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/ • • r “IF FUJI THE LIHEHTY OF THE WOULD WE CAN DO ANYTIIINO.” VOL. II. DA11LINGTOX, SOUTH ( AHOLIXA, WEDNESDAY, DE('EMHE1J :{(), ISM NO. 17 RILL ARP Writes About Entertainiiiff a Meth odist fonference. The preachers are here—250 of; them, and a whole lot more of lay men and editors and professors of colleges and the hoard of education. It is the North Oeorgia Conference— a power in the land and a power for good. There are some bishops here, too, notable men, notn hie for piety and learning and .do-; ^ ipience. It is a feast to onr |>eople j to listen to their picked men ns they N dispense wisdom from onr pulpits. | They are casting bread upon the v a-1 . ... . , , . ir.. gave some plausihlc reasons, but all ters, thev are scattering seeds of re- i B . 1 . . ! \ovcr (iivr I'p Hope. 1 her go and wrote in his journal: “I did not forsake her, l did not dismiss 1 her. I will not recall her.,J Fort u- i nateiy there were no children horn to them. It seems to me that I could very easily he a Methodist. To say that I could not would lie a reflection Methodist I u P on thousands of great and good i men who have lived and died in the j faith and are now among the blessed. • And so, too, I could he a Baptist or an Episcopalian. I wonlden’t have far to go. But I like my own church 1 dt ‘ u * lH l’ s ,,,i,,C8 i,ml I x ‘ rfor,,ls a11 t,K ‘ government the best. Theotherday works t,lat bl ' ,u>fit the human family, the preachers answered the question why are you of your faith, and each pathway to success. ,, .... tlllf of them left out the reason that I Wc do not 1^ to see a gloomy, jH-ntance and love and kindness that ui . mif ,, when thev I d( ' 8 P oluk '" t l“ ok ">g individual in j this bright and Ixiautiful world. We Worth Kuotviug. ! lii^l'Ai).;i{NA('i.K^utuamri “When hope dies the devil adds 1 In the province of Silesia, Ler- another scalp to his belt.” This is J many, there are at present twenty an old saying with which ovry one Jieiligree herds of red cattle, consist- is familiar. A man without hope ing of head, bocomes a useless being in this The “Imperial” diamond which world. There is nothing to animate ! was recently purchased by the Nizam him to put forth the necessary !,>f Hvderahid from a Isindon dealer. i j BU&iNF.fiS Lire A SCI IOC! FOR COOD TO THOSE WHO SO WILL IT. ■ *jf' - — i I exertions to attain success. It is the man who is buoyed up by () ,; bright hopes and expectations that j builds cities,, clears away forests, Hope stimulates to exertion, breaks ; down every barrier that lies in the at- will grow and grow and bear fruit. Their influence is all for good, our city fathers did not increase the! police like they do when a circus | comes, or when a political Hurting < r an election agitates the community. We don't lock our doors nor hide our chickens. They didn’t come hungry and they don’t look hungry, and! "'" I those who have honored onr mansion only feasted on Mrs Arp’s good things out of respect to her. They know it is bad manners for a guest to slight the bounties of providence at a gen erous table. They are good company —rich in pleasant memories and wit and anecdote. A more unselfih, ge nial, thankful and selfsacrilicingas- sembly than a Methodist conference cannot be found in this sublunary world. If the love of money is real ly the root of all evil, just think what a giant curse t hese ministers escape. Most of them have families to t , for it is a philosophic fact that a preacher will marry if he can and it looks like they all can. And they get good wives, too, fora woman is obliged to be good who makes up her mind to marry a preacher, and especially a Methodist preacher. Nile has got to forswear the fashions and the follies of life and live for her husband and her children, her duty and her <iod. 11 is easily possible for a woman to do and move every two years besides. Their childrenard trained to econo my. and they always have children— lots of children who are born on the fly, sorter like some of ours were when my wife was running from the foul | invader and dodging their scouts every crossroads; sometimes they an in a pretty good house and sometime in a poor one that ha and walls that are liv jhit the comforts of the circuit riders are being gradually improved. Most of them have four churches to suffer with, and have to provide their animates most Christians choose a church. 1 am a because my father is or because my mother was. This is the kind of rea son that controls !IH out of every 100 members of any church. Most every church member went to a particu-j school and then and inning an intimate friendiship with their religious association fixed, feel that hope is taking its flight and leaving a wreck of a man upon the shores of time. We love to look into a face bright and cheerful with the smiles of hope. We feel like that and be happy j <,,,n ' l ' l ‘ , ed s a leaky roof velv by night. and they had no desire to change it. They knew all the usages of that church, when to stand up and when to sit down and when to kneel and when to sing, and how to take a nap on the sly, if the day was hot and the preacher dull. As my good friend. Dr. Powell, would say: “It all depends either on the heredity or the environment." The learned doc tor is our guest, and, having for twenty years had charge of the Stale lunatics he has made a specially of laws of heredity,” and it is both in structive and entertaining to listen to him. If there is heredity,” said he, “then environment conies next.” The idea is, that if a man was of Scotch descent and his ancestors for several generations were .lohn Knox Scotchmen, he would be a Presby terian just an naturally us water runs down hill. He might be left an or phan in infancy and grow up with out religious training, and be a- wicked as Satan, but if he became it a Methodist revival he would join the Preslivterian eliurch. That is heredity, and it prevails hi all denominations to a large extent. It is stronger than environment,both in man and beast. Now, Mrs. Arp was a Methodist— 1( i a very exemplary Methodist w hen I T ! married her. but her heredity on that ,J line was not overly strong, and so. like a dutiful wife, she came over to| I mv church. I was her environment, I such a person for he is a real factor for good in the world. Hope has licen the guiding power to all the great and useful deeds of the past and will be the controlling influence in all that will improve the future condition of mankind. The Recipe. own transportation, whether it bo an , ffld Methodist mare and saddle-bags j i,n, '] lt ‘ l"'i s oner. M e ban or a Presbyterian horse and .buggy. | Sam Jones says he furnished his own ' nag the tirst year he rode the circuit and received S(i5 for the support of his family. The average circuit rider’s pay in this conference is now about S400 —some more and some less. I see one name on the list who received | only I wouldent live in that i naborhood if I could help it; 11 wouldent settle down in' anv nabor- 1 lm ' - an l it was stronger than her hered ity. She would have joined most anything for me then. If it was to do over again I have my doubts, for now she is my environment, and I Dr. Powell and Dr. (tlenn with us, and we had Yarborough and Mr. M'hite, and they were discussing the prodigal son, when Mr. Yarborough remarked that “the return of the prodigal and his generous, overwhelming forgive ness and the central ligure in the painting, and all that about theenvy of the older son was just shading put in by the artist to till up thepic- Thc world is full of things His history is briefly told. After several days of thought he discovered a sure way to make mon ey, and like other men, he was in a lui’-ry to try it. He made haste t > insert an adver- ment something like the following in several country wcf'klits: “.Sure way to kill potato bugs; send twenty two-cent postage stamps to X. Y. Z., , for a receipt that can not fail.” Then he hired a dray to bring his mail from the post-office, and had ten thousand of his receipts printed. Inside of two weeks something like <1,000 or 7,000 farmers had contrib ute twenty two-cent stamps each for the printed receipes. Then several hundred of- them bought clubs and railroad tickets, and started out to interview the ad vertiser. At his office they were in formed that he had left to attend to some business in Europe, and he was not expected back. All he had left was a package of 3,000 or -1,000 slips of paper, on which were printed the following: “Put your bug on a shinjjj*. Then hit it with another shingle.” hood where the people dident pav the i nnneeessan, but put in as or- j,readier. It is «Tbad sign.' It is No d"»bt that there are i-igu that the laud is poor or the jSo^ | l )a, 'd d. 11 (torses leg t|lat the horse pie mean. But, the preachers must w " ld j 1 ' 1 * go where they are sent, and it is mis- l!i b r| “ "'ere Dr. Powell houn- sionary work to go to the poor and! t ' t ‘ d b ' ui *"d denied that there was the ignorant and proclaim thcHospel. anything made without a beneficent Tha preacher can dot his frpm a sense pmpose-not even the color of the of Christian duty, but it is hard on ' * la ' r 0,1 11 I 101 '* 0 Forsaken at the Altar. tile vV'ife and the children. It is a school where the young preacher call learn how to preach and cun develop, n,M ” " k 'V -g—and he made the fur fly for awhile. They fought hard all round; but when the dinner closed much nearer together than when they started out. The dinner bell does have a har monizing effect. Blessings on the preachers. May they live long, and have free con sc wherever they go. It is safe to wd- comc them, for besides their exunijde, their influence and Newi’OHT, Ard., Dec. 20.—James Mason, of Eagle Township, recently wooed and won Miss Fannie Ia-iiox, daughter of Dr. J. 1). Ix-nox, of Clai- liorne Township, Izard County. She was an ideal mountain lass of sweet sixteen. The young man procured a marriage license, the wedding feast was prepared and on the appointed day the pair stood before a minister. All went as merry as a wedding bell till, in the service, the minister pro pounded the usual question, whether the bride accepted the bridegroom as her “lawful husband, to love, honor and obey |iim until death!'” ’ At this point Miss Lenox dropped Mason’s hand, fled from the scene and concealed herself. She has given no reason for her peculiar conduct. Voting Mason has returned the marriage license to the County Clerk with a note in which hesavs,“I have j concluded that I need everything else worse than I need a wife.” rii« I tv. |n«rt anil Minute Katnittctv- tlutiM ul Ti ul« linn !ls«‘ IiiMlioiieHty of One Man M:*y Driimy OIImth—How llii.«{ti<-::n Mi*ii May I#<* lliiprnvvd. Bhooki.vx. Dec. 20. Any person «ce! ing the secret of Dr. TaImage's niarvi-loir- j •e'aray v. itli the millions of Mwiaun la-a-r. anti sermon readers may tU"ln cl w :•» i{ in i!m*'wrnifm lit* prenfflfil Uj« iti^ Hi Iw?? striCe ooe:roes, tmbgivps a clear view of what oi iv tn* termed i">|>lied Chris tiauity. Hi- text was I’re vert is iii. 0, “in all thy w.-iys acknowledge bim and he s! ad I direct thy paths.” “A pi-tnni -e good eiiougb for many kinds'll life, bin not for my kind of life," says sonie business man; “thelaw of supply and demand controls the bullion* World." But I liavc reason to say ll:at it is a promise to all ts'rsousin any kind cl Inniest business. There is no war between religion and business, between ledgers and Bibles, between o!mr lies and counting houses. On the contrary, religion accelerates business, sharpens men's wits, sweetens acerbity of disposition, lillips the blood of phlegmatics and throws more veloc ity into the wheels of hard work. It gives better balancing totlie judgment, more strength to the will, more muscle to industry and throws into enthusiasm a more concentrated lire. You cannot in nil the round of the world show me a man whose honest business bus been despoiled by religion. The industrial classes are divided into three groups—producers, manufactur er*, traders. Producers, such as farmers and miners. Manufacturers, soeli as those who turn corn into food, and wool and flax into apparel. Traders, such ns make profit out of the transfer and exchange of all that which is pro duced and manufactured. A business man may belong to any one or all of these classes, mid not one is independ ent of any other. When the prince imperial of France fell on the Zulu battlefield because the strap fastening the stirrup to the saddle broke us lie clung to it. Ins comrades all escaping, but ho falling under the lances of the savages, a great many people blamed the empress for allowing her son to go forth into that battlefield, and others blamed the Bog lish government for accepting the sacri fice, and others blamed the Zulus for their barbarism. The one most to Watue was the harness maker who fashioned that strap of the stirrup out of slioddy and imperfect material, as it was found to have been afterward. If the strap bad held, the prinee imperial would probably have been alive today. But the strap broke. No prince hide pendent of a harness maker! High, low, wise, ignorant, you in one occupation. I in anotlier, all bound to gether. So that there must lie oiiecon- tiimous line of sympathy with each other's work. But whatever your vo cation, if you have a multiplicity of en gagements, if into your life there come losses and annoyances and perturba tions as well as percentages and divi dends. if you are pursued from Monday morning until Saturday night, and from January to January by inexora ble obligation and duty, t lien you are a business man or you are a business woman, and my subject is appropriate to your case. We arc under the impression that the From Cauda comes the news that moil and tugof business lifeare a prison the experts at the Salford cheese hito which a man is thrust or that it is , . . . , , , .. I an unequal strife where unarmed a inan factory have had remarkahe results gous ^ , () contcnd , s , la „ s , lmv in cheese makimr the present season ; y 0U ti, a t business life was intended of by i ' ’ milk at SO", and th ■ God for grand and glorious education “cooking” of the curd performed at! disci P li " p - Mnl if 1 sl,; ‘ 11 Im! 81° instead of :iS°, The theory is that tile loss of hut ter fat in man ufaelure is largiv the result of loo! burdens from vour ^iicl; I am pot I... i i , • 'ii- .n . ,i .. talking to a'n abstraction. Though higli heal in scalding. I he maker ,,-a , ° _ • ... I never having been in business nfe, I took a vat of milk and divided tL | know all about business men. making one half by the usual 82°; In my first parish at Bellville. New and plan, and her hall I,\ Jersey, ten miles New York, a o i , ', large portion of my audience was made • ° i!lld S " l' l: "'- 11 :l l ,,, "" d up of New York merclumts. Then I more milk to uwike a jiuiiml of eheesc* wont tt» .Syracuse, a place of intense by the'.'(i 0 plan than by the other, coiiiuiereial activity, and is valued at $1,5011,000. To save the linger nails an ingen ious fellow has invented a pocket knife, the blades of which are made to open bv touching a spring. The development of the cotton seed oil industry has Ikcii so great that it has supplanted the famous olive tree product in a majority of eases. New Jersey and New York elect their governors for three rears, and of the other forty-two (states nine teen choose their governors for four years. Telephones are put in the houses of Stockholm, Sweden, at a rent of $2.75 a year each. For each call, however, there is a charge of •>' cents extra. It is believed that there are 1,800 professional women painters, sculptors and engravers in Paris, besides those who live by painting menus, fans, etc. Two of the proud possessions of an Atlanta man are a saber and a cross of the Legion of Honpr that one of his ancestors received from the hand of the great Napoleon. Liverpool is the largest shipping point in tlie world; then comes Lon don and then New York. New York stands second to London, however, as a general commercial city. An oil painting owned in Phila delphia shows, it is claimed, that the first man to wear russet shoes in America was Christopher Columbus; that, in fact, he landed in them. The first (iermaii Court of justice has held a session at Heligoland. The calendar was a blank. The clerk registered ‘he fact that the court met and adjourned and all was over. “1 do not intend that my sons shall ever plow” says many a father who has spent years in humble, if not very patient toil. It is altogether iiaiuul that one should conceive his own line of labor to be specially with hardships, and it follows logically from such a way of thinking that he should plan for his sons a different form of service. It may not however be most wise for the father to choose the vocation of the son. It were bet ter perhaps to give the hoy an educa tion that will lit him equally for any calling and then let him select the one to which Ids circumstances and his incliiii tions seem to point. Now, Clod demands of every iloek. He demands the richest, sheaf of every har vest. He demands the best men of every generation. A cause in which Newton and Cocke and Mansfield toiled you and I can afford to toil in. Oil, for fewer idlers in the cause of Christ and for more Christian workers, men who shall take the same energy that from Monday morning to Satur day night they put forth for the achieve ment of a livelihood or the gathering of a fortune, and on Sabbath days put it fortli to the advantage of Christ’s kingdom and the bringing of men to the T.du ruaele this morn- tjie Lord. L'le ftiifi;; .to; -lo with ah- , U*. Duff, in South Wales, saw a man who' had inherited a great fortune. The man said to him: “I had to be very busy for many years of my life getting my livelihood. After awhile this fortune came to me, and there has been no necessity that I toil since. There came a time when I said to my self, •Shall 1 now retire from business, or shall I go on and serve the Lord in my worldly occupation?’” He said: “I resolved on the latter, and 1 have been more industrious in commercial circles than I over was before, and since that hour 1 have never kept a farth ing for myself. I havethouglitit to boa great shame if I couldn’t toil as hard for the Lord as I had toiled for myself, and all the products of my factories and ray commercial establishments to the r. mic- I da fur I l::;v 1 imed in I lie Can it he time end t ana i .v. iee: crumpled up iu. I i fires of the la: I gi that a nian will be fool for eternity ? I remark, al-o. that bmine-s I'.'e is a school for integrity. No man knows what lie will do when lie is tempted. There are lism-'ands of men who linve kept their int! triiy merely liecanse they never !i ive been tested. A iikhi was elected igeasarer of I be state of Maine some years ago He was dis tingui»!ied for his liieuvty. usefo! icrr, and uprightness, but before one year bad pu -ci lie had taken of the public funds for Ids own private use and was hurled out of oliiee in di.-'-rucc. Dis tinguished for virtue before; distin guished for cri!:i< 1 alter. Yo i can call over the no a of men jmt like that, in whose honesty you bad complete confidence. Ix'l placed ja certain crises of temptation they went nverboas'd. Never so many tempi iti; ns to m-ouii divlism as now. Not a law os th ' statute lx •I i at has which a miseii v deeepti back cmie “ant can ms in the ll: or p'undcrin;; in thn Ah! how mn of goods; so mue! luereial life that if a man talk about living a life of complete eoniiiierei.il ae curacy there are those who ascribe it to greenness and lack of tact More need of honesty now l!i::n ever before; tried hom ily, eompleie li.mesty. more than in those times when business was lost farthing have gone for the building a plain affair and woolens were woo! of Christian institutions and supporting the chtireh of God.” Oh, if the same energy put forth for tlie world could be put forth for God! Oh, if a thousand men in these great cities who have achieved a fortune could see it their duty to do all business for Christ and the alleviation of tlie world's suffering. HOW I'ATIKM’K IS CTI.TIVATKD. Again, I remark that business life is a school of patience. In your everyday life how many things to annoy and to disquiet! Bargains will mb. Com- mereiel men will souietimes fail to meet their engagements. Cush book and money drawer will sometimes quarrel. Goods onlcied fora special emergency will come too late or be damaged in the transportation. People intending no lia. in will go shopping without any intention of purchase, overturning great stocks of goods and insisting tli.it you break the dozen. More bad debts on the ledger. More counterfeit bills in the drawer. More debts to pay for lens and silks were i ilks arid men were men. How many men do yon suppose! there are in eninttierei.-.l life who could say truthful 1 ;., “in all the sales I have j ever made I i.ave never overstated the value of goods; in till the sales I hav,. ! ever made I have never covered up an imperfection in the fabric; of all ihc : thousands of dollars I have ever m.-.d | I have not taken one dishonest farth ' ing?" There are men, however, who can say it, hundreds who can say it. | thousands who can say ir. They are ! more honest than when they sold their first tierce of rice, or their first firkin of butter, because their honesty and in tegrity have been tested, tried, ami eaute out triumphant. But they re j member a time when timy could have! robbed a partner, or have absconded (with the funds of a bank, or sprung a , snap judgment, or made it f.-.be assign ment, or borrowed inimitably without ; any effort at payment, or gut a man martyrs at Oxford. There are just as certainly martyrs of Wall street and State street, martyrs of Fulton street and Broadway, martyrs of Atkoiii.- btreet and Chestnut street, going through hotter fires, or having their necks under sharper axes. Then it tie hooves us to banish aii fret fulness fi-oni our lives if tins subject be true. We look back to the time when w > w ere at school, and we remember fJic rod and we remember the hard tasks and we complained grievously; but no..’ wes. ;• it was for tin' best. Business l?fc is a school, and the tasks are hard, and tlie chastisements some times are very grievous; hut r's> net complain. The hotter the- fire the better the refining. There are turn beforethe throne of God this day in ttiu iph whj *n earth were cheated out of everyth::!: but their co!-in. They were 1 s led, thev were imprisoned for debt, they were throttled l>y constables with a w!to!e pack of writs. Gay wire sold out I v the sheriffs, they ha I no eotanrovi witli their creditors, tin v hn<: to mu 1 a assignment-, t in ir dying | niim ; ed In the sleep ring' doorbell by some i.epertiou.- who thought it was ni,;, on pm|t 'j that a man sh .nl.t da before he ; ! I the last tlirct and si'.pem; I had a n ! who had iron fortunes. t.very! Li i,; \ lit ; him. He i*. , .d good bit-mess and was of the best of moral u. I r it.nit m was one of lit sometimes - ■ urs w. •if siiil! ttes- qm hty but ite 1 ! have a y tiling BtHJIliS to W!’»•:. •„ (iis Iif;* It him ;» |»!.i i uih*. 1 Id • (•Milie to !:• * vms ! :>;i : I. i > ,• j. ..\>t p. ! hhi'rili*!” WJjonri* t!i »>•.. | of l lit! •MS S' Ml!.* b;*forx‘1 Iiw 1 N/iic.n j., 'j*.’'•.*! ion is iiskcil, * i:o min' <* on ihc :• m nf i<*sjj !, *‘TiicsD :tiv‘ i’icy r:: . f .1 btiHin.*> h-’or.i.i* • .} I,.-..] i;.; ir f‘-U‘N vy.inIm •! ;»ii*J i w liit*. j.j f; ol i Ii*.* i. !:•! M ‘ 1/loO'j A matt m meeting, an acknmvli d- was in lm-.i to pay and I d I [ ray or !v to id. I im ney ! ;1 . v it, In.man Hitt tli<‘y never took one step on that j pathway of hell fire. They can say l their prayers without hearing the chink j of dishonest dollars. They can read j their Bible without thinking of tlie ! time when, w ith a lie on their soul, in other people More meannesses on the ■ into a sharp corner and fleeced him. part of partners in business. Annoy auce after annoyance, vexation after vexation, and loss after loss. All that 1 irocesa will either break yon down or brighten you up. It is a school of patience. Yon have known men tin dcr the pox-ess to become pvtiiiuni and choleric and angry and pitgua cions and cross and sour and queer, and they !o:.| their customers and their name became it detestation. Oiler men have been brightened tt|< under the process. They wei > toughened by the ex|Hisure. They were like rocks, all the more valuable for being blosted. At first they lind to choke down t hell wrath; at first they had tobire th. ir lips- at first they thought of somestingmgre tort they would like to make; but they to say what I want to say. I shall rub some of the wrinkles of care out of your brow and unstrap some of the lllltl the cheese. .sr j New dan I ork •rave Hie line. Evangelist. The citizens of Greenville Itch! a public meeting Iasi, week to devise some iilan, or plans, by which the debtor class could gel. relief. Of course nothing was accomplished ex- , , .cept I he escape of a little “cliawed country must lx! governed by the one . .. , . , J ' i air, wh«n men gel in a tight place But give, in (|,,. (in ,,| 1 ' m, faitll of tin ir ow it. Ihev Thackery, one of (he ablest of Eng-1 lish writers said: “A republic and an | aristocracy won’t amidganmle. 1 A I if there is any gum in him. It is like a young lawyer practicing in a justice’s court. It gives confidence jit himself, and if hemakesablundef there is nobody who knows it. It is like a railroad man beginning his railroad life as a truck raiser and Climbing fiirghw ahd higher, 'until, their inilncncc and their delightful and sneaks and bullies and sneers it- jike Mr. Thomas, he reaches tlie lugh'- companionship, tlie £<km| bnnk sacs, self into plu;,^ and yuufiuil tleinoera est place. These bishops and presid. “touch not mine anointed and do my |cy out of doors.’ Ing elders were all circuit riders at' ("'ophets no harm. Mrs. Arp says! — i jhe start anti are full of nutmorles 1 t^°y shall not shake Ihc dust off! i'ltcre are those wbo express a C'.n- about tlioir first experience and their ^hws when they leave her front iiilent hiqx'fulncss that our race is to ,,l ’ l ' principle or the other a repitblic, tin aristocracy ever so lit tle chant'o. And it works and plots then I went to Bliiladelpbiii tutd lived long among the tnerehanls of that city, than whom there are im better men on earth, and for more than twenty two years I hav stood in tliis presence. Sabbath by Sub bath, preneliing to amlienees. the ma jority of whom are httsiness tiieu and business women. It is nut an a list rai kind words now for sarea-t :e fiings. They have gentle behavior now for tin mannerly customers. They are patient now with unfortunate debtors. They have Christian relleetions now for stnl den rever.- s. Where did they get that patience: By hearing a minister preach concerning it on the Sabbath; Oh. no. They got it just where you will get it if you ever get it lit all selling hats, discounting notes, turning banisters, plowing corn, tinning roofs, pleading causes. Oh. that amid the turmoil and anxiety and exasperation of everyday life you might bear the voice of God saying: “In patience possess your soul. Let patience have her perfect work.” I remark again that business life is a school of itsefid knowledge, Mereba i iti! do nqt read litany books and do not r*udy lexicons They do not dive into profounds of learning, and yet nearly all through their occupations come to understand questions of llnanec and polities and geography and jnrisprii deuce and ethics. Business is a severe schoojn.fis.trcsx. If pupils will not learn, she strikes them over the head and tie- heart with seven* losses. You pul $5,000 int i an enterprise, it is ail gone. You say, “That is a dead loss." : Oh, no. You are paying tlie school ing. That was only tuition—1 told you it was a schoolmistress - but it was worth it. You learned things under that process you would not have learned 1 in any other way. Traders in gra' v „ come to know some tho custom liou-'e they kissed the Book. They can think of death and tho judgment that conics after it with out any Uiiiching—that day when all charlatans ami cheats and jockeys and frauds .-hall be doubly damned. it does not make their knees knock to gether, and it does not make their teeth chatter to read “as tlie partridge sitteth on eggs and liatclieth llioin not, so lie that gelleth riches and not by right shttlI leave them in tlie midst of his days, and at his end shali be a fool.” TI1K SI.AVK IX AUIIKUS. Oh, what a school of integrity bnsi ness life is! If you have ever boon templed to let your integrity cringe be fore present advantage, if you have ever wakened up in some embarrass ment and said, “Now, I'll stop a little aside from the right path and no one will know it, and I'll come all right again; it is only once." Oh, that only onco hits rained tens of thousands of men for this life and blasted fli.-ir souls for eternity. I t is a tremendous school, .u ij., mi i i :.ii l .ii- • latlsi* » . i.:- .* th * Limn!. l!‘l» Usis i im »t’l .: 1! ‘; • k\f . ; t < down aiiH.i?;' SOS II <• !-i Ld,-.: • III Mi.; 1 l::.d HOI s; ;* :t in lii’i.'j;. y* ;! il-. j I l to in: ike :i e.-iJl, m: l 1 <•! i to na*. *\V!»y { ; lltl SO shd 1 * SO • yo: I. V. Ik hi. V V have SOl!’“ 1 non? V oil ( i:r iiof'ks ‘h ’.l’ yon a ill )< »t i YY iiiio. hilt \Vl k t ii i i‘i know where YOU V. riv. ami \hi “t'Jor* not h aving yo!!!* ! • i i V s * (•‘.'Iii i!i.i srml u. Wo U!V Y( 1 v mi yon liavo nr.' .' And th** ::i an Mill tin s in i''.>.)i"ii .-■t rei t ofm. x i i Ml‘ • ; iii,a • ). * ’i ia amount they j i: i ! ; ;iX Dl'D'S w 'in* l ' V- o i s;i ■ .'it i • lily 1 im ) /I'd M( :1 h'o business life a seltoni of integrity. A i merchant in ..iwrpuol got a five pound Bank of England noli*, and holding up toward the light be '.'.aw some htier- j You o-re an iitii.lii. tiixl answ. rcd tnat : imni’s prayi r. Oh, you want business j gnu e. ('“.tiiiuereia! ellties. i.r-incss honor:., 1 laws of trade are aii very good in their : place, but there* are tiines vhei: you j went something more than this world | will give you. You want God. For i the leek of bim some that you haw | know n have consented to forge, and to ! maltreat their friend: , mid to curse ihc'c cuomies, and their names have been bulletined among scoundrels, and they have been ground to powder, while other men you have known have gone through the very same stress of circumstances triumphant. There :u men here today who fought the battle uml gained the victory. People come out of that man's store, and they suy, “Well, if there ever was a t.'lnistian trader that is one. ” Integrity kept too hooks and waited on tie.* customers. Light from the eternal world ll bed i through the show windows. L e to j God and love to man presided in that. Ijineatioti'j in what seemed red ink. tie Ihially deciphered the letters, and found out that the wriwng had been made by a slave in Algiers, saying in substance, "Whoever gets this bank note will please to infortq U»y brother, John Doan, livil.ir near Carlisle, that I i> / lave of the bey of Algier merchant sent word, eiiiploved govern ment officers in id found who this man was spoken of in this hank hill After awhile the man was - jv.ied, who for eleven veav- >1,111 been a slave of the hey of Algiers. He was iimnediately emancipated, but was so worn out by hardship and exposure he sootv after died. Oh, if some of Vaw bank bids thatomic thfo.,gb your hands could tj.-'a ,il> tlie scenes through wliieb Hiey have passed, it would be a tragedy eclipsing any drama of Slink;^pi-are. UUSlin-.'V' xx 1 »• w»ti 1. 11 i-* ihm csti tt>».-ti«n 1 - A* | 4 *^ • -^r tion to which 1 speak, but a reality J Ubltg «h»ut foreign harvests; traders iniglitier thun Kitej or Maelieth. ! ttftei v. tq, till the door. Bti.t. Aim*. •lack—It’s preMv il l's age correctly. hard to guess a hit k Tom- third. .How.* Ask her, and then add one many hardships. The example of John Wesley still animates these Methodists, for he crossed the ocean to preach to savages. He forded rivers, crossed swamps, slept on the lorn—I can tell you a good way ground, apij tVCUf hare fqptyd, gip] j 1'! , i , M| “Ml-, with all Hmt he lived in lie eighty- l ' 1 “ eight years old and has left a name with more namesakes than any < Itris- tiau name in the world. But he, too, had troubles worse than Indians or A concert was given in New ^ >rk swamps. He maiTied too late, and , " h'W evenings ago to raise funds for married tisi much—a widow with 1 ""' "rant monumciit. New 5ork four children can hardly mate liappi- ! >"l‘" of wealth seem to Ite willing to ly with a man fifty years old. (She do almost anything to raise the mo- rohltetl him of his substance.md ran nvy excepting to put their hands jiwa^' several times, and at lust he let' " u 'ir jxx-kels iiiuu-fushioM. allain a far heller statesix'ially, ntor- allv, |iolilieully and religiously than any that it has yet known, yet are '•I.iiug nothing to bring about litis ; desirable state of things. MtMIV who ! d,i not dcsoi'Vu to lx* ranked as Imd I < "pie are not actualed by a deter- 1 iiiinvu purpooC of making tlie world I t iler. They drift along, meeting the alwat ■ litive ij iendaaild'sViiipat hi/ers. Win ■11. by a series of uii-bike.j, yair tlieV slfikt. ihe bottom, •y ean do is to lake a ground j start ami hegin again. The cimntry litis l.eett worse of before Ilian it is Thrifty, pushing energetic will not lie on (heir I'tteks will rise and conic people Tit. ; again. For wars | begging la. The anrr i licit in >,: ! wher ', lm; Ides and iiit'l I crop. This mn in problems of each day by teinjxifa- rv cxjiedients. hut rarely ciutting their looks far nhetid and Itdioring for the benefit of a remote posterity. The I tii'ruism tvhieh impels one general ion I" labor eagerly for Hie advantage of eomiiig generations is not often found. ! S|i|irlan has been in Hie I'ii-tlmonl their own ("in. hav. molti.* giii'd' 11 vegeta- eoll'in their I he il'im t In ge: .-'Ii nti I -orpins if the taining • on- wit It wliieb I am vyefi iuxpuiMi'ed. •ciik cni/nvATiox op nxKitov. In’llx* first p!ae *. I remark ttiiit bnsi- neJa life was inteii'];*! as tt school of en ergy. G01I eives us a eertain iinioimt ; of raw material out "I wliicli we are to (few our eharaeter. < >in' faculties arc {0 lie reset, roundc;! and sharpened up. C)ii|- young folks having gfadimt'xl (runt soh'x'l or t"il|eg" ned it liigln r (Hluoalhm, that wliieb the rasping mid collisinn of everyday life alone can effect. Energy is wnma'it out only In afire. After a man has been in httsi ness activity ten, twenty, thirty years his energy is not to lie men airn' by Weights nr phi toqetk or knbters. There js UU lioigtif it eiiimot scale, mid there is no depth il cannot fatiiom. mid tliere ! is no obstacle it cannot thrash. Now. my brother, why did God put you in Hud sell'si| iif eti' i'gyf Wn, it merely lint you might boa yardstieklo measure elutli or a steelyard to weigh In fruit come to know something about ' As > ga on In this subject i mn im the prospects of tropical production; j pressed with the importance of otir manufacturers of Aii\criwuugoods come | linvitig more sympatliy with htiJuess • to iti'dvt'stand the tariff on imported inen. Is it not a slmme H'Ut wo in our ! articles; puhlishera of books must come I pulpits do not ofteuer praaelt tibont i (o uiiderstmid tlio new law of copy-1 Dietr straggles, their trials me! their right; owners of ships must oome to | temptations? Men who toil with the know vvindsantl shoals and navigation; ! iimid ure not apt to ho very sympathetic mid every halo of cotton, and every j with those who toil with the brain, i iimtehouse. Borne day people going tinostgb ‘fa st reel notice that the shatters of the window are not down. The bar of that store door liita not been retmiveii. People say, “What istlie mutter;" \o: ga up a little closer, and you see writ ten on the card of 1 ital window. ‘'Closed on account of the death of 01 is The 1 <d " IC fl'" 1 -” That day nil tlinmgli tlie ' circles of business there is talk alvtn; ho\v > g,xi,i nian lias gone. Hoanfs oi crade pass re-*>l;itinnswJ syttipatfl' ,in-1 churelH S of Ciirist pray ii'tp, Lord, for tin* godly man eve a'ti." He has luadu tits la t bargain, iiol v suffero' 1 , i»s Itist loss. Ik* has a., t*. t wit!*, tla* lust fatigue. His i bildtv.. v. ill ;. v the result of his indasif , , i' it tl:tiiiigh misfortune there lx* u>i d.oiia left, they will liavo an estaii of prayer mid Christian example which will be eve las* hi..,. Heavenly rewards for < art lily discipline. There "tlie wieked eeaw from troubling mid tho weary are a rest ” raisin cask, and every tea .box, and ! every cluster of bananas is so much lit erature for a business man. Now, my brother, what are you going to do. with tlie intelligence? Do you suppose God put you jn fiit* w-hoo) of information merely that you might ho sharper in a trade, that you might bo more succckk- ful as a worldling? Oh, po; it wa> tlmt ytm might take that useful in formation anil use It for Jesus Christ. Omi It Ik* that you have Vx*en dealing with foreign lands and never had tha missionary spirit, wishing the salvation of foreign penplt*'? Can it be that you flour; Was it nietrly that you might ■ | iuve | )0CO | 110 aequaititcd with all the The farmers whu tv.i' ,* the <nrn. m.*I the oats, mid th > wheat snmetiiti. s at • tempt,<;| to think that grain mereii:iu! ( Itave mi easy tittto and get their pi. tits without giving any ixniiY.dent. Plato mid ArtMntle were so opposed to nierviiuiul* .* that they declared com nieree to be tbeeurse of the nation:!, and they advised that cities lie built ul least ten miles from the seueoast. But you and I U tiovv that there are no more in dustrious or high minded men titan those who move in tlie world "f trulllc. , Some of them carry burdens heavier * than hods of brick, and arc exposed to i — Carn.i;i.i parlau. Ga dell.u pet y ear tji lx* I Hit ter 'pndified to chaffer mid lilg gle? No God placed you in Hull fell 10I of energy that you might be de veloped lor Christian work. If Ihe un developed talents In tin* Christian ehnre'ies of today were brought nut '' mid thoroug'dy harnessed, l believe tho • w!mlo world would lie converted to God in a short time. Then* are so ; iiien* dis'p str.'aiii* that ar • tlirtiiiig no I'llt. 11 KUALli; null ul.ccL mid Unit me haim led to farn.ei's evp and nile|>emlenl. "reetiulli ven o is ami resoliiiions aud a|qie;ils will tin! do bait as much gvxxi ns full corn erih-', swagging meal |h>1< big j otato I; inks uml pleul v of wheat.; w:ml,* world would be outrages inllieted in husiness life and Hint you have never tried to bring to bear that Gospel which is to extirpate till evil mid correct all wrongs mid illumine all darkness mid lift up nil wretchedness mid save men for this World mid tlie world to come? Cun It he Hint, midurstmuling all ♦ , *.'i mtri- eaoles of businc*.., j.ia snow nothing , nlmut tli'<s.i tilings which will last after : uU bills ul uAchuugu aud consignments Sysu'iiiufic Wink for Eii'lful f’liiiilrc;t, There is nolliiog so sure tosteady tin* ' iicrvi s of tho fretful mid excitable child j 11.1 regular school work in Un* Luedsof h real t'*aeln*r. Many ti ehihl ".bo is ii'lebrated for dangerous iits ul teiiiper iat home Incomes ' ntirely trjni foi-med ! under the iiilluenee of su< Ii a seiuxil, i till her nearest relatives would not ice ognize her if they should ever lake the | time and trouble to visit the sehool- I ruom. I do not uiemi sharper things than the east wind, and climb mountains highar than the Alps I •borough and pleasiiral.t or Himalayas, mid if they are faitliful , '' V '’ '""Y , '' ar " a fr "" 1 ,!li Christ will at last say to them: “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou ! *“*?akir work on our bust been faitliful over a tpw things. I will make thee rule, oyerinai.v tilings. Entef (.boo Into the joy of thy Lord." 1*11 K MAUTYUS (IK 111 SI.V'.SS. We talk about the martyrs of the Piedmont valley and yhe martyr*' among the Beoteii higlilmidb, and tho ti sehixilioom full of comiN'titive examinatiens. of “mark-, and of irrelevant indueemeiits to maki* tho ehild commit to memory ;• muss < f unrelated and undigested fact;. 1 mean (me when*, without any indmx men‘ but (he naiunil desire for knowiedgc.vi'hicli t- all sulficiont with any Ameriemi child if it Ije rightly directed, you timl steady and well ordered labor, without baste, though not without rest, mid honest, vvi irk. tact for it is uo theory of the ' * lb-el of tired u •ves, and wise shall wo be if we appiv it. Evi'ir the most consistent liom.-opaMiie physi einn cimld not object to this kind o‘ tonic; though he would tell you, and truly, that tonies are worse than of no uso for overwoijfcil nerves. - Hall's Jeurntd oi llcnltM.