The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 24, 1902, Image 6
Washington, .Inn. 10.—In this dis
course It. TnImage makes practical
use of an occurrence in the orient
which has seldom attracted particular
attention; text, II Kings vl, 0, “The
.ron did swim.”
A theological seminary in the valley
of palms, near the river Jordan, had
become so popular in the time of
Elisha, the prophet, that more accom-
modations were needed for the stu-
■ lents. The classrooms and the dor-
mitcries must he enlarged or an en-
irely new building constructed. What
will they do? Will they send up to
Jerusalem and solicit coutributious for
this undertaking? Will they seud out
agents to raise the money for a new
theological seminary? Having raised
the money, will they send for cedars
.)? Lebanon and marble from the quar-
.•ies where Ahab got the stone for the
pillars and walls of his palace? No;
• he students propose to build it them
selves. They wire rugged boys, who
had been brought up in the country
u:d who had never been weakened by
the* luxuries of city life. All they ask
is that Elisha, their professor and
prophet, go along with them to the
woods and boss the job. They start
for the work, Elisha and his students.
Identy of lumber in those regions
along the Jordan. The sycamore is a
stout, strong tree and good for timber.
Mr. Gladstone asked me if I had seen
in Palestine any sycamore tree more
beautiful than the one we stood under
at Ha warden. I told him 1 had not.
The sycamores near the Jordan are
now attacked by Elisha’s students, for
they must have lumber for the new
theological seminary. I suppose some
of the students made an awkward
stroke, and they were extemporized
axmen. Stand from under! Crash
goes one of the trees and another and
another. But something now happens
so wonderful that the occurrence will
tax the credulity of the ages, so won
derful that many still think it never
happened at all. One of the students,
not able to own an ax, had borrowed
one. You must remember that while*
the ax of olden time was much like our
modern ax. it differed in the fact that
Instead of the helve or handle being
thrust into a socket iu the Iron head
the head of the ax was fastened on the
handle by n leathern thong, and so it
might slip the helve. A student of the
seminary was swinging his ax against
one of those trees, and whether It was
at the moment he made his (irst stroke
and the chips fiew or was after he had
cut the tree from all sides so deep that
it was ready to fall we are not told,
but the nx head and the handle parted.
Being near the riverside, the ax head
dropped into the river and sank to the
muddy bottom. Great was the stu
dent’s dismay. If It had been bis own
ax, it would have been bad enough, but
the ax did not belong to biin. He bad
no means to buy another for the kind
man who had loaned It to him, but
God helps the helpless, and he gener
ally helps through some good and sym
pathetic soul, and in this case it was
Elisha, who was in the woods and on
the river bank at the time. He did not
see the nx head fly off, and so he asked
the student where It dropped. He was
shown the place where it went down
Into the river. Then Elisha broke off
a branch of a tree and threw It Into the
water, and the ax head rose from the
depths of the river and floated to the
bank, so thaf the student had Just to
stoop down and take up the restored
property. Now you see the meaning of
my text. “The iron did swim.”
The Iron Did Swim.
Suppose a hundred years ago some
one had told people that the time
would come when hundreds of thou
sands of tons of iron would float on
the Atlantic and Paciflc — iron ships
from New York to Southampton, from
London to Calcutta, from San Francis
co to Canton. The man making such
a prophecy would have been sent to
an asylum or carefully watched as In
competent to go alone. We have all
In our day seen iron swim. Now, if
man can make hundreds of tons of
metal float. I am disposed to think
that the Almighty could make an ax
bead float.
“What,” says some one, “would be
the use of such u miracle?” Of vast,
of Inlinite.of eternal Importance. Those
students were preparing for the min
istry. They had joined the theological
seminary to get all its advantages.
They needed to have their faith
strengthened; they needed to be per
suaded that God can do everything;
they needed to learn that God takes
notice of little tilings; that there is no
emergency of life where he is not will
ing to help. Standing on the banks of
that Jordan, tlibse students of that day
,'f tin* recalled ax head had their faith
re-enforced, and nothing that they had
found out In the classrooms/if that
earned Institution had ever done more
n the way of fitting them for their
uming pr< fession.
I hear from different sources that
Cu re Is n great deal of Infidelity in
•omo of the theological seminaries of
day. They think that the garden
if Eden Is an allegory, and that Moses
lid not write the Pentateuch, and that
'he book of Job Is only a drama, and
that the book of Jonah Is an unrelia
ble fir.b story, and that water was not
turned into wine, although the bar
'ender now by large dilution turns
wine Into water, and that most of the
»o called miracles of the Old and the
New* Testaments were wrought by nat
ural causes. When those infidels grad
uate from the theological seminary
and take the pulpits of America as
expounders of the Holy Scriptures,
what advocates they will be of that
gospel for the truth of which the mar
tyrs died! Hail the Polycarps and
Hugh Latlmcrs and John Knoxes of
the twentieth century, believing the
Bible Is true In spots! Would to God
that some great revival of religion
might sweep through all the theolog
ical seminaries of this land, confirming
the faith of the coming expounders of
an entire Bible!
The Right to Borrow.
Furthermore, in that scene of the
text God sanctions borrov.Mng and sets
forth the importance of returning. I
do not think there would have been
any miracle performed if the young
man had owned the ax that slipped
the helve. The young man cried out
In the hearing of the prophet, “Alas,
master, for It was borrowed!” He had
a right to borrow. There are times
when we have not only a right to bor
row, but it is a duty to borrow’. There
are times when we ought to lend, for
.Christ in his sermon on the mount de
clared. “From him that would borrow’
of thee turn not thou away.” It is
right that one borrow the means of
getting an education, as the young stu
dent of my text borrowed the ax. It
is right to borrow means for the for
warding of commercial ends. Most of
the vast fortunes that now overshadow
the land were hatched out of a bor
rowed dollar.
If in any assembly it were requested
that those who had never borrowed
hold up their hands, none would be
lifted, or if here and there a hand were
lifted we would know that it was a
case of inveracity. Borrow! Why.
we are borrowing all the time. We
borrow from the Lord the sunlight
that shows us our way, the water that
slakes our thirst, the food that re
freshes us three times a day, the pil
low on which we slumber. Wo borrow
gladness from our friends; we borrow’
all elevated surroundings. The church
borrows all its beauty from the Christ
who founded it. In our songs and ser
mons we borrow from the raptures of
heaven.
We borrow time; we will borrow
eternity, and that constant borrowing
implies a return. For what we borrow
from God we must pay back in hearty
thanks and Christian service, iu im
provement of ourselves and helpful
ness for others. For what we borrow
in the shape of protection from good
government we must pay back in pa
triotic devotion. For what we borrow
from our parents iu their good exam
ple and their hard work wrought for
us in our journey from cradle to man
hood or womanhood for all the ages to
come we ought to be paying back.
The halleluiahs of heaven will be re
turned for crucifixion agony.
Debt a Calamity.
Hnydon the painter said his ruin be
gan the day he began to borrow mon
ey. and he wrote in his diary, “Here
began debt and obligation, out of which
I have never been and never shall be
extricated as long as I live.” Dr.
Johnson said: “Do not accustom your
self to consider debt only as an in
convenience. You will find it a calam
ity.” We have a right to borrow for
the absolute necessities, expecting to
pay back again, but we ought never to
borrow for the luxuries. According to
the “Laws of Amasis,” In Egypt if a
man died without paying that which
he had borrowed lie was deprived of all
obsequies. If. that law were In vogue
In our times, how many postponed and
Impossible funerals!
Furthermore, let us admire these
young men of Elisha’s theological sem
inary for the fact that they were earn
ing their own way. The most of those
today who are successful In the pro
fessions. medicating the sick or advo
cating the law or preaching the gospel,
fought their own way on and up.
Those are the kind of men who know
what education is worth and know
how to use it Many of us remember
that In college days the sons of affluent
fathers, with plenty of money to spend
and horses to drive and libraries
crowded with books never read and
wardrobes that kept them in perplexity
as to which of many garments was
appropriate for the weather that day,
wore wortli to the world nothing then
and have been worth to the world noth
ing since, while the young men In col
lege who had to economize three
moiths iu order to get some book they
needed and who could hardly raise
money for their diploma have since
wrought mightily for God and the
truth, turning the world upside down
because It was wrong side up.
In the summer watering places north,
south, east and west, In the great ho
tels. serving at table and In baggage
room, are theological students who are
In prifmrntion for the ministry, earn
ing in July and August the means by
which they may study the other months
of the year. I hall them; 1 cheer them;
1 Mess them. They will be the Her-
schels In the observatories, the Dr.
Motts in your medical colleges, the
Rufus Choates In your courtrooms, the
Bishop Mcllvalues In your pulpits. L«>t
them not now bo ashamed of the >ix
with which they hew the beam for
Elisha’s seminary.
Superiority of Rod.
Trtose students In the valley of
palms by the Jordan had a physical
strength and hardihood that would
In Ip them In their mental and spirit
ual achievements. We who are tolling
for the world’s betterment need brawn
as well as brain, strung bodies ns well
as Illumined tn'.t ds and consecrated
souls. Many of those who are now do
ing the best work in church and state
got muscle and power of endurance
from the fact that in early life they
were compelled to use ux or plow
or flail or hammer, while ninny who
were brought up in the luxuries of life
give out before the battle is won. They
are keen and sharp of mind, but have-
no physical endurance. They have the
ax head, but no handle. The body is
the handle cf the soul.
Let ail those who toil for their edu
cation remember they are especially
favored, and if things go against them
and the ax head should fly the helve
that very hinderment may some time
turn out advantageously, as the acci
dent by the river Jordan, which seem
ed to finish the young student’s capac
ity to help build the new seminary,
resulted in a splendid demonstration
of tite power of Elisha’s God to help
any one who helps himself. No ax that
was ever wielded has wrought so well
as that ax, the handle and head of
which parted.
Notice, also, how God Is superior to
every law that he has made, even the
strongest law of nature, the law ot
gravitation. The stick that Elisha
threw into the Jordan floated, but the
ax head sank. F-y inexorable law it
must go down into the depths cf the
Jordan, yet without so much as a
touch the hard, heavy metal sought
the surface. There it is. the floating
ax head. What a rebuke to those who
reject miracles cn the ground that they
are contrary to nature, ns tuough the
law were stronger than the God who
made the law! Again and again in Bible
times was that law revoked! Witness
the scene on the banks of the same Jor
dan, where, in after time, the tix head
sank and rose. Elijah stood there,
wearing cape of sheepskin, when there
was a mighty stir in the air and a
flashing equipage descended. Elijah
stepped into it, and on wheels of tire,
drawn by horses of fire, he rose. Fifty
men for three days searched the moun
tains to see if the body of Elijah had
not been dropped among the rocks and
picked at by birds of prey, but the
search was in vain. The law of gravi
tation had been defeated.
Wonder* ol Divine Power.
There Christ stood by his disciples
on the Mount of Olives after his com
ing out of the sepulcher. No ladders
let down for his ascension, but his feet
lift from tin* hill, and he goes up until
the curtain of cloud drops, and he is
invisible. Law of gravitation again
unharnessed. Enoch. Methuselah’s fa
ther, escaping death, went up bodily
and will have uo need of resurrection.
So will all the good who shall be still
alive at the end of the world. They
will not need wings. Every one of the
millions of our planet who loved and
served the Lord, if then alive, will “be
caught up.” as the Bible says, body as
well us soul, the law of gravitation
paralyzed. God mightier than any law
he ever created. Oh, I like the mira
cles because they show God indepeud-
ent of everything.
Notice also the divine power in the
backwoods. Wonderful things were
done at the cities of Jericho and Jeru
salem and Babylon and Nineveh, and
the great cities of our time have seen
the divine power, but this miracle of
my text was In the backwoods, far
away from the city, in the lumber dis
tricts. where the students had gone to
cut timber for the new theological
seminary. And if this sermon shall
come, as it will come, like my other
sermons for the list thirty years, with
out missing a week, let me say to those
far away from the house of God and
iu the mountain districts that my text
shows the divine power in the back-
woods. The Lord by every stream as
he certainly was by the Jordan, on ev
ery mountain as surely ns he was on
Mount Zion, on every lake as on Ti
berias, by every rock us by the one
whose gushing waters slaked the thirst
of the marching Israelites.
Do not feel lonely because your near
est neighbor may be miles away, be
cause the width of the continent may
separate you from the place where your
cradle was rocked and your father’s
grave was dug. Wakened though you
may be by lion’s roar or panther’s
scream, God will help you, whether at
the time the forc-st around you raves
in the midnight hurricane or you suffer
from something quite insignificant, like
the loss of an nx head. Take your
Bible out under the trees, If the weath
er will permit, and after you have lis
tened to the solo of a bird in the tree-
tops or the long meter psalm of the
thunder, read those words of the Bible,
which must have been written out of
doors: “The trees of the Lord are full
of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which
he hath planted, where the birds make
their nests: as for the stork, the fir
trees are her house. The high hills are
a refuge for the wild goats and the
rooks for the conies. Thou mukest
darkness, and it is night, wherein nil
the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
The young lions roar after tho!r prey
and seek their meat from God. The
sun nrlseth. they gather themselves to
gether and lay them down In their dens.
Man goeth forth unto Ills work and to
his labor until the evening. O Lord,
bow manifold are thy works! In wis
dom hast thou made them all. The
tarth Is full of thy riches.” How do
you like that sublime pastoral?
Overcome Evil. •
My subject also reminds us of the
importance of keeping our chief imple
ment for wot 1; In good order. I think
that young theologicvi student on the
banks of Jordan was to blame for not
examining the ax before he lifted it
that day against a tree. He could in a
moment have found out whether tla-
helve and the head were firmly fas
tened. The simple fact was the ax
was rot in good order or the strongest
stroke that s' tit the edge Into the hard
sycnuK re would not have left the Im
plement headless. So God has given
every one of us an ax with which to
hew. L< t us keep It In p od order,
having been sharpened by Bible study
and strengthened I y prayer. The rea
son we sometimes fall In our work Is
because we have a dull nx or we do
not know how aright to swing It. The
head Is cot aright on the handle. At
the time we want the most skill for
work and perfect equilibrium we lose
our head. We expend in useless ex
citement the nervous energy that we
ought to have employed in direct,
straightforward work. Your nx may
he a pen or a type or a yardstick or a
scales or a tongue which in legislative
hall or business circles or Sabbath
class or pulpit is to speak for God and
righteousness, tut the ax will not bo
worth muedi until it has been sharp
ened on the* grindstone of affliction.
Go right through the world, and go
right through all the past ages, and
show me one man or woman who lias
done anything for the world worth
speaking of whose ax was not ground
on the revolving wheel of mighty trou
ble. It was not David, for lie was de
throned and hounded by unfilial Ab
salom. Surely it was rot Paul, for he
was shipwrecked and whipped with
thirty-nine stripes from rods of elm-
wood on his way to beheadment. Sure
ly it was not Abraham Lincoln, called
by every vile name that human and
satanic turpitude could invent and de
picted by cartoonists with more mean
ness than any other man ever suffered,
on the way to meet a bullet crashing
through his temples.
Cod Does tlie Imponnilile.
But I have come to the foot of the
Alps, which we must climb before we
can see the wide reach of my subject.
See In all this theme how the impossi
bilities may be turned into possibilities.
That nx head was sunken in the mud
diest river that could be found. The
alarmed student of Elisha may know
where it w< nt down and may dive for
it and perhaps fetch it up, but can ti.e
sunken ax head be lifted without a
hand thrust deep into the mud at the
bottom of the river? No; that is im
possible. I admit, so far as human
power is concerned, it is impossible,
but with God all things are possible.
Alter the tree branch was thrown upon
the surface of Jordan “the iron did
swim.”
Some one asks me, “Did you ever
see iron swim?” Yes, yes; many a
time. I saw a soul hardened until
nothing could make it harder. All
styles of sin had plied that soul. It
was petrified as to all fine feeling. It
had been hardening for thirty’ years.
It had gone into the deepest depths.
It had been given up us lost. The fa
ther had given it up. The mother, the
last to do so, had given it up. But one
day In answer to some prayer a branch
of the disfoliaged tree of Calvary was
thrown into the dark and sullen
stream, and the sunken soul responded
to its power and rose into the light,
and, to the astonishment of the church
and the world, “the iron did swim.” I
have seen hundreds of cases like that.
When the dying bandit on the cross
beside Christ’s cross was converted.
When Jerry McAuley, a ruffian gradu
ate of Sing Sing prison, was changed
into a great evangelist, so useful In
reclamation of wandering men and wo
men that the merchant princes of New
York established for him the Water
Street and Cremorne missions and
mourned at his burial, amid the lamen
tations of a city. When Newton, the
blaspheming sailor, under the power
of the truth was brought to Christ and
became one of the mightiest preachers
of the gospel that England ever saw.
When John Bunyan. whose curses
shocked even the profane of the fish
market, was so changed in heart and
life that he could write that wonder
ful dream. “The Pilgrim’s Progress,”
in such a way that uncounted thou
sands have found through it the road
from the “city of destruction” to the
“celestial city’.” In all these cases I
think iron was made to swim. I wor
ship the God who can do the Impossi
ble.
Loit and Rentored.
You have a wayward boy. Only God
knows how you have cried over him.
You have tried everything for his ref
ormation. Where is Le now—in this
city, in this country, or has he crossed
the sea? “Oh,” you say, “I do not
know where be is. He went away In
the sulks and did not say where he
was going.” You have about made up
your mind that you will never hear
from him again. Pretty hard pay he
gives you for all your kindness and
the nights you sat up with hirn when
he was sick. Perhaps he struck you
one day when you wore trying to per
suade him to do better. How different
was the feeling of that hard fist
against your face from his little hand
in infancy patting your cheek! Fa
ther! Mother! That is an impossible
that I would like to see God take hold
of, the conversion of that boy, for be
will never be anything but a boy to
you, though you should live to see him
fifty years of age. Did you say his
heart is hard? How hard? Hurd as
stone? “Yes," you say; “harder than
that Hard as iron.” But here is a
Ged who can lift the soul that has
been deepest down. Here is a God
who con raise a soul out of the black
est depths of sin and wretchedness.
Here is a God who ei.u make iron
swim, the God of Elisha, the God of
the young student that stood in dis
may on the banks of the Jordan at the
time of the lost ux bead. Lay hold of
the Lord In a prayer that will take no
denial
Alas, there are Impossible** before
thousands of people—cailrd to do work
that It is Impossible for them to do,
called to bear burdens that it is Im
possible for them to bear, called to
endure suffering that it is Intposs.ble
for them to endure. Read all the gos
pel promises, rally all your faith, and.
while you will always be called to
worship the God of hope, today, with
all the concentered energies of my
soul, I implore you to bow down and
worship the God who can turn the
impossibles into the possibles. It was
no trivial purpose, but for grand and
glorious uses I hove spoken to you
today of the borrowed, the lost and
the restored ox head.
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Lv Ar
—
8 on
4 4*
Blacksburg
11 30
ti 45
h 20
5 05
Karls
11 15
t; 24
* :w
5 12
Patterson Sngs II ( '
0 15
9 25
5 25
Shelby
10 5s
r, (hi
10 (HI
5 45
Lattlmore
10 3 s
4 45
10 30
5 55
Moorsboro
10 30
4 :«>
10 5*1
0 05
Henrietta
10 20
4 10
11 SO
G 22
Forest ( ity
10 05
3 45
11 45
ti 37
Rutherfordton
9 50
3 20
12 ;y
7 05 Thermal ( ity
9 20
2 45
12 55
7 20
Glen wood
9 (HI
2 20
1 20
7 .15 Ar Marlon Lv
S 45
2 00
No. ! No.
15 13
p.m. u.m.
4 30 s so Lv
4 t0 9 in Ar
5 10 9 30i
Gaffney Itnmrli.
STATIONS
Hlack-tburg
Cherokee Falls
Gaffney
Ar
No. 1 No
14 : 10
u.m. p.m.
11 20 6 10
Lv 11 00 5 50
10 40 5 30
In E
feet June Ojth, 19ul.
Vos.
E’cpr.
FMa
Northbound.
2*0.1?
\ < i. 38.
X o. 34.
Vid.
Daily
! laity
Daily
Uf.
Lv. Atlanta/'!'
7 5'
12 uOm
12 20 p
iap
” Atlanta. FT
S :
1 bop
1 20 p
lw a
“ Nurcross..
9 31 a
1 Sip
!9a
“ Buford.
10 u5 a
......
2 19 p
>1 a
“ Gainesville
lU Jt ft
2 26 :>
2 45 p
Isa
“ Lula...
11 uo a
2 43p
3 0S)»
19 a
“ Cornelia—
11 Z5a
........
3 30 p
“ Mt. Airy.
11 2b a
3 33 p
Lv. Toccoa
11 53 u
3 25n
3 55 p
30a
Ar. E.berton.
3 45 p
8 4-ip
113a
Lv. Eiberton.
9 00 a
Lv. W'minster.
12 5 in
4 25 p
-tn
“ Seneca.....
12 4s p
4 CD p
4 40 p
45a
“ Central.....
1 33 p
5 03 p
90 a
“ Greenville
2 34 p
5 18 p
6 55 p
55 a
“ Spnr'burg .
3 30 p
6 04 p
b 55 p
612 a
" Gaffney
4 23 p
6 48 p
7 32 p
7sa
'* Black.-Jv.irg
4 47 p
7 02 p
7 48 p
8 2 a
'• King’s Mt..
5 15 p
82a
“ Gastonia.
5 40 p
8 25 p
9 Da
“ Charlotte..
6 40 i)
8 18p
ti lop
10 ia
Ar. Gre’nsboro
9 66 p
10 47 p
11 42 p
12 ip
Ar. Durham
3 35 a
3 35^
fi /a
Ar. Kuleigh....
5 25 a
6 25a
8 *P
Ar. Danville...
11 25 p
11 S3 p
12 48 a
139
Ar. Norfolk....
8 30a
8 30a
8 80a
Ar. PJchmond..
0 U0 a
6 00a
0 00 a
0 dp
Ar. W'hington.
*••••..
6 42 b
7 35a
9 Op
“ B’moreP.K
8 uO a
9 15a
11 A p
“ Ph’delphia.
10 15 a
11 35 a
2 64a
“ New York.
12 4im
2 08 p
6 sa
FstMa
Vea
Expr.
Southbound.
No. 35.
No. 37.
No. 11.
No. 31
Daily.
Dtily.
Daily
Daily.
Lv. N.Y.,Pa.R.
12 15 a
4 3Up
3 25 p
“ Ph’delphia.
3 60 a
6 55 p
6 04 p
* Baltimore..
0 22 a
9 2up
8 27 p
“ Wash'ton..
11 15 a
10 46 p
9 55p
Lv. Richmond..
12 01 n
11 80p
11 30 p
11 30p
Lv. Norfolk. ..
9 36a
7 40 p
7 40p
7 40p
Lv. Danville....
6 48p
5 50a
6 10 a
4 36a
Lv. Raleigh....
3 50 p
1 uo a
1 00a
1 00a
Lv. Durham...
4 43 p
2 30 a
2 30a
2 30a
Lv. Gre’nsboro
7 lop
7 05 a
7 37 a
6 56a
Ar. Charlotte..
9 45 p
9 25 a
12 95m
8 10 a
Lv Gastonia...
10 42 p
1 SUp
900a
“ King's Mt..
11 02p
1 53 p
9 18 a
“ Blacksburg
11 25 p
10 SO a
2 17 p
9 3s a
" Gaffney....
11 42p
11 03 a
2 32p
9 53a
•* Spor’burg.
12 20 a
11 40 a
3 15 p
10 30 a
“ Greenville.
“ Central....
1 25a
12 40p
4 3Up
5 Sop
11 30 a
12 25p
“ Seneca
2 28a
1 40 p
5 55 p
12 48 p
* W'minster.
8 13 p
1 OBp
“ Toccoa
3 ii a
2 23 p
7 4bb
1 33 0
Lv. Eiberton...
9 00a
2 Ln nil Q uu A
Ar. Eiberton.
11 53 a
8 45p
0 45 p
Lv. Mt. Airy...
7 28 p
1 57 p
“ Cornelia...
3 40 a
7 32 p
2 OOp
" Lula
4 Osa
8 08 p
8 08 p
2 20 p
“ Gainesville
4 29 a
3 27 p
8 2Sp
2 45 p
" Buford.
4 57 ft
9 OOp
8 18 P
•• Norcross.
5 27 a
9 34 p
3 53 p
Ar. Atlanta,ET
0 10 a
4 55n
10 15 p
4 35 p
“ Atlanta,CT
5 10 a
3 55 p
9 15 p
8 35 p
Between Lain and Athene.
*20 minutes fordinner.
Note: Trains Nos J2 and 33 are operated
dally. Trains Nos 34. 35, 11. 12. 13, 14, 15 and
hi are operated daily except Sunday.
CONNECTIONS MADE l»Y SOltTBOUND TRAINS.
At Marlon: No. 32 connects at Marlon with
Southern Uytrain N'<>. 30 which arrives at
Marion at s:2sa. ni„ from Chattanooga, Ashe
ville and Intermediate points.
At Blacksburg: No. 34 and No. 11 connect
with Southern By train No. 30 which arrives
at Blacksburg at 7:45 a. in., from Atlanta,
Greenville, Spartanburg and intermediate
points.
At Yorkville: No. 34 connects with C .V N.
\V. train No. 70 which leaves Yorkville at
10:4'a. m., for Gastonia. Lenoir and Inter-
medkatl points.
At Rock Hill: No’s 32 and it connect with
Southern Ky train No. 75 which leaves Rock
Iliil at 3:3o p. in., for Chester. Columbia and
intermediate points.
At Catawba Jet: X"o’> 52 and 34 connect
with S .. 1* train No. 32 which passes Cu-
tawb i .let at 7:5t p. in., for Monroe and inter
mediate points.
At. Lancaster: No'* 3! and 34 connect with
L. & c. train No. P'» which leives Lancaster
at 4:4,1 p. m., for Chester and intermediate
points'
At Camden with A. C. L. (N. W. of s. <’,) for
Charleston, Sumter, l'ior< mje, 1) irllngton,
WilniingU-n and intermediate uoluts. Train
No. (is which leaves Camden at 4:15 p.m.
CONN EC MONH MAPI: BV NORTH Hot’ Nl> TRAINS.-
At Camden: WithA.C. L. (N. W. of S. C.)
No. 71 frcm.Ch irlest a. Florence, Darlington.
Wilmington and intormediute points, which
arrive-at Camden at H :15 a. tn.; with South
ern l.’v train No. 77 which arrives at Cumdi n
at H :55 a. m. from Kingsville
At Lane tster No. :.3 connects at Lane, ster
with L. A c. train No. Itl for Chester and in
termediate points.
At Catawba Jet: No's .13 and 35 conneot
With 8. A. L. train No 32. which leaves Ca
tawba Jet at 7:54 p. m. for Monroe and Inter
mediate points.
At l-'oe'i HU1: No's 33 and 35 connect at.
Uo(4. HIM with Southern Ky train No. 34.
leuvin. :ok (I'll at *:2(! p. m„ for Charlotte
and points north.
A' Blacksburg: No. .Tlconneets with South
ern Uy trains X'u 12 at 4:.is p. m.. No. at
7:0ft u. tn. and No 4n it 7:45 p. m. for points
noi tin No's 33 and 35 connect; with Simt hern
Ky train No 35, it uving Blacksburg at 11:25
p. nt.. for pointss<mth.
At Marion: No il eonnects witb s uthern
Ky train No. .,5. leaving M>-rion at l|:4<»p m ,
for Asia vllh-, ( liatt'Aiuxiga and intt-rritediuie
points.
Through cur service without change l*'-
tween Marlon and Charleston on trains No's
32 and i t.
E. H. SHAW.
Gen. l':-ss Agl
So. 11.
Ex.
Sun.
No. 18.
Daily.
STATIONS.
No. 13.
Daily.
Nall
Ex.
Sun.
8 15 p
• 45p
9 04p
_9 45p
3 15 p
8 45 p
4 02p
4 45 p
Lv ..Lula Ar
“ Maysville ”
“ Harmony “
Ar. Athens .Lv
2 lop
1 45 p
1 28 p
12 45 p
7 Sop
T 23 p
7 OOp
0 20 p
Note close connection made at Lula with
mam line train*.
“A" a. m. * , P” p. m. "M” noon. “N" nlg-h*.
Chesapeake Line Steamers In dally service
between Norfolk and Baltimore.
Nos. 37 and 3»—" Washington and Southwest
em Limited.” Solid Pulman train, being com
posed exclusively ot finest Pullman equipment
of latest design, through between New York
and Atlanta. Through Pullman sleeping cars
between New York and New Orleans, via
Washington, Atlanta aud Montgomery and al
so be. ween New York and Memphis, via Wash*
ingtou, Atlanta and Birmingham. Elegant
Pullman Library observation cars between Ma
con and New York. Gentlemen’s Hub cars
between Atlanta New York. Dining cari
serve all meals inroute. Pullman s eeping
cars between Greensboro and Goldsboro. No
coach serx-iee on tills train. These trains will
stop at Gainesville, Lula, Toccoa. Seneca, Gall*
ncy and B a -Itsburg only to tak- on and let off
passengers for and from Washington and be
yond aud for and from Greenville, Columbia
and Spartanburg-Colnmbia lines.
Nos. 3» and "Atlanta and New York
press.” Local train between At.auta and Char
lotte, connecting at Charlotte with trains of
sumo numbers tor and from Washington, New
York and the east, carrying through , aJlmaa
sleeping cars between Cnr.rlotte anu New York,
Charlotte and Blchmond and Norfolk. Leav
ing Washington Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays a tourist sleeping car will be ojiera'ed
on this tram through from Was rung ton to mt*
Franoisey without change. C-inneorF.n at
Grecu-boro with sleeper* for Raleigh. N*
Pullman cars on this train between Atlanta
and Charlotte. Ampb first and second class
c<>iu-h accommaiUtiou* for local and througk
travel.
Nos. 85nnd9ft—‘‘United States Fns* Ma1i M ruai
solid be! ween Washington aud N**'U.'teaa%
via Southern Hallway, A. & W. p. R. R. and
L- & N. K. K., being composed of ooacheA
thrum h without change (or i asseugers of ok
•lasses. Pullman drawing-r -om sleeping enri
between New York and New Orleans, via A**
lauta and Montgomery and between Bir*
mingham an t Kielunond. Dining car* serve
Oil meaiN en route.
Nos. 11 and U-Solil local train betwosa
Richmond and Atlanta. Close connsotlen at
N< rfolk for Old Point Com roar.
Especial attention Is called to above schedule
particularly that Nos. #7 and 28 art mada *a
sxrlusive Pullman train, without coach saw
vice. FRANK S. GANNON,
Third Vies Prss- * Gen Mgix
t. H HARDWT K. W. H. TATLoit
is. Faas. Aueut A. G, Ii A
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