anil il • the bv.t ninliral nlvlce j. Il
it on the north side of the city of
Ai and then spends the night in reeou-
uoitering in the valley. 'There lie is,
ini 1^' I lliiiiicing over the 1 1 ortlines *ii iho coni-
ing day with something of the feelings
of Wellington the night before Water-
la) or of .Meade and Leo the night be-
fo!0 (icttysburg. There he stands in
tiie night and says to himself: "Yonder
poa.'Kily r*'fmv*‘, writ• the f'ocior iL 4 .
iy. V )ii •..in r'M><?ive a prompt to- 1 i-. the division in ambush on tho west
ply, without r i t A'bl
J. c. ayk.’i, bowa'ii, Mass. jk^l | side of Ai. Here is the division I have
■.jx-ywiw-Ae--41 under inv e'lacnil couimaud on the
Dry K
lo.” Look! Tiie morning
ins to tip the liiiis. Tlie
eers of Ai look out in the
vy early, and, while they
Ik* division in amhusli, tliey
bcdiold the other divisions of Joshua.
Hie consisting ol . lU( , tho ( .,. y -To arms! To arms!" rings
Notions, Shoes, through all the streets of tlie old town.
Plain F ; acts.
St
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north tdi’t* i
Q
( ritnnhoriii^
i,t* tin* hut
t'lroady ho
O a
i.:ilit:ii-y ot:
fill V-
j liioi tilu;' vi
! do not kol* i
behold the
lints (trooTb s Shell’ !!;i!<!- and every sword, wiicthor hacked and
ware, and almost anything car- * H,llt 01 ‘ ut ‘"b' v-eidcd. is biought out.
. , . , ’ , and all tin* inhabitants of the city of
ried in a general store,as ehtaiM
. ’ * Ai pour through the gates, an intiniat-
as any liou-e ’it the city.
\\ lien in need of goods see
ipy prices.
. Yours to please,
I. M. PEELER.
ed torrent, and their cry is, “Como,
we'll make quick work with Joshua
and ids troop; !”
No sooner had those people of Ai
come out against the troops of Joshua 1
than Joshua gave such a cemmancl as
he seldom gave—‘"Fall back!’’ Why.
j they could not believe their own ears!
! Is Joshua’s courage failing him? The
J. Cpouoh \V ■ 11,Act. .1. eon.M.i.ies otts. | treat is bcatt-n, and the Israelites arc*
j cE Sc OTTS Hying, throwing blankets and canteens
j on every side under this worse than
LAWYERS. • Ihill Run defeat. And you ought to
All business bit rust eel to us. -iv.-n prompt p,..,,. n )e soldiers of Ai cheer and cheer
and vigorus m lent Ion. Ulliee up stairs, nc-xt | , , ■ .
to ll. A. Jones A Co 'Rhone *7. | and cheer, out they iiuzza too soon.
'Tlie men lying in ambush are straining
their vision to get some signal from
Joshua that they may know what time
to drop upon the city. Joshua takes
Ids burnished spear, glittering in the
sun like a shaft of doom, and points
it toward the city, and when the men
up yonder in the ambush see it with
j hawklike swoop tliey drop upon Ai
[ «cr! without stroke ot sword or r.tah
of spear take tlie city and put it to tin
JAMKfi A. WIIvlvI?*,
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Money to loan on Kt-ul Kslate,
Office over It. A. Jones A: «'o.’x store.
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iVt toi'no v ?-* -t ( I XV. torch.
So much for 1!i(* division that was in
j aiiibi sli. How about the division under
Joshua's command7 No sooner does
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Joshua stop in tho (light than all Ids
men stop with him, and as he wheels
they wheel, for in a voice of thunder
he cried “Halt!” otic* strong arm driving
back a torrent of (lying troops. And
then, ns lie points his spear through
the golden light toward that fated city,
Ids troops knew that they are to start
for it. What a scene it was when tin*
division in ambush which had taken
the city marched down against the
men of Ai on the one side, and the
tro- ps under Joshua doubled up their
enemies from the other side. Mud tlie
men of Ai were caught between these
two hurricanes of Israclitish courage,
thrust before and behind, stabbed in
breast and back, ground between the
upper and the net tier millstones of
'Hod’s indignation! Woe to the city of
Ai! Cheer for Israel!
Victorious Hctrcat.
Lessor.* the lirst: There Is such a
thing as victorious retreat. Joshua’s
falling back was the first chapter in
ids successful besiegeinont. And there
are times in your life when the best
tiling you can do is to run. Y’oti were
once tlie victim of strong drink. The
demijohn and the decanter were your
tierce foes. They came down upon you
with greater fury than the men of Ai
upon tlie men of Joshua. Your only
safety is to get away from them. Your
dissipating companions will come
] around you for your overthrow. Kim
Rutledge St. Smith Shop. ! lur > olir lit>: 1 ' : ‘ 11 ljack! khi hack
, from the drinking saloon! Fall back
can do your sliHlng. t m- M-itlng. wheel ., .... ....
oilimr. Veliieli-'. and imj,;, ii., mm r. paii d j fioia tlie wine party! Kmr flight m
and imintcd. I j your advance; your retreat is your vie-
W51111 E" : nd nludV'^| lory. There is a saloon down on the
next street that lias almost been tlie
ruin of your soul. Then why do you
go along that street? Why do you not
! pass through some other street rather
j than by tin* place of your calamity?
j A spoonful of brandy taken for medic
| inal purpeses by a man who ‘JO years
j before Inid been reformed from drunk
“iim s hurled into Inebriety iiud tit
grave one of the best friends 1 ever
hail. Ketrcat is victory!
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t urn Your K.icL on t iitn‘]l<-f.
lien* is a converted Inlidcl. He is so
, ) ctrong now in his faith in the gospel
^oes a general Banking and Lxchung# j |lt . bu ., s lic . CIU1 re!1( , aii v( | i!ll;; . v ^ at
iusiness. Woll secured with Burglar- i y, ' u i’*«li'>«ido!.* ?-t v
j I (Ilew .lack.son liuvis trwetsV Tyndall's
roof safe and Automatic Tin:*; Lock tilasgou i.nivi-rsiiy a<ldrc-s7 Drop
I them and run. You will be uu Infidel
\y Deposit Bon# at mo-ten,:# y, jU die m.h-.s a you quit that.
rent.
Buys and sells ritoeks amt Bond*
Buys County and ScliooJ Clainm.
Your business solicited.
These fueii of Ai will he too much for
you. Turn yotn bai-k on the rank ami
lilt* of unbel t f. i ly l loir tln-y cut
you w 11ii their t wonls tiud truusiix you
will) their javelins. 'There are people
who have been well nigh ruined be
cause they risked a foolhardy expedi
tion in the presence of mighty and
overwhelming temptations, and Hi**
men of Ai made a morning meal of
them.
So,jilso, there is victorious retreat In
tho religious world. Thousands of
times the kingdom of Christ has seem
ed to fall back. When the blood of the-
Scotch Covenanters gave a deeper dye
to the heather of the highlands, when
the Yaudols of France chose extermi
nation rather than make an unchris
tian surrender, when on St. Bartholo
mew’s day mounted assassins rode
through the streets of Paris, crying
“Kill! Bloodletting is good in August!
Kill! Death to tlie Huguenots! Kill!”
when Lady Jane (Jrey’s head rolled
from the executioner's block, when
Calvin was imprisoned in the castle,
when John Knox died for the truth,
when John Banyan lay rotting in Bed
ford jail, saying, "If God will help me
and my physical life continues, 1 will
stay here until the moss grows on my
eyebrows rather than give up my
faith,” the days of retreat for Hie
church were days of victory.
The pilgrim lathers fill back from
tiie oilier side of the sea to I’lymoulh
Kock, but now are marshaling a con
tinent for the Christianization of tiie
world. The church of Christ falling
back from Piedmont, falling back
from Kue St. Jacques, falling back
from St. Denis, falling back from Wurt-
temberg castles, falling back from the
Kruxi-.’s market place, yet all the time
triumphing. Notwithstanding all the
reverses which the church of Christ
suffers, what do we see today?
Twelve thousand missionaries of Hie
cross on heathen grounds; eighty thou
sand ministers of Jesus Christ in this
land; at least four hundred millions of
Christians on Hie earth. Falling back,
yet advancing until the old Wesleyan
hymn will prove true:
’J lip l.ion <-f JiiJali bliall break tlie chain
And i.ivc- us i;.i victory a^ain and aguini
But lln :e is a more marked illustra
tion of victorious retreat in the life of
our Joshua, tlie Jesus of the ages.
First falling back froni^ an appalling
height to an appalling depth, falling
from celestial hills to terrestrial val
leys, from throne to manger; yet that
did nut seem to suflice him as a re
in at. Falling back still farther from
Bethlehem to Nazareth, from Nazareth
to Jerusalem, back from Jerusalem to
Golgotha, back from Golgotha to tlie
mausoleum in tlie rod:, back down
over the precipices of perdition until he
walked amid the caverns of the eter
nal captives and drank of the wine
of the wrath of Almighty God, amid
the Ahnbs and the Jezebels and the
Belshazzars. Oh, men of the pulpit
and men of the pew, Christ’s descent
from heaven to cai th does not measure
half Hie distance! It was from glory
to pciiHtion. He descended into hell.
All the records of earthly retreat are
as nothing compared with this falling
bade. Santa Anna, with the fragments
of his army flying over the plateaus of
Mexico, and Napoleon and his at my re-
1 rout ing from .Moscow into the awful
sno.ws of Kus-ia are not worthy to be
mentioned with (his retreat, when all
tho powers of darkness seemed to be
pursuing t'lirist as he fell back until
the body of him who came to do such
wonderful things lay pulseless and
stripped. .Metliinks that the city of Ai
was not so emptied of its inhabitants
when they went to pursue Joshua as
perdition was emptied of devils when
they started for the pursuit of Christ,
ami he fell bad; and back, down lower,
down lower, chasm below chasm, pit
! i low pit, until he seemed to strike tlie
bottom of objurgation and scorn and
torture. Oh, the long, loud, jubilant
shout of hell at the defeat of tho Lord
God Almighty!
Triumph of (lie V. iohi-d In Short,
But let not tlie powers of darkness
rejoice quite so soon. Do you hear
Hint disturbance in the tomb of Arima-
thea? 1 hear tlie sheet rending! What
means that stone hurled down the side
of the hill? Who is this coming out?
Kush him back! The dead must not
stalk in this open sunlight. Oh, it is
our Joshua. Let him come out. Ho
comes forth and starts for tho city. He
takes the spear of the Katnan guard
and points that way. Church militant
marches up on one side, and the
church triumphant marches down on
tiie other side. And tlie powers of
darkness being caught between these
ranks of celestial and terrestrial valor
nothing is left of them save just
enough to illustrate the direful over
throw of hell and our Joshua’s eternal
victory. On his head be all tlie crowns.
In his hands bo all the sei-nter*. At
Ids feet be all the liumr: . --arts; and
here, Lord, is one of them.
Lesson tlie second: Tlie triumph of
tlie wicked is short. Did you ever see
an army in a panic? There Is nothing
so uncontrollable. If you had stood
fit Long bridge, Washington, during
the opening of our sad civil war, you
would know what it is to see an army
run. And when those men of Ai looked
out and saw those men of Joshua in a
stampede they expected easy work.
They would scatter them as the
equinox the leaves. Oh, tho gleeful
am! jubilant descent of the men of Ai
upon the men of Joshua! But their
exhilaration was brief, for the tide of
battle turned, and these quondam con
querors left their miserable carcasses
hi the wilderness of Bethaven. So il
always is. The triumph of the wicked
is short. You make .$30,000 at the gam
ing table. Do you expect to keep Iti
You will dli* in the poorhouse. Y'oii
make a fortune by iniquitous trallic.
Do you expect to keep it? Your mon
ey will scatter, or it will stay lonq
enough to curse your children ultt'i
you are dead. Call over the roll ot
bad men who prospered and see how
short was their prosperity. For awhile,
like the men of Ai, they went from
conquest to conquest, but after awhile
disaster rolled back upon them, and
they wore divided into three parts.
Misfortune took their property, (he
grave took their body and the lost
World took their soul. I am always
interested in the building of palaces
Of dissipation. I like to have them
built of Hu* best granite and have the
rooms made large and to have the pil
lars made very llrm. God Is going to
conquer them, and they will be turned
Into asylums and art galleries and
churches. 'Tlie stores in which fraud
lilcnt men do business, the splendid
hanking institutions where the presi
dent and cashier put all their property
In their wives’ hands and then fail for
.$;»(Si.(iihi, ail these Institutions are to
become tin* places where honest Chris
tian men do business.
How long wifi it take your beys to
gel through your ill g Men gains? Tho
I wicked do not live out half their days,
i For awhile they swagger and strut
and make a great splash In the news
papers. but after awhile it all dwindles
| down into a brief paragraph: “Died
j suddenly, April 8, 1900, at 35 years of
| age. Relatives and friends of the fam-
j lly are invited to attend the funeral on
j Wednesday at ‘J o’clock from his late
J residence on Madison square. Inter-
; meut at Greenwood or Oak Hill.”
Some of them jumped off the docks.
Some of them took prussic* acid. Some
of them fell under tho snap of a Der-
, ringer pistol. Some of them spent
i their days in a lunatic asylum. Where
! are William Tweed and his associates?
j Where are Keteham and Swartwout,
I absconding swindlers? Where are
j James Fisk, the libertine, and all the
J other misdemeanants? The wicked do
i not live out half their days. Disem-
i bogue, O world of darkness! Come
up, Hildebrand and Henry II and
Robespierre, and, with blistering and
| blaspheming and ashen lips, hiss out,
! “The triumph of the wicked is short.”
Lesson the third: How much may he
I accomplished by lying in ambush for
I opportunities. Are you hypercritical
| of Joshua’s maneuver? Do you say
| that it was cheating for him to take
that city by ambuscade? Was it wrong
for Washington to kindle campfires on
| Jersey heights, giving the impression
j to the opposing force that a great army
j was encamped there when there was
; none at all? 1 answer, if the war was
| right, then Joshua was right in his
j stratagem, lie violated no flag of
j truce. Ho broke no treaty, but by a
lawful ambuscade captured the city of
j Ai. Ob, that we all knew how to lie
j in ambush for opportunities to serve
God! The best of our opportunities do
not lie on the surface, but are secreted.
By tact, by stratagem, by Christian am
buscade, you may take almost any cas
tle of sin for Christ. Come up toward
men with a regular besiegeinont of ar-
! gument, and you will be defeated, but
just wait until the door of their hearts
j is set ajar, or they are off their guard,
j or their severe caution is away from
I homo, and then drop in on them from a
I Christian ambuscade. There lias been
j many a man up to Ids chin in scientific
i portfolios which proved there was no
Christ and no divine revelation, his
; pen a scimeter flung into the heart of
| theological opponents, who neverthe-
j less has been discomfited and captured
J for God by some little 3-year-old child
| who has got up and put her snowy
j arms around his sinewy nock and ask-
ul some simple question about God.
Oh, make a Hank movement! Steal a
march on the devil! Client that man
( into heaven! A $5 treatise that will
| stand all the laws of homiletics may
; fall to do that which a penny tract of
j Christian entreaty may accomplish,
i oh. for more Christians in ambuscade
1 —not lying in idleness, but waiting for
a quick spring, waiting until just tbe
| right time comes! Do not talk to a
■ man about the vanity of lids world on
i the day when he has bought some
thing at “13” and is going to sell it at
“15.” But talk to him about the van
ity of the world on the day when he
has bought something at “15” and is
compelled to sell it at “12!” Do not
rub a man’s disposition the wrong
way; do not take the imperative moo'd
when the subjunctive mood will do
Just as well; do not talk in perfervld
style to a phlegmatic nor try to tickle
a ton-id temperament with ail icicle.
You can take any man for Christ if
you know how to get at him. Do not
send word to him that tomonow at 1(J
o’clock you propose to open your bat
teries upon him, but come on him by a
skillful, persevering, God directed am
buscade.
Lesson the fourth: The Importance
of taking good aim. There Is Joshua,
but bow are those people in ambush up
yonder to know when they are to drop
on tho city, and how are these men
around Joshua to know when they
are to stop their flight and ad
vance? There must be some signal—a
signal to stop the one division and to
start tlie other. Joshua, with a spear
on which were ordinarily hung the
colors of battle, points toward the city.
He stands in such a conspicuous posi
tion, and there is so much of the morn
ing light dripping from that spear tip,
that ail around Hu* horizon they see It.
It was as much as to say: “There Is the
city. Take it!”
Take Kood Alin.
God knows and we know that a
great deal of Christian attack amounts
to nothing simply because we do not
take good aim. Nobody knows and we
do iiwi know ourselves which point we
want to take when we ought to make
up our minds what God will have us
to do and point our spear In that direc
tion and then hurl our body, mind,
soul, time, eternity at that one target.
In our pulpits and pews and Hunday
schools and prayer meetings we want
to got a reputation for saying pretty
things, and so we point our spear to
ward the flowers, or we want u reputa
tion for saying sublime things, and
we point our spear toward the stars, or
we want to get a reputation for his
torical knowledge, and we point our
spear toward the past, or we want to
get a reputation for great liberality, so
we swing our spear all around, while
there is tlie iWd world, proud, rebellious
and armed against ali righteousness,
and instead of miming any farther
away from its pursuit we ought to turn
a i on el, plant our foot in the strength
of tin* eternal God, lift the old cross
and point it In the direction of the
World s conquest till, tho redeemed of
earth, mai-rhlng up from one side and
the glorified of heaven murching down
from the other side, the last battlement
of sin is compelled to swing out the
str* amors of Km::m:ol. O church of
God, take aim and conquer!
I have heard it said, “Look out for ^
man who lias only one idea; he is In*#*-
sistibte.” 1 say look out for the maq
who lias one Idea, and that a deter
mination for soul saving. I believe God
would strike me dead if I dared to
point tho spear in any other direction.
Dh, for some of tho courage and en
thusiasm of Joshua! He thing two
iirmleg from (he tip of that spear. It Is
sinful for us to rest unless it Is to get
stronger muscle and fresher brain and
purer heart for God’s work. I fe**l on
i my head the hands of Christ In a new
j ordination. Do you not feel the sumo
omnipotent pre sure? There Is a work
for all of us. Oh, that we might stand
up side by side and point tbe spear to
ward the city! It ought, to be taken.
It will be taken. Our cities are drift
ing off toward loose religion or what
is culled “liberal Christianity,” which
Is so liberal Hint It gives up all the car
dinal doctrines of the Bible; so liberal
that it surrenders the rectitude of the
throne of the Almighty. That is liber
ality with a vengeance. Let us decide
upon the work which we as Christian
men have to do and in the strength of
God go to work and do it.
it is comparatively easy to keep on a
parade amid a shower of bouquets and
hand clapping and the whole street full
of enthusiastic huzzas, but it is not so
easy to stand up in the day of battle,
the face blackened with smoke, the
uniform covered by the earth plowed
up by whizzing bullets and bursting
shells, half the regiment cut to pieces,
j and yet the commander crying "For-
, ward, march!” Then it requires old
i fashioned valor. My friends, the great
trouble of the kingdom of God In
j this day Is the cowards. They do
| splendidly on a parade day and at com-
i munion, when they have on their best
clothes of Christian profession, but in
the great battle of life, at the first
sharpshooting of skeptidsi , they
dodge, they fall back, they break ranks.
We confront the enemy, we open the
battle against fraud, and, lo, we find
on our side a great many people who do
not try to pay their debts. And we
open the battle against Intemperance,
and we find on our side a great many
people who drink too much. And we
open the battle against profanity, and
we find on our side a great many
men who make hard speeches. And
we open the battle against Infidelity,
and, lo, we find on our side a great
many men who are not sure about the
book of Jonah. And while we ought lo
be massing our troops and bringing
forth more than the united courage of
Austerlitz and Waterloo and Gettys
burg we have to be spending our time
in bunting up ambuscades. There are
a great many in the Lord’s army who
would like to go out on a campaign
with satin slippers and holding um
brellas over their heads to keep off the
heavy dew and having rations of cau-
vasback duck and lemon custards.
If they cannot have them, they want
to go home. They think it is unhealthy
among so many bullets!
Divine Mercy.
I believe that tlie next year will be
the most stupendous year that heaven
ever saw. The nations are quaking
now with the coming of God. It will
be a year of successes for the men of
Joshua, but.of doom for the men of Ai.
You put your ear to the rail track, and
you can hear the train coming miles
away. 8o I put my ear to the ground,
and I hoar the thundering on of the
lightning train of God’s mercies and
judgments. The mercy of God is first
to he tried upon this nation. It will he
preached in the pulpits, In theaters, on
the streets—everywhere. People will
be invited to accept the mercy of the
gospel, and the story and the song and
the prayer will be “mercy.” But sup
pose they do not accept the offer of
mercy-wbat then? Then God will
come with his judgments, and the
grasshoppers will eat the crops, and
the freshets will devastate the valleys,
and the defalcations will swallow the
money markets, and tlie tires will burn
the cities, and the earth will quak*
from pole to pole. Year of mercies and
of judgments; year of invitation and
of warning; year of jubilee and of woe.
Which aide are you going to be on—
with tlie men of Ai or tlie men of
Joshua? Pass over this Sabbath into
the ranks of Israel. 1 would clap my
hands at the joy of your coming. You
will have a poor chance for this world
and the world to come without Jesus.
You cannot stand what is to come up
on you and upon the world unless you
have the pardon and the comfort and
the help of Christ. Come over! On
tlds side are your happiness and safe
ty; on the other side tiro disquietude
and despair. Kternal defeat to tho
men of Ai! Ftcruul victory to the men
of Joshua!
(Copyright, 1000, by Louis Klopsch.]
Knew What She Wanted.
There whs a tall and haughty young
woman In a provision store this morn
ing, a pretty girl, who wore a smart
tailor gown aud an air of great Im
portance.
“Have you a nice roundhouse
steak?" she asked the butcher sweet
ly. when he came forward to wait
upon her.
The man’s face assumed a beefy hue
Itself, and be looked well nigh apo
plectic as be replied, “No, miss, 1
haven’t a round steak.”
“Then send me a portcrloln. About
seven pounds will be enough, I should
think.”
“Tenderloin is tho best out, miss;
suppose you take that?” suggested tho
clerk, his face growing still redder.
“Kindly send me what I ordered,”
said the young woman with great dig
nity. “My mother-in-law Is entirely
conversant with the cuts of beef, and
I’m quite sure tliat’s the name she told
me, and send ten pounds of rice with
It.”
Then she walked out of the shop
with the pleased smile on her face of
one who lias found housekeeping the
merest child’s play, while the specta
tors murmured “Bride!” to each other
under their breath.—Baltimore News.
KitlTiiry MUix-k by One Vote.
The Kdgeficld correspondent of the
Sunday State makes the following
reference to the Gaffney delegates to
the 11. Y. 1*. U. convention then in
session at Edgefield:
“Miss Carroll, of Gaffney, rendered
a solo lust night in a most happy
manner, exhibiting sweetness, expres
sion and cultivation of voice,’’ and
speaks of Dr. Robertson, M'ss Min
nie Carroll and Miss Mary iirown as
being among the prominent delegates
in attendance.
Rev. B. P. Robertson was elected
president for the ensuing year.
Charleston won the convention for
next year by one vote over Gaffney.
John K<lwar<U Dead.
John Edwards, the colored man
who became deranged about two
weeks ago, and who hud been con
fined in tlie jail here since a few days
ufter liis derangement, died yester
day afternoon about 1 o’clock. He
will be buried this afternoon in the
colored cemetery at Limestone.
—Dr. 8. R Peck, the Charlotte eye
specialist, will be in CafTnpy at the
Lipscomb House Wednesday April
11th. One day only.
THE KIRKMASTER.
Tills Clinroh DlKnltnry Wns nn Itn-
Ifortunt I'rrsoniiuc In Scotland.
At a recent meeting of the Church of
Scotland Office Bearers’ association J.
A. Rollo, solicitor, delivered a most in
teresting lecture on “The Kirkinastcr
of Dundee; His Duties of Old and Pres
ent Sphere of Usefulness.” He vivid
ly described the duties performed by
the kirkinastcr in olden times.
The penalties to be intlicted upon
transgressors had to be exacted with
all rigor by him. Among these were
the following:
No man to “carry timber, redd stones
or diclit his malt” in tlie kirkyard; pen
alty, 40 shillings.
No wine or ale sellers to receive any
person in their homos auu keep table
to them “in the morning while prayers
and preaching be done and likewdso on
the Sunday in time of preaching;” pen
alty, suspension from business for one
year.
No person to “swear blasphemy;”
penalty, for fir .t fault, 2 shillings or two
hours In the "branks;” for the second,
20 shillings or six hours therein, aud
for the third, banishment of Hie burgh.
No children to "play, cry or perturb
in the kirkyard or break the glass win
dows in Hie kirk;” penalty, parents to
pay 8 shillings and mend Hie “skaith.”
No merchant or mariner to sail or
take voyage on Sunday and all inhabit
ants to keep “public exercise as pre
cise as the ordinary days of preach
ing;” penalty, £10.
No person “to bring infants and
bairns under *he age of 5 years within
the kirk in time of sermon or prayers”
aud no person “to rise and depart forth
of tho kirk before Hie end and conclu
sion of Hie sermon and prayers;” pen
alty, for tho first and second faults, ad
monition, aud for tlie third, 40 shillings
or 24 hours' Imprisonment on bread
and water and declaration of the fault
from Hie pulpit.
In their administration the town
council seemed to have acted harmo
niously with the church authorities
down to the disruption in 1843.—Dun
dee Journal.
Unforgiving Aator.
William Waldorf Astor seems to be
trying to follow the old adage, “If you
cannot speak well of another, say noth
ing at all.” Within Hie last few months
two notable Englishmen have died,
Hu* D'.il.e ol Westminster aud George
W. Kteovcns, the brilliant war corre
spondent, and in each case Mr. Astor
refused to permit an obituary of them
to be published in the Pall Mail Ga
zette. He had trouble with the duke
over the purchase of Cliveden, his
beautiful borne on the Thames, and
never forgave Steevens for leaving Ids
Journal for The Daily Mail.—Kansas
City Independent.
S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO.
Schedule No. 4.
In Effect 12:01 A. M., Sunday,December 24th, ’qo
Between Camden.S.C. and Blacksburg,S.C.
WEST. ’“ EAST
as. iiia. ,
as , S4.
EASTKKN TIME. 1
STATIONS.
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P. M.
8
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8
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HEATH SPRINGS
.PLEASANT 11 IliL
—LANCASTER
RIVERSIDE
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CATAWBA .1 L'NC’N
LESLIE
ROCK HILL
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Between Blacksburg,S.C., and Marion,».C.
WEST.
11 i ait.
EAST
. : IS.
1 - EASTKKN TIME.
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7 I Sc ; .
STATIONS.
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10 10
10 25
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12 OT>
12 25
12 50
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i* X -
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5 45
5 50i
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PATTERSON SP’GS
SHELliY
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FOR ES I' < |TY I
uitherkokdton
.MILLWOOD
GOLDEN VALLEY
THERMAE CITY
G LEN WOOD I
MARION 1
A. M. I
7 48
7 :e
7 25
7 151
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li 05
2 50
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I*. M.
WEST.
1st Class.
in. la.
t»>a£
Gaffney Division.
EASTKKN TIMK.
i” A - A- *
—-UL? —W
STATIONS.
EAST.
! 1st Class.
1 14. I 1«.
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A M
7 50
7 110
7 10
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2 40
2 2*0
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P M I A M I
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I 20 ti 20 CHEROKEE PALLS
1 40 il 40 . UAPPNEY ...
I* M ! A n !
Train No. :i2 leaving Marlon. N. < at ft n. m.
making elosr coiiiiuiaioii nt lilnrUsburg, s
wHIi tlie SoulIutii’s train No. liii lor ('liar-
lotte, N. ('., ami all |n>iiits East, and conn,‘fl
ing with the Southern's vestibule going to
Atlanta. Hu., and all ixiiuts West, and will
receive passenger* going East from train
No. to on the C. \ N. W. K. R., at York ville,
S. C , at 8.45 a. in., and eonnis-ls at Camden,
S. with the Soul hern’s train No. 78 arriv
ing in Charleston S. C., al 8.17 p. in.
Train No. ill w ith passengercoael. attached,
leaving Hlaeksburg at 5.110 a. m., and con
necting at Kock Hid, S. with the South
ern’s Florida train for all points South.
Train No. HU leaving Camden, S. C , at 12.50
I>. rn.. after the arrival of the Southern's
charleston train connects sit Lancaster, S.
C., with the E. A. C. K. K.; at Csitawhst .Innot
lou with the S. A. L., going Esisl.at Koek
HII1.S. with the Southern's train No. U4
for Charlotte, N. and sill imiIiiis East.
Connects at Yorkvllle, S, ('.. with train No. l)
on theC. A N. W. R. R , for Chester, S. C. At
lillickshurg With the Southern's Vestibule
going East, and the Southern's train No .15
going West, and eonneetlr.g :i' r Marlon, N. (*.,
with the Southern and West.
SAMUKL HUNT,
I'resiilent.
A. Tit I PI',
Kuperlnteiidttiit.
8. ». M MUHIN,
Uvu’l. 1'oMieuger Agent.
Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat.
It artificially digtists the food and aids
Nature in strengthening and recon
structing the exhausted digestive or
gans. It is tbe latest discovered digest-
ant and tonic. No other preparation
can approach it in efficiency. It in
stantly relieves and permanently cure:
I Dysj tensia, Indigestion, Heartburn.
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausc ,
Sick Headache,Gastralgia,Cramps and
all other resultsof imperfeetdigestion.
Price 5CV*.»iirt ft. Large size contains 2V4 times
small size. Hook all alxmtdyspepslu mulled free
Prepared by E. C. DcWITT A CO.. Chicago.
Simons for Relief.
(COMPLAINT NOT SERVED.]
Tin: Statk or Soci n Caroi.ina, j Court of
■ Com mmi
County ot* Ciikhokkk. | Ph as.
Leo D. Armstrong and C. A. Whitlock,
Plaintiffs,
against
E. H. Wehhi r. li. M. P< nn..l. L. Harnett,.!. M.
Harnett, A. M. i liastain, G. L. Hoswoll, T. p.
Foster and H. F. Webber, Defendants.
To E. II. Webber, It. M. Penn. J. M. Rarnett,
A. M. Chastain, G. L. Hoswoll, T F. Foster,
I. L. Harnett and It. F. Wo bin r. Defendants
In this action:
X ou are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint in this action, a copy
of which is tiled In the office of the Clerk of
Court for said County, and to serve a copy of
your answer to the said complaint on the
subscribers at their office at Gaffney. South
Carolina, within twenty days after the ser
vice hereof, exclusive of the day of such ser
vice. aud If you fail to answer the complaint
within i he time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this
ictlon will apply to tin; Court for tlie relief
Icmanded in the complaint.
Dated Gaffney, S. (., Feb. 24. I!«N).
Attest:
[Seal.] .1. Ell JKUt cniKs,
Clerk Pis.
Hi'ti.fu a ( isiiouni:,
Plaintiffs’Attorneys.
NOTICE. To the defendants E. II. Webber,
H. M. Penn. .1. M. Harnett. A. M. Chastain!
G. L. Boswell and T. F. Foster, absent de-
teiidants:
Take notice that the summons of which the
foregoing is a copy, together with the com
plaint in thi , act:on, is this day Hied in the
nliceof tiie Clerk of Hie* Court of Common
Pleas for Hie County of Cherokee and State
aforesaid.
ItUTI.EU A 08ROKNE,
Plaintiffs’ Attorneys.
Gaffney, S. C., Feb. 24, IHOO.
DR. J. F. GARRETT
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - - S.C.
)ffice over J. R. Tolleson’s new store
In office from 1st to 2Gth of each
month;
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Coodemed Schedule of Passenger Trelne.
In Effect Dec. 10,1399.
Northbound.
No. 12.
Daily
Lv Atlanta.CT
7 50 a
“ Atlanta.ET
8 5o a
“ Norcross..
9 ao a
" Buford.
10 05 a
“ Gainesville
lu U5 a
“ Lula.. .
10 58 a
•* Cornelia....
11 25 a
" Mt. Airy.
11 Jo a
Lv Toccoa.
ll 53a
Ar. Kiberton..
Lv. Kiberton...
9 0) a
Cv. \v'minster.
12 Jim
“ Seneca.
12 52 p
“ Cential. ...
1 42 p
" Gnonville
2 84 p
" Spar'burg
U 87 p
" Guffnoy.. .
4 20 p
“ Blacksburg
4 88 p
“ King's Mt..
5 08 p
“ Gastonia...
5 25 p
" Charlotte..
6 80 p
A r. G re'usboro
9 55 p
Lv Gre'nsboro
Ar. Norfolk.. .
Ar Dsuville . .
11 25 p
Ar. Richmond..
r> 90 a
Ar. W'hington.
“ B'more I*, it
" Ph'delphia.
........
M New York.
FstMa
Southbound.
No. d5.
Daily
Lv N Y .Pa.R.
12 15 a
" Ph'delphia.
8 50 a
“ Baltimore..
l i 22 a
" Wash’ton.
11 lua
Lv. Ri hmond.
12 01 n
Lv. Danville..
5 48 p
Lv Norfolk .
9 00 a
Ar. Gre'nsboro
o ar* p
Lv. Grc’nslsiio
7 10 p
Ar Charlotte
9 45 i>
Lv Gastonia,
10 42 p
“ King s Mt.
T
" Blacksburg
11 25 p
** (lufriuiy. .
11 42 p
•' Spnr'hurg .
12 20 a
Greenville
1 80 a
*• Central
**
2 32 a
“ W'mlntder
" Toccoa.
2 28 a
Lv Kiberton.
' “
A r. Flherlon. j
11 45 a
Lv. Ml Airy! J
“ Cornelia...
" Lula |
4 IS a
•* Gainesville
4 80 a
“ Buford..
6 02 a
“ Norcross. .
5 25 u
Ar. Atlanta,KT
0 ]0a
" Atlanta,CTI
5 10 a
Ves.
No. 18.
FstMa
No. 3S.
Ex.
No. 3ft.
Daily
Sun.
Daily.
12 COm
4 3b p
11 50 p
1 Ojp
5 30p
12 50 a
6 23 p
1 25 •
2 25 p
7 08p
1 5) a
7 33 p
2 Is a
2 45 p
8 OOp
8 80 p
2 88 a
3 33 p
8 85 p
9 U) p
9 »a
5 40 p
11 45 a
4 94 a
4 15 p
4 28 a
4 55 a
5 22 p
0 00 a
G 13 p
7 03 a
G 40 p
7 4.5 a
7 02 p
8 02*
8 27 a
8 51 a
8 18 p
........
9 50 a
>0 47 p
12 23 p.
11 45 p
8 a 5 14
11 50 p
1 38 p
0 00 s
G 42 a
8 00 a
G 25 p
8 50 p
11
10 15 a
2 50 a
12 4 ,m
G 23 a
Ves.
No. 37.
No. 11.
Daily.
Dully
4 30 p
li 55 p
......
9 2Jp
10 45 p
• •«**«•
11 00 p
II OOp
0 50a
G 10 a
8 35 p
— 11 ■ 1 ■»
5 15 h
7 95 a
7 37 a
9 25 a
12 95 m
10 07 a
1 12 p
1 38 p
10 4.5 a
2 OOp
2 24 p
10 58 a
II 81 a
2 I'd
12 30 p
1 30 p
4 80 p
5 42 p
tt OBp
0 25 p
imr
Kx.
Sun.
2 15 p
7 00 n
ft on a
9 00 a
5 40 |>
1 80 p
7 28 p
9 Jo a
7 82 p
• 35 a
3 Up
3 83 p
8 flop
tt 57 a
8 20 p
7 20 a
8 48 p
7 48a
0 18 p
8 27a
4 55 p
10 OOp
9 8(1-t.
3 55 p
9 OOp 1
8 80 a.
Betwoon Lula and Athens.
RaTo:
No. 1 i.l
Ex. No. 13
Fan. jDaily.
8 10 p:
8 :i4 p
STATIONS.
II 05 a Lv. .Lula Ar
II Ufi u| “ M.iysville **
8 50p; 11 52 ai “ Harmony
9 .topi 12 00p Ar. Athens .Lv
10 50 a
10 19 a
Id OU *
0 29 a
Note close connection
main line trains.
Ex.
Sun.
Tton
T 09 p
8 US p
G 00 p
made at Lula with
“A " a in. ••P" p. m. "M” noon. *‘N'’night.
ChrsnpMtko Lino Steamers in dally service
between Nor Ok and Haiti more.
Nos. U? auo Wi--Dni!y Washington and
Sonthwefttoru Vestibule Limited. Through
Pullman sleeping cars between New York and
New Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta uad
Montgomery, and also between New York and
M• innhis, via Washington. Atlanta nud Bir-
mingliam. Also elegant Pui.i.man Libiiaht
Giisekvation Caps between Atlanta and New
York Firstclase thoroughfare coaches be
tween Weshington and Atlanta. Dining cars
serve all mea.s en route. la-t^lng Wushir^.
tngt/m Mondays, Wednesdays ami Krhjayi.
a tourist slec-piugcar will run through liciweeix
Washlngtou and Ban Francisco withou‘,«hangev
Puiluiau drawing room sleeping cars betwews
Grecneboro end Norfolk. Close roonecttcji at
Norfolk for Oi.u Point ComVoui.
Nos. U5 and UG—United BtsKs Fast Mall rnna
solid lojlwecu Washlngluu and New Orleans
via Southern Railway. A. A W. P. K. R.
L A N R. It , being composed of coxA/es.
thrnnwh w , ..Out change tor passenge^wof ol«
f lvtis.'i Pullman draw lug room eh-stung car*
tiiwreu New York and New Orluaua. via At-,
lunin Had Moiilgomeiy and between Char
iot I e and Atlanta. DiuWg care serve all,
meals en route
Nos II, Iti, ..4 nnd 13—Pullman sleeping raru
between Richmond and Charlotte, vi<» Dam
ville. southbound Nos. 11 aud UU, nurthboumi
Nos :<4 and 12
fit A N K B GANNON. J.M.CULP.
Third V P J Gen. Mgr. '/ M., Washington.
XV A. TURK. 8. 11 UAUDW1CK.
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